Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 10, 1892, Page 1

GROVER AGAINST HIS l‘-\RT\" War Has Been Declared Between the Presi- | dent-Elect and Democratic Leaders, | MR. CLEVELAND IS T0O INDEP[NDENT‘ Me Has Repudl form Adopted Now E : h A the TariM Reform Plat- Tiis Wasmixaros, D, C., Dec. 9. gram to Tue Bee |- The authority for the statement session of the next congress will be called September or October was ob today b fr house Spectal Tele first definite that 1o extra before next or nined ding democratic This statement Mills and Gorman, The democratic leaders in both branchics of have been ina great deal of doubt as to this policy because of the silence of their Delphic oracle, Mr. Cleveland oracle has at last spoken, nfter the reports as to the condition the treasury, and decided that the m of the struction of the new tariff bill be best referred to o committee jointly posed of members of the senate and house This joint committee will be appointed under authority of a special resolution and will begin its work of framing now tari® sched ules soon after the end of this congress on March 4 The members of this joint committee from the house have not yet s¢ d. The senatorial members hi e ted upon with the Cleve The nelp to t of Mis. our correspondent ber of “the med by Senators n o mes was oy Th reading of quest con- can heen been Mr, sy \pproval of five senators who will Xt tarifl bill are M ley. Mills of Texas, Ve srman of Maryland and These names ) fail to_disclose any definite policy as to the tariff by the democratic manggers. The names of Mr. Carlis M, Mills will be recognized as those treme free traders. M nan McPherson will be recognized as ist democrats, while My, Vest Mahomet's cofin, suspended two theorics. “The positive announcement that there will be no immediate extra session of congress, while made upon the highe uthor- ity, is of course, subject to itions which may or may not develop during the next thre¢ months. For instance, some of the more radical democrats ure’ schemin with the assistance of third party men to force an extr by killing off great appropr bills. as has already flaon cxplainod these dispatehes, by means of obno slative viders to bills. The true political reason for referring the taviff question to a joint committee with authority to sit during the coming summer is 1o allow time to lessen the howl of the free traders for an imme diate and radical revision of the 1d to thwart the ambition of Speulke i of the men behind him, such as, nators Hill, Brice and Gorman, again to organize the house in their own interest Curiously enough ex-Secretary Whitney is regarded as involved in this anti-Cleveland cabal. They may be in error, but it is a fact that many democratic members of congress are just now_angrily asking whether Mr. Cleveland or Mr. Whitney has been elected to the presidency. ocrats in Washington ing between themselves cause of Mr. Cleve Cvidenc al S8 lisle of Kot souri, ( of N bed ieresting, of and tection hangs, like between the ex Mr session \tion in are quarrel- in part be- nd's obstinate silence, ure_coming to the surface here verey day that Mr. Clevelund willnot'be fully establisfied in the white house before he will find himself in @ war of _extermination with not only his party principies, but ind vidual members of his party who have con- tributed most to democratic suc Mr. land has unguestionably arrived at tl m belief that his recent nomination, made st the protests of the leaders of his and his election, which was the result of machinations involving : side partics and issues in were inevitable results and he does not in- tend to he unde st obligation to either individual n of his par the party as an organization. In fact, just now breaking the intelligence to the body of the democratic party that he, like Louis XIV., who said he was the state, is the democratic party, and greater than the voters who compose it The latest evidence of Mr. conclusion to recognize no part, and to consult only his own ideas in running the federal government during the next four years attracted the attention of pub- lic men in both political parties at the cupito today in the form of an editorial in the Philadelphia Ledger upon the subject of BON'S MESSage Lo congry icle was written by Mr. L, Clark Davis, the editor of the Ledg 0 recently spent some days with the president-clect. gunning_for duck on the lower Chesapeake The editorial is beyond the least: doubt an inspiration from Mr. Cleveland, and is said to express his own views of President Harrison's mes- sage and_his own intentions regarding the policy which will begin_ut the executive mansion on the 4th day of next March, The inspired editorial in the Ledger in a word repudiates the platform adopted by the democratic party Chicago last July and announces o determination upon the part of Mr. sveland — mot to Sroform the t on thoe lines prowised by the party during the recent campaign. It also ina word announces th Mr. Cleveland, not the to which he is supposed to belong, is to be president ’Hu- statements promulgated by Cleveland through his personal f caused great surprise in some quart day and were the topies of much In referring to President Harvison's state ment t WO IUSE ASSUME 08 4 CONSequen: of the recent election that *mo duty is to be higher because the increase will keep open mills or keep up the wages of un American workman,” the mouthpicce land says that “this assumption s not in harmony with the most solemuly recorded declarations of the successful candidate for president, who has, upon every occasion on which he has spoken of tar: iff revision, stated in the most emphatic lan- fuuge that such revision must be made only n such mauner as to not interfere with the prosperity of any domestic industry; that any change made in the present riff must be made at every step regardful of the lubor and capital involyed.” § Democratic senators like Mr. members of the house like Chairman Bpringer of the committee on ways and means were simply amazed at this state- ment, and other democrats could not see wherea “tariff for revenue only” policy could be begun or how it was possible in the light of this announcement from the presi dent-eloct The sentence