Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1894, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. no AT THE STAR *oc tae Pennsyivania Avenue, Cor. Lith Street, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, SH. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. New Yori Ofice, 88 Potter Building, ee Tre Evexixe Stan is <erved to « »seribers In the city by carriers, on their ow account, at 19 cents per Week. or 4tc. per month. ‘optes at the conn tem 2 cents each By muil—anywhere in the United States or Canada—postage prepail—3) cents per menh. OTAE $100 per year: Sat RDAY QUINTUPLE With foreizn postaze at (Entered at the Pr —— ee. Mr. Bankhead Agrees That This City Needs One Right Away. HE VISITS THE DISTRICT BUILDING He Inspects the Crowded Rooms and Smells the Smells. 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 hgllding, 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 vhich he wa: chairman had decided to favorably report al bill for a new municipal building, and he requested the Commissioners to submit Piams and specifications, together with a bil to be presented authorizing the con- struction of same ‘te told Commissioner Ross in the prepa- Fation of the bill to put im 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- ent of the bili would be better, for it would de away with the opposition that would certainly foliow were the building = d about the city hall. Comni SS Stated that already the Dist architect, Mr. John B. Brady, had tnd * plans for a building on this site the approval of the tor- issioners and which 11 be sent to f the commii tion charge. The Market Site. Cor simmers were over the sugge: fet 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 representatives of the Market Company ap- peared before the Commissioners and stated they would be willing to withdraw er claim the Market Company had to hteen feet in the rear of the reservation, the Commissioners would allow the com- pany to widen the two approaches to the -flated tion of Mr. Bankhead, and market. As this seemed the wisest solution ef the problem, the Commissioners readily ussen and now Archit. 2 mple room on this reservation up- on which to erect a muntcipai bullding. 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. —— THE CIVIL SERV Commissioner Roosevelt is After the | Connecticut Democratic Committee. Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt is now collecting information regarding the personnel of the democratic state central committee of Connecticut, which lately is- | 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 1 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- 1 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 spe- | cifically for political purpose. is punishable | both by fine and imprisonment. The law is) very specific. It says that no employe of} the Zovernment shall “directly or indirectly | solicit or receive, or be in any manner con- | cerned in soliciting any assessment, sub- scription or contribution for any political | purpose whatever from any person receiv-| ing a salary from the United States treas-| ury.” The law further provides that “no person | shail in any room or building occupied in discharge of official duties by any officer or employe of the United States mentioned | in this act. or in any navy yard, fort, or arsenal, solicit im any manner whatever or, receive any contribution of money or any other thing of value for any political pur- | pose whatever.” The penalty for violating | the foregoing provisions is a fine not ex- ceeding $5,000 or imprisonment for not | more than three years. H One of the members of the Connecticut | State central committee, says the Wash- | ington correspondent of the New York Sun, is Henry Goddard, collector of cus- toms at Bridgeport. While it is not charged | that Mr. Goddard sent out the circular, his | connection with the committee makes him | amenable to the law, and Commissioner | Roosevelt is quoted this morning as saying | that the commission had a clear case against Mr. Goddard. The members of the, committee who are not federal officials are also lable to prosecution, it is claim in- | esmuch as in one case the circular sent to a postmaster whose office is in his house. it is understood that Mr. Roosevelt or some other member of the committee will proceed to Connecticut after further data shall have been received by them, and per- sonally investigate the case. —__—_—__-.