Evening Star Newspaper, October 20, 1897, Page 1

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It is therefore the only one in which the reader can find the complete news of the world, directly trans- mitted by telegraph, up to the moment of going to press. DEPENDS ON ONE MAN Believed That Juror Harlev Alone Prevents Luetgert’s Conviction. HE WILL PROBABLY HANG THE JURY Difficult to Get Information as to Status of the Case. —_»—___— DEFENDANT IS SANGUINE CHICAGO, October The Chicago re- port havin; d time getting of tk in Luet- town information about the doin; sert jury. About every paper has rented one or more roems on the upper House, which faces the and lock into tke reom where took place. reporters station these rooms powerful field gl ee ) the court room when the jury is pres- provided the ns are up. however, created this at the time the jury came consult Judge Tuthill about some that had been raised during the on in their room. The room in which e is on the north si building, its winde facing tt the county jail. Reporters on the reef of the jail, and S€S can see the jurers dis- the jurors delibe the cell ion can be hea f the d, as 2 court between the cell house about eighty feet wide. Tne jovements Of the jurors indi- character of their argu- ch other, and by watching me: ts with e: the group it can be determined with re: ceuracy about how they nd numeri ntly a majority of one her for convic: tion or acquittal will not be known tntil they report to the court. Jury Called Into Court. Judge Tuthill called the jury into court at 1020 a.m. From a neighboring window d been seen shaking hands r jurors, and it was believed ict had been reached. s later the judge sent for the gert was taken up the the building and into Jurer Horley with the oth y minute court room, and Attoi ter the jury came into State’s Attorney Leneeu cent and Phalen hurried- through the crowd ere admitted © the object 9 the court room. s conference State's i barely reach- s in- in f th id: “I morning when I w my presence was desired urt room. and that the Luetgert ju: ia revort or something of that nature te the judge.” “Judge Tuthill, ex-Judge Vincent and At- terney Phalen had been notified, ana were in ecurt roo wien i re; ed it. Luet- wert sent fer, and came into court cool ing. Then the jury was Was apparent at once who bee ng the jur, se Tuthill uired if th jury had any communica- jen to make: Juror Hartley was on his feet in a fiff d began asking ques He desired instructions on questions cf act. Harlev wanted to know if it was pos- le to leave out certain evidence alto- gether—exclude it entirely and then con- sider the other evidence and make up a t from it. This query excited the ter of those who were opposed to Harlev, and it was noticeable that the jurors laughed. Question Was Improper. “Judge Tuthill replied that the que: Was ar improper one for him to answe: “You have your instructions,’ said his honor. ne ion court cannot instruct you question of fact. will retire to’ return to further con- now Several of the to know how much jure longer they were going to be kept in jury r om. Judge Tuthill paid no atten quiry. Juror Harley is the man holding the jury. He now fas two are Jurors Holabird and Behmiller, of these, it is be It leoks to.me there be a disagreement. I believe that night the jury will stand eleven to nd that the only man who will bring agreement will be Harlev. » will not disc}: r tomorrow. y. In refe did not have time we had done in other eleven ms fairiy Was good. aid no t, never in contact S sausage mak- Attorney McEwen » preliminary proceed- When Luetgert walked Tuthili's ¢ room this morn- a ver had been reache 5 that he h: ait- With ex-Juds + on his face he walked u incent and Attorney rEbalen ¥ shook each of them by the turning toward Si ates Attor- n he grasped the small hand d_ exclaimed: U. Mr. Deneen, I am ver. You gave me a ter- hing the last day, but you ‘ou did not go outside the evi_ s Attorney Deneea shook the hand nt German, smiled i nothing. ge eat uctzert Expects Acquittal. Luetgert was astir early again this and, as usual, ate a hearty break- The suspense concerning his fate Goes not affect the appetite of the big maker. He was confident of ac. this morning. and in the best of as he exercised in the corridor be- is cell. “1 will be acquitted. I am Claimed Luetgert, smifting. Tam called to the court room? Bint ame free man. Yes, sir, the sweetest mu, c 1 shall ever hear will be that verdict of not guilty. It will be a just verdict. too" Luetgert was returned to the jail ‘a few minuies after 11 o'clock. “As he passcl the corridor to his cell -he was plicd with questions from a dozen reporters. His cemexaor implied that he had heard noth. ing bad. “They didn't Jo gnything in “there,” he said. “They sent for me, and said I had to be im court when anything of the kind went on. I went in, but they didn’t do a thing. It 's a disagreement, sure,” said the noted prisoner, as he walked springily. into his cell. The jury was detained for some time after the prisoner was returned to jail. It was rumored that Judge Tuthill this morning opened three “letters offering bribes to the jury. This report cannot be verified, as the judge and those connected with the trial are absolutely inaccessible. sure of it," ex- BUSINESS IS BOOMING) BATTLE OF CARTOONS Opinion of Assistant Secretary of the Treas- ury Howell. it of Observations of His Visit to the Customs Districts in the West. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury How- ell has returned to Washington from a business trip to the west, in the course of which he visited Detroit ard Chicago, two large customs districts. “Everywhere in the west,” said Mr. How- ell to a Star reporter tcday, “I was struck by the evidences of the return of good times to business men and farmers. On all hands the people seemed to be cheerful and They are busy, and that lack of which ciaracterized them a year or so ago seems to have vanished. Money is easier, and the people are spending it as ning it. ago I found a similar condition rs. Some of the leading merchants told me they had done more brsiness with- nree or four months than in revious. The wholesale 3 were working their employes night and day getting out orders, and then were behind in filling them. Seen From the Car Windows. “On the way back, coming through Penn- sylvania, we could see from the car win- dow the signs of the return of prosperous times. On every side the mills were at work, the furnaces were in blast and the sky as ruddy for miles with the glow of the coke ovens and the blast furnaces. It did not look that way a year ago. Then yeu could have seen hundreds of idle mills and furnaces. “But one of the surest indications of good times among the farmers and merchants is the increase in domestic exports, as shown by the books of the custom huose: The total value of the exports of provisions, including cattle and hogs, from the north- ern border districts during the month- of September Just were $1,281,243. The total exports from those districts during the month of September last year were $973,968. Detroit alone exported last month over $700,000 worth of beef, hogs and dairy pro- ducts. Chicago exported over $489,0) worth of bread stuffs last month. In addition to these exports the returns will show a large increase in the export of domestic manu- factures over last year.” imcrease in the Export Trade. The bureau of statistics has prepared a statement showing the total exports for the United States, a summary of which was published in The Star a few days ago. The summary was for the month of *Septem- ber, and showed an increase in the total exports of merchandise of $51,824,138 for the nine months ending September 3v last, ever the same period last year. The total exports of demestic merchandise for the month of September, 1897, were $103,360,669, Details of the statement show tnat the exports of wheat last month were valued at $19.6 compared with $6,! for the same month last year. The exports of flour were valued at $%,: 188 last month, and 173,305 tn September, 1896. Corn was ex- ported last morth to the value of $6,W02,- 26, against $3,783,274 for the same month last year. —o—___ RECIPROCITY WITH FRANCE. Ambassador Patenotre Conferiug With Special Commissioner Kasson. Special Commissioner Kasson, who was appointed to deal with the negotiations rel- ative to reciprocity agreements unde the new tariff act, has entered upon the actual work with which he is charged, beginning with the effort to prepare an acceptable agreement in the case of France. The French ambassador, M. Patenotre, was at the State Department today, and for sev- ral hours was in conference with the com- sioner, and the secretaries of the com- sion, the phase of the matter under consideration being, it is understood, the Wine and spirit clause of the act. =—— NOT SIGNIFICANT. The Offer of the Bethlehem Works to the Government. There is no special significance in the offer of the Bethlehem iron works to sell its entire plant to the government, inas- much as that company, as well as all the other large steel works engaged in the manufacture of armor piate for naval ves- sels, made similar cffers at the time the question of the purchase of armor plate was under consideratica py Congress at its last session. It iS said that the Bethle- hem company fix the value of their plant 4,000. The offer of the Carnegie company was to sell their plant to the gov- ernment its appraised value, to be de- temined the officers of the United States. So the Secretary of the Navy bas taken no action with respect to these offers, = —— ARMY POST IN ALASKA, Secretary Alger Will Exstablish It Within Fifty Miles of St. Michael. The Secretary of War has decided to es- tablish a military reservation in that por- ton of Alaska lying within a radius of fifty miles of St. Michael. This action is based upon iepresentations from Lieut. Col. Randall of the 8th Infantry, who is in command of the small band of soldiers nt to St. Michael a few weeks ago. Its main purpose is to give the officers in com- mand the necessary legal authority to pro- tect property and preserve order in that section of the United States, both of which are reported to be jeopardized by the pres- ence of a large number of desperate char- acters near the mouth of the Yukon. The department is now making an ex- amination of the geographical conditions of the country in the vicinity of the mouth of the Yukon, so as to obtain the data that will enable it to exactly preseribe the boundaries of the proposed new reserva- tion, a