Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1898, Page 2

5 ) —_—_—__—___— AT THE WHITE HOUSE The Administtation Expects This to Be an Eventful Week. TWO INVADING ARMIES TO SAIL Santiago de Cuba and Porto Rico to Be Captured. ——_+ AFTER STILL PLACES - cessible to ey ay Is t been pos! t authority a 1 St tes troops ha ago, but it can be that a landing will be made re the week is out. » will be taken by storm and there yt work for the nele tiers of L will be effected by Wednes- probably on Thursday, fighting will be around ntiago. The further statement can be made on official authority that there will be no armies landed at different times. The army destined for Santiago, fully men, will leave Key West at the time and all will set foot on Cuban her. It is asserted that there little judgment in disembarking this army in sections, many days apart. very move of the President to this time nas been cautious. No charces on having a small American foree annihilated by superior numbers have taken. The smallest kind of a Span- sh victory would probably mean, it is said, a prolongation of the war. The President lesires to be reasonably sure of victory at sp. That is why he has ordered a army to proceed to Santiago. This army must also be well equipped for a hard fight. It must have artillery of high power E on the hills around Santiago to pour a destructive fire down into the ships of Cervera. The Spanish army will fi hard in the mountain pa and fall back sullenly to the city. Then is when plenty of high-power, long-distance guns will be necgzsary. An Eventful Week. Th> administration undoubtedly regards the present week as likely to be the most eventful in the history of the war. The highest officials admit this, but they ex- press no fear of the rzsults. They know the importance of the campaign now at band and think they have prepared against unpieasant surprises or disasters. No time is to be lost in the invasion of Porto F The troops for that island may embark simultareously with thos> for San- At any rate, there will be little dif- > im the time between the two inva- it was long ago pointed out in The Star as the policy of the administration to | Porto Rico before Spain sues for There has been no change in this mination. 1 out The policy would have been before now if full equipment ntly expected that the nec ary troops would bave been equipped days ago, but there have been unlooke delays. The President hopes that there will b of these, and is joining Gen. Alger in urging speed. Much has been done in a few days, and everything is now about ready for a carefully arranged cam- paign against two point: The President Invited. Senator Foraker introduced to the Pr nt today a committee of citizens, who invited the chief executive to addre=s the convention of the sworkers’ Union, at Zan The President said he w invitation. The committee of John J. Vall, H. C. Linc 0. F. Pal- mer, C. A. Reynolds and A. P. Worstall. Senator Foraker has accepted an invita- tion to address the convention. Will Not Leave the White House. There few more was compe has been some talk of the Presi- cent going out to the suburbs of Washing- ton to live during the summer months, but it is said today that he will remain at the White House and will not go anywhere unless the war steps and allows him to take vacation out of the city late this summer. : The White House, with its thick walls, high ceffings and surrounding trees and foliage. is probably the most pleasant place in the heart of the city in summer. No Appointment for Wallace. Friends of General Lew Wallace, who have been urgent in presenting his name for a major generalship of volunteers, will be sorry to learn that the President has about decided that he cannot make the ap- pointment, the sole reason being General Wallace's age. The President and General Wallace are the warmest of friends, and the Pres: brillia decide is a great admirer of the indianian, but he some time ago that he would make no appoint- ments of men above sixty-four years of age. General Walla is seventy-one years notwi He is hale, hearty and active, tanding t years, and fully ca- vigorous military duties, ster to Mexico General Wal- red the command of the Mex- $ for life. The Sultan of Turkey test admirers of na man nd in the Ame! Se posi- 2 included an Wallace wa nlarly wanted mies. Civ tt Serv Exemptions. Mey will shortly sign several hundred positions ce Department from t civil service. The ord ared, and the President's S:gnature is all that is lacking to make it operative It is learned todey that the exemptions to be made in all the departments will not appear in one order, but that separate cr- ders will be issued by the President for each department of the government. The Post Office Department will be :he frst to be cared for. An effort is being made by influential men to have the President issue an order placing the office of recorder of decds of the L rict under the civil service law. Owing to the immense amount of work en 1 by th give this m: time. war the President may not tter consideration for a long Still After Appointments, Seekers after army appointments con- tinue their efforts at the White House, swelling the number of visitors each day to @ large number. Representatives Curtis and Broderick of Kansas asked the President to Promote Zdeutenant Cohler, United States army, to ipspector general, with the rank of major, Senator Allison and Representative Lacey of Iowa saw the President about an army matter. Senator Baker and Mr. Johnson, demo- cratic national committeeman of Kansas, sow the Presifent. Governor Lowndes of Maryland, Repre- sentative Colsan of Kentucky and Repre- sentative Taylor of Ohio were other vis!