Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, V101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th Street, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 8. HE. UFFMANN, Prest. ——— ‘The Evening Star ts served to subscribers in the own accoun tity by carriers. 70 their ‘at 10 cents week or sac. per mouth. Copies a counter cents ‘each. By matl—anywhere in the United tee oF Cuands—gestage prepait—J0 ents. per Mont! with eel sdacd, $5.00, 91-00 Per Teer: it — x vies ‘Entered at the Post Ofice at Washington, D. C., es second-class mail matter.) TF All mail subscriptions must be paid io advance, Rates of advertising made known on appiteation. — Ghe Evening Star. Vor 84. No. 20,895. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. TWO CENTS. The proof of fe pudding is in fhe eafing. Yesterday's Sfor contained 50 cofumns UNDER THE DOME An Unknown Man Kills Himself in the Capitol Grounds, HOURS ELAPSE BEFORE DISCOVERY The Deed the Result of Deliberate Intention. MORE POLICEMEN NEEDED ‘The Ifeless body of an unknown man was @iscovered under a tree near the grotto in the northwestern portion of the Capitol grounds early this morning by Mr. W. C. ‘Wilkinson, an employe in the Capitol build- ing. The corpse was cold, but its lack rigidity showed that death bad come but @ few hours previously. A nearly new 32- caliber revolver, with one exploded and four chambers, was lying upon the grass bout five feet behind the body, which was prone upon its face, with the right hand tightly clenched. It was plainly a case of suicide. Mr. Wilkinson at first thought the man was drunk, and, approaching him, Shook his arm and told him to get up. A closer examination horrified him with the Gizcovery that he had been addressing a forpse. The police authorities were notified, and the man was removed to the morgue at the sixth precinct police station. t Through the Heart. ‘ ‘There it was discovered that death r@ ®ulted from a pistol shot in the left breast, the ball entering about one and a half inches below the nipple and a little to the right. Coroner Woodward, who subsequent- ly examined the body, stated that the ball had entered the heart end that death re- sulted instantaneously. The dead man was five feet six inches tall, and appeared to have been about twenty-five years of age, and about 14 pounds in weight. His face was smoothly shaven and full, and marked with pimples. The half-shut eyelids dis- closed hazel eyes, and a thick suit of short sandy hair covered his well-formed head. His body was well nourished, well de- veloped, and his hands indicated that they had known labor. Description of His Dress. The suicide was clad in a blue serge sack coat, double-breasted black vest, bluish gray trousers, with slight black lines, and @ pink outing shirt. His underwear was of gauze, and his feet were clad in a pair of long black stockings, of a cheap texture, end apparently designed for women. ‘Around his neck was clasped a neat black tie. His hat was a comparatively new brown derby, size 7. The outer clothing ‘was well worn, and in the coat a rignt ample tear had seemingly been but recently and unskillfully repaired. The dead man also wore a pair of almost new rubber boots, which reached nearly to his waist. His trousers were drawn down over them, and around his waist was a new yellow leather belt. Around his arms was a pair of metal clamps used by bicycle riders. In his pocket was found one cent, a bunch of thirteen keys, a glove buttoner and a shoe hook. Not a card, letter nor any other scrap of paper was found upon the body, but in one of the suicide’s pockets was found a copy of the Baltimore Evening News of yesterday's issue. Theory of the Authorities. The police authorities are under the im- pression that the u! te stranger is from Baltimore, Md.. he came over from that city last evening. ae Driver Fitzgerald of the sixth’ précitict patrol wagon is under the impression, how- ever, that he saw the man standing near the government printing office about noon yesterday. Whoever the dead man may be, the police believe that his act of self-destruction was a deliberately planned one, and also believe that he carefully removed every possible mark of identification about him, in order to render his identification impossible. The was ‘examined by Coroner ‘Woodward, and he declared it to be a clear ease of deliberate suicide. The man's clothing about the hole made by the bullet was burned and scorched, and the coroner said that he had undoubtedly held the re- volver close to his breast while sta and that he fell dead upon his face when pulled the trigger. The left hand wag slightly darkened with powder stains, and the coroner was under the impression that the pistol had been held in that hand. He therefore believes that the suicide was left handed. By direction of the coroner, the body will ‘be kept at the morgue, New Jersey avenue Detween D and E streets, for identificgtion. Sensation at the Capitol. ‘The news of the tragedy caused quite a Sensation at the Capitol this morning, for it was felt that the suicide or murder, whichever it may be, indicates the abso- lutely unprotected condition of the Capitol grounds. There were several people found during the morning who said that they heard a pistol shot at about 11 o'clock last night, sounding from the direction of the botanical gardens or the Peace monument. Accounts as to this generally agree as to the hour, and it is therefore taken for Granted that the dead!y shot was fired Sometime before midnight, so that the corpse Jay on the grass undiscovered for at least “seven hours. It is thought that if a suicide could remain without being found for that Jength of time there is no reason why a murder could not be committed and remain Undiscovered for at least that period, thus giving the murderer a chance to escape. Capitol Grounds Poorly Guarded. The grounds are very poorly policed, ow- ing to the smail size of the Capitol foreé: ‘The necessity for a large force during the @ay on duty in the building makes it Am- Possible for the authorities to place ‘suff- cient men in the grounds at night to afford any protection whatever, either to the prop- erty of the government or to the pedestrians who are compelled to pass through the Srounds in hundreds after nightfall. The Foadway and waiks passing through the Rorthwestern section of