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that was distorted by the the situation who looked at an at wonder,” said he with up- “that the a = ‘superfluous on stage when almanacs, why the people should Let us," he continued, “look schedule, the rock around ts and eddies of dis- and seethed. In one i a revenue 1 would rather have given hem protection than any other class of roducers" im the domain of the United tes. eat the other end es the United States Sens it great monopoly, the sugar trust, tak- toll from every breakfast table. "With uuv,009 of watered stock it paid 7 per mt dividerd on half its stock and 12 per it on the other half, and paid it quar- ly. It was aggressive, defiant, aye, domi- t. Between these two lay the interests the people—the consumers.” ,, Mr. Vest then proceeded with his descrip- tion of the difficulties in connection with the PAyustment of @ sugar schedule. sketched the effect on the trust of the = of 64 cents on a hundred pounds v 3 en by the McKinley bill and the enor- us power developed by the trust in virtue $hgt protection. Under the Wilson bill-as reported to the use from the committee, it contained a and a bounty. it was in the House free sugar was fasertea. « The finance committee prepared — gave no differential benefit is a bin to the Some Strong Language. “And yet,” said Mr. Vest, with bitter- Ress, “they call us the creatures of the gegar trust." The Senator paused for a moment, and them, with intense carnest- hess, added: “Liars, slanderers, infamous He proceeded to denounce the lies which been heaped on those who had fought st the trust, and yet had been desig- ted its creatures. “And when the finance mittee had completed its bill,"" con- tinued Mr. Vest, “it was taken out of our hands before a democratic caucus, without fur knowledge or consent.” ee I misstate the rules, let Senators arise their seats and poirt it out. “At the end of three days of miserable Wrangling and recrimiz.ation we were turn- #4 out and told to prepare a bill which Would command the support of forty-three Senators. We thereupon set ourselves to that miserable task. The Gorman-Cleveland Fi Mr. Vest said he would not enter into the charges that the Senate was a party to the ‘Seht between the President and the Senator from Maryland (Gorman). He (Vest) had his strong differences with that Senator on the tariff, and he had written a letter long so to the Greystone Club stating his ob- tions to the policy of Mr. Gorman and rtmg Mr. Cleveland for his position pm revenue reform. “But,” continued Mr. Vest, “I belong to man. I belong to no faction. I am ther Montague nor Capulet, York nor caster. I can never follow one who violence to the principles of the dem- @cratic party." The Wilson Bill Could Pass. .. W* Vest then took up the Wilson bill, nd said the fact had been apparent that it coukl never pass the Senate. It was fought by northern Senators, tenacious and @etermined to defend thelr interests against attacks they supposel it contained. Mr. Vest sald that when the conferees met they gave their first attention to this “Medusa-headed monster, the sugar trust.” ote; much discussion a compromise sugar edule Pad been agreed to, giving 4 per cent On the saccharine strength in the im- ported article and one-fifth differential. “Again,” declared Mr. Vest, “we were assailed. We were hounded with the state- ment that the Senate was for sale to the fugar trest. We were vilified by the vile cartoons, editorials and lying correspon- dents. . Mr. Vest suited his action to his words and showed the intense bitterness of his feeling. . He continudd to show that wen the sugar compromise had been reached then it was Jearned that the House was not so deeply concerned in free sugar as it was in free coal and fron. The Wilson Letter. Mr. Vest referred to the President's let- ter to Mr. Wilson, and to the consequent change of issue from sugar to coal and He said he had no fight with the ex- itive. He disclaimed being the Cusca in @ cabal aginst the President as charged by the Senator from New York (Hill). If it were necessary for him to retract one word of what he had said to remain in ublic life he would not do it. For the ‘ident to come before the public and denounce the bill, the provisions of which he knew in every deta!l, was a gross injus- tice to those Who had 'abored and made much more sacrifice than he. Proposition to House Conferees. He then described the proposition made to the House conferees by the Senate. If the sugar schedule could stand the Senate offered the House either free coal or free fron. In the compromise that seemed nec- essary the difference was split. The House expressed great gratification. After two hougs of con: ce the Heuse conferees came back and said they would take fre2 iron ore. The conferees then ad- journed with the statement from us that it would be dangerous to make reductions on other schedules—imetal, woolens, e:c. The next day the House conferees came back and said they would take free coal. We replied: “Gentlemen, take either. We ean be happy wit If the other dear charmer’s away.” (Laughter), The chairman of the House conferees then said tt was hts duty to-insist that all the schedules should be taken up. They were Warned of-the result. The trouble with the jouse conferees throughout was that they sisted that they knew more of the situs jon in the Senate than‘we did. They con- stantly inststed that we should make the s they wanted and take the bill back Senate. “4 this discussion in conference was nator from New York came last Friday and offered his hich there was a tie vote. cisive. It, more than «ny- determined the situation here. The Real Question: Men said the question was between the Wilson bill and the Senate bill. That state- ment was ag false as the assertion that this was « democratic Senate. On the question of tariff reform it never was and never can at present consti- as between the Sen- ¥ daw. There the and every one con- tion understood it. and extol of the Swhiite bill, free lumber, free burlaps, hemp, jute thing els be a democratic Senate tuted. question the McK The « end flax, cotton bagging and tiés, binding twine, and the reductions on woolen | ae . @rawing’ the conclusion tha: en as a