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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1897. are practically a unit in their opposition. The Populists of my State and throughout the country want the Government to fore- close the mortgage and take charge of the roads, but if they cannot get that they would like to see the roads in the hands of receivers or something done to protect the Government. If I am not mistaken, every Populist in the House and Senate will vote against the vending bill."” - TAKES MORGAN A HAND, Has a Bill for Dealing With the Paciflo Railroads. WASHINGTON, . C., Jan. 7.~Morgan (D.) of Alabama to-day introduced in the Senate a voluminous bill, which among things directs the Secretary of the Treas- ury to issue bonds in such amount as may be necessary to take up the mortgage bonds of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads. These bonds are torun thirty years with the privilege of redemption after ten years or the appointment of the period of mer.t after thirty years, subject to the payment of interest thereon during the time of such extension, the rate of inter- est being fixed at 2 per cent. These rail- road bonds, when exchanged, are to be kept in the treasury as the property of the United States, and shall continue to be se- cured by all liens and rights of priority that now attach to them as against the railroad company or any other person or corporation. After the appointmeat of trustees pro- vided for by the bill the Secretary of the Treasury is directed to take immediate possession of the whole line of railroad and telegraph of each company, rolling stock, etc., for the use of the United States until Congrass shail otherwise direct and turn the same over to the board of trustees | created by the act, to consist of nine| \ | | men, to be nominated by the President, four of whom de east of the Mis- sissippi and four west, the president of the board to be named regardless of geograph- These trustees are to hold years, and are subject 10 Te- 1 for cause stated in writing. e biil provides for the estabiishment | of a sinking fund for the final redemption of the bonded debt, into which shall be paid snnually a sum equal to 1 per cent of | the entire bonded debt of the United ates issued under the provisions of this bail res ac The remainder of thé bill relates to de- tails, of which has been ' heretofore MISSING DOCUMENIS THONE Stolen Funding Bl Papers to Bo In estigated by the Semate. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan 7.—In the " effort was made by Sher- ate to-day 1 (R.) od O to have consideration of te bill Sxing and g oped to itand the bill was not taken up. The House bill for the appointment of | a non-partisan commission to collect in- nd to consider and recommend eet the problems presented y labor, agriculture and capital was re- ported on thé caiendar and was ant ized by Aldr: (R.) of Rhode Island as the most chimerical idea ever presented ess. The morning hour expired t action being taken on it and the bill remains on the calendar. Then the' untinished business — being the bill to extend the homestead laws to all lands acquired irom Indians— was taken up, opposed in a long speech by Platt (R.) of Connecticut. It was ad- vocated by rt (Pop.) of Nevada, who opposition 10 it as “'pitis The bili went over without rmation station m- characteriz ful higg action. solution was offered by Morgan | labama, and agreed to, direoting the Committee on Expenditures in the executive department to inquire into the circumstances of the abstraction of certain papers as to Pa ad matters from the files in the Treasury Department as | mentioned in a communication from that | department iast Tuesday. A substitute was passed for the House bill to amend the laws relatiiig to naviga- tion, and a substitute for another House vill to amend the laws relating to Ameri- can seamen whs discussed up to adjourn- | ment. At 5 N the Senate ad- | journed unt KECUGNIZING CUBA. A4 Senate Resolut on Caraying With It an Apwropriation for a Minister WASHINGTON, D.C.,Jan. 7.—A j resolution was introduced in the Senate to-day by Mills (D.) of Texas, declaring that the expediency of recognizing the independence of a foreign Government belongs to Congress, and that the Presi- | dent shall act in harmony with Congress; | alsc declaring that “the independence of Cuba ought to be, and 1s hereby recog- nized,”” and appropriating §$10,000 for the | a Mipister to the The bill lies on the nd Mr. Miils is to salary and expenses o Government of Cuba. teble for the present speak on it next Mond Some balf doz the c: bills were taken from endar and passed, including one to muel C. Redjer, son of Cavtain Red- for the Privateer. and General Arm- trong $6392, being the unexpend ance of the appropriation of $70,7 in I8S1 as indemnity for the destruction of the Privateer by the British in the neu- tral harbor of Lin 181 atigo. OF INTEREST TO TRE COAST. The Sentence of Pricate Tucker of Aloa- traz Ixtand Kemstted—Penstons. WASBINGTON, D. C., Yan. 7.