Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR ger DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, E STAR BUILDING W101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th Sese, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, : 8. H. KAUFFMANN, Pres't. Kew York Ofice, 49 Potter Builtiny. counter United nts per States or Can "eat turday Quintuple She: With foreign postage adie, 82 dat the THE SUGAR REPORT Result of the hetbliiiin of the Senate Committee, MAJORITY REPORT EXONERATES ALL Supplemental Report Signed by Messrs. Davis and Lodge. CORRUPT CONTRIBUTIONS age Senater Gray, chairman of the sugar in- vestigaiing committee, presented the report of the committee to the Senate today, and asked that the committee be discharged. The mzin report is signed by all the Seh- ators of the committee, but Senators Lodge and Davis present a supplemental report, and Senater Allen also presents his own views on some features of the case. The Yepori, which has the approval of the full committee, recites the causes which led up to the Investigation, and quotes the article from the Philadelphia Press upon which the charges against Senators were based. Tt aiso recites the facts, which have been pub- lished already, as to the refusal of the cor- respondent Edwards to answer queries put by the committee. Seerctary Cartisle Exonerated. Secretary Carlisle is exonerated, and the Parts of the article reflecting on him are de- lared to be without foundation, except that ie fs a fact, according to Secretary Carlisle's testimony, that he did, at the request of Benator Jones of the finance committee, ¢raft an amen‘Iment to the sugar schedule, @ copy of which, as described by Mr. Ca: lisie, is attached as an exhibit to the testi- Tefan conthict of Mr, Mawarda, save the te port, in publishing specific charges against Public men without his personal knowledge, calls for serious reprobatien of the Senate. Did Not Result From Campaigu Con- tribations. ‘The committee also say: ‘There has been Ro testimony preserted before your com- mittee, and your committee have been unable to discover any, tending to show that the sugar schedule was made up, as it then Stcod In the proposed amendment to the tariff bill, in consideration of large, or any, sums of money paid for campaign purposes @f the democratic party. No witness has testified before your committee that such Was the fact, snd all the democratic mem- bers of the finarce committee, and all the Senators whose names have been mentioned ium the public press as especially interested in bwnere the sugar refining industries, or where states sugar refineries existed, under oath denied that such was the truth, or that they had any knowledge or irformation as to any sums of money, large or otherwise, having been paid for campaign purposes of the democratic party by the sui trust, by those connected with it, or by anybody, a3 a consideration for favorable treatment of its Interests by said party.” The committee also report the substance of the testimony of the sugar refiners, as- werting that its campaign contributions were made only to the local committees and not for the purpose of influencing na- tional campaigns, or for the purpose of se- curing or defeating national legislation. No Interview With Cleveland. No other testimony has, the committee way, been offered, suggested or discovered ‘which would tend to support the statements ef Edwards in this regard. Nor is there, they unite in saying, any evidence in sup- port of the statement that either of the Messrs. Havemeyer had an interview with President Cleveland on a yacht in the sum- mer of 1802, or of 1893, in regard to the sugar interests of the Hawaiian Islands, or any other sugar interests, or the policy <a administration in regard to them. contrary, it has been affirmatively whown,” they say, “that the statement Is untrue as to any such interview having oc- curred. It is, the committee say, shown by the evidence that one or more officers of the sugar trust were in Washington, and that they saw several Senators, generally those representing states in which sugar refin- eries were located, with the view of influ- encing legislation, but these gentlemen @eny the use of any improper means to that end. Both the members of the trust and of the finance committee denied that any | Meeting tock place between them at the Capitol or elsewhere, as was stated in the “Holland” letter to have taken place, and there is no evidence in support of the etatements in this regard. No Evidence to Show Improper Con- duct. The committee also unite in saying that) Mo eviderce has been adduced tending to show improper conduct on the part of those engaged in the framing of the sugar sched- ule in the tariff bill. “Though perhaps outside the scope of the duty imposed upon your committee,” they say, “they take occasion to strongly depre- cate the importunity and pressure to which Congress and its members are subjected by the representatives of great industrial com- Dinations, whose enormous wealth tends to Suggest undue influence and to create in the | ram mind a demoralizing belief in the ex- tence of corrupt politics.” Ans to Sugar Speculation. As to the third branch of the Inquiry, “Whether any Senator has been speculating im sugar stocks during the consideration of the tariff bill," the committee deem it only mecessary to refer to the testimony. Referring to the testimony of Senators, this, they say, shows that Senators McPhe1 gon and Quay have held and sold suga. stocks during the pendency of the tariff bill, but their testimony shows that before the voting began they clcesed out their holdings. Referring to the more recent branch of the inquiry which brought a photographic copy of an order to buy sugar stocks, dated March 2, purporting to be signed by Senator J. N. Camden of West Virginia, the commit- tee say: It is shown by the evidence that the original order was written in lead pen- cil on what purported to be an old envclope. ‘The order was not addressed, or directed to any firm of brokers, or to any one. The original paper was destroyed, as appears by the