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1 J. H. ESTILL. Editor a>d Proprietor, f
hvn SERVICE PLACES.
Lll applicants must stand an
EXAMINATION.
president Cleveland Urges the Com-
I mittee to Make Changes in the Ex-
I isting Buie Relating to a Transfer
I from the Unclassified to the Classi-
I fled Service.
I Washington, March 30. —The President
Las sent the following letter to the Civil
fcerviee Commission recommending an ex
tension of the limits of the classified service:
■Vi the United States Civil Service Commission:
■ Gentlemen—I desre to make a suggestion re
garding sub-division C of general rule 3 of the
■mended civil service rules promulgated Feb. 2,
■888.
I It provides for the promotion of an employe
■ a department who is below or outside of the
Bassiflod service to a place within said classified
Krvice in the same department upon the request
E the appointing officer upon recommendation
■ft lie commission and the approval of the i'resi-
Ent, after a non-competitive examination in
■use such person has served continuous for two
Bars in the place from which it is proposed to
Bonnte him, and because of his faithfulness
Bid efficiency in the posit ion occupied by him,
Bid because of his qualifications for the place to
Bliicli the appointing officer desires his promo-
Hn
■ GREAT CAUTION NECESSARY.
Hit has occurred to me that this provision must
Hexecuted with caution to avoid application
Hit toeases not intended and undue relaxation
■ the general purposes and restrictions of the
Hi! service law. Non competitive examinations
He an exception to the pian of the act, and
Hies permitting same should be strictly enn-
Hueil. The cases arising under the
■-option above recited should lie
Hev few, aud when presented they
Hgniid be supported bv facts which will develop
H5 basis ana reason of the application of the
■pointing officer, and which will commend
Him to the judgment of the commission and
Ht President. The sole purpose of the provi
H is tobeneflt the public service, and it should
■rer be permitted to operate as an evasion of
Hi main feature of the law, which is competi-
H- examination.
■ ASKED TO FORMULATE A PLAN.
H As those cases will first be presented to the
Bccmmission for recommendation, I have toro-
Biirst that you will formulate a plan by which
Htifir merits can be tested. This will naturally
Bamiva a statement of all the facls deemed
Bucessary for the determination of such appli-
Bjtion, including the kind of work which iias
Km done by the person proposed for protno-
Hr: ii. and the consideration upon which the alle-
Boiicns of "faithfulness," ‘‘efficiency," aud the
■'qualifications." mentioned in the rule, are
Bi:-;, rated.
■ STILL ANOTHER SUBJECT.
H What has already been written naturally
Higgests another very important subject to
BibiWi I invite your attention. Tlie de.siraliility
Hi the rule which I have commented upon
Hrnld be nearly, if not entirely, removed, and
Ht'jcr difficulties which now em
Harass the execution of the civil
■mice law would be obviated if
Hii-re was a better and more uniform classifies-
Hina, the classifications hastily made, ap
parently with but little care and regard for
■uifnrmity, and promulgated after the last
Presidential election and prior to the installa-
P« of the present administration, should not
Pare been permitted to continue to this time.
■ DEPARTMENT DIVISIONS.
H It appears that in the War Department the
Employes were divided on Nov. 19, 1884, into
Hight classes and sub-classes, empbraelng those
Haming annual salaries from Silk) to $2,01)0. The
Havy Department was classified Nov. 22, 1884,
Hni its employes were divided into seven
Hisses and stilsclasses, embracing those who
Heceived annual alaries from $720 to (800.
H in the Interior Department the classification
P» made on Dec. 6, 1884. It consists of eight
Plas-,'K and sub-classes and embraces employes
Ptwiving annual salaries of from $720 to $1,200.
Pen Jan. 2. 1885, the classification of the em-
Pkven in the Treasury Department was made.
Pc:.- ding of six classes and sub classes, inelud-
Pi:: nose earning annual salaries troin (900 to
PlNV).
■ in the Post Office Department the employes
P>s classified on Feb. e. 1885. into nine classes
Pea sub classes, embraciug persons earning
Pinual salaries of from (720 to (2,000.
H ON A NEW PLAN.
H On Dee. 12. 1884. the Bureau of Agriculture
Has classified in a manner different from ail the
H;>r departments and presenting features pe-
Hilar to itself.
Hit seems that the only classification in the I)e-
Bnrtment of state and Department of Justice is
Hat provided for by section 103 of the Revised
■".antes, which directs that the
Employes in the several departments shall
■« divided into four classes. It appears that
Bo more definite classification has been made
B these departments. I wish the commission
Botild revise the classifications and submit to
Be a plan which will as far as possible make
■hem uniform, and which will especially
Brnedy the present condition. which
Berm its persons to enter a grade in the service
B one department without any examination,
B'hich in another department can only be en-
Bred after passing such examination. This, I
■hink, should he done by extending the limits
Bf tlie classified service rather than by contract
ing them. Grover Cleveland.
I IN ACCORD WITH TIIE PRESIDENT.
1 In response to an inquiry as to the
Blows and proposed action of the comniis
■ion upon the suggestions, oue of the com-
Biissioners said to-day that the views of the
Bommissinn are in full accord with those of
■lie President in the matter referred to in his
Hotter, and that the commission would advise
B uniform classification, which shall in
■ lude and bring within tho jurisdiction of
■ lie commission every person in tlie depart-
Hnental service of the government, except
Hui h as are appointed by tlie President,
B».th the advice and consont of the Henate,
Hn i persons einployod merely as laborers
Bud workmen.
