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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1896 STORM BREAKS N THE SENATE, Carter of Montana Takes Fellow-Republicans to Task. DEFENDS HIS COURSE. Party Members Who Truckled to Cleveland’s Policy Styled Magpies. SHERMAN AND TELLER CLASH. Conflict of Werds Between Friends of Silver a the “Sound Money ” Leaders. TON, D. C., Feb. A nu- e and & large aundience in the ies were highly entertained : outbreak in the Republic: d by Carter of Mon lier of Co do. It w troduction the Senate in e of an orator or leader, and hold- s he does the post of chairman of the in National Committee, there h i st and importance at- He made an excel- on at the start, speaking in d in soit, well-rounded tones y undue excitement or passion, <kept it till the close, when his pe- roration was warmly applauded. ation of i the other Senators who had st the House tariff bill. For | 1id he had ample justification logy. The tariff bill was nota | epublican m It was a measure to meet an alleged e ency. which, accord- ing to the President, did not exist at all. protection to the American | wool-growers, while it took good care of the American wool manufacturers. As | 8 go held up to | Democratic ed the Republi- T'he speech was made in just himself cuckoos, so Carter ridi cans who sustained the President’s *‘sound "’ policy as magpies. He appealed to the candid judgment of honest men as to what Republican Senators were recreant hose who resisted the obliteration of the last vestige of legisla- tion favor of silver from the statute books, or those who sustained President the leading journals of the onounced guilty of treason to publican party without trial. ainst this judgment he set up the fact t the House tariff bill, which they had helped to defeat, was at variance with all past professions of the Republican party on the tariff question. “It is aamitted,” he said, “that the House bill is not and was not intended to be an expression by the party of its views. It has been and is now distinetly asserted t 10t & Republican measure. 1t is re to t an alleged emergency wh the chief executive officer of the Nation stoutly asserts does not exist at.all. “The party, then, is in the attitude of forcing uncalled-for relief upon a reluctant Democratic administration.” Aside jrom this, Carter contended that the method employed was seriously ob- jectionabie. It built upon existing law as a foundation. . The Wilson tariff bill has been everywhere condemned by Republi- s as notoriously inequitable and un- It assumed (o protect the manufac- | and cast the producers of so-called erial throughout the country into open competition with cheap labor every- where. The pending bill now proposed to make this injustice more glaring. Certain Republicans of mature judg- ment, wide research and unquestionable int v of purpose had urged the party to undo by law the mischief brought about by law. This element in the party was known as the free silver element. Re- cently certain seli-constituted censors of party action had been pleased to denomi- nate such Republicans as conspirators against the public weal; others had gone 80 far as to invite them to relieve the party of their obnoxious presence. They had been advised that their States were not needed in Republican columns. “To the candid judgment of honest men,” said Carter, “I leave the determina- tion of questions relating to the fidelity of Repnblicans in this Senats to their party principles. The Republicans alleged to bave proven recreant to Republican prin- c! s resisted the effort to strike the last silver-coinage law from the statute books. They resisted the passage of the Wilson bill; they resisted the issuance of bonds in time of peace; they resisted the con- troction of the currency by the retirement of the greenback, and they now resist an inferential lation of the principles of the Republican party platform by resist- ing the approval of horizontal tariff revi- st | Cuban belligerency resolution floated for | 1 question. It was now felt and believed that the bimetallism now astahlish'ed by law was not only the fixed rule in the United States, but was growing to be the rule in all the silver States, in South America and Mexice. Teller said that the Minneapolis conven- tion would never have entertained such a definition of bimetallism as the Senator from Ohio. It would be laughed out. The Senator conld not put the Republican party on that kind of bimetallism. Everybody knew that the people could not get along without subsidiary silver coin. To define that as bimetallism was playing on the American people what | might be called, in common pariance, a “bunko game.” Teller said he wouild read an article on the question from the New