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Jkmumalt Jtttomini)
JKSTAFMBHED 1850. )
J, H. La'IlLL. Kditor ami Proprietor. j
BOUTELLE’S BOOMERANG.
A POINTED LETTER FROM COM
MODORE TRUXTON.
No Inscription* Removed from Cannon,
but Obliterated Ones Restored—Kx
plantation of the Removal of the Tab
let from the l>ry Doik—Lyons Dis
charged for Good Reasons.
Washington, March B.—The Secre
tary of the Navy, in reply to the resolu
tion oi Mr. Boutelle, adopted Jan. 22, to -
day transmitted to the House a letter
from Commodore Truxton, commandant
at the Noriolk navy yard, in which he
•ays:
In reply to your letter, transmitting to me
the re-olution passed by the House of Repre
sentatives, asking if certain allegations were
true in reference to the administration at this
navy yard, of which I am commandaut, has
been received. In answer to the first
statement 1 respectfully say there
never were any honorable inscriptions
upon any cannon captured by the boiled
States and placed in this yard, obliterated by
my order. In fact no such obliteration has at
any time taken place. Exposure from weather
ami time bad somewhat obliterated the in
scriptions placed thereon, but they were re
newed by my order last June, and are now
plainly visible. Then followed a list of the
Runs and the inscriptions on them.
THE DOCK NOT DESTROYED.
2. The dry dock was never destroyed. It
was partially damaged by the United States
forces when they evacuated the yard in 1861,
and also by the Confederates when they evac
uated the yard in 1882, but in neither case did
tlie damage exceed the destruction of the
caisson and the adjacent masonry. The
original structure remained intact as it ap
pears to-day, and therefore the dry dock
never was rebuilt. The only inscription that
was ever authorized to be placed on the dry
dock, or ever was on the dry dock, is still
there. It is as follows:
: Commenced Ist December, 1827.
: John Quincy Adams, i 'resident of the :
; United States. :
: Samuel L, Southard, Secretary of the :
: Navy. :
I Authorized by the 19th Congress. :
; Opened 17th June, 183). :
; Andrew Jackson, President of the United :
: States. :
: Levi Woodbury, Secretary of the Navy. :
[Leamml Baldwin, Engineer.
NO SUCH TABLET AS MENTIONED.
Therefore the tablet referred to by the reso
lution, never having been on the drv dock,
was not removed. On the pumping engine,
which Is located in the brick building, s me
150 feet distant from the dry dock, a plate con
taining the inscription:
- ....-- *
Built by I
Messrs. Woodruff & Beach, :
Maehini-ts and Engineers,
Hartford, Conn.,
was removed, and in its place another was
substitute!], inscribed thereon:
: Destroyed by the Rebels in 1862, :
: Rebuilt by the United States Government :
; in 1863 :
J. W. Livingston, Commandant.
; W.li Lyons, Superintendent of Machinery :
*.... ....*
I searched ihe records in this office in vain
Tor the author! y for the removal <>f the orig
inal plate and the subs itution of the other,
and could not find that the change was made
iy any authority whatever. I therefor* had
t removed.
WHO ERECTED IT.
Since the removal of the plate referred to,
Mr. Lyons has applied for it, stating that as
he had erected it on bis own respon-ibility.
and bought and Daid for it at his own expense,
therefore it was his private property.
3. Mr. Lyons was not Superintendent of
Machinery at the time of the removal of the
plate, he having been removed by me, for rea
sons hereinafter stated, on the 25th day of
April, 1885. Thepla e was removed some time
after, in May, hence he was not removed by
me for protesting against the removal oi the
plate referred to He was removed by me on
account of bis bit'er partisanship.
DOMINEERING AND IMMORAL.
His absolute political sway for a number of
years in the steam-engineering department
at this yard, and his antagonistic and over
bearing disposition to any one who differed
with him politically or otherwise, created a
feeling of discontent among the master
workmen and workmen to such an extent
that and was almost impossible to get good
work of anv kind done in that department,
liis personal character was objectionable, he
having lieen previously held to bail by tue
United Bta es Commissioner, to answer be
fore the United States grand jury who found
a true bill against him for having smuggled
from the Spanish ship l’ayoro I el Oc. ano
cigars while that vessel was undergoing re
pairs in the dry dock in this yard. I never
considered that Mr. Lyons had faithfully
served the United States government for
many years as the resolutions allege.
HIS LOYALTY.
On the contrary, I always doubted his
loyalty to his government at the time it was
in greatest need. He published the following
card to the cilitens oi Norfolk in June, 1861.
which appeared in the liny Book at that time:
To tin Public: ‘ I. WilU mi H. Lyons, hav
ing been charged with disloyalty to the South
ern Confederacy, proclaim mysc'f as good a
Southerner as any man in the Sooth, and am
doing as much to destroy the invaders as any
man in the Held, and if anv one will come to
the Atlantic Iron w orks 7 will show them my
Work, which are more than words, and will do
all in my power to promote the indepenuence
•f the Southern Slates.
‘William H. Lyons,
“Foreman Atlantic Iron Works.”
The sentiment contained in the foregoing
tetter does not show much faithfulness to the
United States government as the resolutions
allege.
LYON’R SUCCESSOR.
Commodore Truxton then mentions
(bat a board of officers was selected by
Secretary Whitney to supervise and con
duct au examination of candidates lor the
position made vacant by the removal of
Hr. Lyons, that full notice of the exam
ination was given, and that six mechanics
attended and were examined. Tue board
reported tbat Thomas B. uarr, of Ball!
more, was the best man for the place, and
ho was appointed to the posit toil of Master
Macha nisi by the Secretary of the Navy.