which followed the above as a part of Mr. Cleveland's poli paralyzer almost to democratic | the two houses of vess: “This, if it is true, is not the doctrine of t platform constructed by the national convention.” This was, by every one whose attention was called 10 it, interpreted to be n divect repudiation of the Chicago platform frou beginning to end. Then follows this further announcement from the president-cleet, and it 1s of equal importauce carveful read- of Mr. Cleveland’s letter of acceptance existenc he is Cleveland's promise and My end to- comment Carlisle and lnf will show the extraordinary fact that neither | nor endorse Is to be found | the word platfo nit. That these omissions were accidental will not he believed by those who know M Lleveland's character. The Chicago plat- form was made by his enemies for pose of defeating him, and Mr. courageously substituted one for it which a wast majority of his countrymen approved at the polls.” "This is interpreted by Senators Gorman, Hill, Voorhees, Vest and other minent democrats w0 be a divect stab at hem aund an fusult Lo the represeutatives of the party who constructed the Chicago plat- B et alicctal som @ 0 ridioule In fact, the leading dem- | Lthe | ident Harri- | of Mr, Cleve- | MePherson | and | the | | | | | | sey Clity and within six or | fraction under fourmiles in length the anticipat Mr. Clevelan the promises t tarifl impossible. n by I will fdent attempt i Harrison that to make good of his nd to predict changes,” which it says are 1t assures the public that the executive-clect “has made no' such threats,” and that it will behis policy to maintain present conditions so faw as possible when they conser¥e commercial interests These statements, it appears, were not news to some of the leading democratic sen ators, Your correspondent was told to day, under an injunction that the n the informant id not be closed, and by one of the widest known and most popular democratic senators in the west, a gentleman whose name would have been presented for the presidential nomination had he ot advance of the convention declined the that a Yine of x in view of the announced in tentions of Mr. Cleveland, had been agree upon, and some of the strongest men of his party in the senate from this time forward would be found opposing every political step the new president take, a8 his supremacy was now regarded as inimical to the interests of the democratic party. The bill introduced by Senator Hill yesterday to repeal the Shes man act requiving the monthly purchase ¢ four and a lalf million ounces of silver bul lion, was, he stated, the first move to be taken by a number of such tors as Mor gan, Vest, Hill, Gorman and Brice to check mate Mr. Cleveland, and that he will be op. posed from the outsct of his administration in all of his politicul policies. The new de velopment of the Cleveland-affair promises sensations untold. sh dis in nomination would CLEVELAND HAS HIS EYE ON US, He ls Watching the Senatorial Situation in aska and Other States. New Yonk, Dee. 0.—Senators ( Brice and Carlisle, known as the steering committee, ave now in with Cleveland at ex-Secretary Itis understood thes subject wsideration is the senatovial situation Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming and Kansas, The senators remained at Mr. Whitney's until lnte in the evening. The senators w callon President-clect Cleveland Saturaay. The- statement made in the public press that the senators were here for the purpose of conferving with President-cloet Cieveland with 1 »an extr ion and the policy of his incoming administration was, Senator Gorman said, absolutely without foundution “The demoerats of much concerned which al man, orinl conference Whitney's der in house. the senate are about the public o there is 1 organized o reverse the will of the | at the last cleetion. Tt was understood by everybody until within the last few days that the democrats had not only clected the president and a large majority of the house of representatives, but that they would have a clear mujority in the senate of the United States o measures for which the demo- i party stood in the last campaizn and we would thus be enabled to enact them into laws. o the astonishment of all it was found that the attempt to change the political complexion of the legislatures in Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota und_ Caiifornia was under way. Hence, our visit here is to confer with the campaigncommittce of the demo- wational committee and o take such sures ssible to prevent any attempt at outrage t be made, “We may not be in the position that we were in the Montana case, when the demo- erats d the state and a majority of the legislature, and yet by sharp manipulation two republicans were seated, but in short, what we desire to do is to see that the will of the people is properly recorded in the election of senators in the states named. BN S CORBIN'S BIG TUNNEL SCHEME. very tions ttempt ople expressed o Says it Is Sure to Go Time. Brookiyy, N. Y., Dec. 9.—Austin Corbin, president of the Long Island railroad, says regarding the construction of a tunnel from Brooklyn to Jersey City: s preliminary to or- ganization and in a few weeks will be able to make our precise purposes public. The East viver will certainly be tunneled within a short time, and I have no reason for suppos ing that there is any doubts so far as the ith river is concerned. The money to build the tunnel is ready and it will be built 1 regard the undertaking as being the most important of the many vapid transit prob- 15 now under discussion. A tunnel would bring the people within ten minutes of Je even minutes of It would be a and would s divid- rough In a Short Trinity hall in New York virtually obliterate two gr ing lines. —— NOT YET Wyoming's Political ¥ turbing Ele Cueyexse, Wyo.,, blem Still toat 0. Dec, Tele- gram to ik BEE|—The canvassing board wet this morning and adjourned after open- ing, but not canvassing the returns from tanand Uinta counties. The returns indicate the election of Coffeen to cong by jori 0, which is 300 less th been but for clerical errors. vk, for the supreme bench, will have 000 and Osborne, for governor, about 1,800 majority. The bourd