Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1896, Page 2

2 THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1896-14 PAGES. the case the people of New Mexico should have an object lesson They should be taught to understand that their territory cannot grow under populistic doctrines. A Defense of Populism. Mr. Bell (Col) made a defense of pops lism, and declared that unless by the terms of the bill it was restricted to the protec- tion of foreign investments in mining claims whi could not be developed by vate capital he would oppose it Murphy (Ariz.) insisted that no great »nal question was involved in the bill. liens could not acquire per ent cwn- pounder it It was a ques- tion of whether the territ hould be d_to invite foreign to thet res. It be but mple ju the of the Tritories this oppor i the capital needed Flynn (Okla) s wou Mr. mil h son of land sho » (Pa.) asked if populism did not ent thing in every sta ane ast had watched he controversy hetwe on a “Pullman elub and brass band.” deal of laughter over Mr. Beil (Col.) 1 Flynn replied were not After some further gocd- ved banteri the vote was taken a bill was de feated Liquor im the Capitol. Morse (Mass.) ed up the committee i grounds a bill to ¢ toxicatieg dri tol groun Mr. Morse care to make any clabora the bill, but he declared that the sale ef rts in the rational Capitol was a and a disgrace. No » took the n opposition to the measnre, and it Messrs. Adams (rep... N.Y). Erdman (em., Tenn.) ard Foote (rep., N. Y.) voted aguinst it. Pacific Railroads. Mr. Powers (Vt.), from the committee on Pacific railroads, called up the Lill to de- fine the rights of purchasers under mort- gages on the Atlantic and Pacific railroads. Mr. Powers said the purpose of the bill was to permit the morigage and to exer- cise, under the reorganization, thelr rights a= a corporaticn. Mr. MeKae (Ark.) attacked the bill. He denqgnced the land grants to the Atlantic aod Pacific as the most corrupt of any in long list of land grants. The road had t earned the lands, he asserted, and the (s under the grants deserved to die by After si fon it was decided to stpone the further consideration of the until Tuesd. From the committee on patents Mr. Draper (Mass.) called up the Senate bill to prevent the pirating of copyrighted dramas or musical compositions. It im- poses a fine of 3100 for the first and $# for each subsequent performance. Mr. McCall said that this legislation had been urged by practically all the promi- neat American authors, managers and ac- tors engaged in the composition and _pro- ion of plays and operas. Some of the 1 provisions of bill were criticised Mr. Connolly (i.), Hulick (Ohio) and 3 bi Mr. Cummings’ Plea. Mr. Cummings (N. Y., who introduced the bill in the House, made a atrong plea tor its passage. re SOLDIERS’ HOME TRUST FUNDS. ‘The Bonrd Has Recovered Moneys Claimed Due From Gen. Butler. The investigation of the National So'diet Home at Leavenworth, Kan., by a special! committee of the House was continued tc- and a number of officers of the board and home were examined. Gen. Franklin, the president of the board, was questioned concerning three trust funds bequeathed to the homes, known as the Ward and Stinson funds. Franklin stated these were held by him in trust as president of the board, it being considered that the government has nothing to do with them, as the homes were an indepencent corporation, and bonds were given for them. He had another fund of nearly $4,000 deposited in Hartford which had been secured by a law suit against Gen. B. Butler. When Gen. Butler “etired from the board it was found {rat $18,000 was due the government from im. Suit was brought by the board to recover, as General Butler, then governor of Massa. hi s, declared he had no time to at- tend to such matters. The Butler estate paid $18,000 In 1804, $15,000 into the United States tre ance held by Gen. Franklin, who intended to secure the opinion of the Treasury I'e- partment as to what cisposition should be made of it. Assistant Inspector Averill and J. M. Bir- mengham, general treasurer of the homes, testified to various details of home manage. ment. Mr. Hirmingham said most of t officers’ bonds were furnished by the American Security Trust Company of New York, which charged one-half of 1 per cent of the face of the bond: SOUTHERN 1 EADERS HERE. Believed to Be Talking to Hanna About a Cabinet Position. day night a number of - commiticemen from the south, h republican leaders from the tion, have been in the city. Amoag Mississippi, J. W. Lyons, Webster, South Caroliaa, . North Carolina, national Bae k and W. jeorgia leaders, are also -Dub- to- lican presence of these men gives rise to a that they came here to talk with Chairman Hanna about southern appoint- s and particularly about the represen- ath may have in the cabinet. Georgia men have come on since the report that Major Hanson of avorably looked upon for the is admitted that some of the southern n have talked to Mr. Hanna about jor Hanson, as well as about the other who have been talked of for Whether they did so at of Mr. Hanna is another osit westion. reports are true as to Ma. tnding, he needs no recomm: uthern republicans, and neither recom- ation nor opposition would affect his sition with the President-elect. Maj. Mc- is said to knew Maj. Hanson be an the southern leaders, and if Hanson is ypointed to the cabinet, as is now ad- itted to be a probability, the appoin:ment be made withqut consultation. Naturally the southern men are in- terested as to who go@ in the cabinet from that part of the country. Nearly all of them will be applicants for positions under the new administration, and they want to gather the lay of the land before Hanson's ation from the time comes to apply for office. It is rumored among visiting republicans that opposition has developed to the ap- peintment of H. Clay Evans to the eabi- This is on the ground that the south- ern men do not look upon-him as a strong partisan. — Fell From a Bailding. A man fell from a building at the corner of Ist and R streets northwest shortly af- ter 3 o'clock this afternoon, and was badly injured. Presidential Nominations. The President has nominated Benjamin K. Kimberly of Colorado to be receiver of public moneys at Denver, Col; also John G. Ostrander of Alaska te be commissioner in and for the district of Alaska to reside in Juneau. PROTECTION FAVORED Conference of English Opposed to Free Trade. HR. LOWTHER WANTS A GRAIN DOTY Menace of the Wheat of Mani- toba and Minnesota. ed GENERAL FOREIGN MATTERS ee LONDON, December 10.