Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1894, Page 2

= SESS SS THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1894—TWELVE PAGES. party had summoned Senator after Senator, with the formality of a judicial proceeding, to put the President of the United States on trial by impeachment. These Senators detailed private conversations with the Pres- ident. They admit the President at all times urged free raw material. Yet they inferred, or concluded or supposed, that he wented the Senate bill. And in view of this spprehen- ston of the President's wishes it was but natural that he should wri= an honest, frank and manly letter to Chairman Wilson. Surely the President never could have said anything to these Senators which bound him irretrievably to the Senate bill, as they weuld have it understood. A Tribute to Mr. Cleve! “[ have known him long and well,” con- tinued Mr. Hill, and whatever may have been our differences, one thing I know well of him. He considers public questions slowly, deliberately, honestly, sincerely. He Says but little. He weighs all carefully,” The President did not indulge in idle and random comment, said Mr. Hill. These Senato-s, therefor sed a subject iw general term: y had not received the matured and weli-weighed opinion of the President. He had not attempted to ~ pass in deliberate judgment on the flood of Propositions they presented to him. Mr. Hill defended himself against the ref- erences of Mr. Gorman and other Seuators concerring his position on the tariff bill. He referred to his past speeches in the lines of tariff reform. In them he never failed to insist on the democratic principle of free Faw material. “The Senator says I am an opponent of this biti. Then let it be so,” sald Mr. Hill, with vehemence. “%es, 1 am in-opposition to this present bili. The peopie are opposed to it. The House of Representatives is opposed to it. The President of the United States is op- posed to it. If, therefore, I am opposed to it, I tind myself in good company.” While Mr. Hill was saying this Mr. Gor- man arose from his seat and went about cn the democratic side, holding whispered con- ferences with his colleagues. His Altitude on come Tax. Continuins, Mr. Hill in defined his at- titude in opposition to the income tax; after “hich he pointed out the inconsistency of bis democratic colleagues when they placed @ duty on coal and iron on the ground of revenue and left wool untaxed. A revenue tariff bill must be consistent. His own idea was that ail articles should bear their due -proportion of taxation except the neces- saries of life, like tea, coffee, sugar, “&c., unless the absolute exigencies of the treas- try demanded a revenue duty on sugar. Mr. Gorman said on yesterday, in charac- terizing him (Hilly) as an opponent of this bili, that he could dance a waltz down the aisle with the Senator from Khode Island Qir. Aldrich} . Hill Was not aware that he had been waltzing with Mr. Aldrich, but he remem- bered last_summer when Mr. Gorman was waltzing down the aisle with Mr. Sherman the fight to repeal ihe Sherman silver w. The New Yerk Senator said this with biting sarcasm. He recalled the fact that his colleagues who were now prophesying the dereat of this tariff bill were then loudly proclaiming that unconditional repeal could never pa hat the struggle must be com- promised. ‘Th Presklent was then the bold and un- finching champion of unconditional repeal. “You said it sould not i ting to the democ npro- Soise bill may pass, I do not beileve it will.” He then referred to Mr. Gorman’s asser- tion yesterday that the Maryiand s Mr. Brice and Mr. Smith, had pron Louisiena Senators a duty on su; the campaign of 1892. He doubt authority to construe platforms. Better Keep Awny From the White House. He, for one, would refuse to be delivered. He thought that if Mr. Cleveland's interfer- ence was complained of the best way to avoid such an entanglement in the future Was “to keep away from the White House, as I do.” (Laughter.) The idea that these old political foxes had Boye to the White House and had misunder- stood the President was absurd. It was childish for them to come back here and Plead that they had been overreached py one “ambitious President.” “I shall vote to perfect this bill,” contin- ued Mr. Hill, “I shall vote for free coal, free iron ore, and free sugar.” “If the Senate recedes from every amend- ment placed upon the bill as it came from the House,” interrupted Mr. Gormaa, “will You vote for it?" “I will cross the ‘bridge when I come to it,” replied Mr. Hill, parrying the thrust of the astute Senator from Maryland. “But » said,” he added quickly, “that the i not recede and you are perfectly aking that bluff.” “Why don’t you call it?” Lindsay, naively. “The Senator understand: the nath I game better than I do,” re- torted Mr. Hill. Mr. Hill closed his speech with the keen- est piece of satire that has been heard dur- ing the debate. Shakespearcan Satire. “The Senator from Maryland has sought to term me the Lago of the Sena waid he, “I might respond with drafts upon Shakes- Pearean characters. In that case I would term the Senator from Maryland as the Cassius of the Senate. (Long laughter.) We all recall Cassius—ihe lean and hungry Cassius.” Mr. Hill leaned over and addressed him- self almost directly to Mr. Gorman. “And the Senator from Arkansas I would call Marcus Brutus. It is the Senator from Arkansas who had labored so 2arnestly for this bill. He is the honest Brutus of the Senate. (Long laughter.) And Casca is the name of the Senator who struck the first blow on Friday last (Mr. Vest). “Trebonius is the Senator from y yet earnest. And Metellus ator from Tennessee" (Mr. Harris). thus characterized the Senators, Mr. Hill added, “We inguired Mr. the terms of javing amid great laughter, all remember the cabal which struck down Caesar, and when, on yesterday, these Senators sought to strike down our Presi- dent, they made the mistake that-had been etere. Not that they loved Caesar that they loved Rome more. Not loved the President less, but that they loved the Senate compromise more.” Then, pausing for a moment, Mr. Hill closed