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LABOR AND COXEYISM Judge Cooley's Address to the Bar OF CORRENT QUESTIONS Boycotts, Strikes and the Rights of Citizens. - DISCUSSION CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS SARATOGA, N.Y.,August 22.—The Ameri- can Bar Association, of which Judge Thos. M. Cooley of Ann Arbor, Mich., is president, began its seventeenth annual meeting here this morning. The president being absent by reason of illness, his address was read by the acting president, Judge Samuel F. Hunt of Cincinnati. It was very lengthy and communicated the most noteworthy changes in statutory law on points of gen- eral interest which have been made in the several states and by Congress during the preceding year. Judge Cooley’s Address. Judge Cooley passed in review the new laws made by the several states during the year, touching particularly upon those re- lating to the inheritance tax in Ohio and New Jersey, the liquor traffic, marriage and aivorce and medical practice. He then took up the subject of the Coxey armies, to which he alluded as “that extraordinary spectacle of considerable bodies of men col- lected in various sections of the country, under the leadership of persons who as- sumed military titles, and who proposed to march upon Washington and make demand in the name of the people for legislation in the supposed interest of those among us who were out of employment.” “The thought actuating the movement, if we may judge from such means as were furnished us for understanding it,” said Judge Cooley, “was that the country of their birth, or which they had selected to live in, owed them the duty to see that the means of support were provided them and that the government must perform this duty. No attention seems to have been taken by them of the apportionment of power between the state and the general government; the states were passed un- noticed, though to one familiar with our institutions it was plain enough that the duty insisted upon, if it existed at all, must rest upon the states, and the armies marched directly upon the national capital to Cemand the action of the general govern- ment. The national legislature must pro- vide these idle men with means of obtaining a living.” The judge rapidly passed in review the march of the so-called army of the com- monweal; its seizure of railway trains; its subsistence upon the residents of the sec- tions through which it passed; its defiance of law and assumption that it represented the working people of the country. ‘The apathy and tolerance with which citizens viewed the acts of the “army” the speaker regarded with astonishment. But for its demoralizing effect upon those who took part in it, and who were, as was pretended, Jesirous of a life of industry, and also upon all who in any way lent it countenance, this march upon the national Capitol might well have appeared tu the observer ludicrous tn the extreme. “The pretense of the leaders that they only desired to go to the Capitol that they might in person exercise their constitution- al right of petition, and present to the two houses in session the written expression of their views and needs, was,” said Judge Cooley, “as idle as any of their other pre- tenses. Such personal appearance might be permitted on special occasions, but it is not @ matter of right, and cannot well be. The Constitution contemplates no visit of the eltizen to inform the two houses by word of mouth or otherwise of his opinion or desires; he has an indefeasible right to do this by his represer-tation; any other meth- od would not only be without value, but might even be employed in legislative halls for the most mischievous and obstructive purposes. Their ciaim in this particular was as baseless as all the others. “The teaching of the whole movement was socialistic, though oftentimes doc- trines deserving of still harsher designa- tion found utterance among them. But they were, nevertheless, tolerated to an ex- tent it pad = long time rendered their roving life ond of unaccustomed enjoyment to many of their number, so that we may almost say that armies like them are en- couraged to live upon the country, marching under like dangerous pretenses hereafter. They claimed to represent an unacknowl- edged but fundamental right of the people, when, in fact, they represented only idle- ness disorder, and their -selzure of mears of trancportation and demand for food and shelter as they moved along were directly in the line of, and only warranted by, eir socialistic motions. But their treatment, we are obliged to admit, was in very many cases such as, instead of re- pressing the public mischief, has only tend- ed to perpetuate it.” Obligations of Lawyers. In the face of such demonstrations as that Just described, Judge Cooley thought it well to impress upon his hearers the obligations under which, as members of the legal pro- fession, they were placed by their oath to support the Constitution of the United States and of the state. A lawyer, he said, may very often more effectually support the Constitution and laws by assisting to build up a public sentiment that shall con- stitute an impregnable bulwark against those who, either through malice or ignor- ance or with revolutionary purpose, assail them