Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 19, 1887, Page 1

" THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE THE CRIMES BILL. Full Text of the Measure as Passed Through it Committee. THE LAW AS IT WILL S1AND. A Document of the Greatest Interest to Irish-Americans. THE CROWN PRINCE'S LARYNX What Prof. Virchow Has to Alleged COancer. Say of the IT IS ONLY A WARTY GROWTH. Emperor Williams Proclaims the Bitting of the Reichstag at an End —The Leipsic Prisoners Sen- Text of the Crimes BillL Copyright 1557 by James Gordon Bennett.) LONDON, June 18.—(New York Herald Cable—Special to the Ber.|—1 am enabled to send you an authorized official co; y of the crimes bill as it passed the committee, It will undoubredly pass the house as it now reads, and of course the lords also soon afterwards. Your readers must first bear in mind that the first six sections, called here clauses, have alone been considered in com- miftee. ‘I'he whole remaining sections have been reported by the operation of cloture to the house for consideration on third read- ing without opportunity to amend in com- mittee of the whole. Of course certain amendments may be mow named, but with the party in power there 1s less proclaimed, ‘T'he district attorney gen- eral of Ireland may, if he thinks fit, by an order in wnting, under his direct resident magistrate, of whose legal knowledge and experience the lord chancellor shall be satis- fied, hold Inquiry under this section, and thereupon such resident magistrate may, it he 8o thinks fit, although no person may be charged before him with the commission of such crime, sit at police court, when the offensc has been committed, in Dublin, or in the place where the petty sessions for the petty sessional district in which said offense has been committed are usually held, and ex- amine one or the other concerning such offense any person whom he has reason to believe to be a scope for them. 7The proba- bilitles, therefore, are that all the now un- considered sections—7 to 20—will pass as they now read--thatis to say, in torty-one sittings, One hundred and fifty-three lines have been passed by commons and 292 lines more have to be swallowed under cloture, or, as Americans term it, the previous question. INQUIRY. A bill to make better provision for the pre- vention and punishment of crime in Ire- land and other purposes relating thereto; Be It enacted : Section 1. Where sworn information has been made that any offense to which this section applies has been committed incapa- ble of giving material evidence concerning such offense other than any person confess- ing himself or herself to be the offender, or husband or wife of such person, and shall make a statement of such witness, and if he see cause, may bind the same witness by his own recognizances; provided, that mno sitting of any inquiry under this section shall commence, except between the hours of 10 and 6; provided, that a short- hand writer shall be in attendance atsuch inquiries, and shall take down the questions of the magistrate and the answers of each witness; provided, also,that upon any person being accused of crime respecting which an Inquiry under this section has been held,such accused person, or his solieitor, upon being returned for trial, shall forthwith be supplied with copies of all depositions taken in any fuquiry under this section of any witness to be called against him. The enactments con- tained In petty sessions of Ireland, act of 1851, section 13, relating to compelling atten- dance of witness before a justice, and re- quired togive evidence concerning the matter of information or complaint for an indictable offence, or concerning the matter of an infor- mation or complaint In.respect of an offence punishable upon summary conviction, as the case may be, shall apply for the purposes of this section as it they were re-enacted herein, and in the terms made applicable thereto; provided, that in case a warrant shall be Issued for the arrest of any witness In the first instance, and without a summons having previously been served and dis- obeyed, such witness shall, on demand, be entitled to receive from the resident magis- trate holding the inquiry, a copy of the in- formation or complaint on which the war- rant for his arrest issued. When a witness Is examined at an inquiry under this section who Is under the age of twelve years, the par- ent or guardian of such witness, or the rela- tive friend with whom such witness ustally resides, shall be entitled to attend at such Inquiry. A resident magistrate holding an Inquiry under this section shall himself con- duct such inquiry, and shall not permit other persons to question or examine any witness. A witness examined under this section shall not be excnsed from answering any question on the ground that the answer thereto may eriminate, or tend to criminate, himself; provided, that the witness who an- swers truly all questions which he 1s required to answer, shall be entitled to a certificate of Indemnity, under the hand of the magistrate making such examination, stating that sucn witness has so answered. And sueh certifi- cate of indemnity shall be a bar to all crim- 1nal proceedings, and proceedings for recov- ery, and penalty in respect to any offence as to which such person has been examined in such inquiry, and any confession or answer by the person to whom the question is put at such examination, shall not. except in the way of eriminal proceeding for perjury com- mitted at or after the bholding of such fnquiry, be In any proceeding, civil or criminal, admissable in cvidence against such persou or the husband or wife of such person; provided, if any person has been charged with the commission of a crime “which is the subjeet of inquiry, no witness is compelled to answer who has been called to give evidence for the defense of such accused person, except with the consent,of the wit- ness under examination; nor persons other than the magistrate and other official per- eons shall be present at such inquiry save as aforesaid. The witness examined under this section concerning an offense shall not be required to answer any question which he wmight lawfully refuse to answer on the ground of privileze if he were being exam- ined as & witness at the trial of a person charged with that offense. A mazisirate who conducts an examination under this section of a person concerning suy