Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1898, Page 2

2 - THE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1898-16 PAGES, TO REFORM THE CURRENCY, CTRIC LIGHTING — + ELE Representative Fowler Favors Call- ing an Extra Session. sility - Concerning the de of an extra s m. Rey An Important Bil! Introduced by Sen- | <ey or ine committee on banking and cur- ator McMillan, Satie of two squarely fought con- @ gold standard and a sound curreney, the republican party finds that it will be in power in every legislative branch of the government after the 4th of Mareh, 18). Under these circumstances, what is wisdom? What is duty? Clearly it rict Commissioners Given Right would be unwise for the committee on banking and currency to take up, during to Grant Permits. 10 EXTEND UNDERGROUND CONDUITS D the present session, for consideration, dis- cussion and determination in the House any single proposition affecting our govern- oe ment finances or looking to camera as — " x | form. It would be worse than foolish to WIE. ALLOW COMPETITION } attompt to secure any proper. legislation in the Senate as now constituted. creer “Phe whole subject should be made the ‘ hn was | Secasion for calling an extra session of the _ A sort and insignificant looking bil ws | Fitty-sixth Congress Immediately after the introduced Into the Senate today by Mr. | 4th of March, for the exclusive purpose of MeMillan, chairman of the Senate commit- | dealing with this most important matter. te on the District of Columbia. This bill, | Th st intelligent public thought on ne Seed ake ae aR| demands an extra sesston; the v.12 Of widespread importance to | Deople expect it, and the faflure of the the people of the District and is apt to taxe @ prominent place fn local legislation dur- ing the present session of Congress. des that all overhead el within the fire lHmits and fur- j President to call it would result in bitter disappointment, for sll must realize that such failure on his part Involves the pledge of the republican party, involves the fl cial tranquillity and commercial prosper the country, and, indeed, might involv bill p cht wires of trict shall be taken down cur national honor itself. provides that the Commissioners sha “T firmly believe that the President spoke thority to allow either of the in the utmost good faith, in New York last P sy Rite rioemarred| Cite said that words would no lighting companies to “ N | longer do, but that we must have action. comiuits “without iit, wh to enter rtainly xtra session should be called. inte new territory or parallel existing con- | I , it must be called, if the President duits. The text of this bill follows: i the republican party hope to escape “Section 1. Phat within one year from the Pthe just retribution of an outraged public pa 7 act any p yn or corpora- | Sentime use faith with the people or maintaining overhead | had be wires with fire limit District of Col Hobe sub- APEAKR. «fine of $0 aur pas ich operation or mi vinee con- | Specint Board Reports Against which fine may red in-any PR nine Cosas pis- | ‘The s. Navy has forwarded ‘ bia are hereby ai “4 to | to Con) report of the board r + for the e sion « s | pointed tu report on the de: ne cor pate con- | ¢ ne ks capable of receiving war : bi eetex Dent eston harbor or Sabine ach conduit at least Iveston harbor or Sabin est d for the of “rs tributary theretc Citta Biscice GE ake bay above the 2 f the Potomac. The board rey that it is not deemed advisable to locate A Great Change. doce ly without limitation at t the Comm ioners woo TSON DEAD. may permits for con- structi inderground conduits. [t ts a | He Was Once Prominent in New York . t Politics. ra sange from t om ir tion : ws stters that has been p n]| NEW YORK, December 6.—Former Con- From the time the first electric | sressn Wm. H. Robertson died last mpany t fous in this [night at his home in Katonah, N.Y. For has m: y re the Inst year he had been suffering from oe Tee aoetan lysis of the brain, He was fibout sev- und conduits as vided provision has » maidle ropria it has 'S appointment to the office priation committee have been regulated. ric Ligh Company rder te extend the gre: thi stor of the port of New York by Presider field with ¢ consultation with the senators from this state, Rosc Conkling and Tom . latt, led to a split in the ican party of New York and the r on of the sena’ — DR. BRANSFORD rs = east of Rock ¢ at was made in Congress over bered by signat ¥ INJTRED. Surgeon on the Gloucester During the vi intro- Fight at Santingo. @ law | siectal Dispatet ening Star. sh to secure | RICHMOND, Va., December 6—Dr. John conduits. The bill. as intro- tw. Bransford of Chesterfield, who was a wunit either of the electric | 5. -eon on the Gloucester and operated c Ss to parallel the conduits | o¢ the ound guns in the fight wit t way to provide a prices for electrical current. for a more eral exte onduits has often beer Congress. If the 1 i it will have the ing 4 may Spanish While at § tion of the gur has prac- ion eith nd > PAYS HEAVY FINE. Alleged Diamond Smuggier Settles With Government for 838.00 NEW YORK, December 6.