Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1893, Page 1

————_—__ es THE EVENING STAR re 8 ee E STAR BUILDIN UO) Penaayivania Avenue corser Lith St, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, S. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. ber week. or 44. meuth. Copivs ‘at the coun- ter 2 cents each. By mail—anywhere in the United = or age cents SATURDAY QUINTUPLE SHEET Sv. with THE TARIFF BILL All Ready to Submit to the Demo- cratic Majorit OF THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE Protests Against Coal and Iron on the Free List } FROM ALABAMA AND VIRGINIA ‘The five democrats who have been prepar- ing the tariff bill are ready today to hand the bill over to their democratic colleagues. There are eleven democrats on the committee and they have been called together to meet late this afternoon to go over the measure. It! fs expected that they may make some| changes in it, and at all events they will| consider it for several days before report- ing it to the republicans. They have de-| cided that it would not be advisable to sub- | mit the bill to a democratic caucus before | putting it on the calendar. It is argued that | the bill if taken into caucus would be cut | all to pieces, as the Mills bill was. Their idea is, if the bill is put on the calendar} with the unanimous report of the democrats of the committee, it can be forced through the House without amendment. Relying on the President. For the accomplishment of this their chief reliance fs in the expectation that Mr.Cleve- land will send a ringing tariff message to Congress on their reassembling and will back up the committee with all the power of the administration, as he did the silver repeal bill. The confidence of the committee in Mr. Cleveland’s attitude is not misplaced, but whether his influence will be sufficient | to hold off opposition to the committee pill | trom democrats is a question. } Against Free Coal and Iron. Several members of the majority were kept busy today listening to arguments | and appeals from interested persons and | parties who desired to have their views upon certain matters incorporated into the new tariff bill. The most important of | these were delegations from Alabama and | Virginia. The former represented the coal | and iron interests of that state. and they | presented to Chairman Wilson and to| Messrs. Turner, McMillin, Montgomery and | Stevens, wno happened to be present in the room at the time of the call, the rea- sons why, in their opinion, coal and iron | ore should not be placed upon the free list. ‘This delegation consisted of the following gentiemen: F. W. Anderson. B. F. Moore, dtoss C. Smith. W. &. Phillips, and Chap- pell Cory of tne Commercial Club of Bir- ngham; T. G. Bush, president of the Mo- and’ Birmingham Railway Company, J. M. MeKlero: president of the An- niston Land Compan: Anniston nd Nat. | Steps Taken to Preserve Che Evening Star. No 20,731. WASHINGTON'S BIRTHPLACE. A Contract Made For Constructing a Wharf at Wakefield. dS Mark a Spot Sacred to Americans— itably . Wilson Begins the Work. Practical steps have at last been taken for marking and preserving the birthplace of the first President of the republic. ‘The | Work fs in the hands of Col. John M. Wilson of the engineer corps of the army, and it goes without saying to those at all con- versant with the record of that office that this most important commission, recently intrusted to him, will be faithfully and ex- peditiously executed so far as the funds at his disposal will permit. He has already arranged for the preliminary work by mak- ing a contract with I. H. Hathaway & Com- pany of Philadelphia for the construction of a wharf of cast iron screw piles, with a timber deck, near the mouth of Bridge creek, Virginia, as a means of approach from the Potomac river to the old and so long neglected place at Wakefield where Washington was born. The total amount available for the means of access is $10,700 and the contract for the wharf is for $9,350. It requires that work upon it shall begin May 1 next and that it shall be completed, ready for use, by the first of August next. This wharf will be 1,050 feet long by 16 feet wide, with,a head 40 by 60 feet. Ruins of the Old dlomestend. Wakefield, the birthplace of Washington and where his boyhood was spent, is in Westmoreland county, lying on the Poto- ton city and just three miles below the sum- mer resort known as Colonial Keach. This county has also the honor of being the birthplace of President Monroe and Gen. R. E. Lee. Wakefield is a large plantation of 1,200 acres bordering on the river for a half mile and running back some distance between the historic Pope’s creek and Bridge creek. The spot where the home of Wash- ington stood is 1 yards from the bank of Pope's creek and some distance up from the Potomac. Nothing remains of the original dwelling, which was a plain house of four rooms on the lower floor and several in the attic, ex- cept the bricks that formed the foundation of the house. Up to a few years ago a lone chimney stood marking this historic spot, but now nothing remains save a cluster of trees, a few fig bushes and a pile of broken brick. The property was purchased by the government from Mr. John E. Wilson, formerly of Maryland, but who has been re- siding on the place for the past forty years. He married Miss Rettie Washington, whose grandfather was Wm. Augustine Washing- ton. the half nephew of Gen. Washington. The Family Vault. Washington's father, grandfather and greatgrandfather lived all or a part of their lives at Bridge creek, now Waketield, and Baxter, jr.. of Nashville, president of the} ‘Tennessee Coal and Iron Company located | at Birmingham. Messrs. Bush and Baxter were spokesmen | for the delegation. They stated that they came as business men purely, although the entire delegation were democrats in Political affiliation. The interest they rep- resented, the committcemen were informed, amounted to $125,000,00, and were the means of livelihoog of 70.0% men in Alabama. The coal and iron interests of Alabama. it was stated, fed and clothed more than one- fifth of the entire population