Evening Star Newspaper, March 25, 1898, Page 10

10) THE EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, a 25, 1898—16 PAGES. McKnew’s, CLOAKS. suits AND FURNISHINGS. 933 Penn. Ave. March 25th, 1898. Friday Arrived! That big shipment of stylish “Nov- elty” Spring Suits arrived this morn- ing. Exquisite styles and surpris- ingly low priced. $10 to $50. More new Spring Jackets also ar- | rived in soft, delicate shades of Tans, Browns, Grays, Chocolates, etc. Stylish Tan Jackets for stylish misses. Half silk lined at $6.75, and full silk lined at $8. Nobby” little ones, $3 up. Silk Waists, Separate Skirts, etc., in our usual superb spring array. Parasols were never so beautiful— nor so reasonable in price. The line of attractive fancy plaids, checks, stripes, etc., at $2 are worth fully $2.50 and $3. W.H. McKnew, 9 933 Pa. Av. mh25-600 : The half : Price sale of all the odd pieces of fine furniture and small lots of fine draperies—is giving you a chance to “fill up the house” h the elegancies at bar- gain prices. Too many to tell of—come in—and see the new Straw Mattings and Baby Carriages at the same time. Hoeke, - Furniture, Carpets, Draperies, Penn. ave. and 8th st. it paver DOO DOT Ob Dae ewer A tO dh CE PEO ETH HE GOD — —_ Handcaaie Jardinieres. AM nature is ready to don its sprit garb now—soon buds and blossoms. wil abound. comes the need for « hand- some Jardiniere or two—for setting out the plants in the sun. have @ splendid line of Jardinieres newest style and shape—in fact, ck is perfect in its completeness. are showing a line of New Jardi- in beautiful tinted ground. with gold decorations--which you see before buying. Sizes which pots from 6 to 12 inches—from $1.60 PAS in eve our st We A. spl ment of s ndid ine in a pleasing assort- Jes at 60c. up. Lat of Jardinieres on jestals—in green, pink and yellow—we hyve reduced like this: $4.50 ones now $3. Chas. R. Edmonsten, d It 1205 Pa. Avenue. F OO OO Give us a chance to prove that we do the best laundry work in town.’ Send us your address by postal or "phone 592. We'll cali for your bundle and return your linen laundered faultlessly. Frazee’s Laundry, te 1214 and 1216 D St. Main Ofice. GS 12th st. 3109 M st. 1322 lath st “Phone NR NR Re erence mb24-200 Judge advertising by results. A geod ad. will bring results—that Is the only way to tell that it is good. An electric light sign is one of the best ways of adver- Using within the reach of modern merchants. a good because it brings resalts— pete ught results for all who have tried it. Would you lke to have our representative call and talk the matter over with you? If so, write or “phone 1877. U.S. Electric Lighting Co., 213 14th st. ow. "Phone 1877. mb19-20d_ ARTIST’S OUTFITS! We've a complete stock of every known requisite for Art Werk. | Select the outfit for eer spring sketching campaign now. "amp Stools, Umbrellas and every necessary material. Canvases to order, any size. A lower price than ours means inferiority. Veerhoff’s, 1217 F. anh: Go to Siccardi’s FOR BARGAINS IN HUMAN HAIR Hair Switches at Great Bargains. 00 Switches reduced 10 $1.50. Switches reduced to $2.50. Switches reduced to $5.00. Gray and White Hair reduced in same proportion. lime. Siccardi, privatJil Jit st-- nest to Palais Royal. wate rooms for hairdressing, sbainpooing and Geing. seid 0.tf Easels, For Your Baby * et TALCUM oak It won't * harm the most delicate skin. Just the thing * to cure red, ttching skin—chafing-and prickly s heat. We prepare it plain and perfumed. * only te. ° ean. Ask your driggist for tt. Beas is’ Drug Stores ye Conn, 9 ¢- and S st. and 1428 Md. ave. 14. Spring Lamb. $2 hind Peper juicy Spring Lamb. Quarter. £2 o cose Fa thie. city. ‘Every variety of Vegetablgs and Fruits in sea- seu, Delicious Strawberries # specialty. Homie [Marketrc.ccae* SF. cor. 1th end I sts. aw, wh23 w,f.m,16 SUITS CLEANED. Send us your last spring-sait and will clean it to eck every whit as neat and stylieh as when you Deught it. Expert dyeing. Wagon calls. E. E. WHEATLEY, AMERICAN DYER AND SCOURER, 1068 Jefferson ave. (Georgetown). _Fstablished 1831. no23-1yr.14 « HINK OF IT. Instant and perma- nent retief awaits every sufferer from fe comfcrts whe comes here for . Our methods are infalli- - they are absolutely jgeaariexs free. Corns Prof. J. J. GEORGES & SON. Chiropodists, 1115 Pa. ave. Hours: 5 ty G; Sundays, 9 to 1. mb23-1od vol P. AINES SMPO: ND. n $2 for hindgu MAKES PEOVLS. WELL Reefers and Coats for Segetetndatecetetnaetettaatidges ISSR AOL ETERS IRATE Seegeete Sreseaseasengondengengeagedtoaseesesseosenseosengeasenteaseaseeseesveseeseageogeageageaseaseaseasmasneg Boys’ Novelty Suits. Children’ sTrimmed Hats Girls’ Napoleons Artificial Flowers. For the Bicyclist. “Always lowest.” Spalding "86 Wheels—Men ‘Women's. “Always lowest.” Ie. One-piece Cane Rods...... 88c. Three-joint Bamboo Rods. ‘Loose Hocks. per hundred. 