Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1894, Page 1

‘THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th Street, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, S. H. KAUFFMA) Presa’t. York Ofice, 88 Potter Bui New York Ofice, 38 Potter Building, An is werved to anbseribers in the m their own account, at 10 cents week, of 44°. por inonth. “Copies ‘at the coun: rt cents each. By mail—aaywhere in the Datted Stateg or Canata—postace ‘prepaid 3) ‘Cente ber mon: Sat BDAY QUINTUPLE SHEET Stan, $1.00 per year; with foreign postave added. @.00°" = i (Entered at the Post Otics at Washington, D. C., as second-elass mail matter.) Al mail subset) tone ten oF advertiving maaekonns meant that he was going to confess ha A ing a pistol or something tucked away in his boot. But Mr. Thompson laughed and |remarked: “I am the only one left,” and | then made a disclaimer like all the rest. | Judge Bradley's features during these re. | markable opening proceedings’ were stern, like some schoolmaster who had before him a lot of boys suspected of having a blow-gun concealed somewhere among them. But his features relaxed when Mr, Thompson made his disclaimer, and he seemed pleased to know that he had been | misinformed. The business of the day was |then taken up and there was no further {allusion to arms. The Sequel of Yesterday's Appeal | to Fisticuffs. Vor 84. No. 20,831. in advance. grit gatranee. | Mr. Breckinridge’s Counsel Called Upon to Show Their Hands. JUDGE BRADLEY MAKES REMARKS SCENES IN COURT TODAY pees eee ‘The exciting incident that followed tne edjournment of the Pollard-Breckinridg trial yesterday aftert.oon increased the pub- lic Interest in the proceedings im Judge Bradley's court this morning. There was @ good deal of talk about possibilities of physical combat; some even about the pos- sible production of shooting drons, and a re- duction of the number of the counsel in the case by processes which, according to no- | tions that obtain in the north, are quite popular in Kentucky. ‘This talk got to tne | Among the interested spectators of to- judge's ears, in such form, too, as to cause ‘day's proceedings was Judge Lipscomb of him to take notice of it. It got to the Prince William county, Va., who presided ears of other authorities also, for before the 8t the recent trials of Jim’ Robinson and court opened a squad of eight or nine police ofticers reported at the marshals otfite, and it was evident preparations were being made to quell hostilities. Marshal Wilson, how- ever, did not want the policemen, and sent | them back to Maj. Moore. ‘Two of the nead- Quarters detectives, however, remained, and sat among the spectators during the morn- ing. Judge Bradley, when the court met, made the lawyers of the defense, meta- Phorically speaking, hold up their hands and show that they had no “weepons.” i and no reduction to- f counsel. If anythin; 53 of the day there wis ore than amount of courtesy Manifested am us the lawyers—a Chester- fieldian politeness that was almost oppres- sive. Miss Pollard Not in Court. | Miss Pollard did not attend court today and there was not a woman in the throng that crowded the court room. Few women applied for admittance, Judge Bradley's action yesterday having evidently discour- aged them. To a Star reporter Mr. Wilson of her edunsel explained that Miss Pollard was utterly unable to be present, not having sufficiently recovered from the effects of the fainting spell she suffered in court yester- | day afternoon. Of course, her absence frem the trial, either through choice or because of sickness, did not hinder the progress of the case, as the presence neither of the ce- fendant nor of the plaintiff ts necessary in | case; except, of course, when it be- | s necessary for either to take the wit- hess stand. | Col. Breckinridge, the defendant, was present in court, being among the first of | the interested parties to the suit to arrive. A3 on the preceding days of the trial, he occupied himself in prompting his counsel, seeming to be familiafly acquainted with every feature of the case, and frequently suggesting matters apparently overlooked by his counsel. Near him sat Gen. Breck- inridge of the army. The Pressure for Admittance. ‘The crowd in attendance this morning was the largest during the trial. Many were evidently drawn to the court room in an- ticipation of a repetition of some of the sensational features of yesterday's proceed- | ings. The pressure Upon Marshal Wilson | Mr. Shelby Denies ¢ w admission to the court room was, there- we, unusually great and persistent, and xne ttvo time-honored pretenses of being a Rewspaper man or a member of the bar were made by so many that had not the marshal had the benefit of a former four y experience in similar matters he would have imagined doubtlessly that about every other man in Washington was either a member of the legal profession or a news- aper reporter. : Wotwithstanding the fact that Judge Bradley had yesterday directed that no women, unless witnesses in the case, should be admitted to the court room, several this morning applied to the baliff for admission, | and when informed that they could not en- | ter were not a little indignant. All manner of persons besieged the marshal and his of- ficers for admission. One was a clerical looking man dressed in somber black and Wearing a small white tie, who presented his card to Deputy Marshal Leonard, ex- plaining that he was a minister of the Gos- Pel from New York city, and wished to be Present, with two or three friends he had With him. He and his companions were