Evening Star Newspaper, June 22, 1894, Page 1

rTHE EVENING STAR. + = PUSLISHED DAILY XCEPT SUNDAY. AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, vania Avenne, Cor, 1th Street, by < Star Newspaper Oompany, Prest. jew York Office, 49 Potter Building, is served to subseriberg im the thelr own account, at 10 coats month. Copies at the counter mail—auywhere in the United postage prepaid—S0 vents per THE B. AND 0. TRA A Tour Made by House District Committeemen, ans VIEWING THE DEADLY GRADE CROSSING + Blighting Influence of the Presence of the Road Shown. i ANOTHER TRIP PROPOSED “It's all right, the Baltimore and Ohio never kills any one,” said Mr. Frizzell, as @ two-horse vehicle drove carefully down the hill and around the fence on North Capitol street this morning. Just then an engine slid by on the tracks below, and a moment after the carriage crossed the tracks. Inside were three members of the » House District committee, Messrs. Heard, Babcock and Cooper, who were being pllot- ed over the line of the Baltimore and Ohio tracks by President Frizzell and Vice Presi- @ent Tucker of the Northeast Washington Citizens’ Association. Along also as guests of the Association were Superintendent Alvey and General Counsel Hamilton of the Failroad. A T-wo Hours’ Trip. The party started from the Capitol about 10 o'clock, and had a real merry, jolly two hours’ trip looking at the deadly grades, the obstructed streets, and hearing reasons why the viaduct plan should be adopted by the road. It was a case of the lon and the lamb lying down tozether, and any amount of friendly sparring between the association and the railroad representatives Prevented anything like dullness. “The tracks here are ten feet below grade,” Mr. Frizzell would say. “It is the grade fixed for us by the gov- e®rnment,” Mr. Hamilton would say. “So and so was killed here.” “He was walking on the tracks.” Mr. Frizzell did not carry a pointer with him, but he acted as lecturer to consider- able effect, and pointed out pretty clearly the conditions resulting from the ramifica- tions of tracks in East Washington. Condition of North Capitol Street. The fact that North Capitol street was graded only up to the tracks close by tne depot, and that a practically impassable hill cut off communication from that point to the Capitol, was first pointed out. From there the different streets on the main stem and the Metropolitan branch were visited, and by means of ocular demonstration the committee were put in possession of the actual conditio: There were several prac- tical demonstrations also in the way of Waits for passing trains, which switched back and forth constantly. The condition of the streets were especially dwelt upon, and Mr. Frizzell drew marked attention to the fact that improvements ceased sudden- ss soak 80 & street reached the railroad Delaware Avenue. At Delaware avenue a pause was made and the committee were shown the present State of the avenue, making it of no possible use, and the possibilities if the tracks were all brought down its center by means of a viaduct with wide roadways and side- walks on each side. The sections east and West, it ‘was clearly seen, would then be from the obstructions which now the streets of little aay value. A Wooden Bridge. | At 2d street the party stopped on top of the wooden bridge that crosses the tracks at this point. Mr. Frizzell said the bridge was in a dangerous condition and that the fire engines were afraid to cross it. The tracks were thirteen feet below grade, he @aid. and pedestrians had to climb a mud bank to get up on 2d street. Mr. Alvey told the committee that the bridge had been inspected und was per- fectly safe, while the track was where the government had ordered it placed. D street and E street and the obstruc- = a a visited and the fact Spr roadway was e ae ic y using Third Street Stops Short. At 3d street it was found that the street stopped abruptly at the tracks, and was of Ro possible use, even as an ornament. The association representatives sald that Con- ress at one time had appropriated $13,000 to improve this street, but that finding it impossible to make a grade with the posi- tion of the tracks the appropriation had been repealed. Tracks Seven Feet Above Grade. At 5th street the tracks were several feet above grade, making a bad crossing, while @t 6th street there was no crossing what- @ver, the tracks being seven feet above grade. This crossing is close by the Blair School building, and Mr. Frizzell said that the crossing was used by children at the risk of their lives. He also showed the committee that the railroad occupation en- tirely cut off ali use of I street by pedes- trians or vehicles. The abrupt elevations i Tth and Sth streets were visited, while © practical closing of K street for travel Was ocularly demonstrated. rida avenue was also a part of the fcute, and the Metropolitan branch of the Toad was touched at New York avenue. Complication of the Y. The further complication of tracks aris- img from the Y was pointed out by the @ssociation, and attention called to the accidents which have happened there. Sev- eral of the points along the tracks where Nictims of the grade-crossing have dyed the ound with their blood were visited and Feistea out to the Congressmen, and as @ party finally pulled up in front of the Sepot Mr. Frizzell remarked that that ructure down in a hole in the und as his last exhibit for the day. - To Take More Committeemen Out. The association propores to take the rest of the District committee out on an inspec- tion of the tracks at an early day, and the Failroad has offered to afford every facil- ty in the way of an engine, if it be desired. questions of guard gates and fencing = subject of many queries during ——_+-2+______ we i-Be Meat Inspectors. In Washington and a number of other cities today the United States civil Service commission held examinations of Bpplicants for offices as inspectors at $1,400 per annum and assistant inspector at $1,200 tn the bureau of animal industry, gticultural Department. All the candi- tes were graduates of veterinary colleges. ¢ appointees will be assigned to duty in ny part of the country or be moved from Placeas = to the department may desig- 2. eS Banks Organized. The controller of the currency has au- Bhorized the Schenevus National Bank of Behenevus, N. Y., to begin business with a Capital of $50,000, also the First National nk of Waycross, Ga. with a capital of p,000. The application to convert the ers’ Bank of Lebanon, Pa., into a Rational bank has been approved by the e@ontroller. ' os Lieut. Nichols’ Case. The President has disapproved the find- of the naval board which examined feut. Jo Nichols professionally for promo- tion, and the officer's promotion or retire- Fognt will depend on the action of the medi- examination. ———+e+__ Lieut. J. H. Bull, detached from the Alli- ance and ordered to the Montgomery. Che Lvening Star. Vor. 84. No. 20,918. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1894—TWELVE PAGES. TWO CENTS. Te proof of fhe pudding is in fhe eating. Yesterday's Star contamed 41 cofumns Of advertisements, made up of 776 separate announce: ments. hese advertisers Bought pufficitp-not merefp Space. The Water Assessment Bill Passed by the Senate. The Marriage Certificate Bill Requir- ing Returns to Be Made Intro- duced—More Appropriations. The Senate this morning, on motion of Mr. Proctor, passed the House bill to regu- late the water-main assessments in the District of Columbia. The Senate ‘com- mittee amendment striking out the second proviso was adopted. This proviso was as follows: “That in all cases now pending where assessments have been regularly made, and where there has not been paid a sum equal to one doilar and twenty-five cents per linear foot, as estimated above, then only so much shall be collected as will make the whole sum paid equal to one dollar and twenty-five cents per linear foot. But this act is not intended to give any ground of action for the refunding of any sum already paid in excess of one dollar and twenty-ilve cents per linear foot." The bill as passed by the Senate reads: “That hereafter assessments levied for lay- ter mains in the District of Colum- Il be at the rate of one dollar and @ cents per linear front foot against all lots or land abutting upon the street, road, or alley tn which a water main all be laid: Provided, That corner lots shall be taxed only on their front, with @ depth of not exceeding one hundred feet; any excess of the other front over one hun- dred feet shall be subject to above rate of assessment.” Mr. Proctor moved that the Senate amend- ment be {psisted on and a conference asked. This was done and Proctor, Faulkner and Martin were appointed conferees on the part of the Senate. More Appropriations. Mr. Harris, from the District committee, reported favorably to be printed and re- ferred to the appropriations committee Mr. Gallinger’s proposed amendment to the Dis- trict appropriation bill providing an ap- propriation of $2,500 for fire alarms for school buildings in the District. It was ac- companied with a leiter of approval from the District Commissioners. Mr. Harris re- ported favorably for the same disposition Mr. Stewart's proposed amendment to the District appropriation bill, which provides an appropriation of $5,000 to macadamize the road extending from Broad branch to Chevy Chase, the road not to be less than fifty feet wide; also to macadamize the Adam's Mill road to the Zoo, and appropri- ating $5,000 for sprinkling the macadamized roads in the city and suburbs. A lettei from the Commissioners approving these Projects was submitted with the report, all | of which went to the committee on appro- Priations. Returns of Ma: ee. | Mr. Harris introduced a bil! submitted by the District Commissioners to amend sec- ticns 720 to 723, inclusive, of the revised Statutes relating to the Distric:, with rela- ton to marriages. Accompanying the bill was a letter from the Commissioners stat- ing that it had the approval of the Supreme Ccurt of the District, ete. The bill provides the form of a marriage Ucense and certificates. The former, au- thorizing @ minister to perform the ‘mar- riage of the parties named in the certifi- cate “if you find no lawful impediment thereto; and naving done so, you are com- manded to make return of the same to the clerk's office of the Supreme Court of the District.” A form for the return certifying the mar- riage is given, and it is required that the clerk of the court shall keep a record of the names of the parties and of the minister mentioned, in consecutive order, a certif- | cate of the clerk, under his seal, made trom this record, marriage. | The aminister perfor: marriage cezemony is required to return ike a Bt «nd the records within forty-eight. hours after the ceremuny. Upon éonviction of*failure to make such return within the time named, the minister is made subject = @ fine of one hundred dollars for each of- ense. HARRY SAUTER'S SENTENCE. The President Commutes the Time of His Imprisonment. In the case of Harry Sauter, convicted in the District of carrying concealed weap- ons and sentenced, May 1 last, to be im- prisoned 120 days and to pay a fine of $200 and in default of payment of fine to be im- prisoned 120 days additional, the President has commuted the sentence to three months’ actual imprisonment. In acting on this case the President says: “I desire | to uphold those charged with the execution of the criminal law tn their efforts to pre- vent and punish the offense of carrying concealed weapons, but in view of all the circumstances of this case I believe the lesser term to which the imprisonment of this convict has been reduced is abundantly sufficient.” Sauter was employed at the government printing office and went on a spree becuuse @ young lady named [avis refused to marry | him. She passed him on the street one day and he produced a pistol and flourished it. The weapon was taken from him and he | Was arrested. Miss Davis and Mrs. Rey- nolds (her mother) joined with others in the application for clemency to the prisoner. ——__-- e+-____ THE LANCASTER POSTMASTER, The Civil Service Commissioners Ave Said to Favor His Disnti F In the matter of the charges against Post- master Malone of Lancaster, Pa., for vio- lation of the civil service, the end is not yet in sight and the question is more com- plicated than at any other time during the past three months. Several months back, as stated in The Star at the time, charges were filed with the civil service commis- sion by several discharged employes of the Lancaster post office, setting