Evening Star Newspaper, February 13, 1896, Page 1

« THE EVENING STAR. ‘ ——_-—__.- PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, - 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor, 11th Street, by The Eyam: 8 Star KAUFFMAN ree Company, iw eka ea 49 Potter Building. ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers in the eity by carriers, oa their own account, at 10 cents per week, or 44 cents er month. Coplen at: the ccrnter 2 cents each. mail—anywhere in the United States or Ginada— postage prepald—50 cents per moat Saturday Quintcple pant t Star, $1 per year, with foreign postage added, Giatered at the Post Odice at Washington, D. C., ass jerond-class mail matter.) ©All mail subscriptions must be paid in advance. Rates of advertising made known on application. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1896-TWELVE PAGES. TWO eee AGED WO ENTS fe 4 you want toaay’s news today you can find it only in The Star. STOPPED BY SPAIN|*™@4Ssa00R EUSTIS|IN CONGRESS TODAY |r sscssi "| DEPRESSING TRACKS|"® GUAv's canoiosor| ae UE GrMracn BY SPAIN/*MBASSADOR EUSTIS/IN CONGRESS TODAY The Schooner Navarino Detained by a Cruiser. UNABLE 10 GET THE VESSEL'S NAME Reports of Further Fighting in Cuba. ALLEGED SPANISH SUCCESS fo LEWES, Del., February 13.—The schoon- er Navarino was detained by a Svanish cruiser while en route from Manzaniila to Boston. The captain said today that he was unable to get the name of the Spanish vessel After the Spanish marines had thoroughly searched the schooner the pilot o2 the Navarino was restored and she was allowed to proceed. The Navarino in fair condition after her encounter with a cyclone, and will pro- ceed to Boston as soon as the weather clears. Sensntional Report in Jamnica. KINGSTON, Jamaica, February 13.—The report that the United States recognized the Cuban insurgents as belligerents was lated yesterday, and led to a demon- of with the United . in which the Americana of <his city joined. ATTACKED BY INSURGENTS. A Small Spanish Force Reported Vic- terious. HAVANA, February civil guards and thy —A squadron of hteen regular cavalry- men, who were 1 a gang of men engaged in repdiring the telephone line at San Felipe, south of this have deen at- tacked by an insu: , estimated to number 1,50 men, under Castillo. The in- surgents came from the dire nm of San Antonio de Las Vegas. The firing lasted for one hour and a half, but when the in- surgents retired three of them were killed and nm wounded. Only one soldier was wour A column of troops from Guara, escorting re and hea pilot en- ked by a heavy insurgent 1 to urround the troops ige. Five in- were wound- surgents were killed and man: ed during Another from Jarrin advanced rapidly to the assistance of the repair train, and insurgents were dispersed after op in which left eleven twenty-thr irection of Caya- jay uited on the narrowest part of the island, in the province of Pinar Del Rio and near the military line drawn across that pi art of the Maceo, it d Caya- ountry. same dir between Caya h of the Ia ident of the of Mexico, iti, is now cna visit to Gen. Weyler, the captain gen- 1, for the purpose of offering him, in the rame of the Spanish colony, 200 mules and 1.000 horses for the the Spanish ops operating in ¢ of Sigueros, Arizon, will command the caval near Santa Clara, has rent of the insurgent ARMS FOR THE CUBANS. Minister De Lome Does Not They Will Leave Port. Sener Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish min- ister, was shown the statement of Capt. William Kerr, counsel of the Hart steam- ship line, who said that a steamer loaded Think with munitions of war intended for the Cutans would leave Wilmington, N.*C., tonight. Senor De Dome said that in his opinion no attempt would be made to take the vessel out of port. It is the same one which left New London, Corn., last autumn, and has been lying at Wilmington since September. He does not intend to teke any steps in the matter, and will leave it entirely with the United States @uthorities to see that the vessel does not carry arms to Cuba. ‘The Cuban insurgents, it is claimed, need have no further fear of having arms and ammunition purchased in the United States and shipped to Cuba for their use inter- fered with by the United States govern- ment, so long as the shipments are not accompanied by bodies of men, thus bring- ing it within the designation of an “armed expedition.” The government is forced into this Do- sition by the decisions of the courts, which have uniformly held against the govern- “ment in all cases where {t has sought to libel ve: is loaded with munitions of the use of forces in rebellion gaint the authority of a friendly nation. In this connection the attention of the treasury officials was called to the state- ment of Capt. Kerr of the Hart Steamship Company to the effect that the Commodore of that line, now lying at Wilmington, N. C., was loaded with arms, supplies and ammu_ nition, Including dynamite, and that Capt. Hughes of the Laurada had gone to Wil- ™ington to take the Commodore to Charles- ton, S. C., and thag the arms, etc., would be at once shipped to the Cuban insurgents. When questioned as to what, if anything, would be done to prevent the shipment of the arms, the officials answered that noth- ing could be done, and the collector at Wil- mington had been instructed to give the vessel clearance papers whenever asked for. Nothing will be done to interfere with the vessel's moveinents so long as she does not take more than the usual complement of men a3 a crew to navigate the vessel. In that contingency the vessel will be libeled and the men arrested, as it has been held that men and arms together form an “armed expedition,” within the meaning of inter- national law. If, however, the vessel is captured by Spanish warships, she can have no recourse to the United States, as her owners must themselves take all chances of capture. — JACKSON AND W4 LING. They Are Indicted for the Murder of Pearl Bryan. CINCINNATI, Ohic, February 13.