—Max A. Lasar. a dismond dealer, who was tried in a court a fortnight ago on the charge of smuggling diamon: settled with the government by payment, through the United States torney here, of $38,000, The in- pending against Lasar and his Edmund J. Lasar, broth- will be dismi: RASA condt extent ¢ distr dictm s “porter today asked Senator Millan how ne regarded the e iL and mmended That It Be Raised Mr. McMillan replied in Franklin Square. “It vng been the intenti The board to select a 4 statue to Admiral U and design for id D. Porter, con- as tk aw overhead y with my Sireet and sone other, localities here. kf 0 airing: of ‘Anslstant Secretary Allen Rear seems to me that this matter should be dte- | 4 amiral Ramzay and Prof. Marshall Oliver, ee ee ee ee ee U. SN. has submitted its report to the tensive demand extension of the u H . ground electric Hght conduits, so use oc airing electric Mght may Franklin Square 1s recommend-d as the Commodated in the future. I see no reason | site of the statue. which should be a bronze wh ple who electric light should | figure of heroic size, on a pedestal enriche! | nd I hope such legislation will i as will permit them to have It.”* MeMillan further said that he red to rt the above bill In introduced it in the with medallions commemorating notabie events in Admiral Porter's life. The board says that owing to a lack of money, it has not been possible to select a design for th: statue. ee Volunteer Officers Discharge The following named officers of the vol- rred to the Senate { Columbix. REINFORCEMENTS AT MANILA. unteer army have been honorably discharg- Ee ed: ©: Theodstus Botkin, assistant ad Arrival of Troops on the Transport | Juiant general, U.S.V.; Capt. William «. Bail, assistant quartermaster; First Lieut. ry forces i Olmstead, battalion adjutant, eased Db: ofti- » Jowa Volunteer Infantry; First Lieut. ikedlio: duakeaie ad Paxson, Ist Montana Volunteer In the transport | fantry: Col. John D. Eddy. Ye The rein Volunteer Infantry; Lieut. Col. Jerzy ©. cuth, Za Arkaisas Volunte Infantry; npanies of the ee A Infantry; Troop A : detachm Heche » ie Here ‘ ram was received at the War De. partment tcday from Colonel Hecker of ‘ hs the transportation division, who has been z examinin amp sites in Cuba. it Pe pa, saying he had been del +e +_____ but would be in Washington BUPPALO SAILS FOR MANILA, ly Wednes - — res = Cruiser Carries Out 700 Blucjackets to feturn of the Models. Dewey's Fleet beautiful models of warships which x Se the principal part of the naval ex- s » the Omaha exposition, have been he Brockiyn navy yard t to this city and ar> being grad- BY is t 1d ured to their places in tne cor- t i ne Navy Departm y are : é reat interest to ail visitors and N Ld ally surrounded bea The Buf- falo ba Ad- age es teal ie Over Half a Million Visitors. those wl t has, | Superintendent Bernard V. n has pre- best of [sented te Congress a report on the Con- se s the nal Library buildings and grounds. ys that satisfactory conditions exist, nid tell of ths immense crowds of sight- ers and readers who visit the library. ‘The visitors during the eleven months end- ing December 1 numbered are ‘The Raleigh to KILED IN ELEVATOR CAGE. Walter Hayden Griffin and Caldwell Victims of Accident. \ YORK, December 6—Walte sritfin, a director in the Unite me Home. e e In accordance with the program laid down = meee — — Mee Bes at the tims the Helena was ordered to Ma- Por pow: thy, Was fa. | Bild. the Navy Department cabled Admiral ei es tate = oh ase Dewey today to relieve the Raleigh from tai us ce yater Accident in the | further duty on the Asiatic station and t s ace Company | gend here home by way of Suez. elevator, which © © directorate of owes — aaa tne Sekmielin Agen Local Pensions. s +I fell = were granted today to the foi- = ph dents of the District: Edward 3 : $17, and Miranda C. Lucas, $8. James Watkins, $6; James Madison, $20; W deen al dew. Mesnite. G. Rudding, $24; Charles Freeman, incre Major General Brooke and staff lett San] dust to Rico, today for the United | Fire-Preof Cases for Supreme Court. Bta leaving Brigadier General Guy y. The deticiency appropriation bill reported ora fs gf rarer cone Senere of | to the House today carrier $6,000 for fire- Gen. Brooke is coming heme on leave of | RTO0f fle cases for the office of the United gbsence, but it Is not probable that he will | 5tte* Supreme Court. Feturn to Porto Rico. ———-0«________ ——__—___-e-______ Death of Another Immune. Gen Beacom, who ts temporartly in com- Mand of the troops at Santiago, telegraph- ed the adjutant general this morning that Private Robert Williams, Company H, 34 United States Volunteers, died yesterday of Fellow fever. Promotion ai Appointments, Jumes Watson, inspector of streets, hav- ing resigned, the District Commissioners have promoted S. P. Bradshaw, assistant inspector, to the place, at an annual sal- ary of $1,200. They have appointed A. L. Thomas as assistant inspector, and ap- | attention. DISTRICT IN CONGRESS Bill fora Municipal Hospital Introduced in the. Senate, Other Mensures Offered in’ Both House That Are of Distinet Loca! Interegt. Several days ago The Star contained an account of a project to be pushed before the present Congress for the 3stablishment of a municipal hospital, 1n which patients now treated in the Columbia, Freedman’s and the Poor House Hospital could be cared for. The bill referred to to effsct this pur- pose was introduced in the Senate today by Mr. McMillan, chairman of the Senate committes on the District of Columbia. The bill authorizes the trustess of Columbia Hospital to sell that property and turn the proceeds into the Treasury Department. It further provides for an appropriation of $200,000 for a site for this municipal hos- pital, and # further sum of $50,000 to begin the erection of buildings contracted for which may be let at a cost of $200,000. The building of such a hospital was rec- ommended by Drs. Hurd and Chapin, who made a special report to the joint select commitice of Congress on charities in the District of Culumbla, their report being in relation to the