Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 101 Penusylvanis Avenue, Cor. 11th Street, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 8. H. .UFFMANN, Prest. Fer Tok Oy 2 Foe Big mon ‘Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1.00 per year: ‘with foreign post added, $3.00. (Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. O.. 4a second-class mail matter.) All mafl subseriptions must be paid in advance, Rates of advertising made known op application. Che Fvening Star. | Vor 84, No. 20,879. WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MAY ‘8, 1894—-TWELVE PAGES. TWO CENTS. proof of tBe pudding eating. Yesterdar’ contained 49 advertisements, 815 separate fs. Bese pubficitp—not # i : | i i DEATH THREATENED Coke Strikers Warn Workers to Stay Away. FRICK COMPANY PREPARE T0 RESUME Notices Headed With the Skull and Bones. AMONG THE LOCAL MINERS CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. May 8—The Frick Coke Company are making a desperate effort to start their works secretly, as they did during the great strike three years ago. They are collecting men at all their works who are willing to work, and will start one plant at a time. If this is unsuccessful new men will be brought into the region, in which event there will be more rioting. The strikers at Hill Farm are becoming Gesperate and have posted notices on all the company houses warning the men to keep away. The notices are headed by a skull and cross bones, with the following written underneath in large red characters: “Death. Ail men who go to work at Hill Farm tomorrow,prepare to meet your God.” The company are determined to resume to- morrow, and already have a force of depu- ties on guard. Deputies were busy throughout the region today serving the injunction notices on the leaders to keep off Rainey’s property and evicting strikers from company houses. ‘There was no trouble, but an outbreak is lable to occur at any time. CLEVELAND, Ohio, May"8.—An officer of the Massilon Coal Operators’ Association, who has been traveling in the Ohio and Pennsylvania fields for several days, said today that the big conference to be held in this city next week will put an end to the — whether an agreement is reached or no! SPRINGFIELD, IIL, May 8.—President Crawford of the Illinois mine workers, is confident that the differences between the operators and the miners will be settled soon and the miners be ordered to Work at the miners’ terms. CUMBERLAND, Md., May 8.—The news from the West Virginia and Georges Creek Valley coal region, as it centers in Cum- berland, shows a restless spirit that reason- ing may quiet or some unforseen event may Stir Into the troublesome activity. The news from Elk Garden is that but a small force are working, not sufficient to successfully run the mines, but both the agitators and the mining companies are hopeful of the result. CHARLESTON, W. Va. May 8&—The Kanawah coal exchange has decided not to send any delegates to the national con- vention, the 15th instant, at Cleveland, say- ing the strike is the work of Ohio men, and let them fight it out. A number of large operators will close down for a long time soon. M. T. Davis has already shut down till October. The Winifrede men are now getting the old wages demanded. Only two mines on the Chesapeake and Ohio in Kanawah are running. PHILLIPSBURG, Pa., May 8.—Four hun- @red Phillipsburg and Beech Creek miners marched from Phillipsburg to W: . where there was a-coal mine in operation. ‘They: “the-men to throw down their tools and-eome out. They were after- wi assured by the operators that the mine would remain idle until the other = had resumed. ie strikers are greatly eneouraged by news from Maryland that nearly 900 men in that state had gone out, and that all of the Elk Garden district was idle. There is mo truth whatever in the statement that the operators of the Central Pennsylvania region have offered the men the advance demanded, if they would return to work and refuse to recognize the organization. FROSTBURG, Md., May 8.—One thousand miners, composing four mines, have sus- pended work. Many secret meetings have been held in the woods near Frostburg dur- ing the past week. The plan of campaign on the part of the agitators is to hold meet- fags from day to day until the mines in the region suspend. They expect to get the miners at Lonaconing to suspend today. They claim that by the 15th of this month the trouble will end in their favor from a scarcity of coal in the market. NEW YORK’S CONSTITUTION. ALBANY, N. Y., May 3—A huge basket of flowers this morning adorned the desk of the presiding officer-to-be of the con- vention called to revise the state consti- tution long before Secretary of State Palmer ascended the rostrum to call the body to or- der. The delegates did not arrive very early, and it was close on to the noon hour before the majority had taken their seats. No drawing for places had taken place, and the members took desks in any por- tion of the room until such time as perma- ment places were awarded tiem. ‘There was a large gathering of specta- in the galleries and upon the floor in rear of the railing. t 11:05 o’clock Rev. Dr. Battershall open- the convention with prayer, Secretary State John Palmer presiding. This early calling to order was for the purpose of getting the members sworn in before the moon hour. During the prayer ex-Lieut. Gov. Alvord sat in Assemblyman Sulser’s seat, and Mr. Choate, not finding a chair, took a seat in the aisle at the feet of John M. Francis. At the conclusion of the prayer Secre- tary ef State Palmer said he had pleasure in calling the convention to order, and RB, GF im the second group were ex- Senators Vedder and McMillin. The opera- tom of swearing in consumed over one hour, the members having to sign individually, Officers Chosen. The convention elected Joseph H. Choate t by this vote: Joseph H. Choate, 124; Nelson Smith, 2; Delancy Nicoll, 2; Edwin Countryman, 1; R. A. Parmenter, Mr. McClure. 