Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, January 13, 1900, Page 3

The Peraii-Review. MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS - Sudden friendships seldom have smooth sailing. Young men should go for hard work and forego idle pleasure. Marriage is the one thing required to complete a girl's education. If the husband foots his wife’s bills she should at least foot his hosiery. The man who tends a dumb elevator is apt to pass many good things up. The grandson may be too young to have hair and the grandfather too old. Pronounced differences are under- stood to have begun at the tower of Babel. < No man ever attains such a high po- sition but some one will call him down. He who runs may read—but it is safer to occupy a seat during the perusal. June 27 is selected as the date for the prohibition convention. Bad time of year to be thirsty. The Boston Globe says, “Once more the vote’s the thing.” Not to catch consciences within, however. Fathers have observed that the ris- ing son and the sinking fund part com- pany very soon after being introduced. The coquette finds more to interest her in the attentions denied her than she does in those lavished upon her. Parisians now proudly assert that their coming exposition will be the greatest in history. It ought to be. They have had the world’s fair to study and to pattern after. Absent-mindedness has seldom been a fame or money making venture to its possessor. Nevertheless, the poem, “The Absent-Minded Beggar,” which Mr. Kipling contributed to a London newspaper for sale, has already brought in a fund of $50,000 for the needy families of the soldiers sent to South Africa. The pccm is recited nightly at ten music halls, and sung to Sir Arthur Sullivan’s music at half a dozen more. Ignatius Donnelly, the man who dis- covered that Bacon wrote Shakespeare, has come forward again with another book upon the Baconian cipher. Any fair-minded critic who reads Mr. Don- nelly’s book will be convinced that a clear interpretation of the mystic dramas can be obtained by reading them with the book held upside down, muluplying the total number of letters’ by the cubic root of the commas, and then sleeping over night with Mr. Don- nelly’s explanaticn under the pillow. It is reported that an English firm has erected a large plant at Fargo, N D., in which to reduce flax straw be- fore it is sent east for manufacture into Manila paper. Farmers of tha state are said to have harvested an im- mense crop of flax this year, and, ir view of their present success, it is thought that the acreage ie oica te fiax culture will be greatiy augmentec next season, all of which means les: wheat, but, then, North Dakota is making strenuous efforts to get aheac in the production of flax fiber, linsee¢ oi. and starch, With this end in view circulars have been sent to easterr capitalists calling attention to the bounty law which goes into operatior next April, and which provides for the payment of a bounty on all the starct made and flax fiber reduced in the state during and after that month. One of the Japanese delegates now in this country for the purpose of hav- ing the tax rate of 10 cents a pound on tea imported to this country modified, gives it as his opinion that the trade between the two countries is greatly hampered, if not threatened, by the present tax rate, resulting as it does, says the delegate, in the greatest hard- ships to tea merchants in Japan. Last year the average price of tea in the Japanzse markets was $12.50 per 133 pounds, while the tax on tea is now $13.30 for the same amount, so that the tax amcunts to more than the orig- inal price of the tea. While the Unit- ed States le imposing this tax on tea he said, Japan is admitting American cotton free. Last year the Japanese took about $7,500,000 of our cotton, anj during the first six months of this year the imports of cotton from the United States amounted to about $5,- 000,000, all of which came in free of duty. While the Japanese government has levied a heavy tax on tobacco, that was done as a measure of financial exigency, and tobacco does not form an item of special importance in the Japan-American trade, “Vicarious sacrifice” seems to be the order of the day in the South African war. The Scotch and Irish regiments have suffered most of all the British troops, while the German and Scan- dinavian contingents