Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. ———__—_— *UBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avene, Cor. 11th Street, by The Ev Star Newspaper Company, 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Prest. ‘The Star ts served to ers in the ety iy omen om their own account, at 10 cents per mont! ‘at the counter 1d—-50 vents per th. Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1.00 per year; with foreign a $3. (Bat Office at Washington, D. C., second-class, mail matter.) as -class mall matter. [All mail subscriptions must be paid § advance. it be Rates of advertising made known ———— Che Fvening Star. Vor. 84, No. 20,902. WASHINGTON, D.C. MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1894—TWELVE PAGES. TWO CENTS. SENATORS EXPLAIN| ———— Members of the Finance Committee Tell About Sugar Legislation. JOHN DeWIT? WARNER AND THE TRUST How Secretary Carlisle Came to Draft the Preposed Amendment. ALSO PLEADS CONFIDENCE : ies Senator Gray, as chairman of the special committee to investigate the alleged opera- tions of the sugar trust in connection with tariff legislation, today submitted to the Senate the second batch of testimony taken before that committee concerning the examination of all the democratic mem- bers of the finance committee, including Senators Voorhees, Jones, Harris, Vest, McPherson and Mills, and Secretary Car- Hsle, and John De Witt Warner of the House of Representatives. Senator Jones was questioned especially about Secretary Carlisle's agency in the Breparation of the sugar schedule. He said that he and Senator Vest met Mr. Carlisle incidentally in the room of the Senate committee on appropriations the day before the last amendment to the tariff bill was introduced, and he asked Mr. Car- Msle to prepare the schedule just as he would have asked the clerk of the com- mittee to do, because he had the facts at his command. “We had made up our minds,” said Mr. Jones, “that we were going to prepare a # per cent schedule, and when this propo- sition was made I proposed to Mr. Carlisle to draw up the amendment, or have it drawn. I do not remember whether I sug- gested to him that he should draw it 40 and 45 or 401-8; ry imoression fs 401-8, and the question was whether we would agree to 45 or whether we would stick to the 1-8." What Secretary Carlisle Did. “I asked Mr. Carlisle if he weuld have that drawn, giving him the points, and he said he would. I asked him merely to save myself the labor of it, because, the duta be- ing in the Treasury Department, I thought he would be sure to have all the points cov- ered. I think the next day I got in the mall a typewritten schedule which was just such as I asked to have made, and Senator Vest and I met that morning and talked the mat- ter over, and determined that the 45 per eent would give the refiners a larger mar- gin than the proposed schedule of 40 per cent and one-eighth, as we did not intend to make a larger margin for the retiner than we had already mace. We did not re- port that schedule. I may have taken this schedule from the Treasury Department and changed that, but that is the only instance in which Mr. Carlisle has been connected with the drawing up of the schedule at all, and he drew thai at my request, when we had under consideration the 40 and 45 per cent, or the 40 1-8. I do not know which way he drew it.” In reply to a question from Senator Lodge Mr. Jones first stated that there were no interlineations In the schedule as thus pre- red, but afterward said that his memory been at fault on that point, and that Mr. Carlisle had made the changes, and added: “My recollection ts that I first asked Mr. Carlisle to write that schedule one wi er for 40 and 45, or for 40 1-8 I after- ard asked him to write it the other way. I do not remember exactly when I asked him, but my recollection is he made that change from one to the other. That is the schedule I talked about here. I think that was done. The change was made at my re- quest, if there was one made. I think there Was @ change made at my request.” Mr. Jones stated that Mr. Carlisle had been with the committee frequently when the bill was in course of preparation, but never except when he was sent for, and he never made any proposition with reference to the sugar schedule, though he discussed it at the quest of the committee. “I heard him say a number of times, with reference to collections, that the law could be enforced on ad valorem and a duty col- lected on sugar without any difficulty. As to his insisting on any particular conduct about the collection of the tax, there Was never eny sort of conversation at all.” Senator Harris’ Denial. Senator Harris’ testimony consisted of a general and specific denial of all the allega- tions upon which the investigation fs based. He had never, he said, heard of the reported secret visit of Secretary Carlisle to the finance committee, or of any suggestions he had made with regard to a sugar bounty. He also stated that he had never invested in stocks of any kind, and if other Senators had bought sugar stocks he was unaware of the fact. Representative John DeWitt Warner was examined on the basis of a newspaper state- ment that an effort, which had been Insti- gated by men of great prominence in the democratic party, had been made to cause Mr. Warner to cease his fight for free sugar while the tariff bill was pending in the House. Mr. Warner said that the suggestion had been made to him that if there was not a duty on sugar the sugar trust would beat the bill, but he declined to state from whom the suggestion had come, except that it was from members of the House of Representa=} es. Instractions About the Sagar Trust. He said he had heard very little about the sugar trust until the day before the tariff Dill passed the House, and it had there be- fome nolsed about that that interest was organized for the purpose of defeating his @mendment and carrying a duty on sugar. Senator Davis asked the witness how many lumes tn the course of the consideration of the bill in the House it was intimated to him that persons interested in the sugar Interest hh: contributed to the success of the tmocratic party in New York. Mr. Warner answered that this phase of the Question has frequently been suggested to him, not as information, but as a probabil- ty. In regard to the alleged campatgn contributions by the sugar trust, Mr. War- ner said