—The conference at St. James’ Hall today, open to all fa- orable to the reform of the fiscal policy of Britain on protection lines, and called James Lowther, M. P., who presided, was ‘hinly attended. Those present in- cluded Lord Marsham and Messrs. How- arth, Disraeli, Sandys and Seton Kerr, bers of parliament. Mr. Lowther in a speech stated that there is a rapidiy iz sentiment in Great Britain that n’s fiscal system is radically wrong. Sultan of Turkey, he added, is the ier under heaven who has adopted he vrincipies 6¥ the Cobden Club. Contin- ins, Mr. Lowther remarked: “Within a year the two greatest repub- ics of the world have gone throvgh re- rkable changes.” rhe speaker then referred to the high tracter and great ability of President- ct McKinley, saying: ‘He would never have occupied his pres- nt position had net his name been associ- ated with the mest protective tariff ever iramed in the United States. And the came be said of M. Meline (the #rench ier).”” ir. Lowther then mentioned the recent “anadian general election to prove that the {ued policy of Canada was proteciion, clared himself to being as mush onposed » the ruia of England by Manitoba es by Innesota wheat. and asserted that it was uo longer true that the masses in Siagland ere opposed to any imposition cf duties. iween two and a half and three million ceres of land, Mr. Lowther explained, had en driven out of cereal production in ngland for £1:30,000,0) of imports,of which most could be preduced here. he speaker then stated that ie favored 5 per cent duty on wheat, which, he add- ed, Would produce £12,500,000 (362,500,000) of revenue. QUIET AT MANILLA. Grea But Outside the City the Ins Are Increasing. TACOMA, Wash.,December 10.—The steam- er MacDuff, just arr:ved, brought news of he Philippine rebellion down to October » A correspondent of the Hong Kong Press writes from Manilla under that date as follows: “The rebels are still increasing in the provinces and the state of affairs is getting worse. Manilla is quite safe, and fore:gn- ers living here entertain no anxiety, as the city Is well guarded by a cordon of Span- ish soldiers. Passing along the streets in ne daytime no one would think there was any revolution in progress, for there are no signs of disturbance, and the street traffic is as lively as ever. “The volunteer corps is proving of good service, though their conduct in some re- spects is open to censure. “It is reported tuat two companies of Spanish seldiers that met each other last night at Dulu, a place between Caloocan and Malabron, started firing on each other, each taking the other for rebels. The firing jasted an hour. Some firing was heard soing on at San Juan del Monte at 10 o'clock this morning, and at 3 o'clock p. m. soldiers were seen marching out for the surrounding districts. There is no news from Cavite and Imu: A dispatch from Taipeh, Formosa, dated November 6, reads: “After vigorous meas- ures the plague has been gotten under control.” TO PUNISH THE NATIVES. wents Brit h Troops Have Marched Agninst 2,000 Warriors. CAPE TOWN, Africa, December 10.—Ad- vices from Blantyre, the chief town of British Central Africa, dated October 25, announce the dispatch of three British coi- umas against the Angoni Zulus, under Chief Chikusi, who have invaded Southwest Nyassaiand and: burned a British mission- ary station, besides murdering the inhab- itants of a number of villages. The Portu- guese at Tete have invited the co-operation of the British. Chikusi commands thirty thousand warriors, and the British troops number on!y abott five hundred. Great,anxiety was felt at Blantyre when these advices left that town, and an attack upon it was feared. THE AUDIENCE CHEERED. Enthusiasm in « Theater on Hearing of Maceo'’s Death. TANGIER, Morocco, December 10.—The greatest enthusiasm was displayed at the theater here yesterday evening when the premier announced that the Spanish minis- ter had received news of the death of Ar- tonio Macec. The audience rose, cheered and sang “Viva Espana.” The audience and the actors afterward proceeded to he Spanish legation and made a demonstra- tion of friendliness to Spain. BRITISH FLAG TORN TO SHREDS. Consulates Attacked at Lorenzo Mar- ques by the Natives, BERLIN, December 10.—The Cologne Ga- zetie says that the German warship Condor is on her way from Port Natal to Lorenzo Marques, where, as cabled to the Associ- ated Press last night, the German and Dutch consulates have been attacked and the British flag was torn to shreis. ‘The Dutch consul was wounded. Germany bas demanded satisfaction of Portugal, Lorenzo Marques being the principal town of Portu- guese South Africa. The Revolt in Madagascar. PARIS, December 10.—Dispatenes re- ceived from Antananarivo, capital of the island of Madagascar, announce that the insurgents during the night of November 18 looted Ambohimanga, ten miles from Antananarivo. The insurgents captured forty prisoners and all the cattle. The En- glish residents had a narrow escape from being massacred. Governor General Rousseau Dend. PARIS, December 10.