have been the heaviest losers on the Boer side. Philip D. Armour, it is said, has come to the aid of the Squire company of Boston, and the very announcement of his support has already somewhat eased the financial eituation which threatened to upset the goo¢@ old Mas- eachusotis town. FOR 1900—W. J. BRYAN AND THE JACKSON DAY CELEBRATION. The Great Minneapolis Banquet and Ex- position Rally—Twin City Political Factions Lead to Governor Lind’s De- termination to Refuse a Renomina- tion—Government for the People, of the People and by Them, Shall Not Perish From the Earth—National Chairman Jones’ Tribute to the Re- form Forces in Minnesota—Here and There With People and Leaders—The Week's Resume of State and Natiopval Politics. Reform Press Bureau. St. PAvL, Jan. 8, 1990. ONWARD, CHRISTIAN SOLDIER! The Anglo-Saxon Christians, with Gat- ling gun and sword, In serried ranks are pushing on the gospel of the Lord; On Africa’s soil they press the foe, in war’s terrific scenes, And merrily the hunt goes on throughout the Philippines! * * # & @ Then onward, Christian soldier! through fields of crimson gore, Behold the trade advantages beyond the Open Door! The profits on our ledgers outweigh the heathen loss; Set thou the glorious Stars and Stripes above the ancient Cross! —William Lloyd Garrison, Boston, By the time these lines are before state readers all ‘‘roads to Rome” will lead to Minneapolis for the greeting to our great chieftain, Hon. W. J, Bryan, or be filled with the enthusiastic hosts returning to the battle for American- ism for which, at the dawning of the new year, there are so many omens of victory. For the benefit of those who may receive this letter before it shall reach all the press, as well as for indi- cation of what the occasion has been, the following authentic statement of the programme is made: Mr. Bryan comes on the invitation of the State League of Democratic clubs, of which William Banquet Baldwin is president. He will speak at both ban- quet and Exposition meeting, those programmes being so arranged as not to conflict. Mr. Baldwin will say the word of welcome at the banquet, and his honor, Mayor James Gray, will act as toastmaster. Banquet speakers will be Mr. Bryan, Governor Lind, National Committeeman Thomas D. O’Brien, Hon. J. E. Ryan of Wisconsin, and Hon. Charles A. Towne. It will also be widely known that Governor Lind has fixed and announced his determination to retire from polit- ical action, and not to be a candidate for re-nomination. It will probably be quite well known what has led Gov- ernor Lind to this course. Suffice it to say that 1t is due to the governor’s de- sire for better things than bickerings and quarrels over appointments to of- fice, and the aversion he has to associa- tion with that class of men who see in the public service only what there is in it for them, regardless of the great good of the general public. It is no se- sret that from the time of retirement from congress he steadfastly turned his face from political action, and only yielded on each former occasion to ap- peals to duty and conscience for serv- ice to the state he so dearly loves. This he feels that he will have fully discharged by the close of his term, It is easy to imagine what will be the feeling of the people throughout the state, when they understand what the governor has undergone during the past year, and realize the result of Twin City factions and dirty politics. The first gun for 1900, and how do you like it? Our distinguished visiting statesmen, Senator Jones, General Stevenson and General Hardin, before returning hume met the local Democracy of Hennepin, called together by Chairman Elijah Barton. To the writer each visitor ex- pressed his satisfaction of the political situation in Minnesota, as he had had opportunity to judge it. Senator Jones highly complimented those at the front of our organizations, and said that there was not a state in the Union in as good shape as Minnesota, in his opinion. We have received from Hon. Erving Winslow, Eastern secretary of the Anti- Imperialist League, the proof sheets absolute of the criminality of the Mc- Kinley administration in causing the Philippine war. The witness to prove this terrible arraignment is Otis. whose official reports reveal that McKinley's proclamation of ‘‘sovereignty” caused the outbreak, and that Otis, hoping to allay the