Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1893, Page 2

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16.—The steamer Alameda sailed for Australia via Horiolulu yesterday afternoon. Of the 150 cabin pas- yengers fifty-nine are for Honolulu. Among them is L. A. Thurston, present minister ‘xtraordinary and envoy plenipotentiary to the United States. He is hurrying home jo as to personally lay the full status of the case before the provisional government. Thurston refused to talk, but he is clearly e@nxious about what may have been done by Minister Willis after the Corwin arrived. ‘The revenue’ cutter was expected to reach Honoiulu yesterday and in that event there would be eight days in which Mr. Willis might act before Mr. Thurston could reach the islands. passengers were J. Mott- Smith and his wife and daughter. Dr. Smith was succeeded by Mr. Thurston when the provisional government went into pow- er. Lieut. W. R. Rush, U. S._N., says he is going down for a holiday, but others say is the bearer of private dispatches for Admiral Irwin. Robert 8. Ring, H. Castle, H. A. Wideman, H. P. and Dr. J. Henry McGrew are old citizens $f Bawahand are returning to their homes. at Honolulu, is also a passenger. jae Aven ery TO STOP THE WASTE Of the Finest Trees Which Still Re- main on Public Lands. The protection of our forest reserve, as Proposed in a bill introduced by Mr. McRae (Ark.), chairman of the House public lands committee, was the subject of an interest- ing hearing by the committee today, the ap- Sarent result of which was to convince the | members that something must be done at once to prevent the United States from be- coming a treeless, arid waste. Mr. Bowers, assistant commissioner of the general land office, was the first speaker in favor of the measure. He was heartily in favor of the provision to do away with cutting. The provision empowering the Sec- retary of the Interior to sell, under cer- tain restrictions, cutting privileges, which would yield the government reasonable commercial value for the timber cut, should be applied. The companies which cut the timber had acknowledged its value, and were willing to pay for the privilege. There were now 8,000,000 or 10,000,000 acres of forest re- serve on which it was hoped to establish | @ good cutting system. Cutting properly done was beneficial, — the ee hoped to inaugurate such a system whic! would preserve the reserve and yield a Fevenue to the government. Under the pres- ent permit system cutting was done in all fashions. The department regulations were | a. but they could not be properly en- reed, owing to the limited number of agents allowed by law, and the manifold duties imposed upon them. There were now thirty-four of them in the field, and they would have to be disci by Janu- ary 1 unless the urgent deficiency bill be- came a law. Experience of foreign coun- tries show that forest reserves were a source of revenue, and we should have @ stmilar system. New York’s Experience. Col. W. F. Fox, superintendent of forestry for the state of New York, spoke of the New York state regulations. in his state cutting privileges were sold. ‘The system had proven beneficial. It had preserved the forests and yielded a revenue much larger than was required for the support of ape bureau of forestry. The wisdom of the | system was shown by the fact that they were now selling cutting privileges on lands that were cut twenty years ago. Mr. Fernow, chief of the division of forest- ry of the Agricultural Department, advocat- ed the passage of tne bill and spoke briefly of the advantages to be derived from it. For eighteen years he had been connected with forestry work in Prussia. In Europe the forests were preserved and cultivated as a erop. Here the necessity for such care had | mot before arisen, but the time had now | come to shut the gate on indiscriminate cut- ting. He touched upon the necessity of pre- serving the forest cover on mountain sides for the protection of the low lands at their base. In France the mountain sides had been robbed of this protection and the gov- ernment had spent over $30,000,000 In the last thirty years in restoring it. Chairman McRae tharked those present for the interest they had taken in the mat- ter and added that he considered the ques- tion of protecting our forest reserve one of the most important that the coming gener- ation would have to deal with. The com- mittee directed Mr. McRae to call the bill up in the House on Monday next (suspen- gion day). o-—______ THE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS. It Will Be Postponed Until After the M. | Baldwin | erance, ex-United States consul | | He is suffering with phthisi: THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1893-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. LATE NEWS BY WIRE. Vaillant, the Paris Bomb Thrower, Attacked by Fever. |WHAT 1S SAID Af Sf, PETERSBURG. The Explosion May Affect Inter- national Relations RAIDING THE NIHILISTS. PARIS, Dec. 16.—Vaillant, the man who threw the bomb in the chamber of deputies |on Saturday last, has been attacked by a | fever arising from the extraction of a nail from his own bomb which ‘penetrated his | thigh. He is at present in the prison De La | Sante, but he will be removed as soon | possible to the prison De La Conciergerie. The police refuse to give the names of the names of the anarchists to be expelled from France, because many of them are foreign- | ers. Many of them have friends among the members of the chamber of deputies and | the municjpal council, who would feel mor- | ally obliged to take steps to hinder the ex- pulsions. | , The Siecle states that detectives have gone to London to ascertain whether the direc- tions for the making of the bomb thrown | by Vaillant were sent by anarchists in that city. The Matin says that the public prosecutor has forbidden justices and other function- aries connected with the anarchist inquiry to divulge the results of their researches. A dispatch from Moscow says, that the bomb explosion in the chamber of deputies | Saturday last has created a painful im- | pression on the czar and his ministers, as | it is considered that France is powerless to guard against anarchist outrages. The Franco-Russian party in St. Petersburg is depressed, as its members think that | the explosion will affect the relations be- | tween the two countries. |ana in the fighting that occurred fifteen policemen were wounded, Many of the nihilists were armed with revolvers and when they saw that their capture wae in- evitable, five of them turned their weapons against themselves and blew out their brains. Twenty-two of the men managed to escape from the building, but fifty others were captured. Trial of the Austrian Anarchists. VIENNA,Dec. 16.