Evening Star Newspaper, December 22, 1894, Page 2

. YHE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1894-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. LATE NEWS BY WIRE Effect of Schmittberger’s Startling Statement. INSPECTOR WILLIAMS MUCH EXCITED Commissioner Sheehan Denies the Charges. WHAT MAYOR GILROY SAYS ———— NEW YORK, December 22.—Police In- spector Alexander S. Williams was plainly upset today in consequence of yesterday's testimony before the Lexow committee. A reporter who asked him for a state- ment regarding Capt. Schmittberger’s sworn statement that money collected from lawbreakers had been regularly di- vided with Williams and other police off- cials, was the recipient of a volley of vile epithets hurled at him by the inspector, who also advanced upon the|reporter with clenched and upraised hand. “Get out of here,” roared Williams. “I won't talk to anybody.” A suggestion that he was the one favored in being given an opportunity to clear him- self in the estimation of the public merely angered the inspector the more. “You're a d— fool,” he shouted. “You don't know enough to take no for an answer. Go out of here or I'll have you put out.” Inspector McAvoy, who 1s also implicated in bribe-taking by Capt. Schmittberger’s testimony, asserts that he never received money from Schmictberger. The statement of the latter that McAvoy had professed reluctance to accepting money collected from women of disrepute, and had received it unhesitatingly when told that it was contributed by policy shop and pool room keepers, he absolutely denies. Superintendent Byrnes would not talk of the incidents of yesterday, and took refuge behind the locked door of his private room. Among people who generally have good foreknowledge regarding police exposes there is a well defined expectation that In- spector Williams will be heard before the xow committee before it concludes the which will be on It is represented that Williams regards himself as having been attacked by Schmittberger with, the pur- pose of shielding himself and Superintend- ent Byrnes. Friends of Williams are represented as noting in this connection the long-standing enmity between the superintendent and the ranking inspector and the fact that Schmittberger, once a bosom friend and the confidential wardman for Williams, has of late been on terms of intimacy Wwitn Byrnes. These people see throughout Schmitt- berger’s testimony of yesterday evidence that Byrnes was always in the captain's mind, and that care was taken from first to last to shield the superintendent. The feeling between Williams id Byrnes is one of bitter resentment, and upon this and theories above recited are based the expectations of a counter confession by the inspector. Mayor Gilroy was asked if he intended to take any steps to bring about the removal of Commissioners Martin and Sheehan in consequence of Capt. Schmittberger’s state- ments yesterday. “Before taking any action charges would have'to be preferred against these com- missioners to me. I, being the judge in the case, could not take the initiative. As yet the matter has not been brought to my attention officially. If the charges bey made and proven I could only recom- to the governor their dismissal.” The mayor was told of a rumor that charges were to be preferred against the mentioned members forty-elght hours. “Well, if they are, let them come,” said he. “Anyway, I don’t think I'd have time to do anything during my term,” continued the mayor in con- clusion. Commissioner Sheehan was emphatic in his denial of the statements affecting him which were embodied in Captain Schmitt- berger’s testimony, and he challenged the in (who is at home prostrated by the nervous strain under which he has been existing recently) to produce the incrim- inating letter alleged to have been written in the interest of the gambler Proctor. A special meeting of the police board will be held on Monday to consider the Schmittberger testimony. Lawyer Louis Grant, who fs acting for Commissioner Sheehan, said today that Captain Schmitt! er dare not produce the letter which he yesterday asserted had been sent him by the commissioner with relation to the man Proctor in the gam- bling matter. within —_ CANADA’S DEAD PREMIER. The Remains Taken Aboard the Blen- heim at Portsmouth. PORTSMOUTH, Eng., December 22.—Af- ter a night of pitiless rain, the weather cleared shortly before 9 o'clock this morning, and under a bright sky the body of the late Sir John Thompson, premier of Canada, left London for Portsmouth amid the profound silence of a large crowd of people, who stood bare- headed in and about the Victoria railroad station until the train was out of sight. Shortly after the funeral train with the remains had left, Father Longinotti com- menced a private funeral service, which lasted while the train traveled a long way on its journey to this port. So soon as the funeral train was signaled outside of Portsmouth, at 11:20 a.m.,all the ships in the harbor half-masted their en- signs, and the first of the twenty-minute guns boomed a salute across the waters. At this sound all the flags ashore were dipped. Shortly after the arrival of the funeral train, however, there was a heavy down- pour of rain. But, it was only a shower and soon passed off, although it detained the procession for several minutes. Then the officers of H. M. 8. Blenheim gave several sharp orders, and eight blue- jackets removed the coffin from the train and a procession was formed, headed by the bishop of Portsmouth, in full purple robes. The coffin was carried direct trom the railroad station to the South Jetty dock- yard, where the Blenheim was moored, passing the royal yacht Alberta on. its wa: ‘As the procession moved, the general silence was broken by the discharge of guns from Nelson's ship, the Victory, and all the other ships in and about the harbor dipped their ensigns, while the Blenheim half-masted the Canadian ensign at the mizzen,and aft half-masted the Union Jack. ‘The massed bands ashore played a march, and the marines and saflors reversed their arms. The procession halted on the main deck, and the coffin was lowered by the blue- jackets into the captain's cabin, which had been set apart as a mortuary chamber, as already cabled. Black ropes were used by the sailors in lowering the casket into its resting place. ~ A solemn service followed in the mortu- ary chapel, but only a few of those present were able to attend, as the space at their disposal was very limited. Unhappily, during the funeral ceremontes the wind had increased in force until a heavy gale was blowing, and it was de- cided that the Blenheim would not weigh anchor until tomorrow night. > MONEY FOR LEGISLATION. A Chicage Alderman Said to Have Offered Votes for Sale. CHICAGO, December 22.