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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1897. FAILS T0 PROVE REINHART GUILTY Government Loses Its Case Against the Santa Fe's Ex-President. Acquitted of Complicity in the Giving of Rebates on Freight. Witness2s cn Whom tie Prosecution a rival business three miles from Colonel Loud’s land. The colonel demanded an explanation, and got Holden outone night to cowhide him, but the latter escaped in the darkness. Both men were arrested. The quarrel has been carried to this city, and Louad threatened to either *‘cow- hiie Holden or kiil him, because he has done me dirt.” Both men are talking loudly and threateningly, and a duel bas been hinted at. Colonel Loud is a typical Southerner wiho has the reputation of having protected his honor on ground where blood has been spilled. He is a dead shot. Holden siubbornly holds off, and friends are keeping them apart and say that a duel may yei end the misunder- sanding. Szig o BRYAN IS RENOMINATED. An Enthusiastic Conference of the Nebraska Free-S:/ver League in Session at Lincoln. LINCOLN, NEpr., Jan. 6.—The Silver- ites of the State that furnished the silver Democratic nominee for the Presidency do not believe that the question of bimet- allism was settled by the November elec- Relied Testified for the Accusel | | | | CHICAGO, Irr., Jan. 6.—A nolle prosse | was entered to-day in the case of Joseph | W. Reinhart, ex-president of the Santa Fe Railroad Company, who was charged with being inculpated in giving rebates on freight rates, and Judge Grosscup ordered | him discharged from custody at once. | The Government failed utterly to prove | that Mr. Reinhart knew anythiug of the | alleged transactions. | Inthe case of Hanley, the ex-eneral | traffic manacer, the District Attorney, General Black, admitted that evidence | 1plete the proof could not because the witnesses ent and he suspected they would | come on slow freight.” | The ment relied on W. P.| Jenkins, manager of the Hammond Pack- | Company, and Isaac Thompsou, the Kaneas City livestock shipper, to corrobo- | rate the testimony of John G. Tavlor. the ex-livestock agent of the ta Fe, as to receiving the illegal rebate money by or- | der of Hanley. As witnesses for the | Government both th weakened the testimony of T the prosecu- | for proof of the on, Hanley expects to be discha Trow. Jenkins flatly contradicted Ta said he was in no sense a r of the Hammond Compan bates. but was sent by s v me e money from the officia he could not re- il- 5 road companv. He went to Hanley’s it w only Taylor, from whom he | : M, acting solely as a enger. He did not know what the payment represented, and Hanley, whom ard, did not mention the not remember any- i Hanley’ nent. He that he cal'ed to collest ns, and he was sure that | him at the time he | f, but might have | y money w ot none of it for himss been and nager Biddle of the Santa Fe, were in at the afternoon session. Mr. W hite- head, as ordered by the court, brought with him copy books of the bills of lading for the Kansas City livestock shipments | in 1892, but om objection of the defense the | court refused to allow the books to be in- | troduced as evidence. None of the Santa | Fe officials could identify the books. Judge Grosscup said at the begiuning of the trial that the waybilis and any other documents of shipments were the best proof of rate-cu but Government | had not proved that any livestock was | shipped upon which rebates were paid. | The court reminded the Government that the railroaa company was not on trial, buc only ex-officers. When the nolle prosse wasentered by General B! Senator Duncan, attorney tor Rinehart. indignantly protested against the action of Senator Shields, special attorney for the Interstate Com- merce Commission, in having his client | held over since last spring without a scin- | tilla of evidence, to which Mr. Shields re- | torted that the failure to convict was no fault of his and there were reasons which he did not wish to assert now. SWELL SWINDLER CAPTURED. | Moved in Exclusive Sociely and Conducted His Operations on an Elaborate Scale. OMAHA, Nesr., Jan. 6.—Acting at the Tequest of the Sheriff of Belleville, IiL., | the police to-day arrested S.J. Gordon, alias C. M. Anderson, on the charge of scheming to defraud through the mails, It is alleged that Gordon is a professional swindler and that his fieid of operation is not alone confined to this country. Gordon came to Omaha a week ago and | registered at one of the very best family | hetels n the city. His affable manners | and surroundings gave him the oppor- tunity of meeting some of the best fami- lies in the city. At the time of his arrest he had two society belles of the city so- liciting in bis beh He opened an office and asserted that he had in mind the starting of a paper devoted to science, | art and literature. A brilliant prospe cius was prepared. Ha represented himsel! a; the correspondent of the London Times | and Telegraph. | Gordon advertised for a clerk, collector, | doorboy and also a partner. He received numerous applications, all of which he ac- cepted, engaging everybody making application—at least those who were wili- ing to put up cash bonds for the faithful