Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 25, 1894, Page 1

Y \ ESTABLISHED JU NE 19, OMAHA, MONDAY MORNING, CARNOT NURDERED President of the French Republic Assas- sinated by an Italian Anarchist. NATIONAL TRAGEDY ON LYONS STREETS Fete in His Honor Turned to Monrning for 8 Oruelly Blain Executive. WAS ON HIS WAY TO THE THEATER Assassin Olimbed the Carriage Step and Btabbed s the President Saluted. MOUNTED POLICE SAVE THE MURDERER Efforts of the Mob to Rend Him to Pieces Prevented by the Office s, CAUSED A MOST PROFOUND SENSATION Expressions of Sorrow and Horror Inter- mungled Are Heard on Every Aand— French People Excited and In- Italinus. dignant Agal Inten LYONS, June 24.--The most ex- citement bas been caused everywhere in France by the assassination of President Carnot. The president was visiting Lyons in con- pection with the international exhibition After attending a reception at the prefecture be visited the exposition. After spending some time at the exposition, he proceeded to the Palals de Commenrce, where a banquet was given in his honor. At 9:25 o'clock tonight President started for the theater, where a gala formance was to be given because of his presence in the city. Several carriages were #n the procession, the first one by the president. M. Carnot's carrlage was @riven slowly in front of the Pelais de Com- menrce and then turned into Rue de la Re- Carnot per- being occupied publique, still following the facade of the palace. When half way down the street, which was lined with enthusiastic crowds of people, who were loudly cheering, 2 man rushed out of the crowd and sprang upon the step of the president’s landau. Just at this moment M. Carnot was waving his right hand and saluting with his bat in his left hand in response to the ovation that was being given by the crowd. Those close to the carriage saw the man standing on the step with a knife in his hand. By the glare of the elec- tric lights they saw the bright blade glowing in the air as the assassin's arm descended, and then President Carnot was seen to fall back in his seat, his face deathly pale. One of his hands was pressed to his heart where the steel had entered the body. CAPTURED THE ASSASSIN. — M. Bivaud, prefect of Lyons, who was seated by M. Carnot, immediately dealt the sssassin a blow full in the face and knocked him from the step, thus preventing the man from again stabbing the president, which it was his evident intention to do. Instantly cries of “Le president est as- sassinee! Mort a I'assassin!” were heard on every side and the crowd in the vicinity of the carriage swelled to enormous proportions, every member of it seemingly intent upon killing the assassin. He was grasped b @ozen hands and his life would have then and there paid the forfeit of his crime had #t not been for several sergeants de ville who seized him and attempted to draw him away from his captors. This was found to be impossible, as the nfuriated populace was determined to lynch the man. All efforts of the sergeants availed nothing beyond saving the man from instant Qeath. Blows were aimed at his face and head over the shoulders of the police, who Bad by this time received reinforcements, and many of the blows landed fairly. At Jast the police succeeded in driving the howl- ing mob & foot or so from their prisoner, but to get the captive through the crowd was & physical impossibility. In the meantime the news of the outrage Bad spread with lightning-like rapidity, and mounted guards were sent to the aid of the police, who were struggling to preserve the life of the mssassin. With drawn sabers the cowardly attempt upon the life of the president was true Suddenly through the throng #ped a landau conveying Adrien Dupuy, & brother of the prime minister, Deputy Chaudey and Prefect Rivaud, the crowd falling away be- fore the carriage as it dashed into the Rue de la Republi preceded by four mounted gendarmes. The crowd, thinking now the report of the assass wae untrue and that the president wa the carriage “Vive Carnot; vive la republique ie carriage was stopped by MM, Chaudey aud, in tremulous voices, said “Don't shout, the president has been the vietim outr The cheers we tantly turned to curses and many and loud were the cries for vengeance. The landau proceeded to the theater, where MM. Rivaud and Chsudey went to the president’s box. As soon as they were seen the whole audience nrose and amid profound silence M. Rivaud said a voice broken with sobs “The president hae just heen as ated.” CURSED THE ASSASSIN This announcement was received Wwith a terrible explosion of fury, as the audience when the first report of the assassination reached it, had generally discredited it The theater resounded with shouts of “Mort a T'assassin” and cries for vengeance upon him When sflence was in a measure restored M. Rivaud co Republique a miscrean of presenting a petit with a dagger.” M. Rivaud was shouts of “Death to revenge.’ Waving his hands for silence, M. Rivaud again spoke, saying “Do not make my mission more painful. We left M. Carnot in the hands of doctors. You understand that under these our hearts are filled with the proposed performance honor cannot take place The audience then left the building, many of them procecding at once to the prefec- ture, where they stood in the streets wait- ing for any report that might be vouchsafed to them from the building and discussing the crime they considered had cast disgrace upor the fair name of their city. The assassin is ap Italian named Caesar Giovanni Santo. After examining the president's wound all the physicians in attendance upon him agreed that an operation Wwas necessary, whereupon Dr. Ollier probed the wound While this was being done M. Carnot came to his senses and said feebly, but distinctly “How you are hurting me.” The doctor, however, continued to attend the The outward flow of blood had They knew, though, that the president’s con- ition was extremely grave, as they more than suspected that en internal hemorrhage had commenced. After M. Carnot had been teken from his carriage and placed upon a bed in