Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 20, 1893, Page 1

| FABLISHED JUNE 19, 1871, OMAHA, WED NESDAY MORNING, SOUALLY FOR A TIME Excitement Took Poss stion of the House of Representatives Yesterday. REPUCLICANS IN A FIGHTING MOOD Thev Start the Row Over the Affuir in the Sandwich Islanis EXCITING SCENES IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW Mr. Boutelle Leads the Onslaught Against the Administration, URGENT DEFICIENCY BILL CONSIDERED ensioners Passed Legisiation Favoruble to the House—A Appropriatio Pay Members Extra Ml eage—Wils nds in Mis Bill, son WAsHINGTON. Dec. 19.—The house was in an ugly frame of mind toda The republi- cans were in a fighting temper over the Hawailan situation when the house met and the row opened 1mmediately. Mr. Cockran's resolution of yesterday was presented and hurriedly referred to the committee on rules. Then came the sharp skirmish on the Boutelie resolution. By means of this reso- lution Mr. Boutelle succecied in getting an opportunity to address the house, but his philippic against tne government was cut short by the action of the speaker in de- ciding the poiut of order to which Mr. Boutelle was speaking in his favor, and re- ferred the resolution to the committeo under the rules. T'he consider: tion of the urgent deficiency Il was then resumed and some very ex- citing scenes were enacted before 1t was finally passed. The item appropriuting £200,000 for special examiners was amended 80 a8 to provent the suspension of any pen- sion without giving the pensioner notice, with opportunity to furnish testimony in rebuttal. Amendments were also adopted appropriating §150,000 for extra mileage for members and senators, $48,000 for stationery and about $25.000 to vay employes of the house and senate an extra month’s pay. ‘The most bitter opposition existed to each of these propositions, the first of which was denomipated on the floor a proceeding whose scandalous character had not been ap- proached since the days of the famous salary grao, Led by Biand and Holman, Mr. Bland and Mr. Holman led the fight sgainst these propositions, with a view to placing the members on record with a yea and nay vote, buy they were aot numerically strong enough and the committee on rules ultimately brought in a special order, by the terms of which the filibustering was stopped without a record-makiug vote. Immediately after the reading of the jour- nal Mr. Cockran of New York offered the res- olution, which he sought to present yester- day, to appoint a special committee of seven 10 Investigate the allegad attempt of the last administration to antex territory to the United States without consualting the house of representatives and to inquire into the rights of the house in the premises. The resolution had no sooucr been read than a dozen men on each side of - the house rushed toward the bar of the house crying for recognition. Mr. Boutelle meantime was wildly at- tempting to offer his resolution of yesterday ns a substitate, but Mr. Cockran was recog- zed to move to refer the resolution to the committee on rules and, upon a motion, he demunded the previous question. ‘Che con- fusion was so great that the speaker ap- several times for ovder. Kinally Mr. Breckinridge of Kentucky made the point of order that, under the rules, tho resolution would go to the committee on rules without u motiou. ‘The speaker held in accordance with the point of orderand referred the solution. Boutelle Re Mr. Breckinrdge then tried to move to go mto committee of the whole to consider the sucy deficiency bill, but Mr. Boutelle de- manded vecoguition for a privileged resolu: il the speaker was obliged to recog ¢ him. When read it proved to be the resolution Mr. Boutelle sought to introdue last night. declaring the prerogatives of co gress had been invaded by the policy of the udministration, and declaring that policy inconsistent with the spirit of the constitu- tion and the traditions of the country. The row was now fully under wiy. Mr. MeCreary, chairman of the forcign affairs committee, made the point that the resolu- tion was not privileged, and aftor some sharp words from cach side Mr. Boutelle got the flour to_discuss the question as to whether the resolution was privileged he message of the president, read yes- terday, indicates this country may be in- volved in war with a friendly power for all we know," said he, in a loud voice He held that it was the imperative duty of congress, reluctantly vecognized by the president. to disavow, discredit and repro- gnized, bate a poiicy designed to bring the country into discreditin tho eyesof the civilized world. [Great applause on the republican siae.] “1en nates,” continued from o 1 asurper.’” not wheuco this policy ew Mr. Boutelle, *'whether sublican president or denocratic usion Followed, The confusion that followed the word susurper” drowned the rest of the seutence, He continued to talk amid loud cvies for order and the speaker at last, with the aid of his gavel, brought the house to a stand- still, Before the gentleman from Maine had fairly launched his next philippic Speake Crisp suddonly swept the ground from under him by deciding the poiut of order in accord- ance with the contention of Mr. McCreary and referved the resolution directly to the commiittee on foreign uffivs. Mr. Boutelle and Mr. Diugley then at- tempted Lo argue the question relating to the decision of the chair, but the speake; was obdurate. Amid great excitement he ordered ull gentlemen to be seated, declar- ing he would hear no gentieman until he had formally discharged s duty upon the poiut at issue. Speaker Crisp then delivered Lis decision 1 4 calm, quiet tone, though he was evi dently laboring under the general excites ment provalent in the house. and referved the resolution to the commitiee on foreign affairs. Mr. Boutelle immediately appealed from the decision of the chair and Mr. McCreary moved to lay the appeal on the table. This wotion prevailed ~180 1o M, Duriug the call of committees for reports, which followed, the Nicaragua canal bill was favorably reported from the committee U Comnerce Urgent Deticiency Appropriation. o The house at the conciusion of the eall went into committee of the whole for the further cousideration of the urgent de- ficieney bill. The item appropriating 