offense, shall pot, if such offense 18 punlshable on summary convict'on, of the charge for that offense, and shall not, if such offense is an_indictable offense, take part in taking the depositions or commiting for trial any person for such offense. In case any witness examined under this sec- tion shall not speak Enclish, the interpreter emplored shall not be a policeman., The oifenses to which this section applies are telony or misdemeanor, and any offense pu isnable under this act committe a pro- claimed district, whether committed before or after passing this act; provided, that no Inquiry shall be held under this sce cerning any offense punishable undert act committed fn any distriet before proclamation of such district unless offense would have been indicta- ble it this act had not passed, and unless such offense was committed since the expiring of the prevention of crime in Ireland, act of 18%2, Every summons under this section shall be in the form of the sched- ule to this act or to take eifect. Every war- rant to commit a witness to prison for refus- ing to answer the questions put him on ex- amination held under this section, shall set out the question which the witness refused to answer. There shall be published quarterly in the Dablin Gazette a return showing the number of inquiries held during the preced- ing quarter, the hours during which such in- quiries have been held, the number of days occupied, the number of witnesses examined, the names of and sentences of persons com- mitted for contempt. and the result if any of each inquiry, SUMMARY JURISDICTION. Section 2. Any person who shall commit the offense mentioned in sub section 3 of this section anywhere in Ireland, or shall commit any of the following offenses in the proclaimed districts, may be prosecuted be- fore a court of summary jurisdiction under this act: Any person who shall take part in any criminal conspiracy, now punishable by Jaw, to compel or induce any person or per- sons to either not fulfill his or their legal ob- ligations, or not let, hire, use or occupy any land, or not deal with, work for, or hire any person or persons in the ordinary course of trade, business and occupation, or interfere with the administration of la any per- son who shall unlawfully with- out legal authority, wuse viclence or int'midation to or towards any person or persons with & view to cause any person or versons to do any act which such person or persons has or have the legal right to abstain from doing, or abstain from doing any act which such person or persons has or have a legal right to do, or towards any person or persons in consequence of his or their having done any act which he or they had a lezal right to do, or if his or their having ab- stained from dofng any act which he or they had a legal right to abstain trom doing; any person who shall take part in any riot or un- lawtul assembly, or. within twelve months after the execution of any writ of possession, of any house or land, shall unlawfully take or hold foreible possession of such house or land, or any part thereof, or shall assault or wilfully and unlawfully resist and obstruct any sherifl, constable, bailitf, process server or other minister of the law while in the ex- ecution of his duty, or shall assault him in consequence of such execution, SPECIAL JURY AND REMOVAL OF TRIAL. Section 3, Whero an indictment for crime committed in a proclaimed district has been found against a defendant, or the defendant has been committed on trial for such crime, andthe trial is to be by jury before a court in Ireland other than a court of quarter ses- sions, the high court shall, on an application by or on behalf of the attorney generalof Ireland or the defendant, make an order that the trial of the defendant or defendants, if more than one, shall be by special jury. Bection 4. Whereas, It is expedient to and the law relating to the place of trial of offences committed 1n 1reland for sccuring more fair and impartial trials, and for reliev- ing jurors from danger to their llves, prop- erty and business, be it enacted: Where an indictment for a crime committed in a pro- claimed district has been found against the defendant or defendants and they have been committed to trial for such crime, and the trial is to be at a courtof assize tor any county in the proclaimed district, orava court of quarter sessions ror any county or borough in the proclaimed district, the high court, on application by or on behalf of the attorney general of Ireland, and upon his certificate that he believes that a more fair and impartial trial can be had at the court of assize in some county to be named in the certificate, shall make an order as of course that the trial shall be had at the court of assize in the county named in the certiticate. 'Tho defendant or defendants if more than one, may in a prescribed man- ner within a prescribed time, apply to the high eourt to discharge or vary any such or- der for *emoval of trial upon the ground that trial can be more fairly and impartially had in a county other than the county named in the order of removal, and thereupon the high court may order that the trial shall be had in any county in which it shall be had inany county in which it shall appear that the trial can more fairly and impartially be bad. PROCLAMATION OF DISTRICTS. Section 5. The lord licutenant,” by and with the evidence of the privy counsei, may, from time to time, when it appears to him necessary for the prevention, detection and punishment of crime and outrage, by procla- mation declare the provision of the act which relate to proclaimed districts, or any of those provisions, to be in force within any speeified part of Ireland as from the date of the proclamation, and the provisions of this act which are mentioned in the procla- wation shall, after said date, ba in forco within such specitied partof Ircland, and that part of Ireland shall be a prociaimed district. When the meaning of the pro- visions 8o mentioned in any such proclama- tion shall be deemed to have expired, if an address be presented to her majesty by either house of parfiament praying that such vroclamation shall not continue in foree, this section shall not apply to the pro- visions of this act relating to dangerous as- sociations. When any of the provisions of section 2 of this act relating to summary jurisdiction are declared by proclamation to be in foree