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2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1897. the Presiden ature, and on March 4 Butler will depart in charge of the three Australian officers. James Speers, machinist on the United States steamer Adams, now at Sausalito, brother of the Robert Speers whom Lee Weller attempted to get out on a +Bob g=d his mind r. Sveers last night. fer to come to California, 1 was somewhere in the e decided to look me un. I came from Carrickfergu-, Ireland, and it would v day for all of us if the ad shured the fate of poor young Preston.” —_ BUTLER KNEW PRESTON. jt ime,” said “He had Admits to His Uncle In This City That He Had a Message From the Murdered Prcspec o-. A whole fam ily in this City is mourning the death of Arthur Preston, the young man whom Butl-r or Asne is accused of having murdered while he was digging what proved to be his own grave. A and aunt and several red man have resided ars. ancle of the deceased, for nearly twenty- aber of the Master Association and for years has rigger for the Pacific Mail > “Shortly after But- >said he yesterday, “I v Prison to see him. I elry and trinkets he ralia with him, but the rere and 1 them yet. I was r's cell and I asked ston. he had known ce tell me how brother, an un ins of the mu; e out 1o the Ci “Who are you?’ r's uncie.” He gave e a message for you, now,’ and with eman who was Then to talk about other matters, and would T could not get him back bject of Arthur’s murder again. r's mother is a widow and lives in Liverpoc One day mother and son had a ff and latter vowed that he d seek his fortune some money < with him. 1lor he deter- his way, and signed aboard the British bark Windur, for Sydney, . S. W. Hemade several ventures at the made expenses, and when ement_that lured him L he was no better off than home. mont do w he lef couple ¢ "go we got a letter n it she said nes he sailed ing if my nephew rd anything of him. s knew of his whereabouts, Not one of and the peared 1n As to : man calling himself Lee Weiier, I n aw him ic my liie before i 10 see him again. He did a murderer, but biood why hang- about the tragedy the me into Mr. Preston’s 1 he spoke of the estrange- the murdered man and his < in his voice that n words. one of the crew of the steamer Colon man, is now ne Hospital. e time the news of his broth- chronicied in the papers of th Wales be was beguiled intoa tie water front and drugged. or the round trip to Panama was im and he was left to sleep the drug. *“When my "'said Mr. Pres- anything. He gone, but_ could ion. On theadvice of the 1ip I bad him removed to instead of getting betier tinz worse. I sent my cousin to-aay, but I will ndition il I reach k making another mpL at getting what I can out of Lee he calis himself, about Arthur’s .\vruilfl and as to how he came to “HAVE MONEY OF ME OWN” Butler’s Coln Supposed to Be In an Australlan Bank. Butler Has or had meney in the Eng- lish, Scottish and Austrahan Bank. He has unwittingly admitted this from time to time in a number of casual and dis- connected rem: He arrived here with only two gold sovereigns in his possession, and without snother cent, eitier in that Gladstone bag or in the pockets of his clothes. Each of his supposed victims was known to have had money when he went out with Butler on a prospecting trip. One of them, it is claimed, tock along $2000. They hardly went far enough to spend much mo: in travel, Butler evidently spent little money on clothes. Most of those found with him bad belonged to Frank B. Harwood, the mining expert, to Captain Lee M. Weller, 10 Dicksor, or to some other person. Ap- parently he had no expensive tastes, ~ He isnot known to have had a single chum or iriend who might have helped bim to spend the ili-gotten coin. He was always seen alone, except when with his intended victims. The series of murders was committed within too short & period, it would seem, for the profits to have been consumed by board bills. And during the latter part of his stay in Sydney, he lived at the Sailors’ Home, were expenses were moderate. When he ventured to New- castle, he also chose the Sailors’ Home as his boarding pizce, and_he stayed there ninedays before leaving in the Swanhilda. The question has naturally arisen, What has become of the money that e must have got at the time and {rom the sources he obtained the clothing, jewelry and other effects? A bankbook, only a few leaves of which had been torn'out, was found among his things. At the time of the examination it supposed to have helonged to Mrs, C. O’Conror of A —Consiable Con- roy’s married sister—ior her name and complete address were written inside the cover. After the report of