hospitals In the District. Improve Adam» Mill Road. Mr. McMillan also introduced a pill in the Senate today making appropriation for grad- ing andregulating Adams Mili road from the Columba road to Kansas avenue, provid- ing that the necessary land for widening the same to a depth of ninety feet be do- nated. ument to Admiral A Senator Morgan introduced a joint reso- lution in the Senate today appropriating $1,200 for a monument for Admiral Daniel Ammen in Arlington cemetery. Agriculture Experiment Grounds. Senator McMillan Introduced a bill in the authorizing the Secretary of en. s rate today War to set apart for the use of the Depart- ment of Agriculture a tract of land on the Potcraac flats west of Washi y monu- ment to be used as expe ai grounds by the eDpartment of Agriculture, but such use shall not interfere with the character of the reclaimed flats as a public perk. Clty and Suburban Railway. Mr. McMillan also introduced a joint reso- lution in the Senate providing that the City and Suburban Railway Company of Wash- ington authorized to abandon its single track passing around the south side of tanton Square, and in lieu thereof to con: struct an additional track on the rorth from the intersec- theast to 6th side of Stanton Square, tion of 4th and C streets nd C streets northeast. Control of Wharf Property. The Senate today passed House bill 10294 relative to the control of wharf property and certain public spaces in the District of Columbia. ‘The bili was passed by the House of Representatives last May and d favorably to the Senate from mmmittee on the of Columbia a few days after t y the House. With a few exceptions, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are given the exclusive and control of ail wharf property belon United States or the District by the terms of this bill $+ 04+ ONE NATIC wa ging to the Columbta pwex of Peace America and Englund Are Reunited, don Skete For Pu Krom the That the flag of the United State should be carricd amid acclamations through the streets of London, side by side with the flag of the United Kingdom, is an incident ign nations will give due all fe “or all purposes of peace, Eng- to which land a Am a are oné nation, with one literature; for ail purposes of , it may be they will go on through the ages with- out very material alliance. They will obtain little but sympathy from us, and we shill get little but sympathy from them. But even the sympathy of another nation in a great ertsts ning, and that we withheld it at the time of the war of secession is now always counted one of the disasters of our later national story. The union of the Anglo-Saxon is now growing apace: in nother generation it will include (housands of ‘term: and ch! Scandinaylans in America, whos! dren are iearning to speak but one language— the language of Eng!and--and thousands of [rishmen the whole world over, who will have forgotten the just wrongs of their fathers in the common joys of a Uterary inheritance, an inheritance which makes every Englishman as proud of the names of Goldsmith and Burke as of his own Mil- ton and Johnson. ~ eee CANNIBALISM 1) HAITI. Woman and Baby Come to This Coun- try for Protection. York ‘Times. sel ff her eager de United States. get a bond not becom: incidental pmebody aiti the other day, and declared ire to become a resident of the It was ne a2 guarantee that she would public and whlle the rmalities in progre isked her she had come nn t arge were why nd and her own people making strangers, where the by no mean: 1 with woman answe an earne said much for her sincerity and something for her accuracy, that she left Haitt be: the season for certain cannibalistic the district where she lived was ou, and that her child would have aten if she horrible gainst the Haitians many them, but the had not left charge has been nd been the « made = often dented by tions, and the best autho: least as highly probable that in parts of the black republic heathenish customs of the most frightful sort have been practic ever s the expull French. Th Haitians are now ve > nelehbors of our own, and it remains to be seen what the consequ The old isolat business and cans are in in Haiti may of this proximity will be. s sure to be broken down, other relations with Ameri- pe, and existing conditions well become as unendurable to us us were thuse of Cuba under Spanish rule. Even if cannibalism is a mere spo- radic crime in Haiti, there are other things there practically worse and morally almost bad about which there is no doubt what- ever. The government is corrupt and san- guinary, and the treatment of white for- eigners is often atrocious. The Haitians have had many years in which to develop the power of self-government, but they re- main far below the standards of civiliza- tion, and harsh crities declare that they are sinking rather than rising. Moreover, this island is*potentially of great value. There is a basis for prophecy in that fact. ++. ‘Tea at Ascension Rectory, The Wor 's Guild of Ascension Church will give a tea at the rectory tomorrow evening from 4 to 7 o'clock for the benefit of pi h fund. The ladies having the mat- ter in charge promise an enjoyable time to all who attend, and they should be kept busy during the entire period of the tea. ee Court of Appeals in Sexsion. The Court of Appeals met today after a recess of ten days. Mr. Chief Justice Al- vey and Mr. Justice Shepard wer? present, Mr. Justice Morris being detained at his home by slight illness. A short session of the court was held, an adjournment being taken until day after tomorrow. Owing to the absenc> of Mr. Justice Morris, no