Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1897, Page 2

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1897-12 PAGES, LATE NEWS BY WIRE|DEATH OF DELGADOIFIGHT STILL ON Formal Senatorial Elections in Several States. CONTEST OVER SQUIRE'S SUCCESSOR Much Speculation Over His Small Vote. —_+ PRITCHARD’S ELECTION aes Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. RALEIGH, N. C., January 20.—The sen- te and house began balloting jointly for Pritchard received $8 Rufus voted as they yester- yesterday excused ed for Pritchard. lection was declared, He sa stood tor two »pulists whe that they would done. H tariff pro from Prite 1%, that would also spoke, s this cont re ving that he st would cause the rate or hat the iges Mr. er, bound that if in bring pr: walk out ation a as Tell sil © the populist cause, and four years protection did not Mr. Pritchard woul tional republican — cor rth Carolina with hira, vlorado. OLYMPI ).— Before the bai ature for United States 1 Watson ©. Squire, it was we no od that would ben was the were plac nd six tr nate. Little com- Strength shown by ykane, it appearing culation has with a probabi Senator Platt Re-Elected. ¥ of a de tion today the legislature tion of Orville H. Platt as United ator to succeed himself. Mr. Platt has served two term: the Senate, n which body he sueceeded the William H m. He is sev years of age, a by profes the office of ate icut for one in both branches of the being speaker of the house ator Cameron's Successor. Pa., Januar ormally sted to the 9 succeed J. Don of the v. Lyon pre- ).—Boies on at a je how senate, at wh VE DICT FOR Sued Chrix Von der Ake for False Arrest. January 2 » hal e of St. BALDWIN. case of pitcher,against Louis for $10,000 ed in the ¥ Was out verdict of ba: UNION It is Understoo ment Directors Will Confer. NEW YORK, January 2)—It is ur stood the government directors » Urion Pa t Friday that at the A} His System Unable to Respond to Treat- ment, For Ten Wecks He Lay in a Hat wi hout Attention and Suffered Greatly in Consequence. HAVANA, January 20.—Dr. Burgess in- forms the correspondent of the Associated Press that Henry Delgado, correspondeat of the Mail and Express of New York, and an American citizen, whose residence is at Hudson, N. Y., died last night. Gen. Fitzhugh Les had Interested himself to the utmost In the case of the unfortunate. Deigado was captured by the Spaniards while he was lying iil in the province of Pinar del Rio, in December last. From that place he was brought to San Am- brosio Hospital, in this city, which is set apart for political prisoners. Consul General Lee telegraphed the State Department this morning that the Ameri- can fienry Delgado, correspondent of the New York Mail and Express, who had been a prisoner in Havana, died at the hos- pital there last night. The immediate cause of Delgado’s death Was an abscess of the stomach, which re- fused to yield to treatment. Consul Gen- eral Lee's reports show that the man had the best of attention ever since his case was brought to his notice. Dr. Burgess, the resident inspector of the United States marine hospital service in Havana, was designated to attend the sick man, and the Spanish authorities, at the request of Gen. ee, furnished the best accommodations in ospital that were obtainable under the circumstances. Delgado suffered greatly from neglect, it is said, in the eariy stages of his ailment, before he was arrested. For ten weeks he lay in a bare hut, almost without attention. About December 10 he was found by the Spanish forces in Pinar Del Rio, and sent under arrest te Havana. Upon discovering how ill he was, he was removed to San Ambrosio Hospital, and several weeks ago an operation was performed upon him, the s in the stomach being opened. This ‘o heal, and the exhaustion that fol- jowed doubtless was the cause of death. Assistant Secretary Rockhill, upon receiv- ing the news of Deigado’s death, promptly telegraph his family in New also informed them that they ave the remains taken and were liber from Cuba and shipped on the steamer tomorrow. Word was also sent w York merchants who have themselves in the case of the A TRIPLE LNYCHING. Burning Was Proposed, but Was Given Up. NEW ORLEANS, La., January 20.—It reported this morning that John John- the Cotton family murderer, was t the stake in frent of the Cotton nee, near Amite City, at 3 o'clock this morning and Arch Joiner was hanged. But a dispatch to the Times-Democrit from Amite City this morning says that the crowd at first decided to burn Johnson at the stake, but finally concluded to hang him. Both negroes were therefore hanged and 300 shots fired into their bodies. The same mob also lynched Gus Wil- ms, who was accused of murdering his ie wife. All three of the men executed by the mob were colored. a m and Joiner, according to the fon of the former, were guilty of rder of the five members of tie Cut- ‘amily near here some time ago. The trio of murderers were taken from the jail Amite City all together last night by the mob. Shortly afterward a report Was received that Williams had been hang- ed to a big oak tree in front of Little Zion ot far from Amite, and that the on its way to Tickfaw with Joh Joiner, who would no doubt meet arrible fate. ohnson and Joiner were taken to Amite from New Orleans yesterday to plead to the indictments against them, and after the h d without bail » day a party of citizens called jail and Johnson made his confe His story of the slaughter of the sion family was peculiarly brutal. He said that he had always liked the Cot- ton family and would net have harmed them had it not been for the fact that he was bvilied into what he had done. The murder, Johnson said, was planned by Bud MeKnischt, a white man, who was a suitor of Ma Miller, whore mother, Mrs. Cotton, whipped her for allowing Mc- Knight's attention. This is the only motive for the crime. He said Arch er shot Cotton, the head of the ho: with a gun, then struck Merven the son of Mrs. Agnes Stevens, 2 ax on the forehead, knocking him back on the bed and killing him. Joiner finished the men and then went into the room which was occupied by Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Cotton and Lizzie Miller, with Maude and several children, and killed the three hold, THE SUNKEN ALVENA. the Position of Stenmer. Change in the ow YORK, January 2).