Ybu Commodore continues:
The eßoiencv aud superior work now turn
ed out of that shop juslilles the change made.
A GENERAL DISCHARGE.
A short time alter taking charge of this
(aril a general discharge was ordered by the
epartincui at Washington as sin ted, by lack
ttf appropriations, which caused all the shops
to close with Hie exception of the engineer's
department, where the liolters of the I ailed
blates bteamer Alliance were be
ing made. At the commencement of
the new fiscal year lunds being
available work was resinned. The Impres
sion having gone abroad that ihis navy yard
was a political asvlum for retired imiii Irian*.
I ordered a board of officers to examine all
applicants who claimed they were skilled
workmen so as 10 ascertain their fUnes< for ilie
positions they sought. Inc report of that board
wna conclusive an to the merit* of ihe appli
cant who was employed or rejected, accord
ing to the reporl, as the records on file in this
t a rd prove.
THE EFFECT.
This manner of ascertaining the qualillca
flona of applicants has had a twofold effeot.
It lias increa oil the efficiency of the men. anil
while had workmans!) p was the reputation
af this yard by means of the above examtna
i turn good workmanship ia now ita reputation
among naval officer*.
i Commodore Truxton then goo* on to
r y:
1 Out of 556 men employed In the yard at tha
'me of the adoption of the resolution and tha
tie of ihe report, 318 had been appointed by
levlous administration*, and that the mi
ritr et tha new force waa too young to have
taken part in tke la-t* l war; 67 men were
Uuion soldiers and Hailots, of whom 40 were
appointed by Commodore Truxton, and 86
were colored men.
NO COLOR DISCRIMINATION.
Colored men of equal skill have been given
equal opportunities for einp'oyuieut, and not
to the i ommodore'* knowledge wae any such
right by previous administrations.
Thirteen out of the thirty caulkers were freed
uien * J* nt * w * ieu the force waa reduced
no discrimination on account of
color waa made. Commodore Trux
ton embodies in the report a letter from
Congressman Brady, in which the latter
namua 15 ex-Union soldiers and sailors whom
he knew personally and who had l**en dis
charged from tboyard. Commodore Truxton
answers iw each individual Three of
the men named are still employed in the yard.
GOOD CAUSE IN EACH CASE.
The remaining 12 wore discharged for tn
emciency, objectionable habits, lack of em
ployment, lack of lunds; one because he failed
on the civil service examination for the posi
tion of foreman; one for causes sufli ieut to
himself as commandant, and three because of
ofleiihi'. e partisanship, and aoit was his deter
mination to rid the yard of politics, it whs
necessary to remove these three men.
Two of the appointees to take two of tne
above places wore in tb 1 Confederate service
but had superior mechanical skill. Of two
others one was a son of a United States
naval officer and one was anex-Unitcd S*a:es
naval officer. The others were too young at
the time of the late war to have taken any
part in the strife. Jn conclusion 1 resoect
fully say that 1 have always, to the best of
my judgment, prevented politics from being
a controlling element in this vard during my
administration.
TWO POPULAR APPOINTMENTS.
Samuel B. Wheatley anil Maj. William
Ludlow the Lucky Men.
Vf ashington, March B.—Samuel E.
Wheatley, who was to-day appointed
Commissioner of t he District of Columbia,
vice James B. Edmonds, is a member of a
prominent lumber firm of the distriet.
He was born in Georgetown and has lived
there all bis llle. He has always been an
unswerving Democrat. The evening
papers publish expressions of their own
opinion and that of prominent eitizeus,
which are as emphatic in approval of Mr.
Wheatley’s appointment as they were re
cently in disapproval of Mathews, the
New York colored man, to succeed Fred
Douglass as Register of Deeds.
ENGINEER COMMISSIONER.
The President also to-day appointed
Maj. William Ludlow,of the corps of Engi
neers United States army, to be Engineer
Commissioner of the District of Columbia,
vice Maj. Garrett J. Lvdecker. Maj.
Ludlow has an excellent record as an en
gineer officer and has bad charge of im
portant public improvements in various
parts of the country. He was engineer
secretary of the light house board
for seyeral years, and while holding tbat
position in 1883 Congress passed a special
act granting him leave of absence without
pay in order that be might accept an otter
to take charge of the water works
of Philadelphia, and he has just been re
lieved from the duties of that positon.
His appointment is also likely' to be a
popular one.
CALL OF THE STATES.
Several New Rill* Introduced and an
Adjournment Then Taken.
Washington, March B.—ln the House
to-day under the call of tile States a num
ber of bills were introduced and referred.
Among them was one by Mr. Bennett, of
North Carolina, repealing the civil serv
ice law. and by Mr. Green, of North Car
olina, defining pure wines and pro
viding for the taxation of certain com
pounded beverages.
Mr. Henley, of California, offered for
reference a resolution for the appoint
ment of a speoial committee to inquire
into the alleged evasions ol the Thurman
act by the Union Pacific railroad com
pany, and to determine whether bv reason
of any violation of the provisions of that
act the corporate rights of powers and
franchises of the company have become
forfeited.
Mr. Beagan, from the Committee on
Commerce reported back the inter-State
commerce bill and it was placed on the
calendar. Mr. O’Neill, of Pennsylvania,
was granted leave to file a minority re
port on the bill.
At the expiration of the morning hour
the death of Senator Miller, of California,
was announced, and the House adjourned.
Mr. Bowen Speaks on Silver.
\V anhington, March B.—ln the Senate
to-day, the morning business having been
disposed of, Mr. Bowen, of Colorado, at 1
o’clock obtained unanimous consent to
address the Senate on the subject of bis
bill, “To provide anew basis for the cir
culation of National banka,” and he pro
ceeded to speak upon his bill and upon
the silver question generally. Mr. Bowen
concluded at ;>:2O o’cloea. Mr. Stanford
then announced the death of his colleague,
Senator Miller, of California, and out of
respect to bis memory, moved an adjourn
ment. The motion was agreed to and the
Senate forthwith adjourned.