than it would be possible for him to do by personal service as a soldier, or by physical assistance in the suppression of the rebellion or of domestic disorder. “What I desire to impress at this time upon the members of the legal profession is that every one of them fs or should be from his very position, and from the license which gives him special privileges in the determination of legal questions and con- troversies, a public leader and teacher, whose obligation to support the Constitu- tion and laws, and to act with all due fidelity to the courts, is not fully performed when the fundamental organization of society is assailed or threatened, or the laws defied or likely to be in the community in which he lives, as a result of revolutionary purpose or of ignorance or unreasonable passion, unless he comes to the front as the sup- porter of settled institutions and of public order, and does what he properly and law- fully can to correct any sentiment, general or local, that would in itself be a public danger, or be likely to lead to disorder or unlawful violence.” Anarchy in America. Alluding to the fact that the last year had been specially prolific in acts of vio- lence against individuals who were charged with crime of a particularly disgusting or horrifying character, or who for any reason had made themselves specially ob- noxious or repulsive to their neighbors or to some specially influential or numerous class of the community, Judge Cooley con- tinued: “Until recently it has been assumed by some of our people that one section of the country only was justly subject to the re- proach that its public sentiment tolerated the crime of inflicting punishment by law- less force, and that even in that section it was limited for the most part to one gross and ——— cless of offenses, But no one section can longer reproach any other in this particular. Lynchings during the year have been numerous north, south and west, in cases where murder, and some- times when only an invasion of property rights was charged, as well as in gross cases of violation of female chastity, and the alarming feature of the utter and reckless defiance of law which has accompanied them is that in very many cases there was no attempt at concealment, and no pre- tense that violence was necessary to pre- vent justice being cheated of its dues. They took place sometimes when the pro- cess of the law had already been invoked against the parties lynched, and was lead- ing to certain punishment, and the par- ticipants in the lawless tragedy In some cases could openly and truthfully boast that those who were accounted the best citizens in the community approved what they had done, and would not suffer the actors there- in to be punished for thus setting the law at defiance. “Every American-born citizen regards anarchists with horror, and so does every man among us who has come from foreign lands with any respect whatever for free institutions, or even for law. When, there- fore, their sentiments are openly avowed, THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1894—TEN PAGES. we have very little occasion to fear them. But we are not unfrequently reminded when an act of tolerated mob violence takes that a community may have an ab- rrence of anarchy, and yet so conduct themselves when they see the law openly and publicly set at defiance t the re- spect for it, which should be its chief sup- port, will me more nominal than , and perhaps bé rep! by and contempt. If they look on with unconcern while such an act is taking place, if they give no aid when steps are being taken for the punishment of the participants, a con- dition of public insensibility to this class of offenses is likely to be brought about, the result of which is that whenever the com- munity is excited and therefore specially in need of legal restraint the law is found to be powerless. Duties of Tolerant Citizens. “If every citizen who thus countenances or refuses to aid in repressing crimes of this nature would consider a little what must be the natural consequences of his action or of his failure to act, he might perhaps come to appreciate the serious nature of his fault and to understand how little he would himself deserve the protec- tion of the law if some mob should select him as a victim of lawless violence. He then have the conviction fo1 upon him that by his course he is teaching disregard of law; that the act he aids or excuses is one step in the direction of the chaos the anarchist would establish; that his example in countenancing disorder is aiding to create a public sentiment which may, by and by, tolerate and protect the lynching of any person whomsoever for any act, bad or good, which happens to arouse public animosity or even for no other cause than that the obnoxious person had, in worldly pursuits, been more successful than his fellow-citizens. He will, perhaps, reflect also that when the disorder which he countenances in a single instance becomes general, it will not be the vagabond or the beggar that lawless classes will select for victims, but the man who, for any rea- son, is important and prominent in the lesire,” the speaker said, “to em- phasize the fact that the extent to which the lawless restraint of personal liberty may go ts less important