Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR — PUBLISHE! LY EXCEPT SUNDAY. SIT THE STAR BUILDIVOS, ‘M01 Pen: Avenne. corner ith St.. by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, & H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. ‘New York Office, 88 Potter Building. —_-—_——_ TRE Frente Star is served to subseribers in the city by carriers, on their own account, s° 10 cents T weak. or $4. ner month. Copies af the counter cents aac. mail—anywhere In the United A postare cents per mth. SaTerp, STUPLE SHERT St) year; with forcien pootane added, S200 noo Pe (Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., es second-class mail matter.) #- All mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. Kates of alvertisine made known on application | Che Evening Star. Vor 84, No. 20,793. WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. TWO CENTS. — Am index to advertise- ments will be found on Page 3. CALIFORNIA’S FAIR. Great Results Accomplished in Five | Months. CPENING OF THE BIG EXPOSIPION, A Display of Which the West is| Proud. THE INAUGURAL CEREMONIES | SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27.—This fs a! great day in the history of California, the land of sunshine, fruit and flowers; for the golden state throws wide open the gates of | her wonderful undertaking, the internation- al mid-winter exposition, and displays to the | world a city of a hundred structures, great | and small, containing exhibits of the highest | merit,the whoie the result of enterprise,cour- | age and energy of her citizens. The governor | having proclaimed the day a holiday, busi-| ness throughout the state for a time is at a standstill, and thousands of people have | come to the city from the interior and other sections of the state, and Oregon, Washing- | ton, Nevada, Arizona and British Columbia | have contributed a large proportion of the exhibits; the Pacific coast thus enthusiast- | ieally uniting in celebrating the great hol-| iday. San Francisco is en fete in honor of the occasion, and the buildings at the exposi- tion grounds are decorated with bunting, banners and flags. People bestirred them- selves eariy this morning, their interest| centering In the grand parade which the exposition management had promised, and the streets of the city presented a scene ef animation strongly reminiscent of the days of the Grand Army and Knights ‘Templar pageants. The enthusiasm of the people was appar- ent everywhere, and along the line of march, where residences were liberally and tastefuly decorated, they were out in Sreatest numbers even than on the occasion of the visit of President Harrison to San Francisco several years ago. The Parade. The procession. of which Gen. John H. Dickinson of the National Guards was srand marshal. which commenced to move &t 10 o'clock. was one which the city may well be proud of, as it was larger and more representative than any ever held here be- fore. Every fraternal organization in the city and evesy society and club of any im-| portance was out in full force. | ‘The pioneers of the Native Sons of the! Golden West were strongly represented, | and were a feature of the pageant, which | w enthusiastically received all along the = he pioneers were also greeted with | ent cheers time and again as they! wended their way along with the rest. Although their ranks have been greatly thinned of late. more of them turned out today, comparatively speaking, than on any similar occasion. state troops, interspers- ‘The national and ed here and there in the procession, made a splendid showing, and their fine’ bearing end perfectly executed evolutions evoked much admiration from the great crowds of spectators. The Native Dauzhters of the Golden West, veterans of the Mexican war, | the Grand Army of the Republic men, naval battalion and representatives of all concessions at the exposition were also in ine. ‘The rear of the procession was brought with carriages containing Director Gen- eral Young and other officials of the expo- sition, Gov. Markham and other state offi- Elliott and other municipa: Ruger, commapding the de- partment of the Pacific, Commandant Hovi- son of Mare Island navy yard, the various foreign, state and county commissioners of the cxposition, and many others. ‘The Opening Ceremonies. After the parade the crowds made a grand Tush for the exposition grounds, where the ceremonies of opening day were to he held. Cable cars leading to the grounds were taxed as they never were before, and not- withstanding the fact that all companies! had made great preparations for the rush, | it was by far greater than they had antici-| pated, and every available car had to be| beought into service. The scene at the, Gates of the exposition was one long to be yemembered. Thousands there seemed to be in feverish haste to get within, and as they pushed through the turnstiles they made a break for the recreation grounds, whe-e a brand stand had been erected, and where ceremonies were to take place. This! Stand accommodated 7, 7,000 people, and was! eccupied in an incredibly short space of ti ie. The Midwinte> Fair Band,lowa State! Rand and three other bands were in at-| i Lene bern the spectators in good! wor by rendering several tr before the exerci: fee pills, Jirst speaker esident of the day, who spoke great enterprise in honor of which the ces | bration of the day was being held and con-| &ratulated the people of San Francisco and | California on what has thus far been done} and what would be yet accomplished, The speaker was followed by Rev. I ¢ g 2 8 FI EI A A 2 . Phelan, sishop Wm. F. Nichols, who offered prayer, the Yast concourse of people remaining in respectful silence until he had concluded. Then came a grand chorus of “America,” rendered by 300 voices, the great audience joining in singing. After the mighty re- Train of the national anthem had died away Gov. Markham delivered an address of wei- come. In the course of No state, thet in is remarks he said: no people, are so prodigal in ir hospitality as yourselves, and know- them as I do, and to what I bid you come, in perfect confidence, I extend to all, and especially to those from foreign | lands, cordial welcome, a hearty greeting aad freedom of our entire state. Gov. Markham was warmly applauded and cheered at the conclusion of his speech. H. DeYoung, director general of the exposition, was the next speaker. | “Five months ago, almost to a day,” he| said, “we assembled within these grounds and turned the first shovelful of earth, and by the act made the first material move-| ment toward developing and erecting the Celifornia