Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 28, 1887, Page 1

" THE OMAHA DALY BEE SEVENTEENTH YEAR. A e OMAHA, FRIDAY MORNINé, OCTOBER 28, 1887, NUMBER 132 BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT Beginning of the Argument in the Anarchist Cases. J. RANDOLPH TUCKER SPEAKS. The Main Points of His Address Based on the Fourteenth Amendment—Attorney Gens eral Hunt Replies. Laying Down the Law. GToN, Oct. {Special Telegram A large number of people tal to-day to attend the an- archists hearing, but as the court room is small, only about one hundred and fifty got in and several hudred failed to get admission, The proceedings were v solemn. All the Judges paid close attention to arguments pro- duced and several of them interrupted the at- torneys to ask them questions. The anarch- oists’ counsel made an interesting picture. Ben Butler was there in fine broad cloth, swallow tail coat, broad shirt front and a very fine button hole boquet. Next to him Roger A. Pryor looking like a cross between a phanton long-haired Puritan preacher and wild Indian. Randolph Tucker looked plain beside those two with his gray hair and gold-rimmed spectacles. Behind these there sat Captain Black and Salmon, the Chicago lawyers. At the other end of the table sat Attorney General Hunt, of Illinois, State's Attorney Grinnell and as- sistant, all three very plain, matter-of-fact looking men. Randolph Tucker made the first argument and one that surprised those of his old friends who were prescnt. He has alw been an extreme state's rights man, but to- day cluimed that the fourtcenth amendment to the federal constitution virtually makes the supreme court the guardian of all the rights and privileges of every citizen in all the states and confers upon it tho power to practically review all licenses in state courts, He claimed that his clients had not been con. victed by due proc of law, as the four teenth amendment required, and that a charge to that effect sufticient to authorize the court to issue a writ of error. For this the application was made. The question as to whether that change was well founded would have to be investigated under the writ. In explanation of their position and the proofs by which they would maintain it, he said that they mainly rely on the manner of selecting the jury which tried the condemned; that the jury did not consist of impartisl men, but contained s o who acknowledged they had formed opinions and thai the ¢lass of people to whom the accused belonged were vigor ously exclude The demned men we a jury of their peers. He further stated that an unlawful search hud been made in the houses of the defendants for evid, to convict them; that the letters so obtained were not only used as evidence against them, but that one of the defendants (Spies) was forced to testify that ne had received them from Johann Most. This, Mr. Tucker claimed, amounted to a violation of two provisions ‘of the constitu- tion: That against the scarch of persons without warrant of law and that against compelling persons to_accuse or testify against themselves. He stated that these constitutional provisions were contained in the first mendments to t stitution, which were in effect a bill of rights and that the fourteenth amendment included them all, made them stronger and guaranteed them to all citizens, Mr. Tucker was interrupted soveral times, once by dJustice Field, who said that if Tucker's position was correet all litigation would finally be brought before the supreme court. The other justices seemed to agree. With a somewhat theatrical appeal to the court he said that he appealed _against the anarchists of lynch law as exemplified by the trial of the condemned petitioners whom he represented Attorney ( clear, cal rneral Hlunt answered in a plain _argument, which was highly interesting, He justified the jury law of Illinois, which had been made not to pro- cure jurics priudiced to accused prisone but to put some intelligence in the ju In these times of pro 8, of the and newspapers, all intelligent men ally informed of crimes law only said that the; opinions except those formed by newspapers or by rumors, and ds oath that they can still render verdict according to the not be disqualified s jurors far as the statement was concerned that evidence against the condemned had been produced by # search not directly authorized by law, he said the question of how it (the letter from Most to Spies), had been obtained had nothing to do with the case. The supreme court a few years ago and in the case of Ker vs. the Peo- ple of the State of llinois, had so decided, n that case the plaintiff in error had been kiduapped in Peru, brought to Chicago, tried and condemn He had pleaded that he had ndt lawfully come into charge of the court, but the supreme court said that i mattered not how he got there, the Illinois court had the right to try him, and so it was in this case. General Butler then announced that he ap- pearcd for Spies and Ficlden. He will speak to-morrow. He claims that his two clients are not citizens of the United States, but of Germany and England, respectively, and that under a special treaty citizens of these foreign countries enjoy special privileges. He makes the same points regarding the search for evidence, illegal jur Tucker made, but claims that the in the treaty which only guarantees of the respect foreign countries such U'l\'ill-m'! and immunities as citizens of the nited States enjoy compel the trial of such foreign citizens according to the laws in force at the time the treatise was concluded Th Armumu of Butler's is much ridiculed, and it is not probable that he will be able to make a respectable argument for it. THE ARGUMENTS 1N DETAIL, [Press.] —Shortly after 1 o'clock the chief justice said that each side would be allowed threc hours and that Grinnell might s) Pucker then said it was not necessary for him to show as a condition precedent to grant- ing the writ that the action complained of in the court below was actually repugnant to or in violation of the constitution; it was only necessary to show that a conftict had arisen-= that there was question whether the action complained of was not repugnant to the con- stitution, That was enough to give this court Jurisdiction. It was the object of the statute of 1867 to