Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1896, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th Street, by The E Z A Bie KAGPPMAN A Pros pes tS eet Kew York Offic, 49 Potter Building. ee ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers in the eity by carriers, ca their own account. at 10 cents Der week, or 44 cents per mouth. Copies at the gcunter 2 conts each. By matl—onywhere in the United States or Canada—postage prepald—00 cents per moat! Saturday Quintcple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with foreign pestage added, $3.00. Evtered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., 3 second-class mail matter.) TF All mail subscriptions must be patd in advance. Rates of advertising made known on application. Che £0 '¢ ral Star. 13,505. WASHINGTON, D. ©, MONDAY, JUNE 15 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES ISSUE AT ST. LOUIS Leaders Still Discussing the Money Plank. PROTECTION, RECIPROCITY AND GOLD Sas Summary of the Probable Repub- lican Platform. THE TREATMENT OF PLATT a Special From a Star Correspondent. ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 15 reciprocity and gold.” This is a summary of what is expected to be the republican platform. Hanna seems to vacillate on the gold question, but that is only seeming. He does not want McKinley to be fixed on any proposition lest the thing should go the other way, and look like a defeat In this one particular. The convention will have to settle the question whether the word gold shall be u If it is left out by the resolutions committee, there will be a yote In the con- vention on the preposition to put it in. If it is put In there will be a vote aimed to take it out. The action of neither the Mc- Kinley leaders nor the resolutions commit- tee will fix the matter, though the com- mittee, being newly appointed by the con- vention, ought to be constructed so as to Tepresent the prevailing sentiment. The several state delegations will hold confer- ences between now and the time for filling out this committee list, and will decide in turn what they want done. This will not be final, however, for In many Instances the attitude of the delegations will not be £0 positive as to preclude their represenia- tion on the committee yielding to argu- ment. The strongest argument is on the side of gold, and the tendency is decidedly in that direction, though the delegates from some of the states are almost white-headed with fear that it will prevail. Mr. Hanna is purposely keeping them guessing. The old observant politicians who have been study- ing Mr. Hanna have come to the conciusion ‘Protection, Wm. MeKinley, Jr. that what is most apparently his desire Is most apt to be what he doesn’t want. ferent men get different !mpressions as to his attitude, and each is very positive that his impression {s the right one. Mr. Hanna smiles, while the corridor lead- ers quarrel among themselves as to what he wants. What he really wants is just that—that there should be a difference of opinjon as to what his attitude is. Al McKinley, the major’s brother, in responding to a teast Saturday, said sim- ply: “Our policy ts silence.” Then he took his seat amid a burst of applause. This is true, but they have another policy, which 1s to set other people talking, and thus to conceal their own thoughts among the con- fusion of tongues. McKinley and Hanna Differ. Mr. Hanna and Maj. McKinley are both gold men. They differ in this only, that Hanna rather favors a frank avowal in the platform, while McKinley is more disposed to temporize with the hope of conciliating. They concur, however, in the opinion that the lement of the declaration on the financial question should at least be left to the convention, and that their personal preference should, meanwhile, be left a matter of doubt. orm question has come down to about Mr. Hanna has a plank de- claring against the free ecinage of silver and in favor of the “present gold standard.” He puts his thumb over the “gold,” so that it reads the “present standard,” and asks how that will do. Then he takes his thumb off, so that it reads “present gold stand- ard,” and asks how that will read. As co which he favors, there is room left for dif- ference of opinion. The meaning of it is that he does not want McKinley to be held responsible for dictating the platform. The fact is that Mr. Hanna cannot en- tirely control the matter. His disposition is te yield to the clamor for the use of the word “gold.” The convention Is so decided on the question that the matter of McKin- ley or anti-McKinley is not directly in- volved in it, though the anti-McKinleyites are availing themselves of the conflict of opinion to annoy their opponents. By unit- ing In a demand for the use of the word “gold” the anti-McKinley people have an issue te fight for, though their candidates are all defeated, and pérhaps to an oppor- tunity to claim that their fight was not fruitless. bs No one claims that there is any differ- ence in meaning between the expression “present gold standard” and “present standard.” New Yorkers Friendly to McKinley. Depew, Warner, Miller, McCook and other New York men, who are at heart friendly to McKinley and want to make the way as easy as possible for him, say that a declar- ation in favor of the “present standard” in connection with