— A MODEL LIBRARY. The Results of the Deliberations of a. Committee of Experts. ‘The completed catalogue of the Ameri- tan 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 library 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- img librarians of the country. The total astimatel cost of the volumes selected is $12,125. The number of volumes and amount allotted to each subject are given as fol- lows: Biography, 635, $1,110; fiction, $00, general works, 227, $982; philosophy, ww $21; religion, 220, $306; sociology, 424, 255, $102 literature, travel, 413. $1,187. “Tt ts stated that a disci it of 20 per cent | for wholesale purchase can be dependei on, while it is estimated that special dis- | counts will reduce the absolute cost to Tt ts cited in the introduction that ee disclaims the idea that this orary, in the sense of being ‘The wealth of mat es of opinion are such n is possible. T t . putting @ library | pessible to ascertain in advance. + language, 103, $325; natural science, | useful arts, 28, $823; fine arts, , 634, $1,254; history, | ————<———— Che Evening Star. An Effort Will Probably Be Made to Get | Her Off. | i j t ! The Navy Depariment Waiting the | Return of the Crew—Two Proposi- | tons to Recover the Wreck. | ‘The ofMcers of the navy, and particularly those of the old navy who remember the achievements of the old wooden ship K sarge, cast away on Roneador reef, nave recently been encouraged in the bellef that | the famous ship Is not yet to be abandoned, {and that she may see further service, if | only as a training ship oz receiving ship, so | | that she may be preserved as a patriotic | memorial. The reason for the renewal of | | i} this hope fs to be found in a visit to the Navy Department of Capt [head of the well-known cking com- }pany. The captain has had an interview with Assistant Secretary McAdoo and has | signified a willingness to undertake the jsalvage of the Kearsarge on reasonadie | jterms. He says he has worked veasels out | of all kinds of difficulties; has sven picked | | them out of the trees, and that the Jkear- | Sa>ge must be in a bad plight, indeed, if he cannot get her off the reef. | | The Navy Department ts waitiag for 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 coniition of the Kearsarge, uf 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 lve oak timbers, and it | 1g believed that she could stand much pounding before breaking up. It is also gathered from the reports that she lies very near to deep water, owing to the 1: shelving of the reef, so that the task of floating her off would be comparatively easy. ' When Capt. Merritt has satisfied himseif | from inquiry of the Kearsarge’s officers | that the undertaking is feasible he will | proceed at once f: 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 1s 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 ti: will succeed and points to the s e of} the Aguan, which carried Warner Miller's M-starred ‘party and which the Merritt | Wrecking Company succeeded in taking eff | this same Roneador reei. | The Navy Department is disposed to act | | with all due speed in the matter, because of | a fear that the Kearsarge may be loot- by some of the lawless sof New Provi- | dence before the salvors can arrive cn! the scene. | Merritt, the i | Another to the Rese Lieut. J. A. Smith of the navy has p:e- | sented to Senator Chandler and Representa- tive Blair a plan for rescuing the guns apd armament of the Kearsarge. The plan was | submitted to Lieut. Smith by E. M. Stod- dard, who commanded the 11-inch guns cf 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 outtit could be sold when out of use for about $4,000. The estimate is made to cover fitting out the expedition for five months. 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- tton. Acting on this letter, Mr. Blair to- day presented a bill for a Kearsarge rescue expedition. a HAWAIIAN INVESTIGATION Senator Morgan's Report to Be Read to the Subcommittee. 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 Hawailan investigation. The members of the subcommittee them- selves do not know what the character of the report will be, and it is, therefore, im- The mat- ter is open to inference, however. The bur- den of the testimony taken is strongly ad- verse to the administration. The investiga- | tion 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 supporter to make up a case for Mr. Cleve- | land. The Landing of Troops. It has been shown in the committee that | Capt. Wiltse was impelled to land the | treops of the Boston, not on account of the request of Mr. Stevens, which he was not compelled 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. Stevens