Evening Star Newspaper, June 5, 1895, Page 2

Secretary Herbert Arrives at the Naval Academy TWO HOURS LATER THAN EXPECTED Consequent'y the Middies Did Not) Receive Him. GRADUATING EXERCISES aa eS See ANNAPOLIS, Ma. Herbert arrived at 1 accompanied by his naval aid, Lieut. Reamy. As the Dolphin approached, the Secretary's salute of seventeen guns was fired from the saluting battery, and the - Dolphin returned a captain's salute of seven guns. As soon as the Dolphin drop- ped anchor Capt. Cooper, accompanied by Lieut. Potter, called on the Secretary, and after a short visit the whole party came ashore and visited the Monongahela and roft, and then went to the superin- nt's house. The Dolphin had been earlier hour, when the c: and marines would have received the Secretary. But as the boat was about two hours late, the middies, accompanied by the band and board of visitors and the spectators, had all gone over to the government farm for the sham battle, and no one was deft to receive but Commander Brownson and June 5.—Secretary on the Dolphin, pected at an e 1 @ marine guard of about fifteen men and about twenty-five “plebes,” who have just entered. ‘The infantry drill was very attractive, and the movements of the companies were highly complimented. The sham -battle at the farm was o of much interest. _— DEFECTIONS FROM INSURGENTS. Santiago Police Make Two Arrests of Mneeo's Followers. « HAVANA, June 5.—The police of Santi- ago de ¢ belonging to Maceo’s band, who were found to be in poss ion of documents connected with the Cuban committee of New York. A dispatch from Guantanamo, Santiago de Cuba, announces the surrender of forty- nine Insurgents at that place, and at Sagua de Tanamo, in the same province, an ad- ditional band of forty-five dispirited in- surgents, It is sald, has given itself up to the authorities, who are awaiting more de- gertions. — FROM CHICAGO TO NEW YORK. a—— Beginning of Another Long Bicycle Relay Ride. CHICAGO, June 5.—The relay biyele race from Chicago to New York, carrying @ message from military headquarters in this city to Gen.Nelson A. Miles, was stari- ed at 9 o'clock to day from Adams street and Michigan avenue. An attempt will he made to do the distance in seventy-two hours. The route to Laporte, Ind., is In charge of Chicago cyclists, and the remainder of the race in divided up between the riders of the various cities along the rov John Lawson of the Monitor ng Cluy and R. H. Winship of the Chicago Cycling Club took the first relay to Grand Crossing, where the m 3 to R. R. Earl and J. J. Beezenek, who ried it to Kensington. Twyman and Bec ke: then took it through to the next station. ‘The rovte la. through Cleveland, As! bula, Buffalo, Syracuse, Utica and’ Po keep: age delivered gn LIQUOR OFFICALS ARRESTED. Another Sensation lina, COLUMBIA, 8S. C., June 5.—A big sensa- tion was created here today by the arrest of Liquor Commissioner M! nm and Con- stable Geach, at the instance of Dr. Pope, who charges them with conspiracy to in- terfere with interstate commerce. The case was brought by reason of the seizure of two barrels of. beer shipped from ta to C. B. Beck and W. F. Muller of Colum They were brought before Commissioner Reld in the United States court. ant Attorney General, in South Care- mt order of Judge Simon- ton. Testimony was then taken on the ques- tion of conspiracy to determine whether Mixson and Beach should ‘be bound over to appear before the United States court for conspiracy. The hearing was adjourn- ed until 3:30 this afternoon. = A STIR IN DOWNING STREET. Exciiement In London Over Turkey's Reply to the Powers. LONDON, June 5.—There was much ex- citement in London and at the foreign office yesterday evening on account of the re- port of the dispatches, confirming the dis- patches of the Associated Press from Con- stantinople, announcing that the Turkish government had refused to agree to the reforms in Armenia, which were demanded by the representatives of Great Britain, France and Russia. All the foreign office officials, including the secretary of state for foreign affairs, the Earl of Kimberley, were at their posts last night, and have assembled again at the forelgn office today. There is a strong be- lief in well informed circles here that the reply of the Porte was purposely drafted in unfavorable terms, in order to gain time. "The sultan is invisible during the Bairam, one of the two great Mahometan festivals of the year, which has now cluded, Consequently, the powers, it erted here, will now address a stronger note to the Porte, and, in addition, they will back this up by a naval demonstration. The crisis in the east is already regarded as being grave, and this feel- sified by the news from Con- Stantinople today telling of the panic at Jiddah, the threatened attack of the Bed- ouins and the flight of Europeans, who are seeking safety on board the vessels in the harbor It is ff ly predict ovtbreak is inevitabl ticn of the powers abating their deman fn any form, although there is a gro belief thet Russia is backing Turkey in the latter's refusal to agree to the reforms demanded by the powers for Armenia. HORRIFIED THE SPECTATORS Three Attempts Necded to Kill Capt. Clavij MADRID, June Capt. Clavijo, who nd seriousiy wounded Captain Gen- ima Pivera after the letter had re- the hand of his daughter on was shot at 8 o'clock this rst fell with he still move ds that t among the crowd of hor- presi Mr. Binset! Home and Well, BUFFALO, N. Y., June 5.—The report that ex-Postmaster General Bissell is en route to Asheville, N. C., for his health is untrue. Mr. Bissell is at his home in this city and is in the best of health. He has no intention of going to Asheville. ——._— Inspector MeLaaghlin's Second Trial. NEW YORK, June 5.