Evening Star Newspaper, January 14, 1896, Page 12

THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES. ee pages: and William A. ritory. | fraud. | Is the inspector. recorded surveys. DISTRICT OF COLU Boiler Inspector. Commissioners ‘of Flour. Cord Wood Inspectors. Sealer of. Weights and [easures. The Inspectors and Measurers of Lumber in: and are paid in fees. They are at present R. T. Ballard, Harbaugh, E. Champlain and George Z ‘Lumber Inspectors. Colison. Food and Fish Inspectors. Commi sioners of Pharmacy. board of commissioners of pharmacy. | J. T. Winter, president; R. L. Ly Messrs. R. N. Harper and G. G. C. Simms. ment of this board provides that two of the members shall be practicing phy- sicians and’three practical pharmacists. District Surveyor. Surveyor—William Forsyth. Assistant Surveyor—Henry B. Looker. Assistant Engineer—Henry W. Brewer. Chief Clerk—James H. Forsyth. Computer and Draughtsman—Chas. P. Calver. ESSSSSS SEOSSOSSOO Have You It? “Procrastination is the thief of time.” . The edition of The Evening Star Almanac and Hand-Book for 1896 is limited, and delay is dangerous. This book is a most complete compilation of National, International and Local Statistical Facts, Records and general information of almost daily reference. - It also telis about the District of Columbia and its relationship tv the general government. : It is a most necessary adjunct to any library. Below tve give a “‘samp!~” of its 416 solidly printed The Boiler Inspector of the District is James H. Wilkerson, and his duties | are to inspect at least once a year each boiler in the District of Columbia. | He is also chairman of the Board of Steam Engineer Examiners, which ex- amines applicants for license as steam engineers. The Commissioners of Flour are George W. Cissell, W. H. Gaskins and B. Charlton. They fix the standard of flour, and the inspectors of flour examine | all flour which comes into the District to see that the standard is maintained. ; | The inspectors of flour are James H. Welsh and F. D. Shoemaker. The Inspectors and Measurers of Cord Wood are A.W. Eaton for Anacostia O'Meara and D. M. Goodacre for the remainder of the ter- Their duties are merely that of inspection to protect the buyer against The Sealer of Weights and Measures is F. A. Bond, and hi inspection of all weights, measures and scales in the Distri | legal authority to forfeit any weight found short of standa! pect and measure for dealers, The Food Inspector of the District looks after food supplies in the markets and stores and condemns all that is found unfit for food. J. R. Mothershead . All fish and sea food which comes to the city is inspected by an inspector of marine produce, Gwynn Harris, and that found unfit for food is condemned. To protect the public in the dispensing of drugs the law provides that all | persons engaged in that business must first be examined and registered by a The board at present consists of Dr. ch, secretary; Dr. William P. Carr and ‘The law regulating the appoint- ‘The Surveyor of the District is appointed by the Commissioners of the | District, holding office during their pleasure. He is the one person with legal |S to make surveys changing or involving changes in the officially recorded land boundaries in the District and is the legal custodian of such duties are the | t. He has the =. J. Daw, E. L. _ On sale at all news stands, book- stores and at The Star Office. et 1t today. 25e. woeeeseee woeeeseee, BVESAID it AND WE'LL 0 ii! $50,000 WORTH OF FURNITURE AND CARPETS TO BE “SACRIFICED! AND ON CREDIT! 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The electric railroad has. plréady been used as a means of facilitating thg shipment of goods from point to point, but managers every- where Lave hesitated atiout doing local ex- press business becauSéit will always be impossible to deliyer packages directly from the cars withgut,ausing a delay to passenger traftic. There is nothing, how- ever, to prevent thé establishment of re- ceiving and distributing offices at the ends of cach line, and wherever side tracks are permissible. 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D., Protestant archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland, is an- nounced. TO PROTECT LABOR ———— ‘Mir, Johnson Says That is the Pur- pose of His Bill. RESTRICTIONS ON IMMIGRATION Comments of Labor Leaders on the Proposed Measure. A CONSTITUTIONAL QUESTION “There would be no labor troubles in this country,” said Congressman Johnson of California to a Star reporter, “if there was work for all those who are compelled to labor, and it is to bring about this de- sirable result that I have introduced into Congress a bill ‘to protect the American laborer from unfair competition and to pre- vent foreign-born laborers from coming to the United States.’ “The bill,” continued Mr. Johnson, “pro- peses that from and after August 1, 1596, it shall be unlawful for any foreign-born laborer to enter the United States, and by this is intended to include skilled and un- skilled laborers employed in mining. The object of the bill is exactly what It states, and it has been offered in Congress in pur- suance of instructions from the republican party in California. The republican state convention of California that nominated all the six Congressmen from that state passed @ resolution in favor of the protec- tionvef American labor, and-instrucied the Congressmen to endeavor to have passed a law by which this scheme could be car- ried into effect. “My idea is that there is enough labor in this country to supply the demand; that wages are now on a starvation basis, and that the more laborers are broucht from the old world the lower wages will become here. The manufacturers of the couniry havé been protected for many years in the sale of their goods, and I think the time has come when the laborer who pro- duces these goods ought to be protected also. Thc manufacturer is always sure to get cheap labor if he can, and it has been to a great extent for their accommodation and profit that so many thousands of for- eigners are yearly landed on these shores. “This has led to the legislation in the past against the importation of contract labor, which was formerly brought here by the shipload to take the places of men that were already in the country and working for as low a rate as an American laborer ought to work. “I believe in a good day’s price for a good day’s work, and if my bili becomes a law it will go a long way toward securing this desirable result. There will be no doubt about the passage of the bill if the laboring people of the country will take it up and study it with the care they should. “A few moments’ reflection will convince any thinking man that labor has the same right to receive protection from Congress as has capital, or, in other words, the man- ufacturers. Bills have been introduced by several members of Congress which arc almed to keep out the illiterate and poor, but laws of that kind can be easily evaded. On the other hand, my bill, if it becomes a law, can be easily enforced. The Question of Constitutionality. “The Supreme Court of the United States has already affirmed the constitutionality of the Chinese exclusion act, hence there is no doubt my bill is perfectly constitutional. “The steamship companies are greatly to blame for the condition in which the labor- ing people of this country are today. They "spread in Europe the most alluring ac- counts of the wealth of this country. I would make all captains and masters of vessels entering the ports of the United States responsible for the charaeter of the passengers they bring here, and prescribe a heavy penalty for bringing any person who is excluded by law. In our state we feel the crowding of the labor market less than in the states east of the Rocky moun- tains, but we see what the result of over competition has been in such places as Pittsburg and Allegheny and other manu- facturing centers, as well as the mining districts, and we want not only to keep the blight from reaching us, but we desire to relieye our brethren who are now suf- fering from this cause as speedily as pos- sible. “The Federation of Trades in the city of Sacramento, where I live, has informed me that they have been in communication with members of their organization in varicus parts of the country in reference to the prohibition of the coming of for- eigners to the United States, and that they heartily approve the movement, while the papers of California, both republican and democratic, indorse with great unanimity the bill I have laid before Congress. I believe that there are excellent ch@nces for the passage of the bill, outside of any ex- tra efforts which may be made in that direction, but I think the laboring people throughout the country ought, for their own sake, to interest themselves heartily in the movemen: Views of Knights of Labor. In referring to Mr. Johnson's bill, Gen- eral Worthy Foreman M. J. Bishop of the Knights of Labor said: “In giving any opinion on the merits of House bill 28, introduced by Representative Johnson of California, and intended to en- tirely prohibit emigration to this country, I desire to say a few words by way of preface. In all organizations the subject of the re- ception of the emigrant is a grave one, and there exists much difference of opinion. No organization has, adopted any special rule @overning its members, except in the case of the Chinese, and any expression of mine will be simply individual, except that my official position may tend to give it undue weight. “With this explanation, I would say that I am, under present industrial conditions, unqualifiedly in favor of any measure which will materially restrict, or entirely prohibit, the importation of skilled or unskilled work- ers, who