The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 4, 1896, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1896. followed the previous day close to the cor- ral. They went down over the mountains toward the Santa Ana Valley. We fol- Jowed these for ten or fifteen miles, when we came upon the sack in which one foot had been wrapped, worn through by the beel and sole of the shoe. Shortly after the discovery we lost all trace of the tracks in thegrass. Gardner, McAvoy and Rives, however, will stay with it, as we are confident we are hot on the fugitive’s trail. He had but one day’s stari of us, if the man seen at the Mountain House is he. «Mansfieid and Hayden were detailed to godown the east side of the mountain to watch the trails of the San Joaquin side. Dunham, however, has evidently gone south—following the range right” down. He probably makes fifteen or twenty miles a day and has no d:fheultyin getting food in that country. There are plenty of camps and the rule is for a hungry man to help himself at any camp he strikes. We obtained food in this way. A posse ' ded b continued Harrison, *'with McAvoy and Ballou, have gone direct to Hoilister and will work upward from the south with the intention of heading off Dunham if he is raveling in that_direction, as we firmly believe, That he is armed there seems no doubt. The vaqueros at the Mountaip House state that they saw a revolver in Lhe belt of the man who leaped out of the mancer and made off. heriff Lyndon,” “These mountain_ places areso remote from any me of communication that at most of them the news of the mur- ders and I ham's flight was unknown. We leit d everywhere criptions and photographs went.” ison was compelled by his il to give up the chase tem- ne will return as soon as he fter affairs here. who has been with Erwin came in to-day from the o eloquent with news of the 1 that ction. He uses the name tham freely and without qu as being the man who stole certain and pork and such tbi from cabins the mountain trails.” He works in | -toe shoe that has made such a aprint all over the face of sting hills. He goes further; he with him the exact dimensions of cks in black and white on paper re that no other man than Dun- ham could have made the: A Bane porarily, but has looked gives as h v this bot trail that he wanted to notify the | Sheriff’s office—the Sheriff being at this time working on this very trail near Hol- tister. For this he left hischances on that $10,000 reward to other men, and does not even intimate that he preferred immediate and certain fame to a merely possible for- tune. However, he tells an interesting | Y. ter detailing how Dunham broke_into 1ty occupied by Japs on the Lictle (the Japs being away) and stealing e provender, he s A The next definite trace we found of him v ng along the Monterey road e House. Here, a boy ed Roper saw. him. In passing the se, Dunham took to the barley field, nas he moved through the Before you reach Coyote, there is a ravine off to the left of the county road. Dunham got off the road into the ravine to pass the night there. He was not re that a house stood back in the r he came to had not yet come home upper and Constarice stood outside the shanty watching for him. Instead of her father she saw Dunham come down ine, slowly, looking to the right nd left for a good place to sleep. When close to the house Dunham looked up, discovered the shanty and the girl. His appearance was the reverse of reassuring, and as he made a move toward her the girl turned, ran into the house, locked the womanlike, watched him window. He turned wearily, retraced his steps, gained the county road, and bore off to the right into a barley field vard Coyote Creek. That night he among the willows by the creek. “From the willows we traced his tracks back to the county road as he made for the Coyote bridge, whicn he desired to He was unable to do so, as three were working on the bridge, so he hung around Fisher Lake. At 5o’clock n left work and Dunham left the - ed the bridge and is now toward Llag We followed hi dark and the ba ave camped upon the t llow it to the end. , Where he acks along ce of the and will I have come in to fy the Sheriit’s office.”” The balance of the posse who are follow- s toward Llagas are Erwin Toole and a Spaniard namea cca Fisher. Bam Bane, after making his report, will return to the posse to as- 8| He does not anticipate any soft e e WANTED -DEAD OR ALIVE. The Captor of Dunham Wins Eleven Thousand Dollars. SAN JOSE, CaL., June 3.