Evening Star Newspaper, May 8, 1894, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS. ee Pennsylvania — Cor. lith Street, by he Evening Star Newspaper Company, S. H. KAUFFMANN, Prest. New York Ofice, 49 Potter Building. a ilacarain ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers in the city by carriers. om their own account, at 10 cents T Week, or +4. per month. Copies at the counter cents each. By mail—anywhere the United States or Canada—postage prepaid—5O ents per month ‘Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1.00 per year; with foreign postage added, $3.00. ed at the Post Office at Washington, D. C.. | econd-class mail matter.) F All malt subscriptions must be paid in advance, | Rates of advertising made known op application. as [s Che Zoening Star. Vor 84. No. 20,879. Coke Strikers Warn Workers to Stay Away. FRICK COMPANY PREPARE 70 RESUME Notices Headed With the Skull and Bones. AMONG, THE COAL MINERS CONNELLSVILLE, Pa., May 8—The Frick Coke Company are making a desperate affort to start their works secretly, as they id 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 esperate and have posted notices on all the tompany houses warning the men to keep Bway. 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 teday 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 liable 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 ot. SPRINGFIELD, It May 8%.—President Crawford of the Illi mine workers, is fonfident that the differences between the Operators and the miners will be settled oon 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. Z PHILLIPSBURG, Pa., May 8—Four hun- @red ‘tee meee and Beech Creek miners marched from- Phillipsburg to Woodland, Where there was a coal mine in operation. They persuaded the men to throw down their tools and‘com@ out. They were_after- ward assured by fhe operators that the mine would remain idle until the other — hag resumed. ie st are greatly encouraged news from Maryland that neariy 900 Ae in that state had gone out, and that all of the Elk Garden district was idle. There 18 no 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- ings 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. a NEW YORK’S CONSTITUTION. Assembling of the Convention to Re- vise I ALBANY, N. Y., May 8.—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- er. The delegates did not arrive very early, and it was close on to the noon hour be‘ore the majority had taken their seats. No drawing for places had taken place, @nd the members took desks in any por- tion of the room until such time as perma- hent places were awarded them. There was a large gathering of specta- fors in the galleries and upon the floor in the rear of the railing. At 11:05 o’ciock Rev. Dr. Battershall open- @d the convention with prayer, Secretary of State John Palmer presiding. This early calling to order was for the purpose of tting the members sworn in before the oon hour. During the prayer ex-Lieut. » Alvord sat in Assemblyman Sulser’s Seat, and Mr. Choate, not finding a chair, 5 a seat in the aisle at the feet of John Francis. At the conclusion of the prayer Secre- tary of State Palmer said he had pleasure calling the convention to order, and he would swear in the members in aps of ten. In the first group to put ir hands on the Bible were Joseph H. Choate, Edward Lauterbach, John M. and in the second group were ex- tors Vedder and McMillin. The opera- ion of swearing in consumed over one Officers Chosen. Whe convention elected Joseph H. Choate resident by this vote: Joseph H. Choate, Ee Nelson Smith, 2; Delaney Nicoll, 2; Countryman, 1; R. A. Parmenter, 1; ~ McClure. 1; Mr. Truex, 1; Andrew H. . T; 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 bn the floor of the convention against the ection of the majority (the republicans) In Ea all the officers. Thomas G. Alvord 3 elected vice president, defeating John elow. a ~- TWENTY HOUSES BLOWN DOWN, & Destructive Cyclone Sweeps Over the Chickasaw Country. GAINESVILLE, Texas, May 8.—One of the most destructive cyclones ever known in the Chickasaw nation has passed over that country. Not less than twenty houses were blown down. Among them was one occupied by J. C. Humphrey and family of six. The building was compietely demolished and the @ccupants scattered in all directions. Mrs. Humphrey had her skull crushed and arm ng in a delicate condition, it =| will die. Frank,the ten-year- . Feceived bruises which will prob- Drove Other members were ences were laid low for and stock suffered. oat Kearsarge Relics, The memoriai bell, log book and ably t s of rsarge recovered by Mr. x of New York during a ‘Tulse arrived at the javy yesterday ¥ ir by express, Ud will be carefully preserved. STATE RAILROAD OFFICIALS Annual Convention Today at the Inter- state Commerce Commission. 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 was 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 Fim and spoke briefly of the work be- fore the delegates. Mr. Allen Fort of was chosen vice chairman. The most important feature of the day’s ings 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 pooling of freights of different railroads, or divide be- tween them the aggregate or net proceeds of the earnings 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 law 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 parts does not apply to the combined lines. This may be remedied by a legislative definition, = would, it is believed, cure this dffli- culty. 