I A FEW EXCEPTIONS.
■ Under tho now rules however, there will
H* excepted from the examination which
Btisclassification implies, certain private
■Tret,aides, custodians of money, disburs-
H"g officers, secret service employes, chief
Hli'ils and chiefs of division. It is proliable
Hunt in each of the departments there may
■Iso la, found a very few other places which
■he ( oniinisslonors believe should be exeept
■'' fi"m the rule requiring competitive
■lamination, such, perhaps, as require
H*<'uliar technical knowledge. These ex-
H'l'tions will he made only niter a thorough
H''d critical investigation by the heads of
■nr several departments as to the particular
■is ds . f each. This comprehensive classili-
Hation, the commission believe, will remove
H 11 } liability to abuse of the rules mentioned
K. 'ho President permitting apiKiiuting
■th'-ers under certain circumstances to pro
■mi,. |„. rsnnN pi the unclassified service to
classified service without ceni|ietitive
■j' 1 ! 11 nation, and it will also prevent abuses
'hr law that <x‘cur whenever :i gross sum
Appropriated to he used in the employ
'‘t persons to do particular clerical
■ AI.I, MUST BE EXAMINED.
H" _■ "i such an appropriation is made the
■him is usually set up that appointments
■h'|" r it may lie made without exumina
niul that all such nppointnients are to
■ ''“''“-below the classified service. When
alien such as has been suggested by
■ 1 " sident, and is rccotuniendod by tlie
■?"' ,nis si ji in its forthcoming roport, has
" a ‘*'\ such claim, it is said, cannot lie
■jod" for the reason that there will be no
■ aces Wow the classified service.
■ Senate Amendments Rejected.
■m| ASHINWTO,v > March 30. —In the House
" on motion of Mr. McCreary, of
■on. y. *' 1B Senate ameridiiients were
in to tlie House bill authorizing
■j' i't sident to nrrange a conference for
Bn!. , "‘Tf ,os o of encouraging reciprocal com
■ T' l il relations between the United Htates
■ ' , republics of Mexico and Central
■ V^° u fh America und tho Empire of
fPic Jtoumg
TRAIFP REFORM WILL WIN.
The Chances of the Rill Growing Bet
ter Every Day.
Washington, March 30,—The minority
of the Ways and Means Coihmittee spent
to-day and will spend to-morrow and Sun
day in the preparation of their report on the
majority tariff bill. They have determined
to confine it to a review of the majority re
port, suggesting no scheme of their own as
a substitute for the plan of tax reduction
prepared by the majority. They are
forcod to obstruct because they do
not seem to be able to construct.
Despite the efforts of the diplomatists on
the Republican side they have not been able
to agree on a bill. Under the agreement
reacued by the committee f yesterday
the minority report is to be submitted in
committee Monday. The bill, with both
reports, nmy then be submitted to the
House on the same day, April 2.
WANT EARLY CONSIDERATION.
The majority of the Ways and Means
Committee will insist upon an early consid
eration in the House. They will probably
call the bill up about April 10. The general
debate will then run for two weeks. Then
two or three weeks lit most are to be given
to the consideration of the bill, paragraph
by paragraph, under the five-minute rule
The desire and expectation of the majority
of the Ways and Means Committee seems to
be to get the bill out of Committee of the
Whole ready to be voted on in the House by
May 15. All the indications continue to be
more favorable to its success than the ma
jority of the committee had anticipated.
nelson’s speech.
The speech which Mr. Nelson, of Minne
sota. took occasion to make yesterday, is
significant of the attitude of the Western
and Northwestern Republicans. He is
more courageous in the expression of his
views and so spoke first, but others will
follow in the same line. This will be the
prelude to the general discussion. It will
have its effect upon the general discussion,
just as Mr. Nelson's speech has had its
effect upon the report which tho minority
are preparing. There will be less Reed and
Kelley and more Brownjand Burrows in
it because of Mr. Nelson’s speech.
Too much credit cannot bo given to Mr.
Nelson and the other Republican revenue
reformers for their courageous adherence to
their convictions under the greatest party
pressure. Fortunately for them thev are
growing in numbers constantly. Mean
while Mr. Randall’s bill for the protection
of trusts lies cold and dead in the Commit
tee on Ways and Means.
RECORDS OF THE WAR.
A New Scheme to Complete their Pub
lication.
Washington, March 30. —Adjt. Gen.
Drum is to appear before the House Com
mittee on Military Affairs to-morrow to
testify in regard to the newspaper dipping
respecting the Anderson Cavalry of Phila
delphia, published in the last volume of tho
War Records. He will disclaim all respon
sibility for it. There is a decided set ti
ment in the committee in favor of a propo
sition to create a commission composed of
eminent Federal and Confederate officers to
complete the publication of the war. rec
ords. It is thought that in this
way greater information, as well
as greater accuracy would be secured, only
at least two-thirds of the Confederate
records have been obtained by the war
record office. It is believed that prominent
Confederate officers, if members of such a
commission, could get copies of at least one
half of all the other existing Confederate
records.
Spain’s Exposition^
Washington, March 30. In the House
to-day Mr. Russell, of Massachusetts, asked
consent to report from the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, for immediate consider
ation, tsie joint resolution appropriating
$25,000 to enable the United States to par
ticipate in the International exhibition to
be held at Barcelona, Spain, in April, 1888.
Mr. Allen, of Mississippi, objected. Mr.
Allen subsequently withdrew his objection
and the joint resolution was passed.
Mr. Mills’ Convalescence.
