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2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1896 R e e e s e R e e e ] tached to the cart containing Mrs. Under wood, daughter of Paymaster Woodhslh and her child, attracted favorable com- ment. During the line of march and when near the barracks the rain came down in tor- rents, b it did not delay the parade which passed through the principal ave- nues and along the water front, Where it was viewed by hundreds of people. Un- stinted were the praises for the final triumph of this, the first rose carnival at Mare Island. 4 To-night a hop was held in the sail loft, which is beantifully decorated for the occa- sion, — THIEF AND A MISER. s 4 Criminal Career of the Rascal Turk, Ben Ouni. Brookl n yesterday, charged with grand in the second degree. He stole nd rings from a tray in a et jewelry-store about a month ured as he ran off. i record. He was driven ause of his thefts ana where he gotinto trouble rities and was sent to as an insane criminal. 1 he fled to Paris, robbed a stere and returned to this He next appeared in Texas and m there because he shot a man. en he was canght stealing in_Illinois ome time in Joliet. Previous st_in Brooklyn he served a New Jersey for a criminal ion for diamonds. As he he had about $1500 worth of sewed up in his clothing and a ils amounting to $1000 in his one knew while he was ymond-street jail that he until a fellow-prisoner saw ooking over his hoard. A t the truth of the report rer, asked Ben Ouni to bill for him. Ben took it, t and swore that it was he would send it to It only when thresat- ng that he returned the key. r, but law- te o d all my and casi: fe deposit but I'll need all I He saved the county the expense leading guilty, and Judge Yionday next For Electrocution in Ohio. COLUM . April 9.—The elec- i the House this morn- comes effective July 1. 10 MO8 RSN, Backers of Peter Maher Put Up a Peculiar Plot at Pittsburg. Fricnds of the Australian Summened Policc Protection and Evaded Trcuble. PITTSBURG, Pa., April 9.—For a time itement in Rumor, apparently well nds of James v, the backers of put up a job to mob Bob 1mons as he was leaving the Acade- Music, on Liberty street, after the ends of Fitzsimmons, tter, summoned police . zsimmons was taken out e exit by his triends, and knew his danger until this morning. loss to understand why Maher’s uld desire to do him personal and Mike Connel d d to-day that he had end of Maher, and was 000 that Maber could any other pugilist in the d except himself. Fitzsimmons said: two months’ rest I will be willing a ight in the world Corbett must _first van- fore I recognize him.” simmons also said that he is ready ght any two middle-weights in the 1 at 150 pounds in onenight. He also es to train down to 150 pounds. — - FAVORITES LEFT AT THE POST. Starting-Machines Did Not Work Sus- ully at Memphis. , TE April 9.—The fifteen days’ race meeting of the Memphis Jockey Club began teo-day, the track being fast, the crowd about 10,000, and the sport dis- The latter was due to the ine, which caused the burn- ing of a great deal of money by leaving two favorites at the post. The Tennessee Derby was captured by Dr. McLean’s Ber- clair, a maiden, who lowered the Derby record by 34 seconds. x furlongs, George F. Sm Nick third. Time, 1:1 h won, David Lear third One and an eigh , Tennessee Derby, lue £5000, Bercla dy Inez second, third. % , Olean won, 1zeyl second, Marie Time, :50' One mile, Topsy won, Sandoval second, Tan- cred third.” Time not {aken, One mile, He iss Clark second, Leonard B thir IT K AS OLIVER PIKE. No Longer Any Doubt as to the Murdered Man’s ldentity. CHICAGO, Iivn., April 9.—Relatives of Oliver Pike, who disappeared from Seattle in April, 1893, are iully convinced that the body found here in a box and buried a few days ago is that of the missing man. Mrs. A. T. Moshier received a letter from Miss Clara Haas of Ambrose, Ohio, a hali-sister of Pike, in which the writer says that she and all of her relatives, who saw the re- mains, are sure they are those of the miss- ing . Mrs. Moshier says she fully be- lieved Pike was murdered because he knew too much concerning cerlain happenings in the insane asylum at Steilacoom, Wash. T ST Death of Gustave Koerner. ST. LOUIS, Mo., April 9.—Ex-Lieuten- jovernor Gustave Koerner of Illinois died this mornmng. He was born in Frank- fort, Germany. in 1809. He was at one i 1+ Supreme Judge of Illinois. He nominate Linccln and in 1862 was ted United States Minister to Spain. 1 Madrid for two anda half years and then resigned. He supported Gree.ey for the Presidency and ever since has been a Democrat. e Shortest Dirvorce Trial on Record. ‘WICHITA, Kaxs., April 9.