adjourned to the 19¢h to await the return of the messenger sent to Johnson county after the legislative returns, A.C. Campbell and T.M. Patterson o Denver applied for and_sceured a werit of alternative mandamus from the supreme court tocompel the canvassing board to recognize the majority report from Carbon county or appear in writ on the 19th fust, to show cause why they had not done so, - ted for Stealing., Dece. 8, —Gire a Dis- 1l DeNvVER, Colo. tsurprise was caused here todiy by the United States grand jury returning three indictments against General | Stimson, ex-deputy United States marshal, The charges ar ralsing ch forgery and appropriatin confiscated opium that_had been seized by ofticers of the Treasury depart- ment al Stimson resigned - his deputyship a and it was during his term of off imes for which he is indicted ave said to have oc- curred, The amount that he is sup posed o ha ved from the aets cannot promiuence in this state aused his indictment to create a sensa- tion. He is held under $1,500 bonds to appear January 4. Geueral Stimson has lived in Colorado about fifteen years and has taken an active part in politics. K Son's Life. Deapwoon, 8, D, Dee. 9.—[Spacial Tele- am to Tug BEE.| - Attorneys for Mrs. Mary “Thomas today began suit in the cireuit court agaiust the Deadwood Central vailroad to » cover £0.000 dumages for the death of Wil- liam J. Thomus. The accident in which Thomas was injured happened on the 30th of May last, young Thomas, who was a son_of the plaintiff, dying three weeks later. T case will be bitterly contested and will engage some of the ublest legal talent in the state. or He - 1ts of Ocean Steamers, Arrived -Bremer Haven, Moven At New Yo from Antwor At Clyde — Arrived York for Glasgow At Ques Philadtlphi At Sighted York for Liverpool Baltime —Arvorived —Virginia, 1 Sehiedam, from Rotte A1, At Philadelphia—Arvived—1llinois, Antwerp. Bolivia, from New Arvived —~Indiana, from Ruuie, from New from from Toxas Mus Houstoy, Tex., Dec. §.—The graud chapter of Texas Masons today refused to come under the jurisdiction of the grand chapter of the United States. The ouly other inde pendeut state graud chapter is Rhode [sland. Hold Out, | these territories to statehood at OMAHA, SATU ADMISSION OF TERRITORIES Arizona, Utah and New Mexico Clamoring for Enabling Aocts, EVEN OKLAHOMA NOW WANTS TO COME IN | Much Pres Being 1 Congress by Deleg: ght to Tear on s from the ¥ New N bryotie States rxlco’s Strong WASHINGTON, pressure that tories makes it D. C., Dee. 9. being exerted by the terri now probable that a joint conference of democratic senators and repre sentatives will be b 1 within a few days to determine the steps to be taken by the party in the two houses in relation the admis ion of the territories into the union. New Mexico, Arizona and Utal have been clamor- for enabling acts, or ulti mately to statchood, and a considerable cle- ment in Oklahoma thinks that territos also arvived at a state of maturity these bil and are pending in the senate, but it is pos sible the party may now consider the policy of fayoring an omnibus bill admittin time ongress of both political par- o being flooded with letters and pe tions for the admission of the territories, and delegations are beginning to arrive in the city to press the matter, New presents the somewhat anomalous situation of bemg urged for ical parties. Hon. L republican g rnor Hon. C. IT. ¢ democratic territorial committec the city, urging upon each of the y which they vy belong the political benefits to be devived by the New Mexico us a state, inent members of both bills tendi Members of ties of the and sve, ex territory, > both in houses have Prince has insisted 1o that the admission of would ‘result in a gain republican senators, Mr. with equal pertinacity pointed out to democrats the unbroken successes of in returning Delegate Josephs to con- Land assured the leaders that the dem- atic supremacy in the territory would only be accentuated by the admission of New Mo Both gentlemen are sure, cuabling act submitted to sters of New Mexico would fail of ap val, which contained any prov effect of which would be to prohibit teaching of Spanish in the public_school The bill now pending in the senate has this objeetionable provision, but in the its passing, Delegate Josephs will strong effort to huve it stricken out house. the republicans New of two Gildersleeve make a Colorado’s Silver Mines, Treasury officils attach no special signifi cance to today's dispatehes from Denver, Colo., in regard to the panicky the silver mining interests in Colorado, fact that many of the small abandoned is taken to indicate simply ve played out can ked at a profit. 1 a condition is a departure of the mine for other fields of labor. 1t is held that the ‘ent depreciation of silverin_the London ket and the predicted failure of the national conference to advocate a more al use of silver as money can ha ving on the situation in Colora for the reason that the silver has risen in value within the past few days, the treasury paying today half a cent an ounce more than wais paid on’ Wednesday last. One of the ofticials d Lo of the subject: The v in spe: sequence of the shutting down of the small mines in Colorado, and so far we havec perienced no difficulty whatever in secuving our 4500.000 ounces of that metal every month. Of course, the mines that don't pay are constantly closing down, but it is hardly due to a deprociation in_ silver, tion of silver always falls off in the months, but the smelters generally enough ore on hand to keep them busy, One reason why Iam sure there is no indication of a decreise in the production of silver lies in the fact that several of the largest smelting and refining companies in Omah Denver and Kunsas City are enlarging th plant Commissioner Raum's Case. Representative Enloe, who assisted in con- ducting the prosecution in the investigation into the charges aga of the pension oftice at th gress, has returned to Washington. A ma- jority of the committee which conducted the investigation reported a resolution that it is the judgment of the house that Commissioner Raum should be removed from oftice by the president. The report was not considered by the house at its last