The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 29, 1896, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1896. NOW BEFORE THE SUPREME COURT, Argument Commenced in the Suit Against Stan- “ford’s Estate. CONTENTION OF COUNSEL Government Attorneys Set Forth the Liability of Railroad Stockholders. OBLIGATIONS OF AIDED LINES. Mr. Choate Says That the Senator’s Widow Is Not Responsible for Any Indebtedness. ASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. -Argu- ent was heard to-day by the Supreme | Court of the United States in the famous suit brought by the United States against the estate of the late Senator Stanford of ic Railroad Company, any State; that the companies were re- spectively created and adopted as govern- mental instruments for ngrenthfiox'nl purpose, in the accomplishment of which they were to be subject to the control of the Federal Government; thbatin respect to that purpuse the functions, obligations and liabilities of all the companies were to be equal and identical, and that as to both companies the Government looked to the companies alone for the performance of all that the acts imposed, and did.not con- template, rely uvon or intend the personal liability of the stocknolders of either, but, on the contrary, did intend that in respect to the subsidy bonds there should be no liability of the stockholders of either com- pany to the Government. Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States in support of this assertion were quoted at great length. Second—In addition to the fact that no individual liability was imposed by the acts of Congress, the estate of Senator Stanford was also certainly free from any individual liability for the subsidy bonds by the law of California in force at the time of the passage of the act of 1862, which provided the terms on which the bonds were to be issued, and also at the time of the issue of the bonds, from 1865 to 1869. Third—But even the qualified liability of stockholders for contracts of the corporation did not exist under the constitution and laws of California at the time of the contract between the United States and the company, evidenced by the act of Congress of July 1, 1862, and the written acceptance of its conditions by the railroad company. At that time there was no liability of stock- holders whatever, as the Supreme Court of California has uniformly held. Asthe rights of the United States must and do depend wholly upon that contract, and as no liability of stockholders to the Govern- ment under the contract could be imposed by any subsequent legislation of Califor- lity for the debts of that corporation to the Government. Among the auditors | Stanford, to whom the determ- | ion means much. | ians noticed were Colone!l John P. Irish, d and George H. Max- co, Thomas H. Bond of Lockport and Senator Stewart, besides | Russell Wilson of counsel for Mrs. Stan- ford. Many ladies were present, some of them being personal friends of Mrs. Stan- ford. The argument was opened by Assist- ant Attorney-General Dickinson and will be closed by Solicitor-General Conrad. Mrs. Stanford was represented by Joseph H. Choate of New York. The suit was | originally begun in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Sonthern District of California, the -demand being for the sum of $i5,237,000. Both in that court and in the t Court of Appea ernment w: ated and the to the Supreme Court of the United States by appeal from the judgment of the Court | of Appeals against the United States. The A ant Attorney-General and So- licitor-General in their argument stated | that the habi sought to be enforced was created by the law of California, which it was in d bound s olders of cor- | porations to answer person debts in proportion to th capital stock. Mr. Stanford wasa stock- holder in the Central Pac Railroad Company and the Western Pacific Rail- road Company, two California corporations chartered 1n 1861 and 1 con d by autho 1870 under the name of Railroad Company. It was alleged that these companies he-j came indebted to the United States for bonds of the United States which were loaned to these companies under the | United States statutes of July 1, 1862, to aid them in building their raiiroads; that | the companies became obligated to pay | the United States the amount of these bonds at their maturity, together with all ot tke interest upon the same, and that all of the same was an existing indebtedness to Jnited States. The bonds loaned to the Central Pacific Railroad Company of Cali- ly for their r holdings of Central Pacific | fornia amounted to $25, ; those loaned to the Western Pac Railroad Company amounted to $1,970,560. . All | were thirty-year bonds, bearing interest at 6 per cent. The first four installments of the bonds loaned to the Centra! Pacific Railroad Company of California, amount- | ing to $2,362,000, have matured, and have | been paid by the United States, and 2ll of | the interest which accrued up to the filing | of the bill has likewise been paid by the ; United States, and no part of the principal | or interest has been paid by the corpora- tion. It was alleged that the United States was bound