midwinter international exposi-| tion. He spoke of the obstacles encountered at the institution of the enterprise, and told how they had been overcome. He said: “The World has turned her eyes toward us, and} our growing state has been a subject of discussion at millions of firesides. If we go| no further than we have today it has been @ paying investment.” The Exposition Declared Open. Director General De Young then declared} the exposition open, and Mrs. De Young pressed the electric button which set the enormous machinery of the exposition in motion, amid shouts of the great gathering, | waving of thousands of flags and banners, salutes by a battery of artillery and the playing of the “Star Spangled Banner” by the five bands. The vast audiénce, wildly enthusiastic, | geve vent to their feelings in cheer after cheer. Such a scene has never before been witnessed in Golden Gate Park, and it was some time ere comparative quiet was re- stored for the concluding exercises. | Gen. W. H. L. Barnes, the orator of the| day, was the final speaker, the subject of his address being the general benefits and | sl perm: t results of the midwinter expost- | , Barnes highly eulogized the pro- | the and. his a beautiful picture | the future of San Francisco und the great golden state. semblaze to a high state of enthu: » than once during the delive ss. ed, White | nd Blue” and “Columbia.” played by ail the large bands and sung by the grand | | known as a | ment is that there are more rapid tal! chorus. After this the crowds scattered over the grounds’ Tonight the buitdings will be illuminated and the opening day festivities will close with a grand pyrotechnic display. History of the Enterprise. The opening of the fair is the consumma- tion of a scheme which, at its inception, was termed visionary, absurd and reckless. If the historic achievements of Chicago were not fresh in the minds of the people great would be the wonder expressed at the Pacific coast’s triumph, for what has been done is really marvelous. The widwinter fair is not an exhibition confined to the | products of the region in which it is held. It is international in scope, and is much larger, more beautiful and more complete than many of the international! expositions of the past, even in recent years. lt will not stand comparison with the Chicago and Paris expositions, which were planned on a scale of magnitude infinitely greater than anything theretofore attempted, but with the other exhibitions it will stand compari- son, and the strangest feature of it all is | that while years were consumed in the preparation of the other fairs San Francisco required caly months. Eighty-two buildings, besides nearly one hundred kiosks and lodges, have been erec- ted, and they stand today a monument of the progressiveness of a section of the United States the history of which teems with noble deeds of greatness, the bravery of the Argonauts and the glamor of ro- mance, ‘The {dea of the fair had its origin in Chi- cago. There were in the white city many exhibitors who wished to take part in an- other exposition on the American continent The project was heard by M. H. DeYoung, vice president of the columbian commis- sion and member from California. He saw the imoprtance of it, and at a banquet of the foreign commissioners he invited them to come to the present me- tropolis of the Pacific coast. He-had called a meeting of fellow Californians who were then in Chicago, and on the night of May B1 the meeting was held in the rooms of the California Club. The next morning the world knew that California dntended to have an international exposition at the close of the world’s fair. A second meet- ing was held in Chicago, June 11, and the 100 Californians present subscribed $45,000. By this time the people in California were becoming enthusiastic, and the city of San Francisco asked how many exhibitors would go to the Pacific coast. Upon receiv- ing a reply that 4,000 were already on the list, all doubts were removed and the peo- ple there took the matter up in earnest. July & the executive committee organ- lect as preside! 5 ef coil 3 H. Devouns. Over $400,000 was then subscribed. August 24 100,000 people thronged Golden Gate Park and saw the ground broken and 160 acres dedicated to the fair. The work of constrection was pushed under fair skies with marvelous rapidity, though the plans were several times revised because additional large build- 3 were necessary. Ere site in Golien Gate Park could not have been more fortunately chosen. There ig no place more picturesquely beautiful in or about any American city. With a charm of landscape in hill and valley; with broad, smooth roads, majestic trees, semi-tropical plants and flowers in profusion; with a great green carpet of grass in ‘the dead of winter, it fs a place worthy of the praise which has been given it. In the most beau- tiful part of the park the exhibition build- ings have been erected. See Tes TO PURCHASE THE GAS PLANT. ir Tries to Introduce a Bill to That Effect. Representative Blair today tried to secure a hearing in the House for a resolution looking to the government buying the local gas plant. The resolution, which, Mr. Blair says, was given to him for introduction by some residents of Capitol Hill, sets forth that the government is directly interested in the production and cost of gas in tne District, since it consumes and pays for @ large portion of the gas~ produced and also pays one-half of the cost of lighting all the streets, avenues and alleys of the city. It calls attention to the fact that the government has provided for furnishing its own gas at West Point, at a cost of 75 cents or less, about half as much as the government and the citizens of Washing- ton are obliged to pay. In view of these facts it is resolved “that the committee on the District of Columbia, now investigating the subject of gas, be instructed to investi- gate and report to the House whether it would not be for the interest of the United States government and the citizens of the District, for Congress to authorize the pur- chase or condemnation of the existing gas plants in the District, ard have them run Mr. either by the District Commissioners or | the chief of engineers of the army.” Mr. Blair asked umanimous consent for the immediate consideration of the resolu- tion, but Mr. Fithian objected on the ground that it would take too much time. + ee HARD ON THE STENOGRAPHERS. The Tariff Debate and the Reporters of the House. The stenographers who report the pro- ceedings of the House are having what is “roast.” ‘The increase in the number of members of the