—The rand jury of mpbell county, Ky., sitting in Newport this morning, reported to Judge Perkins indictments against Scott Jackson and Alonzo M. Walling for the wiliful mur- der of Pearl Bryan. ae SUNK EY THE PARIS. An Isle of Wight Steamer Ran Down by the Liner. SOUTHAMPTON, February 13.—While the American line steamer Paris, Captain Watkins, from New York, on February 5, was docking here at 6 o'clock this morn- ing, she came into collision with the steam- er Majesty, belonging to the Isle of Wight. The M: ‘ty was sunk, but all the mem- bers of her crew were saved. Divers have commenced an inspection of the rudder of the Paris in order to as- certain if it was damaged by the collision. His Qonduct of the Case of Ex-Qonsul Waller Discusssd, It Was Ably Managed at Every Stage and Was a Distinct Triamph ef Diplomacy. The complete report in the Waller case is so distinct a triumph of pure diplomacy that the friends of Ambassador Eustis, wno conducted “the business with the French government, are very proud of the achieve- ment. It is no more thay they were ex- pecting, but they are particularly glad to welcome it at this time when American diplomacy at certain other points—at Hono- lulu and London, for instance—is regarded 4s so Incompetent and ineffective. A Difficult Task. Mr. Eustis had a task of unusual diffi- culty. The most unimportant phase of it even proved a source of embarrassment, and was seized by his critics to feather their shafts with. Mr. Waller being a negro, and Mr. Eustis a southern man and an ex-slave holder, the assertion immedi- ately followed the news of Waller's trial and imprisonment that his color forbade the hope of his receiving the proper utten- tion at the hands of his country’s represen- tative in France. His champions here pressed t to the point of indignity to Mr. Eustis, but to no purpose. The Ameci- can ambassador—a just man, with a stout heart and a level head—refused to notice his assailants, taking the proper time for a thorough examination of the whole case, and carrying himself throughout according to what was revealed to him there, and his own conceptions of his duty. He saw that time was necessary, and he took all the time the circumstances required. Has Come Out Well. How very well Mr. Eustis has come out of the matter is told, his friends think, by the mere summary of the case. @) Mr. Waller's color cut no figure in the transaction whatever. France did not take it into account, nor did the conduct of Mr. Eustis at any stage of the game betray any thought of it on his part, He per- sonally investigated the prison regulations to which Mr. Waller was Subject, and sent. his own son to provide such comforts as the authorities would permit an outsider to offer. He could have done no more had Mr. Waller been a white man and the am- bassador’s personal friend. Mr. Waller's wife upon her arrival here testified in terms of sincere appreciation of Mr. Eus- tis’ attentions to her husband. (2) Mr. Eustis’ examination of the case is regarded as a very able and impartial document. It is the work of a lawyer and a judge as well as that of an ambassador. It is so thorough, indeed, and convincing that the State Department accepts it with- out question, and Congress will do likewise. It finds against Mr. Waller, but strictly within the facts presented. @) Mr. Eustis as an official undoubtedly shares in the compliment extended by France to this government in offering to release Mr. Waller from further punish- ment. The dignity and ability with which the case was presented and pressed could net but command attention for such an Official at a capital where the proper form is so great a factor in official usefulness. Had Mr. Eustis plunged along with boister- ous insistence, as he was at one time urged to do, and alused for not doing by Mr. Waller's friends, he would have wrecked not only his case, but himself. His True Americanism. Added to all of this ts the fact, recalled now with equal pride by the friehds of Mr. Eustis, that he was the first man in his party to lift bis voice for a real American foreign policy after the present administra- tion had made so objectionable a mess uf its opportunity. Before Mr. Whitney's blood boiled over the Allianca episode, or Mr. Dickinson and Gov. Campbell talked free Cuba in the northwest and in Tara- many Hall, or Mr. Cleveland astonished and delighted the country with his Ven- ecuelar message, Mr. Eustis had crossed the English channel from his own post to Lendon and made a speech before an American club which made him the Abou Ben Adhem of the democracy. His name for months, in Europe as well as in Amer- fea, led all the rest. BUREAU OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS. Annual Report of the Director Sab- mitted to the Secretary of State. In his annual report to the Secretary of State, Clinton Furbish, director of the bureau of American republics, strongly urges that steps be taken to reconvene the | representatives of the nations party