Evening Star Newspaper, May 2, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, the eating Sue Decmaner Goonms tas t} = a KA ir fANN: Pi mpany, New ‘York Offcs, 88 Potter Building, cents each. By mail—anywhere in the Unit Canada—postage prepaid—50 vents tes or we Saturday Quintuple Shoat Star, $1.00 per year; with foreign added, $3.00.” IN THE SENATE A Few Bills Passed Before Taking Up the Tariff Bill, SENATOR HOAR'S LOTTERY BILL Quite a Lively Discussion jin Re- gard to It. CHURCH FAIRS REFERRED TO For ten minutes after the Senate met this morning at 11 o’clock that body was one short of a quorum, and Mr. Harris (Tenn.), fm charge of the tariff bill, was about to «ake steps to compel the attendance of ab- sentees when Mr. Higgins pushed his way through the swinging doors of the republi- can cloak room. His presence completed the quorum and Mr.Harris withdrew the motion he had made to direct the sergeant-at-arms to request the attendance of absent Sena- tors. Some routine business of an unimportant character was transacted. The Contract Labor Law. A resolution presented by Mr. Allen (Neb.) was passed, directing the Secretary of the ‘Treasury to inform the Senate to what ex- tent the contract labor law had been vio- lated since March, 1889, to what extent vio- lations had been prosecuted and the number of convictions found. ‘The House amendment to the Senate bill, making an ditional clerk hire in. the Congressional brary, was concurred in, after which Mr. Quay then came forward with the Monon- — bridge bill, which he announced last londay he would press until passed. There ‘wWas.no opposition to vet authorizes the elty of Pittsburg to con- struct a high bridge across the Mononga- hela river. The House bill to extend the limits of the port of New York so as to include the city of Yenkers was passed on motion cf Mr. Hin «&X. Y.. A resolution cailing for statistics of trade between the United States and Canada was adopted on motion of Mr. Higgins (Del). To Suppress Lottery Traffic. Mr. Hoar (Mass.) called up his bill for the suppression of lottery traffic through ra- tional and interstate commerce and the postal service, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Mr. Vest (Mo.) objected to certain clauses of the bill. While he favored the suppres- sion of lottery drawings, he said this bill would make it a criminal offense in the spoke in su] Che Evening Star. Vor 84, No. 20,874, WASHINGTON, D. O., WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1894—TWELVE PAGES. TWO CENTS. ACCOUNTING METHODS The Bill to Improve Them in the Treasury Department. It is Taken Up and Discussed in the House Today in Committee of the Whole. ‘The presence of Coxey’s army in Wash- ington made no appreciable difference in the attendance in the House galleries this morning. There were very few visitors. Several bills were passed in the morning hour, among them a House bill to authorize certain officers of the navy to administer oaths; also a House bill to authorize the construction of a bridge across the Missouri river near Jefferson City, Mo. The House bill to grant certain lands to the township board of Inwood townshi; Mich., for cemetery purposes was 3 also Senate joint resolution for the proper enrollment of Thomas R. Proctor in the Bavy with the rank of lieutenant. Mr. Johnson then introduced his resolu- tions in regard to investigating the Metro- politan police, and said that not only was the regular police force marshaled in front of the Capitol, but several hundred deputies had been sworn in, inexperienced and ex- citable men, who had lost their heads and clubbed innocent persons. ‘To Improve Accounting Methods. At 12:35, the morning hour having ex- pired, Mr. Dingley (Me.) moved to take up the bill to improve the methods of account- ing in the Treasury Department, and it ‘was agreed that general debate on the bill should be limited to two hours. The House went into committee of the whole, with Mr. Hatch (Mo.) in the chair, and Mr. Dingley of the bill. He was followed by Mr. a @.H.), who led the opposition to the ——————_o____. DISTRICT IN CONGRESS. To Improve E Street. Senator Hunton today, by request, offered an amendment to the District appropriation bill, inserting an item of $20,000 for the pur- Pose of opening up, extending and gra E street northwest north of the old naval observatory reservation, from 22d street to the Potomac river. The amendment was re- ferred to the District committee. ding Army Surgeon Generals. Senator Sherman today presented a me- morial of the Toledo Medical Association remonstrating against any reduction of the appropriation for the library of the surgeon general's office. Also a petition from the same association praying for the House bill 5837 to remove certain disabilities of late acting assistant surgeons of the army. Passage of New Naval Observatory Grounds. Senator McPherson today, on behalf of Senator Gibson, reported favorably from the naval committee the bill (Senate 1769) establishing an