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*7 TH'E MORSINB NEWS. 1
3 Cc"a3LIS3ED 1850. INCORPORATED 188S. V
j •*' j. H. ESTILL President. 1
SOBLE SCORES TANNER.
ONE OF THE FOIiMER’3 LETTERS
‘ “ t q THE COMMISSIONER.
A Declination by the Secretary to
Treat a Letter from the Corporal
Marked “Unofficial” in the Manner
Requested-The Commissioner Tola
Plainly 'I hat He Was Subordinate
to the Secretary.
Washington, Oct. 18. Secretary
Noble’s first letter to Pension Commissioner
Tanner, upon the subject of rerating
pensions, is made public. It is dated July
i4. The following are extracts from it:
i 'ommissioner of Pensions:
SIR-1 nave heretofore acknowledged yours
n Oct 11 marked "unofficial,’' but which, ow
. £• to verv important matters therein dis
*sw'i I co'nld not receive as such, and there -
fore acknowledged as an “official” paper. The
i.atier was official in tie highest sense
,If the terra, raising a question of author
ity "as between the commissioner and
secretary and asserting that utjthe commis-
V nner to be superior as to the matter discussed.
I have since amid my many other duties, found
time to consider the question raised by your
letter and will now give you my reply in full.
Your position, in your own language,
is that "while the Secretary of the Interior
hts the power to reverse decisions of the
commissioner of pensions on appeal by a claim
ant against whom the commissioner had de
cided on the other hand, if for any reason it be
held that the claimant has been granted too
vtuch pension, the commissioner himself is the
only person who has power to call a halt and
reduce the pension.
hash or HIS CONCLUSION.
This is yo.r position. You base thiscon
clusion on section 8. act of June 21. 1879, which
reads as follows: “That sections 4771, 4772 and
4773 of Revised Statutes of the United States
providing for biennial examinations of pen
sion rs are hereby repealed, provided that the
commissioner of pensions shall have
the same power as heretofore to order special
examinations whenever, in his|| (judgment,
the same may be necessary, and to increase or
reduce pensions according to right and justice,
but in no case shall a pension be withdrawn or
reduced, except upon notice to the pensioner,
and hearing upon sworn testimony, except as
to the certificate of examining; surgeons.” The
power granted the commissioner of pensions
by this section is expressly no
greater than heretofore, and it is to increase
or reduce pensions according to right and jus
tice. It would be, as you express it, a “mani
fest incongruity” if the Secretary of the
Interior, who is responsible for your bureau,
had no power to correct obvious abuses, or
men call a halt, and that if his inferior officer
did not act, nothing could be done. You re
mark yourself “this incongruity ” should be
remedied at tho next session of congress.
LABORING! UNDER A MISAPPREHENSION.
The commissioner is laboring under a great
misapprehension as to his relations to the secre
tary in this business. Congress has not com
mitted this incongruity, and it will not
be necessary for it to remedy anything
tiiat now exists. The secretary has power to
correct atiy abuses in the bureau of pensions or
any other bureau in the department.
I might assert my conclusions on so plain
and well settled a question and so leave it, but
due consideration for your office leads me to
explain the ground on which this long estab
lished rule rests.
BACKING CP HIS STATEMENTS.
The secretary, in support of nis position,
quotes sections 437, 161, 441, 470 and 471 of
the Revised Statutes, and declares that the
commissioner of pensions has no more
power in the section quoted in Commis
tioiier Tanner’s letter than he had previously
under the direction of the Secretary of the
Interior, who is charged by the law with
the supervision of the public business re
lating to pensions. It will not do to
say, he remarks, that the secretary
may not interfere and stop by his
own power the execution of any orders
obviously illegal and arbitrary. If it were
attempted by the commissioner of pensions
io other than cases of permanent specific
disabilities to increase pensions, and to
tllow the accumulated increase of ten or
fifteen years to be paid over at once, and in
gross 3um to the applicant, it would not do
>o say that the secretary could
only refer this back to the com
missioner with a word of advice
and call his attention to the law, and take
uo steps either to recover the money thus
improperly paid out or correct the evil
tfcus attempted to be done; that he could
not even call a halt. The secretary is
responsible for the conduct of the commis
sioner, is bound to see that the law is en
forced, that the public treasury is not un
lawfully invaded, and that the citizen
entitled to right, whether of pension or
land or anything else, is not unduly pre
ferred, either in time of hearing or allow
ance of money.
the secretary’s position.
The secretary lays down the proposition
“at he has the same jurisdiction over the
commissioner of pensions as over the other
areaus of his department, argues at some
ittgtn in support of it, and says that su
ptome court decisions sustain him. The
wretary then takes up tho “reratiug cates”
mch, he says, seem to be largely mere
ocreases of pensions allowed for long
Mods prior to the date of the examining
Spoil's certificate establishing the same
Mer. a pendi g claim for increase; in fact,
J sa p> ffi o commissioner himself acknowl
gad them to be cases of increase of pen
tons, r
Secretary Noble continues:
Ih'mm, cases referred to wore ten in number.
