Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1897, Page 11

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Ave. & 17th & H Sts cleanses and pleasant, —whole- oe tle . ; aS-3m,40 veses entine Orris, French and sweetens the breath, hardens the some _after-taste. aoe ni oe SCROFULA, BLOOD POISO} tetter and all cther disorders manently cured and all taint eliminated from the syatem by S. y S., the greatest purifier. nol 1-w, f,m, —S ee iHorse-owners hen harness hunting, Examine CONCORD. the Man's ingenuity, skill and experience has up to date devised or constructed no better harness than THE CONCORD. The fines. of stock—the best harness-making ideas— and the most thorough workmanship—has com- bined to make it world-famous. UTZ & CO., Ast 497 Pa. Ave. Jat: fT THE MARKET COMPAN “Ss CASE. The Suit Not Withdrawn—A Statement by Gen. Birney. The comments made by the District Com- missioners Saturday regarding the action of the Washington Market Company ap- pear to have been based on the incorrect impression that the market company had withdrawn its suit entirely. The fact 1s that the market company had merely with- drawn its application for an injunction at this time, pending a decision of the case. Gen. Wm. Birney, solicitor for the market company, today explained the matter to a Star reporier as follows: “The suit to protect the farmers has not been ‘withdrawn; it remains in court on bill, answer and joinder of issue. Testi- mony has not yet been taken. No conces- sion, practical or other, has been made in relation to B street, and as matters appear now, none will be made. No point what- ever in the case has been settled by the court. The legality of the police regula- tion requiring the farmer to clean the side- walk and street of “all depos dirt and litter, or produce of any kind, which he or they shall have accumulated or placed thereon during their occupancy ef such space’ has not been passed on by the court (the Commissioners might have gone further and required each farmer to carry a paddle in his hand and a bag tled round his neck for droppings), nor has the court sustained the claim made by the Commis- stoners in their answer that farmers have no right to sell their produce except from door to door, and that if they wish to back their wagons up to the curb and sell from them they must pay a license tax of $25. The only pretext the Commissioners have for rushing into print on the subject is that I was courteous enough to waive my restraining order in consideration of their pledge made in open court by District counsel and to seventeen members of the Senate and House District committees in writing, not to disturb the farmers. This I did in order to save about three days’ time of court and counsel in discussing a point which the Senate has already settled and which the House will probably decide finally on the first day of District business. No right of the farmers kas been compromised. ‘They may be easy on that score.” ——— Annaal Meeting. The annual meeting of the directors of the Washington and Alexandria Turnpike Company was held at the office of the Washington Southern Railway Company, at the corner of Cameron and Fayette streets, Alexandria, this morning at 11 o'clock. After some business of a routine nature was transacted the following offi- cers were elected for the enzuing year: Samuel Rae of Philadelphia, president Albert Hewson of Philadelphia, secretai and J. C. Rogers of Philadelphia, tre: uret. The board of directors consist of the foliswing gentlemen: John Cassell of Washington, Andrew Jamieson of Law- renceville, N. J.; James P. Kerr of Balti- more, Samuel Rea of Phitadelphia and G. C, Wilkins of Baltimore. —_—_—— Editor MecCallagh’s Funeral. Services over the remains of Joseph B, McCullagh, late editor of the Globe-Demo- crat, were held at St. Louis yesterday a! ternoon at the residence of his stster-in- law, where he had made his home for many years, : Church of the Messiah ted. The a tive palll members of the Globe- Democrat editorial staff and heads of de- THE EVENING STAR, MO. YOUNG BARROWS RELEASED Jedgo Bingham Thinks He is Under Bix- teen Years Te Be Allowed to Choose a Guardian— Constitutionality of the Law Net Touched On. Chief Justice Bingham today decided that Frank Eugene Barrows, a Mutual District Messenger Company boy, should not have been committed to the District reform school the 6th of last November, and or- Gered that upon the little fellow's selection of a guardian he shall be discharged from the custody of the school authorities and placed in the custody and care of his chozen guardian. The boy, it will be remembered, was com- mitted to the reform school by Col. Cecil Clay, the president of the reform school board of trustees, upon the sworn com- plaint of Mrs. Alberta Evans, who claimed therein to be the boy’s guardian through the authority of an alleged will of the