—The citizens’ executive committee, consisting of M. H. , chairman: Mitchell Phillips, A. itton, Gus Lion and L. A. Spitzer, e ed at the citizens’ mass-meeting in the courthouse Tuesday night, entered upon its duties with energy and deter- ion this morning. The entire day voted to outlining the ways and meaus for securing a fund of $10,000 to be red as a reward for the capture of James C. Dunham, dead or alive. A meeting was held in the oftice of M. H. Hyland, in the Porter building. One the fi s determined npon was the issuance of a large cardboard placard, containing an enlarged photograph of the murderer and the announcement of the d. The det: of_this poster were soon decided upon, and #e as follow: MURDER. in thousand dollars reward to e paid by the citizens of Santa Clara ( v. Cal., for the capture, dead or alive, and $1000 will be paid by the Governor of California for the arrest and conviction of James C. Dunham. James C. Dunhem deliberately murdered six persons on the night of May 26, 1896, at the aome of Colonel R. P. McGlincy, near Camp- bells, in Samza Clara County, Cal., consisti Mrs. Hattie Dunham, Colonel R. P. McGline Mrs. R. P. McGliney, James K. Wells, Miss Min Robert A. Briscoe. Thirty-two yeers oid. Nearly x 3 5 pounds. Has dark features, dark hair and dark mustache, blue eyes, medium complexion. He is au expert bicyclist and may be on & w When last seen he wore a black suit, cu v coat, black soft hat, number nine shoe ; walks very erec CITiZ of Te wi E ECUTIVE COMMITTEE. graph any information at his expense to Lyndon, Sheriff, San Jose, Santa Clara ity, Cal. ' Plense post this in conspicuous place. c This form for the poster was at once given into the hands of & printer, with in- structions to get them out with all possi- ble haste. The committee also decided that the co- operation of theladies of the county in the matter of raising funds for the reward was indispensible and the fcllowing circu- lar letter was issued and sent to a large number cf the most prominent ladies of the city. 8AN JOSE, CAL., June 3.—Dear Madam: For the first time in the history of this State, women are appealed to i & cause the like or which they have never before been asked to nid, Three of your sex have been most cruelly murdered, and we desire the material assist- ance of every woman in Santa Clara County in bringing theé murderer, James C. Dunham, to justice. You are asked to assist in this matter, extent of obtaining subscriptiongto com= he sum of $10,000 that is offered by the s of Santa Cléra County as a reward for the capiure of Dunham, dead or alive. You are earnestly requested to meet with other ladies in the pariors of the St. James Hotel (near the Courthouse), Thursday, June 4,8t10 A. M., and then and there to devise a way to canvass the city and county for sub- seriptions. i Bé £0 good as not to allow eny other busi- ness 1o prevent you irom attending this meet- ing. ‘Respectiully yours, CITIZENS' EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. The office of the committee was besieged to-day by men seeking engagements to go upon the hunt for Dunham. Chairman Te! J. H. « ious to go upon the hunt upon their own Seoaint. pn_?vided they could procure sad- dle-horses. He desired all who could con- tribute the use of saddle-horses to notify lu{nm course,” he stated, ‘‘these horses vill not be given to any but responsible parties.” gt SAN JOSEANS NOT HOPEFUL. Growing Pelief That the Murderer Es- caped on a Bicycle. SAN JOSE, CaL, June 3.—With the failures, one after another, of the leads that in their first flush looked so hopefal for the capture of Murderer Dunham the belief that the man hasaltogetber “fooled”” the officers and is now speeding south astride a bicycle is growing in San Jose, despite the news from Hollister. That Dunbam’s bicycle is a factor in this crime, or in the escape, or was intended by bim to be, is certain. 1ts disappearance with him would leave no doubt of that. He took the wheel from Osgood’s cyclery on Monday morning. It had been in the cyclery for two weeks awaiting a new tire from the East. He had been riding another wheel in the interim. The tire had not arrived on Monday ani he could wait no longer; be took it away with him and with the other wheel. That is to say, he went away with two wheels. Neither of them can be found. He did not ride a wheel to the McGliney house on the nizht of the murder. THE CALL has proven that. The impossibility of locating Dunham at any :ime Monday night must naturally associateitself with the mystery of those wheels. It is a reasonable conclusion that he employed that night in secreting them where they would best serve his purpose, and new evidence discovered by a Ca correspondent to-day serves to strongly support that conclusion. As early as 7 o'clock on Tuesday morn- g James C. Dunham entered the saloon i tions for flight were complete. For the rest he must prepare with equal care in case he would be compelled to flee. He went to school as usual, as though thoughts of anything so extraordi- nary as murder were furthest from his~ studies; later he made himself conspicuous at a oint reasonably distant from the cGliney house, and where his appearance would no doubt fit to plans laid for the event of his not being compelled to escape; in other words, he was arranging an alibi. He went to .the McGlincy home and murdered three women, one after the other by such silent methods as not to cause alarm on the part of even the third victim until her time had come, and she died aiso with no outcry having been made. Had he succeeded as well with the three men whose doom was fixed for some two hours later jposses would probably not now be looking for James C. Dunham. He would have been here, probably, proclaim- ing himself the