The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1896, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1896. SECRETARY OLNEY MAKES A REPORT Material Upon Which the President Formed Some Views. Settlement of the Long-Protracted Dispute on the Venezuelan Boundary. An Interesting Revicw of the Strug- gle of Cuban Insurgents for Independence. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7.—The re- ort of the Secretary of State to which Cleveland refers in his message to Con- gress states that ‘‘the relations of the United States with foreign powers con- tinue upon that footing of harmony and friendliness which has been their fortu- nate characteristic for so many years.” The report summarizes the more im- portant questions which have occupied the attention of the department during the current year. O!f the dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela it says: The long-protracted dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela over the boundary be- tween the latter republic and British Guiana has for & number of years past attracted the earnest attention of this Governmentand en- | listed its official intervention to bring abouta peaceful settlement by the historicat record and the actual facts. The extended aiscussion of the subject culminated in July of last year by an elaborate presentation to the British Government of the views of the United States, touching the opportuneness and necessity for a final disposition of the points at issue by the pacific resort of an equitable arbitration. The entire correspondence having been laid before Congress with his message of December 17, 1895, that body provided for the appoint- ment of a commission of eminent jurisis to examine and report touching the ascertaina- be lacts of the controversy with a view of enabling this Government to determine its further course in the matter. The commission has pursued its labors un. remittingly during the past year, its re- searches being greatly aided by the elaborate statements placed at its disposal by both in- terested governments, together with a mass of documentary evidence furnished from the archives of the European countries that shared in the early discoveries and settlement of South America. Pending this srduous investigation, how- ever, the governments of the United States and Great Britain have omitted no endeavor 10 & friendly understanding upon the main issue through diplomatic negotiations, and it is most gratifying to announce that amicable councils have prevailed to induce a satisfac- tory settlement whereby the boundary gques- tion and its associate disputes have been eliminated as between this country and England. A complete accord hes been reached between them by which the substantial terms of a | treaty of arbitration to be concluded by Great Britain and Venezuels have been agreed upon, the provisions of which embrace a full arbi- tration o the whole controyersy upor basis slike jus: and honorable to both the conte ants. It only remains for the two parties directly conceried to complete this equitable ar- rangement by signing the proposed formal trenty, and no doubt is entertained that Ven- ezuels, which so earnestly sought the friendly assistance of the United States toward the settlement of this contention and which has cenfided its interests to the impartial judg. ment of this Government, will assent to the formal adjustment thus attained, forever end- jug & dispute involving far-reaching conse- quences to the peace and welfare of the West- ern continent. Coincidentally with the considerstion of the Venezuelan question the two Govern- ments have continued negotiations for s general arbitration treaty in line with the Eritish House of Commons, to which previous | messaxes of the President have adverted, that all differences hereafter arising between the two counties and not amenable to ordipary diplomatic treatments should be reierred to arbitration. The United States and Great Britain having given repeated proofs of their acqui- escence to the great principle evolved, not only by treaties between tl.emselves but sev- | erally, by concluding like adjustments with other powers for the adjudication of disputes resting on law #«nd fact, the subject was nat- urally approached in & benevolent spirit of sgreement, and the negotiations have so satis. factorily progressed as to foreshadow a prac- tical sgreement a1 an early date upon the text of & convention to the desirec end. Under the head of Spain, the Secretary in his accompanying report, which is, of course, indorsed by the Presideut, speaks of the Cuban situation as follows: The situation in the island of Cuba has largely engrossed the attention of the Depart- ment of Biate during the past year. Its efforts to ootain trustworthy information and to insure due protection to citizens of the United Btates and their property and in- lerests within the theater of disturbance have been ably seconded by the consular represen- tatives in that island. As regards the char- acter and scope of the hostile operations which