Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES, 11 A DISTRICT DAY ed The House Acts Upon Several Local Measures. a MARRIED WOMAN'S BILL WITHDRAWN ‘Act to Provide for Harbor Regu- lations Passed. District day in the House today com- tnenced at 1: o'clock by Chairman Bab- fock calling up the bill to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery in the District. This bill has ed the House and comes back with Senate amendments, Bs heretofore noted in fhe Star. Upon Chairman fabcock’s motion the Rhovse ecneurred in the Senate amend- ndments to the House bill ating the business of stor- ed to by the Ho nate am Petroleum. hen called up pro- siding that the Comm rs of the Di trict of Columbia be authorized to grant ughman permission to lay ssion of petroleum and its following named streets of m north block numbered pe The Senate i unpaved portion ef Half tance of 3.000 feet rly ion to the Eastern e Potomac river; th line shall be laid unter such re [=e rentals the Comm said pipe ulations of the Mistrict of Columbia in rele tion thereto. Congres rves the right to Siter, amend or repeal this act. The bill was passed without d Physicians’ Testimony in Court. bate. Chairman Babcock then called up Senate bill providing that in the courts of the District of Columbia no physician or Burgeon shall permitted, without the eensent of the person afflicted, or of h legal representative, to disclose any con- information which he shall have ttending a patient in a pr was necessary t in ‘hat capacity, fidential nired in information shall have been from the patient or from his fam- Vy or from the _pe or persons in vharse of : Provided, That this act pall to evidence in criminal fases accused is charged with vausing the death of or inflicting injuries epon a an being and the disclosure red in the interests of public Ohio entered into a of the law in the vai upon the subject of te: of S then passed. hix of Married Women. ate bill relating; to the rights of married women in the District and the sor trol of children was next called up. Th bill was published in The Stara few days ago, when it passed the Senate. Mr. Bab- K stated the sole object of this bill to I to permit a woman to marry hout set- tling her debts upon the husha He said several gentlemen are now anxiously awaiting action upon this Dill, desiring rriage without having to assume a y indebtedness. Some question arising as to the a tion of certain provisions of the bill, man Babcock withdrew it from considera- tion, and called up the harbor reulations Dill. The Harbor Regulations Bill. The report on this measure describes as follows: “The object of the bill is to prevent the throwing of dead fish, oyster shells, garbase and all kinds of offal into the waters of the Potomac river and its tribftaries wit’ the District of Columbia. To enferce ons of the act, their violation is m: shable imprisonment or by both s ishments, in the court's discretion. “The bill was framed by the Distri Commissioners to meet a nuisance seriou: ly threatening the health of the people n the river, and particularly of those liv in the vicinity of the wharves where fi boats congregate. In the spring and it mer, wher fish are abundant, the Pot: at the wharves and below for s » is full of dead tish and fis! ; ish, spoiled or unsalab bard every day to d-« r, rendering the water f nd seriously menaci carrion, there is mu stable matter thrown into ond contributing to the pollution of the water.” The harbor regulation biil was p without amendment. The ow and Ice Bill. Chairman Babcock then called up the Wn amending the law relating to the removal of snow and ice from sidewalks. It modt- fies existing law ows: “First. To provide for the removal of ind, gravel and other refuse from the 3 fromm the sidewalks. econd. To extend the scope of the law. -h now applies to the city of Washing- ton only, to such other part or parts of the District of Columbia as the Commissioners f hall from time to time nditions are such as to render it necessary. “Third. To correct an inadvertence in the third section of the original law, by pro- viding that the a: ment therein inen- tioned shall be carried on the regular tax roll of the District of Columbia, i the cities, 5 now mentio: tion. “The reason for adding the word ‘roac ways’ is that sand, gravel and other refuse is washed from property, the grade of higher than that of the contiguous pon the roadway of the street, on streets where there are no The cost of removing these ac- cumuiations from roadways is ge the street-cleaning is no good reason why such upon rial should rot be removed at the expense of the owners of the abutting prop- erty, as the accumulation is due to their failure to grade the property down, or to provide mea ns to prevent the washing or falling of material therefrom upon the roadway.” The bill was passed. Minor Matter: The bill conferring title in lots 13 and 14, square 959, upon Thomas Yates was then called up. Upon Mr. Babcock's mo- tion the bill ~was ordered indefinitely post- poned. The bill to grant to Frank D. Orme, for $1,000, title to lot 5, square 1113, was passed. age: Saves a Child's Life. » Tribune. . the ten-year-old sister of acl Rooney. the bareback rider, ¥ about to be hugged to death by a bear r cently at Tattersall’s, when Babylon, one of the big elephants, knocked the brute dewn ved the child's life. Th who is known as “Growler, has temper. He chained near elephants. The little girl is a friend of » elephants, and was romping with some of them, when “Growler” seized her and closed his paws around her slender form. viciou Babyle who had been an_ interested brought his trunk down with force on owler’s” head. The ar was stunned by the blow and release child. who had fainted. The elephant picked ber up and placed her where ch her. Attendants, ard Et creams, ran to her e, but arrived too late to rob ylon of the honor of saving a human then the bear could not re: vho coe — Will File of the late Isaac Johnson, for rsa in the office of architect of the Capitol, It is dated June 26, after bequeathing the sum of $100 e: tpervisin: Was filed today and, ul and Sallie Magrude Watkirs and Haywar gives the rest of the es: of th is made executriz or, Rachel Jo CONSPIRACY CHARGEDIIN CONGRESS TODAY|A. P. A. COUNCIL