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~ THE EVENING STAR. ees PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th Street, by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, 8. H. KAUFFMANN Preset. = - Kew York Office, 49 Potter Building. : ea gt ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers tn the aity by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents Ber week. or 44 cents per month. Goples at the counter cents cach. yy matl—anyw! the Tattes States ‘or Canada—postage prepaid 50 cents Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with fore eee ee mal we os ae mail matter.) 1 subsertptions must be paid in advance. ites of advertising made known on application. Ghee Zoening Star. No. 13,109. WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, MARCH “11, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. TWO CENTS. Be proof of the pudding is in the eating. 13 TARIFF AND SILVER Why Free Coinage Democrats Ad- vocate a New Party. THE FIGH® FOR TARIFF REFORM Its Various Phases From the Forly- eighth Congress. SOME PITFALLS FEARED When those free-cuinage democrats who are advocating the forming of a new party with silver as the sole issue are asked why the fight for silver cannot successfully be made within the ranks of the democracy they reply by pointing to the-fight for tariff reform, and by recapitulating the leading features of that struggle, from the time of the assembling of the Forty-eighth Congress down to the passage of the Wil- son-Gorman tariff bill. They see in that bit of history 4n awful warning, and they are urging upon their friends the necessity of studying it in ‘all of its instructive phases. : In the Forty-eighth Congress.John G. Carlisle was elected Speaker of the House over Samuel J. Randall by a large majority on the issue of a tariff for revenue only. Mr. Randall was an avowed protectionist. William R. Morrison, appointed chairman of the ways and means committee, brought in a tariff bill which, though providing for a lowering of duties, was yet very far from being a bill simply for the raising of reve- nue. It recognized the principle of prote tion at every point. Still, it was not sat- isfactory in terms to Mr. Randall, and he was able to behead it. ‘The national democratic convention of that year, which nominated Mr. Cleveland, adopted a platform insisting that a tariff for revenue only was the true democratic principle, and that the party was irrevoca- bly committed to it. Mr. Cleveland was elected President, Mr. Carlisle was re-elect- ed Speaker of the new House, and Mr. Morrison, reappointed chairman of ways and means, again brought in a tariff bill. But again the principle of protection was recognized. The second bill met the fate of the first, although the protectionist- democratic vote showed a falling off. Cleveland's Famous Message. In 18S7 Mr. Cleveland sent his famous tariff message to the Fiftieth Congress. ‘The House again was democratic, Mr. Car- lisle had been for the third time chosen Speaker, and Mr. Morrison having been defeated for re-election, Mr. Mills was made chairman of ways and means. A tariff bill was in due time reported, though stuffed with protection duties. It caused a good deal of criticism in free trade circles, and was pronounced by the extreme low tariff men as a most unworthy supplement to the President’s message. Still it passed the House, and in the national campaign of that year the democracy stood upon the bill rather than upon the President's mes- Sage or upcn the platform of the St. Louis convention. The battle was lost, and the democracy retired from power. When the democracy met in national con- vention at Chicago in 1892 the tariff was still the paramount question. A heated controversy was at once begun. The free traders insisted that the time for temporiz- ing had gone by. The time for a detinite expression had arrived. The democracy could not longer carry water on both shoulders. It must either declare war on Protection and promise to cast protection out, or it wouid stultify itself and again be forced to the wail. Mr. Randall was in his Brave, but eminent followers of his sur- vived, and they strenuously opposed the adoption of any platform conveying an treme meaning as to revenue. Mr. Gor- man, Mr. Brice, Mr. Whitney and other protection democrats were on the scene and directed their side of the fight. ‘They won in committee, ard a tariff compromise was written into the resolutions, but the free traders had this action reversed in open convention. The comprcemise was rejected, and an out-and-out free trade platform adopted by a vote of two to one. Then fcllowed the landslide in November, and the acquirement of full power, legislative and executive, by the democracy. The Last ‘Tarif Act. The free traders were now in the highest feather. The country had elected a Presi- dent and a Congress on a free trade plat- ferm, and surely there could be no lonzer any delay about putting customs duties down to a revenue basis. After such a de- cision as had just been rendered at the polls the friends of protection, whether democrats or republicans, could not reason- ably expect to see even a vestige of pro- tection retained in the tariff policy of the government. But the free traders were soon rudely undeceived. The protection democrats had another shot in their locker, and they fired it with telling effect. They held the balance of power in the Senate, and by that means forced the extreme rev- enue reformers to terms. The ways and means committee of the House, though pre- sided over by Mr. Wilsoh, and made up in its majority of low tariff men, brought in a bill recognizing the principle of protection as distinctly as the Morrison bills and the Mills bill had done, and reducing revenue duties in no heroic way. This work was revised by the democrats of the Senate, and protection still further stamped upon the bill. The measure in that shape became a law, and the feeling in both of the old par- t‘es today is that the tafiff question has been closed for at least a decade. The Same Pitfalls for Silver. The free