—The un- executed portion of the sentence of the generai-court martial awarded Frank W. Tucker, late private Battery E, Second Artillery, now in con nt at Alcatraz and, Californis emitted by the As- ant Secretary of War. T. Davis of San Francisco is at the | Weiliogton Hotel; S. M. Mears of Port- land, Oregon, is registcred at the Arling- ton. Pensions: California (criginal)—John Soldiers’ Home, Los Angeles; | Summit; Samuel A. Cline, restoration and _increase— National Home, Los increase mes A. Dye, Lodi; Felix Fitzpatrick, Arroyo Grande; Mexi- can war widows—Elizabeth Elliott, El- lensburg, Wash. el CONDITION ONLY ON ONE Will the Fundina Bill Be the Special Order in the Senate, D. C., Jan. 7.—The and Republican “‘Steering Committee” of the Senate to-day agreed that the Pacific roads bill shall be made the order of business imm ediately atter the Homesteaa bill is disposed of, upon one condition only, namely: - That the said refunding bill passes the House. If it should not pass tne House it will not be taken up in the Senate. —_— Grover Extends Clemency. WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 7.—The President bies pardoned Ephraim Young, director of the Spring Garden Nativnal Bank of Philadelphia, convicted of em- bezzling and misappropriating the funds of the bank and sentenced in May, 1894, ple Al A Wisconsin Bank Failure. EAU CLAIRE, Wis,, J mercial Bank, capital due to the suspension of the Alle- wmania Bauk of St Paul. WOOLEN RUBBISH HARD TO BEAT American Factories Forced to Compete With For- eign Shoddy. They Must Have a Reasonable Wool Tariff or C'ose Up the Mills. Important Facts in the Wcel Industry G ven to the House Ways and Means Cimmittee. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7.—The wool manufacturers were well represented before the Ways and Means Committee to- day. S. N, North of Boston, secretary of the National Association, presented the views of that body. He said the association counseled moderation in fixing rates and expected only adequate protection such as axperience had proven was necessary to enable them to cont'nue and extend the industry. They desired a chance to reopen their mills; but they neither asked nor desired ex ve duties, being convinced that the best interests of both the wool- growing and wool-manufacturing interests would be protected by the enactment of a conservative and reasonable tariff and that some promise of permanence would thus exist, At the present moment there was more machinery in operation than during the summer, but the general condition of the manufacturer was as bad as bad could be. The manufacturers were not so blind as to attribute the whole of their prolonged paralysis to the tariff revision of 1894; other causes had been at work, and all in- dustries had suffered. But there must have been a special cause why the wool manufacturer had suffered far more than and why the prospect of a gen- ss revival brought no promise 1y improvement of this particular in- dustry. The special cause was revealed in the records of woolen imports, & table of which be presented. the anaJysis of the table Mr. North invited atiention first to quantities. The imports of cloths in the year 1895 ran up any othe | 10 40,070,000 pounds, almost equai to the entire imports for the years 1891, 1892 and 1893 under the act of 1890. The largest quantity of cloths imported in one year previously was 16,243,313 pounds in 18 and the increase in 1895 over the larges previous year was 147 per cent. The total imports of manufactures of wool in 1 were valued—or undervalued-—at §60,319 - 301, foreign valuation. The duty paid value of these goods was about $90,000,000. The value of the domestic product in 1890, as shown by the census returns, was about $250,000,000. In otuer words the duty paid value of the imports of 1895 was about one-third of all woolens made in American mills in a year of manufacturing aetivity, sucn as 1890 was. They were equal to about one- balf of the domestic production of 1895, American millers could supply all the 2oods the American people couid consume. The enormous im portations at low valua- tions crowded upon a sluggish market were what broke down the domestic man- ufacturers. The foreigaers so completely overdid the business that they had sui- fered from the reaction, the importations | having largely fallen off since about Febe ruary last, being to day comparatively small. The ad valorem basis of the tariff had allowed the importation of the lowest and meanest descriptions of goods made in the world—the peculiar products of the Battley und Dewsbury districts in Eng- land, where they had reduced to an ex: act science the business of making woolens out of shoddy, mungo waste, cows’ bair and other “‘rubbish,” in the spinning and weaving of which the American manufac- turers had not learned the rudiments, although it was clear they would have to learn them if they must compete with this class of goods in the market. The complaint of domestic manufacturers, in a word, was that the higher srade of American goods had been compelled to compete for their own market at prices fixed and governed by these worthless cloths, Another difficulty not less serious sprang primanly from the same cause— the ad valorem duty. Not only had mar- ket values been demoralized in the man- ner indicated, but they had been further obliterated by the systematic consig! ment of goods at prices lower than tn cost of manufacture abroad, and their sa! in this country, duty paid, at less than the cost of manufacture here. He complained of the form in which the duties were assessed and of the manner in which they were collected. He objected also to the dividing lines in the levving of an ad valorem duty and particularly to the dividing lines in the present. tariff at 50 ceats a pound, which had been ingeniously thrust into the law at what had proved to be a danger point in the present market conditions to invite and tempt importers to save 10 per cent in these duties by an under valuation,which, in many instanzes, need not exceed 2 or 3 cents per pound. The manufacturers, he said, did not resist the restoration of the wool duties. They affirmatively favored a reasonable duty on wool because they beiieved in the peiicy of protection and were willing to make a sacrifice in order that that policy mieht be applied to ail products which needed it. Thomas Sampson, who operates a small mill in Rhode Llund, stated to the com- mittee that if the conditions of the past { few years continue all the woolen-mills of the country must close. 8 Muhauser of Cleveland, Ohio, a large maker of shoddy, said | e used the cuttings and waste material of wool and woolen- mills. He supplied all the large manufac- turers with shoddy, which they usea for backing. They had to use this product to compete with foreign cloth. The better class of his output contained123¢ per cent of wool. He used foreign rags because they were better sorted and cieaned, but in prosper- ous times he had consumed principaily the cuttings of tailor-shops and mlls. AY present his mill, which_employed some 700 hands, was closed. He would not ob- ject 1o a 2-cent rate on rags, which, accord- ing 10 the present importations, woul yield a revenue of $450,000 per annum. F. Rinks of New York, in speaking for the makers of woolen bats, called atten- tion to the injustice under the present law of classifying woolen hats with blan- Kkets or the lower grades of wools. W. H. Brown of Philadelphia, repre- seniing 'a number of woolen manufsctur- | ers of that citr, asked that they be given the same consideration as was given the worsted manufacturers. G. C. Moses of Maine said that what ail manufacturers wanted was a tariff of such a moderate nature that it would not be upset inafew years. The change from the McKinley to the Wiisoun bill ‘had cost his company $100,000. Rovert Stuntz .of New York, a mat and rug maker, appealed for protection for his comparatively new industry against the cheap labor competition of Germany. The commitiee adjourned until to- morrow, when schedule B—earthenware, glassware, marble and stone—will be con- sidered. NOT SO SUSPICIOUS. Recent Discoveries Indicate That Ham- mond's Foreign *Exchange Entry Is All Right After All. CHICAGO, Irn, Jan.7.—Second Vice- President Hammond's much - discussed entry of *foreign exchange, $900,000,” may be made clear ina remarkable manner. That the entry was proper and absolutely straightforward is also likely to be shown. A case now pending in the Federal courts apparently holds the key to the mystery that descended as a shadow on the Illinois National Bank official who took his life & few days ago. The case promises to be cleared up by the recent discovery of some papers which disappeared from the office of Colonel W. V. Jacobs a long time ago. Jacobs has sued his former bookkeeper and confidential man for an accounting | of money and papers traced into his hands, but of which his books show no record. Fac-similes of some of the miss- ing papers recently found their way into print, and Jacobs and his attorney hope by this means to clear up some of the points at issue. In themseives the papers havemno value, as they relate to transactions dating back to 1893 and long since closed. The papers relate to loans made by the National Bank of Illinois early in the life of the Calumet Electric Railroad, wnen Jacobs was its sole owner, and show that the National Bank of Illinois, instead of using its own resources, borrowed the