Pove of tll, ‘ 80 the claimant was an em
ivcsivtL„ ? r other > in the pension bureau,
. a salary sufficient for his comfortable
*h cUma'V sn ?, at work daily. They were
their together, most of them had been in
lions c ? 8 under former administra
f°r ,1?“* , tb ”>' dld “ft then pre
soon arttfr c fims. They made them
ti, , n rift the advent of the present administra
r lies n ~w as no reason under the existing
r ““them cases should be made special or
the con,rhrr* 4lu advance of all others. On
*- ie v„ a r y ' t iere was then, and had been for
ca-M Khm,n a, L Pri " t f <l rule 1“ fu ‘l tor ce that no
tl stiinhnn be “jade special except in cases of
P int of death, When an a! ’9 licam was at the
y hurried through.
jr. , U - n fJ® eases were all hurried through bv
<if ~I™"’ while hundreds of thousands
through,,,',, pas oners were awaiting
'! tte iv IL 16 allowance for the first time
them Th tbe government has promised
hianvr.f ,v ? e other pension claimants were,
ns these ""ipported by no such salaries
, 11 ‘?r men were receiving, and the
I ,r 'h:r-; o '4“ther of these men whereby this
an!. 111 time seems to have been secured
a fa-:. j„J ' ent allowances obtained, is in itself
1 ’ 1,1.7 causes a suspicion of undue means
* ; tw i„,® ir objeet.and that their purpose
t upon the commissioner.
■ 'll? fl]rt| 4NCKU WITHODT CERTIFICATES.
Bhu i nor ,. r ?. ber fact appears in each case, that
•ertia a.- in** 8 allowed prior to the surgeon’s
H- * lieridiug claims, anil that tbs sums
■<- “egregate over 810,U00. Following is a
I'Nf 2“% allowed and paid $ 2,196
B.vah II ,, altb > allowed and paid 1,286
■' < ? i,'' ,a "> allowed and paid 3,02“
■' ' ii, a! owed and paid iJlay 27i 1,061
■ ii„„ showed and paid (June 14 1 7XI
■ ~ avowed and paid , 184
■'v-pi, allowed anil pai l ... . 1,822
■at 1, allowed and paid .. 1,564
■ o*. allowed and paliTT., . 2,397
■ slß.7;tf,
.t? r ,•'"•h •* as (has* that you
H* • h' p o:iiUiißioDe r alone can rail a
IK” ‘ i, -1 Fard to wbl<h Ihe secretary
H’t'ii..,,, !"• and propoaes to call u halt
H ‘“aat, for in*|jartlon,
it, I'EKSOMAUnaH.
5ft 1 , . * l “ *t "spraasloii m your part
.. . a-pi my construction or llm
H <iu f Jou as loyally as you would
Jiofning
the official opinion of the Attorney Gen- '
ernl. But neither you nor I can afford to
act upon personal considerations in matters of
this magnitude. Vie are each bound by the
law in all things, great and small, and it is our
duty to take the law as we find it; to fully exer
cise that power given to either of us. ana
abstain from all abuse of it to any degree
whatever. Our loyalty is due alone to the gov
ernment of these United States, and the people
who support it.
Lest the commissioner may deem the sec
retary is influenced by a desire to magnify
his office, Secretary Noble says that he has
brought to his assistance the services of
others in the department, ami that the opin
ion of the assistant att >rney general of the
department agrees in the conclusions
reached by the secretary.
THREE CASES CONSIDERED.
The secretary, in view of the law and es
tablished precedent, considers the cases of
Butts, Doan and James E. Smith upon their
record in the pension office. Of Butts ho
says:
The whole proceeding in the matter in behalf
of this man looks like an arbitrary increase of
bis pension to take effect from a long anterior
date, and to have been against the repeated
testimony of men not only competent but
selected to determine bis case.
In Smith’s case the medical examiners
had not been able to find any physical evi
dence of disability, but they had rated his
disability upon “the claimant’s statements.”
As to Doan the secretary says:
The report of the medical examiner would
entitle the claimant to only $24 instead of S3O
per month, and the rerating made in June last
seems wholly illegal and unwarranted by the
evidence.
The • cretary’s letter then continues:
I will not go into other cases. They are be
fore you. I have said enough, I think, to show
that the secretary may well call a halt until
these cases can be more carefully examined.
I notice that you say in your letter
to me that you have such regard for
your own official and personal reputation
and the reputation of your bureau, that you
will not permit these cases to remain as they
are at present, but will order each one of the
claimants for medical examination, before men
whose word on medical points will be unchal
lenged when stated, and will stop at nothing
which shall keep all taint of suspicion from the
action of your office.
DON’T AFFECT THE QUESTION.
This certainly would be a proper proceeding
if it affected the question in hand, and I
appreciate your desire to maintain the in
tegrity of your character, and the legality of
your proceedings. But it is not a question what
may yet and hereafter be found out about
these men. The question is, what should have
been done upon the record as it stood when
judgment was rendered? and the materiality
and importance of this question arises, not
only from the effect it may have upon
the particular individuals named in these
several papers, but upon the course of pro
cedure that will affect, if it goes on unchal
lenged and unremedied, vast sums of money at
the command of the government, which might
be distributed illegally arid summarily to those
who are not as much entitled to it as tens of
thousands whose cases have not yet been heard
It may be that this government is strong and
great, and has at its oommand a surplus that
no other nation has ever had, but if sums of
money to the amounts above mentioned may
be granted without any further consideration
of the fact or law than seems to
have been given in these cases, it will
depend solely upon a single officer’s dis
position whether the resource* of the govern,
ment shall be sufficient for its maintenance or
not. There are more than enough of these ap
plications already in the Hold, and increasing
daily, to exhaust the surplus of which so much
has been said in connection with this matter,
and I am informed that applications for re
ratings are greatly on the increase, and now
reach from 7,000 to 3,000 weekly.
I do not ask nor desire, so far as lam con
cerned. re-examination of these applicants, but
what I insist upon is that there shad be recon
sideration of these allowances on,the record,
and that any further allowances for them that
may be made shall be made in tbe due course
of proceedings upon new application, new evi
dence, and without any advancement of the
cases before those of others equally as meritori
ous.
NEED OF GREATER CIRCUMSPECTION.
