Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1894, Page 1

~*~ THE EVENING STAR. oURLISHED DA! Y EXcerT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, * 1102 Poataylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th Street, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, S. H. KAUFFMANN, Prest. New York Office, 49 Potter Building, - ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers in the riers. ‘a their own account, at 10 ceats or 44. per month. Coples at the courter anywhere in the United Prepaid—50 vents per day Quintuple Sheet Star, $1.00 per year: Sa pectige stand. Suk, Post Office at Washington, D. C.. jase mati matter.) I] subscriptions must be pald ip advance. of advertising made known on orplication, MORE ABOUT WOOL That Schedule Not Yet Completed in the Senate. COMMITTEE "AMENDMENT ON SHODDY The Speaker and Mr. Reed Have Che £vening Star. _ No. 20,913. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. TWO CENTS. Mr. Richardson rose to a question of per- sonal privilege. “That is not a fact,” reiterated the Speak- er sharply. Here is the Record, which says it is a fact,” declared Mr. Reed. Mr. Richardson's Ex tion. Mr. Richardson here entered the arena and explained that he had intended to rise to a question of privilege, and the first sen- tence of his typewritten remarks had con- tained that statement, but it had been omit- ted in speaking. While the yea and nay vote on the adoption of the consideration of the Indian bill was being taken he had gone to the Speaker and asked that he be aliowed to make a personal statement. a Tilt. THE RECORD’S ACCURACY At the opening of the session of the Sen- ate today Mr. Teller (Col.) asked unanimous cousent to consider the House bill disap- proving the recent negotiations of J. Mont- gomery Smith and other United States com- missiapers with the Southern Ute Indians and confirming the treaty provisions of June, 1880, for the allotment of lands in severalty, etc. Mr. Teller explained the provisions of the bill, which encountered some opposition from Mr. Vilas. Mr. Teller finally decided, in view of the opposition, to allow the bill to go over until Monday. Bills were then passed as follows: On mo- tion of Mr. Blanchard (La.), authorizing Knowing that it could only be made by the consent of the House, and after the vote was taken, he addressed the Speaker and asked permission to make a personal explanation, and he understood that he was proceeding by unanimous consent. Mr. Reed Reads the Report. Mr. Reed again entered the discussion, and taking up the record again read the report of the colloquy, dilating upon it as he read. “According to the reporter's notes, he continued, “there was no question put to the House and no request for permission to make a personal explanation, but on the contrary, the gentleman rose to a question of personal privilege, and there was no question put to the House. But he read a reporter's note appended, stating that “the foregoing is given as understood by the reporter.” Mr. Richardson inquired whether Mr. Reed had heard what he said. “I did.” replied Mr. Reed. “I think, then, that he should know that I rose to make a personal explanation, said Mr. Richardson. Commander Dennis W. Mullan, U. 8. N., to accept a medal presented to him by the Chilean government; also, on motion of Mr. Hawley (Conn.), a bili for the relief of Dan- tel C. Rodman; also, on motion of Mr.Carey (Wyo.), fixing the price of desert land at $1.25 and authorizing the refund of pay- ments in excess of that price; also, on mo- tlor. of Mr. Gibson (Md.), a joint resolution granting permission to the state of Mary- land to use the old United States court house in the city of Baltimore. Mr. Pe “s Amendment Defeated. The tariff bill was then, at 10:30, laid be- fore the Senate, and the vote was immedi- ately taken on the pending amendment of Mr. Peffer to transfer all manufactures composed wholly or in part of wool to the free ist. It was defeated—3-46. The three populists, Alien, Kyle and Yef- fer, voted in favor of it. Mr. Hansbrough (N.D.) announced that he would have voted “aye” had he not been paired. The Senate then plunged into the actual consideration of the woolen schedule. The Duty on Shoddy. The first paragraph (278), placing a duty of 15 per cent on wool and hair in the form of slubbing waste, roving waste, mungo shoddy, corded waste, carbonized noils or other waste product, was read. This was the House rate. The finance committee amendment struck out this paragraph, but made shoddy, mungo, garnetted waste and carbonized noils and wool in the form of roving, roping or tops In the following par- agraph dutiable at 15 per cent. Mr. Vest explained that the finance committee had been moved to place a duty on shoddy agd waste, in order to exclude them from the country, to the end that the manufacture of shoddy, so prevalent in this country, might to a certain extent cease. One of the pur- boses of placing wool on the free list was to discourage the manufacture of shoddy. Under the McKinley act the manufacture of » Mr. Vest said, bad doubled, until last year it reached $0,000,000. Mr. Aldrich contended that there was nothing illegitimate in the manufacture ef shoddy. The reduction in duty on shod- dy (from 30 cents per pound to 15 per cent ad valorem) proposed in this bill, Mr. Ald- rich said, would stimulate rather than dis- courage the production of shoddy goods. Mr, Vest called attention to the testi- mony of Mr. North, secretary of the Woolen Manufacturers’ Association (who was pres- ent on the floor of the Senate assisting Mr. Aldrich as a tariff expert), in which Mr. North declared that there was one pound of otton and shoddy to every pound of wool used in woolen manufactures in this coun- try. The McKinley rate, therefore, had failed to exclude shoddy. “How can you decrease the use of shod- dy,” Mr. Aldrich asked, “by stimulating its importation with a lower duty?” “We reduce the duty on shoddy, it is true,” replied Mr. Vest, “but we place wool on the free list. If the manufacturers are given free wool they will not pay a duty on shoddy in order to use