1; Mr. Truex, 1; Andrew H. | ‘Green, 7; John H. Bigelow, 8; Wright Hol- comb, 2; Mr. W. D. Vedder, 1; John H. Peck, 1; Martin Townsend, 1. John M. Bowers of New York protested ‘om the floor of the convention against the action of the majority (the republicans) in Selecting all the officers. Thomas G. Alvord Was elected vice president, defeating John | event nieote TWENTY HOUSES BLOWS DoWws. ¥ Destructive Cyclone Sweeps Over the Chickasaw Country. GAINESVILLE, Texas, May &S—One of ‘the most destructive cyclones ever known in the Chickasaw nation has passed over that country. Not less than twemty houses were blown down. Among them was one occupied by J. C Humphrey and family of six. The building was completely demolished and the eccupants scattered in all directions. Mrs. Humphrey had her skull crushed and arm broken. Being in a delicate condition, it is thought she will die. Frank,the ten-year- eld son, received bruises which will prob- ably prove fatal Other members were slghtly bruised. Fences were laid low for miles around, and stock suffered. piesaauesacinean Kearsarge Relics. The memorial tablet, bell, log book and other relics of the Kearsarge recovered by Mr. Lloyd Phoenix of New York during a qruise in the West Indies arrived at the Navy Department yesterday by express, be carefully preserved. - |STATE RAILROAD OFFICIALS Annual Oonvention Today at the Inter- state Commerce Oommission, Views Differ as to the Repeal of the Anti-Pooling Clause of the Law. The sixth annual convention of railroad commissioners convened this morning at the office of the interstate commerce commis- sion. In addition to the railroad commis- sioners of the state in attendance, state of- ficers charged with any duty in the super- vision of railroads are entitled to seats in the convention. At the last convention, which was held in April, a year ago, a com- mittee w: appointed to arrange for this convention. There was quite a representa- tive gathering this morning, and at 11 o'clock the convention was called to order by Mr. J. H. Paddock of Illinois. Mr. Wood- ruff of Connecticut was elected chairman, and Edward S. Moseley, the secretary of the interstate commerce commission, was chosen secretary, and Martin S. Decker, also of the commission, was chosen assistant secretary. In taking the chair Mr. Woodruff acknowl- edged the honor which had been conferred upon him and spoke briefly of the work be- fore the delegates. Mr. Allen Fort of Georgia was chosen vice chairman. The most important feature of the day’s proceedings was the presentation of the minority and majority reports of the com- mittee appointed at the last convention to make a report on pooling of freights and division of earnings. The majority report was presented by Mr. Peter A. Dey of Towa, in which Mr. Chadburn concurred, and also Mr. Beddingfield, with the excep- tion of the recommendation as to the un- conditional repeal of the anti-pooling clause. Mr. Becker submitted a minority report. The Majority Report. The report of Mr. Dey comments mainly on section 5 of the act to regular commerce, which makes it unlawful for any common carrier, or subject to the provisions of the act to enter into any contract, agreement or combination with any other common carrier or carriers for the povling of freights of different railroads, or divide be- tween them the aggregate or net proceeds of the earnirgs of such railroad. “It is thought,” the report states, “that if section 5 was repealed, and freedom given to the railway companies to pool or other- wise divide their earnings, that compensa- tory rates would more generally be main- tained at competing points; that the labors of the commission in enforcing the Jaw would be lessened, and its authority re- spected, because it would enlist in its sup- port a very large proportion of the railwa: service that is now, by the force of self- preservation, compelled to antagonize both the law and the commission. Difficulties in the Way. The difficulties in the way of the enforce- ment of the law that may be cured by leg- islation are: First. Section 5, which should be uncon- ditionally repealed. Second. The holding of the courts that neither the contracting agent of the railway nor the shipper can be compelled to testi- fy, which may be remedied by giving them immunity from prosecution under the law. Third. The holding of the courts that a line made by the physical connection of two or more railroads is a distinct and separate line, and the law that applies to its par does not apply to the co: ed lines.” This may be remedied by a legislative definition, which would, it is believed, cure, this) gifll- : Views of the Minority. Mr. Becker, in his minority report, holds that “In my judgment, the fifth section of the interstate commerce act should not be repealed. It should be amended so as to include in its provisions all net earnings, from whatever source derived. “Much might be said upon this subject, possibly not much that is new, because it has been widely discussed on both sides by many eminent men, but I content my- self now with remarking that to my mind the proposition to allow ‘competing roads to divide between them the net proceeds of their earnings’ is nothing but an effort to create under the forms of law a gigantic railroad trust. In a certain sense all rail- roads are ‘competing roads," and if such roads are allowed to make a pool of net earnings it would include all roads in the United States. “It is said that nature abhors a vacuum. It is equally true that the jurisprudence of this country abhors a ‘trust’ and that the laws forbiding such combinations are fully in accord with the common sense and undi- vided sentiment of the American people.” The Delegates Present. Those present were: Alabama, Clark; Connecticut, Woodruff, Seymour, Robert- son; Georgia, Fort; Illinois, Lape and Yan- tis; Iowa, Dey; Maryland, Buckley and Thayer, jr.; Michigan, Billings; Minnesota, Liggett, Mills and Teisburg; Mississippi, Askew, W. McLaurin and 8. J. McLaurin; Montana, Cook; North Carolina, Wilson, Beddinfield; North Dakota, Rasmussen and Stevens; Ohio, Kirby and Archer; Penn- sylvania, Stewart and Brown; Virginia, Hill and Akers; interstate commerce commis- sion, Veazey, Knapp, Clements and Yee- mans ——— THE CHINESE TREATY. Considered Yesterday at Length by the Senate. The Chinese treaty was