—The Herald to- Gay publishes the statement that Alderman John Powers, one of the most prominent members of the city council, has been caught In the act of asking $25,000 for a bit of legislation, offering to deliver the votes of forty or more members of the council for a consideration of that amount in cash. The $25,000 proposition Is stated to have been made to Neil McCoull, the Chicago manager of @ targe corporation, the forty votes to be furnished to the so- called anti-cigarette ordinance, in which MoCoull was presumably interested. A stenographic report of the sand-bag- ging proposition and the ‘conversation in full between Powers and McCoull ts given as obtained by a-reporter of the lierald, | who was concealed behind the door, panel of which was removed. the proposed Investigation of polic edness and other municipal corrupti Herald story has caused much exvitem ‘0ok- the rte the | } In view of | J. THE “CHRISTMAS. RECESS A Breezy Little Farce Qomedy in the Senate Today. The Plot Was Rather Mixed and One of the Characters, a Quorum, ‘Was Missing. ‘There was a breezy little farce-comedy enacted in the Senate this morning, with Mr. George of Mississippi in the principal rele. In the first act of this production, entitled “The Christmas Recess,” there was produced a joint resolution from the House of Representatives providing for an ad- jourument from today until a week from next Thursday. This was the nucleus of the plot. When tke stage manager, \r Harris of Tennessee, acting in the place of Mr. Stevenson of Illinois, put the resolu- tion on the stage the Objector, pldyed by Mr. George, got in the way of it, and there was a brief scuffle, in which the Objector came out.on top. For a time it looked as though the Objector might get hurt in the scuffle, but when the curtain fell at the end of the act the resolution was out of sight behind the back drop. - ne The second act was’ opened by the en- trance of the Promoter, which éole was taken by Mr. Manderson of Nebraska. He knew that the Objector was thirsting for an audience, and-to give bim an oppor- tunity to deliver a very food line he hauled the resolution out of the dust of the back wings and placed it on the stage by a mo- tion to send it to the committee on appro- Paageveory ‘This was the Objector’s cue, and for about twenty minutes he held the boards with a beautiful speech about duty, and right, and wrong, and precedents, and lots of other things. Then the Promoter came forward and made quite as pretty a speech, showing how idiotic it would be to play to empty houses all next week and how the box office receipts would go to pieces, and how easy it would be to adjourn over the holidays, and how happy everybody would be, except, perhaps, the Objector, in the enjoyment of the rest. The curtain then fell on the second act, leaving the audience in considerable suspense as to what would be the climax of this intricate plot. It was a very well-behaved audience, for none of the men got up and went out between the acts, and all the ladies wore either small hats or none at all. It would have done the average kicker good to attend. There was a general squabble at the be- ginning of the third act, in which the Pro- moter, the Objector and a Prompter, play- ed by Mr. Frye of Maine, took active part. At last the’ Promoter managed to get the resolution out on the stage in a condition to be passed, and the villain of the play, the Objector, experienced a change of heart, and did a grand transformation act in full view cf the audience. He told a pitiful story of how he had consulted with certain of his friends, wko had promised to support him in his career, and how they had all tceld him that, they were willing to adopt the resolution. The trouble was, it seems, that there was something called Quorum that couldn’t be found. It was very much tangled, this plot. Withqut that Quorum nothing could be done. But the funny part of it was that very few people wanted to find it. Well, anyhow, it all came out right. The juvenile lovers were united, the Promoter carried his point and the Objector accepted his fate with very good grace, and the resolution, was passed. There was a little afterpiece, entitled “The Senator’s Revenge.” It was a dia- logue between the Hoper, played by Mr. Marderson, and the Blaster of Hopes, play- ed by Mr. George. It was a very neat little thing. The Hoper brought out a resolu- tion which he was anxious to have-passed. It was a dreadful thing—a regular attack upen the liberties of the people. It was nothing short of a conspiracy, and if passed would cause the publication of a lot of Admiral Walker's Hawalian reports by the government. Then the Blaster of Hepes entered right-center with a very strong speech as follows: “I object.” Then the resolution went over until 1895, and as the curtain fell a smile of sweet satis- faction played about the features of the Blaster of Hopes until it got lost in the meshes of his beard. The Senate had a real jolly time of it altogether. ACTIVE ONCE MORE. New Smallpox Cases: Cause Renewed Activity. Uptil yesterday, when two smallpox cases made their appearance, Health Officer Woodward felt reasonably, certain that the last case had appeared and that when the sick members of the Williams family ieft the smallpox hospital there would be no further use for the building for some time at least. But the circumstances under which these cases came to light causes a feeling of uneasiness, both to the health officialg and to citizens living In the neigh> borhoods where the two victims of the disease reside. Health Officer Woodward made a thor- ough investigation of the cases yesterday and is satisfied that they came from the case of a colored woman named Mary ‘Taylor, who died at No. 16 Stone’s row on the 10th of this month. Four days before her death she was delivered of a dead child, and the premature birth, Dr. Wooi- ward thinks, resulted from the mother having the smallpox. She was attended by Dr. J. N. Johnson, a colored physician, who is a clerk in the pension office, and two other doctors saw her before