Washington, March 30.—The health of
Representative Mills has greatly improved
in the past few days, and he is thought to
be out of danger. He expects to bo at the
capitol for a short time Monday or Tues
day next.
Pension Bills Passed.
Washington, March 30.—The House at
its evening session passed twenty-four pen
sion bills and at 10:20 adjourned until to
morrow.
RALEIGH’S BANK FUGITIVES.
Both Arrested in Canada on a Charge
of Forgery.
Toronto, Ont., March 30.—Charles E.
Cross, President, and Samuel C. White,
Cashier of tho National Bank of Raleigh,
N. C., were arrested hero last night on in
formation telegraphed from Raleigh charg
ing them with forgery. Inside of tho lin
ing of Cross’ overcoat was found $9,450 and
in White’s $15,355. Of this amount SOOO
was in unsigned currency bills.
White and Cross were sent to jail this
morning to await extradition papers. They
have secured the services of artlo coun el
and signify their willingness to return with
out extradition proc edings. The people in
charge of the bank telegraphed to-day for
the combination of the safe, which was
sent. Cross says that the bank was rotten
when lie took" hold of it, and that he is
heartily sick of the whole concern.
true bills found.
Raleigh, N. C., March 30.—True bills
fyr forgery were foun t by the grand jury
here today against Cross and White, the
absconding officers of the State National
Bank, who nre in custody in Toronto. Tho
District Attorney, with the Chief of Police
of this city, witnesses, a guard, etc., left
this afternoon to bring them back. White
has teh'graphod to tho Chief of Police:
‘‘Come lor us. We will go back with
you.”
TATE’S IMPEACHMENT.
The Trial Ends in His Removal from
Office.
Louisville, Ky., March 30.—The Tate
impeachment trial was resumed at Frank
fort to-day, the most important feature
being Auditor Hewitt’s testimony.
This, however, produced noth
ing new or sensational. The
trial is more a matter of form than any
thing else, and is Vicing conducted in the
mailin' ■■ already outlined in these dipatches.
Auditor liowitt in his testimony stated that
ns well as he was able to judge at present
the defalcation would amount to $204,000.
The proceedings closed this afternoon with
the anticipated verdict of guilty against the
absconding Treasurer, and his removal
from office.
Loss of tha Canonbury.
Boston, March 30.— The steamer Canon
bury, wrecked at Nantucket, was valued at
$150,000, and is a total loss.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1888.
MITES FOR THE WIDOWS.
THE HOUSE PASSES THE BLAIR
LOGAN PENSION BILLS.
Mr. Cockran, of New York, Raises a
Hypothetical Possibility that is De
cidedly Far Fetched Objection to
the Measures that they Set a Bad
Precedent.
Washington, March 30. —In the House
to-day the Speaker stated that under the
special order the pending business was con
sideration of the House hill granting a pen
sion of $2,000 per annum to Mary S. Logan
and the Senate hill increasing to $2,000 a
year the pension of Appolin A. Blair,
widow of Gen. Frank Blair. Discussion of
these bills occupied the remainder
of the day’s session. At its con
clusion the Logan bill was passed
by a vote of 154 yeas to 95 nays, and the
Blair bill was passed by a vote of 148 yeas
to 91 nays. The House then, at 4:15 o’clock,
took a recess till 7:30 o’clock, the evening
session to be devoted to private pension
bills.
DEMOCRACY THE SOLDIER'S FRIEND.
In the course of the debate Mr. Tarsney,
of Michigan, said he could demonstrate to
the House and country that the Democrats
hail quite as much interest in the general
welfare of the ex-soldiers of the late
war as the Republicans had. In order to
do this he quoted statistics showing the
number of members of the Democratic
party who entered the Federal army in the
various States., The Democratic adminis
tration had treated the ex-soldiers more
i'liirly and liberally than any administration
since the close of the war. The Forty
ninth Congress had passed more private
pension bills than had any other Congress.
CLEVELAND'S VETOES.
Mr. Laird, of Nebraska —How many did
your President veto?
Mr. Tarsney—More than any of your
Presidents ever did, and I thank (Tod he did
so, because it has demonstrated to
the American people that no
mistake was made when Grover
Cleveland was called to the Executive
chair. [Applause on Democratic side.] It
demonstrates the fact that the country has
at the helm a man so careful, prudent and
criticising, that he examines bills for him
self, approves those that are just and
proper, and disapproves those that are not.
TIME TO CALL A HALT.
Mr. Tarsney contended that the Hancock
pension bill could not be cited as a prece
dent for the hill granting a pension to Mrs.
Logan. Gen. Hancock was a soldier when
he died. Gen. Logan was not. It was
about time to call a halt when Congress was
asked to pay a pension to the widow of a
United States Senator.
Mr. Taulbee, of Kentucky, opposed the
bills as being class legislation and as dis
criminating against the widows of general
officers who were killed during the war.
Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, said that he
would vote for both bills, not only on ac
count of the distinguished services of the
deceased, but on the broader ground of
sound public policy.
CITIZEN SOLDIERS.
This country relied not only on the regu
lar army, but on its citizen soldiery, and
while tlie names of Thomas and Hancock
and Shields and Fnrragut stood out as
names which all Americans were proud of,
along with them and equal with them stood
the names of Logan and of Blair.
A DEBT OF GRATITUDE.
Mr. Springer said that the services of
such men as Gens. Logan and Blair were
beyond the measurement of dollars and
cents. The people owed to them and their
wives and children a debt of gratitude
which could never be discharged.
SHOWING PARTIALITY.
Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, said there were
widows of other brave and gallant officers
who received a pension of only $5O a month,
and ue saw no reason why tin? widows of
Gens. Logan and Blair should be taken out
of that class and their pensions raised when
the average income of the people of Mis
souri who would pay a portion of it was
less than half that sum.
Mr. Matson, of Indiana, said that the pas
sage of these bills meant the establishment
of an aristocratic class in this country. If
they should become laws it would not be
one year until all the widows of general
officers would ask to be pensioned at the
same sum. Therefore he was opjxwed to
them, because he knew that the pensions
would not go rdund at that sum.
The gentlemen who voted for these bills
voted in direct violation of the principle of
equal rights to all.
COCKRAN ON A SIDE TRACK.
Mr. Cockran, of New York, said that
when the gentleman reflected upon the pe
culiar character of the services rendered by
the leaders of the Union army during
the late war they were confronted
by a historical record that was not pre
sented by the pages of the world’s history.
It was not a conflict to repel an invasion,
but brethren were called to ar < s against
brethren. Suppose those who followed the
Confederate flag had triumphed, who could
tell what would have been the fate of the
General officers of the Union? Who could
tell how passion, fanned by years of resist
ance, might have doomed them to outlawry
—to exclusion from political privileges.
Mr. Oates (interrupting)—What warrant
has the gentleman for those .statements?
ALL IN HIS IMAGINATION.
Mr. Cockran replied that he was only as
suming a hypothetical case—placing before
the House what might tie the outcome of
any civil strife. Ho was far from saying
that the gentlemen who sat here, and who
had borne arms in the Confederate service,
or that the Confederacy itself,
would ever actually have (lone what
Ins had portrayed as a possible result of any
civil war. Ha bad merely licori referring
to the risk that every soldier took, if Con
gress established a rule ttiat the widows of
men like Gens. Logan and Blair wore n t
to lie considered wards of the nation, it
would discouarge a display of patriotic devo
tion if an occasion should again arise when
the country needed brave soldiders, skillful
officers and undoubted patriots. [Applause.]
The debate then closed and the vote was
taken.
TWO GREAT ARMIES.
The Boys of the Potomac and North
ern Virginia to Fraternize.
New York, March 50.—Tiie arrange
ments for the reunion of the survivors of
the Army of the Potomac with the surviv
ors of the Army of Northern Virginia are
progressing satisfactorily. George William
Curtis will deliver the oration, George Par
sons Lathrop the poem, and Bishop Horatio
Potter, of New York, the address
of welcome. Some distinguished
Confederate will be selected to make
the reply to the address of welcome. The
reunion will be on July 1, 2 and ■'! next at
Gettysburg, and will conclude with a grand
banquet. President Cleveland, Gen. Sher
man, Gen. Sheridan and many other dis
tinguished officers on both aides of
the contest will be present.
FRANCE’S MINISTRY RESIGNS.
Urgency Voted for a Revision of tho
Constitution.
Paris, March 30.—The Chamber of Dep
uties to-day, by a vote of 2fiß to 237, despite
the opposition of the government, voted for
urgency of the Extreme Left’s bill provid
ing for a revision of the constitution. The
government thereupon resigned.
The defeat of the Ministry caused a sen
sation in the Chamber. As soon as the vote
was announced Premier Tirard departed
for the Elysee palace.
The Chamber, after a short recess, reas
sembled at 9 o’clock this evening.
Cunood’ Ornano (Bonapartist) moved that
tho Bureau to-morrow appoint a committee
to prepare for the revision of the constitu
tion.
A CONFUSED debate.
After a confused debate, M. de Sonnier,
of the Left, urged tlie Chamber to await the
formation of anew Cabine .
M. d’Ornano's motion was rejected by a
vote of 253 io 195, the right cheering ironi
cally. Tlie Chamber then adjourned until
3 o’clock to-morrow.
The Cabinet council met at the Elysee
Palace at 9 o’clock to-night.
BOULANGER’S CAMPAIGN.
M. Laguerre proceeds to-morrow for tho
Department of the Nord, where he will
commence an electoral campaign in favor
of Gen. Boulanger. Tlie General himself
will explain his programme at a banquet
which will be given at Lille, the capital of
the department.
President Carnot has accepted the resig
nation of the Cabinet. The Ministers, how
ever, will conduct the affairs of their sev
eral departments until their successors are
appointed. It is expected that M. Floquet
will lie summoned to form a Cabinet.
M. Ferry, M. Raynol, M. Riiiot and M.
Rouvier met at tlie office of the Hepubtique
Francai.se this evening to concert a plan
to prevent the formation of a Cabinet under
M. Floquet.
GERMANY’S ROYAL FAMILY.
An Enthusiastic Greeting Given Them
by tlie People.
Berlin, March 30. —Emperor Frederick
and Empress Victoria drove in a half-open
carriage from Charlottenburg to Berlin to
day, and paid a visit to Empress Augusta.
They received an enthusiastic greeting along
the road. The Imperial family attendod
the morning services in the castle chapel at
Charlottenowa,
Emperor Frederick slept better last night.
The weather is warm and beautiful.
Dr. Mackenzie accompanied the Emperor
on his drive to-day. The Emperor was
delighted with the acclamations of the peo
ple. Berliners were surprised by the ani
mated manner in which he returned their
salutes.
The imperial party visited the room in
which Emperor William died.
On their return the Unter den Linden was
crowded with cheering throngs.
KING JOHN ASKS FCR PEACE.
A Scarcity of Provisions Among His
People the Cause.