to land troops he | had made ali preparations to land tly it | was shown also that foreign residents. not | Americans, in the absence of forces of their | own nation in the harbor, had drawn 1 request to Capt. Wiltse to land troops, | asked bis protection, and that this request was withheld merely because tt wasedis- covered that troops were being landed be- | fore it could be delivered, anc it me 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 obiigations and treat the | subject merely in a judiciai way. or wheth- | jer he wili consider thts hurtful and prefer to take a negative position o: even attempt to help Mr. Cleveland out of his embarrass- | |ment, is what no one can ascertain in ad- | ¥ance of his deciaration to the committee. There are excellent lievi: that he will treat the mat at the same thine he ! Tassed by the fact that | garded as not feeling kind: Cleveiand, and might be subject picion of being influenced by th we =f CASE AT A Dispatch From Admiral Beahaz Gives Reassuring News. The Secretary of the N: cable message from Rio, dated the 11th one man on the fever; that he b nospital, RIO. ONLY ON red the New- | vid n war Letroit was arbor © outside a rounterfeiter is On two- K in ollar bills eKeesport are being | | with them walked up and down the cor | Joining ;at Lime Kiln, Frederick county, | drinking | Leonard was in his drunken conditi jin a ganky of nine men at work on ih vhich wes Anderson, ond | | he does not wish to {in the Hanging the Murderer of Jesse Anderson at Frederick. AN INDIANA MURDERER ALSO DIES The Worst Crime in the History of the State. a ge COOL ON THE SCAFFOLD Pte tae enero Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. FREDERICK, Md., Feb. 16.—Wm. Leon- ard, who murdered Jesse Andersen, was hanged in the jai! yard here this morning. The drop fell at 1 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 aloue without a tremor and placing himself in position en the tr: : Leonard spent the entire morning with his spiritual advisers, Rev. Fathers Cole- man and Holm, and when not conversi 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 sult of black ‘The physicians, Drs. F. F. McComas, H. K. Mudd and W. A. pronounced the man dead and his body was ent down and taken in a casket to St. John's Catholic Chureh, where brief servic were held and the body interred in the ad- raveyard, Crime, Arrest and Trinl of Leonard. ‘The crime for which Leonard suffered the death pena the killing of Jesse An- derson with a musket on Septem) 1s03, three railes Anderson Was a south of Frederick cit aitimore and Ohio track workman and was vey popular in his neighborhood. Leonard was an Englishman and up to the time of the killing in a canning | factory at Buckeystown, onard about the time of the murder was heavily. He repeatedly admutted 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 he was informed that Anderson had told Leon- ard’s brother-in-law, Mr. Grant Hardy, who Is a Baltimore and Ohio saph operate that Leonard was on a drunk. Leonard did not Know Anderson, but he w furiated by the information that he to Hardy's house, borrowed a mu: which, he said, he wanted to use to a squirrel for his little daughter, and to look for Anderson. He found kis viciim rail- road. He usked when he got the right man, said: Anderson, are you armed?” am ot,” seplied Anderson, - Then I am sorry for you. You have lied pout me, and T am. going-fo kill you.” he men then struggled for the gun, the load of shot was fired into the rkman’s lungs, and he died the same ‘The murderer was arrested at Buckeys- town and taken to Frederick. The feeling was so intense against him that his rial was removed to Rockville, Montzome' county, where, on November 29, he we convicted of murder in the first degree, On Decembe> 4 Judge McSherry s*ntenced Leonard to be hanged in Frederick. When asked if he had anything to say he arose and said: “I am nearly fifty years oid, 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 ts known is not his right aame. this account of his life: “I was born near Liverpool, England, January 1SsH. M parents were poor. s six y 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 ates, the West Indies, and France, Amer- ica and India. I was twice married legally, but the second marriage was not happy, and I left my wife and lived with a gipsy queen. Three children were born to us. also. While working in the Cornwall mines in England I had some trouble, which made me again come to the United States in 1Ss0. when I worked at Newark, N. J., and