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THE N FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 40, 18Y5. toward this smalii State in South Ainefica that he and other English statesmen have carried out toward weak people and small Governments in other parts of the world. For myself, I can only repeat that Tdm olad that such a stand has been taken by the United States. It was apout time,.and the upshot of it will be that the reasonable demand made by the President to have. the whole trouble submitted to arbitration will be accepted by England, and then the seat of operations will be transferred from the newspapers to diplomacy. I believe that war is so far away that itis outside the realm of probability, because, after ali, jook at it in thislight: Thecommercial relations between this country and Great B in are so enormeus that the people of the United States, on the one hand, and of Great Britain, on the other, would: prac- y be insane if they jeopardized these relations on account of a small af- in Venezuela--a Jittle 40.000 square miles of worthless country. This is partic ly plain when it is taken into conside that the President of the United States makes so favorable a propo- sition as to have the whole matter sub- ation mitted for arbitration.” 1 said the home-rule ‘ciuse was gaining friends. - - - DENIED BY BREWEI. He Has Not Been Tendered a Place on the Commission. ST. LOUIS, Mo., De —Justice David . Brewer of the United States Supreme n this city en route from San Tex., where hie has been at the ick daughter, to Washing to-night. Judge Brewer sa the report that he had been asked to ac cept a place on the Venezuela Commission was untrue. He said: “I would not be surprised if Chief Jus- tice Fuller were tendered a place on the X {e and the President are is and Mr. Cievéland appointed tice in 1883. Tke Chief Jus- tice would make an excellent man for the place,” but although le is w and is capable of doing an immense amount of work Iidon’t think he would zccept the position. His duties wouid then be too great for any man. As to General Harri- son I don’t think that he would accepta Antonio, bedside of d position on the commission. He can babiy make more money out of his law and not do such hard work. And | hough 1 don’t know, he may be a d the fact that he held a place on ion seriously interfere with didacy, in your opinion?” was s Justice Rrewer. *'If he were a candidate he would most probably want to be where the politic and he would not have the time to do this if he sat on the commission.”” Cot , Judge Brewer said : “Speaker Reed is now on trial, as it were. He has a position that is a difficnit cve to fill, and the next four months will make or break him. MceKinley will enter the convention with the most votes, but I don’t think s gathe: either he or Morton w1l be able to control | it. Tn that case they will compromise upon some man acceptable to botb, and it would not surprise me if that man were Allison. — - McCONNELL WANTS WAR. Idalo’s Governor Says a Conflict Would Be Bencjicial. PORTLAND, Ork., De —Governor McConnell of 1daho, who in the ¢ tending the meeting of the Mystic S ers, wants war, In an interview he said: ly need war to Americamze the What has already happened in that direction will be of uni- versal benefit to us in bringing the peovle to a realization of the culpable neglect of eration. Congress in not fortifying our co and being so slow in building up & navy. War would be beneficial to our prosperity. It would cry those who going to pi mta fight. y opinion, 2 most serious one. 1f Englana felt secure in her right in Venezuela I can see no reason why she shouid be afraid to submit her title deeds to arbitration, and if the commission ap- pointed by the President to inv matter reports adve-sely to the British claims somebody will have to back down lize loy. ty and pat to blush I canuot see anything to In fact the present out- or fight, and T am sure America will not back down, an hardly believe Johnny Buil will. Ti country kas done the proper thing first, through the President asking that the differences between Eng- land and Veunezueia be referred to arbitra- tion. England refusing to do so, it then became necessary to <o as has been done— provide means for inquiring into the mat- ter, and ascertaining whether the claims of England are just.” ———— NO DANGEE OF WAR. The American Soclety’s Peace-Meeting in Dondon Declared Off. LONDON, Exc., Dec. 29.—It was an- nounced last week that the American So- ciety in London would hold a meeting to- morrow to consider a resolution express- ing hope and confidence that the difference between the United States and Great Britain would be amicably settled. The society has now decided that in view of the improvement in public opinion such a meeting is no longer opportune. The meeting will therefore not be held, the society being confident that the difference will be adjusted amicably and honoradly to both nations. —————— SENOR ULSAR’S MISSION. Dispatched to Washington by the Vene- zuelan Govermment. