Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1893, Page 6

6 Mc Knew’ s\t« ton Daily Letter. About The Reduced Coats So great were the demands that had the morning not been so cloudy all of them would have been sold. Think of Ladies’ $10 and $12.50 Black Astrakhan Fur-trimmed Coats selling for five dollars! Only smail sizes are left, which are suit- ‘able for misses as well as small ladies. Here is the lst again: Ladies’ and Misses Jackets, black and avy. Were 5.50. 5 Ladies” and Misses Jackets. black and zavy. Wi nd $9. p <i leh itbalitis 33 Ladies’ and Misses Jackets, black and navy blue, which were $10, $11, $5 $IZ, $13 and $13.50. Choice... Ladies’ Black Beaver Cloth Coat. with Wide rolling collar of astrakhan fur and seal. Regular prices $10, 25 and So 5. Choice... Biack Fur-trimmed astrakhan, marten $7.50 One lot of Ladies’ mits, trimmed with and _ cape $14.50, $175 One lot of Ladies’ trimmed Coats reduced to. One lot of Ladies’ Fur-tri Med Coats. Regular price, $25 Ladies’ Black Diagonal Coats, trimmed with marten far around the collar, cuffs and down the front. Rexu- f lar price, $25. 24 S15 DELAY NOT! W.H.McKnew Chaks, Suits and Furnishings, 933 Pa. Ave. | Special | Ww. MosEs & sox, Values | Furniture, Carpets, = Upholstery, &c., — 1TH AND F STS. ¥.W. That are interesting every visitor to our - BED ROOM FURNITURE DEPARTMENT are worthy of more than passing mention ‘They're wonderful values—greater y that have ever been offered. And here they are Solid Oak Suite, With 24330-inch beveled plate @ x mirror in drewer.-.--./.--- 19,00 ed for less than $25. EF Never before Solid Oak Suite, Cheval, with IS by 40in. beveled plate mirror, nlewlv carved and fin- Qepep 7 = ixhedd Sanaa weet» dt) EF Never before sold for less than $30. olid Oak Suite Of particularly neat ameling in whit bureau with = i mirror. A suite quality of whieh ¥o in Washinston Our pric Ask To See Our 65-Cent Chair. ely comfortable and very strong design (suitable for . extra large with finish the will find on ne suite “SL9.75 It's extrs and durable. CF There still remain a few of the 7% CENT Mahogany-finish Rockers. W. B. & SONS, Largest Exclusively Retail Furniture, Carpet, Up holster, Drapery and Wall Paper House in America. Ilva Asp F Sis N. W. It Are You a Judge —of the varions qualities of fur, sealskin, &e.? If not, you cannot afford to buy hap- hagard. We are furriers—know furs thor- eughly—and guaran’ Nee vrsian Lamb Cape: D- s Black Sealskin Jackets, $150 and up. Willett & Ruoff,905 Pa.Ave. az ocking Spots” —out of ladies’ and men’s garmeats and woolens of all kinds is part of my business. W only dry-clean but also dye all “Kn cate fabries without in- the different Cit yon require se ing.of whatever nature and skill is at your sonable prices. nton Fischer, 14-k. Solid Watch for $18.50 is indeed A MARVEL, not only in price, but ip appearance and general mechanism es well. DON'T THINK that, because, the Brice is about half what. at the lowest ealeulation, you would expect to pay for A LADY'S 14K. SOLID GOLD HUNTING WATCH it is cheap. Warranted y respect, either Elgin or Waltham at. C7 Open evenings till 8; Saturdays till ms. “M. Hoffa, 717 Tarket Space.) If you have Horses to board send to Nowhere that they s facilities » be found in this 7 Reasonable pri lf you want A Carriage DOWNEY'S is e place to hire mont! it wp with Downey’s, Lst. bet. 16th &17th TELEPHONE and. reason: | DR. HEPBURN |: THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1893-TWELVE PAGES. MR. SMITH’S REPORT. | Matters to Be Discussed by the Sec- tary of the Interior. + REVIEW OF THE YEAR'S WORK. ‘When out of order, is best regulated by AYERS Pills. They are searching, yet mild and strengthening in their effect, and speedily restore the most sluggish liver toa normal and health condition. | “*For four years I was afflicted with liver complaint. | ‘The best physicians attended me, butasTwasnot | RELIEVED BY Their remedies I took AYER’S Pills, and believe my liver is now in @ perfectly healthy condition.”—M. JARRELL. proprietor of Jarreil’s Hotel, High Point, N.C. The Matter of Pensions to Receive Considerable Attention. | * For several years I was agreat sufferer from aes ie liver complaint, which caused severe pains under the |S O M E RECOMMENDATIONS. right side, from under the right shoulder bla‘e, sal- | peeevineecees ss Jowness of the skin low-spiritedness and cramp in thestomach. I am pleased to be able to state that I | have been relieved of all thess complaints by the use of AYER’S Pills. I find them also to be an elegant after-dinner pill."—Mrs. M. A. STEAD, Muncy, Pa. The Secrttary of the Interior has, it is officially stated, completed his annual re- port,and will transmit it to President Cleve- jarid within a day or two. The secretary has been at work on this report for the past three weeks. During that period, whenever relieved from the pressure of current business, he would turn to this work, which will record for all time the accomplishments of his administration during the past year. The preparation of this report has entailed no small amount of labor. Contrary to custom, the secretary | has written it, rather than indorsed what AYER’S PILLS. Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. fel3 EVERY DOSE EFFECTIVE IF YOUR BACK ACHES, OR You ARE ALL worn out, good for nothing, it is general debili is usually written by a literary private Brown's Iron Bitters will" cure you, make you Strong, cleanse your liver and secretary. The style of the document is di- give a good appe- | tite—tones the nerves. q rect, and facts are set forth in plain words. THE MODERN MIRACLES OF HEALING WHICH are indisputably pertormed by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills should receive the closest investiga- tion by sick people and their friends, ja23-mi IF THE BABY 1S CUTTING TEETH BE SURE and use thai old well-tried ret + Mrs. Wins- low's Soothing Syrup for children’ teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all ain, cures wiad colic and is the best remedy for iarrhoea. Twenty-five cents a bottle, myl-ly paper ring in it, which telis of apprentice- underwent in the less conspicuous, but not less glorious part of his career. Much of it has been written with midnight oil, and when Mr. Smith went south on his last trip | he was accompanied by his manuscript and WOODBURY'S FACIAL SoAP Fok THE_ SKIN, | materials. scalp and complexion, All druggists. re ian at Sp pound capaiaaee comets tee oe Strict economy, in the opinion of the TAKE YOUR PICK. We've selected one pair and one size of every style of LADIES’ SHOES in the house (that was marked $3, $4 or $5) and put them cn a table bearing the le- ” 9.70. You have a chance to purchase a fine pair of Shoes at @ remarkable reduction if you're quick. EDMONSTON sew — 1334 F Sr N.W.