—With the accept- ance by both sides of the twelfth juror this afternoon, the trial of Police Inspector Wm. W. McLaughlin for bribery and ex- tortion, was fairly under way. This is the second e that the inspector has faced a jury on a trial of the charges against him, the first trial having resulted in 4& vreement, tba have captured two prisoners | use, and could be broughts (Continued from First Page.) tire strength of the convention. It’s prec- fous little the majority of them know of finance. They think and act through their boss, and he fs in the hands of Secretary Hinrichsen. A great number of country delegates came in. They are earnest, serious-looking men, set in their opinions and determined. These are the honest old farmers, who have studied the silver question by lamp light through the long winter nights. To them this is a solemn occasion. Populists Keep Off. Chairman Laubeneck of the populist na- tional committee said today that when this convention puts the democrats of the state upen record and adjourns, he proposes to issue a manifesto to the populists of Hli- nois warning them against democratic wiles, and exhorting them to stand firm to their own organization. He says his peo- ple want not only silver, but paper money, and that ali money should be issued by the government without the intervention of banks. Gov. Altgeld has decided not to address the convention nor to appear before it. He s the mainspring of the machine, how- ever, and if the country delegates permit, will order its movements. Many Familiar Faces Absent. The full membership of the state con- vention Is 1,076, but the attendance today will probably fall short- of that by more than 1). Veteran politicians are comment- ing upon the fact that but few of the wheel horses of democratic state politics ere present. “I have attended vention since 1S¢s, today, “a1 faces.’ This fact is only characteristic, of course, oft whole movement. It’s the new and younger element im the demorcracy that is doing this In this counection a significant incident cccurred last night. Senator John M. Palmer entered the hotel and was drawn into an argument with ex-Congressman Lane. The controversy grew rather warm, and the crowd became boisterous, cheering Lane and inclined to scoff at the Senator. The tion became so embarrassing that the white-haired old Senator, ex-governor and honored leader of the democracy of Illinois for the past thirty years, felt con- ned to withdraw from the scene, leav- the yourger element in possession of the field, This is cited to show the ten- Gency of the delegations to repudiate old tues and affiliations. Washington Hesing and the sound money delegates heid a meeting in Senator Palm- er’s office today to map out a program. It was decided to. avoid as far as possible act- ive participation in the proceedings of the ecnvention, as no good could be accum- plished and would only subject themselves to being ridden down. It is probable that a majority of them will not go into the convention at all. It Was at first proposed to keep away by con- certed action, but this was abandoned, and delerates will use their individual judg- ment. Inquiries having been made of the con- vention managers as to the course to be pursued toward the President ™ the con- vention, the administration's friends have received assurance that if the federal office holders will keep still no attack will be made on the President by rezoiution, but that if the office holders break in all re- strictions will be removed and free rein given to criticism. At 10 o’clock this morning the tions from the several! congress tricts met in caucus to select their cha: man, members of the committee on reso- lutions and other officers. Remarks of Editor Michnelis. Editor Michaelis, in a speech to the con- vention, said: “I have consented to become for the first time in my life a delegate to a democratic convention, because I consider it a high duty as well as a great honor to follow the call of your glorious leaders. The demo- cratic national platform of 1892 demands bimetallism in unequivocal terms, but President Cleveland, Senator Palmer and other prominent democrats have repudiated the platform on which they were elected, and have used their influence to’ restrict the coinage of sliver. “Their efforts had the purpose as well as the effect to enhance the value of gold, to very democratic con- remarked a delegate I miss a great many familiar make the primary money scarcer and dearer, and we have, therefore, the right to call the organization, advocating such a financial policy,‘the dishonest money"learue, because the partially successful attempt to demonetize silver and thus to decrease the amount of standard money appears as 2, ishonest effort to force debtors to repay loans in an artifictally enhanced money and to coerce the producing classes to pay to money lenders a higher rate of inter The disastrous consequences of this pol carried on by financial powers since 1s are perceptible in the shrinking of valu in nearly al! commodities and in the stag- pation of business. “1 am an o!d bimetallist. I consider the resiitution of sliver tu its old rights as the most imporiaut tusk. I believe that the »mocratic party alone can and will re- monetize silver. and therefore I am a mem- Ler of this conve: tion. “This splendid gathering is a proof that the voters of Illinois and the people at large cannot be deceived by the false ar- guments of the ‘dishonest money’ league. We all know that gold and siiver have been standard money as long as humarity has a until in and since 1873, the free of silver has been prohibited in a dozen of the nations. We all know that only t so-called arguments have been offered in defense of the demonetiza- tion of silver, viz: “J. That an over production had caused a silver flood, and “2. That it became impossible to maintain a ratio between gold and silver. Production of Gold and Silver, “But the report of the director of the mint of the United States, of April 20, 1895, shows that during the last 100 years the production of gold on earth exceeded the production of silver about $500,000,000. We had therefore not an over production of silver, but rather an over production of gold. And other official decuments of the United, States destroyed the other false argument of the dishonest money league. “Page 50 of the United States statistical abstract of 1892 shows that from 1687 until 187? the ratio of value of unminted gold to unminted silver differed never more than 12 per cent—a fluctuation that cannot se- riously influence the value of the money pieces coined in both metals at the rate of 1 to 16. Binetallism in Germany. “Now, let me tell you my experience with bimetallism among the Germans. Some years ago I visited Germany. Every news- paper that came into my hands advocated the gold standard. When I searched for bimetallists I found a small band of men carrying on a campaign