the grounds from < ent to the east plaza of thoroughfare much fre- quented of the day and night. It is the shortest way from the avenue to Capitol Hill and is much preferred to the southern roadway. The dense shrubbery in the grounds, especially right around the grotto, affords ample opportunity for rob- bers or marauders to lie in walt for their victims in case an assault were planned. Last night's event shows how easily this could happen at any hour after nightfall. Darkness Reigns Supreme. Another cousideration coming up in this connection Is the metter of lighting. There fs almost no illumination of the grounds, except the moon shines, and even when : laces under the trees and nd frequent. Sugges- t illumination of electric lights, along these hic the plant >t over beautiful structures y of the landscape. . Ras come to a de- y of the landscape y of human life. A row of P’ D would the difficulty But a s stall lamps, considerably robably in. candesce: be placed on short . plentiful enough, to ner without inter- qualities of the the circumstances sur- inding of this body px ease of a murd Capitol grounds at night i strated as it has never been before. Senator Manderson Appalied. time to time | y traverse the | has always been made, | of poles In the} cel on sufficiently high | eets surrounding the park, | firmed the nomination of A. MeP. Hamby, | | } mittee on rules of the Senate, was consider- ably astounded when a Star reporter told him of the discovery of the dead body on the Capitol grounds this morning. “The idea that such a thing could bhap- practically without discovery,” he said, Pander the very dome of the Capitol is somewhat appalling. There is no doubt in the world thet the present police force on duty at the Capitol is much too small. There are twenty-four men, divided into three reliefs of eight men each, working eight hours. At night there can be only two men from the building for patrol of the entire park. “T had a conversation only this morning with Senator Blackburn, Chairman of the committee, in reference to this very matter, and he agreed with me that something should be done at once to relieve this con- dition of things. We are of the opinion that the appropriations committee of the Senate will consent to an increase of the force to thirty-six men, which will give mere men for night service in the grounds. Crying Necessities at the Capitol. “Nor can there be any dispute on the question of lighting. The Capitol Park is atrociously provided for in this particular. There is no small town in the United States with a public park that dues not recognize the importance to the morals and safety of its people coming from good illumina- tion. These grounds should be almost as Nght as day at any time during the darkest night. I am very much in hope that we shall soon be able to provide both in and out of the Capitol building an adequate electric lighting system, and to this end I ‘have already introduced a resolution ask- ing che Secretary of War to investiga the subject of power to be derived from the Great Falls for use in establishing an elec- trie ight plant to light the public buildings and perhaps the streets of Washington. Ex are now at work upon this inquiry, I expect their report in a short time. These grounds are used by many citizens at night as a thoroughfare, but so great is the danger to life that many people, par- ticularly women, have avoided the grounds after dark as they would a pestilence. AGAINST STATE BANKS Mr. Springer Denies Their Right te Is- sue Paper Currency. Vigorous Speech on the Subject of the Financial Necessities the Country. Congressman Springer addressed the House of Representatives this afternoon on the bill to repeal the tax of 10 per cent upoa state bank notes. Regarding the question of currency as only second in importance to the tariff at this time, he regretted that there was no fixed and sound policy in ref- erence to it which would render periods of financial depression remote if not impossi- ble, and proceeded with his subject, an- nouncing that he would renounce all party considerations upon the question of the currency, but would unite with any men of any and all parties in the preparation and passage of a measure which would provide @ currency that would be always safe and stable and sufficient to meet all require- menty of trade and commerce. ‘The Banking Systems of Europe. Proceeding to examine the banking and currency systems of the other nations of the world, he gave a concise and succinct history of the Bank of France, which, he said, was a gigantic monopoly, sketched the Reichs Bank of Germany and the apes atten: to the bree Sanking Lgl owl of te United States, which he characterized as utterly to furnisir currency for the peo- ple and ineffectual to provide an elastic cur- rency at all. Another system must be pro- vided, he said, but the step toward it must be forward, and not backward. Should Not Return to State Bonds. “Under no circumstances should we Te- turn to the system of state bank circulation which prevailed before the war,” said Mr. Springer. “If there were no cther reason for oppos- Ing a circulating medium issued by state banks, the argument of inconvenience ought to peemcient. There are now forty-four stat dn the Union and four more un- will be admitted in the near fu- ch of these states would have dif- te it laws regulating the organization of banks and providing security for the circu- lating notes. There are over nine thousand banks in the United States at this time. Assuming that all of the states would avail themselves ultimately of the right to in- ecrporate state banks having authority to issue circulating notes, and that all existing Danks would avail themselves of such au- thority, the difierent kinds of notes which would be put in circulation and their num- ber would be confusing and embarrassing in the extreme to all those engaged in active business.” The History of State Banks. then went at great length into the his- tory of state banks, and considered them their every relation to the people, quot- copiously from legal decisions and speeches of statesmen in opposition to them. He considered the various proposi- tions by which a national currency may be issued under the authority of the United States government. He opposed the loaning of money to the people and the issuing of