forth that their dismissal had been brought about for partisan reasons. One of the charges was that Postmaster Malone had rein- stated a letter carrier who had been dis- missed by his predecessor for incom- petency. This question was the subject of @ conference between Postmaster General Bissell, First Assistant Postmaster General Jones and Civil Service Roosevelt and Proctor. Postmaster Malone strenuously denies the charges. The civil service commissioners think that the plain- uffs have made out a case, and it is sald that they have recommended to the Post- master General the removal of Malone. Pending a decision by the Post Office De- partment other charges against Malone were filed with the commission and these are now to be investigated. ee eee WORKING FOR PEACHY. Getting Signatures to Secure His Ap- pointment as Postmaster. The friends of W. D. Peachy, at present superintendent of the registry division of the city post office, are working hard to se- cure his appointment as postmaster of Washington. A petition asking for the ap- pointment has secured the signatures of @ number of Senators and Representatives. a ae a a West Point Cadets Assigned. On the recommendation of Gen, Scho- field the graduating cadets from the West Point Military Academy have been assign- ed to commands. The two places in the engireer corps, the pick of the assign- ments, go to Wm. B. Ladue and Wm. J Borden, who graduated first and second. The remainder of the fifty-four gradua are assigned, six to the artillery, twelve to the cavalry and thirty-four to the in- fantry. Their nominations will probably 0 to the Senate today or tomorrow. to be competent evidence of | the | Commissioners | CKS|Locat LEGISLATIONITHE SUGAR FIGHT Tt is Believed That It Will Be a Desperate One. FREE S0GAR MEN DETERMINED They Say They Have the Voting Strength to Control. SOME WILL YIELD OO No agreement has as yet been reached in the ways and means committee concern- ing the stand which the House 1s to take on the sugar schedule of the tariff bill, It is believed, however, that the struggle be- | tween the Senate and House on this | schedule will be desperate, with the possi- | bilities of a long deadlock between the | houses. The Wilson bill as it left the | House contained no sugar schedule, as the tax on raw and refined sugars had been | struck out and the bounty had been abol- |4whed outright. The Senate schedule 1s, therefcre, the only sugar proposition to go to conference, and the first issue will be on rejecting the Senate schedule entirely and thus returning to the House form of the bill, which contained no sugar schedule. If one or the other side will not yield on this issue the next step will be to frame a compromise. The attitude of the ways and means com- mittee on the Senate sugar schedule has not yet been made cl Chairman Wil- son has been away for ten days and there have been no meetings or conferences since the schedule passed the Senate. It 1s be- Neved, however, that the committee is dis- posed to be conservative and concillatory, and to avoid by any fair agreement another Protracted discussion or deadlock. But the committee is not sure of having the House behind it in this conciliatory policy. It was on sugar that the committee sustained its | only defeat when the Wilson bill was be fore the House, and this victory of the free Stgar radicals may be repeated. Representative Price of Loulsiana, who [represents the largest sugar district of the jstate, says the Louisiana delegation has made no plans, and is simply waiting o' | the action of the Senate. He and others o |the delegation say the outcome depends | largely on the disposition of the Senate to stand by its amendments. Representative Meyer of Louisiana says the Senate amend- |Ments give to sugar less than the Louisiana |delegation contended for in the House, yet the disposition would probably be to accept the Senate schedule as the best obtainable. Free Sugar Men Determ| The free sugar men are very determined, and some of them say there can be no compromise short of an absolute surrender of the Senate to the House amendments. “The House is overwhelmingly opposed to either tax or bounty on sugar,” said Mr. Dockery. “It was so when the bill passed the House, and is so now. If anything, the feeling ts stronger for free sugar now than it was then. There is the voting strength, therefore, to non-concur at the | joutset in the Senate sugar amendments, jand to keep non-concurring as often as the conferees report failure to reach an agree- ment. With this overwhelming sentiment and voting strength for free sugar, {t would |seem to augure a very determined stand on |the part of the House. To be sure, how- jever, the feeling against another long con- test, end the desire of members to ¢lose up the work of the session, would operate. A canvass is the only means of determining, and none has been made. If the: House votes as it thinks, and positively declines to ;yleld to a sugar tax, the! b be presented as to and staying here all™sumi , feld to the Senate gugar amendments. ut as to myself,.I will_uét cross that. ‘bridge until I come to {t. Sure ft 1s, trow~ ever, that there is to be a most earnest ef- fort to have the House stand by its co: victions against a duty or bounty on ¢ “I believe in remaining right here at our desks until the 4th of next March rather than surrendering to the Senate sugar schedule,” said Mr. Warner of New York. “I think, moreover, that the House is cer- tain to make a =esistence which will compel the Senate to yield. It will be hot weather in War ton, and a protracted struggle will bri many discomforts, but it will not be half as hot for Congressmen here as it will be for them in their districts if there is @ tax on sugar. Our constituents and our | editors are for free sugar, so that members can be serving their districts best by re- mainiag here until the Senate {ts forced to | yield. | Mr. Warner was asked if the Senate's | surrender would have to be absolute and unconditional, or whether the House would itself yield somewhat for the sake of agree- ment “The no-mal, natural, inherent position of | the House is for no tax and no bounty on | sugar,” he continued. “It will be this or | something substantially Mke this that the | House will insist on. If a slight revenue | duty was