Evening Star Newspaper, May 3, 1890, Page 5

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. * al SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1890-TWELVE PAGEs. D.C w19 719 EVERY DAY ATTRACTIONS, FMBROIDERIFS. We have just recaived another delivery of Fine Hand- grea re ‘lderien iu &. Variety of Desigus from 4% 3S iweles A complete line of 45-inch Flouncings in Vandy ke, Vieated, Hematitoled and irish Point; $52. to 8450. PARASOLS. ‘Our stock of Parasols is conceded to be one of the host complete in the city and our prices for first-class foods are the lowest. Ingest novelty. ored Gros Grain, with fancy borders, $4.25 to wre, with hband-run Spanish lace covers, $10.25 and @1l. Black White imgreat variety, $4 to $6.25. soites 's Parasol iain and fatiege i wrest variety, Carrace Shades, $1.50 to $4.50. Suu Umbrellas, Brown, Blue, Garnet, 83.60, RUCHINGS. ‘Two row Braid, loop edge, in all colors, 16e. loop % th tl id gimp, 28e. silver ana O0ia Beaid, lop edge, Boe row Mo, Feather Edge, with gold and silver tinsel, 250. t Two-row Gold and Mliver om sau fulde, 3c. Lace Neck Pieatings, 43, 75¢.. $1 and 81.39. ¢ Longin Ruchings, 23,40; S0"G0e. “the box x Also a large assortment of Fine Hand-beaded Goods fi Gold, Suver, Steei and Jet, from 45c. to 81. BUCKLES AND SLIDES. Prices are so exceedingly low esha certainly ‘ny person in want of t Pid iuch Git end Silver Slides: £3 ana Coloped Peart stidee, wits steel settings, 250 Colored Pearl sides, with steel 3 Vand z-inch Stecl, silver and Gilt Buckles, suitable for dross tritumitigs, 20 to fiand Crotchet ities. no t0 th tn demand for mourn- . ll sizes, G3e. Y $5 22 nich Aner svadkeot Buckles in Gilt, Silver, Oxi- Pesri and Jet, Sue. to $1.85. SUMMER FANS. Japanese Fans ip great variety, 10. Lauboo Fang white and colors, 18 aud 20, Painted Paper 18, 45, 45, Decoration Fans, 7, 1c. Falun Faus, 2 aud Jo. EG DAVIa, m3 719 Market space, corner Sth st. Srectat Orvrentses, JULIUS LANSBURGH, 13TH AND F STREETS, Offers the following Bargains This Week: Chamber Suites, solid oak, 16th cen- hs, lance drewser, beveled plate glass, 32 500 3- preci tury fiuisi : 2 erty Tables. $1.50. Solid Oak Cheffonters from 811 up. Ja ge line of Antique Oak sideboards from $18 to 240 Oxydized trimmings, Develed glass. Durpasses uy thing ever showu 1p this line. BABY CARRIAGES. 100 different styles. Reed ana rattan bodies. Hand sotaely uptolstered sn silk pineh aud tapestry, Finest Line iu the city. From 84.55 up. SUMMER CURTAINS AND DRAPERIES, > pair Madras Curtains reduced to gece per pair, s ‘adras Cloth reduced to 40c. per yard. Sutin Russe, six different patterns and able for either furniture coverings or aced to 6: ya 8, su rd. cy Striped Linen for furniture covers rhs and eolorings, our own importation— jo per ya is. F NO CHARGE FOR ESTIMATES, MATTING! 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BEVEKIDGE, IMPORTER OF POTTERY AND GLASS, ap26-7t No, 1009 PENNA, AVE. | | i | | i Tue Tuousox. Hovsrox Execraio COMPANY, 620 Atlantic avenue, Boston, Mass. WASHINGTON OFFICE, 1333 F ST. 7-m | apr HE BEST PILL Il EVER USED,” IS THE FRE- queut remark of purchasers uf Carter's Little , Liver Pills, When you try them you will say thesame, NGOSTURA BITTERS IS THE BEST LONIC IN the world for dyspeptics. Manufactured only by Bed. GB buyert & Sous Sold every where by drug. wists, | Parnapeveuta, April 3. | tion and this morning signed 2 contract with FURNISHING | 2d EDITION. Tales Tolanas 10 The Sta. Mysterious Murder in Baltimore. Bartiwone, May $.—Mrs, Sarah Blaney, a widow, aged seventy-seven years, and her daughter, Caroline, residing at 1035 Green- mount avenue, were found murdered in their beds this morning. Their skulls had been crushed with a blunt instrument. Wm. Blaney, a —— of the old lady, has been arrested, he old lady recently sold a house for %1,850. There is considerable blood on the pantaloons of Wm. Blaney. He accounts for its presence by nosebleed, The murder of Mrs, Blaney and her daughter must have been cone quickly. No cry was heard, The discovery was made by James M. Blaney, who lives with his daughter at No. 620 East Biddle street. It was cnstomary for him, he said, to drop into a neighboring saloon for a “nip” ' mornings, and afterward to have a chat with his mother and sister, who lived to- gether at No. 1035Greenmount avenue, When he entered their house this morning he was horrified to find their dead bodies on the floor of the kitchen in @ pool of blood and with skulls crushed. He promptly gave the alarm and the police at once went to work on the case. They are now endeavoring to fasten the crime upon the under arrest. Borst ciovsnatt Jubilation in Oklahoma. Kansas Crry, May 3.—A Guthrie, LT., dis- patch say he news that the President had signed the Oklahoma bill reached here at7 o'clock last night, An hour later the town was ablaze with bonfires, A shotgun parade of volunteers paraded through the streets dis- charging their pieces and checring for the new territory. Dispatches from other points in the new territory state that the news was received with great rejoicin, Ln ee Wheat Goes Kiting. Curcaco, May 8.