House to 356 has materially increased the difficulty of reporting, and during the debate of the tariff bill, under the five- minute rule, the confusion, the stenogra- phers state, has been greater than during any other debate they have had to take. The semi-circular space in front of the Speaker's desk is described in congres- sional vernacutar as the “bull pen.” When there is great excitement the members rush down to the front and the size of the crowd in the bull pen indicates the degree of interest. During this five-minute dis- cussion the pen has been crowded much of the time and the din of interruption and back talk has been unprecedented. Every- thing said is supposed to be taken down,and the ‘stenograpiters have had their ears poured full of sound. The expert judg- Oficial in this House than have been assembled to- gether within the memory of the men who | do the reporting. Some talk during a set speech over two hundred words a minute, and the eagerness to say as much as pos- sible within the short time allowed each speaker under the five-minute rule limbers up the tongues remarkably. A very large proportion of the speakers can get off a thousand words in five minutes and several go beyond that. It has got to be a superstition among the stenographers that a tariff bill calls for the death of a stenographer. The overstrain of the ¢ Mills bill killed Edwards. Mcflhone, the veter- an, died of nervous prostration’ toward the close of the fight over the McKinley bill, and now White, one of the best men in the corps, is down with nervous prostra- tlon as @ result of overwork on this de- te. A MILITARY ATTACH E Will Be Sent to the United States Le- gation in Mexico. Capt George P. Scriven of the signal corps has been assigned to duty as military attache at the United States legation, City of Mexico. He is now in this city receiving his instructions from the Secretaries of State and War, and will spend a few week in South Carolina before leaving for post, where he is due March 1. This is the first time that the United States has had a military representative in Mexico, and Capt. Scriven’s detail is intended as a spe- cial compliment to that government The Mexican legation at Wash ‘always included a military attache in its number. The office is vacant at present, however, Capt. Diaz, son of the presid Mexico, the last occupant, having recently returned to the Mexican ‘capital. The ac- tion of this government in thus placing Mexico in the same category as the lec countries of tion of the ¥ southern neghbor. Capt. criv known in this city as a most cap: ee A fine vein of silver ore has been discov- ered on_the farm of Charles Walker in Lower Providence township, Pennsylvania. hist en is able officer. well ITHE WILSON BILL, | Its Friends Fear Most a Vote to Re- commit; “Tf WOULD BE EQUIVALENT 10 D:FEAT. Republicans May Help to Send the Bill Back. WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN | The vote which the friends of the Wilson | | tariff bill are most alarmed about is that on |an anticipated motion to recommit the bill. | | There is a general feeling among the friends | of the measure that however much members |may talk in advance of their intention to! vote against the bill on the final vote, a} | comparatively small number will actually | | bolt the party. Some of the New York mem- | | bers will, and some of those from New Jer-| | Sey and probably two or three elsewhere in | | the east, but most of those who are now | | very active in their fight against the meas- | jure will probably reconsider their determi- nation to vote against it. To Recommit Equivalent to Defeat. | On the motion to recommit, however, | though that would be equivalent to defeat- | ing the bill, they’ might make the defense that the recommital was voted for with the | Intention of having the pill revised so as to | meet the views of the people whom these | gentlemen represent. It ts entirely probable, | therefore, that quite a number who would pace dare to vote against the bill directly would vote to recommit. Capsequentiy, the jattitude of the republicans toward the | Proposition to recommit is a matter of con- | siderable consequence. It is entirely prob- jable that a solid vote of the republicans, with the discontented democrats,would send the bill back to the committee. Probable Republican Action. Up to this time the republicans have not decided what they will do in this matter. As many of their votes as may be neces- | sary and probably more will be given to add the income tax bill to the Wilson bill. Urtil recentiy they have been indisposed to vote for recommittal, but considerable influence has been used to induce them to help send back the bill to the commit- tee, and it is now said by some of the lead- jing republicans that the probabilities are that unless they can see their way clear to the defeat of the bill by a direct vote |in the House the whole party will vote for recommittal. The alliance men have also | been in favor of recommitting the bill, but |it may be that the addition of the income | tax proposition, which they favor, may gee = them to vote the other way. What the Committee Might Do. However, there is véry great danger that the bill may be sent back to the committee | for further consideration. Just what would | happen should this be done is problemati- cal, but the belfef is that the committee | would elther turn about promptly and | bring in a bill providing substantially for | free trade or else would immediately send in their resignations to the Speaker, —_—_——_+2+—___—_—— LIKE BANQUO’S GHOST. The Hawaiian Mattér In the Senate Refases to Be Downed. Notwithstanding the efforts of the friends of she President in the Senate to keep the Hawaiian matter under the surface as much as possible, the enemies of the ad- | ministration manage to bring it up every | few days in a way that shows that they do |not propose to wait until the committee on ‘foreign relations has completed its investi- |gation of the case. The resolution intro- |duced by Mr. Turple, which was really in- |tended as a sort of pacifier, has had the jeffect of giving the republicans ample op- portunities to make speeches that other- |wise might have been suppressed. This | resolution comes up again on Monday, when |Mr. Teller is to talk. He is not an annex- jationist, nor is he friendly to the projects |of the President, so his speech may not be as radical as those that have been made heretofore on the republican side. Mr. Dolph was the only member of the commit- tee on foreign relations who did not agree | wholly to the resolution when It was con- |sidered