Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1897, Page 1

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT suNDAY, aT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor, 11th St, by i Ne 2 ee New York Ofce, 49 Petter Building, ‘The Evening Star is served to subscribers In the ety by carriers, op their own account, at 10 cents per week, or 44 cents wr month. Copies at the counter 2 cents each. By mail-anywhere im the United States or Canada—pestage prepald—S0 cents per month. siti2rday Quintaple Sheet Star, $1 per sear, with e tage added, $3.00. (Entered at the Peat Office at Washington, D. C.. es second-class i iter) THAI mall sudecriptions must be paid in advance. Rates of advertising nade known on application. THE OHIO VACANCY|THE Gov. Bushnell’s Embarrassment in Filling It. —-++ THREE COURSES ARE OPEN 10 HIM ees To Appoint, to Call an Extra Legis- lative Session, or Do Nothing. ——_ + APPOINT HANNA -- WILL Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. COLUMBUS Ohio, January The with- drawal of Sherman from the Senate at this time no doubt pla yovernor Bushnell under great embarr: ment, but there Is Kittle reason to belleve that he will try to shirk his duty in filling the vacancy, as has been suggested, and he will appoint Mark A. Hanna to the vacancy. This can all be said without attempting to deny that there are factions in the republican party in Ohio, and that Governor Busnell and Mr. Hanna are at the heads of opposing factions. The praker and Sherman factions fight each other very vigorously, but in the presence of the enemy they do not forget to close up the columns. The leaders recognize the fact that the first thing necessary is to re- tain the control of the stat Governor Bushnell is a candidate for elec- tien to a second term. He has announced that he will ask for the nomination this year. That ts his object, he says, rather than the senatorship. It was generally be- lieved, however, that the governor had his eye on the seat now occupied by Senator Sherman when the regular term came round. Of course, it would not do to be at once candidate for governor and senator. After having been elected governor, how- ever, he would only be in a better position to stand for the Senate. The legislature that will select the successor to Sherman's regular term will be elected also at the coming state election. But now comes a vacancy in the Senate which must be filled by election or ap- peintment to a short term. It has been presumed by some that Governor Bushnell would refuse to appoint Hanna, who has ecme to be regarded as the leader of the Sherman faction in the state. for the rea- son that it will give him prestige which the governor could not hope to overcome in the contest for the regular term. There are excellent reasons for believing. however, that the governor will he induced by mat= ters of personal consideration to appoint Mr. Hanna to the vacant seat. Three Courses Open. Three courses He open to Governor Bush- nell in the prem They are these: 1. He may appoint 2 person to the vacan- He may call the le; ature in special session to elect a successor to Senator Sterman. 3. He may do neither; that is, he may by inaction let the seat remain vacant until the next legislature meets next Janua when it will elect a senator. There is an- suggested, which is that he governorship and be ap- ney hirnself by Lieuten- who we i su ed to It is not believed, how- hat the governor capable of this. + Bushnell is anxious to be re- lected to the office of governor. Upon his : this much of his political future The Sherman faction is easily members of that faction ‘0 voting the ticket regularly no matter how the divisions of the spoils is ade. as the Foraker faction does. If he herman faction, as he will do if he fai! to appoint to are not give in the Senate the man and man whom t-elect McKinley wants, he will be enate from him a large element of the party whose support he needs in the coming state election If the governor should conclude to call the general assembly in special session with the Intention of having that body would run a sent le elect him to the va very great risk. ancy, he hough the islature is known as a Foraker vody—in fact, it the s at elected Foraker to the Senate last it is by no means certain that it could be induced to send Bushrell to the Senate. With McKinley in the pre P and hostile to Bush- nell’s candidacy for the use the federal patronage against him h disastrous effect. The Foraker leaders have nad a little experience in this matter Senate, he could and know what it means. It fs well known, and by none better than by the Foraker leaders themselves, that the defeat of For- aker for five years ago was aceempli y by the power of the naticnal ion, and Foraker re- members it with bitterness toward ex-Pres- ident Harrison. Prot bly half of the mem- bers of the legislature are appl s for office under President McKinley, and with such a@ condition, Bushnell coull net be sure of his ground. To attempt such a course ard fail would be disastrous ae indeed. It wo be difficult to see a. political future for the governor a‘ errer Bushnell h @ strong movement for = stood firm agair a@ special session a number of lar use the boly He has been afraid might do something his administration and nim to secure re-elec- in special session