she died. When the undertaker was called he noticed that the woman’s body was cov- ered with small eruptions, and one of his assistants remarked that it was a case of smallpox. But no further attention was paid to the matter, and there was a pub- Nic funeral. Just how many persons visit- eded the house and saw the corpse is not known, but the undertaker says that there were at least fifty children present at the funeral. The body was placed in a coffin and outer box and taken to Nomini Ferry, down the Potomac, on the steamer Arrow- smith. The interment was made in what is known as the Clarksville Church. Martha King, mother of the dead wo- man, is one of the smallpox patients sent to the hospital yesterday. She lives in Marion court, in rear of 7th street north- west between P and Q streets, and the other patient is Henry Green, who lives at 1227 Madison street, a friend of the other family. He attended the funeral of the dead woman. Stone’s row, where Mary Taylor died, is between North Capitol and 1st streets,west, just north of L street. There are many tenement houses there, as well as Nash’s flats. There are several families in cach of these small houses, and !f there are no more cases among them the health officer will be very much surprised. Dr. Johnson,. who attesded the Taylor womtan, was seen last evening by Health Officer Woodward, and his description of the woman’s ailment fully convinced the health officer that the woman had the smallpox It was also learned last evening that the smallpox had broken out near Nomini Ferry, where Mary Taylor's body was taken for interment. So far as could be ascertained the disease is cénflned to a colored family there, and it was reported yesterday that one of the patients had died or was dying. It is possible that these cases in Vir- ginia came from Mary Taylor's case. The breaking out of the disease yester- day caused a stir about the health office and also resulted in the reopening of the uarantine station, which is again in charge of Dr. O'Malley. Dr. Walsh is again on the work of disinfection, and these physicians were kept busy today attending to the cases reported yesterday. There were no new cases of smallpox re- ported to the healtn office today. The doc- tor at the quarantine station will remain on duty all the time row, so that any case to be reported late at night may be report- ed to him by telsphone, so that there will be no delay in making an investigation. More Money for the Poor. Several contributions to The Star Santa Claus Club were received too late this afternoon to be included in the regular account, as follow: L, D. Wine. Little Kittie 000 by December 20 or verdict will SAFE BLOWN OPEN Bold Robbery Committed Last Night at Rosslyn. DYNAMITE 70 AID BURGLARS John W. Clark the Victim and $700 the Prize. CLUE AS NO XY? At 4:30 this morning the safe of John W. Clark of Rosslyn, Va., was blown open with dynamite and powder and nearly $700 in cash taken away. The burglars made a sweeping success of their visit: An entry was made forcibly through the back part of a room adjoining Clark's restaurant, and the exit made through the front door, which was prized open with a chisel. The work was all done with tools stolen from the blacksmith shop of Jos. Burless, opposite. The exploded safe was a Miller make, and was of cast iron and medium size. The hole into which the fuse was placed was drilled through the top. The explosion snapped the hinges and hurled the door fifteen feet. That the party or parties most interested in the burglary were in some manner in- jured is evidenced by blood on the combina- tion lock and by spots here and there out- side of th> building Jeading southward to- ward Alexandria. What the extent of the burglars’ injuries are can only be guessed, and consist, in all probability, of only hand wounds. Officer Frank Burrows thinks two men were engaged, as one could not have bored the hole in the top of the safe with- out assistance. The work is not necessarily that of professionals. Any manipulators of a brace and bit could have done it. When the explosion came it aroused the bar- tender, Fred. Miller, who was sleeping up- stairs, and the colored man, “George.” Both were dazed for a moment and did not immediately investigate. Accompanying the explosion of powder and dynamite came the sound of breaking glass. Thinking that only = slight falling of glasses had taken place in the bar, Mr. Miller went down, half dressed and without protecting weapon of any kind. In the bar he discovered that all the lamps with which the place is ordinarily illuminated had fallen save the lighted one. Had this fallen in all probability the place would have .been burned to the ground. On seagching for the cause of the fall of the la tha next room was en- tered and the blasted safe seen. Papers were lying In profusion everywhere and aooe them nearly $200 in cash, bills and coin. There was a smaller amount in the safe last night than is usually kept on hand. Two thousand dollars is on an average kept in the safe. It is said that thessafe is used for hold- ing policy motey. A large colored glass window was smashed through the hurling of the safe door, and a partition smashed into splint- ers at one place. Suspicion has not openly been fixed upon any one. If the loser be- lieves any particular person is guilty of the crime he keeps it to himself success- fully. When Miller reached the room in which the explosion took place the bur- glar or burglars had made an effective es- cape. No clew that would lead to their identity has been found. All residents of Rossiyn know of Clark's custom of keep- ing large money in his safe. All the Rosslyn sheriff's and constables are searching for evidence that will help them in finding the burglars. Officer Bur- rows of this precinct is also interested in the case. —— THE COURTS. Equity Court No. 1.