now affect the greater purt of Cuba, the reports of our Consuls are proverly confidential, and | while precise asto theseveral disiricts touching which reports have been received, the nature and sources of the information obtained are such as 10 make detailed pubiication imprac- ticable, 5o that the department is not in & po- sition to do more at present than state its gen- eral ded tending parties. Confined in the outset, as in_the ten years' insurrection which began at Yara in October, 1868, to the eastern portion of the island, where the topography and absence of settled centers especially favored the desultory war- fare apparently normal to this class of con- tests, the present insurrection early took pro- portions beside those of its predecessors and therewith assumed an aggressive phase, invad- ing the populous centraland westarn districts. Passing the defensive lines, or trocha, tray- ersing the island from north to south, formid- able bodies of the revolutionary forces early in the year established themselves in the rich suger-planting districts of Sauta Clara, Cen- | fuegos and Matanzas, made hostile forays | almost in sight of Havana itself, and, advanec- ing westward, effected a stronghold in the fer- tile fields of Pinar del Rio, which hasso far resisted all efforts of the Spanish forces to overcome. No prominent seaport has been attacked by the insurgents or even menaced bevond oc- casional Taids upon the outskirts. 'A large part of the 2200 miles of the irregular coast line of Cubu, comprising the comparatively unsettled stre 8 of its western extremity and the inhospiiable mountain shores of its eastern part, is practically in the hands of the revolutionists. The character of these shores, filled fo the westward with shallow indentations inaccessi- ble 10 any but light vessels ot small tonnage and to the enstward with rocky nooks danger- ous to approach by nignt ‘and affording insccure anchorage for larger craft; lends ftself peculiarly to the guerrilia wi fare of the interior, so that the insurgent being relieved of the need of maintaining and garrisoning points upon the coast, are effec- tively eble to utilize a considerable part of it, as occasion offers, 10 communicate with the outside world and 'to receive clandestine sup- plies of men, arms and ammunition. The situntion in that quarter as regards the ease of surreptitious access and the difficulty of repressing illieit traffic findsa not nnapt paraliel in that of the Cornish and Welsh coasts of English or the Scottish highlands last century, where a few adventurers were able to smuggle surplies and land rebel emis- saries or forces beffiing the watchers of mari- time forces much greater than those mi ::uiged by Spaia along the diversified shors uba, =While thus in fact controlling the greater Partof the internal area of the whole isiand of Cuba from Cape San Antonio to Cape Maysi and enjoving practically unlimited use of an equally large part of the coast, the reyolution- ary forces are scattering, being nowhere for any length of time to form en army capable of attack and siege and fit to take the defensive in pitched battle. : Assembling suddenly at a given point, often in a single night, they make unexpected sallies or carry devastation to the topacco and cane fields of Cub: and at the first sign of pursuit or orgsnized assault they disperse, of ons as to the position of the con- | only to reassemble in like manner at some other spot. : So far as our information shows there is not only no effective local government by she in- surgents in the territories they overrun, but there is not even a tangible preieuse to estab- lished administration anywhere. Their or- ganizavon, confined to lh(hlns exigencies of the military operations of the hour, is no- madic, without definite centers and lacking the most elementary features of municipal government. There nowhere appears the nucleus of state- hood. The machinery for exercising the legiti- mate rights and powers of sovereignty and re- sponding to the obligations which de facto sovereignty entails in the face of equal rights of other states is conspicuously lacking. It is mot possible to discern & homogeneous political entity, possessing and exercising the functions of administration and capable, if left to 1tself, of maintaining orderly goyern- ment in its own territory and sustaining normal relations with the external family of governments, To illustrate these conditions the insurgent chiefs assert the military power to compel peaceable citizens of the United States within their touch to desist from planting or grinding cane under the decreed penalty of death and of the destruction of their crops and mills; but the measure is one of sheer force without justification under public law. The wrongs so committed against the citi- zens of a foreign state are without an interna- tional forum of redress to whom the Govern- ment of the United States may have recourse as regards its relation to the perpetrators. The acts are those of anarchy, and in default of the responsibilities of de