coinage democrats, who put the tariff story in this form and discant upon it, fee the same pitfalls for silver if the same course is pursued. There are divisions in the party on the one question as on the other. The protection democrats live in the east, as the gold demecrats do. In the case of the tariff the party in the south and west stood for a reduction of duties to a revenue basis. The party in the east stood for protection. There really was no room in the same organization for men like Mr. Mills, holding to the one view, and men like Mr. Gorman, hoiding to the other. A de- feat for one faction was inevitable. It came to the larger of the two factions, and the one trying to redeem the party’s pledges, which had been made over and over again. And so, it is asserted, will the result be if this same union is longer kept up between democrats advocating free coinage and democrats opposing free coin- age. They must part company. If they hold together a campaign of dissimulation will follow, and either the party in its en- tirety will be defeated at the polis or else one or other of the two factions will be sequently, in the effort to fashion satis- ory’ financial legislation. The extreme free coinage men want the lines down now and the silver issue so shaped that men will seek their proper company regardless of past affiliations on other issues. Would Apologize to Randall's Ghost. “Shade of the brave and generous Ran- dail!” exclaimed a free coinage democrat, in conversation with’a representative of The Star today, in comparing the two ques- tjons and their management. “To think that he should have been ¢riven from use of his protective proclivities json-Gorman bill, after ten years of agitation, accepted as the party's legis- lative expression of tariff principles! I op- posed Mr. Randall on the tariff issue and always thought he belonged with the re- publicans, but if I were to meet his ghost today I should offer it a profound apology. -He never proposed higher duties than I myself have since voted for.” NATIONS -NOT GRATEFUL Disctiminations by Countries Favored. by the Wilson Law. Awaiting the Freach Government's Reply to Mr. Eustis’ Request—The President and Retaliation. It is said in official circles that the Wil- son law has put us at a great disadvantage in dealing with France and Germany, in reference to discriminations against Ameri- can products, and Mr. Cleveland, while resisting all advice which suggests his re- taliation, is said to be at the same time somewhat indignant at the ingratitule of these countries, which are favored by duties in the Wilson law. He feels hurt, it is said, that kindness should be thus repaid ia injury, and that the weakness of our position caused by a reduction of tariff revenues, which these countries get the benefit of, shoud be taken advantage of by them to oppress our trade. ‘Will Not Recommend an: Increase. At the same time he is not disposed, it is said, to recommend any general increase of duties to Congress in’ order to raise more revenue, nor by the power that is in his own hands to increase duties on hose countries which have treated this govern- ment so shabbily. It has been suggested, since a shortness of revenue is urged as an argument against any retaliatory ac- tion, that this trouble could be cured by calling Congress together for legislation to increase the revenue. The Fifty-fourth Congress would respond very promptly to a recommendation either for a horizontal increase of duties sufficient to insure a safe amount of revenue or by increasing rates on specific articles which would be prolific of revenue. France's Reply Awaited. The repl$ of the French government to Minister Eustis’ latest presentation, which was designed to be in the nature of an ulti- matum, is awaited with great interest. If the State Department really means what Mr. Eusiis was directed to declare to the French government, some interesting de- velopments may be expected. It is doubted that France will recede from the position which it has assumed in this matter. If, as is believed, there is an agreement or understanding between the governments which are discriminating against our prod- ucts, France will probably not feel at. lib- erty to accept our view of the case unless that course has the approval of the other parties to the tariff war. It is assumed by the department that these governments would not have inaugurated the fight with- out having well considered the conse- quences and determined to carry it out to the end. Germany and France, who are the prime movers in the discrimination, un- derstood from the first, undoubtedly, that our new tariff law having seriously re- guced the revenues of the government, we would not be in a position to retaliate, ex- cept with great inconvenience and loss to ourselves. t Not Likely to Withdraw. Having this in mind, and fully consider- ing the situation, it is not regarded as like- ly that these governments wil withdraw from the contest simply at our demand not supported by any threat or strong proba- Lility of resentment in kind. It is provable, therefore, that the reply of France to Mr. Eustis’ protest will be a reaffirmation of perfect sinecrity in the health plea against our products, and a declaration that France cannot disregard the reports of her own experts. In the event of such a reply a very embarrassing problem will be present- ed to the State Department. ——_____-2+_______ REW MONEY ORDER DESIGN. It is: Nearer the Sise of a Bank Check. Postmaster General Bissell has under ad- yisement a new design of money order, which will give more facility in handling it, and in separating the coupon from the money order. It is more nearly the size of the ordinary bank check, and this fact, it is thought, should increase its use. This statement is contained in a letter sent by Mr. Bissell, February 11, to the joint com- mittee of Congress, inquiring into the methods of transacting’ business in the ex- ecutive departments. The Postmaster Gen- eral incloses a report of- the superinten- dent of the money order system, which, he says, “shows that the decrease charged