in districts such provisions shall apply to offenses committed in the district after tho passing of this act where befere or after the aate of proclamation when the pro- visions of section 8 and section 4 of this act relating to special jurles or a changed place of trial, are declared by proclamation to be in force in districts, such provisions shall apply to crimes committed in the district be- fore or after passing this act DANGEROUS ASSOCIATIONS AND CRIMES. Scetion 6, If the lord lioutenant Is satistied that any association formed for the commis- sion of erimes, and is carrying on operatious tor or by the commission of erimes, or en- couraging and aiding persons to commit crimes, or promoting or inc:ting aets of vio- lence or intimidation, or interfering with the administration of law or disturbing the maln- tenance of law and order, exists in any part of Ireland, the lord lleutenant, by and with the advice of the privy council, may, from time to time, by proglamation, declare to be dangerous any such association or assoeia- tions nawed or described in sueh proe lamation. Under the authority con- terred om the lerd lieutenant by his section in & district referrlng- take part in the hearing and determination | —TWELVE PAGES. to a special proclamation, copy of every special is proclamation shall be laid before each house of parliament within seven days after the making thereof, if parliament is then settiug; or if not, then anoiher seven daysafter the next meeting of parliament, 1f, within a period of fourteen days after the special procla ion has been laid before parliament, and address presented to her majesty by either house of parliament pray- ing that such speeial proclamation shall not continue in foree as to an association or assoclations named and deseribed therein, such special proclamation shall be deemed to have expired so far the same relates to such tion or associations. Whenever any proclamation is issued under this act of parliament, then separate by suchadjourn- ment or prorogation as will not expire within twenty days, such special proclamations shall be deemed to have expired at theend of a week from the date thereof unless during that week parliament shall be summoned to meet within twenty days from the date of the summons, When a special proclamation ex- pires or is revoked, the powers conferred by the seventh section of this act shall for the time being cease to be in force In respect to the association or associations as to which the special proclamation expired or has been revoked, and any order of the lord lieutenant made under such spec- ial proclamation shall also cease to be in force. The expression “crime” in this sec- tion means any felons or mis-demeanors, and any offense punishable under this act. Section 7. From and after the date of such special proclamation, and as long as the same continues unrevoked or unexpired, the lord lieutenant in eouncil may, from time to time, by an order to be published in the prescribed manner, prohibit or suppress in any district specilied in the order, an; sociation which he believes to be a dangerous association. From and after the date of such order, and during the continuance thereof, every assembly or meeting of such association or of the members of it as such members in the specified district, shall be unlawful. The assembly and association itself shail be an unlawtful association, and every person call- ing & meeting of such association in the specified district, or any members thereof as such members, knowingly taking part In such meeting, or publishing with a view to ypromoting the objects of such association any notice of the calling together of any such meeting, or of the proceedings at such meeting, or contributing, receiving or soliciting in the specified distrist any contri- butions for the purposes of such associations, or in any way taking part in the proceedings thereof in the specitied district or of a branch or meeting of it In such district, shall be guilty of an offense and may be prosecuted before a court of summary jurisdiction under this act. In this section the term “‘associa- tion” includes any combination of persons, whether the same be known by any distine- tive name or not. The lord lieutenantin council may, from time to time, wholiy or In any order made under this sec- Section 8. The peace preservation in TIre- land act, 1881, as amended by the peace pre- servation in Ireland continuance act, 1886, sball continue in force for live years from the passing of thisact and until the end of the next s on of parliament. A warrant under said act in the direction of a search for arms and ammunition in a house, build- ing or other places in the proclaimed district as defined by that actshall be valid in law, notwithstanding that these buildings or places to be searched are not specified thorein further than as being the house. building or place situated in a specified town, eity or municipal ward. PROVISIONS AS TO SPECIAL JURY MOVAL OF TRIAL Section 9. Where, under this act, trial is had by a special jury, flie special jurors: shall be zaken by batlot in the manner provided by the nineteenth section of jurisprudence in Ireland, act of 1876, fromall the jurors in one panel returned by the sheriff from the special jurors' book. Section 10. It any order for removal of trial of crime to any county in Eugland or Ireland or the queen’s bench division, the high court of justice in England or to the central criminal court has been made under this act before an indictment is made, such erime may be inquired of by a grand jury and heard and deter- mined in the county named in the order of removal, or the queen’s bench division, or the central criminal court, as the case may be, in like manner as if the crime had been committed in such county, or in county Middlesex, or within the central crim- inal court district, asthe casemay be: and if the order is made after an indictment is found, such crime may be heard and deter- mined as it the indictment had been found in the court to which the trial is removed. In either case tho defendant may be convicted and sentenced as if the crime had been com~- mitted in the county named in the order of removal or in county Middlesex, or the central criminal court district, as the case may be; but the sentence of the court shall be carried into effect Is if he had been tried in the county in wiieh it would have