the take what action tt liked. in session as long as it he state what legislation governor could not limit e election of a senator. governor fails to take the initia- Pp toward the selection of a suc- to Sherman and for that reason there is a Vacant seat from March 4 next until the next general assembly meets at the co tutional time, next January, the yovernor will be severely censured, espe- ally if, as ts generally expected, Presi- «ent McKinley calls Congress in’ special session immediately after his tnaugura- tien. To allow a facticnal fight to cause & vacant seat in the Senate from the President's own state when it could be filled with a member of his own party would cause criticism almost as severe as at which was poured upon Conkling and Platt when they fought Garfield. His Probable Action. While Gov. Bushnell would wish it other- wise, and many of the Foraker faction will urge him to tgnore Hanna, it is overwhelm- kely that he will take more con- siderate action and give the national chair- an of the perty the vacant seat. He will thus obligate the Sherman faction to sup- pert him in his race for re-election to the governorship this fall. After that is all over he can come out as a candidate for the re ar term in the Senate when he has rot so much to loce. The fact that Murat Ha went from New Yerk to Cleveland Mondsy of this week bearing assurances from Goy. Bushnell to Chairman Hanna of th ost cordial good feeling toward him is n indica n from another souree that the governor is thinking of the matter in very much the same light as is sought to be thre pon it in the above, which em- bedies the best thought of politicians here at the capital of the state as to the situa- tion. cessor —._- Acts Approved. The President has approved the act pro- viding for certain requirements for vessels propelled by gas, fluid, naphtha or electric motors; the act for the entry of lands in Greer county, Okla., and the acts for the relief of Wm. B. Ellis and Patrick Rainey. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20 1897-TWELVE No. 13,693. PAGES. TWO CENTS If you want today’s news today you can find it only in The Star. The Anacostia Road Will Not Be Sold To- morrow. History of the Controversy Between the Road and District Commission- ers Over Various Paving Orders. Upon the petition of the Anscostia and Potomae Railroad Company Judge Cox this afternoon signed an order restraining the sale tomorrow of the road's franchise, un- der a certificate of indebtedness of $9.31, is- sued to the late H. L. Cranford, and under similar certificates issued to the Washing- ton Asphalt Block and Tile Company. The restraining order was issued against the District, the Commissioners thereof, and the Washington Asphalt Block and Tile Company, being made returnable Monday next. The railroad company sets forth that agreeable to the provisions of the act of Congress of August 1, 1888, it laid its tracks on a level with the surface of the streets, and paved the space between them with good substantial material, cob- ble stones and granite blocks, and kept ail in geod order. September, 18M, the Dis- trict authorities ordered that all granite block pavements then in place in the two- foot strip on the south side of Canal street between B and C be removed and a rew pavement of asphalt blocks laid therein. The company protested that said change at the company’s expense was not lawful, but the protest was unavailing, and the District employed the Washington Asphalt Block and Tile Company to remove the old and lay the new pavement, and sent the railroad company a bill for $235.59, for the work, in favor of the said Washington company. During the summer of 1895 the District ordered the railroad company to change its tracks on E street between South Capi- tol and 2d streets southeast to conform t a new grade and improvements and repave with asphalt blocks. The company refused to do so, whereupon the District did the work, submitting a pill for $3,931.64. The railroad company claims that the acts of the District in the premises were invalid, and 1t also complains that it paid the Cranford certificate. The company charges that the District Commissioners propose to split up and sell portions of its franchise, to wit, the right to dccupy por- tions of the tracks over which the Metro- politan, the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home and the Capitol, North O and South Wash- ington railroad companies also have a right of way, and that such sales would be un- lawfui. ‘Therefore, the company prays that such sales may be enjoined, and that sa‘d al- leged certificates of indebtedn be de- clared null and void and surrendered to the District and canceled. The company is rep- resented by Attorneys Edwards and Bar- nard. ee AIMING AT THEATER HATS. Provisions of a Bill Intended to Sup- press Them. ST. LOUIS, January 20.—Mr. Watson in the house of delegates last night introduced a bill aimed at women who wear high hats in theaters. A proposition to kill the meas ure failed to pass by a vote of 8 to 7. Managers who permit high hats shall 1 fined not less than $10 nor more than §: It is made the duty of policemen who wit- ness the violation of the ordinance to rest the offenders after the close of the show. The offender is to be released upon payment of $$ to the police officer, which m is to be forfeited in case the offender fails to appear for trial. If the offender appears and is found guilty a fine of not ss than $$ nor more than $ is to be as- —— THE ARBITRATION TREATY. Difficult for the London Times to Be- lieve Rejection Possible. LONDON, January 20.