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- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 6 1897. 3 CLOUDBURSTS AND HEAVY TORMADOES Great Havoc Caused by the| Storms in Eastern States. Residents of Suburbs Along the Rivers Flee for Their Lives. \ ‘ ‘ | | | i | | Much Proverty Destroyed and Rail-; road Tracks Washed Out on | Several Lines l | ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 5—At mid- night last night the rain which has fallen steadily for thirty-six hours suddenly be- came of cloud-burst proportions, and all the low-lying parts of the city were soon under water. The River Dec Peres, which | drains the city’s western suburbs, over- flowed its banks, and the viliages of Chel- tenham, Clifton, Howard, Benton, Ellen- dale and Edgewood were water-bound. The track of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad was covered. The River Dec Peres, ordinarily eighteen inches deep, was twelve feet deep and a mile wide. But one railroad track, the Missouri Pacific, was above water. A footbridge at the Sublettc avenue cross- ing was carried away and two men were | drowned. People living in the flooded Aistrict took refuge in the tops of their houses. The police and volunteers brought boats and took them to high ground. This | work went on until -daylight, when the water receded rapidly. The loss will be enormous. The Iron Mountain tracks along the | river were washed out at three points, though traffic is continued over the Illi- nois Central to Cairo. Every incoming train was late from two to four hours. On the other side of the Mississippi River the flood did some damage, princi- pally to railroads. The Vandalia and Baltimore and Ohio are the most serious sufferers. Canteen Creek, near the bluffs, grew to the proportions of a lake near | insinuations. were unroofed and the Masonic Temple was slightly damaced. No fatalities have been reported as yet. WEYLER'S FIERCE DEF/ANCE. Scoffs at Newspaper Criticisms and Says He Will Continue to Wade in Cuban Blood. HAVANA, Cusa, March 5—While at Ramedios Captain-General Weyler was interviewed by a correspondent ot La Lucha of this city. General Weyler said among other things: “Believe me, I pay no attention what- ever to what is said or murmured about me by the newspapers here or outside of Cuba. I have fixed invariable plans, which I intend to follow with all the tenacity of which I am capable, and noth- ing will make me deviate from that line of conduct. My columns are now impos- ing peace with the muzzles of their guns. Notning wil be heard of peace in the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Havana or Matanzas until I begin operations on a | great scale, pressing, pursuing and cor- raling the rebels on all sides. The same thing will happen in the eastern provinces as soon as I begin operations in that part of the island.” All the locul daily papers, in their com- ments upon President McKinley's inaug- ural address, express satisfaction that he did not allude to the Cuban question. This is taken to indicate that he will adopt a policy of abstention, leaving Spain to settle her affairs alone. g THE MUKDER OF RUIZ. Consul Lee Complains of Olney’s Unjust Conduet. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 6.—A dis- patch to the Herald from Havana say Consul-General Lee has received the cor- respondence in relation to the Ruiz case, as given to the Senate by the Secretary of State, Mr. Olney. The Consul-General will not make an official reply until the official record is forwarded to him. He will then in the most public manner reply to the correspondence, which does him grave injustice. At the proper mo- ment he will have no difficulty in proving how without foundation are Mr. Olney’s It can hardly be imagined how the department could have supposed that General Lee would demand Ruiz's release from enty-two hours had elapsed. The department never authorized Con- sul Lee to do so, though instructions in this sense have been repeatedly requested | by him in similar cases and were never forthcoming. In the Scott case General Lee demanded his release from incommunicado upon his Collinsville and Caseyville. Serious wash- outs at thess points caused the abandon- ment of all trains on the Vandalia and Baltimore and Ohio. There are two breaks on the Vandalia road near Collinsville two hundred yards wide, and the water is | runping under the track in torrents. Th loss to farmers in the American Bottom and south to the Chester Bluffs will be | CIX> Ohio Rive been a steady downpour of rain for fifteen | I TI, O=io, r is rising rapidiy. March 5.