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o | THE SAN FRANC ISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1897. e ———————————————————————————————————————————— slaughter could not be temporarily sus- pended. [Laughter.] “When an able man like Hopkins of Iilinois, and a brilliant man like Dolliver of Iows,” he said, “assert that the Wilson bill is a free-trade measure it is an outrage on common-sense, truth and decency. . I do not concede to any protectionist the right to define what free trade means.” Ciark referred to the changes made in the Wilson bill by the Senate and ex- claimed that the debate on the tariff would go on forever until the people and Congress came to the platform and the | policy of common-sense and ree trade. He ridiculed the duties laid on agricuitu- ral products, asserting that it was impos. sible to give to the farmer any protection on kis products. He made great fun of the duty of 2 cents a gallon on milk, “I'd like to see a galion of Canadian milk,” he said, “by the time it got down into Jerry Simpson’s district in Kansas. It would set the hogs’ teeth on edge 1if offered to them for swill.”” [Laughter.] The free list afforded him a large field fot the exercise of his sarcasm. Clark said the situation could be greatly re- lieved if the Repubiican leaders would turn their attention to reducing expendi- tures instead of aading to the burdens of the people. “Cut the army in two,” he advised. “'Nobody in the country seems to have any use for the army except George M. Puliman and the Pullman Palace Car Company. Abolish the diplomatic corps. It has never been used. It was always or- namental. I can pick out a newspaper correspondent in the gallery there, send him to Europe, and I will warrant he will | send out more in a week about the condi- | tion of affairs there than the whole diplo- matic corps between now and next Christ- mas. |Laughter.] And, finally, repeal the civil sarvice law and save every dol- lar the commission costs. [Applause.] Maguire (D.) of California and Gunn | (Pop.) of Iaaho opposed the biil, the for- mer asserting that it was fallacious to as- sume that a protective tariff would pro- duce a period of prosperity and the latter asserting that the committee in preparing the paragraph reiating to lead had failed 1o vroperly consider the interests-of the American producer. Tawney (R.) of Minnesots, a member of the Committee on Ways ana Means, re- plied to the criticism of Gunn defending the action of the commitiee. laid on lead in silver ore, he said, was 1 cent a pound, estimated by the treasury experts at 100 per cent, and yet the gentle- man from Idaho complained that the American producer was not properly cared for. Gunn—The duty you mention is ample and all the people of idaho ask. What they want is that you should colleet it. Tawney further elucidated the details of the duty on lead and devoted himself toa review of the attitude of the two great parties toward the tariff question, con- trasting the declarations of the National conventions on the subject. In the face of his remarks Tawney spoke of the state- ments made in the campaign of 1896 by the Democratic speakers. A constituent of one of them, Tawney said, sued him to Tecover the difference between the prom. ised prices of wheat and what he actually Teceived. Clark (D.) of Missouri—And has not the man sued the head and front of the gold Republican Aid Society of last year? Tawney—It is true that Bynum stood for sound money and the National credit in 1896; but it is also true tbat he made the promises spoken of. And I think the gentleman from Missouri, if he did nou make them, came very near to it. To this Clark made no response. Jerry Simpson (P.) of Kansas made his first speech since his reappearance into the Houseat this juncture. Heread from Mr. McKinley's speech to the Minneapolis convention, in which he saia it was the policy of the Republican party to tax for- ‘eigners rather than the peaple of our owa souniry to raise money to meet the ex- penditures of the Government. “We have been bothered a good deal ont in Kansas,” 8impson continued, “to know why Congress should be bothered about this matter of increasing the revenues when it is 80 easy to reduce the expendi- | tures. But this speech of the present President explains the whole thing. The | toreigner pays the taxes, and the idea of the chief execntive is to pass this bill and make the foreigners pay the taxes that it imposes. Itseems to me, in view of this fact, that the foreigner ought to be thank. ful that we did not realize a two billion Congress instead of a single billion dollar Congress.” [Laughter and applause.] Referring to the speech of Walter (R.) of Massachusetts, Simpson said that he bad carried his argument to its logical “conclusion and had declared that the pur- pose of taxation was to distribute wealth The duty | | revenue for the Government, and we be. among the people. Putting theory with | lieve in providing