Evening Star Newspaper, December 4, 1893, Page 2

4 THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1893—SIXTEE PAGES. REFORMS PROMISED. | Declaration of the New aa) Prime Minister. | | circles. The trouble a. -- | TAXATION 10 BE Land Laws to Be Recast on a! Better Mold. AMNESTY TO EXILES. siege MADE MORE JOST. | | | PARIS, Dec. 4.—The most intense interest was manifested today in the chamber of | @eputies regarding the declaration of the} mew government. Nearly all the members ‘were in their seats, and the galleries were Packed with an eage> audience, including many fashionably dressed ladies. Among the latter was Madame Casimir- Perter, wife of the new prime minister. There were also present in the diplomatic | gallery Count von Munster, the German| ambassador; Count Hohoz-Sprinzenstein, | Austria-Hungarian ambassador, and Baron| Ressman, Italian ambassador, the represen- | tatives of the triple alliance. M. F-ancois de Mahy acted as president of the chamber. After the usual formalities | of opening the chamber had been gone through with M. de Mahy read a letter from M. Casimir-Perier resigning the pres- idency of the chamber. Immediately afterward M. Casimir-Perier ascended the tribune and read the minis-| terial declaration. The reading occupied | only six minutes including the time occu- | Pied in interruptions and applause. | The prime minister said that the results| of the recent general elections proved the! alienable attachment of the People to the/ Fepublic, the country’s aversion to re-elec- | ton and aversion to the socialists, who seek to overthrow the principles of the first| revolution, including liberty of the indi- vidual and property rights. The government, he said, intended to com-| bat socialism by real reforms and the amelioriation of the condition of the work- | ing classes. | The prime minister announced that a} radical reform would be effected in the sys-| tem of direct taxation which should be on | & more just basi | This sta was received with cheers | on all sides. Continuing, M. Casimir-Perier said that | the land laws would be recast and a pen- @io1 fund established for the benefit of old end disabled workeren | With reference to the Bank of France, he gaid its privilege would be renewed as the | nk was essential to financial stability. The government, he further said, would | Organize agricultui edit and insurance. It would op; ‘ch and state anc revision of the constitu- tion. The home and foreigm policy of the | government would be inspired by the dig-| nity of a great nation able to defend its) Fights by pacific means. | months ago. THE RULE STANDS. Pension Checks Must Be Delivered to the Pensioner. The rule prohibiting the delivery of of- cial pension mail matter excepting to the pensioner, his wife or guardian is once more the subject of discussion in official began about two The pension authorities called the attention of the postal people to the fact that four thousand pensioners in Bal- | timore were having their mafl matter ad- dressed in care of four pension attorneys of that city.” The pension folks also stated that it would be agreeable to them if the mail containing pension checks should be delivered only to the pensioners and not to the attorneys. With the ald of post office inspectors and pension examiners this was done. It was only accomplished, however, with considerable trouble. The attorneys have contended that the rule indicated is in violation of law, and that mail matter must be delivered by the Post Cffice Department to either the addressee proper or to the person in whose care it is addressed. Many of their clients were seafaring people, and it would occasion them great inconvenience to call personally at the post office fur their pension check. Many had no wife to whom the coveted matter might be delivered. Many had no city address and could not be reached by carrier. A petition was received a day or two ago by Postmaster General Bissell from Baltimore attorneys, asking that the rule be abolished. They stated their rea- sons briefly and clearly. The petition was numerously signed. Mr. Bissell referred the paper to Judge William Lochren, commissioner of pensions, and that official {has returned it to Mr. Bissell with the recommendation that the rule be adhered to. Judge Lochren told a reporter for The Star this afternoon that the rule in ques- tion was of ten years’ standing. It was | designed to prevent the check for pension falling into the hands of any person other than the pensioner, his guardian or wife. | He thought it was a good rule. Kendalls Defeated. At Emmittsburg on Saturday Mount St. Mary's College defeated the team from Ken- dall Green by a score of 18 to 4. Tne second half was particularly fine. Mount St. Mary's excelled in breaking through the line of their opponents, while the flying wedge was worked by the Ken- dalis to perfection. The tackling on both sides was superb. The Kendalls were far superior in interference. In the second haif the Kendalls played with greater snap, and by runs around the end and good interfer- ence Price secured a touch-down after a race of forty-four yards. The two teams lined up as follows: Mt. St. Mary's. Position. Kendalls. McTighe. Left end. loken -Left tackle. O'Brien Left guard. Donovan (ce). Center... -Drought Parson O'Connor. . -Brockhayer McKenna. | Driscoll Walsh Gilboy...... ight half back ---Pric Perault(Behen)..Left half back...Cummings McGinnis.........Full back... Ryan Touch-downs—Roken, Benen, Perault, Gii- boy, Price. Goals—McGinnis. Umpire—Mr. Welsh of the Washington Y. M. C. A. Ref- | eree-Edmund J. Ryan of Mount St. Mary General Amnesty Proposed. | Two thirty-minute halves were played. |THE MISSOURI DEMOCRACY. ! Indications of a Lively Fight in All Congressional Districts. | eee The Party Dividing Into Administra- tion and Anti-Administration Fac- tlons — Mr. Cleveland's Policy. Special Correspondence of The Evening Stat. KANSAS CITY, Mo., December 2, 1898. Since the turning down of the Missouri delegation in Congress by President Cleve- |land Missouri has been mightily agitated. Following so closely upon the great strug- | gle of the