Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, M01 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor, lich Street, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, S. H. KAUFFMANN, Prest. New York Ofice, 49 Pottor Building. pestvicnss. Borcdcheoaadin ‘The Eveninz Star Is served to subscribers im tho city by carriers. om thelr own account, at 10 cents Week, or 44¢. per month. Copies at the ccunter cents cach. By mati—anywhere in the United =“ or Canada—postage prepaid—5O vents per gn Quintuple Sheet Star, $1.00 per year; Che Evening Star. With foreign postage added. $3.00. (Entered at the Office at Washington, D. C., ES a ci gs et be pu eaten AD mall sw’ Iptions mus Rexres of advertising made known 00 appiteation, | Ver. 84, No. 20,904. WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6. 1894—TWELVE PAGES. TWO CENTS. Be proof of fhe pudding is in 6c eafing. Yesterdap’s Sar contained 42 cofumns of adverfisements, made up of 847 separate announce: ments. hese adverfisers fous6t pubficitp-nof merefp Place last night, however, prevented a large mumber from carrying out their desires. Many of the Eckhart miners live in the im- Mediate neighborhood of the shaft, a num- ber owning their own homes. settlement is called Eneloside, and here it The Project Advocated Before the wi at ten minutes ‘ore tw aeakig as mwuich| House District Committee, morning there was a loud explosion which MR. NOYES SHOWS ITS NECESSITY could be heard for miles around. Some mis- Librarian Spofford Earnestly Sup- creant had thrown a stick of dynamite at ports the Movement. QUIETED BY TROOPS' the front of the little home of Charles Lan- caster, one of the miners who has stood by the company. In the little front room, with the head of the be! close by the window, slept Lancaster and i's wife, while his sis- ter occupied the room overhead. That all three were not killed was little short of a miracle. As it was the entire frunt of the house was shattered, every Pane of glass broken, porch wrecked, and the front door veritably broken up into IN THE COAL REGIONS kinattng weed. Lancaster has worked in the mine for five years, and to all appearances is a quiet and Boecial from a Staff Cocesspondent. inoffensive man. He told me this morning FROSTBURG, Md. June 6—Two resi-| that he knew of no reason why he should ments of the Marylicd National Guard) pe made a victim, excepting that he had are on duty in this regioa, and the striking | kept at work. miners are quiet, merely watching the| [Lancaster's neighbors stood around the troops with far from friendly eyes. The | wrecked building this morning and shook Probable tactics of the miners who have | ehoir heads gravely. It was the general im- gone out were, however, shown by the| pression among these men that the “ser- fact that the entrance of the troops at an | enade,” as they called it, was a warn- early hour this morning in Frostburg was|ing from the strikers to the men not celebrated by the throwing of a dynamite|to go to work this morning. That Stick at the house of a working miner at|this warning was heeded was clearly Eckhart and the wrecking of the entire | evidenced by the fact that under my ob- front of the structure. servation several miners, with thei work- STRIKERS RESORT 10 USE OF DYNAMITE Expected Conflict With Deputies in Colgrado. THE COMMITTEE’S REQUEST a The House committee on the District of Columbia this morning gave a hearing to the committee on public brary of the board of trade on the bill to establish a publie brary in this city. Mr. Theodore W. Noyes, chairman of the board of trade com- mittee, addressed the House committee. He briefly explained the bill, the provisions of which have been heretofore published in The Star, and outlined the necessity for a public Hbrar} in Washington. What Was Proposed to Be Done. He showed that of the fifty-two semi- public Hbraries in Washington, containing Previous to the arrival of the troops last night the striking miners were loud in their assertions that every mine in the ¥Yegion would be closed up today. The Eckhart mine of the Consolidation Coal Company had been the main point of at- tack. This had been the only mine in which any considerable force of men had been at work. Day before yesterday 263 men were at work in this mine in spite of every effort of the strikers. Yesterday. however, every avenue of approach to the mine was closely guarded by bands of strikers and o: about sixty of the men managed to get through and into the shaft. Last night a meeting of men supposed to be workers in the mine was held and by a vote of 70 to 20 the meeting voted to quit work. Yesterday there were also a few men work Negany and the Hoffman mines msolidation Company and the Union mine of that company. All the around and went back As one man expressed it, missed three days since this trouble began, and I want to go to work today. the shaft, and children at night? help it. The leaders of knowledge of the explosion, that their methods are entirely peaceable. The strike here has now lasted since the 7th of May, when the first men went out. The presence of the troops has, of course, ing clothes on and on thelr way to the shaft, on hearing of the explosion turned to their homes. “I have only I have pushed my way through crowds to reach but this dynamite business is altogether different. Now, the troops will protect me in going to work and while I am there, but who will protect my wife I know the com- pany will look on all the men who stay away as among the strikers, but I can't the strikers deny all and claim put a new phase on the affair, and it is