to pay and would payall of said remaining bonds and interest at | maturity; that the indebtedness to the United States on account of those bonds | loaned to the Central Pacific Railroa Company of California would amount to $60,000,000, and that on account of those | 1 Joaned to the Western Pacific Railroad | Company to $5,489,560; thet the said rail- | roads were insolvent, were covered by a paramount mortgage exceeding their value, and that the United States has no remedy except agairst the stockholders of said company. The contention by the Government was that the railroad company became indebt- ed to the United States in the amount of | the bonds issued to them and were per sonally obligated to vay the same with interest; that the constitution of the State of California imposed upon each stock- holder an enforceable versonal obligation | for a proportion of all debts and liabili- ties; that the constitution, supplemented by section 12 of the act of 1861, under which the companies in question were in- corporated, fixed a definite liability; that by no act of the United States, through either of its departments of government, was an intent or purpose manifested to absolve the Central Pacific Railroad Com- pany from the obligations assumed by the companies or from liability imposed upon their stockholders, and that nothing can be found in the course of dealing between the United States and the Central Pacific | Company to support the inference or justify the conclusion that the United States in any manner relinquished or waived the security afforded by the per- sonal liability of the stockholders. Mr. Choate, in his argument in behalf of the defendant, Mrs, Jane Stanford, execu- trix of the will of her deceased husband, referred to the basis and magnitude of the suit, saying the magnitudeof the claim was wholly unparalleled. The bill de- manded $15,000,000 against the defendant and involved the claim of an equalamount against each of the three associates of the defendant’s testator, amounting to a total sum of $60,000,000 against four individuals, solely by reason of their having heid stock in the Central Pacific Railroad Company and its constituent companies. The de- fense to the suit was based upon four prin- cipal grounds, in support of which it was argued : First—The successive acts of Con- gress relating to the Union and Central Pacific railroads are to be read to- gether, and so read they demonstirate that Congress intended them to cover, control and regulate the - entire relations of the Government to all of the companies, with respect to the subsidy | tional enterprises, the Government was | acted upon unfavorably to-day by the | bonas, without reference to thé laws of nia, the bill sets forth no cause of action whatever. Fourth—But, in fact, by the true con- struction of the acts of Congress there was no obligation on the part of the Union and Central Pacific companies to repay the nioneys represented by the subsidy bonds except in the manner and by the method agreed upon in the act, which im- posed a statutory lien for the subsidy bonds without personal liability, and made the grant of the bonds, as well as everything else granted, upon condition merely without personal covenant, prom- ise or obligation to repay otherwise than in the manner prescribed by the act. The Government was not dealing with these parties merely as a money-lender g security and interest. In effect, in | n providing for these great Na- | participating, in a certain sense, with | those parties whom it called to its aid to | effect this great National work. The Gov- | ernment was to gain greatadvantages—the | right to transmit its dispatches, the right | to send its troops and munitions of | war and other material over the road and the right to control the operation of the company in fixing its fares and freizhts under certain conditions specified in the act. It protected its own interests in the most ample and complete manner. It could enforce all rights that the extremest advocate on the part of the Government counld have suggested at the time of the framing of these acts, that it would be proper or wise or advantageous for the Government to have. | All these rights the Government had and it provides specifically and in detail just| how those rights should be carried out. No bonds could be wasted. They could | not be taken by the company or squan- | dered for its purposes, because the act was | carefully guarded in this respect. There must be a ceriificate by the proper officer of the Government that forty | miles had been vroperly constructed be- | fore the bonds of the Government could | be ed therefor. ThustheGovernment | provided that every dollar which it ad- | vanced, every dollar of those subsidy bonds, | should go into the performance of this work, into the creation of this railroad in which the Government was so largely and | beneficially interested, as it were, as a part | propiietor by virtue of the rights it re- | served in the road. Mr. Choate will continue his argument 10-MOTrTow. — RAILROADS ARE STUBBORN Will Not Extend Time on the Tickets to the Grand Army Encampment, Knights of Pythias Also Refused a Low Rate to the Conclave at Minneapolis. CHICAGO, IrL., Jan. 28.