The Public Printer Says the Civil Sarvice Commissioners Are Against Him. jeveral Employes Said to Have Re- ceived Improper Aid From Mem- bers of the Commi. ion, ‘There was a special meeting of the Sen- ate committee on civil service and retrench- ment this merning called for the purpose of hearing a statement prepared by Public Printer Benedict in reference to the pend- i in tigation into the method of ex- tending the civil service law to the printing office. Mr. Bened'ct created quite a sensa- ton by his statement. The point of his remarks was that there was a conspiracy, as he called it, between the members of the civil service commission and certam of the employes who were not included in the classified service last September to cause him trouble. The statement was so siartling in its na- ture that Senator Pritchard, the chairman of the committee, tele ‘das soon as commission to » the presence of at least one of the ers of tha: body in order to hear n@ to meet Mr. Benedict's charges. It was i ole, however, to secure their at- tendance, and as soon as the immediate eedings were over Senator Pritchard ourned the meeting until 10:30 Satur- ¥, Whon the civil service commissioners ill be present to meet the imputations of dict. 's statements were denied ing by Messrs. Hodes and Buc! i, two of the men who were ot in- the classified service, and who Jeminded an investigatioa into proceeding. They declared that the rge of a conspiracy of any sort between them and the civil service commissioners 3 absurd and unt At times there ent in the commit w s considerable exe room, ard whea the m g closed it was evident thai the pub- lie printer had up what is known in ‘omsnon parlance as a hornet's nest, that will continue to buzz next Saturday. At the last meeting of the committce when the tter was under consideration there was quite a passage of words between Mr. Benedict and Commissioners Pree and Harlow in regard to the public printer's interpretation of the law and the Presi- dent's order extending the civil service to he printing office. It is probable that the e case, in which the ctvil jorers are made to figure conspiring with two of the dismissed employes of the printing office to make trouble jor the public printer, will prove the most interesting chapter of the entire investigation. SECULAR LEAGUE, The Well-Being State Discussed Yesterday “The Well-being of the State, the True andard of Morals, Ethics or Religion,” was the subject of a lecture delivered yes- terday afternoon at the last meeting of the ular League for this season, at Typo- 1 Temple, by Me. W. G. H. Smart, to a fair audience, considering the heat of the weather. The lecturer took occasion to urge upon the league the propriety of extending its orts to more reformatory and construe- tive work than continual aggressive attacks upon the Christian religion, without at the same tUme showing that sclence offered a much better bas’s for morals than that iven in the Bible as a revelation of the ¢ will. He quoted from Herbert Spen- cer’s preface to his “Data of Ethics" in support of this view. He argued that many persons who renounce Christianity have gained nothing unless they can at the same time find a substitute that will be as cd, if not a better, guide to right conduct and consequent happiness, not only for this life, but also for a possible survival after death! The critical work of the league involves a moral responsibility upon its members that must not be ignored. In taking up the spectal subject of the lecture Mr. Smart made a brief definition of his terms used in title, using the word religion in its limited sense as a sys- tem of morals, not of divine worship, and using the words morals and ethics as syn- onymous with it. By the true standard of morals, was to be understood the standard he other standards. The lecturer thou the Old and New 1 and impracticable in operation. 0 show the superiority of as formulated by such wri -r, and held that the line of individual conduct most conducive to the welfare and progress of socitey, the general well-being of the state being the object, end and aim, was the true standard of moral or reli duty for us all. This he considered a lofty 1 of patriotism, to which all other efforts should be held subordinate. 1 as distinguished from ht the morals ‘of both taments full of error He then | ‘The addr was followed by remarks from Dr. Croffut, Messrs. Peachim, Rob- er, Groh and others, and the reg- ings of the Secular League were, uspended during the hot yeather, to the call of the executive com e should a meeting for conference be deemed at any time desirable for any spe- cial purpose. —--. — Pennsylvanin Grade Crossings. From the New York Journal of Commerce. For a number of years the Pennsylvania Railrcad Compeny has been devoting a considerable amount each year to the abo- lition of grade crossings in Philadelphia and ether city limits, mostly on the New York division, and while all the work that has been mapped out along this line has rot been completed, the company will be- sin work shortly on the Philadelphia, Wilmingion and Baltimore railroad by which dangerous grade crorsings will be abolished. ‘There are a number of grace crossings on this line, but most of them, if not all, are outside of city limits. It is not the intention of the company to confine itself to getting rid of grade cross- ings in the city alone, but the evil is to be done away with wherever it is practicabie, especially in all thickly populated places. With this object in view, work is soon to be begun for doing away with the grade cross- ings at Academy station and Moore sta- tion. At the former the railroad company will erect an overhead bridge and build epproaches thereto, and at Moore station tne tracks will go over the street. All the expens2 for this work is to be borne by the railroad company. 