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MILLS’ BILL ON ITS LEGS.
THE HOUSE REFERS IT TO THE
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
Changes in the Sugar Schedule which
will Please the Louisiana Men—The
Woolen Schedule also Amended—
The Minority Report a Claptrap to
Catch Votes.
Washington, April 2.—At this morn
ing’s meeting of the Ways and Means Com
mittee the tariff bill was again amended in
gome particulars. The most important
amendments were made in the sugar sched
ules, and rumor has it that several votes
have been gained for the bill by making
them, although it is said by the committee
men that the only object in
view was to make the rates of
duty conform more closely to
the uniform 20 per cent, cut on the existing
sugar tariffs. In substance the sugar
amendments are as follows: The 1.15 c. rate
of duty is limited to sugars not above No.
13 Dutch standard, whereas the original bill
applied it to all sugar not above No. 16
Dutch standard. The charge on each addi
tional degree is increased to 32-I,oooc.
instead of 3-100. On grades between Nos.
13 and 16 the duty is placed at 2.20 c., on
grades above No. 16, and not above No. 20,
it is 2.40 c. (an increase of 20-100),
and on sugars above No. 20 it is placed
at 2.80 c. (an increase of 30-100). The pro
vision that no drawback of duty shall be
allowed or paid on any sugar exported from
the United States was stricken from the bill.
THE WORSTED CLAUSE.
As the provision in the bill concerning the
classification of worsted cloths and woolens
is not to take effect until Oct. 1, the follow
ing clause was inserted this morning in or
der to give immediate effect to the pro
vision :
“Provided that from and after
the passage of this act, and
until Oct. 1, 1888, the Secretary
of the Treasury be. and he is hereby author
ized and directed to classify as woolen cloth
all imports of worsted cloth, whether known
under the name of worsted cloth or under
the names of “worsteds’’ or “diagonals,” or
otherwise.
A NEW SECTION ADDED.
;i The following section was also inserted in
the administrative features: “Nothing in
this act shall in any way change or impair
the force or effect of any treaty between
the United States and any other
government or any law passed
in pursuance of or for the execution of any
fueh treaty, so long as such treaty shall
remain in force in respect of the subjects
embraced in this act, but whenever any
such treaty, so far as the same respects such
subjects, shall expire or be otherwise ter
minated, the provisions in this act shall be
In force in all respects in the same manner
and to the same extent as if no such treaty
had existed at the time of the passage
hereof.”
REPORT OF THE MINORITY.
The minority report of the committee
was drawu by Mr. McKinley, of Ohio.
There was tut one manuscript copy of it
and that was hurried off to the printer
without giving newspaper men an oppor
tunity to soan it, but to-night proofs tiavo
been furnished to the public. It is 7,000 or
b.nOO words long. Its openi ig paragraphs
are as follows:
The extraordinary manner in which this bill
time to the committee and the total lack of
consideration given to so grave a measure by
those, charged with its investigation demand
notice mid commeut. It was fashioned ourside
of the committee and reached it, not by refer
ence of the House, which is the usual channel
through which committees obtain jurisdiction
of a subject. It was preseueed ready-made
by the chairman of the committee, was framed,
completed and printed without the
knowledge of tho minority and with
out consideration or discussion in
the full committee. If any consultations
were held ihe minority were excluded. Thus
originating, after three months of the session
■ hail gone it was submitted to the committee.
I NO DISCUSSION.
I Since then there has been no consideration of
■ it. Every effort upon the par: of the minority to
I obtain Irom the majority the facts and infortna
■ lion upon which they constructed the bill proved
■ unavailing. The resolution to refer the bill to
■ the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement
■of its probable effects upon the rove
■ nue, together w ith a statistical abstract
■ which would facilitate its consideration
■ by the committee and House, was voted down
■by a strict party vote. The industries of the
■ country, located in every section of tho Union,
■ representing vast interests closely related to
■ the prosperity of the. country, touehiug practi
■ rally every home and fireside in the land, and
■ which were to be affected by the bill, were de
■ nied a hearing, and the majority shut the doors
■ of the comiiiitlee against all examinations of
■ producers, consumers and exporters, whose
■ testimony might have enlightened the com
■ mlttee.
R CLAPTRAP TO CATCH VOTES.
■ Farmers, whose investments and products
■ were to be disastrously dealt with, were de
■ nied an opportunity to'address the committee.
■ The workingmen of the conmry whose wages
■ were at stake, were denied ail audience. The
■ representatives oil the floor of the House were
■ not permitted to voice the wants of their con
■ riltuents. But as the bill, avowedly a political
■ one, is believed to represent, so far as it goes,
■ the views of the President anil his party asso
■ eiates, a bill, which. with the
■ President's free trade, message, is to
■ constitute the issue Rtul Is* the platform of tho
■ Party. This may account for, but will not jus
■ Jbytkis extraordinary course of procedure.
■ Ihe minority protested without avail In cum
■ mlttee, and now announcing it to the House, as
■ bwv feel constrained to do, accept the issue ten
■ ilered by tiie hill, accompanied with some of
■ 'heir reasius for opposing it and mage their
■ appeal from tho people's servants to the people
■ themselves.
B SF.KN THROUGH DARK GOGGLES.
■ The report says:
■ The bill is a radical reversal of the tariff
■ r'b' .v of the country . which for the most part
■bus prevailed since the foundation of the gov
■'’rnn"-n: and under which we have made indus
■'"'' and agricultural progress without parallel
■]n the world’s history. If enacted into a law
■jt will disturb every branch of business, retard
anil agricultural prosperity and
" : -iy impair our industrial independence.
