Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1895, Page 1

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TWO CENTS. ‘MACEO IS CAPTURED NICARAGUA'S REPLY) THE COMING FIGHT The Cuban Rebel Chief Taken by the Government. WILL CERTAINLY BE GARROTED General Crombet Fell on the Field of Palmarito. ‘ CALLAJA MUCH GRATIFIED HAVANA, April 15.—Maceo is captured and Crombet has been killed. Without these two leaders all is chaos in the insur- gents’ racks, and liberty’s most ardent friends admit that the Cuban cause is lost. On Saturday the Cuban army and the Spanish soldiers met at Palmarito. The rebel forces numbered 2,000 men, and that of the Spaniards 3,000. A desperate battle followed and Maceo was captured. His secretary was also taken, and all the per- sonal and private papers of Gen. Maceo were confiscated. Callaja, captain gereral of Cuba, who is in supreme authority until the arrival of Campos, who, by royal proclamation, is commander whenever he lands, was seen at the captain general's palace today and was asked if the news of the capture of Maceo, the insurgent chief, was true. He confirmed the report, and added that all of the filibustering was at an end. Callaja seems highly gratified that the revolt has been put down without the aid of Campos’ troops. ‘When you ..mericans see how easily we can crush out the rebels here in the island without the aid of home troops, or with on- ly a few of them, you will realize that the amount of anarchistic sentiment in this land has been exaggerated,” said Callaja. “Tell your people,” he added, “that Cuba is loyal to Spain, and that Spain has never oppressed the island, as represented.” Regarding the recent battle at Pal- marito, Callaja satd that he had official in- formation concerning the capture of Maceo and the killing of Brigadier General Crom- bet. He also had news that the Spanish loss was little, while the retels met with overwhelming defeat. Fall of a Leader: Maceo was a leader of the rebel forces with Gomez during the last revolution. ‘Though but a youth, he achieved consider- able distinction. At the outbreak of this revolution Maceo landed at Baracoa March 81. With him were the following officers of the rebel army: Brig. Gen. Flor Crombet, Gen. Jose E. Maceo, Col. Augustine Cel- reco, Col. Patrice Corona, Frank Agra- monte, Pedro Durvergar, Jose Marti, Juan Jostiser, Joaquin nchez, Jorge Estrada, Adolpho Pena, Domingo Guzman, Jose Pa- lacin, Jesus Maria Santana, Alberto Boy, Luis Garrinel, Manuel Ganda, Juan Li- monta, Isidore Noriega, J. L. Jarvey, Sil- verio Sanchez and Luis Soler. Maceo’s fate Is known in advance. It would be far better for him if he had been killed, as was Crombet, than to be brought here to Havana and put in a gloomy prison. He will be kept there for some time, and then, possibly, he will be given a mock trial. It is certain he will be garroted. “We have no need of Campos and his troops,” sald a Spanish officer when he heard of Maceo’s capture and Crombet’s death. Consul General Williams is preparing for an early departure. Vice Consul Springer assumes the duties of office at once. Rebel Defent at Socorro. Capt. Bonastra, while on his way at the head of a detachment of Snanish troops to the assistance of the village of Songo, in the province of Santiago de Cuba, which was threatened by the rebels, came across some bands of insurgents at Socorro and attacked them. After an engazement which lasted half an hour, the rebels were defeated and compelled to disperse, leav- ing four men dead on the field. The Span- ish troops sustained no loss and captured one prisoner. They followed in pursuit of the insurgents. In the province of Manzanilla Gabriel and Lucrecio Figueredo, Joaquin and Car- los Lieva and Jose Leon, rebel leaders, have rrendered to the auhorities. The Battle at Palmarito. Palmarito is a village in the province of Santiago de Cuba. An engagement took place between government forces and in- ts near that place. The government 3 were made up of regular infantry a number of volunteers, while the were under the command of vr General Flor Crombet, who, it is said, was killed. Jorge rada surren- dered all the men belenging to General Maceo’s expedition. Troops started in pur- suit of the rest of the par im OMcial Reports Received Here. Omiicial telegraphic reports from the cap- tain general of Cuba received here state nish troops have cut to pieces band led by Gen. Maceo and Eleven were killed, wound- ners. Crombet was among Maceo was among the |. Crombet. ken pri ed. Gen. ‘y are closely pursued in the expectation that they eriaken. De the new minister to s, arrives in Cuba tomor- sin at once an investigation affair. He will come to of the month. Gen. nish soldiers Washington Campos and his fo elso arrive in Cuba to.aorre nding of Insurgeats. Special Corresponder GIBRARA, Cu ited Press. —A great deal aused in the little town e Ist i ant by the land- ing of a body of twent armed insur- gents near there from the British schooner Honora, the stranding of the vessel and the murder of the captain. gunboat lying in the harbor was hurried to the scene of the wreck, about two miles west and an effort was made to insurgents, yay inl: who were making the two companies of stationed at Baracoa being sent in pursuit. As the government had few troops at hand the bore’ engaged in unloading an American Vv el were forced to take up arms and complete the two companies sent to attack the rebels, who had bee reinforced by a large number of mulattoes from the town, who h: fled to the woods with all the arms th uld obtain. t in uit returned in aving one man killed and nine wounded, and a further attempt uit made t ext day also failed, insurgents having made remarkal ss through the woods toward S or Guantanamo. The two sailors found on the stranded schooner w: and, it is rumored, ed to make depositions, SS . Government Receipts. National bank notes received today for Government