most shocked and be- reaved of men, incapable of such a crime. And in support of that claim he would have pointed to his correct and temperate and studious Jife up to the very moment of the deed. But in the dark hallway where he met them, and after he had struck down old man McGliney with his ax, Jimmy Wells, the young tiger-like athlete, sprung upon him and threw him to the floorand place his hands on his throat, and would have strangled him in his turn. He was com- pelied to resort to his revolver. Though he hoped he would not have to use them he had foreseen and vrepared for this emergency also. The bullet-marks in the ceiling and slanting upward in the | walls give evidence of how the murderer | wason his w. y back when he began to use his n weapon, and:of how, also, Jimmy Wells foiled him for a time even in | that. That was a brave tight in the dark hall- way—the young man taken wholly by Roy Guilkey, the Young Bicyclist Who Morning and That He Looked Like Says He Saw Dunham Early Tuesday a Man Who Had Had Little Sleep. of J. A. Belloli at the corner of SuuthI Third and San Fernando streets. The saloon is attached to a grocery-store and is somewhat removed from the busier thoroughfares of the city. Dunham was not known to anybody about the place. He was dusty and tired and drowsy. He took a seat in a corner of the saloon, where there were few customers at that hour, and with his head bowed on his hand over atable he remained there for more than two hours. Occasionally he arose and helped himself at the lunch box that stands against the wall at the back part of the saloon. Dunham does not drink. He bought nothingat the bar, and this fact, together with the other that neither the barkeeper nor Mr. Belloli remembered having seen him before, attracted their attention. The barkeeper says the stranger ate a hearty | breakfast out of the lunch box. When Mr. Belloh arrived, he at once noticed the silent man in the corner, with | his head on his hand, and asked the bar- keeper what he was doing—if he was | Which itis only reasonable to suppotie Mi f he sleeping there. The barkeeper replied that be did not seem to be sleeping, and so no further attention was paid to him. Shortly before 10 o'clock Roy Guilkey, a young mean employed in the San Jose cyclery, entered the saloon. He knows | d unprepared. The armed man a bullet after a while found heart. Then Dunham was i to goout and seek McGlincy whither he had fled, and the secret was out. His voice was heard and one man got away. Dunk He wi m knew then that he must flee. t back to the house and took with him his pictures and papers—everything | that would aid in his identification, the police being upon his trail. He had thought the situation out to its furthest possibility. He took a horse, careless of there being | no saddie—he was not going to ride far— ana went toward the gulch of Mount | Hamilton. The horse has heen found in Indian Gulch, and the Sheriff’s posse has been skirmishing around that inaccessible | ravine for davs. Certainly they have given such a shrewd and thoughtful and painstaking man am- ple time to avail bimself of the conveni- ence which everything indicates, and provided for himself for his escape. reached the other side of the mountain and there found a bicycle be would find | fine coasting into the San Joaquin. With a bicycle suit and a clean shave or a week’s growth of beard, just as you Dunham well, and was much surprisea at | please, he might ride to Texas no more seeing him there, as he knows that he does not drink. He did not speak to him, how- ever, as the man’s attitude and manner did not invite social aavances. Neither did he mention the matter at that time to the barkeeper. When the follow:ng morning he saw the report of the fearful tragedy at Campbells the incident flashed upon him instantly, and, going over to Belloli’s, he informed him who his strange visitor was. From this saloon Dunham went to the bank and drew out all the money that was there to his credit—something over $1000. Thence he went to school and remained through the session, trying to wear his customary studious appearance, although his abstraction was such that it did not es- *| cape the notice of the pupils nearest him. L1 i ‘When leaving school, he did not take his books with .him, something that had not occurred before in his three months’ at- tendance there. After school and from about 4 o’clock until 7, as traced by THE Cary, Dunham , sharp pointed | Was in the neighborhood of the Willows, chin recedes when he | visiting the property-owners there and making the inquiries that had calied him there before, concerning the value of land. At5o'clock he entered the Willow Glen grocery-store, on Willow street, and re- mained gossiping with the proprietor, a man whom he did not know, for nearlyan hour. Leaving the Willow Glen store, he started toward the electric-cars that would carry him toward Dry Creek. Frank S})rung, an acquaintance and proprietor of the blacksmith-shop at Willows, was about to pass without recognizing him, but Dunham, the silent and morose, grown voluble now, stopped him, crying: ‘“‘Hello, Frank.” They