Rome, March 30.—1 tis officially an
nounced that last evening an Abysinnian
officer applied at the Italian outpost for
permission to speak with Gen. Ban Marzeno.
An interview was granted, and the officer
delivered a letter from King John asking
for peace. The government has instructed
Gen. Ban Marzeno to facilitate a settlement
as far as is compatible with the dignity
and interests of Italy. To-day the Abysin
riian outposts retired to their camps. The
overtures made by King John are said to be
due to a scarcity of provisions among his
poople.
BULLETS AT BLARNEY.
The Police Fire on a Mob That Attacks
the Barracks.
Dublin, March 30.—The barracks at
Blarney were attacked by a mob to-day.
The police were compelled to fire in self
defense, but no one was injured. Many
windows were smashed with stones.
Mr. Gilhooly, who on March 10, was sen
tenced under the crimes act to two months
imprisonment, was to-day sentenced to an
additional term of two weeks for assaulting
inspector Hayes at Schull.
A TRAIN WRECKER IN JAIL.
He Intended to Derail an Express But
Caught a Freight.
Wilmington, Del., March 30.—A south
bound freight train on the Delaware road
left the main track at Woodside, fifty-two
milos below here, at 7:30 o’clock this
morning, and crashed into a
car loaded with pig iron, which
stood on a siding. The locomotive and four
cars were wrecked, but nobody was
hurt. An examination showed that tho
switch lock hail been broken and the signal
light extinguished, the apparent intent
lining to wreck the south bound Norfolk
express. A man giving tne name of Sydney
Roach, of Crisfield, was arrested, and con
fessed that tie was the guilty party. Roach
has been lodged iu jail at Dover.
MAHONE’S MONOPOLY.
He Decrees That the State Committee
Shall Choose Delegates.
Pktersbubg, Va., March 30.—Tho Re
publican State Committee early this morn
ing finally fixed upon Petersburg as the
place and May 47 os the time for holding
the State Convention. There was considera
ble opposition to the plan adopted providing
for tlie selection of delegates to the National
Convention by t o State Convention, and
the minority of the committee are firm in
the declaration that, despite the action of
the committee, district conventions will bo
hold.
LUMBERMEN LAMENT.
The Chicago Trade in Danger of Falling
into Other Hands.
Chicago, March 30.—About forty lum
lier firms signed a protest yesterday against
the aetion of the Rock Island, Northwest
ern and St. Paul roads in refusing to ex
change ears with the Burlington road. Tho
protest claims Ihut non-intercourse is crip
pling the lumber trade of Chicago, and if
continued will permanently divert the
traffic from the city.
A Murderer Lynchel.
Montgomery, Ala., March 30.—At
Haynpville, Lowndes county, Alabama,
last night Thoo Calloway, a negro, who
murdered young Mitchell Gresham one day
last w eek, was from jail by 200 men
and hanged to a tree in front of the court
house and his body riddled with bullets.
Ihe lynchers were friends of the murdered
man.
Not to bo Sent to Siberia.
Ht. Petersburg, March 30. —The Rus
sian government on advice of the Governors
of Irkutsk and Amur, proposes to send a
majority of the Russian convicts to prison
instead of transporting them to Siberia
MAX AS WOMAN'S ENEMY.
SEXUAL SINFULNESS UNDER FIRE
IN THE COUNCIL.
Saloons and Houses of 111-Fame Must
lie Kept from the Vicinity of the
School Houses Raising of the Age
of Consent Favored—Pall Mall Ga
zette Charges Revived.
Washington, March 30.—The Interna
tional Council of Women held a session this
morning for women only, all male reporters
being excluded.
The session was opened with prayer by
Mrs. MacClellan Brown, after which
three stanzas of “Nearer, My God, to Thee,”
were sung.
Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Horbert made
an impassioned address for the establish
ment of school houses all over the land in
close proximity to each other and tho ban
ishment of drinking saloons and houses of
ill famq. “Take away tho saloons if you
wish to protect tho children. There is enough
power among women now to demand the
rignt of su (Tinge, and women of suffrage
belief should rally about statesmen who
will enfranchise women and stand up for
Prohibition and social purity.”
THE SOCIAL EVII.
Mrs. Harhort was followed by Elizabeth
L sle Saxon, Nice President of the National
Woman’s Suffrage Association of Tennes
see. Mrs. Saxon spoke plainly of the social
evil and of the remissness of women in not
confiding to their children the groat secrets
and truths of life, instead of totting them
learn such things from children and serv
ants.
Anna Rice Powell, of the New York
Commission for the Prevention and
State Regulation of Vice, introduced her
subject by saying that it had been asserted
that the history of prostitution is the his
tory of woman, but she has always been its
victim. She spoke of the age of protection
in various States, and paid a tribute to
Kansas as having made that, age 18 years,
while in ono State is was as low as 7 years.
PALL MALL GAZETTE CHARGES REVIVED.
Mrs. Oriniston Chant was then intro
duced, she has been engaged in this work
for twenty-five years. She vouched for
the truthfulness of Mr. Stead’s charges as
published in the I‘all Mail Gazette, saying
that, she would stake her life on their cor
rectness. She spoke principally of tho work
of tliesocial purity societies in Great Britain.
She denounced the British government's
Blue Book as containing stories of the
wrong doings of peers of Great Britain
even worse than those publishe I in ttie Pall
Mali Gazette. One member of Parliament,
when the question of increasing the age at
which consent could lie given was being
agitated, said that for his part he wished it
was ten years. The ladies of his borough
got together, and made it so hot for him
that he hud to get out. Mrs. Chant’s ad
dress was enthusiastically received by the
audience. She represents in the council the
Edinburgh National Society for Women
Suffrage.