suspicions of the Tagals, actu- ally suppressed those words from the president’s proclamation so as to de- ceive the Filipinos and make them think our government really intended to give them independence until such time as we were ready to prevent any outbreak. A¢eneral Otis says he en- deavored to do this, but the truth leaked out through General Miller, a subordinate, who used the real procia- mation, hence the outbreak. All is fully proven by the official documents, and it is these, we have no doubt, that Senator Pettigrew aims to place before the senate. Wassuch infamy ever be- fore known? The Boers, with a population of 150,- 000 souls have 50,000 soldiers, while England, with 40,000,000 people, has 80,000 soldiers in the field, and more may be coming.’ But the Boers have more than soldiers, or people, or gold— they have God and liberty on their side. Patriotic and liberty-loving St. Paul- ites are afire with the pro-Boer senti- ment, Very little Toryism in the nemo oni zi City. Likewise fewer and fewer and other sup; of Lop McKinley policies, - The Reform forces of St. Paul, deter- mined to wrest the city government from Republican hands that haye dis- graced the city, are making ready for the spring campaign. The disposition on all hands tosink personal differences and to unite with the one fixed purpose of overthrowing the mis-rulers, is most encouraging. There will this year be but one battle cry with Democrats of all shades, with Populists and with in- dependents, namely. *‘St. Paul must be redeemed.” As the case now stands, Republican “feenanciering” will close the St. Paul public schools long before the close of the school year, as the Minneapolis G. O. P, did last year. Out with it! Wabasha did not have an election— only a bank failure. Another bank gone Republican. The total failures from the recent panic footed $216,000,000, including losses from shrinkage in stocks, and yet the ‘“‘commercial reports” scarcely re- ferred to the matter, and their weekly and monthly aggregates of failures were only about the normal. How per- fectly reliable, to be sure. In the list of concerns recently taking the gold standard treatment was the far famed proprietors of ‘St. Jacobs’ Oil,” failing for $2,000,000. Great is the gold cure! Forit beat St. Jacob’s Oil. The regular organization in Ken- tucky seems to be distinctly in it. Blackburn returned to the senate and Goebel taking the Republican gover- nor’s place, will be a good start for complete redemption of ‘‘Old Kaintuck” in November. Secretary Gouge’s report claims re- juction of the national debt $5,000,000 im December. Let’s see. He bought $25,000,000 of bonds (debt) in December. Hence, instead of actually reducing the debt by that sum, it has considerably increased. The petition to this great and good administration for pardon for members of the Fifteenth met with a deaf ear. Our good friend Major Elwin would have succeeded better if laboring for release of counterfeiters and sy ‘dicate swindlers. Secretary Gouge has been fc'sed by the storm of protest to withd’ w the “million a day” favor to the 2ocke- feller bank, but. has’ nevertheless gone ahead distributing the goverament money to the pet national banks. ‘There is $20,000,000 of this, in a single month, which money the banks have without a cent of interest, to loan out for as big interest as opportunity will allow. How long, oh Lord, how long? Admiral Dewey has done himself and his new wife out of the finest thing of their lives by not accepting the St. Paul Carnival invitation. Can it be that Tams Bixby has come and gone, without a single recrait for the Oklahoma boarding stable? He might have taken the disappointed ed- itor of The Dispatch. That brave old fighter for the people, Blackburn of Kentucky, has the con- gratulations of every liberty-loving Minnesotan, on his return to the senate. Aforetime they said, Oh that mine enemy would writea book. Now, up in the Seventh district, it is, Oh that he would get mixed up in a governmen: building site tangle. Apply to one Eddy for particulars. In the death of Nelson Williams of Minneapolis, humanity lost one of its noblest friends, and the Republican party added another to its many sins of commission; for poor Williams un- doubtedly died of a broken heart, from having been deprived of the postoffice appointment. Promised it by Knute Nelson, and as