receipts— 733,927; customs, redemption Has Resigned. Miss Ida B. Lindsay of Alabama has re- @igned her clerkship in the mail division ‘of the Treasury Department. It is in the Nature of a Oounter Proposal to Great Britain. A Diplomatfe Answer, and Pacific in Character—The Warlike Aspect Has Ceased. It is authoritatively stated that Nic- aragua has made a reply to Great Britain’s ultimatum. It is in the nature of a count- er proposal, and not a direct acceptance or rejection of the British demands, and, as such, it is not yet known whether Great Britain will accept it as responsive to the vltimatum. * The ultimatum made three demands, as follows: First. A money indemnity of £15,500 for alleged personal injuries to British sub- jects, including the British consul, Hatch. Second. A revocation of the declaration ef banishment against British subjects. Third. Formation of a commission to de- cide by arbitration the damage done to property of the British subjects expelled from Nicaragua. The ultimatum contained no limit of time, but in a subsequent official note Marl Kimberly stated that an answer to the ultimatum would be expected within seven weeks of February 26. The seven weeks ara up tomorrow. An Answer in Two Parts. Nicaragua's answer is in two parts. To the second demand it says that Nicaragua even before receiving the British communi-+ cation had revoked the decree of banish- ments. To the first and third demands the an- swer is that in order to preserve the friend- ly relations with her majesty’s government, and for the purposes of fairness and jus- tce, Nicaragua proposes that all ques- tions of payment for personal injury, injury to property, etc., be referred to an impar- tial commission of arbitration. The foregoing is regarded as a most diplomatic answer, as it concedes Nica- ragua’s willingness to adjust the differ- ence, and yet courteously suggests that the £15,500 demand is an ex-parte estimate, and that the whole question of amount of damages should be left to arbitration. Great Britain's answer to the counter prop- osition is awaited with interest, but the Nicaraguan reply is so pacific in character that it is believed the subject has ceased to have a warlike aspect, and that diplo- macy will adjust the remaining details. —— MAKES STRAWBERRIES CHEAPER. Interstate Commerce Commission Re- duces Freight Rates on Berries. The interstate commerce commission has decided, in the case of the Farmers’ Truck Association of Charleston against the Pennsylvania road and others on the line to New York from Charleston, that where, on shipments of strawberries and vege- tables frém Charleston for New York, de- livery is made at Jersey City, in computing the total cost of transportation to New York the expense of carriage over from Jersey City is to be added to the rate charged to that point. In case of a change of delivery of such shipments from New York to Jersey City, and the maintenance after the change of the same rates to the latter as have been in force to the former city for a series of years preceding the change, the carriers are charging for a less service the com- pensation which they had presumably deemed adequate for a greater, and the rates as applied to Jersey City are exces- sive. Where a carrier pays mileage for car which it employs ‘n the service of shippers it is the carrier and not the party from whom the car is rented, and there is no privity of contract between the car owner and the shipper. Carriers must provide ice and the facili- ties for transportation of perishable goods. The commission, applying these general principles, held, under the evidence in this case, that on shipments of strawberries from Charleston to Jersey City the charge of 2 cents per quart for refrigeration en route is excessive; that the charge there- fore shculd net exceed 1% cents, and that the total charge per quart for the service of transportation on such shipments and necessary service “in connection there- with,” including refrigeration, should not be in excess of 6 cents per quart; that 1.4 cents per package should be deducted from the rate on vegetables shipped in standard barrels or barrel crates from Charleston to Jersey City in cases where the delivery of such vegetables has been changed from New York to Jersey City without a change in rates, and that the rate on cabbages shipped in standard barrels or barrel crates from Charleston to Jersey City or New York should not exceed three-fourths of the rate on potatoes so shipped. MAY BE SENATOR. Conditiovs That Might Make Theodore’ Roosevelt Succeed Hill. Theodore Roosevelt for Senator from New York. How does that sound? The term cf Senator Hill will expire March 3, 1897. The legislature elected next year in New York will choose his successor. If that legislature is democratic there seems little doubt but Hill will be his own suc- cessor. If it is republican there will be a grand free-for-all fight in New York for the place.. If the legislature is solidly for Platt, the great politician may return to the body from which he and Roscoe Conk- ling made their dramatic exit several years ago. But the legislature might not be what has so often been termed a Platt legislature. It may have other candidates. Why not Roosevelt? It may not be that Mr. Roosevelt has any such thing in mind. Jt is possible that ke has no aspirations in that direction. Some people have an idea that because Mr. Roosevelt has been a member of the civil service commission so long he has probably sacrificed his party principles. This is not so. There is not a partisan in the United States Senate, urless perhaps it is Senator Hoar, wko is any more pro- nounced than Theodore Roosevelt. He is a republican on tke tariff, the main issue between the parties. He is an eastern republican on the subject of the currency, and an intensely American republican on the subject of foreign relaticns. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts is an earnest civil s e reformer, but no one could accuse him of sacrificing any of his party princi- pies in his belief on that question. Mr. ‘Roosevelt and Mr. Lodge ard Mr. Roose- velt and Mr. Reed are very near agreed on most matters of public policy, and it has never yet been said that Mr. Reed has wavered in his republican faith. As civil service comm ioner Mr. Roosevelt has fearlessly enforced the law, be it republi- can or democratic politician that has been hurt by such enforcement. The holding of federal offices under the civil service for the transaction of such business as does not concern the policy of an administra- tien, Mr. Roosevelt holds, is no part of politics, but a business proposition solely. Up to that point he is non-partisan. Of- fices, he holds, should not be the reward of political activity, nor should offices be ad- ministered for the benefit of politicians. Beyond that point and in the realm of actual party differences, Mr. Roosevelt is an active and uncompromising republican. As a Senator, it is claimed, he would be as vigorous in asserting the doctrines and policies of the republican party as any Senator upon that side. oe Naval Movements. Admiral Meade’s squadron has arrived at Colon and the Yorktown has sailed from Nagasaki for Shanghai. The President’s Letter Believed to Sound the Keynote. THE ADMINISTRATION'S POSITION Senator Cockrell’s Views Upon An International Conference. HOT TIMES IN ILLINOIS The opinion prevails among some of the politicians now in the city that the Presi- dent’s Chicago letter upon silver and safe money sounds the key note of the coming struggle between the free-silver democrats and the conservatives in that party. One sentence especially in the President's letter is causing considerable comment in this connection, that portion of his communica- tion wherein he uses the following lan- guage: “Disguise it as we may, the line of bat- tle is drawn between the forces of safe currency and those of silver monometal- lism.” The opinion was freely expressed in po- litical circles today that no sop will be thrown to the silver men in the way of an international monetary conference, but that the people will be called upon to make their choice between existing conditions and a line of action which would throw the United States upon going it alone on a silver basis. Under present circumstances the President is well intrenched in excuses for not aiding in bringing about a monetary conference. Senator Cockrell’s Views. Senator Cockrell of Missouri, in a talk with a Star reporter today, said he had never entertained any hope of an interna- tional agreement upon silver, and he had been trying since 1893 to convince the peo- ple that such a thing is impossible. He ex- presses his belief that the leading nations of Europe, England in particular, will not agree to an arrangement for the complete rehabilitation of silver. This fact, he said, was demonstrated at the Brussells’ confer- ence by the statements of De Rothschild and his colleagues. Their desire, said Senator Cockrell, is to make silver merely a subsidiary currency, redeemable in gold. In fact they want everything under the sun redeemable in gold. The gold of the world is held by a syndicate of bankers, and the elevation of the gold standard will make more profit for the owners of the gold than any other employment to which that metal can be placed. They regard silver as currency, and even the President, in his letter today, speaks of it as such, he said. Senator Cockrell said he had not par- ticularly examined the status of the laws upon the subject to ascertain what existing power there is for the calling of a confer- ence by the United States, for the very reason that he thinks the conference, if held, would prove fruitless, and therefore he has no interest in the matter. He had no share, he said, in the framing of the clause in the sundry civil appropriation bill authorizing this government to send delegates to a conference called by an- otrer country, but he thought that noth- irg in that act would warrant the Presi- dent of the United States in taking the initiative in the assembling of a confer- ence. The Administration’s Position. Many people interested in the situation believe that the President and his advisers, “the administration,” in fact, think that a large proportion of the inhabitants of this country are gravitating toward the idea that the United States can undertake free coinage single-handed, and that those peo- ple may soon announce their ideas through the ballot. In this contingency it is thought to be the opinion of the admin- istration that the best policy to be pur- sued is to lay aside all talk of. interna- tional agreements and meet the people upon the plain ground of sound currency against unsafe silver inflatton and fight it out on this line. The interest the administration takes in the campaign against the free silver move- ment is undisguised. Secretary Carlisle will deliver two speeches on the subject of currency, but largely devoted to silver. He will probably speak once in Kentucky and once in Tennessee early in May. His Ken- tucky speech may be delivered in Louis- ville, altough there have been requests from his old home in Covington to talk to the people there. In Tennessee he will speak at Memphis or Nashville. Other members of the cabinet will also speak on the silver question, although times and places have not been fixed. They believe that a campaign of education on the money 4+ question will have the effect of checking the movement toward free silver, which they believe has become a serious menace to the integrity of the democratic party. The Reform Club’s Work. Mr. John De Witt Warner of New York, one of the moving factors in the Reform Club, was in Washington Saturday ahd talked with several members of the admin- istration. The object of this club is to dis- seminate literature upon