them with work whereby | revenue, Dalzell maintained that in no | event would it bs more than was neces- sary to pay theinterest and principal on | the bonds that the Democrats had floated |10 sustain the National credit. He de- | fended the law of 1890 from the criticisms | passed upon it by showing how American | | industries had thrived under its provi- | sions and how the tia-piate indnstry—an ’mdusuy unknown in this country—had | been enormously stimulated by that law. | He denied that this bill would foster truss, | and said that such assertions were based | upon 1gnorance of existing economic con- | | ditions. He referred to the laws in the | several States under which combinations | of capital were permitted, and did| not deny that the system was abused. He | did deny that a protective tariff bill | fosiered trusts and showed that guch com- | binations existed in free-trade England | equally with protective America. He described the conditions of living in Shef- | field and Pittsburg—two cities which were | rivals in many branches of industry. In | Sheffield was presented the picture of starved life, penury, low wages and lack | of culture; in Pittsburg high wages, free/ schools, intelligence and mannood. If these conditions were to be changed it | must be by brinzing Sheffield up to the | | levei of Pittsburg, and not by bringing‘ | P.ttsburg down to the level of Sheffield. | ‘ Colson (R.) of Kenrucky, whiie approv- inz the general features of the bill, gave | notice that he would move an amendment | fixing a duty on canvel coal at §1 a ton, as | the domestic mines would otherwise be | unable to compete with cannel coal mines | in Scotland. | Russell (R.) of Conneticut, a member of | the Ways and Means Committee, called | attention to a remarkable calculation just | | now put forth in the New England press | by Edward Atkinson of Boston regarding | the wool and woolen schedule of the bill. | New England knew Atkinson, he said, as & distinguished representative of free-trade sentiment and as a mathematical calcu- | lator with a pessimistic tendency. He had gone beyond the school of political economy represented by Joha | Randolph of Roanoke, who looked upon sheep as a mere incident to the hillside, whose right to protection against dog or man was not to be considered for a | moment and who derived great satisfac- tion from going many miles merely to | kick a sheep. [Laughter. | In the opinion of Steele (R.) of Indiana, also a member of the committee, the bill was the most complete and symmetrical tariff measure that was ever framed. He approved of its protective features for the reason that bhe believed every nation should produce for itself everything that could ‘be manufactured or grown within its borders. Hawley, the Republican member of the Texas delegation, attacked the attitude of | Representatives from the South toward the bill. He charged them with injuring the interest of their own section by objecting to a protective tariff bill. | DeArmond (D.) of Missouri charged | that the corporations, trusts and great ag- | cregations of capital had arrayed them- | selves on the side of the Republican party | and it was therefore natural that in the | preparation of the schedules of the bill their desires should have been consulied. Tauis bill meant higher prices for the neces- | saries of life, which the people must buy. What benefit could this bill possibly be to those already perplexed trying to make both ends meet? Whatever the changes | sought to be ameliorated might be the measure under consideration could not possibly afford the desired relief. Tne remedy was not increased taxation, but greater economy in administ:ation. Mr. Payne paid some attention to the attacks that had been made at the | agricultural schedules and declared that | | this bill protected every agricultural pro- | duction for the reason that the committee believed the United States could and should raise all this for itself. He gave in | | detail the items upon which the commit- | | tee increased the duty, and explainea the reason why they were selected. Tha sugar schedule, Payne said, was made up with | the idea of producing revenue and of en- | couraging the industry here. It would | have done no good, he said, to put refined | sugar on the free list, for that would simply | have driven the refiners to the sugar pro. ducing countries and there would have | been no revenme to the Government and no employment for the thousands at work | in the refineries, In conclusion Payne said that in the course of a few years $50,000,000 of reve. nue would be dropped from the sugar schedule and other millions now paid for the purchase of tin plate, linen and woollen goods, which will then be many. factured bere. “We do not believe that | taxing the people will make them rich, butitis necessary to tax them to raise of the duties inferred by the bill might be erroneous snd excessive, but as a repre- sentative of Louisiana, representing