of that state, and the comfort and happiness of this large tumber of people were involved in the quzs- | tion whether or not these articles should be put upon the free iist. ‘The Virginia Delegation. { The Virginia delegation _ represented | Churchland Grange, Norfolk county, and} was composed of John T. Griffin, Joseph 'T. Duke, Henry Kern, T. E. Trotman, W. B. Carney and K. C. Murray. These gen-| tlemen had an interview with Chairman | Wilson, in which they urged upon him the recessity, from their point of view, of re- taining in the proposed new tariff measure, | the duty of twenty-five cents a bushel upon | potatoes. Mr. Murray acted as spokesman, | and presented facts and figures showing the extent of the interests involved. He said | that this was the only protection that was | afforded to the farmers of the Atlantic st. or at least, that portion of it tribu- tary to the Norfolk market. They have to pay protected prices upon articles that they consume, but the tax | upon potatces did not, it was asserted, raise the price of this great product to the people. Norfolk, it was stated, handles | about 1,000,000 barreis of potatoes annually, | ard the property interests of Churchland | Grange are valued at $5, 000, To Protect the Farmers. | It was particularly desired, it was said, | to protect the farmers there against the | importation of Nova Scotia potatoes, which | come in ballast, paying but little or no| freight, and the labor in their production | and the value of land upon which th raised being less than in the United States, the producers of potatoes here would be placed at a disadvantage if they were com- pelled to meet this Canadian competition. The members of the deiegation made no objection to the free importation of Ber- muda potatoes, for the reason that at the time they came into market the native product was not ready for sale, and there- fore did not come directly into competition with the imports from Bermuda—they are | considered as luxuries. ——_- e+__ TO BE PROMOT Commodore Skerrett Will Probably Soon Be an Admiral. Commodore Skerrett, recently detached from command of the United States naval forces at Honolulu and transferred to the command of the Asiatic -station, will be promoted to the rank of rear admiral by the retirement in the spring of Admiral Ir- win, who succeeded him in command at Honolulu. That is, provided his physical ex- mination by a medical board at San Fran- cisco turns out as successfully as the exam- imation of his moral and mental record, made in Washington by Rear Admirals Ghe- rardi, Greer and Brown. The Gherardi board has not yet submitted its report, but it is known that nothing was found in the records to prevent Commodore Skerrett's advancement to the highest grade in the navy. There has been some gossip among naval officers over the defense of the pro- visional government of Hawaii made by Commodore Skerrett to newspaper report- ers on his arrival in San Francisco from Honolulu, and the suggestion has been made that his views may place him in bad grace with the President, who passes on the findings of promotion and retirement boards. As Admiral Skerrett did not criticise the President's Hawailan policy in any way this idea finds no supporters. Commodore Skerrett has informed the Navy ment that he will sail for the fe s tion November 21. Mrs. Skerrett and her two unmarried daughters, who have been at Honolulu with the admiral for some time, are due tn San Francisco from the Hawatian capital this week. and will ac- company him to Asia, making their_res' dence with the American colony in Yoko- hama, ———————-o+_____. Fourth-Class Postmasters. Sixty-six fourth-class postmasters were appointed yesterday. Of this number forty were to fill vacancies caused by death resignation and the remainder b: removals. ‘The Virginia appointments were as follows: Golden Springs, Mattie L. Gran ham, Lima J. Chiler: Grizzar I viee J. V. Jones, resigned: Wan Doren, vice A. G. Thomp Rugby, R. B. Ross, vice E. D. aged resig erkins, re- | inscriptions almost extinct. | gress. The population will be swelled bs were all interred in the family vault. This vault is only a short distance from the birthplace, but nothing remains except a group of trees and a few marble slabs with To rescue this historic spot from neglect and oblivion, Con- | ress, June 14, 1879, appropriated $3,000 for 4 monument to mark the spot where Wash- ington was born. In the spring of 188) Mr. Wm. M. Evarts, then Secretary of State, visited the place and on May 4 following Wrote a letter to Mr. Samuel J. Randall, Speaker of the House of Representatives, usgesting that the parental home-in which Washington was born should be preserved and that it should be marked with a suit- able monument. He estimated that such a structure would cost $30,000, and the original appropriation was subsequently increased to that amount. After the purchase price of the property was paid, the amount for com- pleting the project of Congress, including the construction of a suitable wharf and ap- proaches, was reduced to $24,713. The con- tract just made for the landing wharf leaves | but about $13,000 for the complete execution of the will of Congress in the erection of # suitable monument, &c. This does not leave very much to the discretion of Col. Wilson, but it may be depended upon that he will make the best possible use of the funds at his disposal in the design and con- struction of a suitable monument for this sacred spot. + e+ ESS IN OKLAHOMA, PROG Will Be Shown by the Annual Report of the Governor. The annual report of the governor of Ok- lahoma has not been received at the De- partment of the Interior, and active meas- ures are being taken to get it so that the report of the Secretary of the Interior may not be deiayed- Gov. Renfroe will state that no official and reliable census of the inhabitants of the territory has been taken since 189, but that 2 commission was ap- pointed on the 30th of June, 1892, to make an enumeration, and that said commission exercised great care in getting approximate results. In 1390 the population of the terri- tory was 60,416; in 1892, 133,100, and the