—The Times com- ments editorially this morning upon the fears expressed by a correspondent in the United States that the general arbitration treaty will perhaps be not ratified by the Senate. The Times finds it difficult to be- lieve that the treaty will be rejected after having obtained the appreval cf the execu- tives of both countri “England 1 it continues, “has @one her part a me will fall on our shoulders if it lapses. > — DEATH OF MRS. HARR Wife of the Senator From Tennessee Breathes Her Last. MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 20.—Mrs. Mar- tha Maria Harris, wife of United States Sena Isham G. Harris, died this morning at her residence at Paris, Tenn. Mrs. Harris was Miss Jane Travis of the same state in which she died. She was lit- ue known in Washington, although her husband has bee in public life here for many years, because the climate did not agree with her. She spent some time here when her husband was first elected senater, but has not been in Washington for many years. Senator and Mrs. Harris were married fifty-one years ago, and their marriage was one of the great ante-bellum events of southern society. Senator Harris was then in public life and was as well known and popular almost as now. Mrs. Harris was a distant descendant of Davy Crockett of Tennessee, and in her younger days frequently had the’ name of Crockett applied to her by her companions because of her fearless horseback riding, of which she was very fond. She was one of the mest beautiful woman of her state and was a leader until family cares prevexted her taking part in state social matters. ee MURDERED IN MEXICO. An American Mineralogist Killed in the Mountains. POMONA, Cal., January 2).—Henry Gray, who recently went to Mazatland, Mex., to viet his brother, Joseph 'y, a well- known gold miner of Arizona and a grad- uate of the State University of California, writes that the latter has been murdered in the mountains forty-seven miles from Mazatland. The authorities in Mexico have been in- vestigating ihe case, but they have as vet not found the least clew to the identity of the murderers. —————— BIG WATER CARNIVAL. Britis! Warships to Honor Admiral Reardslee at San Diego. SAN DIEGO, Cal., January 20—The St. Andrews, with owicers of the British gun- boat Pheasant, which has just arrived, re- veals the fact that orders have been Is- sued to have the Pheasant, Comus and Im- perieuse rendezvous here about February 23 to participate in the big water carnival to be held in the bay of San Diego in honor of Rear Admiral Beardslee, U.S.N., com- mander of the north Pacific squadron, who will retire from the navy on that date. The affair will be participated in by mil- itary detachments from al! southern Cal- ifornia and sailors and marines from the be near es States ships Oregon, — hia, jon’ , Monadnock, Adams = tross ‘and _ baba gunboats Lee rg Comus and Im use, making upward 5,000 men in the parade: A grand interna~ tional review, to be participated in by ships of both navies, under charge of Rear Ad- miral Beardslee, is also contemplated. ‘SALE STOPPEDIFDITH IN COURT Judge Cox Assigned Her to Her Father’s Care. ———— SHE APPEARED CONTENTED WITH THAT Representative Wilber's Answer to His Wife's Charges. — THE HEARING TODAY SS Judge Cox this morning settled, so far as was in his power, the differences between Representative David F. Wilber of New York and Mrs. Wilber, which have re- cently brought the two into the local courts. A week ago an order was issued, returnable today, restraining Mr. Wilber from interfering with the child, who was then in the custody of the mother. Since then Mr. Wilber had made application for a writ of habeas corpus, and this was also made returnable today, with the order that the daughter, Edith M. Wilbur, should be produced in court. In court this morning Mr. Wilbur pro- duced a transcript of the records of the surrogate's court of New York, showing that he had been appointed the child’s guardian. In dispesing of the case Judge Cox said that there was nothing for him to do but to ind the temporary re- straining order and to restore the chiid to Representative Wilber. the father. This was done, with the un- derstanding that if Edith so wished there was nothing to prevent her from applying to the surrogate’s court to have her mother appointed guardian. Mr. Wilber was in court this morning, and was an interested listener to all that went on. Mrs. Wilber was not present, nor was the daughter when the hearing commenced The attorneys for the mother, Messrs. R ston and § stated that Edith was in the immediate vicinity and could be produced at a moment's notice. Later in the proceedings the judge directed that she be brought into court, and she was then Nowed to remain in the consultation room nearby until Immediate- ly after Judge Cox had announced his de- cision in the matter Edith was summoned Mins Wilber. to the court room. She stood up beside the Judge, and there is no denying that she made a@ very pretty picture. She is four- teen years of age, but she looks rather