the examina- tion was published in THE CALL Butler— for of all bis manifest aiiases he is now best known here and in Australia by this name—in the course of & lorg, rambling convernation with a CALL reporter, re. sented the printed inference that he had stolen the bankbook from Mrs. O'Connor at Albury aiter obtuining her address from Conroy in Sydney. The name and address had been written by the waitress he knew in Sydney and to whom he afterward gave the photo- craph that resuited. in bis being traced. That was one day in August, some time _before theepoch of murder, He was talk- ing with the young woman. He had no cards about him. Taking out his bank- book he let the giil write the name and address of M 0'Counor, whom she knew as a resident of Albury, where, ac- cording 1o Conroy, Builer retended to own a gold mine, for which he had been offered £3000. Conroy has 1ecognized the g:rl's handwriting in the name and ad- dress written in pencil. On the outside of the bankbook ap- peared the name Lee Weller, but not in Lee Weller's handwriting. Butler has re- marked that he wrote that name there, intending to leave the checkbook with the captain of the Swanhilda for saie-keeping during the voyage to San Francisco. Again and sgoin, Butler has remarked that he has money of his own. He dis- ciaims any desire 1o profit by the morbid |E 1y gl i | Tt CELLMATE = A Ft":\}? =WELLER =AUTOGRA! TURNS OUT HS ONHIS vsmsAccouNT» ¥ CAN'T YOU.RECOGNIZE ME SAID AN OLD SEA CAPTAI BUTLE R, THROUGH A PHONOGRAPH ROASTS THE EXAMINER 3 FOR ITS FAKE +CONFESSION Events of the Day In and Just Outside the Steel Cage in Which the Man Charged With Several Murders Is Confined. souvenir-seekers who would pay for his autograph. Yesterday he willingly fur- nished about forty autozraphs. He would not attempt 20 make a bargain for mohey, though sevem! opportunities were offered bim.~ He preferred to be accommodating when it was merely a favor the person asked. I bave money of me own,” “I wouldn't take an little favor like that. In what town that money is, or in what name it is deposited, is & mystery. The glish, Scottish and Australian Bank on hich hie had & checkbook has headquar- ters in Melbourne, colony of Victoria, and in Sydney, and it has branches all over Australia. ’ he sail. vthing to doa man a AN il IS SHE ANOTHER VICTIM? An Australian Paper Intimates That Butler Was the Murderer of a Mrs. McCarthy. The Australian Star of the 13th ult. would swell the list of Butler’s victims by | the addition of a woman’s name. Star says: Another murder has been associated with the name of Butler. The news of this one comes from Canadian Gully, near Ballarat, Victoria. The police have been informed that shortly after the murder of The Mrs. McCarthy at that place a few months | of agoa man answering the descriptior Butler suddenly disappeared. Detectives | have shown a photograph of Butler to two women living in the township, and they are positive that he was the man who was living at Canadian Gully at that particu- iar time. e MRS. WELLER’S DEATH. Detective McHattie Was on That | Case and Knew ths Husband. Detective McHattie of Newcastle is doubly connected with the Butler case— as sleuth and as valuable witness. He knew Butler by sight in Newcastle and he knew Captain Lee Weller quite well. During a piece of detective work he did at the time of the sudden and rather sus- picious death of Mrs. Lee Weller aboard | in Newcastle last | the ship Souta Esk March, McHattie had an opportunity not only to see a gzood deal of Captain Weller, but of all the wife’s effects. The story of the death nearly a year agzo of Mrs. Lee Weller, whom. the Examiner styles the *widow” of Captain Weilery though Weller suryived his wife abou: seven months, is an interesting in- which Butler is priniarily associated. Lee Weller and his wife went to New- castle fiom Cape Town, South Africa, last | March_as passengers in the ship South Esk. Weller left his wife aboard ship while he took a trip down to Sydney, about 104 miles distant from Newcastle. He went for a short visis to an old_friend of his, a reporter on the Sydney Weckly Baulletin, who, as events proved, was later to figure very prominently in the Butler case, for it Was by the newspaper man that the attention of the police was first called to Weller’s disappearance. Mrs. Lee Weller was a very attractive woman. The captain of the South Esk was believed to be in love with her. They were often seen together in Newcastle. One evening this captain returned to his ship at 8 o'clock and found Mrs. Lee We!