The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 15, 1896, Page 2

(5] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1896 view recently on the strength of the insur- gents said: “We can count now in our army in all the States of Cuba nearly 47,000 men, and at least 30,000 are armed and equipped, & large number h the latest and most perfect guns. The total number of men in our ranks in considerably increased by the accessory contingent, who lend their as- sistance a civil capacity as postmen, farmers on our plantations in the Sierra Maestre and workmen in the several Cuban army shops. Besides these there is a large number who have not as yet left their nomes, though enrolled as soldiers, because we cannot supply them with arms. “Qur cavalry is far superior to that of the Spanish. The horses are the best in’ Cuba and the men are good riders, having been used to the saddle since childhood, They are commanded by veteran cavalry- men of the ‘ten years’ war,” who know every good as well as every bad road on thoe island, “During the present war there have been no engagements between our cavalry and that of Spain. This is significant, They do not care to match their horsemen sgainst ours, and usually their cavalry is in the center of a hollow square of in- fantry. “The infantry branch of the Cuban army lly up to the standard. It comprises who are sturdy and untiring. They are used to hard'labor, and their tramps through the thickets and the long marches have no evi! effects. In some instances ntry has marched forty-five miles Our infantryman can handle the machete with the greatest ease and and he is m dreaded by the soldier, who apparently should the advantage with a rifle, sur- unted by a ba t nea: the length of an ordinary cavalry saber. el 5 SEVEN MILITA ¥ PRISONERS. Escorted by Volunteers They Were Placed in Prison. Cusa, Jan. 6 (via Tampa, , Jan. 14).—To-day seven military prisoners, escorted by volunteers, arrived here and were placed in the City Prison. Men of the same detachment of volunteers had a brush with the rebels on the 3lst ult. and killed two of them. They met on the Capi T estate. Yesterday a detachment of the Estra- mad Regiment, accompanied by a de- tachment of guerillas, met a body of rebels, said to be under the command of Fuste. At the first volley the rebels fled, abandoning horses, arms and supplies. It issaid thata number of the rebels were wounded. Trawns of empty cars are being brought into this city to prevent their destruction by the rebels. e —— HANGED BY URGENTS. Fate of 2wo Men Who Refused to Give Up Horses. SAN JOSE DE LAS LAJAS, Cusa, Jan. 4 (via Tampa, Fla., Jan. 14).—A party of to-day that had encamped in this nity moved on to Melena. Rumors were rent here to-day that two men had been hanged by the rebels on the Carmen estate. The facts as related are as follows: Three men were taking seventy horses to a pasture on the Somorsostro estate, when the rebels surrounded them and wished to select several horses. When re- sistance was offered they hanged two of the drivers. The third escaped. They were colored men. Many fires are seen at night. It is re- ported here that the town of Melena has been sacked and that all the cane of the Ban Jose estate has been burned. Rebels entered the store of Don Joaquin Ferrier and took all the trousers in the place. WILL MANTAIN SICAED IGHTS [Continued from Page.) gineering at the university, but practically covered the entire field of chemistry end mechanics in his four years at col- lege. Assoon as he completed his educa- tion he was off to the mines. He was first engaged at the New Almaden quicksilver mine in Santa Clara County. Subse- quently he went to Colorado, where he had been sent by a New York syndicate. Later he went to Cuba, and aiter remaining there for a a short period, went to Central America. During this period of travel from place to vlace he perfected a process of extract- ing the precious metals from ore by means of chemicals. This system, which is en- tirely his own, is called the cyanide process. Returning from Central America seven years ago he located works of his own at a mine in Shasta County. Hisinterests there, together with the 12,000 acre tract on which the mine is located, are valued at about $40,000. Aboutfour years ago'overtures were made to him to go to South Africa to push the mining interests of English capitalists under contract for a year. He was 8o suc- cessful in his work there that he has been taking contracts in various parts of the South African territory for the last two or three years on his own terms,- He is now interested in the Rand Ore Reduction Company, and has met with such good fortune that he has accumulated upward of half a million dollars. He was about to leave for America by the way of Engiand and Germany, where he was to give some lectures on mining, when thrown into prison by the Boers. His relatives here have some apprehen- sion lest the Boers will confiscate his en- tire property, or at least exact a large ran- som for his release. His brother-in-law, P. R. Boone, stated to-day: ‘“We have but little fear but that he will be released from his captivity with- out bodily harm, but we are afraid that he will lose at least a large portion of his vast estate there. We have cabled him, but as yet have received no reply. We ought to hear something from him by to-morrow at any rate.” IMPRISONED AND BURNED, AMiners Perish During a Fire in a Coal Pit, BERLIN, GErMANY, Jan. 14.