The Washington Bee Newspaper, February 27, 1892, Page 1

Terms. VOL. X $1.50 Per year in vance, Che ashington Bee a 5 cents per copy. WASHINGTON, D C., SATURDAY, FEVRUARY 27, 1892. FROM A FORMER CITIZEN { i Or MApIson County, Wo Dr- anes For Preswpenr Harris f fon’s ADMINISTRATION, anv Iy- & DORSES THe Hows. B. K. BRUCE ' anp Joun R. Lyncu. t JACKSON, February 10, 1892. t To ee of Madison j A campaign is precipitated u * an unwilling people at thie sess bey ‘ indiscreet, and restless members of { our party, whose enmity bas cen- ) tered upon Messrs. Broce and b Lynch, who are among the leading | men of the party, and of the col ored race in this country, aud are | Mississippians of whom we are | proud. It seems to me that we 4 should not permit any one who is afflicted with that terrible disease known as jealousy, and envy, to influence any memer of var party against its best interest~. z Mr. Bruce was sent to the United States Senate by a Republican Legislature, and when his term as a Senator had expired, he was im- mediately appointed Register of the Treasury, ® very important posi- tion, which he held uutil Mr. Cleve- land was made President. Being then out of office be devoted his time in the lecture field until Mr. Harrison was elected President, and by him was appointed to an important position in Washin. “38 P shington, Mr. Lynch was a member of Con- gress for a number of terms, and finally appointed by President Har- rison Fourth Auditor of the Treas- ury, @ place he holds at the present time, with marked ability, aud which occupying these bigh posi tions, these gentlemen have con- ducted themselves with great dig- nity, and bovorablevess. They haye always been loyal to the Re- publican party, aud vever had oc casion to recommend Democrats to offive when there were good, bovest Republicaus seeking the same. Having always been true to the the pation. The opposition to these men comes from fon. James Hill, post master at Vicksburg. It is, in my opinion, uowise, foclish and un- worthy of the man who has also been elevated to offices of public trast by the Repablican pzerty. Let us yot be engaged in pulling down our representative men, but, on the contrary, do all we can to sustain, support, and uphold them. In 1834 the Republican party met in Canton, and elected Hons. F, B. Pratt, A. F. Dickson, M. Levy aud S. H. H. Toles to repre- sent it in the State Convention, and Mr. Hill and his friends suc- ceeded in depriving the mghttul, loyal and legal delegates of their rights io seats, admitting the dele- gation headed by Dr. B. F. Pass more, a promivent and influential Democrat, who was not chosen by the Republicans of Madison. Now, my advice is, to go to the Republican County Convention, when it is called, and vote with Pratt, a trae and tried Republican, and other leaders and their friends, for delegates that are friendly to Presidevt Harrison’s admisistra- tion, and who indorse the Hons. B. K. Brace and Jonn R, Lynch. J.J. SPELMAN. MISSISSIPPI POLITICS. The Crusader, — AT squabble and it is difficult to say what the results, imwediate and remote, will be. For some time Jas. Hill, aided by some one bebind the screen It Is supposed, has been making a vig- orous fight against Messrs. Brach Lynch. The burden laid at Mr. Brace’s door is that he is vot a resident of the State and that he has not appointed Mississippiavs in his office. If really Mr. Brace is no longer aresident of Mississippi it seems to us the fact can easily be ascer- tained, and then there Is a solution of the matter. But when it is made acrime that he bas not appoiuted Mississippians iu his offive, we be- lieve our Mississippi friends exhitit too much ofa readiness to serye their country for their individaal good. 4 Mr. Brace holds a local office in Washington, supported by fees paid by the residents and tax-payers of the Dictrict of Columbia, and it would be less reasouable to fill it De lecp ered hity are identinea, 5 rd they evjoy-the respect, coufidenc: hind in ber quota of clerks in ‘¥ Pee ikea OE thn oblored mea of Departments. Forthwith a nu‘aber ‘ of Mississipp' s : cae + gel oon rights and wishes of the republican & masses as has heretofore been done with Mississippians than to send a Washingtonian to occupy the place of postmaster at Vicksburg or Jack- son, because the latter offices are in @ seuse national; and yet if it were done what a kick the Mississippi patriots would make. As to Mr. Lynch, there is no question as to his residence, bis home is in Natchez; but the charge is made that he also bas not ap- pointed Mississippians in bis