Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR pa oreo mane PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Averas, Cor. 11th The Evening Star Lee yer Company, Few York Oe, 40 Potter Building. ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers in the eity by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents * week, or 44c. per mouth. Copies at the counter cents ‘each. By mail—anywhere in the United poe a or postage prepaid—50 cents per moa! Saterday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1.00 per year; with foreign postage added, $9.00, Entered at the Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter.) ‘All mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. tes of advertising made knowa on application. Vor 85, No. 20,987. WASHINGTON, D. 0., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER: 11, 1894—TEN PAGES. Che Zvening Star. TWO CENTS. WHAT THEY CLAIM | HANDWRITING ON THE WALL THE NEXT HOUSE PLAYING CARD TAX BOUNTY ON SUGAR A NEW TREATY SIGNED The Market Company’s Statement of Its Rights in Certain Lands. PROPOSED DISTRICT BUILDING SITE The Attorney for the District Disa- grees With the Company. THE ALLEGED AGREEMENT > The Commissioners are confident that the next Congress will look with favor on the Project to build a new municipal building. The only available site the District owns is the one directly in front of the Center Market, on Pennsylvania avenue between 7th and 9th streets northwest. When Ar- chitect Brady, who makes all the plans for the public schools and engine houses, sub- mitted a design for a municipal building it was referred to President Ordway of the Center Market, with the request that he furnish his views on the subject. This he did, and his memorandum on the subject is made public for the first time. It fs as fol- lows: “The attention of the president of the Washington Market Company has been called by the Commissioners of the District to plans which the inspector of buildings has prepared, under the direction of the Commissioners, for the erection of an, artistic stone ‘District capitol building,’ to be located upon the inclosed park in front of the Center Market, portions of which ground were released to the District under an act of Congress, March 3, 1873, as a site for a District building, which would protect the rrchives and accommodate the District offices. The Company's Stateme: “At the time of the release of this front and most valuable land by the market com- pany to the District of Columbia it was understood and agreed that the center of the District building should be located as near as practicable on the front at the Junction of Pennsylvania and Louisiana avenues and that the building only extend east and west from that point a sufficient number of feet to make its entire length 274 feet and its width 86 feet, leaving the remainder of the land thus released between the east and west ends of the proposed building and 7th and 9th streets as an open Space, to be used for walks to reach the market buildings, with perhaps a fountain in the center of these open spaces, a¢.0 some ornamental landscape improvements, the whole, including walks, to be kept Properly paved and open to the , but entirely prohibited from ‘being used for sales of any product wha , thus leav- ing the elaborate north front of the 7th and 9th street wings of the Center Market in full view from Pennsylvania and Louisiana avenues. It was also conceded that a .cen- tral entrance to the market and grounds (as set forth in the original charter) should be provided by allowing the market company to erect and provide a heavy artistic iron bridge, or passage way, from the ju:ction of Pennsylvania and Louisiana avenues to and through the wholesale market row (so called), thus connecting the cenier of the B street market with the avenues before named. “In ice of these understandings, agreements and stipulations the market company ordered, at a very large expense, an elaborate iron bridge und passagewa: across the center of the 86 feet of land thus receded or released to the District of Columbia. Payment for the Bridge. “The market company also under an agreement with the District authorities al- lowed the grovnd opposite the center of the junction of Pennsylvania and Louis- fana avenues to be extended temporarily from 86 feet to 110 feet, In order to render the lot while still unused for purposes in- tended more proportional; and also erected an iron fence on the south side of the Dis- trict lot, thus giving temporarily the Dis- trict and the public for the purpose of a park quite a large space of land which the market company was entitled to use. It 1s now understood that the District Commissioners desire the market company to make a permarent concession to the District for its building of about 30 feet of ground in the center of the lot described, and to surrender the center passageway, which would entail the loss of from $20,000 to $25,000 in removing the elaborate iron bridge across the park, and shortening the fron passageway to the soldiers’ barracks and becond stories of the market build- "Sit ts understood that the Commissioners also desire to extend their building 12 or 14 feet east and west beyond the length of the wholesale market row, making the building 300 feet long, and about 100 feet deep. For the concessions on the part of the market company, the directors should authorize the executive committee (if the board decides to assent to them) to secure ample remuneration for the cost of the iron bridges, walk and stairways, which will have to be taken down and removed; and also such additional concessions, with ref- erences to the uses of the land to be used in common, and absolute concession of suffl- cient land at the east and west ends of the lot to make a broad entrance for carriages, and for ample sidewalk extending the en- tire length of the ground surrendered to the District, from 7th to 9th streets, with suit- able walks connecting with this wide side- walk around Pennsylvania and Louisiana avenues at the east and west ends of the Pi building. “If these and other just guarantees can be secured, it is undoubtedly incumbent upon the officers of the market company to said District Commissioners in carrying