—The excitement in wheat continued today, and values fluctuated widely, After July wheat had gone up to 935¢ on reports of dry weather, brokers yelled themselves hoarse and worked themselves into a steaming perspiration with their gesticula- tions in their efforts to execute orders. Prices climbed up steadily,and at noon July was quiet. and quoted at 945g; June, at 98499 in various portions of the pit; and amid a mighty shout the figure for May was boomed to $1. — The First Arrest. Partaperpara, May 3.—On an affidavit sworn to by Morris L. Kline, a beer bottler, a warrant was today issued against Lewis E. Pfeiffer, president of the bank of A ‘iea on the charge of embezzlement. This is the first crim- inal phase of the complication growing out of the suspension of that institution, Strike Echoes. —The third day of the carpenters his city finds the situa- tion practically unchanged. | A thousand men gathered in Tremont Temple this forenoon. The remarks of the leaders were hopeful in tone. Mention was made of the fact that the suc- cess of the eight-hour movement in Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Indianapolis and othe places anda practical agreement for scttle- ment in New York, left the reserve fund of the | federation free from any calls save those from Boston. Cuicaco, May 3.—The strike of 1,200 em- | ployes at the Malieable Iron Works will be continued indefinitely, The company this morning refused to grant the demands of the sarees To Investigate. Kavsas Crry, Mo., May 3.—In view of the re- cent charges of mismanageinent of the soldiers’ | home at Leavenworth, Kun.,a committee has | been appointed, at the suggestion of the home | i | | | commander by the department commander of Kansas, to make un investigation. To Support the Market. Prrrspvns, May 3.—The Western Window Glass Manufacturers’ Association has called a meeting for next Wednesday in Chicago to | consider the condition of the trade. ‘The strikes of the building trades have seriously affected the glass business, and an effort will be made to support the market, A Now Idea, Moxrneat. Qur., May 3.—L. C. David, mem- | ber of parliament from Montreal East, whose appointment as high sheriff of Montreal will | be officially announced next Monday, comes of | ARG G THE CASE, Statements from Both Sides Before the Civil Service Committee, ‘MR. BWART SUMS UP THE TESTIMONY FOR THE PROSECUTION—THE RETENTION OF CAMPBELL— ‘MR, ROOSEVELT MAINTAINS THAT NO CHARGES HAVE BEEN SUSTAINED. The House civil service investigating com- mittee met at 11 o'clock today to hear argu- ments by the prosecution and by the commis- sioners, Mr. Ewart opened the argument, He head his resolution asking for an investiga- tion and stated that, in offering that resolution and framing the charges, he had no feeling against the commissioners, Charges had been persistently made and had attracted wide at- tention. It was not his purpose, he said, to confine the investigation to this commission, but to have & general investigation of the present and past commissions and into the operations of the en- tire system, He thought that the charges, with one exception, had been fully proven and sus- tained, ‘THE CAMPBELL CASE. He took up the Campbell charges, He said it did not matter whether the questions had been stolen, abstracted or merely taken, The important thing to know was the time at which the list of questions was taken by Campbell. ‘The irresistible conclusion, he said, from com- parison of the testimony, was that the ques- tions were those of either the November or the December examination; that they were live questions and were used after they had been taken. A QUESTION BY ME, BOATNER. Mr. Boatner asked if it were granted that these questions were stolen and that they were sold and were used subsequently in an examination, how that could reflect upon the present commission, Mr. Ewart said that it would sustain the charge that they were neglectful of their duty in retaining Campbell. He then called atten- tion to the fact that Mr. Lyman stated or im- plied that no questions once used were used again. He then submitted copies of the Novem- ber and December questions,one of which must he said, have been those stolen, andannounced, to the committee that the mathematical questions in both these sets of papers were identical, MAKING A BUSINESS OF IT, Mr. Ewart reviewed the testimony of Miss Dabney and Mr. Flynn and said he thought there could be no doubt that Mr. Campbell was making a business of dealing in examination questions, and that he was selling them to Flynn through Mra, Smith. Campbell, he said, could have had but oneof two motives, either to serve a female friend of his, or, as Mr. Ewart believed, to make them a matter of mer- chandise for profit, Mr. Ewart pointed out conflicts