York Evening Post, “a paper which had | never said a kind word for silver.” | “Nor anybody else,” Hawley prompted. | It is said to be owned by British cap- | ital,”T eller added, “and I understand that | is the truth of nearly all the great metro- politan dailies.” In the further course of his speech. de- livered in & very exciling manner, Teller | exclaimed that the only thing that would | bring prosperity and progress to the country and would silence the discontent of the pecple, which was shown by a Re- publican success one year, a Democratic success the next year and a Populist suc- | cess the third year, was honest, sound money, made up of the two metals. This parliamentary storm was suc-| ceeded by a dead calm, in which the | an hour or two without making any per- ceptible progress. Allen (Pop.) of Ne- raska offered a substitute for the pending Cuban resolution. It authorizes and re- quests the President to issue a prociama- | tion recognizing the independence of the ‘ republic of Cuba. He asked that the reso- lution lie on the table. 2 Allen referred to the vote yesterday on taking up the ‘tariff bill and the state- ments made by Morrill (R.) of Vermont and others that the tariff bill was dead, and stated that while he did not believe in | the policy set forth in that bill yet if the | Republicans couid unite upon it and would | couple with it an amendment providing | for the free coinage of silver—not a substi- tute—the Populist party in the Senate | would help passit. The Populists in the Senate now said to the protectionist Re- publicans, **We will swallow your measure of taxation (the House tariff bill), which | is nauseating, which is unjust, it you give | to the people of the country more sound money with which to pay the increased taxation.” He said that the Populist votes, added | 1o the forty-four Republican votes in the Senate, would carry the House tariff bill | 4 majority of five, and the Populist | Senators would give their votes for it if; the Republican Senators would vote for | the aadition to it of a free-coinage substi- | tute. He introduced and sent to the clerk’s desk a bill in that form. —_— IN THE ROUSE. £ Arguments in the Van Horn-Tarsney Election Contest. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26.—All but the first hour of a long day’s session | in the House was devoted to the discussion of the Van Horn-Tarsney contested elec- tion case from Missouri. It was announced | by Johnson, in charge, that a vote would be taken to-morrow. Tarsney made the opening speech in his own behalf, advo- cating the adoption of the recommenda- tion of the minority-or that the case be re- opened and the ballots in certain aisputed | precincts in Kansas City recounted. | Messrs. Parker (R.) of New Jersey and Powers (R.) of Vermont also supported the minority report. Burton (R.) of Mis- souri advocated the majority report un- | seating Tarsney (D.), but the latter had | not ceased his remarks when the House, at 5:30, adjourned. Powers was interrogated by Johnson as | to whether or not he had read the evi- dence in the case. Replying that he had | read some of it, Johnson asked, “How much?’ “T have read enough to know that you | and the majority of the committee are all | astray in the way you are proceeding. You | have stopped just short of the facts in the case.” [Applause.] He urged upon the Republicans of the | House the necessity of avoiding making a precedent that should return to plague | them. 7 Senate amendments to the bill extend- ing the time in which the Government may enter suit to annul land patents issued under railroad, wagonroad and canal grants, were concurred in by an aye and noe vote—155 to 93. The resignation of Representative Cowen (D.) of Maryland as 2 member of the Committee on Banking and Currency was announced by Speaker Reed. Loud (R.) of California, chairman of the Committee on Postoffices and Postroads, reported the postal appropriation bill for the year ending June 30, 1897, St OF INTEREST 70 THE COAST, Pensions for Californians—A New Post- . office Established, WASHINGTON, D. C. Feb. 26.