Your statement that the pension board of
revision reported that out of twenty-four cases
rerated one was broadly, and two reasonably
open to suspicion in connection with what 1
have already pointed out in these other cases,
indicates that there is need of far greater cir
cumspection and rigid enforcement of the law
in these matters than has been recently prac
ticed for the public safety. But when it
becomes a question of official authority and
official responsibility and the good of the peo
ple, the preservation of the treasury and the
meting out of exact justice to all alike, and give
tho pensioner who is abroad and unprotected
tbe same right and the same sums of money as
to him who, by official influence, attempts to
get his claim preferred, I shall act, as X am now
doing in the present instance, regardless of per
sonal considerations, and intent upon strict and
exact enforcement of the law.
ALL TO BE RE-EXAMINED.
The secretary further says that he intends
to have all these cases re-examined, and
has ordered an investigation of the prac
tices of the pension office, and that he will
defer any further orders until the investi
gation board reports. The letter closes as
follows:
I write this that you may be fully advised of
my views and purposes, and my belief in my
authority to control all abuses In this depart -
ment by whatever means I deem legal and effi
cient.
This letter is all of the correspa ndence
that is made public to-nigbt.
SILVER ORE3.
The Decision of the Secretary of the
Treasury Announced.
Washington, Oct. 18.—The long and
anxiously expected decision of the Secretary
of tho Treasury upon the proper classifica
tion of silver ores containing base metals was
rendered to-day. It reaffirms the existing
rulings, first inudo by John Sherman in 1880,
and reaffirmed in January aud May, 1880,
that ores composed of silver and lead and
iron, or silver and lead, or silver aud other
base metals of which silver is the compo
nent material of chief value, would be
exempt from duty under the provisions of
the free list for “Ores of XXX silver.”
WHAT HAS BEEN CLAIMED.
It has been held by the mining interests
of Nevada, Utah, Colorado and other states
where silver is found 00 mbined with iron,
lead and copper, that proportion by weight
or bulk of base metals, and not of value,
should determine the dutiable character of
the imported ores,and their efforts have been
directed to having Mexican ores taxed. It
was in connection with the importation of
Mexican ores that all of the decisions cited
were rendered. To-day’s decision is long,
and treats the subjeot exhaustively.
INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS.
The Past Quarter’s Income Ahead of
Last Year’s Reoord.
Washington, Oct. 18.—The total re
ceipts from internal revenue during the
first quarter of the present fiscal year were
$f!4,084,536, or $3,770,807 greater than the
receipt* during the corresponding period of
the preceding fiscal year. If tho receipts
increase at this ratio during tbo remainder
of the year, the total MMI f >r the year
will aggregate about $ 145,000.000, or $14,-
UOO.OOO more than tbe receipts during the
previous year.
Norfolk's New Dry Dock.
Washington, Get 18.—Tbehlmneoudry
dock at th Norfolk navy yard, which wa*
opened Hep!. 19, wa* formally accepted to
day by Commodore Wbite, tbe chief of the
dock* ami y*rda The dock cost the go
nrtuueut $496, TFT.
SAVANNAH, GA„ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1889.
HILL’S TOUR AN OVATION. |
MEN OF ALL PARTIES TURN OUT
AT CHATTANOOGA.
The Governor Presented With a
Basket of Flowers in the Name of
the City and State —He Makes
Another Speech Laudatory of Dixie
and Her Progress.
Chattanooga, Tknx., Oct. 18.— Gov.
David B. Hill of New York, Patrick Col
lins, Hou. Roswell P. Flower, the governor’s
staff, and other distinguished New Yorkers
reached Chattanooga early this morning by
speoial train as guests of John Inman of
New York, president of the Richmond
Terminal system. A party of twenty-five
prominent citizens, headed by the mayor,
who is a republican, boarded the
train, and it was drawn to the top
of Lookout mountain, reaching there at
sunrise. They reached the city at 10 o’clock,
and were met at the depot by a large crowd
of citizens of both parties. Carriages were
in waiting, and they were driven to various
points of interest, and reached the court
house at 10:30 o’clock. The front was hand
somely decorated and a great assemblage
was in waiting.
HILL MAKES A SPEECH.
Gov. Hill made a fifteen-minute speech.
He alluded to the wonderful recovery of
the south from the devastation of the war,
spoke of the splendid resources and great
future of Chatta: ooga, and closed by say
ing that the only way to settle the questions
whioli confronted tho south was by letting
the people of the south alone, and they
would work out a solution in the same man
ner in which they recovered from the wreck
of the war. He said his trip was not a po
litical one.
GIVEN A BASKET OF FLOWERS.
At the conclusion of the governor’s ad
dress, George W. Ochs of Cuattanooga, in
the name of the people of the city and the
stale, presented Gov. Hill with a magnifi
cent basket of cut flowers, sayinc that it
was a tribute from the citizens of Tennessee
to the chief magistrate of the Empire state,
and recognition that his eloquent words iu
behalf of the south showed that his states
manship was broad enough to embrace the
whole country.
OTHER SPEECHES.
Speeches were made by Hon. Roswell P.
Flower, Patrick Collins of Boston, and
Chancellor Pearson of New York. All were
laudatory of the south, and expressive of
their astonishment at its wonderful growth.
The party left here at noon for Knoxville.
The reception was entirely non-partisan,
republicans joining in it as zealously as
democrats.
AT KNOXVILLE. '
Knoxville, Tknn., Oct. 18.—Gov. Hill
and his party reached here to-day by
special train. They were taken around the
city this afternoon aud given an informal
reception by tbe chamber of commerce.
Brier speeches were made by Gov. Hill
and Hon. Roswell P. Flower on the in
dustrial growth and future of the new
south. They were entertained to-night by
the Chilnowee club, and left here at a late
hour for New York.