office. Now Mr. Lynch has no appoint- ing power and there is less reason to charge him with dereliction in his daty to the republicans of bis State than there would be to charge Mr. Hil! of favoring the democracy because he appointed a leading democrat his deputy. In doing so Mr. Hill yielded to the exigencies of his situati-n, to the demands made upon him. When he was appointed postmas- ter at Vicksburg it became known that it was not safe for him to at tempt to administer the duties of office in person; in fact the only condition on which he could hold the office was that he would appoint a deputy selected by local demo- crats, and with all his bravery and manhood, which are justly praised, he had to yield, and it would be as ungenerous to-day to charge hiw with lack of courage as to charge Mr. Lyoch with unrepablicanism, because a few more Mississippians are not in office. Mr. Lynch, as we have said, has no appointing power. When ava cancy occurs in his office be cau but call on the head of the Depart ment, who, under the civil service law, in turn makes a requisition eu the Civil Service Commission for a clerk—and no one is appointed uo less he has passed the civil service examination and stands high on the list of eligibles. Hence if Mississippians want office, they must do as otbers have done—qualify under the civil ser- vice law, and try to make a high mark, and when Mississippi’s tarn comes to fill a clerkship one of them will get it. It is to be regretted that there should be any misunderstanding whatever. The Bre is and always been a friend to Col. Hill as well as a friend to Messrs. Bruch and Lynch, and it is hoped that all may end well, Editor Martinet, one of the most astute politicians in the South, hits the key note in the above editorial. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. The Franco-Morocco dispute has been settled. Ex-Premier Crispi will withdraw from Italian politics. An advance of 20 per cent is to be made in the price of coffins. Emperor William does not expect to sisit the Chicago Fair. Berlin University professors oppose the primary education bill. A plan is on foot to create an envelope trust with a capital of $5,000,000. Harry Randolph Daley, aged 9 years, died in Baltimore from the effects of a mosquito bite. A bill’ to permit casualty insurance companies to delve into other lines of in- surance was defeated in the New York legislature. Regulations are talked of in Canada for inspecting American pork in transit through that country to Germany and Great Britain. Hon. Stephen B, Elkins, Secretary of War, says that President Harrison is a candidate for renomination and that he will be the choice of the Minneapolis convention. Ten thousand persons went to Madison Square Garden, New York, to see Jim Corbett, the California pugilist, defeat three heavy weight opponents in succes- sion, which he did. In a leap from a bridge in Cincinnati, Meredith Stanley, the bridge jumper, was fatally hurt. organized a wolf drive and after elabo- rate preparations killed two of the ani- mals. Sarah Althea Terry is crazy in San Francisco, She believes she is constantly directed by the spirit of the late Judge Terry. The miners at Coal Creek, Tenn., are A couple of years ago it pare Roe a proposition for the settle- kpown that. Loaniwiana most Pe of our young meu underwent the examination, aud nearly all the successful ones received an ap- pointment. No one has done more to help them to get in than the Hon. Jobn R. Lynch. If Mr. Lyneb helped Louisiana republicans, who were strangers to bim, would he not help republicans of his State If tbey qualified under the law? Bur let it be understood that no one can get in the Department service in Washington without successtai ly undergoing the civil service ex amipation. Mr. Lynch should not be asked to do the impossible. Again, a number of colored re- publicans are holding postoffices in Mississippi—a state of affairs un- known in any other Southern State —aud we believe nearly all of them owe their appointment to M: Lyoch. It is because be had col- ored men appointed to pastothces that his scalp is wanted? We regret to see these dissen sions among the Mississippi repub- licans. When Lynch, Hill aud Brace pulled together, they stood leaders among the National l+aders, and they gave the spectacle of the distribution of kederal patronage in their State on the recommenda tion of colored republicans— a thing not done in avy other State. When they fall out the white boss will step in and rale the Mississippi re- publican party with the same arr)- gance, the same