—A fire oc- curred to-day in a coal pit at Ostrau, Silesia. A number of the miners were iniprisoned and were either suffocated or burned to death. Fifteen bodies have aiready been recovered. It is feared that others are still in the pit. LTI One Dispute Settled. LONDON, Exc., Jan. 14.—The West- minster Gazette says that the Anglo- French dispute in regard to Siam and the banks of the Mekong River has been amicably settled, and other steps toward a complete agreement of the powers will follow. e A Liveral Gain. GODERICH, Oxtarro, Jan. 14.—The bye election in West Huron to-day for mem- bers of the House of Comnlons resulted in the return of M. C. Cameron (Liberal). This is a Liberal gain. FOR THE CONVENTION. Claims of Cities After the National Democratic Assemblage. NEW YORK IS OPPOSED. Western Men Say They Desire to Be Free From Wall- Street Influence, FIGHT OF FREE SILVERITES. Representatives of the Metropolis, However, Are Confident of Capturing the Prize. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.—The delegations from the different cities bent on capturing the National Democratic Convention are nearly all in Washington dand the fight for the big event isonin earnest. The situation thirty-six bours before the National Committee meets is environed with uncertainties, although the contest has narrowed down to St. Louis, Chicago and New York, with the question of free silver as a potent factor in the fight. The Western men—those(from the trans- Mississippi country especially—are bit- terly opposed to New York and some of the number assert that they would nog dare return home should they vote to locate the convention on Manhattan Island. If any single circumstance developed to-day it was the hostility shown by some of the representatives of the competing cities against New York, and in marked distinction was the absence of hostility among the New Yorkers against the other cities with whom they are brought into rivalry. W. H. Woodward, one of the St. Louis delegates, speaking strictly m his indi- viaual capacity, says the principal ob- jection to New York is Wall street. = “Any- thing but Wall street with gold-bug influ- ences,” is the sloganof the extreme free- silver gnen. It is possible, however, if this policy continues to be pursued by the free silverites, it may force the sound money men to combine against them, in which event those who are familiar with the financial affiliations of the National Committee say that the latter, being in the majority, will win. [0 the assaults upon Wall street the New Yorkers turn a smiling front. They are not here, they say, to disparage the merits of their rivals or to promotea schism 1n the Democratic ranks on the money question or any other question. They have, they declare, the best conven- tion city in America. It has more hoteis, a better summer climate and a larger hall in which to hoid | the convention than can be found in any other community. New York is so large; they say, that it can afford to treat the convention with the utmost fairness. It it be located in New York there will be no uncertain howling claque in the galleries in the interest of any one candidate. The town, they say, is too big for that and the press too great to comvort itself other than with strict impartiality. John A. Mason, one of the advance guard of the New Yorkers, says to-night that New Yorknow has fifteen votes, and that it is unlikely that when the balloting begins she may lead off with twenty. He frankly adds that these assurances Have not been in all cases by members of the committee, but by others who assume to speak for them. William C. Whitney did not arrive this evening and circumstances may prevent him reaching Washington before the com- mittee meets. Itis said to-night that his daughter will sail for Europe to-morrow and he cannot for that reason put in an appearance before Wednesday evening. Ex-Governor Sheehan, New York, a member of the National Committee, is also detained, and telegraphs that he hopes to secure the postponement of a law suit in Brooklyn in which he is interested and which would permit him to arrive