give free access to this court in ull cases where there was a question of this kind. Tt was not necessary to show repug- nancy, but only conflic If there is a con flict then this court has jurisdiction, and if it has jurisdiction, then the petitioners are en titled to a writ as a right. *“This court,” s Tucker, “'is & > uSU- and the ading the lare under an_impart testimony, should id ty of refuge from the avenger of blood, and any man who comes here and takes hold of the orus of justice should not bo repulsed.” The policy of this. court, ho said, had been to deal liverally with. petitions for writs of crror in civil cases, How much more should it deal liberally with a petition for a writ of error in a criminul sase, involving issues of life pnd death—in a case where life was about to be taken away in violation of the constitu. tion, Procceding then to the merits of the ease, Tucker said it was not necessary that a law of such a state should be absolutely and on its Yace unconstitutional in order to give this court jurisdiction of a case unde it. 1f alaw seemingly fair and just on its face should have put upon it by the stute courts a mstruction” contrary to the coustitution, hat was enough to give this court jurisdic- tion. "Tacker then reviews the history of the sdoption of the fourteenth amendiment, und that although it was originally intended 10 guarantee particularly rights of enfran- %.m to the blacks, there wus no reason white “citizens " should mot enjoy . { person a trinl by an lnpartial jury the benefits of _its provisions. Tucker quoted the Fourteenth amendment and discussed the meaning of the words, “due process of law,” and said that although it had been held by this court that trial without indictment by a grand jury might be “due process of law,"” and might be perfectly constitutional, it néver had been held or ‘intimated that trial by petit 1\|_r could be dispensed with. It seemed, he said, 10 be everywhere conceded that ‘“due pro- coss of law? required trial by a jury of one's peers, Tt is essential that the jury, should be unbinsed, unprejudiced and impartial and that it should not be a class jury. Tucker then usserted that the jury law of Tliinois istitutional in that it provided that jing of an opinion from reports or m newspaper accounts of certain trans- actions should not neccssarily dis- qualify @ person having such opin- jon from sitting in Jjudgment on that transaction as ajuror. Even although the law might seem to be fair and just, if by construction and administration it were made to deny to prisoncrs the right of trial by a fair and impartial jury, then such construc- tion and administration constituted law and made it unconstitutional. The construction given to the law in this case was different from the construction given to it in number of other cases in the same stat then referred to the objections made by the defense at the trial to the rulings of the court in the matter of challenges, to the refusal of the court on the motion for a new trial to hear evidence going to show that a baihff had said that *The men he had selected for the panel would be certain to hang,” and to vari- ous other rulings and decisions of the trial court, which had the effect of denying to the prisoncrs a fair trial by an impartial Turning then to another question ed by the case, which, he said, was anew in this court, he quotcd the second clause of the fourteenth amendment to the effect that “*No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the 4 or immu- nities of citi of the United States.” Among the “privileges and immunities’ thus guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment were, he contended, those set forth in the first ten amendments to the federal constitu- tic It had been maintained, he said, that rst ten amendments to the constit re limitations of federal power onl, but it was his belief that unless the pris leges and immunities were specifically said b be merely limitations of federal power they were privileges and immunities which came within the purview of the fourteenth amendment and were guaranteed by it. Chief Justice Waite—Then you bring all questions to this court. I cannot conceive of any question which cannot be brought here if the fourteenth amendment makes “privileges and immunities, to which it refers include all those of the first ten amendments, Tycker said he wonld adi new question, but e should 1 “Now, I make the asse “that the right to be from unreasona- ble searches and right of free- dom of speech, the right of a citizen against self-accusation and the right of a citizen not to be twice tricd by a jury, are secured to would t that it was a e to argue it. id Tucker, him by virtue of the constitution of the United States. Being so, the amendment comes in and s state shull wuke or enforce’ any law which ridges the rights or privileges of citizens.” Turning to the tion and rulings of the trial court, Mr. ucker said the defense was driven to pe cmptory challenges in order to exclude jurors wiio should have been rejected fo se and thereby there wis & limitation of the it of peremptory challenge which th court has held to be one of the highe privil mer. “The last four jourors, , “were put us after v challenges ha exhausted, In one case (Juror Denke objected distinetly upon the ground t ruling of court tution.” Tucke upon 1 been we the 18 in violation of the consti- th red to the seizure of letters, private pupers, ete., und their use as evidence, and said this was & violation of the fourth smendment In conclusion Tucl said: “We have a rvight, in my judgment, to-wit: To be 'heard on the question whether the constitution has 1 violated in order to compass the cony It is true the tion of these men. are said to be anarchists, but they are men and are entitled to the same protection that Lam. 1 know of rio anarchy abroad in this land which the American peonle need fear pt the anarchy ih the administration of justice. I pray that the court will therefore award this writ, for, if L do not mistake, there are evidences in the whole record which will deinand a reversal of the judgment.” Attorney 1 Hunt then addressed the court in behalf of the state 10 the motion for a writ of error. To war rant the issuance of & writ it must_appear, he 1id, from the record, first, that the a question