El' undertakes to revise our entire revenue
Substantially all of the tariff
nodules are affected. Both classification and
V;.’ 1 * are changed. Specific duties are ill many
changed to ad valorem, widen all experi-
EB" " has shown Is productive of frauds and
aluatloiis. R does not correct theirregti
the present, i-ariff it. only aggrn
I^B,"" 1 hern. It introduces uucert .lin'ies in m
r!’r "tation, which will embarrass Us adminis
promote contention and litigation and
customs officers a Ini It u le ot construe
' ' hi'*h W ill produce endless cieiti • u--i sv mid
: mil II is marked with sectionalism
' very patriotic citizen must dcp|nre. Its
, 1 ■' u--i .mi takes no in-i-liiint of the element of
T "hioh enters into production and in a
uu’i'T of intnnccis makes a finished or ad
' l product free, or dutiable at a less rate
i'i ne materials from which it is made.
H THE FREE LIST.
’lore than one-third of the free list Is mado
f. m products of farm, fov .t and mine;
"i, products which nre now dutiable at mini
rates, rouging from 1 to 25 n-r cent. Even
■ 1 -eghl protection, so essential, ist-o be taken
lie farmers, lumbermen and qiiarrymen.
there ar.* some exceptions; cleaned lice,
baying a duty of 112 per cent, ad valorum,
H carefully kept from the free list, and un
d i ice j* given Increased duly and protec
-0:1 This is dune by introducing anew deflni
■eui of uncleaned rice. It changes the long ac
■ - ' 1 commercial definition, and excludes anv
■,"" " Inch has the outer skin or cuticle loosened,
makes all such dutiable *s cleaned rice,
this simple definition clausa all this
|She IHflfnina
class of rice, which heretofore has been
admitted at a less rate of duty, is carried to
cleaned rice, which bears a higher rate. The
duty on cleaned rice proposed by the bill is 2c.
a pound, and uncleanea l(|c. The bill increases
the duty upon what has heretofore been admit
ted as uncleaned rice 75c. per 100 pounds. This
is the ease of an agricultural product upon
which duties have not been diminished, but ad
vanced. There were 4,000,000 pounds of it im-
E cried in the year ending June 30. 1887, and
rom June 30 to Dec. 31,1887, 6.723,415 pounds,
all of which becomes dutiable at the advanced
rate of 2c. per pound, and if the importations
are maintained the revenue from this source
will be materially increased.
MAKING A LEADER OF WOOL.
The American farmer will appreciate the vir
tuous character of the bill, as applied to him,
when he is apprised of the fact that while the
products of his land aud labor are shut out from
Canada by a protective tariff imposed by the
Canadian government, the Canadian farmer cun
send many of his products here without the
payment of duty under the proposed bill. The
whole bill seems to be subject to the criticism
that it was framed to benefit, other countries
rather than our own. Nowhere in the bill is the
ultimate purposes of its authors more manifest
than in its treatment of wool. It places this
Kroduct upon the free list, and exposes his
ocks and fleeces to merciless competition from
abroad. In this respect the bill is but a re-echo
of the President’s message and gives emphasis
to the settled purpose of the majority
to break down one of the most valuable
industries of the country. It is a public
proclamation that the American policy of pro
tection, so long adhered to, and'under which
has been secured unprecedented prosperity In
every department of human effort, is to be
abandoned.
It should be borne in mind that our wool pro
ducers cannot compete with countries where no
winter feeding, ana but little summer attention
is required, and where labor is so cheap, unless
their industry has just and adequate protec
tection. Is labor in manufacturing more de
serving of the considerate concern of Congress
than labor engaged in the field of agriculture?
Both are useful and equally honorable, and alike
merit the thoughtful consideration of those
charged with making laws. Wool on “the free
list” is a deadly assault upon a great agricul
tural interest, and will fall with terrible severi
ty upon a million people, their households and
dependencies. It will destroy invested capital,
unsettle established values, wrest from flock
masters their life time earnings, bankrupt,
thousands of our best and most industrious
farmers and drive them into other branches of
agriculture already over crowded.
VICIOUS AND INDEFENSIBLE.
It is a vicious and indefensible blow at the en
tire agricultural interest of the country. More
over, if the bill becomes a law, the whole ready
made clothing business of the country will be
transferred to European countries. The report
takes up in order all of the chief industries of
the country and combats the argument of the
majority in favor of its action upon them. Free
tin plate and pig tin will only inure to the bene
fit of the foreign “combine," as the French
metal syndicate is characterized, and cotton
ties fare as badly as tin plates. They are also
transferred to the free list. We now make
cotton ties in this country in small quantities,
and would make them in larger quantities if the
duty on foreign cotton ties were tighter
than it now is. In the expansion of the cotton
'tie industry in our own country the South
ought to largely share, for it possesses all the
raw materials of their manufacture, and the
market for their sale and use is at its own door.
But the bill of the majority announces that the
manufacture of cotton ties is not to be tolerated
in the North or established in the South, and
that such machinery as we now possess for the
manufacture of cotton ties is to be thrown upon
the scrap pile. British manufacturers are in
vited to make all our cotton ties, and of course
they will then charge us what they please for
them. Why this article used for baling cotton
should be admitted free of duty, and when used
for any other purpose dutable at I|4c. a pound,
is not manifest ftpou any principle of fair play
or economic science. There may be some reason
known to the majority which they have failed
to disclose to the minority. We know of no
reason why cotton should enjoy this extraordi
nary and exceptional legislative favor.
STEEL RAILS.