he had often heard it charged that there was one, possibly amounting to $300,- vou, but he knew nothing about it. Mr. times refused to give the Warner several that he ha P ntidence stven him information sd in any trproper way He thought many eral way, to show had un about reply to gu tative W = did 1 been inti- ement this me > he a Sit sur ve been particularly in- t about 4 and in authorit; dence. asked about rlisie’s sugar, nd he der had ever t 4 with but once, to I on 5 ¥ Mr. Havemeyer. and should not know bim if I should meet him. Nor do I know a human being who belongs to the trust.” He also said he had never seen the memo- Tandum on the sugar schedule which Mr. Carlisle was alleged to have prepared and handed to him. Mr. Voorhees said that he had been in frequent consultation with Secretary Carlisle on various other features of the tariff, and that having been a mem- ber of the committee for seventeen years he knew It to be the practice of the com- mittee to consult with the Secretary in ecnsiderirg financial matters. Mr. Voorhees also declared that there was not a word of truth in the story of the Sunday meeting of the finance com- mittee while ghose interested in sugar occupied an adjacent room end prepared the sugar schedule. Senator Vest’s Testimony. Senator Vest also denied the statement. He said that Mr. Carlisle was in the com- mittee room from time to time, and con- sulted with the members of the committee in regard to the tariff bill; that he ex- pressed great anxiety that the committee should agree upon some measure, and that it should become a law, but he made no statement about party obligations to the sugar trust. Mr. Vest said he an in- distinct recollection of Mr. Carlisle draw- ing up a provision in regard to sugar, but he did not know who received ft, nor did he know that he had ever seen it. At any rate it was not the schedule that was adopted, and if he did prepare a schedule his preparation of it had no connection with the reported scene in the committee room, which never occurred. He pronounced as “a lie made out of whole cloth” the story that he had changed front on sugar, and had said that he would be compelled to cease associating with Joe Rickey, because of the suspicion which might be aroused by the fact that Rickey was a speculator. “I was for free sugar,” he said, “but I was finally compelled to favor 1 cent a pound cn raw sugar and no duty on refined sugar and no ad valorem.’” He said that on refined sugar the first de- mand was for a quarter of a cent on re- fined sugar and 33 1-3 per cent ad valorem. Mr. Havemeyer, he said, filed that in the committee, and he still had it in his drawer, as it was rejected. ‘He said the sugar people had been very aggressive and had made a great deal of difficulty. The planters and refiners had been alike importunate. “But at last,” he said, “‘we just turned them out of the com- mittee room and made this bill as it is now.” He said he had never exchanged a word with Rickey about sugar, and never gave him any information. He said Rickey came to his house several times, but he did not see him. He also safd he never gave any person the slightest intimation of what the committee was doing and that he had no fn- terest, either remote, contingent or other- wise, In giving out infarmation. Mr. Rickey never tried to get information from him. “All that,” he said, “is a willful pack of lies.” He said the refiners wanted an ad val- orem duty and the planters a specifi Mr. Vest said that while the bili was in committee Mr. Havemeyer had come to his house and brought him samples and spread them out and explained the difference be- tween the ad valorem and specific systems, but there was no secrecy or concealment about his visit. He had come as any other manufacturer would and had made an ar- gument for what he wanted. Delegations representing the Louisiana interest had also called on him. Closing his testimony Mr. Vest said: “‘ have never used my official position for pri- vate purposes. Any statement that I have is absolutely false, as is also any statement that I ever gave any information or had any connection with the sugar trust abso- lutely false. If anybody can make the de- nial broader I wish he would do so.” —s DRESSED GRANITE To Be Substituted om the Post Office for Rough Stone. ‘The recent agitation in behalf of an ar- tistie improvement in the architecture of public buildings, has moved Mr. O'Rourke, Supervising architect of the treasury, to make a change in the plans of the Post Office building in this city. The change affects only the exterior appearance of the building and makes no alteration in the general plan of construction. The origi- nal plan called for walls of rough, un- dressed Maine granite. Architect O'Rourke thinks that the general effect of the use of such material on a large building, such as this will be, would be gloomy and de- pressing. As he said to a Star reporter, “the buflding ‘would look more like a jail or reformatory than a post office,” and he added that its great size would merely em- phasize that impression. The building will be one of the tallest ever erected by the government and being at the national cap- ital, it will naturally be subject to more criticism than if it were anywhere else. Consequently the authorities are desirous that it should make a good appearance. ‘The plan of improvement does not apply to the work already done, but to that which 13 to foliow. ‘The contract for the super- structure contemplated that the exterior walls should be constructed of quarry cut granite of a dark gray color. This re- quired the use of stone with rough uneven surtace, giving to the whole a dark and rugged aspect. Courses of this stone have now been lald nearly to the second floor of the building. It is now proposed to discon- tinue the further use of the rough stone in the walls and to substitute therefor dressed, smooth-faced granite. The object of the change is to make the exterior of the structure brighter and more cheerful looking. The architect says he is satis- fied that this effect will be produced by the use of dressed granite. The change will increase the cost of the building, but will not materially delay its completion, In Mr. O'Rourke's opinion the artistic improvement that will result from the change will more than compensate for the comparatively trifling additional ex- nse. The plan has been approved by Secretary Carlisle and Assistant Secretary Curtis, and the contractor has expressed his entire Willingness to act in accordance therewith. ‘The law clerk of the architect's office is looking Into the legal aspects of the case and altering the provisions of the contract the changed conditions. When these legal formalities are concluded and the government's interests protected in every respect the plan will be put into im- mediate operation. ——_—__--e+ NOMINATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT. A New Second Ass mt Postmaster General Named. The President today sent the following nominations to the Senate. Treasury.