ad- | mitted, probably on the ground that, as sug- gested to Mr. Leonard by a bystander, the | minister wished to be present that he might later, before his fiock, point a moral by re- lating a story from real life. t They Had No Pistols. There was the keenest kind of interest | in the opening proceedings of the court. | There was a prevailing idea that Judge Bradley was going to punish in some way the lawyers who were concerned in the fisticuffs last evening. Judge Bradley took Occasion at the start, however, to announce that the court could take no judicial no- | tice of the occurrence, and confined himself to expressing regret for it. He made some- thing of a sensation, however, calling | attention to reprasentations, which, he | Said, had t je to him, that counsel for the dete: ad come into the court room armed, made some comments on that. J smingly, was very much in interesting one scene Was an judge finished, the . e, one after another, and disclaimed in their possession any deadly cM Mr. Phil. Thompson did not rise till the last, and of course, this attracted notice to him, be- veuse Some thought bis uot rising at first | | ried one, Ben White, the young negroes who crim- imally assaulted Mrs. Hefilin and Mrs. FE Hott, near Manassas, Va., in January last. Representative Morse of Massachusetts was also a spectator. The Trouble Last ming. When the court assembled Judge Bradley at once referred to the trouble last evening. He had noticed, he said, that the news- papers this morning had laid out a course for him to pursue, and put words in his mouth which he had never uttered. “There was,” he said, currence which I did not see in the pre- cincts of the court after the court had ad- journed last evening, which I of course re- gret, and I have no doubt the parties re- sponsible for it regret. It isn't a matter, however, of which the court can take ju li- cial notice, except to express the hope that the gentlemen will curb and restrain their feelings. If the matter had occurred when the court was in session it would have been the duty of the court to take prompt now of it and to administer such rebuke as cir- cumstances demanded, and { tink thet it Reed not be said that the court wouid not be slow in taking such steps as the circum- stances required. day the court noticed some indications of excitement on the part of counsel of de- fense, due probably to words used in the course of argument, and deemed it unwise to proceed further then and there, and for the additional reason that further gument on one ground of ihe m deemed unnecessary, adjourned trusting that reflection over night, words had been carefully weighed and » berly considered, might restore a proper feeling. It is a matter of regret that wh ever was engace in the alteres: not wait a sufficient time to allow s thought and judgment to mirol the action, which, I think, if th: had waited tii this morning, would have been difter- ent. re rourt, when The Carrying of Arms. “There is another matter I wish to speak of,” Judge Bradley went on. “The court has received information that some of the parties, representing the defendant, have come into the court room armed. Whether that is true or not I do not know. We have a very stringent law concerning Mr. Breckinridge and Mr. Stoll. the offense of carrying concealed weapons. Not as stringent in its penalty as I think it ought to be, but sufficiently so to be adequate in preventing this offense to a very large extent. It ought not to be nec- essary to remind those concerned in the administration of justice, those who are officers of the court, that to bring deadly weapons into court is a grievous offense that cannot be tolerated, an offense subject not only to the condemnations of this court, but subject likewise to prose- eution in the Police Court of the District. This isa Law Abiding Community. “This is a law abiding community. We have no occasion here to use deadly wea- pons or to carry them about the person. The police force is adequate to the protec- tion of any citizen. Inasmuch as there is no oceasion to carry weapons, such con- duct is utterly indefensible and entirely and utterly reprehensible. I simply desire to say that if the court has any information at any time adequate to prosecute an of- fense of this kind the court will deem it his duty, whoever the party may be, to see that the party is prosecuted to the fullest extent. I make no accusation. I simply make this statment on representations made to me. They may be mistaken.” Everyone Denied It. Mr. Butterworth, rising as soon as the court stopped speaking, said quietly that so far as he was concerned he never carried @ weapon in his life. He believed as this statement of the court concerned the eoun- sel for the defendant that it was only fair to hear their disclaimers. He would not believe that any one of the counsel had | been guilty of carrying a weapon in court. Mr. Shelby at once stood up and said that he had never been in the habit of carrying a weapon; that he had not car- and certainly he would never have entered this presence with a weapon. Mr. McKenny made a similar statement. Mr. Stoll said: “I never came into pres- ence of this court or any other court with @ v-eapon.” Mr. Carlisle Reads to the Jury. “I am the only one left,” said Mr. Phil. Thompson, “and I wish to say that I have not carried a weapon into court.” IT am very glad,” said Judge Bradley, ‘to hear you so express yourself. The intimation that came to me from many sources was such that I felt it my duty to take some notice of it.” Mr. Carlisle said he would iike to have