an avowal of antagonism to the free coinage of silver at any ratio is entirely satisfactory. As far as the opposition to McKinley is concerned, the issue is entirely one of plat- form. The talk of Platt’s effort to beat McKinley shows a misapprehension of the situation. It has been a good many weeks since either Mr. Platt, Mr. Quay or Mr. Lodge has had any idea of beating Mc- Kinley for the nomination. The nomination {s no longer at Issue. The presentation of the names of other candidates has become merely an incident. ‘TYhe pictures of Reed, of Allison, of Morton and of Quay are posted about as conspicu- ously as are those of the Ohio candidate, but the placards announce, not “We're for or “We're for Quay,” but “Wo are (Continued on Ninth Page.) The plai th Dit- | SALE SET ASIDE Important Decision in Washington En- dowment Association Oase. Policy Holders and Creditors Have the First Claim—New York Concern Appeals. Judge Cox today, in the matter of the long-pending controversy over the assets of the Washington Beneficial Endowment Association, rendered a decision of great interest to the parties involved. He set aside the sale of the local concern’s prop- erty and business to the Commercial Al- liance Insurance Company of New York, in August, 1894, and referred the cause to the auditor of the court. It will be remembered that the sale was made for the sum of $14,000, the New York company agreeing, it was claimed, to as- sume and carry on the business of the local association. Both concerns were subse- quently placed in the hands of recetvers, those of the Washington association being A. A. Lipscomb and Thomas M. Fields. In proceedings instituted here the sale of the property was made for the sum of $22,000. Thereupon’ the receivers of both concerns sought to recover the amount, vs did the policy holders in and the creditors of the home association. Had First Claim. While Judge Cox expressly exonerated Mr. Lawience Gardner, the secretary of the local association, and his stockhold- ers from actual fraud in the matter of the sale, yet he thought constructive fraud was apparent. The sum of $14,000, the judge thought, was about half of the vaiue of the building. That amount, it seem to the court, instead of golag to tke pay ment of the creditors and policy holders. of the local association, was paid over to the stockholders. The creditors and policy holders, sid Judge Cox, ha? a first Hen on the sum. The judge remarked that the New York company appeared to have of- fered the policy holders nothing, requiring them, in fact, to pay higher rates, and making the rates liable to an increase. So that the policy holders could roi well know where they stood. He also thought the new policies were void, and could not be renewed because of their terms being too indefinite. As against the policy holders and creditors of the local concern, the judge thought the New York company has no claim for the $14,000 paid by it. The judge left the question of how the policy holders and creditors of the local as- Sociation shall take possession for future consideration, referring ghe cause to the auditor of the court for a statement of ac- counts between the various parties. On behalf of the New York company, Mr. Fields gave notice of an appeal to the Court of Appeals. —_— SPEAKER REED. He Will Remain Here During the St. Louis Convention. Speaker Reed will not leave the city to- ay, as has been expected, and it is thought that he will be here for three or four days. He will remain at the Shoreham until he gces north, and will receive the returns from the St. Louts convention at his hotel. Mr. Reed's family is still in the city, and will stay here until he gces away. The Speaker's interest in the proceedings of the convention ts naturally great. The presence of the Speaker will be gratifying to a host of newspaper men, who have found news scarce since the adjournment of Con- gress. Mr. Reed {s in communication almost hourly with J. Frank Aldrich, Senator Lodge, Joseph Manley and others. Speaker Reed had intended to go to New York and remain a short time with his friend, Col. A. J. Payne, but found it nec- essary to stay here a few days longer. When he leaves here he will probably go direct to Portland, Me. eee ae REPRESENTATIVE ABBOTT INJURED He Receives a Bad Fall While “Shoot- tng the Chate.” | Representative Abbott of Texas, who was injured at River View yesterday, is suffering intense pain today, but the opin- ion of the attending physician is that he will rapidly improve, and that no perma- nent injury has been sustained. Judge Abbott, Judge Culberson of Texas and several friends went to River View yesterday to spend the afternoon. Judge Abbott and his friend, Mr. Moreland, con- cluded to “shoot the chute,” and got into the boat, accompanied by two others. The descent was made without incident, but as the boat touched the water and rose into the air, Judge Abbott's hat blew off. He involuntarily released his grasp of tha bars he held to catch the hat, and was thrown high into the air, falling on a seat in the boat and striking on the small of the back. He was unable to rise, and it was seen that he was badly hurt. A stretcher Was procured, and he was removed to It, later being brought to the city on the steamer Pentz, from which he was re- moved to his rooms at the Metropolitan