than the public sentiment which tolerates any invasion whatsoever, Recently a man was hanged in one state as a supposed murderer; in another a state officer was publicly tarred and feathered for action, which the per- sons assuulting him, considered inadmis- sible to one in his position; and in still an- other a delegate to a political convention | was dressed in petticoats and publicly ex- posed to ridicule because the local com- munity was not pleased with a vote he had cast on a question of suffrage. “In the degree of wrong to the individual there was difference in the three cases, but the lawlessness, the disregard of the obligations of citizenship and the injury to organized society was equally plain in all and equally deserving of unqualified condemnation. It may be safely assumed that In not one of the communities in which these criminal disorders took place are life, liberty or property, which our written constitutions undertake to protect, so secure and jealously guarded as they were before.” Boycotts and Strikes. ° Boycotts and strikes of the year were next considered by Judge Cooley, and par- ticularly the recent industrial disturbance growing out of the differences between the Pullman company and its workmen. The case was in some particulars without prece- dent. The attempt to force the railroad companies to violate contracts with the Pullman company under penalty of a tie- up, involved also a coercion of the public. ‘The judge said: “One question fairly arising upon the circumstances of this strike, and which, 50 far as 1 know, has hitherto received no attention, I thirk I may properly call to your notice here. It concerns the rights, legal and equitable, of those who were to be affected by the strike, should one be declared, and raises the question whether under principlgs supposed to prevail wher- ever free government exists, the strike as against them could be fully justified with- out careful consideration of its probable effect upon thelr interests being first had, and if practicable an opportunity given them to urge reasons from their own siand- point against its betng entered upon. The parties who were to be injuriously affected were: First, the railroad companies, who, ig they were allowed to be heard through their general managers or any authorized committee on the question whether it would be just or reasonable to declare a strike against them for what was not thelr own fault, might possibly have convinced the members of the order which was then considering the question that the objec- tions to it from the standpoint of thelr em- Ployers were altogether reasonable; second, the government of the United States, whose transportation of mails and control over interstate commerce were to be very seri- ously interfered with, and perhaps the service of federal process obstructed; and third, the people of the United State: »whose legal right to be transported and to have thelr property carried by rail was to he In t and perhaps wholly taken away while the strike continued, at a cost to them, which, in all probability, must in the end, be counted by millions. ¢ ¢ ¢ e were three parties, all innocei Tegards the grievance in question, who, it the action was to be taken after the man- ner deemed necessary to prevent injustice in Heme pe Vehaigecn in would seem to ‘rong, equitable and indeed an indefeasible right to have t themselves first considered, “" “tect upon Sympathetic Strikes. “Now, I understand very well that in the case of the ordinary boycott or strike entered upon for the purpose of redressing an existing wrong or to prevent one which is threatening, the case is to a considerable extent different. Such a case partakes of the nature of self-defense, and incidental injury to third er gpest if it is unavoidable, is excused on that ground. But there was nothing in the nature of self-defense here. It was a third party who was supposed to have been wronged in this instance, and as innocent parties were to be directly struck at and greatly injured the very least they could justly be awarded would be a very careful consideration by those proposing the damaging action of the question, whether the necessary consequence, even if they were successful in what they hoped to accomplish, must not be to cause injury to innocent parties greatly in excess of the gains, and if so whether the proposal could in justice be accepted. But this was @ question of which no notice was taken. Innocent parties, who must necessarily suf- fer, not only had no opportunity to pro- test, but their losses were not taken into consideration as reasons against the boy- cott and the strike. On the contrary, they were looked upon as favorable features of the case,since they rendered success more probable. But a sympathetic strike is bad in morals and must be quite as bad in policy, when the probable injury to innocent parties will exceed the probable benefit to the parties it aims to assist.” Judge Cooley expressed doubt if, in labor organizations, when the subject of a strike is broached, due deliberation is permitted, so that many are forced to take part whose better judgment would keep them out of such affairs, Constitutional Points Raised. ‘The subject of the strike led the speaker naturally to consideration