A Blow at the Civil Service Law.
Washington, March 8 —in the Senate
to-day Mr. Vance offered a resolution di
recting the Comraitiec on Civil Service
reform to report forthwith the bill before
them providing for the repeal of the civil
service law. The resolution, at Mr.
Vance’s request, was for the present laid
on the table. He said he would soon take
opportunity to addrisa the Senate on the
subject matter of the resolution.
Married at Washington.
Washington, Oi., March B.—To-day
at the residence of the bride’s brother,
Robert Toombs Dubose, Dr. George P.
Dubose and Miss Louise T. Dubose were
married. Bishop Beckwith officiating.
Tlie bridal couple left on the noon train
Tor the home of the groom at Washington,
D.C.
Virginia Coupon Cases.
Washington, March B.— The Supreme
Court of the United states to-day denied
the motion ol N. N. Royall to give pre
ference over all other cases to suits
coming from the State or Federal courts
of Virginia Involving the question of the
constitutionality of coupon laws.
Mr. Hudd sworn In.
Washington. March B.— The Speaker
laid before the House to-day the creden
tialsof Thomas It. Hudd. member elect
from the Fifth district of Wisconsin to nil
the vscancy caused hy the death of Joseph
Rankin, and Mr. Htuld appeared and took
the oath of office.
Miner* Killed hy an Explosion.
Connellavillr, Pa., March B.—An
explosion to-day in the Unlondale mine
was caused by Are damp. Two miners
were kllletf outright and twelve were
injured, four or live of whom will die.
Nine man eeoaped uninjured.
Yc wet hr n Bcaicffad.
Rangoon, March 8. The town of
Yawethen, garrisoned by 300 British
troop*, is tiesieged by 9,000 rebels. Gen.
Prendergasi has started to relieve tha
garrison. A battle is expeatad.
SAVANNAH. TUESDAY, M ARCH 9. 1880.
IMPORT TAXES ON RICE.
ARGUING BEFORE THE WAYS
AND MEANS COMMITTEE.
Commissioner Trenuolin Make* * Lucid
Explanation of ths Situation— Labor
nn<l Laud* Would be Kulned by Low
ering the Duty—The Argument ol the
Brewers.
Washington, March B.—Civil Service
Commissioner Trenholra appeared before
the Ways and Means Committee to-day to
express his views upon the sections of
the Morrison tariff bill touching rice. He
said that the duty on rioe imported into
the Pacific States was paid by Chinese
laborers, who were consumers, and was
almost the only tax paid by the Chinese.
Mr.Trenholm told of the ill effects on rice
plantations in this country resulting from
disuse during the war, aud said that if
the production should he checked at this
time it would be difficult or almost im
possible to re-establish the sources of
supply witnln a long period.
ADAPTABILITY OF THE LAND.
The land was fit for no other purpose,
and the laboring people would drift away
and could not be recalled. Secretary
Folger bad made a ruling, assimilating
broken rice meal under the nameot gran
ulated rice, and that ruling bad the effect
ol increasing the Importation of that class
of rioe from 11,000,000 pounds to ‘275,000,000,
and prices bad fallen from 4 to '2 cents per
pound. The law should oontain a pro
vision against the introduction of any
rice at a rate ol duty that was not in
tended to be applied to it. If it was the
intention to let in this rice at a lower rate
of duty, It would be bettor to state It spe
cifically Iu the tariff, and not leave the
rate to be fixed by unstable treasury
rulings.
COST OF RICE PRODUCTION.
Atmos, the entire cost of the rice pro
duction was In labor, 90 cents on the dol
lar he should say. Commissioner Tren
holm told of a planter who had abandoned
bis plantation because he found tbat a
cross roads storekeeper was selling East
India rice to his laborers. Commissioner
Trenbolm admitted that be had tree trade
ideas generally, but said tbat if the pro
tective system were maintained then he
should regard a tarid on rice as a neces
sity. Protection enhanced the cost of all
labor, and this country could not compete
iu rice culture with Asiatic nations with
tuelr cheap labor without including rice
in the list of protected articles.
DISCRIMINATION THE TROUBLE.
In answer to Mr. Hewitt be said that
there should be a uniform duty on rice
and anoiber to cover rice flour.
Mr. Hewitt pointed out that tbat was
the present law in effect. The difficulty
seemed to be iu the interpretation ol the
law-il scrimination between true rice flour
and broken rice.
Commissioner Trenbolm suggested that
rice migbt be graded by its size to be de
termined by screens all above a certain
size to be regarded as rice, and all below
tbat size to be graded as nee flour.
Representative Dibble, ot .South Caro
lina, discussed the matter from the labor
ers’ point ot view, saying that the iabor
employed in rice culture formed an ap
preciable part of the country’s laboring
population and was emitted to considera
tion at the hands of the committee.
GOBI OF HARVEST LABOR.
Representative Gay, of Louisiana,
spoke of tue excessive cost of harvest
labor on the nee plantations in bis State
as compared with the cheap Hast Indian
labor. He said that it had becomes prac
tice for European exporters to break up
whole grains of rice so as to take advant
age of the low tariff on that grade in this
country.
Mr. 'Morrison, representing tne rice
dealers said that the brewers consumed
broken rice to the extent ol several mil
lion bushels per month, and that the pro
duction of this country was too small to
supply this demand. It had been shown
that Southern dealers bought foreign
broken rice, mixed it with their wnole
grain and sent it West for sale. Rioe
was a necessity in brewing light-colored
beers, as our native barley was too dark
in color for the purpose.