involved, and, sccond, that h question was ra nd decided in the ate court. He was nof well informed he would like to ba with regard to the e points upon which the counsel for the peti- tioners rel In the first t of his arg ment Mr, Tucker planted himself squarely upon the’ rights which belonged to his client, under the fourtcenth amepdinent, but in the latter part he changed the ground slightly and insisted that the fivst ten amend ments were d vidual rigits and that they wero ¢ ed in the pro visions of the fourth amendment, The attor- ney general opposed his view and said that so far as the petitioners rely uj hything contained in those amendments they can have W in opposition no standing in this_court. Thoe fourteenth amendment is equally forcign to any right, privilege or immunity here "claimed 'by the The record will show that the complaint is not that the state has made or is enforeing a law which deprives thelpetition- ers of any privil i itics guaran. teed by that section, but that they ave deprived of their rights by an erroncous construction of the law place 11t by the trial court of the state. The ) s did not el the supr stato that the Illi- nois act of 1574 was it to the consti tution, treaties or luws of the United Stat. nor that the authority of the conrt was ¢ cised under it, bat that act was constitutional and valid and'the court exercised its power in violation of that law. The petitioncrs o tried in the ¢ the stute under ut constitutes ater this differently or another ecourt under the of law mcans the Mvr. Hunt then cited the ¢ the State of 1linois reg )f the state, This decis vs out the contention of ¢ the vights contemplated in the language of the first ten amendments were all included in the fourt ith amendment, and extended special guaruntees wnd immunities to citizons of the United States. Attor Gene attention to'the const state shall deny aws,” and Hunt then turned h 0 any pe submitt cqual protection of laws’ viloges und immunities” contemy by the amendment were ouly those for whose en- forcement cong had provided by subsequeut and hav- until it chie the cowposition of the j the attorney general the personnel of the jur 1 tried the pe- titioners in this case could properly be sub- mitted to the court or considered Ly it in the preseut procecding. This inquiry must be made us 1o the constitionality of the jur) of the state of Illinois und uot as to "how state court may have covsidered that law. The record showed, he believed, that on the challenge of one juror the suggestion was made by one of the counsel for the prisoncrs that there WS @ provision in the constitution of Ilinois—as well as in the constitution of the United S ranteeing to ever The son_ut whose chullenge tho suggestion wi mado did not finally sit in the jury that tried the case, e would submit that in order to give the parties standing in court asuggestion or objection be made with regard to the juror who actually tried the case, or that by ason of exhaustion of their peremptory hallenge the petitioners were compelied to ept an incompetert juror and were thereby voparubly dumaged. This question was never raised with regird to any juror who did actuslly sit in that case. Chiel Justice—Was .it not raised in Sun- caset I think it is showa in ‘the mem- in the trial court did not sce how orandum which we have that it was raised as to_Sanord, Mr. Grinnell, interrupting—If the court please, the memorandum is not & fwir tran- script of the record. After some_colloquy the chief justico di- rocted that all the parts of the record relat- ing to the question thus raised should be printed and submitted to the court to-morrow. Attorney General Hunt, resuming, once more referred to the fact that the jury law of Tilinois was not attacked by counsel on the other side in the state supreme court. They stated there, he said, that they did_not think it necessary'to attack the constitutionality of because it may be given a con- jon which would make it unobjectiona- ble” Mr. Hunt believed it to be well settled and established that this court will not review the decision of the supreme court of a state as to the con- struction to be given torits own constitution and its own laws, He then spoke for some time of the jury law, which, he said, has been a common law all over the United States, and always. The law was substan- tially the same as those of New York, Michi- gan, Arkansas, Colorado and Nebraska, Re- cent changes in the jury laws of the states had for their purpose and obfect the procure- ment of a better and more intelligent class of men us jurors. “Is it possible,” the attorncy general uskod, “that the states ure 1o be 80 pound by the federal constitution that they cannot change their jury laws in _accorda with the changing conditions of their social and political life!” He hoped the court would maturely consider the far-reaching consequences of the construction which the petitioners _ desired to have given to the fourteenth amendment. As_to the alleged “Uureasonable search and seizuro,” Mr. Hunt said he would like to know How @ criminal's instruments of crime could legally be taken from him. He knew of 1o process by which it could be done it they were his own. The question for the court, however, was mnot “How was the rather, “What do they provel” The attorney general cited the recent case of Ker, brought back from South America without extradition. The court held that the question was not ““How did you get here# but ““Are you guilty!” The attorney general then “took up the case of the prisoners, Ficlden and Spies, and said he understood that it would 'be argued by counsel on the other side that they being foreigners —Fielden an Englishman and Spies a Ger- man—were protected by the treaties between the United States and their respective go ernments; that they should have immunity because the treaties provided that citizens of ngland and Germany living in the Uni States should have all the rights and privi- leges guarantced by law to citizens of the United States at the time the treaties were ratified. Chief Justice—Tn what respect is it s that this violates the citizenship of Britain? ieneral Butler—They were to have all the privileges of Americans at the date of the treaties, and among those privileges, we con- tend, was a trial by jury under the laws then in force. No laws could be passed to change their condition under the organic law—the lighest law. Attorncy General Hunt replied that 4f this were so, then the prisoners, without being citizens, were privileged persons, above the laws of the state which they set at deflance. At this point the hour for adjournment ur- ived and further argument was postponed il to-miorrow. Parsons Indifferen Cuicaco, Oct. 27.