Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1887, Page 1

. SEVENTEENTH YEAR. PATTISON POUNDS PACIFIC. The Fearless Ex-Governors Ar- ralgnment of the hallroads. DISCLOSING A ROBBERS' NEST. ient Cheated By False and Perjuring Wit Mp‘ Figures of an Avto . Nature. . Report. . 80.—The minority re- port, submitted by Robert E. Pattison, ehair- man of the Pacific commission, differs some- what as to conclusions of facts, and entirely 88 to the method of adjusting the differences with the railroad companics. The following extracts will serve to indicate Pattison's chief points: ‘The construction companics or inside com- binations that have built five of the six roads have concealed or destroyed their books, the 4 exception being the central branch, and the * commission has been embarrassed in its work by the refusal or failure of the com- panies to produce their accounts relating to the actual cost of construction, or to exhibit any paper or documents that would enable the commission to ascertain the truth as to this most important factor in the investi tion. From minutes and accounts of railroad companies and from fragmentary informa- &+ tion gathered from various sources, it is dis- closed that officers of at least three of these companies made false statements under oath in afidavits now on file in the interior depart- ment. The managers were acting as trustees of a national highway and they cannot plead any lawful justification for making false afidavits, which state that $08,548,040 of stock was actually paid for, when in fact 1ess than £2,000,000 had been so paid for. Mr. Huntington testified before the com- mission, that ‘“‘competition is killing,” and that there ought to be only one railroad for the whole country. They combine with oth- ers to tax communities which they served, and they forced consuming classes in all sec- tions of the country to contribute to the pay- ment of interest and dividends upon ficiitious capital which the had credited. They in- creused cost of living; they laid property claim to a truffic on large sections of the country; they squandered millions of their money “to_protect” their territorial claims, while spending other millions in encroach- ments upon territory claimed by other com- panies; they constitute themselves arbiters of trading; they attempt to dictate chan- nels which trade must follow and fixed rates of transportation that were extor- tionate; they charged all that traffic could bear and appropriated a share of profits of every Indusiry by charging the greater part of differences between actual cost of pro- duction and price of article in the market; They diseriminated between individuals, be tween localities and between articles; they favored particular individuals and companies ; they destroyed possible competitors and they hulf; up particular localities to the injury of other localities until matters had reached such a pass that no man dared engage in any business In which transportation largely offered without first consulting and obtaining permission of the railroad manager; they departed from their legitimate s\)lurc 88 commpn carriers and engaged in mining articles for transportation over their own line; they exerted terrorism over mer- chanta and over committees thus interfering with lawful pursuins of people; they partici- pated in election contests, and it is charged they even attempted to influence courts and juries by granting free transpartation. By Becret, curt and violent and rapid fluctuations in rates they menaced business, paralyzed capital ann retarded investment and develop- ment. During the five years from 1864 to 1869, upon that their roads were fully completed aed these companies obtained bonds from the government, but when the government called upon them to pay a percentage of their net earnings into the treasury, as was stipulated in the original contract, they contended that their roads were not fully completed until 1874 and refused to make any payments to the government, though one of them, the Central Pacific, had been declaring dividends in the meantime. The resisted the claims and demands of the government at every point and resorted to every device that their in- genuity could invent in their efforts made Plain by the requirements of the laws. In transrorting troops and supplies for the gov- ernment they violated the contract obligation to charge reasouable rates by charging more than they carried to private shippers for the same service. The reports of the Union Pacific show that the average rates paid by the government to that corpyration were higher than those ceived by thai company from other source: The same is more or less true of other bond- aided company. The balance sheet of the Central Pacific for 1886 should have shown a deficit of over $14,000,000 in profit and loss account, but by omitting from the debit side accumulated interest, which the government had advanced, amounting to #31,809,475.20, and by making up its lands in asset column to $23,500,000, when its actual value was §12,500,000, as ap- ars from the testimony of the company’s and agent, the company made a showing of an spparent surplus of over 28,000,000, Had Puacific railroads been built and man- aged upon honest methods and government 1oan been properly applied, these companies, garded as a whole, could have declared a dividend at a rate of 6 per cent per annum for eighteen years from date of actual com- pletion to the present time upon all moneys that they could have been required 1o pa to compiete and equip the roads. They have repaid every cent of principal and interest advanced by the government to date and_could have reduced their chages 1o shippers to_the extent of $435,970 or more than 8,000,000 per year. But they chose dis- honest methods. At the outset they divided $172347,115 of fictitious capital, and they taxed shippers to an extent of over £255,000,000 or $14,000,000 a yeur, to pay for inflation of capital of these companies, and for vicious ractices that crept into their management. echuse of vicious methods, actually pursued by bond-aided companies, the vernment has been deframded of the ulk of its advances shippers been taxed to an extent of ovor §55,000,000, and llabilities to the amount of &80,517,265 have been roperties to redeem these rou rted uses to which they have been applied, in order that the benefi- cent public purpose that congress had in wview in their creation be realized, is a con- sideration