sound currency questions and to offset, if possible, the propaganda of the free silver boomers. Ex- Secretary Charles S. Fairchild is chairman of the committee on sound currency of this club, and its membership includes such men as William L. Trenholm, Horace White and Everett P. Wheeler. Mr. War- ner reported that the efforts of the clib in the direction of fostering sound money sentiment have been well received through- cut the country, and that good results are expected. Hot Times Expected. There will be hot times in Chicago and other parts of Illinois, according to the sound-money democrats here, before the program of the free silver element in the acmocratic state committee is carried out, to have the Illinois democracy committed to free silver by_a special convention on the 5th of June. The sound money element in the state is already being canvassed, and consultations are being held among the leaders to prevent the wrecking of the party on the rock of free silver coinage. ‘The movement is regarded by many as & scheme of Governor Aitgeld’s to secure the silver nomination for the presidency or destroy his party in the state if he cannot eccomplish it. It is not believed that Vice President Stevenson is lending himself actively to the effort to disrupt the parzy, for this is not in accordance with his usual political methods. The Sound Money Element. The sound money element believe that they can send a solid delegation from Chi- cago to the proposed state convention pledged to sound meney and the defeat of the silver element. The only doubt on the subject arises from the possible machina- tions of Governor Altgeld and the state office holders whom he can control. The men of means and brains who give character to the party in Chicago propose to make themselves felt in the primaries and to make it plain to ti.c silver element and the local politicians that a declaration for free coinage means the destruction of the party in Chicago and its retirement to the position of a permanent minority in linois. They believe that as Chicago gave 33,000 majority for President Cleveland in 1892 and the state gave only 27,000, Chicago has a right to be heard in the shaping of cemocratic policies. One of the plans which have been suggested is to have the county committee of Cook county, in which Chicago is located, refuse to call any pri- maries for the choice of delegates to the convention of June 5, but it seems more probable that a delegation will be chosen clothed with power to speak in resonant tones for the business men of Chicago. Chicago and northern Illinois will not be the only sections of the state which will be for sound money. Ex-Representative Cable of Rock Island, who was absent from the state committee meeting at which the convention was decided upon, is outspoken in his opposition to the silver program, and will probably secure the choice of a number of sound money delegates. What Morrison’s Friends Say. Another element which will come to the support of the sound money men in urging conservative action, if not in declaring against silver, includes many of the friends fof Col. Wm. R. Morrison. They regard the proposed convention as a trick to help Altgeld and Stevenson and to injure the chances of their favorite, who is not a believer in the free coinage of sil- ver without an international agreement. ‘The probability is that the personal friends of Col. Morrison will appear in the con- vention to urge a moderate policy upon the currency, and some of those who are per- sonally in favor of free silver will oppose the disruption of the party upon that sin- gle issue. If this element shows consider- able strength, and the business men of Chi- cago are represented by the delegation from that city, the convention may prove a@ sound money gathering instead of mak- ing the declaration for free silver which sofme of the extremists desire. The sound money men do not propose to let the mat- ter go ty default or to have the infamy of a declaration for the 50-cent dollar fasten- ed upon the democratic party of Illinois if it is in their power to prevent it. ———_ e+ ____ FIRED A TENEMENT: An Attempt at Incendiarism That Was Nearly Successfal. NEW YORK, April 15.—An attempt, very near successful, was made ‘to burn an old four-story brick tenement house, 132 West 19th street, this morning. The stairway: landings and hallways of the place were literally soaked with kerosene and a torch applied in at least three places. In the house were five families, all colored. That they all escaped without injury is miracu- lous. A citizen passing through the street at 3:50 a.m. noticed smoke coming from one of the windows on the fourth floor of the house. He raised an outcry and ran to the door of the house. The door stood partly open. Entering the hallway he pounded and shouted until every one in the house was aroused. Then he left the house ard sent in an alarm from the nearest box. All the fire was in the front hallw near the door, just at the foot of the stai way. The smell of kerosene was almost overpowering. A space on the floor two feet square was ablaze. The first tenant to appear snatched a carpet from the floor and in a minute had smothered out the flames. The firemen found the kerosene in the halls and on the stairs. It must have been poured on, they said, there was so much of it. This is the third time there has been a suspicious fire in this same house. Before there were no iraces of an incendiary, but there were stro suspicions. The first fire uccurred a w days before ‘Christmas. Then the flames were in the cellar. The next fire was four days later, af 3 o’clock in the morning, on the second floor. The second fire was put out by the tenants. ———» +. WHAT CADET BASSETT SAW. He Was at Port Arthur Just After the Fight There. ST. LOUIS, April 15.