older than that. Her dress reached to her shoe tors, and she seemed quite sixteen and in every way competent to say with which of her parents she elected to stay. She was asked the question, and in an al- most inaudible voice replied that she wished to go with her mother. Judge Cox said that it was too late, and that, anyhow, he could not do otherwise than he had done, in view of the condition of affairs in the courts of New York state. When she was told of the court's decision, she evinced not the slightest objection to going with her father, and she left the room in company with him and one of the teachers from the Washington College for Young Ladies, where she was for some time a pupil. She told Judge Cox that she was perfectly will- ing to go back to school, and she left with the understanding that she would remain there until such time as the controversy b® Father and Daughter. tween the parents in the locat courts is dis- of. > Mr. Tobriner, Mr. Wilber’s’ counsel, an- that there was no desire on the, part of the father to keep Mrs. Wilber from. pose no ‘objection {0 her vishing: ts akete seeing a n as often as the rules of the school would permit. Mr. Wilber’s Answer, ‘When the hearing commenced this morn- ing the court room was well filled with spectators, and, while no witnesses were placed upon the stand, Mr. Wilber’s an- swer was a decidedly interesting paper, and so were the affidavits that accompanied it. Mr. Leon M. Tobrinér, counsel for Rep- resentative Wilber, read his answer to Mrs. Wilber’s suit. It was a long paper and was accompanied by a dozen or more affidavits from people of Oneonta, N. Y., and vicinity, touching the relations between Mr. and Mrs. Wil’ From the contents Mr. Wilber Reading. of the defendant's answer it was evident that nothing could be more unpleasant than the condition of affairs existing in the Wilbcr family. In his answer, Mr. Wilber admitted that he and M Crandall of New York state were married on January 22, 1882. He did not know whether she was now a resident of Weshington, for during the past few morths she has oscillated between Oneon- ta, Syracuse and this city. The defendant denied that Mrs. Wilber had always done her duty as a faithful wife. On the contrary, he described her as a woman of governable temper, and sald that the fact that he had not ‘lived with ker since May, 1895, was due to her own misconduct, and was not the result of a protracted spree on his part. An action for separation and mainte- nance brought by the wife is now pending in the supreme court of the state of New York. Mr. Wilber put in eyidence a number of incidents which have occurred during the past few years, intended to show the char- acter of the woman ard the unhappiness and embarrassment she had so often occa- stoned him. For one thing, he claimed that curing his necessary absences from Oneon- ta on business she had. sold a great deal of his personal property for a small fraction of its real value. The litigation following such proceedings on her part 4s still pend- ing. Some of this property he had been able to get back, but there was a great deal of which he had never been able even to get track. She alse, he claimed, had col- lected a considerable amount of money that was due him and had spent it on herself. On one occasion, Mr. Wilber claimed, his Wife had got possession of one of his monthly pay checks as a representative and had sent it back to the sergeant-at-arms of the House with the request that ft be de payable to bearer in order that she might cash it. To further the deception she had simulated his name by means of a rubber stamp which made a fac-simile of his signature, In her treatment of him, he averred, she was anything but a faithful wife; on one occasion she had in the pres- ence of other people spat in his face to show her disapproval of some small trifle. To others in the neighborhood she had re- ferred to him as a 2 gen hog and a whisky bloat.” She had, the answer said, calumniated him in ever¥ way, and he had frequently Leen compeifed to leave the house at night and to walk the streets in order to escape from the crue! and inhu- man treatment to which he was subjected at her hands. Her sole desire seemed to be, id, to get as much money from him as Wilber further stated that many of aluable papers were locked up in a strong box, to which his wife had the only ke He has often proposed that It be opened in the presence of representatives of both parties, as she says that some of her papers are in it too.. She would never agree to this, and he was unwilling to let the box go into her possession, as he was afrald he would have to go to law to re- cover his share of the contents. Shown in a Photograph. He submitted to the court a photograph of his home in Oneonta, which he trans- ferred to his wife. It was a handsome residence, which, he claimed, was worth not less than $35,000, though she had al- ways referred to it as a hovel. The minute the transfer was made she ordered him out, and would not even let him get his library, insisting that all the contents went with the house. Mr. Wilber said that he had always treated his daughter with the grea-est kindness, and that when he and his wife separated he told Edith that she might choose which she would go with. She chose to go with her mother, but August 3, 1895, she