not believed that there will We any trouble over a million volumes, not one was a free circulating library, with reading rooms open at night for the benefit of the public. As far as these books are concerned, the peo- ple of the city are -in the position of the mythical Tantalus, starving and famishing, with an abundance of food and water just out of reach. The project was to make ac- cessible some of these buried books, which Were suitable for the purposes of a popular circulating library. Some of the duplicates from the Congressional Library, circulating books from the departmental libraries and the assured contributions of citizens were indicated as the sources from which books Ee be derived. It was proposed to house them in a room in the new city post ottice bullding, and to meet the cost of maintenance in the same manner that all other municipal expenses are m The only question that had been raised in respect to the project was why the government should contribute to the creation and maintenance of the library. Viewing the library, Mr. Noyes said, as a general departmental brary, a substitute for numerous small collections in connec- ton with the different departments and other mines were closely closed, and in the whole George's creek region some 3,000 miners were out. This was the situation at 2:42 o'clock this morning, bureaus, its creation would be an economical investment for the government, if it met every cent of the expense. Certain depart- ments now enjoy circulating libraries at the cost of the government; others are ask- ing in justice and consistency for the same privileges. The establishment of a general library to which all the clerks of all the departments would have access, would save the government the expensive duplication between the strikers and the soldiers. The former will, however, use every effort to keep men from going to work. It is thought certain that in case the men do not go to when in a heavy rain the | work the Consolidation Company will im- Grst section of the troops’ train pulled into | port outside labor under the protection of Frostburg. The section contained three | the troops, and that the other companies companies of the fifth regiment, with two | win follow them in this move. Then it Is parlor cars, containing Adjt. Gen. H. Kya | ¢p, of books in numerous small collections, and P 4 7. bd i # K¥2'| that trouble is looked for, as the strikers wouNt also. econmmise In the room Brace Douglas, repees the governor; Brig. | are decided in the statement that they 3 Se : . devoted to departmental Mbrary purposes, Gen. Stewart Brown, Sheriff King and | sha receive 50 cents a ton and that no een waoaial Comics State's Attorne sn of Allegany county. Why Government Shou! ‘ontribute, outsiders shall be brought tn. Just who is the head of the strikers is a hard matter to discover. The main organ- izer has been an outsider named Wilhar Wilson, who is still believed to be in the region. By ¥ o'clock today the troops, having performed the duty for which they had ‘The remainder of the fifth and fourth regi- ments followed in small sections, the longer trains having been broken up into nine Bections for the trip from Cumberland to this point Drawing Up a P immediately the To such a brary as an integral part of the city’s educational system the govern- ment would be a just and natural contribu- tor; first, in its capacity as an equal sharer, under the law, in all municipal ex- nm of Campaign. rrival of the first ity, for the nation has steadily pursued the policy of fostering educational efforts by on gectior Gen. uslas was joined by Mr. B.| been detached, were withdrawn from the | donations to the states. . | 2 protecting American rights and interests 5. Randolph, superint mt of the Con-/ mines and massed at the raflroad cars. | Up to June #0, 1803, the government had | in Cor og! acre: i e| The regular tr 5 ‘ svildation mines, and a consultation follow- | x, prayer ; to go Into | donated eighty million acres of land to the | ilar troops of the Corean arm: kava hae saan aa aha auc aa No effort wilt be made txtey 10 @0, HNO | ites ter public uchocis, = million and a|are sald to nuts only about 7,000 me ed. a big map « ae ee oe nan. | Came and the men will spend the night on | hale acres for state universities, and nearly |in a population of perhaps 7,500,000, soul iilustrate the . The plan of cam-j the cars. ten million acres for agricultural colleges. | and. although no doubt other forces cou! paign was s; mapped out, and 23] On thelr return coffee, hard tack and | Part of more than eighty million aeres of | be raised, yet the sending of an Americen soon as dayli eared the troops began | beef were issued to the wet and weary |Swamp lands granted to the states had | Warship to Chemulpo will be aj to disembark. The troops had come up| men. Gen. Kyd Douglas has been sick all also been used for educational purposes, The ar my jis organized and Primsrily to prevent min im their way | day and has not left his car. At noon to-|tiong tp the sintes for aaieMtes pure |, This leads to a third consideration, whic to work from being stopped by strikers and] guy the troops were making rathe: fruit- | poses, sating millions.of déola' stly 1s that the cause of civilization and 1 intimidated. The plan had been for the| tess efforts to be comfortable. Quiet was | derived from salestof public land. Nota foot |Tess, including the perpetuation of strikers to guard the approaches to the dif-| reported at all the mines. T.c. N, fof land had been thus dor ted to the Dis- | can mayen: econ fereat mii and by threats of violence