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THE EVENING STAR “UBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 201 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 1th Street, by The E; Star N Com; Venin; 8. H. Vor 84. No. 20,910. Che Zvening Star. WASHINGTON, D. 0., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1894—TWELVE PAGES. TWO CENTS. WIMAN’S CONFESSION It is Read in Court on His Trial Today. VAIN ATTEMPT 0 KEEP If OUT Close of the Evidence for the Prose cution. OPENING THE DEFENSE NEW YORK, June 13.—The third day of the trial of Erastus Wiman for forgery in the second degree was again marked by the Presence of a very large crowd in the court of oyer and terminer this morning, as the district attorney, Wellman, announced that the case for the people would be closed to- day. The first witness called was James M. Fitzgerald, who suplied the firm of R. G. Dun & Company with the paper Used by them. Mr. Fitzgerald was shown a check for $7,300, drawn to his order by R. G. Dun & Company February 21, 1891, and asked if he had received the money for same. Witness said he had not. The signature on the back, the witness said, was not in his bandwriting. The check was offered in evidence. The second witness was Ogden" Brower, the treasurer of the Campbell Printing Press Company. He was shown a check for $5,000, drawn January 2, 189%, to the printing press company. Despite Gen. Tracy's numerous objec- tions, all these checks were admitted in evidence, the defense taking exceptions. Cross-examined by Gen. Tracy, witness said that he had received Mr. Wiman's in- dividual note in payment of several checks. Cyrus H. Taylor, receiving teller of the Central National Bank, was recalled, and identified the deposit slip and check for $7,500, drawn in favor of Mr. Fitzgerald by Mr. Wiman. Robert D. Douglas, an employe of the firm since the year 1881, was then called to the stand. Witness testified that he knew nothing about the $135,000 check nor the note for $45,000, which have figured in the case. He first saw the check February 21, 1898. “TI did not see the $5,000 check on which = charge is made until February 17, 185 Mr. Wiman had been away from the office for three or four days at that par- ticular time. “I row show you a letter,” said Mr. Wellman to the witness, “and ask you if it was written by Mr. Wiman?” Gea. Tracy objected, but not before the Witness had said it had been written by Mr. Wiman Witness also explained that he Was shown the $5,000 check at the Chemi- cal National Bank. “Now I want to see that letter,” thun- dered Gen. Tracey. The letter was handed to him and he read it with much interest. Gen. Tracey opposed the reading of the letter on the ground that it was a confi- dential communication. It was admitted by the defense that the letter was a written confession by Mr. Wiman to Mr. Dun, in which the accused threw himself entirely on Mr. Dun’s mercy. The defense objected to the letter offered in evidence on the ground that Mr. Wiman had been promised that the letter would not be used against him In any action. Erastus Wiman, the defendant, was then called. After giving his age and place of residence and a brief sketch of his con- heetion with the firm of Dun & Co., the defendant was asked about the letter of confession. “I was assured,” he said, “that if I wrote that letter I would not be prosecuted. I had received such assurance from Mr. Mc- Farland, counsel for Dun & Co. I had known Mr. McFarland for over twenty Years and had esteemed him as my friend. The letter was written partly at the dicta- tion of Mr. McFarland.” “That's all,” said Gen. Tracy. Mr. Wellman then asked that the cross- examination of the defendant be suspended until Mr. McFarland should have testified. Mr. McFarland denied having had any Part in the writing of Mr. Wiman’s letter or that he promised the defendant immunity. He could not give the accused any assur- ance of immunity, not being empowered to jo sa. Cross-examined as to certain properties held in the name of Mr. Wiman and his wife, Mr. ‘arland admitted that he had made inquiries in that direction. This he thought perfectly natural, as it was his duty to protect the interests of the firm of R. G. Dun & Company. Mr. Wellman then read Mr. Wiman’s let- ter of confession. The letter reads as follows: BW YORK, February 20, 1893. My Dear Mr. Dun: I have occasion to write you more than once in terms of great humiliation, but never before under such circumstances as now, in which I have a confession to make to you. It is that, im- Properly and fraudvlently, I have signed the name of E. W. Bullinger on the back of two checks of your firm made to his order. I will not urge that this was done without evil intent, or that he would not have signed them himself had I asked him, or that I had any intention of defrauding him or you. Simply and frankly, I must say that I committed this act without authority and most imprudently, and can ask no ex- cure nor palliation of the offense, except such as in your abundant charity and good- ness of heart you may in mercy extend to me. “For the sake of my dear wife and chil- dren, and for the sake of this long service rendered to you, I pray God your heart may be still softened toward me, and that I May not be made to suffer the penalty of my offense. (Signed. “Respectfully, ERASTUS WIMAN. “The people rest,” said Mr. Wellman, as he finished realing the letter. Then G Tracy arese and made the tions fcr dismissal of the «ase ‘This being deried, he then moved that all @vidence touching upon the $135,000 check be stricken out, and, in substance, requested the dismissal of the whole of the first count of the indictment. All this being dented, he then opened by Seeking to show that Wiman was a partner in the firm of Dun & Co., and that, as such, his actions were strictly legal, “if at times Somewhat roundabout. CALLED A CONSPIRATOR. The President Blamed by a Default- ing Mortgagor. LINCOLN, Neb., June 13.—An answer filed here in a foreclosure case charges that the plaintiff, with other money lend- ers in America and abroad, conspired to- | gether with one Grover Cleveland to repeal all free silver laws and destroy silver as a circulating medium. In consequence of this action, real estate values have rapidly di- minishel and the purchasing power of moaey enhanced. The value of a dollar is alleged to be now much more than it was when the loan was made, and the defendant offers to admit a foreclosure for one-half the gross sum, and asks that the facts in the presentment may be ascertained and Passed upon. eee FRIEDRICHSRUHE, June 13.