with sareastie deliberation: “But I can say with Authouy ‘they are all hon- flery’s Sugar Resolution. Mr. Caffery (La.) followed Mr. Hill, first Offering a resolution instructing the con- ferees to prepare a new schedule continuing the bounty this year, and levying a duty on @:ff.Nent grades thereafter, in accordance with the demands of the sugar planters. y then commended Senator Hiil ense of the President, and de- Cared that there was nothing In the letter which need rouse the ire of the Senators Who felt themselves aggrieved, and did not call for the denunciation of the Senator from Maryland. He then read an extract f the letter and commented upon it in erable terms. The President Exonerated. Mr. Caffery declared that the Pi was exonerated from the charge ma against him by Mr. Gorman. The very evi- dence adduced by Mr. Gorman, he said, justified the President in writing the letter There w »solutely no truth in ation that Mr. Cleveland had vio- functions of his office in giving airman of the ways and if the mem! ni 8! rrows time had me for Sugar Stery ie conference ng others, Messr: It was decided at that con- ference that 4 per cent on raw and cent on re was pr . am that schedule to th: finance committee and Gave it to Senator Jones,” he continued. “Mr. Jones, after a calculation, pe that in the one-tenth the refiners w greater than t I there- Upon withdrew it. After further consulta- tion I presented another schedule, one cent on raw and one and on on refined. So it remained for some time, whea I was admonished by Mr. Gorman aad Mr. Brice that this second sckedul- meart free sugar Mr. Jones told me that the ar refining interests would favor free ar if that schedule was insisted upon. ted me to accept 40 per cent on raw 1 refined, and one-eigisth differential on That schedule was not aceptable er the sugar growers, and I wan: the v country to ktlow thut'wasit dictated by the refining interests, At last we accepted it with the under- standing that the bounty provision for 1894 should stamd.~1 call ‘on Senators Vest and Jones to say whether what I have said is not trues Neither the Arkansas or the Missouri Senator made ‘reply to this appeal. He continued to describe the subtle meth- ods that were then employed to emasculate the sugar schedule and defeat the bill. The First Brenk of Faith. The ways of the Senator from New York Gir. Hill) were past finding out. Upon his motion to make the schedule go into effect on the passage of the bill seme of the dem- ocrats jumped the track and violated their agreement. That was the first time faith Was broken with-the Louisiana Senators. What subile force was it, he asked, that sovght to strike down “the sugar agricul- turists and to throw its protecting | w about the #trantic sugar refining interes: He referred in astic terms to Mr.Gor- man’s statement “si yester@ay that how- ever distasteful a duty on sugar was to imsel’ and “othérs, they knew that the two votes of the Loulsitna Senators were necessary to pass this bill. Would Have. Vated Against Sugar. “You have fol ds the’ attitude of every- Free | at the corner of 4th [afternoon at 5° body else... Will.vou tellus what the atti- tude of the Loutsiana Senators would have been if sdgaf*Naitbeei” placed on the free list?” asked. Mr. Teller. “Frankly,” replied Mr. Caffery, “I will say that tf sugar had. been placed on the —— we would have voted against the M>. Caffery jed to discuss the sugar schedule "6: feXtntey™ bill, and this brought out an animated though technical debate of siigar-making between Senators Aldrich, Gray, Caffery and Allison. The latter said that it had been stated that about 88 per cent of sugars grown in Louis- lana would receive the benefit of the on2- eighth diffecential. Mr. Caftery said the Percentage would be about 74. -At 3:03 p.m. the Senate adjourned until tomorrow at 12 o'clock. 4 THE HOUSE. The House secured a quorum today de- spite greater attractions at the other end of the Capitol, and proceeded to pass by a party vete the bill for the ‘reinstatement of clerks dismissed fromthe gailway mail service between March 15 and May 1, 1889. The vote was yeas, 140; nays, 53. A vote on-the motion of Mr. Terry to go into committee of the whole to consider the resoiution to refund to Wést ‘Virg‘nia its share of the direct tax of 1881 showed that but 168 members were present, and a strug- gle ‘to securé @ quorum’ Way bégun. —_—--- 2+ COMMONWEALERS IN VIRGINIA. A Petition in Regard to Them Laid Before the Seuate. Senater Harris, presidtmg temporarily over ihe Senate, today laid before the Sen- ate a letter from L. Doolittle of Ballston, Va., as follows: “There are now camped on malarial flats, a government reservation at the Virginia end of the Aqueduct bridge, 1,000 to 1,500 foolish, misguided men, with ho means of obtaining a livelihood, nearly starved and without proper shelter, fit sub- jects for maiarial diseases. If some pro- vision is not soon made for the removal and sending of these men to their homes or where they can obtain proper food and shelter they will nearty all be stricken with malarial diseases and there will be a pestilence almost under the dome of the Capitol. I respectfully submit this com- munication to you that you may lay this matter before your honorable body, in or- der that it may receive the prompt atten- tion the importance of the case demands.” The letter was referred to the committee en education end labor. a COMPOSITORS IN CONFLICT. 