Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR pide ene PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THY STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Penasylvania Aveune, Cor. 11th Street, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 8. H. KACFFMANN, Pres’. New York fice, 88 Potter Building. ‘Tre Evexrxe 3: on their own 2 ca Unit erENTUPLI ee at eink hata at the Post OF @ ans mail watter. ee neil snbsect tions must he paid in edvance ates 0. advertising mane known on application. MUNICIPAL BUILDING aeons Mr. Bankhead Agrees That This City Needs One Right Away. licens ) ME Vislis THE DISTRICT BUILDING| He Inspects the Crowded Rooms and Smells the Smells. a THE MARKET SITE PLAN The chances are favorable for a new Dis- trict building. Yesterday afternoon Chairman Bankhead of the House committee on public buildings and grounds visited«the District building, and, in company with Commissioner Ross, made a careful investigation of the situa- tion there. Each room was visited, and the work of several offices, together with the number of persons employed,explained. When the investigation concluded Mr. Bankhead said the situation had not been overdrawn. ‘The District did need a new municipal building, and needed one badly. He said further that the committee of vitech he-was chairman had decided to favorably report a bill for a new municipal building, and he requested the Commissioners to submit plans and specifications, together with a bill to be presented authorizing the con- struction of same. He told Commissioner Ross In the prepa- Fation of the bili to put in a sum that would insure for the District a home worthy of the national capital. He thought further that if the plans were made to suit the site now owned by the District in front of the market house the chances for the enact- ment of the bill wouid be better, for it would do away with the opposition that would certainly follow were the building constructed avout the city hall. Commis- sioner Ross stated that already the District architect, Mr. John B. Brady, had made elaborate plans for a building on this site which had received the approval of the for- mer board of Commissioners and which would be sent to Congress for the info-ma- tion of the committee having the matter in charge. The Market Site. The Commissioners were highly elated over the suggestion of Mr. Bankhead, and set about at once preparing a bill. It is understood that they will ask for $1,250,000 to do the work. It will be recalled when the subject of a new municipal building was first broached, and the site in front of the Center. Market | was selected as the most practicable, the Tepresentatives of the Market Company ap- peared before the Commissioners and stated that they would be willing to withdraw ‘whatever claim the Market Company had to eighteen feet in the rear of the reservation, if the Commissioners would allow the com- Pany to widen the two «pproaches to the market. As this seemed the wisest solution of the problem, the Commissioners readily assented, and now Architect Brady claims there is ample room on this reservation up- on which to erect a municipal building. The Star has already published a plan of the building, as proposed by Mr. Brady, and the Commissioners will send the same to Con- gress during the early part of next week. A: RT TET THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW. Commissioner Roosevelt is After the Connecticut Democratic Committee. Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt is mow collecting information regarding the Personnel of the democratic state central committee of Connecticut, which lately ts- sued a circular addressed to the federal and state officers of that commonwealth. The circular requested funds for campaign pur- poses and carried a graduated assessment of from 21-2 to 10 per cent, according to | the salary received by each official. Within the past few days copies of the circular have been laid before the civil service com- mission. It will also be ascertained whether any members of the committee are officers | of the government and also the method of distributing the circular. The issuance of such circulars, where the purpose is ¢Cificaliy political purpose, is punishable ne and imprisonment. The law is i ifle. It says that no employe of the Zovernment shall “directly or indirectly Blicit or receive, or be In any manner con- cerned in soliciting any assessment, sub- scription or contribution for any political Fern whatever from any person receiv- i¢ a salary from the United States treas- ury.” The law further provides that “no person ehail in any reom-or building occupied in discharge of official duties by any officer or employe of the United States mentioned in this act, or in any na ersenal, solicit in any manner whatever or receive any contribution of money or any ether thing of value for any political pur- whatever.” The penalty for violating foregoing provisions is a fine not ex- ceeding 35.4") or imprisonment for not ™more than three years, One of the members of the Connecticut @tate central committee, says the Wash- ington correspondent of the New York un, is Henry Goddard, collector of eus- toms at Bridgeport. While it ts not charged that Mr. God: nnection with the comfhittee makes him emenable to the law, and Commissioner Ie ted this morning as saying t the commission had a clear case inst Mr. Goddard. The members of the mit who are not federal officials are also Mable to prosecution, it is claimed, in- @smuch as in one case the circular was Fent to @ postmaster whose office Is In his house. It ts understood that Mr. Roosevelt or ®ome other member of the committee will Proceed to Connecticut after further data shail have been received by them, and per- ®onally investigate the case. toosevelt is qu tha: ce PACIFIC MAIL CONTRACTS. The question of inflicting a penalty cn the Pacific