opin- ions were handed down today. E a Por Partition and Sale. Suit in equity to secure the partition by sale of certain real estate left by the late Mary Connors has been instituted by Luke Edward Connors, who names Michael Ma- joney and Mary Donghue Cusack defend- ry for her to | IS AN IMPOSTOR, A Man Representing Himself as an Evening Star Solicitor, An imposter, representing himself to de an advertising solicitor for The Evening Star, has been operating in Washington for several days past, ath has succeeded in de Trauding a numberof persons of various sums of moné}. Steps have been taken to apprehend the man, and it is hoped that his arrest and conviction will follow. The Star Wishes to warg Its advertising patrons and the public gentraily against the imposition, and to state that it has no advertising so- licitors, - The man, from descriptions that have been secured df hint? is about twenty-eight years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high, and weighing in the neigfborhood of 15u pounds. He is represented as being of slender build, dark complexion, dark hair, with small side whiskers. H® wore a black derby, a light. short overcoat and dark pants. He is said to be of pleasant address, a very smooth and fluent talker. His mode of operation, it seems, is that he repre- sents to advertisers that he has been au- thorized to receive advertisements for The Star at reduced rates. The Star has no reduced rates, The man is well equipped and writes the advertise- ment and gives a receipt for money re- ceived for the same for so many insertions according to the directions of his victim. He then writes a receipt, and with a rub- ber stamp he stamps “The Evening Star Co. Per —,” filling in the blank space with the name “Jas, G, Brown.” No solicitors are authorized by The Star to accept advertisements and pay for the same, and it is hoped all will be warned against the fraud. The man has operated quite extensively, and has made a specialty of soliciting small advertisement: It is quite evident the same man, or a gang of which he is a member, has been working” in a number of eastern cities, today’s Baltimore Sun contains the fol- lowing account of an impostor operating in that cit here i: representiny Sun. . n impostor going about town himself as an employe of the He poses as a solicitor of advert ments, and states he uthorized to se cure advertisements at half rates. He is of good address, talks well and is well equipped, being supplied with a receipt book and advertising blanks, the latter tak- from the counting room at the Sun office. He writes the advertisement on the biank, gives a receipt, on which with a rubber stamp he stamps the word ‘The Sun, per ——.' The money being received, j he departs. The man is described as being about five feet nine inches tall, between twenty-five and thirty of age, light complexion, small must e light colored overcoat, strip black derby hat, old pair of pate shoes, brown kid glov 5 news- papers in his hand.’ Action of Excise Bour ber of App Retail liquor ticer October 31, 1899, wer Upon aN ations. for the yea issued today, ending lows: Chamberlin & Somborn, R. A. Driscoll, 2 G H. McMillan, 1 Pa. ave.; 5. M. A. Fox, 1743 Per Danl. O'Brien, ) New Jerse Lue! nna. ave 42: John J. Connell, 1220 Ist street s.w. Joyee, 1108 18th street; Thos. -Burke, wth street; J. T. Branson, 614 11th street 8. Egloff, 901 A street nie; J. B. 100 EB street; Wm. MeGuire, 10) 7th Willige, wm Pr sylvani. tw. a. Chris. A. Davidson ter, 930 hy Sati Catherine Sullivan, Horel S.W. . Carroll, Finle ave.; Chas; ‘Mader, ‘Trometer, 907 21st si ing ) 4% sti; John Burke, es Nau, 1301 7th st.: Jno. R.Waish, [2 Hotel; Robt. Hoy, ard Jenning, 401 41% Michael Lid & Gray, Cap. st; Jerry Mack loff, 204 . Collins, Dennis Murphy, SIS 7th Keliher, 1514 224 st; Count Savage, 304 14th st S01 13th st.; Mary John Appich, BRB. Brya jr., 936 Penni ristine Ockershausen, 415 7th st. 3 6 6th st.: John Curtin, M st e Knight, Pa. ave.: Herman Daiker, 477 H st.: C. A. Eckstein, 1412 N. Y. jave.: Villa Flore Club, Brightwood: | Ebbitt House; Simon Bien, 406 4th st.; W. {J. Brown, 107 G st.; the Grafton | Heurich, Tenleytown; P. Shugrue, 19 st; John O'Donoghue, 1M ist st. | Bonini, 731 North Capito] st.; W. E. 602 Pa. ave.; Hotel Varnum; A. Laup Marinelli, 1827 E st.; A. A. ) Sullivan, 1309 11th 31s st. Kari 1ath ce: B. F. Warner, ee FILES ITS ANSWER. Electric Lighting Company’s Re- spouse in Injunction Proceedings. The United States Electric Lighting Com- pany today, through its attorneys, Jere M. Wilson, Tallmadge A. and Wilton J. Lam- bert, made answer to the injunction suit recently brought against it and the Dis trict Commissioners by the Potomac Elec- trie Power Company. The answer is supported by five affidavits and contains a synopsis of congressional legislation upon the question of conduits in the District and also the court’s inter- :tion of such Statutes, as embodied in opinion of Chief Justice Bingham, 58%, and in that of Judge Col, in 1894 suits between the same parties. It deni that it is or ever was the intention to siruct any new conduits in making applica- tion (o repair: It is further et forth that, in response to expressed sentiment of both Con- and the Commissioners, it is the com- pany’s desire to remove all overhead wires and place the same round; that, in order to accomplish this and fl itself of the permits granted, the defendant, be- fore these proceedings were instituted, bought and paid for $12,000 worth of ma. terial, and has been and is now under great expense in providing guards for the protec tion of conduits already