The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 8, 1896, Page 2

< THE SA FRANCISCO D. AY, JANUARY 8, 189 from Constantinople, via Sofia, Bulearia, and it may be, indeed it is likely, that it is the work of the same ‘representative,” though it seems strange that the Havana and Constantinople representatives of the Chicago Associated Press should be located | in Boston. One would fancy that such an arrangement might be confusing, leading to the capture of H na in Asia Minor, or the slaughter of the Armenians by the Kurds of Santizgo de Cuba and the Bashi- Santa Clara. Clearly the opera- tion of s system must involve much greater care in the dating of “dispatches” than in their manufacture. roon GETTING SCARCE. Already There Is Suffering and Desti- tution on the Island. , Cusa, Dec. 27 (via Tampa, Already the dire effects of felt in this province. MATAN Fla., Jan. 7) the The Mayor of Corral Falso has telegraphed to the Governor of this province report- ing large number of persons asking for nd protection in their misery. t in that town ce owing to the all co Diaz y Foyos of tk riges, Atrevidi reports perty were wholly without food of 1 except what the | estate had furnished them. Their anxiety | and misery bad been added to by their being surrounded bands of rebels. hen the messenger ‘left with this in- ck was expected. ng of the merchants of this st been held, at which the whole | was discussed, including the | n of the inhabitants of the s in the interior of this spot subscription was made of will be sent to the or. It will consist of bags of rice, jerked beef, butter and u’xher% ry articles to prevent starvation. | ion the rebels are .lom-.yingj and crops. 1 houses ss in their role They were under the io Arango. They seized rimals in exchange. ying sugar estates mnea tas the rebels set fire to the Mayor of All the records They are apply- residence. to the flan | i the vicinity, leaving tired, | | | | | { Cardenas, there is a rebel archo Perrez. telio, ) camp of 1500 men unde. R ASKING BELLIGERENT RIGHTS. Cubans Also Want Intervention nalf of Sanguilly. >., Jan. 7. — The blic, General ary Gonzalo Horatio Rubens, | on this morning after to resume their ef- ition of their Govern the accordance of belligerents’ Be- in They expect to present conclusive evi- dence to the House Committee on Foreign f within a few days which will re- a favorable r t on the Sulzer P ied by Congressman Sulzer, | ia and R , with Colonel | , called at the State Department | this morning, but were unable to see Mr. | Olney, who was obliged to hurry to a| e Cab meeting. The object of the call | was to secure the intervention of the United States to protect the life of Colonel General Julio San- ntenced to life im- | ity in the insurrec- 1 left some papers re- ecretary Olney. | FOR 4 UNITED FEONT. Political Parties Represented at a Pa- triotic Meeting. HAVANNA, Cusa, Jan. 7.—An immense | patriotic meeting was held in the Casino | last e which the leaders of all the political parties agreed upon a com- plete union and a united front against the rebels in view of the situation confronting | the country. Speeches were made by Senors Santos, Guzman, Montoro, Satur- nino, Martinez and other political leaders, | who were in perfect accord. The rebels have arrived at Punta Brava, near Mariano. General Luque, with his commana, has prevented the rebels from | making an attack upon San Antonio | Ramos. | RS INDORSE TRE CUBANS, Mt. Louis Busi Men Urge Their Eecognition. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. The Business | Men's League of St. L representing every commercial interest, at their meet- | ing to-night unanimously passed the fol- | lowing pream and resolution offered | by Hon. R. C. Kerens, Republican Cen- | tral Committeeman, from Missouri: WHEREAS, The struggle for independence on | the Island of Cuba so courageously carried | forward by patrlots to relicve themselves of | the unjust rule and taxation of a despotic Government ought to succeed; therefore, Resolved. By the Business Men’s League of St. Louis, that we hereby extend our hoartfelt sympathy and encouragement to the people of Cuba in their heroic struggle to attain their ireedom, and we urge their recognition by the United States Government. PROBISLY LOST AT SEA, It Is Feared That the Wild Flower Foundered During a Terrific Gale. The Steamer Left Philadelphia for Rouen With a Cargo of Oil and a Crew of Thirty. LADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 7.—During ble gale Which swept the Atlantic iddle of December it is believed that the British steamship Wild Flower, which sailed for Rouen, France, on De- cember 11, with a crew of thirty men, foundered in mid-ocean. There has been anxiety for her safety for some time and she was posted in Lloyds’ shipping-rooms in London to-day as a missing vessel. Captain Frederick Stanwell of Wiesbeck, | Eng., commanded her. The Wild Flower wad a bulk oil-carrier of large dimensions and was one of the Fox line of oil-carriers. Her cargo was valued at §$59,653 and fully insured in for- eign companies. The missing vessel was owned by Alfred Stuart & Co. of London, large holders of s!e:l}:n craft engaged in carrying oil in bulk. SRS N Dropped Dead From Fright. DULUTH, Mixx., Jan. 7.