Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1896, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. —_+—__. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. llth St, by eo £7 All mafl subecrintions must be paid in advance. No. 13,623, TWO OENTS. ESTIMATES CUT|REMOVALS NOT LIKELY Money Wanted for Navy Yards Re- duced in Amount. COMMODORE MATTHEWS’ ACTION What He Says of the Washington Yard Improvements. THOSE MOST NEEDED ——>—_—_——_ ‘A cut of two-thirds is made in the esti- metes for the maintenance and improve- ment of navy yards submitted by the vari- ous ccmmandants by Commodore Mai- thews, the chief of the bureau of yards and docks, in his annual report to the Se retary of the Navy. They asked for $6,9% 620, and he reduced their estimates Sto $2,245,043. Some of the principal items that he indorses are the following: At Bos-on, new swing gates for the dry dock, $10,000; new flooding culverts, $4,500. At New York, dredging the Wallabout near the new dock entrance, $75,000; completing the wall of Whitney basin, $18,000; building for steel storage, $20,000; grading and paving, $20 000; new plumbing, $38,000; erecting shop for machinery, $65,000; flushing culverts for the Wallabout causeway, $25,100; new boiler plant end house, $54," ‘League Island, repairing the dry dock, $64,000; repairs the west wall of the causeway, $20.54 dredging a basin for laying up ships out of ecmmission, to all, $95,000; $200,000 to be available this year; continuing sea wall, $20,000; new cranes, $6,500. At Norfolk, Va—Quay walls, $43,000; ship fitters’ shop, 340,000; dredging, $35,000; n -ksmith shep, $35,000; fire service, $1 repairs to dry dock, $15,000. At Port Royal, S.C_Grading, $7,500; fresh water supply, $3,750. At Key West—New machine shop, $30,000. At Mare Island, Cal.—Quay wall, $30,000; dredging, $20,000. At Puget Sound station—Clearing work, $10,000; wharf, $60,000; officers’ quarters, $12,000. The chief also submits an estimate of $225,000 for suitable ways and sheds for Jaying up torpedo boats, but he does not indicate the location. During the year an effort has been made to keep the buildings, dry docks, wharves, ete., at the various navy yards and sta- tions in repair and prevent decay; but ow ing fo the constant rearranging and chang- ing necessitated by new tools, and the de- mands of the construetion departments at the yards, the report says, it is only by the closest and, in most cases, an unwise econ- omy that the appropriation is made io hold out. Washington Navy Yard. The total expenditures on account of the Washington navy yard during the year were $105,339, of which $22,545 was for im- provements. The estimates for this yard for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, ag- gregate $88,479, of which $25,236 ts for im- provements, $34,500 for repairs, $23,000 for general maintenance, and $% for civil establishment. The estimates for improve- ments include $16,000 for electric plant, $2,881 for dredging in front of sea wall, $1,271 for scale house, and $4,103 for rais- ing east wall of yard. An estimate was also submitted of $25,000 for a store house for guns and mounts. Commodore Matthews summarizes the work done at the Washington navy yard during the year as follo “Quay wall has been extende: roundhouse for yard locomotive and wrecking crane has been built; electric light plant has been extended into the various buildings of the yard, new poles erected, &c.; fire hydrants have been changed to conform to the city standard; the yard wall has been extended through the marsh to within seventy feet of com- pletion; in the north end of store No. 2 rooms have been fitted up to accommodate the examining and retiring boards for offi- cers and for the steel board; doors and windows have been renewed in the old forge shop and east gun-carriage shop, jib crane in erecting shop repaired. boiler house to breech-mechanism shop repaired; quarters repaired and sanitary conditions Improved; railroad tracks have been ex- tended into store No. 2 and much track re- Paired and new elghty-five-pound rails Placed to carry the heavy locomotives of the Pennsylvania raliroad.” Needs of the Yard. In regard to the wants of this yard Com- Modore Matthews says: “The electric plant at this yard has grown to {ts present dimensions without any system, and for economy should be re- modeled. Dredging is needed at the west end of the quay wall to give a uniform depth of sixteen feet. The present scale house is an cld steamer deck house, to- tally unfit for use and beyond repair; it should be replaced by a brick buildin: The eastern boundary wall is in bad eo) dition, and by reason of the filling in along- side the wall is easily scaled, being in many Places not over six feet high; it should be raised. “A storehouse is much necded at this yard in which the very valuable guns and their mounts may be stored pending dis- tribution to ships.” —_—_<§_<§_e—____ PROVIDENCE ON HIS SIDE. Why Col. Ike Hill Thinks That Bryan Will Win. Col. Ike Hill, that genial Ohio politician, 1g imbued with the idea that providence is directing this campaign in favor of the democrats. Col. Hill leaves tomorrow for Ohio, where he will remain until he votes. He was perambulating around this morn- ing In search of an “easy thing” out of some republican in the way of a bet. “Son,” he said, in that persuasive voice of his to a Star reporter, ‘‘as certain as a sun shines occasionally Bryan is going to be elected. Nothing can stop him. Do you know I don't give a dern for reports to committees? Two-thirds of my belief as to Bryan's election comes from the fact that I am sure providence is on his side. Just look at other speakers in this cam- paign. There is Stevenson toppling over after a few speeches; Porter in New York doing the same, and a lot of others. Bryan has made hundreds of speeches, and is as fresh today as a daisy. Providence is cer- tainly with him when he can do this. No human being could endure it without some- thing other than physical holding him up.” Col. Hill has been negotiating with sev- eral of the republican managers for some bets on certain states. He already has a good deal of money on the general result, bet at long odds, on Bryan. Se Se Personal Mention. Secretary Carlisle is expected to return from Kentucky next Sunday. It is under- stood that he is not registered and there- fore cannot vote at the coming election. Senator Butler will reach this city from Chicago this evening. Secretary Francis will leave here today or tomorrow for his home in Missouri, where he will cast his vote for Palmer and Buckner. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Browning has gone to vote in Illinots. eS Called on the President. Bishop Satterlee of the Episcopal Church called at the White House today, in com- pany with Chief Justice Fuller of the Su- eS See et re i recs te te sident. No Turning Out of Officials Immediately ' After Election. Even Those Actively Opposed to the Administration Not to Be Dis- turbed for That. It is impossible to obtain official informa- ticn on the subject of the report that As- sistant Secretary Doe of the War Depart- ment,Deputy Commissioner Bell of the pen- sion bureau, Gen. Crittenden, United States consul general at Mexico, and Auditor Baldwin of the Treasury Department are booked for dismissal immediately after the election next Tuesday because of the anti- administration stand they have taken on the political issue. As is well known, the four gentlemen named are exercising their time and talents toward the success of the free silver ticket. Messrs. Bell and Bald- win -have been active on the stump, and Gen. Doe and Mr. Crittenden have been prominent in other ways in their support of the Bryan movement. In his letter an- nouncing his purpose of supporting the Chicago ticket Gen. Doe used language with regard to democrats who had bolted the ticket which his critics say was meant to apply directly to President Cleveland and Secretary Lamont. Gen. Doe said in his letter: “I am not in favor of attempt- ing to correct mistakes or misbehavior among our forces by going over to the enemy or firing into our own people from the rear.” Although no one in authority will discuss the matter for publication, there is good ground for the assertion that none of the gentlemen named will be disturbed on ac- count of their participation in the political campaign regardless of the fact that each of them has strongly antagonized the stand assumed by the President and the leading members of the administration in favor of @ sound, stable and honest currency. Only a few days ago Attorney General Harmon, speaking presumably with the ap- Preval of the President, announced to the putlic, through the columns of ‘The Star, that all federal officials were perfectly free in the exercise of their political rights, and were privileged to make _ political speeches, either for or against the finan- clal policy of the administration, provided they did not neglect duties of’ their of- fices and confined themselves within the Proper limits of decorum. Although some people think it in ques- tionable taste for officials who are opposed to the policy of the administration to re- main in office, it is not regarded as at all likely that any of the gentlemen named will be removed simply because of their political status. As one official expressed it to a Star reporter today: “The Presi- dent is not going to gratify the Bryan of- ficials seeking removal in order that they may pose as political martyrs.” e+ CARDINAL HOHENLOHE DEAD. The Eminent German’ Churchman Passes Away in Rome. ROME, October 30.—Cardinal Gustav Adolf ven Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst, broth- er of the chancellor of the German empire and archpriest of the librarian basilica, died here today of apoplexy. Cardinal Hohenloke was born in Germany on February 2, 1825, and studied at the universities of Bonn, Breslan and Munich. In 1846 he went to Rome, entered the ecclesicstical academy and was consecrat- ed a priest by Pone Pius IX. He became successively secret chamberlain, almoner and bishop, and in 1866 he was created a cardinal. After the entry of the Italfan troops into Rome, in 1870, he went to Ger- and stayed there for several years. ii was proposed to appoint him am- bassador of the German empire at the Vat- ican, but Pius IX refused his assent to the project, and Prince von Hohenlohe re- sumed his functions cf cardinal at Rome in 1876. In 1879 he was promoied to be car- dinal bishop of Albano, but as the result of dissensions in the papal court Prince Hohenlohe resigned his title of cardinal bishop and again returned to Germany, where he settled upon his estates. In 1844, however, he once more returned to Rome and resumed the rank of a cardinal priest. — DUNLAP DETAINED. JIMMY The Once Famous Bank Robber to Be Questioned at Chicago. CHICAGO, October 30.—James Dunlap, who was convicted of the famous North- hampton, Mass., bank robbery, committed more than twenty years ago, when over $1,000,000 was stolen, is a prisoner at the Central police headquarters. Years ago, it fs said, he was considered the most expert safe blower in the country. He was pardoned about four years ago by the President of the United States from the state penitentiary of Massachusetts, where he was serving a twenty-year sentence for the enormous burglary. After his release he came to Chicago and engaged in the saloon business. The Englewood safe robbery, the po- lice say, was committed by experts and Capt. Ellitt wanted Dunlap brought to the station in order that he might question him conc@tning it, although he does not expect to identify him with the crime. Se WHEAT WEAK AND LOWER. ‘The Market Was Influenced by Liver- pool Advices, CHICAGO, October 30.