boy’s deceased father, Eugene Barrows, of New Yerk city. She also swore that the boy was an incorrigible one, her complaint be- ing supplemented by one sworn to by her husband, Geo. Evans. Colonel Clay thereupon wrote out an order for the boy’s commitment, placing it In Mrs. Evans’ kends. About ten days later she carried the boy to the reform school. The boy was then in the employ of the Mvtual District Messenger Company, and the manager of the company, Mr. Robert G. Callum, subse- quently complained to Colonel Clay and the School authorities that the boy had been wrongly committed. An investigation was ordered by the schoo! authorities, but before it was com- pleted Mr. Callum sued out a writ of habeas corpus, as the boy’s next friend, contending that the youngster was more than sixteen years of age when committed by Col. Clay, and also that Mrs. Evans was not his legal guardian. He also submitted that the law under which the commitment was made is unconstitutional. The matter was heard before Chief Jus- tice Bingham last week, Attorneys Lips- comb, Walker and Stutz representing Mr. Callum and Assistant District Attorney Armes appearing on behalf of the school authorities. Testimony was heard, argu- ments made and the court reserved its de- cision until today. His Release Ordered In disposing of the case today Chief Jus- tice Bingham said that several interesting questions arose during the hearing, but the court had no difficulty in arriving at a conclusion. It is well-established law, he said, that a eourt may inquire into all matters pertinent to the issue on habeas corpus and may hear all competent evi- dence. The court had every right to in- quire, therefore, into the power, vight a1d Jurisdiction of the board of trustees’ preai- dent to commit the boy. It would Le an anomaly if such a commitment could be made without a notice being given to the boy or to his representatives. He was satisfied that Mrs. Alberte Evans was not the boy’s guardian, and that the boy's father only expressed a wish or desire in his will that she should be appointed his boy’s guardian. But there is no ‘egal evi- dence that the will was ever probated or that the father’s wish or suggestion wes ever legally carried out by her appoint- ment as guardian. True, the woman swore she was the boy’s guardian, but there has been shown no record of her appointment by any competent court or authority. The Boy's Age. The boy, too, must have been under six- teen years of age to warrant his commi:- tal, and the boy, as was his right, testified that he was over that age when Colonel Clay ordered his commitment to the reform school Hence, he was not the proper subject for commitment because of that fact. Then, again, the records of the school he entered in September, 1888, show that the boy was then eight years of age. The only witness produced by the govern- ment to contradict the boy and school records was Mrs. Evans’ present husband. His testimony was not very definite, being mainly based on an alleged statement of the boy last March, when application was made to an insurance company for a policy on his life. Evans said that the boy then said he was fifteen years of age. But the boy positively denied making any such statement. Disregarding, however, the statements of the boy and of Evans, the certificate on which the boy was admitted to school in 1888, at a time when there was ho controversy as to his age, is, said the court, perhaps the best evidence obtaina- ble that the boy was then eight years of age. The chief justice said he had no doubt that the age of the boy was represented to Colonel Clay as being under sixteen years, and he had no doubt that Colonel Clay hcn- estly acted, as he believed, in the boy’s best interests. But, remarked the court, Col- onel Clay should have made a more thor- ough examination, and it would be better in the future for him to require strict and legal particularity in such matters. The facts brought out during the hearing showed that the proceedings had been properly instituted by Mr. Callum, said the chief justice, for it is very doubtful If the boy should have been confined in the re- form school, or that he should now be con- fined therein. The boy might not have been perfect, but his shortcomings or im- perfecti6ns were minor ones, and he had not been shown to be a boy of such bad character as to warrant his incarceration in the school. Indeed, his alleged miscon- duct had only been alleged by the means of hearsay evidence, and that was not, of course, legal evidence. If any one knew that he was, or is a bad boy,.thac person should have been summoned as a witness. Referring to the statement of Evans that he set the boy up in business, and then ac- cused him of stealing the money employed in the business, the judge intimated that the boy was merely taking, if, indeed, he took any, only money which belonged to the