—The indictment against the anarchists arrested September 22 and 23 charges them with treason, inciting to sedition, and conspiring to commit crime by the use of dynamite. The trial of the accused will take place in secret some time in January. A large number of witnesses have been summoned. The leader of the anarchists, Haspel, hi been placed in a hospital since his arrest. | | ee Russian Nibilists Raided. LONDON, Dec. 16.—A dispatch from St. Petersburg to a news agency here states that a force of Moscow police, assisted by a detachment of Cossocks, surprised a large number of nihilists, who were holding a meeting in an isolated house outside of Mos- cow. The nihilists made a vigorous resistance JAMES BLACK DEAD. The First Prohibition Candidate for President—Other Deaths. LANCASTER, Pa., Dec. 16.—James Black, the well-known prohibition leader, died at his home here this morning from pneu- monia, after an iliness of several weeks. At the national prohibition convention at Cincinnati in 1872 he was nominated as the candidate of the temperance party for president, he being the party's first candi- date. BERLIN, Dec. 16.—Prof. Michelet, well-known German philoso- pher aad authcr, is dead. NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—Justus Huggen- berg, for a number of years business man- i of the Staats Zeitung, died this morn- BOSTON, Dec. 16—Dr. David Thayer, one of the oldest homeopathic physicians of Boston, died yesterday. Dr. Thayer ear- ly became an_ abolitionist. John Brown visited him and received generous contri- butions in aid of his project of freeing Holidays. Mr. Holman, the chairman of the demo- cratic caucus committee, said today that the caucus to consider the tariff bill would probably be postponed until after the holi- day recess. The revised bill has not been printed and laid before the members yet, and he thinks that it ought to be carefully studied by them before it is considered in caucus. Mr. Holman was asked if it would not be better to postpone the caucus until the members had gone home and talked | with their constituents, so that they could more intelligently represent their wishes when bill came before the caucus. Mr. Holman thought the suggestion an execel- lent one. He added, moreover, that a quo- rum of the House would not be present after today, and that it would not be well to caucus upon so important a subject as the tariff until all or nearly all the demo- eratic members were in the city. +o. _____ THEY MUST DEPOSIT. Mr. Hemphill Urges a Substitute for a Sem{-Local Bill. A dill of a semi-District nature is pend- } ing before the House judiciary committee, and will come up for consideration by the committee next Tuesday. It is entitled, “a Dill relative to recognizances, stipulations, bonds and undertakings and to allow cer- tain corporations to be accepted urety thereon.” Ex-Congressman Hemphill appeared be- | fore the committee yesterday and urged the | committee to substitute for the above-men- | tioned bill a measure of the same title, but having a wider scope. The proposed sub- stitute is a measure which passed the House | in the Fifty-second Congress. It provides regulations for trust companies and guaran- tee companies becoming sureties in cases arising out of decisions by United States Judges or in the operation of United States courts. One feature of the proposed substitute ts &® clause providing that before the trust and guarantee companies of other cities can act im the premises they must first deposit and | keep in some trust or fidelity company, or- ganized under the laws of and doing busi- | Ress within the District of Columbia, not less than $100,000 In lawful money, or in securities guaranteed to be worth not less | than $100,000; such deposit and guaranty | to be approved by the Attorney General. i} ‘The fund so deposited shall be held by the depository for the benefit and protection of the person to whom or for whose benefit the trust is undertaken. It is provided that where such suretyship is undertaken only in the state or territory in which the prin- cipal office of the company is located, no deposit shall be required in the District of Columbia, but this section shall be applic- able to such companies in all other respects. ~ o Lecture on Hawai. Rev. Oliver P. Emerson, secretary of the Hawatian board of missions, wili deliver an address in the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, 4th and B streets southeast, to- morrow evening on the state of affairs at Present existing in the islands, and with which he is thoroughly familiar. geebai eases Died From Injuries. Joseph Dozier, who was run over on 6th street on the bridge below the depot on Monday, died yesterday at the Emergency Hospital. One of his legs had been badly Mangied and it was amputated, but the shock was too great for him. —_—_——__. Central High School Wias. . ‘The Central and Business High School foot ball teams met again at ¥. M. C. A. Park yesterday afternoon, the former win- ming by a score of 10 to 6 ———— Menage Has Agair Escaped. | It appears that Menage, the Minneapolis | slaves in Missouri. His discovery of the homeopathic specific for gallstone colic gave him professional fam2. —_————_— SANDBAGGED AND ROBBED The Superintendent of a West Vir- winia Coal Company. PIEDMONT, W. Va., Dec. 16.