200,000 for speclal exuminers wus again ander five, Holman's amen the pension oftice dinent, designed to prevent from employing persous. Yothier thau peasion examiners,” as spics and sceret agents 1o houna union _ soldiers, was defeated, ana Mr. Martin offered the torlowing: “Provided that any pension sevetofore, or that may hereafter be granted 10 any applicant therefor, under any laws of e United States authorizing the granting | which su and payment of pensions on application made and adjudicated upon. shail be decmed and held by all oficers of the United States t0 be a vested right in the grantee to that extent: that payment thereol shall not be withhield or suspended until after due notice tothe grantce of not less than thirty days the commissioner of pensions, after hearing all the evidence, shall decide to annul, va- cate. modify or set aside the decision upon \'pension was granted. Such notice waerantee must contain a full and trae state- ment of any charges or allegations upon which such decision granting such pension shall be sought to be in any manner dis- turbed.” ‘Fhis was adopted by a vote of 104 Hayos of Towa offered_an amendment spriating §103.0%0 for mileage for mem- bers of the house for the present session and £05,000 for mileage for senators, and #45.000 for'stationery for the house and 811,000 for the senate. The members showed a peculiar and por interest in the long discussion which followed, crowding about the sy s desk and listening to every word. To some of them from the far-off Pacific its determina tion involved as high as §1,200. Wilson and Little Bl During the debate Chairman Wilson of the wways and means committee rose in his pluce with the long looked for tariff bill in and, and the committee arose informally to roceive the bill. There was no demonstra- on. Mr. Wilson simply reported from the wavs and means committco “A Bill to Reduce Taxation, Provide Revenue and for Ophier Purposes.” lie discussion of the Hayes amendment was continued atsome length and was finally adopted by & vote of 14310 49, Mr. Curtis of Kansas then offered an amendment to pay the employes of the house and senate, including the capitol police, who cre on the roll November 8, when the sion adjouted, an extra month's he amount involved was 45,000, some debate the Curtis amendment carried by a vote of 180 to 48, No further amendments were adopted and the committee reported the bill to the house A separate volo was demanded oy Mr. Bland on the mileage amendment, and by Mr., Breckinridge on the amendment an extra month's pay for employes of the house and senate, Mr. Wells of Wisconsin called for the yeas and nays on the mileage anmendment, but the members were not anxious to go on record. Bland starts & Filibuster. Mr. Bland of Missouri immediately inau- gurated a filibustering movement., He ex- plained that all he wanted was a record- making vote. “That's just what you don't get,” cried a zen voices. Mr. Holman and Mr. Bland insisted that they were entitled toa yea and nay vote, and Mr. Bailey of Texas testified to the jus- tice of the demand, but the house would not agrec to it, and Mr. Bland went on mak- ing fllibustering motions to udjourn, to take A recess, adjourn to a certain day, ete. Meantime the speaker had retired from the chair, ana the committee on rules had held a meeting. A special order was prepared, The gag was invoked. General Catchings' appearance with the rule was greeted with loud cheers. Successively the ord was adopted, the motion to adjourn was defeated, the mileage amendment, the amendment for a month’s extra pay to house and senate employes was agreed to, and shortly there- atter the house udjourned. d IN THE Sxpecied Debate on the President’s Ha- waltun Message Averted. Wasnixetoy, Dec. 19.—The debate which was expected in the senate today on the president’s message as to Hawaii was averted by Mr. Hoar of Massachusetts, whose motion to refer the message and ac- companying documents to the committee on foreien relations is the pending question before the senate, yielding to Senator Berry of Arkansas and to Senator Peffer of Kan- sas. The first named addressed the senate in advocacy of the bill to repeal the federal electis law, while Senator Peffer argued in favor of the bill introduced him yesterday appropriating money for immedi- ate use in relieving want and destitution throughout the country. Mr. Hoar stated. however, that on tomorrow he wou'd eall up his motion to vefer the presigent’s message and accompanying documents to the commit- ign relations, ana in all proba- bility he will address the senate at that time upon the Hawaiian situation generally. Among the bills introduced was one by Mr. Mandersor of Nebraska to dispose of the discriminatiog duty imposed on tea fro.a this side of the Cape of Good Hope; referred to the finance committec. Discussing a French Monopoly. During the transaction of morning bus ness Mr, Frye, republican from Maine, arose and sald: “About two years ago a French cable company made application to our s retary of state, Mr. Blaine, for permiss to land its cable from Brazil on the coast of the United States. Our sceretary of state investigated the matter and fouud the cow- pauy bad, by authority of law of Brazl, a monopoly, aud that no company while that power was irfexistence, and it was in pesuity, would be permitted to land a cable on the Brazilian coast. So our secret state refused Lo grant the permission. “Iam informed, whether true or not I cannot say, that thal company has recently appeared before the secretary of state, and that he has granted to this company the vight it ked. Ifit be true and there is no remedy 1o be had for it, then the United States will be perpetually kept out from landing auy cable ou the const of Brazil.” 1n view of these facts ho offered a rosolu tion making inquiry of the secretary of state as to whether this was true, Mr. Hunton, democrat, of Virginia—1 ob- Joct to the present consideration of that res- olution. 