Mail Steamship Company for its violation of the terms of the contract for carrying the mails between New York and Colon and San Francisco and Hong Kong is under consideration by Postmaster Gen- eral Bissell. The contract went into opera- tion February 1, 1892, and provided for ten Years’ service. The schedule required three trips a month between New York and Colon for the first two years and once a week for the remaining period. Between San Fran- cisco and Hong Kong the contract provided for thirteen trips a year during the first two years and twenty-six for the rematn- ing eight years. As the required change has not been made by the company, Super- intendent of Foreign Mails Brooks brought the matter to the attention of the Post- master General a few days ago and the lat- ter has had conferences on the question with Second Assistant J. Lowrie Bell. Tue y is discretionary with the Postmas- ter General. It is possible that the con- tract will be canceled, resuiting in the pa Ment to the company according to w: ef mails carried instead of on the mileage das! The company is now paid $1 a mile for outward trips, no compensation being paid for mails carried on return voyages. ———_—+--+— Public Meetings at the Capitol. A request has been made by the Indiana @elegation in Congress, together with @ hundred or more other Congress- men, that the Speaker permit Mr. Luther Benson, the temperance ora- to use the hall of the House for a The Speaker use the r ‘TAR is served to snbsertbars in the | y yard, fort, or! ard sent out the circular, his | { Che Lvening Star. | Vor 84, No. 20,810. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1894—TWELVE PAGES. TWO. HAWAIIAN INVESTIGATION to; 1 | { Senator Morgan’s Report to Be Read the Subcommittee. The Testimony Said to Be Strongly Against the Administration—Mr. | Morgan's Embarrassment. Mr. Morgan, chairman of the committee on foreign relations of the Senate, has called a subcommittee together for tomor- row to consider the report which he has | prepared on the Hawaiian investigation. |The members of the subcommittee them- | selves do not know what the character of | the report will be, and it is, therefore, im- | possible to ascertain in advance. The mat- ‘ter is open to inference, however. ‘The bur- |den of the testimony taken is strongly ad- | Verse to the administration. ‘The investiga- | tlon was exhaustive, and as much latitude | as possible was extended to both sides, the | purpose of the committee being to ascer- ‘tain the exact truth as to the situation. The testimony antagonistic to the position | of the administration is said to be so over- | whelming as to render it very difficult for )even the most accomplished administration Ss to make up 4 case for Mr. Cleve- Jan The Landing of Troops. It has been shown in the committee that Capt. Wiltse was impelled to land the | troops of the Boston, not on account of the | request of Mr. Stevens, which he was not | cornpefied to respect, but by the reports re- ceived by him from his own officers whom he had sent ashore to investigate the situa- tion, and four hours before he received the | request from Mr. Sievens to land troops he had made all preparations to land them. It was shown also that foreign residents, not | Americans, in the absence of forces of their ‘own nation in the harbor, had drawn up a request to Capt. Wiltse to land troops, and asked Dis protection, and that this request was withheld merely because it was dis- | covered that troops were being landed be- | fore it could be delivered, and it became un- necessary. Mr. Morgan’s Embarrassment. It is known that Mr. Morgan fully un- derstands the situation, and it is said that his private conclusions are in accordance with the undisputed testimony. Whether he will deem it good policy to entirely dis- | regard all party obligations and treat the subject merely in a judicial way, or wheth- er he will consider this hurtful and prefer | to take a negative position or even attempt | to help Mr. Cleveland out of his embarrass- | ment, is what no one can ascertain in ad- | ¥ance of his declaration to the committee. There are excellent reasons for believing ) that he will treat the matter judicially, but at the same time he {fs said ‘to be embar- rassed by the fact that he is publicly re- garded as not feeling kindly toward Mr. Cleveland, and might be subject to the sus- | picion of being influen | —__ +o ! ced by this. A MODEL LIBRARY. | ‘The Results of the Deliberations of # Committee of Experts. The completed catalogue of the Amer- jean Library Association, which Commis- | sioner of Education Harris considers one of the most important documents yet is- | sued by the bureau, was given out yester- day. It embraces 5,230 volumes. selected |for a popular Ubrary by a committee of |Seven appointed by the American Library Association at an annual meeting held in | September, 1890. Suggestions for the work were made by seventy-five or eighty lead- ing MWbrarians of the country. The total estimated cost of the volumes selected is | $12,125. The number of volumes and amount (allotted to each subj as fol- lo Biography, 809, general works, “ophy, | + religion, 220, 10s, stated that a di: t of 20 per cent | for wholesale purchase can be depended jon, while it is estimated that special dis- | counts will reduce the absolute cost to | 200. It is cited in the introduction that | he committee disclaims the idea that this is a model Nbrary, in the sense of being an ideal selection. The wealth of materia! and the differences of opinion are such that no such selection is possible. They would claim, however, that it is a good working library, representing the best thoughts of competent | Judges in various departments. No boards | of trustees would make 2 mistake in order- | ing the collection as it stands. The number | of volumes in each subject is the res: | careful siudy, and editions