between the testimony ot Mr. Oberly and the letter from Mr, Edgerton, which was in evidence, RESPONSIBILITY OF MESSRS. ROOSEVELT AND THOMPSON. The question now was where the fault of Messrs, Roosevelt and Thompson lay, He said he had nothing to say against these gentlemen. Hie did not join with the spoilsmen or the spoilsinen’s organ in abusing them, They Were gentiemen of too high character for him to attempt any abuse of them, Their fault lay, he said, in not going deep enough into the investigation of the Campbell affair. He knew they were in @ delicate position, having to investigate a brother-in-law of one, Mr. Lyinan, but it was their duty to go into e matter deeply and to act promptly. He thought they could have no doubt now of Mr. Campbell's unfitness for the position he held. ‘They could have discovered this earlier, and that they did not was because of gross careless- ness on their part. At 12 o'clock a recess was taken until 1:30, when Mr, Ewart wil! renew his argument. THE SHIDY CHARGE Mr. Ewart then took up the Shidy charge. He expressed surprise at the Commissioners having sent for Shidy and told them to keep cool and tell the truth. He thought this was an extraordinary course. He characterized Shidy as a wonderful study on the stand, He said he believed Shidy always swore to the truth, Taking up the Milwaukee post of- fice investigation, Mr. Ewart said that the Doyle's report made before Messrs, Roosevel and Thompson went on the commission, gave all the substantial facts in the case. That | was followed by a thorough report by Maj. Webster. Mr. Ewart quoted from the testi- mony to show that Shidy told all about the case fre without reserve, to Mr, Doyle and He then said that the excuse Mr. Webster, | of Mr. Roosevelt and Mr Thomspon for pro- tecting Shidy was in consideration of | his testimony to them. ‘This, he thought, would an ancient family in Lyons, France. He says: “While I have the most sincere appreciation of | English law and legal practice I strongly ap- | prove the separation of the province of Quebec | trom the rest of the dominion and the torma- | | tion of anew French colony or the banks of | the St. Lawrence or else t f province of Quebec to the United states, » annexation of the Gone to the League. Al, Lawson, pitcher of the Wilmington Atlantic Association Club, has obtained his release from that organiza- the Boston National League Club, Telegraphic Briefs. Grover Cleveland's uncle, Lewis F. Allen, who for a time gave the ex-President a home, is dead at the age of ninety James Connors of Buffalo defeated James Haley of New York in a glove contest lastnight at Savannah in twenty-three rounds, Patti arrived at Queenstown yesterday. Gov. Gordon addressed the colored conven- tion at Atlanta yesterday.saying he thought the negro was better off to stay where he was, but no obstacle would be put in his way if he wanted to emigrate. Carl Keroski, the self-confessed murderer of Lord Quepoff at Green Bay, Wis.. has been in hiding at Lansing, Mich., since Sunday at the house of his brother. Last mght he walked into police headquarters and surrendered him- self. The city of Rice Lake, Wis., has been almost if not wholly destroyed by fire. ‘The town hall, post oifice and several other buildings at Morgan Park, Ill, burned today. The Wells-Pargo people deny the rumored robbery in Texas. |. Fretta Weaver, on trial for killing her father-in-law, was convicted today at Belle- fonte, Pa. of manslaughter. ADMIRAL WALKER SENT SOUTH. He Will Sail to Brazil to Relieve Admiral Gillis, Admiral Walker, commanding the squadron of evolution now at Malta, has been ordered | by cable to proceed at once with the three ships of that squadron to Brazil,where he will relieve Admiral Gillis incommand of the South ‘Atlantic squadron. Admiral Gillis will return home. The squadron of evolution wiil proba- bly remain some time in South American waters, The dead body of a colored infant was found near the corner of 9th and 8 streets northwest this morning. Harry Monroe and Thomas Wade were charged in the Police Court today with violat- | ing the policy law and they demanded jury trials, A marriage license has been issued by the rk ofthe court to Allen W. Prather and izabeth Catherine Dryden of Upper Fair- mont. Md, je orris has purchased for $8.750 of the New York Life Insurance Company sub 24, square 368, known as 909 M street northwest, The quarterly report of the police depart- ment for the first three months of this year shows that 5,880 arrests were made during that | period, —_——-__ A Hint From Brooklyn. From the New York Tribune. An important measure which ought to be acted upon by the present legislature is the Gretsinger bill providing for the location of new driveways and parks in Brooklyn. There are remarkably fine sites for additional parks | and public roads, which, if not speedily se- cured and reserved, will be devoted to other uses, Among these is the shore driye from | Bay Ridge to Fort