observatory circle as a pro- vision for guarding the delicate astronomi- cal instruments at the naval observatory against smoke or currents of heated air in District of Columbia and all other United States territory to have drawings at a charitable entertainment given by a churcn. Mr. Hoar was not disposed to view this criticism as well founded. He had not been able, he said, to contrive a piece of legislation that would hit a gambler and steer around a church deacon. traffic upon the ext of public thor- Mr. Vest, however, insisted that in all| oughfares in the vicinity. The bill provides the states having lottery laws that no avenue, street or fare shall and drawings at religious or charitable entertainments were exempted by express provisions. These amusements on such oc- casions were entirely Mr. Gray (Del.) asked, with a touch of sarcasm in his tone, whether it would be in order to move an amendment to exempt church members from the operations of the act _ ----- Mr. Vest resented this, and said, very sharply, that he was not speaking of in- dividuals; he was unwilling to place church amusements and the Louisiana lottery on the same footing. Mr. Gorman Thinks the Bill Too Sweeping. Mr. Gorman (Md.) agreed with Mr. Vest that the bill was entirely too sweeping. Mr. Hoar thought the opposition to the measure was hypocritical. A general law always had a practical execution. But it would be absurd in a general law to insert extend within the area of the circle de- scribed with a radius of 1,000 feet from the center of the clock room of the observatory. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to belonging to the United within the circle, amounting in all to nine- teen and twenty-seven-hundredths acres, which, when acquired, shall form a part of the observatory grounds, The Columbia Suburban R.R. The House District committee today Mr. Gorman persisted in his opposition. The present anti-lottery law had been ef- fective. It was now proposed to strike down the innocent drawings of hospitals and other public charitable institutions, two-thirds of whose revenues were obtained from fairs at which these drawings were had. In his own state of Maryland, until twenty years ago, there was scarcely an in- stitution of this character which had not authorized @ favorable report on the bill extending the charter of the District of Columbia Suburban Railway Company, and providing for a new route into the city. The road will enter the city on E street northeast, running west to 4th street, down 4th to Louisiana avenue, down Lot uisiana avenue to 7th street. A branch will also come in at 12th street northeast. ——___- + 2+_____. RAILROAD LEGISLATION. been created and was not now maintained im this way. Mr. Hoar replied to Mr. Gorman. He ad- mitted that in the old days raffling and drawings had been common, even in Massa- chusetts, but it bred the spirit of gambling and was everywhere being put down. He could not think that at the close of the nineteenth century two-thirds of the char- itable institutions of the state were main- Various Measures Acted Upon by the House District Committee. ‘The House District committee this morn- ing authorized a favorable report on the Washington Traction Company's bill. This company proposes to operate an under- ground electric trolley street railroad be- tween the Zoological Park and the Balti- more and Potomac station at 6th street. The proposed route is down 17th street to H, east on H to 138th street, south on 13th to B street and east on B street to 6th street. The company has abandoned the proposed line to the Capitol and also the line on Massachusetts avenue and R street. If this road is constructed it will permit the entrance to the city of the cars of all the suburban electric lines centering in the northwestern and northern portions of the city. The cars are to be operated by the system now in use on the U street line. ‘The committee also agreed to report the bill which has passed the Senate requiring all railroads to use clean tickets. A report on the amended Washington, Alexandria and Mt. Vernon railway bill is expected during the day from the Commis- sioners. This is the bill which was report- ed by the subcommittee last week, and au- thorizes the road to run from the 6th street station west on B street to 17th, north to E and west on E to the river, crossing on a ferry transfer, branch lines to be laid from the Hotel Randall to B street and down 14th to the Long bridge. The com- mittee agreed this morning to report this bill if the Commissioners do not find any serious objections to it, and if the Commis- sioners recommend changes another meet- ing of the committee will be called to act upon the matter. + 2+______ THE CHINESE TREATY. Mr. Harris interposed an objection and abruptly moved to take up the tariff bill. Before the motion was put the conference Teport on the bill for the punishment of crimes in Yellowstone Park was adopted. Mr. Lodge om Discussing the Tariff Bill. The consideration of