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 29.—Senor Jorge Ulsar of Venezuela, accompanied by his family, arrived in the city to-aay from New York. In the evening he called at the Venezuelan legation and held an in- terview with the Venezuelan Minister. He declines to talk on the subject of his visit to this country, but has intimated that he is here in an official capacity. It is sap- vosed that he has come here to report on the progress of events relating to the com- mission and the future attitude of the United States to the Venezuelan Govern- ment. 2 CANADA’S CAMPAIGN. Conservatives Are Making a Strong Fight Against Greenway. WINNIPEG, Max., Dec. 29.—The Con- servatives are organizing to make a strong fight against Premier Greenway in the elections on January 15. They do not ex- pect to defeat -him on_ his school policy, but are making an attack on his general * administration work, and alleging that all the registration lists have been stuffed. Candidares were nominated on -both sides by conventions held in several parts of the province yesterday. PSS Few of your doings are scru. tinized so closely as your visit- ing-card. It should be the best obtain. able. 227 Post street 215 Bush street . 1L S CROCKER Co 1d- not help him any,” replied | sert that our Government is | gate the | t | | con FAITH 1N AMERIC, German Speculators Not Alarmed by the Talk of War. HAVE MONEY TO LOAN. Berlin Firms Ready to Negotiate for the Purchase of Bonds. YULETIDE IN THE FATHERLAND Routine Cares Give Way to Christ- mas Cheer in Court and Cottage. BERLIN, GerMany, Dec. 29.—The re- action toward confidence in the future of American finances, especially as affectig international monetary relations, has been surprisingly rapid within the last few Berlin and Frankfort took the lead of London in speculative buying of Ameri- can stocks, and operators here have, on the whole, benefited by the selling which was done in London, and at no time during the Wall-street panic have the German bourses been so much in- fluenced as was the English market. buying set in earlier here, and even in- vestors took a chance in securing stocks at low values. The bourse closed notably firm on Saturday afier considerable buying of American railioad securities. The course of operations here gives evi- dence of the decreasing influence ot Lon- don upon matters of finance in which German financiers or investors are inter- ested. Financiersare no longer inclined to accept the tendencies of the London market as a good guide in important monetary enterprises at the present mo- ment. It is not forgotten how Germany ab- sorbed the American loans at low values uring the war of the American rebellion, when the bonds were almost unsalable in London. 8o, when English financial houses seem to hesitate over the reception of a new bond issue, the Washington Gov- crnment, if it is so desirous of having for- eign markets take part in the loan, might find German firms prepared to negotiate. The belief here in the permanence of peace between the United States and Great Brit- ain is absolute, and the general conviction in the recovery of a healthy condition of American finances is unshaken. The capture Hammerstein, the former editor of the Kreuz Zeitung, who absconded under charges of forgery and embezzlement, created a tremendous sensation in politi- cal and social circles when his arrest be- came known on Saturday. The arrestof this fugitive has cut the ground from un- der the feet of the Socialist leaders, and may even be said to have carried away the feet of some of them. Allalong one of the chief weapons of the Socialist press and the Socialist parliamentary leaders has ed of insinuations that the Govern- ment had connived at Hammerstein’s escapeand frowned upon genuine attempts to bring him back, in order to prevent dis- closures affecting the Conservative sup- porters of the Government. The capture of Hammerstein has taken the wind out of the sails of the Socialistic craft and ren- dered the Hammerstein letters, which the Socialists were holding over the heads of many Conservative members of the Reich- stag, almost if not wholly valueless as ter- rorizing measures. | Now it seems that there never has been a moment since the disappearance of Hammerstein that the Government has not been earnest and unceasing in its en- deavors to find him and bring him k to justice, no matter who might be injnred by any revelations which his prosecution might entail. The political police tracked him thro#gh Switzerland and Italy and finally spotted him as he was landing from a steamer at Pireus, the port of Athens and five miles from that city. Having run him down