Evening Star Newspaper, April 8, 1896, Page 11

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Al druggists or sent direct. A CHEMICAL & MFG. CO., La Crosse, “od Bostony, Sass. aps Against the Sunday Rest Bill. To the Eiitor of The Evening Star: I zope you will permit me, through your valued paver, to s+y a few words more in reference to the proposed Sunday law for the District. Again, 1 and a multitude of oth are compelled to dissent from the views presented by the Rev. Dr. El- liott. JI am pleased to know that the gen- tleman agrees with me on so many points presented in my former letter. I take it that he agrees with me on all points net controverted. But how he can find in the expression “Sundays excepted” a recognition of Sunday, and a precedent for enacting Sunday laws, is rather difficult to coneeive. The Constitution nowhere sxys the President shall rest on Sunday, nor does it say that Concress may enact that the President shall rest on Sunday, nor that he shall not sign any bill on Sunday, but simply in the count of days Sunday shall be a dies non. Congress has no more # At to require that any citizen shall dis- a rel itution than to make religious institution. - in accordance with the great principle of religious freedom on ae jen inted freedom, in express terms, to ‘© the only religious institution in- din this question, if he was so dis- There is a wide difference between legislating that ev man shall a Sabbath and leaving him free to ‘jo that which may te, and is with many, a matter of faith. The Declaration of {1 that men have inalien governments are insti its. not to invade them. % that framed the Cons fect right to ac ‘pene right: mee asserts and that secure these The conven- jot_ obligate Ce compel all men to follow its cxample serving the day. The individual mem- itution and regard it but it would have been r them to have enforced their actice upon the people of the suificient answer to Dr. Elliott's ion as to whether the District gov- ment did enact sectarian laws to that no human government is infalli- a laws have been enacted, even in 1 of liberty, that have resulted in ch in men and the ever, ex- they had violated the religious ut of the people that had been enacted into law. The chief object of the pending bill is to <ress committed in favor of the re- ent of the people as regards Sunda: 1 would mn y institution. Let us see how this affect the liberty of the whole After ike prohibitions of the ‘ond section provides that it shall se to a prosecution for Servile labor on the first day of the week that the defendant uniformly keeps another day of the week as a day of rest. There is no guarantee that the man who observes anoth U not be arrested on Sun- Monday, and then urt to make a de- is it in harmony with jean citizens and Chris- be subjected to arrest and nment, and be compelled to prove ey observe another Sabbath, in order €xempt from the operations of a re- ous law? And also “that the labor com- done in such a manner as not to interrupt er disturb other persons in the obse of the first day of the w When people have will be disturbed, ad @ low in thelr favor thi if they have to turn detective and go prying into windows to see if they cannot find some thing to disturb them, as several gentle- have reported having done the last few past. This is not the worst feature use, for there is no provision Sund: us convictions. If he cannot set up provided for in the bill, he must ubmit and keen the religious day, v he will or rot. There is no liberty Is monopoly. “He must not be dis- : the state must protect us in every s the spirit of this measure. Iam e that the God-given inalienable. ious and only religious, lusively that Congress is posi- y the first amendment to = at all to do with it, for that tent of the first amendment is from the following consideration: Amid the discussion and the interesting and important events that immediately preceded and, in fact, led up to the making of the Constitution as it is as respects religion, Mee Pitia question was widely discussed, anc ames Madison published these weighty “We hold it for a fundamental and fable truth that religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the man- ner of «lischarging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence. The religion, then, of every man Must be left to the ‘conviction and con- science of every man, and It is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dic- tate.” or these and other reasons we pro- test against the proposed District Sunday dill. ALLEN MOON. —— GRAPHOPHONE PATENTS SUSTAINED The Reproduction of Sounds Merely is Not Open to the World. In the case of the American Graphophone Company of Washington agt. Amet, Judge Gresscup, in the United States circuit court for the northern District of Illinois, has handed down a decision sustaining the graphophone patents and granting a per- petual injunction against Edward H. Amet of Waukegan, IL, and ordering an ac- counting of his profits and the Grapho- pkone Company's damages. Ameét has been making and selling a machine for the pur- pese of reproducing graphophone records, and claimed that he was hot infringing be- cause he did not make cylinders or sound records. but merely reproduced them, and that the art to this extent was open to the World, ‘The case was argued last month by Mr. Phijip Mauro of Washingion for the Graphophone Company. Se To Inspect Soldiers’ Homes. Representative Blue of Kansas has in- troduced a resolution to appoint a commit- tee of five members to examine and report upen the workings and management of national homes for disabled volunteer sol- diers. The western branch