verformance of their duties. The authocities bad a letter from tLe Sheriff at Belleville, Ill., several days sgo stating that & notorious confidence man named C. M. Anderson_had recently es- caped from the cbain gang and had located in Omaha, where he was about 1o swindle a woman out of $200. Detectives were placed on watch “at ‘the posteffice, but Anderson chaneed his name to Gordon and sent a messenger-boy after his 1oail. Thus he evaded the Omaha officers until to-day. Gordon’s scheme was toemploy a person, then require him to put up « cash bond, and to abscond before the first issue of the per. This paper was to appear January This was his scheme at Belleville, 1il., for which .he was put on the chain gang. IR e BLOODSHED MAY RESULT. A Business Misunderstanding Which May End in a Duel. SUPERIOR, Wis.,, Jan. 6.—Bloodshed may be the result of a misunderstanding between two prominent men of this city. The parties are Colonel C. D. Loug, who is here from, Savannah, and W. J. Holden, alocal shipbuilder and politician. Colonel Loud is engaged in encouraging immigration to the fruit sections of Geor- gia. Holden was sent with the colonel a short time ago to Georgia by a party of shipyard men to look over the country. rya | corded him prompted h | party | first husband was John Parke Custis, and | who has since been known to history as tion. This much was demonstrated by the size and make-up of the conference which was called to order at 2 o’clock to- day in the Lansing Theater by Hon. John Jeffcoat, for the purpose of organizing a Nebraska Free-silver League. Represen- tative Populists, Free-silver Democrats d Free-silyer Repub.icans were conspic- Qous in the parquet. The conference is the outcome of a call largely and influentially signed, and the icipants represent every county in the State. Mr. Bryan, who made his appear- ance while the preiminaries were in progress, was given an enthusiastic recep- tion. When Bryan arose to aadress the assembly the applause was deafening. an saiG that the warm reception to paraphrase r to have run e run atall.”” the old saying, **'Tis bei and lost than never to | He reviewed the ill the close of the pol He showed the great gain of the Siiver ince 1894, and said that he believed that with effort there could be no ques- tion of victory in 19C0. There was a little clash at the opening of the on_over the permunent chair- manship, which was compromised by the selection of Judge Scott of Omaba, a free- ver Republican. He made a short ad- ess and was followed by Congressman- elect W. L. Greene of Kearney in & more extended -speech, in_which he eulogized W. J. Bryan, and formaily, amid wild cheering, nominated him as the candidate of the solid bimetallic forces for President in 1900. The report of the committee on credentials was adopted, seating 632 dele- gates. 1. J. Dunn, a delegate from Douglass County, made a rabid attack op W. D. McHuih, recently apnointed Federal Judge for Nebraska by President Cleve- land. He denounced McHugh as a traitor to Bryan and Democracy, and a supporter of McKinley, and asked the convention to | put itself on record as opposing his con- firmation. Chairman Scott, while tacitly admitting his sympathy with the speaker, deciared | the remarks out of order. An adjournment until evening was n to afllow the committee on resolu- s to report, but at9 o’clock the con mitiee wa ! out, with no prospects of an early agreement, - OREGON SHORT LINE SALE. Counsel for the Reorganization Commiltee Ant.cipate No Trouble in Securing the Road. OMAHA, NEBR, Jan. 6. chairman, and Henry G. of the reorganization committee of the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern road, went west to-day, en route to Salt Lake Qity. They are empowered to pur- chase the Short Line at itsszlein the Utah city, at 11 o’clock, Saturday morning. “We anticipate no trouble in securing the Short Line at the sale,’” said Mr. Carr, “but of course there is no forecasting as to any surprise. But as Isaid, we know of none and anticipate none. It is true that we have about decided on the name of the company and the officers of the company as well as the officials of the road, but we @o not think it advisable to make them public at this time. After we have se- cured the rodd there will be time for the announcement of the selections and ap- pointments, and I shall be glad to tell you when we return.” \ A slate has been talked of for some time with these as the officials of the road: . H. Bancroft, general manager; S. W. cles, general freight agent; J. 8. Shrop- e, general attorney; D. E. Burley or | St. A. D. Hutchinson, general passenger and ticket agent; F., W. Hills, auditor, and L. D. Carrier, gefieral bazgage agent. This slate is speculative, of course, but it is believed by some who are well informed on Short Line affairs to be the one. Tne Union Pacific receivers, Master in Chancery Cornish and General Manager Dickinson, will leave in the morning for Salt Lake City and probably at Laramie, Wyo., will be joined by General Solicitor Keley. Their “presence in Salt Lake City at the sale hasno special significance, as the Union Pacificis not a bidder for the property. The receivers desire to make a tour of inspection of the system and have selected this time for going. The busi- ness in which the Union Pacific is par- ticularly interested is after the sale and in the announcement of officers of the com- pany and officials of the road. - & WASHINGTON'S ELDING DAY, Daughters of the American Revolution Celebrate the FEvent. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jau. 6. years to-day since George Was fresh from the laurels gained as com- mander-in-chief of the Virginia forces that a short time before had captured Fort Duquesne, took to himself a wife in the person of the widow Martha Custis, whose maiden name was Dandridge, whose Martha Washington. Tris afternoon, in ommemordtion of the anniversary, the New York chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution gave a reception at Sherry’s, at which historical addresses relating {0 Martha Washington, inter- spersed with patriotic music, formed the programme. g STQLEN IPELIC RESTOKED, ZThe Famous Louisburg Cross Returned to Harvard’s Library. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 6.—The famous Louisburg cross, which was stolen a year ago from Gore Hasll library at Har- vard, was reiurned yesterday in as mys- terious a manner as it was removed, It/ s found hanging to the knob of the library door:with a note attached, the con- tents of which the authorities will not divulge. The cross is the one. captured from the cathedral in Qaebec during the Louisburg expedition and is a famous relic with much tradition surrounding its seizare and its presentation to Harvard. Ttis believed that it was taken away in pursuance of a requirement of a secret society, » the Bible, ' Jan. 6.—The custom of kissing the Bible at the inauguration of State officers, which has prevailed in Kauses since the admission of the State into the Union, wiil. not bewbserved by the Populists next Monday. G. C: Clem- ens, chairman of the arrangements com- mittee, objectea to the custom on the ground that the germs of disease might be carrted’ from’ one person' to another by kissing the Bible, and a resolution to do away with this part of the programme was adopted. The action of the commit- tee has caused much comment, and some While away Holden conceived theidea of going into business himself, and siarted of the Populist ‘clergymen condemn it in severe terms, while others approve of it, / CALL SPEAKS ON | IS RESOLUTION Addresses the Senate for an Hour on the Cuban Situation. He Urges That “ the Cover Be Taken Off the Scene of Butchery.” The President Is Instructed to Dcmand the Imm diat: Release of Sanguilly. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6.—There were not more than a dozen Senators’in the chamber to-day when the chaplain offered his opening prayer and the gatleries were almost deserted. The report of the Becretary of the Navy in retation to the cost of construction of armor-plate was presented and roferred to the Committee on Naval Affairs. An adverse report from the Committee on Foreign Relations on the claim of John S. Waller, United States Consul at Mada- gascar, for damages by reason of his arrest and imprisonment, was presented and in- definitely postponed. A resolution was offered by Hale (R.) of Maine and agreed to, calling on the Secre- tary of State for a statement concerning the action of the President or Secretary of State, touching the recognition of uny foreign people or power as an independent Government and the corresponding action of other branches of the United States Government. The resolution offered yesterday by Call (D.) of Florida in relation to the condem- nation of Julio Sanguilly, an American citizen, by the Spanish authorities in Cuba to perpetusl imprisonment in chains was taken up, and Call addressed the Senate. His opening remarks were directed, however, to the case of Charles Govin and to the report thereon of Consul- General Lee, which was presented to the Senate yesterday. Call discredited the statements of the Spanish officers as to Govin baving died of wounds received in battle, and asserted on the authority of a person, whose name he declined to give but who was a person of cheracter, that Govin, a citizen of the United States and who was in Cuba as a newspaper reporter, had been arrested, tied to a tree and cut in pieces with mactetes by a squad of cavalry as it rode past. Reverting to the case of Sanguitly Call read from a statement to the effect that Sanguilly, also an American citizen, had been guilty of no offense whatever that bad been or could be proved against him. The two cases, Call said, were types of what was occurring to hundreds of American citizens in Cuba, and it only needed investigation by the Senate to “take the cover off the scene of butchery.”” As to a combination of European powers against the United States Call declared that there was no danger of such a thing n view of the effect which it would have on the masses of the people in European countries and that the sympathies of man- kind would be with the American Repub- licin such a struggle. & At the close of Call’s speech, which oc- cupied over an hour, the resolution call- ing for the correspondence in the case of Sanguilly was agreed to, also a joint reso- Iution instructing the President to de- mand Sanguiiy’s immediate release, The Senate