—Eugene Bassett, naval cadet on the United States vessel Baltimore, spent Sunday in St. Louis. Young Bassett is direct from the scene of the China-Japanese war and is on his way to Annapolis. Mr. Bassett was at Port Arthur on the day after the fight there, in which it is alleged that the Jap- anese destroyed their reputation as a civ- ilized people by the wholesale massacre of defenseless persons. “While there were between 1,500 and 2,009 persons unnecessarily killed at Port Arthur,” said Mr. Bassett, ‘there was un- doubtedly some justification for it. The Japanese were in an ugly mood at the time of the battle. Two days previous the Chi- nese had captured a number of Japanese in a skirmish. Instead of holding them prisoners of war, manner. This is what incited the Japanese in the Port Arthur fight and caused the massacre afterward.” Mr. Bassett looks upon the Japanese as a thoroughly civilized people and says that their actions during the war, taken as a whole, proves them to be so. From the beginning of the war, he says, the Chinese have been brutal. In numer- ous battles, instead of caring for the wounded as a civilized people would, they have slain them without mercy. The Jap- anese troops, he says, are modern soldiers, fight with modern equipments and thor- oughly understand modern methods. On the other hand, a.large proportion of the Chinese troops care nothing whatever for modern methods of warfare, he said, but prefer to fight as their forefathers have fought for centuries past. Mr. Bassett looks upon the Chinese as a semi-barbar- ous race of people. ee FUNERAL OF MR, SCOTT. It Will Be Held at Chicago Thursday or Friday. NEW YORK, April 15.—The body of James W. Scott, proprietor of the Chicago Times-Herald, who died at the Holland House in this city yesterday, was placed in a casket about noon today. The body will go to Chicago on the North Shore limited from the Grand Central station this afternoon and is expected to arrive in Chicago about 5 o'clock p.m. tomorrow. It is expected the funeral will take place from his late residence, 184 Pine street, Chicago, on Thursday or Friday _next. Besides Mrs. Scott and Miss Hatch the body will be accompanied by W. C. Bryant of the Brooklyn Times, J. J. Ambrose But- ler of the Buffalo News, Mr. G. Baumann, G. E. Randall and Walter Wellman, Wash- ington correspondent of the Chicago Times- Herald. A number of telegrams of condo- lence have been received at the hotel to- day from the following persons: Henry Watterson, Washington; H. H. Kopksaat, Chicago; Victor Lawson of the Chicago News, Melville E. Stone, Chicago; C. W. Krapp, St. Louis Republic; E. H. Butler, Buffalo News, who is at present in Paris; Col. E. H. Woods, Boston Herald; Mr. Driscoll, Bioneer-Press, St. Paul, and Emory Smith, Philadelphia Press. ee CONTINUED RISE IN OIL. A General Fecling That the Upward Movement Wiil Cgntigue. PITTSBURG, Pa., April 15,—Od continued its upward climb this morning and no one seems willing to pregfet w) ~“the return trip will begin. ind “its price up 25 cents to $2, s on the exchange a lively Se 3 The market stood at2241% at noon, and soon after it went down to 2.28 bid. There was little dealing, not over 2,000 barrels being sold here the first half of the day, and about 6,000 barrels at Oil City. There is a general feeling that the upward ten- dency will continue. —— Mr. Mansur Not Expected to Live. Mr. Mansur, the assistant controller of the treasury, who has been lying ill for three or four weeks, 1s not expected to survive through the day. At noon the phy- siclans gave up all hope and told those around the bedside that the patient could Pardly live beyond sun down. Mrs. Man- sur and a married son are with Mr. Man- sur at the National Hotel. There is one other child, a married daughter, who re- sides elsewhere. they killed them and | then mutilated their bodies in a fearful | SOME ARE UNEASY Republicans Puzzled Over the Presi- dential Nomination Situation. A REPETITION OF 1876 FEARED The Present Big Four and Their 3 Crowd of Supporters. NO COMPROMISE CANDIDATE The situation with regard to the next re- publican nomination for the presidency _is shaping up in a way to give some promi- nent members of that party a shade of uneasiness. They fear a repetition of the experience of 1876, when the stronz men succeeded in killing off one another in the national convention, and the nomination in the end went to a man with only a local prestige afd following. The result was a campaign of many difficulties, and returns from the polls that came near to plunging the country into a second civil war. The Convention of 1876. It is recalled that when the republican national convention met in Cincinnati that year there were four prominent aspirants for the nomination: Blaine, Conkling, Mor- ton and Bristow. Blaine led easily, and looked like a winner. Conkling had the powerful delegation from his state behind him, and while it was thought that he was in the race principally to defeat Blaine, he was so attractive a figure he was seriously to be feared by the other candidates in a break-up, Morton was still the idl of the old soldiers, who cherished lively recol- lections of his career as the war gove’ of Indiana, and Bristow was in the r with his recently acquired glory of having overthrown the whisky ring. It was a fine field, and the most intense interest w aroused. The party managers realized that the ‘best foot m Lr. Tilden’s nomi already plain prove, it could be ut foreshadowed, and would n, very strong before thé people. An effort was made to tone down some of the asperities that existed and seemed to be growing every hour, and thus bring about the nomination of a man ef national reputation, and the most posi- tive strength. But matters got entirely be- yond the control of the cooler heads pres- ent. The old feuds all broke out afresh, and the Blaine end Conkling row, the Grant and Bristow row, and half a ‘dozen other rows of smaller Consequence, but all trou- blesome, were renewed in the committee rooms and on the