1 think the scnator is mistaken in his statement. Mr. Hunton was fien: in his objection to the present consideration of the vesolution, and it went over under uhe rule House bill authorizing tho fourth assistant postmaster general to approve postmaster bonds was passed. Federal Elections Luw, The bill to repeal the federal elections Liw was then taken up and Mr. Borry, domo. crai, of Arkansas, uddressed tho senate thereon. He believes these laws were base in principle and bad i policy. They wore 't and parcel of the reconstvuction laws. “Phey had been passed ut a time of great po- litical excitement and for the purpose of securing the supremacy of an iznorant race in the south. If theve had ever been any excuse for their passage there was none for their retention. In conclusion Mr. Herry said republicans should remember the south was now in the union, and that some south- ern_men were ready to defend it, to speak for it. to work for it, aud, if nced be, to fight for it. Pefler on Poverty. Mr. Peffer, populist, of Kansas, then ad- dressed the senate in’ favor of the bill intro- duced by him yesterday, appropriating $6,300,000 for immediate use, in relieving want and deslituiion throughout the coun- try. Never before iu the history of the country, he said, had there been so much want and destitution among the poor and unemployed. Indeed, it was safe 1o estimate that one-fourth of the population of this country at this hour wus affected more or less by the prescut distress. The news papers of the country. especiully those etimes calied great, and which were somietimes criticised the most harshly, had been doing 4 sreat service i relieving distress. o oxplained that by a clerical crror the amount proposcd 10 be appropriatea was stated in the biil us 800,000, He futendod to Iusert $63,300,000 The money proposed to be appropriated was woney for which no one had use, ) o siver dollars in tho treasury nol covered by cerlificates, At the cud of Mr. Peffer's remarks the il was referrod to th cation and labor. ‘I'he iato executive session opened at D and M. cowmittee on edu sennte then went I'he doors were re Cockrell, ¢ erat of Missouri, move Up the bill ;nueudiu?' he laws 80 as Lo e ¢ original roceipts for deposits of post 1o be seut direct to the fourth auditor of the Postoftico department. After debate the bill went over, The scuate at 4:20 adjournea. | seutatives of Luese sawe states, wilh pracil TARIFE REFORM 0N AGAIN | Another Phase of the Bill as Reported by Prof. Wilson's Committee, NEW MEASURE REPORTED 10 THE HOUSE Some Changes Made by the Majority of the Comm| Must Come Gradoally — Protectionists Al- ways Asking for More. tee — Reform Wasnixarox, Dec. 19, ~The following is the majority report of the ways and means com- lee: The American people, after the full and most thorough debate ever given by any peo- ple to their fiscal policy, have deliberately and rightly decided that the exist- ing wwiff is wrong in princi- ple and grievously unjust in operation. They have decided. as free men must always decide, that the power of taxation has no luwful or constitutional excrcise except for providing revenue for the supnort of the gov- ernment. Every departure from this princi- ple is o departure from the fundamental principles of freo institutions and inevitably works out a gross inequality in the citizen- ship of a country. For more than thirty years we have levied the largest part of our federal taxes in vio- lation of this vital truth, until we have in the existing tariff an extrome and volumi- nous system of class legislation to which his- tory may be challenged to furnish any paral- lel. So many private enterprises have been takensinto partnership with the government, so many private enterprises mow sharein the rich prerogative of taxing 70.000,000 of people that any attempt to dissolve this Mllegal union is necessarily encountered by an opposition that rallies behind the intelli- wence of monopoly the powerof concentrated wealth, the inertia of fixed habits and the honest errors of a generation of false teach- ing. Must Go Slowly at First, The bill on which the committee has ex- pended much patient and anxious labor is not offered as a complete response to the mandate of the American veople. It no more professes to ba purged of all protection than to be free of all error in its complex and manifold details. The committee, however, may deny the existence of any executive pledge or the right of congress to make such pledge for the conumuance of such duties that contain with them nore [ less acknowledged brotection, We may recognizo that great industries exist whoss interest and prosperity it 15 no vart of our reform cither to imperilor to tail. We believe, and we have the wi of our own past_experlence for believiug that reduction of duties will not injure. but give moro abundaut life to all our great manufacturing industries, however much they may dread the change. In dealing with the tariff question, as with every long standing abuse that has interwoven itself with our social or ind trial system, the legislator must always re- mewmber that, in the beginning, temperate reform is safest, having in its ciple of growth. Protection Fallacy Proven. Aglanceat the tarift legslation of our own country ought to satisfy every intel gent student that protection has always shown its falsity as a system of economy by its absolute failure to insure healthy ‘and stable prosperity to manufacturers. I teaches men to depend on artificial help; on laws taxing their countrymen for prosperity in_ business, rather thanupon their own skilland cffort. It throws business out of its nutural channels into artificial channels, in which there must always be fluctuation and uncertainty, and it makes a tanff sys- tem the fost ball of party politics and the stability of lavge business interests the stalke of every popular election, Nonc have recognized this truth more fully tnhan the wiser men who from time to time nave engaged in the so-called protected industrics. ago M. Edward Everett ted in an oration at Lowell that the sa- gacious men who founded the manufactures of New Fngland were never friends of o nnigh tariff polic rotection Brought Uncertainty. Hon. Amos Walker, a former member of this house from Massachusetts and oue of our foremost writers on economic questions, declared it to be within his own porsonal knowledge that when the proposal was made to fmpose the protective taviff of 1816, the leading manufacturers of Rhod~ Isiand, among whom was Mr, Slater, the father of cotton spinning In this country, met ot the counting room of one of their number and after deliberate consultation came