the tariff bill was then resumed. Mr. Quay, who was entitled to the floor, yielded to Mr. Lodge. Mr. Lodge reviewed the history of the Wilson bill in the House and Senate to show that until the Ist of April, when the debate on the measure began in the Senate, it had been entirely in the control of the majority. ‘The only opportunity the minority had to discuss and consider the bill was in the Senate chamber, and if the minority in- sisted upon discussing it that could not be objected to as delay. Mr. Lodge then proceeded to comment sarcastically upon the 1,000,000 circulars It Should Come Up Tomorrew Accord- ing to Agreement. If the agreement made in the Senate two weeks ago is observed the tariff debate will be suspended tomorrow to permit the Senate to consider the Chinese treaty. The observance of the agreement will probably depend upon the wishes of Senator Morgan, chairman of the committee on foreign re- jations, who has been absent from the Senate for several days. His leave of ab- sence will expire tomorrow,and if he should be present tomorrow and should express a desire to have the treaty considered his wishes would doubtless be complied with, If, on the other hand, he should express a wish to have consideration postponed, the democratic managers of the tariff debate would acquiesce willingly. The first question to be determined in connection with the treaty is the motion of Senator Mitchell that it be discussed and acted upon in open session. It is the pur- pose of the republican Senators from the Pacific coast to antagonize ratification with all the arts at their command, and they will require considerable time for the expression of their views, erences to the sugar, lead and petroleum trusts. In his opinion ‘the republicans would be justified in carrying their opposition to ny extent to defeat it. If passed it would not bring rest, comfort and certainty. Those who framed it in bringing it in, de- clared their intention to change it. If pass- ed it would but prove the stepping stone of further agitation and change. Mr. Lodge’s purpose seemed to be to stir up the democratic side. Me. Squire Against the Bill. Me ylelded the floor back to Mr. Quay, no yielded It to Mr. Squire of Washing- ton. The latter delivered a carefully pre- pared argument, w ll eerie Appointments. Alexander Summers of Knoxville, Tenn., n een appointed statistician of the bu- reau of education at $1,800, vice Weston Flint of New York, resigned, Thomas McCully has been appointed chief lerk of the assistant treasurer of United States at Philadelphia, vice A. W. Goodrich, removed. James a of bry oray Ohio, has been A Samoan Missionary Here. @ppointed a: stant mited States agent at v1) the Seal Islands, at a salary of $2,190 per| Re¥- 8. J. Whitmee of the London Mis- annum, vice J. R. Hall, who has been re- @alled. The resignation of John W. Oast, vising inspector of steam vessels, @ccepted by Secretary Carlisle. stonary Society, who has been many years a resident of Samoa, called on Secretary Gresham yesterday afternoon and explained the conditions prevailing on the islands and the causes of the recent disturbances. super- has been SLAIN IN AMBUSH Mexican Soldiers Butchered by Yaqui Indians. REPETITION OF BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT A Large Force of Soldiers Cut Down by a Few. ANOTHER EXPEDITION geenee Seti aha en SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 2.—News is re- ceived here that the Yaqui Indians have once more ambushed the forces sent against them. A day or two ago a state- ment was published that two companies of Mexican troops stationed at Ensenada had been ordered to Guaymas, Sonora, on the Gulf of California, for immediate duty. At the time it was thought to be an or- dinary and unimportant transfer of soldiers, but the report which now comes in directly from the Mexican officers at Ensenada gives that movement a most sensational aspect. Ex-Gov. Luis BE. Torres, who is now general of the northern and western departments of Mexico, it says, has been making another campaign against the Yaquis in the Senora and northern Simolia. He had an army of over 500 men, and the Plan was to dispose of the Yaquis then at once and forever. President Diaz selected Gen. Torres for this work because of his experience and supposed ability to accomplish the desired ” Led Into Ambush. But, like the other commanders who have tried it, according to reports, Torres met the Yaquis and was defeated. The report says that a force, composed of soldiers taken from different regiments, accompanied by a party of national militia, in command of a lieutenant colonel, lately arrived from Mexico, were in pursuit of tne Yaquis in the Sierra De Bacatel. On the afternoon of the fifth day of the march the trail led the pursuers into a long, deep, narrow defile in the Sierra De Bacatel. The walls‘of the canon were almost pre- cipitous, rising to the height in some places of over 2,000 feet, and covered with brush. The command was halted, and