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- Iowa, Dey; Maryland, Buckley and Thayer, jr.; Michigan, Billings; Minnesota, Liggett, Mills and Telsburg; Mississippi Askew, W. McLaurin and S. J. McLauri Montana, Cook; North Carolina, Wilson, Beddinfleld; 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, Yesterday at Len, coal 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 Call- 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 view and contended that the ratification of the treaty would mean the throwing down the bars to the Chinese, and that ft would undo all that had been done for the past ten years to restrict oriental immigr: 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 trea was a favorable one to the United State: declared that it accepted and confirmed all our anu-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. ————— Nominations by the President. The President today sent the following nominations to the Senate: Treasury: To be collectors of customs— Walter J. Creamer of Maine, for the dis- triet 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 John M. Hetfield, Plainfield, N.J.; Griswold, Riverhead, N. Amend, Ripon, Wis.; George B. Ogle, She- boygan Falls, Wis. CHINESE TREATY. by WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, MAY 8,..1894-TWELVE PAGES. HAS NO PRINCIPLE Senator Hoar’s Characterization 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 Senat 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 of 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, said the Senator, made by the junior Senator from North Dakota and the junior Senator from Kansas, are expected to compel the Ameri- cen 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, extinguished furnaces, suffering 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- sUtutional expression, When the demo- cratic party let go its power in 1861, Sen- ator Hoar said, the credit of the country was 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 complete 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 Principle. “This bill," he said, “is founded upon no principle and has no legitimate parentage. It ts 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 undfsguised purpose of buying votes. It was not a protective measure, elther mod- erate or extreme. There was not @ scrap of good-hearted Americanism in the bill.” Mr. Hoar said there were eight democratic Sena- tors representing great northern constit- uencles interested in the continuance of the protective system. Five of them repregent- ed states that have recently declared, un- mistakably in the elections and now have legislatures holding to the doctrine of pro- tection. large majorities. These five Senators said that they did not oct the bill before the Senate, but ded their judgment and su thefrrown — ua to ae pe bee the sraneyean people, but to the opinion of a majority of subcommitt Prep a ic ee. “There is,” said Mr. Hoar, “a large ma- jority of democratic Senators on the floor who ayow the doctrine that duties for pro- tection are a gross violation of the Co! tution itself. And yet they bring to 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 existing law, or because they think this revolution and perjury are necessary to buy votes for @ measure that can not otherwise be pass- ed. 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 woolens be unconstitutional and a robbery, how a tariff of 40 per cent becomes constitutional and just. be There was a thing about the 90 per cent protective duty on rice which show- ed the sectional and one-sided charac- ter of the bill. mator Hoar said: “Raising rice is an exclusively southern industry. Cleaning rice is done in the rorth, largely in New York and Sen Fran- cisco. The rice milling and grinding in- dustry, and the machinery which it uses, is a 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 flour and rice meal but one-fourth of a cent protection. They put $80,000,000 duty upon the poor man's sugar —clearly tax. They put $22,000,000 more upon his shirts, equal to % per cent ad valorem; also clearly a tax for protection only.” Respecting what he held would be the) effect of the passage of the bill on the peo- ple engaged in manufacturing industries, the Senator said substantially: “This bill, which means murder to some parts of the country, means crucifixion 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 each of the earners of wages in the factories supports directly or indirectly at least five le. “Row, what are these people to do? You propose to increase your importations by at least $200,000,000. So the men who make this $20,000,000 worth of products in the United States are to be thrown out of that | employment. Out of this production from 90 per cent to 95 per cent ts 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 pald in wages must cease 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 $180,000,000 worth of workmen hereafter to engage? 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 “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. FOS SEE ire ert MENDENHALL’S OFFER. He May Become President of the Ohio State Univers: 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 serlously considering it and is in- clined to take it, as it 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. ge Treasury Appointmen Richard W. Creal of Buffalo, Ky., has been appointed a Chinese inspector and John E. Owens of New York city an immi- grant inspector. to be paid) It | seems to me we are entitled to some more } proof of eating, Yesterday Stor Be pudding is "6S separate TBese fought pubficitp-not merefp Space. THE COXEY VERDICT All Are Found Guilty on the First Count, Jones is Acquitted on the Second Count, but Coxey and Browne Are Found Guilty, At 3:35 o’clock the Police Court jury in the case of Coxey, Browne and Jones, re- turned a verdict holding all of them guilty on the first