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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 189 guay, the belligerency of one having. been recognized and the other not, while the statute applies t4 both. “Belligerency,” said the Chief Justice, “is recognized when a political strugsle bas attained a certain magnitude and affects the interests' of the recognizing power, and im the instance of maritime opérations recognition may be compelled, or the vessel of the insurgents, if molest- ing other parties, may be pursued .as pirates. But it belongs to the political départment to determine ‘when belliger- ency shall be recognized and its action musi be accepted according to the terms and conditions expressed. The distinc- tion between recognition and belligerency | and the recognition of a state of political revolt between the recognition of warin a material sense issharply illustrated by the case bffore us. For here the political de- partment has not recognized the exist- ence of a de facto belligerent power en- gaged in hostility with Spain, but had recognized the existence of insurrec- tionary warfare prevailing at the time and since this forfeiture was incurred.” Quoting the different executive procla- mations on the subject the Chief Justice continued: *‘We are thus judicially in formed of the existence of an actual con- flict of erms against the authority of a Government with which the United States are on terms of peace and amity although acknowledgment of the insur- gents as belligerents by the political de- partment has not taken place, and it can- not be doubtea that this executive action has called the neutrality act into play. We see no justification for importing into secti 83 words which- it does not con- tain and which would make its operation depend upon the recognition of “bellig- erency, and while the libel might have been drawn with somewhat greater pre- cision, we are of the ovinion that it should not have been dismissed. “The decree,” said the Chief Justice, ‘must be reversed and the case remanded to the District Court for directions to re- sume custody of the vessel.” — BUICHER b LZIAR, Nemor Morote Speaks of the Brutal Cam- paign of Weyler. EW YORK Y., March 1.—A Sun special Irom Key West says: Senor Luis | Morote, correspondent of EI Liore of Madrid, arrived here Saturday night from Havana on the Mascotte. . He is én route to Washington on a special mission from his newspaper. Senor Morote declares that. General Weyler deserves the name of ‘‘butcher” given to him by the American press, and th.tit is s shame to the Spanmiards in Cuba and to the Spanish Government to permit the continuance of the many crimes and barbarities that are committed “I am a Spaniard,” said Senor Morote, “and I love my country; but Iam also a | civilized man, and for both reasons I la- ment the dishonor that the Spanish Gov- ernment and Weyler are: inflicting upon Bpain.” He added that Cubans were being vanquished only i the lying re- ports sent out by the Government. He was in Gomez's- camp, made prisoer by the insurgents, and bears statement of the strength of the rebels. ‘Their men are well armed, and have factofies and work- shops at Rebles, where they:repair their armaments and make powder and other munitions of war. “The Cdbans in the field,” he added, “are not the savages described in official reports. I met many gentlemen in the Cuban ranks and representatives of the best fam illes of the island.’ Benor Morote spoke in terms of praise of General Gomez, and said that the com- mander-in-chief of the Cuban army would accept nothing but independence, *The Spaniards in Cuba,’” concluded Senor Morote, “and the Spanish Government have the one object, and that is to make money cut of Cuba.” - CASE UF THE DAUNILESS. Xather Unjust Affidavits Demanded by Federal fficers. JACKSONVILLE, Fra., March 1.—Wil- liam S. Bisbee, owner of the steamer Daunt says tbat the report that he had refused 1o make affidavit that the Dauntless does not intend to violate the neutrality or navigation laws does him an injustice. He says that .he 1s perfectly willing to make such affidavit, alse to have an officer remain on board the vessel in towing and wrecking trips. The affidavit wanted by the Treasary Department from Bisbee requires him to swear “that the Vessel is not to be employed either alone or in connection with other vessels to carry arms, ammaunition or'men all of the way or part of the way to Cuba, or.to be & party, airectly or indirectly, to the trans- | portation of arms and ammunition.” He bases his refusal to sign such an affidavit upon the decision of the United States Court, which has declared that it is not against the law to carry munitions . of war to Cuba, provided no body of.men is carried on the vessel at the time. To-daj Bisbee applied to the Collector of Customs for clearance papers for his vessel to carry a cargo of munitions‘of war to a Cuban port. If-he is refused clear- ance he will then enter a mew spit for heavy damages against the Collector. already has one suit pressing against the Collector for $50,000 damages for refusing to clear the vessel, either with or without cargo. g SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS, Radical Changes in Church Gorermment are Contemplated. 