—store Cold Weather y cake. secretary, is demanded in all bureaus of the department. power of the secretary and of his lieuten- ants, this policy has been followed during all the time of his term. It is understood that the report will urge that greater economy is required, and the doctrine that the government should be run with the greatest economy consistent with thorough- ness of service will be emphasized. Pensions and Pensione From what can be gathered in advance as to the contents of the report it appears that the matter of pensions will be treated at considerable length. The Washington Ben- nett and the Weike cases will, it is said, be reviewed, and the secretary will show his determination to put forth earnest efforts to rid the pension rolls of alleged veterans and fraudulent pensioners, and to make the pension hst a roll of honor and a sign of merit and of patriotism. The report will state, it is said, that the old pension law provides for pensions for ail who were dis- abled in the service of the United States in the line of duty, no matter how slight the! disability might be. But, will continue the report, the act of June 1800, limits pen- sions to those who by reason of disabilities incurred in the line of duty are mentally and physically incapacitated to earn a sup-| port by manual labor. The report will hold that the law is so lucid as to admit of no dispute as to its | intent. The report will say that all the de- cisions of the department have been in the | aie the time your, ince and bants line of a faithful and honest execution of | suffer from “chaps.” To avoid this the law. A practical working out of the law ai x providing for the suspension of questionable D t pensions pending medical examination, a ermatine. aw whieh this administration did not make, | Tt is am absolute cure for all local but which it fell heir to from the preceding | irritations of the skin. Smoothes and administration, was found to inflict possible utifies it. hardship on deserving Union veterans. In Nee Staae,, 25 au8 She. Hee. ante aly view of this the rigidity of the law was deviated from in the direction of equity. ‘The former practice of the department was | reversed and all suspension of pensions prohibited excepting in such cases where it was clearly shown that no title to pension | had ever resided in the pensioner. > TK geo mmaaaier ag Md The Question of Suspension. 5 B tt D h $4) The question of suspension had not been $5 utter : 1s €s, | properly understood, the department holds, | we nil sel 36 Butter Dishes or ouiy Se | because It had been persistently misre very handsome goods and the finest quadruple | sented. ‘The pension was merely withheld W.S. Thompson’s, Pharmacist, 703 15th st.| nisin sselaty plate. ,Heplating and repairing our “Sbe-/ +11) the examination proved that the pen- CF Solid Silver Birthday Spoons, $1.50. | sioner was incapacitated for work to a pen- K & Sou Bee Ce sionable degree. If he was found to be an honest pensioner, every cent of pension due him from the date of his suspension was paid. Execution of the laws of the depart- HW ST. W. Factory, Baltimore. The general tone of the report has a news-| ship in pa&te and pencil, which its author | So far as it lay within the) Some space, it is said, will be devoted by the Secretary to the subject of irrigation for Indian lands, and the wells recently sunk on the Sioux lands will be favorably re- ferred to. Over $3,000,000 in cash was paid to Indians other than those of the Five Civilized Tribes, in fulfillment of . treaty stipulations, as interest held in trust on account of lands surrendered to the govern- ment, and for other debts due these In- dians by the nation. The Secretary con- siders the appointment of ‘field _matrons | for the Indians as a good idea. The liquor | Guestion, as it relates to the Indians, is a | Serious problem. Much of the trouble at reservations has been directly traceable to it. During the year rights of way have , been granted to the following named rail- | Ways: Interoceanic, Gainsville, Macallister and St. Louis; Gainsville, Oklahoma and Guif; Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf; Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific; Northern Pacific; Rapid Transit; and the Big Horn Southern. Intrusion into the Cherokee Na- | tion, so often complained of by the Chero- | kee authorities, is referred to. During the | year, a commission consisting of J. C. Hutchins of Athens, Ga.; Peter H. Pernot of Indianapolis, and Clem. V. Roberts of Oolagah, 1. T., was appointed to appraise the improvements of intruders in the Cherokee Nation who began their occu- pancy of houses and improvements prior to August 11, I8sG, the date upon which the issue of prima facie certificates was or- dered to be stopped. The list of Cherokee freedmen, Delawares and Shawnees en- tided to share in the per capita distribution of the ¥ October addition of 0us, or an excess of 160 over the numbet that can be paid out of the appropriation. The election troubles in the Cherokee Na- ton willbe touched on. | | The Public Lands. In the matter of lands Secretary Smith jwitl state that the total cash re- ceipts for the ast fiscal year were $4,479,- 74.14, divided as follows: From sales of public lands, $4,191,465.29; from the disposal | of Indian lands, $284,752.45; from timber | depredations, $3, . The area of lands soid for cash was 1,404,98.82 acres. ‘The | miscellaneous entries, embracing original | homestead and timber culture entri | state and railroad selections, swamp lan Indian allotments, donation claims, agri- | cultural, private lands, Sioux half-breed and Valentine scrip, amounted to 