task that is by no means easy in a country that has not been very Well set down on the maps. It is regarded as de- sirable to limit the reservation to the smallest dimensions that will take in St. Michael as a center and yet include the es- tuary of the Yukon, where it is possible that a lawless element might gather if ex- cluded from the town itself. The laws of Alaska, as they now obtain, will still pre- vail over the lands within the reservation, but the military officer in charge wail have considerably enlarged powers’in the mat. ter of ejecting obnoxious characters. There will be little excuse for the commission of lawless acts, based on real necessity or starvation within the limits of the new reservation, for Secretary Alger has au. thorized Lieut. Col. Randall, in comma: of the troops at St. Michael, not only to feed the miners who may ‘be in actual need, but also to ship them out of the country when they have pay their own way. ——-e-—_______ TIMOTHY HURLEY ACQuITTED. not the means to Vitascope Takes Prominent Part in New York Campaign. FIGHT NOW ON IN DEADLY EARNEST Little Prospect That Any of the Candidates Will Withdraw. VAN WYCK’S ACCEPTANCE Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. NEW YORK, October 19, 1897. The campaign in the Greater New York may now be said to have opened in deadly earnest. The time when any changes on the official ballots could be made having Passed, it is apparent to all that the con- test has gettled down to a four-cornered fight between Tracy, Low, Van Wyck and George. Hundreds of speeches are being made nightly throughout the larger New York district, and men are discussing poll- tics in the restaurants, the street cars, the hotels—every place where groups of men gather. The bitterness in the fight seems to be focussed between the followers of Tracy and Low, on one hand, and those of Van Wyck and George on the other. The regular organizations are concentrating their attacks upon the independents. The leaders of the republican and democratic organizations attack each other rarely, or never. But they make up for this neglect in the intensity and energy with which they attack the independents who have broken away into the Thomas Jefferson democracy and the Citizens’ Union organi- zations. McGlynn Will Not Speak. Rev. Dr. McGlynn will in all probability not take the stump for Henry George in this campaign. His sympathies are with George, it is announced, but he does not care to leave his church work and enter the political arena. This will be a disap- pointment to many who remember his bril- liant, fireworks sort of a campaign—one of the most picturesque of the Gcorgite can- vass of eleven years ago. There are two reasons why Father McGlynn cannot be counted upon to assist Mr. George in this campaign. The first reason is found in the fact that he has only comparatively re- cently been restored to the full rights and powers in the Catholic Church. This church organization, which hoids especial- ly pronounced views upon the rights of property and vested interests, for a_num- ber of years suspended Father McGlynn, leaving him without a church and congre- gation. Though much of the bitterness en- gendered by this movement on the part of Archbishop Corrigan and the New York hierarchy passed away with the coming of Satolli, yet Father McGlynn does not care to run the risk of the reopening of the whole question, and possible complica- tions, especially when he feels he could do little good. He is an older man by far than he was eleven years ago, and he is thoroughly satisfied with his work as a priest, and desires to continue to live and die in full accord with the faith in which he was educated. The other reason {s that when Henry George supported Cleveland because of the free trade views of that President, Father McGlynn declined to follow him. Dr. Mc- Glynn said some sharp things about George at that time, but the latter never became angry about the matter. Their personal friendship was not even interrupted. Still the priest and the single-taxer parted po- litical company at that point, and it is hardly to be expected, though it is possible, they may appear on the same platform again. Two Weeks More of Agaony. In just two weeks from today the politi- cal agony will be over. The borough of Brooklyn has beceme for the time the bat- tle ground of the campaign, the republi- cans, the demccrats and the Citizens’ Union all holding great rallies there last night. Perry Belmont addressed a rousing meeting in the Academy of Music for Van Wyck. There were cheers for George, how- ever, when his name was mentioned, and these showed that he had many admirers in the audience. THere were groans and hisses for Low and Tracy, which showed that it was a demceratic gathering. General ‘Tracy addressed an enthusiastic meeting at the Clermont Avenue Hink. The rink is nearly if not quite as large as the Madison Square Garden, and it was filled to overflowing. If General Tracy is cor- rectly reported the following significant pussage oceurs in his speech. “I did not doubt the motives of the Ciu- zens’ Union or a vast majority of them. I did not doubt the patriotism of their can- didate. 