the prefecture nobody but the doc- tors and the officers of his military house- hold, who had accompanied him to Lyons were aliowed to enter the room to which he had been carried. DESCRIPTION OF THE MURDERER. Santo, the assassin, is a beardless young man, 20 or 25 years old. When arrested he was attired in & brown suit and wore a peaked cap that matched the suit fn color As he marched under police guard from the Rue de la Republique hie held his head down but his eves glanced furtively around as though he was seeking an cpportunity to es- cape. To have made such an attempt, how- ever, would have been the height of fool- hardiness, unless he desired to commit sul- cide, for there is not the slightest doubt that had he got away from the-protection of the police he would have been torn limb from limb by the crowd, whose every action showed that they were thirsting for his blood. When the police party reached the Palais des Cordiales they were obliged to stop while the landau, in which were General Bureos, the prefect, the mayor and the under pres- dent, escorted by a detachment of mounted guards, was driven rapidly past to the pre- fecture. A second carriage conveying the of- ficers of the president’s military household followed close behind. An Associated press reporter entered a third carriage, in which were M. Burdeau, ex-minister of finance, and Senator Milaud, On arriving at the prefecture General Bureos and the prefect and the mayor alighted. President Carnot lay unconscious upon the cushions of the carriage. His eyes were closed. His waistcoat was unbuttoned and his shirt, on which the bright red cordon of the Legion of Honor was conspicuously displayed, was covered on the left side, just over the heart, by & large bloodstain, which extended to the hip. It was impossible to tell from his uppearance whether he was dead or alive. The crowd surged about in the vicinity of the carriage, but the mounted guards and the foot police beld them in check some distance from the lundau in which the pres ident wes lying. Many were the expres- sions of pity for the president and anger at bis assassin. General Bureos, the prefect conditions and that in the president's SOTTOW n thelr hands, the guards rode down Into the crowd, heedless of whom their horses trampled upon. The crowd gave way be- fore the horses, and at last the center of the mob was reached. Then a cordon was formed around the almost exhausted police- men and thelr captive, and the march to the police station began. Even thus surrounded the prisoner was mot safe, for men in the erowd made frantic endeavors to reach him. The guards re- pelled these attacks with the flat sides of their swords, while at the same time keep- ng watchful eyes upon the crowd to prevent the prisoner from being shot Maledic- tions were hurled upon the captive, and mever before has such wild indiguation egainst @ humesn being been seen in this city. Meantime physiclans were hastily sum- moned to attend the president, who had tmmediately been conveyed to the prefec- fure. A careful examination was made pi the wound, and the doctors declared the ondition of M. Carnot hopeless. CAUSED A SENSATION The news of the assassination caused a sensation at the Grand theater, which was Slied to the walls by the elite of Lyons The theater presented a brilliant scene, the Bandsome tollettes of the ladies being offset By the guy uniforms of the many military efficers present. All were waiting with fmpatience the arrival of the president, and all were unable to understand the deluy Suddenly a man entered the tbeater, cry- fng at the top of bis voice “he president has been assassinated The most intehse excitement followed this sbrupt apnouncement. Women screamed and several fainted. Mauy men, without waiting to secure their bats, ran out of the Pullding in order to confirm the news. They found all the streets leading to the palace crowded with excited throngs and in & few Wmiputes they were convinced the report of and mayor, assisted by a number of at- tendants, lifted M. Carnot from the carriage and carried tenderly as poseible to him as a room on the first floor of the prefecture and laid Wim on & bed. Dr. Gailleton, who is mayor of Lyons, then exsmined the wound SANTO VERY COOL. Santo, who speaks French very badly when questioned by Prefect Lepin at the | police station in Rue Moliere,. said he had lived at Cette, department of Perault, for the past six months, and had only come to His Lyons today. He gave Lis age as 22 replies were giver coolly, but without signs of bravado. He refused, however, to answer any of the many questions put to him regarding his motive for stabbing the president, declaring that on this subject he would speuk only before a tribunal. When he was searched by the police 8 book was found in one of his pockets in which it was written that he had been born iu a village in the province of Milan, Italy. M. Carnot's last speech was delivered at the banguet given in his honor. He dwelt upon the success of the exhibition and said the same heart beats in all French breasts when it is known the hopor, security or | rights of the country are st stske. This | same union of all Frenchmen formed a guar- antee of the march toward progress and jus- tice, to which it belonged to France to give an example to the world DEATH OF THE LYONS, June 2 Qurnot @led at morning. Immediately after the death of M. Carnot Prime Minister Dupuy started on his return to Paris to officially aunounce the news to the Senste and the Chamber of De After M. Carnot had been taken to the prefecture it became generally known his sssassin was an Italian, and the feeling of PRESIDENT. —12:45 a. m.