The minority also say:
If the majority desires to insure the handing
over of our steel rail market to our English
rivals, the proposed duty of sll will accomplish
this purnose, unless the workingmen, who are
employed in producing the raw materials and
finished products of our steel rail works, are
willing to accept still lower wagss than they are
now receiving, and the railroad companies,
which transport the raw materials, are willing
to greatly reduce their freight rates. In pro
posing to seriously cripple, if not to destroy, the
manufacture of steel rails iu this country, the
majority prohably do not realize the full signifi
cance of the results which they invite. Itshould
be remembered that our manufacturers of steel
rails consume almost one-half of
all tbe iron ore. and almost one-half
of all the pig iroii that the country
produces. If this great market
for American iron ores and pig iron is to be de
stroyed, the country need not be told of the dis
tress which will come to labor, and the bank
ruptcy which will come to producers. A flagrant
defect of the bill of the majority is its pref
erence for ad valorem over specific duties, al
though the testimony of almost every Secretary
of the Treasury since the foundation of tho
government has been recorded against the
frauds upon tbo Treasury whioh ad valorem
duties invite and faster.
MAKING up A RECORD.
The report presents a tabular statement of
the reductions of taxation by Republican legis
lation down to March 1883. The total is $281,-
000,000, while the reduction during the time
the House has been controlled by the Demo
crats amounts to a little over $6,000,000.
If it be claimed that for the most part during
the Democratic control of the House the Senate
was dominated by the Republican party, and
therefore the responsibility of the failure to re
duce the revenues should befdike shared by
them, we answer that under the con
stitution of the United States the House
alone can originate bills to reduce
taxation, tho Senate having no junsdic
tionpf the subject until it is given to it by a bill
which passes the Home, and that during all
those years no such will has gone from the
House to the Senate, and therefore the sole re
sponsibility for the failure rests with the present
majority in the House. If disaster results from
the failure of the President to use tbe surplus
now in the Treasury, as the law
authorizes him to use it, in the
payment of our existing debts, and if the ma
jority in the Mouse, which a!<ic can originate a
bill to reduce the revenue, fails lo send to the
Senate a bill of that charaeter, the responsi
bility will rest, with them. The minority are
powerless; they are neither in control of the
House nor the committees. They ure in no
parliamentary position to report a bill or give
direction to legislation which shall surely ac
complish the result so much desired. They
sought, by amendments in the Committee on
Ways and Means, to make this bill reasonable,
just and practical: failing there they will seek
to amend and modify it in committee of the
whole House, and if their efforts there
are unavailing, they wil seek as a last
resort an opportunity to offer ft substitute,
which will assuredly diminish tbe revenues
without any impairment of ;t he American sys
tem of protection.
TRYING TO SHIFT THE tILAME.
It is therefore manifest that the responsibility
for tbe present monetary condition, which so
alarms the country, does not rest with the
minority party in the House, but with the Presi
dent and majority of Congress. They can
not escape it. Tho President has for
three years failed, while having power to avoid
the financial condition he now complain* of.
Trie majot ItV in tbe House for six years has sig
nally failed to provide for a reduction of the
revenue. They cannot avoid responsibility for
the evils which ate now upon us. and while
these are bevond their power to relieve they
can by courage and wisdom, and governed by
business principles, provide against evils in the
future. They must now act or make public
confessions of failure. The minority regards
this bill not as a revenue reduction measure, but
as a direct attempt to fasten upon this country
the British policy of free foreign Irade. So
viewing it. their sense of obligation to tho
people, and especially the working people, em
ployed in manufacturing and agriculture In all
sertions of our common country, Impel them to
resist it with all their power. They will assist
the majority in every effort to reduce
the redundant Income of the government
in a direct and practicable war. but
every effort at fiscal legislation which will
destroy or enfeeble our industries, retard
material development or tend to reduce our
labor to tbe standard of other countries will be
made with tbe perslateut and determined oppo
(ition ol toe minority represented in the House.
.SAVANNAH, GA„ TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1888.
PRESENTED to the house.
Chairman Mills, weak and pale after his
illness, rode up to the capital to-day and re
ported the tariff bill to the House. After
receiving the congratulations of those mem
bers who sat near him, he took the little
bunch of roses which a friend had laid on
his desk, and went hack to his rooms.
The acting Chairman, Mr. McMillan, of
the Ways and Means Committee got up
and announced to the House that the tariff
bill would be caller! up two weeks from to
morrow.
Mr. McKinley got up and presented the
minority report on the bill and the long ex
pected event w as over.
SURE OF A MAJORITY.
When the bill is called up two weeks
from to-morrow and Chairman Mills makes
the opening speech in its favor.it will be with
the assurance that the bill has the support
of the majority of the House just as it
stands. This has been ascertained by his
colleagues of the majority on the commit
tee by a careful canvass of the House. They
have done this work so well that they can
now go forward in full confidence or vic
tory. The work has been largely educational,
though much diplomatic work has been
done.
ALL WELL INFORMED.
The members now understand, through
the careful explanations they have received,
exactly what the bill provides and approxi
mately know how it will affect their districts,
so they are able to support it intelligently.
Having a majority at their back; the reve
nue reformers can carry out the purpose out
lined in these dispatches, which will bring
a vote on the bill by May 1. By April 17
tho day on which the bill is to be called up,
it is expected that the appropriation bills
now ready will be passed and other pressing
business disposed of. The order of business
proposed by tho Committee on Rules and
adopted to-day by the House is to facilitate
this.
PROGRAMME OF THE HOUSE.
The Resolution of the Committee on
Rules Adopted.
Washington, April 2.—ln the House to
day Mr. Randall, from the Committee on
Rules, reported a resolution designating
certain days and evening sessions for the
consideration of measures to be called up by
certain committoes, in some cases particu
larizing the bills to be considered.
Mr. Oates moved to strike out of the
clause which gives to-morrow and Wednes
day to the Committee on Judiciary, the
provision that the first bill desposed of
shal be the Senate direct tax bill. He was,
he said, unalterably opposed to that meas
ure, but his motion was predicated upon
the idea that it was not quite fair and re
spectful to the committee.