session, Mr. Enloe is of the opinion that the senti- ment of the house ought to be obtained on the committec’s resolution, and he said today that he expected to ask the committee on rules to set aside a day for its consideration. This, he hopes, will be done some time next week, Although a report hus been made to the house, the committee has not yet been discharged, and it is probable that Mr. Enloe will ask it be allowed to continue the investi- gation He thinks that some action skould taken by congress that would result i lopping off from the pension rolls the names at number of persons which have no it to be there, The necessity of recom- mending legislation that will bring about this ult will be urged upon the committe when it meets again, and Mr. Enloe hopes t the investigation will be continued with iew to ascertuining the best means to be adopted for the accomplishment of the pur- pose he has in view last session of con- be the Remen the Work It appears that the bread he waters will return to Ser years ago there was a bitter controversy in congress upon the subject of steam presses in the bureaw of engraving and printing and the senatof took up the cause of the plate printers with such vigor that he was larg instrumental in securing the p e of an amendment to an appropriation bill forbid- ding the use of the steam machin Now the senator nas a lively contest on hand in Counecticut which Jvu\ rdizes his lee tion to the senate and the labor organiz tions in thistity have come to his assistance. Last night he was waited upon by a com mittee from the Knights of Labor” and was presented o copy of 4 preamble and »solution endorsing him for re-clection, An Interstate Com The Interstate Comme todiy announved its decision in the Potter Manufucturin the Chicago & the ilway ast upon the tor Hawley. Two Decision, commission the case of company against Girand Trunk Railway com- Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe company and the Southern Pacitic company. The opinion is by Comumissioner Clements. The i preferved b o manufacturer of furniture at Lau Mich., and was iu substance that the rate charged by the defendant railroad companies on cheap bedroom furniture shipped by the complainant over their lines in an unfiiished condition was the same as that on bedroom sets when finished, which adjustment of rates, it was contends affected an unjust diserimination against the complainaut. The commission sustains the contention, aud finds that equal rates on the unfinished s on the finished articles caunot be justified, consid- ering their relative value, the cost of service and other elements whivh are proper to be considered in the making of rates, The order of the commission is that the rates on unfinished bedroom sets shall not exceed 55 percent of the rate on finished sets, defendants are ordered 50 long as the §1.30 rate exists on fluished sets to make a rate not exceeding #1.10 on_unfinished sets from Lausiug to Emory, Cal Wunt the Chinese Bill Repealed, The big petition for the modification of the has Some of | have already passed the house Mexico admission by both polit- Bradford Prince, the | irman of the rties to Imission of arly all the prom- been ‘en by thesegentlemen, and while Governor Mexico more has the that | ion, the the event of in the condition of | mines arve being that | no longer be he natural result of “The production of silver does not appear to be falling off at all in con- The produc- winter | have nst the administration | The | DAILY BEE.. e —— MORNING, RDAY Chinese exclusion act was presented today | by Representative ‘Amdrew in the open house and unamiuouns eonsent obtained to have the text of the petition printed in the Congressional rcord. The petition is signed by more than 2000 prominent peoplo of Massachusetts, M. Andrew introduced a bill, carrying oiit the purpose of the peti- tion, and both were referred to the commit tee on foreign affairs. This is the committee which reported the original act last winter, but Mr, Andeew, General Hooker and M, Hitt at the time prepared to renew the fight in favor of repealing its worst features. | The petition pregented today is one of the most notable, in the character of its signers, which has been presented during the present session of congress. Washington Notes. The secretary of the treasury formed the sy today in ker of the hovse that the deficiencies of the government for the cur- rent fiscal year e estimated at §14,630.520, of which 10,500,000 fs on account of pensions. Wilhams of Massachusetts introduced in the house a bill for the discontinuance of silver purchases after February 1 next and setting aside as a trust fund the money re. d by the treasury for the redemption of | national bank notes, which, by the Sk | law of 1800, made a “miscellaneous rec | fund | _ The committeo on military affairs of the | house completed the annual military appro priation bill. Tt makes a total appropria- tion of £24,202,730, or $& than for this year and $1,720,216 iess than the esti mates, 3 DID Ot TE A BIT OF WORE The House Transacts Constderable Business d Adjourns Til Monday Wastixaroy, D, O, Dee. 9.—The house adopted an amendment to the rule providing | that business coming over as unfinished from one session of congress to the next may be considered immediately. The speaker announced a number of committee appointments to fill v among them the following: Judicia lows of New York; enrolled bills, Scott of Hlinois (chairm. al affairs, Brown of Maryland; mili airs, German of Mich- igan The consider | house tion of the senate bill, with amendments, relative to public print- ing and binding was e 1. A motion to recommit was withdrawn, and the vote by which the bill was ordered to a third read- | mg was reconsidored. The clause relating to the oftice of superintendent of public docu- ments was stricken out and the bill as nended passed. The petition for the vepeal of the Geary Chinese act from citizens of Massachusetts was presented and ordered printed “The house then adjourned till Monday. NEWS FOR THE ARMY, ot List of Changes of importance Service Yes Wasminaron, D. C., Dec. [Special Tele gram to Tie Bee. (—The following army o ders were issued today: The following ofiicers will proceed to their Tomes wh are authorized 10 await retivement at_thelr own requests: Major Moses I Eighth cavaley; Captain Ira Quinby, Eleventh infantry. = First Licu- tenant iPrank B. Andrus, Fourth infantry, will on the expiration of his present le bsence, report, in person to the governor of Idaho at Boise City for temporary duty in connection with the national guird of tha | state. Captain Ediaund Rice, Fifth infantr, is detailed for speeial duty in connection with the World's Columbian” exposition and will report for dity aceordingly to the com- wanding general, ‘Department of the Mis- souri, who will vélieve him from the special duty assigned him Mareh 30 last. b - FAILED TO'GET ORDERS. nthe Regular Two Bhrlington Trains Collide at Oakland— Little Damage AsuraNp, Neb,, Dec. 9.