skirmishers pushed forward to uncover any possible ambush. . The skirmish line climbed the walls and beat the brush as far up as possible with- out results, and, as the trail was clearly de- fined in the sand in the bottom of the canon, the colonel in command ordered them forward. Half the dangerous locality had been traversed with no sign of life nor motion from the cliffs towering above and the men were beginning to breathe easier, when suddenly huge masses of rock and boulder from the cliff, nearly 1,500 feet above, came bounding from wall to wall down upon the hemmed-in column, crushing horses and riders into shapeless heaps, and higher and higher rose the war cries of the well-armed Yaquis, who now firing volley after volley directly into the struggling mass below, where all was confusion. A Terrible Scene. Horses dashed through the broken col- umn, trampling on the dead and wounded soldiers; men writhed and screamed under the weight of rocks that had crushed them ‘Gown into the earth; others sank under the pitiless hail of bullets, and others, less severely wounded, and those still unhurt sought the bushes on either side and watch- ed for somé sign of their bloodthirsty foes. In such conftsion it was impossible for the commands of the officers to be heard, but finally the colonel found a wounded bugler with yet life enough to sound a call. In a few minutes, although still in range of those deadly rocks and rifles, those of the wounded able to move with assistance were started back down the canon, while those who were able to offer resistance fired volley after volley at random into the bushes on the cliffs, and had the satisfac- tion of occasionally seeing a half-naked Yaqui leap convulsively from his hiding place and come whirling down through a thousand feet of space. As rapidly as possible the remnant of the column fought its way back to open ground, where their foe had not dared to follow, and after a brief rest, dragged themselves back along the route over which they had march- ed_so cheerfully the day before. The number killed cannot be accurately stated, but out of the column of 500 men it. is said that at least 200 are either killed or wounded. Another Attempt to Be Made. An additional force of 200 militia has been organized in Hermosillo, and the campaign against this party of reds will be pushed vigorously. Torres himself and a small party of sol- diers retreated to Guaymas, where, accord- ing to one version that has reached En- senada, he has been placed under arrest because of his failure. This is not believed Sant one res all the Mexi troops of t any rate, e Mexican o' Lower California, Sorona and Sinaloa are to be mobilized at Guaymas and another cam- paign organized against the Yaquis, but whether Gen. Torres is to lead or not re- mains to be seen. It is said that Don Jacobi Corda, a young doctor, after the encounter in the canon, left a place called Lames, with a small es- cort, to attend the wounded, and on passing @ place called Arenas fell into an ambush prepared by the same party of Yaquis, Ac- cording to reports, he was slain in a most cruel manner, the savages first flaying his feet and making him walk. They finally lanced him. The Sierra De Bacetel is two days’ journey from Guaymas, and is a very rug- ged, wild country, one of the strongholds of the Yaquis. It is said that only 100 or 200 Yaquis were in the rebellion. Further details from Guaymas are ex- pected. The Yaquis are to Mexico what the Apaches are to Arizona, only, if anything, they are more cruel. They are magnificent specimens of manhood, few being under six feet, and have almost unlimited powers of endurance. They have never been entirely subdued, but inaugurate periodical raids from their impregnable strongholds in the fastnesses of the Sierra Nevadas. —___ SHOT BY A JEALOUS WIFE. The Stepdaughter of Ex-Congress- man Castle at the Point of Death. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., May 2.—Miss Viva Castle, stepdaughter of ex-Congress- man Castle of Stillwater, at-one time a resident of Washington, is lying at the point of death in this city, with a bullet wound in her temple. The circumstances of the shooting are scmewhat mysterious, the only definite fact known being that while in an upper room over the Postal Cafe last evening she was shot by Mrs. Scott Blake, wife of the proprietor of the restaurant. Blake says the young lady, who had been visiting friends in the city, went into the cafe early in the evening and sought a suitable place to rearrange her hair. While seated in a large chair she fell asleep, end when Blake, knowing of her presence there, went to call her, he was followed into the room by his wife, who drew a revolver and fired at Miss Castle. She turned the revolver against her husband, but he threw up her arm, and the bullet struck the wall. The affair was not reported to the police for four hours. Blake was then immediately taken into custody, and Mrs. Blake, who had disap- peared, was found at midnight and ar- rested. ——__ Dividends for World’s Fair Directors, CHICAGO, May 2.