Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1895, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR ——_—_+_—__ HED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, cents Sheet Star, $1 per year, with Since at Wastington, D. C., ‘All ma! aubecripiocs teat be paid in advance. Ra of edvertising made now ba application. Che Zvening Star. No. 18,186. : M’KINLEY’S BOOM|T#E case OF wR. WALLERIFQR FREE COINAGE |ENSLANDSULTIMATEOBJECT| MR. MORRISON'S TRIP It Has a Distinct Status in New England. AN INVASION OF THE REED TERRITORY What. the Buckeye Governor's Friends Say. DEVELOPMENTS LOOKED FOR Gov. McKinley’s reception at Hartford, Conn., is accepted here as plainly showing two things: (1) that the McKinley presi- dential boom has a distinct status in New England, and (2) that the field is to be dili- gently cultivated. The buckeye favorite was hailed at the banquet table as the next President. of the United States, and the sentiment, according to the reports, was greeted with loud and prolonged applause. The response was in the governor's best style, and the principle of protection dwelt upon with characteristic earnestness. It was a McKinley night, of remarkable hi- lariousness and encouragement. A visit to Massachusetts was to follow, but this has been canceled on account of the governor's fatigue. He has not as yet entirely recov- ered from the grip, and returns home for rest. But the bay state will see him later, and will give him, his friends say, a rous- ing aseurance of its distinguished consid- eration. Connecticut and Rhode Island. This invasion of Mr. Reed’s territory gives emphasis to a story which has been repeated here end there for a fortnight. Its origin is not knoWn, but it ‘has com- manded much attention. It is stated as a fact that Mr. Reed’s candidacy is weak in both Connecticut and Rhode Island, and that instructions for him for President could not be obtained in either state. There are no particulars. No man of local promi- nence is mentioned as heading an anti- Reed movement, nor is any reason given why those two New England states should deny their suppcrt to the New England candidate. The simple statement is made that the two delegations will not be found in the Reed column at convention time. Speculation on the subject is rife. So far as is known the personal relations existing between Mr. Reed and the Sena- tors from Rhode Island and Connecticut are altogether friendly. In his speech on the financial question at the last session of Congress, Mr. Reed quoted with fine effect that eloquent sentence from a speech of Gen. Hawley, asserting that the integrity of every bond issued by the government in Gischarge of the obligations growing out of the war is as sacred as a soldier's grave. The Senators from the two states named are powerful in their party’s councils at home, and this leads to the idea that the weakness of the Reed stock there, if as marked as reported, is attributable in some way to the feelings and influence of Messrs. Aldrich, Platt and Hawley. What the McKinley People Say. But the McKinley people are not curious on this point. In fact, they contend that the situation is in no sense personal or mysterious. In their judgment, it is plain as day. They reason it out to their own perfect satisfaction. Rhode Island and Connecticut, they point cut, are both strongholds of protection, and both desire that the American policy be kept to the front as a national issue. Neither is satis- fied with the tariff law as it now stands. Both demand a revision on protection lines. low then may this be secured? Obvious- + by making another national campaign on the tariff issue, and by calling the great champion of the American policy to carry the banner. This, the McKinley people claim, explains everything. There is no anti-Reed feeling, properly so-called. On the question of parliamentary reform, which Mr. Reed represented four years ago, Rhode Island and Connecticut supported him loyally, and rejoiced in his great suc- cess. But that chapter is closed. Mr. Reed effected his reform, and next winter will epply it to the proceedings of the House with the approval of everybody. But the tariff question, the McKinley people claim, ig still unsettled. Rhode Island and Con- necticut want scheduled rates calculated on tection lines, and not on lines leading the direction of no protection at all. They are afraid to let the question become ibordinated at this time lest their action construed as a consent to the terms of Wilson bill. They want a return made @s soon as possible either to the old rates or to the application of the principle which lures rates purely for protection’s sake. id this, the McKinley people insist, can ey be realized by nominating their fa- rite for President on a platform declar- ing unequivocally for protection, and the monopoly, as far as possible, of the home markets. The Recent Elections. Reference is made to recent elections as proof of how the tide is already setting in the east. Rhode Island in a light vote has Polled a heavy republican majority. The ‘vote thrown was for a state ticket, but the influences at work, it is claimed, were all Rational. The desire was to keep New England interests well to the front. And New Jersey has just repeated her republi- ean performance of last year. The cities and towns throughout the state have gen- erally elected republican officials by hand- some majorities, and paved the way for a republican triumph next year. This, also, ‘s claimed as a protection winning. New Jersey, like Rhode Island, is full of mills. Her people demand protection schedules, and, the friends of McKinley believe, will be found in time to desire his nomination for President. The Wilson bill is not satis- factory to them, nor do they want to see the tariff question subordinated untii it has been dealt with again by the friends of the American policy. Bore Developments Looked For. When Gov. McKinley makes his visit to Massachusetts there may be developments of more interest even than those now re- corded. He will then be in the very center of territory heretofore