Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. New York Oiies, 68 Potter Building. ee THe Fvexixe STAR is served to subseribers in city by carriers, on their own secount, at 10 cet week. or t4-. Coptes at the conn’ cents each. By meil—anywhere in the Untted States or Canads—postage pre; 50 cents per Month. i SATURDAT QUINTUPLE SRERFT Stan $1.00: year: th Joreion postage added. SL OO. = (Entered at the Post Office at Wi ion, D. C., as seconn class mail matter. ee €2-A)1 mail sabeTiptions mnst be paid in advance. Pates of atvertisine u known on application Che Zvening Star. Vor 84, No. 20,782. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1894-TWELVE PAGES TWO CENTS. CHANGED SENTIMENT | On the Part of Democrats Who Sup- ported Cleveland’s Hawaiian Policy CAUSED BY LATEST CORRESPONDENCE Some Resolution Like That Offered by Mr. Holman WILL PROBABLY BE PASSED. The publication of the latest Hawaiian correspondence has evidently produced @ considerable change of sentiment amongst those democrats who have been contending for the infallibility of Mr. Cleveland in whatever policy he pursues. Something so revolting in the character of Lilluokalani is revealed by these dispatches that nobody appears to have the courage to confess to any sympatny for her or her defunct mon- archy. The proposition to pass a resolu- tion in the House merely condemnatory of Mr. Stevens it is the purpose of the demo- crats to abandon. The proposition of the managers of the House is to give two days to the consideration of the Hawaiian mat- ter immediately after the customs bill is disposed of and before the internal revenue bil is taken up. They generally regard the correspondence es tendering absurd the resolution of the committee on foreign af- fairs and impossible the attempt to ignore completely the situation since the retire- meat of Mr. Stevens. A Resolution Like Holman’s to Be Adopted. The belief {s that the resolution prepared by Mr. Holman, or something similar to it, declaring against any attempt at restor- ation of the monarchy will be adopted. ‘This would imply a disapproval of Mr. Cleveland's course probably, but they don’t see how the matter can be ignored, and it is impossible, in the light of this corre- spondence, to take any action sympathetic with Liliuokalani. The administration's sup- porters find it difficult to withstand the shame and ridicule which the latest dis- patches provoke. The greatest astonish- ment is e: at the course of Mr. Cleveland in suppressing from his first communication to Congress the dispatch of Mr. Willis, in which the character of Liliuokalani in all its bloodthirstiness ana savagery is disclosed. No explanation is offered, and the practicdlly universal in- terence is that the only motive for with- holding the dispatch could have been to avoid the prejudice of his case in Con- gress. Severe criticism is passed upon this action as being deceptive. Another Complication. Another complication of the situation not calculated to be agreeable to the adminis- tration is presented in the news brougnt by the last steamer, that the provisional government would not resist a request from Congress similar to that made by Mr. Willis. The proposition coming in this way puts the matter directly at Congress of whether or not they approve of Mr. Cleveland’s course as far as he has gone, since by approving of it they can secure what he aimed at. A failure on their part to approve conveys an unqualified disap-_ Proval of Cleveland’s whole policy. ‘hey ere thus put in a position where it is difti- cult to dodge. Mr. Dingley's Views. Representative Dingley of Maine said: “There are two very striking elements of the present situation. The first is the state- ment of the queen that she was not deposed through the efforts of ex-Minister Stevens, but by the men now in possession of the provisional government. The other is the indication of the queen's true character, in her intimation of a wish to behead the mem- bers of the provisional government. “Tt is certainly a most astonishing thing that the administration of a republic like this has been engaged for months in an @@ort to restore @ government of age and barbaric tendencies as the queen's has been shown to be.” The Matter Seems to Rest With Con- gress. | Representative Cannon of Illinois said: “I have read the President's message trans- mitting the correspondence between Minis- ter Willis and President Dole of the pro- visional government, and the correspon- dence. including President Dole’s repiy to the demand of the minister that the pro- visional government commit hari-kari, and assent to the re-establishment of the mon- archy. I feel chagrined and humiliated that Mr. Dole’s repiy to such a demand places the United States in the wrong and that the facts render the United States powerless to do anything in the premises | unless it be by force to overthrow a friendly government, whose only sin is that it dares to live and assert its right to live. At last the whole matter seems to rest with Congress. I am sure the minority will not favor a declaration of war against a friendly government without cause and I do not believe that even the democratic | majority will dare to comply with either the wish or the request of the administra- tion in such a course.” Decelved Congress and the