the police commis- saries watched him closely during the en- tire time occupied in making applications in secret to the Greek Government for his surrender. The Government of Greece does not extradite culprits except for capi- tal offenses, but under pressure from Ber- lin the Athens authorities took advantage of Hammerstein’s having recorded him- self as “William Herbart”” to expel him from the kirigdom as an anarchist suspect. Hammerstein was therefore compelled to leave and embarked on a steamer for Brindisi. The German police also took the steamer and the moment the vessel sailed Commissary Wolf of the Berlin political police placed him under arrest. The conduct of the Government in the Hammerstein matter, having thus been vindicated the police will be allowed a free hand to pursue their plan of social- ist repression, while the Conservatives, no longer deterred by socialist menaces of damaging revelations, will urge repression measures in the Reichstag. Berlin now has the prospect of an ex- tremely racy scandal season between the Hammerstein caseand the revelations con- tained in the von Kotze documents, which are in the possession of Fritz Friedmann, the absconding Berlin lawyer. According to current report Friedmann is now in Lon- don, where he has prepared a pamphlet, attacking high legal and poiitical persons, which he threatens to publish if the Ger- man authorities molest him anywhere. It is understood that Friedmana wants a for- mal permit to return to Germany, nomi- nally incognito, in order to settle his af- fairs and is now negotiating with the proper authorities in Berlin to that end. The Christmas season, according to re- vorts made by the leading shops in Berlin, shows a boom in business. The sale of the cheaper class of goods has been slack in favor of the higher and more costly class, and the casual onlooker would con- sider that the merchants, as well as the public, have been having a fine time all around. The North German Gazette says that . Berlin has received and sent out Christmas parcels far exceeding in num- ber those sent and received during the Christmas week of 1894. The celebration in the New Palace at Potsdam on Christmas eve was even more brilliant than usual. The Emperor and Empress and the members of their family entered the Shell Hall at 5 o’clock in the afternoon attended by the members of the imperial household. The presents were spread out upon tables placed along the walls and the young Princes could hardly | be restrained from infractions of etiguette by rushing forward to admire the hand- some gifts before all of the company had The | { in Athens of Baron von | fired in the Lustgarten. assembled. Immediately after the com- pany had taken their positions the members of the Emperor's suite, the court ladies, the Emperor, the Empress and the Princes, with their suite, having been assigned to places forming a square with a plastic representation of the Na- tivity at Bethlehem in the center. The Kaiser allowed court etiquette torelaxand everybody mixed -freely with the othoirs. The young Princes ran about discovering fresh sources of delight upon each mbh_s, | but after an hour’s enjoyment of this kind the children were obliged to retire. The Emperor dined with his intimate cir- cle, Dr. von Lucanus, General von Hahnke and others of his private cabinet. At all of the military barracks in Berlin each company had its Christmas-tree and the ceremony of “Bescherung” (the giving of Christmas-boxes) was observed. Each of the men stood in line to receive his present while the captain and other of- ficers of ezch company sang “Stille, Hei- lige Nacht.” The captain then told out to each man his share of punch, which con- cluded the service. The ceremony was the same in all barracks. The hospitals and | even the prisons also had their Christmas- trees. The Moabit and Ploetzensee prisons had immense trees for the inmates, who sang songs, received presents and were treated to better fare than usual. The Countess von Waldersee provided a large number of widows and children with their Christmas dinner, and had an im- mense tree, upon which were hung parcels of clothing. Ex-Empress Frederick vis- ited the Kaiser Friedrich Hospital on Christmas day. She wasrecewved there by Dr. Virchow and Dr. Bosse, Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs, Instruction and Medical Affairs. Theex-Empress presided at the fete which followed her arrnvaland distributed the presents. Dr. Virchow in- terested her with a statement of the re- sults of the treatment of the various pa- tients by Professors Bebrings and Heilse- rum of the institution, which led her to compliment the professors upon the suc- cess of their remedial applications. Prince Bismark spent Christmas alone | with his family, Count and Countess von | Rantzau (the latter his daughter), and his | son, Count