00. Dying Man Riding a Wheel. From the Buffalo Express. That was a wild and tragic ride which young Will H. Van Zandt of Rochester had a tew days ago. It was, in truth, a race with @eath. H2 was out on his wheel-when he struck an obstacle and fell, injuring his head. He soon came go the conclusion that he must get home as soon as possibie. He had strength enough to mount, and off he rted. As he went, the pain in his head seemed to grow worse. He pedaled faster and faster, and people wondered what the matter was. He apparently grew delirious and was not aware of the speed which he had attained. It was a wonder that he did not strike a team. But ne reached home at last and stumbled {ato the house, telling his parents that he was hurt. A doctor was summoned, but when he arrived the boy was unconscious. Death was a inatter of only a day cr two. The examination showed that a concussion of the brain had resulted from the fall. peer Se Philade!phin’s Garficld Statue. From the Philadelphia Record, A score of workmen, under the direction of a competent landscape gardener, have nearly completed the arrangements for the unveiling of the Garfield memorial statue in the park on May 30. The statue stands in the center 9¢ a natural amphitheater on the East river drive just south of Girard avenue bridge. The site is an admirable and has been beautified by a slight » in the grading of the slopes in the background, and by the setting out of flowers and plants. Just back of the base of the monument is a five-foot semi-cire! lar hedge, and in front is a large crescent- shaped flower bed, with the concave side toward the drive. Back of this, on either side, small evergreens, rose bushes and several varieties of blooming plants have been set out. Routine Business in Both Senate and House. THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL Discussion Ccn in.ed cn the Pa- cific Coast Harbor Appropriation. MATTERS IN THE HOUSE a In a memorial presented to the Senate to- day by Mr. Lodge (Mass.), the legislature of Massachusetts expresses its satisfaction at the prospective honorable adjustment of the Venezuelan question on a basis of rec- ognition of the Monroe doctrine. Bills were passed authorizing the state of South Dakota to select Fort Sully military reservation as post lands granted to the state under the act of admission; for the restoration of lands within Fort Lewis, Col., military reservation, to the public do- main; to validate the acts of certain depu- ty United States marshals in the indian territory. The Bank Bil. In reporting the bankruptcy bill from the judiciary committee, Mr. Teller stated thas it favored the substitution of the Senate bankruptcy bill for that passed by the House, Mr. Mitchell (Oreg.) added that the mi- nority of the committee favored the House bill. Ford's Thenter Sufferers. A report was made favoring compensa- tion for such suff from the Ford Thea- ter disaster as were not provided for in a former act, and Mr. Faulkner offered an amendment to the urgent deficlency bill covering the amounts to be paid. ‘The joint resojution was passed authoriz- ing foreign exhibitors at the Tennessee centennial exposition to be held in Nasn- ville, Tenn., in L to bring to this coun- tury foreign laborers from their respective countres for the purpose of preparing for and making their exhthits,and allowing arti- cies imported from forcign countries for the le purpose of exhibition at said expost- m to be imported free of duty, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Bills were passed for the use of n. military parks as fields for mil'ta m vers by the state or federal forc izing the county of Navajo, Ari bends for a court house, &c.; House b previding a life- ation at Port Bonita, at the @alifornia; appropriating 3650,000 additional for the puoiic building at Portland, Oreg., and fix- ing this as the limit of cost. River and Harbor Bill. ‘The river aad narbor bill was then taken up, the question being on the only remin- ing amendiuent for a deep waier harbor at Sania Monica, Cal. Mr. Berry (Ark.), a member of the commerce committee, spoke in opposition to the amendment. He de- clared that this proposed expenditure of $3,000,050 2 « the recommendation of scvernment engineers and against the ad- Vice of the California Senators was the most unjust and inexcusable proposition he bad ever seen in connection with rivers and harbors. It was a disregard of pubtic i terest and a disregard of public and an apprepriation of public uses which will benefit privaze individuals only. It was the first effort yet made, said Mir. Berry, to override the government en- gineers by private engineers hired by pri- vate interests and baving only private in- terests at stake. After speaking of the great importance of the river and harbor bill, Mr. Berry de- clared that if this amendment was forced on the bill it would probably defeat the bill for this session. The Senator reviewed the recommendations of army boards in favor of San Pedro-as the proper place for the Pacific coast harbor, and spoke of the action of the commerce committee in setting aside these reports and accepting the judgment of the chairman of the committee (i who had visited Santa Monica. Mr. Herry's Statement. t would be better to dump this three millions into the Pacific ocean,” exclaimed Mr. Berry, “rather than that the country should know that this Serate is ready to override its army engineers, cverride public sentiment, in the interest of private greed and private gain.” Mr. Berry said that the evidence snowed the Southern Pacific railroad could dictate terms for an entrance to Santa Monica. He did not belic there was a man in the United States—save and excepting C. P. Huntington—who, in the face of the repre- sentations of the army engineers, would come to Congress and ask it to give him three millions to build a breakwater. Mr. Vest’s Ground of Opposition, Mr. Vest (Mo.), a memb:r of the committce on commerce, said he could not see the necessity of this expenditure either at San- ta Monica or San Pedro. He took no stock, he said, in the attacks on Mr. Huntington because he was a railroad president and a rich man. Like other men he looked af- ter his own interests. Mr. Vest bi ved Mr. Huntington was sincere in saying Santa Monica was the best point for a harbor. The Senator said he dropped out of account all talk of mot opolics and lob- bies. Any United States Senator v would permit a lobby to control him wa unworthy of a seat here, said Mr. Vest. He based his objection to the fact that the country did not have a full treasury, the river and harbor bill already reached an enormous aggregate. THE HOUSE, Some preliminary routine business was