People. Representative Loud of California sald: “After a careful review of the correspon- dence, and from my construction of the English language, I am led to believe that only the discretion of Minister Willis, and not the instructions of the administration. prevented him as late as December 23, the | @ate on which the Corwin returned from} using all the power vested in a minister to use the forces of the United States to de- bose the provisional government. | “The correspondence can only lead one to believe, who understands the English | language, that the administration has de- ceived the Congress and the people. Mr. Outhwaite's Opinion. } | Representative Outhwaite, speaking of the | latest developments tn the Hawatian ques-| tion, said to a Star reporter today that the | matter presented a most difficult problem | and one which was necessarily very embar- | rassing to Congress. He said that as a} simple proposition he did not hesitate to say | that Mr. Cleveland was right in the position | he had taken in this matter. He said that he had no question in his mind that if it} had not been for Mr. Stevens there would | have been no revolution. He had no qj 1 tion in his mind that this government as | responsible for the overthrow of the mon-| archy and that a wrong had been done, | which it was our duty to correct. | So that, primarily, Mr. Cleveland was | Fight The facts disclosed, however, that the ex-queen is savage and bloodthirsty and such a terrible character, as disclosed by the reports of her interviews with Mr. | Wiis, being. m the moral question of the right of a government to lend it assist-| ance to the maintenance of barbaric | monarchy. “This consideration,” he said. | “has to be measured against the duty oh this government to correct a great wrong | committed through its agents. There is something abhorrent to enlightened peo- | ple In the suggestion of maintaining a wo- man of this kind in power and the question Presented is extremely perplexing. ————————_- 2 _____ Silver Movements. The issue of standard silver dollars from | the mints and treasury offices for the week | ended January 13, 184, was 8; for corresponding period last year was $210,819. The : r fractional silver coins i3th instant aggregated } FORD'S THEATER DISASTER First Meeting of the Senate Committee to Determine Damages. Col. Ainsworth Presents an Official List of the Killed and Injured—A Board of Medical Experts. The select committee designated by the Senate to investigate the Ford's Theater disaster and to determine the liability of the government for the damages and in- juries resulting from that accident met this morning at 11 o'clock in the room of the District committee of the Senate. The meeting was called for 10:30 o'clock, but at that hour Senator Harris was the only member present. Senator Manderson arriv- ed in a few minutes and Senator White a little later, while Senator McMillan reached the rooms just at 11 o'clock. It was de- cided not to wait for Senator Faulkner,who was to have returned to the city today from his wedding trip. The committee was called to order by Senator Harris, who directed that the room be cleared of all except the members of the committee, its clerk, Mr. Milliken, and Col. Ainsworth, the witness of the day. It had been de- cided to hold the sessions behind ciosed doors. Col. Ainsworth’s Testimony. Col. Ainsworth told the committee in the hour in which it occupied in this ses- sion of the occurrence leading up to the ac- cident and the nature of the work going on in the building. He presented a statement prepared by him last week in anticipation of the hearing today which showed the exact number of persons involved in the disaster, of which the following is a gen- eral summary: Twenty people were killed outright; two died after the accident from causes directly traceable to the shock then received; one, Bollinger, has since died, but it is not cer- tain that his death was directly the result of the accident; about seventy-two were in- jured in such a way that there is no doubt that their condition is directly the result of the accident; while twelve claim to have been injured in ways that are not fully demonstrated officially. This statement simplifies the work of the committee great- ly. Dr. Ainsworth was examined at as much length as time would permit to the effect of classifying, as far as possible, the character of the injuries and their extent. A Medical Board of Experts. At a few minutes after 12, the Senate then being Mm session, the e°mmittee aa- journed to meet at 10:30 on Wednesday, when Dr. Ainsworth’s examination will be continued before, it is hoped, a full com- mittee. It is understood that the commit- tee has decided that the best way to de- termine the exact nature of the injuries and the true scale of damages to be paid by the*government is to create a medical board of experts, to be composed of one officer from the medical corps of the army, one from the medical corps of the navy and one from the marine hospital service. This board could then sctentifically ex- amine all of the survivors claiming com- report could be accepted by the committee, whose duties then could be confined to a semi-legal view of the situation for the purpose of fixing upon the exact rate of [mgd The committee do not wish to bothered by