of infinitely more importance to tho people than any payment of any given number of dollars and cents into the treasury, The government can well afford to lose a por- tion of this indebtedness if its object can be accomplished. Pattison deals with the branch line s: at great length, decluring that the line system, in its present shape, is the out- Emwm of those speculative features that aye marked the administration of this com- ny since it inception. It may be but @ coincidence, but it is nevertheless a fact that the company made more money before the creation of the branch line system than it has since that tim After reviewing the operations of the . Union Pacific " in this direction, he say 1 therefgrg report that the action of the ' Union Pacific company in expending its revenues and in ing its credit to build branch lines, ex- ceeded its corporate powers; that this policy ‘Was pursued after notice from the govern- ment directors that it must be adopted at the :::r-m risk; that the feeding lines were @8 a cloak to hide the schemes of cor- ruption and misadministration by oficers and managers ; it ranch line syst .fifo (,n!'.m ‘Lfinc as a ‘;\ fitable: that Union Pacific has lues which shoy have been applicabl government debt und has deliberately removed them from the operation of & stet- utory line or aided the road in violation of the Thurman ac Mr. Pattison concluded by suggesting that the debt of the Union Pacific to the govern- ment might be agpraised on a basis of what the road would sell for in the market. Cullom's Postal Telegraph Bill. Wasnixatoy, Dec. 80.—Senator Cullom will introduce an amendment to his postal telegraph bill immediately after the reassem- bling of congress, changing the rates named in the original bill, more especially for the transmission of press matter. While he be- lieves congress ought to prescribe rates for the usc of government wires as it prescribes rates for the use of mail, instead of leaving it to the discretion of officials, yet the rates named in his bill were designed merely as & suggestion to a committee which should have the bill in charge. With subsequent stud and with information which has come to him from muny sources, he has reached the con- clusion that there ought to be no difference, upon government lines, between service of like manner rendered to evening papers and that to morning papers. He says he appr ciates the weight of reason which leads pri- vate compa to charge more for day than night ser ¢, namely, the fact that wires are in great demand for commercial messages b comparatively high rates during the hours from 10 in the morning 'till 2 or 3 in the afternoon. He belicves such reasons should not_operate as regards government lines, and that the government should have no preferred patrons as to rates for like clusses of business or asto the order of trans- mission. The rates to be named in his amen; ment are based upon a umit of 100 words or a fraction thercof and arc as follows For 500 miles or 1 25 cents: between 500 and 1,000 miles, 30 1,500 miles, 85 cents; betwaen 1,500 and 2,000 ts: between 2,000 and 3,000 miles, enits, and for more than 8,000 miles, 50 cents. When more than_one’ copy of the same dispatch is sent to different newspapers atthe same or different offices, the post- master general is to prescribe the rates to be charged for drop copies. ikttt A SCRAPPIN DULUTH. A Bloody Eight-Round Contest and a Genuine Knockout. Derern, Minn., Dee. 80.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bek.]—The hardest fight that ever took place in the northwest occurred to- night between Paddy McDonald, of Duluth, and J. P. Donner, of Hurley. McDonald thought he had a snap, but Donner nearly finislied him, although much the lighter. The fight was eight rounds, Quecnsbury rules, for $200 and receipts, James Murnane, ref- eree, and was decided a draw. Both men were badly used up. Donner’s right eye was closed and McDonsld’s face @ chopping irst Round—Donner led with his right and caught Paddy on the neck. The men clinched and after the break Donner landed his right with telling effect on M Donald's face, McDonald fouled slightly but Donner did not claim it. Heavy and close slugging all through. First blood for Donner. Second—Donner's right peeper wasshut by Paddy swinging s right. The round was one of hard figthing allthrough. No advant- age in this. Third-—Paddy led and landed with both on Donner's head. Both sparred for wind. Fourth—Paddy got chancery on Donner, but the latter broke and laid his_right on Paddy’s lip, cutting it open, Hardest fight- ing on record at close. Both men badly winded. Blows of no force. Men led to corners. Refereo got hiton the jaw at the clinch, Fifth—Donner opened with a hard right on Paddy’s head and rushed him to the ropes, slugging him repeatedly. McDonald ayoided him. Donner had the bést of the round. Sixth--Close all through and both men bloody. Paddy out of wind and very grogey, but fought close. Seventh—Paddy caught Donner with left on neck and punished him badly. A call of time saved Donner from a knock out. Eighth—Both men fought like demons, streaming with blood and almost too weak to stand. No advantage. At the close Donner challenged any man in the northwestto a tinish, London rules. Clow and_McDonald _both fights will be_arranged to-me referee’s decision was satisfuctor, was 1o sign of a hippodrome ——— THE GOULD-S, INDICTMENT. ‘What District Attorney Martine Has to Say About It. New Yonrk, D¢ 830.—District Attorney Martine to-day filed the following memoran- dum in the matter of the charges made against Jay Gould and Russell Sage by the bond- holders of the Kansas Pacific railroad: “This 18 an application to present to the grand jury, a charge of larceny against Jay Gould and Russell Sage under section 54 of the penal code. Inmy opinion the acts, with the com- mission of which the defendants stand charged, constitute a crime. A possible ob- stacle to the successful prosecution of the persons complained of is the statute of limi- tations. Yet there are-strong reasons for be- lieving that this obstacle is not unsurmount- able. The statute under which it is sought to prosecute may be so construed as to enable the people to proceed, notwithstanding the statute of limitations, and such construction would have much support in reason and cc mon sense. The question is so close and th interests involved here, as well of the people as of the defendants, are so imvortant it seems proper to leave the determination of this question of law to the courts and mn order to effect this result, the change should be laid before the grand jury, and, if proven an in- dictment, found and tried.” i il To Beat the Scalpers. CHICAGO, Dec. 30.