for money orders has increased the busi- ness, and that the amount of decrease in fees received for the quarters ending Sep- tember 30, 1894, has been more than coun- terbalanced by the amount saved in the reduction of the rate of commissions to postmasters; and it is further shown that the abolition of the postal note has resulted in the use, in its stead, of money orders, which afford greater protection to the peo- ple using them.” . * —_—_—_2+_____ FEE AGREEMENTS. Not Valid Unless Acknowledged Be- fore a Compctent Officer. Assistant Secretary Reynolds of the In- terior Department has rendered a decision holding that fee agreements filed since De- cember 13, 1803, not acknowledged before an officer competent to administer oaths, as required by section 4 of the act of July 4, 1884, are invalid and may not be ap- proved. The matter came before the as- sistant secretary on an appeal from a firm of Washington claim agents from the ac- tion of the pension bureau in ailowing them but $10 as fee in a certificate of pen- sion, issued April 10, 1834. On December 18, 1893, the pension claimant executed in the firm’s favor duplicate articles of agree ment for a fee of $25, but before filing them the firm neglected to acknowledge the same before an officer authorized to administer oaths, and the commissioner of pensions held that they were informal and could not be admitted. - TESTS AT INDIAN HEAD. Important Trials of Armor Plate Made Today. Interesting experiments took place at the naval proving grounds at Indian Head, Md., today. The most important of these was an acceptance test of an 18-inch nickel steel Harveyized plate made by the Car- negie company and representing half the side armor of the battle ship Oregon. An experimental armor plate made by the Midvale Sieel Company was also tested. It was nine inches thick and hardened by a new process known only to the manufac- turers. Tests were also made of explo- sives made by the Maxim Powder Com- pany in firing six-inch sheils, Capt. Samp- son, chief of the naval bureau of ordnance, a number of other naval officers and the representatives of the manufacturers were present. They went down on the tug Triton and came back late this afternoon. —_—_—_—_-e.___ Deserters Frem the Navy. To give effect to the recent act of Con- gress providing that no person shall be punished for desertion from the naval servicé committed more than two years previously, unless he shall have during that time removed from the United States, the Secretary of the Navy has issued a general order providing that such persons may receive a release from the chief of the navigation bureau in the case of a sailor, and from the commandant of ma- rines in the case of a marine. The release, however, shall not amount to a discharge or removal of the charge of desertion, nor shall it form a basis for pension or bounty claims. SENTENCED TO HANG Judgment of the Court Pronounced on Hayward. THE PRISONER SHOWS NO EMOTION He Listened Calmly to the Words of the Judge. TWO MORE MURDER CASES MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 11.—Harry T. Hayward, convicted of the murder of Catherine Ging, has three months to live. Sentence was passed on him by Judge Sea- grave Smith teday after a motion for an arrest of sentence by Mr. Erwin had been denied. Harry came into the court in the same leisurely, calm manner that has characterized his demeanor all through the trial, and surveyed the crowd coldly. while the handcuffs were being removed. Judge Smith agreed to examine the grounds urged for a new .trial on March 28, and then passed sentence. He said he had no doubt whatever -hat the verdict was a just and righteous one, and while he did not believe in capital punishment, it was his painful duty to pass sentence in accordance with the law. = “The sentence of this court,” he con- tinued, “is that you be takén to the Hen- nepin county jail, and there -confined until after a period of three months a time be fixed by the governor of this state, you be taken to the place of execution and hanged by the neck until you are dead.” Harry listened calmly and sat down with- out the slightest show of feeling. Two More Murders. Minneapolis has two more murder cases. "Mak Peigert, wno was stabbel by Paul Kleinschmidt last Friday night, at a birth- day party given by their landlady, died this morning. Kleinschmidt is under arrest and will be tried for murder. He claims to have acted in self-defense. The second murder occurred in North- east Minneapolis today. As a result of a long series of family quarrels Nicholas Bedvin, a boy of seventeen, shot his father, Peter Bodvin, twice through the head. The boy claims that his father attacked him, but circumstantial evidence seems to show that the boy approached from be- hind, struck his father with some blunt in- strument and then shot him. After com- mitting the deed he gave himself up. we MONTGOMERY GIBBS’ MURDER. Trial of the Robinsons, Who Have Confessed the Crime. _ BUFFALO, N. Y., March 11.—The district attorney moved the trial in the superior court today of Clarence and Sadie Robin- son, indicted for murder in the first degree for the killing of Montgomery Gibbs, a young lawyer, a year ago. ‘Mr. Gibbs was walking alone up a resi- derice street bordered with mansions bril- liant with lights about 10 o’clock in the evening. Suddenly three pistol ‘shots r: out in quick succession, and Gibbs was found dying froma bullet wound in the head, lying in the driveway leading to a fashionable residence. He expired without uttering a word. His assailants had van- ished and left nothing as a clew to the’ identity. Rumors soon connected Gibbs’ name with some of the families in the immediate vicinity and hints of love af- fairs were rife, much to the annoyance of many innocent people. The theory that he was assailed by footpads was hardly credited. His watch and money had been untouched. He had no enimies, as far as could be learned. Nobody had seen the crime committed, and the only persons who claimed to have seen his assailants were two messenger boys, who said they saw two men run away from