opened. Hearing of the case will occur Thursd next, before Judge Cox, in Equity Court No. 1, —_ Bill to Enforce Agrcement. By the terms of a bill in equity placed on record today by William J, Beall and In- diana Beall against Mary P. Brown, H. Bowyer McDonald, Richard Wallach and Virginia Wallach, the court is asked to ratify ard confirm dp agreement of com. promise between the, parties mentioned, in connection with a ¢aveat filed to the will of the late Robert Beall, What Will Congress Do to Him? From thé Helena “(Mont.) Herald. It is stated that the democrais of Utah have elected to, Congress one Roberts, an avowed advocate and practicer of polye- amy. It is said he bes three wives in plural standing and has no desire to be rid of any of them. This would appear to be punishment enough for one man; but cone gressmen have expregsed themselves, in Ins ferviews, as disposed to fire this ‘muci imarried man from the House. Of course Roberts is living in defiance of the laws of the United States pe Statement is true, and the state Py n {8 Violating its con- stitution and {tho act admitting it as a state to the Union,” by tolerating such a man and honoring him with high office. lt will be interesting to see what Congress will do with him, and if it will permit in its membership one who thus preserves in he acts one of the “twin relics of barbar- m. —_+ +e ____ Death of Princess Frederick, STUGGART, December 6—Princess Fred- erick of Wurtemburg, mother of William i, King of Wurtemburg, is dead. —_>—__ Inquest Not Necessary. Coroner Carr today decided that an in- Ocdekoven & Savage, | VERDICT OF ACQUITTAL Alleged Gift Enterprise Declared to Be Not Contrary to Law, Made Statement in Court by Mr. Harry King, the Defendant— Judge Kimball's Decision, Today in the Police Court Judge Kimball heard the charges against Mr. Harry King, propristor of King’s Palace, who was ac- cused of conducting a gift enterprise by Detective Baur last month. Attorney Leon Tobriner, who represented Mr. King, ad- mitted the facts alleged by the District and had Mr, King make a full explanation of the system under which he gave the stamps. Prosecuting Attorney Pugh said that the cas> was brought in order to test the law, and all he wanted was the court's decision in the case. Judge Kimball heard the evi- dence, and then decided that Mr. King’s Manner of conducting business was not a violation of the so-called gift ent-rprise law. Under the court's instruction, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Counsel's Statement. When the case was called to the atten- tion of Judge Kimball, Mr. Tobriner said Mr. King, proprietor of King’s Palace, 1s charged with conducting a gift enterprise. He sald he would admit that his client Was owner of the store during the time charged. “Does this case involve questions decided by the Court of Appeals in the stamp c Judge Kimball asked. es, sir,” Mr. Pugh answered. “We rely upon that decision,” remarked Mr. Tobr Z nd so does the District added Mr. Pugh. * Mr. Pugh made his opening statement to the jury, calling attention to an adverti: ment in a morning paper. He said he e: 1 to show that at the defendant's s of business stamps were given with plrchases, ‘These stamps, He said, were made good for certain presents, and the exact manner in which the business was conducted, he said, would be shown by the evidence Mr. Tobriner rema given were not the rked that the stamps stamps of a company. but of this particular firm only. Th stamps, he said, represent discounts on pur- chases. Detective Baur was the only witness for the prosecution. He testified that the 14th of November he called at King’s Palac: and purchased a box of collars. He asked if books and stamps were given, a) clerk who waited on him gave him a book and several stamps. This closed the case for the District. Mr. King Testifies. Mr. King, the defendant in the case, ex- plained to the jury that he has two stores, one at S12 and Si 7th street and the other at S15 Market space, In his stores, he said, he handles eve: that Is to be found devartm ore. Witness said he not purchase his stamps from a com- ny, but they are owne the firm. De- udant explained that the stamps are giv- en in the nature of a discount, one stamp being xi n for cach ten-cent purchase. No additional charge is made on articles. He said he inaugur. he system for the of onl business. did you adopt this manner sked counsel. dopied it as the easiest and best man- f conducting the busi of bu: answered “In thi is ais own bookkeepe 1 ned that some merchants use the premium cards, and showed the cards. Under this plan, he said, the cards are purchased, and each punch shows the amount of the purchases made. Defendant produced one of the cards referred to, and counsel read {( to the jury. Thes mium cards, he have been in use many tion to this plan aid, another plan of giving pr ents, don by some of the tea companies. Counsel also read these tickets, Which they are used. sing tickets amps. a th > manner in which e said that instead in this way he adopted the Cross-Examination. On cross-examination di dant said the stamps are given in consideration of pur- ount, the discount amount “What does Mr. Tobriner asked. to ye per cent.” The stamps in use, witness said, he had bought from a lithographer. They were the stamps of a local company that went out of business because of the decision in the other cas ‘The stamps, he repeated, are owned by his firm exclusively. It is neces- sary, he said, for a purchaser to get 990 stamps in order to get one of the gifts. The Judge's Decision, Counsel expre: 1 a willingness to sub- mit