—The Central Traffic as- sociation roads having failed to adopt a prop- osition to sell 1,000 mile tickets at 21 cents a mile, Commissioner Blanchard submitted to a vote modification of the plan with the hope that the few roads objecting to the orig inal scheme would approv 'he new pro- posal is to sell 1,000 mile tickets at §30, a re- ate of £10 to be paid to the purchaser when the coupons have all been used. The tickets are to be made non-transferable and $10 is to be forfeited if they have changed hands. In this way, it is thought, tickets can be kept out of the hands of scalpers. L Worst Gale Since '60. Macums, Me., Dee, The gale of Wednesday night last is said by experienced seamen to have been the heaviest experienced in this section since 1869. At Jonesport a large number of vessels were driven ashore and four were stranded. Houses were dam- aged and barns unroofed in several shore towus, accepted and ow. The There P Fatal Affray in a Distillery. Lexixgroy, Ky, Dec., 80.—James A. Hunter, store keeper and 8. C. Cardwell, book keeper of Curley's Distillery company, engaged in a shooting to-day. Hunter was instantly killed. It was occasioned by a dis- pute as to individual rights about the dis- tile Hunter is the secona government ofticial from Jessamine county that has been killed in a shoo affray within five weeks, - The Death Record. Asnaxp, W Dec. 80.—Judge Bell, known far and wide as king of the Apostle Islands, died this morning. ~ For nearly half a century he established what was practically a little monarchy in the wilderness. He was eighty-three years old, and was the oldest living settler on the historic spot where Maurquette founded his mission 200 years ago. i et o Moffatt's Vacant Seat. Laxsixe, Mich,, Dec. 80.—Governor Luce has designated Tuesday, February 14, as the date of a special election in the Eleventh dis- tr to choose a syccessor to Congressman Motfutt, deceased. « b OMAHA, SATURDAY , o~ e AT AT - - THE FIGHT FOR PROHIBITION. Attention Called to Senator Platt's Anti-Whisky Bill HOW THE SENATE STANDS. ‘Willlam Tecumseh and John Sherman Show Their Diplomacy on the Presidential Question—The Pacific Commission. The Whisky Question. Wasmxeroy Bureav Tae Omana Bee, 513 FoURTEENTH STREET, ‘Was iToN, D. C., Dec. 80. Senator Palmer's recent announcement, to the effect that the opening fight for prohi- bition would be made in this district, has stirred matters up here and attracted atten- tion to the bill introduced by Senator Platt, to which Senator Palmer referred in a recent interview. This bill was prepared by leading temperance men here and provides that no person shall sell or manufacture or keep for sale or give away any spirituous or intoxi- cating liquors except for medicinal, me- chanical or scientific purposes. The impor- tation or exportation of intoxicating liquors except for the purposes stated, are pro- hibited. Regulations are prescribed for the dispensation of liquors. It must be upon the form of & regular practicing physician and when used for mechanica. or scientific purposes can only be obtained upon affidavits setting forth the specific pur. pose for which the liquor is intended. Mr. Moulton, who is president of the temperance alliance here, and who is the reputed author of the bill, says of the measure: “The bill was introduced in the senate for the purpose of having it sed there. I have no doubt that the senate will pass it. It has already passed other measures of special legislation for the District, and the sentiment of a ma- jority of the senators is in favor of this bill, As for the house, I cannot speak so confi- dentally, but T believe the change in senti- ment there, and the earnestness with which this measure is urged by the good people—the best people all over the country—will secure its passage by the house. Of course it will be opposed by the liquor power, but this power is waning. It cannot longer throttle legislation. It found it could not coerce the supreme court—it cannot cocrce congress. The sentiment in favor of prohibition is growing stronger every day. Members of _congress need no longer fear that they will commit political suicide to support such a measure as this. From every congressional district petitions are coming in favor of this bill, and these petititions are sent by the best people in the district—the doctors, the minis- ters, the lawyers and the leading men. Po- litical parties cannot ignore this movement. If the republican senate passes this bill it will be a strong point for the republican party, and if the house then passes it, it will be a strong point for the democratic’ party.’” MR. RYAN IN A QUANDARY, g Mr. Ryan, of Kansas, is in a quandary. There appears to be some doubt as to whether Mr. Ryan will accept the place on the ways and means committee tendered him by the speaker. Mr. Ryan has been for a number of years one of the committee on appropria- tions and his colleagues from Kansas, with whom Mr. Ryan has consulted about the pro- posed transfer, have unanimously recom- mended to decline and remain on the appro- priations. The Kansas members say their state is very much interested in certain ap- propriations and they have very little inter. est in the tariff one way or the other, so Mr. Ryan is in a state of uncertainty as to whether he will accept the orer and go on the ways and means MRS, HANCOCK BE A POSTMISTRESS ¥ Was a report current to-day that the president had tendered to the widow of eral Hancock the postmastership in this ¢ Mrs. Hancock has been Iiving here for some time and a paper has recently been in circu- lation among congressmen to purchase her home in the fashionable quarter of the north- ‘western part of the A qualified denial was entered at the wi house this after- noon of the report that the president had offered the postmastership to her and it was generally believed that one of the twenty male applicants will be selected. Among the applicants is ex-Commander J. J. Burke, of the G. A. R., and J. J. Enright, of Michigan who is the funny man of the New Y Star, and has a presidential "connection through Mr. Dorsheimer of that paper. It is said that the new postmaster general will favor Enright. GENERAL SHERMAN AND THE INTERVIEWER. William