as well as works have been indicated. The number of books in photography is large for a library of | 5,000 volumes. It illustrates a special col- lection. Every library should have such a | collection on some subject of general or local interest. The catalogue is of service in supplying the proper ciass numbers, dic- tionary headings and author eniries to | libraries using in whole or in purt this selection of books. The most costly item in putting a library in order is thus saved.” ————_+ oe ONLY ONE CASE AT RIO. A Dispatch From Admiral Beaham _ Gives Reassuring News. ‘The Secretary of the Navy has received a cable message from Admiral Benham at Rio, dated the 1th instant, saying that one man on the Newark is ill with yellow fever; that he has been transferred to the hospital, and that he has ordered the New- ark to Rio de ia Plata, acar Montevideo. That is all Admiral Benhain says on the subject, so it is believed that there is but | one case of the dreaded fever in the entre American fleet. Every precaution will be taken to prevent the spread of the discase and the authorities here are contident that j= More cases will elop on the Newark oF on any of the other American warships. | It is now believed that the Detroit was not sent to Montevideo with the Newark, but that if she has left the harbor it is mereiy for @ short cruise outside. ————__+- e+ —_____ | Immigration in France. That the United States is not the only | Mation afflicted with too much immigration is made apparent by an elaborate report received at the Department cf State from | Charles W. Wiley, United States consul at | St. Etienne, France. The c. 1 shows that | there is the same Lorna agea ion in France as exists in the United Stftes among na- tive working classes touching the employ- ment of foreigners, and particularly is this | true of the foreign laborers who come to | France under contract. It is shown in the |Feport that France occupies toward the cther nations of Europe a position akia to that of the United States, in that while | the nation fs rich in material wealth, the | population is far from dense, so that the | operations of the law of demand and sup- | Ply are materially modified in the interest of the native workmen. —-e TO CONDEMN THE LAND | For the North Capitol Street Exten- sion—Application in Court. The District Commissioners, through At- | torney S. T. Thomas, filed in the Supreme Court of the District a petition for the con- demnation of land for the extension of North Capitol street to the Soldiers’ Home. The lands are those of the Prospect Hill | cemetery and Annie E. Barbour, and about 250,000 square feet are required from the rorth line of | former and 2 acres of the latter—and | they ask the court to appoint three com- | missioners for the purpose. | —_—— Treasury Cash Balance. | The available cash balance in the treasury today is $137.28" national bank notes 01. Govern- | ten at 1 o'clock this afternoon. LEONARD EXECUTED Hanging the Murderer of Jesse Anderson at Frederick. AN INDIANA MURDERER ALSO DIES The Worst Ciime in the History of the State. RES SREB te COOL ON THE SCAFFOLD oe Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. FREDERICK, Md., Feb. 16.—Wm. Leon- ard, who murdered Jesse Anderson, was hanged in the jail yard here this morning. ‘The drop fell at 11:17 and the man was pronounced dead, at 11:31, of a broken neck. The execution passed off without flaw. The condemned man exhibited great nerve and coolness, ascending the scaffold aloné without a tremor and placing himself in position on the trap. Leonard spent the entire morning with his spiritual advisers, Rev. Fathers Cole- man and Holm, and when not conversing with them walked up and down the corri- dor smoking. He said he was prepared, to die, and wanted the work done as soon after 10 o'clock as possible. He was dressed in a neat suit of black. The physicians, Drs. F. F. Smith, W. G. McComas, H. K. Mudd and W. A. Long, pronounced the man dead and his body was jeut down and taken in a casket to St. John’s Catholic’ Church, where brief services were held and the body interred in the ad- joining graveyard. Crime, Arrest and Trial of Leonard. The crime for which Leonard suffered the death penalty was the killing of Jesse An- derson with a musket on September 5, 1898, at Lime Kiln, Frederick county, three miles south of Frederick city. Anderson was a Baltimore and Ohio track workman and was very popular in his neighborhood. Leonard was an Englishman and worked up to the time of the killing in a canning | factory at Buckeystown. Leonard about the time of the murder was drinking heavily. He repeatedly admitted the killing and said in extenuation that he was crazed by drink at the time of what he always spoke of as “this sad affair.’ It was brought out in the trial that, while Leonard was in his drunken condition, he was informed that Anderson had told Leon- ard’s brother-in-law, Mr. Grant Hardy, who is a Baltimore and Ohio telegraph operator, that Leonard was on a drunk. Leonard did not know Anderson, but he was so in- furiated by the information that he went to Hardy's house, borrowed a musket, which, he said, he wanted to use to shoot a squircel for his little daughter, anJ went to look for Anderson. He found kis victim in a gang of nine men at work on ihe rail- road. He asked which was Anderson, ond when he got the right . Said: are you armed?” replied Anderson. “Then I am sorry for you. You ha about me, and I am going to kill you. The men then struggled for the gun, but the load of shot was fired into the track | alggaaeae lungs, and he @ie@ the same y. The murderer was arrested at Buckey: town and taken to Frederick. The feeling was so intense against him that his irial was removed to Rockville, Montgomery county, where, on November 29, convicted of murder in the first degree. On December 4 Judge McSherry sentenced Leonard to be hanged in