of education with d with a weekly paper. campaign v successful. Some ichstag passed a resolution perial government to call a mint conference, and the chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, declared he would do so. During the last fortnight the house of lords, as well as the lower house of the Prussian rliament, passed resolutions, sking that the mint conference should be ulled for the stated purpose of re-enacting The weeks ago the r requesting the imuetall That is the result of a paign of 1eation among the Germans. “The reason for this almost miraculous appearing result fs the fact that bimetal- m demands only what has been the law on earth for thousands of years, and what {s honest financial policy. And, therefore, I predict here today that victory will also perch on our banners in this great country, if we all do our duty.” ea To Be Examined. The following naméd officers will report to the examining board at Fort Leaven- worth, Kan., for examination as to their fitness for promotion: Capt Hooton, twenty-second infantry; Willlam M. Van Horne, seventeenth { ry: Henry H. Humphi fifteenth infantry, and Ot!s W. Pollock, twenty-third infantry, end First Lieut. Edwin H. Webber, twentieth infantry a Boy Drowned While Bathing. A colored boy, about twelve years old, was drowned in the basin near the bathing beach toda: ortly after noon. .The body was recovered and sent to the morgue. The name of the boy could not be ascer- tained. He had been in swimming, and his clothing was found on the shore not far from where his body was recovered, THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. LATE NEWS BY WIRE|FREE COINAGE MEN|QUESTION OF MEANS - The Patent Office Gazette Contro- " versy.° NORRIS PETERS CQ, STILL FIGHTING Employes Piedged Not to Work for the Rival Bidder. SEC’Y SMITH’S DECLARATION a The Action of the commissioner of pat- ents, Mr. Seymour, and Secretary Smith in awarding the contract for photo-litho- graphirg and printing the Patent Office Gazette during the official year beginning July 1, to Andrew B. Graham, is not likely to close the controversy over that varied and interesting publication. The Norris Peters Company, which has enjoyed this contract for a long term of years, suc- ceeded last year in seriously embarrassing a rival concern which had obtained the contract for the Gazette, and, as will be remembered, Secretary Smith, after a thorough investigaticn, claimed to have Tiscovered that employes of the patent oifice-were co-operating in the attempt to delay and otherwise inconvenience the con- tractors. To clarify the situation the Sec- retary discharged an important employe, and gave notice that any further attempt to obstruct the publication of the Gazette would be met with summary removal. Against the New Way. This year, although the Norris Peters Tompany were not the lowest bidders, they made a strenuous effort to contend against Commissioner Seymour's policy of abandon- ing the photo-lithographing process entire- ly in order to make use of the newer one of photo-cngraving on zinc. The Norris I ers Company employed Judge Jere Wilson (o represent them, the open and obvious ctject of their contention being to secure the retention of th photo-lithographic process, although the contract might go to a rival bidder. As theré was some question whether this bidder, Mr. Graham, had a sufficient force of skilled workmen and a plant adequate to the requirements of the contract, there was some possibility that the award might, after all, be made to the Norris Peters Company, of whose ability to do the work by the phcto-lithographing process there ‘as no question. It is known that Mr. ham's plant is capable of excellent work, but the amount of work involved in the Gazette is so large that an ordinary photo-lithographing establishment would be obliged to secure a very large addition to its force in order to comply promptly with the terms of the contract. Opposition Methods, Secretary Smith says he has obtained evidence that the Norris Peters Company are repeating their tactics in order to pre- vent the execution of the contract regu- larly and promptly by the A. B. Graham establishment. It is understood that all the employes of the Norris Peters Company have subscribed to the following pledge: “We, the under- signed, do hereby pledge ourselves not to seek or accept employment from any frm outside of the Norris Peters Company bid- ding on the patent office work as long as the Norris Peters Company have emplo: ment for us. And we further pledge our- selves that any one breaking this agroe- ment will not seek re-employment of this firm, and also that we will not work with any one who does break the same.” This pledge, it is asserted, was circulated among the employes of the Norris Peters Company during the first fortnight in May. Some of the employes were scmew! tardy in afiixing their signatures to it and on the isth of May’the following notice was sent to them: “The agreement of em- ployes of this establishment will close for signatures at 12 o'clock today. If you de- sire to place your signature upon said doc- ument, please inform the secretary before that time. Please answer. Signed.) “A. LEVY, Secretary. The Sceretary’s Position. Being fully forwarned of what may hap- pen, Secretary Smith says he shall take every precaution to protect Mr. Graham ‘n his contract and enable him to perform it promptly and satisfactorily within the terms agreed upon. As it is now a period of comparative commercial depression, and there is none too much work for photo-lith- ographing establishments in various parts of the country, the expectation in the pat- ent office is that Mr, Graham will be abund- antly able to supply himself with skilled workmen and keep up with his contract. If he should not be able to do so, Secreta Smith will undoubtedly do as he did previ- ously—authorize a delay in the publica’ of the Gazette until sufficient help can be secured to do the work; but there is no apprehension at the patent office that any such course will need to be pursued. The Type Setting. ‘The employes of the government print- ing office are especially pleased at the re- sult of the controversy. A great deal was Involved in tha decision of the question whether the work of setting up the text cf the claims for the Gazette should be continued there