Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1888, Page 1

1 i ‘ E ‘OMAHA DAy BEE SEVENTEENTH YEAR. - OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 18S8, NUMBER2240, BLAINE WITHDRAWS HIS NAME He Says Ho Will Not Be a Prosiden- tial Candidate. BRIGHT HOPES FOR THE PARTY, The Maine Statesman Dwells Upon the Conditions Which Make Certain a Republican Triumph This Year. Declines to Run. Prrrsnuna, Pa., Feb, 12,—The Commercial- Gazette will publish the following to-morrow : Mr. B. J. Jones, chajeman of the national republican committee, has received o letter from Mr. Blaine declining to allow his name to be presented to the national republican convention as a candidate for the presidency. Mr, Jones, when asked whether Mr. Blaine's declination would prevent his friends from nominating him anyhow said: “As I am chairman of the national com- mittee I do not think it would be proper for me to have anything to say on that subject.” “Do you think Mr. Blaine would accept the nomination if tendered?!” “I have no authority to speak for Mr. Blaine, and haveno conjectures to offer on the subject. The letter s s for itself and Imust decline to be interviewed on the question.” Following is Mr. Blaine’ Fronexce, Ttaly, Jan. 25, 18851 Jones, I man_ of the Repub n National Committ £ 1 wish, through you, to stute to the members of the repub- Yican perty that my name will not be presented ~ to the ~ national convention called to assemble in Chicago in June next for the nomination of candidutes for pres dent and vice president of the United State Iam constrained to this d ion by consid- erations entirely personal to myscif, of which you were advised more than a year ugo. But I cannot make the announcement with- out giving expression to my deep sense of gratitude to the many thousands of my coun- trymen who have sustained me so long and 80 cordially that th ling has scemed to go beyond the ordinary political adherence of fellow partisans and to partake somewhat _of the nature of personal attachment. * For this most generous loyalty of friendship I can make no adequate return, but I shall carry the memory of it while life lasts. Nor can I refrain from republi ngr prospects ‘which distinguish the opening of the national contest of 1588 as compared with that of 1884, In 1882 the republican party through- out the union met with a disastrous defeat. Ten states that had supported Garfield and Arthur i the election of 1850 were carried by the democrats either by majoritics or pluralities. The republican loss in the north- ern elections compared with the preceding national elections exceeded a half a million votes, and the elcctoral votes of the union divided on the basis of the result of 1884, gave the democrats over thiee hundred electors out of a total of four hundred and one, There was a partial reaction in favor of the republicans in the elections of 1883 but the democrats still held possession of seven northern states, and on the basis of the yeur's contest could show more than one hundred majority in'the electoral college of the whole n»umr{. But against the dis naturally following the adverse elections of these two years, the spirit of the republican July in the national contest of 1884 rose high, and the republican masses entared into the campaign with suc y that the final result depended on the vote of a single state, and that state was carried by the democratic party by a plurality so smail that it rcpre- sented loss than one-eleventh of 1 per cent of the entire vote. The change of a single vote in every 2,000 of the total poll would have given the state tc the republicans, though only. two ycars before the democratic plu- rality exceeded one hundred and nintey-two thousand. The elections of 1836 and 1887 have demon- strated the growing streugth in the repub- lican ranks. Seldom in our political history has a party, defeated in a national election rallied immediately with such vigor as has the republican since 1884, No comparison is possible between the spirit of the party in I882-88 and its spirit in 1886-87. 'he two periods present simply @ contrast—one of general depression, the other of enthusiastic revival. Should the party gain in the re- sults of 1858 over those of 1886-87 in anything like the roportion of the gain of 1884 over 188283, it would secure one of the most remarkable victories of its entire existence. But the victory does not depend on so large a ratio of incr The party has only to maintain relatively its pres- tige of 1886.57 to give to its national candidate every northern state but one, with a far bet- ter prospect of carrying that one than it has had for the past si s, Another feature of the political situation should inspire republicans with irresistible strength. The present national administra- tion was elected with, if not upon, the re- peated assertions of its leading sup- porters in every protection state that no issuc on the tariff was involved. However urgently republicans urged that question as the oue of controlling importance in the campaign, they were met by the demo- cratic leaders and journals with persistent evasion, concealment and denial. That re- source the president has fortunately removed, The 1ssue which the republicans maintained and the democrats avoided in 1584 has been promincutly and specifically brought forward ¥ the democratic. president and caunot bo hidden out of sight in 1888, The country is now in the enjoyment of an industrial system which in a quarter of a century has assumed a larger natural growth, a more rapid aceu- mulation and a broader distribution of wealth than were eves before known to history. The American people will not be openly and formerly asked to decide whether this system shall be recklessly abandoned and anew trial be made of an old experiment-which has uniformly led to national cmbarrassment and widespread individual distress, On the re- sult of such an issue, y presented to popular judgment, there is no room for doubt. Oue thing only is necessary to as- sume success—complete harmony and cordial co-operation on the part of all republicans, on the part both of these who u?viro to lead and of those who are eager to follow. The duty is not one merely of honor- able dévotion to the purty whose record and whose aims are alike great, but it is one de- manded by the instinct of self-interest and by the still higher prompting of patriotism, A close observation of the conditions of life among the older nations gives one a wmore intense desire that the American people shall make no mistake in choosing the policy which in- spires labor with hope and crowns it with dignity; which gives safety to capital and protects its inerease; which secures political and comfort and cul- letter in ful To this end, not less earnestly and more directly us a private citizen than s a public candidate, 1 shall devote myself, with the confident beliof that the administration of the government will be restored to the party ‘which has demonstrated the purpose and the power to wield foe the wnity and the honor of the republic, for the prosperity and pro- gress of the ‘people. 