floor of the convention, and all of the leading es were one after another effectually laid out. The con- vention in the end took Governor Hayes, a man of very high character and. very good abilities, but not ranking with the national leaders of his party, and, therefore, need- ing an introduction to the country. Party spjrit was chilled, and it was not until Jate in the campaign that the party meetings howed any degree of warmth whatever. Enthusiasm it was impossible lo arcuse at any stage of the game. Four Strong Candidates. There are now four strong men in the run for next year's republican prize: Har- rison, Reed, McKinley and Sherman. There are other aspirants, and some of them pos- sess elements of availability, but the big four first named have large and enthusias- tie followings, and are making the race one of great interest. Some feeling is be ning to show itself. No bittern as existed between Blaine and and between Grant and Bristow, hunt for a presidential nomination great developer of pe but is a alities, and what a candidate may not himself originate, or even indorse, he may find himself in some | way and measure mitted to by the ex- cessive zeal of active surporters. ‘The situation, it is conceded, needs watch- ing on this score. Promising as the out- look is to the republicans, the conservative leaders of the party want nothing taken for granted. ‘They desire the nomination of a man of real strength, whose name is iden- tified with the party’s national history, and who would need no “introduction to the country. The party, they insist, must put its best foot foremost. The issues, if not party exigency, will demand this. The country, even if resolved in advance to re- store the party fully to power, will 2 and have a right to ask, that the leader represent in himseif the party’s best achievements and purposes. The compro- mise man is too frequently the unknown man, and an unknown map in such a con- test as is promised for next year might make shipwreck of even the most flatter- z prospects. ne ere Is not so much fear, if, indeed, any great fear at all, of any blunders or ex- cesses being committed by the candidates themselves. They stand well with the coun- try and with one another. Gen. Harrison and Mr. Reed are reported as being not so very fond of each other, but no open warfare has ever existed. But it is true that some of the champions of the leaders are at drawn swords with each other, and meeting at the head of delegations in a national convention would be likely, in their present frame of mind, to be more aggressive than discreet. Messrs. Platt,and Quay, and Clarkson, would, it is believe resort to extreme measures to defeat Gen. Harrison, while some of the McKinley peo- ple talk with equal earnestness against Reed. The stakes will be great, the pls high, and the temptations to resort to ex treme measures very strong. No Compromise Wanted. It is suggested, by way of comfort, that if a compromise man becomes necessary the party has excellent material from vhich to choose. It is also suggested that Governor Hayes made a most capable President, and gave the country one of the cleanest and most servicable administr. tions in its history. Sectionalism largely disappeared during his term, and spec payments were resumed. But all of this came necessarily after the election. Wh.t is most recalled now is that at the time he yas nominated his strength wa known, and the campaign, that fact, but litile by reason of languished, and defeat y the narrowest of marg' always been that had either Senator Morton or Senator Conkting been rominated that year the republicans would easily have defeated even as astute a 1 as Mr. Tilden. INVESTIGATION. THE BEEF Dr. Salmon Will Go to Chicago Be- fore Completing It. Secretary Morton said today that there was nothing new in the matter of the higher prices for beef. The Secretary said that there was a shortage of about head of cattle, and that the short corn and grass crops in previous years had some- thing to do with the rise. It is expected that Dr, Salmon, who i vestigation, will go to Chi report is completed. At present the depart- ment is receiving reports from its agents in various parts of the country. cretary recognizes the fact t ment cannot, like a congr gating committee, demand pay cure testimony, and the inform the great beef concerns must be voluntai on their part. —— New York’s War Claim. The Supreme Court tcday ordered the case of New York agt. the United States, being a state war claim, reargued at the next term of court. Senator Hill was one of the state’s counsel in the recent argu- ment of the suit. A JAIL EXAMINATION Inquiries Made During Gen. Olay’s Annual Inspection. Prisoners Asked Questions Aboug Their Food—A Junketing Trip to Albany. Chief Clerk Clay of the Department of Justice has just concluded the regular an- nual inspection of the District jail. The last regular inspection was in January, 1894. In the course of his inspection Mr. Clay specially investigated a number of complaints against Warden Leonard’s ad- ministration of affairs. One of these is that the transportation of tHe last batch of priscners to the Albany penitentiary was a junketing trip for the benefit of As- sistant District Attorney Jeffords and Har- vey Given, a clerk in the office. During the investigation the prisoners were asked all sorts of questions as to their treatment, food and accommodations. Although Capt. Howgate, Beam and Taylor made no com- plaint, several others said they had been badly treated. Mr. Clay told a Star reporter that he had not yet prepared hts report, and he de- clined, in aavance of its submission to the Attorney General, to give any indication of its character one way or the other. Talk at the Court Houxggi ‘At the city hall it was said today that the investigation by the Departifent. of Justice into Warden Leonard’s manage- ment of the District jail is a matter wholly