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o - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1896. SENATORS ENGAGE N WARM DEBATE A Spicy Colloquy Over the Dingley Tariff Bill. Allen, Vest, Chandler, Sherman, Gorman and Teller Take a Hand. The Missouri Senator Calls Up Allen’s Resolution ani Precipitates the Battle. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 16.—A very interesting and important discussion unon the resolution of Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska to take up the Dingley bill for considera- tion in the Senate wasstarted to-day by | Vest (D.) of Missouri, and was partici- pated in by Allen, Chandler and Gal- linger (R.) of New Hampsuire, Frye and Hale (R.) of Mame, Aldrich (R.) of Rhode Island, Sherman (R.) of Ohkio, Teller (8. R.) of Colorado and Gorman (D.) of Maryland. In the course of the debate more than one allusion was made to frauds and cor- ruption in the late Presidential election, and Teller remarked pointedly that he was not certain that hiscandidate (Bryan) had been defeated. Allen questioned whether any difference ‘could be pointed out between the political principles of the Republican party and of Mr. Cleveland, and said jocularly that the President and the Republicans would have to be tagged in order to enable a person to distinguish one from the other. The upshot of the debate was a com plete acquiescence on both sides of the” chamber in the fact that the Dingley bill* could not possibly be passed at the present session and that the enactment of a new taniff bill would have to go over to a new session of Congress, to be convened as early as possible. g Five bills authorizing officers of the United States to accept medals from foreign Governments were reported by Sherman (R.) of Ohio. who asked unani- mous consent to have them considered and passed. Objection was made by Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska and the bills were placed on the calendar. A bill to extend the time for the buila- ing of a bridge across the Missouri River at Lexington, Mo., was passed. Mitchell (R.) of Oregon introduced a bill to amend the law which gives preference in civil appointments to men who served in the War of the Rebellion by extending its provisions to men who served in any Indian war, He explained the purpose of the bill and had it re- ferred. : The pension bill was then taken up, arnd Gallinger (R.) of New Hampshire, chair- man of the Committee on Pensions, said he desired to make some observations touching the matter oi pension frauds. He had been very much surprised in listening to the reading of the President’s message that that high official had not vet disabused his mind of the idea that| Densioners were men of rascally tenden- cies, and said that ik his judgment these continued aitacks on pensioners and the President’s continued assertions that the roll of pensioners was not a *roll of honor” should cease. A few brief remarks were made by Haw- Jey (R.)of Connecticut, and then the bill was passed without amendment. The net sum appropriated for pensions (exclusive of other expenditures) is $140,000,000. Vest (D.) of Missouri called up Allen’s resolution of Ilast week for the consilera- tion of the Dingley bill and addressed the Senate. He characterized that bill as one of the most extraordinary ever intro- duced into Congress. It was extraordi- nary, not only in its provisions, but in the manner of its birth and inception. The administratiom, protesting that there was no aeficit in the treasury, had suggested the necessity of some legislation looking to relief from financial embarrasament, and the House of Representatives had pro- ceeded to the passage of the Dingley bill, for which there had been no administra- tivedemand, but which, on the contrary, had been pronounced entirely unneces- sary.’ It had not been asked for by the wool interest or by the iron interest. Aldrich (R.) of Rhode Island, to whose views and statements in regard to the duty on tin plate Vest had alluded, de- clared that the rates now existing under the so<alled Wilson-Gorman bill were more protective on the whole iron and steel schedule than they had been under the McKiniey act when passed, owing to the changes in business which had since taken place. Vestreminded Aldrich that that Senator had insisted on a duty of 2 2-10 cents a vound on tin plate.in the McKinley act and opposed reduction of that rate by 1 cent. a pound in the Wilson bill, but under that rednced rate the domestic production of tin plate had increased enormously and the price of tin plate had fallen very much. He had read the other day an interview as Canton, Ohio, in which the President- elect bad accounted for the increased pro- duction and the reduced price by ascribing it to the use of natural oil for fuel in In- diana. The fact, was, however, that out of seventy-seven new tin plate factories in the United Ststes, there were only five in Indiana. The facts, Vest asserted, could not be answered except by a surreuder on the gurl of the Senator from Rhode Island and is associates that the enormous d uties in the McKinley act were not necessary to the domestic manufactures of the United States. As to the Dingley biil, Vest