Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1896, Page 1

= THE EVENING STAR. ae PUBLISHED DAILY EXCHPT SUNDAY, See ee, ilol venue, Cor . Star Ne Company, = Freaing Sor ene Pret Row York Offoe 49 Potter Building, ‘The Hvening Star fe xerved to subscribers in the city by carriers, 08 thelr own account, at 10 cents per week, of 44 cents yor mouth, lea at the Pounter # conte each. iy mall—aaywhere in the United States or Canada—pettage prepaid—30 wt Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 with Terelgn postage nied, RROD nO) DSF Teer (Entered at the Post (dice at Washington, D. C., "E> All mall saterciotloas tuat be pald ta advance, sulweriptto . Rates of advertising made Known on application. FUSION IMPOSSIBLE Democratic Leaders Do Not Expeot That With the Populists. cents THE MIDDLEOFTHEROAD MEN Southern Democrats Must Be Taken Into. Consideration. INDEPENDENT TICKET —— AN ¥t is not balleved that the democratic leaders anticipate any general fusion with the populists as @ party. It is understood that there was no rescrvation whatever in Bryan's declination of the populist nomin: ticn on a ticket with anybody but Sewall. No doubt Is felt that he will repest the declination if a populist notification ccm- mittee waits upon him. In the judgment of men whose advice he must rely op dur- ing the campaign, and seemingly in his own judgment, there is nothing short vf that left open to him. It has been made evident that any course on his part which would be satisfactory to the middle-of-the- road populists would entirely discredit him with most of the old-line democrats, though they be silver men. It is not thought that he ever contemplated such a course, nor that it has been expected of him by the democrats who sought to cap- ture the populist convention or even by the populist leaders who are Bryan men. The Bryan men in the St Lou's convention and those whom they represent are silvar mea rather than populists for this occasion. The anti-Bryan, cr middle-of-the-road, men are populists rather than silver men, and many of them fear that the free coimage of silver would postpone and probably defeat altogether that which they want above all things, an unlimited issue of unredeemable paper money by the government. To satisfy these latter Bryan would have to commit himseif to irredeemable paper money. Neither the populist leaders who advocated the nomimation of the democratic ticket nor the democrats anticipate his doing this, Por Is it thought possible that he could or woul dump Sewall. Nor is if regarded as possible for the democrats to divide elec- tors with the populists when every elector accorded the populists would be a vote against Sewall Effect of Populist Support. The western populist leadeg, such as Peffer, Simpson and Allen, Ecce Bryan to get the western populist vote, no matter what Is tne outcome of the present tangle. ‘The gen-ral idea is that there will be an adjustment which yill be satisfactory to the western populists and most others who are ardcnt silver men, and that the south- ern middle-of-the-read populists will put up an independent ticket in a more or less irregular way, probably transferring Wat- soa to the head. The only southern state in.which the democrats are likely to try to make terms with the populists Is North Carclina. In the first place, It will be dif- ficult to make any terms, and, in the sec- ond place, every southern populist vote they might get through concessions would probably cost Eryan several straight dem- ocratic votes. ‘The sduthern democrats have got to be taken into consideration. Moreover, It has been made evident that there is danger of swamping the ticket by overloading it with populism, and tf too much is yielded in the effort to get populist support a very considerable body of demo- crats will come to the conclusion that the ticket has been turned over to the popu- lists, ard they will rot feel bound by party loyalty to give it their support. Many who wanted the populist indorsement of Bryan feel- already that it will be better if the populists are not too unanimous in their support of the democratic candidate. They rather court the antagonism of the south- ern middle-of-the-road men. Their calcu- lation 1s that the recent’ growth of the pop- ulist party in the south is largely due to their being joined by silver democrats who were disgusted with the Cleveland admin- istration, and concluded that free silver could 10t be hoped for through the old democratic party. All these men who have become fopulists on account of silver, they calculate, will support Bryan regardless of populist party action. If this proves true, the opposition o? the irredeemable paper populisis, they think, will be a benefit to Bryan. : An Independent Populist Ticket. Their idea is that if they can get the en- tire silve. vote of the south for Bryan It will insuc his carrying all the southern states, even with three tickets in the fleld. The party leaders will probably act on tiis idea, and the most probable thing is that there will be an independent populist ticket in the field, whose chief function will be to prove to the country that there is a distinction between the democratio and the populist parties. but which will not be ex- Pected to take many votes from Bryan in quarters where he cannot spare them. A complete fusien is practically an impossi- Dility. . —————— EXHIBITION BUILDINGS BURNED. Disastrous Fire Near Montreal This Morning. MONTREAL, Quebec, July ‘0. —The greater part of the Montreal exhibition buildings were destroyed by fire early to- day. The fire started in the power house of the Montreal Park and Island railway to the north of the exhibition buildings, while the fire brigade from that portion of the city was out in response to a third alarm for a fire in the premises of How- den, Starke & Co., wholesale hardware. Consequently when the fire apparatus reached the scene the main bufiding and mary smaller ones were burned to the giound. Quite a number of electric cars were destroyed. Tae loss will be about $150,000, ———- — é HAD TO SINK HER. The Italian Warship Roma Struck by Lightning. ROME, July 30.