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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1896 to find the body of the dead engineer, but the effort wes unsuccessful. Turne, body did not rise to the sur- face and it is supposed to be pinioned be- tween the engine and tender under the water, just as it was carried down. Watchman Brandes said last night that he had seen and heara the breaking of the timbers just as the engine got well on the apron, and that Engineer Turney seemed to instantly realize the ‘full danger of the situation. > Turney sprang forward as if to reach the lever, but the engine settied down and in a nt came the crash. hiams, the fireman, made a bold leap for his life, but Turney had no chance to jump, as he was caught by the engine and and held while he was being slowly crushed. There was just 8 moment in which he t have known that he could not escape g killed hman thinks Turney was killed hed the water. engineer was not supposed to run amer to get the freight section, but as the flatcars were not there to form the connecting link Turney saw no other way of accompl He examined the apron carefully, the watchmen and trainmen assert, and con- cluded that it would hold the engine. It was the first time that an engine has been run on the steamer in doing that work. FHT BETWEEN FAMILIE An Accusation of Theft That Caused a Lively Shoot- ing Affray. Father and Son Went Gunning and Fatal Wounds Were Received in the Fray. PATON, Iowa, Jan tra —One of the worst »dies ever known in this part of the y happened about 7 o’clock last ton the farm of John J. Brown, four of here. family had 1John W. F family of steal- Sunday evening Fleck and hisson Lemselves with shotguns nd started to Brown’s le the matter. 1, & friend, urged them to go home and settle it by law, and the son to go back, but the father would f it and made him go with him. tt lled Brown out, and as the door pointed a shotgun but he was too quick and dodged so that the charge grazed the side in epped t in his of his head. On the apvpearance of John Brown Jr. young Fleck shot him, the bullet lodging in his lungs, the ball having passed through the left lung and lodged in the right on: Do were f ngt ht that followed ten shots . The Browns, with the assist- James, another son, got-the arms e Flecks. George Fleck was ck between the shoulders, k was caught and dragged e house and tied with a log chain until assistance arrived. John Brown Jr. isin a critical condition. The Flecks are under a t, and County Attorney Love- re looking after the affair. The very poor people, and this ndoubtedly throw a large fam- 1 children on the county for - PROFESSIONAL BALL-PLAYERS. The XNational Board Held & Special Meeting. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 27.—The Na- tional board of professional base-ball play- id a special meeting to-day at the h-avenue Hotel. The business before g was not of a very heavy na- ne spplication of John M. Ward to ave his name taken off the New York Club’s reserve list was laid over until the next meeting of the board on February 24, resident Young eaid the matter when would be final. ‘Ward no ent to-d The rest of the business was mostly with disputes as to players, which were of a trivial nature and were quickly disposed of. The board adjourned until February 22, et e oo y disposed of. Neither Mr. President Freedman was pres- LASKER THE CHAMPION. Close of the International Chess Tourna- ment. ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Jan, 27.— The international chess tournament ended e last three games resulting in higorin and Steinitz drew an Evans gambit, which was left adjourned on Thursday, after 96 moves_on Saturday. ury and Tschigorin and Steinitz and r “drew queens gambits, dectined, 9 and 44 moves respectively. Lasker prize, Steinitz the second, Pills- v third and Tschigorin fourth. The final score: Lasker won 113, lost 14; Steinitz_won 914, lost 83¢; Pilisbury won 8, lost 10: Tschigorin won 7, lost 11. - DAN CREEDON THE WINNER. Easily Defeated Jem Smith in the Second Round. ‘ LONDON, Exc., Jan. 27.—The fight be- tween Dan Creedon and Jem Smith for a puxsenii £400 took place to-night at the Nationfil Sporting Club. Creedon easily defeated his opponent in the second round. The fighting lasted less than seven min- tites. GIVEN UP FOR LOST. Disappearance of a Schoomer With a e Large Crew. GLOUCESTER, Mass., Jan. 27.—The schooner John W. Bray and crew were formally given up for lost by the owner of the vessel to-day. The Bray sailed hence November 17 ox a hand-line coa-fishing frip to Georges banks. She was owned by John F. Wonson, and carried a crew of fourteen, as follows: Alex. McLeod, mas- fer, of Boston; James McLeod, Norman McLeod, Joe Hines, Alexander McDonald, Michael Ryan, William Morrison, Chris- topher {McKay, John Olsen, Albert Mon- roe, Neil Nickerson, Bellinean Arseno, William Dunn and John Carrigan. -— SOLD BY THE RECEIVERS. ZThe Omaha and »t. Louis Railway Bought by Gold. COUNCIL] BLUFFS, Iowa, Jan. 27— The Omaha and St. Louis Railway was sold at receivers’ sale by special Master in Chancery Ress for $1,560,000 at noon to- day. The successful bidder was Cornelius Gold of New York, representing the bond- holders. There were but two bidders— Gold, representing the bondholders, and Winston of St. Louis, representing the ‘Wabash Company. Gold refused to state just what would be done with the prop- erty, but'it is reported that it will be ac- quired by the Baltimore and Ohio South- western either by lease or close traffic ar- rangement. e The Flying Squadron. ~LONDON, Ex6., Jan. 27.