Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1893, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Aveane, corzer 11th St, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company. S. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't New Y.rk dics, 68 Potter Building. ae gee served to subscribers in the mu!—aaywhers in the United Panads—po.taze States or prepaid—s0 cents per mont! <aTCRDAT QUINTTPLE SHRET STAR 81.00 per year: with ronaten oe age added, 8: 00. (Entered at the as secona-class pai! st Office at Washington, D. C. . matter. ) SENSATION IN PARIS. geet Bomb Explosion in the French Cham- ber of Deputies. ONE PERSON KILLED AND OTHERS HURT. —_+——- Great Excitement Among the Law Makers. AN AMERICAN INJURED. —_>—— PARIS, Dec. 9.—Great excitement has been saused by a dynamite outrage committed within the chamber of deputies. While the house was in session this after- | noon a stranger who was occupying a seat | in the gallery threw a dynamite bomb to| the floor of the chamber. As the bomb struck it exploded with ter- rific noise, and pieces of the metal casing were thrown in every direction. A time fuse was attached to the bomb, and the explosion occurred before the mis- sile reached the floor of the chamber. The bomb burst close to the head of M. Lemire and killed an usher, who was standing near | by, instantly. An American lady, who was in the public gallery, received a slight wound on the fore- head. Two other ladies, who were in the lower gallery, were injured. A man who was sitting next to the bomb-thrower was ‘wounded. ‘The bomb was thrown from an upper gal- lery. All the members of the house and all the people in the galleries were panic strick- en. A reporter picked up from the floor of the house bits of metal and horse shoe nails which had evidently been loaded in- to the bomb with the explosive. After considerable delay order was re- stored among the members and the busi- ness of the chamber was resumed. —_—_ THE TROUBLE IN MEXICO. Ginister Romero Tells of the Periodi- cal Small Outbreaks. Recent published accounts of battles and @ probable early revclutionary movement in Mexico, after the receipt of official advices by the War Department that the outbreaks on the border had been suppressed, have led Mr. Remero, the Mexican minister, to make @ statement regarding the troubles. “Early last November,” says Mr. Romero, “about twenty-eight men attacked the cus- tom house at Las Palomas and stole $203 from the safe. More than half the number crossed the line to the United States, and those remaining in Mexico took to the mountains to avoid prosecution. The latter afterward dispersed entirely without gt- tacking any other place and without dis- turbing the peace on the frontier or throughout Mexico. “It has been stated that the revolutionists had 10,000 men, when it is known that their number never exceeded thirty. It has been Stated that there Was an uprising in the south of Mexico against the government, when the only trouble was of a purely local character, ending with submission to the government of all the malcontents, before the robbery at Las Palomas was committed. It has been stated, also, that the Yaqui and Temochic Indians had joined the revo- lutionists, when they are at peace, and the sections of the country inhabited by them are situated at great distances from Las iomas, with natural obstacles so insur- mountable that the concentration of the al- leged forces in a few days would not be! possible. | As these incursions into Mexico, insignifi- cant in themselves, but magnified by mis-! representation, have periodically taken place im the last four years, and always at the end of each year, there are several theories to explain them. Some believe they are in- tended to affect the prices of Mexican se- curities, and others think it is only a trick! to scare tourists from this country who in- tend to go to Mexico in search of a milder ig the winter.” ———+o+____ AN ANTI-OPTION BILL. Representative Hatch Says That An- other Measure Will Be troduced. Representative Hatch of Missouri, chair- ™man of the House committee on agricul- ture, and the champion of the anti-option bill, said today that an anti-option bill will be introduced at this session and a motion made to refer it to the committee on agri- culture. The bill which will be introduced Will be a modification of the anti-option bill of the last Congress insomuch that It will not impose a license upon legitimate sales by owners of commodities under contract to deliver them at the time stated. It is expected that there will be the usual fight against the reference of this bill to the committee on agriculture, the opponents of the measure desiring its reference to the committee on ways and means. Similar is- sues have been made before upon bills of this character, and have resulted always in a victory for the agricultural committee, and points of order made against the re- porting of such bills from that committee, on the ground that the agricultural com- mittee had no authority to report bills rais- ing revenue, have been overruled, Speaker Carlisle holding that the reference of the bill to the committee by a direct vote of the House conferred upon the committee the Fight to report it. ———_—_+-2+_____ THE REQUEST REFUSED. Contributions Cannot Be Solicited in the Treasury Department. ‘The Secretary of the Treasury has writ- ten the following letter to Mr. B. T. Jan- ney, junior vice commander Department of the Potomac, G. A. R.: “Dear Sir: Your application to the chief clerk for a permit to collect contributions in the treasury building, for a Christmas dinner for the indigent old soldiers of the Department of the Potomac, G. A. R., has) been referred to me for consideration, and I | have the honor to advise you that the rules of this department prohibit all persons from wanvassing in the building for the sale of articles, or for the solicitation of subscrip- | tions or contributions of money for any pur- pose, and that I have caused this rule to be strictly enforced against all applicants for such privileges. “Many applications have been made by | &ssoc.ations and committees for permission to solicit subscriptions and contributions for various charitable and religious purposes, but all have been refused. Any other course would subject the business of the depart- ment to almost daily interruptions, and