cut in good faith by reasonable concessions the agreements entered into between the Dis- trict officers and the Washington Market Company, which by its terms went into effect April 3, 1873, and which has been as- sented to in good falth by both parties thereto.” Market Co’s Claim Inadmissible. This memorandum was sent by the Com- missioners to Mr. S. T. Thomas, the attor- ney for the District, with the request that he furnish the Commissioners with an opi: fon regarding the bridge across the reserva- tion above referred to. Attorney Thomas today returns the memorandum with the following opinion: “It seems to me that the clatm of the market company that it should be relm- bursed the expense of erecting this bridge and for damages for being deprived of it is inadmissible. In 1878, when the market company released to the District that por- tion of the reservation within the iron rail- ings upon which the erection of a mun cipal building was contemplated, there was RO reservation of any right on the part of the market company to erect the bridge in question. The bridge was erected somo time in 1880 on request of the market com- pany, and by permission of the Commtis- stoners. The order, which is in the District archives, was dated April 27, 1880, and ex- Pressly states that it is never under any circumstances to be taken as a waiver of any right claimed by the District in said land, but that the District {s to have the right to assert and maintain all its rights and claims as fully as if it had not assent- ed to the erection of the bridge. The erec- tion of the bridge, it seems to me, was temporary, and that {t must have been the understanding and agreement of the parties at the time, that should the District re- quire the space at any time for municipal purposes the market company would re- Move the bridge without claim for compen- sation or damages.”* Chairman Babcock’s Application of a Biblical Warning. It Fits the Present Situation as Devel- oped by the Vermont and Maine Elections. ‘When a Star reporter called at the head- quarters of the republican congressional committee this morning Chairman Bab- cock was found reading a Bible. It ap- peared to be rather a surprising proceeding for a practical politician to be engaged in, especially at this stage of the game. How- ever, as it was early in the morning, and Mr. Babcock seemed to be in earnest about it, the reporter thought that probably the day’s work was to be prefaced with fam- fly prayer at the committee’s headquar- ters. As The Star reporter is a devout young man—when necessity requires—~he reverer.tly sat down and waited for the service to begin, every moment expecting Capt. McKee and the others to come in. But they did not come, and there were no further signs of morning prayer than Mr. Babcock’s intent perusal of the Bible. Then it was discovered that he also had be- fore him a morning paper with an account of the Maine elections. Further investiga- tion disclosed the fact that Mr. Babcock was reading in the Bible the account of Belshazzar's feast and the handwriting which appeared upon the wall. Fits the Present Situation. “Well, it strikes me that the interpreta- tion of the handwriting on the wall just about fits the present situation, as develop- ed by the Maine and Vermont elections,” said Mr. Batcock. He read the interpreta- tion, which all pious people remember is as follows: “God hath numbered thy king- dom and finished it. Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting. Thy king- dom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.” nm this case {t will be given to the repub- licans and populists,” added Mr. Babcock. Then he chuckled softly to himself, rubbed his hands together in satisfaction, while a most beatific smile overspread his features as his eyes greedily Cevoured the election returns. “I declare, it almost takes my breath away,” he continued. “We thought there would be great republican gains in Maine, of course, but this is not a gain, this is a revelution, a complete reversal of extsting conditions. Just think of it; Reed’s major- ity at the last election was 1,667. Now he rolls up 8,200. Somewhat of a difference, eh? What It Means. “What does it mean? Why, there can only be one meaning to it. There has been a change of conviction way down in the hearts of the people. It shows that the peo- ple were thcroughly worn out and disheart- ened at the results of democratic adminis tration and the evils it has brought to the country. It shows a dissatisfaction with democratic policies, which goes deep enough to cause men to change their political opin- fons, and It is a most significant augury for November. If such intense feeliug ainong the people exists in one section of the coun- try, as shown by the sweeping change of sentiment in Maine, it must exist in other sections too.” Sere A ee sies REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN BOOK. Recorder Taylor's Levy of Cont tions Set Forth—Other Topics Trea: ea Of. - ‘The republican campaign book, which wil be issued by the ccngressional commit- tee this week, devotes considerable space to the figure which C. H. J. Taylor, re- corder of deeds of this District, has cut In connection with not carrying out the prin- ciples of civil service reform. Mr. Taylor’s celebrated attempt to bleed the colored em- ployes of the departments for campaign cogtritutions is set forth in glowing detail in the book as one example of the way civil service reform is enforced by the ad- ministration. The references to the income tax made in the bcok are mainly quotations from dem- ocratic Congressmen who opposed the tax and democratic newspapers that advised agaitst its adoption. Senator Hill, the New York Sun and the New York Herald are permitted to utter the sentiments of the republicans about the income tax. The book Jevotes a great deal of space to Hawaiian matters. A complete history of Hawaiian affairs is given, and the attitude of President Cleveland's administration to- ward the struggling republic is fully set forth. Extracts from some of The Star’s * letters from Honolulu are quoted to irside information of the situation In The book will be larger than usual, and will contain about every sub- stantial fact and figure which could be