stopped and talked for some time, Dunham appearing in no burry. As they parted Sgrung asked: “How is Jim?” meaning Jimmy Wells. To this question Duuham bad no reply, for_he was even then on his way to murder Jimmy Wells. This chain of circumstances all point in one direction—that Dunham was laying a careful plan covering the alternatives and contingencies of his contemplated crime. He was an expert and practiced bicy clist. He nad had Osgood a week or ten days be- fore }iluce on this wheel that he took away that Monday morning a speedier gear. He procured a new tire elsewhere and that night he probably rode to the summit of Mount Hamilton and there concealed the one wheel. Possibly he concealed the other nearer home. He returned to the city early Monday mcrning and went to a saloon where he was not known and rested there until the hour when he might appear upon the Hyland stated that many men were anx- | street without comment. He secured his money and his prepara- subject to suspicion than any other of the thousands of hump-backed young gentle- men on their summerouting. It is to be hoped that thisis not the correct theory; that the bearer of the celebrated pointed-toe shoe is really Mur- derer Dunham; that he is tramping round in the wilderness and that some one well armed will track the tracks up to and get the drop on him. But all that is here re- lated indicates a very shrewd as well as daring man, and it would certainly be the part of wisdom to look for him in more than one place at a time. e Troops Join the Chase, SAN JOSE, Car., June 3.—A battalion of light artillery under Major McCrea, consisting of troops D and F, camped out of town to-day on its way to the Yosemite on a practice march. It will go through Pacheco Pass, down the San Joaquin Val- ley, over the track that it is supposed Murderer Dunham has taken. Under Sheriff Benson saw in this another oppor- | tunity to increase the force of Dunham’s pursuers, and accordingly paid a visit to the camp to-day and placed in the hands of Major McCrea a photograph of the murderer. requesting him to post it where all his men might become familiar with the likeness and direct them to keep a lookout for the fugitive. The major readily agreed to do as requested and to exercise a sharp lookout during the march south. 2 Under Sheriff Benson does not believe much in the theory that Dunham shot himself in Indian Gulch and that his body is still there. However, asa precau- tionary measure and out of respect to the many who do believe, he sent Byron Cot- tle up to the gulch to day with the Me- Glincys’' old house dog. Cotile went to tne desolated farm this morning and se- cured the dog, which was found in the care of aneighbor. It is said that Dun- ham was fond of and petted the doga great deal. It was the only friend he had there. He left it, also, a survivor of that nignt’s work—it and his own baby. Cottle will meet old man Reynolds, who alone remains of the legion of man- hunters at Smiths Creek. Together they will go through the length and breadth of Indian Gulch and watch the performance of the dog. Benson has the notion that if the body is in the gulch the old aog may find it. This is the'last resort in that di- rection. —————— ¢ Darwin declared that all human ears were formerly movable. Persons are oc- casionally found who still retain this power, . OLD GROVER GETS ANOTHER HARD SLAP The River and Harbor Bill Is Now an Act of Congress, THE VETO OVERRIDDEN. Hill Says That Democrats Should Stand by the President’s Judgment, BUT FINDS FEW SUPPORTERS. When Put to the Vote There Are Only Five Objectors to the Measure. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3.—The Senate to-day followed the example set yesterday by the House in passing by a vote of 56 to 5;the river and harbor bill over the President’s veto. The five nega- tive votes came ftom Democratic Sena- tors, namely: Bate, Chilton, Hill, Smith and Vilas. The debate preceding the vote occupied four hours. Speeches in favor of | overriding the veto were made by Senators Vest of Missouri, Sherman of Ohio, Petti- grew of South Dakota, Berry of Arkansas, Stewart of Nevada, Hawley of Connecti- cut and Butler of North Carolina. Speeches in favor of sustaining the veto were made by Smith, Vilas, Bate and Hill —the latter introducing a joint resolution to amend the constitution by giving the President power to veto any items in an appropriation bill, a power which the con- stitution of the State of New York gives to the Governor of that State. Petti- grew’s speech characterized the veto power as a relic of the past, which has no place in free government. He denounced the President in severe terms, charging him with an utter disregard of his sacred oath of office, with overriding the laws, influencing Congressmen by the use of patronage, enriching the favorites at the public expense, and, in fact, permitting no restraint by his imperial will. Immediately after the morning prayer, the reading of the journal having been dispensed with, the Senate, by a vote of 38 ayes to 10 noes, agreed to a motion by Vest (D.) of Missour1 to proceed to the consideration