Evening Star Newspaper, November 24, 1893, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. 2 UNDAY. 1201 Pennsyivanis Avenue, corner 11th St, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 8. H. KAUFMANN, Pres't New York Ofios, 68 Potter Building. reborn amnbinig ‘Tar Evenrxe Star nt, at 10 cents ‘opies at the counter where in the United repaid—39 cents per SaTURDAY QuINTUPLE SHEET STAR BL.00 per year: with ‘oreicn ‘postage added, $3.00. (Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ) Sg-A)1 mail sabscriptions must be paid in advance. Rates of a!vertisine made known on anp!fcstion. THECOMING MESSAGE. Che Lvening Vor. 83, No. 20,738. , FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 1893—TWELVE PAGES MR. BISSELL’S SUGGESTIONS. Intense Interest Felt in What the President Will Say. PARTICULARLY AS 10 HAWAII. The Communication Expected on the First Day of the Session. ——o—_ CONGRESS ORGANIZED. a Washington has settled down into the belief that the first authentic news as to Minister Willis’ instructions in the Ha- waiian complication will be laid before the | country in President Cleveland’s message to Congress, when it reassembles on Mon- day week in regular session. | All preliminary dead wood in the matter | ef organization and election and installa- | tion of officers of both houses of Congress having been cleared away by the extra session, it is regarded as highly probable that the President's message will be sent in on Monday, instead of being delayed until the second day of the meeting, as on former occasions. Can Get to Work at Once. This year there is nothing to prevent Doth houses immediately on their as- sembling appointing a joint committee to ‘wait upon the President and inform him that they are ready to receive any com- munication he may have to make to them. nd apparently there is no reason why the President should not authorize the joint committee to reply that he will immedi- Btely communicate to them “a message in writing.” Assistant Private Secretary Pruden, in his long years of faithful silent service, has | never carried from the White House ay _ So eagerly looked for as this will | Interest im the Message. Interest in the President’s financial mes- Rage of August last was confined to the one topic of silver, and ‘was to a great extent discounted by previous intimations, more or less accurate, as to its probable contents. The celebrated tariff message of Mr. Cleveland in 1887 was a surprise, and there Was little preliminary anticipation of its contents. This year the message is ex- pected to cover not only recommendations &s to the tariff and further financial legis- lation, but also dramatic disclosures as to Questions of foreign policy as to which the whole nation has been strung up to a pitch of excited interest. Former Messages on Foreign Affairs. Several important matters affecting our relations with foreign powers have first Feached the public through presidential Messages in recent years. President Har- rison’s announcement in 1890 of his re- moval of Minister Mizner for his conduct in regard to the killing of Gen. Barrundia by the Guatemalan authorities on board a/ Pacific mail steamer was a “scoop” on the press. So, also, in a less degree, was his communication of the critical character of our relations with the provisional govern- ment of Chile in regard to the attack on the sailors of the Baltimore in the streets of Valparaiso. ‘The Hawaiian Question. But there has never before been a great Question of foreign policy involved in such dense obscurity at the opening of Congress as is the action which the United States may or may not have taken by this time in regard to the provisional government of Hawaii. Mr. Cleveland's message on this point will have an interest greater than upon questions of domestic administration and finance, though on these topics his re- commendations will possess unusual im- portance. We Will Be Given a Command of Im- portance. Although Admira! Stanton was relieved of his command at Rio Janeiro for saluting the rebel leader Mello, he still retains the confidence not only of his naval friends, but of the administration as well. ‘The ad- ministration feel that under the circum- stances there was no alternative but to re- move Admiral Stanton, but now that that has been done there is every disposition on the part of the naval officials to overlook his indiscretion and to show their confi | dence in him by speedily restoring him to} duty again. There is the highest authority for the Btatement that shortly after his arrival in the United States Admiral Stanton wiil be given another command, equal in dignity and importance to that from which he was relieved in the South Atlantic last month. On the other hand. if Mello should suc- feed in overturning the established govern- ment of Brazil it is not unlikely that Ad- miral St: ‘on will be again placed in com- mand of our squadron in Brazilian waters, “as an act of poetic justice,” as a high of- ficial of the department expressed it this morning. Admiral Stanton was ordered to return to the United States a fortnight ago, and while the Navy Department has no definite in- formation, it is believed that he is now en Youte to New York from Montevideo. Not the slightest credence is attached by navy officials to the statement that President Peixoto had asked for leniency on Admiral Stanton’s behalf. No communication of that nature has been received. ee ANOTHER BIZ APPOINTMENT On the Army List Falls to President | Cleveland. The President has another big army com- mission at his disposal by the retirement to- day by operation of law of Brigadier Gen. ‘Wm. P. Carlin, who received his star by the} grace of President Cleveland several months zgo. As has already been stated in The, Star, nearly every colonel in the line of Promotion is an active aspirant for this Vacancy, and a list of those hopeful of se- lection would be a long one. It would also include many officers who have served with distinction in the civil war and on the fron-| tier in campaigns against the Indians. | here are, however, good reasons for the be- | lief, that the selection for the appoint-| ment is narrowed down to either Col. Wm. BR. Shafter, Col. E. S. Otis or Col. Z. R.