unanimously to the con- clusion that they had rather be let alone, as their business had grown up naturally alone and succeeded well and they felt confident of its continued prosperity if lev alone by the government. They argued that by lay- ing a protective tariff ‘their business wouid be thrown out of its natural chaunels and be subjected to fluctuations and uncertainty. But, as usual, the clamor of selfish and less far sighted men and the ambition of law makers to usurp the place of provi- dence prevailed. The country entered on a protective policy with the unfailing result that the government begot a violent demana for more government help. The moderate avifl of 1816 ranidly grew into the “tariff of abomivations” that carried the country to the verge of civil discora and provoked a natural revulsion, Protection hasrun a hke course since 1861, Protection Ever Brings More Protection, When congress began to repeal war bur- dens nnd to relieve manufacturers of internal taxes which they had used Lo secure compen- elf the prin- sating duties ou foreign products, there avose a demand throughout the country without respect to_pariy for a reduction of the war tanfl, Unable to resist this de- mand’ the protacted inaustries thus affected thwartea any reduction by substituting a senate bill ‘which carried a horizontal cut of 10 per cent. As soon, however, at the etection of 1874 gave the next house o the democratic pariy that bill was repealed by the outgoiug republicans and the rates réstored o what they were bofore 1872, and although the demand for tariff reform and for reduction of taxes has ever since been a burning and growing one in the country, the protected industries bave exucted and re- ceived from every republican congress elected since 1874 an increase of their pro- tection, occasionully vermitting the repeal or the lessening of a tax that was pad in the treasury in order to keep away from or to increase duties levied for their benefit. Protection, lett to its natural momentum never stops short of prohibition.aud prohibitory walls are always needing Lo he rebuilt higher or to be putched and strengthened. A protective tariff never hus and never can give stubility and satis. faction Lo its own beneficiaries. Even if its vietims ave 100 weak and too scattersd 10 agitate for its decrease those beneficiaries are sure to udvocate for an increase. Lower Tarifly und Increnssd Wages. When the reform tariff of 1846 was before congress the air was full of prophiecies that It would destroy our manufacturing in- dustries, throw labor out of employment, or compel itto work at pauper wages and diwvarf and ar t the prosperous growili of the country Livery representative of four greal manufactiring o tates of New England voted aguin:t it with gloomy forebodings of its blighting effect. The riteof duties pro- vided in that tanfl was much lower thun those of the bill we here offer. \What was theresult! Instead of practically kitling the indu stries sud pauperizing the 1abor of New England or the rest of the country t o tanf {of 1848 gave monse vigor to man- | ufactures with steady employ- | ment and increasing Wiges to labor, 52 that, afier elevan years experiencs under it, the longes ever enjoyed period of s avility we have under any tarift, " the vey cal unanimity, voted fora further reduction of 20 per cent, and by 8 _two-thirds vote sus tained the tarift of 188, which made a re- duction of 25 per cent, Now prosperity fol- lowed with that. foe the manufacturers of that and other seetians of the country under the low tariff of 1857, s that when the Mor- rill tariff bill of 1861 took the first backward step there was a general protest against it. Hon. Alexander Rice of Massachusotts said in the house The manufacturcr asks no additional protection. He has learned among other things that the greatest evil, next to a ruinous competition from foreign sources, is an_excossive protection which stimulates a like rulnous and irresponsible competition at home.” (Congressional Globe, 1850, 60 page, 167), Mr. Sherman o Ohio said: *“When Mr. Stanton saye the manufacturers aro urging and pressing the bill, he says what he must cortainly know {8 not correct; the manu- facturers have asked over and over again to be let alone.” (Tbid. 2,058), Mr. Morril himself has since said that the tariff of 1861 was not asked for and but coldly welcomed by manufacturers, (Con- essional Globe, 1860-70, page 8,205). Senator R. M. Hunter of Virginia, then chairman of the senate finance committee, said: “Have anyof the manufacturers come here to complain or as for new duties? 1t is notorious if we were to leave it to them (the manufacturers of New England) to the manufacturers of hardware, textile fabrics, ete., there would be a large majority against any change. Do we not know that the woolen manufacture dates its revival from the ]lurlfl of 1857, which altered the duties on wool " ‘The history of American industries shows that during no other period has there been a more healthy and rapidy development of our manafacturing industry thau during the fifteen yoars of low tariff from 1846 to 1861, nor more healthy or harmonious growth of agriculture and all other industries of the country. No chapter in our present experience car, ries with it more salutory lessons than this and none could appeal more strongly to lay makers to establish just and rational sys- tom of public revenue,neither exnausting ng riculture by constant blood letting, nor keeping manufacturers alternating between chills and fover by artificial pampering. In this divection alone lies stability, concord of sections and of great industries. Errors Wil Be Made, Wo have alrcady said that the public dis- cussion may_disclose errors of minor detail in tho schodules of the bill. To escape such errors would require so thorough and minute a knowledge of divisions, subdivisions, com- plex and manifold mazes und involutions of our chemical, textile, metal and other in- dustries, that 1o committec of congress, no matter low extended the range of their per- sounl knowledge, or how laborious and painstakiag their efforts, could ever hope to possess. We have not forgojten that we Topresent the peoble,iwho are many, as weil as the protected 1nterests, who ave the few, and while we have dealt with the latter in no spiriv of