was driven from the house because she did not sweep the porch prop- erly. Since then Edith had heen at school in this city, often visiting him at his hotel, but never visited by the mother. Several letters were read from Edith to relatives, showing that she was not kindly disposcd toward her mother. November 28, 1896, at the request of the child, he was ap- pointed her guardian. An affidavit from one of the teachers at the Young Ladies’ College was read, de- tailing the removal of the child from the school by her mother. Judge Cox was very brief in -his decision setting aside the temporary restraining order and returning the daughter to the custody of her father. @ Edith was imme- @iately placed in a carriage and removed to the school in Eckington. ——— : EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON, He Appeared in the Supreme Court as Counsel. Ex-President Harrison was in the Su- preme Court today, where he appears as counsel in the case of Mrs. Catheride For- sythe, agsinst the town of Hammond, near Chicago. Mrs. Worsythe seeks to prevent the annexation of a large tract of land owned by her to the: town, and the ex-President 1s among her counsel, as is also ex-Attorney Generel Miller. Mr. Miller opened the argument for,Mrs. Forsythe and was followed by Mr. C; Hi, Aldrich, for the Hammond corporation. Gen. Harrison will close the argument for Mrs. Forsythe late i the day. GENERAL ARBIERATION, Advance Made by France to This Governmengé.im 1895. It is learned at the State Department that the only official advanc toward the consummation of a general arbitration treaty made by any Hyfopean nation save Great Britain, was that:contained in a resolution of the French chambers, adopt- ed in 1895, favoring the conclusion of a permanent treaty of arbiggation with the United States. A copy of this was supplied to the State Department by United States Ambassador Eustis, and this was graceful- ly acknowledged by President Cleveland in hie annual message to Congress in the fall of the same year, Beyond this no steps were taken to negotiate.a treaty, and the subject has been. wed beyance, just ag.the arbitration treaty witi:.Gi mathed@:unacted upon It'was Tully expected 4 : tredty "wala lead to application of the was evidenced in THE NEXT SENATE Kenney’s Election in Delaware Will Not Change Its Complexion. PRITCHARD WILL VOTE FOR PROTECTION Mason’s Choice in Illinois Was a Surprise Here. gene WHAT IS SAID OF HIM re The election of Kenney, a silver man, as Senator from Delaware, will not change previcus calculations as to the complexion of the Senate. These calculations have been on the basis of Pritchard being elected in North Carolina and a silver democrat in Delaware. ‘This would leave neither party in control of the next Senate and make the matter of the passage of the tariff bill at the extra session a matter of manipula- tion. If Kenney is elected he will appear at once to take the oath of office, as the vacancy now exists. This will insure his being seated. If the election were not to take effect until after the 4th of March the republicans would probably be able to keep the seat vacant until the contest reopened in behalf of Dupont could be acted on, but in the present Senate there appear to be enough votes to give Kenney the seat if he appears with credentials. Four of five senators who voted for Dupont before may now be counted on to take the other side of the case now and to vote for the seating of a silver man. This will give Kenney the seat if he is elected by the present Delaware legislature, but the contest will be pending if Mr. Dupont is disposed to press It. If the case should be pressed in the next Congress it would require an affirmative vote of a majority to vacate the seat again, and the vote of the sitting senator would count in his own favor. Pritchard's elec- tion in North Carolina today contributes greatly to the favorable prospects of tarift legislation, but it does not give the repub- licans control of the Senate in a party sense. No Serious Complications Feared. It does not seem possible for the new Senate to be in general sympathy with the incoming national administration for the first two years, but those who are most interested have satisfied themselves that there is no reason to apprehend serious complications on the tariff. It is under- stood that {f Dubois is defeated in Idaho his successor will surely be a man who will vote for protection. In Washington state the situation is such that, while none but a silver man can be elected, the man chosen to succeed Squire will vote for a tariff bill. Squire may succeed himself, with the undersianding that he will vote for protection. Moreover, it is possible that one of two of the bolting silver senators will vote with the republicans on this one juestion. “The situation as to the Senate Is not stich ag to cause the republicans any un- easiness, For several reasons it 1s thought by some of the leaders to be just as well that they should not be held responsible for the Senate, so long as they can be sure of passing a tariff bill, which is the only economic legislation they are prepared tor on the opening of the administration. Mason's Election a Surprise. The election of Mason in Illinois was a surprise to the republicans in Congress. ‘The latest information yesterday, conveyed in