NOT SOLD FDR FOOD.
Nearly all broken rioe was used in
brewing, and not one respectable grocer
in New York could lie found who would
state tbat broken rice was sold by them
for food.
Louis Schade said tbat one brewing firm
iu the West used an amount of broken
rice equal to the entire production of the
country.
U. B. James, representingafirm of New
York rice dealers, also contended that the
native production was too small to meet
the brewers’ demand.
T. 8. Wilkinson, of Louisiana, a planter
and miller, denied tbat Louisiana dealers
mixed foreign broken rice with tbs home
product. Hedeclared that there was an o|>-
portunity for fraud; imported broken rice
was fit for food, and two-thirds of the
Louisiana crop this year was very little
better than broken tics.
REX AT NEW ORLEANS.
His Majesty Given a Royal W• 1 eom• by
tke Populace.
New Orleans, March B.—The carnival
season was inaugurated here to-day by
the arrival of Ilex, who was received
with military and civic boners. The pro
cession moved through the city from the
depot of the Illinois Central railroad to
the head of Canal street, where bis Msj
esty and suite, accompanied by a military
escort aud a large number of prominent
citizens, embarked ou the royal flotilla
for the exposition grounds amidst the
booming of cannon, blowing of steam
whistles and shout* of the multitude.
The formal reception took place at Music
ball.
Ou arriving at the exposition landing
Bax and bis followers were met by Presi
dent Me*onico. Director General Wood,
tbeoommlUee of ihe Btaies and Territo
ries, and a multitude of people from all
Sarts ot the ejuutry and escorted to
luslo ball, where the formal reception
took place. The tableaux presented when
the curtain was withdrawn was beautiful
and unique. After the royal reception
tbe immense nudlence dispersed among
the seyeral exhibition building*.
Death or Gov. Hrymonr’* Wile.
Utica, N. Y„ March B.—Mary Bleecker,
reliot of ex-ttoveroor Horatio Saymuur,
died at the residence of Mrs. Koscoe
Conkllßg at 8:80 o’clock to-dy. The late
Governor removed Mrs. Seymour from hi*
country home to Mr*. Conkling’a on ac
count of ber illness, and while attendlag
her be wa* attacked with bis fatal illne**.
Railroad Builders Killed.
CoKSTANTTNOrL*, March B.—A desper
ate attack made by ArnauU to-day on tb*
men building a Turkish railway near
Veranpa. Several engineer* aadßo work
men were killed.
SENATOR MILLER'S DEATH.
A Brier Sketch of Hl* Career !n the
Army end Politics.
Washington, March B.—Senator John
F. Miller, of Calitorufa, whose death
caused the early adjournment of Congress
to-day. had been sick all winter from a
oomplioation ol diseases, but bis death
was mainly due to an old wound in the
head received la battle during the late
war.,: '
Senator John F. Miller, was born in
Indiana In 1831, Ills parents being Vir
ginians. lie received an academical edu
cation at South Bend, and was fitted lor
college at Chicago, but did nor enter. He
commenced the study of law in 1849, and
graduated at. the New York Slate Law
School ill 1352. tie opened a law office at
sontfc Bend, lud., and soon went to Cali
lornia, where he practiced law for three
years, when he returned io Indiana and
resumed practice there. In 1860 he was a
member ot the State Senate, but resigned
to enter the army as Colonel of the Twen
ty-ninth Indiana Volunteers, and was
soon placed in command of a brigade,
serving under Sherman, Buell, Roseerans,
and Thomas, and receiving severe wounds
In the battles of Stone River and
Liberty Gap, and promoted lo Briga
dier General. In the battle of Nashville
he commanded the left division of H,(XH)
men, and was breveted a Major General
for conspicuous bravery. Atrhe ohms of
the war he was offered a high commission
in the regular array, but he decllued it,
and returned to California, where he was
Collector of the Fort of San Francisco
four years, declining a reappointment.
He was a Republican candidiite for Presi
dential Elector in 1872, iu 1876, and in
1880, and was a member of the California
State Constitutional Convention in 1879.
He was elected to the United States Sen
ate as a R publican, to succeed Newton
Booth, Anti-Monopolist and took his seat
Maroh 4, 1881.
Senator Miller was one of California’s
millionaires, and he made his entire for
tune after the close of t"e war. Less
than a year ago bis fortune was estimated
at $<1,000,000. He lost an eye while a
Colonel in Itosecrans’ armv." When lie
left the army be had not probably SI,OOO.
In 1860 President Jobuson made him Col
lector of the port of San Francisco, he
having been a war Democrat. About the
close of his term he fell in with Gen.
H. Rousseau, whom Johnson had
sent to Alaska as United States Commis
sioner to receive tbat Territory (rein tbo
Russian authorities, and a man named
Hu'cbinson, to whom Johnson had
granted certain fur hunting privileges.
Gen. Miller and Hutchinson formed what
is now known as the Alaska Commercial
Company, and it enriched both and ot hers
beside. Honors followed riches in rapid
succession. He was liberal with bis
wealth, though not wasteful; and in 20
years of aceumulatlng he gathered about
him many strong friends who were hound
to him bv hooks of steel, no* gold.
MOVEMENT OF COTTON.
A Tabulated Statement Covering tba
Past Six Months.
