Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1893, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Penasyivania 3venue, corner Lith St. by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, S. BH. KAUFFMANN, Pres’ New York Office, 28 Potter Building. -— Tr Frextxe Star is served to subseribers in the city br cm their own account, at LO cents ermonth Copies at the Ber week. or rents aah. TUPLE SHEFT Stan $1.00 per year; added, #3.00. he Post Office at Washington, D. C., aso ail matter. ) $F-UI mat! sab<-riptions must be paid in advance. Ristes of a !vertisns o¥2 on appiinstion. THE MESSAGE.| President Cleveland Discusses Pub- lic Affairs. ———_+— WAITING FOR NEWS FROM HAWAIL | _.— Tariff Reform to Be Applied With Discriminating Cae. neh elace NEED FOR PUBLIC ECONOMY. + -— At the opening of Congress today the President's annual message was delivered and read to both houses. Following is the full text of the message: To the Congress of the United States—The constituttonal duty which requires the President from time to time to give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their considera- tion such measures as he shall judge neces- | sary and expedient, is fittingly entered upon | by commending to the Congress a careful mination of the detailed statements and well-supported recommendations contained in the reports of the heads of Departments, who are chiefly charged with the executive work of the Government. In an effort to 2bridge this communication as much as is | consistent with its purpose, I shall supple- ment a brief reference to the contents of these departmental reports by the mention of such executive business and incidents as are not embraced therein, and by such rec- ommendations as appear to be at this par- ticular time appropriate. Foreign Relations. While our foreign reiations have not at all times during the past year been entirely free from perplexity, no embarrassing situa- tion remains that will not yield to the spirit of fairness and love of justice, which, join- ed with consistent firmness, characterize a truly American foreign policy. My predecessor having accepted the office of arbitrator of the long-standing missions boundary dispute, tendered to the President by the Argentine Republic and Brazil, it has been my agreeable duty to receive the} special envoys commissioned by those states | to lay before me evidence and arguments in behalf of their respective Governments. The outbreak of domestic hostilities in the Republic of Brazil found the United States alert to watch the interests of our citizens in that country, with which we carry oa important commerce. Several vessels of our new Navy are now, and for some time have been, stationed at Rio de Janeiro. The struggle being between the established gov- ernment, which controls the machinery of administration, and with which we main- tain friendly relations, and certain officers | of the navy employing the vessels of their! command in an atiack upon the national capital and chief seaport, and lacking, as it does, the elements of divided administra- tion, I have failed to see that the insur- gents can reasonably claim recognition as} belligerents. Thus far the position of our Government has been that of an attentive but impartial cbserver of the unfortunate conflict. Em-} phasizing our fixed policy of impartial neu- trality in such a condition of affairs as now exists, I deemed it necessary to disavow, im a manner not to be misunderstood, the unauthorized action of our late naval com- mander in those waters in saluting the re- volted Brazilian admiral, being indisposed to countenance an act calculated to give gratuitous sanction to the local insurrec- tion. Chile. The conventicn between our Government and Chile, having for its object the settle- ment and adjustment of the demands of the two countzies against each other, has been made effective by the organization of the Claims Commission provided for. The two Governments failing to agree upon the third member of the Commission, the good offices of the President of the Swiss Republic were invoked, as provided in the treaty, and the selection of the Swiss representative in this country to complete the organization was Sratifying alike to the United States and Chile. The vxatious question of so-called lega- tion asylum for offenders against the State @nd its laws was presented anew in Chile by the unauthorized action of the late Unit- ed States minister in receiving into his offi- ial residence two persons who had just fatled im an attempt at lution and} @gainst whom criminal charges were pend-} ing growing out of a former abortive dis- turbance. The doctrine of asylum as ap- Plied to this case is not sanctioned by the} best precedents.and, when allowed, tends to @ncourage sedition and strife. Under no Circumstances can the representatives of this Government be permitted, under the Qldefined fiction of extraterritoriality, to interrupt the administration of criminal! $ustice in the countries to which they are accredited. A temperate demand having been made by the Chilean Government for the correction of this conduct in the in- s@tance mentioned, the minister was in- structed no longer to harbor the offenders. Chinese Legislation. The legislation of last year, known as the Geary law, requiring the registration of ail! Chinese laborers entited to residence tn the United States, and the deportation of all| not complying with the provisions of the act | within the time prescribed, met with much | opposition from Chinamen in this country. | Acting upon the advice of eminent counsel that the law was unconstitutional, the great | mass of Chinese laborers, pending judictal | inquiry as to its validity, in good faith de- clined to apply for the certificates required by its provisions. A test case upon proceed-| ing by habeas corpus was brought before the Supreme Court, and on May 15, 1893, a| @ecision was made by that tribunal sus- taining the law. | It is belived that under the recent amend- ment of the act extending the time for Fegistration, the Chinese laborers thereto| entitled. who desire to reside in this coun-| try, will now avail themselves of the re- newed privilege thus afforded of establish-| ing by lawful procedure their right to re-} main, and that thereby the necessity of en-| forced deportation may to a great degree| be avoided. It has devolved upon the United