Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1894, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. P= biome ectte *Ss PUBLISHED Dany EXCEPT ¥, T THE STAR BUILDIN 1101 lvania Avenue, Cor, 11th Street, by . Star Newspaper Oompany, tk OBicy 40 Potter 1 PR ng Sa hee - tet _ ptm age ity cal a= ir own & al week, or 44 month. at the SERS he EE United — or Canada—postage cents wh! Quintuple ot $1 per year; tore! it added, $3.00. (intered’st the Post omice at Washington, D. ©, second-class ma‘l matter.) as {E7;A) mall subscriptions mest be paid in advance. ‘tes of advertising made known on application. Che Foening Star. Vor 85, No. 21,049. Te proof of the pudding ig in te eafing. Yesterday's Star contained 45 cofumns Of advertisements, made up of 708 separate announces ments. Bese advertisers foug§t puificite—not merefp space, WASHINGTON, D.C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1894-TWELVE PAGES. TWO CENTS. BALLOT REFORM That Will Be the Leading Cry in the '96 Campaign. EFFECT OF ROLBS CASE IN ALABAMA Thorough Investigation by the Next Congress Assured. Ese LS THE SOUTH WILL ASSIST “Kolb’s Alabama program may not yield anything to his own immediate advantage,” said a well-known and well-informed re- publican to a representative of The Star to- day, “but it is certain to be a factor in some very important campaigning on the cards for 1806. Keep your eye on the south. A general movement is on foot down there designed to give the republican party its shibboleth for the next presidential contest. That shibvoleth will be a free ballot and a fale count, and it will insure such a contest as the country has not seen since the days when national politics bore the stamp of greater things than those attaching to the bargain counter and the banking house. The party is going back to its better and its higher aspirations. It is taking up the flag of freedom again. It is essentially the party of sentiment, and achievements on the lines of sentiment, and having opened the ballot boxes to all the people it is de- termined now to insure the fair counting of all the ballots deposited in them under the law. This old phrase, I know, sounds musty, and will cause a smile, but the times are ripening now for some meaning to go with it. Material {s collecting in all quarters. Kolb will emphasize the situation in Alabama, and the congressional contests coming up from the other southern states for adjustment by the next House will complete the chain of evidence going to rove the supreme necessity of genuine bal- yt reform. And once the matter is fully and fairly presented, and the disposition shown to apply the reform equitably to all sections alike, the south, in my judgment, will support the movement as cordially as either the north, east or west.” Not the Only I “Do you mean to say that the republican party in 1806 will make its presidential campaign solely on ballot reform?” was asked. “Certainly not. But I mean to say that the emphasis in the platform will be laid on that issue, and that the appeals to the people on the stump will bear the impress of that cause. The other issues will, of course, receive the proper attention, but they will admit of no new argumenis. What is plainer, or better understood, than the attitude of the republican party on ‘oth the tariff and the financial issues? Its plans of applying the principle of protec- tion and of insuring the proper circula- tion of sound money have been explained @ hundred times over. What 1s there new to be said on the subject? Practicaliy nothing. Suppose Secretary Carlisle is drafting, and the President preparing to indorse, a new scheme of finance. If it proves to be such as the business interests approve it will not differ in any material particular from the republican policy. It cannot, and amount to anything. Mr. Cleveland's financial views are the same as those of the accredited republican leaders on that question. But he cannot employ them to the disadvantage of the repubiican party. John Sherman was before both him and Secretary Carlisle in keeping the dif- ferent dollars in circulation interchange- able. As to the tariff, that is even an old- er story. The speeches delivered in any year since 1884 will answer for the year 1896. The republican party is for preserv- ing the home market, and for doing so by adjusting the schedules to protect home in- dustries. That is the whole case. Every- body has heard both sides of it to his heart’s content apd could vote intelligently on it tomorrow without another word of explanation. But the necessity of ballot reform is so great that the case needs to be stated in all-of its fullness up to date. The country at large, engaged with other matters, does not know just how grave the situation {s; and when it comes to be stated, not with the extravagance of cam- paign oratory, but with an array of facts sworn to by unimpeachable witnesses and further supported by unimpeachable sta- tistics, the attention of the country will be attracted and the proper redress voted at the polls.” ‘A Lexow National Committee. hat will that redrese be?” “Nobody could outline its form at this time. That, necessarily, must depend on what the full investigation shows and ad- vises. You mey depend upon it that the next House will go into the subject with the intention of bringing all the facts to light. What information of consequence may escape those who are unofficially, as it were, employed to that end now will be gathered by the committee which the uext House will appoint for the work. There will be a Lexow investigation on a na- tional scale, conducted by the ablest mem- bers of that body, and with a thoroughness that will leave nothing to be desired. This committee may make a tour through the south, and through other sections where outrages on the suffrage have been alleged. “What about the force bill?” Something Better Than the Force Bill Needed. “The force bill, as that measure was known and explained, was really of no force. A more immature measure