by the committee. He wanted a |mor2 positive declaration against the in- |terference of the President, and while he | was outvoted in the committee, he is de- termined to secure an audience on the floor of the Senate. So yesterday afternoon he gave notice of an amendment that he pro- poses to make later to the Turpie resolu- tion, adding these words: “And with a view of restoring amicable reiations be- \tween the United States and Hawaii the present minister to Hawaii should be tm- mediately recalled.” The amendment will \give him a chance to make another speech jon the subject, and may draw out a re- | sponse from the other side. rs AN INTENTIONAL SNUB. | Such Was the Fallure to Send an In- vitation to Secretary Hastings. Mr. Cleveland appears to be still unwilling | to let go of the Hawailan tar baby which |he has been embracing since the opening of |his administration. It is given out through ja responsible source that the failure to in- | vite the Hawalian charge d'affaires to the | diplomatic dinner some time ago was a de- liberate snub, which Cleveland himself di- |rected should be given. The reason for it | was resentment provoked by Dole’s reply to Willis. It is further stated that Mr.Gresham jhas sent to Willis instructions to make a/ peremptory demand upon Dole for the with- | drawal of all the correspondence on the part, jot the Hawatlan president, which, on ac- | |count of its forcefulness, is extremely ob- | |jectionable to Mr. Cleveland. Some further | correspondence with Willis on this subject | is expected today. | : CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT. | Secretary Carlisle Sends a Deficiency Estimate for Its Enforcement. Secretary Carlisle today sent to the House | a deficiency estimate in the appropriation | for enforcing the Chinese exclusion act. The sundry civil bill for 1894 carried an appro- | priation of $50,000 for this purpose and in addition thereto the unexpended baiance for | the previous year was made available. The | Secretary says that the appropriation will be insufficient for the remainder of the cur- | rent fiscal year. The force of officers em- | ployed Is, he says, but slightly in excess of that of last year, but the expenses attending | the arrest and deportation of Chinese has | | largely increased, because the number of Chinese sentenced to deportation is much greater. Every effort was being made by | | the department to reduce expense to a} | minimum, but despite all this the appropria- | tion would run short, and not less than $50, 000 more, the Secretary said, would be nec. essary. A Clean Sweep of the Treasury. It 1s semt-ofticially announced that be- | tween now and the beginning of the new | fiscal year, Juiy 1 next, the resignations, with possibly a few exceptions, of all the old chiefs of divisions in the ‘reasury De- partment wiil be called for by Secretary Carlisle. The first bureaus, it 1s sald, that will next receive attention are the internal revenue and controller of the currency's office. . | of Des | Wilson of Washington, Congressman Pence THAT WORLD'S FAIR MEDAL Mr, St. Gaudens Oame to Talk With Seo- retary Ohrlisle. He Objected to Any Change in the De- sign— Practical View of Treasury Officials. The plot of the world’s fair medal come- dy thickens, and the situation is getting more and more complicated with each move on the part of the actors.’ Secretary Car- lisle and the quadro centennial committee of the Senate hold that the design is im- modest and objectionable for use on a pub- lic work. St. Gaudens, the artist who made it, ané Mr. J. Boyd Thatcher, president of the committee of awards which approved it, contend that it is a work of art and free from criticism in every respect. Secretary Carlisle, backed by the Senate committee, has decided that it shall not be issued in the form of a government medal unless certain modifications are made in the male figure of “America” on the obverse. He wrote to Mr. St. Gaudens, suggesting a modification of the design to meet the views of the Senate committee, and Mr. St. Gau- dens came to Washington and undertook to show the Secretary why the design should not be changed. It is understood that he positively refused to alter it himself on the ground that it could not be done without marring the artistic effect of the figure. According to his view the responsibility in the matter ceased when the design was accepted. He insists that there is nothing immodest in the design and intimates that it must be used as it is or not at all. It is understood that Mr. Thatcher upholds him in this view of the case. A Practical View of the Case. The officials of the Treasury Department take a more practical view of the case. Ac- cording to them, the design belongs entire- ly to the government and that Mr. St. Gau- | dens’ interest in it ceased when he signed the receipt for $5,000 paid him for his work on it. According to one of them, the Sec- retary of the Treasury can use it or not as he sees fit; he can have it altered to suit his ideas, if not by Mr. St. Gaudens, then by someone else, or he can sell it to the highest bidder. It is the sole property of the government and can be treated as its agents think Proper. Of course, if it ts altered, Mr. St. Gaudens would not be held responsible for it and his name would not appear on it, but if only one side is altered his name might be allowed to stand on the unchanged side and the name of another artist appear on the other side, provided, of course, he made a new design. If Mr. St. Gaudens’ de- sign for one side was only slightly changed and he did not care to accept it in that form it would then be necessary only to omit the name of the artist. decision has yet been reached in the matter it is more than probable that the entire de- sign will be rejected and proposals invited for a new one. Geo. F. Page of Concord, N. H., president of the company which published a fac simile of the world’s fair medal, is in Washington. The purpose of his visit is to investigate the origin of the story that the Senate spe- cial committee had objected to his copy of the medal rather than to the medal itself, and also to try to prevail upon the Treasury Department not to order a change in the design. He does not seem to regard the St. Gaudens suit seriously, but says that, his firm will sué“him for ifbel, because of the charge that the fac simile was stolen. +2 ____ DIRECTED TO REGISTER. The Chinese Will No Longer Resist the Requirements of the Geary Law. Commissioner Miller of the internal reve- nue bureau has received a letter from Col- lector Welborn of the San Francisco dis- trict confirming