} Bliss of the infantry, or Col. J. W. For-| syth of the cavalry. Among the other pos-! sibilities are Col Anderson, Townsend, infantry, Cols. Wade Blunt, Swaine, Merriam, and Créfton of the Mizner and . Closson, Livingston of the artillery. ‘d that the matter will be set- tled next week. Carlin was in comm partment of the ¢ quarters at Vance ton. The va by his retirer his relief from ‘partment of the Columbia. a. | Naval Orders. | Assistant Engineer George W. Danforth has been ordered to duty on board the New York, relieving Assistant Engineer W. P. Winchell, wh is granted leave of absence for two months. i Some Matters Which it is Said the Post- master Gemeral Will Report Upon. The Annual Report of the Department Completed—Suggestions Which It is Said Are Made in It. Postmaster General Bissell has completed his annual report to the President. It is replete with important matter. All the questions vital to the postal interests are treated conscientiously and fully. Nothing has been slighted. It is a ponderous docu- ment, and has cost Mr. Bissell a mighty ex- penditure of nerve force, brain ceils and nocturnal gas. Throughout his term Mr. Bis- sell has kept this annual postal tome in view. The result is a compliment to the method. As he would get an idea he would jot it down and file it away for reference, and perhaps for incorporation in this report. This report is the outcome of systematic work and is said to be one of the most creditable pieces of postal literature extant. He began operations on it at about the time when the division reports began to arrive. However, the earnest labor did not begin till the reports of the assistant post- masters general were traasmitted to him. Mr. Bissell then dictated abstracts of these to his private secretary, Mr. Reckard, or to his confidential clerk, Mr. Dawson. They were taken in shorthand, transcribed and written in type. Spaces of one and one-half inches intervened between the lines. This was to facilitate revision. In these blank spaces Mr. Bissell would insert what he deemed advisable. Had Mr. Bissell not been interrupted by official callers and current routine business this paper might have been in the hands of Mr, Cleveland more than a week ago. These interruptions have been very annoy- ing to him, and he has so stated. Only yes- terday Senator Roach called to introduce a western friend, but was denied admission to Mr. Bissell’s room. Senator Roach was likely, it was thought, to take up half an hour of time, which just at that juncture Mr. Bissell was anxious to use in polishing off the rough edges and rounding up some of the sentences of the report. Mr. Bissell has had prepared an abstract of his report, which he says he will give to the press at the proper time, as he is de- sirous that all the papers shall be treated alike, and that one shall have no advantage over the others. It is stated that, although the estimates are in no cases extravagant, they are suf- ficiently generous to meet the growing re- quirements of the postal service. Although some of the hobbies of the assistant post- masters general, for which they recom- mended appropriations, are wrecked, these gentlemen on the whole, it is said, have no just cause for complaint. The check which Was put upon the extension of urban free delivery by curtailing the estimates of the chief of that division is rectified, it is said, by Mr. Bissell, so that Washington, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Providence, St. Louis, Denver and Kansas City will get the increased carrier service for which they have been pressing the de- partment for a long time, and which, by reason of the smaliness of the appropria- | ton, the free delivery officials were not able to grant. Mr. Bissell, it is said, also discusses the postal telegraph project of Mr. Wanamaker exhaustively, taking issue with his prede- cessor on many points and agreeing with him on others. Allusion is made to the Columbian stamp, it is asserted, in a way which,if that abused article had a nervous system, would cause it excruciating agony. A uniform method of uniforming carriers, it is understood, is suggested, and increase of carriage between the states of the postal union is touched on. ———+ @ -______- CHOLERA SEASON OVER. Probably No Further Trouble With the Dread Disease. “The cholera season is about over,” said Surgeon General Wyman to a Star reporter this morning. “There is always a possi- bility of cholera, but it is not at all probable that there will be any trouble with the dis- ease now. Yet the past summer has been one of the hardest that we have ever known in the hospital service. There were more cholera-infected districts in Europe than for many years. It was not concentrated in any one city with virulence, and that made it all the harder for us, for we had t» scatter all over. Yet there were only two infected ships reached our shores. This was due, I believe, to the efficiency of our for- eign quarantine. By stationing officers at the various ports and exercising the strict- est kind of watch upon the shipping, we managed to secure a hold on the disease in its starting places, and did not allow it to spread across the sea. These officers are now being recalled, as fast as their work is finished. It is too early to talk about the possibilities of next year yet, but it does not seem to me that there is any es- pecial danger. We have demonstrated this year, I think, that we can check the germs abroad, and this system, added to our domestic quarantine, will give us a vast amount of protection. We are learning each year, and are growing stronger. ‘In the south the cold weather is having its effect