41-2 Street ely Times Today in Printing om W. M. Wright's printing offite, on 41-2 street just in front of the city hall, was the seene of a great amount of disorder about 1:30 o'clock this afternoon, although only one man was hurt. A p'stol shot was fired, but the weapon was aimed low, and for this reason William G. White, a drunken printer, fs alive to tell the story. The shot was fired by John S$. Sbober, also a com- positor. After this encounter, White had trouble with other printers in the place,and one of them gave him a severe beating, badly bruising his head and face and black- ing his eyes. White brought ail the trouble on himself while he was under the Influence of liquor. He started the ruction yesterday wi attacked Shober in the ctfice, on of having a supposed grievance cf some kind, which theemen-in* the office think is imaginary. Young Shober, whose wife and child live at 424°H street northwest, went to work in Wright's printing office only two weeks"ago. “At that time White was a total stranger to him. During his two weeks’ employihent in the place Shober has had but little jo saz. te White, so he says. White Staris the War. Yesterday morning, he says, Wh.te, who was drinking, came in the office and he (Shober) had cunsiderable trouble to keep from fighting with him. “He threatened—te kil me,’ said Shober to a Star reporter after yesterday's affair, “and being A hedVier man than myself, and being warned against him,-E-armed myself with the pistol Shober had just returned from home afer the regular lunch hour today when White accosted him. White was much more under the influence of liquor than he was yester- ay. He wanted to know of Shober if he was armed, and the latter, wanting to avoid trouble, answered in the negative, and con- Urued toward hig case. Shober Fires His Shot. Put White was in for trouble, so it ap- peared, and made a start to follow Shober. The latter soon ran out in the street, and then it was that he fired the shot. Lawyer William Gordon and Mr. S. T. Thomas, attorney for the District, were near the scene of the shooting, and it is stated that Mr. Thomas came near getting the bullet. Lawyer Gordon grabbed Shober and dis- armed him without any trouble. “{ shot in self-defense,” was Shober’s statement, “but I only shot to scare him. He made no effort to get away, and was stHl in the printing oftice when Detective Proctor reached there? For a few minutes there wes an air of mystery about the printing office, but Shober made no effort to conceal the fact that he had fired the pistol. White Gets Badly Thrashed. ‘The detective went with him to police headquarters to enter a charge of assault to kill, and about the time he arrived there there was a renewal of hosviltfes around the corner.~ In this trouble D. H. McDonald, a printer, and J. D. Lydick, a pressman, were obliged te defend themselves against White. The latter was not satisfied with having es- caped being shot, and so he renewed the trouble. The result was that he was given rough treatment, and it v require the efforts of the Police Court judge and per- haps a jury to straighten out the difficulty and tell just where the’blame rests for the different encounters. All parties were arrested, aid charges of assiwit and affray were made in the case in addition to the sheeting, and the four sent to the station. Later they tdAT¥ be Teleased on security. Av ye rdon turned the pistol over to > detective after the excitement had sub- sided, and it will be used in evidence when the ese is heard tomerrow. A wound over White's eye was made with j an instrument in the hand of Lydick, the pressman, but,.just..what the instrument was he is unable to state. He thinks it was probabiy a printer's stick. The wound is a fous one. tated that the cause of the trovbio belief on the part of White that ver Was trying to ge’ is job. So far as McDonald is concerned, he seems to have figured as peacemaker during the last en- counter, but not with any degree of suc- cess. +s Postponed, stently yesterday afNer- noon that the ceremony of laying the cor= ner stone of the new Naval Masonic temple eet and Penn-ylvania postponed until this o'clock. avenue southeast LATE NEWS BY WIREJTHAT ROYAL RAINIDEALT IN SUGAR|REPORTED aT Last The Organization of a New La'o- Union. THE TRIAL OF THE A. RU. OFFICIALS Charges Against Soldiers Made by an Oklahoma Mayor. OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST palpate LABOR COMBINT FORCES. A New Organization, the American Labor Union, Formed. CHICAGO, July 24.—A..new labor, unign has been launched forth on the troubled seas of the labor world, whtch, tts’ leaders say, will gather under one banner the whole army of the toiling masses. It was decided to admit railitiamen as members of the new organization, which, the direc! will take the place of the Kni, bor. The declaration of principles, say the directors, have taken into cunsideration many obstacles that will be encountered. First will be the assailing of the charac- ters of the prime movers of the new union by the so-called lhbdr' leaders; ‘caused by tne fear of its digrupting older organiza- tions and their leaders’ pull with politicians, Seen, and shysters of every descrip- Second will be the arduous task of con- vincing the masses that so-called labor leaders are too iumerous and are thriving on the hard-earned wages of the toiling masses, and that the time has arrived when one organization of labor is suthéient. The general head is to be shorn of all bower to precipitate the order in any con- flict or strike, and the grievance of any one member will be to the concern of the whole organization. “Trades and classes have frequently been fighting corporations single-handed to be overwhelmingly defeat- ed in nearly every instance. Officers of the Union. The American Labor Union protects its members to its full strength, sacrificing every member to meet combined capital with combined labor under one grand brotherhood of man. Its motto 1s, “The cause of one is the cause of all.” Temporary headquarters, will be at Mc- Coy’s Hotel. There will be chosen two di- rectors from New York, one from Philadel- phia, one from Buffalo, one from Kansas City, two fram St. Louis, two from the Pa- cific coast, and one each from St. Paul and Minneapolis. The officers of the union are: W. C. Walsh, president; W. NM. Overton, vice pre: ident; M. A. Cogley, secretary and treas- urer. The Chicago directors are C. A. Keil- er, W. E. Kern, Col. H. F, Hamilton, P. J. Grimes, F. M. Donnelly, H. E. Huntington, John Costello, Owen McShane, Wm. Itus- sell, Peter Kennedy, 8. Frotherstone, C. 1. Dahl. ‘The officers of the new organization say organizers will be put in the field Immedi- ately and the unicn extended throughout the country. Resolutions were adopted pledging financial support to E. V. Debs, and pledging co-operation to the American Railway Union. Debs Be a It. J. S. McFadden, a persona] friend of Debs, stated to a reporter in Kansas City yester- day that Debs and his co-workers are be- hind the American Labor Union. It Is the Intention to include In this organization ail labor, of whatever kind, not merged un- jer the head of railroading. It will be at fillated with the A. R. U. and doubtless be controlled by the same officials. _——— SERIOUS ACCUSATIONS Made Against the Soldiers! by the Mayor of Enid, 0. 