States! minister at Peking, as dean of the diplo- matic body, and in the absence of a repre-| sentative of Sweden and Norway, to press ‘Upon the Chinese Government reparation | Yor the recent murder of Swedish mission-| aries at Sung-pu. This question is of vital! interest to all countries whose citizens en- Gage in missionary work in the interior. The African Slave Trade. tcle XII of the » Signed July Dression of the slave tr Von of certain injur Independent State of , adjacent zone of central Afr States and the other s pow agreed to adopt appropciate means for the punishment of persoas selling arms and) By a General Act 4, tor the und the re merce i of 1p- t In the United | pected will speedily settle disputes growing j become financially seriously embarrassed, | judgment, does not a Che Zvening Star. — Vor. 83, No 20,746. ammunition to the natives and for the con- fiscation of the inhibited articles. It being the plain duty of this sovernment to aid in suppressing the nefarious traffic, impair- ing as it does the praiseworthy and ctvi- lizing efforts now in progress in that region, I recommend that an act be passed prohib- iting the sale of arms and ‘ntoxic2nts to natives in the regulated zone by cur citi- zens. Costa Rica has lately testified its friend- liness by surrendering to the United States, in the absence of a :onvention of extradi- tion, but upon duly submitted evidence of criminality, a noted fugitive from juxtice. It is trusted that the negotiation of a treaty with that country to meet recurring cases of this kind will soon be accomplished. In my opinion treaties for ~ecigrocal extradi- tion should be concluded with ail those countries with which the United States bas not already conventional arrangements of that character. I have deemed it fitting to express to the Governments of Costa Rica and Colombia | the kindly desire of the United States to see their pending boundary dispute fina!ly closed by arbitration in conformity with the spirit of the treaty conciuied Fetween them some years ago. Our relations with the french Republic continue to be intimate and cordial. I sin- cerely hope that the extradition treaty with that country, as amended by the Senate, will soon be operative. While occasional questions affecting our naturalized citizens returning to the land WASHINGTON, D. ©, MONDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES TWO CENTS An index to advertises ments will be found om Page 3. LIBRARY BUILDING. Gen. Cascy’s Report on the Work Already Completed. WHAT WAS DONE DURING LAST YEAR, And What is Expected to Be Ac- complished. MONEY ALREADY EXPENDED. Ee Gen. Casey, in charge of the work upon the new Congressional Library building, today Submitted to Congress his annual re- port of progress upon the building during the year ending December 1, 18%. He savs: The -vork has continued without serious delay or interruption throughout the year. It has consisted chiefly of ma- sonry in the front or exterior walls of the entire building and in the interior columns and waits of the west main pavilion, the erection of the dome, the continuance of of their birth, have arisen in our inter- | course with Germany, our relativas with | that country continue satisfactory. Great Britian. The questions affecting our relations with | Great Britain have been treated in a spirit | of friendliness. | Negotiations are in progress between the two Governments with a view to such con- | current action as will make the nward and | regulations agreed upon by the Behring Sea Tribunal of Arbitration practically effect- ive; and it is not doubted that Great Brit- ain will co-operate freely with this country for the accomplishment of that purpose. The dispute growing out of the ¢iscrim- inating tolls imposed in the Welland Canal, upon cargoes of cereais bound to and from the lake ports of the United States, was adjusted by the substitution of a more equitable schedule of charges, and my pre- decessor thereupon suspended his procla- | mation imposing discriminating tolls upoa British transit through our canals. | A request for additions to the list cf ex- traditable offenses covered by the existing treaty between the two countries, is under consideration. During the past year an American citl- | zen, employed in a subordinate commercial | position in Haiti, after sulfering a pro- tracted imprisonment on an unfounded | charge of smuggling, was finally liberated on judicial examination. Upon urgent rep- resentation to the Haitian Government, a suitable indemnity was paid to the sufferer. By a law of Haiti, a sailing vessel, hav- ing discharged her cargo, is refused clear- ance until the duties on such cargo have been paid. The hardship of this measure upon American shipowners who conduct the bulk of the carrying trade of that country has been insisted on with a view of securing the removal of this cause of ecmpiaint. Upon receiving authentic information of | the firing upon an Américan mail steamer touching at the port of Amapala, because her captain refused to deliver up a pas- senger in transit from Nicaragua to Guate- mala upon demand of the military authori- tes of Honduras, our minister to that country under instructions _ protested against wanton act and demanded sat- isfaction."The Government of Honduras, | actuated by a sense of justice, and in a/ spirit of the utmost friendship, promptly | disavowed the illegal conduct of its officers, | and expressed sincere regret for the oc-| curren | it is confidently anticipated that a sat- isfactory adjustment will soon be reached | of the questions arising out of the seizure | and use of American vessels by insurgents in Honduras and the subsequent denial by | the successful Government of commercial | privileges to those vessels on that account. A notable part of the southeasterly coast of Liberia between the Cavally and San Pedro rivers, which for nearly half a cen- tury has been generally reeognized as be- longing to that Republic by cession and purchase, has been claimed to be under the protectorate of France in virtue of | agreements entered into by the native tribes over whom Liberia’s control has not | been well maintained. | More recently, negotiations between the Liberian representative and the French | Government resulted in the signature at Paris of a treaty whereby as an adjust-| ment, certain Liberian territory is ceded} to France. This convention at last