factostatehood in the case there remains only the territorial ac- countability of the titular sovereign within the limits of its competency to repress the wrongs complained of. In opposition to the nomadic control of the interfor and the undefended coast by the in- surgents the Spunish authority continues in the capital cities and the seaports. Its garri- sons are there established; from them its naval operations ars directed aud executed. Most of its functions proceed as in time of eace. > Its customs and municipal revenues are regularly collected, and, with exception of the temporary restraints alleged to be due to the admitted existence of a state of hostilities, fo: eign commerce with the island is kept up, though largely diminished by the natural con- traction of the Cuban market of supply and demand. As to those parts of the island with which this country and its citizens maintain inter- course, the Spamsh power is supreme, slthongh often exercised in a vexatious and arbitrary way, caliing for just remonstrance, So far therefore as therelative position of the Spanish and insurgent forces is comparable with the sit- uation during the Yara insurrection.while the same phases of organized administration in the capital and seaports and eftectiverelations of trade with the outside worid on the one | hand, and on the other a nomadic association without the insignia of orderly government, and strong only to wage harassing warfare in the interior, are now as then, apparent, the present insurrection stands in notable con- trast with 1ts predecessors, both as to force and scale of operations. Although statistics of their military strength are attainable with difficulty, and are not | trustworthy when obtained,” enough is cer- tainly known to show that the revolutionists in the field greatly exceed 1n numbers any organization heretofore attempted; that with large accessions from the gentral and western districts of the islana a better military d: pline is added to increased strength; that ir stead of mainly drawing, 8s heretofore, upon the comparatively primitive population of eastern Cubs, the insurgent armies fairly rep- resent the intelligent aspirations of a large | proportion of the people of the whole island, ana that they provose to wage this contest on | these better grounds of vantage, to the end % make the present struggle a supreme test of the eapacity of the Cuban people to win them- selves and their children the heritage of self- government. A notabl ture of the actualsituation is the tactical gkill disjlayed vy its leaders. When the disparily in numbers and the compara- tively indefcnsible character of the central | and western country sre considered, the pas- sage of & cousiderable force into Pinar del Rio followed by its successful maintenance there ior many months must be regarded as & mwili- tary success of & pronounced character. S0, 100, the Spanish force in the field, in gar- rison on the isiand, or on its way thither from the mother country, is largely beyond any military display vet called ior by a Cuban | rising, thus affording an independent measure | of the sirength of the insurrection. From every accessible indication it is clear | that the presen: rebellion is on a far more formidable scale as to numbers, intelligence and representative features than auy of the preceding revolts of this century; that the corresponding «ffort of Spain for iis repression has been enormously augmented; and that aespite the constant influx of fresh armies and material of war from the metrovolis the rebellion aiter nearly 1wo years of successful resistance #ppesrs to-day to be in a condition to i)ndefluimly prolong the contest on its present ines. The nature of the struggle, however, de- serves most earnest consideration. The in- | creased scale on which it is waged brings into boider relief 81l the appalling phases which often appear to_mark contests for supremacy. among the Latin races of the western hemi- sphere. Excesses before confined to a portion of the isiand became more ressive when wrought throughout its whole extent as now. The insurgent authority, as has been saen, | finds no regular administrative expression; it | is asserted only by the sporadic and irre- | spousible force of arms. The Spanish power | outside of the larger towns and their imme- | diate subur when manifested at all, is equully forcefu! and arbitrary. ‘The only apparent aim on either side is to eripple the adversary by indiscriminate de- struction of all that by sny chaunce may bene- fithim. The populous and_ wea'thy districts of the center and west which have esciped harm in former occasions are now ravaged and laid waste by the blind fury of the respec- ive part{sans. The principles of civilized warfare, aceord- ing to the code made sacred by the universal | ‘acquiescence of Nations, are only too often | vioiated with impunity by irresponsible su- bordinates, seting at a disiance from the cen- tral authority and able to shield themselves jusi censure or punishment by false or ersions of the iacts. illing and