10,80i,- | 686.04 acres. The Indian allotments equai- ed 89,457.95 acres, and were for the Chero- | kee, Ute, Osage, Sioux, Flathead, Omaha and’ Ponca tribes. The number of filings of pre-emption, homestead, coal, townsite, mineral, timber and stone applications and mineral adverse claims was 7,970, and the fees’ therefrom amounted to $53,379. Mr. Smith will state that the number of agri- jcultural patents issued during the fiscal year was 43,644, representing about 7,000,000 acres. This he will say is a decrease un- der last year. He explains this by stating that during the fiscal year ending June 20, 1892, the issue of patents had been hasten- ed, aided by the provisions of the act of March 3, 1891, which confirmed large num- bers of entries and required that they should be patented at once. Other things had also conspired to make the number for the last year apparently small. The area of railroad grants also showed a decrease. ‘This year there was an increase of 132,- 681.54 acres over the area of swamp land and swamp land indemnity lands patented during the preceding year. There is a de- crease in the number of educational grants | issued, but the Secretary has in his pos- session lists embracing several thousand acres yet to be approved. The annual surveyors’ instructions for the last fiscal year are to be reviewed; so are the special instructions issued to the sur- veyors general of Arizona, California, Ida- ho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah and Washington. The Alaskan survey has been retarded by the irregular returns of the deputy surveyor | having been certified to by the ex-officio surveyor general. Some space is also given to_rejected and suspended surveys. The surv of the boundary line between the Dakotas and the boundaries of the Yellow- | stone National Park and the public forest | reservation in| Wyoming are in progress. The number of final entries pending are to be given at 36, and the acreage of rail- road and wagon road selections pending at | 30,881.43. The question of the creation of | the office of surveyor general for the terri- | tory of Alaska will be discussed. A good deal of attention will also be given, it 1s id, to the proposition to enact a law so leases of the Oklahoma school lands y be placed under the control of the ter- & may ritorial authorities. The segregation of the timber lands from the agricultural and other public lands Is to be dealt with. The protection of forest reservations will be urged. A law is to be recommended which will compel attendance of witnesses at land office hearings. The Patent OMece. ‘ Concerning patents, the Secretary's re- port will show that the total number of ap- plications and caveats received was 45,038, | The number of patents granted and trade- marks, labels and prints registered was 2% ment is pledged in the report. Reference will be made to the thousands of re-ratings fraudently made, it is claimed, under the Raum regime, and the special ‘cases made during the same epoch in pension history The report will state that the number of | pensioners borne on the rolls June 30, Lsv2, | —to the lucky purchaser who picks out the key which unlocks the box in our show window. A key given with every purchase of 25e. and over. | Was 476,068, and that the number borne at | No blanks, for you always get the | the close of the last fiscal year was 06,012. Worth of your money. Try ‘This the Secretary will say is a net increase luck. Some one must get the $: of 88944. The number of pensioners drop- ot rom the rolls during the year was - Oerramn’s 2 272 [3s ease eels serine nee 3211 PA. AVE, | had been previousiy dropped from the rolls were restored. The amount expended last year for pensions was $156,740,467.14. This left an available balance of the appropria- tion for that year of $461,871.63. The estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 18%, have already been submitted. They are not based on fhe experience of preceding years wholly, because the pension roll by that time will have begun to ae- crease. There has already been shown a n21 About Those Diamonds! New claims and increase claims have ceased to overbalance the number adjudicated by sf $55 © Don't misunderstand us! ; a's ce aes not” the bureau. The appropriation already made <a 9s ssi gate centaen Ear ae for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1804, 2 0 6 6 6 veal Var for will, in the view of the Secretary, it is * to buy all the world ‘said, be ample. There may, however, be half. We mean fifty dollar of the price asked particular New York je ja necessity for an additional appropriation of $100,000 for per diem compensation and ent into bankruptcy. We ‘are | legitimate expenses of special examiners. : Felling “at one-half marked |The report will recommend a. codification . prices—or about two-thirds the | of the pension laws, and also of some | 2.2.2 22 2 Brlces: asked today by other Jew-| changes in them. Perplexing questions <2 setae Ome | often arise from this very lack of codifica- ooo eee mre eee er ee cot piamonds or | tion. In view of the fact that Congress, in ¢ $5 2 2 the INTRINSIC VALLE of these providing for the payment of special rates e062 *).* ae | for specific disabilities, enjoined the pay ment of duly proportioned amounts for per Ib manent inferior injuries, he had allowed the acoDS ros., | commissioner of pensions to fix a schedule of rates for such inferior disabilities, If of AMON, service origin. The report will, it is said, Phousk 1229 Pa. Ave, | say that it isa matter of current bellef in official circles that many cases similar to | the Bennett case disfigure the pension rolls }and ultimately will be discovered and re- j moved. The work of discovery has lyet proceeded far enouga to warrant an jestimate of the number. The wholesale pension frauds discovered at Norfolk, Va., Get the Best. THE CONCORD HARNESS. in New Mexico and in lowa will be touched LUTZ & BRO on. The efficiency record of the pension » a7 bureau, the Secretary thinks, cannot be safely trusted to register the ability of the clerks employed therein. ‘The estimates for the year 1895 are as follows: For pensions.... |For surgeons’ fees | For salaries of pension agen chemicals, superior to home-made or any | agencies importe Pri We ha For fuel at pension agencies. the introduce | For lights at pension agenci the families. | For rents at pension agencies For contingent expenses... 