Tecumseh Sherman, who is vi ing his brother, the senator, is rece quite an ovation. He spends his time in the company of General Sheridan and pays frequent visits to the white house, The president is very fond of him. The g eral refuses to talk politics. A reporter at- tempted to get an interview with him by say- ing: “Your friends speak of making you president one of these days, general.”” The old general coyly took his spectacles off, and twirling them in his fingers, exclaimed: “Oh, no, you are talking politics. You musn't do that.” “A lot of your friends here,” said the re- porter, “and many more throughout tne country, would like to know, if you will not talk about yourself, who your choice is for the presidency ¢ “If you want to talk politics,” said the general, goodnaturedly, *‘you must talk to my brother,”” pointing to the senator. *'I am no politician, the senator is. I am no talker. My brother can tali.” w, don’t shift that thing off on me terposed the senator, who stood har “You know more about politics than I do. keep at him,” continued the senator to the reporter. *He knows all about it, and if you will press him you can get him to tell you something.” Both of the brothers blushed and smiled at their diplomatic passages, but neither the warrior nor the statesman would utter a sylluble on presidential matte COMMENDATIONS OF THE PACIFIC COMMISSION The_majority report of the Pacific railway commission, signed by Commissioners Ander- son and Littier, is accompanied by the draft of a bill which congress is asked to pass. It provides that the time for payment of the debt due the government be extended to fifty years, but that the roads should issue a formal mortgage to the government which now has only a statutory Len, covering not only the lines now subject to the lien, but also the entire property of the roads, new branches and all; that the debt be funded at 8 per cent per annum, pay- able semi-annually directly into the United States treasury, but that the roads shall have the privilege of taking up any part of the debt in advance; that the president shall be empowered to appoint one trustee and the roads another, to be approved by the presi- dent, who shall have control of ‘the invest- ment of the sinking fund and other matters pertaining to the payment of the debt to the govermment; that the roads shall provide for a sinking fund of 14 of 1 per cent annually upon the total amount of the debt to the govern ment for ten years and that the trustees shall then provide for a proper per centum of pay ments to the sinking fund, so that the debts shall be paid by it at maturity ; that the board of directors of the two roads shall consent and agree that the law department of the United States shall be vested with power to bring any suit, criminal or civil, in belinlf of the roads. TO THE BULKLEY-RILLYER AFFAIR. the wtimate personal friends of Yyoung Bulkley, who eloped with Miss Hill- ver, explained to me to-day why the father of the girl had withdrawn the suit to annul the marriage. He said: ‘‘The it before the suit was withdrawn a note came to Bulkley from his bride, who was locked up at her home. It was sent through her maid and expressed for her hus- band the warmest love and most positive dis- approval of the proceedings instituted by her u&q. She expressed not ouly a willing- maid a note of a character. sent for his_attorséy and showed -him the note he had recei¥ed from his wife, The lawyer was greatly ‘elated, sud at once said the procecdings 14 set aside the marriage on .the ground it it was procured through fraud and goercion, and the claim that the girl did want the marriage to stand, would !-ll% The IW{BP then went to the attorney foi illyer and it was at once reed that the oould not stand upon the mun’du it was entered on. Then mna to live_with ley, but a yearning desire to. Bulkley sent back to her by the r, <Then he the arrangement for @ meeting bet: o | the ofice of for the bride to the brid m and ex- press her love an ire to live with him after this corres) lence. Of course there was nothing to do gfter this except the dis- missal of the case/as there wes evidenee in a number of di ms that the bride was detained against will at her fathe house and_kept from her husband. Mr, and Mrs. Bulkley have taken rooms at the Windsor, a fashiogable flat at the corner of New York avenudnnd Fifteenth street and have begun domestc life in earnest. A CANARD ABOGT BENATOR BLACKBURN. A Washington 'special in to-day's New York Herald, stating that Senator Joe Black- burn, of Kentucke was suffering froma can- cer of the stomaeh, credited anxiety here. The scnator is at home in Versailles, Ky., and could not bo séen. But it is known there is no foundagion far the report. I saw the senator the day ress took the holiday re- cessand he was $n_excellent health. His friends say he nc\%hwfl a cancer. Ho has two young 1o, attorney. It is b fall into the arms written a lette this week and makes no mention of illn@s of any kind, butsays he will be in Washington next Tuesday. The ‘whole story is unfelinded. TOM CHIJNERS' LAND CASE. The sccretary of the interior to-day ren- dered a- decision 4 the appeal of Thomas Chilvers from th@ decision of the general land commissionet respecting . his final proof and holding for cageellation his pre-emption filing for the soutlawest quarter of section town 27, range 15vest, Niobrara distric Chilvers filed a dé® aratory statement May 14, 1888, alleging settisment April 30, 1883, Henry P. Peterson madeiw homestead for the sanio tract November 371883, Chilyers gove notice for final proof and Peterson filed @ protes In passing upon this application the commis- sioner held Chilvirs' proof insufficient, but allowed him to mke proof at any time within the life of his entag and refused to order a hearing, from which decision no appeal was taken. On reyie ?)lhe case the commis sioner, under datc®f December 19, 1885, found that Chilvers had failed to comply with the requirements of thpre-emption law as to con- tinuous residencey reversed the decision of the local ofticer and held his_filing for cancel- lation. On Febraary 15, 1886, Chilvers filed a motion for recomsideration, supporting his motion by several affidavits. On June 25 18%6, the commissioner rcfused his motion and he appealed. The secretary of the in- terior, in his letter to the land commissioner to-day, deciding tH# case, says: “‘The affida- vits filed in suppor of his motion for