—President 45 o'clock this (Monday) (Continued on Third Page) LOCALDEMOCRATS AND BRYAN Promin:nt Members of the Party Opposed to His Financial Views, TALK ABOUT THE RECENT CONFERENCE Proposed Tree Silver Plank Goes Altogether too Far—Why Silverites Do Not Want State Convention Held in Omana. For the first time in many years the Ne- braska democracy is enjoying all the sensa- i incident to a political tuation, For | the first time In many years the party is divided upon something besides the distribu- tion of official patronage. There have, it is true, been some wide open ruptures in the party in this state, but the rences here- tofore existing have all occu: d over the | dispensation of the few crumbs which have been villed m the administration tables in Washington during the two terms which Cleveland has occupied the white house. differences have been disastrous to organization and the democratic party of Nebraska today polls but a » vote of the fraction state fraction ie now in nd all Iy perilous condition r question. The recent confer- lled silver democrats in ded as it was by 500 and odd the braska democrecy, has a conflict which may or may not serious as the time for the regular nominuting convention approaches. The con- ference was the initial step in a movement 10 capture the next state conventior of free silver and c Uy against the | policy endorsed by t 1 admini tion. These free silver democrats make an open secret of the fact that they propose (o overtura the policy adopted by the packed convention of last year; that they propose to make a direct change of front on state poli- tics and take the management and control of the party out of the hands of the men who weur the Cleveland and Morton colors. The change of front propoged by Bryan and his personal supporters will hardly take place without a struggle. All over Ne- braska democrats are coming out to say that the work of the last convention shall not be overturned. Men like N. C. Har- wood, United States Attorney Sawyer and others at the capital city are openly declar- ing their purpose to fight the free silver movement in Nebraska to the bitter end In a recent interview Judge Harwood of Lincoln informed The Bee that the frantic efforts of Bryan and his followers were driv- ing conservative democrats out of the party in this state. “We have in Nebraska,” said Mr. Harwood, “hundreds of business men who will tolerate no dangerous or doubtful experfiients with the financial question. They do not propose to see the state drift away from the national party without an efiort to prevent it. They will vote the re- publican ticket rather than endorse the chesp money platform now in process of construction by the populists and free silver de ' United States Attorney Sawyer is a well known adherent of Secretary Mor- ton, while Albert Watkins and other leading democrats of Lincoln draw their financial theories from the same sourc SENTIMENT IN OMAHA. Here in Omala the free silver men admit that they are in the minority as far as the leaders of the party are concerned. The prominent democrats of the city are some- what reluctant in expressing their views on the Nebraska situati at the present time but all of them express t sentiments on the money question quite freely. An anal- views entertained b; ysis of the leading Omaha democrats will not furnish much comfort for Bryan and the men who are endeavoring to work a change in party lead- ersbip. Judge Woolworth expressed his views upon the leading topic in state politics by saying “I am in favor of the restoration of propor- tional equality of gold and silver—and of whatever will produce that effect. 1 would issue bonds to any amount, $500,000,000 if necessary, to buy gold in Europe and compel Furopean monied nations to recognize our determination to maintain gold and silver on a proportionate equality and all our obli- gations at par. 1 am opposed to all schemes which contemplate any different basis of value from that recognized by the European nations, on the principle #hat you cannot make water run up hill. But I would make such bids for their gold as would get it and make them feel sure that we were de- termined to keep it. 1 believe that would bring them to our side.” “Then you do not believe, with Congress- man Bryan, that the United States is strong enough to take a stand alone on the fre silver question, without regard to the con- current action of the other great commercial nations of the world?” was asked “Do you believe,” asked Judge Woolworth, “that if 1 should call on the sun to stand still it would stand still? The trouble with Bryan and hie followers is that they are troubled by a too lively imegination. They imagine a prosperity built upon & theory that has never yet proved a success. They are reverting to the greenback fallacy of 1878, forgetting that the old idea of fiatism re- ceived its death blow then.” Judge Woolworth could not express an opinion &s to the probable effect of the re- cent conference upon the democratic party in the state. He stated, however, that the democratic party in Nebraska had alwa been sound upon the money Qquestion and that he believed that it would continue so. JUDGE WAKELEY'S VIEW. Judge Wakeley had not given the situation in Ncbraska sufficient consideration to ven- ture an opiuion as to the effect of the silver conference upon the democratic party in Nebraska. “1 am not keeping awuke nights thinking over the situation,” remarked Judge Wakeley. 1 take no part in state politics However, 1 look upon the recent silver con- ference as the first step in a scheme 10 cap- ture the democratic state convention. The project may fail, and if it does, the so-called silver democrats have yet o say. either collectively or as individuals, whether or not they propose to leave their party and form an allience with the populists. They have made Do threats of party desertion s0 far, although there may be an implied threat In the conference itself. On the other hand, the honest money democrats cannot be expected to announce their final position until after the result of the present contest 18 determined. The whole guestion depends upon the developments of the near future. 