407 Penn. ave., adjoining National Hotel. Horse Blankets and Lap Robes at low prices. oct NATURAL P ORY'S NATURAL English suceeded them L BA’ Baltimore, You Save Mo oe in two ways by hav oe laundered HERE. Fi reasonable—Collars, SECOND: With oar in clothing lasts twice as nartly does, amine the « uth Howard ney Total Indians and Indian Agents. 1,570 | Secretary, it is understood, will question | the wisdom of the appointment of army officers as Indian agents. As a rule the duty is obnoxious to the officers, and many, proved jong as it ordi- E27 Finest we 2 city. Abie wie moek “Ente Deanna tr. | after appointment, have been relieved at up. Called for and| their request. The Secretary thinks that | unquestionably there are many agencies where public interests would be better served by the appointment of civilians. The estimates for the Ind ce for the fiscal year ending June amount to a total of $6,951,756. $i less than the sum appropriated and $1, reat Lavxpny. ~ A. WEAVER, PROPRIETOR, TSPHST., OPP. P.O. DEPT. 120 New York Sun. PRESIDENT CARNOT, When entertaining at the Elysee Ad- miral Avelan and the Russian navy officers, was anxions to offer them as fine a wine as France could produce, and for that purpose he selected the Monte- ne tas ign teow hingt Sole agent for Wash: enw. Burchell, ai st. the fiscal year ending June 30, 184. The average enrollment at I n_ schools is | Stven as 21,138, which is an increase of | 1,281. The number of Indian schools is 284. | | | Six non-reservation schools were opene during the year, The extension of the civil | service law to physicians, teachers and | school superintendents in the Indian service be commented on. he question of removing bonded school erintendents from the operation of the a a service law will be discussed. The IS THE ONLY PHYSICIAN IN THE CITY tary thinks that men for the position Eczema, tTet- ated shouid be selected because of pe Freckles, Red- | culiar fitness for the place. ae not because * one oo their rating in the pedagogic contest a star aaiieally rg Se Indian school exhibit at the worl * attracted wide notice and was prod, s Building, cor. F and 11th sts. | tive of good results. The work of making “e o3-3m | allotments to. non-reservation Indians al = R | authorized by the of March 3, 1 is * being pushed with vigor. Contests against | Indian entries are becoming more frequent | 48 the area of the public domain decrease: es rt Bitters s. At all de: alers. falling off in the presentation of new claims, | not | On the conduct of the Indian bureau the| | 454.70 less than the estimate submitted for! 356. The receipts from all sources footed. | up $1,288,800.07, and the expenditures § 11144422, thus’ leaving a surplus of § i64.55, and giving a total balance in the | treasury to the credit of the patent office of H4,279,405.04. The proposition to give the patent office an Increase of fifty-two clerks is dwelt on, and the needed increase will | probably come in time. He will call atten- | tion, it is said, to the congested condition | of the patent office and its defective sani- tation. The cramped quarters operate to defeat the dispatch of public business. Still, in view of the necessity for rigid economy, jit is understood there will be no recom- mendation for a new patent office building. The Secretary thinks that wili be completed by the expiration of the extended time, but will not be completed in all the details contemplated in the origi- | nal plans. The total disbursements up to | and inclusive of July 31, 1893, were §$9,468,- re - The Secretary believes that the | Whole trouble with the census is that Su- perintendent Porter blocked out a too elaborate task. Railroads and Other Toptes. The Union Pacific railroad tangle will be, it is stated, accorded careful treatment. ‘The system is in excellent physical cond!- tion, and the trackage, sidings and termi- nal facilities were never more complete. Though the traffic facilities of the com- | pany have increased, the net and gross earnings have fallen off. No extensions have been made, no bonds issued or in- dorsed, and no tosses or guarantees assum- ed under the stipulations of the collateral |trust of indenture. The Secretary will recommend that the interests of» the ernment and of the railroad company. re- quire an adjustment of the financial rela- tions existing between the company and the United States. The balance of indebt- approximately, stands today at ‘retary has also written a para- | graph on the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua. Very jittie work, he will say, has been done on the ditch during the |.year, caused mainly by the suspension of the "Nicaragua Canal Construction Com- pany. The latter concern is pulling itself together and will soon bein business. Then active operations will fol- low. The Secretary will, it is said, speak of the commercial advantages which the completion of this great work will confer on this country. All the work done along the route during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1892, is intact. The work accomplished by the bureau of education will be thoroughly reviewed. it is commended and its various uses point- ed out. It is thought to be improbable that Commissioner Harris’ recommendation for |the erection of a new building for the ex- |clusive use of the bureau of education will be indorsed in the report. The condition of affairs in Oklahoma will be discussed. Its progress, the Secretary ‘thinks, is remarkable, and he is especially | well pleased with the manner in which the under “ruffianism.” The success of the opening of the Cherokee outlet will be com- mented on, and the fact stated that to the best of the belief of the department no “sooner” has a claim. we SHE FORGOT THE WATER. Brandy Taken as Medicine Led a Bos- ton Woman Into Disgrace. BOSTON, Nov. 22.