to- morrow night. A few additions were made to the ranks of the New Yorkers to-night by the pres- ence of John D. Crimmins, F. B. Thurber, J. W. O'Brien, Simeon Ford, John F. Dillon, E. T. Merryfield and ex-Mayor Gilroy. Crimmins brought a message from Mr. Whitney, in which he regretted his detention in New York, adding that in his judgment the convention ought to be located thete and that he hoped the com- mittee would reach that conclusion. To-morrow the delegation of which ex- Congressman Isidor Strauss is chairman will reach the city. If the New Yorkers were busy to-day their examvle was fully imitated by their St. Louis rivals, The St. Louisans held a meeting at 5 o’clock this afternoon at which reports were received from the various ‘“skirmishers.” These reports were uniformly gratifying, particularly in that they were to some extent unexpected. ‘When the meeting adjourned the Mis- sourians anpounced that twelve votes were pledged to them with others in sight. Tne Chicago delegation, which was ex- pected to-day, will not arrive until to- morrow. Itsdelay gave rise to the report that it was out of the race, but Chicago's friends assert that the Lake City will be very much in evidence when the balloting begins, and the St. Louisans belieye their real opponent will be the 1llinois metropo- lis and not New York City. Louisville, it is said, has also a delega- tion en route, which will reach here Wednesday. The Cincinnati contingent will also arrive to-morrow. The sub-committee of the National Com- mittee, consisting of Harrity of Pennsyl- vanig, Gorman of Maryland, Cable of Iili- nois, Smalley of Vermont and Wall of ‘Wisconsin, met to-night to consider the resolution introduced at the last National Convention by Coilins of Massachusetts to hold the convention with closed doors. It was acknowledged that such a course was impracticable. Some -of the best- posted politicians at the Arlington ex- pressed the belief to-night that the fight will narrow down to New York and St. Louis, but this, afte all, is 1nere guess work, in which the wish is largely father to the thought. THE IRIAL OF CHAPMAN. Motions to Dismiss the ‘Case Promptly Denied. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14—In the trial of Elverton R. Chapman, the New York broker, for refusing to testify before a Benate investigating committee, the pros- ecution was to-day compelled to close its Were 'cne by reason of its inability to serve subpenas upon Theodore Havemeyer, president, aud other officers of the Ameri- can Sugar Refining Company, whose tes- timony was essential to its maintenance. The defense then opened and motions to dismiss the case for want of evidence were overruled. Attorney Jere Wilson then proceeded with bis address and had not concluded when the hour for adjournment arrived. SN £ 7R CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE. Important Appointments to Various Federal Offices. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.—The Senate in executive session to-day con- firmed the following nominations: Herman Kretz to be superintendent, and William E. Morgan to be coiner of the mint at Philadelphia. Edward A. Bowers of Connecticut to be associate Comptroller of the Treasury. Joseph H. Herod of Indiana ‘o be Sec- retary, and Stephen Bensal of Maryland to be second Secretary of the legation to Japan. % J. W. Comman, receiver of public moneys at Alva, 0. T. 4 R. J. Ray, Register of the Land Office at Wobdward, 0. 1. Stanton G. Fisher, Indian agent at the Nez Perce agency, Idaho, Lieutenant - Colonel Amos Stickner, Major W. Huer and Major T. H. Hand- bury, engineers, to be members of the Mis- souri River Commission. Major T. Hanburn to' be member of the Mississippi River Commission. Frank C. Armstrongof the District of Columbia, T. B. Cabannis of Georgia and A. B. Montgomery of Kentucky, Commis- sioners to negotiate with the five civilized tribes. Also promotions in the navy, headed by Commander Nicoll Ludlow tfo be caprain, s TSR The Second Cabinct Dinner. WASHINGTON, D.-C., Jan. 14.—Secre- tary ana Mrs. Carlisle to-night gave the second dinner of the series of Cabinet din- ners to the President and Mrs, Cleveland. There were present besides those named Vice-President Stevenson, Secretary and Mrs. Olney, Secretary and Mrs. Lamont, Attorney-General and Mrs. Harmon, Post- master-General and Mrs. Wilson, Secre- tary ana Miss Herbert, Secretary Smith, Secretary and Miss Morton, Sir Julian and Pauncefote and Mrs. Stanley Mat- Pl g Senate Finance Committee, WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.—There was no meeting of the Senate Committee on Finance this morning on account of the absence of Allison and Aldrich and the in- ability of the Republicans to see their way clear to report the tariff bill without amendment, in accordance with the in- structions of the recent caucus. AE Diineral Lands and Schools. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14, — The House Committee on Public Lands to-day ordered a favorable reporton the bill intro- ] duced by Wilson of Idaho granting States 25 per cant of all money paid the United States for mineral lands within their re- spective borders for the support of schools of mines. i A e Klow of the Gold Reserve. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan 14.—The treasury gold reserve at the close of busi- ness to-dgy amounted to §54,312,271. The amount 6f withdrawals at New York to- day were $1.184,000—$1,100,000 in gold bars and $84,000 in coin. ot Arrest of a Mail-Robber. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.—Chief Postoffice Inspector Wheeler to-day re- ceived advices. of the arrest at Helena, Mont., of James 'Tate, who on October 2 last attempted highway mail robbery near Nampa, Idaho. 2 THE DEFEADER SUSTHNED Report of the Regatta Committee of the New York Yacht Club. No Allusion to the Charge of Fraud Made by Lord Dun- raven. NEW YORK, Y-, Jan. 14.—The re- gatta committee of the New York Yacht Club issued its report to the club to-day. ‘While thereport enters fully in all matters concerning the international races, it has nothing to say on the subject of the Dun- raven charzes of fraud aeuinst the De- fender syndicate and confines itself to the races and the resuits. In speaking of the international races the report gives the outiine of the conditions, courses and sig- nals, and tells of the care taken by the committee to have the courses properly laid out: It discusses at length the subject of ‘“‘crowding,” which was the cause of the first protest on the part of Lord Dunraven, and says: “On September 7 the wind at Sandy Hook lightship was northeast at the time fixed for making the preparatory sighal, and therefore according to agreement the start was shifted down the coast. The ac- companying vessels were mixed up by this shift, and in consequence they took up a position which somewhat cramped the starting line and compelled both yachts for a short period after the start to work through a portion of the fleet. ‘It 1s our opinion that with this excep- tion there was no umore interference through the match than there was in 1893—if there was as much.” The report also discusses the foul which occurred on September 10 and gives in full the claims of both yachts and the de- cision of the committee to whom these claims were referred in favor of the De- fender. | In its decision the committee quotes section 11, rule 16, which reads: ‘A yacht shall not bear away out of her course 8o as to hinder another in passing to leeward,” and as will be seen on page 21, 1t was on this section that the committee based their decision. At the same time the Valkyrie, on her own showing, was steering “well clear of the committee boat,”’ and even after her luff she had room to spare. In addition she was to windward and according to her statement “‘neither vessel had sheets in.” And for these reasons sha was also in violation of section 4, rule 16, which reads: < “When both yachts are free or both have the wind aft and have the wind on the same side, the yacht to the windward shall keep clear.” The Valkyrie cited against the Defender the following sections under rule 16, sec- tion 7: ‘“An overtaking yacht shall in every case, 50 long as an overiap exists, keep clear of the yacht which is being overtakeu”; section 10, ‘‘a yacht may luff as she pleases in order to prevent another from passing her to windward, provided she begins to Iuff be- fore an overlap has been established,’”” and sections 14 and 16, which treat of room in “passing marks’’ or obstructions. “But in our opinion,”” says the report, “the Valkyrie’s infringement of section 11 nullified sections 7 and 10, and the fact that even aiter luffing she passed well clear of the committee boat throws out the others.” g RIGHTS OF VETERANS, A Passionate Argument of Pension Matters in the House. SUPPLICATION NOT JUST. Defenders of the Nation Met in an Unfriendly Spirit at the Bureau. EMPLOY ARBITRARY METHODS. An Amendment to Prevent the Drop- ping or Decrease of Pensions Except Upon Proof of Fraud. WASHINGTON, D, C., Jan. 14.