Mr, Williams said, by McKinley himself, Loren Fletcher needed the appointment in his business, and poor Nelson Williams went tio his grave the victim of party ingratitude and broken promises. Appeal to Reason points ont that, as the only raise in wages has been, asa rule, by those corporations which have immensely raised prices of their pro- ducts, there has in reality been no raise in effect. Thus, if the wage raise hus been 10 per cent, and the product raise 20 per cent, the effect has been a reduc- tion of 10 percent. As a matter of fact the raise in all articles of consumption has been many times 10 per cent, and in general there has been no salary or wage increase. Without any doubt the great toiling masses and the smaller dealers and small salaried classes were never so badly off in this country as at the present time, if the real facts were known. In boosting the prices of stoves the concerns are explaining that trust ar- ticles are the cause, the following ad- vances having been made in articles used by stove manufacturers, since the last stove raise, six months ago: Materials. Per cent Pig iron.. +. 125 . 81 - 132 Pipe fittings. An Oils. -100 Steel! 109 din plat . 7% Nails .. 170 Bolts. JL Pipe.. . &t Rivets. .110 Every article given is trust controlled and prices arbitrarily raised at will. How do the people like this? The state dairy department’s ‘‘Happy New Year” is devoted to continuing the enforcement of the pure food laws, without ‘‘fear or favor.” With refer- ence to the baking powder ‘‘war,” the department will simply enforce the law as far as it is possible to do, and in so doing will have no intention of favor- ing one side or the other of the con- tending interests. G. S.C, at ee e VERY HARD PRESSED BOERS MAKE A DETERMINED AT- TACK ON LADYSMITH. British Public Face to Face With the Critical Moment in the Cam- paign—Next News May Be the Fall of Ladysmith—White Beats the Enemy Off at First, but They Re- newed Their Attack With Rein- forcements—Gen. Baller Makes a Demonstration Against Coleuso. Lerdon, Jan. 9. — Gen. Buller has wired the war office the following, dated Jan, 6, from Frere Camp: “The following message received from Gen. White at 1 p. m. to-day: “Jan. 6, 11 a. m.—Attack continues and enemy has been reinforced from the south.’ “The following was received at 4 this afternoon from Gen. White: “Jan. 6, 12:45 p. m.—Have beaten enemy off for the present, bw still around me in great numbe cially lots to the south, and I think re- newed attack very probable.’ “The sun has failéd and I cannot get further information from Ladysmith until to-morrow.” ae London, Jan. 9—-Gen. Buller sends the following from Frere Camp, dated yesterday “This is from White, dated Sunday, 3:15 p. m.: . ‘Attack renewed; am very hard pressed.’ “I have absolutely no more news and there is no sun. There is a camp ru- mor that White defeated the enemy at 5 o'clock and took 400 prisoners. [ sent all availabie troops Saturday to make a demonstration at Colez The trenches there were all occupied by the enemy.” Fall of Ladysmith Feared. London, Jan. 9.—The British public is at last face to face with a critical moment in the campaign. It may safely be said that at no previous time has there been such anxious suspense as was showed between the arrivai of news bearing date of Ladysmith. The week opens with only fresh additions to the disasters that have befallen British Arms, and there is no longer any sustaining confidence to buoy up public opinion. The editorials this mor.ing fairly reflect the extreme gravity of the situation with a painful undercurrent of neryous foreboding, mainly caused by the fact that while the Boers have now changed their tactics and assumed the offensive, Gen, Buller is apparently unable to do more to assist Gen. White than in making a demonsiration. The Morning Post says: “He might as well have ordered a Gisplay of fireworks.” Great Britain has to face the te ble pessibility that the next news will be the fall of Ladysmith. The dis- quieting feature is that the Boers seem to have had sufficient forces to deter Gen. Buller from attacking, while they themselves made strenuous efforts to reduce the town. In the presence of this enormous situation, even Gen. French’s disaster, of which apparently the worst has not yet been heard, as- sumes quite minor importance in the eyes of the public. ‘he war office has already Gecided upon immediate steps for sending an Hight regiment infan- try division to South Africa. Heaviest Yet Recorded. Leudon,( Jan. 9, — A dispatch to the Daily Chronicle m Frere Camp “Saturday’s bombardment of Lady- smith was the heaviest yet recorded. All the heavy guns were “work ng and the Boers seem to be pouring in shells from every evailable lighter gun.” -0- London, Jan. 9.