Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING sTAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. A” THE STAR BUILDINGS, Ot Pons = = Cor. Lith Street, by he Evening 8t goung Star Newspaper Company, New York Ofice, 68 Foto Building, The Prening Star ts served to w: ity by carriers. om thelr own account ot tO eens Bet weck, or 440. per month. Copies at the counter cents "each. By matl—anywaere in. the United or Canada—postage prepaid—S0 vents per Saturday Quint year; oa pn Ry — Star, $1.00 per ; (En zed at the Post Office at Wa lace mail matter.) | Vem D. Co £7, All mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. Rates of ad ng made Keown oo pplication. THE COMING OF COXEY anne Dieta ins Tt is Debated in a Lively Manner in the Senate. ere eee Se Ha CEFFER AND ALLEN MAKE SPEECHES States 4 Some Remarkable Theories in Re- gard to the Right to Parade. GEN. ORDWAY ORITICISED Coxey’s army-navy received a first-class ‘dvance notice from the Senate today, and @ redoubtable financier from Massillon, hio, should not complain when he reaches ashington for a lack of official advertis- ‘s. For half an hour or more Senators effer and Allen declaimed fervently @eainst the idea that the Coxey people — be bottled up when they reach Vashington and not allowed to be ‘heard on the subject of their peculiar ideas of fiscal matters. The discussion was on Mr. Peffer’s resolution, introduced by him Some days ago, providing for a select com- mittee on communications to hear petitions from citizens who may come to Washing- ton. When the tariff bill interrupted this Yesterday the resolution was before the Senate, on a motion to refer to the com- mittee on rules, and when it was laid be- fore the Senate today Mr. Peffer took the floor to explain its object. He said that there had been for two or ree years past a growing disposition on © part of the people to present their peti- to Congress orally, rather than by the id-fashioned methods. He went on to pro- , Claim that the condition of things is threat- ening and that unless these people are given hearings, respectful and patient, the country will find itself confronted with a serious disaster. He said that he regretted to see in The Star certain language indi- cating that the police are preparing to ar- it Mr. Coxey and his people as vagrants. “We are always prepared,” he complained, “with our police and army. There is no necessity for force. These are peaceable men.” Why It is Called an Army. Senator Hoar interrupted Mr. Peffer to ask him from what circumstance comes , the popular designation of the Coxey move- ment as an army. At this point there was an amusing colloquy between Senators »Hoar and Harris. Mr. Harris called upon Mr. Hoar to talk louder, and Mr. Hoar called Mr. Harris to order for not rising and for usurping the duties of the Vice President. Mr. Harris retorted that it kept him so busy watching Mr. Hoar that he @id not have time to rise. After the laugh, caused by this episode had died out, Mr. Peffer answered Mr. Hoar’s question by saying that the Senator from u- setts, who was older than he, had doubtless heard of and read in the Scriptures of ar- mies of peace, the Christian army, the army of salvation, the army of Christ, etc. > “When those armies say they make their fight with Satan,” interjected Mr. Hoar, “they go to fight him by means of a per- Sonal conflict.” Mr. Peffer went on to point out that mili- tary men are now on duty in schools and colleges of Boston. He spoke of the Coxey people as an army of peace, bearing relig- ious inscriptions on their banners and car- Tying aloft portraits of the Prince of Peace, the lowly Nazerene. Coming on a Peaceful Errand. “These men are coming,” said Mr. Peffer, "on @ peaceful errand; they want employ- ‘ment; they want to earn an honest living; they want to say to our ears what they have to say and to let us see with our own eyes. While we have discouraged this move- ment as far as possible, and none more vigorousiy than myself, yet these men are coming and we must prepare to meet them. “It was like the coming of a child. It must be born and everything be prepared for it. We should be ready to say to these people, ‘Here is a committee of our body to hear your complaints and to receive your Suggestions." Mr. President, there ts some- thing about this movement that fs pitiful end that deserves our most sympathetic attention.” Senator Allen Favors the Resolution. Senator Allen at this point took the floor @nd made a most remarkable speech tn be- half of Mr. Peffer’s resolution. He said he hoped the resolution would pass, not be- cause he approves in the slightest degree of Coxey’s army, or of any other number of men coming to Washington to preseat their petition in person to Congress, but because he believed that they have a right y see fit, and that it would be unwise for the Senate to prevent them. “Every American citizen,” he continued, “has a right to come to Washington. This right has never been denied that I know of until the last few days. They have a right to come under the shadow of the dome of the Capitol, and if Coxey sees fit to come here no one can deny his right to do so. They have a right to come and occupy these galleries, which I may say are many times occupied by chronic spectators to the exclusion of legitimate visitors. They have a right to be heard in behalf of their propo- sition. They have a right to be treated with as much courtesy and kindness as the President of the United States, and any otber treatment of Coxey or his followers will be un-American, and will not be tol- erated by the people. As to Gen. Ordway. “I have been reading during the past few @ays about some general called Ordway— ‘whether of the regulac army or the militia I do not know—who is mobilizing the mili- tia force of the District for the purpose of feceiving Coxey ard his men at confines of the District with the bayonet of soldiers and the clubs of policemen. I should like to know what right he has to make