—A postoffice was to-day established at La- costa, San Diego County, Cal. Lewis K. Marshall was appointed Postmaster. Representative Johnson introduced a bill to increase the pension of William S, Peters of California. Pensions for Californlans — Original (twenty years’ service): Richard Hayes, Vailejo; Joseoh Chilson, Fallbrook; Lemuel C. Kincaid, Encinitas; William Henry Kane, San Francisco; John S. Soule, Orland. Original widows: Lilly M. Martin, Yuba City; Henrietta Howe, Stockton; Allie Hudson, Fresno; Mary sion, ad velorem duties and the Wilson bill. “On protection and bimetallism,” he continued, “as the basis of economic and financial policy of the country the whole West is united. The party which accepts the one and ridicules the other cannot ex- pect support from the people of that sec- tion of the country.” X Carter concluded as follows: “The maintenance of the unity and in- tegrity of the Republican party is of over- shadowing importance to the country. In the midst of the prevailing chaos of theories on public questions, we owe it to the past and to the future tc stand firmly by our proclaimed principles, without evasion, mental reservation or purpose to deceive. “The pending measure, born under the passing excitement of the manufactured war cloud, would do the country no good, but it wouid do the party great injury by making it share responsibility for the gloom which appeared aud will depart with this administration.” Carter's speech was iollowed by a dis- cussion of the money question, in which Senators Sherman of Ohio and Teller of Colorado were the combatants on either side and in which hard blows were given and received. . Teller said the silver men §*were to be turned out of the Republican party be- cause they believed in maintaining all the provisions of the platform and not a part of it.” Sherman replied to Teller. Sherman defended his own position on the money Monlton (mother), Los Angeles; Mary A, Sprague, Sacramento. Washington—Original: Robert B. Cran- dall, Olympia. Restoration and additional: Russell W. Rocksen (deceased), North Yakima. Original widow: Mary E. Rock, North Yakima. e ATTITUDE TOWARD CUBA. "' Two Resolutions to Be Submitted to the House Commitiee To-Day. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26.—At to- morrow’s meeting of the Houss Committee on Foreign Affairs, the principal matter under discussion will relate to the attitude to be assumed by this Government toward the Cuban insurgents. It.is understood that at that meeting the sub-committee to whom the Cuban correspondence was re- ferred, will report two resolutions, one favoring a recognition by this Government of the belligerency of the Cubans, and another more pacific in character, but looking ultimately to that end. === Investment Schemes Are Lotteries. WASHINGTON, D. C.. Feb. 26.—Attor- ney-General Harmon to-day submitted o Postmaster-General Wilson a decision to the effect that the numerous bond and in- vestment schemes conducted throughout the country are lotteries, and not entitled to the privileges of the mails, N Naval Increase Advocated. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26.—The sub-committee of the House Naval Affairs Committee recommends six new battle- ships and fifteen torpedo-boats, 1000 ad- ditional enlisted men and $250,000 to begin the work of building auxiliary guns for vessels under subvention. . BOIES TO LEAD THE SILVERITES, His Name May Head the White Metal Party’s Ticket. WOULD MAKE THE RUN. Regarded by Iowa Leaders as the Logical Candidate of the Bimetallists DECLINES DEMOCRATIC HONORS The Ex-Governor Can Secure the Fourth Party Nomination if He Will Accept It. DES MOINES, Towa, Feb. 26.—A con- ference of leading silver men of the State, nearly all of them Democrats, was held bere this afternoon. 1t was seoret, but enough has been made public to create something of a sensation. It develops that the leaders of the silver Democrats knew some time in advance that Governor Boies was going to issue the letter de- clining to be a candidate for the Demo- | cratic nomination for the Presidency. He consulted with some of them abont it. S. H. Bashor of Waterloo, one of the silver leaders, a neighvor of Boies and one with whom the latter ‘has frequently con- ferred recently, said to-night that in view oi the action taken to-day and of the let- | ter by Boies, he believed there was a strong prospect that the Iowa silverites would, in case it became evident that both the Republican and Demoratic National parties were going to declare against silver, join a National movement for a silver ticket this year and name Boies as their choice for the head of such ticket. He said Boies’ letter made him at once the logical candidate of such a movement and that he would certainly be the strongest man who could be named on such a ticket. He believed there would be no doubt about Boies' nomination if he would haye it; and he was satisfied if the nomination were offered him Boies would consider it a duty to accept. Amos Steckel of Bloomfield presided at the meeting to-dey and C. J. Murphy of Dubuque wss secretary. The important | | action was the issue of a call for a conven- | tion of silver men here July 14. This is eight days before the National Bimetallic Convention at St. Louis, and the date is set with the idea that if Towa so desires, it can send a delegation to that convention. — ELKINS WAS MISQUOTED. Did Not Say That West Virginia Would Support McKinley. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26,—Senator Elking’ attention being called to a re. vort from Cleveland dated the 21st inst., reporting that he was in that city and au- thorized the statement that the delegation from West Virginia would support McKin- 16y at the St. Louis convention and that he (Etkins) was for him, stated that he au- thorized no such statement and that he | ! results were too good to believe. had not declared his preference for the Presidency to any one, He also said that the statement that he had said that West Virginia would be for McKinley does the -State an injustice, as well as the delegates, who are yet to be chosen. He does not wish to be under- stood as trying to commit the State or delegates to any particular candidate. Senator Elkins further expresses the | opinion that Southern Republicans should send delegates to St. Louis not pledged to any candidate and that they should con- fer after reaching St. Louis and decide upon the wisest and best course to be pur- sued in the interest of the South and act as a unit upon some definite line of action. e e DECLARES AGAINST SILVER. Resolutions Passed by the New York Chamber of Commerce. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 26.—A special committee of the Chamber of Commerce on sound financial organization met this afternoon in pursuance to instructions to instructions to outline a financial policy to be followed by the chamber during the coming Presidential campaign. The fol- lowing resolution, presented by Gustav H. Schwab, was unanimously adopted : Resolved, That it is the sense of this commit- tee that the agitation in favor of the mainte- nance of the present standard of value and against the free coinage of silver should be prosecuted with vigor. The following, presented by Richard Young, was also adopted: Resolved, That it is to be referred to the exec- utive committee, with the recommendation that the prepare and submit to the Chamber of Commerce an eddress inviting the co-opera- tion of a1l commercial bodies and of all busi- ness men in the moyement to secure the adop- tion by the National Convention of both great political parties of unequivocal declarationsin favor of the maintenance of the present stand- ard of value. & PETITION TO BLACKBURN, “ Sound Money” Men Demand His 'lfllhdrqul From the Race. FRANKFORT, Ky., Feb. 26.—There were 13¢ members present in joint as- sembly this morning. They voted as fol- lows: Blackburn 62, Hunter 61, scattering 11. No choice. A petition asking Senator Blackburn to withdraw from the Senatoriul ruce was drawn up by the “sound money’’ men to- night, and will probably be presented to him to-morrow. At the last moment sev- eral “‘sound money’’ men “kicked out of the traces” and refused to sign the pe- tition. CLEVELAND TO PRESIDE. The President Will Conduct a Presby- terian Mass-Meeting. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 26.—President Cleveiand will visit New York next Tues- day evening for the express purpose of presiding at the mass-meeting of Presby- terians to bs held in the interest of home missions at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Cieveland will come up in company with Dr. Tal- mage, who will also speak at the meeting. For several years, owing to the hard times and increasing demands made upon it, the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church has fallen behing in its funds. Strenuous efforts are now being made to awaken the people to the under- standing that true patriotism can best be exhibited by attention to spiritual wants of their countrymen. A coliection will be taken up Tuesday nigéfl.. Applications for tickets of admission to the meeting have been received by the committee from all over the East. Locally | the demand is many thousands in excess of the capacity of the building. The boxes have been sold. The platform will be occupied by the ministers of the presbytery and’ their invited guests and the church erection board. The paraquet &nd dress circle will be reserved for the officers of the Presbyterian denomination and their wives, Admission will be by ticket only. A o REAR-ADMIRAL FYFFE DEAD. #e Served on the Blockade Fleet During the War, and Later Commanded the Monocacy. OMAHA, Ngpr., Feb. 26.—Joseph P. Fyffe, rear-admiral of the United States navy, retired, died at Pierrs, 8. D., last night, Rear-Admiral Fyffe was born in Ohio on July 26,1832, In 1847 he was attached to the bomb vessel Stromboli, home squad- ron. In 1863-65 he served as lieutenant- commander, on the Minnesota, the flag- ship of the North Atlantic blockade squad- ron, and he took part in the destruction of the Confederate blockade-ranner Hebe and two rebel guns on the beach near Fort Fisher, N. C., in August, 1863, the destruc- tion of the blockade-runner Ranger, the conflict with the Confederate batteries near Datch Gap, and other important en- gagements, He was commissioned as commander in 1867, taking charge of the Centaur and later of the Monocacy. In 1889 he was promoted to commodore, At the time of his death he was commandant of the navy-yard at Boston. 