medical questions, and in reality the investigation into. individual cases will practically amount to a con- sideration of anatomical facts. They are willing, and even anxious, to refer to sucn a sctentitic board all of these physical matters, reserving to themselves the more strictly judicial jurisdiction over the scale of damages. This will greatly simplify the work of the committee, for the board of ex- aminers could be so constituted as to prac- tically devote their entire time to the mat- ter and thus condense the entire work into a few sessions. + @ + MORE REPORTS RECEIVED. Which the President Did Not Transmit to Congress. The correspondence sent to Congress Sat- | KILLED INSTANTLY. Nine-Year-Old School Boy Shoots Himself Before His Teacher. LIPTLE GROVER HUMMER THE VICTIM. Almost a Panic Created Among the Pupils, IT WAS AN ACOIDENT. bape. A shocking accident, resulting in the death of Grover Hurmer, aged nine, oc- \curred this morning in the Cranch public school building, at the corner of 12th and G | streets southeast. Shortly after 9 o'clock | the building rang with the report of a pis- tol and the pupils of the third grade came \rushing panic stricken down the stairs. |Grover Hummer, while exhibiting a revol- ver, accidentally shot himself in the fore- head and died almost immediately. The last bell for the assembling of school had rung and the pupils were in their seats when Grover Hummer entered the school room with a large revolver in his hand. The teacher was in the hall at the time. The little fellow stood at the heater and proudly held the weapon aloft. One of the pupils rushed into the cloak room and call- |ed for the teacher, exclaiming: “Grover Hummer has a pistol.” When the teacher appeared the little fellow, either through fear or by accident, raised the pistol and pulled the trigger. The ball entered the forehead about the central point, and he fell to the floor with blood gushing from the ragged wound. The teacher ran at | Once to the tiny form and tried to stay the crimson flow. In a moment the school was in an uproar. Fifty little boys and girls \Tan panic stricken from the room, crying | aloud. A Panic Averted. Realizing the awful results of a panic the teacher left the prostrate form and rushed |happened. Ail of the pupils in the building by this time were aroused at the hurrying sounds and frightened voices of the little jones upstairs and rushed to the doors. The | teachers, however, were prepared—calmly and deliberately they barred the entrance return to their seats, adding that only an accident had happened upstairs to one of | the boys and that the building was all safe. But for -this prompt action a frightful | catastrophe might have resulted. The chii- dren returned to their seats with the ex- ception of those in the school room where |the accident occurred. They rushed pell-|the work that has long since needed to be | ness, - |mell down the staircase and stood huddled done there. W' OE cada Uh ee Ce ceiiten | MECMAT AE the: Gor line ec Snag flexion: t [ed sheep. Miss L. J. Burroughs,the teacher of the pe sent word to b4 eerie y to lrepair to the play . She called to \three 6f the boys and Gispatched eer. a | doctor, one tor a policeman and the er \for the little boy’s father. Dr. John 5. | Watsh responded at once, but when he ar- |rived life was extinct. Supe! Prin- |cipal Freeman was also sent for and he |conveyed the remains to the little fellow’s | home, 1207 K street southeast. An Accident. Deceased was one of the brightest pupils |in his class, endowed with a sunny dispo- sition and a universal favorite with both | pupils and teacher. There is no doubt that jthe shooting was an accident. ‘rhe little fellow was the son of George Hummer, the well known butcher in the Center Market. When a reporter of The Star visited the home of the bereaved family he found the mother wild with anguish. The father st: \and ordered the children in stern tones to | THE HAWAIIAN INVESTIGATION No Witnesses Appeared Before the Senate Committee Today. What the Naval Officers Who Have Testified Have Endeavored to Impress Upon the Committee. The Senate committee investigating Ha- walian affairs met this morning, and, for the first time since they began work, there was no witness to testify. It was thought that Lieutenant Commander Swinburne would be present, but.owing to illness he was again compelled to remain away. The committee put in much of the morning in conference over the testimony so far ad- ! duced, and in a discussion of the latest message of the President, which contained the real news of the situation, the report of Mr. Willis as to what he learned after he reached Honolulu, and the last instructions sent him. The President having peremptor- ily stopped Mr. Willis in the matter of further negotiations, the committee feels that there is little need of undue haste, and may from this time on take more time, and not meet quite so frequently. Broad Scope of the Inquiry. The appearance before the committee Sat- urday of a naval officer whose testimony | bore upon events of twenty years ago and | the general subject of the importance of the islands from a commercial and naval stand- point indicates that the committee will, be- , fore it finishes its task, make its investiga- | tton about as broad as any person couldwish. | Ii