New Orleans, March B.—The cotton
movement of the United States, as made
up by the National Cotton Exchange for
the six months ending with February, Is
as tollows: Port receipts, 4,530,696 bales;
overland shipments, 815.727, of which to
mills 699 ofij, to ports 175.360, and to Can
ada 17.867; in transit overland, £1,438;
total takings of Northern spinners, 1.318.-
853; at sea between ports. 23,552;
exports to Great Britain 1.688.172. to
France 310,718, to the Continent 1,018,853,
exports totai 2.887,216; stock at ports at
the close of February 1,029,595; spinners
taking for February 161.261; overland
shipments for February 67.964. The total
supply in sight at ports and points of
crossing overland, and stocks reported at
interior towns to close of February was
5,600,277 bales, against 6.095,233 last vear,
and 6.651.267 io the bigcrop.vearoflKß2-88.
The home spinners takings for tho year
’B6 are the largest on reoord.
A FISHERY EPISODE.
Seizure of a Schooner that was Seized
Before In 1871.
Gloucester, Mams., March 6.—There
is much excitement here over the seizure
by tbo Canadian government oi the
schooner E. A. Horton on account of an
occurrence fifteen years ago, which at
the time threatened international diffi
culties.
In October, 1871, the schooner was
seized by the Dominion government on a
charge of fishing within the three-mile
limit. Capt. Horton, who was part
owner, went from Gloucester, and. after
much planning,succeeded, wilh six Glou
cester seamen, iu capturlnr the vessel
from her kissuers and. putting to sea.
A great stir was made about it, stul
cruisers Were sent out to interdept him,
but he arrived safely in Gloncester, Where
he was received with itomires and bell
ringing, and at a meeting of citizen# wa
prtsenfed with a purse of SI,OOO, R*.
cently ilia vessel was sold to Joseph
Snow, of IMsby, N. 8.. and it Is from Him
tbat the seizure Is now made.
GLADSTONE. HAM A OOIjD.
Hit Ministry Rwi.l V*a is Hla (led Itoom
—Mottling Harlows *'•**■•#(>’ a"
LONDON, March 8.-*-AnnounoemPt 1*
made that Mr. Gladstone Is suffering
from a severe cold coupled with state
ments that bia physicians don’t look upon
bis ailment as serious and that ois throat
Is not affected, it has been ascertained,
however, that Premier Gladstone Is con
fined to bismorp and that be has spent ell 1
bis time since Hiwrdsy in bed. The min
isters who hrt boon required by the exl
gepcies of State business to call upon the
Premier hsve.heen received by him in his
lied room. tie attends to his necessary
correspondence by dictating from Mis
couch. i
MJUVJfcN MKN KII.LKB.
Disastrous Ssqiuoivos of so Rsplosloa
on a Tug.
London, March Bi—Tbo boiler of the
tug Rifleman exploded In Cardiff Harbor
tbla morning.' The vesoel n<l crew, eon* l
eisting of slxpersona, were blown to at
oms. The cylinder ol the engine atruck
a passing Italian abip a quarter of a mile
dletaat and killed the pilot.
famine Michel Mobbed.
Paris. March B.—Louise Michel was
pelted with atones and snow-balls at Ver
sailles this evening, while addressing a
meeting on strikes and Socialism. Hbe
escaped wltbont Injury, tier companion,
Him. Bougoure, waa also mobbed, her
cab being pelted with stones and be
daubed with mud. Boms of the missiles
siruok ber on the lane and drew blood,
hbe Usully took retags in the Mayor’s
office.
VALIANT LABOR KNIGHTS
AIAHTER WORKMAN I'OWDKH
LY EXPLAINS THEIR AIMS.
Arbitration Their First Object In Cass
of Dispute*—Strikes Only Benorteil to
as an Ext rente Measure —Boycotting
Neyer Employed when it Can be Avolft
ed.
Philadelphia, Pa., March B.—Grand
Master Workman Powderly, the head of
the Knights of Labor organizations, who
is in this city attending the meeting of
the General Executive Board, said to
night ton reporter ol the Associated Press
that be had received no summons to St.
Louis to settle tne difficulties between the
strikers and the Gould system of roads
west. Mr. Powderly said there is no signifi
cance in the fact that so many strikes aro
now in progress in the United .Slates by
assemblies of the Kuights of Labor. He
said:
It Is a coincidence inoroly. and there i no
ooncorted action contemplated by the order,
a* ha* been HUggested. the strikes being inrl
dental, and I think chiefly owing to the fact
that this is Just Ihe beginning of the spring
trade aud the opening ol a period of prosperi
ty in business.
NOT TO SHOW THEIR POWER.
Mr. Powderly upon being asked whether he
did not think that the increase in the nunilmr
of strikes just now whh owing to the know
ledge of an Increased power by the organiza
tions of labor, said: “l doubt it. and 1 iliink I
can speak for the General Executive Board.
I do not think that H is wise to inaugurate so
tnanv strikes unless it own be shown llist there
1* au extreme nece-sitv for them If many of
the men who are striking would disnlay a Ut
ils more common sense, and use a little more
patience, they would get all they lire sinking
ror and save their tunc and money in the bar
gain.
ARBITRATION FAVORED.
If they would exercise proper moderation
in Ihoir negotiations with their employer* and
submit their claims firmly made and properly
represented to aibttration, I am free to say
that Ism mire that nine out of ten ca-cs
which end in a strike cou'd he stUfactori y
arranged without resorting to !li.it extreme
and generally doubtful expedient. Indeed,
in nine esses out of 'en there would tic no ne
cessity for a strike. There is a feeling now
that labor must ne recognized by the em
ployer, that the employer must listen to his
employes, and the time has come when shop
man. mill ow ner and manufacturer In every
iispartmcnt of trade is ready to harken to the
demands of his men and io yield to them
when those demands are reasonable.
THE POLICY PROCLAIMED.
“Arbitration, then, and not strikes, is the
theory of the orderV” said the reporter.