is especially named in this connection. The committee is also directed pr upon the best inanner of disposing of funds appropriated fcr these institutions. Five thousand dol- Jars is appropriated for the expenses of the committee. Sweet ts eegtty eareeiee Se property named, ‘or the man or woman who has: THE CITY'S WASTE) 4#MY AND NAVY VACANCES! RACE TRACK MORALS The East Washington. Oitisons’ An- sociation Considering the Subject, TELEPHONES, BRIDGES, TAXES, PARKS Proposition to Secure Public Lands for Benefit of District Schools. SUNDRY MATTERS Owing to the absence of President Bab- sen, Dr. S. S. Yoder occupied the chair at the regular monthly meeting of the East Washington Citizens’ Association last n'ght. Dr. Yoder detaiied the work of the ex- ecutive committee in connection with the effort of the association to secure the passage of the bill to charter the Home Telephone Company. Mr. J. D. Croissant, chairman of the committee on railroads, spoke of the prog- ress that had been made on the project to throw a bridge over Massachusetts avenue. The bill nad been returned from the Sec- retary of War with the recommendation that en appropriation of $3,000 be made to make the preliminary surveys for the bridge, together with an estimate of the cost of the bridge. Assessment and Equalization. Mr. M. I. Weller, as chairman of the committee on assessments, stated that the board of equalization was now considering appeals from the present assessment, and advised all who had complaints to make their appeals before the end of May. He referred to the naming of the reclaimed flats. The association should consider the propriety of naming these parks. He thought one should be named the Potomac Park and the other the Anacostia Park. The name Riverside Park, he under- stood, was ambiguous. It did not give the location of either park. He made a motion in support of bis remarks, which was adopted and referred to the commit- tee on parks and spaces. School Lands. Robert F. Hill, from the committee on schools, reported the action of the commit- tee upon the resolution in reference to ve- curing for the benefit of our public schools a just and equitable proportion of sections 16 and 36 of the House bill 79, relating to the appropriation of public lands for school purposes, so as to include the District of Columbia. The report unanimously approv- ed the resolution, with a view of applying the proceeds exclusively to the extension of manual training in this District, and, if practicable, the establishment of’ schools of technology. i A committee, composed of W. C. Dodge and Dr. L. J. Battle, was appointed to further the passage of the amendment. Destroying Dumpage. Dr. Yoder, chairman of the committee on health, police and charities, made the fol- report: “We approv2 and heartily commend the tien of the honorable Commissioners of the District in recommending to Congress that a sufficient appropriation be made to desirsy the combustible waste of the city. The present method of disposing of the city's dumpage is, in our judgment, a fruit- ful source of disease, and a standing men- ace to the health and welfare of this com- munity. This material, consisting of the refuse frem stores and markets, old rags, waste Laper and much of the offensive matter incident to domestic iife in a great Metropolis, is now being deposited upon squares in order to bring lots which are beicw grads up to a el with the Sur- rour ding property. This stratum of filth is i frequently twenty feet in thickness, and when the wail paper and plaster from houses that have undergone , renovation from contagious and other diseases—diph- theria, scarlet fever, conzumption, etc added to the already disease- breeding pi the danger to public health is large! cre. 8, uy in- Health Office Statement. “As an indication of the baleful influence arising from the deposit of the city’s dump- ag+ in populated portions of the city, we invite attention to the foliowing statement, prepared from the record of the health de- partment: “There w. extensive mping grounds West Wash- ington, in years past. The two first have since been covered with buildings, and the latter squares partially built upon. Dur- ing five years there occurred two hundred and five deaths on square 633, end the im- mediately neighboring squares, from the ing diseases: Diphtheria, 32; typhoid 3; consumption, 64; and pneumonia ite lung diseasi 66. In the same time, and around square 778, one hun- dred and fcrty-seven deaths were from dipatheria, typhoid fever, consumption and pneumonia: And in the same time, on the cther two squares in Georgetown and im- mediate vicinity, there broke out an epi- demic of htheria, while the ‘dump” was in full operation, causing seventy-two deaths from that disease, and two hundred and nine deaths from typhoid fever, con- sumption and pneumonia, amounting in all to two hundred and eighty-one. In the above cited caseg the morcality exceeds the average and rcrmal number by from 100 to 300 per cent. In the Georgetown squares, the normal number of deaths should not have been ov2r seventy-five in the territory embraced in the statement, instead of two huncred end eighty-one. Dwellings on Made Land. “Frovision has been made in most all the cities of the United States for the sanitary disposal of combustible waste, and your committee is of opinion that the dumping of this offensive and disease-breeding ma- terial within the city limits 1s in violation of one of the oldest and most important sanitary prirciples, and that its immediate abandonment is impecatively demanded in ths interest of public heal “The practice of depositing the city’s waste upon lards which are afterward to be used for dwellings or streets is a men- ac> to the future sanitary condition of the city, and the public comfort, health and safety demand the aba:ement of this sys- tem of disposal. “We approve the recommendation of the Commissioners that the material should be burned. This method of disposal is final, it 1s safest ani best, and meets all the requirements desired ‘by this community, whose health and comfort is now endanger- ed by the present method of disposal uppn vacant lots and unimproved sgreets.” ——.