be- sides, such a permit when exhibited or an- mounced to subordinate officers and em- Ployes in the building is frequently under- stood by them as conveying an intimation | that the head of the department desires or expects them to comply with the requests | made, and consequently they do not feel | free to withhold contributions, which many | of them can ill afford to make. “As the clerks and other employes in this | Mr. Che Evening Star. Vor. 83, No 20,7 MR. dl. MOODY COMING. The Well-Known Evangelist Will Hold a Series of Meetings Here. Convention Hall to Be Secured—San- key to Assist—United Action of Protestant Churches. Dwight L. Moody, the well-known evangelist, has finally decided to come to Washington this winter and conduct a se- ries of meetings. He will be accompanied by Mr. Ira B. Sankey, who has been Mr. Moody’s able assistant for several years, and the meetings will be full of interest. The date of his visit was fixed by Mr. Moody for the Ist of February, and the meetings will be held during the entire month. The decision on the part of Mr. Moody to come here this winter was the result of an extremely urgent invitation which came to him from the pastors of the Protestant churches of the city. At the meeting of the pastors Rev. Dr. Teunis S. Hamlin, the pastor of the Church of the Covenant, pre- sided, and as the result of the full and complete expression of opinion on the part of those present it was decided to make an earnest effort to induce Mr. Moody to hold a series of meetings here this winter. A committee was appuinted, of which Mr. W. R. Woodward was chairman, to take such steps as seemed to be necessary to secure the services of Mr. Moody. A correspon- dence was entered into, and such progress was made that a telegram was received from Mr. Moody on Thursday last request- ing a conference of representatives of the committee at the Park Avenue Hotel in New York city. A committee was sent to New York, and they had a conference with Mr. Moody, with the result that he reached the decision as above stated. Rendy to Receive Him. “It is stated by the members of the com- mittee that now Mr. Moody has decided to come here active measures will at once be adopted to complete all the details of the arrangements. It is expected that the meet- ings will be held in Convention Hall, which has a seating capacity of 6,000. There will be two daily meetings held. A large choir will be formed, and other arrangements made. Mr. Moody was assured that his coming here is at the special desire and request of those representing the Protestant churches of the city. As is well known to those fa- miliar with Mr. Moody's work, he insists as a condition of starting a series of meet- ings in any place that they shall be car- ried on in strict co-operation with the churches. If he had not been assured that the churches of Washington not only de- sired his presence here, but will heartily aid in making the meetings a success, he would not have consented to come. ——_> APPROVED AND REJECTED. The Excise Board Acts on Many Li- cense Applications. At the meeting of the excise board yester- day afternoon the following applications for liquor licenses were disposed of: Retail Approved. Giosepp! Montegari, 911 D street north- west; James Rutherford, 906 D street north- wes! west; William J. Donovan, 1528 7th street northwest; Augustus Willige, 1320 E street northwest; William Hessler, 1017 E street northwest; John Kaiser, 1314 32d street northwest; Frank P. Burke, southeast cor- ner of 13 1-2 and D streets northwest; James J. Roche, 302 N street northwest; James Sullivan, 747 4th street northwest; Thomas T. Luckett, 468 Pennsylvania avenue north- west; John H. Gates, 1225 11th street north- east; Michael B. Scanlon, 408 9th street northwest; Daniel O'Connell, 605 C street ;_Louis Schnebel, 533 Sth street ohn Lynch, 404 9th George W. Myers, 3 northwest; Frederick Holmes, northwest; Hugh Cosgrove, northwest; Margeretha Bohn, 1400 Mary- + land avenue northeast; Barbara Clements, 1435 H street northeast; Michael J. O’Con- ner, 2701 K street northwest; Barbara M. Baier, 1002 Pennsylvania avenue northwes' James J. Flanagan, 1714 F street northwest; George T. MecCullum, 317 6th_ street northwest; Sophia Lurig, 1000 street northwest; James Ryan, 321 C street southwest; Bernhard Lieb, south- west corner Fourth and K streets north- west; Jacob Bruegger, 430 Eighth street northwest; John Daly, 300 Second street southwest, Christopher Hager, 1307 ‘Thir- ty-second street northwes: William J. O'Leary, 700 North Capitol street; Chris- tine Ockershausen, 515 Seventh street southwest; Samuel G. Stewart, 1141 Sev- enth street northwest; Otto Statter, 120 Maryland avenue southwest; Geo R. Parker, 443 First street southwest; Charles Dietz, 601 Seventh street northwest; Abra- ham L. and John M. Eshleman, Sec- ond street northwest; James H. Costello, 405 Tenth street northwest; Henry Bush, 421 Tenth street northwest; John Danhakl, 1310 C street southwest; Peter J. Duffy and Charles W. American House, 315 and 317 yventh street north- west; John Curton, 3258 M street north- west; John Schlotterback, jr., 987 and 939 Leannarda, S Fourth street northwest; W. H. Selden Metropoiitan Hotel; Daniel Buckley, 7 E street northwest: M. F. Coughiin, 1600 T street northwest; John D. Evans, 120 N street southeast; Mary C. Cobb, Cobb's Hotel, 1000 E street northwest; James L. Wolfe, 3004 M street northwest; Patrick Connor, 305 Tenth street northwest; Louis Bush, 1305 E street northwest; Jeremiah J. Brosnan, 732 Second street ‘southwest; John J. Brosnan, 5vv Four-and-a-half Street southwest; William L. Wells, 363 M street southwest; John M. Becker, 1120 Eighth street southeast; Charles T. Mor- gan, 729 Eighth street southeast; Edward T. McKenney, 620 llth street southwest; John McKenna, 3057 K street northwest; Robert F. Schulz, 607 G street northwest John B. Buckley, 1836 T street northwest 2006 I street northwest or, 66 H street northeast; David Hagerty, 1203 Pennsylvania avenue ee eente Patrick Riordan, 1355 41-2 street southwest; John J. Sullivan, 1130 1st ahy, 1001 6th William Ryan, 221 2d street southwest; Adolph Meinking, street northwest: Lawrence Hickey, James L. O'Con 229 | Pennsylvania avenue northwest; Michael Dougherty, 3328 M street northwest; Chas. A. Sautter, 502 9th street northwest: John R. French. 