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i THE MORNING NEWS, 1
J Established ISSO. Incorporated 1888, v
I J. H. ESTILL, President. j
SENATORS AND THE FAIR.
THE HOUSE BILL PASSED AFTER
AMENDMENT.
The Naval Review In New York
Harbor Left In, but the Provision
for a Statue of Columbus at Wash
ington Stricken Out—A Synopsis of
tfce Debate.
Washington, April 21. — 1n the Senate
this morning Mr. Plumb introduced a con
current resolution, directing the Secretary
of the Treasury to increase the treasury
purchases and coinage of silver bullion to
the maximum amount authorized by the
act of Feb. 28, 1888, and gave notice that he
wou'd ask for its consideration to-morrow.
On motion of Mr. Hawley the Senate pro
ceeded to consider the House bill to
provide for celebrating the 400th
anniversary of the discovery of Amer
ica by Christopher Columbus by holding
an international exhibition of the arts,
industries, manufactures and the products
of the soil, mine and sea. in the city of
Chicago, in the state of Illinois. The only
amendment reported by the Senate com
mittee was the insertion of anew section,
providing for a naval review in New York
harbor in April, 1893, and for the unveiling
of a statue of Christopher Columbus at
Washington.
THE GOVERNMENT FOOTS THE BILL.
Mr. Hale inquired of Mr Hawley whether
it was intended that the government should
furnish the statue of Columbus.
Mr. Hawley replied in the affirmative,
and stated that a bill for that purpose had
already passed the House and was now
pending in the Senate.
Mr. Vest said that it seemed to be as
sumed that because the House had
passed the bill, the Senate was under
some coercion to pass it. He pro
tested against such an assumption. The
bill would probably pass the Senate by an
overwhelming majority; but no measure
should ever pass the Senate with his vote
on the assumption that the judgment of the
House was coercive on the Senate. He knew
that his opposition to the bill would be
ascribed to the fact that the city of St.
Louis had been an aspirant as a site for the
world’s fair. That was a post niortemper
ceeding and he did not propose to introduce
ghosts to disturb the equanimity of the Sen
ate or the tranquility of the city of Chicago-
He had from the beginning opposed all
legislation looking to an exposition in 1892.
He had everywhere, publicly and privately,
announced his opinion that in his judg
ment the law should not be passed which
called it into existence. Ho did not believe
that the temper of the people of the United
States favored any such exposition. He
did not believe that the condition of the
country justified such a spectacular per
formance at thi3 time. The agricultural
people of the country had neither the time
nor the money to give a great national
circus such as was proposed.
HELD UP TO RIDICULE.
Mr. Vest continued in humorous vein,
and turned to ridicule the idea of bolding
unv fair at all at such short notice, and
following so soon after the Paris exposi
tion; likened the method of choosing a
6ite for the fair to an “auction,” and said it
was only an advertising scheme, compare
Coicago to hades, between which and
Chicago there was not much cboice; read
some verses from a parody on
“Excelsior," of which the refrain was
“Chicago” and which created much amuse
ment and concluded by declaring that the
bill was a sensationul measure got up in the
light of conflict and rivalry between muni
cipalities. There had come no demand for
it from the people of the United States.
ABDICATION DENIED.
Mr. Hawley said that the senator from
Missouri was mistaken in supposing that
the Senate abdicated its power or relegated
it to any other body in regard to the
pending measure. But since the very
lively and vigorous contest iu the House on
the question of location, the country had
settled down to the conclusion that the mat
ter was settled there by the body which
more thoroughly represented the people.
The House bill, he thought, was admirably
drawn.
Mr. Vest asked whether the $1,50,000
that was to be contributed out of the
national treasury included tbe expense of a
naval review and of the foreign navies that
were to participate.
Mr. Hawley replied in the negative, but
added that the only extra expenses of the
review would be dinners and powder. As
to the expense of the celebration in Wash
ington, that was a very indefinite figure,
but an estimate might be made of it by
comparison with the presidential inaugura
tion.
MUST STAND BY OUR HONOR.