to the union, in order to arrange a line of work for the bureau for the future. This is made necessary by the practical completion of the principal work of compiling and publishing the series of handbooks on the various American republics. This was brought to a close with the issue of the harbook on Peru, end the bureau is now preparing a general handbook, intended to be of interest to all of the countries. The work of preparing the code of com- mercial nomenclature, which is intended to be a help to commercial firms in transact- ing business with each other, is progressing well, although it is said it may be necessary to reset the first edition, because it was pre- pared on a scale that has proven to be in- convenient for business men. The plan adopted last year of selling the special pub- lications of the bureau at a figure just above cost price has worked well, and the director says that the business interests who are benefited make no complaint. VENEZUELA RESPONDS. It Will Submit All Its Evidence to the Commission. Through Senor Andrade, its minister here, the government of Venezuela has not!- fied Secretary Oluey that it will respond affirmatively to the invitation of the Ven- ezuelan boundary commission to submit all of the evidence in its possession touching the location of the true boundary line. Senor Andrade also stated that officials of the government of Venezuela are now at work compiling this record, and that it will te forwarded to the commission at Washington as soon as possible. Presum- ably, the Venezuelan government will be represented before the commission by an agent or counsel, as suggested in the invi- tation, in view of the fact that the minister has strongly recommended this course. = o+______ American Bags Driven Out. United States Consul Grimke at St. Do- mingo reports to the State Department that American bags for sugar are being driven out of San Domingo by Calcutta bags, which are superior in quality. The latter are being used even though they are unlike the American bags subject to duty on importation into the United States, + Government Receiptn. National bank notes received teday for redemption, $119,251. Government From internal revenue, Spates customs, $136,133; miscellaneous, $89,61; Contract for a New Revenue Cutter. The Secretary of the Treasury has awarded to Cramp & Son of Philadelphia the contract for the construction of a Bom revenue cutter, to be ae No. 3, forhinins on the Pacific price is Matters Considered in Both Branch- es of the National Legislature. PACIFIC © RAILROADS §~—_DISCUSSED The House Completing the Silver Bond Bill Debate. AMENDMENTS OFFERED The free ship bill was reported adversely by Mr. Frye from the committee on com- merce, and on his motion its consideration was indefinitely postponed. Alonzo Stewart of Iowa and Bernard Layton of Ohio were chosen as assistant doorkeepers. Mr. Daniel (Va.) called attention to the approach of Washington's birthday and stated that the National Sdciety of the Daughters of the ‘American Revolution de- sired the national incorporation of their association at that time. ‘The bill in- corporating the society was thereupon passed. Mr. Call (Fla.), rising to a question of privilege, disclaimed any connection with the inquiry into alleged mail bag irregu- larities at the Post Office Department. The Senator added a hearty indorsement of the Postmaster General and his first assistant. Mr. Peffer’s resolutions offered yesterday —one for a Senate investigation of recent bond issues, and another calling for in- formation as to political assessments at the Post Office Department—came before the Senate, but went over to be called up again. Pacific Railroad Inquiry. The Pacific roads came in for unexpected discussion. Mr. Allen (Neb.) sought to se- cure the adoption of a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Interior for full in- formation as to the status of the Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific and Sioux City and Pacific roads. Mr. Brice (Ohio) suggested that the Senate committee on Pacific rail- roads could better conduct an inquiry. He suggested that the committee be directed to make the investigation, with power to send for persons and papers. Mr. Allen accepted the suggestion, saying he did not doubt that the committee would prosecute the inquiry in good faith. Mr. Wolcott, a member of the committee, gave assurance that there would be-the fullest inquiry. ‘This brought out some criticisms from Mr. Allen. ‘Thus far, he said, stockholders, bondholders and their agents,and attorneys had appeared before the committee, but the patrons of the road had not been examined. He had failed io notice that boards of trade and commercial bodies from cities along the Pacific roads had been heard. He suggested that the Pacific railroad committee could profitably turn from the stock brokers, stockholders, attorneys and lobbyists and give attention fo the honest patrons of the road. Mr. Wolcott pointed out that every ‘one who came before the committee was heard. It included delegations from western cities. There was no means of advertising for patrons of the road and bringing them here. Mr. Morgan (Ala.) secured the adoption of an amendment empoweriag the commit- tee to administer oaths to witnesses. The Senator said the persons who came before the committee did so voluntarily, to serve their personal interests. While’ there he wanted them put under oath, so as to make them responsible for their statements. The discussion