Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1896, Page 1

PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Ponusylvanis Avenue, Cor. 11th 8t, by Even’ N « Company. Tho Bren'ng. Sear Newspaper. Company Few York Offce, 49 Petter Building. 3 news The Evening Star is served to mubecribers tm the : today you can find ett, riers, on their own account, cent » per ae or 44 cents = month. at the : 4 it ly : counter 2 cents each. By mail—anywi } onl in Th St United States or Canada—postage prepaid—60 cent 3 “i . larday Qui ge Star, $1 per year, with toreti watag 1.00. ‘ncerea atthe Pest Otier. at Washington, D. C., second-class mail tiatter.) ty |-class - id in advai a ena mneciotces moar be rae ees | No taars: Cc. P. Baker, treasurer of the. Lawrence Sl LK AN D COT Manufacturing Company of Lowell, Mass. “The south would be selling its birth- right for a mess of pottage to esk for this == | protection,” commented _ Representative pratenaee ator Wheeler of Alabama. Hearings Today Before the Ways and | | “Wnat do you call its birthright?” Chair- | Mass of Bog, Roaring Like an.Ocean, Means Committee. en Eree institutions, Cuts a Wide Path. “Free institutions, free trade, free every- Wheeler. ———— NeW XEAR.neuerrions. /PRELIMINARY WORK | 2ote"s" cathe CURRENCY CHANGES Lint of Pesae jetelving and Not Receiving to E etianee Thursday. The Star will publish "Thursday a list of Introductory Inaugural Details Are thcse receiving or ast receiving New Year day. Persons. desiring to announce that Nearly Completed. they will om wilt not receive can do so without any charge tiy sending notices io The sar ane wir foo oioce Tore COMMIPTEES COMING 10 CONCLUSIONS | © #. Bases. S THE PROSPECT OF LEGISLATION Some That Representative Walker Would Recommend. thing,” replied Mr. Sk and Silk Geeds. At the afternoon session silk and silk} p ng AGAINST AD VALOREM DUTIES) conse cer cee Sl stoner ot AND FARMS ARE-DESFROYED Wrightsville, Pa., filed a brief, asking for : @ new classification of embroidered cur- tains and other embroidered goods; The duty on such goods was reduced by the act of 1894 from 68 to 50 per cent. Moat of these goods, he said, were now made in Belgium and many millions were an- mie asked for both 4 valorem and a TT Jy 4 le as! for an ad v: m 7 MANUFACTURERS TALK ueeciaie dats: BURIAL OF A FAMILY Mr. Russell of Connecticut, a member of the ways and means committee, submitted Ss Questions Asked by Chairman Ding- ley and Their Answers. day morning. ‘The notices should contain “og a only the announcement that there will or S ce Sake «oes a = i SAT Dot bo & reception, the names and ad- | Additional Subscriptions and the} Zot) .:::----- preci a Tis BEER | Vital Defects in the Present System Grasses: very) Morice: mut: pe properly. < besides the chairman were A. Greenlees, Poi authenticated to’ insure publication. Names of Contributors. W. S. Knox, E. Southard Parker, George ‘ointed Out. H, Harries, S. Thomas Brown, George E. Emmons, W. W. Burdette, R. O. Holtz- aH cj , Geor Cc. Hi ing, H. K. Simpson, DUBOIS’ ELECTION) Reports FROMSTATE MILITIA | Jesse B. Wilson and Es: stellwagen | AN INTERESTING ——— Bridges Carried Off and Roads Ruined. es TALK ee SS if FEE IEEE THE CAMERON RESOLUTION. eet ae tt ement from the Nonatuck = " Silk end cotton manufactures were the | Sux Company of Florence, Mase, W. ff | DUBLIN, December 2.—During the ast | The Maho Senatorship Has Assumed Na-| ‘The number of suggestions being received | tes Oppoments Believe It Canmot Pasa| Wednesday, January 6, the House com- subjects of the hearings before the ways | Chapman, a silk button manufacturer of | terrible, night and this morning the land- 3 by Chairman Bel. regarding the manner in congeitie tea mittee on banking and currency. will com. and means committee today. Arnold B.| East Hampton, Mass., made a brief argu- | slide in County Kerry continued uncheck- tional Importance. which the various details of the inaugural Sarford of Fall River. representing the | ment in favor of placing silk buttons in|¢q, a copious rainfall helping the move- * the silk schedule. He said they were f bo ite ana Sent Cotton Yarn Spinners’ Association of the | ¢ ment. The mass of bog, a mile and a 5 willing to accept the same rates imposed United States, about 1,000,000 spindles, pre- | On siik goods hot otherwise provided. for. | Wide, roaring like the ocean, carried away ‘The opponents of the Cameron resolution in the Senate have, it is sald today on good authority, made an informal but careful mence a series of meetings, which prom- ise to be very tmportant. It is the purpose of the committee to endeavor to get some ceremcnies should be carried out would make the leaves of Vallambrosa seem scant Republicans Will S¢ek. to Defeat Him if compared with them. They come from ; carivass of the Senate and have come to | Salutary legislation through the House sented an exhaustive written statement, | They were, he said, content with the pres- | bridges and roads, destroying