thovght to be an impregnable Reed stronghold, and in the bailiwick of Senator Lodge, who is regard- ed as an active Reed lieutenant. If his re- ception there should be of a nature as warm as that just accorded him at Hart- ford it will wake up the Reed men. It may even bring Mr. Reed himself out of the woods before the time he appointed for his return when he decided at the close of Con- gress to make retreat there for a while. + ©. A Court-Martin! at Fort Myer. A general court-martial is now sitting at Fort Myer, Va., for the trial of prisoners for various offenses. The officers detailed fcr the court are Maj. Thomas C. Lebo, g@ixth cavalry; Capts. Henry M. Kendall, sixth cavalry; Frank West, sixth cavalry; uls A. Craig, sixth cavalry; Benjamin |. Cheever, sixth cavalry, and Augustus . Blocksom, sixth cavalry; First Lieuts. hn M. Stotsenburg, sixth cavalry, and ugh J. Gallagher, sixth cavalry, and Sec- nd Lieuts. Walter C. Short, sixth cavalr, 4 Benjamin B. Hyer, sixth cavalry; irst Lieut. John A. Harman, sixth caval- Fy, judge advocate. A Medal of Honor. The President has awarded a medal of Boner to Second Lieut. J. H. Pinkham, Sfty-seventh Massachusetts volunteers, for Most distinguished gallantry in the assault en Fort Steadham, Va., in March, 1805. dunal. The Gunboat Castine Will Soon Be at Mad- agascar. A Trial by Civil Tribunal to Be Se- cured for the Ex-Consul General. The gunboat Castine will probably be at Madagascar within’ a few weeks, and the few Americans sojourning on that distant island will then be reasonably sure of pro- tection during the progress of hostilities be- tween the French and the Hovas. The Castine left Aden, Arabia, yesterday for Zanzibar, on the east coast of Africa, a run of 1,720 miles. She will next make a short visit to Mozambique and then proceed direct to Madagascar. The length of her stay in that country will depend entirely upon the progress of events. At any rate, she will remain there so long as necessary for the protection of American interests from foreign interference. To Protect American Interests. She was ordered there for that express purpose weeks before news was received of the allege@ outrage perpetrated upon ex- Consul Waller by the French authorities. That case is now being investigated by the consular officers in the yicinity, and the action of the State Department will be based upon their reports. Waller is un- questionably an American citizen and en- titled to full protection as such. The main question to be determined by the Secretary of State is whether he will quietly acqui- esce in the action of the French authorities in sending him to prison as a result of a trial by a military tribunal on charges of conspiring with the Hovas against the French protectorate. The Policy of the Department. * The policy of the department has been invariably to insist that Americans offend- ing against foreign authorities shall be given a fair legal trial before a civil tri- This stand was taken in the case of Americans arrested in Cuba, whom the authorities wanted to try by military court- martial. It is said at the State Depart- ment that no special instructions have been sent to the commander of the Castine with respect to the Waller case, but that he will be communicated with later on the subject in case it becomes necessary to do so. He would naturally act in co-operation with the resident consular officers in such a case without specific instructions. a MAY BE A STRADDLE. What May Happen in the Illinois Democratic Convention. Mr. George B. Parsons of Illinois, who was enrolling clerk of the last House of Representatives, and is a man well versed in democratic politics of his native state, is in the city today. In a talk with a Star reporter Mr. Parsons expressed the fear that the coming democratic convention in Illinois may possibly execute a “straddle” on the question of unlimited free coinage of silver. “I can see certain contingencies which might prevent the convention taking an out and out stand for free silver,” said Mr. Parsons. “It will depend altogether upon the makeup of the county delegations. The representation from Chicago, Cook county, is likely to control one-third of the con- vention. If ex-Mayor Hopkins and his friends capture this delegation it will mean a strong anti-silver sentiment injected into the proceedings of the convention. If the labor vote is largely represented in the delegations from the big counties it will mean a conservative stand on silver. “Lower Illinois, of course, will send a delegation whose sentiment will "be strong- ly in favor of silver, but it may not be numerically strong enough to outweigh the representation of the northern and cen- tral counties. The result then might be that the convention would declare for bi- metallism, and content itself with this and @ hope that an international arrangement could be reached in behalf of silver.”” REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS. Important Documents Turned Over to Col, Ainsworth for Classification. Documents relating to the services of scldiers and civilians at the time of the revolutionary war, which heretofore have keen scattered through the pension, State and War Departments, have been gatheted tegether and placed in the care of Col. F. C. Ainsworth, ghief of the records and pension office of the War Department. ‘Thes2 documents contain a mass of infor- mation of great value to the historian, biographer, pension claimant and genealo- gist. Previously they were practically in- accessible, as they were not indexed and were piled up indiscriminately, with few titles and little or no system. The State Department began to classify the records in its possession some time ago, but there were no funds available for the work, and it proceeded slowly. Through the efforts of members of the Loyal Le- gion, Congress made.an appropriation for the purpose of-binding and indexing these records, and directed the War Department to do the work. @his has been going on for some time, and the last documents, those in the pen- sion office, have just been turned over to Col. Ainsworth’s