been tried if the order had not been made, and the defendant shall, if necessary, be removed accordingly 1n purshance of an order of the court in which he has been tried and made for c¢he purpose. Counsel and solicitors qualified to practice in the high court of justice in Ireland, shall when engaged in the prosecution orin the defense of any person whose trial has been removed to any county in England, or the owens bench divisions, or the central erimi- nal court, have the same rights and privileges in the court of assizes for such county, or the queen’s bench division, or the central criminal court as they would have had in court in which tho trial would have taken place If the order of removal had not been made. PUNISHMENT PROCEDURE — DEFINITIONS, Section 11, A person prosecuted before a court of summary jurisdiction under this act, shall bo hable on conviction to imprison- ment without nhard labor for a term not ex- ceeding six months, and shall have the same right to appeal as he would have under the summary jurisdiction acts in case of any other summary conviction. 1f any per- son licensed under the acts relating to intoxicating liquors i3 convicted under this act. such conviction shall be en- tered in the proper register of licenses and may be directed to be recorded on the license of the offender in the same manner, and when recorded shall have tho same effect as it the conviction were a conviction for an offense agalnst those acts, If the offense is prosecuted summarily uonder this act the same shall be prosecuted before a court of sumuwary jurisdiction in the manner pro- vided by the petty sessions of lreland, act of 1851, and not otherwise subject, nevertheless, to the provisions of this section. The pro- ceedings for enforcing the appearance of a person charged and the attendance of wit- nesses for the prosecution shall be the same asf the offense were an indictable offense, Upon every proceeding before a court of suimzary jurisdiction for an offense under this act, the evidence for tne prosecution and defense shall be taken as depositions in the #ame manner as if the offense were an in- dictable offense, and such depositions shall be admlssible 1o evidenco on any appeal. AND RE A court of summary jurisdiction shall, within the police districts of Dublin metropolis, be the divisional high court for that district and elsewhere by two resident magistrates in petty session, one of witom shall be a person of the sufticiency of whose legal knowledge the lord lieutenant shall be satisfiad, and the expression, “resident magistrate,” means a magistrate appointed in pursuance of th of the session of the sixth and seventh of the reign of King William LV, chapter 13, entitled an act to consolidate the laws relating to the constabularly foree in Ireland. Ina hearing determining at any quarter sessions an appeal under this ach, the court judge, heairman of the quarter sessions, or recorder shall sitand act as the sola judge, s the rules of the high court. Any jurisdiction vested be this act in sight cour hall be ex- ercised by the queen’s bench division, and may be exercisad by any judge thereof, Section 12, Any order, notice or other doc- ument of the lord lieutenant under this act may be siznified under his hand or under the hand ot the chief secretary to the lord lleutenant, Every special proclamation under this act shall provide for the manner of proc- lamation, and the notices of proclamation thereof in the manner provided, shall be pub- lished in the Dublin Gazette, the production of the printed copy in the Dublin Gazette purporting to be printed and published by the queen’s authority. The special procla- mation, order or notico under this act shall be conclusive evidence that such proclama- tion is a special proclamation. The order or notice and date thereof, and in case of proc- Ilamation that the district specitied in such proclamation is a proclaimea district, within the meeting of the provisions of this act men- tioned in the proclamation, and in case of proclamation or special proclamation that such proclamation or special proclama- tion has been duly promulgated, and in case an order that it has beenduly made a copy of every proclamation not being a special proclamation shall be laid before each house of parliament within four- teen days after the making thercof, if varlia- ment is then setting, and if not, then four- teen days after the next meeting of parlia- ment. Section 13. Thelord lieutenant, by and with the advice of the privy council, may from time to time by a further proclamation ororder revoke any proclamation or any special proclamation or any order under this act. A copy of eachsuch further proclama- tions shall be laid before parliament within fourteen dayg, if parliament be then setting, and if not, within fourteen days after the next meeting of parliament. Section 14. There shall be paid out of moneys provided by varliament such allow- ances for officers and other persons acting in pursuance of this act, and' such expenses in- curred in reference to amy court exercising jurisdiction under thisaet,and such expenses of persons, charged coumsel and witnesses made payable in pursuance of this aet as the lord lieutenant,with the approval of the com- missioner of her mafjesty's treasury,may from time to time direct. Seetion 15.—The lord lleutenant may from time to time, with the advice of the privy council, make and when made revoke, add to and alter the rules in‘relation to the fol- lowing matters in & ¢ase where a special jury is required or w a trial is removed to any county in and, Ireland, the queen’s bench divis h court of justice of England or tha criminal court: In relation to the a o, tha anéharity and duty of shepiffd.. jullefs, officers and persons, the ‘removal and custody of piisoners, the’ alteration of any writs, precepts fndictments recognizances, proceedings and documents: the transmission of inaic*ments, recaznizan- ces and documents: ihe expenseof witnesses and carrying the sentence into effect; also in case where a special jury is required; the number of jurors so return on any panel, and in the case of removal of trial to the court of assize for the county to England, Ireland or tha queen’s bench division, high court justice of England or the central crimi- nal cour in London, In relation to due pro- visious mude by the prescribed crown solicl- torin the prescribed manner for