such a threat. Who is he that he speaks in this way of American citizens as rioters and ‘vagrants? Armies of Lobbyists. “We witness the singular spectacle of this Bity being thrown into convulsions at the Bppearance of this harmless army of un- ermed men who are coming on a peaceful exrand, upon a mission to the legislators of the country. Preparations are being made prevent their entrance into the city. A eeised and hired soldiery is to meet them at the District line and fall upon them to drive them back or to corral them as in @ prison. And yet every day or every hour ope can go into the great railroad stations of this city and witness the arrival of ar- mies of lobbists who, not waiting to go to a hotel, walk straight to the Capitol, crowd the galleries and the lobbies and seek Sena- tors in committee rooms to lay their in- genious schemes before them. They are Met with outstretched arms; with words of welcome by Senators and Representatives, ‘and these men do more damage to the pros- Perity of the country than ail the Coxeys world. mS here is a threat on the part of the vernment—for I do rot think that this Sen Ordway would make such a threat without authority—to prevent these men from entering the city, the capital of the country. It is published in the newspapers that honest workingmen, out of employ- ment, every one of whem Is the equal of any Senator on this floor, because they come here as a body, as the lobbyists come, | are to be met by a military force to beat | them into insenstbility. “Tt is said that these men have the right and indeed petitions are pre- e hundred, but they are never to, and they are speeded and caverns of the Capi- tol. When they attempt to secure a better hearing than these petitions afford, they are met violentiy by a hired soldiery and a Servant police forc Mr. Atlen went on to ask what reason there « suspecting these men of harm- ful designs. He declared that there was nothing te warrant the suspicion. into dark « ij Che Evening Star. Vor 84. No. 20,863. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1894-TWELVE PAGES. clothing was decent, and they had made no threats, and they were not armed. Senator Harris Defends Gen. Ordway. Senator Harris here created a sensation by calling Mr. Allen to task for his ex- pressions. “Representing, as I do, in some measure, the people of the District of Co- lumbla,” he said, emphatically, “I wish to ask the Senator from Nebraska what evi- dence he has that the officer in command of the District militia has ever made a threat or intimated such a purpose as he has here declared. I undertake to say that there is no such evidence.” “I answer the Senator from Tennessee,” said Mr. Allen, “that the papers are full of it, and that he has heard of this threat as 7S as I ee. “I deny that any such step has been made,” retorted Mr. Harris. “I know wHat the papers have said, and I know the great range of topics that they discuss in specu- ney: Sra dere Tem this question. But ¢ Senator from raska is not in wy pei pes a eee “It been published, and it has not been denied,” persisted Mr. Allen, “that he is mobilizing his force to meet these men with bayonets and clubs. What is that but war on harmless visitors to the national capital? It is a violation of every maeeee and every statute of this govern- en now we are told that the time has come when the Capitol grounds must be made sacred, and closed to honest, decent people who wish to enter them. There are to be no parades across the grounds—noth- ing to disturb the serenity of this Senate.” The Law as to Parades. Mr. Faulkner asked if Mr. Allen was not aware of the fact that no processions of any character can parade the streets of this city, or any other city, without permis- sion of the municipal officers, who shall designate the proper route. Mr. Allen de- nied that this was a fact, and said that if it ay so it would be a shame and a di.- grace. Mr. Cockrell claimed that it was true of every city of the United States, and with considerable warmth the populist Senator — = Gaon “If there is such a e , “it is high tim Congress to repeal it.” ~ she'd “It is almost a weekly occurrence for pro- cessions of soldiers and societies to cross the Capitol grounds, and yet we are told that when Coxey reaches Washington, be- cause he is not domiciled here, because he is not honored with a place in either end of the Capitol, he and his followers are to be met by the police and militia and kept off of the Capitol grounds. His is a lawful and highly respectable mission.” Mr. Allen paid his respects to the chronic loafers in the galleries, and said that they should be kept out of the galleries to make recom for visitors from other cities. He de- clared that the Senators could easily spare the time to hear these petitiorers, and he warranted that in half an hour, with the tariff bill under discussion, there would not be half a dozen Senators in their Places on the floor. There were fifty Senators, he said, at leisure at almost any hour in the afternoon, who could easily spare the time oo hearing of Mr. Coxey and his At this point Mr. Allen was interrupted b: the Vice President, who laid the tariff? bill before the Senat frenagah e, ae the resolution went ———_-o-—______. THE ARMOR PLATE FRAUDS. Attorney Wallace Has a Lo: = Inter- view With Secretary Herbert. Naval officials are evidently much more concerned than they pretend to be over the reported additional frauds perpetrated on the government in the manufacture of ar- mor plate for the new ships. Secretary Her- bert declines to discuss the matter for pub- lication, and his example is followed by all other officials having cognizance of the facts, Mr. Wallace, the Pittsburg lawyer, who represents the six men who claim to have Proof of these alleged frauds, had a long conference with Secretary Herbert and As- sistant McAdoo at the Navy De- partment late yesterday afternoon. The services of a stenographer were call- ed into play to record the allegations made