trict’ Leaving the public schooFland grants’ the present troubles, y : = ace mniinaty: soa jeate the fact that the re sangeet : Bois iE AT McKEESPORT. out of account entirely, if the government | Cte the t mes mt men - n entering the eee = ‘TRUC found it wise to donate large sums of | Bent ts eae that > prevent this it w for the| — on money and millions of acres of yround for | 20M Ss opposed to troops to be 2 se an early hour. | S@ Attempe to Start the Tube Works. | viii. universities and coll it would d by the king Gen. Douglas h two regimen McKEESPORT. Pa., June 6—No attempt | also find it both wise and consistent to fur- nS Aas counetl slash: s ts, \ friendship for the United consisting of three battalions each, the for- n made to start up the National | nish the District with the few HeetiOC DONIC! teguently hes mentterted: Be rae tan matic ng four companies to a battalion. works today. ‘The strikers are swarm- | Spa te che tha tres putlic rreecieang| thirty years on the throne, but he has not The regiment, unde: Col. Howard, | ing around the works the depots. Every | SVeNRInenE Wowie Gab the maramtece | Pee oliecy which in vogue 1 th, unde> I | point is being watched by them, and trouble | o¢ removing the Congressional library du- j When he came Into pow +n and a drum corpe. | will surely follow any attempt to introduce | plicates from a place wh: they were a| A Progressive King. s> bera brough: up. | mew workmen or deputie | alueless obstruction oni nutsance, and put! On the contrary, it was he that opened of almost] The eastern deputies expected by river or | th ane foe inestimable | the hermit kingdom it was once well en. Brown, | train at daybreak did not put im an appeat-| fare all governments exist. The soveen.|Called, from Its strict isolation, to Euro- mand of the de-| ance. When the first train arrived from] ment should, as its duty demands, dic up| pean and American powers. His _ firs staff consists of | Braddock, there was a large crowd at the} these tiflents which now lie buried, and,| treaty of commerce was made with oat | 1 ood and faithful s: f ub a . who has been} station w meet the officers, and when it 8 Good and faithful servant of the ret, | Country in 1882, others with t Britain ence, Capt. G. W.| was found they were not on board the | Pi pat them out at usury for the public | a4 Germany followlig the next year, with Wood and Lic John S. dispersed and went to the mill en- The Request Unanimous. ee in asst, and with France Stationing the Troops. By a hen he sought to procure a fuil The request for the library is unar acknowl ent of the autonomy of Core At 5 o'clock the troops moved from the on the part of the citizens. ‘The board of | he ¥ nding an embassy to Wush- railro: di t stations, It was a6 ii - + Comininstone | ington. called in American officers to Sar tes avhig. A drenching seta} all. emple who desire work at | ade and the District Commissioners have | Canize and drill and took as pags pce: pe ag foree 14, ISM, to apply be- | indorsed ft, the local workingme: eunl-| his chief adviser f¢ rs an Amer- Was falling, and the air was cold and raw. K Thursday morning, 4 e zation has warmly commended it, and other | ican, while, as has been id, there are The roads were d with mud, and no/ Up to daie not a man kas applied for work, | organizations of citizens, including the East | still Americans in the council of stct Fatic issued previous to moving. | and not a single piece of machiner Washington Association and the board of |,,When last year Seer H er, stood up bravely to|tmmense mill ts being operated. It is sald | sehoot trustees, udvocate it. Librarian Spof- | Rear Admiral Harmony to send the Marion wercoats and leg-| the company will not try to resume for the | ford of the Congressional Library, tn elec, |t2 Chemulpo, as un outbreak against the . pre: . preferring to wait until the strikers = in *s “ee Mi hristians was feared, her officers on going pusiness-like apy < “ ter to the Senate committee, and in inter- eB business-like appearance | Volunteer to return. For the first time in in the public press has been one of |UP to Seoul found the royal troops drilling down the roads. many months, the river pumps are at a its strongest supporters. Mr. Noyes urged |Wider orders delivered in English, with the fifth regiment, which |standstill, and all the fies have been drawn. | the committee to take favorable ection on (Tiles of American manufacture. American rst, were as follows: ‘The} It looks as though the works were to be | tne pin |inventions are found at the capital, includ- aj. E veg | Shut down indetinitely. : ing lighting by electrietty Maj. Brown, move About 11 o'cloce this morning some one | Mr Spefford Advocates the Project. | conduct a school, at orp! to the | me among the strikers congregated about | Mr. A. R. Spofford, Mbrarian of Congress, | pltal. oe parr fan mi : oe of the second bat-| the tube works, and i ed that some | then addressed the committee, He said he | eting, It Is said, over twenty, have been at | dressed the co e. He said he| 1 |tube workers ? e slack | {work there for something like nine ye MO Gnd 4 Dale mice 0 a le ee arte ihe Slack |is in favor of every means of increasing | YT there for som pee aye a ata |made by n to put a stop to It, | Public intelligence, and this movement be- GONE TO GRAY GABL * a goed Ww they reached the tpple of John jing in that direction, he would hall the bill peers and @ halt! Davitt It came down before the onslaught | as a progressive and judicious measure. His > khart mine; alwithin a few minutes. From. th the | Mtonception of a