__ Promoted From the Ranks. The assignments of the following-named second lieutenants, promoted from non- commissioned officers, to regiments have been announced: Second Lieutenant Joseph Drips, to the eighth infantry, company K, Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming. Second Lieutenant William F. Creary, to the second infantry, company H, Fort Omaha, Nebraska. > Second Lieutenant Edward T. Hartmann, to the fifteenth infantry, company I, Fort Sheridan, Ilirois. Second Lieutenant Howard W. French, to the twenty-fifth infantry, company A, Fort Custer, Montana. ee Prospective Promotions. The following-named officers of the corps of engineers have been ordered to report to Colonel Henry M. Robert, corps of en- gineers, president of the examining board | at the Army building, New York city, for examination as to their fitness for pro- motion: Captains Smith S. Leach, Dan C. Kingman and William M. Black, and Lie tenants William E. Craighill, Henry C. Newcomer, James B. Cavanaugh and James P. Jervey. ————o—____ Amending the Indian Depredation Act Senator Mitchell of Oregon has introduced @ bill to amend the Indian depredation act to meet the objections: of the Supteme Court as pointed out in recent decisions. The amendment makes the act apply to in- habitants as well as to citizens of the Unit- ed States, and defines the term “in amity” to apmy to any tribe which had previously to the depredation entered into treaty of peace with the United States. But Few in One Service and ax Unusually Large Humber in the Other. Naval Cadets Will All Find Places, While West Pointers Will Have te Wait for Appointments. There will probably be more vacancies in the line and staff of the navy this year than Braduates from the Naval Academy to ‘fill them. Such a condition of affairs is almost unprecedented. Ordinarily it has been found impossible to provide for the entire graduating class, and the excess graduates have been dropped from the service. The unusual number of vacancies this year ia due in a measure to unexpected retirements of several young officers on account of phys- {cal disabilities. At present there are nineteen vacancies in the line, twenty-five in the engineer corps and one in the marine corps. All of these will eventually fall to Annapolis graduates, and what ts left over from this class wil! go over to the next. Besides these places, which can be filled only by graduates, there are eleven vacancies in the medical corps of the service for which there is no compe- tition. The coming class numbers thirty-three, but if the usual percentage is adhered to Probably three or four will fail either men- tally or physically, so that on July 1 it is not probable that more than thirty at the outside will be qualified for commissions. A Contrary State of Affairs. A directly contrary state of affairs exists in the army. Instead of there being surplus vacancies for the graduates of the Military Academy, there will be places for barely a dozen out of a class of seventy-two. No such extraordinary condition has prevailed in the army since the establishment of the Military Academy. Generally at this season there are at least thirty or forty vacancies in all branches of the army, but today the War Department reports but five, three of which are in the infantry and two in the cavalry. Not a vacancy exists in the ar- tillery, nor one in the engineers, and few are likely to occur before June 30. Every graduate will eventually get a com- mission in the army, however long he may have to wait for it. Such is the law. When there are no vacancies, the graduates are appointed additional second lieutenants and hold that rank until they can be appointed to the regular establishment. Their pay and Tank continues just the same and they suf- fer no hardships from being temporarily de- Prived of actual commissions. Within the Next three months retirements will occur which may possibJy bring the total number of vacancies to twelve, and some few of- ficers may be physically disqualified, which may extend the list to fifteen. The depart- ment now expects, however, to have at least fifty odd cadets on its hands for whom there are no vacancies, and it is probable every be immediately assigned as “‘addi- Among the line officers soon to retire is Colonel Gordon, sixth cavalry, commanding the cavalry post at Fort Myer, Va., and Colonel Ciosson, fourth artillery, command- ing the posts at Washington and the de- tached compan‘es at Fort McHenry. - AS PASSED BY THE SENATE. Amendments Made to the Post Office Appropriation Bill. The Senate yesterday afternoon passed the post office appropriction bill, with the New Zealand subsidy ciause retained and the post office consolidation provision as Proposed by Mr. Wolcott rejected. The vot2 on the latter proposition was taken shortly before 3:30 o'clock, the hour set for the clos: of the geueral debate, and restited in an overwhelming majority in favor of tabling the amendment. The ayes were forty-eight and the nays seven. These voting in the negative on Mr. son’s motion to table were Senators ler, Gray, Hcar, Lodge, Vilas, Wetmore and