summary execution of non- combatants is frequentiy reported, and while the circumstances of the strife are such as to preclude accurate or general irformation in this regard enough is known to show tuat the number of such cases is comsiderable. In some instances, happily, few Americans. have fallen victims to these savage acts. A large part of the correspondence of the State Department with its agents in Cuba bus been devoted 1o these ca: of assault upon | the rights of our citizens, In 0o insiance has | earnes. remonstrance and energetic appeal been omitted. But the reports of the Spanish power often find it easily practicable 1o post- pone explanations and reparation on the ground of aileged ignorance of facts for other plausible reaSons. Itseffect upon the personal security of our | eitizens. in Cuba is not the only alarming feature of the reign of arbitrary anarchyin thatistand. I's influence upon ‘the fortunes af those who bave invested their capital and | enterprise there,on the assumed assuranee of | respect for law and treaty rights is no less in | point. Expet statistics of the amount of such in- vestments are not obtainaple. A gross esti- | mate of $50,000,000 would ve more likely to | fall under ihan over the mark. A large pro- portion of these investments are now exposed 10 the exceptional vicissitudes of the war. Estates have been desolated and crops de- stroyed by the insurgents and Spanish alike. Upon those not actuelly ravaged operations have been compulsorily suspended, owing to the warnings served by the revolutionists or the withdrawal of protection by Spanish au- thorities, oiten accompanied by a similar prohibition against gontinuing work thereon or by forbidding communication and resi- | dence, thus entailing enforced abandonment | of the premises. The loss does not fall upon capital alone, but large numbers of ‘the agriculiural laboring cigss are driven from fields to the nearest owns, partly by the peremptory orders of the Jocal military commanders and partly by the cessation or Cestruction of their only means of livelihood, They are well nigh destitute, é\mous; them are many sons of the United tates. It is reported that there are in one provin- cial city alone some 4000 necessitious refugees from the surrounding country to whom the municipal anthorities can afford little or no relief. Over 300 of these are American eiti- zens, engaged in prosperous farming and stock raising al the beginning of the outbreak, whose employment and resources have been swept away by eighteen months of ¢.vil strife, reducing them from affluence to penury and throwing them upon tue charity of an ex- hausted cominunity in a devastated land. All these disastrous conditions, with the evils and disorders necessarily following in their train, are :nterfering with the ipsular avenues of trace and very gravely impairing the business operations of Cuba. From whatever point of view we regard the matter it is impossible not to discern that a state of things exists at our door alike danger- ous to good relations, destructive of legiti- mate commerce, fatal to ibe internal resources of Cuba and most vexatious and trying because cntailing upon this Goy- ernment excessive burdens in its domestic administration and its outward relations. This situation cannot indefinftely continue without growing stili worse, and the time muy not be far distant when the United States must seriously consider whether its righis and interests, as well as its international duties, in view of its peculiar relatiens to the island, do not eal for some decided change in the policy hitherto pursued. Mr. Oiney, mentioning that the right of every citizen arrested in Cuba io have the benefit of ordinary criminal proceedings guaranteed by existing treaties has been energetically insisted upon, refers to the ship Competitor affair as follows: In April last the Competitor, a small schoongr of American registry, eluded the vigilance of the Federal authorities, took on board men and supplies, presumably intended to sid the Cuban insurrection, and reached the coast of that island near San Cayetano. Being discovered by the Spanish coastguard & conflict ensued, resulting in the capture of a number of those on board, as well as the seizure of the vessel. The prisoners. among them several Ameri- cun citizens, were subjected (0 summary mili- tary trial, which, although conducted by an admiralty court, aajudged to be competent, appesred to have lucked the essentia safe- guards of procedure stipulated by the exhuns conventions beiween the United States an Spain. ':nm Goverument promptly interfered to se- cure for its implicated citizens all the rights fo which they were clearly entitled, including appeal from the pronounced sentence of death. Thejr cases were subsequently carried to the higher tribunal at Maarid, which has set the conviction aside and remanded the cases for retrial. This Government has been constrained to enter earnest protest against & recent decree of the Governor-General of Cuba ordering the registration of all aliens in the island