—A dispatch re- ceived here from Ha-Nol, capital of Ton- quin, announces that M. A. Rousseau, the governor general of Indo-China, died sud- denly there. Lady Scott Critieally Hi. LONDON, December 10.—Lady Salina Scott, the principal defendant in the suit brought against her and three men by her son-in-law, Ear! Russell, for criminal libel, is critically ill. Inventor of Nitro-Glycerine Dead. NICE, December 10.—Alfred Nobe, the in- ventor of nitro-glycerine, died last eveni at San Remo, Italy. ———— Accidentally Hanged in Play. OMAHA, Neb., December 10.—Vernon White, a thirteen-year-old boy, was acci- dentally hanged as the result of a boyish prank. With his playmates he was play- ing police. When they captured criminais they were condemned to be hanged.“ He was condemned, and a pillow slip was tied around his neck and-he suspended himseli by the neck to a bed room door. Befors assistance arrived he was dead. — Stock Exchange Holidays. NEW YORK, December 10.—The stock exchange will be closed December 26, the Saturday following Christmas day, but will be open Saturday, January 2, owing to the a 6 financial settlements due on January es Ocean Steamsbips Arrived. NEW YORK, December 10.—Arrived: Norwegian, Giasgow; Spree, Bremen. THE STEAMSHIP SALIER LOST She Went Down Off the Spanish Goast. All en Board Said to Be Drowned— Wreeked in the Recent Severe Storm. VIGO, Spain, December 10.—The steam- ship Salier has been lost off’ Corunas, Cor- rubedo. All hands were drowned. It is not known if she had any passengers on board. She left Corunna on December 7 for Villagarcia, Spain, and is believed to have foundered in the heavy gale which re- centiy prevailed off the Spanish coast. A steamship has gone in search of the miss- ing vessel. The Salier was a br.g-rigged sc: er, built at Hull, England, in 1875, and car- ried a crew of sixty to seventy men. She was of 3,000 gress tons register, 351 feet long, 29.6 feet beam and 32.6 feet deep. — MACEO’S REPORTED DEATH. pw steam- Alleged Statement by His Physician— A Positive Denial. HAVANA, December 10.—Dr. Maxim Zer- tucha, who was the personal physician of Ahtonio Maceo, has surrendered to Col. Tort, the Spanish commander at San Felipe, this province. The doctor confirms the an- nouncement that Maceo was killed on De- cember 7 near Punta Brava, in an engage- ment between the insurgents and a Spanish column commanded by Maj. Cirujeda. Dr. Zertucha says that Maceo was shot in the chin, the bullet breaking his jaw and pas ing out near the neck and shoulders. A second bullet wounded him in the abdomen. BOSTON, December 10.—A special to the Journal from Key West says. “It is learned, positively that the report of the deaths of Maceo and young Gomez is false. Both are believed“to be near Mariel, while Weyler ts near San Christobal searching for Maceo. It is thought the latter will co-operate with Gomez, and then an rd- vance on Havana is looked for.” Fireworks in Spain. MADRID, December 10.—The manifesta- tions of Joy at the death of Antonio Maceo continue today in all the principal towns of Spain, where the news is greeted with fire- works, music and cheering for Spain and the army. There were no anti-American cries. —_—— MISSING PAIR. Young Virginin Lady is Wanted by Her Parent: Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., December 10.—Mr. Frank C. Moran, who resides at No. 118 North Payne street, this city. this morniag came to the station house and swore out a warrant for a man named Randolph Cuyler, chargirg him with keeping a house of ill-fame about a mile west of this city. The facts in the case, according to his Statement, which are very pitiful, are about as follows: Yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock his daughter, Emma (better known by her companions as “Pansy"), aged sixteen years, left home to go to her dressmaker’s on St. Asaph street, telling her mother that she would return home in a short while to stucy her lessons. Instead of returning, however, she went to Cuy!er's place, near Joy Hill cemetery. This morn- ing Officer Ferguson went to Cuyler’s plaze, bui the birds had flown. The officer was told by a man named Tolman, who boards with Cuyler, that the young lady was there last night, but that she had gone to New York to visit relatives. This morning Cuy- ler left for Washington, and has sot yet returned. Miss Moran is described as being an un- usually pretty girl, and exceedingly at- tractive. She is sixteen years of age, five fect six inches tall, and weighs 125 pounds; dark brown hair and large brown eyes. She is a student at the Arlington Insti- tute on Prince street, one of the most se- lect seminaries in this section of the stare. Her parents are nearly distracted over the affair. Her father, in a conversation with a Star man, said that he could not imagine what could have gotten into his daughter of late, as he had never before had any troubie’ of any kind with her. He further said that he intends to prosecute Cuyl>r to the full extent of the law for having broken up his once peaceful home in cuch a manner. The police of Washington have been requested to look out for the couple. ge . DR. STAKELY DECLINES. Decides Not to Accept a Call From Richmond. Special Dispatch to Tue Evening Star. RICHMOND, Va., December 10.—Rev. Dr. Charles A. Stakely, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Washington, has written to the committee appointed by the Second Baptist Church here to recommend a pas- tor, declining to accept a call to that church. Members of the committee will not discuss the subject, but it is known that a committee of two gentlemen from the Second Baptist Church went to Wash- ington and urged Dr. Stakely to come to Richmond. They requested that he would notify them this week of his decision. Dr. Stakely’s reasons for declining could rot be learned. It is known that he was anxious to have the Second Baptist Church build a new house of worship, higher up town, and practically stated to the two gentiemen who visited him in Washington that if he accepted the call to the pastor- ate here he would expect this to be done. The committee could not give him any assurance that this would be done at this time, saying that such was now imprac- ticaple. It is also known that Dr. Stakely’s salary in Washington is $600 more than the Second Baptist Church pays, and that he has a handsome house of worship and a large congregation in Washington, with whom he is very popular. ee The Big New York Race. NEW YORK, December 10.