of the ques- tion of constitutional law which was raised by some of the governors of states. Taking up the protests of the gov- ernor of Illinois against the employment of national troops for the restoration of order and the contention of the radical sup- porters of the governor that he should em- ploy the military power of the state to re- ™move the federal force, Judge Cooley said: 0 doctrine exactly like this had before been advanced, though there had always been political parties, led by able states- men, who insisted upon a strict construc- tion of national grants of authority, and of the power to exercise under them. In this case the grant to Congress of the power to provide for the transportation of the mails and to regulate interstate commerce was not questioned in the least. Congress had exercised these powers, and {it was not claimed that it had encroached upon state rights in doing so. It had also provided for United States courts in Illinois, which were then in session, and it was not pretended that in Issuing ‘the customary process they could be lawfully interfered with or the process denied service. They were, there- fore, national duties to be performed in Illinois, national officers, agents and courts to whom in part the performance was in- trusted, and_disorderly parties were inter- fering and fendering performance difficult, oftentimes impossible. But the position of the governor was that the maintenance of peace and the repression of disorder was a state duty, and the President was guilty of usurpation when he thus, without request, moved troops into the state for the purpose. “We cannot adrait that the position taken is even plausible. It has no warrant what- ever in the federal Constitution, which, on the contrary, is distinctly against it. The President is to take care that the federal laws be faithfully exectited,!and his doing so is not made to depend upon the will or consent of any one state,, The duty is Specially and In the plattest “terme imposed upon Him, and in the performance of it he is subordinate to ne state authority. Yet, if the views of the.govern ted as sound, the mafis at Chicago, interstat erce broken sv tore hee rocess of United States courts service, unless the governor, when disorder was dominant, saw, fit to suppress it or call upon the Presifent to do so. “If the protest was yieldéd to it was a concession that the governdr and not the President was to take arecthat the laws of the United States were ly ed in his state, and if he failed to do so, @ mob might at pleasure ‘defy them. It seems needless to discuss this protest; the action taken by the twohouses of Congress in approving in emphatic terms the action of the President ‘was equivalent to an ex- pression of their opinion that the protest of the governor was not only unwarranted but was revolutionary. “The sentimemt of the country as express- ed in the public journals and otherwise was to the same effect, and the question of con- stitutional law may be considered practi- cally settled. It is fortunate that it is so, for such a protest from the executive of a great state must necessarily tend at any time to still further excite the ions of those who in a mad way are defying the lawful authorities.” Arbitration Considered. The concluding portion of Judge Cooley’s address-was devoted to the subject of ar- bitration of labor controversies. If arbitration could embrace cnly the labor controversies in respect to legal rights it would be of very slight value. The award on a voluntary submission may in other cases establish a legal right which the courts can enforce, but the limits to com- pulsory power in this respect must be very narrow. No employer can be compelled to contirue his business when, for the alleged want of capital or of profits, or for any other reason, he refuses to do so, and laborers cannot be led by the sheriff to their daily task when they refuse to obey the arbitrator's award that it is their duty to continue at their work. The award may in a sense be binding on the one or the other, but when it is the party obtaining it must in such case content himself with an action for damages. The difficulties in the way of arbitration should, however, afford @ motive for the remoyal of causes of ex- isting enmity between labor and capital. Judge Cooley concluded his address with these words: “But when compulsory arbitration is pro- posed as a remedy for wage disagreements is not the question pertinent, shall it be rents next, and then, again, what next?” Reports Presented. The secretary, John Hinkley of Baltimore, Md., reported the memberehip as 1,113 and the election of sixty new members. Every state but Nevada and three out of the five territories are represented. The treasurer, Francis Rawle of Philadelphia, reported the finances in a flourishing condition and a comfortable balance in the bank. The ex- ecutive committee submitted its report ia the section on legal education. This afternoon the chairman’s address was made by Henry Wade Rogers, presi- dent of the Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill. Papers were read by Judge John F. Dillon ot New York on “The True Professional Idea,” and by John D. Law- son of the University.of Missouri at St. Louis on “The Standards of Legal