the spot where the firing occurred, but the police were unable on experiment to see the same distance under the same circumstances as the boys declared they did, so thelr evi- dence was thought of little worth. A reporter found what he thought were the footprints of a woman near the spot. No arrests were. made until several menths later the Buffalo police received word from the police of Cleveland that they had Clarence Robinson under arrest, and had wormed out from his pals a charge that he was implicated in a Buffalo murder. Assistant Superintendent Cusack of the Buffalo police went to Cleveland and “pinched” Robinson’s wife Sadie, who, thinking that her husband was to be charged with murder, confessed that she killed Gibbs herself, but refused to give any details. Robinson learning that his wife was un- der arrest for the Gibbs murder made a clean breast of the matter, telling how he and his wife had gone out to “hold up” somebody that night, Sadie being attired as a man. Gibbs had resisted, and in his tussle he had been shot. The district attorney has found the di: guise which Sadie wore on the night and ether corroborative evidences and believes he has a strong case. There are many people here who believe that the Robinsons are one and had nothing to do with the af- fair. The question whether the confessions of the Robinsons will be admitted by the court as evidence against them or how ™much of it and curiosity to see the pair and hear what they will say for themselves on the stand filled the court room as soon as the doors were opened. The proceedings of empzenelivg a jury may consume two or three days. oo MANY MIAERS AT WORK. Claimed That Some Operators Have Given In. PITTSBURG, Pa., March 11.—The strike of the miners of the Pittsburg district has reached that point where both sides are claiming the advantage. The miners say they now have over 5,000 men working at the 69-cent rate. The fourth pool opera- tors held a conference Saturday evening, at which they agreed to pay the 69-cent rate, and most of the nien returned to work this morning. The remainder will be at their places tomorrow. The operators of the entire district will meet here this afternoon to discuss the sit- uation, but a number of them are authority for the statement that they will adhere to the 55-cent rate, and will make no over- tures to the miners. They claim that the meeting is merely for the purpose of con- ferring, and is no-sign of weakness on their part, as construed by the employes, Col. W. P. Rend of Chicago is in the city, and when asked if it were true that he had sent a telegram denying that he had granted the increase to his men he refused to confirm or deny the report. The fact that his men are at work is considered evi- dence that he is paying the 9-cent rate. Sheriff Wilhelm of Fayette county sent a posse of deputies to the Stickle Hollow mines of the Washington Coal and Coke Company Saturday night, having heard that the river miners contemplated an at- tack on the non-unionists who are at work there. No trouble occurred, however. Stickle Hollow was the scene of the blood- iest riot during the strike last year. It is GEN. BETTER, He Was Able to Appenr at the Break- fast Table. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 11.—The condition of ex-President Harrison is most satisfactory today. He has gained much strength’ and was able to appear at the breakfast table with his family. Dr. Jameson, Gen. Harrison’s physician, says that his patient is now out of danger and he apprehends nv serious developments in hig pleurodynia trouble. Dr. Jameson thinks that Mr. Harrison will soon be able to resume his business. A’ New York World special, sent Satur- day, said: A gc ‘leman who saw the ex- President today said that he had aged greatly during the past two weeks; that he had been almost constantly engaged upon the Morrison case, and when not in the court room was _ considering some phase of the case at his hotel, and that the strain had been a peculiarly hard one upon him. He had found it difficult to get needed fest, and has been troubled consid- erably with insomnia. He was in a greatly weakened condition whem attacked by the disease, and this has tended to make the situation more grave than, it ‘otherwise would have been. ———.—.——--. MONTEREY’S MEN DISSATISFIED. What They Say of Secretary Herbert's Ration Order. VALLEJO, Cal., March 11.—The crew of the Monterey are up in arms against the recent order of the Secretary of the Navy that the crew of that vessel_subsist solely on food procured by the department on contract from the lowest bidder and issued in the form of rations daily by the pay- master of the ship. A similar order con- cerning the Olympia will go into force on the 15th instant. For an indefinite time the contract and ration system has been existent, but it has been always optional with the men whether they ate only what the govern- ment provided or elaborately modified their bill of fare when possible. Every enlisted man in the navy is allowed 30 cents a day for ration money, and heretofore he has had the privilege of letting the depart- ment keep this 30 cents and feed him three times a day or drawing it out in the form of $9 a month and boarding on shore, or furnishing the mess to suit the fancy and purse. By this means Jack lived about as well as his captain as regards the fresh- ness and quality of his meat, potatoes, tea, coffee, vegetables, bread, not to speak of canned and bottled goods. Secretary Herbert's recent order has tied the men down to what they.consider un- necessarily narrow limits in their eating. They will only be permitted to eat at cer- tain hours, only be allowed to partake of a certain quantity of each article and the bill of fare will be unchangeable. The sailors say that paymasters and other of- ficers now make a commission on the pur- chase of the supplies. Quite a number have deserted from the Olympia because of this commissary change. What is Said at the Department. The complaint that comes from Vallejo, Cal., of undue restrictions upon the com- mutation of rations of the sailors on