—Prince Rismarck’s journey to his summer home at Varzin has been postponed for a few weeks. | It ts said, in explanation ment, that ex-c but, it is added, his f this postpone- lor requires rest BE a Sn Appointment. wards, i known in appointed interpreter this city, and inspector in the immigration service at Philadelphia. He was formerly employed at the port of New York. ondition is not such as | BANKING AND CURRENCY Consideration of s Plan to Secure a Oom- prehensive System. Representative Walker of Massachu- setts Outlines the Work Expect- ed to Be Accomplished. Representative Walker of Massachusetts, @ veteran member of the committce on banking, and the senior republican member of the committee, says that, in his opinion, the question of banking and currency, about to be matured into a comprehensive system by a select committee of five members, under @ recent vote of the banking com- mittee, is the most important subject be- fore Congress, not second to the tariff. Sealed ballots are now being flied for the purpose of selecting the committe» of five. Each member of the banking commiitee has a@ vote, and names five of his associates on the committee. The seals will be broken Friday, and five members having the larg- est number of votes will constitute the select committee. Mr. Walker has urged | that no votes be given to himseif, or to/ Messrs. Springer, Warner or Sperry, ay each of them has a banking bill to which they naturally would be inclired. The en-) tire purpose of forming the select com- mittee is to break away from present bills, and to get up a broad banking system, with such good features of all bills as may recommend themselves. Objects of the Committee. “The committee of five will sit continu- ousl; said Mr. Walker, “with a view of reporting their work to the House by the 27th instant, to insure positive results. Re- cent discussion in the House and in com- mittee has made the substantial features of the system reasonably certain. It will | be in the direction of national currency and national banking, and away from state banking, and on gold and silver, instead of bonds. The general desire ts to create a system of national banks which shall pro- | ceed along lines parallel to the present national banks. The latter will be mérged gradually into and absorbed by the new system. As the charters of the old banks | expire, they will be given charters under | the new banking system. Thus, the old and new systems can proceed in parallel lines without any disarrangement of either sys- tem.” Mr. Walker was asked what the new sys- tem of banks would have to do with the is- suance of money. “The bill undoubtedly will provide for doing away with the various forms of cur- rency now issued, and the substitution therefor of a uniform paper money, issued by the government through the banks. At present the government circulates treas- ury notes, greenbacks, silver certificates and various kinds of currency, and the gov- ernment undertakes to make good this money. But the purpose will be to make the national banks the sole source of issu- ing currency, under government supervision and direction. The government thus will be relieved of the burden of issuing, circu- lating and currently redeeming these va- rius forms of currency, and the entire re- sponsibility will be placed on the banks. This »ational bank currency would be sur- rounded by all the safeguards of the pres- ent jaw, and such other safeguards as would insure its proper redemption. Responsibility of the Government. In short, the federal government will be relieved of direct attention to the issuance | of money and all responsibility for keeping it ‘good money,’ and yet will insure the, public that every dollar issued by the na- tional banks redeemable and is good the country over. “Can such a measure be passed at the present session?” Mr. Walker was asked. “Possibly not,” said he, “but it will serve a valuable purpose to business. The mere fact that such a comprehensive measure | for a nationalized currency can be reported and put on the calendar will have a salu- tary effect in business and banking circles. It will be in a shape, also, to be taken up at the next session of Congress. The recent debate on state banks has been one of the most beneficial, from an educational view, we have had In twenty years. It has cleared the way for a safe, sound and con- servative system of nationalized banks and currency.” State Department. That Polish petition praying Secretary Gresham to intereven in behalf of Kize- minski, the Buffalo man who was seized by the Russian officers on the occasion of his visit to Poland and sent to Siberia, has not turned up at the State Department, but if it fails to appear the case will probably be reported to the department in due course by the United States consul at Warsaw. There is some mystery about the case as reported in the newspapers that must be cleared up before intelligent action can be taken. Nothing is set out of the man’s an- tecedents, and the circumstances under which he left Russia when he came to this country, and it is suspected, in view of the heavy punishment imposed by the Russian government, that some charge must have been hanging over him which was revived | when he returned. But even assuming that Kizeminskt’s |record t# clean, his case {s still desperate. The Russian government has uniformly re- fused to recognize the right of its subjects to expatriate themselves. Once a Russian, always a Russian, {s their doctrine. Our government has in the past vainly strug- gled to secure an abatement of this severe law, so that Russians who are naturalized Americans might safely visit their father- | land, but all such visits are paid at the peril of the individual. and in cases of ar-| rest all that our State Department has been able to do was to exercise its good of- fices to ameliorate the fate of the captives. | Th obvious lesson in this case {s that it | behooves our naturalized citizens before re- turning to Europe to make careful inquiry as to their privileges and immunities. Only last year a naturalized citizen, who came to the United States at the age