and pro- nouncing all those not registered within a certain time as debarrec from appealing to the provisions of existing law. ‘The treaty rights of American. citizens obviously depend on their actual allegiance to their own Government, Not upon any arbitrary inseription es aliens, by the state wherein they may be sojourning; and while this Gov- ernment is well .disposed to admit the convenience of the proposed registry as an _ additional evidence of ~ the right of such citizens in Cuba to the protection of the authorities and has sig- nified 1ts willingness to facilicate their regis- tration, it can never consent that the omission of & merely local jormality can operate to out- law any person entitled to its protection as citizens, or to abrogate the right to the orderly resources of Spanish law solemnly guaranteed to them by treaty, : In other portions of his report the Sec- retary refers to the arrests of naturalized American citizens in Austria-Hungary, and says that the pro-ress made toward the settlement of this question has been most satisfactory. = He refers to the settlement of a Central Ameri- can Diet by the republics of Honduras, Nicaragua and Salyador adopting the name of Greater Republic of Central America, and says as the exact in- terpretation and effect of the articles of association between the three republics is not yet fully apprehended, the action necessary or proper to be taken in conse- quence thereof is still under consideration by the department. Negotiations are still in proeress for . the compietion of the un- finished work of the Chilean claims com- mission. He says: “Our relations with China have been made more friendly by the concession of American citizens of the right to purchase lands—a right hitherto conceded to France.” In respect to the reimposition of ton- nage tax on German shipping, the report says that after an investigation which showed that port dues were being col- lected in German ports on every Ameri- can vessel, the United Staies Embassador at Berlin was asked for an explanation which when made was not deemed suffi- cient, The report then refers to the fact that the stringent measures adopted by Ger- many ‘‘on assumed grounds of public nealth” against the importation of Amer- ican cattle and meat products have not been ameliorated, bur on the contrary the dislfosition of Germany to still further im- pede this legitimate traffic has been evidenced by iresh restrictive measures, The trouble with the New York Life In- surance is referred to and the statement is added that ‘“continuing endeavors have been made to secure for American life in- surance companies doing business in Prassia & hearing in remonstrance against the restrictions sought to be im- posed upon them, and fair prospects exist of the ultimate removal ol the interdic- tion. In regard to the Samoan question, Mr. Olney makes no recommendation and gives no intimation of any recent action having been taken. He simply says: The sitnation in Samos is practically the same s stated in the last annual message of the Presidentand in his special communica- tion to the Senate of May, 1894. A possibility of more effective harmony in the irsular ad- ministration may be suggested by the resigna- tion of the president of the municipal council, and the agreement of the three powers upon his successor, another German subject. The Chief Justice of Samoa has aiso re- signed, a:a_as he is an American citizen the proposal of his successor will naturally fall to the United States, which necessarily continues to exercise all stipnlated rights and duties under the tri-partite general act and of Berlin during the continuance of that compact, haw- ever irksome and unnatural these rights and duties may prove to be. The rest of the report is occupied with routine matters. WESTERN MILEAGE BUREAU. Special Mceting Called to Consider Inter- changeable Tickets. CHICAGO, ILL., Dec. 7.—The members of the Western Mileage Bureau have b en called to bold a special meeting to-mor- row, the question to be discussed and de- cided being the issue.of a 5000-mile inter- changeable ticket, good on all lines in the ‘Western Passenger Association. The Western roads bave now a 2000-mile ticket, but not interchangeable, and the recent action of the central passenger com- mittee authorizing a 5000-mile inter- changeable ticket to be issued through a bureau by a few assenting lines has prompted the call for to-morrow’s meet- ing. In view of the cc-operation of the Pennsylvania and Ohio River linesit is likely the Western roads will vote toadopt the same kind of ticket. St. Paul lines have asked ‘their connec- tions east of this city if they will join them in meeting the unexpected extension of the Canadian excursion business, and the Joint Traffic Association has also been asked to authorize its rosd to meet the rate, but as Boston and other large cities would be affected, it is not likely the sale will be mat. ——e— DUPONT Ix THE RACE. Urged as a Competent Man for the War Portfolio. CANTON, Omro, Dec. 7.