transacted when the House met today. ‘The Senate bill to extend the charter of the Dennison and Northern railroad was «1; also bills to grant the Denver, pple Creek and Southwestern railroad a right of way through the South Platte and Plum Creek forest reserve; to grant pipe lines right of way over the public domain in Colorado and Montana; to grant the Flagstaff and Canyon railroad right of way through the Grand Canyon forest reservation. The Leavenworth Soldiers’ Home. Mr. Tracey (Mo.) asked unanimous con- sent for the passage of a resolution author- izing the appointment of a special com- mittee to investigate the management of the Leaver.worth soldiers’ home. Mr. Hall (Mo.) objected. The Senate bill was passed to provide for the safety of passengers on excursion steamers by authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to detail revenue cutters to enforce regulations at regattas. This belng the second Monday of the month Mr. Babcock, chairman of the Dis- trict of Columbia committee, claimed the day in behalf of his committee, and the House proceeded to the consideration of District business. = yhy a Mother Dogs Not Bike. From the Philadelphia Press. The bicycle craze burns fiercer than ever this year. A lady who went the Ist of April to buy a wheel for her daughter of a large city shop was astonished at being told that they had not one in the establishment. The explanation was scarcely less sur- prising. ‘We ordered 4,000," said the shop- man, “for oSr summer's trade, and, Lefore the middie of April, they are every one gone.” This woman, herself, aithough still young and of a slender, graceful figure, not un-) fitted for display upon a bicycle, has a curious theory of her own as to its capa- bilities for herself: “I can’t bring my imagination to see my own mother,” she says, “mounted upon a wheel. She never did anything in my remembrance that was undignified. Now, after I am dead, I don’t want my children to call up a picture of me perched upon a bicycle. It is all very well for them, but I draw the line at my- self. A mothet’s position is. different. I shan’t buy myself one of those things.” And she hasn't, ‘ (Continued from First Page.) committee now jn’the city are Chairman Stevens and Messrs. Johnson, Thompson, Crosby and Ford. These are the men against whom the fight is now leveled. Judge Stevens is-particularly a target for the McKinley men, His friends say that he has received mcre abuse in the last few weeks than in all the years of his conne2- tion with the order. They aver, however, that when it is all over he will be on top. Ohio and Kentucky Delegates. The Ohio and Kentucky delegates will be conspicuous in the fight against the cam- paign committee. President Sapp of the Kentucky council has publicly made known his opposition, and has come out squarely tor McKinley. Neariy all of the Ohio coun- cils have ccndemned the report of the com- mittee. They declare in resolutions that the committee had no authority, and that its work fs illegal. A Band Wagon Business. Talking to a Star reporter this morning, an influential delegate said: “Nearly every one of these men now here and shouting veainst the committee was against Mc- Kinley three weeks ago, when they thought he would not be nominated. They are try- ‘That's I think that if the order is to be subservient <o the desires of parti- something will have to be done. My ‘anding has been that partisanship would be relegated to the rear. Outsiders Are Interfering. There is not only a great deal of political juggling going on among the delegates at the hotel, but it is charged that outsiders, men who have no business to do so, are mixing in the fight. It is said that the local councils have taken a hand in the stvuggle, and that at a meeting of one of them urday night Judge Stevens was denounced. Stevens, it 1s said, was sick in his room at the hotel, and was aot present at the meeting. he local councils are taking deep inter- ‘st in the matter. Some of them met sev- eral weeks ago and approved the work of the campaign committee. Others have dis- approved it. Full Co ittee to Meet. A meeting of the full advisory hoard will be held tomorrow night, at which the cam- paign committee will present its evidence as to McKinley's alleged opposition to the order, The full board will pass upon the work of its commit It is not known whether there are many members of the board opposed to Une committee, but it is thought the board will approve’ what has been done. ‘Then the matter will go to the upreme Council. It will be Wednesday or ing to climb on the band wagon. all. made ‘Thursday before the fight gets into’ the council proper. IC Will Meet Tomorrow. The Supreme Council will be called to or- der at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning by President r. The mecting will be held in the hall at the northwest corner of Pennsylvania avenue and 41% street. News- paper men will not be allowed within a half mile, if it can be helped. Sentinels vill be placed at suitable points to prevent anybody from getting in earshot. ‘Vhe first day's session will be devoted to routine work. The report of the committee on er Is and the organization of the convention will be the chief work. The election of ofticers does not take place until the last day of the convention, While there is some talk about the candi- dates now, it is not be later on. The conven sion from six to ten day: ly be the first of next we elected. Committee Meetings Today. Two committees held meetings today. They were the judiciary and executive com- mittees. The judiciary committee is com- posed of lawyers, and Judge Stevens is chairman of it. John W. Echols of Georgia and H. J. Swa'm of California were ap- pointed members of this committee this morning by President Traynor, The execu- tive committee meeting was for the pur- pose of looking into tne reports of the treasurer and other officers. Some of the Delegates. There {vere not over fifty delegates in town this morning, but they are expected in large numbers this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow. Among the arrivals today were Col. E. H. Sellers, Detroit, president of the Associated Patriotic Orders; Vice s inte sting as it will on will be in ses- and it will prob- ‘kK before