by Mr. Wallace on behalf of his clients. Mr. Wallace represented, so it is said, that he had possession of evidence which satis- fled him that even greater than those recently compromised by the depart- ment had since been systematically prac- ticed on the government in the matter of armor plates. Additional Frauds Alleged. Defective plates have been palmed off on the government, he stated, right under the eyes of the inspectors, and he would pre- sent affidavits to sustain his assertions. The frauds, he asserted, affect nearly all the new ships which carry armor, and he was Prepared to show that the plates are fault: s toni below the standard required for ac. ce. According to thé best information obtain- able on the subject, Secretary Herbert in- formed Mr. Wallace that if his charges were sustained that the department would Pprob- ably adopt the same course pursued in the first instance and would pay the informers what they demanded, if the sum was r sonable, for bringing to the Secretary's at- tention the manufacture of armor defective and below the standard required by the government inspectors. Secretary Herbert, . after the interview, declined to discuss the probable outcome of the alleged disclosures, but intimated that he had been much im- Pressed by the rather startling statements made by Mr. Wallace, who, he said, would be called upon again to give additional in- formation and present statements which the Secretary has demanded. Mr. Wallace ex- pressed himself as please” with the Secre- tary’s attitude. What is Said in Pittsburg. A special dispatch from Pittsburg says: “Since the armor plate stories first cropped out stories of other irregularities have been afloat, and if certain things reported today are sustained the country will be treated to another sensation. The new feature of the case comes from one who had every means of knowing, and who reports that a foreign metal was experimented with in the m.anu- facture of the plates. This metal was alumi- num. It was made by the Pittsburg Reduc- tion Company, at New Kensington, and large quantities are said to have been sold by this company to the Carnegie Steel Com- pany. The experiments are said tv have been conducted with no attempt at conceal- ment. A former employe of the Pittsburg Re- ductior. Company is authority for the state- ment that the experiments made by the ‘Carnegie Company by introducing alum- inum in the making of armor plate were a complete failure. He asserts that the plates in which the aluminum was used were sent on to be used by the govern- ment. The tensile strength of aluminum is said to have caused the company to exper- iment with it. The object of the Carnegie Comyany was a laudable one, as it desired to furnish the government with a better Plate. The experiments are said to have been made in the spring of 1802. Although the piates in which aluminum was used did not reach the highest limit of tolerance, they are said to have exceeded the lowest Mmit. The plates of nickel, steel and aluminum would come within the limits of the fine fixed by the government. The information abeut the aluminum experiments is likely part of that possessed by the latest batch of informers. \ - iE KIDWELL CLAIM. The Senate Asks for Information About the Present Status. ‘The Senate today passed a resolution in- troduced by Senator Sherman calling upon the Attorney General to furnish the Senate with information as to the present status of the suit in regard to the Kidwell bot- toms in this city and why the suit is not pressed to a conclusion. ———_---+e Domesticated Buffaloes and Elk. The Agricultural Department has been notified that two herds of domesticated | buffaloes and elk are to be found in Otoe county, Neb. There are nine animals in the former and eight in the ter. The owner collected the animals and ts caring for them in the hope of being able to presexva the seeds trem exiinos a ANXIOUS DEMOCRATS] They Are Desirous of an Early Ad- journment of Congress. NECESSITY 10 WOLD THE NEXT HOUSE Southern Men Fearful of the Pop- ulist Possibilities. TO RUN THEIR OWN CAMPAIGN The uncertainty of the political situa- tion, the enforcement of the fines against members of the House for absence, and the fact that southern democrats will be compelled to fight for themselves individ- ually rather than depend upon the general battle made by the congressional and na- tional committee organization, promise to hasten action on the tariff more than has been anticipated, and at most any cost to the present measure. It is a matter of | very great importance to the democrats to hold the House during the next Con- | gress. They feel that they are compelled | to pass a tariff bill and that it is of almost | equal importance to them that adjournment | of Congress should occur at a reasonably early day, To Rush the Bill Through Influenced by this situation they are almost certain to make an effort very soon to force their bill over the shoal water in the Senate even if they have to sacrifice half their cargo to do so. There are good reasons to believe that Mr. Smith will not vote against the tariff bill when it comes to the final test and the belief among those closest on the inside is that in a few weeks it will be generally accepted as certain that a bill will be passed. A prolongh- tion, inordinately, of the tariff discussion in the Senate is lable to lead to a revival | of the silver agitation in the House, under conditons peculiarly troublesome. This the eastern men want to avoid if they can do so without too great a sacrifice. ‘Two Committees at Work. The two congressional committees are hard at work in preparation for the con- gressional campaign. As Chairman Bab- cock of the republican committee says, the republicans have a big task before them to entirely overcome the democratic majority in the House, even with a big majority of the popular vote. The republicans count first among their difficulties the solid south- ern column the democrats have to start with. It