- tors. THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1898-12 PAGES. BRAZILS NEW MINISTERVOTE TO NON-CONCUR |:?sizstn ah. 2ucr.tzerste [ARE ON LEAVE|CURRENCY RE°OR™'FINANCE AND TRADE Formal Presentation to the President This Morning. Words of Friendship From the South- ern Republic—Reciprocity of Feeling Expressed. Joaquin Francisco de Assis Brazil, who succeeds Mr. Mendonca as the Brazilian minister to the United States, was formal- ly presented to President McKinley by Sec- retary Day this moraing at 11 o'clock. The ceremony took place in the blue parlor of the White House and was marked by the exchange of addresses of unusual cordiality. Minister Brazil's Remarks. Minister Brazil said: ar. President: It is with the most pleas- ing feelings that I come to present you the cabinet letter by which the first magistrate of the Brazilian nation accredits me as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipo- tentiary near the government over which you wisely preside. “My personal friendly feelings for this great friendly nation, from the contempla- tion of which my country and the world have derived so many lessons of progress and liberty, are identical with those of the Brazilian people and government. I shall endeavor to maintain and to stimulate the relations of good friendship which repre- sent to us a precious uninterrupted tradi- tion. It will, therefore, be, on my part, not only an act of obedience to the instructions given me, but also the gratification of the demands of my own conscience. “This task will happily be easy. The facts of history and those of nature itself, in addition to the deliberate will of men, found us in this situation and will keep in i You were the first to raise the cry of free government, and w2 recall the memory of that glorious cry, although it was only us a century later to repeat it with scess. You opened and we closed the cy of the tremendovs work of libert which is still b2ing carried out on the 1a fertile soil of the American continent. The work is long and painful; the agitation, the instability, which, for you, have already passed away, still rise here and there with greater or less intensity; but our faith in th2 final result is already acquired; the metal is heated before it is consolidated in- to the statue which will defy the attacks | of time. “The destiny which made of our two countries the greatest territorial powers of Am2rica, giving us similar aspirations in the domain of political perfection, estab- lished, however, very different fields for the material activity of each; production, the basis of public wealth, is far from being the | same in the two nations; so that the very struggle for existence, which not sellom obliterates the best feelings and defeats the best designs, instead of giving us cause for s2lfish competition and disturbances of our good relations, will be, on the contrary, the certain pledge of the firmest friendship. We are mutually drawn together by the two forces which exert the greatest influence upon human actions—love and interest. “Under these circumstances, Mr. Presi- dent, I have no fears as to the result of the | mission upon the discharge of which U{ enter today, and the sorrow which I might | possibly feel at the thought that none of the glory of the success would be due to would be amply compensated by the at advantages gained for the two na- tions. “In fulfillment of a special instruction of the president of the republic, to whicn I venture to join my own humble sentiments, I beg you, Mr. President, to be assured of the very fervent prayers which he and the Brazilian nation offer for your personal prosperity and that of the American peo- ple. The Presidents Response. The President replied as follows: “Mr. Minister: It affords me great pleas- vre to greet you as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States of Brazil to the United States of America, and to receive from your hands the letters whereby the president of the United States of Brazil : its you in that capacity “The people of this Union held sentiments of the highe the Brazilian nation, as { friendiy relations which have edly existed between it and ment of the United States of A I heartily welcome your concurrence in maintainir rengt ing those relatio d_ friendshi promoting the mutual welfare of the two nations wh aspirations are, in many re- spects, so similar. “The high personal regard which your predecessors have won in their intercou with this government gi urance t you, too, Mr. Mini e respect and friendship of this gov- ernment, and most worthily represent the nation Whose commission you hold. “I beg that you will convey to the prest- dent of the United States of Brazil an cx- pression of my cordial appreviation of his message of good will for my pers: uninterrupt- the govern- a, and offer of cordial perity and that of the peopie of trese and assure him that I fully reciprocate his wishes both in my ow name and in that of the American peop! ‘The New Minister. Although only forty-five years of age, Mr. Brazil is one of the best known dip- lomats of South America. He graduated in law at St. Paulo at the age of twenty-three years, and has since cccupied a prominent position at the bar of his country. He has always taken a great interest in_politi domestic and foretgn, and has made a spe- cialty of the study of international law. He has always been an ardent republican, and took a leading part in the establish- ment of the present republican iorim of government in Brazil, in 1890. In 1895 he wrote a book on constitutional law, which is now accepted as an authority on that subject. He has since written two other | works on the same subject. On the estab- lispment of the republic 1 elected a re cntative to the national legislature and on the expiration of his term he was appointed Brazilian minister to the Argen tine Republic. After serving in that capaci- ty for two yeais, he was appointed minis- ter to Japan, but, while on Lis way to that country, he was transferred to Lisbon in a diplomatic capacity, where he has remain ed up to the time of his present appoint- ment as minister to the United Si eS. Mr. Brazil took a prominent part in the lition movement in Brazil, advocating with tongue and pen the iiberation of the Brazilian slaves, and his efforts were crowned with success. He is a man of means, and has large landed estates in Rio Grande du Sul. At the time of the aboli- ation he showed the sincerity of his advocacy of the freedom of the slaves by giving absolute freedom to all tke slaves employed on his own plantations, several years before the issue of the genezal proc- lamation of emancipation. He is a great admirer of American people and institu- tions, and will undoubtedly find himself in congenial company in this city and coun- try. —______ - e+ —_ THE HAWAIIAN QUESTION. It is Expected to Come Up in the House Tomorrow. The Hawaiian question 1s expected to come up in the House tomorrow without a rule for its consideration being reported. Advocates of annexation in the Senate ex- press the opinion that when the minority in that body see that the majority wi!! not yield to a filibuster and that obstruction is likely to prolong the session indefinite- ly, they will permit a vote to be taken. They say, however, that after the House has adopted the annexation resolutions the islands will be annexed, even if a vote on the proposition is prevented in the Senate. —_—_—_—_e.