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K4 This Paper %" | to be taken from | Liorar. This Paper not to be taken from the Library.++++ VOLUME LXXIX.—NO. 143, SENATOR MORGAN SEEKS JUSTICE, Minority Report of a Man Who Dares to Fight Huntington. FRAUDS AREDENOUNCED AMethods of Crime and Corruption That Should Not Avail in Congress. RELIEF FOR THE PEOPLE ASKED Debts of the Pacific Railroads Must Not Be Dodged by the Crowd That Became Enriched. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 20.—THE CaLy correspondent has secured a copy of Senator Morgan’s minority report on the Pacific funding bill. It is a voluminous document comprising 360 printed pages, thirty-six of which are devoted to Mr. Morgan's views, and the remainder is a stenographic report of Huntington’s testi- mouy, under cross-examination by Sena- tor Morgan. Senator Morgan prefaces his report by saying: *‘From circumstances that were entirely beyond control of the undersigned he has not been able to know anything of the proceedings of the committee which have resulted in the bill reported to the Senate by a majority of the Committee on Pacific Railroads. He isinformed that by some sort of joint action between that commit- tee and the committee of the House of Representatives (both acting through sub- committees) to which the Senate has not consented, the bill reported to the Senate has been formulated and agreed to by a majority of the Senate committee. “If the undersigned had been physi- cally able to do this service and had been chosen for it, he would not haveattempted such manifest breach of his duty a=z a Senator without the instruction of the Senate, as is necessaryly involved in this concerted action. Under parliamentary law it is a breach of privilege and duty for a Senator to refer to the action or proposed action of the House of Representatives as t y measure pending thereupon which the Senate is deliberating. Such a refer- ence is calculated to bring the pressure of cusside influence of most serious character to bear directly upon the action of the Senate and to warp its free judgment upon a measure before it to force consider- ation. “In this case the necessity for careful observation of this great parliamentary ldw is most obvious as beingfindispensable to the free, independent and impartial ac- tion of the Senate. The minority of the Senate committee scarcely have the privi- lege of free speech when, added to the weight of opinions and conclusions of the majority of the committee of which they are members, they are fairly smothered out by the impressive burden of the adju- dication of a committee of the House of Representatives upon the identical sub- ject. “The subject-matter of the bill calls for action on the part of Congress that isen- tirely novel and peculiar, and for that reason if for no other, it demands free and independent thought, judgment and action of each member of Congress. 8o far as the undersigned is informed Congress has not hitherto engaged in the business of bar- n and sale with private persons in dis- posing of property or other rights of the Government of the United States. In this case we are to be deprived of all such guards against malfeasance or fraud. If this bargain and sale is enacted into law its miscarriage, however disastrous to the country or injurious to public morals, will only lie at the door of those who vote for it. “The undersigned is unwilling thus to deal with this great public interest, leav- ing the Government and the people with- ont any safeguard against fraud and fail- are in the plan of bargain and sale of the Union and Central Pacific railroads. Itis needless at this moment to penetrate the dark cloud of suspicion that has so long been gathering and now hangs over this entire subject. In justice to Congress the evil deeds that cover this whole business like an ulcer should not be salved over . with some concealment and left to eat its way. “The whole world knows that we are aealing with men who have created these conditions, and they impose new and harder terms upon the Government, the people and posterity that they are un- just and extremely dangefous. The bill reported shows on its face that its leading features have been docketed by the combi- nation of railroad magnates who have combines in the general plan thatisin- tended to secure to themselves great ad- vantages at the expense of the people. “The hearings before committees of the House show that these men have been active in negotiation and extremely alert in presenting their views of the case, while the Government and the people have not been represented by authorized and instructed agents. In this proposed arbitration, if it is to become law, the Government should have been repre- sented officially and with careful diligence. “Without attempting to array evidence of fraud and peculation which Hunting- ton’s testimony vainly attempts to con- cal, attention is drawn to the fact that his evasionsof truth as it is thoroughly established are his main reliance for mis- leading Concress in his effort to capture the Central Pacific Railroad, after it has made him and his three or four associates enormously