Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1897, Page 2

b LATE NEWS BY WIRE Preparations for the “Diamond Jubilee” in England. a TO CELEBRATE THE LONGEST REIGN !mportance of the Visit of the Kaiser. pete CURRENT LONDON ——_+ GOSSIP ‘opyrighted, 189 LONDON, Janvar: tled that the longest reign , by the Associated Press.) It seems to be set- celebration will be known as the diamond jubilee, for the Prince of Wales set the seal of royal ap- proval upo the use of this descrip- tion In a speech. ‘The preparations will soon begin, as the celebration i pidly magnitude unforeseen when It broached. The Prince of Wales, of ght and the Duke of the brunt of the ke the it of her majesty are n ure a lage new hotel for ine accommodation ef the y members of royal families expected. The C at Ereperor Wiltiam nronicle 2 i importance to his attaches a visit to that he hop grandmoti sion to dissipate Russia and ‘The court func season include five drawing rooms and five levees.2 The apartments la St. James’ palace ng redecorated ard the Prince of Wales wiil hold two levees departure for Cannes in ere prior to hi the middle of Febr The May draw- ing room will be he’ queen in per- son and the rule limiting the presentees to two hundred will be sirictly observed this year. : Home Industries Favored. ‘The government has yielded to the asi- tation nst foreign goods being used in the crown departments and has issued a circular to the department chiefs to confine their contracts to English manufacturer and, in order to prevent the possible palm- zouds by middlemen, only t are to be alt with. great A deal of amusement has been csused by a letter trom Mr. Hardinge Git- ierd, dated from the Junior Carlton Club, who is a nephew of Lord Halsbury, the termer lord chancellor of England, violent- ly denowncing the increasing fraudulent us of arms, ard wants to form an armorial tie birth may with- with spurious gentry. less certificated soethat, as a wag “Its aristocratic members may from contact with spurious pre- possessing only unauthorized her- t and monsters.” azette suggests that should have coats-of-arms back of their coats, 1d be placed outside the h the noble members a their griffins, leopards and rampant and couchant when they go those of contact ab, whe! aw from oO one will he Heralds’ Cc be eligible le tmin: the members Mr. Gindstone's Activity. For a person “politically dead,” Mr. Glad- stone is still attracting the greatest atten- 1 in Europe. His Armenian memorial t Hawarden, on January 6, upon speech the occasion of the celebration of the birthday of Mrs. Gladstone, has been ca- Ived vervatim to sultan by the Turkish <. Upon that occasion Mr. > said, among other things: up to the present the career of who is the greatest assas has be triumphant, all those of w nd iniquity are I have idea, howev i yet reache tter day the world, is » as the » now upon the shoulders great as to force the Armenian arkable evidence activity is shown unt of the latter's veteran states- is columns of the ture of ome and pays a trib- ‘y voracity for infor- h interested ents for his suc- ation Army, who Booth in secret in nd an examp! tem of person- tion of : by the exist- ad of a religious order. usion, Mr. Gladstone remarked that he thought people, instead of eondemn- righteousness in y form, should en- courage its cultivation. Laurier’s Refasal of Knighthood. There is considerable talk in the Canadian colony here regarding Mr. Wilfred Laurier’s New Year honors, and the consensus of opinion is that knighthood was offered to Canadian premier, but {t was thorough- prudent to decline it, as Laurier is virtu- an untried man, and Great Britain had ee wait and see what he will do. The rai impression prevails that he will be ®worn as a member of the privy council when he comes to England. Duncan of “The ‘s Theater, here, ham Crabbe, ‘ars, and has been Miss Dun- preity younz wo- 1 experieuce on the ) damages. She is of age, and is the Adam Seymour Dickson Dun- who, under the name of “Mr. Kil- fo yy owned the famous race and whose disastrous ex- periences on the turf induced him to desert his family, which eventually caused his ds rT to take to the stage us a me: ©f suppor: herself. On her mother's side Miss Duncan Bradeibane and Regarding annouret related to the Earis of Lauderdale. recent New York dispatches rrival for a whole week . Mr. Forman, the etary of the general post of- the Associated Press that * denounce the con- Cunard and White Star as their steamers, ac- Forman, form the finest us for a fast mail service, means can Great Britain ® trips during the winter of such ves- sels as the Lucanda and Majestic, which, he added, were it not for the mail con- id be laid up during the winter 2 B Mr. Forman continued, British merchants can always send their mail by any other steamer if they so mark and a hiatus week with New very seldom, not more ‘than ‘al pest that the British a contract to be nz will never permit given {o any ilne flying a foreign tag. nop Hartzell of Cincinnat!, accom- i by Dr. Fowler and Prof. Camphor sailed from. Liverpool for Africa The object of the bishop's . first, the esta’ and, in fact, make the African missions under the care of his church. Since his ar- rival in England, three. weeks ago, Bishop Hartzell has spent over a week in a hos- pital, where he was obliged to undergo a -al operation. The operation was very ssful, and he recovered very rapidly, and left here in the best of health and spirits. The party are taking a large quan- tity of hospital stores, which they bought in New York and London. A recent sale of autographs held in Lon+ don w interesting, as showing the esti- mation in which various Americin Presi- nts and other 2otanles connected with the history of the United States are held in England. A letter of John Quincy Adams brought Ss.; Thomes Jefferson, 163.; James Madison, 12s.; James Buchanan, §s.; An- BONA-FIDE CIRCULATION. A reference to the statement be- low will show that the cireulation sworn to is a bona fide one, It is easily possible for a news- paper with an elastic conscience to swell its legitimate circulation enor- mously, in order to deceive adver- tisers, by sending out thousands of papers to newsstands, which are re- turnable, and which are in fact re- turned, but nevertheless are in- cluded in what purports to be an honest statement of circulation. Intelligent advertisers, however, judge by results, and bogus circula- tions don’t give them. The family circulation of The Star is many thousands in excess of any other Washington paper, and is be- lieved to be fully five times that of our afternoon contemporary. Cireulation of The “Evening Star.” SATURDAY, January 2, 1897. 