an advance of money to defray the necessary costs of defense, 80 far as that occasioned by remedial or trial, and for enabling the de- fendant or detendants and witnesses re quired for the defense to attend the trial: in relation to the forms for the purposes of this act, and to any matter by this act directed or vreseribed, and in relation to any matter which appears to the lord lieatenant, by and with the advice aforesatd, to be necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of this act. And the new rules mado pursuant to this act shall judicially noticed be of the same validity as if they were contained in this act. Section 16, Any powers or jurisdiction conferred by this act on any court authority in relation to any trial, offense or matter, shall be deemed by in addition to, and not in derogation of any other powers and juris- diction of any court or authority subsisting at common law, or by act of parliament in relation to such trial, offense or matter; pro- vided no person ghall be punished twice for the same offense. Section 17. Save as provided by this ac- tion the expiration or revocation of any proclamation, speeial proclamation or order shall not affect the validity of anything pre- viously done thereunder. Section 18. Any agreement or combina- tions which under the trade union acts of 1871, 1876, or the conspiracy protection prop- erty act of 1875 In legal, shall not, nor shall any act dome In pursuance of any such agreement or combination, be deemedfto be offense against the provision of this act respeeting conspiracy, intimidation and dangerous associations. Section 19, [This section is simply devoted to express definitions of many words ana phrases occurring imthe act and not neces- sary to cable]. SHORT TITLE. Section 20, This aet may be cited as crimi- nal law and procedure. Ireland, act 1887, NOT OANOEROUS, Prof. Virchow ¥alke of the Crown Prince's Throat. [Copyright 1857 by Jumes Gordon Bennelt. | Berriy, June M.—[New' York Herald Cable—Special to #he Bee.1—No man could desire a greater tribute to his scientific repu- tation that Prof. Virchow recently obtained, not only in Germany, but in England and America as well. Several very eminent med- icai authorities were of ¢he opinion that only a very dangerous dperition could save the crown prince trom death by caucer. Before using this operation the different specialists agreed to submit the case to Virchow's decis- ion. Accordingly three small pieces wers cut from the diseased portions of the throat, each piece in a section not bigger than a pea. It may fairly be said that Germaany held its breath while the scientist looked through his microscope at the minute portions of royalty, For the physicians Virchow wrote out two pazes of reasons why the growth inthe prince’s throat was Larmless and not caucer- ous ip its nature, Bo far as 1 know these reasons are equally convincing to both the cancerite and anticancerite physicians. But the mass of Germans did not want to read the report of the great authority on cancers, They siwply repeated, Virchow says it is not a cancer,” than ran to cheer the crown prince, perfectly eonvineced of security. WIHAT VIRCHOW SAYS. 1 sald to Prof. Virchow that many Ger- man’s in America would like to be assured directly from him of the prince’s safety. He permits me therefore to say to your German readers that he examined three picces show- ing a section of aiseased portion of the prince’s throat. It proved to be a harmless wartlike growth, with nothing ecancerous about it and no suspicion of cancerous growth near it. Cancer could not result from such a growth nor was cancer specially likely to occur near it. Pachy- dermia Verrulas, he thought, a good name for the growth. It grew as e warty mass just where the voiee formed. If neglected it might increase. Lts first effect Was on the voice, but it haa no effect on the generat health, e said he hoped the trouble hada been entirely cured without destroying the voice forming muscles of the throat, just as a similar growth was removed from P Stoecker's—the anti-semet! without narming his voice. Such a growth, Virchow said, could not lead to strangulation, and so far as the larynx was concerned the crown prince might live 1,000 years. Pri- vately Virchow told me a large number of persons suffer in the snme way as the prince, many much more serious cases being known. END OF THE REICHSTAG, The Emperor Closes the Session— Leipsic Prisoners Sentenced (Copyright 1857 by New York Associated Press.] Bereiy, June 18.—The reichstag to-day having disposed of all the business remain- ing on the notice paper, Herr Van Boetticher read an imperial message closing the session. ‘The message expressed the grateful appre- ciation with which the emperor recarded the labors and deeisions of the reichstag, whereby the defense of the empire and its financial position acquired that strength and solidity which were the primary conditions of peace, as they were also of the empire's general development. When the reading was concluded the members separated with three cheers for the emperor. A general re view of the legislation effected and the pe tion of the parties show the strength of the Rovernment, reposing on the support of the three leading groups in the reichstag, is greater than ever. It has been proved dur- ing the debates that tho revenues arising from the spirit and sugar duties will more than cover Increased army expenditures, the spirit tax alone increasing the treasury re- celpts 150,000,000 marks. THE LEIPSIC PRIBONERS SENTENCED. 1n sentencing the Leipsic prisoners to-day, the president of the court referred to the ob- ject of tho patriotic league as being plainly a reconquest of Alsac-Lorraine by an armed force, involving a war of revenge; therefore, persons becoming members shared the de- signs of the league, and if German subjects, were guilty of high treason. In takinga milder view of the position of the accused, the prosecution desired to believe they wera unaware of the significance of their acts. The mildness of the sentences corresponded with the tone of the imperial procurator throughout the trial. THE EMPEROR’S IIEALTIL The Reichsanzelger says the prozress of the emperor toward recovery is slow but noticeable. The language of the announce- ment, though guarded, suggests that the time has come when the emperor must pass away forever from active public duties. Liis phy- a discretion lke his Kfel journey, and order that sthe emperer henceforward undertake no duty that will involve any strain upon him or chance of ex- posure, Remarkable Speed. [Copyright 1857 by James Gordon Bennett.] GLASGOW, June 17.