If the United States, he said, entered de
liberately on the affair, and if the commis
sioners, after a full and fair investigation,
found that Chicago was sure to raise
$10,000,000 or $11,000,000, aud if by an
unforseen calamity Chicago should be
unable to meet its obligations in the matter,
and it should become absolutely necessary
for the national credit (the United States
having in tho meantime sent out its invita
tions to the world), he (Mr. Hawley) should
vote all the money that might be necessary.
The government was not now bound ror
one dollar beyond the $1,500,000, but having
invited the world to participate, the nation
viould have to perform its duty.
A MEMORIAL BUILDING PROPOSED.
In the course of the dobato which fol
lowed Mr. Gorman offered an amendment
to strike out tho provision for a naval re
view and substitute for it a memorial build
ing in Washington as a repository of
antiquities of the western hemisphere, but
•twas defeated.
Mr. Culloin attributed Mr. Vest's speech
to a species of hydrophobia superinduoed
by tho mention of the name of Chicago.
Mr. Hoar moved to amend by striking
out the provision as to tho Columbus statue.
This proposition, after another long debate,
was ngrood to, and tho remainder of the
borate committee’s ameudmant (for a naval
review) was agreed to by a veto of. 23 to 27.
* i ho suction as adopted reads:
Sec. 18, That the President is hereby em
powered and directed to hold a naval review
, York harbor in April. 18D3, and to ex
.,™ to foreign nations nn invitation to send
*cips of war to join tho United States navy in
rendezvous at Hampton roads, and proceed
'-'once to said review*
MR. BLAIR WANTS NO LIQUOR SOLD.
Mr. Blair moved to add to the first section
•provision that no intoxicating liquors,
lues or beer shall bo s old to be usod as a
■everago within the limits of tho exposition
B ounds, ana made a short speech in sup
port os it.
Mr. Butler thought that that was a matter
hich migut safely be loft to the people of
-tncago, and therefore ho moved to lay the
jhnondrnent on J be ,Q ble. His motion was
, tb ° beiug—yeas, 33; nays,
i ho negativs vote was given by Messrs.
. isdi’ Blackburn, Blair, Chandler, Dawoe,
t i eor S°> Hampton. Hoar,
Hints, Plumb and Banders,
tirm AJt wblob . bad boon under considera
rennpfaJf 1 of tho whole was then
acwh^faL 10 £. ho Sentlte . and a voto was
by yens and yeas on tho amend
ut for a fiava, review, The rote resulted;
JUflfning
Y eas 27, nays 25. So the provision remains
in the bill.
The bill was then passed, the vote being:
Y eas 43, navs 13. The negative votes were
given by Messrs. Barbour, Berrv, Black
burn, Cockrell, Coke, George, Hampton,
Morgan, Pugh, Reagan. Vance, Vest and
” althalL A committee of conference on
the disagreeing votes was asked, and Messrs.
Hawley, Far well and Vance were appointed
conferees on the part of the Senate. The
Senate then adjourned,
RANDALLS VACANT PLACES.
Crisp Apt to be Taken from tbe Com
mittee on Elections.
Washington, April 21.—Speaker Reed’s
appointments to succeed the late Repre
sentative Randall on the committees on ap
propriations and on rules are looked for
with universal interest. The democratic
leaders, through Mr. Carlisle have, it is
understood, intimated to him that they
would prefer to have Mr. Outhwaite suc
ceed Mr. Randall on the appropriations
committee, and Mr. Mills succeed Mr. Ran
dall on the committee on rules. It might
be expected that Speaker Reed would
thereon make these appointments, but on
the contrary, he is said to be contemplating
others. In fact, he is said to be about to
take Representative Crisp from the ejections
committee, where he is doing such splendid
work, and give him Mr. Randall’s place
on tbe committee on appropriations, or at
best givo him Mr. Randall’s place on the
committee on rules in spite of the fact that
Mr. Mills was a member of that committee
in the last House. Neither Mr. Mills nor
Mr. Crisp is doing anything in the matter.
Mr. Crisp said to-night that he had no inti
mation from the speaker about it.