whole, the average Sepate du were per cent, but 2 p cent more than | the House rates. “all this scandal and vituperatio he heaped on the Senate on | average increase of but 3 | all the reduction contained in this vera still-told that it-eomtained the »f democratic dishonor and demo- nd not.as a.conferes,"" orman at this point leaped over and spered a word in the ear of the Senator Missourt. Why Not Sett Mr. Vest looked up e It Now? ‘The Senator from OL wa au THE EVENING STAR, ST. 15,.J894TEN PAGES. thing about the deficiency, Ido not desire to make an issue with ‘the-Secretary of the eta die ty cil cain of the sugar duty will cause @ deficiency of the finance committee, where ther: an end of {t? piebcaiie Spee Oe 5a - “Why not grapple with the question now? not know all about ‘this “duty? ‘hy pot leave the 40 per cent on raw and refined and strike out the differential in favor of the trust?. Why. not take the re- sponsibility and strike out that protective duty? Why = take Theodore Havemeyer, the president of the trust, at his own word, when he stated in 1880 thatthe refiners of the United States could hold their own against the world?) Why continue this scandal longer? “Why send the bill to the tomb and put the everlasting seal upon it? Why have the people said we have given the trust when it demanded end are afraid to go on record? Why not settle it here and now? Why not let them know where every Sen- ator stands? Why allow a few of us to be made scapegoats of? Sir, 1 am tired of the evasion, the suspicion and the Hes. Why not let the truth be known, and let every Senator take the responsibility for his in- dividual action?” THE HOUSE. The House received the announcement of the enrollment of the tariff bill without demonstration. The resignation of Repre- sentative Breckinridge of Arkansas was read. Conferees on the sundry civil bill were instructed to further disagree. A number of local and private bills were pass- ed. Representative Black of Illinois intro- duced a resolution to report a bill for the use of the silver in the treasury. +e --—___— DISTRICT IN CONGRESS. ‘The Final Blow. Another effort was made today by the Hevse conferees on the sundry civil bili to ‘induce the Senate. to agree to the House amendment relating to the government printing office, but the Senate remained ob- durate, and the matter goes out of the bill. This is taken as the final blow to the hope of getting any legislation at this session up- on that subject. Bill for Damages. In the House today Mr. Bingham asked unanimous consent:er the consideration of a bill for the relief of the Potomae Steam- boat Company, but objection was made The bill is to pay the company $5,000 for damages to the steamer Excelsior by the U.S. tug Fortune in 1882. Mr. Mack's ry. The House today passed a resolution to pray W. D. Mack, a clerk in the War De- Lartment, his salary for the time In which he was absent from his duties by reason of being crippled in an accident when return- ing from a Fourth of July celebration at Gettysburg. Time Extended. The House today, at the request of Mr. Heard, passed a resolution extending for six months from August 1 the time for the Maryland aud Washington railroad. The charter authorized the road to enter the District to the city boundary, but not to enter the city. o—_____ Medals of Honor Awarded. A medal of honor has been awarded to Loron F. Packard, late saddler sergeant, company E, fifth New York volunteer cav- alry, now of Bolivar, N. Y., for distinguish- ed gallantry in a reconnoisance at Raccoon Ford, Va., November 2%, 1863, This non- commissioned officer imperiled his life and liberty in rescuing a comrade from certain death or capture, by voluntarily going to his rescue, and being. exposed all the way to a hot fire from both confederate and Union troops. A medal has also been awarded to Joel H. Lyman, late quarter- master sergeant, company B, ninth New York volunteer cavalry, for distinguished gallantry in action at Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864, this non-commissioned officer having, in an attempt to capture a confederate flag, performed the gallant act of making one of the confederate officers a risoner, and bringing him within the -nion lines. He is now a citizen of Ran- dolph, N. ¥, o—-—_____. American Farm Products in France. As baving a bearing upon the prospective market for American farm products in France, a report made to the State De- partment by C. W. Whiley, jr, United States consul at St. Etienne, presents some facts of interest. He says that throughout France the harvest outlook is very en- couraging. The hay crop, which, except in the mountain districts, has just been gath- ered, ts very heavy and of excellent qual- ity. The price per ton has fallen over half. Notwithstanding this abundance of forag: a marked deer In the price of meat is rot anticipated, owing to the reduction of the herds last year because of lack of for- age. The cereals are reported as bein, very good in twenty-five departments, good in forty-seven and fair in fourteen. Wheat is quoted at orly 19 francs per 150 pounds in spite of the almost prohibitive duty on foreign grain. Oats are reported as very gecd in twenty-four departments, good in forty-one, fair in fifteen and middling in two. Potatoes and beet root are generally te The Gold Production. It is now estimated at the Treasury De- partment that the production of gold in the Urited States for the calendar year 1804 will be between $42,000,000 and $43,000,000, an increase of between $6,000,000 and $7,- 00,000 as compafed with the total produc- tion during the calendar year 1895. It is also estimated that the world’s production of gold for the calendar year 1804 will be 3170,000,000, an increase of $14,000,000 as compared with the production of the pre- vious calendar year. +e -+—___—__ Treasury Receipts « Expense The treasury receipts for the month up to and including yesterday amounted to $14,- 335,062, and the disbursements $16,676,000, leaving a deficit for the fourteen days of $2,340,088, and a deficit since July 1 of $1,- 180,178, 2 Fourth-Class Postmasters. Twenty-six fourth-class postmasters were appointed today. Of these eighteen were to fill vacancies caused by resignation