—The shortest divorce suit on record was decided here to-day when Judge Dale granted Jennie Henderson a decree of separation from Nelson Henderson in exactly forty-five seconds after the case was presented to him. There were just twenty-three words spoken, and but two questions were pro- pounded. e Have Potatoes to Burn. CANANDAIGUA, N. Y., Aprit 9.— Potatoes are so cheap that farmers are throwing them away. One man is burn- ing them in his stove, and says tihey make a very hot and steady fire. At some auc- tions of 'm property held lately tubers went at 2} centsa bushel, and in many instances no bids could be secured, [DISTRESS AMONG SERICULTURISTS, Thirty Thousand Bales of Unsold Silk Held at Yokohama. DEALERS ARE BANKRUPT Japan Not Successful in Collect- ing the Third War Loan Installment. DEMONSTRATIONS IN KOREA. Massacres Committed in the Attempt to Avenge the Death of the Queen. TOKIO, Jarax, March 24.—Great distress exists among Japanese sericulturists and silk-brokers, 8ilk that coula be sold easily last year at $900 per bale finds no pur- chasers now even at §650. Thirty thou- sand balesare lying in Yokohama awaiting a market, and that large stock will now be increased by several thousand piculs of spring reelings. Nosigns of a good demand from either erica or Europe are appa- rent. The wholesale silk merchants of Y oko- hama have petitioned the Government and the two principal banks for aid, but with- out any favorable result. It is calculated that the minimum loss to Japanese pro- ducers and middlemen will be $100 per baie on the stocks already accumulated, which means a total loss of over $3,000,000. Among the thirty principal dealers in Yo- kohama abeut a dozen are reduced to the verge of bankruptey, and some twenty per cent of the sericulturists in the provinces ‘are ruined. An acute conflict between the central authorities and the Municipal Assembly of Tokio has just ended in favor of the latter. There exists in Tokio, Osaka and Kyoto, the three chief cities in the empire, a special municipal system, one feature of which is that the Governor of the city, an official nominee, is mayor ex officio, whereas the office of mayor is elsewhere elective. The system is distinctly un- popular, and has the effect of greatly accentuating any friction between the Governor, in his capacity of mayor, and the municipali Last autumn it was discovered that a Japanese company, under contract to supply iron pipes for the Tokio Water Works, had for some time been carrying on extensive frauds by substituting faulty pipes for those that had passed the neces- sary tests, the result being a loss of over 1,000,000 yen to the city. In discovering and exposing this frand the Governor played a useful part, but the Municipal Assembly saw an opportunity of attacking him. Three times the As- sembly passed a vote of want of confidence in him and three times 1t was dissolved by order of the Minister of Home Affairs, not merely for declaring itself dissatisfied with the Governor, but because its action in- volved a legisiative deadlock. Finally the Government yielded and removed the Governor to a sinecure—the post of Court Councilor. The event caused much excite- ment in the city and was loudly claimed by the opposition as a signal victory. The attempt to raise a third installment of the war loan in Japan has been uniquely unsuccessful. The total amount of the loan was 35,000,000 yen. but of that sum bands representing 25,000,000 were given to the Bank of Japan in payment of debts contracted by the treasury during the war. Thus the public were asked to subscribe 10,000,000 oniy. Bat there is a marked tightness in the Japanese money market at present. All available capital is needed forstarting new enterprises, so that Gov- ernment securities sell barely at their face value. Under these circumstances the subscriptions to the war loan aggregated $4,000,000, and it appears probable that the Bank of Japan will be obliged to take the remaining six. Anti-Japanese demonstrations continue in Korea. The rebels now declare that their main object is to avenge the death of the Queen by driving out the Japanese. The most serious outrage yet committed has been the murderof fifteen Japanese fishermen at Phyong-hai, some tifty miles from Gensan. A party of twenty-four fishermen, baving landed to make some arrangemerts for pursuing their occupa tion, were suddenly attacked by an over- whelming force of the rebels. Unarmed and unprepared, fifteen of the Japanese were killed on the spot. The remaining nine, eight of them badly wounded, bare- ly escaped by swimming off to their junk. Other assassinations of Japanese have taken place here and there throughout the provinces, and the Japanese residents of Phyong-yang have appealed