—A dispatch dy Hook this morning says that has been no change in the situation of the steamer Alvena since she was run in shoal water outside of Sandy Hook af- ter the collision vesterday afiernoon with the steamer British Queen. Portions of her cargo are being washed out. ee HOCH FINALLY EXECUTED. 2 there Lived Ne: a Yeur After the Date First Set for His Death. AUBURN, N. Y., January 20.—John Was. executed by electricity in the prison here today. Hoch, on July murdered Minnie Ingersoll, six- e girl lived with her and an old man named hapel Hill, near Low- love with her, but she } state 10, 1s broth Nick ville. Hoch was had and he determined to to her ho’ one even- elf near the barn, and fe appeared he fired. killed and Strife was Hoch was ried. convicted and prison here Janu- eal was taken and nis resulted in con- in his execution today. COMMISSIONERS MEET. in the an ap 1 granted. 1 0, and INDIAN The Various Kinds of Mission Work Being Done for Indians. of the United ‘an commissioners with ne various missionary socteties engaged in In- today the Ebbitt oon Dr. Sheldon Jackson read the condition of the Indian Bids for Rockville’ ater Works. Star. January 2)—The Rock the bids for the o'clock. There with certified checks, proposal, and about an hout checks, the eligi- be determined here- » bids for the entire Rosser & Capoe of Bel- ; R. H. Hood, Washing- Richardson & Burgess Washington, 9S.38. There were a number of bids received for separate as of the work, and these will be ar- in tables as soon as possible, In r to allow the most advantageous se- ion to be made. gees The Defendants Acquitted. In the trial of John W. Clark and others, accused of gambling before ‘Squires Pel- ham and Bireh, at Arlington, Alexandria county, Va., acquitted. wo wexe 2 as number w which w of Th women, THE ARBITRATION TREATY. Secretary Olney Explains Its Pro- visions te the Senate Committee. The Senate committée on foreign relations today had under consideration the general arb:tration convention between the United States and Great Britain. Secretary Olney was before the committee during the ses- sicn to explain the provisions of the treaty. Secretary Olney remained with the com- mittee until it adjourned. There was a gen- eral discussion of the provisions of the treaty, nearly every member questioning the Secretary about it and Its probable ef- fect. Nothing was brought out showing any definite plan of the committee or its intention regarding the treaty, though the questions put to the Secretary indicated that there would be opposition to many of its provisions, and that there were differ- ences of opinion between members and the Secretary as to the effect of the treaty. Mr. Olney prezented no prepared state- ment, the proceeding being largely interloc- utory in character. The proceedings were Girected in the main to an interchange of opinion upon the bearing of the treaty upon the Mcnroe“ doctrine. The Secretary ex- pressed the belief that it would have no influence whatever upon that tenet of the American faith, and said that, according to his view, neither that doctrine nor the sub- jects it affects would be rendered subject to arbitrament by the ratification of the treaty. Some members of the committee took an opposite view, but they appeared to be in the minority on this point. Mr. Olney declared that the treaty had been nego- ated with great care for the proteciion of Amerjcan interests and expressed the opinion that If ratified it would be found a satisfactory safeguard of the national interestsrof the United States. He held that the freatyvielearly expressed {ts pur- p ndesatd there was no hidden meaning concealed in itsiphraseology. He contend- ed for its-approwalas an advance in dlplo- macy in accordance with the tendency of the times ‘and ®spectally with the best t and feeling. There was some discussion’ of the provision giving to King Oscar of Sweden and Norway the right to name the umpire of the proposed arbitration commission as having a. ten- dency to give England an advantage in the settlement of disputes, and it was made apparent that many of the members of the committee felt that the treaty. would have been more to their liking 1f some one from the western ‘hemisphere could have been chosen, because he would be pore likely to be in sympathy with our ideas, la al aisposition was manifested, how. to give the treaty fair and full con- ation, and Mr. Olney was made to tand that the committee wanted the t possible information, and that. hay- ing obtained this, it would be disposed to take up and act upon the treaty on its merits. —_—_+e+—____ Sixteenth Street Property Sold. Duncanson Bros., auctioneers, sold at public auction yesterday afternoon to John T. Armes, a real estate broker of this city, property on the east side of 16th street, be- | American thou; tween P and Madison streets which form- erly belonged to Miss Kate Field. The price paid was $2.80 per square foot. The lot is fifty feet front, and