rich, on the plea that his pride compels him to save the road from bank- ruptey, to whith fraudulent dealing seems to have driven it. “I respectfully dissent from the plan of legisiation embraced in this bill, and, with & view fo getting action of the Senate on a different plan that I have the honor to propose, I move to commit the bill to the Committee on Pacific Railroads with the subjoined instructions. I present this substitute for the resolution of instruc- tions I had the honor to offer on March 9, not because I abandon any part of the plan of legislation indicated in that reso- lution, but because there is more of aetail in that formula than is necessary to de- velop the sense of the Senate as to the merits of the measure upon which I ask for instructions to the Committee on Pa- cific Railroads. To reach the real sub- stance of what I am contending for I now | offer this substitute: Resolved by the Senate, That the Committee on Pacific Railroads is instructed to report the same to the Senate with such smendments if any as they choose to offer thereto, “‘A bill re- lating to the jurisdiction of the Court of Ap- peals of the District of Columbia.” Be it enacted that the Court of Appeals ot the District of Columbia is hereby given juris- diction over any and all suits that may be brought by the United States to enforce or ob- tain other relief upon any lien or liens on any railway or railways or on any property belong- ing to one or more railway corporations, wher- ever such property may be situated. Sec. 2. That separate liens upon different railways or railway properties may beenforced by the United States in tne same suit when such railways constitute, or were intended to constitute, & through line, or part of or con- nected with a through line or general system of railways. The court shall have power to make such orders concerning the sale of said property as may be just and proper for the protection of all parties concerned. Sec. 3. That said court shall have power to issud process, means and final, which shall run into any district and be served as other like process by the Marshal of such district and to enter all proper orders, decrees and mandates, including orders, decrees and mandates for the payment to the United States of any deficiency arising upon sale under such lien. Sec.4. That holders of liens on any such railroads or property may be made parties to such suit, or may intervene if not made par- ties, and said court may order any and all proceedings by any party or parties in other courts having jurisdiction oi a part only of the property involved to be discontinued or stayed until the termination of such suit by any dis- trict. And said committee is further instructed to report, in connection with said bill, an origi- nal bill, or amendments to the foregoing bill, which will embody substantially the following provisions: First—To pay for the refunding of the first- mortgage bonds and subsidy bonds of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroad companies outstanding in the hands of per- sons not indebted to the United Statesin 3 per cent bonds of the United States,to run thirty years and subject to call at the pleasure of the Government. Second—To provide for & sinking fund to pay such refunding bonds out of the net receipts of the companies, Tespectively. Third—To provide for the priority of the Unitea States in the paymentoi any sums that shall be due the Government out of the net receipts of such company without the de- duction from the sinking fund. Fourth—To provide for the taking possession of property of every kind and franchises of each of said companies in accordance with the provisions of existing law, upon any default of said companies respectively that is provided for by law; such property and franchises to inure to the use of the United States. Fifth—To remove from office the presi- dents and vice-presidents and treasurers of each of said companies and to ptovide for the exercise of their power Dy officers appointed under an act to be reported by the committee under these instructions. . Sixth—To provide for & board of directors to direct, control and manage the said companies under their existing powers as amended, who shall act for each company, butshall operate the two railroads and their branches as one continuons system, such directors tobe ap- pointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate, and to have and exercise all powers conferred by law upon each of the present board of directors, including the repeal or amendment of existing by-laws of seid companies respectively. Seventh—To provide for the proper adjust- ment and partition of income and expenses of each railroad in all matters that relate to through' transportation from one road upon the line of the other. Eighth—To provide for the apvointment. of trustees for each road by the President of the United States and the manner of their account- ing. Ninth—To provide for the payment of the debts of each company out of its net income in subordination to the debts owing to the United States. Tenth—To provide for the canceilation of stock of each company and reissue of stock graduated