evidenc?, after the photographic copy Was taken, upon the appearance of the ar- ticle in the New York Herald calling atten- tion to it. The order was first found in the hands of one Battershall, who has eluded every effort of the committee to serve a bpoena upon him, and who, it is under- stood, fled to Canada. From the evidence of ene witness and the circumstances di: closed by the testimony, Rattershall xp- pears to be a man of doubtful characte: which, with the fact of the destruction of the original, tends to discredit the original Paper, and there is testimony tending to | show that the party who had the photo- graph taken, contemplated using it for an improper purpose. Senator Camden's Denial. Upen an examination of the photographic copy, Senator Camden said that the pur- Ported signature resembled, in some re- spects, his genuine signature, and that the | body of the paper has some resemblance to his own handwriting. He stated it as his belief and best judgment that the paper fs | fictitious, or a forgery, but he does not, in express terms, declare it to be a forgery, and declines to swear positively that it is not Lis handwriting. He denies, however, substantially, that y such orde> was ever executed, or that y sugar stock has been bought or sold for him since the tariff bill has been under con- Pideration, and there is no testimony tend- | Star. Vor 85, No. 20,953. to prove that the supposed order was ever executed by any firm, or that any sugar stock has been bought or sold by, or fo>, Senator Can den at any time during the present session of Congres: Senator Smith's Case. With reference to the connection of the name of Senator Smith with the latter part of the inquiry the commitiee say: “In the course of investigation, continued as de- seribed above, a letter was put in evidence written by Mr. Guillaudeu, a broker doing business in New Ye to Mr. A. N. Seip of Washington. This letter, in addition to making the statement about Senator Cam- den already considered, stated further that James Smith, jr., a Senator from New Jer- sey, had speculated in sugar stocks during the pendency of the tariff bill. Mr. Guillau- deu, being called as a witness, admitted that he wrote the letter read by Mr. Setp. He stated that the information in regard to Senator Smith came from Battershall and that the orders given by Senator Smith, ac- cording to Battershall’s statement, were verbal. “Senator Smith was recalled as a witness, and these statements were brought to his attenticn and he was questioned in regard to them. He swore that the statements made by Battershall and quoted by Guillau- deau were entirely false and that he had never at any time bought any stock from Washington, nor had he bought any sugar stocks during the pendency of the present tariff bill in the Senate, and that he had never known or seen Battershall. “Senator Smith reiterated his former tes- timony and swore that he had never bought or sold sugar stocks during the pendency of the present tariff bill.” Summtng up, the committee say that “No charge or charges have been filed before them alleging that the action of any Sen- ator has been corruptly or tmproperty tn- fluenced in the consideration of the tariff bill, and no attempt has been made to so influence legislation.” All the testimony taken by the committee is submitted as a part of the report. The Dav md Lodge Report. Messrs. Davis and Lodge (republicans) submitted a supplemental report, devoted entirely to the subject of the influence of the sugar trust, so called, on the making of the sugar schedule as it now stands in the tartff bill. They say that “No evidence has been submitted to the committee which proves that the sugar schedule was made up in order to fulfill obligations to the sugar trust for campaign contributions.” But they consider it their duty to go into some detail as to the method employed in making up the sugar schedule, for which the demo- cratic members of the finance committee, it is pointed out, are publicly responsible. What the Refiners Desired. “It is admitted,” says the report, “and it is proved by the sworn testimony of every witness called, that the present form of the schedule was that desired by the repre- sentatives of the refiners or friends of the sugar trust.” The threo interests concerned in the sugar schedule are stated to be those with no local or pecuniary interest, who believed in free sugar, the producers of raw sugar i the refiners. It soon became evident after the fouse bill came to the Senate that no bill could pass that body which did not regard both the latter interests, The interesis cf the producers and refiners then, it ts sald, came into conflict, the re- finers favoring an ad valorem duty on raw sugar, as now embodied in the bill. It is pointed out that Messrs) Havemeyer, Searles, Henry R. Reed, Cord Meyer gad H. L. Terrell of the sugar trust all testi- fied that they sought to secure an ad va- lorem duty. The report says: Influence on the Finance Committee. “It appears by the testimony of Sena- tor Vest that Senators Brice of Ohio, Gor- man of Maryland, Smith of New Jersey, Hill of New York and Senators White and Caffery of Louisiana after said confer- ence (of democratic Senators) cane to the rcoms of the finance committee in regard to the sugar schedule. Senator Vest testi- fied that Senator Gorman urged a duty of 40 per cent ad valorem and one-quarter of @ cent per pound differential in favor of refined sugars as the proper achedule. This was opposed by the Senators from Louis- lana, representing the producers as against the refiners of sugar. Afterward the sched- ule was changed by the finance committee and was reported as it now stands—with a 40 per cent ad valorem duty and ong- eighth of a cent per pound differential." Corrapt Contribations. The report concludes: “It is a matter of complete indifference to the trust what duties are levied upon su- Sar, so long as the form {fs ad valorem and @ sufficient differential is given in favor of refined sugar. The sugar trust, by the evt- ence of its president and treasurer, has centributed freely to the state and