33,743 MONDAY, January 4, 1897. 28,621 TUESDAY, January 5, 1897. 28,912 28,582 = 2B;726 28,613 177,197 WEDNESDAY, January 6, 1897. ‘THURSDAY, Jannary 7; 1897. FRIDAY, January 8, 1897... Total. Dally average....... --29,532 I solemnly swear that the above statement rep- resents only the number of copies of THE EVEN- ING STAR cirenlate? during the six secular days ending Friday, January 8, 1897—that is, the number of copies actually sold, delivered, farnish- ed or mailed, for valuable consideration, to bona fide purchasers or subscribers, and that none of the copies so counted are returnable to or remain in the ome unsold. J. WHIT. HERRON, ~ Cashier Evening Star Newspaper Co. Subscribed and sworn to before me this ninth day of January, A. D. 1897. JOBN B. SLEMAN, Jr., Notary Public, D. C. drew Jackson, 12s.; Chester A. Arthur, 5s. Jefferson Davis, 6s.; R. E. Lee, 2 guineas; fllard Fillmore, 4s.; Jubal A. Early, 4s. Stonewall” Jackson, 2 guineas; General Longstreet, £1; General Forrest, 4s. and 64d.; John Hancock, 7s.; Napoleon, £1; Joseph Bonaparte, 7s.; An autograph of Dickens brought Carlyle, §s.; Tennyson, ds. On Thursday, January 28, there will be opened at Edinburgh the sale of the most varied and scarce collection of silver plate which has been brought into :he market for many years in the united kingdom. It is the entire assortment of plate brought to- gether by the late Lord Rosslyn of Dysart House, and contains unique specimens of bygone art in precious metal, collected frcm all countries. The present Earl of Rosslyn cares more for racing trophies than examples of ancient handicraft, and has ordered the forthcoming saie. Much comment has been aroused by the action of the board of guardians at Bour- nemouih. At a recent meeting of the board a letter was read from the manager of a local theaier inviting the Inmates of the workhouse to visit the Christmas panto- mime at a matinee specially arranged for their enjoyment. The proposal to allow the paupers to attend was rejected by a vote of 10 to 5 Seymour Bayley’s illusion, “La Mort,” which aroused so much interest in Paris, is now being shown at the Royal Aquari- um. Any member of the audience who chooses can, by entering a coffin, be trans- formed into a skeleton before the eyes of the spectators. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone will leave Ha- watden for Cannes next Wednesday, Janu- ary 13, where they will be the guests of Lord Rendel. They will remain but one night in London, either at the house of Mr. Armistead or that of Herbert Gladstone. At the termination of their visit to Lord Rendel they will probably make a some- what extended tour on the continent. There are many impending changes of an impertant nature about the once aristo- cratle and now notorious, Leicester Square. The site of many noble residences of a for- mer day is now occupied by the Emvire Music Hall, and on the west side by nu- merous restaurants and French hotels of unsavory reputation. One of these, the Hotel de l'Europe, and namerous adjoining houses, ¢ been aequired by the com- pany known as “Raker Bri and work upon the enormous hotel and cafe which they propose to build on the site will be commenced almost immediately. The large block at the opposite or east corner of Lei ter street has also been bought by a capltalist, and another restaurant will be there erected. Another corner has also been sold for £45,000 ($225,00 The house around the corner, once occupied by Sir Isaac Newton, will also be demolished. The public park in the square was the gift to the people of Baron Grant, who thus sought to recompense them for their financial loss es in the “Emma Mine” swindle. Its chief poets’ corner, Westminster Abbey. For- merly the square was ornamented by a leaden equestrian statue of George III. This fell into hideous disrepair and - was much mutilated. The dwellers about the square protested ‘n vain for the remoyai of the unsightly object. Finally, the figure, by preconcerted action, was covered with mud and adorned with a German pipe, a hoopskirt and a broom. This had the de- sired effect and the council promptly or- dered its removal. —$_< TRIED TO BLOW UP THE DAM. Rising Water Had Flooded the Neigh- boring Farm Lands. TAMPA, Fla., January 9.—An attempt was made to blow up the dam of the Con- sumers’ electric street railway by an armed body of horsemen, who used dynae mite, doing considerable damage, but not succeeding entirely in thelr work of de- struction. This company has recently con- structed a new dam and power house five miles north of here at a cost of $200,000. The country prople threatened to blow it up, and one night rumors sent an armed posse cf sixty men out to protect the dam. This was a month ago, and since then four armed men have guarded the property night and day. Thursday night at a late hour horsemen attacked the old dam, three miles from the new structure. While they were pre- paring for their work the men employed at the old works secured all the available guns, and-for half an hour a fusillade of shots were exchanged. No one of the de- fensive party was hurt, but from the bullet hotes in the house it can be seen that all had a mayrow escape. The besiegers were driven off, and the sheriff soon had a posse there. Pee thief of Police Burke thinks the men will be ¢aptured,, The trouble is due to the ris- ing water, which has flooded the farmers’ ——— A NEW CABINET OFFICER. misssioner of Mines. DENVER, Col., January 9.