and I think that the danger is about all over. We are withdrawing the special men that were placed in Georgia as fast as safety seems to warrant. There has been frost already in some of the dis- tricts where the fever raged, but it is yet warm in some places and we cannot #fford to let up all of a sudden. We shall keep taking off the men as fast as safety seems to permit.” - THE COLUMB: ’S TRIAL. Official Report Brought to the Navy Department Today. Admiral Belknap, president of the naval trial board, brought to the Navy Depart- ment this morning the report of the board upon the trial of the Columbia. It is un- derstood that the smokestacks of the vessel have been painted with the figures “22.81,” indicating the exact average speed made by the fleet cruiser upon her trial trip. Now that Commodore Walker has been released from present duty on the trial board at the Secretary’s instance, he will immediately call together the board over which he presides and endeavor to report to the Secretary, first, upon the question as to whether the new gunboats shall be built ac- cording to the department's designs, which would involve the award of contracts to the Newport News Shipbuilding Company, | and, second, upon the stability of the new cruisers, which has been called in question. The little cruiser Machias has meanwhile been put through a series of “heeling’”’ tests at the New York navy yard, and the result: this test will be the basis of de- termination in the case of the other smaller crulsers. The fleet armored cruiser New York will go to sea very soon, for short trip at least. he was accepted la June, and under the she must within six months from that time | be put thr n a thorough ascer- tain whether she has deteri any and whether her machinery has the Ty quality of endurance. be learned, not by a speed trial. but by trip to sea. preferably in a good sea nd this trip must ine at least fe t hours’ con When vessel returns from this trin it is be-| | Heved that her coal bunkers will be so much relieved of their tents that no Aiffientty will be experienced in putting her in dock. Secretary Gresham's has gone to Chicago for w days, and Chief Clerk Rockhill will act in that capacity until his return. It 1s a most {rportant position just at pres- ent during the Hawaiian entanglement. {| drift that T think ts gratifyin: This will | GIOLITT! RESIGNS. The Italian Premier and Cabinet Retire, IN THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES Another Sensational Scene Wit- | nessed This Morning. BANK SCANDAL THE CAUSE. ROME, Nov. 24.—A meeting of the Italian cabinet was held this morning. The situa- tion arising from the reading yesterday in the chamber of deputies of the report of the committee appointed to investigate the bank scandals was most thoroughly dis- cussed, and the ministers decided that their usefulness was at an end. In accordance with this decision, the cabinet tendered its resignation as a whole to King Humbert. The outgoing ministry was made up as follows: Signor Giovanni Giolotti, president of the council and minister of the interior; Sig- nor Beneditto Brin, minister of foreign af- fairs; Signor Bernardino Grimaldi, minis- ter of the treasury and ad interim minister of finance; Signor Santamaria, minister of justice and ecclesiastical affairs; Gen, Luigi Pelloux, minister of war; Ad- miral Racchia, minister of marine; Signor Pietro Lacva, minister of commerce, indus- try and agriculture; Signor Ferdinando Martini, minister of public instruction; Sig- nor Francesco Genala, minister of public works; Signor Camillo Finocchiaro-April, minister of posts and telegraphs. The members of the party of the extreme left will meet today and debate the question of impeaching the cabinet. Among the many things contained in the report of the committee on the bank scan- dais is a statement that the charges made by certain newspapers that Prime Min- ister Giolittt used money of the bank to advance the interests of his party at the last election are not proved by the evi- dence, but the committee declined to say they were disproved. Another Tumult Among the Deputies. The chamber of deputies was again crowded when the session opened today, interest having reached a high point in consequence of the resignation of the min- istry. Signor Zanardelli, who until a new presi- dent is elected acts as presiding officer, Was in the chair. Signor Felice Cavalotti, radical, arose as Soon as the formalities of opening the ses- sion had been complied with and declared that the members of the extreme left wish- ed yesterday to vote censure against the government because the cabinet had no right to evade judgment by resigning. After a lively exchange of words between ae ee been fone Cavalotti e causes of yesterday's disor the chamber Signor Giolitt! parcaarannsenn bm he must first make a personal declara- “I and my colleagues,” he said, “wish to resume our places among the deputies in order to defend ourselves against our assail- ants.” He then read the resigna' the ministers and the king’s Signor Giolittt spoke amid. uO} interruption and insulting epi ro Addressing Signor Imbriana, a radical member, he said: “Your language sutta you, Four insults do not soil the points of my s.”" ‘The chamber was in an uproar, the mem- bers yelling and acting like madmen. “he excitement was intensified by the action of the extremists, who, rising from their Seats, waved their hands in the air and with clenched fists threatened Signor Glolitti with physical violence. The public galleries were Packed and jammed und the people in them were as excited as the members on the floor of the house. Some men, leaning far over the rail and waving their fists at Signor Glolitti, cried “Thief,” “Thief. The cry was taken up by those in the rear, and a perfect storm of opprobrious epithets was poured on the head of the prime minister. The officers of the house made a rush to arrest the men who were creating the babel in the galleries, but a number of the depu- ties shouted ‘‘Leave them alone.” While all this was going on Signor Gto- litti, pale and trembling, stood surrounded by a circle of his friends, and it was evi- dent that they feared the excited ex- tremists would try to carry their threats of violence against him into execution. All the time he carried on with his friends a conversation that was inaudible to every- body save those in the circle. There was seemingly no chance of order being restored, and President Zanardelli de clared the chamber prorogued. —_ PURELY A PRIVATE TRIP. Public Business Did Not Take Mr. Jor- dan to England. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 24.—Among the | passengers on the American steamer Ber- lin, which arrived here this morning, was Mr, Conrad N, Jordan, assistant United States treasurer at New York. Several re- ports have been circulated regarding the object of «his visit to this country, one being that he was to negotiate a gold loan, and another that his mission was connected with the American tariff. A representative of the United Press in- terviewed Mr. Jordan at Southampton to learn definitely what he had come to Eng- land for. He stated positively that his visit was purely a private one, and declared that he was merely taking a holiday. He knew nothing about the alleged gold loan, He re- fused to talk about the conditions prevail- ing in the United States. Mr. Jordan left Southampton immediately upon the arrival of the Berlin and pro- ceeded to London. —_—> AROUSED FOR PROTECTION. Gov. McKinley’s View of the Popular Drift of the Electio: BOSTON, Nov. 24.—Goy. McKinley, in an interview after his arrival from New York | last evening, sald: “I have had about my | fill of politics in the last ten weeks. I feel pretty tired and ready for a rest. We fought our campaign in Ohio upon the same issues as you did here, and we had many dem- ocrats who voted with us. That-is why I have so strong a feeling for Massacnusetts, because our cause was alike, and we can shake hands with you. Speaking generaily, I thins the people show that they are thor- | oughly aroused for protection, and the effect | upon the congressional elections of "04 can- jnot but be a forerunner of what may be |expected next year. The elections ef this | fail clearly show a very strony republican Gov. McKinley refused to discuss the sub- ject of his candidacy for the Presidential | nomination, or the Hawaiian disynte. SS Accounts Held Up. The adage about thieves entering the house while the watch dogs fight Is being aptly illustrated just now in the case of the natives of the Seal Islands of Alaska, who are said to be in danger of starvation owing to legal rows between the United | States and the North American Commercial Company. Accounts of the latter to the extent of $24,000 have been held up in the artment, as against a balance of $280,000 said to be due the government, and the | company now is considering the advisability of withholding further supplies to the na- | tives unless the accounts are passed. |@atter has been referred to the Attorney General and is likely to get into the courts, The | THE INSURANCE LAW. The Oourt of Appeals Says the Police Court Has Jurisdiction. An Opinion Rendered by Chief Justice Alvey in the Patterson Case—Re- manded to Custody. After the adjournment of the Court of Appeals yesterday afternoon Chief Justice Alvey filed the opinion of the court in the case of U. S. Marshal Ransdell vs. Henry K. W. Patterson, president of the American Mutual Aid, Investment and Loan Society of the District. The opinion is of considerable interest, not only to those engaged in the in- surance business here, but also to the public at large. The opinion sustains the validity of the act of Congress of January 26, 1887, enacted for the purpose of preventing the carrying on of business in the District by insecure and unlawfully organized insurance companies. Patterson was convicted last summer in the Police Court of a violation of the act, and upon his refusal to pay the fine imposed, $100, was sentenced to thirty days in jail. He thereupon sued out a writ of habeas corpus, claiming that the Police Court was without jurisdiction, because it could not enforce the collection of the fine, the collection be- ing a matter for civil action. Judge Hagner heard the case, and, deciding in favor of the prisoner, discharged him from the cus- tody of the marshal, who thereupon appeal- ed to the Court of Appeals, ‘The decision says: “It is very manifest. from the several provisions of the act of Congress, that the act was passed as a measure of police and Protection to the public, to prevent impo- sition, and to keep such companies under the supervision of public authority. The statute is, in the strict sense of the words, a penal statute, and must be so treated in all proceedings thereon. And such being the nature of the statute, the question arises, whether proceeding can be taken in the Police Court of this District to enforce and recover the penalties prescribed by the act? It is clear beyond doubt, that the vio- lation of the statute is a public offense, and that the penalties incurred accrue to and belong to the government.” | The chief justice then reviewed at con- | siderable length the laws and decisions re- lating to the jurisdiction of the Police Court, and concluded as follows: “This court is clearly of opinion that the Police Court of this District had juris- (diction of the offense charged against the appellee, and that the conviction was au- thorized by the statute, and that, upon con- | viction, the committal to prison in default of payment of the fine imposed, was fully | warranted by law. And as the appellee, then a prisoner in the custody of the mar- |shal, was discharged from such tmprison- | ment by the order of the court below, that jorder must be reversed, and the case re- manded, that the appellee be brought in |and recommitted in execution and accord- ing to the judgment and sentence of the Police Court.” ———_——_ TO CONTROL THE STEEL OUTPUT. Alleged Organization of a “Combine”— it is Denied NEW YORK, Nov.24.