—The Italian armored warship Roma, of about 5,800 tons displace- ment, was struck by lightning yesterday and caught fire. The flames spread rapidly, threatening to reach the magazine, and it was found necessary to sink the ship by discharging torpedoes at her. She was Delit in 1865, was of 3,000 horse power, 262 feet long; had a speed of about thirteen knots and carried two twenty-three-centi- meter guns and a dozen rapid-fire guns of different calibers. Her armor belt was four and a half inches and her deck plating twenty-six inches thick. a ae CORRUPTION IN CHICAGO. Charges Ageinst the Police Similar to Those Made by Dr. Parkhurst. CHICAGO, July 30.—Evidence tending to substantiate wholesale charges of police corruption in Chicago ts in the possession of the Civic Federation. A movement Is on foot to secure an investigation of the police Cepartment similar to the Lexow in- Vestigation in New York, Tho charges, it is aseerted, include cific cases of extor- tion of money from the unfortunates of the otty, and of the protection of the criminal and esmi-criminal classes. Captains, lieu- tenanis, sergeants, detectives and patrol- Ben are, it is said, included in the roll of dishonor. ——$————— — Ghe Loening Star. THE STAR BY MAIL, The Star will be mailed to any address it the United States or Canada if ordered at this office in person or by letter or postal cerd. Persons leaving the city for any, period should remember this. Terms: 13 cents per week; 25 cents for two weeks, or 50 cents per month. Invariably in advance. Subscribers changing their address from one Post-office to another should give the No. 13,544, WASHINGTON, D. O©.,, THURSDAY, JULY 380, 1896—TWELVE PAGES. TWO CENTS. ic. address as well as the new one. SOME PARDON CASES A Budget Received at the White House From the President. ‘Wm. Penn Clarke's Sentence OCom- muted to One Year's Imprisonment —Simme’ Application Denied. A budget was received at the White House this morning from the President at Gray Gables. It was made up almost en- tirely of pardon cases. A pardon to re- store citizenship was granted in the case of Matthew Callahan, who completed a three years’ sentence seven years ago for concealing stolen mail matter. The President has suspended the execution of the senterce in the case of Edward Camp- bell, convicted in Minnesota of selling Hquor to Indians, pending the advice of the judge who presided at the trial as to whether or not he shall be pardoned. Applications for pardon were denied in the cases of Isaac Carter, sentenced in In- diana to one year’s imprisonment for pos- sessing cocnterfelt money; Edward B. Wil- son, sentenced in Arkansas to six months’ imprisonment and fine for embezzling money order funds; Michael F. Finnerty, sentenced In New York to two years and six months for making counterfeit coin. Clarke’s Sentence Commuted. The President has commuted to one year’s actual imprisonment the sentence of two years !mposed upon William Penn Clarke in the District of Columbia Octo- ber 7, 1898, for forgery. The indorsement In this case ts as follows: “Sentence eom- muted to one year’s actual imprisonment, to date from the time of the convict’s ar- rival at the penitentiary. This commuta- tion was granted upon the recommenda- tlon of the district attorney who prosecut- ed the convict and because of his good character before the conviction, his ap- parently .sincere repentance and out of sympathy for his mother and his wife and children.” Simms Refused Pardon. The application for pardon was refused in the case of Charles Simms, convicted In the District of Columbia of larceny and robbery and sentenced March 10, 1891, to four years’ imprisonment in the Albany penitentiary. The President's indorsement of this application ts as follows: “There is no reason for executive clemency. in this case unless it is based upon the bad condition’ of the convict’s health, and I am not fully satisfied that he should be pardoned at this time on that account.” eae A WIDESPREAD CONSPIRACY. Prisoners on the Isle of Pines Plan- ned a Revolt. HAVANA, July 30.—Details received here from the Isle of Pines, the penal settlement off this coast, show that the conspiracy to taurder the governor, Col. Berriz, and cap- ture the guardship and barracks was wide- spread. The prisoners rose when the sol- diers of the garrison were at mass, and it is possible that the plan might have suc- ceeded had it not been for the fact that a woman gave the alarm in time for the troops to be called to arms, and the insur- rection was suppressed. The twenty-one ringleaders of the revolt are likely to be severely dealt with. pe DR. JIM TAKEN TO PRISON. With His Companions Will Be Treated as Second-Class Misdemeanants. LONDON, July 30.—Dr. Jameson and his companions, Major Sir John Willoughby, Col. Reginald Grey, Col. H. F. White, Ma- jor R. White and Captain Henry. F. Coven- try, who were convicted and _ sentenced Tuesday for violating the neutrality laws in invading the territory of the South Africa republic, have been. removed to Wormwood Scrubbs prison, where they will be treated as second-class misdemeanants. The announcement yesterday that they had been made first-class misdemeanants at Helloway prison, which allowed -them to have thelr meals from outside the jail, to dress in their own clothes, to have their menial work done by the other prisoners and to have a small allowance of beer or wine, referred. to only a temporary ar- Yangement. ————— COLLIDED IN THE SHIP CHANNEL. Wrong Orders Cause a Mishap in New York Bay. NEW YORK, July 30.