—Gov. Mc- Intyre’s biennial message to the legislature of Colorado was read in joint session this afternoon. The governor sets forth in a comprehensive way the condition of the state affairs, but makes no radical recom- mendations. He explains that the neces- sity of keeping troops in Leadville ever since September 22 last was due to the failure of thé sheriif to attempt {o enforce the laws. The governor recommends the establishment of a board of conciliation and mediation for the purpose of preventing strikes when possible. He recommends the to me- morlalize Congress to est sh @ govern- ment department of mines, with a com- missioner, who shall be a member of the cabinet of the President. ——_ Georgians Go te Join the Cubans. SAVANNAH, Ga, January of young men have left the insurgents, Among them was ‘W. Anderson, jr., son of Anderson of Sa’ who is related the late Governor Jenkins and Jones. THE EVENING STAR ‘SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1897-24 PAGES, DEBATE STILL ON Discussing the Pacific Railroad Fund- ing Bill in the House. SPEECHES ONDER THES MINUTE ROLE A Lively Parliamentary Colloquy as : to Arrests. NONE YET REPORTED ae The House of Representatives today en- tered upon the last stage of the debate on the Pacific railway funding bill. Under the rule already adopted, the long speeches were concluded yesterday, today being given to brief speeches unter the five-min- ute rule, with the final vote immediately after the reading of the journal Monday. The interest in the culmination of the de- bate was shown by an exceptionally large attendance of members for a Saturday ses- sion. Several of the senators were at- tentive listeners at different stages of the debate. Before taking up the funding bill the House passed Senate bill for a bridge across the Red river above Fulton, Ark. Sharp Parlinmentary Struggle. A preliminary flurry occurred over a mo- tion by Mr. Fienderson (lowa) to reconsider the resolution adopted at the night session of the House iast night directing the ser- geant-at-arms to arrest absent members and bring them to the bar of the House on Tuesday next. It occasioned a sharp parliamentary struggle, Mr. Baker (N. H.) making the point that Mr. Henderson was not present at the night session and had no right to move to ceconsider. Mr. Thomas (Mich.), who ge2ured the adoption of the order’ for the arrest of absent members, defended the justice of it, pointing out that absenteeism at the Friday night session, when private pension bills are considered, practically brought pension legislation to a standstill. ‘There was much confusion as Mr. Thomas sought to read the names of all members absent last night. He said he wanted the country to know just who were responsible for this Gelay of legislation. After many objections had been made the Speaker ruled that the names could be read as part of Mr. Thomas’ remarks, and they were accordingly read from the desk amid a loud murmur of disapproval. It disclosed 238 absent from the night session and now subject to arrest by the sergeant-at-arms. Mr. Grosvenor created a laugh by asking if the sergeant-at-arms was to furnish transportation, lodging and food for his prisoners. Mr. Meredith (Va.) interposed the state- ment: “I suggest that the gentleman (Thomas) have read his petition to be com- missioner of pensions under the next ad- ministration.” “There is no such petition and the gen- Ueman (Meredith) knows it,” returned Mr. Thomas warmly. “I have heard it was in existence,” per- sisted Mr. Meredith. The motion to reconsider was adopted— 180-109. Mr. Thomas sought to get a record vote, but failed. “The call for a yea and nay vote was defeated—16—165. “Is the Speaker counting members now under arrest?” interposed Mr. Thomas as a last_resort. “The Speaker is not aware that any mem- ber of the House is under arrest,” re- sponded Mr. Reed sharply. “No arrests have been made under the order,” added Mr. Henderson. “Certainly, the sergeant-at-arms made arrests last night,” insisted Mr. Thomas, “and more were made today.” The Speaker said he had no information of such arrests. Thereupon without further division all proceedings under the order for arrests were suspended. With this lively episode out of the way the Pacific railroad funding bill was taken up under the five-minute ruie. Onslaught on the Railroads. Mr. Bowers (Cal.) opened the opposition in an onslaught on the management of the Pacific roads and the bill. He character- ized the measure as a plan to continue the most tyrannous monopoly that had ever been urganized. It was a part of an in- famous and fraudulent transaction, an at- tempt to prolong the grip of the “ana- conda of the Pacific coast.”* Mr. Johnson (N. D.) opposed the bill, giv- ing the enormous profits that individuals had made and the enormous losses of the government. When Mr. Powers of Vermont, in charge of the bill, asked for more time for Mr. Daniel, one of those supporting it, Mr, Maguire (Cal.)_inter- pesed, saying," Every man from the Pacific coast has heen shut out of the general de- bate, and there can be no extensions in ‘avor of the bill.”