1 am very sincor Yours, James G. BLase. - Fatalities at a Fire, NEW Yong, Feb. 12.—Fire oecurred early this morning in a fashionablo boarding house in Brooklyn Heights. Thirty-uine persous were asleep in the house at the time, M. G. jumped from an y injured. John Gordon, a salesman, and Minaic Reynolds aud Mary Wyatt, servants, were also badly burt by jumping, having legs orarms broken. e Murder and Robbery. Sr. Louts, Feb, 12—The treasurer’s ofiice, st Carthage, Panola county, Texas, v robbed Friday night. and County Lroasurer Hill killed, The crime was not i until late Saturday cvening. The robi THE CLEARANCE RECORD. The Financial Transactions of the Past Week. Bostox, Mass., Feb, 12.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.)—The following table compiled from dispatches to the Post from the managers of the leading clearing-houses of the United States, shows the gross ex- changes for the week ended February 11, 1888, with the rate per cent of increase or de- crease as compared with the amounts for the corresponding week last year: CITIES, New Vork. Hoston. Philadelphia Chicago. . Loufs n Francisco. New Orleans, Cincinnaty | Pittsburg. Baltimore Kansas Cit; Loutsville Providence, St Paul.., Minneapiolis Omaha. Teveland nmbus, Denver.... ... Indianapolis a rCTISG OWBLLiL 0. tod and “Rapids, 180,20 418 ‘opeka not included in totals, AFTER The Acco Gould and Sage to Be Prosecuted Alko. New Youk, Feb. 12 1 Telegram to the Bre.]- Partics representing the Kan sas Pacifie landholders in the criminal action against Gould and Sage are evidently not satisficd with their attack on these two mag- nates. For scveral days mysterious whisper- s been heard of further contemplated steps in conncction with the releasing of 3,000,000 of Denver Pacific stock from the lien of the Kansas Pacific consolidated mortgage and its appropriation by the two trustees, Gould and Suge. There were other partics implicated in that unique transaction. It is alleged that Frederick L. Ames, F. Gordon Dexter, Ezra H. Bayer and Elisha Atkinson, all of Boston, obtained various proportions of the proceeds of the Denver Pacific trust stock and that the testimony taken before the United States Pacific railway commission furnishes details and the amounts received by these parties respectiv They were all signers of the memorandum of January 14, 18%0, which provided for the appropriation’ of trust stock, All these partics live out of the Jurisdiction of the New York state court, consequently the statute of limitation docs not apply to them as in the case of Gould and Suge and the defense, which is 8o strenuously urged in_their b half, could not be raised on_the part of th non-resident receivers of the alleged ¢ bezzled stock, The penal code provides for the punishment of receivers of embezzled securitics, und_under this scction the prose- cutors of Gould and Sage propose to proceed against the I3oston partics by presenting their cases to the grand jury and when in- dictments are found apply for requisition papers, thus _securing their arrest in- Massi- chusetts, whence they can be brought to New York fortrial. The punishment pro- vided in case of conviction of receiving of cmbezzled property is either a flneor im- prisonment, or both. At e SICK OF IT. Maine Citizens Preparing to Revolt Against the Prohibitory Law. AUGUSTA, Mo., Feb, 12.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.]—A movement is on foot in this state to overthrow the prohibitory policy. For over thirty years the radical temperance people have been given all the legislation they have asked for to suppress the liquor traMie. Nothing in the way of pains and penalties has been refused. In addition to the statutory law the constitution was amended so as to prohibit forever the sale and manufacture of intoxicants, The object of this was to prevent any legislature substituting license for prohibition. The amendment to the fundamental law was voted for by republicans, democrats and greenbackers alike, it not being con- sidercd a party question. But the measure, after all this trial, has, in the opinion of many, been a failure, and a reaction has set in. has its origi means undoubtedly law party. Those interested in the move ment declare that “the present prohibitory law is wrong and impracticable in principle, subversive of the personal liberty of the citizens and cannot be enforced without resort ‘to extreme and arbitrary methods, repugnant w0 the sentiment of intelligent communities, and i violation of some of the most important provisions of the constitu- tion.” There is e indication that this voices the sentiment of a large and respec- table number of voters in both republican and democratic parties, ——— MURDERED BY MOONSHINERS, Ghastly Find of Two Arkansas Hun- ters in the Boston Mountains. Hanuisox, Ark,, Feb, 12.