needed to discuss public affairs. It ts ar- ranged in alphabetical order, according to subjects, and the typographical make-up of it is very good. as ——— THE POTOMAC RIVER. Maj. Davis’ Report of the Operations of Improvements Last Month. Maj. Davis has made a report to the chief of engineers of the operations during the mont’: of August for the improvement of the Potomac river. A small force of men has been employed in cutting brush on the flats and in unloading gravel in the tidal reservoir. The piles driven in the Virginia channel by the San Francisco Bridge Com- pany to mark the lines of dredging have been removed. In execution of the project for the improvement of the river, there has been dredged a channel from 350 to 500 feet wide and twenty feet deep through the bars between Georgetown and Giesboro’ Point, and a training dike has -been built to al luce the deposit. The navigation channel oe the Washington channel has been dredged to a width of 360 feet and a depth of twenty feet. The area between the navi- gation channel and the wall on section III has been dredged to a depth of tweive feet. The vedredging “of the navigation channel between the Long bridge and the upper end of the arsenal grounds bas been completed between the turn in the channel near the upper end of the arsenal. The remainder of this channel, from the upper end of the ar- senal grounds to its junction with the Vir- ginfa channel, is still to be widened to 400 feet and made twenty feet deep. The widen- ing and deepening of the Virginia channel below the Long bridge so as to facilitate the discharge of freshets and to prevent over- flow in the city are still incomplete. Practically the entire area of the flats to be reclaimed has been raised above the overflow at ordinary high ti Of the 12,- 000,000 cubic yards estimated to fill the flats to the required hi there has been de- posited on them 1¢ 4 cubic yards. An appropriati $150,000 was made by the river and harbor act of August 1894, for continuing the Potomac impr ent, Maj. Davis says he will use it to continue dredging operations in the Washington and Virginia channels and in the construction of the sea wall and the training dike. Maj. Davis says he has begun the application of the appropriation for repairs of the piers of the Aqueduct bridge by the construction of a sounding raft for use in getting an ac- curate contour of the bed of the river. See Se Fourth-Class Postmasters. ‘The total number of fourth-class postmas- ters appointed today was twenty-six. Of this number twenty were to fill vacancies caused by death and resignatioa and the remainder by removal. J. O. Carr was ap- pointed et Andrews, Spottsylvania county, Va., vice J. H. Crank, resiened. Changes That May Besult from the Coming Elections. EFFORTS OF THE REPUBLICANS They Will Seek to Get a Majority of States. THE POPULISTS’ POSITION Col. Ike Hill, the veteran and picturesque assistant sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives, has gone to Ohio to plunge elbow-deep in the state campaign. Col. Hill is always a hard fighter, and, better than that, a Shrewd guesser. He can esti- mate, as can no other man, the probabilities for and against & quorum. His capacity for statistics is amazing. He is said to have a long-range political eye, and hence his most recent forecast of the situation in Ohio is regarded as peculiarly valuable. The democrats, he estimates, will carry probably six congressional districts in that state this fall. There are twenty-one districts in Ohio, of which the republicans now hold ten and the democrats eleven. It will thus be seen that according to Col. Hill's belief, the party now in control in the House will, in the next Congress, have lost at least five dis- tricts, thus losing the control of the state delegation. A Majority of States. The republican managers of the present campaign will not only seek to secure an actual majority for their party in the House, but have also quietly determined to bend their efforts to securing a majority of the states for use in case the presidential election should be throv n into the House of Representatives. They have realized that the presence of the President, in the person of Mr. Cleveland, for two more years will nullify any attempts at party legislation that might be undertaken, even though both houses of Congress might be carricd by the republicans. It would, therefore, be an entirely empty honor for rhem to secure control of the House, except so far as the distribution of offices may go. Then, too, the control of the Senate ts, if anything, further away from them than the control of the House, for the flop cf Senator Jones to the populists the other day hes reduced the already slim chances of reversing the conditions of the upper house. pa They have, therefore, it is well under- stood, determined to lay their wires so that the present democratic majority of the states in the House may be reversed. On this point there are some interesting figures at hand, made doubly so by Col. Hill’s confession that his party cannot hope to secure a majority of the congressional dis- tricts in Ohlo. There ar forty-four states represented in the House at present. The Constitution requires that an actual ma- jority of the states shall vote, in order to elect the President, in case that question should be thrown into the House. With Utah counted, this state being admitted to representation in the Fifty-fourth Congress, which will be the one to count the vote of the electors, there will be forty-five states, and the present majority of twenty-three will remain the same. Thus the admission of Utah will not make the task of the re- publicans in this regard any harder, as it will not increase the limits they will have to reach, and it may prove a benefit by the election of a republican delegation. The Present Status. The democrats now have control of the delegations from twenty-six states, as fol- lows: Alabama, 9 to 0; Arkansas, 6 to 0; California, 4 democrats, 2 republicans, 1 Populist; Connecticut, 3 to 1; Delaware, 1 to 0; Florida, 2 to 0; Georgia, 11 to 0; Illinois, 11 to 10; Indiana, 11 to 2; Kentucky, 10 to 1; Louisiana, 6 to 0; Maryland, 6 to Missis- .Sippl, 7 to 0; Missourl, 14 to 1; New Jersey, 6 to 2; New York, 19 