—[Spec to Tne Bee.]—A small wreck occurred here this morning, the B. & M. flyer running into a freight train. The accident happened about m. The freight train was a double | header and passed through here, the con- ductor to register and get orders, | i ¢ running slow on account of | the snow, or the accident might have been | more serious. The engincers jumped from their windows and escaped injury. Emor Shephard, conductor of the freight train, s severely injured, but all the passengers escaped. Failure at Fremont. FreMoNT, Neb, Dee. 9.—[Special Tele- | gram to Tur Bee]—The Fremont Hardw store was closed today by chattel mort given by Fred W. Rhode: follows: To the Fremont Elkhorn Valley bank 1 Stove works, $64.65; Menges, H. W. Norton, form partner, $1.870.41; Frank D. Rhodes Cincinnati Safe & Lock company, & Co., #113; George J. Pitkins, Thorsen & Casseday, §i4.13; L. I s, $400: L. P, Mooncy, $185; J. M. C. Donald, $1,000. Destry vesight. Nesraska City, Nel pecial Telegram to Tue Beg. [—While playing with an elder brother yesterday the 16 months ol smployed at the d ressing accident, The were playing with a pair of sissors, when they were dropped, the sharp point penetrating the little girl's eye, destroying the sight. re 1ges For the Iastruction of GissoN, Neb., Dee. ners, 9.—[Special to Tur Bee]—The annual farmers' institute will be held at Gibbon some time this month. There will be present several prominent men and it will be & good opportunity for all in- terested in scientific farming to be enter tained and instructed in that ¢ date will be fixed in a short time, Nebraski's Fire e WavxE, Neb., D [Spe to Tug Bre]—The residence was destroyed by fire at 6 o'clock this even ing. The building was oceupied by Dan ington, whose logs is about £00, wholly nce, ord, 1l Te of Dr. Regan ¥'s Corn Cra Ginno: Dae. 9.—[Special to Tur Bee.|—The greater part of the corn of this (Buffalo) county has been harvested, The crop is more thian an average and the quality is good, 5 - Sent Americans Instructios sw Yous, Dee. 9.—The following gram was sent to Semator Jones in Brussels concerning the doimgs of the international monetury confercnce by Henry Clews: | “Amend Rothschildis proposal to 54,000,000 | n place of 30,000,000 ounc thereby making | Europe's obligation same ds ours, Remoy: limit' of price. Change contract to four years, length of our administration; that would suit us here, if no better could be done.” & S WEATHE, FORECA | Warmer with Variable Winds are adiys Prodictions for Nebraski. Wasuixron, D. €., Dee. 9.—For braska—Fair; varfable winds; warmer north. For Towa—Fair; Northwe For South Dakota—Fajr; warn oming southwest, * Local Record. OFFICE OF THE WEATHER BUREAU, OMAIA Dec. 9.—Omaha record of temperature and rainfall compaved with corresponding day of L four years: in t winds i winds be 1590, 1859, Maximum temp 645 099 Mintmum tempe 302 472 | A0 .00 ug the condition of ion at Omaha for the , us compared i per Deficiency for th Deficlenc: precipitation y 1o the da; g 2 Deficiency since Mareh 1 1 Groxas E. Hur, Local Forecast Ofticial. DECEMBER 10, 1892, | days that the de Rothschild p GREAT BRITIAN'S DELEGATES They Will Not Return to Brussels After Ad- Jjournment of the Conference. PROTECTION AMONG THE CONSERVATIVES s Obliged to Give Way s of the Rank and File ity Growing in Favor tho Recipro- Engiish to Do [Copurighted 1892 by New York Associated Press.) LoNDoN, Dee. 0.~ Letters from the British delogates to the Brussels renee qan nounce their return to England next week They will not oppose whatever request the rican delegates prolonged resentative of the ociated Press has authority from a high source to state that the ofticial delegates, Sir Charles Rivers Wilson and_Sir C. Freemantle, deputy mas terof the British mint, do not expect the conference to be resumed after adjournment, and that Mr. Bertram Currie will decline to return to Brussels, In the meantime Baron Herschel's India currency committee, which adjourned without date until the Brussels ronference: should have ended, has resumed its sittings and is taking the evidence of ex perts, WIll Await Action In the United States. Several representatives of Indian finance and Mr. Giffen, a well known mono-metallist, liave been heard on - successive Monday. The members of the committec seem to be strongly in favor of the adoption of gold coinage in India and the concurrent cessation of the free coinage of silver. What chiefly prevents an early determination of this policy is the ortainty prevailing | among the member: the action of the American goy of par- alysing of Anglo-India trade would be in creased ten fold under the repeal or suspen- sion of the silver purchase act. The commit- tee has strong reason to await developments | in the United States. Mr. Currie the minority which secms everything by a p of gold. The representative of the Associated Press has reason to state that, apart from the protests of the Anglo-India bankers, leading single standard experts have advised the | committee against such a radical change in the Indian currency. The Indian govern- ment also would prefer that the committee present such a report to Parliament a would be tantamount to a recommendation that the existing system be left untouched Questioned by the Indian Currency asso ation as to whether it would take me; ures to protect the currency in the event of | the failure of the Brussels conference, the Tndian government today