telegrams to Illinols representatives just before the adjournment of the House, was that Hitt was going to be united on. Mason's election is gratifying to the Me- Kinley people, however, and his selection is sald to increase Cullom’s chances to go to the head of the Treasury Department. Mason is a man of ability, but his easy manners are liable to disturb the peace of mind of the dignified Senate. Mr. Mason will find a warm welcome awaiting him here. His good fellowship, many stories and cheerful nature made him many friends when he was in Con- gress, and such of those friends as are still here have been using their telegraph franks today sending him congratulations. It is expected he will touch up the staid and musty Senate now and then. What Representatives Say. Chicago representatives who are here have this to say on the result of the caucus: Representative Cooke said: “I predict for Mason a brilliant success. He will be a new factor in our politics, but his election will not affect the machine in any way. Representative Foss said: “It’s a triumph of the people. Mason’s election means cleaner politics for Minois. It is the legiti- mate outcome of the methods of the ma- chine during the past year. Had a machine man won, the machine would have run things with a high hand. Billy deserves election, He has worked hard for it during the past four years, and has in that time done much good for the party. He'll make a good senator, and if he oversteps the Sen- ate rules now and then, it will lend to the gayety of nations and do no hari Representative Aldrich sa{d: “I think Mason will acquit himself acceptably in the Senate.” 2 Representative Belknap said: “I have no doubt that Mason will prove to Illinois that in choosing him, the people treasured up for themselves nothing to regret.” . STATUE TO L'ENFANT. Representative Morse’ Bill to Erect One in This City. Representative Morse has introduced in the House a bill to build a bronze statue to Peter Charles L'Enfant, the French en- gineer who laid out the city of Washington. The bill calls for an appropriation of $50,- 000, and the statue, if the bill becomes law, is to be erected under the direction of a commission of five, two of whom shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House, two by the President of the Senate and one by the Secretary of War. The commission is empowered to prepare and select a plan and contract for and locate the monument on ground belonging to the United States gov- ernment. : —__—_—_-e_____ The Free Homes Bi The “free homes” bill will be reported back to the House exactly as it came from the Senate, according to a decision reach- ed by the House committee on public lands yesterday. Chairman Lacey of the com- mittee gave notice that he would make a minority report to the House f favor of exempting from the operation of the bill the lands which the government is selling as trustee for Indians. He proposed the amendment at the committee meeting, but it was rejected. —__-e-______ Medal of Honor Awarded. The President has awarded a medal of henor to Dr. George W. Brush of Brook- lyn, N. ¥., for distinguished gallantry in on the THE DELAWARE SENATORSHIP How the Situation Has Been Curiously Complicated. Three Candidates for a Sent in the Present Senate—The Silver Question, The situation with regard to the seating of a senator from the stat? of Delaware presents some curious possibilities. There are today three candidates for a seat in the present Senate, Messrs. Du Pont, K ney and Addicks. Each is the bearer of credentials; Du Pont from the former legis- lature, but without the signature of the governor; Kenney from the present and Probably regularly constituted legislature, with the governor's signature, and Addicks from his own “rump” legislature without s‘gnature. Du Pcnt’s case has, in a way. been adjudicated by the Senate, his er dentials having been rejected by a major- ity of one on a strict party vote last year, but since then he has petitioned for a re- opening of his case, and the matter is now pending before committee. Addicks and Kenney are yet to present themselves. The real contest seems to be between Kenney and Du Pont. It is announced that several gold democrats who voted against Du Pont last years are willing to vote for him now that matters hav2 been shaped defin on the currency issue, bui at the same time it is understood that a number of silver republicans who supported his claim before will reverse their a should arise again. Kenn a straight-out silver demos plication for a seat has a distinct bearing on the complexioa of both the present and the next Senate on the silver question. It is evident that he cannot secure this scat without some sort of a contesi, -vhich will probably involve the taking of record votes, and the outcome of the proceedings in this connection is of unusual interest’ because of the embarrassmeats which are sure to confront certain senators on both sides cf the chamber. The gold democrats who supported Gen. Palmer, for instance, will find Keaney a bitter pill to swallow, es- Feclally after the announcement which’ was made in Delaware when he was chos that he was the advance ageni of the up- rising silver party in the Blue Hen state. This proclamation has especial significan> too, for Mr. Gray, whose present term ox. pires two years hence. The