declared that it was clearly impossible of adminis- tration. The **horizonta:” bill of 1884 haa been_simplicity itself compared with it. The Dingley bill re-enacted the McKinley act, and _in order to determine a rate of duty under it it would be necessary to consult not only the new bill, but the ‘Wilson act and the McKinley act and the market prices. Vest turned his attention to the wool question and quoted woolen manufactur- ers as saying that cven with free raw wool and under tbe duties in the Wilson act no importation of foreign woolen goods could take place. The rates were practically prohibitory. He also quoted Lawrence, whom he termed the “shepherd king of Ohio,” a8 saying that the enormous d uty imposed on raw wool by the McKinley act had not benefited the wool-growers of t. e United States. Referring to the late election Vest said that the people had been told that if Mec- Kinley was elected prosperity would shine upon the country and confidence would be restored. Had prosperity come? he asked. Had confidence been restored? It had not been restored, and what was the result? The people were buying neither domestic nor foreign goods. Did Senators expect that by increasing tariff rates more money would be put into the pockets of the peo- le? Did Senators expect that they would give to the peoglo greater ability to buy by increasing their taxes? Bpeaking of Secretary Carlisle’s estimate of the amount of money in circulation, Vest characterized it as ‘‘a moss-grown Yie,”” and he declared that the only relief which coutd be given to the country—as much as it might be derided, or as much as he might be charged with being a luna- tic and anarchist and repudiator—was ziv- ing more money to the country. Coatin- uing he said emphatically : . No country can be prosperous with an in- creasing population and a degreasing volume ofmoney. You have now got a system which congests the money of the country. This can- not be smothered vy abuse and ridicute. The man who thinks that this last election has settled the struggle is unfit to iegislate for a free people. He knows nothing about the great popular impulses and the heart throbs which go chroagh the pecple of this whole Union.” If we are anarchists and lunatics when we ask that the mints be opened to_iree coinage of silver then this country is lost, be- cause there were 6,499,000 American freemen who stamped themselves as lunatics and an archists at the election in November last. William J. Bryan, this “boy orator.”” Who has been caricatured and slandered angl ridiculed, polled 47.1 per centof the entije vote and the McKinley papular majority ‘was barely 600,000 in a poll of over 14,000,000. If there be in_this country over 6,000,000 anarchists and lunatics and enemies of the country’s welfare, Gold help the Republic and free institutions. ~We are lost. But it is a vile slander. Themen who voted ifor Bryan are honest and patriotic and law-abiding. and we | do not propose to be.ridiculed out of what we believe right and just. We are for equality. We want no monopoly, no class legisiation, no exclusive bounties, This system of a gold standard is the vilest monopoly ever maintained in the brain of mortal man. I do not care to say more of the | last election tban that in my opinion it was a parody on popular government and on free institution. Iam curious to know what will be the result of the investigation pro- posed unaer tne resolution of the gentleman | from Nebraska—Allen. 1 would iike to understand why in the new and growing State of Texas and othersin the | West there has been no increase of population | in tour years, while in the old and finished and completed States of Ohio, Indiana and Tilinois there has been an enormous increase, such as wes never found before in any census of the United States. 1am constrained 1o be- | lieve that the Senator jrom New Hampshire | {Chandier) was correct when he declared that | the_ Si. Louis convention was honeycombed | with corruption and that the delegates were bought and sent there for the sole purpose of nominating McKinley. This was no mere ebullition of zeal for Mr. Reed, for the Sena- tor from New Hampshire afterward in a de- | liberate letter reiterated the charge and de- | elared that every word which he had uttered | in regard to the composition of the St. Louis convention was true. 4 The average American citizen when he | hears from such high Republican authority | that the convention which nominated the can- didate of the Republican party was procured by money and tha; the deiegates were sent there by theuse of money is very apt to con- tinue 10 inquire how the stream which comes | from so corrupt a source can be called pure. - | Aldrich (R.) of Rhode Island contro- verted some of Vest's statements as to the prosperity of the American woolen man- ufacturers, and deciared there never was a time when that industry was so de- pressed and unsatisfactory.” Petitions, ne | said, were co g to the Senate every day imploring Congress to give relief to that industry. At this stage of the discussion the morn- ing bour expired and the unfinished busi- ness—the immigration bill—was laid be- fore the Senate. The tariff ditcussion, however, having been fairly started by | Vest, was continued and was participated | in by Frye (R.) of Maine, Mills {D.) of Texas, Vest (D.) of Missouri and Mitchell | (R.) of Oregon. In the course ot it Vest spoke of the Dingley bill as being dead and consigned to the tomb of the Capulets, while to an allusion as to President Cleveland being the leader to the Senator from Missouri (Vest) immediately interposed the correc- tion: o, sir, no—former leader.” [Laughter.] Milis created a laugh by describing how, | out of his coat, the cloth of which was manufactured in New England, he had drawn ceveral long horse hairs which had been worked in as a substitute for wool, and the hilarity was increased when Gear (R.) of Towa suggested that the horse hairs had been put in by the tailor te stif- fen the collar. Gear also denied the statements of Sena- tors Vest and Mills, that domestic wool had gone up in price since wool was H placeg on the free list, ana said that wool { which had sold at from 19 to 21 cents a pound under the McKinley act had been selling this year at 11 cents a pound. Chandler (R.) of New Hampshire also tooka hand in the discussion. If the { Dingley bill were, as Vest had said, in the tomb of the Capulets, why, he asked, should time be wasted in talking about it? When Senator Allen’s resolution for a committee of inquiry should be before the Senate, it wouid be his (Chandler's) pleasure and duty to define his position in connection with the proposed investiga- tion as to the use of money in the late election. Allen asked Chandler whether it was | the settled purpose on the Republican side of the chamber to pass the Dingley bill. Chandler replied that that would depend { almost entirely on the action of the Sena- | tor from Neoraska himself. Allen repeated his question, and was | asked by Chandler whether he would vote against the free-silver amendment to the | Dingley bill, to which Allen responded that he would not be guilty of such a lack of intelligence. Chandler asked A'len if he did not know that, with the free-silver amendment, it H :ould be impossible to pass the Dingley ill. 3 ’ “No, I do not,”” Allen replied, “as the Senator from New Hampshire has de- clared himself a bimetallist [laughter] and as several other Senators nave declared themselves bimetallists.” “The Senator knows very well,” said Chandler, “‘that this pill cannot pass un- less the Republicans of the Senate are helped by some of the Palmer Democrats, or by some of the Bryan Demoerats, or by some of the Populists.’”” “I do not think thai the Dingley bill is dead,” Allen remarked. “The assertion that it was consigned to the tomb of the Capulets was a mere poetic license on the part of the Senator from Missouri. ’” Allen went on to say that instead of having an extra session of Congress the | most sensible thing that Congress could do was Lo adjourn anua not to convene for two years, and let the country have some rest. Sherman (R.) of Ohio addressed the Senate briefly but passionately, The de- ficiency in the revenue, he declared, was i almost & crime. It was the first duty of Congress to provide for the ordinary ex- penses of the Government. How to raise the money to pay these expenses and to carry on the operations of Government was a question on which the two parties were entirely apart—one believing that duties should be levied on_ imported goods, but only for revenue—and the other beiieving that the duties should be so levied as to raise revenue ana to encour- age domestic manufactures. The result has been that on account of this dispute the Government has been for several years expending more than its re- ceipts. That siate of things was a dis- grace tc Congress, and ought to pe put a stop 10 whenever the opportunity offered. Sherman called attention 4o the fact that the public debt had been reduced from 1866 until the beginning of Cleve- land’s administration by $1,580,000,000, and that since then it has deen increased by $265,000,000. That increase, he said, was not the fault of Cleveland, but was the fault of the existing tariff law. There was no doubt about that. Even if the rates in the existing larift law were appar- ently high enough, the difficulty was that the duties were ad valorem instead of specific. He (Sherman) would bave the Senate proceed to the considerasion of any tariff law that would increase the rev- enues of the Government—bhe did not care whether it was in the shape of import du- ties or internal revenue taxes. _He repeated thatit wasa shame and a disgrace that in a time of profoand peace the Government ha:, on account of insuf- ficient revenues, to issue bonds. That was -a reproach to Congress; and the same, thing would be a reproach to any Govern- ment in Europe. *‘Therefore,” he continued, *“I do not care 1n what form it comes or on whose motion. I am willing to take up the Dingley bill. Tke first thing to be done is to provide an increase of revenue, so that the incoming administration may not be compelled to go into debt every year.” Vest remarked that the treasury state- ment this morning showed $126,000,000 in the treasury over and above the gold re- serve, and asked Sherman what was to be done with all that money. Sherman made a reply which was not clearly responsive to -the question, and added that he was willing to have the Dingley bill taken up and passed, as it would ~provide enough revenue tem- He commented upon the free- silver amendment put on taat bill, and said that it wes a most cowardly evasion of a great and importantduty. That free- silyer amendment had been introduced in order to defeat the Dingley bill. It had no place in the bill and no connection with it. It had been put tlere to prevent action in passipg the bill. Teller (silver R.) of Colorado made his way into ihe discussion, and declared positively that it had been well known that if every Republican Senator voted for the Dingley bill it would have still lacked onecf a majority, and that it was the merest pretense for apybody to say that he had expected that bill to become alaw. It had not been introduced to be passed and was not a fit bill to be passed. The Republican party, he continued, was about to come in power. He would not be tempted now to express an opinion as to how it had secured that power. Some ot?r time he probably wounld doso. It was coming into power with the promise and pledge to the American people that the distressed condition of affairs which had existed for many years would disap- pear with the coming in of the Republican party. If the era of conhdence had struck the country he (Teller) had failed to observe it. The Republican party had a duty to do to the American people, and it would not do it by talking about the Dingley biil unless it said to the country that that was the bill which it wanted. He declared emphatically that the Dingley bill would never become alaw, and that there wasnot a man on the floor who did not know it. Why, therefore, he asked, should the Senate spend time over it? Chandler remarked with a point of sar- casm tbat Republican Senators had not begun the discussion, but that it had been got up by the Senator from Nebraska (Allen), wno bad tried with the Senator from Colorado to elect Mr. Bryan. “And I am not sure,” Teiler broke in, “that we aid not elect him.” [Lanehter.] Teller repeated his assertion that the Dingley bill bad not been introduced to be passed, and that it was understood that when it was introduced it could not be passed. It was introduced for a politi- cal purpose and to gain political ad- vantage. 1 Hale (R.) of Maine said that it had never occurred to him that the Dingley bill was not to be passed in an honest fashion and for an honest purpose if Re- publican Senators could do it. 5 Teller asserted that the Dingley bill was a political measure to distract the atten- tion of the American people from the financial question. i Gorman (D.) of Maryland agreed with Teller and said the Dingley bill, even if it had become a law, wou!d not have im- proved the condition of the treasury and that it was unjust and unequal. *“The Presidential election,” he added, *has passed. The combinations of men and in- terests made in that campaign are now matters of history. Repubiican Senators have now the pewer to pass such a mon- strosity as the Dingley bill. You have no time or inclination to remodel it and make it a Republican measure, and it is trifling with the business interests of the country to hold out a hope by continuous debate here that some action shall be taken on the bill when everybody knows that action is impossible.’” Hale expressed the hope that the Senate and the country would take notice from the statements made by Senators Gorman and Teller of the diificuities under which the Republican party in the Senate labored. There was no use in fighting for a bill, the passage of which was clearly impossible. He agreed with Gorman in saying that it would be the business of the Republicans at an early session of Con- gress—and the earlier the better—to take up the whole subject and secure a protec- tive measure, moderate in its terms, but sufficient to give revenue to the Govern- ment and to properly protect Amerigan in- dustries. Gorman—You have succeeded—I will not say how—in having the responsibility, butyou know that youcannot accomplish anything substantial at this session of Con- gress. You ought, therefore, to stop this discussion and prevent the upturning of the business interests of the country. Pilatt (R.) of Connecticut—The Senator from Maryland is quite right. We never had a chance to pass the Dingley bill in the Senate, and we have less chance now ihan ever. Sherman—I am inclined to think thatin view of the statements as to the impossi- bility of passing the Dingley bili we ought not to waste any more time about it. We are not disposed to attempt impossibilities. That was the last word of the important discussion, and the Senate after a short executive session adjourned until to-mor- Tow. . SESSION OF THE HOUBSE. Army Appropriation Bill Kaises Many Points of Order. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 16.