extraordinary session that the connection between patronage and the vote | upon the silver bill seemed clearly defined, | it accomplished the separation of factions | and divided the party within the common- wealth into administration and anti-admin- istration wings. So few are the democrats who have | ®alned access to the national pie counter! since the inauguration of Mr. Cleveland that the friends of the administration are | necessarily restricted in numbers. On the silver question the party stands by its del- egation. On the question of patronage it is| greatly divided, and the tariff modifications | recently set forth by the House committee | have done their part in assisting the gen- eral confusion. Just at this juncture the absorbing theme for political discussion is the effect all these things heretofore outlined will have upon the fortunes of sitting members of | Missouri's congressional delegation. What new faces will appear next year? How many of the old members will go back? These are puzzling questions to answer, and that they are thus early perturbing the minds of those whom they directly con- cern—the Representatives themselves—is in evidence, and corroborated by the many signs of unusual activity in the different districts. All who can are mending fences and repairing any breaks in the hedge; but, withal, there are elements of uncertainty, | rendering the situation one of deepest in- ) terest. Foremost in interest is the possible atti- | tude of Mr. Cleveland. Rumor has followed {tripping upon the heels of rumor from | Washington that the President, or at least democratic politicians primarily the repre- sentatives of the administration, propose to have a hand in the Missouri congressional fight next year. It has been suggested that | the proposed trinity of national committee, | congressional committee and executive com- | mittee of National League of Democratic | Clubs but thinly veils the real purpose of | | the administration, which is to strengthen |its following in the next Congress at the | cost of retiring several members of the ‘present delegation. Whether subsequent developments will disprove this is for the | future to show. The present would indicate | Its correctness, and the fact that all parties! | interested are preparing to make this the | | basic and initial point upon which to in-| | augurate the campaign tends to show that It is generally belleved. | pensioners, now in vogue in the pension Directly the cheers that greeted the prime minister upon his conciuding had subsided | M. Paschal Groussett, socialist, proposed | that general amnesty should be granted to all political, press 2 ike offenders. The chamber agreed to an immediate discussion of the proposal and M. Grousset spoke or of the extled Boulangists. ms guiltier than they, he said, Were now sitting in the house. He appealed to the government to forgive the miner: and others who had been condemned di excitable strike periods. M. Gousset was constantly Members on the tunitists benches. After a short discussion the proposal of uring interrupted by conservative and oppor- M. Grousset was put to vote and was re- 226. dJected, 237 to ———<_____ AG! POSTPONED. The Trial of Pendergast, the Mar- derer of Carter Harrison. CHICAGO, Dec. 4—There was another Postponement this morning of the trial of Patrick Eugene Prendergast, the murderer of Mayor Harrison. The prisoner was not brought into Judge Brentano's court room, which adjoins the county jail, the state's attorney not considering his presence neces- Bary to a continuance of the case. ise Brentano said, “Call the ore of veniremen came forward their excuses and were exempt e. After that formality State's Attorney Kern and R. A. Wade, senior counse: for the defendant, stood before the court. Mr. Kern announced that it had been @greed for the best interests of progress in the case that it should go over until next | Wednesday morning, as time was needled to make certain arrangements. The judge askel if there was to be a ther delay, and the state's attorney did not expect to ask for an 'y fur- id he ny more time. The adjournment was nm taken. Guards were stationed at the foot of stalrways and the entrance to the court room refusing ad- mission to the public, and the room was not half filled. The arrangements to be made between the authorities is in relation to the defenses insanity expert evidence. PE AGAIN. — SHOULDERS S10) More Queenly ts the Latest Pose ana re Graceful, Also, Than Before. Brom the New York Sun. The most noticeable thing on the prome- Made just now is the new and gracious cerriage of the ladies and their essentially | feminine and courtly gowns, ger, the tailor-made All the swag- smartness, the aggres- siveness has gone. The square shoulders have learnel a new and gentle slope tha! is very appealing and suggests just the| kind of helpless delicacy that calls out al Sreat lot of chivalry and deference in the masculine demeanor. The head of the fashionabie woman is more proudly poised than ever, the chin well drawn in, the head thrown back, with just a trace of hauteur on the neck, but the whole body bends just @ little forward from the hips, as if the chest were leading the way or as if the Sreat fullness in the back of the skirts were heavy and the bend forward were Recessary to adjust the equilibrium. It ts a most gracious and patrician pos- ture, with its mingled pride and gentle- Ress, and when done up in velvet and sa- bles suggests the queenliness of the old Portraits, from which the gowns and the Dose were copied. The wonderful thing about it is the cheerfulness with which the American woman readjusts her physi- gal being in happy accord with the mode that happens to be in vogue. When the square shoulder prevailed in its tailor-made jacket, fitted like a man's, it was surpris-| ing how many women you met. with shoulders as level on top as those of Phidias’ Minerva or the Venus that Praxitiles chis- eied with her woman's face of longing and her goddess’ figure of majesty. But now as my lady takes her walks abroad it is surprising to see how many of those once square-shouldered maids and matrons have the