—Judge Cox. O'Sullivan agt. Ricketts; Jos. F. Lucas appointed guardian ad litem. Lyon. agt. Adriaans; pro confesso against certain de- fendants granted. Johnson agt. Lyon; mo- tion to retax costs overruled. Gorman agt. Downing; restraining order discharged and injunction denied. Hitchcock agt, Shuster; Hodges Bros. allowed to intervene. In re orphans of Chas. Newman; decree of, Or- phans’ Court confirmed. Moore agt. District of Columbia; demurrer overruled and in- junction granted. Wheeler agt. Fidelity Building and Loan Association; Angus Mackintosh allowed to intervene. Barbour agt. Price; sale ratified nisi and cause re- ferred to auditor. Electro-Libration Co. agt. Sanche; pro confesso.against defendant ordered. . Equity Court No. 2, Judge Hagner. Tolman agt. Tolman; order postponing hearing cn rule till December 20. Lehigh Valley Coal Company ag. French; time to take testimony limited to sixty days. Moore agt. Moore; order finally | ratifying sale. Childs agt. Pabst; rule to ‘show cause re- turnable January 3. Bruen agt, Justice; decree canceling deed of trust. Franz agt: Franz; rule to show cause returnable Jan- uary 2. Circuit Court No, 1—Judge Bradley. Eastern Trust and Banking Company ys. Willis and sa‘ne vs. Johnson; bond for costs on appeal fixed at $50. Fowler vs. Kuehling; judgment by default. In re. will of Maria Cole; on hearing. Lerch vs. D. C.; judgment in certiorari. Cireult Court No. 2—Chief Justice Bingham, U. S. ex rel. Stout vs. Hoke Smith; writ of mandamus denied and petition dismiss- ed. Dix Island Granite Co. vs. Walker; motion to stay issue and levy of execution cverruled. Ohio National Bank vs. Jen- nings; judgment granted against Linson D. F. Jennings. Taylor vs. B. and P. Rail- road Company; plaintiff required to remit set aside. Dieudonne vs. Lodge et ai motion to set aside demurrer as frivolous and also for judgment granted; the de- fendant being granted five days within which to file affidavit and plea to set aside judgment and judgment by default against indorser of note. Fletcher agt. Washington and Georgetowa Railroad Company; mo- tion for new trial filed, Harris & Shafer agt. Kennedy; motion for judgment under seventy-third rule granted. Lamond agt. Milne; motion to set aside Judgment by d fault ‘overruled. Danenhower et al. agt. District of Columbia et al.; judgment in certiorari, Lamond agt. Baltimore’ and Ohio Railroad Company; demurrer to first count of declaration overruled, and de- fendant allowed to plead to said count in ten days. Baker agt. Bradley, jr.; confes- sion of judgment by defendant in open court. Probate Court—Judge Hagner. Estate of Carter Patten; administrator authorized to sell personalty for $20. Es- tate of Bridget A. Cowan; will fully proved. Estate of Jno. M. Browne; petition for probate of will filed. Estate of Peter Gliacchettl; executor bonded and qualified. Estate of Jos. 3. Gregg; Leah A. Gregg ap- pointed administratrix; bond, $1,600. Estate of Samuel Wise; affidavit filed. Estate of Jno. Coburn; petition for letters of admin- istration filed. In re Wm. Mayse, Han; first and final account approved. Hstate of Francis Garlichs; first account of executor passed. Estate of Geo. Thwartes; do. Es- tate of Anna M. Gould; do. Estate of Isaac Haas; do. Estate of Daniel Green; do, Es- tate of Calvin T. Sampson; do. eee Dedth of Henry Beard. Mr. Henry Beard of 1305 N street north- west diel yesterday morning, as a result of heart disease, from which he had been suffering for about eighteen months. He wag seventy-three years of age. Mr. Beard was born September 13, 1821, at Somerset, Perry county, Ohio. He graduated from college, and later studied law, practicing in Zanesville, Ohio, where he also was editor of several’ newspapers. He came to Washington in 1863, and was a clerk in the Indian office, under Commissioner Manypeny. Later he was principal clerk in charge of appeals in land cases and con- tinued in office during the terms of Secre- tarles Thompson, Smith and Usher. In 1865 Mr. Beard entered upon the practice of law, paying special attention to land cases before the Interior Department and the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the principal attorney here of the Central Pacific Railroad Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in all matters Pertaining to their land grants. Because of ill health, the deceased re- tired from practice over a year ago. He was a prominent Baptist, having served as trustee and deacon in the Calvary Bap- tist Church, as trustee of Columbian Uni- versity, and as treasurer of the Columbia Association of Baptist Churches. He leaves a widow and five children. Funeral ser- vices will be held Monday afternoon at 2 o’cleck in the Calvary Baptist Church. A KNOWN QUANTITY. It is the pfdeti¢e of The Star to print on Saturday a sworn statement of its circulation day by day for the preceding week. It would seem self- evident that the advertiser Is entitled to this protection. Below will be found the statement for the week Just Past. The average circulation exhibited is believed tobe much more then the combined circulation of the other Washington dailies, and fully five times that of its afternoon contem- Porary. * Cireulation of The “Evening St SATURDAY, Dec. 15, 1994, MONDAY, Dec., 1% 1894. TUESDAY, Dec. 18}' 1g}... WEDNESDAY, Decz 2% 18%, PHURSDAY, Dec. 90,1594. FRIDAY, Dee. 21,'tb0d. Total, Daily average... T solemnly, swear Yhaf the above statement rep- Tesents only the number of copies of Tuk EvEN- ING Stan circulated Quting the six secular days end- ing ¥riday, December 21, 1994--that fs, the num- ber of copies actadlly’ jpold, deilvered, furnished ormatled, for valuablé consideration, to bona fide } purchasers. or substrivers, and that none of the copies so counted were returned to or remainin the office unsold. ©): 2 J. WHIT. HERRON, Cashler Evening Star Newspaper Co. Subscribed and sworn to tefore me this twenty-second day of December, A. D, 1804, HERBERT M. LOCKE, Notary Public, D. C. F NAMES Arranging to Present the Huge Polyglot Petition. Women’s Christinn Temperance Union Will Have Elaborate Ceremonies | on the 15th of February. ‘The polyglot petition of the World’s Wo- men’s Christian ‘Temperance Union will be presented to the representatives of the United States government on the evening of February 15. The ceremonies will be under the conduct of the Women’s Chris- tian Temperance Union of this jurisdiction, and by way of preparation the initial conference of the committee of arrange- ments is being held this @ternoon. This ccmmittee consists of Mrs. Mary E. Grif- fth, Mrs, La Fétra, Mrs. Clinton Smith, Mrs. M. E. Cohen, Mrs. Emma Shelton, Mrs: Mary E. Catlin, Mrs. L. D. Merrick and Mrs. S. M. Wescott. It is proposed to make the coming cele- bration one of the greatest within the history of the local temperance union. It may be that the coming event will be the greatest of a temperance nature which the District has ever known. The Neal Dow celebration was a@ great one, but the pre- sentation