or given to private con- tractors. The specification room, with its large force of employes does a vast amount of work cornected with patents outside of the Gazette, all of which more or less in- volves the use of photo-lithography, so that if the decision had been made that the Gazette work, coming under the phrase of the law “or any other work making use of to-lithography,” had been given to private contractors, this other patent office work might also have been eventually tak- en away from the government printing of- fice and given to private contractors. The appropriations for all this work together amount to about $250,000, and the removal of an amount of this magnitude from the government printing office ‘vould practical- ly have broken up that branch of the office. The New Method Must Come. “There is one result of this contention, said Public Printer Benedict today, “that ig as plain as day. The Patent Office Ga- zette wil} be produced by the newer pro- cess of photo-engraving before long. In a letter which I sent to Senator Gorman March 28 last I went over the whole ground refully. By the purchase of nonpareil or agate type, at a cost of $1,700, the speci- fication room would have been able to set the claims in the Gazette at precisely the same cost now made by setting them in the large [English type, to be photo-litho- graphed down. For something like $4,000 a photo-engraving plant could have been put in if we had had enough room for it. At a cost of $6,000 a year the pages of the Gazette in type and photo-engraved zinc cuts could have been electrotyped and the plates saved, so that in later years ex- hausted copies of the Gazette could have been reproduced very inexpensively. As it is now, you know, there. are exhausted numbers, which bring an inordinately high price and which the commissioner would very much like to reproduce if he could by the photo-lithographing process. This can- not be done without great outlay.” Better Printing Desired, t t was my recommendation to Mr. Gor- man that for the first year under the new method the photo-engraving be done under contract outside of this office and the type set here, as usual, but in a smaller letter. There are a great many reasons why this ought te be done. The result by photo- lithog-aphy is not a good one. The print- ing !s gray, blurred and offset. From type it would be much more distinct. Then, too, the dummies are made up in the patent office by pasting on Jafce cards the original line drawings and the printed titles and the proofs of the text which we set here in the government printing office. It hap- pens all too infrequently that this pasting is not done neatly, title limes are put in askew, and, as a printer would say, the text proofs do not justify, are irregular. Nothing of this kind would happen if the Gazette were printed with type and photo- engraved cuts. Besides a better quality of paper which would cost less could be used.” o-<—____—_ Ordered to the Military Academy. Second Lieut. Samuel C. Hazzard, first artillery, has been ordered to duty at the Military Academy, TC IE is well for advertisers fo Beep steadifp in mind the fact that The Star mafes 4 sworn detaifed statement cach Saturday of its circus fation for the preceding ae) and that it ig Be onfp Wash: ington i ag Bat rez ognizes the tight; the ad- vertiser to fhow the measure of. publicity for mBich Be is paying. Be amount of ad- vertising appearing daifp in She Star is ample evidence hat this poficp is appreci: ated. The. average daifp circufation fast week was 32,493. LIGHT HOUSES. TWO NEW Plans Prepared for Their Construc- tion After July 1. The light house board has made plans for the construction of two light houses on the Potomzc river to replace the one at Lower Cedar Point, destroyed by fire about two years ago, and the one at Smith's Point, demolished by an ice pack during the severe-cold snap of last winter. The appropriations for these lights will become available on the Ist of July, and all the preliminaries have been arranged to begin operations without delay. Bids for the construction of the lights will be invited immediately after the 1st of July and the work w:ll be expedited as much as possible. The structures will cost about $75,000 each and will be completed in about a yaar from the date of the contract. Extra pre- cautions will be taken to protect the ex- posed light at Smith's Point from wind and ice. Rip-rap and other means of protection will be placed at the base to a height suf- ficient to guard the light from storm and flood. A new site has been selected for the light at Lower Cedar Point, almost direct- ly opposite the former station. Better re- sults are expected from the change. It : admitted that the river is not prope: lighted at present, in consequence of the loss of the two fiNoortant lights named, but it is explained that the situation could not be remedied until the necessary au- thority was obtained from Congress. ———__-. + —___ EDITOR CHASE'S JAIL TERM. If Commuted for Good Conduct It Will Expiré Tomorrow. Editor Wm. Calvin Chase of the Bee will be released tomorrow from jail, where be has been in cogyifinement since the 23d of last March for, criminally libeling Mr. C. H. J. Taylor of Kgnsas, the District re- corder of deeds,,. Chase, it will be remem- bered, was segtenced by Judge Cole to serve ninety days in jail, but as the law allows a reduction of five days every month in the sentence. far, good behavior, he is entitled to a reduction of just fifteen days, and that reducHon terminates his time of imprisonment t jorrow. The Jail authorities state that Chase has been a model prisoyer, obeying every prison rule and regulation. Warden Leonard, however, treated him just as every other | prisoner is treated,’ and granted him no unusual privileges.“ It is understood that a number of Chase’ riends will go down to the jail upon..big release to congratulate him and to welcome ‘him back to diberty. 