advices | had not been ratified by the Liberian legis- | jature and executive. Feeling a sympathetic interest in the | fortunes of the little commonweaith, the establishment and development of which were largely aided by the benevolence of our countrymen, and which coustitutes the only independently sovereign state on the West Coast of Africa, this Government has suggested to the French Government its earnest concern lest territorial impairment in Liberia should take piace without her unconstrained consent. Our relations with Mexico continue to be of that close and friendly nature which should always characterize the intercourse of two neighboring republics. The work of relocating the monuments marking the boundary between the two countries from Paso del Norte to the Pacific is now nearly completed. The Commission recently organized under the conventions of 1484 and Iss it is ex- out of the shifting currents of the Rio Grande River east of El Paso. Nicaragua and the Canal. Nicaragua has recently passed through two revolutions, the party at first success- ful having in turn been displaced by anoth- er. Our newly appointed minister, by his timely good offices, afded in a peaceful ad- Justment of the controversy involved in the first conflict. The large American interests established in that country in connection with the Nicaragua Canal were not molested. The canal company has, unfortunately, | but a generous treatment has been extended to it by the government of Nicaragua. The United States are especially interested in the successful achievement of the vast un- dertaking this company has in charge. That it should be accomplished under distinctive- ly American auspices, and its enjoyment assured not only to the vessels of this coun- try as a channel of co ication between our Atlantic and seaboards, but to the ships of the world in the Interests of civilization, is a proposition which, in my mit of question. » been visited by the ich have afflicted her neighbors; but the disso- » and the proclam: have been unattended Guatemala has | tical vicissit w jon treaty n exchang with Norwa f and pr has in treaty with Russia, signed | and amended and contirmed | > extradit (Continued on Tweitth Page.) | curtain and most of the attic story of jsion had held was the proper the cast-iron framing and casing of win- dows and doors and the manufacture of ironwork for the roof. At the date of the jast annual report all of the court and ro- | tunda walls excepting the rear of the west main pavilion had been completed, while the exterior walls had risen all around to the height bearing from a few feet above | the first story to the covering of a portion of the second story window openings in the north and west front. The scaffolding had been erected for the construction of the dome, but the latter had not been be- gun, Work Since Last Yea Now these walls are built up to include the lower members of the entablature all around excepting a few stones on the east front, while the whole entablature is com- pleted on the north and west curtain and West named pavilion. In addition to this a portion of the stylo- | bate and parapet balustrade of the west vest main villion, including the elevator shaft and Tonnections in the court, are finished ready for the roof. The dome, com- prising inner and outer shelves of steel, terra cotta cement and copper work, has been erected and completed. All of the in- terior and wash boards in cast iron have closely fcliowed the construction of the respective masonry openings. The roofs of the two West curtains are now going on and most of the material is already on hand for those |of all the other curtains and the west main pavilion. The latter will be put on at once, much of that for the north curtain is al- ready in place and the remainder will be erected next spring, as soon as the few needed entabiature stones come from the quarry. Two-thirds of the steam and heat- ing pipes in the cellar have received their non-conducting covering. Marble Finish of the Interior. The marble finish of the interior of the rotunda or main reading room of the li- | brary and also that for the main stair hall is in progress in the building and consider- ably advanced. The large stock of cut sranite, terra cotta, bricks and minor ma- terials is on hand and the preparation of granite, tron and marble work is under way, to continue steud!ly through the win- ter, so that the outdoor operations of direct | building necessarily partially suspended dur- ing the winter weather may be resumed again with a full force in the spring. Ac- companying the report are three photo- graphs made on November 24, showing the work on the building. The probable operations during the next year are outlined as follows: During the present winter it is expected that the iron and steel works for the roofs of the north, south and two west curtains, and also of the west main pavilion, will be completed, including their skylight, and that the iron work of corner pavilion and east main roofs, the preparation of cut granite inter- for marble finish for nearly all of the corrt- dors and main halls, marble decks and | shelves for the book stacks, iron stair for the four stair towers, rotunda stairwells in the east main pavilion, cast-iron frames and trimmed operings, and the hanging and glazing of window sashes will be in continuous progress. What Will Be Done Next Year. By the close of the year December 1, 1804, It is expected that all of the masonry of the building excepting the approaches, all reofs and skylights, all interior work of trimming, cases and stairs, the sashes and glazing, book-stack decks and marble work of corridors and rotunda, will be finished, and that a considerable advance ment will have been made with the general | decoration of the ro- | interior finish tunda and other principal plastering, machinery; of transmisston, plumbing and electric wiring. Preparations for work on the approaches will also have been made. i The total amount expended upon building since Getober 2, 1888, ts $3,066 There is a balance on hand of. $783,1! tracts of $1,064,196, and apartments, the with outstanding and it is estimated that $0,000 will be re- quired for the next fiscal year. e+ TE COMMERCE Legislation Recommended by the Commission in Its Annual Report. The annual report of the interstate com- merce commission recommends the follow- ing additional