and four each by removals and deaths. —_——_—__+ e+. Mine Disaster: rfidy. A word.mere amd Iam done. | ad now to speak as an American | The first annual report of L. M. Byrne, mine inspector for the Indian territory, has been received at the Department of the Interior. It gives a detafled statement of the various mine accidents of the past year and statistics of wages and employes. It is the first report under the law passed for the protection of miners. (cabanema Belo eeas BOULANGER'’S MOTHER DEAD. Her Over-Ambitious Son’s Name Was Last Upon Her Lips. Prom Paris Correspondent London Telegraph. Mme. Boulanger—the mother of the gen- eral—has died in the apartment which she had occupied In the Avenue de Breteuil ever since her return from Brussels, at the advanced age of ninety-two. Her matlen Lame was Griffiths, and to the last she was affectionately tended by her niece, to whose care her son had committed her. She was a simple-minded old lady, and had her mts‘ givings when the general, to whom she was devoted, embarked upon the stormy © sea of polit “Perhaps you are mistaken,” y 2 Ss tried et she lived to see much more her worst fears confirmed. She pass- ed away quietly and without pain, with her n’s name on her Hp3 ere she’ breathed her last sigh. - see ~—— 3 Another Mammoth Statue, From the London Daily News. The sculptor Nickolaus Gelger fs putting | the lz touches to his statue of Bar- barossa, which is to symbolize the ancient kingdom in the Kyffhauser monument, to | be unveiled in 1S¥6. The Barbarossa ap- pears at the end of a vestibule in the style of an ancient castle, on the steps of the thr upon which he is sitting Mke the ping fi fers, with fabu- lou a { the old mythic world. Bar- {at the moment of fr his long sleep. In his right hand is his sword, his left hand strokes his long, waving Contrary to all other here repre- mpgror, with the fea~ man. The whole monu- ment, hewn from the rock, will be about eighty feet hign. The figure of the seated Maryiand,” said he, “suggests I say some- ] monarch is about thirty feet high. $30,000,000, why shotld ‘we send this pill to- 7 ne WL. The National Strike Commission at Chicago. TIS SESSIONS BEGUN THIS MORNING, Vice President of the A. -R:-U. Testifies. © HIS VIEW OF THE TROUBLE CHICAGO, August 15.—The' strike com- mission appointed by Presient Cleveland to investigate the Pullman and railroad strikes began Its work today: ‘The sessions were held in the government building, in a court room, and attracted many spectators. After preliminary work, Vice: President S. W. Howard-of the A. R. U. was called as the first witness. Mr. Howard began his Statement by expressing the hope that the commission would use every effort to get to the bottom of the matter under’ considera-‘ tion. Commissioner Kernan assured him that the investigation would be thorough, and asked the witness numerous questions as to his past and present occupations, and the nature of his official position in the A. R. U. “Now,” said the commissioner, “tell us what, in your opinion, caused the railroad strikes.” “The strikes were caused,” answered Mr, Howard, “by the statement of. the general managers that they would back up Mr. Pull- mon during the strike.” “Who told you that?” “The newspapers printed the statement crediting it to General Managers Egan and St. John.” ee Mr. Howard then entered into an ex- haustive recital of the troubles leading’ up to the original Pullman strike. The men had announced their intention to sirike, he sald, but on being assured by the com- pany’s officials that the employes’ gritev- ances would be investigated, he. had urged the men to go back to work. This they did on the promise of the company that those who had hand in the trouble would not be discharged or otherwise injured- because of the part they had taken in the matter. “And after that promise,” continued: the witness, “three of those committeemen were discharged. Then the men struck. Our unton, after having fajled to get any satisfaction from the Pullman company, then endeavored, by boycotting the com- Lany’s cars, to bring the matter to a satis- factory termination. We ordered no strike. We simply desired that the Pullman cars be left off of the trains. ‘ “At this point we were again met by the General Managers’ Association. They re- fused to haul mall cars unless the Pull- mans were attached to the trains... Such action was entirely uncalled for. The Pull- mans were in no wise necessary for the transmission of the United States mails. I can cite various cases when mail trains were run without Pullmen coaches or other palace car equipments.” ———.—- ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT’S DEATH. ness of Four NEW YORK, August ‘I5.—Ellott Roose- velt, brother of Civil Service Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt, has died after an ill- ness extending over a period of only: four days. Mr. Roosevelt took to his bed Friday. He had been ailing for some years, and was not at all in a condition to withstand a severe sickness, so that when taken-.down. he quickly succumbed. —_—__— DALEY APPROVED. A Resolution Adopted by the Anti- aloon League. The Anti-saloon League of the District of Columbia has transmitted Fesolutions adopted by it to the Commisisoners, in which it ts recited “that the Anti-saloon League regards the work of Sergt. John C. Daley as worthy of the approval and en- couragement of all lovers of law and order; and it pledges its own support, and. calls upon the authorities and all good citizens to stand by him in his endeavers to de his duty,” and “that the Anti-saloon League points to the results of Sergt.. Daley’s raids and arrests as examples of what can be ac- complished by faithful work,-and appeals to other members of the police force to do likewise.” —_———_ GOOD WORDS FOR GOODMAN. Offered on His Trial. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. COVINGTON, Va., August 15.