7. SOUTH END, 0, T., July 24—John Cc. Moore, mayor, has created a sensation by issuing a public statement over his own signature, and, as he states, after a thor- ough investigalion regarding the shooting at Enid of Corporal Cleaves. Mayor Moore states that the soldier was shot during a quarrel with a comrade and that, to pro- tect themselves, the soldiers told their offi- cers that they were attacked by citizens of Enid. Capt. MacKay, who is in command of the troops, it is charged by Mayor Moore, took a squad of mén to Charles L. Shearer's house, pulled him out of bed, accused him of complicity in the shooting, and, after placing a rope about his neck, threatened to hang him if he did not tell them who fired the shot. Next the soldiers went to A. R. Elliot's home, awoke him, and, with their guns aimed at his head, demanded to know who had burned the bridges, threatening to shoot and hang him if he did not give them the desired information. Elliot’s wife, find- ing the soldiers, as she thought, about. to murder her husband, rushed through the streets in her night ciothes, calling on the citizens to come tu the rescue, and her screams alarmed the soldiers so that they left Elliot's house, and, taking Shearer with them, went to North Enid, whence they sent their prisoner to jail in Guthrie. The Secre- tary of War has been informed by wire of the occurrences and Mayor Moore has for- warded to him charges in accordance with this statement. —— The Saratoga Races. SARATOGA, N. Y., July 24—The attend- ance at the Saratoga race track today was light. This was mainly due to the fact that rain began falling at 8 o'clock and contin- ued at intervals up to almost midday. The second race on today’s program, at four and one-half furlongs, has been declared off and an extra race substituted, to be run as the fifth, oe following of which are the entries: Seven-elghths of a mile; selling—Walcott, ; Future, 100; George Beck, 103; Flirt, First race, purse $500, for two-year-olds; seliing; 4 1-2 furlongs—Sweden first, Ross- mar second, Derelict third. Time .57. Second race, purse $00, for three-year- olds and upward; six furlongs—Galllee first, Fred Douglas second, Senella third. Time, 1.16. Third race, purse $500, mile and a fur- long--Chant first, The Pepper second, Miss Dixey third. Time, 1.57. Fourth race, five furlongs—Torch Bearer, first; Robin Hood, second; Memento, third. Time, 1:02 1-4. —_— +> —— Probable Safety of the Wellman Pzrty CHICAGO, July 24—The following reply to an inquiry has been received: Chicago, July 24.—To the General Manager of the Associated Press: The fact that there was so much floating ice this year led Mr. Well- man to believe before he left Norway that his vessel, the Ragnvold Jarl, could get further north than any ship had ever reach- ed before. This information was corrob- orated by a great many navigators whom he saw just before he left. Reports that come about the loss of the expedition. arise from the fact that fishing and other vessels have not seen the Ragnvold Jarl, which they would have done in ordinary seasons. Private cablegrams to the Herald from Tromso say that even if the vessel is lost there is no reason for anxiety for the ex- pedition and the crew, which is undoubted- ly upon the ice somewhere making tts way teward the pole. When Mr. Wellman left Tromso it Was with -the understanding that the vessel should come back and bring report of the expeditien up to the time that he could send messengers back to it from scme distance in the intericr, and undoubt- edly the vessel is waiting at some point for such communications. He arranged that the vessel should return sometime be- tween July 15 and August 1, but possibly the vessel might be still later. It was io return to Norway to coal up and to pre- pare for the return trip to bring Mr. Well- man back, which would require it td leave about August 15; consequently there is no eceasion for alarm until after that date. (Signed) JAMES W. SCOTT, Pubilsher -the Chicago Heraid. iene Invited at the Last Moment. Senator Hil! was informed of the intention of the democrats to hold a conference on the tariff bill upon the eve of the confer- ence, bet declined to participate In it on ac- count of his atttude toward the bill. The Entire Atlantic Slope Fesling Its Be- * ™ neficence. to the Drought and fava Sent Hot Weather Away in M4 al a Hurry. a The appearance of the city today is in striking cdntra&t to what it was last week, and from all’ parts of the country, as well, come reports of the same satisfactory con- dition of affairs, The rain which began falling on Saturday evening kept up al- most without intermission for forty-eight hours, with the result that the grass and shrubbery everywhere look more as thet did before the long continued drought set in. The farmers in the surrounding coun- iry are overjoyed at the termination of the ot dry spell, and well they may, for rarely have their interests been in such peril as within the last few weeks. me : According to the renorts of the weather bureau the rainfall was a very general one, and there was scarcely a section of coun- try anywhere that did not get its share. Indeed, reports that come from some of the southern states are to the effect that the rainfall was even heavier than might have been wished for, and that consiterable dam- age has been done to the growing cotton, Just the Proper Thing, Locally. Around this part of the country thé rain was just of the sort that was wanted most, It came in a gentle downpour that sank readily into the thirsting earth, and not a drop was wasted. It soaked right In, down to the roots, doing more real good than