—[Spec cavam to the Bee.]—“Oh, T have grown almost indif- ferent to the result,” remarked A. R. P sons to ex-Justice Barker, who talked with the condemned men this morning. “Hope and fear have almost worn themselves out, and T have become quite eallous.” “So have I,” remarked Mrs. Parsons, who was by his side. *The capitalists and their courts demanded blood, and they will no doubt have it November 11.” “The workingmen and their friends will demand blood for blood, and they will no doubt have it afterward,” continued Parsons. “Blood for blood,” whispered Mrs. Parsons. ““What hope is there from a United States supreme court that sends for state officers and consults with them as to the question of jurisdiction? That is what our supreme court has done in this case, Did it ever do 8o in any other case! The judges with their solemn mummery are put_there to decide questions for themselyes. But, bah—" and with u wave of his hand Parsons signified that the interview was at an end. Do you think the supreme court will in- terfere in the anarchists case?” a reporter inquired of one of the most prominent attor- neys in the city this morning, “Idomnot. Iverything indicates that the judges have found nothing to warrant them in sending the case back, Had it been at_all clear or probable_that the court would find causo to interfere, Justice Halan would have heard the application for the writ of error without hes It has mever happened but once before that the full bench has heard an application of this kind, and the judges most likcly arranged to hear it in this case e of the sational interest in it, the at_seven lives instead of one are at d because the whole civilized world watching the result. The decision, when cn, will carry with it the full force of the cst tribunal in the land, 1 do notassume that the judges have prejudiced the case, but they are not ignorant of it, nor of the points 0 be made in support of the application, and 1 conclude from all the indications that they entcred formally on its consideration, seeing little or no ground for interfering.” i AR A CHOLERA SCARE. The Steamer Independent Causes a Commotion in Health Circles. Ciicaco, Oct. 27.—Health Commissioner DeWolf received a telegram from thesurgeon general ut Washington saying that some cighteen Italians who arrived at New York on the steamer Independent Oct. 15, from an in- fected Jtalian port, had left for Chicago, De- Wolf instituted @ search for the immigrants, but nothing of them could be found. Ther health au- thorities heve sent back the telegram, indig- gainst the quarantine of- for forwarding immigrants NEW YoRK, Oc The health officer, in lis report to the quarantine commissioners, says there is no cholera on the steamship Brittanica, and that_all_immigrants on Hoff- man's island are well. The authorities say thero is no possible fear of infection from ine authorities say there is ab- solutely no apprehension to be felt concern- ing tho possible spread of cholera through the immigrants who landed from the steam- ship Independent. The vessel was twenty- ys making the passage, and when she veacked this port there was not a case of sick- ss on board. The stcamer was cleanly , but still she was detained at quaran- tine for a day and a half and & thorough fumi- gation was carried out, WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.—Surgeon General Hamilton, of the Marine hospital service, says he has notified all points to_which the immigrants from the steamer Independent went to look out for them. He does not ap- prehend any danger. The government will probably not tuke any action toward keeping out vessels from cholera districts until the local authoritics vequest it, @s the law for- bids iuterference, $ - Telegraph War Settled. EW YORK, Oct. 27.—A Wall street circu- a conference was held this after- noon between President Chundler, of the Postal Telegraph company, aud Jay Gould. Although no ofticial statement could be ob- tained, it is said that the telegraph war was settled and that rates will be advanced al- most immediutely. e Funeral of Washburne. Gavexa, 1ls., Oct. 27.—The remains of Hon. E. B. Washburne arrived here at 5:30 this morning and were transferred to Turner hall, where they ave now lying in state. The hall is appropriately draped. The funeral services took place at 3 thus ufternoon. . possession of these things obtained?” but THE TRACK OF THE TEMPEST Death and Destruction Wrought By the Recent European Gale. THE KING OF THE NIHILISTS. Prince Krapotkine on the Chicago' Anarchists — English Ofticials Uneasy — Spurgeon’'s With- drawal—London Gossip. Wreck of the Winds. [Copyright 1887, by James Gordon Bennett.) xDONOct, 27.—[New York Herald Cable —Special to the Bee.]—I vislted Lloyd's this afternoon to obtain details touching the stu- pendous gales on all the consts, where Imeta veteran shipmaster who said ten years ago the storm would have made great havoc, but the Herald's warning, that every paper copics, begot caution and prudence. Many sailors affect to treat these with indifference, yet, nevertheless, remember the predictions and take precautions. I found that details came in slowly and telegraphic wires were working badly. At many points the meteoro- logical office had to issue & forecast without data_from Baltic ports. Four vessels ar- rived at Shiclds. These lost all the deck loads. At Grimsby the Johanne Marie, from Honfleur to Elsinore, caught the full severity of the gale and came fn leaky for repairs, re- porting a genuine hurricane. At Harwich the Proseidon reported having been struck by @ sea when off Texel during a heavy gale. causing her to take water. The master thinks the cargo damaged. A survey will be held on the ship to-morrow. At Green- ock it is reported that & coal- laden lighter was driven ashore at Innelton. At Liverpool @ schooner isreported aground. The master of the British steamer, Serngfar, arrived