a great and suffering interest, he shoula support the sugar schedule. Reeves (R.) of Illinois advocated the vassage of the bill, as did Howe (R.) of New York. Gaines (D.) of Tennessee, in opposition to the bill, presented in reply to Grosvenor of Ohio a certified copy of the letter of Secretary Foster of February, 1893, order- ing the preparation of plates for bonds. Barrows (R.) of Massachusetts presented the protestof the Massachusetis Library Club against any tax on books. Ridgely (Pop.) of Kansas opposed the bill and advocated economic measures and a reduction of the expenses of the Government. Hamuiton (R.) of Michigan supported the bill as a patriotic and American prop- osition. Todd (D.) of Michigan followed in oppo- sition to the measure. Crumpacker (R.) of Indiana approved the measure bLecause he believed that under it business would revive and labor fird employment. Fitzgerald (D.) of Massachusetts - con- cluded his remarks begun to-day in onpo- sition to the bill, and the House at 11 o’clock adjourned. FICIORX KUOR BUCKE1-SHOPS. Chicago Judge Decides That Board of Trade Can’t Withhold Market News. CHICAGO, Irn., March 25.—In the in- junction suit instigated by the Board of Trade to restrain the telegraph companies from furnishing outsiders, and especially bucket-shops, with market quotations, Judge Horton dectded against the board this morning. He declares that the quo- tations are public property and cannot be withheld by the board. The court overruled a motion to dis. solve the temporary injanction restrain- ing the Board of Tiade, the Western Union Telegraph Company, the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company and the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company from de- taching telegraph wires from alleged bucket-shops, from removing *'tickers" or from interiering in any way with their supnly of market information. “Market news,” the court said, *being & species of property of public consequence, the Board of Trade shall not be permitted to deprive the public of such information. The Supreme Court hassaid thatso long as the board.isin existeace it must not discriminate 1n the distribution of if tations and shall be caused to furnish in- formation to all persons at the same e Board of Trade has become a sort of public agent, controlling to a considera- ble extent public interests and the inter- ests of individual members of that public who may be engaged in business affected by the market news established by the Board of Trade. “Telegraph companies are agents for the public. The conrt does not want it un- derstood that any individual has a right to go tpon the floor ol the exchange and gather news, butapproves of the rules and reguiations permitting the telegranh com- :ies to distribute the news.” Concluding, the court says: “These market quotations have become clothea with a public interest 1n behaif of such producers, consumers, shippers, - chants and dealers only as are engaged in legitimate business and such asuse or fur- nish the same for use in the legitimate business transactions of the country. The law never stamps private property with a puoblic interest for the benefit of the law. breakers.” —_———— VETERAN TELEGKAPHERE DEAD, Colonel Baker Spent Forty Years in the Western Union’s Service. ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 25.—Colonel L. G. Baker, superintendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company in this city, cied at his residence, 3941 Page avenue, at 7o'clock this evening. He had been ill for three weeks from stomach disorder, quo- |. BREAKS AND CUTS IN THE LEVEES An Engineer Causes the Water to Invade the Country. Cattle Drowned and Much Suf iering Among the Flooded Farmers. Frem Points in Missouri and’ Arkan- sas: Come Stories of Great Devastation. MEMPHIS, Texwy., March 25.—The Mississippi showed another fractional fall to-day, so slignt as to require no particu- lar attention. Two small breaks in the levee occurred near the Missouri line. The most important development to- day is the story from Helena that the lower White River levee from Modoc south had been cut under instructions from the Desha Levee Board; in charge of the levee, and that the cuiting was done protected by levees unusually high and strong. The suffering and loss of prop- erty cannot be even estimated at this time, but it is safe to say that it will far exceed anything ever known before. From its peculiar situation Memphis af- fords better opportunities for observing and gauging tne flood in this section tnan any other point on the river. Siiuated as it is on the last of the Chicasaw Bluifs, with an unbroken stretch of forty miles of low country between it and Crowleys Ridge, the nearest high ground on tie Arkansas side of the river, below the mouths of the great upper tribataries and above the lower ones, the readings of its gange give the fairest averages of any. The Government gauge shows the high- est water since its establi-hment