* If there has been any ‘shutting out,’ responded Mr. Hepburn, “it was at the elections and not here.” Mr. Daniel argued that the settlement should be made now and not left as a legacy to the next administration. Mr. Grosvenor said the bill Seve the best means of closing tracted contest and protecting the ment. Mr. Dockery (Mo.) urged that Congress had not been given the full financial state- ment as to the settlement which would ¥arrant its adoption. Mr. Arnold (Pa.) said that unless this settlement was made the next administra- tion would be compelled either to issue $60,000,000 bonds to pay off mortgages or else throw up all its liens. - Mr. Hilborn’s Contention. Mr. Hilborn (Cal.) contended that in the pending proposition an old overland branch of the Central Pacific now abandoned was included, instead of the new branch. He also insisted that a ferry. which was In- cluded as a vafuable asset was in fact disposed of by the roads. His further re- murks will be found elsewhere in The Star. Mr. Powers disputed the correctness of Mr. Hilborn’s statements, and said no sales such as indicated had been made. At th:s point the two substitute propositions of Mr. Harrison (Ala.) and Mr. Bell (Col.) were submitted. The features of these substl- tutes have been heretofore outlined. Mr. Henderson said he tried to view the claim as one of his own, and to act aa though his own interest’ were involved. He belleved foreclosure meant complete loss of the government debt, while com- promise on the lines of, the bill gave the hope of saving all, or most all, of the debt. —____+«—_____ SENATOR PROCTOR AT CLEVELAND. Probably the pro- govern- Various Reaso Assigned for His Visit to the President-Elect. CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 9.—Senator Redfleld Proctor of Vermont was by long | odds the most prominent arrival at the of- fice of National Chairman Hanna today. He came in from the east cn an early train and was driven directly to Mr. Hanna's office, where he remained in consultation with the latter gentleman for some time. Mr. Chas. G. Dawes of Chicago, a mem- ber of the republican national executive committee, also arrived during the morning and went to the home of Myron T. Her- rick, where Major and Mrs. McKinley are guests, to call upon the President-elect. At noon Major McKinley and Mr. Dawes were driven down town to ‘he Perry-Payne building, where Senator Proctor and Chair- man Hanna also entered the carriage, which was then driven to the Union Club. After luncheon had been served, a lon; conference took place between the Presi- dent-elect, Senator Proctor and Chairman Tt was stated that the mission of Senator Proctor to Cleveland at this time was to consult with the President-elect in regard to legislation and_ possibly also as to the interests of New England in the personne? ok She cabinet of the incoming administra- is course, given much speculation circles, it being = - sald, is to permit the roads to pay their STEADILY GROWING|WORST OF ITS KIND ‘Widespread interest in the Seining of the C anal, Substantial and Gratifying Co-Opera- tiom in ‘the’ Work by Anglers Who_Want the Bass Saved. The success; which has met the efforts to seine the. CI ke and Ohio canal and transfer Aalee and the food fish con- tained therdin to the waters of the Potomac river has éxcited great interest among the anglers, who had regarded the result of the project at first with considerable doubt. There is a general sentiment that the sein- ing should be recommenced as soon as the weather permits and be continued until the holes and pools in the canal are entircly freed frcm the fish which would other- wise perish before spring. The reason ihe fish die in the canal is because the water left remaining in the pools when the canal is drawn off-slowly but surely dries up, and from the middle of February until naviga- tion opens there is very little moisture be- tween its banks. Consequently, when the water evaporates and the mud freezes the fish are destroyed by thousands. Mr. Charles Laird of the finance division of the Post-Office Department, who has won international fame as a rifle shot, and who is known as one of the most inde- fatigable and enthusiastic anglers in the country, called at The Star office this morning and declared that the seining of the canal and the saving of the bass therein could not be estimated in its valu- able effect on restocking the Potomac with the game fish. -He proffered any assistance that he might be able to give toward fur- thering the project, and suggested that he would secure subscriptions from anglrs who have not hitherio contributed to the good cause. Mr. Laird’s generous offer was gladly accepted, and subscriptions handel to him will be deposited with The Eveaing Star and acknowledged through its col- umns. The record of the bass fund con:inues to grow, as will be seen in the following statement: Heretofore acknowledged. Charles E. Coffin Emmons 8. Smith. Levi Woodbury. Saks & Co. Mr. H. C. Coburn Mrs. H. C. Coburn. Total. In sending a check for $10 to The Star, Mr. H. C. Coburn wrote as follows: “Please find inclosed my check for $10, a contribution from my wife and self for saving the bass. I am confident that were it not for the stringency of the times that there is not an angler in Washington who would not contribute.” Mr. Buracker sent his contribution to Dr. W. S. Harban from Baltimore. , It is suck unsolicited and gratifying testi- monials that prove the far-reaching interest which is being taken in the work. Ill-Advised Criticism Answered. United States Deputy Marshal W. B. Oll- ver of Hagerstown declared in the Balti- more Suna day or two ago that he pro- posed to take' steps to stop the seining, claiming that the parties engaged in it were ruthlessly ‘slaughtering the fish. Dr.George W. Massamore, the chief deputy game warden bf Maryland, who has done more for ,the protection 9f game and fish in that state than any other individual in it, is in charge, as is well known, of the seining of the canal, and in the Sun this morning he seys the accounts of the de- struction of the fish are exaggerated. ‘The bass, he states, are placed in buckets and emptied into the river, but carp, eels, large catfish, mullets and suckers are giv- en to the people along the canal. All the remaining fisMlare put into the river in- stead of dying in the mud or freezing in the shallow pools, some of which dry up entirely. F “When the canal locks are pumped off for repairs,” te adds, ‘thousands of fish perish, but thts year, under imstructions from Genera} Manager