—The | There has | hou Great damage is reported. Many | rsons were compelied to flee for their T The steam railroads and the electric line to College Hill were closed on account of the submerged tracks. The town of Lockland, Ohio, is innndated, and at Cummingsville, in the northern part of | this city, the raging torrent is doing more dasmage than the recent high water. Houses kave been moved from their foundations. All small streams are swollen. The Miami and Licking rivers wiil certainly rise to swell the Ohio Kiver, which is now rising at the rate of seven inches an hour. The Weather Bureau states that the in is general from the Missouri Valley to the Alleghany Range, being heaviest in Iilinois, Indiana and Western Ohio. The river at this point is expected to reach the danger line—forty-five feet—by the rising ot its northern tributaries. The rain is likely to continue all night. The sur- rounding country has been greatly dam- | aged by the overflow of small streams. A landslide at Trautmans station car- ried away part of the Big Four Railroad track and covered other parts, preventing any traips on that road reaching this city. Andersons Ferry is submerged from surface floods, all the river-front houses are in danger, and north of the city the | flood is the worst ever experienced there. COLUMBTUS, O=Io, March 5.—Rain has been falling steadily and heavily since last night. The water is threatening the street railways. Reports from the country say that great damage has been done by the floods. All railroad trains were de- layed by washouts. The Ohio River is rising and another flood is expected. LOUISVILLE, Ky.,, March 5.—Five railroads were cut off from Louisville to- day by the heavy rains in Indiana. Every line north ot the Ohio River has trains | scattered all over Indiana between Louis- | ville, Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati. The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago and the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern had no trains in or out. The Biz Four | train from Chicago, due at 7:30 A. i, ar- | rivedat 1 .M. The Pennsylvania only | succeeded in getting in one train, and the | St. Louis Air Line’s service was badly de- | moralized. { A tornado did considerable damage in Central Kentucky this morning. Western Kentucky was also in the storm’s path. In Christian County a negro was killed by the blowing down of a barn and twoothers probably fatally injured. Near East Christian Robert Hail, a farmer, was fatally injured by a piece of flying timber. INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp., March 5.—Not since 1875 have the railroads experienced | s0 much trouble from high waters as to- day. There was not a train in from Cin- | cinnat to-day. The Indianapolis and Vin- | cennes had five washouts and .all through trains were annulled for the day. The Vandalia had trouble on the westend and no trains arrived {rom St. Louis until late | this evening. The Peoria and Eastern was delayed two hours by a washoutat Cler- mont. The Monon has a washout south of Crawford<ville, and ran its night ex- press for Louisville via Nashville intend- | ing to go over the Louisville d:vision of the Pennsylvania line, but between Co- lumbus got tied up by 8 washout. | The Big Four’s first trouble was at Val- | ley Junction where the dirt from a bank had rolied down on the track for a consid- erable distanc: covering the track several feet deep. To get around thistie Big Four sent its trains wést over the Cincin- nati, Humilton and Dayton, but between Rushville and Morristown washouts stopped the Monon trains, and all day trains of both roads were tied up and not until evening was there any train from Cincinnati. The Big Four also had diffi- cuity on its Cincinnati and Columbus di- vision. On the Cairo division several washouts were reported. NASHVILLE, Tes~., March 5.—A small cyclone struck Nashyille this afternnoon, doing considerable damage. The centen- nial buildings came through unscathed. Bcores of big downtown business houses own authority, and the department, see- ing that the steps were approved by the people, did not disavow it. But until after the murder of Ruiz the department had never insisted npon the recognition by the Spanish suthorities of this un- doubted treaty right. et ey WILD COMPELITOR RUMOR. | Groundless Story of Her Having Been Released and Sunk. HAVANA, Cusa, March 5.—A number of inquiries were received here to-day re- garding a report that the Spanish au- thorities had released the capturea filibus- tering schooner Competitor and her crew and that the vessel had been sunk by a Spanish warship after leaving the harbor. | The report is totally unfounded. Tbe Competitoris lying at the anchorage here, in whioh she was placed after being brought here. The men who were cap- tured on her are still in the Cabanas fortress, and as far as can be learned from the close-mouthed officials there has been no change in their condition since they were tried and sentenced to death. e et NEW ORDERS FEOM MADRID. Convicted Americans to Be Exzpelled From the Island. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.