of fourteen | years, and desired to visit France, saved himself from certain arrest and enforced | military service by ascertaining through an | inquiry to Ambassador Eustis that the | French law denied the right of a youth to escape military service by expatriating himself. —___--e-_____ A NAVAL RESERVE BATTALION. Washington to Have One if Present Plans Are Perfected. Washington will have a naval reserve battalion shortly, if the scheme now under way meets with the success its promoters | believe that it will. The matter has been discussed lately, and steps will shortly be taken to perfect an organization similar to that of New York, Boston and other large ceastwise cities, which have successful re- serves. Next week a hearing will be given oy the District Commissioners to those who have undertaken to carry out the mov ment. It is proposed to have the reserves | as another battalion to the District National | Guard, subject to the same laws and re- ceiving the same assistance from Congres: A bill is now before the House naval com- mittee providing for the organization of a reserve. The bill will be taken up soon and orably reported, ard an effort made to secure its passage. The large number of ex-naval cadets ané@ graduates of the Naval Academy in the city will give a good chance | for the selection the battalion. ment would { Officers at the Navy Depart- ike to see a fine reserve at the ational capital. Mr. Henry G. Kemp of this city, who was educated at the Naval Academy, has been asked to accept the office of commander of the reserve. -o- Treasury Receipts. fonal bank notes received today for | redemption, $303,500; government receipts | from internal revenue, $633,314.09; customs, | | $558,017.22, and miscellaneous, $42,979.05. i} | lina, 20; West Virginia, 20 ) South Carolina, 1. \1. | York, 47. of competent officers for | 7 TREASURY CHANGES Information Furnished the Senate by Secretary Carlisle, APPOINTMENTS AND REMOVALS MADE How the Quotas of Different States Were Affected. THE EX-UNION SOLDIER After considerable delay, the government Printing office has issued in pamphlet form the tables sent to the Senate by Secretary Carlisle showing the changes in the Treas- ury Department since the change of ad- ministration. This information was request- ed by a resolution introduced by Senator Gallinger and passed on the 19th of April last. The tables are in excellent form for comparisons, for they are amply provided with recapitulations, which were lacking from the similar report made to the Senate lately by the Secretary of the Interior. The Change: The report shows that from March 4, 1893, to May 16, 1994, there have been the follow- ing changes in the department: Appoint- ments, 739; reappointments, 72; promotion: 385; reductions, 160; resignations, 271: re- movals, 505, The appointments, by states, in the order of the number, follow: District of Columbia, 159; New York, 64; Kentucky, $9; Maryland, ; Virginia, 87; Pennsy 28; Iilinol: Tennessee, Missouri, North Caro- Texas, 15; Mas- 14; Georgia, L New Jersey, 13; Arka: Kansas, 10; Alabama sachusetts, 15; Mississippi, sas, 11; Michigan, 11 | | 8; Louisiana, 8; lo: Connecticut, Delaware, 7; Florid: California, Maine, Minnesota, Wisconsin, 4; Ver- mont, Arizona, Nebraska, New Hampshire, 2; Rhode Island, 2; South Da- kota, 2; Washington, 2; Colorado, 1; Idaho, 1; Montana, 1; North Dakota, 1; Oregon, 1; Wyoming, 1; unknown, 5. But a different arrangement comes when the appointments are considered, with ref- erence to their annual value. Thus ar- ranged the states rank: New York, $87, Kentucky, $48,5 District_of Columbi $411 ); Pennsylvania, $36,743 990; Maryland, $34,342; "Te Virginia, $80,650; Minois, $27, os $25,620; Indiana, 850; North Carolina, $1 setts, $16,400; Texas, $16,280 lina, $16,140; Georgia, $13,000; Connecticut, $13,510; Alabami Missour Massachu South Caro- Mississippt, $13,502; New Jersey, $12,600; Kansas, $11,680 Arkansas, $9,810; 10 $8,920; Louisiana, $8.4 Michigan, $8,440 Florida, $8,150; $4,140; Minnesoti 81; California, $4,470; Wisconsin, $3,.4W ew Hampshire, $2,826 Dakota, 32,720; Vermont, — $2,100 North Dakota, $2,000; Rhode Island, $1/440 Arizona, $1,360; Nebraska, $1,000; Colorado, $720; Idaho, $720; Oregon, ¥ Wyoming, ; Montana, $470; unknown, $1,800. The Removals. The 565 removals were scattered thus among the states, in order of number: Dis- trict of Columbia, 168; New York, 68; Penn- sylvania, 52; Ohio, 46; Virginia, 32; Mary- land, 28; Illinois, 19; North Curolina, 14; diana, 13; Missouri, 9; West Virginia, 9 8; Massachusetts, 8; Wisconsin. 7; Connecticut, 6; Kansas, 6; Missouri, 6; New Jersey, 6; Kentucky, 5; Michigan, 5; Dela- Nebraska, 4; New Hampshire, 4; South Carolina, 4; Tennessee, 4; California, 3; Geor; 3; Iowa, 3; Alabama, 2, Ar- Colorado, Louisiana, Maiae, Nevada, 2; Florida, 1 (plate ‘printer at Piece rates); Rhode Island, 1; unknown, 11. Arranged according to the annual value of these positions the states rank thus: The District, $58,254; Ohio, $42,397; Penn- Sylvania, $83,834; Nev York, $32,020; Vir- ginia, . $19,900; Tilinois, $15,000; Maryland, $14,101; Indiana, $11,2¢ North Carolina, $9,040; Texas, $7,600; Missouri, $6,620; Mas- sachusetts, $6,520; West Virginia, A Wisconsin, $6,040; Minnesota, $5,740; necticut, $5,740; Kentucky, $5,180; Michigan, $4,100; Kansas, $4,040; New Hampshire, $3,800; Iowa, $3,720; New Jersey, $3.5: Nebraska, $3,360; Ternessee, $2,780; Dela- ware, $2,280; South Carolina, $2,1¢ Ala- bama, $2,12 California, $2,040; Arkansas, $1,920; $1,660; Nevada, $1,554 ; Maine, $1,320; Colorad $1,240; Mississippi, $720; Rhode Island, $720; urknown, $6,560. The Resignations. The resignations were divided among the states thus: Ohlo, 29; New York, 27; Penn- sylvania, 25; the District, Illinois, 16; Indiana, 16; Maryland, 10; Massachusetts, 9; Michigan, 8; Missouri, 8; New Jersey, West Virginia, Minnesota, 7; Arkansas, 5; Iowa, 5; New Hampshire, 5; Virginia, 5; Georgia, 4; Kansas, Kentucky, 4; Louis- jana, 4; Tennessee, 4; Texas, 4; Alabama, 3; California, 3; Delaware, Maine, 3; Nebraska, 3; North Carolina, Vermont, 3; Wisconsin, 3; Mississippi, Florida, 2; South Carolina, 2; Connecticut, 1; North Dakota, 1; South Dakota, 1; Rhode Island, “These are thus to be arranged in order of their value: New York, $49,495; Pennsyl- vania, 348,580; Ohlo, $41,440; Indiana, $36,- 200; Illinois, $33,550; the District, $23,484 Massachusett: 3; Michigan, $15,67¢ $ West Virginia, $15,420 yland, $11,480 New Hampshire, $10,600; Minnesota, $10,- t40; New Jersey, $0,614.54 Iowa, %7,720; Nebraska, $7, $7,000; Kansas, Arkansas, Delaware, $7,100; Mississippi ginia, $6,290; Callfornia, $6,220; Kentucky, $6,160; Georgia, $5,000; Maine, $4,700; Ten- nessee, $4, 40H Louisiana, $4,300. Carolina, $3,870; Texas, 20; Vermont, $8,200; South Carolina, Alabama. 