Educa- tion in the West.” HEALTH OF THE DISTRICT. The Favorable .Coniittons Continue— The Death Rate Les¥! Than the An- l Average. .) The favorable state of Health of the city continues. The reports to the health de- partment for the last Wedk indicate a repe- tition of the improved ‘coniiitions of the pre- vious week. For these ‘weeks the death rate has stood at over‘six per thousand in- habitants less than the’ annual average. Considering this to be the'hdvanced summer season, when sicknes§ generally is on the increase, this is considered gratifying. Ac- cording to the natural law, infant mor- tality declines as the season progresses to- ward the cooler days as well as nights, and diarrhoeal maladies ‘folfdw in a corres- ponding ratio. There wWds a falling off of three in the numberof fatal cases of ty- phoid fever, and an increase of two in those from diphtheria. All other contagious and infectious diseases are so far in abeyance as to be no longer a source of anxiety. In view of the apprcach of that portion of the year when some of the dangerous diseases, especially diphtheria and typhoid fever, reach their maximvm intensity, it is a mat- ter of importance to the whole community that complete sanitation of premises be carefully looked after, and gll approaches of these diseases strictly guarded against. The statistics of the report are as follows: Number of deaths, 95; white, 50; colored, 45. Death rate per 1,000 per annum: White, 13.3; colored, 26.0. Total population, 17.3. Thirty-elght were under five years of age, 28 were under one year old and 19 over sixty years. Twenty-three of the deaths occurred in hospitals and public institu- tions, The deaths by classes were as fol- lows: Zymotic, 83; constitutional, 15; local, 37; developmental, 7; violence, 3. The prin- cipal causes of death were: Diphtheria, 5; consumption, 10; diarrhoeal, 15; typhoid fever, 6; pneumonia, 1; congestion of the lungs, 1; bronchitis, 1; whooping cough, 5; kidney diseases, 8; meningitis, 3; cancers, 2, Births reported: Twenty-six white males, 26 white females; 19 colored males, 17 col- ored females. Marriages reported: Twenty- two white, 10 colored. 8till-birchs reported: Three white, 5 colored. a LIQUOR LAW VIOLATIONS. Good Templars Commend the Course of the Commissioners md Sergt. Daley. A regular session of Washington Lodge was held in its rooms, corner of 41-2 street and Pennsylvania averue, on Monday night, at which a large arount of business per- taining to temperence work in this jurisdic- tion was transacted. A number of applica- tions for membership were received and referred to the appropriate committees, Ar- rangen-ents were perfected and committees appoirted for the holding of a lawn party on the evening of Wednesday, the 29th in- stant, at 14th and R streets northwest. In the “good of the order” exercises remarks were made by Grand Chaplain Blackford and other visiting members of the order, and also by Chief Templar Rowley, who is now filling his fourth term in the chair, Resolutions offered by Marshall Steep were unanimously adopted commending the action of the District Commissioners in their efforts to suppress illicit Iquor selling and their punishment of the police officers who were convicted of encouraging the violation of the liquor law. The resolutions further commended Serat, Daley and of- ficers under his command for.enforcing the law in regard to Sunday observance. SRE A POCKETBOOK SNATCHER. He Failed to Get Mrs. Haynes’ Purse, Although He Tricd. A few evenings since Mrs. W. H. Haynes, with her little boy, five: years .of age, was on her way home from a grocery store, carrying a small basket on her arm and holding a pocket book~in her hand. She reached the correr 6f New Jersey avenue and E street southeast about 8:15, when a large colored man jumped from ®ehind a tree box and made q grab for her purse. Fortunately she held the purse in a firm grasp, and the man failed to wrest it from her, although he succeeded in severely bruising her hand and wrist. Mrs. Haynes at once cried out, and fearing detection, the ruffian ran off in the direction of the reser- vation close by. As it was a municipal moon- light night the street’ lamps were not lighted, which fact, no doubt, encouraged the attack. —————— Army Orders. The leave of absence granted Second Lieu- tenant Albert B. Donworth, fourteenth in- fantry, is extended one month. Capt. Chas, H. Ingalls, assistant quartermaster; Capt. Charles B, Ewing, assistant surgeon; First Lieutenant Franklin O. Johnson, third cavalry, and First “Lieutenant James B. Hughes, tenth cavalry, are detailed as members of the general court martial at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri. ; —-— e+ -— —___ Dr. Robert A. Clark was brought into the municipal criminal court at Boston yes- terday before Judge Burke on a writ of habeas corpus, to answer to a second com- plait fer alleged criminal malpractice. Rudolph Gloor, seventy-nine years old, committed suicide early yesterday at a Lae in Haledon, N. J. He was tired of Efe, A MODERN PLANT For Supplying the Eternal City With Electrio Lighting £ AT A DISTANCE OF EIGHTEEN MILES The Proposed Plan to Utilize the Great Falls Power. HOW IT IS ACCOMPLISHED Se Se Sy The strong probability that the falls of the Potomac