Hotel, preferring not to go to a hospital. Dr. Van Ressler and Dr. Collins attended Judge Abbott last night. He was suffering from frequent convulsive pains, and the lower part of his body and legs were par- alyzed. This morning Judge Abbott could move his legs, but not without excrutiating pain. The convulsive pains were of shorter duration and not so frequent as last night, showing an improvement in his condition. Dr. George M. Carlisle, Judge Abbott's regular physician, was with him this morn- ing. Dr. Collins thought there was no danger of complete paralysis, and did not think the spinal column was permanently injured. Judge Culberson, the close personal friend of Judge Abbott, is in constant at- tendance. Both had intended to leave for Texas today. Judge Culberson could not be induced to follow his colleague into the chute. —- 2+ Personal Mention. Adjt. Gen. Ruggles returned this morning from an official visit to West Point. Chief Engineer C. W. Rae of the Naval Academy fs In the city. Chief Clerk Tweedale of the War Depart- men has returned from a visit to Asbury Park and Lake Mahonk. Lieut. H. F. Jackson, unassigned, is in the city on leave of absence. Lieut. F. J. Kernan, 2ist Infantry, is at the Ebbitt. The many friends of Passed Assistant Engineer F. M. Bennett, United States navy, of the United States steamer Am- } eget will regret to learn of the loss he as sustained In the sudden death of his father, Judge Wm. P. Bennett, which oc- curred on the llth instant at Cassopolis, Mich., where for thirty years he has been judge of the probate court of Cass county. Mr. Earl H. Foust, now a student of Hillsdale, Mich., College, returned to Wash- ington this morning for a few weeeks’ visit with his friends and parents. Rev. L. F. Williams, rector of Christ Church, Southeast Washington, is spending his vacation at Asbury Park, N. J. He will be absent about two months. Lieut. Commander Sturdy Here. Lieut. Commander Edward W. Sturdy, who was suspended from. duty on the Olympia, flagship of the Asiatic station, on conviction by court-martial of absence without leave, visited the Navy Depart- ment today by special permission of the Secretary of the Navy. Heé is residing at Annapolis. TO DEPOSE PLATT Attempt to Make Chauncey Depew the New York Leader. SAVAGE ATTACK ON WARNER MILLER A Recess Until Three O'c'ock Was Hastily Taken. STATE DELEGATION MEETINGS eng ST. LOUIS, June 15.—The meeting of the New York delegation today was marked by an attempt to retire Thomas C. Platt, and the surprise was so great that the Platt adherents were forced to take a re- cess until 3 o'clock this afternoon in order to marshal their. forces. When the delegation was cnillad to order it was understood that Chaunccy M. De- pew was to be named as chairman of the caucus, and that Mr. Platt was to he se- lected as chairman of the delegation. There was not a shade of surposition that there would be any opposition. But Warner Miller had been in conference all morning with the McKiniey managers and with Mr. Matthews of Buffalo, and when the double proposition was made he was upon his feet in an instant. “I move, Mr. Chairman, that the name of Mr. Depew be substituted for that of Mr. Platt,” he said. Surprise was written on all faces, and even Mr. Depew seemed taken aback. “I do this because the most distingulsied man on this delegation has been entirely neglected,” said Mr. Miller. There were cries of “No,” and a motion was at once made to divide the question. Mr. Depew was then selected as chair- man of the caucus by a unanimous vote. The question was put as to the selection of Mr. Platt as chairman of the delegation, and then Mr. Miller renewed his motion to substitute Mr. Depew’s name. Mr. Depew sat silent, but Congressman Quigg, in opposing the substitution, at- tacked Mr. Miller in a vigorous and almost vicious manner. He said in part: ‘Mr. Miller knows that Mr. Platt and Mr. Depew are at this time working in har- raony, and he takes this peanut politician's chance to try and make discord. This body will not sustain one whose attitude toward the instructions of the last republican con- vention in New York is open to doubt and suspicion.” Refore Mr. Miller could answer Quigg, Frederick S. Gibbs had obtai recognition and moved that ihe delegation take a recess until 3 o'clock this after- Chauncey M. Depew. noon. In making this motion Gibbs char- acterized Miller as a “chronic kicker,” a “wagner of dirty Hnen” and “political out- cast,” and several other like characteri- zations. Mr. Miller was rot allowed to respond to their attacks, but a recess taken until 3 o'clock. The meeting over, Mr. Miler went to Hanna’s room. It is thought that Mr. Mil- ler’s move is toward the nomination of Depew for Vice President, and that the Oklo people may be willing to ossist him. Alabama. The Alabama delegation met at 10 a.m. and-effected crgaaization without delay, electing the following officers C. W. Buckley; secretary, a Harina vice president of the convention, John W. Jones; resolutions committee, John A. Cas- ten; credentials committee, N. H. Alexan- der; permanent ozganizaiion, I. Dawson; notification of vice presidential nominee, W. R. Pettiford. D. D. Shelby, Cof. D. Wickesham and Wm. Vaughn were chosen a committee to look after contests from Alabama. Col. Wm. Youngblood was unanimously re-elected