MR. BLOUNT’S POSITION.
Mr. Blount favored the motion to strike
out. The action of the Committee on Rules
in determining the order in w hich bills re
ported by the Judiciary Committee should
tie taken up was entirely unprecedented,
it was an abuse for the Committee on Rules
to force upon the House a measure w hich
was impelled by no exigency except that of
taking #16,000,000 from the Treasury.
OBJECT OF THE COMMITTEE.
Mr. Randall said that the Committee on
Rules had put the provision in the resolution
so as to enable the House to decide whether
it desired to consider the bill.
The motion to strike out was lost by 70
yeas to 161 nays.
Mr. Randall moved to reconsider, and
moved to lay that motion upon the table.
Mr. Oates demanded the yeas and nays,
and the motion to table was carried by 169
yeas to 38 nays.
The opponents of the direct tax bill then
resorted to dilatory tactics, until finally
Mr. Randall moved to suspend the rules and
adopt the resolution. This was agreed to
by 155 yeas to 44 nays.
THE ASSIGNMENTS.
The resolution makes the following as
signments: April 3 and 4, Judiciary Com
mittee, the Senate direct tax bill to be first
disposed of; April 5 and 7, Committee on
Commerce; April 10, Pacific Railroad Com
mittee; April 11, Committee on Territories;
April 13, Committee on Public lands; Mao
10, Committee on Agriculture; May 15. and
June 19, Committee on Public Buildings;
April 3 and 5, (night sessions), Committee
on Military Affairs; April 9, (night session),
debate on the bill to amend tho Thurman
act ; April 10 and 12, (night sessions) Com
mittee cn Territories; ‘April 11, (night ses
sion) Foreign Affairs Committee. All these
assignments are made subject to revenue
and appropriation bills.
The House thou adjourned.
MEMPHIS’ BRIDGE BILL.
It Passes the Senate After Being Con
siderably Amended.
Washington, April 2.—ln the Senate to
day the House bill to authorize the con
struction of a bridge across the Mississippi
river at Memphis was, on motion of Mr.
Harris, taken up.
Mr. Berry moved to amend tho first sec
tion by making it obligatory, instead of op
tional, to have the bridge constructed for
tho p issago of wagons, vehicles and passen
gers, as well as of railway trains.
Mr. Berry’s amendment wus agreed to.
Several amendments reported to the
House bill by tho Senate Committee on
Commerce were agreed to. The principal
amendment was to the third section. It was
to strike out the sentence requiring tile two
middle or channel spans to tie not less than
609 feet in length in the clear, and that no
span shall lie less than 450 feet in the clear;
and to substitute for it a provision direct
ing the Secretary*- of War to detail three
army engineer officers to examine tho
locality and report what sidlhld be the
length of the spans, provided that the
main channel span shall not be less
than 70b feet in length, and the other spans
not less that 009 feet; also that the lowest
part of the superstructure of the bridge
shall be at least 75, instead of 65 foet above
the extreme high water mark.
REPEALING A PREVIOUS ACT.
Another amendment was to add anew
section repealing the Memphis bridge actof
Feb. 26, I**:,.
The bill having been reported to the Sen
ate ail the amendments adopted in co umit
tee of the whole were agreed to in hulk, ex
cept that offered by Mr. Berry, requiring a
passage way to be provided for wagons,
vehicles and foot passengers. On that Mr.
Sawyer demanded a separate vote. Tho
amendment was agree. 1 to by 30 yeas to 11
nays. The bill was then passed, and a con
ference committee ordered. Messrs. Saw
yer, Vest and Harris were appointed con
ferees.
Signal Service Buildings.
Washington, April 3.—ln the Senate
to-day Mr. Spooner introduced the hill mik
ing the necessary appropriation (estimated
at $150,009), for the purchase of a site and
the erection of the necessary store-houses,
etc., for the signal servioe at Washington,
D. C. It passed.
Chaplain MUbum’a Return.
Washington, April 2.— Chaplain Mil
bum who has been absent for tna past few
weeks on aecountof sickness was present in
the House this morning and delivered the
opening prayer.
BURLINGTON’S BOYCOTT.
ALL THE BROTHERHOOD MEN
GETTING INTO THE ROVtT.
A General Tie-up Apt to Occur at any
Moment—The Rock Island Road’s
Officials Refuse to Handle “Q”
Freight—Violence to Individuals but
no Riofng.
Chicago, April 2. —The Burlington road
this morning continued its aggressive posi
tion, and at 9 o’clock notified the police that
it was going to deliver a train of freight to
the Michigan Central railway. A detail of
officers was sent to tbe Michigan Central
yards and soon after the Burlington train,
bristling with Pinkerton detectives and va
rious railway officials, pushed in. Beyond
the usual curses and cries of
“scabs” that usually greet a “Q"
train nowadays, there was no hostile
demonstatioii. The cars were delivered to
the Michigan Central and the “Q” engine,
Pinkertons and officials, quickly disap
peared from the scene. As soon as they had
gone the Michigan Central switchmen noti
fied the yard master that they would not
touch the “Q” cars.
assaults growing numerous.
Cases of assault upon men who have
taken the places of tbe strikers of the Belt
railroads in the city are becoming numer
ous. Two men, one of whom was a special
policeman, were taken to a hospital last,
night so badly injured that they will prob
ably die. Coupling pins were the weapons
used in both cases. No notice is taken of
small riots which result only in bruises or
minor fractures. They are of constant
occurrence.
A west-bound passenger train on tho St.
Paul road was stopped shortly after mid
night by the engine being derailed by a mis
placed switch.
A broken rail was discovered at Kin
zio and Roby streets apparently the work
of dosign.