—In the six- day cycle race in Madison Square Garden the following was the score at 2 p.m.: Hale, 1,224 miles 3 laps; Rice, 1,178.1; Forster, 1,191; Moore, 1,145.2; Schock, 1,136.5; Read- ing, 1,158.7; Tylor, 1,146.8; Pierce, 1,128; Smith, 1,139.4; Ashinger, 1,044.1; Maddox, 1,050. Cassidy, 1,028; Glick, 921.6; Gan- nen, 918.6; McLeod, $05.6. ———— ‘To Fight for the Cubans, DENVER, Col., December 10.—Chas.. F. Grell and Adelbert H.West, members of the National Guard of Colorado, have obtained leave of absence and intend to start for Cuba next Sunday, with 200 volunteers, all of whom have had military training, io enlist in the insurgent army. Grell says that two hundred men have also been en- roiled at Butte. ——— Elected to the French Academy, PARIS, December 10.—M. Andre Thue- niet, the novelist, and Albert Vandal, the Historian, have been elected members of the Academy. ———— Still in Custody. Herbert Staley, the Wissahockin boy who was arrested yesterday as a fugitive from his father when Detective Boardman found him trying to sell a bicycle, is still in cus- tody. Today a telegram from Chief Lin- den of the Philadelphia police department wes received at police headquarters, The boy's father says he has not heard from him since September, and says he had a bicycle when he left home. He will prob- ably come here and take the boy home. patviese Seacalhtos Called om the President. Governor-elect Black of New York was gmong President Cleveland's callers to- ——— Plans for Currency Reform. The House committee on banking and cur- rency has adopted resolutions requesting commercial organisations with definite plans for currency reform to submit them to the committee, and requesting Controller GOV. BRADLEY'S PLAN Not Oredited by Some That He Would Ar » (point a Senator. ¢Z <ad if Comments of Senators on the Report- ed Change of Intention—An -Ap- pointec Would Not Be Seated. Several of the leading Kentucky politi- clans here are disposed to doubt the ac- curacy of the latest story from Louisville of a new turn in the tactics of Governor Bradley. Those seen by a Star reporter today were still of the opinion that an extra session of the legislature is to be catled. They could not think otherwise, and if Governor Bradley has decided other- wise, as is alleged, they will be greatly sur- prised. Representative Hunter, who is said to have sufficient republican votes pledged to him to secure the republican caucus nomination, has been expecting an extra session, and it is said today that he is doubtful about the story sent from Loutsville yesterday. Kentuckians here assert that seatiment is too strong for an extra lion to be thwarted. Comments of Senators. The reported decision of Gov. Bradley means that there will be a vacancy in the Kentucky senatorship until a new legisla- ture has been elected next fall and hes chosen a successor to Senator Blackburn. Senator Chandler said that it was the height of folly for the governor of Ken- tucky not to call an extra session. f He said that this Congress could not at an appointee, and, of course, tne next ngress could rot; that it was agains every principle tac Senate has set. More- over, he said, there was no quest:on about the admission of a Senator if elected at an extra session of the legislature. Senator ‘Thurston said that Gov. Bradley ought to know that an appointe would not be given a seat in the Senate, and that it would be disastrous for the governor not to call an extra session of the Kentucky leg‘slature. Senator Allen said that the Senate had decided the po:nt raised by Governor Brad- ley, and that no appointee would be seated. As to the seating of a man chosen at an extra session, the Senator said that he ceuld see no reason against it. Senator Mitchell, chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, said: “I would vote against seating an appointee of Gov- ernor Bradley's in spite of the importance which attaches to the senatorship from Kentucky. Tne Senate has decided that when the legislature has convened and had a chance to elect a Senator, and yet had failed to elect one, that the governor had no power to appoint.” Senator Shoup of Idaho said: “It ts all important to have a republican Senator from Kentucky, and the only chance to have one is throvgh election. It cannot be done by appointment. ——___ +e-+-____— MANY PEOPLE DECKIVED. The Civil Service Commission Over- run With Applientions. The civil service commission Is receiving a deluge of applications by mail and in per- scn from people who were deluded by a statement in an evening paper yesterday to the effect that on January 12, 1897, an ex- amination was to be held, for which 10,000 applicants were desired. There are no examinations of any kind set for that day by the United States civil service commission. There are not, as stated, 4,000 jobs open for applicants, and the commission is not at all in need of 10,- 000 applicants, THE MONITOR PURITAN. She Will-Be Put in Commission in New York This Afternoon. The big steel-clad monitor Puritan, which has been under Construction in a sporadic way for the past twenty-five years, will be put in commission at New York this after- noon or tomorrow. She is held by naval experts to be one of the most formidable vessels in the nayy. Her. measurements are as follows: Length