Herbert Rismarck, and his wife. The health of the ex-Chancelior is | excellent. He walks but little, but drives | frequently. The Boersen Zeitung, 1n its issue of Sat- | urday, said that as the result of consulta- tion with his son, Count Herbert, Prince Bismarck had decided not to attend the | banquet in Berlin on January 18, the| twenty-fifth anniversary of the proclal}m- tion of the German empire, because of the | fact that the Ministers did not join the | Emperor in inviting him, and also owing | to the diszppointment of Count Herbert | in not obtaining a Ministerial post. | Official information from Washington | has been received in Berlin that the United | States will close out all German insurance | companies doing business in the United | States unless Prussia rescinds her meas- | ures against American insurance com- | panies preventing them from doing busi- | ness here. Chancellor Prince von Hohenlohelis in Vienna, where he is staying with his brother, Prince Constantine von Hohen- lobe, court marshal to Emperor Francis | Joseph of Austria. Prince Hohenlohe has | had interviews with Count Goluchkowsky, I Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, from which have originated newspaper stories that the meeting of the two statesmen was | of great political impert as cementing the harmony of the powers, ‘etc. Prince | Hohenlohe will return to Berlin in time | to take part in the New Year fetes. | The New Year’s day programme is as | follows: At 8 o'clock in the morning there will be a reveiile from the castle to Bran- | denburz Gate and back, performed by the | massed bands of the Berlin garrison. At 10 o’clock religious services will be held | in the castle chapel and at 11 o’clock the | court ceremony of tiling past the Emperor | and the imperial party in the Weisse | Saal. At 12o’clock there will be a parole | in the yard of the arsenal by the Kaiser in the presence of all the commarmders cf the | German army corps. Then salutes will be The Duke and Duchess of Coburg are passing the Christmas holidays at Coburg with their family. The Duke will go to Stuttgart on January 7 to invest the King | of Wertumberg, under the instructions of his mother, Queen Victoria, with the Or- | der of the Garter. The Emperor and Empress have finally arranged to start for Abbasia in February. During his visit to Austria his Majesty will meet Emperor Francis Joseph, who will then be staying at Cap Martin. There is great anxiety over the condition of the | Empress of Austria, who is afflicted with proionged spells of melancholy and re- | ligious excitation. Her physicians insist upon her Majesty’s having repeated changes of scene in order to divert her mind. Councilor of Legation Rose, former Landeshauptman (governor) of New Guiana, and recently the prosecutor of Herr Liest in the Cameroon scandals, re- sulting in Liest’s conviction of gross cruel- ties to the natives, and his consequent dis- missal, has been appointed Consul-General of Germany to Samoa. STARVING AND PEAWILESS The Eastern Tour of the Royal Hawaiian Band Ends in Disaster. Musicians From the Island Compelled to Accept Philanthropic Assistance. MASSILLON, Ontro, Dec. 29.—The Royal Hawaiian band, which has been stranded here, left the city yesterday. The musi- cians were almost siarved when they ar- rived, but were provided for by the citi- zens. A dispatch wasreceived here from H. M. Gillig at Albany, N. Y., saying that he wished to help them and requesting the Mayor to telegraph him at Chicago. The musicians were too proud to reveal their distress, but Director Liborrio was sent on to Chicago to consult with Mr. Gillig, who married Mrs. Porter Ashe of San Fran- cisco, who was formerly Miss Crocker, daughter of the millionaire, and is very wealthy. il ut Prevented a Lynching. STEUBENVILLE, O., Dec. 29.—James Rice (colored), who killed a man at the ranhandle Tunnel, near here, on Christ. mas, was arrested yesterday. When the officers arrived with him at the locku; here a crowd of 1000 men gathered nng cries of *‘Lynch him!"” wers indulged in. The police managed to prevent troubie. g ki % State Officials Endangered. MEMPHIS, Texx., Dec. 20.—A dispatch from Jackson, Miss., says: Recent investi- gations of the condition of the State Capi- tol have demonstrated the fact that it is in an unsafe condition. Experts who have examined the building say it is likely to collapse at any moment. | mitted the Populists to remain just where | country. It isunderstood he will go deeply | the bill back to the Senate, it is not prob- | mittee on Ways and Means, the House | day until Monday, January 6, at which | | tions Committees expect to do some work SHAME OF RATION, PLANS OF CONGRESS: Reorganization of Senate Committees to Be Ef- fected To-Day. AN ADDRESS BY LODGE. He Will Advocate the Enforce- ment of the Monroe Doctrine. PROGRAMME OF THE HOUSE. Three - Day Adjournments to Be Re- peated Until the Date for the Regular Session. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 29.—The reorganization of the committees of the Senate, upon which the steering commit- tees of both the old parties have been working for the past three weeks, will be effected to-morrow by the passage of a resolution to be introduced by Mitchell, chairman of the Republican committee. In violation of precedents for a number of years past a yea and nay vote will be taken upon the adoption of the resolution. The Democrats say they intend to show to the country that the Republicans have more votes in the Senate than the Democrats, and therefore are entitled to take control, but there is a suspicion thatthe Demo- crats hope by this vote to be able to show that a deal has been made by the Repub- licans with the Populists. The Republicans meet this argument with the statement that they have per- they- were under a Democratic adminis- tration of the Senate, and the charge of a deal no more applies now than it would as against the Democrats when they assumed control. The reorganization will not go into effect practically until after Wednesday, for the present employes, clerks. ete., have al- ready been paid their salaries for the month of December. Besides the re organization resolution an address by Lodge (R.) of Massachusetts is on the programme for Monday on the | resolution now on the table relating to the enforcement of the Monroe doctrine. Lodge, who is an ardent advocate of the strict enforcement of that doctrine, will doubtless make a strong speech and com- mand the attention of the Senate and the into this subject and review the nistorical matters out of which it grew and the cases in which it has been appiied by this Government. It is probable that the Senate will in- dulge after to-morrow in three days’ re- cess until the holiday season is over. The new tariff bill is now before tne Finance Committee, and 2 meeting of that body has been called for Tuesday. While there will be no undue delay in reporting able that the report will be made before the end of next week. The programme for the House this week is one of practical idleness. Under the working of the agreement announced Sat- urday by Dingley, chairman of the Com- will be called to order Tuesday to adjourn until Friday, when the operation will be repeated, adjournment being taken that time the consideration of business will Le resumed. The Appropriations and Elec- in their rooms during the week for the fur- | therance of matters committed to them. Continued from First Page. forms. the They would strongly recommend introduction of wide-reaching Ire- forms for all Turkish subjects were it not that insuperable objects ren- der even such a course absolutely impossible; for, first, the powers have no right to interfere in favor of the Sultan’s Mohammedan subjects; second, the Turks and Kurds themselves desire no such re- forms—are, in fact, opposed to them; and, finally, general reforms for all would nec- essarily prove as disastrous as special re- forms for Armenian Christians, because | the Armenians, as the most intelligent and only self-disciplined element of the popula- tion, would profit by the improvement to obtain political preponderance for them- selves. Things had better, therefore, re- main as they are, with the wholesale butch- eries left out; that is to say, the normal condition of things must be re-established, which in a very few years will solve the Armenian question by exterminating the Armenians. “And England—Christian, moral Eng- land—apparently indorses this view! “If there still be a spark of divinity in our souls or a trace of healthy human sentiment in our hearts we shall not hesi- tate to record our vehement protest against these hell-born crimes that pollute one of the fairest posivions of God’s earth, and our strong condemnation of any and every line of policy that may tend directly or indirectly to perpetuate or condone them.” Pt dsuie: EUROPE'S 1DLE POWERS. Deatn for Avmenians, but Protection for the Turks. LONDON, Exg., Dec. 29.—Dr. Henry 8. Lunn, editor of the Review of the Churches, and Percy W. Bunting, editor of the Con- temporary Review, have addressed the fol- lowing communication to ‘all_editors of England and America’: ‘We inclose extracts from a letter from a pri- vate citizen who spent several months of this yearin Armenia and who is one of the first authorities on the question, as indeed you ‘would admit were we at liberty to publish his name. May we beg you to insert these in the next issue of your paper? Yours faithully, HENRY 8. LUNY, Editor of the Review of the Chirches. Prrcy W. BUNTING, Editor of the Contemporary Review. “Any allusion to Armenia upsets me. I am ashamed, excited, indignant when I think of what I eaw in that country, and of the confidence