city campaign funds of both parties. And its contributions have been made in years when national elections were held. This is a thoroughly corrupt form of campaign contribution, for such contributions, being given to the two opposing parties, are not for the purpose of promoting certain politi- cal principles, but to establish an obligation to the giver on the part of whichever party comes into power. The trust does not give to political parties for the promotion of pelitical principles in which it believes, but for the protection of its own interests, as appears by the same testimony. The fact that it gives to both political parties is suf- ficient proof of the purposes of its contribu- tions and of their dangerous nature. “For these reasons the undersigned have felt it important to lay before the Senata ard the country the fact that the sugar schedule as it now stands is, according to the testimony, in the form desired by the trust, end to point out also the methods by which the sugar trust reached what it de- sired and obtained a substantial victory.” —-o-+—___—. Personal Mention. Mr. Wiiliam Howell, the courteous private secretary of the Secretary of the Navy, has gone away on a brief vacation, part of which he will spend at Norfoik, and the remainder at New York, Asstetant Secretary McAdoo, who went to New York and Boston to attend the drills of the naval riilitia, is expected to resume his duties at the Navy Department tomor- we Dr. J. H. P. Benson has gone to Old Point Comfort for a week's vacation, and also to attend the meeting of the Southern Dental Association. Major Couper, chief of the miscellaneous division, Department of the Interior, and family are at Capon Springs, Va. Assistant Chief Acker is acting chief. Prof. Walcott, director of the geological survey, is on vacation. Dr. Hyatt and family have left Beach Haven, N. J., and are at Bedford Springs, Pa., for the season. Mr. James E. Pugh, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., left today to spend his vacation at Delaware Water Gap. He will be absent ene month. Col. Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of labor and superintendent of the census, has left this city to commence a series of lec- tures at Chautauqua, N. Y. Norman L. Sansbu cashier at the Eb- Mitt, returned Tuesday from a two weeks’ vacation, having visited Old Point, New York, and his former home in Maryland. Dr. W. K. Beatty of Capitol Hill, who re- | cently graduated from the Columbian Medi- cal College, has located in Greenesville, Tenn. ———— Crealt to the Country. A letter received at the Navy Department shows that the Annapolis graduates are maintaining the high reputation they have so long enjoyed in foreign technical schools. Assistant Naval Constructors H. G. Gilmore and H. G. Smith have passed number one and number three, respectively, in the ex- aminations at the Greanwich, England, School of Naval Architeotura, where tney have completed the post graduate course. —— Examine Charge: James W. Nightingale, special examiner of the Department of Justice. has been or- dered to Cleveland, Ohio, in order to inves- tigate the charges of malfeasance in office pending against Judge Ricks, plots 2, 3, 12, 13 and 15. WASHINGTON, D. C., THE TARIFF BILL Prospects for An Agreement Are More Hopeful. ae TF BRICE AND GORMAN WILL AGREE The Matter Can Be Probably Set- tled This Week. HOUSE CAUCUS POSTPONED The tariff conferees started their work this morning in a spirit of hopefulne: he compromise propositions being nego- tiated yesterday are still under constdera- tion, and the prospect of agreement 1s still held out by ‘hore whose consent will be necessary before it will be worth while for the conferees to agree. It was hoped that today Some sort of definite reply would be received, but what further delays cr serious @pstructions may be yet encountezed no one can tell. If they get the consent of Gor- man, Brice and Smith to the propositions wade, Irby, Murphy and the populists may bob up with objections. The trouble is that there are so many rocks in the channel that when they steer away from one they are in danger of striking another. Still the expec- tation of those most concerned now is that they can get an agreement which will have the support of forty-three democrats, and which will let both houses down easy. If they succeed in this they will still have the iepublicans to deal with, and the minority party can give them a deal of trouble if so disposed. The Probable Compromine. In the compromise that it is suggested may be agreed to an effort will be made to meet the complaint that the ad valorem gives the trust a special benefit in addition to the one-eighth differential. There {s no proba- bility of the one-eighth being taken off. As to coal and iron ore, a proposition is made to accept the Senate rate of 40 cents a ton for this year, with a provision for a gradual reduction, until at the end of four years ail duty shall be abolished. These propositions have not been agreed to, nor are they the only ones being considered, but they appear to be the most promising. The House Will Yield, ‘Too. Whatever the Senate ylelds on these three items, however, is apt to take so much off what the House might otherwise expect to get as to other schedules in the bill. As far as tariff legislation may affect the pubile, there are other schedules in the bill of greater importance than those which are in public dispute, but public attention has teen directed toward these as the questions at issue, and therefore there is more poli- tics tn them, On account of this situation the House may sacrifice matters of more real consequence in trying to get conces- sions on sugar, fron cre and coal. What Senator Jones Says, |. Senator Jones came out of the tariff con- ference committee room about 12 o'clock today and said that the conferees were still at work, and he hoped that a basis of agreement might be found. He said that up to the present time there had been nothing done with a view of pfepartag a report, and he could say that nothing had been agreed upon absolutely. He indicated that there might