under discussion for six hours by the Senate in executive session yesterday, but that time proved in- sufficient for its disposal. Speeches were made favorable to ratification by Senators Morgan and Sherman of the committee on foreign relations and by Senator White of California, while Senator Perkins of Cali- fornia spoke in opposition. Senator White offered some amendments to the <reaty, pro- viding for closer restrictions upon regis- tration of returning Chinese and said that with this safeguard added he thought the treaty would be acceptable. Indeed, with- out the amendment, he would probably vote for the treaty, as in his opinion it was an international confirmation of the present laws of this country against Chinese im- migration. Senator Perkins took the oppo- site yiew and contended that the ratification of the treaty would mean the throwing down the bars to the Chinese, and that it would undo all that had been done for the past ten years to restrict oriental immigra- | tion. He objected to much of the phraseol- ogy of the treaty and contended that if it was to be ratified at all, as he did not think it should be, it should be very carefully amended in many particulars, Senators Morgan and Sherman urged that the treaty was a favorable one to the United States: declared that it accepted and confirmed all our anti-Chinese legislation, and said that it opened the way for the amicable extension of our trade with China and the improve- ment of our relations with that country. The only vote taken during the executive session was on Senator Mitchell's motion to consider it in open session, which was lost, by 18 to 35. ——__——__+e+. Nominations by the President. The President today sent the following Rominations to the Senate: Treasury: To be collectors of customs— Walter J. Creamer of Maine, for the dis- | trict of Castine, Me.; John B, Redman of Maine, for the district of Frenchman’s Bay, Me. State—Herbert H. D. Peirce of Massa- chusetts, to be secretary of the legation of the United States at St. Petersburg, Russia. Postmasters—Lyman R. Carter,New Hart- ford, Conn.; John P. Flynn, Salem, N.J.; John M. Hetfield, Plainfield, N.J.; Elijah Griswold, Riverhead, N.¥.; Andrew J. Amend, Ripon, Wis.; George B. Ogle, She- boygan Falls, Wis, HAS NO PRINCIPLE|THE Compromise 8ILLITHE ROAD OBJECTS Serator Hoar’s Characterization of of the Proposed Tariff Bill. NO GOOD AMERICANISM IN IT Clauses Put in It Merely to Buy Votes. WHAT PROTECTION DOES After asserting that the people meant that the Senate should respond only to their deliberate will, Senator Hoar said, in his speech against the Wilson bill in the Senate today, that it was now asked to enact into law a spasm that the people have goi over. The hasty action of excitement of the fall ef 1892, of which the American people were repenting in sackcloth and ashes, was to take effect in the infinite mischief and misery of a great action of legislation. The Senate was to hurry and get the work done before the people could get at them. This democratic majority of two, suid the Senator, made by the junior Senator from North Dakota and the junior Senator from Kansas, are expected to compel the Ameri- can people to submit to a measure which they have unmistakably condemned, and which they loathe and hate as they tell us on every occasion and in every form in which they can utter their will. Idle fac- tories, extinguismed furnaces, suifering homes, armies of tramps, unprecedented majorities at the polls are clamoring in the deaf ears of this accidental majority in the Senate to wait and pause until the will of the American people can again find its con- stitutional expression. When the demo- cratic party let go its power in 181, Sen- ator Hoar said, the credit of the country wes dishonored, and when the party came back in 1803 it found the country at the high water mark of human prosperity. In the fourteen months of administration of ccmplete and executive power, democratic statsmanship and the dread of democratic statesmanship had had their full effect. The workman had left the mill for the high- way. The farmer and the merchant and the manufacturer were alike unemployed. The statesmanship that lighted the furnaces had been succeeded by the statesmanship that builds soup houses. Founded Upon No Prineiplie. “This bill,” he said, “is founded upon no principle and has no legitimate parentage. It is born of an unnatural union between two hatreds, that of section against section | and that of class against class. The pres- ent bill was not a free trade measure,” con- tinued the Senator. “It contained clauses in the highest degree protective, inserted for the undisguised purpose of buying votes. It was not a protective measure, either mod- erate or extreme. There was not a scrap of good-hearted Americanism in the bill.” Mr, Hoar said there were eight democratic Sena- tors representing great northern constit- uencies interested in the continuance of the protective system. Five of them represent- ed states that have recently declared un- mistakably in the elections and now have legisiatures holding to the doc tection by majorities. Senators said that they bill before their judgm eir own Wishes not to the opinion of the Amertcan people, but to the opinion. of a majority of a democratic sul tee. rer) “There is,” said Mr. Hoar, “a Ig jority of democratic Senators on the floor who avow the doctrine that duttes for pro- teetion are a gross violation of the Consti- tution itself. And yet they bring io us a! bill crowded with protective duties and tell | us that they are prepared to commit this | perjury, and to be accomplices in this revo- | | lution because they think their measure, | taken as a whole, is better than exisung law, or because they think this revolution | and perjury are necessary to buy votes for @ measure that can not otherwise he pass-| I should like,” said the Senator, “to! hear some of these honorable Senators tell | us how it is that if a tariff of 50 per cent| ad valorem on manufactured wovoiens be unconstitutional and a robbery, how a tarii® of 40 per cent becomes constitutional and just.” There was a thing about the 00 per cent ange wes od