to 15; North Carolina, 8 to 1; Ohio, 11 to 10; Rhode Island, 2 to 0: South Carolina, 6 to Tennessee, 8 to 2; Texas, 1% to 0; Virginia, 10 to 0; West Vir- io. to 0; Wisconsin, 6 to 4; Wyoming, 0 0. The republicans have now majorities in fourteen of the state delegations. Th Idaho, 1 to 0; Iowa, 10 to 1; Maine, 4 to 0; Massachusetts, 9 to 4; Michigan, 7 to 5: Mignesota, 4 republicans, 2 democrats, 1 populist; Montana, 1 to 0;’ New Hampshire, 2 to 0; North Dakota, 1 to 0; Oregon, 2 to 0: Pennsylvania, 20 to 10; South Dakota, 2 to 0; Vermont, 2 to 0; Washington, 2 to 0. It may not be well known that the popu- lists now have majorities in three of the state delegations, and hold the balance of power in a fourth. The populist states at Present are, according to their congression- al delegations: Colorado, 2 populists to none of the other party; Kansas, 5 Populists, 2 republicans, 1 democrat; Nevada, 1 popu- list, Mr. Newlands, who must’ be now credited a populist in the light of the action of the two Senators. The Nebraska delega- tion {ts so divided among the three parties that none has a majority. There are three republicans, two populists and one demo- crat, giving the populists practically the balance of power. What Must Be Done. It will thus be seen that the republicans wili have to gain control of nine more states, besides holding their present four- teen, in order to secure the coveted twen- ty-three to control the electoral vote in case it will be needed. On the other hand, the democrats, losing control of four states, will fall below the actual majority. The most likely states to be captured by the republicans are Illinois, Ohio, Wyoming, Rhode Island and Connecticut, six in all. Should the ratio of loss to the democrats which Col. Hill expects in Ohio prevail in all of the northern and eastern states, especially in the districts known to be favorable to the protective policy, New York is nearly certain to go to the republi- can column and there are strong chances to that end in West Virginia .and New Jersey. In fact, New Jersey is by some of the managers counted as surely republi- can in the next House. It is thought that there may be also a fighting chance in Cal- ifornia, Delaware and Indiana, where, how- ever, the present delegation is overwhelm- ingly democratic. It will thus appear that the republicans have considerable material to work upon in this campaign in the matter of securing state delegations, but the fact must not be forgotten that several of the western states are republican by but slight majorities and that these will have to be held by the republicans against the populist movement, which has certainly gaiied strength from the defection of Senator Jones. For ex- ample, there are very narrow divisions between republican control and defeat in Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and Washington. The election in Oregon has already been held and has re-established republican supremacy. It is quite possible that the populists will not only succeed in holding the bal- ance of power ai the electors, by se- curing the electoral vote of two or three of the western states, but may further hold the balance of power by securing con- trol of the delegations from three or four of the states in case the representatives of the two great parties should be almost equal. This is by no means a distant cou- tingency and the complications which may result from it are far too numerous to be recited at this distance of time from the election, ———_—__+ e+_____ Treasury Receipts. National bank notes received today for redemption, $112,890. Government receipts— From internal revenue, $114,400.92; | $491,661.56; miscellaneous, $15,449.; The Issue of the Stamps in This District. The Large Amount Contributed in ‘This City as Internal Revenue Tax —The Mile Limit Restriction. ‘When the game is made nowadays and the chips are all distributed and the kitty Prepares to purr in response to regular attention and the stability of the banker is found to be beyond question the cover is rot removed from the cards as easily as of yere. At the meeting of the flaps where the mucilage never managed to stick at all urder the old conditigns there is now a mark of Uncle Sam’s approval in the shape of a canceled 2-cent internal revenue stamp. It makes no difference what kind of cards the players may be using. The gilt-edged articles that a man must spread out in both hands in order to find out what he has got; the thin and delicate “‘squeez- ers” that cause such a riot of anticipation in the mind of man who slowly brings the tiny indicators on their edges into view and firds fqur diamonds in the first four cards while a jackpot lifts {ts attractive head upon the green baize cloth and then strikes a spade in the last exciting squeeze; the packs that are given away as railroad ad- vertisements and the plain, common, reughly finished and poorly printed “‘steam- beats,” all stand alike in the estimation of the internal revenue bureau, which places a charge of two cents on every deck in accordance with che requirements of the Gorman tariff law. They Did Not See It That Way. Since the act weut into effect something like 25,000 stamps for playing cards have been sold to whoiesale and retail dealers in the District of Columbia, and there would have been a good many more if the manu- facturers of the articles had succeeded in being half as cute as they wanted to be. Before the tariff bill became a law, these wise commercial gentlemen dropped a cent a deck in the price they charged for their cards, and sent out their charmingly en- gaging representatives to prevail upon cus- tomers to give big orders on account of the reduction. But the local dealers were wise in their generation. ‘They couldn't see the economy in buying cards at sudh a discount and then being compelled to pay two cents duty on every deck in a week or two, so they added nothing to their stock, and, con- sequently, not more than 30,000 packs of cards were in their hands when the two- cent tax went into effect. On nearly all of these the required stamp has been placed, and the future payment of the tax will de- volve upon the manufacturers, who have not been allowed to send out any cards since August 28 without bearing. the