Pitt burg. At Green Spring Run, W. V; married Mrs.Allenger, who, with me, wi afterward in the mines at Connellsville, P This wife died on May 1, 1883, leaving two Uttle girls. These are all with their grand- mother at Green Spring Run. I am the father altogether of seventeen children,” ‘The convicted man has given little trouble to his jailors. He wrote to Sir Julian Pauncefote, the | British ambassador, some time ago, stating that he was a British subject, and a: the ambassador to intercede for him with President Cleveland, but no notice was tak- en of the communication. that he does not give his Leonard claim real name bec alize his relati 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. He claims to have relatives in Philadel- phia. Jesse Anderson, who was kill left a wife and two small c dren. ge EXPIATED A BRUTAL CRIM ilte, Ind, JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., . Stone expiated his eri prison here at 1 Feb. 5 ne on the gallows v8 this morning. The sextuple murderer kept ap air of bravado until the last moment. ‘The death Warrant was read to him by Wanien [ ten at 1 o'clock this afternoon. During the reading Stone preserved the same stoicism that was characteristic of the man dur! his in the prison. ITis spiritual ad- viser attempted to bring him to a realiza- tion of his near approach to death, but in vain. Stone walked to the without 2 tremor and met excuse for his horri The untmal in } to the last moment. by the fall and there of the after he trap. joom without a word of as exhibited broken rime, in an ther is a up to the mui ful lige. worked | He gives | left her | Leonard, , WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1894—TWELVE PAGES { (PECKHAM REJECTED. i The Vote in the Senate on the; Nomination. END OF THE LONG DISCUSSION. Mr. Hill and His Friends Scored | Another Victory. i te | HOW THE VOTE STOOD! So Ss | The Serate began voting on the Peck- | ham ncmination a little before 4 o'clock. The vote resulted in the rejection of Mr.— |Peckham’s nomination by 40 to 31. —--e- CRIME OF TRAIN ROBBERS oe OS | i | Wreck of a Southern Pacific Express in California. | Explosion of a Dynamite Bom>—Fir- ing om the Passengers—A Posse = | Sent to the Rescue. LOS ANGELES, CAL., Feb. 16.—Southern | Pacitic train No. 20 was robbed at Roscoe | Station this morning about 1 o'clock. | This is the place that the same train was | robbed about six weeks ago. The train was! | del: in lewing here and did not get | away until 11:30 last night. [t was heavily |loaded with passengers and the Wells-Far-|{ |so Company shipments were unusually | | heavy. The train reached Burbank, |miles north of this city, and reported back all right At Roscoe, four miles north of | Burbank, there is no station but a siding. | As the train approached the switch En- gineer Thomas saw, too late, that the! | switch was misplaced and vainly tried to} | stop the train, but he could not do it. and the engine and two fruit cars of oranges went into the ditch, the engine turning | | over and burying the engineer and tizein: The two fruit cars were a total wreck. As soon as the wreck occurred three} masked men spzang up out of the bushes and commenced a fusilade, and every one knew that the mission of the desporadves was robbery A few seconds later a couple of dyna- mite bombs were placed under the express |car. The messenger refused to open. the le > and the whole side was blown of. Brakeman Foster rose to the emergency as soon as he heard the shots and made a run for # neighboring ranch, where he saw | a light. | Here he got a team and drove back to |Burbank and gave the alarm. He cannot tell how much the robbers got, but it is probable that they cleaned out the expr, ear, as they had their own way wh left. ide said that Engineer Thomas was badly hurt, as well as the fireman, and Dr. Ains- worth, the company’s surgeon here, left on a light engine for the scene, Foster could not tell whether any passengers were hurt, ; but thought that they were only badly | shaken, Two posses of deputy sheriffs have just | left for the scene, and a wrecking train is now making up to clear the track. Foster | has an idea that Evans and Morrell may have participated in the affray, but as there were three men, this was hardly deemed | possible. A fusilade of’ pistol shots was continuously kept up, and it is not unlikely | that some of the train crew or passengers | may have been hurt before they found out | what the matter was. lt is almost certain that the express mes- | senger was hurt, as the two explosions of | dynamite