for aid. But Phyong-yang is not yet accessible by wa- ter, and fears are entertained that the little force of nine policemen stationed there may be unable to repel an attack. Meanwhile the women and children have been sent away. Against the Japanese settlement of Gensan still more formidable demonstrations are made, but a Japanese man-of-war having reached that place, no rious danger is apprehended. It is ain, however, that the Japanese nation will not long continue to endure all these outrages tamely. The Korean problem is again beginning to cause much anxiety. Scarcely credible rumors are circulated to the effect that small parties of Russians are traveling through the peninsula fan- ning the anti-Japanese feeling. The Japanese Government contemplates the organization of a new Department of State, the Colonial Office, which will be entrusted with the management of affairs relating to Formosa and Hokkaido. The programme is denounced by the opposi- tion politicians, who profess to see in it nothing more than a device to preserve the balance of power hetween the Choshiu and Satsuma statesmen. At present the Choshiu statesmen are predominant, but if a Satsuman man were appointed to the new office equilibrium would be restored. On the other hand, the source of this op- position is evidently an apprehension lest one of the distinguished statesman now out of office should be diverted from join- ing the opposition by receiving the new portfoli The British schooner Esmer alda reached Hongkong on March 9, after a most sensa- tional voyage. Trading between the Mari- anna Islands and Yokohama, she had ar- rived within twenty-four hours’ sail of the latter vlace on January 6, when a heavy gale and high seadismasted her. Helpless she drifted oceanward for seven days, and even when jury masts were rigged it con- tinued impossible to steer a hopeful course on account of baffling winds. Provisions being exhausted, the crew, eleven in num- ber, had to subsist upon the cargo of evil- smelling and rotten copra. Not till Feb- ruary 1 aid the wind become favorable and they were then able to bear up for Hongkong, which place they reached after sixty-two days of the greatest suffering. The Formosan Budget for-1896-97 has been submitted to the Diet by the Japanese Government. The revenue is six and a half million yen, approximately; the ex- penditure, ordinary and.extraordinary, aggregates ten and three-quarter millions, of which four and a half millions are for works of improvement. ‘Some time must elapse before Formosa ceases to be a source of expense to Japan. The scheme of military reorganization in Japan is now published. The army is to be virtually doubled, the number of divisions being raised from six to twelve, exclusive of the Imperial Guards. The Peking Gazette of December 19 con- tains an imperial decree embodying a re- port furnished by Tung Fu-hsiang, com- mander-in-chief of the forces employed against the Mohammedan rebels in Kansu. It 1s not always safe to place implicit reliance in reports of their own doings compiled by Chinese generals, but at pres- ent we have no means of verifying or con- tradicting Tung’s story. Its gist is that in a campaign lasting twenty days, Tung’s army fought six sanguinary bartles and executed a series of brilliant maneuvers, ending in the relief of the provincial cap- ital and the complete route of the in- surgents beleaguering it. One feature of the operation was the capture of the rebel chief Ma Shik-jun and his decapitation before the walls of a stronghold from which he had saliied to repulse the im- perial troops. To General Tung belongs the credit of a device for keeping his men quiet during a night march planned to surprise the enemy. He made every soldier hold a pebble in his mouth throughout the move- ment. How the thing was managed there are unfortunately no details, but presuma- bly the braves’ consciences revolted against the mechanical crime of spitting out the pebble. The desperate fights, the valor- ous storming of fortresses, the rapid tactics, the masterly strategy of this twenty days’' campaign constitute a curi- ous marginal commentary to the war with Japa Anti-foreign feeling is beginning to show itself again in Cheng-tu. Violentiy word- ed placards are posted on the walls of the city, and petty acts of hostility against the Canadian mission are once more re- corded. WL~ PPROPRATIONS Amendments Made to the Bill by the Senate Com- mittee. Not More Than Two Battle-Ships or Three Torpedo-Bcats to Be Built at One Yard. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—The naval appropriation bill for the coming fiscal year was reported to the Senate to- day. The four seagoing battle-ships, au- thorized in the House bill, are left un- touched. Amendments have been made, however, in the provisions for torpedo- boats. Insiead of five capable of attain- ing a speed of twenty-six knots, as pro- vided by the Ho the Senate has sub- stituted three torpedo-boats which will in reality be torpedo-boat catchers with a maximum speed of not less than thirty knots an hour. In place of ten or more torpedo-boats, to cost not exceeding $300,- 000 and to have the hizhest practicable speed for vessels of their class, the Senate has substituted a provision for “not to exceed ten torpedo-boats to cost in all not exceeding §500,000 and to have the highest practicable speed for vessels of their class.” A proviso is aiso inserted as follows: ‘‘And not more than two of said battle- ships and not more than three of said torpedo-boats shall be built in one yard or by one contracting party, and in each case the contract shall be awarded by the Secretary of the Navy to the lowest responsible bidder.” The House proviso requiring one of the battle-ships to be built on the Pacific Coast is restricted by a provision that in order to do so it must be constructe! at an additional cost not exceeding 5 per cent of the lowest bid for the other three battle- ships authorized. The time within which the contracts for these vessels shall be made is extended from ninety to 120 days from the passage of the act. The biil as reported by the committee carries a total reduction of §432,958 and a total increase of §65,200, making a net re- duction of §367,757. The estimates for 1897 were §$29,313,176 and the House appro- priated $31,674,239, which was reduced by the Senate to $31,279,482. VACANCIES IN THE NAVY, There Are Plenty of Places for the Cadets to Fill. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 9.—A Times Washington special says: The six-year men from the Naval Academy will get places this year. The probability is that there wiil be more places than men to fill them. Tor several years it has been necessary under the law to dismiss a number of graduates with a year's pay because there was no room for them. The vacancies are not caused by an unuvsual number of deaths or resignations, but by the retirement of young officers for dis- ability. There are now nineteen vacancies in the line, twenty-five in the engineer corps and one in the marine corps. The class about to. graduate nnmbers thirty-three. A percentage will probably fall, butit is believed that there will be at least thirty graduates for from forty-five to forty-seven vacancies. After the qualified members of the graduating class have been provided, the vacancies not filled will remain open to be filled next year. Already it is apparent that the quota for the engineers will not be filled, and Engineer Melville, who has been very solicitous about the prospect of main- taining the efliciency of the earps of which he is the head, is of the opinion that the number of cadets should be admitted from some of the technical schools. e EMMONS BLAINE'S WILL. At Last It Is Filed in Court by the Widow. CHICAGO, IrL., April 9.—The inventory of the estate left by tbe late Emmons Blaine, son of James G. Blaine, was filed in the Probate Court to-day by the widow as executrix, although the young man has been dead four years. She did so only when cited by the Judge, and was given ten days to file when she appeared in court. The inventory shows the good assets to be not more than $50,000, far less than was supposed. Much stock and a $10,000 life insurance imlicy are marked no good or doubtiul. n the bond given by Mrs. Blaine in the docket fees paid there was an apparent attem{w to make the estate appear larger than it really was. MANTLE DEFENDS SILVER SENATORS, Explains the Defeat of the Dingley Tariff Bill. FREE COINAGE DESIRED. Maiden Speech of the Montana Statesman Attracts Great Attention. PRIVATE PENSION BILLS PASS. Seventy-Five of Them Rushed Through Within a Period of Sixty Minutes. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—The Senate did a rushing business in the way of private pension bills in the last hour of to-day’s session, having cleared the calen- dar and passed every pension bill on it— seventy-five in number—within sixty min- utes. The earlier hours of the session were taken up in the delivery of two pre- pared speeches—one by Mantle of Mon- tana and the other by Butler of North Carolina. Mantle’'s speech was mainly a defense of the Senators from the silver- producing States for their action in help- ing to defeat the Dingley tariff bill, passed by the House in the eariy part of the ses- sion. He criticized the bill for being in the interest of the wool-manufacturers rather than of the wool-growers, and he declared himself as being equally