interstate commerce legisla- tion: To give legislative construction to the word “line” in the statute. To provide for establishing through rates and joint through rates. To give the commission power to pre- scribe minimum as well as maximum rates to competitive points. To provide for the adoption of a uniform freight Classification, To make corporations subject to the act liable to indictment for violations of the* Jaw, and to provide a penalty for failure on the part of carriers to file their annual reports within a specified time. In regard to the long and short haul clause the report says: This provision of the law is nothing more than an exten- sion to places of the rule forbidding un- just discrimination between persons. The operation of the provision was accepted generally by the carriers, But the ef- fect of a decision of the court of. appeals in an lowa case, wherein the word “line” INTERSTA’ jin the statute was given a wholly different meaning from that which the commis- constru tion, bas been startling. This court dec has been followed and expanded by other courts. These decisions held in ef- fect that one railroad ts a line and that the same and another railroad {s a dif- ferent Ine, and that three rallroads are still another line, and so on, and that rates on one line are not to be compared with rates on another. The commission holds that the word “line” means a phys- {cal Iine—the tracks of one or more rail- roads—and that a line may be extended over other roads by simply connecting the tracks. The court construction says the lines are separate and independent, while the commission contends that the shorte ne is a part of the longer line. The interests of nearly every roads join, and o urged, are vitally concerned straight- ening out this conflict of opinion and the 1 for prompt legislation is urgent. The commission argues in favor of giv- it authority to prescribe minimum well maximum rates, and shows how the present depression of rates at centers works great injury to the public as well as to rallwa: as ft doors and window frames, casings | ORGANIZATION IS NEEDED. Rey. Dr. Seaton Preaches Another Sermon on His Race. Colored Men as a Political Factor and the Use to Which They Have Been Put. Rev. Dr. Seaton preached at Ebenezer A. M. E. Church yesterday on The Negro in Politics. The theme was especially interest- ing because of Dr. Seaton’s radicalism, and because he antagonizes Mr. Brown on Vv rious points, He took his text from Kings, 14, 2, “Show Thyself a Man.” He said that the text had a mighty meaning. It com- prehended human conduct toward God and his fellow man from birth till death. It taught that the conduct of man should be- come rational and immortal beings. All human beings are of the same genus, even if they do differ in complexion. Yet not- withstanding this, complexion is made the basis for unwise and unjust discrimination in this land of boasted liberty and enlight- enment. The colored race is human. They have immortality, morals, courage and re- ligion. But we are not as closely allied as we should be in order to keep pace with the march of progress. Organization and prop- er leadership is what we need, to make our race prominent in all the pursuits which make a people powe:ful and independent. ‘The Germans and Irish were not much as a people of the past, but today they are the j equals of America’s sons. “You will find,” said Dr. Seaton, “that the lowest Italians and Chinese are more respected here than the negro. It is because we have not united our strength. We are the most divided peo- ple in the land. 1 am aware that the con- dition in which slavery left us is largely the cause of this, but the time has come for us to shake off the lingering effects of the old slavish yoke, and stand together for our rights like men. A bureau of information should be organized here at the capital that we may keep posted of all things concernin our race, and which at present we cannot (do. At this bureau a wide awake business |man should be in charge, and all the lead- ing pape-s and magazines should be on file. | We should open communication with the representative men of our race at the south, especially in those parts where our men and women are murdered by wild mobs, The cost of this bureau would be very light. We could then have the information which we need, ful! and unwhitewashed. We would be in direct touch with our people at the scene of trouble. | “Thousands of black men have been mur- dered like brutes by lawless mobs, both at | midnight and noonday, yet the officers of | |the law cannot apprehend them, and the jury is kind enough to say that the deceased | came to his death by being shot by persons | nknown. Yet they never fail to find a! ck man guilty of any crime simply on/ suspicion. | } Political Unes. | “It was supposed by many of us that our| | sure road to greatness and prosperity was | by our alliance with the republican party. 1 am frank to acknowledge that we started | into some things before we were ready, and | that we were only the tools used by saga- cious politicians {n their own enrichment. it is plain that the political parties only seek our aid for what there is in it. Weare, but the catspaws of men who use us tor | their purposes. When there is low cunning | work to be done, such as is regarded as too mean for the outlaws of t nt race, black uBit™to = cially so when there is a prospect of the penitentiary in discovery. “When political parties court us, it is mere- ly for the use which they can put us to. I have observed on the approach of elections that men’ who had an interest in the elec- {tion would become very friendly and even go so far as to do us smail favors, but after election the same whites would scarcely know their brothers in black. I know that a few lock-jaw appointments have been given to a few of our people. When a great ifuss has been made over recognition, some of our men, who have been looked upon as ders, have been given good positions, |This was simply to shut their mouths. As soon as they received their appointment they became. as silent as the tomb, and so ‘ar as advocating our cause was concerned (with rare exceptions), no one knew that they lived until they lost thetr job, “Lf the colored people of this country |would spend as much time and money and energy in elevating the race as they do in |politics the results would be more