—World’s fair directors have declared a dividend cf 10 per cent on the $10,000,000 worth of exposition stock. The dividend is payable June 9. THAT TARIFF COMPROMISE It Hangs Fire and Its Authors Are in Doubt. Senater Hill the Principal Stumbling Bleck—Messrs. Murphy and Smith May Stand by Him. The authors of the pending compromise im the Senate on the tariff evidently are not making the progress they had hoped to accomplish. It appears that they are meet- ing with some unexpected difficulties, in the shape of objections made from both factions of the demccratic party in the Senate, and it now seems somewhat un- certain when the proposed amendments will be introduced. Senator Hill apparently is the principal stumbling block, and the indications are that he is giving the com- promisers serious trouble. The compromise was effected, so far as it had been effected, in his absence, but it was supposed from essurances given by his friends, from the liberal concessions made on the income tax, from the changes from valorem to specific duties, and from the general in- crease in rates which is believed to have been conceded by the compromisers, that he would accept the terms without further Questioning, and announce his unqualified support of the bill. Against the Income Tax. The Senator’s attitude since he returned from New York has not justified these ex- pectations, and while he has said very little, the impression has become quite general in the Senate that he will not accept the bill, even as it is proposed to be amended. He stands out for the entire abandonment cf the income tax provision, and, so far as can be learned, he has not indicated any modi- fication of that feature of that bill which he will accept. There are also apprehensions on the part of democratic Senators that Senators Murphy and Smith may be led to take the same view of the subject that Sen- ator Hill entertains, and if such should Prove to be the case the situation Is likely to prove most embarrasing to the com- promisers. The friends of the income tax, among whom is Senator Voorhees, chair- man of the finance committee, repeat on all occasions that the income tax in some shape shall remain in the bill. There ts also a feeling on the part of some of the tariff reformers, which has not yet manifested it- self very strongly, but which is apparently growing, that they cannot afford to concede too much to the conservatives, and some of them express the opinion (not to be quoted at this stage of the proceeding) that it is| better to stand for a bill. upon the lines | which they consider right and take the chances than to concede all that is asked and make sure of passing a protective bill. Republicans Enjoying the Situation. The republicans are informed of the situ- ation and are enjoying it more than the democrats. They contend that it will be im- Possible for the democratic Senators to agree, and, believing this, are encouraged | to continue their fight on the present lines it the bill, with the hope of. increasing the democratic disaffection and indefinitely postponing the vote on the bill, and, if possible, ultimately in defeating its passage. ———_- 2+ REPRESENTATIVE BURROWS. He Will Probably Be Appointed to Succeed the Late Senator Stockbri The committees appointed by the two houses of Congress to attend the funeral of the late Senator Stockbridge of Michigan, which will take place tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon at Kalamazoo, left Washington on the 11 o'clock train this morning. Press dispatches from Detroit and Lan- sing and private dispatches from leading republicans throughout the state indicate that Representative Burrows will be ap- pointed to fill the vacancy, if he will accept the appointment. The term of Senator McMillan expires on the 4th of March next, and there is no Question of his re-election without opposi- tion. For the unexpired term of Senator Stockbridge there will be a sharp contest, in which Representative Burrows, ex-Gov. Luce, Gens. Cutcheon and Spaulding and perhaps ex-Representative Brewer will be the contestants for election. Prominence of Representative Bur- rows in the House in respect to the tariff and as a parliamentary leader has been urged (as in the case of Speaker Crisp’s declination of the senatorship from Georgia) as @ reason for declining at present the ap- pointment of Senator to fill a vacancy. His friends say that as the next House of Rep- resentatives is sure to be republican, that his long service in the House, his familiar- ity with every phase of the tariff question =o — ao. he is ae member 1 ie minority, except Mr. Reed, would chairman make him of the ways and means committee. His district 1s overwhelmingly republican, and he may be said to have a life tenure as its representative in the lower house. — o+___ DEMOCRATS FEEL JOYFUL Over the Election in Ohio, Although a Little One. The democrats in Congress find great satisfaction