Frederick. When asked if he had anything to say he arose and said: “I am nearly fifty years old, and up to the time of this sad affair I have never been arrested. I did kill Ander- son, but it was entirely accidental.” Leonard asserts that the name by which he is known ts not his right aame. He gives this account of his life: “I was born near Liverpool, England, January 20, 184. My parents were poor. When I wa ix years old my father moved to Ben Johnson street in Liverpool. At the age of fourteen I went to sea for two years and visited the United States, the West Indies, and France, Amer- ica and India. I was twice married legall. but the second marriage was not happy, a I left my wife and lived with a gipsy queen. Three children were born to us. I left her also. While working in the Cornwall mines in England I had some trouble, which made me again come to the United States in 18s when I worked at Newark, N. J., and Pitt: burg. At Green Spring Run, W. Va. married Mrs, Allenger afterward in the mines at Connellsville, Pa. This wife died on May 1, 1N%, leaving two little girls. These are all w their grand- mother at Green Spring Run. I am the father altogether of seventeen children.” 2 lied T who, with me, worked The convicted man has given little trouble to his jailors. He wrote to Sir Julian Paune the British ambassador, some time aso, stating that he was a British st asking the ambassador to interc with President Cleveland, but no notice tak- en of the communication. that he does not give his re: he does not wish to scandalize his relatives, and this fact, he says, has kept him from obtaining that help he would have obtained if his nativity could be proven by his family name. * claims to have relatives in Philadel nard claims me because ph Jesse Anderson, who was killed b left a wife and two small chi, a y Leonard, n. Murderer Stone Executed at Jeffer- sonville, Ind. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Feb. 16.—Jas. EF. Stone expiated his crime on the ¢ s in the prison here at 12:08 this morning. The sextuple murderer kept up his al bravado until the last moment. The de warrant was read to him by W During the reading Stone preserved the iame stoicism that was characteristic of the man during his stay in the prison. His spiritual a viser attempted to bring him to a re: tion of his near approach to death, in vain. Stone walked to the gallows without a tremor end met his doom w gut a word of excuse for his hoprible o The animal in his natu to the last moment. His ne was broken by the fall and there was io movement of the body after he passed through the trap. but as exhibited Stone, as he was f ed was committed near Glendale, nine miles cast « “| ington, Ind., on the night of September is, 1893, and was the pecullarly atrocious and bloody murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Wra ten, her son Denson, and his wife and three children. Stone confessed the crime to his wife, and, she being unable to keep the awful secret, when summoned before the grand jury told all she knew. The assassin was taken to the Jefferson- ville prison immediately upon his arrest in order to avofd lynching, but was return- lage ed to Washington November 4 for trial. He entered a plea of guilty, and within three hours’ time Stone had been tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanze short time ago he added another horroi is crime by statin visited him in prison, that he 1ad smother- ed the little girl, Ethel, with an apron at a neighbor's house. where she nad been re- moved in a dying condition, while the folks were at dinner, as he feared if she recover- ed her evi might conviet him. Stone’s was probably the most brutal and fiendish murder ever committed in the state of Indiana. It was undoubte:lly plan- ned for robbery, but becoming frightened at the enormity of his crime, the murderer fled, leaving over $4”) in an unlocked bu- reau drawer. His father is a highly re- spected farmer, and up to the time of the murder Bud Stone had led a quiet, unevent- tul life, 7 he was) An Effort Will Probably Be Made to Get Her Off. The Navy Department Wait! the Return of the Crew—Two Proposi- tions to Recover the Wreck. The officers of the navy, and particularly those of the old navy who remember the achievements of the old wooden ship Kear- sarge, cast away on Ronecador reef, nave recently been encouraged in the belief that the famous ship is not yet to be abandoned, and that she may see further service, if only as a training ship or receiving ship, so that she may be preserved as a patriotic memorial. The reason for the renewal of this hope is to be found in a visit to the | Navy Department of Capt. Merritt, the head of the well-known wrecking com- pany. The captain has had an interview with Assistant Secretary McAdoo and has signified a willingness to undertake the salvare of the Kearsarge on reasonable terms. He says he has worked vessels out of all kinds of difficulties; has even picked them out of the trees, and that the Kear- Sa>ge must be in a bad plight, indeed, if he cannot get her off the reef. The Navy Department is waftiag fot the arrival of the castaways at New York on the City of Para before coming to a definite | decision in the matter. When they arrive, which should be within a week, they will be questioned as to the exact condition of the Kearsarge, of which they should know more than any one else, as they were the last persons to see her. The old ship was stanchly built of live oak timbers, and it is believed that she could stand much pounding before breaking up. It is also gathered from the reports that she Hes very near to deep water, owing to the rapid shelving of the reef, so that the task of floating her off would be comparatively easy. r When Capt. Merritt has satisfied himself | from inquiry of the Kearsarge’s officers | that the undertaking is feasible he will proceed at once from