sloping shoulders. The sloping shoulder had a run of about 00 years. Giris were trained to let their arms hang pendant, to depress the shouid-| ers and to potse the head up high on the| feck, as th: and women try to do| now. Generations of sloping-shouldered Women transmittel to their posterity the| swan-like curves that were considered the} acme of grace and beauty until Du Maurter| and Vedder and Fu » the English; woman's tailor, and the beloved Danish| Princess of Wales, who bared to the gltsh public most beautiful white shoulders in their bridal white, all helped to inaugu-| Fate the reign of the square which now {s passing into de Reath the A Louis XIII Death of Mr. C. H. Fantkner. Tre friends and associates of Mr. Charles | i. Faulkner will be surprised and pained to learn of his sudden death at his hc Keene. N. H.. on Deo ner a few days ago res ergy. He became suddei four days after re Friday evening. Th be held today in K kner was Polytechnic countries ny that than it bad pulati Th sbout wo bersons emigrated to “nis country. | ble | Attendance, 510. Scorer—J. Frank Cush- an. Yale Freshmen Win. On Saturday afternoon the annual game between the Harvard freshmen was played at the Yale thirteenth | fleld, resulting in a victory for the New | Haven youngsters, with a record of 30 to 4. The entire game was played without Har- vard securing a score until within the last ty seconds, when, crippled though they were, with a magnificent burst of spirit they pushed the ball down the field and over the line for a touch-down. Call It Brutal. There is to be no more foot ball played in Pittsburg. The police authorities of that city have declared against it as brutal and degrading, and say that they have informa- tion that the police of other cities will do likewise. If this fs a fact, It is fortunate for college foot ball that its season is over. gama SS Mr. Procter Sworn in. Mr. J. B. Proctor, the new civil service commissioner, will not have to wait for the Senate to act upon his nomination, for on Saturday he took the oath of office as a recess appointee and assumed his new du- ties. a AMUSEMENTS, Patti's Concert.—The only appearance in this city this season of Mme. Adalina Patti will be at Albaugh's Opera House tonight. The program will consist of a miscellane- ous first part, in which Mile. Fabbri, Mr. Lely, Sigs. Gallassi and Novare and the diva herself will be heard in solos, and there will be numbers by the excelient or- chestra, under the leadership of Sig. Ar- ditt. The second part will be the presenta- tion of the third act of Gourtod’s “Faust,” with all the accessories of scenery and costume, and with the following cast: Mme. Patti as Marguerieta; Mr. Durward Lely, Faust; Mlie. Fabbri, Seibel; Miss Engel, Martha, and Sig. Novara, Mephistopheles. This is, perhaps, the best program that has ever been presented at a Patti concert, and the great singer will be heard to better advantage. She and her troupe arrived here yesterday, and she is said to be in ex- cellent voice. Her tour thus far has been a complete triumph, for she has been greeted by large and enthusiastic audi- en and the critics have united in the assertion that her wonderful voice retains its purity of tone, sweetness and remarka- flexibility. There is every indication that there will hardly be standing room in Albaugh’s tonight. The Bostoa Symphony Orchestra.—The second concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will take place at Metzerott’s Hall one week from tonight. The soloist on this occasion will be Mr. Franz Kneisel, who will play Beethoven's concert for vio- lin in D major. The orchestral numbers will include Goetz’s Symphony in F major, St. Saen’s “Le Rouet Omphale” and Bee- thoven’s overture, Leonore, No. 3. This is an excellent program and shows that Co! ductor Paur intends to keep up the high standard that was set by his predecessors. Oyster Supper.—The ladies of the West- minster Presbyterian Church will give an oyster supper in the lecture room of the church on Wednesday evening. German Military Bands.—More than usual interest is being taken in the three concerts that are to be given by the Ger- man infantry and cavalry bands at the Convention Hall tomorrow and Wednes- day nights and a special concert Wednes- day afternoon. These bands have the rep- utation of having one of the finest collec- tions of reed and brass orchestrations in existence, including works of the great composers, also many of the new popular compositions. The infantry band of fifty- five men has a schellenbaum, an instru- mental show piece used in the German army during dress parades. The Chicago Daily News says: If all music was a Strauss waltz and that waltz was eternal and was played by that German band the world would go to rack and ruin, for no ene would do anything but sit and listen. That is, if the people were all wanderers and college girls. —_—__ Mr. € rat Cigar. One of my first recollections of Christmas day is having no sled with which to enjoy the frost-covered ground, for we had frost and snow on Christmas when I was a boy, and I made up my mind that before the next Christmas arrived I should have one, writes George W. Childs in the December Ladies’ Home Journal, under the title “My Christmas as a Be And I did, and with- out any one giving it to me either, as I both earned and saved the money with which I bought it. Christmas presents were always abundant, though of the simplest kinds. The one which 1 remember most distinctly was a package ‘ackers—more suitable to Independ- y than to Christmas, perhaps, but s not long in carrying it to the street aring my present with my boy friends. f these boys smoked penny-cigars we utilized the spark as flames to explode the crackers. When the crackers were ex- hausted I bought and smoked my first and t cigar. Later in the day, as a further s celebration, I went to a menag- d while there was taken so violently ill that I made up my mind then that if I ever reached home alive I would never again touch tobacco. And I never have. - so American Securities Abroad. LONDON, Dec. 4-5 p. m.