75 feet Waterproof Line. 7 feet Oil Silk Line. Good Reel. Saks’ Continuous Ringing Bell. Garisty Sed Soap $3.25—now Sample Tube Dixon's Graphitole MEE TOMORROW. ; E For the Fishermen. PorthePhotographer “Always lowest.” 2B 2 doz. sheets Blue Prtneaper Mae. Eastman Dry Plated; 945... Quad Cameras—wofth $6—for 2 25 Eastman Pnonting Pppier}..... 22c. Sake’ Tripods—worth $f! Full line of everything § am require. Consider the Source. The nearer the fountain-head the purer the water. The nearer the base of supply the bigger the advantage. We are in the very midst of the market—a part of it. Our facilities bridge every in- termediary profit—and bring the consumer in closest touch with the producer. That is how it is we can sell the best qualities at the lowest prices. Our bargains are natural consequences of actual conditions—not the vagaries of sensational misrepresentation. Judge—not by what the prices are—but by what they represent. Boys’ Clothing. As the result of persistent personal effort we lave raised Bovs? Clothes-making to a plane of perfection never before attained. To sell us the makers are obliged to pass the muster of rigid te We will only sell garments that we can guarantee. This immense stock, the largest, many times over, of any in town, from cheapest to best, Tepresents the supreme possibilities in worth and effectiveness. And these offerings for tomorrow proclaim our power of control. $1.98 carefully for Boys’ All-wool Cheviot Short Pants Suits, in both reefer and double-breasted styles; in neat patterns and colors that suit mothers’ notions of suitability. If you will examine them you will find they are made, durably trimmed, with double seats and knees in the ts. are worth $2.75, $3 and $3.25—und you have the choice for $1.98. Sizes, 3 to 16 years. "Sonat | Young Men’s Suits-- 2 Specials. Suits, brown check, with The better judge of values you are, the stronger these two lots of Suits we sball offer tomorrow will appeal 1o you. Bree and double-breated jackets; double seat and knees in the pants, and every other strength- ening feature known to the making of ser- viceable clothes. These are worth $4.50— and you can have them tomorrow for $2.98. Sizes, 3 to 16 years. in the first lot. Brown and Gray for Boys’ reasted Sack Long Pants oy Pants every thread wool, war- ly made in every. feature; pete in ei gn AA stylishly cut. All sizes, and Red ) a4 to 19—and as yood as any $6 pattern: one of the most attractive patterns Salt anybody in Washington 1 $4 and one of the biggest values we have ever show you. Tomorrow, only had to offer. They are not marked $7.50 simply because we are able to sell them for $5. Sizes 9 to 17—$5 is only promised for this lot. in the second lot—but they are A a § 1 Tweed Sufts, made up in stylish Single-breasted Sacks, with small-cut pants. All sizes from 14 to 19 years $7 50 ° —and actual $10 values—of- | | Short Pants Bargains. » lots, ene of Blue Sailors and the cea Brown Brownies; each trimmed with braid and bands of cloth of different shades of Blue er Brown. Actual value, fered tomorrow only ai , made Just like a ‘rench facings, vents . double-stitched ith double-warp Sizes 3 to 8. ‘Tomorrow. $4.75. and nobody: sells them = for Teas. $2 08 | 4100 patra of Plain Blue and Fancy Cheviot morrow d ° | Knee "Pants, all wool, made up in junior 100 Boys Top ats | and oie ey yle * Made fc for “to: Coats. and to well regularly at Te. Tan Cover ¢ | orrow "7 5Oc. | min's Top Coat, in the sid and lined Italian cloth. Worth $6- 100 pairs of regular S7i4¢. and $1 values of All-wool Cheviot Knee Pants, Black, Blue ind Fancy effect § fo 117 years. Your cholc it 1s indeed a rare one. re in plain edges, All sizes $4.50 | = 75C.. Saks’ Millinery - is alzeady a recognized stardard. You see that we have gone ahead understandingiy. “Net a recruit to the ranks of the other: but a leader—with a polley that belleves the best ix what you should have—and that you are entitled to it at the lowest possible price. If you watch quotations and make comparisons you'll see We are keeping our promises. The show room {sn garden of fashion, in which