has a depth of 100 feet, and is bounded on the north by a io-foot alley. The improvements consist of two frame dwellings. There was a deed of trust on the property to the amount of $12,- 000, held by the American Security and today the defendants were | Trust Company, by virtue of which yester- day’s sale was made. £ Debate Resumed on the Light Question. A TIVELY IME IN THE SENATE Mr. Faulkner Defends the District Committee's Action. Electric MR. HILL’S QUESTIONS SS The galleries of the Senate were filled today with people interested in the con- troversy over electric lighting companies of the District of Columbia. When Mr. Pettigrew entered into a long argument over his resolution calling on the Secre- tary of State for information about the arbitration treaty made by the President with Great Britain the friends of the Cock- rell jcint resolution became nervous, fear- ing that the entire morning hour would be corsumed without an opportunity to consider the question, which had been debated with such vigor yesteray. At the first opportunity Mr. Cockrell was on his feet to call up his joint reso- lution. Mr. Hill at once became attentive and Mr. Faulkner secured the floor. Mr. Faulkner's Reply to Hin. Mr. Faulkner opened his remarks by re- ferring to the statements of Mr. Hill yes- terday which reflected on the acts of mem- bers of the committee on the District of Columbia. When a senator uses such language as ‘This is a trick and a scheme,’ {i Is not only unparliamentary, but it implics that there are motives other than public mo- tives that actuate and control the gen- ho are responsible for such a reso- Mr. Hill's charges and to say that for himself he had no interest in either of the com- Faulkner wished to repudiate Mr. panies involved in this controversy. The question involved in the controversy was not one of digging a little ditch tn streets of this city, but involved principles relating to the control of every corporation in the District of Columbia, A Lively Interest Manifested. There was evidently a lively interest in the electric light fight among senators, as a large number of them gathered about to hear what Mr. Faulkner had to say. ‘There were Messrs. Gray, Morgan, Cockrell, Bacon, Hill, Milis, Voorhees, Gorman, Pugh, Roach, White, Mitchell of Wiscon- sin, Vest, Hawley, Caffery, Vilas, Stewart, MeMillan, Allison, Gallinger, Platt, Hoar, Aldrich and Carter, among others. Mr. Harris Not Opposed. Mr. Faulkner reviewed the litigation that bas been had in the courts of the District of Columbia regerding the electric light contracts. He then referred to Mr. Hill's Statement yesterday that Senator Harris S ofposed to ihe Cockrell resolution, and suid Mr. Harris had introduced in the Senate and later reported from the com- mittee on the District of Columbia a bill which involved the same principles involved in the Cockrell resolution. ; He said that at almost every point where the Commissioners had designated lights should be established there were already wires, and, notwithstanding that fact, the Potomac Electric Power Company had been given permits to tear up seven miles of asphalt pavements. Mr. Hill took exception to this statement, but it was reiterated by Mr. Faulkner, who said the only exception to it was in the case of New York avenue. He did not mean to say that the United States Eleciric Lighting Company had conduits on ail the streets dug up by the Potomac company, but he referred to the points which the Commissioners had designated should be furnished. with lights. The Case of Lafayette Square. Mr. Hill wanted to know if that was the case with Lafayette Square. Mr. Faulkner replied that on three sides of Lafayette Square there were under- ground conduits, while, in order that the Potomac company should reach that square it had laid two and a half miles of underground conduit. It had dug up seven miles of asphalt pavement to lay its con- duits, white it might have been done by the United States company by the laying of half a mile of conduit, and surely not more than one mile. Mr. Hill asked if that was the case in reference to Lincoln Park. Mr. Faulkner repiied that under the plan adopted by the Commissioners in letting a contract to the Potomac company three miles cf asphalt pavement would be dug up in order to supply that park with seven electric lights. He said that the policy cf the committee on the District of Columbia had been to secure a general subway sys- tem by which all the wires in this city should go underground, and when that sys- tem should be established any company would have an opportunity to use the con- duit and pay the District for that privilege. Maintaining a Monopoly. Mr. Hill said that the keeplag of the Potomac company ont of the territory east of Rock creek was maintaining a monop- oly. Mr. Faulkner replied that the policy of Congress had been to establish monopoiles in the District of Columbia, but not in the sense that a monopoly was meant by the senator from New York. It had been the policy of Congress to permit only one com- pany to do necessary work and to get the advantages desired by competition through control by Congress. It was in pursuance of this policy that Congress had not given new railroad com- panies charters to come into the city of Washington. He said experience hal taught members of the committee that tt was better to give extensions to existing corporations than to charter new ones which might become bankrupt. They didn’t want new companies to come into the city and then when,Con€ress wanted to force them to improve their facilities to have them plead that they were too poor and that their stock paid no dividends. “What