The situation is being used to advantage
by sharp rascals who obtain employment in
the place of strikers, and then sell out to the
strikers. Some of such men have I seen dis
charged as soon as found to lie Incompetent,
and then claimed the sympathy and sup
port of the strikers on the charge of bad
faith on the part of the railroad com
panies.
BEAT THE BROTHERHOOD.
Some of these oases are of men brought
from tho East at the beginning of the Bur
lington strike. A man, who was employed
as an engineer, knowing he would be dis
placed for incompetency, solicited a bribe
from the Brotherhood, and swindled them
out of $175.
A party of switchmen from tho Burling
ton road numbered 40 when tbey left Day
ton, 0,, but only twenty-four arrived here
this morning, and nearly all of thsso had to
fight their way when they changed cars at
Lima, on the Fort Wayne road.
The President and General Superintend
ent of the Lake Shore road announce their
intention to handle all the Burlington
freight offered them, and to do it with reg
ular men or new ones iu their places if ne
cessity requires.
The St. Paul officials announced to-day
to their men that unless the St. Paul switch
men are at their posts to-morrow morning
ready for work they can never obtain em
ployment on tho road again.
The suburban passenger service of the St.
Paul road has been in great measure re
sumed, but the St. Paul company has laid
off about 5,000 yardmen and switchmen
along its linos until the present trouble
blows over, in addition to those actively en
gaged iu (he strike. Eight hundred of ihese
are in the yards and general offices in this
city.
EFFECT ON THE GRAIN TRADE.
The strike is having a noticeable effect
on the grain trade. According to the re
port of tho State Grain Inspector not a car
of grain was brought in Saturday over the
Burlington, St. Paul, Wabash, or Chicago
anil Eastern 111 nois roads. Only two cars
of grain came in over the Alton and one by
the Santa Feroad. Tho Kansas City division
of the St. Paul road brought in three
cars. Tho only roads which maintained
anything like their usual showing were the
Rock Island, Illinois Central and two
divisions of the Northwestern. Shippers
and receivers are beginning to complain.
The head of one receiving firm said that he
had bills of lading of grain loaded at lowa
points on March 12, which had not arrived,
and at present he had no information as to
when it would arrive.
A “q” TRAIN CHECKED.
This afternoon an attempt was made to
get a train of twenty freight cars from the
“Q” road to the Chicago and Alton road.
As tho train passed the viaduct at Sixteenth
street the engineers of the other roads re
fused to allow tho train to go by. They
stopped it by crossing and roeross
ing the tracks which intersect the roads at
this point. These tactics were
kept up for two hours, and the “Q” train
finally was taken back to the Western
Avenue yards. After this an Illinois Cen
tral train was brought to Sixteenth street,
drawn by a “Q” engine. When the viaduct
was reached a number of stones were hurled
at the locomotive. The assault was an
swered by a shot from a man standing in
tbe cah. The assaulting parties withdrew
ana the train proceeded on its way.
ROCK ISLAND’S REFUSAL.
Tho Rock Island inanugers declined once
more to-day to' risk a lie-up of their road
by attempting to receive freight from their
competitor, the Burlington. It was in vain
that the officials and lawyers of the latter
road telegraphed and dispatched messengers
to the Rock Island this morning. A verbal
reply was finally returned that the Rock
Island refused to take any ears from the
Burlington. This afternoon, speaking for
the Rock Island division, Hunt. Cbatnbe.r
lain said; “We have not only returned a
verbal auswer to the Burlington road to the
effect that we would not touch their cars,
but we have issued written orders, a gen
eral order to our employes not to handle
therr. We don’t propose to get in trouble
by dealing with the •Q.’ if we can keen
out of it by leaving their cars alone. We
think we can belter do the latter. That, is
our position, and the ‘Q.’ people know it."
AN ATTEMPT TO COMPROMISE.
An effort toward a compromise of the
strike on the Burlington road was made
this evening by tho Brotherhood of Engi
neers and Firemen. A card embodying a
concise statement of the situation from the
men’s standi oint, but giving no new facts,
was issued by them. It is addressed: “To
the Public," and is signed by 8. E. Home,
on behalf of the engineers, and J.,H. Mur
phy for the firemen. The meat of the docu
ment is the concluding paragraph,
which involves a fresh offer of ar
bitration, this time ou an entirely
new basis. The idea is that the arbitrators,
instead of coming portly or wholly from
outside roads or other professions, be se
lectal from among the Burlington’* own
employes. The document says in this connec
tion that if the “Q” is satisfied with the
present condition of affairs, “it has but lit
tle rare for either business or the lives of the
public. We stand, os we hit vc stood all the
time, ready to submit our case to a i,oard of
fair arbitrators, and we believe such a board
can lie chosen from the railroad employes
of this company.” An offer is also mado to
submit the trouble to three railroad presi
dents or general managers. Marvin liugh
itt. President of the Chicago and North
western is named as a man who would 4bo
an acceptable arbitrator to the Brother
hood, flip Burlington Company to send an
arbitrator who, in common with Mr. Hugh
itt, should choose a third.
At a secret conference of the dissatisfied
employes of the Michigan Central road held
to-night, definite plans for future guidance
were agreed upon, hut they were kept from
the press. It is known that a decisive re
sponse will be made to-morrow morning at
7 o’clock to Oen. Bupt. Brown. The rumor
is well grounded that the men will refuse to
handle “Q” freight.
A FRUITLESS CONFERENCE.
The officials of the Fort Wayne road and
the striking engineers aud firemen held a
conference this morning. The men refused
to go back unless t he officials agreed to lioy
oott the “Q” road. This the latter declined
to do and the conference came to naught.
