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7 hang until 12:06, twenty-nine and a half minutes, and then it was cut down and placed in & coffin, furnished by the gov- ernment. The features were composed, and confirmed the opinion of the medical men that death was painless and unconsclous- ness instantaneous. Undertaker Harvey removed the body to his shop, and there it was later in the day turned over to the widow and mother of the unfortunate man. His Crime. The crime for which Harris died was the murder of Matthew Spruell, colored, the af- ternoon of the 4th of last July. The two men, with their families, lived in the same house in Georgetown, and there Spruell had @ little barber shop. Shortly before 2 o'clock the afternoon of the murder Harris returned home in a somewhat intoxicated condition. Entering the barber shop, he in- quired of Spruell why he had been annoy- ing his wife. Spruell replied that he had not in any way annoyed her, but the ar- swer did not satisfy Harris, and an alterca- tien seemed imminent, when the men were separated. not, however, before Harris had threatened to take Spruell’s life before the sun went down that day. Leaving the lit- tle shop, Harris went up to his own room, ard there his wife endeavored to persuade Eim to be quiet. Her entreaties had no ef- fect upon him, however, ard, discovering that she had thrown his revolver into the yard, he went out in search of it. He found it, and then he went in search of Spruell. Some one warned the latter that Harris was after him with a pistol, and out he ran into the street, Harris following him, pistol im hand. Spruell ran up the street a little way, and, finding that Harris was close upon him, he ran into an open doorway. Harris dashed in after him, ard as Spruell ran up the stairway fired at him. The first shot missed the man, but as Spruell turned on the stairway Harris fired again, and Spruell fell mortally wounded, dying in a few minutes. Harris then ran out upoa the street, but was almost immediately taken into custody. His trial took piace be- fore Judge Cole last October, and although the man’s counsel, Messrs. Thompson and Frailey, who served without compensation, made a strong fight for their client, he was convicted, and a month later was sentenced to be hanged the 31st of last month. But the Court of Appeals not having disposed of the appeal taken by the defens the President respited the man until today, and yesterday afternoon announced that he could not grant the petition, which asked a commutation of the death sentence to one of life imprisonment. His Statement. Harris has always claimed that he had no intention of killing Spruell, and he has in- variably insisted, as was done in iis de- femise, that the killing was due to his intox- feation. His reputation was not a good one, however. and in January, 1892, he was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for attempting to shoot a man. Last Sat- urday Harris wrote out a statement, which he requested the Rev. John Roberts, a well- known colored evangelist, to hand to The Star for publication after his execution. It is as follows: “Dear Friends: “I am now going to relate to you how I mitted that unfortunate deed. ‘To the Public: “I am twenty-three years of age. I have a@ wife and child. I lived happy until I commenced to drink, and today I am under sentence of death for a crime I commitied while under the tnfluence of drink. About six years ago I shot at a man because he slandered my dear mother's good name, and any son would have done the same thing as I did under those circumstances. But this crime I am about to relate and give up my life for was not premeditated. as they have said, but was because 1 was erazed with drnk. I had no intention of taking that man’s life, and I am heartily sorry for it. But, dear friends, if I had of had justice I would not be under sentence of death today. I should be punished, but I do not deserve capital punishment. “I am willing to die, but I'll go where there Is no more trials, no more injustice, but I am going to that beautiful place calied Paradise. Good friends, forbear to drink, for in the end you will be where I am to- day. I wili now give you a minute descrip- tion of the crime. “I left my work about a quarter of 2 o'clock on the afternoon of the 4th of July, 188, with the intention of going around home to see what my wife wanted, and when I arrived there F met Matthew Spruell standing in the door, and he asked me why it was my wife did not speak to him. I told him that I did not know, and he insisted that I did know. Then he com- menced to swear at me, and I retal- fated. I told him I would hit him if he did anything to me. I did not have any pistol then. I went upstairs to look for it, and my wife had thrown it away, unbeknowing to me. I went out to look for my pistol, and, not finding it, returned to Matth and asked him if he had seen it. In rep he told me, ‘No, there is no one in here that has anything belonging to you, and you get out of here d—d quick.’ And then he walked to where his razors were. Then I said, ‘If you bother me I'll break your mouth.” Then he takes up one of is razofS and came to me in a threat attitude, but a woman came between and separated us. “I ran out the back w: and he followed me to the middle door. I, being drunk, in the excitement ran into the yard, and the first object that I saw was my pistol that my wife had thrown away. Picking it up, I ran around the front street, and the first person [ saw was Matthew Spruell. He turned as though he was coming toward me, and then I raised the pistol, and then he turned and ran up the street, I in pur- suit. “At the corner he ran into a hallway, and as he turned I fired, but did not hit him. Then I ran in the doorway myself. I pull- ed the trigger the second time, but it did not go off, and then he turned around and started toward me, 2nd I shot him then on the stairs and he fell. Then I ran about half a square, when I realized what I had done. 1 immediately returned and gave my- self up. “This, kind friends, Is the true story of the affair, 1 may God, in His mercy, for- give me. Trusting that I may be thought kindly of by the people, and hoping to meet you ail In heaven. “Dear friends, don’t drink. Whisky the cause of all our misfortunes. “Siened by me this 8th day of February, 1896, District jail, Washington, D. C. is