case has there been in which you have forced a railroad to extend its tracks where it didn’t want to?” asked Mr. Hill. “Numercvs cases,” replied Mr. Faulk- ner “What case?” retorted Mr. Hill. One Case Cited. “The Metropolitan Railroad Company fe made to extend its tracks,” replied ' Mr. Faulkner. Congress has compelled the existing railroad companies to give rapid transit, and, with the exception of two lines, we have no horse cars here now. The policy of Congress in respect to all local corporations was to allow but ene company to do a particular kind of work. “This city is in a most unfortunate con- dition In relation to telephone companies,” sald Mr. Faulkner. Pursuing the general policy of Congress, the telephone company has not been al- lowed to lay conduits for the extension of their lines. The Commissioners only two weeks ago decided that they could not per- mit the telephone company to lay a con- duit, and no one can get a telephone in his house who cannot get a line strung dl- rectly from’ an existing pole provided with a telephone wire to his house. Overhead wires cannot be strung, and until a plan for a general subway has been adopted by Congress the policy had been not to allow a hogs these — to be laid. in reply to a question by Mr. Tillman, Mr. Faulkner said he was afraid that Co! gress could not force electric light com- panies to use the public conduit if those companies should be allowed to provide conduits for themselves. He continued to read a report made by the Commissioners in February, 1896, Indorsing a bill for a public subway, and quoted as saying that a monopoly was necessary in the conduct of the electric lighting business of the Dis- trict for the best interests of the govern- ment. Mr. Tillman in the Debate. Mr. Tillman expressed wonder that the subcommittee which had charge of the municipal subw y scheme had been so long 1m making its report. Mr. McMillan here interposed to say that the general subway plan to provide for all the electric wires in the District of Col¥mbia would involve an expenditure of from $5,000,000 to $15,000,000, and that the perfection of the plan re- quired a great deal of considtration. For that reason he suggested that the work could not be done more rapidly than it was — Fahad: . ir. Faulkner, referring to the energetic way in which the; Potomac Electric Power Company is now venstructing its conduits, remarked that he. believed the company would beat Co. and would get all Tihet: work before the through with resolution pending before the Senate could be passed. That, hé sald, did not affect the question occupying the attention of the Senate, which had‘relation to future per- mits that might be applied for on the part of companies. Mr.,Faulkner, speaking of the Commissionefs’ report in favor of a general subway scheme, and against grant- ing permission to svat companies to tear up the streets for construction of con- duits, was interrupted by Mr. Tillman, who reminded him that he was quoting the very men who had granted these permits. Mr. Tillman thought he was quoting witnesses against his side of the case. Mr. Faulkner said that he was showing that these Commissioners reported against doing the very things they have permitt2d to be done. “Can you tell me why they have granted these permits?” inquired Mr. Tillman. “Oh-h,” replied Mr. Faulkner, laughing “I have no doubt that in the hurry they did not remember this matter of the report. A Lively Set-To. Quite a lively set-to took place between Mr. Hill and Mr. Faulkner when the former senator referred to the contention of one of the companies. “I am not arguing for any company,” re- torted Mr. Faulkner, hotly. “This is a great public question, involving a principle, and I don't care anything about one or the other of the companies.” “I hope so,” said Mr. Hill. Mr. Hill continued to ask questions which Mr. Faulkner said he had answered in his statement. Mr. Tillman wanted to know whethe> the Commissioners had not carried out the law in letting a contract for electric light- ing to the lowest bidder. Mr. Faulkner replied that that was not in the law. He said that that provision had been stricken out of the bill hy the House conferees for fear that it might interfere with the general subway plan which it was the policy of Congress to adopt. He said the committee on appropriations hed fixed the price and the conditions under which electric lighting should be done and that the price had been lowered from year to year. Again Mr. Faulkner and Mr. Hill came together in a parrying or words. Mr. Hill persisted in asking questions, and finally Mr. Faulkner replied: “He who will not understand will not be enlightened.” Mr. Hill—“And he who wiil not explain cannot enlighten,” Mr. Stewart Breaks In. Mr. Stewart here broke in and wanted to know if the Potomac Power Company had not some rights in the District, in view of the fact that they bad expended their money in the fulfillment of a yovernment cortract. “They have ro right at all that will be interfered with by this resolution,” said Mr. Faulkner, ‘In the permit granted them by the Commissioners it was provided that their right to do this work should be sub- ject to revocation at any time by the Con- gress of the United States.” “Have they acquired any equities?” asked Mr. Stewart. BS “No, they have acquired no equities,” re- plied Mr. Faulkner, “but I do not want to wo into the question of equities. This is too great a question to be measured by mere dollars and’cents. It is a question of carrying out a poiigy of Congress Mr. Hill wanted to know whether the government had fot’saved money by letting the contracts to the Potomac