duty on rice which show- ed the sectional and one-sided charac- ter of the bill. Senator Hoar said: “Raising rice is an exclusively southern industry. Cleaning rice is done in the rorth, largely in New York and San Fran- cisco. The rice milling and grinding in- dustry, and the machinery which it uses, is @ northern interest. So this beautiful bill which puts upon rice cleaned 1 1-2 cents @ pound, and upon uncleaned rice 1 cent a pound, gives to rice tlour and rice meal but one-fourth of a cent protection. They put $80,000,000 duty upon the poor man’s sugar —clearly.a tax. They put $22,000,000 more upon his shirts, equal to 50 per cent ad vi ; also clearly a tax for protection only.” ‘ Respecting what he held would be the ottoct of the nassage of the bill en the peo- ple engaged in manufacturing industries, the Senator said substantially “This bill, which means murder to some parts of the country, means crycifixion to New England. There are nearly 5,000,000 men and Women employed as wage earners in manufacturing industries in this country. I believe that the best authorities agree that of the earners of wages in the factories supports directly or indirectly at least five people. “Now, what are these people to do? You propose to increase your importations by at least | $200,000,000, the men who make ‘this $200,000,000 worth of products in the United States are to be thrown out of that employment. Out of this production from 90 per cent to 9 per cent is labor. If you import $200,000,000 worth from abroad of manufactures which otherwise would be made here, the one hundred and eighty or one hundred and ninety millions now paid in wages must cease to be paid for the work now done here, but hereafter to be performed abroad. These men must engage in other occupations or must be idle. Observe that in this suggestion I am taking no account of the manufacture which is to be continued here, but under reduced wages. “Now, in what work are these $190,000,000 worth of workmen hereafter to engage? I seems to me we are entitled to some more precise and practical answer than any that has been given, either from a professor or a Senator's chair, before we be called upon to enact this proposed measure of yours into law.” ‘The Senator then went on to argue that there are four things which come from pro- tection, viz., high wages, national inde- pendence, varied employment and a stimu- lant to inventive faculty. >, PROF. MENDENHALL’S OFFER. He May Become President of the Ohio State University. Prof. T. C. Mendenhall, chief of the coast and geodetic survey, has been offered the position of president of the Ohio State Uni- versity. It is not certain yet whether or no Prof. Mendenhall will accept the offer, but he is seriously considering it and is in- clined to take it, as {t is based on generous terms and affords a welcome prospect of comparative rest after many years of un- remitting labor in the service of the gov- ernment. A delegation of the trustees of the university visited the city a day or two ago and laid the proposition before Prof. Mendenhall. He was at one time an in- structor at this institution and has a fond regard for it that may induce him to go there. o Treasury Appotatments. Richard W. Creal of Buffalo, Ky., has been appointed a Chinese inspector and John E, Owens of New York city an immi- grant inspector. Denounced by All Except Those Who Ate Responsible for It Radical Reformers in the House Will Kick, but the Higher Duties Will Probably Be Preserved. ‘The republicans pronounce the new com- Promise tariff bill a complete surrender of the democrats. They are delighted at the development of the situation. The bill they Pronounce a bad cne because inconsistent and irregular in its construction, and say that it is a confession of the impracticabil- ity—the impossibility—of free trade. It ts, they say, an abandonment of the democratic declaration for low duties and ad valorem, and that it leaves the party in a defenseless position. Senator Allison said that the dém- ocrats had made a complete surrender and that he thought the bill would pass. Senator Aldrich said that the democrats had abandoned their position; that ‘the amendments were increases, running from | 10 per cent to 300 per cent, yet that the bill was not satisfactory as a protection m: ure for the reason that the protection wi given in spots and the rates were too in- consistent and contradictory to benefit any one. The wool schedule, he said, is not sat- dsfactory to the manufacturers. Senator Proctor said that he thought the bill would pass speedily. It was very ir- regular and not well constructed, but the amendments all tended toward protection, and may of the rates were fully as high as the republicans would make them if they felt called upon to revise the tariff. There was, he sald, some pretty high protection in some of the manufactured articles, espe- cially when the reduction of the duties on raw materials was taken into consideration. Senator Manderson said that the demo- crats had passed from sectional protection to individual protection. It was a bad bill, he said, but a full confession of the principle of protection. Its viciousness was in the manner of applying the principle. The measure is denounced by nearly every one except those who are responsible for it. ‘The radical free traders are thoroughly dis- ted and the protectionists despise the gus' ‘| bill, while they are delighted at the back- down from free trade. It is generally re- garded as an exhibition of incompetency. The republicans say, however, that they can very well afford to let the bill pass. Those who are interested in the raw mater- jals which are put on the free list or great- ly reduced say that there is no reason in the world why the same measure of pro- tection should not extend all the way through the bill and that they propose to make a fight for it. Senator Pettigrew has an amendment which he contemplates of- fering, if the raw materials in which he is interested do net get better treatment, pro- viding that all the manufactured articles made of these materials shall be admitted free of duty. Several republicans have said that they will vote