—Joseph B. Keeling of Indianapolis called on Major McKinley to-night and discussed the political situation in Indiana to some extent. Mr. Keeling said the impression seems to prevail that C. N, Fairbanks will be elected to the United States Benate this winter. 1 A new Cabinet possibility has swung into view this evening, The name for the first time on the tongue of the coterie of official Cabinet-makers about Canton and Cleveland is that of Colonel Henry A, Dupont of Delaware. Said a friend of his te-night: ‘‘Colonel Dupont would make an excellent Secretary of War, ana under certain contingencies may be se- riously considered for the position. He is a graduate of West Point. served with distinction through the war, and is a u{pnbla and highly successful man of fairs. He is in_every way qualified for this official position, and his appointment would offend neither of the Republican factions in Delaware.” A Hiding a Murderer. RICHMOND, Mo., Dec. 7.—Lon Lackey, one of the alleged murderers of the Win- ner family, who was secretly brought to this place last Friday night in the hope that he would make a confession of nis compiicity in the crime, has been taken 10 a safer place. When it was reported early this morning that the mob wason its way o the jail the Sheriff spirited Lackey away and refuses to give anyin- formation regarding his hiding-place. " e Will Nend for His Wife. BUTTE, Moxt., Dec. 7. — David G, Bricker, the eccentric horseman ang wealthy mine operator, who disappeared a few weeks ago, wrote to his wife from New York that he was on his way toa new country and wouid send for heras soon as h me settled. Hedid not in- dicate where he was going, but it is sup- Yogedha is on his way to South Africa. tis generally supposed there is & woman connected with hi disappearance. APPROPRINTION THKT 48 HEEDED Mr. Carlisle’s Estimates Foot Up an Enormous Total. More Than Four Hundred Million Dollars Required for the Public Service. Big Amounts Required for the Con- struction and Repair of Public Buildings. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7.—Secre- tary Carlisle to-day sent to Congress the estimates of appropriations required for the public service for the fiscal year end- ing June 30, 1898, as furnished by the sev- eral executive departments. % The estimates foot up $421,718,970 60, against $418,091,073 18 estimated for 1896 97 and $432,421,605 98 appropriated that year. The estimates for 1898 by title are: Legis- Iative establishments $4,379,820 80, execu- tive estimates $19,865,952, judicial estab- lishments $907,120, foreign intercourse $2,082,728 76, military establishments $24,- 292,636 48, naval establishments $32,432,- 773 62, Indian affairs $7,279,525 97, ven- sions $141,328,580, public works $31,437,- 061 92, postal service $1,288,334 47, miscel- laneons $36,344,216 68, permanent annual appropriations $120,078,220; grand totals $421,718,970 60. The estimate tables this year are notice- able for the scarcity of an estimate for the construction of public buildings, except n the marine hospital service and for river and harbor improvements., The fol- Jowing amounts are asked for the public buildings at the places §named: Alle- ghany, postofiice, $55.000; Boise City, Idaho, postoftice and courthouse, $130,270; Buffalo, N. Y., postoffice, $600,000; Brock- ton, Mass., postottice, $50,000; Camden, N. J., custom-house and postoffice, $100,000; Cheyenne, Wyo., courtnouse and postoffice, $186,969; Cumbverland, Md., courthouse and postoffice, $50,000; Denver, Colo., mint, $200,000; Helena, Mont., courthouse and postoffice, $:27,760; Kansas City, Mo., posioffice, $264,000; Meridian, Miss., postoffice, $30,000; Mil- waukee, W custom-house, courthouse and postoffice, $400,000; Newport, Ky., postctlice, $50,000; New York City, ap- praiser's warehouse, $300,000; Omabha, Neb,, custom-house, courthouse and post- office, $125,000; Paterson, N. J., nostoffice, $70,000; Pottsville, Pa., postoffice, $40,000; Portland, Oregon, custem-kLouse, $200,000; Pueblo, Colo., postoffice, $150,000; South Omaha, Neb., postoffice, $75,000; St. Paul, Minn., custom-house, courthouse and ostoffice, $125,000; Savannah, Ga., court- ouse and postoffice, $175,000; San Fran- cisco, postoffice and courthouse, §100,000; ‘Washington, D. C., postoffice, $410,000. For repairs, rentais, hezting apparatus, vaults, etc., $074,343; for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, $124,600; light- houses, fog signals and beacons, $1,584,785; Boston navy-yard, $14,500; Brooklyn navy- ard, $217,042; League Island navy-yard, hiladclphis, $293,222; ‘Washington navy- yard, $56,133; Norfolk navy-yard, $370,000; Porv Royal, 8, C., naval station, $11,837; Key West naval station, $35,000; Mave Island navy-yard, $66,785; Puget Sound naval station, $84,13; housing torpedo vessels, $225,000; repairs on navy-yards, $400,000; repairs on the Capitol and public buildings in Washington, $419,412; repairs on arsenals, etc., $139,796; fortitications and other work for defense, §15,815,256 (this includes $5,000,000 for gun and mortar batteries and $9,770,156 for