3 LINCOLN, Ngpr,” March i.— The ‘World’s Conference of Seventh-Day Ad- ventists to-day began- action looking ‘to radical changes in church goyernment and administration. Among these area division of tbe general conference into three parts with a president over each and several other changes alohg this line, the idea being to guard against the cen- tralization of power. There is also a move- ment on foot to transpose the general college at Battle Creek into an American medical miksionary coilege. = A request has been made of the govern- ing board for the head of oneof the col- leges to remove to Mexico ana become proficient in the language and occupy the position tendered of being one. of the committee to revise the preserit translia- tion of the Bible in Spanish, whicn is u der consideration by the American Bible Society or some other like association. The assémbly, two of which shall occupy the positions of heads of these three grand divisions into which the general work is contemplated being divided, is' revolving itself in the minds of many of the dele- gates and they are awaiting the report of the nominating committee .with much interest. Y B A 2y < Driven to Suicide by Kemorse. CAIRO, IrL, March 1.—EhLjah Kerby,. aged 56, hanged himself in-his cell in the County Jail this morning. Kerby was about to serve a sentence for criminal assault upon his daughter. He had main- tained that he was innocent. Some years -ngo Kerby killed his brother-in-law and was sentenced for Jife, but Governor Aligeld tommuted his time to eighteeh years and he was released last year. Demolished by an Alpina Avalanche. BERNE, SWITZERLAND, March 1.—One of the wings of the great monastery of Bt. Bernard has been demolished by an ava- lanche. No lives were lost. Ho | FAKERS MUST NOW FCE THE * CONSEQUENCES [ Continvied from Firit Page.| principles of justice and founded. upon the- eternal -rights of man. as defined by the Declaration of : Independence and pros mulgated to the. world by our system of Government as one of the principles that ‘make us better than all other nations. Our Government is founded uvon the | equality of all citizens before the law. *Is not that the fa¢t? Can that be gain- said by anybody?: Every ‘man is entitled under our system of Iaw 10 a fair and im- partial trial before a fair and impartial Judge. 1Is there any dispute as to that? Tu the case of ‘penal offénses you will find that tae man charged with the:mosi hein- ous crime known to the law, aid the petty criminal, that principle prevails and gives them the same rights that we are asking for in {his bill, samely, thit he shall have a fair and impartial trial, as guaranteed under the constitution, before a fair snd, 1mpartial Judge. “While we . have -acknowledged that principle; while we have -accorded :to the | petty criminal that right" we.still deny it |'to men fu-civil cases. . If that- pringiple is. | correct in "the eye of the law-makers-of- this. State, then'it i&_of more importance to protect the rights of the peity criminal than it is to place safeguards around the | poor man. Asthe law now stands there !is no method’ by -which-you can remove a Judge, no matter how much prejadice he may have against you or ow ‘much he may have said against- you, unless he has the decency to get out-of the case and to send for another Judge to- take his place. i . “Itis not sufficient to tell ‘me that you. | can appeal to the Supreme. Court. for & re- | dress of your wrongs,-for there is not a lawyer in the State that does not know | that very often things are said and done | affecting the substantial rights' of the party before the court .for which he.can not get redress ‘on an appeal, particuiarly stnce we have passed a law that says that the Supreme Court shall not give weight to a mere technical matter not vitaily affecting the rights of the appellant. “Give the man the -right to present the facts and let the Judge. act-upon those facts, The Examiner. has itself, in my | judgment, laid the foundation for the in- trodaction of just such a measure as'this, for it bas within the past two . years. spoken of Judges of the Supreme Court who have rot dotie their duty, and 1t has spoken of themr in a way that has weak- ened in some degree the respect dueto the judiciary. “In - fact,”’ continued Caminetti, “s widespread has become this lack of r spect for the .judiciary -that there now is talk ' of a court of discipline—a sort of purgatary.or reform. school in our- jadicial ystem. - We have two State prisons and three reform schools, ang we say to young men: ‘If you act in such a way as to merit your freedom we will give it to you; but.if vou do not we will send you to San Quen- tin.' Now here is a school that. estab- lishes a-court of discipline for the Judges even. The Examiner then felt that there was necessity for guarding the interests and the rights'of the people in