recon- sideration go to show that Chilvers bears a ood character for honesty and that Peterson filed the protest out of spite and has aban- doned the same, having removed to the state of Towa. Three afddavits show that Chilvers was, during the iod covered by his final proof, frequently in the employ of the differ- ent county officers o the county in which the land is situated On the whole, I find the _proo is uncertain, unsatisfactery and not of that character upon whh a patent ought to issue, Inasmuch, howevus, 48 the matters alleged against the entryare contained in ex-parta aftidavits and are ' therefore in the nature of an information of grotest, it is entirely proper that a hearing shéiild be had to determine the truth of those allégiations. You willthere- fore direct the loegl officers to hold a hearing for such purpose, otice of which should be given to the claimgnt Chelver, to the parties making affidavits §gwton file, alleging failure to comply with thé§ 1aw and ‘with all parties in jntercst, as shown by the records of their o&ce. Your said decision is modifien accord- ingly.” THE WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION, It is expected that the New Year reception at the White house on Monday will be very largely participated in. Mrs, Cleveland wiil only have two married ladies of the cabinet— Mrs. Whitney and Mrs. Fairchild. Miss Annie Bayard has also been invited to re- ceive, and will, it is said, stand next to Mrs. nd, as Miss Katherine Bayard did two years ago. Mrs, Endicott, who is only recov- ering the useof her sprained limb, cannot ud the fatigue of the reception, and Mrs. las is too ill to leave her bed Mrs, Lamar is in the south, and Attorney General Garland’s mother, Mrs. Hubbard, has never appeared on these oceasions save es a guest, and 1t is not probable she will care to do so this year. The Baltimore charity ball on the evening of the 9th of Junuary promises to be quite as important a social event as last n. The President and Mrs. Cleveland have not said yet positively whether ornot they will at- tend. They attended the lastone. There will be a special train for the invited guests from here and some of the diplomatic corps and noticeably the Chinese embassy have ac- cepted invitations. PERSONAL. F. G. Cushing, of Omaha, is at the Ebbitt. Colonel William Thompson, of Bismarck, Dak., arrived in the city to-day and will re- main for some weeks. Colonel Thompson was one of the first congressmen from fowa after the admission of that state to the Union. Heserved with distinction throughout the war as colonel of the first Iowa cavalry and was then commissioned as captain in_the regular army, seeing a number of years hard scrvice on the frontier. ' He is now one of leading citizens of Dakofa, with grown and _prosper- ous sons about him, and in spite of his ad- vancing age looking as though he had many years of life and life's enjoyment still before him. Perry S, Hearn, Postdl Changes. Wasnixarox, Dec. 80.—[Special Telegram to the Ber.]—The following Towa postmas- ters were appointed to-day: J. H. Raner, Faus] Guthrie county, vice Nelson T. Cool resigned; William E. Bell, Lacaow, Lee county, vice B. Nelle, resigned; George L. Hoar, Winslow, Black Hawk county, vice Benjamin F. Brown, resigned. The post- ofice at Burke. Benton county, Ia., will be discontinued Jahuary 15. A postoffice was established at Jvas, Dundy county, Neb., and 0. B. Ballard appointed postmastc ‘An order has been issued at the postoffice department establishing railroad service on the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad from Omaha via Irvington to Arling- ton, twenty-eight and one-half miles, and back six times a week, and as_much oftener as trains may run, beginning January 16, Special mail service at Ephesus, Dallas county, Towa, will be discontinued after Jan- 5 because of the discontinuance of the there, Star mail service will be established from January 9 to January 30 next at Kimball by Lorraine and Ashford, new office, to Geriy Nebraska, forty-two miles, three times a week by a ten and a half hour schedule. Nebraska and lowa Pensions. ‘WasniNGToN, Dee. 30.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]—-The following pensions were issued to Nebragkans to- Original— vid Fouts, BBlue Springs; John Johnson, Omaha and Winnebago agency, Dakota county; Isaac Taylor, New Castle. Increase —Lott Fillmore, Calamus; Milton Dinnel, Galena. Pensions for Towans: Mexican Adam Hawk, Ormansville. Original - Thomas J. Wilson, Seer: I. M. Poor, Red- Elias Saylor, Cedar Bluffs, 4 William F. Everman, Centrevill Reed, Bentonsport; William O. D field; Welcome Beach, Hillsboro, war— WasnINGTON, Dec, 80.—[Special Telegram to the Bek.]—Ten colored recruits have been ordered for assignment to the Twen fourth infantry, Department of the Missou and sixty-five reeruits for the First infantr Department of Catifornia. Captain Willimn H. Rexford, ordinance storekecper, has beei appoited to act as inspector on certain medical property. at the Indianapolis ursenal, ING, DECEMBER 31. 1887, “HE OFFERED T0 CO AWAY.” More Testimony From Mrs. Billings at the Kingsley Inquest. A HUSBAND'S MAGNANIMITY. Even Her Infidelity Could Not Shake "#is Love—Donahuc Gets Seven Years For Killing Dolan ““eJowa News. Magnanimous Mr. Billings. ‘WavERLY, Ia, Dec. 80.—The examination of Mrs. Billings was resumed this morning at 9 o'clock, and the opinion shared by many that her testimony was in accordance with instructions received from her husband was more firmly fixed as time wore on. Her man- ner was hesitating and irresolute, and she made frequent attempts to work on the feel- ings of the jury by copious tears at interest- ing junctures. But few points of interest not already known were revealed. In regard to the mattor of her criminal relations with Kingsley she said: “I told my husband all about it within a week after September 21. His love and respect for me seemed no less than before; he treated me kindly and told me if I loved Kingsley and desired to fly with him he would give me all his property and go away. He did not wish to coerce me in the matter, but desired me to act as 1 chose.” He also intimated to her that it would be well to go to Kingsley and tell him of his (Billings’) pro- posal to give to her all of his property, even if she chose to go to Kingsley. She acted on this suggestion, and when she told Kingsley of the plan he pronounced it absurd and said such a thing could never