—It is an- nounced that the new flying squadron of British warships now assembled off Bere- haven, Bantry Bay, on the south coast oi Ireland, will not sail until after the funeral | supply beingchiefly incidental. All bonds, ©of Frince Henry of Battenberg, CHOATE ASSAILS THE WRIGHT ACT., Inconsistencies in the Law Pointed Out in Force- ful Style. UNJUST ASSESSMENTS. Lands Taxed for Irrigation Pur- poses Derive No Possible Benefit. RIGHTS OF PROPERTY-OWNERS. It Is Claimed That the Law Clearly Violates the Fourteenth Amendment. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.—Argu- ments were continued in tbe irrigation cases in the Supreme Court to-day. Joseph H. Choate concluded his argu- ment begun Friday. He made a strong speech in the opinion of the lawyers pres- ent. The courtroom was crowded to hear the eminent lawyer. Choate said: “It may be that irrigation of arid lands, unprocuctive without it, may be a public purpose warranting taxation or assess- ment in a proper case, but irrigation of land that does not require irrigation, but is merely desired by some owners to be irrigated for the purpose of improving land already fertile, or for the purpose of ¢hanging the uses of land from agriculture to horticulture because it will be more profitable and thus enhance the value of private property, cannot be public use. The lands in Modesto and the Central irri- gation districts have been successfully and profitably devoted for years to wheat raising without irrigation, and in Modesto district the city of Modesto has been cre- ated within the district and all without irrigation. “The question now presented to the court is not whether a general system for irrigation of arid lands might be carried out by a State. The question is whether this particular statute, known as the ‘Wright act, as applied to such districts as the Modesto or Central districts, outside of the arid regions and productive without irrigation, but formed for the mere pur- pose of making lands within it more pro- ductive or of enabling such of land-owners ther as desired to irrigate to convert their lands from grain fields into orchards or vineyards at the expense not of the par- ties benefited, but of all lands within the district, whether benefited or not, or whether irrigated or not, or which cannot be irrigated at all, is a violation of the fourteenth amendment. “In the Fallbrook case Mrs. Bardle's farm has been beneficially used withcut irrigation, and she cannot be compelled by law to change its use, or to bear the ex- pense of providing irrigation for others which ehe does not require. To take her property for this purpose is nothing more than robbery under the guise of law. The principle which protects her is older than the Magna Charta. It was handed down on Mount Sinai in the shortest of com- mandments: * Thoushaltnotsteal!” That is wiat the fourteenth amendment says to any community or State which seeks to in- vade the inalienable, individual rights of property-owners. “In the Magna Charta and petition of right it proteoted the people against the rapacity of the monarch. In the four- teenth amendment it protects the indivi- dual from the rapacity of the multitude. And this tribunal occuples the grandest position ever held by any human tribunal for the protection of the individual right of every citizen to his life, liberty and property. And life is so dear and liberty is so sweet and property is so sacred that the mantie of protection of this amend- ment should always be extended by this court whenever it has been violated by any State. “There is a growing disregard for the individual right of property, and it is to this court that we must look for protec- tion against every assault. The Wright act in effect takes the property of A and gives it to B without consent or conpensa. tion, The whole portion of the bonded debt of Modesto district, paid by the city of Modesto, is in effect transferred from the city to the outlying agricultural lands. This is just what Judge Miller in Davidson vs. New Orleans said should not be done. But it is done whenever you s lands not benefited to provide irrigation for owners who desire it. Under the Wright act all lands susceptible of irrigation may be assessed. Susceptible is a broad word including everything, especially when construed, as it has been, to mean susceptible in its natural state. It means capable of receiving of, of being affected by, as my distinguished adversary will no doubt concede, as al! men are susceptible of love. And when the act is further con- strued to include all lands even indirectly benefited, although incapable of irriga- tion, as brick buildings, the acme of con- fiscation is reached. Assessment by value in irrigation districts levies heaviest charge upon the property least benefited. “I appeal for authority to my learned adversary, Judge Dillon. 