- ler dead. When he had gone ashore at 6 o’ciock that. evening she was alive ana well, The police were suspicious. Detective McHattie, the foremost man of his pro- fession at Newcastle, was put on the case. An inquest was ordered, but it showed nothing. The Coroner's jury brought in a verdici of heart iailure. From his work on that case, Detective McHattie became familiar with all the things that had been in Mrs. Lee Weller's cabin. Among Butler's effects he recog- nizet many things that he then examined. The. Gladstone bag, the plaid blanket shawl, much of the jewelry, and some of ihe photographs tbat Butler brought here McHattie immediately recogaized s Mrs. Lee Weller's, or Captain Lee Welle: The plain gold bracelet was a present from the captain of the Boutn Esk to Mrs. Lee Weller und had been bought in Newcastie. Tne photograph of a man with & full short dark beard is that of the captain of the South Esk. He had given it to Mrs. Wel- ler. McHattie's particular duty at Newcas- tleis to watch for absconders from Syd- ney, who come to the coal port to take passege in some of the coalships. He is on the lookout for new arrivais that go down to the ships. It was in this way that he took notice of Butler before he sailed, and long belore he suspected him of any crime. That Butler felt that he was hunted after he suddenly ieft Sydney is evident. It was a woman’s shrewd observation that frichtened him out of Svdney. Mr. and Mrs. Sharp, who had a fruit. store in Sydnev, replied to Butler's adver tisement, but Sharp couid not make sat- isfactory arrungements for a prospecting tour. So he inserted an unsigned adver- tisement himself the next day calling for a partner to go prospecting. Butler un- wittingly answered the advertisement in werson, declaring then that his name was Frank Harwood. Mis. Sharp insisted that she could not be deceived, and she toid Butler that she would not be sur- prised if he were the man that went off with Captain Lee Weller. No murders had yet been even suspected. Butler left. He showed up afew days ident in the history of the crimes with | later at the Sailors’ Home in The third nizht that he was ther Booth, the landlady’s son, réturn home 'at 1 o'clock at night, and as he passed along the porch to his room he noticed a Iight in one of the windows Just as he arrived opposite the window a pistol was thrust toward his head. It was Butier's room and Butler Leld the e. 50 tol. As soon as he recognized young Booth he withdrew the pisiol. Buile L expecting arrest. That the night of November 19. The Swan- o hilda sailed four days Inter. Word bus come to Derective McHattie from Victoria, B. C., saying that Captain Lee Weller was weli known there, and | that Mrs. Lee Weller was supposed to be wealthy. L g ns WAS NONCOMMUNICATIVE. Captain Fraser Falls to Get Any Information From the Blue Hills Murderer. Captain Fraser of the Swanhilda called on Murderer Butler last evening and took him out of his cell for a talk ridor. The man who still masquerades as Lee Weller was cool and collected while seated between the master mariner and a friend, and discussed matters aboard the ship as though he was still on board. tain been warned of bis presenco on board, but said that he knew no reason why he should have (ried to escape, ir as- much as he was confident of proving his | innocence of any charges of murder that might be brought against him. 1 wouldn’t mina going back in the ship,”” he said to Captain Fraser as the master of the vessel shook his hand at | parting, “but chance.” Butler ate his dinner with evident relish after ho had been locked up again, and remarked that he hoped to be soon at liberty. I suppose there is no VAMOOSE'S CRAZY CAPTAIK. Drives a Dozen Men Into the Bay With a Rifle and Brutally Beats a Brother Skipper. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 5.—A Herald special from \iami, Fla., says: Captain Mclntosh of the yacht Vamoose Wednes- | day forced a dozen men to leap into the bay at the muzzle of a rifle, and probably tatally injured Captain Denny of the steam launch Ozone. | | atripon the bay, Captain McIntosh and | Cbapman, a friend, being of the numorr. | McIntosh had a demijohn of whisky and { began drinking heavily. Finally he seized arifle and threatened to kill every man on the launch. The Ozone was not far irom shore and the passengers leaved into the water and_safely reached the beach, leay- ing only Denny, McIntosh and Chupman in the launch. McIntosh then beat Denny until the latter was unconscious, When Denny recovered he found the launch far out in the bay and the mad maa stauding over him with a rifle. Denny, in fear of his life, jumped overboard and attempted to swim ashore. Meclntosh jumped into a rowboat whics the launch had in tow and puiled Denny into it, and then compelled him at the rifle's point to Tow bim