according to the actual value of the property of each company. Eleventh—To provide for the continuance of the control of Congress over the two com- panies and their property under corporate powers and systems now existing es they shall be amended from time to time or until Con- gress shall otherwise direct. Twelith—To provide for the appointment of all officers not herein named and the employ- ment of all persons in the service of the corpo- ration by a board of directors or under their direction, without interference, advice or sug- gestion of any officer of the United States or of any State. Thirteenth—To provide that any lawtul debt or any damages incurred by either company in the course of its current business, when' the same has been paid, shall be charged to the account of such company and deducted from the gross income of such company; but no debt shall be created by the directors or agent or employes of the companies, or either of them, nor any damages arising out of their conduct or transactions snall in any case be- come & debt, obligation or liability of the United States. “In the course of legislation on this sub- ject, so far as I have seen, the bills that have been offered propose a total change of the existing laws as they affect the rignts of the United States, the creditors of these companies, and stock- holders and bondholders, and such altera- tion is provided for in most elaborate and complex legislation. Many of the pro- posed feutures of all these bills affect in a most questionable way the vested rights that are threatened with violent dis- turbance. “*All of these proposed measures call for radical changes in the charter powers of these corporations as being necessary be- fore these proposed new conditions can be imposed upon them or their stockholders or creditors. In all of them, so far as 1 hav_e seen, the compulsory power of majorities are employed to extinguish the rights of individuals who are in the minority of numbers or interests in cor- porations, without reference to their con- sent and in spite of their protests, *In plain I propose that no rights of the United States or of any bondholder, stock- holder, creditor or employe of these cor- porations, under existing laws, shall be changed in the least degree. The laws stand to regulate these rights without al- teration. They are sufficient #sthey stand for all purposes of justice, equity, gov- ernmental authority, the protection of the people and ' public policy. I propose to add a power that is not now provided by law that will enable the Government to liquidate the debt that is falling due on subsidy bonds and the first mortgage bonds of these con)- panies, and to provide for the collection of the debt paid for interest upon subsidy bonds and to apply the‘income of corpora- tions to such purposes. To do this, we g “IMO TN D il //%//é SeperACY / o PRICE FIVE CENTS. \\\\\w \l A ERED!” have to deal with the property of corpora- tions whose charter powers have lapsed, and all their property is forfeited to and vested in the United States under existing laws. “We have to administer upon the es- tates of two corporations that have ceased to exist or will soon have ceased to exist under those laws by the forfeiture of their charters to the power that granted them and can continue to exist only with the consent of Congress. The new provisions I provose to add to the statute relate only to the revivor of these corporations and their future administration under a new and temporary organization. “The jurisdiction of courts to hear and determine a certain class of questions that | have arisen out of these transactions is not proposed to be changed, but for the convenient and speedy and economical | adjudication of such questions the forum is located at Washington and the hearing of such causes is confided to the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. So I am under no mne- cessity to invent new laws to change existing rights or to find excuses for de- stroying rights that stand in the way of powerful men, who comprise a majority of bondholders or stockholders in these cor- porations that are alleged to be bankrupt, but still living. I am opposed to dealing with them as bankrupt estates, for they are not such, unless they have bankrupted the conscience and treasury of the United States by having forfeited their property to the Government. “It is the duty of Congress to see that no honest man suffers in consequence of this forfeiture, and it is doubly our duty when this property, under prudent administra- tion, is worth all the debts it owes and, in addition, more than every dollar of stock that had ever been placed into the treas- ury of both these companies. This is not a case for settlement in bankruptey. Those who have so long tried to bring this great property to a conaition that would cause the Government to abandon it in disgust should not now be permitted to capture it. *We cannot afford to pay salvage to men who have conspired to wreck the ship. The United States has a great and active rival in the Canadian Pacific Rail- road that is virtually owned by Great Britain. It is a rival as well in commer- cial