the court state in fustice to counsel whether any representations of referred to had been made then ither directly or in- said Judge Bradle: is ended the incident nd the court ~ (Continued on Second Page.) a Th ‘an unfortunate oc- | d penalties | Plaintiff's | Che Zvening Star. At the Hearing of the Traction Com- pany’s Bill, SOME LIVELY REMARKS MADE Arguments for and Against- the Measure Presented. MR. NEWLAND’S INVESTMENTS a Se at oe The Washington Traction Company's bill was given a hearing before a subcommittee of the House District committee this morn- ing. General Manager Wheeler of the trac- | tion company opened the argument. He said the necessity for this bill lies in the fact that Congress prohibits the suburban electric railweys from coming into the city with overhead trolleys. This bill Proposes a method by which those roads can obtain access to the heart of the city. The trac- tion company has asked for independent streets and would like to complete the road before next winter. The company wants to | bring its road down 17th street, because it is a wide street and is midway between lith and 18th streets. There is a space here {ef seven blocks without a parallel road. ‘The company does not want to con‘lict with other roads if it can be avoided. Mr. | Wheeler presented what he termed a peti- | tion signed by a majority of the property holders and residents on 17th street favor- ing the road. He read letters from the presidents of | the suburban roads favoring the bill. | Mr. Somerville’s Advocacy. Mr. Thomas J. Somerville, in benait of the citizens’ executive committee, appearea in behalt of the bill, He read a statement of the distances between existing lines in the extreme northwest portion of the city, showing that it is nearly three-quarters of a mile from the Metcpolitan cars to the ith street cars at Dupont Circie. ‘rnere are nearly 10,000 people living in thut sec- tion of the city who feel the need of quick transit to the business centers of the city. He read the resolutions recently adopted at the meeting of citizens favoring the bill. M-. Chapin Brown, in behalf of the citi- zens of Mt. Pleasant, advocated the bill. He said his associates are not wedded to any particular road. They want quick tran- sit to the city. The citizens nt a road, not necessarily the rcad proposed in the bill, but any road that will reach 17th street in | Mt. Pleasant. | This bill, however, meets the demand of th® citizens in this respect. He suggested that the road which the com- | mittee may authorize shall be compelled to begin work on that line in Mi. Pleasant. ‘Vhe Underground System 2 Success. Congressman Newlands spoke in behalf of the Rock Creek Railway Company. He reviewed the history of the U street un- derground system. When the work was commenced the leading electrical experts in the country assvred the company that the underground system was a failure. It has not proven so, hov it has been operited for a year through all kinds of weather, and has been a success. During the recent severe storm the overhead trol- ley was temporarily. disabled, wh: the underground system" was not afte AS to tne pending Dill, 17th street is the natural artery for a trunk line to the heart of the city. At U street it is a tile from ene existing road to another. The Rock Creek Company wanted to come down Iith street just as the Traction Company pro- | Foses, but the Commissioners amended the Rock creek bill to bring it in over the Met- ropolitan tracks, down Connecticut avenue. The Rock Creek Company is willing to do that, of course, but the Traction Company's bill would afford faeflities equally as satis- factory. Mr. Stephenson of the Metropolitan Rail- | way Company asked how it is proposed to connect the Tenleytown railway with the U street line, to which Mr. ewlands re- | plied that a line can come down Massachu- | Setts avenue or connect at a point beyond | Rock creek, Opponents of the Bill. The opponents of the bill were then heard. Mr. Longshaw appeared in behalf | of the property owners of B street, near the | Capitol. On | street there are six property owners and he represents five of them. B street is very steep and very narrow, oniy thirty-six feet in width. B street is a means of communication between Hast and West Washington. The road, if extended along there, will utterly ruin ‘the proper Mr. Woodall presented a petition of cit zens against the occupancy of G street be- [tween 17th and 22d streets. | Mr. Wheeler said the amended bill bas | abandoned all of the proposed route west | of 17th street. | Against Putting It on 17th Street. Dr. Bates, representing property owners jof 17th street, protested against the route along 17th street north of H street. The citizens of that section don’t want any |road on 17th street. | Dr. Bates brought out the point | the Budi | systems use the same street there will have to be four tracks, and that the two sys- tems cannot use the same track. Dr. Bates then proceeded to an argument |against the practicability of the under- ground trolley system. He urged as an in- superable objection to any form of conduit ‘read in lith street the fuct that there is a |large water main on the street which would |come directly under the tracks. There is also a_big sewer in the street. He held (that 17th street is the worst street in | Washington for a conduit road. Mr. Wheeler replied that the feature of | his system is that the conduit does not go below the frost line, and would not affect | the water main. The U street main is not at all affected. Bishop Hurst's Opposition. Bishop Hurst