i Mr. Quay’s Tenth I iment. When the discussion between Mr. Ald- rich and Mr. Vest ceased Mr. Quay of Pennsylvania took the floor and proceeded to deliver the tenth installment of his speech begun on April 15. This installment of Mr. Quay’s speech Proved to be the last, and after speaking two hours he announced that he had con- cluded. Committee Amendment Carried. The vote was then taken on the finance committee amendment to strike out para- graph 278, and it was carried. The Jones amendment to the next paragraph, made flocks, mungo, shoddy and wool in the form of roving, roping or tops, dutiable at 15 per Gent instead of 25 per cent as in the House Mr. Aldrich appealed to Mr. Jones to withdraw this amendment, on the ground that it would destroy the spinning industry in the United States. Mr. Platt Joined in the appeal. All the preliminary processes of the manufacture of woolens up to the yarn stage were involved in this paragraph ard could not survive here with a duty of 15 per cent. The Jones Amendment Agreed To. The Jones amendment was agreed to. Mr. Jones withdrew the finance committee amendment, making all wool and worsted yarns valued at less than # cents per Pound at 30 per cent, and above 40 cents at per cent. The latter was an increase over the House rate of 5 per cent. It was also agreed to. Paragraph 2S1, with the proposed Jones amendnients, placed a duty on knit fabrics d all fabrics made on knitting machines, Rot including w ing apparel, and on shawls made wholly or in part of wool, Worsted, valued at less than 40 cents per pound, 35 per cen cents, 40 per cent. Mr. Frye’s General Protest. Mr. Frye (Me.) took occasion, while this paragraph was pending, to enter a general protest against the woolen schedule. THE HOUSE. When the House was called to order today the prayer was offered by Chaplain Milburn | of the Senate. The House immediately got into a parliamentary wrangle over the ap- proval of the Record, the qvestion hinging on whether or not Mr. Richardson had ob- tained unanimous consent yesterday for his personal explanation. After the reading of the journal, Mr. Reed rose and said there was no mention in the journal of the fact that Mr. Richard- gon had made a personal explanation, to which the Speaker replied, as the House had taken no action it would not appear in the journal. Mr. Reed and the Speaker. “It was part of the proceedings of the! House,” insisted Mr. Reed. The Speaker, however, maintained that only when a matter was acted on in the House was it customary to record it in the! journal. “I have never examined the matter,” ad- mitted Mr. Re but it is certainly a part | the proceedings of the Hou: a Ido see why it should be left out any more than any other proceedings.” Mr. Reed went on to say the Record show- @J that Mr. Richardson had risen to a ques- | tion of personal privilege “That is incorrect,” declared the Speaker. | Mr. Reed retorted, “On that I think opin-| fons will differ.” He then read the extract | in question from the Record, stating that | valued at more than 40 | and forty of ¢ “I think he will soon have to make an- other,” retorted Mr. Reed. “I will get ready,” replied Mr. Richard- son. ‘There was some further colloquy between Messrs. Reed and Richardson, when the Speaker stated that he understood and be- lieved that Mr. Richardson had asked and obtained unanimous consent to make a per- sonal explanation. LARGE REDUCTIONS The Ooming Wholesale Discharges in the Record Division. Must Be Made Before July 1—The List Not Yet Completed—Other Changes. As has been already stated in The Star, there will be a heavy reduction in the cleri- eal force of the record and pension office, War Department, between now and the Ist of July. The completion of a portion of the work on which the office has been en- gaged necessitated a reduction of 300 clerks out of a total force of nearly 800. The leg- islative appropriation bill pending in Con- gress makes no provision for the payment of the excess of clerks and consequently | they must be dropped as soon as that Dill takes effect. The Secretary of War has no discretion in the matter beyond the selec- tion’of those to be dropped. It is understood that the selection will be based entirely on the efficiency records of the office. Col. Ainsworth, chief of the office, is d ing the best he can to make the blow as light as possible. None of the vacancies that have occurred from time to time by resignation, transfer or other causes have been filled, until now the force is 145 short of its legal quota. Consequently there are but 155 reductions yet to be made, instead of 3u0 as would have been the case if the existing vacancies had been filled. It is said at the department today that the additional reductions will take effect July 1, regardless of the probability of the ccntinuance of present appropriations be- yond that date. ‘he reason given for this js that the Secretary deems it best that the changes should take effect at the beginning of the next fiscal year rather than later. In explanation of the failure to give those who are to go fifteen days’ leave of absence by notifying them yesterday, it is said that the list of dismissals has net yet been com- pleted, and that its preparation will be de- layed till the last moment, in the hope that in the meantime provision may be made for some of the clerks in other depart- ments. Whatever transfers or resignations that may occur in the record and pension office before July 1 will lessen the number of compulsory retirements. It is argued that it is better for the clerks to work on up to the Ist of July, with a chance of transfer to another office, than to be dis- missed at once, in order that they may have the benefit of a short leave of ab- sence. —+-o+_____ PROBABLY A SUICIDE. Discovery of the Body of a Ma: posed to Be W. E. Thomas. While fishing near Fort Foote yesterday Robert Smith and Fred Brown found the body of an unknown white man. In his hand was a bottle of morphine pills, and when his clothes were searched, a letter addressed to W. HK. Thomas 627 K street, Washington, was found. The remains were taken in charge by the coroner of Prince George's county, Md. This afternoon a Star reporter called at No. 627 K street southwest and saw Mrs. Thomas. She said that her husband was a collector, but he had been out of work for some time. She also stated that he had gone out of the city looking for work, but she had not the slightest idea which way he had gone. Mrs. Thomas also said she had not received the letter found in the dead man’s pocket, nor had she even heard of the finding of the body until informed of it by the reporter. —— ABDUL AZIZ TO BE RECOGNIZED. Sup- The European Powers Instruct Rep- resentatives to That Effect. TANGIER, June 16.