Preaches Temperance. Another statement was handed colored clergyman by Har and in that, which is as follows, the condemned man preaches quite an effective temperance ser- imon: “How often men go through this world, never thinking for a moment that God is watch'ng our evil ways. There is not a man in this world who does not know thera is a God, but still he goes on as uneoncern- ed until he is taken sick or arrested f some great crime. Then we look back a our past, and his first thought is, had I not got drunk I would not be in prison for the erime I had done when under the influei of liquor. I pray to God to forgive the sin- ners that wrong has led to crime, and I hope that every creature, w to the yourself to . and you will in return receive His holy blessings. “Dear friends, how often mothers and fathers are the cause of their children ) coming drunkards. In many cases mothers and father: their children when they are small to drink whisky and sugar, so when they are older they still drink wh's Dear parents, I say do not indulge and do fee your children, for if you give it home you must expect them to take it abroad, and probably say to thetr companions, ‘Come, let us get drunk and have a good time.’ “Ob, God, if that woman or man could see the dangers awalting them by getting drunk I know they would not hesitate for one moment to cast that bottle of rum from their sight forever. But they do net stop to think; whisky has too firm a hold on them, and if you ask them why they drink, they say, ‘I have to drink to drown my troubles.’ But whisky does not drown your troubles, but leads you on until you commit some great crime. How often wives are treated like beasts. What is the cause of it? Rum! “if you take a bottle of sum and pour it in a tumbler you will see the color is red. In other words red rum. This red rum will ead us on until we cause our pareats to grieve for their children. Parents, teach your children to love Christ, who was cru- citied on the cross. Dear friends, I woull like for you to take the words ‘red rum‘ and spell them backward, and you will see what it will lead children to whose mothers and fathers first taught them to drink. Oh, God, I am one of those poor creatures that rum has led astray, and ended my life with red rum spelled backwards. There- fore, I say, young people, stop before it ts too late. Make a firm resolution to serve God and you will not cause mothers and fathers to grieve, but they will rejoice, and happiness will dwell among you and yours “er ever.” “tHE EVENING STAR, FRIDA a LATE NEWS BY WIRE Continuation of the Deadlock at Annapolis. TRYING 10 FORCE GOVERNOR'S HAND Tactics of the Opponents of the Bruce Bill. APPOINTMENTS MADE TODAY ee, Speclal Dispatch to The Evening Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., February 14.—The democratic majority in the senate has de- clined to proceed to the election of a state treasurer until the republicans shall agree to extend the terms of Associate Judge J. A. Wickes of the second judicial circuit and Associate Judge Bryan of the court of ap- peals. Gen. Thomas J. Shryock of Balti- more is the caucus nominee of the repub- licans for state treasurer. The advocates of the Bruce civil service Dill hope that the favorable attitude of the governor may induce some of the delegates to regard the measure more favorably. The desire of the opponents of the bill to have it made the special order of the day next Wednesday is due to a clause of the state constitution, which provides that the governor must send in his appointments within fifty days after the assembling of the legisiature. Wednesday next is ihe fiftieth day since the general assembly met, and were the appo‘ntments all in by that time, the opponents of civil service reform might pay little attention to the governor's w shes. Mr. Lowndes, however, following a long- established precedeni, regards the provision as directory rather than mandatory, and hus no intention of complying with it. He is understood to desire the passage of the bill without the referendum clause, and it will occasion little surprise here if he uses some of the patronage at his disposal to further that end. Election Declared Void. The elections committee in the Tuck- Wells contest for clerk of th circuit court has declared the election of Dr. George Wells, democrat, vold, and a new ele has been ordered. Dr. Washington Tu who contested the election, is the re can leader of Anne Arundel county. democrats The are prepared to support Dr. Wells in the second election, and President Bruce and other party leaders have signi- fied taeir intention of speaking in his be- haif. In the Calvert county contest the election cemmittee reported in favor of seating Samuel R. Bird and Arthur A. Harknes: the republicans contesting for seats occu- pied by Joseph Sherbert and John F. Ire- land, democrats. The report was accepted. Gubernatorial Appointments. Governor Lowndes has named the fol- for civil officers in Prince George's For justices of the peace, first clec- ton district, Summerifeld D. Hall, Jno. R. Baker, Benedict J. Galleat, Columbus Hall; second election ‘istrict, Louis C. Wishman, Theo. F. King, Alfred D. Bailey, Charles Karle; third district, Wm.H. Harper, Wm. 0. Hooley, Wm. G. Brooke; fourtn di Frank Garner, Robt. A. Rose, Wm. F. Pe Ty: fifth district, J M, Kendrick. Henry Williams, Francis P. William Shorn; sixth district, Young, Ed- tmund Tolso: Samuel E. Cox, Jno. H. Brooks: seventn district, Geo, Mitchell, Allan Clark, hard U. U. Bowie, Walter Ricon; eighth district, Jno. W. Richardson, Eli J. Watson, Jno. H. Fowler; ninth dis- trict. Jno. R. McMillan, Wm. L. Tippott, Edmund T. Allen, Samuel H. Moley; tenth district, James P. Curley, John P. Duvall, y. Jackson, Jas. Federline; eleventh . Jos. H. Selby, Wm. H. Squires, David S. Gillespie, Elliott L. Hixson twelfth district, Jos. B. Payne, Henry H. Hungerford, ira S. Clark, Robt. Man; thirteenth district, . Be Alex. S. Stuart; fourteenth district, Phelps, Aimont Barnes, Rufus Belt. For registers of voters, Albertus Brown, Charles M. Newman, Frederick W. Willson, Lake E. Dooly, John H. Williams, William E. R. Suit, Beale D. Mullikin, Harry B. Orme, William B. Allen, George W. Lil bridge, William H. Grimes, Richard Grimes, Arthur Tolson 4 Richard E. Marlow. For school commissioner, J. Selwyn Sass- cer. For notary public at Hyattsville, Harry B. Fowler. jamin, Wm. Increasing Academy Grounds. Senator Randall presented a memortal to- day from the mayor and councilmen of An- napolis requesting that certain grovnd within .the city limits be added to t property of the United States Naval Acad- emy. sa —— GATHERING EVID! CE. Preparing to Turn Walling and Jack- son Over to Kentucky. CINCINNATI, Ohio, February 14.