every did rection,” _ Caminetti then went ox to explain: sec- tion 4 of the bill, and 'refuted the charge that. the simple filing of the affidavit made it compulsory upon the Judge to transfer the case. He had copied very closely the law of Wisconsin. That law made -it obligatory upon the court to transfer the case. He did mot desire to do that, and he had inserted the words “when it appears from the affidavit of either party.” The word *appears” in that connection has a well-defined mean- | ing under-the law and means that ail the facts must be gone into. In the State of Wisconsin, where the law is obligatory, the courts have decided that it is nov obligatory to transfer the case_unless the-| real facts are stated in the affidavit. The courts -have refused to be bound by the law where the affidavit was insufficient. It was not time, Caminetti argued, that an attorney might take agvantage of the uniriendly relations existing between him- self and the Judge to have his case trans- ferred from one court to another. The bill did not apply to attorneysand covered only the parties to the suit, “The great objection that was raised,” addea Caminetti, “was that this law was made to fit.a certain case now before the Supreme Court. I tell this Asssembly, on my honor as a mémber of thistody, that 1did not introduce this bull for the pur- pose of fitting that case or any other. .1 call upon every member on this floof to bear out the assertion that I have not spoken to 2 single man on the floor of this house orof the Senate. to support -or vote for tirls bilk L - “Does it affect, matter of fact, the | ‘Hale & Norcoss litigation? It could mot de.so, except by a forced construction, or by too violent assumptions. I respect Judge Hebbard as an -honorable man, as an able man, as a man who me the good ‘fortune which the' people of San Francisco have heaped upon him by their votes: The case went back to him with nstructions to take certain testimony. He has taken that testimoiiy and rendered judgmeént thereon. The case has been ap- pealed to the Bapreme Court. - **When the"Examiner throws doubt on the judgment of the Supreme Coart it has assumed that which it has no_right to do. The Supreme Court has passed upon every point at issue, and there can be but very little doubt as to the final outcome, be- cause part of it has been already sus- tained and there can be no doubt that the judgment will be sustained, because they have investigated every possible contin- genty that might arise in the matter. “Assuming for the sake of argument that the judgment will be set aside and that the case will be sent back to Judge He bbard for retrial, what does the Exam- iner admit by its statement and its po tion in this case? It necessarily admits that Judge Hebbard is a prejudiced man, and that because of his prejudice he can not sit in judgment on the case. I say that the Examiner has no right to assume that, and [ bave no right to assume it. If the Judge is prejudiced—if the Judge is ina position that he cannot give any party to that case a fair and impartial hearing—why not apply to him as well as 1o other Judges? ‘1 have no feeling in this matter, but I do have some regard for my standing in this body, and I have regard for ever member on this floor. I respect them all, and’ I am very sorry that any bill I nave brought here shouid be made the subject of such a discussion,” Dryden of 8an Diego followed, and said: “The name of every member of this A« sembly who voted for that bill has been sent broadcast over the land by impl.ca- tion as having been influenced by money.” He added that he had favored the gfll in the Judiciary Committee because a similar Jaw existed in lllinois, in which State he had praciiced 1aw for many years. B Then ‘Dryden, who is a Populist, be- came flippant, and added: “I will that while the Senate of the State of Cai fornia is an honorable, dignitied and wise body,-{ resent with scorn the.imputation of that paper that a Senator is worth $500 and an As emblyman only $150.” - Toland said he thought thatan imputa- tion féundéd upon anything shown in the { Examiner article had been cast indiscrim- inately by the Examiner againsL every member of the Legislature who had been but down as voting for the bill. There was no justice in the asser-ion, and, while he recognized the power of a newspaper “like that,” hé demanded the respect due to his personal rights as a representative of the people; *‘and if the Examiner or anybody,” he added, ‘‘can trace to any improper motive any action that I have taken upon that bill I demand that it start upon any investigation and pursue ittoa conclusion. Illicit or illegitimate use of power I huve no fear of as long as I have the consciousness of havinz done my duty as best I could, and I care not for anybody’s imputation, and I care not what power they have to disseminate their assertions.” % : McClellan introduced the following reso- lution: | o WHEREAS, The, Examiner on Friday, tbe 26th day 6f February, charged that the members of this House had besn bribed 10 vote for Assem- biy bill 