be some changes, put muintaired that the Senate conferees knew they could not depart far from the Senate Dill. He believed the House conferees were beginnin; to realize this feature of the contest, an intimated that some schedules would be re- written. There seems to be a general feel- ing among members of both houses that & compromise between the confere2s will be reached within a day or two, The House Caucus Deferred. Chairman Holman of the House cemo- cratic caucus committee conferred with Representative Springer as to the proposed caucus today, and then authorized the fol- lowing statement: While the call for the caucus fs signed, it has been considered de- sirable, after consultation with Mr.Springer, that the cauqus be deferred until the con- ferees reached the conclusion that there was no hope of breaking their deadlcck. There has never b3en tne remotest des.re to Interfere with the con‘erces in their ef- fort to reach an agreement. “The caucus was proposed held only as a m2aus of consi¢ g a rem- edy when the chance of breaking the dead- lock is hopelsss.” An Unusually Long Sexsion. The democratic tariff conferees held an unusually long session today, lasting from 10 a.m. until 1:30 p.m., and then, after a few minutes for lunch, continued through the afternoon. No agreement had been reached up to the noon recess. The con- ferees said, however, that fair progress was being made. One of the House men said it would take two or three days yet before it could be said, with certainty, that a bill would be agreed on. As heretofore, sugar, iron ore and coal are the jtems at issue. As to iron and coal, there seems to be good ground for the report that a sliding scale compromise is under consideration, by which the 40 cents per ton duty will be gradually reduced during the next three or four years until entirely extinguished. It is understood that this plan commend: itself to the President and Mr. Wilson, it will in time bring @ realization of free Taw materials, oe A MISUNDERSTANDING. Complications Over the Mare Islan Navy Ya Capt. H. L. Howilson, commandant of the Mare Islani navy yard, Cal., and Com- mander B. H. McCalla, equipment ofiicer at that yard, have had a misunderstanding about the administration of the affairs of the yard, and it is said that the first- named officer has preferred charges against his official associate. The matter is now before the Navy Department, but the de- tails will not ba made public, at least for the present. Both officers are well known in this city. Capt. Howlson was formerly in command of the navy yard and Com- mander McCalla was Admiral Walker’ assistant in the bureau of navigation. Comn- mander McCalla was court-martialed for cutting down a sailor of his command on the Enterprise. The present trouble ts not very serious. ——— +. Army Court-Martial. A general court-martial is in session at Fort Monroe, Va., for the trial of such prisoners as may be brought before it. The detail for the court is Maj. Henry C. Mas- brouck, fourth artillery; Capt. John P. Story, fourth artillery; Capt. George G. Greenough, fourth artillery; Capt. William A. Kogge, third artillery; Capt. William F. Stewart, fourth artillery; Lieut. Charles T. Menoher, third artillery; First Lieut. Herman C. Schumm, second artil- lery; Second Lieut. William’ L. Kenly, jr., fourth artillery; Second Lieut. Morris K. Barroll, fourth artillery. Capt. Louis V. Caziare, second artillery, judge advocate. Favornble Report. Senator Faulkner today presented to the Senate a favorable report from the District committee on House bill 213, to pay for an alley condemned in square 493, including The bill was passed. NOTHING OFFICIAL Hawaiian Commission Has Taken No Steps to Disclose Its Mission. May, However, Have Seen the Secre- tary of State and Communicated With the President. ‘The vistting representatives of her very royal highness, Liliuokalani, have not yet made a public admission of the real object of their long journey from their far-away home in the Pacific. So far as the publte is aware, none of the commissioners has yet secured an audience with the President or the Secretary of State, and ft is said at the State Department that none of them has even been there, either to see the Sec- retary or to arrange for an interview with him. Inasmuch as Secretary Gresham and the commissioners are domiciled in the same hotel, the statement that the latter have not been at the State Department doesn’t go very far to show that they have not already met and come to an understand- ing in regard to the business on hand. It would be a very simple matter for the Hawatians to see Judge Gresham at the hotel, that ts, of course, providing he were willing. He {s there all the evening, and most of the afternoon, and has more time to himself than he has at the department. ‘The royal commission was sent here hy the late queen, with the evident belief that the administration having failed to secure her restoration, could naturally be expected to favor her interests in another direction. Her commissioners undoubtedly brought a message from the queen to the Presi- dent on the subject nearest her heart, and they have undoubtedly secured its delivery before now. A personal interview with the President may not be an essential feature of their mission, as the business can be transacted almost equaily as well through the medium of unofficial siotes or by some “great and good friend” having the entree of the administration circle, ‘That some such course as this is being followed in the negotiations of the royalist commissioners is evidenced by the statement confidently made at the State Department today that the commisstoners are not expected to go there at all or to the Whits House etther, but will confine their efforts to en! ding the sympathy of Senators and Representa- tives. It is almost beyond bellef that they can even hope to prevent the approval of Min- ister Willis’ action in recognizing the new Hawattan republic in the name of the Pres- ident of the United States, or that the Pres- {dent will long delay official notice of his approval. So long as the action of