replied, declining to give u statement on the subject The reply stated that the government cannot recommend the secretary of India to stop the sale of council bills “below the rates now current. Pending a decision by the Herschel committee, the India Currenc association thought to steady the position by getting the Indian government to promise not to sell cquncil bil's below a fixed rate. ‘Phe government, however, prefers to retain complete freedom of action. t The annual conserya the Union of Constitutional associations will open on Monday at Shefield. Over 1,000 delegates are expected to be pr “The partymanagers, who resisted the ¢ of the rauk and file for a protectionist pl form, have been obliged to give way. The conservative leaders, though at heart pr teetionists, recognize the fact that the adoption ~ of protection as a defi- nite plank would cnable the | liberals to sweep the country at_ the next general ele . Even a declaration in avor of fair was deemed dangerous. | Cyentually the feeling displayed at the agricultural conference and now pervading the party compelled the central exceutive to aceept the resolutions of the protectionist. One of the resolutions that will be submitted to the caucus declares that free trade is against the best interests of the working classes of Great Britain. Another pro- nounces it necessary to regulate foreign im- ports by countervailing duties, & cuphuism for protection that deceived nobody. An independent delegate has permis to propose a_ resolution against protective | dyties, but the general expectation is that the caucus will support reciprocity prin- ciples. The rapidity with which prote tionist ideas have become resurgent is the greatest political phenomenon of the day. Mr. Arthur J. Balfour will address the delegates on Tuesday. He will probably tone down the protection tendencies, but will renew and accentuate the declarations in favor of bimetallism, which promises to be among the leading tricks of the conserva- tive game. may adj in regard Tho make rnment D days since is among ready to risk mpt declaration in favor Conserv: and Protection. ive caucus, known as Notes and Gossip. An amended draft of the was sent to the cabinet ministers today. Announcements to this effeet have been made intervals during the past two months. The first draft was presented to the cabinet _early in October. Two amended drafts have since been prepaved after | consideration by the cabinet committe “The bill now in the hands oi the ministers is the latest form of the measure, but it cannot be pronounced a finality. The represent tive of the Associated Press has information that the financial clauses of the bill still 1 main undecided. The whole bill is subject to revision. The new Canadian premier, Sir John Thompson, has not yet resigned his position as member of the Bering sea commission, “The opinion is exprsssed in official quarters that_as the arbitration procecdings in in February will bea formality, the | adjourning of the proceedings in June will enable the premier to continue to co-operate | with Judge Hannon during the pause in his duties in the Canadian Parlisment The courtat Windsoris brightening up under the unwonted current of diuners aud receptions given to a long roll of successive guests atthe castle, The queen shows a buoyancy of spirits unkwown in her for many years. It is reported that the queen authorized Lady Blandford, the first wife of the late duké of Marlborough, to assume the title of duchess of Marlborough. This action on the purt of the queen could not nullify the right of the duke's second wife to the title of duchess, but it would stamp the queen's opinion of the position of the first wife. A private subscription has been opened for the son of the Composer Balfe, who is a pau; and has been obliged to enter a Lon don refug home rule bill CHARGED WITH INSINCERITY, England's I ne BrusseLs, D the British delegat the monetary ference the merely for purpose of muddling the result and with intention to assist in reaching any definite ot Thee is a focling anong the bi ietallists that the confercuce should take action to demand of Great Britain that sh assume some definite position on the ques tious at issue. 1t is expected that wind up the debate metallism on Tuesday declaration. The concluding sitting on Thursday will be devoted to un_endeavor to crystalize the vesults of the conference. The special commitiee will meet to further consider the slegutes to the Monetary Confer- Not in Good 1t is now to avor, believed that | con Senator Jones will on_international bi- with an important again various Kegret has been expressed in the last few posals have been completely withdrawn, as 1t is gener- | ally felt that they would have formed the | basis of a temporary compromise if an under standing with regurd to the chief objection | | cally a failure. | Great | and Daily N | unmistalkable | rail | Swith, on trial befory | ing ina ve | view on the of the Americans, the priiyat which silver should be purchased, could e arrived at. A scheme on similar lines might yet be adopted. Tn that event the confercrice will be adjourned until May to enable the dele: ates submit the scheme to their re spective governments, It is rumored today that several delegates have received revised instructions, insp 1 hope that a modus vivendi may yet be dis coyored M. Bornaert, the Belgian prime ministe has issued an emphatic denial of o statement widely ¢f culated in England and Germany that ‘he had declared in the lobby of the Chamber that the conference was practi to ENGLISIT FARMERS WANT TO LEAVE. They Seem to be Tired of 1 try Without 1* near, P Q. ving stection. Dec. 0.—The cablegram from London interest is being taken throughout the United Kingdom in the proceedings of the farmers conference, particularly in the protection n A Coun- Mox special Star's says cluims presistently made that the only thing that can relieve the farming classes from their present unsatisfactory condition. 