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—T. J. Patterson and Rich McMahon, while hunting in the Boston mountains yesterday, found the body of an unknown man, bareheaded and in shirt sleeyes, he armed. There were no marks on his person to indicate the cause of his death. He lay near the still of Mr, Jones, where Joues was killed by R Collector Frye last fall. The body is sup- posed to be that of u detective hunting up evidence against illicit distilling and that the moonshiners hanged him and then cut the body down. This country is filled with mooushiners and many bloody affrays are caused by them, but no uotice is taken of these occurrences unless they are of an ex- traordinary character, - Weather Indications. For Nebraska: Fair weather, followed by rain or suow in northern vortion, warmer, followed by slightiy colder, light to fresh southwesterly shifting to northwesterly winds For Towa: Fair weather, warmer, followed in northwest portion by colder, light to fresh southerly winds, becoming variable For Eastern Dake Warmer, with snow followed by colder, fair weather, light to fresh vrriable winds. or Soutlnwestern Dakot ow, followed slightly colder. fair weather, light to fresh variable winds, becoming northerly, Pt s o ‘ Surveying Parties Out, Four Swirn, Ark., Feb, 12.—[Special Tele- gram 1o the Ber]—Two surveying parties leave here Tuesday on railroad work. One £008 to Sapulpa to survey the 'Frisco exten- sion toAlbuquerque, and the other to Hot Springs to survey & route from Iron moun- tuin westward, el i Steamship Arrivals. Nrw. Youx, Feb. 12.—[Speciul Telegram to the Bee]--Arrived—La Gascogne, from Havre; the Moruvia, from ‘Hamburg; the us, from ' Mediterrancan ports; . the Newport, from Aspinwall, WAITING FOR THE TARIFF BILL Dullness in Congress Pending the Measure's Presentation. SUGAR A VERY HARD SUBJECT. A Southern Senator Gives His Opinion on the Growing Unpopularity of Cleveland - Colored Sols diers Slurred. A Dull Week in Prospect. WasnmiNGrox Bureav tne OMana Bee, 513 FOURTEENTH STREPT, WasminaroN. D. C., Feb, 12, Another dull week for congress is being entered upon. Everything continues to wait for the tariff bill, and that is being passed over and delayed more and more every d: One of the most prominent democratic mem- bers of the house committee on wi and means came into the Bee bureau to-night to tell me that the prosp are against the compietion of the tariff bill before the end of the month, The arguments at the meetings of the committee—and meetings are being held for the construction of the bill three or four nights in the week—at times grow very warm, and ds of anger are spoken. It would be hard to conceive four more unhappy members just at this time than those from the first, second, third and sixth Louisiana districts, and it is all on ac- count of the sugar tariff. The first, second and thi are those mainly produc- ing sug. little is grown in the sixth and the Red river district. The tariff on sugar to the Louisiana planter is about £17 per hoj pounds. Their repre- sentatives dare not go with _the average democrat, who wants to take off 20 per ceut, and he is afraid of the republican party that votes agninst any tariff changes because he wain they will take the tanff off sugar altogethe: The tariff on sugar gave the Louisiana planters last vear #3,700,000. It gave to the treasury £52,000,000, The iron product for the same period gave the treasury £12,000,000 und the iron makers £60,000,000. And yet there can, 1t seems, be no reform of the tariff without a reduction of the duty on sugar, TIE BLATR EDUCATIONAT BILL. About Wednesday the senate intends voting on the Blair educational bill, which has been the regular order in the upper branch of con- gress for two months or more. Itis conceded that it will pass the sena v a large m; jority, and people are wondering what pro- cess will defeat its coming before the house, When it goes over to that body it is to b strangled in committee or londed down with amendments. NORTIL CAROLINA REPUBLICAN, As stated a few weeks ago in the Bel ials, there i 1 this fall on the inter- nal revenue issue. Even the democrats from that state are conceding this and are urging their party in congress tospeedy action in not only abolishing the tax on tobacco and fruit dy, but reducing it on whisky. They say their party, in its eagerness to reform the tariff, would do nothing with the internal taxes if not driven. Representative Brewer, of the Greensboro district, who was elected as a republican by a democratic constituenc on account of his entertaining publican ideas in internal enue matters, says that if decs not repeal or reduce the i enue tax his state will go_republican at_the next presidential election, for the people of North Carolina are tired of the entire system, which has become obnoxious to them. He regards the whisky ring as a power in legi: lation, for it has the means to back it, and says the temperance people of the state a beginuing to see that the internal revenue system is against their course, as it makes a monopoly which they cannot successfully figrht agains Repfresentative Goff, of West ays the tariff and internal revenue principles of the republican party are sure to make his state republican at the November election. CLEVELAND GROWING UNPOPULA. President Cleveland's unpopularity confined to the democ Columbi is not of the District of and N . It is becoming the south, but the president sing. He s trying to save himself giving some offices to “‘the boys.” He 1s charged with not having rewarded the active and thoroughbred workers of the party. I know where he is now trying to trade the office of general land cominissioner for a vote in the national convention and where he has lost_a vote by overlooking a_thoroughbred worker in Indiana. One of the old demo- cratic senators from the south, who keeps his identity to himself, gave vent to some ob- ions in au inter W to-da; No_democratic president,” said he, *will ated by New Eneland prin and New York ideas. Take this ad- ration. What set of men influence its action and create its policy? Not the southern set, for, though they furnish four-fifths of the votes that placed it in power, they are on the back seats. Does the west, that vigorous young Hercules which strangled the serpents of centralization and anarchy while it yetin the cradle, hold any commanding in- fiuence? No, not'a bit of it. Let me'tell vou that there are certain lines of thought aud tendencies which characterize New York and New England politic just us their emigration follows the lines' of climate. Massuchusotts got o secretary. Vermont received the ~ best diplomatic post in the gift ot the administration for the same reason for no other is ever given, What did the democrats of those states do to obtain such consideration! Nothing but get beaten. New York still has its cabinet minister, while