in 1872— 37feet above low water-mark—the next hizhest being the great flood of 1890, which reached 35.7 feet, the highest since the sinking of the lewlands about New Madrid in 1811 Along the Missiscippi, as well as its principal tributaries, the alluvial lands sloye back from the main stream to tie natural ridges, which in some cases as near the mouth of the Arkansas River, are as much as eighty miles away, and when the levees, which confine the or.inary hich water to the regular channel, break, the waters nour over the adjacent coun- try in a mighty flova. The waters now along the whole streteh from New Madrid to Helena are flush with the tops of the levees and the number of breaks above and below Memphis, as far as known, al- ready exceed those of any previous flood. The bench mark on the levee at Mem- Pphis is 224 feet above the level of the river at its mouih, and the summit of Crowleys Ridge, the nearest high land on the west, is a few feet hizher. Between the two the suriace of the land varies from five to fifty feet, as is to be seen from the accompany- ing contour and an idea can be formed of the present condition of things from the measured depth of high water at various voints on a previous occasion—1858— by %i ii , i 'h!l \ i Il lfll i i FROM NewMadyid »o Mo [ Heiena Ark. | and breaks are bound to occur, . Government engineers. This flooa seclion is separated at the river from the much smaller Cairo section by a ridge of land running nearly north and south at New Madrid. But very highiwater in the upper basin 1inds it way around the ridges and reaches the lower through St. Marys Lake and St. Francis River on the west and Reel foot, lake anu’ river on the east side The stream now flowing through Reel- foot Lake is said to exceed in yolume that of the main stream itseli between the New Madrid biuffs and 10 threaten a per- manent diversion of the channel. From the mouths of Reelfoot River 1o & short distance below Memphis the high ground approaches the Mississippi and forces the whole volume of water therein over against the levees on the Arkansas side, Th-re is , tosuch fforded to one redeeming feature, how disaster and that is the rel; the levees below. Below Memphis the river crosses the low ground until it tonches the Arkansas biuffs at Helena, distant about twenty miles :rom those on the Missi sippi side, and the flood is in the main rransferred to the low grounds on the east, the broad stretch of which, however, and the - merous rivers and bayous tend to lessen its height and the extent of damage with ordina v floods in all of its upper basins, The 1 vees, as a rule, serve as ample pro- tect on, but with the simultaneous hi:h floods from the Upper Mississippi and tue Obio the tax is aiready too great, and stll the only prospect.is of further rise before any fail. ~ With the Arkansas adding ity flood the disitict below Helena is alsy destined to great loss and snffering, but in case there is no hich water ‘i the Red River Lonisiana bclow iis i uth will be largely spared, as t.e Atchui.ays and other large bayous can carry off the most SECRET SESSION ON ARBITRATION Senators Engage in Debate Over Amendments to the Treaty. Chilton Insists That This Coun- try Shall Sett'e Certain Disputes. In Future the Uaited States Must Not B> Charged With Violating Treaty Obligations. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25.—The Senate spent two hours and forty minutes in discussing in secre: session the pend- ing amendments to the arbitration treaty. No special progress was made toward the final result. Before taking up that mat- ter the question of acting on the .p?omt' ment of Senators by Governors of States where the State Legislatures should have elected Senators came upin the case of Jobn A. Henderson, appointed by the Governor of Fiorida to fill ihe vacancy caused by the expiration of the term_of Senator Call on the 3d of March. 7 Hoar (R.) of Massachusetts, as ranking member of the Committee on Privileges and Eiections (there being a vacancy in the chairmanehip), explained that he had not called a meeting of that committee on account of the numerous vacancies upon it; and tbat was the reason why no action had been taken in the matter of these ap- pointments, and he indicated Lis hope that very soon the vacancieson ail the standing committees would be filled. Henderson's credentials were referred to the Committee on Privileges and Eiec- tions. 