of the President’s veto of the river ana harbor bill, despite an ob- jection by Pettigrew (R.) of South Dakota, who desired to proceed with the consider- ation of the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill. Nesative votes were ziven by Bate, Brown, Chilton, Har- ris, Paimer, Pettigrew, Pritchard, Morrill, Teller and Vilas. The Vice - President stated the question to be on the passage of | the bull, the objections of the President to the contrary notwithstanding. Vest said that there were stateients in the Presi- dent’s message as to w.ich, with all due respect to the President and his high office, something should be said in defense of the | two houses of Congress. He should en- | deavor to say justas muchabout the bill and | | the message as was absolutely necessary and no more. While unquestionably the President of the United States had the | prerogative it was not the idea of the con- stitution that that veto power should be exercised as one of the ordinary instru- mentalities of administering government. | The veto power had been exercised only seven times in the first twenty-eight years of the Government—twice by Washington and five times by Madison, Never by John Adams or Thomas Jefferson. Vest proceeded to discuss the message in detail, and pointed out various inac- curacies in it. had charged Congress with extravagance, but if the President bad turned to the | river and harbor bills enacted in the last considering the size of the country and the demands of internal commerce, the bill was comparatively economical. | Sherman (R.) of Ohio gave reasons why he should vote for the passage of the bill, tions. In the first place he did noi think that such an appropriation bill ought ever to be vetoed under any circumstances. It was not a mandatory provision, merely a permissive one. If the Secretary of the Treasury said there was ‘‘no money in the treasury not otherwise appro- priated,” he was not bound to expend it. So that the President had complete con- trol of the whole matter. could not conceive a case where such a bill should be vetoed. Congress, Sherman declared, ought to stand by its exclusive power to appropri- ate money, leaying to the President the expenditure of it only when there is suf- fictent money in the treasury for the pur- pose. He could not imagine a veto which he would support. Instead of seven vetoes in the first twenty-eight years of the Gov- ernment vetoes came to one ;house or the other now almost every day. Congress ought to curb or check, if possible, the exercise of the veto power. Vilas (D.) of Wisconsin said that al- though the State of Wisconsin had been lverally treated in the bill he could not bring himself to face the conviction that under present circumstances the large ap- propriations in it ought not to be added to the weight of obligations already imposed upon the distressed shoulders of the people, Arguments in favor of the passage of the bill were made by Berry (D.) of Arkansas, Pettigrew (R.) o¥ South Dakota, Stewart (Pop.) of Nevaaa and Hawley (R.) of Con- necticut. _ Bate (D.) of Tennessee asserted that the issuance of bonds was behind the bill, or else atarif law that would overtop even the McKinley act. Hill (D.) of New York up- held the veto power against the crigicism upon it, and reminded the Democraticside of the chamber that President Jackson had inaugurated the vetoing of the river and harbor bills, having in 1832 returned to Congress one with his objections. The veto now under consideration, Hill said, was based on the grounds of expediency, laying stress on the enormous amounts io be expended now and in the near future. After a painstaking consideration of the whole measure—more careful and exten- sive than most Senators could have given to it—the President has refused to approve the bill and he (Hill) thought that the President’s action should be sustained rather than overruled. As one who had voted against the bill on its original pas- sage the message had confirmed his con- victions of its undesirability as a whole at the present time. He regretted that the constitution did not give the President more power to veto particular items in an appropriation bill. Such a power had ex- isted for many years in New York and other States, and ‘there was no disposition anywhere to abandon it. He introduced a Joint resolution proposing an_amendment | to the constitution giving the President constitutional power to exercise his veto | The President, Vest said, | six years he would have discovered that, | notwithstanding the President’s objec- | but | Therefore he | power to veto items in an appropriation bill. It was read and laid on the table. Butler (Pop.) of North Carolina thought that Hill’s proposed amendment was quite consistent with that Senator’s action and vote vesterday against the bond _bill. Butler had also proposed a constitutional amendment in regard to the veto power, giving a majority in each House the power to pass a bill over the President’s veto. At the close of Butler's remarks the vote was taken, and the river and harbor bill was passed over the President's veto by the necessary