1 beheved they had been influenced by conscientious motives, and that when they came tu see how utterly hopeless was this struggle, with our forces divided, they would, for the sake of the city, fer its in- terests as well as for the general interests of the nation, consent to unite upon some candidate who could poll the entire vote of the Citizens’ Union and the republican par! Dees General Tracy mean that the di sion in the reputlican party caused by Seth Low's candidacy insures the loss of *the fight against Tammany? tonsiderable stress was ¢ by those opposed io General Tracy, it being argued that ne did mean that the struggle against Tammany was hopeless. The genera! lete teday said that he was referring to the hopelessness of the etrug- gle the Citizens’ Union were making and that he had no reference to the regular nominations. He believed that he was stronger now than ever, and that Straigat ticket would prevail in the coming contest by a handsome plurality. Low Meetings Well Attended. Mr. Low also made a in Brooklyn, all of which were well at- tended. The Citizens’ Union appear to have confidence regarding the result in the borough. The managers of Low’s cam- paign in Kings county state that Brooklyn will give him 75,000 to 90,000 votes, the first figure being the lowest estimate. laid on this pas- serles of speeches with great vigor. new phrase. It is Earl of New York. political uprising of laboring men and a paign literature at a great rate from its la- bor department. Charles W. Dayton, who was to have opened his personal headquar- ters at the Albemarle yesterday, did not find rooms to his taste at that hotel, and has secured accommodation at the Sturte- vant House. This is some distance from work have been finished, and. would be ready for the hoisting tomorrow morning, while others: will be finished later in the week. Each is to be forty by thirty feet in dimensions, and emblazoned with a top line: “What Benjamin F. Tracy will do it he is elected mitiyor of the Greater New York.” Then will follow a lot of promises, in behalf of Gen. Tracy. - Battle of the: Cartoons, The days of the old; loWd-smelling torch- lights and the transparency have departed. Even the banner-is regarded as insignifi- cant, compared with the ‘picture fight now being waged in the display portion of the campaign. The managers have apparently appreciated Tweed’s famous saying that pictures hurt most, and now stereopticens and vitascopes are being directed cgainst one another with a fury never before shown in a political fight. The Citizens’ Union has decided to abandon its series of “educational lectures,” and in its stead have instituted cartoon exhibitions in which Tammany, Platt and George are shown as political dictators and destroyers of good government. The citizens are go- ing into the cartoon fight witn great zeal, for they will give stercopticon exhibitions in sixty different localities nightly nti election day. The ‘educational lectures” cost the Citizens’ Union $100,000, and it is likely that their cartoon fight’ will cost them even more. They have been renting halls and screen space on corner buildings in eyery part of the city. Col. Gardines’s recent expression about reform is going to be made a point for at by the Citizens’ Union. Twenty-one different slides, show- ing Gardiner in various poses and bearing the inscription, ‘fo h—I with reform,” have been prepared. The ideas portrayed on the citizens’ Screens are directly at variance with those Suggested by the moving pictures of the Tammany vitascope. _ The citizens put much stress on the improved police force that had come with “reform.” Brave po. licemen were pictured by the citizens sav- ing women and children from the hoofs cf runaway horses. The Tammany- pictures showed these same poiice insulting re- spectable women, accepting bribes: and-ob- livious to bold daylight robberies. These police are called the “reforn: police. Republicans Not to Be Outdone. The republicans are determincd not to be vutdone “in the stereopticon fight. They have entered the field a little late, but say they will make up for lost time. Chairman Quigg states-that he has secured seme of the best sites in the city for screens. He also says that he does not think he will throw any caricatures on the screens. He says the pictures will be of a more digni- fled character. He prefers to deal with sclemn facts. He promises to give “#orte attention“to Croker. There is @ wew feature in the Vetting. Col. Henry L. Swords, formerly sergeant- at-arms of the republican national commit- tee, and now secretary of District Attorney Olcott, has anonunced that he will take any and all bets offered at even money that Low would poll more votes than Tra- cy. Swords bet enormous sums on the presidential election in 1888, backing Har- tison, arid won. He betilarge sums fn 1892, and: last year Uffered odds on McKinley without finding takers. The tip that Tracy was to be hacked against Low leaked out, and several wagers were recorded. It is said that the Citizens’ Union has dis- cevered a number of illegal: registrations and an attempt at colonizatign. They are said to-reath 800 and to de made iy men who were brought on from Chicago. Tam- many is charged Wjth being the father of the scheme, and-sgeps have been taken to prevent the alleged fraud. + INFLUENCE ON STATE TICKET. New York City’s Vote Will Be a De- texmining Factor. NEW