from New Castle at Yumiden reporting that, twenty- eight miles north-north-west of Yumiden piers he spoke a Spanish steamer, with ma- chinery broken down, for Hamburg. A tug has gone out from Yumiden in scarch of her. The name could not be discovered on account of a high sea running, but the vessel is prob- ably one trading between Barcelona and Ham- burg. The London & Northwestern rail company’s steamer, Alexandria, which left Holyhead at 6:40 p. m. last night, encoun- tered a most severe weather wl ff the South Stack and in the race heavy seas swept over her, damaging the bulwarks and smashing her deck erections. A number of Irish harvesters, deck passengers, who were returning from the English harvest, suffered terribly. Some of them were swept about the deck while others were pitched down into the engine room with the result that John Fleming, of Lavallyroe, Connty Mayo, was crushed to death and three others were seriously injured. Captain Gordon there- upoi, fearing further damage, put back into Holyhead, where the“bady of the deceased was landed and the three injuréd men taken tothe Stanley hospital. Some pussengers were on board to cateh the White Star steamer at Queenstown, and would have lost it, only this was delayed so they eventually caught it. Twelve finermen belonging to Yarmouth smacks were lost dur- ing tho recent gale. The loss of two men pamed Dickens and Malden from the Chatterbox belonging to Messrs, Hewett & Co., was also reported. Two of the crew of the Sisters owned by Mr. Elkins, named Moss and Raven, who were drowned, and a number of the crew of one of the Thames mission smacks, ave mentioned. In consequence of the unmanageablo seas be- tween one and two o'clock this morning while the steam tugs, Flying Owl and Walker, were approaching a vessel in the dark for the purpose of getting towage near to the Cumbraes they came into collision, the last named vessel sinking immediately and the engineer, George Baxter, weut down with the vessel. The Flymg Owl re- ceived considerable damage and has had to be berthed at Grennock. The New Haven Dieppe steamer and the Falmouth or South- ampton steamer for Channel islands did not cross last evening. These are only lections from different points to show the far-reach ing character of the gale. OFFICIAL CIRCLES AGITATED. Uncasiness Over Possible Ministerial Changes. LCopyright 1557 by James Gordon Bennett.] Lospox, Oct. 27.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to the Ber.]—Some disqui- etude is felt inofficial circles at the contempla- tion of the probable resignation of the Grevy and Rouvier ministry. True, it may be assumed that the convention just agreed upon between the English and French gov- ernments is binding on both, whatever changes in the ministry may take place, but it is also feared that ig might not stand the shock of a return to pewer of Clemenceau and Boulanger. The failure, from any cause, of the recent negotiations would be a heavy blow to the English ministry, but as tho French public appear well satisfied with the convention there seems-no good reason to ap- prehend such a result. The fall of Rouvier could not but add greatly to the serious ele- ments of disturbance already existing in Europe, ready to burst out at any mo- ment. Russia i8 straining in the East France restless, Germany irritated, Austria eager to recover her lost influence. All the world is familiar with the circumstances which threaten tranquility in England. A calm survey of the whole fleld is assuredly not encouraging to the friends of peace. Should a war break out anywhere, the flames must quickly spread: Boulanger's return would cause @ tremor to run through cver court and cabinet in Europe. France has al- ready had twenty-two ministers in seventeen years and is now apparently destined to have a twenty-third. Some Englishmen chuckle over the instability of govermment in France, not marking the signs of the times nearcr home, and forgetting the four ehanges in the minis- try here in littlc more than twelve months. At that rate Engladd will soon be at the French score. [ The unionist party is about to take a leaf out of the National League's book. At the late elections the league sont & strong deputation of speakers to their constituencies, and no doubt this had a great effect in turning the scale in_sev- eral shaky places. The unionists now intend to bring over examples of boycotted persons 10 tell their stories, personally, to the Eng- lish public. They also intend to import a number of Ulster farmers to explain their true position and proclaim their sentiments regarding the institution of an Irish parlia- ment in Dublin, Thus the Irish question will be argued out by Irishmen. Should the op- posite faction happen to meet in the same town there will be wigs on the green and an historical parallel at last be found to the legend of the Kilkenny cats. Both sides have been very hard at work for the past fort- night, and both are equally confident they have made progress. Predictions must be futile since in the event of u general election the issues will be decided by the unobstrusive French voters who, mever visible in processions or demonstrations, put their ballots in the box and return quietly to their homes or business. There are no indications on which to form a judgment as to their opinions ex- cept as regards the lawless spirit now abroad that is viewed with much suppressed indig- nation, Marriott, judge advocate general, has re- turned from Cairo where he has been en- gaged in advocating the claim of Ismail Pasha against the Egyptian government. You may take it for granted that Marriott earned his fee, said to have been very heavy, but it would be very interesting to know how much Ismail has paid to English friends and supporters, I have heard the sum estimated at £500,000 gone in all directions—chiefly among lawyers, but the journalists have had their share. Ismail's claims required a good deal of writing up. Tt is not likely that this work was done on the cheap lead- ing men and journals, of course, not in the scramble. But & good many wires may be pulled apart from them. Ismails’ private account book would a lively tale unfold. Sev- eral Indian princes have come over from time to time and their gold has also fertilized the arid soil of Temple