—In the House to-day Bailey (D.) of Texas asked immediate consideration of a resolution providing for an investigation by a sub- committee of the Committee on Naval Affairs into the alleged defects of the bat- tleship Texas. On objection by Dingley (R.) of Maine, the resolution was referred to the committee without action. The President’s veto of the bill granting a pension to Nancy A. Allabach, which the Benate passed yesterday over the President’s objections, was read and re- ferred to the Committee on Invalid Pen- sions. On motion of Hull (R.) of Iowa the House went into committee of the whole, Hopkins (R.) of Illinofs in the chair, to consider the army appropriation bill. Mr, Hul!l made a brief explanation of the pro- visions of the bill. It made an increase for the pay of the army, that for the cur- rent year having beenfound about $200,000 short. The provision extending from twenty to thirty days the period in which the pay- master-general may examine paymasters’ accounts recommended by the committee was stricken out on a point of order that it was new legislation. The same point was made by Little (D.) of Arkansas against the provision aban- doning and transferring the Hot Springs army hospital to the Interior Department, and the point was sustained. 1In a subse- $uent somewhat desultory ' discussion ayne (R.) of New York zave the history of the improvement of Hot Springs, stat- ing that when it came to getting an ap- propriation for assumed Government pur- poses, private parties benefiting to the greater extent, the people of Hot Springs, Ark., were unequaled the whole country over. Hull sought to obtain the object desired by tire provision inserted by the committee by an amendment declaring thatno part ol the money appropriated by the section should be applied to the support of the Hot Springs Hospital. Dingiey (R.) of Maine said the proposi- tion involved only the right and power of the House to restrict. and limit expendi- tures, and did not change existing law. Grow (R.) of Pennsylvania, supporting the position of Dingley, recalled that the famous Wilmot proviso was added under the same conditions as Hull’s amendment. to the bill appropriating §2,000,000 to enable the United States to negotiate a treaty of peace with Mexico, and received its name because it was a proviso limiting the expenditures of the money. 80, 100, atthe time of the Kansas border troubles a proviso was added to the army appropriation bill that no part of the money therein appropriated should be expended in enforcing tne laws of the boeus legislature of that State. Despite these arguments and decisions quoted by the gentleman Chairman Hop- kins said he must differ from the sup- porters of the amendment and held that inasmuch as the hospital was authorized by law and appropriations made tor its support the amendment proposed a change of the law and he must rule it out of order. A . From this ruling Hull appealed and the committee—69 to 50—sustained the chair, Tue clothing sale of the cen’lnry—m the Hub's advertiscment on eighth page. * E TEXAS IS ALL RIGHT Secretary Herbert Praises the Big Battle-Ship Officially. SIS TH Issues a Statement Declaring That It Ranks With the - Finest. Like All New War Vessels, It Pos. sessed Minor Defects to Be Remedied. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 16.—The Navy Department issued an official state- ment this morning to demonstrate that the battle-ship Texas, instead of being in any degree a failure, ranks with the finest warships in the world and 1s not surpassed by any American naval vessel. The occa- sion for this announcement is Secretary Herbert’s approval of a court of inquiry record, which found- no one responsible for the unfortunate foundering of the ves- sel recently at the New York Navy-yard. Secretary Herbert’s statement is as fol- lows: In giving out the action of the department on the findings of the recent court of inquiry as to the accident which resulted in the sink- ing of the Texas at the navy-yard, New York, I have concluded to depart from my usual custom and make a general statement about this ship. Of course the public knows that the accident about which this court of inquiry was held could not have occurred at sea; that it hap- pened because & part of an injection pipe had been taken out for repairs, and that the ship was promptly raised without having suffered any material damage. So many criticisms on this vessel have been made that the public, or a part of it at least, may be disposed to regard her as valueless. Considerable objection was made by some of the officers of the department to the building of aship on the plans of the Texas, and the question was before more than one board dur- ing the administration of Secretary Whitney, and afterward, during the administration of Secretary Tracy, the plans, having been again brought in question, were submitted to other boards and were again and again approved, and so the construction of the ship proceeded at the Norfolk Navy-yard until, during this administration, she was completed and sent 1o sea. The Texas was laid down by Mr. Whitney. A board of eminent naval officers awarded to aprominent English designer, Mr. John, the prize that had been offered by the department for the best plans of & battle-snip of given di- mensions. At the time and for months after- ward the Navy Department, through the Bu- reas of Construction and Repair end of Steam Engineering, was expending considerable money annually in the procurement of draw- ings, vlans, etc., from abroad.. We were avail- ing ourselves of the exjerience