rational committeeman from Alabama. Mr. H. V. Casten, the Alabama platform committeeman, is urreservedly in favor of the platform declaring for sound money. California. The California delegation arrived at 92! this morning and took quarters at the Southern. They were accompanied by about fifty other persons. They were four days and nights making the trip, but all of them came in in good spirits, declaiming for “McKinley and protection.” So far only the member of the committee on creden- tials has been chosen, that place being given to George A. Knight. A meeting will be held during the afternoon to make the other assignments. Montana, The Montana delegation, which is at the Southern, has so far only selected ita na- tional committeeman. That is given to Charles R. Leonard. The North Carolina delegates met this morning at the Laclede and selected Senator J. C. Pritchard as chairman of the delega- tion. They then adjourned until 4 o'clock. National Committeeman N. W. Cuney of Texas says that if the national committee does not seat his friends, who are prosecut- ing their contests this morning, he will carry the fight into the credentials commit- tee and the convention. If the result at the meeting of the state delegation today is against him, Cuney says that he will make a statement, which, he intimates, will be sensational, as to the partisanship of the national committee. Louisville to Try Again. The fifth, or Louisville, district of Ken- tucky will make another effort this morn- ing to reopen the case recently decided in “favor of Todd and Sapp, the McKinley delegates. An effort is being made to se- cure a rehearing for Roeder and Knoebel, the Bradley delegates. Since Bradley's withdrawal there is no issue but the elec- tion of agiational committeeman and the organization of the delegations. Washington's delegation, from the state of Washington, has made the following selection of officers of the convention from that state: Chairman delegation, G. P. Emerson; member natlonal committee, P. C. Sullivan; committee on resolutions, A. F. Burleigh; credentials, J. M. Gilder! permanent organization, H. A. Fairchild: rules L. 8. Carver; on notification, H. L. Wilson; honorary secretary, Albert Gold- man. Mr. Burleigh, the member of the committee on resolutions, is favorable to gold. A Prominent Delegate. ‘The Wyoming delegation has not yet ar- rived, but is expected tonight. Judge Van- demeter, who was to have headed the dele- gation, is reported to be dangerously ill. He was to have also become a member of the national committee, Powell Clayton to Continue. The Arkansas delegation will hold its meeting late today. It is practically de- cided that Mr. Powell Clayton will be con- tinued as member of the national commit- J. Slont Fassett. tee and that Judge McClure will represent the delegation in the comiittce on reso- lutiors, Mr. McClure is a gold standard man, The Minresota delegaticn this morning came out strong for a declaration in favor of the maintenance of the gol@ standard. ‘They instructed ex-Goy. Merriam, the rep- resentative of Minnesota on the committee or resolutions, to insist on a straight gold plark and pledged the eighteen votes ot the delegation in the convention to stand by him to the end. Representative Charles ©. Towne is infuriated over the action of the delegation and cpenly declares that in case a gold plank is placed in the platform he will stump the state for silver. The following selections were made by the delegation: National committeeman, vernor L. F. Hubbard: resolutions, overnor W. R. Merriam: credentials, W. P. Hunt; permanent organizatio® L. S. Swenson; rules, C. L. Sanderson; Vice President, C. F. Henry; notifications, Wil- fam MceNichols; chairman of delegation Charles A. Pillsbury. Caucus on Money. The Indiana delegation was one of the first to complete {ts caucus, and with scarcely any oppositton it declared against the use of the word gold in the proposed platform. ‘The delegates were instructed by practi- cally unanimous yote to advocate the adop- tion of the money plank of the Indiana platform, with the reference to the ratio of 16 to i omitted, W. T. Durbin, a prominent banker of An- derson, was chosen a member of the na- tional committee to succeed ex-United States Treasurer J. N. Huston. Mr. Hus- ten retired without any effort to retain his place on the cqmmittee. Maj. Ross of Connorsville,. and other delegates, who were expected to*support lim, found that the ex-treasurer had-no desire to remain on the committee, and Mr. Durbin was prac- tically elected with but few opposing votes. Gen. Lew Wallace of Crawfordsville was chosen member of the committec on reso- lutions, and the delegates then took a re- cess untii 2 o'clock, when the question of a vice presidentjal ‘candidate will be dls- cussed. Oregon Decinres for Gold The Oregon delegation, at a meeting this morning, adopted the following resolution for gold, and will submit it to the national committee on resolutions: “The republican party has always been the advocate of honest money; it points with pride to its financial record during the greenback movement. It was opposed to greenback Inflation then; it is opposed to silver inflation now. We believe that every dollar issued by the government should have the same purchasing power as every other dollar. We are, therefore, in