bureau. In two months it is expected that the classification will be so far completed that any one desiring to look up the record of any given man in the revolutionary war can obtain access to a file’ containing every letter or document referring to him that is now in the govern- ment’s possession. ————o+___ PROF. GROSS’, STATUE. A Site Selected for It in the Smith- sonian Grounds. Col. John M. Wilson, the engineer officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, has selected a site for the bronze statue of Prof. Samuel D. Gross, late professor of surgery in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, in the southeast corner of the Smithsonian grounds. Congress, at its last session, appropriated $1,500 for the erec- tion of a pedestal for this statue, and au- thorized its erection “in such place in the city of Washington, Districh of Columbia, as shall*be designated by the superinten- dent of public buildings and grounds.” The site selected is an epen plat of ground just north of the Army Medical Museum and a little east of the tional Museum. It is near the main driveway leading from 7th Street and is plainly visible from all sur- rounding points. There is now in the Smithsonian grounds a statue of Prof. Joseph Henry, and it is the only statue of a civilian in any of the public parks of the District of Columbia. The physicians and surgeons of the United States raised the fund for the construction of a statue of Prof. Gross, and it will be } erected under the auspices of the American Surgical Association and the Alumni A: ciation of the Jefferson Me@ical Colleg ge. In the joint resolution authorizing the erec- tion of the statue in this city Prof. Gross is referred to as a man “whose labors in the cause of his profession as surgeon and as author have caused his name to be re- spected in the civilized world as one of the benefactors cf his race, and have added luster to the entire medical profession of the United States.” ——— The Museum Not to Be Disturbed. As a result cf a personal inspection of the Washington navy yard, Secretary Her- bert has directed that the naval museum be left undisturbed, and that quarters for the naval examining board he fitted up in another buildin, WASHINGTON, D.C., THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. TWO OENTS. THe proof of te pudding is tn fhe eating. Yesterday's Star confained 53 cofumns of advertisements, made up of 724 separate announces ments. These advertisers fous$t pubficifp—nof merefp space. The Silver Sentiment Increasing in - the West. REPRESENTATIVE HEPBURN'S VIEWS Influence of Educational Processes on the People. NEW PARTY NOT GROWING Representative Hepburn of Iowa is in the city today, having just returned from a trip to the west, where, during the past month, he has visited every county in his district. Mr. Hepburn will be recalled as beirg one of the most prominent conserva- tive western republicans in the House in- terested in the financial question, and his speeches upon that subject at the last ses- sicn of Congress attracted considerable at- tenticn. During his western trip Mr. Hep- burn has paid particular attention to the feeling of* the people upon the financial question. “I thought I saw an increasing feeling in favor of the immediate, unlimited coinage cf silver by the United States,” said Mr. Hepburn to a Star reporter today, “which Was very surprising to me. This sentiment Was especially noticeable among democrats. I spent a number of days in Chicago, and found the same conditions there. On the railway trains silver was a general topic of conversation. Free silver literature was in wide circulation everywhere. Influence on the People. “The educational processes being put for- ward in behalf of free silver are having marked influence “upon the people. I be- lieve that this year in every democratic State convention held west of the Allegany mcuntains a position in favor of the im- mediate, unlimited coinage of silver will be taken, unless the international confer- ence is called and people are induced to telieve that there is reasonable prospect of an early international agreement as to ratio and coinage. The state democratic platform in Iowa heretofore has contained a plank advocating free coinage of silver, but last year this plank was omitted through the action of party managers. Something in the nature of a revolt was thereby occasioned among the democrats -of the state, and that action has had the effect of increasing the dgsire of the people to take further interest in silver. The state republican platform has followed the na- ey republicah platform in regard to silver. The Western Republicans. “The republicans cf the west have al- ways been in favor of the free, unlimited coinage of silver as a result of interna- tional agreement. I thought I noticed a stronger feeling among them on my last trip in favor of such use of silver indepen- dently of such agreement, but if the invi- tation is made by Germany and accepted by the commercial nations of the world I have no doubt that republicans will be content to stand on the declarations of the platform and wait for such joint action. I believe, however, that should the repub- licans of the west become satisfied that there is to be no such conference and that gold monometallism is to be the policy of European nations and of our own men of wealth they will prefer silver mono- metallism to gold. I found that the repub- licans who voted for an issuance of $500,- 000,000 of bonds payable, principal and interest, in gold, the proceeds to be used for the retirement of the greenbacks and treasury notes of 1890, in order that a place might be made in our circulation for $500,000,000 of national bank notes, met with but iittle favor. I‘ heard no expres- sions save those of earnest disapproval.” New Party Not Gathering Strength. “Do you think the new silver party is gathering any practical strength in the west?” asked The Star reporter. “No, I do not,” replied Mr. Hepburn. “The democrats will hardly leave their or- ganization to join the movement and the populists are already fighting