money for Jacobs abroad. Such a transaction involved nothing illegitimate on the part of the bank until, as afterward developed when the bank was forced to take control of the road, these loans became larger than the National banking laws allowed. Hammond’s entry of ‘“foreign ex- change, $900,000,” according to the Jacobs case, was not, therefore, made to conceal any improper transactions, but was the proper entry to make concerning money vanced to the Calumet Electric Rail- Money was to come from abroad to cover the loan made, but later, when the bank took charge of the road, it was, of course, obliged to assume the loan made earlier in the life of the corporation. S S BOSTON IS AGHAST. Mean Scheme to Fill the State House With Negroes on Inauguration Day. BOSTON, Ma: Javn. 7.—Troubles mul- tiply for Isaao B. Allen, colored, a mem- ber of Governor Wolcott's council of 1897, Yesterday it was discovered that thou- sands of invitations, signed wita Allen's name, have been sent to the colored peo- ple of Boston, asking them to be present at the inauguration ceremonies at the State House on Thursday. The invitatione read: Bostox, Mass., Jan. 5, 1897. | Dear Sir: You are invited to attend, with ladies, the inaugural ceremoniesatthe State house on Thursday, Jantary 7, at 10:30 A. 3. | Extend invitation to your friends. Respect- fully yours, Isaac B. ALLEN, Reception Committee. Meet in executive chamber promptly. Allen is very indignant over this move and says that he never authorized any persou to issue such invitations. He is- sued a statement last night in which he 8a, 1t seems to me impossible that some people in Massachussetts would stoop to such low practices, common in certain | States where mob rule takes precedence over statute law. I hereby warn all per- sons who have received sich invitations, signed by ‘Isaac B. Allen, Reception Com- mittee,” to stay away from the execu- tive chamber of the State House Thurs- day, as such will not be honored.”” Prominent Republicans clalm that it is the act of some person who would con- sider it a great joke to see the State House packed with colored peopie at the in- augural ceremonies. John H. Suilivan, Allen’s defeated rival for councilor, has filed a petition in the Legisiature asking that votes thrown out by the Election Commissioners be counted in his favor and that Allen bs not sworn in until the | matter is seitled. This prevents Allen taking the oath of office. TS TROUBLE OVER BONDS, Arizona Officials Timid Abow: Obeying a Congressional dct. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 7.—The re- fusal of the officials of Arizona Territory to exchange Territorial bonds for Pima County bonds to the amount of $300,000 as was provided for by contract when the county bonds were sold, and which ex- change was subsequently expressly aue thorized and provided for by an act of Congress, has aroused the indignation of some of the holders of such county bonds, including M:s. Elizabeth B. Voorhees of this citv and James Utter of Oak Hill, N. Y. These holders, through their agent, now iz Arizona, bave given notice to the loan commussion of that Territory that unless the exchange of bonds is made { forthwith they will apply to the Supreme Court of the Territory ior a mandamus to | compel the exchange. In the office of W. M. Coller & Co,, who bave acted for the bondholders in the matter, it was said yesterday that the firm {.was surprised that the exchange of bonds | had not been made, as they knew ot no reason for the refusal, unless it was that some official of the Territery was afraid | to act without the direct sanction of the | court, and that this may have caused the agent to take the step contemplated. There was certainly no serious legal troubie, it was deciared, and holders of such Pima County bonds bad nothing to fear, beyond a short delay. In the mean- time the county bonds were drawing 7 r cent interest, whereas the Territorial E:nds will araw only 5 per cent. —_——— CHURCH 4EMY EXTENSION, William Ingraham Made General for the Pacijic Depariment. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 7. — The | Church Army, the Episcopal organization, is to be extended outside of New York City. Three departments are to be estab- | lished—the Central, with hesdquarters at Piutsburz; the Western, with headquarters | at Chicago, and the Pacific, with head- quarters at San Francisco. The title of “‘General” is bestowed upon each director of a department. General James K. | Bakewell was chosen for the Central, General Joseph Rushton for the Western and General Wi m Ingrabam for the | Pacific department. | NEW YORK, N.Y.,, Jan.7.