currency to pay government expenses, and proceeded to explain the measure introduced by himself, No. 4960, which provides for a 1 currency. explained {ts provisions at length and ed that its adoption would eradicat e évils which now injure the financial bric of the country. What is Real Paternalism. After denying that a state bank has any more right to issue paper currency than it has to coin silver and gold into eagles and dollars, Mr. Springer said that he favored that paternalism in all things which the Constitution of the United States has es- tablished, the paternalism which gives Con- gress the power to lay and collect taxes, duties and imposts to provide for the com- mon defense and general welfare of the United States; to regulate commerce with foreign natio! and among the several states; to establish a uniform rule of natu- ralization; to establish post offices and post roads; to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by granting patents to inventors and copyrights to authors; to raise and support armies and provide and maintain a navy; to coin money and regu- late the value thereof. and of foreign coin, and fo fix the standard of weights end mens @ "es. ° ‘All hese powers smack of paternalism, but they are essential to the maintenan: of the rights of the people and to the pre: ervation of our government. To provide a national currency is no greater exercise of paternalism than it is to execute any of the powers which I have enumerated. I would maintain all the mghts of the states, the rights which are guaranteed to them by the Constitution, and which th reserved to themselves when the Constitu- tion was established; but I deny the right of any state or of the people of any state to furnish the people of another state with a circulating medium, or to issue notes of any kind intended to circulate as money im any part of the country.” a Has Been Confirmed. The Senate, in executive session, has con- ir., of South Carolina, to be collector of ustoms for the district of Georgetown, sc. o- Naval Movement, The Monocacy has arrived at Hankow. The Yantie has gone from Montevideo to Puerto Ensanado. The Fern has sailed from Ports- mouth to Koston. Perey Gordon of Emanuel Church, has accepted a cail to Emanuel Rev. Boston, erator Manderson, a member of the com- | Caurca in Geneva, Switzerland. MOSTLY AGAINST HIM|THE SUGAR TRUSTIDUTY ON LEAD ORE Debating the Case of Prof. Smith at Saratoga. THE QUESTION OF SEMINARY CONTROL A Protest Filed Against the As- sembly’s Action. SIGNED BY DELEGATES SARATOGA, N. Y., May 26.—The Presby- terlan general assembly was occupied with miscellaneous business for the first half hour this morning. The report from the joint committees on home and foreign mis- sions upon the proposed new mission house in New York was presented, and its recom- mendation adopted after a brief protest by Elder McDougall of Cincinnati. The recommendation was as follow: “The general assembly sees no adequate reason for reversing the approval of the last assembly, and the practically unani- mous and deliberate judgment of these two ably and loyally constituted boards, regard- ing the administration of the business af- fairs committed to them, and the general assembly therefore approves the records of these two boards relating to this subject.” The Rev. Dr. Hillis of Evanston, Ill, en- tered a protest against the action of the general assembly on the subject of theologi- cal seminaries on behalf of himself and others. The protest was based upon the assembly's declaration, in 1820, that such control ts not within its rightful jurisdic- tion, and upon action, in 1870, declaring it impracticable and undesirable. It was fur- | ther opposed because the proper place for it is fn the presbytery and because it would reflect upon any seminary that refuses to comply with the proposals of complete con- trol over professors and directors. The objection was also urged that consti- tutional change should precede the acqui- sition of the power now proposed. The paper contained forty names, and others were added during the session. The assembly then listened to an address | by Dr, Striker, representing the Reformed | Church, and congratulatory messages were read from the United Presbyterian general assembly, in session at Albany, Ore. Soon after 10 o'clock the assembly took up the calling of the roll for the expression of individual opinion on the Smith heresy case. | Before recess seventy-one speeches on the | Smith case had been deliverd, two of them of uncertain tenor. twenty-two in favor of sustaining the appeal in whole or in part, and forty-seven opposed to such action, The desire of the assembly to hasten this order was evidenced just before recess by a vote to continue in session during the after- po to begin a haif hour earlier than | us | | a TALK OF TROUBLE. Some Feeling Between J. Bricklayers and Bosses. For some time past there has been talk | of trouble brewing between the bosg brick- | layers and the journeymen bricklayers in this city. It begins to look now, however, as though it might all blow over without causing any serious consequences. One reason for this Is the fact that there is so little doing in the building world just now that it would be a bad time for either side to show its i The troubl have its origin i ts in the building way_at. ‘The $4, but there ts not “sufficient work welng | done to give employment to say thing ike the full number of men who are available. | The result is, so the bosses say, that the | workmen have been joining together and soliciting work in any amount and at prices far below what the bosses would be com- pelled to charge if they were to give the men regular per diem wages. In this way the men are said to be working for considerably less than the $+ a day pre- scribed by the union, at the same time that they refuse to work for any less under | bricklayers. well-known boss bricklayer told a Star reporter late this afternoon that at a recent meeting of the bosses this action on the part of the journeymen was depre- cated in strong terms and resolutions were adopted condemning it. There was also some talk of the bosses attempting to lower the regular wages unless the men would agree to desist from working at a figure really lower than is laid down by their own union. It is thought that if any such at- tempt were made it