it, their lead- ers being afraid of being displaced by the little junta of rich men, who consider them- selyes too respectable to be populists, but who want a party. The bulk of the edu- cational propaganda 1s being conducted by the new party, however, and while they are not going to have many voters their literature will have many readers. In this respect they are benefiting the general cause of free silver. Nothing is being done to counteract the influence of this free silver literature. Occasionally some pon- derous article from a metropolitan news- paper finds its way among the people, but it is discredited at the outset, for the gen- eral idea among the people is that the banks control the boards of trade and business organizations and they are in turn the patrons of the great newspapers and that therefore their statements are in the interests ef the banks. His Own Position. “As for myself, I favor the republican position of the unlimited coinage of silver, but I feel perfectly certain that an inter- national agreement as to ratio and the opening of all mints to silver will soon be reached.It may be to the interests of a few very rich mert to limit the money of ulti- mate redemption to gold, but it is the in- terest of the great mass of the people to have the greatest possible amount of money of ultimate redemption. The latter are rapidly finding out that this is their interest, and, as they are one thousand to one of the others, when they do learn this truth they will prevail in any contest. ‘This interest is the same on the part of the Englishman, the German and the French- man as the American, so that it is only necessary that the same measure of edu- cation should be had in the other countries as here to bring about the same results. With an international agreement there can be no question about the good results of the free coinage of silver. With an agree- ment the market is unlimited and the value is fixed without the possibility of fluctua- tion, so long as the ratio is maintained by law. The unlimited coinage by the United States Independently of agreement is but an experiment. No man knows that it will succeed. His belief is but a speculation, so that I think it is better not to be precipi- tate, but to wait for a certainty that, with proper education, must come.” HAWAIIAN VESSELS. ‘a Circular Issued by the Commis- sioner of Navigntion. Mr, Chamberlain, commissfener of navi- gation, has issued the following circular in regard to the admission of Hawaiian ves- sels: “This office being satisfied that the rules concerning the admeasurement for ton- nage of vessels of the United States have been substantially adopted by the govern- ment of Hawaii, Hawalian vessels arriving in the United States shall hereaftef be deemed to be of the tonnage denoted in their certificates of registry or other na- ticral papers, and it shall not be necessary for such vessels, when furnished with such certificates, to be readmeasured in any port of the United States. The amount of any deductions and omissions, however, not authorized by the admeasurement laws of the United States must be added to the register tonnage of such vessels.” To Press Her Frontier in Venezuela s0 a8 to Encompass the Gold Fields, Senator Morgan Thinks the United States Should Ask the Direct Ques- tion if This is Her Purpose. Senator Morgan, chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, was asked today how he regarde@ the situation in Venezuela and replied by saying: “I have no doubt that Great Britain’s ul- timate purpose is to press her frontier sufficiently far into the interior to en- compass the rich gold fields of that sec- tion, though she will, of course, not dis- close this purpose in the immediate future, but will rather confine her demands to the territory at the mouth of the Orinoco river. “Do I think that the United States should Permit this aggression?” he asked, repeat- ing a question. “I do not. I think the di- rect question should be put to Great Brit- ain by our diplomats ad to whether she Proposes either by purchase or conquest to extend her domain beyond her present claims. In case of a negative reply I should advise that the United States should not interfere with the settlement of exist- ing disputes, but I do not believe that Eng- land could be brought to this definite prom- ise not to press her boundaries further in that section, because of the rich gold mines known to exist there. I am convinced, as I believe most men must be, who have given attention to the question, that Eng- land’s desire is to control those gold de- posits. Such a course would be in ac- cord with her policy in other parts of the globe, and it goes hand in hand with her gold monometallist policy at home. Con- trolling the principal gold fields of the world, England naturally desires to main- tain the gold standard, and she as nat- urally wishes to extend her gold posses- sions. It is to her interest to do so, and I canriot say that I blame her, but that is no reason why the United States should stand idly by and allow her to carry this policy into effect. Furthermore it is evi- dently the policy of the present British administration to acquire desirable ter- ritory when it can do so, as witness the effort to secure Necker Island in the Ha- walian group and her dispute with France over African territory. It is most probable that instead of making any definite reply to this supposititious question, England would evade it. In that évent I think we should invoke the Monroe doctrine forth- with.” ———_—__+-e+—_____. IT WOULDN'T? STOP. State Department Elevator Refused to Take on Board Secfetary Gresham. They have a new elevator in the State Department. It does not work like one of the old-fashioned kind. In fact, it is a novelty in its way. They have been tin- kering with it for more than three weeks now, but apparently have not made it a success yet. Tuesday a lady and gentle- man were entering’ the elevator, when it started off without warning. The gentle- man, who was last in, had to spring in in order to save himself and very narrowly escaped being