273, introduced by Mr. Caminetti, therefore be it 2 Réso ved, That a committee of five be ap- pointed by the Speaker to investigate those charges, said committes to report not later than Wednesdiy, the 3d day of March. Shgnahan moved the adoption of the resolution. - Waymire obtained the floor and saia: *I move to lay the resolution on the table. I am tired of these investigations. We have had enough of them. Nothing ever coines of them. Let us stop this foolish- ness and go ahead with our business,” The roll was called on the motion to lay on-the table and elicitea the fact that Melick, Strain and Waymire did not want an investigation into the charge of bribery preferred against every member of the Assembly. They did not give any reason for their strange action. There were 48 noesand 3ayes, 15 Then the resolution was unanimously passed. Later ia the day Keegan introduced a resolution giving the committee on in- vestigation full power to send for persons and. papers, to administer oaths, to examine witnesses, and to perform all other necessary acts for a thorough examination of the charges made by the fake journal. The resolution was unani- mously adopted. 3 During the evening recess Speaker Coombs appointed the foliowing as the committee on investigation: Belshaw of Contra Costa, Clark of Alameda, Hill of Humboldt, Méad of Los Angeles and Ryan of San Francisco. Mead and Ryan are Demdgrats and the others are Republicans. Nove of the committee voted for the Caminetti bill. The commiittee had a.preliminary meet- ing to-night in room 73 and organized by electing Belshaw as chairman. It was decided to ask the Assembly for a clerk, a serzeAnt-at-arms and a stenographer, to be selected from the present list of at taches, so that no additional expense may be incurred. The meetings wiil be held in the Supreme Court room, the first at 2 o'clock to-morrow afternoon. 0On suggestion of Belshaw it was decided to nold all the meetings openly, the gom- mittee having notaing to conceal. The first witnesses examined will be the six Examiner correspondents, namely: **Blin- ker” Murphy, Edwin H. Clough, L. L. Levings, Franklin Hichborn, C. H. Jessen and Isador Alexander. They will be in- terrogated as 1o what they know about the alleged bribery. If they know noth- ing, which, “beyond the shadow of a doubt,” they do not, the managing editor of the Examiner will be subpenaed and asked whether the wholesale charge in the Examiner has any foundation, even in dreams. BShould he decline to answer be will beimprisoned for contempt. He will be required to give the names of the Assemblymen whom the’Examiner in its anonymous way charges . with being perjured scoundrels and bribe-takers, for a legislator who gives or receives a bribe is a perjured scoundrel. If he cannot give those names or the names of his inform- ants, and it is “*beyond the shadow of a doubt” that he will be unable to do so, tne lie and the fake will be crucified in sight of the whole peopie as another loathsome monument to the enterprise of the “new journalism’ which is making of S8an Francisco and of the State a byword for the tongue of scorn and derision. Ll FOR THE HALL OF JUSTICE. 2he Legisiative Power to Proceed Will Soon Be Ubtained. SACRAMENTO, CaL., March L —Within a few days the fate of Assemblyman Ryan's.bill providing for the enlargement of the old City Hall site and the construc- tion of an addition to the proposed Haull of Justice and appropriating §$150,000 therefor will be .settled so far as the Sen- ate is'concerned. The measure was intro- duced in the Assembiy on January 13, and from that date to February 5 was in the hands of the printer and the San Francisco delegation.. On February 12 it ‘was placed on the special urgency file and read the second time, and was finally passed by the Assembly on Kebruary 16 and sent to the Senate. Here the bill was read the first time and referred on Feb- ruary 17 to the San Francisco delegation; which will report the bill back to the Senate in a day or two, This measure is supplementary to the act of March 17, 1895, conlerring power on the Board of Bupervisors of San Fran- cisco to acquire or condemn land for a suitable site and erect thereon a suitable building or buildings for municipal pur- poses. ‘The supplementary bill eives the Board of SBupervisors power and authority *‘to acquire bv purchass, or to condemn or ac- quire under the law of eminent domain, such lots or lands as may be deemed ex- pedient, if contiguous to the site on which the proposed municipal building or build- ings are to be erected or in process of erection; to provide for the construction or addition to any muniei building or buildings, if any lots or /ands are acquired for that purpose; to provide, on the com- pletion of said municipal building or buildings, for the fiiting up and furnish- ing with suitable fixtures and furniture all the public departments allotted to oc- cu:fi the said building or buildings.” e bill further provides that the Board of Bupervisors *‘shall have full power and authority to provide in the levy for taxes for the ensuing fiscal year and to expend ‘a sum not to exceed fiw,ooo for the pur- pose expressed in aadition to all sums whick may remain nnexnended out of the appropriation made under the provisions of the act of which this is supplementary in the purchase of lots, the construction of additions to municipal building or builn!ny heretofore contracted for, and in the fitting up and furnishing of the said buildings. Drexet’s Eachi Is Safe. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., March L—A special from New Or! says that the private yacht of John R. Drexel, bound from Philadeiphia to New Orleans, seven days overdue, passed through the jettles :l"‘ night, and is expectea to arrive to- 8y, STILL WORKING ON AEPAUPRIATION Senate in Session Daj and Night to Finish. Its Labors. Frivolous Debate Gives Way to Business and Headway Is Made. Chandler’s Armor-Plate Ameniment to the Naval Biil Finally Adopted. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 1.—The Senate met at 11 o’clock this morning and immediately proceeded to the considerati of the District of Columbia appropriation bill. A motion to reconsider the vote by which the sundry civil bill was passed last night was made by Lodge (R.) of Massachusetts. Some tlie afterward he stated bis rea- son for the motion. It was that in his absence last night, and without any notice fo him or any member of the Committee on Immigration, an amendment had been put in vitally affecting the subject of im- migration. He desired to have the amend- ment rejecte |, but as be had just now re- ceived the assurance of the chairman of the Committes on Appropriations (Al lison) and others that the amendment would be abandoned in conference he withdrew the motion. The House bill to authorize the sale of forfeited smoking opium was passed with an amendment striking out the provision for the sale of the forfeited opium and in- serting in lieu of it the words “shall be destroyed.” The District appropriation bill being under consideration, it was passed with very little friction or discussion. Chandler (R.) of New Hampshire gaye notice that he would at the earliest pos- sible moment ask action on the House amendments to the bill for an interna- tional monetary conference. : The last of the great appropriation bills —the general deficiency—was reported to the Senate this morning. The Senate committee added to it $1,892,000, being made up principally of claims against the. Government. The bill now carries a total of $10,334,939. The Senate at 11:50 took up the naval appropriation bill. While the bill was being read it was ordered, at the ‘sugges- tion of Mr. A lison, that at 6 2. M. the Benate shall take a recess until 8 p. & The torpedo-boats amendment and all other amendments up to that point were agreed to without discussion. The re- mainder of the bill having been disposed of the controverted amendments were taken up. The first question wasthe provision in the bill that the total cost of the armor shall not exceed $3.210,000, io which the Senate Committee had reported the amenament that *‘no contract for armor-plaig shall be msde at a raie to ex- ceed $400 per ton.”” Hale (B.) of Maine, in charge of the bill, stated the reasons for the action of the committee. Chandler (R.) of New Hampshire moved to amend the Benate amendment by making it read: “No contract for armor plate shall be made at an average rate to exceed $300 per ton,” and argued in sup- port of his proposition. Replying to a question by Quay (R.) of Pennsylvania, Chandler said he had no recollection of the amendment fixing the price at $400 being sent by the Senate Naval Committee to the Senate Appro- priation Committee. It was surely the conclusion, he saiq, of the appropriation committee. He be- lieved that the contractors would make a fair and reasonable profit on the armor for the three battle-ships at $300. He under- stood that the Illinois Steel Company had written to the Secretary of the Navy stat- ing that if a sufficiently large contract were given to it it would undertake to make the armor plate for $300 a ton. Noticing a8 remark by Quay, Chandler said that he understood the Senator from Pennsylvania to conclude that the offer of the Illinois Steel Company was not bona fide, put was for the purpose of an- noying and embarrassing the Carnegie and thlehem companies. That might be so, he said. He did not know that it wn: so. H+ had no doubt that the ex- periditure of a million dollars would enable the Illinois Steel Company or the Cambria Company or other companies to enter into competition for the contract, and to furnish armor plate (80,000 tons) for not exceeding- $300 a ton. He there- fore thought that his amendment ought to be agreed to. Gorman (D.) of Maryland said that the cost of the armor would be five times greater if manufactured by the Govern- ment than if the armor were made by pri- vate establishments. Gorman advised Senators that the wise thing to do now was to_adhers to the sys- tem inaugurated in 1885, when Chandler was at the head of the Navy Department. The proposition to estabish