—At the stock exchange today American railroad securi- ties closed weak. After the official close bidding on the street was active, and there were numerous dealings. The tone wi steady. Yale and | Silver in the Campaign. The silver question will be the greatest issue of the campaign, and when President Cleveland attempts to run counter to the iver sentiment in Missouri, he will “ride” | to unknown depths the waters of a great discontent which has been bubbling and threatening to boil over on the slightest pretext. Therein lies the danger which threatens a serious break in Missouri's con- sressional delegation. If Mr. Cleveland at- tempts to dictate the nominatton of single, tandard men, he wili intensify the faction- al fights now brewing, and this will be the result: The democrats will have free coinage candidates and administration can- didates; the republicans are generally op- posed to free coinage, but there is a possi- bility of their fusing with the populists and uniting the combined opposition in each district under one flag and for one candi- date. Such a campaign, if vigorously con- ducted, as now seems probable, will have one inevitable result—a large sprinkling of new faces in the delegation. The state is in no condition, viewed from the standpoint of the dominant party, to enter into a feud. Many of the cong-essional dis- tricts are close. The tidal wave of last year made them apparently safe. But every flood tide has its ebb, and the representa- tives who realize the imminent danger of a fight within the party recall with appze- hension the fact that really only three members of the present delegation were elected by majorities. Should the administration carry out its implied intention of building up an o-gani- zation of its own in Missouri avowedly in- imical to the personal fortunes of sitting members, the spokes would fall out, the tire’ would run off and the hub of the wheel which manipulates the democratic ma- chinezy would be the only remnant in the general ruin. Already candidates for congressional hon- ors are afield. The Missouri ozone is vi- brant with the whispered suggestions of u| legion of “Barkises" who are “willin’.” A Summary by Distric How serious the situation is may be bet- ter understood and more fully appreciated in a summary by districts. rf In the first district, where Congressman Wm. H. Hatch has announced his candi- dacy for his eighth consecutive term, the. elements of opposition are pronounced. Mv. | Hatch had a close cail in his last campaign for renomination. The indications are that he will have the fight of his political lite. R. P. Giles, who was Hatch's most formi- dable cpponent for the nomination, is a candidate again. Mr. Hatch was elected in the “tidal wave” year with a majority ly 16. The second district will be the fiercest battle ground within the state. Congress- man “Riley’’ Hall, who has not yet fairly | warmed to the congressional work incident | to a first term, will have a combined oppo- | sition formidable enough to discourage the average farmer. But Mr. Hall has grit, po- litical acumen and a pretty accurate know edge of his district, so that this list of can- didates already aspiring to supplant him does not bring dismay: Ex-Congressman Charles H. Mansur, John C. Piersal, W. 8. Stockwell, J. P. Butler, C. B. Crowley, A. H. Walter, P. S. Rader. Alex. M. Dockery of the third district another “plurality” Congressman whose re- nomination in a district wherein before he has had comparatively little opposition will be contested by other applicants for favors from the party. Ed. Turner and Bushrod M. Dilley, whose temporary residence’ in Oklahoma as an officer of the present ad- ministration does not take him out of the ring, will contest with Mr. Dockery. The complications in the Kansas City patronage fight, in which the charge Is made and be- Heved in certain portions of his district that Mr. Dockery was recreant to the in- terests of his constituents, have involved him to an embarrassing degree. Congressman D. D. Burnes of the fourth district, another plurality member, and a new one, has as yet no serious opposition. His district is a peculiar one, and has been for so many years controlled by members of the Burnes family that opposition is at all times feeble. R. P. C. Wilson of Platte and Charles J. Booker of Andrew would e to succeed him. Mr. Tarsney of the fifth district, which in- cludes Kansas City and the counties of Jackson and Lafayette, will have opposition, but his position in the patronage fight in the western district, which resulted In Mr. Cleveland snubbing the entire delegation, has strengthened rather than weakened him with the rank and file. Three candidates— | two from the county and one from the city— Alex. Graves and J. S. Blackwell of Lafay- ette, and Marcy K. Brown of Kansas City, have announced their intention of contest- ing the nomination with Mr. Tarsney. The fifth was the “Kilkenn: district prior to | Mr. Tarsney’s advent into politics, and that the cats are contemplating a revival of the old fights is pretty evident. Representative DeArmond of the sixth district had an administration follower for an opponent until recently, when the senti- ment of the district was so plainly shown that he withdrew from the race, with the ingenuous statement that the present repre- sentation is a “necessity to the silver situa- tion.” John T. Heard, who represents the seventh district, will have active opposition for a renomination. State Senator Charles KE. Yeater of Pettis county, Mr. Heard’s home county, and KE. C. O'Day of Greene are after | him, with the prospect for more Kichmonds exceedingly good. Mr. Heard’s district is the famous ‘‘fomahawk” one, which ram- bles over an exceeding large portion of the state. It is seven counties long and one county wide, with a crook at the north end | resembling nothing so much as the joint | of stove pipe which unfortunate man, Con- gressman or what not, wrestles with when the lambs are young. It gave him a plural- ity only in the last campaign. “Silver Dick" Bland represents thirteen counties, composing the eighth representa- | | ways tive district. He is one of the few who ‘has a comfortable and reassuring