YORK, October 20—Politicians of all sorts and conditions are greatly. in- terested. in the rpbable effect of the bit- terness displayed in municipal polities upon the results In the state at large. ‘The effects principally discussed are those affecting the chances of Wallace and Park- er, the respective republican and demo- cratic nominees for chief judge of the court of appeals, and those of the legislative candidates individually. It is conceded that the bittesness.dexeloped between the par- tisans of Low and Tracy, if not strongér than that between George and Temmany, is more in evidence, and likely to be more widespread in its results. Straight democrats claim—though they can give no substantial. basis for their as. sention—that. Parker will run so far ahead of Wallace in Greater New York as to as- sure his election. Already there are charges of trading in legislative candidates, and the unusual length and complexity of the ballots, which cannot fail to confuse the more illiterate voters, adds to the com- plexity of the situation. Broadly states, the huge mass of half a million or more ballots to be cast on November 2 in Great- er New York must be a potent factor in the general election, and, as existing con- ditlons Have had no parallel prophecy as to the extent of this potency, is impos- sible. George's Vote ig 1886. Conservative men are beginning te com- ment upen the belittling of the George vote by leaders of the regalar parties, and call attention to the vote of 1886, in which the single taxer received more than 65,000, when before election no ‘one ‘would con- cede him a third of that fotal. The deduc- tion the conservatives make is that George will surprise the minimizerg of 1897 as he confounded these of 1886. The straight republicans are leaving no means untried to make the mass meeting at Lenox Lyceum tonight noteworthy tor attendance and influence. Secretary of the Interior Bliss will preside, General Tracy and Governor Black will speak and arrangements for ovefflow meetings have been perfected. The assertions by the Tracy papers that the Citizens’ Union claim as supporters of Low many prominent busi- ness men who have recanted and will vote for the-straight republican cand!date are strenuously denied by the Low journals, which insist that the-Columbie president 18 gaining daily in strength. Richard Croker fs credited with the pre- diction that Van ‘Wyok will have a plu- rality of 75,000, and that: 50,000 is “safe to bet on." Meanwhile there is.much more talk of wagers and odds than there is out- ward and visible sign of: betting, and the actual placing of money bas not as yet be- gun to any marked extent.° ~ SAN PEDRO’S JHARROR. pairs; More Pussling- Lan; ise .Found in the Appropriafion Act. ‘There was another hitgh in the execution of the law relative to the establishment of the deep-water harbor at San Pedro, Cal., but the way has again heen - thed over and the work will procged, if;contractors can bé found willing to ‘agsume:the respons- the last river and agt has, con- veyed’ the ‘impression to Secretary Alger that there was a confiict between two sec- tions that might negative both. In one place authorization seemed to be carried tor the beginning of work at the place se- lected by the ‘corhihission MR. TYNER'S POSITION Replies to the Statements of the Pateat Lawyers. INTENDED NO DISCOURTESY "0 THEM Resumption of the Hearing in the Wedderburn Case. AGREEMENT BY —_——_+— COUNSEL The hearing in the case of Wedderburn & Co. before the assistant attorney general for the Post Office Department was resum- ed shortly after 10 o'clock this morning. Before the hearing began a Star reporter asked Assistant Attorney Gencral Tyner how he regarded the letter addressed to the Postmaster General by Messrs. Edson, Doolittle and Somes, representing the Pat- ent Law Association, which was published in The Star last evening. Gen, plied: Mr. Tyner’s Reply. “It will be observed that the first ap- pearance of the first letter to the Post- master General was in a newspaper. “When I referred to the extraordinary proceeding I did it not for publication, but simply to explain my own relations to the case and to put these gentlemen at ease in withdrawing from it if they were dis- satisfied with the hearing. The propos tion they made to the Postmaster General to preside at the hearing, in view of the fact that the regulations gf the department devolved that duty upon"the assistant torney general, is akin to a proposition made by an attorney in a case before a court that a tribunal should be changed be- fore he proceeded to try his cause. y “In a case in a court of justice where a party fears to try his case the law pro- vides for an application for a change of venue, and no judge would be disconcerted by such an application. In this case, how- ever, there S$ no such appiicatiou nor anything similar to it, and the appeal to the Postmaster General to appear himself was an extraordinary proposition of creat- ing a tribunal precisely in accordance with their suggestions and to meet their wishes and interests. Therefore I consider it ex- traordinary, and J referred to it in that way. No Discourtesy Shown. ut I claim that ro discourtesy was shown by my reference to the case in the first.instarce, nor in anything connected with