the Menterey and the Olympia was promptly ascribed by the officials of the Navy De- partment to ihterested shopkeepers in the town, who have profited largely by the sailors’ trade. As explained at the Navy Department, the state of the case is as follows: It has been customary to allow the com- mander of 2 vessel to use his discretion as to the number of rations that might be commuted by each mess. This has led to some trouble. In some ‘cases the com- manding officer was very severe in re- stricting the number of commutatigns; in others the privilege was extended without restriction, so there was complaint ami the sailors of discrimination, Again, it has been found that when a ship was suddenly called. upon to put. to sea the messes were not properly supplied with rations, owing to the number of com- mutations. In one case tho entire marine guard of a ship was rationless, owing to the defalcation of the caterer, who had gotten drunk and spent the mess money placed in his care. ‘The department officials came to the con- sion that some uniform rule was neces- sary to regulate the commutation of ra- uons, and an order was issued limiting the number which ought to be so commuted to one in each four sailors. In an ordinary mess of twenty men this would amount to $46.50 per month, a sum quite suflicient, in the opinion of the department, to supple- ment the regular naval. ration with lux- uries. it is contended at the Navy Department that the present naval ration is the best in the world, and that an American sailor receives amost as much food in one meal as a British sailor does in a whole day. NEGROES. _ FIRED ON THi Colored Laborers Attacked by a White Mob. NEW ORLEANS, March 11.—Soon after 10 o'clock this morning @ crowd of white scr2wmen, who are on a strike, went to the head of St. Andrew’s street, on the levee, and made a murderous assault on the negrces who were working there. Some thirty or forty shots were fired by the whites, and two of the negroes, John Par- ker and Philip Fischer, were shot. The wounded men were removed to the hos- pital in a dying condition. No arrests were made, although there are a large number of policemen present. More trouble is expected. A Historic Church. NEW YORK, March 11,—The old Forsyth Street Methodist Episcopal Church last night celebrated the 105th anniversary .of its founding. In the tenement house dis- trict: now, ‘with its entrance through one of the blocks at 10 Forsyth street, just be- low Canal street, the chureh was, when built, set in green fields away above the city and reached by winding paths. It was built in*1790 by the Rev. Thomas Norrell, who was a major in the continental army, and was on Washington's staff, and who was also presiding elder under Bishop As- bury. It was rebuilt in 1833 and recon- structed to its present form in 1514. It was the second Methodist Episcopal church or- ganized in New York city. ee . Gov. Stone a Candidate. JACKSON, Miss., March 11.—In an inter- view in the Clarion-Ledger-this evening Gcy. J. M. Stone will declare himself a candidate for the United States Senate as the successor of Senator George, who, it is understood, will not be a candidate for re- election. The legislature to convene Jan- wiry next will elect, though Senator George’s time will not expire until 1899. ———— Five Miners Found Dead. DENVER, Col., March 11.—A special to the Times from Albuquerque, N. M., says: The fire in the Old Abe mine has been brought under control and eight imprison- ed miners were brought to the surface. Five were dead. . Convicted of Manslaughter. CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 11.—Charles Boulter, a retired cattle man, tried for the murder of Thomas O'Neil, has been con- victed of manslaughter, the jury having been out forty-eight hours. Boulter has killed three men in the last ten years, but has heretofore escaped puuishment. pee es Dendlock.- DOVER, Del., March 11.—The sixty-ninth ballot for a United States Senator was taken today. It resulted as follows: Hig- gins, 6; Addicks, 6; Massey, 4; Wolcott, 6; Tunnel, 3. ? : pace Se ob Another A. P, Accession. CHICAGO, March 11:—The Mount Pleas- ant, Iowa, Review will hereafter take a report from the Associated Press. ———_ Smallpox at:Columbus. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 11.—The First avenue public school has been closed for two weeks on account of @ case of small- pox there. TROOPS LANDED Capt. Cromwell’s Report to the Sec- te‘ary of the Navy. REVOLUTIONARY FORCES DEFEATED The Colombian Rebellion a Serious State of Affairs. TO PROTECT THE RAILROAD Secretary, Herbert has received a cable message from Capt. Cromwell, commanding the cruiser Atlanta, dated Colon, March 10, as follows: “A slight engagement has taken place, resulting in the defeat of the revolutionary fcrces. Catarina Garza killed. The At- lanta landed a force-of marines to protect American interests at and near Bocas del Toro.” A Serious State of Affairs. The Atlanta was recently ordered from Colon to Bocas del Toro in consequence of trouble at the latter port, and her return to Colon is supposed to be due to the de- Mire of her captain to report his action in landing troops to the Navy Department. Colon is the hearest cable station, and is only a day’s run from Bocas del Toro. Capt. Cromwell probably also thought it desirable to see how affairs had progressed at Colon since his departure. Although the United States has large trade interests at Bocas they are insignificant when com- pared with its interests in the Panama railway. The landing of naval forces at Bocas indicates a serious state of affairs, as troops are never landed on foreign soil except in grave emergencies. t was evidently deemed necessary for the proper protection of American life and property. 