1 see no danger of fusion beiween the demo- crats and the populists on this question, al- though s0 many of the democrats who en- dorse Bryan's radical views on the money question seem S0 near the borders of the populist camp.” Judge Ogden wanted it emphaticslly un- @erstood that he had dropped entirely out of Nebraska politics and was giving his en- tire time to hir law practice. He was 80 busily engaged Quring the past week that he had not been able to Inform himself as to the position taken by the free silver men at their recent conference. Neither had he taken the time to read Mr. Bryan's speech “Geperally spesking,” said Mr. Ogden, I believe that the ited States must use both gold and silver. 1 think that there is but little doubt that the banking interests of the world bave formed a combination agalnst the use of Ellver &s money in the commercial transactions between nations. This apparent discrimination has resulted in more or less contraction, and as & result we of the middle cluss are feeling the stringency of the times that should not under proper circumstances exist. The time must come when the world will turn to sil- ver. Silver is the money of the people, but uptil all the commercial nations of the werld agree upon the basis upon which this silver shall circulste it will be a dangerous proposition for the United States to sssume that she can take & position alone. I under- stand that Mr. Bryan would have this coun- try adopt free and unlimited coinage of sil- ver, independent of the action of other na tions. 1 do not believe this can be J.me.‘ We can, of course, ¥#e money upon the faith of the government, but with the gov ernment, as with the individual, the day of settiement must come ‘wooner or later, and therefore 1 do not beMeve it a wise policy to fasten an enormous obligation upon the nation which will restit in herdship to the future. As to state politics, I shall take Do part this year. 1 cannot sy whether or ot the next state convention will adopt Mr ryan's ideas, neither am 1 in a position te know whether any spirited ition_to his policy will develop. The entire question remains vet to be de BRYAN AND THE G Judge Beneke was plain spoken in opposi- tion to the proposed free silver slump in Nebraske 1 believe 1 speak tbe sent ments of the German-Americans of this state,” rema the judge, “when 1 say that 1 per cent of them will vote RMAN VOTE sustain Bryan in his views. He ma be able to capture the state convention, but he does k0 the German-American vote of Nebraska will etay at home on election day this year. There are. in round numbers from 40,000 to 50,000 Germau-American voters in Nebraska. Of course, those of them who belong to the republican party are not interested in question, but those who are democrats wiil not vote for a free silver ticket nominated on a free silver platform We have had too much strous experience in Germany with the » money_questi to fall in love with it here. We all admire Bryan as a demoerat and an orator, but if he i¥ to lead in Nébrafka, the German-Amer feans will admire him at a distance n S. Brady said that be could not en- dorse the position of the free silverites wh were in the city last week. If they would put up a silver dollar that was worth a dol- lar he would be with them ut the plan of free and u mited coinag the ratio of 16 to 1 he was decidedly against Benjamin Gallagher of the firm of Paxton & Guilagher thought thet if all of the na- tions w 1 agree pon free coinage at a certain ratio the plan would w isfactory manner, but if the alone adopted the basis of 16 to 1, it would mean a destruction of the business industries of the country, as it would make America the mping ground for the silver of the world C. B. Rustin said that he did not care to be interviewed upon the subject. He said t he had decided views upon the mopey que m and that they wel against {ree and unlimited coinage. C. S. Montgomery discussed the democratic situation in Nebraska freely, and in the course of the interview ght out many points which are likely to influence the de- liberations of the next state convention. Mr Montgomery makes no secret of his opposi- tion to the free silver element in the demo- cratic party in the state. He stated that up to the present time there had been no opportunity for conference on the part of the leaders, who, upon the money question at least, are in full sympathy with the pre ent administration. SHll, he was strongly in favor of an earmest contest between the friends of the administration and the free silver men in the convention. He belleved | that if all the democrats who oppose the | platform adopted by the recent free silver convention should wunite, a declaration in barmony with the free coinage sentiment would not and could mot be adopted. Mr. Montgomery believed fhat the state ticket would receive the orgamized support of the party. even should the free silver men have their way. He belleved the administration democrats would remain loyal in spite of the free silver platform. ghould ope be adopted by the democratic siste convention. He was not so certain, on {he other hand, that the free coinage democrats would remain o lo al. Upon the whole, he believed party loyalty rested more with the administration demo- crats than with the free coinage men, and the defeat of a free © “wage regolution in the next democratic . tuswention might create a diversion in which &"#reat miny free silver democrats _would fmd themselves in the populist camp. In speaking of Bryan, Mr. Montgomery | stated that, personally, he had the Lighe regard for that gentleman and outside of the silver question he could eupport him for al- | most eny office with a great deal of enthu- | siasm. But on the Eilver question Bryan seemed to have wrought himself up to a high pitch of unreasoming enthusiasm, Bryan's desire for an early state convention, | it seemed to Mr. Montgomers, indicated that | he had come to a thorough personal under- | standing with the leaders of the populist | arty and that he expected, if nominated for governor by the demoerats, to secure the en- dorsement of the populists for the same po- sition. A late convention, especially one held after the populist convention, would de- feat Bryan's aspirations, for the later the convention the stronger would be the senti- | ment against a free colmage platform and a free coinage candidste. Mr. Montgomery be- lieved that Douglas county would