bombs were said to have been | terrific. ' about six! he —>—__. PACIFIC MAIL CONTRACTS, i were? | | Conacene the Question of a Penalty | | for Violation. estion of inflicting « penalty cn the | Mail Steamship Company for its | n of the terms of the contract for ing the matis between New York and and San Francisco and Vieng Kong is under consideration by Postmester Gen- | eral Bis he contract went into opera- ‘tion February 1, 1802, 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 Pran- 9 and Hong Kong the contract provided | thirteen trips a year during the first! two years and twenty-six for the semain- | ing eight years. required change | The qu Pacific violat | As the ‘has not been made by the company, Super- | | Intendent of Foreign Maiis Brooks brought | the matter to the attention of the Pos | master General a few days ago and the 1. jter has had conferences on the question | with Lowrie Bell. | penal with the Postmos- is possible that the con be canceled, resulting in the pay the company according to wei; rried instead of on the mileage The company is now paid $1 a mile ward trips, no compensation being mails carried on return voyag>s. a oats B The Russian Thistle. Congress is to be urged to make an ap-! which is becoming a great ture in mate committee on agriculture has | [@pproved Senator Hansbrough’s bill for | this purpose. A similar b: troduced in the House, and a tee, with Representative Moses of h been chosen to in eon agri- to the repre- thwest who are ir Gov. Shortridge o come to Washington to sity of action s © from the terested Ja the matt Noyth Dakoia has particula’ es lin of the e 1 to The The work appoint exam d pon 2 new plax Car recommend substitution of a new jpatent tying device for the wooden and Metallic boxes now in use. j that Mr. | effe | nomination, 1b trun as high as twelve. | of rejection. ‘will undoubtedly the northwest. | * The Senate Considering the Peckham Case in Executive Session. HR. VILAS DEFENDS THE NORIRNATION The Opposition Still Confident of| Securing a Rejection. SOME INTERESTING RUMORS Se ‘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 “hot.” The lines of the battle over the Peckham nomination have been consider- ably tightened over night, and the leaders of both sides were in 2 condition of great strain this morning. Mr. Hill arrived at the Capitol at 8 o'clock, and was on a con- Unuous move here, there and everywhere about 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 right made him nervous. It was announc- ed on excellent authority this morning that beth Senators Cockrel ané@ 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 how from one side to the other would change the result. This indicates that yes- terda: adjournment had helped the side of opposition. A Rumor as to Hill. announcement made this morning Hill had promised to keep his hands off ef the Supreme Court nominations in the future, if Mr. Peckham should be re- jected now, is not g: truth by those who know the While it may be true that Mr. Hill will not fight another Supreme Court nomination, he has undoubtedly made no promises to that 3 ‘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 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. ably no other man available today against whom Mr. Hill would care to organize an opposition. For these reasons tt is thought Mr. Hill will make no further fight against The as | POSTSCR [PT THE Ficut iS ON (SEVERAL LOCAL NEEDS i | | room, nerally accepted as the | situation. | \Janitor of Fillmore School from July There is prob- | the administration in this matter in case | Peckham is rejected, but he has made no promises and begged no votes on an basis. Senator George's Position. The friends of Senator George are anxious ¥ such: | TWO CENTS. «J An index to advertise. ~~ ments will be found om ~ Page 3 , ve Cared for in the Estimates for the De- ficiency Bill, The Specific Items, Although Small, 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, $426.57. To reimburse the Smithsonian fund for | assuming: the expenses of labor and mate- rials for repairs urgently necessary for the preservation of the Holt mansion, | $499.55. For payment of contract liabilities on Maltby building and Richards property, $32.50. District of Columbia: Rent of of- fices superintendent of charities, $300; for advertising, $13,525.26. Expenses of assess- ing real property—That the sum of $375 for clerical 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. Do S, J. W. Ross and Capt. Wm. T. Rossell, be- ing for the service of the fiscal year