—Headquarters detec- | tives last night arrested three richly dress- ed women for shoplifting. One, an elderly, matronly appearing woman, who said she | i other two, younger, as their residence. | The elderly woman gave her name as | Mrs. Wm. Pease. All three claim — to be | kleptomaniacs, and the inspectors are in- | clined to the belief that it is a first offense jon the part of the young women. ° | three ladies were subsequently reieas | ban. claiming Somerville tion. diiut- she has been taking br ter | ed wi icine, but yesterday jshe forgot to w the Stimulant, and | the effect was that she felt a desire to lake some goods from the store counter. Although she fought against this desire, she was unable to overcome it. the census | gov- | shape for) moral element in the territory is showing | | was the wife of a Boston minister, and the (GOLD THE STANDARD ———a Monetary View of the Secretary of the Treasury. ADDRESS AT A NEW YORK BANQUET. Mr. Carlisle Talks to the Chamber of Commerce. | HIS POSITION ON SILVER. pa ee TE At the one hundred and twenty-fifth an- | nual banquet of the New York chamber of commerce last evening Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle discussed an international | monetary basis, holding that there could | be only one standard, and that was gold. | | Regarding the use of silver he said: “The 0 appropriated by the act of | Wisest and safest friends of silver are those | 7 188s, has been increased by the | who have had the sagacity to foresee the | “W), thus making a total of 5,-/ inevitable effect of its continuous accumu- | have the care of the child in the court T/jation in the form of bullion in the vaults | Tom. of the treasury, and the courage te remove which from the time of its eractment was a constant menace to the welfare of the whole country After stating a few general propositions |regarding the attributes of money which !are generally acknowledged, Secretary Car- lisle proceeded: “I think it may be safely asserted that this country could not long maintain its present position as one of the most conspicuous and important members of the great community of commercial na- tions which now controls the trade of the world unless we preserve a monetary sys- tem, substantially at least, in accord with the monetary systems of the other princi- pal nations. “There can be no international legal ten- der without an international agreement, but there must, from the very necessities of the case, always be a common basis upon which bargains are made and a common currency in which balances are settled. No one nation can determine for the others what that basis shall be or what that cur- rency shail be. It may establish a currency for itself and for the use of its own people in their domestic trade, but the vaiue of that currercy wil be ultimately measured and. conclusively fixed by the international standard, whatever that may be. “Gold is the only international money, and all trade balances are settled on a gold basis, all other forms of currency being ad- justed to that standard. But the gold eagle and double eagle are not accepted at a par- ucular valuation in these settlements sim- ply because the United States of Ameri- ca have declared by law that they shall be legal tender ut their nominal value, but solely because the bullion contained in them, if uncoined, would be worth every- where the same amount. This is a great and powerful government, but there is one thing it cannot do—it cannot create money. “It can suspend or limit the coinage of either metal whenever it is ascertained that the coins of the two metals, of the same de- nomination, are of unequal value; or it can change their legal ratio so as to make them as nearly equal in value as possible; or it can maintain the parity of its coins by re- ceiving ther and their paper representa- lives in payment of all public dues and dis- charge all ite own obligations in whatever kind of money its creditors may demand. “When the government of the United States has undertaken to supply the coun- try with a currency, and has issued its ob- ligations in the form of notes to circulate among the people in the transaction of their private business, and has received for every dollar represented by such notes a dollar's worth of the people's services or a dollar's worth of the people's property, its honor, as well as sound public policy,” de- mands that they shall be redeemed upon presentation in money current In all the markets of the world. Impossibility ef Dor le Standard. “For my part, I have never been able to understand ,What is meant by a double standard, or double measure of value, and I have never found any one who could tell me. To my mind it seems absurd to con- tend that there should be two different standards or measures of value as it would be to insist upon having two yardsticks of dimensicns. If there were two standards, or measures, not equal in Valve, it is evi- dent that one of them must be a false meas- ure; and if they were of equal value, it is evident that, no matier what the law might declare, there would be in fact but one measure,although composed of two different kinds of material. “It does not follow from anything I have said that nothing shall circulate or be rec- ognized as money or currency except gold, of paper issued against gold, nor that the prices of commodities ought to be or will be fixed upon the hypothesis that gold is the only money in the world, but it does follow that no part of our currency, wheth- er it be silver or paper, should be permitted to depreciate below the established and rec- ognized standard. “Gentlemen. the question whether the ob- ligations of the United States will be paid in coin current in ail the markets in the world has already been settled, and it has in my opinion been settled for all time to come, by the spirit and obvious purpose of the whole body of existing legislation upon the subject, and by the deliberate judg- ment of the American people and the de- | clared purpose of those who have been in- trusted with the execution of the laws. “The fluctuations in silver's value have been so rapid and so great as to demon- strate the fact that it can not be safely coined without limitations into money of final redemption at the existing ratio or at any other ratio that might be established, Silver of the World. “It is enough to say at present that we have already on hand a stock of silver, coined and uncoined, sufficient