with which I consoled quailing women, weeping men with ho, that England would see them throug! their difficulties, and the words of he: felt thanks they uttered, often upon their knees in the fields or on the hillsides; and the childlike messages of anticipatory gratitude, which'they asked me to deliver to the English people, now burn and rankle within me like an envenomed wound. “The European powers are playing a farcical representation around the graves of a Christian people. If conduct similar to theirs were to be pursued by an indi- vidual in private life it would be visited by social ostracism, and would brand him with an indelible Cain’s mark of infamy. Fancy a man's neighbors parading about the doors of his house while he and his chilaren rush frantically from room to room and from window to window implor- ing them to save them from the devouring flames. We have pity on a rat if we hear of its protracted and hopeless efforts to escape from burning, but men and women, boys and girls who are killed piecemeal are Jaughed at—that is what it has come to. ‘‘The @overnments of Europe are a spec- tacle to make angels weep. They guard the gates of Turkey, so to say, solemnly declaring that whatever may happen to the Christians, howeyer diabolically they may be tortured to death, nothing shall happen to the Turks—they, at any rate, must and will be preserved from harm. Is ita wonder then that the Turks should set about fulfilling their threat of wiping out Armenia in Armenian blood? Every one knew that the threat would be ful- filled. Consuls reported to their Govern- ment that the departure of the European delegates from Moush would mark the be- ginning of the blood path, and newspapers gave the prophecy publicity. Appeals to the public to insist upon precautionary measures were multiplied, and at last mere verbal warning gave place to unmis- tukable signs and preparations. *But diplomacy turned a deaf ear (tke Armenians are nobody’s kith and kin). Were they Greeks or Bulgarians, Magyars or Serb, they would have high and power- ful protectors who talk of the vrimary duty of protecting brothers and Chris- tians. Even Abyssinians are brethren and orthodox when political calculations come in. But they are Armenians, and so none of these Governments insisted on the execution or even dismissal of Zekki Pasha and the authors of the Sassoun savagery. Nay; they were decorated and honored by the Sultan as-an encourage- ment to others to zo and do likewise. And now others have gone out and have out-Heroded Herod, and no one seems shocked. People are only interested to get the latest news of Sivas or Trebizond, or wherever the latest massacres have oc- curred, at their breakfast table early. Few persons take even a remote interestin the Armenian question on the Continent, and those few are theadvocates of Turkey. “The Austrian press, said to be paid by the Turkish Government, impudently de- nies the Sassoun massacre and accuses the Armenians of having attempted to butcher the Kurds and Turks. The German press is the bearer of the same kind of culture to its readers, and in this country the public knows positively nothing about the Ar- menian question. The Russiau papers, beginning with the Novoya Vremya, cracks jokes at the Armenians, and in the last numbers which I have read asks, ‘Why should we Russians sacrifice a single soldier for the sake of Armenian bankers and millionaires, who are much better off than we are ourselves, to say nothing of British and American. agitators, who have so cleverly got up the Armenian comedy ?’ “A couple of regiments of British soldiers or Cossacks is what is wanted. They would set matters right in a few days. But even if the whole English-speaking people should arise and demand this, would it be accepted ?” DR B HIDING THE TRUTA. Turkish Newspapers Are Practically Ed- ited at the Palace. LONDON, ExG., Dec. 29.—The ‘corre- spondent of the United Press at Constan- tinople sends the following under yester- day’s date: The continuous publication and circula- tion of oflicial falsehoods, together with the barricade against truth of every avenue of publicity, has become one of the most dangerous elements of the present situa- tion at Constantinople. Censorship of the Turkish press exists. Latterly its sole ob- ject has been to suppress facts, and to com- pel publication of ‘‘editorials” relative to the Armenians, which are prepared at the Palace, and of “telegrams” written under physical compulsion by wretched Armen- nian prisoners in the dungeons of Asiatic Turkey. In reality the Turkish newspa- pers are thus edited at the palace. The result of this use of press is that the Mohammedan populace, and even moderately educated gentlemen at Con- stantinople, find their chief reason for dis- content with the Sultan in his failure to order the destruction of Christians