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to the BEE.|—The following is an extract from the Glasgow Evening Citi- zen: “*A remarkable example of the facility with which communication may now be had with America was brought under our notice yesterday afternoon. A Glasgow grain mer- chant handed in a telezram at the office of the Commercial company here at 2:25 o'clock, addressed to a firm in New York. ‘lhe an- swer was received in Glasgow at 3:03 o'clock. ‘I'neanswer was in cipher. It was wired to Liverpool, and thence cabled under the At- lantic to the Wall streot telegraph office,there it was written and sent by messenger some distance off. The receiver had to decipher it by means of a code, write the reply in ac- cordance with the same code, and sent it to Wall street when it was telegraphed to Glaszow. All this was done and the answer obtained in Glasgow in the almost incredibly short space of forty-two inutes. One wonders whether the Mackay-Benuett people do all their work in this fashion. 1f so, we have certainly something to learn from them in the matter of telegraphs in this country.” The O'Callaghan Estates. LoxNpox, June 18,--The agent ot the 0'- Callahan estates at Bodyke. which have been the scene of the recent evictions, writes to the Times, stating that almost all of the ten- ants paid their rent regularly until the Na- tional league incited them to demand 30 per cent reduction, Even then many tenants paid their tull rents secretly and had their Teceipts back dated prior to the league mal date, and some went so far as to implore that ejectments be served on them, although they had paid al), in order to avoid the league's vengeance. *‘The whole resist- ance.” the agent says, ‘‘was due to the ac- tion of the tenants. T havenot the least doubt T could have_effected a peaceful setle- ment but for the mischievous interference of outsiders.” —— Bodyke Tenants Sentenced. DusLiy, June 18.--Several tenants ar- rested at Bokyke tfor resisting the oflicers have been sent to prison at hard labor for terms ranging from one to three months. After being sentenced they were taken to Ennis station under a_heavy escort of police, Crowds of sympathizing people gathered and cheered themn, and became so denonstra- tive that the police were ordered to charge and disperse them. ‘Uhis they did with will and plied their batons so vigorously that sev- eral of the people were injured. The French Army Bill Panis, June 18,—~The chamber of depu- ties has passed clause one of the army bill. It declares it the duty of every Frenchman loxurmnu military service. tter thefpassage of clause one of the army bill, the chaber proceeded to the considera- tion of clause two, which, arter a short de- bate, wis adopted. ‘The clause provides the duration of military service to be twent; years; that the service is to be personal un he same for every one. < e Chicago Boodlers Found Guilty, CuicAGo, June 18,—The jury in the case of the boodlers retired this morning, and this afternoon returned their verdict of gulity, fixing the penalty at three years in the peni- tentiary, When Judge Shepherd resumed his seat on the benceh in response to the no- tice that the jury had agreed upon a verdict, only a couple attorneys were present, the others not expeeting a verdict so soom. Very few people were in the court room, When the verdict was read the defendants seemed for a moment stunned, but soon recovered their composure. A motion for a new trial was at once entered by the defense. Judee Shephexd said he would hear arguments at some tuture time, and, notwithstanaing the protests of the defendants’ counsel, decliped to adwit either McDonald or McGarigle to bail. ‘The decision on this point fell with crushing etfect upon the defendants, their counell ‘and friends. ‘The convieted wen were taken to the county jail, EVERYBODY CAN GRADUATE. How University Education Is Bronght to the Doors of All, ENGLAND'SCOLLEGE EXTENSION Will the United States Adopt the Pro posed Pian—A Letter From Van Wyck on Widows® Pensions, June pecial to the attention has been given here y by the scholors who report tional development in every part of the world for the government's educational bureau, but by the better informed class of public men and all students of social prob- lems and popular edueation to the system of “university extension” in England. The question is asked whetlier or not this does not contain a hint whereby educational work in the United States may be furthered in an unprecedented way—not at the public ex- pense, but by public spirit at the expense of the pupils? ‘T'his novel movement called ‘‘university extension’ has been in pre pss in England for more than ten years, and there is now no question as to its popularity or success, ‘The University of Cambridve has supplied lec- turers for 600 ‘“‘extension” courses, which have reached 60,000 hearers, more than oue- half of whom have shown themselves to be earnest students by attending class exercises In addition to the lectures. Not Cambridge alone, but the University of Oxford, Owens college, at Manchester, and the local colleges at Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, Sheflield, Nottingham, Cardiff and Bangor are all engaged in this democratic educa- tional mission. ‘I'he idea is taking hold of conservativo Scotland and it has already been put in practice by the universities of Aus- tralia. Sooner or later the movement must sweep America, forit is essentially demo- cratic. ‘I'o a practical mind the most Interesting feature of this movement is its economic character. 