of forein na- tions. There have been several accidents to the ehip since she was commissioned. Different parts of her machinery have from *ime to time developed defects aud it at one time became apparent that her bottom needed stiffening. She was sént to the navy-yard at Norfolk and her bottom was stiffened, and her defects have, it is believed, speaking generally, all been remedied except those relating to her turret and the system of water-tight compartmenis, developed by the recent flooding of the vessel, as shown by the finding of the court of in- quiry. The department has given orders that these deficiencies be completely remedied, which can and will be done in a few weeks at the New York navy-yard and at comparatively small cost. it would, of course, be very desirable if all our ships when first completed could be turned over to the Government by contractors and by navy-yards in absolutely perfect condition, but this has never yet been done either in ourown or any other navy. A modern war vessel is an aggregation of complicated machinery and no expert expects a ship to be at its best until it has been shaken down by a eruise of months and tried thoroughly in all its parts. It is believed that we have made fewer than any nation and certaiply less cos(ly mistakes than most others in the building of a modern navy; yet there were two of our ships—the Texas and the Machias—that had to be cut in two and lengthened. There were three others —the Detroit, the Montgomery and the Mar- blehead—in which it was found essential to make far more fundsmental changes than have ever been found necessary in the Texas, and yet the latter ship, probably because the question of her availability as a navy war ves- sel was mooted from the very inception of the ship, has been subject to an unusual amount of harsh criticism. = It is sometimes stated that there are naval officers who are stealthily and surreptitiously aiming, through the press, to have the public condemn a vessel of tne United States navy, 1f this were true there would be no condemna- tion too strong and no punishment 0o severe for such conduet. The Texas has been cruising as a part of the North Atluntic squadron for the past four months, since her bottom was stiffened at the Norfolk Navy-yard. Captain Glass, one of the most efficient and reliable officers of the navy, who has been in command of her, declares that she is the stiffest, most easily managed and entirely seaworthy ship in the navy. Csptain Robley D. Evans, commanding the Indiana, holds the same opinion. He says that when the fleet on the 12th of October was on its way to New York, in a hurricane—in the worst sca he haa ever encoun! Texas showed thst she was the most ship in the fleet. LEAVES CANTON FOR CHICAGO. Maojor McKinley Takes a Vacation to Get Time to Think About Material for His Cabinet. CANTON, Osro, Dec. 16.—In order to join his wife and ina measure for rest Major McKinley left Canton at 9:27 this evening to spend a week in Chicago. The Pennsyivania Company put a private car at his disposal. He was accompanied by Charles G, Dawes of Chicago, Captain H, 0. Heistand, his acting confidential secre- tary, and by correspondents of the United Associated Presses and several important journals. Major McKinley expects to reach Chicagoabout 8 o’clock Thursday morning, and will go at once to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette McWilliams, where his wife is sta 1n§. Mr. McKinley will probaoly ranurn n Chicago till next ‘Wednesday night and he may return by way of Cleveland, stopping for a night with some of his friends there. This is the sacond time since his nomi- nation that Major McKinley has left Can- ton. The other occasion wae his visit to Cleveland at the time of the centennial celebration in that city in July last. a- jor McKinley's health is sound, but he ieels the need of some rest and recreation. His to1l for six months has. been inces- sant, and, judged by ordinary standards, excessive. B The Cabinet will be discussed some in Chicago. “The Wisconsin situation,” said Jonn Hicks of Oshkosh, ex-Minister to Peru, who was here to see Major Mc- Kinley to-day, *will, of course, be talked about some while )hgor McKinley is in Chicago. Wisconsin is not remote and 4 some of our people will want to say a word about Mr. Payne or ex-Governor Hoard, who are the Cabinet possibilities in Wisconsin. SN ‘‘Mr. Payne is the choice of a large num- ber of people who are active in polities and ex-Governor Hnard is streng with the farmers. They would like to see him made Secretary of Agriculture.” Among the callers at Mr. McKinley’s residence to-day were U. S. Manning, Albany, N. Y.; R.'F. Hayward of Spring- field, Ohio, and General H. Richardson of Chippewa Falls, Wis. Major McKinley is giving all the time left him by callers to the consideration of his Cabinet. He has not commenced even to think about his inaugural address and has no intention of setting to work on it before February. O Teodneil DUCKING IN THE MARSHES. The President and Party Practicing on Small Game Before Engaging in a Deer Drive. GEORGETOWN, 8. C., Dec. 16.