fayor of the maintenance of the present gold standard, and, except through interna- tional agreement, we are opposed to the free or unlimited coinage of silver.” In addition to the above declaration for the maintenance of the gold standard the delegation also adopted a resolution in- dorsing Senator Mciride for his action in opposing free silver in the United States Senate. The Oregcn men made the following se- Jections: National committeeman, George A. Steel; vice president of the convention, Colbreath; resolutions, S. credentials, Wallace MeCattmant; perma- nent organization, J. W. Meldrum; notifi- cation, Charks Hilto! irman of dele gation, Charles Parrish; secretary, R. A. Booth. The Michigan delegation this morning elected the foliowing committeemen: Cre- dentials, Gen. O. L. Spaulding; rules, John P. Starkweather; organization, Frank W. White; resolutions, Mark Brew national committeeman, George L. Malt: notifica- tion, Thomas J. O’Brien; vice president, Wm. McPherson; chairman of delegation, R. A. Alger. The Michigan delegation had a long dis- cussion cn the financial plank, Gencral Alger and Capt. Allen represenzing the tw extremes, the former favoring a straight declaration for géld and Captain Allen ap- pealing for free silver. The majority of the delegation, however, believed in steer- ing a middle course, and expressed the opinion that the plank should declare for the mage the present monetary ch system, gol@ silver and paper, but avoid a specific decifration for the gold standard. The Masa&chusetts lected the Mollowing commitieemen: tional comfaltteeman, of Boston; resolugfons, Senator Lodge; Vice President, Curtis Guild, jr., of Boston; com- mittee on cédentials, Jesse M. Gore of Bos- ton; permaient organization, R. R. Harris of Bridgewater; rules, W. M. Butter of New Bedford; tq notify presidential nominee, M. V. B. Jefferson of Worcester; to notify vice presidential candidate, W. J. Hale of New- buryport. delegation have se- Na- George H. Lyman —_—~__ FITZHUGH LEE’S INFLUENCE. He Exerts It Again to Prevent Span- ish’ Brutality. According to a dispatch to the New York World from a staff. correspondent in Ha- vana, Consul General Lee prevailed upon Gen. Weyler to prevent the contemplated expulsion within éight days of all persons on the Carmen plantation, near Matanzas, in Sabanilla, owned by Alfredo Hernandez, an American citizen. It is sald that pre- vious to this order of expulsion four ne- groes who were sowing corn on the Carmen plantation were shot down by the local Spanish guerrillas, who also killed a white tenant named Gelodonia Cruz on the Car- men estate. Two-houses occupied by white tenants were also burned, the Spaniards saying that since the rebels burned Spanish towns they would destroy Cuban houses. The same dispatch states that Spanish troops took two small boys named Manuel Jimnez and Fernando Viga from their houses in Sabanilla and Killed them, Ru- mors are current in Havana of the landing of filibustering expeditions on the shores of the island. The Commercio of Havana, which is the organ of the grocers, has pro- posed that a wail for the purposes of de- fense be ibuilt around the city, the labor of refugees to be employed and the cost to be defrayed. at private expense. ae Bank Clarter Extended. “The controller of the currency has au- thorized the Centerville National Bank of Maryland of Centerville, Md., to extend its corporate existence until June 13, 1916. TWO CENTS. THE STAR BY MAIL. of Persons leaving the city for any period can have The Star mailed to them to any address in the United States or Canada, by ordering !t at this office, in person or by letter, or posial card. Terms: 13 cents per Week; 25 cents for two weeks, or 50 cents per month. Invariably in ad- vance. Subscribers changing their address from one Post-oflice to another should give the last address as well as the new one. IN A DREARY DRIZZLE|GONE 4-FisHiING Rain Dampens Outdoor Enthusiasm at St. Louis, es TOWN PLACARDED WITH GCLD DEVICES Likelihood of Si'ver Bolt Seems Less Threatening. oe TALK AMONG THE DELEGATES ST. LOUIS, June 15.—The President mak- ers woke today to a dreary drizzling of rain, which fell ke a wet blanket over the gaudy street dezorations, and repressed whatever tendency there migit have been to demonstrative «nthusiasm of the sort which on the day before cropped out sufli- ciently to give an cld-time convention air to the city. There were no bands in evi- dence, nor any marching, nor shouters; the delegations and clubs which had pulled into the depots during the early hours preferring to remain in their trains or take to the street cars rather than march over the muddy pavements. About the corridors of stale cigar smoke hung he itor ed citizens from back fcrgotten to go to bed, rabbed their eyes and looked about for the arrival of the lenders, who were late in putting in their appearance at the headquarters of the states. An early stroke of enterprise was seen at the Massachusctts parlors, colored men deposited several the big hotels v: d medal- ates, who had to ve bales Senator Teller. posters, samples of which they proceeded to paste on every available space. These Festers were of an aggressive yellow hue, which caught the eye from a dis! and their flaming red letters announced that “We're for gold." The Massachusetts men have