The Burlington managers tried to induce
the Wabash officials to-day to agree to re
ceive a train of Burlington freight, but in
the absence of Receiver McNulta no action
was taken. Gen. McNulta, who is In New
York, telegraphed that he would start for
Chicago at once.
A STRIKE AT KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City, April 2. —At 5 o’clock this
afternoon the switchmen and firemen in the
Santa Fe yards quit work in a body. Tho
company has been handling “Q" freight and
this action was taken in pursuance of a
policy determined upon at a general meeting
of tbo yardmen last Saturday night. The
men have no othot complaint and will go to
work on condition that they are not required
to handle “Q" freight. The Santa Fe has
about twelve switch engines in use hero.
TROUBLE EXPECTED AT SPRINGFIELD.
Springftlep, 0., April 2.—The Ohio,
Indiana and Western railroad engineers
and firemen of the Brotherhood have noti
fied General Manager Henderson tint if he
accepts any more “(,)'’ cars they will strike,
A strike is expected by Wednesday morn
ing.
COAL AND IRON POLICE.
Pittsburg, April 2.-—Capt. Linden, Su
perintendent of Pinktrton’s Eastern Agency,
with a party of fifty detectives, were in the
city this morning on their way to Chicago.
The men are members of the famous coal
and n on police of Pennsylvania, and served
in the coal and coke regions during the re
cent strike. Capt. Linden will take charge
of the Pinkerton men on the Burlington
system.
NEW BILLS IN THE HOUSE.
Mr. McClammy Wants to Reward the
Curer of Hog Cholera.
Washington, April 2.— ln the House to
day among the bills introduced and referred
under the call of the States were the fol
lowing:
By Mr. McClammy, of North Carolina—
To reward the discovery of a remedy and
cure for hog cholera.
By Mr. Houk, of Tennessee —Authorizing
the construction of a bridge across the Ten
nessee river ht Knoxville.
By Mr. Kowden, of Pennsylvania—A
resolutibn calling on the Postmaster Gen
eral for information as to whether instruc
tions have been given in regard to the
rates of postage oil seeds, plants, bullis and
printed circulars received from Canada,
and whether existing laws and treaties give
any advantage to Canadian citizens over
citizens of the United States engaged in
similar business.
DEMOCRATIC SENATORS CAUCUS.
The Bond Bill the Principal Topic Un
der Discussion.
Washington, April 2.— The Democratic
Senators had a caucus this morning from
10 to 13 o’clock and most of the time was
spent iu discussing the bond bill and its
pending amendments. Wide diversity of
views was expressed, both os to the merits
and demerits of the direct questions in
volved in the amendment, and as
to the policy of putting any of
them upon the pending bond
bill, but no motion was made and no vote
taken. The following Senators were named
as the caucus committee to meet t he Repub
lican caucus committee of a like number
and confer with regard to tho order of busi
ness in general and the bond bill in par
ticular: Messrs. Harris, Cockrell, Voor
lieos, Coke, Beck, Jones of Arkansas, Mc-
Pherson. Morgan, Butler, Gorman and
Walthall.
Riddleberger's Opposition to Secrecy.
Washington, April 2.—Mr. Riddleberger
gave notice to-day that lie would to-mor
row ask the Senate to act on
his motion to suspend the rules as to execu -
tive sessions so as to have the fishery treaty
considered in open session. He gave this
notice, be said, so that there might be no
delay or excuse of aberitoeisui, and also
that those who might be afraid to vote
upon it could absent themselves. Then,
after an executive session, tho Senate ad
journed.
Mrs. Logan’s Pension.
Washington, April 2.—ln tho Senate
to-day, the House having sent over the
original bill to give a pension of $2,000 to
the widow of (toil. John A. Logan (instead
of passing the Senate hill, in precisely the
same terms) tho House bill was, on motion
of Mr. Davis, passed.
Mr. Berry said he would not call for the
vote by yens and nays, but wished it to go
on record that ho was opposed to it.
Crain’s Resolution Laid Aside.
Washington, April 2. —ln the House
to-day, Mr. Crain, of Texas, moved to sus
pend the rules and put upon its passage his
joint resolution proposing a constitutional
amendment changing the time for tbe
anitu’il meeting of Congress. A long debate
followed, and at it* conclusion the motion
to suspend the rules and pass the resolution
was defeated by a vote of 8(1 yeas to 154 nays.
Porkers t.uled Outof Denmark.
Washington, April 3.—A dispatch has
been received bv the Department of State
from the American Minister at Copenhagen
Stating that tne Danish government has
issuuWan order forbidding, until further
notice, the importation into Denmark of
pork, or other raw product* of American
liogs, including bladder* and steam lard.
Supreme Court Decisions.
Washington, April 2.—The Supreme
Court of the United Htatee to-day rendered
decision* in only half a dozen coses, none of
which were of striking general interest.
An order was made assigning Justice Har
lau to the Fourth Judicial Circuit to fill the
vacancy caused by tbe death of Chief Jus
tice Waite.
Killed by a Horse.
Washington, April 2.—Prof. E. A.
Paul, principal of the District High School,
was run ovor by a horse ridden by a colored
man Saturday night and died this morning.
The accident occurred in front of hi* own
door, a* he was about to dismount from bis
bicycle. Prof. Paul’* back was broken.
BUYING BONDS.
The Senate Again Discusses the Bill
Without Action.
Washington, April 2.—The Senate to
day resumed, as the unfinished business, the
House bill for the purchase of United Stales
bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury,
the question being on the motiou of Mr.
Palmer to recommit the bill.
Mr. Stewart moved to recommit, with
instructions to the committee to report
without delay a separate bill allowing own
ers of gold or silver bullion to deposit the
same and receive coin certificates therefor.