—P, E. Hal- deman of this city, superintendent of the Frankiin Coal Company, was sandbagged at 6:30 this morning and robbed of about $3,000 at Franklin, a suburb of Western- port. No ciue. es EARLY MORNING FIRES. 's Hall at St. Louis and a Hotel at Atchison. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 16.—At 12 o'clock this morning Lang’s Hall, a three-story brick building at the corner of Bellegrade and Easton avenues, was burned to the ground, together with a dry goods store and a saloon on the ground floor. The loss is fully $20,000, with insurance unknown. ATCHISON, Kans., Dec. 16.—The Wind- sor Hotel was destroyed by fire at 2 o'clock this morning. The guests all escaped. The loss is $20,000 and is partially covered by imsurance. ————_—_ Sale of the Oregon Pacific. COPVALLIS, Ore., Dec. 16.—The Oregon Pacific railroad was sold yesterday at auc- tion to Messrs. Clatke and Hughes of New York, receivers of the Blair-Wharton com- mittee, for $1,200,000. There was no other bidder. —_ McKenna’s Murderer Convicted. OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 16.—Barney McGinn, the school janitor who shot contractor Mc- Kenna, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree. ———__ Cattle Dying by Hundreds. GALVESTON, Texas, Dec. 16.—Capt. Jos. F. Nash, an extensive ranchman, reports that in many localities in Western Texas no rain has fallen for five months, and consequently there is no grass, the range in many sections having been completely eaten up. Range cattle have been reduced to skeletons, and even now are dying by hundreds. —__ Heavy Damages Against a Railroad. EMPORIA, Kans., Dec. 16.—The jury in the Texas fever cattle cases have rendered @ verdict of $45,000 against the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad for having last May carried for Hosier Brothers 2,300 head of Texas cattle from Midiand, Texas, to Hartford, Kans., from the importation of which Texas fever was communicated to Kansas cattle, with disastrous results, a INVESTIGATION BEGUN. Hearing Testimony at Richmond Re- garding the Senatorial Nomination. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 16.—The senato- rial nomination investigation began this morning. Represenfative Withrow testified that John Delaney offered to have his cam- paign expenses paid if he would vote for Martin for Senator. Mr. Binford said that he had been offered $000 not to vote for Lee. pattonele~- carol Personal Mention. Mr. F. Charles Hume of Galveston, Tex., who is in attendance on the United States Supreme Court, fs the guest of his relative, Mr, Frank Hume of Alexandria county, Va. o—$____ Will Meet the K. of CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—After some debate embezzler, has again eluded the vigilance of the authorities. Minister Young, our representative in Guatemala, reports the State Department that he has no i formation of the whereabouts of the fu: tive. It is beiieved he has fled to the i tericr of San Saivador. There will be no trouble abcut securing the extradition of | Merage provided he gets captured. i to the American Federation of Labor appoint- ed a committee to meet one from the K. of L. to organize the labor interests har- moniously. —_———_ Range of the Thermometer. The following were the readings of the ther- ™mometer at the weather bureau today: $a m., 58; 2p-m., 55; maximum, 62; minimum, 52. DAVITT’S NAME INVOLVED. The Irish Leader May Figure in the Coughlin Cane. CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—The Evening Post today says: It was gossip around the court room to- Gay that Michael Davitt, the great Irish leader, may figure in the Coughlin trial as @ witness, either personally or by a deposi- tlon taken in London. According to Mrs. Foy’s statement, a letter represented by Coughlin to have been received from Mrs. Davitt was made to serve as Dr. Cronin’s death warrant. Friends of the one-armed hero are satis- fied of the utter impossibility of his hav- ing written such a letter, and he will be asked to make a statement under oath con- cerning the matter. It was at first propos- ed that he should come here to testify, but the plan now is to have him appear before @ magistrate in London and make affidavit to the effect that he never wrote a letter advising the “removal” of Dr. Cronin or any one else. He will also be asked to make a full explanation concerning any letter he may have written to any one in America which contained the sentence: “Remove at all hazards, but use your own discretion.” Mr. Davitt's friends contend that the pretended letter was a forgery by Dan Coughlin or some one back of him, and that Mr. Davitt owes it to himself to enter full and emphatic denial of the letter and So Eepemation of the conspirators and their Attempts to Coerce the Prosecution. The Post says: Hot-headed partisans of the Clan-na-Gael faction to which Dan Coughlin belonged seem willing to resort to desperate measures to induce or compel the men urging the prosecution to abandon the case in which Coughlin is being tried for complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin. A certain prominent lawyer is said to have visited the state’s attorney and threatened that unless the state should not contrive to mismanage the case they would make Dublic alleged facts which, though false, would greatly injure the state’s attorney's reputation. The attempt to coerce him having failed the conspirators turned their attention to Kickham Scanlan, upon whom the state to a great extent depends, It is said that within the last week Mr. Scanlan has been Warned that he had better be “careful” in the case or he would be injured. He was told, it ts said, that he would be waylaid and beaten, if not killed; that a job would be put up on him whereby his reputation Would be destroyed, and he was threatened with the vengeance of the anti-Cronin fac- tion of the Clan-na-Gael. Neither threats nor cajolleries have suffice to influence Mr. Scanlan. PRET THE INVESTIGATION. Gossip at Richmond Over the Senator- ial Caucus. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., Dec. 16.—The many ru- mors and reports in reference to an investi- gation into the methods of the United States senatorial caucus nomination last Thurs- day has reduced the legislature to the distasteful necessity of making an offi- cial inquiry into its own conduct. The mat- ter is reaching serious proportions, It does not seem, however, that the Lee men are taking the initiative in the movement—at least the managers of the defeated candi- date for the senatorship are keeping very quiet on the subject. The counties which have adopted resolutions demanding the in- vestigation, it is true, are those which sup- ported the ex-governor, but it is the under- standing outwardly that the defeated as- pirant is not asking for it, and ig serenely awaiting the voice of the people. It is conceded that the recent fight was @ contest between the people and the poli- ticians. Very few dispute the fact that Gen. Lee had the masses behind him in his fight for the senatorship, and that if a popular vote was taken today for the office he would be overwhelmingly elected. This fact, how- ever, did not overcome the powerful “or- ganization” influence of Martin, It is said that the shrewd political Machiaevel refused to take anything for granted in his canvass. Indeed, he would not take the verbal prom- ises of the members to vote for him, but has now in his possession quite a large col- lection of autographs which may still be of great service to him. After interviews with several members on both sides of the fight The Star correspon- dent learned that each side has been wait- ing for the other. The Lee men are saying that it is “not our funeral. We laid down our arms immediately after the caucus last Thursday, and we can stand it if they can.” On the Martin side they scoffed at the idea of their asking for the investigation, saying, ‘We are satisfied. Our man is the victor. We don’t consider the fraud cry of enough significance to gratify the petty spite of a defeated aspiration.” One of them went far enough to say that he was not afraid that the Lee managers would stir up an investigation, concluding with these significant words: “Let them do it if they dare. In the meantime the masses in their far- off sequestered localities are bestirring and led on by several’ newspa- pers in the state are quietly but firmly de- manding to know the whole truth. The latest county to take action in refer- ence to the senatorship imbroglio is that of Mathews, in tidewater, where at a mass meeting of the democrats a resolution was offered and strongly advocated, condemn- ing the course of their senator, Mr. J. N. Stubbs, for voting for Martin,when the senti- ment of the county is decidedly for Lee. The friends of Mr. Stubbs only saved this resolu- tion from coming to a vote by appealing to the meeting not to condemn Mr. Stubbs un- heard, and it was finally decided to await his statement. Mr. Stubbs says he voted for Martin because he advocates free silver. The election of supreme and circuit court judges is to come up before the legislature immediately after the Christmas holidays. The Times in a strong editorial appeals to the members to “‘soil not the ermine” of the judiciary of Virginia by submitting to trades and combinations in their selection of men to fill these high offices, ———-___ DISTRICT IN CONGRESS. Potomac and Great Falls Ratiroad. Mr. Meredith has introduced a bill in the House granting to the Potomac and Great Falls Railroad Company a right of way fifty feet in width through the Arlington reservation. The bill provides that the road | must be commenced within one year from the passage and completed within three years. The bill was referred to the com- mittee on military affairs. ——._ CAPITOL TOPICS, Pensions to Paymastern’ Clerks. Mr. McAleer of Pennsylvania has intro- duced in the House a bill amending the stat- utes so as to give clerks to pay officers of the navy the pension benefits accorded to all others in the navy. In September, 1886, a law was enacted giving “petty officers” of the navy the benefits of the pension laws of the navy. but pay clerks to officers are ex- cluded. These clerks are generally aboard ships on active service and hold their office by virtue of appointment, similar to that of appointed petty officers. The passage of the bill would not call for any expenditure of the public money from the treasury; the pensions would be paid from the naval pen- sion fund. o-—_____ FORT MONROE. Its Unsanitary Condition and Recom- mendation by Capt. Davis. The Secretary of War sent to the House today a report made by Capt. Davis as to the occupation of the military reservation at Fert Monroe, Va., by civilians. Capt. Davis called attention to the unsanitary condition of Fort Monroe, caused by the bad sewerage, and makes some recom- mendations to remedy the evil. He recommends that Congress shall assess and collect from the extensive commercial interests now occupying the reservation such sums of money as may be required in providing for the public health. He recom- mends that the steamboat companies pay the government for the use of the govern- wharf, also that where buildings on public | jand have been seld or conveyed without the consent of the War Department, and without the acceptance by the new owner ef the original condition imposed on the grantee, and the owner required to vacate | the property. ————_-e An Additional Messenger Needed. ‘The House appropriation committee has received a request from Marshal Ransdell to provide the court house with an addi- tional messenger at $720 per year and an additional laborer at $480. A Known Quantity. It is the practice of The Star to print on Saturday a sworn statement of its circulation day by day for the Preceding week. It would seem seif- evident that the advertiser is entitled to this protection, but The Star is alone in this custom as far as Wash- ington js concerned. Below will be found the statement for the week just past. The average circulation exhibited i believed to be nearly, if not quite, double the combined circulation of the other Washington dailies, and fully five times that of its afternoon contemporary. CIRCULATION OF THE STAR.” SATURDAY, Dec. 9, 1898... MONDAY. Dec. 11, 1893... .... TUESDAY, Dec. 12, 1898.. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 18, 1898. THURSDAY, Dec. 14, 1898... FRIDAY, Dec. 15, 1998... “EVENING 35,407 33,646 Total... ee eeecees cece s 810,308 Daily average... +++ -35,052 T solemnly sweat that the above statement rep- resents only the number of copies of Tur Evgx- ING STaR circulated during® 2e six secular days end- ing Friday, December 15, 199¢—that is, the num- berof copies Actually sold, delivered, furnished ormailed, for valuable consideration, to bona fiae Purchasers or subscribers, and that none of the coples 80 counted were refurned to or remainin the office unsold. J. WHIT. HERRON, Cashier Evening Star Newspaper Co. Subscribed and sworn to before me this six- teenth day of December, A. D. 1998. W. P. VAN WICKLE, Notary Public, D. C. THEY WERE WARNED. (Continued from First Page.) to knowingly permit a gaming table or other gambling device to be set up or kept on his premises, or on premises under his control, and provided a term of imprison- ment not exceeding one year, or a fine not exceeding $500, or both. The fourth section of the act defined a gaming tamble as any game or contrivance at which money should be bet or wagered. Hence, said the dis- trict attorney, while it was possible that the bookmakers and their patrons might suc- cessfully evade the mile-limit law because of the fact that while part of the track lay within the mile limit, the betting ring lay just beyond it, he was perfectly confident that not only they, but also President nge- man and his associates, could be success- fully prosecuted under the act relating to the setting up and keeping of gaming tables or other devices within the District. No Let Up. At any rate, explained Mr. Birney, unless the government was defeated there would be no let-up by him in the prosecution of the offending parties, and as long as they engaged or attempted to engage in violat- ing the taws he would arrest and prosecute them. While the district attorney declined to either deny or affirm it, it was intimated by others that if the police should fail to carry out his instructions he would call to his assistance United States Marshal Rans- dell and his deputies. —_—.__. CAPITOL TOPICS. For the Relief of Gen. Greene. The House committee on military affairs yesterday ordered favorably reported to the House the bill introduced by Mr. Curtis of New York for the relief of Brevet Maj. Gen. George S. Greene of the United States vol- unteers. By the bill the President is authorized to appoint Gen. Greene to the rank of first lieu- tenant of artillery and to place him on the retired list of the army at that grade. The report recommending the passage of the bill contains the military record of Gen. Greene and shows this case to be a rare one. At the time of the breaking out of the war Gen, Greene was about sixty years old. He abandoned a lucrative business to serve his country, which he did for five years with honor and distinction. He is now past ninety-two years of age and entirely de- pendent on his pension, having no other means of support. He is the oldest living graduate of West Point tepid Be teen His advanced age and distinguis! service, the committee think, entitle him to the benefits proposed in the bill, ——— A SAD CASE. A Mother Abando: Her Child and is Sent to Jail. A sad case of leading a young colored girl astray and then abandoning her was brought to light in the Police Court this morning, when Fannie Moore was called on a charge of abandoning her four- months-old child. She plead guilty to the charge. Agent Wilson of the Humane 8So- ciety and Policeman Newkirk were wit- nesses against her. Their complaint was that Fannie had left the child in the vesti- bule of the Mount Vernon Hotel about 6 o'clock Sunday morning. She plead guilty to the charge, and made an explanation of her conduct. Fannie is eighteen years old, and her parents live in Harrisburg, Pa. Three years ago she came here, and, she told the cous, a white man seduced her, She sald she was unable to care for the child, and so she left it in the vestibule of the hotel. Judge Miller said it was a pity that there was no law under which the father could be prosecuted and gave Fannie six months in jail. To a Star reporter the prisoner said she came here about three years ago and soon found employment as chambermaid in the Mount Vernon Hotel. While there she said she was seduced by a white man and that he promised to assist her. When she became fully aware of her condition she went to see a physician and wanted him to destroy the evidences of her downfall, which he promised to do for $5, but she did not have the money and so she was forced to abandon that idea. After the birth of the child its father still refused to give her any money and s0 she was not able to care for.it. She said she had given up her situation at the hotel, but she se- cured a position which paid her $7 a month. With«this she paid $4 for the care of the infant and $2 for condensed milk each month, leaving her only $1 for herself. On this she could not get along and she con- cluded she would have to get rid of the baby. ‘This she tried to do by visiting several institutions, but being unable to get the child in any of them she left it at the hotel where she was certain its father would not miss seeing it, and she thought he would then care for :t. Fannie said that the baby | IN THE HOUSE TODAY. Mr. Cannon