resorted to this spectacular device to impress their financial views upon the con- vention, intending also to placard the town with their announcement, and to keep in circulation the bauner with the allitera- tion, “Solid as gold for Reed. “Sold as Reed for gold.” A Group of Silver Men. The reverse of the financial picture was furnished by the silver men, who were emong the earliest to gather in the lobbies of the Planters’, retreating to an alcove, where a dozen of them drew their chairs irto a circle for corsultation. In the group were Hartman of Montana, a Congress- man and also a delegate; ‘Towne of Min- nesota, another member of Congress, who carries no convention credentia came a free lance, to forward the cause white metal, although his state ¢ is pledged to gold; Bryan, the N democrat, one of the silver wheel horse the last Congress, who stands ver to Bland, as well as sundry lesser light While turning a cool.face to the intervie er at this stage of their cam: ant them to be right or to be which, from the silver point of v bears the interpretation that the con- ntion is desired to make a 16 to 1 free coinage plank or to adopt the single gold standard. Their early morning efforts were turned to the attempted conversion of several southern delegates whose money predilec- Mr. tions still bear an interregation point. Towne doubts the ability of the republi to poll anything approaching their normal majority in Minnesota cn any platform which does not do something for silver. A Day of Pintform Agitation. Today promises to be one of platform agi- tation. The three-cornered tight has drawn the lines very sharply. The men from the east. who are demanding gold in the plat- form, are very determined, and such men as Platt, Lodge and other opponents of McKinley seem to feel that they are plac- ing McKinley in a hole by insisting that an emphatic gold declaration shall be made. Their program ts to force the fight in the committee on resolutions, and, if they cannot win in the committee, to carry it to the floor of the convention. Lodge, the Reed manager, is to lead the fight for a gold “declaration. If it is not granted he and his friends and other Reed men have a faint hope that the refusal to put gold in the platform will solidify the gold vote on Reed. But the fact that so many McKinley men are for gold gives rise to the hope that the gold men may be suc- cessful. It_has been the effort of the friends of MeKinley to avoid a fight on the floor of the convention between the two factions, preferring the single standard and against free coinage. There has been a drift to- ward a moderate expression in favor of gold, and there is quite a pressure from several states for a declaration against free coinage, and not to have the word gold used in the platform at all. Senator Lodge, who drafted a gold declaration, and it is indorsed by repre- sentatives of a number of states, has been pressing his plank with a great deal of persistency,and has irritated some of those who would prefer a milder declaration. Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio said this morn- ing: “We know that there is being a great effort made to force a certain form of declaration. The probabilities are that no one will know what the financial plank will be until the committee on resolutions re- port. It may be that the fight as to the form of the resolution will be carried to the convention. The financial plank Will be what we want, and that is all there is to it.” The Question of Bolt. The silver men were at first disposed to aid the ultra-gold men in securing the straightest Kind of a declaration, but there is an indication that they are not quite so enthusiastic in that direction as at first. There are some who seem anxious to make a dramatic exit from the conven- tion hall, but a count up to date finds a number of waverers and the probability that there would be representatives of ail delegations left on the floor makes the Proposed grandsiand play seem a little doubtful as to the effect. There is a dis- position toward moderaiion among some prominent silver men which may make the bolt less pretentious than advertised. Among the Anti-McKinley Me: In the headquarters of all of the candi- Gates for the presidency who are opposed to Mr. McKinley trere was this morning (Continued on Fifteenth Page.) where Ls The President Left funday Night to Catch Trout Near Leesburg. No Information as to the Thirteen Accompanied by Internal Revenue Com- missioner Miller, President Cleveland left the city quietly last evening in a special car over the Washington and Ohio rail- rcad for a day’s fishing in the fine trout preserves of Mr. Haerrison, just outside Leesburg, Va. The President's departure was not made known urtil this morning, when it became necessary, in order to ex- plain how it was that he could not receive certain nigh officiais who called at the White Houre to consult him on public bus- Billx—Several Pardon Cases Acted On. iness. It is said at the White House that the President will return to the city this evening. This brief outing on the part of the chief cxecutive is accepted as an indl- cation that he will nat be able to go to Gray Gables as scon as was expected. There are many important matters await- ing the President's immediate action, and it is expected that their consideration