houses and —Democratic Committee all over the country, and the great ma-| 11. conciusion that the lution not | @t the earliest possible moment, upon ‘he but submitted to an examination by Chair- | ent duties on the raw. materials, 10 per | farms, sweeping through the Flesk valley le Pority of them are evidently the ideas of | "ie Coneivion thee eliace nas AES as- | Subject of banking and currence, uma man Dingley. The main trouble with the | cent ad valorem. and emptying peat, carcasses of cows, in the Fight. body. becot individuals. who have long cherished them, and who take advantage of every oppor- tunity to present them for consideration. There are schemes for decoration that would take the mines of Golconda to pay for if they were carried out, and sugges- tions for illumination which would blind inauguration crowds if but a portion of them were put in force. Mr. Bell, however, present law, he said, was that the duties levied were practically ad valorem and per- mitted of extensive undervaluation. No 49-cent yarns were imported at their valu- ation, so that so far as fine yarns were concerned the law was substantially inop- erative. The present schedule, he said, would be satisfactory if the two provis- fons of the law were stricken out. Mr. Argument for Specific Duties. E. C. Hovey of New York, representing the Textile Manufacturers’ Association, an- peared to make a general argument in fa- vor of a return to specific duties. The subject of undervaluations, leading to ex- tensive frauds on the revenue, he urged, should be carefully examined by the com- mittee. He said he had made an exten- these meetings will be for the purpose of preparing the bills, Chairman Walker of the committee is now in the city and talked interestingly to @ Star reporter today. Prospect of Legislation. “What are the prospects of legislation, in this Congress and the next, to correct the alleged existing evils in the banking currency systems?” Mr. Walker was sheep and donkeys and debris of houses into the Lake of Killarney. The pecple living in the direction in which the bog slide 1s coming have fled, and the police, searching for bodie’, are arriving on_all sides. sured of this fact later they will not hinder the resolution from being voted on, as has been intimated. There will be no need for filibustering or for obstructing the resolu- tion with appropriation bills. The statement is made by-a congressman having direct knowledge of foreign rela- tion matters in one of the houses, that ‘The contest over the eléotion of a Senator in Idaho ‘has ‘assumed a very interesting aspect. The democratic national committee has determined to take @.direct hand in the Lord Kenmare has caused a cordon of | fight and to use the party authority to in- guards to be drawn around the slide in | duce the democrats of the Idaho legislature Soe ee order to prevent loss of life. to suppert Dubois. ‘Te. national party | reads them all amiably and carefully and aay sae pate Senetis Stabe weciae ee Sanford also called attention to the danger | sive tour abroad last year to look into this | The greatest excitement prevails in the | Managers‘have taken an active interest In| rerers them to the committees meine aun | 27 nen ceveeymegts io the sCaben atthe -to fine ‘spinning involved in the extensive | subject, and as a result he appealed to the | Vicinity and all the houses there are open the fight from the start and have kes EE matters under contro} as though they were | 25 fast in the Senate as it is in the House, It will depend upon the leaders of :he importation of cottor roving. Mr. Sanford | committee to look carefully at every sched- | to receive the hundreds’ of people render- | ing to make the ‘demoerats of the Idaho| matters of the utmost importance. where the leaders are arrayed against any- | dominan y, ; predtced statistics to prove the enormous | ule to see if they could not wipe away | ed homeless by the disaster. legislature understand that the return of ia present roe will mrobably sree the iting ‘which might eames a ny “ff it party, and if they increase in the importation of yarns since | every loophole by which the dishonest im- Dubois is a matter of yital importance to | Closing of all preliminary work by the Spa: ask- are deter- mined to have such legislation,” replied The belief is further expressed that the | Mr. Walker “The va: saeun the enactment of the present law. In 188 | porter got, the advantage of the honest Scene of the Disaster. the national democratic. party, and now a| fem™urters nd the completion and adop- Mhole matter will adjust itself within a | committee, during my en pr rier riche ieaa editor Goer Pe oe of general appraisers in New | Near Rathmore there is an eminence | more direct means of impressing this upon | {1° he inauguration ceremonies next | SH0rt time. Should this feeling become | service upon it, has practically hed the 12. York, and said he was more interested | about a thousand feet high, known as Boy