is understood that all these naval officers have told the committee of the importance , of these islands from a naval standpoint, and the fact that the treaty with Hawaii ‘under which Pearl harbor was ceded to the ; United States for a term of years will soon ‘expire lends an additional importance to this character of evidence. These naval officers are all of the opinion that unless the United States is of some solid and permanent foothold in the } Pacific, the government would be greatly crippled in case of war in which a naval demonstration in the Pacific was necessary. The kind of a station needed, they all said, | Was one that could be guarded and pro- tected by our own forces und under the ab- to the head of the steps. She called at the solute control of this government. The ex- | construct and operate, and maintain a wing top of her voice to the supervising princi- perience of naval officers who have served | dam, canal and power station in the Missis- pal, Mrs. Peabody, and told her what had !2 Hawaiian waters’ leads them to believe | sippi river in Hancock county, Illinois, was that the foreign element there is endeavor- ing to defeat an extension of the treaty after it shall have expired, which will be in | less than two years, : Importance of Acting Now. Acting upon the assumption that this con- dition of affairs may come to pass, these | Officers have endeavored to show the great jtmportance of acting now in a way that will frustrate such a calamity in the future. | These officers have also called the attention | of the committee to the need of active work | being done in the matter of establishing the Pearl river coaling station and completing ithout exception these men | are favorable to prompt action to increase | the power of the United States in and about | the Hawatian Islands. It is understood that, | without exception, Fags officers are favor- able to the annexat proposition and have end to make the committee see the } ait in Ught. | A humber of the witnesses who pre | tes were before the; ittee this morning for the purpose of reading the notes of their testimony and subscribing to the evidence. The committee will meet again tomorrow, ——-o+____ MR. BOUTELLE’S RESOLUTION, The Speaker's Implied Threat to the Maine Representative. The usual morning incident of an attempt on the part of Mr. Boutelle to get up his | Hawalian resolution in the House was | Varied today by the introduction of con- siderable disorder, and an implied threat |- |ed, in reply to a question, that the pistol; Was made by the Speaker that if the gen- bom Lashegpiocrpataaten ey tadee | with which his son shot himself was one of | tleman from Maine persisted in his viola. forces at Honolulu since he assumed com- | mand. These were forwarded to the Navy Department by the steamer Corwin and ar- rived in Washington in the same mail that | bo: brought the reports of Minister Willis and | accompanying documents. The withholding of the naval reports on the situation in Hawail from Congress ard the public is the subject of much comment, especially as there seems to have been nothing in them that could not have been published without prejudice to the public service. The Corwin Not to Return to Hono- Jal It is settled that the revenue steamer Corwin will noc be sent back te Honolulu, except in the totally unlooked for event that Congress shall take action that will necessitate communication with Minister Willis of a character so important that it could not await the regular mail. Capt. Munger’s mysterious management of the Corwin at San Francisco after her return from Honolulu is said at the Treas- ury Department to have been due to spe- citie instructions from Minisier Willis to | have no communication with the shore until after the arrival of the next mail steamer from Honolulu. plan was to get Min ister Willis’ account of the failure of his mission in the hands of the President before the public was in- formed on the subject. The plan failed completely through press dispatches from Auckland and by fuller advices from Vic- toria, B. C., brought by the Warimoo. + ©+_____ SOME SHARP CRITICISM. On the Administration’s Holding Back Willi’ Last Instractions. Considerable unfavorable comment is be- ing made by anti-Kanaka members of the House upon the action of the administra- tion in withholding from the public the in- structions forwarded to Minister Willis last Saturday until after the steamship Mari- posa had sailed for Honolulu. This action is branded as being small and petty in the extreme, as It apparently was for the pur- pose of keeping the people of Honolulu in suspense for a week or two longer as to the instructions given Minister Willis for his future actions. While the public here knows that those instructions were to refrain from further action the people of Honolulu will not be aware of that and will only be kept on the anxious seat until the arrival of the next steamer. Considerabie astonishment and amuse- ment has been caused among the anti- Kanaka members by the intimation that the administration is so firmly convinced of the virtue of its policy as to believe, even at this late date, that Congress will ulti- mately uphold the President's actions in at- tempting to restore the queen. This state- ment is received with incredulity by mem- bers, but when they are gravely assured that such is said to be the belief enter- tained at the State Department their as- tonishment gives way to amusement, ——--2+___ Incendiarism Charged at Elkton. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. ELKTON, Md., Jan. 15.—Charles Ernest, a barber on Main street, was arrested this morning, charged with firing the Howard House last night. He was held for the March term of court. —__. Editor Sigel of Milwaukee Dend. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 1 —Herman Sigel, editor-in-chief of the Milwaukee Abend Post, died at 7:15 o'clock last even- | ing after having been bedridden with kid- ney disease for four weeks. The object of this , the Smith and Wesson pattern, 32 caliber. He kept it locked up in a bureau drawer. | ‘The little fellow had evidently found it this | mcrning and took it to school to show the ys. Coroner Woodward viewed the remains jand after questioning the teacher and sev- eral of the pupils, decided that an inquest | Was unnecessary and gave a certificate of death, due to an accident. TO PROVIDE BODIES, A Bill of Interest to Medical Men Fav- erably Reported. Senator Gallinger this morning presented | the report of the committee on the District | of Columbia on the bill for “the promotion of anatomical science and to prevent the desecration of graves in the District of Co- jlumbia.”" This bill was introduced on the 14th of December by Mr. Morrill, and the committee reports it favorably, with cer- |tain minor amendments. The committee's report is as follows: “A bill having for its purpose the end contemplated by this legislation passed both houses of the Forty-ninth Congress, but | Was vetoed on the ground that it did not sufficiently guard against possible ubuses and did not, with sufficient definiteness, designate the authorides to whom the bodies of the unknown and pauper dead |should be delivered. In the Fifty-first Coa- |gress a bill was introduced similar to the |present one, drawn to meet the objections lof the veto, which passed the Senate, but was not considered by the other branch of | Congress. In the second session of the Fift! ‘ond Congress a favorable was made on the same bill. tee are of the opinion that the proposed ‘legislation is both necessary and proper. | We are not unmindrul of the fact that in | the non-professional mind there is a nat- | ural repugnance to turning over the boaies of the dead for the purpose described in this bill, but at the present day the de- mands of science, the welfare of the liv- | ins, have swept away many of the preju- diced and utilitarian notions of the past. far as your committee are aware, no complaints have arisen in the states under the operation of similar laws, some of which are less carefuly guarded than this.” report Your commit- T Bill. | The bill provides that public officers in | charge of hospitals, prisons, alms houses, | Jails, morgues or asylums within the Dis- | trict may deliver to the authorized agent |of any medical colleges in the District tne | bodies of such deceased persons as are re- | quired to be buried at the public expense. |The committee recommends that the bill |be amended by taking out the word alms | house and the word asylum, and of also | strikirg out the provision that the bodies shall be distributed among the colleges in proportion to the number of their students. The bill provides that the agents or ine medical colleges shall give bonds of s2u0 each for the satisfactory disposal and dis- position of the bodies, and it further pro- Vides that any person who shall sell or buy such bodies or in any way traffic in them, or who shall disturb or remove bodies from graves in which they have been buried, may be imprisoned, on conviction, for a term of not less than two nor more than three years at hard labor in the District jail. ——_—____+e+______ For Promotion, A naval board composed of Admiral Greer and Commodores Walker and Meade has been ordered to convene at the Navy De- | partment on the 23a instant for the ex- amination of Capt. Lester A. Beardslee for promotion to the grade of commodore. Capt. Beardslee is in command of the naval | Station at Port Royal, N. C., | Mon of order in the House some steps would be taken to bring him to an account- ability for it. Mr. Boutelle rose as usual to present his Proposition for the consideration of his Hawaiian resolution, and the Speaker, hold- ing to his former rulings, announced that the only thing in order was to proceed with the consideration of the tariff. Mr. Bou- telle, however, continued to talk, and in a voice which could not be drowned by the hammering of the Speaker's gavel proceed- ed to denounce the course of the Speaker and the suppression of the Hawaiian reso- {lution at this time as an outrage upon the American Congress and upon the American | people. \ The Speaker repeatedly ordered him x0 | take hia seat, which he finally did, and the Speaker then said that there was a Mmit ; to the right of the gentleman to interfere with the order of the House, and that there must be aw limit to the patience of the House in enduring his violation of the rules, and said that there must be some power in the House which could be invoked by the majority to compel the preservance of the rules and good order in the House. — TO ISSUE BONDs, The