is on this column the democrats are zelyiig to hold the House. Populist Possibilities. Both committees seem, however, to ig- nore the possibility that a very considerable number of democrats from the south may be replaced by populists who will not vote with the democratic organization. Informa- tion of what the populists are doing indi- cates @ probability that the republicans will pot have to make such gains in the north as they count to overcome the democratic strength in numbers from the south. The democratic committee will not be disposed to make any concessions to the populistic sentiment in the south, or else will be di- vided on that question, and this 1s counted on to strengthen the populist party proper in x consideration of this there is» much among the men most affected to ignore the committee to a considerable extent, and to get up a sort of private organization of their own to meet local conditions and get rid of too close —e with the national administra- ion. pared With Last Year. The naval appropriation bill reported to the House yesterday carries $25,280,066, being an increese of $3,176,905 over the ap- propriation for the fiscal year, but $3,670,- 813 less than the estimates. The appropriations for the increase of the lavy cover only armor and armament and construction and machinery. In accordance with the recommendations of the Secretary of the Navy, the commit- tee recommend that he be authorized to use for the construction of one additional cruiser of the Vesuvius type the. $450,000 appropriated by the act of 1889 for the con- struction, armament and equipment of three torpedo boats. By the same act $200,000 was appropriated for building a submarine boat and conducting experi- ments with it. The committee recom- mend that the Secretary be authorized to use this amount for the construction, arma- ment and equipment of a torpedo boat. They also recommend that the Secretary be given authority to transform the Ve- suylus into a torpedo cruiser, if, in his | Judgment, the change will add to the effi- ciency of the vessel for naval purposes. The committee, in view of the Presi- dent's suggestions thatCongress should care- fully take Into account the unfinished ves- sels on our hands and the depleted condi- tion of our treasury, have reluctantly con- cluded not to recommend an appropriation for the construction of a new battleship at this time. i THE CUMBERLAND POST OFFICE. A Delegation Urges the Appointment of Editor Avirett. Col, John W. Avirett, editor Cumberland (Md.), Evening Times, called at the Post Office Department today and filed his ap- plication and indorsements for the post- mastership at that place. He was accom- panied by his brother, Col. Philip W. Avi- rett, who owns a syndicate of newspapers in the state; John N. Benson, chairman demo- cratic state central committee; A. C. Willi- son, representing the democratic county committee in Allegany county; A.A.Wilson, chairman democratic committee, Cumber- land; J. M. Street, representing the Mary- land Democratic Editorial Association; Holmes Conrad, assistant attorney genera! J. M. Reynolds, assistant secretary of the | interior, and others. Col. Avirett filed a petition, representing 80 per cent of the| mail users of Cumberland, all the demo-/ cratic members of the legislature of Mary- | land, all the democratic editors in the state | and about 2,500 citizens, regardless of poll- | tics. About 200 letters of indorsement | from the governors of states, National | Committeeman Sheridan of West Virginia | and bankers all over Maryland were also filed, making a bulk almos* equal to the Lawler petition at Chicago. Senators Gor- man and Gibson indorsed Mr. Avirett. Con- | gressman McKaig,who is “at outs” with the administration, declined, however, to take final action until the department made a ruling removing the incumbent, who was, appointed to succeed a removed republican, the original term expiring the 23d proximo. | What action the department will take is not known. ———_-e. Senator Stockbridge M1. News has been received in this city that Senator Stockbridge of Michigan 1s serious- | ly ill at the residence of relatives in Chi- cago. The news was not a great surprise here, as he was known not to have been in good | health for some time past. He has been in Chicago for about two weeks, and has been | quite fil, but last advices by mail indicated | that he was improving. Advices received are to the effect that the liver and stomach are the seat of the disorder. . —_——o+______ Treasury Receipt: National bank notes received for redemp- tion today, $328,868. Government receipts— From internal revenue, $466,226; customs, $23,016; miscellaneous, $173,000, THE CHINESE TREATY Senator White Explains Why He is in Favor of It It Recognizes the Validity of the Geary and McCreary Acts, Which is Substantial Gain. Comment has been caused by the an- nouncement that Senator White of Cali- fornia favors the new Chinese treaty. The Senator has now given for the first time the reasons for his support. “The treaty recognizes,” he said, “the validity of the Geary and McCreary acts, and explicity declares that the Chinese government will not object to their en- forcement. This is a substantial gain, be- cause the Supreme Court sustained the validity of the Geary law by a mere ma- jority and one of the justices whose votes determined the case has died, so that all recognize the uncertainty of a second pre- sentation to that tribunal. “The provision whereby the United States agrees to furnish annually to China the names of our citizens, including mission- aries, who reside there, is in effect a guar- antee by the Chinese empire that the par- ties will not be disturbed; missionaries need have no solicitude hereafter. While the Chinese government is not friendly to American residents the effect is to make it Mable pecuniarily and otherwise for injuries to our people there. The Chinese do not enjoy paying damages. Privileges to Chinese Laborers. As to the