put on raw sugar it might be the | basis of an agreement. But it would have | to be limited to revenue, and not a particle protection, except the incidental protec- jon given ‘by the revenue duty. The Sen- ate seledule gives protection as well as a | revenue duty to tke refiners. The House | will neve> accept anything of that sort. It | will have either free sugar or else «sugar | that is at least free of protection to the re- finers.”” Some Will Yield. Some of the free sugar leaders in the former egntest In the House are now in- clined to yleld their position rather than see amother Wng debate. Representative Hatcn | of Missoyri is one of these. He says: “My | judgmenf is that the House ought: to em- | phasize its position on sugar. And yet I believe any bill which comes out of the con- ference committee will be so far ahead of | | the McKinley bil] that I will be ready to | surrender my views on one, two or three | articles in order to secure a bill. It is a | | bill we want, a bill.” | On the other hand Representative Harter | holds that the McKinley bill is better thaa the Wilson bill with Senate amendments. | He says: “I do not know what others ex- | pect to do, but I shall not vote for the tariff bill it comes from the Senate. Un- | less materially altered conference, | greatly prefer to see the McKinley bill | fend nt Téblican meaure than see the | , ate UI}l go on the books as a democratic law.” in 1 BRAVERY REWARDED. The President * Medals to Gal- laut Men. By direction of the President, and with- out solicitation from any source, a medal of honor has been awarded to Brevet Maj. Gen, Adelbert Ames, late U. S. volunteers, now of Lowell, Mass., for most distingulsh- ed gallantry at the first battle of Bull Run, | Va., July 21, 1961, in remaining on the field | in command of a section of Griffin's bat tery, directing its fire, after being severel wounded in the thigh, and refusing to leave | the field “until too weak to sit upon the caisson where he had been placed by men of his command. The President has also directed that a medal of honor be given to Edward Mc- Ginn, private company F, fifty-fourth Ohio volunteers, for most distinguished gallaniry in action at Vicksburg, Niss., May 22, 186: He was a member of the volunteer storming party that made the assault on the enemy's works. Ce Blount at the White House. Ex-Paramount Commissioner” Blount of Hawallan monarchical fame was among the visitors at the White House this morning. To a newspaper man who spoke to him he said he was in the city on purely private business and had simply made a socal call jon Private Secretary Thurber. It 1s un- derstood that he did not see the President, | was deliver THE ROCK GREEK RAILWAYITQ THE DEATH CHAIR|MAY VOTE TUESDAYITHE INCOME TAX President Newlands Urges Consideration of the Request for Extension. He Says That the U ground Trol- ley Has Proved a Perfect Suc- cess on His Road, The following letter, signed by Mr. Thos. G. Newlands, president of the Rock Creek Railway Company, has been received by the District committees of both House and Sen- ate: “The Chevy Chase Land Company and the Rock Creek Railway Company, of both of which I am president, have been engaged in an extensive enterprise of suburban de- velopment on the Ine of Connecticut ave- nue extended. The plan embraced rapid transit to the city by an electric railway. We built an overhead trolley from Mary- land to 18th and U streets, and there were confronted with the problem as to what motive power should be used on U street within the city limits, as the overhead trolley was forbidden. We finally concluded to put in the Love underground system for the space of a mile and one-half of double track. The experiment, viewed as such, was likely to be a costly one, but we felt assured that if we proved its successful operation a great benefit to the public would be demonstrated, and we would meet with no difficulty in extending our line to ccn- tral points, thus avoiding the expense of a double fare and the inconyenience of a change of cars. The result surpassed our expectations. The underground road has been running with efficiency and economy for over a year, and the entire road has met a great public want, as well in accommodating suburban travel as in supplying recreation for the people of the city during the hot summer mont! “Early in the session a bill was introduced in Congress granting an extension of the Rock Creek Railway franchise down 17th street to central points. This liné was se- lected for the reason that in the section lying between 14th street and Connecticut avenue, which widens steadily toward the Meee there were no street railway facill- tles. The District Commissioners acted favor- ably upon this bill, but diverted the line from 17th street to the tracks of the Met- fopolitan railroad on Connecticut avenue. About the same time the ‘Washington Traction Company applied for a franchise down 17th street, and the Eckington Com- pany made a similar application. As the Washington Traction Company proposed to use the Love underground sys- tem, with which ours could harmonize, and as that company was willing to permit the Rock Creek Railway Company to use its tracks to central points, the Rock Creek Company concluded not to press its appli- cation, but to rely apon the use of the tracks of the Traction Company in case a franchise should be granted to it. It felt satisfied that the Metropolitan Railway Company would seek to ubtain a motive power with which electric railways could not co-operate, and, hence the solu- tion offered by the Distri:t Commissioners would not be effective. The result has teen a deat-lock in legis. lation, and it is feared that the session wi pass without action on this important mat- ter. Since I became interested in these enter- prises I have become a member of Con- gress, and personally I woull prefer to se- cure rights of access central points for the Rock Creek Ratlway Company by ne- gotiating with esisting companies, rather by legislation, for legislation con- cerning enterprises in which I am inter- ested involves considerations of delicacy But as the owners of property object to the appropriation of any new route, and the existing railways object to the joint use of any portion of their tracks, I am com- pelled to make application for