—Advices from London regarding the report of the Pacific Cable Commission, which was signed yes- | terday in regard to all British cables from Vancouver to Australia, state that it is understood that the commission will re- quire that the yroject mast have the approval of the colonial cabinets and the necessary votes 6f the colonial legisla- tures. It is believed, however, that Can- ada will not take its share of the burden, d that in Australia the present Enslish cabie monopoly is so strong that it can prevent the New Zealand and Australia Legisiatures approving the project. There- fore itis said the only hope for the suc- cessful establishment of a Pacific Congress. eable depends on the action of the United States lGomnm-nt demands from the British LADY SCOTT WEPT AND CONFESSED A Sensation Terminates the Earl Russell Libel Case. Jury Finds Defendants Guilty and They Will Be Sen- tenced To-Day. A Nasty English Case Which At tracted the Attention of the Entire Nobility. LONDON, Exa., Jan. 7.—The libel suit brought by Earl Russell against his mother-in-law, Lady Scott, and two male defendants, John Cockerton, an engineer, and William Aylott, a valet, came to a most sensational ending to-day when the defendants pleaded guilty. The case has been exceedingly nasty in character, but involved people of such high rank that it has attracted wide attention, and the court has been crowded at every session with those eager to hear the testimony against the Earl. As the case progressed, however, it be- came evident that the defense wasa very weak one. The defendants did rot deny making the assertions complained of, but claimed that the statements concerning the Earl’s misconduct were true. The evi- dence they introduced, however, failed to sustain thecharges. Yesterday the court was crowded, as it was known that counsel for the defense was to sum up. The counsel contended that Lady Scott’s whole object was simply to vindicate her daughter and defend the latter from her husband’s attacks. The counsel for Lady Scott, continuing, said the defendant still believed the state- ments made by the male defendants were true, and he scouted the idea that narra- tives were invented, pointing out the progressive step of Earl Kussell's career at Oxford, the incidents of 1887, claiming they strongly tended to confirm the storfes of indecency. During the latter portion or the sum- ming up of the counsel for the defense | Laay Scott burst into tears, and counsel at | the close of his remarks wasapplauded, | after which the case was adjourned jor the day. This morning the courtroom was, if pos- sible, more crowdod than yesterday, and the spectators were rewarded with the sen- sation that they had been expecting since the first daysof the trial. When the court had been opened for business and the pris- oners had been brought in Solicitor Wal- ton arose and announced that under the advice of counsel the defendants withdrew the plea of justification in uttering libels complained of by Earl Russell and pleaded guilty as charged. The snnouncement created a profound sensation. Lady Scott was in a highly excited, almost hysterical condition, and seemeaat times as if she were about to faint. The other defendants, Aylott and Cockerton, maintained an air of inconcern. Under the circumstances there was no need for furiher trial. The jury rendered a formal verdict of guilty, and the Court announced that sentences would be imposed to-morrow. What the sen- tences will be is a matter of much discussion and surmise. It is generally believed that Lady Scott’s action was based on a desire to take her daughter's part, and that sne was really deceived by the male defendants. If the court takes this view her sentence will probably be a light one. The punishment of the two men will doubtless be more severe, The present case grew out of an equally sensational and even more disgusting case brought in 1891, when Countess Russell, daughter of Lady Scott, sued for a divorce from Earl Russell, making accusations against her husband of a most revoiting character. The case was bitterly con- tested, and attracted great attention. It ended in the failure of the Countessto prove her charges and a denial of the di- vorce asked. Subsequently the Earl ap- plied for a divorce and was granted it At the trial Lady Scott and the two other defendants in the present case made the most damaging kind of statements con- cerning the conduct of the Earl, and it was these statements that led to the pres- ent libel suit. WILLIS VERY ILL. His Condition Slightly Improved—Minister Cooper’s Report at Home on Annexation. HONOLULU, Hawam, Dec. 30.