uscfal Nbiare ia fie | MEH Cleveland and Children Leave j crow ¢ tipp! ‘ aera rir Summer Home. est battalion re-|¢rowd made a bres a new tipple | here are now in the Con- suaiiin: & : Peete realmente ut * | gressional Librar nd duplicate} The movement of the President and fam- | 5 above. A halt was made for so1 © lcopies of book | r er home 3 u's Bi by s until the mab could all be gathered. | for a circulating libra | 2 ee oe t Beets baci the Aicfatyre Upple shared the | cate the removal uf these books to such a | M888. began this morning, and the Presi ais the Davitt. These slack piles litbrary. He thought that the proposition | dent will live a bachelor’s life in the White be een made use of for years until | could not properly Inclue the tee House until Congress Mrs. cor s [portnt ‘their usefulness: OVD Made @p- | ecpyrignted books from the Cor Cleveland and the ehiidren this | | pare hel etulieas. brary. He that copyright books h their des- With ea vail force | brary i morning, and will pro! ach their des ‘outta TROUBLE NOT OVER YET. jare in th a trust under the | tination tomorrow morning. They occupied s | Cong weakened that trust | * 3 z Bue . F “ | alienating poruon of the vosit, % Private car attache to the ¢ o'clock jequntes Hanected Metweem Mikersi|uocns and other publications: which spot train of the dennsylvania: road, and were nd Depatics in Colornde. | “dare required to be kept in un-| accompanied by a retinue of servants, in- K. Colo., June [broken series. Litigation over the | cluding a governess, two uurses, a cook, a ived from Bull Hill an- z pe AT any Gime tO yaent | aundress end a footman. ‘The President that a 7 = of the aoe “tar, {22 copy. of the copyright book for this pur-| WAS 80 busy with officia) business that he d in the vicintt Gil | pose an to keep one copy in the Hbrary. | PAS NOt ADI, or per- ies, ‘nue pik hody of 400° deputies xcluding the copyright books there re i that xed 1 be- | Main about f n thousand volumes which City, X he troops t ed than not, for they be made 2 F in the library. tis his in- ht. The I ; m, he said, as soon pro- family July nd will t 2 rt 2 t the depu repository to go through the ke other summer t 4 pick those which can be | capital in the event of a protracted session t that the bill should be Songres: and th se of Congress. nat the reapon- | = —-+e- — a i ‘ Pots eens | Naval Cade ¥ 2 of the Ti a The graduating cade ¥ i of Chatrman Heard.!emy will be detached from th : a nine the bill and to| June § and ordeved to join vess ty jo., June 6,—Fully 1,000 it a future me & Hows To the w York--Cadet int mmand of eriff enamen cl e - a fae - n py Ebne tea ra ast eens which he may de-)<, Gillis, Sellers, Adams, Bennett, B a os Moody and) Winship; the Columbia e iy - ——+- + —_—____--— Galbrick, Manyon, < iver: man | Mette to Be Tried. hapel; to the San : did not | tial has been ordered Se ae ee ees ; | for e irst Lieut. Theodore G, | Hines: to. the Whitehead liseves De. Miners. ¢ oi eee ie |Fillette, United tes marine corps, on eoithe NLA LEHI: ARAN. Jones T een deputies and | of ni in obeying orders, and | Oskorne, Ba ne; to the Raleig! 3 scandalous conduct. There are velve | Ww Sata I the « newspaper sondents were all tions, The Heutenant been in} oe ne en oy eee th mtil Go and wires cut in for a year, having been b faites, iutes a Hudgink: - Went hewalfront helt ¢ oft, PEMAe IUIRy Ga akeon ne Gn walter, Bulmer and Hudgins, a dance | rejoin his post af 2 Eute coming to Washington = nitire the Davenport court of honor. I Cripple time he has been under surveillanc e naval hospital an the autnor- at length have that he is sufficiently Is Com- mia mander J. H. § cLane Eck . yple Creek, and | Filt M. C.; Lieut. WN. ‘ee from M Maj. R. W. Huntington, M. C. . is ot Lieut. E. K. Moore, Lieut. J. Hols \ Dynamite lis to ca. out t nstructions of the gov- | Capt. M. C. Goodrell. Capt. Samuel Me: A dastarily dyn h took | ernor, but not unul thea. Judge udvocate, Capt. P. S. Murphy. penses, and, second, in its national capac- | No Word From the Baltitiore in to the Outbreak. At the Navy Department No News is Looked Upon as Good News—A Gunboat’s Influence. A cable message was received at the Navy Department today announcing the arrival of the U. S. 8S. Baltimore at Che- mu‘po, Corea, yesterday, but saying nothing with regard to the state of affairs. Silence on this point is accepted in official circles as an indication that affairs are not ina very alarming condition and that the American residents of the country are certainly not in any imminent danger from the recent reported uprising against the foreign ele- ments. The presence of a warship in Corean waters will undoubtedly insure the safety of foreign residents. It is also ex- pected that the visit of the Baltimore will have a deterrent effect om the rebellion aginst the Corean government, if it does not check it entirely, It was undoubtedly this hoped-for re- sult that mainly inspired the King of Corea to request the United States government to send a warship to Corea immediately, rath- er than his intense personal interest in the welfare of the cighty Americans doing busi- ness in iis kingdom. Therefore, if the mere presence of the Baltimere turns the tide of affairs in favor of the government, it would seem as though the king would have cause to thank @he United States for its acttoa, rather than that the United States should thank him for notifying it that he could no longer protect its citizens. The published statement that the President would send the king a vote of thanks for his thnely warn- ing dces not seem to be warranted by