some solu- tlon of this matter by your honorable com- mittees. In this connection we present the follow ing considerations: These enterprises Fave experded in the District over $2,000,000, most of which has gone.to labor. We have ecured without cost to the District the ledication to public use of Connecticut avenue extended, 130 feet wide, for a space of more than three miles. We have graded and improved this avenue without cost to the public, and have constructed two bridges, at a cost of nearly $200,000, wh were designed not merely for the railway, but to accommodate the general public. In mo respect have these enterprises been a charge upon the public. On the rortrary, taxable values have been largely ic eased by them. The Rock Creek railw: fur- nishes the only means of developi: g the beautiful region west of Rock creek. By means of lateral lines extending to the west It can be the main factor in the de- velopment of what will be in the future a superb addition to Washington. In view, therefore, of the public interests it represents and the beneficent results it promises, we suggest that it should not be compelled to halt at the verge of the city, but it should be allowed either by its own Ue or by some trunk line access to cen- tral points. -_-—> DISTRICT IN CONGRESS, ‘The Bond Issue Plan. Tomorrow the House District committee will take up for consideration the proposed issue of bonds for sewer and street im- provement. Several hearings have been given, as reported in The Star,on this ques- ton, and the committee is now prepared to consider the question in executive session. It is generally belleved that the members of the committee realize fully the urgent necessity for an extension and tmprove- ment of the defective sewerage system. The Potomae Flats. The Senate commerce committee has de- cided to increase the appropriation for the improvement of the Potomac flats from $100,000, us carried in the river and harbor Lill passed by the House, to $250,00v. French Warship Constru In view of the great commotion that ts caused in the United States by the discovery of sume trivial defect in one of our new naval vessels, it is interesting to learn of the costly experience in this line of the French naval architects, with their vastly superior experience in mod2rn steel ship bullding. One of their cruisers, the Co: logon, which was built at St. Nazaire, the principel site of French naval construction, d to the government at Brest for trial five years ago. quired to make twenty Knots, yet the con- | tractors have just succeeded, after innumer- able trials, lasting five years, In passing a successful teat and securing the acceptance of the vessel. oe Saved From the Gallows, The President has commuted to iimprison- ment for life the sentence of death imposed in the case of Frank Coilins, convicted of murder in the Indian territory. ‘The hom!- cide of which the prisoner wes convicted,” says the President, “though not entirely un- provoked, was accompanied by incidents not at all calculated to excite any great amount of sympathy for the convict. In view, however, of all the surtounding facts, the youth of the convict and the recommen- dation of the judge who sentenced him, 1 believe the safest thing to do is to save the Ife of the condemned.” ——___-s— 2 To Reorgunize the Clerical Force. As has been before stated, a reorganiza- tion of the clerical force in the Interior De- partment Is to be made on the basis of the new method of registering the gen- eral efficiency of the clerks. Tht put into execution about two m . und the records of the rious clerks are now before their chiefs. The department is full of uneasiness. ism bees Treasury Reces pts. National bank notes received today for redemption, $342,117. Government receipts: From internal revenue, $466,410.85; customs, $831,876.07; miscellaneous, $320,949.61, She was only re-) Mrs. Halliday Sentenced to Be Electrocuted. SCENE IN THE MONTICELLO COURT Talk of Asking Commutation of Her Sentence. NO EMOTION DISPLAYED — MONTICELLO, N. ¥., June 22—Mrs.| Halliday, who killed her husband, Mrs. Quillan and her daughter, was sentenced | this morning to be electrocuted during the week beginning August 6, 1894. Mrs. Halliday slept well last night. She! retired to her cell after the verdict had | been heard, and at once threw herself on/ her bed in the corner of the cell. She was | soon asleep, but when Keeper Beecher took | her supper to her at 7:30 she arose and ate with a good appetite of beefsteak and onions. Her pulse, which was 144 Wednes- day and 120 Thursday, had dropped to by 9 o'clock last night. She partially un- dressed and again fell asleep shortly after this hour, and was unconscious most of the night. She awoke shortly after day- light this morning and promptly arose and made her toilet. Young Beecher and another deputy, who had remained in the! cell over night, asked her how she felt. She would make no reply. Public opinion has changed since the ver- dict was given. No one expected convic- tion in the first degree, and now that it has been given, and the clamor of those! who thought she was shamming has been satisfied, there is a general expression that | confinement for the remainder of her life | should have been the penalty. There is talk of appealing to Gov. Flower for @ commission to look into her case. | Court opened at 9:30, the room being filled | with men and women. Mrs. Halliday came in with Sheriff Beecher, with the same/ measured step, the same down-cast eyes) and the same exhibition of stupidity. She | was pushed down tnto her chair, where she began the same actions carried on during the trial. She covered her face to her eyes with her handkerchief and rubbed her nose and stroked her chin. Judge Edwards was eighteen minutes | late. While he was looking over the code Lizzie attempted to rise,but was forced down into her chair. District Attorney Hill moved that sen- tence be passed upon Elizabeth Halliday. Four officers then held her up. The usual questions were put to her, but | she answered none. Her body swayed in| the grasp of the officers, but there no | expression in her face. She jerked her head | up and down, stamped with her heel once! | or twice, but at no time raised her head. | Lawyer Carpenter watched her, his eyes dim, and sincere pity showing in his f Judge Edwards spoke in low, measured | tones in imposing sentence, and the room! was insufferably quiet. so eager were the Msteners to catch every word. Mr. Carpenter responded to the judge's invitation to speak by saying: “I have | nothing further to say.” | Tears streamed down his cheeks as the | judge condemned her to death by elec ricity | jat the place designated by the state, in | the week beginning Monday, August 6, 1804. & sign Lizzie was then led out without of recognition of the terrible sentence. —_@—__. TROOPS PUT ON GUARD. Teouble Expected Only From the For- eign-Hore Strikers. : PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pg., June 22.