--The many frienas of United States Minister Willis will be pained to hear that he con- tinues in a very critical condition. The attack of pneumonia, from which he sui- fered in California, has led to other com- plications. All that skilled physicians and nurses can do is being done. Itis hoped that he has vitality needful to resist farther inroads on his strength. Hono- lulu society misses the social functions which Minister and Mrs. Willis have made so pleasant to all residents and visitors. The condition of Mr. Willls is improv- ing, but the change is coming very slowly indeed. He is ty no means able to sit up and read papers The Minister cannot yet receive callers and even at the present favorable rate of recovery it will be some time before he will be permitted by his physicians to do anything at all. President Dole hasissued invitations for a New Year's reception, and it will be the event of the cay. The Christmas season ‘was very pleasant. In an_interview published by the Ha- wailan Star after his return from his re- cent visit to the United Siates ister Cooper said his conviction is that there wou'd be a determination of the annexa- tion question within a year, and that he regaraed the prospects for an alliance as excellent. Allof the oid friends are stil iatthtul to the cause and many new ones have been gained. He cited the Boston Transeript's change and the cordiulity and friendliness of Mayor Quincy of Boston, who was the late Walter Q. Gresham's Assistant Secretary of Siate. Mr. Cooper zpoke of the kindly expressions every- wiere by prominent men, of considera- tion given the question in Canada, where he was invited oy a member of the Gov- ernment to visit Ottawa. Concerning his trip to Canton he said President-elect McKinley gave him a cordial greetinz and a long audience, but he did not express himself on the Ha- waiian question. el st (g Boer Government Demands £2,000,000. JOHANNESBURG, Souts Armica, Jan. 7. —The Johannesbuitg Standard an- nounces this morning that the Boer Government for tne Jameson raid have been forwarded to London. The amount of the Boer claims is under £2,000,000. st e e ORGANIZED FORGERY. A Gang of Five Young Men Raise $10.- 000 by Signing Names of Chicago Millionaires. CHICAGO, Irv, Jan. 7.—Five young men, who by their confessions organized into a band for the purpose of obtaining money through forging the names of Chi- cago millionaires to bank checks, are under arrest at the Woodlawn police sta- tion. The police have positive knowledge that they have succeeded in obtaining nearly $10,000. They were caught only after two months of hard police search, and only because a bank cashier discov- ered that an unusually clever signature to a check for $260 was a forgery. The prisoners are: Arthur L. Foreman, alias Howard E. Stone, confessed forger and leader of the gang; Elmer Russell; Ed- ward L. Root, alias O'Rourke, check- passer; Charles McEwen and William Bert. A sixth member of the gang, whose name is supposea to be Paul Moran, es- caped. The plan consisted in securing the sig- nature of a victim and then forging it at leisure. A forged check bearing the name of G. F. Swift, and drawn for $1200, was cashed by the National Livestock Bank at the stock yards, while other checks, ranging from $2500 to $3000, have been suc- cessfuily passed on other banks with the signature of H. W. Biskonf & Co., whose wholesale grocery establishment is at 3510 Vincennes avenue, The matter got into the hands of the police, and their work yesterday resulted in the five arrests. Captain Shippy se- cured confessions from Foreman and Root. Captain Shippy secured a key from Foreman to a safety deposit vault, and yesterday he found there numerous checks bearing forged signatures, but with no amounts filed in. Upon these checks were the names of . N. Higginbotham, Charles J. Reid of the firm of Reid, Murdoch & Co., Frost Bros. and others. Other incriminating evidence was se- cured, and papers indicating that the forger band had secured $8000 or $10,000 in its operations, which are said to have been going on for a year. Little is known of the identity of the prisoners, except as they have confessed to these recent operations. pltodisls ke PAYING 0OUT GOLD. Government Paying Out the Yellow Metal and Taking in the White—Green- backs Nearly Gone, NEW YORK, N.Y. Jan 7.—The dis- bursements of the treasury this month have made such inroads on the supply of greenbacks on hand that the Government has been compelled to resume paying out treasury notes at all the sub-treasuries, and it is likely that its supply of that form of money will still further decrease. An interesting feature about the situa- tion is that while the treasury is paying out millions of doliars of notes that are reaeemable ggain by the Government in gold, the treasury is receiving only silver (certificates) in payment of customs du- ties. In other words, while discharging its own obligations in gold, the Govern- ment is compelled to receive, and is re- ceiving, only silver for customs duties, taxes, etc. HARTFORD, Jan. 7.—Albert H. Walker of this city made public last night, by per- mission of Senator John Bhermau, a let- ter he received from the Senator early in December iast, giving the Senator’s views on tbe retirement of greenbacks, The let- ter is: WasHINGTON, Dec. 3, 1896. Albert H. Walker—DEAR SIR: Your kind note of the 28tn ult. received. 