—The de- fense In the Goodman murder trial occu- pled the morning session of the court today with witnesses in support of Goodman's reputation for truth ahd Veracity, which was made out to be that of which any man might feel proud. Mr. O. 3, Cooper, the Chesapeake and Ohio train dispatcher at Cliftor? Forge, con- tradicted the statement of Col. Bryant, the trainmaster at Clifton Forge, who testified that Goodman, when he came to Bryant's office to notify him to get another. con- ductor, said: “I collared him and gave him all I had.” When the cross-examination of this wit- ness was concluded a recess was taken until 2:30, ‘The defense will conclude its testimony this afternoon ‘ a Chart of the Sky. From Longman’s Magazine. An International congress met in Paris in 1887 and resolved to make a photographic chart of the whole sky. The work. was be- gun in 1891, and, as it is expected to occupy about ten years, It will form a fitting close to a century which has been .so rich in as- tronomical discoveries. Eighteen observa- tories, scattered over the world, “ate taking part in the work. Similar instruments and plates of exactly the same size—four square degrees—will be used. Each photograph is to be duplicated to prevent mistakes,and also. there are to be two serles of exposures, so that some 44,000 photographs in all wtH be: Oral slsoct expose: vation will uct @.catal logue of about 1,500,000 stars down to the eleventh magnitude, while the other serles’ will be exposed forty minutes and will form a chart containing about 22,000,000 stars down to the fourteenth magnitude. The en- tire map of the sky when finished wif cover a globe seven and a half yards in diameter. In two or three generations astronomers by comparing this chart with their own. ob- servations, will know much more than w> do about the relations and relative motions of the sun and systems of space an] whither our own little solar system, is, bound. and with what velocity. —_ +o+-__— Binding Fly Wheels With Paper. | | From the Boston Commercial Bulletin, Since the recent tests of cannon wound with wire, machinists have been trying to apply the same principle to winding big fly wheels with paper. It was found to” be almost impossible to create a fracture ,|, in the wire bound cannon with tne heav- lest explosives. The reason that the same plan is being applied to fly wheels is un. doubtedly because so many <whsels” Have burst during the past few years. Instead, of winding with wire, however,’ tHe fdea ig to use pal The wooden skeleton of the big wheel is put in a revolvfig Trame and the sheets of manilla paper wound around it with applications of glue between, Nearly one hundred layers are wound on. The work is not costly. A cheap waeel results. An accident is Mable to happen by which the load Is suddenly taken off the engine, whea the speed runs up with great velocity, and unless the engineer is at hand to stop the engine quickly the wheel is likely ‘to burst by centrifugal force. But if the wheel is wound with something the pdsstbility of its bursting Is exceedingly small. Treasury Receipis............ National bank notes recetved for redemp- ticn today, $349,480. Government receipts— From internal revenue, 192; customs, $457,529; miscellyncous, $25,076, LATE NEWS BY.WIRE| , WEDNESH AY, AUGU THE POLACK—SCANDALS. ors of Addifiogat Sensatio: Floating Around. The irvestigatl ‘tite. police force hase| been postponed seyeral days, until certain testimony Is obtained. What this testimony | ‘BPand whom it will F¥ect is not generally’ known, although fu: of Sensational de-;, velopments are rife The police trial bogrd conducted another one. of its star chhitfr investigations this, morning x reporter of, he Star made ap- pittatlohi to b8 jp: tit Was denied ad-7| mission. in reply to an inquiry Capt. Austin, who presided, stated that there would be no trials of officers implicated in the ey imbroglio. Yet a short time afterward Privates Klinger and Bruce were arraigned for eirayiating defamatory stories about Prosecuting Attorney Pugh and Clerk Washburn of the Police Court. It will be recalled that these officers testified that they thought they saw the above gentlemen enter the Fat Men’s Club on the night of the 8th of August. That was denied and. the officers called to account before the trial board. They testified that they had never sald positive- ly that they had seen the gentlemen in question enter the premises of Wells, where the club holds forth, ‘but had reported that they saw two men who looked like At- torney Pugh and Clerk Washburn enter the: place. They were corroborated in this by Sergt. Daley and Night Inspector Pear- son. It was stated today that charges would shortly be preferred against court officials: for a grave offense. According to a story repeated to The Star reporter, it is al- deed that two colored men were paid a re- ward of $25 in witness fees certificates, ERE WAS. T00 MUCH WIND of angen ast Match. Botwrevn- Vigilant and Britannia % “s+ Péstponed. Seth Meatadiurers Rejoiced Over P HOMER ROTIOAA—Other Notes by Teel OS OCU Today. ten FRESH" WATER; Isle of Wight, Aug. 15, The... mateh » arranged between Mr. George J. Gould and the Prince of Wales to-sail,the Vigilant and Britannia fifteen miles t0 windward and return for a cup offered by Lord Wolverton was postponed ‘indefinitely this-morning, owing to the fact that a gale of wind was blowing, making it impossible for the yachts to put to sea. Gonsequently .neither of the racers left Cowes. “Interest In the yacht races is declining, and many of the races in the Royal Yacht Club's regatta today were not filled. In the first race the Carina sailed over the course alone, and in the one-raters the Norwena dia the same. The failure of the Messrs. Gould to race the Vigilant yesterday is adversely com- mented upon on all sides. One newspaper Says: “We hear so much about what the Vigilant can do in a hard wind that it ‘would have beer only sportsmaniike to ive the Satanita a chance of proving her é excuse that the Vigilant was preparing for today doés not hold. It must be noted when, in fact, they had never served witnesses. This reward was for the cap- ture of a priscner who had escaped from the custody of the marshal. Commissioner Truesdell, who has the im- mediate charge of police affairs, is grinding gut details which promise to be startling. Everything will be investigated, and it is expected that the facts developed in the fourth precinct will throw considerable light upon other matters. ——— WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT. The