205 7th street northwest: Patrick White, 630 2d street northwest: Theodore Plitt, 521 Q street northwest: Edward J. Daly, 107 H_ street northwest, and Louts Schmidt, 702 7th street northwest. Retail Rejected. Mrs. Hannah Murphy, 739 North Capitol street; August Achstetter, 228 C_ street northeast; Mrs. Mary Wittmer, 2001 M street northwest; Dennis M. Pumphrey, 315 Q street northwest: Lewis O. Carroll, 236 3d street southwest. Se THIS IS SAD. One Treasury Clerk Passes as the Widow of a Live Man. The regulation looking to the dismissal of | treasury employes who are in the ¢lepart- ment under names not legally their own, will lead to at least one dismissal, if a statement made in the eariy part of the week at the court house is true. After fis department are engaged here only seven hours during the day, their whole time is| Fequired for the performance of their du-| ties, and ample opportunity is afforded for | calls upon them when they are not thus employed. | “I am constrained, therefore, in the in- | terest of the public business, and in justice | to others who have unsu ‘ssfully made similar applications, to decline to suspend | the rule in this case.” | bonnie The machinery of the British troop ship | Malabar, bound from Queenstown ra In dia. became partially “disabled when the | essel was outs! V allets Malta. jhe Was docked = . | | more man and v party had examined one or two of the equity dockets and some of the records of marriage licenses, he left, and, meeting a friend in the hall, said: “Well, I have got my data. It's bad enough to have a woman bear my name when she has no right to it. but to claim that she is my widow when I am_ still here in good health is too much, and I am going to see about it. Here T have the data. I was divorced from her over ten years ago and she married a Balti- divorced from him, and she was married again and divorced. ‘Now she is in the treasury, not under her more recent names, but is passing not only by my name, but as my widow, and I am not dead yet.” Martin Mulroe, 400 13th street north- | “WASHINGTON, D. ©, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1893—TWENTY PAGES. A NEW THEATER. Mr. John W. Albaugh Purchases a Centrally Located Site. FOR SUMMER AND WINTER AMUSEMENTS The Building Will be of the Span- ish Renaissance Design. TO BE READY NEXT FALL. Over $100,000 have just been agreed upon as the price for the purchase of a build- ing site in a central location in this city. ‘The purchaser is Mr. John W. Albaugh, the well-known and popular manager of thea- ters here and in Baltimore. He proposes to continue to cater to the amusement lov- ing public, and with this purpose in view he has secured a block of ground, where he intends to erect a splendid theater building. The location selected is on the north side of H street between 13th and 14th streets. It is about 100 feet east of 1ith street. The deal was made through Ellerson & Wemple, real estate dealers, and the exact consider- ation by which the owner, Mr. Widdicombe, transfers his right and title to the ground is $106,500. The ground secured is ample for the purposes. It has a frontage of YS feet and a depth of 144 feet to a 30-foot alley. Along the west side and nearly to the froat of the lot an alley 20 feet wide ex- teads. For the remainder of the distance to the building line it is the purpose to have the new building recede from the party line, so as to leave space for an extension of the alley along the entire west side. This will correspond with the east side, where there is an alley along the entire dis- tance from the front to the rear. In fact this complete isolation of the ground by alleys on all sides was one of the main reasons, in addition to its admirable cen- tral location, which led Mr. Albaugh to brnrgheet _— Lorca ee yr ged 13,680 square une oe price pat is nearly $8 per A Handsome Design. A design for the proposed theater bulld- ‘ing has been made by W. Bruce Gray and | Aristide Rodrigue, and while the exterior jis an effective example of the Spanish re- naissance, with its arcades and square tow- ers and tiled roof, worked out with buff brick and light stone, yet after all it is upon the interior that the largest amount of time and thought has been spent. The entrance will be directly from the street and on a level with the street. The feature of the interior will be the ample exits, not only for the first floor, but for the two galleries. There will be doors opening out on all the four sides and they are to be connected electrically so that they can be opened promptly at any time. There will be a seating capacity for about 1,800. An admirable feature will be the location of the heating and electric light plants in a | struction of the building will be as nearly fireproof as possible. The plans of the interior, while foliowing in general that of other theaters, has in ad- dition a feature which is entirely novel and unique in this city. The roof ts to be flat and is to be used as a summer theater garden. A stage is to be erected at one end and the canopy of heaven is to be the reof. The entrahce will be through a cov- ered court, the front of which forms the arcade as found inthe design of the ex- terior. Access to the summer theater will | be either by staircase or by elevator. The two parts of the building will be entirely distinet, and for that matter {ft will be possible for a performance to be going on on the stage below while artists are enter- taining an audience under the starlit sky above. Ready Next Fall. It is expected that the work of construct- ing this building will be begun early in the spring so that it will be completed and ready for occupation next October. Mr. Albaugh’s lease of the opera house tn this city, which bears his name, expires next year. It is his intention upon the erection of the new theater building to remove his residence to this city and to devote his en- tire time to its management. > CIVIL SERVICE REPORT. It Will Be Given Out Tomorrow and Will Be a Double Affair. The annual report of the civil service commission will be given to the press to- morrow evening. It was sent to the Presi- dent about two weeks ago and to the prin- |ciations have been taken, and the muacter will be released by the commission tomor- | row. As was the case last year, there is a majority report signed by Commissioners | Roosevelt and Lyman, and a minority re- | port by Mr. Johnson. This