might result in a gen- eral strike throughout the city, ordered by the union. Comparatively few men would | be affected, however, inasmuch as there ts | so little In the way of buliding going on | that very few of the bosses have any num- ber of men working under them. In other words it is as if there were a general strike or lockout, efther, just now, and the order- ing of men to leave their work would be but @ mere formality as there is no work | for them to do. It is not thought that the bosses will at- tempt to enforce their designs of lowering their wages, and if the situation should {m- | Prove so that they could offer work at the regular wages and in plenty for all it is only natural to believe that the men would rather work for them at union prices than for private parties at less. So it is that the whole trouble is likely to blow over with- out anyone being hurt. > MRS. CLEVELAND RETUR: | Domestic Circles at the White House Completed. The domestic circle of the White House was completed today by the return of Mrs. Cleveland and the babies from their visit to Mrs. Perrine of Buffalo. The party reached’ here at 11:33 o'clock on the Philadelphia ex- press of the Pennsylvania road. The train was due at 10:16 o'clock, but was delayed by an accident to the engine a few miles the other side of Baltimore. The President was too busy with his official duties to meet the party at the depot, and Private Secretary Thurber performed that service for him. Mrs. Cleveland and thec hildren are | in exceilent health, and will remain in Washington so long as the present pleasant weather continues. They will spend the | summer at Gray Gables, and the President | will join them as soon as he can get away. | ——_—_-+-e-_ Ships at Blueflelds. The steamer which arrived last evening at} New Orleans from Bluefields brought a dis-| patch from Capt. Watson of the San Fran- cisco to the Navy Department. The captain | says nothing of the political situation there, | but reports that his vessel is very foul and | suggests that one ship is sufficient to keep | to guard at Bluefields. Accordingly, Acting | Secretary McAdoo this morning sent orders | to Capt. Philip of the New York to sail at. once with his vessel for the New York navy | | yard. | The order goes by wire to New Orleans, and thence by steamer to Bluefields. It has not been definitely arranged yet what ship will take the place of the New York, but it) will be cither the Atlanta or the Marble-| head; whichever is first in condition for the | voyage. The San Francisco will, mean-| time, remain at Bluefields, but it is expected | that she may be relieved within a few weeks. —_—_——_+-e+______ War Department C a | Secretary Lamont has gone to his home | at McGrawville, N. Y., for a few days. The heavy reductions to be made in the clerical | force of the War Department July 1 will be | announced in a few days, in order to relieve | the anxiety of the clerks who are not to be disturbed, and to give the unfortunates | who are to be dropped an opportunity to seek other employment before their present | i income ceases. At least, Secretary Lamont has been urged to follow this plan, and it is generally believed he will do so. Questions Which Are Perplexing the Senate Oommittee, Can They Compel the Newspaper Men to Disclose the Sources of In- formation a: How? The Senate sugur trust investigating committee went into today at 11 o'clock. No witnesses were summoned for today, and the committee began its wotk |’ with the intention of devoting its time exclusively as long as should be necessary to the question which has been raised ‘by the refusal of the newspaper correspond- ents, Edwards, Shriver and Walker, to ah- Swer questions as to who gave them cer- tain information printed in their dispatches. The question is a puzzling one to the com- mittee, and is receiving its most careful consideration. There are indications that the committee feels anmoyed over the fact that it should be confronted at the thresh- old of its inquiry by this course of obstruc- tion to its work. The committee is understood to be unan- imous in the opinion that the co ents cannot be excused from replying t questions put on the grounds laid down by the Supreme Court in decisions hape=: 4 upon the constitutional rights of witne: and all of them are reported to be of opin- fon that under precedents established. in former Senate and House investigations of a like nature the witnesses can be com- pelled to divulge the sources of the infor- mation upon which they based their news- paper contributions. Shall the Question Be Pressedt This being the case, the question which the committee is especially considering is that as to the advisability of pressing the question, which, it is understood, might, if pressed, involve an awkward complication by corsuming a great deal of time of the | committee itself, if not of the Senate, and by diverting the investigation from origiral purpose for the present. Notwithstanding these objections the com- mittee is giving the subject very cureful consideration, is examining into precedents and the members comparing opinions. They have given careful attention to the repo! of former investigations, going back as far as the inquiry which grew out of the stories of the use of foreign money while the Walker tariff bill was before Congress in 1844, and including the Dolph investiga- tion of the leakage of executive sessions of the Senate and many investigations made by committees of the House of Representa- tves. They have given especial attention to the progress of the Hallett Kilbourne case, both while he was before the House committee and while he was in the courts. It is believed that from the few words that have escaped from the committee room that the committee will hold that the wit- nesses in this case cannot be excused on the ground that Counselman, in the inter- state commerce case, was, because they have not pleaded the possibility of criminat- ing themselves, and that the case is dif- ferent from the Kilbourne case in that the charges made in this instance reflect upon the characters of members of the Senate, and if proved true might prove grounds at Proceedings against Senators them- selves. its ‘The Extent of Its Power, One of the questions which the committee | is trying today to decide is as to whether it has the power to proceed