for this amendment. There will be a great kick on the part of the House against the compromise bill, es- pecially as to sugar and woolens, but the best informed think that nearly all the higher duties will be preserved by the con- ference. The Senators are being warmly denounced by the more radical tariff re- formers of the House. Ex-Speaker Reed’s Criticism. Mr. Reed of Maine anthorizes the follow- ing concerning the tariff amendments made public today: “The presentation by the Sen- ate finace committee of eighty-one pages of amendments, apparently more than 400 in number, is a delicate compliment to Mr. Wilson and the House of Representatives. It virtually seys that the House bill was right except on 400 or 500 i poate and that the Senate committee, er & month’s Work, find 400 mistakes in their own bill, This will hardly tend to restore confidence in the country, . as every amend- Ment smacks of either prior ignorance or present barter, It seems impossible that a document so comsiructed as to show traffic in every item should be permitted to see daylight ih one batch. It would havé been wiser to have let the matter come before the country item by item rather than ag- glomerate the dreadful total in one bunch. Evidently it will be the duty of the Senate to fully investigate these proposed amend- ments, for when a committee of finance re- fuses hearings, because it knows intuitively all thines. but finds by some kind of back. stairs influence that it has made 400 mis- takes, it is evident that that committee will bear watching.” Senntor Jones Coufident. Senator Jones, who has assumed the bur- den of preparing the amendments, said that he believed the bill would be passed by “And that it would be House sooner ‘than most ‘The finance committee,” » “have every confidence of enough democratic votes to put it through. The bill, while it may not be perfect, is one that will commend itself to the party in the Sen- ate. It is, of course, the result of efforts to adjust differences existing in the Sena’ and I think we have been successful in th: We have, in a word, tried to reduc ie tariff as much as possible without creating too great disturbance in existing condi- tions.” Senator Smith spoke approvingly of the changes and expressed approval of the tariff part of the bill. “It is,” he said, “a great improvement of the original bill. It affords fair protection to the industries of the country, and I ‘think that it will be generally satisfactory. There are, possibly, some imperfections, but it is so much better than the first bill that I am disposed to speak well of it.” “You will vote for it, Senator?” was ed, to which he replied: “I have been speak- ing of the tariff bill. I am not yet entirely reconciled to the income tax.” Senator Faulk: contented himself with expressing confidence in the work of the tariff committee and in saying that he be- lMeved the bill would pass. A Bill of Shame. Senator Flatt said: “People who say the compromise is in any sense the adoption of the principle of protection make a great mistake, and in making this statement they are giving the country a false impression. It is protective only in few items, and only so in such items because the demo- cratic Senators demanded duties as the Peed of their support of the bill, whereas Industries which have not been able to get a democratic Senator to demand protection for them are left on a free trade basis. If the Wilson bill has been called an abomina- tion this should be called a bill of shame. If it had not been for the power of the 't| Sugar trust it is doubtful in my mind if ; there would have been a single protective |duty in the bill, but even the democratic members of the finance committee could scarcely give the sugar trust the duties which would enable it to nmfuke more money than under the McKinley law and withhold the semblance of protection from all other industri: “Tt t @ party without a polic: $2 A Naval Coart. The acting secretary of the navy has or- dered a court-martial to convene at the Mare Island, C: navy yard on Friday next for the trial of Lieut. Bdward D. Bos- tick, attached to the U. 8. S. Ranger, on charges of drunkenness during the recent cruise of that vessel in Central American waters. The detail for the court is as fol- lows: Capts. H. L. Howison and C. 8, Cot- ton, Commanders B. - Mi la, H. EB. Nichols and O. W. Farenholt; Major P. G. Pope of the marine corps, Lieut. J. C. Bu nett, with First Lieut. H. L. Draper of the marine corps as judge advocate. eg ea: Visited the Circus. Miss Ruth Cleveland and a party of friends, including Mrs. Bissell and daughter and Mr. Thurber and family, visited the big circus this morning. A special performance was given in their honor. ee ees Hydrographic Promotio: The following promotions have been made in the hydrographic office, Navy Depart- ment: A. Klakring, from $1,200 to 81,300; J. W. Stearns, from $1,020 to $1,200, and E. G. Russell, from $3.25 per day to $1,020, a bill without principle, pressed by To the Commissioners Having Power Over Its Construction. A METROPOLITAN RAILROAD HEARING Some Sharp Talk From the Attor- ney of the Company. MORE TIME REQUESTED “If that amendment passes Congress and becomes a Inw, it will sovnd the death knell of an underground system of rapid transit for the Metropolitan railroad.” So said Attorney Frown, the legal representa- tive of the Metropolitan Railroad Com- pany, in his argumeat before the Commis- stoners this morning against certain amend- ments to the bill. The amendment referred to was that known as the approval clause which is Placed in every railroad bill by the Com- missioners and which reads as follow: “All plans relating to the location and construction of said railway shall be sub- ject to the approval of the Commission2rs of the District of Columbia or their suc- cessors and all work shall at aH <imes be subject to their supervision. The said cor- poration shall from time to time deposit with the collectot of taxes of the District of Columbia such amounts as may be deemed necessary by said Commissioners to cover cost of inspection, supervision, pavement and repairs; any unexpended bal- ance remaining after