New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiar have none. What has the west received the form of recognition in the democratic di- vide! Nothing. To be sure, Vilas is from Wisconsin, but old, rough,’sturdy repupli- can John Rusk, the governor who smashi the life of anarchy in his state, is a typical western man, while Vilas' mettiods are” mod- cled upom New England lines, The den ocratic people haye sworn u big swear that hercafter the section of country that clects the president shail have its opinions represented by a ma- jority of his cabinet. Thisis the feehng in my state, I know, and that's one reason why the squth and southwest is seriously think- ing of taking the second place on the national ticket this year and putting a man on it who would not be haunting the departments with applications for office, but who would make the place what it ought to be, in fact as well 48 In name—the second position in the re- public.” DOWN ON NEGRO SOLDIERS, To-day's Herald, which is edited by a man who was posted for the postmastership here, calls down the president for currying fuvor With the colored people in, & way that is re- markable for a democratic organ. It fi “If reports be correct the presid one of the most siartling de spect to the army that has happencd since the army existed in nominating Sergeant Charles "E. Layman, of the Twenty- fourth infantry, and Sergeant Thomas H. McGuire, ' of the Twenty-fifth infantry, to' be second _licutenants in the 'army. The Twenty-fourth and Tyweuty flfth regiments of infantry, in rank and file, are composed of negrocs. To lacate a certain publie sentiment, when the ust reorganization of the army occurred, four negro regiments were left in the military establishment, that is, the men were black, but the ofticers were white. Flipper, the only negro who ever graduated from West Point, until Alexander last year, was sent to one of these regiments, to the awful disgust of the other ofiicers, who number somo of the best fellows in the service, and now, if we are to believe what we read, President Cleveland has done what no republican president ever dared do ~-nominate two men from negro regiments (what degree of color they may possess per- sonally 1, of course, don't know), to be lieu- tenants, and to have just as much rank and swagger as the best man of this date from West Point. What are we coming to, pray { UNIMPORTANT MATTERS H. D. Reed, of Omaha, is at the Ebbitt. A five-story hotel, 150x100 feet front, ut the coruer of Fiftecuth strect and Pennsylvania avenue, opposite to the troasury department, i8 to be built this summer. Seuator Palmer, of Michizan, who is & lover of youth, is ot to bo outdone by Sena- tor Stanford's gol ue dinner to the senate pages last night. 18 to give the boys of the senate an _entertainment at his magnifi- cent home on K street, ' The names of Sena- tors Stanford and Palmer will be cherished by these boys as the friends of youth and promoters of future ambition. Pennry S, Heatn, Government Telegraph Supervision. WasniNatoy, Feb. 12.—[Special Telegram to the Ber.)—Among the representatives in congress who strongly favor government supervision of the telegraph is Guenther, of Wisconsin. He would not have the govern- ment own and operate telegraphs or rail- roads, for that would involve the necessity of maintaining thousands of officials, with all the evils which can easily be foreseen, and the work would not be done as efficiently or cheaply as it can be performed by private enterprise, but he would have the telegraphs controlled, like the railroads, by the govern- ment through the inter-state commerce com- mission, and the commerce committee of the house, which has jurisdiction of this kind of legislation, shows so little interest in the matter that fears are entertained by some that the committee will not report the bill for the regulation of inter-state telegraph trafle in time for flnal action at this session of congress, and Mr. Guenther has hit upon a device to give the house postal committ chance to anticipate the slow-going commer committee. He hus taken the bill introduced in the senate by Senator Spooner, for su; vision of the telegraph by the inter-state commerce commission, and changed it so as to grive supervision to the postmaster-general instead of the commission. Under the rules of the house this would send the bill to the postotice committee, of which Mr. Guenther is & member, and he says he has assurances that his fellow-committeemen will join him in securing prompt cowmsideration and an early report. He thinks there is no doubt that the committee will agree with him in restoring the bill to its original form by providing that araphs shall be placed under the su- ion of the inter-state commission, so as secure reasonable rates without discrim- ination in favor of any individuals or class of customers, He intends to introduce the bill on the next bill day. ullom's Tribute to Lincoln. WasHiNGToN, Feb. 12.—A largely attended meeting was held at the club house of the National Republican league this afternoon in commemoration of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln. An address upon the life of Presi- dent Lincoln was delivered by Senator Cul- lom. He expressed the opinion that the peo- ple of all nations were more familiar with the life, character and career of Lincoln than of any other man in American history save Washington. The fact that he cgme up from the common walks of life and was fan with the toils, struggles and anxieties ing dent to a hife of poverty, gave him a place in the affections of the people that was strength- ened by his life of sympathy with and labor for the oppressed. Referring to Lincoln’s early life, the sena- tor snid that the privations through which he sed, and the life which he led, while cal- 1 to cultivate some of the nobler vir- resulted in many cases in the formation reckless hubits, Lincoln, however, while absorbing what was best in the pioneer life of his earlier days, avoided what was bad. It was unnecessary to erect grand shafts or fashion marble temples to perpetuate the memory of Washington or Lincoln. rts of the. 3 gmumlonsflgf" ple, their virtues and acliievements, ineffaceable and undecaying. The life of Lincoln be- longed to the world.. Wherever men were struggling to be