225 . 2520; Florida, $2, . 32,0005 South’ Dakota, ; Connecticut, $1,400; Rhode Island, $1,200; Arizona, $640. ‘The promotions were given to residents of the following states: The District, 86; ah Virginia, 3¢ 17; South Carolina, 17; North Carolina, 14; Indiana, 13; Massachusetts, 13; Tennessce, 13; Georgia, 11; Missourt, 11; Wisconsin, ‘i1 Loulsiana, 10; Minnesota, 14 9; Texas, 9; Alabama, 8; gan, 8; Mississippi, 8; West Virginia, 8; Arkansas, 7; Iowa, 7; Maine, california, 6; Connecticut, Florida, 4; Vermont, South Dakota, 3 Montana, ew Hampshire, 2; Oregon, 2; New Mexico, 1; Washington, The Un pldier, The report also contains a note of the ex-soldiers of the Union among these changes. Of the 739 appointments 84 were soldiers and 21 were widows, daughters or sons of soldiers. The soldiers themseives formed 11 3-10 per cent of the tetal appointments. Of the 565 removals 105 were soldiers and 8 were sons, daughters or widows of sol- diers. The 105 veterans formed 18 6-10 per cent of the removals. The 271 resignations ircluded 68 soldiers, or 25 per cent. There — also 9 sons, etc., among those resign- Se Registered Last July. Appended to the report is a table showing the states to which the employes of the Treasury Department on the Ist of July, 1893, were charged, as folows: The District, 1,206; New York, 485; Penn. sylvania, 205; Virginia, 109; Maryland, 197; Ohio, 195; Illinois, 143; Indiana, Mas- sachusetts, 108; New Jersey, Michigan, Kentucky, 68; Missouri, ; ; South Minnesota, 56; W Connecticut, ast; N Alabama . org! a, Vermont, 2 ; Arkansa: Rhode Island, 11; Washington, 4; New Mex’ Idaho, 4; Montana, Wyoming, 3; Arizona, South Dakota, 1; Utah, 1; Indian territory, L THE APPROPRIATION BILLS Not One of Them Has Yet Passed the Senate, The Tariff Bill Has Blocked Them and a Get Through Before July 1. The republicans of the Senate have not yet given any encouragement to those dem- ocrats who are anxious for an agreement for a vote on the woolen schedule without delay. A number of speeches have been prepared in opposition to free wool, which 1s about the only thing in the schedule to which there is great opposition, and until these speeches have been delivered no pro- gress can be made. The talk that Is being indulged in is all straightforward opposi- tion and cannot be considered as designed for delay. Mr. Harris is ready to press for night sessions whenever there is any sign of a filibuster, but it would be stretching a point to consider the present debate in that lght. The republicans calculate that it will take until the close of the day on Friday to fin- ish the schedule, though they agree that the consideration might be hastened a little. While the minority of the finance commit- tee are not in favor of any further delay than that which cannot be helped, there are still some %epublicans who think action should be delayed until after the close of this fiscal year. Not um Appropriation Bill Passed, Not one of the appropriation bills has yet ed or even been cousidered by the Sen- Pi ate, and there is no apparent chance that | even one of them will be passed in time to meet the exigency of the new fiscal year. It is obvious that the appropriations of the | Present fiscal year will have to be extended by resolution before the 30th of June, other- wise there would be no money with which to meet the expenses of any branch of the government, have been necessary before, but the present situation presents a most extraordinary Spectacle. There are eight appropriation bills still awaiting action by the Senate committee, and two more that have not yet been re- ceived from the House. The fortifications, the pension, the Mil- itary Academy, the army and ‘the diplo- matic appropriation bills are the only ones that have yet been reported to the Senate. In the Senate committee still awaiting ac- tion are the District of Columbia,the naval, the agricultural, the post office, the sundry civil, the legislative, the river and harbor. Work in the House, The House is just finishing up the Indian bill and has after that only the general de- ficiency bill, which has not yet been report- | ed from the committee, as from its nature | |it must be kept to the last. The House | | has dispesed of the appropriation bills and all other legislation which {it has felt im- | portant to get through at this session with remarkable promptness, but the condition of affairs in the Senate has blocked every- thirg at that end. eae aa ES THE PRINTI OFFICE SITE. The House Committee to Make Its Re- port Tomorrow. The committee on public buildings and grounds will make a report to the House tomorrow on the printing office site. The report will be a composite affair, offering two propositions to the House, and intimat- ing finally that neither one of them nor) anything like them ought to be adopted. It will be remembered that the House by a vote directed the committee to select a site for a new public printing office from one of the public reservations of the city. Much | against its will, but being compelled by the vote of the House, the committee set about its work, and finally concluded that if a reservation must be used the Armory Square, on B street between 6th and 7th southwest, would probably be the least ob- jectionable. mittee no public reservation was advisable. Since deciding upon the Armory Square the committee has looked further into the matter and has conciuded to suggest to the House that the House might prefer to use another portion of this same reservi tion, namely, the northwest corner of fronting on B street northwest and b. tween the Baltimore and Potomac rail- road depot and 7th street. This would put the printing office north of the mall in- stead of south, and would furnish better communication with car lines and would obviate the necessity of people having to cross the network of railway tracks to get into the building. The committee will suggest that the