year the breach | between the majority and the minority re- ports is wider than it was last year. At | that time the majority report recommended | that the application of the civil service liw be extended to all the branches of the gov- ernment to which it appropriately could be, as, for instance, navy yards, internal reve- nue, custom houses of certain classes, to free delivery post offices and to certain de- | partments of the government of the Dis- ‘trict of Columbia. Mr. Johnson contented himself with subscribing to this excepting |that last clause, which began “for in. stance,” etc. This year his report directly antagonizes the commission on many | points, especially concerning the extension of civil service. The Star man was inform- ed on very reliable authority that Mr. |Johnson this year objects to many things | to which in last year’s report he subscribed It was this fact, it is said, which induced the President first to ask for his resigna. |tion and then to dismiss him. Commission ers Roosevelt and Lyman represented to |the President that they and Mr. Johnson {could not work in the same harness, and that either they or he would have to go. Mr. Johnson went. The majority report will show that during the past eight months there has not been an undue number of partisan removals and appointments. Prac- |tically there have not been any either un- der the Harrison or Cleveland administra- |tions within the classified service. The re- port, it is thought, will call attention to the jlarge number of dismissals and appoint- | ments in the examiners’ corps of the pension bureau, but it is probable that the commis- |sion will say that these are due to certain |defects in the law. During the first eight |months of the Harrison administration the |total number of appointments was 305, and |during a corresponding period of the Cleve- land administration the appointments num- |bered but 194. The percentage of removals |under the present administration is smalle: |than under the Harrison regime, but this is due to the fact that there is now a larger number of people in the classified service who have entered through the civil service channel than there was four years ago. Much of the matter which the report will jcontain was outlined in the interview which |Commissioner Roosevelt accorded a reporter |tor The Star a few days ago. ° « amon A New York phia Press © Governor. special to the Philadel- says: The next democrat- ic candidate for governor of New York will, if the plans of those who are now engaged in some new politics here succeed, be none other than Col. Daniel S. Lamont, at of War in Mr. Cleveland's cabinet. new movement has the nomination of Col amont in view, and such political maneu ig as will compel what is left of the ular democra: to accept him. He will t he candidate of all factions, if that can | be brought about, and he is believed to be | the only man who has any political ambi. tion upon whom all factions can unite, vault outside of the building. The con- | ter yesterday. Proof slips for press asso- | TARIFF BILL GOSSIP. The Proposed Income Tax and the Sugar Schedules. These Are the Questions That Are Most Affecting the Ho Democrats of e at Present. The bottom seemed to have dropped out of everything at the Capitol today. Neither house is in session. Few statesmen were in the building and practically nothing was be- ing done or talked about. The questions which are still affecting the democrats of the House most are the income tax contro- versy and the conflicting opinions as to how the sugar schedule shall be adjusted, and whether or not there shall be a caucus over the tariff bill. The indications point strong- ly to the substitution of a graduating indi- vidual compact for the tax on corporations, which the committee has adopted and Mr. Cleveland has indorsed. Petition for Individual Tax. The advocates of the individual tax are circulating a petition systematically among the various delegations, asking the commit- tee to substitute the individual tax. It is said that this petition is being widely sign- ed and the belief is that it will control the action of the committee in the end. If so, it 1s not at all improbable that the income tax question being presented in that way to Congress will fail. The committee then would be forced to an increased whisky tax and a tax on sugar. At present there is a tacit understanding in the committee that nothing is to be done with whisky, but cir- cumstances may change their purposes In this respect. Pressure on the Sugar Question, On the sugar question considerable pres- sure is being brought, and threats are made that with the sugar schedule, as it is in the Wilson bill, the measure cannot get through the Senate. If the caucus, which some of the democrats are trying to get up, is held, | the sugar question will be dealt with, It is almost certain from the prevailing senti- ments in the House that every vesture of | bounty will be stricken out of the bill, and | the probabilities are that unless the income | tax fails there will be no additional duty on | sugar put in by the House. The manner in which this question will be dealt with in the Senate is another thing. Probable Senate Amendments. The general impression is that the sugar | schedule, as it goes through the House, will jbe as it is in the Wilson bill with the bounty provision stricken off, and that the Senate will amend the bill by providing a |duty on sugar. The ways and means com- | mittee expect to report the bill on Wednes- |day, putting some single internal revenue feature in it so as to make it amendable by adding the other features hereafter as they are decided on. Representatives of interests materially af- fected by the tariff bill have brought such | pressure upon their Congressmen that some | Opposition may be expected not only from jeratic majority as well. Some of the democrats assert openly that they will op- pose the bill if concessions are not made to them, but, as a rule, the dissatisfaction is more implied than expressed. Mr. Simpson for the Populists. Mr. Simpson (Kan.) was asked today what | position the populist members of the House would assume toward the measure. He re- plied that free wool was a discrimination against the farmers of the west, and that if a greater cut were not made in woolen | manufactures the populists would protest. Free salt, the Kansas