armament of fort.fications); military academy, West Point, $121,484; buildings at military posts, etc., $1,006,787; National parks, $342 500. Estimates for river and harbor improve- ments make a total of $5,349,000, divided as follows: Point Judith, R. L, $300,000; channel in Gowanus Bay, N. Y., $500,000; Delaware River at Philadelphia, $559,000; Savannab, Ga., $400,000; Cumberland Sound, Ga., and Florida, $400,000; Galves- ton, Tex., $800,000; Humbo!dt narbor and bay, Cal., $400,000; Hudson River, $500,000; Newton Creek, N. Y., $400,000; ship canal in Great Lakes, $1,000,000; examinations and surveys, $100,000, Acccmpanying the estimates for river and harbor appropriaticns is a statement of the amount that will be required dur- ing the year for materials and work on projeots - previously authorized by Con- gress amounting to $17,529,053. The items covering more than half a million are as follows: Buffalo, N. Y., harbor, $550,000: Delaware Bay harbor of refuge, $1,165,000; Duluth and” Superior harbor, $770,13%; locks and dams in Ohio River, $700,000; Tilinois and_Mississippr Canal, $1,427,740; Mississippi River, from St. Paul to mouth of Onio River, $1,500,000; Mississippi River, from mouth of Ohio to head of passes, $2,583,333; Missouri River, from mouth to Bioux City, $300.000; Willamette and Yambill rivers, Oregon, $160,000. The estimutes for public printing all told are $3,661,186, against $3,112,320 ap- ropriated for the current year. This is in addition to the amount asked for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $1,- 139,530, Among the miscellaneous objects for which estimates are made are the follow- ing: Life-saving service, $1,562,795; reve- nue cutter service, $1,200,000; lighthouse establishment, $3,066,000; coast and geo- aetic survey, §518,020; geological survey, $768 690; Smithsonian Institution, $404,- 000; Fish Commission, $439,780; Intersiate Commerce Commission, $250,000; Nation- al cemeteries, $215,880: soldiers’ homes, National and State, $3,443,214; public land service, $193,500; surveying public lands, $1,071,880. Miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $4.996,212; District of Co- lumbia (half to be pawd by the United States), $8,688,616. The Secretary of State recommends an appropriation of $350,000 to enable the United States to accept the invitation of the French republic to take part in the French exposition ‘'of 1800. He also rec- ommends that the jurisdiction of the Con- sul-General at Apia be extended over Nukualoau Tongs. An increase of ten clerks is asked for service in the National bank-note redemption department. The sales of public property of all kinds, mostly condemned and comparatively worthless, during the year 1806, realized $263,196, Disbursements under the head- ing of “‘contingent expenses, independent treasury, 1896,"’ amounted to $175,000. General Appropriation Bill, WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7.—The general appropriation bill, ending June 30, 1898, which was to-day reported to the House trom the Appropriations Commit- tee, carries a total of $141,266,880. This is $65,000 less than the appropriation for the current fiscal year. For Oakland and Alameda. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7.—Senator Perkins and Representative Hilborn said to THE Carwn reporter to-night that they would make strone efforts to secure an l.ppro&fl'llon of $350,000 for the Oakland postofice and $50,000 for Alamedu a: this session. These bills have already passed the Benate, Peneswela Acoepts, WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7.—Vene- zuela has accepted the arbitration as agreed upon'by Secretary Olney and Sir Julian Pauncefote, Secretary Otney re- ceived a cablegram from Minister Andrew at Caracas to that effect this afternoon. WASHINGTON, D. t., Dec. 7.—C. H. Peters wus to-day appointed Postmaster at Palermo, Butte County, Oal.,vice W. J. Grier, resigned; also W. A, Finn at Shal- lan, Alasks. The foliowing-named officers will r epor in person to Colonel Wiliiam R. Shafter, First Infantry, president of examining board appointed to mees at the FPresidio of 8an Francisco by special orders at such time as they may be required py the board for examination as to their fitness for promotion, and at the conclusion of their examinations will return to their proper stutious: First Lieutenant J. F. Reynolds Landis, Kirst Cavalry; First Lieutenant louis B Brant, adjuiant First Infantry; First Lieutenani James A. Maney, Fifteenth Infantry; First Lieutenant Reburn B. Turner, Sixth Infantry. A Pensions have been granted as follows: California: Original — Lewis M. Bates, Veterans' Home, Napa; Anson Keyes, Los Angeles; benezer 'l' Lolan, Oakland; Asron Hillberry, Henry Day, San Diego. Washington: Original—John Kerchel, Alpha._ Original widow—Minor of Charles Jones, Palouse. Rohnerville; el LA Negro Srction Men Slain. MALVERN, Agrk., Dec. 7.