company. Mr. fit in the he that it had saved about $100 in the lighting of parks, and in order to save that $100 a year five miles of asphalt pavements have been torn up. s that all that Was saved? Was there no other lighting than in the parks that was taken at a,reduced price?” asked Mr. Hill. : Mr. Faulkner replied that he was re- ferring to the [lighting in. the parks, and that he would answer the question put by Mr. Hill in his own way. The morning “how having expired, the consideration of the Cockrell resolution was laid over until tomorrow. > ae DISTRICT IN CONGRESS House Committee Considering the General Subway Question. Mr. Jacob Hess, president of the board of subway commissioners of New York, ap- peared this afternoon before the subcom- mittee on subways of the House District committee and gave some expert testimony relative to the subway system of New York. Mr. Hess told in detail the growth and extent of the subway system. His evi- dence was taken by a stenographer, and, while it was largely of a technical char- acter, will form part of the report of the special subway committee when it is made to the full committee and to the House. Mr. Odell of New York has returned to the city, and said today that the subcom- mittee would proceed at once upon the preparation of a proposed general plan of subways for Washington. He hoped that the committee would be able to make a report and pass a bill at this session of Congress. To Mluminate Public Buildings. Senator Frye today gave notice of an amendment he will propose to the sundry civil pill, providing for an illumination of the federal buildings in the city on the nights of February 22, June 14, July 4 and such other days as may be designated by the proper authority for patriotic celebra- tions. To Remove Abandoned Tracks. Senator McMillan has introduced in the Senate a bill to compel street railway com- panies in the District to remove abandoned tracks. The bill provides that whenever the tracks of a’ street railway company have not been used in three months the Commissioners may notify the company to remove the tracks and place the street in good condition. Failure to comply makes the president of the company liable to a fine of $5 for each day during which the tracks remain. If the company fails to repair the street, after notice from the Engineer Commissioner, it its liable to a fine of $5 for each day. Hearing on the Morse Bill. The Senate committee on the District of Columbia has decided to give a hearing on the Morse liquor bill at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, a eee The Fwelfth Census, A bill providiiig for taking the twelfth census of the Upited States, under the di- rection of Carrgji D, Wright, the chief of the bureau of labort -has been introduced in the House by’ Répresentative Sayers of Texas. The bil’ fixts Col. Wright's sal- ary .at $6,000; ;provides for an assistant commissioner of labor, salaried: at $4,000, who is to be anyexpert statistician, and for an increase ofj theuwclerical force of the bureau. It digects«the commissioner of labor to report to Capgress in July, 189., a plan for the twefthilcensus and carries an appropriation of $60,000 for preliminary ex- penses. —— Instractorsfet the Deat. The Senate Hhs passed House ‘bill No. 6883, to incorpurate the convention of American instruttor8 of the deaf, of which Edward M. Gallaudet of this city is ai incorporator. Proposed Supreme Court Building Site Mr. W. C. Dodge, Mr. N. G. Ordway, Mr. F. J.Digudonne and Mr. Wi «A. Croffut, representing property Owndss.in the square north of the Congressional Library, lodged a petition today with the House committee on public buildings and grounds respecting the proposed condemnation of property in that square for a United States Supreme Court building. The petitioners ask that Congress settle the uncertainty by either purchasing the property at the market price or by declaring that the government does not want the square, The petitioners claim ee et ‘ing agitation of the use = feat oC in the market. . INSENATE AND HOUSE Mr, Pettigrew Speaks on the Vene- zuela Question. MR, SHERMAN PROPOSES CLOSED DOORS The Yost-Tucker Contested Elec- tion Case in the House. SPEECHES ON BOTH SIDES a In the Senate today the House resolution directing the Attorney General to print as an appendix to his report all letters, cor- respondence, ete., relative to the Chicago strike. was agreed to. Mr. Perkins (Cal.) offered a joint resolu- tion, which was referred, for a commission to consider the establishment of a bureau of mines or other means of collecting min- ing information. At the request of Mr. Hill (N. Y.) the rules were suspended, and the bill recently reported for a new custom house building in New York city, was put on its passage. Mr. Pettigrew (8. D.) interposed the sug- gestion that it was a bad precedent to name commissioners to superintend the construction of a building, as provided in this bill. Mr. Hill and Mr. Quay said this was the usual course. The bill thereupon passed without division. It provides for a build- ing to cost not over $5,000,000, to be erected on the present custom house site, and names Messrs. Post, Kilbreth, Taintor, Hugh J. Grant and EB. F. Brown, as com- missioners, to oversee the construction. The Venezuela Question. Attention to the Venezuela question was renewed when Mr. Pettigrew addressed the Senate in support of his resolution, intro- duced on Monday, calling on the Secretary of State for a report on the work of the Venezuelan commission, and for a copy of the agreement entered into between the United States and Great Britain. Mr. Pet- tigrew spoke of the tedious diplomatic