credit- jable. It cannot be expected that we shall always remain hewers of wood and drawers ‘of water, That did well enough when we Were without schooling, and when every Prospect was hermetically sealed against |us. But now that God in His wisdom has |broken down. the mighty walls of absolute ostracism and put us in the road to suc- \cess, we should bend our energies to put ,our young in places where they may show their manhood. Educational Drawbacks. ducation with opportunity is a blessing, education without opportunity is a curse. Our children today are kept at school Ull they are almost men and women. They jhave not been taught to do hard work. When the time comes for them to launch jout tor themselves they are unable to find such employment as they are fitted for. | This is why so many are outcasts and pests | of society. Who has a better right to live here than we? We have been active in ae- Yeloping this continent. Have we not borne the heat and the burden of the day? And shall we be sent to the rear that position jand prestige may be conferred upon anoth- jer class that has come trom a foreign land? |After the negro has fought and died that this country may be the home of the free? |Dr. Seaton said that he had received a let- \ter signed “Northern Whitewoman,” ask- ling why is the negro race not satisfied, and |saying: “You have your schools and your |churches and the whites do not interfere and attempt to intrude upon you." Why was Moses dissatisfied? Why was Queen Esther dissatisfied? Why was Jeremiah so grief stricken that he would have liked to weep day and night for his people? We will be satisfied when we are accorded that treatment which our manhood merits, which | we deserve by reason of our faithfuiness | and loyalty to this country. We will be jsatisfied when we can travel from Maine to Georgia and enjoy the rights which our! national charter grants us. We will be sat- isfied when lynchers, flayers and man- roasters shall be compelled to abandon their murderous work, and when the Christ- jan Church shall acknowledge that all men have rights. Until then we will not be sat-| isfied. We will talk of our treatment in all| our assemblies, we will denounce it in our mass meetings and in our social gatherings. We will denounce it in the pews and from the pulpit. We will ask the help of men| who are able to help us, and of God, who will come to us in due time.” peat THE APPROPRIATION BILLS. | but Pleliminary Heartugs Upon Three Have Been Completed. The appropriations committee of the! House begins the session with considerable progress already made. The preliminary hearings upon three appropriation bills have been completed, the legislative, executive | and judicial, the sundry civil and the forti- | fications bills. ‘The committee is now ready to go to work upon the preparation of these bills, its work to be based upon the estimates sub- mitted and the statements of department officials at the hearings. One of these three | bills will probably be taken up this week. ‘The committee has not yet commenced the! hearings upon the District of Columbia ap- propriation bill and probably will not until the three large bills mentioned above are in more definite shape. | = ree | The Chinese have a sausage of their own | which they make at this ume 2 the year, and season by saying it out on a roof to} i | CONGRESS CONVENES A Quorum Present at Both Ends of the Capitol. GALLERIES IN BOTH HOUSES FILLED. ee The President’s Message Read and Attentively Listened to. SCENES AND INCIDENTS. Congress opened today in a very business- like manner. There was very little of the usual noise and hubbub of the opening ses- sion, the surplus enegy and enthusiasm hav- ing been worked out in the special session so recently ended. The galleries were well filled by the hour of reassembling, but there was little of the usual rush for early chances for seats. House and Senate met there were no more people in the corridors of the building and the galleries than may be seen most any day during the session, While there were some flowers distributed her and there ove> the desks of members of the House, these testimonials were nothing like as numerous as usual. On the desk of late Representa- tive O'Neill of Pennsylvania there was placed a sheaf of wheat and a large white blossom “in memory of the Father of the House,” and the desk of the late Represen- | | som was not In his place. tative Lilly of Pennsylvania, whose funeral takes place tomorrow, was draped in black and a basket of flowers placed upon it. Interest Felt in the Message. There was little in today’s session to re- quire the presence of members except the necessity for a quorum. The only business was the receipt of the President's message, which while watched for with a great deal of interest, is seldom listened to by mem- bers on the floor, since they prefer reading it to Hstening to the monotonous tones of the reading clerk. However, a great deal of interest was manifested in discovering what | the President had to say on several subjects x Whether he referred to this or that mat- | ter which is now occupying attention. The session was cut off after the reading of the | message by the announcement of the death of Mr O'Neill and Mr. Lilly. From the general tone of talk of members it was evidenced that this Congress assem- | bles with a very sober appreciation of the burdensome duties before them and that the general anticipation is that the session will be both laborious and interesting. parent that the House will not get to work 4s speedily as it was the general desire to, the iabor of preparing the tariff bill ap- pearing to be a greater consumer of time than was anticipated. The ways and means committee was in session today before the House met and their purpose is to get their bill before the House as speedily as possible. The general feeling was, however, among | the members who had looked into the mat- ter that it would be several days yet before the tariff bill could be taken up and this occasioned some little disappointment. No Program Marked Out. In view of the uncertainty as to the tariff bill no program had this morning been pre- pared, but the idea was that the bankruptcy bill would be taken up on Tuesday to oceu+ py the time of the House until some defi- nite program had been arranged. The committee on appropriations, which” has been hard at work since the estimates