disregard of the in Louisiana. In concluding this article we wil! remark that it is a singular fact that nearly all the employes of the sugar bureau from Mississippi are Gill men and anti Brace or anti Lyveb, and it is this, we believe, ahat bas giveu rise to the rumor that the Collector of Internal Reve nue is the occult power behind Hill who is pusbing on this fight. Capt. Wimberly bas given Messrr. Lynch and Bruch to understand that he ix their friend, and in the present situation of affairs it is his duty to stamp out this report as false by standing up for these gentl-men, if be will not render himself liable to the charge of duplicity.” The Bee can not believe that Col. Hill is a party to the many at tacks that are being made on Re coider Bruch and Auditor Lynch Mr. Lynch will be a delegate from Mississippi to the National Conven- tion and if Mr. Bruce wants to come he can do so. ir_ difficulties State t+ -ne are still on guard, and the 1?! threaten to kill every one of them if any of their number are injured. A wealthy farmer of Atchison county, Kan., Bernard J. Schmitz, went to Ger- many, last November to visit his old home. He was arrested there for desert- ing the German army 30 years ago, and all efforts to have him released seemed fruitless. Then Schmitz’s little daughter wrote a letter to Emperor William and he released her father on his birthday, as the little girl requested. The committee for the investigation of the Pension Office consists of Wheeler, of Michigan, chairman; Little, of New York; Dungan, of Ohio; Lind, of Minne- sota, and Brosius, of Pennsylvania. All were Union soldiers except Lind, who was too young to enter the war. Joseph Geron, a farm hand, fell froma load of hay near Camden, N. J., and was killed by the wheels of his team passing over him. Edith and Otto Simtax, two cuildren of Sunbury, Pa., while skating on the Susquehanna River, broke through the ice and were drowned. Alonzo C. Lamar, a large glass manu- facturer of Camden and Woodbury, N. J., is embarrassed. He places his assets ut $30,000 and liabilities at $20,000. The body of Mrs. William J. Force, who disappeared from her home in Madi- son, N. J.,on December 30 last was found imbedded in the ice in the Passaic River below the bridge at New Providence. Mrs. Srell, widow of the murdered Shicago millionaire, A. J. Snell, has re- seived two anonymous letters in thesame hand threatening to blow her up with dynamite if she does not send the writer #2.000. The sultan’s firman of investiture for | the new khedive of Egypt places no re- strictions upon him with regard to Eng- land’s occupancy of the country. This is regarded as a victory for British di- plomacy. Minister Montt, of Chili, went to Har- risburg, Pa., from Washington Monday wosee Governor Pattison, who was un- fortunately absent in Philadelphia. He wanted to get some points on our public school and tax systems. The lawyer of Carlyle W. Harris, con- victed of wife muder in New York, is besieged by persons of all classes, anxious to get the prisoner free. Great confi- dence is expressed by Harris’ counsel that a new trial will be granted. A fight occurred between cowboys and Indians near Coolidge Station, N. M. The Navajoes greatly outnumber the sowboys, but the latter are better armed, four of the Indians are said to have been killed and many of the cowboys and ranchmen wounded, Fire broke out in one of the blanket mills of John Dobson, at the Falls of Schuylkill, near Philadelphia, Monday. The building was crowded with maleaud female employes at the time, and before all could escape several were severely burned. The loss is about $110,000, nent of thei Over 4,000 Kansas farmers near Girard | | a great disappointment and was bitterly ‘court, John Morley, and a number of THIS WEEK'S NEWS. ASummary of Current Events.—The World's Doings tor the Past Six Days Gathered * and Condensed for Our Readers. General. The first shad of the season was caught at Salem, N. J. North Dakota Democrats will choose national delegates March 24. The Virginia debt bill has finally passed the legislature of that State. The reported. killing of Bob Ford, the slayer of Jesse James, is denied. The President has issued a proclama- tion against the unlawful killing of seals. The snug sum of $1,000,009 has been paid for the Bossick silver mine, at Sil- ver Cliff, Cal. Two notoriety-loving youths of Chi- cago will paddle across Lake Michigan, clad in diving suits. It is said Russia will apologize to Eng- land for Captain Younghusband’s expul- sion from the Pamir. The evidence so far inthe Delamater trial