on Inad water line, 208tg feet; extreme breadth, 60 feet 1% imches; mean draught, 18 feet; displace- ment, 6,060 tons; engines, twin screw, triple-expansion, compound type, to fur- nish 3,700 horse power. She carries 400 tons of cecal and makes a speed of 12.54 knots. Her cylinders ‘are 5) and 86 inches in diameter, with a 42-inch stroke. The officers thus far assigned are: Cap- tain, Jchn R. Bartlett; Lieutenant Com- mander James R. Selfridge, executive offi- cer; Lieutenant Austin M. Knight, navi- gator; chief engineer, George Cowie: leu- tenant, S. B. Cook, William B. Whittelsey and G. L. P. Stone; ensign, R. H. Jackson; Paymaster, Reah Frazer, and pay clerk, J. Apdyke. —___,__-+-e— WILL MAKE NO PLEDGE. Senator Pritchard Will Vote With His Party on F: cial Matters, A number of North Carolina politicians are in the city. Among them are J. E. Boyd, republican national committeeman, and M. L. Mott, son of Dr. J. J. Mott. Mr. Mott was a delegate to the St. Louis con- vention. It is said that a movement is on foot to strengthen the chances of Senator Pritchard for re-election. Mr. Mott is a strong supporter of Senator Pritchard. The poptiists, it is understood, have de- cided that Senator Pritchard, to secure their suppert, must pledge himself to act with the silver men in the Senate. If he will do this the populists will select him as their caucus nominee and vote for him when the election takes place. If he re- fuses to make this pledge it ts alleged that they will vote against him. Senator Pritch- ard knows the situation, but has, it is un- dersiood today cn the best of authority, told his friends that he will make no such pledge, and that he will remain in the re- publican ranks and act with his party in all financial legislation. Senator Pritchard further claims that he has sufficient prom- ises from populist members of the legisla- ture to elect him. He is relying on these promises. Representative Skinner, populist, is said to be for Pritchard if he will take the pledge. He is working for Pritchard on the ground that the populists virtually promised to support a republican nominee for the Senate for the full term beginning March next. If Mr. Pritchard refuses to pledge himself Mr. Skinner then wants a populist, believing that the democrats would vote for the populist caucus nominee to defeat Pritchard. One-third of the pop- ulist members of the legislature are from Skinner's district. If Pritchard is out of the race they will support Skinner. It is also said that Skinner will seek the nomi- nation, believing that his chances, if it comes’ to thé selection of the populists, will be as good as those of any other can- didate. 5 —____-e+___ CLEANER THAN BVER. What an Old Employe Says of the House Wing. “The House-wing of the Capitol is cleaner now than I have ever seen it before,” said an old employe today. “The tiling of the corridors, the walls and ceilings have been scrubbed, painted and freshened up until the whole place is as neat can be. I think the installation of the electric light- ing system during the summer was re- sponsible for i€ When the corridors were dimly lighted by the old smoky gas jets no one knew: how dirty the place was. ‘When the electric lights were installed the condition became apparent, and the janitor went to work with a will to freshen up the buils . I should think the change would benefit the sanitary condition of the Cap- itol.” itd The new lighting svatem of the hall of t House was permanent opera- tion late Tuesday afternoon. The House remained in session until late, and the hall was becoming dark when the lights were sudde turned on. The unusual brilliancy attractéd the attention of every one, and there were many. €xpressions of satisfac- tion. f amps DISTRICT CHARITIES Delay in the Work of the Congressional In- ‘Spies Nothing Likely to Be Accomplished Before Appropriation Bilts Are Dinpoxed Of. It 1s quite doubtful whether the select committee authorized by the last Congress to make investigation of the charities and reformatory institutions of the District of Columbia will get together in time to ac- complish anything before appropriation hills are disposed of. It will be remember- ed that Senator Harris, chairman of this committee, which consists of three Sena- ters and three Representatives, resigned from the committee last summer before the adjournment of Congress, and since that time no successor to him has been ap- pointed and no meeting of the committee has been had. The appointment of the committee was on the recommendation of the conferees of the Senate and Mr. Har- ris’ successor will probably not be ap- pointed unt® Senator Allison can be con- sulted, as he was prominently identified with the movement for the appointment cf the committee. Object of the Committee. This committee was appointed for the Purpose of investigating the charities of the District in order to see whether any of the money appropriated for this purpose has been used in maintaining or aiding or payment for services, expenses or cther- wise any church or religious denomi: er any society or institution which der sectarian or ecclesiastical whether such charitable or reformatory i stitutions are effective and economical in their crganization, methods and expendi- tures to provide for the poor and destitute in the District of Columbia, whether it is practicable for the Commissioners or other authority in the District or to otherwise Provide for such care of the poor and des tute with any of these institutions, and, if so, which of them and to what extent within the limitations of the policy de- clared in the appropriation bill this should be done. The paragraph of the appropria- tion bill authorizing the appointment of this committee and the investigation to he made by it also insiructed the committee to report on the probable expense of provid- ing and