—The Government launch Watet Lily came up to the city this evening, reaching here about 8 o’clock, bringing mail and dis- patches from tne Presidential party. The President is in good health. A deer drive had been arranged for to-day, but the woods were so wet from the recent rains that it was abandoned. The party broke camp this aiternoon and, embarking on the Water Lily, came from the Santce through the Mosquito Creek canal to the lighthouse tender Wistaria, which was anchored in Winyah Bay, near South Island. After receiving tne party and taking on board the baggage and bags of eame the Wistaria steamed over to Muddy Bay, where she lies to-gight, about a mile distant from the Annadale Club lodge or Friendfield. President Cleveland and his companions will go ducking in the marshes to-morrow morning, and if the weather is as cold and windy as it has been to-day they will have fine sport. The President and party will remain at Friendfield until Saturday, going ducking cach morning, and as an invitation has been extended them by the Donaldson Bros. for a deer drive on their lands, it is |- probable that they will yet nave the pleas- ure of adding a buzk or two to their list of game. Gos gt PUTATIVE NOBLEMEN IN JAIL. Two Clever Confidence Men, After Work- ing the Large European Cities, Come to Grief at Chicago. CHICAGO, InL., Dec. 16.—Two prisoners who claim to be descendants of foreign nobility are locked up at police head- quarters on charges of swindling. They are Count Henry Kling of Strasburg, Ger- many, and Prince Lorenzo Mabes of Naples, Italy. Whoever they are the police say they are clever confidence men and that they are wanted by the authorities of many large cities of this country and Eaurope, including London, Paris, Naples, New York and St. Louis. They have been living here for some time, it is said, on the proceeds of their last swindle. 1)They came to America from Strasburg several months ago and auring the trip met Camille Boussart and Alice Smith, who intended to open dressmaking parlors in Chicago. After spending some little time in New York and other Eastern cities, where they are saia to have operated swindling schemes, they came to Chicago and took up theirresidence in the same hotel where their womer acquaintances were living. Recently the noblemen disappeared from the hotel, afier baving secured $2000, it is alleged, from the dressmakers and with- out having settled their board bill. Com- plaint was made at police headguarters and Kling was arrested. this afternoon as he was leaving one of the theaters. He said that his companion, Mabes, was at the Eureka Hotel on Adams street, and the detectives found bkim in the parlor entertaining a number of ladies with the piano. He speaks fluently five languages and is highly accomplished. e OGDEN JiILBREAK, Three Criminale Cut Through the Ceil- ing of a Prison. OGDEN, Uran, Dec. 16.—W. 8. Edson, M. A. Earlscount and W. Weil, inmates of the County Jail, escaped at 3:30 o’clock this morning, and two of them are still at large. Edson is the man who shot his former sweetheart, Miss Ott, in the lungs, and tried to kill her escort, MeaCabe. Earlscount is a burglar, and Weil is a forger of a long record. All three were awaiting trial. The escape was effected by cutting through the @eiling of the jail corridor, the cage door having been left un- fastened, and, crawling between the ceil- ing and the floor above, then breaking through and dropping into a hall. There the men broke through a transom and went into the courthouse proper, whence they easily got away. Weil, the forger, was caught this fore- noon as he was boarding a Southern Pacific freight for the West. The otners are still at large. SIGNOE FERKEANTI DEAD, The Once Famous OUperatic Singer a Victim of a Cab Accident. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 16.—Signor Pietro Ferranti, formerly a celebrated operatic singer, died yesterday at noon at the New York Hospital, where he had been taken suffering from the effects of an accident. Twenty years ago there were few singers on the operatic and concert stege in this city better known or more popuiar than Bignor Ferranti. He had a fine voice, which he knew how to use to the best ad- vantage, and he was a special favorite at the fashionable musicales of the season. Bignor Kerranti was knocked down and run over by a cab at the corner of Twenty- fifth street and Fourth avenue on Decem- ber 4. He was badly injured, several bones having been broken,and some of his friends had him removed to the hospital on December 5. Everything possible was done for him, but he continued to grow worse and several daysago the physicians }n atteAdance pronounced his case hope- ess. e BUTTE’S COLLAPSED BANK. Four Indictments by the United States . Granda Jury. BUTTE, Moxt., Dec. 16.—The United States Grana Jury at Helena has returned four indictments against the defunct First National Bank officers growing out of the recent sensational failure. Two in- dictments are against E. D. Edgerton, manager and vice-president and now_re- ceiver of the institntion, charging him with making false entries to the Comp- troller of the Currency relative to amounts alleged to be due ffom other banks, mis- applying funds and making unlawful pay- ments with bank funds. The other in- dictments are jointly against Edgerton and George H. Hill, assistant cashier. Both men were arrested on bench war- rants. —_—— Beet-Sugar Bounty Law Opinion. LINCOLN,Nesr., Dec. 16.