opposed the bill. He said | 17th street is only thirty-two feet wide. He said he is sorry to cee Congressman New- |lands appearing here in the interests of a |railroad, he does not think it modest nor delicate for him to do it, and that it is contrary to Anglo-Saxon impulses. Bishop Hurst spoke with some bitterness, and his | words created a surprise. Mr. Richardson |called Bishop Hurst to order and protested against his attacking a Congressman in | such an unwarranted manner. | Mr. Newlands said the attack upon him | was utterly unwarranted. A few years ago | a company in which he is interested bought 1,600 acres of lund along Connecticut ave- nue extended, and before he came to Con- gress the improvements were commenced. ‘The company has spent over $2,000,000 in \improving that section, building a railroad, (ete., and has never called upon the District or the government to advance a dollar. The company has graded Connecticut ave- nue extended at its own expense, and has expended $200,000 for bridges. He thought |he has a perfect right to come before this committee as a property owner and tax payer to speak upon a matter of great pub- (lic interest, involving the convenience of | the people of that section, accommodating | the public, too. He resented the attitude of Bishop Hurst. Chairman Heard’s Remarks, Chairman Heard said he thought that with this explanation the matter should be dropped. Bishop Hurst then proceeded to protest | against the road occupying Massachusetts | avenue extended, and said he would favor | selling the site of the proposed Methodist University. Senator B, K. Bruce objected to build- road on R street. aman protested against the use of chusetts avenue extended, At the close of the hearing it was decided to refer the bill to the District Commission- |ers, where a hearing will be given, and, if necessary, the committee will give other hearings jater. that if | Mr. WASHINGTON, D. ©, TUE TROLLEY DISCUSSED|THE TARIFF | | DAY, MARCH 1 BIEE No Agreement as to When It Shall Be Reported. Differed Schedules Discussed by the Committee Todny—Only One Concession Secured. The Senate committee on finance did not agree upon a time when the tariff bill should be reported to the Senate, as they thought yesterday they would be able to do, at today’s meeting. Several propositions looking to setting a time were made by the democratic members but they were not accepted by the republi- cans. One of these propositions looked to! fixing the time when the bill should be taken up for discussion in the Senate at Monday, the 26th instant, leaving it to the committee to decide how much of the intervening time should be spent in eom- mittee and how much in the preparation of speeches. - No Agreement Reached. The republican members did not indicate an acceptance of the suggestion, nor did, they make a counter proposition. Senators | Allison and Aldrich intimated that they did not consider it desisable, as they did not thi ink it would be profitable to spend esth and the Love underground | length of time in discussing the of the bill across the table in the committee room, and stated that they committee if they could be assured of, time in which to prepare speeches und get theim- selves in readiness for the debate in a general way between the repozting of the bill and the tme when it should be taken up for consideration, but Senator Morrill, who was the only other republican p> expressed a belief that the time nec for a thorough examination of the bill exchange of views concerning the variou: to the work. ‘The democratic members appeared some- what disappointed at not securing an agree- ment as to the time and there is a possibil- jity that they may undertake to have the time fixed by a formal motion. One Concession Secured. The proceedings with reference to rates | today did not take the same course as yes- terday. Instead of beginning where they left off yesterday and taking up the bill |paragraph by paragraph the committee | changed from one schedule to another and iscussed several changes made by the Senate committee. The republicans suc- jceeded in securing one concession on | unglazed encaustic tiling, the duty on which | was increased to slightly above the rate both the Senate and House bills. | This was the only result of the morning's | work. An Agreement to Be Reached, | There are indications that the republican |and democratic members of che committee will soon ch an agreement as to the time when the bill shall be reported. There are reasons for believing that the republi- ‘an members would consent to having the bill reported to the Senate carly next week by Monday or ‘Tuesday, if they could be assured of ten days or two Weeks after that time for preparauon for the « ate, When jit should begin. This djrings the two parties in the committee to a difference ef only ; about a week on the question of the time as to when the consideration of the bill should begin, he democrats waat to take [the bill up on nday the and the republicans would be willing that it should \be taken up the Monday tollowi: April (2. There Wil be several minor changes |made in the bill at the suggestion cf the republicans, but probably none of import- ance. eee SENATE COMMITTEES, Assignments Made by the Democratic | Caucus This Morning. The democratic members of the Senate | held a caucus this morning for the pur- | pose of assty Senators Blanchard and McLaurin to committees and fr making | o r committee assignments, made neces- ary by the resignations of Senators Wal- thall and White. The proceedings of the caucus were de- voted entirely