to meet all the probable requirements of the country for many years to come. The mints of the Mnited States have coined 419,332,550 stand- ard silver dollars, and we now have 140,- 699,760 fine ounces of silver bullion, wht+h, at the ratio of 16 to t, would make $181,- 14841, or $01,247,291 in the aggregate. Sesides this, 5,977,002 in sub- sidiary silver coin, which is legal tender to the amount of ten dcllars, and is by law redeemable in full legal tender money on presentation. Our total stock of gold coin and gold bullion is 3659,167,049. “The five countries composing the Latin Moretary Union, with a combined popula- tion of more than 80,000,000, exclusive of their colonial possessions, have $975,000,000 M,000 of fuil legal tender sil- 'MW,000 of subsidiary silver et they found it necessary ago to discontinue the coin- age of legal tender silver and enter into an arrangement by which each country agreed to redeem in gold all its own legal tender silver coins when presented by any other member of the union. Thus gold has been lade to support a limited quantity of silver | coin at par in France, Belgium, Italy,Greece | and Switzerland, as it has been required to do in the United States since 1878, and as jit must contirue to do hereafter, here and | elsewhere, unless a great change shall occur | in the relative values of the two metals” soe eae | } BALLIET RETURNS, ons for the Center R: sence From Princeton, PRINCETON, N. J., Nov. 22—A report was sent out from Princeton yesterday afternoon that Balliet, the crack Princeton center rush, had left college in a huff. The tempest in tea pot raged with consid- erable violence until the true facts of the case were brought to light this morning. The writer saw the reported deserter on his way to the ‘varsity field at noon today for the regular practice. He was greatly wrought up over the unpleasant notoriety urea by his one day’s absence from the It seems that he had asked Capt. Tren- chard for permission to leave town on Mon- day to make some purchases. Trenchard would not consent and was more than usu- ally sharp in his orders to the Princeton center in today’s practice, Balliet claims that he had to go out of town to obtain some necessary clothing be- fore Thanksgiving. Permis Ab- ton, made his purchases and returned to Princeton in time for today’s practice. His action in disobeving orders can be | forgotten by the students in their joy of {the return of the absent one. With this famous center out of the game jmo one would care to back Princeton against | Yale. ae ee Ex-Secretary Tracy Sails. NEW YORK, Nov. 22. ecretary of the Navy Tracy sailed f Southampton by the steamship New York today. from the statute book an experimental law | different lengths or two gallons of different: § jon being re- | ; fused, he quietly bought a ticket for Tren- | | THE CASE OF A BABY. | The Court Called Upon to Decide Upon the Custody of the Penn Baby. ‘Chief Justice Bingham, before whom the order on Alexander Guy Penn for th pro- duction of his twenty-seven-months-old child was returnable, being indfsposed, Justice Cole heard the case in the General Term at noon today. The wife, Mrs, Mamie Lazelle Penn, on Saturday last filed a bill for divorce, alleging cruel treatment, and charged that after it was understood that the child should remain with her parents, her husband, on October 28, took the child and refused to divulge its whereabouts. The wife, with a lady friend and her father, was early in the court room with her counsel, Mr. John N.Oliver. Mr. McD. Carrington, counsel for the respondent, was present. When Mr. Oliver was reading, at the re- quest of the court the bill, the respondent, with the child in his arms, entered the room, followed by his father, mother and sister and others, and the party took seats imme- diately behind the complainant and friends. The nother went to the child and kissed and petted it for a few moments, but no word passed between husband and wife. Mr. Carrington read the answer with | a letter written by the wife, saying:Where | ere is no love there is no happiness, and | | th do not love you.” Mr. Oliver suggested that the mother Mr. Carrington said that they had enough of a scene yesterday. The court said it was’ better to allow | things to remain as at present. Mr. Carrington read the affidavit of Mrs. Jessica Penn Stull, the respondent's sis- ter, in support of the answer, stating that !on one occasion she went to complainant she’ replied mu get a divorce. The affidavit of Dr. S. S. Moffat to the effect that complainant’s mother could not from ill health, attend the child, w ‘To h—l with the child. | | whom they read, showing that they lived amicably, and Mr. Penn was a quiet man. The affidavit of Sarah Matthews, an oid colored nurse, was to the effect that when the child was brought to her it was in bad condition, as to person and clothing. The affidavit of Prof. George T. Sheldon was in regard to the complainant taking dancing lessons preparatory to making a debut on the stage. The affidavit of M. A. Penn, the father of respondent, was to the effect that there were rumors as to his son's wife and he had remonstrated with her as to going on the stage, making short dresses and gen- erally about her behavior. The affidavit of Mrs. Penn showed that plaintiff was of frivilous temper, differing from her hus- band, and would go with any one to a place of amusement; that when she returned from a theatrical trip she came to her house and abused her husband, saying that she would leave him, which threat she carried out. and then sued for the divorce. In this letter she is advised that if the company she is with breaks, she should come home at once, as “there is a chance for you to star next season if you do this. * * * If the company breaks, you come home and you will have your hands full learning new songs and dances for next Argument was made by counsel in regard to the proper custody of the child. Justice Cole said that the question was the interest of the child: that the suit is pending between the parties and the moth- er, either from choice or compulsion, left the child to earn her living and how long she will remain cannot be told. The child is now with the Penns and if Mr. Penn