—Wheat opened weak and lower this morning, influenced by the Liverpool cables, which market again showed its independence of this side by coming decidedly lower in the face of yesterday’s advance here. There was very little for sale at the opening, and Decem- ber, which had opened about 1-2 cent lower at from 71 1-8 to 71 1-2, advanced steadily to Northwest receipts were not pested during the first hour, but came in light, and San Francisco reported three more cargoes marked for Australian ship- ment, and a renewal of Calcutta inquiries. After touching 72 1-2, the price reacted to 72 1-8, back to 72 5-8, and was selling at 72 144 at the end of the first hour’s trading. LONDON, October 30.—At the Baltic to- day, California wheat, which is very spar- ingly offered, was held for 6d. advance. Other kinds were firm at yesterday's prices. On Mark lane holders asked for higher prices, but there were no buyers to test the values. ——— Ivory’s Cane Again Goes Over. LONDON, October 30.—Edward J. Ivory, alias Edward Bell of New York, the al- leged Irish-American dynamite conspirator, was once more brought up on remand at Bow street police court, today, and his ex- amination resumed. At the close of the day's testimony the prisoner's examination was again adjourned for a week. ee A Wealthy Californian’s Death. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., October 30.— Herman Levison, a pioneer jeweler and millionaire, is dead. He was at the head of the California Jewelry Company, and some time ago was divorced from his wife. His estate is reputed to be worth $3,000,000. —$_—_— Once a Prominent Figure. DENVER, Col. October 30.—Post Office Inspector McMechen has been notified of the arrest of Assistant Postmaster J. M. A. Jewett of Fort Stanton, N. M., charged with embezzlement of $151. Jewett was Cee of the Louisiana returning board of 1876. z HOMEWARD BOUND Oandidate Bryan On His Way Back to Nebraska. CONFRONTED MANY OPPONENTS TODAY Gen. Harrison Begins Another Indiana Tour. CURRENT POLITICAL NOTES . APPLETON, Wis., October 30.—The towns visited by Wm. J. Bryan, the democratic presidential candidate, in the badger state this morning were liberally decked with yel- low. Not since he left the Ohio river val- ley has he encountered crowds so antag- onistie to his views. There were a large number of white ribbons worn by his hear- ers, but the majority of the people address- ed by him at the first few stops this morn- ing did not hesitate to show their prefer- ence for the yellow metal. Mr. Bryan’s Remarks. At Green Bay Mr. Bryan addressed a crowd of several thousand persons. There was not much enthusiasm at the start, but before the nominee had concluded his speech his audience was applauding him liberally. He spoke from a platform in Whitney Park, ex-Governcr Peck intro- ducing him. Mr. Bryan said: “We believe that the people are suffering from the effects of a gold standard. That standard was fastened upon this country ore than twenty years ago, without pub- le discussion. The very fact that the peo- ple knew nothing about it, the fact that their consent was not asked nor their wish- es expressed, ought to be sufficient to make the people investigate the cause of the de- monetization of silver. “This city, I believe, was the home of Senator Howe, and he, in speaking upon this subject, expressed himself with un emphasis which I cannot surpass. His language in regard to the effects of the single gold standard ought to call to the attention of the people of this neighbo hood that subject so that they will investi- gate it for themselves. Senator Howe's Position. “But I remember Senator Howe for another reason. If I am not mistaken, it was Senator Howe who was one of the principal advocates of the income tax at the time it was abolished, back in the sev- enties. If you will read what he says about the justice of the income tax, will then understand why it is we that an income tax is still proper in tris country, and, my friends, while I am on this subject, if anybody ever tells you that we haven't treated the Supreme Court as gently as we ought to, I want you to find out who the man is who criticises what we say. “You will find that the people who are best satisfied with the income tax decision are the people with large incomes, who are shirking their duties to the govern- ment and trying to secure its protection without paying their share of the tax (Applause.) “You will find that the men who are so anxious that nothing shall be said-against the income tax decision are men who at- tack every court and every decision that is against them, and never show respect for law or anything else unless it is of ad- vantage to them to do so. (Cheers.) The Making of Contracts. “We declare against contracts payable in a particular kind of money. We are in favor of legislation which, for the future, will prevent the making of special con- tracts, and our reason for it is that money is a thing necessary to our society, and if we have two kinds of money it is desirable that they should be floating together. “If contracts are made payabie in par- ticular kind of money and if you have enovgh of those special contracts you ecre- ate an extra demand for one kind of money and you dfive it to a premium and de- stroy the parity between your money. I do not believe that any individual should defy the government and attempt to de- stroy the government's financial policy.” Short stops were made at Depere and Kaukana and there also was a liberal amount of yellow ribbons displayed. Mr. Bryan's speeches were along the same line as those given by him elsewhere. REITERATES HIS CLAIM. Mr. Wellington Predicts McKinley's Success in Maryland by 25,000. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. BALTIMORE, Md., October 30.—Senator- elect Wellington, when asked about the outlook in Maryland this morning, said: “I can only reiterate my statement that McKinley will carry the state by fully 25,000 majority. We have practically con- cluded all the official business of the cam- paign. Every detail has been attended to, and the several committees have every feature of the work pertaining to their departments well in hand. All that re- mains is the work on-election day. The remaining meetings will wind up the cam- paign, and we have no fear of the out- come. We have gone over the state thor- oughly, and the result sustains the state- ments published earlier in the campaign. In ition to the majority of 18,000 for ound money which our poll of Baltimore indicates, we have just received advices from the counties which show that Mc- Kinley will carry the state outside of the city by a majority ranging from 5,000 to 10,000. This is a close estimate, and we are convinced that he will carry Maryland by a grand total of 25,000," ‘When reminded by The Star corespondent that the democrats claimed the bulk of the labor vote, Mr. Wellington replied of my own knowledge that the majority of the workingmen will vote for sound money and protection. Not only is this the case in our own party, but we shall get consider- able support among the democratic labor- ers. This is no mere assertion; I know what I am talking about.” In speaking of the effect of the city coun- cil fight as a factor, he said: “Some time ago we feared that we might have some trouble because of the anxiety of some to get the city hall at any cost. I doubt now if there will be any trading of votes on this account. We have advised all our people to vote the straight ticket, and I know Ckairman Stone of the city committee is as anxious to see that this is done as I am.” Mr..C. Ross Mace, chairman of the Bal- timore county republican committee, and a delegate to the St. Louis convention, as- svred The Star correspondent that Mc- Kinley would carry Baltimore county by fully 600 majority, and that he would not be surprised to see it run up to 1,000. Bal- timore county is the richest county in the state, and is strongly democratic. GEN. HARRISON ON THE STUMP. The Ex-President Thegine Another Indiana Trip. 4 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., October 30.—Ex- President Harrison started by. special train over the Pan Handle railroad at 9 o'clock this morning on his two days’ speaking tour through Indiana, this time visiting the eastern and northern towns of the state. He was escorted to the station by the McKinley and Hobart Bicycle Club. A few personal friends accompanied Gen. Harrison, among them being John Fin- ney of Boston, who will make several speeches. At the station Gen. Harrison ‘I know was greeted by’a number of persons who had gathered to give him a parting cheer. He made no remarks, saying he wished to save his voice for the itinerary. Today’s trip ends at Fort Wayne. Gen. Harrison will return to this city to- morrow evening. MR. CARLISLE AT LEXINGTON. More Than Ever Certain of Bryan's Defeat. LOUISVILLE, Ky., October 30.—A spe- cial to the Times from Lexington says: The last of Secretary Carlisle's five cam- paign speeches in Kentucky is being made here this after:oon to a tremendous and enthusiastic audience at the Opera House. Mr. Carlisle began speaking at 2 o'clock. Mrs. Carlisle joined the Secretary here this morning and they will leave for Wash- ington tonight. In conversation with the Times repre- sentative this morning, Mr. Carlisle said that his visit to Kentucky only confirms his previously expressed opinion that Bryan will be badly beaten. CHAIRMAN JONES’ ADMISSION. That Indications Point to UlMnois Going for McKinley. LONDON, October 29.—The correspondent of the Daily Chronicle at Chicago cables from that city that in the course of a long and frank conversation with Chairman Jones of the democratic national commit- tee the latter admitted that the indications pointed to Illinois going for McKinley, but Mr. Jones asserted that state is not es- sential to democratic success. Sovereign's Poll. Tax Unpatd. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., October 30.—An examination of the records in the clerk's office of Benton county discloses the fact that J. R. Soverelgn, grand master work- man of the Knights of Labor, and national committeeman for Arkansas of the peo- ple's party, has neglected to pay his poll tax. Mr. Sovereign is on the fusion elec- toral ticket In this state as a candidate for elector-at-large. The discovery is likely to 1@d to a peculiar complication, as it is now too late to rectify the matter before election day, and the courts may be called upon to settle it. Republican Effort in North Carolina. Special Dispatch to The evening Star. RALEIGH, N. C., October 30.—The demo- cratic cemmittee gives out as news re- celved from Chairman Faulkner that $25,- 000. has jist been placed in this state by the republicans to secure its electoral vote for McKinley, ———__ FRANCE SNUBS TURKEY. Remonstrance Against Practice Fir- ing Curtly ignored. CONSTANTINOPLE, October 29 (delayed in transmission).—A severe panic was caused yesterday eyening by the gun practice of the French guardship in the Sea of Marmora. It caused the Turkish government to urge upon the French em- bassy that the guargship should practice further away from the city. The French ambassador, M. Cambon, re- plied that he regretted the alarm, but the people, he added, should become accus- tomed to the sound of firing. LONDON, October 80.