Mrs. Caroline S. Frazar, of the National
Moral Educational Society, and Dr. Caro
line B. Winslow, delegate from the District
of Columbia Moral Educational Society,
spoke upon “The Starting Point.”
A WRONG TO ONE A WRONG TO ALL.
Harriot B. Shattuck said that a wrong to
one was a wrong to all, and that no woman
hail a right to forgive a man who hail done
a wrong to another woman. She also dis
cussed briefly tho question of marriage anil
divorce. Marriage, she declared, is
not a contract, but an institution of God.
After a short address from Mme. Grotb,
delegate from Norway, and Clara Chuff
man, Frances Willard, as a preface to her
remarks, read a petition to be signed by the
women of the eouncil urging Congress to
pass a bill to raise the age of consent wher
ever it has absolute control to 18 years.
She attacked low cut dresses, and said that
those wearing them borrowod the idea from
women whom she would be ashamed to
touch. She also said that in tho now era
half-nude pictures of women used as adver
tisements by cigar dealers, would not stay
ill the windows overnight. She also touched
ujion the impropriety of stage dressing and
the evils of round dancing.
The Opera House lias a seating capacity
of 2,200, but at least 3,000 women attended
the morning sossion.
WOMAN’S RIGHT TO THE BALLOT.
Standing room was at a premium when
the evening session began. The theme for
discussion was: “Political Conditions, and
Woman's Right to the Ballot.”
The first address was by Mrs. Isabella
Beecher Hooker, of Connecticut, who spoke
on “Tlie Right of Women to Vote Under
the National Constitution.” She assorted
that the words “the people,”
everywhere used in the consti
tution, showed that it was
the intention of its fratners to place women
on a perfect equality with men. Tho State
legislation which marie sox a condition pre
cedent to voting for members of Congress,
she insisted, was unconstitutional anil void.
PRECEDENT AND PREJUDICE.
Precedent, prejudice, custom and blind
conservatisms wore tlie only real barriers
against woman’s right to take part in gov
ernment affairs. She appealed to women
to claim, and wherever they were able, to
exercise the right to vote, and also appealed
to men to remove the barriers of unjust and
uncon titutioiml legislation that now stand
ill the way of woman suffrage.
Mrs. Foster said that woman was already
in politics, and that the only thing to lie
determined was whether she should con
tinue to exert influence in every way except
the ballot box.
DEFIANCE nr CIVILIZATION.
Denial of woman’s right to vote was de- 1
fiance of the nineteenth century’s civiliza
tion. The women of the United States, she I
said, would never cense this agitution until !
liberty of heart, heud and hand is secured I
to every citizen of the republic, and when
that time came she ptodgisl moral and j
material support to tier sisters of other
countries. The objection that women wi re |
not fitted for pilitios applied only to the j
villauie* of New York politics. They did :
not undertake tho buying and selling of
votes, they did not know anything atoiut
saloon politics, hut they were veined in the
higher politics to which we were coining.
Tlie sal on, she declared, in conclusion,
would never go out of America to stay out
until women Had the right to vote.
ATTITUDE OF THE PARTIES.
Mrs. Harriet H Robinson’s subject was
the present attitude of tlie political parties
toward woman suffrage. Nothii g, sle said,
was to be expected from either of the two
leading political parties. The Prohibition
party is very good about passing resolutions
in our iavor, but it has as yet no
political power, and a majority <4
its members usually vote the Republican 1
ticket. Wo do not count a great ileal ou its
help. Since such is the attitude of the par
lies toward woman suffrage our only nope
seems to to) in the formation of anew party
which shall advocate our own with other
leading reforms.
A MISTAKE AS TO ONE OF THEM.
The old parties are slowly dying out. The
young men of to-day, or many of them, are
interested in something besides discussing
wdiat the “G. O. P.” has done, or what the
wicked Democrats did before the last
war. They are thinking of temperance
legislation, labor reform, free trado and the
woman question, and they will Hud a Held
in which to work for these issuos.
Mrs. Martha A. Everett, representing the
Massachusetts School Suffrage Association,
said that the Bay State law allowing wom
en to vote in school affairs had had a bene
ficial effect, but that fuller privileges were
wanted.
ALL for ooon.
Laura M. Johns, of Kansas, who spoke
on "Municipal Suffrage,” declared that
woman’s influence on local elections lu Kan
sas had all i con for good, and that where
women took an active purt in municipal
elections the liquor laws were strongly en
forced.
Mrs. Marble, of Minnesota, said that she
was a suffragist because she wanted better
things for her son and her daughter than
her father anil her mother had.
Rev. Annie H. Shaw, of Massachusetts,
gave an amusing account of the first, time
women had voted in her seaport tow n un
der the law giving woman
‘‘school suffrage.” When women
went into politics they would take dust
brooms and pans and have a clearing out of
Brother Jonathan's kitchen, which had not
of lalai been kept in good order. [ Laughter.]
GEORGIA’S CAPITAL. CITY.
A Movement to Establish a Presby
terian College.
Atlanta, Ga., March JO. —This morning
Judge Richard 11. Clark set April 21 for
hearing the motion for a now trial in the
cose of Goldsmith, the negro convicted of
part icipation in the Decatur riot.
Adjt. Gen. Kell has decided to make a
requisition on the War Department for 350
wall tents for the use of the Georgia Volun
teer soldiery at encampments. Those tents
will accommodate abi ut. 1,000.