—C. A. Peter- son, postmaster at Thompson, dropped dead from fright to-day while the in- spector was examining his accounts. He bhad been $150 short in his accounts, part of which he had claimed was the result of a robbery one night. [ it up PULITZER 15 SCORED, Senators Objected to the Correspondence of the Journalist. TELEGRAMS TO ENGLAND Lodge Said the Statute Made This Procedure Clearly a Crim- inal Act. * VEST DEFENDED DEMOCRACY. Protested Against the Strictures Con- tained in Sherman’s Recent Speech. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—The Finance Committee substitute for the House bond bill was reported in the Senate v by Jones {D.) of Arkansas, and was placed on the calendar, Jones giving no- tice that he would ask the Senate to take for ccnsideration to-morrow, and expressing the desire that it be disposed of | t the earliest possible day. It was stated by Morrill (R.) of Ver- mont, chairman of the Finance Commit- tee, that the substitute had the approval of the majority of the committee, but not of the Republican members of it. A plan for making the proposed loan a really popular one was suggested by Chandler (R.) of New Hampshire in the shape of a bill containing most of the features of a postal-saving system. Chand- ler explained it at some length and spoke on it in a somewhat jocose vein of humor s a complete and perfect panacea for the xisting financial trouble. He had it re- ferred to the Postoffice Committee, but said that he would offer it as an amend- ment to tle bill of the Finance Com- mittee. In connection wnl' it there was a rather | interesting discuss?dn in relation to the cable correspondence of Mr. Pulitzer with the Prince of Wales, the Rothschilds and other public characters in England—the statute making such correspondence a criminal act being brought to the atten- tion of the Senate by Lodge (R.) of Massa- chusetts. Later on in the day Vest (D.) of Missouri took the floor and in a speech occupying over two hours, delivered with great earn- stness and vehemence, defending the Demacratic party and the Cleveland ad- ministration from the strictures contained in Sherman’s recent speech, particularly in connection with tariff legislation. As to the finance question he declared him- self an uncompromising adherent of the free coinage of silver, and spoke of that question as an irrepressible conflict which could not be evaded and which had to be fought to a finish. At 4:50 the Senate adjourned until to- morrow. Lindsay (D.) of Kentucky took the oath of office for his new term. In presenting a petition from the Com- mon Council of Worcester, Mass., in favor of the Armenians, Hoar (R.) of Massa- chusetts inquired whether the Committee on Foreign Relations had taken any action on the numerous petitions referred to it of the same character. He was informed by Harmon (R.) of Ohio, its chairman, that the Committee on Foreign Relations was | animated by a most earnest desire to re- lieve the Armenians, if possible; but had not yet taken the subject into considera- tion. The committee had only recently been appointed, and the matter had not vet been reached. Jones (D.) of Arkansas reported from the Committee on Finance the House bond bill with a substitute, and gave notice that to-morrow immediately after the morning business he would ask the Senate to take it up for consideration. At the request of Elkins (R.) of West Virginia, his resolution requiring United States bonds to be issued after public ad- vertisement was referred to the Finance Committee. Chandler (R.) of New Hampshire intro- duced a popular loan bill and proceeded to explain it. He read the first paragraoh of his bill, which provides for postal savings notes to bear interest for five years and to be repaid in the sort of money deposited, whether gold, silver or paper. He said that he did not regard the recent treasury notice, announcing a popular loan, as be- ing in satisfactory form. He was grateful to the-Secretary for heeding the voice of the people as offered in.the Senate”the other day, of the Senator from Nebraska (Allen) and other tribunes of the people (laughter), but he did not regard itasa wise method of testing the willingness of the people to supply money to the Gov- ernment, Changdler’s bill provides for the issue of postal savings notes of the iace value of $100, with interest thereon at the rate of $3 a year, with a tofal interest of $16 if the notes are not presented at the expiration of five years. Afterfive years, in addition. to the sum of $16, the Government is to pay $4 for each