1 appeal tfrom Philip drunk to Philip sober—from Judge Dillon, inflamed with fumes of advocacy, to Judge Dillon in his quiet study, writing law treatises. In his great work he says lands directly and largely benefited cannot be included with those only indirectly and slightly benefited where the assessments are not proportionate to the benefits. Again, water provided under the Wright act does not go to land. It goes to certain individuals, who may either use it or sell it as they desire. There is no public use in this. It simply provides a commodity, for sale or exchange. It is for irrigation of a class of persons, not of the lands; and of this we have a grand ex- ample in the deluge, when the Almighty determined that the irrigation of mankind was mecessary for their salvation. Here the question of necessity was determined, but under the Wright act it never has been. The Legislature does not determine it, nor does any one except the petitioners for the district, who may select its boun- daries at will, thus choosing the electors who must vote, and then pile up bonds without himit. “The Supreme Court of Ualifornia has said in the Glendora case that the princi- pal purpose of the act seems to be to pro- vide a plentiful supply of bonds, a water which have been issued under this act bave been disposed of with the knowledge of those who took them that their validity was questioned and would be contested in this court. If heavy discounts have led speculators to take them they have done g0 with their eyes open. If they must be paid they will confiscate the home of many a farmer in California whose cause I am here to plead.” Judge Dillon then argued in support of the Wright act, concluding at 4 o'clock.” Eatasuny OTHER CASES IN COURT. The Celebrated Stanford Case Comes Up To-Day. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.—An- other immense crowd congregated about the doors of the Supreme Courtof the United States this morning, attracted thither by the prospect of hearing Joseph H. Choate conclude the argument against the Wright irrigation law of California. Before he resumed his address to the court, which was begun on Friday after- noon, a considerable routine business was transacted. Justice Peckham announced the de- cision of the court in the case of the First National Bank of Garrett, Kans., vs. the tax officers of Anderson County, that the tax assessed against the bank, of which it sought to enjoin the collection, was proper and the judgment of the Supreme Court of Kansas in favor of the tax was affirmed. Chief Justice Fuller announced that owing to the pressure upon the court the usual February recess from the first Mon- day in that month until the first Monday in March would not begin until the last of the assiened cases now under considera- tion had been disposed of, or probably not until Tuesday of next week. The case of John H. Ward, Sheriff, vs. Racehorse, growing out of the Bannock Indian troubles in Jacksons Hole . last summer, will be argued on the first Mon- day in March. The controversy between the Churci: of Christ at Independence, Mo., and the Re- organized Church of Latter-Day Saints wili not get into the Supreme Court in its present form at least, the petition of the former for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit having been denied. To-morrow the celebrated Stanford case will come up, Mr. Choate appearing for the widow of the late Senator Stanford. The Government will be represented by Solic- itor-General Conrad and Assistant Attor- ney-General Dickinson. CHARGES OF FRAUD WADE Serious Allegations Made by a Committee of Dissatisfied Stockholders. Vast Sums Said to Have Been Ille- gally Drawn by Officers of an 0il Traust. ST. 1.OULS, Mo., Jan. 27.—There was forwarded from here to-night to each stockholder of the National Linseed Oil Company a sixteen-page circular report of an investigating committee of three that will create a sensation. The committee consisgs of J. L. Goeppinger of Towa, J. W. Wallace of Minnesota and Martin Collins of Missouri, who were appointed at the last annual meeting of the stockholders of the oil committee or trust, as it is ad- mitted in the circular to be, to report upon the financial status of the concern. There are about fifty mills and 500 stock- holders in the trust, wnich 1s capitalized at $18,000,000. The committee has gone back into the operations of the trust be- ginning January 1, 1890. They report that the inquiry revealed loose bookkeeping and unsatisfactory balances. They charge that during the years 1892, 1892 and 1894 over $83,000 was drawn by officers of the trust as commissions for indorsing the company’s paper. One paragraph reads: **A review of the president’s five annual reports will show he has endeavored to give the stockholders a better impression of the condition of the affairs of the com- pany than the facts warrant.” The committee reports that it was re- fused access to the books for the past sev- enteen months and no data covers this period. Committeeman Collins concurs with the majority, but in a personally signed ad- dendum says he thinks the inter- ests of the stockholders would have been better conserved had the figures not been given. President Alex Euston of the Linseed Oil Compéany left for Chicago to-night. Before his de- parture he said that the report of the com- mittee had been sprung upon the stock- holders just previous to the annual elec- tion in February to defeat him for re-election. He says the committee and their backers do not represent 2 per cent of the stockholders, and declared that the attempt to exploit the company’s balances was for stock-jobbing purvoses. Several St. Louis financiers are interested in the trust and some dissatisfaction exists. There is now pending here in the United States Circuit Court the petition of L. A. Coquard, a stockholder, asking for a re- ceiver for the company. e il NOW CHARGED WITH MURDER. Dr. Rhodes of Kentucky Accused of Killing a Wealthy Rancher and His Own Wife. OWENSBORO, Ky., Jan. 27.