struggle over this question, covering many years. Last year, he said, the President Sent to Congress 'a message that startled the world. Acting on this Congress provid- ed for the Venezuela commission. But up to the present time Congress and the public was in ignorance as to what had been done, although it was well under- stood that an agreement had been made between the executive authorities and the representatives of Great Britain; that a treaty had been made. ‘This treaty, or agreement, was, Mr. Pettigrew asserted, a surrender of the entire contention of the United States. Instead of securing arbi tration of the territory claimed by Ven- ezuela, it established a fifty year limit, which, in effect, gave to Great Britain all the territory within the Schomburek line. It was a complete abandonment of Venez- vela and a surrender of all that the United States had claimed. Venezuela is a weak uation and had reason to expect that the strength of the United States would be in- terposed in her behalf, But this agree- ment gave to Great Britain al] that Venez- ucla had. protested against. It was time, Mr. Pettigrew declared, that the public was taken ir.to the confidence of the adminisira- tion on this subject, as the original posi- tion on the Venezuela question was about the only thing done by the President which commended itself to the people. At this point Mr. Sherman interposed, saying he felt it to be his duty to move that the Senate doors be closed, as this was a qvestion concerning a treaty which should be properly considered in executive session. Mr. Pettigrew insisted that he could speak concerning the President's message on the subject, and he proceeded on that line. On the question of agreeing to the reso- lution, Mr. Sherman asked that it first go to the committee on foreign relations, and, on Mr. Pettigrew’s assent, this disposition was made. The Electric Light Fight. The Senate then resumed and considered the controversy over the laying of electric conduits in Washington, D. C., a full ac- count of which will be found elsewhere in The Star. Mr. Quay presented the report of the con- ference committee on the army appropri tion bill, stating that the conferecs had been able to reach an agreement all differences except the last, for ihe hospital at Hot Springs, Ark. The report was ac- cepted and a further conference asked on the Hot Springs provision. Mecaragaa Canal Bill. At 2 o'clock Mr. Turpie (Ind.) resumed his speech in opposition to the Nicaragaa canal bill. He sid the so-called rights of the Nicaragua Canal Company were not worth acquiring. It had no title to the land traversed by the canal. They had merely an easement or license to do certain work. THE HOUSE. Before the Yost-Tucker contested elec- tion case from the tenth Virginia district was called up in the House today there was & call of committees, and several ills were passed, as follows: To provide an American register for the bark E. C. Mow- att; to grant certificates of service to tele- graph operators who served during the wer; to amend the laws relating to the gen- eral land office so as to reduce the fees to be charged for taking testimony from 15 to 10 cents per hundred words, and to withdraw the privilege of excess fees now allowed at land offices west of the Rocky mountains. The contested election case was called up by Mr. McCall (Mass.), chairman of com- mittee on elections No. 3, at 12:30 p.m. It gave promise of being the most interest- ing, as well as the most bitterly contested, case brought before the House during this Congress. The majority of the committee, four republicans and three democrats, found for the contestee, Mr. Harry St. George Tucker, a democrat, who has rep- resented his district in four Congresses. A minority of two republicans, Walker of Virginia and Thomas of Michigan, brought in a report in favor of the contestant, Mr. Yost, who is_a member-elect of the next Congress. Upon the face of the returns Mr. Tucker received 12,422 votes and Mr. Yost 11,520. The case hinged upon the Justice of the Virginia election law with regard to imperfect ballots, and the claim of the ‘contestant that the returns from e county should be discarded owing to fe imperfect printing of ballots and il- legal instructions to election officers. What a Recount Developed. A recount of the ballots which counted certain ‘caption marked” and “blotted” ballots still gave Mr. Tucker a plurality of 332. There were some 2,711 ballots re- jected because of imperfect marking, the Virginia law requiring that in “scraich- ing’ he must cross three-fourths of the let- ters of the name of the man he did not wish to vote for. Counting these ballots in which the contestant’s friends contended that the intent of the voter was plainly figured, Mr. Yost’s plurality was 2,059. Mr. Codding (Pa.), a member of the committee who signed the report of the majority, opened the debate in favor of sustaining that report and confirming Mr. Tucker’s title to the seat. Mr. Yost for Himself. Mr. Yost, the contestant, followed Mr. Codding with an hour's speech in his own behalf, the House by unanimous consent according him this privilege. He described the alleged manner in which the democratic eleztion officials blocked the negroes’ way to the polls. “Those who rob men on the highway of their purses,” sald he, “are not. less culp- able than these chivalrous Virginians, who asspulted the weak and robbed them of their birthright.” (Republican applause.) He concluded with an eloquent appeal to the House for justice. wai Jenkins Ribose a rnin a een of the electicns committee who signed major- ity report, deprecated “such partisan speeches” as the House had just listened to from the contestant It was casy enough, he said, to fire the northern heart by tales of election outrages and fraud 4dn the south, but, he said, “in all the south- ern election cases I have examined during my congressional career I have found noth- ing so disgraceful or unlawful as that which has occurred recently in Pennsyl- vania, where I understand they are all reformers.”