Work Accomplished During July a Reported. “Cot. George H. El to the chief of engineers in regard to opera- tions on the Washington aqueduct during | prejudieing the issue. But now that it is the-month of July. He says that test bor- ings were made every fifty feet along the | forth.” line of the proposed drain from the outlet from the valve chamber at the distributing reservoir, and the borings showed that there was no solid rock on the line. The work of constructing this drain was commenced and 110 Hineal feet, or about 80 cubie yards, were excavated, and 110 feet of S-inch cast iron ipe were laid during the month. A small leak in a joint of the 48-inch main, 27 feet east of the east curb of Potomac street, was repaired. The survey of the aqueduct lands was continued beyond bridge No. 3. The boundary Mnes were located and corners marked for an additional distance of 9,000 feet along the Conduit road, or about 1 8-10 miles. It is proposed: during August to con- tinue the construction of the drain from the vault at the distributing reservoir and the survey of the aqueduct lands. The iron grating for the portal of the drainage tun- nel was completed and put in place. The appropriation having: been exhausted, no other work was done on the tunnel during ot has made a report | says: that the Britannia does not need to go into training.” - REJOICING IN ENGLAND. Manufactorers Expect Good Res From the New Ta LONDON, August 15.—The manufacturers of Bradford, Leets, Hudderford and Hali- fax, whose stocks are abnormally low and where business has been stagnant for years, expect “@ great revival of business as a re- sult of the tariff settlement in the United States. ~vrhe’ Pall Mall Gazette this afternoon “Bradford kept quiet during the vi- cissitudes of the Wilson bill for fear of finally accepted, rejoicings have broken INTIMIDATION SUGGESTED. Irish Landlords to Be Moved Now by Fear. DUBLIN, Angust Journal, commenting vpon the rejection of the evicted tenants bill by the house of lords last night, urges Ireland to resent this “intolerable insult.” “Peace cannot ionger be preached to the evicted tenants,” the article continues. “Now is the time for the people to make their power feit in stvong, united agitation. Justice and mercy fail to move the Irish landlords. Their vulrerable place is fear. Let the pressure of public opinion be ap- plied in a practical form.” The Independent says: “The government has made a series cf mistakes, the first and greatest being its failure to take earlier action.” The Freeman's July. Work under the appropriation pend- ing in Congress will be:commenced as soon as the money becomes available. ———_-e+— PICTURE OF THE MOON. Wonderful New Photographs ‘raken by French Scientists. From the London News, _, MM. Puiseux and Loewy, photographers to the Paris obsetyatory, have (our corre- spondent in that city. says) atforded the Academy of Sciet.ces the clearest view that body ever had of the moon, This was done by means of photographs of the moon's surface, done In sectfons, which fit into each other like the different parts of a map. When the component parts arg placed to- gether they form a circular Image, having a diameter of one meter fifty centimeters. here 1s besides a negative on glass of won- erful perfection, and having a diameter of fifty centimeters. The latter bears exai ination with a magnifying glass of nish power. The images on {t are of astonishing delicacy and) clearness. The space of a millimeter of the thousandth part of a meter represent an area of 1,600 meters. Were there towns, forests, rivers, they would be perceptible. It 1s possible to measure the heights of lunar mountains trem the shadows which they cast on the plairs. Gentle undulations of ground are continued for hundreds of kilometers, as- cending into mountains as if on a symmet- rical plan. A peculiarity of the lunar land- scape is the great number of circus-shaped valleys of vast depth and great regularity of formation. Many of the valleys seem chinks in the mountains, and are sin- uous, but different in aspect from those of this planet, which are beds for watercourses. The Pulseux and Loewy photographs con- firm the theory that the moon's srrface was modeled under conditions widely differing from those which gave to the earth's its -present relief, ‘ A SUBTERRANEAN OCEAN, It is Belleved to Underfie Nebraska, Kansas and Indian Territory. From the St. Louts Republic, The best scientists of the land favor the opinion that Nebraska, Kansas and part of Indian Territory are situated over an im- mense underground lake or sea. It is a well-known fact that in several places in Kansas whole sections of land have sud- denly disappeared, leaving only fathomless lakelets to mark the spot where they were once situated. Proof that there is some- thing peculiar with the foundation of the section of the country mentioned may be found in the celebrated “tide wells” of Polk, Butler and Colfax counties in Nebraska. ‘Polk county is best provided with these curious wells, having between a dozen and twenty, which roar and ebb and flow with an unseen tide. The roaring of these re- markable curiosities—they cannot be called natural wonders, because they are the work of man, at least so far as excavation is concerned—is caused by the inhalation ané exhalation of immense quantities of air. There are hours, regular and uniform, in which the air will rush out with a loud, hissing sound, and again an equal space of time in which it seems that all the air of thie Platte valley will be sucked into the gavernous depths of these wonderful wells. “rhe period of this ebb and flow does not The South Afriean War. PRETORIA, South Africa, August 15.— The rebellious Kaffirs are murdering the Boer farmers and are burning their home- steads. A body of 100 Boers is ge tage) to the relief of the occupants of the g ernment buildings at Agatha, which are besieged by the rebellious Kaffirs. Walb: 's» Great Feat. NUREMBURG, August 15.