Minister Willis is not actually disavowed it will stand as the act of the government he rep- resents. In this view of the case the con- clusion {fs almost irresistible that all the emissaries of the queen are hopeful of is that the great government responsible for her overthrow (according to Messrs. Cleve- jand, Gresham and Blount) will make proper provision for her care and maintenance in her declining years. Mr. Samuel Parker, one of the commis- sion, called at the Navy Department today and held a pl nt interview with Secre- tary Herbert, to whom he bore a letter of introduction, presumably from Adimiral Walker. Secretary Herbert subsequently said that the call was purely soctal and had no political significance whatever. PRINTING 061 Ck BILL, Bankhead’s Return Raines the Courage of Its Friends, The situation as to the government print- ing office bill assumed a new phase today by the return of Chairman Bankhead to the House. He dropped in this morning like a@ ray of light on an otherwise dark and gloomy prospect. Mr. Bankhead was hard- ly expected to come beck this session, and his return was a great relief to the anxious friends of the bill. It is assumed by them that Mr. Bankhead’s presence renews the Prospect of action upon the selection of some kind of a site at this session, To a Star reporter Mr. Bankhead sald he has not decided what course of action to pursue in regard to the printing office. He iy enn! that it is posstble an effort will made to secure a special order setting aside a day for publie building bills, in which case the government printing office measure would receive consideration. This has not been finally ugreed upon, however, and fs contingent upon circumstances. Mr. Bankhead has been apprised of the Se ate’s action in tacking the Mahone site onto the sundry civil appropriation bill as an amendment, but declines to discuss that matter at present. He says he will confer with his colleagdes, and decide upon a course of action in a day or two. —— =~ SENATE ACCEPTS IT. Mr. Conference Report on the District Bill Adopted Today, Shortly after noon today Senator Gorman presented the conference report on the Dis- trict bill to the Setiate, and it was agreed to without a vote. Mr. Peffer asked Mr, Gorman whether anything had been done by the conferees in behalf of the police drivers, and Mr. Gorman answered that that matter was not open to the conference, as the Senate had made no amendment in that particular to the House bill, “That is @ matter to be taken in the preparation of the next appro- priation bill,” he went on, “and it is of such importance that it has been thought best to wait until the committee can be sure exact justice will be done. I have no doubt that this will be accomplished.” t this session?" queried Mr. Peffer. “No, but at the next session,” and so the matter passed. —__—_+o+____ TO RECOGNIZE HAWAU, ‘Two Clauses of the Boutelle Kesolu- tion Favored, The Boutelle resolution for the recognition of the republic of Hawali waw discussed by the foreign affairs committee of the House today. The committee decided tn favor of the two clauses extending congratulations to the new republic, am@ continuing to them the benefits of all treaties and a-- rangements made with the momarchy. The claus? directing the President to give notice of the recognition was left unacted on, the committee adjourning until Satutday. re SENATOR VOORHEES BETTER. His Physician Say Da Senator Voorhees passed a good night and was reported to be very much better today. He was sitting up receiving a visitor when a reporter called. Dr. Acker reports that the Senator is improving daily and thinks he may be able to resume his official duties next week, —--— . -e+-___-— Dolly Madison's Portrait. It is probable that the Andrews por- trait of “Dolly” Madison that has been in the east room of the White House for some time will soon become the property of the government. Serator Gallinger has se- cured the adoption of an amendment to the sundry civil bill appropriating %,000 for this purpose. A bill to the same effect has been pending for some months. The money is to be expended under the direc- tion of the joint committee on the library. The painter of the portrait is Mr. E. F. Andrews of the Corcoran Art School, +e. Detectives Horne and Boyd today recover- ed a gold watch alleged to have been stolen from James Dugan by a colored woman two yaare ewan. He 1s Improving 2, 1894-TEN PAGES. = CARNOT’S ASSASSIN | Scenes at the Opening of the Tric]| Today. THE PRISONER ACTS HIS PART His Cool Narrative Sets the Court Room in an Uproar. CONFESSES ANARCHISM LYONS, France, August 2.—Cesarlo Santo, the anarchist who murdered President Car- not, was.placed on trial in the assize court this morning. The prisoner was quietly removed to the court from his cell in the St. Paul prison at an early hour and reached the court without any incident worth noting. Up to the hour the trial commenced the day had been one of the quietest recently passed by the citizens of Lyons. The an- archists made no movement whatever, and recently they have even avoided all men- tion of Cesario’s name. M. Breuillac, president judge of the Lyons assize, who is to try the case, evidently feels deeply the part he is to play in this chapter of histcry. The palace of justice is guarded in the most thorough manner and the preparations for the trial have been diligently pushed ever since the crime, the whole energies of the law officers of the government being di- rected to so arrange the case and procedure as to exclude any possible trouble or hitch. At a meeting held tn the office of the pub- lic prosecutor on July 21 among those pres- ent were the colonel of gendarmerie, the chief of the division of infantry of the dis- trict and an ordnance officer of the govern- ment, Soldiers Guarding the Court House. A detail of soldiers of a size phenomenal in the history of murder trials it was then decided should assist the police in guarding the palace of justice today. Consequently an entire battalion of infantry is guarding the court house, the soldiers being deployed in pickete upon all