in the result of the special election in Ohio for @ successor to the late Representative Houk. The radical tariff reformers are especially pleased at the re- sult, stating that the democrat elected went into the canvass as one of them. There has been so little in recent elec- tions to give any sort of encouragement to the democrats that they make the most of this, and turn it over on their tongues as a Sugar lump, after being long deprived of sweets. It is only a little thing, but they like it. ———-_e-______ All Quiet in the Northwest. Gen. Schofield has received a telegram from Col. Swaine, commanding the Depart- ment of Dakota, at St. Paul, reporting all quiet along the Great Northern railroad. Gen. Otis, at Vancouver barracks, reports that his troops, after turning over to the civil authorities at Portland the train steal- ers captured at Troutville, have returned to the post at Walla Walla. The increase in the public debt for the month of April was $1,160,971. The cash in the treasury amounts to $790,826,660,against which there are demand liabilities consist- ing of silver certificates, treasury notes, etc, amounting to $665,007,784, leaving the net cash balance in the treasury, $125,097,- 785, a decrease for the month of $8,852,239, oo ——_____— No Shoal Found. ‘The coast survey steamer Blake has re- turned to Pensacola after an extensive search for the bank reported by the steamer Albert Dumois off the south pass of the Mississsippi river. The Blake found no trace of the bank and reports the chart of the lo- cality as correct. —————_—+-2+______ The Dolphin te Be Docked. The United States dispatch boat Dolphin, which has been lying at the Washington navy yard for a month, will go to Norfolk in a few days to be docked. —— First Quarterly Interest Paid. The United States Treasurer made the first quarterly interest payment on the $50,000,000 5S per cent loan yesterday, a srrall portion of which is held by Wash- ingtonians. cee eee Treasury Receipts. National bank notes received for redemp- tion today, $199,661. Government receipts from internal revenue, $464,887; customs, $448,010; miscellaneous, $38,927. ——$$$<_-a._______ Fourth-Class Postmasters. Fifty-seven fourth-class postmasters were appointed today. Of these forty-three were to fili vacancies caused by resignations, ten by removals and the remainder by deaths. AGAINST THE BILL|*°T!ON OF THE POLICE Representative Johnson Wants It Investi- gated by the House Senator Squire’s Speech on the Ques- tion of the Tariff. MEASURE AGAINST THE PEOPLE'S WILL Damage That the Bill Has Already Done to Business. He Offers a Resolution and Says the Seene Was Disgraceful—Refer- red to a Committee. A movement was made in the House this morning toward an investigation of the ac- tion of the metropolitan police in the Capi- tol grounds yesterday. The skirmish be- THE DOOM OF HIGH WAGES ——-——_- Mr. Squire in his speech against the Wil- son tariff bill in the Senate today began with a reference to a statement of Mr. Mills, in which the latter declared that “we must pass this bill.” He took issue with the Texas Senator, and declared that if some measure of tariff reform had been formulated and passed immediately after the advent of the present administration it might have been said that the democratic party was complying with the will of the voters expressed in the election of 1892, But such a measure had not been prepared, and the feast to which the people had been in- vited had actually grown cold. The people also learned that there was poison in the feast offered. He spoke of the changed times and the expressions of the people in recent elections. No other question had come up to change their votes, and the results were to be charged to the proposed tariff changes. He declared that the facts which the election returns had presented ought to convince every reasonable man that the attempt of the democratic party to change the system of revenue in respect to protection to American industries was not what the people wanted. rl a oe ae “Is it the duty of this Congress,” he |¢ul scene, and it ought to be investigated. asked, “to carry out the contract with the|I claim that as the Capitol grounds are people which has been annulled? Will the | !n charge of the two houses of Congress, democratic Senators take advantage of the | @n¥_ cruelty. any such teagan ed mercer rms of the rt latform of 1892 to - " favor. the, wishes of extremists ‘and doo. | ‘tis House at the portico on this trinaires?” and continued: thing for inno- To Defy the Will of the People. cent bystanders to be clubbed by police- “The disposition of the majority seem to Ni I am not making this claim be to defy the will of the people, as at present indicated. All the appeals of this sorrowful and terror-stricken country are to have no effect; all the suffering of labor- ers without employment are unheeded; men and women may suffer for food, and bodies of unemployed persons may tramp over the country in search of relief; every considera- | of