send a strong anti-silver and anti-Bryan delegation to the democratic state convention. He be- | lieved that ail other local differences would be burled for the time being, at least, and 2 united stand made in favor of honest | money. SOME INTERESTING HISTORY Mr. Montgomery's views are of peculiar interest at the present time for the reason | that for three vears pust he has waged a controversy with Bryan on the silver ques- tion, while supporting him for office in each of Nis campaigns. Three years ago, when young Mr. Bryan received his first con- | gressional nomination, he owed his success | to the Douglus county delegation. After he had becn promised the support of more than half of the delegution Bryan went be- fore the committee gn resolutions and de- manded the iasertion of a free silver plank in the platform. ~Mr. Montgomery and one or two others frem Douglas county heard of Bryan's efforts, and very promptly and emphatically informed him that unless he dropped his free silver business he could not have the vote of Dougles county. Bryan was Dot dying in the ditch with his favorite theories any more then than he has with his favorite friends & and o he very promptly bartered his free silver resolution for & nominution for congress. The politi- cal landslide of 1890 carried him to | ington, where he began to drink eagerly at | the free silver fountain. The next personal encounter between Montgomery and Bryan | over a silver resolution occurred at the | Grand Island convention in 1891, when | Judge Broady was nominated for justice of the supreme court. At this convention Bryan again went before the committee on resolutions and presented his free silver plank. After one of Ws cejebrated persua- sive arguments the ®sommittee reluctantly agreed to present the Tesolution as a part of the platform. Mr. Montgomery im- mediately prepared ;& resolution of his own and informed Bryam Ahat he intended to make a fight for its adoption on the floor | RICHARDSON AFTER HAYES Iowa Demccratic National Committeeman Tryirg to Defeat a Lonely Congressman, DES MOINES POSTOFFICE THE FACT Hayes & Pashing Eiboeck and Richardson I8 Backing Ed Hunter Again—End of the Debate Looked for this Woek. WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BEE, 1407 F. Street N. W WASHINGTON, June National Committeeman Richardson of Towa i& here upon a liar mission. The only democratic congreseman from lowa is Judge Hayes of Davenport. He i a fellow townsman and neighbor of Richardson have alw Judge They ye& been friends endeavoring to secure the appointment of Colonel Joe Eiboeck be postmaster at Des Moines. 1f Judge Hayes can secure this appointment it will strengthen him with the numerous German-American voters in his district. At this juncture his friend Richardson has arrived in Waehington with a rival candidate for the Des Molnes post office in the person of Ed. Hunter, lately Qefeated candidate for United States mar- shal and other appointive places. If Rich- ardson can down Hayes In this matter, it will materially aid in defeating Hayes for congress in this strong republican year, and the only democratic district in lowa would be available for the consummation of Rich ardson’s congressional ambition There it little doubt in any quarter that the present week will see the end of the tariff debate in the senate. Estimates as to the final time range from Tuesday until Saturday, but @ majority of the senate has expressed the opinion that the vote will be taken on Wednesday or Thursday. With the thermometer ranging from 95 to 99, as it did on Saturday and today, senators find every reason for dispatching the business as soon as possible. To finish up by Thurs- day, however, means rapid work, compara- tively few gpeeches and the possible post- ponement of important amendments, such as reciprocity, until the conference report Mr. Sherman expresses the opinion that senate will not dispose of the bill in committee before Tuesday, and that the four remaining Qays of the week will be work on the bill i necessary to finish the the senate. The more important questions to be dis- posed of in committee are: The remainder of the income tax, the whisky and spirit tax, the tobacco tax, Senator Teller's retalia- tion diamond amendment, the spun sk yarn question, which was passed over when the silk schedule was under consideration, and the reciprocity question, if it be not post- poned and in the senate, sugar and wool as well as others. If the finel vote on the tariff bill is reached before Saturday the appropriation bills which have been reported will be im- mediately taken up, but in what order has not yet been determined. IRRIGATION BILL REPORTED. for a Comprehensive Survey of Irrigable Lands. WASHINGTON, June 24 —Representative Sweet has reported from the house com- mittee on irrigation the bill agreed on by Proposal | western members for a survey of the arid st of reclama- lands and estimates of the c tion. The Surveys propo are: In ldaho, the land and water in - the Snake river valley a&nd its tribu- taries; Montana, the TYellowstone river with its tributaries and sources and all the lands in the valley of the river; Colorado. the lands subject to irrigation from the South Platte and its tributaries; Nevads, the valley of the Humboldt river, ite sources and tributarie Oregon, the Co- lumbia river valley east of the Cascade mountaing and theé valleys of the tribu- Washington, a system of reservoirs he east base of the Cascad(: moun- tains and stigation of the subterjanesn water supply in the lands requiring irriga- tion east of the mountains and where the sinking of artesian wells can be profitably the best undertaken; Wyoming, to determine irrigable lands and an outline of the system in the valley of the North P! and tributaries; North Dakota, the artesian basins between Grafton, Devil's lake and Wahpeton on the south and the feasibility of irrigating by artesian wells, and the upper Missouri_and its tributaries by sur- face ditches; South Dakota, to construct dams for_distr’bution in the Black Hills country; Oklahoma, land and water of the