the reconstruction and extension of said road shall be returned to said company with an account in full of the disbursements of such deposit or de- posits.” Would Give a Veto Power. “Such an amendment,” argued Mr. Brown, “would give the Commissioners the veto power as well as the right to say what sys- tem we should introduce in carrying out the law of Congress. This is a most im- portant matter, for upon it depends the construction of the road.” He maintained that the stockholders, the people who were to put up the money for the new system, should be the sole judges as to which sys- tem they desired. Under the amendment above referred to the Commissioners had it in their power to reject any system they saw fit. It would require $4,000,000 to build an underground electric road, and not $4,000 could be raised from capitalists if such an amendment were allowed to become part of \the bill. People wanted to know where their money was being placed, and they and they alone should be the sole judges of the sys- tem to be used. Congress had decided in both houses that the company must put down an underground electrical system, and the Commissioners have added a proviso that unk the plans and all other details meet with their approval such a road shall not be constructed. That is what the amendment is in substance, and it puts the railroad company in a sorry plight. It was strange to him that this amendment had not been incorporated in the bill when it was favorably reported by the Com} mn ers to Congress.- As it was, it was on the floor of the House without the compan: objection. What President Stephenson Seid,’ President Stephenson of the Rail pany who was present then, sald? should the Dtstric¢ Co yners set them- selves up as our guardians? Do you ques tion.for @ moment our right to spend $4,000,- 000 in giving the public additional facilities in the way of rapid transit. Why can't we do it without being hampered. You gentle- men have all seen the desire of this com- pany to give the people of Washington a good service. You are familiar with our experience with the storage battery sys- tem and how much money we sunk in that, yet notwithstanding all these things, amend- | ments are tacked on and crowded into our bill, which, if passed, will make the building of the road impossible. We can’t put in cable or trolley; we must put in an under- ground system, and if the amendment which has been referred to ts it means death to rapid transit on the Metropolitan railroad.” The Sole Object of the Provision. Capt. Powell asked what was the objec- tion to the amendment. True, it gave the Commissioners the power of rejection, but it was not to be supposed for a moment that they would embarrass the company in any endeavor it might have to benefit the citizens of Washington. The sole object, in- tent and purpose of that amendment is to put the details of construction in the hands of the Commissioners to prevent the laying of any part of the road that would be an obstruction to the street or a menace to the Welfare of the citizens of the District, Such an amendment is incorporated into every bill that is reported upon by the Commis- sioners of the District of Columbia, and during the last five years not a charter has been granted by Congress which did not put the plans of construction subject to the ap- proval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. He was frank enough to ad- mit that the Buda Pesth system, with a slot an inch and a half wide, would not be approved by the Commissioners, but it was not the system that was objected to; it was the width of the slot, which experience had demonstrated was far too wide, and it was such little details as that that the Commis- sloners were guarding against. Only the Buda Pesth System. “There isn't any other system, but thi Buda Pesth that has proved its efficiency, rejoined Mr. Rrown. “The Thompson-Houston Company will put down =n undergrcune electric railroad ani guarantee it for a term of years,” said Capt. yowell. Cortinuing, Capt. Pow- ell said. “Too little attention has been paid in the past to the construction of railroads. Why, the Metropolitan railroad itself, where it crosses the tracks of the Tennallytown road in Georgetown has a condition that is unwarranted, and that should sever have been allowed. The tracks simply take up the entire street. There are numerous in- stances where the tracks run up close to the curb and virtually cut off a man’s right to the use of the street in front of his property.” ‘The Amendment Too Broad. “The amendment is altogether too broad, for when it gives you the power to approve every detail before the road is constructed,” ssid Mr, Brown, “we might propose a sys- tem a small detail of which might not meet with your approval. This of itself might be fatal to the whole road.” “Yes, and if this were not done, the citi- sens would suffer,” rejoined Capt. Pew t ru ving y any chance to meet it with vel. js evident that the Commissioners will rot change their position on this amend- ment. “There is another thing to which I desire to call your attention and that is section 4 as passed by the House April 23, 1894, and which provides that the Commissioners shall have the power to permit the use of the tracks of the Metropolitan Railroad Com- pany by other railroad companies. This,” continued Mr.Brown, “is unjust in every re- spect and I submit is not warranted. For instance, a railroad company gets a charter for five miles, at the end of five miles that charter ceases, yet with the power vested in the Commissioners by this 4th section that same company could extend its road over the tracks of the Metropolitan Rail- road Company. Extension of Time Wanted. The speaker also called attention to the short time which was given to complete the road, and the Commissioners agreed with him that one year was entirely too short a time and asked fer an extension of three years, and it is possible that the Com- missioners will so recommend. penietyatoetmeaabeai te The republican congressional convention t Geneva, Iil., has renominated Congress- man A, J. Hopkins. FOR ATTACK AND DEFENSE Heavy Armor and Long Guns to Be Tested. Tremendous