Hamilton, which is eapable of being yiade one of the chief attractions of the Brooklyn park system. The city already needs more space for parks, and with its rapid growth of population @ progressive policy of enlargement of the present area devoted to ublic recreation cannot be adopted too soon. irr. Strauahan carned his title of First by his sagacity thirty years ago in antic the progress and future requirements of a gt city. "eRe same type of civic statesmanship is needed now. The extension of the occupied area of Brooklyn from its present limits to Coney Island and Jamaica is inevitable during the next twenty years, ‘The city of the future will re- re many additional parks and drives, and not hold good, as Shidy had told his’ story, given his testimony before Roosevelt and Thompson had anything to do with the case, He then criticised Mr, Roosevelt sharply tor recommending Shidy for an ap- pointment in the census office. He said he was called a spoilsman, If he was a spoilsman he could say that never in his life had he recommended any man_ for appointment whom he kuew to be guilty of perjury, Mr. toosevelt, he said, was in the position of recommending a man he knew to be a perjurer. He explsined that by perjury he reterred to the violation of the oath of office, THE CASE OF MR, BAILEY, Mr. Ewart renewed his argument at ten min- utes to 2 o'clock. He then took up the charge with relation to the appointment of Bailey as He insisted that the evidence the fact that Bailey was not as good a stenographer as others in the com- mission. In accordance with the spirit of the law Bailey should have been required to pass a competitive examination, He said that the commission appeared to have been con- verted to the theory, as they afterwards gave him an examination. Mr, Ewart called atten- tion to the statement of Mr, Morgan that he did not think Bailey was a competent stenographer. He did not know anything he could say that would make the evidence in ths any clearer than it appeared in the reeord. He quoted Mr. Sturgis for the opinion that Bailey was not a stenographer. He then passed off to the question of Sturgis’ removal or transfer, and expressed the opinion that it wasa curious commentary on the operation of the system of civil service reform that Mr, Sturgis had passed a high grade examination and yet was not qualified to fill a position in the Commission, As to the Mitchell charge Mr. tsaid he did not think it had been sustained. He closed his argument at 2:45 o’clock. Mr. Lyman then made an argument of half an hour, Mr. Roosevelt’s Statement. Mr. Roosevelt discussed all the charges ina brief argument and then devoted some atten- tion to the Shidy affair. During the course of the investigation the prosecution practically abandoned all the charges except that of the retention of Campbell and that relating to Shidy, and in these cases the only question was as to the construction to be put on the acts of the commission, Mr, Roosevelt said the prosecution scarcely made an effort to prove the charge relating to the appointment of Mitchell, and the official records proved the charge to be false. The argument pointed out that the charge as to the promotion of Bailey as stenographer was left in a similar position, and that the promotion of Bailey was both proper and legal, and that it stood on the same footing with the promotions in most of the departments, THE CAMPBELL CASE, As to the Campbell case Mr. Roosevelt said: “The charge relating to the Campbell matter affects us only so far as Campbell's retention in office by the present commission is con- cerned. We have, of course, nothing to do with the original decision in the case, As soon as the matter was called to the attention of Goy, Thompson and myself we examined Camp- bell himself, Mr. Doyle, the secretary of the com- mission, and Mr, Lyman, the only three people, éxcept Mr. Oberly,who knew anything about the original decision and the reasons for mak- ing it. Mr. Oberiy has since under oath fully corroborated all the statements made to us b; the three witnesses above mentioned. e could summon no one else, for we had no ower to examine witnesses under oath, nor id we know even the names of the other wit- nesses in the case who have since appeared fore the commission, We found that with out obtaining the consent of the com- mission Campbell had given to an out- sider a copy of the questions aud answers contained in an examnation paper in our files. ‘The gravity of the offense depended entirely upon Campbell’s intent and upon whether the questions were current or obsvlete, It was quite impossible to determine these points when we made the inves! for the occurrence had tuken place two years Sei unc haieae Sangre On the other d, Mr. Oberly, president of the commission, had | fully tars ted the matter while all the facts were fresh, faa come to the conclusion that ll was the best sites ought to be selected and reserved as s00D as possible. eee The Southern