North and South Canadian rivers and trib- utaries; Arizona, Gila and Salt rivers and wutaries; New Mexico, Rio Grande and wos rivers and tributaries; Utah, Deu- chane and Freen rivers and tributaries. Maps are to be prepared showing the ditches, canals Or reservoirs and estimates | showing to what extent the water supply and the area possible of re- the waste land. The bill 000, and gives right of way lands for ditches and res- is sufficient clamation and appropriates §32 on United Stat ervoirs. The report is considered one of the most concise and interesting discussions of the guestion of irrigating the arid lands of the west from a western standpoint The bill provides for a survey of lands and waters with & view to securing accurate information and e: of cost upon fch CONETess may proc N renenintive Swett asserts that if the land and water of the arid-regionsg are properly utilized and economized millions of neres which are now but waste places will become fertile homes for thousands. The consideration of the question has been too long delayed, he continues, and while all concede the importance, if not the necessity for prompt action, there is is an inclination to let the matter drift, because the east and south feel that it is 4 question requiring special knowledge, and that if congress attempts to handle it there is_danger of serious mistake Two more reasons he suggests: That rep- resentatives from the older sections fear that @ national effort to establish & system of irrigation will result In such enormous expenditures as to bring forth the disap- proval of their constituents: and second, because of a fear among southern members nd those from east of the Missouri river of the effect upon prices of farm products Present low prices, most of them, are said to be atiributable to overproduction, and the theory is that the development of the arid regions will result in increased com- petition_in an_already profitless industry These facts should not ktop the develop- ment of the west, he save. Ruilroad and telegraph lines, the opening of mines and the great pastoral interests of the central of the convention. @ryan begged and | urid states have attracted a population pleaded for Mentgomery's silence. He | and found a fairly xood market, while the claimed that his free silver resolution did | mountains teem with industrial life not mean anything; thist it was comprehen- | The expenditures necessury, i the gov- matter what they belleved; that he needed | peen greatly exuggerated. It would not be the resolution for his ewn campuign ib the | pecessary to complete the work before be- following year. Mr ‘Montgomery refused | ginning to return the money expended to to give up and both wemt 1o the convention. | the treasury. Small tracts could be irri- Bryan read his resolution, and as he fin- | Sated and disposed of to gettlers at the ished he turned to Momtgomery, Who sal on the platform immediately benind him, and begged him mot to precipitate a fight. He assured Montgomery that the resolution he bad just read to the convention was per- fectly harmless aud that it meant absolutely nothing whatever on the silver question Mr. Montgomery finally, much against bis judgment, kept his own resolutio in his bocket, and Bryan was permitted to stump the state on a platform which meant “abso- | lutely nothing,” sccording to his own state- | ment. The third time these two gentlemen came together on the silver question was at the convention at Lincoln last fall, in which the administration Qemocrats overwhelm- fugly rejected Bryan's pet theory and admin istered to the Poung man & rebuke for his assumption of control over the party that he bus Dot et fully recovered from. While at the hotel in Linooln, Montgomery made the statement that Bryan bad remarked that he | proposed to commit the democratic party of | ‘brasks to free ailver or split the party in two in this state. Brysn's friends indig- nantly denied that the young man had been guilty of s0 rash an assertion and challenged Montgomery to repeat his remark face b (Contlnyed on Second Page.) actual cost of reclamation, thus establish- ing an income from the sale of land. JEALOUS OF EACH OTHER. Chinese and Japanese Each Think the Other Should Withdraw from Korea. WASHINGTON, June 24.—A telegram re- celved at the Japanese legation indicates that the situation in Korea is serious. When the disturbances originally occurred the “hinese sent a large body of troops to put down the revolt. The Japanese government apprehensive for the safety of the humber of Japanese in Korea and \dy of troops to that country kovernment has urgently withdrawal of the Japan was large also sent a b The Chinese quested the ps on the ground that the troubles which brought them to Korea are at an end. The Jupanese Egovernment not satisfied that this is the fact, and besides does not recognize the right of the Chinese government to make this demand. It holds that it should apply to the Chinese as well as to the Ju troops, come from the Korean g aniese and should vernment Armor Flates Were Not 1n It WASHINGTON June 24.—There was & test projectiles for the thirteen-inch ¥ rifies H terday, rep- & E Wheeler Hayes Is | | pper companies. An elgh kel ®teel was at tacked r ehell ite backing the woods jured t of the and awny, w t an. known whether WESTERN PENSTONS, Veterans of the Late War Remembered by the rnment WARHING? al to The Ree.) June 12 were Augustus | Lockner, Omaha, Doug e—Joseph W. Buff Original widow's o In, Lan caster; reissue—Saruh A. Gessner, Lexing- ton, Dawson Towa hard W. Martin ne Maxson, Langfit Marion. Increase— Des Maines, Polk <eckuk, Keokuk « widows t Cedar « Wayne t F . issue--Cynthia F South Dk Iroquis, Kingsbury Martha O, Hough, Fort North Dakota: Original slorado: Orie Fernando C, Dunbar, Durango, La Plata. Renewal—William H H. Caughman, De Buque, Mesa WEEK IN THE HOUSE. Raliway Pooling to Be the Maln Subject of Debnte. June WASHINGTO! ing i expe 24.