Nichotson, all bass wiil be taken out .by lockkeepers and put into the river. You will see that instead of killing all the fish we are saving them. “Fully 5,000 white perch have been put Into the river between Harper's Ferry and Sharpsburg Landing. They were planted at Cherry Run some years ago and have propagated wonderfully. This is the first year in which they have been seen in the canal in any numbers.” Dr. Massamore thinks Mr. Oliver got his information from a party of ten seiners who went to fish the canal on their own account with a 120-foot seine, but were stopped. He says that in the past the fish were in this way seined out by the thou- sands, thus decreasing the number of bass. ———— MONETARY CONFERENCE. Local Men Who Will Go to Indian- apolis Next Week. Mr. B. H. Warner, Mr. Clarence Nor- ment, Mr. E. S. Parker and Mr. S. W. Woodward will go to Indianapolis as dele- gates of the board of trade to attend the mo @!ary conference to be held there Tucs- day next. Representative men from all parts of the country will assemble there for the purpose of considering the best measures for doing something to improve existing conditions by dealing in a practical way with the currency question. Said Mr. Warner today: “I suppose a ma- jority of the delegates will favor the es- tablishment of a commission io carefully consider and recommend some plan of pro- cedure. Iam going to learn—to meet men who are actually engaged in affairs and get their views. “I am in favor-of sound money, the best currency, and opposed to cheap money, but I am not so wedded to the existing na- tional banking system as to think it can- not be improved. It has been of great ser- vice to the country, but in my opinion the time has arrived when it is desirable to permit the state banks, under certain proper and carefully guacded regulations, to issue their own bank notes, The day of wildeat banking has passed. very state will be anxious to maintain Its own credit, for upon that its prosperity must depend. ‘The several legislatures en: laws regu- lating the coilection of debts and the en- forcement of contracts, which really exer- else a controlling influeace on the assets of the banks, and our country kas grown so rapidly that local legislation ts required to meet local needs. “In any event, Congress will sot brcaden the national banking law. until some im- portant concessions are mail, -and the sooner this is understood the earlier some- thing in the way of relief can’ be accom- plished. ou “Members of Congress, as a rule, are con- trolled in sheimactions and votes by what they undeystend to be the wishes of a ma- jority of heir constituents, and no one who has enyed the last campaign can fall to understand that many of the people, justly or not, dcinand some carly change in the currency -system. Cabinet ministers. members oe gress and prominent men generally shave been talking depression, lack of confidence and the need of a reme- dy so longjthal some prompt action should be taken. 5] { £35 “But no,gmatfer what the monetary con- ference may seek to do, no legislation can be secured which fs not based upon imporcant concessions by the national banking inter- est. The Ixst!réport of the controller indi- cates very plainly his view in this direc- tion.” A LEP eae AT THE_EMBRGENCY, Condition of Chipman and of Tucker, the Lineman, Charles. H. Chipman, the supposed young New Yorker who attempted to commit suicide at the Howard House Thursiay afternoon by inhaling iNuminating gas, is reported at the Emergency Hospital late this afternoon as beifig in a very critical condition. The surgeons at that institution are very beige tir to whether he will 2 through the it i uy E who Was in- i ultim Hoby-ecorey fran: Representative Hilborn on the Pacific Railroad Funding Bill. PEOPLE OPPOSED "0 THE MONOPOLY Foreclosure of Mortgages and Sale of Properties Advised. THE ONLY REMEDY a Mr. Hilborn, in the course of his speech in the House today on the bill for the set- tlement of the debt of the Pacific railroads, said that the measure enjoyed the distinc- tion of being the worst of its kind. “It deals more generously with the rail- roads and more harshly with the govern- ment, than any of its predecessors. It is vastly more unfavorable to the govern- ment than the Reilly bill, which was so ignominiously defeated in the House in the Fifty-third Congress. After that re- buff it might be expected that the advo- cates of funding would moderate their de- mands rather than/enlarge them. : “Under thé sclieme proposed in the Reil- ly bill, the raflroads were to pay off the so-called first mortgage bonds, and give the government a first lien upon the roads; under this bill no provision is made for the payment of the first mortgage bonds, but on the otner hand the first lien is nearly doubled, and the government has the second lien to the end of the transac- tion. Under the scheme proposed in the Reilly bill, the debt due the government was to bear interesi at the rate of 3 per cent per annum, and the entire amount of debt was to be paid in fifty years; un- der this bill, more than eighty years will elapse before the entire debt is paid, and the rate of interest provided is only 2 per cent per anuum. - “This bill would not have received the approval of the committee which brought in the Reilly bill, for in their report they place the seal of condemnation upon ‘one principal feature of this bill when they say: “Che annual interest on the first mortgage binds has been a heavy drain upon the earnings of these companies; and, if said first mortgage is to be contin- ued with priority of lien, it seems to your committee that it would be futile to at- tempt any adjustment of the government's indebtedness on that basis.’ It appears al- so from the report presented by Mr. Hub- bard of the minority of the p) mittee that the railroads them: offered better terms. of settlement those contained in this bill. One Offer. “We learn from that report that the Union Pacific proposed to give the govern- ment $35,000,000 first mortgage four per cent bonds out of an authorized issue of $100,000,000 limited to an actual issue of $87,000,000. This would give the govern- ment 35-87 of the first lien on the mein line of the Union and Kansas Pacific, in- cluding terminals, bridges, Denver exten- sion and Cheyenne division. Also $20,00),- 000 preferred stock out of a total author- ized issue of $75,000,000 limited in actual is- sue at the time to $68,000,000 without a second mortgage, making the preferred stock equivalent to a second mortgage. This is certainly preferable to the present bill. “Gen. Hubbard, in behalf of the Central Pacific, held out that his company would, with the aid of the sinking fund, pay the principal of the subsidy bonds as they should mature, ang give a 2 per cent in- come bond for the unreimbursed inter: to be secured by a retention of so much of the government compensation annually earned by the rouds as shall be necessary to pay the interest. This proposition is preferable to the pian proposed in the bill.” than Mr. Hilburn admitted that no bill to re fund the debts of these raiireads would meet with his approval. He said that the people of California are opposed to any measure that will perpetuate this monop- oly. It has stood in the way of their pros- perity in the past, he added, and they are appalled at the prospect of having its power made perpetual. They want a com- peting line of railroads, which this bill de- nies them. He then quoted figures showing how the government would suffer by th feaiure in the bill providing for the ment by the reads of an ann i isfaction of the principal of t companies, he said, are aiso to pay interest on the unpaid portion of the debt at the rate of 2 per cent per annum. He called attention to the fact that the government pays 3% per cent for the money it borrows, so that in case of a failure to pay the sub- sidy bonds the government would lose in interest the difference in the rate proposed to be paid by the railroad and that which the government pays. He gave a state- ment of the practical operation of the pro- posed funding bill as appiied to the Cen- tral Pacific read alone, which showed the loss the government would sustain. He said that the scheme contained in this bill is that the men who have wanton- ly and wickedly wrecked the ship now im- pudently importune the owners to employ them as salvors, and after the ship is saved and the salvage paid they will own the ship. While, he said, the Congress of 1861 has been censured for legislation which has been proved to be more generous to the railroads than was necessary, as that Con- gress loaned these roads about $61,000,000 and permitted them to place another mort- gage of a like amount ahead of the govern- ment Hen, now, he added, the Congress of 1807 proposes to loan these roads $111,000,000, with a prior lien of $107,000,000 ahead of the government lien. He pointed out the dif- ference in the circumstances of the two periods, and said that in 1864 a trans- continental railroad was of great advant- age to the government, and also that the character of the corporations in question was unknown. Now, however, there are several transcontinental railroads, and, ac- cording to reports to Congress, the ‘cor- porations have violated nearly cvery ob! gation which they have assumed, and every precaution taken by Congress for the proper management of these great properties has failed of its purpose. ‘The speaker stated that no officer of the United States whose duty it is to advise Congress in relation to these roads now advises this legislation. No popular senti- ment calis for this legislation. No state legislature, no political party in any state, has declarec in favor of the funding meas- ure, while, on the contrary, the legislature of California has sent a strong protest and all the political parties of .Califernia have condemned this bill. In regard to the claim that the innocent stockholders of these roads should be protected, the speaker said that the great bulk of the stock of the Central Pacific is held by people who fear to vow their owxership lest they be held resporsible for its debts. The stockhoid- ers of these corporations, he said, pur- chased with a full knowledge of these facts. He asked whether the speculators who pur- chased this stock, or the farmers and pro-_ ducers of the west who pay the tolls to support these roads, have the best right to protection. : The Plain Remedy. The speaker declared that the plain rem- edy for the recovery of the money due the United States from these companies is the foreclosure of the mortgages and the sale of the properties, and if any deficiency arises, an action against the guilty direc- tors or their representatives for the resto- ration of the funds misappropriated by them. The speaker also clatmed that the jaestions involved in any settlement be- tween the government end the railroads are judicial questions, and should be settled by the courts and not by Congress. The courts shovid be called upon to adjudicate the avestion as to whether the so-called first mortgage bonds, amounting to over sixiy- one millions, are the first liens upon the r '; whether te of the 3 in © nsas City a valued at fifteen millions, are 3 ject to the government lien; and whether thirty acres of land in the heart of Frateiseo, worth over $12,000,000, 1s "ize called atte t justice, it will be recalled, held that the boy was more than sixteen years of age when commiited to the institution, early last November, by Col. Cecil dent of the school’s board of trustees. court also decided that Mrs. Alberta Ev- ans, who claimed to be the boy’ 5 had never been legaliy appointed. In or- dering the release of the boy, Chief Justice Binghem directed him to continue in the custody of Manager Collum of the compan: debts by levying excessive tclls upon their patrons, and their patrons are the people of the