—Becre- tary Olney has recsived the following ca- blegram from Consul-General Lee at Ha- vana: All quiet; no excitement here now. I hope to see prompt trial of a!l Americans impris- oned, those found innocent to be released and those guilty sentout of the island. This dispatch, which came this after- noon in cipher, indicates a most impor- tant change of attitude on the part of the military authorities in Cuba under orders from Madrid, as guilty Americans, on | conviction, are to be expelled from the island instead of being otherwise pun- | ished. e, FROM THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. D.mond Securss a D.vorce and Custody of His Child—The Ex-Queen’'s Move- ments Cause Uneasiness. HONOLULU, Hawair, Feb. 25, via Vic- | toria, B. C., March 5.—T. E. French of San Francisco and Valley Springs was drowned on the 19th, while bathing at Waikiki Beach. Warren Goodall fell dead in the street of heart disease on the night of February 2. He was an aged man of high stand- | ing here for fifty years. The Dimond divorce case closed yester- day after ten days’ trial. Judgment was promptly given for the husband and the custody of the child and no alimony to the wife. Spectators and the press were excluded. Itislearned thatfour degraded women testified to participation in vile orgies at the husband’s house in h1s wife’s absence, where the captain of a steamer was present and three white women from the ship took a very active part. The hus- band was able to refute that by the testi- mony of relizble men living with him at the time alleged. No violence on the husband’s part was proved except that in a violent quarrel about her conduct with a naval othcer he shot at her and plunged her into a chair. Her theatrical engagement is understood to have contributed to defeat her claims to the custody of tne child. Neither of the parties receives any sym- pathy. The wife was married at 18 to & young and indiscreet husband, who was apt 1o fill his house with naval offiters and other gay companions. The royalist paper, the Independent, discredits the Washington report thai Lilinokalani has repudiated the validity of her act of abdication. All the papers have entirely abstained from comment while awaiting further news, The general belief here is that She bas done this in or- der to be in a better position ‘as Queen to ask for a money indemnity for her de- thronement and loss of income of crown lands on the ground that she was de- throned by United States naval forces. It is now believed that she would resume an attitude of open hostility to this Govern- ment in mere wantonness without a spe- cific object. Many persons believe when she left here that the object of her visit was to enter such a suit. o Items From Colom. COLON, Coromsra, March 5. — The Britisn stenmer Earnwell, Captain Hicks, from Nombre Dio< for Baltimore, which went ashore at Vento Frio, but which was subsequently floated, leit here yester- day for Key West in towof the wrecking steamer Merrill. Five hundred laborers arrived here yes- terday from Jamaica to work on “the canal. The cable between this place and Ja- maica, which broke recently, has not yet been repaiied. incommunicado when sev- | FOR BACK TAXES AND PENALTIES Kentucky Attorney-General Prepares Suit Against Huntington. 1 Southern Pacific Lawyers Can No Longer Dodge the Road’s Debts. An Extra Session of the Blue Grass Legislature That Has Great Significance. FRANKFORT, Kv., March 5.—Attor- ney-General Taylor has prepared suits to be filed against the Southern Pacific Rail- road for taxes and penalties for the past four yenrs, aggregating $150,000, and will file the first suit on Monday or Tuesday for $60,000. 1t is known that it isthe in- tention of Attorney-General Taylor to file all the suits within the next week unless the attorneys come up and settle before that time. The $60,000 suit is for penalties for 1893- 94, and brings the question to a square issue. The attorneys for Huntington have claimed they were unable to make any statement to the officers on account of statistics which nad to be sent to New York and San Franciscc. The Attorney- General set a date upon which they were requested to come forward. Attorneys Humphrey and Davis stated they had re- ceived statistics, but were compelled to send them back to New York on account of not being sufficiently full. This was simply 8 move on their part to prevent further legislation, and in the hope that if the road should gain the suit there would be no further remedy against them. General Taylor anticipated this, and recommended legislation which would give further power to the Board of Valua- n, and prevent the road from escaping taxation. Governor Bradley’s call for the Legisla- ture to meet in extra session March 13, issuea to-day, recommends the passage of acts for proper legislation along this line, and since the call was issued, the attor- neys for the road nave asked another con- ference with Attorney-General Taylor, but itis not likely that terms will be reached, as