--The firth and sixteenth regiments and Sheridan troops, N. G. P., under-command-iof Brig. Gen, dobn A. Wiley, reached here at 7 o'clock. The troops mustered nearly 1,000 men, and were marched at once to Waiston, the scene of the trouble. What the outcome will be it is hard to determine, but there will be no difficulty with the English-speaking miners. The | trouble ts entirely with the foreign element, Huns, Italians and Siavs. Horatio mines are quiet, and will probably remain so. Notices were posted today by the United States Collteries Company at Mount Ver- | nom mines Nos. 5 and 6, notifying the men that the collieries would start on Monday | at the old rate of fifty cents pe> gross ton. | |The notices created great excitement | | throughout the region, as the companies: seemed determined not to pay more than forty cents per gross ton. The men are get- bre the mines in readiness to start Mon- lay. Late last night the tipple, together with @ lot of mine and railroad cars ait Colorado | mine, was set on fire and completely de- stroyed. The mire ts owned and operated by Messrs. Jackman & Ellsworth. The repor: that two thousand miners had left Houtzdale for Punxsutawney is not correct. About 1,500 miners, headed by a band of music, marched to Mountaindale, | where the men were working at the old The Tates. miners of the latter place, however, heart of their coming and Promptly suspended work. When the Rameyites arrived they made a thorough search for the working miners, but they could not be found. After the delegation | had departed it was announced that. the Mountaindale men would not return until the 5U-cent rate was paid. Arrival at Walston. | The troops by 10 o'clock had surrounded | Walston without a shot being fired, excopt the accidental discharge of a cavalryman’s | carbine. | When the troops reached the Belle, Lewis | & Company's lards skirmish lines were | deployed und a careful search made for | | ambushed strikers and cannons, but all | evidences seen were the Italian’ batteries | that had been planted; the cannoncers had | | disappeared. The foreigners were greatly | excited at the appearance of the blue coate | | with bristling bayonet \ Early today the streets of Walston were | filled with men, women and children, while | great squadrons of foreigners were sta. | tioned on the barren hills overlooking the | town. Upon the approach of the militia | they ‘appeared to melt away, running into | | the houses and muking a break for the | | woods. j | This afternoon the coal company notified | all foreigners to vacate the company’ premises, and tnose who refuse will be | evicted. Gens. Greenland and Wiley are now making arrangements to quell the mob. The feeling is ugly and much excite- | t prevails, as a colision is expected be- | fore long. | Last night the Huns and Itallans ratded | the company stores at Walston and Adrian , and entirely cleaned them out. i a A Rallrond Across Mexico. ‘The bureau of the American republics 1s | informed that the Tehuantepec railway of | Mexico will be completed and thrown open to the traffic of the world by the end of | the current month. The line crosses the isthmus in a direction almost north and south, and traverses the states of Vera, Cruz ‘and Oaxaca. It 1s about 170 miles | long and fs the first trans-continental line built in that republic. sees. SS Black Hills Bank pends. The controller of the currency has been advised that the Black Hills National Bank of Rapid city, S. D., has suspended pay- ment. A bank examiner was at once placed in charge. It is understood that the | last report of the bank to the controller Was unsatisfactory, and its suspension therefore was not a surprise. — e+ —__ Montgomery in Commission. The new cruiser Montgomery was placed in commission for the first time at the Norfolk navy yard yesterday. | | | | | remission o' When the Tariff Bill May Be Disposed of. That is om the Assumption That the Consideration in Committee is Concladed Tomorrow. Senators Harris and Aldrich were in con- ference today, and after they separated | they expressed the opinion that the Senate would conclude the consideration of the tariff bill in committee of the whole before the close of the day tomorrow, and that the bill would be disposed of before adjourn- ment on Tuesday, There is no agreement to this effect, but the opinion is the resuit of a careful taking of stock of speeches yet in prospect and of work to be done. The joint opinion is based upon the belief tHat the Income tax can be dis- posed of today. If it should be, tomorrow would be left to consideration of other | features of the bill, principally relating to internal revenue and including whisky and tobacco. There will be very little debate over the tobacco provisions, but those re- ) lating to whisky will develop a discussion. The republicans will ask to have the tax | reduced from the rate of $1.10 per gallon, as fixed by the Senate amendments, to w cents, which is the rate of the existing law, nd will also endeavor to defeat the exten- sion of the bonded period as provided by the Senate amendments. The Reciprocity Secti The reciprocity section stii! remains open to discussion and if it should be entered upon would probably defeat the quasi ar- rangement for a final vote on Tuesday. The republican Senators do not propose to allow the tariff question to be definitely and final- ly disposed of without discussion Policy, which is regarded as peculiarly re- publican, but they may consent to pust- pone it until the bill shall come out of con- ference. Both Senators Harris and Aldrich express the opinion that two days will be sufficient time in which to discuss and