an_ armor factory by the Government would be un- wise and should be antagonized by the Senate. The bill was laid aside informal'y with. out action on the pending amendments. Conferences were ordered on the Post- office l?pxopriltinn bill and on the sun- dr'; civil appropriation bill. he credentials of Senator-elect Turner of Washington and Heitield of Idaho were read and placed on file. On motion of Hill (D.) of New York the Benate at 4:30 P. M. proceeded to the con- sideration of executive business, and at 6 P. M. took a reces- until 8 o'ciock. ‘When the Senate resumed its session ut 8 o’clock the naval appropriation biil was taken up, the pending amendments being relative to armor plate. Hawley (R.) of Connecticut opposed both the establishment of ‘an armor factory and the fixiug of the price of armor ateither or per ton. Eikins (R.) of West Virginia opposed the expenditure of the $3,210,000 for armor nlate carried by the bill until somethin, definite was known of the real cost of armor, He inveighea against the policy of buys ing armor without knowing anything about its value. He advocated a suspen- sion of the work on the battle-ships if necessary, for with Congress about to ad- ourn, with an arbitration treaty with reat Britain awaiting ratificatron, with the Cuban question bhaving the right of and Julio Sanguilly on his way to the Senate to see his sympathizers, there ‘was no necessity for haste. Timmins (D.) of Kentucky said that while he was a member of the Committee on Naval Affairs he was unable to give Eikins all the light he desired, But be knew there wasno expenditure ‘‘so reek- ing with fraud and so disgraceful to those responsible for it.” He asserted that the two armor-making plants in the country, the Bethlehem ..J‘ Carnegie plants, in- .stead of competing were in collusion to keep up the price of armor plate. e went on to say that companies got 'and that without leaving their their prices ‘‘because Lhey have frienas in the chambe; He spoke of the examina- tion made into tue armor furnished by Carnegie some years ago, when it was shown that the blowholes were plugged up, tue Government stamp misused and plates improperly tempered, and Lhe Sec- retary of the Navy, turough some ‘‘hocus pocus’’, fined Mr.” Carnegie for turnishing delective piates. while ‘*‘our illustrious President, wuo, Gou be praised, gses ouu ol power in Lhree days more, remitied this fine.” Rather than pay more money to the armor barons he would buiid a Gov- ernwent tactory lfor the manuiaciure of | armor, even if it cost $600 or $800 a ton, for then there would at feast be a conso- solation of knowing that the armor was good aud the money was distributed among the workmen. Quay moved Lo iay on the table the mo- tion to reduce the maximum cost of armor 1rom $400 10 $300 a ton, but this motion was beaten—ayes 12, noes 36. $ Chandler, in a final explanation of his amendment, said there was no such thing as compelition in the manulacture of a1- mor plate either in this country or in ‘Europe and tbat the Bethieuem and Car- negie plants were members of an inter- nauonal combine. 5 His amenument was then adopted with- out division and the total amount appro- riated for armor was reduced from $3, 210,000 to $2,407,500. : & The commwiiiee amendment, appropri- ating $1,000,000 for a Guvernment armor vlani, was uefeated by a vota of 26 10 30, The bill was then passed and at mid- night the Senate adjourned until to- morrow. EXTRA S:SSION OF CONGRESS. Issuance of a Proclamation Will Be One of President McKinley's First Official Acts. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 1.—A Her- ald special from Washington says: One of President MicKiniey's first official acts will be the issuance of a proclamation call- ing the Fifty-fifth Congress in extra ses- sion. President-elect McKinley has not yeu announced the date on which he will convene Congress, but it is understood by Chairman Dingley of the House Commit- tee on Ways ana Means and others vitally interested in knowing the date that it will meet on March 15, The primary purpose Gf the extra ses. sion 18 1o pass the new tariff bill. [n his first message to Congress McKinley is ex- pected to devote himse.! almost exclu- sively f0 the ¢ondition of the treasury and to the necessity fot speedily enacting leg- islation that will meet the demands of the; Goverument. 