in favor of bimetallism and of protection to Amer- ican industry. He expressed the hope, therefore, that the Finance Committee would report back a fair tariff bill, coupled with a provision for free coinage. At the close of Mantle’s speech, his maiden one in the Senate, he received the congratulations of many Senators, and then participated in a running discussion with Senators Hawley of Connecticut, Hoar of Massachusetts and Mills of Texas, the latter characterizing a protective tariff as a protective humbug. Butler’s speech was in support of a bill heretofore introduced by him for the es- ‘tablishment of a postal telegraph system. Between the close of Butler’s speech and the taking up of the pension bills the® In- dian appropriation bill made some prog- ress. Frye (R.) of Maine, chairman of the Committee ‘on Commerce, gave notice to hear any Senators who might desire tc propose amendments to the river and har- bor bill, and that the committee would not hear any afterward. Mantle (R.) of Montana addressed the Senate in support of a resolution here- tofore offered by his colleague, Carter, to recommit to the Finance Committee the House tariff bill passed in the early days of the session. He spoke of the unwar- ranted aspersions cast by the metropolitan press on the Senators wno favored silver coinage and who voted 1n opposition to that bill, and he defended those Senators and the people of the silver States from the indiscriminate charges of selfishness and lack- of patriotism brought against them. Mantle argued against the Dingley bill, declaring that while it professed to be in the 1interest of the wooigrowers it was really in the interest of the wool manufac- turers. A tariff bill, he said, should be so adjusted as to guard every American in- dustry that needed sheitering arms to shield it from the degrading competition of other lands. He admitted that while he was an.ardent believer in the principle of protection he was an ardent believer in the advantages of bimetallism, and with- out bimetallism a protective tariff could not guard against the competition that is com- ing and to come from China and Japan. Unless a parity was established between gold and silver one of two things, he said, must inevitably happen: Either the wages and standard of living in Asia must be raised to the American level or else the wages and standard of living in the United States should be reduced to theirs. He was therefore in favor of uniting the poli- cies of bimetallism and protection. He declared that the Republican silver Sena- tors would have been *‘as fully justified in iding the Democrats to repeal the Me- Kinley law as other Republican Senators were in joining the administration Demo- crats to secure the unconditional repeal of the Sherman law."”” In conclusion he expressed the hope that the resolution would be agreed to, and that the Dingley bill would be reported back with a fair protective substitute and with a provisiou for bimetallism. The Repub- lican party, he said, would go into history as the best and bravest party that the world had ever known, and he had hopes that it would refuse to be guided in its fu- ture policy by the dictates of selfishness and greed. Hawley (R.) of Connecticut said that he had a few figures which proved that Mantle was mistaken in supposing that the wool manufacturers were benefited by the Wilson tariff bill. The importations of woolen manufactured goods into the United States for the current fiscal year, inciuding January, amounted to over $38,- 000,000 as against $17,500,000 in the corre- sponding seven months of last year. On the other hand many looms in New Eng- land woolen-mills were idle and the mills were running on reduced time. With the passage of the Wilson tariff law, a cyclone, he said, had struck the woolen industry of New England. He added that he did not cal! to mind a single New Eneland Senator who had ever moved or voted to take the duty off raw wool. After considerable discussion the miatter went over. & Unanimous consent was asked by Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska for the passage of the Senate bill to authorize and encourage the holding of a trans-Mississippi expo- m in Omaha, Nebr., in 1898. It was made the special order for to-morrow after the morning routine business. At 5:15 the Senate adjourned until to- morrow. Appointed to Cadetships. WASHINGTON, D. C. April 9.—Ap- pointments to cadetships at the United States Military Academy have been secured by Fernay G. Lane, Keosaugua, Iowa, and Charles L. Fithean, Idaho Springs, Colo. s A e In the Interests of Labor. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—The House Committee on Labor to-day heard arguments by James O’Connell of Chicago, grand master of the Machinists’ Union, and Mr. Gompers of the Federation of Labor in support of the bill of Mr. South- wick of New York prohibiting interstate traffic in the products of convict labor. They also advocated the Government eight-hour law bills. 3 T TN SENATOR MORGAN VERY ILL. His Death Would Be a Severe Blow to Those Who Are Fighting the Refunding Scheme. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—Senator Morgan is critically ill, and it is doubtiul whether he can live. He realizes the seri- ousness of his condition, and has made all preparations in anticipation of his death. While in conversation with Californians, Senator Morgan imparted to them the grave fears he entertained that he would never be well again. This will be a severe blow to California, and all those who have relied upon Mor- gan’s splendid ability to combat the re- funding bill in the Senate. He and Rep- resentutive Maguire bad decided to pre- pare a bill on the lines of his resolution leaving the Pacitic roads debt question to be adjudicated by the courts. Whether Morgan recovers or not, it is not probable that he wiil be able to resume his seat in the Serate for many weeks. If there appears.to be reasonable probability of his attending to his public duties at this session, his friends will ask that considera- tion of Pacific roads legislation in the Senate pe postponed until he can partici- pate in the debate. This request is one that could hardly be refused, so unless Senator Morgan shall die his illness may be the meansof post- poning the matter until the next session of Congress. etel T The Fortifications Bill. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—The fortifications bill will be laid by the sub- committee before the full Appropriations Committee to-morrow. It will carry a large appropriation and provides in such a liberal manner for the purchase uuder contract of sites, guns, etc., that it is stated that the War Department will be able to enter upon an extensive system of coast defenses tor the next yea b e ZLeague of Musicians. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—The three days’ session of the National League of Musicians was harmonious. Delegates resented reports and resolutions. The atter were read and reported to commit- tees. The ' treasurer’s report showed a large balance to the credit of the benefit fund and nearly $2000 in the league treasury. ISSSTED BYMORALE Is The Venezuelan Minister Gathering Some Importan: Documents. Thou-ands of Pages of Matte: Bearing on the Dispute Will Be Translated. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—Mal- lette-Prevost has had a conference at the Venezuelan legation with Minister An- drade relative to the transiaticn and print- ing of the documents recently received by Mr. Andrade on the subject of the bound- ary dispute between Venezuela and Brit- ish Guiana. Owing tothe fact that it has not yet been possible to make and print translations of these documents they have not been formally presented to the com- mission. Itis theintention of Mr. An- drade to submit both the ori inal aocu- ments and the printed translations as soon as they can be prepared. The following will serve to give some idea regarding the extent and importance of these documents. They are contained in three large folio volumes and comprise from 1000 to 1200 closely written pages. Most of them are in the form of certified copies of original manuseripts on file in the archives at Seville, Simancas and Madrid. Many documents cited and quoted by the British Governmentin the bluebook recently presented to Parlia- ment are in that book given only in the form of extracts. Some of the documents now in the hands of Mr. Andrade are complete copies of these same papers, and will therefore enable the commission to form a much more accurate idea with regard to their exact meaning and value. In some cases the extracts given in the bluebook are exceedingly meager; as for instance, in the case of the report sent by the Governor of Cumana, Don Jose Diguja, on December 15,1763. The extracts from this report are given in the bluebook and cover two and a half pages. The original report, a certified copy of which is now at the Vene- zuelan legation, contains nearly 400 pages. The translation of these documents will necessarily occupy some weeks, as the interpretation of the technical language used for legal documents in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in which they are couched, requires more iban ordinary skill and care. In addition to the three quarto volumes mentioned., Mr. Andrade states that in the course of two or three weeks Le expects to receive from the Venezuelan legations at The Hague, Rome and Madrid copies of further documents, which agents of his Govertment have been engaged in collect- ing. e ADMISSION OF TERRITORIES. Hadley Presents a Favoradle Report on the Arizona Rill. WASHINGTON, D.C., April .