make still harder the task of the American citizen of today. We have at pres- ent a law, governing the importation of foreign labor under contract, which is not worth the paper upon which it is written, and in my own city of Boston (and I have no doubt the same conditions exist in all other cities) any number of aliens can be secretly arranged for, and will be imported in six weeks from the time the order is given. A written guarantee will be given that these men will work for $1.50 per day, will never strike, and an Interpreter will be furnished free with every gang, all done in such a manner as to preclude the possibility of conviction under the allen contract labor jaw. “The system of competition In vogue com- pels men to be unjust, as a matier of self preservation. Theoretically, of course, it is a barbarous thing to say that no man or woman can come here to better their condi- tion over the denizens of the old world. But it is not a question of bettering their condi- tion; it is a question of rapidly reducing us to their present condition, and it is also a question of immensely impeding our pro- gress towards the time when America shall |.be in truth the star in the industrial world, ‘toward which the children of all nations shall gaze with hope. I am a citizen by ac- cident, as most citizens are, for which I de- serve no credit. Iam a resident from choice; certain conditions obtain which it is essen- tial to change In order to produce the best results, for this generation as well as pos- terity; the possibility of securing such a change is largely lessened, if not entirely prevented, by the constant inroads of hordes of illiterate, ignorant, and poverty-stricken, non-English-speaking emigrants, and, as I cannot consistently oppose the admission of one class without meting out the same medi- cine to all, I am in favor of barring the door of admission to the United States until such conditions are in force as will enable us to throw them wide open and welcome the na- tions of the earth without jeopardizing our own or our children’s interests, “This will have the direct effect of forcing home more effectually the problems we are ecnfronted with, to all the people who now seck our shores for relief, and will be an immense lever to advance the time when we shall have, all over the earth, the Father- hood of God and the brotherhood of man. “Iam no believer in the doctrine that ‘Whom the Lord loveth He chastencth,’ and I propose to do what I can to prevent the ‘chastening’ process, to the extent cf my ability, even though the method may seem to the unthinking and casual observer to be unnecessarily brutal.” Editor Martin of the Journal of the Knights of Labor, the official organ of the K. of L. in the United States, said: “There is no doubt in my mind that so long as there is a protective tariff on goods that FREE OFFE -- TO GIVE = == NSTANT REL er -- IN CASES OF - -- CAT AR Kt AND KINDRED DISEASES, Dr. kiegel, ‘No. 1405 New York Avenue. Relief is guaranteed absolutely free of cost, 2nd the treatment continued until the patients are con- vinced that they can be cured. This free offer is vot confined to catarrh, but inclades all diseases of the nose, throat, chest and lungs. You may have eatarrh and not know it! We call your atteation to some of the symptoms to enable you to dingnose your own case: Is the breath 4 Is the voice hus Is there stricture in the nose? Are there offensive discharges from the nose? Does the nose itch and urn? Are there acute pains above the eyes? Is the sense of stcll and taste less acute? Is your appetite variable? Do yon take cold easily Do you cough frequently—mornings and nights? Do you expectorate frothy and yellow matter from the throat? Are the hands #nd feet hot and dry? Are you troubled with vertigo, dizzy and faint? Have you much fever—especislly at night? If you have the above syuptoms you have not only catarrh and bronchitis, but are on the read to CONSUMPTION. In matters of this kind DELAY is always ‘an- gerous! Do not hesitate to come because YOUR case is an aggravated one. 1 especially invite those who have Been treated by other physicians, My method discards the use of medicine for ihe stomach. The parts affected are reached by in- haling vaporized oils and solutions, which clean, soothe and heal the inffumed tissues, Fifteen years’ experience, studying the authorities and using the best known remedies, has given me ccn- fidence in my ability to do as I advertise. ‘This metkod of inhaling vaporized medicines is so mild and soothing that young children offer no ohjec- tion? The measure of success is the test which stands repeated trials, and upon this I invite the public, without fear of honest criticism or result. Thousands in this city have been cured ly amy system of treating these diseases and bear cheer ful testimony of the facts. There have been wo failures where patients have conformed