+___ APPORTIONMENT OF TROOPS, The Requisition Will Probably Be Is- sued This Evening. The apportionment of troops among the various states and territories under the President's call for 75,000 volunteers will probably be issued this evening, although there {s a disposition among some officials to keep this information from tha public for the present. It is known, however, that California will be called upon to tu a full regiment of infantry, and that the Dis- trict of Columbia is not included in the apportionment, Major General M. Cy Butler has returned from a trip to South Carolina, and before |: assuming his command at Camp Alger con- ferred with the President. The Revenue Bill Taken Up in the House. SENATE AMENDMENTS NOT SEPARATED Mr. Bailey Speaks Against This Course. MILLIONS VOTED FOR WAR The center of legislative interest was to- day in the House of Representatives, ow- ing to the return of the war revenue bill from the Senate for House action. It was generally understood that the majority members purposed to adopt a rule provid- ing for the adoption of a resolution of general non-concurrence in the Senate amendments and agreeing to the confer- ence asked by the Senate Saturday. The democrats desiring to vote separately upon the Senate amendments, notably the seig- nicrage provision, came prepared to accept defeat at the hands of the majority, but determined to enter their protest and put on record their position. An unusually large attendance was in evidence. When the House met upon motion of Mr. Lacey (Iowa) the consideration of the bill providing for the exercise of suffrage by volunteer soldiers and sailors in the con- gressional elections was made a special or- der for tomorrow. Consideration of a patent measure was interrupted at 12:08 o'clock by the receipt of the revenue bill from the Senate, and Mr. Dalzell (Pa.), from the committee on rules, presented a resolution, introduced by Mr. Dingley, providing for an immediate vote upon general non-concurrefce and sending the bil! to conference. The previous question was ordered upon the resolution and Mr. Dalzell, speaking in support, said it was intended to expedite the enactment of the emergency revenue measure for the earliest possible reiief of the treasury, upon which there was a daily demand of $1,000,000. Replying to a question from Mr. Bartlett, he said the adoption of the resolution would prevent any sevarate votes upon the Sen- ate amendrrents. He said it would be in the province of the House to reject finally the conference report, but he could give no assurance that en opportunity would ever be given to vote on particular amendments. Mr. Bailey's Opposition. Mr. Bailey (Tex.), addressing himself to the democratic position, said the pending measure was not politicalin the sense of an ordinary tariff measure, and that no one party was necessarily responsible for it. Likewise, voting upon separate amend- ments in a gereral tariff measure might result in destroying the equity of an entire schedule, but such objection could not be urged in the pending case. He took issue with Mr. Dalzell in claiming the treasury’s condition presented a dire necessity tor im- mediate passage of the meas and in this connection reviewed the re ury statement, insisting that a total of $10,000,000 w: available, including the gold reserve, or $90,000,000 at nd for or- dinary expenditures of the government. With this ccndition Mr. Bailey said there Was no ground for forcing the House to forego its right and duty to consider sep- arately important provisions added by the Senat>. He contended the rule was unfair, und pointed out that should the resolution fail to pass it would be tantamount te an acceptance of the bill as Senate, and it would a vote by members for provisions to which the strongly opposed. On the other hand yote should be to non-concur, members Would be forced to vote against’ provisions Waich as separate propositions they would ‘avor. My. Swansoh (Va.) and Mr. MeMiilin (Tehn.) followed Mr. Bailey, citing notable Instances where both sid2s of the House { should vote directly upon amendments. The tobacco tax and the provision for se ignior- age coinage were noted. Mr. Dingley, concluding in support of the resolution, said it was identical with ihe ons adopted when the tariff bill of 1807 | came from the Senate, and practically iden- tical with that adopted by the democrats in Iso4. He said experience had made it piain | that best results were to b2 obtained by sending immediately bills to conference in| ses where a large number of amenaments | developing complicated diff-rences have been added. Referring to the incorporation of amendments in the Senate, Mr. Ding- | ley said that body with ninety members had considered five weeks the bill, and should | the House, with four times that number of | members, proceed with the same latitude to consider the amendments it would be winter befor? action could be secured. He argucd that the pending measure was one of gency and should be at once upon the stat- ute books to relieve the ordinary revenues from 2xtraordinary demands, and to ocz at the earliest moment the payment of the war debt. The vote was taken then upon the reso- lution. Mr. Bailey d>manded the yeas and nays, the roll call resulting—yeas, 137; nays, 106. The vote was strictly party. Conferees Appointed. The House then voted to non-cuncur and agreed to the conference, and the Speaker named Messrs. Dingley (Me.), Payne (N. Y.) and Bailey (Texas) as conferees. The Senate bill to revise and perfect the classification of letters patent and printed | was found in his‘room” | to room No. 7, in the present war against Spain. Mr. Allison présent@d a partial report from the conferees mn the sundry civil bill. The partial #8pord'was agreed to. The Senate insisted upon its amendments B yet in disagreement and jaskeg for further cOnfer- ence. Mr. Carter (Mont.)