will take the custody of the child pending the suit, giving a bond for it. he will make an order giving him, the grandfather, the custody, but he is to permit the mother to visit the child at all proper hours. The judge remarked that in this decision be re- flected on neither of the parties. The bond was prepared and signed and the child returned with the Penns. — TAKES THE FIRST WIFE'S PART. Roxe Coghlan Does Not Recognize Her Brother's Second Marriage. All ts not serene in the Coghlan Company, now performing at Albaugh’s in this city. It is stated thet Charles Coghlan will leave his sister's company at the close of the engagemeni of the piece “Diplomacy,” which occurs at the end of next week. When he goes he will take his new wife, Miss Kuhne Beveridge, with him. The cause of the trouble lies in the fact that Mr. Coghlan’s first wife has turned up, and J now quartered at the house of his ts fr. New York. Miss Rose Coghlan, or Mrs. Sullivan, has taken the part of her discarded sister-in-law in a most emphatic manner, and from a letter that she wrote to Mrs. Coghlan’s daughter some time ago, before the unfortunate lady left Prince d- ward's Island, where she had been living, it would seem that Rose has not spoken to her brother for weeks, though they have ‘been on the road together ever since the ‘second marriage took place. Rose’s hus- view of this case as his wife. None of the members of this unfortunate kept themselves very much secluded. Mr. Sullivan, who has been in New York per- fecting arrangements for the production of the new play, has returned. —_—_ THE TARIFF BILL. and Means Committee Working Day and Night on It. The ways and means committee has been at work all day and will continue for the balance of this week working practically day and night, with but an hour for lunch between early morning and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and meeting again at 8 at night and remaining in session till 11. They will have the bill ready on Monday to report to the republicans. It is understood that the sugar, whisky and income tax questions have not yet been acted on and will be the last things taken up. The committee is now engaged in going over the various schedules in the bill re- ported by the subcommittee, and it is be- lieved that whatever changes are being made are in the nature of still further re- ductions. There is no question about the bills being purely a revenue bill and it is believed that from a revenue tariff stand- point it will be a consistant and remark- ably good bill. Very little protection is re- | tained in it, and probably none which is not necessary for revenue. ———— DOUBLE SUICIDE. Mother a Daughter End Their Lives in New York. | NEW YORK, Nov. 22.—Mrs. Lebecky came to this country fourteen years ago the ground floor of 240 East Sith street until five years ago, when Otto married and went into the furniture business on 7th avenue. Since then the mother and daughter have been alone together, the daughter earning passementerie and giving piano lessons. Mrs. Lebecky suffered a good deal from rheumatism and other ailments, and had much trouble with her he: At times she gave evidence of insanity, and she fre- quently said she would kill herself. The daughter was very much attached to her mother, and often said that if anything hap- pened to her she would end her own life. This morning the son, Otto, received a night, asking him to come to the house, and begging him to excuse the trouble to which he would be put. The leitter added that he would find the door open. Otto reached the house at 10:30 o'clock this forenoon. He found the door to the apartments unlocked, and, entering the front room, found his mother’s body hane- ing by a rope attached to a gas pipe on the ceiling. She had mounted a table and jumped down. She had evidently been dead many hours. In the bedroom adj joining the front room | Fanny Lebecky ‘ was found sitti i chair dead, having bled to death trom 5 gash of a razor in her left arm. Otto thinks that Fanny on returning home last night found that her mother had committed suicide during her absence and that she then resolved to kill herself and | wrote the letter. | would seem that Miss Lebecky was lying on her bed when she cut her arm as the clothes are stained. Then it is probable she arose and seated herself on the chair to bleed to death after having placed a ba- sin beside her into which the blood might | fall. —___ Death of James T. Maddux. Word was received yesterday by Mr. S. W. Maddux, senior, of the telegraph opera- tors at police headquarters, of the death of j his eldest brother, James T, Maddux, at Eldorado City, California. The deceased, ho was well known here, is said to have | left a large estate, of which his brother here jis administrator. to entreat her not to leave the child, and | read. | The affidavit of Mrs. Kate C. Jones, with | lived fourteen months, was | band, Mr. John T. Sullivan, takes the same~ affair could be seen here today, as they | from Bohemia with her daughter Fanny | and a son, Otto, They lived together on | a comfortable living for both by making | letter from his sister Fanny, written last | Neither of the beds had been occupied. It | assimilate food rich in fat. i) E H Scatt’s Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil is especially adaptable to those of weak diges- tion—it is partly digested already, Astonishing how quickly a thin Person gains solid flesh by its use! Almost as palatable as milf. ———eeeEE—EE=_—_—_ ee HE RULED LILIUOKALANL, The Tahitian Blacksmith Who Was More Powerful Than Her Cabinet. | Statements Given to Mr. Blount Show- | ing the Kind of Queen Litinokalant Was—Rule of Boodle and Bribery. Among the extracts given yesterday from the documents accompanying Mr. Blount’s Hawalian report was one from a statement written for Mr. Blount by Volney V. Ash- ford in reference to Queen Liliuokalant’s morailty and her relations with Wilson, her eX-marshal, who is represented as a favored paramour of the dethroned queen. Wilson is the man who is represented by Mr. Thurston as trying to stop the revolution by offering to lock the queen up until she agreed to certain reforms in government. Mr. Ashford in his statement gave a fur- ‘ther