independently of the Senate or shall ‘bring the dereliction of the witnesses in question to the atten- tion of the Senate and proceed against them there, is. understood that anxious té™dispose of this phase the case as soon as possible, and hope n decisio: a 4 one mn ff ‘reached may not be amhounced today, for the reason that the witnesses have all been excused until Monday, and Mr. Edwards is now in New York, with understanding that he will not be wanted before Monday. Bourke Cockran’s Denial. Bourke Cockran appeared before the in- vestigating committee of the Senate today and denied emphatically that he had ever said or knew anything about the subject which the committee was investigating or that he ever had given any person the im- pression that he had such information. ——_- 2+ __. A MARINE WONDER. e British Havock the Fastest Vessel Affoat. javal officials here have nothing to say in regard to the discussion in the English house of commons concerning the United States and the British torpedo destroyer Havock. The Havock is a small boat of about 220 tons displacement. She is about twice as large as the Cushing. She was built by the Yarrow Company, and the pecu- Harity of the boat is hep speed, which has run up to 26.7 knots, or 4 than any ves- sel of, her size in the world. Doubtless it was this remarkable achievement which in- duced our naval officers to make an effort to obtain her plans and see how it was done. There has not been much concealment in such matters between our Navy Depart- ment and the British admiralty heretofore, and neither has hesitated to apply to the other for information whenever desired. British officials have been supplied freely, not only with information of, but opportu- nity for, watching the tests of modern ar- mor plates produced by our patented pro- cesses, and in return we have been cour- teously treated whenever application has been made to the British for information, but whether the plans of the Havock have been so procured cannot be learned. + e+ AN AGREEMENT TO VOTE. it om the Border of a Mutual Un- derstanding. 1t 1s expected that at an early date an agreement will be formally entered upon as to the time when a vote shall be taken on the tariff. 1t has been expected for several days that Mr. Harris would make @ move in that direction. The general un- derstanding was that no agreement being reached, an attempt would be made on | Monday to keep the Senate in session until ¥ or 10 o'clock at night, and after that to have sessions every night. 1t is now said that the two sides are just hanging on the border of an agreement for a vote not later than June 15, an early date being urged by the democrats, and that the effort to hold night sessions will not be made at once. ‘The general understanding has been reached meanwhile that the metal schedule is to be completed today, if possible, so 13 to have an early adjournment for the day; the wood schedule to be completed on Monday, and the sugar schedule to be taken up on ‘Tuesday. On this last schedule there will be a hot fight, which may last several days. When this is done with the worst will be over, and it is the expectation that a time for a vote on the bill can then be fixed. ee Completing the Census. It was given out yesterday by Col. Carroll D, Wright, superintendent of the eleventh census, that the work of the census will be completed by July 1, | with the exception of parts of the ; final vital statistics, population and farms and mortgages. These will be completed, probably, during July, but the proof reading and. revision will require some months to complete. Three hundred employes of the bureau will be dismissed on June 30. SE ASENT SCTE, Local Acts Approved. The President today approved the act to provide for the sale of new tickets by the | street railway companies in the District of Columbia and making the tickets inter- changeable, and the act for the relief of the heirs and creditors of Elizabeth Townsend of the District of Columbia, The Debate on This Subject in the Senate Today. SENATOR HILL FOR FREE ENTRY He Says He Proposes to Be Con- sistent in His Acts. > MATTERS IN THE HOUSE + "The indications pointed to a lively day in the Senate over the lead schedule of the tariff bill. Twenty-three minutes were spent waiting for a quorum of Senators to appear. For the first time since Mr. Harris was placed in charge of the tariff bil) he was not in his seat. The delay in securing @ quorum shut out the consideration of the Hawatian resolution. At 10:30 the tariff de- bate was resumed. The paragraphs passed over yesterday were taken up. The first was 156, relating to the duty om wheels of iron or steel, car and locomotive whe2ls, etc. . The original Jones amendment increased the rate in the House bill from 30 to 40 per cent ad valorem. Today Mr. Vest moved to substitute a specific rate of 1 1-4 cents per pound. The McKinley rate is 2 1-2 cents per poun Mr. Quay supported the Vest amendment as preferable to an ad valorem duty. It was agreed to. The Duty on Lead. The lead paragraph was then taken up. ‘The House bill made lead ore and lead dross dutiable at 15 per cent ad valorem upon the lead contained therein, and classified silver lead ores as silver ores where the silver con- tents exceeded in value the lead contents, and admitted them free of dutv. The finance committee amendment made lead ore dutiable at 3-4 of one cent per pound, and made silver lead ores dutiable at the same rate on the lead contents, according to sample and assay at the port of entry. Mr, Dubois offered an amendment, which was accepted by Mr. Jones, fixing as the method of sample and assay that commer- clally adopted in the United States. Mr. Shoup (Idaho) made quite ‘an elab- orate argument in favor of a duty on ar- gentiferous lead ore, going largely into the extent of the silver lead ore industry in Idaho and other mining states and terri- tories of the west. He contended that the mines of the west could not compete with the peon labor of Mexico, and said that if silver lead ore was admitted free of duty from Mexico almost every silver lead mine in the United States would be closed. Mr. Shoup concluded at 12:10, after speak- ing over an hour and a half Senator Hill's Amen Something of a flurry followed when Mr. Hill GN. Y.) arose, as it was well under- stood that he purposed a vigorous attack on