necessary stamp. There are some people, thowe who want the stemps intended for retatl- ers and others having cards on hand when the tariff bill went into effect a good deal more than the dealers themselves. There will be n» more issues of thé stamp; of the character alluded to, and, therefore, the stamp collectors are after them like a bee marten after a Mayfly. To sacure them, however, a purchaser must make oath that he has cards in his possesston subject to the duty, and at this writing mumerous en- thusiastic philatelists are su: led, like Mahomet's coffin, between the glory of com- pleting thei collections andthe moral gloom of perjury. The cl are that some of them them will drop. The Mile Limit., The card stamp tax is not the only thing of interest connected with the local internal revenue office, however. A good many peo- ple will be surprised to learn that its re- ceipts amount to about $200,000 annually. A large proportion of this comes, of course, from liquor licenses, wholesale dealers pay- ing $100 per annum and retail dealers $25. A singular thing about the District regard- ing these lcenses is that the District of Columbia is the only state or territory which contains territory in which the United States cannot grant a liquor leense, and in which the District authorities them- selves are equally powerless, This ts the territory embraced in the “mile limit.” Uncle Sam can and does license the whol2- sale traffic of liquor in any local option state or county in the Union, but when he reaches the mile limit his authority ceases, It is a mighty good thing for the mile limit, too. Smokers" will be interested to learn that there are eighty or ninety cigar factories in the District, and there is no telling how many Havana and Key West cigars are made right under the nose of the bronze lady on the dome. The figures of the annual output will be found surpris- ing, too, as stamps were sold that repre- sented over 375,000 cigars made during Au- gust, making the year’s local manufacture reach the handsome total of about 4,500,000 clgars. No instructions have yet been sent out by the treasury officials regarding the collec- tion of the Income tax, and no appropria- tion is available foc the expenses attendant upon the extra work that will be necessary, but the local internal revenue receipts will probably be doubled as soon as the tax levied can be collected. Cards That Are Exempt. To return to the card stamps, the Treas- ury. Department recently ruled that packs of cards known as “old maid,” “authors,” and similar games which are played with cards other than the regular pasteboards used in duplicate whist, euchre and oc- casionally seven-up and poker, are not sub- ject to the two-cent duty.’ Accordingly some wise manufacturer has {ssued an “old maid” pack. It consists of a euchre deck, with the addition of a card bearing the visage of a sour-looking elderly female, sup- posed to be the old maid. It merely takes the place of the joker and can be used in the game or not, as the players please. This subterfuge, however, is composed of small, cheap cards that sell wholesale for a cent a pack, and no decision has yet been reached by the commissioner of internal revenue on the question of their Mability to tax. The new tax has sent the wholesale price of cards up two cents a pack. Cards that were 90°cents a dozen decks are now $1.14; those that brought $1.50 now command $1.74, and so on up the scale, Thig increased cost, however, is not expected to make poker players take up dominoes or to have the effect of breaking up duplicate whist clubs. } ——___+e. Personal Mention. Assistant Secretary McAdoo returned to the city this morning from a holiday in the Adirondacks and relieved Admiral Ram- say of his extra duties as acting, secretary of the navy. Mr. Campbell Carrington has returned home after a trip of several months to Europe. Dr. Dabney, acting secretary of agri- culture, has returned from his vacation in the south. Third Assistant Postmaster General Craig left last night for Buffalo to remain several days. Rev. S. G. Lamkins, pastor of the Salem Baptist Church on Champlain avenue, has gone to attend the national Baptist con- vention, which meets in Montgomery, Ala., tomorrow. cae Hot Springs Reservation. Superintendent J. W. Little of the Hot Springs reservation, and Capt. Stevens, en- gineer in charge, held a long interview to- day with Acting Secretary Sims at the In- terior Department. The object of the inter- view was to cofffér about the management of the springs and discuss the condition of the work and the plans for improvements. Both Superintendent Little and Capt. Stev- ens urged an additional expenditure of $5,000 to complete the work of improve- ment now .in progress. They will leave | here tomorrow night. >——_ Some of the Questions Raised by the Louisiana Planters. THE SECRETARY DECIDES ONE He Declines to Appoint a Force of Inspectors. TIME OF PRODUCTION The repeal of the sugar bounty clause of the McKinley act by the Gorman tariff law has occasioned much trouble to Sec- retary Carlisle, especially in view of the Persistent efforts of the Louisiana con- Sressional delegation to secure a construc- tion of the legislation as favorable as pos- sible to the interests of the sugar planters of the south. His decision on several of the questions raised by them with respect to that subject is embodied in a letter written by him to Senator Caffery today. His ac- tion in this matter is entirely in accord with the predictions made in The Star of Saturday. He purposely refrains for the present of acting on the question as to the right of bounty on suger actually pro- duced before the present law took effect. That will be a subject for future consid- eration. The impression is strong that Secretary Carlisle feels that he hi no authority to pay a bounty on sugar after August 28 last, regardless of the time of the production of the sugar. The Secretary's Letter. The text of his letter to Senator Caffery is as follows: “I have carefully ccrsidered your favor of the-2th of August, and also the communi- cation of the Porydrus Planting an@ Manu- facturing Company of Louisiana, request- ing the appointment of an cfficial force to inspect, weigh and test the sugar to be pro- duced