Se Go in the administration of the law than in Simeon B. Chase of Fall River, Mass., | the duties Imposed. them has been adopted. March the grandest and most successful | £¢"eral. the effect on the Cuban situation |ertia, if not the opposition of the leaders in both houses will be, it is said, to let | of the dominant party, under both the dem- Hill, and it was here that the landslide Democratic National Secretary. Se seg aa octet ag Mores ras fin “administrations. a Cuba rest pending the developments which | ccratic and republican saniee i amount of money to be placed at the dis- | Sus reat Pon oT n administrations of = he opinion that specific du- | °Ccurred, as telegraphed to yesterday's Dubois left Washington last night for posal of each committee will be determined x a r eeeetatarahe Te eeud Cee e [Hee See a eet Teeny | StRES The fraina’ pertoli ting neouah eae | Biomater re eee joined | upon, so that this important matter can | ,ft,member of the foreign relations vom-| | “Beginnirg with the days of Sam Ran- ; mittee of the House told a Star reporter | dall, the I represented did not ask an increase of | 2€ainst fraud, but he realized that specific | ground gradually loosened a huge mass of | by Mr. Walsh, the secrgtary of the demo-| be definitely discussed by the executive rate wation of the House has been today that there has been no formal or | concentrated more and z duties in many cases were impracticable. | earth, and Sunday night, apparently with- | cratic national committee, who has been | Committee at its meeting next Saturday | informal discussion of Cuoan affairs by |of a very few men. While he irinteen duty, although on the finer grades they | In reply to questions by Mr. Dingley he | out the slightest warning, a large part of | directed by Chairman Jones to go to Idaho night. that committee. There has been no talk, | practice is still preserved of appointin, see sat Rave adequate protection. | They | said that the duties imposed by Great Brit- | the surface of the hill began to slide to- | “rected by Chairmay Jones to legislature | tary” organisations ‘has “received ‘reports | N¢,S0id. of @ meeting to discuss the situa- | fifty-eight committees, who erent Rane recognized that the new. classification in | ain, France and Germany were almost ex- | ward _the valley. Gaining momentum as it tary organizations has received reports The committee has become so de- | lation in answers d 1 r to the the act of 1894 was in the right direction. | clusively specific. moved, it swept downward with a roaring | Of the desire of the daffonal party organi-| from the adjutants general of several states. 7 demands of ie cldedly pro-Cuban that it is doubtful if who work la! : e Matthey lesired were two or three | | “I know of but two countries.” said he, | sound, carrying rocks, trees and everything | Z4tion of the democracy that Dubois should | Gov. Drake of Iowa and his staff and | (ne won qu any haste for a meeting | vants of the House. very: few ‘cormmnttbons amendments to compel importation of cer- ‘nich cling to ad valorem duties; one is | before it for miles. In some places the | be re-elected. Mr. 1sh is to remain in| probably a battalion of four companies | should the Cameron resolutions go through |can get any of their measures before the tain classes under specific duties, as they | the great United States and the other is | path of the landslide was a mile wide, and | 1aho as a representative of the national| will participate. The governor of Wis- the Senate, which this member does not | House. Uniess the few leadets are caste were persuaded that abuses had crept in. | Turkey. (Laughter.) = as it moved along it buried everything, en- | Committee, with fdlk guthority, until the} consin and his staff will probably come, but | now believe will be the cone estly, determinedly and persistently in They slso desired a new definition of goods | Mr. Hovey severely scored the “stool | tirely changing the aspect of the section | CoMtest js ended. A’ week or so ago Mr.|it 1s not probable that any troops’ will Among senators and representatives in| vor of any legisiation, it can not be) d containing 300 threads and upwards to the | Pigeons” to whom imported goods were | over which it passed. ei eS Gardner % iS city was sent to| accompany them. the city who talked with a Star réporter on | Common remark in the House is that a square inch. Upon embroidered or figured | consigned, and declared that so long as Killed im the Catastrophe. Faahe on, & Similar pawgon by Chairman Reports on State Militia. wih blect there is @ feeling that nothing | large proportion of the House might at woven goods, a class of goods of recent | these stool pigeons were permitted to re- dete? Jenes, but he wae be me by the sud-| 3 = t, Kentucky, | Will be done in either house pending infor- | well go home as to be here. manufecture, they asked an additional | ceive goods for the real owners, so long} The residence of Mr. Donnelly, steward | den illness of his her before he had| The reports from Vermont, vo. +, | mation expected from some source. What Defects duty of % per cent. Mr. Chase also asked | would the government be defrauded. He | of Lord Kenmare, one of whose seats, Kil- | COmPleted his work, ‘He feturned to Wash-| Connecticut and New Hampshire indicate this source is can only be a conjecture | «ywror cre im the Present System. for some provision which would protect | Personally did not see why the responsible | jarney Heuse, is at Killarney, was en- ington three days age. “Ht was then deter- a very small militia representation, and it] among those who have no relations with t — the most vital defects in the them from handkerchief manufacturers, | consignee could not be made to go on rec- gilfea in the ma: f thee = z mined that Secretar¥ Walsh should go out will be known better after the inauguration | the foreign affairs committee of either | Z°Vernment’s present currency system who imported clothes marked off with sim. | ord. He gave it as his opinion that on capente, Sprtn and debris, | to represent the combifttee, and Chairman | Will, b¢ governor-elect of the pine tree state | house. This impression of the rituation | Mr. Walke: was asked, Pie lines of color. This, he claimed, was a | silks, owing to undervaluations, the gov- | and ell its occupants, Mr. Donnelly, his | Jones telegraphed him to*meet Senator Du- What troops will come from Maine. No| 18 not confined to those who are openly | “The most vital defect { clear evasion of the law. Grnment recelved but 30 per cent, while the | wife and seven children, were killed. 1t| Dols at Omaha and. pissed with him to troops have been ordered to attend from| 9Pposing action on the Suban resolutions. | a govermengg i spatlied ermal Mr. Chase and Mr. MeMillin had a sharp | duty, was 45 per cent. ‘This completed the | is supposed that the house was ewent fron, | 1080- 5 Massachusetts, but some organizations are| It exists among many of those who are | * S°vernment system. Banking is of such fit over the effectiveness of ad valorem | hearing for today, and the committee ad-| sty" ¢oundations by the onerushing inece Composition of #Wé Legislature. arranging to come at thelr own expense. _| actively at work trying to have something |® ature that a government as such can duties. Journed until tomorrow at 10 o'clock, when | overturned, and buried to a great depth. | ‘There are twent; re is for Cuba. Representative Cox of Ten- | take no part in it other 2 iz 0 Ty Chairman Wright reports that accommo- | done P) x of Ten Part in it other than that of su ‘Ad valorem duties,” Mr. Chase said, | the sugar schedule will be taken up. As its present locality is not known, {| or Dubols men, in aver peouavcane gations have been secured and inspected | Pessee, one of the most ardent sympa- | vision unless the government itaclt ik. “catch nothing in the custom hous SS ae is hardly probable that the bodies will a é ‘ ‘ature, eighteen | ror 40,623 people. Two or three thousand | thizers with Cuba in the House, thie morn. | banker with all the service to In reply to a question from Mr. Wheeler THE THREE FRIENDS. ever be recovered. - lemocrats and twenty-three’ populists. the publi more are offered and in course of being cx-| 108. expressed the belief that the Cameron | and risks of a banker. : Mr. Chase expressed the opinion that it ‘ The fact is that All the cattle, pigs and horses on the | Thirty-six isthe nuniber necessary. to elect. | amined by agents of the public comfort | Tesolutions would be talked to death in ‘as hardly possible that th f There is @.local comBinwtion betw the Senate or would be defeated i Carry Ove sn OUNEEY DOW have to w ardly possible that e cost of manu- N Sec- | Place were also buried, and. there is now ere is @-local combine een dem- | commitiee. be defeated in a rry every dollar of the existing currency facture: of coarser clojts, th the: gouth was | Teer este cet gua are coe) | aacene OF wtlog: Gostintinn tne cn dew | corain. ant nopUleunl werner Duhots, and | The printing committee wil] meet in Room | Straightforward way. “I think scmething banks i land, but two-thirds of the cost in Manchester. Ee day stood the neat dwelling and outbuild- | all the republican infbenee 1s being ex- | 16 at headquarters at 4 o'clock this after- | Will develop in a short time,” he said, “and He said the exports from the south went ‘The authorities of the Treasury Depart- uta cent's ings of Mr. Donnelly. erted in hehalf of this’ ition, since’it { noon. The committees on press and parks | that this question Will setilé itself. "1 am v in other coun- gpicts to Ching, and were of such a class | ment and the Department of Justice anttc!