for the accomplishment of a great purpose was never brought forward in Congress. That came to be generally confessed. Whatever the new measure may be, it will nut be a copy of the so-called force bill. It should be something bett2: than that; something simpler, and drawn so as to defeat the cry —which, however, is certain to be raised in any circumstances—cf sectionalism. If the south ts more effected by the bill tran other sections of the country it will only be for the reason that the evil sought to be sorrected prevails to a greater degree down there than elsewhere. The bill must be made applicable to all sections alike.” “And you think that the south, when she comes to consider the whole question calm- ly, will support the reform?” The South Will Approve It. “I do. The better element in all the southern states deplores the conditions sur- rounding the suffrage there. It sees that great harm is accruing to the south her- self from the existence of such a state of things. Some ef the very men who helped establish terrorism and cheating at the polls ary anxious to have them stopped. They excuse their former action on the score of extremest necessity. The negro, they declare, as led by carpet baggers, was a menace to property rights and good gov- ernment. The negro 1s no longer a meu- ace. Both parties are now led by native whites, and the demand is that all the votes be fairly counted. The trouble lies in this: What was organized and put in force by all the property holders, acting, as they claimed, in defense of property and per- sonal security, 1s now betng continued by rings of politicians, whose only aim is of- fice and locel political supremacy. The men who live by politics wang che cheating to go on. The men who have the real in- terests of the south at heart want it stop- ‘The republican party is going to try to stop it.” THE TRIAL POSTPONED Commander Smith's Court Martial Set for Tomorrow. To Be Tried on Serious Charges—No ‘Time to Prepare a Plea— Proceedings Today. The naval court-martial designated by Secretary Herbert to try Commander Fred- erick Ht. Smith, retired, on charges that relate to-nis financial relations, met again today at the navy yard at 10:80 o'clock. When the court met yesterday the accused was not present, and an adjournment was had until today. During the afternoon a telegram was received at the department from Commander Smith, stating that he had been detained out of the city, and asking that the court proceedings be post- poned, ‘his request was net granted. When the court met this morning Com- mander Smith was not present, but in about two minufes he entered the room with his counsel, Gen. James E, Brady of Virginia. ‘ne judge advocate found that the court had no objection to Gen. Brady’s appearance, and proceeded to read the de- tail for the court, as follows: Commodore Rush K. Wallace, president; Capt. John A. Howell, Capt. Alexander H. McKormick, Capt. Merrill Miller, Capt. Mortimer L. Johnson, Capt. Arent 8. Crowninshield, Capt. Frank Wilds, Capt. James H. Sands, Capt. Yates Stirling, and First Lieut. Lauchheimer, marine corps, judge advo- cate. Commander Smith said he had no chal- lenge to make against the court, as thus constituied. He said he had received the charges ard specifications only a few min- utes before the court convened. The mem, bers, judge advocate and stenographer were then sworn and the room was clear- ed for the deliberation of the court. When the doors were reopened, Gen. Brady made a Statement to the court, in which he begged indulge for his un- familiarity with the meth of procedure now in vogue in courts-marfial. As to the tardiness of his client, he said that the orders from the Secretary to report to the commandant of the Washington navy yard had not reached Commander Smith until Saturday night. He had wired asking for an extension, which had been refused, and he then started at once for Washington, arriving last evening. He had had no time to go over the charges and specifications and had not settled upon the plea that he should make. Therefore Gen. Brady asked the court for an extension of time in which to consider the question of the plea. ‘The president of the court ordered the room cleared, and, after a few minutes of deliberation, called in the accused and his attorney, and announced that it had been decided to grant an extension until tomor- row morning at 10 o'clock, when the ac- cused would be required to plead. The court then adjourned for the day. The charges which Commander Smith is to answer are “scandalous conduct” and “disobedience of orders.” ——_-e-__ APPEAL ALLOWED. Counsel for the Sugar Trust Witnesses to Argue Before the Court. In the Court of Appeals Mr. Chief Jus- tice Alvey this morning announced that the court had decided to allow the appeal prayed for yesterday in the case of John W. Macartney and Elverton R. Chapman, the indicted sugar trust witnesses. The following order was thereupon entered: “In consideration of the peculiar and special nature of this case, we have, in the exer- cise of the discretionary power vested in this court under the statute, concluded to allow the appeal as prayed, and it is so ordered.” The appeal allowed by the Court of Ap- peals, as explained in yesterday’s Star, is from the decision of Judge Cole, rendered last week, overruling the demurrers filed by the defendants to the indictments re- turned against them. The action of the appellate court this merning merely de- lays the trial of the parties until after it has passed upon the validity of the indict- ments, and its action of today is an excep- tion in the matter, the usual practice of the court being to refuse to pass upon a demurrer filed in a criminal ca until aftef a trial of the case is first had. As it is understood that the Court of Appeais will adjourn tomorrow until the first Mon- day in December, it is not likely that the appeal will be considered by the court much earlier than the 15th of next month. —>__. TRIMMED THEIR TAILS. Origin of the