be. Interro- gated as to whether she had ever told her husband that she was pregnant as the result of improper relations with Kingsley, she re- plied in the negative. Mr. Billings and her- self left home together about December 14, her husband going to Dakota, she to Sumner. Here Attorney Dawson launched a ques- tion at her that she seemed reluctant to answer: “Did you ever hear Mr. Billings threaten Kingsley " She hesitated to reply, but finally replied in the negative, although confessing she had heard her husband call Kingsley a snake, vil- lain, etc., on different occasions after his re- turn from Dakota. ‘“Mr. Billings told me that he was going to go to Kingsley and tell him all he knew of the matter and what he thought of him. Iendeavored to persuade him that it was best to let the matter drop, as we were 80 8oon to move away, and my shame would never ba made publ He at last agreed not to go, especially as I told him that serious trouble might ensue. Before my husband and myself left, December 14, he told me he expected trouble and wanted me to go where I could not readily be found, as I would probably be wanted 88 & witness. Hence he directed me to tell the neighbors that 1 was to visit in Waterloo and Dubuque.” ‘Witness was then shown sixteen promis- sory notes, drawn payable to M. . Billings bx ‘W.S.Kingsley. She saidshe had never hear: of the notes before, but identified the hand- writing as thatof her husband. A mortgage on the residence, lately bought by Kingsley,was disposed of in a similar manner, witness iden- tifying the handwriting thercon as that of Bill- ings’. In like manner were produced notes, ‘chattel morigages, ete,, nono of which had ever before been seen by her,but all of which were written in Billings’ handwriting. An order on the county auditor for the major portion of Kingsléy's salary until the year 1903, should he hold office that long, was also |1ru|‘110uuucd to huve been written by her hus- nd. id in answerto aleading question that Billings never told her about any prepara- tions having been made for her future main- tenance, und she failed to remember a scene, vividly described by Billings, wherein he says he told her he was going away to die angd would leave her all he sessed. The following statement was elicited by close quesioning: ‘It was a habit of Mr. Billings to transfer all property acquired by him to me, yet he told me nothing of the existence of the notes and mortgages,” After a a few more important questions she was allowed to go. Silas Coates was placed on the stand and admitted having carried a note from Clarke to the Shane girl. At the conclusion of the testimony the inquest was adjourned till 1 The principal witness of the afternoon se: sion was E. W. Risdon, long a resident of this place, and for nineteen years a justic the peace. His testimony created a sen: and is regarded as the most damaging to Billings which has so far been given. He sai On the Tuesday evening preceding Kingsley's death Billings entered my office and told me about the mortgages and notes drawn up by him, saying: ‘I am going to make Kingsley sign'these for the support of a young lady and her child until the latter becomes sixteen years old.’ I repli ‘You will never get him to sign them.’ He said: ‘ll‘t‘ \)‘ill sign them or I'll blow his brains out."! Some other witnesses were examined, their testimony consisting mainly of a sort of veri fication of what had already been offered in evidence, ‘W. H. Gillis, real estate dealer, was the first witness this evening. He was in King- ley’s office about 5 o'clock the evening of the murder, but did not see Billings. Dr. Bur- bank testified that ne was called about 6 on the evening of the shootingto attend Bill- ings. The wound on Billings' back was about on the eighth dorsal vertebrae and di- rectly over the spinal process. It seemed ihat the bullet had punctured the skin, Though not a serious wound, it _had_swelled and was painful to the touch. Dr. Burbank stated that from the nature of the wound it might been inflicted with a blunt instru- ment. This closed to-day’s testimony, The River Front Proble Swovx City, Ia., Dec. 80.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—This morning members of the Jobbers' and Manufacturers’ associa- tion and the city council met at the mayor's office for the purpose of taking further steps regarding the protection of the Missouri r at this place. As before stated, the managers of the several railroad companies having lines touching Sioux City have agreed to meet in Chicago early in January and make arrangements to begin the work as soon as possible. In all probability the work will be commenced within thirty days. The Haddoc! 10vx City, Ta.,, Dec al Tele- gram to the Bee.]—District court convenes next Monday. ' On the docket there are fort, cight cases. The cases against John Arens, dorf and the other defendants in the Haddock murder case are on the dock near the front. 1t is safe to say that the cases against these defendunts will be dismissed. The first da of the term will be given to the assignment of causes and it is then that these cases will, in some manner, be disposed of. Convicted of Manslaughter.. AruanTic, Ia, Dee. 80.—[Special Tele- gram to the Beg.]—J. J. Donaboe, convicted of manslaughter, was to-day sentenced to seven years of hard labor in the Fort Madi- son penitentiary, Judge Carson passing the sentence. The case will be taken to the su- preme court. The sympathy of the entire neighborhood is with Donahoe, owing to the unpopularity of Lawrence Dolan, the man he killed. His appeal bond was fixed at §10,000, - A Murderer Lynched. LirrLe Rock, Dec. 80.—A special to the Guzette from St. Francis, Avk., says Wiiliam Herrig, who murdered his young wife and her paramour near here Thursday, was hanged last night’ by a‘band of vigilantes, about four miles from Rector, BQUEEZING THE LANDLORDS. The Member of Parliament Discusses the Tory Rent Reduction Bill [Copyright 1887 by James Gordon Bennett . Paris, Dec. 30.—[New York Herald Cable— Speeial to the Ber.]