House can take either one of these sites, but the members of the committee, when the matter comes up, will advise against any public reservation. —-—+ © + —______ THE PRESIDENT BETTER, Will Not Go to Gray Gubles for the Present. It is stated at the White House that the Pres'dent {s better this afternoon. Dr. O'Reilly called early in the day, and soon afterward Dr. Bryan, the President's other family physician, who had come down from New York, visited the White House in company with Secretary Lamont. After examining the patient Dr. Bryan and Sec- retary Lamont went to the nearest drug store and had a prescription compounded, with which they returned to the White House. Meanwhile Secretary Gresham and Attorney General Olney called to inquire as to how the President had passed the night. They saw Mr. Cleveland, and said they were well satisfled with his progress to- ward recovery. He passed a fairly good night, and the active symptoms of his com- plaigt have been partially checked. He is still under the injunction, however, to keep perfectly quiet and to exert himself as little as possible. He saw several visitors outside of the members of his cabinet during the morning, and managed to dispose of a num- ber of routine matters. Private Secretary Thurber told a Star re- porter that there is no foundation for the report that the President will go to Gray Gables on the Dolphin ina few days. From another source it is learned that the Presi- dent will make another short trip down the Potomac for purposes of recuperation 80 soon as he recovers suffictently from his present spell of weakness to justify the un- dertaking. Unless present plans are changed, the President will not make a visit to Gray Gables before the Ist of July at the earliest, and he may not be able to get away even then. It all depends on the state cf public business. His present indisposi- tion is said to be merely temporary, and is expected to yield readily to treatment. —— Swift Before a House Committee, Merrison J. Swift of Fitzgerald's Boston industrial army spoke today to the House committee on labor. Charity, he argued, weakened the fiber ef workingmen, and per- haps added to the tramp ar: In boston the policy had ben adopted of giving alms to those out of work and in nead. It would be better to furnish public work, by whic those in want could become preducers, in d weights on the community. xdvocated public farms, or factories, or work cn roads. Wages for government work should be lower than the prevailing wages, so that men would resort to them only when pri- vate employment could not be had. —+-2-— Republican OMecholders. It is announced at the Post Office Depart- | ment that the amount of federal postal patronage in New York state held by republicans aggregates over $100,000 in laries. The places are post offices in which republican postmasters have not yet been succeeded by democrats, owing to lack of expiration of the post office term Extensions of particular appropriations | In the opinion of the com-| DEMANDS ITS DEFEAT|CHANGED I'S MIND) AGAINST FREE WOOL Senator Hansbrough Bitterly At- tacks the Pending Tariff Bill. SECTIONAL DISCRIMINATIONS SHOWN Complete Ruination of the Ameri- can Wool Industry is Prophesied. AN ELOQUENT EFFORT Mr. Hansbrough (N. Dak.) took the floor in the Senate today and spoke at some length against the pending tariff bill. While favoring the principle of protection and desiring to see that policy perpetuated, he was opposed to the protective tariff now before the Senate. He opposed it on ac- count of its discriminations, its sectional | Inequalities and its false pretenses. It dis- criminates against the people of the west in placing wool upon the free list, and favors the people of another section by giv- ing rice a duty of 90 per cent. It levies a duty of more than 50 per cent upon sugar and places wheat, flour and many other | products of the farm on the free list. | While claiming to be in the interest of the extension of our markets for agricultural products, it strikes down the reciprocity clause of the McKinley act, thereby nar- rowing the American farmers’ foreign mar- ket by many millions of dollars. He was sorry, he said, to be obliged to take this | sectional view of the measure, but believed | there was an excuse for so doing, in the fact that the great manufacturing indu: tries of New Jersey and Maryland hi been carefully protected in this bill,the rates of duty upon cotton goods and woolens hav- ing been advanced at least 50 per cent over the rate in the original Wilson bill, while ccal, fron, steel and all kinds of clothing had been highly protected. Mr. Gorman, he said, had declared that this was a measure solely in the interest of revenue, while Mr. Hill of New York had stated that the bill would raise $75,000,000 more than was necessary. Doom of the Wool Industry. He quoted from standard authorities and official statistics to show that it 18 poe- sible for the sheep raisers of the United States, if properly enconraged, to produce all the wool necessary for consumption in this country. He declared that the wool raiser west of the Mississipp! river would be obliged to go out of the business, for the simple reason that while the cost to him of producing wool was from 10 to 12 cents per pound, the cost in Australia was from 5 to 6 cents per pound, and im addi- tion to this, that while the freights from the Rocky mountain points to Boston and Philadelphia were two and a half to ihree cents per pound, the carrying charges from Australia were less than one cent per | pound. He was confident that hereafter, if this bill passed, sheep would be raived in the west only for their mutton. Figures were also given showing the rapid in- crease in the wool industry under protec- tion and the equally rapid decline in the industry under former reductions of duties. Referring to the grain schedule, he said that the duty which Canada had been pay- ing in order to sell barley in our market | was a tax upon the Canadian farmer and | that the money went into our treasury as |a contribution from him, and that it was | not a tax upon the consumer of berley in | this country. This, he said, was a fair il- lustratign and would apply to many other articles. Cause of Prevailing Distress. He believed that the chief cause of dis- tress in this country is to be found in the financial system dictated