cut in two-as the elevator shot upward. A few moments later Secre- tary Gresham came out 6f his office to go to the cabinet ‘meeting. A messenger sprang forward and preéssed the electric button. The elevator was somewhere in the upper stories. It came down with a rush, and before the elevator man could stop it it was at the basement floor. The elevator man had seen the Secretary wait- ing and he knew that it was a breach of etiquette, not,to say dangerous busi- ness, not to stop for the head of the de- partment in any of the public buildings and carry him wherever he wanted to go. Besides, he had heard the Secretary eroel: “Here, here,” as the machine went by. Anxious to redeem himself the clevator man made another effort and started the machine for the second floor, where the Secretary stood waiting. But he could not stop it. The infernal thing acted like a dozen or more diplomats of foreign coun- tries, bent upon exasperating the head of the State Department. It was now on the third floor and the constant ringing of the bell showed that the Secretary was not only impatient, but was getting angry, very near the point of a Spanish ulti- matum. The elevator again started down, but it went by the Secretary again. By this time the elevator man was rattled. He would not have given much for his Position. He threw the lever far back and let her go, and before he was aware of what happened he was among the sky- lights. The Secretary did not stop to try that elevator any more. He had wasted nearly five minutes of valuable cabinet time, and he went over to the side of the building occupied by the Navy Department and patronized one of the navy elevators. This was running smoothly, but the ex- perience of the Secretary will probably result in another elevator, which may not run so fast, but which will be more in keeping with diplomacy, as it should be, steady and sure. Yesterday Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassador, had a similar exne- rience, but as pe soon observed that the “lift”? was out of order he moved quietly away, casting furtive glances about to see if any one had seen him. Eo A SUIT FOR INTEREST. Senator Hill Argucs for the State of New York’s Claim. The United States Supreme Court is en- gaged today in hearing atguments in the suit of the state of New York agt. the United Stat:s for $131,187 interest on money advanced by the state in equipping troops sent to the war in 1861. The original sum amounted to $3,000,000, a part-of which, $1,250,000, was raised as a public state loan, while the remainder was borrowed from the state canal fund. “The national govern- ment refunded the principal, but refused to recoup the state for the interest pafd by it on the borrowed money. The claim was submitted .to the Court of Claims, which allowed the part of it based on the interest paid cn the money raised on the public bends, amounting to $91,320, but declined to allow the remainder, -$39,867, paid on the canal fund. This decision was alike unsatis- factory to the state and to the federal gov- ernment, and Loth appealed to the Supreme Court. Senator Hill argaed the case today for New York, and Assistant Attorney General Whitney for the United States. ——— ~~ STILL AT WOODLEY. The President Did Not Come to the White House Toay. The President did not come into the city today. It was said at the White House that he remained at Woédley because he could do more work there, and would not be subject to as much interruption from congressional visitors as if he spent the day in his office at the White House. He will undoubtedly come into town tomorrow to attend the cabinet meeting, but will not be accessible to visitors; Mrs. Cleveland was at the White House for a short time this morning, and accompanied Mrs. Bene- dict of New York, who has been her guest for a few days, to the railroad station to say good-bye. F Admiral Meade's Fleet. Admiral Meade's fleet, consisting of the New York, Minneapolis and Columbia, ar- rived at Port au Prince, Hayti, yesterday. It is expected that they will next visit Colon. Assistant Secretary McAdoo is a passenger on the Columbia. He Goes to Dlinois to Look After the Convention. WILL ADVISE MODERATE ACTION Opposed to the Altgeld Free Silver Movement. SENATOR PALMER’S POSITION The departure of Mr. William R. Morri- scn for Illinois at this juncture is causing some comment among politicians. Mr. Mcrrison was scheduled for a western trip with the interstate commerce commission in a few days, but he anticipated their departure by leaving Washington last night for Illinois, where he will join the commis- sicn later. It is sald here that Mr. Morrison is very much opposed to the Altgeld movement for free silver in his state, and that he thinks it is a mistake for the democrats te hold their proposed silver convention. It is sald that some of Mr. Morrison’s warmest friends and supporters are interested in the success of the silver movement, and it is thought not impossible that he may hold conferences with these people on his present trip. While it is too late to head off the con- venticn, a date having been fixed for it, and the call issued, it is said that he may accomplish some good by counseling mod- eration. There are those who regard Wil- liam R. Morrison as the most influential democrat in Illinois politics, and these peo- ple think that if he raises his voice strong- ly against the indorsement of unlimited free coinage it will have its effect upon the democracy of the state. The belief is current in political circles that the administration is inclined to look upen the Illinois movement as a serious ratter, politically, and as something in the nature of a menace to party prospects. If this be true, it is considered quite likely that strong pressure will be brought to bear upon the state party managers to stem the free silver tide at the coming convention, and compromise on a declara- tion for bimetallism. It is hinted that Col. Morrison’s trip to Illinois is in this interest. Senator Palmer Will Fight Free Silver. SPRINGFIELD, IIL, April made such a declaration. beaten either. “Some