twice as heavy a rain would have done if it had come all at once and simply run off into the city gutters and country streams. According to the records of the weather bureau the actual amount of rain that fell in this city. was 1.03 inches, a very satis- factory amount, indeed, coming as it did. The rain that reached here Saturday even- ing started out in the Missouri valley and swept completely over all the country east of the Rocky Mountains. Iowa was the only state that he di not get its full share but fortunately every other state needed it worse than did Towa. Halted the Hosts of Hent. The rain, too, has had the effect of break- ing up that awful hot spell that blasted the country from end to end. From all direc- tions there come reports of a comfortable drop of temperature, and there is no hot wave anywhere in sight in the west to bear down upon this helpless city again. The official thermometer this morning registered two degrees above what it did yesterday morning, but there is no reason to expect that the weather will get unbearable with- in the next few days. According to the local forecast officer, fair weather may be looked for, as there is no other storm bear- ing down upon us. With the clearing away of the clouds it Is but feasonable to suppose that the sun will begin to get in his. work once more, but not at all in the same way that he has been doing for a month past. In other words, it will be fair, with slight rises in temperature, but it is not likely that the mercury will try to crowd out the top of the bulb right away. The following is the report for the past week issued hy the weather bureau at a late hour this Afternoon: Temperature. The weet’ was’ warmer than usual through- out the northern portions of the country from ‘the interior of New England west- ward to Washington and Oregon, including the interior of central and northern Cal- ifornla. The excess in temperature in the region named amounted to three degrees per day over portions of New York and Pennsylvania, and generally exceeded three degrees per day from the upper lake region westwardto eastern Washington, the max- imum excess, about six degrees per day, occurring yin the region of Lake Superior and over northern Idaho and adjacent por- tions of Montana and Washington. Throughout the southe-a and central por- tions of the cquntry from the Atiantic to the Pacific the week was cooler than the average, the deficiency in temperature amounting to 3legrees, or more, per day, from the Soiith Atlantic coast over the states of the lower Mississippi valley and southeastern Rocky mountain slope, the maximum deficiency, 6 degrees per day, oc- curring over southern Missouri, western Tennessee, Arkansas and northern Louis!- ana. Along the immediate Pacific coast the deficiency in temperature ranged from 1 degree to 4 degrees per day, being great- est on the California coast. As in the previous week, very high tem- peratures prevailed over ‘the Dakotas, a maximum of 106 degrees occurring at Hu- ron, South Dakota, on the 2d, while the temperatures of the 18th and 1th at numer- cus stations in the lake regions were as high as any previously recorded in July. ‘The week has also been marked by unusual- ly low temperatures in the states of the cen- tral Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys, where a number of stations reported on the 2ist and 22d temperatures as low or lower than any previously recorded during the second and third decades of July. Precipitation. Over limited areas in the lower lake vegion and’':Ohio valley, and generally throughout the southern states, more than the averag? amount of rain fell during the week ending Monday, and in many sections, particularly in the south, very heavy rains have fallen. While there was more than the usual amount of rain over portions of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Nebras- ka and South Dakota, in some portions of exch of the states and territories named the rainfall has been deficient. In Iowa, Missouri, eastern Kansas, south- eastern Nebraska, and generally through- cut the northern states, except along the lower lakes and in portions of New England and the lower Ohio valley, there has been less than the average amount of rain, there being considerable areas in the upper Mis- sissipp|_ and lower Missourl valleys over which no appreciable amount has fallen, General Remarks. Severe drought prevails in Iowa, Minne- sota and North Dakota, and, while partial- ly relieved, still continues in portions of Nebraska, Wisconsin, Missourl, Tennessee, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jer- sey. Drought has been effectually broken in New York, Virginia and to a great ex- tent in New England, but in the last- ramed section much permanent injury has been done. Reports concerning cotton are generally favorable, and the outlook for this crop is very promising. Some injury is being done by the boll worm in Louisiana and Mississippi, and there has been rather too much rain for this crop in Mississippl, Louisiana and portions of South Carolina and Florida, while it has suffered some- what from drought in southwest Texas, in which state picking has begun. Corn 1s suffering seriously in Nebraska, Wisconsin and Iowa, and in the last-named state ts reported as in a critical condition. This crop has improved in Arkansas, cen- tral and southern Missouri, Indiana, Michi- gan and Ohio, Kansas and North Dakota report thé outlook favorable, and Kentucky and Tennessee excellent. In Kentucky the tobacco crop is reported backward; lat> tobacco promises well in Maryland. and Ohio reports this crop badly damaged ‘by drought; in Virginia the early planted promises unfavorable, but late to- bacco is more promising. Considerable. damage has been done to cranberry’ bogs in New Jersey by forest fires. —__—--—_ THE PRINTING OFFIC! UNSAFE. Labor Unions Petition for Its Repair porn New Building. ‘This afternpon Senator Ransom present- ed to the Senate a petition from a commit- tee, appointed by the several local labor unions, urging the Senate to make appro- priations in the sundry clvil bill, or other- wise for the repair of the