brought out the fact that the hearings thus far had not been under oath. The resolution was adopted, directing the committe2 to make inquiry, and em- powering the administration of oaths to witnesses. THE HOUSE. The session of the House from 10:30 to 12 o'clock this morning, was devoted to general debate on the bond bill, the speak- ers being Messrs. Grout (Vt.) McCall (Tenn.), Hadley (iL) and Willis (Del.) against, and Mr. Doolittle (Wash.) in favor of free coinage. This closed the general debate. The House immediately recon- vened. A resolution was passed calling on the President to transmit to the House all correspondence at the State Department relative to the claim of Bernard Campbell of Boston for injuries received at the hands of Haytien soldiers while an attempt was being made to force him into the Haytien navy. General dqpate on the bond bill having ciosed, the Senate substitute to the bond bill, under the arrangement effected, was then open for amendment and debate under the five-minute rule. Mr. Dingley’s Statement. Mr. Dingley (Me.), chairman of the ways end means committee, explained the par- liamentary situation. He would make the motion to non-concur in the Senate free coinage substitute, while Mr. Crisp, repre- senting the minority of the committee, would move concurrence. The latter mo- tion took precedence, and would be the pending motion, open for amendment until 4 o'clock, when the vote in committee of the whole would be taken. Under the arrangement made with the minority, he said that after the bill was reported’ to tie House today two hours would be allowed tomorrow for closing the debate ia the House, an hour on a side, and the final vote would be taken about 2 p.m. tomorrow. Mr. Dingley and Mr. Crisp then formally entered their motions. The First Amendment. Mr. Johnson (Cal.) had the honor of offer- ing the first amendment. He moved to amend the motion to concur by striking out the first section of the Senate substitute and inserting a provision for the free coin- age of the American silver product and for levying a prohibitory duty on foreign sil- ver. The latter portion of the amendment Was withdrawn in deference to a point of order that it was not germane. While the amendment was being formally prepared Mr. Long (Kan.) offered an amendment to the same effect, adding a proviso to the Senate free coinage sec- tion limiting the coinage to the American product, and it was declared pending. The debate theri proceeded under the five- minute rule. Mr. Muguire (Cal.) declared that the attempt to maintain the gold standard had already bonded the people principle and interest to the extent of half a billion of doilars-and could only be cone tinued at a priceless cost. He was there- fore in favor of any change that would tend to restore a money system based on commercial instead of legal considerations. Kansas for Sound Moncey, Mr. Blue (Kan.) announced that his state was for “sound money,” and he proposed to represent the sentiments of Kansas in his vote for non-concurrence. Mr. Hutcheson (Tex.) said he had always doubted the power of ‘the United States to maintain free coinage at 16 to 1, but, in view of the greater evil that threatened, he was willing to take that step. After sone, further remarks by Messrs. Gtow (Pa.), McCall (Mass.) and Boatner a.) Mr. Dingley closed the debate on this amendment with a warning against a loose Provision for the coinage of the American eocct. Provision should be made for a oar, on foreign silver and for asaertain- ys Tapa what was the American pro- such legislation was to be enacted. also opposed {t on the ground that it would not produce the benefits that would accrue from true bimetallism. Mr. Long’s motion was defeated. Mr. Brumm’s Amendment. Mr. Brumm (Pa.) offered an amendment which provided that the difference between the coinage and the market value of silver should go to the government. Mr. Hartman (Mont.), asian advocate of free silver, indorsed the amendment, TILLMAN’ S POSITION He Defines the Intentions of the State Ded mooracy. Will Send Delegates to Chicago, but Prepared to Bolt and Join Free Silver Westerners, The political position of Senator Tillman of South Carolina has been one of doubt among many so long that a definite state- ment from him as to how he stands will be of interest to the public at large. His po- sition In South Carolina is well known, but nationally there has been a misunderstand- ing as to his place. He has been accused of being a populist and of being a member of various parties. Since his speech in the Senate he has received numerous letters from democrats appealing to him to state his position, otherwise his speech in the Senate would be of great harm to the party. In reply to a letter from a friend in South Carolina Senator Tillman writes as follows and puts himself on record without a doubt: “I have your letter of February 5, and appreciate very much your kind words of commendation. In order to preserve the unity of the white democracy of South Carolina, we cannot act on your sugges- tion not to send delegates to the national convention at Chicago. “We have already captured the state de- moeracy. We are the state democracy, and we must go to Chicago as such, pre- pared to bolt if need be, and ally ourselves with the free silver men of the west. It would be a fatal blunder not to send dele- gates to the national democratic conven- tion, and would only be putting it in the hands of our gold bug enemies. “If the national conventien does . not adopt a platform to suit us, and put a man on above suspicion as to his loyalty, we can then leave the party, but not before. The effort of every true friend of silver and financial reform should be directed to having our state democratie convention composed solidly of men of their way of thinking, so as to have it actas a unit.’”’ —————_-e-—__—__— THE CUBAN QUESTION. Indications That the House Committee Will Favor the Insurgents. The House committee on forcign affairs did not consider the Cuban question at any length. Only a portion of the corre- spondence sent in from the State Depart- ment has been printed, and 80 much re- mains that it was thought best to defer any discussion at present. There were remarks made which indie#ted that mem- bers of the committee would be very likely to push for a resolution looking to a recog- nition of a state of war in Cuba. Most of the time of the committee was taken up by a discussion of the resolution introduced, by Kepresentative Fischer of New York relative to the firing upon the schooner Henry Crosby while at anchor at Azua, San Domingo, December 10, 1893. This matter was finally referred to a subcommittee, consisting of Messrs. Quigg, Cousins and Price. The discussion of the question indicated that the republi- cans of the committee did not believe ade- quate steps had been taken by the State Department and that indemnity should be paid by the republic of San Domingo. ——— CENSURING MR. “pment The Resolation Will Be Soon Called Up in the House. The resoluticn censuring Ambassador Bayard was briefly touched upon in the foreign affairs committee meeting today. Chairman Hitt stated that he expected to ke able to call It up in the House next week, and that he would have done so be- fore but for the debate on the bond silver bill. The agricultural appropriation _ bill will have the right of way after the bond bill, he said, and that will be before the House for two or three days. ——_—_+ e+ _____ Personal Mention. Private Secretary Thurber has resumed his duties at the White House after a few days’ absence in New York. Capt. G. G. Greenough, is the guest of Mr. C. 14th street. Maj. Theodore Wint, tenth cavalry, is in the city on leave of absence. He is at the Shoreham. Maj. E. R. Warner, retired, and Capt. H. B, Bristol, retired, are registered at the War Depart ‘tment. Lifeut. Charles Bromwell, corps of en- gineers, is in the city on leave of absence. He Is stopping at 1327 16th street. Maj. Chas. A. Appel is in town, stopping with his son, Wm. M. O. Dawson, chairman of the re- Publican state committee of West Virginia, and who resides at Kingwood, is at the Raleigh. Mr. Dawson is sure that his state is permanently located. in the republican column. Gen. O. D. Groner of Virginia is at the Ebbitt. Stuart R. Young, promineat in Kentucky politics, is at the Ebbitt. Capt. George W. Moore 6f the revenue cutter service is at the Ebbitt. Col. P. G. Bowman, the prominent lawyer of Birmingham, Ala., is at the Ebbitt, ac- companied by his wife. J.B. C. Drew, the well-known attorney of Charleston, W. Va., is at the Ebbitt. Richard Harding Davis,)the author,‘is at the Arlington. Mr. Carl H.-Fast, who was until recently connected with Washington newspapers, and who is now located in Philadelphia, is at the Arlingtor with his bride. J. P. Carroll, W. J. Smithcand J. J. Glea- son, New York; M. Ware, Lady Lake, Fi: Chas. E. Ulm, Chicago; Cc. M. Ness, Bal: more; M. P. Lind, Philadelphia, and J. H. Blount, Louisville, Ky., are at the National. — fourth artillery, P. Lincoln at 2460 THE STAR does.not follow the course pursued by some un- scrupulous publishers, who vir- tually obtain money from ad- vertisers under false pretences, by claiming for their publica- tion a circulation it does not have. The Star’s patrons are fully aware of this, They un- derstand exactly.the: extent and character of its circplation, and they know that’ thdy get, af a ° reasonable price, precisely the panty and -qitality of circula- ton they pay for., They under- stand pretty well, ‘too, that they can’t get'so good an “article oi the kind nor so much of it any- where else. DEPRESSING TRACKS|M®. QUaY’s canpiDacy Conference Between Commission and Railroad Officials, REVISED PLAN PRESENTED Pennsylvania Company Proposes to Close Up Many Streets. GRADE CROSSINGS LEFT There was an important conference this afternoon at the Commissioners’ office be- tween Chief Engineer Brown of the Penn- sylvania railroad and Major Powell upon the subject of abolishing grade crossings along the line of that railroad within the city limits, The hearing was brought about through the endeavors of the engineer department to arrive at some definite conclusion re- garding the manner of entrance to'the city. Some time ago, at the request of the en- gineer of the road, the Commissioners fur- nisked the company a map showing, in de- tail, the plan as recommended by the Com- missioners in January, 1893 (a cut of which was published recently in The Star), to- gether with the elevations and grades of every cross street along the line of the road within the city. It was stated at the time that the object of the engineers of the rail- road in asking for this information was for the purpose of preparing another plan com- Dining their views with the ultimate object of arriving at some satisfactory plan. The conference between Maj. Powell and Engineer Brown lasted fully two hours, during which time the entire subject was carefully considered, with the result