-| "The movement of the landslide was to| aims to make an of Dubois a and reservations meet tonight at 7:30| i favor of the reedlutions snd would ike ed by the peo- that the cost of the raw material made up pate that the prosecution of the alleged | the southwest, in the direction of the | Weaken the alliance Be in demoéra’ o'cloekrat beydaperters. The committee on pass. by the bank the the bulk of the value. filibustering steamer Three Friends will be | river Flesk, into which a large portion of | #M4 silver republicans. ‘The republicans | street decorations wifl meat at the board cf So that issue # make a profit upon ing veler'a eos ae Tat aos Gee “fhe | under section 5282 of the ‘neutrality lawe. | the earth slipped, blocking it up. The cur- are greatly Interested, mioredver, in secur- trade rooms tomorrow night at 7:90 oreteck, A SOUTHERN way. it of whatever their rate of interest on e Is 1S Pp ' wn ve Pe ee 4 ic eleetion a han -wi will ve ani e committee on invitations ani ‘k- lowest point by competition. This will inaugurate a new method of pros- | 7ont Of the river was employed in run. pivots. il loans and discounts are. If every dollat 4 with them on the tariff. The :c ets at the same rooms in the Ames build- ‘Str: Se aii ataoeeee’ ta chia tad adn ning dynamos which furnished electric e ‘contest has S uid Dr. Latimer of South -Carelina ta- |! existing currency was put in circu- Se ED attemot - ccution. Heretofore the proceedings have | ight for the Kerry Lunatic Asylum and |W. become @ duel. between the two na: | ing, on G street, at 1230 pm, Tharuna, dorsed for the Cabinet. lation by the banks of this country th tected articles, but Mr. Chase insisted fret | been mainly under section 6288, covering | some buildings in Killarney. ‘The block, | !0nal committees, and assumed an aspest |The, committee’ on civic none wt Boats bit Comme Om Te eee ant, 200,000,000 it was true except where ‘artificial: combi. expeditions. But section 5283 1s directed | ing of the river, of course, stopped the | °f Sreat national importance from a polit-|'meet Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock ern republicans continue the cab- come on it. That would mean that they inet-making process.in behalf of a south- | Could reduce the rates of interest they ern man. A new man is now being talked |Ch@"@e by nearly one-third and pay their of as a cabinet possibility from the south. | Sr uhee ea ne, Same fates of interest He is Dr. J. P. Latimer of Greenville, 8. C_. stock that they now pay. ,- | feat point of view. at headquarters. ons existed. Sesinet the acuine il Gagunne OF 84 rrily cascican Tall ther eainines eee A Permani * nen {a your opinion, artificial combina-|on a vessel intended to be used against a | ient trom this wows were plunged into Sane Ek “ira Rey a bowel ri aa MeMillin. friendly nation. darkress, and it was some time before This action of the démocratic national “Well.” ciachiated Mr. Steele of Indiana, | The persons on board the Three Friends | other light could be obtained. committee discloses the permanent charac- Center Market Stand. A clerk at the District building, signing himself FP. “H. L., writes to The Star. in 4 What He Recommends : S relation to the description , published in| ff many years a prominent republican in 4 looking’ blandly aeross the table at Mr. | have given circumstantial details as to the It Was a Bog That sia. ter of the alliance between the democrats | ¥¢ ne : 2 = eatin.” what are you going to do about | mounting and firing of a Hotchkiss rapid-| ‘rhe part of the hill where the slide be-| 2%4 those silver seriators who bolted trom | The Star yesterday of the stand erected in| that state. So far he has received, it is | “What would you recommena to remedy isa the republican party.’ The direct interfer- | 1888 on the reservation at Center Mar- | 88/4. no backing outside of his-state for Comspastssi ot Taxes Pata. Pena be be Bar tein an noticias ghat | gan was a bog, and much of the earth| ence of the natenet cotnmittee in- Dubois’ | ket fur the use of the District employes in- | the place. He has been indorsed, it is A series of interesting questions put by | proceedings against the vessel are much | that moved was very soft. Huge quanti- | interest is upon the assumption that the | auguration day. The ‘correspondent states | sald, by the Melton faction of republicans Mr. Dingley developed the fact that the | More severe than in the case of a libel for | ties plunged into the river, and there is | Obligations of an alliarice by the national | that the stand was not erected for spesu- in South Carolina, and en effort is making Party is of paramouht importance, and lati af é con- s; taxes than in England. Mr. Chase said his | ali tackle, stores, etc., shall be forfeited to | ‘TY Tound about, unless the current ts able | should recognize thié if they desire to stand | clerks ona their families who patronized | him. A delegation will visit Major Mc- | issue it, It 1s not practicable to depart mill paid $24,000 taxes, while a similar mill | the United States. to carry the debris down with it. If any-| well with the national. party. .To all in- r 3 poate dope with te te Sa | pellet lon party. it. In conclusion, he says: Kinley in the near