criticism against the privilege to Chinese laborers having a wife, child or parent in the United States or property or debts to the amount named in the treaty of returning he said: “The provision. only applies to laborers who are registered. If we agree, as in the Geary and McCreary acts, that they may remain permanently if they register I see no objection to their temporary absence. I admit that a Chinaman will swear to anything, but in this case his veracity is passed upon by an American official. He must deposit with the collector of customs a full description of his family or prop- erty and the return certificate must be pre- sented to the official who issued {t. The Chinaman who presents the certificate must accord with whatever personal descrip- tion it bears. If the laborer who obtains a certificate succeeds in substituting another person this means that instead of Ah Sin we are compelled to endure Wong Chow, an immaterial difference. Individuals pro- fessing to be interested have announced that the proposed treaty will open the door to a Chinese invasion, but no laborer can enter without a return certificate, and if we admit that there may be substitution (which I do not concede) the number of laborers cannot be increased because one certificate represents one man. Same Provisions in Treaty of 1888. “The treaty ratified by Congress in 1888 contained substantially the same provisions for the return of Chinese laborers, except that the present compact is more favorable to the United States in requiring the party that returns to be a registered laborer. Con- gress passed the Morrow act April 13, 1883, on the theory that the treaty would be rati- fled by China. The right to return was explicitly recognized by Congress in that act, and the legislation was at that time considered by anti-Chinese advocates as progressive. The present treaty is drawn upon the lines of the Morrow bill, and a: soon as it becomes evident that the Chinese overnment intends to ratify it, a bill can passed providing for the enforement of treaty provisions, and containing proper and stringent regulations and penalties. The Morrow bill contained a provision for photographs, which is now supplied by the Geary and McCreary laws. “The Chinese government decliaed to agree to the treaty of 1888 upon the ground that the certificate issued to a departing Chinese laborer should be granted by a Chinese consul. Mr. Cleveland said in his message to Congress dated October 1, 1888, approving the Seott exclusion act, that the obvious and necessary effect of this conten- tion would be practically to place the exe- cution of the treaty beyond the control of the United States. I might add that, as far as the President is concerned, no execu- tive has ever used more forcible expres- sions in opposition to Chinese immigration than did Mr. Cleveland in the messaxe to which I have alluded. The democratic party in Congress has always led the op- position to Chinese immigration, and has furnished the majority of the votes neces- sary to enact anti-Chinese laws.” incase REVENUE MARINE OFFICERS, A to Permanently Remove Those Incapacitated for Active Service. Representative Mallory has reported from the commerce committee a bill to place on waiting orders and permanently remove from the active list such officers of the rev- enue cutter service as become_incapacitated by reason of the infirmities of age, or phys- ical or mental disability, to efficiently per- form the duties of their offices. The vacan- cies in the active list occasioned by the re- moval of incapacitated officers are to be filled by promotion, in order of seniority, after written examinations as to thelr pro- feseional qualifications. Heretofore, an ac- companying report says, there has been no means whereby these incapacitated officers could be removed from the active list, and the government has been obliged to retain them rominally on that Mst, thus barring indefinitely the promotion of capable and efficient junior officers, or else resort to the cruel and inhuman course of discharging them in their old age, broken in health, and, in many cases, destitute of the means of a livelihood. The officers of the revenue cutter service are appointed for life, and their duties are certainly not less exacting and arduous than those of naval officers. The following statement contained in a letter bearing on this subject, from Secre- tary Carlisle to the chairman of the com- mittee, is interesting: “The necessities of the service are con- stantly increasing, while its effective force is constantly decreasing, and, unless some remedy 1s provided by Congress, the time cannot be very far distant when the Secre- tary of the Treasury will be compelled to seriously consider the propriety of dis- charging a number of superannuated and infirm officers in order to fill their places | with others who are competent to discharge the duties of the pos'tions which they now hold. Two of the officers now on the wait- | ing order list have been connected with the service more than sixty years, and several of them have served ‘more than thirty years. They were appointed for life, and it would be a great hardship to drop them out of the service after they have become old and infirm, without making some provision for them.” +--+ _______ EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY, One District Man Pardoned—Action in Some Other Cases. The President today granted a pardon to Elenora Brown, convicted February 15 last in the District of perjury in the Harkman divorce case, and sentenced to two years and six months’ imprisonment in the Al- bany penitentiary. The President indorsed the application in this case as follows: ‘Nothing would induce me to grant this pardon, except the condition of the con- viet. Clemency is recommended by the judge who sentenced her and the prosecut- ing attorney on the ground that she is far advanced in pregnancy.” The President has also pardoned F. M. McClanahan, convicted in Missouri