—The Rome’ corre- spondent of the Chrdnicle is assured that on his return’ to St. Petersburg the czar will propose a conference of the powers to discuss the Turkish problem. The Constantinople dispatch to the same paper says that Nazim Pasha, minister of police, is conspiring with Bartholomeos, the armenian patriarch’s locum tenens, and the Palace gang to provoke fresh outbreaks as an. excuse for a general massacre of Arme- nians, whose terror is painful*to see. The Morning Post has a dispatch from Constantinople which says that it 1s re- ported that the police have discovered a large store of explosives in the Taskin quar- ter, including 25 kilograms of dynamite, a quantity of other explosives and dyna- mite bombs. There have been forty ar- rests In connection with the discovery, in- cluding the chief of an important revolu- tionary committe The Daily News states that it hears that the gravest anxiety exists at Constantino- ple, and that the deposition of the sultan is serlously discussed. “The Sheik-Ul- Islam,” says the Dally News, “remains at the Yildiz palace nominally as thé sultan’s guest, but reelly as a prisoner. The am- bassadors have telegraphed for instructions in view of the events which are regarded imminent. ee CURRENCY REFORM PUT OFF. Russian Financiers Apprehensive of an Efflux of Gold. LONDON, October 30.—The correspondent of the London Times at Berlin furnishes his newspaper with an important state- ment regarding the finances of Russia. He says: “I hear from St. Petersburg that the czar has decided to postpone the currency re- form which it was proposed to submit to the state council this autumn. This pro- posed reform of the Russian currency, briefly, was to be an introduction of a new gold coinage to correspond exactly with the present value of the silver and the pa- per rouble. The ministry of finance is of- fering to purchase bullion and foreign gold. Some twenty tons of new coined silver are arriving every fortnight from France, and the new copper coinage is being struck at the mint in Birmingham. All Russian offi- ciels are now paid partly in gold and silver and the public is compelled to accept metal to which it has not hitherto been used. The proposed coinage has been called de- valuation and depreciation of currency by its opponents, and the mcst disastrous*con- sequences are foretold, including the prob- able efflux of gold. Se FORTIFYING COPENHAGEN, Details of an Alkeged Secret Franco- Russian Treaty. LONDON, October 30.—A dispatch to the Pall Mall Gazette from Copenhagen this afternoon relative 40 the enormous sums which are being expended by the Danish government in the fortification of Copen- hagen, says that this work ts undertaken in pursuance of a, secfet understanding ar- rived at between Russia and France, by which Russia guarantees the integrity of Denmark, and that, should a favorable oc- casion arise, she will insist upon part of Schleswig-Holstetnj inhabited Danes, being restored to Benmark in aie of the inhabitants ‘expresses the d of the people that thig step should be taken. On the other hand, the dispatch adds, Denmark undertakes,-should Russia be en- gaged in war, to place at her disposal the harbors and ship-tmailding yards of Copen- hagen, which, it ig pointed out, as a base of operations against north Germany, are worth 100,000 men, —_—>—_——_. E First Snewfgll in Kansas. OBERLIN, Kan,)Gctober 30.—The first snow of the season’ began falling here dur- ing the night. “It was preceded by a heavy fall of rain and:the ground in consequence is well soaked, Puttifg fall wheat into good condition. _ Fs Madagascar Conspirators Executed. PARIS, October 30.—An official dispatch from Antananarivo, capital of the Island of Madagascar, announces that the min- ister of the interior; Ratnaudrianaupaudry, and Prirce Ratgimaninga have been exe- cuted at Antaranarivo for complicity in the recent rebellion, and that Premier signed. Rainitsinbosify has re: POSSIBLE SURPRISES Democrats, Populists and Silverites All Seem Anxious. WATCHING THEIR OPPONENTS CLOSELY Fear of the Use of Money Has Now Disappeared. CURIOUS ABOUT WATSON —— Anti-election surprises are giving demo- erats, populists and silverites more concern now than any other thing connected with the contest that is to be fought out on next Tuesday. “What may the republicans do on Mon- day and Tuesday which may take their opponents by surprise?” This question is being asked by many supporters of Bryan, and they are cudgeling their brains to think of every possible move that might be made to take them by surprise. So much has been said about the general use of money in the central western states in order to throw this section surely in the republican column, and the idea of such a possibility has been so thoroughly talked over, and warning against it having been so generally scattered over Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and other sections where such a possibility is feared, that now the democrats and populists are beginning to feel comparatively safe from such a danger. Scme of them are even wondering whether the talk of the wholesale purchase of the election that has come from within their ranks has not been something of a straw man. But still an uneasiness is constant- ly noticed among th and every day scme new danger is hinted at. The sug- gestion has been made that while so close a@ watch is being kept on Ohio and other certral western states, it might be that the enemy may throw its influence in states regarded as solidly democratic, about which nothing is being said, because of a desire to