during the present fiscal year, with a view to ascertain the amount of money claimed to be payable thereon under the third section of the act entitled ‘An act to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes,’ approved October 1, 1890, and have reached the con- clusion that, under existing — ers the department has no power to appoint or pay any officers for the performance of the duties indicated. m4. ph 182 of the act entitled “An act to reduce taxation, to provide revenue for the government, and for other purposes,’ which became a law on the 28th of August last, provides: . ‘That so much of the act entitled “An act to reduce revenue, equalize duties, and for other purposes,” approved October 1, 890, as provides for and thorizes the issue of licenses to produce sugar, and for the payment of a bounty to the producers of sugar from beets, sorghum or sugar cane grown in the United States, or from maple sap produced within the United States, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and here- after it shall be unlawful to issue any Mcense to produce sugar, or to pay any bounty for the production of sugar of any kind under the said act.’ “Whatever may be the correct construc- tion of this clause as to the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay bounty on sugar actually produced while the act of October 1, 1890, remained in force, I think it was clearly the legislative intention that no bounty should be paid on sugar pro- duced after the repeal; and if no bounty is to be ow such sugar, it is not reason- able to suppose that the appointment of in- spectors, weighers, etc., was contemplated. Moreover, Congress has made no appropria- tion for the employment of such officials, ard the laws of the United States prohibit the appointment of officers to serve with- out pay, or to be paid by others than the government itself.” ——__-e AMERICAN SAILORS. ‘The New Law for the Naturalization of Enlisted Men the Navy. Acting Secretary Ramsay of the Navy Department has taken steps to put into effect the act of Congress providing for the naturalization of enlisted men in the navy. Efforts to this end have been made for many years past, but were unsuccessful up to the last session of Congress. The act making appropriations for the naval cervice for the fiscal year ending June 30, 18%, ap- proved July 26, 1894, among other things, provides as follow ‘An alien of the age of twenty-one years and upward who has en- listed or may enlist in the United States navy or marine corps, and has served or may hereafter serve five consecutive years in the United States navy or one enlist- ment in the United States marine corps, and has been or may hereafter be honorably discharged, shall be admitted io become a citizen of the United States upon his peti- tion, without any previous declaration of bis irtentian to become such; and the court ad- mitting such alien shall, in addition to proof of good moral character, be satisiled by competent proof of such person's service in an honorable discharge from the United States navy or marine corps.” This provision of law has been embodied into a general order, copies of which have been forwarded to commanding officers of ships and stations, with instructions that it is to be read and explained to the enlisted men under their command, and coptes of it posted in convenient places for reference. Orders were recently issued by the Navy ‘ment to commanding officers, in- structing them to take a census of their crews and to report just how many of them are American citizens by birth; how many are citizens by naturalization, and how many are aliens. Many responses to this order have already been received. They show that between 80 and 85 per cent of the crews of naval ships claim residence in the United States. Officials of the department are of opinion, however, that nearly 40 per cent of the en- listed strength is made up of foreigners, and it is expected that a majority of these will take advantage of the present oppor- tunity of becoming full-fledged citizens of the United States. To do so all that is necessary is for them to show that they have served five consecutive years in the navy, or one enlistment in the marine corps. A conservative estimate is that at least 20 per cent of the aliens in the United States navy will take out naturalization papers under this new provision of law. Th pros- pects, therefore, are good that our naval vessels will be manned almost entirely by American citizens instead of by aliens, as has been the rule in the past. $<. _____ Canadian Lumber Free. Secretary Carlisle decided today, in a let- ter addressed to the collector of customs at New York, that the “reciprocity” condition attached by the new tariff bill to the pro- vision for the free admission of lumber did not apply to the Dominion of Canada. The letter says: “Referring to paragraph 683 of the act of August 28, 1894, which provides that when articles of wood mentioned in the free list of said act are imported from any country which lays an export duty or imposes dis- criminating stumpage dues on any of them, they shall be subject to the duties existing prior to the passage of said act, I have to inform you that this department ts official- ly advised that there are no export duties on the articles in question when brought from Canada, and that no discriminating stumpage dues are imposed by the dominion government. Such importations will, there- fore, be entitled to free entry.” Oorea and Japan Have Reached an Agree- A telegram was received at the Japanese legation this morning to the effect that an important treaty has been negotiated be- tween Corea and Japan, which ~authorita- tively defines the relations of the two coun- tries toward each other and toward China. The object of the treaty is stated in the Preamble to be the mutual desire on the part of the Emperor of Japan ‘and the King of Corea to definitely fix and determine the attitude of each country toward the other, with a view of clearly elucidating the existing relations between Japan and Corea, which have been created by the re- quest which the Corean government has made of the Japanese government to compel the Chinese to evacuate Corea. To secure concerted action for the more effective