boy, or which the boy believed belonged to him. The court also referred to Evans’ statement that he would spend all he pos- sessed to keep the boy In the reform school. The boy nad impressed the court on the witness stand as a manly, truthful one, and he had also been given a very fair character by his school teacher. Then, too, the boy has shown that he is industrious, and anxious to earn his own iivelihcod. Such a boy ought not to be sent to the re- form school. “But,” conciaded the court, “he ought to have a guardian, and that, too, whether Mrs. Evans was or was not iis legal guardian, for the proceedings be- fore me have shown that shc is not a proper person to be his guardian. He shovid, therefore, choose a guardian, and when he does so, the court will discharge the boy from the custody of the school authorities and surrender him to the custody and care of the person he chooses ay iis guardian. Until the boy selects 4is guardiaa, no crder will be made in the ma*ter.” An Appeal. Assistant District Attorney Laskey ted that when the order is made he will note an appeal to the Court of Appeals. The school authorities, explained Mr. Laskey, while not desiring to harass the boy by long-drawn-out leg-u proceedings, do desire that the right of a court to inquire into or rehear the matter of a boy’s commitment by the president of the board of trustees cf thé reform school shall be passed upon by the appellate court. Chief Justice Bingham explained that he had not thought it necessary to pass upon the alleged unconstitutionality of the Com- commitment to the and because it had not been shown that Mrs. Evans was his legally appointed 5 gucrdlon during the day. and then Selected Ly en in the custody of Mr. Callum’s coun- WATERS. BENEATH US —— Artecian Wells in tho District of Ootnm- ‘The Chance of Getting Water Is Bet- ter im the Kasterm Part of Washing{on. Mr. N. H. Darton of {he United States geological survey has coyapleted his report on artesian well prospegts in the Atlantic coastal plain region, and-it.will be published in a few days. Mr. Darton devotes a chap- ter to the artesian wi Prospects in the District of Columbia, in ‘which he says: “The District of Columbia extends across the zone in which crystalline rocks emerge from beneath the coastal plain deposits, and rise into the Piedmont plateau to the west. The contact line crosses the Poto- mac river at Washington, passes through the western portion of the city, and to the northward extends along the éast side of Rock creek valley. The formation that lies on the crystalline rocks is the Potomac, which consists mainly of water-bearing Sands and gravels below and of clay and fine sands above. The formation of the basal beds has in all a thickness of about 700 feet, and outcrops in a belt from seven to elght miles wide, which extends to the eastward high up the ‘slopes on the east. side of Anacostia river. In these slopes it is surmounted by younger formations, con- sisting of a succession of thin western edges of the dark, sandy clays of the Sey- ern formation, the impure marl of the Pa- munkey, the gray clays of the Chesapeake, and the gravels of the Lafayette. Wash- ington is Situated on a séries of broad, low terraces cut in the Potomac sands’ and clays across the edge of this formation on the crystalline rocks. “This series of terraces, and its extension along all the lower land of the District, 1s capped by from twenty to twenty-five feet of gravelly sands and loams of the Colum- bia formations. The Potomac formation ts the only member in the District that con- tains underground waters of any import- ance, for the water in the Columbia and Lafayette cappings are of local surface origin.” be Mr. Darton mentions the following wells in the District, their depth and ca; acity: Reform School, 270 feet, 60 gallons peg minute; Eckington power house, 150 feet, 85 gallons per minute; ice works, 15th and E streets, 160 feet, many. gallons per min- ute; ice works, 15th and E streets, 90 feet, 30 gallons per minute; ice works, 15th and E streets, 820 feet, 15 gallons per minute; Metropolitan power house, 208 feet, 20 gal- tons per minute; St. Elizabeth Asylum, 20 small wells, 240 to 3560 feet, 130 gallons per minute in all; two six-inch wells, 350 and 38) feet, 65 gallons per minute each; Ana- costia, 170 feet, many gallons per minute: Heurich’s brewery, 20th and M streets, 900 feet, 7 gallons per minute; storage ware- house, 15th and M streets, 97 feet, 40 gal- lens per minute; the Cairo, Q and 16th streets, 70 feet, 15 gallons per minute: Mt. Vernon, 9th street and New York avenue, 183 feet, 40 gallons per minute; 312 Penn- sylvania avenue, 9% feet, many gallons per minute; Lafayette Square Opera House, 70 feet, 16 gallons per minute; Riggs House, 558 feet, none; 15th street, near M street northwest, 97 feet, many gallons per min- ute; Palais Royal, 97 feet, 35 gallons