—George E. VanKennen of New thers with | York to be collector of customs for the dis- d trict of Ozwegatchie, New York; Charles Neilson of Maryland to be second assistant postmaster general vice J. Lowrie Bell, re- signed. _Postmasters—P. A. Pearson, Kinsley, Kan.; Jno. W. Clendenin, Anthony, Kan.; Joseph b. Fugate, wton, Kan.; Harry Minneapolis, Kan.; Warren MePh. Kan.; Cocper, Lien: Leavenwe ‘ola, an.; Wm. Edgar C. Sexton, Post, Augusta, cer, Kittie 3. Coluabus, as; Philip H. eves, Keyser, W. Va. Charies Nelison, wno was today appoint- ed second assistant postmaster general, bas been in the railway mall service for about one as assistant superintendent. He has been a railroad man for many years. o+— A New Gan. A new three-inch ten-pound breech-load- ing gun,the invention of Lieut. F. F. Fletch- er of the navy, will be tested at the Indian Head proving grounds this week. It was tructed at the Pratt & Whitney shops con at Hartford, Conn. -. Going Back to Chile. Ex v. Porter of Tennessee, United States ministei Chile, who has been home for several weeks, was at the State De- partment today arranging for bis return to his post. ARTIFICIAL LAKES|MENACING HEALTAHIBIED BY THE FINEST Further Purchase of. Land for Rock Oreck Park. aE PRESIDEN APPROVES THE PLAN A Dam and a Body of Water Con- templated. SEVENTY-EIGHT ACRES Pp With the purchase of 78.76 acres, of land for the sum of $29,976.50 the Rock Creek Park commission disposes of about all the money which Congress intrusted to {t to disburse and secures possession of tefritory needed forthe making of a great artificial lake—a feature of the park for which the commission have been looking out ever since they made their first survey of the land needed. At this time Rock creek is the only aqueotis feature of the park, but when the dam which is planned has been built, evén the oldest inhabitant would find it next to impossible to recognize the country round about the lake that will then be formed. This latest purchase also provides @ sufficiency of land for an avenue around the borders of the big sheet of water; a most desirable accession to the reservation. On Friday last Mr. C. C. Glover presented to President Cleveland the following docu- ment for his consideration: “The commission to select the land for Rock Creek Park find that for the sum of twenty-nine thousand, nine hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty cents ($20, 976.50) they can acquire enough land on the east side of Rock creek an artificial lake, the banks of which will follow the land contours shown by the ac- accompanying map, and on the west side | enough to include within the park lines some very desirable high lands, which can now be purchased at the appraised price. “All of this land is included within the lines of the park as originally surveyed and condemned. It has not hitherto been pur- chased because the commission has not, until now, been assured that the amount of money at its disposal would be adequate. It has now such assurance. These lands can be purchased, at present, at their con- demned values. In a few years a much larger sum would be required. ‘The act of Congress virtually directs that so many acres be bought as can be acquired your approval of the proposed purchase of these 78.76 acres, according to the accom- panying maps, we are dischurging the lust duty in the acquisition of the park imposed upon us by law. ‘We respectfully ask, as the act in ques- tion provides, that you approve the pur- chase by us of fourteen (14) acres of tract sixteen (16) on the park map at the price of four hundred and two dollars ($402) per acre; of 62.66 acres of tract seventeen (17) at the price of three hundred and seventy- five dollars ($875) per acre, and of 2.1 acres of tract eighteen (1§) at the price of four hundred and ten dol ($410) per acre; in all, 78.76 acres, for the sum of twenty-nine thousand, rine hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty cents ($29,076.50). } The President pbc sowettypn On Saturday the with the following thereon by the President: | “The purchase of the lands within referred |to and more particularly, Indfcated on the map accompanying this application, at the prices specified, is hereby approved. GROVER CLEVELAND,” With this authorization, which is the sec- | ond one by President Cleveland, the com- mission gets nearly all the land it deemed necessary to make the park worthy of the _eity. In the original plan the idea was to secure an appropriation sufficient to pur- chase not less than two thousand acres, | but so many obstacles were thrown in the way that the commission found it impos- sible to buy more than seventeen hundred | acres, which, however, is regarded as be- | Ing a satisfactory quantity. The commis- | sion has been fortunate in having the sym- | Pathetic interest of the two Presidents un- der wnom it has been engaged in its work. | President Harrison was quite enthuslastic in doing everything he possibly could to make the park a certainty, and President Cleveland developed no less interest than Was apparent in his predecessor. Private Secretary Thurber, too, has been anxious | to help the good cause along. | Washingtonians who have been much | concerred over the condition of lower Rock | creek and who have feared that virulent | disease would result from the effluvia that | much-befouled stream emits, will doubtless , be pleased to learn that the construction _ of the artificial lake referred to will result ,in frequent flushing of the bed of the | stream—now nothing more than nor less | than a sewer—and a certain improvement | in ganitary conditions in that vicinity. —— a CAN'T LET GO. ‘The House Unable to Stop Debate on the State Bank Tax Repea ‘The House having got hold of the question | State bank | of the repeal of the tax does not seem to know how to let &6 of It. It is very generally understood that the repeal cannot be accomplished, yet there has been displayed a more general desire to talk on the subject than there Waa to discuss the tariff when it was in the Hotse. The declaration in favor of the re- peal was so positive and unqualified in the dernocratic national platform that the dem- ocrats who intend to vote against the preposiion feel compelled to make some ex- plgnatian of their position before doing so. he disregard of platform declarations is is such a serious matter usually, but the en so generally ignored that the demo- erats are becoming sensitive as to the accu- mulation of instances of its violation. There {s but one opinion, apparently, as to what the result of the vote on the bank tax avill be, and those most interested have beeh trying to force a vote so as to have th in will run. The Indian appropriation bill is pressing for consideration, and a determin- | ed effort will be made to clear the way for jit. “Mr. weuld cail it up tomorrow, ratsing the ques- tion of consideration against the other | measure. + oo Today's Election in Oregon, Oregon today will vote for a full state ticket, members of Congress and legisla | ture, to choose a successor to United States Senator Dolph. The republicans have made an.; David | a thorough canvass of the state during the | A. | past six weeks. The democrats have not | | conducted an aggressive campaign on the state ticket. | idle. Gov. Pennoyer, who is an avowed candi- date for the Senate, has traversed the state from one end to the ether on behalf of the populisis, making speeches In almost every ceunty seat. ! s0-- Personal Mention. J. Tyler Ellison, mayor of Richmond, Va., is stopping at the Ebbitt. Hon. Chauncey F. Black of York, Pa, is at the Ebbitt. 1. A. Whitcomb and family of Boston, who is traveling for his hv ith, are at the El bitt with his family physician, Dr. Gay. Capt. A. P. Lacey, 1315 Clifton street, is still seriously Indisposed, no nge for the iast. ee Postmasters’ Terms Expire. masters will expire this month. Most of them are ta New York, Penasylvamia and to provide for | for the sum appropriated, and in asking) fanks of this particular platform have; matter done with, but there fs no tell- ; how far into the week the discussion | Holman announced today that he! The populists have not been | better having taken place since Monday | The terms of sixty-three presidential post- | Foul Odors From the Cellars of the Oapitol. Old Volames Rotting Away—A Radical House (Cleaning Recommended by the Inspecting Committee. A subcommittee of the House ventilation and acoustics commi:tee Visited the subter- Tanean recesses of the Capitol Saturday afternoon on a tour of inspection to see for themselves the orig'n of the foul air which a’cends from the vasement and vitiates the atmosphere which Congressmen breathe. Chairman Shell and Mr. Walker comprised the committee and they were escorted by Architect Clark of the Capitol. The things which they saw—and espe- elally the things which they smelled—urged them afterward to exclaim with the man in the song, “We'll never go there any more.” It will be remembered that several weeks ago, as related in The Sta> at the time, several sanitary experts of the govern- ment service Inspected the system of ven- tilation of the House and reported that it is bad, very bad. After enumerating many causes of foul air in the House and fauity ventilation they reported that one promi- nent source of contamination of the at- mosphere is the cellar under the Capitol. They said that there are thousands of tons of decaying and moldering matter in the cellar constantly contaminating the air, and as there is no outlet for this tainted alr except up the stairways and elevator shafts into the main building the consequence is that the pure air which is fanned into the bullding is constanlly fouled by the atmosphere from below. To Clear the Vaults. The committee went down to see what there is in the cellar. The first place they struck was a series of vaults in which are stored 1,250,000 volumes of govern- ment publications. There are 600,000 yol- umes in one apartment, and many of these | books have been stored there for thirty years. They present a vast bulk of decom- | posing vegetable matte>, which is constant- |ly tainting the atmosphere with impuri- | tes. The committee will recommend that | these books be distributed pro rata among | the members, carted away and the vaults fumigated and whitewa: |. A number of other rooms were visited In which eld docu. | ments are stored, where they are mildew- ‘ing and rotting away, and these rooms | will also be included in the clearing-out recommendation. Other Places. The committee visited the bath rooms | where the Congressman is bathed and rubbed down at the government's expense, and found that more ventilation should be furnished. They communicate directly with an elevator shaft, and th» impurities ascend | the shaft to be distributed around the cor- ridors and halls of the upper floors, In the rooms under the terrace the com- mittee found cords upon cords of fire wood 1s cked up, room after room filled with | | | te paper and rubbish, and the atmos- phere so close und foul as to be almost un- bearable. All of this alr ascends directly to the upper regions, having no other out- let, and mingles with the atmosphere which e members breathe. The committee will recommend that these rooms be cleaned out and whitewashed and a system of ventila- tion arranged to keep them supplied with fresh air. In the kitchen of the House restaurant they found a strong current of air venti- lating the rooms. The trouble is, however, that the vitlated air is not carried out of the building, but penetrates the upper cor- ridors, and one can stand-ia the hall, four stories above, and tell from the odors what Is being cooked tm the cellar. ‘The committee made a thorough Inspection of the entire cellar, and will hold a meeting at an early date to present proper legisla- tion to correct the evils found, aa | TO SETTLE LABOR TROUBLES, A National Board of Arbitration Pro- poned by Representative Kiefer. A plan for referring labor strike differ- ences to a national board of arbitration has been formulated by Representative Kiefer of Minnesota, after some time spent by him in studying a means by which the federal