—The authorities here have a letter from Green- castle, Ind., in which the parents of Pearl Bryan identify the hat sent to them as that of Pearl, and give other information that has ied to all the officers being employed today in searching for the head. The canal was drained during the night, and different sections of workmen have examined its muddy basins, but nothing has been found up to noon, although the whole course of the canal was examined. The officers think now that the hat found near the body was that of Pearl, that she was knocked senseless, and that the head was vrobably badly beaten before it was cut off. Everything is being done to get all the evidence available on this side of the river so as to turn Jackson and Walling over to the Kentucky authorities to try them. A special from Frankfort, , to the Times Star says Goy. Bradley has been examining the cases and has reauesied Sheriff Plummer to return to Newport, Ky for additional pepers and evidence, at that he would then issue the requisition tomerrow. Sheriff Plummer left Frankfort at noon and will return tomorrow, but is not expected that Jackson and Wa be transierred until next weel $ their lawyers will go to Goy. Bushnell to contest the requisition. es SAD NEWS FROM ARMENIA. Intelligence of a Three Days’ Mass- nere in a Village. MILWAUKEE, Wis., February 14.—Gira- gos Tomauian is a young Armenian of this eity, who has just received sad news from his home. The young man is almost pros- trated by a letter which he received from his uncle, Khiatjian Tomauian, written De- cember 1895, in the village of Ouzoun- aba, Palau, province of Diarbekir, Armenia, This place is twenty days’ distant from Constantinople by horse. The letter says: “I wrote you the horrible happenings, which are unequaled in the history of our village. Brother, they have struck our quiet vil- lage, they have burned our church and our home, and robbed us of everything. They have killed nearly every one. Those who are left have changed their religion and have become Mohammedans. But this is not all. Let me write and relate about your home. Your brother’s wife and your little boy are killed. Your wife and mother have thrown themselves into the Euphrates, in order to save themselves from the Tur- kish outrages. Your sister is living yet, but I wish she might have been killed with the rest, for they have taken her and mar- tied her to a Kurd, and have changed her religion to Mohammedanism. The massa- cre continued for three days. Very few of us are left now in the village.” Restrained From Preaching. BOSTON, Mass., February 14.—Judge Mor- ton, in the supreme court, today granted a temporary injunction restraining the Rey. G. F. Kennegott from preaching in the First Congregational Church, Lowell, next Sunday. The order of restraint is return- able next Monday at 9:30 a.m., when the reverend gentleman is cited to be present to show cause why the injunction should not be made permanent. ‘The applicants for the injunction are members of a faction o to Mr. Kennegott, who have leased the church building and refuse to permit the pastor to enter. QUAY AND THE PRESIDENCY What Does His Recently Launched Boom Really Mean? No One Believes Him to Be a Serious ~ Candidate—If the Object is a Dicker It May Fail. The country having under consideration the Quay presidential boom, a number of parliamentary inquiries are being pro- pounded. What does the boom really mean? Not that the Senator is a serious candidate for the presidential nomination at St. Louts, or will become one. There is general agree- ment on that point. The Senator’s recog- nized organ in Philadelphia admits that. Taen what? Is there a design to defeat somebody, by withholding from him the support he would otherwise receive from Pennsylvania on the first ballot at St. Louis? If that is the play, against whom is it) directed? His First Choice. Not Known. Mr. Quay’s first choice for President 1s not acknowledged. It may be known to bis Neutenants, but he does not proclaim it to the world at large. In the west and south the McKinley people are claiming him; in the east, the Reed people. ile is known to have said pleasant things about both the Ohio and the Maine man. His friends at home are divided on the subject. Mr. Reed has many admirers in the state, and naturally Mr, McKinley has. If the apostle of high protection could not muster some sort of support in the very home of protec- tion then would his case be desperate, in- deed. * It may be that this division explains the boom. The time {s rapidly approaching when the record must be made. The hold- ing of county and district conventions will shorily begin, and instructions he asked for. Is Mr. Quay unwilling or unprepared to give the cue so early in the action? Have the Reed people, on the one hand, and the Me- Kinley people, on the other, been pressing him hard for some definite expression? Is this boom for himself an easy way out of the difficulty? Will those importunities now cease, and will all hands now turn in for Mr. Quay himself and thereby help him to preserve his secret until national con- vention day? Two Things Not Conceded. This proposition—advanced by well in- formed Pennsylvanians—would appear to suppose two things that the general pub- lic will be reluctant to concede: @) That Mr. Quay is not aa strong at home as has been claimed for him. Mr. Quay with whom the country has been made acquainted is able to command his followers at any time and to go all lengths. This Quay, in the circumstances described, would simply have to say to the McKinley people, if he himszif preferred Mr. Reed, come, and they would obey, cr to the Reed people, if he preferred Mr. McKinley, come, | and the ould obey. But the Quay of t Presidential boom is a man_ helpless between two fires, and trying to hide for a time behind himself. That the Pennsylvania republicans are a dull lot. This, it is suggested, would be difficult to maintain. They are. on the ecntvary, a very shrewd lot, and no one