free, wherever the rights of men_had been invaded, wherever the iron hand of despotism fell with violence upon the oppressed, there would the heart throb to the memory of Lincoln. Lincoln's power resulted from his wonderful insight into the truth and his courage in proclaiming it against all oppositlon. In the convietion that he was right andthe persistent advocacy of what he belicved right, he rose above ail party claims and methods. Lincoln was a pure man. The study of his life would conduce to ‘private and public vir- tue. Nations were born to live longer than men. Many generations may pass away, but the perpetuity of a uation must be conserved and the interest of the majority of the peo ple preserved. In commemorating the vir- tues of Abraham Lincoln, it was fitting for Americans to renew thoir devotions to the cause of liberty and to pledge themselves to sce that “this government of and by und for the people shall not perish from the earth.” This Week of Congress. WasHINGTON, Fob, 12.—The educational bill still remains the unfinished business of the senate, but there is unanimously an un- derstanding that it shall be disposed of next Wednesday. Senator Edmunds will call up some time during the week for consideration and action the bill reported by him from the foreign relations committee to charter the Nicaragua Maritime Canal company, Beyond this no announcements have been made for the coming week and no programme laid out. It is expected that one or two speeches will be delivered during the week on the presi- dent’s message, which still lies on the table. Po-morrow will be given up by the liouse to the consideration of business originating with the committee on the . District of Columbia and the proceedings are not likely to be of general interest. A New Counterfeit. WASHINGTON, Feb, 12.—The secret service division of the treasury department has dis- covered that a new counterfeit of the five dollar silver certificate hus been put in circu- lation. The biil is about th iths of an inch too short, There are no distinctive lines in the paper. The general appearance is good and liable to dec DIXEX They Cause a Slege of Constables in Chicago. Citicaco, Feb, 12.—]Special Telegram to the Bee.]—"*Adon Dixey paid out: about £3,000 on account of old debts during the week's engagement here. Deputy sheriffs and constables swarmed about the premises s0 thickly there was no chance of eluding them. Most of his areditors were satisfied, cither by ready mondy or forthcoming bonds, but some claims remained in the hands of dogged constables who refused to be put off. One constable with & half dozen aides, waited at the stage door last night until the property of the Rige-Dixey company was placed on the trucks to be taken to the Fort Wayne depot. He said he had a claim of the cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad of i id a judgment in favor of a New York broker, Harrison, for #1,000. He levied on the proper The constables threatened, if not satisfied, that the property would not get on the cars, but it started, and Dixey will probably appear at Baltimore to- morrow according te programme. e —— Jubilee Presents Stolen. RoME, Feb. 12.—~The Jesuits have presented to the pope £40,000 as the Peter's pence con! tribution of their order. Various valuables which were presented to_ the pope as jubilee offerings and which were on exhibition have been stolen from the vatican. Among the stolen articles are a chalice valued at £2,000, some gold snuff-boxes and scveral pairs of slippers, lves Loose in London. Loxnoy, Feb, 12.—A pack of caged wolves escaped from Sawyer's circus to-day. The clephants, camels, horscs and other animals, became mad with terror and were liberated with dificuity. ‘I'he wolves were trapped in u stable, whero they . furiously devoured a bosse alveady shsin. They still defy capture. CROOKS ON THE CONTINENT The French Capital Infested With All Kind of Thieves. SWINDLERS LIVING AS SWELLS' Mr. Blunt Makes Some Interesting Answers On His Cross-Examina- tion By Ireland's Attorney Gene eral—The Crown Prince. Europe Overrun With Robbers. [Copyright 1888 by James Gordon Bennett.] Panis, Feb, 12.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to the Ber.)—Four English- men are now imprisoned charged with con- cern in robbing a jeweler on the Boulevard Madeleine. This, with the fact that English thieves and American swindlers are supposed to have made Paris their hunting ground, has led the French police authorities to com- municate with London and Inspector Byrnes to keep a dircctory of suspicious characters, and prevent, if possible, the spread of the dishonest organization in Europe. The French police are of the opinion that it would be advantageous to have resident English and Amcricaninspectors in France able to keep the ground clear. The British embassy is well posted on all matters appertain- ing to English subjects living for any length of time here. The Amer- ican legation also does its duty in this respe Both ambassadors ur naturally disinclined to extend their labors in the direction of criminal investigations as outside the limits of diplomatic duties. A solution, however, will soon be arrived at, and a Herald revorter was sent to make in- quiries. The result of the investigation came from information obtained from an agency which has been employed by the London home office to inquire into the dynamite con- spiracy and also to give its attention to crim- inal matters, This agency possesses an al- phabetical list of all supposed malefactors, The names of some of these, if revealed, would be of a startling character and could not be divulged without a close study of the niceties of the law of libel on both sides of the channel or ocean. Suffice it to say that in Pans, Nice, Lyons and Bor- deaux there are check swindlers, hotel thieves, pickpockets, swell mobsmen, crooks and even a sprinkling of bank burglars, both English and American. There are two kinds of swindlers. One speaks French thoroughly, frequent good hotels, travel with a certain amount of luxury and have confederates on every rung of the social ladder. Their operations arc on alarge scale. For many reasons they ar not frequently detected. ‘The victims them- selves often have decided objections to prosecute, hence