_reported, from the| military affairs committee, a bill authoriz- ing the Presiden’ discretion to. waive the one year’s syppémgion from promotion and to order re-examinatiog of officers of the army in certain—cases, and it was passed. Mr. Pettigrew of the Indian af- fairs committee @atled< up the bill for the protection of the people of the Indian terri- tory. PA Before its consideration was begun the following changes in the standing commit- tee were announced: Mr. Paseo (Fla.) withdrew from public lands, Mr. Chilton (Tex.) withdrew frorn improvements of Mis- issippi_river and Mr. Faulkner withdrew from jmmigration. Mr. Sullivan (Miss.) was apointed to the following committees: Civil service and re- trenchment, immigration, improvements of the Mississippi river, public Iantis, to es- tablish the university of the United States, and additional accommodations for the Li- brary of Congress. —_——_—_-e.__. PHILIPPINE INSURGENTS. They Have Taken a Large Number of Prisoners. The Navy Department at 3 o'clock posted the following bulletin: “Admiral Dewey reports that the insur- gents have been actively engaged within the province of Cavite during the past week. | z They have won several victories, taken Prisoner about 1,800 men, fifty officers, of the Spanish troops not native. The arse- nal of Cavite has been prepared for occu- pation by the United States troops upon their arrival on transports. “Admiral Sampson is engaged in arrang- ing with Admiral Cervera for the exchange of Naval Constructor Hobson and the men with him, now prisoners at Santiago, for some of the officers and men held prisoners by the United States at Fort McPherson.” ——-. NEGRO MEN Two LYNCHED. Fears That Two, More May Suffer Same Fate. ST. LOUTS, Mo., June 6.—A special to the Post-Dispatch from..Clarksville, Mo., says: ’ An excursion boat from Quincy, TIL, and Hannibal, Mo., arriyed here yesterday with about 300 negroes on board. After the boat had tied up, Curtis Young got into a fight with a colored woman named Lena Bryan of Hannibal. It became general and City Marshal Meloan went on board to quell it. He put Curtis Young under arrest, when somebody in the crowd shot the marshal in the back and he died in fifteen minutes, There was great-excitement through the town when the shooting became known and the citizens began’ to patrol the streets, armed with guns and revolvers. A posse of fifty men went on board the boat and arrested Sam Young, Curtis Young, Bob Taylor and Chak.’ Taytor, all colored, and took them to the‘¢ity, jail, where they were locked up, pendirg. the arrival of the pros- ecuting attorney from; Bowling Green, the county seat When the officer arrived to- day he found that Cutis and Sam Young had been taken from’ the jail and hung to @ convenient tree... It: is feared that the two cther men wtllsuffer the same fate. Clarksville is a-rivetitown of several hun- dred inhabitants, in Pike county, about fifty miles north of Sti boats. tig AFFAIRS! IN “ALEXANDRL Mr. Fussetl's ody Still at Undertak- ing Establishment. ‘Phe dead body"of ‘Mr.’ Richard T. Fussell, an ice cream mahutattirér of Washington, md | om at thé Hotel Pleisch- man, of Soath Royal, street, Saturday aft- ernoon, shortly after 3 o'clock. Mr. Fussell came to this city Friday and went to th> Hotei Fleischman,, where he Was assigned He did not leave bis room that day and only made one call, and that for a pitcher of ic? water. The fact that Mr. Fusséll was a guest of th» hotel was fergotten by Mr. Fleischman, and Saturday afternoon the latter had occasion to use | room No. 7, and when he went to ‘the door and endeayored to open it he found it \ceked. The door was brok2n open, and, as stated above, the dead body of Mr. Fussell | was found lying on the bed with a long rub- ber tube in his mouth with the other end attached to the gas jet. The jet was still turned on. Coroner Purvis was notified and he had the re- mains sent to DeMaine’s undertaking es- tablishment on King street. An examina- tion was made and a bottle of poison was found, but it had evidently not been touched. Mr. Fussell’s relatives were noti- fied and in a short while his brother arrived end took chargé of the body. At first it wes decided to hdld an inquest, but this” morning it was not deemed necessary. The body 1s still at DeMaine’s undertaking es- tablishment, but it is expected that it will be taken to Washington this afternoon, where it will be cremated at Lee crema~ tory. Mr. Fussell, who was forty-nine years old, was a widower and the father of two children, and was the son of Mr. Jacob Fussell. It is sald that he was a heavy cigarette smoker and this affected his mind. When publications in the patent office was con- sidered under suspension of the rules. Its object, as pointed out by Mr. Hicks (Pa.), was to facilitate in the patent office the de, termination of the novelty of inventions. It provided for an annual expense of $62,000, but Mr. Hicks said but $45,000 would be re- quired. Mr. Dockery (Mo.) attacked the bill, de- claring it would entail an expense of $310,- ooo; that it was unnecessary, and was pressed chiefly in the interest of patent at- torneys and urged by a lobby. Mr. Livingston (Ga.) and Mr. Lovering QMass.) denied the contentions of the oppo- sition and insisted the patent office was not administered properly because adequate legislative provision had not be2n made. ‘The business of the office had increased 33 per cent, while the force