Wolcott. ‘This amendment provided “that whenever, by order of the Postmaster General, any post office is consolidated with any offic, so as to become a station or substation of the same, the salary of the superintendent or clerk in charge of such station cr substation may then be paid out of the appropriation.” A Five-Mile Limit. Mr. Pasco offered an amendment in these words: “That nothing herein contained shall authoriz2 the establishment or main- tetiance of atiy station, substation or brarch post office beyond five miles outside of the limits of any city or town.” This amendment Was accepted, 36 to 25. All of those who voted in behalf of Mr. Wolcott's ar endment voted against this one. Mr. Butler offered an amendment setting aside a fund of $59,000 to defray the ex- Perses of experiments in rural free de- livery, and this was carried, 27 to 25. There were no party lines drawn on this vote. Tre provision for special mail services from San Francisco to Australia and New Zeaisnd by way of Honolulu was accept- ed, 22 to 21. The regative votes were cast by Sena- tors Bacon, Bate, Blackburn, Chiltoa, Cockrell, George, Gorman, Gray, Harris, Hill, Jones (Ark.), Lindsay, Martin, Mills, Turpie, Vesi, Vilas and Mitchell,’ demo- crats; Butler and Peffer, populists, and Pettigrew, republican. The Printing of Stamps. Senator Hawley offered an amendment providirg that the bureau of engraving and pri ting skould not be allowed in the future to do the work of printing the postage stamps, but this was ruled out on a point of order that it changed existing law. Mr. Vilas moved to strike out the pro- vision for sepecial mail facilities between Boston and New Orleans, and this motion was defeated 13 to 80. He next moved to reduce the amount to be paid for this serv- ice from $196,614.22 to $175,000, and this was also defeated, 19 to 33. This ended the efforts to amend the bill, and it was then passed without division, Mr. Peffer endeavored to obtain unanimous conser t for the fixing of a time when his resolution providing for an investigation of the poad sales should be considered, but Mr. Hill objected to “farming out the time of the Senate so far in advance.” Mr. Pettigrew then gave notice that he should next call up the Indian appropriation bill, and at 5:47 o'clock the’ Senate adjourned. THE REVIVED HARRISON BooM. Citgo Indiana Men iu Congress Say They Are Not Responsible for It. Indications are that the Indiana men in Congress have received warning not to be led into committing themselves to a re- vival of the Harrison boom. Before Gen. Harrison wrote his letter declining to be a candidate, the entire delegation from In- diana, with the exception of Johnson, were enthusiastic Harrison men, and expressed the opinion that he would surely be nomi- nated. They were reluctant to give him up as a candidate, and a few of them for a day or two insisted upon regarding the declination as not final. Their minds were relieved from any possible doubt on the subject by the assurance that no friend of Gen. Harrison could doubt his sincerity. Every time Gen. Harrigon’s name has been menticned since it has met with a response in the hearts of the Indiana delegation, and the recent talk of him had evidently begun to inspire the hope with some of them that the nomination might be forced upon him. Now, however, they have stif- fened up again, and say that the friends of Gen. Harrisén are not responsible for the attempt to drag him into the question again, and that no friend of his will sanc- tion it. Some of the Indiana men go further than this, and say that it is merely an attempt to injure McKinley. 2+ The Agricultural Appropriation. The conferees of the two houses of Con- gress yesterday afternoon reached an agree- ment on the agricultural appropriatioh bill, @Md the report was presented to the Sen- ate. The bill as agreed upon appropriates $8,302,792, or about $1,000 less than last seasion’s bill carried. The amendments of the Senate, which were accepted by the House conferees, relate in the main to the organizations of the different divisions of the Agricultural Department. The Senate receded from its amendment appropriating 65,000 for reprinting the books on diseases of the horse and on cattle and dairy farm- ing, and the House accepted the amend- ment of the Senate striking out the pro- vision for the organization of the seed di- vision of the department. -s What Was Said? Yesterday to the Senate District Committee, MESS OPPORETION -70 HE PENDING BILL cece ee Fr: Representatives of Jockey Clubs Ex. plain Its°Provisions. THE NEW *YORK GAW In the hearing before the Senate District committee yesterday afternoon on the rac- ing commission bill, Rev. Mr. Crafts, in op- position to the bill, made the first speech. He stated that it had been expected that a delegation would attend from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, but that suffi- clent notice had not been given. He also referred the committee to the protest of the Young Men’s Christian Association of the District recently filed with the House committee. Mr. Crafts said that he repre- sented, in an unofticial sense, the governor of Virginia, with whom he spent consider- able time in the morning. He declared that Governor O’Ferrall was greatly interested in the movement to prevent gambling tn the District, and had expressed the hope that the amendments to the bill proposed by the ministers would be adopted. Mr. Crafts then stated that the object of the protesting ministers and others inter- ested with them was that there should he stricken from the bill all reference to bets, stakes, wagers, and other forms of gain- Ing. one whole