then at 1 P. M. went into executive session and after a skort sesston he doors were again opened and legisia- tive business was resumed. Senate bill to amend the act repealing the timber culture laws was taken up and passed, Pettigrew (K.) of South Dakota, who reported it from the Commiitee on Public Lands, explaining its provisions and stating that it applied only to the lands of the great Sioux reservation. The House bill to provide for the ap- pointm-nt by brevet of active or retired of- ficers of the United States army was taken from the calendar, amended in some slight particulars and passed. Senate joint resolution requesting the Government of Great Britain to pardon Mrs. Fiorence E. Maybrick as an act of magnanimity—which was reported ad- versely last session—wes taken from the calendar and indefinitely postponed. At 2 p. . the unfinished business was taken up, being the House bill providing for free homesteads on the public lands in Oklaboma Territory. The Senate bill, as it passed the House, referred only to the public lands in Oklaboma. As reported back by the Committee on Indian Affairs it apphes to &ll country lanas acquired from the various Indian tribes. The com- mittee amencment provides that all sums of money released, which if not released would belong to any Indian tribe, shall ba paid to such Indian tribe by the United States, Pettigrew explained the bill at much length, arguing that it was in the line with the public policy of developing the settlement of new Western States. In the course of the discussion letters were read from the Interior Department and from the Government Land Office, stating that the bill, if restricted to Okla- homa, would result in a Joss to the Government of over $15,000,000, and, if applied to all lands acquired from India would resnlt in a loss of over $35,000,000. An argument in support of the bill was made by Carter (R.) of Montana, who urged that the free homestead policy of the Government should not be changed as to those Indian lands to the disadvant- age of people seeking homes there, The lands, be said, wouid either have to be opened to homestead settlers or be given over to the dominion of the cattle kings. The bill went over without action, re- maining as the unfinished business, and at 4 p. M. the Senate adjourned until to- MOrTow. s HOUSE PASSES 1HE LOUD BILL. Amends the Laws Kelating to Second- Class Mail Matter. WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. 6.—After two days’ debate the House this afternoon by a vote of 144 to 105 passed the bill in- troduced by Loud, chairman of the Com- mittee on Postoffices and Post Roads, to amend the Jaws relating to second-ciass mail matter. The principal features of the bill were those denying to the mails as second-class matter sample copies of newspapers ana serial novel publications and withdrawing irom news agents the privilege of returning to their principais n]me pound rate unsold copies of periodi- cals. The general debate was closed by Loud in a half hour's speech in favor of the bill, preceding which Messrs. Milliken (R.) of Missouri, Wanger (R.) of Pennsyl- vania, Tracey (R.) of Missopri, Morse (R.) of Massachuseits and Bingham (R.) of Pennsylvania addressed the House in op- position to the bill. Two hours devoted to a consideration of the bill under the five-minute rule. was productive of no change in the text as referred to the com- mittee of the whole, and at 4 o'clock it journal, Grosvenor (R) of Ohio sddressed the House on a question of personal privi-- lege. He called attention to the fact that a resolution introdueced by him and adopted by the House, June 5 last, calling upon the heads of several departments for certain information as to the operation of the civil service law had as yet received no response from any one of the Cabinet officers. He felt justified, he said, in raising the question whether or not Con- gress had been properly treated in this regard, expressing the opinion that this silence of seven months showed that the heads of the several departments, as well as the executive himself, had begun to ignore the demands of Congress. A resolution asking each Cabinet officer to inform the House why no response had bee:: made to the original resolution was agreed to without division. CHANCES OF THE FUNDING BILL. Congressman Powers Says He Has No Doubt That It Will Become a Law This Session. WASHINGTO:! D. C, Jan. 6.—The House Committee on Pacific Railways held a short meeting to-day to consider the manner in which the debate on the bill to settle the indebtedness of the Union and Central Pacific companies to the Gov- ernment should be conducted when the bill comes up before the House. It will be called up to-morrow and a vote will be taken on Monday next. It will be vigor- ously opposed by the members from the Pacific slope and others who favor a gov- ernmental ownership of the roads in pref- erence to an extension of time for paying the indebtedness. The opposition will in- clude some of the strongest debaters in the House, and the discussion is expected to prove of more than ordinary interest. Powers of Vermont, chairman of the committee, says that several friends of the bill have made careful canvassesof the House, and while they do not agree as to the vote it will receive it is not doudted by any of them that it will secure a majority vote. Powers has assurances from the Senate that a majority in its favor will also be found in that body, and he believes that it will become a law before the 4th of next March. If the bill does not become alaw i1t is not doubted that the Govern- ment will foreclose its mortgage, and thus assume the payment of the $60,000,000 which constitute the first mortgage lien, and which practically represents the pres- ent value of the roads. S gt SiE NAVPY DEPARTMENT ORDERS. Officers Retired, Transferred and Granted Leave of Absence. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6.—Medical Director H. M. Wells of the navy will be retired January 20. Assistani Naval Con- structor T. F. Rubm will be transferred from the Uniou Iron Works March 15 to the Mare Island Navy-yard. Assistant Naval Constructor E. Snow will be trans- ferred from the Mare Island Navy-yard to the Union Iron Works February 1. Lieu- tenant H. Pheips from the Naval Acade- my to the Texas Febrnary 1. Lientenant Roger Welles from the Texas to the En- terprise February 1. Lieutenant J. A. Sharmas will be detached from the Blake and granted threet months’ leave. A. 8. McKenzie will be appointed an active gunner. S FRAUDULENT TR ANSFER CLAIMED Suit in Which Property Worth a Million s Involved. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 6.—Property worth $1,000,000, which Charles E. Runk recently transferred to Frederick Beck for a consideration, is now the subject of a suit in tke Supreme Court brought by Henry O. Havemeyer, the sugar man- ufacturer. Through his attorneys, Parsons, Shep- ard & Ogden, Mr. Havemeyer asks the Supreme Court to declare that the trans- fer of the Runk property to Beck is fraud- ulent and therefore null and void. Last September Havemeyer got a_judg- réent against Runk for $14,143 20. Execu- tion was issued on October 20, 1896. The Sheriff returned iv unsatisfied. Havemeger says tlat before the judg: ment Runk owned propertyat One Hun- dred and Twenty-fourth street and Fifth avenue, Ninety-eighth street and Madison avenue and other localities. Runk is a real estate broker at 47 Broad street. He says that he will contest the suit and maintains that the allegations of Mr. Havemeyer are groundless. —— SENATOR ALLISON DECLINES. Sherman Will Probavly Be Offered the Atate Portfolio. CANTON, Onio, Jan. 6.—Major McKin- ley and Senator Allison talked for two hours to-day at the former’s home in Can- ton. Senstor Allison said after the con- ference that he will not be a member of Major McKinley’s Cabinet. The President-elect and Mr. Allison dis- cussed cabinet positions from Iowa and other Eastern States and talked over the whole political situation. The impression prevails here that Sena- tor 8herman is likely to be Secretary of State, and Senator Allison, who seems to have this opinion, speaks of him in high terms, declaring that he would makea strong and admirable otlicer at the head of the Department of State. General Felix Agnus of Baltimore lunched with Major McKinley and Senator Allison. Heis strongly opposed to the appointment of James A. Gary of Balti- more fo the Cabinet, and said so very forcibly and freely. Major McKinley re- turned to Cleveland to-night. SATAN BUENED IN EFFIGY. Novel Demonstration by the Salvation- ists of Mew Fork. NEW YORK. N. Y., Jan. 6.—The devil was burned in effigy at Salvation Army headquarters this afiernoon. A large crowd was present. Previous to the cre- mation of his satanic majesty the bands from Salvation Army headquarters par- aded the streets. The lasses, wearing scarlet caps, fol- lowed the band and carried a coffin be- tween them. On thecoffin was printed iu big black letters the words “The Devil to burn.” e T THAWED OUT DYNAMITE. Three Railroad Laborers Blown to Pieces in Colorado. LEADVILLE, Coro., Jan. 6.—Two men were killed outright and another fatally injured this afternoon by the explosion of dynamite ,at Twin Lakes station, twelve miles frof this city on the Midland railroad. ¥ b, The dead are Peter Fagin and Michael Sebia; fatally injured, Joseph Larkin. A gang of twelve laborers were engaged in blasting on the Midland Railroad grade and while thawing out the frozen dyna- mite charges sixty pounas of the material ex ploded. RSP Death of “Big Pete” Aubrey. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan, 6.—‘Big Pete” Aubrey, a war veteran, died at bhis home in Florence, Mass., to-day of blood poison- ing, resulting from an old wound. He was famous as the giant Cbief of Police at Andersonville Prison and other Bouthern prisons in the latter part of the war. —_—— Toll-Gate Raiders Defy the Militia. HARRODSBURG, Kvy., Jan, 6.—An at- tempt to capture the ‘toll-gate raiders proved Iruitless. Colonel Gafther, in command of the militia, received infor- mation that the raiders had decided to postpone the tempt on account of was reported to the House for final action. e’ Immediately after the reading of the ; were withdrawn. re weather. Accordingly the troops WOOL-GROWERS HAVE A HEARING Languishing Industry That Cries Aloud for Protection. Seventy Millions Yearly Spent Abroad Should Be Kept at Home. Sheepmen th; Lose on an Average $430 Per Annum and Save $8 on Clothing. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 6.—The tariff bearings before the Ways and Means Committee were continued to-day, ‘‘raw wool” being the schedule under consid- eration. John G. Clark of Washington County, Pa., a member of the National Wool- growers’ Association, opened the hearing. The necessity for protection, he said, was now apparent, the experiment of free wool having brought bankruptcy and dis- tress upon many engaged in the wool- growing business. The free wool clau-e of the Wilson bill he characterized as a crime. William Lawrence of Ohio, President of the National Wool-zrowers’ Association, hoped that the next Congress would give the wool-growers a protection equal to that’given to the most favored indll;tnes. This country had the requisite climate, soil and lands to produce the 630,000,000 pounds of wool of all kinds used yearly by the American mills. With adequate production the sheep stock of the United States could within four years be increased 0 as to yield all the wool consumed here. Some $70,000,000 was now being paid abroad each year for wool. Adequate pro- tection would give American farmers this sum annually for labor. He referred to the Wiison-Gorman law as the most disastrous measure ever aimed at the wool industry, and suggested that Australian unwashed wool, which was equal to any other washed wool, be classified as washed wool so as to put iton the same footing with other wools of the worid, He would place a tariff of 12 cents on all merino wools except Australian, on which a rate of 24 cents was desired be- cause of its “shrinkage’® qualities. Asked if alaw of the kind he proposed would not keep Australian wool out of the country, he replied that if it should it would prove beneficial. In case it did we could take wool from South America and build up a trade with those countries, which in return would take our products. Australia, he said, never took anything from us. He argued in favor of specific duties, saying that the ad valorem sysiem was ‘‘the most damnable system ever pro- posed by a set of raseals.”” Conttnuing, Mr. Lawrence said Con- grose should, if possible at the present session, pass & bill with one section de- claring that all articles imported after the first day of the first session of the Fifty- fifth Congress shall be subject to the rates of duty prescribed by any tariff bul which may become a law during that session when such rates are higher than the existing law, and that no article shall be withdrawn for consumption except upon the execution of a bond to the United States with sureties approved by the proper Collector of the port of eniry for the payment of such increased rates of duty. Ayreceu was here taken, and on reas- semrbling Theo. Justice of Philadelphia, a dealer in all grades of wool, spoke for the consumers, who, he said, had veen injured by free wool. In one year there was aloss by this schedule alone to the American people of $426,000,000. The loss to mili- hands and laborers by free wool had been about $85,000,000 during the last year. The wool-growers of New York, be said, had lost on an average of $430 per annum, while saving on ciothing about $8. Speaking of wool as a munition of war, Mr. Justice called the attention of the committee to the condition in which the country would find itselt in case of war with Great Britain if the American wool clip decreased as it had been doing, and he pointed to the condition of the conti- nental troops under General Washington at Valley Forge and to the condition of the Coniederates during the late war. In discussing the various tariffs Re said that under the law of 1868 the woo. indus- try bad prospered and increased, and if it had remained in force until 1895 he as- serted that American sheep, at the rate of increase while tbe law existed, would have produced 650.000,000 pounds of wooel an- nually, or sufficient to supply all our de- mands, The law of 1883 he characterized as the worst ever enacted, as far as the wool act was concerned. Under it the number of sheep had decreased 17 per cent in five years. From 1888 until Presi- dent Cleveland’s election the indus.y, under a 10-centy rate, had prospeied. A 10-cent rate he considered adequate. The industry again suffered from 1893 to 1896, the number of sheep decreasing 23 per cent in those four years, while the indus- try abroad had increased. In his opinion the term ‘“carpet wools” should be abandoned and wool costing 10 cents per pound and under should be ciassed as “third class.” Quantities of such wools were now being used in blank- ets and clothing. Whatever duty was placed on this class of wool would be purely for revenue and would not affect the industry in tlis country. The wool section of the McKinley law was drawn by a convention of expert representative wool-growers and manufacturers. 