account of the relations of Wilson to the queen and Hawaiian affairs. as follows: Through the queen's influence over her brother (during his absolute power of official patronage) Wilson was given the superin- tendency of the Honolulu water works, though he was utterly ignorant of all theory regulating hydraulics, and the real work was necessarily done by another highly paid ‘official. Wilson collected the water rates, however, and an investigation being de- manded by a member of the legislature of | 1886, a parliamentary committee found he had stolen in the neighborhood of $16,000 from the receipts. Then through the same influence the cabinet of the day entered into a stipulation whereby the matter compromised, Wilson repaying into the treasury $19,000. The princess paid over $5,000 of this amount in cash. and by her further influence, exerted in the same di- rection, prevailed on the legisla*ure to pass an “act of indemnity” restoring to her the 340) out of the public funds. To save fur- ther scandal, friends of the ministry in- dorsed Wilson's notes for another $5,000 on | the government's pledge to retain one-half of his salary till the amount was recouped, | while he himself, of course. retained the of- | fice, although members of the legisiature, |from their place on the floor of the house, lexpressed the opinion that he should be | breaking stones on the street with a ball chained to him. At the revolution of 1887 the fellow was @ spy on both sides. Whether he gave truth- ful information to either is hard to say; but the king subsequently informed friends that he at least betrayed him into the enemy ‘hands as soon as the revolutionary cause began to promise success. He was in the |“Dominis conspiracy,” so called, in 188s, already described. and was the man to run \over his co-conspirators to first reach the | government officials and betray his coms: rades when he suspected the plet was dis< ‘covered. Unless the official documents were ‘stolen while he and his tools were in power, there are still confessions of his own, under joath, in the government archives, “which | would hang him”—to use the words of the | then minister of the interior. The partic- |ulars of this conspiracy were suppressed by \the government of the day to prevent a | lowering of Hawaiian bonds then selling in London on a two-million-dollar joan, ih for other reasons already stated. He was in the t Wilcox insurrection of 1889, but kept of harm's way; and it was developed ‘at the trial of Loomens that it was he who introduced Loomens to the king, and sent him, by the king’s order. to join the con- irators. “SDuring the queen's rein and his incum- bency of the marshalship he was the abso- lute dictator in Hawaii. It is known that no act of importance in governmental func- | tions transpired without either emanating from him or receiving his approval. He over and over again insulted the people, the legislature and the cabinet by openly com- manding the queen to disregard the pre- mier, on behalf of the cabinet. when that | minister was urging upon her the adoption, | modification or rejection of contemplated | public acts. (By the way. the law recog- nizes no * jer,” but the queen insisted |on so calling that minister who officiaty communicated with her outside her meet- ‘ings with the entire cabinet.) Boodle. thievery, blackmailing, bribe taking and | general disregard of the laws were alarm- |ingly common, and gambling houses, dives, illicit Hiquor dens, opium joints and the wholesale importation of that deadly drug have been positively traced to his acqutes- ence for monetary considerations. He kent \a body guard about him, composed in pai \of fugitives from justice from other coun- \tries, accused of all degrees of crime. He is a half-breed Tahitian. who. as a waif, was brought to Honolulu by an old Hawail- ‘an sea captain. He grew up here, et the blacksmith’s trade. and followed it ti \his physical development attracted the at- tention of Mrs. Dominis. who at once pro- cured a government office for him and ad- vanced him as occasion oGerel. Thess hysically large, active an A fioned. he is morally and intellectually a low order—a circumstance w! lor all the ex-queen’s favorites, and illus trates her sav-ge tastes. CAPT. WILTSE’S ORDERS. | | |The Official Records as to the Part ‘Taken by the Marines at Honolulu. ‘The files of the Navy Department give the following records concerning the portictpa- tion of the forces from the U. 8. 8. Boston, commanded at the time by the late Capt Wiltse, when the protectorate was estab- lished by Minister Stevens. In a report to the department, dated Jan- uary 16, the captain, after announcing we | fact that the force had been landed, says: ‘While there has been no demonstration so far, there can be no doubt that the prompt | landing of the battallion has saved life and oe of Minister Stevens, upon the which the captain acted, reads as follows: “UNITED STATES LEGATION, Monger ss 1883. ” existing circum- Pata Tnenae indicating an tnade- quate legal force, I request you to land ma- ‘rines and sailors from the ship under your for the protection of the United | States legation and the United States con- sulate, and to secure the safety of Amer- \ican life and property. ‘ (Signed:) JOHN i. STEVENS. “To Capt. Wiltse, U. 8. N. The order of Capt. Wiltse to Lieut. Com- |mander Swinburne, who commanded the naval battalion on shore, reads as follows, | same date: under aril take command of the battalion end land in Honolulu for the purpose of protecting our legation, consulate and the lives and property of American citizens,and to assist in the preservation of public order. Great prudence must be exercised by both officers and men, and no action taken that is not fully warranted by the condition of \affairs, and by the conduct of those who may be inimical to the treaty rights of ‘American citizens. You will inform me at the earliest practicable moment of any hange in the situation.” ‘An additional order to Swinburne, dated | February 8, reads: “You will take posses- sion of the government building, and the American flag will be raised from it at 9 *clock a.m.” |°Snts last o>der was issued after the dew |Jaration of the United States protectorate il