and Chapman up the river to the Vamoose. During the trip McIntosh rapped Den- ny’s kouckles with the rifle, breaking every finger. Denny howled in agony, but the captain continued to rap the mangled fingere. Denny’s face is crushed and he is probably fatally hurt. After reaching the Vamoose McIntosh barricaded him- selt, but a posse stormed the boat Wednes- day night and arresied him. The feeling against McIntosh ix so bitter that lynch- ing is feared. —_— BRYAN BOOK INJUNCTION. | Restraining Orders Jssued Against Publishing Companias. CHICAGO, I, Feb. 5—The “Bryan Book” injunction was disposed of by Judge Horton in favor of W. B. Conkey, and the court issued a restraining order against the Hubbard Publishing Company and the Dominion Publishing Company preventing them from publishing any book which would tend to sbow by its ap- pearance that the author of it is William Jennings Bryan, or cenveying that im- pression. -~ The court held that the manner in which the defendants had prepared the title-page of the ‘'Great Battle for Free Silver” tended to aeceive the public into believing that Mr. Bryan was the author | of the work. LR L MRS, ABIGAIL GATES' ESTATE. Will of the Oukland Lady Admitted (o Probate in Chicago. CHICAGO, Irn., Feb 5.—Judge Kohl- saat admitted yesterday to probate the will of Mrs. Abigail Gates, who died at Oakland, Cal., January 26. Her estate is valued at $100,000, all of which is in per- sonal property, with the exception of $1000. Mrs. Gates leaves her personal ornaments and keepsakes to Iriends and reiatives. A b-quest of $500 is made 0 the Churc h of the Redeemer (Universalist). The rest of her estate is divided between th ;sons, a granadaughter and a daughter-in- 8w, the cor- | He admitied that he knew that the cap- | * Denny took out a party in the Ozone for | MRS, DIMOND 1§ N THE WARPATH Her Unexpscted Return to Honolulu Causes a Sensation. Storms and Captures the Family Residence :n D fiance of an Injunction. Secures Temporary Alimony of $25 per Week and $250 for Counsel F.es. | on the Coptic to the very great surprise of people here. Her husband went oui on | the tug with E1 Macfarlane! to meet the Gillig party, and one of the first to con- | front him on the deck of the Coptic was his wife. There was no scene, as mutual friends interfered. On reaching the wharf Mr. Dimond at once drove to the offics of his attorneys, Kinney & Ballou. A petition for a temporary injunction re- straining Mre. Dimond from entering his | home or taking the only child was pre- | | sented to Circuit Judee Carter in cham- bers shor:ly afterward. The petition was ins follows: | the above entitled cause, and moves this court that an injunction issue forthwith resiraining the libellee, Mrs. W. W. Dimond, in said caso from entering or attempting to eater the home of the libellant at Waikiki, or from in- terfering with or molesting the person of Lucy M. Dimond, child of libellant and libeilee, until further order of this court. This motion is based upon the record and upon the aff- davitof William W. Dimond, hereto aitached and made & part hereof. Mr. Dimend asserted in his petition | that Mrs. Dimond voluntarily left his | house, and furiher that the premises were leased in his own name from the Bishop estate. Judge Carter immediately issued the following order: Now, therefore, you and every one of you strictly enjoined under the pain and pen- | alty of being 1n contempt of court from enter- | ing or attempting tb enter the house or prem- | ises of W. W. Dimond at Waikiki, aud {rom in- | terfering with or molesting tae person of Lucy M. Dimond until further order of this court. Hereof fail not at your peril. The papers were placed in the hands of Marshal Brown, but before he could serve them Mrs. ond bad already gained an entrance into the Dimond home. Thae place bad been locked and bolted, but Mrs, Dimond forced her way in. All that night there was considerable excitement in the Dimond housebold, neither Mr nor Mrs. Dimond retiring. The attorneys of both parties, Messrs. Thurston & Stanley for Mrs. Dimond, Kinney & Ballou for Mr. Diamond, and Mr. Paul Neumaun, Marshal Brown, Mr. Moore, Ned Macfariane and others were also congregated at the house until mid- night. The following moruing on the advice of her attorneys, Mrs. Dimond took rooms at the Arlingion Hotel, where she now is. Early on Monday morning she was served with an order to appear before Judge Car- ter for contempt, for disobeying the order made above in remaining in the house on Saturday night. The case is being bitterly fought by both parties. Her atiorneys have already se- gured en order from Judge Carter aliow- ing her $25 per week temporary alimony, and §250 sttorneys’ fees It i~ generally understood here that if a suitable settlement of the property, ali- mony and the custody of the child in ber favor can be arranged Mrx. Dimond will not object to the divorce; but if such set- tlement cannot be reacied that she will fizht the case to the bitter end and tell all she knows. It is common talk that her threatened revelations would involve many other so- ciety people ana create a big scandal in | Honolulu society, and those interested are ment between the principa None has been effected yet, and the motion to ad- judge Mrs. Dimond guilty of contempt was partly heard in court this morning, but went over till to-morrow. Colonel McLean, for two yearsin com- mand of the military forces of the Re- public of Hawaii, has resigned on account ;’i ':n greement with the officers under Two leaders of the Royalist party have | HONOLULU, Hawarm, Jan. 20.—Mrs. | Carrie H. Dimond reiwurned to Honolulu | Now comes the libellant, W. W. Dimond, in | come out publicly in support of annexa- tion. They are C. G. Hopkins and J, Lot | Kaulukou. Both are half whites and each occupie:d the high position for ‘several yrars of Marshal under Kalakaua. Kaulu- kou alleges that the mo-t violent Royal- ists now concede that the restoration of monarcky is utterly hopeless. Itjs, there- fore, obviously the interest of Hawaiians to seek the guarantees of their rights and franchises which the American constitu- tion will give them and so escape the dan- gers of independence. Kaulukon gives it as his conjecture that the ex-Queen has gone Esst in order to be on hand, in case of annexation, to urge her claim on the United States Govern- ment for indemnity on account of her being deprived of the income of thecrown jands—more than $100,000—which she claims to bave resulted from the unlawfal interference of the United States officials, d Wiltse. | | X voy Lorin A. Thurston is to leave for the Unitea States per Alameda | on February 4, to be absent three months | on private business, He has no commis- sion from the public body, but may put in some work for annexation on hisown | account. C. Aupustus Spreckels, part owner of tie mammoth Spreckel-ville plantation, announces himself recently converted to the annexation cause, solely on business grounds asa planter. ' He is satisfied that | the plunters can do well without contract | labor. He denounces the su:ar trust as the chief enemy of annexation. On the 26ih there were cremated by er of the Legislature postage stamps of over $100.000 tace value, chieflv of the Iater issues of the monarchy. Over $40,000 of these had been sold during the previous SIX montus. THE SUGAR-COFFEE WAR. Sugar Kings Execute a Flank Movement on the Arbuckles by Incorporating | an Oppositon Company. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 5.—The Herald say: The latest development in the sugar-coffee war now waging between the | sugar trust and the firm of Arbuckle Bros. was the execution of a flank move- ment by the sugar people. In Trenton, N. J., yesterday the Ameri- can Coffee Company was incorporated with a capital stock of $100.000. The in- corators are: Henry O. Havemeyer, John E. Searies, John E. Parsons and Theoaore A. Huvemeyer. The new phase in the war reached Wall street late yesterday. A lively discussion ensued as to a possible future movement by the Arbuckles. The latter thus far, if not having a decided advantage in the contest, have rendered itadrawn battle through their exceedingly shrewd pur- chase of the minority stock of the Wool- son Spice Company of Toledo, second only in size 1o the Arbuckle plant among the coffee-roasting establishments in the country. The move is considered one of the shrewdest bits of business of the genera- tion, for though they could not control the plant, it enabled the Arbuckles to ap- ply for aTeceivership for the company, and testimony on this application is now beinz taken 1n Toledo. It was said if the gar trust lost the case in Toledo it would turn some of 1ts dismantled refineries in Brooklvn into coffee-roasting plants, and the incorpora- tion of the company in Trenton yesterday was by some per=ons taken as foreshadow- ing the belief of tne sugar people that the case would go against them. Other opin- ions were in effect that the sugar peovle had secured the incorporation of the American Company in Trenton with the view of forming an immense roasted-coffee trust, in which, after some fighting, the Arbuckles, the WoolSons and the new company would monopolize the trade and drive out all small competitors. o e ity TWO MORE BANKS COLLAPSE, The Cashier of One of Them Is Said to Be Short. GREAT FALLS, Moxt.,, Feb. 5—The Northwestern National