After considerable discussion, Mr. Stew
art withdrew his amendment and expressed
the hope that the motiou to recommit the
bill would be voted down. Without action
on any of the pending propositions the bill
was laid aside for the present.
TUB OUTLOOK.
Neither the Republicans nor the Demo
crats of the Senate have determined what
they will do as a party about the bill.
Probably the outcome will be the bill, or
some proposition like it, will bo passed by
the Senate, and that by agreement other
financial propositions will be considered sep
arately, but that agreement has not yet
been reached, and until it is reached the
Senators on both sides who desire to con
sider the silver question and other financial
questions will not let. go of the bond bill.
WAIL OF THE SILVBII MEN.
Senators, like Mr. Beck on the Demo
cratic side and Mr. Stewart on the Republi
can side, who desire legislation favorable to
the silver men, nnd inflationists, like Mr.
Plumb, have been complaining all the ses
sion that the Finance Committee pigeon
holed overy financial bill sent to it; it would
not even report such a bill adversely. There
was no wav of getting it before the Senate.
At last it did report the bond bill, which
bad been sent over by the House. There
upon the silver men and the inflationists
proceeded to got their schemes iu by pro
posing amendments to it.
THEIR STRENGTH.
Taken together they wore strong en .'mgh
to put Mr. lTumb’s inflation or amendment
on the bill, and would probably be strong
enough to put Mr. Stewart’s siiver amend
ment on the bill. Taking alarm the Finance
Committee is trying to recommit the bill.
But the uncertainty of the situation is well
illustrated by the fact that when the Sen
ate was just about to vote on a motion to
recommit, Mr. Edmunds suddenly moved to
go into executive session, thus postponing
action until to-morrow. The motion would
have lieen defeated had a vote been taken..
It will be to-morrow, unless the Finance
Committee yields. It will have to do so
eventually.
DOWN GOES THE DEBT.
Figures Which Show What Demo
cratic Economy la Doing.
Washington, April 2.—The debt state
ment issued to-day shows the decrease of
the public debt during the mouth of March
to bo $11,586,659 fib: the decrease of the
debt since June 30, 1887, $88,660,681 88, and
the cash in the treasury $586,464,002 66;
gold certificates outstanding, $91,053,949;
silver certificates outstanding, $191,526,445;
certificates of deposit outstanding, $8,915,-
000; legal tenders outstanding, $346,681,016;
fractional currency (not included in tho
amount estimated as lost or destroyed),
$6,941,061 12: total interest-bearing debt.
$1,041,764,052, total debt of all descriptions,
$1,701,897,440 60; total debt less cash items
available for its reduction, and loss cash in
the treasury, $1,190,868,155 14.
Dixie’s Wonderful Growth.
Washington, April 2.—At 9:40 o’clock
to-night manufacturers and professional
men of New England, to the number of
twenty-four, who were taken to tho new
South nine days ago by tho Hartford Post’s
Southern bureau in charge of Mr. Sporry,
arrived in this city on route home. They
will remain here until 2 o’clock to.morrow
afternoon. They all express the highest
appreciation of the courtesies extended and
agree that the marvelous growth of the
South has not been in the least exaggerated.
40,000,000 Acres to be Forfeited.
Washington, April 2. —The Publio Lauds
Committee of the House lias decided to re
port bills forfeiting about 40,000,000 acres
of Northern and Southern Pacific railroad
land grants and the Ontonagon grant.
Liberia’s New Minister.
Washington, April 2.—The Presdent
has nominated Ezekiel Smith, of Fayette
ville, N. C., to be Minister resident and
Consul General of the United States to Li
beria.
A Public Building- for Meridian.
Washington, April 2.— Senator George
introduced a bill to-day to provide for a
public building at Meridian, Miss., to cost
not more than SIOO,OOO.
FRANCE'S NOW CABINET.
Floquet President of the Council and
Interior Minister.
Paris, April 2.—The new French Cabinet
is officially announced as follows!
M. Floqubt, President of the Council and
Minister of the Interior.
M. Goblet, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
M. DE Freycinet, Minister of War.
Admiral Kb, ante, Minister of Marine.
M. Rioard, Minister of Justice.
M. Peytral, Minister of Finance.
M. Lockroy, Minister of Education.
M. Loubet, Minister of Public Works.
M. Viktte, Minister of Agriculture.
M. Leora.no, Minister of Commerce.
A MEETING OK THE CABINET.
The rnernlrf'rs of the new Cabinet held a
meeting at the Elysee Palace, the confer
ence luting five hours. The Official Jour
nal will not publish tbo names of the Minis
ters to-morrow, no agreement having been
obtained as yet, regarding the programme
to lie presented to the Chamber. M, Flo
quet tendered the Finance portfolio to M.
Rouvier, but the offer was declined in view
of the manner in which the other portfolios
had been distributed.
THREE RETIRE.
Paris, April 8, 1 a. m.— M. Rioard, M.
Jxnibet and M. Is'grand bave retired from
the new Cabinet, being unable to agroe
with the government programme.
IRELAND'S LEAGUE.
Several Meetings Proclaimed—A Rally
at Mltchellstown.
Dublin, April 2. —Magistrates at Laugh
rea, Ennis, Kilrnsh, Kanturk and Rams
Grange have been ordered to prevent league
meetings announced to bo held at those
places on Sunday next. They are authorized
to use force if necessary in order to sup
press all attempts to hold meetings.
William O’Brien, T. M. Healey and others
rke at a meeting at Mltchellstown to-
The police made extraordinary prep
arations to prevent any disturbance. The
government note taker was admitted to the
platform. Messrs. O’Brien and Healey were
escorted with bands and banners to the
square, where they delivered orations.
There was no disturbance.
I PRICK |!0 A YEAR.