1n replyiug to a question by Chairman Dingley he said that the demand for chea clothing increased under the Wilson bilB These clothes counld not be made of wool, s0 the demand for shoddy had increased. The demand “for cheap material was on account of the reduction in wages. Under the McKinley law a good wool snit sold for about $10. Workmen made suf- ficient to buy them. Under the Wilson law wages diminished and the demand was for suits worth about $5. This ac- counted for the advent of shoddy. G. C. Moses of Bath, Me., an importer and manufacturer, said that if the course advocated by Mr. Lawrence was adopted it meant death to the manufacturer and would restrict importations. Delegate Catron of New Mexico said that under the McKinley law his Territory nad produced same 16,000,000 pounds of wool per year. Under the present law the production had decreased, as had the price. The decrease in the latter item was about 11 cents per pound. J. W. Smith of Layton, Utah, president of the Wool-growers’ Association, stated that what Deleate Catron had said of the condition in New Mexico applied to his State. What the wool-growers of Utah wanted was a fixed tariff, also a specific duty <i'l‘1 'Bool. - g rown, & manufacturer of Pj delphia, asked for & duty of 10 conts oy Oifl. ;‘nd !;vinu. ohn Ridgeway of Philadelphia for the wool-sorters, He hnopad ":?;k.; when the question of “skirting wool” came up the workmen would be remem- bered. He wanfed an additional duty on is- of wool, which would give men %‘l’é’f‘:fims to sort wools and not have oad. th(l; tl{:.ula!::; of Ohio, a manufacturer and wool-dealer, advocated a conservative bill. The committee adjourned until to- morrow, when the manufacturers of wool will be heard, _— CORBET1’S LATESY FEAT. Whips His Stags Manager and Refuses to Pay His Salary DETROIT, Micw.. Jan. 6.—James J. Corbett celebrated the opening of his De- troit engagement Sunday night by whip- ping his stage manager, Orlando Batagzlia. Corbett was fined for assault nest morn- ing by a police justice and paid his fine. Seizing Battaglia by the shoulders, Cor- bett raised him from the floor and nbon,k all the breath out of the stage managers body. Then he deposited the little fellow on the floor, gave him a blow with the left hand on the head and throwing out bis right caught him on the chest, send- ini* him into the air. h he stage manager landed on his back a dozen feet away. Corbett refuses to pay Battaglia the two days’ salary due, and the stage manager is left penniless nere. Srne e o Sacramento’s Poultry Show. SACRAMENTO, CAL., Jan. 6.—The dis- play of poultry made by the State Poultry and Kennel Clubs is one of the most at- tractive ever exhibited on the Pacific Coast. The poultry exhibit opened this morn- ing, but the canines will not be shown uncil Saturday. There are over 1000 fowls on exhibition, all of which are of a very bigh class. 5 The department is under the supervi- sion of F. P. Lowell, and the juages are S. L. Roberts of San Diego, B. M. Woodhuil of Stockton, Henry Berrar of San Jose and E. 8. Comings of Los Angeles. J. Otis Fellows of New York, who is to judge the dogs, has arrived and will be Teady to begin work on Saturday, when all will be ship-shape. e Weekly Bicycle Bulletin. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Jan. 6.—The following is the weekly bulletin of Chair- man Gideon of the League of American Wheelmen: Amateur—Ten miles, unpaced, flying start against time, 25:24, by A. L. Hackenberger, Denver, Colo., November 16, 1896. Twenty-five_miles, unpaced, flying start against time, 1:01:20, by A. L. Hackenberger, Denver, Colo., November 16, 1896. Professionai—One mile ' paced, standing art, competition, 2:08 1-5, by W. A. Terrill, n Francisco, Novem ber 21, 1896. Three miles, paced, standing start, competi- tion, 7:01; four miies, paced, standing start, competition, 9:004-5; five miles, 'paced, standing start, competition, 11:13 4-5. by Walter F. Foster, 8an Fraucisco, November 21, NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan 6—A mort- gage was filed with Recorder Seheimer to-day, the property involved being $20,- 000,000. It was given to the Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company by the Commercial Cable Company, pledging all its telegraphic properties, rights, privileges and fran- chises, including those of the Postal Tele- graph Company. The mortgage is given to secure an issue of 500 four per cent gold bonds and debenture stocks, which aggregate the sum of the mortgage. Gladstone Again Scores the Sultan. LONDON, Exc., Jan. 6.—Mr, Gladstone unveiled the memorial window to the Ar- menian martyrs in the Hawarden Cuurch this afternoon. Before the ceremony of unveiling the window Mr. Glad- stone delivered a speech to the Arme- nian deputation, in whick the ex- Premier said that although the agitation in behalf of Armenians had failed to arouse the great powers he had an un- quenchable hope that the triumphant career of wickedness of the greatest assas- sin in the world (meaning the Sultan) was doomed to beshort-lived. = William H. Moore Retires. CHICAGO, IrL., Jan. 6.—Ata meeting of the board of directors of the New York Biscuit Company held to-day on call ot the president, the resignation of William H. Moore of Diamond Match fame, as president and director of the company was received and accepted. Henry J. Evans was elected president | and Clarence Buckingham a director to | fill the vacancies thus created. J. W. Hazen was elected vice-president and Frank O. Louden was ohosen general counsgel of the company. s an Another Torpedo-Boat Launched. BALTIMORE, Mp., Jan. 6.