—The Supreme Court to-day rendered an opinion on the beet-sugar bounty law, which, while not passing on the constitutionality of the act, delares the bounty mnot collectible, inasmuch as the Legislature made no specific appropriation for its payment. This means that the sugar factories at Norfolk and Grand Island will lose a sum estimated at $50,000, unless at the coming session of the Lecislature a specific appro- priation is made for their benefit, in which event the constitutionality of the law may be questioned. LABOR LEADERS Many Matters of Public Interest Before the Body. The Draft of a Bill to Compel the Arbitration of Dif- {ferences. Resolutions of Sympathy With the Cubans and in Condemnation of Cleveland. CINCINNATI, Omro, Dec. 16.—This morning's session of the American Fed- eration of Labor opened with a full at- tendance. The committee on labels re- ported 'favorably on a suggestion of the cigar-makers that tin or cardboard signs giving various labels be made and dis- tributed among the unions, the idea be- ing to familiarize the public with the labels of the different trades, and the re- port was concurred in by the convention. A controversy between the Canvassers’ Union and the American Agents’ Associa- tion was reported from the committee on grievance, with a resolution expelling the Canvassers’ Union, and directing the sec- retary to notiiy the Central Labor Council of Cincinnati not to receive the per capita tax from the union. The matter was re- ferred back for further investigation. Edward E. Clark, secretary of the Rail- way Conductors representinz the five great brotherhoods, read a bill providing for enforced arbitration of differences be- tween railway companies and employes, which Congress will be asked to enact into a law. The niatter was referred toa special committee. Delegate Duffy of Kansas City pre- sented a resolution that a committee be appointed to investigate the boycott against the Armour Packing Company. ‘This was adopted. Special committees were appointed for the consideration of the eight-hour labor law and tne subject of immigration. The report of the com- mittee of delegates to the British Labor Congress at Edinburgh, Scotland, was read by the secretary, and the convention then adjourned until the afternoon. The afternoon session was opened by a talk by Delegate Samuel Woods of Great Britain on his impression daring hisshort stay in America, his remarks being of a highly complimentary nature to America as a Nation and an expression of the ereat gratification which he and his colleague, Manlinson of Scotland, feel at finding such a high order of intelligance in the deliber- ative bodles of labor organizations in the TUnited States. He then read an exhaustive paper on European labor, the late meeting of the European Labor Congress at Eainburgh, Scotland, and ihe progress made in recent years by the labor organizations of Great Britain, setting forth what organization bas accomplished for working people and what it hopes to accomplish in the futtre. Mr. Manlinson of Scotland made a brief address 1o the convention urging closer alliance between the labor organizations of the world: George E. McNeil of Boston was ap- ointed by the president to respond in be- alf of the American Federati n to the addresses of Great Britain’s delegates and made an eloquent address. The following resolutions in regard to the situation in Cubs were presented by the chairman of the committee on resolu- tions, with a recommendation that they be adopted : Resolved, That the American Federation of Labor, in convention assembled, tenders its heartfelt’ sympathy to all now struggling n%l(nsloppmsxlon. and especially to the men of Cuba, who for ages have sacrificed and suffered to secure the right of self-goverement. Resolved, That the example of the people ot France in giving recognition and aid to the fathers in their struggle to rescue the inde- pendence of the colonies is worthy of imita- tion, and we hereby call upon the President and Congress to recognize the belligerent rights of the Cuban revolution. James O'Donnell ot only favored the adoption of the resolutions, but wanted another added condemning President Cleveland for not having already taken such action as the resolutions recommend- ed, and the suggestion met with the in- dorsement of several of the speakers who foliowed. President Samuel Gompers svokeina very fervid manner, urging the unanimous adoption of the resolutions, which were tinally adopted by a vote of 60 to 9. Fridav afternoon was finally set as the time for holding the annual election of officers of the federation. A resolution to petition the Pardon Board of Pennsylvania for commutation of the sentence of Alexander Bergman, who shot Mr, Frick oi the Carnegie Iron Works during the strike at Homestead, Pa., was introduced by D:legate Weis- mann of New York and unanimonsly adopted, after which the convention ad- journed until 9 o’clock to-morrow. GALVESTON COUKTHOUSE UN FIRE 2he Entive Fire Department Trying to Save the Kecords. 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