5 Sy Asphyaxiated by Gas. NEWCASTLE, Pa., Feb. 2. — When Watchman O'Neil at the Rainev Berger furnace ovened the office door this morn- ing he found Superintendent Thompson insensible and Mrs. Frank Carlisle, whose hushand is electrician at the <ire-nail works, lying dead on the floor. Superin- tendent Thompson, who is a married man, was taken home and may not recover. It is supposed that they were asphyxiated by gas. ROENTGEN RAYS OUTOONE, Horseshoe Magnet Utilized to Photograph Through Hard Substances. Professor Pratt’s Experiments With a Simple Outfit Results in Success. CHICAGO, ILn, Feb. 26.—Professor H. P. Pratt of this city has duplicated with the horseshoe magnet the more elementary experiments the world is making with cathode rays. That is to say, he is producing the shadows of iron rings in boxes, coins in a leather purse and that sort of thing. [t seems that the simplicity of the apparatus needed would popularize the photography. He con- ceives of a great magnet to photograph the human body, with its fine diffusion of lines of force brinzing out all the varia- tions in fiesh ana bone upon the plate. Lines of force irom a magnet laiu on a sen ve piate produce chemical de- composition. Objects placed between the magnet and the plate retard the rays in proportion to their density. The nega- tive gives prints showing shadows of the objects. The other night Dr. Pratt, out of curi- osity, put a horseshoe magnet on top of a sensitive plate. Beneath the ends of the magnet he laid some pennies. The plate was wrapped up in heavy black cloth. Then Dr. Pratt turned out the lights and went home. When he came back next morning and developed the negative the As he afterward said: “Of course you understand that the shadows of a photographic print are the light parts on the negative. That part of the plate where the magnet had rested was ! white. The location of the pennies was shown by lignt spots.” When the discovery shuall have been brought to perfection it is his belief that it will show upon the sensitive plate the delicate tissue of the human body. The crude results he has obtained cause Dr. Pratt to be more strongly confirmed in his theory that the unknown rays are simply lines of electrical force. Whether from a Crookes tube, a static machine or a mag- net, he professes to believe the activity is the same in all cases. BREAKS ALL RECORDS. Professor Rowland’s Multiplex Printing Tel- egraph Can Transmit 18,000 Words Over One Wire in an Hour. NEW YORK, N.Y.,Feb. 26.—A Tribune special from Baltimore says: Professor H. A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins Univer- sity, after nearly a year’s labor, has been successful in perfecting a remarkable in- vention for transmitting telezrams written upon a typewriter at the place of sending and reproduced in typewritten form at the receiving point. In addition to the typewriter part of the invention, Professor Rowland, with his new machine, can send over the same wire five or six different messages at the same ume in one direction, which, in duplex, makes ten or twelye messages which can be “transmitted on the eame wire 4t the same time. Thus, with five operators at each end of the line, 300 words a minute can be transmitted. Dr. Rowland is assured that no such in- vention has ever been patented. He has used a synchronous device in’ his inven- tion, and in the mechanical arrangement of the typewriter he has used but eight signals, the letters being produced by combinations. The current of electricity transmitting the message can be relayed, and in this manner the invention can be operated for a great distance. In finished form the instrument will be asconvenient, and as easily operated as the ordinary telegraphic apparatus. Pro. fessor Rowland calis his invention the “Multiplex Printing Telegraph.” [ e SAW HIS DEAD WIFE'S SHADE, Then an Attendant at a Spiritual Seance Committed Suicide, MUNCIE, Isp., Feb. 26.—Joseph A, Brown, a prominent citizen in the real estate and insurance business and ex-city clerk, was found dead in his office by his son this morning, having committed sui- cide by shooting himself through the head. Brown attended a spiritual seance last right and believed he had spoken to his former wife, This is believed to have had something to do-with his suicide. He leaves a large estate to his second wife. It is also alleged that he was behind $6000 in hisaccounts with the insurance com panies. P Oppose the Censure. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 26.—Dins. more of Arkansas reported to the House to-day the views of the minority of the Tuembers of the Foreign Affairs Committee on the resolutions censuring Embassador Buyard, The report states tiat the minor. ity respectfully dissent from the views of the majority and submit that the resolu. tions ought not to pass. i DIRECT BRINGS - A LOW FIGURE, The Celebrated Stallion Sold for $8250 at New York. BUYERS: NOT ACTIVE. Good Stock Disposed Of at Prices Far Below Its Value. SALE OF CALIFORNIA HORSES. J. M. Griffith of San Francisco Pur- chases Miss Creighton and Miss Kate. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 26.—Direct, the celebrated stallion, with a record of 2:0514, a son of Director (2:17), and at one time the champion American pacer, was sold this evening for $8250 to James Butler of New York City, the president of the Fleetwood Driving Park Association. The price the famous stallion went at was not Up to that expected by his owner, Monroe Salisbury, who remarked after the sale that the sum was just one-third of his real value. The speedy mare, Lesa Wilkes, with a 2:00 record, whose sire was Guy Wilkes with dam Hannah Price, was knocked down to the highest bidder in the after- noon for $4150, a price said to be much below the mare’s wurth. The stock offered during the day was, as a rule, of good quality, but the prices ob- tained were unusually small. An example of the low prices prevailing was the sale for $700 of Whalebone, a four-year-old colt, with a record of 2:24. Among the horses cold were the follow- ing: Lucina Wilkes, b. m., 1889, by Guy Wilkes- Hattie; Charles M. Reed, Erie, Pa., $950. Muta Wilkes, 2:11. b. m., 1888, sire Guy Wilkes, dam Montrose; J. 8. Ferguson, New York, $1300. Burlingame, 2:18, b. f., 1891, sire Guy Wilkes, dam Sable; Walnut Grove stock farm, Washingtonville, N. Y,, $925. Double Cross, 2:183, blk. m., 1890, sire Bable Wilkes, dam Hinda Wilkes; Carl 8. Barr, Com- mack, L. L, $1800. Lesa Wilkes,"2:09, br. m., 1890, by Guy Wilkes-Hannah Price; Carl & Burr, Commack, L. L, $4150. Forty-six head were sold at the morning's sale, bringing $22,270. Propérty of Pleasanton Stock Farm Company, Plessanton, Cal.: Direct, blk, s., 1885, by Director, 2:17, dam Echora, 2:234; James Butler, New York City, $3250. Miss Creighton, b. m., by Direct-Little Clem; J. M. Griffith, San Franeisco, $510. Too Soon, blk. s, by Direct-Midget; S. T. Dickinson, New York City, $1550. Lou Mitchell, br.m., by Direct-May Mitchell; Fred G. Steinway, 81500. Miss Kate, b. m., by Direct-Fanny K J. M. Griffith, 8an Francisco, $£510. Honey, ro. f., by Direct-Belle McGregor; 8. T. Dickin. son, New York City, $2500. In all sixty-seven head were sold during the day, the total amount received being $41,575, an average of $620 52 per head. TREE GETS THE VERDICT. Decision Rendered in the Garfield Park Racetrack Caze. CHICAGO, TrL., Feb. 26.—After a long and closely contested trial a jury in Judge Burke’s court this morning returned a verdict awarding ex-Judge Lambert Tree, | former Minister to Belgium, $38,320 dam- ages agamnst Michael C. McDonald, known in gambling and turf circles of the coun- | try as “Mike” McDonald. | The action grew out of the renting of | the Garfield Park Racetrack, owned by Judge Tree, to the Garfield Park Club. McDonald, it was claimed, guaranteed the reng, and the point on which the defense rested to win was that the ex-Minister | knew that the law againstgambline was being viclated on his property and there- | fore had no right to recover, having rented | the track for gambling purposes. Judge "to by the anti-repeal lobby. still in line with the Goebel party. Tree, however, swore he was ignorant of betting on the races there. McDonald will be sued for $25,000 more rent due from the defunct club under the lease. ey Zimmerman in New York. NEW YORK, N. Y. Feb. 26.—The most_prominent racing cyeclist of the decade, A. A. Zimmerman, bobbed up in downtown wheeling circles yesterday, fresh from Australia.. He reached here on Monday, but his presence was not_known to his friends ‘until yesterday, when, ac- companied by Harry W heeler, he showed his sunbrowned face on Broadway, The great rider looks to be in good health. WILL RUSH FOR HOMES, Settlers Awaiting the Opening of a Gov- ernment Grant, DES MOINES, Iowa, Feb. 26.—The 22,- 000 acres of land in O'Brien County re- cently restored to the Federal domain from the Sioux City and St. Paul land grant, will be opened to-morrow, and fo-night there are over 1000 pzople here who want to enter pieces of it. Th ¢)are camping around the Federal building, in which the land office is located, the alleys on two sides being impassable, and the streetsare almost as badly crowded in the vicinity of the building. 