uonfriendliness, we have felt that it was our duty and not their privilege to make the tariff schedules. Those who concede the right of beneficiaries to fix their bounties must necessavily commit to them the framing and wording of the laws by which those bonnties are secured to them. A committee of congress thus becomes merely the amanuenss of the protected interests, It bas been shown.so clearly and so often in the debatoes in this house that nearly every important schedule of the existing law was made in its very words and fizures by representativesof the Interests it was framed to protect, thatit is unnecessary, in cur report, to present ‘the record proof of this fact: but it may not be amiss to cite further evidence to show that this is not only the necessary rule, but the open and avowed method of framiing protective tariffs. Tow MoKintey's Bilt Was Made. When the senate substitute for the bill passed by this hosse in the Fiftioth congross —iwhich substitute is the real basis of the existing law—was being prepared. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts appeared before the senate subcommittee and used this languaee: “Instead of coming beforc your subcom- mittee for a formal hearing on our Massachusetts industries, 1 thought the best way wuas to prepare atable of all the various industries, per- haps some sixty or seventy in ali, and ask Brother Aldrich to go over them with me and ascertain what the people wanted in each case, and if there were any cases in which the committee had not already done what the petitioners desired, or had not in- flexibly passed uvon the question, I could a hearing before you. But I find in instance the action of the committee, Aldrich thinks i likely to be, is en y satisfactory to the intérests I repre- sent. with the excepilon of one or two, and the papers in regard to these cases 1 have hauded to Mr. Aldrich. € No stronger indictment of the whole pr tective system could be made than that which i8 unconseiously carriea in these words of a United States senator that luws which imvose tuxes on the gr asses must be written in language so technical that the most intelligent citizen cannot fully understand them, and that the rates of taxation must be dictated by the selfishuess and greed of those who are to receive the taxes. We have believed that the first step toward reform of the tariff should be a re- lease of taxes ‘on the materials of industry. There can be no substantial and beneticisl reduction upon the necessary clothing and other comforts of the Awmerican people, or any substantial and beneficial enlargement of the field of Ameri- an labor, 80 long as wo tax materials and processes of production, Livery tax upon the proaucer fails with in- creused torce on the consumer. Every tax on the producer ig this country is & protec- tion to his competitors 1n all other countries, and so narrows his market as w limit the number and lessen the wages of those to whom he can give employment. Dvery cheapening in the cost or culargement of the supply of his raw materials, while primarily inuring to the henefit of the manufacturer himself passes under free competition imme- diately, Iron and Steel Schedulc, We have made a reduction of about one- third in the iron und steel schedule, begin- ning with free ore anda dutyof 21ig cent on pig iron. We have reported u s of duties considerably below those of the ex- isting law, graduated according to the de- vee of manufacture, which should brizg enefit to the consumer without cailing for any halt in the progress of that great in- dustry in our country. The duty on steel rails has been reduced =5 per centum which, according to -the reports of our Department of Labor, quite compensates for all difference in the cest of production in this country and abread. There seems to be an authentic report $hat the pool of Amer! can railmukers, whieh under the shelter of thie present duty of §i844 per tou hus kept up prices to the American consumer far beyond the cost of produgtion and legitimate profits, has been re ized to continue the regulation of theiv prices above the proper market rates. As all’ sbippers, and cspe- cially American shippges, are vitally inte ested in cheapening the £ost of transporia- tion, vates of duty upen steel rails should be adjusted 80 as 10 protect themw from monop- oly prices and monopaly conditions. Upon tin plate the duiy has been gauged with reference to the reveuue it will bring into the treasurv, and the differeuce be- tween this duty and that upon the bluck plate has heen lessened with a view 1o not « scourage what may uot unjustly be caned the industry of making American tin plate by the mere dippingz 1o this country of the imported black plate. The Suzar Hounty. In the sugar schedule we should have pre- red towipe out at dBingle legislative stroke the existing bounty syste We believe it 10 be contrary o the spirit of our institu- tions, and can conceive of no eircumstances under which we should have vocated or approved its introduction into our DS, We have feund it exisling there, a8 we find it virtually exisiing lu every otber schedule of our tariff, und dealing with this more offensive form, a8 we have dealt with other schedules where lurge property ioterests are at stake. we have reporied a provision for its repe (CONTINUED ON SBOOND FAGE. | HOPKINS ON THE SURFACE Chicago's Democrats Havy Scorad Another Triumph at the Polls, REPUBLICANS WILL MAKE A CONTEST Supporters of Swift Secure Ample Evidence of G Feaud nnd Will Fash the Election Through the Courts Before Quilting. Cricaco, Dee. 19.— [Special Telegram to Tug Bre.