of the polyglot petition promises to eclij ros 0‘ ‘This petition is Im fifty languages and bears four millions of names. It is to be presented to all the governments of the earth, and the United States was chosen as the first to be thus distinguished. The de- tails of the event can be prophesied with reasonable certainty, though no program has as yet been determined upon. The mohster meeting will be held presumably at Convention Hali. It will be presided over by Miss Frances FE. Willard, president of the World’s Women’s Christian Tem- erance Union, Who will make an address. ‘This address ‘is to bein keeping with the general dignity and importance of the meeting. It will probably not be a long one, certainly not so long as that which she delivered last November at Cleveland, Ohio, on the oeeasion of the twenty-first convention of the National Women's Chris- tian Temperance Union, The principal ad- dress of the evening will be that by Lady Henry Somerset, vice president-at-large. The platform will be filled with representa- tive men in statescraft and theology. A large number of invitations will be issued to men of this chracter. It is expected that the President, his wife, and cabinet and the wives of the cabinet officers will also be present./ An effort will be made to accomplish this. The matter of mugit is an important one. Some favor the Marine Band, others the Moody choir, and some think that the mag- ritude of the ocfasion will warrant the e: ployment of both these musical organiza- tions. The arrangements for the formal presentation are immature. The ideas of the committee have not taken the shape of plans and the committee is still in the suggestion period. It is thought that per- haps It will be begt to first informally talk over the matter with some of the sympa- thetic legislators in both branches of Con- gress. The advice of these gentlemen will probably be followed. The ladies with whom The Star reporter spoke think that Congress should appoint a special commit- tee to atterd the meeting of the union and there receive the petition. This is what the ladies want. It is also thought that large delegations of American women from va- rious associations will attend. All the churches of this District will assuredly be largely represented. The great petition is to be presented to the representatives of the government of Great Britain at the con- vention of the World's Union, which is to be held at Queen's Hall, London, June 14-21, 1895. 1t.is tnought that the American. pre- sentation will be as magnificent and as impressive as that to be held in the capital of the British realm. Sa ee THE METROPOLITAN MORTGAGED. Nearly Two Millions Secured to Im- prove the System of the Company. President Phillips of the Metropolitan Railroad Company of this District placed on record this morning in the recorder of deeds’ office, a mortgage on all its property for $1,850,000, to secure the Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Company of Balti- more, Md., that amount. The document, comprising thirty-eight typewritten pages, recites that at a meet- ing of the stockholders of the company on the 27th’ of last September it was resolved that, in order to carry out the provisions of the act of Congress of August 2, 1894, authorizing, empowering and requiring the company to equip and. operate its lines with an underground electric system for the propulsion of its cars, and authorizing and empowering the company to issue its bonds to pay the cost of such work, the directors of the company should be au- thgrized| and empowered to issue such bods, secured by mortgage on the com- pany’s property to secure the payment of and the interest on the bonds so issued. ‘Tbe instrument then recites that at a meeting of the directors, held on the 22d of last. month, it was resolved that the bonds of the company should be issued to the amount of $1,850,000; the bonds being of the denomination of $1,000 each, payable in gold thirty years after date, interest at Sper cent per annum, payable semi-an- nually. The mortgage then recites the form of the bonds, and the fact that at a meeting of the directors held on the 12th instant the sale of the bonds to the Baltimore Trust-and Guarantee Company was ap- proved, and the making of the mortgage filed today authprized. The property mort- gaged is set out at length, and the recital is made that jthe Baltimore Trust and Guarantee Company Is made the trustee of the railroad company for all the usual purposes in such similar transactions. Mr. Phillips said today that the improve- ments contemplate on the lines of the company were-all: completed, so far as plans and the awarding of contracts were concerned, and that the actual work would be commenced ‘as Soon as spring opened, and pushed to ‘témpletion in the shortest possible time. 4) \ 2s Range of thé Thermometer. The following were the readings of the thermometer at, the weather bureau today: 8; 2 p.f., 34; maxfmum, 54; mini- eee STREET CAR FENDER|ATTACKING THE TAX) FINANCE AND “TRADE Captain Fiebeger's Recommenda- tions on an Important Subject. THE TWO DESIGNS SELECTED One From Baltimore and the Other a Local Patent. peenee ner en Sy A SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT Capt. G. J. Fiebeger, assistant to the En- gineer Commissioner, today made his re- port to the District Commissioners upon the subject of fenders for street railroads in the District of Columbia. Briefly, the report recommends the adop- tion of the Blackistone pick up and Eld- ridge Smith wheel guard. The former is the device used in Baltimore, while the latter is one patented by a Washington inventor. : Capt. Fiebeger has given this subject long and earnest attention, and the report is a valuable one ia many respects. Capt. Fiebeger states that about twenty models have been tried upon the local rail- ways, and that some of the railway of- ficials have shown considerable interest in the selection of a suitable fender, but there is naturally a difference of opinion among those interested. A person may be protect- ed from being struck by the rigid dash- board of cars by attaching a pick-up to the front of the car, which catches a man in a net of wire or rope and holds him un- til released. According to Capt. Fiebeger, however, there are a number of objections to the use of a pick-up. In case a man is prostrate, the pick-up would pass over hivn, and he must be saved from the wheels by what is