carry on a “still hunt,” in hope of doing more effectice work. Anxious About Watson. While populists do not believe that Tom Watson can do any more harm because of the small following he has among that small contingent known as “middie-of-the- rcad” men, yet they are watching the news- Papers in order to discover ary move he might make in a moment of desire for vengeance, which might give the opposition an advantage over Bryan. It is generally argued that it is new too late for Mr. Wat- acn to do anything to injure the chances of Mr. Bryan, and but for this fact there is no doubt that he would be greatly feared for the possible influence he might exert in the doubtful states. Even those people who condemn the course pursued by Mr. Watson have something to say in exten- vation of his rather erratic policy since his nomination for the vice presidency by the pepulists. They recall the bitter feeiing that has always existed in the southern states between the democrats and popzlists, and they say they realize how hard it would be for a man of Watson’s tempera- ment who had been fighting democracy for years to rusa into the arms of the people he had so long denounced, throw up his personal ambition for office and work mere- ly for the supremacy of the party he had so long opposed with all his force. There ere men who believe that if the election were ore month off it might be possible for the republicans to make terms with Mr. Warson whereby his followers would make such a fusion on state and electoral tickets 2s to give them a good opportunity to carry at least two or three southern states for McKinley. Too Late Now. Of course, it is now too late for such a condition to be brought about, and Mr. Watson's friends declare that their candi- date would not be guilty of such treachery. On the other hand, Mr. Watson has claimed that he is the victim of treachery, and while in Kansas he warned the democrats if they left Tom Watson out of their calculations they might lose Texas and Kansas. While it is believed that Tom Watson is muzzled for the balance of the campaign, yet he will be watched with eagle eye until next Tues- day. Senator Faulkner did not reach demo- cratic headquarters today until late in the day, having gone to Martinsburg, W. Va., the day before to speak at a political mecting last night. Senator Faulkner has been in great demand as a public speaker, especially in his own state, since the cam- paign opened, but his duties as chairman of the democratic congressional committee have been sufficient to cause him to decline | nearly all invitations to attend political meetings. His speech last night was made at the personal solicttation of a delegation democrats from his state. THE VENEZUELAN DISPUTE. Intimation From London of a Tri- bunal of Arbitration. The London Chronicle says that there is reason to *believe that a solution of the Venezuelan dispute will be found in the appointment of a tribunal similar to the Bering sea tribunal of arbitration, in which case Sir Richard Webster, attorney general, will represent Great Britain, as he did be- fore the Bering sea tribunal. Close inquiry here into the intimation from London that Sir Richard Webster has been selected as a member of a commission to arbitrate the Venezuelan boundary ques- tion fails to develop an official confirma- tion of the statement. While the negotia- tions are progressing, they- cannot, so far as learned, have yet reached the stage wwhere they relate to the personnel of an arbitration commission, but are still de- voted io a discussion of the limitations to be imposed upon any commission to be created. From the high reputation of Sir Richard Webster his selection is not re- garded as improbable when the negotia- tions reach the proper phase, but it is said here that the present nomination was not made from a source in political sym- pathy with the present British cabinet. LONDON, October 30.—A high official of the foreign office referring to the state- ment made by the Chronicle this morning, that there is good reason to believe that a tribunal, similar to the Bering sea com- mission, will be appointed to adjust the Venezuelan boundary affair, said this af- ternoon that he had no knowledge of the eppointment of such a tribunal. When ask- ed if such a tribural should be appointed would all the territory claimed by Venez- vela be included in the arbitration, he re- plied: “That is the essence of the whole mat- ter. Venezuela only claimed all along the territory to the bark of the Esquibo. Ev- ery one knows that a portion was settled by the Dutch; and Venezuela throughout has been so stubborn in the matter that it has been impossible to arrive at any con- clusion. If the entire disputed territory wes submitted to arbitration it might int volve giving up the greater part of the colony. However, the matter is now under diecussion, and while a state matter is be- ing discussed I must await a report be- fore expressing an opinion.” MR. DIFFENDERFER TALKS He Says the Newspapers Here Have Given Fair Treatment, > He Still Holds to His Estimate of 282 Electoral Votes for Bryan. Secretary Diffenderfer of the silver party left the city today for a speaking tour in Pennsylvania and will not return until after the election. While he is absent the headquarters here will be in charge of As- sistant Secretary Taylor, a bright young man from Utah, who has performed much responsible work from the beginning of the campaign. “Before I go,” said Secretary Diffender- fer to a Star reporter, “I want to say that the newspapers and newspaper men of Washington have always been fair in the treatment of matters connected with our work here. The Star has been eminently fair in all its reports, and no matter