SOUTH AMERIOANB SHIVER
The Northern Fall Morning Too Cool
for Their Comfort.
GiiA.vd Rapids, Mich., Oct. 18.— The All-
America party had anew sensation this
morning when they rolled the sleeping berth
curtains aside and looked out. The depot
platforms were white with frost. The
roofs of the near-by cars were aglistened
with it. The rails were scaled
with white crystals. and with
in the train the window panes were
soon blurred with condensing vapor. The
southerners shivered as they gazed from
the dining car while taking coffee, before re
pairing to a hotel in the city for breakfast,
and when the vestibule train doors were
ojiened the local committee aud the crowd
in waiting saw their guests emerge with
necks^bundled in silk scarfs, coat collars
turned high up, with bands heavily gloved,
aud with shoulders elevated so as to sink as
deeply as possible within tneir great coats
the swarthy faces of the men not used to
frosty chills and northern rigors of climate.
RISE OF THE SUN.
Through the hazy atmosphere the sun
was rising like a huge red ball, sharply out
lined. The air became warm later, how
ever, by stronger sunlight aud the hospitali
ties of the occasion, and when the party
left the Morton house after breakfast, the
day without was genial while bracing. At
breakfast the delegates for the first tints on
the trip were served with food by tidy girls.
On driving from the hotel to a furniture
factory a salute of sixteen guns was fired
in honor of the guests. The forenoon was
spent iu viewing the great furniture shops
of the city and public buildings. At 1:30
o’clock, and before lunch was had at the
hotel, there was a review of the Grand
Rapids battalion, city fire department, and
oity bicycle club. The local committee had
arranged for the afternoon anew diversion
to the party—running and trotting races at
the fair grounds.
LAST YEAR’S PENSION WORK.
The Number on the List 489.725, and
$89,131,968 Paid Out.
Washington, Oct. 18.—The annual re
port for the fiscal year 1888-’B9 of the com
missioner of pensions has been submitted to
the Secretary of the Interior, and is now iu
the hands of the public printer. There were
at the close of the year 489,735 pensioners.
There were added to the rolls during the
year tbe names of 51,921 new pensioners,
and the names of 1,754 whose peusious have
been previously dropped were restored to
the rolls, making an aggregate of 53,675
names added during tho year. Sixteen
thousand five hundred and seven pension
ers were dropped from the rolls for various
causes, leaving a net increase to the rolls of
37,168 names.
THE DISBURSEMENTS.
The amount paid for pensions during the
year wa* $88,275,113 28. The total amount
disbursed by agents for all purposes was
$89,131,968 44. The amount paid as fees to
attorneys was (1,363,583 47.
In the aggregate, 1,248,140 pension claims
have been tiled since 1861, and in the same
period 789,121 have been allowed. The
ainoun’ disbursed on account of pensions
since 1861 has been $1,052,218,413.
Tbe issue of certificates during tho year
shows a grand total of 145,298. Of this
number 51,921 were original certificates.
Tbs report shows that at th* close of the
vaur there ware pending aud unallowed
479,000 claims of ail classes.
Fuller for President.
Washington, Oct 18.—Chief Justice
Fuller laughed st tbe idea whan he was bold
to-day that be bod been mentioned for tbe
presidency at a meeting of Andrew Jackson
League of Cnicago lost ulgnt. H* said he
bad never thought of such a thing, aud that
be never would. His oldef justiceship sat
isfisd him.
CHICAGO’S JURY BRIBERS.
Additional Evidence Secured Against
F. VV. smith.
Chicago, 111., Oct. 18. —The .Journal
says that additional evidence has been
secured against F. W. Smith, one of the
men under indictment for conspiracy to
bribe jurors in the Cronin case. The story
is to the effect that two men voluntarily
sought an interview with State’s Attorney
Loncnecker last night and revealed to him
the fact that Smith had approached them
with a suggestion that they could make
some money by acting as jurors in the
Cronin case. They replied that they had
not even been summoned as veniremen.
PROMISED TO FIX IT.
To this they said that Smith replied that
he would so fix it that they would be sum
moned; that if they would so frame their
answers us to be accepted on the jury and
wouid then bold out tor an acquittal they
would tie paid SI,OOO each. The men
referred to ore Francis and "Wolf, dry goods
merchants of Englewood.
RELEASED ON BAII.
Jerry O’Donnell and Tbomar fCavauaugh,
ot those who wore arrested last night on the
new indictments returned yesterday, wore
bailed this morning. Five peremptory
challenges were used In the Cronin trial to
day, four by the prosecution and one by
defendant Beggs. Tbe state has twenty
eight peremptories remaining, aud the
defense (Beggs) seven. Four jurors have
yet to be sworn in.
PASSENGER CARS DITCHED.
A Score or More Persona Bruised, but
No One Killed.
Hutchinson, Kan., Oct, lS.—East
bound train No. 4, the Santo Fe "cannon
ball,” reached here at 9 o’clock this even
ing, twelve hours late,with only an express
car and two Pullman coaohes. The
balance of tbe train, consisting of a bag
gage car, two Pullman coaches,
and a tourists’ and Pullman
sleeper were left at the bottom
of a ten-foot embankment near Howell, a
small station twenty miles west of Dodge
City on tbe main line. They had gained a
little time aud had slacked up from their
usual rate of thirty-five miles to about
twenty miles an hour, when a broken rail
was encountered. The engine and express
oar tassed over, but the others were
ditched, os indicated. Fortunately fire was
prevented, and all the passengers were
shortly rescued. No one was killed, and no
limbs were broken, but a score or more
persons were bruised and more or less in
jured.
fair fund of bt. louis.
Subscriptions Amounting: to $500,000
Turned Over to the Committee.