the surrounding circumstances. The Number of Americans. It is said at the Navy Department that the Baltimore will remain at Corea as long | as there 1s any oceasion for it. Several ex- cellent reasons are advanced for American intervention in the present Corean crist: In the first place, there are in Corea prob- ably about 20) white foreigners, a plural- ity ‘of whom are Americans. An enumera- tion taken last June gave 70 Americans at Seoul, 4 at Chemulpo, 3 at Fonsan, and 2 at Wonson, making 79 In all. The English fans 1%, and various Europeans of protecting: the persons and property of Americans is therefore obvious. The telegram received by the admits that the Ansurgents hold possession of the southernmost province of Corea, and this brings them within a few days’ march not only of Seoul, but of the three open Ports just mentioned, where the remainder of the white foreigners are found. For- tunately there is some telegraphic com- runication between Seoul and other points, and a submarine wire from Fonsan to Na- gesaki. Some Former Expe A second reason for such in that its value has be ence, It may be recalled that last year the Merion, and afterward the Alert, at that Ume belonging to the Asiatic station, visited Chemulpo, and there was good evidence that the move had a most beneficial effect neen, rvention Is nm showa by experi- Exeta’s Overthrow Contirmed. The State Department has received fur- ther advices from United States Minister Baker corroborating the press dispate! already published concerning the overthrow of the government in Salvador, and the flight of President Ezeta on board a Ger- man steame he Navy Department also been advised by the mander of the Bennington, now tn ‘alvadoran waters, that a landing force is in readiness ¢ board the ship to go ashore, if interes demand such action. American the French 20, the Germans | Coreans | A FREE LIBRARY|S!TUATION IN COREAICITIZENS HEARD, The District Bond Issue Discu Before the House Committee. THE SEWER AND STREET EXTENSIO Views of the District Commissioners and of Citizens. THE PRESSING NEED The House District committee today com- menced the consideration of the bill author- izing the District to issue bonds for the purpose of carrying out proposed sewer extension and street improvements. The action today was in the form of a hearing given to the District Commissioners aud other citizens upon the merits of the bill. It is a series of nearings which the com- mittee will give, in order to arrive at a full end complete understanding of the wishes of the citizens in the premises. The hear- ing today was attended by a number of citizens, among whom were Commissioners Ross, Truesdell and Powell, Mr. B. H. Warner, Mr. S. W. Woodward, Mr. C. C. Glover, John Joy Edson, John H. Magruder, Cc. C. Duncanson, W. Riley Deeble, Theo- dcere W. Noyes, W. C. Dodge, J. W. Friz- zell, Evan H. Tucker and others. Commissioner Ross opened the discussion. He ald that about five years ago Washing- ten was visited by a disastrous freshet, the results of which are still apparent in suits gating many thousands damages incurred by the freshet. Shortly after the flood a board of sanitary engineers, appointed by Congress, into corsideration the entire question of an adequate sewerage system and protection jto the city against ficods. The commission made a report recommending the plan. The orly question now is how to carry out the plan. the present annual appropriations made by | Cor gress it will take fifty years to complete the work which has been undertaken with the sanction of therefcre arises whether the District go ernment shall continue in the present way | or adopt some plan which will result in the | early ccmpletion of the work. He said that the suburbs had no sewers; | streets in Georgetown which are not grad- ed, ard there is a plan for the extension of streets and highwi provided by Con- |gress, with no means to carry it out. It is \the opinion of many that before land be- |comes too vaiuable to be acquired at rea- sonable rates for the extension of the high- ways the property should be acquired now. By the Issue of Bonds, To do this it is proposed to issue bonds to run fifty years at 3 per cent Interest. There lis no reason why this municlpality should not have the same privilege as others, and provide a system of Improvement and place a part of the burden of {t upon future gen- erations. Chairman Heard suggested that the main question at issue is the one of bonds, The Dill provides that while the bonds be ts- sued by the | pay one-half of the interest. fcre a half-and-half governme: Jlover explat the languag: is Capt. Powell estimated that with | District the government shall It is there- bond. ot Mr. the the the Truesdell then addressed He said that this bill con- carrying out to completion which are alread oo WAY, authorized by existing law. The sewerage plan has been paral enrried out by the joint appropriation provided by Congress, +1f the work goes on in the ordinary way the appropriations wilt be made by from year to year, and thy ent will pay one-half of the cost s work is of such magnitude and im- portance that citizens feel it would be more economi for th Vvernment to provide the means at one time to complete a system to which Congress hb itself. it should be don cheapest and wh labor ce If the work is conducted by; | great deal of it will be destro Th alf-nod-Half Pro ‘Mr. Truesdell said that the medical so-| has found that many epidemic dis-| | eases ze in this city to a greater extent, \than in some other cities, which sho not be the case, Phys ns of the soc! charts, st