••Yes, arbitration always when it is possible,
asi rike only as a last resort; but when that
point is reached strike hard, and never sur
render except to just concessions, Wny.thi*
board,” pointing io the members, “lias, since
-lan. 1. last, settled liy arbitration 350 rases
which would otherwise have resulted in
strikes without the gaining of a stnvle point
by the striker*. The K night* of Labor anil
other lat*>r organization< lotistitule at the
piesent ttm" the most powerful organization
of workingmen ever known. Its strength fs
increasing every day, and its infiiience is felt
every day iu every branch of trade In this
country.
DANGEROUS POWER.
“It i* dangerous to abuse this power. It can
ulwavs insist upon just dcin mds carefully
considered and thoughtfully digo* ed. It can
not afford Io fritter itself awav upon every
I'ltle pretense of wring, hastily formulated
and plg-h-ad tally in Hied upon. Thu growth
of the power of laisir should bean occasion
for caliu deliberations and moderation, ft is,
as someone lias said before me, a good thing
to have the power of a giant, hut it is an evil
thing to nse it like a giant. It was a disposi
tion on tin part of the employer to refuse to
treat with the workmen that made labor or
gant/alion a necessity to them. Now that we
hare the power, we must use it wisely aud
moderately.
A NTHIKE TUI LAST RESORT.
“A strike should be the last resort whon eve
rything else has failed. and not au everyday
expedient which, u-ed as such, loses its power
as it increases its frequency. In the old
assemblies, which are familiar with our plans
and pnriHises, strikes are infrequent. It is
the new organizations whieh, up>n insuffi
cient. and frequently trivial, nausea, make
tills desperate appeal. As our organization
grows there will be less str’ki* bceanse there
will be lest neneasity for thtm. Our power
will be id time greater than men now think.
It will lasi so long an we nse It wisely, a
power no leas important than the constitution
itself.”
MORE DEOrgRATE MEANS.
"Is a strike Ibe only last resort of the
Knighlsof Labor?" asked (he reporter.
The Master Workman am lied. “I see,"said
he. •• what you are driving at A strike is n
had thing, but a boycott >a worse in its re
-nil-. A strike stop production. A boycott
kdls it. A strike for a week is oaly a loss of
a week’s hna nesa and wages. A boycott for
a week ean be ulter ruin of a busmen* itself.
We have never failed in a boycott, whieh has
been ordered by the general committee. Ha
effectiveness is umlou'led, hut it Is an ex
treme power which we u e with caution."
POLITICAL DANGERS.
‘‘is there not danger that your organization
may heco 1 e eng ged in political movements
and thus lose its power?”
•*f h-ivc no fear of that. The matters In
volved In the existence and work of the
kntghtsof f-abor are nearer to Its members
than ma'ters of partisan politics. We have
belie, as vou see, on tills committee members
f Ltie two old name-, a bre nbarker, and,
with a smile, other era ks like myself. W e
arc not politician* here. We have a method
of dealing with those who, as some have, eli
te- our ranks to serve political ends. We
turn them out.
NON-POLITICAL.
"We do not propose to have any part In poll-
Itna It is bread and butter, he rights of rsi
ntoyed, material and oonerete tilings of every
d-y life i bat constitute the elements which do
and always will hold ns 10-cther. That is
why I do not fear the Intrusion of politics.
WlMn people talk, ns sometimes they do,
about u-lng the Knight* of Laiior aa a politi
cal engine they utter most arrant nouaeo-e.
It Is not worth while to dl-russ the matter
with such a man. He is either a liar or au
empty headed fool."
COAL KKtilON STRIKE.
In conclusion, Mr. Powderlr said tbe
Kntghtaol Labor aa tin organization had noth
ing to do with the strikes in the bituminous
errs I region, aa the miners were under a sepa
rata organization, but he wo*satisfied that the
day was in ur when all the labor organ i/.ationa
(ifthc country would he united under one
general supervision and controL He will re
main In Philadelphia several days unless
vailed West te arrange difficulties there.
HIKE VKKBCS CONVICT LABOR.
gstitncky’i Miners Dive the Legisla
ture Two Weoks In Whlcb to Pass
Laws.
Louisville, March B.—Four of tbe Ova
companies of soldiers who art at tba
Greenwood mines In Pulaski county,
py. to protect property and oonvlota
against tbe threatened onslaught of fraa
miners, lelt for botns to-day. Tna
Lexington company and the (i ti
ling guns still remain, but It Is
thought tin y will be ordered boms In a
few days. Tba fraa miners have promised
not to molest tbe convicts fur two weeks,
staling tbat they would give tbe Legisla*
turn tbat tlms to past law# removing the
convicts from the mines. Tbe free miners
are orderly but determined as tbsu qaa
tlon Is out of bread to them.
All the Minor# li*L
1
fighting the knights.
Philadelphia Munufacturert of Edge
Tools Declare War.
Philadelphia, Pa., March B.—Yerkes
& Plumb, nmmitncturers of edge tools in
Frankfort], this morning locked out all
their employes as an initial step in aeon
test with the Kuights of Labor. The firm
made objection to their men joining the
Knights of l.atior and on Satin (lay posted
a notice requiring all their men to re
nounce the Knights. This morn
ing the employes held a meeting at
which it was decided to ask
the firm to take the discharged men hack.
A committee was appointed who waned
on Mr. Yerkes at the office of the firm.
Mr. Yerkes at first told the men that all
hands could go to work to-iuorrow at 7
o’clock, but after they bad gone he and
tils partner, Mr. Plumb, held a consulta
tion at which it waadecided to shut down
the works lor an indefinite period. The
firm say they will sell the works before
they will submit to the Interference ol
the workingmen’s organization. The
men held a meeting this afleruoon but
no action was taken.
BUSINESS MEN FALL IN.