to this work, and the assign- | ments made by the steering committee were | ratified without exception by the caucus. | There had bees interest in the assign- |ment to membership of the committge on | commerce than in any other, and there were understood everal Senators who were anxious to me Senator White's chair in this room. This ambition did not show It- self in the caucus, however, and the selec tion of Senator Berry for the place was erally accepted as a wise one. Messrs, Bianchard and McLaurin were as- [signed as follows: Blanchard—Chairman | improvements of the Mississippi river, and member of the committees on epidemic | diseases, Indian affairs, railroads and public build-ags and grounds. McLaurin—Chair- man committee to investigate the geological survey, and member of the committe2s on civil service and retrenchment, ciaims, In- dian depredations and improvement of the Mississippi river. Other Axsiznments, Other assignments were made as follows: | Bate, chairman comn ittee on military af- fairs; Berry, member committee, on com- | merce; Camden, c! man committee to jaudit and control the contingent expenses of the Senate, and member of the committee on organization and ecnduct of the execu- tive departments; Joaes of Arkansas, mem- ‘ber committee on contingent expenses; Pasco, member committee on military af- | fairs; Peffer, me sions; ber of committee on pen- ehairn an committee on rail- member of the committee on | Pacific railroads; Smith, member of com- |Mittee on interstate commerce. | ‘The assignmpnts as agreed upon in the caucus were officially announced in the Senate soon after it convened. |. Senator Peffer resigned as a member of the committee on Mississippi river improve- |ments, as did Senator Caffery as member of the committee on pensions, and Senator Martin as a member and chairman of the committee to investigate the geological sur- vey, znd Senator Rate the chairmanship of the Mississippi river improvement commit- tee. These resignations, added to those an- nounced yesterday, were all made necessary to perfect the organization as agreed upon in caucus. Martin, —— Nominations by the President. The President today sent the following nominations to the Serate: Interior—Samuel Truesdell of Brooklyn, N.Y., to be pension agent at New York. Charles P. Blakely of Montana, to be register of the land office at Bozeman, Mont.; Clark S. Rowe of South Dakota, to be register of the land office at Chamber- lain, S.D. Justice—Joseph W. Davis of the District of Columbia, to be justice of the peace for the District of Columbia, to be assigned to the city of Georgetown. War—First Lieut. Frederick G. Hodgson, sixth cavalry, to be captain and assistant | quartermaster; Capt. James C. Merrill, as- |sistant surgeon, to major and surgeon; Capt. Abram A. Harback, twentieth Infantry, to _be major and surgeon; First Lieut. Fred- jerick D. Sharp, twentieth infantry, te be captain. ——— Young, Alias Lonsdale, Extradited. The Department of State has succeeded in securing the extradition of another fugitive from justice from the British authorities. Last August Gov. Flower of New York re- quested the extradition of Charles Young, alias Lonsdale, charged with assault with intent to murder in Rochester, N. Y. Young had fled to England, and when the officers obtained knowledge of his movements, it was found that he had been guilty of fraud in England, had been convicted and was serving a term of imprisonment there. Re- cently this expired and Young was turned over to the American officers, and a cable received at the State Department announces that they sailed with their prisoner on the Majestic for New York last Thursday, would be satistied with a limited time in| and | changes made could be protitably devoted | 1894—TWELVE PAGE ‘The Leader of the Brazilian Rebels Gives Up. ° PEINCO'S DISPLAY 100 IMPOSING - Couldn’t Hope to Withstand Such a Force. iTERMS OF SURRENDER > (Special Rio de Janeiro Cable Dispatch, Copyrighted, | 1894, by the Associated Press.) | RIO DE JANEIRO, March 13.-The report which was circulated soon after the arrival of the government fleet off the bay of Rio de Janeiro to the effect that Admiral Sal- |danha Da Gama, the rebel commander in these waters, contemplated surrendering | turns out to be correct, and in all probabii- ity the Brazilian rebellion, so far as Rio de Janeiro is concerned, will soon be at an end. Admiral Da Gama yesterday sought refuge on board the Portuguese warship Mindell, and has sent a message to President Peix- oto offering to capitulate on the following terms: The rebel admiral cffers to surrender the forts in possession of the insurgents in the bay and to turn over io the the warships in the bay now in the of the insurgents, surrenlering the yarri- sons and crews to the government upon the conditions that the admiral and all his of- ficers be allowed to withdraw to a foreign country, under the protection of, Portugal, and that the lives of the insurgent solJiers and sailors be spared. As this dispatch is sent the reply of Pres- ident Peixoto has not be2n made, but it is believed that some kind of arrangement will be arrived at and that the wer is ended, so far as the insurgent de=t in these waters is concerned. fue S Admiral Da Gama. The Aquidaban, Republica and, incldestal- ly, Admiral De Mello, the leader of the re- bellion, are still absent, and nothing seems te he known of their whereabouts. One re- [port has it that Admjral De Mello, some (time ago, saw the hapelessnesr of the in- surgent position in Rio bay, and, conse- , quently, took his two best ships southward, jin