—A- sensa- tion which has been brewing for some time culminated to-night 1n the arrest of Dr. P. T. Rhodes, a prominent physician of Newyville, this county, charged with murdering Jared Robinson, a wealthy farmer and neighbor, last July. Rhodes is also suspected of the murder of his wile, who died shortly before Robinson’s death. Rhodes was altending Robinson in a spell of iliness and it is claimed poisoned him. October 11 following Rhodes and Mrs. Robinson were secretly married at Jeffersonville, Ind., and at once converted Robinson’s entire estate into money, col- lectine $5000 life insurance and announced that they were going to Mexico. In Augnst following Robinson’s death it is alleged a criminal operation was performed upon Mrs. Robinson by Rhodes. Rhodes will be brought here to jail to-morrow morn- ing. S Pavin TROUBLE WITH A HUSBAND. It Caused a Woman to Give Paris Green to Her Children and Herself. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 27.—Mrs. Ida ‘Work, 40 years of age, living at 467 North street, Brooklyn, this afternoon gave paris green to her two boys, Otto and William, aged 8 and 10 respectively, and then swal- lowed some of the poison herself, All three were taken to St. Catherine’s Hospital. The mother died shortly after her arrival and the children are in a crit- ical condition. Before she became uncon- scious the mother said that she had taken the step because of trouble with her husband, 3 DISOBEVED THE ACT OF CONGRESS, Secretary Morton Scored for Not Purchasing Seeds. EVADES THE MANDATES. Senators Hansbrough and Allen Pay Their Respects to the Agriculturist. THE FREE SILVER SUBSTITUTE. Nelson of Minnesota Vigorously Pro- tests Against Unlimited Coinage of the White Metal. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.—The Armenian atrocities formed the subject for the opening prayer by the blind chaplain of the Senate, Mr. Milburn, this morning. As soon as the journal of Friday last was read the credentials of Frank J. Cannon and Arthur Brown as Senators-elect from the new State of Utah were presented, read and placed on file, and the new Senators were then escorted to the Vice-President’s desk by Senators Dubois (R.) of Idaho and Burrows (R.) of Michizan and took and subscribed the cath of office. They make the whole number of Senators now in office 89, there being still a vacancy from the State of Delaware. Among the petitions presented and re- ferred to committees was one from the wife of John T. Waller, held in prison by the French authorities, in which she declares thatsuch imprisonmentisa ‘‘crime against justice, and that if her husband had been a British subject he would have been released long since.” She prays Congress that “some suitable and immediate action be taken for his release.” Peffer (Pop.) of Kansas offered a resolu- tion, which went over until to-morrow, in- structing the Interstate Commerce Com- mission to inform the Senate whether any additional legislation is necessary to pro- tect the public interests in relation to rail- road charges from points on the Missouri River east and west. On motion of Mitchell (R.) of Oregon the drawing took place between the two Utah Senators to determine their relative terms of service, and the Vice-President | announced that No. 1 (the long term) had been drawn by Cannon and No. 2 (the short term) by Brown. Hansbrough (R.) of North Dakota then took tue floor and proceeded with a speech relative to matters pertaining to the De- partment of Agriculture, His subject was the failure of the Secretary of Agriculture o execute the law on the subject of seed distribution, The essence of the contro- versy, he said, lay in the proposition whether an executive officer of the Gov- ernment has the right to willfuily, delib- erately, designedly and, as in this case, premeditately ignore & solemn statute of Congress. He believed it could be showrn that the Secretary of Agriculture had dis- obeyed the mandate of the legislative branch of the Government. The last Congress had made an appropri- ation of $130,000 to be wused in the purchase and distribution of field and garden seeds, trees, cuttings, bulbs, etc., as required by law. The Secretary had first showed his deliberate purpose to evade that law when he asked the Attorney- General for an interpretation of the stat- ute with reference to the purchase of seeds. There was nothing at all in the opinion of the Attorney-General which was inconsist- ent with the proper work of the depart- ment, so that the Secretary derived but little consolation from the opinion of the Attorney-General. In accordance with that opinion the Secretary had proceeded to advertise for bids, but in the Secretary’s advertisement there were no specifications, no descriptive lists of the