count, and Browne and Coxey guilty on the second count, but of this count Jones was acquitted. ‘They were released on $500 bail each, pend- ing a motion for a new trial, which must be made within four days. The first count of the information on which they were all convicted charged them with carrying banners across the Cap- tol grounds. ‘The second count charged them with in- juring the grass. THE COMPROMISE BILL Denounced by All Except Those Who Are Responsible for It. ‘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 is, 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 dem- 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 v0 per cent, yet that the bill was not satisfactory as a protection meas- ure for the reason that the protection was given in spots and the rates were too in- consistent and contradictory to benefit any one. The wool schedule, he said, is not sat- isfactory 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, id 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 said, 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- gusted and the protectionists despise the bill, while they are delighted at the back- down from free trade. It is generally re- garded as an exhibition of ineompetency. The republicans say, however, that they can very well afford to let the bill ‘s. Those who are interested in the raw er- 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 not 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 Yompliment to Mr. Wilson and the House of Representatives. It virtually says that the House bill was right except on 400 or 500 points, and that the Senate committee, after @ month’ work, find 400 mistakes in thelr own _ Dill. This will hardly tend to restore confidence. in the country, especially as every amend- ment smacks of either prior ignorance or present barter, It seems fmpossible that a document so consiructed as to show traffic in every item should be permitted to see daylight in one batch. It id have been | wiser to have let the mattef 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 thesé¢ proposed amend- ments, for when a committee of finance re- fuses hearings, because It SHEE H| vey all things, but finds by je ki ck- | stairs influence that it ef made iin mis- | takes, it is evident that that committee will | bear watcning.” Senator Jones Confident. Senator Jones, who has assumed the bur- den of preparing the amendments, said that he believed the bill would be passed by democratic votes. “And that it would be sent back to the House sooner than most people believed.” “The fiance committee,” sald he, “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 Senat and [ think we have been successful in thi | We have, in a word, tried to reduce the 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. Senator Faulkner contented himself with expressing confidence in the work of the tariff committee and in saying that he be- lieved the bill would pass. A Bill of Shame. Senator Platt sai “People who say the compromise is in any sensé 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 a few ftems, and jonly so in such items because the demo- cratic Senators demanded duties as the price 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 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 make more money than under the McKinley law and withhold the semblance of protection from all other industries. “It is a bill without principle, pressed by @ party without a policy.” POSTSCRIPT" 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 wn vuderground system of rapid transit for the Metropolitan railroad.” So said Attorney Frown, the legal representa- tive of the Metropolitan Railroad Com- pany, in his argument before the Commis- sioners 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 follows: “All plans relating to the location and construction of said railway shall be sub- ject to the approval of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia or their suc- cessors and all work shall at all cimes be subject to their supervision, The said cor- poration shall from time to time deposit with the collector 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 Conmissioners the veto power as well as the right to say what sy: 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, d not $4,000 could be raised from capital! 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 unless 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 Commission- | ers to Congress. As it was, it was sprung on the floor of the House without giving the company any chance to meet it with objection. What President Stephenson Said. ~ President Stephenson of the Railroad Com- pany who was present then, said: “Why should the District Commissioners set them: selves up as our guardians? Do you ques- tion for a 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 service. You are familiar with our experience with the storage battery sy: tem and how much money we sunk in that yet notwithstanding all these things, amen 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 is passed 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- sioners were guarding against. o the Buda Pesth System. “There isn’t any other system, but the Buda Pesth that has proved its efficiency,” rejoined Mr. Rrown. “be Thompson-Houston Company will put dowr en undergyreunc electric railroad anil guarantee it for a term of years,” salt Capt. Yowell. Cortinuing, Capt. Pow- ell said. “*Too little attention has been paid in the past to the construction of railroads, Why, the Metrepolitan ratlroad itself, where it crosses the tracks of the Tennaillytown road in Georgetown has a condition that is unwarranted, and that should aever 