gener- ally. They suppose thai the Armenians of Asiatic Turkey have murdered and pil- laged great numbers of Moslems; that the reserves have been called into the field to punish and reduce to order the Armenians; that the European powers have intervened to prevent the restoration of order and that the foreign gunboats have come to the Bosphorous in order to encourage Chris- tians 1n insurrection. The deduction made from this mass of error is that the Coristians are preparing to massacre Moslems, and that therefore the Moslems must first massacre the Christians. Unquestionably, the object of this official dissemination of falsehoods, through cunningly devised communica- tions to the press, has been to inflame the ignorant and cause the intense excitement which has resuited. The missionaries at Marsovan have tele- graphed to the Hon. A. W. Terrill, the American Minister, declaring that the guards furnished by the authorities for their protection aré not trustworthy, and that in consequence their lives and prop- erty are in danger. R Mr. Terrill telegraphed to Milo A. Jewet, the American Consula at Sivas, instruct- ing him to go to Marsovan, if possible. Yesterday Mr. Jewet replied that it was impossible for him to leave Sivas, as an outbreak was threatened at that place. Mr. Terrill then visited the Porte, where his representations resulted in an order being sent to the miltary commander at Marsovan to substitute regular soldiers for the guards who had been detailed to pro- tect the American ——iiin SALISBURY ASSAILED. Lord Rosebery Bitterly Rebukes His Suc- cessor in Office. LONDON, Exa., Dec. 29.—The morning papers here will to-morrow print a letter from ex-Prime Minister Rosebery, dated December 24, in which he says that he is haunted by the horrors that have occurred in Asia Minor. Continuing, he says: *“The country intrusted the present Ministry with a dictatorship and an armada to support that dictatorship. “Lhe Chief of the Ministry has uttered sounding threats which might well raise the hopes of the people for whom he spoke. What has been the result? Our protests have been idle, our action futile and our menaces disregarded.’” In conclusion Lord Rosebery declares that the Government is soley responsible for the condition of affairs and suggests that it gravely misled the country when it said the concert of Europe on the Armen- ian question was complete. 'HEBUK[U_[fl SWIFT, Chicago’s Mayor Scores the Lake City’s Upper Ten. ACCUSED OF BRIBERY. Prominent Citizens Who Corrupt Lawmakers and Breed Anarchy. in front of Nellis hous? last ni taking the statement o several wit- Kfter nesses this afternoon. bail for Nellis at 3 - A & Griffo and _Everhart Mutohed.. DALLAS, Tex., Dec. 29.—Dan A: Stuart to-day received a telégram from Joe Ven- dig and Sam_Austin at: New Yf)rk an- nouncing_that.Young Griftio and I,hctk Everhart had signéd_to fight for-the light- weight championship of the world for a urse of $4000 and a side bet of $1000. Hugh g. Kane, Everhart’s backer, at once tele- grlphed' his- man to come to I?ahas and begin training. . . - s Garden City Cyclers. SAN JOSE, CAL. Dec.:20.~The Garden Gity Cyclers held a run to_Haywards this moraing to witness. the races of the Tmpe- rial Cycling Club %f dSAn Francisco. - The run was well attended. .=~ . o0 G on- A great deal of intérest is bei F taken by the members of the Cyclers tvxeveenmryy run eatled by Captiin Carey for Nest Year's | morning, and -a large number signified MONEY PAID FOR FRANCHISES. 5 Men in the Lower Walks of Life Not Responsible for the Municipal- ity’s Plight. CHICAGO, IrL., Dec. 20.—Mayor Swift roundly scored Chicago’s “prominent citi- zens” at a banquet last night, and charged the corruption of the City Council and various departments of the city’s service to them. The speech was given at the regular monthly banquet of the Commer- cial Club in reply to that of President Baker of the Civic Federation, Chicago’s “good-government’’ society, who criticized the present administration and mentioned the feeling existing over the Council giving franchises to cable and electric roads and other corporations without compensation to the city. “The present Mayor, within sixty days,” saia Mr. Swift with considerable warmth, ‘‘has vetoed a half-dozen ordinances passed by your representatives, giving space in the street to representative prop- erty owners, who came to the Common Council and asked for them. . “Who is it that comes into the Common Council and asks for such privileges? Who is it who are accused of offering bribes for such franchises? It is just the same ones, the same prominent citizens that come into the same Council chamber and ask them to give them the right to occupy space under your streets. “I tell you these questions come home. Talk about anarchy! Talk about bre#ding the spirit of communism! Who does it more than the