issue, he sald, was whether the perambulating bookmaker, copie] by the New York lawmakers, with other evils, from the English system of gambling, should be permitted by this bill. He de- clared that the laws could not be made too strict, and said that the ministers were willing to have the made as strict as pos- sible in the direction of eliminating all forms of gambling. The friends of the bill, he asserted, had endeavored to make it appear that he was representing De Lacey and other New York racing men, and he challenged Mr. Auer- bach, on behalf of the racing interests of the District, to produce any proof of his connection with the racing interests of New York, or any other interest that was not antagonistic to all forms of gambling. He challenged any one to claim and prove that the New York system does not relax the laws against gambling. The frienis of the bill, he said, assert that this measure will preserve the existing law, and if they are sincere they stould agree to strike out ail reference to stakes, tets, etc. The history of race-track legislation, Mr. Crafts went on, shows that all propositions that come from race-track men must be re- garded with suspicion, and he asked the committee to strike out the three closing sections of the bill. Mr. Crafts circulated among the commit- tee copies of The Star of a recent issue containing Mr. Birney’s statement of the law of 1883, as outlined by the decision of the Court of Appeais, and he declared it was exceedingly dangerous to substitute for the definition of bookmaking given by the courts in that decigion the loose defini- tion proposed by the pending bill which, he pointed cut, permitted the perambulating | bookmaker, such as’ thé New York law now | recognizes and allows. Mr. Crafts declared that the law of 1801 prohibiting bookmak- ing within the mile limit was waste paper as far as it related te the prohibition of gambiing in the District. Mr. Comstock’s Address. Mr. Anthony Comstoek, for the National Soctety for the Suppression of Vice, next addressed the committee. He said he had followed the doings .of/the race track gam- blers in and around New York for seventeen years, and was quite . familiar with their methods in endeavoring to avold the and to break down public mora serted that the ninfh secti: Hf mitted any coi A gambler to do business as a bookmakei intimated that the measure, 2s was unconstitutional. He gave the suggestion that it might be tested later on this point, if it shonid be- come a law. Mr. Charles Lyman, representing the Washington presbyt took the ground that the first thing required in connection with any proposed new iegisla:ion was to show that it was necded. Was there any public benefit to be derived therefrom was a pertinent question, and the burden of proof was on the advocates of the bill to show that there was an existing necessity for its enactment. The advocates of the pending bill had not shown this fact, and he did not believe they could demonstrate {t to the satisfaction of the committee. The people of the District, Mr. Lyman said, con- sidered the present law as thoroughly ade- quate, and there was no need of its change. For the Jockey Club. Mr. Sam’l Maddox, attorney for the Wesh- ington Jockey Club, opened for the friends of the measure. He agreed that the subject of the public morals ought to meet the care- ful consideration of the committee. ‘The bill was intended to restrict gambling. Mr. Maddox read it section by section, and ex- plained its provisions. When he reached that provision where reference is made to the word “stake” Mr. McMillan asked Mr. Maddox if that could not be cut off, as there had been serious objection to it by Mr. Crafts and others. Mr. S. S. Howland, president of the Wash- ington Jockey Club, explained that a “stake” was a purse made up for a futurity race when the colts were folled; that was the understcod meaning of the word by racing people, and if some other term were used it would not be understood, and would cause useless confusion. Private Betting. Mr. Pritchard asked if there was any ob- jection to a penalty against private betting. Mr. Maddox replied that private betting could not be reached by any law, and such a law was, therefore, useless. He called at- tention to the fact that all’ race courses must be licensed by the Commissioners, who had them completely under their control. For that reason there could be no bad rac- ing. The eighth section, he declared, did rot prohibit all betting except such as was allowed by the act, but it prohibited all rac- ing except such as was allowed by the act, and this removed the objection made by Mr. Crafts. The ninth section, he said, explained in the most specific way what bookmaking was, as it is not explained in any existing law, and it was, he declared, an improve- ment on the present law. He said he was willing to have the bill amended in several particulars, the most important of which Was one that provides a penalty of one year and a fine of not to exceed $100 for Genviction of gambling under the act. Mr. laddox showed thé committee how they did not prohibit betting: Experiences, im:New York. Mr. Joseph Auerbath of New York, attor- ney for the New York: Jockey Club, said that the purpose of:the bill was to banish beokmaking from tracks and bring about reputable racing. The present bill had been modeled after the ‘Gray-Percy bill, which was passed by the Néw York legislature and approved by Gév. Morton. Mr. Auerbach told the committee how racing had fallen finté disrepute in New York until the legisiature rose in revolt and passed a constitutional amendment. Under this amendmentthe question wheth- er