—Dealers in iron and steel generally believe that an understand- ing has been reached for the government of the steel rail industry. There are no offi- cials in the city who can confirm the re- ports. Vice President Schoonmaker of the Car- negie company said today that the report of a combination was.all news to him. The Iron Age, however, gives what pur- ports to be details of the combination. It Says: “The organization has rectified the cardinal error of the old association, which lay in the failure to follow down in price the declining market for raw material. The prices which were established upon the split of the old combination simply meant the abandonment of railmaking by some con- cerns and threatened to render the pro- ductive capacity inadequate in future peri- ods of a suddenly expanded demand. Under the new arrangement the association, con- sisting of the Illinots, Carnegie, Cambria, Bethlehem and Lackawanna mills, leased the plants of the Maryland and Pennsyl- vania steel companies. The former will be closed down with the exception of the ma- rine department and the latter will cease making standard sections. The price for i894 will be $24 at eastern mills and $25 at western mills. This Is con- sidered a fair price considering the prices of labor and raw material and is entirely fair to the railroads. The general tron trade regards the announcement with some satis- faction. It gives tone to the soft steel market through a stoppage of the opera- tions at the Maryland works, HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 24.—General Manager Felton of the Pennsylvania Steel Company denies any knowledge of the ul- Jeged lease of the big Steelton plant by the Carnegie and other interests. He thinks he would know something about it if there was such a move. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24.—The report that the Carnegie Steel Company, Bethle- hem Steel Company, Cambria Iron Com- pany and Lackawanna Iron and Steel Com- pany had combined to lease the big plant at Sparrow's Point, Md., is denied by the officials of the Pennsylvania Steel Com- pany. ena . To Return to Roanoke. It is now said that Col. J. Hampton Hoge of Virginia, consul at Amoy, China, will not return to Washington to answer the charges filed against him at the State De- partment, but instead will proceed to his home at Roanoke, Va., and forward his resignation to the President. The report that Consul Hoge’s appointment has been revoked is contradicted at the State De- partment. Advices were received here yes- terday that the colonel’s wife was on her way to El Paso, Texas, to induce him to return to his Virginia home without fur- ther delay. —————_+-e+______ Presidential Appointments, It is announced at the White House that no appointments of any consequence will be made by the President until after the assembling of Congress on the 4th prox. It is possible that a few appointments may be made next week, but only then in cases of necessity. The President will make a number of important nominations during the first week of the session. The list will undoubtedly include the nomination of Judge Hornblower of New York to be an associate justice of the United States Su- preme Court, which nomination failed of action at the last session of the Senate. Personal Mention. Justice Charles Walter has been confined to his room by illness for a few days, but is recovering. Rev. Owen James, formerly pastor of the North Baptist Church in this city, who is now pastor of the Hollidaysburg, Pa., Bap- tist_ Church, is a guest of Mr. J. A. Frank of 520 C street southeast. He will preach at Grace Church, East Washington, Sunday morning, ——$_$—_$+-9-«——___ Interior Department Changes. The following official changes have been made in the Department of the Interior: Office of the Secretary—Resignation: Wm. V. Reppert of Kentucky, member of the board of pension appeals, $2,000. Patent office—Appointments: Miss Marie L. Bailey of South Carolina, Henry C. Light jof Iowa, John L. Anderson of Kentucky and Chas. H. Gray of Nebraska, copyists, MOftiee of edincation—Promotion: Jesse Crawford of Kentucky, copyist, $800 to $900. ———— Treasury Appointments. Secretary Carlisle has appointed Fowler B. Farwell of New York a Chinese in- spector at the port of New York. F. B, Seely, a Chinese inspector at the same port, has resigned. jthat the National | Years since it held in the form of govern- NATIONAL GRANGE. What Secretary Morton Says About Its Resolution. THOSE T0 WHOM HIS SPEECH APPLIED, He Hints That Some Questions Might Be Asked. NO RETRACTION TO MAKE. Speaking of the resolutions adopted by the National Grange,Patrons of Husbandry, on Wednesday night at Syracuse, N. Y., denouncing him for his remarks in regard to the grange in his speech in Chicago and calling upon the President to remove him and appoint some man at the head of the Agricultural Department more in sym- pathy with the farming interests, Secre- tary Morton this morning said: “The grange is an independent body. There can be no objection to that or any other independent body attending to the Purposes for which it was created. It is subject to criticism whenever it devotes it- self to any other purposes. And only to those grangers and granges who have been instituted for other than agricultural ad- vancement can any of the language used in the remarks at Chicago on the 16th of last October be applied. The gentlemen who ap- plied and fitted those remarks to them- selves have no cause for self-congratula- tion. What would they think if farmers who formerly belonged to the grange should pass a series of resolutions inquir- ing what became of more than $200,000 Grange alleged some ment bonds for the benefit of the order? Of course, it is understood that the reply to