to us by England, jand the passage of this bill, which in- | creased imports of merchandise and con- | Sequently increased exports of gold, simply inter.sifted the difficulty. He said that every one who voted for this bill sanctioned the policy of purchasing larger amounts from Hurope and paying them lager sums of | geld, and that such a policy could lead to but one end, and that the issuing of gold bonds to sustain the credit of the coun- try. Therefore, he was curious to know how his silver friends on the democratic side would justify their votes in favor of this measure with their professions on finance and against the issuance of bonds. For his part he would be glad of an oppor- tunity of voting for a measure that would put a commercial wall between Hngland | and the United States, for that, in his opin- jion, would be the swiftest way te reach | that period of financial independence the lack of which has brought this country to the verge of bankruptcy. Mr. Hansbrough's Advice. Coin the product of American silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1. Open the Amer- ican mines, now {dle and filled with water and inhabited by bats. Enter into trade relations with the silver-using peoples of the world. Enccurage the construction of the Nicaragua canal. Stop issuing bonds. Cease going into debt to foreign capitalists. En- courage a spirit of retaliation against those countries that oppress us. The equilibrium between our own people will thus soon be established. Misscuri, Arkansas and Texas cvnnot frame a tariff bill that will do justice to the industries of this country. Nor is it within reason to expect that such a bill as might be anticipated from that source can be properly amended by New Jersey, Mary- land and the purblind half of Ohio. In closing, the Senator said that he would force the majority of the Senate to adopt a closure rule before they passed the bill. The bvsiness of the country is not now suffering half as much as it will suffer if this meas- ure becomes a law. Every Senator from the west should oppose it. Strong Adverse Criticism. With the raw materials from that section so completely and systematically pli on the fre? list, with all protection withdrawn from the articles the western people have to sell and high rates of duties levied in favor of the-articles of the east and south, which the western people are expected to buy, he felt that he would be misrepresenting’ his constituents if he did not stand here every day for the remairder of his term, if nec- essary, to help defeat the iniquitous and trust-contaminated measure. The inequality of this measure lies tn the fact that it places a high protective duty up- en all that we buy and puts upon’ the free st those things that the farmers of this country have to sell. With wheat upon the free list, the farmers of the northwest coun- try, from Manitoba to the further confines of the Saskatchewan, would dump their wheat into the murkets of Duluth, Minne- apolis and Chicago, thus creating ‘a larger surplus for which the American farmer must find a foreign market. Our facilities for handling our ov.n grain are already over- taxed. If we must, on top of this, handle the surplus of the Canadian farmer, the re- sult can well be imagined. This is the kind of reciprocity proposed by this bill, ————+2- Naval Movemen A telegram was received at the Navy De- partment today announcing the arrival of |the cruiser New York at Kingston, Ja- | maica, where she will take on cgal and pro- | ceed at once to New York. The San Fran- cisco will remain at Bluefields until re- |Meved by the Marblehead, which is due there in a few days, when she, too, will |return to New York. ‘The Atlanta fs fittin, | out at Norfolk for service at Bluefields an, will probably start south next week. ——+-2 + ___ The Navy to Participate. Secretary Herbert has instructed Ad- miral Gherardi, commandant at the New | York navy yard, to proceed directly with the monitor Miantonomoh and the frigate Lancaster to Dobb's Ferry, on the Hudson, to participate in the ceremonies there to- morrow in commemoration of V revolutionary campaigns. The Secretary's aon will be in attendance on the Lan- caster, Mr. Havemeyer Declines to Disclose Sugar Trost Campaign Oontzibutions Explosion of a Rumor About Tam- many Chieftain Croker’s Connec- tion With the Sugar Tarif. Mr. Havemeyer, who yesterday stated that he could not give the amounts of the sugar trust's contributions to the campaign funds of the different states, but indicated a willingness to do so, said to the committee today that, upon consultation with counsel, he would decline to give the amounts of the contributions; that he was advised that under the terms of the resolution the amount of such contributions was no part of the investigation. The committee also took this view of the matter, as the witness had sworn that no contributions had been made in any case to secure the election of United States Senators. John E. Searles, who was expected today, did not appear. The committee has sum- moned Theodore Havemeyer, and he is ex- ected to appear today or tomorrow. It is not expected that he will add any impor- tant information te the investigation, as he was not here during the time covered in the consideration of the tariff bill. “Allegations About Boss Croker. A report has gained currency about the Capitol during the past day or two and has received attention from some newspapers that the recent departure of Mr. Richard | Croker of Tammany Hall, New York, for | Europe had been caused by the prospect of his being summoned before the Senate sugar | \ Several Speeches Made in the Sen- ate Today on the Subject. Tt WOULD DESTROY A GREAT INDUSTRY Western Senators Particularly In- terested in the Matter. MATTERS IN THE HOUSE Mr. Perkins (Cal) took occasion at the opening of the session of the Senate today to make a brief statement defending the memory of the late Leland Stanford from the charge made by Representative Geary @ few days ago that he had founded the Stan- ford University out of a spirit of revenge and resentment, because he had not beer. elected a trustee of the University of Call- fornia. “It is with a feeling of some hesitancy,” said Mr. Perkins, “that I rise in the Senate to a question of privilege, or of what conceive to be a privilege, to act of justice to the memory for eight years occupied a