before has contributed so much to make them so as Mr. Quay. They play politics all the year round and enjoy the game. Could even Mr. Quay himself then, assum- ing a willingness on his part, hope to pull the wool over their eyes? The McKinley people and the Reed peop!e would probably willingly enough unite on Mr. Quay in any serious contest. But to forward a mere flicker of the terms of which they are in ignorance? Hardly. Will Fall of lis Object. This maneuver, it is predicted, will sooner or later fail of its object. If Mr. Quay has a choice among the rest of the candidates to be balJloted for at St. Louis he ought, it is held, to make the fact known. He has never won anything in his life by timidity or indirection. His yreat triumph of last year was the fruit of his frankness and gis courage. His position was never in doubt for a day in that fight. Could he have won that battle if he had pretended to be pushing somebody else ior cheirman of the state central committ His whole Strength lay in the fact t he wanted the place himself and was pushing for it. THE PACIFI Progress of the Hearing Before the Senate Committee. Mr. Winslow 8. Pierce, acting for the re- of organization committ cific Railroad Compan: the Senate committee on Pacific railroads the reorganization committee's draft of a bill for the reorganization of that road. This bill provides for: 1. Appointment by the President, sub- Jeci to epproval of the Senate, of a com- mission of three members to investigate, detérmine and report to the President the falr cash value of the claim and lien of the United States. 2. Authority to the subpoena and examin2 have process of cour 3. The report of commissioners or a ma- dority, subject to the approval of the Pre the Union Pa- submitte: commissioners to witnesses and to y be paid for the claim and lien nited States; the Secretary of the Treasury upon such’ payment to execute the Instrument of assignment of the lien and claim, reserving a sinking fund. 4—Authority to purchasers to ong. a new company, nize empowered to acquire and operate the lines and the property of the railway compa: with such corporate powers as are necessarily involved. 5—The repexzl of the provisions of prior acts which would be fnapplicable to the reorganized company under the new condi- tions and reserving the government’s pre- ferred right to the transportation of mails, troops, munitions of war, ete. 6—Authority and direction to the Attor- ney General, in default of payment ¢ amount fixed by commission, to foreclose lien of the government, and upon sale to bid the amount of the indebtedness to the n of the remedies to the and of power to alter, amend ing on the Pactfic railroad ques- tien was continued today with Mr. Coombs, torney for the Credit Commutation ny, on the stand. Littler, speaking for the Chicago Nerthwestern, replied briefly to Mr. Coombs. Mr. C. P. Huntington took the stand next. He began by ying that when the Pacific roads were built so much was not heard of their being built for war purposes as had been since. They were buiit for the policing of the ccuntry and to permit easy communication between the east and the west. He referred at seme length tothe great cost of rails, of locomotives and lum- ber at that time, and of the difficulty he experienced in getting capital interested. SNE ae Seeretary Rockhill at Work. Mr. W. W. Reekhill entered upon the dis- charge of his duties as first assistant Sec- retary of State today. The oath of offi was administered to him by Mr. Harry of the State THE Saturday the exact circulation STAR prints every of each of its editions issued during the preceding six secular days. The figures which repre- sent this circulation are not manipulated, either by addition or multiplication, in order to confuse readers and deceive ad- vertisers. ‘They express precisely what they mean, and mean pre- cisely what they express. They represent, furthermore, a bona fide permanet circulation that is belived to be more than three times as large as that of any. otser evening paper in Wash- ington. BILL »Great Discussion in SILVER * BOND Turner of ‘Georgia Speaks Against Fi ree Coinage. ‘i THE TIME EXTENDED The public and private galleries of the House were thronged today in anticipation of the closing of the debate on the Senate free coinage substitute for the bond bill. The attendance on the floor was also very large. Mr. Dingley, chairman of the ways and means committee, insisted on the regu- lar order as soon as the journal had been read, and under the arrangement made yes- terday an hour was allowed on each side for closing. Mr. Crisp (Ga.), representing the minority, took the floor and presented the arsument for free silver. He should, he said, in opening adduce such facts and il- lustrations as he was able in the limited time allowed to sustain the silver ideas he entertained on the subject, and should care- fully refrain from saying or intimating anything that would wound the feelings of any member. This was an economic question, and no matter what views members might have entertained in the past, he assumed that in casting his vote today each member would do so conscientiousiy in accordance with the dictates of his convictions. The chief difficulty he found was in selecting from the great mass of material that which was most pertinent and least old, if that ex- pression might be allowed. Mr. Crisp’s Argament. At this point Mr. Turner (Ga.), who is opposed to free colnage, asked that, in view of the great importance of the pending ques- tion, that his colleague be allowed to pro- ceed, without limit. This privilege was ac- corded, and Mr. Crisp opened his argument proper with the familiar words, “In 1873 Congress demonetized silver.” At the very threshold of the subject, he said, this was denied, and it was ulso denied that up to 1873 we had had himetallism in this country. He quoted Baron Rothsechild’s statement thet prices were regulated by the aggregate amount of the circulation, gold and xilver. y . 