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 18.—Subscriptions
to the world’s fair amounting to $500,000
were turned over to Treasurer Van Bjarcom
of the Bank of Commerce to-day, and the
ooilection of the $5,000,000 guarantee fund
goes steadily on. When all the sub-com
mittees are beard from the sum sub.
scribed is expected to reael!
$6,600,000. The executive ennmittee
have invited 150 local capitalists
to meet them next week to furt er the
movement in aid of St. Louis by their coun
sels and subscriptions. Tbe St. Louis head
quarters at Washington will not be regu
larly opened lief ore Nov. 1, but agents of
the city are already at work there in a
quiet tvay, aud a system of circular dis
tribution has I teen going on for some time.
BURNED WITH VITRIOL.
Fiendish Revenge of One Negress on
Another at Charleston.
Charleston, S. C.,Oct. 18.—A horrible
outrage committed by a negro woman upon
another has just come to light A negro
woman named Rebecca Perkins, on bet way
home from church last night, was horribly
burned by a rival with a can of vitriol or
concentrated lye, which was thrown in her
face. The eyes of the Perkins woman were
burned oat, and her face horribly scarified.
No arrests have been made as yet, but a
woman who keeps company with a gar
dener who lives on the premises is suspected.
The two women belong to Emanuel African
Methodist Episcopal church, and had been
attending services. The police have charge
of the case.
REPAIR OF THE NIPBIO.
The Vessel Undergoes a Satisfactory
Trial Trip at Sea.
San Francisco, Cal., Oct 18.—The
steamer City of Peking arrived from China
and Japan, via Honolulu, this morning.
Honolulu advices report that the United
States steamship Nipsic, which has been
undergoing repairs there for some time,
was gtveu a trial trip two week* ago, which
resulted satisfactorily. Admiral Kimberly
was aboard during the trip. The course
was in the open sea. The Nipsic’s pro
peller made sixty revolutions with fifty
four pounds of steam, and her average
speed was estimated at 9j£ knots. The
Nipsic and the Alert are now lying in the
harbor at Honolulu.
EMERSON’S REMAINS.
Tbe Reinterment Made in a Grave of
Cemented Blocks of Granite.
Concord, Mass., Oct. 18.—The coffin
containing the remains of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, whose grave was disturbed on
Saturday last, have been placed in a securely
bound box, wulcb has in turn been de
posited in a gravq composed of blocks of
granite cemented together, and securely
fastened with a granite covering. The gen
erally accepted theory is that the vandalism
was committed to create a sensation.
New Orleans Favors Chicago.
New Orleans, La., Oct. 18.—At a
special meeting of the board of directors of
tne New Orleans Board of Trade, limited,
held this day, the following was unani
mously adopted:
Resolved, That this board favor* the city of
Chicago a* the site for the vrorl 1* fair of 1892.
(Bignedi Louis Kush, President.
E. Belknap. Secretary.
A Round House Burned.
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 18.—A special
to the Post-Vispatch say*: “Tbe
round house of tbe iexa* and Pacific rail
road at Longview, Tex, wa* burned this
morning. The loss is upward of $50,000.”
A Furniture Manufacturer Assigns.
Richmond, Va., Oct. 18.—Joseph u.
Welch, a furniture munufaoturer, made an
assignment L.-dey. Hi* Uatnlitis* are esti
mated al S7,OUU. The amount of his asset*
is unknown.
Mouses Bey Pardoned.
London, Oct. 18.—The Armenian Patri
otic Association state* that Moussa Bey,
who wa* charged with outrages upon
Christian* in Armenia, wa* parda.aul m
spite of conclusive eytdeuns of his guilt.
Among the witnesses who gave till* evi
dence were two American rnu*iouarie*,
Kev. Mr. Kiapp aud Her. Mr. it*/avid*.
COLOR LINES IN CHURCH.
TEXT OF THE REPORT TO THE
EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
It la Strongly Against the Proposed
Establishment of a Missionary Epis
copate for Colored People—Questions
of Liturgical Revision Again Con
sidered-Some of tho Changes Pro
posed.
New York, Oct. 18.—Services were
celebrated iu the house of deputies tlii<
morning by Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee,
assisted by Bishops Spalding, of Colorado,
and Scarbrough, of New Jersey. There
was a small attendance. Tho deputies are
too well seasoned to the services to
deprive themselves of their natural rest to
come to hear their bishops. The galleries,
however, were weH filled with ladies. At
10:20 o’clock Dr. Dix called the house to
order. Not more than 150 of the members
wore present. The reports of the different
standing committees were then presented.
The committee on cartons presented a report
on the proposed establishment ot a mission
ary episcopate for oolored people.
TEXT OF THE REFORT.
It was as follows:
Even if this church were prepared to recognize
by law the difference between its white amt col
ored members und provide for their separate
organization either iu parishes or episcopal
jurisdictions, we think that tho mode of doing
so, as provided in this proposed cuaou,
would be for many reasons inexpedient, arid
that it could be properly aud efficiently done
only after a change in the constitution. While
we do not absolutely assert that, the proposed
canon would be uucimetltutional, yet it
trenches so closely on article iv that tor this
reason alone we would deprecate its adoption
OTHER ORIECTIONB.
But waiving fpr the present the constitutional
objections and those founded on the proposed
line of distinction between the white and colored
races, we are of the opinion that other aud
fatal objections present themsolves In the pro
posed canon.
1 . If we had tho right to provide by canon for
the erection of missionary jurisdiction within
one or more organized dioceses with the con
sent of the bishops and the conventions of the
respective dioceses, yet the difficulty if not
impossibility of obtaining any such consent,
which on a change of views could not, aud on
the death of a bishop would not be withdrawn,
and many complications which would cer
tainly arise under such a change of views, or
under many other suppoaable conlinveucies.
should deter us from the adoption of the sys
tem here projiosed for the solving of the prob
lem, the inherent difficulties of which we all
fully recognize.