—A report reached this city to-day that five negro section men, while working on the Cotton Belt Railway, between Camden and Bear- don, were fired upon Tuesday afternoon without warning by a gang of unknown persons and without provocation and kilied The region where the murders are said to have occurred is a sawmill center, inhab- ited by lawless characters. The Sheriff of Ouachita County is trying to discover the perpetrators and the railrcad company has offered a reward. It is alleged that the foreman of the section crews knows who the murderers are, but is afraid he will meet the same fate if he gives any in- formation. —_——— Fusie’s Suit Answered. CHICAGO, Irn., Dec. 7.—A motion was filed to-day in the United States Circuit Court by local counsel for the National Exhibition Company, the corporation which owns tbe New York Naticnal League Baseball Club, asking for the dis- misszl of Amos Rusie’s guit against the club for damages and 1¥storation to the active list of the cluo’s players. The mo- tion is brief and based on the ground that neither party to the suit isa resident of this State, and both live in different States. The papers in the suit were served l‘x’b”e the National board was in session ere. s g Killed in a irain Coilision. CINCINNATI, Osro, Dec. 7.—A col- lision occurrea this morning on the Balti- more and Ohio Southwestern at Sedams- ville between the Aurora accommodation and the officers’ special inspection train. Three persons were killed and several in- jured. The killed are: John Price, fire- man of the accommodation tramn; Horner Dixon, fireman of the special train; P. L. Zippernick, civil engineer, North Bend. The collision occurred at 7:35 o’clock. It is said to bave resuited from a misunder- standing of orders. Thomas Canary Very Il CHICAGO, Dec. 7.—Thomas Canary of Canary & Lederer, the New York theatri- cal firm, and the present managers of Lillian - Russell and “The American Beauty” Opera Company, is critically iil in his'apariments at the Great Northern Hotel. The physicians who are attending him say that his recovery is doubtful. Mr. Canary is 60 years old. ——— Pearl Bryan’s Murderer. FRANKFORT, Kry., Dec. 7.— The opinion in the cases of Jackson and Walling, convicted of the murder of Pearl Bryan, has been completed by Appellate Judge Hazelrigg, and 1f it comes up when the court meets to-morrow it will be handed down at11 o’clock. e g baier Allen’s Death Sentence Stands, ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7.—The Su- preme Court to-day affirmed the sentence of death passed by the late Judge Parker of Arkansason Alexander Allen. MAJOR TAUSCH GOES T0 JalL Joins the German Scribes in the Notorious Scandal. Ordered Into Custody on the Evidence Show:ng Him to Be Imp icated. All Five Editors Accused of Libel Are Convicted and Prompty Sentenced. BERLIN, Geruany, Dec. 7.—The tral of the five editors, Baron von Luetzow and Herren Pleetz, Berger, Foellmar and Leckert, for libeling Baron Marschall von Bieberstein, Count August von Eulenberg and Prince Alex von Hobenlohe, was re- sumed this morning. Herr Levisohi, a member of theeditorial staff of the Berlin Tageblatt, was called to the stand and testified that a certain article published in the Tageblatt casting serious reflections upon Baron Marschall von Bieberstein had been personally in- fluenced by Major Tausch, the leader of political police. Upon the strength of this testimony the jury ordered the arrest of Tausch, who was in court, upon a charge of perjury, and he was at once taken into custody and conveyed to jail. Count Philip Zu Eulenberg, German Embassador to Austria, who arrived in Beriin yesterday for the purpose of appearing as a witness, was called to the stand. He said that he had learned to know Major von Tausch auring the visit of the Kaiser to Abazzin and had afterward proposed Tausch #s deserving of a decoration. Wit- ness said that he had received a letter from Tausch which, as 1t was of no im- portance, he had destroyed. Count Eulen- berg said that he had never bren con- nected with any intrigues against Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein, and knew absolutely nothing about the existence of any intrigues against him. A motion was made by the public prose- cutor that in view of the confession of Baron Luetzow, in which hestated Herr Leckert suppitied the material for the ar- ticle against Count Botho von Eulenberg, Leckert alleging that Baron Marschall von Bieberstein, Minister of Foreign Af- fairs, inspired the article, Baron vop Lue- bow and Herr Leckert be declared guilty and sentenced to eighteen months’ im- prisonment each. The court retired to consider the motion, When the court returned it announced that a decision had been arrived at in re- spect to a1l of the prisoners. All but one of them were fonnd guilty. Von Luetzow and Leckert were sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment each. Berger was condemned to be confined for one month. Ploetz was fined 500 murks and Foellmar 800 marks. Leckert’s father was also ac- cused, but nothing was proved against him, and he was discharged. Buicide of an Acrobat. COLUMBUS, Omnio, Dec. 7.—The dead body of A.D. 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