to my instractions and the conditions governing the par- ticular case. Catarrh of long duration often de- velops @ nervous condition, which, if mot cured, ieads to most serious consequences. This phase of the case I have treated suecers fally, thus restoring the patient to normal health. ‘The following statesmen and prominent citizens and thelr families of this ty bear testimony to the efficsey of this method, which is new, valuable acd scientific: Senator N. ©. BLANCHARD, La. Hon, NELSON DINGLEY, Chairman Committee of Ways and Means. Hon. SAMUEL W. STEPHENSON, M.C., Mich. Hon. GEORGE W. SMITH, M.C., Tl, Chairman Trivate Land Claims. Hon. WILLIAM V. LUCAS, S. D. F, RICHARDS( ER ZULICK, ex-Gov. Ariz. JOHN G. SLATER und bis family, Banker, Real Estate Dealer and Newspaper. JOHN F. DONOHOE, Prominent Real Dealer, 208 East Capitol st. CHARLES J. FANNING, Slute Roofer and Con tractor. WILLIAM BOYCE, Produce Commission Mem chant. Mr. J. W. FARRAR, U. S Treasury. Mr. CHARLES BROWN, U. 8. Treasury. Estate Consultation in German and English FREE. Dr. Riegel, No. 1405 New York Avenue. are brought inte the country, labor ought alse to be protected There is also a feel- ing existing among workingmen generally that there ought to be some kind of a tariff or protection un the importation of labor. The manufacturer has goods to sell, and a tariff is imposed for the purpose of enabling him to get a higher price for his gocds than he otherwise would receive. !The workingman has labor to sell, and in order to place him on auything like equal terms with the manufacturer in this mat- ter of tariff legislaticn, a tax on imported labor equally as high as that on imported goods ought to be levied. “As it is now, there is high protection for the manufacturer’s benefit and abso- lute free trade in the one thing that labor has to sell. In reference, to the bill intro- duced into Congress by Representative Johnson, for the absolute prohibition of any foreign-born laborers from coming into the United States, I think it would be better for Congress to enact legislation that will open up the natural resources of the country to the free access and use of all the laboring men—those who are here, as well as those who want to come. “There is no question but that if the la- boring men of this country today had free access to the unused lands, forests, mines and water powers of the United States, there would be absolutely no idle men look- ing for employment, and the working man would not be worried for fear of foreign laborers coming here to crowd the worki man out of his position. If every fore: born working man wes prohibited coming to this country for the next twenty years, and our railroad manipulators, land tarons, coal barons, trusts and national bankers were ‘still allowed, as they now | are, to monopolize the lands and other pro- ducers of industry and to manage ‘the monetary system of the country, American laboring men would, at the end of that time, still be fighting each other for em- ployment, the same as they are today, so that the mere prohibition of the coming to this country of foreign-horn laborers will not of itself be of any permanent benefit to working men.” Does Not Approve It. Ex-President John M. Berger of Local Union, No. 26, Electrical Workers, said “The passage of Mr. Johnson's bill would be in direct conflict with the Constitution as framed by our forefathers, and further- more, would be the cause of making num- bers of skiiled laborers who are anxious to get away from the rule of emperors, kings and queens swear to a lie. And this would then compel the captain of the vessel bring- ing them here to do the same. I do not think that this bill will be of any benefit to the workingmen of this country. From the tone of the bill, there is too much of that A. P. A. feeling in it to mean anything for the working people of America. When this country tries to stop immigration under the disguise of a protection to the worki peovle, it is time that the old book of 1 be discarded and the history of our fight for independence be cast aside forever. We want no bill of this kind. What the work- Ingmen of this country want is justice at the hands of the men who employ them, and there is work enough for all in this land of the free.” ee Motormen Dread Cats. From the Columbus Dispatch. “A motorman will allow his car to run over a dog without any compunction, but when it comes to 9 cat on the track it brings out what little superstition may be in the man, and most of the motormen have a little,” said a conductor. The car had come to a sudden stop, and all the passengers, who had noticed a little kitten in front of the car, stood up and looked to see if its mangled remains were on the track. “Why, I have known my motorman to run his car back half a square at night to see if he had killed a cat,” said the con- ductor. “The headlight on the car seems to attract