|—Hopkins' rooters were ringing cow belis, blowing kazoos or making some sortof noise soon after dinner time tonight, if they were not attempting to drink all the hquor in town, because the hottest municipal election the city has passed through 1n years had gone their way. Ac cording to the face of the returns the democratic candidato has & plurality of 1305, which, with a change of one vote in each of the city's 99 pre- cinets, would elect Georgo B. Swift to the mayoralty. The result effected. as itun doubtedly was by fraud at the polls in many instances, is too close for the republicans to let it go by default. Persons having small bets up on the result need be in no hurry to settle, because there is going to be a contest, and Mayor Swift does not intend to relin- quish the office to which heclaims he has been rightfully clocted, unless the supreme court so decrees it. The republican party leaders are agreed upoa fighting it out to the last diteh, Good ns n Victory. Whether the outcome is favorable to their candidate or not the election is almost as good as a victory to the republicans. Cieve land carried the city last year by a plurality of 42.000. This election was as squarely upon party lines as the presidential canvass, and the demoeratic piurality has therefore at least been reduced over 40,000, if not wiped out altogether, as evidence said to ba in possession of the republican campaign com mittee is likely to show. ‘The early figures furnished by the police returns are now shown to err quite matecially, and at 10 o'clock several wards had been corrected so as to show gains for Swift, though they are likely to affect the result. The Tribune figures Hopkins' plurality 1,202, and tho Inter Ocean gives it 1,305, Will Make a Contest. The vepublican city executive committee wus in session until a late hour tonight Corporation Counsel John S. Miller met with the committee and when it adjourned at 11 o'clock he expressed the opinion that there was sufficient ground for a coutest. 'The committee is agrced to make a fight all along the line. Tho results us an- nounced by the judges in each precinct according to law shiow a:plurality for Swift, according to republican authority, while the police returus, doubtless biased, show that Hopkins has about 1,300 plurality. The claim Is made t in anumber of strongly democratic wards fraud of the worst kind was practiced—colonization, repeating and throwing out of republican votes. The com- mittee claims to be in possession of a mass of evidence which it will present to the can- vassing board. As that body is strongly democratic the figot, iu all probability, will ve carried into the courts. ” LESS THAN TWO THOUSAND, Hopkins, the Domocratic Candidute, Goes in by & Smatl Majority. Ciricaco, Dee. 19.—John K. Hopkins, the democratic candidate for mayor, was elected over George B. Swift, his republican rival, by a majority of 1,557, The total vote was: Hopkins, democrat, 112,700; Swift, repub- lican, 111,313; Britzins, socialist-labor, 1.5i7; Wakely, peoplos-silver, ‘Che vote, which was one of the heaviest ever polled in the city, shows a decided republican gain. The democracy carried the city by 30,000 in the last presidential election and in the county election last month sey- eral of the democratic candidates had ma jorities of 4,000 in the eity, which were only overcome by the republican vote in the county. The weather was all that could be desired, and the full vote of both partics was volled. In several of the downtown watds, where the heavy lodging house vote resides, the contest wis very bitter and “scraps’’ wer of trequent oceurrence when the police wer not on hand. In all other parts of the ¢ the voting progressed without incident. The jury in the Coughlin case did not vote, The jury in the Prendergast trial fared a little better. Such members us cared to votewera allowed to do so, being accom- panied to the polls by a buiff. Seven of them voted, the remainder being kept at the hotel. Tonizht the democrats are jubilant over their vietory, while the republivans are con- soling themselves with the substantial gains made over the last two elections and declare the city is theirs the next time, Virginia's Naw Senators, Ricnyosn, Va., Dec. 19-—Iu the legisla- ture today General Eppa Hunton was elected United States senator for the short term and Thomas M. Martin for the long term, —_— KILLED BY TRAIN ROBBERS, Express Me enger Richurdson of Orleans Murdered In Cold Blood. NEw OrLEANs, Dee. 19.—The name of the oxpress messenger killed in the Southern New Pacific train robbery last night is John C. Richardson, #3 years old and married, who lwves in New Orleans. From what little can be learned, it is apparent that the train porter on going into the car found Richardson dead. The 1mpression is thut the robbers wanted him to opon the whrough safe and upon his failure Lo comply he was shot. The sherifl’s posse which started in pur- suit of the Southern Pacific train robbers last pight returned about noon today, after scouring the country between here and Sheldon, sixteen miles away. The best in- formation at hand is that Richardson was murdered and tho express car robbed be- tween this city and Green's Bayou, the first station east of Houston. ‘I'wo men were evi- dently concerned in the affair. They left the train when it took the siding at_Green's Bayou and are believed to bo 1n this city. They are uot thought to have got much plunder, S A s A KOETTING IN COURT, Plankinton Bank Cashler's Trial Beglus with Arguments Again MiLwavkee, Dec. 19.—Tue case of Cashier Koetting of the wrecked Southside bank was called in the municipal court this morn- ing. A large crowd was in attendance. Cir cult Judge Clementson of Grant county pre- sides. He was called to the case by Judge Walker, who was sworn away on the ground of prejudice. The atlorueys for the defense 3 consumed the entire day in arguments tending to disqualify Judge Clementson on the groand that Judge Walber was not le- golly privileged to call a circuit judge to take his place. t the Judge, e wctory Nettiement. Dec. 19.—Comptroller Harris and Attorney General Pickle have finally secured an agreement or setilement with the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad compuny that1s satisfactory to the state oflicials. ‘The comvany, which leases the state penitentiary, had fallen more thana year bebind in the lease money and aito- gether about & inyolved. Under e agreement the lessces are Seeurcd a Sat saviLLe, Tono., 5,000 i cash, come down prowpuly | Liverpool, SINGLE cory FIVE CEN on January 1 with the lease mot ey due thon, 000, and pay £75,000 additional during the coming year, besides mecting the usual rental. P — JALLED FOE CONTENPT, wsatlonal Developments in the frvine Divores Suit at Salt Lake. SALT Lake, Dec. 19— {Special Telegram to Tue Bre]—In the the clerk of the Gra hotel, Chicago, testi fied that Mrs. Irvine had registered at the hotel under the name of Mrs. R. H. Miller, representing hersclf as the sister of Mo gomery and she and