two-thirds majority—ayes 56, noes 5—as follows: Ayes—Aldrich, Allison, Bacon, Berry, Brice, Burrows, Butler, Cannon, Carter, Chandler, Clark, Cullom, Davis, Dubois, Elkins, Faulk- ner, Gallinger, Gear, George, Gibson, Gorman, Hale, Hansbrough, Hawley, Jones of Arkansas, Jones of Nevada, Lindsay, Lodge, MecBride, Mills, Mitchell of Oregon, Mitchell of Wiseon- sin, Morgan, Nelson, Pasco, Peffer, Perkins, Pettigrew, Platt, Pritchard, Pugh, Quay, Sher- man, Shoup, Squire, Stewart, Teller,2Tillman, Turpie, Vest, Waithall, Warren, Wetmore, White, Wilson, Wolcott—56. Noes—Bate, Chilton, Hill, Smith, Vilas—5. There was a group of more than twenty members of the House standing in the space back of the Republican seats while the vote was in progress. They showed a very lively interest in the matter and with- drew as soon as the result of the vote was announced. Conference report (partial) on the naval appropriation bill was presented by Hale (R.) of Maine, who explained that the only matters still unadjusted had refer- ence to the.number of new battle-ships, certain provisions in regard to their con- struction and the places where they are to be built, all being involved in the question of pumber. The only other question re- maining open was as to the armor plate for uncompleted ships. Chandler spoke of the price 10 be paid for the armor plate. In view of the fact thai the Bethlehem Works contracted to supply armor for $300 a ton, the Committee onI;'nval Affairs had realized that unless the Secretary of the Navy could make a contract for the armor of these ships at an average price of $300, instead of $500, no contract should be made for it vrior to December, when he is to report to Congress. He hoped that the Senate would insist on that amendment and extricate the Navy Department from the clutches of home and foreign com- binatio: Lodge (R.) of Massachusetts expressed the hope that the Senate would recede from its amendment reducing the number of battle-ships from four to two and agree to the bill as it came from the House. Quay (R.) of Pennsylvania made the formal motion that the Senate recede from the amendment reducing the number of battle-ships to two. At this point Morgan (D.) of Alabama asked unanimous consent to offer a reso- lution calling on the President for informa- tion and action in the matter of United States citizens captured on board the Com- etitor by the Spanish autnorities, tried y court-martial and sentenced to death. Objection was made by Hale (R.) of Maine and the resolution was not offered. After a long discussion on the price of armor plate Tillman (D.) of South Caro- lina, being a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs, said that he had very posi- tive opinions upon the question. He ar- gued that the prices paid to Carnegie and the Bethlehem Company were extrava- gant, and that it was not possible that the production of the armor could have cost those works as much as $300 a ton. He declarea himseif in favor of protection to American products, but the Government should not be robbed by those whom it ptotected. He characterized Carnegie and the Bethlehem works as *‘armor robbers,” and described the armor plate furnished by them to the Government as fraudualent, spongy and plug-holed.”” He asserted that those institutions had a *“‘lobby” around the Capitol, and he aske ‘Have we Sen- ators here who are interested in havin - these contracts given out? I onlyask, I do not know.”’ At the ciose of Tillman’s remarks the conference report went over without ac- tion. Hale asked unanimous consent to have the vote taken upon the conference report | at 10'clock to-morrow ; objection was made | by Morgan (D.) of Alabam ppareny | | in retaiiation for Hale’s objection to his resolution about the brisoners taken from the Competitor. An arrangement was, | however, effected by Allison (R.) of Iowa | under which Morgan was allowed to offer his resolution (which was laid on the | table) and withdrew his objection to Hale’s proposition to have the vote on the conference report taken to-morrow at 1 o'clock after discussion under the ten- minute pule. The Senate at 6:15 adjourned until to- morrow at 11 o’clock S THE HOUSE. IN An Old Election Contest Case Takes Up Most of the Day. WASHINGTON, D. C.,, May 3.— The somewhat noted contested election case of Murray vs. Elliott from the Charleston | (8. C.) district was the principal matter of | business before the House to-day. Elli- | ott’s election from that district had been | contested three times — in the Fiftieth, Fifty-first and Fifty-fourth congresses. The | majority report of the committee in | charge of the case recommended the seat- |ing of the contestant and was advocated by Overstreet (R.) of Indiana. The mi- nority found that Elliott was entitled to re- tain his seat, and their view was urged upon the House by Jones (D.) of Vir- ginia. Without dieposing of the case the | House at 5:55 o’clock adjourned. | A vote will be taken the first thing to- morrow | Quite a contest preceded the considera- | tion of the election case over the appro- | priation in the general deficiency bill to | pay vietims of the