—The Hamburg- American line steamer Patria, Capt. Bauer, which arrived this morning from Hamburg, was run into in the ship channel, lower bay, by the outward-bound three-masted schooh- er M. A. Willey. The steamer's two after port life boats were smashed and the schooner carried away her bowsprit. Other- wise neither vessel sustained serious dam- age. As the Patria was heading up the regular ship channel, the M. A. Willey was observed heading to the eastward, with her sheets eased off. Capt. Bauer stopped the Patria and ordered the ship's engines.reversed at full speed, in order to allow the schooner to cross the ship's bows. The steamer gave the regular whistle to let her know that he was stopped and backing engines to allow her to pass. The schooner apparently un- derstood the signals, but just as she was stose on the steamer her helmsman sun- deniy put his wheel hard-a-port, so that the schooner’s bowsprit struck the steamer on the port side aft. ————— SHOT A TILL-TAPPER, A Seventeen-Year-Old Boy Killed by a New York Patrolman. NEW YORK, July 30.—Frank Wollweber, aged seventeen years, son of a barber, was killed by Patrolman Meyer just before daybreak. The officer saw young Woll- weber and two companions drop from the window of a saloon and gave pursuit. Wollweber’s companions disappeared. After calling to the young fellow to stop the patrelman fired at him and brought him down with a bullet through his head. Then the officer saw that the lad was one he had talked with only an hour or two before, and with whose father, keeping a shop opposite the police station, he was on terms of intimate friendship. The af- fair caused Meyer real grief. He is un- der suspension pending an investigation of his conduct in firing the shot. ‘Two dol- lars in change, which had been taken from the till in the saloon, was found in young Wollweber’s pockets. se A Young Highwayman Confesses. DENVER, Col.,July 30.—It has been learn- ed that one of the robbers of the stage ccach near Cripple Creek July 23 has been arrested and is now in jail at Colorado Springs under the name of Edward Bur- bank. It ‘is said that Burbank, who is twenty years old and a son of a prominent Cripple Creek merchant, has confessed. Some. of the booty was found in the back yard of a house, where Burbank told the officers it had been buried. eee Killed by an Express Train. HADDONFIELD, N. J., July 30.—Ephri- am Golver,a prominent citizen of this place, was instantly killed this morning by be- ing struck by the Atlan City express of the Camden and Atlantic road. He step- out of the way of the south-bound train directly in front of the north bound. He was sixty-five years of age. SMITH STILL HERE No Requisition Yet for the Murderer of Miss Drown. HS COLD-BLOODED BEHAVIOR Different Confessions Make His Crime Even Blacker. CITIZENS ARE EXCITED a The murder of Miss Marguerite Drown, at the home of her aunt, Mrs. Sarah Drown, at Seat Pleasant, Tuesday after- noon, was discussed throughout the city as well as in Maryland yesterday, and the horrible confession of James T. Smith, her slayer, bad the effect of intensifying the feeling against him. The crime itself, the country people thought, was forrible enough, but his confession only added fuel to the flame already kindled, and people for miles around Seat Pleasant were terri- bly enraged. When it became known that he was un- der arrest and was behind the bars at the ninth police station hundreds of people were attracted there because of a desire to get a look at the cold-blooded murderer. But Lieut. Heffner had received orders from Maj. Moore that nobody should see him, not even a representative of the local newspapers. The prisoner was only being held for another jurisdiction. Maj. Moore said he thought it highly improper that he should be interviewed last evening or even seen. And fo the order that the highly prized criminal should be kept alone where he could not be annoyed went forth. But there were exceptions to the order, for there were some-favorites among the many callers, and they were allowed to enter the sacred precincts cf the prize prisoner. ‘There was no admission fee charged, and those who passed before the iron grating behind which was the animal in human form did not even have to show cards. Who Arrested Him. Now there isa dispute going on in the police department .as to what officer really arrested the murderer. The records of the -department show that the arrest was made by Sergt. Bryan, while officers of the sixth precinct olaim. that Policeman A. J. Kim- mel is the officer who actually placed Smith under arrest. It. is true that the East Capitol street house where Smith was captured 1s in the ninth precinct, where Sergt. Bryan does duty, and he was on guard there. He was inside the house. This fact, it is asserted, was not known by Officer Kimmel, and the latter being an enthusiastic officer with de- tective proclivities, was ‘hovering about the neighborhood of the house hoping to get a glimpse of the-man in event of his appearing at the house. When: Smith’s presence there became known, so it is claimed, and when his voice was heard in the hasement and some- body said, “There he 1s now,” it 1s said that Kimmel. who is very quiet in his movements, hurried down stairs, took pos- session of the murderer and then turned him over to Sergt. Bryan. Whatever was done Lieut. Heffner of the ninth precinct did not relish the idea of Kimmel's being there, and said so. Lieut. Kelly, In whose precinct Kimmel does duty, thought that his officer had a right there, ‘and he so declared himself. Then the mat- ter