—Chap- lain Couden made the suffering and perse- cuted Armenians the burden of his prayer at the opening of the proceedings in the House to-day. The House proceeded at once in commit- tee of the whole, Perkins (R.) of Illinois in the chair, to further consider the gen- eral pension appropriation bill, Northway (R.) of Ohio was the first speaker, answer- ing the criticisms made by Bartlett (D.) of New York yesterday. Northway said there was in the administration of the Pension Bureau a narrow, contracted, un- friendly and unjust spirit, compelling the pensioner to approach the bureaun in a cringing, supplicating attitude. The spirit of the bureau compelled the soldier to assume a burden which ought not to be put on him and which misrepresents the sentiments of the country to itsold de- fenders. In support of this general state- ment Northway instanced rulings, es- pecially upon the phrase “total disabil- ity,” by the Pension Bureau, which he said should bring a tingle of shame to the cheek of every man in the Nation permit- ting such a policy to be pursued. [Ap- plause. ] Hemenway (R.) of Indiana spoke in favor of the amendment proposed by Graff (R.) of Illinois, which forbids the dropping or decrease of any pension except upon proof of fraud on the part of the pensioner in a competent court. Gibson (R.) of Tennessee said that the Pension Office was a great court—the greatest that the world had ever known; yet there was not a syllable of law pre- seribing the course of procedure before it. The result was that it was an arbitrary court, a court that was tyrannical and unjust. Walker (R.) of Virginia, who com- manded the famous “Stonewall” Brigade, said be rose as a representative of the South and as a Confederate soldier who followed the fortunes of his comrades from Mauassas to Appomattox to say that the gentleman from Indiana (Hemenway) to- tally misapprehended the sentiment of his people and the Confederate soldiers. There was mnone of them, he said, with possibly very few exceptions, who did not sanction and approvh the payment of pen- sions to Federal soldiers which would keep them from suffering or distress. [Ap- plause.] & Kirkpatrick (R.) of Kansas spoke of what he called the exiraordinary regula- tions adopted by the Pension Office. Poole (R.) of New York made a partial defense of the bureau, and then Cummings (D.)of New York made the closing speech of the day, which was the sensation of the session. He sail I shall heartily support the amend- ment offered by the gentleman from Illi- nois (Graff). [Applanse.] I shall raise no objection to it or call a point of order upon it. It is time that something radical shall be done with the Pension Office, There is not a soldier’s widow, there is not a veteran soldier to-day drawing a pension who is not standing daily and hourly under the apprehension that some- thing cowardly may strike him from the pension rolls. After years of patient wait- ing, aiter examining board upon examin- ing board has sat upon his case and he has received a pension, suddenly with- out warning it is withdrawn from him; no charge is made against him and no opportunity offered him to repel any charge, if made, and as. the resolution of the gentleman from Illinois strikes at the root of the trouble I will take that it I cannct get anything to ascertain why it is that the Union vet- erans are stabbed from the back from the very quarter in which they should receive encomiums, encouragement and justice. [Prolonged applause.] “Now I make no charges against the pension department, but I do say this: that repeatedly instances have come -to my attention where boards of examiners haye steadily declared that the soldier was entitled to a pension, and vet it has been rejected in the office herein Washingron.” Stewart (R.) of New Jersey said: “Is it not true that for the last two and a half years the Pension Bureau has been em- phatically hostile to the pension claims of old soldiers?” Cummings said: “I cannot say that, but it has been emphatically unjust to them. [Applause.] No, sir, the speeeh I heard from my colleagueé (Bartlett) on this floor is not calculated to remove the apprehen- sion from the minds of the soldiers and their widows. Cold sophistry may be good, but you had better apply it to the Pacific railroads than to the pensioners. [Loud applause.] I repudiate that speech on be- half of the constituents whom I represent, Republicans as well as Democrats; I repu- diate the speech on behalf of the veterans of New York: I repudiate the speech on behalf of the Grand Army posts and the widows who are drawing pensions in the city of New York; Irepudiate the speech on behalf of the Democracy of New York City—on behali of the Tammany Hall Democracy of New York. [Laughter and applause.] Sir, I have not forgotten and you will not forget, whichever side of the House you stand on, that Tammany Hall organized, equipped and sent to the front one of the finest regiments that ever ap- peared in the Army of the Potomac. Their bravery and their gallantry at Ball’s Bluff and Gettysburg challenged the admiration of the world. ‘I repudiate on behalf of the Tammany Society, who equipped and sent that regi- ment to the front, the speech’that was "uttered on this floor yesterday by a man claiming to represent that Democracy. (Applause.] Tammany Hall has always been loyal to the Union. Tammany Hall has always been loyal to the veterans of the war, I challenge any man to point out one flaw.” W. A. Stone (R.) of Pennsylvania asked: “Can you not go a little further and repudiate the speech of the gentle- man who said that every neighborhood ‘was honeycombed with pension frauds throughout this country ?”’ Cummings replied: *‘If I were Com-. missioner of Pensions I might be able to do so, knowingly. [Applause.| “Now, Mr. Chairman, I speak on behalf of every veteran, on behalf of every widow, on behalf of every orphan who draws a pension in the United States. They are all included in this work at the Pension Office up here. One fraud ought not to punish forty innocent people, and I be- lieve that the ratio would reach one to a thousand. I believe for every fraudulent vensioner who has been stricken from the list or suspended at least a thousand who were receiving only their just dues from the Government have been punished. “I shall vote for the proposition of the gentleman from Illinois with pleasure, and if it fails it will have one good effect—it will call the attention of the Commissioner of Pensions to the fact that the people of the country are watching him and that in process of time we shall have a tribunal either there or somewhere else that will do justice to the men who fought in the Union army 1in the great rebellion.” [Ap- plause.] The committee rose at the conclusion of Cummings’ speech and Curtis (R.) of New York presented the military academy appropriation bill, which was placed on the calendar, Speaker Reed announcing the following members on the joint com- mittee on the inauguration of the Chicka- mauga and Chattancoga National Park, the report of which has not yet been made to Congress: Grosvenor, Kiefer, Strong, Avery, Bowers, Republicans; Wheeler, Cox of Tennessee, Maddox and Crisp, Democrats. By the admission of Utah as a State and the consequent retirement of Delegate Cannon, a reassignment of delegates to committee service was made necessary, and the Speaker announced the assign- ment of Delegate Murphy (R.) of Arizona to the Committee on Claims, Mines and Mining and Coinage, Weights and Meas- ures, and of Delegate Filynn (R.) of Okla- Lioma to the Committee on Agriculture. At 4:15 o'clock, on motion of Watson, the House adjourned. —_— DEGTS OF PACFC AOALS Representative Shraffroth of Col- orado Has a Bill for Their Settlement. It Provides for a Foreclosure on Both the Union and Central Pa. cific Lines. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.—Repre- sentative Shaffroth of Colorade to-day in- troduced a bill for the settlement of the c roads’ debts. It provides for fore- closure on both the Union and Central Pa- cificand the formation of a Government railway company, to be managed by a board of directors. The company is to deliver to the United States fifty-year 3 per cent bonds to the amount of the total indebtedness of the roads to the Goverument, secured by a first mortgage on all the property (subject only to the bonds secured by the first morigage) in event the United States has not purchased or paid the same. Stock of the new company is to be sold at public auction and the amount realized applied to the indebtedness to the Govern- ment and when the latter is fully paid the stockholders are to organize a new corpor- ation. The Government Railway Company is then to convey the roads and properties to it upon surrender and cancellation of the stock of the old company. The Senate Committee on Pacific Rail- roads will begin consideration of the prob- lem next Monday. Hearings will be al- lowed before the committee. Among those who wilt appear will be members of the Union Pacific reorganization committee. A bill introduced by Terry of Arkansas to-day will be read with especial interest by Californians who have had experience with the Southern Pacific of Kentucky. The bill provides that hereafter railroad eorporations or companies orzanized un- der United States laws shall, for purposes of jurisdiction, be deemed citizens of the respective States into which their line of railway may extend. CONST DEFENSES NEEDED. General Flagler Outlines the Requirements of the Nation. Over Eighteen Million Dollars Desired to Carry On the Improvements Contemplated. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.