Rumor That the Presi- dent's Horses Were Docked. The Humane Society of Washington has investigated reports that the horses of the White House stables have undergone the process of tail docking and have found them to be untrue. Mr. A. 8. Pratt,president of the Washington society, received a tele- gram today from President Haynes of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, calling his attention to the matter, and asking him to take ac- tion. An agent of the local soctety went through the White House stables and found that the tails of the carriage horses had recently been trimmed, but that the flesh had not been cut at all. From the trimming the impression was probably given that the tails had been docked. The keeper of the stables informed the agent that President Cleveland was opposed to docking as being cruel and unnecessary. There is a District law fixing a penalty of $100 for docking a horse. Its passage was secured some years ago by the Hu- mane Society. It is sometimes evaded by sending horses out of the District to un- dergo the operation, for the law is always enforced in the city whenever evidence of its violation can be secured. Mr. Pratt, when seen today, said: “I was unwilling to believe that the President would have his horses docked, and am‘giad to learn that he has not done’ ees BEST FOR BRAZIL. Minister Mendonca’s Opinior of the Latest Da Gama Rebellicn, Minister Mendonca of Brazil says the re- port that the reberal admiral, Soldenia Da Gama, has assumed the leadership of 7,000 rebels agaipst the new government of Moraes, is the last expiring gasp of mon- archism in Brazil. The minister has not received official confirmation of the report, but he says that if it is true it will be a good thing for the government. The lat- ter had been disposed to treat Da Gama and other rebels with leniency, and there was prospect of general amnesty to them. In that case they would have returned to Rio Janeiro to resume their monarchial plots. But with Da Gama an open rebel jhe can be more easily dealt with than as a secret. plotter. Minister Mendonca says the government will make quick work of the Da Gama rebellion, if it proves to be true, and will thereby exterminate the last vestige of monarchy in Brazil, A DECISION WANTED As to the Status of Superintendents of Branch Post Oilices. ‘The civil service commission has asked that the Postmaster General render a de- cision as to the ranking of the superin- tendents of branch pest offices. It is a dis- puted question as to whether they are within the protection of the classified civil service. DUN AND DENB They Are Authorized to Transmit China’s Offer to Japun. MS PROBABLE TENOR OUTLINED Japan to Receive a Total Sum Ap- proximating 250,000,000 Taels. CHINA TO SUE FOR PEACE In accordance with the suggestion , of Japan the State Department has notified Minister Dun at Tokio and Minister Den- by at Peking to transmit such direct offer as China may wish to make to Japan. As the cable directions were sent Tuesday sufficient time has not yet elapsed to deter- mine whether China will consent to make an offer direct and definite, as Japan in- sists must be done. The Chinese legation here is not Informed as to what course its government will take. An Associated Press cable states, however, that China has intimated her willingness to pay an indemnity of 100,000,000 taeis, and in addi- tion pay all the war expenses incurred by Japan. As the war expenses reach 15W),- 000,000 taels the total offer of China would be 250,000,000 taels. The tael is a Chinese silver coin worth about 75 cents at the present exchange, so that the whole pay- ment would be approximately $175,000,000 American money. The amount is regarded here as quite large, and {i is believed ar- rangements between the two nations could be effected on terms providing for a small- er war indemnity. Views of Resident Diplomats. Diplomats here say that under ordinary circumstances it would take some time for China to formally present its offer to Minister Denby, but owing to the fact that the Japanese are now at the walls ef Port Arthur, about to make the last blow at China's greatest fortress, it is an- ticipated that China may hurry the nego- tlations to a conclusion. It is expected that Minister Denby will transmit the offer by telegraph to Tien-Tsin and Shanghat and thence by cable to Yokohama. The understanding is that China will pay the expenses of the American ministers in- cident to the negotiation. Watching Japa: Advance on Port Arthur. ‘The advance on Port Arthur is regarded as having an important bearing on the peace negotiations. Lieutenant Miyoka, naval attache of the Japanese legation here, says the advance movement has been most cautious, as the ground for forty miles around Port Arthur has been found fairly alive with powder mines con- nected with electric wires to Port Arthur. Three days ago the Japanese were within a day’s march of the fortress, but it was necessary to send ahead small scouting parties to pick a route away from the mines and electric wires. ‘The regular roads could pot be used for the artillery, as it would have been blown up, and ac- cordingly the big guns have had to be moved in circuitous routes through woods and morass. It is regarded as likely that this cautious march will have been com- pleted today, and the Japanese legation is hourly expecting word that the decisive blow has been struck, though a long siege may be necessary, as the fortress has one of the strongest defenses of modern tim It is believed that a Japanese success would quickly close the peace negotia- tions, but that a repulse would impel China to hold off further. Qualifications of Our Ministers. Officials and diplomats are scanning the records of Messrs. Dun and Denby to as- certain their capacity to deal with the large question committed to them. Mr. Dun has had unusual experience in Japa: Gen. Capron, who built the Japanese lega- tion in Washington, wished to send a con- signment of fine merino sheep to Jupan. The