were received, have two bills which they can get in shape to report at most any time and all thetr work is pretty well advanced. it is not their desire, however, to bring up any appropriation bills at a time to interfere with the consideration of the tariff and, if the latter bill is in readiness for considera- tion any time within a week, the chances are that the appropriation bills will all be held back until it has been disposed of. Opposed to Separate B A very large proportion of the members of the House who have been discussing the matter, are greatly opposed to a proposi- tion to consider the customs tariff bill and the internal revenue proposition as separate bills, The general idea seems to be that the whole question of revenue should comprised in one bill and that tt would be a saving of time, even if It occasioned some little delay in the consideration of the tariff, to have the whole question wait until a decison of the internal revenue features could be reached and they be added to the customs bill. THE SENATE. There were applicants for admission to the Senate galleries long before 11 o'clock, when they were opened. In a few minutes the old stand-bys had taken their places on the front rows and were preparing for their an- nual course of study in statesmanship and somnolence. There were half a hundred ladies on hand early and they had to amuse themselves by watching the pages as they placed the stationery and arranged the bouquets that began to arrive before 11 o'clock. ‘The Senate chamber has taken on a rich, warm tone of old rose, now that the carpet has replaced the matting. ‘There is a small vague figure, something like a fleur de lis, but the effect is pleasantly smocth. The Vice President’s rostrum is carpeted with the same pattern, but of a darker tone. These carpets are very well matched to the general eltect of the dark furniture. ‘There was remarkably little excitement or interest shown today in the preliminary proceedings. The edge of the importance of the occasion seems to have been worn off by the very recent adjournment. Fragrant Flowers. Flowers’ began to arrive for Senators early. There first came a large horseshoe of roses for Senator Voorhees, and for some time it reposed on his desk, the only epot of color in the dark chamber. Then there came an open book of the same flowers for Senafor Turpie, which gave the Indiana delegation a great handicap in the floral race. The Vice President, however, swept the field by receiving two handsome bo- quets, similar in shape and size and com- position, but from different sources. One of these was put on the desk in the chamber and the other was put in his private room. Senator Berry’s desk was.ornamented with a simple but tasteful bunch of roses, and similar tributes lay on the desks of Sena- tors Kyle, Allen, Pasco and Vance. A_few minutes before the session was opened a messenger came in laden with | two huge baskets and a bunch of beautiful pink roses. One of the baskets, of red, pink and yellow roses, was put on the desk of Senator Harris, and the other, of the same colors,on that of Senator Hansbrough. ‘The bunch of roses was laid on the desk of Senator Dolph. Soon there came another enormous basket. which graced the seat occupied by Mr. Stewart. A tasteful basket was sent to Mr. Lodge's desk and a dainty bunch of American beauties was placed in front of Senator Cullom’s chair. Senator Proctor caught up with the ficid before 11 o'clock, when three boquets had been piled on his desk. It was completely | covered and the pretty tributes were in danger of toppling. The air soon became fragrant with the odors from the flowers and made the at- | mosphere of the Senate languorously soft. The First to Appear. Senator Cameron was the first to appear on the floor of the Senate, but he only made a comet-like trip from the republican cloak room to the north lobby. Senators Hoar and Dixon strolled in together, the youth | and age of New England, but they did not tarry long beneath the concentrated gaze of the fast-filling galleries. Senator Hoar An hour before the) It is ap- | | \ | we: |the vessel may get the margin will be very narrow, as wrorn | One oun 4 Out and His Place Fi left a small book on his desk and fled. Soon there came Senator Hawley, who sat ten minutes, solitary in the wilderness of desks and flowers, and then capitulated. In the three minutes before noon, how- ever, the chamber became a maze «i hand- shaking, smiling Senators, who seemed to spring from the floors. The Chapini s Prayer. When the Vice President and Chaplain | | BY DECISION OF THE COURT OF APPEALS. Milburn came through the doors to the east of the rostrum, and the former tapped on the new green top of his desk, forty-three Senators, just a quorum, arose to listen to the prayer. It was a long prayer, for Chap- lain Milburn to deliver, but he took a little liberty with his reputation on such an im- portant oceasion. No sooner had the Senators resumed their seats than they began to send their floral decorations out of pages. Some others came in, as well, in- cluding a pretty basket for Senator Dubois. The monument on the desk of Senator Stewart was so high that the venerable silverite had to move into the next chair, in order to avoid being eclipsed. The bou- quet was built of red and white roses, but it had a peculiarly significant feature. On one side protruded three large white chrys- | antbemums and from the other hung three equally large yellow ones. This “straddle” on the monetary situation amused Senator Stewart's neighbors immensely, and they all went over to get a sniff at what they termed his “bimetallic bouquet.” It was altogether about the same Senate that met today that did so much hard fight- ing during the autumn. The same seats were occupied,with two or three exceptions, that were kept aimost constantly filled throughout the silver struggle. Senator Wilson of Iowa, who has been very ill for many months, was in his seat for the first time this vear. Senator Allison was not present, nor was Mr. Allen, who talked so the chamber by the) jong one weary October night. Mr. Peffer | caused a thrill of something like emotion to trickle along the Senatorial spine by be- ing late. He did not reach his seat until after the recess had been taken. Mr. Ran- The Roll Call. The roll call that was ordered just after the gavel fell showed the presence of fifty- six