of bur- glarizing a post office. He Mas served his term, and the President’s action serves merely to restore his citizenship. The sen- tence of six years’ imprisonment in the case of Rod Perry, for manslaughter in Arkans: has been commuted to four years’ actual imprisorment. The applica- tion for pardon in the case of W. C. Al- berts, convicted in Utah of passing counter- felt money, was denied, SHIFTING. THE TAX From the Foreign Producer to Our Own People. SENATOR PERKINS ON THE WILSON BILL The Income Tax Does Not Fall Alone on the Rich. Ke THE PRESENT NECESSITY Senator Perkins of California addressed the Senate today in opposition to the Wil- son bill. He opened his speech with a general statement describing the business and financial conditions of the country, saying that he preferred to consider and discuss the question as a business rather than a political matter, saying: “The question of expense and revenue is a very simple one that comes home to each member of every community, and the same Tule applied to us as individuals must gov- ern us collectively, whether organized into @ municipality, a state or a nation. It requires in round numbers, say, five hun- dred million dollars per annum to properly carry on this government. This large sum of money must be obtained either by di- rect or indirect taxation. It must all come from our own people, and from those who do business with us from other countries, selling us the products that come from | their soil or that which is manufactured by the skill or labor of foreign workmen. Our people pay their taxes for the support | of municipal, county, state and national government, and, in addition thereto, they must pay a special license for conducting the business in which they are engaged. Why, then, should we permit foreign na- tions to bring their products here to com- pete with our industries, giving them equal if not better advantages than our own people? “It has been the plan for the past thirty years of wise American statesmanship to raise about one-half of the expense of the government by placing an import duty upon the products of other lands that come into this country for consumption or use of our people, and to so adjust these duties that they will best protect and foster American industries, and thereby dignify and protect American labor against the cheap, servile and contract labor of foreign lands. That this is the correct principle is evidenced from the fact that during this time our industrial interests have been stimulated and our people prosperous, con- tented and happy. Burdening Our Own People. “The bili before us for consideration,desig- nated a tariff for revenue, proposes to take from the import duties $75,000,000, which is simply a license the producer pays for the privilege of entering into our home market with their merchandise on equal terms with one to the manor born, and impose this additional burden upon our own people in the form of an increased excise duty, and an ircome tax upon the gain or profit made by their diligence, industry and We have been accustomed to hear much about a tariff for revenue without discrim. ination as the only constitutional tariff, and a tariff for revenue with discrimina’ and upon these distinctions the American people divided into parties in the early part of the century. . the platform of the two political the last . and these were cam) expected to be disc in this But we have wandered far away from out course. The democratic party has fallen from its high estate, abandoned its prin- ciples utterly, and instead of making open and bold war upon its ancient doctrines and adopted platform enters beneath the re- publican platform, attacks the republican tariff measure, which it declared unconsti- tutional and robbery, and, tearing it down, attempts to build up on the same principles weaker structure from the same mater- ials. We are thus brought to this strahge contest, with no great fundamental prin- ciple to investigate, but to contrast as a measure of polity the legitimate with the illegitimate, the complete with the incom- plete, the strong and carefully completed with that made of the madly gathered and weakened fragments.” Problem of the Unemployed. He then took up and discussed the ques- tion in deta!l and at some length as to the various California interests, borax, quiek- silver, beet sugar, sulphur, salt, fruits, nuts, wine, wool and coal, affected by the bill, claiming for them all the protection given under the present laws. Referring to the labor problem, he said: “We are, indeed, confronted “with the strange problem of an overcrowded people, a problem which the fathers of the republic never dreamed would confe so soon. To this may be added the marvelous devices of invention in the direction of labor-saving machinery. Men were never so cheap, nor muscle so superfluous in the work of the world as now. The star of the empire has moved westward until the tide of popula- tion has met the confines of the Pacific. We find unemployed men everywhere, mines and factories closed and thousands march- ing toward this city, and everywhere en- forced idleness and suffering. It was not so in the early history of the republic; it was not so before the attempt to depreciate the intrinsic value of one-half our cirvulating medium: and, indeed, it was not so before the threatened blight of free trade fell upon the country. “The present administration assumed the control of the country the 4th of March, 1898. During the seven months following, as shown by Bradstreet, the falling off in the business of the clearing house amounted to the vast sum of nearly five billions of dollars, and it has kept up at that fearful rate ever since. This #’upendous deficit represents the country’s value of trade. Twelve billions of dollars less money circu- lated in the ordinary channels of trade and commerce, in wages, in the manufacture of goods, In the employment of labor. And all this under the tariff reform or free trade policy