Norfolk, the nearest port where the wrecking company has head- quarters, in a well-equipped vessel, for Ron- cador reef, where he will make a personal examination of the wreck. If she is be- yond salvage the government will be put to no expense on account of the expedition. and if she can be saved Capt. Merritt will} name the figure for which he wili undertake the Job. He feels fairly confident that he will succeed and points to the salvage of the Aguan, which carried Warner Miller’ iil-starred party and which the Merritt! Wrecking Company succeeded in taking off this same Roncador reef, The Navy Department is disposed to act with all due speed tn the matter, because of | a fear that the Kearsarge may be loot2d by | some of the lawless natives of New Provi- dence before the salvors can arrive cn| the scene. | Another to the Rescue. THE WRECKED KEARSARGE/THF FIGHT IS ON SEVERAL LocaL NEEDS The Senate Considering the Peckham. Case in Executive Session. HR. VILAS DEFENDS THE NOMINATION The Opposition Still Confident of Securing a Rejection. SOME INTERESTING RUMORS a The Senate went into executive session | aln.cst immediately after the reading of the jcurnal this morning, The situation this morning can only be described as “hot.” The lnes of the battle over the Peckham nomination have been consider- ably tightened over night, and the leaders of both sides were in a condition of great strain this morning. Mr. Hill arrived at the Capitol at 8 o'clock, and was on a con- tinuous move here, there and everywhere abcut the building from that time until the Senate met. Rumors of changes in the probable vote of the Senate that had reach- ed his ears since the adjournment of last night made him nervous. It was announc- ed on excellent authority this morning that bcth Senators Cockrel and Colquitt, who, last night, were paired against Mr. Peck- ham, were today on the side of the admin- istration. Their votes have been won by Mr. Vilas since the adjournment. It was asserted today by one who was in a position to know the truth that the situa- tion this afternoon is much more favorable to Mr. Peckham than it was at this time yesterday and that a change of three votes now from one side to the other would change the result. This indicates that yes- terday’s adjournment had helped the side of the administration more than that of the opposition. A Rawmor as to Hill. that Mr. Hill had promised to keep his hands off of the Supreme Court nominations jected now, is not generally accepted as the truth by those who know the situation. While it may be true that Mr. Hill will not fight another Supreme Court nomination, he = undoubtedly made no promises to that effect. The fact that he will not make such a fight is assumed on the ground that the President will make no more nominations of the same character as those of Horn- blower and Peckham. Should Mr. Peck- nam be rejected it is accepted that the President will take the hint offered by two Lieut. J. A. Smith of the navy has pre-! | Sented to Senator Chandler and Representa- | tive Blair a plan for rescuing the guns and armament of the Kearsarge. The plan was submitted to Lieut. Smith by E. M. Stod- | | dard, who commanded the 11-inch guns of the Kearsarge during the engagement with the Alabama. Mr. Stoddard is now in the wrecking business at Norfolk, Va. He esti- mates that an expedition could be fitted out to rescue the Kearsarge from the West Indian buccaneers for about $12,000. The | expedition outfit could be sold when out of use for about $4,000, The estimate is made to cover fitting out the expedition fur five months. wag [ Mr. Stoddard thinks the battery and a Portion of the hull could be recovered. He calls attention to the fact that the north- east trade winds slack up about the mid- dle of April, which would aid the expedi- tion. Acting on this letter, Mr. Blair to- day presented a bill for a Kearsarge rescue expedition. | ——$$$$_—+-@—_______ SUSPENDED PENSIONERS. Action of the House Committee on the | Subject. The construction of the act of December 21, 1891, which made a pension a vested right and required thirty days’ notice before It could be withheld, seems to be somewhat | uncertain In its bearings upon the rights of pensioners who were suspended from the rolls before that date. The House committee on invalid pensions agreed today to favorably report the resolu- | tion of Representative Tawney of Minne- sota, calling upon the Se retary of the In- terior for Information as to whether the money withheld from pensioners suspended before thet act must not he paid to them, and thirty days’ notice given before they are dropped or suspended, Representative Tawney named seven vet- erans in his di who were suspended from the rolls April and have not been restored. utative Meiklejohn of Nebraska notified the committee of |simiiar cases in his district. Representa- itive Tawney things there can be no ques-| |tion about the duty imposed by the act |upon the commissioner to reste sion- ers, and says this duty was roe nize’ by} |the commissioner when he restored Judge | jLong’s pension. One of the | | sin s instanced by ne case, of Winon: him is The pensioner Minn.,whose under the { PRIN SS COLONNA, Que nm Before the State Depasic| ment in Regard to ier Case. There 1s no question before the State De- partment affecting the case of the Princes |Colonna, daughter of Mr. J. W. Mackey, |who fled to this country to keep her chil- jdren away from her husband, Her fight from France with the children might be reg: # case of kidnaping, in view of of the French court that Prince ‘olonna, and not his wife, is the legal ‘guardian of the children, Our treaty obit- {gations with France do not make kidnap- jing an extraditable offense. It is so re- | garded in our extradition treaty with Ital: |of which the prince is a subject. As the al- leged Kidnaping occurred in France, it is | | jnot likely that