otlicers. President Stilwell, low John T. Gibson, West Virgin Chas. Tucker, Ohio; T. B. Haughawant, Carthage, Mo.; M. A. Purs- ley, Missouri; C. G. Wisconsin; Joseph Waldrop, H Cal; W. W. Lannin Ohio; Fred. T. Taylor and G. W. Van Fossen, coma, V h.; Henry B. Ingram, New York; H. J. Swain, Stockton, Cal. The delegates all claim that the order is flourishing in their respective states. The Order in Georgia. State President Echols of Georgia is one of the best-known lawyers of the Atlanta bar and stands well throughout the state. Talking to a Star reporter of the condition of the order in his state, he said: “We don’t make any exorbitant claims to mém- orgia. We have a little over (40 members in good standing. We have councils in five of the leading cities of the state. When I return we expect to push the organization of councils, and hope, within a few years, to have councils in every county in the state. I think our membership would have been much greater but for several ill-advised political moves, manipulated by leading A. P. A. men from outside the state. The next meeting of the Superior Council of Georgia will be held in April, 1897, at Fitzgerald, the new city founded by the G. A. R. men who have moved to Georgia. They gave us a warm invitation to meet there next year.” The Founder of the Order. The founder of the American Protective Association is H. F. Bowers of Clinton, Iowa. He is the past supreme president of the order, and is being advocated for re-election as supreme president. Mr. Bowers has attended every meeting of the supreme body since the organization of the order, nine years ago, and is looked tron with reverence by the younger mem- Pe Mr. Bowers is an attorney at Clinton. He is about fifty-eight years old, and is a devout and prominent member of the Methodist church. He told a Star re- Porter this morning the history of the fYoundirg of the American Protective As- sociation, He said: “The condition of af- fairs in this country in 1887, and up to that time, was such that the institutions of. our government were controlled and the patronage was doled out by an ecclesiasti- cal element, under the direction and heavy hand of a foreign ecclesiastical potentate. ‘Ihis power became so influential that it stcod as a unit in many places against the institutions of the country. Through the legislature of Maryland, at one time, it destroyed the public school system of that state. Seeing these things I felt that tt was necessary that something should be done. Gathering around me six men who had the courage of their convictions we met in my office in Clinton on the 13th of March, 1887, and laid the foundation for the order. That same day we formulated the ritualistic work and adopted a con- stitution. The chief dea we had in view in the constitution was this: That we had no right, under the Constitution of this country, to oppose any religio’s body on account of its dogmatic views, faith, etc., but we did believe we had a right to op- bose it when it became a great poltic#l factor. We believed then, and_ believe now, that every man in this country has a Tight to worship God according to the dictates of his conscience, but we did not believe that the Constitution intended to convey the right to any set of men to con- trol and manipulate the political affairs of this country to the aggrandizement of any ecclesiastical power." After the organization of the first coun- cil, which is still in existenoe with hun- dreds of members, it was at least a year, Mr. Bowers says, before another council was organized. After that the o.der began to spread rapidly along the railroad lines. “I must say,” Mr. Bowers said, “that the srowth of the order has exceeded my ex- pectaticns. The growth has simply been marvelous. There is a wide difference in the A. P. A. and the old know nothing party. We admit to membership men of all rationalities, without regard to the coun- try or place of birth, All we ask is that the member, if he is a foreigner, become a naturalized citizen ,of this country and prepare himself for fhe duties of citizen- bership in G ship. The know nothing organization ad- mitted only American-born citizens to membership. From the membership of seven nine years ago the order has grown to close on 3 ,000, and is able to control 4,000,000 votes. The first Supreme Council meeting was held at Clinton in 1889, and only two states, Illinois and Iowa, were represented by dele- gates. Mr. Bowers wes elected supreme president. The next meeting was in Chi- cago in 1890. Mr. Bowers remained as supreme president until 1893, when Mr. Traynor was elested to the position. Mr. Bowers said that of the seven men who organized the first council three were republicans, two democrats, one popul and one prohibitiorist. In a religious wa: they were divided as follows: One Metho- dist, one Baptist, two Presbyterians, one Congregationalist, ore Lutheran and one of no religicn. It ‘is not known whether President Tray- nor will accept a re-election. not Mr. Bowers will his name used. If he does be asked to allow +e THE COURTS. Equity Court No. 1—Judge Cox. Bowdler agt. Ganzenbach with J. T. Cull and C, M. Fulton, truste to sell. Sis agt. Moxley; objections to juris diction overruled. Melnerny ag decree quieting title to part lot 1 Shea agt. Queen; do. Ortlip trustees’ ordered to sell and pay balance of proceeds into court. Funk & Wagnalls Co. | agt. Quinby Hutchinson Co.; auditor's re- port confirmed. Fechheimer agt. Hollander; rule on complainauts returnable May 15 granted. American Surety Co. agt. Smith; restraining order di injunction refused. In re Geo. Seymore, Mollie and Christina Hines, alleged lunatics de lunatico inquirendo ordered to Je decreed issue. Kidwell agt. McCahill;. sale decreed, with Nathaniel Wilson and G. E. Hamilton, trustees, to sell. Murr agt. Talbot curity for costs ordered. Hart agt. testimony ’. H. Giesy, examiner, ordered taken. Syphax agt. straining order discharged. Davis; re- Circuit Court No. 1—Judge Bradley. Arthur C. Bivens agt. Edw. B. Stumph; verdict for defendant. Keller & Bro. agt. Williams; judgment on verdict for plaintiff. Forrest agt. Markward et al.; do. Circuit Court No. 2—Judge McComas. Ackermann agt. Stumph; certified to Ctr. cuit Court No. 1 to amend declaration plead