at Meadville, Pa., indicates the ac- quittal of the defendant. The oatmeal. trust is about togo to smash, says E. R. Crowell, an oatmeal maker of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Eleven people perished in the recent blizzard near Cedar Glades, Ark. They were on their way to Oklahoma. Texas legislature has been called to meet in extra session, March 14, when a United States Senator will be elected. The new tariff of Nicarauga places a tax of 100 per cent upon all importations and operates seriously against American trade. It is asserted in Chicago that the wheat market is being manipulated by John D. Rockefeller, James T, North, and John W. Mackey. New York legislature passed au amend- ment to the World’s Fair bill, providing that the Empire State’s exhibits shall be closed on Sunday. Salaries of telegraph operators of the Maryland division of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad have been increased. Thirteen friendless and poverty stricken women assisted from Europe by “chari- table societies” are detained at New York and will be sent back. Legne prrsevine ti on thédeooperative be worked hereafter atner vslread en plan, the miners having reli: = $10,000 worth of stock, ee ie The supreme court of New Jersey has refused to granta new trial to Lingo, the colored man of Camden, convicted of murdering Annie Miller. A woman was attacked by rats and badly bitten in the belfrey of a church at Myrtle Hiill, Conn Her screams at- tracted a passerby, who drove the rodents off. The Virginia house of delegates passed the Senate bill retiring the $2,500,000 in State bonds, held by the educational in- stitutions, and issuing certificates there- for. Trains taking medicines and physicians have been sent to the districts in Russia where smallpox is prevailing. Deter- mined efforts will be made to stamp out the disease. Edwin R. Turpin fire! three shots into the back of William Carter, son of well- known John T, Carter, the horseman, at Gallatin, Tenn., and killed him. They had quarreled. The legislature of New York will in- vestigate the Keeley cure for drunkeness, and also the new Reading anthracite coal deal. Committees have the two subjects in hand. The disorders in Ceara, Brazil, caused by the fact that the Governor of the prov- {nce was a partisan of Fonseca, have been pacified by the resignation of the obnox- ious official and all is now quiet. Itis announced that the Louisiana Lot- tery Company will move to the city of Mexico as soon as its present State char- ter expires, having secured promise of a charter from the Mexican government. A ripple was caused in financial cir- cles by the announcement that $500,- 000 of gold had been ordered for ship- ment to Europe. It was learned that Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co, engaged *t. The French Ministry under the leader- ship of M. de Freycinet was defeated in the house of deputies by a combination. The ministers immediately left the cham- ber and tendered their resignations to President Carnot. Mr. Belfour has introduced the long expected Irish local government bill in the house of commons. The bill was attacked by Sir William Vernon Har- others. Hon. Mrs. A. M. Montagu, daughter of Lord Robert Montagu, was committed for trial at Lauraine, Ireland, on a charge of murdering her daughter, Mary, aged 8, whom.she strung to a ring in a wall in adark room and left alone for hours. When the room was entered the child was dead. Chief Justice Maxwell, of the Ne- braska supreme court, has handed down an opinion holding that Governor Thayer thad no right to hold the office of Gov- ernor, nor had he the right to usurp au- thority that Lieutenant Governor Majors should have held the office pending the test of Boyd’s citizenship. Minister Smith telegraphs from st Petersburg that the distress in Russia is increasing. The Prince of Wales has decided to abandon the turf, and sell his horses. The new steel cruiser Raleigh will be launched at the Norfolk navy yard about March Ist. Typhus fever has cropped out in sev- eral places in the Eastern and Middle States among Russian Jews recently landed. The Whiskey Trust is backing a syndi- cate to secure control of all the breweries in Chicago not belonging to the English syndicate. The capital stock of the new syndicate is $5,000,000. R. Jones Monaghan, who mysteriously disappeared from West Chester, Pa., last fall and was afterward found to be at Sydney, New South Wales, has returned to the United States and will locate at Spokane, Wash. The commission house of Brecht & Hughes, flour merchants, Philadelphia, was