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,” said 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- zens would suffer,” rejoined Capt. Powell. It Is evident that the Commissioners wiil 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, 1804, 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. An Extension cf 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 for an extension of three years, and it is possible that the Com- missioners will so recommend. +e-— er adie er Rap nem tere rab ace at Geneva, Ill., has renominated Congress- man A, J. Hopkins. ROAD OBJECTS FOR ATTACK AND DEFENSE Heavy Armor and Long Guns to Be Tested. Tremendous Projectiles 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 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 10,2s8- 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. Twelve 13-inch guns have been made at the Washington navy yard, and will be equaily | distributed among the battle ships Massa- chusetts, Indicna and 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 penetfate 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 hydraulle or other apparatus they may not be wholly useless. The - 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 largest gun ever manufactured for the army is the twelve-inch rifie, and there is no prospect of an in 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 imposed on ordnance to be carried on a ship. The navy thirteen-inch rifie, however, is larger than the army twelve-inch. Gen. Flagler 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 naval thirteen-inch rifie will be built in this country for some time to come. Redacing 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 ond Defense. The armor to be tested is a nickel-steel, Harveyized plate, eighteen inches thick, sixteen feet long and seven feet wide. It weighs thirty-two tons. It was manufac- tured» by.the} Bethlehem Company, and its GK ‘tons of plates intended for the side armor of the Indiana. Being the latest product of skill in armor manufac. ture, the test plate fs sup) to possess the very highest qualities of perfection. ‘Tt is now at the navy yard in this city, and will be sent to Indian Head by special barge in a day or two. Upon arrival at the proving grounds it will 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 may be a fair thorough test of its resisting qual- 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 accepted the plate must show no crack extending from the point of impact to an“edge, from one edge to an- other or through the entire thickness of the mass at an edge. It must aiso resist the through penetration of a projectile or any fragment thereof. The projectiles will | be of a lot made by the Carpenter Com- + under the new process, which is re- garded as giving least as good resuits as those obtained abroad in the use of i or Firminy shells. ie projectiles will weigh S50 unds. They will be driven by 425 and 550 pounds of brown powder respectively. The veloc- ities will vary from 1,650 10 1,900 feet a second, depending 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 pene- tration of a shot from the 13-inch gun would be twenty-six inches in common steel. It remains to be seen whether or not | a nickel-steel plate, Harveyized, of eighteon | the | it will be a triumph for | inches thickness, will be equal to American ordnance over the most effective modern plating, while a victory for the ar- mor will be a new trium) for an Ameri- can process which is giving our ships ex- traordinary protection. The impression among naval experts is slightly in favor of a victory for the gun, with its big pro- Jectile. A distinguished patty, including promi- nent members of the Senate and House, de- partment officials, representatives of for- | eign legations and a delegation of army | and navy officers and civilians, will witness | the tests. Commodore Sampson, chief of the naval bureau of ordinance, will supsr- vise the trials, and Lieut. Mason, the com- manding officer at Indian Head, will have personal charge of the firing. ——— a . CHINESE REGISTRATION. Apprehension T! 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 extent. A Chinaman living in New York city would have no particular difficulty tn 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 lookout for such violations of the law, and Consul General Edwards’ Ulness. 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 Murphy, a consular clerk, has left Luxembourg for Berlin to take charge of the consulate. —_-2-______ 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 workmen on whose information the charges of raud are based. = GIVEN TO THE JURY Twelve Men Consider the Cases Against Commonweal Leaders. _—— CLOSING UP THE ARGUMENTS Mr. Birney Waxes Sarcastic Over Defendants and Counsel. UDGE MILLER’S CHARGE There Has Been | ‘There was a magnificent bunch of roses and lilies on Judge Miller's desk this morn- ing in honor of his reappointment to the bench, an occurrence which has given the greatest satisfaction to the members of the bar and the citizens of Washington general- _ly, barring only the criminal element. Carl Browne had doffed his blue summer suit | that he wore yesterday and appeared once |ore in his fcmiliar and characteristic leather coat, corduroy trousers and high bects. These were the two most noticeable features this morning in the trial of the 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 At- torney Mullowney, who contended strongly that as Coxey was the leader of the move- ment of which these events were the out- come, his was the greatest offense against the law. Representative Hudron of Kansas, who began for the defense, said that it was plain