seme new creation—some choice dainty is con- stantly blooming. We are glad to have you e in. Tomorrow all have some very special offerings to make your visit un- usually profitable. | Ladies’ Trimmed - 5] 99) Hats - $5 rooms. They com ont of our work rooms and are the Jauntiest little bits of juvenile “About ‘forty—and (as /many more at” $8 Millinery y seen for most twice | We've spread onrselves—we went to show the f Pink, Green, Burnt | You. What artistic taste presides over onr re, | We want to show you that we really ure giving you a degree of sutix- faction that have nature's simple . cornflowers, ete., beauties— and lots of rib- - 75¢. A novelty in girls’ headwear—fancy cloth 8, in Brown, Red or Navy Blue and White corabinations, trimmed with rosettes They belong in the $1 e—but we want to win the litde folks. is just a little better than been paying more money for, iginal creations—and they'll be kept exclusive. $5 and $8 for eight and ten dollars’ worth. Untrimmed Hats. ‘The popular thing is the tire brim. The hat won't cost you much when the founda- tion costs so little— whalls, in natural and Burnt 19¢. Ss Orange, large bunches. ‘Tomorrow. S In Panama Straw... .$1.99 Cornflow that are quite the 19¢. 4s fad, large ches. Tomorrow. . . IniG@hip 23.36. .50 $1.49 Tavges fall ctesters?/ cTomeeraw=e te * 19¢. In Fancy Braid...... -9Qc. Ladies’ Tailor-made Suits. Fame lives with value—always. The gossip of the stores says Depratment fs ths one ccnstantly held up to them by What folks talk about they are interested in—and our almost daily arrivals of new effects our Suit customers as the paragon of perfection. give them plenty to talk about. Wool and Satin Waists. Last of the Red and Navy Blue Tricot Waists. 69c. You'll see here Blot of Imported Ev: Cheviot_Suits, Gray and tallor-finished. sisen up to 46. Worth $10.95 a4 50— for. Lot of $5 sad $6 Fancy China Another line of Storm Serge Suits, in Walts, tots ‘and “agures Brown and Russe Green, with. tight-Atth Silk sts, and figu § and fiy-front Coats, lined with plain oF OUR ere ce cece (cS baceco 1 50 changeable silk; some are braid-trimmed, others are finished plain. They $9.95 sre values, SEI up to: $15 Te morrow 75 Black Satin Shirt Waists, with plaited eg back, shirt waist sleeves. ular $6 value. e Lot of Imported Brown, Blue and Gray Covert Cloth Suits, silk-lined all through; made | with single-breasted Changeable Silk Tateta Walsts, rich block box coats, Worth All tucking; choice of all po} siaes: $27. 50 shades. A special value. 72 dozen plain and fancy Silk Band Bows, high and se Ot ==worth 25c.=-tomorrow Loe, Some extraordinary values in Men’s Clothing. Tomorrow fs to be the last day of the spectal offering of Black Clay Weave Suits and Coats and Vests. The prices we name are possible only because we bought the goods before the advance came. We give you the benefit of that. We can’t make garments any better than these are made—nobody can. They are Black— and you ought to have a Black rig—and you'll never have a chance to get it cheaper. They're in three lots— for the Single- 10.0 wes, seee ° Suits, worth $15, for the Cutaway § for the Prince Al: Coats and Vests, 1 2. 50 qj phe tt! $7. 50 werth $10. Meee ee ‘That you may have a full Prince Albert Suit, if you want it, we will sell $6 Black Clay Pants tomorrow at $4. Who wants a pair of Separate Pants ‘They can put right on and wear all summer? Lots of you will re- spond to this chance ff you'll come and get a look at the values we are making a special of tomorrow. Neat Halr-line Stripe, in pleasing Gray effect, made as properly as the costliest pants, with French $l 98 watst, aide or top pockets, good shape, Worth §3—for “Saks’ Corner.” A renewal offer of Men’s Top Coats. By dint of hard planning we are enabled to offer those who missed the last another lot of those Tan Covert Cloth Top Coats at " $6.50 vorth $10—take ‘em and make They are comparisons with anybody's "$10 Coats, Thes're ined” with Jiatien’ cloth, satin sleeve lining; double-stitched seams; cut -the Jaunty leagth and perfect fitting Seasonable Furnishings at Saturday Prices. Yon know what that means. We simply want to i ‘attention to qualities that e offered at the rices quoted. on can see at a ce that they really bar- ins. Maco Yarn Half Hose, with silic eunbrolderedver~ tleal stripes, “worth 20c. “tor ii" 25c. Saturday. for Spring-weight White. Australian Wool Shirts and Drawers, taped seas, reinforced Seat and pearl buttons. , It is not cheap Underwear, If