per minute; Brightwood, 14 ,fret, 20 gallons per minute; J. P. Clark, Gonduit road, 100 feet, 15 gallons per minute; W. H. Balton, Somerset Heights, 60 feefi:20 gallons per minute; Bethesda Park, 67 feet, 10 gallons per minute; Good Hope Hiv, 380 feet, un- finished; hotel at North,;Takoma, 251 feet, 20 gallons per minute: jational Brewery, 14th and D streets southeast, 310 feet, 120 gallong per minute; Waghipgton Brewery, 4th and F streets northeast, 300 feet, 75 gallons per minute; Washington Brewery, ith and F streets northeast, 275 feet, 100 gallons per minute; Highland station, 96 feet, many gallons per minute; gas works, 12th street southeast, 2ay feet. ~ Pure Water at"Sté Elizabeth‘ Of these wells the report_says that “the group which supplies .wates for St. Eliza- beth’s are perhaps the most important in, the District, for thefr outptit Is" large’ ana the water is Very ‘puré& The wells are situated on the banks ofthe Anacostia r:ver, only a few feet above tide level. The firs: well was sunk in 188% to a depth of 250 feet, and eighteen half-inch wells were soon after sunk, which yielded i50,000 gal- lons a day. Then some two-inch wells were added, and for nearly twelve years the sup- ply Was 200,000 gallons a day. Two six- inch wells, fifty feet apart, were recently sunk to 350 and 380 feet, respectively, and they supply 100,000 gallons a day. The deeper wells draw from a bed of sand and gravel, which extends from 350 to 400 feet, and He on crystalline rocks. “The deeper-seated underground waters have been tapped by a suificiently large number of wells in the District to ¢emon- strate the almost general extension of wa- ter-bearing beds in the basal and lower bed of the Potomac formarton, and there is of- ten a fair prospect for finding waters in crystalline rocks. The wells that did not find a satisfactory water supply in the Lasai Potomac beds are the ice works, at a depth of 360 feet, and at the Mount Ver- non Apartment House, at 123 feex. On the other hand, the Si. Ltizabeth, Metropolitan railroad power house, ais Royal, Eck- ington, Washington brewery and National Capital brewery wells obtain large supplies from that horizon. [In surface outcrops the basal Putomac beds are usually coarse sands and gravels, witch are filled with waicr, but in some few instances there are local areas in which there is a clay matrix, or even quite pure cury extending down to the crystalline floor. This latter was found to be the case the Mount Vernon Apar ment House, w at the Palais Koya three squares sou.hwest, the i Leds were coarse sands and gravels, coniaining much water. “In the 380-foot well at the, ice works coarse basal beds were found, but they con- tain no large supply of water, which leads to the conclusion that the waters are in part choked up by a local arce of clay ad- m’xture to the northward, but which does not influence the wells at the brewertes near by. “These considerations must everywhere qualify a judgment as to the prospects for basal Potomac waters at any given point in the eastern portion of the District, but the general rrespects are so gued that I should never hesitate torsink wells to these basal beds, pariicularly as there is always a good chance also of finding water in over- lying beds, as at the ice works. As to wa- lers in the crysta'lire rocks, I can muke no prediction from present occur in steeniy inclined fis: composed belts in the rocks, of which the extent and course are dilicult to determine and impossible to predict without many ad- ditional data.” ————— To Serve as_ Jurors. The following were jhisy afternoon ac cepted to serve as jurors_in the Police Court during January, "february and March: George J. Beggley, William E. Swann, Wm. H. Johnson, Joseph A. O'Hare, Grant Johnson, Charles HB! Walker, J. J. Brosnan, William Clarke, J.Wm: Henry, W. J. Mulhall, George Sahget+ ‘iver, Wm. Duncan, Wm. Knott, Sdimué! 8. Edmonson, Henry McGoens, Chas,‘H."Turner, James P. icGrann, John ~ Baxter, John H. Edelin, C. H. Posey and :Cotumbus Warren. The jurors were exousedvuntil Wednes- day, when the panel wilt-be, ¢ompleted, Were Aeguitied. James P. Geyer and 7 W. Taylor, trading as J. P. Geyer @ Ca, at 456 Penn- syivania avenue, were acquitted in the Po- lice Court this afternétn @f a charge of false pretenses. It wag clgimed by Miss Louise T. Holmes, Mrs. Thomas and others that rer and Taylor, made _unlaw. fal aisponttign of a ote for sid that Teens NDAY,‘ JANUARY 4, 1607-18 PAGES. We have purchased the entire stock of IF. Fl. WILSON, 929 F STREET N. W., Consisting of Ladies’ and Men’s Fine Shoes and Slippers—which must be closed out at ONCE. We bought this stock of Footwear at less than half of its real value, and shall sacrifice it at exactly one-half Vilson’s marked prices. This great slaughter sale began HIS MORNING AT 9 O’CLOCK AT WILSON’S OLD STAND, 929 F ST. N.W. Every one knows that