Administration Figari: tling the Question 1 Every effort is being made to induce Secretary Carlisle to issue bonds without waiting for legislation on that point and ; he has already received several offers to | take large amounts of bonds. It is semi- officially stated that there is a strong prob- ability that if Congress fails to come to his relief within the next fifteen days Secre- tary Carl may deem it necessary to issue $30,000,000 of bonds under the resump- tion act for the purpose of maintaining | the gold reserve intact. The bonds, if is- sued, will be sold only for gold, but the | detalls as to how long they will run, at what prices they will be sold and how placed on the market, &c., have not as yet | been considered. | This proposed plan of the Secretary, it is | said, is the result of careful consideration | and, of course, meets with the approval of the President. The small amount of the | proposed issue, it is understood, has been determined upon simply to tide the treas- ury over its needs until Congress can take | up the whole financial question and dispose of it. —————__-o- —__—_. RED-LETTER DAY. Two Fine Tariff Speeches Delivered in the House Satarday, Last Saturday was a red-letter day among | the democrats in the debate on the tariff. Two of the recognized leading orators on the democratic side—Mr. Bourke Cockran of New York and Mr. Bryan of Nebraska— hele the House and galleries enthralled for several hours. Mr. Cockran came first, be- ginning in the afternoon, and for more than one hour occupied the undivided attention of all hearers. His speech was frequently interrupted by enthusiastic bursts of ap- plause, and the chairman was constrained upon several occasions to admonish the oc- |cupants of the galleries to restrain their enthusiasm. A recess was taken for dinner, and in the evening Mr. Bryan of Nebraska, who is called out in his country “the silver-tongued orator of the Platte,” took up the skein of eloquence where Mr. Cockran had dropped lit and wove another web of oratory around j his hearers, holding them spellbound for the time. Aside from the oratorical effects | which both speakers produced, their argu- | ments for the Wilson bill and tariff reform |received the commendation of the demo- cratic members, IN CONGRESS TODAY. The Senate Occupied Mostly in Executive Session. MR. BOUTELLES RESOLUTION AGAIN. The Tariff Debate Continued in the House. SOME SPEECHES MADE. ———_>_—_ After prayer, and when the secretary be- gan to read the journal of Friday last, there ‘were only two seats occupied on the demo- cratic side of the chamber, one of them by the populist Senator from South Dakota, while the republican side was represented by at least a dozen Senators. Before the reading of the journal was finished many Senators entered the chamber. There was but a thin sprinkling of spectators in the Balleries, The usual morning crop of petitions against the Wilson tariff bill, in favor of government control of telegraphs and on various other subjects, was gathered in and stowed away. House bill to authorize the onstruction and maintenance of a dam or dams across the Kansas river within Shawnee county, Kan., was reported from the committee on commerce and was, at the request of Mr. Martin (Kan.), considered and passed. Gov. Pennoyer’s Statement Condemned The resolution adopted by the Portland, Ore., chamber of commerce on the 6th in- stant, condemning the statements of Gov. Pennoyer in his Christmas day open letter to the President, as to the impoverished condition of the people of Oregon—as in- jurious and not warranted by the facts— ‘was presented by Mr. Mitchell (Ore.), read and referred to the committee on education and labor. Senate bill granting to the Des Moines Rapids Power Company the right to erect, taken from the calendar and passed. Also House bill to extend to February 18, 1°96, the time for the construction of the Choc- taw Coal and Railway Company. Also House bill granting certain lands (2,- 115 acres, at the junction of the Colorado and Gila rivers) for the use of the territor- ial prison. Mr. Hill (N.Y.) rose to move to go into executive session, but first asked Mr. Gal- linger (N.H.), who had given notice of an intention to address the Senate today on the tariff question, whether he would be willing to postpone his speech till tomorrow, to which Mr. Gallinger replied that his speech was not so important as that he should let it interfere with executive busi- and that, besides, as he was suffering from a severe cold, he would prefer to post- pone it till tomorrow. In Executive Session. “In that case,” said Mr, Hill, “I move that the Senate do now proceed to the con- sideration of executive business.” The motion was agreed to, and, at 12:42, the floor and: galleries were cleared, the doors locked, and the Senate was shut up in executive session of the chamber in order to wrestle in undisturbed privacy with the question of the nomination of Mr. Horn- blower as associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. THE HOLSE. The close of the general debate on the Wilson bill had the effect of thinning out the attendance of members on the floor and of visitors in the gallery. On the demo- cratic side, in particular, was this attenua- tion apparent, and only about thirty dem- ocratic members were present