government print- ing office, or for the erection of a new building. Particular attention was called to the unsafe condition of the H street wing, and the great danger to which the employes are daily subjected. The petition was referred to the committee on appropria- tion. ~o+—____ Important to Taxpayers, ‘The Commissioners this afternoon, in ac- cordance with the suggestion of Mr. Glover, regarding tax certificates, issued the fol- jowing order: “That hereafter the assessor of the Dis- trict of Columbia include in each certificate issued by him under an act relating to tax sales and taxes in the District of Colum- bia, approved February 6, 1879, a state- ment of all tax sales affecting the property wered hy sald certificate.” Two Senators Said to Be Implicated in Speculation. SES IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS EXPECTED a One Witness Wanted to Make the Chain Complete. FODAY’S TESTIMONY It is reported that the Senate committee investigating the question of Senators specu- lating in sugar have at last secured testi- mony of a substantial character, and that some important developments may be ex- pected shortly. The committee have been conducting the branch of the investigation they are now on with great secrecy, and have found it desirable not even w give out statements, day by day, as they formerly did. The wisdom of this policy of secrecy is said to have been shown by the success the committee has met with in getting di- rect testimony. Photographs of a Sugar Order. It'is said that photographs of the much talked of order of a Senator for sugar stock has been secured by she committee, and that direct testimony has been taken as to verbal orders for sugar given by another Senator. Both the Senators referred to swore before the committee sometime ago that they had never, directly or indirectly, dealt or speculated in sugar. Linble to Impenchment. If it should be proven that they swore falely, their impeachment would surely follow. Matters are in suca shape now that the committee expect to be able to make a re- port within a few days, making all the testimony public at the same time. Mr. Levy's Testimony. Edward O. Levy, a New York broker and employe of Wheeler & Co. of New York,was before the Senate sugar trust investigating committee today. While not a member of the firm of Wheeler & Co., he acts as a personal representative of Mr. Guilleudeau of that firm in his absence, and it is under- stood that his testimony substantiated that given by Mr. Guilleudeau when before the committee yesterday, and that it related to an order for sugar stock alleged to have been given by Senator Caimden. The com- mittee still refuses to give out the testl- mony, but the members unite in saying that the testimany is important, and that if they are able to complete it on the lines which they are following the result will be either to fasten the charges or to bring them to a point where their falsity can be established. The chain, however, will be incomplete so long as the committee falls to find one witness for whom search is making. This witness Is said to be Samuel G. Battershall, who formerly represented the New York firm of Seymour Young & Co. in this city. Witnesses who have so far been examined Lave named Battershall as the man who at one time had in his possession orders from Senators for the purchase of sugar stock. The committee regard the disappearance of the witness wanted at this time as sig- nificant. His absence is also delaying the final consummation of the committes’s work. Senator Camden Will Not Talk. Senator Camden was today asked if he desired to’ make any statement concerning the reports in the newspapers to the effect that the testimony had involved his name in sugar speculation. He replied that he did not desire to say anything at the pres- ent time, but would defer any statement that he might have to make until he could have an opportunity to see the testimony. Many rumors were reported from the committee during the afternoon to the effect that they were on the trail of import- ant discoveries. Members of the committee when told of these rumors would not Geny them and some acknowledged that they considered the developments recently of great importance, and that the fact that the proceedings had not been made public gave them clues that they might not have been able to obtain. It is acknowledged that Battershall is the missing witness that is so much desired, and the lines of new evidence will be more definitely determined when he is found. One Persistent Rumor. One of the persistent rumors that were in circulation was that the committee had ob- tained a copy of an order for sugar stock, signed by « Senator, and that this order was given bkfore the Senator testified be- fere the committee he had no dealings in sugar, and that an arrest for perjury would foliow. ‘This was repeated to a member of the committee, who said that he had no way of telling how such information got out of the committee, and that all he could say was that testimony had been discovered which will call for a great deal of explana- tion, and further, that it would be unfair to the accused to publish any testimony until he had an opportunity of making a defense. The committeeman further as- serted ‘that it was a very unsavory affair all around. It is claimed that this copy of the sugar order is a forgery, and was gotten up for blackmailing purposes. —______+ e+___ DISBARRED FROM PRACTICE, Attorney Brashears Expl: c rees Were Brought Agal Attorney Shipley Brashears was disbarred yesterday from practice before the patent office on the charge of having misappro- priated a fee given him by a client with which to file an application for patent. Mr, Brashears will seek to have the disbar- ment canceled on the ground that he did not misappropriate the fee, and that the most serious charge which can be brought against him ts that of delay in filing the epplication. Mr. Brashears, in speaking with a Star man this afternoon, said: “Mr. Kindig of erm el paid = ~ reparing an application for a patent early in the year, probably January. I had some trouble with Mr. Kindig and his assignees, but the final result was that the applica- tion was filed in the patent office, probably about six weeks after the fee been re- ceived. Mr. Kindig, believing himself aggrieved, preferred charges against me be- fore the patent office some time after the application had been filed. Consequently no charge of misappropriation of money can be made against m i TRIAL OF DEBS, The Argument Today of District At- torney Mile! ist. CHICAGO, July 24.