Bank of this city failed to open its duors to-iay. The fail- ure is due to an alleged shortage of the cashier, B.D. Hatcher. Tbe bank has a capital ‘of $250,000 An uvofficial sta ent gives the assets as. $750,000 and habilities §700,000. Thedirec- tors discovered that Cashier Hatcher had drawn $180,000 from its Boston corre- vsed it in the purchase of bank stock formerly owned by Conrad Brothers. The bank offictals knew of the purchase of the stock, but were told by Hatcher that the money was being furnished by Boston people for whom he was making the pur- chase. Cashier Hatcher 1s at his home in this city, butdeclines 0 see any oue. He is said io be ill and has nothing to say. FRANKLIN, Onio, Feb. 5.—The direc- tors of the First National Bank held a meeting last night and decided to close the bank’s affairs. When the bank did not open tiis morning there was considerable of a flurry. There is a promise to pay in full. The Comptroller has been tele- graphed to take charge of the bauk, which was capitalized for $100,000. e - Bucket-Shopping a Serious Offense. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. Thornburg, way, was expelled from the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange by the voard of directors to-day for *‘Bucke! shopping.” spondent, the Globe National Bank, ana | T | | | | being sworn THURSTON FOR A COMPROMISE His Plan for Settling the Debt of the Union Pacific. Says the Government Can Get at Least $20,000,000 Net for Its Claim. Scnators Allen and C flery Oppose the Canal Bill—K:nney of Dela- ware Sworn In. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 5.—During the routine business of the Samate to-day Grey (D.) of Delaware presented the cre- dentials of Richard R. Kenney as Senator- elect from the State of Delaware, the cre- dentials being in due form and being signed by the Governor and Secretary of State of Delaware. Chandlier took occasion to say that while he should not object to Kenney in, he believed Dupont should fill the vacant seat, and that the matter would doubtless be brought before the Senate in due time in a contest o!] Kenney's right to a seat. Escorted by Grey, Kenney then ap- peared before the Vice-President and took the oath of office. An effort was made by Morrill (R.) of Vermont to have the House bill taken up prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liguors | in the Capitol, and Thurston (R.) of Ne- braska, who had the floor on Allen’s Pa- cific Railroad resolution, consented to yield it in order to accommodate Morrill, but assurance was given by Hill (D.) of New York that a vote on the biil could not be reached in the morning hour. Thereupon Alien’s resolutions were tak-n up and Thurston proceeded with his argument against his colleague’s resolu- tion and in favor of a compromise arrange- ment by which the Government would re- ceive from the Union Pacitic Company at least $29,000,000 nei for iis claim against the road. Discussing the claim Thurston stated that on 1040 miles of road, from Omaha to Ogden, the Government would have to pay over $27,000,000 in cash to ex- tinguish the first mortgage, and would also have to forego the receiptof the $29,000,000 net offered for its claim against the company. That would make $56,000,000 which it would cost the Government for that line of road, to say nothing of the $1,000,000 unpaid bondson the Omaha bridge and some $2.000,000 of equipment bonds. As to the 3,000,000 acres of undisposed lands which would revert to the Government, he stated that they could not besold at 50 cents an acre. He had not concluded his argument when the morning Lour expired, and said he would continue it to-morrow. The Nicaraguan Canal bill was laid be- fore the Senate as the unfinished business. Thereupon a motion was made by Daniel (D.) of Virginia to take up the bankruptcy bill, thus displacing the Nicaragua canal bill. A few minutes afterward, however, the motion was withdrawn by Daniel, who said there was a disposition to take up the bankcuptey bill later on. Allen (P.) of Nebraska opposed the canal bill, declaring that tbat “‘colossal undertaking’’ would cost at least $300.000,~ He would not vote for the issus of bonds for any:hing. The country had be- come bond crazy and was bond weary, and Congress would bave to retrace its steps speedily if it would not engulf the coun- try in lasting ruin and bring the peopie to a condition of perpetual poverty. Caffery (D.) of Louisiana opposed the bill. He thought the protest of Mr. Rod- riguez, the Minister Pienipotentiary of the Greater Republic of Central America, should be treated with proper respect, but instend of that the Senate was conside ing a bill which affected vitally