year’s interest. These notes may be issued in sums of $50 and are redeemable at the pleasure of the Govern- ment after five years. He elaborated the provisions of the bili and had it referred to the Postoffice Committee, but gave notice that he would offer it as an amendmest to the bill reported to-day from the Finance Commictee. Lodge, referring to Chandler’s statement 8s to the Rothschiids dispatch, read a statute making it illegal for citizens of the United States to correspond with foreign Governments or officials in regard to the public measures in the United States, and he asked Chandler whether he did not think that the telegrams from the New York World were not an illegal interfer- ence and an attempt to throw doubt on the credit of the Government. Chandler agreed with Lodge in these views. The law certainly applied to the Pulitzer telegram to the Prince of Wales, the heir apparent to the throne, on a pub- lic question which made the relations be- tween the two countries acute. And he declared -that if the President and the Attorney-Geaeral did their duty Mr. Pu. litzer, if he ever setfoot upon American soil, which he occasionally did, would be prosecuted according to law. The resolution offered by Sherman (R.) of Ohio on Decen:ber 31, declaring that the uee of the gold reserve to supply deficien- cies is of doubtful legality and greatly in- iurious to the public credit, and that a sum of not less than $100,000,000 in gold coin or builion should be restored to the treasury and segregated from all other funds, was taken up, and Vest (D.) of Mis- souri addressed the Senate uponit. He [repudiated the idea thatthe Democratic THE LAST REPUBLICAN: ADMINISTRATION OECREASED THE . NATIONAL DEBT $259 000000, 20 AND REDUCED - THE AMOUNT OF THE ANNUAL INTEREST #16 000 000 oo "THE PRESENT DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATION INCREASED THE NATIONAL DERT 62 000000 0 AND —_— INCREASED “THE AMOUNT oF THe ANNUAL INTEREST 1 500 000 ¢ ‘FIGURES AND FIGUREHEADS' [Reproduced from the San Francisco Chronicle.] party was dead, and deciared that when it did die the last hope of popular government woulid have disappeared. Iftheincome tax in the Wilson bill had been collected, there would have been no deficiency of revenue. He reviewed the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which declared that tax unconstitutional, and asserted that no decision had ever been rendered by that court which had done so much to destroy its influence and to excite distrust among the masses of the Ameri- can people, including intelligent and thoughtful lawyers. For a hundred years, he said, no lawyer had doubted that Con- gress had the right to tax the income of real and personal property without appor- tionment according to population among the States. He did not propose to analyze the decision of the Supreme Court declar- ing the'income tax unconstitutional, nor should he trust himself {o entér into the conjecture as to the reasons which caused one member of that court, after agreeing deliberately as to the constitutionality of the largest portion of the law, to reverse his opinion two weeks afterward on a re- hearing. The name of that Justice was unknown. It was known alone to himself and his official associates. Vest then went on to reply to Sherman's speech in criticism of the Democratic ad- ministration, and he pointed to the fact that during the four years of Mr. Cleve- land’s first term the export of gold was only $79,000,000, while in the next four years of Mr. Harrison’s administration the export of gold was $213,000,000. Coming to the question of the free coin- age of silver, Vest declared that the Re- publican party was as hopelessly divided on that question as the Democratic party was, and the struggle of Republican Sen- ators was to evade that issue if possible and not to permit the general public to as- certain that they were as hopelessly di- vided on it as he claimed—and as he conceded the Democrats were. “All the people of this country,” Vest exclaimed, “are engaged in an irrepres- sible conflict—as irrepressible as that which marched the armies of the North and Scuth in the Civil War. I trust that the settlement will not be by violence. I hope and believe that it will not be. But the conflict is just as irrepressible, and must be fought out to the last extremity. All attempts to evade the issue are impos- sible. The sooner it is settled the better for the tranquillity of the country and the better for the public and private life of the land.” SLaig I PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE. Breezy Debate Over the Special Employes Recommended. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—In the House a unanimous report from the Com- mittee on Judiciary was made by Brod- erick (R.) of Kansas that no doubt ex- isted of the election of Allen as a repre- sentative from Utah, and in accordance therewith Allen was sworn in as a mem- ber of the House. Henderson (R.) of Iowa reported from the Committee on Judiciary its unani- mous substitute for a resolution introduced by Representative Hubbard regarding the enforcement of the anti-trust law. The original resclution assumed that the At torney-General had failed to carry out the law, and the substitute calls upon the At- torney-General for information as to the steps he has taken in that direction and whiat further legislation is needed to pro- tect the people against trade trusts and conspiracies. The substitute was agreed to. The House then, at 1:25 p. ar., adjourned until to-morroy, when the rules will be reported. : There was a breezy debate over the ap- pointment of special employes, recom- mended by the Committee on Accounts. The report submitted by Aldrich (R.) of Illinois, chairman, provides for the ap- pointment of two new employes in the doorkeeper’s division, one of whom had been discharged aiter a service of nearly a score of years, Johnson (R.) of Indiana and Walker (R.) of Massachusetts denounced the dis- charge of this employe, which the former said bad been made necessary by reasons of the demandsof the ‘‘combine,” which organized the House for places for constit- uents, an illustration, he said, of the dis- creditable proceedings of such affairs. Walker went further, saying the recom- mendation of the committee was requested to repair the damage to the public service by the combine. He also asked whether ornot the reading clerks who could not be heard on either side of the house were to be retained throughout the Congress, not by the will of the Speaker por of the House, but of the gentlemen ‘‘who farm out the offices.” The report of the committee was adopted —150 to 10. The House Tariff Measure to Be Reported With- out Changes. |CONSIDERED IN CAUCUS. If One Amendment Is Made There Will Be Many Others Offered. INTERESTS OF VARIOUS STATES. Jones of the Finance Committee Appears to Be the Present Master of the Situation. | WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 7.—Owing to the late session of the Senate the Re- publican caucus, that took a recess until this afternoon, was postponed until to- morrow after the adjournment of the Senate. | that conference the Republicans will, by a vote of a comfortable majority, direct their | members on the Finance Cormmittee to re- | port the tanif bill to the Senate as it came | from the House, and without amendments of any Kind. | Shortly after the caucus convened this | morning Quay moved that the committee be so instructed, and his motion led to the debate that followed. But one Senator in- dicated any desire to reconstructa tariff bill along Republican lines. That Senator was Balker of Kansas, a new man, and his associates in the Senate looked upon his zeal as the result of his unfamiliarity with the conditions that surround the Senate at this time. There were other speakers who desired amendments to be made, and said they would insist upon them if the debate was opened at all; but, if the consensus of opinion was that this should be done, they would be satisfied and support the majority. There is a division in the Finance Com- mittee itself as to the wisdom of amend- ing the House bill, and it was because of such division that this caucus was held. Sberman favored an additional rate on crockery, if changes were to be made, and Platt’s State was largely interested in the raising of tobacco, and if amendments were in order he was constrained to look after that schedule. Allison’s constitu- ents were largely interested in agricul- tural products, and he, too, would be com- pelled to insist on an increase there. On the other hand, Jones, the Populist member, urged that raw sugar had been discriminated against when the House re- fused to increase it by 15 per cent, as it had every other schedule on the bill. Jones insisted with vigorous protestations that raw sugar should be given this addi- tional 15 per cent in the Senate. He was re-enforced in this contention by Perkins of California and Thurston of Nebraska, both of whom represent States that are engaged in the growing of beets for sugar and the manufacture of sugar from that farm product. Thurston was not in a position to urge the committee, but he has done so very effectually by the aid of the telegraph. In view of these contentions it is easy to see that the Republicans of the committee were very much at sea as to what should be the policy they ought to pursue. Hence their appeal to the full membership of their own party. Should the caucus to- MOITOW, as seems likely, instruct the com- mittee to report the bill thus reported, and vote down any and all amendments, 4 a deadlock between Jones and the Repub- lican members of the committee appears to be imminent, Jones holds the balance of power in the committee. His vote is necessary to report the bill, and without him the