competition as in governmental ser- vice. If we permit this great National highway to be served as is about to be done—the Eastern half, with the Oregon Short Line, to pass under control of a European syndicate, and the Western half to fall into the vortex of a monopoly which is represented by the Southern Pa. citic Company—the Kentucky Company— not only will the plan established in 1862-64 be lost and the hopes of the Goy- ernment blasted, that have cost the coun- try so much, but the control of our trans- continentai commerce will be also lost, and the Government will be a beggar at the feet of native and foreign railroad kings for favors where we now have rights, “There is plenty of money in the hands of the people of the United States seeking such investments to take every bond at 3 per cent that we will issue to refund and reduce these railroad debts.. And our peo- ple will own the road in the outcome and will gladly keep it in control of our Gov- ernment, and we will be saved the loss and humiliation of buying gold to ship abroad to pay dividends on stouk. This is our great opportunity to make of this great road an American institution so that we may have one railroad ‘at least that is not the mere servant and dividend-producer for capitalists of foreign countries. “If it can ever be justly said that for any cause we have given away or aban- doned the most vital interests of the great community to satisfy the greed of corrupt men we shall share their infamy, however just may be our motives. It will bea censure upon the American name that will blacken it the world over if it can even be said with any color of probability that the crimes of the Credit Mobilier and others quite as worthy of reprobation which hovered about the cradle of the first and grandest of our transcontinental rail- roads have followed 1t and hounded it to its grave and presided auv its death and burial. “Under recent adverse conditions of great business depressions and in spite of temptations to run these railroad proper- ties down to a minimum of their earning capacity, so that in the expected bank- ruptcy the capitalists of the world could gobble up these great National highways at their own price—in spite of all this, the —_— Continued on Third Page. WEYLER BUILDS ABIG TROCHA, It Is Kept Intact Across the Island for Two Weeks. MANY MEN ON GUARD. All the Available Spanish Forces Kept on Duty Day and Night. MACEOQ'S PATRIOTS HOVER NEAR And the Chances Are That They Will Cross the Dead Line When Convenient. HAVANA, Cuss, April 20.—General Weyler has succeeded in accomplishing what Martinez Campos and other captain- generals have attempted in vain. He has built a trocha across the island and kept it intact for two weeks. That the present trocha is formidable even the insurgents admit, but they profess that it alarms them not at all. ‘When Maceo passed through Havana province to the west and Weyler stationed 1000 men along the twenty-one miles from Mariel on the north coast to Majana on the south, he cabled to Madrid an- nouncing that the second man in com- mand of the rebel forces was penned up in the western provinces. After staking his . reputatior on the ab- solute impossibility of Maceo’s crossing, he found that detached parties of from 100 to 200 insnrgents were getting through the line at will. He then brought all the troops from other parts of the island that could be spared, leaving towns .in the middle provinces forces barely sufficient for gar- rison duty and practically suspending active operations in all but the western province. This concentration raised the force of troops to 28,000 and gave 5000 more for use inthe flying columns in conjunc- tion with those on the line. The troops were set at work building forts, digging trenches and erecting barri- cades. The work has been pushed night and day, and the best trocha Spain has ever built ' in Cuba now confronts Maceo. Through the hilly country, ‘south from Mariel, redoubts have been built for artil- lery upon every eminence between Guana- jay and Artemisia. About the middle part of the line forts and blockhouses with earthworks be- tween have been constructed from Majana to the south coast, through marshy land a broad ditch, backed by a stockade with blockhouses at intervals. General Aerolus, who is in command of the troops on the line, says the insurgents cannot cross without tremendous losses. The troops are under arms night and day, but though they have waited two weeks Maceo has not attacked the line. This fact has raised a question as to the line froin a military standpoint. To maintain its strength at all points leaves only a few thousand men who can be used in aggressive operations. Maceo's own forces, with those of Bandera and Delgado, number about 15.000. They have been in the hills around Le- chuza, fifteen miles west of the trocha, for two weeks. They have plenty of provi- sions and have the whole province of Pinar del Rio at their backs. They nearly wiped ont of existence the column com- manded by Lieutenant-Colonel Debos, who attempted to .drive them out of the hillsand was driven to the shores of the Cabanas Bay. Meanwhile the main body of the Spanish troops holds the trocha. ~ News has been received here that the Spanish column under command of Colonel Elola while marching from San Jose to Valiente, near Cienfuegos, came upen a party of 2000 rebels holding strong positions and attacked them. The official report of the engagement says that the rebels were dislodged from their positions by a brilliant charge with bayonets and machetes and retired, leaving eighty-six dead upon the field. The Spanish loss was one killed and six wounded. From other sources it is learned that the rebel losses are exaggerated and that the losses of the Spanish troops were much greater than the Government ad- mits. . The name of the leader of the insurgen! party is not stated. HAVANA, Cusa, April 20.