thereto. Beale agt. Sloan & © judgment for defendant for return of proy erty. Thomas agt. National Union; on trial. Luber agt. Emrich; leave to and defendant Criminal Court No. 1—Chief Justice Bi ham. United States agt. Howard A. West housebreaking; sentence jail eleven mont Almena Williams, lareeny from the pe defend- ant withdraws plea not guilty and pleads guilty of petit lareeny, sentence jail ten days. United false pretense: Probate Estate of tate of Mary Burrell; Estate of Philip Hu probate of will filed. Ny Ham- mond; sworn statement in lieu of ount til In re Arnie Digney, guardian; bond filed. Estate of Wm. R. Smith: assent of next of kin filed. Estate of Caroline M. evidence of partial distribution will filed. ates agt. Aibert Webster, on trial. Court—Jnudge Hagner. saac Johnson: will will nied. E fully proved. petidion for under th Court of Arpeals—Present, Mr. Justice Mor- ris, Mr. Justice Shepard and Hon. C. ©, Cole, asscciate jistice, Supreme Court, Distriet of Columbia. Order designating Mr. C. C. Cole, as: ate justice of the Supreme Court, D. sit as a member of this court in the h ing of patent appeal c during the sence of Mr. Chief Justice 4 Patent appeal No. : Schnabel; dismissed for Patent appeals Nos. agt. Colby; continued. Patent appeal No. 48, in re application of Geo. Bryant; ecntinued. Patent appeal No. 47, Croskey agt. Atter- bury; argument commenced by T. A. Con- nolly (or appellant, continued by J. Snow. den Bell for appellee and concluded by Jos. B. Connolly for appellant. OLD JOKES REVIVED. arger ‘ast. lure to print. Yand 40, Dewey ie Vast Number That Are Frequent- ly Repeated. From the San Francisco Argonant Some wecks ago we printed in our “Story- ettes” an anecdote then ficating about the Press narrating the mistake of a colored buder in a Washington house who was cauticned to address a titled English guest as y lord,” and, confused by the lat- ter’s refusal of a cherished dish, exciaimed: “But it’s terrapin, my Go It was a arilant of the ancient English tale of the bishop and the embarrassed “buttons” who | Lrought up his shaving water. But Vanity, | a New York soclety journal, took us sev: ly to task for “stealing” from its columns, declaring that it bad been the original pub- lisher of the story in an issue a few weeks earlier. Then arose the Columbia Spectator with the announcement that the story had ap- peared in its Christmas issue for ISSs. We can cap them both with che statement that it appeared in the Argonaut in ISS. It tay rike our contemporaries as strange that the Argonaut should reprint matt=r which had already appeared in its columns. Such is the fact, however. That there is rothing rew under the sun is especially true of anecdotes, and, in view of the fact that the Argonaut has been printing about ten a week, or 500 a year, for about fifte years, making a total of 7,500 anecdotes, it would be wonderful indeed if we did not sometimes repeat. ————__+e+ THEY HAD KNOWING HENS. How a Proud and Sensitive Fowl As- nerted Her Dignity. From the Wabash Times. He was being interviewed on the poultry business, when he said: “I don’t want to boast, but I do think we have got the knowingest hens in the world in our end of town. I have a flock of 200, all black. It is a theory of mine that black hens !ay better than those of any other color. One day I found a hen in my flock with a few white feathers in her tail. I called the hired man and told him to catch and Kill her. ‘You can't rely on the laying capa- bilities of a hen with white feathers,’ 1 said. The hen gave me a sorrowful iook, but did not say a word. Next morning the hired man told me that he could not find her. A month or two later I opened a pile of potatoes I had stored in the cellar and found a big, hollow space in the center of them. There was a bunch of black feath- ers in the place with three white ones standing up in a deflant sort of a way. Be- hind the feathers were sixty-six eggs. 1 recognized at once that !t was the work of the missing hen. The proud, sensitive crea- ture had stowed herself away and worn herself out laying eggs to prove that the theory was a mistaken one.” a Her Mouth. From Youth's Companton. It is sald that a certain English porirait painter has almost as great a reputation for joking as for taking excellent likenesses, One evening he was speaking of a beautiful young girl whose portrait he had just fin- ished, “Her features are exquisitely molded, 1 have heard,” said a friend who had seen neither the portrait nor its original. “Beautiful forehead and eyes,” returned the artist, concisely, “handsome nose, fine chin, mouth like’an elephant’, “Mouth like an elephant’s: echoed his friend in dismay. “What a terrible mis- fortune! Do you mean that it ig sO enor- mous and—what do you mean?” “Ony that it is filled with superb ivory, madam,” returned the artist with his usual gravity. soe. Making a Journey While Hypnotized. From the Buffalo Expreas. Two Rockford (Il) men walked 100 miles from Chicago to their home in twenty-nine hours, without stopping for food or rest. Both are hypnotists, and they claimed that they hypnotized each other and imagined they were riding. This is a practical adap- tation of hypnotism which might be very useful to bicycle tourists whose wheels break down when they are at a distance from a repair shop or railroad station. But it is a little singular that two men should be able to hypnotize each other. One of them must have hypnotized his fel- low while he was himself in a hyp- notic state. How can that be possible? There are @ good many tough stories told about hypnotism, but this is about the hardest to believe of any I have encoun- tered lately, CROSSING QUESTION Railroads Objects to Stopping at ~ Street Car Tracks. ——— ARGUMENTS HEARD BY COURT Commissioners’ Attorneys Defend the Police Regulations. THE OTHER - - SIDE ‘The attention of Judge Cox, sitting in Equity Court No. 1, was occupied today by the consideration of the petitions filed sev- cral wecks ago by the Baltimore and Po- tomac and the Baltimore and Ohio railroad companies, in which the two companies pray that the Commissioners of the District be enjoined from enforcing section article 9 of the police regulations, as revised and amended December 16, 1895. These regulations were made and