members of the state committee were in the secret and others were not. Some members of the committee, attaching but little importance to the meeting of the state committee,gave their proxies thought- lessly, and others who appeared in person are reported to have asked some delay in a measure which was intended by the man- agers to separate the democracy of Illinois from the democratic party of other states. “I had not notice in any form or other from the state committee, nor do I under- stand that the democracy of the state was better informed than I was. When the committee assembled, I am told, a call for the convention to meet in June was pro- posed, of which Mr. Heinrichsen was the putative author. In this call the democ- racy of the state were told by the state committee that the only question before the country is that of the currency. “There are other statements in the call, to which I only revert for a moment. One of them is that the federal election laws are repealed, never to be re-enacted, when there are good reasons for believing that upon a return of the republican party to power they will enact laws of a still more vigorous character. “It is futhec declared in the call that no general tariff legislation will be at- tempted for many years, while it is known that upon a return of the republican party to power they will attempt to apply and extend their doctrine of protection, with all its socialistic features. I repeat that in my opinion the call for a state convention was issued as a means of entrapping the democratic party into the silver movement. “The call is without precedent, not only in the history of the democratic party of Illinois, but of any other political party in any of the states. “My poor friend Mr. Merritt is reported to have said that ‘the democracy has noth- ing to lose.’ God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb unless the lamb 1s a fool.” ae TOO MUCH LIKE LOTTERY. The Post Office Authorities Discover a Questionable Prize Business. The post office officials have lately been investigating the status of a local business firm and the methods it pursues, with the result that the company has been ordered to make a change in its advertisements, or else the duty would devolve upon the post Office of stopping its mails. For some time past the National Seed Company, 918 F street, has been printing extensive advertisements in newspapers re- mote from Washington, offering to sell seeds cheap, and at the same time furnish- ing particular inducements to readers to deal with this company. The circulars of the company contain an offer of money prizes, which the post office construed as in the nature of a lottery. Each circular contains a rough cut of a man’s face, with the statement that there are three “hidden faces” about it. They are very apparent-- one in the beard, one behind the neck and one in the forehead of the old man’s face. The circular states that every one who cor- rectly locates the three faces is entitled to seven handsome “art pictures’ suitable for framing and decorative purposes. Fur- ther, the National Seed Company offers to sell seed in packages of nineteen varieties, and $15 is to be given in premiums with every 100 purchases. According to the cir- cular the mail of the company is received uncpened and assorted into packages of 100. The letters are numbered up to 100, end the last letter in each series, being numbered 100, entitles the writer to a prize of $10, and the ninety-ninth to a premium of $ in gold. In its letters to newspapers throughout the country authorizing the insertion of extensive advertisements no’ names are signed, but in the letter heads are printed the names of several local concerns to which reference is made by permission. Among thesé is the firm of Bell & Co., but this firm disclaims ail knowledge of the National Seed Company, and declines to stand sponsor for its financial standing. The matter was placed in the hands of Inspector Smith of the Post Office Depart- ment, it having been decided that the of- fers of the company partook too largely of the nature of a lottery. He visited the office of the company and saw the sup- posed head of the concern. He warned the company that unless this style of adver- tisements and these offers were discontin- ued the company would be debarred the privileges of the mails, and that all its let- ters would be held up. The company saw the situation in which it was placed, and promised to conform more closely to the rules of the department. There the mat- ter rests, and up to the present the mail of this company is still being delivered, but the officials of the department insist that if the promises to give money prizes are lived up to the machinery of the law governing lotteries will be put in motion. 10.—From Present indications United States Senator John M. Palmer proposes to fight the so- called free silver democrats of Illinois to a finish. The venerable Senator this evening “I am in this fight to stay,” he said, “and will not be Alterations in the Ship Oontemplated by the Navy Department. New Boilers, New Engines and Exten- sive Changes in Her Rig and Bat- tery, but Money is Lacking. When the United States ship Chicago goes out of commission at the New. York mavy yard next week she will have been practically retired from the naval service foy at least two and perhaps: for three years. It is the intention of the Secretary of the Navy to modernize the ship in every respect, and while the necessary changes would occupy many months under ordinary conditions, this particular work will be long drawn out because of lack of ample funds to carry out the project. At the last session of Congress an appropriation of two hundred thousand dollars was secured to continue the work on the new engines of the vessel, which will be built at the New York navy yard. Some of this work has already been executed, but the appro- priation is entirely insufficient to com- plete the new machinery, which will cost altogether about five hundred thousand Aollars. Improvements Contemplated. It is the design to put in new boilers, in- cluding