majority back of him. N. D. Thurmond of Callaway, an ardent adherent of the administration, is the only avowed candidate against the leader of the silver forces in the House. Champ Clark of the “Bloody Ninth,” who was nominated only after two primary elec- tons and three nominating conventions had been held, will have pronounced opposition. He is preparing for the contest by a vaca- tion campaign of story telling and hand- shaking. Ex-Congressman R. Norton of Lincoin and C. E. Peers of Warren will try conclusions with him. Mr. Fyan of the thirteenth, Mr. Arnold of the fourteenth and Mr. haggeiary of the fif- teenth, luckier than their colléagues, have not yet any open opposition or announced candidates to fight. If the administration should continue a course of antagonism toward the present delegation and should it essay to return to the next Congress members more in har- mony with its views upon finance, a rattling of dry bones, an array of scalping knives, and then when the fray is ended a counting of the dead and maimed, may be expected in Missouri. a TWO IMPORTANT BILLS. Representative Martin Has Some Views on Pension Affairs. Representative Martin of Indiana, chair- man of the committee on invalid pensions, today introduced two important pension bills in the House which probably mark the initiative of the fight which will be made against the methods of suspending office. The first prohibits the suspension of any pensioner until it has been con- clusiveiy proven that his pension was ob- tained by fraud. The bill declares that the granting of a pension shall give the pen- sioner a vested right to the extent of in- suring to him his pension until the fraud been established. The other bill pro- vides for an appeal from the Secretary of the Interlor to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Mr Martin said to a Star reporter that these were the only two general bills he has yet ready, but that there are other measures under con- sideration. He is very pronounced in his opposition on the subject of suspension of Pensioners on suspicion. + THE BOOK OF ESTIMATES. Items That Are of Local claded in the List. The annual estimates of appropriations submitted today by the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress contain a number of | local items, among them the following: For additions to the gun plant, Washington navy yard, $117,000; for continuing the con- struction of the Congressional Library building, $900,000; for improving buildings | in the Botanic Gardens, $5,000; for repairs to the treasury, Winder and Butler build- ings$1 for continuing work on the Washington city post office, $500,000; out- buildings, ete., for the bureau of engraving and printing, $130,000; for repairs of the In- terior Department and pension building, $5,000; for repairs at the Capitol, $30,000. for improving the Capitol grounds, $15,900 for lighting the Canitol grounds, $26,00 electric light plant for the Senate, $10,000 for buildings and grounds, government in- sane asylum, $39,720; buildings and grounds, Deaf and Dumb Asylum, $1,000; butldin, and grounds, Howard University, $1,500; re- | pairs to court house, $1,000. In submitting the estimates for the re- pairs for the Winder building, amounting to $5,485, Supervising Architect O'Rourke says: desire to state emphatically that while I do not consider the building in a dangerous condition the present time it shows many evidences of movements and is | manifestly unfit for the purpose to which it is now applied. It should be torn down and replaced by a suitable structure. The esti- mates for the support of the District of Columbia are included of course, but these have already been published in The Sta> heretofore. The estimates for work on the terest In- FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The following , the highest and the losses een havchssitn prices of the New York stock et ‘correaponaents Chicago Gas. O. Mek St Bai ice iT & Paste Del.. Lack. & W...... 127% Sales—regular call—12_ o'clock m.—American Graphophoue, 100 at 2; 100 at 2; 100 at 2; 77 at 2%. Washington Gus, 10 at 50. Government Bonds. S. 4s, registered, 1007, 112% bid, 113% asked. U. S.'4s, coupon, 1907, 113% bid, 1145 asked. District of Columbia Bonds.—20-year fund 5s, 106 bid. Water stock 7s, 1901, currency, 112 bid. B0- year fund 6s, godi, 112 bid. Water stock 7s, 198, currency, 120 bid. 3.65s, funding, currency, 1064 bi id. Miscellaneous Bonds. Washington and George- town K. R. conv. ts, Ist, 186 bid, 144 asked. Washi and town I. K. conv. 6s, 2d, ington ‘Georget % 136 bid, 144 asked. Masonic Hall Association bs, 100 bid. Washington Market Company Ist 6s, 105 bid. Washington Market Company imp. 68, 105 bid. Washington Market Company ext. 6s, 100 bid. American Security and Trust 5s, 1905, A’ and 0. and A., 100 bid. American Security and Trust 100 bid. American Security and Trust 5s, 1905, 1906, A. and O., 100 bid. Washington ‘Light’ In- fantry 1st 6s, 98 bid. Washington Light Infantry 2d 7s, 98 bid.’ Washington Was Company 6s, series A, 117 bid. Washington Gas Company 6s, series B, 118 bid. Washington Gas Company conv. 130 bid, 140 asked. Eckington R. R. 6s, 100 . Chesapeake end Potomac Telephone 5s, 95% bid, 103 asked. Capitol and North O 8 . |. Metropolitan R. R. conv. 68, 100 bid, 106 asked. U. 8. Electric Light conv. @s, 107 bid. National Bank Stocks.—Bank of Washington. 300 bid. Bank of the Republic, 230 bid. Metropolitan, 260 bid. Central, 275 bid. "Second, 130 bid. Farm: ers and Mechanies’, 170 bid. Citizens’, 135 bid, 175 asked. Columbia, “110 bid, 130 asked. Capital, 110 bid, 130 asked. West End, 90 Md, 110 asked. ‘Traders’. 90 bid, 110 asked. Lincoln, $5 bid, 95 aske. Ohio, 100 asked. Railroad Stocks.—Washington and Georgetown, 250 hid, 250 asked. Metropolitan, 190 asked. Co- Iumbt sked. Capitol and North O Street, 2 bid, 3 |. German-American, Riggs. 6% bid. Ty 14 asked. Lincoln, 7% bid, 5 bid. s.Tteal Estate Title, 115 Did, 125 asked. Colvmbta Title, @1% bid, Ty asked. Washington Title. 6% Wid. 716 arked. Gas and Electric Licht Stocks.—-Washington RO Hd. FAL asked. Georgetown Gas, 50 bid. Flectric Light. 