such @ resolution would be that it had been returned to the state grange in each case, and then the question would be: What did the state grange do with it? How much of the $200,000 ever reached the eriginal donors or contributors of that sum? “No good citizen desires to criticise agri- cultural associations which are legitimately organized for the very useful and legitimate purpose of exalting the calling of the farmer, and the intellectuality of those who pursue it. “More than thirty years ago, with Gov. Furnas of Nebraska, the present Secretary of Agriculture organized the state board in that state, and continued an active member of it for many years, being twice the p-es. ident thereof. He also assisted Go" Furnas, J. H. Masters and others in organ- izing the first State Horticultural Society in Nebraska, and in making the first tezrito- rial fair in 1859; and in 1872 he originated the phrase and founded the anniversary “Arbor day.” Since then he has been pres- ident of the American Forestry Association, and contributed in a small way the best he could to cultivate in the American mind the love of tree conservation and tree planting. “It is not necessary for him to attempt to make any defense as to his real interests in real farmers. He will neither modify nor retract anything that he said at Chica- go, no matter what the results may be to him personally, politically or otherwise. As a retracter he has always been a com- plete failure.” +129 DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. 2 Protest Against Dumping on the Parking. Wm. J. Spencer in a letter to the Com- missioners today protests against the dump- ing of dirt upon the parking on the east side of 16th street between V street and Florida avenue. Improving a Street. A petition signed by the residents and owners of premises on P street north- east between North Capitol street and Florida avenue has been received by the Commissioners, praying that that street be placed upon the list of streets to be im- proved next year. The petition sets forth that the block in question is built upon both sides, and that all required sewer, gas and water pipes have been laid. It would require a small amount of money to make the improve- ment and they strongly urge its recom- mendation to Congress for improvement next year. Condition of Van Street. Health Officer Hammett makes the fol- lowing reports to the Commissioners today: “The sanitary condition of Van street, with its present building and inhabitants remaining, would not be improved unless sewer and water facilities were afforded. On the north side of the street is a row of twelve dilapidated wood shanties about ten feet high and three others partly brick and partly wood of the same character, all un- fit for habitation. On the south side is a row of nine frame buildings, only one of which is habitable.”” He suggests that the building inspector examine the condition of the buildings. This report was brought about by the appli- cation of R. B. Clark to have the street paved. Necessary for Public Health. Dr. Hammett certifies that the opening of the alley in square 62), its paving and the extension is necessary for public health and he recommends that the work be done un- der the compulsory permit system. He also recommends the paving of the wide alley running east and west in square 96 under the compulsory permit system, as being necessary for the public health. Of No Future Use. Building Inspector Entwisle today recom- mended the sale of the old Georgetown station house on 32d street adjoining the canal, and the old Chamberlain School building, located at the corner of East and North streets, Georgetown. He says the District has no further use for the property. The old Chamberlain School house is a ing the war it was used tee" barracks by the troops stationed tn Georgetown, and at the close of the war the building was purchased from the gov- ernment by the District for a school house. It was abandoned, however, in 18¥1. Con- gress will be asked to authorize the sale of the property. The Property Owners Petiti A number of the property owners of Lanier Heights have combined in a peti- tion to the Commissiorers praying for the extension of Geneseo place on its present lines to Popular avenue, either by con- demnation or otherwise. They say they are of the opinion that the street should be extended as proposed, as it would form a much easier means of access to and from the National Zoological Park as well as facilitate the delivery of the United States mail to the residents of that section. ee New York Custom House Appointment. Secretary Carlisle today appointed Charles A. King a deputy ccllector of customs in the New York custom house. -e—-—_____. Fourth-Ch Postmasters. The total number of fourth class post- masters appointed today is forty-two. Of this number eighteen are to fill vacancies caused by death and resignation and the remainder by removals. ee Government Receipts Today. The receipts from internal revenue today were $102,991; from customs, $456,062, oo Army Orders. Capt. Wm. Auman, thirteenth infantry, has been granted leave of absence for one month. FINANCIAL LEGISLATION. Little or None Expected at the Coming Session of Congress. ‘ May Be a Free Coinage Bill Reported, but It Will Never Be Acted on. The more the subject is talked over amoag | those interested in the matter the stronger become the indications that there will be little or no financial legislation at the com- ing session of Congress. A number of measures will be reported from committees soon after the session opens, but there is such a conflict of opinion and of interest in the matter that it is extremely doubtful that anything can be accomplished. If any further evidence were necessary that noth- ing could be done with silver the Speech of Mr. Carlisle has furnished it. Silver Mem Have No Expectations. In fact there is no expectation on the part of silver men that anything can be. done