dispose of the questions which will be revived in the Sen- ate as such. There are several items con- | cerning which notice has been given that | at this stage of | they would be taken ¥. the bill, but Senator Jones stated today that only comparatively few of these would be touched upon, as he would leave as many of them as he could for determina- tion in conference. The sugar duty and | the proposition to place wool on the free Uist are now believed to be the only ques- tions that will lead to much debate, and of these two sugar will consume most of the time. Amendment e Sugar Schedule. “The question of the amendment of the Sugar schedule has not yet been passed | upon by the democratic members of the finance committee, but Senator Jones, who has been given charge of the question of amendments. expresses himself as favor- able to the provies heretofore printed for a 80 much of the proposed one- tenth of a cent additional duty on sugar imported from countries granting a sugar bounty as will make whole those of the importers who elect not to accept that bounty, and also to an amendment provid- ing that the tariff schedule shall go into| effect upon the passage of the bill, and that the bounty shall continue in part until the 1st of next January, but shall be abated up to that time to the extent of the protection afforded the Sugar growers by the duty. THE EZETA CASE. — Great Interest Felt im Its Settlement by South America Governmen: There are indications that the Ezeta Will became as celebrated in diplo- pe Bi #8 the Barrundia affair, and certainly there is reason to believe that it will result in causing our government to assume a definite position in the matter of the right of asylum. Although the status quo is maintained at La Libertad and the Salvadorian refcgees, with one excep- tion, are still safe on the U. 8. 8. Benning- ton, there is the best authority for the | statement that the Salvadorian provisiona! ®overnment has determined to press to the end its demand for the surrender of Gen. Antonio Ezeta, the vice president of the late government. It is likely that the other refugees will not be included in the de- mand. So far the negotiations between the | two governments have been conducted with | much difficulty through our consul at La} ‘Thoma: Libertad and Capt. of the Benning- ton. But the case hag @ssumed such im- portance that, according to reliable advices. the Salvadorian government has determined to place it in the hands of a high diplo- matic representative. Dr. Guasman to Conduct the Negotia- tons. Accordingly it has requested Dr. Guz- | man to assume the position of Salvadorian | | minister at Washington, and to conduct | the negotiations with the State Depart- ment relative to the Ezeta case. Dr. Guz-/| man is at present the minister resident of Nicaragua here, and the tender from the Salvadorian vernment is a recognition of the high diplomatic ability which he has shown in conducting succersfully the deli- cate and complicated regotiations which have characterized the relations between | the United States and Nicaragua in recent | years. All of the diplomatic represent: tives of Central and South American coun. tries are deeply interested in the outcome of the Ezeta case as having a future ap- plication to their own countries, and there- fore they are gratified at the action of the Salvadorian government in taking steps to have their case properly presented to the United States. Dr. Guzman, It is under- stood, has replied to the offer that he wil! accept the post provided his own govern- ment will give its assent. en - TWO PROPOSED BRIDGEs. The Memorial and fou! Street Plans Considered Briefly. The subcommittee from the House com- mittee on commerce this morning cave a | short hearing on the bill for a memorial bridge to Arlington cnd &@ bridge across the Eastern branch at South Capitol street Representative Meredith of Virginta ap- peared in behalf of the proposed structure to Arlington. It was state] before the committee that the War jepari Arlington ani Fort Myer, in order that supplies could be more reaiily gottea to the government reservation. The commit- tee postponed the hearing in order that some definite information as to its attitude could be obtained from the War Depart- meat. Col. A. D. Anderson and one or two other | citizens spoke for @ short time in the in- terests of the projected bridge at the end of South Capitol street. No definite actio: whatever was taken by the subcommitt« and there will be also further considera~ tion of this bill. Messrs. Harris, Hancock and Stealey, who failed physically at the recent entrance ex- aminations at West Point Military Acad emy, have been granted probationary ap- pointments by Secretary Lamont. Gwyn Hancock is a grandson of the late Gen. Hancock,and Was five pounds under weignt. esata r* oie ab The President Declines. The President has notified the managers of the National Saengerfest at New York that his official duties will prevent his par- ticipation on that cceasion. The program of exercises will be changed accordingly. eee ete Probable Retirement. Second Ljeut. James Hamilton, third ar-| tillery, has been ordered before a retiring board. f this) It is Further Debated in the Senate Today. ——_.———— MR. TELLER COMES OUT IN ITS FAVOR Patton and Others Oppose It. Messrs. Sherman, THE ANTI-OPTION BILL Quite a number of bills were passed be+ fore the consideration of the tariff bill was resumed by the Senate today. The House bill to incorporate the Supreme Lodge of |the Knights of Pythias was reported fa- vorably by Senator Faulkner (W. Ve.) and was immediately passed. The Senate bill for the relief of Charles College, Missourt (compensation for use by the army during the war), was taken from the calendar and passed. Also the House bill to regulate water main assessments in the District of Colum- j bla. Also Senate bill appropriating $40,000 for the investigation and tests of American timber by the forestry division of the Agri- cultural Department. Also Senate bill mak- ing the first Monday in September of each year (labor day) a legal holiday. Also House bill granting to citizens of Saucelito, Cal., certain rights over Lime Point mili- tary reservation, and the Senate bill to re- move the charge of desertion standing against Joseph C. Utter. Mr. Kyle Favors