Senators, twenty-five on the repubi- can and thirty-one on the democratic side of the chamber. The flowers kept on arriving even after the recess was taken. In fact the largest piece of ail came at 12:30, when a page bore to Senator McPherson’s desk a basket far taller than himself, and so voluminously rich in pink and red roses that even corpu- lent Senator Smith, who sat in his col- league's seat, was shadowed. The Hawaiian Minister, Just before the gavel fell after the recess the doors of the diplomatic gallery were unlocked and Mr. Lorrin A. Thurston, the | Hawaiian minister, appeared. He was the | first member of the diplomatic corps to visit the Senate. He had settled himself to listen to some exclusiw news about his covntry from the President's message, when he was disappointed by Senator Har- ris’ motion for a further recess of twenty | minutes. He Would Not Talk. A Star reporter asked him, when the news in the message reached him, if there was anything he could say. Mr. Thurs- ton shook his head and said there was nothing to be said. The next news from Honolulu, he added, should reach here by the way of Auckland on Thursday next. He had seen the statement that the revenue cutter Corwin was going to Honolulu, but as he knew nothing about it could express no opinion. The Regular Proceedings. ‘The echo of the chaplain’s “amen” had scarcely died away before Mr. Cockrell (Mo.), chairman of the committee on ap- propriations, was on his feet to move the customary resolution to notify the House. Mr. Sherman (Ohio) took the lead on the other side of the chamber by Asserting that @ call of the roll was first in order. The peint being admitted to be well made, the clerk called the roll, and fifty-six answered to their names. Three other Senators sub- | sequently entered the chamber, making fifty-nine present out of a total of eighty- five (three vacancies.) Mr. McPherson (N. J.) moved the appoint- ment of a committee to wait upon the Presi- dent, in conjunction with a similar com- mittee by the House of Representatives, to inform him that Congress was organized and ready for business. Mr. McPherson and Mr. Sherman were named by the Vice President as such com- mittee. Then Mr. Harris (Tenn.), at 12:10, moved that the Senate take a recess for one hour, and this motion being carried, the interest in_the proceedings lapsed for that period. The call of the roll disclosed the following Senators absent: Messrs. Aldrich (R. 1), Allen (Neb.), Allison (Iowa), Bate (Tenn.), Brice (Ohio), Butler (S.C), Camden (W. Va.), Colquitt (Ga), Frye (Me.), George (Miss.), Gibson (Md.), Gray (Del), Irby (8 Cy, Lindsay (Ky.), Morgan (Ala.), Per- kins (Cal.), Pettigrew (S.D), Quay (Pa.), Vance (N. Washburn (Minn), White al.) and Wolcott (ol.). Promptly at 1:10 the Senate resumed its | Session, but the message from the Presi- | dert not having been received a fu! recess of twenty minutes was taken. The Message Received. When the Senate again resumed its ses- sion added to the list of Senators present. Mr. McPherson and his associate on the Senate committee, Mr. Sherman, took their stand in the door way, and Mr. McPherson an- nounced the intention of the President to immediately communicate to both houses of Congress “a message in writing.” As. sistant Private Secretary Pruden imme- diately emerged from the cloak room, where he had been in seclusion for nearly ten minutes, and Doorkeeper Bassett an- nounced “a message from the President of the United States.” Secretary Cox immediately entered upon its reading in a distinct voice, but without the rapidity and certainty ‘of utterance which distinguished his predecessor, Gen. McCook. There was a general air of respectful at- tention ‘manifested on both sides of the Senate. As the reading of the message proceeded and it was found to be so far ther | different from what high strung expectation had anticipated, the interest manifested in {ts contents perceptibly diminished. One rn Senator, whose rejatioss to the President have alternately been represented as being very close aud very distant, tersely expressed his sentiments by saying that it reminded him of Bret Hartes “Jumping frog; he “didn’t see no difference between that and any other kind of frog.” It was nuich the samt sort of message he had listened to often before. ttl are The New York's Trial. There has been a change of program re- specting the trial of the New York, based on reports from contractors that the vessel could not be made fully ready for trial by the time last set. So the date for the trial was placed as it stood originally, December 11. Meanwhile the trial board will en- deavor to run off the speed trial of the cruiser Marblehead, probably about the middle of next week. As soon as the re- |pairs to the New York are completed she will be placed in the Brooklyn dry dock and cleaned and painted. It has been found Ransom (N. C.), Teller (Col), ‘Turpie Ind.) | Senators Aldrich and Camden were | | | i | | } by careful measurements that at full tide | into the dock, but will be but four inches of water betwee: the ship's bottom and the sill of the deck. + o+ Committee of O14 Settlers. The President today appointed Wm. H. Hendricks of Manard, Ind. Ter., Cof- fee Woodall of Echo, Ind. Ter., Thos. R. Knight of Vinita, Ind. Ter, James M Keys of Chateau, Ind. Ter., and Darius E. Ward of Tahlequah, Ind. Ter., “committee men from the party of old’ settler: provided in treaties with the Cherokee ascertain what persons entitled to per capita allowances, These names do not go to the Senate, i FATALLY DEFECTIVE. The Indictment Against Col. Aine worth and Others So Pronounced The Demurrer of the Accused’s Counsel Sustained. A NEW INDICTMENT. This afternoon after the adjournment of the Court of Appeals, ‘the opinion of the court in the case of Messrs. Ainsworth, Dant, Covert and Sasse, indicted for man- slaughter in connection with the Ford's Theater disaster of June 9 last, was filed, Chief Justice Alvey writing the opinion. The opinion, an unanimous one, declares the indictment to be fatally defective, thus reversing the judgment of Judge McComas, who sustained the indictment in the court | below, Criminal Court, No. 1, and remands the case to that court for further pro-_ ceedings. These further proceedings in the Criminal Court will merely be to enter the mandate of the Court of Appeals in the case and to order the discharge of the four defendants