—Walbrodt, the chess player, yesterday evening played against fifty-one competitors altogether. He won forty-two games, lost five and four Were drawn. Walbrodt was greatly ap- plauded. aa IRREGULAR SS CHARGED. Investigation Into the Conduct of In- ternal Revenue Officers Here. An investization has been in progress for several days past into the truth of charges preferred against Thomas B. Farreil and Maurice J, Clagett, both of Maryland, and employes in the branch office in this city of the collector of the internal revenue for Maryland, . Delawi and the District of Columbia. Both men were suspended or re- lieved from duty ‘by Collector Vandiver to awalt the result of the investigation. While the charges, preferred, indicated that some crooked transaction had taken place. it is stated at the office of the commissioner of internal revenue that the examination thus tar made shows that while some ir- regularities existed, no evidence of fraud hail been discovered. It Is said that the charges came from a person who thought that he was Being un- justly -disertminated against, because at the office in this city, along with his tender of the license fee for the year, which was offered on the day after the expiration of the !ivense year, payment was asked of the penalty for failure to pay the license with- in the year. It was claimed that others had tendered their Jicense fee after the year had expired, and that it had been re- ceived without the addition of the penaity. A further charge was made that people from whom license fees were «ue could pay their license even after the expiration of the year without the penalty by giving a slight sum to the proper persons. It is claimed that the investigation devel- oped the fact that the employes of the brarch office in this city, following the custom that has prevailed here for some years, had kept the office open after office hours on the last day of the license year and had, after the regular hours, received payment of licenses without charging the penalty. It was futther shown, as it is alleged, that a person not connected with the office visited on the last day of the li- cense year those who had not paid their leenses, and offered, for a slight consid- to pay the licenses without the It was not found that this person patd these licenses on any time except per- haps after office hours on the last day. ‘Those who were delinquent or about to be delinquent could have come to the office, it is asserted, and paid their license as well as this individual. It is said that the above, in brief,compfises all the alleged irregulari- ties. It ts also asserted that the probable end of the affair will be that the investiga- tion will be closed and the suspended em- ployes reinstated. —_—_—— seem) to depend ugon elther the seasons or the st»te of the weater, but ts thought to have * mystefious connection with the high. low tidg periods of the Atlantic and “vitic oceangy Avmeteorologist of na- tional reputation, Whogought to fathom the | q roystery of the ‘ e fiver tide wells,” and who tssued..a. h the title “Roaring, Mells of Nebraska,” gave it as his opi hat the roaring phe-! nomiénon was in some way connected with | mending the Maxim gun and the third mem- the prevailing dirgetion of the wind, being: strongest in time, of] west or southwest breezes. ‘The fart in the three counties mentioned as being best provided with these tide-regnlated, atbergeiling wells, belleve that the water suppl¥?is connected with a body large enous fo:nave a regular ebb! and flow of tide. "All‘the wells in the coun- ties of Polk and Srtiet which are tide reg- ulated are of about’ thd'same depth, those of Colfax being deeper, Mat all extending to a porous stratum hmvisig the same general, nebaraeteristics. 707 Great Potato Plantation. Brem-the New York Tribune, F A potato plantation of 700 acres on which two crops, aggregating about 5,00) barrels, or+425,000 busheJs, are annually grown, 1s” difficult to imagine. Such a one exists, howéver, and its virgin soil is 30 rich that abundant crops are ralsed without the use’ of any fertilizer. TBis ‘great potato farm is In Ashwood, Mauréy county, Tenn., about six miles west of Columbia, and ‘fifteen miles south of Nashville. It is a part of the Polk estate, owned by the ancestors of President Polk. The potato farm is owned by Clawson & Stevéns, two enterprising | young Indlanalans. The first crop of the | 100 to 30,000 barrels, and + s. from second erop, for which only an) ‘ucres .we plant from 20,000 to 22.000, making an tclal of about 14,000 barrels, cr bushels. a year. Clay about one hundred he are women, and have Many eigh of wh five tation In which all the barreis used by them are made, ittie pamphiet’ with | Chine guns for the use of the navy in this ‘}thatn hewAcetes gun of 6 m-m caliber Stevens employ’) . | engiloy, Fortupately y giant | mules. ‘They have a factory on the plan- | MACHINE GUN ‘TESTS, The Naval Board Fails to Agree in a Recommendation. ‘Th réport of the naval board which con- jucted the recent competitive trial of ma- “Aty hae Besn made. board The members of the failed to. agree—two of them recom- Ger recommending the the. guns submitted the caliber adopted for the naval service, vi er .236 Inches, but varied from 0. As ihe difference in caliber and ammuni- Hon may considerably Influence the efi- ciency of the gun Capt. Sampson, chief of the naval. bureau of ordnance, recommends that the owners of the Gatling and the Maxim gun be Invited to construct a gun of 6 m-m caliber, to be tested in competi- tion, ‘The uns/awill be required to use ammunition furnished by the bureau at the expense of the exhibitors. As the agenis of the Accles improved Gatling have reque: ailing gun. None of tried he also recommends that each of the exhibitors be-permitted to prese: of 6.m-m caliber under the same as the Gatling and Maxim guns, of. such trial to be at as early a day as the Buns Gait be ‘tndhufactured. —S EXCITEMENT IN GEORGETOWN, Richard Mann, charged Negro Employe. There was quite*a commotion in George- town about 2:3. o’ck this afternoon, when Richard Mann, a well-known butcher, living ‘at 3343°'Prospect avenue, while in the rear-of his house, fired upon thre times by Albert Willis, a colored man, | whom ‘Mr. Mann’had discharged from hi: neither shot to SOME STATISTICS. Regular Monthly Meeting of the So- ~ elety Last Nig’ The regular moathly. meeting of the Na- tional Statistical Association was held last night at the Columbian