Montgomery insisted on | occupying adjoining roc R4y Cameron, keeper of a_ Lincoln house of ill-fame, testified that she had seen Mrs. | Irvine often in the room of Montwomery in | Lincolu without coat or hat and sne had partaken of wino there, ‘The witness had seen her at the room with anothe man She refused to give the name of the other | ) man, who she said is about 5 years old, and | is now in jail for her refusal | Trvine, the plaintiff, was put on the stand in the afternoon and told his story, Several times when reforring to the scenes with his wife he broke down completely and sobbed Irvine divorce case today | 0N THE Rumors of Dissensi for soveral minutes. Ho suid that his fiest picion of his wife's infidelity was occu- sioned by o talk with Mvs. Austin, | she who said Addie had dome wroag in Chicago. tle telegraphed to his wifo and received an answer ing she had stopped at the Grand Pacific hotel He found that her name was noton the rogister, and asked ler to meet him at the Wellington hotel. At the meeting she con- fessed that she and Monteomery had stopped at the Grace hotel in Chicago as brother aud sister, in adjoining rooms, and that Montgomery visitod “her several times during the afternoon and evening. ‘he witness said that little lossie had protested ugainst the presence of Mont- gomery in the room and had made such a fuss that her mother was competled her home the next d amination he admitted that his wife had protested to him during the con- sation nt the Wellinzton hotel that she was not guilty of anything criminal in her relations with Montgomery. to take [Capuriahted, 1893, b PERsavrco, Br been considerable tain Bake of tne Nictheroy the new B “IThe offiver in cha W Nunez, who was for Brazilian warship Republ of the few naval oficers who remained loyak to President e MCTHEROY 19 Among the Crew of that Famous Steamer, CAPTAIN BAKER REMOVED FROM COMMAND His Piave Taken by Captain Nunes of th¢ Brazilian Navy. NOT LIKED BY THE AMERICAN SEAMEN wy of Thm Refuse ty Re-Enlist Becausg 1ge of Commanders, AFFAIRS ON BIARD OF THE AMERICA Arrived Safeiy at Maranaho andg with Her Consort, Will Soon le Ready to 0 Some Active Fighting. the Associated tress.] Al, Dee. 19.—There has \ze here today. Caps who left New York in command ,isno longer in charge ot ilian ceuiser, re of hier now is ¢ prain ierly in command of the , and who is one Peixoto. lis causes o great disappointment to tha As to the buegy rides and other matters | American partion of the crew of the Nicthes supposadly hiabpening in fincoli not much | roy and has had w bad iuflucnce on thosa was adduced. Tho plaintiff testificd 1o | who were inclinad to continue the steike for efforts made by Mrs. Ievine's mother to | o iy e i Tave him take ner back ami shid he wag | 4n increase of wages upon regularly entering assured Addie would Lot do wrong agiin the Brazllian navy. “The cotrespondence between 'rvine and his wife through the mediam of Flossie was brought forward for the purpose of showivg that he endeavored toget a confession to clear humself. PRENDENGAST'S AL Witnesses for the Defenso Cl aim that the rh Will Return Home, he fact that Captain Nunez ha sumod command of the Nictheroy has caused many of the Amerivans who were still hesitating as to whether th the Brazilian navy at the as ugreed upon at New York to decide upon y would or wou not enter. ame rate of wages Marderer 18 Insane, returning to the Uaited S 8. They wera CuicaGo, Dee. 19.—The members of the | verfectly willing to fight under Captain jury in the Prenderzast case today were | Baker, buv they are not so willing undex en out by bailiffs and allowed to vote on | Captain Nunez. A successor to the man for whose murder they were trying the prisoner. Then the court was convened und Dr. Dewey, one of the witnesses who had beer called” by the state, was put on the stand by the defense. He testitied that the prisoner appeared to be nsane. Durinz the examination Prendergast cre- ated a sensation by excited obje:tions to uestions put by the attorneys for the de- fense. A bailiff took his avm to force him into hisseat, when the prisoner tore loose | tei from the ofiicer's grasp and, quivering with rage, screamed: “Let go ot me;my life is 1t is understood that are being held out to Captain Baker toserve as second in command, but the known as this dispateh is sent. that the majorit have leaving N remain v admitted y crews, at stake here. They are going to | prejudice the ju Ho was finally quieted and the examination proceeded. Dr. Dewey proved a poor witness for the defense and stated that in his opinion Pren dergast know the difference “between right andwrong at the time of the murder. Dr. W. L. Buin testified that he thought the riconer insane, und statea that he believed Prendergast thought he was doing right when he committed the crime. Dr. 1. H. Wall, assistant county physiciun, also testified that 10 his opinion the prisoner likely that the firemen and stokars as we asa numbor of al seamen from New York will be replaced by men 5 picked up at this or other points strong inducementy result 18 uot It seems [ the gun crews, which saccessfully trained since sw Yok, will be prevailed upon to th the Nictheroy, as 1t seems to be on all sides tnat it would be ut- mpossiblo to Brazilians who been 8o seenra could man the rapid-fice guns, to say noth- ing of the dynamite gi L with anyuhiis by the Awmeri < now. it appaurs i and ordinary efiiciency But, as th e soiniau of other nationalities who can ba All Wetl on (e America, The second piece of important news which the Associated press corvespondent on board insane when he did the shooti the Nictheroy has just reccived is to the Vit ton, cashier of the Uity | effect thar her cossort the Amorica haw nilding, owhed by Governor Alt- | goice ' oilpe o A0 ki gold. testified thit on the 4fternoon of the | 2iTived safelyutMaranalio, the largest towiy day Mayor Harrison was killed. Prender- east called tosee Governor Altzeld, but wis fused permission by the witness, who did not like the generaluppearanceof the caller. Several men employed on different papers with which Prendergast had business deal ings were called for the prosecution and tes- | © they i 1 hi saue. The de. in d a possible point when the jury owed to separate for tho purpose of allowin cral of its members 10 vote the jury law directs that the jury shall kept together. be Would Have Been Builders But for H SN Fraxcisco, Dec. 19.