that Maj. Powell agreed to furnish a plan of the situation in accordance with the views of the Comm'ssioners, Smaller Depressions. Engineer Brown at the conference sub- mitted a new plan, showing depressed tracks along the entire Mne, but not de- pressed as much as was comprehended in the plan formerly submitted, when it was proposed to depress only those tracks east of South Capitol street. The plans of the railroad company show depressions of dif- ferent depths along the line of the road, and is considered by the authorities to be much inferior to the elevated system rec- ommended by them in 1: The plans as submitted show the depres- sions at various streets to be as follows: At l4th strcet southwest there will be a grade crossing. At 13% street there will be a depression of four feet and the street closed. At 13th street there is a depression of ten feet and the street closed. At 12th street a depression of twenty feet is shown and the street carried across the tracks at the present elevation on a bridge. At lith street a depression of twenty-two feet is made and the street carried over tracks on a bridge at present level of street. Tenth street shows the same depression as llth street. At 9th street twenty-one feet is the amount of depression shown, a bridge be- ing provided without change of level. At 7th street the depression is seventeen feet, ard the street 1s carried across on a bridge raised three feet above present level of street. At 6th street the depression amounts to thirteen feet, and the street is carried across on a bridge raised seven feet above present level of street. At 4% street the depression is about eight feet and a half, and the street is carried across on a bridge raised twelve and a half feet above present level of street. At 3d street the depression is six feet, the roadway across the track is to be aban- doned, and a foot bridge constructed. At 2d street a depression of three feet is provided, and the street is carried across on a bridge raised seventeen and a half feet above the present level of the tracks. Delaware avenue shows no depression of tracks, and the street is carried across the tracks on a bridge twenty feet above the strest level. The crossing of ist street southwest is abandcned. At South Capitol street there is no de- pression of the tracks, and the roadway is carried over -he tracks on a bridge twenty feet high. There is also a foot bridge pro- vided on the west side of South Capitol street. At New Jersey avenue there is a depres- sion of three feet, with a bridge for car- rying the street seventeen feet above the street level. At 8d street southeast the depression is seven feet and the street is carried across on a bridge at an elevation of thirteen feet. At 4th street there is a depression of seven feet and an elevation of thirteen feet for a bridge. At 5th street there is a depression of five feet and an elevation of fifteen feet for the bridge. The proposed right of way to be oc- cupied by the railroad company on Mary- land and Virginia avenues is fifty-six feet wide, while upon 6th street it will utilize but twenty-eight feet. ——___ THE LAW AGAINST TRUSTS. Attorney General Harmon’s Reply to a Resolation of Inquiry. Attorney General Harmon today sent to the House a reply to the resolution of Jan- uary 7 requesting him to report what steps he has taken to enforce the law against trusts, combinations and conspiracies in restraint of trade. The Attorney General Says: “‘Meny complaints have been made against alleged trusts, combinations and monopolies, which, in so far as they ap- peared to relate to matters within the juris- diction of the federal government, I have erdeavored to investigate as well as the means at my disposal permitted. Some such investigations are now in progress. Two actions are now pending, based partly or wholly on alleged violations of what ts known as the Sherman act. They both re- eee to agreements among interstate car- riers.” The question in the resolution as to “what further legislation is needed to protect the people” is, the Attorney General says, one‘of genera] policy and not one of law, which therefore dees not pertain to his de- partment. The Sherman anti-trust law, as censtrued by the Supreme Court, says the Attorney General, does not apply to the most complete monopolies acquired by un- lawful combination of concerns which are naturally competitors. e+ —_____ Favorable Reports on Army Bills. The Senate committee on military af- fairs today authorized a favorable report on the bill repealing the existing law which requires surgeons and other medical officers of military homes to be persons who have been disabled in the military service of the United States. Like ac- tion was taken upon the bill authorizing the Secretary of War to issue Springfield rifles to the National Guards in each state and territory. ———_—_o+_____ Jurisdiction in Criminal Cases. Senator Vilas, from the committee on judiciary, today reported the bill with- drawing from the United States Supreme Court jurisdiction of criminal cases not capital and conferring it on the circuit courts of appeals. Tt is Merely to Hold the State Delegation With Him. Harrity 1s Working Pattison in the Same Way—A Question if It Will Work Either Way. “The Star, within a few days, h&s told the story of the rent and torn condition of both political parties in Pennsylvania over the question of control of the state's influence in the St. Louis and Chicago conventions; how in the republican party