they carry on the various professions unmolested. The second category consists of criminals who have managed to escape abroad or of ticket-of-leave men in a state of ticket rupt- ure. Most of these do not speak any conti- nental language, but they are daring thic and, as the generally act in an isolated wa they are difficult to catch. Many of the great jewelry robberies of the last seven years have been perpetrated by these. The re- Muivkr -is 8aid--t0™be..a manmamed Carrto whom the Jewels stolen at the Boulevard de la Madeline have been traced, but who has not been arrested yet, aithough the police have clues to his whereabouts, The traveling swell mobsman is to be found, as a rule, in the billiard room of cer- tain good hotels, His first object is not to catch his victim at the table, but to take ad- vantage of his presence in the hotel to study the inmates of the hotel and lay the plans which others carry out. There appears to be an American lawyer at the bottom of half the thieving combinations which take place n Paris. Another mikes a point of dining at all the best table de hote dinners. He is nearly always accompanied by a lady whose mission is to make him jealous by flirting and making assignations with innocent and wealthy-looking travelers. F'vom tne starting pomt all sorts of conspiracies are concocted by which money may be extorted. The pigeon is taken to gambling resorts and hon- estly or dishonestly flecced of his money. If he beof an imaginative turn he is intro- duced to apparently respectable saloons. Oneof these is in the Rue Washington, where the seductions of female society are plentiful. The ladies are supposed to be titled and have an outward show of educa- tion. Even the men have highly aristocratic names, while the pigeon allows himself to be made presents of sums of money. Heo is un- molested if he 18 proof against theso tempta- tions, There are other traps ready, with which the police are thoroughly acquawted, but which they are almost powerless to prevent. The timidity of the victim often stops detec- tion, or he leaves Paris without giving notice —a despoiled but wiser man. In the Paris swell mob gang there are sev- eral Englishmen and Americans. These, a8 a rule, try to draw strangers into all sorts of lucrative, but deceptive, speculations. It would be impossible to give the names of these, although they are known. Four of them have already done terms of penal servi- tude in England or America. Another belongs to a highly respectable family in Boulogne, by whom he hus been discarded. A real French vicomte, who wears an eyeglass and speaks English perfectly, belongs to this gang. He has splendid apartments near Madeline and has no visible means of sub- sistence, The agency spoken of has been re- peatedly commissioned to watch the party. Only one has been arrested, for cashing a forged bond, but the evidence against him was defective, and the examining magistrate was obliged to give orders to discharge him. ‘The English or American pickpocket spends his Sundays on the race courses, He indulges in equine sports to supple- ment his winnings or cover his losses by card sharping in railway eompartments or picking pockets n the crowd oron the course or at the station. They flock to Paris in the spring after a bleak winter, and, as an Eng- lish inspector suys, “are as hungry as cats after fish.” Nearly all the coarser form of hotel robberies are committed by these. During the two weeks preceding and follows ing the Grand Prix the number of cases of robbery are more than quintupled. These arc committed on the huge vans which bring the people buck. Some of them live at Chantilly. A receiver has a nice country house about ten miles from Senlis, The stolen goods are sold in London or even sent to America, The guards on the tidal trains and boats state that some pickpockets are constantly érossing the channel backward and forward, Formerly there were some robberies on the steamers, but latterly this Lias been dropped as too dangerous, The death of Mr. M. Creill caused a great many inquiries to be made in Boulogne last summer, the result being that it was clearly proven that in any case the watering place ‘was a quasi domicille nest of English thieves. In Nice the gangs are.mostly. Italian and Spanish, but there are also a few of the unal- loged British article, The pickpockets who come to Paris bave 8 list of the good places for work and of special obcasions. Up to recentiy the balls given at the large hotels were infested with female pickpockets. The police have, however, been able to lesson the number of cases. A great many cases of *positive for- gery have been truced to Americans, These are often of the most glaring and apparently clumsy kind. Not long ago a French banker cashed a check for £500, drawn on the Bank of the World. The check had been frandu- lently engraved. The signatures of rich men with banking accounts in London banks have often been copied from the inverse impress upon blotting paper lying upon bank counters, The robbery of abank is a long process, Every phase of the establishment is watched for woeks until the weak points are found and the crime decided upon. A bank in the Rue Royale has been robbed twice without any clue to tho perpetrators, Small robberies of diamonds are constantly occurring, the polica often concealing the fact until it has lost all newspaper interost, when they expect to cateh the culprit, Burglars of English extraction, ith the worst prison antecedents, are known to live at Asnieres, Chantilly and Rouen, It is be- lieved, however, that some of these are only keeping out of the wa ng upon the proceeds of erime obtained in England. It has been long felt that in consideration of the faciiity of transit and in order to protect, by anticipation and prevention, the multi- tudes of visitors who will come over to Paris next year for the exhibition, a network of vigilance will have to be established, and this can only be done by a continuous and thorough understanding between the prefecture of police and the criminal investi- fzation department, with the co-operation of the American police authorities. ‘The system of refusing rewards is o difi- culty in the way, but that will soon be got over. There is only one way to prevent French thicves and English-speaking thieves combining, and that is entente cordiale cus- todians of the law in all countries, and, above all, designations of jail birds who come upon the continent to break new ground. BLUNT ANSWERS. His Interesting Replies to His Oross- Examination at Dublin, [Copyright 1658 by James Gordon Bennett.] DupLiy, Feb. 12.