it since. That the gentlemen them- sélves did not regard it, at the time, as a Giscourtesy to them is clearly evidenced by the fact that when Mr. Edson was asked if he proposed to continue in the case, he enswered ‘certainly,’ and the further fact that they were present at two hearings and continued in the case. until it was an- nounced by the prosecution (and they were here as prosecutors) that they had pre- sented all their evidence. At the close of the last session at which they appeared such a statement was made, and it understood that they had presented all their testimony. “Hence I am justified in inferring that their conclusion after the lapse of four days that they had been treated discourt- ecusly is not very logical. I repeat what 1 }-bave said, thai if any time during the fu- ture hearing these gentlemen should appear they will be treated as courteously as if no misunderstanding has ever occurred, yet if they have decided positively not to return I will try to give the case from their side quite frank consideration i they had been present every momen: Dividing Time for Argument. ~ The hearing was opened by council on both sides agreeit.g upon a division of time for the presentation of their arguments. It Was agreed two hours should be given each side, Mr. Small will occupy this amount of time and Messrs. Jere Wil- son, Wm. L. Ford and Ross Perry will a!- ide a like amount of time between them. These arguments will be made tomzrrow, when, it is hoped, the case will be closed, Mr. Ford then continued with the pre- sentation of testimony similar to that which was laid before the patent office, and which has previously been outlined in The Star. ——————-~—__ THE ARMY. Charges Against Chaplnin § Shields Fail—Recent Orders. The Secretary of War has conciuded the investigation of charges against Post Chap- lain David H. Shields, recently appointed, ‘and finds that they have not been sub- stantiated. He has therefore decided to a: sign Chaplain Shields to duty, and the lat- ter reported at the War Department today for that purpose. The Secretary of-War has ordered— Capt. James B. Burbank, 3d Artillery, to this city on official business pertaining to the National Guard of New York, and upon the completion of this work he will return to his proper station. Major Charles S. Iisley, 9th Cavalry, of the Department of the Colorado, has been granted six months’ leave of absence on account of disability. Ordnance Sergeant John W. Anness, now at Fort Porter, N. Y., has been ordered to Fort Wayne, Mich., to relieve Ordnance Sergeant Richard Bergath, who will go to Fort Porter, N. Y¥. The orders of Ordnance Sergeant Michael O'Donnell to Fort Hamilton, N. Y., have’ been revoked. Gen, Wilson, chief of engineers, has’ gone to New York to inspect the improvements of Kill Von Kull, New York bay, and the er gineer school on Willets Island, N. Y. Lieut. Col. J. V. D. Middieton, medical department, and Capt. Edgar S. Dudley, quartermaster’s department, are in the city on leave of absence. z ———__+e+______ STREET CAR MOTORS. Experimenting With Accumulator: in Germany. Thomas E. Moore, commercial agent of the United States at Weimar, Germany, reports to the State Department that the use of accumulators as a motive power for street railways having proved a success on the Charlottesberg Pferdebahn, there is every reason to expect the development of this means of locomotion in Berlin. Experi- tents are being made in its application to motor carriages in addition to street rail- Ways. The great weight of the accumulator has been a drawback, but efforts are being made to overcome this. \Mr. Moore says that they run better on block and stone Pavements than on asphalt, as the latter scems to retard the motor. j —_—___e____ IN FAVOR OF PLAINT! IF Fs. AT THE WHITE HOUSE The President Receives’a Large Party of New Englarders. Consular Selections Held Up—Disap- pointed Scekers After Office. The day at the White House has been un- €ventful. The President give some time early in the morning to the artist finish- ing his picture. At 10:30 the President, accompanied by Secretaries Bliss and Wil- son, Postmaster General Gary and Attor- ney General McKenna, left to attend the funeral of Admiral Worden. On returning he held a conference with Attorney Gen- era! McKenna. The faces so familiar every day adorned positions in the waiting room, as usual. They will be there again tomorrow and the next day. They wait for Secretary Po: dart at him if they get a chance, and earr estly inquire when he will give them an in- terview with the President. Mr. Porter mutters something about “next week there may be a chance,” and gets away as Guick- ly as possible, to be tackled in the same way by others and by the same man a day or so later. The President today reappointed Oliver P. Johnson justice of the peace for George- town. Mr. Jchnson’s term cf office had cx- pired, he having served four years. This was the only appointment made up to af- ternos Consular Selections Held Up. It is said to be probable that the Presi- dent will call another halt in the appoint- ment of consuls. The clerks at the White House are overrun with letters relating to consular appointments. In addition to these the President has recently received a number of letters from senators and