of the present administration in the brief period of twelve months. Indeed, the nation stands appalled before the peril that threatens it. Income Tax Delusion. “This ought to be the richest country in the world; taxes should be the lowest. La- bor on a higher standard and better pal, its products bring the greatest satisfaction. All of which it would be and do, but for the Anglo-mania that has turned the heads of a large portion of our people, especially of one of our great political parties. There is nothing genuine with some so-called Americans in their estimation that does rot wear a foreign stamp. Even Americaa manhood is of little worth compared with the effete and dissipated titled roues of the | old world. They come here for the rich plums that are ready to fall into thelr open mouths, and they seldom go away empty. “Of the income tax I can but say that it appears in the bill before us one of the most insidious and deceitful ever expressed in a multitude of words. It appears most fair that the individual who rides Mr. Bellamy’s coach, which other individuals pull through the dust and mud of good and bad rbdads, should be made to pay his fare, or at least to pay more than those who do the pulling, and it ts on this theory the income tax is advocated. Were this theory sound, it would still be found impract that fare with any equality or any degree of satisfaction or profit. At first glance it appears that the income tax is levied only against those who ride. This appearanve makes the proposition popular with those who believe they do all the pulling for this coach, made so famous in the ‘Looking Backward’ story. A closer examination of these sections of the bill show that the pul- lers of that coach are taxed as well as those who ride. There are but few thrifty per- sons who have not invested some surplus earnings, or ‘laid aside for a rainy day,’ in savings some incorporated company or ble to colleet | TWO’ CENTS. A POINTER. The circulation of The Star is greater {han that of all the other Washington dailies combined, and is believed to be five times that of its afternoon contemporary. A sworn detatled statement of circu- lation is printed each Saturday. . bank. Such people are of the most bene- ficial toilers of the world. Changed Conditions. “They comprise millions of our people of small incomes. In all the great companies are many of these, and possibly many call for an income tax. They do not know that their savings are aggregated in the bank or other corporation and made to pay the same tax as if the depositor’s income were over the limit of $4,000. Many a poor man and woman will find their scanty dividends lessened by the income tax if thia bill be- comes a law. The condition of affairs in this country is vastly different from what it was @ quarter of a century or more ago. The dis- contented and unsettled classes, of which the number is steadily increasing, have no longer new and virgin territory to occupy when they become dissatisfied with the old- er communities. “The time has come when in the order of things we must have a fixed national policy upon al! questions affecting the stability of the government. The shifting, fluctuating policy of the managers of the party of free trade in seeking to force its views upon the country, whether the people indorse them or not, is triking illuStration of its unfitness to manage national affairs, and can but re- sult in disaster to the party that attempts it. We can endure less foolishness than formerly. The people can stand less non- sense tn the shape of unwise laws than when there was less suffering and idleness among them.” SENATOR HILL A PO: tLATY. He May Be Appointed to the Vacancy on the Finance Committee. An interesting suggestion is made in con- nection with the possibility of the selection of Senator Hill as a member of the Senate committee on finance succeed the late Senator Vance, to the effect that such ac- |tion might lead to an effort to have the tariff bill recommitted to the finance com- | mittee. Senator Hill is believed to be favor- able to this course, and the republican Senators entertained the idea of such re- | committal when the democratic majority | of the committee refused to grant hearings. ‘This they abandoned, because they thought |that a recommittal ‘would mean the sub- {sequent report of the bill with tmmaterial |arrendments. With Senator Hill as a mem- ber of the committee, dissatisfied with maty features of the bill, as he is known to be, and e: lly antagonistic to the in- come tax, there would be reasons for hoping on the part of those who agree with him that the bill would be materially amended if it should again go to commit- tee. If he should stand with the repub- licans of the committee, and they should vote solidly, — change desired by them could be affect There is a possibility, however, that the vacancy in the committee will not be speed- ily filled, and it is believed that the demo- cratic members of the committee will ask that when the appointment should be made Senator Mills should be given this place. The selection of Mr. Mills to close the general preliminary debate on the tariff strengthens this supposition. The committee will mot, of course, have the naming of the additional member, but its recommendation wouli naturally have some influence with the democratic caucus, and if a sectional issue should be raised in cau- | Cus, the south, being in the majority, would ecntrol the selection. —__—____-2-_______ THREE GREAT BATPLESHIPS. Satisfactory Report on Them.by the Naval Stability Board. The naval stability board has just com- pleted and submitted to Secretary Herbert an exhaustive report on the most important rjatter that has yet come before the board, namely, the stability of the three great wattle ships, Indiana, Massachusetts and Oregon The tests were thorough, and, in addition to exhaustive theoretical calcula- jthe board made practical heeling or tests of the vessels, to ascertain their behavior under