—Muls! Ismail, uncle of the new sultan, has been appointed Khlaifa of Fez. The governments of France, Spain and Great Pritain have instructed their minis- ters to recognize Abdul Aziz as Sultan of Morocco, and to ask permission to pay their respects to him at Rabat. LONDON, June 16.—A dispatch to the Standard from Madrid says: Sultan Abdul Aziz, in his proclamation to the people, promises been guilty of offenses against his father, but threatens to impose the most severe punishment on any one who dares to resist his authority. The sultan has ordered the summary execution of several Bedouins who are charged with robbing caravans. THE COMMONWEALERS. Frye’s Men Will Try to Get Can at Cumberland. CUMBERLAND, Md., June 16.—Members have been arriving in ght trains for the past two days, until about seventy have assem- bled. The army will try to arrange to go to Washington by canal bea OMAHA, Neb. June i6.— n. Carte vo hundred and are now loaded in box awaiting orders for their dis- position from Judge Dundy. oe TO BE ROWED TODAY. | Prospects for the Cornell-University of Pennsylvania Race. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. June 16.—The University of Pennsylvania and Cornell crews confronted today with practical me condition of wind and water as that which caused their race to be post- poned yesterday. The wind ts again from uthwest. Early this morning it was | bh ing about twelve miles an hour, but at noon it had fallen to about six miles hour, and the water ts in far better condi- tion than it was yesterday afternoon. amnesty to persons who have} CRISPI'S CLOSE CALL| Attempted Assassination in the Streets of Rome. CRIMINAL'S BULLE? DIDW’? TOUCH HIM Arrival of the Vigilant in the Firth of Clyde. COLLIDED WITH ICEBERGS ROME, June 16.—An attempt to assassi- nate Premier Crispi was made today. The premier was driving in his carriage to the chamber of deputies, when a man suddenly drew a revolver from his pocket and fired at him. The premier was not wounded, and, springing from his carriage, he selzed the would-be murderer, and held him until a policeman arrived. Great excitement prevails throughout the city and the premier is being congratulated on all sides upon his narrow escape. Story of the Attempt. Premier Crispi was driving from his resi- dence to the chamber of deputies in a closed carriage. At p. m. the vehicle Was turning from the Via Gregofiana into the Via Capolecase, when a man, who was apparently loitering on the sidewalk, put his hand into his Breast, drew a revolvet, dashed into the street and almost close up to the carrige. He then lifted his revolver, took a short aim at the premler and fired. Signor Crispi was uninjured and promptly sprang out of his carriage with the inten- tion of seizing the would-be assassin. The latter, however, was almost immediately seized by a number of people who were at- tracted to the spot by the report of the re- volver. In a moment the neighborhood was crowd- ed with excited people vowing vengeance upon the man who had attempted to mur- der the: premier. A rush was made for the man, who was struggling with his captors ‘near the premier’s carriage, and he would undoubted- ly have been lynched had it not been for the prompt arrival of a number of police- men. Deputy Pugilese, who was one of the first to seize the would-be murderer, pickea up the revolver when the prisoner was in who examined it curiously and with great ecoiness. Signor Crispi was loudly cheered for the courage he displayed under such trying circumstances. ‘The first reports of the affair had it that the premier himself was the first person to lay hands on the man who fired the shot; but although this does not :urn out to be correct there 1s no doubt that ‘he dis- Unguished Italian statesman, displayed re- markable presence of mind and that he would undoubtedly have closzd promptly with his assailant had it not been for the fact that other people laid handg on the rascal before the premier could approach him. Signor Crispi was most warmly cheered when he arrived at the chamber of depu- ues, for the news of the attempt upon his tte had preceded him. Upon reaching the chamber the premier went to the president's room and quietly related his story of the. affair as af noth- ing extraordinary Radamnueened, When the news.of* thé attemp' assas- sination of the premigr generally known, crowds of depittes and_ others, pushed their way to the president's’ room, in order to congratulate Premier Crispi upon his escape from death, and to express their admiration of his courageous conduct. When the sitting of the chamber of depu- ties opened there were cheers for the prem- fer, and the president arose and told the members of the attempt on his life, se- verely denouncing the outrage and express- ing the hope that Signor Crispl’s life would be long preserved to his country. ‘The remarks of the president were greet- ed with loud and continued applause from the members and from the people in the galleries. VIGILANT’S QUICK PASSAGE, Arrival of the Sloop Within the Firth of Clyde. GLASGOW, June 16.