—The third of the series oi torpedo-boats to be built at the Columbian Irou Works for the United States Government was launched this morning. The first was launched about three months ago and the second about six weeks ago. The trio have not been named, but are known, respectively, as torpedo- boats No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5. g on Belgian Steamer Sunk off Brittany. LONDON, Exe., Jan. 6.—The Belgian steamer Balique, found for Bayonne to Antwerp, struck a rock in the vicinity of Ushant Island, off the coast of Brittany, France, and foundered. Three of her crew were saved, but it is supposed that the remainder of the ship’s company, fifteen in number, were Jost. Az g Aot B The Pope’s Condition Causes Alarm. LONDON, ExG,Jan. 6. — The Daily Chroniele to-morrow will publish a dis- patch from its Paris correspondent saying that the Archbishop ot Paris has received a private telegram from Rome stating that the condition of the Pope is sufficient to inspire alarm. el T Want Wearing of Corsets Prohibited. TOPEKA, Kaxs,, Jan. 6.—Mrs, Saman- tha Backus of Osage City and twenty other dress-reformers have petitioned Governor- elect Leedy to recommend in his message to the Kansas Legislature the enactment of a law probibiting the wearing of corsets, A s, B Vice- Consul Springer Retwrns. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 6.—Hon. Jo- seph A. Springer, United States Vice- Consul at Havana, arrived here this morn- ing, and will remain two weeks and then go to Washington. s Fd Santa Cruz Native Sons’ Officers. SANTA CRUZ, CAL., Jan. 6.—The in- stallation of officers of Santa Cruz Parlor No. 90, Native Sons of the Golden West. was conducted last night by Distriet Deputy Grand President E. A. McCabe & Watyonviile, assisted by Grand Secretary Frank Helms of this city and Grand Mar- uh’;{lchimlnln of Alameda, e parlor was addressed - clusion of the ceremonies by -tfihemienui:‘l‘l- ing officer and orator, Frank Mattison, :l‘he';emnlmger of thanvsning Was spent in the clubrooms. The i o%ur! o :d e newly installed ast president, M. Besse; president, Wil liam T. Valberg; first vice-president, W. F. Dorsey; second vice-president, L. Fos. ter Young; third vice-president, james H. “Bto recordin L Thurber; marshal, E, Percy Young; trustees, George Stiffl: J 16 Foster; surgeons, lgr. A, K. B:i'l:;"dlfc'i . F. E. Morgan; inside sentinel, A. Al- zina; outside sentinel, A. G. Imlay. — Tramps Invade a Fresmo Saloon. FRESNO, Caw., Jan, 6.—A gang of four- teen tramps invaded Degen’s saloon, at the corner of I and Mariposa streets, this Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. morning and tock possession of the place. They bivouacked on the floor around the stove. The intense cold had driven them to take forcible possession of the stove. Deputy Constable Crutcher and Polica- man R. R. Russell were called and took the men to jai =S AN The Eering Sea Inquiry. Vl(_JTORlA, B. C., Jan. 6.—Good prog- ress is being made by the Bering Sea Claims Commission, the evidence now being complete in the cases of the Caro- lena,” Onward, Sayward, Dolphin, Grace and Anna Beck, and the claim of the Ada being well advanced. Captain Guudin, who commanded the latter craft when it was seized by the cut- ter Bear, to-day swore that $10,000 was its yalue, exclusive of 1876 skins it hac aboard. The Ada claim is stiil before the commis- sion. o e i Counterfeiters’ Mintin Fresno. FRESNO, CaL., Jan. 6.—Fresno is sup- posed to be the headquarters of a gang of counterfeiters, and a secret service agent of the United States Government is in the city making investigations, It is believed that the gang hasits “mint” located some- where in this county. Many of the spurious balf do:lars now afloat in the State are supposed to have been sent out from this city. e Tulare Borse Thieves Caught. FRESNO, CaL., Jan. 6.—Antone Ribia and *Jim” Edwards, two horse thieves from Tulare County, were arrested in this city this evening by Deputy Constable Cratcher. The prisoners stole two horses from a butcher in Hanford the night be- fore last. They also broke into a jewelry- store and took seventeen watchesand a quantity of other jewelwy. fakil ATe i Monadnock Sails for Monterey. SANTA CRUZ, Can, Jan. 6. — The monitor Monadnock, after a visit of five days in this harbor, during which time the weather has been bright and warm, weighed anchor this morning and steamed for Monterey, where a visit of several days will be made before proceeding to Santa Barbara. R g . 5 Lot Angeles Guests Received. 10S ANGELES, C4L., Jan. 6.—A ,public reception was tendered to Governor Wil- liam Y. Atkinson and party of Georgia at the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon. They will leave for San Francisco in a few days. Gl rison Al Tos Angeles’ Fire Chiof. LOS ANGELES, CAL., Jan. 6.—Walter 8. Moore was re-elected chief of the fire department to-day, for the ensuing two years. ——————— Dr. Buckley Lost His Suit, M. J. Lyon was given a verdict against Dr. C. F. Buckley for §525 by a jury in Judge Hunt's court vesterdsy. The litigation arose on account of disoutes over_the furnishing of a building on the corner of Van Ness avenue nd Myrtle street. 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