Representative com- | plains, is another blow at one of his home ‘industries that he proposes opposing. Mr. | Simpson asserts that free salt is a “finished | product,” and as much entitled to protec- tion as other articles similarly classified. The wine growers of New York state are asking the ways and means committee to put them on an equal footing with the Call- fornia manufacturers. Under the present law, an exemption is made of the tax on | spirits which Californians use to fortify | their wines. The New Yorkers ask that this |discrimination be removed, and that the California producers either pay the tax or that the exemption apply to the eastern manufacturers also. ————-e+—_______ MR. STELN’S ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The PI Formally Indorsed by the Geographic Soctety. Details of the expedition to Ellesmere Land proposed by Mr. Robert Stein have ap- peared in The Star. The project has been under consideration by a committee of the National Geographic Society, composed of Gen. A. W. Greely, Marcus Baker, W. J. McGee, Chief Engineer Geo. V’. Melville and Dr. W. H. Dall. This committee has made a report to the board of managers of the | society, indorsing the project, and the board has adopted it. The report is as follows: The plan contemplates the occupation of a station on the shores of Ellesmere Land in Jones’ Sound for about fifteen months, from, say July, 180, to September, 1585. Equipments for permanent camp, coast and inland explorations, and food supplies for two years are to be taken with the party, [which will be landed at the designated |point by a Scotch or Newfoundland whaler lin 184, and taken off by the same vessel in the autumn of IS, At the camp observa- ns will be made of terrestrial magnetism, rology and hydrography, while geo: logical researches can be made in connec- tion with explorations of the adjacent un- \known regions about Jones’ Sound and Bel- cher Chanrel. The estimated cost of the expedition is $10,000. | Concerning this project your committee junanimously concur as to the following propositions: 1. They velieve that this expedition to a point lying in the path of the whalers who jannually visit the western waters of Baffin bay is thoroughly safe and practicable; that it is desirable for scientific purposes and for eographic exploration; and that no part of |the Arctic regions gives promise of greater jopportunities for extensive discoveries, with ja minimum of danger, hardship and ex- | pense. 2. They velieve that the estimate of $10,- 0 sufficient to cover the necessary ex- |penses, but that the returns from the expe- dition could pe materially enlarged by an additional sum of $3,000 or $4,000, 3. The detailed data and plan presented by Mr. Stein favorably impress the commit- tee as to his energy, persistence and knowl- edge of the problems involved In the pro- ject. They believe, however, that the selec- tion of the personnel and the fitting out of the expedition should be made under the ad- vice of three recognized experts, one re- garding maritime outfit, one on’ scientific outfit, and a third for regular supplies and land explorations. 4. Your committee recommend that there be appropriated out of the treasury of the National Geographic Society such sum as he board may see fit at the proper time, in aid of this expedition. —s Another Bankruptey Bi Mr. Bailey of Texas, now that the Tory | bankruptcy bill has been defeated, pro- |poses to reintroduce his bankruptcy bill, |whtth provides for volunta bankruptcy only, and is much more mild and liberal han the bill which provided for both vol- untary and involuntary and was defeated because it was believed to involve many |hardships upon debtors. It is thought that n involuntary bankruptcy bill may re- \ceive favorable consideration. © They Were Remembered. | The late chief clerk of the Navy Depart- ment, Mr. John Hogg, had two faithful friends in William Plerre and John Evans, cclored messengers in that department, and | Mrs. Hogg has given evidence of her appre- ation of their kindness to her husband in his declining years by presenting each of them with a handsome cane, out of his large collection, gathered for bim by friends in all parts of the world. |republicans, but from certain of the demo- | INTENSE ANXIETY In Administrative Circles in Regard to Hawaiian News. ee eS NO CHANGE IN THE SITUATION According to the Latest Advices Received Today. MINISTER THURSTON’S TRIP. At no time since the country was in- formed that Queen Liliuokalani was de- throned, and that the new provisional gov- ernment wanted to have Hawaii annexed to the United States, has interest in the Ha- wailan situation been so keen in adminis- tration circles as it is today. The expected arrival of vessels bringing news of what happened when the policy of the President and Secretary Gresham was made known to the people of Honolulu placed officials of the various executive departments on the qui vive. From the manner and bearing of State Department officials it would appear that they had merely a languid interest in the outcome of the whole affair. Naval officers |made no attempt to conceal their great de- sire for information. They made frequent inquiry of the newspaper men as to the latest news and commented and prophesied concerning the outcome. This intense anxiety, for it can be right- ly called such, applied to all persons in the State, War and Navy Department, whether they concealed it or not, and it was fostered and fed by the stray scraps of news brought to San Francisco, Port Townsend, Auckland and elsewhere by vessels that nad sailed from Honolulu prior and subsequent to the date for the arrival of the mail steamer car- rying copies of the letter of Secretary Gresham to President Cleveland advocating the restoration of the ex-queen. ‘There never was a time since the war, perhaps, when government officials were in such a state of excited curiosity over an expected sensation. Important News Expected Monday. Monday next is the day when the import- ant details are expected to arrive. The |regular mail steamer from Honolulu is due jin San Francisco on that day. According to the Auckland dispatch the steamer Mono- wai, bringing the Gresham letter disclosing the policy of the administration, arrived in Honolulu November 23, while the mail steamer due in San Francisco Monday sail- ed thence December 4, leaving 