the lead schedule. He began by moving to place lead ore and argentiferous lead ore on the free list, but as there were only few Senators in the chamber Mr. Aldrich ixgested the absence of a quorum. He wanted a full Senate to witness the New York Senator’s arraignment of his rtd associates. The electric bells brought fifty- five Senators in the chamber. Mr. Hill made his argument in a quiet, even-tempered manner, although at times he threw both energy and feeling into WAL Thpeerountry was the bill was not satisfactory to him and had not been satis- factory to him since it was reported, he was now and always had been in favor of its prompt disposition. He had favored a change of the rules in order to facilitate action, because he believed that the best Way to facilitate action was to give the majority the power to fix the time for tak- ing the final vote, instead of depending bag the caprice and whims of the minor- ity. Not Responsible tur Delay. None of the responsibility for delay rested upon him, He regretted that a few Sena- tors on his side—very few, he was glad to say—were opposed to adopting the direct method. But he was not disposed to criti- cise them, They acted according to their ideas of public duty. He acted according to his. He thought it was idle for his party associates to criticise their friends on the other side of the political aisle for exercis- ing their privileges under the liberal rules of the Senate when they refused to apply the remedy that was open to them. They were pursuing the same course the demo- crats pursued in 1890 in the fight against the force bill. The remedy for this condi- tion of affairs lay in proceeding in a prompt, plain, manly fashion and rearranging the rules. As he had said before, he continued, the bill was not satisfactory to him. it was not satisfactory to other demo- crats om this side of the chamber, and if the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Gorman) the other day intended to have it inferred that there was democratic unity on this bill he had exceeded his authority. The bill would not be satisfactory to him as long as it contained one remnant of the Populistic income tax. Still he thought it the duty of democrats not to defeat it, but to modify and perfect it. Mr. Hill pro- ceeded to explain that he had voted against Mr. Teller's motion to table the bill be- cause he did not desire to kill the meas- ure before it was fully considered and an honest effort was being made to modify it. He had voted the other day, he went on, to place dron ore on the free list. That vote stood solitary and alone as far as dei tig votes were concerned. He did not afiticipate that the motion he now made would be carried. Yet it ought not to re- quire any argument to convince a demo- cratic Senator that lead ore should go on the free Hst. The democratic party stood pledged to it. Lead ore was a raw ma- terial and the party was committed to free raw materials. * Mr. Hill, in conclusion, declared that he Proposed to be consistent Iimself in his ad- voeacy of free raw materials and he pro- posed to place those who were not on rec- ord, Other Senators Gave Their Views. Mr. Vest, in reply, explained that the duty fixed was/the rate of the Mills bill; that the question @f a duty on lead ore was a ques- tion betwéen the miners and smelters rep- resenting ‘the lead trust, and that, as be- tween the two, the committee had discrimi- nated in favor of the miners. Senators Stewart, Dubois, Dolph, Aldrich and Power followed in the order given. Mr. Dubois criticised Senator Hill for his cham- pionship of the white lead trust and the smelting combine, which, he said, were the only interests that could be benefited by free lead ore, and spoke of the action of the finance committee in providing for a duty ‘on this article and for sampling and assay- ing ores at the port of entry as a generous act, which the people interested thoroughly appreciatéd. TJenator tewart characterized the course of the cofimittee on this article of importa- tion as a/discrimination against the west. Senator AMrich declared the adoption cf the amendment would result in the destruction of the lead mining interest in the inter- mountain’ states. Senator Power devoted his attention largely to the white lead trust. Senator Dolph made a general attack upon The tariff bill. His Amendment Lost. The vote on Mr. Hill's motion to place lead ores on the free lst was defeated, yeas, 3; nays, 52. Mills, Hill and Irby were the only affirmative votes. Murphy voted against Hill's motion. Sarcastic Congratulations. After the result of the votes was announc- ed Senator Hill, rising from his xeat, said: “I desire to congratulate the distinguished Senator from Maryland that he is now leading both sides of the chamber with great unanimity,” to which Senator Ald- rich replied that there had never been any doubt on the republican side that the Sen- ator from Maryland would be found stand- ing for protection. THE HOUSE. There wes an vnusual number of bills taken up and disposed of in the morning hour in the House today to compensate for the numerous objections to the consider- ation of private bills made when the appro- priation bills were under consideration. Among those agreed to was one introduced by Mr. Geary of California, granting certain rights over Lime Point military reservation in California for the purpose of constructing a highway; also a bill granting to the vil- lage of Dearborn, Mich., certain lands known as “Dearborn Arsenal” for village Purposes, and a bill to authorize the Mis- sourt River Power Conipany to construct a dam across the Missouri river in Montana. The following reports from the joint com- mission to investigate the business of the executive departments were made and or- dered to be printed as documents: By Mr. Dockery, to change the form of treasury notes; by Mr, Richardson, to dispose of old money orders, and by Mr. Dingley, to dis- pose of international money orders. The state bank tax al bill then came up, and Mr. Springer of iilinols addressed the House. Pay of Letter Carriers. The House committee on post offices and Post roads has agreed upon a bill increas- ing the pay of letter carriers. The bill pro- vides that after June 30, 1895, the pay of letter carriers in cities of more than 75,000 population, for the first year of service, shall be $600; for the second year, $800; for the third year, $1,000; for the fourth and thereafter, $1,200; and, after June 30, 1895, the pay of letter carriers in cities of popula- tion under 75,000, for the first year of ser- vice shall be $600; for the second year, $800; for the third and thereafter, $1,000. set COLUMBIA ROAD CABLE It is Said the Directors Favor This Motive 4 Power. No Definite Time Fixed, but It is Claimed That the Change Will Be Made Soon. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Columbia street railroad on Wednesday last a committee was appointed, of which the president, Mr. Baker, is a member, to secure estimates of the cost of making a change in the mechanical power. This committee has invited estimates from the representatives of the Buda Pesth electric underground system and from the com- panies that put down the cable. No further action has been taken in the premises, it is said, as all the information desired has not been secured. No definite time has been fixed upon for making this change in the motive power, but one of the directors said this morning that he supposed the .ommit- tee would be able to reach some final con- clusion very soon, and then, he <aid, the work of construction could be begua. While estimates are being secured of the cost of putting in the two systems named it is understood that a majority of the board favor the cable system. It is fur- ther stated that no effort was made to ob- tain an estimate of the expense of the system, which is in ity. It is generally stated the teak anor =. the affairs outside of the management that the cable road is the mechanical power which will be introduced road if any change is made. It is esti- mated that the cost of the cable for the three miles of double track which con- stitutes the line of this road will be half & million of dollars. Reasons for the Action. It is explained that the motive for this action on the part of the directors at this time is largely due to the necessity which is before the company of making a larze expenditure of money, and the conclusion was reached that it would be wise to as- sume the cost of a change in the motive Power, which would embrace the pending charges on the road, and many which would Iikely arise in the future. For ex- ample, the company have not completed the equipment of their road with the approved grooved rails as required by law, and the Commissioners, acting under the same au- thority, advertised for proposals to lay these rails at the cost of the company. This item alone, it is estimated, would amount to about $60,000. Then, again, a resolution was recently in- troduced in the Senate requiring the com- pany to equip the road with an entire set of new cars. This resolution has not yet become a law, but it is among the possibilt- ties. It is calculated that these two ite alone would involve an expenditur® on the part of the company of at t $100,000, and that having been accomplished, the com- pany would be still threatened with legisla- tion on a change in the motive pow- er, or giving some other com; the righ to use their tracks. ee ees In view of all these considerations, it is stated, the directors reached the conclu- sion that they ought to be in a position to say that they were going to make a Lames in the motive power. It will be re- mem! that about a year ago the stock- holders authorized the directors to make change in the motive power of the road. Thereupon the directors announced that it was their intention to equip the road with the underground electric system in opera- tion in Buda Pesth, Rensons for the Delay. It is explained now on the part of the di. rectors that the delay in making this change has been due, in the first instance, to the financial depression, and, in the sec- ond place, to the experiments which were being made by other roads with electric systems. The company is aleo anxious to secure extensions both at the east and west ends of the line, and a bill is now pending in Congress to secure these additional privi- leges. In the meantime, it is believed by the officials of the road that neither the Commissioners nor Congress will insist up- on the payment of the moneys which the Proposed improvements would involve, in view of this contemplated change, which would, it is claimed, also include the others. The road is tho it to be well adapted for a cable, as it is practically a straight line, there being only three curves in it, and they are of a very slight character, and the grades throughout being extremely easy. The power house, if this system is introduced, can be erected on the property of the company, where the stables are now located. The suggestion was made to a director this morning that perhaps an ar- rangement could be made with the Wash- ington and Georgetown road by which the cable could be run from the power house of that road. The director said that he had not thought of that plan, and had never heard it mentioned before. ‘The prospect now is that the number of cable roads in this city will be increased. If the Columbia road adopts that system it will be the second in the city which has equipped its lines with that form of mechan- ical power. Then it is understood that the purpose of the Metropolitan bill, which was introduced in the Senate yesterday, is to enable that company to equip the 9th street line of its road with the cabl The bill specifies that the motive power shall be the underground, and omits the important word “electric.” Of course, this bill has simply been introduced and has not been con- sidered as yet in either house. oe May Be Restored. The civil service commission has rendered a decision to Secretary Smith that Mr. James H. Wardell, who at the end of the THE CABLE ROAD Propozed Important Changes in the Line of the W. and G. 14TH STREET ROUTE FROM THE AVENUE The Switching of Cars on the Public Streets Prohibited. > THE AQUEDUCT BRIDGB A bill was introduced in the Senate to- day by Mr. McMillan, which, if it becomes law, will make a very important change in the route of the Washington and George- town railroad. The effect of the bill is to make the ldth street cars leave the main line at the corner of 14th street and the avenue and to run thence northward without deflection to the Mount Pleasant terminus. While leaving the avenue line tracks on 15th street that portion of the road