1do not sympathize with the movement proposed to retire United States notes from circulation. I believe itis easy 1o maintain & limited amount of these in circulation without danger or difficulty. The maintenance in eirculation of $246,000,000 United States notes supported by a reserve of £100,000,000 goid not only saves the interest on $246,000,000 of debt, but isa vast con- venience to the people at large. The best form of paper money is that which is backed by the Government and maintained at the specie standard. The absolute security of these notes was never called in question sfter the resumption of specie payment in 1879, until the reserve was being trenched upon to meet the difficulties brought about by what is known as the Wilson tariff law of 1894. Very truly yours, JOHN SHERMAN. Danger From Floods Over. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 7.—The river rose but three inches during the last night, and this ‘afternoon it was stationary. The darger of damage from floods is believed to be over. There is no icein the river, and the boats are running to Southern ports. No further reports of distress bave resched this city from the flooded districts rear Lowsiana, Mo., and it is believed that all the woodchoppers and their families are safe. Reports from South- western Missouri show the flood to be subsiding. SR LA THE SILVER FIGHT. Campaign Against It Will Have Head- guarters in Washington. NEW YORK. N. Y., Jan. 7.—A Sun special from Washington says: General William Osborne, Republican member of the National Committee for Massachu- setts, is in town in company with the Hon. Joseph Manley, looking after the establishment of permanent headquarters for the Republican National Committee. He said that Washington would be the place from which the fight against silver will be conducted for the coming four years. ““We will continue the work of sending out sound money literature,” bhe said “‘and wherever the silver fellows start the first we will point our guns. We have made arrangements with the plate press association to handie all matter we send out from this end of the line. We believe we can reach two or taree millions of people in this way.” Parmanent headquarters of the com- mittee will be located in the Glover buiid- ing on F stree! . Dingley Wil Not Accep'. KALAMAZOO, Mica., Jan. 7. — The Daily Telegraph, which is published by E. N. Dingley, ason of Congressman Dingley, publishes the following authoritative dis. patch from Washington to-day: It can be stated definitely that Congressman Dingley, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, has decided not 10 accept a Cabinet position. He was offered the place of Secreiary of the Treasury President-elect McKinley, and given time to consider it. Great pressure has been brought to have him accept it, but he has definitely decided not to take the place. ilis present duties are much more con. genial to him: furthermore, he fears the arduous duties of the treasury portfolio would seriously impair his health. ptne vl e Tragedy Follows Elopement. SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Jan. 7.—Joe Trawe, 3 well-known racehorse man, was shot and killed and David Goff wasfatally wounded by two brothers named Hefling, at Ozona, a small town west of here, ves- terday aiterncon. Trawe eloped yester- day morning with a sister of the Hefling boys, and the ceremony and marriage had been performed at Ozona when the Hei- lings rode up and bezan shooting with Winchesters. - Goff, a companion of Trawe, had assisied in the elopement. % fthe willful murder oi her husband by JAPAN'S FOREIEN POLICY DEFINED Important Speeches of the New Minister, Count Okuma. Mrs. Carew’s Trial Promises to Be One of the Most Sen- sational on Record. Barbarcus Executions by the Court of Korea—Chinese Reughs Tor- ture a Catholic Priest. TOKIO, Jarax, Dec. 22.—The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count Okuma, has de- livered several important speeches since he came into office. His policy, as defined in these utterances, may be briefly summed up thus: An attitude of grateful friendship toward western powers; an at- titude of sympathy and helpfulness to- ward China, and an attitude of watchful | readiness toward Karea. The Count is very outspoken about the ill-behavior of | his nationals in Korea and about the ad- ministrative blunders committed in For- mosa. The trial of Mrs. W. R. H. Carew, for poisoning, is set to commence on January 4, in her Britannic Meajesty’s Court at Yokohama, Crown Advocate H. S. Wil- kinson has come from Shanghai to assist the Yokohama Crown Prosecutor, H. C. Litchfield, in conducting the prosecution. Sixty British residentsof Yokohama have been summoned for