—The American sloop yacht Vigilant was signaled this morning making for Ailsa Craig, a small island at the entrance of Firth of Clyde. She arrived at Gourock, three miles from Greenock, at 4pm. Fast Trips by Sailing Vesse! The fastest trip ever made across the At- lantic by a yacht was in 1869, when the American schooner yacht Sappho sailed from Staten Island to Queenstown light in 12 days 9 hours and 34 minutes. In the great race in 1866 tor $90,000 be- tween the American schooner yachts Henri- etta, Fleetwing and Vesta, the Henrietta made the voyage from Sandy Hook to the Needles, Isle of Wight, in 13 days 21 hours and 55 minutes, an average of 91-2 knots for 3,106 miles. The Fleetwing and Vesta were only a few hcurs behind. The schooner Coronet, in her race with the Dauntless, made the trip from Bay Ridge to Queenstown in fourteen days, twenty-three hours and thirty minutes. Among sailing vessels her majesty’s ship Newcastle made the trip from New York to Falmouth in eleven days. The American York to Liverpool in thirteen days and eight hours, while the ship Independence made the same journey in thirteen days and fifteen hours. Of the single stickers, the Scotch cutter Thistle, after being defeated for the Ameri- ca’s cup in 1887, made the return journey to Scotland in a‘lttle over seventeen days. It took the Genesta twenty-one days for her best trip either way, while the Galatea was twenty-nine days in accomplishing the same journey. ‘The Navahoe was nineteen days in going across. Last fall Lord Dunraven’s cutter Valkyrie came here in twenty-nine days and eighteen hours, and on her return trip to Scotland over twenty-elght days were needed. So it will be seen that the Vigilant has made the the Watson cutter. ample time to prepare for the Clyde regatta on July 4, when the Goulds expect her to make her debut in British waters. From the thne the Vigilant passed the bar at Sandy Hook until sighted off Tory Island, Ireland, she was fourteen days and thirteen hours and fifty mmutes in’ cross- ing. Deduecting the difference in time, her voya and fifty minutes. COLLIDED WITH Ic BERGS. Water-Tight ulkheads Kept Ethiopia From Sinking. LONDON, June 16.—The Anchor Line steamer Ethiopia, Capt. Wilson, which left New York June 2 for Glasgow, passed Tory Island, northwest coast of Ireland, today with her bow badly stove in, The steamer had been in a collision with tcebergs. Her water-tight bulkheads saved her from sinking. All on board are well. the Gospodor Ran All Right. LONDON, June 16.—A dispatch to the Standard from Paris says: The jockey club has finished its inquiries into the charges ot fraud in connection with the race for the Prix du Jockey Club. The club failed to es- tablish that there was anything wrong in the running of Gospodor. No Further Trouble in Corea, SHANGHAI, China, June 16.—No further trouble {s feared in Corea. The Japanese roops who were landed have been re-em. barked. safe hands and handed it to the premter, | clipper ship Dreadnaught sailed from New | trip in just about half the time required by , The Vigilant’s quick passage will give her | occupied fourteen days, eight hours | ITHE SHEEP INDUSTRY Senator Proctor Proves Its Protection From the Bible. Some Particularly Apropos Quota- tions Given That Cause Amuse- ment to Senators. Senator Proctor achieved a sudden repu- tation as a senatorial humorist last evening by making what is probably the most unique speech on the tariff bill that has yet been delivered. The debate was on the wool schedule of the bill, and Mr. Proctor took occasion in a comparatively brief ad- dress to quote from that standard refer- ence, the Bibie, to indicate the history of the wool industry. “The first recdrded at- tempt,” he sald, “to break down the inter- ests of sheep husbandry was when Cain slew his brother Abel, who was ‘the keeper of sheep.’ The Senate was immediately convulsed, and the closest attention was | paid to the quaint remarks of the tall | statesman from Vermont. He continued: “The motives and purposes which actuated Cain were plainly the same as those which | actuate his followers today. It was jeal- ousy of a prefetted and protected industry, Cain was a ‘tiller of the ground, and brought of the fruit of the ground an of- fering unto the Lord.’ “This offering may have been of rice or cotton or sugar—the Record does not state. The punishment meted out to Cain fairly foreshadows that which shall be meted out by the people to the promoters of this meas- ure; a mark shall be set upon them, and when the time of retribution comes’ they will say, with Cain: ‘My punishment is greater than I can bear. A Favored Industry. Mr. Proctor went on to quote considerably from the Holy Writ to show that sheep busbandry was, from the carllest times, considered «a favored industry, Abraham tendered ewe lambs as witnesses of an oath in one of the earliest real estate transac- tions un record. Mr. Proctor alluded to the success of Jacob in improving the breed of sheep, which grew out of a bargain with Laban, his father-in-law, as described in the 13th chapter of Genesis. The quota- tions were particularly apt. ‘The shepherd and his calling and his flock,” continued Mr. Proctor, “are often alluded to in the Holy Writ, and furnish some of its grand- est imagery and most beautiful illustra- tions. Many of those specially favored of the Lord were shepherds, and everywhere that caliing 18 referred to as one of the highest character, plainly recognizing its importance to the welfare and prosperity of the people. “The fate of those who attack this indus- try and the flocks of their country ts plain- | ly foreshadowed in and prophesied in many places." Mr. Proctor quoted the following: “David said unto Saul, “Thy servant kept his father’s sheep, and there came a lion and a bear and took a lamb out of the flock and I went out after him and smote him and delivered it out of his mouth, and when ke arose against me I caught him by the beard and smote him and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he has de- fied the armies of the lving God. Fate of the Political Philistines, “The same fate, Mr. President,” re- marked Mr. Proctor, in his deepest bass and most solemn manner, “will surely be meted out to the political Philistine of the present day in November, 1894, and 1896. The rewards awaiting those who are faith- fut in sustaining the industries of their country are also foretold. Mr. Proctor quoted several passages to show the glori- ous future of -those who cared for the sheep, and he concluded his reference to the Bible follows, sending the Senate into a convulsion of laughter: “As a further evidence of the Divine preference it is written that ‘he shalb set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.’ ” The intended application of this sentence to the present situation is obvious. Plan to Step Gold Out- flow. The issuance of gold certificates at a low rate of interest was the plan proposed by Subtreasurer Jordan to the banking committee yesterday as the most effectiv means for stopping the export of gold. Mr. | Jordan argued that “tramp capital” sought foreign capitals giving the largest interest, so that the only means of holding this capt- | tal, largely represented by gold, in New | York . Was by offering a small interest for | {ts retention in the form of low interest | gold certificates, redeemable at the option of the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Jor: Bond Statement. The following is a statement of United States bonds held by the treasurer of the United States in trust for national banks, June 16, 184: To secure circulation—4 per cents, $159,- ber cents, 5 per cents, $41,114,950; total, $201,636,250, To secure public moneys—4 per cents, $12,068,000; currency 6's, $1,105,000; 2 per cents, $1,013,000; 5 per cents, $450,000; total, $14,726,000. | Bonds to secure circulation deposited | | week ended June 15, $28 ; bonds to se- | cure circulation withdrawn week ended | June 15, $137,500. ee Personal Mention, | First Controller Bowler has gone to his home in Ohio for a short holiday. Adjutant General Ruggles has returned | from a visit to West Point. | Mr. William D. Cabell will make @ trip | through the south to secure contributions | for the proposed Ibrary building at the Uni- | Yersity of Virginia, in honor of the young confederates killed in the war. Thos. Nel- | son Page has subscribed $100. —____. The Samoan Troubles. The corvette Marion, which has just reached San Francisco from the Chinese station, will not be available for service at Samoa or anywhere else at present, for the | reason that she Is in need of such exten- | sive repairs to her boilers, ete., that it has been found necessary to put her out of | commission. Theretore it 1s more than like- | ly that the cruiser Boston, also at San | Francisco, will be sent to the Samoan Islands to look after American Interests as soon as she can be got ready. oe Treasury Department Changes. The following promotions have been made in the classified service of the Treasury De- partmen Sixth auditor's office—Mrs. Kate McKen- na, New York, from $1,000 to $1,200; D. R. | Constantine, Georgia, from $1,000 to’ $1,200; Miss J. G. Jones, Massachusetts, from ‘$720 to $840; Miss Lucy Cartwright, Maryland, from $720 to $510, i | | | | —-e-— Woolen Schedule Changes. The rates on the woolen schedule have | been virtually agreed upon, and it is under- | stood that the compromise amendments on | the paragraph relating to women's and children’s dress goods and to yarns will be withdrawn. | ———_+. Goes to the President. | ‘The Senate has passed the printing defi- | ciency bill, which passed the House on | | vhursday, and which now goes to the res- | ident. ————-e+_____ Dismissals in the Census Office. | The dismissal of twenty employes of the census bureau took eifect today. Sa es Treasury Receipts. | | National bank notes received today for | redemption, &¢: 8. Government receipts: From internal revenue, $426,875.48; customs, jand 1 thint: | minute sent fo: j asked him yesterday mornin A SMALL SENSATION Senator Ransom’s Statement to the Investigating Committee, —_——__+-—___. HIS SON BOUGHT SOME SUGAR STOCK — He Knew Nothing of It at the Time. A NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW a Senator Ransom created a slight sensa- tion when he appeared before the Senate sugar trust investigating committee today. He was asked, as were other Senators who were before the committee, the following question by Senator Lodge: “Has any mem- ber of your family or any person in your employ or any clerk employed under the laws of the United States in your service been, to your knowledge, interested in any of the ways indicated in any of the pre- ceding questions in any transaction in su- gar stocks or certificates during the period mentioned?” Replying to the question, Mr. Ransom sald: “I want to make a statement. On last Thursday night, the 14th, this week, Mr. Howland, the correspondent of the New York Press, sent me his card and call- ed to see me at my rooms at the Metropoil- tan with a stenographer of the name of Robinson. He asked me questions very much like those that you put to me now. “He then informed me that the New York Press did not wish to do me or any other Senator an injustice without giving us an opportunity to be heard, and he felt it to be his duty to tell me that they had in their possession, or he had, or somebody had, a broker's scrip upon which were re- corded the purchases of different gentle- men or different persons in stocks, and that upon that scrip 1 had been a frequent purchaser of sugar stock in this city dur- ing the sugar debate here. I protested to him as positively as 2 man was capable of doing that it was impossible that it could be so; that I never Owned one certificate or plece of certificate of sugar stock in my iife. That, in fact, since I had been in the Senate, 1 never traded in one dollar's worth of stock of any sort, in any way, shape or form. I insisted upon his seeing the broker. He told me, upon my asking him, that it Was Silsby & Co., who had a house near 7th street on Pennsylvania avenue, and that this thing was certainly there. I told him to telegraph to his paper at once that there was not a word of truth in it; that there was no foundation for it; it was with- out even a shadow. Trying to Fathom It. “He seemed to be in earnest, and doubt- less was, ord he asked me if this could be the work of some malicious enemy of mine. I told him I could hardly believe that, but I could not account, to save me, how it was possible. “I said,‘I would be glad if you will see this broker again before you indulge in any pub- lication of this sort and find out if this in- formation is not absolutely without founda- uon, false as {t can be.’ “He said he would do that, and asked me if I knew any other person by the name of Ransom in the city. I told him I knew but one person in the city by the name Ransom now, and that was my son who was my clerk: He asked me whi we and I sald he was in the parlor and I Would ¥tep in and bring him in. I was perhaps, more cautious than the occasion required, and I said to Mr. Howland that I would thank him to come with me to the door, so that he could see that no communi- cation should take place between me and my son. I went to the parlor door where @e was and beckoned him to come tn. ‘I did not speak to him or see him between the parlor and my room, and when he got their business to him, and told my son whatever the matter was to tell the truth about it.” “He then stated to those persons in my Presence that he had bought some sugar stock on the 17th or 18th of April. He put up a margin of $10, which he paid the broker, on sugar stock. He said on the same day he put up a margin of $25 on cot- $10 on sugar. That after that he repeated the same bet on sugar, but not on cotton, he lost the second. stated that he and a Capt. Barnes, a me: senger here at the commerce committee room, after that on two occasions bought $10 worth of sugar stock apiece. They went in together, and I asked this corre- spondent to examine my son fully as much as he pleased, and to see Capt. Barnes and |examine him too. It Was Absolutely F: ie. “About two weeks ago Capt. Barnes came to me at my room in the committee of com- merce. He is messenger of the committee, a North Carolinian,and has been here some- time, and he told me that thing to tell me, and it was ‘very rough that a particular friend of his had twid him that they had a paper on which my name was down for so much sugar stock, end that I was deeply in it. 1 told him how false it was, how absolutely false, and asked him to go to his friend and tell him the same thing, and to insist upon his in- quiring into It and to let me know in what shape and form it was, what way it and what it meant and how it was, The next day he came to me -ani told me his friend had looked fi.to it and thought there cok inio it thoroughly to see and know that there was thing in it; that I could not Hve if there was anything of that sort in anybody's breast about it, and he must go and see. He returned the next morning and told me his friend said it was all a myth, and to not give myself any concern about it. “This correspondent (Howland) asked me the name of that person, and I told him it was given to me in confidence, and I had no right to give the name without Capt. Barnes’ coasent, but 1 have no objection to giving the name to the committee. I have seen Mr. Howland about it. I just. this should ask the committee to summon him to give the account of his interview with me to you. I may not have stated correctly as to details of this purchase by my son. I to go to the broker's shop and get an account, a paper to show the exact transactions, and to be ready to come before the committee.” Senator Gray asked: “Had you any knowl- edge whatever until tiis interview with Mr. Howland and on the evening you speak of of the bets of your son with this broker in sugar and cotton?” Senator Ransom replicd: “I never dream ed of such a thing. I never thought of f I would not have believed it. The truth of it is T went to my son with a great deal of confidence when this correspondent wanted to see him. The paper shows that when he sht the first stock I was out of the the 18th of April was when we were at Gov. Vance’s funeral at Asheville. “I may state to the committee that 1 have no interest whetever, and never had, | in any stock or trade or anything else in | any way since I have been in the Senate.” Senator Smith Denies. Senator Smith of New Jersey, whose name has been connected with the rumors regarding sugaf, answered ail the cate- gorical questions put by the committee and | denied that he had given any information directly or indirectly to persons inter- ested in sugar stocks; had not bought or sold such stocks, had never been concerned with any person in the sale of such stocks or certificates, no one had bought such stocks in any way in which he would share in the profits and no member of his fam- tly tions. All the categorical questions were an- swered in the negative. As in the case of the other Senators, Smith, however, was examined at some length as to the ineet- $273,586.52, and miscellaneous, $8,718.34 ings at Senator Brice’s house and at the in my room I asked the gentlemen to state | ton. He said he lost the cotton and made | He then | he had some- | was nothing in it, and I told him he must | him and told him that [| had been concerned in such transac- | Hotel, and his testimony corre- sponded’ with that previously given by other witnesses. Other Senators Examined. A number of other Senators were examin- ed during the day, but none of them gave any testimony beyond the denial of the categorical questions concerning the pur- chase and ownership of sugar stock, or knowledge of any purchase by any one con- nected with them either officially or by family ties. The lst includes Senators Gordon, Jones of Nevada, Kyle, McLaurin, Manderson, Mills, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Morrill, Mur- phy, Palmer, Pasco, Patton, Peffer, Perkins, Platt, Proctor, Pugh, Roach, Sherman, Shoup, Squire, Stewart, Teller, Turpie. Vest, Morgan, Power, Vilas, Voorhees and White. ———__+- e+ —___ SITUATION IN BRAZIL. Affairs Are Progressing Satisfactorily in That Country. Recent information received by Mr. Men- donca, the Brazilian minister, from his gov- ernment ‘s to the effect that there is no truth in the reports which have appeared from. time to time of battles between the government troops and the Insurgents in the southern portion of the republic on the Urugtayan frontier. Buch conflicts as have taken place have been simply small scrim- mages, that occurred when the rebels sought to cross the frontier to establish communi- cation