order to-co-operate with the insurgent | jland forces in the south, seeing the only chance of a successful ending to the revolt | Was in a march upon,Rio de Janeiro by | land. The government is of the opinion that | such a movement upon thé#part of the in- |surgent armies will easily be met and de- feated by the government troops, and it Is said that after the surrender of the feet a |number of vessels will be sent in pursuit |of Admiral De Mello, while others will be | immediately utilized in an attack upon | Desterro, the port and island in the south | which is now the headquarters of the in- | Surgents and the seat of the revolutionary | junta. In fact, it is reported that the gov. (ernment has sounded the crews of the in- | Surgent vessels with the view of ascertain- |ing how many men can be counted upon in ;the contemplated preparations against Desterro and Mello, and that the insurgent sailors are so disgusted at the seeming de- sertion of Admiral Mello that a number’ of them will be found willing to man the gov- ernment vessels, which will be sent south as soon as possible, in order to push the government success while the insurgents are disheartened by the loss of the larger | portion of their fleet. Arranging for the Att The forty-eizht hours’ President Peixoto gave on preperatory to comme! attack upor the reb unless some terms of surrender are promptiy arrived at the insurgent forts end fleet will socn be exposed such a na Mee notice which Sunday las*, cing an energetic has expired and | tremendous fire thet they will have | probability to surrender at discretion with- jin a very short time. President Peixc has now compleicd all his arrangements for this attack and the rebel fleet may be said to have been caught hke rats in a trap. President Peixoto. Powerful shore batteries, which have not yet spoken will, if necessary, open upon the rebel ships, and to this fire will be added that of the government forts, which have so long been engaging the enemy, and of the dynamite shells of the Nicthe- roy, and an energetic onslaught upon the part of the torpedo boats brought from Germary and from the United States. The prospect is not a pleasant one for the weakened and disheartened crews of the rebel ships, now reduced, it is said,to about 600 men. Aftoat and ashore President Peixoto is said to have 25,000 men, and should not long remain in doubt. Naturally, the supporters of the govern- ment are elated at the prospects of the surrender of the rebel fleet, and President Peixoto is being praised for having waited until the rebels were exhausted and then, concentrating his fleet for a final attack, he seems to have suddenly placed the in- surgents at his mercy. The merchant vessels in the harbor, profiting by the forty-eight hours’ notice given by President Peixoto, have with- drawn to places of safety and are new cut of harm's way should the general engage- ment take place. News Received at Lisbon, LISBON, March 13.—Official telegrams GAMA WANTS PEACE. the result of the battle, if it is fought, | received here from Rio de Janeiro confirm | the report that Admiral Saldanhad da Gama, the commander of ihe rebel fleet of Rio de Janeiro, has abandoned his sy ron and sought refuge on board the Portu- guese corvette Mindello. The commander of the Mindello has cabled to the Portuguese government out- lining the facts in the case and asking for instructions. It is understood that the | Portuguese commander has asked whether he shall give Admiral da ‘Jama refuge on board the Mindello or whether he shall refuse and order him to return cn board his a ship. The reply of the Portuguese government is not known, c matory Advices Received. Advices were received at the State De- |partment last evening from Minister {Thompson at Rio Janeiro saying that Gama, the insurgent admiral, had gone |aboard the Portuguese war vessel Mindelo, /and had sent to President Peixoto by the Portuguese officer an offer of surrender on ndition of full protection for himself and his followers. Admiral De Mello. Another dispatch was received at a late hour last night by Secretary Gresham from Minister Thompson, containing the addi- tional information th: Gama asks only |that he and his officers may be allowed to jleave the country, and that the lives of his private soldiers and sailors be spared. It is regarded by prominent oflicials as without question that the Brazilian govern- ment will accept the surrender with the terms asked for. Secretary Gresham believes marks the end of the war, There is considerable surprise that the offer of surrender should have been made through the Portuguese commander, who up to this time has not shown any partic- ular disposition to take a hand in the con- |flict, It is not thought, however, that the jaction of the Portuguese in receiving Gama jis necessarily an act of sympathy with the insurgents. The Portuguesesare said to rec- ognize a principle of international law, now obsolete, by which “right of asylum,” as it is called, is granted temporally by a neu- tra! power to a defeated belligerent. This right of asylum is not recognized of late |years by most nations excep: in cases of |half-civilized peoples, and, moreover, the Brazilian insurgents have never been rec- \ognized by anybody as belligerents. There |is, therefore, some speculation as to the ex- jact meaning of the action of the Portu- |guese commander, |. Mintster Mendonca admitted last evening |that he had received news of the surrender, but was unwilling to give out any informa- | tion concerning the exact terms of Gama's \offer of surrender or