at the begin. ning of today’s session. When the Speaker's table had been cleared of the exclusive communications and Senate resolutions and bills, Mr. Crain (Texas) asked unanimous consent to consider Sen- ate bill granting to the Aransas Pass Har- bor Company the right to improve Aransas taken up and passed. Committees having been called for reports without producing any important results, Mr. Boutelle (Me.) endeavored to again call up his Hawaiian resolution, but failed. The Tariff Debate. The first debate in the House this after- noon after the tariff bill had been read and taken up for amendment grew out of the advocacy by Mr. Deforest, a democrat from Connecticut, of the amendment of Mr. Payne (N.Y.) to increase duty on leaf to- bacco unstemmed from $1 to $2 per pound. Mr. Marsh (1) took Mr. Deforest to task for his inconsistency in standing on the democratic platform and yet asking pro- tection for the farmers of Connecticut. —_—__-e~_— ‘TARIFF AMENDMENTS, They Were Simply Correction Without Significance as to Ci of Sentiment. The amendments to the tariff bill adopted by the committee were of a technical char- acter, corrective of a few of the incon- gruities, and were of no significance as showing any change of sentiment or of purpose on the part of the committee. It has not developed yet what course the op- ponents of the bill will follow nor how ef- fective will be their opposition. There has | een no canvass made by the committee | and they are as ignorant of what they have to contend against as are the public. | They are waiting until some amendment | shall be acted on to disclose the sentiment | of the House. A caucus on the tariff and the income tax questions is still being talk- ed of and there will, in all probability, be one held. As to Sugar. It is known to be the belief of the com- mittee that the amendment wiping out the sugar bounty and putting a tax on sugar will be adopted, and most of the | democrats of the committee would like to see this done, though they have not | been willing of their own motion to re- verse their action on this matter. It is | asserted that the republicans in the House will vote to add the income tax feature to the customs bill, believing that if this is | done it may compel eastern democrats to vote against and defeat the whole measure. ———__-e-—. javal Orders. Lieut. John C. Wilson has been ordered as executive of the Vesuvius February 14; Ensign Houston Eldridge, to examination for promotion; Lieut. John B. Briggs has been detached from the Vesuvius and | granted three months’ leave; Boatswain | Jchn McLaughlin, from the Fern and or- dered to the Dale, at Washington. —————__-e+______ Pardon Refused. The President has denied the application for clemency in the case of Squire Jackson, convicted in the District of Columbia of promoting policy playing, and sentenced, October 29, 1893, to 120 days’ imprisonment in jail. The President says: “There seems to be no doubt of the guilt of this prisoner, and it appears that he is an old offender against the laws for the suppression of lot- teres and policy. His time will soon expire if his conduct continues good in prison, and I am convinced that the circumstances of his family do not justify me in granting @ pardon.” | CRISIS APPROACHING. Vigorous American Action Probable in Concentration of Naval Forces Means Something—Arbitration Talked of by the United States, * It is expected that the policy of the ad- ministration in the Brazilian affair will be developed within the next few weeks. The fleet now in the harbor of the Brazilian capital consists of four of the finest ships of the new navy, to wit: San Francisco (flagship), Charleston, Newark and Detroit. It will be increased before the week is out by the big armored cruiser New York, which as a fighting machine undoubtedly outclasses any other vessel in the harbor. The big monitor Miantonomoh, which was originally destined for service in Brazil, is still at Norfolk. She may continue her cruise as far south as the West Indies, but there is no longer any prospect of her going to Rio. The Secretary of the Navy has evidently reached the conclusion that it would be a waste of money to send her on such a long cruise, especially as there is no special occasion for her presence in the South Atlantic. Vigorous Action. Although there have been no official ad- missions to that effect, it is generally un- derstood in military and diplomatic circles that the concentration of a large American fleet at Rio just at this time means nothing more nor less than that the administration has determined upon a vigorous course of action in the matter, with a view to the razil and the United States. How this “4 be accomplished is not stated, but a Play of force is undoubtedly one of elements for its execution. Rumored Arbitration. It is understood that the efforts of Ad- miral Benham,who has relieved Capt. Pick- ing of command of the raval forces at Rio, will be directed toward a speedy settle- ment of the war. There is no intention of employing force in bringing about this result, but it is believed the presence of to give up before very long. In that event it will not be necessary for the United States to intercede for peace or to take any active steps in that direction. Other- i Ba active @ dispa' t from iene withe it injury