jubilant silver- ites of Delaware, not content with landir one senatorship, immediately upon their Success the other day declared that they were after Mr. Gray’s seat as well, and it now looks as though the present ‘senator would find himself within a short time in uncomfortable proximity to a well-devel- oped dilemma. His former sturdy antagon- ism to the Da Pont claim handicaps him, in a measure, in whatever effort he may make to discourage the growth of the fre. silver party in Delaware by Interposing his opposition to the seating of Mr. Ken. ney, an opposition inspired not alone by his personal interest in the matter, but also by his clearly recorded view against the free and unlimited coinage of silver at sixteen to one ——-e-___ RESOURCES OF CUBA. Interesting Report Furnished by Con- sul Hyatt at Santiago. In answer to what he conceives to be a Popular demand on the part of the Amer- ican people for information as to the pro- ductive powers of Cuba, United States Consul Hyatt at Santiago has supplied the State Department with an interesting re- port devoted entirely to a concise yet com- plete description of the enormous natural resources of the Queen of the Antilles, He says that Cuba should rank among the foremost communities of the world, and he believes she will soon attain this distinc- tion, whenever a stable government and cheerful obedience to the powers that be Present to the homeseeker and investor conditions that will make home pleasant and capital secure. The iron mines, over- shadowing in importance all other indus. tries in the eastern section of the island. ccnstitute the only industry that has made any pretense to standing up against the shock of the present insurrection. Two companies (American) have a capital of over five million dollars, and employ from Suv to 1,4 men, shipping their rich ores to the United States. American capital opened a manganese mine at Pomepo and built a railroad to it, but after shipping one cargo the mines were stopped by the insurgents. The coffee plantations “were Just getting nicely started when the pres. ent rebellion broke out, and there will Says the ecnsul, probably be but a few, if Y, coffee plantations remaining when struggle ends. ne SS ee For Tennessee's Centennial. Representative Washington of Tennessee, Mr. Gardiner G. Hubbard and Major Powell appeared before the House appropriations committee today to urge an appropriation of $15,000 to enabie the District of Columiba to make an exhibit at the Tennessee cen. tennial.” Of the fund $5,000 is to be de- voted to an exhibition by ihe colored resi- dents of the District. as Se A Bill for Sick Leaves. Senator Burrows today introduced a bill granting thirty days of sick leave annually, with pay, to the employes of the govern- meut printing office and the bureau of en- graving and printing. Se Proposed Dinner to Senator Sherman. The members of the Ohio delegation in the House ase arranging for a compliment- ary dinner to be given to Senator Sherman upon bis retirement from the Senate to ac- cept the portfolio of state in Mr. McKin- ley’s cabinet. No details of the dinner have yet been decided upon, but it will be given jtst prior to the expiration of this session of Congress, probably in the closing days of February. —-e._____ A Fleet Engineer's Colla: Word has been received here that Fleet Engineer Burnap, a veteran of the civil ‘ar, has collapsed under the strain of look- ing out for the 17,000 horse power ma- chinery of the Olympia and also supervising the motive power of the other vessels of the Asiatic squadron. Consuls Recognized. The President has recognized Gilkey Du- ln as Swedish vice consul at San Diego, Cal, and W. H. Leinkaup as vice consul of the Netherlands at Mobile, Ala. ae ig The Next Loud Bill Hearing. Senator Chandler, acting chairman of the announces that there will be further hear- ings. if a Dill = Saturday, Jan- val urday, - uary 30, will conclude the hearings. aos —_—_——_-e-______ ‘B. and 0. Earnings Show Increase. BALTIMORE, January 20.—The earnings of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad for the month of December, 1896, were $2,168,383, an increase of $107,343. ee ———__ Ocean Steamships Arrived. NEW YORK, January 20.—Arrived, Nord- land, Antwerp. SOUTHAMPTON, January 20.—Arrived, spree, New ‘York, Yor Bremen, committee on past offices and post : ——————_————— IVORY IS RELEASED Se ree Collapse of the Case for the Pro cution. PROOF OF INNOCENCE DISCOVERED General Surprise at the Turn of Events. Peer ag ee DISCUSSION IN COMMONS Set peer SF LONDON, Jan 'y 20.