discuss the probable jaction of -the Brazilian government. He /Said, however, that he had no doubt that {the final settlement had been made by the time he was speaking, or would certainly be made by today. The loyal force of men in the fleet in the ‘bay aggregate about 25,000, Notice of the intention of the Brazilian fleet to begin an active attack on the in- surgent flect had been given Sunday noon to neutral forees fin the harbor. This notice was given forty-eight hours before the firing was to begin. ‘According to this ar- rangement firing could not begin until to- day at noon. Gama’s offer of surrender ‘was made, therefore, fully twenty-four hours before an attack was to be expected. The offer to surrender, in fact, followed the first actual show of determined force on the \part of the Brazilian government. |_ The situation of the insurgeat vessels m Rio bay, as described by the Brazilian n.in- \ister, is about as hopeless as it weil co id be. Their only chance les ment by Admiral Mello with -he Aquidaban and Republica, and in the opinion of the | minister this is a very slender chance in- decd. These two vessels have succeedo! in running past the forts at the entrance to the harbor, but it is improbable that they could do it again, now that the govern- ment fieet is on hand. * Minister Mendonca hopes that Mello will not make the attempt, for aside from the bloodshed that would fgllow, he wishes to avoid the necessity of destroying the Aqui- daban, the most costly and effective ship in the Brazilian navy. If Gama surren- ders Mello may make an effort to join forces with the insurgents at Desterro. but Min- | ister Mendonca feels that once the head of the rebellion at Rio is crushed the trouble jin the south can be easily quelled. , suching the suggestion that Mello might attempt to capture Santos the minister | pointed out that this would be impractic- that this able, for Santos lies ten miles up the river | by the Aquidiban, | Republica would be no match for the gov- j CTument forts. Minister Mendonca did not believe that, in the event of the rejection of his terms of capitulation, Gama would desert his men and make his escape on"the Portuguese ccr- vette. If he failed to secure a guarantee of safety for his men he doubtless would re- main with them and fight to the end. —_— ~:~ THE SUGAR QUESTION, It Will Come in Free Under the Reci- procity Treatics. There is one feature of the sugar question as involved in the tariff bill reported from the Senate finance committee which has been overlooked. The fear that this bill might not operate to abrogate the reciproc- ity treaties made with several countries under proclamation by Mr. Harrison has led to a discussion and examination of the question, which puts it beyond question that the bill does not affect and abrogate in any case except that especially provided for as to Hawail, which is a treaty of a different class. This being so the fact stares Congress In the face that no matter what duty placed on sugar by this act, as Id reciprocity treaties now in existence are not abrogated, sugar willecontinue to come in free of duty from Cuba, from Germany, from Brazil, San Domingo, the British pos- sessions and all other sugar-producing countries which entered into treaties under the reciprocity provisions of the McKinley law. So long as those treaties are in ex- istence, therefore, no duty placed upon sugar by a general lawe will prevent the free importation of sugar. so Postal Treaty With Newfoun It is expected at the Post Office Depart- ment that the President will sign the par- cels-post treaty with Newfoundland today. The treafy was signed by Postmaster ¢ eral Bissell January 8, and will take April 1. It provides for the transmission of mails, limited to 11,000 pounds annually, at 12 cents a pound. EEE RN ES. Ee, Today's Cabinet Meeti The cabinet meeting today was attended by all the members. The Brazilian revolu- tion and the understood to have been the m: of discusgion. The seqsion wus usual. n subjects orter than + The Sanitary League. The March meeting of the council of the Sanitary League will be held this evening at the board of trade rooms, in reinforce- | from the sea and the bar cannot be crossed | while the unarmored | Bering sea regulations are | An index to advertise. ments will be found on Page 3. _ SOMETHING WRONG |A Startling Amendment Inserted in the Race Course Bill, } REDUCING THE LIMIT 70 ONE MILE Senators Declare the Committee Never Adopted It. THE TWO REPORTS A curiows legislative error—to put it chari- tably—was discovered in the Senate to- day. It has an important bearing on local matters and should it not be corrected may lead to serious results. Senator Gibson this morning presented to the Senate the favorable report from the District committee on Senate bill 1280, known as the Blackburn bill, which is intended to exclude the Washington Jockey Club from the anti-pool selling bill pro- visions of the 24 of March, 1891. Mr. Gallinger then asked leave to present minority report on the same subject, signed by himself and Senator Proctor. A short time afterwards one of the clerks of the Senate, in examini papers, discovered that in the original bill i is provided that there shall be no pool selling within one mile of the city limits, whereas in the bill submitted by Mr. Gibson the draft of which was furnished by the District Com- missioners in typewriter, as a substitute for the Blackburn bill and adopted the committee, there had been inserted on ree ing the words “half of a,” so that the bill Would permit pool selling up to half a mile of the