the case without argument, Mr. To- briner making a motion that the court in- struct the jury to find for the defendant. This motion was granted. Judge Kimball charged the jury that what Mr. King had done was not a violation of law. H> read from the decision of the Court of Appeals in the Trading Stamp Company's case to show the distinction the upper court made between a case of a company not actually selling goods but dealing in stamps and a merchant who actually sells his own goods and gives stamps or to his custum- erz in order to ease . On the one the decision pointed out, a merchant is virtually driven into joining the stamp company in order that he may not lose his own trade, as well as to get additional trade. ‘Phere is nothing about Mr. King’s manner of doing busi that the court could tind contrary the provisions of the jaw. Premium Cards. The judge cited the premium ca: han¢ to Is u sed by some merchants and the tickets giv some of the tea companies that had been in vogue many years. “That it was not intended to apply to ordinary discdunts for cash, or in propor- tion to amounts of purchases when made by the merchant himscif to his customers may he regarded as certain,” read the court from the deci red to. “And the exercise of s ubtless be denied, if exp Further on ti sion “The Washington Trading Stamp Com- pany and its agents are not merchants en- gaged In business as that term is commen- ly understood. re not dealers in or- dinary merchandise, engaged in a legitimate attempt to obtain purchasers for their gouds by offering fair and lawful inducements to trade. Their business is the exploitation of nothing more or less than a cunning de- es attempted,” court read from the deci- nis decision the court held clearly ex- plained the law in the case before the court today, and the jury was thereupon instruct- ed to return a Verdfet of acquittal, Why Huamiliate the } From the New York Herald. It would be distinctly unpatriotic on the part of the: “little America” senators to delay the ratification of the treaty with Spain; not only unpatriotic, but vain, for, despite their opposition, it Is certain te be ratified, Why, then, humiliate the nation in the eyes of the world by unseemly wrangling in the Senate? The islands are ours—that is settled—and the only question is as to their disposition. We cannot leave inem to relapse into a Malay pandemonium or to become a bone of contention among greedy powers und the cause of a European war. Anti-expansionist. senators should yield thelr personal prejudices, bow to the will of the people and vote for the treaty. -—_——— + Our Diplomatic Service. From the St, Paul Globe. It would seem to be an appropriate sea- sen for Congress to awaken to the import- ance of improving its consular service. It is not to be expected that iais republic can adopt a diplomatic school similar to that of Great Britain, which really has developed into an office-holuing aristocracy, but the United States government can do much in the direction of improvement by eliminat- ing common office seekers from the rolls of tne consular service. ———_o--- —_____ It fees Cred = Want columns of The Star. Hundreds situations are filled ation? STORY OF THE MAINE, Sigsbee Gives Pull Credit to Brave William Anthony. Capt. Chas. 1). Sigsbee in the Century About an hour before the explosion I had completed a report called for by Mr. Theo- dore Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, on the advisability of continuing to place torpedo tubes on board cruisers and battle ships. I then wrote a letter home in which I struggled to apologize for hav- ing carried in my pocket for ten months a letter to my wife from one of her friends of long standing. The cabin mess attenc- ant, James Pinckney, had brought me, about an hour before, «a civilian’s thin coat, because of the prevailing heat; I had taken off my blouse and was wearing this coat for the only time during the cruise. In the pocket I found the unopened and undeliv ed letter. Pinckney, a light-hearted col: man, who spent much of his spare time in singing, playing the banjo and dancing jigs, |. Was for some reason in an especially hay frame of mind that night. Poor fellow! He was killed, as was also good old Johs R. Bell, the colored cabin steward, who had been in the navy twenty-seven years. At taps (‘turn in and keep quiet”), ten minutes after 9 o'clock, I laid down my pen to listen to the notes of the bugle, which were singularly beautiful in the opprossive stillness of the night. The marine bugler, Newton, who was rather given to fanciful effects, was evidently doing his best. Dur- ing his pauses the echoes floated back to the ship with singular distinctness, repeat ing the strains of the bugle fully and ex- actly. A half hour later Newton was dead. I was inclosing my letter in it< envelope when the explosion came. The {mpress: made on different people on board the Maine varled somewhat. To me position well aft, and within the supe ture, Capt, in my ru FINANCE AND TRADE - - Stocks Generally Dull and Lower on New York Board. SUGAR DECLINED TWO PER CENT Railroad Shares Were Neglected--- Volume of Business Small. - GENERAL MARKKY REPORT Seve Special Dispatch to The Evening Star NEW YORK, December 6 desire to sell stocks for a turn apparent at the clos» of yest Phe feverish whieh rday's 1 was hess, was less pronounced during th- tng hour this morning London prices were steady, and while the trading from that cen was mixed in character, there is still marked evidence of faith In American investments. In the railroad list there were evidences Of neglect, and at the advance ers