General Taylor will accept nothing !shortof a complete settlement, and the road’s lawyers have already indicated that they are not going to do this unless com- pelled to do so by enforcement. IRISH A¥¥alR> IN PARLIAMENT: Relations Discussed Remedies Suggested. LONDON, Exa, March 5—In the | House of Lords to-day Lord Castleton | (Liberal) raised the question of the finan- Financtal and | cial relations between Great Britain and | Ireland and suggested as a remedy for the | grievances of Ireland the creation of a con- | solidated fund, to be managed by Irish financiers and 'utilized to promote Irish indusiries and agriculture. Lord Lansdowne, Secretary of State for War, speaking on behalf of the Govern- ment, advised that the House await the report of the committee appointed to in- quire into the financial relations existing between Great Britain and Ireland. Lord Farrer (Liberal) expressed his disapproval of the scope of the inquiry allowed to the new commisssion. TLord Morris, Lord of Appeal, expressed the opinion that unjust taxation was answerable for the downward course of Ireland. He believed that crops wounld disappear altogether and the people of Ireland still further decrease in numbers if the taxes were not reduced. Lord Spencer (Liberal) thought that the decrease of taxation in Ireland was the only eventual solution of a safe measure of home rule. e KRUGEE AS AN AUTOCRAT. Sends a Threatening Letter to the Trans- vaal High Court. PRETORIA, TRANSVAAL, March 5. — President Kruger has addressed a letter o the Chief Justice and the Judges of the High Court of the South African Republic demanding that they conform to the law passed by the Volksraad on_ February 25, placing the High Court under the juris- diction of the Volksraad, within fourteen days, and further warns them not to arro- gate to themselves the right to place their own interpretation upon the constitution of the country. ST L S Embassador to England. PARIS, Fraxce, March 5.—The Soleil asserts that General Jean Baptiste Billot will succeed Baron de Courcet as French Embassador to Great Brit: General lBi]lul, is a life member of the French B:nate and was Minister of War in the Cabinet of M. de Freycinet from January to August, 1882, and in the succeeding Cabinet formed by Duclerq from August, 1882, until January, 1833. e S0 Wall Not Seat Don Carlos. MADRID, &8raiy, March 5.—Premier Canovas held a conference with the Carlist leaders yesterday and received from | them absolute denials of the reports that they were preparing for an armed move- ment 1n favor of the pretensions of Don Carlos. Any such reports they assured the Premier were positively without foundation. | | Emperor William Swears In Recruits. BERLIN, GErMANY, March 5.—Emperor William arrived at Wilhelmshaven to- day for the purpose of swearing 1n the naval recruits. The Kaiser was accom- anied by Prince Henry of Prussia, and Eoth were received with great enthusiasm. g Storms Rage in Spain. LONDON, Exa., March 5.—A dispatch from Madrid says that violent storms have raged on the north coast of Spain, causing great damage to provertv. Two vessels have been wrecked off Puerto de Basajes and twenty-seven persons were drowned. Sl BSiege Declared in Montevedio, LONDON, Exe., March 5.—A dispatch from Montevidio says that a siege has been proclaimed and orders have been issued for the mobilization of the troops of tae republic. Death of a Bourbon Prince. LONDON, Exc., March 5.—Prince Louis de Bourbon, Comte d’Aquila, formerly an admiral in the Brazilian navy, died here to-day. | s e | Deatn of David Fouts. BALTIMORE, Mp., March 5.—Dave Foutz, the well-known baseball-player, and of recent years manager of the Brool Iyn league team, died at his mother’s home at Waverly, a suburb of this city, to-day, of asthm: — Run Down and Killed. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 5.—James P. Kernochan, the well-known clubman | who was knocked down by a horse on Fifth avenue on Monday, died at 8 o'clock | this evening at his home on Fifth avenue. g ol SEEKING GAEDNER'S RELEASE. Friends of the Faster Want to Kelieve a California Asyiwm. CHICAGO, IrL., March 5.—The Chroni- cle this morning says: Friends of Robert Gardner, the emulater of Dr. Tanner and Succi and the man who recently completed & fast of fifty-two days in Los Angeles, will endeavor to secure his release from the California asylum under the Illinois wife abandonment act, Gardner having deserted his wife in Chicago when he left the city for Los Angeles to carry out his strange regime. At a meeting held on the South Side last | November he received the injunction from the spirit world to proceed immediatly to Los Angeles and there to develop himself by a course of fasting. At once Gardner gave up his position with Morton and left his wife pennilessat their home on Cottage Grove avenue, near Forty-third street. She was subsequently cared for by friends on Emerald avenue. She is now in the Provident Hospital, Thirty-ninth and Dearborn streets. Upon his arrival in Los Angeles, Gardner enzaged apartments at the Hotel Vogel and bezan nis fast January 5. For filty-two days he did net take food in any form, taking nothing into his mouth or stomach save a little water. i Awful Colliery Ewmplosion in Arkansas. HUNTINGTON, ARk., March 5—Two miners were killed and thirty seriously injured in the explosion of the mine of the Kansas and Texas Coal Company. D BILLS. Numerous Measures Failed to Receive Cleveland’s Signature. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.—The “pocketed” bills of the session of Con- gress ending yesterday which failed to become laws because not signed by the President (exclusive of the four great ap- JFropriation bills already mentioned) were forty-five in number, of which eighteen were private pension relief bills, twelve bills to correct military 1ecords of indi- viduals and four were local legislation for the District of Columbia. The measures of zeneral importance that reached the President and failed were the sundry eivil bill, agricultural bill and Indian appropriation bilis, the deficiency bills no! reaching the White House at ail. The joint resolution to pre- vent the introduction and spread of con- tagious diseases in the United States; the | act setting apart certain lands in the State of Washington, now known as the | Pacific forest reserve, as a public park to | be known as Wasuington National Parx the act to permit right of way through the public lands for tramroads, canals, etc.; the act to repeal the timber culture laws; the act in regard to the delivery of letters in towns under certain conditions; to re- quire patents 10 be issued to land settled under the act to provide for the settle- ment of the peninsula of Florida; the act to simplify the system of making sales ‘n the subsistence department of the navy and the act authorizing the Galveston and Great Northern Railroad Company to con- struct a railroad through Indian Terri- tory. ————— SENATOE WOLCOTT’S RETURN, Has Nothing to Say at Present, but De- nies False Statements. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.—Sena- tor Wolcott of Colorado, who went to Europe some weeks ago to ascertain the sentiment there with respect to an inter- national monetary conference, reached Washington this morning. He declined 10 discuss the resultof his mission. It would manifestly be improper for me to talk about this matter,” said Mr. Wolcott, “for no good would comeof it. What I may have learned cannot at this time be made public, but I wish the Unitea Asso- ciated Presses wonid deny, in my behalf, some of the &llegld interviews with my- self that have appeared in the public prints. I wish you would say that [ have at no time stated the names ot those with whom I have conferred, and never have I | quoted the sentiments tney have enter- | tained or the ideas expressed. 1 have been quosea in the press as doing this, and such statements are absolutely inaccurate and erroneous.” . TORPEDO-BOAT CHRISTENING. Named by Seoretary Herbert After Dis- tinguished Naval Officers. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.—Sec- retary Herbert to-day issued an order naming the new torpedo-boats as follows: No. 1, Farragut; No. 6, Porter; No. 7, Dupont; No. 9, Dahigren; No. 10, T. A. Craven. The vessels are named after naval officers who served with distinction during the War of the Rebellion. The order changes to Porter the name of torpedo-boat No. 6, which a few weeks ago had been christened Farragut, in order that No. 1, which is a much larger boat and which is expected to make much greater speed, may be called after the leading admiral. No. 10 is named for Tunis A. Craven, Who was lost when com- manding the mobitor Tecumseh in Mobile | Bay, and who, when the pilot told him it was' time to abandon the ship, replicd, *After you, pilot.” The pilot alone lived to tell the story. To Succeed Judge Ide. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5—W. L. Chambers of Alabama, who was formerly United States Land Commissioner of Samos, has been agreed upon by Great Britain, Germany and the United States as Chief Justice of Samoa, Lo succeed Judge Ide, who is also an American. The King of Somoa makes the appointment and will undoubtedly confirm the selection. —— Ex-Secretary Carlisle’s Future. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.—The Times says: Hon. John G. Carlisle wili soon_be general counsel for the Puilman Cear Company at §25,000 a year. Logan Carlisle stated to-night that Sec- retary Carlisle had not yet decided where he would locate or what he would do. It is understood that he has several offers under advisement. —_— Glass to Go to Mars Island. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.