and Lincoln’s Inn not to mention Fleet street. That the moncy was always legitimately earned I necd not say but mighty little was got for it by the oriental visitors. Ismail's case stands pretty much where it did before ho spent & penny but his sons remain hopeful and their intercsts are frequently pleaded in the English journals— of course from the most disinterested motive. Dhulep Singh’s son is in charge of Law- rence Oliphant, 8o well known in America from his former association with Brother Harris and his community near Buffalo. Oliphant went to live in Palestine some time ago with great projects, among them, the return of the Hebrew race. As the Hebrews would not return to their ancestral soil Oliphant came back. He always tumbles into & good thing; sometimes an Atlantic Cable company, sometimes an Indian prince to lead in the paths of virtue and peace. Of late his literary efforts have been 8o crammed with mysticism in consequence of his spirits having obtained the upper hand that he has lost many of his udmirers but he has made great successes, notably in starting a small newspaper called the Owl, and in his novel Altiora Peto, in which two well-known New York ladies, one now married to an Englishman, figure promi- nently. It is a pity the spirits have got such a tight hold, but nothing can take away Oli- phant's great charms. No better leader could have been found for young Singh, whose father is in Russia vowing vengeance against England. His threats awaken no terrors, The Singh's themselves care nothing for him and he can never wield the influence of his terrible father, the faumous Lion of Lahore. 3 A bombshell has fallen in the Baptist. com- munity by the withdrawal of Mr. Spurgeon from their union. Spurgeon’sidissatisfaction theology of many of his brother has been no secret, He holds fast to the rigid tenets of his church, deems any relaxation a wrong to the church and chris tiamity iise rts have been madas) to smooth his susceptibilitics and guiet his scruples, Qut his conscience refused to be silenced, hence his withdrawal from the B: tist union. This will not in any way affect his position in his own church, where he preaches such doctrines as ho pleases, un- challenged, He exprosses a desive that the day may come when all true christians may be united in one community larger than any existing sect can provide for. This wish meets with & sympathetic response from many outside of Spurgeon’s church. Public approval follows his course, but whether it did or not would make no difference to Spur- geon, who would go to the stake to-morrow for what he belicves is right. 1t looks very much as if Coquel,in were not going to make a great hit in London. His talents are appreciated, but the plays thus far produced don't strike the fancy of the English public. Moreover, the absence of an attractive leading lady, and the gencrally in- Qifferent quality of the company, tell heav, against Coquelin. In Don Ciesar he ma; excite greater interest, but at present, the fact must be recorded that the new season French plays have not opened so brilliantly as was anticipated. Prince Krapotkine's Views. [Copyright 1887 by James Gordon Bennett.] Panis, (via Havre), Oct. [New York Herald Cable—Special to_the Bee.]—Prince Krapotkine, the great nihilistic king, wrote o long letter from Harrows, England, to the editor of the Herald's European edition, mak- ing a stirring appeal on behalf of the Chicago anarchists that makes a sensation in political ircles. The Figaro, Intransigient and tho Cri du Peuple all publish extracts from Prince Krapotkine's letter. The prince writes that the Chicago sentence indicates that the contest going on is to make an American revolution more acute and brutal than ever took place in Europe. The very first pages of its history open with an act of retaliation of the worst kind. Only thirst for retaliation and nothing else can explain, in fact, the Chicago sentence. “I have carefully read the minutes of the trial and have weighed indict- ments of evidence, 'says the prince,“and I do not hesitate to affirm that a parallel to the sen- tence may be found in Europe only in the re- taliation sentence pronounced by the court- martial after the defeat of the Paris commune of 1871, unless we go so far back as during the terror of the restored Bourbons of 1815, O this account T am fully in accordance with the Paris municipal and Seine general councils in the memoirs they addressed to the American ambassador on behalf of the condemned Chicago anarchists. But the Chi- cago court had not even the excuse of the Versailles court-martial, namely, the excite- ment of passion which follows a civil war after a great national defeat. It is obvious first, that seven men could not throw one single bomb, It is evident, morcover, and it has been proved, that several of them were not present at the Haymarket meeting while others left before the police took to their infuriated charges. More than that, Othe state's counsel himself does not maintain that any of the seven did throw the bomb, He accuses, of that act, some other person who is not in court. Only Spies is accused of having given a match to light the fuse of the bomb, but the only man to give that testimony is a certain Gilmer, whose bad reputation for truth and veracity has been sworn to by no less than ten persons, some of them large property holders who had lived in the same house with him and who recog- nized himself as having received money from police.” The prince thus concludes: *‘After the Haymarket conflict the legislative powers of Illinois have promulgated o law against keeping explosives and they are going to promulgate another law, a conspiracy law. According to this latter, any illegal act, however done, for logal purposes will be con- sidered as criminal. It means thus to tear to pieces one of the most fundamental articles of the constitution and, moreover, any incite- ment towards reoorting to an illegal course wili be considered @&s - criminal and 80 reuds the future law. It needs not to be ‘proved fhat. the pevson guilty of such an act had read the papers or listened to the speeches which incited to commit it. That means, of course, the eventual abolition of any liborty of speech and writing, Even the French law requires direct connection between the inciting in speech and writing or print and the act committed. But the new Illinois law does not much interest me in HE REDUCED THE SURPLUS: A BSuccessful Raild on the New York Sub-Treasury. itselt and what I wish to point out | $10,000 TAKEN BY A CLERW is merely this: The seven Chi- cago anarchists have been condemned Particulars of the Robbery and thd Subsequent Flight to Canada to death in accordance with that scheme of law which was not law in 1876 and is not law yet. The proposed law resulted from the =The Money Taken in Chicago trial and this future law has been applied to the seven condemned anarchists, Believe me, sir, yours truly, KrAPOTKINE. More Bffective Than Morison October 21, 1887, New Yonk, Oct. Spocial Telogram & Vanderbilt Not Intercsted. (Copyright 1887, by James Gordon Bennetl,] Loxvoy, Oct. 27.