5 Pledged to Prevent Interruption to Travel. It is believed that the Atlanta will re- turn at once to Bocas del Toro. The cruiser Raleigh will probably reach Colon today or tomorrow from Trinidad and the cruiser Alert is due at Panama, the western ter- minus of the railway, about the same time. The United States is pledged to prevent in- terruption to traffic across the isthmus, and war ships have been sent there to ful- fill that pledge. In case it becomes neces- sary for the protection of the railroad troops will be landed at each terminus and distributed along the route, as was done by Admiral Jouett several years ago when the property ‘was similarly threatened. The presence of war ships in the harbor at the termini will probably be suflicient protec- tion of the railway and it may not be found necessary to‘land troops. —___-e-_____ THINK MR. CLEVELAND WILL RUN. That is Said to Be the Reason for Forming a Silver Party. The reason the silver men were in such te-forma new. ing implicit reliance in their abflity to se- cure the nomination of & free coinage man on a free coinage platform by the old dem- ocratic ‘party, is said to have been that they had satisfied themselves that Mr. Cleveland will again be a candidate. After making a careful investigation and reason- ing the matter out they became thoroughly convinced of this. They argued, in the first place, that the “sound money” demo- crats would not consent to remain in the party if it were captured by the free sil- verites, and that, therefore, to save them- selves from the necessity of quitting the party, and also to insure the election of a sound money man, no matter whether the republicans or the democrats were suc- cessful in 1896, they would mzke a deter- mined fight to capture the convention. ‘Lo do this they would have the delegates from the eastern states and from the re- publican states generally on the side of “sound money,”’ and it would require only that they should capture a few delegates here and there through the south and south- west. With anybody but Cleveland as a can- didate they might not be able to get enough delegates from the latter sections, but Cleve- land possesses a popularity in certain parts of the south and southwest, even where the silver sentiment is very strong, which might be relied upon to give him delegates regardless of his financial views. In other words, it is argued that Cleveland’s person- ality could be relied on to strengthen the sound money column of delegates in a con- vention, and that this could be accomplish- ed by no other man. They argue, therefore, that, since the sound money democrats will not be willing to surrender the party to silver, they must |. take Cleveland for their candidate. Believ- ing that Cleveland would be thus brought into the field, the silver men did not feel safe to trust to their chances for controlling the convention. ENROLLING OF BILLS. Much Trouble From Errors Obviated by Doing the Work by Print. Much of the trouble that was occasioned by reason of errors and mistakes which. cecurred in the engrossment and enroll- ment of congressional measures by hand will, it is believed, be obviated hereafter by the new method of having that work done by print. This change is the outcome of one of the recommendations of the Dock- ery joint commission and was put into practical effect during the last Congress. An excerpt from the report of the com- mission on this subject sets forth the be- lief that in nearly every instance that the errors made were directly traceable to the clerical force engaged in the work of en- grossing and enrolling the measures. In the nature of things it was almost im- possible to prevent them oftentimes in the haste in which the work was done. Before recommending the change the commission investigated the methods pursued in the legislative bodies of other countries than our own in respect to these matters and found that. in nearly all the leading for- eign parliamentary bodies, and in several of our own states, the old method or sys- tem of engrossment and enrollment by hand and ink and pen has been abandoned. As far back as 1849 the British parlia- ment abandoned this method and adopted that of printing. They applied it at first only to bills of a public or general charac- ter for both houses. It was found, how- ever, that the new “arrangement was so productive of economy, convenience and dispatch, and tended so much to lessen the chance of errors,” that they speedily applied it to private bills and resolutions of every character. Included in the commis- sion’s report on the subject recommending the change was a letter from the Treasury Department which shows that in conse- quence of an error in engrossing the tariff act of 1883, by which fruit was placed on the free list, refunds were made to the amount of about half a million dollars, and an act was subsequently passed correcting the error. ——_+2+____ Personal Mention. Secretary Lamont and Private Secretary Seeger have resumed their duties at the War Department, after a week’s absence in New York. Mr. Henry Xander has returned from his trip to Fortress Monroe. Capt. E. B. Frick of the medical depart- ment is in the city on leave of absence. | He is at the Ebbitt House. SUPREME COURT DECISIONS Two Involving the Question of the Collec- tion of Duties. — One Regarding the Sufficiency of Service in a Case of Libel—Liabil- ity, of a Carrier. In the Supreme Court of the United States today two decisions were rendered in cases involving the question of the col- lection of duties. In the first of these; that of Beuttell agt. Magonz, collector of the port of New York, the question involved was that of the classification of certain- rugs woven on looms not fit for weaving carpets, but which had been assessed as Wilton carpet, because the surface was cut so as to give it the appearamce of plush. The case was appealed from the circuit court for the southern district of New York, which has sustained the classi- fication of the collector, but the Supreme Court reversed this decision, saying the rugs were rugs and not carpet. ‘The other tariff case was that of Cooper, collector, agt. John and James Dobson, in- volving the classification of certain goat hair, which the circuit court for the east- ern district of Pennsylvania had held to be free of duty, contrary to the decision of the collector. The decision in that case was set ide and a new trial ordered. Justice Vhite