the Quay and the anti-Quay people are maneuvering, and how in the democratic party the Harrity and the antt-Harrity people are engaged; how Mr. Quay, with an assurance of fifty votes out of the sixty-four, -is yet ambi- tious to control all of them, and hew Mr. Harrity, with almost the same lead on his side, is quite as hard to satisfy. They Want It All. “All, all,” is the cry of both the Quay and the Harrity people, and the latest de- velopments show that they are playing the Same game to carry their point, The Quay people have now brought the Senator forward as a Presidential candi- date, while the Harrity people are again figuring on ex-Governor Pattison. The ar- gument in both cases is that Pennsylvania when a son of Pennsylvania is involved must stand by him. Ergo, the way to make the state delegations solid at St. Lo’ is as well as at Chicago is to put a Penns: vania man forward as a presidential can- didate in the one ‘convention as in the other, Will It Work? But will this work, to the real end that Mr. Quay and Mr. Harrity have in view? Will they be able, even it they succeed in securing solid delegatons with this mask, to keep them solid after the mask has been thrown off? + The anti-Quay people well understand that the Senator is not a serious candidate for the presidential nomination; that the sole purpose of asking support for him is to try and in some way tighten his hold on the delegation, in order that when the crisis in the convention arrives he may transfer it in a body to the man of his own choice. It is hardly to be supposed, there- fore, that they will be caught, or, if caught, will permit themselves to be bound beyond the point of a complimentary vote or two for him. Stalking horses are poor con- trivances for use among and on veterans. Holds Good With Pattison. This same thing, it is thought, holds good in the case of Mr. Pattison. He is an at- tractive man, not objectionable to any large number of keystone democrats, but not considered a presidential availability by any large number of them. All will probably agree to compliment him at Chi- cago, but at that point the anti-Harrity people will stop. Mr. Harrity, with Mr. Pattison done for and out of the way, will find himself in control of only those men whom he could have controlled without an appeal to Pattison sentiment at all. Will Not Go Very Far. It will surprise some of the admirers cf Mr. Quay if he permits this movement in his behalf to go very far. It is considered so unlike his usu&l style of procedure. He has been accused of many things, but never before of employing buncombe and indirection. He knows what he wants, and he never hesitates to ask for it. It is known now what he wants, and when the time comes he'll ask for it. And for the office of chairman of the republican na- tional committee, there will probabiy be no objection made to his selection by anybody from Pennsylvania. But what the anti- Quay peuple are insisting on, and will con- tinue to insist on to the end, is that they be permitted to vote for the man of their own choice for the presidential nomination. Events may show that they are in agree- ment with the Senator as to the candidate. But they don’t want anything forced on them by, cast-iron instructions, and, what is more, ‘they will not, if they ‘can help it, submit to anything of the kind. Enjoying none of the Senator’s favor at home, they object to being bound and delivered into his hands for his own trading purposes at St. Louis. A HISTORIC COMPASS. The United States Asked to Buy One Used on Mason and Dixon's Line. There seems to be an idea in various parts of the country that the United States has a fund to buy historical relics. Secre- tary Smith has received a letter from Mr. F. H. Harmer of Summit, Pa., offering to sell to the government the compass with which 120 years ago Col. Alexander Mc- Lean surveyed the famous Mason and Dix- on’s line. The instrument was made by David Rittenhouse of Philadelphia, and bears his name. The state of Pennsylvania would like to have it, but has no money to purchase it. Mr. Harmer does not state what price he sets on the compass. He is @ surveyor, as were his father and grand- father, and all have used the compass, and it is still suitable for use. —— TO STOP THE RAID ON GOLD. Mr. Dockery Explains the Object of His Bill Introduced Today. A bill was introduced in the House today by Mr. Dockery of Missouri which is de- signed to have important bearing upon the “endless crain” system of depleting the treasury’s gold. His bill provides that here- after the lega} tenders shall be redeemed at St. Louis and San Francisco, instead of New York and San Francisco. “Tris bill will put a stop to the practice of turning the New York subtreasury into @ broker's office,” said Mr. Dockery to a Star reporter today. “Instead of turning in their legal tenders there and making the governmcnt pay express charges, they will have to redeem them at a distant point and pay the freight themselves. I don’t insist upon St. Louis being designated particu- larly. Make tt Cincinnati or Chicago or any other western city, the point being to render it difficult and expersive for those brokers to raid the gold. I hope the bill will pass.” | The Boundary Commission. The Venezuelan boundary commission wiil hold another meeting tomorrow. The ses- sion will begin at 10:20 a.m., and probably last until late in the afternoon. Meantime, individual members of the commission have been examining various documents bearing on