—There was a at surprise at the Old Bailey inal court, this morning, when osecutor withdrew the char the crown pir- ing to commit a dynamite explosion brought against Edward J. Ivory, Bell, of New York, who was arreste September last at about the same time P. J. Tynan was taken into custody at Boulogne-sur-Mer, F Kearney and Thomas Hain lace, were captured by werp, Belgium, on the same cha Justice Hawkins, upon the announcement by the crown prosecutor, ordered the pris- oner to be discharged, after the Jury, act- ing upon his instructions, had rendered a verdict of not guilty. Shortly after the o . the solictor .M. P.. who p: ounced that yesterd explosives at Ivory left that no legal evi that the cognizant of their delivery had been decided not to pres thereon, Continuing, Mr. Finlay said in regard to the other evidence against nat while he felt that the which had fallen into the Police, and the movements of Ivory mitted the grav there was evidence jus asking for his convictio: a under the circumstances he did n to contim the pr ution of the Justice Hawkins thereupon addr jury, say and John alias J the police at Ar Wal- ed- , RB. Fin- nd for the detinitely as in English courts doubtful could not bt pressed against any one, and the step taken by the crown was therefore the one which would have been expected. After complimenting the police upon the intelligence shown in the discharge of a difficult duty, Justice Hawkins dire: the jury te return a vérdict of not guiity, and in ordering the discharge of the prisoner the judge added his earnest advice Ivory should dissever himself from di ful company hereafter. which mit wise bring him into the greatest peril conclusion, Justice Hawkins advised Ivory strongly to look carefully at his future. Ivory bowed smilingly in return and left the dock. He was met in the body of the court by several friends, who shook hands with him and congratulated him upon his release. Ivory was heard io remark: “I knew I should get out of It. The collapse of the prosecution complete surprise to all Tvory, }1 conversation with a representa- tive of the Associated P charge trom custody, sal at no decision as to his future p! he returns to the United States “Iam pleased at the result what 1 expected.” As a matter of fact, however, Ivory pected to be convicte: F. MeIntyre, formerly ar attorney visory counsel during the talking the matter over was a his dis- rived when ded: ly He but it is « ex- told John rial. with a rej marked: sa surprise to me, T ded that Ivory was si as a stool pigeon, in order to enable the police to make capital out of t I am glad the prosecution had t to drop the matter.” There were very few people in court to- day. Among them was Thomas Meric Jones, the informer. The afternoon newspapers express di gust at the collapse of the prosecution, and blame the police for it. DUBLIN, January 20.—The withdraw of charges against Edward J. Ivory central criminal court, London, tod 1 the re- garded here as being due to the crown's dread of the exposure of Thomas Jones, the informe wo witnesses the city on Saturday in order to testify for the defense in regard to sensational ov tures made to them by Jones a week be- fore he appeared at the Bow street police court to testify against Ivory. Irish Political Prixoners, LONDON, January 20.—The debate on the address in reply to the speech from the throne was resumed in the house of com- mens today. Patrick O'Brien, the Parnel- Ite whip, member of parliament for Kil- kenny City, moved an amendment to the effect that the time has come for the ¢ of all the Irish political prisoners reconsidered. He apperled for ar for the few remaining in prison. James C. Fiynn, anti-Parnellite, member for the north division of Cork county, onded the motion, and John J. Clancy, F nellite, member for the north division of Dublin county, supported it. Timothy M. Healy, anti-Parnellite, mem- ber for North Louth, said that if inquiry is made into the conspiracies and plots in Amcrica ii will be found that an English agent has nad hic nose in every one of them. Mr. Healy also expressed his belief that fifteen years’ imprisonment was enough punishment for the priconers, and he added that the sixtieth anniversary of the queen’s reiga was a good occasiun to show clemency. The home secretary Bidley, replied, saying that it would be satisfactory to the goverument if they could remedy any Irish grievance; but, he added, whatever the motives of the pollt- ical prisoners, they were guilty of “crimes abhorred by the civilized world,” and he Was unable .at present to advise her majesty to grant them amnesty. Continuing, the home secretary pointed out that in the withdrawal of the charge against Bell (Edward J. Ivory), the coun. try has just had proof of the fairness and impartiality of the courts. Mr, O'Brien's amendment was defeated by a vote of 204 to 132. The Ivory Case. Sir MatthewWhite Ridley also said he was convinced that the police discovery of the conspiracy with which Ivory was connect- ed had saved the public from a great dls. aster. He added that should the health or sanity of the political prisoners be affect- ed, they would be reieased. He did not de- sire a repetition of the results which un. fortunately happened in the case of Dy Thomas Gallagher, explaining that he first heard Dr, Gallagher was threatened with insanity at the end of June, and that he acted immediately. Mr. Clancy, in supporting Mr. O'Brien's motion, referred to the case of Ivory, and said that the most important crown it~ ness was an American informer, whom the government shrunk from putting in the box. If they had done so, continued Mr. Clancy, he felt certain ‘that instead of Ivory’s guilt it would have shown ood complicity of government officials in the_alleged conspiracy. Healy, in his remarks, attacked the course followed by the former home secre- tary, Mr. H. H. Asquith, in regard to the es Sir Matthew White political prisoners, railed at police pi and said that Superiniendeat ‘Andersen was paid yearly to promote such In course of his remarks Mr, ‘was repeatedly called to order.