and there is hardly a disposition to make any effort. The committee on bank- ing and currency may report a free coinage bill, which will never be acted on. A report favorable to the repeal of the state bank tax will be made by the committee on banx- ing and currency and there will also be another report adverse to it; the majority, however, in favor of the repeal. Secretary Carlisle, the Speaker of the House and the President, not so enthusiastically, are in favor of the repeal of this tax. The chair- man of the banking committee is opposed to it and it ts believed that the proposition has not the support of the majority in the House. Jt may be stronger in the Senate. The National Banks. The Treasury Department is going to try to secure legislation favorable to national banks, modifying the administrative laws | in some respects and providing for an in- crease of the national bank currency. The advocates of state bank currency and of silver, however, being unable to get what they want, will fight this to the last ex- tremity, and the belief of those best in- formed is that through the bickerings aris- ing from different interests all substantial and important. legislatio1 aw gislation on the subject —_—_-o—_____ REV. MR. GASTON ARRESTED. An Intending Liberian Emigrant Charges Him With Swindling. Rev. Benjamin Gaston, treasurer of the National Emigration and Steamship Com- pany, has been arrested in New York on a charge of swindling, but the arrest appears to have been due to a business misunder- standing. Mr. Gaston, who is engaged in a scheme to promote emigration of colored People to Liberia, has made his headquar- ters in this city for some time. He was arrested yesterday at the office of the African Steamship. Company, 23 Cotton Exchange, on a charge of grand larceny. The complainant is Elihu H. Belcher, a negro living in Atlanta, Ga., who charges Mr. Gaston with swindling him out of $50. Mr, Gaston was arrested at the request of the Atlanta police. When he was arraign- ed in the Tombs police court Justice Mar- tin expressed a reluctance to hold him on the the telegram from Atlanta, 4f no further communication Was received he would be released. Mr. Gaston, who was African Steamship Company to send 200 colored em: ts direct to Liberia from Savannah $15,000. This sum was to have been collected tending emigrants and Commissioner Gaston secure more than steamship service had to Gaston then decided to use transportation of thirty New York to the western coast of Africa, by way of Liverpool. He accordingly ar- ranged to send these emigrants to Liver- pool on the steamer Paris, to sail next Wednesday, and he paid _ cash to El- . and deposited the - ance, $2,000, to their account in a Washing. ton bank. As Belcher, the complainant, Was not included in the thirty Proposed to be sent next Wednesday he brought the charge of swindling against Mr. Gaston. His Career in This City. The colored divine Was in thi eral weeks endeavoring to get be abandoned. the $5,000 in the emigrants from is city sev- some local persons interested in the colonizing scheme. He talked about his company on all occasions. and only about three weeks ago he figured in the Police Court as a witness against a colored woman and her husband, against whom he had a charge of theft. The woman did not live with her husband, and When the Rey. Gaston met her in South Washington he gave her em- ployment as clerk went to his room regularly and remaii there nights. He purchased her fine a ing, and the couple appeared in public to- gether on many occasions. His wife was in Liberia, and when in court he was as- sured that the news of his conduct would never reach her. The woman who he ac- cused of having taken his watch and chain and money was acquitted and her husband was also released. When in this city th Rev. Gaston had a bank account of abou 33,000, and while his relations with the woman were not denied, it was generally believed that he was honest and in earnest about beg ge! negroes. He left soon after the trial of the coe oe case in the Sent to the Tombs. NEW YORK, Nov. 24—Rey. Dr. Ben- jamin Gaston, the colored commissioner of emigration from Liberia, who was arrested here yesterday, charged with swindling, was committed in the Tombs police court today to await the arrival of an officer from Atlanta, Ga., who with a warrant for him. ——. __ Several Wills Filed. The will of the late Frederick Otto Mack, filed today, leaves $300 to his daughter, Emma E. C. Mack. and the balance of his estate, including 612 19th street. to his wife, Margaret A. E. Mack, who he names as executrix. The will of the late J. J. Rapli, admitted to probate today, leaves his estate to his children, directs the payment of $200 to the German Orphan Asylum, and in the final disposition of the estate $2.000 be paid to his daughter, Josephine McCully, in addi- tion to her share, should, however, any of his children go to Europe to live permanent- ly_the share of such is to be forfeited. Tne will of the late Martha Jane Polkin- horn, filed today, leaves her interest in her Tather’s estate to her sisters. Hannah E. and Catherine E. Polkinhorn. —— They Have Incorporated. The Columbia Bodies of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite located in the Dis- trict have filed a certificate of incorporation for the improvement and benefit of its mem- bers and the exercise of benevolence and charity, the trustees for the first year being . Gibson, Geo. J. Johnson and W. H. Crosby. The incorporators are W. P. Cole, A. H. S. Davis, W. S. Jenks, Geo. Gibson. G. J. Johnson, Hosea B. Moulton, Jos. R Quinter, G. Taylor Wade and John R. » So the direct, and washerwoman. She, here) is on his way here | WHY HE DOESN'T ACT. One Theory of Minister Willis’ Delay at Honolulu. WAITING FOR MR. BLOUNT'S REPORT. | Also Secretary Gresham's Letter to the President. WHAT IS CONCEDED, —_—_———___. | The Hawaiian situation remains unchang- ed today, so far