accomplishment of this object this treaty of alliance between the two countries was signi at Seoul on the 26th of August by Mr. Otort, the envoy to Japan, and the Corean minister for foreign affairs. The treaty consists of three articles: Article I defines the object of the alliance to be the strenghtening and perpetuation of the independence of Corea as an autono- mous state, and the promotion of the mutual interests of Japan and Corea by compelling the Chinese forces to withdraw from Corea and by obliging China to aban- don her claim of the right to dominate the affairs of that country. Article II binds the Jnpanese government to carry on warlike operations against China, both offensive and, defensive; the Corean government is bound by the article to afford the Japanese forces every possible facility in their movements and to furnish them with supplies of provisions at a fair remuneration so far as such supplies may be needed. By article III it is provided that the treaty shall terminate so soon as a treaty of peace shall have been concluded by Japan with China, NAVAL MOVEMENTS, The United States Vessels in Chinese Waters, Ete. The Navy Department is informed that the gunboat Petrel arrived at Yokohama, Japan, yesterday from Bering sea: that the gunboat Concord sailed from Yokohama yesterday for Chemulpo, Corea, to relieve the flagship Baltimore, and that the cor- vette Monocacy arrivéd at Tien © Tsin, China, yesterday. The cable messages bringing this information were uniformly silent with respect to the political situation inthe countries named. The cruiser Charleston, which left San Francisco on the 26th ultimo, is due at Yokohama on the 2ist instant. Her arrival will complete the American fleet in Chinese waters so far as Present orders are concerned. The gunboats Machias and Castine, now at New York, will ultimately go to that station, and the former ey Sart ae Oe 1 eM Beati The Monterey a Wash., and the Adams, ‘urs slight accident during her cruise in Bering sea, has sailed from Whatcom, Wash., for San Fraricisco, where she will be examined and repaired. ‘The Steamer Portia at Full Speed Ran . Down a Schooner. NEW YORK, September 11.—The steamer Portia from Halifax has arrived at City Is- land and reports that she ran into and sunk the three-masted schooner Dora M. French yesterday afternoon about four miles from Cuddyhunk light. Four out of the five men comprising the schocner’s crew were drown- ed. The accident occurred a few minutes af- ter 1 o'clock, in a dense fog. The steamer was running,full speed, blowing her whistle at short intervals. She struck the sailing vesse] just forward of the foremast and cut her in two. The latter sank in less than two minutes, going down head foremost and leaving her broken foremast and sails across the Portia’s bow. One man could be seen swimming amidst the wreckage, and two others were visible just below, striving to reach the surface, but they were caught in the vortex and borne down. A boat was quickly lowered by the steam- er and one man picked up. His name is Jeremiah Murphy of New York. He was mate of the lost vessel, and gives the fol- lowing account of the disaster: “The Dora M. French nailed from Bangor, Me., and left Hoboken last Friday with coal for Boston. We were on the starboard tack, steering east and sailing about seven knots. It was very thick. A man was on outlook and the horn was frequently blown. I was at the wheel. We heard the steamer whis- te, and Bair o. jminute later saw her right abeam. put the helm hard down, hy she would clear us. eed “She struck the port bow near the fore- mast and cut clear through. I could see the boards breaking on the opposite site. I saw the schooner was going to sink and began to get the boat ready. The captain got an ax from the cabin. I was in the boat. He cut the tackle away. The boat fell, filled and went down. I went down wrt i. came up I saw the schooner down by the head. To avoid suction “7 pushed away. First I got hold of a piece of wood, then of a door, but these would not hold me. Then I got hold of a spar and held on till picked up. I was pretty near gone then. The captain’s name was French. He lived in Lincoinville, Me., and was part owner. I had only been on the vessel three weeks and do not know the names of the seamen. The steward was called Sim and lived at Bucksport, Me. He and the captain were married. One of the sailors was called Tom, the other, a German, was called Harry.” The Portia also suffered considerable damage. Her foretopmast was carried away and forty feet of rail lost. A nole Was stove in the starboard bow just below the water line and the foreward apart- ment filled with water. The passengers were at lunch at the time of collision and several were badly scared. Dr. Cook and seventeen members of his ill-starred arctic expedition were on board. This is the third serious marine disaster in which they have had part within ithe last two monthe. The Portia was a sister ship to the lost Miranda, on which the Cook party sailed for the northern seas and which was sunk in the ice. Coie CAME NEAR BLOODSHED. Angry Words Between a Breckinridge and an Owens Orator. LEXINGTON, Ky., September 11.—Coun- ty Attorney J. R. Allen, a leading Breckin- ridge campaign orator, and Prof. Chas. M. Alberti, an Owens speaker, who bave been exchanging uncomplimentary _re- marks upon the stump in the Ashland dis- trict for the past week, came together in a restaurant today and but for timely In- terference there would have been blood- | shed. Alberti made a speech at a meeting last night which Allen read in the papers. Allen started out to find Alberti and was told he was in Davis’ restaurant at break- fast. Allen entered, and alking up to Alberti, struck him in the face with an open hand. ‘One story is that Allen drew a pistol and Alberti called out that he was unarmed, and dared the former to shoot. Another story is that both men drew pistols and prepared for action, when Pro- prictor Davis separated them. Davis, Al- len and Alberti refuse to make a statement. The report of the sensational meeting has created intense excitement. THOUSANDS IN LINE Parade of the G. A.B. Veterans af Pittsburg. OVER HALF A MILLION LOOKED OM Universal Decoration of Houses Along the Line. FINE WEATHER ENJOYED PITTSBURG, Pa., September 11.