it tsa cheap price. Worth $1 Saturday. Regular Brown Merino Shirts and Drawers, pearl buttons, ribbed bottoms, reinforced seat and taped seams—for— 50c. Saturday. One case of 50c. Spritig-welght Balbrig- gan Shirts and Drawers, made with French neck, pearl buttons, ta yseams and rein- forced gussets, for- 35c. Saturday. Regular 50c. Fauliless Night Shirts, fan- cifally trimmed, cut feat fength and width— for— 39, Saturday. Here's a ec 6 dozen’ French Percale Shirt: t latest tolorings, rs of cuffs, square and round ¢ perfect-titting shirts, made to our spe order—worth $2-for $1.50 Saturday. Regular 20c. Silk Garters, in ull. colors, one of the most popular patents—for— 10c. Saturday. Men’s and Boys’ Hats. Anybody can give you xome sort of a bat at most any price we can name. But you ennnot get ‘Tomorrow shall have thirty cases of new Spring Derbys and Fedoras, in all the pre- best hatte made into vulling colors, Toetast “$2 $3 hats, for. There is a won't have to work forowe worked for It for yon. 30 dozen Boys’ All-wool Golf Caps, plain and: fancy colors, silk-stitched, of ‘the Koes any in latest shape; everywhere you see the same ‘grade for 48e.—tut our DEC price is only... a = Tisses’ Reefers. 40 Novelties—all_ different—yery — elab- orately trimmed. Made by the leading de- signers in the country— $9 values $12 values. Lot of Misses’ Regular $1.50 Navy Blue, Red, Garnet and Cadet Blue Reef- ete.) with big sailor collar and O®, White braid trimming. ‘Tomorrow. Ce $4.50 Reefers, in l, Na¥y and Cadet Blue, with Lot of Misses’ Regular Green, at eae ene ee ape big fore yt “Shoes for Everybody.” That's the span of this store's service now. If every week will be as busy as this * opentn; has: heen we'll | pe hy satisfied. shouldn’t it 1f we do our part as well? We make it a family affair to- morrow — 8) ctals tor “the omen, the misses—the men and the boys. Inst keep this before 7 “Same qualities at same prjce ag others. For the Women: Lot of Black and Taf ¥VRi Kid Button and Lace Boots and Oifordés—hand-turned and hand-sewed welt; some with kid, some with vesting tops. $4 vajue-; Tomorrow = ar” $2.97, For the Misses— Tot of Black an@ Tan net Kid ane and Lace Boots and. Oxford Ties, made new lasts, and of the. best selected ‘stock, Wuual to any $2 grade— ae” $1.48, For the Men—- Lot of Black and Tan Viel Kid,’ Russia and Willow Calf Lace Spee made ia three dif- ferent styles—strictly ‘hatid-welt shoes—and 28 good as auybody can stow you for $4.50. * 200 pairs— Tomorrow $3 ° contr For the Boys— + Black Satin ‘and Russia Calf Shoes, made of solld, “selected leather, and onk’tanned soles—worth $2—sizes 1: =" $1.39. Brown’s French Dressing— worth 10c.—tomorrow for Saks and Company, - qualities. at- teas price—or better OE “ ts es ae ee a ee oo Seagengege Soedoadendeoondeegen$ eeSeedesdents SesSentents Seed Sesgeodengongonteageederge mtn RS Sedeged refeegengengen fenton deegee$ 3 ss $ $ Sededetent See Sengengeaghesenentontentend Seegondontens totes SeeSesgondonteaseaseeseeseosenfonteaseeseeseeseesenseotente B. returned here from a tour of Representative Foss Pays Tribute to Our Sailors. DEBATE uHDRR FIVE-MINUTE RULE Prospects of War a Text for , Discussion. GALLERIES WERE FILLED ae The public and reserved galleries of the House of Representatives were thronged today, in anticipation of a discussion of the Spanish crisis during the consideraton of the naval appropriation bill. Under the order made yesterday the general debate closed at 1 o'clock today. Mr. Foss (ill), a member gf the naval committee, took the floor. The eyes of the American people, he said, were fixed upon the American navy, the defender of the living and the guardian of the honor of the dead. If an emergency was upon us, the American navy was ready to meet it. With glowing words he paid an eloquent tribute to the brilliant achievements of our navy in the revolu- tionary war, the war of 1812 and the war of the rebellion, eulogizing the deeds of John Paul Jones, Decatur, Perry, Porter, Farragut and Dupont. He then described the decay of the navy after the war, and the rebuilding of the new navy, which be- gan under Secretaries Chandler and Whit- ney. He made a strong plea for the policy of strengthening and maintaining a powerful navy, arguing that it was necessary for the protection of our commerce, and would al- ways be the surest guarantee of peace. At 1 o'clock the clerk began the reading of the bill for amendments under the five- minuie rule. Mr. Stewart (N. J.) paid