forth- coming report will put the population at about It is expected that the great- est increase will be shown in the counties Payne, Logan, Oklahoma and King- fisher, but Canadian and Cleveland counties will make a good showing. Beaver county has made vast strides in the march of pro- What the inclusion of the Osage, Pawnee, Kansas, Otoe, Missouri, Tonkawa, Kickapoo, Wich- ita, Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indians. All of these tribes are strongiy represented, The report will dwell on the amount of tax- able property in the territory, on banks and banking, on commercial and railroad enter- prises, schools, farm products, stock rais-|man hunt if It struck Off some cavern’ ing. mining, forestry, settlement of lands, purchase of Indian reservations. labor, leg- islation and a survey of the condition of the Indians. we CABINET OFFICERS’ REPORTS. The First Draft Written for Them— How They Completed. That a cabinet officer writes his annual report is a fiction. The report is written for him. He edits. If his eye falls on objection- able matter, then so does his deadly blue lead. If he happens to hit on a brilliant idea he jots it down on the wide expanse of white paver which intervenes between the typewritten lines of ‘he ready-made re- Port. Very often when he gets an Idea which isn’t really brilliant, but which he believes to be, he writes that down, too. Then the whole is again typewritten, sent to the printer, set up, run off and sent out as the report of a cabinet officer. In order to allay the suspicions of the reader, it is fair to state that the reason cabinet officers do write their own reports is not because they lack Ii t have not the time. Then the cabinet officer in all probability gets $8.00 per annum, and the report can usually be written by a clerk or in menv cases even by a nrivate secre- tary. Therefore the cabinet officer consults the good of the service in not heine the au- thor of what he claims the authorshin of. An abstract of the renert of each bureau is made for the cabinet officer and the com- Dilstion ts easily accomnliched. Just at thie serson of the voar it Is one of the most nlansthle thince in the world to tell an exnectant caller. “The Secretary is at work om ht annual report and must not he interrupted Rresian Convicts. Secretaries Gresham and Carlisle had a conference yesterday concerning the Rus- slan convicts rec else missioner of imm shows that some are not mitted by the com- f the escaped prisoners xtraditable and are therefore en- mac river, sixty-five miles below Washing- | ry ability, but because they | | | Mtiv landed in San Fran- | an Francisco | LITTLE STOCK TAKEN At the Hawaiian Legation at the Theories Advanced AS T0 A SECRET CALL ON THE QUEEN. —_.—___ ADa y’s Delay in the Sailing of the Steamer. MINISTER THURSTON WAITING aes The Hawalian legation here takes very little stock in the many theories that have Seen-advanced, in the absence of facts, in regard to the coup d'etat of the President. Little or no credence is placed in the state- ment that this government will endeavor to arrange an amnesty or a combination government under Queen Liliuokalani. Neither is it thought that Minister Willis could very well carry out any instructions —Provided he had any—to see the ex-queen secretly before reporting his arrival to the provisional government. Honolulu, it is said, is a gossipy sort of place, where every- body knows the business of everybody else. The inhabitants are on the alert for infor- mation just now, and a new American min- ister would be a marked man. The hotel occupied by the legation is located in the heart of the city, at the junction of the three principal streets, and is constantly under observation. The ex-queen has been living in Honolulu ever since her forced re- tirement and is practically under constant surveillance. A visit from Minister Willis to the queen would be immediately reported to the officers of the government. The fact might not get into the news circles, but would unquestionably be known by Presi- dent Dole before the minister called. This Knowledge of itself, some think, would be ample ground for the provisional govern- ment to go slow in recognizing Mr. Willis. | The Exact Diplomatic Status, | A good deal has been said about the exact status of the Hawailan minister here, and some have alleged that he has never been fully recognized as the diplomatic repre- sentative of Hawaii. The Star is positively informed that there has been no change whatever in the diplomatic relations between the two coun- tries for the past fifty years, barring the interposition of a request from Hawaii last | spring for a change in the business relations of the nations. The commissioners from the provisional government were received as such, and in June Mr. Thurston was pre- sented to the President, who accepted his credentia! Mr. Blount was sent to Hawali as a commissioner, and later as minister, wceredited to the Dole gove-nment. Then Mr. Willis was sent in the same capacity and Mr. Mills was named as consul gen- eral. Mr. Wilder has been sent to this country as consul general at San Francisco, and his exequatur has been issued by the State Department. ‘There is absolutely no lack of formal recognition. The provisional government of Hawaii is as firmly rooted in the diplomatic soil of the United States as that of Great Britain. The Steamer Delayed. A telegram was receiyed in this city this morning from San Fratiged~ ing the Hawaiian mini that, steamer Mono- wai of the ood reas. to sail to- day for Honolulu, would be detained until tomorrow. No reason was given. This is the steamer that was booked to carry the matis that mean so much to both govern- ments. Additional instructions for Minister Willis | and some observations by Minister Thurs- | ton are in the mail sacks. There is a steamer to sail today from Victoria, B. C., on the Canadian Pacific line that will stop | at Honolulu, and it is barely possible that Mr. Thurston's packet has been forwarded to that port by wire by Mr. Wilder in the hope of securing an advantage over this government. But Victoria is 400 miles fur- ther from Honolulu than