—General Melquizo reports that his command has dispersed parties of rebels near Juaraco, province of Havana. The rebels lost ten killed and the troops six wounded. The gunboat Centinela fired upon a party of rebels who were attacking a boat carrying supplies at Estoro, near Manzanillo. * Nine men, forming part of the boat’s crew of thirieen, were disabled by the fire of the rebels. In afurther engagementup the river between the rebels and the gun- boat five more Spaniards were wotnded. The revel loss is supposed to be heavy. The trial of Julio Sanguilly, who is said to have been implicated in the kidnaping of Fernandez de Castro, a rich planter, will be held on Thursday before the Su- preme Court in this city. De Castro obtained his release by paying a ransom of $20,000. Many fires in the canefialds are re- ported from the provinces of Havana and Matanzas. There have been frequent fires recently in stores in Matanzas. Incen- diarism was suspected and an investiga- tion led to the arrest of the owners of the stores. The buiidings were heavily in- sured, as were also the stocks, and the men arrested are charged with starting the fires in order to obtain the insurance money. Juan Urralde Martin, who was arrested in Spain on the charge of being the anthor of the robbery perpetrated on August Bel- mont & Co. of New York, by means of a forged draft for $24,000, purporting to be signed by Hidalgo & Co., a well-known firm of this city, is expected to arrive here on the Spanish mail steamer due on Friday next. J. FRANK CLARK, WILL TAKE NO CHANCES. Cuban Patriots Do Not Take Stock in Spain’s Promises. " WASHINGTON, D. C., April 20.—In the oral discussions of Cuban affairs which have taken place between the Spanish Minister and Secretary Olney during the past few weeks an informal memorandum of some fifty or sixty reform measures, which, under certain contingencies, the Spanish Government is willing to accord to Cuba, is understood to have played an important part. These new proposals of reform which have been informally brought under dis- cussion between the Spanish Minister and Secretary Olney are broader and more liberal than the decree of March 15, 1895, and approach more closely to practical autonomy, but are accompanied by condi- tions which apparently render their adop- tlon, or even their consideration, by the insurgents a matter of impossibility. Asin the case of the ten years’ war, Spain insists as a preliminary negotiation that the insurgents shall first lay down their arms, as it is against the dignity of the Spanish crbwn to treat with armed rebels. The Cuban leaders assert that when they complied with similar conitions in 1878, in order to se- cure the rteforms pledged to them by Martinez Campos the pledges then made were chiefly left unfulfilled and they emphatically decline to be again de- ceived in like manner. Consequently the proffered measure of reform is likely to fall to the ground so far as Cuba is con- cerned, though some similar provisions may probably be tendered to Puerto Rico, where no rebellion exists. Nothing in the suggested plan as it now stands holds out any, prospect of a speedy termination of this desolating war. Private advices received here from Havana indicate that the hopes which were at first expressed that the appoint- ment of General Fitzhugh Lee as Cousul- General to Havana might open up some way of adjustment, have died away. It is doubted whether General Lee will be able to take up his new duties for months to come. This is the beginning of the most deadly sickly season in Cuba. The cares and worries of responsibilities of the office of Consul-General at Havana to an unacclimated man of General Lee's portly physique, it is said, would be likely to bring on an attack of yellow fever, the chances of recovery from which might be doubtful. Friends of General Lee who to have written to him, strongly dissuad- ing him from attempting to take up bis duties until the rainy season is over. e TO GRANT GREATER POWER. What Will Be Promised in the Speech From the Throne. PARIS, Fraxce, April 20.—A dispatch from Madrid to the Temps says that the speech from the throne to be delivered m the Cortes May 11 will declare the entire satisfaction of the Spanish with the attitude of the Government at Wash- ington toward Cuba. The speech will also announce the intention of the Gov- ernment to grant to Cuba a greater amount of local power in the administra- tion of affairs on the island, but will not grant political autonomy nor any revision of the tariff. BOERS ARE VERY VIGILANT. They Fear Another Raid Into the Trans- vaal During the Matabele Uprising. MAFEKING, SoutH AFRICA, April 19.