delivered the first opinion and Jus- tiee Brown the second. Service in a Libel Case. Justice Gray delivered the opinion of the court in the case of Catherine Goldey, ap- pealed from the decision in the circuit court for the eastern district of New York. This was a case in which Mr. Goldey asked dam- ages in the sum of $100,000 for alleged libel. ‘The action was begun in New York state court and service was obtained upon the president of the newspaper company on & chance visit. The case was afterward re- moved to the federal court, where an order was granted. vacating the service. The ap- peal was from this decision, but the Su- preme Court affirmed the judgment, holding that the servicé had not been sufficient. Liability of a Carrier for Loss. | The case of James Henderson et al., own- ers of the steamship Caledonia, agt. Mayor Goldsmith involved the question of the liability of a carrier for loss by delay in the shipment of merchandise. The case was appealed by the owners of the vessel from the decision of the circuit court for the Massachusetts district, which had held them responsible for loss caused by delay in the shipment of cattle. The defense in the original case was that the delay was cecasioned by the breaking of the vessel’s shaft on account of a defect which could not have been discovered, and that this was covered in the exceptions made in the bill of lading. ~ The court held, however, that the excep- tion was not sufficiently specific and sus- tained the judgment of the court below. A vessel, said Chief Justice Fuller, in deliv- ering the opinion, must be really seaworthy; it was not sufficient that its owners should think it was seaworthy. Justices Brown, Harlan and Brewer dissented, holding that the vessel owners were exonerated by the exceptions made by them in their bill of. lading. ene ‘The court announ interstate commerce cases, one of which involves the long and short haul and another of which is known as the “Social Circle” case, had been restored to the docket for reargu- ment at the next term. The court also announced a recess until Monday, the 25th ipstant,-after disposing of the cases now on hearing. a eS TO REFUND EXCESS DUTIES. Action of the Spcnish Government at Minister Taylor's Request. Minister Taylor at Madrid some time ago informed the Department of State that he had selected seven cases of the large number preferred by American merchants for the recovery of sums of money paid to Cuban officials alleged to be in excess of the proper charges on imports into that country, which he intended to make test cases. The department has just been in- fcrmed that the minister has succeeded in having five of the cases allowed, and or- ders have been made for a refund in these by the Spanish government. The cases are those of Maicas, Ward & Co. (Hidalgo), Dowling, Aguilera, and Trilla and Alonso. ‘Two of these cases are for refund of duties collected upon goods jthat should have been admitted free, but upon which they were exacted owing to a misinterpretation by the Cuban officials of the language of the repertory of the reciprocity treaty. The other cases were claims for refund of fines collected because of trivial errors in mani- festos. Minister Taylor is hopeful now that he will be able to secure the allow- ance of nearly all of the large number of such claims pending, in view of his success with these test cases. 2—____. Liability Under the Income Tax Law. The treasury officials have made an im- portant ruling in respect to the liability under the income tax law of dividends re- ceived from corporations. It is held that dividends received by a resident of the United States from corporations, foreign or otherwise, doing business wholly without the United States and having its princip: office and property out of the United States” must be returned as income. Such corpora- tion not being liable on its net profits the dividends must be returned as income by the persons receiving the same. . Indians Released. ‘The Indian office has received informa- tion that the Indians No Shirt and Little Chief, arrested on the Umatilla agency, and for whose safe keeping the Indian agent asked United States troops, have been released and that no further trouble will follow. It te expected that No Shirt, Little Chief and Peo of the Umatilla tribe will visit Washington in a short time. ———+o.—____ The Arizona Governorship. Secretary Smith said today that no one from the Interior Department had tele- graphed or written to E.-F. Kilner offering him the position of governor of Arizona. Charges have been ‘filed against Governor Hughes, but as yet the Secretary has not had time to look into them, though. he in- tends to very soon. “This,” said the Sec- retary, “is the second man who has been appointed governor of Arizona without the knowledge of the department.” Pension Granted, Among the pensions granted today were: District of Columbia—John Gorman, P, Louis Rodier, William Quin. Maryland—Joseph Fool all josiah Fawkes, Baltimore. a “aes Virginia—Frederick Muller, alias Fridolin Mueller, Elizabeth City; Noah Stier, Win- chester, ————————_-o+____ May Send Troops, if Necessary. Upon representations of the agent at the Umatilla, Oregon, Indian agency to the ef- fect that trouble might follow the release upon habeas corpus of two Indians now under arrest, Gen. Schofield has authorized Gen. Otis, commanding the department of Columbia, to send some troops there if in his judgment it is necessary and prudent to do so. ————_—_+-e+_____ Mr. McAdoo Will Attend the Banquet. Assistant Secretary McAdoo has accepted an invitation to attend the banquet of the Friendly Sons of St.Patrick at Delmonico’s, New York, on the 18th instant. HAD TO CALL POLICE Revolt in a Chicago Girls’ Reform School. 3 CHARGES OF UNJUST TREATHENT © ‘The Ringleaders - Placed Under, Arrest. NO MORE TROUBLE FEARED —__-+___ CHICAGO, March 11.