5 s Tue general expectation among promi- nent Republicans 1s that the new Pre: dent will bave very little 10 say in his first message aboat monetary reform, ences. As soon as the Committee on Ways and - Means has been announced, and in its Republican membership it is expected to be the same as the present committee, Chairnfan Dingley will lay the tariff bill before it. Ihe Democratic members Wwill demand time for the consideration of the bill and the preparation of a minority re- port, but Diugley -wiil probably restrict them to about a week. Then the bill will be reported to the House and a special order for its consideration will be adopted. Itisexpected that this order will allow bot two weeks for debate. Tne House will then pass the bill and send it over to the Senate, where the troubles of the tariff biil wili begin, and it is thoughtit weu'd be impossible to pass it _at all but for the fact that many of the Democrats and Popu- lists are dispoeed to give the Republicans every opportunity to carry out ti.eir legis- lative programme. The Serate will exer- cise the full nght to amend the bill, and it is probable that this, as were the last three tariff bills, will be practically made by the Senate. Itisthe hopeof tne Re- publican leaders that the bill may become alaw and that the extra session. will a journ by June. i —————— PREACHING BY TELEPHONE, Lifi-Savers at Two Stations on the New Jersey Shore Listen to a Long- ' Distance Sermon. NEW YORK, N. Y., March L—The members of the coast guard along the New Jersey shore enjoyed adouble novelty yesterday. They attendad divine services tation, and each station heard the same sermon. Rev. Mr. Schermer had long wished to reach the life savers, and last week he thought out a plan. He knew that every two of the life-saving stations were con- nected by telephone and that e were transmitted all alorg the coast, be- ing repeated at every other station. _The clergyman communicated his pro- ect to Keeper Ludlam of the Stone arbor station, who said the idea was ble in a way—that was, the sermon could be repeated from every other station, but there was no way just now of making d:rect connection all the way through. The matter was explained to the life- savers, who entered into the spirit of it and agreea to send the sermon along, both up and down tae coast. Accordingly Mr. Schermer and his deacons went to Stone Harbor yesterday and the plan was put into successful oper- ation. At the first repeating station either wav a guard stood at the telephone and received the sermon by sentences. He repeated what was said by Mr. Schermer aloud to his fellows. One of them standing at anoth r tele- phone took up the discourse and passed it along to the next little crowd of list- eners, and thus several hundred men heard the preacher’s woids«. . LA SANGUINARY RIOT AT KNOXVILLE. Trackiayars Arcayed Against Police and Firemen—0One M:n Killed and Many Injured. @KNOXVILLE, TeNN, March 1.—A ter- rible riot occurred here to-day, caused by a conflict of authority between the United States and city duthorities about the con- trol of the streetcar franchise. Several officers are under arrest. Arnold, a negro, was fatally shot and Chief of thé Fire De- partment McIntosh had his skunll broken. At an early hour this morning laborers were put to work laying rails in the streets for the pussession of which a legai fight had been in progress. Police were ordered -to the scene to ston the work and were ordered to arrest the labor rs, which they attempted to do, but were assaulted by a mob of men. Then to help the city authorities the fire department was called out, and when they arrived at the seat of trouble they connected their hose with the hydrants and turned the water on the crowd. The water, instead ot cooling down the crowd, had the cpposite effect, and a hot tight ensued, in which one man was killed ouiright and twenty were seriously hart, some of whom wili undoubtedly die. Excitement in the c:ty is intense and further trouble is probable. All the city officials are now under arrest. sl Santa Fe Ratlway Earnings. CHICAGO, IrL, March 1.—The state- ment issued to-day by the Atchison, To- peka and Banta Fe Railway system shows: Gross earnings for the month of January, 1897, $2.237,138, against $2,484,663 for 1806; Net earnings for the month o January, 1897, $437,954, against $763.635 for 1896: 8is0 gross earnings for seven months of the fiscal year to Jannary 31, 1897, $18,- 424,306 a:ainst $17.894.026 for the corre- sponaing pericd ir 1896; net earnings for seven months of the fiscal year to January 81, 1897, $5,424,653 against $4 309,110 for 3hie corresponding period in 1896. At S Bankers and Steam-hip Agents Fail, SLA WITH 615 PIPE AT WICHITA Aged L J White Murdered by Art Ingram, a Gambler. Use of a Novel Weapon as a Harpoon Cu'minates in Death. ODiuni. Drunk:nn-ss, J-alousy anc Crime Lead Up to the Tragely. WICHITA, Kaws., March L—An epi- demic of crime .as broken out in this. city, and to-night has adaed its tragedy to the list. L. J. White was mur lered by Art Ingram, a local gambler and thug, this evening, in front of the latier’s home on North Water street, in -a disreputable part of the town. _ 2 Ingram, who is under arrest, refuses to talk, but the_supposition is.that White had been in the latter’s hopse, that they quarreled, and that Ingram drove him from the house, and, as the old man fled in the darkness, hurled a piece of gas-pipe after him as one would wield & horpoon. The gas-pipe struck White in the back of the neck, took an upward course and buried itself in his brain. Ingram either did not know the awful result of bis aim or was too much under. tne influence of liquor to realize ir, for he went to the police station, told the officers that he bad gof into trouble and asked them to attend to the injured man. The police found White lying unconscious be-- tween the Missouri Pacific tracks with a long piece of gaspipe sticking 1n his head.’ When the pipe was withdrawn the brains oozed from the wound. The wounded man was taken to his home, where he aied within half an hour, never baving . regained consciousness. < but he may talk of international confer- |: Ingram was locked up. His brother, “Fiatty” Ingram, is just out of the peni- tentiary, where he served a term for high- way robbery. A. lngram’s wifeis the one who was abducted by a gangof young toughs over a year ago, taken 1o Griswold Park, drugeed.and assaulted. lngram was one of the gang and was forced to marry her, One theory is that the tragedy to-night was brought on by Ingram’s jeal- ousy of White, White has until recently conducted a restaurant on East Douglass avenue. - He was 55 years oid, a member of the Modern Woodmen and the Knights of Pythias. Irigram is a molder by trade. He is an opium fiend. NO PEOVISION ¥FOR.MILEAGE, 4 Disagreeadle Feature of the Exira ston of Congress. : WASHINGTON, D. G, March. 1L — Thereis disappointmentamong the United States Senators recently elected and the old ones who will be Lere to attend the extra session that will be called to meet March 15 on account of the failure of the law to provide them with mileage. The law stipulates that members of Con- gress shall be paid mileage at the rate of 25 cents per mile each way at the begin- ning of each regular session of Congress There are but two regular sessions and the disbursing officers have no authority to pay mileage for any other ses . New Senators are expecting mileage when they appear to be sworn in on the 4th of March for the special session of Copgress, ana quite a number of the old members who have been here for several terms were under the imbression that thay were also entitled to this perquisite, No members of the Fifiy-fiith Congress will be paid a_dollar of mileaze until the first Monday in December, when the regu- lar session convenes. Mt R Public Debt Statemant, . WASHINGTON, D. C, March 1.—The debt statement issued this afternoon shows a net increase in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during Febroary of $4,592 137 10. The interesi-bearing debt It's a Iittle ‘waste to use mo’i‘g -of Jrophy baking powder than the direc- tions call for— beyond that there’snoharm done. It containsno strong drugsto spoil the flavor of your cake. Tillmann & Bexdel, Mfva .| 000, net.cast balance $112,837,255: ‘|an increase of $1 .| increased $200, ‘he ‘non-interest bearing debt increased §2,066,772, and- cash in the treasury decreased $2,5:5,165. . The bal ‘| ances of ‘the several ciass~ of debt Feb, 28 were: Interest-bearing: debt, $847,364,. 950; debt on which interest has cessaa since matu ity, $1,358,210; debt béaring interest, $376,754,542; total, $1,225,437, 708 The certificates and treasury. notes offset by-an equal amount of cash jr.the treds. ury outstanding at the end of thé month wer: $606,077,513, an increase of $11,002,- 000. Tne toial cashin: the treasurv was $864,338,166, the gold reserve was $100,000, In the month thére was an “increase in gold coin Of silver. there-was: 57; .% the surplgs onal .Bnk deposi~ ,729 at the being $186,206 208 43 there was in the tories $16 456,040, against $16,57 end of the previous monih $ WX Banker Sherm 1n 8. Jewstt.Dead. BUFFALO, N.Y., March 1.—-Sherman 8. Jeweit, he well-known banket, is dead. He leaves a fortune ot $2,000.000. WEAK MEN WEAK MAN HAS NO HEART TO anything wéll. No matter how arden he wishes to succeed soniething will stop b for the reason that he has not'the power to bridge the river where it is roughest. Weak men don't succeed in life. * Weak men beget their weaknmesées. They get it in. m variety of ways. They-get weak' throfigh er- rors in early life, through dissipition, late hours, bad-habits, whisky, ebuses. * Abiise does more harm 0 our young generation than war, than pestilénce. 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LOT, EAST SIDE, F'horh ot Lombard, ‘thence morth enst 187:6 feet, south ) 37:6 Toet 10 the- nor: of Lombard. thence west 27:6fee}on Lombard, hence ngrth 85 feet, wesc 110 fet td east.side of. Fillmore. - 5 . REENWICH - 8T, 152:5 5- § feet west of Buchanan, west 122:7x" HESTNUT-ST. LOT, SCUTH SIDE. 137:6 feet east:of Laguna; size 68:9x1372:6 feet; 1-16 Interest. % o anmvw{cu-s'r. LOT, SOUTH_SIDE, 162:6 feet west of.Gough'st., west 75 by 110 7eet. AGUNA-ST. LOT, BEING THE NORTH- west corner 0f Lombard st., size S0x110 feet; one-sixteenth interest. LSO IN.AND TO AN UNDIVIDED INTER- held by tbe above estate in & certain tract of land siiuated in U Francisco and known the Kickett claim. Probate Court. - © BOVEE, TOY & SONNTAG, Real Estate Agents and Auctioneers, - 30 Montgomery st., opp. Lick House, but know the belt. Weare C:WCO;AGS‘ llx:., March 1.—Anton Boen- ert , bankers and steamship agen bave assigned, g u'l ~- seéction who will willingly testify to the genuipe of our patents. ter. 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