Press Association at Charleston \ indorsed the goyernment telegraph idea, innocent; and had continued him in the serv- ice. Such being the case it would have been rossly improper for us on secondary evidence, parents two sears sitse the Gre havo? Verwed this decision of the previous commis- d on primary dence, ie the prosecutors — _ ‘illegally retained’ in office, am at a loss to understand their and sue- missioner, before Gov. Thompson and myself came on commission, But by an examina- tion of the testimony it will be seei both President Harrison and President ized he was tainly after thelr legality had been by both Presidents we were es from questioning them.” This, he said, ended the charges as far as they affected the legality of the actsof the present commission. THE SHIDY MATTER. The remaining charge, that relating to Shidy, he said, affected merely the judgment of the commission, The prosecution, he said, had not produced any fact that was not already generally known; that every fact bronght out jad already been set forth at length in the commissioners’ report of last uly. Every- thing that had been done in the Bhidy matter and all the facts in the case, he aaid, been given fall Soret at the time. He restated the case riefly. Shidy, he said, was one of the board of examiners at Milwaukee while Paul was master. Paul forced the board to make illegal and Ee certifications to cover hir own illegal aad improper appointments, and being completely at his mercy they consented, The other members of the board, Johnson and Fahsel, together with Shidy, certified to the correctness of these windling cepréifi- cations, They were therefore, he said, all equally fulty, but of course Paul was the real and great offender and it was Paul, not the poor tools, who needed to be most severely oe Shidy, when given the c! con- ‘essed, while his colleagues would not. He thus abandoned his joing and did all he could to help us right it, ul was not condemned on Shidy’s testimony, but it helped material in getting at evidence which rendered Pau! guilt clear beyond shadow of doubt. The com- mission told him that they would try to pro- tect him, not against the consequences of his guilt, but against the consequences of bis hav- ing endeavored to atone for it by telling the truth, They laid especial emphasie on this point in their report to the Postmaster Gen- eral, Shidy was dismissed in spite of their efforts to prevent it and in spite of the fact that his equally guilty colleagues who had not confessed were not molested. As they had failed to secare for him the same treatment ac- corded to his equally guilty colleagues—that is to have him retained in e@ govern- ment service—they endeavored to have him reinstated so that he might be no worse off for having confessed than Johnson and Fahsel, who had not confessed. As he was not dis- missed because of any delinquency or miscon- juct he could be reinstated in either the classi- fied or unclassified service. There was of course not the oo pe difference between having him retained and having him reinstated; if he was worthy of the one favor he was worthy of the other,and his colleague, Johnson, is retained in office to this day, SHIDY'S REINSTATEMENT, Mr. Roosevelt stated the facts relating to Shidy’s reinstatement in the government éerv- ice as a clerk in the census bureau at a salary | of $720 instead of the $1,300 he had received through the action of the Postmaster General and the superintendent of the census taken at his (Roosevelt's) suggestion. The Postmaster General, he suid, was cognizant of all of Shidy's past conduct, as the reports which led to Post- master Paul's removal showed what Shidy bad done, The superintendent of the census, Mr. Roosevelt said, was also given ample opportu- nity to know the facts, He had not, hesaid, intentionally or unintentionally concealed a sin- gle fact in the case from either the Postmaster General or the superintendent;of the census, The wisdom of the commissioners’ course in reference to Shidy was in nowise affected by what Shidy said on the witness stand when frightened and bullied by the prosecution af- ter the method so familiar to ail who Lave ever seen anything of a certain cheap variety of criminal lawyer. Itmust be borne in mind, he said, that they could have had no possible mo- tive in tte J Shidy save desire to benefit the public service. To them he was an entire stranger, without personal or political influ- ence, and they did not know his politics, PROSECUTING LAW BREAKERS, Mr. Roosevelt, after stating that the present commission hold that the best way to wee the law executed was to prosecute law breakers, said that often needed evidence sould be ob- tained only from those who have in a minor way taken part in the wrongdoing, and such testimony could not be had unless witnesses were protected from the consequences of their tes- timony. He said the commission was now endeavor- ing to bring about prosecutions of a number of