San Francisco, and it is doubtful whether the day's start would be of avail. But that is a question to be solved only by the results. Minister Tharston Waiting. | No further news is anticipated now until | Saturday, when the Australia arrives. Min- | ister Thurston said this morning that he was merely waiting. He added: “There is | no news, no change im the situation at this | end, I have no intention of seeing Secre- tary Gresham again until something new turns up. I have told him all I want to say.” Has Not Demanded His Passports. Minister Thurston has not demanded his | Passports, and will not do so, unless he | learns that the government he represents has been overthrown. HE IS A MENACE. An Escaped Forger Who is Wanted | Very Badly. | October 11 the Post Office Department |offered a reward of $00 for the recapture | of James K. Stratton, an alleged despera- | do, who escaped from the Canon City peni- teutiary on the night of September 17 jast, while serving a term of twenty-one years for forgery. Thousands of conspicuous cir- culars were printed and some were dis- tributed. Then the department got the idea that it would aid materially in the ments with the portrait of the alleged of- fender boldly displayed, and some of these were also distributed.. An unreasonable percentage of these circulars lie idle in the department and it seems that no effort is being made to post them in conspicuous places. Sub rosa, the inspectors from the | start had very ‘slim hope that Stratton could be retaken. The prison authorities have also offered a reward of $20) in addi- ticn to that offered by the Post Office De- partment. The postal officials seem to treat Mr. Stratton with a great deal of deference. They are afraid of his evil genius. The report on which the reward issued set forth, “that'the liberty of Strat: ton is a menace to the department, a ee THE COMMAND AT RIO. Believed That Capt. Picking WII Re- main for the Present. Secretary Herbert is given as authority for the statement that there will be no im- mediate change in the command of the naval forces at Rio, which devolved on Capt. Picking of the Charleston when Ad- miral Stanton was recalled because of his faux pas with Mello, the insurgent admiral, about a month ago. Gossips around the Navy Department have inciuded nearly every commander in the navy in their pre- dictions as to who will get this assignment, | but the impression is strong that Capt. Picking, as the senior officer present, will continue in command for some time to come. ++ A Decision Rendered. Commissioner Lamoreux of the general land office has rendered a decision involv- | Great Falls, | ing title to ail lands in the Montana, townsite. The decision recites that the Great Falls Water Power and Townsite Company is, as transferce of the lands in question, protected in its right of occupancy. decisions in the case. Sr Mashonaland has a white population of titled to land. What is to be done with the | 1-490, of whom over 800 belong to the local others is still a puzzling question. police force. This is in line with previous | 'THE PRESIDENT BACK. | His Hurried Trip to New York Still a Mystery. i | | Rumors That He Has Been Investing Visited New York in Co tion With His Investments. ec The President and Secretary Lamont re- turned to Washington early this morning, having left New York on the midnight train. ‘The President remained sectuded in the White House all day and was inaccessible to all callers, save members of his cabinet. It required all Private Secretary Thurber's tact and diplomacy to smooth over the keen disappointment felt by a throng of official visitors, mostly Congressmen, who have business with the President and are unable to gain an audience. Rumors as to the Trip. The purpose of the President's surrepti- tious visit to New York is still a mys- tery. It is hard to believe that he made the long journey merely for the purpose of seeing Francis Wilson's nimble capers in “Erminie,” and the rumor that he went on account of his health is emphatically de- nied in all quarters. The most plausible theory is that he went to New York to transact scme private busi- ness that could not be attended to in Wash- ington, but even that does not seem to explain why he surrounded his plans and mevements with so much mystery. A Rumored Squeeze on Chic: Gas. One rumor that was circulated was that the President has of late been doing con- siderable speculating and has gone in heavy on Chicago Gas, which has just suffered a slump. The one who spread the rumor was a member of Congress, who asserted that he “had it straight” that the President, in | connection with E. C. Benedict, had been “squeezed” for about $100,000 in this trans- action alone. The story was that he had gone over to New York for the purpose of effecting a transfer of some real estate to cover his losses, tis being business that he could not well do at this end. Coupled with this was the statement that the President has some Jarge holdings in the Broadway syndicate, mainly in the name of Secretary Lamont, and that there has come an emergency which renders it advisable for the chief ex- ecutive to transfer some of this stock to raise funds, Investing His Spare Cash. , These stories spread today with the usual grees of credulity. But with all the gossip that they created, there is a ground work of belief that the President has been in- vesting his spare cash lately. It is gener- ally understood that he ts associated with the Lamont-Whitney syndicate that oper- ates the Broadway and other street railway chasing heavily in real estate in New York and the vicinity. ‘The President's manner as he drove to the White House this morning from the station did not indicate that he had re- cently suffered any great disappointment. It is said that he was rather more merry than customary. At all events the President is back, and the real object of his trip remains, so far as official information goes, a mystery. ae = THE OVERTIME PROBLEM, | | |lines, and it is hinted that he has been pur- | | | It is Engrossing the Attention of the Post Office Officials. An interesting problem with the Post Office Department