—aA special dispaich from Frere uD dated Saturday at 7:20 p. m.. say “Gen. White THeISEAADLA that he de- feated the Boers this morning. They crept up so close to ihe defending forces that the Gordon Highlanders and the Manchesters actually repulsed them at the point of the bayonet.” Baller Attacks. Colenso. Frere Camp, Jan. 9. — At 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon an = alarm AS sounded in Chieveley Camp and all the treops in the camp turned out promptly and advanced into the plain. -0- Londen, Jan. 9.—A special dispatch from Frere Camp, dated Saturday at 7 WS: Yelock this afternoon Gen. 's division marched out of camp to Taek Colenso. Gen, Hildyard’s brigade was on the left and Gen. Bar- ton’s on the right, with alry on the extreme right. The attack was slowly ‘developed, and at 4:30 the British field guns advanced on the center and com- merced shelling the Boer position on the flat land between Hlawan hill and Fort Wylie. About this time a ‘heavy thunderstorm zed over the enemy's positions. At 5:30 our troops were still advancing and had reached a point very near Colenso. The neval 4.7 and field guns were busily dropping shells into the enemy’s trenches along the river and the forts of the enemy had made no reply.” British Retreat From Dordrecht. Leurenzo Marquez, Jan, 9, — A dis- patch from the Boer headquarters near Dordrecht says: “The British have been compelled to retreat from Dor- drecht. Fighting continues around Colesburg, where the British occupy some of the outside kopjes. Bullets are dropping inside the town.” 5 French Meets a Reverse. London, Jan. 9.—The war office pub- lishes the following dispatch from Gen. Forestier-Walker, commanding at Cape Town, which is Gen. French’s re- port. under date of Jan. 6: “The situation is mush the same as yesterday, but I regret to report that a serious accident has happened to the First battalion of the Suffolk regiment. From news just come to hand from them I gather that with the authority and with the knowledge of Gen. French four comparies of the First pattalion advanced by night against a low hill one mile from their camp. They attacked at dawn. Lieut. Col. Watson, commanding, gave orders to charge. He was at once wounded. Orders for retizement were given. ‘Three-quarters of the fcrce retreated to camp. The remainder. held their ground until they were overpowered by greater numbers, when they sur- rendered. Seventy were taken pris- oners, including seven officers. Geu. French reports that the Boer com- mando which made the attack Jan. 4 lost fifty killed, besides wounded and prisoners. ‘The commando was dis- persed.” GREELY ASSAULTED. Chief Signal Officer in a Serious Condition. Washington, Jan. 9. — Gen. A. W. Greely, the signal service officer of the ‘army and the well known Arctic ex- plorer, lies in a serious condition at his home as the result of an assault committed on him about 8:30 o'clock last night by Joseph ©, Furnace, a messenger in the employe of th a- ams Express company. Yesterday Furnaee, who lives in Baltimore, in company with a friend named George Murphy, spent the day in Washington drinking until late in the afternoon, when they started for a disreputable portion of the town. They lost their way and finally reached the north- western section of the city beyond the state, war and navy departments. They first tried to get admission to the residence of E, D. King, but being un- able to do so, continued on their way up G street. ‘Twice they went to the horse of Gen. Greely. The first at- tempt to obtain admission was made as a friend of the family calling to pay a visit to the daughter of the general. Later they made another effort and persisted in ringing the door bell and otherwise creating a disturbance until finally Gen. Greely came out to ex- postulate with them. They refused to leave the house, and after seme words Furnace seized the general and threw him down the long flight of steps which ascend from the pavement to the