what its editorial position it has never failed to impartiaily give the news. Millions in Literature. “I have seen it reported that our head- quarters have sent out 2,000,000 pieces of literature during the campaign. We have sent out exactly four times as much, or 8,000,000 pieces by actual count. A large portion of this has been sent to individuals, postage having been paid by us. We have ‘on our files $00,000 names of voters in the country and every man on the list has re- ceived matter of some-kind. We have these lists carefully arranged for future cam- paigns and shall preserve them. It is prob- able that our party has the best list of this kind in the country. The other parties, as is known, have sent the most of their lit- erature in bulk to destinations, to be dis- tributed from there. In our distribution of literature we have discriminated against nobody or no party. We have worked ur hesitatingly for the cause of silver and of Bryan. We have sent as much literature to democrats and democratic clubs as to republicans and populists. Many demo- cratic clubs have written us for literature and they have always had their orders filled.” What He Thinks of the Result. Then, changing to the outcome of the election, Mr. Diffenderfer, who has believed in the triumph of Bryan from the begin nirg, and who is in close touch with te authorities at Chicago, said: “I have no reason to make a single change in the esti- mate which I gave to The Star on October 8. You will remember that I gave Bryan 282 votes in that estimate. I am certain that he will get that number. In that esti- mate I elassed Maryland and Delaware as doubtful. I am now certain that Delaware will be democratic. As to Maryland, I thought it was in doubt at the time I wrote the estimate. I am satisfied new that he will carry the state. “As to Pennsylvania, I believe it will ¢o for McKinley, but the majority will be small. I believe that Philadelphia will have to furnish the majority for the state. There is a splendid chance that Sam Hu¢ son will be elected to Congress from the third district. I have been 5; in Pennsylvania recently, and I know the feel- ing of the people. Outside of the cities re- publicans by the thousand are flocking to Bryan. We will win a number of silver Corgressmen. His Views of New York. “New York may go for McKinley, but there is a splendid chance of Bryan win- ning there. I have been over there, and I krow that if you tell a New York demo- crat his party cannot carry the state for Bryan he will get mad. The democrats over there are confident they wsll carry the state. In New York city they are holding 400 meetings vightly. I have a letter here from a well-posted New York man, who says Bryan will carry the state by 25.000 majority. Some time ago we sent out cir- culars to prominent workers in all the dcubtful states asking their judgment of the result. We have not received a rep! which is unfavorable. All the answe from New York are positively running ov: with assurances as to that state. I back, Roosevelt and such fellows ha many votes by their talk about fighting to keep Bryan from taking his seat.” eee ere -THE CHINESE RIOTs. Volaminous Heport of the Investigat- ing Commission Received. The State Department has just received the final report of the commission appoint- ed to investigate the Kucheng riots in Chine lest spring, and to secure the pun- ishment of the perpetrators of the out- rages on American missionaries. The re- port is a very voluminous document, fully illustrated by photographs showing the ruins of the destroyed property, the trans- port of the convicted criminals to the place of execution in bamboo cages, the actual beheading, with startling exactness, and the display of the heads of the executed Chinese from trees near the place of their crime, as a warning to the inhabitants against further assaults upon foreigners. While the report is of value as a faithful reflex of the conditions leading up to the missionary outbreaks, it has already been anticipated by the department, and Secre- tary Olney has, by instructions to United States representatives in China, laid down the doctrine practiced successfully in the case of the punishment of the Kucheng rioters, that hereafter they are to insist upon holding to account and personal re- sponsibility for outrages upon Americans the local Chinese official: LIKE PICKING UP SAND. Senator Quay Sends a Characteristic Message to a Friend. In a dispatch to a personal friend in this city, written this morning, Senatcr Quay sald: “Illinois will give 50,000, and West Vir- ginia is certain for McKinley. It will be like picking up sand on the seashore to give any odds om McKinley's election that Bryan backers went.” ———--o-____. Husband and Wite Asphyxiated. NEW YORK, October 30.—John Houston and his wife were asphyxiated by illumin- ating gas in their apartments in Columbus avenue. Houston died 021 after being found, and Mrs. Houston’s condition is critical. The calamity was due to careless- ness on the part of Houston, who, after using a drop light, turned off the gas at the lamp but not at the fixture to which the rubber tube was attached. = Death of Capt. John Bran. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., October 30.—Capt. John Bran of the United States revenue marine service died Wednesday night, at the German Hospital, this city, of uraemia. Capt. Bran, who was in the city but a few hours before his death, was on his way to Mobile to take command of the revenue cutter Fernwood. —— The Plague in Formosa. HONG KONG, October 30.—Fifteen cases of the plague have occurred at Taipeh, Is- land of Formosa. ——— Sentenced to Ceuta. HAVANA, October 30.