authorities is the que: tion of the eight-hour law and overtime. since the enactment of that law the depart- ment has been subjected to much concern and annoyance. To reduce the making of overtime to the minimum it required not only the redistricting of the free delivery cities In such a manner as to enable car- riers to cover their routes within the pre- scribed time, the appointment of many additional carriers and the curtailing of routes in sparsely settled districts at some | offices, but also the adoption of and en- jforcement of certain rules and regulations to restrict or entirely prevent the unnec- essary making of overtime by letter car- riers who showed a disposition to loiter on their routes or were otherwise delinquent or indifferent. The files of the department are now filled with applications for the payment of overtime claims, amounting to nearly a million dollars. When the depart- ment passed into the hands of the presert administration the problem of overtime Was one of the first to engross its atten- tion. There was no apparent evidence that | the means adopted heretofore for the pre- vention of overtime making had had the desired effect. Reports then showed that overtime was not only being made, but in large offices was actually increasing from month to month. During the present ad- | ministration the amount of overtime has arkably reduced. ——_ +e. COMMODORE GILLIS. been rem: The Only Way He Can Enter the Brazilian Service. An interesting rumor in connection with | the fitting out of war ships at New York for service in the Brazilian rebellion is that |Commodore J. H. Gillis of the United States navy has offered his services to President Peixoto and that he is to be placed in command of the fleet to sail from New York in a few days. Commodore Gil- lis is on the retired list, his last active service having been as a member of the Nght house beard. He is just as amenable to the orders of the President now, how- ever, as he was when on the active list. How He Can Go. A Star reporter was informed at the Navy Department today that the only way that Commodore Gillis could enter the service of Brazil was by surrendering his present commission, unless, however, he should ob- tain the consent of Congress. If it were possible for naval officers to participate in the naval undertakings in Brazil there is no doubt there would be volunteers enough to equip a large fleet with capable men, who long for an opportunity at real active naval service. + e-+—______ AFFAIRS ARE QUIET. For a Wonder in Central America Just at Present A cable message received at the Navy Department this morning from Commander Lyons reported the arrival of the United |States steamer Alliance at Corinto, Nicar- Jagua, Tuesday. This information signifies |that att: in Central America are quiet lat last. The Alliance is assigned to the duty of looking after American interests on the west coast of that region of fre- quent internal disturbance, and she was |recently sent to San Jose de Guatemala in anticipation of trouble over the declaration of atorship by Guatemala’s president. s ago Commander Lyons cabled Department that the war bubble in that country had broken and permission was given him to return to Corinto. The ‘apology offered by Honduras for firing on ‘a Pacitic mail steamer flying the American |tlag in the hope of stopping the vessel and securing a political refugee disposed of the necessity for keeping the Alliance on the | Honduras coast. os Ran Ashore. | The life-saving service has been informed that the schooner J. H. Elliott, with a cargo of wood from Chincoteague for Phil- |adelphia, ran ashore off Lewes, Del., this | morning. She was assisted off by the life- | saving crew and returned to Chincoteague. eee Government Receipts Today. The receipts from internal revenue today | were $465,240; from customs, $546,325. rapidity, and were received with varying de- | “WASHINGTON, D. ©, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1893—TWELVE PAGES OPENED BY WILHELM. The German Emperor Tells the Reichstag Its Duty. MUST PROVIDE FOR A LARGER ARMY. Adjusting Relations of the Empire and the States. INCREASE IN TAXATION. BERLIN, Nov. 16.—The reichstag was opened today by his majesty, Emperor William, in person. At noon the castle guards marched into the white saloon, which occupies the southeastern corner of the royal palace, and took positions about the dais, from which his majesty read his speech. Following the guards came the members of the bundesrath, the repre- sentatives of individual states composing the German empire. After them came the ministers of te and the members of the reichstag. When all had taken the positions assigned to them the grand marshal of the court, the Prince of Pless, announced the approach of the emperor by knocking upon the floor with his staff of office. The emperor, attired in full military uni- form, entered the saloon and proceeded directly to the dais, which was situated to the right of the press gallery. With a low bow Chancellor Von Caprivi handed the emperor the manuscript of a speech which his majesty in a firm, clear voice read. The Kaiser's Address. The emperor said: “When I, in July last, convoked the reich- stag I expressed my confident hope that you wouid not deny me and my high con- federates your co-operation in developing the army institutions, which, in the interest of the security of the empire, had become necessary. I am very much pleased to find that my confidence was not deceived and greeting you today I feel that I want to express to the reichstag the imperial thanks for its patriotic readiness and for the manifold proofs of warm sympathy of which I am pleased to have been the re- cipient in various parts of the empire. “These proofs are security to me of the satisfaction which the nation feels at the organization that has been secured in the German army, in which there is a guaran- tee of protection to the fatherland, and of the maintenance of peace. It will now be your foremost task and common labor with | the federated governments to care for the raising of means to cover the increased ex- pense caused by the increased peace footing