the Income Tax. At 10:30 the tariff bill was laid before the Senate and Mr. Kyle (S. D.) took the floor. He made a general argument in favor of the income tax, dwelling on the decline in farm values in the west and the gradual concentration of wealth in the hands of the few. He advanced statistics to show that in the United States under the eco- nomic system of protection since 1500 the working classes (90 per cent of the popula- tion), who in that year ownec WO per cent of the wealth, In 1880 owned less than 16 per cent of the wealth. Less than 4,090 multi-millionaire families now held 24 per cent of all the wealth of the country, 1,0u0,- 000 families of the middle class held $40,000 each, While 12,000,000 —— Of the work- class had but $007 each. at England, before 154, 86,000 families held an average of $110,000 each, while 4,000,009 working families held but S220 each. After the inauguration of the sys- tem of freer trade 22,000 families in Eng- land held $100,000 each, 1,834,000 families $5,000 and 1,500,000 families $430. In other words, under the system of free trade 1,00,- ov families in the working class had ed- vanced to the middie class. The rich had grown poorer and the poor richer. He argued that the protective system had been responsible for tne concentration of wealth im the hands of the few and that It was | just and equitable that they should the share of the burden of taxation “ their wealth made them able to bear. Mr. 's Blue Socks. . While Mr. Kyle was speaking Senator Call of Florida rather shocked the specta- tors in the galleries by removing his shoes nd elevating a large pair of sky blue eed inged feet to a neighboring desk. He gent agate the superheated atmosphere with a large palm leaf fan and seemed to have succeeded in making himself fairly com- fortabie. Mr. Vests Amendments. At the conclusion of Mr, Kyle's speech, Mr. Vest offered four additional amen@- | ments to the income tax sections. The most important was one to reduce the ex- emption from 34.000 to $3,000; another ex- | empted from the operation of the tax bulld- | ing and loan associations making loans oniy | to its shareholders; another provides that in reckoning the profits of corporations for taxation, actual operating expenses, losses and interest om fixed indebtedness shali be excluded. The other amendment was as follor | In section 50 strike out the following j amendment: “Provided that mutual ite | Insurance companies shall not be required | to pay an income tax upon the sums re- | paid to their policy holders as dividends, oF interest upon the surplus premiums held by such companies.” The following is added to the exemption clause of the same section, providing that the charitable, beneficial and other socie- ties shall not be subject to the operations of the tax: “Nor to any insurance com- Pany or association which conducts all its | business solely upon the mutual plan and only for the benefit of its policy holders or | members, and having no capital stock an@ | ho stock or shareholders, and holding all its property in trust and in reserve for its | policy holders or members, nor to that part of the business of any insurance company having a capital stock and shareholders, which ts conducted on the mutual plan, sep- | arate from its stock plan of insurance com- pany, and solely for the benefit of the policy holders and members insured on said mutual plan and hoiding all the property | belonging to and derived from said mutual part of tts business in trust and reserved for the beneiit of its policy holders and | members insured on said mutual plan.” | Teller Supports the Income ‘Tax. | Mr. Teller (Col.) supported the income tax | proposition. He quoted from the utterances of some of the leaders of the republican party, past and present, who advocated the income tax In the past. Oliver P. Morton of Indiana had characterized it as the “rucot Just and equitable of all taxes.” Senator Sherman had culogized it, a3 had Senator Morrill of Vermont “That was during the war,” interrupt | Mr. Morrill. “It was proposed as a eee | measure.” “Oh, Mr. President,” replied Mr. Teller, I don’t think an unjust and incquitable tax was proposed or defended even as a war tax.” | He went on to show that a majority of | the republican Senators, by their voice and | Votes, had supported the tax during the war. It was repealed in 1871 by @ vote of 26 to 25, and every vote aguinst the repeal was a re- Publican vote, so that in time of peace,when there was plenty of revenue without the in- come tax, a majority of the republican Sen- ators had resisted its repeal Refecring to Mr. Aldrich’s statement yes- terday that the income tex was advocated | 88 4 means for the redistribution of wealth, Mr. Teller challenged the production of » | scintilla of truth that that statement was true. Mr. Aldrich called attention to the debate on this proposition in the House. Mr. Tellor said he did not desire to comment on what had occurred at the other end of the Capi- _ tol, but he had examined the debate and di: hot think Mr. Aldrich’s statement was justi- fied. The income tax, he said, had been ad- vocated along the line that the rich had not been paying their just proportion of taxes. different (hing from advo- 4s a means of distributing wealth. No sccialist could hope to gain personally by taking money from the pockets of the rich to place it in the federal government for the support of the government. To the charge that this was a jonal tax, Mr. Teller replied that tt was sectional in the Sense that the east would pay more then the south or west because the wealth war congested there. But it was non-sectional in that every person receiving an ine beyond the exempiton point would have to | pay it With regard to the c! e that it was in- quisitorial, he declared that it was no more inquisitorial than a state or county tax, or, Jindeed, than a tariff tax. It no more @ tax on thrift and industry than a tax on a man’s home levied by his state, county or |city. It was also charged that the revenue | from this tax Was not tecded. It was need- jed as much now as it was when the in- |come tux was enacted during the war. On | April 1 the deficiency in the revenues was $63,000,000, It would reach $80,009,000 by July 1 / Some Que: “Do you contend jons by Mr. © chat the condition of