it was the intention to absolutely wipe out horse racing was tested, and the courts held that such was not the case. Under that decision the New York act was passed as representing the views of the real sportsmen and lovers of decent racing. Mr. Gallinger asked if the advocates of the bill would object to adding to the ninth section a clause to prohibit the making of records or registers of bets under any pre- tense whatever. Three or four of those present attempted to answer the question at one time, and the replies were not very distinct, but the impression was gained that the friends of the bill would not seri- ously object, although they were not en- thusiastic. To Encourage Reputable Racing. Mr. Howland said that he had seen rao- ing stamped out under the laws here be- cause of its disreputable character and, being a lover of good racing, thought a good track ought to be maintained in the District. He told some of his friends in - New York of the excellent opportunity racing’ ts, and to revive which gentlemen f pleasure. These men Mr. Auerbach stated that if racing was Permitted to become disreputable the Com- missioners would stop it, and the men who had invested their money would lose it. ——. —_ HE 18 NOT A KING KILLER. Mr. Schyke Disposes of a Large Fairy Story. - Mr. H. W. Schyke of 5535 Indiana avenue, Chicago, who, it was alleged, had sailed from Philadelphia in the steamship Bel- genland for Liverpcol, on his way to Rus- sia, is in Washington. It was stated that while known tn Chicago as Schyke, his reat name was Gregor Krasnow, and that he was a Russian n'hilist, alleged to have been implicated in the plot that resulted in the assassination of Alexander II, Czar of Russ!a. It was further asserted that he had been pardoned recently In considera- tion of giving information as to others concerned in the plot, and that a fortune of 6,000,000 roubles awaited him in Russia. Mr. Schyke was very much eurprised at the reports, and sald: “I know of no such men as Gregor Kresnow, and have no idea how any ote came to make such a mistake as to my identity. I have lived in Chicago since 188, have always been a good, law- abiding citizen, am a member of Dearvorn fayette Chapter of Masons and never have belonged to any Russian society whatever. I pcsitivcly never knew ther2 was any such thing as Russian socie- ties in this country, and know only two Russians in Chicago. No Russ‘an patriotic Societies have ever alded me In any way, nor am I a king killer. If any one is trav- eling under my name it is a surprise to me, and of such a person as Krasnow I never heard, nor any such circumstances as are related concerning him. My business is that of a clothing salesman, and I went to New York and Baltimore to see business houses there, and, never having been in the national capital, came tc Was‘iington to see the city, and here heard of the Kras- now publication.” ——____-e AIDING THE COLORED PEOPLE. Proposition to Help the Aged and In- firm and to Educate the Young. Mr. Burrell has introduced a bill in the House “to aid the colored people of the south.” It provides that all money and ac- counts held by the United States govern- ment derived from the crops of cotton, to- bacco and other produce which were cap- tured during the late war, from 1861 to 1865, be appropriated for the purpase of aiding the aged and infirm, those who were slaves, and to ald in the education of the youth, including industrial and primary, schools in the poor school districts through- out the south: Provided, That no school now existing which has been running for seven months shall receive any aid from this fund uatil all the schools are made the same proportion as to the number of school months, with the exception of in- dustrial schools: Provided further, That no school that is sectarian shall receive any aid from this fund. Sec. 2. That one-half of the amount ap- propriated shall be for the aged and intirm, to be held in the treasury of the United States, to be distributed through the as- sociation known as the Home for Aged and Intirm Colored People and other similar associations now existing, or that may hereafter be organized: Provided, That ail such associations receiving any aid shall be non-sectarian, and that the proportion of this fund to be distributed for educational purposes will be distributed through the state board of education in each state; and that the Attorney General of the United States and the Secretary of War and the cretary of the Treasury shall constitute poard, which shall have power to portion and distribute this fund among ihe states: Provided further, That this shall only be distributed among the states ard territories where there were slaves in iSS1. Sec. 3. That the Attorney General shail have certified that the organization and constitution of the association afford rea- sonable security that the money hereoy ap- propriated will be fully, wisely and eco- nomically expended for the purpose above set forth, and that the associations and state boards of education shall make re- ports of all their receipts and expenditures to the Secretary of the Treasur; him communicated to Congres Secretary shall have and exercise the visi- torial powers over all associations and the expenditures of this fund. AUTOMATIC MALL BOX WATCH. A Scheme to Keep Tab on Letter Col- lectors. “There are 1,400 men in all parts of the country,” sald Postmaster Willett, this af- ternoon, “all lying awake nights trying to think of something to make the life of mail carriers a little more pleasant. Everybody is solicitous about the spry man in gray. They look after his mora) as well as his physical well-being. The