are sought be enforced under and by virtue of authority and power conferred upon the Commissioners by, among others, an act of Congress of January 1887, and a joint resolution of February 25, 1s The section in question, for the enfor« ment of which the compantes contend th» Ccmmissioners are without authority to enfcree, is as follows: ‘No locomotive, or train, a locomotive attached, shall pa: street railroad cross! of a street railroa: 3 or electric power without coming to a ful stop at a point not nearer than forty feet of the nearest rail of such cross and shall not pass over such crossing except in obedience to signal given by the gaiemen employed by the corporation owning th to the with or without r any trecks over which such locomotive or train is to pass, and such signal shall not be given until the crossing gates are such manner as to effectually prev: cess to said tracks from the highway.” The Hearing Todny. Baltimore and Potcm: E. Hamilton and Michael J. Colt senting the Baltimore and Ohio On behalf of the [ ert repre company 1 Mr. 8. T. Thomas, the attorney of the District; hi assistant, Mr. A. B. Duvall, and Mr. A. ton appeared. The pe’ two companies were and the injunction was asked for instance because, as the com! the power and authority sought to be ex- ed by the Comm: y reserved to Congr onferred upon or di n oners. Then, again, the petitions alleg t the regulation in question is u greatl: edb: er of the two roads and cause irrepars jury and loss to them. was also charged It that in the ca ger train: lation, st t street ere: blocked—in some instanc grades exist—for from thre min- ute: to ten Reply of the Commissicenrs. The answer of the Commissiouer: that they had full authority the regulation and have full authority enforce it, called attention to the gre number of trains which pass over the railroad crossings at 7ch street and Mary- land and Virginia avenues, at Gth street and Maryland avenue, at 41% street and kinia avenue. and also at Columbia Railroad C and O. Railroad Company's tracks almost every few minutes during the day and night. Because of the frepiency with which the steam railroads cross the street railroad crossings, the Commissioners serted, the regulation is i:nperitively quired to secure the safety of street car passengers. The Commissioners asserted, too. that they had, after a full investigation into the matter, concluded that gates and gatem do not, despite the allegations of the pe tioning companies, sufficiently protec: street-car passenzers. The regulation was made after such investigation and after hearing the attorneys of the two roads in the matter. They denied that the reguia- uon is unreasonable, or that its enfor: ment will inconvenience or injure either o the petitioning companies, the regulation being similar tn its provisions and effect to regulations which have been enforced for years in other cities of this country, They Have a Remedy. The Commissioners, therefore, prayed the court to refuse the injunctions for the rea- , and for the further reason that the petitioning companies have, if injured in any way, an adequate and full remedy at law. The Commissioners also suggested that the two companies should, in order to secure the safety of the people, be ready and willing to so regulate the speed and length of their trains as to remove all ob- Jection of that nature to the enforcement of the regulation at issue The hearing will probably be concluded to- morrow. to make to —__»—__ PENMANSHIP NOT REQUIRED. A Profession That is Open to Any One Who Can Even Scribble. From the Louisville Commercial. “Ded” Price, the secretary of the police department, tells the story on himself. It may have been an ancient one that young man heard somewhere on his t els, but it sounds all right. He sa was sitting at his desk one day six: some papers, end he was in such a hurry that he was not doing his very, best. In imct, he was writing a wretched hand. A railroad man with grease on his face and warts on his hands entered. He said noth- ing for a while, but just stood and watched Mr. Price write. Finally he said in a husky tone: “By George! I wish I could write as good as you do.” Mr. Price did not reply, writing. In a minute marked: “Great guns, if as you do!” By this time Mr. Price was annoyed, and the stranger ventured to sa: “Well, if I could just write as good as you do!” Then Mr. Price turned suddenly in his chair and sald, angrily: “Well, what would you do?” “I'd go to China and write labels on tea boxes. This ‘s why Mr. Price took the railroader out and threw three or four red lemonades into him. the but just kept on or two the man re- I could just write as good Cunning of Dogs in Herding. From the New Orleans States. It is claimed that the wild hog of Cata- houla is second only in the matter of pug- nacity and ferocity to the roaring tiger of the Bengal jungle. In order to get a drove of these hogs into a pen, a hog dog of Cat- ahoula, as Mr. Wiggins informs us, ope- rates as follows: Keeping always in mind the direction of the pen or corral, the dog goes into the woods and flushes a drove of hogs. Then keeping himself invariably in front of the hogs, he barks forth a challenge; the hogs accept the gage of battle and make a dash for the enemy, and the dog, tucking his tail, if fortunate enough to have one, which is seldom the case, skedaddles to- ward the pen, regulating his speed so as to bave at all times a distance of about thir- ty yards. Should the hogs halt in their pursuit, the Cog returns and renews the dare, and again he is charged, and again he slopes. In this way he lures the hogs on until in their mad chase they follow him through the open gate into the pen, when he imnmedi- ately proceeds to jump the fence on the opposite side, while his master, who has been seated on the fence during the pur- suit, hurriedly climbs down and closes the gate on the entrapped porcines. The faith. ful and intelligent dog, which is found no- where else but in the languorous shades of the Catahoulan wilds, is rewarded with a pone of cornbread, and the next day there is a great hog-killing time, followed by feasting and revelry, of] FOOD FOR THE SNAKES. t Often, bat When They Dy It is a Spectacle. From Public Opinion, During the last few months some of the