—St. Paul’s re- | quest for an extension of the return limit for Grand Army encampment tickets was | general passenger agents of the Chicago- St. Paul lines at the special meeting of the | ‘Western Passenger Association. Com- mander-in-chief Walker was officially in- formed by Chairman Caldweli’s letter that the lines ‘‘were unable to reach an agree- ment providing for any change from the | original limit. The general sentiment of the interested lines was that a proper pro- tection of their interests made it imprac- ticable to grant the desired extension.” Mr. Caldwell could not say the senti- ment was unanimous because more than one of the lines which enter St. Paul favored a compromise of twenty days, notably the Great Western, which was the first to commit itself at Louisvitle to aone- cent a mile rate 1f the encampment was taken to St. Paul. This road may still be the entering wedge for all the roads to give an extension by giving the required ten days’ notice of such intention. The prospect, however, is darkened by the as- surance given to the Western roads by the Central Traffic Association roads that they will not give a thirty days’ extension. The Grand Army officers are also said to be handicapped 1n their threat to remove the encampment to Eastern railroad ter- | ritory by the definite assurance given by the Central Traflic, or rather the new Joint Traffic Association roads that neither a one-cent rate nor thirty davs’ extension will be given the G. A. R. to hold the en- campment in Buffalo. The Western offi- cials say they cannot afford to do more than they have offered, and that the Grand Armg peoflg are always asking for unrea- sonable privileges. The Western passenger agents at their meeting also took adverse action on the request of the Knights of Pythias to give them a one-cent rate for the conclave to be held in Minneapolis this year. The manipu- lation of party rates, which threaten to dissolve the passenger part of the traffic agreement of the Chicago-St. Paul lines, was seriously discussed by the agents at the same meeting. All voted to instruct Chbairman Caldwell to communicate with each road to effect a unanimous agreement regarding the solution of the problem, which will likely be the abolition of rates, with a reservation in favor of theatrical companies, | the proposed investigation. BURNING WORDS N THE SENATE Turpie Cries Out Against the Crimes of the Turks. CAUSE OF CHRISTIANITY. Sway of the Sword Should Be Checked by Most Drastic Measures. THURSTON ONMONROE DOCTRINE In Discussing the Debs Case Allen Lays the Lash on Judge Woods. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan, 28.—There were three speeches made in the Sc:nate to-day on the House bond bill, with the iree coinage substitute, reported from the Committee on Finance. Two of them were in favor of the substitute and one against it. The former were made by Senators Clark (R.) of Wyoming ana Voorhees (D.) of Indiana; the latter by Senator Gray (D.) of Delaware. Notice of an amendment was given by Teller (R.) of Colorado, requiring the pay- ment of National bank notes in coin, when presented for redemption at the bank of issue. An ineffectual effort was made to have unanimous consent given to have the bill voted on next Thursday. The objection came from Hill (D.) of New | York. Turpie (D.) of Indiana, in presenting a memorial on the subject of the Armenian horrors, indulged in a fierce invective against the Sultan and Mahommedanism, and Thurston (R.) of Nebraska made an equally strong representation in favor of | the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine. The speech was applauded at various points. e In présenting a petition in regard to the Armenians Turpie (D.) of Indiana spoke of the recent outrages upon them and said that the only charge against them—their only crime—was being Christians. The time had come, he raid, when an official notification should begiven to Tur- key and to the Mohammedan church that | they must cease to prose!ytize by the sword. The sway of the Turk, he said, was only endured and supported on sc- count of those international jealousies that clustered around the trans-Atlantic se ment of the Mediterranean called the ba ance of power in Eurape. The Turks ought to be notified that they must erase from their book of discipline that practice of the Mohammedan church which makes use of arson ' and murder to suppress the Christian faith. And he would have that| notification followed by a shot which would go crashing through the grand | seraglio. He was in favor of giving “the sick man” of the Bosphorus the coup de grace and of ending his life and system by dissolution and destruction. It was time that those murderers and assassins should know “Him who was born to the world at Bethlehem and was raised at Nazareth, and that when he comes again to punish such wretches as those he brings with him not peace but a sword.” Mr. Turpie spoke with intense vehe- mence and bitterness, and bis speech at- iracted marked attention. Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska gave notice of an amendment to the bond and free-coin- age bill—depriving the Secretary of the Treasury of the power to issue bonds or other interest-bearing obligations of the | Government, unless Congress shall first declare a necessity therefor. The resolution heretofore offered by | Call (D.) of Florida for a special com- mittee to investigate the case of the im- prisonment of Eugene V. Debs for con- tempt of court was laid before the Senate, | and Call said that he had offered the reso- lution at the request of a iabor association, Hill (D.) of New York said that ordin- arily be had very great respect for the laboring people of the United States, but was not aware of a communication from the laboring people asking the Senate for If it was to be made he thought it should be by one of the standing committees of the Senate. He, therefore, offered an amendment in- | structing the Judiciary Committee to in- vestigate the whole subject of contempts of court as enforced by Federal courts. Call opposed the amendment and spoke of the standing committees of the Senate as the sepuichres of popular movements for reform and of Eugene V. Debs as *‘a great leader, a man of power and a railroad man.” Hill argued that, as the question in- volved was a judicial one, it should be re- ferred to the Judiciary Committee. Be- sides, he said, the Debs case had already been decided in the Bupreme Court to the effect that his imprisonment was legal. Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska asserted that the Supreme Court had done nothing of the kind; it had merely decided that the writ of habeas corpus did not apoly to the casé. He added that if the Senator from New York knew anything “about this man Woods (the United States Circuit Judge who had imprisoned Debs), if he knew the stain that hung upon him when he was | appointed as a reward for political trick- ery,” the Senator would not give much for his decision. Hill said that he was not called upon to criticize Judge Woods’ decision. It was enough for him that Debs had appealed to the highest court of the United States and had obtained no relier. In the course of further discussion Allen said that he could not help being im- pressed with the thought that the Senate was organized *“not to do business,” Gordon (D.) of Georgia reminded the Senators that the hour had arrived when the Senator from Nebraska (Thurston) was to address the Senate, The Call resolution was thereupon laid aside and Thurston (R.) of Nebraska ad- dressed the Senate on the question of the Monroe doctrine. Thurston said that the adoption of the resolution reported by the Committee on Foreign Affairs would present a great in- ternational issue which might hold much of menace to the world’s peace. He could not assume these responsibilities, and dare not vote for the resolution without first submitiing some of the reasons which seemed to make the path of duty plain, Were there nothing at stake but a mere ad- | justment of a boundary line between Ven- ezuela and British Guiana he should hesitate long before voting to com- mit this “Government to any 1nterference. But the present question rose high above any Venezuelan dispute. The Brit- ish Prime Minister had seen fit to officially declare that the Monioe doctrine had no place in the law of nations and was not accepted or recognized by the European powers. The challenge thus broadly thrown down by Great Britain must be taken up by this Republic or the Monroe doctrine was a thing of the past. The British position bluntly, almost insolently stated by Lord Salisbury had been reassert- ed upon this floor, clothed in the splendid thetoric of the Serator from Colorado. He agreed with that Senator that this was 1o time to stir up public passion; toappeal to any prejudice that might exist against England; to fan the flame of any incipient war sentiment. But he insisted that this was a time of all others to call forth the highest expression of loyalty &nd devotion to American institutions; that this was the supreme hour for a dignified, positive and solemn declaration of the American purpose, clearly, calmly, deliberately stated. Thurston eaid it was not his purpose to treat this subject historically or to review the events which led to the assertion of | this American volicy in the message of President Monroe. He could add nothing in that respect to the exhaustive presenta- tion of the Senator from Massachusetts (Lodge). *“I am not unmindful,” he continued, ‘“‘of the seriousness and gravity of the po- litical situation. We are calling a halt upon that settled policy of aggression and dominion which characterized the exten- sion of the British empire from the hour in which her first adventurous prow turned to unknown seas. The history of the English people is an almost unbroken series of miltary achievements. Great Britain has cleared her pathway into every corner of the earth with the naked sword; she has acquired and held her vast posses- sions by force of arms; she has mastered and subjugated the people of every zone; her navies are upon every sea, her armies in every clime. No nation can lightly challenge her purposes or arouse her stub- born