Ford’s Theater disaster | the amounts recommended by the Con- | | gressional committee which investigated the claims. They were added in the Senate, and Sayers (D.) of Texas moved to strike out the names of the several bene- ficiaries the deaths of whose principals were asserted not to be due to the disaster or who had not been injured in it accord- ing to the report of the War Department officials, who also investigated the matter. The motion was warmly supported by Sayers and Cannon (R.) of Illinois and opposed by Henderson and Updegraff (R.) of Iowa, the latter a member of the com- mission making the awarde. By a vote of 123 to 96 the House agreed to the motion, and those claims, if the Senate agree, will go back to the commis- sion. postagiin TRANSPORTATION CHARGES. Appropriations to Fay thg Southern Pa- cific Accepted by the House. WASHING1ON, D. C., June 3.—The appropriation to pay the transportation charges of the Southern Pacific Company, which was passed by the Senate in the de- ficiency bill, was to-day accepted by the House of Representatives. Judge Maguire, who was present, made no opposition after hearing the following letter read to the House: Hon. J. G. Cannon, Chairman Committee on Ap- propriations, House of Representalfves—The item in the general defic ency npgraprhuon bill of 1,542,979 44 is to pay for the services of the uthern Pacific &:m any over non-bond- aided lfnes. None of thix amount is for ser- vices over the Central Pacific non-bond-aided line, and the whole of said amount is entirely distinct from, and in addition to the $2,409,- 818 20 incorported in the Pacific Railroad funding bill, as reported to both Houses this session, which latter amount stands credited on the bogks of the Treasury Department and is due from the Government to the Central Pa- cific Railroad Company for non-bond-aided servica. C. 8. HAMLIN, Acting Secretary. R S B The Anti-Bond Bill. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3.—The Ways and Means Committee met to-day and adjourned until to-morrow without transacting any business, The Senate anti-bond bill reached the committee just as it was about to adjourn. Wheeler (D.) of Alatama moved that the bill be re- ported favorably to the House. He did not desire his motion voted upon, but wished to have it pending so that a vote could be taken on it at to-morrow’s meeting, FIGHTING FOR RELIEF FUNDS, Disgraceful Scene in the City Council of St. Louis. CHARITY AND POLITICS. Municipal Assemblymen Object | to Appropriating Money for Tornado Sufferers. TRY FILIBUSTERING TACTICS. At One Time During the Session a Free Fight Seemed to Be Imminent. ST. LOUIS, Mo., June 3.—As indicated in these dispatches last night, the work of raising and distributing relief funds for the tornado sufferers is floundering in the municipal politics. Honest differences of opinion upon the adyisability and legality of appropriating funds for relief have grown into bitter political warfare. Mayor Walbridge, a possible candidate for Governor, has resolutely refused to appeal to the outside world for aid. Last night he was hanged in effigy in South St. Louis, and a large public meeting held there demanded that he withdraw from his position of independence. It is un- questionably true that the friends or op- ponents of the Mayor’s political hopes are found opvosing each other in the matter of soliciting relief. The measure to approprlate $100,000 of city funds for relief also met strong op- position on the plea that it was illegal. The bill was resubmitted to-day with a proviso making it legal. The House of Delegates, the lower branch of the Municipal Assembly, met in special session this afternoon to consider the amended appropriation bill. The pro- ceedings at times approached a rough-and- tumble fight among the members. The House was in special session for the purpose of passing an amended relief bill of $100,000 for the sufferers from last Wednesday’s tornado. The city charter requires a two-thirds vote on all relief bill and the vote by which the bill passed yesterday was one short of the required number. When the session was called to order it lacked several membe.s of a quorum and the sergeant-at-arms was ordered to secure the attendance of delinguent Delegates. | Before this was accomplished a number of political discontents adopted filibustering tactics and demanded that the members present vote on the bill, By this means it was thought to defeat the bill. The mo- tion to vote was carried and a count showed that the bill had been adopted. ,Speaker Kelly refused to announce the vote until seven filibustering members could be found and made to vote. Deiegates Judy, Wilson, Wilcox and Lloyd bad voted against the bill. They became violent and threatened to leave unless the vote was announced. Speaker Kelly appointed Delegate Scherf special sergeant-at-arms. Delegate Lloyd tried to crowd over the railing and escape and Scherf thréw him back into the inclosure. A fight was narrowly averted and both Lloyd and Wilcox denounced Kelly, who ordered them to sit down and continued to refuse to announce the vote. Delegate ‘Wilcox tried to leave and he was thrown back into his chair. The opposition members clustered into | one corner and a free-for-all fight was im- | minent. The sergeant-at-arms finally cor- | raled the missing members and the bitl was passed by a vote of 19 to 3. The bill now goes to the upper house and will be immediately passed. HIS FIRST BALL GAME. Cardinal Satolli WflnfilLl a Contest Betwren Two Good Teams. S NEW YORK, N. Y., June 3.