1 6 CENTS A COP?.f
BRYCK WILL NOT FIGHT.
harmony essential to the
TERMINAL’S PROSPERITY.
Gen. Thomas Takes the Same Posl
tlon- They Explain that They were
not Connected with the Management
when the Big Changes were Made-
Gen. Alexander North.
Nkw York, April 2. -Calvin S. Bryce
and John . Moore, the two Terminal
directors who have for several weeks been
doing the tourist act so extensively through
Florida and other Southern States, returned
to-day. Their reappearance in Wall
street was & matter of con
siderable interest, owing to the
general concern which was felt as to the
position they would assume in the terminal
squabble. Mr. Moore has neither said nor
done anything during the day to Indicate
exactly how ha feels in the matter,
but Mr. Bryce has spoken with
no uncertain sound. He made
a public statement this morning through a
Wall street news agency with reference to
himself and his partner, Gen. Samuel
Thomas, that was both comprehensive and
unequivocal, and on that very account it
was well received in Wall street.
WHAT HE SAYS.
The pith of the statement is as follows:
“Gen. Thomas and myself were not mem
bem of tho Terminal or Richmond and Dan
ville boards when tho present capitalization
of these properties was made, or who i the
purchases of the Richmond and Dan
ville or East Tennesse, Virginia
and Georgia and other properties wars
made b v the Torininnl Board,and no change
in the capitalization or position of any of
the profierties has been made since wo be
came members of the Terminal and Dan
ville Boards. We did not seek position* as
directors in the Terminal or Danville
companies, and only accepted them at the
request of tho Board of Directors as they
then stood, and at the last election it was
only on account of our largo interest in the
Terminal securities that we consented to
serve when some of ourfriends declined.
won’t make a fight.
“We never sought to, and do not in fact
dominate or control either of these proper
ties, and will decline to continue as meni
lers of the boards of directors of
those companies in caso of a se
rious contest among tho stockholder!
or in the management, as in our opinion it
will require the united support of all per
sons interested in Terminal securities to give
reasonable hope of the outcome to which
their share of the growth of Southern busi
ness entitles them. We have for many
years been associated with tho East Tennes
see, Virginia and Georgia Railway Com
pany, and at the request of the Termiual
Board have continued in the management
of the East Tennessee Company without
desiring to interfere with or control any of
the other Terminal properties, except to in
sure the harmonious operation of all and
settle fairly any differences between them.
will welcome new comers.
Instead of desiring to control the Termi
nal property we would welcome the addi
tion and Humsirt of any persons able to as
sist in the direction of the properties in the
Terminal system, and are entirely willing
to yield our place in the board of
directors to any such persons. Wa
wish it distinctly understood that we at no
time have and are not now soliciting proxies
or otherwise making any efforts to keep any
places in the board of direction or manage
ment of the Richmond Terminal or of any
of the controlled companies, or indeed any
other corporation whatever. We have bad
enough experience of conflict to convince
us that it is neither pleasant nor profitable.
lIK TAKES A GLOOMY VIEW.
In addition to this public statement. Mr.
Bryce said personally to the News corre
spondent that he regarded the general rail
road situation of the country at present en
dangered by a combination of serioua
troubles. The strikes In the West, he said,
would entail incalculable losses to
the various lines of that section
and the several Houthern systems were suf
fering greatly through the hurtful conse
quences of the interstate commerce law.
Under tho exactions of that arbitrary
legislation, he said, the Bouthorn roads were
hauling freights at about one-half a cent a
ton per mile, whereas to earn even fair
profits thov ought to get all
least % of a cent. Under these discouraging
circumstances Mr. Bryce suggested that thn
lot of a railroad manager wan not altogether
a happy one, and if there waste beany
contention for positions on the Terminal
directory neither lie nor Gan. Thomas care
to take a band in the scramble.
WALL STREET’S OUTLOOK.
With regard to the general situation in
Wall street, he said that he saw no reason
able prospect for much improvement in the
market tor at least thirty days to come.
Ho hoped that within that time the Western
troubles would be settled and that the ad
justment of those difficulties would restora
the confidence of the bulls and produce a
general advance in prices.
Gen. E. P. Alexander is here, presumably
to look after his own interests in the Ter
minal affair. It was rumored to-day that
President Bully would probably resign
within the next few days in favor of Gen.
Alexander.
The Terminal directors meet to-morrow,
when it is thought there will lie important
developments. Contention in no other
Southern railroad corporation would excite
half the interest this lias done. Its im
portance is owing to the fact that by its
control of so many different lines the Ter
minal company is regarded as the greatest
factor in the whole Southern railroad
situation.
UNEABY THE HEAD IN THE CROWN.
Emperor Frederick has a Bad Night-
Dr. Hahn's Dangerous Operation.
Berlin, April 2.—The Emperor bad a
troubled night, coughing more than usual.
Ho remained in bed until 11 o’clock this
morning, when he became somewhat more
comfortable. The Emperor did not receive
the ministers to-day. He occupied most of
the day in writing.
Another of Dr. Hahns rases of partial
excision of the larynx has resulted fatally.
These cases are helping to briDg about a
reaction among medical men in Dr. Mac-'
kenzie’s favor.
King John's Negotiations.
ROME, April A—Advices from Massowab
says that the envoy of King John remained
at the Italian camp until to-day. Negotia
tions continue between King John and the
Italian commander. The King has placed,
troops of his owu command in front of
Ras Alutos for a rear guard.
Parodied the Proclamation.
Berlin, April 2.—The German Socialists
in Switzerland have parodied Emperor
Frederick’s amnesty decree, and spread
150,000 copies in the principal towns of Ger
many. Twenty-five persons, who had
copies in their possession, have been arrested
at Leipsic.