Uhiversity, Judge Lawrence of Ohio - presiding. Ex-Vice President Levi P. Morton, Senator Chand- ler, Senator Hill and Senator Walsh were elected honorary members of the associa- tion, and it was decided to extend the hon- orary membership to the members of the bi al The first paper of the evening was pre- sented by Prof. Armin E. Shumna, special agent of the census, and related to sta- ustics of manufactures in this country. In 180), he stated, there were 355,415 manu- facturing establishments with a total cap- ital of $4, 486. They employed 4,712,- 622 peopie, -and furaished support to 11,- 000,000 people. The wages paid were $2,283,216,520, and th nual vali f the preduct was $9,372,- 487,283. The materials used in the work were valued at $5,162,044,076. The wages amounted to 24 per cent of the value of the product, the matet 55 per cent, expenses 14 per cent and miscellaneous expenses 7 per cent. In 1800 the imports of nine classes of sta- ple articles amounted to $241,000,000, while the domestic product of the same reached @ total of $582,000,000, The paper was discussed at considerable length by Mr. Joseph Nimmo, Mr. Henry A. Robinson, Col. J. Edwards Clark and Maj. Cc. 8. Hill. A resolution was adopted in relation to the requests received from boards of trade and other organizations to be supplied reg- ularly with the journal publishe1 by the association. Tris resolution provides that all such bodies as may desire shall be rep- resented in membership by the election of the secretary of such body and by the pay- ment of the membership fee shell be en- titled to receive the journal. NEARLY A Today Will Close Up the Industrial Army. It is more than probable that when night falis the last of the industrials who came to Washington to impress upon Congress the necessity of immediately relieving the de- pressed condition of the covntry vy furnish- ing work to the unemployed at $2 per day of eight hours will have made his adieu to the national capital and the curtain will be rung down on the pitiful drama that has sed its length on the public stage ever since May. One hundred and thirty of the men whose homes are in the west were leaded in two second-cless passenger cars on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad iast night and started for St. Paul, Minn., at the rear ends of two fast freight trains. Mr. Frank Hume, upon whose bountiful generosity the industrials have been de- pendent for their sustenance during the past week, furnished both cars with provisions sufficient to feed the travelers on their long journey. About thirty-five men, who reside m the east, were left here, but the Commis- sioners will undoubtedly provide for their transportation away from the city during the day. At any rate, while they remain here there will be no semblance of or- ganization among them and no further agi- tation on their part, at least, of industrial principles. The much-advertised scheme of the industrals to leave twenty-five men in Washington and vicinity to act as a nucleus around which combinations of tramps from all over the country might gather from time to time was given up, and the men who had been designated to stay here on such duty departed with the others last night for St. Paul. “Gen.” Jaceb 8. Coxey yesterday went out t the Stegmaier place at High- lands and took away seven of his horses that remained there and had them sent to Massilon, Ohio. He also visited the Mary- land house of correction to see the common- wealers confined there as vagrants, but was allowed to see only C. T. McKee, who was the marshal of the camp at Highlands in the absence of the other leaders. Coxey will leave this city today for Columbus, Ohio, and has employed a firm of lawyers, so it is sald, to make application in the Maryland courts tor a writ of habeas cor- pes by which the release of the common- Wealers at Jessups may be secured. conor GONE. DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. Attorney's Office. At the request of the Commissioners for an estimate of the amount required for the conduct and support of the attorney's office for the District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1806, Mr. S. T. Thomas has sub- mitted the following: For one attorney, $4,000; for assistant at- torney, $2,000; one special assistant attor- ney, $1,000; for one law clerk, $1,300; one messenger, $200; for rent of office, $200 -in all $500, Street Light. S. S. Daish & Son have requested the Com- missioners to place a street lamp at the corner of Florida avenue and the Brentwood road. Cleaning Sidewalks, The attorney for the District, in an opin- fon rendered to the Commissioners teda: holds that the District of Columbia is nct required to keep the sidewalks clean, This opinion was brought forth through a communication to the Commissioners by a citizen, who thought it the duty of the Com- missioners to keep the sidewalks clean. Mr. Thomas says: “Lt is the duty of owners houses adjacent to paved footways to keep them clean. The money appropriated by Congress for cleaning streets and alleys ts meant for the roadways and improved streets and alleys, and not sidewaiks. Prop- érty owners or their tenants are supposed to clean their own sidewalks by sweeping the dirt and other accumulations on them into the street, where the sweepings are taken up by the street-cleaning department.” Fell From a Seaftola. Robert Thornton, a white man, twenty- eight years of age, residing on 3d street be- tween N and © strects southeast, shortly before 2 o'clock this afternoon fell from a scaffold at the new Congressional Library building and suffered fractures of the right leg and left arm. He was removed to the Emergency Hospital in the fitth precinct patrol wagon, where the injuries were prop- erly attended to. —~——— Strength of Inseots. From Parson's Weekly. What living creature is possessed of the Sreatest bodily strength in proportion to its size? The honor must be divided between the cockchafer, the hive bee and the flea. It is rather difficult to apply a test to prove which particular insect among the borers, the jumpers and carriers is the sirongest, but there ts no question that in proportion: to their size insects undoubtedly possess the greatest strength