110 bid. ‘Telephone Stocks.—Pennevivania, 47 asked. Ches- Gas, us Potomac river, reservoir and the aqueduct have also been published in The Star. ee iG INCOMES. TAXIN Opinions of Members of Congress in Regard to the Propo: From the New York World, today. Do you favor an income tax? If so, do you favor a graduated tax? What do You favor as the minimum of in- come to be taxed? The World has asked the members of the Congress which meets today these three questions. Many were telegraphed to at their homes and responded by wire; many were found at Washington and interviewed there; but many were neither at home nor at Washington, but on their way to the capital. Very few of these could be reached. One hundred and seventy-one Representa- tives received the three questions. Of these seventy-one favor an income tax in some form, sixty-two oppose it, five are against it, but may reconsider, while thirty-three asked to be excused from expressing an opinion, Of those who declined to answer the questions several are members of the ns and ine: committee and would | scarcely be expected to publicly express an | ion while the committee is considering the question, Sectional Op! The answers sent to the World serve to show very clearly that the income tax ques- tion has a geographical phase. Those Rep- résentatives who come from the east are |? opposed to the Income tax by a large ma- jority; these coming from the south favor it by an even larger majority, while those | from the west are more evenly divided,with | the majority for income tax. The followin table shows this: Representa- tives. East . West South The Unde- Non-com- | For. Against. cided. mittal, rt 3. 9 act at the larger incomes will be found in the north and that the pension | 6 money goes to the northern men is, it is intimated, one reason for the sharp geo- graphical divisions shown. Political Feeling. It was to be expected that democrats would favor the income tax as a general rule and republicans oppose it. The alliance men, of course, would favor it. The figures on this point are quite instructive. They go to show that the republicans have lined up against the bill more solidly than the demo- crats have lined up for it. Following are the figures: Representa- Unde- Non-com- tives. For. Against. cided. mitta! Democrats ..61 18 3 19 Republicans . 6 3 14 Alliance 4 0 rr) 0 The Minimum. Of the seventy-one answers favoring the income tax not many were specific as to the | minimum of income to be taxed. The drift | of opinion, however, seems to be for $5,000! as the limit. Many insist that it shall not be so low as to include the income of ‘the most skilled laborers. The majority of those who favor an in- come tax favor a graduated income tax. The poll of the Senate was not so success- ful as that of the House. Of the twenty- five answers received six are in favor of the income tax and eight are against it, while eleven Senators decline to express an opin- ion. In the Trough of the Sea. From the Buffalo Express. “Speaking of the foundering of the Dean Richmond,” remarked the mariner, “a boat needs to be stanch to get into the trough of | a heavy sea for any time without going! down.” “What do you mean by the trough of the seu?” inquired a member of the kindergar- ten class. “A vessel Is supposed to take heavy waves head on, so that it strikes them with its m or bow and leaves them scurrying astern,” returned the sailor. “When the propelling power or steergear becomes dis- abled a boat drifts sideways before the wind, and, therefore, lies at length on the crest of a wave or in the hollow of two waves, instead of having her length split up and over two or more waves. This in itself might not make so much difference if the seas taken broadside bore equally on all sides of the vessel, but the fact is that they are not so distributed. Part of the sea is likely to hit the stern and not take effect on the forward end at the same moment, vo that the boat receives a severe wrench in responding to the action of the water. This frequently occurs until the craft is torn asunder.” =e Naval Movements. The gunboat Bennington left Cevita Vec- chia for Genoa yesterday. The Vesuvius, the Kearsarge, the Dolphin and_ several naval tugs have gone from New York to aveake and Potomac. 44 Wd. 45 asked. American Granhonhone, 2 bid, 2% asked. Miseolianeans Stocks. ington Market, 13 Wid. Great Falls Too 110 bid. 140 arked. ‘Roll Run Panorama. 18 Ma, 28 asked. Proumetic Gun Carriage. .7% asked. Lincoln Hall. 199 asked In- ter Ocoan Rolding, 100 ane. Norfolk and Wash- eton Steamboat. 90 asked. mnee Deposit and Trust Comnanies.—National Safe Deposit and Trost Commany. 127%. Wd. 120 asked. Washineton Safe Denosit, 108 esked. Washington Loan and Trost. 101 hid, "110 ected. “American Se- curity and Trust, 127% bid, 128%, asked. - Chicago Grat; ad Provision Markets. Reported by Silsby & Co., bankers and brokers, Metropolitan Bank building. CHICAGO, Dec. 4, 189%. Baltimore BALTIMORE, De: 2.15; do. extra, Markets. ir dull--western super, 3; do. family, 2.900 id, celpts, steady, goed demand Umothy, $14.50ns15 st to Liverpool, for « rain freight very q asked; Cork 4d. flour. ne Rutter ». fair to chotce, fair to good, 1Sa20: ‘store packed Coffee frm Th unchanged. Whisky unchanzed. Virginia consols, threes, fe Stoel Northern Baltimore and Ohio South. | first incomes, Gly bid: third incomes, 9 asked: 1055. Copper | re Central stock, 68te bid western firsts, 104% hi nd incomes, 27 aske Consolidated Gas stocks, 54 —_o—___ PRAISE FROM NEW YorRK. The Fair is Over, but Chicago is St! From the Chieago Evening Post. “How much,” sighs the New York Sun, ‘New York has borne from Chicago th: year!” We haven't noticed it. We have yet to hear that New York bore anything from Chicago—that Is, anything worth hav- ing; glory and honor, for instance. Chica- go has kept all of those things. New York has had no chance at them. But perhaps that is not the sense in which the Sun expected its words to be taken. No, we are sure of !t, fo> later on {t says, still speaking of this city: “If she will strive to behave herself hereafter, and refrain from glaring at us, and put a bridle on her