2 Alter the executive seasion the bank- ruptey bill was taken up and read in full, and then Nelson of Minnesota offered a substitute for it which was also read in full, The reading of the two bills occu- pied an hour and twenty minutes, and when it was finished the Senate at 4:20 adjourned until to-morrow. The debate on the arbitration treaty this afternoon was of short duration. Chilton spoke for almost an hour on his amendment to tie first article, which amends that article so as to provide that only such matters shall be sabmitted to | arbitration as the Senate then in existence may deem proper for arbitration. Chi:ton advocated his amendment with agreat deal o1 warmth, and contended that if, as had been asserted, the terms of the treaty were interpreted as meaning this, there could be no good objection raised to the insertion of words that made that interpretation unmistakable. It was in the interest of clearness, and should be accepted as such by all friends of the treaty. Without his modification, Chilton said, the United Staies might in the future be charged with violating its treaty obli- gations if it refused to submit certain questions to arbitration when they arose as matters of difference be:ween the two counjries. He did not want the United States to be placed in an embarrassing po- sition of this kind, and deemed it the part of prudence to make the text of the con- vention so perfecuy plain that there conld beno squibbling over what it meant or what the S¢nate bad in mind when . the treaty was agreed to, if it should be agreed to. The debates were secret, and in the future the ocold, hard text of the treaty will alone be accepted as the ex- pression of what was intended when the convention was ratified and proclaimed to the world. Morgan again spoke in favor of the amendment and took the occasion to ex- press his displeasure at any proposed treaty with Great Britain that had for its purpose any general scheme of arbitra- tion. The whole thing is a snare, a pit- fall, but if there were sufficient votes in the Senate to ralily the convention Morgan said he wanted it made as as nearly perfect as possible. 3 Gray end Lodge questioned Chilton tending to show tha:i his conclusions were erronous. They also mjected state- ménts 1n support of the committee amend- ments which had been agreed to as being sufficient to cover every possible eriticism that could be made against the treaty. Gray took the floor in opposition to the Chilton amendment arter Morgan had concluded, but on desiring to go on to-day the Senste came out of executive session and resumed the consideration of legis- lative business. —_— o The Silter (onference Opens. LINCOLN, Nrsr, March 2.—In re- v ‘E_”_ towr of [.‘:;r;d z&;n_u_e Shoewn Dexth o Tile B Section of M(ss(sSipl River nexr Memphis that of the President that the foreigner pays the tariff taxes, Simpson claims we have reached the ideal condition whera 811 we have to do is to pass tariff bills and taxing measures and lay back and work no more. Cox (D.) of Tennessee and McRae (D.) of Arkansas followed in opposition to the bill and Grow (R.) of Pennsylvania in tavor of its passage. Curtis (R.) of Kansas favored the bill. Burke (D.) of Texas made a five-minute speech against the bill. He was followed by Lentz (D.) of Ohio, who entered a pro- | test against the passage of the bill and the method of its consideration. The six Democratic Representatives from Obio on the floor, he said, wno stood for the prin- ciples of the Democratic party asexsm- vlified in the Chlcago platiorm, and with ‘William Bryan as their standard-bearer, had twenty minutes given them in which to oppose the passage of a bill framed under an insidious title, intended to de- ceive, and baving for its object the en- ‘riching of trusts and the pauperization of -the people, The only letter he had re- ceived from his district in favor of the bill was from a whisky-seller, and in that fact he saw that the whisky trust hed joined 1he sugar trust and the coal trust in writ- ing the provisions of the bill. The speech of Dalzell (R.) of Pennsyl- vania, a member of tne Ways and Means Committee, evoked repeated bursts of ap- plause from his colleagues on the floor. He devoted a considerable part of his remarks to the existing treasury condi- tions. g Referring to the decllra;lon :n the re- the minofity members of the ccm- DO ea that this bill would raise 100 much they can earn the money to pay the taxes.” [Great applaus At 5 o’'clock the committee rose and the House took a recess until 8 o’clock. At the evening session, Prince (R.) of Illinois spoke in support of the bill. He | said_the measure presented the views of | the Republican leaders and would protect | our great industries and provide sufficient Tevenue to meet the expenses of the Gov- ernment. Seitle (D.) of Kentucky opposed the bill | because it was the most ultra-protective measure presented. It cared for the wealthy and neglected the farmer and laborer. Barthold (R.) of Missouri approved the bill because it would give the necessary revenue and afford protection to Ameri- can labor. He referred to Bailey’s oppo- sition and characterized the views of this “‘new-born leader” as “‘Siamese twinism and popocracy vice.” Campbell (D.) of Illinois said that the present bill was simply an exaggeration of the McKinley law and would be repu- diated by the people. Skinner (Pop.) of North Carolins, in supporting the bill, said that if for the past twenty-five years the South had been trying for protection as