maintaining public institutions for such purposes. The committee was to make a report as soon as practicable after the beginning of the present session of Congress and to in- clude in that report any changes by them deemed advisable respecting the methods of dealing with the charities and reforma- tory instftutions in the District. The com- mittee was authorized to sit during the recess. Waiting for Senator Harris’ Successor On account of the condition of Senator Harris’ health these meetings during the Tecess cculd not be held, and as he was chairman of the committee no one took the responsibility of even asking that a meet- ing of that body be called. It is probable that within a few days Mr. Harris’ suc- cessor will be appointed, as he still firmly declines serving on the committee, although his health is considerably improved since the last session of Congress. But even with a new chairman of the committee ap- pointed, the time for so extensive an inves- Ugation, which is regarded to be useless unless it can be made very thorough, is so short that hardly an attempt will be made to comply with the law authorizing the ap- pointment of the joint committee. WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT. Capt. Gaillard’s Report of the Opera- tions Last Month, Capt. Gaillard, the engineer ofticer in charge of the Washington aqueduct, re- ports to Gen. Craighill, chief of engin2+:s, that during the month of November the height of waters on the gauge at the mouth of the conduit at Great Falls varied be- tween 151-1 and 153.3 fect above the datum plane. The condition of the water at the various parts of the system during the month ts reported as follow: At Great Falls, very turbid for 8 days, turbid for 3 days, slightly turbid for 1 day and clear for 22 days. At the Dalecarlia reservoir effluent gate- house: Very turbid for 3 days, turbid for 1 day. slightly turbid for 1 day and clear for 25 days. At the distributing reservoir effluent gate- house—Clear for entire 30 days. Current meter observation. taken in the conduit between the Dalecarlia and 4is- tributing reservoirs, have been reduced and plotted and will, Capt. Gaillard nones, when combined with other observations yet to be taken, afford the means of deter- mining the daily consumption and waste of water without the necessity of temporarily shutting off the supply to the distribut- ing reservoir. Good progress is reported in the work of inserting blow-offs and air valves in the 36-inch and 30-inch mains. Under the project for increasing the water supply of Washington by raising the height of the dam at Great Falls, Capt. Gaillard says that 107 feet of the dam were completed during the month and that the abutment on the Virginia shore was raised from reference 151 feet to refe! ence 152.25 feet for a distance of 37.7 feet by the addition of a coping course. Tne closure in the Maryland channel was com- leted on the 23d inst., and the work on the abutment on the Virginia shore on the 25th, thus completing all the masonry work on the dam. The amount of work yet to be done to complete operations on the dam is as follows: To put in anchor bolts and clamps for a distance of 121.7 lineal ieet and to replace about 19 cubic yards of riprap, which was carried over the dam acroes the Virginia channel during the flood of October 1 last. During the present month it is expected to complete the small amount of work still remaining to be done on the dam. The property used in the work is to be collected and stored, and the work of strengthening the con- @uit by widening the embankments in which it rests will be continued. TOBACCO AN ESSENTIAL. Am Order in Regard to It as an Emergency Ratio In a genetal order issued today the Pres!- dent virtually recognizes tobacco as an article essential to the well-being and sus- tenance of the soldier in times of great exertion, as well as in times of peace and rcutire. The order, which emanates from the War Department, reads as follows: Under the authority vested in him by section 1146, Revised Statutes, the Presi- ability of strong prices, but the present market m: is the result of the pronounced timi such interests. Those who originated the declining movement participate in a campaign of improvement. | short stock, bascd on the prospects of favorable special legislation. The dividend, for which the books will close on Tuesday, undoubtedly prevents certain sympathize with the present stcck movement from tol- lowing the lead of the experienced profes- sional amount of stock covered yesterday, the ad- vance was of unusually Small proportions. Consolidated Gas was weak under furth-r sales for both accounts, 2% per cent being subtracted from first prices. Light, 10 at 95. a st Did. 30-year fund Gs, gold, 110 bid. 7s, 1901, curren Currency, 111%; bid. 3.058, funding, currency, 107 bi Li 117 bid. ite 5 85 asked. Columbia Railroad Gs, 110 bid, i13 asked. Wash- ington ington Gas peake and Potomze Tel FINANCE AND TRADE Money Plenty, But Little Unemployed Capital Goes Into Stocks. LENDING MONEY ABROAD PREFERRED Attributed to the Effect of Advices From Washington. — ae GENERAL MARKET REPOR’ Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, December 10.