hocse, which stands on a high ter- race, he fall cut a severe gash in the back of the general’s head. He was picked up and taken into the house and medical aid summoned. He re- mained unconscious for about an hour. Murphy, who was with Furnace, took no part in the assault, but when he saw what his companion had done, took to his heels and ran away. Fur- nace is a young man twenty-three years old and his run for the express Baltimore and company is between Cincinnati. He offers no excuse for his act. Ae was arrested and locked up in the police station. The attend- ing physician says Gen. Greely will un- doubtecly recover. THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers, Jan. 9. St. Paul, Northern, ¢ ern, 63 3-446: 28 1-2@29¢; Ne No. 8 white, 22 3-4@23 1-4 barley, 31@32 1-2c; 35¢e; No. 2 rye, 47 1-2@4 rye, 46@46 1-2 Duluth, Jan. 66 1-4¢; No. 1 Northe Northern, 62 v to arrive, N Northern, 643-4¢; } de; July, ; oats, 22 — Wheat 3. ynd Nye—lreed malting grade, 33@ S-4te; No. 8 1 hard, arrive, May, to 1.43 1-2; $147 1 Minneapolis, ary closed at — Wheat—Janu- ic; May opened at 671-Se and closed at 667-Se; July opened at G8 1-2¢ and closed 68 1-4¢. On track--} 1 hard, 673-8e; No, 1 Northern, 657-8c; No. 2. Northern, 63 3-8e. Milwaukee, W Jan. 9. — Flour is steady. Wheat higher; No. 1 Northern, Gc; No. 2 Northern, 64 @ 651 Rye quiet Barley tirm; No. 2, 45¢; s Oats quiet; No. 2 whit Chicago, G7 1-268 1 No. 2 ha 1 Northern sp: orthern spring, G7@68 1-2 al eS 2 an. 9. — Cattle — Cc hicag a 3eeves, $4.30€6.60; cows and heifers, $3.25@ 5; steckers and feeders, $3@4. Texas fed beeves, $4.10@ Hogs— 50; good Mixed and butcher to see ce ites AVY. 4.50; rope heavy, ht, $4. 4.42 1- FE Sheep, $4. 40G5. Hy i uns $4. Sicux Cit Towa, Jan. 9. — Gattis = Beeves, $4.50@5.51 cows and bulls, mixed, stockers and feeders, 40; calves and yearlings, $4@ $4.15 @.4.271-2; bulk, Paul, Jan. 9. — Hogs — attle — Bulls, $2.60@3.15 $4.25@4.45; stocl 30; cows, $2.40@ calves, 3 Steer ers, $4; heifers, $3@ 3.85. Lawton ‘Fund Near the Limit. Washington, Jan. 9.—The total sub- scription to the Lawton fund to date amounts to $48,433.32. Gen. Corbin says that although active ¢iforts to in crease the fund have ceased, volun- tary contributions will be accepted up to the time of Mrs. Lawton’s arrival in San Francisco. PERISH ID Three Residents of New York Lose Their Lives. New York, Jan. 9.—A tenement house fire in East Ninety-second street re- sulted in three deaths and seven per- sons being injured. A FIRE. Maniac Uses a Revolver. New York, Jan. 9.—Philip W. Rose, who, two years ago, spent considera- ple time in an insane asylum at Jack- soLville, I, shot and killed his wife at her father’s home here and tried to | shoot her father, and then shot him- self. Dr. Fee Not D Richmond, Ky an. 9.—The reports sent out last week that Rev. Dr. Fee, the founder of Berea college and the noted abolitionist, was dead, were not correct. Dr. Fee is recovering. Many floral tribuies have been sent to Berea. Dr. McGlynn Dead. Newburg, N. Y., Jan. 9.—Rey. Dr. Edward McGlynn, rector of St. Mary’: church, died at the rectory at 5:20 yesterday afternoon after an illness of about seven weeks of heart failure superinduced by Bright's disease. WORK OF CONG: Washington, Jan. 4.—The evinced a disposition yesterd: Ly to up the work of the session in ear and, while the sitting was of or little more than an hour's duratio large number of important bills \ introduced and a foundation laid proceeding with the financial bill lixing the hcur for beginning deh: on this measure for 2 o'clock to-da- The most notable event of the day w: a protest entered by Mr. Hoar of M: sachusetts to the summary dispositi of resolutions asking for informatk about the conduct of the Philippir war. He indicated a purpose to d mand consideration for such measure even at the expense of the tinanci. bill. The 10th inst. was named us tl day for delivery of eulogies in meinoi of the late Vice President Hobart. In the House. The house was in session only fifiec miputes yesterday, and Guring th: time had a little flurry over an atten: by Mr. Sulzer of New York to sé consideration for a resolution for information concerning the tions of the treasury departmen The resolutioin was referred to committee on ways and means. Washington, Jan. 5.