tion having in view the development of the country, the diversification of its indus- tries; all that touches our personal pride and patriotism in making ourselves a great and powerful people with the ability to compete in every field of legitimate skill; | all these important matters go for naught | « in the wild, frantic scramble to overturn | {j the fabric of governmental policy under try a theory end turn It into palidieat eapl- try at “¢ tal. “vor this reason “millions of dollars in- vested in manufacturing are to be render- ed valueless; hundreds of thousands of men and women are to be turned out and kept out of employment, and thou: In the House this morning Mr. Tom John- son of Ohio arose to a question of privilege and offered the following resolution: “Whereas, it is well known that the Capi- tol grounds were, on May the ist, overrun by a large assemblage of people, including @ considerable number of the regular and special police of this District, as, it is publicly stated that the members of this ‘i privilege. ‘The Speaier said he e Mr. Johnson upon the question of privilege. “Within the sight of members of House,” said Mr. Johnson, “men 5 gain, cheaper dinner pail or shirt I Neve it, and even if it were so, our laboring Pecple will not have the money to buy be- cause of a lack of ent. The re- duction of duty on f clothes will be mainly for the benefit of the rich.” A Radical Change for a Political Par- Pose. He said it was not right to the country to make such a radical change as was pro- posed simply for a political measure, and a decent regard should be given to industries established. He discussed the amount of revenue needed, and the and claimed that the indirect method of raising revenue was least burdensome and insist- ed that this indirect system should furnish protection to our industries. The pres- ent system was now to be supplemented by two extremely odious features, one an inquisitorial income tax and the other a tax on every breakfast table. These burdens are prepared simply that taxes may be taken off the foreign goods sent here to compete with the products of American forests, fields, mines and factories. The system of national economics, he said, ought not to be the foot ball of political “It is asking us to make an investigation which might properly be had in the Police Court or some other court,” suggested Mr. parties. Changes affecting the whole peo- ple ought not to be violent and sudden. Business should be taken out of politics. Extreme measures like this should be sup- pressed and he hoped that eventually a bill would be agreed upon more reasonable in its provisions. He asserted that from the letter of ac- ceptance of Mr. Cleveland that many peo- ple believed that no radical change, such as here presented, would be proposed. A protective tariff, he said, to be useful must be universal. It must not protect the manufacturer alone, but the producer. He then discussed at some length the import- ance of tariff revision, For the first time in thirty years the democratic party had gain- ed control of all branches of the govern- ment and signalized their return to power by a bill which ought to be entitled “a bill for the destruction of American industries,” and in doing so, he asserted, it was in op- position to the best interests of the country ed by many of its leaders. In the early days of its existence free trade was not the policy of the democratic party, and in sup- Port of this assertion he quoted from a number of democratic platforms of the past and drew a picture of how the spirits of the democrats of Jackson's time would have felt had they been able to receive a tele- phone message from the convéntion hall giving them the “wild screed” on tariff as announced in 1892. Destruction the Bill Had Already Caused. - He then went on with an extensive state- ment of what the Wilson bill had already done, even though it had not passed, to destroy commercial industries, and claimed that similar results had followed low tariffs. If the bill became a law, Great Britain would profit by it, and in support of this he quoted from the press of that country, which approved the bill. ‘Should this bill become a law,” he said, ‘the day on which the President shall affix his signature to it will be the day of doom for American high wages. No man who will take the trouble to acquaint himself with the facts can be blind to the truth that the country has prospered under the policy of protection, and that labor has, as a general thing, been well paid and con- tented.” A considerable portion of Senator Squire’s speech was devoted to a criticism of the income tax. The discussion of the schedules he de- voted mainly to those that affected his own state, and said: “Fiee lumber meens the sacrifice of our lumber industries to thcse of British Co- lumbia. Free coal, even with the Senate amendment, means poverty for our miners. Free iron means the postponement of the development of the magnificent deposits within our