3 y in the world. If the standard in England was gold, in France silver, and in China sliver, the measure of values would be the combined amount of both gold ani sil- ver circulating as money. Money was the thing for which all contended, and the sum of the demand for money was equal to the demand for all things else on earth. If a metal wer2 made money by law, a demand for that meial would be created among all the pecple, and its value would nevessarily increase with the increased demand. Cause of the Fall of Price. Here he read from statements made by Senator Sherman in 1876, that the demon etization of silver had caused a reduction of its price and had created a mad scram- ble for gold 6n'the part of Engiand, France and Germany, which had appreciated its price and had induced a fall in prices throughout the worid. That fall of prices, Mr. Crisp assétted, was largely duc, he would not sdy wholly, to the demonetiza- tion of silver. It was not the fall of prices that was complained of, but the constant and steady dali of prices due to the con- stant appreciation of gold. He read from Mr. Balfour's speech of the ¥th instant in the English parliament attributing the de- cline of agrieutture in gold countries to the appreciation of gold and the-artificial ad- vantage it gave to silver countries. Mr. Baifoar!had also declared that the obstacles to.reform came not from abroad but were pug forward at home. Continuing Mr. Crisp efirmed the existence of a well- defined purpose’ by those in authority both here and abroad to’ depress the price of silver, in order to prevent its remonetiza- tion. He cited the manner in which the Bland-Ailison act of 1878 was executed, the coinage of the minimum amount under the act and the refusal of the treasury after a few months to coin silver under the act of 1890. He cited Secretary refusal to give silver for gold in 180% cause the silver was needed for the demption of the treasery notes,” and his course a few months afterward in redeem- Ing those notes in gold. “What kind of juggling is that?” he asked. “What s of friendly treatment of silver is that (Applause) Parity Between the Metals. He then directed his attention to the manner in which the parity betwcen the metals had been maintained. Every obli- gation of the government, bonds, green- backs and treasury notes, was payable in cain. If that was not true, and they were gold obligations, why did not those who believed that have the eourage to say so and save the tex-ridden people millions in interest? In February, 1895, Congress could have saved the people $16,000,000 in interest by auikorizing gold bonds. “Congress refus- ed,” said Mr. Crisp, “‘we paid $16,000,000 for the privilege of paying.in silver and now you attempt to dery our right to do so.” (Applause.) A Pitinble Condition, “Mr. Speaker,” said he continuing, “a few days ago our condition was pitiable. The greatest nation in intelligence und trade had just applauded to the echo the President's message asserting the Ameri- can manhood and warning Xuropean powers that they would not be permitted to secure lodgment on the American con- tinent. The reverberations of that ap- plause had hardly ceased before the ad- ministration with shaking knees was hys- ically calling on Congress for help. It feared that Great Britain would take y helpless ‘ou now (Ap- ing the bond bill, he declared zhat its purpose was to impound the greenbacks and do directly what the majority dare not do directly. It was a plan to retire all the greenhacks by holding them in the tre: ury at the cost of outstanding in bearing bonds, a plan which Mr. had characterized as the “most remark- able experiment suggested in modern times.”” Coming down to the practical question whether the United States independently could maintain with free coinage the parity between gold and silver, he said that there was no difference of opinion that it could be accomplished by an international agree- m = As ed the parity fpr seventy years. If four er five countrits could maintain a parity it was concedéd,‘that law could effect the result. "| How powérfil must a state be then to effect that result. He qucigd m Jackson and Jefferson, and contemptiously said that it had re- mained for, mgdern economists to assert that to créate-demand and value by law was “a physi¢al and a metaphysical ab- surdity.” 4, ; How.{s0 Sustain Silver. + He also ‘qubted Mr. Sherman. and Mr. Carlisle (wHerhe was in the House) to the effect that,: the united action of several countries coujd sustain silver. As to the ability of therUnited States to do so alone, the example df France, a country infinitely inferior in wesdth and trade to us, must be borne in mind.f Our commerce, internal and external, exceeded that of England, Ger- many and France combined, and our re- sources were as yet undeveloped. Our pop- ulation exceeded that cf either of those countries. If our mints were opened to the free coinage of sliver the commercial value would equal jts legal value in this country, because any one having 412% an ng fact France had maintain- | grains could bring it here and get a stand- ard silver dollar's worth of commodities. In this connection he went somewhat ex- tensively into figures to show that there had beeen no overproduction of. silver. In conclusion, Mr. Crisp declared that if the United States would but assert the po- litical and financial independence of the United States prosperity would return and continue the perpetual heritage of our peo- le. Mr. Crisp spoke an hour and a half, and was liberally applauded when he sat down. Mr. Turner Against Free Coinage. Mr. Turner (Ga.) was then, at the request Y, FEBRUARY 14, 1896-TWELVE PAGES. of Mr. Dingley, recognized for an hour. Mr. Turner, in opening, said he did not pretend to be actuated by greater courage than others, nor a4 he assume wisdom be- yond that of his day and generation. He should state ions that had been slowly and carefully and he should submit them with the greatest respect for those who differed with him. He expounded ex- haustively -with copious illustrations from our hi the Gresham law, that when- ever an attempt was made to circulate con- currently two metals of different values, the cheaper metal would always drive the dearer out of circulation. He then address- ed himself to the question whether the United States independently could restore the parity of silver and gold. He would, he said, use every test known to human tri- bunal. He would summon Mexico and China, where silver was coined and was Worth its commercial value. He would summon Japan, that noble stripling of the east, just feeling her strength and the orient, just about to abandon the exploded theories of silver monometailism. On the other hand, as witnesses against