from further answering the indictment. The sustaining of the de- fendants’ demurrer to the indictment neces- Sitates, of course, ancther indictment, and, as has been heretofore explained in The Star, the district attorney will at once sef at work to secure ancther indictment. The opinion is as fcliows: ‘Text of the Opinion. This case is brought into this court om appeal from an interlocutory judgment ot the court below, rendered on a demurrer to an indictment against the defendants for manslaughter, whereby the demurrer is overruled and the defendants required to plead. It is owing to the peculiar cir- cumstances of the case with the prospect of a very protracted, laborious and ex- pensive trial that this court deemed it proper and wo be in the interest of justice | to allow the defendants to bring their case here by an appeal and to be beard as to whether there was sufficient indictment against them upon which they could be tried and convicted. We deem it proper, however, to say that this case will not fur- nish a precedent io be readily and lightly followed in the future practice of the for to afford facility to the allowance appeals in criminal cases from mere inter- locutory judgments would greatly obstruct: and delay and in many cases seriously em- barrass if not entirely defeat the fair and speely administration of the criminal law in this District. We must avoid producing such a result. The indictment is against four persona, Ainsworth, Dant, Covert and Sasse, charg- ing them with the omission or neglect of duty whereby death was caused to one Frederick B. Loftus named in the indict+ ment. The occasion of the alleged omission or neglect of duty and the result in death of the party named was the change or al- teration attempted to be made in the in+ terior foundation supporting the walls or + piers of that ill-fated building on 10th street between E and F in the city of W: known as Fords Old Theater. The build- ing was used by the government as the record and pension office of the War De- partment and the purpose of the change or alteration in the foundasion of the interior supporting walls or piers was the prepara- tion for the introduction of an electric light- ing plant or epparatus for lighting the building. The building and the official work conducted therein and all the clerks en- gaged in the work were under the direction or the control of Col. Ainsworth, one of the defendants charged in the indictment. On the 9th of June, 1893, the time of the occurrence of the appalling cai referred to in the indictment the bull was filled with clerks and employes of the government. But a Single Count. The indictment contains but a single count. It is very long and elaborate, and states at great length the full particulars of the structure, and the relations of the several parts of the buildings, the one vw the other, and the dependence for security of the several floors of the building upon the Coniged foundation walis or piers, and of which dependence it is alleged fendants had knowledge. see it is then averred that Ainsworth and the other defendants undertook and as- sumed the performance of all and every part of the work which became and was hecessary to permit of the introduction into the building of the electric light plant, and such work was being performed and while being so performed it was under the entire care, charge, control, management and supervision of the defendants, and having undertaken and assumed the pers formance of the work and having the en- Ure care, charge, control, management and Supervision thereof it became and was their duty to so regulate and conduct the performance of the work and all parts thereof as not to endanger the stability of the second and third floors of the build- ing, and to do and to cause to be done and to require to be done everything intheir power, and to use and exercise every care and precaution in their power necessary to render and make the performance of the work and each and every part thereof safe and secure and free from danger to the lives of the persons in the building for the time being, among whom was Loftus, the party whose death was caused by the ale leged omission or neglect of duty by de fendants. The Work of Excavation. But, as alleged by the indictment, being wholly urfmindful, neglectful, and regard- less of their duty in that behalf, the de- fendanis did willfully and feloniously ne siect and omit to so regulate and conduct the performance of a part of the work, to wit: The work of excavating and removing the earth from around, about, and under the pier at the west end of the most northerly of the interior walls of the central cellar, | as not to endanger the stability of the said second and third floors of the building; and then and there, &c., did wilfully and felon- jously further neglect and omit to do, and cause to be done, and to require to be done, everything in their power, and to use and exercise every care and precaution in their power necessary to render and make the performance of the part of the work last mentioned safe’and secure, and free from danger to the lives of the persons in the building at the time being; but, being so wholiy unmindful, neglectful, and regard- less of their duty in that behalf, to the con- trary, did then and there, &c., improperly remove and cause to be removed, and suf- fer and permit to be removed from around, about, and under the pier last aforesaid, the earth supporting the same, without first having relieved or caused said pier to be relieved, by the device called shoring, or in some other feasable way, from the great pressure upon it of the weight of the iron columns, &c. In conclusion the court said the inter- locutory judgment of the court below, over- ruling the demurrer and requiring the de fendants to plead, must be reversed, and the cause be remanded that the indictment may be quashed; and it is so ordered. THE 5! - ATE PAGE —A0 According to law and custom the pages of the Senate were all “sworn in” on Saturday and today. One of the Senate boys had to @rop out by reason of age, and his place was filled by the appointment of Arthur E. who swe MacCubbin of Maryland. The others, also served at the last sessi as fol- lows. Walt Pp. ndall, Walter C. Irey, *s, ir. Sherman Smith, Rot Ralph Rida! barger, J. I John A, Thomy son, Beatly Perry, Arthur 8, Kenna, Fergus PB. Ferris aud F. Wilmus Cockey.