will detain him at the capital for at least a wk longer. Those Thirteen Bills. No information was vouchsafed toda regard to the thirteen bills which were un- acted upor by the President en Con- gress adjourned last Thursday, and while the presumption is strong that they all suffered the fate of a “pocket veto,” that point will not be clearly estabiished until the acton upon them is ofhcialiy an- nounced. In the absence of int to the contrary, the impression is growin shat some cf them may possibly have been approved. Executive Clemency. Before Icaving he granted pardons in the following cases: Charles Lawrenc has served five yeai e tence for falsifying the books of a rational bank in Pennsylvania; George Gar convicted in New York of embezzling let- ters; Davis C. Burke, convicted in Califor. nia of impairing United States gold cx Thomas Carder, convicted of count ing. The sentence in the case of Os: Hill, convicted in Utah of making fal tries in national bank entries, has commuted from ten to five ve has also commuted from ten to se the sentence imposed on Jonn Grind in Kansas for manslaughter. MALLPOX IN CUBA, It is Epidemic in Several Cities on the Island. Reports received by Surgeon General man of the marine hospital corps in- dicate that smallpox is raging in Cuba, and that it has assumed a far wider prevalence than. yellow fever, the hereditary enemy of the dwellers in that island. Under date of June 6, D. M. Burgess, sanitary inspector of the service at Havana, reported as follows: “Notwithstanding the hot, rainy weather which is now prevailing here, yellow fever is still almcst entirely confined to the Spanish troops, there hav- ing been nine deaths among tiem from that disease in the military hospital during the last week and none anywhere else in the city. Smallpox still exists here to a con- siderable extent, as also in many other places in the western haif of the island, and in Cienfuegos it is an active epidemic, nty to thirty, I am inform M which has b The latest report from San is dated May 2, and is from Dr. H. Caminero, sanitary inspector at that port, as follows: “For the week ended the mortality has be: ; of these, from smallpox, 2 from yellow feve typho-malaria, 5 from tuberculo dysentery, 3 from pernicious fev entero-co 12 from remitt the rest from common dise chronic, of non-contagious ch “Smallpox can now be considered epidem- ic, as the cases are many in number and are not confined to a determined quarter of the city, but are scattered all over U: iown, and the number of invasions incre: In one house alone there are es. Yellow fever still prevails more or although the mortality has somewhat Malaria in all its causing great havoc the population, and dysentery is of many deaths. The rainy + last set in, and, owing to th prevailing, bowel complaints mon, especially among the children, unde the form of entero-colitis of severe ty} The United States consul 2 under date of June is deaths from smallpox in that city ing the week ended May 31, 18%6, an In- crease of 12 as compared with the previous week. Under date of May 25, 1896, the United States consul at Sagua la Grande reports that yellow fever is on the increase amongst the troops at Sagua, but states that the number of cases is not given. ————— GOING NORTH AGAIN. 10 wer 3 from 6 from 8 from nt fever, and acute and acter. forms and among Lieut. Peary Has Secured the Wh: ing Steamer Hope. Lieutenant Peary, the intrepid arctic ex- plorer, is rapidly completing his arrange- ments for his forthcoming arctic expedi- tion, and has chartered the steamer Hope, which is said to be one of the finest ves els in the Newfoundland whaling fleet. She 1s commanded by Captain John Bart- lett, who was in command of the relief expedition lust year. The Hope, which is larger than any ship that has gone into the arctic of recent years, is stanchly built and possesses generous accommoda- tions, so that she will be abundantly able to not only convey the two scientific par- ties that have already been foymed to accompany her, but can also take two or three other’ scientists who desire te take advantage of the exceptional oppor- tunity afforded them in the complete tour of Davis straits and Batfin's bay, whigh thd Hope will make. Lieutenant Peary will reach New York, from St. Jchns, today, and conclude the details of the expedition, which will sail from Sydney, Cape Breton, about July 10. Meantime the Hope will be thoroughly overhauled and fitted with a new shaft . A Naval Court of Inquiry. A naval court of inquiry is in session in New York city investizating charges made against the commander and other officers of the ram Katahdin by a machinist named Hogel, who is said to be supported in his action by several members of Con- gress. The charges are that the officers in question are intemperate in their habits, and that they recently subjected the a cuser to unnecessarily harsh and cruel treatment for a trifling misdemeanor. The court is composed of Capt. W. S. Schley, Capt. J. H. Sands and Chief Engineer C. Andrade, with Lieut. R. H. Lane of the marine corps as judge advocate. petri mice Naval Move! The Amphitrite has arrived at Brunswick, Ga. The Alert left Manzanilla today for San Blas. The New York and Katahdin left Tompkinsville this morning for the navy yard, Brooklyn, where they are to be docked, preparatory to their summer cruise. FIGHT ON THE TARIFF Foraker Declares Against the McKinley Bill. SENSATION AEC! G PENNSYLVARIANS Quay and Magee Unite in a Re- monstrance. TO GO INTO THE CONVENTION —-+ Special From a Staff Correspondent. ST. LOUIS, June 15.