independent of the District Supreme Court, which tribunal appoints the warden and supervises the appointment of the other jail officials. It was asserted today, however, that the court has for some time felt that Mr. Leon- ard, as warden of the prison, has not per- formed his duties satisfactorily, and it is said that some of the judges have ex- pressed themselves as being more or less disappointed in the warden’s management, and that the court has about come to the conclusion, unofficially, that there should be a change in the office of warden. Because of this reported feeling of dis- appointment, it was explamed to a Star reporter today, there has been of late more or less discussion among the members of the court as to the advisability of intimat- ing to Mr. Leonard that his resignation would be acceptable to the court. In this connection the reporter was told that the propriety of appointing either Crier J. E. Kronse ef Judge MeCom court or Crier Robert Ball of Judge Cox's court as war- den upon Mr. Leonard’s resignation has also been discussed by certain members of the court. One of the complaints said to have been made against Mr. Leonard is that he dis- missed the only two colored men on the jail force and failed to appoint colored men in their place. One of these men, Arthur Payne, was appointed five or six ycars ago, upon the recommendation of ex- wdge Martin Montgomery, and because of dismissal Judge Montgomery is said to Feve called Mr. Leonard severely to ac- ccunt before:the members of the District Suy =~ As a result Mr. Leonard is said to have been directed to reinstate Payne on the first of this month, but it is understood that he has not yet been rein- stated. It is said also that Mr. Leonard has of- fended the members of the G. A. R. be- cause of his dismissal of G. A. R. men, and his faisure to appoint members of that or- ganization in their places. Warden Leonard was in consultation with Judge Cole at the city hall early this morn- ing, but could not be seen by a § porter. He stated to a reporter last Thurs- day, however, that he invited the closest investigation as to his management of the jail either by the Department of Jus- tice or by the District Supreme Court. ——— CONSUL GENERAL WILLIAMS. He Has Leave of Absence and May Not Return to Cuba. It is said at the State Department that United States Consul General Williams at Havana hes been granted sixty days’ leave of absence; that this leave is given him every year, and that its allowance now has no significance. It is not known when he will } 2 for the United States. While the State Department attaches no significance to Consul General W. leave of absence, it is known that made a formal request for his re: a month ago. An Associated Press cable from Madrid first announced that the re- call would be asked for. Officials here were reticent on the subject, but it is now known positively that Spain’s request was offi- cially communicated to the State Depart- ment. The leave of absence is regarded as. the natural result. It is said, moreover, that Mr. Williams will not again be recog- nized by Spain by the continuance of his exequatur, if he should return at the end of a leave of absence. INCONVENIENCING THE PUBLIC. Mr. Carmody Talks Further of His Ex- perience With the Commissioners, F. S. Carmody, the contractor, still main- tains that he has a grievance against the District government due to the secretive policy now in vogue at the municipal build- ings as a result of the Commissioners’ news-suppressing order. It will be remem- bered that an alley was about to be opened in square 654, which Mr. Carmody alleged would injure property which he owned in the immediate vicinity, and he protested to the Commissioners that he should at least be heard on the subject before the work was ordered. Mr. Carmody alleged that he had not been notified of the con- demnation pro ss for the purpose of opening the alley. Marshal Wilson sub- sequently stated that every property-hoJder of record was served with a ten days’ tice of the proceedings on a from the asses a list furnishe amined the t did M ney who had ex- le, in neither of which lists Carmod name appear as a prop- erty owner in said square. Mr, Carmody today told a Star reporter that he was a property holder of record, and he ex a certificate furnished him by the recorder of deeds showing that his deed to property GSI was rec mody reiterated his belief that he uffered and others suffer through the etive methods of the Commissioners, he called at the Distr buildings to inquire about the matter, he said, the lips of all the subordinate officers were sealed and they declined to allow him to see the -| official papers in the case on the ground that the Commissioners’ 0} their doing so. The Commissioners were away from their office at lunch at the time, y says he was obliged to r prohibited hour and a half for them to re- ——— . Perso Mention, Capt. Jas. S. Pettit, first infantr tioned at Yale Univ is.in the leave of absenc Capt. Theod Kane of the navy is in city on waiting orders. arles A. Fester of the Enter- ¢, at Boston, is on a visit to Washin sta- y on ee Incapneitated for Active Service. Captains Lay and Keene and Chief En- gineer Wheeler of the revenue cutter serv- ice have beer reported incapacitated for further ac and they will be placed on permanent’ waiting orders on half active duty pay. Capt. Lay is a resi- dent of Takoma, D. C. FOR A REHEARING Petitions for a Reargument of the Income Tax Question. NEED OF A FULL BENCH DETERMINATION The Government Will Insist on Reopening the Whole Case. JUDGE JACKSON’S CONDITION - Copies of the petition asking a rehearing of the income tax question were handed around to members of the United States Supreme Court today. There were no pro- ceedings in open court. No action has been taken on it as yet. Attorney General Olney and ex-Senator Edmunds were in court in the interest of the government