of the army. The proposals which you will receive will move on a broad basis, which will be concurrent with the new regulations of the financial relations of the empire to its a, members. “The financial administration has not y: found a definite solution of these problena, Past experience has, however, proved that arrangements between the empire and single states can no longer be postponed. The empire's financial system must be a in such a manner ba ations be abolished, and their payments and the empire's return of its surplus to the states must be fixed in such manner that @ legally secured share in the empire's own receipts will be secured to the single states for a Previously fixed period. Such an order things will secure to our state o: in harmony with its federal disturbed co-operation of the. empil single states. “A bill will be laid before the Teilchstag referring to the new regulation to the em pire’s financial system. In order the needed means bills will be introduced re- ferring to the taxation of tobacco and wine and raising the revenue taxes. Undoubted- ly with your co-operation we will succeed in solving these important task: “With regard to the present uation, I will state that the budget has been drawn up with the utmost economy. “The expectations which were nursed when commercial treaties were concluded with Austria, Italy, Belgium and Switzer- land that these treaties would form a start- ing int for regulating our commercial relations with other states have been real- ized. Hence treaties with Spain, Roumania and Servia by means of which the exchange lof goods will receive steadiness and prosper- ous development are submitted for your | approval. Heavy Duties Against Russ! “In accordance with the wishes of my confederates I decided to use my right to | introduce against Russia an extraordinary increase of the tax on imports. The re- scripts will be handed you without delay. I fully hope that the present negotiations with Russia will lead to a withdrawal of these measures. “Thanks to the energy the federal gov- ernments have exercised we have succeed- ed in stamping out the epidemic, which, during the past year, claimed such beavy sacrifices. In order to utilize this experi- ence and to formulate repressive measures more lastingly, a bill will be introduced to secure effect to the resolutions recently adopted by the Dresden anti-cholera con- gress. These resolutions will shortly be submitted for your approval. “Your efforts will be so taxed in a solu- tion of these tasks that the federated gov- erments have considered it advisable to otherwise restrict the limits of the pro- posals. “Germany's foreign relations are un- changed. The country continues in the closest friendship with the allied powers, who, with us, follow common peaceful aims. Germany's allies also maintain peaceful relations with all the powers.” The emperor concluded by expressing the hope that with God's aid the blessings of peace would be 'n the future preserved to Germany. The ceremony of opening the nouse was the same as usual. BALTIMORE COMPLAINS. Discrimination Against That City by Trunk Lines Charge: BALTIMORE, Nov. 16.—The National ‘Transportation Association, which began its annual session in the corn and flour ex- change yesterday, was this morning ad- dressed by Congressman Bellamy Storer of Ohio. Mr, Storer is chairman of the committee on interstate commerce, and he spoke of the relations of this committee to the commercial interests. Delegates were also present from the more prominent com- mercial organizations in the country. Mr. Jerome Carty of Philadelphia made an address yesterday on the discrimination of the trunk line railroads against Balti- more, Philadelphia and Boston in favor of New York in car service and transportation charges. He asserted that the matter de- serves the serious consideration of the in- terstate commerce committee. Mr. Carty introduced a resolution in con- scnance with his remarks, and it was adopted. The resolution provides for a committee to ascertain whether the charges exacted by or the failure to charge for services rendered by trunk line railroads at certain Atlantic seaboard cities consti- tute discrimination under the interstate commerce act and report to the association at its next meeting. The committee is as follows: E. P. Wil- son, Cincinnati; Jerome Carty, Philadel- phia; Wm. S. Young, Baltimore; D. W. Raulet, Boston; D. E. Richardson, Chicago. —_—>_——_ Another Operat Col. Henderson. DUBUQUE, Iowa, Nov. 16.—Col. Hender- son, who since his return from Washing- ton has been confined to his bed with intermittent neuralgia in his amputated limb and has been unable to sleep, bps asked the surgeon to make another ampu- tation above the knee. His sufferings have impaired his health seriously. that the past vacillations | in the empire's demands on single states will | to cover. “TWO CENTS ‘REGISTERED BONDS. Amount Estimated to Be Held by Foreign Owners. Facts From the A Register of the Tre: Report of the ry—Recom. is to Salaries. menda The report of J. Fount Tillman, who, on tne Ist of July last, succeeded Gen. W. 8. | Rosecrans, resigned, us register of the treasury, is just made public. It necessar- ily covers only the period during which Mr. Tiuman’s predecessor held control, but the voluminous tabulated statements presented contain much information of interest. As to foreign holders of United States registered bonds Mr. Tillman says: “The term ‘foreign’ is applied to the ledg- ers upon which are posted the names of owners who desire their interest checks sent to some foreign country. In a few cases the owners are American citizens, |tiving abroad for a more or less extended |period, but the larger portion is the prop- erty of foreigners. From such examina- tions as it is possible to make it is evident that a large proportion of the registered | bonds owned abroad are controlled by agents ‘resident in this country. As a rule the home of the owner does not appear upon the bond itself, nor is its location furnished to |the department, except when, it becomes [necessary to assign the bond.” Amount Held by Foreigners. In October, 1892, the