—The sensation of the day, and one that is rapidly develop'ng into a great big crisis, is the issue raised by Jos. B. Foraker of Ohio on the tariff qu tion. enator Foraker, who, of course. garded as representing Mr. position even as much as Mr. Manz is re- NecKinley’s do. comes out today in a statement over his own signature, in which he says tariff plank will be a distinct declara in fa- vor of protection to American inaustries and to American labor, but that will rot mean that it will favor the re-enactment of the McKinley tariff law. ‘That law will never be re-enacted. Conditi have chang: them. Mr. Foraker’s ut sensution in all sect i, and tariff rates must change with jons of the the utmost consternation ameng the ex- treme high tariff men, especially eyl nians. It has n known fc days that the \ men ng taking a very mo upon the tariff, ar intimat fect were car Week. As soon as that impression the extreme high tariff men, head. ied in these lis: abroad the . B. Quay and ase to Pennsylvania leaders, such as hris. Magee, began to exert th prevent wh termed a “back-down” on the tariff. T ascertained first the strength of the sentiment for a moderate tariff among the McKinley lea: found to thelr uiter dismay that Mr. if. and Foreker hau i minds irrevc in the direct he poli- is sup- pose! to echo the feelings of the great farming section oi the Mississippi vallcy eas These men have continu- e iriuds of M with the defeat of “he re- of the McKinley bil, sented that the people of great mu section of the 1 not stand the imposition upoi selves of a tariff signed for the iron steel and industries of Sugland, storm of indignation and fiery pro- which has come from the high tariff ple as a ry can hardly It of the Foraker be described. selves with d the other 1 a direct respe ef the high tari the platform, knew what was coming yee All day long and far Into the night lust night they labored with the sicKinley managers, pleaded with them, and begged ard threatened by turns. Their argument was that the p t Mo- ra- boom was absolutely and tl sentiment and pone other, ant t was the earnest desire of the Amer- n people for a return to old standards of republican principles, of which the pro- tariff was the ke: Thsy teunted the McKinley men the fact that even the states ef the industrial new south were firm in their demi tariff and exprersed surpri new south set th But the McKinley men were They would not budge an inch, r deciaration was the rest the gold stand. that Onio ¢ ace on the obdurate, und the The high tariff men will carry the fight into the cogvention. Tt will be as import- i issue before the convention as the y question, and will be fousht with as much bitterness as the t or the gold standard will be wag of Mas- sachusetts and his asso The Reed Boom. fhe Reed boom, diminutive but virile, is very much in evidence today. The Matne headquarters are in full blast, the Maine shouters make up for their lack cf numbers by their strength of lungs, and Maine but- tons, badges and emblems are distributed with lavish hand. In the b quarters, in the corridors and throughout theo! the Maine rooters are making lots of noise, aud upstairs Senator Lodge, Murr of Massachusetts and the oth of the big Speaker's boom are putting in their work at wire pulling. If McKinley wins, the Maine boom will disappear with the Consciousness on the part of its advo- cates that they have not moved one jot from their original position, Of course, they disavow Mr. Manley’s action and make the claim that the Reed outtit will be feund at the general rounc-up without @ single man dismounted. One thing that the Reed people will accomplish wiil be to link the Speaker's home inseparably with gold and high protective tariff, and ail stanch republican principles under the guic 2 of Senator Lodge of Massachusetts. They are establishing a record for the Maine man which will put him in brilliant contrast to the successful candidate, if the latter fe nominated upon a platform which is equiv- cal or ambiguous in the least degre The Reed boomers want to have it said when this convention ts over that their can- didate stood out before the country as the ideal, the unflinching and unswerving rep- resentative of the highest principles of re- licanism. They are making a histor; + Reed, and accentuating, the fact, whic! was known before, that he was a man whom politicians and bo: could not have swayed, and who would have led the re- publican party away from the unstable and ursafe ground into which some of the trim- mers would have it wend its way. The Reed managers are also devoting them- selves to efforts to prevent any straggling from the Reed camp on the part of weak brethren, attracted by the glamor of the band wagon. ———— Tribute to the Dead Emperor. POTSDAM, June 15.—This being the ane niversary of the death of Emperor Freder- ick, father of Emperor William, the em- peror and empress visited the deceased monarch’s mausoleum and laid a wreath, tied with ribbon, and inscribed With their names, on the tomb. The emperor an&® empress remained there some time in prayer,