some of the new tubulous type, and new engines, and if all necessary funds were available this work would consume at least eighteen months. In addition to this, extensive changes are to be made in the battery of the ship and the six-inch guns are to be replaced by five-inch rapid iire guns. The ordnance bureau has no money at rresent to do this, being under the neces- sity of practically closing up the gun shops at the Washington navy yard, owing to the failure of Congress to provide the neces- sary appropriations. Then the constructors have a great deal of work to do on the Chicago, including a complete change of the rig of the ship, and they also have no money for this purpose. So all three bu- reaus must look to Congress at the next session to supply the means to prosecute their work, and as the funds will not be available before July, 1896, and the work, once begun, will require a year or two for its completion, the prospects are that the Chicago will have a long rest after the hard service she has had during the past ten years. Experiments on Sectional Boilers. The naval engineers are about to begin an interesting set of experiments on sec- tional boilers, which will probably deter- mine the type of boilers to be placed on the Chicago. The large lake steamer Northwest, built at Cleveland, has been placed at the disposal of the Navy Depart- ment by the owners for an exhaustive test. She is a new departure in lake navigation in being equipped with the celebrated Betie- ville boilers, which are extensively used in the French navy. A board of engineer offi- cers will be detailed to make a complete round trip the length of the lakes on this vessel and take careful note of the per- formance of the boilers at every moment, recording the coal-consumption, the feed action and other essential points. The de- partment has also been extended an op- portunity for testing a special boiler made by the Babcock .and Wilcox Company for naval uses. This type of boiler has given excellent résults ashore, and it is the pur- pose to ascertain its’ fitness for naval use. An experimental boiler has been set up at Elizabeth, N. J., and an engineer board will begin an examination of its workings in a few days. ——_+-e.+—_____ WANT A FULL BENCH. The Supreme Court to ‘Be Asked to Hear Income Tax Case Again. The counsel for the appeliants in the re- cently decided income tax tases have pre- pared a petition to be submitted to the United States Supreme Court asking a rehearing of the case before a full bench. The motion for a rehearing will be made upon the ground that the questions in- volved in these cases are as to the consti- tutionality of an act, afd that the Supreme Court early in its history adopted the prac- tice of requiring constitutional questions to be heard by a full court in order that the judgment might be the decision cf the majority of the whole court. The petition declares that this rule was announced by Chief Justice Marshall, has frequently been followed since and that it is recognized as established in Phillips’ practice. After submitting the importance of the case and alleging the necessity of a final adjudication of the questions remain- ing undecided upon the ground that until some decision is reached the courts will be overwhelmed with litigation upon these questions, and the payment and collection of the tax will be most seriously embar- rassed, the petition closes as follows: “Your petitioners, therefore, respectfully pray that these cases be restored to the docket and a reargument of them be or- dered. In case, however, this motion should be denied, your petitioners pray that the mandate be amended by ordering a new trial in the court below, so that the court below may determine the ques- tions (1), whether or not the invalidity of the statute in the respects already speci- fied renders the same altogether invalid, and (2) whether or not the act ts consti- tutional in the respects not decided by this court.” Up to a late hour this afternoon the peti- tion had not been filed at the Supreme Court. ———o TO EXTEND THE CLOSED ZONE. The Proposition Now Sald to Have Originated With Russia. The proposition made by our State De- partment to extend the closed zone in the North Pacific from the 35th degree of longi- tude, as defined by the Paris arbitration, westward to the shore of Asia, it now ap- pears, really originated with Russia, which country was,the first to perceive the in- efficiency of the present regulations to pro- tect the seal herds. Russia has always as- serted as a right with the United States secured under the arbitration the priv- ilege of protecting seals in Bering sea opposite her own coasts. But the waters below were left unprotected by the Paris arbitration, and the figures gathered by Collector Milne at Victoria last fall show that the number of seals killed on the Asiatic and unprotected side far exceeded the number killed in the defined zone east of the 35th degree in the open season. When Secretary Gresham last August ad- dressed a note to the Russian minister here inviting his government to adhere to the agreement for the protection of the seals in force between the United States and Great Britain he promptly replied as fol- lows: “I think that I can, however, at once inform you that Russia having to the same degree as the United States an interest and imperative duty to equally assure in her waters the preservation of the fur seal, the imperial government could not give its ad- hesion to the Paris regulations and to the legislative measures adopted in consequence thereof at Washington and London unless the totality of thcse measures be applied likewise to all the waters of the Pacific situated to the north of the 35th degree of north latitude.” A Certificate of Merit. The Sailing Club of London, England, has awarded a certificate of merit to Mr. Arthur B. Cassidy, principal draughtsman in the bureau of construction and repair, Navy Department, for an exhibit of a de- sign and model for a single-handed cruiser, with an average length of thirty feet. CHANGES IN THE CHICAGO A BRILLIANT EXPLOIT March of the British Troops on Chitral. FIELD AND MOUNTAIN GUNS CARRIED Deep Snow and Intense Cold En- countered. A BATTLE EXPECTED CALCUTTA, April 11.