1t is not altogether a missionary movement or an edncational erusade. It has its busiuess side. rimarily a case of demand and su s of labor and capital in fact that universities are in pos useful commodity called solld higher educa- tion. Men begin to realize that a rood knowl- edge of English history, political economy social sctence, literature, and the arts mak for the general improvement of society and the development of a better state ot feeling among its members. ‘[he vresent demand is not for common schools, these exist already. ‘The cry is higher education for adult voters and persons past the school age too busily enga ed perhaps in other pursuits to permit of much continuous study, and }m able to give some of their time to intellectual 1m- provement. Graspinz the situation and its possibilities, public spirited individuals have formed cd cational societies or associations in town and parishes. They have afliliated with ex- isting local institutions jof an educational or social character, such as local - colleges, insti- tutes, literary and philosophical societies, church institutes, ‘mechanics’ institutes, ulfllt schools, ete,; they have appointed active secretaries with subcommittees repre- senting the ladies, voung people who sell ticke! i artisans; without sectarian or g , they. have unif 92 -the community, with ihio mayoror some publie officer at the head: they have taken tumenfltlon shares of five dotlars, some persons taking several shares, others clubbing together for one share, but all having representat'on in the soclety. Upon such a_sound economical basis thes educational associations have made their de- mands upon the universities for local in- struction by lectures in_systematic courses, costing froin three to five shillings for a course ticket. ‘The universities meet this demand by a supply of well trained, enthusiastic young lecturers who,for areasonable compensation, arc willing to give public courses in tne towns and districts of England. The Can bridge men go out from their comfortable quarters to lecture to the people for a variety of considerations, zood will, ambition for distinetion, Puhllc pirit, scientific propa- ganda and a fee of €225 for a lecture once o week for twelve wecl ‘They agree also to conduct a class each week for review or dis- cussion of the previous lecture, and to correct voluntary exercises written at the student's own home upon set questions requiring private reading. ‘Ihis involves laborious, painstaking work on the part ot both lecturer and student. The university appoints an examiner upon the term’s work as marked out in the lecturer’s printed sy| us of topies distinetion, * n of rank unless the local authorities offer prizes, A term’s work of twelve lectures and twelve class exercises i3 the unit of the Uni- versity Extension system. 1t costs altogether about 335, fncluding the lecturer’s fee, adyertising and other incidentals. Enter- prising towns and district unions quickly wultiply their cour: until they have a ular curriculum extending through three vears, i oups, siich as (1) litora- ture and hi (2) natural science; (3) the fine arts. The courses in English history and political economy are very attracti Ver- 8ons who tollow a three years’ course in one of the above groups, embracing six courses of twelve weeks each, and two courses in one other group besides the chosen specialty are allowed to be enrolled as *‘Students Afliliated to the University,” provided they will pass an examination in the elements of the higher mathematics, in Latin and in one other foreign language. tSuch persons may count their three ye f sity exten- sion study as the equivalent of one year's residence at the university and may complete there the course for the bachelo:'s degren in two years. ‘I'hus, withoutlowe cademie standards, English universities are extending privileges to the English peoy ‘This policy has led to the establishment of student associations throughout the iand and the most heaity ort of the higher edu- cation and ot e nal institution working men 2lish universit doina more t other one ) cing down the onisin between therieh and tha poo: nold Toynbee, a martyr to his cau other Oxford graduates have carried this r\a]nzl of education into the heart of rgast London, where Toynbee hall, with itslecture courses, elass rooms and industrial training, was the forerunner of the People’s palace recently opened by the queen of England, A soclety for the oxtension of uni it training hias been formed in London and is associated with the universities of London, Oxford and Cambr . Besties Toynbee hall, at Whitech:apel, East London, this so- ciety has thirty or more loeal eentera of edu- cational operations in and about London Each center has OWN SCCTOLary, oreani tion and econom 11 the local subser and sale of tickets are not adequate to mee expenses the central society aids largely in meeting the doticit. It Is worth no the sale of tickets often pays half of all costs, University extension i England will fi- crease its noblo work with increasing en and success, 1ts « be abandoned. opular lectu yeeum conrses wnich cheap variety show for an evening’s enter- tainment. “There is now real instruction with mnllnun{ of interest and specialization upon a particular subject until the audicice kiows sometRing about it. Second, uni- versity extension brings the higher edu tion into provincial towns withoit the nece: sity of their endowing eollezes or multiply- inz universit For a few hundred dollars each year every larze town and district- unionin K and can have the university se\h'm brought to its very doors. Third, this system strencthens all local applicnces for education, whether schools, coll 8, in- stitutes, libras literary societi; ombines thing aud interferes with nothin It ls thoughit by not a few leark v st of was nothinz but a wums, art gatlerios o with every- £in Awer- NUMBER 13 fean educational work that some such plan as this may at some time supplant the de< eaged or decaying leeture business in the United States. Instead of rich men found- ing new colleges, educational donations may be made for the bringing of the best fem tures of the best existing colleges to any town or village in the union. The bearing of such work on the labor problem, when every el tie mechanic may become @ cole lege graduate, Is obvious, A Characteristic Letter, WASHING 10! June 1% — [Speefal to the Ber| e following letter needs no exvlanation ‘Tothe Honorable Secretary of the Interop or Hoard of Anpeals: As o the question when a widow™s pension should conimenca, allow me one suggestion. The practice o the departiient Lias been that the pension commences trom the date of filing her applis cation. There may be some reason for that ruling, where the husband never obtained pension in his lifetime, and the allowance of the pension was alone on the widow’s appl cation. But when the pension was sllowed and commenced i the lifetime of the husband, —payment to the widow ot minor children was only a continuation of the same pension, and “there is no reason or justice why the pension should cease ta r payment be retused beeause the widow wlected to make formal applls faith of the government Iy pledeed to the soldier that if he dies from tha disabilities contracted in or incident to the service, his widow and minor children shall b provided for, and that faith should not ba broken, even if, through iznorance or neg- leet, formal application 1s not at once made, It is alleged this construction may take mille 1015 out of the treasury. ‘This has been the stereoty ped argument against the allowanca or payient of pensions. 