2 [Ee ERKING- HER SON. SE) Howard Fantkner’s Mother’ Trying Hard to Find Her Missing Boy. Howard P. Faulkner, the sixteen-year-old boy who disappeared frem the home of his parents, No. 3218, 0 ‘street, Georgetown, six weeks ago, as published in The Star at the time, is still missing. His mother called at police headquarters this afternoon to make further inquiries about the missing boy, because she had read in a newspaper an ac- count of drowning of a Washington boy in Connecticut, but it turned out that the latter was colored. Mrs, Faulkner told Inspector Hollinberger that her boy had been seen here by some boys, so she had been told, and she said she was willing to pay anything in reason for information concerning his where- abouts. —. DISTRICT GOVERN MENT. Today's Building Permits. Buildirg permits were issued today as follows: M. V. Webb, to erect five two- story brick buildings at Nos. 101, 103, 105, 107 and 109 18th street north2ast, to cost $3,000; W. M. King, to erect two two-story frame buildings on Nailér, Burnt Bridge road, near Twining City, to cost 31,800; Mary Beache, onc brick building in rear of 523 3d street southwest, to cost $400. Water Bills Ready July 1. Water bills for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, will be ready for delivery July 1, 185. If property owners desire their bills, the water department will make them out and send them not later than June 15, if application is made. ——— WANT TOLMAN IN JAIL. Ancther Step Taken Against the Man Who Refuses to Pay Alimony. Another step was taken today in the case of George Russ2ll Tolman, the Treas- ury Department clerk who is under sen- tenco to jail for contempt of court in fail- ing to pay his wife, Eva Frances Tolman, alimony allowed by Judge Hagner, when Mr. O. D. Barrett, representing Mrs. Tol- man, applied to Judge’ McComas for Tol- man’s arrest upon @ bench warrant, that he might b3 returned to jail. As stated in The Star, the Court of Appeals yesterday denied Tolman an appeal to the United States Supreme Court from the decision of the court, refusing to release him upon a writ of hebeas corpus. Pending this court's decision, Tolman has been out on bail, and Judge McComas today directed that Tol- man be required to appear before Judge Hagner at 10 o'clock next Monday morn- ing for such further action as Judge Hag- ner may deem proper and necessary. or Boyer: Plated on Trial. Lawrence M., Beyer, who was indicted, with Robert Tayler, for housebreaking and larceny in conhectin with certain alleged wholesale robBeries here, was placed on trial before Judge Cole in Criminal Court No. 2 this afternoon. The parties were jointly indicted, but upon the motion of Mr. Windom Woodworth they were granted @ separate trial ———— The Disitsguished Sick. Miss Dodge ig not, resting as comfortably this morning @s usual. Ske still remains unconscious a grea® part of the time. Representative Hitt’s condition is about the same. x4 ee —__+_te-____ The Late Thomas Johnson’s Will. The will of the late Thomas Johnson, dated January 9, 1893, and filed today, ap- points the widow cf the deceased, Annie E. Johnson, executrix, and makes her sole beneficiary. — The Star Out of Town. THE EVENING STAR will be sent by mail to any address In the United States or Canada for such period as may be desired-at the rate of fifty cents per month. ty But all such orders must be ac- companied by the money, or the paper cannot be sent, as no ac- counts are kept with mail subscrip- tions, = BLUE GRASS STATE Difficulties That Are in the Way of Kentucky Democrats. CAN THEY INDORSE ADMINISTRATION? The Trouble is Over the Financial Policy. CARLISLE’S POSITION ‘The latest complication to disturb the Kentucky democracy relates to the form the indorsement of the rational adminis- tration by the coming state convention shall take. Some such: ection will be in order, and will, of course, he proposed. And t only will it be in order, but the proposition will be reinforced by the fact that the Kentucky democracy itself fur- nishes one ¢f the mcst eminent members of the administration. Shall the Secretary of the Treasury be without honor } democratic convention in his own state? Silver is, of..course, ‘the difficulty to be overcome. The administration, en other grounds, stands well enough with the democrats ef the nlue grass country. No severe criticism bas béen beard there of its foreign policy, énd the part played by the President in the revisicn of the ‘iff, while it aroused no enthusiasm, provoked no open hostility. But the administration's attitude or the money question is boldly challenged, and the feeling is very high. How will it be possible to indorse the ad- ministration in party? And what an af- front that would be that would eliminate from any indorsement the Very part of the administration’s policy with which Mr. Carlisle's rame is so authoritatively and corspicuously associated! Generalities will be mesniagless, bepause it is universally confessed ti the whole contest is over free coinage. Dangers in the Path. This is but another phase of the situa- tion going to show how beset the present path of the Kentucky democracy is. In front and rear, on one side as on the other, danger lurks and threatens. A truce of some kind would be wise and welcome, but nobody seems to be in position to carry a white flag. Mr. Blackburn, for the free coinage cause and for himself, has staked everything on silver. If silver triumphs in convention and at the polls, his return to the Senate, his friends assert, will be guar- anteed. If silver loses; if a compromise is forced in convention, or a legislature chosen without a clear free°coinage majority, Mr. Blackburn, it 1s conceded, will be done for. Either the republicans wil! control things outright, or the democracy, holding on by virtue of compromise, will dictate the elec- tion of a compromise Senator. The sound money democrats are quite as implacable. It is everything or nothing with them. Their dander is up, and the threat has been made that the nomination of a straightout free coinage democrat on a straightout free coinage platform would cost the ticket 30,000 votes. That would give the state to the republicans by a large majority, and it might carry the legislature with it. How then shall this d‘fficulty be met? It is recognized as full of peril. The whole fight, indeed, may be precipitated by, and come to hinge on, this very proposition to accord to the administration the usual courtesy of au indorsement. The conven- tion will be lerge, the excitement intense, fluent speakers !n abundance, and the party for the first time in a quarter of a century divided un some other prcpositian than the distribution of offices. Who shall say what, in such cumstances and in such com- pany, n take place? An extreme or ill- advise] word, a resolution offered without consultation, might cause a hubbub that would develop into a split and a bolt. Carlisle Will Return. 