all possible conditions of load. The result is highly gratifying to ment, for it justifies in all re- the designs of the vessels were completed showed that they were to have, with 400 tons of coal aboard and ali weights, a total estimated weight of 10,093 tons. The tests showed that the actual weight or displace- ment was 10,1@ tons, a variation of only two-thirds of one per cent: The designed draught was 24 feet; the experiments show that it is actually ffom 23 feet 11 inches to 24 feet. The excess buoyancy was to be 195 to! it was actually 126 tons. The metacentric height was to be 8 feet 5 1-2 inches; as a matter of fact it was 3 feet 4 1-2 inches., The board says: “This com- parison shows that the result of the present calculations is a most satisfactory and gratifying verification of the elements of the original remarkable degree of accuracy in those cal- culations. “The board is of the opinion that the draught of water of the battie ships is not excessive for the type and size of the ves- 1. We regard the stability conditions, as shown by the calculations, to be satisfac- tory, and see no resaon whatever to suggest any changes or alterations in these ships for the purpose of modifying these quali- ties.” ——— THE GREAT STRIKE. Interest Felt in Regard to the Delays of Mails, The delays of mails caused by the Great Northern strike are exciting great interest at the Post Office Department. With the constant developments and the gradual ex- tension, the strike Is now looked upon as a very serious matter at the department. Several conferences of department officials in the railway branch of the service have been held, and active efforts are being made to more fully cope with the trouble. Sec- ond Assistant Postmaster General Lowrie Bell is engaged in other official business in the west, and Acting Second Assistant Stone is in direct charge. Notice has been received that two “short-run” trains carry- ling postal cars were run over a portion of the road yesterday. Several additional tem- porary mail service routes to points on the |Great Northern accessible from other roads have just been ordered. ee MGR. SATOLLI DENIES. No Truth in the Rumor Against Corrigan. The publication in a New York paper to- day thet Mgr. Satolli would prefer charges against Archbishop Corrigan at Rome of conspiring against him was denied by the |papal legate today. When an Associated Press reporter called at Mgr. Satolli's he was met by a member of the suite, who sald: “Mgr. Satolli has requested me to say that the article Is false, entirely and ut- |terly false, and without foundation. He |does not intend to prefer charges against | Archbishop Corrigan nor to go to Rome. jIt would be useless for you to see Mgr. Sa- | toll, for he could not make the denial of that report more sweeping than he has authorized me to make it for him.” Father O'Gorman, at the Catholic Uni- | versity, when seen, also said that the pub- lication was untrue. ——_——_-e Nominations by the President. The President today sent the following nominations to the Senate: | cavalry, to be captain; Second Lieut. Thos. Hi. Slavens, fourth cavalry, to be first lieu- | tenant. Also a long list of officers of the United States army for appyintments by brevet in the army of the United States to rank |from February 27, 1890, under provisions jof act of Congress, approved February 2 | 1890, entitled “an act to authorize the F |!dent to confer brevet rank, &c., for gallant | services in Indian campaign oo. Gone io Annapol Secretary Herbert and his aid, Lieut. Reamey, went to Annapolis today to attend the revolutionary celebration at the state house, design, demonstrating a most ' War—First Lieut. James Lockett, fourth | (DAY SPENT IN CAMP Coxey’s Men End Their Trip on the Canal. TENTS PITCHED NEAR WILLIAMSPOR: The Army to Move on Tomor- row. WELCOMING THE MARCHER‘ Special Dispatch From a Staff Corresponéest. WILLIAMSPORT, M4, April 19.—The commonweal reached this place, the end of their canal journey, early this morning, ané men, baggage and horses were immediately | disembarked and camp pitched in a meadow below the canal. A considerable crowd was on hand to welcome the men, and among them many ladies. General Coxey is to leave the commonweal tomorrow or Saturday for another fiying trip. This time he is going to New York to attend a horse sale held there on Monday As soon as camp was pitched this the men lined up around and the marshals came : ii iat i i F g g , i z : i i bi rf if rf g3 ‘tue the fact that Smith plimentary words on All Sorts of Baggage. was, after the hard things he had sald them before, as absurd as if Judas Iscariot had gone out with the thirty pieces of sil- ver in his hands and preached Christianity. Smith, or Bozarro, and Childs were place last night and were warned sheriff that if they repeated tions he would arrest them. yremains here all night tonigh! row morning takes up the march to gerstown. This evening the usual will be made by Brown and Coxey. About 12 o'clock it began to rain and commonwealers sought shelter wherever could be found. The prospects rather wet and dismal camp at this Bozarro, the unknown, who Arrived al Hagerstown last evening with the velied lady, advance guards of Coxey's army, har- angued a large crowd in the public square of that city at 1:30 this afternoon. Little enthusiasm was manifested, and no ar- rangements were made to receive the com- monweal. By Associated Press. WILLIAMSPORT, Md, April 19.—Hiag- | erstown will receive the commonweal army | tomorrow. The town is alarmed after the | way the Coxeyites showed their teeth at Hancock last night, and seventy constables have been sworn in. The arm; came near taking in a deaper- ate recrrit last night at Hancock. The man had b en loafing for a day or two with @ & i z S Dinner Time. camp of twenty-five recruits that had been waiting on the outskirts of the-town. Just before the arrival of the commons weal boats the.man was identified by Sherif Wilhelm of Fayette county as James