we disposed to sell for fraction fits. The evident intention of opening debate on the expansion idea at Washington was constru- ed into fe successtul outeoth. n naa adm'nistrat the was a bursting, rending and crashing sound | Program Was assured in reli or roar of immense volume, largely met in character. It was followed as iid not at a bear any cession of heavy, ominous, metatlic sounds, ks of actual signi robably caused by the overturning of th rede SS ae central superstructure and by falling de ing the There was a trembling and lurching mc tere with go tion of the vessel, a list to port, and « from other movement of subsidence. The electric | scurces. The low-priced stocks were given lights, of which there were eight in the [geod support ty Sabon Bact 3 Y] 1 - ~ - E port, es 5) ion Pacitic, on cabin where I was sitting, wenc out. Then | 970% SUPP there was intense blackness and smoke. ue Dellet that the delay in the advancing The situation could not be mistaken; the | ovement had been sufficiently 1 w Maine was blown up and sinking. For a moment the allow for the abserbtion of Uquidati instinct of self-preservation territorial dispute in the No took charge of me, but this was immediate- | 18 vot settled, nor are there any act! iy dominated by the habit of command. I ] dications of ‘yielding on th went up the inclined deck © the star arger interests. There were board cabin, toward the starboand air ports, elopments in this mat which were relieved somewhat against the hope that the dictate background of the sk The Ss were poli and unproit- out, and the openings were large. My first | ble corte andoned intention was an escape through an air The decla th: Var 3 pe port, but this was abandoned in favor of | dividend on American Sugar was the more dignified way of muking an exit through the passageway leading forward through the superstructure. I groped my way through the cabin into the passage and along the passage to the outer door The passage turned to the right. or star- board, near the forward part of the super- structure. When the turn w into me violently. reached It was P ume one rin > William by a break of nearly 2 per cent in the prica of that stoc product finerie: . The by the so is taken In rather adva called som satisfactory in quarters t working ment on ail sides. Phe stock was well taken on the line ced hack to first prices. American » Was strong, and the best buying seemed to come from the larger tuside iu Anthony, the orderly at the cabin door, He | terests and a moderate covering of short said something apologet'c, and reported that | stock the ship had been blown up and was sink- | Tennessee Coal and tron and th . irg. He was directed to gu out on the | Stee! issues were steady. but the demata quarter deck, and I foliowed him. Anthony | Was not especially Iberal has been pictured ax making an exceeding- ly formal salute on that occaston. The dra- matic effect of a salute cannot add to his heroism. If he had made a salute {t could not ‘have been seen in the blackness of that ccmpartment. Anthony did his whole duty, at great personal risk, at a time when h might have evaded the danger without Guestion, and @eserved all the commenda- tion that ‘he received for his act. He hung near me with unflagging zeal and watch- fulness that night until the ship was aban- doned. I stood for a moment on the starboard side of the main deck, forward of the super- structure, looking toward the immense dark mass that loomed up amidships, but could see nothing distinctly. There { remained for a few seconds in an effort to grasp the situation. and then asked Anthony for the time. He replied: “The explosion at 9:40, sir.” It was soon neces- to retire from the main deck, for that of the ship was sinking rapldly. I then went up on the poop deck. time Lieutenant amander W and others were near me. Everybo: impressed by the solemnity of the 4) but thei tect di was no excitement apparent; per- plir preyailed. The qu jon has been asked many times if I believed then that the Maine was blown up from the outside. My answer to this has been that my first order on reaching the deck was to pos! sentries about the ship. I knew that the Maine had been blown up, and believed that she had been blown vp from the outside. Therefore I ordered & measure which was intended to guar against attack. There was no need fo pe order, but Iam writing of first impressions. There was the sound of many voices from the shore, suggestive of cheers. cee The Good Example of Argentina. From the Lewiston Journal. ‘The failure of the Dingley law to sub- stantiate the doleful predictions of free trade critics that its enactment would re- strict the sale of American goods abroad, seems to excite far less attention from those usually voluble gentlemen than one might reasonably suppose. In those early days of opposition to the enactment of the Dingley law there was one country, Argentina, whose commercial relations were to be most injuriously af- fected by the Dingley law; for, at one stroke, duties were imposed on wool and raw hides, both of which under the Wilson law had been admitted free. The ery of the free traders was that a budding trade was being nipped; that a frost was engen- ered in a land where all was ready to blossom into fraternal relations with the United States. Nothing could possibly } avail to continue the old amicable trade re- | lations. But yet, in the first fourteen months of the active operation of the Dingley teriff the fact so confounds the theories of the free traders that silence is indeed golden on their a ech but the confession of a debased currency. In fact, the record of these months has entirely confounded all the predictions of these prophets of evil, for although American purchases have de- first nine months of 180s responding months of 1897) from $9,81° to $4, 226.90), our of 180 from §9.Si to # 5.000, our ea States WIL Succeed. Chronicle (rep.