Duns had a stock farm in Ohio, and furnished the sheep, young Dun goiry to lock after them. He remained in Japat: some time, end finally married a Japanese lady of high family, by whom he had a daughtes. This attached him to the Jap- anese and made him a fixture there. Pre: ident Arthur first appoiated him as secon secretary of the United States legation ‘Tokio. When President .Cleveland’s a ministratioa began, two years ago, Cal fornia made an effort to secure tne ap- pointment of the minister to Japan for one of her favored sons. At an oppcrtune time, however, Judge Thurman, who had been on the presidential ticket’ with Mr. Cleveland fotr years before, asked the President as the only favor he had to re- quest that Mr. Dun be promote to minis- ter. The request was complied-with. Mr. Dun’s Japanese wife is deal, but his rel; tions with the Japanese are very cordial, which, with his long experience, weil fits him for the present negotiation. Minister Denby is a lawyer of ability, who has served through three administr: tions, being appointed during Mr. Cleve- land’s first term, retained vy Mr. Harrison owing to thelr personal associations in In- diana, and the objection of China to Sena- tor Blair, and again retained by Mr. Cleve- land, He has an outward austerity, which has not, however, prevented his being most acceptable to China. TO ARRANGE FOR PEACE. hinese Official Departs for Japan. TIEN TSIN, November 22.—The chief of the imperial customs here, De Ting, who was recently summoned to Pekin in order to confer with the government as to ways and means for raising money for the war, has left for Japan in order to arrange terms of peace. A 2 SAM STRONG’S CLAIM. lt is Finally Adjusted and Allowed by Sceretary Carlisle. The celebrated case of Samuel Strong against the District of Columbia, which has been in litigation for nearly twenty years, was settied by the Treasury Department The Secretary of the Tresury di- the United States treasurer to pay ard of the arbitrators, amounting 80.83, to the parties in’ interest, as follow a F. Mattingly and A. B. Du- vall, $00; William A. Cook, $5,800; Frank T. Browning, $8,869; George E. Kirk, 500; Paul Butler, administrator, $21,542.83. Costs for printing, etc., amounting to $1,)U0, were also authorized to be paid to the Na- tional Printing and Publishing Company. eee ——— NMARK’S PROHIBITION, D Official Notice of It Received at the State Department. The Department of State has received the official notice from United States Min- ister Risley, at Copenhagen, of the pro- mulgation of the decree absolutely prohib- iting the importation into Denmark of American cattle and dressed beef. Military Cadets. Cadet appointments to West Point have been issued during the past week to W. L. Walthour (alternate, Clayton, Ala.; Benj. F. Sawtelle, Bethlehem, Pa.; F. H. Laras (alternate), Easton, Pa.; David 8. Graham, Charlotte, N. C.; Wm. E. O’Briant, Lan: caster, Mo. Reserve Not Attacked and Treasury Offi- cials Cheerful. Believe the Bond Issue Will Prove a Success—The Amount Already Withdrawn by Banks, Up to 1:50 o’clock this aftegnoon the treas- ury officials had not received any notice of gold withdrawals today from the subtreas- ury at New York, and as none was made yesterday it is hoped that the worst is over. The fact that only something over $5,000,- 0v0 has been taken out of the gold reserve is not of itself of very great significance when it is recalled that during the pendency of the last issue there were practically no withdrawals until the subScriptions had been awarded and the time had come for payment. It is thought to be not unlikely that large bids will be offered and the with- drawals of gold to meet them made con- tingent on their acceptance. The danger of heavy gold losses cannot be said to have Passed until the bidders have all settled their accounts. Bids continue to come in in numbers, but, notwithstanding the spe- cific directions of the Secretary in his cir- cular to the effect that all bids must be sealed and marked “proposals for the pur- chase of 5 per cent bonds,” many of the bidders have ignored this direction, and as a consequence their bids will be thrown out as irregular. Nearly all of these, how- ever, are very small amounts, und’ aside from the disappointment which their re- jection will cause to intended purchasers it is not a matter of serious fegret. + Oe ANOTHER DELAY. ts om a Trial, but Her Air Pump Breaks. The unfortunate little Ericsson has added another to the growing list of unto- ward acciients which have prevented her from completing a successful trial. A telegram received at the Navy Department from Commodore Selfridge, president of the trial board, states that a trial was be- gun this.morning at New London. The weather conditions were perfect, and the torpedo boat was skimming along at a twenty-three-knot gait,. preparatory to rushing over the line, when one of the air pumps broke down, ending the trial ab- ruptly, This new source of delay is extremely annoying to the officials of the Navy De- partment, inasmuch as >the department has been at considerable trouble and ex- pense in preparing for the-trials that were never completed. They have the consola- tion, however, of refleeting that certain British warship: were subjected to trials lasting more thin a year before they suc- ceeded in meeting contract wequirements, while success has’ almost tmvariably at- tended the first formal efforts of our navaf shipbuilders. The o FREE GOLD F! No Mere Will Be Distribated by the Fi Commitssian. Citizens who apply to’ the “fish commis- sion for gold fish will be:doamed to disap- pointment in the future. “The commission has found it necessary to curtail the gen- erous and gratuitous distribution of these fish, which has come durjng the past five years to be a large part*Of the institution, In the futvre gold fish will be furnished only to state commissions, ta parks and for public uses generally, and will not be given to private applicants, ‘This step has been forced