Italy would take official cognizance of it. It {s said that Prince! Colonna is on his way to this country to! take forcible possession of his children, and | ‘ssary will take legal steps to that | eee Russian Thistle. Congress is to be urged to make an ap- | propriation of $1,000,000 to exterminate the | Russian thistle, which is becoming a great | |menac> to agrie) in the northwest |The Senate committee on agriculture has approved Senatar Hansbrough’s bill for this purpose. A similar bill has been in- troduced in the Ho: eS with Representative Moses of ( | at its nead, has be . and report upon thi reia | to investigate | i Will give a hearing to the repr trom the northwest who are in- in the matter. Gov. Shortridge of | kota has come to Washington to ‘ge upon Congress the necessity of action. |He thinks that unless the government takes steps soon to check the spread of the weed it will become a blight upon the | |whole country, particularly on wheat | lands, + e+ —_—___— Personal Mention, Secretary Lamont is expected to return} to Washington tomorrow or Sunday. Mr. L. M. Saunders and Mr. James H. | Northup have gone to Florida. Mr. Saun- ders expects to be absent about a week. Hon. John E. Russell of Massachusetts is at the Arlington. city several days. of rejection. He will remain in this | successive rejections, and will make a nomination against which no objection can | be raised. He could not have selected two men from New York city or state quite so offensive to the New York Senators as those whom he has made. There is prob- ably no other man available today against wnom Mr. Hill would care to organize an opposition. For these reasons {it is thought Mr. Hill will make no further fight against the administration in this matter in case Peckham is rejected, but he has made no promises and begged no votes on any such basis. Senator George's Position The friends of Senator George are anxious that it should be untlerstood that he is working for Mr. Peckham, net because of favors received or expected from the ad- ministration, but because he believes that Mr. Peckham would be a good man for the democratic party on the Supreme bench. They assert that Mr. George will vote for Mr. Peckham for the same reason that Mr. Hoar will vote .gainst him, namely, because it is understood that Mr. Peckham is a states rights man and believes in the un- constitutionality of protection. Mr. George is a radical tariff reformer, and, in fact, almost a free trader. He declares that on broad questions he may differ from the ad- ministration and antagonize it, as was the case in the silver debate last autumn, but on small matters, such as the Peckham nomination, he desires to be in harmony with the administration as representing the democratic party. The Oppo yn Recovers. Shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon it became apparent that the anti-Peckham forces had recovered from their fright of this morning. They were much more con- fident of the vote being in their favor and declared that the majority against Peck- ham would not be less than six, and might run as high as twelve. Certain changes and announcements contributed to their confidence. Senator Colquitt was confident- ly_claimed once more by Mr. Hill's friends. When he left the Senate last evening ne was paired in favor of Peckham. Today he announced himself to be once mere in favor of rejection. Senators Morrill and Dolph, who have been classed as doubtful, |” have been announced positively on the side An Effort to Postpone. At 2 o'clock Mr. Vilas was still talking, but was showing signs of di close. As soon as he finishes ¢ of California, who has recently ted from the vi of the adm . is to take the floor for aby Mr. Peckham. Then Mr. short speech in favor ted ing to ator White been con- nistra- to postpone t r day has not succeeded, will undoubtedly secure afternoon, Mr. Vilas Defends Peckham. Senator Vilas’ speech was devoted largely to a denial of the statements that were made against Peckham by those who op- posed bim. He read a large number of letters from different parts of the cou’ from prominent lawyers, who reported t Peckham was a most fit man for the y tion. Some of the letters we 1 bitter against Senator Hill, and Sena Vilas emphasized these points. He also asserted that a man should not be rejected because he was opposed by a faction of his party in New York, and t the attempt to defeat a man because he was not in harmony with the Senators sition and one which should be rebuked from that state was a preposterous propo- Not Many There, but the Session Was n Long One. Today's cabinet meeting members, but was long in duration. It is said that the session was protracted beyond the usual hour in the exp tion of heart the disposition of the Peckham cas was short of meeting adjourned, however, iong hi a vote in uestion in g to Minister conside: nad Lam taries Carlisle ont and Pos! Gene Bissell were not present at the meeting. ee DISTRICT IN CONGRESS. To Amend the Tax Laws. The Senate District committee at its meeting today directed Senator Faulkner to report to the Senate favorably 1006, amending the tax sale laws of the i trict of Columbia. He made this. rep later in the day, before the Senate went in to executive si To Sel Senator Smith was directed to report favorably Senate bill 1235, authorizing the sale of certain p2operty in Georgetow Colored People’s Home. Mr. Post of Ilinois has introduced a bill in the House exempting from taxation the Home of the Aged Colored People in the District. The announce ent made this morning | in the future, if Mr. Peckham should be re- | ficiency Bill. Have a Good Deal of Interest to Many. The appropriations committee of the House has received from the Secretary of the Treasury estimates of deficiency ap- propriations amounting to — $2,367,855.59. The following estimates of local interest are noted: For expenses of