—When the bill admitting New Mexico was taken up in the House to-day Owens of Ken- tucky offered an amendment postponing tue election of the State Legislature until 1898, the purpose being to delay the elec- tion of a United States Senator to a subse- quent period, but this was rejected, as was also an amendment offered by Tait of Ohio to report the bill to the House with- out recommendation. Hadley prevented a favorable report on the Arizona bill. He stated that his ac- tion in voting to admit Territories would be based on the ratio of pupulation, and as Arizona did not have, in his opinion, the number of inhabitants required for statehood, he would be comnvelled to vote against it. Under these circumstances Murphy, the delegate from Arlzona, deemed it advisabie not to press the matter further at to-day’s meeting, and upon mo- tion of Catron, the delegate from New Mexico, the Arizona bill was laid aside and the New Mexico bill taken up. On this bill the committee divided on thelines given above, but it was carried by a vote of six to four, those voting in the negative being Taft, Owens, Knox and Low. Boundary of Alaska. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—The Committee on Foreign Affairs in the House to-day instructed Heathwole (R.) of Minnesota to prepare and present a joint resolution appropriating $75,000 for estab- lishing the boundary line between Alaska and British Columbia in_accordance with convention between the United States aud Great Britain relating to that subject, > PILOTAGE BILL “ MEETS DEFEAT, The House Not Inclined to Increase the Distress of Labor. ATTACEK ON THE A. P. A, Fitzgerald of Massachusetts Says Catholic Institutions Are Not Treated Fairly. REFERRED TO A CONFERENCE. | Agreement Nct Reached on Senate Amendments to Postoffice Ap- propriation;. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—The bill to repeal the compulsory pilotage sys- tem, so far as it affects sailing vessels en- gaged in the coastwise trade, was defeated in the House to-day, after a day’s debate, by a vote of 117 to 152. Grosvenor (R.) of Ohio in the course of the discussion said that while this Congress would not enact apy legislation intended to improve the condition of laboring men in this country, he was certain the House would not pass a bill which laboring men believed would tend to still further increase the distress and discomfort of a portion of their fellows. The amended District of Columbia ap- propriation bill for the year ending June 30, 1897, was passed after a brief debate. The most notable incident of the debate was a bitter attack by Fitzgerald (D.) of Massachusetts, apon the A. P. A. forits attack ia the dark, as he expressed it, upon the Roman Catholic church, of which he was a member, which resulted in depriv- ing institutions in the District of Colum- bia, conducted under the auspices of the church, of what was justly and legally theirs. No response was made to Fitzgerald be- yond a bare denial by Grout (R.) of Ver- mont, in charge of the bill, that it consti- tuted in any sense anattack upon the Catholic church. The vote upon the bitl was 134 to 21, and only twenty members, an insufficient number, joined with Sulzer (D.) of New York in a demand for a vote by ayes and noes. Conference was ordered on the Senate amendments to the postofiice appropria- tion bill. Consideration was begun of the “filled cheese’” bill (imposing a tax upon its manufacture and sale) and will be contin- ued to-morrow. Cooke (R.) of Wisconsin, author of one of the bills for which the pending bill was a substitute, addressed the House. The House upon meeting resumed con- sideration ot the bill to abolish the com- pulsory pilotage system so far as it relates to sailing vessels engaged in the coastwise trade. Cooper (D.) of Florida,who prepared the views of the minority of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries in oppo- | sition to the bill, made the first speech. The bill was advocated by Perkins (R.) | of Iowa and Fitzgerald (D.) of Massachu- | setts, Ellert (D.) of Pennsylvania, Dingley (R.)of Maine and Payne (R.) of New York, and antagonized by Grosvenor (R.) | of Okic, Elliott (D,) of South Caroiina and Tyler (D.) of Virginia. The bill was de- | feated—117 to 152, An effort to get a vote by ayes and noes was successful. The bill making appropriations for the District of Columbia for the year ending June 30, 1897, was taken up. The discus- sion of the bil was iuterrupted to pass the resolution asking the Secretary of State