—[New York Herald Cable.—Special to the Bek.]—The reports about Mr. Vanderbilt being named president | erepancy in his uccounts was first discow in the United States of the proposed Chinese- | ered on Saturday lust, when ho failed to ape American bank were cabled this evening to | pear at his desk. A hasty examination by the Paris papers from San Francisco. Upon | the treasurer. Canda, showed .l.-ml.-.m.:: inquiry o Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, now staying | of $10,000 and this so far seems the extent at tho Hotel Bristol, Paris, Mr. Vanderbilt | the theft from the government. Jacksou iq said to your correspondent that he himself | @ son of the aged secretary of the New Yorld had no interest whatever in the proposed | Tract socic who lives at Rosevilie, N. J¢ bank and that he thought that neither of his | The son i y-six years old and has tw «} brothers had any. He was married a second e o Police Fine Work. Loxnox, Oct. 27.—With reference to the statement of Commissioner Monroe, of the executive derartment, at the inquest over the body of Cohen, the alleged dynamiter, yesterday, that General Millen, head of the Clan-na-Gael socicty, was in London during jubilee week, the police state that Millen never set foot in England. A detective called on him at Boulogne beforc the jubilee celebration and warned him that he knew of the plot against the queen. ‘The police relate Millen’s movements in detail from that time until the 22d of this month, when he took passage at Amsterdam with his wife_and daughter on the steamer Edam for New the Bee.]—The fact became known at a latq hour last night that the cashier of the sni treasury here, Hentin Jackson, was a de faulter and had fled to Canada. The dim thi been married, time some years to a daughter of Mr, LaSellg in Mount Vernon. The relations of the two have recently been very unpleasant and two weeks ago Mrs. Juckson went home to hew father. 1t is believed that their family trous bles were the primary cause of Jackson's flight and that lie took the money in a lump, He has been a clerk in the sub-treasury hera for years. It has beeu many years certainly since there has been a dollar lost in the subs treasury, relessness or defaleae tion, before this oecurt The clerks ure, for the most part, superior men, picked from the best banking institutions, and they serve many even a change of administratio causing few chang The sub-treasur methods, morcover, are such as to muke it, upe York. The police also have o record of the | parently, very difficult to steal. No clerle movements of Melville, the London agent of | could, it was supposed, enter the vaults the society, until’ September 17, when he | alone. He must have, according to the old rules, another clerk o accompany him. The combinations of the locks are known only to two or three men, and the vaults have two locks which must be opened by different clerks. The books are supposed to be mude up to the last cent every night, and lhnm(g ¥y sailed from Havre for New York in company with a Miss Kennedy. It is not known what action the police will take regarding wit- r{us‘sn‘s at the inquest, now that Melville has fled. Joseph Nolan, M. F., denies emphatically that he has any knowledge of dynamiters. millions are deposited i the sub-treasury a The inquest procecdings in the Cohen ca ‘ thousands paid out over its counters in his opinion, were desigued to assist the there have been no losses fol nefarious poliey of the government. mury until the administration of Mrs s Canda. The Sobranje Opened. [Press]—The amount that Henry M. Jacle son,cashier of t; sub-treasury in Wall strecty ined last night fled to Can? imated at from £12,000 to e Canda_docs ot believe the amount, will exceed #1000 The money was taken in a lump. The defaulter isthirtye old, and has been a clerk in the sube Sor1A, Oct. 27.—The Sobra day. Prince Ferdinand and military ofticer state. Ho was rece ucclamation. In h the government W perity and greatnes the sympathy cigns of oth, Toucheff was el branje and Steganoff and dents. jo opened to- attended by eivil drove to the chamber in ved by the people with address the prince said working for the pros- of Bulzaria. They had is o , took, 000, T says the amount ctly £10,0004 urday, the ckson took the money last S: of his departure. e Greeley's Advice. Henry M. Juckson, tha f the United States lavkoft vice presi- Acting on Hora ToroxTo, Oct. 2 defaulting paying tell — War Imminent in LoxpoN, Oct. 27. Tuland. is imminent Zululand against annexation to Natal. Siv | sub-treasury ut New York, hias been here, Arthur Havelock, governor of Natal, with | but the police state that he hus gone west. 1,500 troops drafted from the colony, has — - kel started for the territory formerly posscssed A BREAK FOR LIBERTY. }’L“(‘i;‘fl:'c‘l‘,‘s’g}.‘é"‘c thelatter's son, Dinizult, | Apjzona Convicts Make an Unsuccesse ful Attempt to Escape. Yuma, A. T, Oct. 27.—A desperate breale for liberty was made at the penitentiary this morning. As Superintendent Gales was passing through tha moith sxlliport he was seized by a convict and marehied ouf, foiicwsd Dy seven other convicts. One of tho convicts rushed into the office, wrenched open a Qrawer and sceured u_pistol. The superine tendent called to the guards to shoot the cone viets holding him. Riggs, a life convict, ses cured the pistol from the escaping convics and killed the convict who held and was stab- bing the superintendent. Two prisoncrs wera killed, one mortally and two seriously wounded. The supcrintendent was badly wounded. There were 1o escapes. ——— A Crooked Son of a King. Bostoy, Oct. 27.