—Cap- tain Henry Glass is ordered the last day of the month as captain of the Mare Isl- and Navy-yard, C: Naval Cadets Hall, Johnson, McCormick, Roby, Bannon Landing, Kerns and Morton are ordere from the Oregon to the naval academy for | final examination prior to promotion as ensigns. —_— Movements of Naval Vessels. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.—The Monitor Puritan, on her way from Coarles- ton, has been compelied to seek refuge from heavy weather at Southport, N. C. The Montgom:ry reached Pensacola to- day and the flagship Philadeiphia left 8an Diego for San Jose de Gautemala. gt Republican Semators to Cawous. ‘WASHINGTON. D. C., March 5.—A call was issued this afiernoon for a caucus of Republican Senators to-morrow at 2 o'clock. The purpose is to select a chair- man of the caucus to succeed Mr. Sher- man, but it is probable that other matters may be discussed. Detained by His Wife's Iliness. ‘W ASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.—Hon. Grove Johnson will not be able to return to California at once, and it may bea week or two before he starts. The delay is caused by the serious iliness of his wife, who, while out of danger, is yet very sick. —_—— Stotter for Assistant Premier. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.—Ex- Congressman Bellamy Stotter of Ohio has been tendered and accepted the office of First Assistant Secretary of State, now filled by Mr, Rockhill of Maryland. SECRETARY OLNEY SHOWS HIS EARS His Dignity Wounded by the Inauguration Com- mittee. Assigned to a Back Seat in the Senate Chamber by an Oversight. Explanations Are Unavailing, and the Ex-Premier Declines to At- tend the Ceremonies. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.—The cause of Secretary Olney’s coaspicuous non-participation in the inaugural cere- monies is explained as follows: The members of the Cabinet, in dis- cussing at Cabinet meetings last Tuesday the parts assigned to them in the inauz- ural proceedings, fourd no provision in the programme for their seats in the Sen- ate chamber or on the stand in front of the Capitol. Secretary Thurber immediately com- municated with Secretary Sherman, chair- man of the arrangements committee, who repliea that heads of departments had been provided for on the stand, but not in the Senate. The programme Wwas coD- sulted again, and this was found to be true, but they werein the rear of mem- bers of the House of Representatives, whereapen Secretary Olney declared that he would not go to the Capitol at all All the members of the Cabinet agreed upon this action, but when Mr. McKinley came to the White House yesterday and started with Mr. Cleveland he noticed that the Cabinet officers were not going to accompany the parade, and, on in- quiry, learned the reason. Senator Sherman, who was present, im- mediately offered to give front seats to the secretaries on the floor of the Senate, and Mr. Cleveland’s advisers consented to attend the ceremonies. None of them, however, went on the stand as ‘*heads of departments” to listen to the inaugural speech, but hurried off to Secretary La- mont’s house to bid Mrs. Cleveland good-by. Seretary Olney did not get Mr. McKin- ley’s verbal invitation to go to the Capitol because he was not at the White House with his colleagues in the morning, being detained at the State Department all day by important matters. He went, however, to the ball in the evening, prepared to escort Mrs. McKinley, according to the | adopted programme, but this was disar- | ranged at the last moment by Mrs. Mc- Kinley’s weak condition compelling her to have other assistance. e COURTEOUS SECKETARY SHERMAN How Hawaii’s Ex-Queen Was Enabled to Witness the Inauguration. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.—Ex- Secretary of State Olney denies any per- sonal responsibility for the presence of ex-Queen Lilinokalani of Hawaii in the diplomatic gallery of ibe Senate yesterday and to offset the publication that the ex- regal presence there during the inaugura- tion was due to a surreptitious gift of a ticket to her by the State Department, ex- hibits the following letter: UNITED STATES 8 FOREIGN RELATIONS, F 7 Hon. Richard Oiney, Secretary of State—SIR: Ex- Queen Ulinokalani is desirous of witnessing the inauguration of the President ana Vice- President-elect on the 4th of March, and she has made application through her friends for two seats, one for herseli and ome for her escort. It is tmpossidle for the committes on ar- rangemeals to provide these places exceptin the diplomatic gallery, but as the tickets to that gallery are {0 be sent to you for distribu- tion the committee does not feel ai liberty to assign seats in that gallery to anv one. It is, however, the judgment of the com- mittee of arrangements that you provide the scats for the ex-Queen out of the sixty 10 be sent you for the use of the diplomatic’ corps. Very respectfully, JOHN SHERMAN, Chairman of the Committee on Arrangements. S aggne PLEASING INCIDENT. Governor Bushnell and Semator Hanna Ackncwledge @ Serenade. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.—Mark A. Hanna received his commission as United States Senator from Governor Bushnell this morning. Both the Gover- nor and Mrs, Bushnell are stopping at the Arlington, where they figured in a pleas- ing incident early in the day. The Amer- icus Club of Pittsburg went to the Arling- ton with its band to serenade B. H. War- ner of Washington, who had charge of the civic parade yesterday. Mr. Warner maie a little speech and then Governor Bushnell was calied out to makea few remarks. He spoke of the beautiful weather that marked the inanguration day and said it wes an omen of the bright, sunny and prosperous administration that the President would give. Hanna, attracted by the music that fol- lowed the Governor’s little speech, came to the window of his apartment. He was seen by the crowd, which cheered with vigor and called loudly for a few words from the new Senator. Hanna yielaed to the importunities by coming down to where the Americus Club men and spectators were standing and made some remarks in a happy vein, NEW TIMBER IN THE SENATE. Many Famous Characters Drop Out of Public Life With the Change of the Administration. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.—There are a number of new faces in the Senate that starts out with the incoming of the McKinley administration. There is the fiery Foraker, to whom may be applied a paraphrase of the historic remark ad- dressed to General McClellan on the oc- casion of his inauguration as Governor of New Jersey in 1878: ‘‘Great Governor of yesterday, great Senator of to-day; who shall say but that greater honors may be awaiting thee ?” Xor the first time in thirty-seven years, or since 1860, there is a Republican Sen- ator from the State of Maryland, George L. Wellington succeeding . Charles H. Gibson as the colleague of Arthur Gorman. David B. Hill has said adieu to his as- sociates and Thomas C. Platt reaches the height of his ambition in becoming a regularly elected Senator from the Em- ire State. Big hearty, good-tempered enator Pugh of Alabama is succeeded by E. W. Peitis, and General John B. Gordon of Georgia mages way for A. S. Clay. Fred I. Dubois ot Idaho gives place to Henry Heittield, while the veneravle John M. Patmer of Illinois surrenders his seat to the joke-loving, story-telling William E. Mason. The silver-tongued oratory of the ‘*Tall Sycamore of the Wabash,”” Daniel W. Voorhees, will be beard no more in the Senate chamber, and the dignified, some- what austere C. W. Kairbanks will co- operate with David Turpie in represent- |ing the Hoosier State. The great and only Peffer also is retired to private life in favor of Lucien Baker, and Senator Blanchard gives way to ex-Governor McEnery. The last of the great Cameron dynasty that for years held the political rule of Pennsylvania in the hollow of its hand has also said farewell to the highest leg- islative chamber, and Boise Penrose sits beside his political maker and mentor, Matthew 8. Quay. Joseph H. Earl be- comes the colieague of ‘‘the only Till- man”_ from South Carolina, succeeding John Erby. John L. Wilson succeeds Watson C. Squire from Washington, and last but not least John C. Spooner, the little giant of Wisconsin, resumes possession of the seat that he surrendered six years azo to William L. Vilas, and in doine so has honored himself and his State by paying the highest tribute to the Senatorial career of his political opponent. e THE' PEESIDENT KEPT BUSY. Not a Moment to Himself From Morning to Might. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.—Presi- dent McKinley rose at hali-past 7 o’clock this morning, after a good night's rest, and nowise the worse for the fatigue inci- dent to the inauguration ceremonies. Mrs. McKinley also has been unharmed by the excitement and fatigue of the week. The first official act of the new executive was the signing of the commission of John Sherman as Secretary of State. The President’s secretary, J. Addison Porter, arrived about 9 o'clock and talked for half an hour or more with his chief. The first caller was Senator 8. M. Cul- lom of Tilinois. Shortly after Senator Cul- lom departed Senator Mason of the same State arrived and paid his respects to Sec- retary Porter and the President, At 10:25 the members of Mr. Cleveland’s Caoinet, with the exception of Mr. Olney, who came ten minutes later, called to pay their respects and bid farewell. The mem- bers of the Cleveland Cabinet were re- ceived promptly by the President, who shook hands with them and exchangea a few plea-ant words of greeting. At 11 o'clock the members Twenty-third Ohio, Major regiment, 150 in number, called and were received in the east room. The meeting was an impressive one. Troop A of Cleve- iand, the President’s escort of yesterday, was also received. At 11:35 ex-Governor Long, future Sec- retary of the Navy, who arrived in Wash- ington this