to give the House any information the de- pertment might have regarding the case of Mrs. Florence E. Maybrick, in prison in Englanda for poisoning her husband, a merchant of Liverpool. Bartlett and Wheeler (D.) of Ala- bama opposed the aistrict bill, the former on the ground that the appropriations for charity should be made as in the past, directly to the institutions, and the latter for the reason that the cost of caring for the poor of the district would be largely increased under the new system. Fitzgerald (D.) of Massachusetts, the youthful sole representative of his party from the New England States, briefly ad- NEW TO-DAY, You’ve seen and heard the loud voiced man at the fbig railway sta- A tions, calling the trains. He tells where each one is going and keeps people from taking wrong trains — i they pay attention. One’s physical feelings are bodily “train callers.” ‘They announce the starting of all trains of disease. Most all trains of disease lead to consump- tion, because con- sumption is a blood disorder and be- cause the blood must be or impure before any disease can make much headway. The secret of health isto keep the blood pure and full of strength. When a man or woman loses flesh and vitality, there is something wrong in the blood. The start of it is likely to be in the stom- ach or bowels, and if they are put in order the trouble gradually stops.” Con- sumption is a germ discase, but if the blood is good, and keeps the lungs strong and healthy, the germs cannae find a place to lodge and are cast off. If there’s a weak spot, the germ will find it. Even after that, strong and pure blood will strengthen.the lungs so that they can gradually rid themselves of the germs. It is by creating strenith and purity that Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cures consumption and other diseases. It makes one gain flesh—not flabby, ojly fat, but sound, firm, useful, healthy flesh, Hun of patients have testi- fied to its wonderfully beneficial effects in many diseases and especially in incip- ient consumption. A lar; f these testi- mqninlf‘mpmgft::um“n? u‘:t‘{-gonph?eo[ ?ltm writers, can be had by sending 6 cents to cover postage to WORLD'S DISPENSARY MEDICAL As- SOCIATION, No. 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. -dressed the House, paying his respect!_ to ‘the A. P. A. On the question of agreeing to the amendment as reported, the vote was: Ayes 124, noes 21. Sulzer (D.) of New York ineffectually endeavored to get a vote by ayes and noes, and t){e'blll as amended was passed without division. The Senate amendments to the post- office appropriation bill, on motion of Loud (R.) of California, were non-con- curred in and a conference ordered. At5:05 the House adjourned until to- marrow. Fighting With Insurgents. THE HAGUE, Horraxp, April 9.—A dispatch from Batavia, Java, says that a beleaguered Dutch garrison in the south of Grand Acheen, Sumatra, has been relieved. Inthe fighting with the insurgents which accomplished the result the Dutch lost ten men killed and twenty-eight wounded. ————— Land Selections Approved. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—Acting Secretary Reynolds of the Interior Depart- ment has approved a selection of 15 acres of land made by the Northern Pacifi Railroad in The Dalles and La Grange (Or.) Land District. S Writing a Drama for Sarah. MONTREAL, Quesec, April 9.—Dr. Louis Frechette, who1s called the Canadian Poet Laureate, is engaged in writing a five- act drama in verse for Sarah Bernhardt. The plot is laid in Italy in the seventeenth century. BN £ U Santa Monioca and San Pedro. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—The Senate Commerce Committee to-day de- cided to give a hearing April 17 on the sub- ject of a deep-water harbor at Santa Mon- 1ca or San Pedro, Cal metdeegl Recovering From the Measles.2 WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—The regular Cabinet meeting will be held to- morrow. Esther Cleveland is still doin, well at Woodley and Mr. Thurber’s chil- dren are also improving. e s Treasury Gold Reserve. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 9.—The Treasury gold reserve to- stood at $127,795,910;; withdrawals, §114,200, MISS EFFIE PERRINI OF SALINAS, SALINAS, Monterey County, Cal. I have never met a more enthusiastic class of people than I did in Salinas, and in fact all through Monterey Couniy. One of the most pleasing gentlemen with whom I talked is Mr. George Perrini. He told me that he had heard of many re- markable cures that had been effected by the use of Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla, and that he had occasion to prove this to his own advantage. 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