government clerks and the like who were im- plicated in violating the law concerning these assessments, and that they would willingly let these small fry go if they could thereby get at the bigger men who have stood behind and di- rected them, ASSAILED FOR ADMINISTERING THE LAW WELE. In conclusion he said: ‘This ends the charges made against the present commission. To say that the proof adduced in support of them is flimsy is to pay it an unwarranted compliment, for no proof has been produced at all. We have been in office one year, and have had to ad- minister the law during the difficult period immediately succeeding a change of adminis- tration, when the rage for office is hottest and the anger of disappointed applicants most in- tense. We have been busily engaged not only in repelling outside attacks, but in waging active war against wrong- doers, who were often entrenched behind the most powerful political influences, With insufficient means we have been forced to meet and solve problem after problem of the most difficult character. Under such cir- cumstances it was to be expected that we would make occasioual mistakes and it is very possible that we have done so, but certainly none have been pointed out by our prosecutors, It is really remarkable that the most rancorous and mendacious—albeit singularly unintel- ligent--malevolence, after resorting to every means to procure evidence against us, has been unable to point to so much as a single error of judgment on our part. The simple truth is ‘that we are being assailed not for having administered the law badly, but for having administered it well, There are up- right and honorable men who do not believe in the civil service law and who oppose it on ita merits fairly and openly, but none of these are to be found in the ranks of our present ac- cusers. Those who are now assailing us hate us for precisely the same reasons that the criminal classes hate an efficient policeman. The best tribute to and measure of the work we have accomplished is to be found in the impo- tent malice of these men, a malice which does not excite our anger because it is incapable of rousing a deeper feeling than profound con- tempt.” ane eee Couldn’t Prove Ownership. Mr. F. M. Draney, who has the street sweep- ing and garbage contracts, was a defendant in Judge Miller’s court this morning. He was charged by Agent Key of the Humane Society, with cruelty to animals, it being alleged that he permitted one of bis employes to drive a mule with a sore back. Agent Key could not prove that Mr. Draney was the owner of the animal, and the case was thrown outof court > Real Estate Matters. C. W. King bas purchased of L. J. Davis for $62,872.56 sub 21 and part 22, square 245, 5034 by 88.3 feet on the northeast corner of G and Lith streets northwest, W. H. A. Lp nony has purchased for $18,000 of Jane E. Howlett lot 14 and part 15 of 5.P.B's sub of Mt. Pleasant, i ae Mary Ann Will Go to the Country. Mary Ann Dougherty, whose vetoed pension bill gave her some notoriety during President Cleveland’s administration, was in the Police Court dock this m . charged with being an habitual dronbard, Siary promea to go to the country and Judge took her per- sonal bonds, oe rae ALEXANDRIA, Reported for Tae Evexino “Rp Pe Mowerany —Considerable amounts of capi- tal, the savings of Alexaqndrians, are now find- ing investment. Half @ score of building asso- ciations use up some #! of dollars month in home improvements, and lately sev- eral investment com| have been formed here with a view to the use of capital in land Patid alt eves $0000 of ‘Alernsarie eons it over of tal has been lately invested abroad. I ts of the Golden J.C. de Puhon, P, C., Kenghs ofthe Geld ba new castle LIVE CAPITOL TOPICS. An Error in the Oklahoma Act—Notes From Committee Roums. ‘The discovery of an error in giving the date of President Harrison's proclamation of last year opening to settlement « portion of the territory of Oklahoma in the bill pro- viding s temporary government for the territory, which+was signed by the Presi- dent last night, was brought to the attention of Mr. Springer, one of the confer- ence committee which prepared the bill in the form it passed Congresa, He says the error will not affect the law as a whole; that it will stand, and the government of the territory will be established as in- tended. If the clause containing the error is held to be invalid, Mr. Springer says, the only effect will be to authorize the Secretary of the Zuterior to issue patents to claimants under the weer law for land anywhere within the itory instead of being restricted to the limits of the land opened to settlement by the terms of ion of the President of March 23, OBSCENE LITERATURE IN THE MAILS. Tn the House today Mr. Henderson of Iowa introduced, for reference, a bill to exclude ob- scene literature from the mails. Any one vio- lating the law shall, on conviction, be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned at hard labor ‘Rot more than five years, or both. BILL TO INCREASE SALARIES. Senator Pettigrew this afternoon introduced ® bill to increase the salaries of the commis- ioner and assistant commissioner of Indian af- fairsand the financial clerk in the Indian of- fice. If the bill becomes law the commis- sioner will receive $5,000, the assistant commissioner $4,000 and the financial clerk $2,250 per annum. He also offered an amendment to the legislative, executive and judicial appropriati ill increasing the | salary of the assistant librarian of the Senate to @1,800. BILLS PASSED BY THE SENATE. The Senate this afternoon proceeded to the consideration of bills on the calendar and passed (among others) the folloving: Senate bill to authorize the building of a bridge at Pine Bluff, Ark., across the Arkansas river, Senate bill to establish additional life-saving stations on the coast of Oregon, one at the mouth of Rogue river and one at Port Orford. House bill granting Fight of ay to the Lit- tle ap ge Lacs and Superior railroad across Mille Lacs Indian reservation. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, New York Stock Market. The follot the ‘and closi: the New York stock Market, se reported by Wire to Corson and Macartuey, 1410 F street: ra 228 C 57% ©. ORNS be 9 Cen, 355 | 3 Ge 24 ss Cc. & 64 0. De& ty F are rs) 9 ss | Washington Stock Kxchange. | Sales — Regular Call—12 o'clock m.: Columbia | Tailroad, 16 at 75. Washington Gas, 13 at 445, urity and 25 At 494; 26 at 404); 25 at 404: 2 at 504. Pneumatic Gun Carriage, 200 at 1. Government Bonds—U. 5.455, 18¥1, registered, 103% bid, 103% asked. U. 8. 43<s, 1891, coupor, 103% bid, 104 asked. U. 8. 4s, registered. 1107, 122 bid, 122% asked. U. 8. 4s, coupons, 122 bid, 121% asked. District of Columbia Bonds—Per imp. 6s, 1891, coin, 103% bid. Per imp. 7s, 1801 currency, 104% bid. Market stock 7s," 12, currency, 105% bid. 20-year fund, 63, 1802, gold, 10439 bid. 20-year fun¢, Ss, 1880, gold, 112 bid, 118 asked. W: -y, 131 bid. 30-year fund, ua, gold, 1902, 124 bid. Water stock, 7s, currency, 1903, 135 bid, 140 peel 365s, lez, fund, currency, 122 bid, 223g asked. Miscellaneous Bonds—. 8. Electric Light bonds, | Ist, 6s, 100 bid. U. 8. Electric Light bonds, 24 6s, 115 bid, 120 asked. Washington and George- town Hailroad, 10-40, 6s, oy bid. Wash- i ‘and Georgetown Convertible bonds, 6s, | 180 bid. Masonic Hail Association 5s. 1898, 108 bid, 110 asked. Washington Market | Company 1st mortgage, ts, 110 bid. Washington | | depot in this bill.” | of | between ater stock, 7, 1901, cur: | 4 FROM THE CAPITOL [Continued from First Page.) eration of business from the committees om Judiciary. THE DIPLOMATIC APPROPRIATION Brit. The House then went into committee of the whole, Mr. Peters (Kan.) in the chair, on the diplomatic and consular eppropriation bill, Mr. McCreary (Ky.) made an argument in favor of reciprocity with the South American republica, In closing his speech he said that in spite of blunders aud mistakes be believed that the in- ternational conference would be recorded in history as a success, It would be remembered as the first step in the social and commercial union among the American republics, [Ap- plause.} Mr. Chipman (Mich.) said that the pendi bill was an honest measure and therefore receive his support, Mr. McAdoo (N.J.) contended that the diple- MATIC system Was Useless and vicious. it should be 4 d, continued, and in ite government should have a good and reformed consular system. ‘The am! stem was instituted in the middie ages, The ambassador was the personal representative of absolution, It was said that the Senate would chinge the title of minister to that of ambassador, Anambassador of the United States to the kingly courts of Europe was an outrage to re publican institutions, The Unived States taught the mations of the world the doctrine of popular government. Tt was a menace to every throne in Europe. It ought to practice the doctrine which it practiced, and it had no right to show to the struggling re pablics of Europe that it was glad to play with the monarchs of Europe in « gilded farce which was of no use to a Kepubli THE BILL PASSED, The committee then rose and the bill ve Passed. o - “ THEY THINK It FEASIBLE, What the Commisioners Say About Dee Pressing the B. and P. Tracks Recently the Commissioners received from Chairman Grout of the committee on the Dis- trict of Columbia a record of the adoption of the following motion by his committee with reference to the Burton railroad bill. “Imove to refer the bill back to the Com- missioners for their views as to the engineer- ing features involved in sinking the tracks, the methods of doing this and the estimated cost of sinking the tracks and bridging them and the Propriety of doing this, And also that they give their views as to the construction of an elevated track and the cost of such a structure. Aud also their views of the removal of the passenger station and the proper