Republicans cannot report the measure in any shape. Jones said to-night that he would nsist upon the addition of the 15 per cent to the sugar schedule. If the caucus so decides the Republican members will not grant it. Jones, it seems, must then either change his mind or the bill will remain on the files of the Committee or Finance. Republicans profess to believe that Mr. Jones will not put himself on record, but that after urging his proposition he will Lymld to the will of his former Republican NAY PASS THE BILL. Itis confidently believed that at | I associates, and permit the bill to be re- | ported. Itlooks to-nightas if Jones was master of the situation. — o UNDERVALUATIONS OF IMPORTS. | Steps to Be Taken to Prevent Such Prac- tices in the Future. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—The House Ways and Means Committee de- cided at to-day’s meeting to call two mem- bers of the Board of General Appraisers before them to-morrow to furnish evidence with respect to the undervaluations of im- ports. The purpose of the committee is to make such changes in the administrative law as will effectually prevent such prac- tices in future. Chairman Dingley arranged his sub- committees to-day. Thesecommittees and chairmen are as follows: Customs—Dingley of Maine. Administration of Customs Payne of New York. Internal Revenue—Evans of Kentncky. Public Debt—Dalzell of Pennsylvania. Commercial Treaties—Hopkins of 1lli- nois. Miscellaneous Ohio. : Laws— Subjects—Grosvenor of 10 PROTECT THE POOR. Bowers Argues the Bill for a Postal Savings Bank. Denounces Men of Money Who Have Grabbed Up the Earnings of Labor. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 7.—Mr. Lord, chairman on Postoffices and Post- roads, organized bhis committee to-day, and Bowers of California appeared before it to advocate his postal savings bank bill. He argued that the main purpose of the bill was to provide a place where ‘“com- mon people,” the wageworkers, could de- posit such of their small earnings and savings as they could spare and be sure of recovering them when wanted. He said that nineteen-twentieths of the people of the United States were wageworkers and producers who created all the wealth. The one-twentieth consisted of commis- sion men, generally erroneously called business men, who produced nothing, hut lived and often grew rich by appropriating either legally or illegally, honestly or dis- honestly, small earnings and savings of common people. From every partof the country comes the demand for the postal savings system. It is only opposed by commission men— the so-called business men—bankers and speculators, whose business it is to absorb these small savings and earnings without giving value received. “We hear much about the business in- ests of the country and what business men (in plain English, the commission men) demand in every measure that comes be- fore Congress, and from my observations nineteen-twentieths of legislation by Con- gress is in the interest of commission men and only one-twentieth for the common people.” He referred, to the numberless failures of savings banks and deliberate stealing of savings of wage-earners by so-calied sav- ings banks connected with National banks, which, in most cases, were mere slop- buckets or waste-baskets into which Na- tional banks dumped their waste papers. He alluded tothe “rotten savings banks at San Diego, through which hundreds of laborers, men and women, lost all their savings, yet men who took their money, in many cases their all, and deliberately robbed them, go unpunished and are in comfortable circumstances.”” 1t is to pro- tect poople from such robbery that some such a measure as this should be adopted. Bowers’ bill was referred to a sub-com- mittee and the Postoffice Department will be asked to report upon *THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS.” Supplied under Royal Warrants tc Her Majesty the Queen of England, and to His Royal Highness the Princt of Wales. JOHN CAFFREY, 47 First street, San Francisce. REPRESENTING Charles Graet & Co., N. Y., for Mineral Water. A pollz)zafi} | i I | vestors. TOREFORM THE LAWS Senator Perkins Proposes to Encourage Settlers in Alaska. PROVISIONS OF HIS BILL. The Irregularity in the Way of Securing Land Patents to Be Obviated. INDUSTRIES TO BE DEVELOPED. Cattle-Growing Expected to Become a Great Feature of the Northern Land. WASHINGTON. D. C., Jan. 7.