upon the com- mission by the steady increase of the de- mand for gold fish, which has grown until it overtaxes the forces of the bureau and interferes with more important work. There is no special law authorizing or compelling. the commission. to handle gold Caused by Congressional Largess. The custom of giving them away has grown from small beginnings, some ten years ago, until during the past five sea- sons the annual output has amounted to about 20,000 fish. Congressmen began it by sending requests to the commission to furnish friends with a globe of gold fish. Finally, it-becar-e customary to supply any applicant on the strength of a letter bear- ing congressional indorsement, and the gold fish distribution became as well rec- ognized and popular a service as the gift of garden seeds to rural voters by ‘the Ag- ricultural Department. Nearly a third of the houses in the District of Columbia, say the officials, have been supplied with fresh-water stock at government expense. eer eee SHOE LEATHER WASTED. Calculate How Much Walking to City, Post Office Costs. No one should be inclined to complain because work is being done on the post office at only .wo or three points. It is lucky for Washington that there are la- borers delving at all, The building is so large around that it takes time for the little band of devoted men to make the circuit. Today the various groups of men aggregated fifty, and the vanguard of the stone setters had reached as far as the northwest corner, where they were put- ting up the stones for the second story. Notwithstanding the fact that the gangs have now practically moved all around the block, there is not a single point in the periphery that is finished to the top of the second story. Here and there a window- cap is set, but nowhere is the wall made solid up to the floor of the third story. Meanwhile, the work is going on at the tower, where great blocks of stone are being’ set with leisurely care. The fifty men at work today furrish the potentiality to finish the building on or about the 2d of January, 1898, according to the absurdly generous calculations The Star made in the beginning. Meanwhile, eftizens are puzzling over the problem ot how much shve-leather is wasted, and is yet to be wasted, by them in their trips to the now out-of-the-way post office between how and the time when the avenue home of the office will be fin- ished. This problem offers such possibili- ties of interesting calculation that it should be.taken up seriously by some mathematiciaa with lots of spare time. mnenenipstinter THE INDIAN POLICE. Lieut. Ellis Says They Ought to Have More Pay. J. W. Ellis, lieutenant of Indian police in Indian territory, has written a letter to Secretary Smith In which he points out the diMculties that are encountered in check- ing the Cook gang and other bands of des- peradoes. He says that the deputy mar- shals and Indian police are not well enough paid to hunt down desperadoes. The In- dian police get $15 per month, and cannot afford to pay traveling and other expenses out of that amount in pursuing robbers. He complains that rewards are offered for desperadoes, but not paid if they are brought in dead. He suggests that the In- dian police should be paid $50 per month and expenses. Good men, he says, could be then obtained, and, placcd under the direc- tion of the Indlan agent, would soon rid the territory of desperaddes. He says the Cook gang is composed of two or three negroes and fifteen white men, PRA AR RL CS 6 ahd BE Fourth-Class Postmasters. Thirty-seven fourth-class ‘postmasters were appointed today, of which thirty-two were to fill vacaneles caused/by death or remo" What Three Members of the Ap- propriation Committee Say. VIEWS UPON THE FINANCIAL SITUATION One Southern Member Wants Free Coinage and One Doesn't. THE WALKER PLAN paces Sis Nee hs The House committee on appropriations got to work informally today to begin the preparation of appropriation bills. They take up the pgnsion bill first, and expect to have that ready very soon after Con- gress gesembles. Members of the commit- tee have not met before since the adjourn- ment of last session, and a good deal’ of time was consumed in the discussion of questions rising out of the political situa- tion and the relating of experiences of the campaign. x Three Different Op! Even in so small an assemblage as a single committee the difference of opinion between democrats is very strongly mark- ed. A representative of The Star talked with three democratic members of the com- mittee, Messrs. Washington, Livingstoa and O'Neil, and got three different views as to “what caused it,” what ought to be done at this session and what probably would be done. Mr. Livingston said. that he was very confident that a bill for the free and unlimited coinage of silver would be passed by both houses of Congress at this session, giving Mr. Cleveland a chance to veto it. Mr. Washington expressed the opinion that this ought not to be and! would not be done. He did not -hink that any one could at this time have any defi- nite idea what might be done at the vom- ing session, but he was very strongly of the opinion that a bill repealing the 10 per cent tax on state bank currency would be passed. He said that there was a Jemand in the south for this, and that if such a bill were passed there will be no more crying after free coinage of silver. Mr. O'Neil said that the cemocrats ovght at once to adopt the financtal plan laid down in a measure prepared Ly ltepresentative Walker, republican, of Massachusetts, which makes gold instead of bonds the basis of national i ty in their judgment as to what cauxed the democratic — as in their advice for future legisla- jon. Should Adopt the Walker P' Enlarging upon the proposition that the Walker financial scheme should be adopt- ed, Mr. O'Neil said that he was opposed to an increuse of the public Jebt, and that the necessity for a bond issue to replenish the gold in the treasury was an evidence ofthe weakness of our present