—Among the supporters of the government are many Irishmen who own landed property. One or two are in the ministry itself. They, and the whole class to which they belong, begin to wonder whether Disraeli's saying that “‘a conserva- tive government is an organized hypocris, is not still true and whether they could not have made better terms with Gladstone than they are receiving from their friend Lord Salisbury. This eternal Irish question never keeps long in the same place. Take your eyes oft it a while and in the interval you will see it has undergone a total change. On Christmas day the landlords had no suspicion that a New Year's surprise was being prepared for them in the shape of a cumpulsory reduction of rents averaging 14 per cent and repre- senting another whittling down of their capi- talof nearly #25,000. The newspapers tell them they ought not to be surprised because the act authorizing the reduction was passed last session exactly, but until a few falls it is not felt and there is always hope that it will not fall. We must all die, but when the day can be fixed with certainty it gencrally comes us a shock. So it was with the Irish landlord. He disliked the act depriving him of another large slice of his property, but he clung to the hope that it would never be enforced. The act was not passed without difficulty Many conserv- atives refused to vote for it on the ground that Lord Salisbury had pledged himself never to interfere with judicial rents, The Gladstonian legislation affecting land was revolutionary. Although the tory party could not reverse it, it ought not to make matters worse, 3 So went the arguments but the whigs got together a majority and the tories sacrificed the landlords quite as cheerfully as the rad- icals had ever done. The Gladstonian ma- chinery of land commissioners and court lowered rents from 20 to 80 per cent in con- tracts deliberately entered into between land- lord and tenant but it was expressly provided in the act of 1881 that the new judicial rents should be guaranteed for fifteen years. In effect Mr. Gladstone said: “We take away a part of your prop- erty but as somec compensation we secure you in the quiet possession of the re- mainder. Six years had hardly passed be- fore the conservatives swooped down on the confiding landlords and threw Gladstone's guarantees into the fire. Well may the land- lords, ground small between the upper and nether millstones, wish that they had con- cluded a treaty offensive and defensive with Mr. Parncll long ago. Some of my tory fellows are thoroughly in the dumps. ‘‘Where is it all to stop?”’ they are asking. “What is the good of calling yourself a tory if you are only used to make the revolution turn ever faster and faster?” One is amuscd at their distress, especially as they pride themselves on being genuine, old-fashioned, conservatives—none of your half-breed tory democrats and Churchillites. Now where are they contemplating the spoliation of their own friends and sup- porters carried out under their own orders, Thelr 1owittimeis truly embarressing. Can they bu blind enough to think arbitrary rent reduction, contrary to leases and agreements, will stop here? Will it go no further than Ire- land? Will it never extend to England? The English farmer is rackrented far more heavily than is the Irish tenant, but he pays his rent because no party has taken up his case. No “plan of campaign” has been started for his benefit. But his day will surely come. ror him also judicial courts will be set up to cancel his bargain with his landlords and upon what ground can the tories object after having sunctioned the sum- mary jurisdiction of the commissioners in ir act of 18721 The landed class must sce that they have nothing more to look for from the tories except a parting kick down hill. The Gladstonians have every reason to be delighted with Lord Salisbury's great jump into their chief territory, for it undermines his own party and dots not conciliate t Irish. Nobody says so much as “Thank you.” Parnellites chuckle over the pit_into which their enemies have fallen and throw the 14 per cent reduction in their face: “Muke it fifty,” they say in derision, “‘and we will talk to you.” Men are in prison for recommending people toadopt “the plan of compaign.” Father Ryan has been sent to jail for a month for no other offense. The Parnellites ask what difference there is, in principle, between the plan of O'Brien and the plan of Lord Salisbury. One is illegal, the other has been sanctioned by act of parliament, but the two are one. For some time past there has been a rumor that the Protest- ants of Ulster are more and more disposed to make some compromise with the Parnellites and agree upon a scheme of home rule for the whole of Ircland. They say they have no confidence in the firmness of the government and they fear that after they have been drawn into antagonism with their fellow countrymen the tories will cooly throw them over. This fear is not likely to be diminished by the example of misplaced confidence now presented by the Irish landlord. The reductions may be mod- erate or otherwrise. This is not the question which now agitates the party. The question is, “Are mot the betraying their friends and ting their principles in arbitrarily re ducing rents without even an application from even the tenants?” A landlord goes to bed and wakes in the morning and finds a decree in the papers reducing his rents all round by any sum the land commissioners think proper. Is that conservatismt If it is Ireally see no reason why Henry George should not depose Lord Salisbury and direct the new conservative socialism. Let him wait a little while and he may hear the bitter cry of the bewildered English tories; *“‘Come over and help us.’ A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. Gladstone Thunderstruck Paxis, Dec. 0. e Temps to-day lishes an interview with Gladstone in the ex-premier de missioners’ rent reduction decrce as a *'t mendous decision,” and said he was thunder struck at the news. He also said the tory cabinet, having alicnated the tenants, would uow alienate the landlords, pub- which h land com- British Interests in East Africa, Brussens, Dec. 80—The Mouvement Geographique says: Advices from Zai are to the effect that the British East Afr association have concluded to grant under which the sulta led to the association f years soverergnty over the territory be on P ‘Wanga, at the mouth of the Oumba rive, and the Vitu, a dist ce of thirty-five kilo- metres, This will facilitate the opening of routes to Victoria Nyanza, and shows that England_is desirous of founding a colony which will extend her influence to the source of the Nile, nd — Russian Stores On the Frontier, Bucnakest, Dec., 80.—1It is reported that 50,000 troops are massed at Bender, in Besi. rabia, and that guns and_munitions of war are coustputly ayriving thore, THE READING WAR RENEWED. A General Strike Orderod After &% EBight-Hour Conference. 