a high tribute to the crew of the Maine. He said that before and since that great disaster in Havana the people of the United States had suffered Spanish humiliation. Some- thing was needed to arouse the nation and this House to the condition of Cuba, the result of hloody acts of Weyler and Spanish cruelty and deceit. No matter what should be the judgment of the court of inquiry, it was the duty of this Congress to declare Cuba free ard independent. Mr. Barholdt (Mo.) said that some Eu- ropean papers and their echoes in this ccuntry said that the foreign-born citizens of this country would be a menace to the United States in case of war with a for- eign country. He resented this in the strongest possible manner. Tle flag of the United States was the flag of its adopt- ed citizens. Criticised the Republicans. Mr. Hartman (Mont.) created a diversion by delivering a five-minute speech criticis- ing the republican party, and when, under @ ccver of a second pro forma amendment, he attempted to proceed Mr. Boutelle call- ed him to order. He made the point that Mr. Hartman's remarks were not perti- nent to the amendment. A lively parliamentary wrangle followed when the chair sustained the point of or- der. Mr. Bailey insisted that there could be no limitation upon the latitude of debate in committee of the whole on the state of the Union. Mr. Boutelle pointed out a distinction be- tween general debate in committee of the whole and debate under the five-minute rule. Mr. Bailey appealed from the decision of the chair, and in doing so warned the re- publican members that such a ruling, if not reversed, would come back to plague them. From time immemorial it had been the custom to make pro forma amend- ments. It was impossible to make remarks to a pro forma amendment pertinent. Mr. Sherman (N. Y.), who was in the rehair, cited several precedents in support of his ruling. Mr. Boutelie and Mr. Bailey had several lively exchanges, at the conclusion of one of which Mr. Bailey said he had noticed ever since the disaster to the gallant ship which bore the name of the state from which he hailed that the gentleman from Maine had been laboring under Se ex- citement. I have feared,” said he, “that a similar occurrence would happen to the gentleman himself. If it should have occurred there is no doubt that the explosion would have been from the inside.” (Laughter and ap- plause.) “I hope it would not be as disastrous to me as it seems to have been to the gentle- man from Texas,” retorted Mr. Boutelle. Mr. MeMillin (Tenn.) said while the mem- Lers of the majority seemed willing to nake almost any concession to cut oif free speech in the-House he hardly thought they would be willing to make the sur- render invelved in the ruling of the chair. The old beaten path of allowing freedom of speech in the House should be adhered to. Party Feeling Ran High. Mr. Payne (N. Y.) defended the ruling of the chair, arguing that the House should enforce its rules and get down to business. The rule, he sald, was so plain that he had not believed that there could be ary controversy upon the subject. After the debate on the appeal had run on for an hour, Mr. Boutelle moved to close the debate on the appeal. Instantly a point of order was made against Mr. Boutelle’s motion, which was cverruled. Party feeling ran high. The vote was taken on Mr. Boutelle’s motion to close debate on the appeal and carried—111 to 25. The vote then came upon the appeal from the decision of the chair and the chair was sustained—120 to 92. —____-e+_____. A DISTURBING QUESTION. Hyattsville Divided Upon a Promi- nent Lo Insue. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., March 25, .1898. For some time past the advisability of having one l:dy and two gentlemen serve as members of the board of local school trustees, instead of three gentlemen, as un- der the present regime, has been broadly discussed in this village. Several days ago the ladies who fafor the proposed change issued a call for a meeting, the purpose of which, it was alleged, would be to consider the question. In the meantime, however, it was rumored that the true object of the fhovement was to bring about the resigna- tion of two of the present teachers, the Misstes Gray, who are well known and high- ly respected in this locality. The meeting took place Wednesday after- nocn at the Presbyterian Church. Upward of fifty tadies were present, and the session, though short, was a stormy one. The reading of the resolution providing