and’ the appellants re- spectively, but there was no occasion for them to act in the matter. It is generally believed about the, court that its decision on the petition will not be announced until next Monday. The petition names the cases of Charles Pollock against the Farm- egy’ Loan and Trust Company and Lewis H. Hyde against the Continental Trust Company of New York as those desired reheard. The counsel whose*names are at- tached to the petition are Joseph H. Choate, Clarence A. Seward, Benj. H. Bristow, Wm, D. Guthrie, David Wileox and Charles Steele. The petition sets forth the imperative need of a final determination by a full bench of the questions on which the court was equally divided. Commissioner Miller of the internal reve- nue bureau has telegraphed all collectors as follows: “If necessary to receive income tax re- turns you may extend office hours to 12 o'clock tonight.” Dissatisfaction With the Decision. Reports from collectors show that income tax returns are now coming in very rapidly, and several telegrams asking for instruc- tion on particular points have been re- ceived. Dissatisfaction with the decision of the court seems to be general, and it is believed that the administration will do all in its power to secure a rehearing of the ease. The government, however, will not” consent to a reargument of any particular question involved, but will insist that if a rehearing is granted the whole case be re- argued. The only point decided by the court which*meets with the approval of the government is that exempting from the tax incomes from state and municipal bonds. The rent exemption is being vigor- eusly attacked, and the contention is made that if the late decision stands persons who paid the $150,000,000 or more collected dur- ing the war on incomes from rents have at least an equitable claim against the gov- ernment for restitution. Justice Jackson Cannot Come. A letter has been received here from Jus- tice Jackson saying he would not be able to come to Washington this term. This makes it beyond question that a rehearing of the income tax case cannot be heard be- fore next October. - PATENT OFFICE RULES. New Ones That Went Into Effect To- day as to Applications and Appeals. Patent office rules 65, 134 and 68, which were issued on February 14 last, in conse- quence of the decision of the courts in the Berliner telephone patent cases, went into effect today, although they will not affect the practice of the office for six months yet. Heretofore an applicant for a patent, whcse claim was rejected could hold it in abeyance for two years before altering his specifications or appealing for a new hear- ing, in the meanwhile shutting out other patents. By makifg slight changes at the end of the two years and repeating the process at the end of two more years, applications could be kept pending for years, thus pro- longing the life of inventions much beyond the contemplation of the law. In the Ber- liner cases the patent was in the office for about fifteen years and was then grant- ed to run for seventeen years. The courts declared this action illegal. ~ The new rules require applications and appeals to be made within six months and direct the rejection of any claims that have been pending for five years, unless the applicant can show cause why the case was not more rapidly prosecuted. —_—_____-e-—__. THE NAVAL ACADEMY. A Large Number of Cadets Appointed Since Congress Adjourned. Since the adjournment of Congress the following _named persons have been ap- pointed cadets at the Naval Academy: Arthur S. West of Rome, Ga., John T. Beckner of Winchester, Ky., F. A. Asser- son of Brooklyn, N. Y¥., A. C. Savidge of Sunbury, Pa., F. L. Farmer of Oshkosh, Wis., Fred. J. Horne of New York city, Frank P. Helm of Covington, Ky., H. R. Sties (alt.) of Bloomsburg, Pa. Ralph EB. Pope of Red Cloud, Neb., M. G. Perkins falt.) of Oroville, Cal., John T. Farley, of Jackson,Cal., G. S. Ferguson of Waynes- ville, N. C., A. M. Parker (alt.) of Flat Rock, N. C., Thos. H. Dailey of Ridgway, Il, Jas. H. Mathews of Olney, IL W. Forman of Nashville, Ill, Peter of Peru, Ind., F. L. Field of Evansville, Ind., Chas. W. Bierne of Lewisburg, West Va., Wm. L, Burke (ali.) of Henton, West Va., Robt. S. Brown of Ravenswood, West Va., Edw. B. Fenner of Rochester, N. ¥., Willard Hooker ait.) of Rochester, N. Y¥. F. Ehrhard (alt.) of St. Charles, Mo., k D. White of Danville, a Cc. O. Addi- Ii, Owen Bird of Paris, Hass of Cheyenne, Wyo,, Thos. of Wellsville, Ohio, Oscar Schmidt apolis, Ind., Henry Jordan (alt.) Tex., Warner Weadom of .Tex., W.Vernon of Oregon City, Sonn}; Walker (alt) of Bryan, 0. 7A. N. | Jordan (alt.) of Brooklyn, N. HL. Brinser of Harrisburg, Pa., Chas. T, Hick- ernell (alt.) of Schaefferstown, Pa., Irwin B. Roberts of Oakes, N. R. T. Wood it.) of Cold Spring, N. Y., Harry Good- ol of Highland Falls, N. F. P. Cash- {man of Vicksburg, Miss., Jas. Lowry of | Fort Dodge, Iowa, Lee Webb (alt) of Rip- | pey, Iowa, Chas. H. Fischer of Sharon, Pa, | GW. Smith of Creston, Iowa, L. BE. Wright of Memphis, Tenn., J. G. Pillow of Helena, Ark., Geo. J. Kubn, jr., of New Brunswick, N. J., F. 1. Hanscom (alt.) of Belfast, Me., es of Waterville, Me. R. M. { Garnet, Kan., J. H. Fletch- sott, Kan., H. C. Cocke of vm, N. Jeffers (alt.) of ym. H. Conger, jr. of Petersburg, A Philadelphia, Pa., V Philadelphia, Pa., Victor A. Kimberly of West Newton, Mass., F. C. Whittome of Columbia, Tenn., Henry L. Wyman of fanston, Ill, Ed. O. Cresap of Lakeland, Ind, M. Jas. E. Stogsdill of Clinton, Fia. H. Nelson (alt.) of Covington, Ind., Alex. C, Birnie of Ludlow, Mass., Edw. C. Kalbfus of Harrisburg, Pa., H. F. Weodmansee of Equinunk, Pa., Clarence Ashheld (alt.) of ‘Tunkhannock, Pa., W. R. Sayles, jr., of Pawtucket, R. L, Wm. D. Frawley (alt.) of Bay State, Mass., C, L. Couder of Mc- Gaheysville, Va., M. N. Clepper (ait.) of Co- lumbia, Pa., Victor Binder of Philadelphia, Pa.