—Forty, shousand men who fought to save the Union marched through the cities of Pittsburg an@ Alleghany today. The old familiar war tunes to which they and their comrades rushed to victory or to death filled the alr and echoed back from the surrounding hilis, ‘The music made their hearts beat as in the stirring times of thirty years ago, and brought the flush of pctriotism and courage to their cheeks. But while they stepped out boldly and bravely, they could not straighten thelr bent forms nor conceal their gray hair end furrowed cheeks. They carried no heavy rifle with its glittering bayonet, but aided their aged limbs with walking sticks, while here and there in the lines of blue came @ comrade on crutches. They marched no more beneath the yawning muzzles of frowning cannon, but rast battery after battery of bright eyes, while the fair enemy waved white handke-chiefs and applauded with shrill, sweet voices. On every street corner and vacant lot rose tier above tier of human faces, und as the veterans pessed cheer after cheer greeted — Every window along the route, the ire escapes and roof tops were c: while the sidewalks were packed olay from the building line to the wire ropes stretched along the curb to prevent Inter- ference with the free movement of thé parade of the Grand Army of the The Parade. F At 10:30 o'clock the parade started from the historic Monongahela House, on the banks of the river, from which it takes iw name. First came company A, second bat- tation, naval reserves, guard of honor to Commander-in-chief Adams. Then fole lowed the departments of the G. A. Sa order: meee inois, Wisconsin, Ohio, New York, Con- mecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maine, California, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Potomac, Virginia, and North Carolina, Maryland, Nebraska, Michigan, Iowa, Colorado, and Wyoming, Kansas, Delaware, Minnesota, Missourt, Oregon, Kentucky, West Virginia, Soul Dakota, Washington, and Alaska, x sas, New Mexico, Utah, Tennessee, jana, and Mississippi, Florida, Montana, Oklahoma, Indian territory, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. ‘ The Street Decorations. The decorations of the two cities were most lavish. It was stated by men who at~ tended many previous encampments that while individual displays may have ex- celled in other cities, they had never seen decorations on such a generous and general scale. Hardly a dwelling, no matter how poor, nor how far from the route of but at least had a flag, and usually a dis- play of bunting as well, while the business houses in every part of the cities made a gorgeous showing. A Half MilMon Spectators. This was not the only manner in which the gratitude, pride and patriotism of the citizens was displayed. They gave more certain evidence by the manner in which they turred out to greet the old soldiers, It is impossible to form any accurate esti mate of the spectators. Every available inch afong the route of march was packed, every side street was jammed full of people for a hundred yards back, and the house tops for blocks ‘ay were hidden by mass- es of enthusiastic applauders, A rough estimate is that between 500,000 and 600,000 people saw the parade. Of this number 300,00) or 330,000 came over the railroads, 100,000 arriving this morning. The almost innumerable lines of electric roads running to thickly. settled suburbs within @ radius of fifteen miles brought as many more. The old soldiers appreciated the done them and turned out in force, but few being seen out of line while the parade wag moving. But this was not their only reason for determining to make the parade one to be long remembered. The weather was perfect. The sky put on its deepest blue tint, reiteved here and there by white, fleecy clouds, without the gestion of a storm; the fun shone brite but its rays were tempered by @ jantly, cool and bracing breeze. It was an ideal line day for a parade, both for che men in and for the spectators. This was probably the last time the vet- erans will turn out in such force, as it is seriously contemplated by the G. A. R. offi- cials in view of the advancing age and in- firmities of the members to abandon this most “ea of the national en- erefore they proposed to make the last parade a success and ed over the two miles of route with the same determination that characterized them when they marched against the southern armies. Gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania, with his staff and a number of notable men and women from all parts of the country, oc- cupied the reviewing stand in the Alle- ghany Park, and saluted each division as it swung around and passed in review. The arrangements for the comfort of the marchers were excellent. At short dis- tances apart were stationed emergency hospitals, with the red cross fluttering be- fore the door, while all along the route were men with cool water and for the veterans, Naval Veterans Elect Officers, The National Association of Naval Vet- erans met again this morning and elected the following officers: Commodore, Will E. Atkinson, Cincin- nati; captain and shipmate, George C. Treland, Brooklyn; commander, 8. We. Shaw, Zanesville, Ohio; Meutenant come mander, J. J. Giliman, Boston. ‘aul, a member of a West Vir- struck by a Birmingham injured, but not seriously, McKinley of jo and his staff are at the Monongahela House. Army and Navy Chaplains. PATTSBURG, Pa, September 11.—The National Association of Army and Navy, Chaplains met in the Y. M. C. A. rooms, and elected Rev. T. H. Haggerty, chaplain of the ninety-third Illinois, president, an@ Chaplain C. C, McCabe of the one hundred and twenty-second Ohio secretary. A reso- lution was adopted expressing the interest which the chaplains still feel in the soldiers to whom they administered in war time, ———— Pensions Granted. Among the pensions granted today were the following: District of Columbia—Original, James H, Watson, weather bureau; original widow, Fannie Greenapple. Maryland—Original, John Smith, Baltle more; original David R. P. Grason, Calvert, Cecil county. Virginia—Original, William Allen, Hale steads Point, York county; original widows, ete., Susan Allen, Neersville T-goun coume