is lowest. plecemeal a ed. | have prepared showing the lo Jities in which the diseases occur, and| | demonstrating that to a considerable ex- | tent they erage and drain ‘The medical soci are the result of d » and defective pumps. jes desire to come bef the committee, read their report and ex- vit the charts, which will present the trongest sms for better sewera As | to the question of bonds, it ts immaterial whether the government pays one-half of | the investment in the way of a sinking fund or pays half of the apprepriation in| | the usual metnod from year to year, | Mr. Cooper of Florida called Mr. ‘Trues- dell’s attention to the existing law providing that the government shall stand no part of the expense of the street extension in the |suburbs. He sald that under the pending | bill the United St would pay one-half. | Mr. Truesdell replied that this ts one of the | important provisions of the bill. The act of Congress providing for the extension of suburban streets and highways was passed under pecullar circumstances, It went si to the United States paying its half of the ut Opposition arose in the House, through the nate without any question m was a2 short one, the bill was jimportant, and there was not opportunity xplain to the House the justice of the s paying Its sh A Arrans: found that the bill, which w Just $s the several years’ study and prepara- | tion, was about to fail unless pa. l with a | condition that no part should be paid by the v ates. There fs on the part of many mbers of Con » Who ha ted the relatic betwe nd the District ates is outr ortion of t penses of the But he felt that this question h thoroughly discussed and the justic: United es’ responsibility thoroughly | tablished. Mr. Cooper asked if the Unitel States Jowned any land inthe vicinity t | proposed highways. Mr. Truesdell answere that the government owned a vast mt and was constantly iner ‘ing its holding: Congressman Harmer sug 1 that the | United States owns near per ft the iand in the vicinity rope ment, and Mr. True acd! ment. | ssman Abbott asked about the rate urbs, yesdell replied th sburt uve a pK land in remote plac taxation city |dell sa Tiled State all property in tion of agricultural vs the same rate erty. Mr. Tr 1 reason why the hould not bear its portion of the expenses incurred in carrying out the highway act. The Commissioners feel that in presenting this bill ft is proper that it | Should provide for the money being pended jointly by the United States and the | |Distriet, and to this extent the bill sus- | } highway extension | is the 4 > said the Commissioners can submit |figures that will establish in the minds of jevery one the justice of the United States paying its portion of the expenses, Cor gressman Hull asked ff in the main po of the city there is a good system of se 2 Favorable ‘1 wers, | ime. the city was never properly sewered. ‘There | are In some places good sewers, but no complete system. Mr, Hull then asked If the city proper is to have an entirely new system undor the proposed plan, and Mr. Truesdell expla‘ned | Chicago that it is to be rather an extension of th being brought against the District, agere-| of dollars, for took | Congress. The question4 there are. | } | Outside of { | the} and} ot" i | partment, rtion | the 1 Ume claims of letter carrie said that there is not, that | ! ‘adopted which present system than the substitution of an entirely new one. Mr. Cobb suggested thac the principal opposition to the bill in the House will be to the a bonds — SS government's Hability in improving the suburban streets. Mr. Frucsdell said that as to the general proposition whether bonds shall issue, if Congress says that bonds cannot be issued it will be equivalent to saying that these plans cannot be carried out. There will never be a time in the history of the Dis- trict when there will be enough money on hand to do this work. The work is of such magnitude that there is no possibility of doing it in any other way. These laws will be a dead letter if Congress says that no further debt is to be incurred. Commissioner Powell then addressed the committee. He said there is no system of sewers outside of the city limits. The money to be provided for this bill is for a system of sewage disposal and protection of the low lands from overflow. It was de- vised by a board of sanitary engineers created by Congress. They selected one of five propositions and the Commissioners proved. Money is now appropriated in the District appropriation bill to the ex- tent of $250,000 to continue the work al- ready commenced under the plan. But this sum will only finish a very small portion of the work. At this rate it would take fifty years to complete It. Methods in Other Clites, Our sewage now empties int» the river or into open canals, which are veritable open cesspools. The James creek canal is only half a mile from the Capitol, and into this open body of water a thirty-foot sewer empties its contents. Chicago is the only city Hke Washington in this respect, and Chicago is now providing a drainage canal at a cost of $25,000,000. Milwauk: similarly situated, but has temedicd the trouble. New Orleans has undertaken a new system. Baltimore is looking into the question, and when they adopt 2 plan they will provide means to carry it out. That is the way cities usually do. It will cost $3,348,000 to complete Washington's system. This estimate doves not provide for any | sewers outside of the city except two small pleces, In response to a question from Mr. Ab-| bott, Mr. Powell explained that the system proposed Is for a set of intercepting