with their source of supplies. Tne minister reports that affairs are progressing satisfactorily in the country. The govern- ment, which now has a force of 20,000 men, expects to concentvate them at points where it cam successfully attack the enemy and put them to rout. The latter have their headquarters on a stretch of 400 miles of grazing land and are cenducting a guerrilla mode of warfare. There are not any cities er fortifications or intrenchments. The min- ister has po doubt of the outcome of the result when the government is ready to strike @ final blow. SOME VERY PLAIN TALK Secretary Morton Writes a Breezy Epistle to a Western Man Civil Service and Silver Present Themes for a Cabinet Officer to Pitch Into Some of His Party. Secretary Morton has forwarded a letter to a correspondent at Tecumseh, Nebr., who complained that the civil service commis- sion was appointing republicans to the railway mail service from his county, when there was a capable democrat on the eligi- ble list, and asking the Secretary to look into the matter. “The three standing highest for acquire- ments and capabilities in the eligible list are al certified and sent to the ap- pointing power, who in this case is the Postmaster General,” says Secretary Mor- ton. “If there be no democrat among the three highest, then no democrat can be appointed, and none ought to be. If the democracy cannot keep up in the acquire- ments required for the postal railw ice it is their own misfortune or indolence, and they must take the cohsequences. . embers of a party cease to je questions and are willing ers, like populists, do their /thinking. for them, to the extent of pre- scribing fiat money as a panacea for all commercial depression, it ts that the: the study of the. duty pertaining to the various de- partments of the government. As bearing on the silver question, Secretary has the following to say: “When a Johnson county farmer seils hogs he buys money. The party who pays him for those hogs sells money. of hogs demands the best quality of p. the jto have as much sense as the chap who buys the hogs, and to demand, therefore, | | the very best quality of money—money, the |purchasing power of which shall be us | nearly as possible unfluctuating throughout the civilized markets of the earth, When- jever a farmer shall perceive that out of pork which he produces and sells at two jcents a pound, the packer issues lard, | bacon, hams d shoulders, which shali average him a net profit of three cents a | pound, the farmer will experience a good deal of righteous indiguation, because of ) the inequality of the division of the protits. | But why should the farmer be any madder at seeing his pork bullicn minted into edibie | currency by the packer, and circulated at a | profit of 2%) per cent, then when the silver | bullion owner, with free coinage, would be getting 31.29 an ounce for his silver, whii the miners have produced it at a Cost of less than sixty cents per ounce? ‘Silver bullion is tcday worth Ixty-two cents an ounce, and if We are to have |coined gratuttously by the government for | the owners, who will the owners be by the time free coinage is provided? Will ta masses or the classes own the buliion at that joyful moment?” Service Pensions and Paper Money. Senator Allen of Nebraska has introduced a bill granting pensions to all persons at § |Per month who served in the war, paper | money to be used to pay such pensions. Record of Emigration. Senate a letter from the Secretary of the | Treasury, transmitting a communication |from the chief of the bureau of statistics, urging the enactment of a law requiring a lrecord to be made of persons leaving the |country, whether as passengers or emi- | grants. Leprosy im the United States. A memorial from the recent congress of American physicians laid before the Senate today, requesting that provision be made for the appointment of a commission of five persons to investigate the prevalence of leprosy in the United States and in coun- tries upon its borders. Banking and Currency Problems. Two prominent financiers, N. Jordan of New York and ex-Controller L. Trenholm, who are the authors of a e w. bill introduced by Representative Coombs | for the creation of a currency commission, | spoke in support of that plan to the House | i committee on banking and currency yester- day. Their plan ts for a non-parusan com- mission of fifteen members, representing afferent secti and not more than seven of them bankers, who shall sit in different cities to investigate the currency system and financial conditions and zeport at the | close of this year their findings regarding | coinage and currency. The committee elected five members to prepare a currency and banking measure, to | be reported June 25 “ox of Tennes- | See, Cobb of Missouri and Culberson of Tex- as, democrats, and Henderson of Illinois and Haugen of Wisconsin, republicans. Two Judicial Bt ‘Two measures have been agreed upon by the Hotse judiciary committee—a Senate | bill for the appointment of an additional | circuit judge in the eighth judicial district, Jand the bill of Representative Tate of | Georgia providing that distillery apparatus | seized for violation of internal revenue laws | may be kept by the owner under bond pend- | ing judgment, if fifty hogs or cattle depend on it for feeding. The Atlanta Exposition. The Senate committee on education and |labor has unanimously decided to favor- ably report upon the bill providing an ap- Propriation of $200,000 for a government ex- jnibit at the proposed cotton exposition, to |be held at Atlanta, Ga., in the autumn of next year, and decided to recommend that the bill be appended to the sundry civil ap propriation bill as an amendment in the tract, only a number of small vii-| es, and the rebels are therefore without | And the man who buys the money ougiit | att The Vice President today laid before the | Subtreasurer | BY A PISTOL SHOT Tragic Death of Ex-Congressman Thomas M. Bayne. DESPONDENT OVER HIS HEALTH Friends in Congress Greatly Shocked by the Event. DEATH BY HIS OWN HAND Mr. Thomas M. Bayne, ex-Representa- tive in Congress from