states through which the roads run. If this debt to the government is paid :t will be ultimately by the people. It will in effect, he sald, be a mortgage upon the pro- ducts and the enterprise of that western country. He referred to a case as an illus- tration of the vigilance of the federal ofti- cers in the collection of a bill due the gov- ernment by a poor farmer, amounting to $18, and compared it with the experience of railroad magnates who have the time ex- tended for eighty-six years within which they may pay or not as they please. In regard to the claim made by the friends of this bill that it will get the gov- ernment cut of che railroad business, U speaker seid that he believed it would have Just the opposite effect. in conclusion, he referred to the large amounts of money advanced by the govern- [FINANCE AND TRADE Se oe Net Result of the Day's Operations Was Unfavorable to Prices. ‘CONCESSIONS REPORTED IN LONDON Union Pacific Sold on the Prospect of the Defeat of the Funding Bill. = for the construction of these roac Sgt Si and asserted that nearly one-half of EN <ET REPORTS great sum was misappropriated and direct- | TENERAL MARKET REPORTS ed to the use of the parties “charged wich | = =< the trust, who are now fabulously rich,while the companies in whose names they ‘acted are left at last stripped of all means to Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. pay, while the individual directors are mil- vi NEW YORK, January 9. Opening prices Honatres. In other words, the directors | this morning were generally steady around te a the money and the companies owe the t's final figu but yielded to edits. pr jonal sales later in the day. The —_—-e—___ : CONGRESS OF MOTHERS. net result of the morning's operations was fractionally unfavorable to prices. London Arrangements Almest Completed for a ported an irr market for the Gathering Next Mont curiles and es r ns Bank of Miss Mary Louisa Butler, the correspond-| 1" American railway shares ing secreiary of the National Congress of | England is expected to reduce Ite minimum Mothers, which meets in this city next | {count rate in the near future, p month, is busily occupied with the details | T28S8day, as the result o: reduc- of the great gathering. From reports re-| {10m in loans. Con Angered celved from all over the country it ts evi-| Bisher in conse a dent that a great deal of interest Jjs being | “cline in interest rates. rae taken in the matter, and there is every Se a wae SMa ty Wamiogion Teason to believe that a large number of | PUSS on the prospects of uafavorabl ladies wit! be in attendance upon the ses- | “(HOP on the funding bill next week sions of ihe congress. Miss Butler ex-| ,,7R° geclada fama poem soles : ! , | morning asking the railroad commission to ze sailor deterred York next Monday | irvestigate the recent dividend policy of Soe ineonnected with the arrange-| the Manhattan ralirond is another eewten er complete nace Program, which is all but | of a disposition to foree more erolicit sane eplet nts from corporation managers. The An effort is being made to have the rai!- kness of the nk panes y ak no Hemetserant an extension of time on the| to advance information’ ac te ppdnnn tickets of {hose who attend the congress | tion : de ver the 4th of March, in order that those | ‘4 ‘rumor anno : in oF 01 uncing of the Who are here for the ‘meeting of mothers | Sugar trade moe eng, a during the thought that ire the, imausuration. It ts] morning, but beyond invite manne ee pusht that the railroads will agree to| the overcredulowe Was passed over without this, ond. if they do, it ts certain to in- | incident 2 : crease the attendance on the congress. The bank st = - fatement for the week reflec ipeadles (who are in charge of the ar-| an increase of SnObsgOs fa oe Mees rangements for the congr: have just is- wha te nks, sued a revised circular, in the course of " The which they “It is proposed to have the congress consider subjects bearing upon the better and broader spiritual and physical, as well as mental training of the young, such as the value of kindergarten work and t in f the gain in to the with- companies to disburs: » is attributed drawal of funds from trust et se 1 interest Over two-thirds extension of its principles to more advanc-| carried to. th " ed studies, a love of humanity and of coun-| bringing that put $44 try, the physical and mental evils result-| This. showi: easy ing from some of the present methods of | market for the im and shows fur Schools and the advantages to follow | the strength of the local banks’ Such nen from a closer relation between the influ- ence of the home and that of institutions of learning. Of special importance will be the subject of the means of developing in children characteristics which will elevate and hago ee and thus assist in over- coming the conditions which now pi i nm crime and make necessary the maintenance | The foliowing are the openin of Jails, work houses and reformatorics.” | 284 the lowest and the cl The first meeting of the congress will be | held in the banquet hall of the Arlington Hotel, Washington, D. C., February 17, ditions should in ; ter class of prices. confidence ir urities and foster —————— FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL, the highest ices of the as reported members Corresp New York stock market today by Corson | York & Macartney. exchange. stock 18, 19, 1897. Everybody, whether a parent ‘egestas ih 4 or rot, is cordially invited to attend any : Core Mig. Lew. Coe or _all of the sessions. cases ie oe OR the morning of February 17 a recep- een ane kee hte iT e tel ® na a O'clock by Mrs. Glevelange omerees at Tubeccace-.. ‘se ‘sot ‘Sri Among the speakers who wiil address ‘ the ccngress are: Miss Amalie Hofer, edi- tor of the Kindergarten Magazine: Miss | Frances Newton, superintendent kindergar- ten work at Chautauqua; Mrs. Stanton Blatch of New York, Miss Lucy S. Bain- bridge, Miss Anna A. Schreiver, State Nor- mai School, Michigan; Dr. G. Stanley Hall, Anthony Comstock, Mr. Hamilton Mabie. Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster, editor of Har- per’s Bazar; Frank Hamilton Cushing. In additicn to the regular program, there Will be special conferences on subjects per- aay er 66" taining to the interests of childhood, under 10% 140 . the direction of Miss Newton. The ablest 7 speakers that can be secured will assist | Delaware & Hudson... ily ring in this sectional work. Den. & Rio Grande, pid. ° NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS. Tiinois Central SP Hadar Lake Shore. 1f 2 Girl Has Committed Suicide Her | Louisville € Nas Absence Not Reported. pee, ang one The police have not learned anything ad- | Michigan ( Missouri Pacific. . National Lead Cx National Le: New Jersey ew York Central orthern Pacific venue bridge yesterday morning, ed in yesterday's Star. It any has really committed suicide, as ind cated in the note, her absence has not been reported. Today the police were informed !| Northern P that the girl, Mary Mister, who disap- | Ont. & Western peared from her home on 6th sircet Tues- | Pacific Mail. a ¥, had been Mund at the home of her | Phila. & Reading aur + hear Ivy City. It was also reported | Pullman P. C. Co that there was no truth in the rumor that | Sputhern Ky. pid. she had been seen in a disreputable section sat te ra Texas Pacific... ‘Tenn. Coal & Tron. Union Pacific... U.S. Leather, pfd. Wabash, pfd.. with a male companion. ——.__ FOR DRILL PURPOSEs, Militia to Occupy Convention Han | Wiecilug & L. Erie. Ks = ; Three Nights a Week. celine & 5. aries ous eK ous The Commissioners and General Ordway | Siiver.. . seeing eg agreed this afternoon upon the future of SIP CS Convention Hall as far as its use for a Washington Stock Exchange. Grill hall for the National Guard is con- a nalengrgmilar call 32, o'clock ropolitan rev b 008 at 113.) e Deposit cerned. They agreed to amend the lease, | ad Tye issn US, Ne — so that the National Guard was to have it | at SK: 50'at Sig 1 wuatic Gun Carring at three nights each week. If the proprietors | 2) cents: 10) After call —Lansion Mo- of the hall persist in refusing the militia | Motspe. io at the use of the hall, then the Commission- | yj!*'git of Collimbia Bonds.—20-sear fund Ss, 108 ers will withhold all money due and for- ytd: "Watet stocks Ne, Sha feit that now in hand. 110 bid.” 3.658, funding, curre 107% —>—_— THE POULTRY sHow. Miscellancou Bonds. Metropolitan Railroad 5 108 bid, 112 = ota nye ed. Metropolitan Railroad ony. c 6s, 112 bid, 114 asked. Metropolitan Ratlrond cor. Te Opens Next Tuesday im Center | tilicates of indetedness, 120% bid. Belt. Rellrond Market Hall, Ss, 65 bid, 85 asked. ‘Eckington Railroad 6s, 85 bid, 95 asked Columbia Raflroad (Gs, bid," 112 The second annual skow of the National | asked. Washington Gas Company @s, series A, 110 Poultry and Pigeon Association will open | hig (yasuitetoe Gas Company @e. se ge at 9 o'clock next Tuesday morning in Cen- | bid, 105 asked. American Security. and "Trost be ter Market Hall, where the exhibition last | F. and A.; 100 bid. American Security and ‘Trost 5s, A. and O., 100 bid. Washington Market Com- pany Ist Gs, 105 bid. Washington Market Com- pany imp. Gs, 105 bid. Wash! pany ext. 6s, 105 bid. Masonic E year was given. With incrcasing mem- bership and corresponding strength and an encouraging jvcal interest in poultry, ion Market - fall Association 5s, 103 bid. the association has this year exerted ali |e Mey tora w Z y Nati a wl sh its Fesources to make a large and thor- | wid. Metropolitan, 239 Wide B00 sake Eee oughly successful exhibition of stock of | 260 bid. Farn and Mechantes’, 170 bid, 1% the highest quality. ons it Fanciers and prac- 140 asked.’ ¢ Uical breeders in all parts of the country js pid, Copal AT tad, amb have showed their recognition of Wash- fog ne Feast. = ee ingtod as a great show center and made asked. ® - a large number of entries. Up to last Companies. — National Safe Saturday night, when the time for filing bid. Washinzton Loan and entries had closed, something over 2,000 birds of all kinds had been entered. There are several hundred more entries than last Trust, 118 bid, 125 asked. Ai Trust, bid, 141 asked. mnerican Security and Washington Safe De- c Bay year. One breeder, Mr. A. K. Oliver of Motropelitan, Woy wide 205g "wekeak” eat Delaware, sent in 257, and during the after- | lumbia, 50 bid. noon of Saturday over 700 entries were re- 6 and Electric Light Stocks. — ceived: - During the past week a large | S>4 Mt. %¢ ated. Geogctows o number of intending exhibitors have sent ;“, Tir is.—Franklin 37 bid. Metropolt : % i entries which had to be returned. Many of | tan’ a5 bid. Corcoran, 90 bid. Pemuman thar the exhibits come from the recent shows | Arlington, 140 asked. hid. at New York, Indianapolis and Kansas | National Union, 9 bid, City, many breeders making it a practice | Did, 14 asked. Riggs, ople’a, to follow the circuit of all the great shows | 5} Bid. | Lincoln, 8 on through the falt and winter. Boy’s Guatdian Appointed. Judge Hagner today appointed John A. Barrick guardianjof: Frark Eugene Bar- 14 bid, 5Y, asked. itle " Incurance Stocks.—Real Estate Title, 88 bid. 98 axked. Columbia Title, 41% bid, 6 asked. Neshington Title, 6 asked. ‘District Title, 10 asked. ‘relephone Stocks. Pennsylvania, 28 bid, 50 asked. Chesapenke and Potomac. 53 bid, "59 asked. Amer- b ican Grapbopboae, Md, 9% asked. American rows, the Mutual pigtrict Messenger Com- | Grap referred, 28 tid, 32 ‘asked. Poe pany boy who i released from | Matic Gan Carriage, anked 3 ordered iscelluncous Stocks. — Mergenthaler. Linotype, the District refoym schop! several days i. gti bid 1B aed Canston Mgotype, ab . G asked, Washington Market, c ago by Chief Justice: Bingham. The chief | Gi iid, We Ts td. 128 ikea. Xela ey Washinzton Steamboat, 98 asked. Lincoln Hall, 90 asked. *Ex div. ete ess guardian, j : acct ceseanaee? 2