—Manuel Bacardi, Manuel Cordona and eleven others were sent today to the Spanish penal settie- ment of Ceuta, @ seapcrt town of Mo- rocco. A TALK WITH HANNA He Estimates McKinley's Majority in Chicago at 75,000 at Least, SO-CALLED DOUBTFUL STATES CLAIMED He Says Every One in the List is Perfectly Safe. WHATTHE REPORTS INDICATE Special From a Staff Correspondent, CHICAGO, IIL, October ‘The republi- can national committee is much better sup- Plied with figures than are the democrats. If the clatms of Chairman Hanna, based on these figures, are right, McKinley's ele Uon will be a landslide, not a mere victory. If these claims are put out for the influence they mey have on the wavering votes who want to be on the winning side they are not scientific. There is too much in them that will not be accepted on a mere decla- ration. Mr. Hanna strikes one as alto- gether too shrewd a man to make this mis- take. If he were putting out a claim mere- ly to influence votes, he could easily make @ more conservative claim that would be more impressive. He understands this well erovgh. I am led to the belief, therefore, that he is not blustering, but is submit- ting his honest conclusion, drawn from a Study of the reports before him. This im- pression ts strengthened by talking with him. He has great faith in the vote of the gold democrats, and therefore thinks { not weak credulity to believe reports give McKialey certain democratic states. He has faith in his own methods, and where he has done certain things to stop the silver tide in the doubtful republican States, he believes the reports which say that the result is satisfactory. He is a man who is not alarmed at big figures. He is used to large transactions. When in summing up al! his information he finds a result far beyond common ex- pectations, he is not led by the largeness of the result to doubt its accuracy. Ii his figures give him Missouri, Tennessee or North Carolina, he fg not afraid to trust to them. Prospects in [linois. He estimates McKinley's plurality in Jlli- nois at between 100,000 and 15 ~. He said that the plurality in Chicago would not fall below 75,000. I asked if the vote in this city that could not be ascertained was not unusually large. He had just said that this method of ascer- taining the vote was as near perfect as possible, and I expected him to answer my question in the negative. But he did not; he said: “Yes, it is unu- sually large. There is an elemeni of sullen malcontents, who have made a failure in life and are not satisfied with their condi- tion. They maintain silence. I'll give them all to Bryan; I'll give him 75,000 of them and still McKinley will carry the city by 75,000. They are all the votes Bryan will cee” - This arswer gives a gcod idea of the sort of man Mr. Hanna is and of his way of looking at things. I asked if there was not a very uncertain situation in Michigan, and he replied that there had been, but that the national com- mittee had taken bold, and that now the State was safely within the McKinley col- umn. So on through all the so-called doubt- ful states he acknowledged where there had been weakness, but there was not one in the list that he did not claim as perfect- ly safe. is This was not a formal interview, but a general conversation, running loosely over the political situation. It is only because What he said was in no way inconsistent with his former statements that I feel free to quote him. The following claim of McKinley plurali- ties, based cn republican reports, is pub- lished this morning: McKinley Pluralities. New York. 300,000, Maryland . West Virginia. Ohio .. Indiana Michigan 1dwa Minnesota South Dakota. Kansas ... Nebraska ... But Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky might have been added to it on the same authority. Reports from Missouri indicate a serious situation for the democrats. What seems to be most trustworthy in- formation shows the gold democratic or- ganization to be strong, and their vote heavy, and indicates that if it were not for the republican silver vote, which is particu- larly strong along the lowa and Kansas border, the state might go for McKinley. Other Western States, Outside the republican headquarters I cannot find satisfactory warrant for the claim by the republican committee of Ne- braska and Kansas. The general opinion, not confined to democrats, is that these two states are pretty safe for Bryan, and there are strong indications supporting this opin- ion. No one around democratic headquarters, except Mr. Walsh claims Iowa. The re- ports they get claim the state very posi- tively, as do those from Wisconsin; but it is evident that Chairman Jones rejects the claims as too improbable, yet there are certain marked indications that it is to be not utterly improbable that lowa will go for Bryan. The republican committee have undoubtedly had reasons to fear it, and from republican sources comes information favorable to Bryan in that state. One indication of the strength of silver is in the claim of the Missouri republicans that if it were not for the strong silver sen- timent slopping over the border from Iowa, Missouri would surely go for McKinley. One Missouri republican said to m “A bucket must be very full that runs over at the edges.” Illinois is apparently not clcse, but dcubt- ful on account of the uncertainty as to how certain classes of votes will be cast. Indications Favor McKinley. The democrats of the state claim it and those of the national committee are more hcpeful, but the surface indications are st‘ll favorable to McKinley. ‘The undercurrent is apparently not run- ning altogether according to surface indi- cations, but it is idle speculation to talk about what is goirg on where you cannot see. Bryan's swing through the city has, be- - 11,000 £100,000