seat on the floor of this Senate. It was charged by « mem- ber of the House of Representatives on Monday before a committee in this Capitol, and the statement has been tek all over the country, that Senator fora ® trust investigating committee. This report | founded the great university of learning at | Went to the extent of saying that Mr./ Palo Alto, Cal., from motives of revenge. Croker’s visit to Washington while the | because he could not be elected a trustee of tariff bill was pending in the House Was) the University of California. I desire fo really made in the interest of the sugar | say thut (rom my own personal knowledge trust; that he had conducted the nego! I know the statement to be entirely erre- tions for the protection of refined sugar| neous and without foundation, in fact or and had been entrusted with the expendi-| truth. During the latter part of my term ture of funds of the trust to secure this|as governor of California, and during the protection. It was further stated that the recess of the legislature, I, without his Senate committee, having learned these | facts, had decided to summon Mr. Croker | | to testify, and that a subpoena was issued, | but was held by Senator Gray. chairmen | of the committee, until Mr. Croker could! get out of the country and thus avoid ap-| pearing before the commitiee. ° j Dental of the Committee. | An Associated Press reporter, who today | made inquiry concerning the rumor, was asked into the committee room, where the | members of the committee and Mr. H. O.| Havemeyer were seated, and a formal de- nial was mede on the part of all the mem-| | bers. Senator Gray expressed surprise that and said it was entirely without founda-| | tion; that he had never until this report | was started heard Mr. Croker’s name men tioned in connection with the sugar ques- tion, and that there never had been an: | rooms y | Suggestion that he should be subpoenaed. | Senators Lodge and Allen confirmed this statement, and Mr. Havemeyer, upon being | appealed to by Senator Gray, said that, to his knowledge, Mr. Croker had not come | to Washington in the interest of the trust | and had no connection with the tariff legis- jlation on sugar. E. R. Chapman Certified. The Vice President today signed the cer- tficate to the district attorney of the re- fusal of E. R. Chapman, the New York broker, to answer questions of the sugar trust investigating committee. The certifi- cate is an exact duplicate of that issued in the case of Edwards and Shriver. Saw Nothing Suspicious. H. P. Burmey, one of the room clerks at the Arlington Hotel, was the next witness. | He stated that Messrs. Havemeyer, Ter-| {rell and Reed had occupied rooms at the Arlington in March, but said he knew of /mo conference at the rooms of either of ; them on the night of March @, as testified to by Mr. George Gaston. The witness said he had no recollection of sending the cards of Senators to the rooms of these gentlemen, and that neither of the ele- | vators at ‘the hotel was used for sending | Senators up privately. He said that Sena- tor Brice had been in the habit of calling on Mr. Terrell, but that he called no more | frequently during his visits last winter and | spring than on former occasions. A GENERAL SHAKING UP. | justle Over the Reorganization of War Department Bureaus. Affairs at the War Department are in a state of bustle and uncertainty in anticipa- | tion of the proposed reorganization of its | business methods on the Ist proximo. All the employes are receiving a course of in-| struction in the practical application of the | card system, and that system will be put | into actual operation in all the bureaus on the Ist proximo. The reorganization of the clerical force under the new rules has been completed in all the bureaus, with the sin-| sle exception of the record and pension, where there remain, however, nearly 200 re- auctions yet to be made. A reassignment | of offices occurred at the department today, and there was a general shaking up. The corridors were crowded with desks, furni- ture, ete. | \ Transferring Offices. The force of the signal office, at 1415 G| |Street, was transferred bodily to the War | | Department. It took five rooms to accom-| modate them. The force of the judge ad- vocate general's office was transferred to $s adjoining the office of the assistant secretary. The duties of this office are largely increased under the new orler of things. The rooms vacated by them were assigned to a division of the adjutant gen- eral's office. There were a number of other office changes, the object in each case being to concentrate the force of each bureau in , the immediate vicinity of the office of the | responsible head of the bureau. Reassignment of Staff Officers, It is expected that the question of the Tassignment of staff officers on duty at the department will be settled in a day or two. It ts already settled that four assist- ant adjutents <eneral and one assistant Sirgeon gencral will be relieved from fur-| ther duty in Washington and assigned to other fields of usefulness, Their names are withheld for the present. } a The Marion at San Francisco. The Navy Department is informed of the safe arrival at San Francisco of the cor- vette Marion, sister ship to the Kearsarge, after ber long and tempestuous cruise across the Pacific from hama, Japan, | the only break in which was a few days’ stop at Honolulu. Her injuries by a ty phoon, a few days out from Yokohama, | were not so serious as at first supposed. | They caused her return to port, where an expenditure of $600 was sufficient to put her in condition for her trip across the ocean. The future movements of the Marion wili | depend on the result of the survey ordered by the department. If tn fairly good con- Cition, the chances are that she will be! sent to Samoa to look after American in- terests on those islands. o.