Mr. F. H. Wilson en T placed them on bargain tables in the front of the store, as follows: Bargain Table No. 1 Is heaped with the odd_ sizes of Wilson’s $2.50, $3.00, $3.50, Choice $4.00. and $5.00 Shoes. $1.00 A Pair. Shoes. : joyed the reputation of selling the finest and most styl- ish grades of Shoes retailed in Washington. We have taken the odd sizes jn his finest grades and Bargain Table No. 2 Contains broken sizes of Wil- son's $4.00, $5.00, $6.00 and 70H l 50) Your choice for. . A Pair. Every pair of Sho eS Ii $7.00 Shoes Now $3.50 | All $5.00 Shoes Now $2.50 es at 14 of Wilson’s marked prices! All $3.50 Shoes Now $1.75 It $6.00 Shoes Now $3.00 | All $4.00 Shoes Now $2.00 | All $3.00 Shoes Now $1.50 J. & M. Strasburger, Family Shoe Store. KILL THEIR OWN YOUNG. An Interesting Discovery to the Fur 8 The Biological Society of Washington met Saturday evening in the assembly hall of the Cosmos Club for the 270th time. After routine business Professor E. W. Nelsoa exhibited some interesting specimens of rew birds from Mexico. Among those ex- hibited were several quail, which, from general appearance, are very closely re- lated to the common partridge of this re- g.on. New specimens of grouse, magple and whippoorwills were also shown. A paper was read by Professor F. A. Lucas cn the “Natural Mortality Among Fur Seals. A variety of causes of death emong the seals was described, Inflam- mation of the kidneys, starvation, falling from rocks or being crushed by falling boulders were named as large causes of death. Dr. Lucas also found that the fur seals destroys its own young. In the early life ofthe new-born pups the parents trample them to death to such an extent that out of every 1,000 born not half live. This discovery, added to previous discoveries sit ce 1880, which were that 10,000 pups are starved to death each year on the islands by the inhuman slaughter of their mothers at sea, naturally gives promise of little happiness for the future generations of seal pups. Dr. Lucas said he had exam- ined 11,000 dead pup seals, and compared them with 16,000 starved pups which had also been examined. The paper drew out a long discussion. Dr. Merriam called out Dr. Macom of the Canadian seal commission of 181. Dr. Macom said he was glad to be supported by Dr. Lucas’ discoveries in his own view of the mortality of young seals. He had seen actual demonstrations of what Dr. Lucas described. Dr. Stejneger, a member of the present United States seal commission, was in the audience, and he said be was surprised at Dr. Lucas’ statements. Only a year ago he had, in an official report, denied that the parent seals killed their young. He believed the trampling was done in sport and that the young seals enjoyed it for the sake of the exercise it afforded. Dr. True, another commissioner, said that he had not discovered the evil effects seen by Dr. Lucas, but he could not dispute them. Mr. C. H. Townsend, another com- mirsioner, supported the Lucas theory. Mr. H. W. Elliott said he had been look- ing at seal pups more than twenty-four years. He had watched them every day from their birth in June to their departure in November, without having seen any great destruction of the young fups by their parents. He had often seen oi! bulls fight, bowling the young pups right and left and throwing them in every direction as they fought, but rarely had he ever seen a pup injured. He said the localities where Dr. Lucas and Dr. Jordan had counted crushed seal pups were sandy and soft. No signs of crushed pups had ever been observed in the other rocky sections of the islands, which are about sixteen times larger than their sandy portions. He did rot think that the parent seals crushed their young. Short papers were read by Professor C. Hert Merriam on “The Pribilof Island Hair Seal,” and Professor W. H. Dace on “The Molluscam Fauna of the Pribilof Islands.” Regara —_—_—_— AGUIRRE REPORTED DEAD. Arrest id Imecarceration of Julia Betancourt and Her Daughte: Special Cable Dispatch to the N. ¥. Herald. HAVANA, Cuba, January 2.—Gen. Jose Maria Agulerre is reported dead of pneu- monia. It is claimed that many Cuban leaders will become presentados in Havana and Matanzas, but there is nothing yet to bear out the assertion. Julia Betancourt and her daughter, the latter with her baby, have been brought from Candelaria and locked up here as political suspects. Consul General Lee has received a com- munication from the Marquis of Ahumada assuring him that Americans in Guanaba- coa will receive all necessary protection from the authorities and need fear nothing as long as they obey the law. Consul Géneral Lee tried to see Harry Delgado, the American correspondent, ill in the hospital here, today, but the Marquis of Ahumada did not send the necessary papers. 