—[New York Herald Cable —Special to the Bee.]—Many of the Trish M. Ps. here to-day are returning this morning to be present at Parnell's debate on the arrest of Irish members in the precincts of parlia- ment. Many lawyers claim that M. Ps., ex- cept for arson and felony, are exempt from arrest like witnesses. Blunt has been in 10 town all day, his suit continuing to-morrow for assault against the police magistrate. It will only end in a disagreement or his losing. His cross-examination last evening by the new attorney general of Treland was very vindictive. Some of the answers are worth reading. For instance: Mr. Blunt—I asked three or four times to be arrested before I was arrested. I uscd the words damned cowards to the polic once. 1 did not apply it in bad humor. It was to enforce my wor 1did not lose my temper throughout. I was not in the least moved. Attorney General —Lady Ann Blount threw herse¥ upon you and declared to high heaven that they wére killing, you, an called the police damned cownrds, i were as serenc as possible? “I id not lose my temper,” “Did you feel serenct” “As I felt sutisfied in my own conscience." “Having used that expletive, you felt satis- fied in your own conscience?” “I felt satisfied. When I was in Ircland in September I had decided to retire altogether from political life.” “‘And then a change came over the spirit of your dream?” *Yes, in conscquence of the Mitchellstown Jassacre.” “That changed you?” “It did. I felt it my duty to go on with po- litical life.” “You then felt that you had a mission to fulfille” ““A mission to do my best to prevent the Irish people from receiving injustice.” “And the Mitchellstown massacre deter- mined you to go forward and take part in parliamentary lifet” “I won't say parliamentary life, It was not parliamentary life. It was to do my best to help the people on the platform.” ‘‘As a means to the end, did you consider the midnight meeting to be a meeting in the proper sense of the term¢" “I considered it merely prelimmary speak- ing. [Laughter.] Idid not protest against the burning of the queen’s proclamation by Mr. O'Brien. As I understood the law it was not illegal to burn the proclamation of the queen’s viceroy. I considered Woodford a bright spot in Ireland—bright for its patri- otism.’ Attorney General—“Yes, burning the queew’s proclamation makes its patriotism bright, T suppose?” Macdermott—‘‘Mr. O'Brien is not a Wood- ford man.” Attorney General—‘‘There, your own coun- sel says Mr. O'Brien is not a Woodford man,” ““The placard convening the meeting wi headed ‘Indignation Meeting.’ The placard said the meeting was to encourage the people.” Attorney General—“That s to patience?” Yes," *“You have stated that your mecting was to teach the people patience and for the preven- tion of crime. Why was that not stated on the placard?’ “It was headed an indignation meeting, The indignation was on our side. T thought a display of indignation on our part would be the best lesson of patience the people could possibly have. Idid not feel any indignation on hearing of the assaults on the police at evictions, The home rule association ap- proved, I believe, throughout.” Mr. Blunt, on being asked to read some newspaper reports of his speeches, said his sight was bad in consequence of his impris- onment, Attorney general—“Oh, come now." Macdermott—“That 18 monstrous.’ Attorney General—“I am sorry. 1 apolo- gize.” Blunt—*T accept your apology. Blunt and lady were allowed to attend church. His appearance in prison clothes created much of a sensation. Mr. Pyne was denied bail and inthe morning will go to Kilwachomus for trial. Gilhooly has been taken to Cork. ———— ‘The Crown Prince. [Copyright 1555 by James Gardon Bennett. | AN RewO, Feb. 12.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to the Ber]--A cold rain has been falling all day, preventing the w dows of the crown prince's rooms being opened. He is getting on well. He sat up a while to-day. He has not resumned regulur meals, but continues beef tea and milk. ~ The large tube was withdrawn and a shorter one iuserted this afternoon. Dr. Bergmann vis- ited him und expressed satisfaction with the result of the operation. The physicians sign two bulletins every day, stating the condi- tion of the-crown prince, and- forward them to Berlin, Mackenzie has postponcd his.de parture for a few days, - | aticrge, TINKERING WITH TEMPERANCE Iowa’'s Legislature Will Not Permit the Question to Slumber. LOOKING AFTER DRUG STORES. A Sensible Reform Proposed in Ree gard to Criminal Court Procedure —Reducing the Number of Jurors. Prohibition to Receive Attention. Des Moixes, Ia., Feb, 12.—[Special- to the Bek.]—The pressure of railroad legislation and the necessity of meeting questions in which the anti-monopolists have a special in- terest has postponed so far any serious con- sideration of the temperance question. But 1t will not be forgotten or permanently neg- lected, us the republican party 18 pledged to some measure that will strengthen the pro- hibitory law. People outside the state might think that inasmuch as Iowa has prohibition it is unnecessary to keep dickering the law or’be udding to it. But those who are here and familiar with its operation know that evasions are easy and violations are in many localities frequent, largely because of tho special privileges that have been granted to the druggists, The pharmacy law, which al- lows them the exclusive sale of liquor for le- gitimate purposes, also opens loopholes for violation of the spirit of the prohibitory law. Somany drug stores have become substi- tutes for saloons that there has been u gon- eral public awakening and protest against such flagrant violation of luw. At the last state convention the republican party pledged itself to enact such legsiation as would prevent the drug store from becoming the successor or substitute of the saloon. Nearly half of the session of the legislature has passed and the