5 Mr. Carlisle will soon return to the state to make the speech he was obliged to post- pone on account of Secretary Gresham's death, and he may be persuaded to make other speeches.- The sound money men are leaning heavily on him, and assure him that much good has resulted from the short tour he has already made. He has been warmly assailed by the free coinage men, and-will probably continue to be the target for the sharpest of their shafts till the end. Still, as he is so prominently identified with this new and somewhat per- sonal phase of the question, his friends think that he owes it no less to himself than to them to use his utmost influence to encompass the proper treaiment of the administration in the convention's formal platform deliverance. —_———_-«—______ Engineer Martin’s Funeral. The funeral of Thomas Martin, the en- gineer of No. 6 fire company, took place this afternoon from his late residence, 921 4th street northwest. Engineer Martin, it wilk be recalled, was prostrated by the heat while on his way to box 62, and his death followed. The funeral was largely attend- ed, and the floral offerings elaborate. A conspicuous offering was one from the members of No. 6 company. It consisted of a fire alarm box of regulation size, made of white roses, with the rumber of the last box the deceased ever responded to, 62, and the words “His Last Alarm.” It was a touching tribute to a good fireman, a true friend and a genial companion. Se Fourth-Class Postmasters. Thirty-eight fourth-class postmasters were appointed today, thirty-one of whom were to fill vacancies caused by deaths or resig- nations. —______-e-____ Fight Over the Hudson River Bridge. The fight over the Hudson river bridge is now fairly on, and this morning there was received at the War Department a bulky mass of papers from the New York side of the New York and New Jersey bridge companies, transmitting plans for the bridge, resolutions adopted by the company and by the New York bridge commission- ers. Chas. Swan, secretary of the bridge company, transmitted the plans, which have been published already. , ——_—_—__+ «++ Called on Secretary Smith. About fiftzen members of the South Caro- lira Editors’ Association, now visiting this city, called, by appointment, on Secretary Smith today. ———_~--______ Army Assignments, The following assignments of officers re- cently promoted are announced: Col. John H. Page, to the third infantry; Lieut. Col. Loyd Wheaton, to the twenty- second infantry; Maj.William S. McCaskey, to the twentieth infantry. ———_+o+____. The Atlunta at Fort Monroe. The cruiser Atlanta arrived at Fort Mon- roe this morning. + e+ Government Receipts. National bank notes received for redemp- tion today, $425,256. Government receipts— From internal revenue, $310,563; customs, $571,368; miscellaneous, $63,589. $2 ____ Drank at a Depot. William Bennett, a young man who was under the influence of liquor, made an ef- fort to clean out the Baltimore and Ohio depot yesterday, and assaulted James L. Sollers, the gateman. He was arrested, and the case was heard in Judge Miller’s court today. Bennett was fined $10 or thirty days. a Funeral of a Centenarian. The bedy of Henry Green, an old colored man, whose age was given as 104 years, was buried today in Payne’s cemetery. He was born in Howard county, Maryland, and had lived here about four years, A number of mourners were in attendance upon the funeral. —_- A Suit for a Partiton. Lucy H. and Harry W. Selah today filed a bill in equity against Martha Ann Gar- land and others, for the partition between them of lot 8 square 786, of the estate of the late Cornelius Henning. NOVEL POINTS RAISED Counsel For Broker Ohapman Deny Juris- diction of the Courts. A Writ of Prohibition Prayed for by the Lawyers of the Sugar Trust Invemigation Witness. The case of Broker Elverton R. Chap- man, one of the indicted contumacious sugar trust witnesses, took quite an un- expected turn today, when his counsel, ex-Senator Geo. F. Edmunds of Vermont, and Messrs. Shellabarger & Wilson, filed in the Court of Appeals a petition for a writ of prohibition, to prohibit Judge Cole of Criminal Court No. 2, before whom the trial of Mr. Chapman was set down sev- eral days ago for the 18th instant, from trying the case. The Court of Appeals decided to hear ar- guments at 10 o'clock next Friday morning as to whether or not a rule to show cause why the writ should not be granted, shall be issued against Judge Cole. The petitign sets out at great length the history of the case, which has heretofore been published in The Star, and contends that Judge Cole is without jurisdiction to try the case because the qu2stl put to, the defendant by the Senate investigating’ committee were put without authority of law and were ones which he was not bound by law to answer. The jurisdiction or war- rant of law of the grand jury which re- turred the indictments is Genied. The District Supreme Court, the @ fendant declares, had and has no lawful authority or jurisdiction whatever to put m on trial, or to deprive him of his lib- erty, or to proceed to take any step on the return of the indicument against him. For these reasons the relief prayed for is asked. See THE COURTS. Court of Appeals—Present, the Chief Jus- tice, Mw. Justice Morris and Mr. Justice Shepard. No. 470, Jennings agt. Webb; continued. Exparte E. R. Chapman; motion for rule to show cause why writ of prohibition should not issue; submitted by 8. S. Shel- labarger, and argument ordered to be heard June 7. No. 458, Mann agt. MacDonald; argument commenced by D. A. McKnight for appellant and continued by E. A. New- man and A. A. Birney, appellees, and con- cluded by D. A. McKnight for appellant. Morris agt. Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company; petition for allowance of appeal submitted by F. P. B. Sands. No. 476, D. C. Commissioners agt. Goodfel- low et al.; argument commenced by 8. T. Thomas for appellants and continued by C. M. Fuiton for appellees. No. 442, Walker et al. agt. Lyon et al.; decree modified so as to show a dismissal without prejudice and in all other resp affirmed with costs; opinion by Justice Shepard. No. 450, D. C. agt. Burgdorf; judgment affirm- ed, with costs; opinion by Chief Justice Alvey. No. 451, D. C. agt. Weaver; judg- ment affirmed, with costs; opinion by Chief Justice Alvey. Equity Court No. 1—Judge Cox. Albright agt. Gregg; Chas. L. Frailey ap- pointed guardian ad litem. Thomas agt. Sprigg; tender of $150.45 into registry of court allowed. Furlong agt. Furlong; tes- timony before Oliver Hine, examiner, or- dered taken. Shea agt. Shea; sale decreed, with H. F. Woodard and Geo. W. Drew trustees to sell. Streamer agt. Streamer; leave to ‘withdraw exhibit to cross bill granted. Wise agt. Wise; testimony before S. Herbert Giesy, examiner, ordered taken. Park agt. West; final decree ordering re- conveyance. O’Brien agt. Dunphy; motion for injunction denied. Bateman ast. Plumb; commission to get infant’s answer ordered to issue. Fletcher agt. La Tour- rette; pro confesso against certain defend- ants granted. Mulford agt. Bateman; time to answer enlarged fifteen days. Pairo Holmead; sale decreed, with R. E. Pairo and Leo Simmons, trustees to sell. Carter agt. National Sanitary Company; time for advertising sale changed. Equity Court No. 2—Judge Hagner. Howard agt. Howard; testimony before Albert Harper, examiner, ordered taken. Franz agt: Franz; rule to show cause re- turnable June 17, granted. Linkhow agt. Linkhow; divorce a vin. mat. granted. In re Elizabeth Bowie and Minnie Horrid; alleged lunatics; writs de lunatico inqui- rendo orderéd to issue. Energizer Manufac- turing Co. agt. French et al; rule to show cause discharged; injunction refused, and bill dismissed, with costs. Circuit Court No. 1—Judge’ Bradley. Chas. G. Stott agt. Aaron and Mary FE. Bradshaw;' verdict for plaintiif for posses sion of property. Ritchie et al. agt. Dis trict of Columbia; judgment in certiorari. Bryan agt. May; judgment by default. Chr. Heurich Brewing Co. agt. Raff et al.; motion for judgment against Gwynn over- ruled, and judgment, on motion, against Lawler. United States ex rel. Christian Morlein Brewing Company agt. O'Neil; rule to show cause why mandamus should not issue. Mitchell agt. District of Columbia; judgment in certiorari. Scaggs et al. ag’ District of Columbia; do. Atwood agt. Di trict of Columbia; do, Hunton agt. Dis- trict of Columbia; do. Wallace agt. Dis- trict of Columbia; do. Thempson, assignee, agt. Edw. Kern; plaintiff submits to non- suit. A. B, Parkey agt. Chas. J. Faulkner, garnishee; on hearing. Circuit Court No. 2—Chief Justice Bingham. Stellwagen agt. District of Columbia; judgment in certiorari, Pettit & Dripps agt. Carl; judgment by confession for plaintiffs for $250. Criminal Court No. 2—Judge Cole. United States agt. Dallas Glenn and An- drew Slagle, violating sections 5457 and 5458, Revised Statutes, United States; de- fendants arraigned; plea, not guilty. United States agt. Rudolph Matthews, housebreak- ing; verdict, guilty. United States agt. Cassie Catlett, larceny; verdict, guilty of petit larceny; sentence, jail six months. United States agt. Ephraim Duckett, house- breaking; on trial. Probate Court—Judge Hagner. Estate of Louis Bagger; petition for pro- bate of will filed. Estate of Patrick Sex- ton; findings of jury sustaining will filed. Estate of Hugh McCulloch; will admitted to probate and letters testamentary issued to Chas. McCullech; bond, $500. Estate of Bridget Shields; will partially proved. —— Sued for Divoreg. Lillie M. Betz today applied for a divorce from Alexander Betz. The parties were married at Philadelphia, April 17, 1889, three children being born to them. Mrs. Betz charges her husband with cruelty and desertion. ——.__ Baltimore@arkets. BALTIMOR! —Flour quiet, unchanged— ss _sblpinents, "175, barrels; __, Wheat dull—spot and month, 3 July, 78a78\; August, 78%,273%; steamer 0. 2 red, Tdat4%—recelpts, 1,762 bushels; stock, 501,122 bushels; sales, 80,000 bush wheat by sampl easy—spot, 55%gal Month, 554 asked bid—receipts, 55,607 bushels: stock, 332, sales, 28,000 bushels; southern white corn, 54a 55; do. yellow, 56, fo. 2 mixed, | B1a54%4—ree el » 184,574 bushels. 2, G8a72—stock, 13,656 bushels. imothy, 13.00. ugar firm, unchanged. Eggs firm—fresh, 13414. s ve—No. Hay quiet—chotce Grain freights quiet, unchanged. Butter steady, unchanged. Cheese quiet, unchanged. Washington Grain Market. Reported by the Grain Exchange. Spring patent flour, per barrel, 4.75a5.00; spring straight flour, per barrel, 4.25a4.50; winter patent flour, per barrel, 4.50a4.75; winter’ straight flour, « barrel, 4.00a4.25; winter extra flour, per barrel, 50a3.75;" clipped white oats, per bushel, 392407 ‘0, 2 white oats, r bushel, $Sa38%4: No. 2 mixed. 2 yellow corn, Efe 235, 2 white corn bor .00; No. 2 tim ; No. 1'mixed hay, BS ay, per ton, 13. othy bay, per ton, 11.50ai2 ‘on, 12.00a12.50 hay, per ton, 1: 4.50; bulk bran, per ton, 17.00a17.50; bul dlings, per ton, '17.00a18.00; rye straw, 14.50015.00; wheat straw, "per ton, above quotations for car lots delivered on track, Washington. Grain and Cotton Markets. Cotton and grain markets, reported by W, Hibbs, stock, grain and cotton Bruker, 142 Fst. Wheat—July. Be cris os, Clore, ja Z is Pus 7 78% 2 Be 50% 51 Fact 51s 52 y 20% BO . 20 2" 29 2 1242 1237 12.4 See 1270 12:62 12.75 3 6.60 €57 6.00 . 682 G77 680 coon oe ts te y ‘Gorton. Month. Open. High. Tow. Close, z - Tz 7a Toa 7.02 1 TIT 718 Tos 105 = Fi2 T19 Tog Tos a2 TM T2709 (T.21] FINANCE AND TRADE Lower Prices for All the Active Stocks, THE SILVER QUESTION IN WALL STREET Action of State Conventions to Be Watched. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, June 5.