latest thing is thig automatic device to keep tab on the car- riers, who collect mail from the letier box- es. Here Mr. Willett showed a bright red mail box with 4 little black square of iron bolted on the upper right corner of its front. In this black square was a rarrow slot half an inch wide. “That is the instrument of torture,” con- tinued Mr. Willett. “It Is an automatic conscience. Do you see this little book of slips? Well, there are seventy-five or a hundred of them. Slip one in that slot. Now iift the hasp and open the door. Let go of the little book. You don’t need to hold it. It'll stay there all right. Use both hands to take out your Imaginary bunch of letters, if you want to. Now shut her up again. Pull out your little book slip. Eh? What's that? ‘F F 24! Double F-21! “Well, the ‘F F" stands for the man. The ‘2% is the number of that box. D'ye see the idea? When F F comes into the office he turns that iittle book over to his chief, who, in turn, gives it to a clerk who goes through it to see if he has skipped a box. “Talk about your watchmen’s clocks and all that! This scheme simply beats every- thing. We're going to have ‘em on every route. Got ’em now on two, and are mak- ing a test for the department, They're O. K! They'll be put im all over the country.” oo Inquiry Into the Maybrick Case. |. A resolution was introduced in the House yesterday by Representative Underwood of Alabama calling upon the Secretary of State for information in regard to Mrs. Maybrick, who is imprisoned in England vpon a charge of poisoning. The Secretary is directed to transmit to the House all the information in the possession of the depart- ment in regard to her imprisonment and to state what steps have been taken by our government to secure her liberation or an inquiry by the government of Great Britain into the merits of the case in which she was condemned. Mrs. Maybrick was for- merly a resident of Mobile, Ala. For Work on the Library Building. Mr. Allen has reported a bili from the committee on claims favorably for the re- lef of Stout, Hall & Bangs of Maine, who want pay for losses by the annulment of their contract of April 21, 1888, for stone for the walls of the sub-basement of the new Congressional Library building. At the same time he offered an amendment to the general deficiency appropriation bill. The amount appropriated by the amend- ment is $31,802.52. The claimants, W. H. B. Stout, Cyrus J. Hall and Isaac 8. Bangs, brought suit eighteen months ago against the Secretary of the Interior, asking that a mandamus issue compelling him to pay their claim. The courts decided that their only remedy was through Congress. ——-e—___ To Revise Consular Regulations. Frank C. Partridge of Rutland, Vt., for- merly solicitor of the Department of State and minister to Colombia, has been retained by the Secretary of State to prepare the revision of the United States consular regu- lations provided for by Congress. —_—___+-e-. Consul of Guatemala. The President has recognized James F. Buckner, jr., as honorary consul of Guate- mala at Louisville, Ky. Free Silver WEWiLLSENDO FREE ~ One = Scarf Pin { so sno FREE, s Link Steve Buttons { WE witt ai ol For 22 Coupons; : 2 Ooupons and 13 ota For 30 Coupons; 2 Coupons and 80 ota, ‘You will find one coupon inside each 2 ounce beg, and two coupons inside each 4 ounce beg of BLACKWELL'S GENUINE DURHAM TOBACCO. SENC COUPONS WITH NAME anv ADDRESS TO BLACKWELL'S DURHAM TOBACCO CO., DURHAM, N.C. Buy a bag of this Celebrated Smoking Tobacco, and read the coupon, which givesa list of other premiums and how to get them. 2 CENT STAMPS ACCEPTED. CHICAGO’S LOCAL ELECTION. Republicans Have Twenty Out of Thirty-Five Aldermen. Out cf thirty-five aldermen, the republii- cans yesterday at Chicago elected twenty, the democrats thirteen, and two independ- ents were chosen. There are thirty-four wards in the city, but two aldermen were chosen in the tenth, there being a vacancy in that ward. The principal feature of the election was the effort of the reform element to down a number of the aldermen. The reformers were successful with a ma- jority of the men they were after, but they failed to secure three or four bright par- ticular scalps they desired. Party lines were not strong in a number of the wards, and the reform movement had much weight. The fight on the town officers was in all of the towns a straight party issue, and the republican Were uniformly successful, carrying all the town offices by majorities ranging from 2,000 to 4,000. The election was very quiet, save in the first and ninetcenth wards, where there were a number of fights and several shoot- ing affrays, nobody, however, being seri- ously injured. Not over twenty arrests were made during the day. ‘The returns from the aldermanic contests show that the republicans have on the total vote carried the city by a majority of about Full returns from the first and nineteenth wards in which most of the fighting oc- curred, show that twenty-six.men were laid out in one way or another during the day. The great majority of these were not in- jured badly, and none of them fatally. The man hurt the most was Joseph Tregan, who was shot in the ankle. At 11 o'clock returns from thirty-five towns throughout the state showed the re- publicans successful in thirty, the demo- crats In three, and split tickets elected in two. The vote was entirely on city and town officers, and there was no special issue in any part of the state to call out a strict party vote. All of the voting was on local matters. Political Notes. Returns from the special congressional election held in the eleventh district of Texas yesterday