known as the wheel-guard fender. The improved wheel rds are operated in one of three ways, oF a combination of at least two. Any of the wheel guards may fail to act upon a badly cor structed track. Other fenders were submitted, Capt. Fie- beger goes on to say, in which an attempt was made to combine the action of the pick-up and the wheel guard in a single fender placed in front of the car. In two fenders submitted the dropping of the fen- der caused the automatic braking of the wheels. Experiments may demonstrate that such a mechanism can be advantageously ap- plied to street railways, but at present the sudden checking of a car running nine to fifteen miles an hour would seem to ex- tend the sphere of danger to the passengers who may be sitting or standing up in the same. It is therefore recommended that every motor or cable car in the District of Columbia be provided as early as prac- ticable with a suitable pick-up and im- proved wheel-guard fender. There is nothing novel in this recom- mendation, the same having been made to the authorities of other cities, an# is being carried out by the railway companies of the city of Baltimore. Capt. Fiebeger thinks it would be a good plan to allow the railway companies to submit their own designs for tests, and to authorize them to use such as meet with the approval of the Commissioners, but he recommends that the Blackistone pick-up and the Blackistone and Eldridge Smith wheel-guard fenders be adopted for use in this city, as supericr to any fender or fenders now used by any railway company in this city. that the attorney for the District be di- rected to prepare regulations to require the railway companies of the District to equip all grip and motor cars with the fenders mentioned. Inspector L. P. Bradshaw, who was de- tailed by Capt. Fiebeger to investigate the operaticns of the several fenders now on the street lines of the city, in a supple- mentary report describes the different fen- ders examined since his former report. ‘The front fender of the Blackistone mak3 1s secured to the front of the car body, though it can be made detachable, and, projecting forward four feet, is carried normally in position above ‘the surface about ten inches. The fender may be clos- ed when not in use. The front of the striking edge of the fender is of rope nettings. The design of the fender 1s to trip a person and cause him to fall forward onto the rope netting. He also describes the Christian, Tobe, City Suburban railway of Baltimore, Darrach, Robins’ Life Guard and Barney fenders and the O’Brien wheel guard. WARSHIP AT HONOLULU, Mr. Lodge Introduces a Resolution on the Subject. Senator Lodge today introduced a resolu- tion Instructing the Secretary of the Navy to inform the Senate why all ships of the United States have*been withdrawn from the Hawaiian Islands, and whether, in view of the interests of the United States and of citizens of the United States in these islands, a ship of war should not now be stationed ‘and retained at Honolulu. 2+ —_____—_ America and Russia. At the meeting of the National Geo- graphic Society last evening, in the hall of the National Rifles’ armory, a large gu- dience listened to an able and scholarly paper by ex-Secretary John W. lgpster, on the subject of the changes which have been made on the map of Asia by the ad- vances of England, France and Germany. Mr. Foster has but recently returned from a trip around the world, and was, therefore, well fitted to speak on this sub- ject. He'paid considerable attention to the part which Constantinople has played and is lixely to play tn international politics as the bone of contention between Russia and England. While referring to this topic, Mr. Foster expressed the opinion that the hostility felt in France for the English is even greater today than is the feeling against Germany. He spoke at some length of the methods by which England had put India under complete subjection, and also de- scribed how the northern and western part of Asia has been taken in by Russia. Concluding his ¢alk, he expressed himself as of the opinion that the day would come when there would be only two great pow- ers on the globe—the United States and Russia. paras An Ivate Parent Commended. Charles Eichinbremer, whose daughter is employed In a store where she has to remain until late at night at this season, went to the store last evening to see his daughter home, but cne of the clerks in the store, said to be a married man, start- ed home with her, and the father followed along in the direction of home. The couple stopped at White’s saloon, so the father says, and then he, insisted on seeing the daughter home. Immediately there was a fight on the sidewalk, and Lieut. Kelly happened to come along. Eichinbremer had the other man down, and he was rested. Lieut. Kelly, of course, knew nothing of the circumstances of the cese, and so he arrested the man who was getting the better of the fight. Judge Kimball heard the case this morn- ing and commended the father for his ac- tion. The charge of disorderly conduct against him was dismissed. ——— An Elocutionary Recital. The Church of our Father was filled on ‘Thursday evening with an appreciative audience, the occasion Leing an elocution- ary recital tendered by Miss Ada Louise Townsend to her friends. The selections ranged from grave to gay, and each was greeted with appreciative comment. Miss Townsend was aided in the musical part of the program by Mrs, H. C. Browning, Miss Nellie Gisburne, Mr. J. H. Kaiser and Prof. J. W. Bischoff. —-—— Wants an Accounting. A bill in equity was filed today by Thos, E. Waggaman against Addison A. Ash- burn and Thos, M. Fields for a discovery and accounting. ' ——— Offices Closed. ’ By order of the Commissioners the of- fices of the District government will be closed at noon each day from December 25 to January & beth inclusive. It is further recommended Constitutionality of Income Act to Bo Tested. Suit Filed Asking for an Injunction - Forbidding Collection—Discrimi- nating Against Citizens. _ A bill in equity was filed this afternoon by Messrs. Shellabarger & Wilson and ex- Senator F. Edmunds, on behalf of John G. Moore of New York city against Joseph 8S. Miller, the commissioner of internal rev- enue. The object of the bill is to restrain and enjoin the commissioner and all per- sons acting under him and by his au- thority from doing any act or acts looking to or contemplating the