city Mmits. The clerk hurriedly reported his discoy- ery to Senator Gallinger, and then to Sena- tor Gibson, and finally to Senator Harris, the chairman of the committee, who was presiding over the Senate at the time. The recollection of Mr. Gallinger and Mr. Har- ris was that there had been no mention made of an amendment reducing the Umit in the committee and certainly that no amendment was adopted. Mr. Gibson stat- ed that it was his recollection that the half- mile limit had been adopted by a vote of the committee, but in this opinion was not supported by any other members of the committee. The added words are appat- ently in his handwriting. Chairman Harris stated that to avoid am: trouble the bill had better go to the calen- dar, where it is not likely to be disturbed for some time to come, and that the matter will be discussed and settled at the meet- ing of the committee on Friday :-ext. Mean- while, however, the bill as reported changes the limit from one mile to half a mile, The Substitute. The bill as drawn by Senator Blackburn exempted from the provisions of the act of March, 1891, the Weshington ,Jockey Club by title, and gave them permission to make books at their spring and fall meet- ings in each year. The Jistrict Commis- sioners, to whom the bill was referred, re- ported on the 34 of March and recommend. ed the adopting of a substitute bill. The Cémmissioners said: “The reasons which actuate the Commis- sioners in submitting this substitute are that the bill as referred to the Commission* ers contemplates the siving of a ‘specific, special and exclusive privilege to one cor- poration, while the proposed substitute, prepared by the Commissioners, is of gen- eral application.” The substitute provides that the act of 1891, shall not apply to book making at the spring and fall meetirgs of any jockey club or other racing association conducted beyond one mile’—here occurs the amend- ment—“from the limits of the cities of Washington and wh, and whose track is not less than one mile in length. The provision is retained in the bill that such meetings shall occur between the Ist of March and the 15th of December, and shall not exceed eighteen days in length each. ‘The Minority Report. The minority report signed by Senators Gallinger and Proctor ts as follows: | “On the 3ist day of January, 1883, an act Was approved which provided tlfat ‘every | person who shall in the District of Colum- | bia set up or keep any gambling table or | any house, yessel or place on land or water for the purpose of gaming, or any gambling device commonly called A. B. C. Faro Bank, E. ©., Roulette Equality, Keno, Thimbles or Little Joker, or any kind of gambling table or gambling device, adapted, devised and designed for the purpose of playing any game of chance for money or property or who shall induce, entice or permit any person to bet or play at or upon any such gaming table or gambling device of @ misdemeanor, imprisonment for aterm not more than ten years.” ‘ “That law is still in force, and doubtless dces much toward suppressing gam! ip |the District. On the 24 of March, a | an act was approved, entitled ‘an act to | prevent bookmaking and pool selling in the District of Columbia,’ the first section of which provides ‘that it shall be unlawful | | for any person or association of persons |n Washington and Georgetown, or within | the District of Columbia within @ mile of the boundaries of said cities, to bet, gamble or make bets or pools on the result of any trotting or runni race of horses |or boat, or race of any kind, or on any election, or any contest of ‘any kind of base ball.’ rae ie aka teak St cee See Sebeain: of the last named act to it and pool selling on race tracks located more than one mile from the boundaries of the be prohibited «under that act. j bill in 4ts amended form will mi racing question sufficiently to permit gam- bling on race tracks situated within one mile from the boundaries of the said cities. | “We are of the opinion that the prin- | ciple embodied in the act of January 81, 1883, is a wholesome and wise % It absolutely prohibits gambling cards or otherwise in all parts of the (of Columbia. The poor man who ts caught | at a game of policy, keno, roulette, or any other of the well-known devices of the common gambling fraternity is punished severely, but in the face of that the pres- ent bill misnamed a bill to more suppress gambling in the District of Co- lumbia, proposes to legalize gambling on race tracks in the interests of the rich and the professional sportipg element of the community. We believe thet the legislation is vicious in principle and for | that reason dissent from the report of the committee and recommend that adverse action be taken on the bill when it comes before the Senate for consideration. It will be seen from the minority re- port that these two Senators signing it had nothing in mind to suggest the change from a mile to a half mile limit, 2 A FARMER'S MAD LEAP, Threw Himself t Wheels Be: CRAWFORDSV Joseph Harshber Jamestown, night ina most dramatic man’ Me was at the Crawfordsville Big Four station with his family, who had been visiting rela- tives. He was in apparently good health and spirits, but when the train came roll- ing in he exclaimed: “Farewell, ye worms of earth!” and leaped from the platform and thrust his head on the track before the engine. He was instantly killed before the eyes of nearly 100 persons. His hoi wife fell fainting, and is now raving mad. No motive can be ascribed for the deed ex- {cept le ind, a wealthy farmer of committed suicide here lest