1tean have no forea when the ingenuity of statesmen is exercised to derive some plan to take money from the treasury; whether to pay a bonus on sugar; to squander - millions on }vlnnl and waterials for guns; millions or A rate of speed in war ships, which they know can never be obtaine nillions for dredeing rivers and harbors; yet, when the questions of pensions is raised, either in congress or the departments, a certain clasg becomo very economic and full of political philasonhy. ~ That economy s wisest which is based on justice. Even an error of juds ment will be forgiven by the people, if it lean to the side of equity, but I submit thatl & fair legal construction will continue the pension from the date of the husband’s [ where death was from the cause fon which the pension was given, Very respeete fully, C. H, VAN WycK. Counting the Cash, WAsIINGTON, June 18.—|Special Teloe gram to the B3 Ihe work of counting the cash in tne light job. t two weeks in the dimly lighted silver vault under the treasury department a force of cighteen men has been at work in relays counting the silver stored there. Fourteen of these men are laborers, most of them colored men, while the othen four arc counters. Althoush the work ig progressing at the rate of §2,000,000 a day, or $5,000 a minute, i% is not expected that it wilk be completed for four weeks. The mone bazs containing $1,000 and wi nds eacl Each 800 pounds t it 3 ul t they require frequent work in relays. Three of the men remove from one of the numerous comnparts ents into which the immense vault is di< 1, another puts them on the scales, and three othel ack them up evenly in a come artment opvosite. One of the counters keeps tally and the other watches the scales. If there 3 fovnd one bag which is lighter or heavier shan it _should be it is takel counters are resting off dut count the siiver, dollar by doll everything has been found “perf; and every 16d the ber of Iy there Is stored #5s,800,5 in l“. tons. It may not be ge: eml{ wn tha the vault now In use is the largest in the, world, But the vauit ‘that is in conmo’- construction, and upon which work 8 pro. wressing satisfactorily, will be twice as large as the present one, Itis bolng dug out of the ground in the north court yard of the de- partment and will hold, when completed, $100,000,000. 1t will be entirely under ground and will be surrounded on each side and on’ the roof by a wall of brick, cement and ase phalt, four feet thick. McMichacl Assu WAsHINGTON, June 18.—([Special Tele« gram to the Brk.J—W. H. MeMichael, the new clerk of the senate committee on printd Ing, arrived in the city last might and ase sumed his duties to-day. It has been discov- erad that Major I'oore removed & great deal of material belonging to the committee to his house at Indian Hill, Mass, It was his in- tention to do a great deal of work at his farm during the summer. None other ex- cept members of the committee know any thing about the papers in the custody of Major Poore’s family, and tor this reason Senator Mander started this afternoon tor Boston to secura data which belongs to the committee, He will be back again by the end of the month, In the meantime ho has wired Congressman McShane tocome on at once to look out for matters connected with the bridge, ‘The secretary of war has as yet done nothe ing toward settling the question of locatiol He has been absent a greater part of the sums but Senator Manderson thinks he will de the question as soon as he gets down to work, After his return the senator i3 confident he will finally succeed In securing an order from the war department for pnnml,mlon of the regular troops in the soldiers’ reunion in September. 11e says that those from Fort Omaha and Sidney ‘and the light battery from Fort Leavenworth will, in” all probas bility, be directed to take part in the reunion, Military Matters, WASHINGTON, June 18, pecial Tele- gram to the Ber.|—First Lieutenant A. C. Starp, Twenty-second infantry, and First Lieutenant A. P, Blackson, Sixth cavalry, Lave been ordered to inspect the un!dgnnl guard of Ohio during the national # 3 mentin July and August next. Y © Lieutenant Il 8. Benton, ‘Third st any or s been ordered to inspect the artille fment of the sawe organization a W O, ution Second Licutenant John T, Knigl———— cavalry, has been detailed as prof mil tacties at the Viri and Mechanical college at I September 1. First Licutenant J. try, Lias been det; es His Duties. a Awm . implain A. Trons, ‘lihsora i led s an 1y, for por- at the Kort | \worth military sdouth Sth Deving First Lieutenant Arthar \ . ‘Third infantry, who has been ordere, Clerks nis station . v Major 8. 8. Sumner, Eighth cavalry, has been ordered to duty as actini inspector gen eralof the Department of Columbia, vice Licutenant Colonel H. M. Lazelle, 1 06 > months hag been uri ond [ it Eizhth cavalry, and the d sistant Surgeon Charles Ricnard has been extended two months, Ransom to Succe WAsIHINGTON, June 15 gram to the B S North Carolina, w was any trath in the pub, had been tendered the of the inte % place Sceretary Lamar Ntates eypreme hene not a shadow of found; No word nor any sort 6f msini ¢! ‘i the president and myself or 3 Linmar and myselt or any ! the administration, direetly or in- n wh-lu:x‘Alu-, [ }:mz matter, My o the president and to~ Sec~ refary Lamar have m«!n ~:.h-|y“|l|1uiuwa:-pfi. gively upon North Carolina matters,” Note snding this statement it is eurrently d here that § or Ransom will sugs ceed Lamar as secretary of the interior, - l)’;r{lll Jonfirmed, “Nr_\\ Yorx, dunc 18.—The general term of e supreme court to-day affirme . vietion of Johin O'Neill, one of l’llla‘lI;‘:t:{i:l alderiien, who s in Slng Sing, 1 Lamar. ed report that he on of secretary been decided to upon the United replied: “I'nere is