—Au ofticial of the Union Iron works, in au interview, states that up to the tima the new craiser Olympia left port on the first attempt at a teial run the erniser had cost the builders 1,500 | to above the contract price, &1.796,000, and there still remained over $100,000 for contractors to expend for facnituve, deck- smoothing, mounting turrets and guns and giviug final touches. The, too, in the center pump bolt on the frst official ip caused i of §30.000 move by the builders, as t nment pays the exponses only of the trial on which accept- ance is based. The builders now estimate, Otympi Loss to Her Bonus, th and scapol northiern portion of Brazil. that we have dent which happ opinion expressed heve is that v simply the ordinar; ir pumps and it is any trath in tho ina msurgent romorraw, vessels I de Mello 15 as v movements of the Nictheroy and America as is President Peixoto. Just as 1 rumor that there is troublo wmong the crew of the Nictheroy. however, that the craisers remarkabic speed in excess of the contract requirements | ther has won & premium of probably 00,000, 8o | oy that there will really be & handsome profit —— - KILLING NO YMURD. Mat Davis Releascd His Deod Justitiable, St Louts, Dee. 19.—A spocial 1o the 1ost Dispatei from Bristol, Tenn.. says that at the inquest on the bodies of Walter Shaunon the Jury Finding W we still expect to or the much more ¢ consort is yesterday e very much inferior to that which w h of us, w of the te of Mavanuho, in tho We hear briefly board the America, but 1o particulars e cis The general the acciden of the America was gisabling of one of the is ot believed that there stories ahout the Brazil- agents being on board of allis well on ed to lier, he engine room her or that anybody willfuily did any damage to the machi = However, everybody is anx. isly awaiting arvival of the Americs which is expected and it is announced that the two will almost immediately afterwards Bahia, orsome othor port to tha ere Lhe Lwo cruisers expect eive definite orders as o thew futur for movements, the It ntly veported here that Admir 1L informed concerning T uble on the Nictheroy, dispatch close th 1 hear a Should this be the case sowe further delay in the des of the two cruisers southward, buy > the America tomorrow yUday at latest, und we shall feel fident of sue when our unchor near “Yhroughout we were on provisic conl, of v apparent shipped may be us. taking chara e and in New York, Inuny case wo expeet to b and Mrs, Ann Davis, found murdered in bea | o Y 4080 WO -exposk LG ready to suil southward as soon as our cons yesterduy, Mat Davis, husband of the [ yeity P SSYICH A0 bkd woman, acknowledgad that ho killed them | 80rt. the America, i3 ready to proceed and the jury justitied nim under the eiveum- | with us. stances in 50 doing, and he was roleased., As 1 have alveady cabled you, all is quict — — SANG S AULD LANG SYNE," American Fedoration of Lubor Adjourns to here and not muck is known conc situation of aff been unoMeinlly i iing the 1havo would bo at Itio de Janeiro, od that 1t Moot Noxt at Denvor. advisable for me 1o abstain from touchiug Cmeaco, Dee. 10.--The American Fedes upon tho political affairs of Brazil, but I do tion of Labor delegates met today and after | not think 1am incurviig the danger of hays disposing of routine busincss and giving | iug my dispatchies sunprossed when I say votes of thauks to vavious individuals and { that what little nows has veuched here organizitions they sang “Auld Laug Syne" | seems 1o indicate that President Peixoto and adjournod sine dic. The next meeting | pas had some successes of an imporant ni- will be held ut Donver. ture and that he expects his cause will Hax Boon No Compromise. eventualiy teiumph, The peaple hereabouts Cuteago, Dee. 19.—~Eiward A, Davis, the eldest son of John A. Duvis, denies 1o its en- tirety the roportod setilement of the §ii, 000,000 will contest. Iidward Davis says “The story of a comp heirs of my father's estato is a ment, pure and simple. On the coutra declared the negotiations off last and have done nothing about it sinc miss BCeI SOmEWhaL Co! News was received last night that oinise between tne | eral and toe reb. ing in t | Hghton erned us to the Fought Ano Fogugement, »n gens the rebel ships vts was besun Monday worns the havbor of Rio neivo. ‘I'ne both sid o have been se- engagemoent between is said tribute the statements about compromise to ""“'-I “\' u ‘l 1t suent 18 my brother, George Q. Davis, who ok RBONL A L0183 i fatber und [ disowned feu yours ago Ho | , Dithatches veceived hewe from o de has cooked up this story for the sole pu ZRn ““l‘ e °) - N P ‘:‘““:"H\'Il‘ r pose of getting his name in spapers.’” 10 sontor nayal oftloor o e ships ut it 18 Announced Tmpalred by Misnauagement, Han! "‘ "'l T ip Mlll;'v b the ,:rx Seixarienn, 1il, Dee. 10.--State Auditor linos o wus e sufety o h now for dischiarzing and Gore of 1llinvis states that the ussets of the e anchorage sed by hant vessels unloading cargd American Building, [.o0an and Investment | futo lighters. society of Chicago have beea impaired $200,- | A repoot lias gained civculation here that 000 by mismanagemeut und by re on of a | President Peixot i b government 0 onspiracy eantered into by officers of the | nearly baukrupt and that the financial said compauy and debtors thereof, eud [ strain that he and his fricnds subjoct 1 according to law sent copics of advertise- | canrot endure inuch ionzer. This rumos ments to that effect to Chicago to be adver. | may have its origis in insurgent sources, and fas lana )ivon for what it is worth, Hagd lnibojapers, Al cables 10 and from the south have Accepted His Resignution, been stopped by orders of the officials Lere New Youx, Dee, 12.—The N orat 1tio defuncivo sud the utiost anxiety is w York pres bytery has formally accepted the resivoa tion of Rey. Dr. Paxton, pastor of the \West | e churcn, e Movenicnts of Ooeau Steainers, Decembior 19, At New York—Arrived—Aurduia, fevm | m } going on be 856G 15 10 L) sult of tho battle now waen the insurgent snd governs it forees Cay Nunez ta Cammand, Late today Captain Nunez, the new coms nider of the Nictheroy, shipped sixky now wew and eent several of ¥ zrk I ’.