apparently t OU! forts at the entrance to the harbor.” officers are inclined to regard indication that battleships can easily the forts at any time without serious age. —o+_____- TO PAY PENSIONS IN BONDS. A Bill Prepared for Introduction by Representative Sibley. fivé g 4 Frag H Treasury action of Congress. The bill provides for the payment of pensions in 2 cent bonds in denominations of from #2) to $100, and shall be a legal tender. Dividends Declared. The controller of the currency has de- Pass, and, consent being given, the bill was |Clared dividends in favor of the creditors of insolvent national banks as follows, viz.: A first dividend of 40 per cent in favor of the creditors of the Oglethorpe National J Bank of Brunswick, Ga., on claims proved amounting to $107,357.72. A first dividend of 25 per cent in favor of the creditors of the City National Bank of Brownwood, Tex., on claims proved amount- ing to $112,361.35. A first dividend of 25 per cent in favor of the creditors of the First National Bank of North Manchester, Ind., on claims proved amounting to $77,884.43. A first dividend of lu per cent in favor of the creditors of the City National Bank of Jreenville, Mich., on claims proved amount- ing to $236,314.35. e A first dividend of 25 per cent in favor of the creditors of the Albuquerque National Bank of Albuquerque, N. M., on claims proved amounting to $244,390.08, A third dividend of 20 per cent in favor of the creditors of the Madison National Bank of Madison, S. D., making in all 50 per eg Ns claims proved amounting to $4¥,- A fourth dividend of 10 per cent in favor of the creditors of the Cheyenne National Bank of Cheyenne, Wyo., making in all 60 per cent, on claims proved amounting to $281,025.82. —————~+2.—_____ Army Orders, The leave of absence granted Second Lieut. Edward T. Winston, fourteenth in- fantry, is extended one month and fifteen days. Capt. William L. Carpenter, ninth infan- try, will be relieved trom recruiting duty and will join his regiment. Capt. Christian C. Hewitt, nineteenth in- fantry, is relieved from duty on the recruit- ing service, and will join his company. Leave of absence for two months on ac- count of sickness is granted Capt. Chris- tian (. Hewitt, nineteenth infantry. The leave of absence granted Second Lieu- tenant Charlies G. French, twenty-fifth in- fantry, is extended two months. First Lieut. Francis A. Winter, assistant surgeon, will proceed to Fort Bayard, New Mexico, as a witness before a general court- martial. ———_-e-______ A Bridge Bill Hearing. « The Secretary of War gave a hearing this afternoon to a committee of the chamber of commerce of New York, of which Mr. Gus- tave Schwab is chairman, in Oppositiqn to the bill for the construction of a bridge across the Hudson river by the New (ork and New Jersey Railroad Company. Whe bill is before the President for his act and he has referred it to Secretary Lamont? to ascertain if there is any objection to its approval. The opponents of the bill assert that it will endanger navigation. Great po- litical interests are involved in action on this matter. ———+-o+—______ Treastdry Changes. The Secretary of the Treasury has re- ceived the resignation of Wm. M. Rice, special agent, and has called for the resig- nation of James Brady, jr., collector of customs at Fall River, Mass. Applications for appointment hi of divisions of the Treasury carter have been received from Henry D. C: of Charleston, 8. C., and W. B. Mitchell of Atlanta, Ga. ————-o-———_____. } | } Am index to aé@vertise« ~ ments will be found on Poge 3. _ WRECKED IN THE FOG | i i ili ial HE g ii i a Hi g E bs rGz th iit! Hy % ii g i § i & i if H i | FA . ? i E 5 : H i if by sit i | Rg H iF in Aa ' i t i H HS Hite tlersted ba ices t & tr Where medical attendance from the hos- pitals had been asked for. Some of the injured were taken to the Young Men's Christian Association rooms at the Hoboken station. The Injured. ‘The injured so far as known are as fab lows: . M. G. Nilho, Newark, left side and leg injured. . Fred Summit, severe internal | injuries; will probably die. Miss Ferguson, Summit, N. J., severe ime jury on the head. William Barciliff, Gladstone, N. J., scald- ed with steam. Theodore White, Summit, N. J., internal! injuries. Miss White, New Jersey, head severely: injured. Edward ,, Summit, N. J., leg injured. Conductor of South Orange accom- modation, ankle sprained. : moward Pierson, Newark, back and heag injured. W. J. Russling, Newark, head injured. Col. Schultz, Murray Hill, collar bone dislocated. J. Q. Stearns, Springfield, N. J., sprained ankle and scalded by escaping steam. Andrew Rolliff, clerk, Garfield Bank, New York city, head crushed; will die, Edward Gray, Summit, N. J., internal injuries. T. H. Nichols, No. 289 High street, New- ark, cut on head and face, and two fingers broken. Washington Irving, Short Hills, N. dup — —— 3 » . A. Wintermut, No. 81-2 High street, Newark, arm broken, head injured. Richard Morrell, brother of Edward Mor- ae severely injured about the body an@ Jeremiah George, conductor of the Do- ver express, ankle sprained. DeWitt Wheaton, brakeman of the Do- “= express, internal injuries. Only Identified Dead. John Fish of Summit, N. J., was the only one of the dead identified at the time of the wreck. A great many of the passengers on both