the in- terests of Nicaragua as if no such protest had been made. Caffery did not finish his speech, but yielded the floor to allow private pension bills on the calendar to be passed. There were forty-eight of them and they were all passed in thirty-five minutes, includ- ing the following: Granting pensions of $50 a month to the widows of General Samuel A. Rice, General William A. Nichols and Captain Law of the navy; of $30 to the widow of Colonel Ely &, Parker; of $40 to the widow of Major Turtle, and $50 to General James McMillin. The session lasted until6 o'clock, during which several bills were passed, merely of local interest, and the Senate adjouraed until to-morrow. -—— BOUSE PEOCELEDINGS. Contested Eleciion Cases and Pension Bills Passed Upon. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 5-~In_'he’ House to-day, Johnson (R.) of Indiana presented the unanimous report of Elec- tions Committee No. 2 upon the contest of Alexander Benoit vs. Charles J. Boat- ner, from the Fifth District of Louisiana, fin favor of Mr. Boatner. Upon a contest or the seat subject to the election in 1804 the seat was declared vacant ly the House and a special election held to fill the vacancy. Benoit again contesied, and the committee finds that he had no case. Daniels (R.) of New York presented the report of Elections Committee No. 1 the contest of N. T. Hopkins a seph M. Kendall from the Tenth D:strict of Kentucky in favor of Kendall. Royse (R.) of Indiana and Linney (R.) of North Carolina dissented from the conc:usion of the majority. The House then entered upon the con- sideration of private pension bills, which have been acted uvon by the committee of the whole. A bill was passed granting a pension of $30 a month to the widow of the late Major-General Erastus B. Tyler. A message from the Pre<ident was re- ceived transmitting the tinal report of the presiaent of the Board of Commissioners of the World’s Fair, the material of which filied five large boxes. It was referred to the Committee on Appropriations. The conference report on the Military Academy bill was presented and agreed to. It reduces by $15,000 the total amount of the bill as it passed t. e Senate and in- creases the House total by $5000. The repori from Committee on Elec- tions No. 2 uron the contest of Taylor Beattie againsi Andrew Price from the Third Louisiana Districtin favor of Price, the sitting member, was presented. hnson (R.) of Indiana and Long (R ) of Kansas dissented and recommended that the House declare the seat vacant. A bill was passed granting a pension of $12 a month to Amuanda M. Way, now a resident of Californis, who in the years following the war was a prominent tem- perance and female-suffrage worker in In- diame. Her services were those of volun- teer army nurse. A bill was also passed granting & pen- sion of $30 a month to Hans Johnson, Twenty-seventh Iowa Volunteers. When the Senate bili to pension the widow of the Jaie General and Governor W. H. Stoneman of California had been passed, with an amendment reducing the rate from $50 (0 $30 a month, Loud (R.) of California called attention to the dis- crepancy between the terms of that bill and those of others pensioning widows of brigadier-generals. “‘General Stoneman,” he said, “was no ordinary general commanding & brigade, but served with great distinction in charge of important separate commands in the Army of the Potomac, and later in the ‘West. Itrustthat when the bill gets into conference the members of the Committee on Pensions will see that the same meas- ure of justice is meted out to Mrs. Stone- man that the committee has accorded to the widows of other general officers, many of whom we never heard of before. To be eure, General Stoneman was a Democratic Governor of my State, but I bope that no volitical bias has influenced the action of the committee.”” Thomas (R.) of Michigan, acting chair- man of tha Commiitee on Invaiid Pen- sions, said he approved every word the gentleman from Culifornia nad uttered. Sixty-one bills were disposed of, when the House took the usual Friday recess until 8 p. M. On motion of Loudensiager of New Jer- sey the House at to-night’s session adopted a resolution that privaie pension bills ~hall be considered ouly when their suthors were present and responded to their names. The purpose of the resolu- tion was to insure the attendance of mem- bers having bills on the calendar, or cause such bills Lo lose their legisiative right of way. Only three bills under the order were passed over, and when the House adjourned at 10:30 twenty-three bills had been considered and laid aside with a fa- vorable recommendation. 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