Projectites to Be Hurled Against the Latest Plate Material —Great Interest Felt. ‘The naval proving ground at Indian Head, on the Potomac, on Saturday next will be the scene of the most extraordinary contest between gun and target that has yet taken GIVEN TO THE JURY Twelve Men Consider the Oases Against Commonweal Leaders, CLOSING UP THE ARGUMENTS Mr. Birney Waxes Sarcastic Over Defendants and Counsel. place in this country. The occasion will be a trial for superiority between the at- tacking power of the thirteen-inch breech- loading rifle and the resisting strength of the eighteen-inch side armor of the 10,288- ton battle ships. It will be a battle between the heaviest gun and the thickest armor ever made in this country. The thirteen- inch rifle is not only the largest gun ever | made here, but the largest likely to be made for years to come, and a similar as- sertion is proper in regard to the armor plate. qiwelve 18-inch guns Lave been made at the | Vas navy yard, and will be equally distributed among the batthe ships Massa- | chusetts, Indicna an@ Oregon. A newer battle ship, the Iowa, with 1,000 tons more displacement than the three named, will have twelve-inch guns as her heaviest bat- tery. The reduction is in accordance with the latest policy of the leading navies of the world. The twelve-inch gun, with its superior construction and powerful charges, can penetrate at short range any ship armor now afloat. It allows greater care of ma- nipulation and greater frequency of fire than the thirteen-inch gun. The chief rea- son for the new policy, however, is in the possible manipulation of the lighter gun by hand power, so that in case of in- jury to the hydraulic or other apparatus they may not be whoily useless. The propo- sition for the manufacture of a sixteen- irch gun, urged some years ago, to meet the increased resistance of improved armor, has been abandoned from lack of practical encouragement in the shape of an appro- priation. The ijargest gun ever manufactured for the army is the twelve-inch r.fie, and there is no prospect of an increased caliber for that service. This is heavier than the navy rifle of the same caliber, and is more pow- erful, not needing the same limitations as to length, weight and other matters that are im on ordnance to be carried on a ship. @ navy thirteen-inch rifle, however# is larger than the army twelve-inch. Gen. Flagier has urged the construction of six- teen-inch guns for coast defense, but so far has not been able to persuade Congress to provide for any guns larger than the twelve- inch. “Therefore, it is not likely that a larger gun than the navai thirteen-inch rifie will be built in this country for some time to come. Reducing Thickness. ‘The recent improvements in armor by the | Harvey process and others has also led to reductions in the thickness of plates. The | side armor of the Iowa is reduced to four- teen inches, or four inches less than the maximum in the case of the battle ships of the Indiana class. Although it is possible that some of our future battle ships or har- bor defenders may carry maximum armor exceeding eighteen inches in thickness, no such ships have been authorized or are in contemplation. Attack The armor to be tested ts a nickel-steel, Harveyized plate, eighteen inches thick, thirty-two tons. It was manufac- the Bethlehem the side armor of the Indiana. Being the skill in armor manufac- product of bead the test plate is supposed to very highest qualities of pe: ‘ion. barge in a day or two. the proving grounds it will be placed upon the long-range butt and secured to a thirty- six-inch oak backing. It will be so placed that the heavy projectiles will strike its face normally, in order that the trial ma: be a fair thorough test of its resisting qua’ ities. Two rounds will be fired at the Plate, | under contract requirements. To pass the ordeal and for the group of armor which it represents to be any fragment thereof. The projectiles will be of a lot made by the Carpenter Com- eerhid'ae mien we ce ey gar as giving at least as good results as those obtained abroad in the use of se a be ge shells. ie projectiles will weigh 850 5 They will be driven by 425 and B50 pounds of brown powder respectively. The veloc- ittes he ian 1,650 to 1,900 feet a second, ing upon the charge” of | powder, The striking energy of each shot Will be 35,000 and 38,600 foot-tons, respec- tively. Under these conditions, the e- tration of a shot from the is-inch’ gun | in common | would be twenty-six inches steel. It remains to be seen whether or not a nickel-steel plate, Harveyized, of eighteen inches thickness, will be equal to the emergency. if the gun wins it will be a triumph for American ordnance over the most effective modern plating, while a victory for the ar- mor will be a new trium) can process which is gt our ships ex- traordinary protection. impression among naval experts is slightly in favor pF for the gun, with its big pro- le. A distinguished party, ‘including promi- nent members of the Senate and House, de- partment officials, representatives of for- and nay officers and civiligaa, wil weiter and navy officers an will witness the tests. Commodore Sampson, chief of the naval bureau of ordnance, will super- vise the trials, ~and fnew the com- manding officer at Indian Head, will have personal charge of the firing. —+2+________ CHINESE REGISTRATION. Apprehension That There Has Been Trickery in the Matter. The internal revenue authorities are ap- prehensive that the “heathen Chinee” has “played it on them” in the matter of regis- tration under the Geary law. In thickly populated sections, where the collection districts cover comparatively small areas, the scheme of duplicate registration has undoubtedly been worked to a considerable | inaman extent. A Chi living in New York city would have no particular difficulty in registering under another name in any one or more neighboring districts, and as a photograph of one Chinaman might readi- ly pass for that of another the fraud is not easily detected. The duplicate certificates are said to bring a good price among Chinamen who are not entitled to register, and so trade in them is