Attacks the Pension Bureau Administration. THE GREAT SAVING THAT IS CLATMED He Shows to Be but Very Small Indeed. CONSTRUCTION OF ORDER 164. The Speaker laid before the House the House bill with Senate amendments to provide for three assistant justices of the Supreme Court of the territory of Okla- |homa. Mr. Culberson (Tex.), chairman of the judiciary committee, moved that the | Senate amendments, which reduce the ;Mumber of assistant justices to two, be concurred in and the bill was sent to the President for approval. Early in the morning hour Mr. Breckin- ridge (Ky.) called up the urgent deficiency bill and asked that the first reading of the bill be dispensed with, to which there was no objection. The House went into com- mittee of the whole upon the bill with Mr. Hatch (Mo.) in the chair, and Mr. Cannon took the floor and as predicted in The Star several days ago attacked the administra- tion's policy of suspending pensions pend- ing examinations for fraud. Mr. Cannon on the Pension Adminis- tration. Mr. Cannon stated that the commissioner of pensions and various chiefs of divisions of the pension office had been called before the committee on appropriations and asked many questions in regard to the conduct of business. The commissioner of pensions stated that the actual saving resulting from the investigations for fraud since May 1, when that ruling of Commissioner Loughran went into effect, was something over $1,000,000. On cross-examination it ap- peared that substantially ali of this million ‘Was counted as a saving because certain claims which had ‘never been allowed and never would have been allowed because they would not have tal exami: during this was on! 1,000. Mr. Dingley (Me.) aif y whether the $81,000 included the reductions as well as disallowances for fraud. “Certainly,” replied Mr. Cannon. Con- Unuing, he said that the commissioner of pensions had stated that in the conduct of the business of his office, which disburses from $150,000,000 to $160,000,000 to over a million people, there was no more fraud than in the ordinary conduct of business in the courts. Order No. 164. Mr. Enloe (Tenn.) asked Mr. Cannon who had changed the construction of order No. 164. Mr. Cannon replied that it was done by the present commissioner of pensions and the present Secretary of the Interior. The Fifty-first Congress has made two appropriations, certainly one, to meet the requirements of this, and appropriated $150),- 000,000 for pensions, a large portion of which were adjudicated under that law. When the Fifty-second Congress came in, With its 140 democratic majority in the House of Representatives, that Congress appropriated the mo.ey to meet the require- ments of this law, and did it with the ap- proval of the democratic House. But in the appropriation bill of the Fifty-second Con- gress were certain amendments, which re- voked rule 164 promulgated during the ad- ministration of President Harrison, which affected 400,000 pensioners; that the demo- cratic House refused to accept the amend- ments and they were stricken out of the bill. An Act Akin to a Crime. But in May, 1893, with William Loughian, commissioner of pensions, Hoke Smith, Sec- retary of the Interior, and Grover Cleve- land, President of the United States, the pension office made haste to revoke this order, No. 164, thus cutting off about 400,000 pensioners, and had thus committed an act which was a kin to crime. Mr. Cannon believed that a man seventy- five years of age was entitled to a pension and should be put on the list without con- troversy. He believed that 75 per cent of the men of that age who have gone through a are physically and mentally dis- Mr. Morse (Mass.) said he had the applica- tion of a man of forty-eight years of age that had been refused. Mr. Cannon said he had no doubt of it, but stated that seventy-five years did not necessarily imply physical incapability, and in suppo:t of this he pointed to Mr. Bundy, a Representative from Ohio, who is seventy-six years of age, and to Sen: ator Palmer from his own state of Illinois, seventy-five years of age, who are able to discharge their duties and keep abreast with the youngest. Mr. Eniloe asked whether a man who was entitled to a pension under the laws of 1890 should take precedence of one whose disa- bilities were of service origin. His Time Extended, By unanimous corsent, Mr. Cannon's time was extended in order that he might have an opportunity to further discuss the urgent deficiency bill. He made a com- parison between seven months of the Baum and Lochren administrations. He denied any intention of attacking the pension office, but he would attack the atmosphere that was in the office. Mr. Cannon, in concluding his remarks on the urgency deficiency bill, said that there were over 300,000 cases now awaiting ad- judication under the act of 1890, and 400,000 cases passed upon were placed in jeopardy. He thought representatives in Congress and people throughout the country should raise such a thunder around the ears of this administration as would cause it to, pause in its course of injustice to the soldier. Mr. Livingst 's Defense. Mr. Livingston (Ga.) defended the admin- istration. He read a list of trials and con- victions of those who had fraudulently ob- tained pensions, and referred to the large number of cases which had recently been discovered in Virginia. He thought that no reasonable exception could be taken to the language contained in the President’s mes- sage. He then discussed order 164 and its application, and defended Secretary Smith. — Ja I. King Dead. ‘The many friends of James I. King, the well-known florist, will regret to learn of his death, which occurred at his home, 133y Hi street northeast,this morning, from pneu- monia, Mr. King was one of the oldest in- habitants of Washington, and at one time was the owner of Long Meadows, the large tract of land extending from the toll gate to Mt. Olivet cemetery on the Bladensburg