—Riot broke loose in the Illinois state home for juvenile female offenders, at 3114 Indiana avenue, last night Thirty-four girls, ranging in years from ten to eighteen» rose in rebellion against the matron, Mrs. A. M. Dayton. Mrs. Day- ton and her assistants were powerless to control their charges and were assaulted and compelled to lock themselves in rooms to escape their assailants, while the girls went through the house, breaking furni- ture and windows, and smashing crockery and everything they could lay their hands on. The police were summoned and restored order, which was no easy matter, as the ringleaders fought desperately. Four of the girls, supposed to be ringleaders, were arrested. The trouble arose because of punishment given by the matron to Mamie Davis, six- teen years old, who is said by the attend- ants at the home to be hard to manage. According to the girls, however, the punish- ment meted out to the Davis girl served only as a pretext for an uprising, which had been brewing for some time and was due to great dissatisfaction among the girls over their treatment in general and par- ticularly because of a system of punish- ment which included imprisonment in a dark room, twelve feet in size, the culprit béing chained to the floor with a heavy chain, and also a system of dieting, in which the offender was not allowed meat and was half starved. ‘Fhe trouble Legan, when, for a breach of discipline, Matron Dayton locked Mamie in the “strong room” and chained her to the floor. The other inmates smashed in the door and released the prisoner, follow- ing the liberation by a wild riot, which only ended when four of the ringleaders were arrested. The riot was repeated today. The girls declared that they would have nod more of the present modes of punishment, and, as a declaration of independence, shrieked defiance at the matrons, rattled the bars of their windows and screamed at the passers-by. Large crowds gathered in the street and about the building,-and six of the girls were taken to a police station. ‘The arrests served to quiet the inmates at least temporarily, and the matrons do not anticipate further trouble. ESCAPED FROM JAIL. Three Convicts Saw the Bars of Their Prison in the Night. NEWCASTLE, Del, March 11.—William S. Harris, William Sutton and Thomas Nolan, the two former serving terms for burglary and the latter. escaped from the Ree rin ae ing. Shortly before daybreak a deputy sheriff noticed a huge rope made of blankets hang- ing over the western wall of the jail. It proved to be from cell No. 24, in which the three prisoners were confined. When the cell was reached it was found that the bars had been sawed by the use of a fine file, almost like a knife, and the use of some kind of acid and a fine diamond saw. The saw was broken in three pieces and was originally about twelve inches long, and about the size of an ordinary clock spring. Deputy Harry Gillis was on their tracks in less than an hour after they had escaped. It is supposed that they fied across the river to New Jersey in a boat. ——— DENVER’S EXPOSITION. Committees Starting Out After Two Million Dollars Subscriptions. DENVER, Col., March 11.—Committees started out today, to raise $2,000,000 for the purpose of carrying on the international mining and industrial exposition which it has been decided to held in Denver, in 1896. That the movement has found friends abroad is evident from the attitude the railroads are taking. Secretary Flynn of the: local passenger association has re- ceived inquiries from almost all the great trunk lines, and there is no question that rates as low as those made to Chi- cago will be made. In many instances they will be much lower, as the old fair rates _ are still in existence between some points. They still continue between Denver and Chicago, so that any reduction now mad would be to cut under the Chicago fair’s rates. It has been decided to put the con- suls and vice consuls of all foreign nations stationed in Colorado, on the board of gen- _ eral managers. Z ———__ DREDGING SCHOONER CAPSIZED. Captain and Crew Believed to Be Drowned. BALTIMORE, Md., March 11.—A special from Oxford, Md., says: During a heavy, gale which prevailed early yesterday morn- ing the oyster dredging schooner Ida V. Seward of Oxford was capsized in Broad creek, Talbot county, and it is supposed all hands on board, consisting of seven men, _ were drowned. The captain of the vessel was Benjamin F. Wilson of Oxford. Saturday morning he started out with a crew of six men to dredge for oysters, The crew consisted of four white and two colored men. The colored men and three of the white men were shipped grom Bal- timore and arrived March 3. Their names are unknown. | A letter found in the cabin shows the name of Lewis Sanders of 1024 Tucker street, Williamsport, Pa. He was employed on_the boat. Capt. John Crockett of the oyster po- lice sloop and others towed the capsized beat to Oxford late yesterday afternoon, Diligent search was made for the captain and crew, but without success. They are supposed to be lost. The oyster police sloop is stil) searching for the missing men or their bodies. —__ .DESTINED FOR WASHINGTON. Work to Begin Soon on the Methodist University Telescope. GREENVILLE, Pa., March 11.—Green- ville is to furnish the lens for the largest telescope that has ever been constructed. Rev. John Peate, D. D., a Methodist min- ster of seventy-four years, has assumed the task. He has just completed arrange- ments for handling rough glass that is to be transformed into this great lens at his home at Greenville and will probably be- gin work in a few days. This lens is to be used in a telescope for the Methodist University at Washington It is to be a monument to Rev. Dr. John Peate, much more significant than any costly column that might be erected to the memory of the grand old gentleman. ; A plate glass works at Butler took the glass for the lens. Heretofore all teles scope glasses of any importance have been cast in France, as well as being polished in that country. The lens when it is com- pleted is to be sixty-two inches in diameter and seven inches thick. —_—__ Gov. McKinley's Vacation. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 11.—Gov. Me= Kinley today left for Thomasville, Ga., for” a two weeks’ rest as the guest of Mark Hanna of Cleveland.