financial sy8tem He did not criticise the Secretary of the Treasury for issuing the bonds, but deplored the necessity and criticised a sys- tem which occasioned the necessity. He | said that the secord issue of bonds furnish- ed evidence of the truth of what was suid about the first. That is, that it is only a temporary expedient and that the gold got in this way is immediately dissipated egain, “The right thing to do,” he said,’ “is to adopt Walker's plan. It doesn’t ke any difference about Walker being a republi- can, his plan is, in my judgment, the very best that has been prescnted, and this Con- gress should not hesitate a’ minute about adopting it. If the democrats do not adopt it this session, I feel quite confident that the republicans will at the next. This plan, instead of increasing the public debt, would ultimately wipe out the interest-bearing obligations and retire the greenbacks. What Walker proposes is that the banks shuall deposit gold on which to base their circu- lation, and shall have issued to them, dol- lar for dollar, notes for circulation, mak- ing these deposits of gold take thé place of the bonds row required by the national bank laws as security. But a small per cent of the gold thus deposited with the government is reserved for redemption purposes, and the rest is kept in circula- tion by being used for the retirement of bonis and greenbacks, or for any other purpose whieh (he needs of the government demand. In a general way the proposition is to have an abundant cwrency based on coin, and to keep all the money in motion so a3 to have it earn its own living, in- stead of being locked up moldy and use- less in the trearury vaults.” Against Free Coinage. Representative Washington, in evidence of his assertion that the people in the scuth would be satisfied with other cur- rency, and would not adhere to the doc- trine of the free coinage of silver, if they could be furnished a currency in some other way, said that in his district in Tennessee he made his canvass in oppost- tion to the free coinage of silver ard in favor of the repeal of the state bank tax, and notwithstandiny the peculiar cendi- tions existing In this campaign, he was elected by his normal majority of 6,000. Judge Patterson, Representative from the same state, fought against free silver and was elected by a large majority, whereas Snodgrass, who warned Patterson that he would have to account to the people of Tennessee for voting for the repeal of the Sherman law, was himself defeated, though he from first to last advocated the free coinage of silver. CUTTING OFF RENT. Treasury Bureaus to Be Brought Into the Department Butlding. The Secretary of the Treasury has taken steps to reduce the expenses of his de- partment In the matter of rented offices. This has been rendered possible Ly the ab- olition of the second controller's office and other offices located in the department building under the Dockery plan of reor- ganization of the accounting system. Sev- eral rooms were vacated in consequence of this action, and they have been assigned to the steamboat inspection bureau, of which Gen Dumont is the head, which for many months past has been’ occupying quarters in the Maltby building, otherwise known as the Senate annex. The force of that office took possession of their new quarters in tho treasury building today. There is no ving of rent in this particu- lar transfer, for the reason that the Malt- ig different. That bureau occupies rented quarters in the Adams building, on ever, F street near 14th. It will aiso be sheiter- ed under the roof of the treasury building, but the change will not be made until July 1 next, as the present lease runs to that date, and there would be no special ad- vantage in moving the offive at present. ee ee Money for Pensions. The Secretary of the Interior has ap- proved requisitions on the treasury for the quarterly payment of pensions at agencles as follows: Washington, $2,055,000; San Francisco, $650,000; Detroit, $1,750,001 lumbus, Oalo, $3,700,000; Boston, $1 Augusta, Me., $740,000; ‘total, $10,77: Free Delivery for Tenleytown. ‘The Post Office Department has ordered that the free delivery extension to Tenley- town shall go into effect on January 1, 189%. One mounted carrier will be required for the service. Y NO GOLD RAID TODAY OPINIONS DIFFER|THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Bishop Hurst Consulted in Regard to a Plan for the Grounds. Contributions Received for Asbury Hall—Plans for the Administration Building Well Under Way. Bishop Hurst, in behalf of the movement for the establishment of the American University at Washington, has been in con- sultation for several Cays with Mr, Freder- ick Law Olmstead upon the plan of the grounds to surround the university, Mr. Olmstead having been selected by the Com- missioners to map out a plan for the boulevard and street extension, including the extension of Massachusetts avenue, and also been employed by Bishop Hurst to lay out the grounds of the new uni- versity. Mr. Olmstead has drawn a pre- Mminary plan for the location of the pro- posed university buildings and a general topographical features of the grounds. A definite plan cannot be fixed upon,” how- ever, until the grade of Massachusetts ave- nue extended has been determined upon. Contributions to Asbury Hall. Bishop Hurst has recently returned from a tour through the west, which, while de- voted to his duties as a bishop, was also utilized to the signal advantage of the in- terests of the American University. He secured a number of contributions to the fund for the endowment of Asbury Hall, and that fund alone is now nearly $100,000. He reports indications of constantly in- creasing interest in behalf of the univer- sity on the part of the people who may be expected to render material financial aid. The movement for the establishment of the university is rapidly growing in extent, he said, and the friends of the project have every reason to be pleased with the outlook. Plans for