turnpike. By the fluctuations of. fortune, however, he was deprived of all of this was warmly clad and she wrapped it up good in order to protect it against the weather, and she also said that she pinned three notes to the infant's dress and hat. The notes were not produced in court. —_——__—_. Not Confirmed. No confirmation of the rumor that Am- bassador Pauncefote is to be transferred to Turkey has been received at the British embassy, and the impression obtains there that Sir William will remain in Washing- ton for some time to come. $2. —____ The Submarine Boat. ‘The Secretary of the Navy has finally abandoned the idea of building a submarine boat, and will utilize the appropriation of | $200,000 for some other purpose, if the con- sent of Congress can be obtained. Two terpedo boats will probably be constructed with this money. Se ee Court-Martial Findings. The record of the court-martial in the case of Passed Assistant Surgeon Ash- | bridge, tried at Mare Island for conduct | unbecoming an officer and a_ gentleman, has been received at the Navy Department, | but the findings will not be made known until the Secretary upon the case. oe An Assignment. Charles C. Turner, stairbuilder, 15 D street northwest, has made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors to Edwin 8. Thompson. The assets, including real es- tate at Laurel, foot up ©\86406, and Ha- bilities $2,572.41. large property, and in his later years has been foliowiag the occupation of florist on Benning’s road. He was an honest, con- scieatious and Christian-like man, ——>_—_. His Leg Broken. George Fleishall, an eighteen-year-old ap- prentice on the Post, had his leg broken in the office by a truck falling upon him yes- terday. He was taken to the Emergency Hospital and thence to his home, 223 34 street southesat. —__—_. Mistaking Orders Causes a Wreck. MAUCH CHUNK, Pa., Dec. 16.—A col- Msion occurred on the Lehigh Valley rail- road at Packerton at 6:30 o'clock this morn- ing, in which three locomotives were badly battered, though not wrecked. No one was injured. ‘A heavy fog prevailed, and the engines were moving slowly. It was caused by a new engineer mistaking orders. ——~_— Held Up Officers of the Law. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 16.—Two offi- cers went to levy an attachment on a mule of Jake Adams’, colored, in St. Clair county yesterday. They got the mule and were re- turning to Asheville, when twenty-five arm- ed negroes stopped them and at the points of guns compelled them to give up the mule. ess Crazed With Pain. CAMDEN, N. J., Dec. 16—Mrs. Kate Dufford, twenty-eight years of age, of 1106 Crescent street, this city, while suffering from child-birth, seized a penknife and cut her throat early this morning. The phy- sicians say she is dying. Commissioner Powell said to- day to @ reporter of The Star that he was satisfied that the cost of laying these pipes Was an objection in itself, not to mention ; the fact that the: ‘Guchte re were always serious regarding the lution of water through them. It was his intention to give at least a month's notice before or- dering a change in the regulations. Water Meters. It is understood that in a short time the Commissioners will order all establishments using large quantities of water to place | water meters in their places of business, At the present time the engineer depart- ment is getting all data obtainable on the use of water meters for the Purpose of showing the benefit derived from their use in this city. When a reporter of The Star sked Engincer Commissioner Pow verification of the above he Bort actn oD that such a report was in progress and fur- ther that it was the policy of the engineer department to urge the introduction of water meters to all large consumers. He said that something must be done to cur- tail the extravagant use of water for an- other dry summer would seriously embar- rass the water department and cause a great hardship to the citizens. It is impos- sible to increase the water supply by next summer, so, of course, the only other way of remedying the approaching evil was to introduce water meters. Underground Trolleys. John Presler of Fort Wayne, Ind., had a hearing before the Commissioners this morning with reference to a new system of underground trolley. His system is known as the Bradley general electric conduit sys- tem. Only one trolley wire is used. Police Force Privates. James W. Campbell has been appointed a Private of the first class on the Metropol- itan police force. Transfer System. Gen. Charles E. Wheeler, member of Con- gress from Mississippi, had a conference with Commissioner Ross this morning, and urged the Commissioners to adopt a system of transfers on street cars by conductors. He pointed out the dangers method, and cited the condi at 15th street as an example. Here, said, people had to cross the tracks twice, and were liable to great danger. promised, however, to give the matter more consideration. Plans Modified. The Commissioners have modified the of the present Commissioner Ross said the Commission-| ers had considered the idea, but the railroads thought it impracticable. He FINANCE AND TRADE. Industrials Lend a Moderate Air of Activity to Speculation, LST OF RAILWAY STOCKS HEAVY. list was heavy on prospects of a con! tion of decreased earnings resulting adverse trade conditions in all parts of country. St. Paul sold down to 613-8 on the bear party on the denial of the Sugar gained 13-4 | to make the per cent. hour, i plans for sewering Washington and Jack- son streets, Anacostia, and have ordered sewers to be laid in the middie of the street. Doubling Up. ‘ The attorney for the District to- day that where a man has con tel tia in the same building fronting-on different streets he is required to have two liquor licenses. —_ THE JEZREEL CHURCH ROW. The Rule Against Pastor Stewart Dis- missed by Judge Hagner. In the equity case growing out of the troubles in Mt. Jezreel Baptist