isvz. Improvements and repairs—Grading streets, alleys and roads: To pay D. Knowlton the balance due on contract No. 1231 for grad- ing Half street southwest between M and N streets, being for the service of the fiscal year 1sv, $26. Permit .work—That the sum 01 $69.21 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 the administration more than that of the ! fiscal year 181. ing and cleaning. being for Streets—Sprinkling, sweep- Rent of offices and store the service of the fiscal year NM, $420. To pay Edward Harpur 50 cents per diem from July 1, 1892, to June 18 days, $141. To pay Edward Harpur ents per diem from November 1, 1891, to June Isv2, 204 days, $1¢ Fire depar orage: Amount re- quired for the balance of the current year, being for the service of the fiscal year 1S4, $1,500; forage, S. Daish & So: repairs to ais and new appli- ances, to pay John McDermott & Bro.,both being for the fiseal year Ns, $1,467.38; con- tingent cxp that the sum of $% for papering engine be allowed, and that the accounting officers of the United States treasury be authorized und 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. Public schools—Pay of superintendents, téachers and janitors, to pay EB. E. King, September 30, 1893, to make his pay $40 per anaum, $20.58; to pay the janitor of Pierce School from February 1 to June 30, 184, at $500 per annun., $208.33: to pay to the janitor of Patterson School from May 1 to June 30, 1894, at $500 per annum, $81.35 fuel, amount required for the balance of ‘current .year, all being for the service the fiscal” seat 1804, $10,000; fuel, to pay Edward Chay to pay R. J. eni— J pman, $24. Kennedy, $87.89; to pay Mayfield & Heis- ton, $345.80. Contingent expenses: To pay that “it"should be understood that he fs /the Washington Gas Light Company, gas, working for Mr. Peckham, not because of | $129.25; to pay R. V. Rusk, cleaning out- favors recetved 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 against him, namely, because it is understood that Mr. Peckham is a states rights man and belleves in the un- constitutionality of protection. Mr. George is a radical tariff reformer, and, in fact. almost a free trader. He deciares that on broad questions he may differ from the ad- ministration and antagonize {t, as was the case in the silver debate last autumn, but on small matters, such as the Peckham desires to be in harmony with the administration as representing the democratic party. The Opposition 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 Certain changes and nnnouncements 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 more in favor of rejection. Senators Morrill and Dolph, who have been classed as doubtful, have been announced positively on the side An Effort to Poxtpo: At 2 o'clock Mr. Vilas was still talking, but was showing signs of drawing to a close. As soon as he finishes Senator White of California, who has recentiy been con- verted from the view of the administra- | | | | | i houses, county schools, $27.40; all 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 1892, $529.23. Courts—Police Court: To pay William Gale, engineer, from March 1, 1893, to June 30, 1888, at the rate of $900 per annum, be- ing for the service of the fiscal year 1883, $302.50. Militia—Reat, fuel, light, care and repair of armories: To pay the Washington Gas Light Company, gas, being for the ser- vice of the fiscal year 189%, $21.50. Support of convicts—To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the treasury on account of support of convicts, District of Columbia, for the fiscal year 1883, $13,560.18. Municipal lodging house, $127.79. For pay- ment of judgments against the District of Columbia as follows: Charles H. Anderson, by his next friend, Mary Alice Anderson, $400; John L. Bartlett, $500; the Anglo- American Insurance mpany, use of Will- iam A. Meloy, $1, ; William A. Hedrick, $81; David Murphy, $38.54; Industrial Home School, $2,000; National Association for Col- ored Women and Children, $4,000; Associa- tion for Works of Mercy, $700; St. John’s Church Orphanage, $81; St. Ann’s infant Asylum, $2,500. THE NEW SENATOR. His Assignment to Committees a Cause of Perplexity. Mr. MeLaurin, the new Senator from Mississippi, is exceptionally fortunate in the possession of a private secretary bear- ing the h‘storic and patriotic name of Pat- rick Henry. This young gentleman came |north from Mississippt with the Senator tion, is to take the floor for a brief speech | against Mr. Peckham. Then Mr. Teller is | to make a short speech in favor of rejec- tion and