the jury. Five only will be actually needed, bat counsel on both sides are expected to exercise great discrimination. The case promises to be one of the most sensational on record. The Korean correspondents of the Tokio papers state that Ku Sou Chang, an ex- | police inspector of the court, arrested | some days ago with several other Ko-| reans, was hanged on the 4th inst. instance of the Police Bureau. six others are said to have met a similar fate on the same day, but this story.re- uires confirmation. The crueity of the orean court, in utter defiance of justice and humanity, shows how complete is its relapse into its old lawless ways. The above executions must have been perpe- trated ‘by An Hwan, who scems to be &, bloody ruffian, taking a delight in the | horrible business of murdering his fellow- | countrymen., Indeed, An is reported to have been much disappointed at finding no more victims to be dispatched, for he failed even by torture to extort incrimi- | nating evidence from other prisoners. The Government takes care not to inform the public of the number of arrests made | and the names of the prisoners, and thoug more than two weeks have elapsed since the seizures took vlace the corre- | spondents cannot get accurate particulars, Two English officers—Captain Welby of the Eighteenth Hussars and Lieutenant Malcoim of the Twenty-third Highland- ers—who leit Leh in Ladakn last April to travel through Thibet to Peking, reached the Chinese capital on the 2d of Decem- ber, having been eight monthsen rouie. At starting they bad a rewinue of twelve | Arganns, and their equipment was packed on thirty-nine mules. Onarrival in Peking they had tbree Argauns and three mules, the men having deserted or died and the animals perished. They passed through Western and Northern Thibet and met with much kindness and hospitality at the hands of the Mongolian tribes. The confidently circulated news that a site had been granted to Germany for an independentsettlement in Shanghai turns | out to be incorrect. Germany has not sought any such concessi Tne Chinese authorities endeavored to reserve the right of policing the new Jap- anese settlement in Soochow, but the Jap- anese insisted on the strict terms of the treaty, namely, that they should | NEW TO-DAY. “You Don’t Become | a Slave to their Use!” The above words have been truthfully spoken concerning Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets by one | who has had abundant opportunity to observe their more favorable ac- | tion as compared with that of other | pills. | Most pills and medicines in use | for constipation, in the long run, | *“make a bad matter worse.”’ Un- like such agents, Dr. Pierce’s Pel- | lets exert such a tonic or strength- | ening effect upon the membranes | of the stomach and bowels, as to | produce Zasting benefit. Their use | can, therefore, be gradually discon- | tinued. With most pills the longer | they are taken, the more dependent | upon their use the patient becomes. | Not so with the *‘ Pellets.” Zheir | secondary effect is to keep the bow- | els open and regwlar, not to further | constipate. Hence, their great | popularity with sufferers from hab- | itual constipation. | The Pellets cure costiveness, or constipation, biliousness, sick and bilious headache, dizziness, sour stomach, loss of appetite, coated tongue, indigestion, or dyspepsia, windy belchings, ¢ heartburn,” nolice it themselves. A dispute has also taken place with respect to the portion of the river towing-path that falls within the lines of the settlement. The Chinese are seekil to retain possession of t.e path, which is 100 feet wide, but the Jap- anese are determined that no such ar- rangement shall be made. A rumor ccmes from Chinese sources that a party of roughs in the city of Luan= chou, in Anhui provinee, recently s the Rom. Catholic priest of the district and compelled him, by murderous threat to bow before a local idol and sign a docu- ment, the contents or which are not stated. It is believed ‘that the French cruiser Al- er, carrying the French admirai and the French Consul-General in 3hanghai haye proceeded to Nanking to exact reparation. A large number of Chinese merchants of | Canton have consented, it is said, to pay extra likin on goods passing through their hands, provided that the money thus oh= tained be devotea to bhilding and beavily arming additional new forts at the en- trance to the Canton River and around the city itself. Centennial Mine to Resume. HOUGHTON, Mrcir., Jan. 7.—The Cen- tennial copper mine, which suspended work four years ago, will resume opera- tions February 1. *The mine has a contin- uation of the celebrated Calumet con- glomerate lcde. from which other mines Bave paid $55.000,000 in dividends. The Centennial has yielded $1,500,000 up to date. 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