for a change in the trustee system brought forth a finod of discussion. It was openly charged that the whole object of the movement was to encompass the dismissal of the Misses Gray, the assistant teachers, and the friends of these two ladies strenuously pro- tested against’ any suoh plan. These charges were indigramtly denied. No vote was taken upon the resolution, but it was reserved for further considera- tien, it not being deemed expedient to set- tle the questicn while feeling ran so high regarding the alleged plan to have the Misses Gray resign. The teachers named are indorsed by the majority of the towns- pecple and they are considered in every way efticient instructors. od Fusion Ticket in Oregon. PORTLAND, Ore., March 25.—The three state conventions, populists, democrats and silver republicans, which are in s2ssion in this city took the first step Wednesday toward forming a fusion ticket. Each con- vention appoirited a conference committee of nine for-the purpose of drafting a plat- form and apportioning the cfficers. The de- liberations of the conferees will probably be closed up today. eS Minister Angell Back at CONSTANTINOPLE, | United States minister, J. His Post. | en pales EEMS a_ combination difficult to ig- nore. Still booking orders for strictly All- Wool Spring Suitings for... $35. Expert Tailor. eseerors LON THE NAVAL BILL HL HANAN to be a healthy de- mand for better tailoring this season. tion promised ior fabrics and honest home custom work coupled with our new little prices form "18 Other Suits for $20, $25, $30 and G. WARFIELD SIMPSON The satisfac- by super- < 1208 F St. HN qi wl - MILLIONS cane Deficiency Expected in the Pension Appro- priation. Estimate Sent to Congress by the Secretary of the Interior—Cause of the . Deficit. The Secretary of the Interior today for- warded to the appropriation committees of both houses of Congress an estimate of $8,070,872.46 required to supply the defici- ency in the army and navy pensions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898. In a letter to the Secretary of the Treas- ury upon the same subject Secretary Bliss calls attention to the fact that the appro- priatien “for pensions for the year 1897 was inadequate, and in consequence ¢he current fiscal year’s appropriation was burdened with payments amounting to $2,191,6:4.65, which sum was in the nature of a defici- ency of the previous year. He states fur- ther that the pension bureau executed 14,- G71 certificates which were ready for de- livery in June, 18". and first payment thereon ought to ha.e been provided for by a deficiency appropriation for that year, but, instead, these certificates were with- held beca.se of the exhaustion of the ap- rropriation and a seeming disinclination to ask Congress for the needed deficiency, and were not delivered until after the be- ginning of the next fiscal year. The first payments on these certificates were there- fore made from the appropriation for the currant fiscal year, amounting to the sum above stated. This sum, he says, is prop- erly a deficiency in the last fiscal year. “On the first day of July, 1897, there was available $140.000,000 for the payment o! army and navy pensions; $4,000,000 of this amount was set apart for navy pensions, leaving $136,0vv,000 for army pensions. The total number of pensioners on the roll June 30, 1897, was 014, while on the 28th of February, 1898, there were 989,613 on the rolls, a net increase of 13,599. Between the latter dates there was disbursed for the payment of army pensions $9 872.6, leaving the sum of $40,629,127.54 for the payment of pensions to the end of the pres- ent fiscal year. “The commissioner of pensions estimates that $48,700,000 will be required for the payment of pensions during the remaining four months of the fiscal year, which is more than $8,100,000 in excess of the unex- pended appropriation.” In conclusion, Secretary Bliss says: Increase of Pensioners. “The commissioner has recently expressed to me en opinion as to the future course of pension payments, at variance with his views thereon, as stated in the annual report, which was to the effect that after the close of the current year payments weuld rapidly decline. It is now his opin- ion that in view of the increasing applica- tions for original pensions and for increase of pensions there will be an increase ix the sum required for the payment of army and navy pensions for some time to come. In this connection the appended table, showing the number