party has noty'yet oredeemed that pledge. However, two bills for that purpose have been introduced and are now under consideration. They are radically dif- ferent in_ their disposition of the drug store business. The Custer bill provides for taking the sale of liquor entirely away from drug- gists and giving it to county ugents. It would limit these to four in cach county and hold them responsible for all liquors sold and guard the privilege m a very strict and care- ful mann The Redman bill leaves the druggists in charge of the sale of liquor for legitimate purposes, but hedges them around with new requirements and provisions, mak- ing violations of the Jaw a very serious mat~ ter. This bill requires a druggist to secure the signatures of one-third of the voters in his ward and an equal number of women be- fore a permission to sell can be given him, It requires him to furnish a bond for §3,000 for the faithful performance of hie trust. It provides thut all blanks for the sale of liquors shall be issued the county auditor, and, ‘as all are to be numbered, it will make the failure to report such sales a matter of easy detection and serious results, These are the two bills upon the subject which are receiving the at- teution of the prohibitionists. The state con- vention in this city the past week brought to- gether the most radical and extreme prohibi- tionists, but_cven they were unable to agree upon any course to recommend and left the matter where they found it. Neither bill, i lorsement, of any o nists. Some prefer one, some another, and somo favor loaving the whole matter to the wisdom of the states- men on the hill, Probably one or the other of these bills in its main features will be adopted. Many druggists are in favor of the Custer bill and say that they would be much better off if the sule of liquor were taken entirely from them. As it is they have to bear the odium and reproach which vio- lators of the law bring upon the teaffic, and have to wink at irregularities themselves in order not to injure their general pharmacy business. RETORMING COURT METHODS There has been a strong sentiment in this legislature in favor of reforming court methods, especially in the line of criminal procedure. The escape of the murdere: Haddock, and of n other erimi have evaded justice by some slight technical- ity, has stirred up public feeling to demand befter protection from the laws. As the criminal code is now constituted the stuto has a very poor chance with the adroit law- yers for the offense in_any criminal prosecu- tion, Several bills looking to reform of this kind have been introduced., and one of them has alrcady passed the senate. This bill pro- vides that in criminal cases, when the de- fense apphies for a continuanco and offers aftidavits as to what his witnesses would say if they were at hand, the state shall have & chance to offer rebutting testimony and im- each them if they can. Heretofore it has boen cominon prictico among criminals o secure all the delay they could in trial, with the hope that necessary witnesses would ro- move from the state or that something might happen to impede the prosecution. If tney made afidavit that they expected at a later date to prove certain things by certain absent, witnesses the state had no choice i the mat- ter except to sit silently by, even when it wus known that those affidavits swore to a lie, Now it is possible under this bill for the state to impeach such afdavits in the same way a8 it would impeach the testimony of the wit- nesses themselves if they were present, Another reform that ‘is proposed in court matters comes in the form of a constitutional amendment offered by Representative Riley, It proposes to amend the constitution so that the ordinary jury for the trial of causes shall not consist of more than nine or less than five members. Ah average of six would be probubly the usual number if the amendment were accepted. This would sccure a saving of one-half annually in jury expenses. It is estimated that in the ninety-nine counties in the state there are about twenty-five hun- dred men drawn for jury service at cach term of court. That is al a " cost of £5,000 per day or £100,000 for an average term of twenty days. With four terms to the year the ex- pense roll amounts to $100,000° for jury ser- vice alone. As less than 10 cent of the population are ever found in court as liti- gants, 90 per ceut therefore of the people have ‘this large bill of expense to pay from which they derive no personal benefit. As a large percentage of the litigation involves controversies of smull financial intercst, & jury of six conld attend to the business as well asa jury of twelve. If this change were made, therefore, it would effect a suving of $200,000 a year in one item and undoubtedly expedite court business and give greater patisfaction besides. GUBERNATORIAL GOSSIP, Although &overnor Larrabee's second term has just begun numerous candidates are pop- ping up anxious to succeed him. ‘The lead- ing candidate at present is Licutenant Gov- ernor Hull, whose candidacy is open and avowed, and with his genial manners and his good-fellowship he is winning supporters whenever he makes new friends. Other can- didates mentioned are Senators Woolson, Young and Sweeney, all of them men now i & large share of public attention, Senator Graves, of Dubuque, is another candidate mentioned, and it "is understood that the office is in the line of his umbitions and pride. It is sugpested that his recent on to prohibition and anti monuroly tributable to this ambition. There will doubtless be a fine field of candidates when the time comes, Applications for constitutions and other forms of organization are coustantly being received at the headquarters of the lowa League of Republican clubs. Within the last month clubs have been organized in a la) number of cities of the state and the work is going forward rapidly. The amount of en~ thusiasm that is being displayed in mid: winter moiwths before the cumimlim is begum is a hopeful sign for future victories, It is intended to have a convention of clubs in this city ina short time that shall perfect the work of the stute organization and occupy the same relation to Towa that the convention at New York last December.did to the nation -