—During the proceed- ings in the trial of President Debs and his associates for contempt today District At- torney Milchrist called the attention of the court to the act of 1890, known as the anti: trust law. He read some of its provisions, stating that if two or more persons con- spired to obstruct irterstate commerce they should be deemed guilty of an offense against the government and should be pro- ceeded against in the United States court in equity. The district attorney said that under the law the argument of the defense that the bill under which the injunction was issued was void falls to the ground. The pill was filed under the act of I8®). ‘There is no doubt, Mr. Milchrist said, that the gov- ernment has such a pecuniary interest in interstate commerce that it has a right to file such a bill. The government maintains itself in part by the revenue derived from the postal service. —_——_. Fatal Montreal Fire. MONTREAL, Quebec, July 24—At an early hour this morning a fire destroyed twenty-six tenement houses in St. Jean Baptiste village, in the northern part of Montreal. The damages are now estimated to amount to $60,000. Four people were dangerously injured. They are Mrs. Dr. Remy and baby, the former breaking two ribs and the latter receiving internal in- juries by the mother jumping out of a third- story window; Mr. J. A. Phelan, who was Yadly burned about the head and neck while trying to save his children, and a fireman, who was hurt by a falling beam. Favorable Action on the Public Printing Reorganization Bill. Seaator Gorman today presented from the committee on printing a report upon the old public printing reorganization bill,which has been before Congress for upwards of four years. On the #th of February, 1891, a joint resolution was signed creating a joint commission for the purpose of investigat- ing the evils of the public document system end the waste of distribution, agd to de- vise a remedy. The story of this effort is best told in the language of Senator Gor- man’s report, submitted today: “The joint committee, thus appointed, fully investigated the matter, and at the first session of the Fifty-second Congress made a full and elaborate report, accom- panied by a bill, which they had formu- lated. “The bill with some amendments passed the House and Senate, but died in confer- ence, upon the disagreement of the Senate to certain amendments. “The bill, as originally drawn, consisted largely of a collection and systematic re- eractment of the numcrous provisions of pre-existing law regulating the public print- ing and binding, but it also contained many new sections, aimed at remedying recog- nized evils in the printing and distribution of public documents. Duties of the Superintendent. “One of the chief features was the ap- pointment of a superintendent of docu- nents, specially charged with the syste- matic distribution of documents to desig- nated Gepysitories and the public. This distribution has heretofore been performed hy a bureau of the Interior Department. Recognizing the important part that the propose® superintendent of documents will play in the general economics of the bill, Uhis committee has reinstated provisions for his appointment. He is to be made a sub- ordinate officer under the public printer, with his assistants to be designated by the public printer. The bureau of documents in the Interior D-parcment, tencent of documents of that department, is at the same time abolished. Important Saving Indicated. “There is no doubt that there will be a large saving of expense to the government as one of the results of the passage of this bill. The late foreman of binding at the government printing office, Mr. White, in his testimony before the joint committee that criginally framed the bill, estimates that there-will be a saving in the im- proved method of birding and distributing the ‘reserve’ of the usual number alone of $44,500 a year upon the single item of bind- ing. By an estimate made up for the com- mittee on printing of the last Mr. Palmer, the then public printer, the aggrogate expense to be saved to the sev- eral departments of the government by this bill was placed at between $175,000 and $200,000 a year.” The bill reported today is H. R. 2630, which reached the Serate, after passage by the House, on the 17th of last October. —_——_—_--2-____ QUEEN LIL’S PROTEST. Minister Willis Writes a Letter to the State Department. The President sent a message to Congress today, transmitting copies of the latest Ha- wailan correspondence, The principal letter is from Minister Willis to Seeretary Gres- ham, bearing date Honolulu, H. L., June 23, 1894. It is as follows: Your dispatch No. 30 of the 2¢ instant, inclosing the Senate resolution of .the 3ist ultimo, reached here on the 1th instant. A copy was, on the same day, transmitted by me to Mr. F. M. Hatch, minister of foreign affairs, for the information of his govern- ment. On the 2ist instant I received a pro- test, signed “Liliuokalani,” reciting from her standpoint the acts and facts prior and subsequent to the overthrow of her govern- ment, protesting agai all such acts and “earnestly requesting that the United States “will not extend its ition to any such government thus formed.” Not feeling at liberty to answer or trans- mit this communication, I had an interview with Mr. Samuel Parker, the jast minister of foreign affairs under’ the monarchy, to whom, after explaining the present attitud of our government and my inability to for- ward any such communication, I handed, for information, a copy of your dispatch hereinbefore mentioned and of the Senate resolution accompanying it. “This course was adopted with the knowl- edge and