PAN-ELECTRIC STOCK.
The Case Brought by J. Harris Rodgers
Dismissed.
Washington, April 2L—ln the district
court in general term to-day a decision was
announced in the celebrated pan-electric
case, otherwise tho case of J. Harris Rodg
ers against ex-Attorney General Garland,
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Ishara G. Harris,
John D. C. Atkins and Casey Young for
dissolution and accounting. The suit was
brought in 1886, and was at that
time sensational. The court held that
the charge of a violation of agree
ment had not beon sustained, the
original agreement having been in effect
carried out; that the allegation of anew
and amended contract being made was not
sustained; that the complainant was not
entitled to an account nor for monoy to be
paid back for the reason that an account
had been taken' and the complainant re
ceived his dividend when paid, and if he had
not been paid enough his remedy was
by an action at law; that all he wa; entitled
to was reconveyance of patents not con
veyed to the Pan-Electric Telephone Com
pany and Pan-Electric Telegraph Company.
The bill would be dismissed, each party to
pay its own costs. It is stated that Rodgers
will probably not take au appeal.
CLAY TON’S ASSASSIN.
The Arkansas Authorities Said to
Know Who He Is.
Washington. April 21.—Clifton Breck
inridge is out in an interview in response to
charges recently made by Arkansas repre
sentatives in republican newspapers, re
hashing the old lies about the murder of
Clayton, with a viewto prejudice the pub
lic before the congressional investigation
which is about to begin. Mr. Breckinridge
says that the statements made in these in
terviews, have been disposed of by the de
cisions of Judges Brewer (lately promoted
to the supreme bench) aud Shiros, and con
tain absolutely nothing new. He also states
for the first time, that he knows that the
authorities of Arkansas knew who the as
sassin of Clayton was, but that they have
deemed it best for prudential reason, to keep
it secret for a time.
A BUBPIOION OF SUICIDE.
Mrs. Willingham Who Eloped from
Atlanta Dies at Washington.
Washington, April 21.—Mrs. Willing
ham, who recently eloped from Atlanta,
died suddenly yesterday and her remains
were sent to her relatives in Macon at 11
o’clock to-night. Representative Blount
and Senator Call made the arrangements
fer the preparation of the body aud for its
shipment under the instructions of a tele
gram from friends in Macon and in Florida.
Uuder the direction of the gentlemen the
remains were laid out at the Belvidere hotel.
There were no mourners except a little girl
said to be the daughter of the deceased.
The mystery thrown around the occurrence
has induced the belief that Mrs. Willingham
took her life.
DUTY ON ALCOHOL. -
""he Failure to Let It In Free Under the
McKinley BUI.
Washington, April 21.—The omission
from the McKinley tariff bill of any pro
visions for freeing alcohol used in the arts
or manufactures excites comment among
those who are most familiar with the high
sounding republican promises to wipe out
the internal revenue taxes. The omission
i3 due to the protest of the treasury depart
ment, whose officials feared that such a pro
vision would interfere very seriously with
the collection of the taxes on other kinds of
spirits.
Caucus of the Democratic Senators.
Washington, April 21.—The caucus of
democratic senators this morning lasted an
hour and was largely attended. It was
stated by Chairman Gorman that tho pro
ceedings were simply iu the nature of a
conference upon tho course of business and
the only action taken was the adoption of a
resolution to appoint a committee to take
charge ot the interests of the minority in
the matter of legislation. The committee
has rot been selected yet
War on the Lard Bill.
Washington, April 21.—The delegations
from the cotton states appointed to-day
representatives who met to-night to take
measures to maintain the fight against the
compound lard bill.
Kincaid Out on Bail.
Washington, April 21.—Charles E.
Kincaid, charged with tho murder of ex-
Representative Taulbeo, wa3 to-day ad
mitted to bail in the sum of $20,000.
Bail was furnished by R. J. VV ynne of
the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, F. A.
Richardson of the Baltimore Sun, D. A.
Winsor, Jr., Young and John Paul Jones,
and Mr. Kincaid was released.