had been in- creased but 6 per c2nt, and this, too, when the patent office yielded $225,000 in excess of its expenses, Mr, Bland antagonized and Messrs. Hill Conn.) and Sherman (N. Y.) supported the measur2. Mr. Cannon opposed the present passage, arguing for postponement until more room should be provided for the patent depart- ment by the transfer of the land office to th present post office quarters, the latter department going to the rew city building. The Bill Passed. ‘The bill passed, 154—58. SENATE, At the beginning of today’s session of the Senate Mr. Hale (Me.) reported from the appropriations committee the urgent defictency bill, and, at his request, con- sideration of {t was begun immediately. Some minor committee amendments were made to the bill, one of which provided a fund of $100,000 for printing and binding. The other amendments were merely verbal changes. The bill was passed. The bill as passed appropriates $17,745,005 for the War and Navy Departments, A bill, favorably reported by Mr. Hoar (Mass.), from the judiciary committee, to provide for the compensation and ‘ex- penses of special counsel for the govern- ment in prize cases was passed. A resolution offered by Mr. Davis (Minn.), that the President be requested, if not, in his opinion, incompatible with the interests of the public, to communicate to the Sen- ate all papers relating to the claim of Hugo 0. Loewi for his expulsion from Hayti was agreed to. The bill called up by Mr. Pett fi which relates to the allotment of is in~ ‘severalty to the of the territory, ‘was under discussion until 2 o'clock, when it was displaced by the unfinished business, the bill to. provide: for.taking the twelfth Pending the discussion of the census he took the room at the Hotel Fleischman Friday, it was noticed that he was in an extremely nervous condition. Mr. Fussell was a well-known business man of Washington, and when he left home Friday he stated that he was going to Camp Alger. ———_ DR. NESMITH EXPLAINS, His Reasons for Rejecting a Proffcred Patient. Dr. F. M. Nesmith of Garfield Hospital informed The Star this afternoon that the reason Maria Braxton, the colored para- lytic, was not admitted at that institution when stricken Saturday night, was that her case was known to be chronic, and was a proper case for the Washington Asylum Hospital. There were no spare beds at Garfield Hospital at the time, either, he declares, and the accommodation of the wo- man would have been next to impossible under the most urgent circumstances, The story of the Woman's seeking admis- sion at different institutions of the city, and being refused, is told elsewhere in The Star. eed en REDUCED ‘CENT & LOAF, o1 Bakers Admit *hit Flour’s Price Con- trols % of Bread. ‘The retail price; ofskread, which was rais- ed to six cents » lobf several weeks ago by reason of thé ation of the wholesale bakers in adding cent to their charges, was put back to five cents this morning, and unless there is Some now unlooked-for manipulation of the Wheat market, result- ing in another“ fiseIn flour, the present price is akon is gporigpd to stationary. The ew, bi action taken is d to different causes, one held by afew, being that several of the bakers had sold, bread at four cents a loaf to the retgjl trade during the recent period when, otherg, Were selling at five, and another, many, that the fall in the price.of four led to the reduc- tion. If the latter rapresentation is correct it ig undoubtedly.@ very generous admis- sion for the bakes -to, make, as a couple of years ago, when flour went down to a point lower than ever before in its his- tory and a demand Wwas-made to reduce the price.ef bread,.the-bekers seriously claimed that the price of flour really had nothing to do rice, of bread, ane fe Pothe? art icles Yeertentng ints its mansfacture as being the real causes its ‘cost:-The present reduction is oe pepe AE oe quarters wish expressed ‘witen-fiour reaches @ low the bakers wil ac: wr Status of National Guard Officers at the Front. PLACES HELD FOR THEM Reorganizing the Brigade and Re- cruiting Companies. FOR RIFLE PRACTICE The District of Columbia National Guard is rapidly being reorganized on the plans outlined by Brig. Gen. Harries before his departure for the front as colonel of the ist Regiment of District Volunteers. Lieut. Col. Henry May, the ranking officer of the guard remainizig in the city, has as- sumed command of the guard, and will act as brigadier general until the return of the commanding general from the war. It is not contemplated, the officers of the gvard declare, and they add that it would be manifestly unjust, unfair, unmilitary and demoralizing to appoint officers to supersede those now in the service of the United States. Col. May will prove a most acceptable and capable commanding officer, and under him the orgayization will flour- ish and be in excellent shape when the warriors return home. According to present plans the commis- sioned officers of the guard; who are at the front, will have their offices held open for them and will assume command of their old companies just as soon as the. war is over end the victorious United States troops return from Cuba and Porto Rico. From Gen. Harries down to the lowest ranking second lieutenant the officers of the guard who volunteered are considered on leave, and so long as they are on leave their places can only be filled temporarily. The commissioned officers remaining in town have been divided between the Giffer- ent companies, while the non-commissioned officers have been assigned temporarily to the higher positions in their commands. In this way the guard is being reorganized and will be recruited up to its full strength. Plans Mapped Out. ~ Before Gen. Harries left the city he call- ed his officers in consultation, and, to- gether with them, mapped out plans for the conduct of the National Guard while he was absent. These plans will be fully carried out by Col. May, in command, and the District Guard will centinue the same creditable military organization that it has always been in the past. A majority of Gen. Harries’ staff officers are