said to be more or less lively. Under the law, those who regis- ter more than once can be prosecuted for perjury, as can their witnesses, and ‘it is the intention of the officials to keep a sharp prosecuted. It is believed that these dupli- cations will aggregate anywhere from 2%) to 500 or even more. ————_o-___. Consul General Edwards’ Iiness. A cable message was received at the State Department yesterday reporting the criti- cal illness of Mr. Edwards, the United States consul general at Berlin. No par- ticulars are given, except that Mr. George | H. Murphy, a consular clerk, has left Luxembourg for Berlin to take charge of the consulate. —_——___-6-_____. | | Going to Investigate. Capt. Sampson, Prof. Alger and Lieut. Ackerman, the naval board investigating the McLuckie charges of armor frauds, | left here last night for Homestead, Pa., where the testimony will be taken of the | of raud are feet long and seven feet wide. It and » other case, was in wg eS ot represents GI3 tons of plates intended for | the three men on for an Ameri- | JUDGE MILLER’S CHARGE | leather coat, corduroy trousers and bects. These were the two most features this morning in the trial of three Coxeyites in the Police Court. Yesterday afternoon after The Star's re port of the trial concluded the arguments |to the jury were begun. The opening ad- (dress was made by Assistant District Ag- | torney Mullowney, who contended strongly | that as Coxey was the leader of the move- | ment of which these events were the out~ = ang Was the greatest offense against: | the law. Representative Hudson of Kansas, who began for the defense, said that it was that the defendants were not tried for technical charges against them, but they held political opinions contrary to opinions of those in power. “These men are not being tried for ping on the grass,” he argued. “ | trict attorney will argue to you against Coxey himreif and the Coxey movement.” Mr. Hudson was followed by Mr. A. Lipscomb, also for the defense, and | att Fey the result was that every seat room was occupied, and there | or more ef men standing around the when the court was opened. * Representative Pence Concludes. Representative Lafe Pence, the meteorie | member of Congress, made the final address | few minutes after 10 o'clock. In opening he | remarked that, with the possible exception of the lawyers for the government,no one en= | mitted, and before the jury could |a@ verdict against | Taust be satisfied beyond a that they were guilty. |_ The burden of proof | ment in this: they must and Coxey were guilty | offense as stepping | not rest upon the defense to prove that | had not done it. went to show that the grass, while all the evidence in a that Coxey asphalt, and all. The presumption Mr. Pence government in severest cal their inconsistency | Browne upon the | put under arrest, that of | and assault and battery.- He characte: rowne, Coxey erdinance in the pettiest buro: land,” instead of a prosecution ne of this great ignd of the free. something back of this case appear on the face of it. Mr. Coxey, the lawyer said, cial scheme that he thought the condition of the unemploy: United States, and there were sands who believed with him. the wisest scheme that had yet lated, or it might be the most bergen was the one or the other, he | a8 much right to present it to j = nas — in favor of it, | advocates of a tective pro’ : i i HH & tne i] g g L i i f i as tariff or Not Appreciated Here. We im the District of Columbia, Pence said, can have no just idea of State of affairs that prevails | the length and breadth of this great We are residents of a city that depends | for its financial backing and support upon | & government which never passes day. The only men who are out I the E | positions, the city during the whole | administration vainly waiting a chance to | Squeeze their way in. distress all through any honest effort that ts this distress should receive support & rebuff. Mr. Pence then went on to speak of Coxey an law-abiding citizens wi statute. Mr. oes i i i secure meeting on the Capitol | fact that he wanted to | right and proper. He trast between the every day to paid lobbyists, it loyed. For the dcors of the clubs, of resorts, theaters are thrown wide open. men who followed Coxey to only offense is that they slept under no blankets, this were orly the doors of the jatl, out of the taxes levied themselves the other workingmen of the land. In | his address, Mr. Pence urged that E nothing to show willful intent on the part of the defendants to commit crime. There could surely be no offense | painted’ the words of hope and | “Peace on earth and good | great movement on behalf of the - said that twelve honest men of W: met them with inhospitable arms and cons signed them to jail for their earnest efforts in the line of what they thought was right, Mr. Birney Infers Motives. It was 11 o'clock when Mr. Birney begam the final address to the jury for the gov» ernment. At first he spoke quietly but firmly, but gradually warmed up as his | argument progressed. He commenced by reading the act of 1882, under which the in~ | formation against these defendants was | drawn. This act was drawn not to fit this | Case, but for all similar cases, and was in- tended not to work a hardship upon any one, but solely to preserve arder and good conduct. It was a simple police ordinance, | intended to protect the grounds around the | Capitol, and there could be no doubt that | these men had violated this o>dinance, which forbade men to carry banners into the Capitol grounds, or to walk upon the grass and break the shrubbery. It was @ very simple case, but the defense had suc~ ceeded in dragging into it much extraneous matter. The ‘able Senator from Nebraska had come into this court room and, raising his towering form above them all, had looked over the heads of the jury, out to the bounding prairies ot his adopted state, and jsaw there his constituents and talked to them with great effect, though he said little | that had anything to do with the case im point. workmen on whose information the charges | The b-illiant young Representative from the west had risen up im court this morpe - _