this theory, he would summon the enlight- ened and cultivated countries of the world, England, Germany, Russia, Austria and rence They had all closed their mints. to ver. Proceeding, he took up the Bland-Allison and Sherman silver laws, under which $400,000,000 of silver had been coined. Yet, those laws had not imparted value to sil- ver, for its value had gone down and down ard down, until India, that great reser- veir of the white metal, had, in 1893, driven the final nail in the coffin of silver by clos- ing her mints. There were '$4,000,000,000 of silver in the world, according te the report of the di- rector of the mint. Over twenty-seven hun- dred millions had been coined by the coun- tries of the world. If a liberal use of silver or legal enactment could sustain value, why had the commercial price, in view of these facts, gone down steadily? ——_——_—o+___ HER END HASTENED. Careless Bicycling is Responsible f Miss Foster's Death. Miss Sarah B. Foster, who was knocked down and badly injured by an unknown bicyclist Monday afternoon on 11th street northwest, died yesterday, the shock, it is said, having hastened her death by anaemic Poisoning, from which she was suffering. The funeral took place this afternoon from her late home, No. 1402 Binney street, and the remains will be interred at Win- chester, Mass, Miss Foster was seventy-six years old and a relative of Frank Foster of the American Building and Loan Company, Sydney Foster, the real estate agent, and Prof. Foster of Howard University. She was returning to her home Monday and was crossing lith street near H when she was run into by a bicycle ridden by a large man with a gray beard and knocked down, remaining unconscious for more than an hour. Her right hip was badly hurt and she received cuts and contusions about the head. The rider of the wheel has not been discovered. No inquest has been held. —__ DISTRICT GOVERNMENT. Licenses Granted. The excise board late yesterday afternoon took up the held-up liquor applications and granted the following: George F. Atzel, 1219 New York avenue northwest; John Burke, northwest corner h and I streets southwest; John L. Burk- L street northwest; Eliza S. Rartel- 719 44% street southwest; Andrew Beach, 1, street northwest; John C. Bauman, 301 H street northeast; Margaret Curtin, 208 7th street northeast; John Costello, ath strect southeast; Daniel A. Duffy, 1235 7th street northwest; Carl Deutelin, 224 Lith street southwest; Thomas J. Daly, 327 Penn- sylvania avenue northwest; Ernest Dahle, 1429 North Capitol street; Jacob Diemer, D street northwest; James B. Ehrman- a) 5 E street northwest; James F. Folk,615 7th street southwest; Gregon Gerst, #0) 41% street southwest; Robert Hebsacker, th street northwest; Andrew W. Han- cock, 1234 Pernsylvania avenue northwest; Robert Hoy, 721 D street northwest; Chris topher Hager, 1309 32d street northwest; E. L. Johnson, Hotel Johnson; Dennis T. Keady, 2314 M street northwest: James J. Kelly, 2 2d street southwest; Edward Ken- nedy, 206 9th street northwest; Bernard Lieh, 400 K street northwest; Ernst Koffler, Hotel Irvington, Tenleytown; John W. Miller, 731 8th street southeast; Michael V. Moran, 3011 M street northwest; John J. Meehan, 2441 I street northwest; Herman Meheer, 306 4% street southwest; William L. Mahoney, 600 K street southeast; Charles McCarthy, 5401 M street northwest; J. McHugh, 238 2d street northwest McDonald, 1245 2 street southwest; Ed. T. McKenney, 620 11th street southwest; Pat- rick J. McDonald, 3% H_ street northeast; Thomas R. Marsha’ 223 F street north- west; David Nagle, 15 G street southeast; William F. Ochsenrieter, 1116 7th street northwest; Rodger O. Hanlon, 2326 M street northwest; Albert Pifferling, 729 Sth street south James J. Reed, 3300 M street northwest; George Reinfels, 1101 C street northeast; Matthew Ruppert, 100% 7th street northwest; Richard Ryan, 1202 2d street st; Charles A. Sautter, 502 9th street it; John J. Sullivan, 1120 Ist street northwest; Samuel Solomon, 639 D street southwest; Louis Schnebel, X33 8th street southeas' Otto Statter, 120 ae ee avenue southwest; James Stevens, 3 M street northwest; Christian Sproesser, 209 G street northwest; John A. Voegler, 407 Q street northwest; Frank Vesper, 2001 M street northwest. Permission Granted. The Howard Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore has been granted permission to do business in the District. License Granted. A first-class steam engineer's license has been granted to Richard J. M. Donald. A Removal. Private Lynch of the fire department has been removed and J. H. Davidson, jr., ap- pointed to the vacancy. Have Approved. The Commissioners have approved the changes in the system of water mains on the line of the Metropolitan railroad from 28th and P streets to the western terminus of its road, made necessary by the change in the motive power of the road. Sw os Charges Desertion. On the ground of desertion Jennie P. Pye this afternoon asked a divorce from Harry M. Pye. They were married November 20, 1890, and lived together until February 1, 1893, when, it is claimed, the husband left his wife and has remained away ever since. James T. Hunter is the attorney for Mrs. Pye. ‘A suit for divorce was also filed this af- ternoon by Matilda Foman, naming Will- iam Foman as defendant. The latter 1s charged, in addition to deserting his wife, with committing adultery with one Mamie Jessop and a number of other women. The parties were married November 25, 1681, and lived together until May 7 last, when the alleged desertion occurred. Attorney J. McDowell Carrington represents Mrs. Foman. —— Mishap to the Marion. SAN FRANCISCO, February 14.—The United States man-of-war Marion is in trouble. News has been received by pri- vate letter from the Alert, dated at Pana- ma, which stated that the Marion had put in at Callao a few days before the Alert left that port. The valve gear of the Mar- jon’s engines were broken down, and it was estimated that ten or twelve days would bé consumed in makirg the neces- sary repairs. The Marion left here several months ago, afier undergoing a thorough overhauling and extensive repairs at the Mare Island navy yard. a The District Won. On motion of Attorney Duvall, Judge Bradley today directed the jury in the trial of the suit at law te recover $300 damages brought by Gustavus A. Bonnet against the District of Columbia to return a verdict in favor of the defendant. Mr. Bonnet claimed that he was severely injured while riding a bicycle November 7 last on 13th street between B and C streets northwest, because of an obstruction in the street. There was a failure to show negligence on the part of the District, and hence the verdict as stated. as To Retire Revenue Marine Officers. ‘The House committee on commerce today agreed to report favorably the Senate bill for retiring officers of the revenue marine service similar to the present retirement system of the army and navy. - FINANCE AND TRADE Effect of Complications in the African Situation. CONCESSIONS IN FOREIGN ADVICES Money From Abroad Appears for Loaning. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, February 14.—Yesterday’s triumph for sound money, as evidenced by the vote in the House of Representatives, was completely displaced 2s an incentive in the London market by new complications in the African situation. Foreign cables, consequently, reflected conce-sions in nearly all of the more active international issues, and some sales for that account were exe- cuted during the first half hour. Although the percentage of the decline was greater than that of the advance to which yesterday's local improvement wes attributed, the results were identical. When sentiment is dominant logic is frequently disregarded, and only such incidents as are desirable are utilized in determining values. After absorbing all of the stock offered for sale during the early trading the room pro- ceeded to buy at advancing prices with as much confidence as it has exhibited at any time since the panic. The setback to tariff legislation, while wholiy undesirable, is not as final, altbcugh confidence in relief from this source is badiy shaken. The actual needs of the times may prove superior to political issues eventually and suggest prompt action. One of the most significant developments of the day was the appearance of a round amount of foreign money in the local mar- ket at easy loaning rates. Upward of half a million pounds ts offered for sixty days, with two renewal privileges. As London will supply there funds, drafts drawn on that center will have an important influ- ence on the foreign exchange market, and should force rates to recede still further from the specie point. With mcney loaring at sath: ly up to the season's estimates, the present tendency of prices is not unratural. The public de- mand has not been noticeably increased during the week, and conservative oper- ators regard this fact as worthy of more satisfactory explanations than those thus far offered. A partial reduction of values throughout the list would probably develop the real cause of this hesitancy, and is equally probable that the extent of the advance alone would be found responsivte. The defeat of the silver substitute for the bond bill, while entirely expected, inspired confidence in the stability of the national finances and contributed to the volume of the day's buying. The usual profit-taking imcident to the last full day of the week resulted in frac- tional ccncessions from the day's best level, but developed no indications of weakness. Missouri Pacific was again out of har- mony with the general market, a decline of one per cent following selling of the same character noticed earlier in the week. As- surances of amicable inside relations are abundant, but the stock yields easily to sales apparently emanating from the source of these assurances. Sugar sold up sharply on the prospects of delay in the tariff dis- cussion and the revival of rumors relative to an extra dividend of 10 per cent on the common stock. The ability to pay this amount is not questioned, but, as usual with this property, grave questions of policy are involved. The raflroad list acted well throughout the day, and while reflecting fractional de- clines from the highest level, was confi- dently purchased by commission houses and traders. Price of Gold Drops. NEW YORK, February 14.—London ad- vices state that owing to the slackened in- quiry for bar gold for export, the price has been reduced to 77 s. 9 d. —— FINANCIAL AND COMMERICIAL. The following are the opening, the highest and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today, as reported by Corson & Macartney, members New York steck exchange. Correspondents Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 80 Broadway. n. Wigh. Tow. ORs: 115 11937 10% st Last. American Sugar. Den. & K. Grande, Pfa. Dis. & Cattle Feeding. General Electric. Minoie Central. Loui x Long Island Traction. Metropolitan Traction. . Manhattan Elevated... 3S. Leather, New Jersey Central. New York Central. N.Y. & N. Eng. Cfs. . & St. Louis, era Pacific. Washington Stock Exchange. es—regular call12 o'clock m. 7 rae Rall- $2,000 at_11 2; $1500 at Capital Traction, 10 at 73. — Metropolitan road, 10 at 100, District Title, 5 at Bis, eT) ia Teonds. bid. 20-year fund Gs, gold, 108 7s, 1901, currency, 140 bal. | Wai currency, 113 bi bid, 110'asked. 3%, Miscellancous Bonts.— istered, 2-108, Metropolitan Railroad 107 bid. Metropolitan Raflroad cony. Gs, 1123; bid! 113% asked. Belt Railroad 58, 79 bid, 81 asked. Eckington Railroad 63, 98 bi Railroad Gs, 113% bid. 114 asked. Washington Gas Com- Gs, series A, 109% bid, 1 asked Wash- Iagton Gas Oooupany @s, series B, 110% bids ta Washington Gas Company conv. 120 asked. U. 8. Electric Light conv. Ss, 125 bid. Chesapeake and Poromac Telephone 5s, 98 bid, 105 asked. American Security aud ‘Trust ba, F.’ and A., 100 bid. American Seenrity and ‘Trust Ds, A. and O.. 100 bid. Washington et Company “Ist Gs, 109 bid. W: on Compaay imp. 6, 109 bid. Washington Marke: Company ext. Ga, ‘109 bid. Masonic Hall Associa tion bs, bid: Washington Light Infanrry Ist 6s, 99 bid. ‘National Rank Stocks.—Bank of W: bid, 300 asked. Bank of the Metropolitan, 280 bid, 210 asked Warmers and Mechanics’, 189° ond, 134 bid, 140 asked. Civ lombia, 128 "bid. Capital. 7 106 bid, 10814 asked. ‘Tradex . 98 bid, 100 asked. Obi, Safe it and Trust Companie: Deposit and Trust, 118 bid. 125 asked. and Trust, 118% bid, 120 asked. American Security and Trust, 14% bid, 150 asked. Washing- toa Safe Depoalt. 50 dtd t Raliroad Stocks,Capital Traction Company, 74% 7G asked. Mctropalitan, 9 Wid, 100% naked. Columbia, 55 bid. Belt, 25 asked. ‘Eckiagion, 14 Did, 30 asked. Georgetown and ‘Tennallytown, 12 Gas and Electrie Light Stocks.