above Georgetown will even- tually be used in the electric lighting of the District gives a special local interest to a report that has juet been made to the De- partment of State by Mr. Wallace S. Jones, United States consul general at Rome, in regard to the use of electric light in the eternal city. This interest is heightened by the fact that the electric energy in the case of the Roman capital fs transmitted a dis- tance of cighteen miles, from the cascades of the Teverore, at Tivoli, across the Ro- man cumpagna, to a distributing station at Porta Pia, on the outskirts of Rome. The Great Falls of the Potomac, which are pro- posed the site of the plant for the Dis- trict system, are fifteza miles from the city, or three miles nearer than the Roman electric plant. The present electric light system of Rome was established in July, 1892, and has been in successful cperation ever since. Mr. Jones says that Rome is the first city in the world to be lighted by electricity brought ‘rom a long distance. His report gives a detailed description of the plant and apparatus, by which 2,000 Merse power is transmitted a distence of eighteen miles, together with a tecbnical account of the switchboard at Tivoli and the distributing board at Porta Pia. The power is generated at the fall of the river Teverone, or Anio, at Tivoli. The wa- ter has a total fall of 110 meters, ang is much more than sufficient for the transmis- sion of electric energy to the Roman capi- tal by the establishment of a plant for an alternating and highly potential current with transformers. Separate chapters of the report are devoted to the power house at Tivoli where the current is produced, the transforming and distributing station at Poria Pia and the setting up of the lights in the city. Nine pipes are used in carrying the water to as many turbines in the sta- tion house, where a fall of i bout fifty me- ters is utilized. Operating the Turbines, Special arrangements are made for the decantation of the water that drives the governors of the turbines, and for the auto- matic closing cf the necessary derivation pipes leading from the main supply pipe. The turbines are of the Giraud type, with horizontal and differential ayes. There are three groups of three machines each. Two large turbines are coupled directly to two Zipernowsky aiternators, and between them is a small one that drives a direct current dynamo that moves two lateral alternators. This system is duplicated in the other tur- bines. The principal turbines are of 350 herse power, and make 170 revolutions a minute, normal speed. The water-wheel is two meters in diameter, The distributor consists of a cylinder with six small holes in the bottom and with five series of three cocks each in the top. The small turbines are of fifty horse power and have a normal epeed of 475 revolutions a minute. The alternating current dynamos are di- rectly coupied to the turbines by means of an electric joint. The machines, although of the usual! Zypernowski type, develop a difference of potential of more than 5,000 volts, and require exceptional insulation. The terminals of the high potential dyna- mos are situated in the lower part of the armature. They are mounted on separate discs of porcelain on two posts, one of ebon- ite and the other of paraffined wood. The plant can be divided into three sections, each ¢omprising two alternators and one exciter. Consequently there are three grooves that carry the entire system to the switch board. Each groove incloses twelve conductors—four conveying the pi current of two distinct alternators, and four the respective exciting currents; two conveying currents from the exciting dy- ramos, and two others conveying the ex- citing current of the exciter. This makes three sets of twelve conductors each, repre- sented on the switch board. They are com- pletely insulated from each other. The switch board is of wood and is 20.50 meters long by 8.80 meters high. It stands sixty centimeters from the wall, so that there is ample space to keep clean the conductors that run along its back. Protection for the Wires. The line of transmission from Tivoli to Porta Pia is 24,858 meters in length. It follows the Roman aqueiuct, which runs in a straight line between the two places. Where the line crosses the Rome-Sulmone railroad and the telegraph wires, the poles are high enough to leave the lowest cable at 9.50 meters above the ground. A metal- lic net is stretched between the poles and extends across the railroad tracks to pre- vent the cables from falling to the ground in case of accident. At this point the tele- graph wires are underground. The same Precautions are taken at the points where the line crosses the river Aino and the rail- near Porta Pia. About half way be- tween Tivoli and Rome, at a point known as the Campannacce, a small stone house has been erected which serves as quarters for the men who watch the cables, as depot for stores, as a point of communi tion between the two extreme stations, a center of electric measurements and final- ly_as the interrupting point of the line. The eight cables composing the line pass through an upper reom in a tower that surmounts this house and are there united two and two, by means of mercury inter- rupters. Four wires pass