then it is expected a vote may be reached on the nomination, The adminis- tration’s efforts to postpone the vote an- other day has not succeeded, oud Mr. Hill secure a Vote early tits afternoon. Mr. Vilas Defends Peckham. Senator Vilas’ speech was devoted largely to a denial of the statements that made agains y tho3e who op- osed him. large number of letters from dl ni parts of the country from prominent lawyers, who reported that Peckham was a most fit man for the pc tion. Some of the letters were especial bitter against Senator Hill, and Senator Vilas emphasize? these points. He also be rejected because he was opposed by a faction of his party in New York, and that | the attempt was not in from that s' nd to defeat a man because he harmony with the Senators te was a preposterous propo- me which should be rebuked by a Long One Today's cabinet meeting was short of bers, but was long in duration. It ts i that the session was protracted beyond al hour in the expectation of heari: n of the Pe he To Amend the Tax Laws, District tee nt its ulkner to bill erty in Georgetown, th was directed to report nate bill 1235, authorizing the Senate favorably sale of n property In Georgetown, Colored People's Home, Mr. Post of iilinois has introduced @ bill in the House exempting from taxation the Home of District. asserted that a man shonid not | 1 were | i | jtors. Three of the members of the steering | , Cockerill, have been holding a series of} | | j t | 1 yesterday and was today sworn in at the office of the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate and began his official functions. The new Senator has not yet been assigned to any committees and accordingly has no perma- nent abiding place in the Capitol. He makes his headquarters, however, in Senator George's committee room and oscillates be- tween there and his seat In the Senate chamber. Senator McLaurin is not, as has been stated, a smooth-faced man. He has, in reality, a closely cropped mustache and imperia! of mixed red and gray, present- ing so little contrast with his complexion that they are not distinguishable ten feet y except in a strong light. McLaurin has taken rooms at the Metropolitan Hotel and is now considering ¢ advisability of bringing his famiiy, which consists of a wife and seven daugh- ters, to this city from his southern home. ‘The assignment of the new Senator to com- mittees is a matier that is still giving the managers of the democratic side of the Senate considerable perplexity. This maiter will first tested by the steering committee, and if no conclusion can be reached by them it may have to be ferred to a caucus of the democratic Sena- committee, Senators Gorman, Ransom and brief meetings during the past few 4. the room of the committee on com: Ce Ix is understood that they have been en- deavoring to settle the question of the chairmanship of the committee on milits affairs, to which Senator Bate aspir The feeling between Senator Bate and cer- tain other members of the military affairs committee has grown to such an exten: that there ts grave doubt as to the abi of the steering committee to adjust the mat- ter satisfactorily. this 3 TO CONDEMNS THE LAND Por the North Capitol Street Exten. sion—Application in Couri. The District Commissioners, through At- Bg. , as, filed in the Supreme torne rt of mation the Dist of land tol str for the extension of t to the Soldiers’ Home. nose of the Prospect Hill nie E. r, and abeut of the latter- arpoint thr loners for the purpose. _ To Join Hix Company. Second Lieut. William A. Campbe! infantry, will be reliev.d from further in- | struction in ordnance duty at the Franford the Aged Colored People in the ; arsenal. Philadelphia, Pa., and will join his company. ict a petition for the con- | IN CONGRESS TODAY Only a Brief Business Session of the Senate. MR. BLAND AND HIS SEIGNIORAGE BILL An Effort to Close the Debate on the Measure. CALLS OF THE HOUSE, es The public session of the Senate today was unusually brief and unintererting, The long executive session of yesterday had not resulted in a solution of the Peck- |ham controversy, and it had been tacitly agreed that the entire time today after the Preliminary morning business should be devoted to that matter. As a consequence of this agreement the Senate, on motion of . Senator Pugh, proceeded to executive busi- 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. The binding twine manufacturers of | Massachusetts, through Senator Lodge, | Presented a petition asking for a hearing before the finance committee. | Andrew D. White of New