11 days to be covered in the press dispatches. If those eleven days did not develop something im- portant enough to have a prominent place in the history of Hawaii officials of the gov- ernment will be very much surprised and not a few of them very much disappointed. Minister Thurston's Mission. It seems to be pretty definitely settled |that Minister Thurston ts on his way to San Francisco with the intention of sailing thence for Honolulu. He left Washington Thursday and will have ample time to catch the mail steamer Alameda, which |leaves next Thursday, He is not making a |race against the Corwin, for the reason that |that vessel carried his dispatches as well |as those of Secretary Gresham. There is a belief here that the minister will not return in any event for several months. Should the queen, in the end, be restored to power, it is quite certain that he will not be her accredited minister to the United States. The arrival of the minister at Honolulu | may have an important bearing on the fu- | ture relation between Minister Willis and the provisional government. The minister goes back with full knowledge of the con- templated action of the administration, and will be able to present to the provisional government information probably not pos- sessed by President Dole and his cabinet. Resistance to Liltuokalani’s Restora- tion. Knowing the unwillingness of Congress to Sanction any resort to armed force for the restoration of the queen, Mr. Thurston can confidently press upon the Hawalian gov- ernment a policy of resistance, which will make the return of Liliuokalani to the throne impossible except through actual bloodshed. And the adoption of such a policy by President Dole can result only in the utter failure of the administration's present pupose of restoration by pacific means, or the embroilment of Mr. Cleve- land th Congress because of an unauthor- ized and extra-constitutional employment of military force. —__+-e+______ STILL MORE CHARGES. The Davenport Inquiry Raises a Num- ber of Outside Questions. ‘The fun is now on full head in the Daven- | port case and there ts no telling where the matter will finally end. There have been | criminations and recriminations during the week that the court has been in session, and enough has been developed to show that during her cruise around Samoa all Was not as pleasant as it might have been on board the Nipsic and that the officers did not constitute altogether a happy fam- ily. Several of the officers have admitted that their feelings toward the applicant, Lieut. Davenport, were not the kindest, and row a young Washingtonian has appeared in print to make charges against Lieut. | Purcell, who made charges against Lieut. Davenport. This young man was an ap- Prentice on board the Nipsic at the time of the Samoan disaster, and states that while Lieut. Davenport was a strict disciplinarian he enforced discipline upon officers as well as men. He claims that Lieut. Purcell himself was guilty of conduct not becoming an officer and that it was only through the efforts of his brother officers he was saved from a court-martial. And so it goes; it is ike dropping a stone in still water; it stirs up all sorts of trou- ble and one ring follows upon another, where before all was smooth and undis- turbed. There is considerable regret among Taval men that the case was ever brought out in any such public manner as a court |of inquiry. They would rather that the whole matter might have been left alone or settled “out of court,” on the principle of = soiled linen in the privacy of ome, Yesterday's Testimony. | Yesterday afternoon Lieut. P. G. Fill) ette, who was in charge of the marine guard of the Nipsic on shore at the time of the beaching of the vessel, was called. He was at the American consulate when he first saw Lieut. Davenport, not having seen that gentleman swim ashore. It was some little time after the ship stranded that Lieut. Davenport walked into the consulate, clad, as the witness recollected, in a suit of | pajamas, though on cross-examination wit- ness was not sure whether or not it might have been a night shirt, which was after- ward exchanged for a’ pair of overalls. Licut. Fillette had heard the stortes circu- | lated on the beach concerning Lieut. Daven- port's conduct, but could not of his own | knowledge testify that Davenport had swam ashore. He also heard some one say that the reason the applicant swam ashore so soon after the beaching of the ship was [that he wanted to be on hand to write an| intelligent report of the proceedings. | Yesterday a considerable portion of Lieut. | port's lengthy written statement to the Secretary of the Navy was read over to Ensign Jones, who was officer of the deck at the time of the beaching of the Nipsic. Mr. Jones took exception to a number of Mr. Davenport's statements, and failed to recall several of the Incidents referred to. It took the entire morning today to read over the records of yesterday’s sessions, and at 12:10 o'clock the court took a recess until 1 o'clock, when Admiral Kimberly was called to testify as to the reports that were made to him of the incidrats of the’ disaster, TWO CENTS A NEW BANK CURRENCY. Representative Walker's Plan to Replace All Government Issues. The Details of the Scheme to Relieve the Government of All Respon- sibility for Redemption. One of the most aggressive and deter- mined advocates of financial reform in the House of Representatives is Representative Walker, republican, of Massachusetts. For years he has stood with a determined front against all of the attacks of the free silver coinage men, and now, after he has witness- ed the overthrow of the Sherman act, he has turned his attention to the betterment of the paper currency of the country. Mr. Walker has always contended that the gov- ernment had no right to burden itself with this circulation, and in a measure he has leaned toward the English system. He has now prepared a plan, which has been sub- mitted to the House committee on banking and currency, looking to the creation of an mdependent bank currency to replace all government paper issues, The details of this plan are concisely out- ined by Mr. Walker as follows: 1, The United States government to be| completely relieved from any responsibil: for the current tedemption of any circ ing government or bank currency notes | whatever, and thereby relieved of all ex- pense and risk of maintaining any coin re- demption fund or coin measure of value, risk and expense of both to be devolved upon the banks by the operation of the bill, the bill to be so drawn as to cause each and every bank to assume proportionately | the current redemption of a new greenback and practical destruction of the legal-ten- der note in its present form. The banks to accept a new greenback in place of the present one, and be responsible only for its current redemption, and the United States | government to be responsible for its final | redeniption. 