names of holders of registered bonds, who for various reasons were supposed to be of foreign nationality, |were compiled and found to amount to \about $18,800,000, out of which only $4,830,300 jappeared upon the foreign ledgers. This |sum, Mr. Tillman thinks, is much nearer ‘the truth than the “extravagant guesses |which have oftentimes been made and | printed.”” No attempt was made to estimate the amount of United States coupon bonds held abroad. it is stated that under many disadvan- ‘tages the labor of analyzing the expense \of each of the great government loans and jthe amount of interest paid thereon has _ been carried to almost perfect completion, ‘and it is hoped that within the next month a satisfactory tabulated statement of the result will be ready for submission. Considerable progress has aiso been made in classifying the expenditures of the gov- |ernment under subjects and catchwords by the index-card system so as to enable the expenditures of the government upon any \particular subject to be ascertained with | readiness. Mr. Tillman éoncludes as follows: This is one of the oldest as well as one of the most responsible bureaus in this depart- ment, being coexistent with the government |itself, but the salaries paid to the register, jassistant register and chiefs of divisions are less than those’ paid to such officers in | other bureaus. + to correct this inequality of pay, I recommend that the salary of the regi: ter, now $4,000, shall be increased to $5,000: that of the assistant register to $2,700, and | that of the chiefs of the several di ns | to $2,100. saps 2 EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. Treasury Figures on the ‘These Sources. The advance statement of the Treasury it’s bureau of statistics shows of domestic merchandise » 18983, were valued at $35,913,802 48 compared with $86,829,621 in October, 18%, & decrease in vatue of $915,819. The exports of foreign merchandise increased by $740,715 from $1,031,282 in 1892. Imports of merchan- dise show a falling off of $20,357,768. The excess of exports over imports in October, 1892, was $15,861,369 and in October, 1893, $36,044,033. Of the exports and imports for the ten months ending October 31 in the two years taken the conditions are very different, there being much less excess of exports in 2888 than = $13,935,724 in the former |1892 for the corresponding period $73,171,018, (a difference of $62,263,330. | ‘The exports of gold in the month of Oc- tober. 1968, were $005,518 as compared with $484,250 in October, 1892. | The imports in October, 1898, were $1,583,~ |937 as compared with $3,118,330 in October, |1892. ‘The excess of imports of gold in 1892 was $2,634,080 and in 1893 $1,078,019. The ex- ports of silver were $3,707,422 in October,18%, and $3,472,768 in October. 1893, The imports of sjlver in October of the two years were $3,494,958 in 1892 and $1,418,059 in 1893. The decreased imports of silver were sufficient $2,054,699 in 1893 as compared with $12,464 in 1892, For the ten months the exports of sil- ver showed a marked increase, the increase being almost entirely of the domestic pro- duct. a GRIDIRON’ TRIP. Going Down South Make Things Merry for Asheville. ‘The famous Gridiron Club of this city is lof for another of its unconventional but highly delightful outings this evening. This time the club is going down to Asheville, |N. C., to make the residents of that pretty | place feel perfectly at home on earth. The | Gridiron Club is capable of doing that very ‘sort of thing, and when the members get cose it is always a question whether they are being entertained or are doing the en- tertaining. It is usually the latter. The club will be accompanied by ladies and will the Richmond and Danville railroad to | spend three days at the Battery Park Hotel, | Asheville. Elaborate preparations have been made for the reception of the club in that city, including a banquet tomorrow night, a drive through the Swanannoa valley and the Vanderbilt estate on Saturday, and a reception on Saturday night. The mayor of the city will formally welcome the party. The club will also make itself welcome. Seana BUREAU OF NAVIGATION. Gossip as to the Probable Chief to Be Appointed. The term of Commodore F. M. Ramsay las cfief of the bureau of navigation, Navy |Department, will expire December 16, and |there is already speculation as to his suc- \cession. It is believed that he will be his ‘own successor, but that he will remain in |charge of the bureau only until February next, when Admiral Benham regires, and jthat he will then take that officer's place |as commander of the North Atlantic squadron. Commodore Ramsay will then have the rank of rear admiral. He ts known to desire another tour of sea service |befcre his retirement and it is probable he will be accommodated. There are several |applicants for the office of chief of the [navigation bureau. Capt. R. D. Evans, ‘naval secretary of the light house board, is generally .regarded as having the best _chance of appointment. camer More Banks. Controller Eckels has approved the ap- | plications for authority for organization for |“The First National Bank of Montevideo, | Minn., made by M. E. Titus, Montevideo, Minn., and his associates, and “The Cos- hocton National Bank,” Coshocton, Onio, i} . Roche, Coshocton, Ohio, and his | | Appointments Today. | The President today appointed D. M. Kil- patrick of Louisiana to be assistant treas- urer of the United States at New Orleans, La., vice Mr. Hero, removed, and John D. Stocker of Georgia to be surveyor of cus- toms at Atlanta, Ga., vice Mr. Winship, re- moved. |months were valued at $690,907,688 and in| to make the excess of exports over imports | leave ut 7 o'clock on a special train over | Am index to advertise- ments will be found om Page 3. ‘BAD FOR HAWAII. The Administration Wars Upon Re- ligion and Good Government. AIDING A DISREPOTABLE GANG. Testimony of Charles Nordhoff and «Mark Twain.” j ABOUT THE MISSIONARIES. Thefe is nothing more remarkable in the extraordinary policy of the administration in its support of a rotten monarchy in Ha- wali than its attitude of hostility to the predominating