government could adjust the differences be- tween employers and employes. Mr. Kiefer is a member of the labor committee, and will first present his measure to that body before introducing it In the House. He is ready to have the committee amend or im- prove it, as his main desire is to secure a bill of practical form which will secure arbitration for labor troubles. Mr. Kiefer’s bill provides for the appoint- ment by the President of three commis- sioners of arbitration. The commissioner of labor Is made an ex-officio member of the arbitration board. The goverhor of a state In which a labor controversy occurs is also a member. The board of arbitration thus consists of five members. The means of securing arbitration by the board are specifically provided. Applica- tion is first made to the governor, the form of application being set forth in the bill. The application can be made by employers or employes. In the latter case the appli- cation must be in behalf of at least fifty employes of an organization having 1,000 members throughout the country. If the governor is satisfied that a conflict exists which cannot be amicably settled he applies to the national board of arbitration to take charge of the question. The board assem- bles at the state capital, hears evidence and erbitrates the difference in the usual man- ner. Its decisions are made as binding as those of a federal court law. Provision is also made enforcing the decision of arbitra- tion. Pending the hearings of the board, the governor is clothed with powers to pr ‘serve the peace and suppress a strike. Mr. Kiefer appreciates that the state right argument will be raised against the bill. He has conferred with a number of law- yers, however, and he is hopeful of having the bill conform to all constitutional re- quirements. 2 ONLY HERE A DAY. Secretary Herbert Returns to Wash- ington, but Has Left for Alabama. Secretary Herbert, who arrived here Saturday afternoon from his long trip to the Pacific coast, left again suddenly last night for his home in Montgomery, Ala. | Political affairs in that state are sald to | be considerably out of joint, and it is un- derstood that the Secretary will endeavor to straighten them out in the interests of he adrftinistration. He had to go at this time in order to register for the fall elec- tions, He will return to the city on Thurs- day, and will attend the graduating exer- cises at the Naval Academy. ph oud | Sasbetae eis eee ee Seeretary Lamont Returns, Secretary Lamont has returned to Wash- | ington after a week's absence in New York ‘on private business. He spent nearly the | entire time today listening to appeals for | mercy in behalf of the unfortunate clerks | who have lost their means of livelihood under the recent reorganization of the War | Department in the interests of economy. There were no further reducti y far as can be learned. Heay tions will be made, however, between now and the first proximo in the record and pension office and the war records office. | —_ ++ | Appointed Assistant. | Mr. C. L. Marlatt of Kansas has been ap- pointed assistant entomologist uf the Agri- cultural Department,vice Mr, L, O. Howard, promoted. Mr. Marlatt is secretary of the Entomological Club of the American Asso- clation for the Advancement of Sclence, and is a member of various other scientific | Thirty fine buildings in Ottumwa, Iowa, were burned yesterday, causing a loss of $225.00. a boy was ourned to death, Damaging Testimony Against New York Police. AN OFFICER WITH EXPENSIVE TASTES Given Five Dollars for a Drink and Cigar. BLACKMAIL BY BLUECOATS NEW YORK, June 4.—The Lexow com- mittee, which is invstigating the charge that the police blackmailed the criminal classes here, resumed its sessions today. Attorney Stillwell, the former counsel of Gideon Granger, formerly the son-in-law of Police Commissioner McClave, appeared in court before the session opened and an- nounced that he would ask the privilege of taking the stand and refuting under oath a statement made by Delancey Nicoll, the counsel for the police department, that he was keeping Granger away. Timothy Donohue, a junk dealer, was the first witness called. Counsel Goff sought to bring out that he had paid a policeman attached to the Oak Street station to secure the acquittal of his son, who had been arrested on the com- plaint of an Italian woman for stealing a lock. ‘The witness parried the attempts of coun- sel for a long time, but finaly was forced to acknowledge that he gave the officer %. Then he said the policeman testified in — Donohue's favor, and he was acquit- t “I gave it not as a bribe, but for him to buy a drink and a cigar,” said the witness, who appeared to be frightened. “He must have had expensive tastes,” said Senator Bradley. “No. He did not smoke or drink.” “Then what did you give him $5 for?” The witness offered this curious explana- tion: “Because I am built that way.” This provoked a laugh, and the witness lost his scared look. Délancey Nicoll cross-examined the wit- ness in a manner which caused the chair- man to remind him that questions permis- sible during a trial were not proper before an investigating committee. ‘The name of the policeman and the date of the trial was not brought out. Lawyer Goff said that the publication in the newspapers that the witnesses before the committee would be summoned before the police board and the grand jury intim- idated them. He said two of his witnesses had left the state rather than testify. tor O'Connor said the press could not m . Mr, ‘Nicoll said the police would suspend in the charges against mem- the department until the senate committee had fnished. Augusta Theria, a dressmaker of 63 West 40th street, took the stand. She gave important direct testimony against the police. She formerly lived on 2d avenue, where for four years she kept a house of {ll repute. Wardman Bissart of the fourteenth precinct, under Capt. Me- Culiough, called every month and demand- ed $10 or $20. He always received it. Then came Capt. Dougherty and his wardman, named Barney Mehan. The detective ex- acted tribute like his predecessors. vhen she failed to come to time once she raided on October 25, 1802. She was taken to Essex Market police court. Then she was tried in special sessions and fined $25. Then Berney Mehan told her to go and “see the old “She saw Capt. Dougherty at the station house. I told him I could not pay big money. He answered, “I will send my wardman, and do as he tells you.”’ Barney Mehan came as told above. tmes he got $25. sue LSE Se OHIO REPUBLICANS. Some- Program of the Convention to Meet at Columbus Tomorrow. Special Dispatch to ‘The Evening Star. COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 4.-The program of the republican state convention this week {s arranged to cover two days. The work will probably be concluded in that time, ‘The delegates will meet by congres- sional districts,in rooms in the state capitol building, at 2 p. m. tomorrow. Each dele+ gation will then select one delegate to be a member of the credentials committee, one for the permanent organization committee, one for the committee on rules and order of business, one for the committee on resolu- tions and one to be a member of the state central committee, At 4 p. m, the conven- tion will meet as one body in the Grand Opera House, when the selections made in the congressional delegation meetings will be announced, the set speeches by Col. J. C, Bonner of Toledo, chairman of the state central committee, and Hon. Bellamy Stor- er of Cincinaati,temporary chairman of the convention, made, and adjournment taken until 10 o'clock on Wednesday. The com- mittees will meet to organize and trans- act their business in the evening and prepare their reports, including that of the resolutions committee, for pre- sentation the next day. This will shut off the presentation of undesirable resolutions in the convention and their discussion up- on the floor, The platform will undoubt- edly indorse the platform adopted by the party in national convention at Minneapo- lis, commend specially the McKinley tar- iff law, denounce the present national ad- ministration and lay upon its shoulders the blame for the industrial and commercial depression now suffered, and commend the administration of Gov. McKinley. Possibly a clause Indorsing the work of the legis- lature which has just adjourned may be inserted, but it is more likely that the leg- islature will be passed over in silence. Such a plank would not look well published side by side with severe criticisms made upon the work of the legislature by many of the leading republican newspapers in the state recently. J. E. Breaden of Greenville has been se- lected as temporary secretary of the con- vention, and he has selected the following assistants: Harry Miner, Columbus; L. R. Davis, Piqua; John R. Malloy, Columbus; Harry 8. Griffith,Mt. Gilead; Marcus Shoup, Xenia; B. Moore, Bowling Green, and W. . Penn, Rockford. H. H. Williams of Urbana will be the sergeant-at-arms. It is now a certainty that Secretary of State 5. M. Taylor will be nominated by the convention for a second term; that Col. C. E. Grace will be nominated again for mem- ber of the board of public works, and that the nomination for commissioner of com- mon schools will go to the present incum- bent, Prof. O. T. Corson. For the fourth and remaining place on the ticket the fight has now become a triangular one. Judge John A. Shouck of Dayton,a member of the circuit court bench for several years, is now a candidate for supreme judge, and with Judge F. J. Dickman, the present in- cumbent, and Judge J. L. Price of Bellefon- taine, also after that nomination, the con- test promises to be an interesting one—the only interesting feature of the convention, no doubt, The advent of Judge Shouck, it is believed, however, only increases Judge Dickman's chances for the nomination, as it will divide the opposition to him. 1D BLOODSHED. . Chinn and “Bad Hayes, CHICAGO, June 4.—Last night Col, Jack Chinn, the Kentucky horseman; Tom Mul- quin, the Denver gambler and “killer,” and Ned Hayes, the “monte thrower” and “bad man,” met in a triangular brawl. Chinn and Hayes have long been bitter enemies for reasons known only to them- selves, but had not met before for nearly ten years. Last week Chinn returned to Chicago from the Pacific coast. Hayes got iuto town a few days after. Chinn dropped into the Monroe street resort, where, with their backs toward the Kentuckian, “Killer” Tom Muilquin. and Ned Hayes were en- gaged in a heated discussion about Denver affairs, Chinn, as soon as he espied Hayes, made for him. As he reached his side the discussion between Mulquin and Hayes had warmed up to such a pitch that the lie was passed by Hayes to the man from Denver. Col. Chinn heard it. “Kill the rat, Tom,” the Kentuckian shouted, drawing a murderous 44-caliber weapon from his pocket and passing it to Mulquin over the bar. The latter grabbed for the firearm, and drew back to let it go, _ The proof of fhe pudding is in fBe cating. Yesterday's Sfar contained 55 cofumns of advertisements, made up of 1089 separate announce: ments. These advertisers pace. THESUGARSCHEDULE It is Still the Subject of Debate in the Senate. but a dozen arms soon entwined the form of the Denverite, and the gun was wrested from his grasp. A dozen more took hold of Hayes and dragged him out of the saloon, while a number of Chinn's friends forced the man from Harrodsburg into a corner, where he was held pinioned till Hayes gotten out of the way. Hayes’ wrath knew no bounds, and while being dragged from the place he rates that he would @ven matters with “hinn. Friends tried to calm the maddened man. He got away from his friends, however, and bolted off for a weapon of some sort with which to kill Chinn, Hayes soon returned with a dirk as long as his arm under his coat. Col. Chinn was. still standing at the bar, surrounded by a crowd of his friends Hayes made straight at him, but was inte: cepted when within five feet of the Ken- tuckian. Chinn saw listening knife Hayes had drawn of his coat, and immediately for'hls one re- maining weapon, a -bladed knife, which he drew f ‘Specially prepared for {t in the ing ‘of his dress shirt, back of the collar. Both men were firmly held. They struggled ferociously to free themselveg, but the combined strength of their was too much for them, TEDIOUS VOYAGES. The Long Trip of Vessels Bound Home From China. Of the three warships on their way home from far distant stations—the Lancaster, the Alliance and the Marion—the last nam- ed was the only one concerning which the least apprehension has been felt at the Navy Department, and whatever fear may have been secretly felt for the safety of that vessel has been complet by the news of her safe arrival at Hono- lulu, and