the Administration Building The plans for the administration building are well under way, and will soon be out of the hands of the architect. While abroad last rummer Bishop Hurst visited meny of the larger universities and col- leges in Europe, and made a study of their buildings. He has thus been enabled to inferm himself upon the most modern me‘hods for the construction and arrange- tructures designed for educational purposes. It is probably well known that the plan of the American University com- prises one central structure, to be known as the administration building, and many detached buildings picturesquely located to serve as halls to be devoted to particular branches of study. The University’s Scope. In their correspondence and inquiries upon the subject of the university many people show that at the outset they are laboring under a misapprehension of the scope of the university plan. The Amer- ican University is not to afford a collegiate course, ag many seem to believe, but is designed to afford a field for higher educa- tion, and especially for research in all the advanced branches of history and science. A person, to enter the college, will be re- quired to have a bachelor’s degree from some college. —-,—- THE GEORGETOWN POST OFFICE. Indica s of Wm. A. Hutebi pointment as Superintenden The probable appointment of Mr. William A. Mutchins to succeed Mrs, Huldah W. Blackford as superintendent of the George- town branch of the city post office was generally discussed in West Washington this morning, as well as among democrats on this side of the bridge. It was stated with much positiveness that such a pro- gram was contemplated and would be car- ried out. Some of Mrs. Blackford's friends whispered it about that her resignation had been called for by Postmaster Willett; that she had refused to comply with the request, and that she would make a vigorous con- test against removal in case such action was decided upon. It was also said that Mrs, Blackford would have a strong fol- lowing in any fight she might make, large- ly composed of the many friends she has made during’ her twenty years’ connectio: with the Georgetown post office and sta- tion. Postmaster Willett had nothing to say about the matter when seen by a Star reporter this afternoon. Mr. Hutchins is a life-long resident of Georgetown and has always been active among the democrats in that section. He was a candidate for appointment as col- lector of customs of the port of George- town some months He is fifty-eignt years of age. He was a delegate from the fourth (Georgetown) district to the last local democratic convention, and was an adherent of what is knowa as the Norris faction. He has been a member of the central democratic committee for many years, and is still connected with that or- ganization. During the first Cleveland ad- ministration, when Mr. Ross was post- master of Washington, Mr. Hutchins was offered the postmastership of Georgetown, but declined it, for the alleged reason that the offer was coupled with the condition that he retain the republican assistant. When Mr. Manogue was made collector of Georgetown cne of his first acts was to offer Mr. Hutchins an $1,800 clerkship, but the latter did not fancy a subordinate pesition, and declined it with thanks, ——— To Set Artillery Line Ranges. In pursuance of the recommendation of the fortilicatious board, a board of artil- lery officers, composed of First Lieuts, H. L. Harris and W. C. Rafferty, first artil- lery, and First Lieut. I. N. Lewis, second artillery, has been created, under the name of the board on the regulation of sea coast artillery fire, to meet upon call of the senior member at points in New York har- bor, for the purpose of devising and recom- mending a practical system of utilizing sea ccast range finders and directing the fire of fortifications against an, attacking fleet. Gen. Miles has been instructed to place at the disposal of the board, when necessary, all of the appliances of the forts in New York harbor, and detail men and officers to assist them. Ap- Ee The Standard Time. Minister Buchanan at Buenos Ayres has informed the Secretary of State that the Argentine Republic has adopted the stand- ard time system in use in the United States, and that it was put into operation on the Ist instant. Under the new system, all railways and public institutions will be governed by Cordoza time, which will be given daily by the national observatory at that point. + Vice Presidents’ Busts in Their Niches Busts of Vice Presidents Stevenson, George M. Dalles ard Elbridge Gerry have been placed In the vice presidential niches in the Senate gallery. The Aaron Burr statue has been placed in one of the gal- lery zorridors, preparatory to transferring it to its permanent quarters inside the Senate chamber. Treasury Receipts, National bank notes recelved today for redemption, §286,443. Government receipts —From internal revenue, $487,000; customs, $315,315; miscellaneous, $15, —_———+e Personal Mention. Governor-elect Lord of Oregon, accom- panied by Mrs. Lord, is in the city. ‘Lieut, W. H. Scheutze of the navy has renewed his lease of the residence of Mr. Daniel R. Case, on 16th street near” O street. —_H W. T. WALTERS DEAD Owner of Baltimore's Famous Gallery of Art. HAD BEEN ILL FOR TWO WEEKS Interested in Nearly Every Important Enterprise of His City. GREAT SHOCK TO HIS FRIENDS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. BALTIMORE, November 22.