—At the meeting of the Senate Committee on Coast Defenses to-duy General Flagler, chief of ordnance, U. 8. A., submitted estimates of the amount required in addition to the ap- vropriation made for the present fiscal year for the running of the Watervliet gun factory, also as to "the authority required to make contracts for material during the present fiscal year. His estimate for the next fiscal year, made July last, for his department was $5,327,578. His present estimate for prose- cuting the work for the next fiscal year in all the branches of his department, to the full capacity of existing facilities and pro- viding for working the shops sixteen hours per day, is $18,589,877. This includes the ‘amounts named in his July estimate, General Flagler gave the committee in- formation as to the progress of the devel- opment of the yariovs inventions and im- provements relating to artillery ana coast defenscs made during the past tWenty-five years. He stated that the advance in im- provement of this character since 1870 has been as great as bad taken place in the fifty-five years previous to that time. To meet present requirements all the guns and mortars must be of new and modern character. He strongly impressed on the committee the necessity for providing for the manufacture of sixteen-inch guns, which is now fully apparent, although up to the present time no appropriation has been made for their production. jotiiadioxicibony Ponsions for Californians. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14. — The following California pensions have been issued: John Caffrey, San Francisco; Charles 8. Wilson, Soldiers’ Home; Wilber Hesser, Covina. R e Death of Mayor Tyler, LOUISVILLE, Ky., Jan. 14. — Mayor Henry 8. Tyler died this morning of a complication of diseases. His death puts the entire city government in control of a Eefmblicnn-A. P. A. combination, which o] ds all the seats in the General Council, this body electing the Mayor’'s successor. BONDS AND COINAGE, Two Important Subjects Considered in the Senate, RESOLUTIONS OF MILLS. Plans for Keeping Legal Tender in Circulation and for Coin- ing Bullion. AN AMENDMENT FROM BUTLER, Pledged the Votes of the Six Populists to the Party That Will Stop Bond Issues. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.—After considerable discussion in the Senate to- day about granting a pension of §75a month to the widow of Brigadier-General Cogswell of Massachuserts (volunteer army), the bill was passed. During the debate Thurston (R.) of Ne- braska made his maiden speech in the Sen- ate in favor of the measure, which Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska had opposed on the ground that higher pensions should not be given totho widows of officers than to those of private soldiers. Allen moved an amendment reducing the pension from $75 to $50 a month. It was rejected—ayes 23, noes 36. Mills (D.)of Texas offered resolutions declaring that the outstanding legal tender notes shall not be retired, canceled or funded into interest-bearing bounds, but shall be kept in circulation: that the whole of the silver bullion now in the treas- ury shall be coined as rapidly as possible— the coins for the seigniorage to be paid out in current expenses and the rest in the re- demption or treasury notes issued for its purchase; that whenever there is a deficit in the treasury legal-tender notes shall be issued to meet current expenditures and shall be destroved when returned to the treasurer; that all laws authoriz- ing the sale of interest - bearing bonds shall be repealed; that it isthe es- tablished policy of the United States not only to keep all kinds of money issued un- der its authority at par, but to require all ‘| creditors, public or private, to receive gold and silver coinz in payment of all obligations where the terms of the con- tract stipulate for cpin payment, and thag it is tke duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay United States notes in both gold and silver coin. He asked that the resolution lie on the table and gave notice that he would address the Senate on it to-morrow. A Dbill granting to the Atchison ana Nebraska Railroad Compary and to the Chicago, Burlington and . Quincy Raiiroad Company the right of way over part of the Sac and Fox Indian reservation was reported and passed. At 2 p. M. the House bond bill, with the Finance Committee silver substitute, was taken ap. Butler (Pop.) of North Carolina offered an amendment to the bill prohibiting the issue of bonds for any purpose whatever without rurther action of Congress, and requiring the payment of greenbacks, treasury notes and the interest and princi- pal of coin obligations in either gold coin or silver coin, and he addressed the Sen- ate on the amendment. It would not do, he said, for either the Republican or Democratic side of the chamber to evade responsibility by saying that it kad no majority. *I pledge,” he said ‘‘six People’s party votes in thig chamber on either party that will stop the further issue of bonds; and six votes will give a majority to either side. In fact either party can have a majority in this body when it desires to pass any law in the interest of the Ameri- can people.”” Butler occupied two hours in the deliv- ery of his speech and the floor was then taken by Peffer (Pop.) of Kansas who will address the Senate on the bond hill to- morrow. ‘The Serate, then, at 4:25 p. M., proceeded to executive business and shortly after- ward adjourned until to-morrow. S M SPECIFICATIONS FOR BONDS. No Change Will Be Made in Secretary Carlisle’s Cireular. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14.—No change or modification in the circular issued by Secretary Carlisie inviting bids for $100,000,000 4 per cent thirty-year bonds ona 3 per cent basisis contemplated at the Treasury Department. Already under this circular bids have been received for the bonds, which bids, it is held, would be vitiated by any change now made which would work a hardship upon those already having bid. Under the circular bidders bave forty days within which to complete payment for bonds accented by the Secre- tary of the Treasury, and should there be, asis feared in some quarters, a congestion in the money market because of the large amount withdrawn from banks and other depositories with which to pay for the bonds, it is understood here that the Secretary of the Treasury will use his dis- cretion according to circumstances in ex- acting payment within the time specified in the circular. It1s not the desire of the administration to bring abouta congestion in the money market, Considerable interchange of views on this point in a quiet kind of a way has been going on for the past few days be- tween treasury officials charged with the responsibility of perfecting the details of e A o vt NEW TO-DAY. Apollinaris “THE QUEEN OF TABLE WATERS.” NOW SUPPLIED IN “SPLITS.” Ask for “Splits” at the Restaurants and Bars, JOHN CAFFREY, 47 First street, San Francisco. REPRESENTING Charles Graef & Co, N. Y., for Mineral Water. the bond payments. It is readily recog- nized that there are two view points of the situation, viz.: that of the treasury and that of the bidders from whom the gold is to be received. The object of the treasury is to do the best they can for the Govern- ment, and the object of the bankers and bidders is to get the bonds on the best terms for themselves. It is recognized thet most of the gold received for the bonds must come out of the banks of the country and principally out of New York, The effect of this would be to reduce the zold holdings of the banks and necessitats the substitution of some other form ot coin or paper currency for the reserves thus withdrawn. This would naturally produce a conges- tion in the money market and the Secre- tary of the Treasury knowing this, will, as stated, use his discretion in the premises, alike for the benefit of the treasury and the banking community at large. The substance of these assurances has been communicated in various letters written within the last week at the Treas- ury Department to bankers and others throughout the country. While no prom- ise is given that the payments for the bonds will not be required to be made with- in forty days, the Secretary has stated that he, being the judge of the circum- stances, will exercise his discretion in the matter to prevent as far as he can any ine jurious contraction of the currency. HELD UP THE PASSENGERS. Robbers Raided a Missouri Pacific Depot for the Third Time Within a Year. FALLS CITY, Nepr.; Jan. 14.—For the third time within a year the Missour} Pacific depot here has been held up. Early this morning while three passengers were in the waiting-room two masked men en« tered and ordered them to hold up theiy hands: They complied and their watches; jewelry and a small amount of mone} were appropriated. Agent Hunt, who was in his cage, re. fused them admittance, whereupon they smashed the ticket-window with a coupling pin and fired upon him four times withoug effect. Hunt escaped through a back window and gave the alarm, but when thq officers arrived the highwaymen had fled. The terrorized waiting passengers made no attempt to follow them. e e Ordered the Schools Closed. PERRY, 0. T., Jan. 14.—The City Super. intendent of Public Schools, as a last resort to prevent mixed schoolsin Perry, ordered every school closed this morning until some compromise could be made so that all par- ties could be satisfied. Officers seated sev. eral colored children 1 the high school this morning under protest from teachers and superintendent. —_—— Joint Traffic Association. NEW YORK, N.Y:, Jan. 14.—The board of control of the Joint Traffic Association, which was to have met to-day, will not go into conference until Thursday. NEW TO-DAY. “Hey! Keep one for mel" He's hustling to get one of those elegany Parislan Writing Portfolios that were given eway with every purchase of $10 and up, These Portfolios alone are worth $2. 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