pride. But does this furnish any reason why Americans should abandon any settled policy of the United States or retire from any position which the honor of this Republic and the welfare of Amer- ica require that we should assume? *‘Great Britain has mistaken the temper of the people of this country in the past as she mistakes it now. The English people profess to believe that they can weaken our purpose and compel us to abandon the | Monroe doctrine by threast and demon- | strations against American securities | and American commercial interests. We | solemnly advise them that our foreign policy is not a matter of exchange or bar- | ter, and no financial panic can ever induce us for a single moment to lower the stand- | ard of our National honor. | “Sir, believing that the honor of my | country is involved, that the hour calls for the highest expression of loyalty and pa- | triotism; calmly confident of the verdict | of posterity; reverently calling God to | witness the sincerity of my purpose, I shall vote for the resolution reported by | the Committee on Foreign Affairs. I shall | | vote for it, not as an affront to any other nation, but to uphold the dignity of my own. I shall vote for it in this time of | profound tranquillity, convinced that peace with bonor can be preserved. But, sir, | I would vote for it just as surely were we | already standing in the awful shadow of | | declared war. T would vote for it were the shells of British battle-ships bursting | | above the domé of the Nation’s Capitol. | Iwould vote for it and would maintain it | at all hazards and at any cost with the last | dollar—with the last man. Yea, though | it might presage the coming of a mighty | | contlict whose conclusion should leave me | without a son, as the last great contest left | | me without sire.”” | Mr. Thurston’s speech, although pre- | pared and in type, w:s delivered without reference to the print or notes. The clear, ringing tones in which it was declaimed, ‘the unquestioned sincerity of the orator | and tke advanced position assumed by | him, attracted attention and won admira- | | tion from the Senators on both sides of the | chamber and from large crowds in the | galleries. The peroration was greeted | with a round of applause. | At 2 o'clock the Vice-President laid | before the Senate the House bond bill and | the free-coinage substitute. Jones (D.) of Arkansas, who has parlia- | mentary charge of the bill, tried to have | | an understanding arrived at by which the | bill should be voted on-next Thursday. | Various suzgestions were made and modi- | fications offered, but objection was inter- | posed by Hill (D.) of New York, who said | that he knew several Senators who desired | to speak, and he could not consent to the agreement until they had an opportunity to present their views. He expressed the | | hope, however, that a vote might be had | on Thursday. Joues then gave notice that he would ask the Senate to remain in session next Thursday until a vote was reached. Wolcott (R.) of Colorado expressed the hope that the physical test would not be applied. He had heard it said again and again that it was the silver people (so- called) who were endeavoring to stave off avote on the bond guestion; but now it was seen that it was Senators from the East who were procrastinating, and who were willing to postpone the vote. Hill asked whether the Senator from Colorado referrea to him as trying to postpone the vote. “Certainly- not,” said Wolcott, sarcasti- cally. “How could I accuse the Senator of that when he has just been on the floor asking for further time,” [Laughter.] Teller (R.) of Colorado gave notice of an amendmeni which he would offer to the substitute, vroviaing that after the 1st of July, 189, all Nationai bank notes shall be redeemed in coin when presented to the | banks issuing them, and that banks failing 80 to redeem them shall be dissolved. Ciark (R.) of Wisconsin addressed the Senate in advocacy of the free-coinage substitute, Voorhees (D.) of Indiana next addressed the Senate, also in support of the free- counage substitute. The country, he said, ‘was in the midst of a revolution, brought on by those who plotted against silver. He characterized as revolutionists the men who demonetized silver in 1873: Voorhees went on to criticize Sherman’s financial record, remarking that the Sena- tor from Ohio believed in “sound money” for Wall street, but not for the soldiers. The gold withdrawals of the last year, Voornees said, was part of the conspiracy to compel the issue of interest-bearing bonds. Ruin had followed in the train of demonetization, Speaking of the Sherman act he desig- nated it as ‘‘the celebrated and ill-omened act.” Never before, he said, had a member of a parliamentary body found himself compelled, as Senator Sher- man had, to assist in puiting to death his own offspring. That act had stood openly confessed s an unnatural mounster and as a menace to commercial prosperity. The act repealing the silver- purchase clause had declared it to be the policy of the United States to maintain | cation. the use of both gold and silver as standard money, and to coin both gold and