—The advance in posted rates for foreign exchange, to the point at which gold shipments become profitable, and the lack of interest outside of the room resulted in lower prices for all active stocks this morning. London's early cables reported concessions varying from 1-4 to per cent and selling orders from that center outnumbered all other commissions. The demand for exchange resulting from these sales was largely re- sponsible for the advance in posted rates. The supply of all classes of commercial drawings is insignificant, and syndicate ef- forts will be necessary to prevent an out- flow of gold should London's present mood continue. There is no doubt of the syndicate's abil- ity to prevent this outflow, but it would undoubtedly be more encouraging, from a speculative standpoint, if the necessity for such action was less apparent. The syndi- cate’s obligation in this particular is not perpetual, and the necessity of finding a substitute to begin where the syndicate ends next fall is daily becoming more pro- nounced. ‘The attitude of the various state conven- tions on the silver question promises to be another source of annoyance and bewilder- ment to financiers, as Wall street regards free silver as the executioner of credit. While the situation contains many features which demand deliberate consideration and suggest extreme caution, pessimism has, as yet, regained only a very unsubstantial foothold. Efforts will be made to remove the un- wholesome features instead of yielding to them in the interest of profitable trading on the short side of the market, and as each fallacy yields to intelligence, reason- ing stock values will reflect the triumph by appropriate improvement. The revival of rumors relating to North- West's dividend resulted in some short sell- ing of the stock of that company by trad- ers. There is little doubt that a reduction will be made at Thursday's meeting of the directors, but if the example of other con- servative stocks is to be imitated an ad- vance will follow the official announce- ment of this generally expected event. The coal stocks were weak under room trailing, Jersey Central and Reading sellirg down for substantial concessions from opening prices. 5 The purchase of the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad by the Southern Rail- read Company was announced during the day. The latter property is said to have acquired this valuable “feeder’”’ on very advantageous terms. In the industrial de- partment Sugar and General Electric were the features. The situation as regards the former is very much mixed at present, the rare owners of its fluctuations under yesterday's liberal purchases being considered direct evidence of its inability to command con- fidence at present prices. The latter property worked off under selling in which both classes of traders were represented. The trading of the last hour was dull and almost exclusively ‘pro- fessional. No decided changes in general conditions were announced during the day, and a continuation of the waiting market is therefore likely until the short interest is increased or present timidity overcome. Ageressiveness fs lacking with bulls and bears alike, and narrowness suggests itself as the most probable characteristic for the next forty-eight hours. a FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, The following are the opening, the high- est and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today, as re- ported by Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exchange. Correspondents Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Broadway: Sto- High. Low. Close, American Sagar. Ms” Tit 173g American Sugar 100%; 1001, 10084 American 1g 11334 American Cotton 6 2K Atchison... “ 65 Canada Southern. By Canada Pacific. Chesapeake and Ohio.. C.. C.. C. and St. Lew... a% Chicago, B. and Q. 22... By Chie.and Northwestern. bd Chicago Gas... : 763 C..M. and St. Paul! bess ¢, M. and St. Pan! Pfd. 1gly Chic.. R.L and Pacific. 4 Del.. Lack. and W...... oe Delaware and Budson. 1s Den. and R. Grande Pf. sf Dis.and Cattle Feeding. - General Electric... Minois Central, Lake Shore. Erie. es Wy Wy 10% Loulsvitie and Naanviiie im Si BT Long Ialand Traction... 12 1jg 12 Metropolitan Traction. . M2 M5 96) Manhattan Elevated Northern Pacific. Northern Pacific Horta American. nt. and Western. Pacific Mall. «. Texas Pacific. Teun. Coal and iron. Union Pacific.. Wabash. Wabash Pid Wheeling and i. Erie Wheeling and LE. Pt. Western Union Tei. Wisconsin Central. Silver. Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—regular call—12 o'clock _m.—Metropolitan Railroad ts, $1,000 at 105; $1,000 at 105. U.S. Eleetric Light, 4 at 139; 5 at 139. ‘Governme i Did, 112% asked. UL 8. "4s, S. 4s, 123% bid, 123% asked. District of Columbia Bi bid. 30-year fund 6s, 7s, 1901, currency, 115 currency, 118 bid. 3 bid, 11154 asked. Sigs, registe Miscellaneous | Bonds.—Washing? town Railroad conv. 6s, Ist, 139 Washington and Georgetown Railroad 130 bid. Metropolitan Railroad Did, 105i4 asked. Belt Raflroad ington Railroad 6s, 100 bid. Colunibia 100% bid, 110% asked. Washington Gs, ‘series A, 114 Did. Washington 6s, series B) 115 bid. Washington cony, 63, 135 bid. U. S. Electric Railroad 6s, as Company Gas Company Gas Company ight cony. 5s, 137 bid.” Chesapeake and Potomac me, oe, 99 bid, 102% asked. American Security and Trust Ss, F.. and A., 101 bid. American Security and Trust 5s, A. and O., 101 bid. Washingto Company’ Ist 6s, 116 bid, 115, ask Ww Market Company imp. 6s, 110 bid, 1 Washington Market Company ext. 6s, 107 bid. sonic Hall Association 5s, 105 bid. Washington Light Infantry Ist Gs, 100 bid. Washington Light 2d i canny ot punk Stocks,—Bank of Washi id. Bank of the Republic, 250 bid. M 280 bid. Central, 275 bid. 7 5 jes’, 180 bid, Second, 133, bid, 150 asked. Cit zens’, 135 bid. Columbia, 132 bid, 141 asked. Ca ital, 117 bid. West End, 108 bid, 110% aske Traders’, 108 bid, Lincoln, 99 bid, 102 asked. Ohio, 80"bid, 90 asked. Safe Deposit and ‘Trast Compantes.—National Safe Deposit and Trust, 123 b10, 128 asked. Washington Trust, 123 bid, 124 asked. "American as st, 137% bid. Washington Safe De- Washington and_ Georgeto a etropolltan, 7014 bid, 82 ed. "Belt, 25 ask ckington, 20 bid. aeee and Electric Light Stocks. Washington Gas, 54% bid, 56 asked. Georgetown Gas, 50 bid. U. & Electric Light, 138 bid, 140 asked. Tusurance Stocks.—Firemen’s, 88 bid. Franklin, 44 bid, 47 asked. Metropolitan, 70 bid. Corcoran, 55 bid. Potomac, 69 bid. Arlington, 140° bi German-American, 170 bid. National “Union, bid, 16 asked. Columbia, bid, 8% asked. bid. Lincoln, § nig," Commercial, 9 bid, Si asked. Title Insurance Stocks.—Reaf Estate ‘Title, 108 eee ee 7% bid, 7% asked. Yashington Tit Mpelepione Stocks. benneptenni, 87 bid, 45 asked. Chesapeake and Potomac, 57% bid, 61 asked. Pneu- matic Gun Carriage, .25 bid, .26 asked. f Miscellaneous Stocks.--Washington Market, "14 bid. Great Falls Ice, 180 bid, 145 asked.” Bull Run Panorama, 20 asked. Lincoln Hall, 78 bid. Mergenthaler Linotype, 1195 bid, 199 asked. 1Ex rights.