- (Laughter and applause.) THE POOR NEED HELP Men Gan Get No Work, and Women and Out a Circular Appeal for Contri- butions of Money or Goods. The reports from the central relief com- mittee are of the most discouraging sort, for it would seem as though there had never been a year when the charitable peo- ple of this city made such a meager re- sponse to an appeal for assistance as they have done so far this winter. Tke continuance of cold weather has re- sulted in an immense number of applicants at the office of the Assuciated Charities and its sub-livisions, while the means at the disposal of this and other relief-giving or- ganizations have been entirely inadequate to meet the exigencies of the situation. Unless there should be a decided change for the beiter in the near future it be necessary for the relief committee to resort to a house-to-house canvass. It has been hoped all along that this might be dis pensed with this year, but the receipts so far have been so meager that something must be done if any response is to be made to the ery for help. They Want Work. A very large number of those who have applied to the Asscciated Charities lately have made an earnest appeal for employ- ment, showing that as a rule they woul far rather work than beg. Unfortunately, work is harder to obtain for them than some temporary measure of relief, and the result has been that able-bodied men who have been long out of employment through no fault of thelr own have been put off with a little food and fuel for their families when they would be only too glad to sug port them in comfort if they could. An instance of this has been seen during the past few days while the Potomac Elec- tric Power Company has been prosecui its work of laying underground wires Th company’s officials have had a vastly greater nvmber of applicants for work than they could possibly take on, and every day when their lists are compieted a long iine of men is left disappointed, when they did so want the chance to earn a little money. Severe Need of Aid Secretary Wilson of the Asso ities said to a Star reporter this afternoon that the first three days of this week had broken the record in the number and the severity of the cases that had come to the attention of that organization. By dint ot close economy and hard wotk, many these had been attended to, but it ts 1-to-mouth affair at the best, and +h have not been able to do anything like what they could have wished on account of the paucity of the means at their dis- posal. The subcommittee on finance of the tral relief committee, Mr, James E. Fit chairman; Judge C. C. Cole, 8. Wilson, Mrs. H. B. F. Macfarls ated Char- and Mr. T. A. Lambert, today sent out a large | number of personal letters to people who ordinarily can be counted upon to give for the relief of suffering, but who have not been heard from so far this winter. The letter 1s as follows: “The funds of the citizens’ relief commit- tee are now exhausted, and there is an im- mediate demand for ‘money, provisions, clothing and fuel. In this strait we, as members of the finance and advisory com- mittee, have thought it advisable to cail to the attention of some of the charitably disposed resident. this condition of t and ask for such donations as they fee! disposed to make in the cause of charity. We trust that the response will be a prompt and liberal one. Contributions of money may be sent to any member of this committee or to any of the daily paper: or to the treasurer, Mr. Beriah’ Wilkins, Post building. In addition to the provision that has been made for the receipt of money, a store room has been obtained, where all coutri- butions of food, clothing and fuel may be sent direct. This is located at the corner of Sth and D streets. Contributions Acknowledged. Contributions for the central relief com- mittee have been received as follows Heretofore acknowledged Nannie M. Dade. . Brownson Thomas Nelson Page. Total. > Matthews to Be Executed Murch 12. Gov. Lowndes of Maryland has fixed Fri- day, March 12, as tne day of execution fo: George Matthews, who is under sentenc: death for the murder of James Irwit Allen’s Fresh, Charles county, Md. 2, 1895. Irwin, the murdered man, was t husband of the woman who was acquitted Monday in Baltimore of the charge of be- ing an accessory with Matthews in the plan- ning of the crime. ——— Struck by a Spade. Lee Maxwell, a colored laborer, engaged with others in digging a trench for the Po- tomac Electric Power Company on K street between 7th and 9th streets, was struck in the forehead today by the spade of a fellow workman. He was so badly injured that it Was necessary to take him to the Emer- gency Hospital. It is said that the men were working so close together as to make the accident uravoidable. ——— Peter Cunningham's Will. The will of the late Peter Cunningham, dated September 19, 1896, was filed today. The entire estate, including lots 1, 2 and 11 to 16, both inclusive, square 938; lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 15 and 16, square 963, and lots 6, 7, 8, 9%, 10 and 11, square 1010, is bequeathed to the testator’s widow, Mary Cunningham, for life, with power to dispose of any or all of it. Upon Mrs. Cunningham's death the estate, or residue, if any shall have been disposed of by her, passes to Annie C. and Mary C. Cunningham, daughters of the testator, as terants in common. The widow is appointed executrix. a Government Bonds. Quotations reported by Corson & Macart- rey, bankers, 2 per cents, registered... + per cents, coupon of 1907. 