out of the house on the opposite side through four insulators. The supporting poles are made of two dou- ble T irons, 9 meters high. The four cop- per cables that transmit the current are held up by insulators. As a rule each pole carries eight insulators, with eight con- ductors, and is 9.50 meters high. The mean distance between the poles is 35 meters, except at railroad crossings and at the river, There are 707 of these poles. The four cables are respectively 9.30, 8.70, 8.10 and 7.50 meters above the agg High insulation has been obtained by the use of a well-devised porcelain insulator with oil cup. The conductivity of the copper wire was found by experiments to be 90 per cent that of chemically pure copper. The wires are 2.00 mm. in diameter and each cable is composed of nineteen such wires. At a temperature of 0’ the cable presents a mean resistance of 3,750 ohms. Currents of Varying Power. The electric current generated at Tivoli is received in a small building at Porta Pia, where it is ingeniously transformed from a high potential to a lesser potential. The Fotential, however, is not less than 2,000 volts, and feeds twelve concentric Siemens cables, which run through the principal streets of the city of Rome. All the elec- tric apparatus is placed on the ground floor of the building, and thirty-two transform- ers of about 80,000 volts each are located in one room. In another room are the distrib- uting switches of the currents, the auto- matic regulators and control. The disposi- tion of the apperatus is entirely subordinate to the system of plant to be supplied, and circuits for arc lamps, as well as derivative circuits for use of private parties, leave this building. These circuits, in series, have a constant intensity and a difference of potential, that varies with the number of lamps lighted. They are formed by concen- tric Siemens cables of 12x12 m.m. in diame- ter, each of which is fed directly by the secondary of a transformer at this building. The plants of private parties in the city that connect with the derivative circuits are not fed directly by the 2,000 volt cur- rent derived from the secondaries of a spe- cial battery of transformers, but. by that current reduced to 50 or 100 volts by means of other transformers located near the pla of consumption. The communication be- tween these — and Porta Pia is had by means of other similar Siemens cables of 200 or 220 m.m. in diameter. By an in- genious meckanical arr:.ngement, Te is po: sible, at the Tivoli station, to secure a con- nt potential throughout the entire line. ——— An apparent shortage of $1,000 has been found in the accounts of Clerk Nathaniel M. Brown of the Salem, Mass., water board. As a result, the resignation of Clerk Brown was asked for and civen. ttt Saanecaasessesaneusaauseasasaand titi tts ttt tt ttt itt tt | SUBURBAN PROPERTY. ‘SUM! UL tt tt k SHAKING UP THE 5 = =< Officers on Staff Duty to Be Sent Back to Their Regiments. Orders Made Out at the War Depart- ment—Secretary Lamont's Plan of Reorganization. Secretary Lamont has issued an order for the reorganization of the departments of the army so far as relates to the employment of line officers on staff duty. It is in accord with the recent plan of reorganization of the War Department so far as personnel alone is concerned. Under the new arrange- ment the staff of a department commander is limited to the following officers: The authorized aids-de-camp. One assist- and adjutant general, or an officer to act in that capacity. One off: of the inspector general's de- partment, or officers to act as department inspectors and assistants, when assigned by = agen d of War. a ne judge advocate, or an officer assigned as such by the Secretary of War. One chief quartermaster and one chief commissary of subsistence. One medical director. Qne chief paymaster. When needed, one engineer officer, one ordnance officer and one signal officer, each to be detailed from his corps or depart- ment by the Secretary of War. If no such officers are available the duties will be performed by the authorized aids-de-camp or other officers of the department staff. All regimental officers now on duty at the several department headquarters as engineer and ordnance officers will be re- Meved and ordered to join their regiments on or before September 15, proximo, and all cfiicers assigned as inspectors of small- ae ee o! present season target practice, and thereafter the duties of said inspectors will be performed by the authorized aids-de- aan or by the assistant adjutants gen- eral Until further orders the department of the east will be allowed three officers for inspection duty, and the d its of the Missouri and California will be allowed two each. All other departments will be allowed one officer for inspection duty. . SS es ee now on duty as assis! to tl lepartment inspectors, in excess of the number fixed as above, wil be relieved on or before September 15, proximo. The ordnance depots at Fort Minnesota, Omaha, Nebraska and Van- couver barracks, Washington, will be dis- continued and the buildings turned over to the quartermaster’s department, The ord- nance stores at Fort Snelling and Omaha depots will be sent to the Rock Island Arsenal, and those at Vancouver depot to the Benicia Arsenal. On