will no longer be occupied by the i4th street cars, thus avoiding much of the great confusion now resulting from the duplication of cars at the corner of 5th street and New York avenue. For a long time past it has been noticed that this northeast corner of the treasury building has been the scene of more con- fusion and dangerous driving, partly the result of the tendency of drivers to use this thoroughfare exclusively in making their way to the northwest, and partly caused by the switching of the avenue and 4th street cars at the Y and the —". of cars for the transfer of passengers. number of accidents, more or less seriozs, have occurred at this point since the cable was established, and the problem has recently become quite a serious one. The attention of Senator McMillan was re- cently calied to this matter, and the bill introduced today is the result. The bill is as follows: The Bill in Detail. “The Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company is hereby authorized, empowered and required, within six months after the passage of this act, to change and extend its lines as follows: First, the tracks on 14th Street shall be extended and cars shall be run on that street from New York avenue to Pennsylvania avenue. The tracks now laid on New York avenue between 14th and repaved and put in good order, missioners of the District shall Second, the tracks of said company extended and cars run on M street Georgetown from the present terminus to point near the Aqueduct bridge. “Section 2. The said company six months from the passage cease absolutely to switch cars Streets. The said company is thorized to extend its tracks from ent a, —_ upon land which acquired by the said company for =< switching cars. ESE #4°e, uy E g to a fine of $100 a day for each and every day the company refuses or neglects to make the changes in this act required.” ‘Two Lines on 14th Street. The railroad companies when contemplat- ing the change from a horse to a cable from some source, and the scheme was dangerous and cumbersome system in Vogue on 15th street was adopted and put in operation. The only problem in connec- tion with this change now is in regard to the double presence of rapid transit lines on 14th street from F to H streets, con- templated according to the act settling the Metropolitan railroad problem. When this company shall have improved its lines by the adoption of an underground motive power there will be two slot roads on 14th street between the points named. One crossing will be necessary, as at present, at the corner of 14th and H streets. This, however, will not be difficult to arrange, as cable crossings are frequent, and the cross- ing of an electric and cable line could be devised quite as easily. As 14th street is not a great thoroughfare at this point, the duplication of tracks on that short of two blocks, it is thouught, would not be @ serious obstacle to travel. Another feature of the bill, it will be ob- served, is to compel the extension of the Washington and Georgetown line from its present terminus in Georgetown to the Aqueduct bridge. This change is embodied in a bill introduced earlier in the session at the request of the District Commissioners, which also provided for the establishment of a union passenger house for the conve- nience of this line and all others that might find terminals at this point. There is still another important feature in the McMillan bill, contained in the second section, strikes out what is now unquestionably a menacing nuisance. Switching Cars on the Streets, Cars of this company are now switched on the streets at three points on the line, the 14th street terminus in Mt. -Pleasant, the Navy Yard end of the avenue line and the terminus of the little branch at the Baltimore and Ohio station, where all the 14th street trains are backed and remade. it was at this point that Mrs. Ferguson lost her life during the past winter, an ac- cident which was thought at the time to be due solely to the confusion incident to the switching of these cars in the streets. It is at this point only that the company will be obliged to acquire new property for @ switching house, as at Mt. Pleasant and Navy Yard terminals are now furnished with large power houses where this backing and re-making of trains can be off the public thoroughfare. The present system involves great annoyance to passen- gers riding through to the Navy Yard, who are at present dumped from the trains at least a block away from the end of the line, owing to the accumulation of cars necessi- tated by the system in . The bill was referred without comment te the District committee. That Big Claim, The claim of Dr. Zamorin Nouri, Arch« bishop of Babylon, discoverer of the ark, and the possessor of many other titles, against the United States, which seems to have excited much interest in England, where the potentate is at present, is well known to the officials of the Department of State. They are by no means alarmed at the rapid growth of the claim from $50,000 in Washington to $5,000,000 in London. Dr. Nouri was here last fall, and told the Tur- kish minister the most extraordinary tale of how he was victimized, as the result of a conspiracy in California, while on his way to take part in the congress of relig- |ions at the world’s fair. He claimed to have been robbed of valuables and illegally | confined in a lunatic asylum, and demanded | $50,000 in compensation. Without indorsing this claim the Turkish minister referred it |to the State Department. The officials | wrote to the California authorities, and it | appeared that the story was the creation of a diseased imagination, so that even if the | British government is induced to take up the case it will doubtless be easily satisfied as to its lack of foundation. pein —s An Adverse Decision. Postmaster General Bissell yesterday af- ternoon rendered a decision adverse to Let- ter Carrier Slater of Fort Wayne, Ind., | who had appealed from the action of Post- master Rockhill in dismissing him. Slater month will resign his position as chief falleged that the removal was for political clerk of the census bureau, may be restored to the classified service, and will be ap- pointed by transfer to the pension office. | Beslect ‘of duty. reasons, while Postmaster Rockhill charged | The disposition of the case onal by Mir, Bissell is