—Mr. Will- jam T. Walters, one of the wealthiest and best known citizens of Baltimore, and owner of the finest private art collection in the world, died this morning at 10:30 o'clock at his home, 5 Mt. Vernon place. The immediate cause of his death was paralysis of the stomach, although of re- cent years Mr. Walters had suffered great- ly from rheumatic gout. ‘The news of Mr. Walters’ death did not become known down town until shortly before noon, and it created general com- ment and regret. He was neially in- terested in nearly every important enter- prise in Baltimore, and his deMise was a severe shock to his wide circle of friends. Although he had been seriously ill for two weeks, it was thought he would rally. Mr. Walters was in his seventy-sixth year and a widower. His wife died in London in 1862. He left a daughter, the wife of Mr. Warren Delano of Orange, N. J., and one son, Mr. Henry Walters of the At- lantic Coast Line Company. Mr. Walters was one of the most prom- inent railroad and business men in the United States. He was one of the promot- ers of the Atlantic Coast Line system, and served as its president up to the time of his death. He was the largest individual holder of thé stock and bonds of that cor- poration, and personally looked after the affairs of the company. No railroad has done more to develop the south than the Atlantic Coast Line, and Mr. Walters had this fact in mind when he began agitating a continuous line from the Atlantic coast states to the gulf states. He was also interested in the Northern Central Railroad Company as a_stock- holder, and served in the board of direc- tors of that company before Its absorp- tion by the Pennsylvania. He was instru- — in bringing about that consolida- jon. Mr. Walters was also vice president of the Safe Deposit and Trust Company of this city, and one of the largest holders of its securities. He was largely interested in local bank stocks, and was importuned to serve several of them as director, which he declined, owing to his other large in- terests. He had been identified with south- ern developments since 1871. Mr. Walters took an active interest in the organization of the Southern Investment Company, which has done so much to attract capital to that section. He owned large tracts of Jand in the south, and was interested in several of the wealthiest enterprises in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama and other southern states. In addition to the wealth of pictures in Mr. Walters’ gallery there are over 3, pieces of oriental porcelain and ceramics, many of them marvels of design and color- ing, masterpieces of stat and @ su. perb collection of bronzes. ive years of his life were spent In Europe, where became intimately acquainted with artist and works of art, and where he secured the greater part of his rare possessions. His reputation for soundness of judgment and correctness of taste in matters of art was national. He was art commissioner from the United States to the Paris ex- Position in 1867; to the Vienna exposition in 1878, and again to the Paris exposition in_ 187! He was one of the permanent trustees of the Corcoran gallery :n Washington and was chairman of the purchasing commit- tee of that institution. He was trustee of the estate left for art purposes by the sculptor, W. R. Rinehurt, who was indebt- ed largely to Mr. Walters for his art edu- cation. He was one of the trustees of the Pea- body Institute. He adorned the squares adjaceat to the Washington monument with several bronzes—one of them, a great lion, a masterpiece of Baryeo, made for the Tuilleries in 1847. Mr. Walters published various transla- tions and treaties by eminent authorities upon matters of art, and in this way also greatly encouraged its popular introduction into America. Speaking of his gallery, Mr. Walters said recent. “The collection has been by me personally; I spent forty years in doing it. They have been to me very agreeabl years, as they have brought me in contact with much that is beautiful and ennobling and gained for me the friendship of dis- tinguished artists. “I have visited every International art exhibition for thirty years, and have done all in my power in a practical way to pro- mote the growth of art in this country.” "Phe Replica of Delarache’s, “Hemicycle,” is perhaps the most interesting historically, of the paintings. Competent judges agree that in “The Duel After the Masquerade” Mr. Walters secured Gerome’s masterpiece, Gleyre’s “Lost Illusions” was painted for Mr. Walters by Gleyre himesif, and signed by_ him ‘There are two pictures by Dagnan Bou- veret. One of these pictures, “The Acci- dent,” was awardee a first-class medal at the saloa of 1880, and was purchased from the salon by Mr. Walters. Amorg the other artists Lig egos are Millet, Meissonier, Delacroix, Diaz, Trayon, Bidas and others. There are nearly three hundred pictures in the gellery, each one of them, for some reason, worthy of the distinguished com- pany of its fellows. Then there was the famous peach-blow vase, for which Mr, ‘Walters was said to have paid $10,000, Mr. Walters was avery wealthy man. It is estimated that his estaie will be worth ten millions dollars. Liltigicinneaney GOV. BROWN WITHDRAWS. Me Will Net Be a Candidate for Re- nominath Specin: Dispatch to The Evening Star. BALTIMORE, Md., November 22.—Sena- tor Gorman has won the first blood in the contest for the control of the state con- vention next year and his opposition to the renomination of Governor Frank Brown has forged the latter gentleman to withdraw finally and definitely from the contest. The governor today an- nounced that he was out of the fight and did not propose to be a candidate for re- nomination. He says that after the ex- piration of his term he will devote all his Time to attending to his duties as president of the Traction Company. Senator Gor- man's friends are all openly supporting State Senator Thomas G, Hays for gov- ernor, and are making the question of a reassessment of the property in the state the main issue. a GEN. BOOTH AT. CHICAGO, The Salvation Army Commander Re- ecived by the Press Club. CHICAGO, November 22.—General Beoth of the Salvation Army arrived in Chicago today, and after a few hours’ rest was tendered a reception by the Chicago Press Club. He made a lengthy address, express- ing pleasure at the receptions he had re- ceived in the eastern cities. General Booth will remain in Chicago until next Thurs- Gay, and elaborate preparations have been made by the Salvation Army for va- rious public apnesrancea