of pensioners on. the roll and the value of the roll annually since 1887, is significant. From this it appears that the pension roll has substantially doubled since a quar- ter of a century after the close of the war. five years after the war clkised—the number of pensioners on the roll was 587,944; at the close of the current fiscal year the number on the roll will ap- proximate 996,000, an increase of nearly 4 per cent since 1890. In that time the value of the roll has increased from $72,052,143.40 in 1890 to approximately $132,000,000 In the present fiscal vear. “The roll is larger now than at any tor- mer time, notwithstanding that thirty-three years have elapsed since the cessation of hestilities. It contained about 5,500 more pensioners in 18¥7 than it did in 1896, and approximately 20,000 more in 1898 than in 1897, and the value of the roll has also in- creased in the same period.” 5 THE ——. RAILROAD A Possible Successor to the Late President Mentioaed. The Strain and Worry of Street Ratl- road Officials in Connection With Pending Legislation. Naturally no action has as yet been taken by the board of directors of the Columbia strect railway towerd filling the vacancy caused by the death of the president, Mr. R. F. Baker. That event was not only a cause of genutne grief to his associates on the board, but it was totally unexpected. It is not known to what extent the application of Mr. Baker to the interests with which he was connected was account- able for the attack of heart disease which resulted fatally. He was, however, a hard worker and gave a great deal of his thought and time to the affairs of the road which he so successfully managed. It would not have been surprising to those familiar with the duties of a stree: railroad official in this city if his death had been attributed to the strain of the work and worry which it is claimed is Fractically inseparable from such a posi- tion. It is said this is especially true when Congress is in session, owing to the ne cessity of either securing needed legisia- tion or preventing the enactment of laws which are regarded as hurtful to the in- terests of the roads. There is, perhaps, no more than the usual number of complaints on this score at this time, but it is very ccmmon to hear men who are prominent- ly identified with street railroads say that they are worn out with the labor of con- stant attendance at the Capitol, rxiety arising from the uncertainty tke action of Congress. Uncertainties of Legislation. It is necessary, they say, when there f= perding some matter upon which congres- sional action is desired, to look after it be- fcre the District committees of both houses, and then frequéntly the appropriations comniittee decide to do something, and all the work must be duplicated. Finally, when a bill reaches the stage that it is reported to the two houses, vexa- tious delays are apt to ensue, and, on the other hand, it is alleged, an unwelcome ceierity of action is sometimes manifestet when a measure is introduced which is looked upon by the companies as harmful to their business. Altogether, the ‘ot of a Street railroad official when Congress is in scesion is, according to their own story not a happy one. Perhaps other corpor: tions doing business in the District m: have a similar tale to tell, but with f exceptions they don’t scem to get as muc’ attention at the Capitol as is the experience of the street railroad companies No Definite Understanding. In regard to the presidency of the “o- lumbia Railroad Compary, what little ¢ cussion his taken place among the direc- ters on this subje>t has led, it is said, to no definite understanding. The only one mentioned among the directors as a possi- bility is Mr. John Cammeck, who is, per- haps, the largest individual stockholder. It 1s not thovght, however, that Mr. Cam- mack would care to take the presidency of the road, and in that event it is said ihe choice of the directors will fall upon some one outside of the board. It is stated that whoever is elected there will be no change in the present policy of the company. —— Docks Destroyed by Lightning. FIUME, Austrai-Hungary, March 25.— Lightning last night set fire to the docks here, which were damaged to the amount of $400) In addition, nearly the whole of the season's jute imports were destroyed. = ii; come out offered in this city. | Table No. 1. Scores of different styles in Ladies’, Mieses’ and Chil- dren's Shoes. 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