his prediction that the Chinese residents of the United States will no longer resist the requirements of thé Geary law in the matter of registration, In his letter Mr. Welborn says: “The Chinese have been quite slow in making applications for registration and there are not over 600 registered up to date. The delay has been caused by the non- arrival of the Chinese minister from Wash- ington. The Six Companies expressed a willingness to have their members register, but declined to issue instructions to that effect until the representative of their gov- ernment arrived. The mini: arrived Sunday. Tuesday he met the officers of the Six Companies and Chinese merchant ex- change, a powerful factor with the Chi- nese. “After consultation it was decided to issue roclamation, in which the Chinese labor- ers were directed to register. This procla- mation has been posted in “Chinatown” in this city and in other places. There is no longer any doubt of their compliance with the law.” It is stated that the representative of the Chinese government who met the officers of the Six Companies and others, was most likely some one of the attaches of the lega- tion in this city and not the minister him- self, as it is not believed he has been away from Washington recently for such a length of time as would be required to make a trip to San Francisco and return. Now that the laborers have been “directed to register” as a result of this conference, it is believed that there will be a very gen- eral compliance with the law and that by the time within which registration can be accomplished practically all of the Chinese will have taken advantage of the law. o SECRETARY CARLISLE AND THE KNIGHTS, Their Bill to Restrain Him From Is: ing the Bonds, General Master Sovereign and General Secretary J. W. Hayes of the Knights of Labor were ready with their bill in equity against Secretary Carlisle this morning, but Judge Cox of the District Supreme Court, after consideration, named Monday next at 10 o’clock to hear argument as to whether the bill could be admitted. It is a bill for injunction sued out by James Richard Sovereign for himself and in behalf of the Knights of Labor, who are said to number 300,000 and to be “too nu- merous to be named, against John Griffin Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury, and prays that said Carlisle and his confed- erates may be required to make answer on oath under what basis of statute or of necessity they claim the right to issue the bonds specified In the recent treasury cir- cular, and to specifically answer whether such bonds are to be made payable in Unit- ed States gold coin or otherwise, and whr the necessities, if any existing, should not , be met by the coinage of the silver now in the possession of the defendant, and es- pecially why it 1s proposed to sell bonds to @ greater amount than is required to make up the deficit in the hundred-million gola reserve. They ask a preliminary injunction to re- strain the selling of the bonds, and that after a hearing the injunction be made per- petual. ‘The attorneys in the case are C. C. Cole Moines, Iowa; Shellabarger and of Colorado and Millis of Denver. + @+ DISTRICT IN CONGRESS, A Site for the Printing Office. Mr. Bankhead of Alabama today reported to the House the bill agreed upon by the public bulldirgs and grounds committee selecting a site for the government print- ing office and providing for the building. ‘This bill was printed in The Star several days ago, and the report which accompan- ies it is an elabcration of Chairman Bank- head's interview published at the time. Although no | MONEY TO SPEND) The District Appropriation Bill is Now Completed. CHANGES IN THE APPROPRIATIONS Reductions From the Estimates in Almost Every Instance. THE COMMITTEE'S REPORT > The bill making appropriations for the} support of the District of Columbia for the | fiscal year 1895 was completed by the House | committee on appropriations this morning and reported to the House. The bill carries | a total of $4,927,194.97 (exclusive of the water department), being $1,773,884.26 less than the estimates submitted by the Com- | missioners, and the whole amount recom- | mended in this bill, including the water department, is $260,650.34 less than was ap- propriated for the current fiscal year. | The Secretary of the Treasury, in submit- ting the estimates to Congress, recom-| mended that the appropriations be limi‘ed , to the amount appropriated for the current year. ‘The report of the committee says: 1 No appropriations are recommended in the bill for constructing county roads and suburban streets, a special bill having here- tofore been reported by the committee ap- Propriating $43,000 for that purpose. The appropriation for 1804 in the last regular aS of Columbia act for this object was ‘The Water Department. The amount recommended for the water department and payable from the water revenues 1s $230,378.60. The amount appro- priated for the same purpose for the cur- rent fiscal year is §269,586.94, being @ re- duction of $39,208.34 . It is estimated that the water revenues for the fiscal year 1895 will amount to $833,000, but it is provided in the accom- panying bill, as it was in the acts for the current and last fiscal years, that any sur- Plus of these revenues over the appropria- tions made specifically therefrom shall be applied to the work of extending the high- service system of water distribution. This improvement, it is estimated by the engi- neer officer in charge, will cost, when com- pleted, about $600,000. It is believed that the surplus water revenues to be devoted | to this object during the current and last fiscal years will amount to about $200,000, and that about $100,000 will be available for) application thereto during the coming fiscal year of 1895. | The totai general revenues of the District | | of Columbia for the fiscal year 1895, it is es- | | timated by the Commissioners, will amount | to $3,469,740.51, or a surplus of $802,923.04 after meeting the appropriations proposed by the accompanying Dill, together with the | obligations (estimated $202,210) imposed |upon the District by the acts of March 2, 1889, and September 27, 1890, establishing | the National Zoological Park and the Rock Creek Park, and for one-half the expenses of theCourt of Appeals and Supreme Court | of the District. This surplus will be applied | under the operation of section 3 of the Dis-| trict of Columbia appropriation act for the | fiscal year 1898 so far gs may be necessary | | | |to the satisfaction of the indebtedness of | the District to oo States on account a of the