borders. Free wool means the destruction and abandonment of the sheep industry. The reduction on hops from fif- teen cents per pound to 20 per cent ad valorem leaves our hop growers at the mercy of foreign producers.” In the same line he spoke of prunes as a_ growing in- dustry of the Pacific coast. He then took up these various items and discussed them at length, and he concluded by saying th: he believed that many of the amendments that had been made by the Senate com- mittee were merely intended as traps to catch votes enough to secure its passage by the Senate, with the idea of killing them In conference. a St. Louis Railroad Bridge. The President has approved the act for the construction of a railroad bridge across the St. Louis river near Grassy Point, Minn. and false to its own doctrines as enunciat- | by thi WANT A MODIFICATION. A Knit Goods Delegation Call on Senators Hill and Murphy. A large delegation from the Knit Goods Association of the state of New York called upon Senators Hill and Murphy in the ble room of the Capitol today to ask in the state of New York, their product amounting to about $40,000,000 annually. The tariff bill, as it now stands, provides for a duty of 40 per cent ad valorem on their goods. ent in the schedule. ——_o+_____ THE METROPOLITAN B.R. BILL. Mr. Thomas Thinks It Sufficientiy Guards the District’s Claim. The attorney for the District has re- turned to the Commissioners, with his opin- jon, the bill to authorize the Metropolitan Railway Company to change its motive power for the propulsion of its cars. At- torney Thomas says: “I have carefully con- sidered this bill. Section 3 appears to be in good form, and sufficiently guards the Dis- trict claims as therein stated. I notice the time within which the change of motive power is to take place ts limited to one year. In the original draft of the bill it was three years. The fourth section, author- izing the Commissioners to permit the use of the Metropolitan Railroad Company's tracks by other railroads, presents a prac- tical question on which I assume no opinion is desired from this office. The same ob- servation applies to the limitation of time within which the work of motive power is to be done. e+ Visitors to West Point. The President today appointed the foliow- ing board of visitors to the Military Acad- emy at West Point: Rev. Alexander Mack- ay Smith, District of Columbia; George H. Craig, Alabama; Dr. William W. Keen, Pennsylvania; John D. Crimmins, New York; Thomas F. Edwards, Massachusetts; John J. Davis, West Virginia; Edward C. Wall, Wisconsin. The congressional mem- bers of the board are Senators William B. Bate, Tennessee, and Redfield Proctor, Ver- mont, and Representatives John C. Black, Illinois; William H. Hatch, Missouri, and Newton M. Curtis, New York. Congressman John F. Lacey left on Sat- urday night for his home in Iowa, but will return cn Saturday or Monday next. Mr. Claude Bennett, private secretary to the Secretary of the Interior, left last even- ing for Atlanta. From there he will go, by special invitation, for a several weeks’ tour of Mexico with the Georgia State Press Association. TO BE TRIED FRIDAY Coxey, Browne and Jones in the THEY ASK POR A TRIAL BY JORY Judge Miller Declined to Let Coxey Out on His Personal Recognizance. | all x- consideration a8 it. the 5 e 3 z i Hl iP i i i if fk ! is in court, and after an investigation last night I have thought myself warranted in filing an information against him. I have made out a warrant, but if he ts will! to submit I do not care to have it him.” This was a surprise, and Gen. Coxey spoke Then the information charging Jacob 8. Coxey with unlawfully displaying a banner or device was read, and he replied, “not ity.” "The information against the three men charged that “on the Ist of May, in the District of Columbia, they did then and there unlawfully enter upon the grounds of the United States Capitol, and did then and there display a certain flag and banner de- signed and adapted to bring into public notice a certain organization and move- ment known and described as the J. S&S Coxey Good Road Association of the United States and Commonweal of Christ.” The Crowd in the Court Room. There was a large crowd in the court room, though the number of men there was ‘small compaged to the number of those who would have liked to be there. Officers of the court were stationed at the door and ex- cluded everyone who had no real business there. It was said that Senators Peffer and Allen would take part in the trial, but they 4id not appear this morning. There were a goodly number of members of the lower house present, however, among them Representatives Lafe Pence of Colo- rado, William of Col Halder E. Boen of Minnesota, W. A. Kem of Ne- { Wyoming. Adjt. rado, a brother of vey, was also there. around the bar of the t, if not all of them, ¢ part in the case if court 7 were pre their services were needed Carl Browne was attired in his theatrical looking suit of leather with hip boots and @