her subsequent departure, after a two days’ stop for coal, for San Fran- cisco, The Marion has been on the Chinese station for several years, and was ordered home for service in the Bering sea. She started from Yokohama on her long voyage across the Pacific ocean, but had not been out more than two days when she encoun- | tered a terrible typhoon and was so badly shaken up that she had to return to port for extensive repairs. This delayed her de- parture until April 9 last, and she was rot heard of again until a steamer arri ing at San cisco Saturday reported her arrival at Honolulu on the 22d ultimo. The apprehension for her safety arose from the groundless fear that she might not have been put in complete repair at the Japanese rt. } Orord has also been received at the Navy Department of the safe arrival of the Alli- ance at Barbadoes yesterday, forty-five days from Montevideo. She will take on coal and fresh provisions and then continue her voyage to Norfelk. It is confidently expected that the Lan- caster will also be heard from this week. The Lancaster was the flagship of the Chi- nese station. She started home by way of the Suez canal and the Mediterranean sea, and left Gibraltar May 2 for New York, via the West Indies. Tedt Voyages. The story of the home-coming of anti- quated ships from the China station is one of pathetic ini Some have stayed Sette be sold, because it . bring them home, and it is not many years since Capt. Houston Baker | died, his friends said, of anxiety in bringing |home from China an old sailing ship that made the voyage with such dilficulty that the commander passed many sleepless gichte.on the Dritee fearing that she would lost. 1 officers are so accustomed to the delays of the older ships that the fact of such a vessel's being many days overdue excites no great alarm among officers sta- tioned ashore. In the voyage across the ocean coal is saved for great emergencies. Everybody knows that the sails will suffice to fetch the ship home if no accident hap- pens, and, as the old ships are amply pro- visioned, the sails are used until they no longer serve. The number of miles that the reasonable exactness, and as the coal is a last resource, it is husbanded until the commender is sure that it will suffice to bring the ship into port. With a ship as sound as the Lancaster a long voyage is taken without uneasiness on the part of the men or officers, and the chief drawback of such a voyage lies in its te- dium. With the newer ships twenty days between ports ts a long time, and a ship's company is seldom so much as three weeks at sea. Even with the slow ships that have voyage between the ports of the China sta- tion was seldom very long and there was enough variety ashore to save the ward room mess from falling into mutual hatred. When the old ship comes to port everybody on board will feel relieved, not so much at having successfully passed the perils of the deep as at having escaped the tedium of his messmate's talk. 5 oe THE AINSWORTH CASE. Mr. Birney’s Appeal May Be Argued Next Thursday. The Court of Appeals this morning in- augurated the June term of the court, Chief Justice Alvey and Justices Morris and Sheparé being present. Today's session of the court was a very brief one, an adjourn- ment being taken at 11 o'clock until tomor- row morning. Chief Justice Alvey notified the members of the bar that the court would not be in actual session after the present week, it being the purpose of the court to devote the rest of the June term to the disposal of causes already heard. The court, the chief justice stated, would sit Tuesday, Wednes- day, Thursday and Friday of this week, but would only hear those cases whose — required a hearing at the present e The Ainsworth case made its second ap- pearance in the Court of Appeals tod: When Mr. J. N. Morrison, representing Col. Fred C. Ainsworth, moved that the hearing of the appeal noted by the government to the decision of Judge McComas, in sustain- ing Col. Ainsworth’s demurrer to the second indictment returned against him, be adyanced to an early hearing. Col. Ains- worth, Mr. Morrison explained, was ex- tremely anxious that the matter be dispos- ed of at once, as he was greatly worried by it, and because its unsettled condition hampered him to a great exteut in the dis- charge of his official duties, Chief Justice Alvey directed Mr. Morrison to confer with District Attorney Birney to- day, and intimated that the court would hear the question, the right of the govern- ment to an appeal, on Thursday next. — +e: my Orders. ‘The leave of absence granted First Lieut. Jesse MclI. Carter, fifth cavalry, is extended ten days. Leave of absence for two months is granted Second Lieut. William Newman, thirteenth infantry. ‘The following transfers in the tenth cay- alry are made: First Lieut. James B. Hughes, from troop E to troop B; First Lieut. William H. Hay, from troop B to troop E. ——_—___+-e+____ Republican Success Predicted. gation are today in receipt of telegrams saying that the indications favor a sweep- ing republican victory in today’s election. This contest will result in the choice of a legislature to elect a successor to Senator Dolph. He kept himself in constant com- munication with the news wires. ———__+e.- A large vein-of paint ore along the Po- tomac river near Cresaptown, seven miles west of Cumberland. was recently dis- | covered, ship's coal will carry her is also known with | hitherto made up the China squadron, the | ‘Members of the Oregon congressional dele- ' ALLISON ON COMMITTEE'S AMENDMENT The State Bank Tax Repeal Bill in the House. SPEECHES ON IT TODAY cmemeeenipeniconsiien Thirteen Senators—six democrats and sev- en republicans—were in the chamber when the Senate entered upon the tenth week of the tariff debate at 10 o'clock today. Mr. Hoar (Mass.) suggested the absence of a quorum, and twenty minutes were spent waiting the presence of the forty-three Sen- ators necessary to proceed with business. A resolution providing for the payment of the expenses of the bribery and other in- vestigating committees out of the contin- gent fund was adopted. Mr. Vest asked and obtained unanimous consent for the consideration of the New York and New Jersey bridge bill, but the morning hour expired before the bill could be read, and Mr. Mitchell (Oregon) objected to its further consideration. Then, a' 10:30, the tariff bill was taken