—Rallway pi 1 subject for discussion before the house during the week, with the admission of New Mexico to statehood and taxation of idental questions. The rarded as one of the most res before congress. It the interstate commerce pool their ) as to permit rallwave tc The earnings under certain restrictions. I aleo ove impotency of the erstate mmission, due to its ability to_compel witnesses to’ testify The New Mexico bill to_be ur to & conclusion thie week, as Speaker Ci is not disposed to let it g alc further. There have been many eff push it to passage, but this one is expected to be final mes the OSTPONE ) THE MEETING. Convention of Colored Republican Clubs Will Not Be Held in July. WASHINGTON, June 24—The following notice, signed by Lewis Willig, president and Samuel E. Jones, secretary, of the Mc- Kinley Tariff league, has been issued “After conferring with different leaders of the republican party and aiso the congres. sional committee the convention of color republican clubs called by the McKinley Tariff league to meet in this city July 1884, has been postpor Pr subject to the call of the league e e METHODIST MISSION CLOSED. Reports of that Churen In Wyoming Show an Improvement. CHEYENNE, June 24.—(Spe to The Bee)—The seventh annual of the Methodist mission of Wyoming closed tonight, and bishop read the ap- pointments for the ensuing vear. The treas- urer submitted hig report, which showed that $310 had been raised for missions and a-total of $123 for all benevolent hjects, against §897 for the same purpose last year. The statistical secretary reported a total of §4 church members and probaticners, pase of 106 since last year's report. are sixteen churches in the state. valued at $68,600, and six parsonages, valued at §11,500. About $6,000 has been paid during the 2r on church debts and $68% ex- pended in building and fmproving church 1l Telegram session Proper Pursuant to . committee on education a sisting of Superintendent N. A. lain, J. R. Wood, J. H. Gillispie, Judge J. W, Lacey and J. H. Symonds was ap- pointed to look to the seléction of a proper site and recelve donations for the establish- ment of a Methodist college in Wyoming, Superintendent Chamberlain reported that $5,778 of missionary money had been dis- tributed throughout the state during the vear. 1t was decided to hold the next seseion of the mission at Sheridan. The usual resolu- tions of tharks to Bishop Merrill and the citizens of Cheyenne for entertainment were adopted. the recommendation of the committee con- “hamber- Wyoming's Thriving Elk Ranch. RAWLINS, Wyo., June 24.—(Spe The Bee.)—Barrett Littlefield is the pro- prietor of a thriving elk ranch on Savery creek, near Dixon, in the southern part of Carbon county. Mr. Littlefield has about fifty head of elk in a large enclosure. The enclosure in which the elk are Kept is u 500-acre tract of land ounded with a barb wire fence. The entire herd has be- come thoroughly domesticated. To Secure # Burglur's Pardon. ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., June 24.—(Bpecial to The Bee.)—A petition is being circulated in Rock Springs for the pardon of John Shaughnessy, convicted of burglary in April, 1893, in Sweetwater county, and sen- tenced to a term of six years. It has been signed by a number of the prominent men of the county. Wyoming A. O. H. Meet. ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., June 24.—(Special to The Bee)—The fourth annuul state con- vention of the Ancient Order of Hiberniaus was held in Rock Springs today. Delegates representing the lodges in the various towns along the line of the Union Pacific railroad in Wyoming were in attendance. Wedded & Nebrasks Girl. RAWLINS, Wyo., June 24.—(Special to The Bee)—Henry B. Fetz, editor of the Rawline Republican, and auline the home of the atte, Neb., yester- were married at parents, North P Committed Murder and Sulcide. CHEYENNE, Wyo.. June 24—Henry Reed, an Arapahoe Indiun interpreter, shot und killed himself last night at Shoshone agency, after k for the murder Mimer Killed by Failing Stone. ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., June 24, —(Special to The )—John Nicholson, a Finn miner emploved In the Sweetwater Coal con pany's mine at Hopkinsvilie, was killed by falling rock yesterday, et RAILROAD EXTENSION IN UTAH. ng his child. The cause d suicide is unknown. Pool Interests to Build so lw- poriant Branch. SALT LAKE, June 4.—Captain de la Mar, & large mine owner in the Ferguson district, near Pioche, Nev., I8 In the eity and says that & number of capitalists have Capitalists formed a pool to build a railrad from Milford, Utah, to Tloche, and that whes completed the ore from that district will be shipped to the t Lake valley for treatment. The Union Pacific road hnd nearly 100 miles of grading done to th southwest during the last year of George Francis Adams' management of the road and it 15 supposed that the projectors of the proposed line will take advantuge of the work already done = Reported as Missing. Friends of Frank Wolf of the firm of Wolf JUNE 25, 1894, g . FISHING PARTY LOST New York Tug Boat Goes Down Off the Highlands, SIXTY-THREE EXCURSIONISTS ABOARD Many Rescued by Passing Vessels but Several Perish. LOST THEIR NERVE AT A CRITICAL TiMI Frautio Conduot of Passengers Cansed the Wreck. CROWDED ONE SIDE TO AVOID THE SEA Quite n Number Escape Death b Clinging to Flonting Debris — Stories of the Survivors—How th Accident i Explained. NEW YORK James D. M June with ists and a crew of ten or twelve 1 o'clock this afternoon, t Highlunds. Fifty-four of bave been accounted for, the rest were prob- ably drowned. The tug left Fifth street and East river at 7 o'clock this morning for the fishing grounds. She had, it s said, & license to carry fifty passengers, but sixty- eight tickets were sold. There was @ bar and a lunch counter on board, whose attend- ants, with the crew, made the total number on board seventy-five. The tug reached the banks on time, but fishing was poor and the sea t0o rough for comfort, and about noon she started bac When about three miles east of the High- lands and about four miles south of Scotland biship, the waves begun to break heavily over her starboard rail. To dodge the water and