2. The United States government, in the interest of the safety of banks, in order to protect the people from loss, to exercise, as now, and extend its thorough supervision over all banks and make public their con- dition. 3. The banking bill to be so drawn as to/| cause each and every bank to assume pro- Portionately the current redemption and) practical destruction of all treasury notes. | 4. The banking bill to be so drawn as to! cause each and every bank to assume pro- | portionately the current redemption and | practical destruction of the excess of silver | certificates and to cause silver dollars to an | equal amount to be covered into the treas- ury as bullion, but to leave in circulation as now every coined silver dollar we now have that the people can be Induced to use. 5. To provide for the absolute safety of circulating note. . Circulating notes shall be free of cost except for printing, &c. The volume of circulating notes to be sufficiently elastic to expand to meet the extremest demands of the people and con- tract automatically so as never to exceed in volume the amount needed. 8. Circulating currency notes to be so is- sued as not to increase the interest paid on loans of capital, as is the case under ex- isting law. 9. They shall be uniform. 10. They shall be so iesued and reissued to be forced back to the bank issuing them and where most needed. 11. The United States government shall act simply as custodian of coin and issue certificates of deposit thereon, as now. 12, The United States government on special occasions to provide temporary safe- to deposits to dispel fear, in order to ‘Prevent the paralysis of business by the withdrawal of individual deposits from clearly solvent banks, because of unreason- able fear, 18. All existing banks may reorganize im- | mediately, or at the expiration of their charters, under the act. —— THE RETIRED LIST. | Representative Bailey's Effort to Abolish It Entirely. Representative Bailey of Texas, whose intention to begin a crusade against the re- | tired lst of the army, navy and federal judgeships was announced in The Star several weeks ago, said today that he wil! push his fight at an early day. The bills providing for the virtual abolishment of | the army and navy retired lst are now | before the military affairs and naval com-| mittees respectively. Mr. Bailey said that he will endeavor to | ascertain if these committees intend to re- port the bills, and if they do not he will ask for their re-reference to the committee on judiciary and try to get them before the House from that committee. It seems to be the general impression among members who are well posted that Mr. Bailey is entering upon a losing fight, or at least that he has a very hard strug- gle before him. He is not the first south- erner who has made the same effort. A notable Texan before him attempted the undertaking. Senator Reagan, ex-postmas- ter general of the confederacy, and whese service in Congress was so long that the | mere mention of his name is sufficient to identify him, started this movement, but never got anything more out of the matter than the reputation of having inaugurated it TWO DEFICIENCIES, dered by the House Appropriations Committee Monday. A meeting of the subcommittee on appro-/ priations having charge of the deficiency | bills will be called for next Monday morning at 10:30, Representative Breckinridge of Kentucky, a member of the subcommittee, has returned and will be present. The sub- committee has two deficiencies to act upon, appropriations for the government printing office and for pensions. It is understood that the republicans will offer some remarks upon the deficiency bill for pensions, as it is believed by them that this deficiency arises from excessive ex- penditures in the special agents’ division of the pension office, in pursuing the policy of the present administration to wage war upon the pensioners in carrying out Secre- tary Smith's order for the suspension of pensions pending the production of proof by the beneficiaries that they are entitled to their pensions. | It is said that the republicans will resent the action of the pension bureau in exceed- ing its allowances by spending such an ex- cessive amount in endeavoring to produce proof against the pensioners. HAWAIIAN CORRESPONDENCE. It Will Be Sent to the Senate, but Not | Before Tuesday. | After due deliberation by the President, and cabinet it has been practically conclud- | ed that it will not be “incompatible with public interests” to furnish the Senate with the information it needs for a proper consideration of the Hawaiian question. That conclusion does not necessarily mean that the information will be supplied with- out further delay. It means merely that the Hawalian correspondence will be sent to the Senate when there is no longer dan- ger of its possible use to interfere with the avowed purpose of the administration of restoring the queen, or until the administra- tion is persuaded by popular opinion to abardon that policy. ‘The news of the situation in Hawaii that will be brought to San Francis M day will have an the President's pre Cong! mi t important nised communic y the nature of advices One thing settled is ace ange, from Minister Willis. that the request of the Senate for the cor- rding to the respontence will not be complied with b fore Tuesday next at the earliest, regard of news previously received from Honolulu. It is believed, however, that it will not be delayed much beyond next week. f | ment. An index to advertise- ments will be found om Page 3. AVERAGE CUT DOWN. Speed of the Marblehead Reduced to 18.44 Knots. THE BUILDERS MUCH DISAPPOINTED. Will Get $50,000 Less Than They Expected. ERRORS IN CALCULATION, a BOSTON, Dec. 9.