InsDector of Steam V easels.
Washington. April 2L—Tho President
to-day nominated John W. Oast of Vir
ginia, to be supervising inspector of steam
vessels for the Third district.(Yorfoik, \ a).
Bond Acceptances.
Washington. April 21.—Bond offerings
to-day reached $62,200, all of which were
accepted at 138 for i and 108% for 4%*.
A PENSION GRAB BEATEN.
THE HOUSE DEFEATS THE PRIS
ONERS OF WAR SCHEME.
Several Speeches Made Asserting
that Hundreds of Men Were Pris
oners From Choice—The Oklahoma
Government Report Adopted
Money Voted to Strengthen the
Treasury Vaults.
Washington, April 2L—ln tbe House
to-day Mr. Struble of lowa submitted the
conference report on the bill to provide a
temporary government for the territory of
Oklahoma. The bill, as agreed upon, changes
the'boundarios of the proposed territory of
Oklahoma so as to exclude from the territo
rial limits what is known as the Cherokee
outlet. It is provided, however, that as
soon as the Indian claim to this outlet is
extinguished it shall become part
of the territory of Oklahoma, without
further legislation, and that the lands
therein shall be opened to settlement as
other lands in said territory. It is also
provided that jurisdiction to enforce the
laws of the United States in the Cherokee
outlet shall be conferred upon the supreme
and district courts of the territory of Okla
homa. The reading of the report occupied
hours. After a brief discussion aud but
little opposition the report was adopted.
The bill appropriating $333,500 to provide
the necessary vaults and safeguards for the
security of the public money in the custody
of the United States treasury was passed.
The then oalled the committees
in order for motions to suspend the rules
and pass measures on the calendar.
PENSIONS FOR PRISONERS OF WAR.
Mr. Morrill of Kansas, from the commit
tee on invalid pensions, called up the bill to
pension prisoners of war.
Mr. Tarsnoy of Missouri opposed the bill.
He had entered the army at the age of 17
years, had beon stricken down wounded at
Gettysburg and had lain for months in tlie
confederate prisons of Bello Isle aud Ander
sonville. But he, nevertheless, declared
that this bill was a most vicious propo
sition. It drew no line between the meri
torious and unmeritorious soldier, or rather
it discriminated against the brave and more
deserving soldiers who fought for their
oouatry and in favor of those who were
picked up as stragglers. The bill was an
inducement to soldiers to surrender. It told
the soldier to surrender, to get safely into
an enemy’s prison and after tbe war receive
his reward. All men in uniform were not
soldiers; all of the prisoners were not there
through zeal. Many—a large proportion—
were put in prison because they were capt
ured after leaving their commands, or
while evadiDg their duty.
CUMMINGS ALSO OPPOSES IT.
Mr. Cummings of New York said that if
a bill could be drawn which would give to
deserving prisoners of war alone a special
pension he would favor it But this bill
took in the lingerer as well as the soldier.
Many a man became a prisoner to escape a
fight, beenuse he felt that he was safer in
prison than alongside his comrades in arms.
He gave as an iliustration the conduct of a
number of soldiers at Bank’s ford, and of a
soldier who had become a prisoner of war
to escape punishment for striking his supe
rior officer. The bill would not wash with
the veterans or with the taxpayer.
Mr. Hopkins of Illinois defended the bill.
It was not so sweeping as had been repre
sented. It limited the beneficiaries to those
who suffered from disability resulting from
confinement. It was the duty of the gov
ernment to care for such men. There might
be individual instances, such as were held
up here, but the prisoners of war as a whole
were a deserving class of men.
Messrs. Boothman of Ohio, Cutcheon of
Michigan, Kennedy of Ohio, and Morse of
Massachusetts advocated the passage of the
bill, the latter maintaining that the men
imprisoned at Ar.dersonville and such hells
on earth suffered more than those in the
ranks. The motion to suspend the rules
and pass the bill was tnen put and defeated,
the vote being yeas 143, nays 78, not the
necessary two-thirds.