A CLASH OF JURISDICTION.
2. This canon proposes an episcopal jurisdic
tion in personas within the territorial jurisdic
tion ot another bishop. We think that such a
proposition antagonizes the history and tradi
-1 ioual policy of the church and the essential
elements of episcopal jurisdiction, which from
the first lias been territorial, and not
personal. But the real and essen
tlal question which moots us at the forefront
of this whole matter, and which we think the
chvireh should first determine before discussing
plans and modes of procedure, is that first al
ludedto in this report, uamely: "Shall tbe
church, in its iaw of parochial or diocesan or
ganizations, draw or recognize a
line of distinction between its white and
colored members?" We think tills should not
be done, and we therefore for this reason alone,
and without reference to those founded on un
constitutionally or inexpediency, recommend
that the canon ne not adopted, and present the
following resolution:
Resolved. That tbe committee on canons be
discharged from further consideration of the
subject.
Discussion on the question was post
poned.
CHANGE OF TIIE MEETING TIME.
Dr. Benedict, of the committee on con
stitutional amendments, offered a resolu
tion changing thetime of tbe assembling of
the next general convention from the first
Wednesday in October to tbe third Wednes
day in ffeptember. The resolution was
placed on the calendar.
Rev. Dr. Little of Delaware read the re
port of the committee on the general theo
logical seminary, and recommended It*
adoption. The report gave tho details of
the working of the seminary. Dr. King of
Long Island requested leavo to present a
minority report, and discussion was post
poned.
At 11:05 o’clock the house resumed con
sideration of the question of liturgical re
vision. Six amendments, which were
adopted yesterday by the house in com
mittee of the whole, were then taken up in
order, and, after considerable debate, were
formally adopted. The noon recess was
then taken.
LITURGICAL CHANGES.
At the afternoon session the house of
deputies confirmed its action as a commit
tee of the whole, on Thursday, by passing
the joint liturgical committee’s resolutions
for thanksgiving for a child’s recovery
from sickness; for tho safe return from a
voyage of travel, and for a penitential of
fice for Ash Wednesday.
Concurrence with tho upper house was
also ordered upon the following: "That,
after the rubric following the general title of
the collects, epistles, and gospels there be
inserted: ‘The collect appointed for any
Sunday or other feast may ha used at the
evening service of the dav before; also that
Gloria Patri lie printed at the end of the
Easter anthems.’”
SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT.
Rev. Dr. Hart, of the committee, then
presented the next resolution in order which
was: “That in place of the rubric after the
gospel for the Sunday next before Advent
there be substituted: ‘lf there be more than
twenty-five Sundays after Trinity the
services of some of those Sundays
that were omitted after the Epiphany
shall be taken in to supply so many as are
here wanting; and, if there be fewer than
twenty-five Sundays, the overplus shall he
omitted.” This was adopted, the deputa
tion from lowa being the only diocese in
the negative. A peculiar feature of the
voting on these resolutions was that lowa
took a decided stand against revision of any
sort, and desired, through Dr. Hale, to be
individually recorded in that light.
SUBSTITUTION OF THE 64TH PSALM.
Dr. Phillips Brooks’ resolution to substi
tute tho sixtv-fonrth for the sixty-ninth
psalm in tho'table of proper psalm* for
Good Friday, went through after some dis
cussion t>v an overwhelmingly affirmative
vote, together with tbe additional collect,
epistle and gospel for Christmas and Easter
day.
A resolution providing for the omission
of tho decalogue, if the same be said ones
on each Sunday, was passed.
At this point came the real debate of the
afternoon upon Dr. liuntiugten’s resolution
for a short office of prayer for sundry occa
sion*. The subject wa* reopened by Dr.
Eager of Central New York, who happened
to bu absent when the matter was before
the ooinintttee of the whole.
DR. HU rowin’* attitude.
Dr. liurgwiu of Pittsburg hoped tbe mat
lei would not ogam be Uimussed, aud said
he iiad vote! in favor of tb resolution and
belteveu thoroughly in tbe excellence of tbe
prop owl short office. Judge Wilder op
puee l the procrastination which animated a
certolu small minority. Dr. Eager
moved te {loMpouu the resolution,
but the motion wss loet, first on
a >ll a de e vote, aud then by order of the
JUoceMsg At tu in.aute* pe*C ttei set boui
of adjournment, Dr. Huntington’s resolu
tion was put a-ni carried. The clerical vote
was: Ayes 28, navs 14, divided ‘i. lay
voto: Ayes 24, nays 14, divided 5. This
fluallv disposes of su important matter
already proposed and rejected by two pre
vious conventions, so far as the house of
deputies is concerned.
COADJUTOR REJECTED.
In the house of bishops to-day it was de
cided that no change should be made tti tbe
term “assistant bishop,” which it was pro
posed to change to “coadjutor.”
The subject of filling tbe vacancy caused
by the resignation of Bishop Williams of
J ap&u was postponed.
Resolutions of sympathy for Bishop
Bedell of Southern Ohio, who recently re
signed on account of continued ill health,
were adopted.
Some verbal changes in the communion
aud baptismal services were adopted in the
upper house. A rubric was also passed
forbidding the celebration of the Lord's
.Supper when no communicants betide
priests are present.
AN ALTERNATIVE FORM.
A provision was adopted for an alterna
tive form in tho confirmation service,
rendering it similar to the form used in
baptisms.