seedsdesired; he simply advised the public that bids for seeds would be received. Each and all the bids were rejected on the ground that the list did not show that the seeds were rare and uncommon. In the proceedings which took place a few days ago before the two committees on Agriculture of the two houses the Secretary of Agriculture had stated, when asked wiy he did not re- advertise for new bids, that he did not be- lieve he was obliged to de so. Mr. Hansbrough submitted that in ordi- nary business transactions if a man does not secure what he desires by the first ad- vertisement it is customary for him to make a second advertisement, which was the ordinary method in everyday busi- ness transactions, and it was furthermore the effort prescribed by actof Congiess, approved January 27, 1894, with reference to the purchase of articles by various ex- ecutive departments. The Secretary shields bimself behind his own opinion that the seeds offered were not ‘““rare and uncom- mon.”” The provision of the law as to the beneficial effect of frequent changes of seed from one locality to another the Sec- retary had intentionally ignored and dis- regarded. He had likewise ignored the articles of the other statute which requires readvertisements for proposals. It was the plain duty of the Secretary, if he were faithful in the performance of his duty and desired to execute the laws of Congress, to have readvertised and to have earnestly endeavored to aid bidders in offering seeds of the kind and character that the law demanded and the Secretary required. Instead of this he rejected all bids upon technical grounds, forthwith abolished the seed division of his department and announced that there would be no seeds purchased and distribu- ted under the appropriation bill for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896. Altogether the position of the Secretary in the matter was exceedingly tame. That he deliberately set out to disobey the man- date of Congress there could be no doubt; that he personally was opposed to the pur- chase and distribution of seeds of any character, whether they be ‘rare orun- common” or otherwise, there was no ques- tion and so the Senate had here a case in which'a high execative officer deliberately sets aside the law of Congress. The great question above all others was the contu- macious conduct of the Secretary. Could an officer of the executive branch of the Government, who was in effect a bigh- salaried clerk, defiantly and stubbornly re- fuse to carry into effect the actsof the Congress of the United States? Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska said that he disagreed entirely with the Secretary of Agrioulture as to his duty. He thought it was the Secretary’s plain duty to execute the law and to purchase the seeds required by the appropriation bill. No one who knew him could doubt his great capacity to discharge the duties of his office. Un- {fortunately, however, the Seeretary did not always confine himself to agricultural matters, but sometimes undertook to dis- cuss financial questions, usurping, to some extent, the duties of the Secretary of the Treasury. George (D.) of Mississippi made an argu- mept against the pending joint resolution, which directs the Secretary of Agriculture to:arry into effect the provisions of the ac At 2 P, M. the Vice-President interrupted Mr. George’s speech and laid before the Senate the House bond bill, with the free silver substitute. Nelson (R.)of Minnesota addressed the Senate—his first regular speech 1n the body. He said: ‘“The free and unlimited coinage of sil- ver at the ratio of 16 to 1 by the United States alone, at this time and under exist- ing conditions, will destroy thelast vestige and last hope of genuine bimetallism, and reduce us toa pure state of silver mono- metallism, with Mexico, China and Japan as our chief metallic money associates. “Complete bimetallism implies not only equal privileges, but also equal faculties of circulation. Both metals may be freely coined and yet more freely circulated. A metal may be freely coined and yet be powerless to maintain itself in circulation. Though both metals may be freely coined, yet if for any cause only one of these is in active circulation, then there is a failure of that bimetallism which seeks an abundant currency and enhanced prices— the chief grourds upon which free coinage is placed. In this full and plenary sense We have never had complete bimerallism in this country. We have been subject to that law from which r.o nation is exempt, that where two kinds of metallic money, of equal eoin value, but of unequal com- mercial value, circulate side by side, that money which is intrinsically and commer- cially cheapest will drive the dearest out of circulation, unless the two are, as a a matter of law and fact interconvertible with each other. Our own experience and our own financial history makes this plain and manifest. At least three times in our experience have we suffered the penalty of this law and sought to overcome its effect.’” He concluded by saying: “The silver countries, Mexico, China and Japan, are not the purchasers of our surplus wheat and cotton. We have to look to the gold-standard countries for our customers. But when every other argument fails the advocates of free silver appeal