sew- ers, which would meet at a point where large pumping works would be situated. The matter collected there is then to be forced through a pipe far enough duwn the river where it will not come back with the tide. The plan as now agreed on will ac- commodate a population of half a million. |The size of the sewers in some localities will accommodate a population of Mn, the ciiy trunk sewets are needed. They will be provided by an extra appropriation of $1,000,000, Mr. Powell said that many large cities had incurred heavy expense in improving their sewage sys! London has spent $5,000,000; Berlin, $1 ‘ Boston, $5,500,000, with a propori- tor to expend $11.144),.000 more, and Chicago upwards of $25,000,00 The system of suburban sewers is en- tirely defective. A sewer was lately built from the suburb of Petworth which empties into Rock creek within the limits of the Zoological Park, and has contaminated the water to such an extent that the animals | won't drink it. This sewer is o1 one ‘in in the general plan which the city wants to complete. An Urgent Necessity. Mr. B. H. Warner said that for the first time in the history of this municipal gov. ecnment the rich taxpayer and the poor man are united on a plan to improve the city. The ccunty fs also united upon it. The county {s not separated from the city, but is becoming a part of ft. The lar; improvements are being made there, gre blocks of buildings are guing up, and ther is no sewerage. There is an immediate 1 cessity for sewers on the part of the Dis trict, There is no city in th nantry where larger contributions are private energy to publi here in Washington. Congress ts the cit board of aldermen. There is greater rea- son why Congress should make this in provement today than at any other time. when the debt trict Miche They pla imperia! position among The city's population is stea and Congress is not legislating alone the people of the District, but for the ple of the whole Union. An era of prog is upon the country. Communities the few years ago sneered at the expe was: for of Washington in public improvem: now trying to keep pace with Washingtc Mr. Warner said that any position which Congress takes in this bill will be indorsed not only by the wealthy citizens, but the poor nian also. In Behalf of the Widows. At this point Mrs. Briggs, tered the committee room, committer. who had en- addressed 2 of 2 She satd she ts on ia gest tax; ‘ers of ington. She did not want any She did not want the terrible burden of the debt to be this vill. The comumittce sees ed men of the city, but does rot | sce the widows who have to scrape their little mite to pay taxes. These Me, she said, do not want their taxe ased to pay for imp tm s in the Commissioner Truesdell rej » Mrs. Briggs. He said he would demon to the ccmmittes why the peuple of the county have a claim upon this city for s Denefits to pe derived trom general tmprove- ment, At the the when the p: form of government in the Distri Dlish- ed there exisied three :nunteip: Wash- ington, Georgetowa and the cow The cities were erned by their councils a county Was governed by a levy court. it was decided to create one t pality, it was thought unjust to do so without taking into consid ation the ex- isting condition of the county. There was a five mililon-dollar mu- nicipal d and It was not just to sad-| Cle it upon the county. It was so provided in the law. ‘Then a debt of twenty-tly million dollars was created to make the most beautiful city the wor Was expended almost entirely in the ween five hui thousar ndred thousand dollars belr county. Notwithstanding th wision of the 1 th Was not to bear any th unt previous municipal é year after ye revenues of t that ct tot The county while th » nd contributed to th At this r has as very much a fit, along » taxes all iz tund hour of hearing » at whi tics will be f bad sewer- +e; A RADICAL CHANGE In Regard he Warehousing Privi- legen of Reimported Merchandise. The Secretary of the ed the opinion of the garding the warehous imported mtrehandise, and cust have been instructed to act therewith. It makes the practice of the department foreign goods withdrawn f arehouse and exported to a fc will on their return to be treated just as the country, and th limit to the pertod th in in bond without payni ided they are not kept in bond con- 4 than three years at a time. ve. Carriers’ Overtime Claims, William W, Hill of the Post Offic the commissioner appoint Court of Claims to investigate the has returs ‘al weeks Preasu: Attorney privil adopt- feneral re- Mi in « a radical change in Hereafter t he m Chicago, where he spent examining the claims of carriers th: Over Iw) claims, ageregating about $45,000 in amount, were adjusted an a humber of claims of Racine, Wis., carriers were also investigated. Commissioner Hill will in a few days resume the examination of the clans, the remainder of which aggregate about $0u,LW. was f the} re- | ABOUT TOBACCO The Committee's Amendments to the Schedules Passed. a AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS DISCUSSED Mr, Dolph Resumes His Speech Commenced Days Ago. THE STATE BANK TAX BILL At the opening of the session of the Sen- ate today Mr. Blackburn (Ky.) reported favorably a resolution from the committee en rules for the appointment of a special committee of five Senators on the existing public distress, to whom should be referred the petitions of Morrison 1. Swift and others bearing upon this subject. It was adopted without division. The Tobacco Schedule. Several bilis of minor importance were Passed, and at 10:30 the Senate resumed the consideration