gentlemen connected with the Museum of ‘atural History at Paris have en to the world various interesting results of their ob- servations. The learned professor the museum, Leon Vaillant, descrives the diet of a serpent more than twenty feet long, whick has been on exhibition af the Jardin des Planies since month of August,I8S5, Up to the end of 1805 this reptile has eaten fifty times—that is, on tne average of five times a year. The largest number of times in one year the snake took food was in ISS when h Don’t E fl ‘ how » St was composed of rabbits. i once of a goose The feedt oft * . which will eat but what is al ffers an uncome mon spect and many que: of the Umes when the er re feeds, 50 as to witness the feeding. Yet e h the werful whien an, by enter th stomach: rofessor Vaillant relates that a F: Was once put in a cage with a h hese rep- Ules, although at spectes, 1 thug de by sid ned viper, during the companic to acec owed hi . in order this prey, so disproport t body was distended to such a d the scales, instead of touchin laterally eve erlapping litle, as in its norinal concition.were ited, leaving between § of them a € equal to their own bre All the stion p and the viper did not the - The case of t bra that swab lowed a brother by mistake at the Zoo affords an Xample of this cape city for accommodation of fc ——- +e INTERESTING Am Ancient and W Made Halbert Found in Oreg * Portland Oregonian, From the Anoth relic of the middle ages has bees found In this city, in the shape of a hab terd. It was found in a trench or drais out on 14th street a few days since by @ boy. It was covered with a thick coating pust, which, on being removed, howed the weapon had Leen handsomely based an ma: cen th thres f gold. The head is of fine steel, with a farcifully shaped blade or cut edge, NG pointed pole, wit 19 cS ar, Which extends about six teen inches beyond the head, is about half en quare and pointed. The fragment of shaft which remai tached to the weapon is of old, w cak, tened in by hand-w rmly clinche It was ver ‘a pen in th 2 l+for in- vented, the hooked 5 te pull a man off his hor tor him through and the with. There ma P some cone tween this ancies alberd and the old t handed sword found buried in the uppe part of town a few weeks since, no iro: regard to which Whet the collec a part of ne » which had fallen into the hands of some one whe threw them away as u or whether seme of the knights in the train of Cories wandered up from Mexico and left theit bones and weapons s: une knows. tered around, THE EXPORTATION OF HORSES. Attitude f the Austro-Hungarias Government, From the New York Journal of Commerce, Mr. T. Cham! in, Commissioner of navigation, has transmitted to Collector Kilbreth, the trarsiction of a note trom the Austro-Hungar minister at Wash. ington, relative to the defective manner of the health certiiieates that usually ac- company the shipments of horses from the United States 10 Austria-Hungary. The letter was addressed to the Secretary of State and is in part as follows: “In order to prevent ship United States from a admission at the Austrian 1 the jj Mr. ents from the sible refusal of ontier, I have honor, retary of State, by or der of my gov pment, to ask of ¥ tu request the go rnment of the Union te call to the at of those parti : terested in the and in conn. herewith, perha aiso of shippir ns, that with regard to the im of animals over frontier the provisions that i 4 of the Au Statute of TSs6, t setzblatt ¢ stute Jour and th it itted atte at which to enter certifivates, their departure ei trom to. iuiree to issued officially and to tailed rete special character fin ertiti ation that the mals w in good health at their d and that they come wherein infections to ihis cla rom a place of animal had prevailed. “Domestic animals for whom such state ments canp he or which, de spite such c stricken with & contagion S ed vec of its contractio: imported.” not permitted to be see — ull Mourning. phia Record, ome people go to the extr wearing of mourring for dec tiv said a prominent “Now, the other day I was walking the street when I passed a ma in a black suit, black tie, hat and gloves and with hair and whiskers abnormally dark. 1 didn’t recognize him until he spoke to me. Then I realized that he was a han ber who used to shave me for a number of years, When I saw him last his heir and whirkers were gray. ‘You looked c 4? id to him. He wiped a tear from h with al -bore ndkereh. and said: “Yah, I yoost hat some drubble mit mine family. My son-in-law he did die on Ve a und I am s lic had actually dyed his hair and whiskers in the ne mory of his son-in-law!” — 0+ Limited to Ten Storie From the Chicago Times-Horald. Alderman Stuckhart of the fifth ward introduced at Thursday nigat’ the city council an ordinance meeting of limiting the height of buildings to 130 feet and the life of a building permit to three months after the present date of issue. January 9 of year the council passed an o: permitted the erection of buildings 155 feet nigh and restricted the life of a building permit to six months after date of issue. Prior to that date the limit had been 120 feet, with no restriction as to the life of the permit. This latter provision had been in force since March 13, 1S Before that time there was no limitation as to the height of bulidings and the life of permit Ss unrestric’ As a matte Fisher building ard the Hotel and Theater building, being an a of fe dition to the Great Northern Hotel, w erected last year under permits issued 7 to March 13, 1593 a ied by W From the New York San. J. W. Den and three companions are re olesale. ported to have killed 700 wild an@ ducks in the northern part of Nebraska on a recent hunting trip. Seven hundreé such birds would weigh not much, if any, less than a ton. H. J. Lamar, Jr, and a party of hunters went to Leesbur a., dove hunting. The amount ame (hat killed make@ one f the wild away baci in th 0 of the birds. The American says thie Killing that “such fiendish work by meg who claim to be sportsmen : blood boil with indignation. inhuman greed was unsp ——_——_+-o2—— Real Estate at Auctio Duncanson Bros., auctioneers, sold Saw urday at public sale a lot in Harvar@ street, near 13th, 50x152 fest, to Barr an§ Sanner for 524g cents per square foot,