the completion of the transfer of stores the line officers now on duty at these depots will be relieved and ordered to join their regiments. Many Changes. These changes will make the biggest “shake-up” in the army that has occurred for many years. The officers to be relieved and returned to their regiments by the new order are as follows: Department of the east—Capt. Henry P. Kingsbury, sixth cavalry, inspector of small- arms practice and engineer officer.Depart- ment of the Missouri—Capt. Frank I. Bald- win, fifth infantry, inspector of small-arms practice, and Capt. Jesse M. Lee, ninth in- fentry, assistant to inspector general. De- Practice. Depart- ment of the Platte—Lieut. Col. D. W. Ben- ham, seventh infantry, inspector of small- arms practice. Department of Colorado— First Lieut. C. L. Collins, eleventh infantry, inspector of small-arms practice; Lieut. Col. H. W. Lawton, inspector general, will take his place. it of Texas—First Lieut. H. L. Ripley, third cavalry, efficer. Department of Californ! it. third infantry, in- -arms ment of the Columbia—Maj. fifth artillery, engineer officer; Capt. H. E. Robinson, fourth infantry, cer; Capt. F. A. Boutelle, first cavalry, in- spector of practice. ——_-e-___. THE DOMAIN OF POLITICS. Nominations by the Delaware Repub-| leans. The platform adopted by the Delaware republicans yesterday reaffirms a belief in the doctrine of protection to American in- dustries; favors laws to protect American labor from the evils of unrestricted foreign immigration; denounces the tariff bill just passed by Congress as a cowardly make- shift, that will reduce the wages of Amer- can workmen and continue the present business depression; denounces the income tax feature of the bill; approves reciproc- ity; favors bimetaliism, a gold and silver currency, equalized by conditions fixed by national agreement, declaring that full national prosperity will not be restored until silver is restored to its full debt-pay- ing basis; denounces the bil to authorize the state taxation of national currency; denounces the national democratic adminis- tration as incompetent to conduct the af- irs of the nation at home and abroad; favors the extension of our foreign com- merce =. i eagee of wpe American navy; ° \- tional convention” and "Warmly indosses Senator Higeing . Marvin of Laurel was then nominated for governor and Rev. Jonathan alowed of Milford for Representative in te ‘ gress. Both nominations were made by accla- mation. ‘The convention adjourned after a stirring address by Senator Higgins. California Democrats. A dispatch sent last night from San Francisco says, regarding the democratic convention: Tonight interest centers in the contest for the gubernatorial nomination, and the nomination of three candidates for railroad commissioner and three candidates for election to the state board of equaliza- tion, The contest between the factions knowr as “railroad” and “anti-ratlroad” is mainly over the naming of candidates for these two important state boards. For goy- ernor the leading candidates tonight are ex- i i “ 2 i i fi i | i § 4 i if il tf i af § i i 3 i : Hie fue Le b ¥ as Hf Hooper, Heiphenstine &Co., ‘Telephone 471. | LIFE TONTINE. EXDOWMENT ANI INSURANCE POLICTES TCRCHASED AT & mh EDWARD BERS gor The National Safe Savings And Trust Company Of the District of Columbia, - CORNER 15TH ST, AND NEW YORI AVE Capital: One Million Dollarg Sd Safe Deposit Company, Special act Coagress 1867. . Savings Bank, Special act Congress 1870. Trust Company, General act Congress 1890. Cc. T. Havenner, ‘ashington Stock aes Investment Securities, Stocks, Bonds and Grain bought end sold fq ot. ’ ly tioned, but he is 4.1 fight meni the nomination. ~ Tonight, however, it can be sald that one has won the It is con! pred! condemning the United States Senators succeeded in defeating the purpose of Wilson bill as to sugar, iron and coal. olutions have been drafted . Smith and Brice. examings tion, have been charged by the civil service commission to special examinations. Pens manship, letter writing and arithmetic wil form a minor part of each of these new exe tion. The dictation exercises in sten: will likewise be weighted 14 points out 20 in that examination. Persons desi! take elther or both of these examinat will not be required to take the clerk. ist examination. One application will fice for both the typewriting and «1 raphy examinations, but an adaiconal age plication will be required from those siring to take the clerk-copyist e: tion. Persons who have already filed plications for the clerk-copyist tion, with typewriting or stenography, both, as supplementary, will be permit to take elther the clerk-copyist examination, or one or both of these new specials. ——___ + e-___ THE COURTS. : Equity Court, No. 1—Judge Cole. Today—Tolman agt. Tolman; defen’ Asc! from custody and cont Streamer agt. Streamer; order to cause. Cohen agt. Cohen; Jesse H. Wilsom appointed guardian ad item. Circuit —, = ee ag '—August Gross m. nSfanr o aiteen be eam Lemuel M. Beckett agt. Calvin T. 5. Bi judgment by default for 8. Ss. & Bro. - WwW. F. Bro. ;- 5 by default for $645.26. Frank Hume Wm. M. Gallant; judgment by deft $121.48. ——S—— Mary Adams, a yesterday took a fatal receiving a letter from her off her engagement,