— Captain Duncan telephones from Buiu- wayo that he 1s confident that he will be able to resist an attack by the rebellious Matabeles. The most he fears is treachery on the part of the natives within the town. He considers the laager impregnable owing to the fortifications that have been constructed, dynamite. mines having been laid in the suburbs and barbea wire has been stretched in every direction abeut the town. A force of Boers estimated to number 1500 men are ata point within fifteen miles of Mafeking. Their ostensible purpose is to prevent the spread of the rinderpest among the cattle, but the real reason of their being there is that they fear another raid will be made into the Transvaal owing to the massing of British troops at Mafek ing. s % ROYAL WEDDING AT COBURG. Marriage of Princess Alexandra to Prince Ernest. COBURG, GerMaNy, April 20.—Tue marriage of Princess Alexandra, third daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha, and granddaughter of Queen Vic- toria, to Prince Ernest, Hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, was ce lebrated to-day. After the civil marriage, wit- nessed by the Duke of York and the Grand Duke Pani of Russia, the bridal procession marched to the castle church. The procession was headed by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotba and the Empress of Germany, followed by Emperor Wilham, | the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the Duke of York, the Grand Duchess of Hesse and Prince Ferdinand of Roumania. The Duke of Suxe-Coburg-Gotha and the Duchess of York led the bride to the altar. Dr. Muller, superintendent of the General Supreme Council, officiated at the cere- mony, ;assisted by two court chaplains. At the conclusion of the ceremony, the church and other bells were rung and ar- tillery fired. The procession re-formed in the church, the newly wedded couple leading, and marched to the throne room, where the wedding breakfast was served. IRE PPLSED T0 DUELIYG Members of the Reichstag Raise a Debate on the Ques- tion. The Historic Order of Frederick the the Great Urged as a Proper Remedy. BERLIN, GermaNy, April 20.—In the Reichstag to-day Dr. Bachem, the Cen- trist leader, raised a debate on the ques- tion of dueling by calling attention to the recent duel between Lieutenant Von Ket- telshodt, an officer attached to the Im- perial yacht Hohenzollern, and Herr von Zenker, a prominent Berlin lawyer, resuit- ing in the deati of the latter. This affair, be said, furnished an instance in which the ‘injured party, who had no chance through legal methods of obtaining satis- faction, was driven to the extreme of having recourse to a duel in which he was killed, while the man who had offered the insult which caused the duel got off with light punishment. The more recent duel between Lieber- echt von Kotze and Baron von Schraeder was a more difficult matter to deal with. The event, he said, must produce the con- viction in certain high quarters that re- form is necessary and must come from above. Would it not be possible, he asked, that the Emperor’s clear judgment might ultimately drive the custom of duel- ing out of the worid? If his Majesty fol- lowed the example of his grandfather he would at least restrict the practice. Di. Bachem then recalled this historic order of Frederick the Great, concerning the dis- missal of officers from the army for taking the law into their own hands. The organ- ization of German courts of honor, he added, left much to be desired, and the present time was a favorable one for re- form. Dr. von Boetticher, Imperial Secretary of State for the Interior, replied that the assumption that the authorities had not done their duty was groundless. He could not admit that as a matter of course. The law, he said, was applied without distinc- tion as to the position or vocation of offenders. The Chancellor, he continued, had given earnest consideration to the question as to what measures were pos- sible to insure respect for the law, but he has not as yet arrived atany decision. Therefore, communications to the Gov- ernment in regard to the matter were at present inadvisable. Herr Rickert, Radical Unionist, ex- pressed the hope that the Freissinig reso- lution demanding the suppression of duelling, which would be offered to-mor- row, would be adopted. Kotze and Schraeder, he declared, might have been watched by the police, the same as social- ist suspects were watched. This method, he said, would be desirable, inasmuch as Spain and Belgium were imposing heavy fines and terms of imprisonment upon duellists, with the result of greatly re- stricting the practice. Herr Schall, Conservative, condemned the practice of duelling as contrary to Christian commands. Herr Bebel, socialist, said that the so- cialists would hold the advantage if this public scandal continued. ety Tt Arbitrary Arrests. LONDON, Exg., April 20.