silver into money of equal intrinsic and ex- changeable value. That policy had received the sanction of both Houses of Congress and had been approved by the Execu- tive on November 1, 1893. There it stood and wecald stand for- ever. That doctrine has been indorsed and upheld by all the great names in American history, from George Washing- ton to Abraham Lincoln. The giants of other days were all one way on that ques- tion, just as the people were to-day. No citizen of the United States could be bene- fited by the banishment of silver, its degradation and destruction, unless he was the owner and holder of idle money which he desired to invest in cheap lavor, in property at half its value or to loan it at usurious rates of interest. In conclusion he declared that the Dem- ocratic party grappled with every ques- tion which affected the present weliare of the people. 3 . Gray (D.) of Delaware argued against the free-coinage substitute and in favor of the proposed bond issue. Why, he asked, should not the treasury notes be perma- nently retired? Why not divorce the Government from the banking business? and why not provide a measure of value the most stable that the civilized world could command? Aiter speaking for some two hours, Gray was catechized by George (D.) of Missis- sippi as to kis attitude inregard to the international ccinage of silver. Gray ex- cused himselt from going into that ques- tion, as he said he had sufficiently ex- pressed his views on that point while the Senator from Mississippi was “enjoying his nap.” [Laughter.] But he declared him- self in favor of relieving the treasury from | its unnatural and obnormal banking func- tions; of retiring the greenbacks and of -restoring thie treasury to its natural and old-time functions. Teller (R.) of Colorado deniea one of Gray’s contentions that gold had not ap- preciated in recent vears, and asserted that the best authorities of the world agreed that there had been an apprecia- tion of gold from 30 to 40 per cent. Resolutions expressive of regret at the death of Frederick Reymann, late Repre- sentative:elect from Illinois, were pre- sented by Palmer (D.) of Iilinois and agreed to, and at 5:45 o’clock the Senate adjourned until to-morrow. Sigi SESSION OF THE HOUSE. Passage of the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Bill WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 28.—In the House to-day Fletcber (R.) of Minnesota called up and the House passed the bill granting right of way to the Brainerd and Northern Minnesota Railroad through the | Leech Lake and Chippewa Indian reserva- tions in Minnesota. izing officers and enlisted men of the army to wear the badge of that organiza- tion on all occasions of public ceremony. A spirited colloquy, in which Dockery (D.) of Missouri, Richardson (D.) of Ten- nessee, Stone (R.) of Peunsylvania and Miles (D.) of Maryland participated, occurred over a resolution providing for an extra employe in the document-room, at the end of which the resolution was agreed to. On motion of Hitt (R.) of Illinois the House went into acommittee of the whole, with Grosvenor (R.) of Ohio in the chair, and took up the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. Hitt explained the provisions of the bill, which, as McCreary (D.) of Kentucky stated, was with a few necessary conditions the same bill that is on the stathte-books for the current year. McCreary added that in his opinion every change made in the bill was essen- tial to the welfare of the public service, and that the Committee on Foreign Af- fairs unanimously agreed to the report. The bill was passed with only one amend- ment making the appropriation for the re- lief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries appiy to those who may be shipwrecked on the coast of Alaska. On motion of Payne (R.) of New York, the Senate bill was passed authorizing the Secretary of State to invite the dele- gates to the International Marine Confer- ence to reconvene in order to further con- sider the code of rules of the road at sea. By unanimous consent a bill introduced by Grow (R.) of Pennsylvapia, was read and referred to the Committee on Educa- It appropriated $100,000 for edu- cati of persons, so that they shall be qualilied to teach deaf children to under- stand speech. Hadley (R.)of Illinois announced the decease on July 14, last, of Frederick Rie- mann, his predecessor from the Eighteenth District, and as a mark of respect the House at 2:35 o’clock adjourned until to- morrow. SUFFRGE 1S DEMANDED, Decided Stand Taken by the Leaders at the Woman's Congress. A Delegation Appears Before the Senate Committee and Argues an Amendment, ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 28.