—A dispatch from Simla, dated noon today, says that Col, Kelley, the commander of the British forces which have been attempting to reach Chitral from Gilgit since March 25, has succeeded in crossing the Shandar pass and was about sixty miles from Chitral on April 7. - The march of the troops was a most arduous and brilliant military exploit. The pass is 12,000 feet high and is impassatle for wheels. The pioneers had to carry the field and mountain guns during the last seven miles of the route, through deep snow and with the weather intensely cold. The troops suffered in many cases from frost-bitten feet. When these advices were forwarded to Simla the enemy was in position twenty miles distant from the force commanded by Col. Kelly, and an engagement was ex- pected. It is learned that Lieuts. Fowler and Ed- win, the two officers belonging to the Brit- ish garrison at Chitral who have been re- ported missing for some time past, were in- vited to a polo match at Reshun, where they were treacherousiy seized, and their escort, consisting of twenty Ben; overcome by sup-rior numbers and slain. Another report says that Lieut. Fowler was killed by a foster brother of Amir UL Mulk, the present ruler uf Chitral, who as- sumed the rank of mehtar after having murdered his elder brother, Nizam-Ul-Mulk, the late mehtar. Another dispatch from Simla says that the latest news from the front points strongly to the collapse of the power of Umra Khan, the intruder. It-is added that the fanatical gatherings upon whose help he counted, and who have hitherto offered the most serious resistance to the British forces, are now dispersing. —_> — MAKES HIS ESCAPE, PERRY The Famous Train Robber Breake From an Asylum. _ POUGHKEEPSIE, N. ¥., April 11.—Five inmates of the state asylum for insane criminals at Matteawan, including Oliver Curtis Perry of Syracuse, train robber, made their escape from the institution last night and are still at large. Those whd made the attempt with Perry are Patrick McGuire, a very dangerous man, who once before broke out of the asylum; Michael O'Donnelland Frank Davis of New York city and John Quigley of Astoria, Staten Island. Fi Night Watchman Carmody was making his rounds at 11 o'clock and had passed from the main building into the isolation annex, where the more dangerous of the prisoners are kept, when he was attacked by the five men, overpowered and deprived of his keys before he couid make an out- cry. Then the convicts fled toward the chapel. As they ran Keeper Carmody raised an alarm, which quickly brought out Superin- tendent Allison and the guards. Perry and his companions, however, reached the chapel without being intercepted and through that room made their way to the roof through the scutile. Then Perry slid down the roof to the eaves, from which he dropped to the ground, the fall being about twenty-five feet. As the others were fol- lowing his example they were discovered and one shot was fired at them. Four of the prisoners followed Perry’s lead and es- caped. The fifth was too late, but he scrambled back into the darkness, where he remained until daybreak, when he made his escape. . A lerge force of guards was sent to scour tge country for the escaped convicts, and word was sent to all points where it was thought they might appear. ee “WHERE THE NEW WOMAN IS.” California Waiter Girls Object to Dis- carding Frizses. SAN FRANCISCO, April 11.—With flash- ing eye and arms gkimbo, the waiter girls in Dennet’s coffee house are discussing the latest order from the proprietor of ‘the many coffee houses in the Union. This order emanated from headquarters at Brooklyn, N. ¥., and is causing his ten waiters in this city no end of worry. It is to the effect that all frizzes on the side of young women’s heads must be combed out straight and plastered down and held by combs if inclined to be fluffy, and the hair at the back of the head must be braided. Puff sleeves must be aban- doned. To all this one of the waitresses in this city replied as follows on behalf of herself and her companions: “It’s like this. We don’t take off the curls—not on our lives we don’t. I want to see the men that'll tell me how to dress myself. You know wevare in uniform now. We don’t mind good, long prayer in the mor ; Wwe don’t mind uniform dresses and t sort of thing. But plaster our hair down on our heads and split it in the mi , ugh, not on his life. It takes an e: n girl to give in to such a freak as that. This is California, where the ‘new woman’ is. Ws don’t stand no such nonsense. Bangs ani fluffy hair go here for three meals. You'll 2 see me without my curis—not on your life.” ——— _—_ DIED WITHOUT CONFESSING. “Coyote Dick,” Charged With the Dennixon, Tex., Mardera. DENNISON, Texas, April 1! wards, alias Billy Leroy, murder of Mrs. Hattie Hayne: committed. here on the night of May 17, 1892, and sen- tenced to life imprisonment, is dead in Huntsville prison. It was believed that Edwards killed three of the women and ‘wounded the fourth on that eventful night. He maintained his innocence to the last, and when approached for a conf. plied that he had nothing to say, and died with the secret locked in,his heart. Cone sumption was the cause of death after two months’ confinement. In the west Ed- wards was known ‘as Coyote Dick. He was well known in Salt Lake, where he was charged with the murder of a man named Callahan in 1891. He was also credited with the murder of a woman in Chicago. —_— > BURGLARS’ GANG CAPTURED. The Robbers Run Down in Stafford 5 County, Va. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., April 11.—Sher- iff Kennedy of Stafford county has arrest- ed five men charged with burglary and robe bery. For several months the upper part of Stafford county has been terrorized by systematic burglaries and robberies. The five men caught are members of a regular gang, with a hiding place and rendezvous in the woods, where hundreds of dollars’ worth of goods were found.