representatives, asking him to withhold action in numerous cases until they can see and talk with him. These congressmen will not get to the city until shortly be- fore the assembling of Congress. In re- sponse to their requests the President wiil probably hold up the majority of the re- maining ces until about the opening of Congress. He will make a few appoint- ments, in special cases only. The appointments in the consular service so far have been disappointing to the large number of applicants, who hoped that out of this last dish they might get a crumb. Their disappointment will increase with further Celay, but the President will not be hurried. He believes in listening to the recommendations of congressmen, inas- much as patronage is so stim, this being about all they get. New England People Received. ‘The President this afternoon greeted about 200 New Englanders. They were members of the New England Station Agents’ Association, accompanied by wives and daughters. They were received in the east room. A Colored Delegation. A delegation of about seventy-five mem- bers of O. P. Morton Post, G. A. R., of this city, visited the White House this afternoon, dressed in full uniform, to talk with the President about giving more pat- ronage to colored republicans, and especial- ly to veterans of the late war. The Presi- dent received them and listened atientively to their claim promised to give the mattec close consideration. BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT. Cases Argued in the Highest Tri- bunal. The case of Albert F. Holden, plaintify in error, against Harvey Hardy, sheriff of Salt Lake county, Utah, which involves the constitutionality of the Utah eight-hour law for miners engaged in underground mines, was argued in the Supreme Court today. ‘The case came up from the supreme court of Utah. Holden was convicted for em- ploying Anderson, a miner, for ten hours a day, and sentenced to pay a fine of $0 and serve fifty-seven days in jail. On the trial Holden, while admitting the emp‘oy- ment of Anderson for ten hours a day, pleaded not guilty because Anderson volun- tarily engaged in the services; because the facts charged did not constitute a crime, the statute being repugnant to the Con- stitution of the United States in that it ¢ prived employer and employe from maki: contracts in a lawful way for lawful pur- poses; that it was class legislation and de- prived the defendant of property and tib- erty without due process of law. Upon conviction he filed a petition in the supreme court of Utah for a writ of habeas corpus, which the court de i, whereupon it was brought to the Sup: e Court on assignment of error that the Utali supreme court erred in holding the law constitutional. Judge Jere M. Wilson ap- peared for the plaintiff. The case of Richard S. Williams, plaintiT in error, agt. the United States, from the northern district of California, was argued in the Supreme Court today. Williams was Chinese inspector at San Francisco and was conv'cted and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment at San Quentin and to pay a fine of $3,000 for extorting $100 from Wong Sam for the landing of Wong Lin Choy. Ten errors were assigned, the principal one of which charges defect in the indictment in holding that the defendant was a cus- toms revenue officer. George D. Collins ap- peared for the plaintiff. ns In the Suprerae Court today the assistant attorney general for the government con- fessed error in the case of Mary A. Kitter- ing et al. agt. the United States, which came up from the circuit court for the western district of Arkansas. Mrs, Kitter- ing was convicted of the murder of her husband, largely upon the confession of one Washington, one of the alleged accom- plices, made to a Chicago detective. As the confession was not made in the presence of the other defendants, Ass‘stant Attorney Genreil Boyd confessed that it was a pal- pable error and the Supreme Court ordered the case remanded to the lower court for a new trial. ——______--e+_____ Personal Mention. Assistant Secretary Cridler of the State Department is confined to bis residence with a severe cold. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones re- turned to the city today from a visit in the west. - Mr. Chas. W. Burry of New Philadel- phia, Ohio, is in the city, the guest of railway as auditor, has resigned his posi- tion to accept service with another com- xo iy, and STREET EXTENSION Some Comment Today Regarding the Verdict in First Case. ae JURY MADE TWO EXPLANATIONS ———_+-— Lawyers on Both Sides Have Some- thing to Say. — S INTERESTED CITIZEN The award of the jury of seven apprais- ers in the firgt case under the highway © tension act, as published in terday’s Star, naturally created a great deal of public interest as well as comment. As the readers of The Siar are aware the jury reported that they were unable to find any land upon which to assess what is known as the general benefits, which under the act was one-half of the sum8 awarded as damages, ‘The jury found, as tney state in their verd that all the land in the Denison and Leighton sudi- vision, which was the land involved in the case, that is in any marner benefited by the proposed street extensioa has been in- cluded in the schedule which was part of the verdict, and