—A dele- gation numbering nearly 200 ladies this morning appeared before the Senate Com- mittee on Woman Suffrage, of which Mr. Call of Florida is chairman, and some twenty of them, presidents of as many State organizations, argued in favor of universal suffrage and the adoption of an amendment to the constitution extending the voting franchise to the gentler sex. At its session this afternoon the National Woman Suffrage Association adoptea reso- lutions demanding suffrage for all Ameri- can citizens of the United States—women and men—upon reasonable conditions, at- tainable by all as a right and not as a priv- ilege, and rejoicing in the admission of Utah into the Union asa third woman- suffrage State. The resolutions also demand State and National legisiation that mothers shall have equal custody and control with fathers over their minor children. This evening’s session closed the ‘Woman's Suffrage Convention. Speeches were made by Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, Lillie Devereux Blake, Harriet May Mills, Emma Smith Devoe and Annie L. Diggs of Kansas. The closing remarks were made by Miss Anthony. The executive committee will meet to- morrow and will decide upon the time and vlace for the next meeting. ot el Meeting of Eastern Lines. NEW YORK, N.Y., Jan, 28.—Commis- sioner Midgley of the Middle Traffic Asso- ciation has called a meeting of 2all the lines east and west of the Missouri to be held in Chicago to-morrow to consider the complaint of fi:. Southern Pacific Railroad against the lines east of the Miesouri exacting 15 per cent of the through rates of products carried between California and St. Paul, Minneapolis and adjacent territory. AFTER THE VOTE ON FREE COIRAGE, When the House Tariff Bill Will Be Reported to the Senate. HEARD IN COMMITTEE, An Understanding Reached Before the Democratic Members Arrived. JONES CF NEVADA IS FIRM. Will Not Give His Vote on the Measure Until the Silver Substitute Is Considered. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 28.—The tariff bill will not be reported to the Sen- ate until after the vote has been taken in the Senate on the free coinage substitute to the House bond bill. The Finance Com- mittee did not take the bitl up for consid- eration this morning, in fact it was not re- ferred to at the full meeting, but an under- standing was reached before the Demo- cratic members arrived at the committee- room. It is apparent that Jones of Ne- vada notified his Republican associates that he would not give them the vote nec- essary to report the bill until the free sil- ver substitute of the Senate had been | clinched. Immediately after this has been done the Committee on Finance will be able to report the tariff bill. A number of matters pending before the committee were discussed, but no action was taken. Among the more important of these subjects was the House joint reso- lution, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to cause the immediate destruc- tion of allincome-tax resolutions and all records and statements relative thereto which passed the House January 20. The committee also considered Dubois’ bill to facilitate the collecting of revenue by providing for the construction and | equipment of sampling works for the sam- | A joint resolution was passed author- | pling and assaying of importea silyer ores and other ores containing lead, etc. Both of these were referred to a sub-committee for further investigation. Much of the time of the committee was consumed in an informal discussion of the compromise suggested by Gorman as a substitute to be reported from the Commit- tee on Conference after the House bond bill with the Senate free-silver substitute gets into conference. This proposition, as indicated in these dispatches of yesterday, contemplates the issuance of $500,000,000 of gold bonds with which to retire the Gov- | ernment’s present gold obligations (green- backs and treasury notes); the declaration that all bonds now outstanding, regardless of the provisions of these obligations, shall be made payable in gold, and the opening of the United States mints to the free and unlimited coinage of silver. This proposition found few friends in the com- mittee. Vest was vigorous in his opposition, and other Democratic Senators opposed it be- cause it authorized the issue of gold bonds and provided for the retirement of the greenbacks. The Republicans were antag- onistic to a man. The argument was made that this proposition would only work harm to the country and was intended more as a political compromise than a solution of the financial problem. It was pointed out by one of the “sound money” Republicans that it meant simply a gold baeis for the bondholders of the country and a silver basis for every other class, and upon such a groundwork the financial | fabric could not rest securely. Of course this discussion was entirely informal, butit developed enough. to show that such a proposition would find few friends and many powerful enemies in the committee of the Senate which dominates its finan- cial policy. et gl i CARLISLE AND GORMAN. Planning to Carry Out the President’s Financial Views. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 28.—Secre- tary Carlisle and Senator Gorman have beeu in close conference on financial mat- ters. During the past week the two have been in almost daily communication. Rumors are afloat that Senator Gorman recommends the plan that Secretary Car- lisle once favored, of authorizing the coin- age of all the silver bullion and the coinage of the seigniorage. 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