the question and attending to routine tatters. The commission has deputized Prof. Deben of Johns Hopkins University to examine a number of old Dutch books relative to settlements made in the disputed territéry during the last century. One or two others temporarily connected with the commission also are pursuing similar du- ties. ———+2+_____ Not Good Wall Paper. American’ wall paper makers entered the German market with unexampled success this year, but United States Censul Ste- -] phan reports from Annaberg that after de- livery of the goods signs appeared in many cases that the papers were not freshly printed, and In some instances they soon turned yellow. He says the unfavorable impression made by these goods in Ger- many will not easily be forgotten when offers are again made. HAS HE REACHED 1T2 ————_—____—— Nansen Said to Have Found the North Pole, —_———_-___ REPORT SENT BY HIS AGENT An Arctic Expedition That Was Merely to Drift, ; RELYING ON POLAR SEA CURRENTS American Explorers Discuss the News. RECEIVED WITH SOME DOUBT ey ST. PETERSBURG, February 13.--A tele- graphic dispatch received here today from Irkutsk, Siberia, says that a Siberian trader named Konchnareff, who fs the agent of Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, the Nor- wegian explorer, who sailed in the Fram June 24, 1893, for the arctic regions, has received information to the effect that Dr. Nansen has reached the north pole and has found land there and is now rewralng tcward civilization, A Former Report. In April last the Figaro of Paris circulat- e@a rumor that Dr. Nansen had found the north pole; that it is situated on a chain of mountains. It was then added that he had planted the Norwegian flag there. The story wes generally regarded as being without foundation. On September 17 of last year advices were recaived in London from the Danish trading station on Angmagsalik, on the east cost of Greenland, that a ship, sup- posed to be Dr. Nansen’s Fram, had been sighted at the end of July, stuck fast in an ice drift. Finally, on December 6, a dispatch from Christiania, Norway, stated that Dr. Nane sen's wife had received a letter, by carrier pigeon, reporting that the expedition was doing well. As no carrier pigeons were taken north by the Nansen party, this re- port was evidently inaccurate, but it was published for what it was worth. The expedifion sailed from Christiania June 24, 1893, the doctor's plan being to make for the New Siberian Islands, and thence head north until the Fram, by being imbedded in the ice, would be com- pelled to drift along the west coast of any isnd which migh: be found. On August 23, 1895, Dr. Nansen sent a dispatch from Vardo, reporting that on the 2d of-that month he was about to sail into the Kara sex and that the Fram had be- haved splendidly up to that stage of the journey, especially in forcing her through the ice. A London dispatch, dated March 4 of last year, announced that a letter, dated Kjollefjord, February 24, had reached Hammerfest, Norway, announcing that a telegraph inspector at a station in the mountains between Lebesy and Langfjord had seen a balloon moving in a southerly direction and believed that it was possibly carrying dispatches from Dr. Nansen; but until the foregcing dispatch no further news of the balloon of Dr. Nansen had been received. What the Report Indicates. LONDON, February 13.—It is pointed out here in well-informed circles that if the news of Dr. Nansen’s returning from the north pole turns out to be correct, it indi- cates that the explvrer has made his way back to New Siberia from the arctic re- gions and is there awaiting favorable ice conditions before commencing* his home- ward journey. Kouchnareff, the man mentioned in the ispatch from Irkutsk, Siberia, via St. Petersburg, as the agent of Dr. Nansen, who has received information thai the explorer has found the pole and is return- ing, is Dr. Nansen’s dog supplier. He resides near the mouth of the Lena river. The people of that locality pay fre- quent visits to New Siberia and may in this manner have brought the news to Kouchnareff. way MR. WALTER WELLMAN'S VIEWS. He Does Not Credit the Story That Nansen Has Been Heard From. Mr. Walter Wellman, the Washington cor- respondent of the Chicago Times-Herald, who made an attempt himself a couple of years ago to reach the pole, does not place much reliance in the story that Nansen has from. ee as oe deny the possibility of his = complishing what is claimed for him, said Mr. Wellman to a Star reporter this morning, “but it does seem to me hichlv improbable, if not actually impossible, that he should have been heard from in the middle of winter. It would not be at all m keeping with his plans. It was his idea to drift across the Polar sca as near to the pole as the currents would taku him, and to come out directly on the opposite side fron where he started. Yet, according to this dispatch, he has been heard from not so very far from where he entered the Polar sea. “Naucen started from Christiania in June, 1898. His plan was to reund the northern end of Norway and deliberately to plunge into the ice near the Siberian islands north of Siberia. He was to go as far north as he could by steam power, and then simply let his ship drift with the currents. His starting point was not so very far from where the Jeannette was wrecked, and his theories were based on the belief that some of the wreckage from the Jeannette had beer carried through ihe North Polar sea to the coast of Greenland