left in the city, each with his special functions and duties to perform. In fact, the entire ma- chinery of the guard has been left in good hands and will continue its operations as heretofore. A meeting of forty or fifty of the offi- cers was held at headquarters last week, when it was decided to carry out the plans of reorganization formulated by Gen. Har- ries in detail. The assignments of officers, as already announced in The Star, result- ed. Major Burion R. Ross has been plac- ed in commanil of the Ist Regiment and Benjamin H. Sireeks in command of egiment. The lieutenants remain- of battalions and made the senior officers of the companies. Recruiting will be con- tinued in order to fill up the ranks. Col. May was seen this afternoon by a reporter for The Star and declared that, so far as he knew, there was in contempla- tion no movement to secure the appoint- ment of a new brigadier general or any other officer of the guard to fill the places of those now absent from the city. All the officers are on leave, he said, and he Was now the commanding officer of the District militia and would remain such un- less something unforeseen happens. Target Practice. Major James E. Bell, one of the higher officers of the militla remaining at Wash- ington, was also seen, and he also said that the absent officers of the guard are to be treated as ‘on leave’ and their places will not be filled, except temporarily. In the absence of the commanding officer the offi- cer next highest in rank takes command. Major Bell spoke interestingly of the steps taken looking toward a reorganization of the guard, saying that while the organization was a little short of uniforms since the de- parture of the Ist Regiment of District Vol- unteers, there are plenty of guns and other equipments on hand at the armory. “It would be most demoralizing and un- just to appoint officers to supersede those now in the field,” declared Major Bell, “and to make them feel that their absence is to be taken advantage of would be awful. You cannot appoint a man to fill another’s place in military organizations when the absentee is away on leave, as is _.e case with the District officers now at the front.” Major Bell has arranged for the resump- tion of target practice in the rifle gallery at the armory for the purpose of complet- ing the gallery scores of 1898, the shooting having been interrupted by the removal from the old armory on L street to the Center Market building. The schedule has been made out and the men ordered to re- port at the gallery as follows: Second Bat- talion, Thursdays, June 9, 16, 23 and 30; 4th Battalion, Tuesdays, June 7, 14, 21 and 28; Sth Battalion, Mondays, June 6, 13, 20 and 27; 6th Battalion, Fridays, June 10, 17 and 24, and Wednesday, June 29. The practice will begin at 8 o'clock sharp each evening, and a special effort will be made to qualify as many men as possible from the “stay-at-homes.” The ist Battalion, the Washington Light Infantry, and the ist Separate Battalion, colcred, have rifle ranges at their own armories, and are not included in the as- signments. They have also completed their gallery scores. The opening of the Ordway rifle range later in the month is contem- plated, in order that the out-of-door scores may also be completed. The men have not been ordered to report in uniform, for it is believed that brass buttons have no esp cial part in the development of a sharp- shooter. There is plenty of ammunition at the command of the shooters, and no pains will be spared to make the men proficient at the targets. Talk of a summer camp for the guard is beginning to be heard. It is said that the appropriation is on hand, and that the militia will probably go into camp later on in the summer, as heretofore, despite the prevailing conditions. sina ee LOCAL MEASURES DELAYED. Hoped That the Senate May Take Up the Eckington Bill Wednesday. It was expected today that the Ecking- ton and Soldiers’ Home railway bill would be called up in the Senate immediately af- ter the routine business had been trans- acted and some action on that measure se- cured. Mr. McMillan was in the Senate awaiting an opportunity to call up the bill, but in the midst of the business of the morning hour Senator Pettigrew got the Indian territory bill before the Senate, and at the conclusion of the routine business that measure was pending. Its considera- tion lasted until 2 o’clock, when the cen- sus bill, being on the calendar, was given precedence. At that hour an agreement was reached that Mr. Pettigrew’s bill should be taken up immediately after the morning business tomorrow, and that if it is on the point of being completed it may continue a short time after 2 o'clock; oth- erwise the census bill will come up and the Indian territory bill will be considered dur- ing the morning hour until completed. ‘This i ee will result in another de- lay in the consideration of the Eckington and Soldiers’ Home and other railway bills }- by the Senate. It is not likely that this District legislation can be reached at all tomorrow, but it is hoped that it may be called up‘on Wednesday immediately after "The great interest’ n the passage of bills e t e affecting local in’ in_the District of Columbia was shown by the presence of quite a number of persons in the galleries, and there tment A Russian Visitor. _ Bt Sosa phase Meee canis yep -called at the State Department 5 to cts to the a's guano Russian e have been placed in command | Representative Prince Says the Idea is Gain- ing in the West. He His Position m the Subject, Thinks, Aided Him in Securing a Renomination. Currency reform was a quict but import- ant factor in the contest which Reprosenta- tive Prince of Illinois won last week for a renomination to Congress. Mr. Prince is an enthusiastic currency reformer, and it was reported that his work in that direction would be used to defeat him. Ii now ap- bears that it strengthened his candidac Speaking on tnis subject witn a Star re- porter today, Mr. Prince said: “The silver craze, so far as Illinois is con- cerned, is rapidly running its course. I hear similar reports from oth2r western States. The republicans of my district are sound money men. But they go farther. They believe not only in the gold standard, but they agree with the Presid>nt in his speech before the Manufacturers’ Associa tion of New York last January, that ‘it must not only be our purpose to maintain the gold standard, but we must give that purpose the vitality of public law.’ In other words, if w2 give the isolated regions of the south and west adequate banking facilities the demand for free silver will gradually cease. If we retire the greenbacks—and we do retire them without any contraciton of the currency or an issue of bonds in the bill row on the House calendar—we shall re- move the menace to our national credit which now exists and will conticue to exist so long as the government is required to re- deem greenbacks in gold. Our bill, you will remember, places the redemption upon the banks.” Reforming the Currency. “The people of your district, then, believe in reforming the curency laws, do they?” “That question was only incidentally dis- cussed. The business men, however, are a unit in demanding that our monetary sys- tem shall be placed on a more stabie and scientific basis. I have three large manufacturing towns in my district—Gales- burg, Rock Island and Moline. There is not in these towns a business man of any prominence who is not a currency reformer. Some of these gentlemen had other can- didates before the convention, but when it was manifest that they could not win their influence was thrown for me. This was largely due to my support of the gold stan- dard and to my connection with the move- ment to improve our monetary system. Our business men will stand no nonsense on this question. It was they who lent the weight of their influence and contribu liberally of thelr means in 96 to elect M McKinley. Included in this number were nearly a million of gold democrats. These business men appreciate the necessity for reforming the currency and for a rigid maintenance of the gold standard. They have no patience with men who try to evade the issue and seek the support of both sides. The candidate for Congress who does not face this issue bravely and announce his belief in the gold standard will find the business element solidly array- ed against him.” “Did your opponents refer to your con- nection with the currency reform move- ment?” “Down at Rock Island the report was started that I was the tool of Wall street, and this was intended to injure my gandi- dacy. It did not affect me in the slightest degree. I had shown the workmen at the arsenal that I was their friend when the commandant a few months ago ordered 2 reduction in their wages. General Flagler approved the reduction and the order was signed by Secretary Alger. I immediately Went to the White House and spoke to the President about it. I told him that the rate of wages which was paid under a demo- cratic administration ought to be contin- ued under a republican administration. The President agreed with me, and the order reduciey: the men fete deerme “When some of my opponents circulated the report in Rock Island that I was the tool of Wail street the workingmen replied that I had shown myself to be their friend, and that in their judgment I was only treating the capitalists with similar consideration—that, in short, I was fair to both sides and they were glad to see It. “My currency reform views brought me the support of the business community without a single exception, and they did not ccst me a vote in any other direction. In my judgment the House should pass the bill now on the calendar before Congress adjourns. It will be the means of main- taining our control of a score of districts whose members were elected by the aid of gold democratic votes. Its passage will help the republican party in the congres- sional contest this year, and I do not be- lieve it will lose us a single district in the east, west or south.” ———__-e~—. TO SAIL THIS AFTERNOON. S. S. Monterey and the Collier Brutus for Manila. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 6.—The U.S. S. Monterey and the collier Brutus, it is unofficially stated, will get away to- gether this afternoon. The Monterey, it was expected, would get away on Sunday afternoon, but a slight accident in the en- gine room of the Brutus caused a delay in the completion of the work on that vessel. ° —— an The Camp to Remain. Senator McMillan and Representative Bishop of Michigan, called on Secretary Alger today to protest against sending the 34th Michigan Regiment to Camp Alger unless th: water service is improved. They were informed that arrang2ments had been made to that end, and that there would be no cause for further complaint on that score. The orders to the 34th Mich- igan indicate unmistakably that there is no foundation for the report that the camp is to be abandoned, at least not in the near future. —_-e-—_____ Grain, Provisions and Cotton Markets. Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., bankers and brokers, 1427 F st., members New York stock exchange, ondents Messrs. Lacenburg, Thaimann & Co., New York. GRAD Wheat—July. Sept. Corn—July. Sept. Oats—July. Sept. Baltimore Markets, BALTIMORE, Juffe 6.—Flour = r, $3. 76; do. extri fis s5-c0ag5.50:) winter Wi : Spring. (do., $6.25R6.45; spring wheat straight. .W0a$6.25—recetpts, 22,303 borrels; exports, 7-489 barrels. Wheat steady at decline—spot, 110%:2 110%; month, 105 bid; ‘July, 92 asked; Auzust, 89 Hise. bushels: exp : oe ia; stock. ! els; exports, 23,1 els; stock, 507,007 ‘bushels; ‘Bales.’ 16.000 outhert wheat by sample, 10581113; do. on grade. Jiria 1. Corn weak—spot and mocth, 35%435%; July, }; September, 3 steamer mixed, 3432 34 receipts, 230,531 shels; exports, 1.248 Is; stock, 1,016,376 bushels; sales, 252°000 Oats dul No. 2 white, 33a aS No. 3 mixed sida receipts, 5748" bucktle; exporme Shane els; stock, 349,979 bushels.’ Rye easler—No. 2 nearby, 02; No. 2 western, D4 receipts, 945 bush 3 , Mone; stock, 271. Steady—cholce timothy.” #1200813, Ge doll, demand light—steam to per bushel, Sg i ge Ags —fancy Las , 15; good Eggs fitm—fresh, New York, 4 Stocks Opened Strong, But Fell Of Onder Realizing. ACTIVITY IN THE GRANGER SHARES rience Market Was Able to Absorb Most of the Offerings. Sas GENERAL MARKET REPORTS See Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, June 6.—The for American securities in L lon fully refiected in opening prices this morn- ing, and substantial advances prevailed in all departments during the initial trading. In a few instances, notably in Burlingson and Union Pacific P came a conspicucus fea and had a tenden elsewhere. All offerings were absorbed within a nar- row radivs, however, and prices held well around the new level of the opening. The best opinion as to the immediate future of the market favors a temporary cessation of activity in the high-priced issaes and an increase in the Gemand for the mid. properties. This class includes such shares of the better-managed properties as me ing between 40 and 70. Reorganized roads operating in profi movant tone . Tealizi ure of the = be- ding tr ‘y to check the advance > class re now s ple territory and with fair dividend ots are the most promising members of this group. Northern Pacific Preferre Louls- ville and Nashville, Union Pacific Pret ail showed signs of confident buying result of probable future earnings The announcement made in semi-official circles that the last-named property would not begin the payment of dividends until next fall, and at per cent instead of 4, as predicted, attracted some selling of specu- lative holdings, but not in significant vol- ume. The prospect of a dividend on ern Pacific common and on “F brought out a good demand for b: and for a time brought the shares conspicuously to the front on common, Chesapeake and Ohio es of like price and character were bought in the belief that the market would be forced to a permanently higher level by the layer-at-a-time proc upward movement last summ ducted in just such a manner, are reasons for believing that last y successes will suggest a duplication of the method. The present week is looked upon as one likely to be filled with i sting speculative material. The beginning of the regular fortnightly settlements in London on Wednesday is likely to be the occasion for an increased é2mand for American stocks. Recent achievements of the American ravy have made a favorable impression on foreign speculative sentiment. Congress is expect>d to make some decided progress with the war revenue bill, and the ap- proaching conclusion of congre-sional activ- ity must find favorable reflection in stock prices. erred, s the issues low-priced While waiting for the fulfillment of peace prospects routine developments, earnings particularly, are of a character to discourage extersive selling. Banking operations last week, exports of commod- ities on a large scale, cheap money and stch indications of continued neial strength form a sclid foundation for the entire market. It would not be unnatural to see the mar- ket pause, from time to time, on the eve of an important naval battle or some similar grave event, but confidence in the result will not suffer during inactive periods. A few fractions are conceded during the dull periods, but there are no influences making for weakness. Disappointment to the ma- jority will alone revive selling on a ma- terial scale. — FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The following are the opening, the high- est and the lowest and the closing prices of the New York stock market today, as re- ported by Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exchange. Correspondents, Messrs. Van Emburgh & Atterbury, No. 2 Wall st. Open. High. Low Close. American Sprtite........ 12 1 lay 1K American Spirits, p a ee ee American Sugar. . 1.) 1443 145% 144-144 American Sugar, pfd. a ilies ac American Tobacco. .. 109%, 109 108% American Cotton Oil. 4 Atchison . 13% Baltimore ir) Bay State ose Canada 8 S28, Canada Pi suet Chesapeake & Onio 2347 C..C.C. & St. Louis. By enicago, B. & Q... 7) 106 106" 105 ChicagoaNurtuwestern 129 12K 125) Chicago Gan. CM. &St. Paul........ C M.& St. Paul. pfd Chicago, R.I. & Paciti Chic St. P., M. & 0 Consolidated Gas Del. Lack & W Delaware & Bu: Den. & Kiv Grande, pti Erie... General dlectric. Ulnois Centra. Lake saore = regen « oe etropolitan Traction. Manhattan Elevated New Jersey Centrai.... New York Centrat. Northern Pacitic. Northern Pacifie, pfd Ont. & Western Pacific Mau. southern Ry.. pfa. Phila. Traction . ‘Texas Pacittc.. Union Facitie, pid... Wabash, pfd Western Union Tei, . Sliver. Brookiyn i. iraneii. aX Chig. & G Western. 465 14% ld = Washington Stock Exchange. regular call certificate * : a 48_cents; 100 at cents; 100 at 47 cents; 100 at $3 100 at 48 cents; 100 at 49 cents: 190 at 48 100 at 48 cents. After call—Capital Trac- tion, 20 at 73%. American Graphophone, 100 at 13%; 100 at 13%. Mergenthaler Linotype, 4 at 15544. District of Columbia Bonds.—3.65s, funding, eur- rency, 113 bid. Miscellaneovs Bonds.—Metropclitan Railroad 5 118 bid. Metropolitan Railroad conv. 6s, Metropolitan Railrld certificates of tnde A, 117 bid. Metropolitan Railroad eertitic indebtedness, B, 109% bid. Colvmbin Railroad 6s, 12) bid, ries A, 112 bid. ries B, 113. bid. 5 imp. 100 bid. 106 asked. | Chesapeake and mac’ Telephone 5s, |. Amer! and Trost 5s, F. and A., 100 bid. American %: curity ang Trust Ss, A. and O., 100 bid. ington Market Company Ist @s, 112 bid. ington Market Company imp. ts, 112 bid. ingtoa Market Company ext. ¢s, 112 a Hall Association 5s, 106 bid. Infantry Ist 6s, 90 bid. National Bank Stocks. Did. Metropolitan, 310 bid. asked. Farmers and Mechanl 140 bid. 140 sid, 1051, ast i 115 bid, 120 asked. and Trust | Companics.—National it and Trust, 115 bid. Washington Loan ‘Trust, 127% bid, 129 asked. Awerican Security and Trust, 150 bit, 155 asked. Insurance Stocks.—Firemen's, 36 bid. Frantiin, 35 bid. Met . 70 bid. Corcoran, 55 bid. Potomac, 50 bid. Arlington.” 115 Wid. Germ: Ioubin, 10 bid. Rigew T bid 7g aad Peo lumbia, 10 ; fod. People's, 5 bid, 6 asked. Lincoln, 9% hid, mercial, 4 bia. . Title ‘Insurance Stooks.—Real Estate Title, 7% 4% bid, 514 asked. Washing- vite ite, ‘2's