3 The “sooners” are not all from O’Brien County. They come from all over Iowa and from three or four other States. There will be a number of filings for every piece of land, and some fine legal points will have to be determined, It will take two or three days, in all probability, to receive all the applications. Cle ity SAMUEL EDISON DEAD. Passing of the Inventor’s Father at the Age of Ninety-Two. NORWALK, Osro, Feb. 26.—Samuel Edison, father of Thomas A. Ediscn, the inventor, died here to-day aged 92 years. Samuel Edison was born in Nova Ecotia on August 11, 1804, and had lived at Milan, Ohio, and Port Huron, Mith., a greater part of his life. It wasat Milan tbnt.hi! son Thomas was born. Mr. Edison stopped here for a visit with his niece, Mrs. W. A. Poyer, while en route to Fort Myers, Fla., the winter home of his son. The burial will probably oceur at Port Huron, Mich. Thomas A.” Edison is ‘ex- pected here to-morrow and until his ar- rival no definite arrangements will be made. GOEBEL WINS A SKIRMISH Continued from First Page. bill, both in the Senate and in the House, unless the Huntington people spring a mine ana break the line of attack. Goebel | and his squadron are in the saddle for vic- | tory, which they see nearly in their grasp, and it will be hard to stop them. There was a little incident in yesterday’s pro- ceedings which shows the tactics resorted The Goebel bill was, as noted, the special order for 3 o’clock. Senator His- som of Newport sought to have 1t post- poned in favor of his bill providing for glass - fronted vestibules on streetcars, which the streetcar company of Louis- ville, of which St.'John Boyle is vice-presi- dent, is opposing vigorously. Mr. Boyle has been watching the prog- ressof the bill carefully, and knowing that a day’s delay in the action on the repeal bill endangered its final passage, conceived the idea of making one bill fight the other. Senator Hissom was in- duced by some professed friend to try and force the consideration of hjs bill. He was not successful, however, the chairman deciding for the special order—and this,” too, without the friendsaf the latter bill having to antagonize Mr. Hissom, who is | P IN THE HOUSE COMMITTEE. Hubbard Says the Profits of the Pacific Roads Ave Enormous. | WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 26.—Thomas | H. Hubbard, representing the Searles es- tate, concluded his statement before the | House Committee on Pacific Railroads to- aay. He stated that the profits of the Pa- cific railroads were enormous. He could not say what the roads had made,but he did not think any man was living, with | one exception possibly, who could give the | information. Speaking of the Canadian Pacific Rail- road, he said that it was decided to build the road long after the American Pacific | roads were completed. When the Can- adian project was undertaken the difficul- ties were well known; yet the Dominion NEW TO-DAY. =N —ON THIS— — EARTH— Can you find better READY-MADE SUITS at any price than in our Ready-Made Clothing Department. Catches Being Wholesale Manufacturers in the wholesale district where the rents are low, we can undersell ALL others. $17.50 Black Clay ‘Worsted Frock Suits, silk lined throughout, dressy, fashionable and elegantly tailored. You would be lucky to find so good a suit for twice the price outside of our store. $9.50 $8.50 $8.50 $7.50 Cassimeres, c Do not be deceived by firms using Tweeds that compel ) goods ever before offered at the price. Black, Brown and Gray Cassimeres, stylish cut, fine finish, equal to usual $15 suits at clothiers’, beauty, more beauty than the average. 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In anc.h event did the stockholders say that this interest should not have been paid, but should have been saved for one “evil day.,” The Government pro- vided what the roads should reserve for its benefit. : These requirements have been carried out and there was not money enough on hand now to meet the bondsand inter- est, because the Government requirements had not been sufiicient. The company had to decide what should be done with its net earnings year by year. It could not look ahead filteen years. In settling the matter the interests of the Government, the company and the public were to be considered. It had been suggested that the Government “take the roads and run them. As far as the Cen- tral Pacific was concerned he favored the Frye or Smith bills—funding measures. The road, he thougnt, could live up to the requirements of either of these measures. 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