collection of the income tax authorized by the last session of the present Congress. ‘The petitioner states that he is a share- holder in certain corporations, which cor- porations have net earnings from which they pay dividends to him and other stock- holders; that independent of and in addi- tion to said dividends he has an income derived from gains and profits of his busi- ness largely in excess of the sum of $4,000 per annum, upon which income including said dividends the said commissioner of in- ternal revenue, under and by virtue of the provisions of said act, has threatened to and will proceed to assess the sum of 2 per cent on the petitioner’s income in excess of said sum of $4,000 per annum, which sum he will be required to pay as taxes. The petitioner furthyr says that the cor- porations referred to are also required to pay a@ tax of 2 per cent on their net earn- ings, without regard to any dividends paid out of said net earnings, and that he is required to pay a like tax upon the moneys so paid to him as gividends by said cor- porations, thereby Wrongfully duplicating the tax on the commissioner. The peti- tioner represents that said taxation is un- just and unequal, in that it discriminates against him for the purposes of taxation between persons who are citizens of the United States, and wholly exempts such persons from taxation, as aforesaid, who have an income not in excess of said four thousand dollars per annum, and that therein the petitioner and all others in the same condition are denied equal protection of the law. The bill of complaint further alleges that there is associated with the taxation of citizens of the United States and sub- ject to the proposed taxation, not separable therefrom, the provision that aliens re- siding in the United States permanently or only temporarily, shall likewise be sub- ject to said income tax, although such in- come is derived wholly from rents, in- terest, dividends, salaries or from any profession, trade, employment or voca- tion carried on elsewhere than in the United States, thus unlawfully and without authority -undertaking to tax the incomes of citizens of foreign coun- tries temporarily resident in the United States, although such incomes are derived wholly from sources not within the juris- diction of the United States. And the petitioner further charges that no exemption is made from taxation of in- comes of such corporations within the Uni- ted States, which, although carried on for profit, or created, owned and operated by the several states, and in the promotion of the police-and other public functions and policies of such states, which corporations, being agencies of the government of the respective states, are not subject to taxa- tion by, the United States; and that such assessments ere to be made upon the income of the commissioner earned and received by him prior to the time at which said act took effect, and that all said taxes attempted to be assessed and collected upon incomes are not within the constitu- tional jurisdiction of Congress to impose. The petitioner further charges that the defendants are threatening and intending and proceeding to take steps to make an assessment against the petitioner, and to collect the same, not only for the income hereinbefore referred to for the first year’s income subjected to taxation by said act, but also for incomes hereafter derived from year to year continuously until the year 1900, and that the said defendant and his successors will con- tinue to assess the commissioner from year to year, and that, if said taxes are s0 collected, although unlawful and un- just, the complainant will be without remedy. to. recover the same from the United States, or, if collectable at all, it can only be by vexatious expenses and long continued litigation as will render the remedy useless. ; Because of the foregoing matters ond premises, and because of other defects and invalidity of said income tax enactment, the petitioner avers and charges that the act is invalid and unconstitutional, and in- operative and void, and that he would be without adequate remedy at law from the redress of said illegal collections. Wherefore the petitioner prays that the commissioner of internal revenue may be perpetually restrained and enjoined from doing any act or acts looking to or contem- plating the collection of said tax or any part therecf. Revolting Case. Julius D. Rhodes, a former pension attor- ney, and his wife appeared in Judge Mil- Jer’s court this morning and complained against their children, Julius and, Nellie, ‘charging them with living together. Charges and counter charges were made on the stand and Judge Miller said it was the most revolting testimony he had ever heard. There was almost en unrestricted use of epithets and the father made a rush at his son to assault him, but was prevented. Then he threatened to whip him if he ever again spoke to him on the street. A number of letters were offered in evi- dence. It was stated on the stand that the son had stabbed his father fourteen times while in this city, and had sent five bullets in him at Haverhill, Mass. Concerning the shvoting the son said that his father shot himself. He was assaulting Mrs. Rhodes, he said, when he (the son) point- ed the pistol toward the father. ‘The defendants denied the charge against them. Judge Miller held them for the grand jury and committed them in-default of $300 security. —— Sugar Trast Demurrers. Judge Cole, in Criminal Court No. 2, to- day considered the demurrers filed by Messrs. Henry O. Havemeyer, president of the American Sugar’ Refining Company; John K. Searles, its treasurer, and Broker Allen Seymour, indicted for refusing to answer certain questions asked them by Senator Gray's sugar trust im ting committee. . ——— Baltimore Markets. i 741 bushels; stock, 1, bushels; sales, 44,000 bushels; southern wate , STa59%; do. on grade, 5éa5v. Corn easy— AT4a47%4; January, 4714047%; May, steamer mixed, 46\a46%. ipts, ipments, 42,857 bushels 000 busi 4 Mlateds 4.08 per 100" Ibe.” Bh og ranulated,. 