heating the United States National Museum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, $1,000, National Zoological Park: For repairs to the Holt mansion to make the same | suitable for occupancy and for office furni- ture, $420.57. assuming the expenses of labor and mate- rials for repairs urgently necessary for |the preservation of the Holt mansion, $490.55. For payment of, contract liabilities on Maltby buiidmg and Richards propert; sz. Diswrict of Columbia: Reat of of- hices superintendent of charities, $300; for | advertising, $13,8#0.20. Expenses of assess- | cierical services be aliowed, and that the accounting officers of the United States |treasury be authorized and directed to | credit the same in the settlement of the ac- |counts of Commissioners J. W. Douglass, |J. W. Hoss and Capt. Wm. T. Rossell, be- jing for the service of the fiscal year I8vz. | lmprovements and repairs—Grading streets, alleys and roads: To pay D. Knowlton the | | balance due on contract No. 1231 for grad- ling Half street southwest between M and | N strects, being for the service of the fiscal | year 18W), $269. Permit work—That . the |sum o: $9.21 be appropriated to meet the retain of 10 per cent on the cost of work |done under contract No. 1310, with George Drew & Sons, being for the service of the \fiscai year 1 Streets—Sprinkling, sweep- ing and cleaning. Rent of offices and store jroom, being for the service of the fiscal | year 189, $120. To pay Edward Harpur 30 cents m from July 1, 1892, to June days, $111. To pay Edward per diem from November 3 204 days, $102. Amount re- for the balance of the current year, | being for the service of the fiscal year 1S¥4, |$1,500; forage, to pay S. S. Daish & Son; jrepairs to apperatus and new appli- \ances, to pay John McDermott & Bro.,both being for the fiscal year INS, $1,467 tingent cxpenses, that the sum of $5 for |papering engine house be allowed, and that | the accounting officers of the United States jtreasury be authorized and directed to credit the same in the settlement of the |accounts of Commissioners J. W. Ross, M. | M. Parker and Capt. Charles F. Powell, be- {ing for the service of the fiscal year 1893. | Pubic schools—Pay of superintendents, teachers and janitors, to pay E. E. K janitor of Fillm September 30, 1898, to make his pay $00 per annum, $20.88; to pay the janitor of | Pierce School from February 1 to June 30, 1804, at $500 per annum, $2 to pay to the janitor of Patverson School trom May 1 }to June 30, 1804, at $500 per annum, $83.33; fuel, amount required for the balance of \the current year, all being for the service of the fiscal year 18%, $10,000; fuel, to pay \J, Edward Chapman, $824.95; to pay R. J | Kennedy, 3307.39; to pay Mayfield & Heis- ton, $345.80, Contingent expenses: To pay |the Washington Gas Light Company, gas, Vv. R cleaning out- |houses, county schools, % ail being for the service of the fiscal year 1893. Con- tingent expenses: To pay the Prang Edu- cational Company, paper, being for the ser- | vice of the fiscal year 180 23. | Courts—Police Court: To pay William Gale, engineer, from March 1, 1893, to June 1845, at the rate of $000 per annum, be- for the service of the fiscal year 189%, Militia—R |. light, care and Washington wr the ser- Gas Light Compan. vice of the fiscal 321.50. Support of convicts—To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the treasury on account of support of convicts, District of = Cohambia, for the fiseal Municipal lodging ho: ment of judgments ai Columbia as follows: by his next friend, Mary Alice Anderson. $400; John L. Bartlett, $500; the Angio- American Insurance © use of Will fam A. Meloy, $1.2 am A. Hedrick, $81; David Murphy, & Industrial Home School, $2,000, National Association tor Col- ored Women and Children, $4,000; Associa- tion for Works of Merey,’ $700; St. John's Chureh Orphanage, §S1 Intant Asylam, $2,500. harles H. Anderson, ———___ | | THE NEW SENATOR. |His Assiznment to Committees a | Cause of Perplexity, Mr. McLaurin, the new Senator from ippi, is exceptionally fortunate in sion of a private secretary bear- the historic and patriotic name of Pat- ick Henry. This young gentleman came north from Mississippi with | rday and was tod ce of the sergeant-, and be: the Senator sworn in at the ~arms of the Senate his oficial functions. The new not yet been assigned to any nd accordingly has no perma- ce in the Capitol. He makes narters, however, in Senator be- at in chamber. nator Me urin is not, as has i ted, a smooth-fa man. He has, jin reality, cropped mustache and and gray, present- with his complexion inguishabie ten feet light. rooms now cor nging his ” and seven daugh- y from his southern home, the new Senator to com- ter that is still giving the {imperial of mixed ing so little contras j that they are noi » democratic side of the neiderable perplexity. tter will be ‘st tested by the » conclusion can have to be re- mocratiec Sena- of the steering Ransom cries of sin ce. a cauers tie man- J to avoid such a necessity, = é ' The Piling of Records. he work of the commission of treasury | of Ss Appointed to examine the methods of filing papers adopted in the depart- ment and to determine upon a new plan | heen compleied. The report of the |committee, which consisted of Deputy s Auditor John C. Edwards, Deputy | Third Auditor George W. Sixth uty rthur H Auditor » of the treasu! to Secretary office rer’s Car- thi: It recomme: substitution of a new atent tyin, for the wooden and | metallic boxes now in use. Second Lieut. William A. Campbell, ninth vill be relieved from further in- nin ordnance duty at the Franford | company. Cared for in the Estimates for the De-| The Specific Items, Although ‘Small, | To reimburse the Smithsonian fund for | arsenal, Philadelphia, Pa., and will join a | An inéezr te advertise. ments will be found en Page 3. IN CONGRESS TODAY Only a Brief Business Session of