among living creatures. The flea can jump a foot high, more than 100 times its own length, and, taking its average jump as thirty times its own length, it is as if a man jumped as high as the gallery of the monument. The spring of the Uger and the leap of the kangaroo are in- significant when compared with this. cockchafer is strong enough to lift times its own weight, a small hive bee 2 times the weight of itself. Judged by this standard,.there is nothing comparable to it amorg other insects or among the larger animals, and it may be cafely asserted that these three insects divide the honors between them, fcr, though boring insects pierce the hardest wood, it is by the wonderful adap- tation of their boring instrument, rather than by abnormal strength. and occupants of Chicatge Grain and Proy m Markets Reported by Sitsby & Co., Rankers and Brokers. CHICAGO, August 15, 1894. Wheat Corn Oats—Sep Pork- Sep Land Iai S.Ribs—Sep Jn FINANCE--AND-TRADE rere Comune ot aa int Wall Streets «0 ~ et apr HMR YO By >Hi! ~— SUGAR MEN OF THE FUTURE Fears of Special Tariff Legislation Allayed. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS elie Special Dispatch t6 ‘The Tvening’ tat. NEW YORK, August 15.—London prices came lower this morning and the adjust- Tuent on this side resulted lu a depression of values varying from 1-3 to 7-8 per cent. There was less activity than yesterday, but the sentiment of the street is bullish and the room is long of stocks, The short interest in railway shares has been ex- Lausted and there is no pronounced desire on the part of the professional element to organize a new campaign on the short side. Conditions are gradualty assuming an aspect favorable to the bull purpose, and predictions of higner prices are freely circulated. Commission houses are again in the market and advise purchases on all concessions. With the return of out-of- town operators many schemea now in embryo will be put in active operation in the interest of improved values and in- creased activity. Washington advices were more encourag- ing than yesterday and went a long way toward allaying all fears of interference from special bills to defeat the provisions of the measure now awaiting the presidential autograph. The buying of sugar by the brokers usually acting Tor inside Interests was taken as indicating the repsipt of ad- vance assuc that the ord for the refining inter had been successfully passed. Opening at 1-4 per cent advance, the price was marked up on moderate pufchases to 108 1-2, from which point it declined 1 per cent to the opening figures, and was worked back during the afternoon to the highest 6 of Distillers resulted tn a decline of 15-5 per cent, and Netional Lead lost 11-4 per cent on realizing les. The trading in the regular list, as was the case yesterday, was well distributed and generally firm in tone. Burlington and St. Paul were the most active; end gained 3-4 and 5-8 per cent, respectively. Divi- dend-paying stocks were in good @emand for investment account, and all classes of reliable bond issues find ready purchasers. Bankers report a better demand for money, as the result of the more encour- aging outlook for a general revival of busi- ness. Rates have advanced fractional for time loans, but money is still obtain- able for use during the balance of the year ata shade under 4 per cent. The recent rapid decline in the rates for foreign exchange gave way this morning to a moderately firmer tone. There was | also a slight falling off im the receipts of all classes of commercial bills, but no in- creased inquiry was reported. In. anticipa- tion of a more active money market sterling rates will have a ward a lower level. The last hour's trading was trreular and prices generally lower. In some instances final losses were fractionally in excess of earlier gains. There was no important news, the decline being attributed to real- izing sales by the professional element. The advance in sugar it out some long holdings and gave color to the theory that for purposes of their own inside in- terests are not willing to have the price of the stock too suddenly vanced. The net result of the day's trading was to pro- duce fractional changes on either side of initial figures. ——— FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, The following are the opening, the high- est and the lowest and the closing of the New York stock market today, as re- rted by Corson & Macartney, members ‘ew York stock exchange. Correspondents Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Stocks. High. Low. Close, i — Wik it oat sl 2: SS tome ashvitie. Pod b te s tong Isiane ‘Traction... | {5 P Metropolitan Traction... ..... ir nt Maunattan Elevated. UK NIK lin Micmgan Central. Issou: ity iy i“ 16! 16) ey ES ee UD as aes = he a Wheeling & L Western Union Tel Wisconsin Central ay call 12 aac tao, °° rust, 4 at 220, eat Romie. ts asked. 0. R. 4a, couy 08 bid, 1145 asked. U.S. Ss, 1 oa District of Coluinl Tends. Plt fond Ss, 1084 bid. B0-year fund 6, gold, 113 Wid. 3.65 funding, “currency, 112% bid. Siva, 2108, 100 bid. Miscellancous Bonds. Washington aml George town Ratiroad comv. @s, ist, 134 bid Washington m Rativond com. ta, Sd, 4 hid. Ratlwnd. conv. Ge. a asked. Eek imgtom Katiroad Gs, tid,” Washington Gis Com- 180 bia. rake Potomac Mid, ~amked. Re Fo and A. 100 bid. American Acad 2, 160 did,” Mason: y 5 Hall Association ds, 160 bid.’ Washington Light Infantry Ist Gs,.160 bid. Washington Light lu- fantry 24 Ts, 100 tid, 103 asked. ik Stokes, 2 bic “ond, Bid. 145 anked. “Colum: 112 bid.) Mest End, 110 Lincoln, 3 bid, $0 Asked. Unto, ed. sfe Deposit and Trust « wenanten, National Fs a rust vastiogion Laan 120 Te Te AR eee hi Atwerioan Se Washington Safe De- Washington Met o and n, . B10 asked, Norfolk and) Wasbington _ Month. October. November. December. Jan > Range of the Thermometer. effect. ‘Although quite a crowd immedia’ The following were the readings of the ly gathered, the negro managed to escape, | thermometer ut the weather bureau today: | | but the police are looking for him, and hope | 8 a.m., 74; 2 p.m., maximum, Si; mint- | to soon apprehend him, { mum, 69, iH Kk, Saad wheat by August, sample, it as; No, iS Hushels 829 busbels. $14.000$15. butte