morning, reported as ready for duty. The resignation of Embassador Bayard was received this morning. In the afternoon, between 4 and 5 o’clock, Major McKinley received several thousand embers of civicand political organizations. Shortly after noon ex- Speaker Reed called at the White House. ‘The President cordially received Mr. Reed, and they bad a long and appar- ently pleasant talk. Other callers of prominence in the early afternoon were Attorney-General-elect McKenna, Colonel J. J. McCook of New York, Murat Hal- stead, Major Caldwell of Cincinnati and General J. J. O'Beirns of New York. Governor Drake of lowa, accompanied by his staff officers and their wives, was of the received by the President at 1:15. The ! President did not have a minute to him- self after 9 o’clock. The executive man- sion was surrounded by crowds all day, and hundreds of people ineffectually tried to have interviews with the President. AT THE ARBITRATION TKEATY. No Further ddvanced Than Whem First Negotiated. ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5—The action of the Senate this morning in desig- nating Senator Davis of Minnesota as act- ing chairman of the Committee on For- eign Relations is a compliment to the ranking member of that committee. The proceeding was out of the usual order, and was made necessary by reason of the pressing business beiore the committee. With the death of the Fifty-fourth Con- gress the general treaty of arbitration -be- McKinley's | tween the United States and Great Bri, tain leaves the table of the Senate and goes back to the committee. This action, of course, carries with it all the pernding amendments aud leaves the treaty before | the committee absolutely as negotiated and sent to the Senate by President Cleve- land. The discussion of the treaty will be commenced in the committee, and 1n due time the general treaty of arbitration will be reported to the Senate amended as the committee may deem proper. The pend- ing amendments, therefore, no longer ap- ply, unless they should be again agreed | upon by the commitiee and reported to the Senate. IR e Y WHITE HOUSE GALA DAY. Many Bands Play While the New Ocou- pants Hold Eeceptions. WASHINGTON, D. C, March 5—Ail the bands left in the city played in front ofthe White House to-day in honor of the new President, while prominent men, scores of old friends and members of po- litical clubs and hosts of wvisitors shook hands with or passed in review before | him. Two only of the many who saw President McKinley presented claims for | office. It was a nasty day. Cold rain fell all morning and until evening, and made things under foot very uncomfortable. During the afternoon Mrs. McKinley held Ppart of a reception, as prominent a part as ber fatigued system would permit. She sat for au hour or so at one of the windows of the mansion watching the people file past. She was discovered in a minute or two after taking position there and for the rest of her stay was kept bow- ing and smiling constantly to the saluta- tions from those below. The string of callers began anew when the President had finished his luncheon. James A. Gary, the new Postmaster- General, was one of the first to appear. Colonel McCook of New York, who de- clined the tender of the Interior portfolio, led a party of iriends. Colonel Fred Grant, General galche]ler and Senator Thurston and a Nebraska delegation were also among those who saw the chief executive. Adinner party was given by the Presi- dent to-day to his younger relatives and some others who came on to attend the in- auguration. To-morrow he will entertain the older relatives at luncheon. Those who were present to-night were Miss Mary Barber, Miss Ida Barber, Miss Mabel Mec- | Kinley, Miss Grace McKinléy, James Me- Kinley, Mr. and Mrs. George E. Morse of San Francisco, Miss Sarah Duncan, James Barton, Sam Saxton, Mr. and Mrs. J. 8. McClaymonds and Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Russell. e CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUSES. Republicans Will kenominate ths Pres- ent House Officials. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 5.—The caucus of the House Republicans on Sat- urday evening, the 13th inst., will lack the usual element of interest. It will be heid to nominate the House officials of | the Fifty-iifth Congress, which convenes on the following Monday, and as far as can be learned the present official list will be renominated without opposition. It was reported several weeks ago that the Illinois delegation would present a candidate for sergeant-at-arms in opposi- tion to Mr. Russell, but the purpose seems to have been abandoned. There seems to be no candidate in opposition to Mr. Reed or the other officers, except for sergeant- at-arms. The call for the Democratic cancus has not been issued. The caucus will prob- ably be held on the morning of the 15th inst. 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