The house of bishops declined to couour
with the lower house in a resolution peti
tioning congress upon the subject of di
vorce on tho ground that it was inad
visable at this time. The committee to
whom the matter was referred reported
that there was no authority for placing
bread on the tongue of a communicant, and
also that communicants he instructed to
take the chalice firmly Into their own
bauds.
RUSSIA AND GERMANY.
The Czar Bald to Have Thanked Prince
Bismarck.
Berlin, Oct. 18. —Court reports appear
ing in newspaper* of tlii* city credit the
czar with thanking Prince Bismarck for
supporting the Russian protests t > the
Swiss government against the harboring of
anarchists, and assuring the chancellor
that the statements regarding Gen.
Obrutschef’s recommendation of double
lines of strategic railways in
Russia were false. Prince Bis
marck, it is said, assured the czar that
Germany was as little concerned regarding
Bulgaria us she was regarding Russia’s
plans in Asia, and that in his view an un
der-lauding between Russia and England
with reference to Asia was desirable and
could easily be obtained.
The Post asserts that the two emperors
before stqiarating arranged for another
meeting, aud that Emperor William, on
tho invitation of the czar, arranged to at
tend the Russian maneuvers iu 1890.
HUNGARY’S CABINET.
Emperor Francis Joseph Will Doubt
less Make Concessions.
Vienna, Oct. 18.—The Hungarian cabi
net will not resign on account of the differ -
onces with the Austrian cabinet upon the
question of the recognition of the Hunga
rian army apart from the Austrian foroes,
as there is every prospect that Emperor
Francis Joseph will assent to the demands
of Hungary and change the title "Imperial-
Royal Army” to "Imperial and Royal
Army.”
12,000 Man Out at Lens.
Paris-, Got. 18. —Tho strikers in the Lons
district now unrulier 19,000, and it is likely
that double tbe number of men will stop
work uuless the demands of tho strikers are
conceded. Tbe directors of the coal mining
companies met to-day and agreed to ad
vise a 5 per cent, increase in wages. The
miners demand an increase of 10 per cent.
France’s Frontier Force.
Paris, Oct. 18.— Tho Sixth corps, whiob
France proposos to double on account of the
increase of the Gerrfian garrisons in Alsace-
Lorraine, is now centered at Nancy. The
eastern railway facilities will be increased
by doubling the linos running from Lille,
Lyons, and Bens boon to the German
frontier.
Gladstone's Coming Manifesto.
London, Oct. 18.— Mr. Gladstone will
issue n manifesto in the form ot a speech at
Southport on Wednesday next. Ho will
probably formulate an active programme
of reforms and expound his home rule pro
posals. ________________
Socialist Publications Seized.
St. Petersburg Oct. 18.—A large num
ber of socialist publication* were seized to
day Just as they were being brought across
the frontier into Russia. Two arrests were
made iu connection with the seizure.
Dillon’s Love for Boulanger.
Paris, Oct. 18. —Count Dillon writos that
he was never on more affectionate terms
with Gen. Boulanger, and that neither
politics nor politician* con diminish that
friendship.
Italy Rejects a Turkish Ambassador.
Rome, Oct. 18. —The Italian government
has refused to receive Washan Effendi,
whom the porte wished to appoint as
Turkish ambassador to Italy.
Thirty-Seven Corpses Recovered.
London, Oct. 18.— I The bodies of thirty
seven of the men killed in the explosion in
the Bentilee colliery at Lougton, on Wednes
day, have been recovered.
France’s Chambers.
Paris, Oot. 18, —At a ministerial council
at the Elysee palace to-day, Nov. I was
fixed for the opening of the chambers.
Switzerland's Labor Congress.
London, Oct. 19.—The Swiss bundesratb
has decided te hold tbe postponed inter
national labor congress in May next.
Miners Strike at CharleroL
Brusselk, Oct-. 18.—Two thousand coal
miner* at Charlerni have gone on strike.
RICHMOND'S BISHOP ELECT.
Extensive Preparations for His Con
secration To-morrow.
Richmond, Va., Oot. 18.—Extensive
preparations have been made for the con
iteration ot Bishop-elsct Van Devyver at
Mt. Peter’s cathedral next Sunday. Cardi
nal Gibbons, Bishop Keane and other dis
tinguished dignitaries of tbe
oburch who will take part in
tlie nor vice* are expected to arrive here
to-morrow. Rev. Dr. D. J. O’Connull,
rector of the American college at Rome, is
expected to Lie present also. The choir will
bu assuited by soot* of tbe most distin
guished singers in the country. Betides the
freat organ, there wifi be su orchestra.
bs choir will render Haydn's Bscotid
Mass, and the orchestra will play flan-lei's
"War March of the PrlosU."
Bond Purchases
Wasmisgtos, Get. 18.—Th* bond offer
si:asumrßsWw*!
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GOV. PERRY'S LAST REST.
FUNERAL PROCESSION ALMOST A
MILE LONG.
Nothing Like it Ever Been in Pensa
cola Before—The Formation of the
I-lno and the Organizations In It~
The Last Rites at the Grave.
Pensacola, Fla., Oct, 18.—The funeral
of the late Edward A. Perry, ex-governor
of Florida, took place this afternoon. Never
in the history of Pensacola has such a pro
cession of a similar nature taken place, it*
was the largest funeral by far held iu the
city. It was, besides, possessed of charac
teristics no other local interment ever had.
It was a combined civic and military dis
play, and it was it Handed by the most
prominent aud distinguished men of Florida'
and by visiting statesmen of a sister state.
SOME OF THOSE PRESENT.
Among others In attendance were hi*
excellency Gov. Francis P. Fleming, Chief
Justice George P. Haney and Associate
Justice A. E. Maxwell of tho supreme court
of the state, Adjt. Gen. David Lang, Hon.