the North and East bad it would to-day be the most prosperous section of the country. The bill bad its defects, and he did not think 1t would bring prosperity without supple- mental financial legisiation. Revenue, in his opinion, sufficient to supply de- ficiencies, could be sustained by reducing by one-third the salaries of all Govern- ment employes or by a proportionate in- come tax. Myers (D.) of Louisiana said that some but was convalescent and intended to leave atonce for a southern trip. Ths immedi- ale cause of death was heart failure. The remains will be nterred at Little Rock, Ark., Sunday next. Colonel Baker has spent forly of his fifty-eight years in the telegraph service, learning the Morse alphaket in Tusca- ioosa, Ala, nis native place. He saperin- tended the construction of lines in Texas, Louisiana aud Arkansas, and himself owned a line from Little Rock to Hot anng-, Atk. Bis title was won as ehief of the telegraph service of the Contederate States. Since 1878 he has been superin- tendent of the Western Union Telegraph Company in 8t. Louts, He wasa mem- ber of several secret societies and was re- specied and beloved for his many excel- lent qu: His widow, five daughters and toree sons are left in moderate cir- cumstances. oS Lonks Like Defoat for Dr. Hunter, LOUISVILLE, Ky. March 2%5.—A dis- patch from Frankfort, Ky., to the Courier- Journal says Dr. W. G. Hunter cannot be elected United BStates Senator and he might as well withdraw. Senator Stege of Louisville has notified Dr. Hunter that he will not vote for him again, and three other supporters will leave him Saturday un'ess he shows that he can win. There will be no election this week, but a per- manent deadlock is next to impossible, gL Ewmpelled for ¢Ubvious Praud.’ NEW YORK, N. Y., March 25.—The board of directors of the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange at n meet- ing this evening expeiled, for ‘*obvious fraud,” William E. Allen of Allen & Fo:- dick, strock-biokers, at 57 Broadway. The firm was accused of ““bucketine’* the orders of Mrs. J. D. F. Na<h of Bridgeport, by J. H. Wellington, the engineer of the board, in half & dozen places. The wi through these cuts devastated the fertile country between Hugueys and La Conia Circle, drowning cattle and other live- stock and driving the surprised and de- f+nseless inhabitants to the levee for pro- tection. The supposition is that the cut- ting was done in order to relieve the levee protecting La Conia Circle, but it will bardly avail in the judgement of those familiar w:th the situation. CHARLESTON, Mo., March 25.—Sev- eral more breaks in the levee occurrea since Iast night, and a current of water strong asa mill-race was rushing through the center of Bird’s Point. Already a dozen houses are swept irom their founda- tions, and it looked as if there would not be & building left. ELENA, Ak, March 25.—Another in the levee was reported this morn- ing. It was 500 feet in width and hourly increasing. It is thought that all the White River levee ‘system from Modoc south will eventually go to pieces. ————— HIGHEST FLOOD. The Worst Ever Known on the Mis- sissippl River—One Great Sea From New Madrid, Mo., to Helena, Ark. The flood has already reached the high- est stage ever known, and every in- dication points to further rise and long continuance. From New Madrid, Mo., to Helena, Ark., the whole country is under water from five to twenty-five feet as far west as Crowlevs Ridge, except two ridges Conn., and retaining $47,000 in securities deposited by her as margin. between the Missississipi and the St. Francis rivers and the towns which are 1 of the surplus water by a short route to the gulf. (paco e AL L SR iR e CANNED MeaT COMPETITION. New York Capitalists Going Into the Beey Business in Memico. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 25 — A Times Washington special says: A syn- dicate of wealthy New Yorkers, headed by Solon Humphreys, who has interested J. Pierpont Morgan and others, is getting ready to establish an immense beef-can- ning establishment in Mexico i1 the catile duties proposed by the Dingley bill are enacted into a law. . Asthelaw now stands there isa big profit in bringing lean Mexican cattle across the Texas border and fattening them for the Northern market.- The new bill will shut these cattle out of our markets ana compel the Mexican owners to find a new outiet. Humphreyss and his syndicate will bave a million - dollar concession from Mexico, which they propose to utilize for cattle-raising purposes, and in conneetion with this they proposs to put Yumooo intoa beef cannery. The establisnment they are planning will compete with the ou put of the Chieago and Kansas City firms to foreign markets. i Faroorial chool Questiow Setiled, CHICAGO, IiL, March 25.