—The monot- ony of meaningless quotations continues without significant signs of From an opening level about on a parity with last night's final figures, althouzh here and there fractional gains were re- flected, prices receded under professional sales. Money is plentiful on all sides. loans being made around 1% per cent, but the stock market attracts no considerable por- tion of this unemployed capital. Lending money in London is preferred in many stances to conservative investments a home. The reasons for this protracted withholding of surplus funds are largely attributable to the remote prospects of re- medial legistafion at Washington. Recent developments Indicate a desire to do as lit- tle as possible during the present short ses- sion toward increasing the federal revenue. A steadily increasing deficit is not an argu- ment favoring improvement in security val- ues. The determination to do something for Cuba is a factor warranting caution, the result of legislative activity in this direc- tion being exactly the reverse of what similar activity applied to affairs nearer home would be. Washington and Havana are likely to supply all new incentive to activity during the balance of the year. ‘The cautious demand for the high-priced dividend-paying shares continues, but the volume of buying’ of this character is de- cidedly small. It is noticeable only becaus of the scarcity of all le The trading element is 3 stocks, and. being Hmited tn f pacity, hesitates to sell at this level. Dull- ness follows, av of course, but, after wait- ing for the oft-predicted reappearance of capital, and being agreeably disappointed by its non-appearance, the decline may be pursued still further. There is no lack of unanimity a: to the dvance vement y of interests to will not voluntarily Involuntury action of this character is not suggested by surface indications. American Sugar was weak under sales traders. Considering the total St. Paul added a decrease of $113,40") for the first week in December to its already long list of weckly decreases. Earnings from all sources fall short of expectations, | ard while overlooked in some instances be- cause reflecting past conditions, a rule, increase the waning confidence in | do not, as immediate improvement in values. The entire Granger group sold off during the day for fractioral net declines. Chicago Gas was again weak under some short selling, and further liquidation and profit-taking. The first hour was dull at a uniformly lower level for all of the more active issues. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The following are the opening.the highest and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today, 44 -eported by Corgon & Macartney, members New York stock exchange. Correspondents. Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 8) Broadway Open. Hig! Close American Spirits.. American Sugar. American Cotton Oil Atchison... Baltimore & Ohio Bay State Gas.. Canada Southern. Chesspeates Ohi cl e 0. C. C. C. &8t. Louls CM. 2 st. Paul | C. M, & St. Pant. Pfd. Chicago. K. 1. @ Pacific. Consolidated Gas. Dei., Lack. & W. Delaware & Hudson. . Den. & KioGrande, ig 195% Pia. Michigan Central. Missouri Pacific. National Lead National Lead Co., New Jersey Central... New York Centrai. Northern Pacific. Northern Pacific, Pf North American. Phila. Traction. Texas Pacific 9% ‘Venn. Coal and iron. Big Union Pacific... 108g U.S. Leatner pta 635 Wabash, Pid... 1635 Wheeling & L. Washington Stock Exchange. Sales—regular cail ; - Larston Monotype, 120 at District of Columbia Bonds.—20- . 110 bid. Water stock 7s, 1908, Misceflaneous Bonds.—Metropolitan Railroad 5s, 107 bid. Metropolitan Railroad conv. Gs, 115 bid, Metropolitan Railroad certificates of Belt Railroad 5s, 60 bid, ‘Eckington Rallroad Gs, 80 bid, #5 asked. Company 6s, series A, 113 bid. Wash- Company 6s, series B, 114 bid. Chesa- 5s, 100 bid. Ameri- abatement. | Water stock | dent hereby establishes an emergency ra- | curity and Trust Se, A. and 0., 100 bid. Wash- tion for troops operating for short periods | {Rston Warket Company ist de, 10s bid) Wash under circumstances which require them | ington Market Com bid. Masonic to depend upon supplies carried upon their National Bank Stocks.—Bank of Washington, 280 perscns. ts component parts are as fol- | pia’ ‘Bank of the Republic, 240 bid. Metropolitan, lows: Bacon, 10 ounces; hard bread, 16 | 280 bid, 300 asked. Central, 270 bid. 3 - | and Mechanics’, 175 bid. Second, 129 bid, 138 ounces; peameal, 4 ounces, or an equiva- | So Meniattns?, 119 bid Columbia, 120 bid. lent in approved material for making soup; | ital, 116 bid. West Eod, 106 bid, 112 asked. Trad- coffee, roasted and ground, 2 ounces, or | ers’, 97 bid, 106 asked. Lincoln, 101 bid, 105 asked. tea, % ounce; saccharin, 4 grains; salt, .64 } Ohio, 9% asked. ounce; pepper, .04 ounce; tobacco, % ounce. | Sa oles. The Secretary of War directs that this emergency ration be resorted to only on cecasicns arising in active operations when the vse of the regularly established ration Railroad Stocks. —Ca; Oy, Hi may be impracticable; that, although its | bid, 58 acked. Metropolitan, 109 bid, 111 asked. nutritive qualities permit its use on haif | Columbia, $0 uid. | a as Wi allowance, it will not be so used tin | 4s bia, ‘asked. town Gas, 40 bid. U. cases of overruling necessity, and never | 8. Electric 93 bid, 95 asked. for a longer period than ten days; and | Insurance .—Firemen’s, 34 bid. 44 asked. that not more than five days’ emergency | Franklin, = © asked. ~ 68 bid. oe Corcoran, Potomac, Arlington, Uma» De Cerried on the Porson at one | 135 bid 14 suk. ican, 180. packages, the coffee, tea, saccharin, salt, pepper and tobacco in suitable packages.” ae aed Potoane, & a. kieran Or ag ee ee asked. American Re a Harb s ag gee ap Pome Om Be The tary of War has forwarded to | ,,¥ wo ge te neler Be Congress the results of surveys on several | asked. Further surveys are advised at the fol- 23 Se ee . ¥.; Nyack harbor, Re $ Newtown creek, N. ¥., is not approved. — } § | should be granted, and Chief Ju ; | gon, | gaged in anot ott wee “southern ‘white ‘corm, 26a2: ‘Oats stendy— No 2 “white ined 4o., 200SE “bushels Rye barely st No. 2 near 43—recetpts, 1.839 bushels: ex stock, 62.057 tnxbele. May mothe, 618 50a814.00. ta fevights very unchanged. Nagar and lu'ter steady, wnchaored.” Eggs stoady— fresh, ond orage, 16al7; limed. 