Three Wards of OhiMgo In Which
Labor Hu* Firm Friends.
Chicago, March B.—A number of busi
ness men representing Ihe Seventh,
Eighth and Ninth wards of this city as
sembled yesterday for the purpose of
organizing a mixed assembly of the
Knights of Labor. The Chairman said
that at the request of a number ot busi
ness men and others who were suffering
trom the results of the too poor com pen
sation that labor received. It had been de
cided tbat business men should make
common cause with the laboring class
on whom they relied for supi>ort, by thor
oughly organizing and co-operating with
the working people in their various lo
calities. The committee appointed at the
former meeting to secure a charter re
ported that the request bad been granted
by the District assembly, and that a char
ter would lie issued to them some time
(luring the present week.
CARPENTERS CARRY A POINT.
•3 50 Pur Day Demanded A* the Aver
age Pay for Journeymen.
New York. March 8. Four thousand
members of tho United Order of American
Joiners aud the Amalgamated Society of
Carpenters and Joiners shipped work
here to-day. The journeymen complain
of the low wages paid at tbo rate of $2 per
day of 10 hours, the rate lor flraf-class
workmen being $3 50, which very few
receive on ths plea that they
are not first-class. The strikers now
demand that the average wages
paid to journeymen shall he $3 50 per
(lav, of nine hour* each lor five days, and
eight hours Saturday. Six hundred shops
are affected by this movement, and at
noon SO bosses iiad agreed to the demands
as prescuted. The ruen in these shop*
will at, once resume work. Tho man are
confident of carrying their point, as
nearly ull the larger shops have given In.
About 1,200 men resumed work to-day.
A KNIGHTS OF LABOR PARTY.
The Movement Attracting Considerable
Attention In Illinois.
Decatur, 111., Marobß.—The action
of tbe Knights of Labor of this section in
forming anew political party, ie attract
ing much attention. They declare In their
platform:
We have formed anew national political
parly lo be known a* the United Labor party
of America, lo'- the purpoe of organizing
and directing the great poliiinal power of the
iaduKtna! iiia*He* * a po'ltical organization,
and we will cant our ballots for no ooe who
will not pledge himself to staud firmly hy our
principles.
They call upon all voters to unitA In an
effort to emancipate the wage workers of
the country from tbe iron band of capital
ists. They declare that the alarming de
velopment and aggressiveness ot great
capitalists snd corporations, unless
checked, will Inevitably lead to a pauper
position and bopeluss degradation of tbe
toiling masses.
Public Works Advocated.
New York, March B.—The executive
committee of the Htala assembly of the
Knights ot lAbor Saturday adopted a
memorial to tbe Senate and House ol Kep
resentatives at Washington asking that
liberal appropriations of tbe surplus rev
enu* s le made for the construction of
tuldic works. The Hennepin canal pro
ject was indorsed as an undertaking of
national importance. The memorial has
in on adopted hy sixteen assemblies In
this Slate and eleven iu otiier Stales.
lIMHIO Miners Involved.
Pittsburg, March B—An extensive
strike of coal miners of Fed-ratioo No. 3,
comprising the soft coal districts of the
Kaai, was inaugurated to-day for a uni
form scale of wage* which Was adopted
at tbe convention at Uuiulierland Feb. 19,
Involving a-geueral advance ol lucent*
per ton. In the district there are 10,000
miners. At 11 o’clock tbi* morning die
patches received from tbe Maryland re
gion* reported that all the miners, num
bering nearly 6,000 men, were out.
Along Hie Missouri Pucilic.
6edalia, Mo., March B.—Tbe Central
Committee of the Knights of Labor will
order that slier to-dav ail tbe members of
that organization employed upon pee.
aeoger trains on the Missouri Pacific rail
way shall cease work, but that mail cars
must not bo interfered with. Notion waa
posted at the Missouri Pacific railway
depot this morning announcing tbe sus
pension ol all braketuen and conductors
on tho Ht. Louis and Kansas and Law
rence and Kansas branches of tbat road,
Tho Gould System strike.
Bt. Louis, March 6.—Tbe strike of part
Of the Knights of Labor on tue Gould
Southwestern system of railway* Satur
day wa* followed yesterday at various
points aloug the flues bv a general sus
pension of work by all tbe Knights em
pioytil In any position by tbe railroads,
until tbe number reached between 8.006
and 10,(610, and included shopmen, switch
man, trainmen, brakemen and firemen.
Resuming at 2 Ceuta.
Charleston, W. Va., March B.— The
men of i lie mine* of tb* Pioneer and
Georg* Dana companies agreed to-day to
resume work at 2 cents per busnel and
will enter the mines to-morrow. It Is
also believed that tbe Campbell oreek
mine will start to-morrow on the aarna
hasl*. Tne Raymond City mine, which
has been idle eight months, will aiao re
sume to-morrow at tb* ’Latent rate.
New Yoke, March B.—Thera has been
no change m day in the status of the
9ii*aro Heating Company *wlke. The
omiipsn v soys it will soil Its **tir* ou si
nes* to the striker* they will nay cash.
) PRICFSIO A YE AB.I
1 SCENTS ACOFY. |
GEORGIA’S WATER WAYS.
MR. NORWOOD APPEARS BE
FORE THE COM MITT .CIS.
A Cold Prevents Mr. Edmonds from
Delivering th* Ovnoint Uprmh In lh*
Debate in Reply to the President's
MM*jn-Tliu Outlook lor the Buk.
rnptCT Hill.
'V ahhington, March B.—Mr. Norwood
made an argument today before tbe Corn*
eniitee on Rivera and Harbors in advocacy
of liberal appropriations for tbe Savan
nah river ami harbor, for the further sur
vey of Savauuah harbor, for Darien har
bor and tbe survoy of that harbor from
Do boy Inland to Do boy bar, and for the
Altumaba. The committee will probably
reonmmeiid in these caaes, as in moat?
others, about 2,5 per cent, of the amount
itaked for by tbe engineers.