cost of increased water supply it acts The following limitations on appropria- tions contained in the bill, not heretofore imposed, are recommended as follows: In connection with the appropriation for repairs of streets, avenues and alleys: And | this appropriation shall be available for re- | pairing the pavements of street railways when necessary; the amounts thus expended | shall be collected from said raflway com-| pany as provided by section 5 of “An act providing a permanent form of government for the District of Columbia,” approved | June 11, 1878, and shall be deposited to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected: Provided, that hereafter no cobblestones shall be used in paving the space between the rails and tracks of street railways upon any paved streets, and whenever a street is paved or resurfaced, or the track relaid, the cobble- stones shall be removed and replaced with | such form of pavement as the Co: - SS tistetes ae SS coer connection with the appro; tion for lighting streets, the price for gas is re- duced from $21.50 to $20.50 per gas larp per annum and the price for electric light- ing is reduced from 50 cents to 40 cents per lamp per night, and the Commissioners | are authorized to invite proposals for street | Ughting at reduced rates and to enter into @ contract for such seryice for a period of three years or less. In connection with the appropriation for care, maintenance and repair of bridges: And hereafter one-half the cost of the | maintenance and repair of any bridge oc- cupied by the tracks of a street railway or | railways shall be borne by the said railway company or companies, and shall be coi- lected in the same manner 2s the cost of laying pavements between the ratls and track of street railways, as provided for in section 5 of “‘an act providing a perm: nent form of government for the District | amounts thus collected shall be deposited | to the credit of the appropriation for the fiscal year in which they are collected. With reference to the Rock Creek Park—j| That the authorities in joint control of | Rock Creek Park, as provided in section 7/ of the act of September 27, 1890, Sentient ing said park, are authorized to rent or lease, for periods not exceeding one year at any one time, the buildings and arable | ground therein, for such rental as shall! eem proper to said authorities, and deposit | he proceeds of such rents or leases with | the collector of taxes to the credit of the United States and said District in on rts. pavith reference to the James Creek canal |That the Commissioners of the District & Columbia be, and they hereby are, au- thorized and empowered to lease to such persons and upon such terms and condi- tions and subject to such restrictions as they may deem advisable, and as the pub- lic interest may require, that portion of Canal street between G and P streets south- west which is included between lines par- allel to and fifty feet distant from the banks of the canal, and deposit the proceeds of | such leases with the collector of taxes to the credit of the United States and said_ District in equal parts: Provided, That no | lease shall be made for a longer term than | three years, and all leases shall be subject | to revocation, without compensation to the | lessees, by Congress. Pupils of the Public Schools. In connection with the appropriations for public schools: | | $8,000; sinking fund office, $2,400; coroner's | reform school for girls, $15,610. Total, char- 1 of Columbia,” approved June 11, 1878. The! - | for the parking commission shall be unde> the board of incorporators ot said institution. Detailed Statement. The following detailed statement shows the appropriations provided by this bill: Salaries—Executive office, $46,141; asses- sor’s office, $22,500; collector's office, $14,200; auditor’s office, $16,700; attorney's office, office, $1,800; market masters, $3,600; en- gineer’s office, $66,282; board of examiners, | steam engineers, $900; superintendent of charities, $5,000. Miscellaneous: Coatingent expenses, Dis- trict offices, $22,500; contingent expenses, stables engineer department, $,50v; rent of District offices, $5,000; rent of property yard, $300; collecting overdue personal tax- es, $1,500; judicial expenses, $1,000; contin- gent expenses, coroner's office, #8; adver- Using, general, $1,400; advertising, notice of taxes in arrears, $10,0.0; preparing arrears of taxes on real property, $1,000; George- town market house, repairs, $6,900. ‘otal salaries and misce’ aneous, $240,723. Permit work, alicys, sidewalks and sew- ers, $165,000, Improvements and repairs: Work on sun- dry streets and avenues, $100,000; grading | streets, alleys and roads, $4,000; repairs to Pavements, $150,000; plats of subdivisions, $2,500; plan of permanent system of high- Ways (including $5,000 for 1894 in last de- ficiency act), $1,000, Total improvements | and repairs, $262,500. ‘The total tor 1894 | Was $362,000, Sewers: Cleaning and repairing sewers and besins, $45,000; repairing obstructed sewers and for relief sewers, $40,000; main and pipe sewers, $75,000; main intercepting sewer (special estimate $160,000), $160,000; | suburban sewers, $20,000; gauging sewers | and rainfall, $2,000; condemnation of rights of way, $1,000; automatic siphons, $2,000. Total sewers, $346,500, Streets—Repairs streets, avenues and al- leys, $35,000; repairs county roads, $40,00 sprinkling, sweeping and cleaning, $125,000: | parking commission, $15,000; lighting, gas, oll or electric, $190,000; harbor and river front, $2,600; public scales, $200; public pumps, $4,000. Total, streets, $411,800. The total for the present year was $475,300. es $15,000; Washington aqueduct, Public schools: For officers, $8,050; for | teachers, $679,400; for night schools, $0,000; | contingent expenses, night schools, $00: for janitors and care of buildings, $52,- 856; rent of school buildings, $9,000; repairs and improvements to buildings, $26,000; tools, &c., for manual training. $8,000; fuel, $30,000; furniture for new buildings, $1,400: contingent expenses, $25,000; text books and | school supplies, $30, new buildings and sites, $39,000; total public schools, $918,206. Metropolitan police: For salaries, $4i),- 760; miscellaneous expenses, $22,630; total metropolitan police, $522,590. ] Fire cepartment—For salaries, $117,900: for salaries, additional force, $2,520; miscel- lJaneous expenses, $59,500, Total, tire ce- partment, $179,920. Telegraph and telephone service—For sal- aries, $10,800; general supplies, $9,009; rent, | $450; special repairs, —; underground con- | duits, —. Total, telegraph