Pennsylvania, from the Pittsburg district, shot himself thie morning a few minutes after ten o'clock, at his residence, 1629 Massachusetts avenue. He died before help could reach him. It is supposed that the act was committed while Mr. Bayne was suffering from tem- | porary aberration of mind, as no reason otter than despondency can be given for the rash act. The shooting took place in Mr. Bayne’s handsome residence, where he had made his home for some time past. He was & man of very considerable wealth, and his house is elaborately furnished, All day friends of the family and former associates of Mr. Bayne’s in Congress have been call- | ing at the house in a steady stream to ex- press their sympathy and sorrow for the sad affair. Mr. Bayne was alone when he fired the shot that ended his life. Mrs. Bayne was in Philadelphia on a brief visit, and was at once summoned by She was not told at first of the ing manner in which her husband had met his end, as it 8 thought she would be too much prostrated. She was met at the sta- tion by Representative Stonc, Dr. Sowers and Mrs. Ewing, and the news was then broken to her. Mr. Bayne has been in bad health for some time past. He returned from a trip around the world last July and since then there has been no cause for worry as to his condition until quite recently. Then it was thought that he was suffering from con- | Sumption, and his heart wes also found to be affected. Yesterday afternoon he was compelled to take to his bed and the care of @ trained nurse was needed constantly. This morning Mr. Bayne suffered a very severe hemorrhage and at once called for the nurse. She did what she could for him, after raising the curtain and seeing his con- | dition. Shortly after 10 o'clock she left the room for a brief space of time, and while she was gone Mr. B: his pistol. Placing hist head, he ‘ho best are of the opinion that he was out of ail reason by the sight of the bi and the realisation that he must die before | long, though in a lingering manner. Of the two forms of death he preferred that with- out delay. He simply could not stand the | mental strain upon him as he saw his doom and decided that the best thing he could de was to put an end to his life. Nothing to Do. Physicians were at once sent for, but there was of course nothing for them to @o, Dr. Woodward, coroner for the District, 1cached the house shortly after 11 o'clock. He decided that under the circumstances no Inquest Was necessary, and gave a cer- Uficate of death im accordance with the facte. No definite arrangements have yet been made for the funeral, but it is prob- able that the interment will be made in Allegheny, where most of the members of the family are buried The house which Mr. Bayne occupied was one of two handsome stone English base- ment houses on the north side of Massa- chusetts avenue. The other house is ocev- | pied by Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Bayne’s mother. The Smith fam’ re the possessors of @ ‘very larg and the estate owns | several valuable houses around the city, Mr. Bayne was also interested in @ number hemes both here and in Penn- was down town yesterday, 2 who saw him, was t he was taken more evening of business » sylvania. He and, accoraing looking fairly w wsly il dur | seri The news of the nt spread rapidly, ‘and the Pennsylvania delegation in Coh- gress being notified, W Stone, Mr, | Bayme'’s successor in € came tne house and received s. Sketch of B ‘Thomas M. Bayne of Allegheny, Pa, was born im that city June 14, INi6. Me was | educated at the public schools and at West- | minster College. Me entered the Unlom jarmy in July, INez, as colonel of the one hendred and thirty-sixth regiment of Penn sylvania Volunteer imtantry, which he come manded during its mouths’ term of service, taking part 1 bates of Fred- | ericksburg ana Cha rsvile. Me re- sumed the reading of law in 18s5, and was dmitted to the bar of Allegheny county Te ApriL, Inds, He was elected aistelet at tcrney for Allegheny county in October, 1s and held une office until January 4, lasia. Me was nominated by the repubiicen | party for the Porty-fourth Congress ang | was defeated. gressionad career in the Vorty-tfth Congress and served until the close of the Firy-nrst Congress, when he voluntarily retired fr public life and took up his residence in this city, where he had save When he Was away on He began his ec inated for the Fifty-second the convention and declined t nomination after It had been made, as he desired to retire to private life, He Was a man of great popu- | larity in the House re he was appre= social qualities and his intel- ual alélity. He and eax-Speaker Reed on terms of the greatest intimacy, and ciated for bh Lex we he had charge of Mr. Reed's candidacy for the speakersnip. Me always received from Mr. Reed and his friends much of the credit for the success of that campaign Mr. Reed also gave his services the sub- stantial achnowle ment of appointment to place on the committee on ways and ans, Which was heid vy Mr. Bayne dur- ing the Fitty-mrst Congress, a position | which enabled him to render materia serv- ice to the multitudinous interests of nis state In the preparation of the McKiniey tariff bill, He was also a warm admirer of the late James G. Blaine, and did much to Keep the Blaine sentiment alive in the key- | stone state ther of his tatimate | cha is was William ter Phelps, now supposed to be dying at ais home in New Jersey Mr. Bayne was ly appreciated and liked by the newspaper correspondents tor his approachability and willingness to serve them. He wes wealthy was regarded $a maa of great bberality, an Instance of which quality ts und in bh pHection with the newspapers of Pittsburg, where he started a paper, and after making @ success of 1 turned it over to the force, so as to give them the benelits accruing from te | enterprise. Some yes married Miss Smith of Pittsburg at the wealthy proprietors of Hostetter’s Bitters. He was fairly tall, and was spare in build, wich gray hair and whiskers, an4 a_aervors that indicated trouble from t!- ane omnia. Air, Bayne was the cause of one of tp ‘