up,- the sugar echedule being pending. Mr. Vest's Explanation. Mr. Vest took the floor and made a short explanation concerning the controverted point in last Saturday's debate as to the ex- istence of the sugar trust in 1890. Mr, Aldrich and Mr. Sherman had contended that the present trust was not in existence, | and that its stock was not Msted on the | New York stock board. | Mr. Vest pi>ticed some authorities to | show that 5,026,000 shares of stock of the Sugar refining company were sold in the market in. New York in 18%, which at | $100 per share represented over $800,000,000, | He retraced, as on Saturday, the various changes made in the sugar schedule of the McKinley bill in 1890 as it passed through the ways and means committee, the House, the finance committee of the Senate and the conference. “And yet,” he said, when he had concluded this bit of history, “we are taunted with being under the control of the sugar trust. What principle could have induced the finance committee of the Senate to report a duty of 70 cents on the | 100 pounds for the benefit of the sugar trust? I know nothing of the influence | which could have dictated such enormous | protection, except that it was some influ- ence unknown to us. I have the same right to make that suggestion as Senators on the otner side have to continually put forth the insinuations concerning our motives.” Mr. Allison on Sugar. Mr. Allison (lowa) followed Mr. Vest with an elaborate speech on the sugar schedule. It was, he said, by far the most important provision of the bill. It afforded one-third of the revenue produced by the bill. Me | sketched the history of the schedule through its modifications. The Jones amendment allowed the refiners to bring in free of duty the entire sugar crop of the present year. It also continued the Ha- walian treaty in’ force, so that the sugar trust, which practically controlled the su- gar plantations of those islands, could bring in their sugar free efter this schedule went into effect. Every line of this com- plicated schedule seemed written In the in- terest of the trust. Yet no Was vouchsafed on the other side. | Effect of the Ad Valorem Duty. ‘Take first the 40 per cent ad valorem on raw and refined sugar, he said. What was its effecg’ This duty was levied against the price at the place of purchase, not at the ports of export nor the port of en- try. Sugar was produced abroad under a complicated system of taxation, draw- backs and bounties, and he thought the a@ valorem duty imposed by this schedule | Would distinctly exclude France from ox- | porting a pound to the United States, cer- tainly Austria and practically Germany. ‘The 4 per cent duty, based on prices rang- ing in New York, would give the sugar trust 46 cents protection on the 100 pounds, exclusive of the one-eighth special duty on jretined and the one-tenth cents differen- | ails. On London quotations the difference | between the price of raw and refined sugar ranged at about nine-tenths cents, which | j | would make the 40 per cent ad valorem duty afford a protection of 36 cents on the 1W0 pounds. Mr. Allison declared that according to numerous authorities sugar could be re- fined cheaper here than in Germany and | Some other European countries. The sche- | dule practically would prohibit the importa- | tion of refined sugars. It was not a sche- jdule for protection, ‘but for prohibition. | While taking away from the hardy lum- ' berman every vestige of protection from foreign competition. this biil, for the sake of the sugar trust, placed a prohibitory duty on refined sugar. It was prohibitive on re- fined and was faulty as regards protection to raw sugar. No amount of ingenuity, no amount of juggling, could conceal that.’ He contrasted the burden of a duty on sugar with a bounty. The duty, he said, amount- ed to per capita tax of $5 per year on } every family in the United States, while the bounty under which cane and beet growing had Deen a, Bttenulated during the last four years had cost the people less than - 000,000, = Cost to the Consumer. Mr. Manderson called Mr. Allison's tention to the fact that since the bounty system had been in operation sugar had cost the consumer less here than in any European country, What would be the effect of the imposition of a duty upon the price of sugars, he asked. Mr. Allison replied that it would raise the cost of sugar to the consumer at least 11-2 cents a pound. The schedule, he continued, if it were to stand, should go into effect the day the bill passed. Otherwise it would give the sugar producers in advanced prices practically a double bounty until January 1, 18%, and enable the refiners to buy six months’ supply of raw in the open markets of the world, it | until the duty went into effect and then take the amount of the duty out of the pockets of the consumer, Mr. Jones Replies. Mr. Jones (Ark.) replied to Mr. ‘Allison, He maintai: ed that Senators on the repub- can side had persistently misrepresented the prices of raw and refined sugars in their calculations as to the protection ac- corded refined sugars by the duty of 40 per cent ad valorem. When Mr, Allison took the difference between raw and refined sug- ar in New York to show that 40 per cent would be equivalent to a differential of 46 cents a hundred in favor of refined, Mr. Jones said he was obviously unfair, because the one cent difference in the price of raw and refined sugar in New York was largely due to duty of one-half cent per pound levied by the McKinley law on refined sug- ar, Besides, the 40 per cent was levied not at New York, but at the place of purchase. “How about the difference of nine-tenths of a cent in London?” asked Mr. Allison. Mr. Jones replied that he found no such quotations in London. He produced some London quotations of the price of German sugars, raw and refine’, They showed 5 per cent of refined sugar was equivalent to $3.15 per hundred pounds, and of raw to %. These latter were what were known as “SS beet.” The German system of grad- ing sugars differed from that In this coun- try. Raw sugars were graded not by the polariscope test by an analysis. Raw sugars termed “SS b * therefore meant |that 100 hundred pounds of such sugar | ht pounds of re- t be taken into con- stection given rn ~dule. The German system of grading raw sugare was based on their capacity to yield refinet sugar. ir, Aldrich interrupted to call attention