2 ‘Vice Consul Springer sailed on the Ward line steamer today. Gen. Bcsch, with his column, has arrived at Guisa, in the province of Santiago de and nemy from their them to retire, leaving many dead on the field. “ Gen. beg pair eines a major, one ptain, two & surgeon wounaed: and three privates killed and twenty-nine wounded. In other encounters reported from sev- one 4 deserved successes. line. and struggle to sell made. In that way Compare with those you find Advertised for $45—$50 elsewhere. ® : ; @ : > : @ : 3 @ 3 : : 6 @ @ S A Monument of Success. Our business has grown and grown so that now it is colossal. is the result of work right along one steady It is the result of years of ambition made clothing at prices asked for ready- ness, but we have achieved an odd success. Full Dress Suits, silk lined, 25. MERTZ AND IIERTZ, New “Era” Tailors, 906 F Street N.W. It is like all other It is permanent. It the very best tailor- ours is an odd busi- ' 9O60GG99OH 0888S H5H89585H90809G0000 | ® DELAWARE’S NEW SENATOR. An Interesting Session of the Legisia- ture Eapected. The legislature of Delaware will meet at Dover tomorrow, and much interest cen- ters in the openiug of the session because of the political muddle in the state. A United States senator is to be elected to fill the vacancy caused by the refusal of the Senate to seat Col. Henry A. Du- pont, republican, who claims to have been elected at the last zession of the legisla- ture. The Delaware assembly is composed of thirty members—iwenty-one representa- tives and nine senators. At the recent election the democrats carried New Castle county, giving them one senator and six representatives, the republicans electing one representative in the county. In Kent county both sides claim to have carried the election, but the case is now in the court of errors and appeals. On the face of the returns the republicans carried the county, but the democratic returning board threw out several election districts on the ground of fraud. Kent county elects seven repre- sentatives and one senator. ‘The democrats carried Sussex county and have the certificates of election, but the Addicks men have entered a contest. The legislature is judge of the qualifica- tions of its members, and the democrats may seat their Kent county men regardless of the court's decision. The Sussex county republican contestants will not be seated. A hot fight is being waged among the democrats for senator. The battle still ap- pears to be that of Willard Saulsbury of Wilmington against the field. orney, aged about thirty-five years. He is a son of the late ex-Chancellor and ex-Senator Willard Saulsbury, who repre- sented Delaware in the United States Sen- ate during the war, and is a nephew of Eli Saulsbury, United States senator from Delaware for eighteen years previous to 1888, when Anthoy Higgins was chosen. Mr. Saulsbury is a sound money democrat, = sippy -the regular democratic t : The silver democrats, led by Representa- tive-elect Handy, are making strong ef- forts to elect John G. Gray, a silver demo- crat. Ex-: tative E. L. Martin, Gen. R. R. Kenney and ex-Chancellor Wol- cott are also in the field. Ex-Representa- tive Martin-and “Mr. Wolcott are both for the gold standard. Red- SENATOR-ELECT MONEY MISSING. Has Not Been Seen at Havana Since Sa A special cable dispatch from Havana to the New York Herald, dated yesterday, says that at the Hotel Inglaterra the clerks are worried about Senator-elect Money of Mississippi, who has not been seen since Saturday morning. Mr. Money and Fitzhugh Lee, jr., visited Guanabacoa Friday afternoon and inspect- ed the streets where fighting has recently been in progress. The Herald correspond- ent called on Mr. Money in the evening. The latter said: “I do not wish to talk from out of the depths of my ignorance, and up to now I am very far from grasping the situation.” “Your visit here is entirely unofficial in character?” “Entirely so,” said the senator, earnestly. “I have always been interested in the Cu- ban question, and finding myself growing more and more confused on the ‘subject, owing to the conflicting nature of the re- ports, both in the press and elsewhere, I decided to take a run down here and see for myself what the actual condition of things are.” “Did you see the bodies of thé murdered men in Guanabacoa?” . We were not permitted to go as far as that, being turned back by the guard before reaching the spot where the bodies | Were said to have been thrown.” “But you have no doubt that the men were taken out in the night and killed with machetes, exactly as we have been inform- ed by residents of Guanabacoa, have you?” { said, producing at the same time a list of the names of the known dead. “There can be no moral doubt about »” said the senator. Mr. Money seems to think that the House and Senate have gone to work in the wrong in @ concurrent resolution that way the ind lence of Cuba should be recog- nized. thought that the end could be best rpereg by the of.an act to