4 per cents, registered of 1907. per cents, coupon of 1925. per cents, rered of 1925. 5 per cents, coupon of 5 per cents, registered of, Currency 6'per cents of reycy 6 per cents of 3 Grain and Cotten Furnished & W. B. Hibbs and brokers, 1427 F st, me stock exchange, ce nts Messrs. Ladenburg, Thalmafhn & €o.,"New York. b 7.16 ia Baltimore Markets. neg pT barrels; exporte, 33.356 bar- fetcipty 20.654 batieie: coats ee Se re ibe Bachets: ‘cules, 8.000 Bushee eeithtee wee FINANCE AND TRADE Lower London Prices and Selling for Foreion A CHOLERA A FACTOR IN SPECULATION Railway List Was Only Moderately Active. — GENERAL MARKE acai inipasl REPORTS Special Dispatch to ‘The NEW YORK, Januar: London prices and almost continuous selling for foreign account resulted in fractional co: cessions in all parts of the local security market this morning. Fears of new matic disturbanc the ed with in flected in foreign clined fractionally otwithstanding the for money Traders sold with the fori sion mate prices yie stance) lowest» frec wer orehension Consols under realizing extremely the securities de. sales, rates low the sn mark selling, b was not whi ling stul ts to offer sible pe ent intervals, two pro: in sympathy the at imp act, ly in « s down t tleable at nt bear op p we erators being conspicuous in this particular Manipulation in the interest of depression was reflected in Chicago Gas and Jersey Central. The growing belief in the wisdom of rchase: the decline prevented si icant fi ations. Routine developmenis not working In harmony with the market commitments of the room element, re- course was had to invention The Asiatic cholera was re ried to the mortality of all d an effort to f a reaction ately undertaken on this pros- pect. Credulity, as usual, the schem assisted to the extent of a few tri ions fra Periods of dullness were 1 Trequer previous days of the week, ind the lete digestion of the stocks sold to take profits after last week's sudden r The demand securities from out-of-town sour: not r ued to the extent 1 breadth to ¢ ment is over-an: a@ tem, The onditic liscount it of the ince tive toward in market from the A movement of this entirely healthy and an a mere aking peri characte ld would be varying from jz t Ie pe fractional reduction being a Some sales c explained; suit with the s not inilu t Granger der trading belie to be sional. American Sugar ope realizing sales, but during of the day ruled above its naessee Coal and 1 Susquehanna the reporte 1Wwa poi tha doned for the Money was € a reduction of 4 foreign exchange FINANCIAL AND COMM throughout per cent wa. ates. reported in CIAL, The following are the opening, the hich and the lowest and the of th New York stock market toda eporied Corson & arthey, membe w ck exchar Correspo ts, 0. SU Bro: Low erican Sugar, pfd.. Auerican Tovac American Cotion Oil | Atchison ......... dig dy | Baltimore & Oaio.- 16 16 | Bay State G ® Cal ada South da Pacific. peake & Oho & St. Louis chicago, B.&Q.... y orthwestern. Iilinois Central Lake Shore..... Louisville & Nash Metropolitan Traction... Mahattan Elevated Michigan Central. Missouri Pacitic National Lead ¢ National Lead Co. New Jersey Ceuth New York Central. Northern Paciti Northern Pacitic, ptd Ont. & Western pf Phila. Traction ‘Texas Pacific. ‘Tenu. Coal & Iron. Union Pacific. U.S. Leather, Wabash, pta. Wheeiing & L. Erie. Wheeling & L. Erie,pfd. Western Union iel. Silver. — Washington Stock Exchange. —regular call—12 o'clock m.—Ameries and Trust, 10 at 189. Capital Tr ; 20 at 38; 15 at BT cents; 100 at 100 at 40 cents: 400 at 40 Mergenthaler Linotype, Lanston Monotype, Wm. thaler Linotype, 30 at 123% Monotype, 50 at 6%; 25 at Pneumatic Gun’ Carriag Mixtrict of Columbia Bonds. bid. 30-year fund tis, gold, 110 bid. ter tock Zs, 1901, currency, 110 bid.” Water stock 7s, liv, 3.5s, funding, ret ¥ bid. Mitcellaneyus Ponds, Metropolitan Ratlraad Ss, 108 bid, 112 asked. Metropolitan Railroad conv. 6s, 110 bid, 111 asked. Metropolitan Railroad cer- Uficates of Indebtedzess, 135 asked. Belt Rallroad 5s, 60 bid, iekington Raftroad Gs, 8S bid, D4 axked. Columbia Railroad Gs, Udy bid, 115 asked. Washington Gas Company Gs, se Too at 40 cents. 20-year fund bs, 103 rles A, 113 bid. shington Gas Company te ries B, 113. bid. ad 1% sone 100 bid. Amerfean Security and Trust . Fo and A. 100 bid. American Security and Trust 5s, A. and U., 100 bid. Washington Mark: Company Ist 6s, 107 "bid. Washington Market « pany imp. 6s, 107 bid.” Wasington Market ¢ pany ext. G8, 107 wid. Masonic Hall Assoc is, 103 bid. Washingien Light Infantry st Gs, bid. National Bask Stocks.—Rank of Washing bid, 315 asked. | Metropolitan, bid, 315 Central, 265 bid. Farmers ‘and Mechanics’ bid, 190 asked. Second, 130 Wid, 140 asked. zens’, 116 bid. Columbia, 126 bid. “Capital bid, ‘130 asked. West End, Traders’, U3 bid, Wi asked, Lincoln, 101 108 asked. | Ohio, i asked. Safe Deposit and Trust Compa: it amd Trust, 114 bid, 117 iti 120 107 bid, 112 asked. dy National Washing! Loan and Trust, 120 bid, 125 asked. | American Carity and Trust, 138% bid, 140% asked Ra! bid, Skye . 45 bid road Stocks. Capital Traction, 57% asked. Metropolitan, 102 bid. Columbia, Gas and Blectric Light Stocks. —Washington Gas, 44, bia, asked. Georgetown Gas, 44 bid, 50 Suede’ C78. Blectrte bid. nies, asked. Light, 92 US anked. Sncurance, hace —Sueetin, 67 00. Beteepet- u 5 —Real Estate Title,