that the defendants were not tried for the technical charges against them, but because they held political opinions contrary to the | opinions of those in power. , “These men are not being tried for step- ping on the grass,” he argued. “The Gis- trict attorney will argue to you against Mr. Coxey himself and the Coxey movement.” Mr. Hudson was followed by Mr. A. A. Lipscotab, also for the defense, and then the court adjourned. it was expected this morning that the case would go to the jury before noon, and the result was that every seat in the court- {room was occupied, and there were a score or more of men standing around the walls | when the court was opened. Representative Pence Concludes. | Representative Lafe Pence, the meteorie member of Congress, made the final address | to the jury for the defense, commencing @ few minutes after 10 o'clock. In opening he remarked that, with the possible exception | of the lawyers for the government,no one en= | tertained any serious idea that a conviction | could ever be secured in this case. The evi- dence, he said, did not make it even pre- sumable that an offense had been com- mitted, and before the jury could bring in |@ verdict against these three men they | must be satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that they were guilty. if proved that Coxey had made his way his carriage to the Capitol steps over asphalt, and did not go upon the grass wi aed all. The presumption in this, as in ev: other case, was in favor of the innocen: the three men on trial, not against it. | Mr. Pence arraigned the attorneys for Called. thelr Inconsistency im ‘not’ | cal their incon: in Browne upon the change alk which he put under arrest, that of y and assault and battery. He characte: the prosecution of Browne, Coxey Jones as on a par with “the most con- ie Prosecution under the meanest er 8 & HT | appear on the face of it. . Mr. Coxey, the lawyer said, had a finan- cial scheme that he thought would relieve the condition of the unemployed of the United States, and there were many thou- sands who believed with him. It might be the wisest scheme that had yet been formu- | lated. or it might be the most foolish, but | whether it was the one or the other, he had as much it to present it to Congress, with the petitions in favor of it, as had the | advocates of a high protective tariff or of | free trade. Not Appreciated Here. We in the District of Columbia, Mr, Pence said, can have no just idea of the state of affairs that prevails throughout the length and breadth of this great land, We are residents of a city that depends for its financial backing and support upon @ government which never passes a pay day. The only men who are out of employ- | ment here are the men who have heid of- | fice in the departments and have lost their positions, and the men who have been in the city during the whole of the present administration vainly waiting a chance to Squeeze their way in. Yet there is wide- spread distress all through this country, and any honest effort that is made to relieve this distress should receive support and not a rebuff. Mr. Pence ther went on in eloquent terms to speak of Coxey his associates as law-abiding citizens who desired to trans- grees no statute. Mr. secure permission for his parade and the | meeting on the Capitol steps evidenced the fact that he wanted to do only what was right and proper. He drew a sharp con- trast between the reception that is given every day to paid lobbyists, who come here to influence legislation, and that which was accorded to the members of this army of the unemployed. For the lobbyists the | dcors of the clubs, of resorts, and of the theaters are thrown wide open. Yet these men who followed Coxey to this city, whose only offense is that they were poor, that they walked through heavy snows and slept under no blankets, find open for them | only. the doors of the jail, which was built | out of the taxes levied upon themselves and | the other workingmen of the land. In clos- ing his address, Mr. Pence urged that there | was nothing to show willful intent on the | part of the defendants to commit any. | crime. There could surely be no offense tn | carrying a little white rag on which waa | painted the words of hope and ise: “Peace on earth and good will to men. He felt sure that when the history of this great movement on behalf of the laboring classes comes to be written, it shall not be said that twelve honest men of Washington | met them with inhospitable arms and con- | signed them to jail for their earnest efforts in the line of what they thought was right. Mr. Birney ere Mi It was 11 o'clock when Mr. Birney began the final address to the jury for the gov- ernment. At first he spoke quietly but \armiy, but gradually warmed up as his | argument progressed. He commenced by | reading the act of 1882, under which the tn. | 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 6 conduct. It was a simple police ordinance, intended to protect the grounds around the Capitol, and there coul@ be no doubt that these men had violated this oxinance, which forbade men to carry banners into the Capitol grounds, or to walk upon the grass and break the shrubbery. It was a very simple case, but the defense had sue- ceeded in dragging into it much extraneous matter. es The come into this couct room and, raising his Es able Senator from Nebraske fee hem all, had looked towering form above t Jover the heads of the jury, out to the | bounding prairies ot his adopted state, and saw there his constituents talked them with great effect, though he said little that hac anything to do with the case im pout Phe brilliant young Representative from the west had risen up im court this mors-