was called to the attention of Maj. Moore and there it ended. The major was satisfied with the fact that the man had been apprehended, and the question of who actually caught him was a matter of minor importance. His Movements. Since the arrest was made the prisoner has done any amount of talking, in which he has made numerous confessions. These so-called confessions are so much at a variance with each other that the officers hardly know which one to accept as. the truth. It is certain, however, that he had not told the whole truth about the occur- rence in Miss Drown’s room on Tuesday when he assaulted and Killed her. The finding of the handkerchief of the mur- dered woman and the blood stains on it from the knife corroborate this part of his confession, and the finding of the knife ir the garret room, where the two farm hands were confined, turns out to have no bearing whatever on the case, for the knife which he used, as stated in his confession yes- terday, he hung on a nail in the kitchen and there left it. Then, too, the prisoner's movements after he left the house are un- certain, for according to his statement he came across the country, walking all the way to the city, and called at the East Capitol street house, where he got his sup- per, while on the other hand he was seen walking boldly along the road, making no effort at concealment, and it is said that a colored man answering his description was séen in one of the public vehicles riding from Benning to 15th and H streets north- east. While at the hcuse on East Capitol street Smith told the colored servant, who is an intimate friend of his, that he was going to the house on B street, where the search was made, but instead of going there he says he spent the night in the Capitol grounds. When he had not returned to the East Capitol street house at daybreak it was thought by some of the officers that he had probably gone up the-line of the Baltimore end Ohio railroad toward West Virginia, where he was born,’ and that there might be a repetition of the Ford ar- rest at Harper's Ferry, but others clung to the belief that he would return to the East Capitol street hcuse when he got hungry, and this proved to be the correct theory. Late yesterday afternoon Detective Lacy called at the ninth precinct station and had an tnterview with the prisoner. Lieut. Heffner went to the cell room with the de- tective anc introduced him to the fiend. Talked to Lacy. “This is Detective Lacy,” he said, “and he wants to see if you know him or if he knows you. “I think he does not know me,” came from behind the bars, “because I didn’t go around the city very much.” “You seem to be in a pretty bad posi- tion?” queried the detective. “Yes, sir; I am,” he answered, smilingly, “TI am in a bad position.” “Do you fully realize your position?” the detective next asked. “Oh, yes, sir.” came the response from the man, who was still smiling. “I know I killed her.” “They say vou got angry with the lady because she refused to kiss you,” the offi- cer said, “what about it?” . “She ought not to have gotten angry about that,” was his response, “for I had done that before.” “Then do you realize that you have got to die?” “Of course I do.” “Are you sorry for what you have done?” “Y've got a little worry on my mind, and I wish it was over. And the sooner the better. If they would take me out and kill me tonight I'd be perfectly satisfied, for then the worry would be off my mind. “My friend,” sald the detective, in dis- gust, “an awful hell awaits you unless you prepare to meet your God.” What the prisoner said in response te this the detective did not understand. “This prisoner is perfectly sane,” said Detective Lacy. “I’ve seen eleven men hanged, and he’s the coolest of ali these murderers. Jim Grady was a cool man, and: he smiled while being pinioned, but this man exceeds him in coolness.” From the conversation and conduct of Continued on Eighth Page.) BUSINESS MEN'S LEAGUE A Form of Campaigning That May Prove Very Effective, It Will Cover the Whole Country and Reach All Classes for Sound Money. ‘The campaign for sound money is not to be left to the exclusive guidance and control of the politiolans, The proposition that the question at Issue is of a business rather than of a political complexion is ac- cepted, and business men are preparing to take an earnest and organized part in the fight. Merchants, manufacturers, tankers, brokers, transportation men, all show a desire to serve the cause, and will move in their own way to do so. They expect to distribute more documents than the regular campaign committee. More erguments will be held across business counters than on stumps. More people will be reached and addressed in this way than by the orators employed to spellbind the multitude in public halls and county court houses. Belief That It Wijl Be Effective. This project is of an ambitious character, and recommends itself strongly to many leading men. It is new, and the belief is that !f properly carried out it will prove very effective. The question is of a purs- ly business nature, and whenever two or three are gathered together in the matter of trade it comes up of is own accord. It needs no forcing—no by-the-way intro- duction or apology. The merchant offer- ing for sale a pair of shoes, the manu- facturer great bales of goods, the banker negotiating a loan, the railroad manager special rates over his line, each naturally drops into a discussion of the money ques- tion with his customer, and all may in that way increase the circulation of the sound money argument. ll will do so. The arrangements to that end are now in prcsrees and by the middle of August it is intimated that the largest and most widely extended business men’s league ever organized in