wind the passengers began to Tun arcund to the port side and to climb on top of the deck house. The boat careemed alarmingly to port and the water swept over the rail. The terror-stricken men rushed back to sterboard and the tug swung deeply down on that side. At the same moment heavy breakers struck the boat in quick succes- sion. The captzin, Willlam Hyatt, stuck pluckily to his post end sounded the whistle in a prolonged scream for help. Even as he cid so, the tug filled with the water that peured into her from both sides and sank out of sight. She went down like a stone, cerrying many of the passengers with her. The water choked the cry of the whistle, but not before it had been heard and heeded. The Clyde steamer Algonquin, a mile away, beard it and swung around to g0 to the Tes cue. The tugs Wallace B. Flint, R. J. Moran and Governor also harried toward the spot. The Algonquin picked up ten men, one whom, however, died a few moments lafer. The tugs rescued the others who remained n;km‘v. Some [«-\; had life belts on, but most of them were clin to. bits of wreekage. A 1life raft suppor P disen and ue top of the pilot house as many more. Cuptain S. C. Platg of the Algonquin says that while a sl breeze was blowing there was no sudden squall. There was a big sharp sea on. The Algonquin brought those she had picked up to the city. The living dis- persed to their homes and the dead body, which has not been identified, was sent 10 the morgue. All were people bearing Ger- man names. Some of the tugs, not wishing 10 come to the city, traneferred the men they had saved to other tugs. The Sayres breught up thirty-four survivors and landed them on the eust side. The Governor is sup- posed to have landed others in Brooklyn. TWO-THIRDS ACCOUNTED FOR. Altogether fifty-four out of the seventy- five have been accounted for, three of them being dead. The officers of the Flint have, for some unknown reason, denled having rescued any of the men or knowing about the matter John A. Magle, who was rescued by the Algonquin’s boat says he was caught under the awning of the tug when it sunk. He managed to crawl out and seize a table, which kept him afloat. Finding his chum, Frank Gaizer, in the water, he Jet him have the table, which would not support two, and started to swim. Soon after he was picked up, but Gaizer has not been seen since. The Algonquin arrived at her dock at pler foot of Roosevelt street, about 3 o'clock. She had on board the survivors of the Niche ol and the body of one of the vietims. Cuptuln Flatte of the Algonquin, when interviewed concerning the accident, said: “The tug was about sinking when first sighted by the Algonguin. There was & heavy sea on and a good deal of wind from the northeast. My attent'on was first called 10 the tug by the blowing of its whistle. She was then rolling from side to side and sufi- denly turned over and went down almost instantly. The passengers appeared to be demoralized and ran shout the deck wildly, and, as the boat swayed to ome side, they rushed to the other. The tug appeared top heavy, s though she was overloaded. “1" ordercd u life boat immediately an sent it in charge of Chief Officer Rich to the scene of the disaster, but before it ar- rived the tug had sunk out of sight. Officer Rich succeeded in rescuing nine of the sur- vivors and also took on board the life bomt the body of & man which he found in a boat belonging to the tug. The dead man was all tangled up with fish lines and the boat was full of water, though right side up. Soon the tugs Flint, Moran, Governor, Saynes and Evurts arrived at the scene and they 24.—The sixty-three tug boat excursion- sunk about ree miles off the those on board chol, wlso succceded in picking up many of the survivors &5 wcll as some of the dead bodies A few hours after sinking the tug was pretty well broken up und the wreckage be~ gan to come ashore. Before dark the entire beach was strewn with it Forty-three lunch baskets were washed up. No bodies have come ashore. CATBOAT CAPSIZED. Sudden Squall Costs Four Lives Near Brooklyn ¥Yacht Club House. BROOKLYN, June 24.—A catboat was capeized by & sudden squall this morning off the*Atlantic Yacht club house at the foot of Fifty-sixth street, Brooklyn. A pleasure party, consisting of six people, two men, two women, & boy and & 2-vear-old girl were thrown into the water. The men and the women and the hoy sank before assistance could be rendered them. The little girl was saved. As yet their names are not knowm and nothing was found about the boat to identi®y them. Drowned in Luke St. € DETROIT, June the capsizing of # launch during & squall on Lake St. Claire this after Caleb B. Healey and Misses Kutle und Maggle Ortwine were drowned. Two others escuped i Bros., 708 South Sixteenth street, have some he was at the office at 4 o'clock Saturday ¥ ng - ed — Assyrian, for afternoon and left ostensibly to do some | Montreal collecting. He has not returned, and they | At Dover—Passed—Otranto, for Baltimors. are alyrmed At New York—Arrived-Hindoo, from Mr. Mattson, 3217 Seward street, notified { Hull; Hungary, from Hamburg; La Bour the police vesterday that hix l6-year-old | ogne, from Havre: Mobile, from London. daughter, Lillie, left home suddenly Friday At Havre—Arrived—La ‘Bretegne, from Mr. Glavin, North Seventeenth street, | New ¥ reports that his daughter hus gtrayed awa ampton—Arrived—Aller, from She is only b years of age York. —_—— rerafir Wil Contribute No More to Trelund. Seyver Bonks Conalidese CHICAGO, June 2(—The United Irish DENVER, June #4.—The City National 2" O e bank and the American National have con. | SOSCHES ¢ In convention el . expressed their condemnation of the moves solldated and in the future will do business | ment to raise funds for the Lrish pariiae unider name of the latter institution. | mentary purty. Resolutions were adopted The Nutionel and the State Nu- | appealing to the friends of Ireland in the tional i 1, und Lomorrow intry to withhold contributions until the under the name Of | “fuctions cease &busing each cther and f Denver | unite ln attacking the enemy,”