—[Special Telegram to the ]—Itis now asserted that Dr. Andrew Grant, bigamist and confidence man, who dicd in jail while awaiting trial for swindling Miss Lucy Towey, of Cambridge, whom ho had married, was none other than Dr. C ley, who took an active part in the Fe P Harcourt SpeaXs 2t Portsmquth. LoNpoN, Oct. 27.—Sir William Vernon Harcourt, speaking at Portsmouth to-day, denied a possible shelving of the Irish qu tion, which came back always with _rencwed force. Coercion would not settlo the ques- jon. It was like the fabled hydra, When the head was cut off another would grow in its plac e Blunt Convicted. DusL1y, Oct 27.—Wilfred Blunt, who was arrested at Woodford Sunday for speaking at a proclaimed meeting, was to-day found guilty of violating the Irish Crimes act, and sentenced to two month's imprisonment. Notice of appeal from the verdict was given by the defendant’s counsel, Wady Halfa In Danger, ady Halfa is threatened Reinforcements for A Pension Pans, Oct. 27. has adopted the life pensions to pe! lution of 1548, —_—— A Temperance Measure. VIENNA, Oct. 27.—The government has in- troduced in the reichsrath a bill to restrict excessive drinking throughout Austria. B [ —— redit Adopted. —The chamber of deputies it for the payment of ons wounded in the revo- A. K. Core, of No. 426 Sa Boston, claims to know 1 history pretty thoroughly. She says that her brother, Dr. McShechy, of Eust Boston, formed Dr. Grant’s acquaintance while trave cling in France in 1852, Dr. Graut claimed thathe was an illegitimate son of Vietor nanuel, king of Italy, and was exiled fos nt and his Phi Gamma Delta. conspiring against the throne. As Dr. Con- BLOOMINGTON, IIL, Dct. 27.—To-day's ses- | ley he was well known in this vicinit He sion of the national convention of the Phi | has been identified from his photograph by Gamma Delta fraternity has been mostly of | Beveral Boston a d Cambridge people as Dr. aroutine character. The committee on per- | SN, of the Foniun ruid, and Dr. Conley who kept a drug store in Cambridge. ding 1o his story he was born in Austria, but was the son of Victor anuel and Are Ducke slnord of Austrin, He was bor) in 1842, two months before Victor Icumnua th duchess were united in nare wge. Victor Kmanuel was at that tima king of Surdinia. Accors manent organization reported the following officers, who were declared_elected: Prosi- dent, John A. Sterling, of this city; vice president, L. A. Brewer, Cedar Rapids, Ia.; secretary, J. C. Sinsel, Granville, O.; chap- lain, J. R, Stevenson,’ Chicago; doorkeeper, | ri Weik, Greencastle, Ind. Columbus, 0., was chosen a8 the next' place of me and to-night a grand banquet is being i A e —— | kemen Eleet Officers of Bixauanto, N. Y., Oct ‘he internae Railroad H ecting of the House of Bishops. tional convention of the Brotherhood of Ruile PrinapELeiis, Oct. 27.—The house of 1on rosalectod Grand” Mastan bishops of the Protestant Episcopal church Wilkinson, of Pooria, I, and clocted We. assembled to-day. closed doors. The principal business v nomination of bishops for the two missionary jurisdictions of Nevada and Utah and western T Approval of the nom- inations by a majority of the standing con mittees of the several dioceses will be ri quired. nd master, grand ors wsurer B, The session was held with | G ldens, of Bucyrus, O., vice the | and L. C.' Foster of Ith, N it | ganizer. Grand S, J.F. Oshea, of ¢ till the next convention, e = The Case Against Gould and S NEW Yous, Oct. District. Attorney Martine to-day presented to the grand jury the papers in the criy e for grand lare ceny it Russell Sage and Juy Gould Dbrought by the bondholders of the Kunsas Pacific company. The grand jury returned the documents 16 the district attorney for ina vestigation, ———s Sharp's Appeal. ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 27.—Argument in the Sharp case was begun in the court of appeals this morning. Oral argument was limited to two hours for each side, and Bourke Cochran began his argument on behalf of Sharp. He asked for anew trial for the same reasons that a stay of judgment was asked from the | general term, © Nicoll will present the case for the city. i — Steamship Arrival SouTnAMPTON, Oct. 27.—(Special Telegram to the Bee.]—Arrived—The Trave, from New York for Bremen. New York, Oct. 27.—Arrived—The City of Richmond, from Liverpool, and the Stute of Indiana, from Glasgow. o Sl P Suffocated by Coal Gas. 1 Apaws, Mass, Oct 27.—Mury Hogan, daughter of Michwel Hogan, was found dead this movning in her room, suffo- cated from coal gas from a_stove. Another daughter, younger, will not survive, Methodist Women Missionaries, Symacus, N. Y., Oct. 25.—The sixth ane nual conference of the Women's Home Mise sionary socicty of the Methodist Episcopal BlLp, S48 st o an church, opencd in this city to-day, Mrs. Ly QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 27— Arrived — The ‘“ N SRRRS A Germanic, from New York. yes p V| ine's Appointment, Car Shops Sold. _ Vifqua Appol e STILLWATER, Minn., Oct. 27.—The sale of !“N" m"'d ‘it mi' 7v1 ;l::\ l;:w d':'l'-t‘x Nortbweater: e sar | @8y _appointe . ifquu > the Northwestern Manufacturing and Cay | yoy sPROStel, - Jrtor, LOEme, o0, 8L company came off this forenoon at the conrt house and resulted in the purchase of the works by the Minnesota Thresher company upon the Sabin place for $1,105,000. The Porter party, the only other bidder, dropped out after bidding $1,108,000, e all Brotherhood. Colon, republic of Colombiu. Business Trouble LANCASTER, Pa., Oct. 27,—Isracl P, Mayer, a prominent builder of this city, made an ase signme Liabilities will probably exceed sist of city property. The Ba ! - t. 9T.—Tho James L. Regam CincixNATE Oct. 27.—The national brother- | pyintine company failed to-day. with Liabile hood of buseball player sion here to-day, with delegates from- different baseball clubs in the National league und wmany others present. ties amounting to ovs 5,000, Tue ussote P \ory of Wushburne, — WasnInGToN, Oct. 27.-~The departent of Sullivan Sails, stal as & wark of respect Bostox, Oct, 27.—John L. -Sultivan, bugil- | to the memory” of late £ B, Washe bugie. . ist, and party sailed for Liverpdol to-day. | | |