—A New London, Conn. special to the Herald say The Boston- bulit cruiser Marblehead’s glorious average run of 18.04 knots for four hours over the Long ‘Island sound official seventy-two-mile course Thursday has been knocked into smithereens by the cold calculations of the government trial board. This board, after figuring out the tidal al- lowances, as turned in by the six govern- ment stake boats along the course, found | that the new 2,000-ton cruiser made an aver- age speed of only 18.44 knots, Consequently the Marblehead is “not in it” for a $175,000 bonus, nor even for $150,000. She ts, in fact, far behind her sister ship, the Detroit. The contract for the Marblehead calle@ for a speed of seventeen knots. For every quarter knot over this the builders receive $25,000 and for every quarter knot below it they would forfeit $25,000. On Thursday it was supposed that the Marblehead had certainly made for her builders $175,000; now it is seen that she can claim but $125,000. They may demand @ new trial, however. They can do so, if they wish, but Mr. N. F. Palmer, the rep- resentative of the assignees who had charge of the completion of the ship, was unable to Say last night what action would be taken until he consulted with all of the assignees. The strong ebb tide on the Marblehead’s second half of her run Thursday—the east- ern-bound run— it appears, cut down the cruiser’s time. While the people on the ship supposed she was making fast time, the force of the tide had to be deducted from her apparent speed and reduced her actual running time greatly. Another handicap for the Marblehpad was the fact that her twin screws had less pitch than those used on the Detroit. Conse- quently, although the Marbichead’s screws Thursday made more revolutions than the Detroit's, her speed was not so great. The Marblehead’s wheels were of the prescribed government pattern. The Detroit's bulld- — it is said, used wheels of their own de- sicn. The Marblehead’s builders are at liberty to demand a new trial at once, but she is in no condition to make the run now, and the trial fleet has been disbanded. The Marble head will repair her steering gear and go to New York today. Her builders are great- ly disappointed. The Detroit is still queen of the 2,000-ton cruisers. She made 18.71 knots in her speed trial and carried off @ $15v,000 bonus. —> MR. CASTLE HAS DOUBTS. He Hardly Believes the Latest Report of Minister W " Words. CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—Minister Thurston of Hawali and H. N. Castle, editor of the Honolulu Advertiser, spent a few hours in Chicago last evening on their way from Washington to San Francisco. Just before their departure on a Chicago and Northwestern train at 10:30 p.m. Min- ister Thurston was told of-the news re- ceived by the Transit. He evinced deep in- terest in it, but said he was not in a posi- tion to know whether it was correct or im- correct and therefore did not wish to be quoted or interviewed regarding it. Mr. Castle said: “I should regard it as destitute of the slightest shadow of proba- bility Uhat it bears oul the general tenor of Minister Willis’ official actions. They have been uniformly dictatorial and auda- cious. If it is true Minister Willis prom- ised to support the provisional government it was different from anything else done by this administration, and 1 regard it as high- ly improbable. The armed force referred to is a body of riflemen organized many years ago. It numbers about 1,100 men and every man of them is for the provisional govern- It is useless to talk about affairs in Hawaii now, for no one knows anything. Minister Thurston says t he does not know anything, and I have no doubt that that is true, for the administration has taken good care to keep him from finding out anything.” Mr. Castie will sail from San Francises to Honolulu at the earliest opportunity. sShanastior-aconttia ELECTED AT RICHMOND. The State Officers of Virginia Chosen in Last Night's Caucas. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., Dec, 9.—At 12:30 today both branches of the assembly, in joint ses sion, elected state officers as follows: Re- elected—Col. Morton Marye, first auditor; Josiah Ryland, second auditor; A. W. Har- man, treasurer; Maj. W. R. Gaines, register of the land office; Gen. Jas. C. Hill, railroad commissioner; J. H. O'Bannon, public prin- ter, and B. W. Lynn, superintendent of the penitentiary. Mr. Joseph T. Lawless of Portsmouth.who defeated Judge H. W. Flournoy for secre- tary of state in the cavcus last night, was duly elected by the joint assembly today. Mr. Lawless was championed by Governor- elect O'Ferrall, and found it an easy task to defeat the incumbent, who opposed O'Fer rall for the democratic nomination last sum- mer. —— A Local Bill at Richmond. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 9.—The bill chang- ing the time for commencing the construc- tion of the railroad authorized under the act of the general assembly, approved Decem- ber 20, 1889, incorporating the Washingtom and Western Railroad Company and com- pleting the main line referred to therein and under the amendments thereof, was passed by the house of representatives to- day. Yesterday was the last day for the filing of claims before the Chilean claims commis- sion. There were forty-two claims in all presented, three of them against the United States. The principal one of these latter is that of the South American Steamship Com- pany of Chile for $227,000, growing out of the seizure of the steamer Itata. The other two claims were filed by Ricardo L. Trum- buii, who became prominent during the Chilean war as agent of that country in the United States. He claims $12,000 on account of his arrest at Los Angeles on a charge of violating the neutrality laws in fitting out the schooner Robert and Minnie. Mr.Trum- so claims $6,000 for professional ser- es alleged to have been 1 ed to the United States legation at Santiago in con- ection with the extradition of one Bush- nell, a Th inst the Chilean & arly $25,- 000,000, Th is that of the North and “onstruc- tion Company of Kentucky, amounting to $5,540,000, on account of railroad construc- tion. ————e erament Recei pts from intern: ; customs, $321, : —anepiipe : The Chilean congress has prohibited the killing of seals and seal wolves within the maritime jurisdiction of Chile, Magellan and on the coast of the Islands of Juan Fernandez for the period of four years.