13al6. Cheese strong and aetive, unchanged. Whisky unchanged. sitio ctiscans Goverament Bonds, Quotations reported by Corson & Macart- ney, bank ors m Markets, B. Hibbs & Co., 1421 b w York stock exchange, Lade *%. Thai- Furnished by W. members } pondents Messrs. ork. Moy. jay May ik May a Too Large a ham Page, the colored man who was y sen ain the Pi ‘ourt by Judge Kimball to pay a fine of $25, as stat- ed in Tae Star, upon conviction on a charge of profanity, and committed to the work house for sixty days in default of the fine, was this afternoon brought before Chief Justice Bingham of the District: Supreme Court on a writ of habeas corpus The petition of the convicted man, filed Attorneys Ambler and Peyton, recited b: the imposition of the fine, and “Narged that | Judge Kimball exceeded his ay:hority, the man Claiming that a fine of $2. and not $25, is the maximum amount authorized by law. The hearing was set for 1 o'clock this afternoon, but counsel for the District s-- cured a postponement until tomorrow morn- ing. Page was arrested in Queen's alley last Sunday by Policeman Thomas Lynch, and at the trial in the Police Court yesterday it was charged that he saw Lynch and an- other policeman walking along, when he re- ferred to them in profane language, intl- mating that an- other London Shea’ cemen, hearing the remark ov to Pa when, it is claimed, he repeated the pro- | fanity The officers placed him uncer arrest, and the negro Claimed that they clubbed him, an accusation they denicd. Judge Kimball decided that it was a case for ihe infliction of the extreme penalty, and imposed a fine of $25, or sixty days in the work house in default. Page was unable to pay the fine, and was committed to the work house. After his counsel had presented the tion for the writ of habeas corpus to Chief Justice Bingham this morning, the judge directed that the man be orou, before him at 1 o'clock this afternoon, a that the attorney for the Dis‘rict be 1e- quired to show cause why the man rhould not be released. Shortly efter the 1 time, the court room being w by colored people, Mr. Mason N. Richand- repr ng the District, appeared in court and asked that hearing be postponed until tomorrow o'clock. He stat the Distriet, Mr attorney 3, was cn- court, and in view cf the given the District, he ponement. very brief noi asked for the : Mr. Peyton opposed any postponement. He said the statut pressiv fix the max- imum fine at $20 s Judge Kimball had imposed a fire of $25, the judge hed ex- ceeded his authority, and the nee Was therefore 1 He also i that even When Judge Kimball was told the seutence was excessive he refused to reduce it. M Richardson thought that even if that wer true, imprisonment in default of the pay- ment of $20 could be enforced. However. he thought the postponement asked for ne 2ing- being unable to bam so ordered. Page. | give bail, was remanded to the workhouse until tomorrow morning. Ses THEY ARE PARTED. Wife in Bed and Husban Bars. Today about noon there was an exciting scene enacted in an alley in rear of the south side of F street northwest between 9th and 10th streets. The trouble was the result of an alleged assault committed by John W. Turner, a colored waiter, on his wife, Sadie Turner. When Policeman Hoop- er heard of the affair he was told that a murder had been committed, and he hur- ried to the hovse of a colored woman the alley, where he was informed the vic- tim had been taken. Upon his arrival there |, unable to speak. s released here he found the woma! She is a delicate woman and w: frora the hospital only last Saturday. she had been treated for alleged inj received at her husband's hands. Wh: officer reached the house John had de- parted, and he was toid that he had gone for a dcestor. In a few minutes the bus- band returned and the officer placed him under arrest. The colored man, who bad been drinking, denied that he had assaulted his wife. But the injured woman said the could live with him no longer, and as she had concluded to prosecute him the officer locked him up. The wife says that be- cause she refused to return to him he knocked her down and beat her. She is under the doctor’s care, and he is behind the bars. Spal Gen. Lee at West Point. Gen. Fitz Lee is at West Point visiting his son, George Mason Lee. It is under- stood that he will return to Cuba vie Tampa, Fla., teking a private car from New York to Tampa. It ts now expected that Mrs. Lee, with her eldest daughter, Miss Ellen Bernard Lee, will accompany him. oe ‘Telephone Operator Resigned. Miss Louise DeMunn, since 1883 telephone operator at the Senate, has resigned, and Mr, William Davis has been appointed tn her place. Miss DeMunn has long filled this most confidential position in the Sen- ate,.and resigned shortly to marry R. 3. Alworth of Stanton, Pa. ——————-+= Gen. Harrison Not im Politics. Ex-President Benjamin Harrison has set- tled the controversy as to whether or not he would allow his name to go before the legislative caucus of Indiana republicans for United States Senator. In an interview he says he is not a candidate, does not Want the nomination and could not accept | it. General Harrison said: “To remain in private life is my desire and my purpose. This purpose is not wholly selfish, for to those friends who have urged the too- friendiy view that I could serve the coun- try usefully in public office, I have an- swered that I can probably do better serv- ice out of office; that what I might say or write on public questions as a private citt- An Iron Mountain fast express train that was leaving St. Louis was held up at the Bates street crossing, one mile from Unton station and within the city limits, at 9:30 o'clock last night by six masked men. The express safe on the train could not be opened and the robbers fled without booty. ——— -+0e-+ A Baltimore Assignment. Mr. Richard J. Capron, a large owner of real estate in and near Baltimore, has made an assignment for the benefit of his cred-