York, on reso- lution of Senator Morrill, was reappol ited a member of the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Senator Chandle; presented a resolution directing the Secretary of the Treasury to inform the Senate of the names of the immi- stration commissioners at the various PCr jor ub United States. It was adopted. Senator Hoar presented a resolution re- | questing the President of the United States, i, incompatible with the public im- | tereats, to communicate to the Senate all reports or dispatches from Mr. Willis, the present minister to Hawaii, not heretofore cated, and espectally the dis- mmunicating a letter from Pres- Dole specifying certain ast the conduct of said Willis.” : Harris at first objected to the nsideration of the resolution, nations consented and present but after some 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 Court. THE HOUSE. At the opening of the session of the House this morning Mr. Cummings, chair- men of the committee on naval affairs, presented as a questior of privilege the report of his committee on Mr. Boutelles resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Navy to inform “the House by what authority instructions were issued the armed navai forces of the Uni States and the use of its ensign under the control of James H. Blount, and also fut- wish the House with copies of all orders, directions, instructions or official sugges- tions issued by him since March 4, 1893, concerning the movements of the naval forces of Hawaii. He explained that the committee recom mended the passage of the amended so as to call for all March 4, 1882, instead of 1893. & moment to Mr. Boutelle, who importance of the resolution, which, said, had already been delayed six The infotmation called for by it, thought, should have been before House when the Hawaiian resolutions | were being debated. He did not suppose that answer would have had any effect on that debate, and the delay in procuring the information requested by it, he presumed, subserved the same pub- lic policy which for days and weeks had kept Congress waiting for Dole’s reply to Willis, which had at last reached the peo- | ple this morning through the public press. Mr. Cummings then demanded the previous question, which was ordered, and the reso- amended, was adopted without di- Close the Debate. Mr. Bland was then recognized. Ali sug- gestions for closing debate on the seignior- age bill by unaninteus consent having failed he was driven to coercive tactics. He moved to go into committee of the whole, and, pending that motion, moved that all gen- eral debate on the measure close at 8 o'clock. On that motion he demanded the previous question. Mr. Cannon, Mr. Hop- kins and Mr. Reed appealed to him for more time for legitimate debate, but Mr. Bland was obdurate. Tie was perfectly willing, he said, to set any reasonable limit to the debate if the opponents of the bill would agree to it, but they had already fill- bustered away two days and he was ad- monished 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 previous ques- tion. On the rising vote the republicans and the opposition democrats declined to vote, and when the result was annovneed, 9%—), 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 e quorum. Just before the vote was announced the President’s message transmitting the re- port of the bureau of American republics for 1833 was received. Mr. Bland moved @ call of the House ‘On call of House and the vote recurred upon Mr mand for the previous question ; Sttli Short of a Quorum. This resulted, 1-3, a gain of eight votes, but stil -six short of a quor- jum. Mr. Bland again moved a call of the se. 2 members responded Biand's de- j } roll call developed the presence of 258 . and again the vote recursed om nu, which Ww The gain failed for of a quorur ere is littl a quorum on 1 probably con- noon. | tinue until ab when a resolu- } tion to z abs ill be passed, after | which the House adjourn. THE PRINCESS COLONNA. No Question Before the State Depart- in Regard to Her Case. tion before the State De- men | There is no qu ing the case of the Princess ter of Mr. J. W. Mackey, s country to keep her chil- husband. Her flight children might be f kidnaping, in view of i court that Prince ¥ is the legal ur treaty obii- t make kidnap- regarded se. It is so re- dition treaty with Italy, > is a subject. As the al- occurred in France, it is that Italy we take official ce of it. Ti is 1 that Prince is on his v to this country to take forcible possession of his children, and if necessary will take jend.