of the tariff bill. The to- bacco schedule was taken up. The House bill made leaf wrapper tobacco (paragrapa 1s4) dutiable at $1 per pound, if un- stemmed, and $1.25 per pound if stemmed. The “compromise” amendment increased these rates to $1.50 and $2.25, respectively, but today Mr. Jones withdrew the “com- | promise” amendment so as to leave the rates as they stood in the House bill. Mr. Platt (Conn. expressed his amazement and tonishment at this unexpected action of the finance committee. It savored of what | was called “injun giving” in New England | —that was “give and take back.” Tobacco, he argued, was a legitimate article of reve- rve. Under existing rates on tobacco over | $5,000,000 was annually raised in revenue |from ‘tobacco, If the rates proposed stood, [half that amount of revenue would be | thrown away without doing any human be- ing any good, except, perhaps, the import- ers of Havana cigars. The only opposition he ever had heard to the present rates on leaf tobacco came from the smaller menu- facturers of cigars, who had been persuaded that In some way it operated to thelr dis- advant . Certainly the increase in the rates, he said, bad not increased the price of domestic cigars, although it had unquestionably in- creased the cost of high-priced imported cigars. He thought the change proposed would Meet with opposition from the Florida Sen- ators as well as himself. Mr, Vest said that % per pound on leat tobacco was equivalent to a rate of 238 per cent ad valorem. One dollar, therefore,was | equivalent to 119 per cent. He thought the | former rate entirely too high. In 188 there Was imported $1 worth of tobacco, while there was exported $22. Mr. Piatt called the Missouri Senator's at- infinites- mm of the export product of the United States was leaf tobacco. Passed Pro Forma, Mr, Vest said that in view of the fact that the change proposed today had come suddenly and unexpectedly to Senators in- terested on both sides of the chamber, he would suggest that Mr. Jones withdraw his last amendment and all the “compro- mise” amendment to be agreed to in a pro forma way, with the understanding that the subject should come up later in the Senate. This suggestion was well received and adopted, Mr. Voorhees stating, how- ever, that he was very earnest in his desire » back to the House rates on leaf th- ». Tne “compromixe” amendment was then adopted pro forma, and the fight over paragraph postponed until the bill uld bh wrted from fhe committee of whole. e other Jones ameneéments to the to- bacco schedule were adopted. They fixed the rates on filler tobacco, unstemmed, at | thirty-tive cents per pound; stemmed. at fifty cents per sbacco, manufac- { unmany not specially pro- vided for, forty cents per und; snuff, fifty cents per pound: cigars, cigarettes and cheroots, r pound, and 25 per cent ad igars or cigarettes, to be ject to the Serica! The next schedule was * ucts and provisions.” epecially = impored on cigars. sricultural pro- All live animals, not wided for, were m dutiabie by the bill at 20 per cent ad valorem. Mr, Hale (Me.) proposed to restore the Me- Kinley rates, horses and mules, 530 per 4 ttle, $10 per he hogs, $1.5 , other animals, 20 per cent a aloren Mr. Frye (Me.) said he lived im a st which gave him »p © opportunity observing the ets of the existing duties and he asser m the result of his own xperience, that they had worked admir- Jably. hada could not aff under ing rates, to send a cheap horse into the United tate Under them the class of horses in Maine had improved 3 per cent. Mr. Vest deciared that protection to ag- Itural products was a pretense. He took up the statistics of the imports and exports of hor cattle, mules, ete. to show that the exports xeeeded the imports an h fold. It was like the pretense of prot wheat and rye and corn, of which the United States exy a million for ¢ vushel they {mported. armers had resented the humbug at jon im bout th asked Mr. Mr. Pi ction in Oregon yes- Aldrich, replied Mr. Vest, atch have carried Hol- ans are prepared to has been in their Laughter.) Predictions as to Protection. Mr. Vest went on passionately to declare that he was firmly opinion that pro- tection, as advocated by the republican side, was doomed. Pressure might retar@ tari! reform, but protection was marked for destruction Mr. Hale replie? that the utter and de- Plorable failure of the whole program of » loudly he led when the aled to power was so firm- uind of the American people the manent United States. at the McKinley omme in live nde. He argued *, cheap. hardy and ry to the sheep and Texas, Arizona, “we *_ Was the collie dog nerder of Scotland. agreed with Mr. Coke, and he dment to Mr. Hale's from the operation fly imported from (Tex) satd v destroyed all Petfer « rey (Wyo.) and Dubois (daha) protested against the proposed reduction of the duties on live stuck as prejudicial to the interests of the northwest Oregon Has Spoken. Mr, Dolph (Ore), in the course of @ speech against the agricultural schedule of the bill, sald Oregon spoke for herself, She seal of her condemnation on tari bill om advices he received Oregon hi ted a repubil- » plural- at en by ntire aby opposit the ans in legislature was | ity out of a total of ninety | ph then pr Jed to the last installment of his prdpated speech, be- two months ago. He finished at king two hours. itendance or whe the ling of (X.3.). from the val affairs, Ned up th sre Oscar C yers (Tex.) objected. ary Carlisic to the im Tiere was a small and today, and 4c in the galleri: fter the « rnal, Mr mnmittes HM te t iger. Mr. 5 The reply of Secr | Bs ‘