5 RESOLUTIONS OF S The Trade and Labor (M dorses the Employcs—Men Qo6 erally Remaining at Work—An ' Anarchist Circular lesued. MY The Struggie Re Reapixe, Pa., Dec. 80.—~The the Reading railroad emnployes,. tinuous session of nearly eigh! journed at 3:30 this morning, af to issue orders for . general place at 12 o'clock to-day. Ever, employ of the Reading, with of passenger train crews, traokl signal tower men, and. crossing; is to go on & strike, and A after the meeting signals were the wires to Philadelphia and Wil The resolution says that the men shatl st and remain out until the company agree to arbitrate all diff cludes shopmen in this city initiative in refusing to go out early 3 week, thus breaking the backbone of the. strike at that time, and every man whb bes longs to the knights. A resol also passed offering a reward of the arrest of any persons who in stroy or injured the company's pro order includes not only hands om | line, but over the whole system. It that the shop hands in this city the order. r adjonrnment tion, the miners held a sepa They transacted nothing @ reforence to |nl|rixk‘l|||;,d % to give full financial aid an mozl with the ra the strikers on the railroad. not decide to st ke w § cause they are working by agreement the company, which is mnqulun\n ! 1, and because they still have hopés G company will contiyue the & per cent: Chairman Lee, of the executive 0o before leaving Reading this morng d that if the strike of miners did \30 place it - would not only effect the Schuylkill mis but those in the Wyoming coul flelds, as 3 a8 the Lehigh miners. He felt sure they would all remuin firm, thus placingon s #trikes at one time 100,000 miners and not @ of coal could then be ined. The comy any’s officials in the city are greatly exercised over the new railn@aders to strike. The; are all running on gime and _thy men necessary in roserve, and t danger is of u coal famineif the The trades unions composed of such printers, hatters, bakers, carpenters, hod carriers, ers, barbers, ete., have organized into a body known as tho 'Trade council, which it is estimated nearly two thousand men. _They do not inte with the Knights of Labor, At & hour lust night, after a lengthy meeting, council passed the following resalul Resolved. That we, the Labor council of Reading, sure the Philadeiphia & Read) 01 for their direct attack on organized lniier g request ull unions to extend their symy and aid to those directly injured by the pany. Resolved, That we severely o Brotherhood of Locomotive Ei ® their very ready offer of assis u company in the present dificulties. on road, merely for the purpose of seeking ré= venge. . 1:80 p. m.—All trans are moving as usy to-day, and not an employe, as far as knowny. is from his post. Representatives of Reading asseml cls to-day that they were not fabrls treated and charge that the convention was = packed with delegates from the coal regions: bent upon forcing a_strike. In the I of onc of them: *“The Schuylkill count men came here red hot for a fight to a fi determined to force 2,000 employes of the Reading shops into an uncqual contest.” Fail to Strike. SuamoxriN, Pa., Dece. 30.—The order te 1 no discernable effect here at noon, county guards were on guard duty, iladelphia. PHILADELTIIA, %0.—President Corbin, Superintendent Sweigard and General Mans ager McLeod held a conference this morning and towards noon said there was nothing new to give out for publication. Advices from Port Richmond depots at Ninth and Sixteenth streets, and the Willow strect wharf at noon were to the effect that the site uation had undergone no change since lasf evening, that the men were all at work ane that the company had numerous applications from unenguged men who were anxious to go/ to work. As far as could be learned this afternoot¥ the order for the Reading employes to strikel at noon to-day had no perceptible effect this city. At Port Richmond and at depots and along the lines of *he various' branches in the city therc was the usual activity, and officials report that none of ] employes have quit Work, At Pottsville, PorrsviLie, Dec. 30.—The order to Re: ing employes to strike hus not been obey here. The shifting crews in the Readin, company’s yard all went to work, while af Palo Alto everything proceeded as usu At Tamaqua, the center of operations of th Mahoney and Little Schuylkill branche everything is in motion and there is absge lutely no change in the situation there, P A Bloodthi i {ne sty Circular, New York, Dec. 30.—Copies of the followw ing bloodthirsty document were circulated og the streets this morning: { Torch and bomb must be applied. Fellow= workingmen: The hour has come. Thd agencies of science must play a part in th struggle of the future. Yesterday it was th slaughter of our comrades at Chicago. Toe day it is the assassination of 60,000 of oug brothers of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad. True, the sword is the weapon of circumstances, but their victims perish al} the same. Do not waste your force on th the effect of the presen scabs; they damnable commercial and competitive sy tem. Dest agencies at youy command, th t representatives of the system, the Corbins, the Maxwells and the Goulds. Let torch, bomb or bullet striki them now. Let all they possess be given the flames, hound them day and night, The strike must be made the war of ciassesy Brothers, remember_ Chicago aud your oathy Monster Tidal Wave. X PortrAND, Me., Dec. 30.—Portland escaped great danger during the storm of Wednes- day. The gale struck Portland head at 9:30 o'clock, at a time, inthe harbor, when the wind seemed to be dying out. The wind had been terriffie, blowing fifty miles per hour, rain falling ~ continuously, when an immense tidal wave came into view. The monster wave came in shape of u pyramid. It struck firet st the outer line of rock, and the greag mass of water towered up even, the keepers say, With the light house itself. The entire ot above high water g hoiler and fog hory The force of the blow was sucts thag & hlnl:lm'.:l\vlu shuttered, and the receding wave carried with it everything on s| cluding stoues weighing tons. © hors, iny inst the engine, - Dividends Declared. New York, Dee. 80.—The following Qivi. dends have been declared: Lake Shore, 2 I it; Michigan Central, 2 per- cent, ;-d quarterly divider per Delar Wware, Luckawauna & ull_ar::m‘ » "