the Senate. lik. BLAND AND SEIGNIORAGE BILL An Effort to Close the Debate en the Measure. CALLS OF THE HOUSE. ' | | agreed that the entire time today after preliminary morning business devoted to that matter. As a conseq of this agreement the Senate, on motion Senator Pugh, proceeded to executive ness after a few minutes of routine work. Senator Brice of Ohio presented a peti- tion signed by 25,000 citizens of Cuyahoga | county asking that the duty be retained |on iron ore. Senator Washburn of Minnesota presented petitions praying for the extension of the bonded period on liquors. i The binding twine man ot Massachusetts, through | presented a petition wales teen ae anion aces Merl, ae appa Smithsonian Institution. a resolution Senator Chandler presented of the Treasury to directing the inform the Senate of the names of the immi- xration commissioners at the various of the United States. It was adopted. Senator Hoar presented @ resolt questing the President of the United “if not incompatible with the terests, to communicate to the reports or dispatches from Mr. Present minister to Hawati, not heretofore communicated, and the patch communicating a letter from Pres- ident Dole specifying certain charges against the conduct of said Willis.” Senator Harris at first objected to the present consideration of the resol but after some explanations consented the resolution was adopted. Then, at 12-25, on motion of Senator Pugh, the Senate went into executive session to consider the nomination of W, H. Peckham to be an associate justice of the Supreme j i ; Be F At the opening of the session House this morning Mr. men of the committee on naval Presented as a question of privilege report of his: committee on Mr. resolution calling upon the Secretary the Navy to inform “the House by authority instructions were issued the Hi A the armed naval forces of States and the use of its ensign | control of James H. Blount, and | ish the House with copies of directions, instructions or official tions issued by bim since March concerning the movements of the forces of Hawaii.” He explained that the committee mended the passage of amended so as to call for | March 4, 1892, instead of |a moment to Mr. Boutelle, importance of the resol said, had already been delayed The information called for thought, should have been House when the Hawaiian were being debated. He did not suppose that answer | have had any effect on that debate, and delay In procuring the information | by it, he presumed, subserved the same le policy which for days and weeks kept Congress waiting for Dole’s Willis, which had at last reached pie this morning through the Mr. Cummings then demanded question, which was ordered, and lution, as amended, was adopted without vision, Trying to Close the Debate. Mr. Bland was then recognized. All festions for closing debate on the age bill by unanimous consent having he was driven to coercive tactics. to go into committee of the pending that motion, moved that | eral debate on the measure close | o'clock. On that motion he demanded | previous question, Mr, Cannon, Mr, | kins and Mr. Reed appealed to him for | more time for legitimate debate, but Mr. Bland was obdurate. He was perfectly willing, he sald, to set any reasonable mit | to the debate if the ents of the bill | would agree to it, but they had already fili- bustered away two days and he was ad- | montshed that obstructive tactics would be resorted to at every stage of parliamentary procedure hereafter. | Mr. Reed replied that there was no reason | why the opposition to the bill should be bound over to keep the peace in order to get an opportunity to close the debate. Thereupon Mr. Bland insisted upon his mo- tion and the demand for the ques- tion. On the rising vote the republicans and the opposition democrats declined to vote, and when the result was announced, 10, Mr. Tracey made the point of no quorum. The yeas and nays were de- manded. It was very apparent from the outset that Mr. Bland would be unable to get a quorum today. The vote resulted, 140-5, thirty-four less than a quorum. Just before the vote was meng ot - President's message transmitting port of the bureau of American republics for 18%8 was received. Mr. Bland moved & call of the House. ‘On call of House 212 members responded and the vote —— padi tene de mand for the previous quest ‘The roll call developed the presence of 258 members, and again the vote recurred on Mr. Bland’s motion, which again failed for | lack of a quorum, 160—1, 18 short. | Still Short of a Quorum. — ‘This resulted, 1-2, a gain of votes, but still twenty-six short of a quor- um. Mr. Bland again moved @ call of the House. le or no chance of Eid ag hy motion this after- noon. The filibustering will probably eon- tinue until about 4 o'clock, when a resolu- uon to arrest absentees will be passed, after which the House will adjourn. amet Smallpox on the Baltimore. Information has reached the Navy Depart- | ment thet several cases of smalipox have occurrei on the flagship Baltimore oe ama sine die of January an it cong sock sn son sae rigid ‘quarantine. No deaths from the disease have occurred, nd it is believed that there will be no fur- ther trouble on that account. ——_——+-2.—__—_—_—— Fourth-Class Postmasters, The total number of fourth-class post- masters appointed today was thirty-eight. Of this number twenty-seven were to fill vacancies caused by death and resignation and the remainder by removals, The Vir- ginia appointments were: Hickman, F. J. a ill i i i i Fe | i et i Hal } | e 3 fi : ik Me fe : | | Hickman, vice D, P. Hickman, removed; Newport, D. H. Keister, vice Mrs. 5. ML removed. Smith, | ee | Help for the Land Office. | A large number of clerks from the pen- sion office today reported to the chief clerk of the general land office for duty in eon- necticn with the duplication of the records destroyed by fire at the land olfice,