consent of the provisional govern- ment. In reply to the direct question from Mr. Parker as to whether this was the final decision of the senate, I said that in my opinion it was final. “The constitutional convention finished the first reading of the new constitution on the 2Ist instant. It is thought that it will be promulgated on the 4th of July. “Upon the suggestion of Admiral Walker I submitted a request for the landing of his troops for exercise on every Tuesday. This request was granted. It has been cus- tomary here for many years to give such permission to all nationalities. A subse- quent request of a similar character in be- half of the British government was first granted, and on the following day refused. It is thought, however, that in view of past Precedents this action will be reversed. “The Japanese cruiser Takaochtho has re- turned to Japan. The Congo remains. “There has been no disturbance here and no apparent probability of any in the im- mediate future. “With sentimets of high esteem, &c., Gigned) “ALBERT S. WILLIS.” ——_—_—_-o-_____ MORE MUSIC EXPECTED. Mr. Cleveland to Publicly Refate Mr. Gorma Aspersions. It Is a safe inference that the tariff crisis ergaged the lion's share of attention at to- day’s deliberations between the President and his cabinet, and also that most of the talking was done by the President and Secretary Carlisle. It is not known exactly how the President will reply to the serious issues raised by Senator Gorman in his speech in the Senate yesterday, but there is a general impression that he will take some means of publicly refuting the asper- sicns cast upon his integrity by the Sena- tor from Maryland. edocs A National bank notes received for redemp- tion today, $166,839; government receipts, from internal revenue, $344,154; customs, 27; miscellaneous, $37,236. ——+ e+ — Chicago Grain and P Reported by Sitsby & Co, Markets Bankers and Brokers. AGy, Joly 24, 1804. ‘Open. “High. "Low. “Close. Boy BIy 51 ST bo” Bat "4 ie 31 Lard-Jely. Sept S.Ribs— July. Sept Month. Open. Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, July 24.Flour dull, 17,565 barrels; shipments, 5, » 400 barreis. ails; es steamer No. 47 busbels; “shtpment 1,211,942 bushels; _ sales, Wheat by sample,” 5359. July, 4$ bid-—reccipts, 8,1 corn on grade, Sis: western, 48 arked. recelnts, 24348 busi i sales, July, f stock, 3,; timothy, clined to be with the office of superin-' FINANCE AND TRADE The Industrials More Attractive Than Railway Shares. THE ATCHISON Pending Legislation and the Sugar Certificates. SOME OTHER FEATURES Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, July 24.—Prices at the open- ing of today's stock market were about on a parity with last night's closing, with @ slight tendency toward improvement. Lon- don was dull and about one-half point below our closing, with some selling orders in the local market. As usual of late, speculation in railway sha>es was secondary to the superior at- tractiveness of the industrial group, and, consequently, was confined within narrow limits, “The rather free selling of the Grangers during the last few days resulted in a covering movement which made frac- Uonal additions to exrly -prices, St. Paul being most favored. Rock Island was weake> than the general market, owing to the bad showing made in July earnines. Room selling, based on these reports, re- sulted in a decline of 3-4 per cent. Rich- mond Terminal was strong on the payment of the final asséssment under the reorgan!- zation plan and an encouraging outlook for the success of the new company. The Atchison exposure 1s stil] the subject of much dissatisfaction among stockholders and@ opinions differ 2s to the outcome. News from Washington on tarif subjects was eagerly watched for throughout the day, as the street is now of the opinion that the situation has become se complicated that only the unexpected can possibly happen. No unexpected change in the text of the bill is considered probable, but final action is likely to come without previous warning. The differential duty on sugar would un- doubtediy be stricken out if a vote is ob- tained on that subject, and the price of sugar certificates would naturally suffer a sentimental reaction, but the success of this motion would seal the fate of the entire bill. For this reason friends of the refining interests would help pass the resolution in the interest of an early and satisfactory settlement of the entire subject. Sugar was strong at an advance of 1 cent to Ih -4 Curing the morning, but sold down to 104 on rumors of a probable intro- duction of a resolution similar to the one mentioned. Friends per cent improvement in the price, but the sentiment of the street is uniformly bears ish on the final outcome. ‘The jast hour's trading was steady, with- business. Chicago Gas gained 1 per cen during this period on good buying for both ington served to hold Gugar up sbove open: re ing figures, but many of them were uncons pe geel at ms ae eee yd ree i] was = Raa trading Mme. U.S. Cordage, ptd, New Jersey Central Rew ork Central ales. lar call—12 o'clock m.—Metropoli) a 5 at 93. Washington Gas, 14 at 30-year fund Gs, gold, 113 Wid. Water ck Js, currency, 1901, 115 bid. or stock Ta, guirency, 190g, 13) td. fanding, curremey, Hd. ” Bigs,” registered, Misevitaneoes “fonds Ww ‘ashingtom a town Katlroad conv. €, Ist, bid Warhington and Georgetown Rellroad 131 bid, 138 asked. Metropolitan Ra Ss, 104 "oid, 108 asks mp ompany ts, 5 imp ashingtom Market cat. ae 103 bid. Masouie Hall Assock 108 bid Warhi Wash. inked riba, be West vol, 90 Wid. ania od. Safe Deposit and ‘Trust Depo id Trust, 130 bi I 20 Mad. 1 wd Trust, 129 bid, posit, 100 = J ‘ompanios.- National Sate 140 asked. Washingtam curity a De coran, |. Arlington, 150 bid, nerican, 10 bid. National Union, Coluarbia, 185 bi asked. Preamatie rket, a2 asked. Great Falls loo, 130 id, 150 asked Bull Run Panorama, 20 Norfulk aud Wash: ton Steamboat, $0 bid, $8 asked. Washington BYcy Machine, 160 bid.“ iawrola Halt, £0 Lid, “top *Ex div, Range of the Thermometer, The follow! were ti! be ermometer af the weather burcku Ssaact 2 p.m., 82; maximum, $3; mint- a