American interests in the islands, and to the grand missionary ele- ment that has built up these interests and established all there is in Hawaii of re- ligion, education, morality, good govern- ment, good laws, and good society. At the same time that our government has given the cold shoulder to the missionary party, it has affiliated with the lawless gang of “aliens,” the gamblers, the lobbyists, the lottery promoters, the coolie runners, the opium smugglers, the hula dance pimps, and the whole unwholesome crowd, the offscourings of the earth gathered at Hono- lulu, and who are missionary haters be- cause the missionaries have stood in the way of their schemes of immoral money- making. To this gang Paramount Minister Blount seems to have applied at Honolulu for information in regard to the situation there. One of the most loud-mouthed of the mis- sionary haters, who bears the sonorous title of Caesar Celso Moreno, seems to have secured the ear of the of State; and the New York Herald, in its zeal in be- half of its latest sensational fad, the restoring of a deposed opera bouffe queen, gives the use of its columns to Moreno for the most atrocious vilification of the mis- sionaries. Here is one of the latest of Moreno’s anti-missionary outputs in the Herald: “Due to the Missionaries.” “Probably the happiest man in Washing- ton over the President's action in the Ha- waiian matter is Senor Celso Caesar Mo- reno. Senor Moreno has ardently espoused the cause of Queen Lilluckalani. From the first day the sensational tidings of her overthrow were received here he has been in close correspondence with the members of the queen's former cabinet and proba- bly knows as much about the incident which brought about the queen's overthrow as any man n in Washi: of the President and his cabinet. i ‘S troubles,” said Mr. Mo- the missionaries and their residing in that country. They have been the disturbing element for years. The great majority of them are ot American birth, but, seeing the advantages to be gained by ing Hawaiian citi- wens, they quickly took out naturalization papers. They identified themselves with trade and commerce and also became prominent in politics. “King Kalaka) in his kingdom. to get rid of th destroy bath I told him that he ought em or they would eventually his government and peo- ple. I also expressed eke opera alan Bn such a thing would never happen, But it hag happened. ‘ “There was a revolution in Ha) missionaries bribed ex-Minister esse to help them by calling the marines on in de This and aid them the queen. correspondence conducted with the queen several members of her former i I know to be a fact which I have tg herself and wich Islands has than that written by ~ whose discreditable mis- gnder of the Herald, to Same missionaries. ae Se Nordhof’s Tribute to the Missionaries Here is what Charles Nordhoff says about the missionaries in his book on Hawaii: “Honolulu, being the capital of the king- dom, contains the government offices; and you will perhaps be surprised, as I was, to find an excellent public hospital, a reform School and other proper and well managed charities. As you ride about the suburbs of Honolulu, and later as you travel about the islands, more and more you will be impressed with a feeling of respect and ad- miration for the missionaries. Whatever of material prosperity has grown up here is built on their work. and could not have existed but for their preceding labors; and You see in the spirit of the people, in their often quaint habits, in their universal edu- cation, in all that makes these islands pe- culiar and what they are, the marks of the Puritans who came here but fifty years ago to civilize a savage nation, and have done their work so thoroughly that, even though the Hawatian people become ex- require a century to ob- tinct, it wo literate the marks of that handful of determined New England men and women. “Their patient and effective labors seem to me, now that I have seen the results, to has here been created in so short a time was the work of his country- men and women; and if you make the ac- quaintance of the older missionary lies, you will not Pamagy Remi? without rsonal esteem for ir well as admiration of their work. did not only form a written language the Hawaiian race and painfully write them school books. a di translation of the Scriptures for but they guided the race, slowly, and immense difficulty, towal flization; and though the Hawaiian more a perfect Christian than the New er or Massachusetts man. and though ° are still traces of old customs and 9 stitions, these missionaries have eradicated the grosser crimes of murder and theft so completely that even in aes © - leave their houses open all day and, un- locked all night Withantry m_ the world is not a col here the stranger may travel In such abso- fety as in these isl | lute S20 the first. missionaries landed a on the shores of these islands, and Mrs. Lucy G. Thurston, one of those who came | that year, sill lives, a bright, active olf y, with a shrewd wit of her own. Thirty- | three years afterward, in 1853, the x4 | Gan Board of Missions determined that | “Sandwich Islands, having been Christian ized, shall no longer receive aid from the board,” and in this year, 1873, the natives of these islands are, there is every reason to believe, the most generally educated peo ple in’ the world. There is scarcely | & Hawailan—man, woman or child—of sult: able age but can both read and write. All the towns and many country | localtties possess substantial stone or, more often, framed churches, of the oddest New ine- gland pattern; and a compulsory education law draws every child into school, whi | special tax of §2 on every voter, and an additional general tax, provides schools and teachers for all the children and youth. Nor was exile from their homes and kin- red the only privation the missionaries suffered. They came among a people so vile that they had not even a conception of right or wrong; so prone te murder and pillage that the first. Kamehameha, the conqueror, gave as excuse for his conquest it was necessary to make the path= (Continued on Second Page.) York-