—A Wor- cester (Mass.) special says: Cardinal Sa- tolli saw his first game of baseball here yesterday. He was visiting Holy Cross College, and with several of the im- structors sat in the stand and saw the Newports, a strong, semi-professional team, beat the college team, two to one, in eleven innings. The Cardinal did not understand the game and the explana- tions translated into Italian rather lost their point. The subtleties of the pitch- er’s art and the stopping and throwing of swiit balls dia not appeal to him, but when one player sent a tremendous sky- scraper to center and ran nearly to second before the catch was made, he clapped his nands and cried *‘Bravo.” Toward the and of the game a scorching NEW TO-DAY. | ‘*John, brace up ! “I've been held up! Done up! $20 to those ‘ wholesale * woodchopvers for a suit not worth a con—" “Tiere! na_gmlnnity. Don’t hold your- self up—to ridicule. ‘Get up and go to Roos Bros. for one of their this week's $10 suits. In that way you can even up.” eat sale of suits and overcoats at $10. The kind sold elsewhere at that price are not permitted in our store. $3. 50 Men’s All Waol Pants, worth $5 and $6. | back of his chair. Samples to out of town customers. hot foul darted at his Eminence. He : ashed the dodged it swiftly and %:ebag‘ Hinal only i pt in ,the smiled, and was seemingly 1ot i fri T Hi icked up the tarlen: L T while the the ball and the game sto ©, Cardinal inspectegd it curiously for a mos ment. Atibe end he said that he wnd sorry the Holy Cross team was beaten, an that the young men maust strive to do ter next time. R IMPORTANT DECISION. Cities Cannot Grant Use of Streets for Conduits and Subways. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., June 3.—A decision has been handed down by the Supreme Court sitting en banc in_the test case of the St. Louis Underground Service Company against the Street Commis- sioners of that city, declaring sll city ordinances granting corporations the right of way to lay conduits and subways for electric wires or similar purposes void, because the city holds the streets in trust and cannot grant their use for private use. The decision is of importance in view of the proposed St. Louis subway system. CLEiG SINGLE-TAXERS REUEASED. Horan and Stephens Set Free by Governor of Delaware. WILMINGTON, DeL., June 3.—Gover- nor Williara Thorp Watson to-day ordered the release of William Horan and G. Frank Stephens, the single-taxers who were arrested in Dover last week for speak- ing on the streets and committed to the County Jail for thirty days. Horan and Stephens were released this afternoon. The single-taxers are jubilant over the Governor’s action. THOSE DEFECTIVE PLATES Union Iron Works to Be Allowed to Replace Them in the Oregon. the The Contractors Claim They Are Not Responsible for the Substitu- tion of Thin Plates. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3.—Secre- tary Herbert has directed that the Union Iron Works be atlowed to replace defec- tive plates in the protected deck of the Ore- gon. It is understood that one of the em- ployes of the Union Iron Works called at- tention to these defects, Plates of proper thickness will be sent from Pittsburg im- mediately and will be transporied to San Francisco by special car attached to pas- senger train, as the vessel will not be accepted until these defects are remedied. The contractors claim that they are not responsible for the substitution of the two thin plates, and blame Superintendent Dickie. They say that he did his work in the mght in the absence of the naval in- spector in order to conceal an error. L g Southern Pacific Earnings. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 3.—The South- ern Pacific road reports for April gross earnings of $3,719,574, a decrease of $221,- 278; expenses of $2,738,462, decrease $2 904, and net earnings of $981,112, decrease $194,374. NEW TO-DAY. EAGLESON & (0.8 LARGE STOCK —oFr— Summer Underwear In Balbriggan, Egyptian Thread, India Lisle, French Balbriggan Lightweight, Merino, Cashmere, Natural Wool, Sanitary Wool, Silkand Wool, etc., AT LOWER PRICES THAN EVER OFFERED. NEGLIGEE AND OUTING SHIRTS In Frerch Crape, English Cashmere, Onyx Clotb, Silk and Linen, Silk and Wool, Scotch Flannel, Club Cloth, French Flannel, English Cheviot, Fine Botney Cloth, All-Silk, etc., from $1.00 npward. ALL AT FACTORY PRICE Fancy Shirts IN ALLTHE LATEST DESIGNS AT FACTORY PRICES. White Shirts, Neck Dress, e. EAGLESON & GO., 748 AND 750 MARKET STREET, §. F. 242 MONTGOMERY NTREET, §. F. LOS ANGELES and SACRAMENTO GREAT BARGAIN SALE —F— Second-Hand Bicycles! Every Wheel is in good order, at prices lower than the low- est. 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