that there is no other land in’ said subdivision which is generally bene- fited. The jury then procecd to say tnat having as required charged up to the revenues of the District one-half of the amount of the award, all the taxable land in the District is or may be responsible for this pert of the expense. “And if for no other reason this jury can find no other taxable land or lands in the District of Columbia, that are generally benefited by the open- ing, laying out and widening of the streets, as shown by the map filed as aforesaid, and which represents such a small part of the area of land embraced in the said ‘Dis- trict.” The chairman of the appraisers, Colonel Robert I. Fleming, said this morning to a Star reporter that the publication in a morning paper professing to give the rea- sens which actuated the jury referred to were his own notes, which he had made in the case for the purpose of having the matter under consideration clearly defined. They were not adoptea by tb part of their report. There was quite a variety of opinions ex- pressed by the business men and citizéns gcnerally, who today were seen by Star re- porters, but everybody seemed to concur in the belief that the verdict one that must been justifie: the % cause of the high character and the knowl- edge of the men who constituted the jury. A conservative man, who stands high in financial circles, said he regretted that the jury found it necessary to reach the de- cision that they had, because it made an- other hitch in the progress of the move- ment to bring about the application of the plan of the city to the suburbs.. He had always thought that street extension was an important matter in the future deyelop- ment of the city, and he hoped that some way would be found by which the law could be carricd out with due regard to all interests, Jury as a Not Surprised. Several real estate dealers said that they were not surprised by the verdict, as they could not urderstand how under the law and the decisions of the court general bene- fits could be assessed, and for this reason they thought that the jury had reached the ple decis'on in the matter. Another citizen who had given the mat- 1 cf thought said he was of opinion that the difficulty arose from the decision of Judge Cox, which restricted assessing benefits to the subdivision. He thought that the whole difficulty could be remedied if the court would proceed with the condemnation of all the tand in map No. 1, and then he was of the cpinion that there would be no difficulty in assessing the benefits over the entire area inciuded within that map. Others were of the opinion that in the event the law was not carried out it would be well for the District Commissioners to adopt the plan of street extension as pre- pared, and then from time to time, as the need seemed io arise, to extend the prin- cipal thoroughfares going out of the city. Then it is claimed what is now a rather complicated question would be simplified 2nd a systematic development of the city could go cn. Another well-known real estate man is of the opinion that the highway act is mistake except as a means of making a settled plan for subdividing the farm jands lying beyond the belt of subdivision, a Jacent to the city, and as.a means of quiring the owners of these lands to dedi cate to the District land for the proposed 1s and avenues. Tais plan, he claimed, would mean no expense to the general or local govern- ment, and the land in question would only be opened up as the growth of the city created the demand. Others were of the opinion that or if of the dameges of the highway District, i, be proportionat benefited, and one-half by the general gov ernment, which would also be benefited by the increased taxation. Opinions were ex- presscd favoring legislation of this char- acter. At City Han, The verdict was the principal subject of discussion at the city hall today, the at- torneys of the land owners expressing gen- cral satisfaction with the verdict. The jury declared that they were unable to assess any benefits outside the subdi- vision in question resultant from the open- ing, laying out and widening of the streets and highways in the subdivision, despite the fact that the highway act, that of March 3, 1893, Judge Cox explained to the jury, when instructing them as to their duties, is a legislative declaration that ben- efits would result to lands other than those embraced in this and other of the subdi- visions. The attorneys of the land owners, it would seem, coincide with the verdict, being of the opinion that it is practically impos- sible to assess in dollars ang cents the to exprees themselves for publi it is believed that the special for ‘the Homphilt and: Walter Voorhees? are of tie er are opinion that the verdict is incomplete and does not carry out the provisions of the highway act, an act, declared they point has been to be ous Intent. — | Dayton's campaign. will in some. respects Timothy Hurley, alias Rone Hurley, who ae est thee ie have 2 sees ce oe was pliced cn trial before Judge Bradley in Criminal Court No. 2 yesterday, charged with azsaulting Thomas Gorham, colored, at North Capitol street and New York avenue, the 6th of last July, with intent to Soe "Zogultten scaey, The defendani was re own whence he could a ee