4: tt Steady, unchanged Cheese fi i Chicago Grain and Provision Markets Reported by ne, & Co., Bankers and Brokers. HICAGO, December 22, 1994, ————— The New England Society banquet at Indianapolis last night in celebration of “Forefathers’ day” was a brilliant affair. M. E. Ingalis, president of the Big Four, made the oration of the evening. He talk- ¢d on the “Continuing Influences of Puri- tan Ideals in American Life.” High Tom. Case ost Be” bat 4 44% 4456 48% 4 48 20) «23° 20 1% 81% 31% AB 1145 11.40 11.40 ‘36 11.55 1150 11:55 11:95 11:95 11:92 11:95 70 670 6.67 6.67 675 672 675) 702 697 7.00 5.80 5.80 5.80 5.80 80 5.80 6.02 6.00 6.02 Close. S.4l 6 Higher Prices Predicted for the Close of the Holidays. BUSINESS CONDITIONS ARE IMPROVED Reports From Many Sections of the Country. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, December 22.—Opening prices this morning were about on a parity with last night's finals, and were not ma- terially altered by the subsequent narrow trading. The railroad list, particularly,was neglected by the trading element, prices yielding fractionally under the evening~up. process. Operators have given up all idea of stimulating any activity during the few” remaining days of this year, but predict @ higher and broader market market at the close of the holiday season. Improvement in general business conditions is reported in many sections of the country, and Wall street, after its usual custom, must soon begin to discount an era of prosperity which, though long delayed, is now believed to be assured. If investors can be induced to support the market value of their se- curities, or can be made to realize the ex- cellent opportunity for making low-priced additions to their present holdings, trading in the long account will show speedy and profitable returns. Financial legislation is essentially neces- sary to a period of substantial activity, and some sound business measure, looking to the removal of many patent evils is hoped for in the immediate future. The pooling bill will have a beneficial effect on the securities of all the western roads, to which the measure is directly applicable, and it is now believed it will pass the Sen- ate substantially in its present form. If amendments are made, they are likely to be such as will add to the practical opera- tion of the bill, and will not detract in any way from the real object of its mission. The domination of the volatile industrials will be .ess pronounced should the relief now expected from the above sources ma- terialize. The manipulation in the latter group has stood out prominently during the week ending today by reason of the stagnation and disinterestedness in other departments, Fluctuations have been based on nothing more substantial than the passing whims of the manipulating interest. The course of prices in stocks dependent on such condi- tions cannot be reduced to anything more _ certain than a surmise or a suspicion. Later developments in Chicago Gas would indicate that the rumors circulated early in the week to the effect that the usual divi- dend was in ypardy were a device to ac- quire stock fér a sharp advance, which has long been in contemplation by certain large interests. All the conditions precedent hav- ing been fulfilled, the street is full of points to buy the stock. The bank statement reflects a loss’ of $2,000,000 in lawful money, all in legal tende! The large reduction in loans ia due in a great measure to the closing up of part of the gévernment bond transac- This reduction is directly responsible for the decrease in deposits, and also fot the increase in surplus reserve. The statement in detail follows: Reserve, increased, $554,850; loans, decreased, $8,605,- 100; specie, increased, $6,551,100; legals, de- creased, $8,569,800; deposits, decreased, $10,. 294,200, and circulation, $36,200, —_—_— ’ FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, ‘The following are the opening, the high- est and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York st it today, ported by Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exc! Correspondents: hange. Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Broadway: Stocks. Close Open. High. Low. 9036 89%. 9% 89% Chesape: C.C. C, and St. L cM. C., M. and St. Paul, C. RL and Pacific. Del.. Lack. and W Delaware and Hudson Denver and Rio Grande. Dis, and Cattle Feeding General Electric, Illinois Central Lak Long Island Traction... Metropolitan Traction . Mannattan Elevated, Northern Pacific. Nortuern Pacitie, Wheeling & Lake Bric. Wheeling & L. K., pfd. Western Union Tel. Wisconsin Central...... Sliver...... “ . 4a,- registered, 11 coupon, 115 bid, 1151 TiS asked. = a asked. U. 8. 4s, 5a, 117% bid, of Columbia Bonds.—20-year fund 5s, 10944 bid. 30-year fund 6s, gold, 1103 bid. Water stock 7s, 1901, currency, 117 bid. Water stock 7, 1908, cu! 120 bid: | 8.G0e, funding, currency, 114% Did. Bigs, registered, 2-108, 100 bid. Miscellaneous ” Bonds.—Washlugion and | George- 133 bid, 140 asked. iroad conv. 6s, 2d, &2 200 bid, a Potomac ‘Telephone E A, 100 Security and Trust 5s, A. and O., Washington Market Company Ist @s, 108 Md. Washington M: ‘Company Gs, et Company ext. 6s, 1 bid. Masonic Hall Assoctat ior, bid. Washington Light Infantry Ist 6s, 99 bid. Wash- ington Light Infantry 2d 7s, 99 bid. ‘ashingt: bid, 310 asked. Bank of the Republic, 250 285 asked. Metropolitan, 280 bid, 207 asked. tral, 271 bid, 300 asked.’ Farmers and Mecha asked, 140 pI 5 bid." West End, 112 asked. Traders’, 103 bid, 110 asked. ot Ohio, 75% bid. American Security and ‘Trust_5a, A bid. Washington M: tion 5s, Natioual Bank Stocks.—Bank of Ws ‘on, 190 bid, 200 . Second, 187 bid, 147 asked. Citizens’, “130 bid.“ Columbia, 132 bid, 11 1084 Safe Deposit, and Trust Com) nies.—National Safe 28 asked. Washi ask Railroad Stocks.—Washington pd _ Georgetown, 280 bid, 305 asked. Metropolitan, 70 asked. Co- lumbia,’ 57 bid, 65 asked. Eckiugton, 35 bid, 40 asked." Georgetown nallytown, 85 asked. Gai 2 47 did, 48 asked. | George Electric Light, *120 bid, 137 ask Torurance, Stocks. —Firemen's 39° oid, 4 asked. . 45 DI asked. Metropolitan, 68 bid. Erankiin, 45 bid, 5 Corcoran’ Potomac, 70% bid, 70 ‘Arlington, 145 bid, 100 asked. National Union, 18 Aa Ee taked. “Columbia, 13 bid. Rigas, 6% 7% asked. People’s, 5% bid, 6 asked, Lincoln, 7% bid, 8 asked. Commercial, 4% bid. tle Insurance Stocks.—Real Estate Title, 108 bi . Title, 7 bid, 8 asked. bid, 20 asked. Norfolk and Washington Steamboat, 85. bid, 100 asked. ed. Mergenthaler Linotype, 387 bid, 50 asked. *Ex div. * Over 200 guests were in attendance at the fifteenth annual dinner of the New England | Society at Brooklyn last night. At the conelusion of the dinner. President Bene- dict made a brief address of welcome, Gov. Greenhalge of Massachusetts spoke.