'The Times, Standard, Chron ws tell the farmers language o | the mo that protection is absolutely fmpossible inEngland, 1t is noted that in thoe proposal for the levying of duties submitted to the conference no stion of tho exemption of colonial pro s from the proposed dutics was made The crisis in the farming industry is caus ingr a grut increaso in the number of inquir- ies being veceived from people of the farm- ing class thinking of emigrating, The lord mayor of London is beii r urged to form a special emigration committee Quebees Crisls, MostrEaL, P. Q. Dee. 9. wsurer Hall denies the stories in cireula- tion to the effect that the province intends to borrow money in the London market or anywhere clse. * Mr. Hall explains that des @ the cr produced by the announe ment of Premicr de Boueherville's intention spreliends no sevious trouble for the government, as he believes that Mr. Taillon will be able 1o ¢ Provincial | istration Cotton Statistics for the We TLaverrvoor, Dec. 9.—F weekly cotton statistics: week cotton k. are the Total sales of the 3.0005 American, 81,000; trade taking from sides, 50,000; actual exy otal import, 146,000; American, otal stock, 1.152.000; American, 0005 total afloat, 312,000; American, 80 speculators Look 5,000; exporters took 5,000, 000, lowing 1,813, Hamburg Bankers In Trouble, Hawmrna, Dec. . —Carow & Bartels, stock brokers, have suspended. Carow has ab- sconded aud Bartels has surrendered. The | firm has been long engaged in committing aud, It is alleged btained fraudlently from the banks seeuritics worth over 400,000 murks. The 1 i 00,000 marks. To Change Spatn's Tarilt Policy Loxnox, Di The Standard’s Madrid correspondent he understands that Premicr Sagasta will reverse the protection policy of the Canovas cabinet far as pos- sible by treaties of comme with the United States and European countries. Silver € , Dec. 9. nger. Loxne s on the stock exchi values appear to have vanished. Silver cer- tificates have strengthened during the past two days. ho fe Quebec's New Governor. QuEnkc, P. Q., Dec. 9.—Mr. Chapleau will be sworn in as governor at Quebee Monday. S SUDDENLY CHANGED H1S MIND, How a Council Blufts W Unfaithful Stwox Crry, Ta., Dec § Bee.]—W. D. Robinson i on Pacific Tea company from Council Bluffs recently was ar- ted here today on a warrant sworn out by Austin of Council Bluffs charging him eduction. The 9th of November was set for the wedding, but Robinson dis appointed the waiting compuny and dis- appeared. Mrs. Austin and a deputy sheriff | ame here today and made the arrest. Rob- son swore hie would not marry her, but when the party gota_wmile out of town on evening’s train he changed his mind and the_bell rope and all returned and a wedding will take place in the morning. man Caught an ~[Special Telegram nager of who came Towa's Vote Canvasse Des Moises, Ta,, Dec ial Tele: gram to Tue Bre—The state canvassing board today completed the official count on the state, congressional and judicial tickets at the recent election with the following re retary of state, McFarland, (vep.) uditor, ‘arty, (rep.) Beeson ttorney gen- Stone, . 2 plurality; commissioner, Perkins, (rep.) plurality Congressional — Iirst ot, Gear, (rep.) 020 plurality; See- ond, Hays, (dem.) 7.772 plurality; Third, Henderson, (rep.) 1463 plurality th, degraff (vep.) 1,590 plurality; Fifth, ins (rep.) 1,008 plurality: Sixth, Lacey (rep.) 1,135 plurality; Seventh, Hull (repn.) 6,080 plurality ; Eighth, Hepburn, (rep.) 4,331 plurality ; Ninth, Hager, (rep.) 2478 plu ity Tenth, Dolliver, (rep.) 4,944 pluralit Eleventh, Perkins (rep.) 1,577 s Judicial—Second district, Tisdale (rep.) Ajority ; Fourth, Van Wagner (c jority; Seventh, House (dem.) majority; Tenth, O'Donnell (dem.) 1,852 ma- Jority; Twelfth, Burr (only candidate) 22,206 majority; Fourteenth, Lot Thomas (only candidate) 10, Fifteenth, Macey 2,044 plurality: Seventeenth, Cald- | well (dem.) 817 majority; Thivty-first, (to fill vacancy) Boardman, (vep.) 2412 majorit (rep.) wd The fce today completed the final son. Total area of corn worth husk- | 426 acres; average yield per il 20 bushels; total product, 173,867,354 bushels, Other staple crops are as follows: Wheat, 2 bushels; outs, 83480 bushels ; . 16,049,072 bushels; rye, 1,540,270 | ds; flax, 2,188,104 bushels; buckwheat, ) bushels; potatoes, 8,720,160 bushels; hay, 8,228,200 tons. Towa crop veport of | Railway Ofiicials Elected, Krokuk, In., Dec. he following officers of the Chicago, Fort Madison & Des Moines ay were elected for the ensuing year: C. C. Wheeler, presic F. Tucker, vice president and genel : H. B, Bald | fluence on business, m o capable admin- | | company | inforn nge of an immediate collapse in silver | | fused to sell him | tic-up on the two first win, assistant secy H. Simmons, auditor and cashier; ter, superin tendent, chief engin nd purchasing agent; 1. A, Grien, general agent. ‘The line | has just been completed through to Ottumwa, lowa. - ——— Acquitted on the First Charge, Cixcrsxati, O., Dee, 9.—Although the fin consideration of the charges against Pre the Cincinnati Presby- tery for hevesy, is being conducted in tive session, it has leaked out that was had today upon the first_charge execu- 1 vote result dict of acquittal, The first charge alleges that Dr. Smith taught that a Presby- terian minister may abandon the essential | atures of the system of doctrine after or Qination and still rightfully retain his posi tionas a minister in the church, Th malning charges contain the gravest part the accusation, involving Prof. fngpiration of the They will be considered Monday e cderate Home, | house of rep re. of Smith's scriptures, Georgia Accepts the Co ArLaxTa, Ga., Dec. 9. resentatives of the Georgia voted to accept the confederate veterans home, built by popular donation, but which wiis not accepted by the last legislature. An ppropriation of §15,000 a year goes with the acceptance, T | ogislature has | | hurt STt UMBER 173. SEEMS T0 BE ALREADY ENDED Strike of the Rook Island Telegraph Operae tors Proving a Failure, | AL BUSINESS PROCEEDING AS USUAL Tralns Moving and the OMeials of pany Sanguine of Keeping the Line Open-Strikers in urning. The Rock Island people aro ovidently puts suing a waiting policy with the hope that the Next two or three days witl show the strik- ing telegraph operators that the railrond has resources not taken int ation when the order to strike was promulgated So far outwand appearances go, the strike in these parts is