—The Chroni- cle will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Constantinople, saying that several arbitrary arrests of forexgnun were made have been-long pa(dents of Cuba are said | at Galatea on Saturday last, MURDERED BY IZEE ASSASSING, George Scott’'s Body Found in the Ruins of a Cabin. SLAIN AND CREMATED. Fate of the Popular Drummer Learned After a Search of Months. TWO SUSPECTS ARRESTED. Evidence of a Foul Crime Discovered by Chance in a Heap of Ashes. PORTLAND, Or., April 20.— After months of search, in which every peace officer in Washington and Oregon has taken part, the mysterious disappearance of George A. Scott, one of the most popu- lar traveling men on the Pacific Coast, has been explained. It has been found that Scott was the vice tim of assassins near lzee. They slew him, took his valuables and then de- stroyed by fire the cabin in which the crime was committed, and the body of the unfortunate drummer was incinerated. The discovery of the murder has caused intense excitement in the vicinity of Izee, and two young men who have been ar- rested on suspicion are the targeis at which the dire maledictions of the neigh« borhood are directed. Scott, who bad been traveling for the J. K. Gill Book Company for ten years, started on what proved to be the last trip for the firm last autumn. He was heard from near La Grande in December, and irom that time on all trace of him was lost. He never remitted money while on a trip and always carried much of it on his person, despite the frequent warnings he had received. Scott was a scrupulously honest and pure man. Almosta month ago his firm, with which his accounts were straight, gave him up as the victim of murderous highwaymen. This was not done, though, before the Gill Company had sent a description of the missing man to every Shenff in this State and in Wash- ington, none of whom reported that Scott had been seen by them. Josepk Keering'and Mark Bailey of Can- yon City investigated the premises of an isolated sheepherder’s cabin in the moun- tains about eight miles beyond Izee, which was burned last fall, and upon digging into the ashes found small fragments of human bones, teeth, a matchbox, the charred leaves of books, buckles and but- tons from a man’s clothing. These were later identified as having belonged to Scott. In addition, buckles belonging to a single-set of cart-harness, and small pieces of cart-spokes were found. Henry Trowbridge brought the relics to town and Sheriff Combs and Deputy District Attor- ney Cozad immediately started for the cabin ruins to commence a systematic search and attempt to ferret out the mys- tery. Asaresult they heve placed Wil- liam Bare and Richard Hinkle under ar- rest. They were brought to the county seat and jailed. The officials claim that circumstances are strongly against the pair, who will be given a preliminary trial as soon as important witnesses ar- rive. Keerins and Bailey were first led to the investigation of the burned cabin by the finding of one of the hubs of a cart- wheel that had been burned, hidden in the underbrush near the site of the burned cabin. This was recognized as having be- longed to a cart Scott used when last seen in that place. The murdered man was more exten- sively known to Oregon and Washington farmers than any other person in those States. AN ELOPEMENT AND DEATH. L. C. Jackson of Nebraska Committed Suicide to Avoid a Wronged Husband’s Vengeance. FRIEND, NEsr., April 20.—Twe weeks ago L. C. Jackson, a leading business man os this plsce, prosperous, and with a wife and family, disappeared. He secured all the ready money he could, but left his wife well provided for. Three days later Mrs. E. W. Davis, wife of another business man, also disappeared, taking with her her little daughter, and the supposition was that she had joined Jackson, though there was no proof of this. Davis, the husband, declared he would hunt the guilty pair and secure possession of his child. The climax came to-day in a tragic way at Salt Lake City,Utah, a private telegram from that place annoucing the arrival there of Davis, the finding of his wife and daughter in Jackson’s company and the further fact that Jackson bed commnitted suicide on being apprehended. Details of the tradgey have not been learned. Davis and his wife are on their way home, and the body of Jackson will be shipped here for burial. Both families were prominent social leaders of the town. Rl 7 Held for Smith’s Murder, CHICAGO, IrL., Aprit 20.—John M, Ryan, a walking delegate for the Painters’ and Decorators’ Union and sergeant-at- arms of the Building Trades Council, was held to the Grand Jury without bail to- day by the Coroner's jury as one of the two men who murdered John L. Smith, secretary-treasurer of the Patek-Smith Company, painters and decorators, Satur- day afternoon at his place of business in the downtown district by hitting him on the head with a piece of gaspipe. e Northern Pacific Securities. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 20.—The J. P. Morgan Company states that all deposited securities under the Northern Pacific plan will be kept alive as long as any vestige of value remainsin them. For Interesting Pacific Coast Tele- grams See Pages 3 and 4.