+___ Probably Subsidea. The officials of the Korean legation are still without any reply from the home gov- ernment to the cablegram asking for fur-| ther information concerning the reported | outbreak against foreigners. In the Korea | mail containing advices up to a month or | more ago, just received at the legation, no mention is made of impending trouble. The preseumption is therefore that the difficulty orose suddenly, and the fact that nothing efiditional has been received concerning it tends to the belief that it has subsided. still enanontinceentinns Not Dismisned. Mr. A. F. Bayard of the adjutant gener-/ al’s office, War Department, denies the re- | port that he was among those recently dis. | missed. | | such a story should have found currency, | © knowledge or consent, appointed Senator Stanford a regent of the University of Cali- fornia. “He declined taaccept or qualify, for the season ke had not time to devote to the work. His name, however, was sent to the legislature with other noimnations, and failed of confirmation, as I understand it, at his own request. My successor a8 gov- ernor, Gen. Stoneman, would have reap- —s him regent, but was informed by nator Stanford's friends and attorney, Col. Creed Raymond, that he would not ac- cept, for the reason that his sympathies were with a college of manual training, a place where the youth of the country could learn professions and trades which would able them to more easily earn a livell- hood, and that one of these days he intend- ed to build such an institution. His exten- sive business affairs so engrossed his time that he did not carry into effect his plan until death entered his home and took away the hight of their ambition and the idol of the father and mother. Then for the first time he realized the transitoriness of all earthly affairs, and he and his good wife resolved that the most enduring mon- ument they could erect to the memory of their beloved son woul¢ be an institution of learning that should be free to the youth of the land.” More Information Wanted. A resolution offered by Mr. Morgan (Ala) ‘was passed calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for certain information. First, what amount of gold coin has been received by the Treasury Department since Novem- ber 1, 18937 Second, how much was received from the sale of bonds, and to what per- sons or banking institutions such bonds were sold? Third, what outstanding obliga- tions have been redeemed in gold since that date? Mr. Hoar (Maes.) offered a resolution call- ing upon the President to inform the Senate representations, written oP made to the government of ates by the representatives of any foreign countries as to any contem- plated retaliation on aecount of the posed imposition of a discriminating on sugar against bounty-giving countries; also the facts as to the probable exclusion of our agricultural products from Germany, and also any information in his possession relative to any proposed retaliatory legisla- ton by the cortes of Spain on account of the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty um- der Yhe tariff act of 1% There was no objection, and the resolution was adopted. Me Sherman Against Free Wool. On motion of Mr. Vilas (Wis), three bills Providing one additional circuit judge each for the seventh, eighth and ninth judicial Cistricts were passed, and then, at 10:30, the tariff debate was resumed, the pending Question being Mr. Peffer's amendment to restore 3) per cant of the duty on raw weols. Mr. Sherman (Ohio) was recognized ond made @ vigorous speech against free Wool. The questior of free wool, he said, vital- ly affected the people of Ohio. He relter- ated what he hed said in a previous speech, | that free wool was the culminating atrocity | of this buil. He appealed to the democrats to put aside polities and withhold this de- structive blow to this great industry. The Sheep raising and wool growing industry Was common, in a greater or less extent, to every state and territory. It was he said, that the United States could not compete im the production of wool with Australia, Argentine Republic and other countries where sheep raising was the principal industry. Unless some govern- ment aid was given the farmers of the United States must abandon the field. Mr. Sherman proceeded to dwell upon the im- rtance of wool to any nation, ¢ ay time of war, when it was as essential as He potated out that the flock of every tarmer was depended upon by him for the payment of his taxes, His fleece was one of his staple products, always to be relied upon for conversion into cash. He showed by statistics that the price of wool ranged up to IN#) between 40 and 50 cents per pound; during the war it thuctuated ly, since the war it had varied a From 1801 to Iss the pric $ cents. But the mo- ment it became reasonably certain that the democratic party was committed to free wool the price fell to a free trade price, Today the price of first-class wool was The actual loss to the farm- the country on a single crop ha@ «0, ‘The revenue of the treas- from wool had averaged in the last years $52,000,000 annually. With @ deficiency of from $70,000,000 to $100,000,000 staring them in the face could the demo- crats afford to throw away this enormous revenue and regort to an income tax¢ Could they afford to destroy the bird that laid the golden egg. He dweit upon the harsh con‘itions under which the rarmers were laboring today with the prevailing depressicn in all classes of farm products. Yet they were to be left to the mercy of the world’s competi- tion. Mr. Sherman, in conclusion, said that one million farmers of the country, in the matter of wool, asked only justice, justice such as they had received from every ad- ministration since Madison's. Mr. Dubois Alvo Against It, Dubois (idaho) followed Mr. Shere in wheat .or ammunition, 1z 1-2 cents. Ts of Mr. man. He made a strong protest against placing Wool on the free list as disastrous to the great sheep raising industry of his section. Although the bill was not yet a law he said that it was not possible today to sell a pound of wool In Idaho except at a dis- count from the nominal market price equal to the present rate of duty on raw wool The fleeces had been grown under the ays- tem of protection and were now to be sacri- ficed (nder the system of free trade. If the bill carried out logically the demand of the democratic platform for free raw ma- terials, he would not ask a democratic Sen- ate to make an exception of wool, but in passing partially protective duties on coal, under the sham excuse of iron ore, - revenue, he denounced the discrimination against the American farmer, The wool industry of Idaho had prospered under th¢ McKinley tariff. From 1890 to 1808 the flocks doubled. The threat of free wool tell _ _—S——_—_— iT OO

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