THK BANKRUPTCY BILL.
Representative Collins is still sanguine
of success with the Lowell bankruptcy
bill in the House. Some time must elapse
before an attempt to have the subject con
sidered will lie apt to succeed, but a num
ber of inemtiers will vote with Mr. Collin#
to secure tho consideration of the subject,
who would not vote with Mr. Collins for.
the Lowell bill In preference to all other
propositions. Bv the time the House take*
tho matter up Mr. Hoar will have gotten*
the Ijowoll hill through tbe Senate and
Mr.Collins will then he able to move tbat
it be substituted for the till to be reported
by the House Committee on the Judiciary
with at least a fair prospect of success.
WAITING KOR EDMUNDS.
All the galleries ol the Senate except
the diplomatic were lull this afternoon.j
Hundreds of people were in their seats at'
tbe opening hour and sal through tbe af
ternoon waiting for Mr. Edmunds to open
uptno tight on the adimnisiration. Rut
Mr Edmunds was not yet able to submit
a report trom the Judiciary Committoeon
the President’s special message, and so
be announced possibly that on account ot
a cold be would not b able to speak until
to-morrow, but tne expectant people in
the galleries did not know this and so
they sat until late in tbe afternoon.
MAY BK POSTPONED.
The death of Senator Miller may post*
pone tho beginning of this debate for a
day or two. It is lelt by the Senators that
it, would be scarcely decorous to begin a
tight like that which Mr. Kdmunds means
to make until tbe remains of Senator
Miller are removed to ban Krancisoo.
The people In the Senate galleries were
not onlv disappointed in not hearing Mr.
Ldntnnds, but In having to listen to a
very long eiieeeh on silver by “Tom”
Bowen, of Colorado. He read his speech,
and greatly amused his audience and ap.
parenlly himself by diving into his desk
lor successive sections of nis manuscript.
Senator Brown will make a speech de
fending the administration in the ap
proaching debate. *
TUBE REIMBURSED KOR $lO.
Mr. Crisp 10-day Introduced a bill ap
propriating 110 to reimburse V. B. Josey
lor destroyed postal notes.
IT MADE MR. GARLAND LAUGH.
Attorney General Garland laughed it*
denying to-day tbe published statement
that he bad given some person not named
an opinion, official or unofficial, to the
efleet that tl tbe rienate does not act on
nominations made to till the places of
suspended officials the latter would he
entitled to tbe offices when tho Senate
adjourned, and, further, that during the
recess of tbe Bchate the President cannot
reappoint men en whose nomination te
officu the Senate has not acted.
Men I.aid OfT.
Pilot Knob, Mo, March B.—Owing Uk
tbe refusal ol the Iron Mountain railroad
to receive freight, the ore and steel com
panics here have shut down, throwing 100
tnun out of work. At the (iraniteville
stone quarries,five miles trom Pilot Knob,
300 men were laid off lor tbe same reason.
All the men employed at Carondelet, oa
tbe Houth St. Louis railroad, hare quit
work.
Strength of tbe Knight*.
New York, March B.—A Knights o|
Labor delegate told tbe tinners and oor
mce makers yesterday tbat the Knights ol
Labor mini tiered 20,000 to 30.000 In Chi
cago, and 860,000 In ibe United states and
Canada. The tinners and cor nice makers
decided to become Knights of Labor.
-fit) Go Oat at Atchison.
Atchison, Kan., March B.—Ths Mis
souri Pacific shopmen employed here, 25<l
in numoer, went, out to-day oq orders
from feedaiia. All tbe central branch
freight trains were stopped. A through
train of live stock was permitted to come
through.
Switchmen Strike.
Hr. Louis, March B.—The switchmen ot
the Bridge and Tunnel Com pen y went out
at 8 o'clock to-night. This will greatly
disturb traffic between the union depol
of this city and the relay depot In East
bt. Louts aornss the bridge.
Wages Voluntarily Advanced.
Hart koi>, Conn., M arch Tbs New
York and Now Haven Railroad Company
has, without solicitation, decided to raise
the pay of laborers on all divisions of tbeif*
road ft oin II 36 to fl 60 per day, begin
ning April 1.
Bud of the Nan Antonio Strike.
San Antonio, Texas, March B. — The
local difference* hetweeu the Knight* of
Labor and their employers on the Souths
era Pacific railway have been settled,
and the strike here Is at an end.
Arrest* Contemplated.
Dallas, Tex . March B,— The receiver#
of the Texas and Pacdlc railroad have iq
contemplation the arrest of the leadlnff
Knights ot Labor and striker*.
The Honmellan Agreement.
Constantinople, March B.—All the
powers have given their assent to the
Rouuieliuo agreement as modified by
Russia. Too original agreement stands,
except that the clause relating to tbs
military alliance between Turkey sud
Bulgaria has been eliminat' and, and that
the Lille “Prince of Bulgaria” has bee*
inserted In place ol “l 1 ; ,0 ® A * t,x j • r ;„
An agreement Is being drafted and will
soon be submitted to the ouulerenos tor
ralifloauoa.
Boston’s Liquor License#.
Bouton. March B.—Tbe Board of Police
announced tbe leee fur liquor If
oen.es lor the uomiu* year. UatTeraj
classes prices have been raised from toff
tO 800
London’# Police Commissioner.
lain don, March B.—Mocolm Wood,
now übiof oonsinble of Manchester, will
•Doused Btr Edmund Henderson chief
uouimisatuasr of tee Metropolitan police