future in the interest of age that custom. Rc gg x it ts imbossible i b ne Rne aad iieel acelin. charge ion Dat body was pi alcn; ways | outs and purposes the national democratic | “Its construction was not a ‘ramshackle’ | Dr. Latimer, who is a cotton - chy mency other than banks to put S England would pay but $3,000. In Eng- | ,1 patie Jactaehe ator ict time the ‘slide passed over the highways | committee recognize the sflvér republican | character, but was equal to if mot wottey turer, and who a ener Sitter, currency in circulation among the people manufactoriess the omovies wen aate | ceeding under general instructions, and is | they would surely have been buried. There | cenators as Deloneing tea waa can | char any of the other stands erected along | + nventions: | 200 Make its current redemption safe, sure Jententiy ithe ant ene mblovers were dealt | Tot reporting om the details of the present {have been no reports of anybody being | orounieation von the democrats and pro- | the avenue by private individuals. In fact, | Umber of national republican conventions. | and practically free from expense,’ Can, DS cree mth 204 the: workmest wers forced | “cae. although the general cliaractar cf thy [missing. and on. this ls; based the betiet | Coen ee articlé-of faith to be ob- | it contained several advantageous ‘features | He is identified with the new republican | gress should immediately put che cursons cane we Wart of thet wegen: fitre'the | Oocuce ta. kilown ‘Mare. ‘The cncutin: [teat there was uo loss of Ute outside tie Served by democrats that these allies shall | which the others did not, @mong which | Party in the state, the faction which is | redemption of our grecnbacks upon the omncTer pold all and the employe nothing: | Schector of customs will turn the wesod | Domelly family. be treated as democrats. Plainly the demo- | may be cited the fact that it was a coy- | Seeking to build itself up from the white | banks pro rata to thelr capital and com- Wheeler, “and we will entively oxenid Mr. | over to the legal officers of the government | The thatch which formed the roof of | crats of the Idaho legislature are to be | ered stend. and it had toilet rooms for both | Voters of the state. pensate the banks for this service, which, from taxation.” |") SnUrely exempt you | on her arrival at Jacksonville, and there |the Donnelly house was found floating in | made to understans teat ne en throw the Be 2 e ating sexes—the very features which are now be- | ,!t is learned that many southern repub- | by the way, would really cost them noth. “That is one of the advantages the south fter District Attorney Clark will have en- le river, and some pecple surmise that | their votes to defeat Dubois will be regard- the defects -you mention?” “ “The. people having become so accus- tomed to the currency being issued by the general government and the constitution of many states forbidding state banks to ing spoken cf as necessary adjuncts to the | licans will be here between now and the | ing as compared with present condition, nu ranma Mace tire control of the prosecution. the bodies of some of the family may have | ed just the same as if they had defeated a | stands soon to be Soneearene: 4th of March to begin work for positions | by allowing the banks to issue an amount ake rt Pillings ‘of "Philadelphia, ore been carritd that far as well. democrat. The question settled in the case The te pnoee ae ed nen. ay of | of currency equal to the sum of the green- r . = I od fixer Prograi m wi we headquarters t senting the manufacturers of cecton NICARAGUAN CANAL. ADMIRAL MILNE DEAD. a: ue rele-Hons fel ween the) Memocrats r = ey | aeGemption Tite wean, (ee current hosiery, gave notice that he would later = and the bolting republican senators, and The subcommittee of the committee on ier pi ioe are ed = — re Sages ne This would make a profit to 5 means that the demo¢ratic national party parks and reservations are now considering 7 no! erred by the | ti inks on the total currency issued LONDON, December 20,—Sir Alexander Foniely tiuerrated no ar eee et tN% | sion is over. Whether there is anything |it with the use of bonds an sequined sue Milne, admiral of the fleet, who once was in = official in this report is not known, but it is | the present ” It is regarded as a matter of extreme im- | Pt mber of publishers have submitted prop- | said that Major McKinley is muons te ae oe Samana of the North American station, | portance, as affecting ‘the control of the “Bi o ark ee eae = but | prevent a large zumitjer of men foming to | as rhage te roadie which is 0. ari mad ashintgon an: ma, re for . a = Admiral Milne was born in 1906, and in | "°%t Senate, and as siping the lines for | committee is satisfied from an inspection of a GBthE Teith an okenee or es pA med ——t by bonds?” Mr. Walker was ae mira! as ; and in| the next congressional ‘and following presi- | similar work that the persons are qualificd | a big portion of them in the face. He “The very small tax of two mills on a 7 was a junior lord of the admiralty. | aential election.” to furnish an artistic volume. has hoped, it is said, that there would be | dollar anrually, retaining the sere sect From €866 to 1868 he was senior naval lord| Dubois has a plurality of the legislature, ‘West Point Cadets to Participate. | less of this than ever before, as he can + Vision as now, that the assets of the banks Gitce trom 18t2 io 1816, when he retien, | who re the smallest miorey GT mete | Secretary of War Lamont has orderea the | make the appointment at ha own Ieinite, | In\ case of insciveney aheeid St nod aiet submit a brief in favor of some changes in | Its Completicn to Be Urged by the this schedule. Fhe manufacture of cotton | Greater Republic of Ce: Am hosiery reached $6,000,000 annually. The a eee asap main difficulty with the present schedule, One of the main objects of the formation he said, was in the imporiation of fashion | of the greater republic of Central America goods, mostly from Germany. In reply toa | is the completion of the Nicaragua question by Mr. Dingiey as to the labor me Sagres : 1 it is said that Senor Rodriguez, its conditions in Germany, the chief manufac. | *™ : turer of cotton hosiery, he said the wages | @!plomatic representative at Washington, is here were four times those paid in Ger- | Charged with the duty of interesting the soon SE ae. tes seat ak the one United States in that enterprise. The ques- - Cooper, president of the Brit- take hase ish Hosiery Company of Olneyville, R. I., Hoss bes sates 5g ier be presented figures to show that the cost of Consequanice, of. the: alleged discovery of a Affects the Senate. to pay its currency notes, would make a their votes to a popultat or to Dubois. All |corps of cadets of the United States Mill- 3 ki By his fides te Sree por conus manufactured | Scheme on the part of the Colombian goy-| While in command of the North American | the national democratic fteallpre: are in- |tar> Acndsmenat. want polar te proceed to DESnCkaLans eatin apap why Py by his firm is $1.06 per dozen in the United | ernment with foreign support to move up | Station he received the Prince of Wales at | tensely interested ‘in ~Dubois’ re-election, Washingtcn at the proper time to partici- ri States and 8 cents in Germany. The labor | and dispossess Nicaragua of Corn Islands Halifax upon the occasion of the latter’s and many vigorous ‘letters have been writ- ten to the democrats in Idahe., losses could pom be, 7. shown by the eaiat! experience of the country for thirty ite Ger et E aR en lunge ake mallee tackiog cece Jolt to the arrangement of Col. Ernst, su- | From official sources @ denial is made of | NO™4 have the Sovernment guarantec the 2 = ees expected, thet eaceney Herbert wilt | the statement that the Spanish premier, | which’ would be equivalent te ie ven s Cent gamesex (0 Soctines Opler 601. c sinler Ate Me ones of ke corps | Canovas, has sent Secretary Olney a com- | cured by bonds.” per cent ad valorem, $1 cents a dozen pro- | to have a spite abainst Nicaragua, and also | time of the civil war, and was someniene Naval Ovdnagte spe of cadets at the Naval Academy at An- | munication, accepting the mediation of the Changes in the Laws. tection being needed to place the American | agathst the United States on account of | ly cordially received at Washington, On| It is sala to be séttled that Capt. W. T. napolis. This will be the first time since | United States in carrying out a plan of au-| wnat vital ch 5 -sebeal Sree eeteue- goods on the market on an equality with | her participation in the affairs of Central | his return to England he received the com- | Sampson will succeed himself as chief of | the second inauguraticn of President Grant tonomy for Cuba. It is said that no such “ the German. America, while the other has money in-| mendations of the. admiralty, and in 186) the naval bureau of ordnance. His four | that the niflitary and naval cadets have 4 sei : ‘in | mend in the laws regulating the rational Mr. Payne of New York incidentally said | vested in the Panama canal Project. was appointed commander-in-chief of the = in that office ‘wilf expire in a | b€e0 ordered to Washington for the purpose | letter has been sent, nor anything in | yanking system?” that freights from Germany to New York | |The pepe oe a And the | Mediterranean station. htt eked ts gmpoe pie indicated. that nature passed through the —— “First, I would release the banks from an nd Chicago were often as ch t losquito coast by Colombia and her for- F Negotiations toward home age, New England points to the same cities” | eign allies would. undoubtesly give thom SRaperenns StmTNDAY: When, tho danse wmtiane Reported. | Tie have proceeded for some montha, ana | Cbleation to Secure thelr currency by the The company’s plent and skilled work- | 2dvantage in the contro! of the D) er, | When the finance committee met last + use of United States bonds. That requires men, Mr. Cooper said. had been brought | canal and at the same time tend to pro-| World-Henored Statesman Reac! night the chairman, Mr. John W. Thomp- | the last phases of these negotiations indi- from England twelve years ago, and they | mote the interests of its rival, the Panama the Age of Eighty-Seven. 