the United States will be in existence and at work. Can Reach All Classes. The facilities of the league for reaching all classes and conditions of men will be very great. Every commercial traveler will become a canvasser, not only for orders, but in the interests of sound money. There are hundreds of thousands of men so employed. They have their state ‘associations, their clubs, and they exert a good deal of influ- ence. Their business takes them into all of the smal] towns and trading points. They travel by rail, by boat, by bicycle, by.coun- try wagon. They have the widest acquaint- ance with people in every section of the country. These men, whose interests are allied with those of their employers, are all for sound money. Several clubs in the mid- dle states have already telegraphed their congratulations to Mr. McKinley, and are at work for him, and thelr messages are among the most highly prized of all received at Canton. The Kind of Kiterature. The literature that the business men will distribute will not be the regulation politi- cal literature—the cullings of political de- bates, and all that—but business arguments, prepared by business men for business con- sumption. These men feel that from long experience they have gotten the “hang” of reaching the every-day man on a busi- ness proposition; that at this time he may be willing to listen to them when he might draw back from a great orator or famous political expounder, At any rate, so con- vinced are the business men of all grades and all lines that this is a business man’s year, and that a great deal depends on his actvity, that they are going to set the pegs for a hard pull, and a strong pull, and a puil altogether. The league will extend from Maine to Texas, and from New York to Call- ornia. o—--—_____—_ SATOLLI'S SUCCESSOR. Prior General Martinelli to Be Papal eg Legate. ROME, July 30.—Father Martinelli, prior general of the Augustinians, has been ap- pointed successor to Monsignor Satolli, as papal delegate to the Roman’ Catholic Church in the United States. — = THE MARYLAND SITUATION. Representative Rusk Says the Demo- crates Will Have an Uphill Fight. Representative Rusk of Maryland said to a Star reporter tuday: “The situation in Maryland outside the cities is satisfactory to the democrats. In the cities, that is, iu Baltimore, the mercantile and commer- cial interests are largely against us. There is very little original silver sentiment; the democrats will support the ticket on ac- count of a feeling of party loyalty. Under the circumstances, with the republicans in power in the state and all that, it is going to be an uphill fight ‘for us.” ———— The Columbia and Passaic, A telegram ‘was received at the Navy Department this morning announcing the safe arrival at Brunswick, Ga., of the big cruiser Columbia, with the monitor Pas- salc in. tow. The monitor is to be loaned to the state of Georgia for the use of its naval militia, The Columbia will remain at Brunswick a few days only, when she will start north to join Admiral Bunce’s squad- ron in Its proposed evolutions and drills oft the coast of New Jersey. os ‘West Point Cadets’ Appointed. Cadet appointments to tNe Military Acad- emy have been issued to Harry Stovall of Athens, Ga.;- Benjamin F. McClellan of Tallalah, La.; Elmer &. Ham of Pana, Ill; Paul C. Withrow (alternate), Springfield, lll.; Harry B. Jordan of ‘Tacoma, Wash., and Henry M. Boutelle (alternate) of Olym- pia, Wash, ji ——_-+«+____ Not Anked to Hesign. The report that Henry €. Smith, United States consul at Santos, Brazil, has been asked to resign is officially denied at the State Department. Mr/ Smith is a colored man and is well known !f this city. He is an appointee of President Cleveland. He has been granted leave of absence and is now on his way home. Charges have been made agairst his.methods of doing busi- ness, but as yet no action has been taken by the department. ic ———o+—___ Lieut. Colwell Acquitted. Word has reached the Navy Department that Lieut. J. C. Colwell, executive officer of the ram Ketahdin, who was recently tried -by a court-martial at New York on a cherge of assault, preferred by a refrac- tory.servant, has been’ honorably acquitted and ‘restored to @uty. The court-martial was.ordered by Admiral Bunce, who has approved the result. - ————————~—s-—___. Babcock to Be Renominated. BOSCOBEL, Wis., July 30.—The third congressional republican convention was called to order at noon today and adjourn- ed until 2:30, when ‘Congressman Babcock will be renominated. THE SILVER PARTY Getting Down to Work at National Committee Headquarters, THE FUSING ON ELECTORAL TICKETS Ex-Chairman Mott Thinks There Should Be No Trouble. GETTING CAMPAIGN FUNDS —__+—__—__. Dr. J. J. Mott, the ex-chairman of the na- tional committee of the silver party, was at the headquarters of the party in the Corcoran building this morning for a short time. Tonight he will leave for his home in North Carolina. “Do ycu expect serous complications in the matter of fusing on the electoral tick- ets?” Dr. Mott was asked this morning by a Star reporter. “I do not see why there should be any trouble,” was Dr. Mott’s answer. “The party which refuses to fuse in a number of states will be looked upon as standing in the way of silver, and will get the worst of the bargain when the people vote in No- vember. My opinion is that the people of the courtry of all parties are too earnestly and loyally for silver to let a few poli- ticians stand in the way of a union of the silver forces. “Do you believe that Watson or Sewall will come off either ticket?” Dr. Mott answered that he had no idea what would be done in this direction, but even if each refused to get out of the other’s way he did not see why that should cause 80 much