as developments at this end of the line are concerned. Great things may have occurred in Honolulu since the 16th instant, and Queen Lilluokalani may be again on the throne, but the »ublic will not know of it here until the arrival of the next | Steamer at San Francisco, on the 11th proxi- | ™mo, unless, indeed, the news should reach | here sooner from Europe by way of Auck- | land. | Rather than keep the people in suspense | much longer, it is among the «im possi til- | tles that the President ani Secretary Gres- ham will confide in the public vo the extent of telling something abost tae character of Minister Willis’ instructivas, and expecially whether he is authorized to employ force in placing the queen vack on her throne. Une Theory Why Willis Hasn't Acted. One of the theories advanced today in Support of the apparent lack of action to that end on the part of Minister Willis is _ that he is awaiting the arrival in Hono- lulu of Biount’s report and Secretary Gresh- am’s review thereof, in the sublime confi- dence that their publication in the Ha- | Wallan capital will show the members of al government the deep error and result in their co-operat. ing with Mr. Cleveland's minister in “right- ing a great wrong” done the deposed queen. What ts Conceded. The moral effect of those strange docu- ments, in order to accomplish a complete revulsion of the popular sentiment in Ha- waii, will heve to be much greater than it hes proved to be in this country. It ts conceded even by the friends of the ad- ministration that it will require something more powerful than these lectures on moral law to bolster up Minister Willis in the execution of the monarchical policy of the administration. Discussed at the Cabinet Meeting. The Hawaiian question came up for con- sideration at the cabinet meeting as usual today in reference to its treatment in the Presidents’s message to Congress, At the close of the meeting it was stated that there was nothing to make public in re- gard to the situation. That foreign affaires did not engross the entire attention of the cabinet is indicated by the fact that See- retary Gresham left the meeting nearly half an hour in advance of his colleagues. Secretary Smith was the only absentee at today’s meeting. He is quarantined at his house by the illness of his son. ———_ _- +2-+ —___ ON THE FREE LIST. Articles Known to Be Placed There im the New Tariff Bill, Up to this date, the information having leaked out bit by bit, the following arti- | cles are positively known to be on the | list of the tariff bill now in the hands the committee: Coal, iron, tin plate, cop- per, silver lead ore, flax, jute, hemp, wool, jumber, salt, cotton, ties and is known that in addition to @ large list of chemicals and is known positively also that bounty is to be abolished and question of duty on sugar has not voted on there is an expectation duty of one-quarter of a cent a ad made that the tariff on glass ware will be reduced one-half and that the duty on Steel raiis will be at an ad v: rate equivalent to about $4.50 a ton holds. oe. | FOR THE SIGNAL CORPs. - Competitive Examination to Be | + Held and Its Scope. A competitive examination will be held in this city shortly to fill the vacancy in the list of first lieutenants in the signal | corps, caused by the recent promotion of | Capt. Glassford. By suggestion of Gen. | A. W. Greely, chief signal officer, the Sec- retary of War has adopted the following 48 @ scope for the written examination of | the candidates for this vacancy: | Of 50 points allowed 12 are for military | fitness, to be determined from the bearing, characte? and efficiency record of the can- didate; 12 points for knowledge of modern theories of and the practical application of the subject /to military purposes; ¥ points for modern languages; 7 points for chem- istry and optics in their relation to and ‘ailability for military purposes; 6 for military surveying and reconnoisance, and 4 points for a military essay on any profes- sional subject. GIVING OUT RECENSES. The Excise Board Holds a Session This Afternoon. | The regular meeting of the excise board | was held this afternoon and a number of applications for liquor licenses were acted and a delegation from the Anti-saloon | League was in attendance to make a record of the proceedings. President Parker called | the meeting to order shortly after 2 o'clock and License Clerk Williams presented about fifty cases for action. The following applications were approved: Retail—W. G. Davis, 1419 H street north- east; Anna B. Geiger, 204 Indiana avenue northwest; William Berger, 932 Loi enue; Dennis Murphy, SIS 7th street southwest; John Davis, 900 27th street southwest; George E. Linkins, 101 G street southeast. | John Hartnett, 517 7th street northwest; Mary C. Bickings, Bowen road; A. G. Klotz, 1708 G street northwest; M. J. Raf- jerty, 100 F street northwest; Alexander | Ebert, 907 7th street northwest; Chas. H. Dismer, 708 K street northwest: Abrai | Morris, 1017 7th street northwest; William Cletworthy, 1148 ‘th street northwest; Pat- | rick Dugan, 3285 M street northwest. ———__ — The Palmetto Trade Mark Case. The record of the Palmetto trade mark case has been filed by Law Clerk Camp- bell of the patent office. The case is in such a position on the docket that in the ordinary course of events ft cannot be reached until a period of several months. Attorneys for the patent office and South Carolina will ask that the case be advanc- ed. The appeal brief is in course of pre ration and will be filed five days before the day set for the hearing. | The Cabinet Meeting. | The cabinet was in session from 11 until after 2 p.m. The message and the execu- tive reports were, it is understood, the chief topics of discussion, and were the cause of the protracted session. -< | Lieut. ¥ Lieut. Lucien Young, recently @etached from the U. 8. 8. Boston at San Francisco, | has arrived in this city. He is on waiting Here. Wright. i