The Governor to-day offered S2OO reward
for the arrest, with evidence to convict, of
the unknown, parties who murdered Robert
Jenkins (colored) on the night of March 24,
at Harrison, Washington county. The
crime was a horrible one. Jenkins was
shot and his house was burned over him.
THE INDIAN SPRINO PROPERTY.
The execution of tlie decree against Henry
J. Lamar, of Macon, lessee of the Indian
Spring property, has put it in the hands of
the Slate, ami has made it necessary for the
Governor to appointan agent to take charge
of it and protect it. The decree was issued
by the Sujierior Court of Butts county
March 13.
Gov. Gordon to-day sent a letter declining
to deliver the memorial address at Athens
April 26. Ho has declined similar requests
from Marietta and Griffin this week.
The high waters have about subside. 1, and
beginning at noon to day trains on all the
roads loading out of the city resumed their
schedules.
A PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE.
A meeting of the Presbyterians of At
lanta was held this morning to discuss the
feasibility of establishing a oollego of that
denomination in Georgia. There was a
large attendance, among whom was Gov.
Gordon He expressed himself as highly in
favor of the movement. A committee was
appointed to arrange for a meeting of
tho Presbyterians of Georgia to tak *
action in the matter, and It will
meet Monday and make out a ro
port to be submitted at another meeting,
which will bo held next Wednesday after
noon. They will recommend that a meeting
of members of tho Presbyterian denomina
tion bo held in Atlanta, and that prominent
members from various parts of the country
be invited to address tho meeting oil sub
jects germane to the proposed university.
The Presbyterians of Atlanta are enthusias
tic on the subject
To-night Nei! Stark shot hia brother
Flaentz dead, and fatally wounded Tom
Crawley. They quarrelled over a nickle at
cards.
BULLETS FLYING IN THE AIR
The Republicans of Macon Engage In
a Lively Row.
Macon, Ga., March 30.—The Macon Re
publicans held big ward meetings nil over
the city last night and there was lively
times as usual. The most exciting meeting
occurred in East Macon. Moses Green, a
negro barkeeper on Bridge Row. was shot
seriously in the head by Boyd fllackshear,
a notorious negro Republican. The meet
ing took place in the store of Ike Harris,
and when the firing began there was a live
ly stampede for the door, which was
found to be bolted. During the
disturbance another negro named James
Hurd was shot in the knee. Hlacksbear
fled immedutely aftor the shooting and has
not as yet been apprehended. Green will
probably recover. Republican word meet
ings in this city always mean a row, as
there are more discordant factions here
among the negroes than in any city in
Georgia, and this year the strife among
them is more hitter than for years.
It is not so much a question of choice for a
Presidential candidate as a question of who
shall be elected delegates to the various
conventions. The Bibb county Republicans
are almost a unit for Sherman.
HARD EARNINGS STOLEN,
A Robber Enters a House at Athens
and Makes a Raise of $630.
Athens, Ga., March 30.—A robbery oc
curred here this afternoon which, for it*
boldness, has never been equaled anywhere
in this section. John Elierhart kept his
money in a book between tho matresses in
his lied room. At 3 o’clock this afternoon
Mrs. Elierhart locked the house and went
up town to do some shopping. Hhe noticed
before leaving that the money was safe in
its place and the house well dosed. On her
return, however, things were quite dif
ferent.
Tho hard-earnod $630 hail lieen carried to
parts unknown. Mr. Elierhart sent for a
policeman, and the house was examined to
see where the robbers entered. A footprint
was discovered near a window. No clew
has been discovered as yet, though the
police are straining every point to find tho
robber and the money.
Columbus Chapters.
COLUMBUS, Ga., March 30.—Miss Bailie
Loliis filed suit against the Central railroad
in the Superior Court for $10,003 as com
pensation for injuries and sufferings of
mind and body from injuries received in the
collision of u shifting train and a street car
at the Ninth street crossing some months
ngo, in which she was permanently injured.
A huge party of Northern excursionists
was in the city to-day. They drove to all
the places of Interest and expressed them
selves as well pleased with Columbus. They
left to-night for Jacksonville.
Ausrueta to Have Good Music.*
New York, March 30.—The managor of
tigs national exposition to be bold at
Augusta, Ga., next autumn has made a
contract with Prof. Charles A. ('sppn, pro
viding for the presence of the .Seventh
Regiment Baud atAVugusla throughout the
exposition.
j PRICE $lO A YEAR I
1 SCENTS A COPY, f
FIRE RIDES THE GALES.
HUNDREDS HOMELESS IN THE
SNOW IN HUNGARY.
Thirty-Eight Houses Burned and Many
Lives Lost at Mezo Bereny—On®
Lite Believed to Have Been Lost In
a Blaze at Chicago Ten Business
Houses Burned In Mississippi.
Pesth, March 30.—A number of calami
tous fires have occurred in Hungary during
the prevalence of the gales. At Kikinda
1,500 people were rendered shelterless, and
are camped out in the snow. Thirty-eight
homes were burned, and many lives lost at
Mezo Bereny.
SIX BURNED TO DEATH.
Vienna, March 30.—A woman and five
children wore bumod to death at Kikinda.
Three villages near Carlstadt were de
stroyed.
fine hundred houses and all the public
buildings in Sknme were burned, and sev
eral lives were lost.
Six hundred persons are homeless in Se
reth.
TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION AT CHICAGO.