representative citizens of Chicago? Your high-toned business men, your patriotic men, your prominent citi- zens of Chicago, are the men who knock at the door of the Council and ask for illegal franchises? Itis not the common people. “Who bribes the Common Council? It is not men in the common walks of life. They are men in your own walks of life, sitting by your firesides. Isityour men in the common walks of life that demand bribes and receive bribes at the hands of the legislative bodies or the Common Council? Noj; it is your representative citizen, your capitalists, your business men. When have they come to the front, either individually or collectively, and in- veighed against this manner of obtaining franchises? When will they come to the front, individually or collectively, and ask of the Common Council adequate remu- neration for the city? Neyer, to my knowledge. ““Who is responsible for the condition of affairs in the city of Chicago? Your rep- resentative business men. 1f an Assessor grows rich while in office with whom does he divide? Not with the common people. He divides with the man who tempts him to make a low assessment; not the man who has the humble little house, but the capitalist and the business man. “I will tell you agood work for your Civic Federation, Brother Baker, and I be- lieve you are honest, and I have found you honest in every endeavor. Confine your theories and efforts in the next three months to elect to the City Council six or eight representative business men. Let them come over any Monday night and witness the scenes I have witnessed, and they will cease talking. about theories and understand better the conditions which face the citizens and the city of Chicago.” BID FOR THE CONVENTION. A New York Daily Leads With an Offer- ing to Demoorats. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 29.—In view of the great benefit that must accrue to the business interests and trade relations of New York by holding the next Democratic National Convention here, the Herald takes pleasure in announcing that it will head the subscriotion list for that purpose with $10,000, provided the rest of the amount required be subscribed by the busi- ness men f the city. e B T Accused of a Murder. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 29.—Albert A. Nellis, a real-estate dealer, was arrested this morning on an order of the Coroner on suspicion of having murdered Mrs. Runett, who was found dead in the area- NEW TO-DAY. SEEN I W TOPCOAT? FIRST SPRING INVOICE JUST RECEIVED. The real English covert cloths— full silk-lined—at fifteen dollars —three different styles and colors with the new satchel pockets. Toppy coats, from $10 to $35. Hats without hatters’ profits. Do youknow our 50c Neckwear? Winter Underwear that fits. Money Back, If You Want It. “THE HUB,” Cor. Kearny and Sutter. ~—NO BRANCHES— their intention of p,m_'t.icipal_ing imits © | Pensipns: for Califoriians. . WASHINGTON; D. C., Deé. d—’l‘hg fol- lowing pensiohs huve been issued fo bene- ficinriespein California: Robert. Welch, Soldiers’ Home; Los Asgeles; Ella V. Harman, San Francisci y : _— BIGELOW INTERVIEWS MIQUEL. Settlement of the Insurance Company Trouble in Germany Probable. LONDON, ExG., Déc. 20.—The Standard will to-morrow publish a dispateh from Berlin, saying that Mr. Poultney Bigelow, who is visiting Berlin in the interests of the American insurance companies which have been driven out of business there, had an interview Sunday morning with Dr. Miquel, the Prussian Minister of Fi- nance. The intetview lasted for several hours and the insurance guestion was thoroughly discussed. It isprobable that an early and satisfactory solution of the trouble will be reached. £ A ALL ON BOARD LOST. An Unknown Vessel Wrecked Off the Irish Coast. CORK; IreraNp, Dec. 29.—It is reported here that a large unknowan vessel was wrecked at Tochead and that all on board of her were lost. A number of boxes and other wreckage have been washed ashore. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia; Dec. 29.— A fire occurred in a disorderly house in this city to-day and five girls and a man perished in the flames. . It is believed that the victims were drunk and .that their stupor prevented them from realizing that the house was burning or ‘thaf they were in any danger. Clothing Factory Burned. LONDON, Exg., Dec. 29.—Hepworth’s Clothing Factory at Leeds was burned last night, entailing a foss of $400;000. GOVERNOE BUDD’S. OUTING. Hé and Friends Leave Btockton on a Hunting and Fishing Exéursion. STOCKTON, Car., Dec. 29.—Governor Budd, in company with Jehn E. Budd, Ralpb Lane and a party of friends, left to- day for a hunting and fishing trip .along the San Joaquin River. 3 The party went on the Catamaran Polli- wog which was in tow of the Gdvernor's steam launch. 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