—Washiagton Gas, Seked. US Bleciric Tighe, 125 bi, £25! waka ed. 7. 8. » 12 2 L ‘Tasurance —Firemen's, 20 ‘bid, Stetropolttany 70. bid 3 tan, 7 Corcoran, 50 bid.” Potomac, 65 bid. i 155 asked. German-American, 160 1 - Riges, 7% bid, 6% ished.’ Peo- ‘3 13, February 14.—Flonr dull, mnchang- Bade, re usbelx. Kye steady—No. 2, 44u45 wearby; 47045 western—stoc 92,201 busbels. Hay firm—choive timothy, $16. asked Grain’ freights dail and lower—steam te Liverpool per bushel, 2ti.u2%d. Macch: Cork for orders per quurter, 2s.0d.a25.10i4 February. Sa- gar firin, unchanged. Butter and egs steady, wr changed.’ Cheese steady, unchanged. Whisky um ————— Grain and Cotton Markets. Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., 1421 F street, members New York stock exchange, correspondents Messrs. Ladenburg, Thal- mann & Co., New York. ch. Law, Close. ts 08% | 06 Wheat—May. PETITION TO CARLISLE. He is Asked to Use Hi Help Blackbern. FRANKFORT, Ky., February 14—The democratic members of the general assem- bly who have been supporting Senator Blackburn in the senatorial fight have s'gn- ed a petition requesting Secretary John G. Carlisle to usg his influence with Messrs, Weissinger, Carroll, Spoight, Violette and Walker in an endeavor to get them to vote for Mr. Blackburn on the ground that he is the democratic nominee. nence to POOR SHOW FOR HOME RULE, Mr. Dillon's Amendment Rejected tn the House of Commons. In the British house of commons yester- day Mr. Dillon's amendment to the address in reply to the speech from the throne was rejected by a vote of 276 to 16). Mr. A. J. Balfour, first lord of the treas- vry, in reply, said he did not believe home rule would cure the conditions of Ireland. Many Irish gentlemen on the opposite side of the house, he added, had gone to the United States on political lecturing tours and had represented to citizens of the United States that all Ireland demanded was a constitution similar to that of the United States of America, and in which Ireland should be represented, as if it were New York state, within the British em- pire. But there was no doubt that the fecling against England was not due to the mere fact that the Americans had one form of a free constiiution, and the English nad another. It s aroused, Mr. Balfour sat‘, by the fact that they think the national claims of Ireland are not adequately re- garded. But the state system of America, continued Mr. Balfour, has nothing w ever to do with national claims, and would never have been founded on the question of nationality. Moreover, the speaker ded, suppor- g. that America had been broken up into various states, like Austria, exch of a dif- ferent origin and different language, ant the state system of Ameri had been adopted to meet them? It would be as ficult to hold the United States of Ameri- ca as one great organization as it may be hereafter to hold the diverse elements fo! ing the Austrian empire. The only cv for this antipathy of the Irish abroad English is increasing the knowledge of the earnest attempt of Great Britain to do jusiice to Irela “I do not think this question is thorough. ly understood in America,” continued Mr. Balfour, “but more may be expected whoa they realize the sincere desire of parlia- ment to mete full and generous just Ireland. Then will bein a ch which will eventua ole mass of the English-speaking com- munity, and the last cause of dissension een the great communities will be re- moved once and forever. Mr. M. Healy, anti-Parnellite mem- ber for North Louth, said that Ireland was as proud to appeal to the irish in Ameri- ca as England was to appeal te the Anglo- Sax: rT colonies. Continuing, Mr. Healy said fluence of the Irish in the s which led President ue his famous message on jan question. in balievea the Venezu Grand Jury Indictments. The grand jury this afternoon reported indictments as follows: Albert Colbert, alias Frederick Colbert, assault with intent to kill Millard F, Holland December 23 lasi; William Contee and Mary Tillman, adul- tery; Pinkney Talbert, adultery with Jane Brown; Thomas Danicls and James Win- field, housebreaking January 12 at the res- idence of William S. Washburn; Edward Nailor, housebreaking, January 8, at the the woodshed of rabe Silvers, and Pardneei; Naiior, n entering the entering the store of James eWilington and housebreaking, January store of William F. Auth. ‘he charges of adultery against Henry Quander, Julia Be yman, George Phoenix, Cassie Holden, alias Thomas, Lloyd Evidence Lacking. By direction of Judge Cole a verdict in favor of the defenadtn was today returned in the case brought by Theodore F. Wilson against John I. Hall to recover ow dam- ages for alleged false ar It was claimed that Jaly 1 Hall, a store- keeper, accused Wilson's wife of obtai ins $3 worth of goods under false pre- tenses. A failure lo procure thenecessary evidence resulted in the ver stated. ——_—-—-— Capt. Tanner's Lecture. ‘The twelfth lecture of the highly interest- ing semi-monthly course of the National Geographic Society will be delivered this evening at Metzerott Hall. The subject will be “From Atlantic to Pacific on Board the Albatross, via Strait of Magellan and Galapagos Islands.” The iecturer, Capt. Z L. Tanner, is well known in this city by reason of his long connection with the United States commis- sion of fish and fisheries. a The Spitzer Case. Israel Spitzer, the young man who was held for the grand jury several weeks ago on a charge of embezzling a small amount vf money from 8. Friedlander, bis em- ployer, was given another hearing in Judge Miller’s court last. evening. He was again held for the grond jury, but as he was al- ready under bond, Judge Miller took his personal bonds. ——__—. His Will Filed. The will of the late Leon Dessez, dated August 5, 1874, was filed this afternoon for probate. All the property of the deceased is left to his wife, Mina, who Is also named as executrix. The will contains a request that the widow take such action as she considers best in regard to the children of the couple —_—— Returned From Atlanta. One of the public attractions of the city, the models of the latest additions to our navy, are returned from the Atlanta exposi- tion, where they formed part of the naval exhibit, and are being reinstated in thett former places in the corridors of the Navy Department.