to our prejudices and say that by aiming to keep our money to the gold standard we are merely knuckling down to England, putting ourselves in her grasp and placing ourselves at her mercy. Eng- land occupies the vantage ground she does because her exchanges are made in the universal money of the world. Our form of government, our climate and our resources, and, above all, the restless energy and vigor of our people, entitle us to stand at the nead of the industrial and commercial world. But we can never hope to reach that high place by reducing our currency to the level of Mexico, China and Japan—the mere bullion value of sil- ver.” Bacon (D.) of Georgia was the next to address the Senate. It was also his maiden speech in the body and he deliv- ered it with inuch oratorical grace and effect. He spoke of the restoration of silver to general currency on the same terms as gold as a questicn which had stood in the foreground of discussion for the last twenty years. He strongly favored such restoration. Bacon argued that there was no authority under existing law for the issue of bonds, and that if there were such a law ought to be repealed. Bacon carried on an extended colloquy with Hill (D.) of New Yorkas to the effect of the bond issues, and contended that instead of issuing bonds to obtain gold, the $177,009,000 of surplus in the treasury should be used in the redemption of Gov- ernment securities—the paper money being exchanged for silver coin and this silver coin paid out. He said that if the Government persisted in ignoring silver money and in redeeming 1ts obligations only in gold there would be in a few years five hundred millions locked up in the Treasury in the shape of greenbacks and treasury notes, and the circulation of the country would be diminished to that ex- tent. At the close of Bacon’s speech Clark (R.) of Wyoming obtained the floor. Lodge (R.) of Massachusetts gave notice of an amendment to the bond bill provid- ing for an issue of $100,000,000 in 3 per cent bonds to provide for coast defenses. The Senate, after a short executive ses- sion, at § p. M. adjourned until to-morrow. R SR, ROUTINE IN THE HOUSE. Passage of the Bill Relating to Timber Sales on Reservations. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.—In the House to-day, on motion of Towne (R.) of Minnesota a bill amending the act of 1889 in regard to the sale of pine timber lands on certain Indian reservations, permitting its sale in small parcels, was passed. The House then, on motion by Babcock (R.) of Wisconsin, passed the Senate bill authorizing the incorporation of a post- graduate school of medicine in the District of Columbia. Speaker Reed laid before the House the message of the President relating to the failure of the negro colonization scheme in Mexico; referred to the Committee oh Foreign Affairs. On motion by Steele (R.) of Indiana the annual report of the Board of Managers of Soldiers’ Homes was referred to the Com- mittee on Appropriations and the Com- mittee on Military Affairs, The House then, at 4:55 r. M., adjourned until to-morrow. DIPLOMATS ARE IN DOUBT. They Hesitate at Sending an Agent to the Transvaal. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.—The ca- bled request of the Americans in the Transvaal that President Cleveland send adiplomaticagent there to look after the in- terests of the American citizens arrested for complicity in the late alleged Uit~ landers conspiracy has been rece ved at the State Department. No action has been taken upon the request, but Secre- tary Olney is said to have talked it over with the President at a long conference between them this morning. There is a somewhat delicate question involved in appointing a representative with diplomatic functions to a state over which Great Britain claims suzerainty. It was_recently semi-officially-announced from London that if Emperor William sent a diplomatic officer to Pretoria Great Britain would regard it as a declaration of war. —— Dividends of Banks, WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.—The Comptroller of the Currency has declared dividends as follows: Third dividend, 10 per cent, Oregon National Bank of Port- land, Or.; seventh dividend, 25 per cent, rque National Bank of Albuquer- E:x-, . M.: final dividend, 10} per cent, Nlt) d’s National Bank of "Jamestown, WILL ATTENPT A COMPROMISE Conferences Between the Silver and Anti-Silver Senators. MUST GO UPON RECORD. Friends of the White Metal May Force Their Adversaries to a Vote. ONE PECULIAR PROPOSITION. Contemplates the Retirement of Green- backs and the Issuance of More Gold Bonds. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 27.—During the session of the Senate to-day there ‘were numerous conferences between silver and anti-silver Democrats and Repub- lican. There was every evidence of a desire to get together on the financial question. Should there be any compromise it can only come after the silver men have put the Senate on record by an aye and no vote on the free-silver substitute now under debate. The compromise can only be effected in the conference committee. As a means for arriving at some solution of the problem, through the instru- mentality of that committee, the situation is being canvassed in the Senate. 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