to elect a successor to the late Corgressman W. H. Crain indicate the election of Kleberg, democrat. The other candidates are Lawher, populist, and Brew- ster, republican. Kleberg is for the gold standard. Nebraska municipal yesterday. A heavy vote was polied, even elections occurred in the face of heavy rains. A general dis- | position was manifested to disregard party lines. The issue was high license, and in a tajority of cases was carried. Martin Pattison, the republican candidate, and a Mesaba iron maker, is elected mayor of West Superior, Wis., by about 600 ma- jerity, He succeeds to the office from which Rev. C. S. Starkweather was deposed by im- peachment, The republicans have again carried Mil- waukee by an average plurality for the en- tire city ticket of probebly 4,000. At mid- right returns had been received from more than one-haif of the 124 voting precincts in the city, and the result wz established to leave no room for doubt that the entire city ticket was elected. The republican convention for the first ccngressional district of Kentucky yester- day elected J. H. Tapley and W. H. Yandel as delegates to the St. Louis convention, and instructed them for Bradley. Senator Allen of Nebraska has addressed a letter to Gov. Holcomb declining to be a candidate on the populist ticket for presi- dential honors. Republican conventions to select delegates to state and congressional district conven- tions were held in Carroll, Coffee, Gibson, Sumner, Henderson, Weakley, » Campbe! Sullivan, Blount, Sevier, Cocke, Monroe, Anderson, Carter, Greene and Washington counties of Tennessee Monday. All indorsed McKinley and selected McKinley delegates to state and district conventions. H. C. Evans was indorsed by some for governor, and by nearly all the conventions for dele- gate from the state at large. The Webster faction of the republican party held a state convention at Columbia, S. C., yesterday. All of the delegates were rcgroes, except fifteen white men, who have been known in republican politics in the state ever since the war. The convention was overwhelmingly for McKinley, and the four delegates-at-large were instructed to vote for him, first, last and all the time. The delegates are: Robert Smalls and W. D. Crum, colored; T. B. Johnston and E. A. Webster, white. Charles B. 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Washington Chemical Company, 1405 14th st., Wesbingten, D.C. USE NATROLITHIC SALTS FOR CONSTIPATION. ftictently well | Potomec, Va., J. W. Norris, and Quantico, Md., H. S. Johnson. Rev. Dr. W. 8. Hammond goes from A}- nutt Memorial Church,Baltimore, to George- town, D. C., where he succeeds Rev. W. it. Graham, who goes to Westminster, suc- ceeding Rev. A. D. Melvin. ey Received. The report of the conference steward pre- sented a statement of the money received during the year, as follows: For the Bible Society, $443; for the Marviand Tract So- ciety, $430; for the Theological Seminary, $1,408; Jor ministerial education, $4; for the superannuates, $2,748; for church ¢x- $2,449; for general home missions, $1,025; for foreign missions, $6,321. Total for beneficial purposes, $16,705. For presi- Gent's salary, $2,471; for pastors’ salaries, $06,840; for rent of parsonages, $11,501; for current expenses, $30,502; for building’ im- provements, $42,376; paid’ on debts, $13,ci0; special contributions, $1,649. Total amount for local purposes, $168,522. Total for all Purposes, $175,528, being an increase over 1895 of $10,679. The resolution of J. R. Caton of Alex- andria, Va., that the syperannuate fund be increased from $80,000 to $100,000 was tak- en _up, discussed and passed. Three ballots were required to elect the last of the general conference representa- tives. Rev. David Wilson, M.D., chaplain of the United States army at Washington, was the successful candidate on the third lot. _—-— WERE BABY ROBRE! Exploits a Girl of Thirteen Ten-Year-Old Brother. A girl of thirteen and her ten-year-oid brother are now locked up in Jersey City to await trial for robbing children of tender years, abducting them, stripping tt leaving them in hallways and then ing their clothes to buy candy, cigai and theater tickets. The boy added jail breaking to his other exploits yesterday, and was captured by three policemen after a long run, ch nearly carricd him to safety. The planned the robberies and school- ; ed her brother until he was an able Heu- tenant. Her mind dominated his. She is pretty and intellizent, but naturally de- praved, and as sullen and shifty as an old- time criminal. These despoilers of babies did not stop at highway robbery. ‘They carried off car} furniture and other gvods from the hou | of the owners, and even wheeled away i carriages which were left standing in ¢ street. One instance will suffice to show the craft of the girl, who is the most wonderful youthful criminal arrested in or near New York within twenty years. Her brother j is small. Once when they decided to run off with a baby carriage and found thai it contained an infant, the girl lifted the b out. placed it in a hallwey, put her bro: in the carrizge and wheeled him When they were at a safe distanc alighted. They sold the carriage cents and “blew in” the money. Capt. Kelly cf the 7th avenue station, Jersey City, whose men are still at work on the lst of victims, believes that the children have becn cvilty of more than tifty rebberics. Once they bearded the police lion in his very Jen and despoiled the resi- dence of Police Commissioner Feene’ The prisoners are Mamie and Joh ‘i Mamie is not yet thirteen. John w: ten on October # last. 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