4 ; son, announced that his estimate that the | ©ate an enlargement of the home rule laws had never been able to pay a dividend. | canal. The Central LONDON, December 20.—The birth: curtcluded guarantee fund had reached $60,000 was too | 24opted by the Spanish cortes last year, They were getting on to their feet under : the McKiniey bill, but would have failed the Right Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone large, the total amount shown to haye | DUt not put into execution. These enlarge- under the Wilson bill. but for the backing celebrated at Hawarden today. There been subscribed on the books being $52,350. cost is 72 cents in the United States and visit to America. ° 24 cents in Germany. Workmen in the | 204 the Mosquito coast. This move the | “Sit ‘2 .0tander’ was the only admiral on Se American mills earned $12 a week and wo- | "ew Central American Union is preparing | the North American station who had ever HIS OWN SUCCESSOR. men $6, while men in Germany made $4 and | to meet. Of the two countries which are | officially visited any ports of the United ‘ women $1.75. In behalf of his firm he | suspected of lending clandestine support to| States since the war of 1812, when he ar- asked @ duty of 40 cents a dozen and 30| Colombia in this bold scheme, one is said | rived in New York in October, 1963, nt tie pate in the Inaugural ceremonies of the President-elect. The details of the trip are few weeks, and it wis generally under- of stockholders. the usual flood of telegrams and letters} vessel yesterday, | The former estimate had been based upon outa Taleott of the American Hosiery pty, Seto canal from home and abroad. The veteran states+ mut nts to be singe aes ay the ne a ted by regen at oea = ‘company of New Britain, Conn., manufac- ting was enjoying. excell z sum appoin' ween regent, also turers of full-fashioned hose and under-| curing any advan in + wen re sone The trol by Cuba of her tariff. The tage have been secured by next Monday night, | Complete con wear, stated that at the present rate of 00 | either financial or territorial. eaten CET ee ae Bowe 3 adjourned. | latest statement to which time the committee i land, the Marquis of Ripon, Baron Tweed. per cent ad volorem his mills had been idle ee ee mouth, the chief rabbi ned Eee oe ee The reports of additional subscriptions were or running on limited time under the Wil- CIVIL SERVICE EXTENSION. man-Hall were among those. who tele- bons son law. The grade of goods manufactured graphed their congratulations. Mr. Glad- Previously acknowledged. Ls by him was used mainly by the wealthy eral more liberal scheme of ; Dut owing partly to undervalue, | Offcers and Employes in the Federal | stone was born December 29, 1800. a cilia a than the eld one, to which the latest publi- tions: the govdeamond. swum scutes Mis Penitentiary Service. Famine in Russia. eee Capi — cation on the Cuban subject had reference. revenue and the people no advantages | The President has extended the civil]! sT. PETERSBURG, December 20.—Fam- As however, the negotiations with re- from the industry. The rate should be| service rules so as to include all offices raised high enough to give the govern- and fe penit ment revenue or to keep out foreign goods. lesen ar alate scorn A rate to effect the latte: it service who are by law subject to classi- Please him. © ister result would | teation. ‘This principally affects the fed- W. H. Bilyeu of the Philadelphia knitting | eral penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, mills stated that the hose manufacturers | Kan., thorgh it is to apply to all such would later present a schedule of rates a sired by them. ‘es de- | government institutions and to all seni- Egyptian Cotton. A representative of the cotton growers: of the Mississippi valley, W. R. Craig of Vicksburg, Miss., appeared to ask for a duty on Egyptian cotton. This product was underselling the extra staple cotton of the. Mississippi valley, having greatly deercased im price during the past ten years. If the irdustry was once established it would need no protection, for no other country could grow cotton so cheaply as the United States. For the present a duty of 3 cents a pound on Egyptian cotton was needed, and such a duty would help to improve the quality of all cotton grown in the south. 3 The same question was discussed by ine is prevailing in the province of Kher- son. It is estimated that 750,000 roubles will be required for the relief of the suf- ferers. Another Conspiracy Against Spain. . MADRID, December 20.—Private ad received here from Manilla, capital of the Philippine Islands, say that a conspiracy against the Spanish government has been