damaged to the extent of $10,000 by fire. A disastrous conflagration occurred on the same site in the fall of 1888, when $300,000 went up in smoke, and two fire- men lost their lives. A unique hammer, with which the last nail will be driven in the Woman's World’s Fair Building, will be contributed to Mrs. Potter Palmer by the women of Nebraska, and Mrs. Potter will drive the nail, The nail will be made of gold, sil- ver, and copper and the hammer will be made of gold, silver, and native Nebraska wood, liberally crusted with pearls. M. de Freycinet, chief of the French of which tendered their resignation to political uncertainty will follow. The British cargo is insured in Philadelphia. Chester, Pa,‘ The man was per a Hebrew, and he was on tp~** *"* depot to’ take the rye way to the Philadelphia. ~ s for. Lene fe fo fiends 7*: «3 accompani y George Allen, a élerk at the Pennsyl- yania Steel Works at Steelton, Pa., com- mitted suicide at his home by cutting his throat. The Virginia Senate passed a bill pro- viding for leasing out the State oyster grounds, It is believed that the State will derive an income of about $100,000 from the grounds. A party of 15 Senators and Representa- tives visited Bethlehem, Pa. They were invited by the Bethlehem Steel Company to witness the process of making forg- ings for armor and great guns. By the shifting of a large quantity of bridge material on a gondola car on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, four cars were wrecked on the main line near Valley Forge, Pa. Both east and west- bound tracks were completely blocked by the wreckage, and passengers had to be transferred for several hours until wreck ing crews succeeded in clearing it away Talmage Proposes a Compromise. The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, of Brook. lyn, speaking on the qnestion of Sunday at the World’s Fair, said: “J am interested in that because of my desire for the happiness of the working people. There must be no clash between the church and the World’s Fair. The proper solution is to haveevery work- shop, factory and store closed promptly every Saturday at noon during the entirs exposition. Give the working classes a half holiday every week during that time. Then on Sunday let the great preachers who will be there from all parts of the world hold services in all the World’s Fair buildings which will admit of it. Your regular churches and ali your down town halls will be crowded at that time, and there will be an abun- dance of paople to fill the improvised churches on the exposition ground. Killed His Wife’s Lover. The shooting of M. Emile Abeille, formerly an attache of the French lega- tion in Washington, by Mr. Edward Parker Deacon, the well-known Ameri- can, for being too intimate with Mrs. Deacon, at the Hotel Splendide, at Cannes. France, is the one subject of conversa-, tion in fashionable circles in Europe. All the principals in the case are so wel) known that it is almost impossible to en- ter a social circle without meeting some of their friends, Mr. Deacon is upheld on all sides, particularly among Ameri | cans, for killing his wife’s lover and very little, if any, sympathy is expressed for Mrs. Deacon. The business situation is not quite sc satisfactory or encouraging as it hae been according to Dun’s report. While the gradual increase in distribution of many lines of merchandise continues. there isa shrinking demand and more depression in iron, and a further decline in cotton blights hope of a revival in Southern trade, Cabinet, and his Assembly, the members President Carnot in consequence of the chamber of deputies refusing to adopt a vote of confidence in the government on a question in regard to the religious con- fraternities. The resignation of the cab- iuet has created great excitement in Paris, and it is believed that a period of steamship Sir Walter Raleigh, which left Philadelphia January 12 for Dunkirk laden with 87, 898 bushels of corn valued at $48,344, has gone adrift from Bantry Bay in a gale of wind and fears are entertained for her safety. The ‘The unusual spectacle of a father car- rying the body of his dead infant ina coffin under his arm through the streets attracted a good deal of attention at NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, Late News at the Seat of Government. In Congress. The Senate passed the bill extending the Chinese exclusion act for 10 years. —ZJoint resolutions have been intro- duced in the Senate and House proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the election of United States Senators by popular vote———The Indian appro- priation bill was defeated in the House. It appropriates $7,236,787.