>. The Untted Rochester Dente From t We pity the nerveless | American wh whimperingly declares that the United where Spain has ing the results of s ssion, believes that similar results must follow American methods of ernment. People who thus prophesy ve had no part in making this na- t. They have trailed and trem- bled, while others have led and conquered. The faint hearts may murmur, but they cannot turn back the tide of events. T United States will deal wisely and well with its colonies and the people thereof. It will show them the meaning of enlightened gov- ernment, of liberty, of a fair field in the struggle of life, of education, of industry, of a right to enjoy the frulte of personal effort. — 2 «2 -_ A Thing of Many Prices. From the Norwich Bulletin, The Washington Star thinks “Spain will now have time to examine its pride and pull some of the price tags off it.” It is un- doubtedly a thing of many prices. ———_0= Baltimore Markets. BALTIMORE, December 6.—Flour quiet, un. Ghanged—receipts, 29.040 barrelx; exports, 20.461 barrels. Wheat ‘Grm—spot and month, T1<a7 January. 2; May, 711; asked: steamer No. 2 red, 65 bid; receipts, 7 bushels: exports, G4,~ G00) bushels stock, 1,699,250 bushels: sales, "8,000 bushels—southern whex yy satuple, 6Sa72; do. on grade, GSa7S%. Corn firm—spot_and month, 39a BY'6; “December, new or old, 889 a38%; January, BSYABSYe; Febmiary, Bs\yass4y; steamer mixed. B54 Adoig; receipts, 94413 bushels; exports, 370,24 359.732 bushels; 'sales, 42,000 bush- els—southern ‘white and yellow ‘corn, . Outs quiet and easier—No. 2° white, 33, sales; No. 2 mixed, 82 bid: receipts, 20,195 bushels; ‘exports, none; ‘stock, $0,903 bushels. ‘Rye firm—No, 2 nea! by, 56%; No. 2 western, B84; receipts, 10.452 bushels; exports, none; stock,’ 223, bushels. Hay firm—No. 1 timothy, $10.50 bid. Grain freights very quiet, rates steady, unchanged. Sugar ctrong, mucha ny Butter, and + une Seer tee’ PEI oot eae se Whi unchanged. Hin Y vie The selling s of the ear n Traders sold periodically dz but this selliag did not inte buying from time to time Th falling off in the volume of the ¢ business is the most prominent feature © the present marke Tt may partly ex plained by w sentimental belief tn reactions at this sea: of the year. Under sare DuMeTOUS and no ie far without deve ND COMMERCIAL, New York Stock Market. Higb. L 124 Open. 12g 12. . ped. mn Sugar... American Tuba Atchison ... Atchison, pf...) Atchison’ Adiustinents . Baltimore & Onio....... Brookiyn Rapid Transit Canada Southern Chesapeaxe & Ohio...) ©... C.& St. Louls | Chicago, B&Q... Chicago& Northwestern ist > 186 igs 139 18934 orl i . iS ia & St. Paul, Chicago, R. I. & Pa ay Del.. Luck & W. Delaware & Hudeor Den. & Kio Grande, Ere Geuerai Kiecttic. Lino Central Lake Shore... Loutevilie & Ni x Metropolitan ‘Traction. Manhattan ilevatea Missouri Pacife MK. & T., pid. tional Lead Co iew Jersey Centr New } ork Central. Northern Pacin. Northern Pacific, pfa Pacific Matt... Phila. & Reading: Southern Kailway. Southern Ky., pta Texas Pacific. Tenu. Coa! & Iron. Union Pacide. Union Pacite, pfa U.S. Leather, ptd U 8. Kubbei Rubber, pta » pid. Western Uuion tei % Federai Steel... % Federal Steel, pia. 76%, 6 American Cotton Oil Bay 4 A.S. Wire........... ‘ B36 Bois Am. Steel aud Wire pia. ri 14 ceeded lite ington Steck Exel s regular call 12 0 1 Gs, $1,000 at re $1,500 at .$t Washing s A bends, Sian a West End Na- Bank, 10 at 92. Ri ~ Insurance, 31 at Lincoln Fire Insurayce, 100 at 10%. 100 at 10 mn, Wat Sf, 20 at Sw, oe me preferred ‘apital Traction, 4 call Metropoti Metropol M ny ¢ Ratlrond ¢ Am Washington Washington tix, 11% Wid Wash 115. bla. ae bid. Ameri, “appl Natio: Kank of Washing Me} bid. Central, Farmers ISS bid, 184 asked ond, 145 145 bid. ¢ bid. , 125 bid. “West End. ed. 102%) bid. Lincoln, asked Safe Deposit aud Trust Conpani Deposit and ‘Crust, 111 bid. U2 ask Loan and ‘Trust, 127 bid, 129 asked. —Nattonal Se’ d. Wastin; American S curity aud Trust, 155 bid Insurance Stocks.—Firewen's, 28 bid. 39 bid, 45 asked. “Metropolitan, 75 bid 5a bid. mac, 58 bid, 6 asked. Arlington, 1 Did, Mics asked. “German. .. 200 bid.” Na- tiouat Union, 10 bid. 12 asked. Columbia, 11 Wid, 11% asked. “Riges, 7% bid, 8 asked. People's, 534 bid, G asked. Lincoln, 10% bid, 10% asked. Com” meteial, 4 bid. ‘Title Tusurance 8 Columbia Tite. Railroad Stocks Real Estate District Tite, 2 asked, ‘ayital ‘Traction Compa 10's asked. Metropolitan, x134% bid, 1 Columbia, 65 bid, 75 asked. “Ki Georgetown and Tenleviown, 15 asked d Bleciric Light Stocks.--Washington Gas, M4 asked. U. 8. Electric Light tle, SO bid, 130 asked. Telepb Stocks.—Cbesapeake and Potoma: Big bid. Pennsylvania, 38 bid, 50 aske Miscellaneous Stocks.—Mergeut! 1025, bid. 198% asked. Lanston , 3G asked. Ameri 134, asked. American . 1444 asked. Pneumatic Washington Market, Did. Norfolk and Wash x Ex dividend. Steamboat — in, Provisions and Cotton Markets. Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., bankers and brokers, 1419 F st., members New York stock exchange, correspondents Messrs. La- denburg, Thalmann & Co., New York, CHICAGO, December 6.—Grain: + og ae Low. Close, 5 Be ges =p Open. ‘Low. Close, : io Ss SS + 990 865 950 850 - 61 BAT 542 5.12 fe ee ae 485 4.77 4.77 NEW YORK, December 6. 2 $45 5.40 Sal hed AT 544 G48 Bio Bae Ree hee