them after dark, and they will stand in front of an approaching car and their eyes gleaming in the garkness like balls of fire. They seem to make no effort to get out of the way and disappear from the motorman’s view under the end of the car, leaving him in doubt as to whether he Killed it or not. I guess when they get out of the range of the headlight they realize their position and scurry out of the way.” ——— -see- “The Parisian,” a general store belonging to the firm of Siegel, Hillman & Co., occu- Fying a five-story building in St. Louis, was totally destroyed by fire Saturday right, entailing a loss of $200,000. STUNNING SUCKERS. A Winter Piscatorial Sport in Which the Fish is Captured. From _be New York World, With the first firm coating of thin, black ice the New Engiand boys prepare for a varlety of sports. After flinging rocks and sticks on the surface of the freezing stream for several days (and thereby ruining the skating) and after sundry stampings of the foot on the shallower spots to test the bear- ing strength, the whole village of boys takes to the river. Besides running “Tom- my” over the dangerous spoxs, leaping the air holes, playing hockey by day and pris- oner’s base on moonlight nights, there is the little known but rarely delightful pastime of sucker-stunning. This latter is particu- larly popular among the skateless lads. It is only possible during a new freeze; that is, when the stream is covered with clear, fresh ice. Soon after the first cold night cr two you will see in many a village little groups trudging creekward armed with short, heavy-headed clubs and an ax or hatchet. To the inquiring cries of such of their mates as are “green” on the sub- ject they yell back, “Goin’ a-stunnin’ suck- . ers!” Selecting a stretch of water not over a foot deep they separate and move stealth- ily over the ice. The half-inch “rubber” ice bends under their feet and scares them with many a crackle and loud-prolonged boom!” Under it they can see the bot- tom as clearly as from a skiff in summer. The slow-swirling dead leaves drift over the pebbles and muddy bars. Now and again a water-soaked branch crawls past. Ha! One boy bends forward eagerly and raises his weapon. He sees lying slant- wise of the current a dozing old sucker, a big one. Hardly a movement of fin is per- ceptible, yet the fish is keeping his white nose pointing upstream. Whack! Down comes the club directly over the sluggard and the fractufed ice forms a glistening star where the blow fell. Water oozes up from a tiny hole in the center of the star and threugh the erecked ice one may see the now uncon- scious sucker floating with snowy belly up- permost. A cry of triumph brings the boy with the ax. A hole is speedily cut, little down stream from the fish, so as to allow for the speed of the current, and the stiffened fish is scooped out. Usually he is a “buster,” for the stunners do not bother with the small fry. By the time the axman has captured the first fish usually another is waiting to be chopped cyt, and for two or three hours. it is merry srt. It takes considerable skill, too, to stun the fish, for a very violent stroke may smash the ice without even affecting the fish. If the axman is slow the suckery after drifting a few moments, will revive and swim lazily away. It is not uncommon for a party of four five to bring home from thirty to sixty suckers as an afternoon's work. These, in the small streams, will average a.,pound or a pound and a half apiece. In such rivers as the Housatonic and Naugatuck, however, some suckers weighing five and six pounds are stunned every fair day, and the average weight is not under two and a half pound: es One W of Teaching Music. From the London Daily News. Our Vienna correspondent writes: “The daughter of a Vienna music master, who was engaged as a member of a ladies’*or- chestra in a German town, lately wrote to her parents a heartrending account of the manner in which she and her companions were treated by the director of the band. The father sent his daughter's letter to the extrablatt, the police here communicated with the local authcrities and the man was arrested. The orchestra consisied almost exclusively of Vienna girls, ed between thirteen and sixteen. They declare that he had a great club and a heavy horsewhip. With these he punished the girls after fas- tening them to hooks in the wall. The girl whose letter led to his arrest received # letter from her parents, which the man tn- tercepted, and from which he learned that she had complained. He left ser without food for thirty hours, thrashed her with a cane and then made her play at a concert from 4 to 11 o'clock, when she fell from her chair in a fainting fit. When the girls were first examined by the police they were all so terrified that they declared they were well treated, but now that the master has been arrested they all testify to his cruelty,