—A Times- Herald special from Winnipeg, Man., says: After a bitter debate and many stormy scenes, the Manitoba Legislature yesterday ratified the settlement of the Roman Catholic parochial school question. The bill embodying the amendments to the school law, in accordance with the Laurier-Greenway agreement, was read a third time, When the ablegate of the Pope, now en route from Rome to Canada, arrives he will find the parochial school question, as far as Manitoba is concerned, settled. lish Government sponse to a call issued by Btate Senators Frank T. Ransom and E. G, Watson and Representatives Charl, Wooster and Frank L. Loomis, & mass State conference of free silver Republicans opened here this afternoon, for the purpose of perfect- ing a State organization, and of naming a provisional State Senatorial Committee and a member of the provisional National Committee. The conference was called in response to the suggestion' of Senators Teiler and Dubois, who recently urged the oreanization by States of the free silver Republicans of the country. —_—— BETRAYAL uF BLANTHER. Turned Over 1o the Polics by a Jealous Wife, NEW -ORLEANS, La., March 2.—A special from Dallas, Texas, says: Mrs. Addie Blanther, wile of the San Francisco murderer, who on Monday night last killed himself with pol-on {n jail in Me- ridian, Texas, 13 living in Dallas. A few days before Blanther was arrested at Val- ley Mills, Texas, where he was teaching school under the name of Forbes, his wife confessed tothe Chief of Police that he had murdered the Ban Francisco woman for robhery. She said her reason for betraying Blanther's whereabouts to the Texas authorities was that he became ;;fi‘moud of another woman near Valley 8. —_—— MR. IVORY’'S INDEMNITY, Greal Britai+ Man Re Asked to Pay Bim $100,000. CHICAGO. Iris., March 25.—A special to the Tribune from New York says: The United States Government has been re. uested to demand $100,000 from the Brit- to indemniiy Edward J. Ivory, who was branded as a dynamiter by the Queen’s prosecutors and forced to spend five menths in jail. Lawyer McIntyre nas been preparing the papers to accompany the demand for indemnification. Several ‘affilavits with Ivory's own sworn the hands of Secre Lawyer McIntyre is confident that th United States Government will take cog- pizance of the m tter, but should the Sec- Tetary of Btate fail to move, McIntyre says be will appesl to Congress. RO 1) Prinoess Chim-y Summoned to Court PARIS, Fraxce, March 25.—Janos Rigo, the Hungarian gypsy musician, and his paramour, the Princess de Chimay, were summoned before a magistrate this after- Doon to answer to charzes against them in, connection with the scene which oc- curred last Tuesiay at the Hotel Termi- nus, when Rigo’s wife visited them in order to establish grounds for divorce. The couple fled shortly aiterward, going to Cologpe to escape tke jurisdiciion of the French courts. —_——— Krupps ' ay Build Cruisers. LONDON, Exc., March 25.—The Berlin correspondent of the Times ielegraphs that it is rumored that the Krupps have undertaken to build two cruisers at their own cost in the hope that the Reichstag will authorize their purchaseby the Gov- ernment next year, notwithstanding its refusal to vote a credit for the purpose of building such vessels. If the Reichstag does not zuthorize the purchase of the vessels there is little doubt that the Krupps will find a purchaser for them, SEELLS Diplomatic R-tations With Fenesuel LONDON, Exc, March 25 — The Venezuelan Consul-General, here, Senor Vallanueva, confirms the statement that Dr. Juan Pietrie, recently appointed Venezuelan Minister to Spain and Ger- many, hes been accredited in that capa- city to Great Britain despite the con- tinued assertions to the contrary and adds that Senor Bernabie Planas bas been nominated Secretary of Legation in London. —— Nansen Will Lend the Fram. LONDOM Exc., March 25.—The Daily News will to-morrow say that Dr. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, will lend the Fram, the vessel in which he made his journey to the far north, to a private Arctic expe- dition that will’ starl during the coming summer. He will also give advice to the members of the exnedition. The expedi- tion will be mainly Euglish and its pur~ pose wi!l be meteorological observations and an examination ot the Arctic currents. et o England and krance Will Confer. LONDON, Esc., March 25.—Lord Sal- isbury started for France this morning on bis way to Cimiez, whither he goes to act as Minister in attendance on the Queen. While in Paris he will have an interview with M. Hanotaux, Fremch Minister of Foreign Affairs. etk Butoher Turks to Be Tried. CONSTANTINOPLE Turkey, March 25.—The Suitan has ordered the summary dismi-sal and immediate arrest of the Turkish officials in Tokat in Asia Minor Where a few days ago 100 Armenians were massacred, #nd a special commission will be iormed before which they will be tried. A e Death of n Dowager Duchess. LONDON, Exc., March 25.—Jane, one of the Dowager Duchesses of Marlborough, died at her residence in this city l&dlfi, She was a daughter of Hon. Edward R. 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