—The sub- committee of the House foreign com- mittee in charge of the various Russian Hebrew resolutions introduced in the House has agreed upon Mr. Blanchard’s resolution, so amended as to request the President to use his good offices to induce Russia to mitigate her anti-Hebrew de- cree.—The Senate indefinitely post- poned Senator Quay’s resolution looking to the acquirement of territory in Mex- ico. It also passed a bill to refund the duties collected at San Francisco upon the wreckage of the ships given by the United States to Samoa and a joint reso- lution to restore 21 battle flags to Mexico. —Hr. Chilton introduced in the Senate a joint resolution to amend the Constitu- tion so as to provide for biennial sessions of Cong! —The Senate listened to the i on the late Preston B. Plumb. —Five members of the waysand means committee have presented a report against the Bland free coinage bill and recom- mended as a substitute therefor a bill authorizing the President to invite an in- ternational conference.——Mr. Springer has made public his new tariff bill on the subject of wool and woolens. The aver- age, he says, under the bill will be be- tween 30and 25 per cent. Bills will also be presented placing binding twine and cotton ties on the free list. Senator Gallinger in discussing the printing bill denounced the unfitness of the Govern- ment Printing Office ——The negotia- tions for a trade treaty with Canada have come to an end and the visiting commis- sioners have returned to their homes. ‘There are indications that this week will be notable in ngressional annals as one ia which political issues were made up. In the House there may be an alignment of members on the silver question, and it is probable that in the Senate will be de- fined an economical poiicy, as a sequence of the program adopted by the majority in the House. ad Sib own in the re- ductions, = publ ey for Indian schools, West Point, a&1 other objects, has arouse¢@ considerable criticism, and a disagreement between the two houses is probable. Among the bills likely to be discussed this week are the Paddock pure food bill; the bill providing for the erec- tion of public buildings for post offices in towns and cities where the receipts ex- ceed $3,000 annually; the Urgent De- ficiency bill; the Indian appropriation bill; the bill allowing commercial trav- elers special railroad rates; and several measures affecting the order of business. Notes. Speaker Crisp has gone to Fortress Monroe for a few days. About 60 names have been secured to the call for an anti-silver caucus. Secretary Foster will take a three weeks’ trip across the Atlantic and back for his health, A report that Minister Reid had re- signed the French Mission is denied at the State Department. The joint committee on immigration has begun an investigation preparatory to reporting a new law on the subject. The project of electing Senators by di- rect vote of the people is gaining ground in both haggses. Ex-Congressman Clements, of Georgia, will shortly be appointed an Interstate Commerce Commissioner. A six-years term and but one of them for the President is Senator Proctor’s pro- posed Constitutional amendment. Representatives of the National Graneg asked for an appropriation of $200,000 for the experiment of rural free delivery. The House committee on labor will in- sist upon either the repeal or the enforce- ment of the eight-hour law, passed 24 years ago. It is just announced that Miss Mamie, daughter of Chief Justice Fuller, was married last month to Collin C. Manning, of South Carolina, at San Remo. An increase in the internal revenue re- ceipts of $1,600,000 in the last seven months over the corresponding period of last yeai %3 reported. Much \ — orest is manifested in Wash- ingtoniny St. Louis Convention, this week, at which it is expected a third party will be formed. Replying to a Senate inquiry, Secretary Foster says the transfer of the revenue marine to the Navy Department, “would be unwise and inexpedient.” About 350 Congressmen, foreign minis- ters and Washington journalists left in five trains of Pullmans for Chicago, on Friday last. where they inspected the site | of the World’s Fair, returning on Tues- | day. Boyd has been inaugurated as governor | of Nebraska. France has allotted 3,250,000 francs for her exhibit at Chicago. It has been discovered in Cincinnati |} that Archbishop Purcell had been de- clared an imbecile by court 24 hours be fore he failed, .——The tendenc; oe S, rc