not having much ine Passenger trains ure moving on time, and theve scems no delay fn the transaction of regular business, The company claims that with the exception of a fow small offices in Neby keys idle, and that men will be s these. Superintendent Burleigh at Counefl Blufls is employing men to take the places, and says e finds plenty of men who are willing to do the wor iperin- tendents are using the train mails to transact their business and give onders for future guidance of the men who are loyal to the company, thus avoiding the possibility of the strikers coming in possession of knowledge of the company’s intentions Considerable trouble has been exp enced along the line east of Das Moines through interference with the wi and the company has been forced to depend on the commercial lines to transact its business in some nces 1t was reported day morning that b consic at the local office yester . Snyder, an operator and express agent at South Bend, who struck as an operator, has also struck a8 ont, refusing to handle busines nited States I company, which operates the road neral Superin: tendent Quick of the United States Bxpress though not having been oficially d of the situation at South Bend s that if operators who were also exp: onts refused to handle express busir would simply send men from the general ofiice to check up the business of the strik- ing operators and relieve them of their posi- tions. e didn't propose to have diMculty in the matter one way or the other. George Merrill, a clerk in the local freight oftice at this point has gone to South Bend to take the place of Snydes IN IOWA. ns to Be More of a Fizzlo Than a Gens uine Demonstration. Des Morses, Ta., Dec. [Special Teles grim to Tue Bee.]—The operators' strike on this division of the Rock Island appears to e somewhat of a fizzle. Hardly half of the men complied with the order to quit work, and now some of those who did are desirous of returning to their deserted posts, Tele- grams from operators at Vanmeter, Glidden and a dozen other stations signified their readiness and willingness to return to their keys, providiug they would begiven some as- surance that they would not be ‘‘fired” be- cause of recent actions, The officials of tho rond have not yet decided whether they will reinstate the strike Passenger Agent Frey and_Freight Agent Loomis state that the strike has not muteri- ally interfered with trafiie. The former says the strike is practically over. uperintendent Berlingett of the Chicago Great Western denies the report that any of the operators on that line contemplate striles ing to help the Rock Island men out. Superintendent Stillwell of the Rock Island is out on the road, giving his personal :ux--xmi«-n to the telegraphic affairs of the road. he only place where the strike tool® on a threatening aspect was at Stuart. This is a great vailrond town, and when an operator was sent there yesterday to assume the dutics of the deserted post, he was surprised to find that the good people of the town re- anything to cat. His food was sent to him from another town, Forr Donae, I, Dec, 9.—[Special Tele- gram to T | Trains moved about as usual tod: 1 the Des Moines & Fort Dodge division of tht Rock Island, notwithe standing the operators' strike. Superins endent Gilmore made a trip over the road st eve and closed all stations where the operators had quit. New operators were suppliec and Junction and Tara. The are at work at Fort Dodge Operator Wright went bacle being out a few hours, ~The Rock Island s' strike on the Des alley division is in statu quo. The most stations are also agents performing all their duties but thad of operator. BUKLINGTON, chunge in th Burlington Cedar Rapids Wi At Callendor to work K railway Moines operats Ta., Dee. 9 operitors' strl} is_concerned Northern ri and refused to go out. There is no o as far as the o Burlington, men are all af OTHERS MAY STRIKE, Rio Grande and Unlon Pacific volved in Colorado, Col., De rumored here At switchmen on the Denver & Rio and on the Union Pacific will, if strike out of sympathy for the' Rock Island operators. The Rock Island com-, puny uses the Union Pacific and Rio Grande tracks to enter Denver from Limon, Colo., and Colorado Springs, respectively, having utract with the two latter roads which alls for the use of their tracks unless it is made impossible by providentiul inters forene, If cither of these two roads should refuse to handle the Rock Jsland trains the will be liable for any loss that the Rocl Island may be put to. On this account the Denver & Rio Grand and Union Pacific will have to stand by the Rock Island and if the switchmen strike it will cause a named roads, The Rock Island officials claim that but twelve out of fifty-one operators between Colgrado Springs and Phillipsburg, Kan., have struck, while the strikers assert that with a, few exceptions all have gone out. witchmen Iny, DexveR, tonight t inde necessi Rumors of s Wreck, KANsAs C11y, Mo,, Dec, 9.1t was reported here that a freight and y or train on the Rock Island came together tonight in head-end collision, between Troyand Holton, Kun., and that several passengers wore badly No definite news of the wreek haf been learmed bere. A dispateh from Topeka states that the oficials of the road there say there has been no wreck and that the rumor was started by the strikers in order to ins jure the road. The Associated pres oy pondent at Troy telegraphs it is reported there was a wreek between Manhattan and Holton, Manhattan knows nothing of it and the Holton oftice is closed. - Stock ina ible Condition, DExVER, Colo., Dec. 9.—A prominent cattles man from northwestern New Mexico says a drouth has existed there for more thun two* years; that all the streams are dried up and that at the lowest estimate 000 to 100,000 heid attle. have died from star- vation k of water. The railroads are shippiug cattle out by the train loads| but most of them will die as they are weak o withstuud the winter. ‘The losss run from 85 to 60 per cent. Sheep are almost us bad a condition, L New York Exchange Quotation: New Youk, Dee. 9.—[Special Telegram Tue Bee. | —New York exchange wis quol as follows 250 Lo 40¢ premium HBoston, 10c 1o e discount; Bt. Louls, d discount.