Church, Sth street and South Carolina avenue south- east, In which the bill filed by Charles Hall and Moses Walton, two of the trustees, against the pastor, Philip Stewart, tO re- strain him from occupying the pulpit, the latter, this morning, filed his answer, and the rule to show cause was dismissed. The answer states that he was elected Pastor April 28, last; that on the llth in- stant less than a majority met and a mo- Uon or resolution purporting to remove him was adopted by a majority of that number, not more than twenty-seven. He states the meeting was not a regular, lawful or valid one becaure it was not called by prop- er authority, or due notice, and the first in- timation he had of it was the announce- ment made by Hall Sunday night, to which he replied that sufficient notice had not been given and it was not his duty to give notice. Then another trustee (one Philip Reeves) asked the object of the meet- holds for its guidance the Baptist Church Directory, under which notices of business meetings shall be given from the pulpit. He denies that he engaged in a fight or created disorder, and asserts that $5 only was re- ceived by him through Wm. C. Cox, and knows nothing of the $50 He also filed the affidavits of ter, George White and Sandy Green in #1 port of his answer. The case came up morning before Justice Hagner in the an- swer to the rule to show cause, Mr. James H. Smith oppeering for the complainants and Mr. B. F. Leighton for the defendant, and after argument the judge said that this was an unfortunate state of affairs growing out of some fixing up to gain a little tem- porary advantage, and it was a burlesque on the canons of religion. It was no won- der one not a Christian long ago said: “See how these Christians love each other.” The pastor had refuted the charges and shown that the meeting had not been regularly called; that not more than twenty-seven voted for the motion or resolution set forth when there were 150 members. He dis- charged the rule. —_——. OF THE LILY VARIETY. They Pay No License but Sell Just the Same. The stringency in the money market dur- ing this year has had its effect upon the Police Court and the amount ef fines for the year, as compared with the amount ol-,' lected last year, will show a decrease of about $25,000. With the exception.of about $2,000 the shortage falls on the District side of the court and the District treasury will consequently be the sufferer. Last year the fines paid in United States and District cases amounted to about $67,000, while this year the total will be about $42,000. It is generally conceded that the dullness of the money market has caused the large decrease, while a portion of it is said to be due to the failure of the police to arrest the proprietresses of houre of disrepute in the “Division” for selling Nquor in their houses in violation of law. The liquor is | sold as usual, so it is said, but since the penalty has been made from $250 to $800 no cases have been made. Previous to the enactment of the high license law cases were made on the proprietresses of these houses and they were permitted to forfeit their collaterals, which aggregated several thousand dollars. Some of them were levied upon in this way twice a year. ow they are reither licensed nor prosecuted, but are jtted to sell right along in violation of w. The action of the police in South Washington some months ago drove out the cecupants of disreputable houses along the line of Maryland avenue near the foot of the Capitol and a number of them jetf this city, while others, it is thought, moved to the “Division.” reputable houses and about 70 of them sell Nquor. The license tax from this number, or the imposition of the lowest penalty in each case, would amount to $17,500, but not a single one of them pays the license tax. This is because the Commissioners refuse to license such places. The police have re- ported the number of cases of such violation to the Commissioners and the question as to what action they are to take has been under consideration for some time, but no decision has yet beeen reached. "In the meanwhile the seventy “speak easies” will @ispense bottles of beer and wine at ex- | orbitant prices and reap a harvest, while the neighboring saloons are paying the license tax. In cases of applications for liquor li- censes the police are required to state the number of places in the neighborhood wher« Mquor is sold, and in some instances in the “division” twenty houses of ill-fame are | mentioned as seiling liquor within the limit required for signers for a single saloon. The police are resting easy in the matter, — orders from their superior authori- ies. dannii He Took Morpi . Thomas McGuire on Sunday last, after a long spree, took the pledge, but remained sober until Thursday only, when he re- near 12th street northwest, upbraided him for his instability, and last evening he took ten grains of morphine as a convenient mode to get out of the way. He was taken to the Emergency Hospital, and by the ef- forts of the physicians his life was saved. ———— Government Receipts Today. The receipts from internal revenue today Were $304,24; from customs, $256,826. ing, but was not told. He states that, in | common with Baptist socteties, the church There are in this locality nearly 100 dis-| } turned to his cups. His family, living on H | $290,000 in ee ee offset by its resulting from a gain of “Peioo0.000 in beans. The latter (far the most encouraging | report, as ft is from this first genuine improvement dig Fe a Pe RaEFE ily 5 i Hf E Li i ar ai} iy TEE i eff i i z i “it os re te ki? r 3 t 4H &, i gs PF) } i f [ E h 3 Fel halt th ft E z 3 | i ii I H f if | i | : Vi asked. 32° } 3 £ i at f i ! rf i jon nominal middli —creamery. fancy, 30831: Go. | do. imitation. 24825; Indie. choice, 18021; Tolls, fine, 1a2t: store packed, 17aiR, changed. BALTIMORE, Dec. 16.— Virginia To Wid: Baltimore and Onto Consolidated Gas bonds, 115% ter . fair t fancy.