and telephone, | Health department: For salaries Gnctua-| ing two clerks at $1,200 each, authorized by act October 2, 1893), $29,400; rent, $1,120; removal of garbage, $24,400; removal of garbage, special daily service, $5,000; pre- vention of scarlet fever and diphtheria, $4,- 000, Total, health department, $63,920. Courts—For salaries, $18.16; miscella- neous expenses, $15,100; defending suits in claims, $—; writs of lunacy, $2,000. Total, courts, $35,206. For interest and sinking fund, $1,213,347.97; emergency fund, $5,000. Reformatories and prisons: Support of convicts, $25,000; transportation of paupers and prisoners, $3,500; Washington Asylum— salaries, $14,415; miscellaneous expenses, $44,000; building and grounds, $4,000, Re- form school—salaries, $15,962; miscellaneous expenses, $25,500; total, reformatories and prisons, $132,377. For support H | of the insane, $96,480. For instruction of the deaf and dumb, $10,500. For 2 Relief of the poor, $14,090; tempo! home for ex-Union soldiers and sailors, 00; municipal lodging house, $4,000; Women's Christian Association, $4, 000; Cent meary and Hmergeacy Hospital, $10,000; Columbia Hospital and | Lying-in Asylum, $20,000; Children’s Hos- | Pitai, $10,000; National Homeopathic Hos- | ital, $7,000; Freedman’s Hospital and Asy-/| lum, $53,025. The appropriation for the board of chil- dren's guardians this year was $24,200. Sev- ; eral institutions appropriated for this year | are not included in the bill. Hi { of children’s guardians, $50,750;+ Washington Hospital for Foundlings, $6,000; Association for Works of Mercy, $2,000; ities, $195,885. For the militia of the District of Colum- bia, $19,500. Grand total, exclusive of water department, $4,927,194.97. Amount from United States Water department—Salaries, $36,834; con- tingent expenses, $2,500; extra clerical ser- vices, repairs and miscellaneous ex- penses, $90,000; interest and sinking fund, water stock tonds, $44,610; interest om a of in water supply $11,529.21; sinking fund on account of in- creased water supply, $24,026.69; interest on account of 48-inch and 14th street mains, $8,167.19; installment on account of 48-inch | and 14th street mains, $11,836.51. Total, water department, $230,378.60. Grand total, including water department, $5,157,573.! The Change Made. “te following detailed statement of changes from the current appropriation is given: Salary of superintendent of county roads, increased $100 per year; contingent fund of | the District, reduced $1,500; contingent fund | of engineer department reduced $500; for | judicial expenses of the District, including witness fees, &c., increased $100; laneous fund of coroner's office cal force in assessor's office, force working | on accounts of arrears, reduced $1,000; thé | sum of $6,500 to be immediately available | is provided for additions and repairs to | Georgetown market hous | overboard and swimming | greatest, Le., THE DAVENPORT CASE The Secretary Considers He Was FROM THE MIPSIC AT APIA, SAMOA The Findings of the Department Fully Exonerate the Applicant. MR. HERBERT'S COMMENTS Secretary Herbert today made public the findings of the court of inguiry and his views thereon in the case of Lieut. Richard Davenport, United States navy, who asked for a “court of honor” to pass upom his conduct while acting as navigating of- ficer of the United States ship Nipsic when that vessel was wrecked during the great Samoan hurricane in March, 188%. Lieut. Davenport asked for the court because there had been a great deal of criticism of his action in leaving the Nipsic. At the inquiry officers testified that he had set a bad example to the crew in a time of dan- ser by stripping off his clothes, jumping to shore. The testimony brought out by the court, which met at the navy yard in this city, was fully reported in The Star at the time, and attracted a great deal of interest. The finding of the court of inquiry is as follo: 3 imputation on His Conduct. The court finds no imputation on the conduct of the applicant, Lieut. Richard G. Davenport, United States navy, prior to the stranding of the Nipsic on the morn- ing of March 16, 1889, and, further, the ccurt is of opinion that from March 18 up to the time of the beaching the ship he per- formed his whole duty as navigator in an eminently satisfactory and orthy Manner, and that no fault.can be found with his conduct as an officer of the navy, but, on the con! , it appears to the court that he behaved with coolness and courage during the time the anchorage of the ono was shifted and when she sub- sequently run on shore on the of March 16, 188¥, and that ‘gurtng thas tae he displayed commendable attention duty under most trying circumstances, that he did not flinch when the peril was minent danger of dragging onto the reef just prior to beaching her. In the point as to the time at and manner in which the applicant left the ship, which involves serious imputations against the applicant, the court is con- strained, after a most careful and exhaust- ive examination of the evidence before it, to a finding adverse wo the applicant. Im reaching this conclusion the court has kept distinctly in view the following 2 | circum. | Stances, which, in its opinion, must bear Purposes a wreck. 2. That the order to abandon her had been given. 3. That the captain was anxious to get all the crew out of her as speedily as pos- sible. 4. That no organized attempt was made So carry cnt the station Wi Ste chandenmas iP. 5. That the captain himself testifies that Se wae = cose St anaes 20 Dee oan any one o! officers and crew was, his ion, free to leave the ship in-ahy manner he saw fit. That the applicant was in no bodily sf the facts at the time, but rest mainly on the witnesses, his juniors in rank, and a half years after the event, takes shape in the form of a covert attack on the applicant's character. 