trouble. He believed that an agreement could be reached by whi the candidate for Vice President recelving the largest vote would be united upon in the electoral college, conceding, of course, the claims of the silver men that they will have a majority in the electoral col- lege. -If Sewall gets a majority of the votes cast in. November the populist elec- tors will vote for him. On the other hand if Watson gets a majority the democrais will vote for him. Preparing for Basiness. A. H. Pile, who is temporarily in charge of the silver party headquarters, is get- ting everything in shape for the work to be done by the committee. Chairman Lane is in the west and It is not known when he will be here. His business in the west is said to be more important at this time than it eould be here. He is out among the believers of the white metal raising funds with which to carry on the cam- paign. So much faith is put in his ability in that line that It is believed by those who know him that he will turn over consider- able money te the committee. Mr. Lane 4s said to hava contributed a Mberal check out of his own pocket to start off the fund with, and is also sald to have given a large check to assist in defraying the ex- Benses of the St. Louls convention. ‘Mr. Lane is the owner of the Uica gold mine in California, which is considered by same to be the largest and richest in the country. It is claimed that he has not a dellar invested in silver mines and that he is in no way interested in silver except that he believes it ought to take its place asongside gold as a money metal. Scope of Its Work. It is sald that the national committee of the silver party will undertake a work which will be peculiarly its own. It will endeavor to bring republican silver men into the fight for Bryan and Sewall. An enthusiestic member of the party said ‘to a Star repcrter that of the 734 delegates at the St. Louis convention 534 were re- publicans, and the remainder democrats and populists.. He considered this as show- ing which way the wind was blowing. “We have organizations 'n nearly every state in the country,” he said, “and before the campaigr is over not a state will be left unorganized. We are better organized in the middle western estates now than any- where else. That is where the fight is to be made and that is where our organiza- tion vill count. We confidently believe we will have enough republicans in our or- ganization before the election to carry every one of the middle western states for Bryan and Sewall. In other words, we will hold the balance of power and we will use it to elect the silver nominees.” Lots in Literature. It is understood that much of the work of the committee will be devoted to or- ganivation of the silver forces in the way of clubs, &c., but that the important mat- ter of circulating silver literature will be given prcrer attention. A large force will be employed so soon as the permanent headquarters are established, and the mat- ter of clubs and distribution of literature will be attended to almost exclusively by the committee. The committee, as stated in The Star, will co-operate as much as possible with the democratic national committea and will relicve the latter committee of much important werk. —_—___+o+_____ Trustees to Have Control. Judge Bowler, controller of the treasury, has given an opinion to the District Com- missioners, that the District inspector of buildings should not have supervision over the repairs to the Columbia Hospital, for which Congress made a special appropria- tion of $5,000. The controller says it is ap- parent from a reading of the provision that only new construction or repairs amount- ing to reconstruction, would come under the supervision of the District inspector, and that as the repairs in question are not of that character, it is his opinion that the trustees of the hospital should have full control of the disbursement of the ap- prcpriation. SS Army Orders. Capt. Johv W. Dillenback, ist Artillery, has been ordered to Catskill and Delhi, N. Y., for the purpose of sele2ting a camp- ing ground at.one of those points, or other suitable place in the Catskill mountain re- gion, during the practice marches of the battery, heretofore authorized, The following transfers in the 15th In- fantry have been made: Capt. George F. Cooke, from Company 1 to Company E; Capt. David D. Mitchell, from Company E to Company I. The following transfers in the 15th In- fantry have been. male: First Lieut. Charles G. French, from Company K to Company D; First Lieut. Alexander R. Piper, from Company D to Company K. The leave of absence of Capt. Joshua L. Fowler, 2d Cavalry, has been extended cue month. The Cushing Goes to Newport. "Tie torpedo boat Cushing, which has been lying at the Washington navy yard for severnl mor ths, left there this morring for New York on her way to Newport, where she will be stationed for the rest of the summer, for duty in connection with tcrpedo practice. She will make the entire journey by the inland passag ind will stop at New York for a few days to take on necessary stores. The Cushing has al- ready traversed this route several times, and there is no longer any doubt of its practicability for naval vessels of light draught. The trip ade by way of the Chesapeake bay, Delaware bay and Long Island sound and the intersecting canals. INTERNAL REVENUE Some Increase in the Receipts— Mostly From ‘3pirits and Tobacco. ‘The commissioner of internal revenue has just submitted to Secretary Carlisle a pre- liminary report of the operations of his Lureau for the fiscal year ended June 30. It shows that the receipts from all sources of internal revenue for the year aggregat- ed $146,830,615, being an increase of $3,584,- 587 over the receipts of the