—In accerdai with the notice previous him, Senator Aldrich yest the discussion of the fin: the senate with a speech in explant tion of the senate substitute for U house bill. The speech was carefu prepared and was read from m: script. It was delivered in a cle: distinct tone but without any effo oratory. Senators present gave careful attention, but no one interrn ed him with questions or otherw, during the deliv nor did an manifest a disposition to reply he had concluded. After Mr. Aldri concluded the senate adjourned un Monday for the purpose, it is unde: stood, of giving those may wish to re ply to the Rhode island senator an op portunity to study his presentation the subject. The Pettigrew resolution concerning the Philippines went over until Mor day, when it is understood some sena tors will be asked to be heard on the general Philippine question. Senator Beveridge also gave notice of a speech for Tuesday on the Philippine ques- tion, prefa i lution de the subject. In the House. The house sion was again yester ing the adoption of the ‘Sulzer reso tion introduced Wednesday allin upon Secretary Gage for all inform tion regarding the deposit of ment funds in certai national banks. adopted was made more ¢ scope and an amendment w to sover information respec ns relating to th York om house site. Gage’s friends had been info he courted the fullest inv« very bri and was prepared to submit all th details to congress. Accordir er was no friction over the resolution, which was unanimously vania introduecd ‘the fol resolution: ‘Resolved, et thenks of eongress ar dered to Rear Admirz Sempson and Commodor Scott Schley and the offic under them for the destruct Spanish fleet at Santiago.” Washingten, Jan. / 6. — The committee en privileges and elc yesterday decided by a vote of 4 to to make an adverse report upon the resolution to seat Senator Quay. Th resclution was as follows: “That Matthew S. Quay be admitt a senator from the State of Penn in accerdance with his appointrn on April 29, 199, by the govern: state.” The members of the committee votin for the resolution were Senators Chand ler, Hoar and McComas, and those ops posing Senators Burrows, Caffrey, Pettu and Harris. Senators Turley and Pritch ard were paired, the latter for and th former against the resolution. No definite time was set for the pre sentation cof the committe the senate. The minority a report, and the unde the minority shall be notified by the jority when it is ready to put in it port. Senator Burrows, the only Repub jican on the committee who voted the resolution, will prepare the repo the majority, and Senator Hear that © the minority. The Clark Case. Washi: gton, Jan. 5.—The senate cor mittee on privileges and elections to-d: began its investigation of charge bribery made in connection with th tion of Beretor Clark of Montar preceedings were begun by arg from counsel en both sides. Mr. himself was present wi is forn.er Senator Faulkner of W ginia. Senator Edm. ap leading coursel for ti.- making the first staterr~>+ in the memorial presented « He said the con pleinan. able to prove all the ciarges and to shor that Mr. Clark’s election was obtainec by the Ilberal vse of money, and tha’ large sums of money were furnished tc this end by Clark. Ex-Senator Faulkner made the forma statement on behalf of M~. Clark. He reviewed the politics of Montana, refer- ring to the “Daly gang and the Cian faction’’ in the Democratic politics of th stute. It was, he said, an acknowledge fact that opponents of Mr. Clark in th state had determined to prevent his pe Ntical preferment, regardless of all th proprieties. It would be shown that no’ withstanding that charges were made bribery against some fifty per: cluding thirty-eight members of the lature, there had been no proceeding against any of the men involved in any © the Montana courts. This was cvidences—-== that the present proceeding was not si tained by the public sentiment. He cc tinued: “The prosecution was conceived in womb of personal malice, rocked in t cradle of personal hate and nourishe upon corruption and jealousy.” Killed His Neighbor. Evansville, Ind. ter, a farmer of Posey county, sho killed Frank Spottsville, a neighb: Rutter was trespassing on Spot ville’s farm, and when ordered off di his revolver and fired. He trie: escape across the river to Keutics but was captured by Sheriff Thor just as he reached the river and is »: in jail at Mount ¥ernon,’ Jan, 9.—James Rue