tongue, we shall forget her mis- demeanors in the past.” We like that! But hold on. The Sun proceeds: “She hes a real heart. She has a sizable brain. She has American blood in her veins. She has hopeful features. She is rich. She is big. On, if she were only good!” Thank you. We are glad to know New York app:ectates some of our cualities. We are obliged to her for the conditional offer of her forgiveness. But if she did not appreciate, if she did not offer to forgive, we should not care a rap. Chicago is the belle of the bail. She is so busy with her throng of admirers that} she has no thought to devote to the crusty and spiteful old maid playing wallfiower in the corner. If New York admires her, well and good. Admiration never comes amiss. If New York doesn't—well, New York has plenty of time to be critical, if she wants to be. Nobody is bothe-ing her with com- pliments. Nobody is making love to her. She cuts no figure on the floor. We don’t worry about her. If she wants to be disagreeable, if she wants to torment her scrawny old breast with envy, let her go ahead. But, as a matter of principle, we like to know that everybody is happy and amiable. And so we thank her for her praise. We suppose she intended it for praise. ————+e-— The Paradise of Bunco. From the London Ilustrated News. What an admirable place for the cavaliers of industry of all kinds must Tunis be! A lady having had a dream there that who- ever drank of the water in her cistern would escape cholera, 20,000 people passed through her premises (at a penny a head) in a couple of days. O Sancta Simplicitas! What a town that must be for the confi- dence trick and all the other little swindles that have fallen under suspicion elsewhere! New London to attend the trial trim of the Marblehead. What a place, if not to dream of, to dream int i SOUTHERN SUPERSTITIONS. Some of the Beliefs of South Carolina Negroes. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. RALEIGH, N. C., November 20, 1893. It is really remarkable how deep is the undercurrent of superstition in the nature of the negro. This is made manifest in the most surprising ways, and very little about | the matter ever gets into print. But a few |4ays ago an old negro woman here remurked, with a sniff of contempt, “De perleece needn’ think dey kin git dem nigger chicken Hee | Stealers, fur dey allus carries black cats’ bones.” led to inquiry, not only of the in question, but of other negroes. lt was found that there is a wide- spread belief among negroes who are super- stitious that a particular bone in the tail of @ perfectly black cat, when carried by any person, renders him or her invisible. The bone must be procured from a cat entirely | free of any white hairs and the animal must | be placed in a pot alive and boiled, This ; much was found from the negroes them- selves. Confirmation came in a strange wa, A white man, a member of the local G. A. R. camp, was a stonecutter. and was dis- abled by a blast while at a quarry. Just before he returned to work he was at the quarry on a Sunday and there found one of the laborers, a negro ex-convict, cooking something in a covered pot. The negro pulled some bones out of a mass of bones, flesh and hair in the pot and tasted several of the bones. The much disgusted spectator | found that the fellow was cooking a cat, which he had selected rrom several black ones brought to him, in order to get a certain bone of the tail. He acknowledged that he had placed the cat alive in the pot. A day or two since the writer passed by a negro house where there was quite a pile of wood, near which was a savage-looking bulldog. In the background was a chicken coop, tenantless. The owner of the premises Was present and was asked if his dog kept away wood thieves. He replied that he did 80 very weil, but was “no good” as to chick- en thieves, as they were invisible. He added that the latter class of marauders had visited his place the previous night and had taken away all his fowls. He laughed at the idea of the police ever seeing, much less catching, any properly equipped chicken thief. If a negro cemetery is visited, some queer sights will be seen. Graves covered with bits of glass, or shells, are by no means uncommon. Some, of children, have on the mound many former toys. In some cases medicine bottles abound as ornaments, and in one cemetery in a city in this state a grave is covered with bottles which once contained lung balsam or medicine of that character. Recently a negro woman was arrested in Piedmont county, in North Carolina, for liv- | ing unlawfuily with a negro man. It turned out when the case came to court that she had a husband in South Carolina. When before the superior court she was convicted, and when asked if she had anything to say, addressed the judge most earnestly, saying: “I didn’ know I'd done no harm, jedge. I didn’ know you all's ways up here.” This woman had a belief that persons might mar- ry in the various states without fear of any trouble. This, no doubt, grows out of the fact that in slavery days not a few negroes sold to persons in other states remarried, On a court house door in the western part Glove Sale Extraordinary, Tomorrow, Tuesday, Dec.5. ‘We shall place on special sale several hus Gre dozen of LADIES’ ¢-BUTTON REAL FRENCH DRESSED KID GLOVES, in all colors and sizes, which were imported to sell at $1.50, but owing to the mann- facturer putting small buttons on them instead of larger ones, as we had ordered, we obtained such allowance that we shail offer the entire lot Tomorrow At goc. A Pair. TRIED ON AND WARRANTED. SEE DISPLAY IN ONE OF OUR SHOW WIN- Louvre Glove Co., 6ST F STREET set, NEAR 10TH 8T. ‘The only exclusive Glove Store in Washington. at A Popular Applause. of the state a negro posted the following: “Notus. jmake it a ;|Poad or path. The be! I do hear for Did eney Body of takin in my wife Jaen—and sheltren Her fur she stold $17.95c. of my mony and she has been a runing ever sence and if eney man takes her in I will handle him with the law this the 26 day of Oct.” The man who posted this believed it would “draw his wife back.” The superstitious fear of “cunj'rers” is more widespread than most people know, or than the believers will admit. In the east- ern or coast counties this 1s greater than elsewhere. It is said that this is due to the fact that the last slaves brought from Afri- ca were taken to that section. The bottles filied with dried toads, Izards and other unpleasant things buried in the center of gateways or in paths are more numerous than people not superstitious have any idea of. Cases have occurred where such things were buried on all four sides of a house frequently left by its owner, and the fact was duly made known to the neighbors, and that the place was never entered save by the owner until the latter removed the spell. Of course, the great mass of the negroes are too intelligent to believe any of these things, and they are doing a vast deal, as they have done, to stamp out such foolish beliefs. . The belief in “de rabbit's foot” is quite generally known and with not a few persons is most sincere. ns who ofitimes would be ashamed to confess it a year a Winston wag rabbit's foot. Last sent Adlai E. Stevenson, then a candidate what w: for Vice President, the “left hind foot of a graveyard Since that time there has been a demand from many places north of Mason and Dix- on’s line for these queer charms. An ol ne; here, when told tha Mea Boss, it's boun’ to do Dey can’t nuthin’ stan’ ginst de To his mind Adlai was marked for a winner. The “hoodoo” ts, or rather has come to be, a sort of vague term. The phrase regarding commonly “dey put de thing on the thing” being a polite term for ."" The meaning is some sort of a which prevents success. Among other superstitions are those which most unfavorable thing to see a black cat crossing one’s path, or to turn | back without making a “cross” in the street. fef in witches is per- haps more general than any other, and an ex-Congressman tells of a case in this sec- tion within the past thirty years in which )2 witch was “killed” in a very strange fashion. A negro called on a “witch doctor.” a very old woman. and was told that the cause of the trouble was a witch and that she must be killed: that the only way pos- sible to thus put her out of the way was to Ko into the woods and cut the figure of a person on the bark of a big pine tree, mark & cross on the hody and shoot this with a silver bullet. the cross representing the Witch's heart. The shooting was duly done in the presence of quite a number of per- sons. This occurred in the northern part of thie county. Cedar “halls” are carried in he pocket as a protection inst witches, The negro belief in these is certainte fully matched by that of white men who carry in their pockets “buckeyes” and Irish po- tatoes, or who wear thick fron rings on thelr fingers as a preventive of rheuma- tism. ———___ The “Code” and Pist. From, the Montgomery Adverttaer. The code is a thing of the past in the south. Public opinion has done away with it. The time has been when it was worth ® man’s reputation to refuse a challenge. Henceforth it will cost a man the good opinion of the public to send one. The code is annihilated. Public opinion has done its proper work. But its mission in the south isnot ended. Next it must take in hand the too prevalent habit of carrying concealed Weapons. It should be a disgrace for a man to walk abroad as though he expected to commit murder, for that is what the habit in final analysis amounts to. There is rarely any necessity for a man to com- mit murder, even to save the honor he im- agines may be otherwise lost. But if he | carries a pistol he ts very likely to act on | impulse as to the necessity for the crime whether his reputation is liable to be dam- aged or not. And therein lies the danger of this habit to society —eor — fous Pl ‘Writer. From the St. James’ Gazette. Decidedly the ways of the aspiring play- wright are peculiar. By the favor of a leading manager, we are enabled to repro- duce the following circular which h: re- cently reached him in printed form, merely, of course, suppressing the real names: “Mr. Budding Dramatist would be pleased ; to show the manager of the Blank Theater a thirty-minute fa’ It will, perhaps, economize the letter-writing time of spec. tacle-wearing managers if they will kindly refer to the brief correspondence below. The correspondence alluded to duly fol- "3: Dear Sir—Mr. So-and-so would be flad to read your farce if you like to send it on, providing it is type-written.” ‘Yo this courteous invitation Mr. Budding Dramatist sends a reply which at once ; Stamps him as the possessor of a neat and ready wit: “Sir—The farce is not type-written. It is a contented little manuscript, and has no desire to rise above the state in which it) has pleased Providence to place it.” | This is admirable; although one is at rath- er a loss to understand g@hy, if the manu- script has no desire to rise above the in which, &c., the author should claim al manager's assistance to give it public per-) formance. Carrying. | se In 1874 it was estimated «hat ‘he n f sees on the Pribylov Islands was <,!%2,- ta 1890 the estimate was $59,455, 1 dim- inution of 2.232.545 in fourteen years. The pelagic catch during the same time had | | been only 60,000, | Mr. Kilkenny is the name of an eminently peaceable citizen in Centralia, Mo., und be | doesn't own any cats. o state | - Reliable Footwear INAUGUR4TED LAST WEEK. ‘We shall continue selling Shoes that are right im every way at less than So-called Bankrupt Prices. ‘These price reductions are made to decrease our surplus stock, and, st the same time, put im the shade all “Deceptive Shoe Sales.” 10C. 20¢. 30¢. 40C. 65c. Qoc. 95¢- 1.20. 1.65. I.go. ——a $2.35. $2.65 sm Cut This Out. C7 Bearer will receive o usefal “CHRISTMAS SOUVENIR” with par- chases of Shoes if presented on Tues- day or Wednesday, December Sth and rh. This ts to imduce you to buy before the holiday rush. Wn. Hahn &Co,’s. RELIABLE SHOE HOUSES 920 AND 982 SEVENTH ST. 1914 AND 1916 PENNA. AVE 231 YENNA. 4VE 8B At A Marked Distinction notice able between SHERTZ’S CANDIES and others. Their parity gives them that superior flavor. 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