preceding fiscal year. Ths expenses approximated $4,044,- 351, and the percentage of cost af collec- ton will be 2.70, a reduction of .18 in the percentage as compared with the preced- ing fiscal year. The exact cost cannot be definitely stated until all the accounts have been received. From spirits the rece\pts were $80,670,070, an increase of $807,443. The largest item of increase under this head was from fruit spirits, where the receipts ($1,554,879) were $458,863 in excess of last year's receipts from the rame source. Retail liquor taxes also increased by $221,106, rectifiers’ taxes 58 and wholevale liquor dealers’ spe- The only decreases noted were trifling, being in the cases of manu- factures of stills amd stills themselv Revenue From Pobacco. Tobacco brought in a revenue of $30,711,- 629, which was $1,006,721 more than was derived from this source in the preceding year. There wi a general increase in all the {tems under this head, the largest being in cigarettes under three pounds per thousand, where the receipts were $2,U21,- or $357,493 more than in the preceding year. Chewing and smoking tobacco brought in $15,220,025—$323,849 mere than Cigars and cheroots thousand realize] of in the preceding year. over three pounds per $12,713,257, an increase of $103,027 From fermentei Nquors there w rived texes aggregating $43,78: $2,143,617 more than during the preceding Ale, beers and similar liquors brought in $33,139,141, an increase of $2,0094,- Shrinkage in Oleamargarine. There was a falling off of $189,778 in the taxes realized from oleomargarine, the revenue from which amounted to $1,219,43 The decrease was general in all the items under this head, the largest item being $112,817 in the direct tax on oleomargarine while retail dealers’ taxes shrunk $5 and wholesale dealers’ taxes $21 he miscellaneous receipts ‘diminished $182,600 during the year, the largest item being $122,548 decrease in the receipts from playing cards, which were only 3 During the past year 67,030,910 ga spirits distilled from other materials fruit were withdrawn ~ for which was a decrease of 7, @s compared with the pfeceding arettes to the number of 4,04: drawn out, which was 714,iS7,80) more than were consumed during the preceding year. The number of cigars and cheroots withdrawn were 4,237,755,943, an increase of 75,783,003. Chewing and smoking tob: co_was taken out to the amount of 667,137 pounds, an increase of pounds. : Returns by States. Illinois returned more internal revenue taxes than any other state, the total col- lections there being $31,973,133. New York came next in order with $21, Ken- tucky stood third, with $14,903,110, Ohio ani Pennsylvania were close together, with $11,947,729 and $11,1 8 respectively. Mis- souri, $5,859, Yland, including the Distriet of € . $5,965,805, and Wis- consin, $5,012,077. None of the. remaining states reached the five million mark in the returns. eS Se NATIVES IN REVOLT. Consul Doty Reports on Affairs at F 2 Tahit. SAN FRANCISCO,. July 30.—Jacob Lamb Dety, American consul at Tahiti, arrived in this city yesterday. In speaking of the condition of affairs in the island he said: “Quiet prevails on all the islands except- ing that cf Raitea. There the natives are in revolt against the French and have been for some time. It looks as if peace would be restored without loss of life, though. “The French have shown great tolera- tion and forbearance. They are trying to subdue the revolution without slaughter. The natives have retreated to the moun- tains and ase holding their position there. The French,instead of attacking, are mere- ly waiting for the islanders to come down and establish peace. This they are now about or the point of doing, I understand.” Consul Doty will leave for Washington in a few days. GETTING DOWN TO WORK. Socialists Realize That There Has Been Too Much Talk. LONDON, July 30.—After wasting three days in wrangling over questions arising from the inspection of the credentials of the delegates and their right to be admit- ted, the fourth session of the International Socialist Labor and Trades Union Congress was opened today in St.Martin’s Town Hall. The delegates lost no time in complaining bitterly of the sterility of the proceedings. They claimed they had been sent by “hun- gry millions” to atetnd to business and not to air their own dissensions and so play into the hands of their enemies. These complaints seemed to have consid- erable weight with the assembly, for the session was a comparatively quiet one. The report of the agrarian committee fa- voring the socialization of land was adopted. Mr. Maguire, the delegate of the socialist party in the United States, will present to- day a long.report on the history of the labor movement in the United States, in which are copious quotations from the res- olutions adopted by the socialist conven- tion on July 4, and also a declaration of the principles of the socialist trade and labor alliance. TERRORIZED BY POLICE. Law-Abiding Citizens at Crip Creek Unjustly Arrested. DENVER, Col., July 30.—A special from Cripple Creek says that a reign of terror exists in the town. It is asserted that the pelice marshal makes regular assessments on the gambling fraternity and that re- spectablo and law-abiding citizens are thrown into jail, tortured and fined without even a pretense of a warrant of authority. For several months, It is alleged, out- rageous acts Cn the part of several of the city officials have been growing more fre- quent and bold, but the special says so ccmpletely have the police terrorized the people that trey not even dared to criticise the acts of the officisls. Among those who have been persecuted are the “Boy Preach- er” Rice and his wife. —__>—_—— Col. Calvin F. Burns Dead. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., July 30.—Col. Calvin Fletcher Burns, president of the National Bank of St. Joseph and one of the state's leading financiers, died at his home here yesterday evening after an illness of two weeks. He leaves a widow and one daugh- ter, and an estate valued at $4,000,000. |MONEY TO THE FORE TARIFF WILL BE SUBORDINATED Aid of- Democrats Will Be In- vited. OUTLOOK IN MARYLAND anaes Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. EALTIMORE, Md, July 30.—Senator- elect Wellington spent a few hours this morning on his way home from New York, where he had gone to attend the confer- ence of Chairman Hanna and the other leading republicans of the east. In a conversation with The Star correspondent at the Carrollton Mr. Wellington said: “The New York meeting was highly suc- cessful ir every way. The reports heard frcm the several parts of the country rep- resented were extremely encouraging, and all present felt that the prospects of the campaign were very gratifying. My im Pression is that in the conduct of the gen- eral campaign the financial question will be pushed to the fr t and the tariff an other issics subordinated. That sueh wil be the course adopted in our Maryland campaign I can state authoritatively. We expect to poll a large vote of sound money democrats, and out of regard to their low- tariff clivities all aliusion to protec- Le, as far as it may be ssible, exclude We feel that we ront our sound money ei \. fier all, every republican feels that the tariff no place in this cam; h he may be just as strong a ¢ as ev The pres- ervation of the national « dit should b the watchword, and high ta ry will f oratory will be not oniy in rusive, but o ct Poor Judgment. Tic ganentacs When asked about the situation in Mary- land, Mr. Wellington replied: “I bellewe that our electors: ticket will be trlum= phantly the en- tire fi last few days, and ay hat any de= fection from of free coinage senti to noth- ing. We will and in addition will @ heavy sound money democratic In fact from what I can gather sure that the Maryland democracy will suffer a de- fection of at least 2% : f its vot- ing strength, and if wet. fair_pro- portion of these bolters, Mckinley and Ho- ill carey te by between 20,000 2600 major berland this after con e ia few end n he day dquar- ters hy ext week. An e repub- lican fi ual nom- {ration in >weomer is Col. Jam s in tow idacy. C the leader w is well know shore. Talbot has already a field in the person of I of Easton, who terant in the h was Ce of ¢ te during th Urited Sta a den of Som > will Lut, she i he f ken is likely to prcve an impo: in the fj ht FAIR £ Democrats in Une Special BIRMINGHAM, Anh: ¥ Over Monday's atch to The Even + July mn Said Star. A —Gen. Jas. B. Weaver, who arrived here Tuesday and was in conference all with pop- ulists and democratic workers with regard to the state election, to be held next Mon-” day, has left for his home in Iowa. Gen. Weaver was used as a go-between hetwean the democratic ard populist workers to intercede for fair elect for the latter in return for populist support of Bryan. He telegraphed yesterday for National Chatr- man Jones to come here and use his efforts to secure a square deal fer the populists a’ the polls Me Mr. Weavers hepartere is taken to mean that t ordec- ed him to keep hands off t ht in this state. Weaver ¢ to take the stump in this state of the pos- sibility of hurting Bryan’s chances in the November ele were he to make anti- democratic sp snow. Ie was assured by democra ders before left that sible would be done to have at today publishes an appeal to democrats to leave nothing undo which will con- tribute to the succe of the party. As to the result he say ‘So far as this State is concerned I may safely say the fight is won. eee He urges di ts, however, to » however, to make the majority u ently large so as to settle the question of democratic suprem- acy for years to come. : There is a gathering of democratic lead- nator Pugh, Gov. Oates Pettus are in the o - and will make speeches ta this vicinity tonight J. R. Sovereign and “Cyclone” Davis are here for the populists, and will speak evers day until Sunday. Sove 2 says that the populists all over the country will vote for Bryan, / and that Watson ani cuts no figure. She isd ALABAMA’S CAMPAIGN, Governor Atkinson Speaks for Bryan and Silver, Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 20.—Gov. At- kinsen of Georgia spoke to a packed house last night for Bryan and silver. There were many bolting gold democrats among the audience, several of whom left before the speecn was finished. His reference to Cleveland was receive silence, while reference to Senator Morgan brought loud cheers, Pros ECT IN 10WaA, McMillan Say jcan Ou ok fi DES MOINES, Iowa, July McMillan of the republic ntral com- mittee has closed a series of conferences with members of the state committee, rep- resenting the various districts. He states that the outlook for republican success in Iowa is good, and that it is increasing now daily. The committee will begin at once to distribute literature, and not later than the 15th of August will put speakers in the field. The congressional candidates are many of Chairma the Repub- them alrcady in the field, holding outdoor meetings. The democrats are also getting ready for their campaign, but they are com- pelled to await their state convention, on August 12, before making final arrange- ments. IOWA GOLD DEMOCRATS, Committeem: Martin Issues @ Call for a Conference. MARSHALLTOWN, Iov.a, July 80.—L. M. Martin, state committeeman, issued a call today for a conference of gold standard democrats at Des Moines August 4 for the purpose of organization and to svlect a rep- rerentative to attend the In!avapolis