location thereof. That they j furnish the tacts ou which they base their Views, Aud the Commissioners are requested to report on the feasibility of depressing tracks between 15th street aud the site propused for ‘The matter was referred to Col. Robert, who today transmitted tue following report im Auswer thereto: “The Commissioners beg to say in reply to your letter of April 22, that it is perfectly feasible to depress the tracks the Baltimore and Potomac railroad sth street and the site proposed for depot in House bili $903, provided the Long bridge is not raised above its present level. If this bridge is raised about eleven feet, as the Commussio1 sidered necessary by ( it will not be «| practicable to piace this portion of the tracks below grade. ‘Ihe rest of your letter will be answered a» s00u as w are able to do so.” Range of the Thermomever Today. The following were the readings at the sig- naloilice today: Sa.m.. 65; 2 p.m, G4; maxi ladelphia, Weds est. Dag sisters, Mr. 4 > PACLINE E. tz Bechler, of the of this cuy daughter of the late iguat aeipuia, Pa. SISSUN—MORAN. On Sunday last, April by Kev. J. W. Comets, MASTHEM Sis Aliss MAGGIE L. ih MUKA, both ot Quan SVEAKE—NICHOLS. Ou Liamday, April 30, 1800, a we hou ¢ Uldle's motuer, Uy the kev. Dr, M. ALE. Churcly ALFieD BOW? to Miss A M. SICavLs, - Dien, BaksTow, Isvo, BLiZA. Cuurles Ho & to the Hixber “Lhere 38 no deat! HEM Bovci 1s Market company | bonds, imp. 6s, 118 bid, 122 asked, Washington Light Infantry first mortgage ' 68, 1904, 102 bid. Washington | Light Infantry bonda, 24 7, 1904, 100 bid. | Washington Gas Light Company bonds, series A, Gs, 121 bid, 122 asked. Washington Gas Light Com; 123 asked. Hygienic Ice vom; 1st mortg: 23 ice pany, 1s e, 6s, 102 bid, 106 asked. = National Bank Stocks—Bankof Washington. 465 | bid, 486 asked. Bank of Kepublic, 250 bid. | Metropolitan, 256 bid, 268 asked. Central, 250 | bid. Second. 185 bid. Farmers and Mechanics, | 190 bid, 200 asked. Citizens, 167 bid, 180 asked. | Columbia, 187% “bid. 185 asked. Capital, 119 | bid. West End, 93 bid, Traders, 4 bid, 97 asked. Lincoln, 74 bid. Railroad Stuci Washington and 275 bid. Metropolitan, 170 bid, 180 ed. Columbia, 72 bid, 78 axed. Capitol and ‘orth O Street, 72 bid. "Eckington and Soldiers’ Home, 77 bid, $6 asked. Georgetown ani Tenal- lytown, 50 bid, 50% asked. Brightwood, 40 bid. | Fran| Columbia, 18 bid, 19 asked. ‘German-American, | 180 bid. Potomac, 88 bid, 95 asked. i) ig poems Pedples, 5% bid, 5", tle Insurance Stocks—Real Ketate Tie, 126 | © bid, 135 asked. Columbia Title, 64 asked. 1 Gas and Electric Light Stocks—Washington Gas, 44% did, 44% asked. Georgetown Gas, 48 bid. U.S. Electric t, 114 bid, 117 asked. Telephone Stocks—Pennsyivania, ¥5 bid, 28% asked. Chesapeake and Potomac, 70 bid, 7! asked. American hophone Company, 14% bid. 143 asked. | Miscellaneous Stocks—Washington Market Com- Rany, 18 did, 20% asked. Washington Brick | ine Company, 325 bid. Great Falls Ice Company, 210 bid, 218 asked. Bull Kun Panorama, 24 bid, 25% eatcot. Matlonal Safe | bid, Deposit Company, 240 bid, 25 ed. Washing- ton Safe Deposit Company, 30 bid. Pnen- matic Gun Carriage, 1% bid, 1%; asked. Wash- ingtcn Loan gnd Company, 37% bid, 4 asked. American ‘Trast Company, Lincoln Hall, 80 bid, 100 ny, 40 bid. Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, May 3.—Cotton firm—middling, 114812 Flour fairly active—Howard street and western super, 2.10a2.75; do. extra, 3.0003. do. do. family, '4.00a4.75; City mills, Kio bran: extra, 4.7505.00; winter wheat patent. 5.00a5, spring, do. do.,’ 5.25a5.75; do. do. straight, 4.60a 5.00; ~~ do., extra, 4.1004.50. Wheat—southern scarce and strong: ey eg gt Longberry, %a 100; No. 2, 97; steamer No. 2 red. 5; werern lay, 95 strong; No. 2’ winter red, spot, 96, July. 92%. Corn—southern scarce and highe! . yellow, 43: western strong; mixed | 43\ga43%; May, 42; June, 41%; July, 4iy; Au- gust, 41%; steamer, 40. ' Oats’ strong—souibern and ‘Pennsylvania. 38; do. mixed, r—prime to choice, 6 fairly active and new 73.50; bulk meats, loose shoulders, 5 long clear rib sides, Gy: sugar- pickled shoulders, 6; ders, 7%; hams, lard, refined, 7%, crude 6x ab%. western, lligalz, quiet and unchanged—refined, 1°?%,a1 Whisky frm and unchanged—1.00a110. Freights to Liverpool per steamer dull—cotton 40c.: four per ton ee per bushel, 2d. Cork for orders —2s.6da3s. ipte—Nour, 5,036 barrels; wheat, 4.000 bushels; corn, 67,000 bushels: ,000 busheis; rye, 2,000 bushels. Shipments tour, 818 ; Corn, ‘wheat, corn, 8,000 bushels BALTIMORE, May 3. — Virginia threes, 66y: and’ One 900100; os. — stock, 6768; Cir ti, Wi = and solidated gas bonds, do. 4904035. | series B. 6s, 121% bid, | { | LATIMER of P: dstei, 14 ber elwbty-sinth year, late seaideuce, Third ot G. reicueiberger ol Las ch Interment at Frederick Giiy, Ma. EMUKY. At irenclitown, N.J., May 1, 1890, Rev. WM. 5. BMUuA, tatuer ot Mrs deury A'S, city. 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