approaches, while a double cordon of troops surrounds the build- ing itself. In addition a company of infan- try is posted in the entrance hall and a platoon of cavalry surrounded the prison Van as it was driven at a gallop from the prison of St. Paul to the court house. The same escort will this evening take the prisoner back to his cell. * The Crowd Admitted. Finally a large squad of policemen in citi- zens’ dress were specially told off to furnish the audience, every seat usuaily available to the public being reserved in advance, ac- cording to the program, for the dete tives; but at the last mcment the program was changed, and when the doors were opened a iting erowd was allowed in, and in a few minutes all the available space within the court room wss densely packed. Without there was brilliant sunshine, and within there was suffocating heat, the ‘only air moving was that from a ‘hundred fan: notably, the gallery, where many ladies, al- most all young and gatly dressed, were seated. A Press Censorship. Over a hundred specially selected news- Paper men were squeezed into a space only large enough for about twenty, and these, owing to the postponement of the trial, made purposely by the govern- ment to permit of the enactment of the new anti-anarchist law, find themselves under strict control. For the first time in the experience of many of them their “copy” will be edited by the judge presid- ing, and they will be directed as to what they are not to put in their reports under penalty of the law. Appearance of the Prisoner. The court opened at 9:15 am. and the judge president was no sooner seated than he called on the gerdarmes to bring In the accused. All the persons present held their breath as the assassin of President Carnot was brought into court. The prisoner was short and looked somewhat scared as he came in, securely handcuffed to a gendarme on either side of him and two other gend- armes bringing up the rear. The crowd was distinctly disappointed at the mild appearance ef the prisoner, but some people noted with pleasure and regret the curly dark chestnut hair, oval face and boylike appearance of the bloodstained an- archist. Cesario, as he marched to the dock, wore a somewhat strange costume. His coat was of a yellowish color; his vest and trous- ers were gray; he wore a white shirt with a turn-dowa collar and a gray necktie. So soon as he was in the dock his counsel, M. Dubreuil and M. Degeneral, professor of Italian at the Lyons Business College, the latter having been appointed interpreter, exchanged a few words with the prisoner and Cesurio took his seat, and the reading of the long indictment began. He Hears the Indictment. The prisoner listened impassively during the reading of this document, which con- tained what was supposed to be a full ac- count of the events before and on the eyen- ing of the murder and which was believed to be a complete record of Cesario’s journey from Italy, giving the name of nearly every one the prisoner spoke to while on his way “TWO CENTS long string of irrelevant remarks upon the testimony of the witnesses and the ques- tions of the judge. But the murderer will have the assistance of M. Dubreuil, a Lyons advocate of considerable standing in crim- inal trials. 7 Orizinally,after pressure had been brought to bear upon him by his mother, the pris- oner agreed to accept the services of Signor Podreider, a well-known Milanese advo- cate. Later, M. Dubreull was asked to sist, but on July 23, Signor Podreider hav ing thrown up his brief, M. Dubreuil took the entire legal charge of the case, and within the mits imposed by the prisoner's interruptions he will do all that can ¢ decently done in defense. Considers That He Is a Hero. The touch of the gruesome, always note- worthy in French trials, “Les Pieces a’ conviction” (exhibits) will be supplied by the instruments used in operating on the president, a drawing of the carriage in which the president was sitting when stab- bed, Cesario’s dagger and the liver of the murdered president, preserved in alcohol. The prisoner, during his Mfe in the St. Paul prison, has found time for one regret only—that he ran away after the deed. To himself his act is justified, creditable, even glorious, and he has been anxious to be tried quickly. The Judge Questio ¢ Prisoner. When the reading was finished names of thirty witnesses, instead of twenty-eight, us previously announced, were called and answered, and the presiding judge, M. Breuillac, began to question the accused. The judge first recited the known facts about the family of the prisoner, the latter answering, “Just so, sir; I never had a dis- pute with any one.” ‘The president continued: “How about your morality?” “I suppose it was the same as that of other young men,” replied Cesario, smiling slightly. “I understand that you desire to pass as an ascetic, but,” said the judge, “that ts not correct, as we Lave evidence from the Cette Hospital that you have not always had a horror of women. (Laughter. “But,” continued M. Bruillac, “what fs fmportant is to know whether you were re- sponsible for your actions.” The prisoner here cried with great anima- tion: “Yes, sir; I am responsible for my ac- tiors, I have never been il.” The Prisoner's Admission. Replying to further questions, the pris- oner said that not one of his family was or had been weak minded. The presiding judge then turned to the prisoner and said: “Since your arrest did you write to your mother saying that you killed the president ‘from anarchist motives?’ Are those your 2 “Yes,” replied Cesario, with great indiffer- ence. The judge then recalled the fact that Cesario had as a child figured as poseur in the religious processions of Motta Visconti, his native town, for the beauty of the pris- oner as a child was remarkable, and until he fell under the spell of anarchism two years ago he was much drawn to a life in the service of religion. Then the anarch- ists’ inflammatory Hterature excited Ce- sario so much that the attention of the au- thorities was drawn to his dangerous ut- terances and a warning hint was sent to his family. But the potson of the doc- trines was incurably in his veins, and after some ups and downs, notably five months’ imprisonment for distributing anarchist leaflets outside the barracks at Milan, Cesario planred and executed the de- spicable deed for which he is now on trial. His Connection With Anarchy. In reply to the judge's questions in re- gard to his childhood and his taking part in religious processions, Cesario answered mockingly: “Children do not know what they are doing.” Judge Breuillac then examined Cesario at length as to his connection with anarchy. During this examination the president said: “Your family tried to wean you from these horrible doctrines?” To this the prisoner replied: “I love my mother, but I cannot submit to her preju- dices or to my family’s prejudices. There is the larger family of humanity.” In spite of the repeated efforts of the judge to draw from the prisoner state- ments in regard to his connection with other anarchists, Cesario absolutely refused to answer any questions on the su being especially dumb when the judge sought to extract from him information as to the means adopted by anarchists to communicate with each other and as to his immediate associates in anarchism. ‘The prisoner was then questioned about his movements at Cette and other places previous to the assassination and during this portion of the trial Judge Breutilac remarked: “Your relations were always with the “4 interrupted the prisoner. sort with the bourgeois.” The presiding judge afterward questioned the prisoner concerning how much money he had remaining after he had paid his bil at Cette, asking: “What did you do with the remaining five francs?” “I bought a polgnard,” replied Cesario defantly. The Weapon Exhibited, After this reply from the prisoner the weapon with which he killed President Car- not was brought into court and shown to the jury, the president saying: “Take care, gentlemen. Do not touch the blade. It is @ relic which must be preciously preserved.” This remark from the presiding judge caused a decided sensation in court, but the prisoner remained utterly unmoved, al- though he glanced in an indifferent manner at the poignard as it was shown to the jury. Cesario then recounted the details of his journey from Cette to Lyons, telling how he finally arrived at the Palace de Commerce, where President Carnot was being ban- queted. “Had you no idea of changing your plans?” asked the judge. “Did you not re- to Lyons. Cesario only became interested in the indictment when it narrated the actual deed, as follows: “The murderer approached the takes from his pocket the poignard, still wrapped in a pece of paper, and plunged the blade—sixteen centimeters long—up to the hilt into the breast of President Carnot, crying ‘Vive la revolution.’ This cry was only heard by the footmen, in the general confusion. “Then Cesario dropped the weapon and cried ‘Vive l'anarchie.’ * ‘The trial is expected to occupy the whole of today and part of tomorrow. There will be no long speeches, the public prosecutor contining himself to a forty-minute speech. Some people who should have come for- ward will not appear, doubtless fearing reprisals, but twenty-eight indispensable witnesses have been called by the govern- ment, and they include all those who re- membered having spoken to Cesario as he was journeying from Cetto to Lyons; the owner of the lime kiln where Cesarlo worked in 1883; the baker who employed him at Cette; Gen. Borius of the late presi- dent's military housenold; M. Rivaud, pre- fect of the department of the Rhone; the two men servants who sat on the rumble of the late president's carriage, and Dr. Gailleton, the mayor of Lyons. mto Will Defend Himself. To Dr. Gallleton the unfortunate prest- dent, following on his criticism of the il- luminations, “How lovely, how charming, how graceful’—stammered, with suddenly blanched face, “I—I—I'm struck,” and pointed to the wound from which the life blood was flowing, after the assassin’s dag- ger had been plunged into his abdomen. The evidence of M. Artigaud, the gun- smith of whom Cesario bought the dagger, is expected to be very dramatic. Several times before he paid for the weapon Cesarlo tried to see whether he could handle it properly, and several times before the gun- smith the assassin rehearsed his idea of how he would stab his victim. Sunto prcposes, practically, to defend himself, and this will probably Prompt a flect that it was the anniversary of the bat- tle of Solferino?” “Precisely,” Cesario answered; “it was a fete of the civil war.” Demonstration in the Court Room. A prolonged uproar tn court followed this remark and the judge had to wait until it had subsided before he resumed questioning the prisoner. M. Breuillac said: “You obtained the work which you came to seek in France, bringing hither ven- geance and mournin Cesario ans 3 came straight here to execute my mission.”” ‘The prisoner then narrated the incident of the tragedy, saying: “When I was opposite the gate from which the President was about to emerge I knew that persons of mark always sit on the right side of the carriage. There- fore, I crossed to the right-hand side of the pavement. “I had trouble in keeping tn the second row of spectators, as so many people were anxious to get a glimpse of the presi- dent. “At 9 o'clock there was a buzz of excite- ment as President Carnot was entering his carriage. The people cried ‘Vive Carnot,’ ‘Vive la republigue.’” He Continues His Story, The prestling judge at this point inter- rupted the prisoner, recalling the fact that the late president's instructions to his es- cort were to leave an open space facing the doors of the carriage, 80 as to allow the peo- ple to approach him if they were desirous of presenting petitions, &c. As inany per- sons were desirous of handing bouquets to the president some of them might have taken the opoprtunity to present the chief magistrate with a request in favor of some loved one in trouble. Cesario paid but very little attention to the remarks of the judge, and when the lat- ter had done speaking he proceeded, in a careless tone, which contrasted painfully with the deep emotion exhibited by the au- (Continued on Second Page.) Te proof of fe pudding is of 594 separate announce: menfs. These advertisers Space, . AN ELECTION CASE The Moore-Funston Case Settled by the House, REMARKS ON SUNDAY TARGET PRACTICE Mostly Routine Business Transacted in the Senate. THAT COAL INVESTIGATION THE HOUSE. ~ The House today passed a biil authorizing the purchase of the property and the fran- chises of the Choctaw Coal ani Railway Company. Unanimous consent for the con- sideration of a bill for the suppression of the lottery traffic was objected to. A bill was passed to remove the charge of dishonorable dismissal from the record of Cyrus Payne. Target Practice on Sunday. Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio) arose to a question of privilege in connection with a resolution be introduced some time ago calling for a report from the War Department upon the court martial of a soldier at Omaha for refusing to participate in target practice on Sunday. A reply had been received from the War Department. Mr. Grosvenor ha@ No criticism to offer upon the ground of the court martial that a private soldier had no right to disobey the commands of his su- Feriors, but he insisted that the officer or- dering the Sunday target practice did so in plain violation of the order of President Pegged in 1842, and in direct violation of the statutes of Nebraska. Mr. G past St Sian attr a So ot riartial and the general who had approved it and ordered its decree executed. “That action of that general,” said he, “was the outgro either of the most stolid and inconcetvable ignorance or @ total disregard of ali that was right and proper. Mr. Grosvenor paid a high tribute to 3 ae Bye ho had ordered the oMcer who issued ti ‘unday target prac- tice order to be arrested, tried and punish- ed for violation of the order of President Ltr coin. Mr. Outhwaite (Ohio), chairman of the milit ry affairs committee, read a letter he received from Adjutant Gen. Ruggles concerning the punishment of the officer who had violated President Lincoln's order. om a report on the District of ‘olumbia appropriation bill was presented and agreed to. Mr. Moore Gets the Seat, Mr. Brown (Ind.), from the committee om elections, then called up the contested elece tion case of Moore vs, Funston. Before ad- journment yesterday the House defeated the minority resolution, and the vote today was taken on the majority resolution de- claring Mr. Funston (republican), the con- testee, not el ir. Moore (dem- ocrat-populist) entitied to the seat. Mr. Holman (Ind), chairman of the com- mittee on Indian affairs, then called up the Eonterence report on the Indian appropria- The report to, and another conference was ordered on the remaining points of difference between the two houses, THE SENATE, Senators were slow in the chamber today, and when the Vice Presi- Gent ascended to his desk there were but twenty-five Senators present, Among the petitions presented was one from members of the “United States in- dustrial army ” now encamped near Wash- ington, which’ Mr. Peffer presented. It was referred to the committee on immigration and labor, District Bill Agreed To. The report of the conferees on the Dis- trict of Columiba appropriation bill was made by Mr. Gorman and agreed to. The Hatch anti-option bill was reported to the Senate by Mr. Washburn from the committee on agriculture and placed on the calendar. Mr. George objected to the bill, because he considered it imadequate to accomplish the desired reform. Mr. Gray, chairman of the special com- mittee to investigate the charges of bribery against Senators, presented the unanimous report, By the resolution of June 11 the commit- tee was also instructed to Investigate cer- tain charges against mem of both Houses in regard to the construction and charter privileges of street railways in the District of Columbia, but no evidence or testimony had been submitted to the com- mittee, and he therefore asked that they be discharged from further duty under the resolution of May 20. Mr. Alien of Nebraska made a supple- mental report. Objection was made by Mr. Chandler to the request of the committee to be dis- charged, at least until the report could be read and examined, and accordingly it went to the table. House Bille Passed. The following House bills were then passed: Placing James William Abert on the retired list of the army with the rank of major of engineers; placing Chas. B. Stivers on the retired list of the army as captain of infantry; changing the lines between the eastern and western judicial districts of North Carolina and fixing the time for holding court in said eastern district, and granting a pension to Mrs. liza B. Pierce, An Immigration Keport. A privileged report was made by Mr. Hill, chairman of the committee on immigration, reporting back the House bill providing for the inspection of immigrants by United States consuls, together with a Senate sub- stitute containing very severe provisions against the coming of anarchists. At the seme time he also presented letters from the Department of State and Treasury bearing on the subject. Mr. Cnandier, a member of the committee, reserved the right to oppose the substitute, and advocated the passage at this time of the original House bill, but he hoped the Serator from New York would bring up the two bills with a view to securing jeg- islation before the adjournment of this ses- m. aan Senem: additional House bills were parsed: For the relief of George RB. Cosby; to do- nate four condemned cannon of the navy to Sioux City, lowa, to be placed at the pedestal of the soldiers’ monument, and for the construction of a miljtary road from El to Fort Bliss, Tex. That Coal ‘esrigation. ‘The resolution offered yesterday by Mr. Chandler for the investigation of the Do- minion Coal Company of Nova Scotia was called up and after being discussed by Mr. Chandler it was laid on the table on motion of Mr. Hill. The vote by which Mr. Chandler's res- olution was tabled was reconsidered and by a vote of 16 to 30 the Senate voted against Mr. Hill's motion. is