—A bill introduced by Senator Perkins to-day is calculated to completely reform the land laws of Alaska. The Senator in explana- | tion of bis bill said to a CaLn corre- spondent: “It will enable firms and individuals, who have landed interests in Alaska, to secure patents from the Government on claims to land which have been taken up in such places and in such forms as best suited the purposes of their business, but to which there has been a difficulty in se- curing title. The provisions of the present law also render it very hard, and in some cases practically impossible, to secure the evidence necessary to secure a title. My bill provides that a claim shall include all improvement made by the claimant, pro- vided that not more than 160 acres are in- cluded. The land in question may be, and often is, very irregular in shape on ac- count of these improvements, which were made according to exigencies of. the busi- ness transacted. “This irregularity has hitherto stood in the way of securing patents from the Government, but it is recognized and allowed by the new bill. Canneries and other enterprises are particularly affected, as it has been necessary to place their buildings wherever they were needed, without reference to the sauare form of the Government survey. “The present law compels claimants and their witnesses {o visit Sitka in'order to make final proof. This has been a very great hardship, for claimants and wit- | nesses are at Portland, San Francisco and other points in California, and even in th. East. A journey to the neighborhood of the north pole is, therefore, a hardship, and has materially interfered with secur- ing patents to Alaska lands. The bill pro- vides that testimony may be taken wherever and when witnesses may be conveniently found, but it is provided that land officers anywhere may take and re- ceive testimony. The measure, moreover, confirms all entries already made on depositions taken outside of Alaska. “Deputy surveyors are given authority to make surveys whenever on the ground, and are requested to do so without com- municating with the office at Sitka or re- ceiving special instructions. They are alsa empowered to do all work pending in the locality. It is provided that depositions shall be received if made at any time be- fore the deputy returns his survey. These depositions may be applied to the pur- chase price and certificates of depusit made transferable. “A part of Alaska is well adapted to stock purposes, provided sufficient acreage is allowed. The ordinary agricultural pursults may not be profitable, but ani- mal raising may succeed. The bill en- courages the experiment. The district is now practically a waste. If it can be util- ized by soms industry for profit to invest- ors, shipping or revenue, it is given se- curity by right to title. “The islands are natural stock ranges, and special privileges are given to persons who will stock them with an adaptable source of income. The coast westward of Yahutat Bay is a succession of islands. They should be devoted to some useful purpose. It may be available to-devote them to animal raising, and encourage- ment is extended to the venturesome in- | “Alaska contains large areas of coal lands. There is no law for acquisition of title to them, and in the absence of some law for their sale private capital is slow in developing them. There is no special coal- NEW TO-DAY. e Loss of Manhood. (QUBED IN TWENTY DAYS DY DR. 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As compared to the Gatling, which has been the naval machine gun for years, it is just about as superior as the modern rifled gun is to the old smoothbore. The Gatling has a weight of 350 pounds, while the new gun weighs only thirty-five pounds, and can be taken by a man on his shoulder and easily carried from point to point, 70 CONSIDERE APPROPRIATIONS. Cannon Appoints the Sub- Committecs. WASHINGTON, D. (., Jan. 7.—Chair- man Cannon to-day announced tlu_: ap- pointment of the following sub-committees of the Committee on Appropriations: Sundry Civil—Cannon, Hamer, W. A. Stone, Sayers, Layton. Legislative—Bingham, McCall, Hemen- Chairman way, Doc Robertson. Fortifications—Hainer, Grout, Hemen- way, Livingston, Bartlett. Pensions—W. A. Stone. Blue, Northway, | Robertson, Layton. Deficiency—Cannon, Northway, Arnold, v ingston. rmanent Appropriations — Arnold, Bingham, Pitn lett, Li prdtoniis For the Debris Commission. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—The President to-da; nt to the Senate the following nominations: Members of the California Debris Commission — Colonel Charles R. Suter, Major C. E. L. B. Davis, Captain C. E. Gillette, Corps ot Engineers. Lieutenant-Colonel William Rice King of the Corps of Engineers to be a member of the Missouri River Committee. - Pensions for Californians. WASHINGTON, D. C., J. 7.—The fol- lowing pensions have been d to bene- ficiaries in California: Original—George Stanley, Veterans’ Home, Napa; James S. Cain, French Camp, San Jocquin County; Rufus Doxtater, Uno, El Dorado County. B okl Naval Men Not Alarmed. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7. — Navy Department officers are not alarmed at reports concerning the overdue Baltimore. She was ordered to stop at Yokohama, and f she stayed there one week would not be overdue now. NEW TO-DAY. WILL IT COME TO THIS? 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