Chicago, March 30. — Fire, which started
early this morning in a live-story block at;
the corner of Lake and Poona streets, gave
tho firemen great trounle before it was
finally subsided. Soon after 2 o’clock tho
lire spread to a couple residences west of the
burning block and soon after a row of
wooden tenements across the street began
to blaze. Tile families in all of these houses
had to move out very suddenly and wera
able to save but little furniture.
It is believed that one man was burned to
death in a cottage next, to the factory.
FIREMEN INJURED.
While the fire was raging fiercest a large
section of tho I-ako street wall fell, and two
or three firemen were seriously hurt. Thirty
two engines were enlled out and all remained
hard at work until 4 o’clock this morning.
The losses on tho buildings and to the occu
pants will aggregate SBOO,OOO.
Davis & Rankin, dairy supplies; the
Zimmerman Refrigerator Company; Li n.
Weaver <fc Cos., tinware; and the Goss
Printing Press Company are the principal
losors. The insurance is small.
TEN BUSINESS MOUSES BURNED.
Memphis, March 30. Fire early this
morning, at Coldwater, Miss.,destroyed ten
business houses. The losers are T. J. Thorn
ton, I. 8. Hawkins, W. H. Anderson, L. G.
Dean, John E. Garret, Eason, Watkins &
Cos., T. K. Turley & Cos.. W. T. Stovall, J.
S. Bryant, Dr. a. F. Adams and the posh
office.
Turley & Cos., R. K. Wynne, Gilliland
Bros. & Cos., and K. L. Burford & Cos., also
sustained damage in removing their goods.
The total loss is about $32,000. The insur
ance ix about one-half that amount. Cold
watt* - is thirty miles south of Memphis, on
tho Mississippi and Tennessee railroad.
FIVE STORES BURNED.
New Orleans, March 30.—The Pi>a
yune's Boyce, La., special says: “The
stores of J. T. Carnahan & Bro., Hlatham
& Hickman, George E. Abbott, J. E. Pullen
and Kemp Bros., were burned last night.
The loss Is $15,000, and the insurance
$8,000.”
CIGARETTE WORKS BURNED.
Lynchburg, Va., March 30.—Tho cigar
ette works owned by J. E. Long & Cos.,
were burned tins evening. The loss is $6,000.
The insurant*! is unknown.
MISSOURI’S MINE EXPLOSION.
Five Corpses Taken Out and Fifteen
More Still In tho Chamber.
Kansas Citt, March 30.—From the
many contradictory dispatches from Rich
Hill, it appear* that when the mine explo
sion occurced yesterday, thirty-five miners
were in the shaft. Had it occurred a few
minutes sooner, 100 would have been in peril,
and out of this grew the reports that 100
were actually in the mine. Immidiate
steps wore taken to rescue the miners. As
soon as it was safe to do bo, and the fire re
sulting from the explosion had been sub
dued, a rescuing party descended into tha
shaft.
THE SECOND EXPLOSION.
They had scarcely got to work when
another explosion occurred and the would
be rescuers narrowly fcaped with their
lives. One of these was George W. Rweeney,
superintendent of the mines, and he was
badly burned about the hands and face. The
work of rescuing was thus delayed for many
hours. The cries of the imprisoned men
could be heard, but they grew fainter and
fainter, and by 9 o’clock ceases! altogether.
Five bodies have been taken out. One man
escaped unhurt, anil fourteen injured men
have been rescued. Most of them are in
danger of their lives.
FIFTEEN STILL IN THE MINE.
Fifteen now remain in the mine, being in
tho west end, and it is believed that most of
them will be taken out dead. Work ia
proceeding very slowly, being attended
with great danger. There is no explana
tion of the cause of the explosion. Tha
mine is anew one and as supposed to be
entirely safe. It employed 115 men, most
of the miners being minors.
TWENTY-ONE DEAD.
Kansas City, March 30, 11:30 P. M.-
Tirues reporters sent by special train te
Rich Hill returned to-night, and from their
information the situation may bo summar
ized as follows: The dead list has reached
twenty-one, arid nine of the injured are ex
pected to die, making the probable loss of
life by the explosion thirty.
STILL ANOTHER VERSION.
Kansas City, March 30, 11:45.—A dia
patch to tho Associated Press to-night sayl
that twenty-seven people who were in the
Rich Hill mine have been taken out.
Twelve were dead and four died after
reaching the surface. Hcven more are
known to l<e in tho mine. The mine is lo
cated nearly six miles from Rich Hill, and
is practically isolated from both telephone
and telegraphic communication. The scene
of tha calamity is reached only with con
siderable difficulty, the roads being almost
impassable. There seems to be no question
but the explosion was caused from natural
gas, which abounds in the earth at and
below the depth of this mine.
Suicide of a Woman.
New York, March 30.—A well dressed
lady of 30, who had given her name as Miss
Kali and also as Miss Bull, committed sui
cide at Armaud’s Hotel, No. 49 West
Twenty-fourth street, to-day. She filled
nil crocks of her room and turned on the
gas. She left a letter addressed to Mrs.
Moreland, No. 31 Monroe street, Mobile.
Sumo scriqw of fwqier found in the grate
showed that she hud once been in a Catholic
convent. Poverty and sickness are the sup
posed cause of her act.
Cost of the Rate War.
Minneapolis, Minn., March 30.—Ths
Northwestern Railroader will to-morrow
Vublish a summary of tho entire cost of the
Vextern rate war now ending to the rail
road companies involved. There have been
just fifty working days since the first cut
was made and the loss, the {northwestern
Railroader will show, has been $15,000,000
in that time.