8. That the applicant may have felt rea- sonably sure that proper means have been provided for the safety of all on board. Al- though the evidence is not clear on this point, the court holds that the applicant is entitled to the benefit of the 9. That in choosing the method of landing by swimming the applicant deliberately as- sumed a greater personal risk than he woul@ have done had he gone ashore over the line. Am Adverse Opinion. These mitigating circumstances, together with the excellent conduct of the applicant up to the time of the ship's taking ground, must, in the opinion of the court, to a considerable extent, its adverse on the question, which is really the sue of the case, but the court is of that the applicant failed in this time and that his conduct coming an officer of the navy. ion the court is emphatic. It from the broad prin: on morale of naval discipline rests. An must at all times show in himself ample which his inferiors may em even in periods of dire stress order cipline must be preserved to the In abandoning the ship the taird cer on board should be among leave. In this case the evidence clear that the applicant was land from among all those ining board after the cutter has been dispatche® with the sick. His duty was clearly to main by the side of the captain, and nothing could relieve him of that obligation except the explicit command. of the captain him- self. ‘The court dismisses the imputation that the chronometers could have been saved at i i ! I F 4 g & ef i Ete ingle lis 8 E 3 des i ii ; fund for plats and surveys of subdivisions reduced $500; increased | | red — extension of highways A reduction of $100,000 is made for work | cn streets and avenues, the appropriations | for next year for each section of the city being fixed at one-half the sum provided for the current year. The contingent tund is reduced) ; there is an increase of forty-nine teachers for the public schools, at salaries | ranging from $400 to $1,500, three additional janitors are provided, at $500 each, for the new eight-room buildings already con- structed; one eight-room school building is | authorized for the third division in South- east Washington, to cost $39,000, A reduction of one laborer on the metro- | politan police force; an increase of $800 for rent of police headquarters; reduction of $300 for fuel; reduction’ of $1,250 in miscellaneous police fund; salary | of chief engineer fire department increased | $2 er annum; for additional force for Mt. Pleasant chemical engine, $2,500; for| one new engine house for No. 2 company, $12,000, to be located at intersection of Ohio avenue, 13th and C streets northwest; for | new house for Mt. Pleasant chemical en- gine, $14,500; general supply fund for tele- graph and telephone service reduced $1,000. Board of Children’s Guardians. The appropriation for the board of chil- That hereafter pupils shall not be aa- | 2en’s guardians is increased $26,550 and tt mitted to or taught free of charge in the |! Provided “that the institutions for chil- | publle schools of the District of Columbia | 2° a. industrial and reformatory, | who do not reside in said District, or whove | 22™ely, the Church Orphanage of St. John’ | parents do not reside or are not engaged in; F2tish, the German Orphan Asylum, the, | business or public duties therein: Provided, | saa nary for the Relief of Desti- That such pupils may be admitted to and | a is Gane po geese Spray includ-| | taught in such public schools on payment | Ings, the Bt. | of such amount, to be fixed by the board of Ann’s Infant Asylum, the St. Joseph's In- | school trustees, with the approval of the fant Asylum, the House of the Good | Commissioners of the District, as will cover herd, the Industrial Home School and 5! the expense of their tuition and cost of , Rose's Industrial School, heretofore recei text books and school supplies used py | ing aid by specitic appropriation, are hereny them; and all payments hereunder shall be , remitted to the appropriation herein made paid into the treasury, one-half to the cred- | and to the act of July 26, 1892, ‘to provide it of the United States and one-half to the | for the care of dependent children in the credit of the District of Columbia. District of Columbia and to create a board It is unofficially stated that this provision | of children’s guardians,’ for all rights and is due to the discovery that there are 473 | benefits which they may have under the children attending school in the District | Provisions of said act.” who have no connection whatever with the —_>_—__ District, but come here from outside places.| The fight between Corbett and Jackson In connection with the appropriation for | next June will likely take place in England. the Freedman’s Hospital and Asylum: Arrangements have been made for the re- And hereafter the management and con- | turn of the great Krupp gun, which is now trol of the Freedman’s Hospital and Asylum! at Steelton, near Baltimore. the time the ship was abandoned as puertie. The court further dismisses the imputa- tions on the conduct of the applicant sub- sequent to his landing frem the Nipsic on the morning of March 16. It 1s not in evi- dence, except by the applicant's own state- ment, that the applicant assisted material- ly on the beach, but the court considers that this act of omission under the circum- stances should not be held against him, as there was very little that could be done effectively by any officer or man on shore in assisting the crews of the Vandalia or Trenton. The Secretary's Comments. Secretary Herbert, in approving the pro- ceedings and findings of the court, reviews the circumstances of the case exhaustively, 80 that the document which bears his sig- nature is more than twice as long as the report of the original court. In the course of his comments Secretary Herbert says In preferring charges against Lieut. Dav. enport before the New York Yacht Club Lieut. Purcell had become the accuser of Lieut. Davenport in a manner which seems to the department, to say the !zast, quite irregular and highly improper. If he wit- nessed conduct on the part of Liewt.Daven- port at Apia during the hurricane which ‘was unbecoming an officer of the navy and cowardly it became his duty to “use his ut- most exertions to bring to puntchanent the offender” against military discipline. All the circumstances connected with this case show that Lieut. Purcell was actuated in the course he took rather by malice against one who had been his superior offi- cer while on board the Nipsic than by any desire to enforce military discipline In a proper manner. Such conduct is strongly reprobated by the department. Secretary Herbert sums up his views in the following concluding paragraph: “The | department is of opinion, however, that | Lieut. Davenport would have set a much better example to the men of the crew and contributed more to good order and mifitary discipline if he had not stripped himeelf as soon as he did. Further than this the de- partment finds no unbecoming conduct om the part of this officer, and it is always to be remembered that the concurrent testi- mony of his superior officers, Rear Admiral Kimberly, Commander Mullan and Licut. Hawley, ‘who were present at the time upon the spot and knew the circumstances as it is impossible to know them now, i that they find nothing whatever im his com- duct to ?