Lucius B. Wombwell, state commissioner of
agriculture; Maj. William BaiJentiue of
the governor’* stafT, and Hou. Hilary A.
Herbert of Alabama The committee
having charge of the arrangements of the
funeral had all of tho latter perfected early
in the day. Col. D. K. Hlokey was chosen
grand marshal, aud ho selected Maj. J. B,
Uiittman ns his aide. The advertised hour
of tho funeral was 8 o’clock.
ON TO THE CHURCH.
At 3 o’olock the various companies aud
other organizations began to arrive at the
residence, and a start to tho church was
effected at the time named. The lino was
made up os follows:
The Chief and a Detachment of Police.
_ . Wyer s Silver Cornet Band.
Third Battalion Florida Mate Troops, consist
ing of three Infantry Companies.
The Fire Department.
Uartteld Post No. 2, Q. A. R.
Confederate Veterans.
Carriage with Minister.
The Honorary Pall-Bearers, consisting of Justice
A. K. Maxwell, Judge George McWhorter,
AilJt. Uen. l-ang, Coinmisstontr of Ag
riculture Lucius B. Wombwell, Maj,
Samuel Oasaiez, Mr. George S.
Hallmark, Maj. Louis P.
Knowles, Win. K. Hyer,
8r„ F. E. Dnlareau.
Escambia Lodge No. 15.
Santa Rosa Lodge No. 18.
Naval bodge No. 24, F. aud A. M.
Hearse.
Tho active pall-bearers, consisting of bis ex
cellency TYnncls P. Fleming, Governor of
Florida; lion. Hilary A Herbert of Ala
baino. Chief Justice (ieorge P. Raney,
Hon. Joou O. Avery, Hon. W K. An
deroou of Bagdad, J. M. Hilliard,
William if. Knowles, cant.
1). H. R-ed and Wil
liam Fisher.
Carriages containing the family of the deceased,
Tho Board of City Commissioner*.
Tho Delegation from Chamber of Commerce.
Friends in carriages.
A MILE LONG.
The line was nearly a mile in length. It
stretched from tho residence down Palafox
street Into Government, more than five
long squares. The remains were conveyed
to Christ Episcopal church, where, the
boautiful service of that denomination
wa* read over them, Rev. F.
R. Holman officiating. Thence they
were taken to tit. John's cemetery and
Interred with the performance of the Ma
sonic rites and military honors. The soene
at the grave was a profoundly impressive
one. More than 1,000 people stood with
heads uncovered while tbe burial service*
were being performed, tho lowly spoke*
words of the minister and of the officiating
Masons, and the weird music of the dirge ■
lending additional solemnity to the ocoa- j
sion. Many an old soldier felt the tears
unbidden spring to hie eye, when as tho
echoes of three volleys died away on the
evening air tbe sunset call was sounded on
the bugle.
VANDALISM IN A SALOON.
Tho Content* of tbo Whisky Barrel*
Turned on the Floor.
Columbus, Ga. , Oct. 18.— Phoenix City,
a prosperous town of Alabama just across
the river from Columbus, was struck with
a dual sensation early this morning. When
S. Meadows entered his bar at daylight he
found that the premise* had been burglar
ized and the entire contents destroyed.
The faucets of six barrels of whisky, five
half and three quartnr-bun elv, were opened
and the saloon floor and cellar were flooded
with liquor. All the beer was also turned
loose. The vandal burglar is unknown.
CAUGHT IN THE ACT.
About 3 o’clock this morning a white man
named George Dozier was aptured by
Frank Osborn in the store of T. Lynn. He
wa* endeavoring to effect an entrance into
the bar at the time. Dozier was kept under
cover of a pistol until Osborn’s wife ob
tained help. He is now iu jail, aud the
belief prevails that it was he who burglarized
Meadows’ saloon. Dozier ba< just been
released from the Opelika jail under a heavy
bond for numerous burglariee whiob he vs
charged with commiting iu Russell and Lee
counties.
TRAINS COLLIDE.
The People on Each Jump OfT In Time
to Escape Injury.
Atlanta, Ga., Oot. 18.—There was a
collision at noon to-day between a West
Point freight and a Central railroad accom
modation diuner train between Verbena
and East Point. The freight train had
order* to run from East Point to Fort Han
cock to meet an outgoing Central freight
train, but overlooked the schedule of the
dinner train. The trains had not attained
great speed when they met, and everybody
jumped off both traios. Only one passenger
was injured, and that one slightly. One
engine aud a baggage car were more or less
wrecked.
DESTRUCTION AT DAWSON.
Fire Burns a Cotton Warehouse and
Several Btores.
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 18.— A special to
the Enquirer-Bu.n from Dawson, Ga., says:
"At 8 o’clock last night a destructive fire
occurred in this city. L. A. Lowrey’* ware
house, filled with cotton, was consumed.
It wa* partly covered by insurance. C. L.
Mize, Dr. W. C. Kendrick, Eutiauks &
Davis, F. Bethuue, aud Wllham Talbott
lust their stocks with tneir building*. Mr.
Mize is fully insured, but the rest are only
partly insured. Tue national hank had a
narrow escape. It wa* Injured by water,
but i* fully insured. The total lose is esti
mated at $55,000. ”
Death of a Former H tvaunabian.
Uihhon, Ga., Oot. 18,—Dr. John White
lev , who he* been declining In health for
save raJ yean, died here Wednesday night
at 9iso retook. Dr. Wbiteiey wee born iu
Yorkshire, Eegleud, aud cam* to America
in 1836. He taught Egjwol In the Hat^of
Which be Went to iiaveaaab. Go., md
graduated in the Oglethorpe Msoicoi PM
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