Mr. McKinley presented the conference
report on the bill to regulate the sittings of
the United States courts in the district of
South Carolina. The House receded from
its disagreement to the Senate amendments.
The report was adopted, and the House, at
5:10 o’clock, adjourned. The clerk an
nounced that a republican caucus would be
held at 7:30 o’clock this evening.
A BIG SALE IN ALABAMA.
Three Blast Furnaces and Large
Tracts of Land at Auction.
Birmingham, Ala., April 21.—A special
to tho Age-Herald from Huntsville, Ala.,
says: “The largest sale that ever occurred
in this county took place to-day at the court
house door. The properties sold consisted
of three blaßt furnaces at Sheffield, Ala.,
and large tracts of mineral land and min
eral rights in Walker, Winston, Fayette and
Marion counties, Alabama, consisting of
about 70,000 acres, which were bought by
Napoleon Hill of Memphis, Tenn., for $350,-
000; also 5,000 acres of mineral land and
mineral rights, and coking coal lands in
Walker and Jefferson counties, Alabama,
which were bought by J. C. Neely of Mem
phis, Tenn., for $115,000.
SOLD UNDER A MORTGAGE.
“These properties were sold to satisfy a
mortgage of the Central Trust Compauy of
New Y'ork. made to secure $140,000 of bonds
of the Sheffield and Birmingham Coal and
Iron Railway Company, of which $1,398,-
000 with coupons attached remains unpaid.
The railway part of the property, consisting
of the Birmingham and Sheffield railway,
was not included in the sale, having been
separated from tbe other properties of the
compauy as not being subject to its debts."
A RAILROAD STRIKE AVERTED.
Ooneultations at Fittsourg Result In a
Compromise.
Pittsburg, April 21.— The consultation
of Grand Master Wilkinson with the rail
roads to-night has not beon without result,
and an amicable settlement is announced of
tbe long threatened railroad strike. Con
cessions are being made on both sides, though
the result of the meetings will not be known
until to-morrow, nor will tho oxact wages
paid tho men be known. Thoy say they
are satisfied, and one road after the other
agrees to the terms of the men to-night,
though no figures will positively be given
until to-morrow. The Pennsylvania lines
have led the others in offering a compro
mise to the men, and the other roads are
folldwing as rapidly as the committee* of
the men wait on them.
Alliancemen in Politics.
Clay Centre, Kan., April 21.— At a
meeting of the farmers’ alliance of the Fifth
congressional district it was determined to
put up a candidate In opDosition to Hon.
John A. Anderson, the preeent incumbent.
Eight of the ten counties in the district were
represented, of which seven were bitterly
hostile to Representative Anderson, not
withstanding that he has always claimed to
be the farmers’ candidate,
SAVANNAH, GA.,.TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1890.
SUFFERERS BY THE FLOOD.
A Deplorable Situation in Bt. James
and Ascension Parishes.
Washington, April 2L—Socretary Proc
tor has transmitted to the House the report
of Quartermaster General Robinson in re
gard to the condition of affairs in the over
flowed district of St. James and Ascension
parishes, Louisiana. Gen. Robinson says
that in pursuance to orders he went to
Whitehall and Convent, St. James parish.
Convent is at the lower edge of the great
Nita crevasse; Whitehall, above it. is
further hack in the vdUey. Below, at Con
vent, except near the levees, everything is
flooded for about ten miles down and far
back of the same at intervals above the
crevasse toward Whitehall and for five
miles.
A DEPLORABLE SITUATION.
He say 9 the situation is deplorable, and
hundreds of planters have lost their crops,
while thousands of laborers will soon be
thrown out of employment. At Grande
Point, where there were probably sixty to
seventy families, the people escaoed in
skiffs, and the whole precinct is" under
water. Opposite the levee break at Nita
numerous poor whites and colored people
lost all but their lives. He recommends in
stant action tending to the relief of the
sufferers by the United States. There is
liable to be in St. James, St. John and
Ascension parishes a total of 5,000 persons
destitute within a month.
A RISE AT NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, April 21.—A brisk east
southeast gale acoompamed by a drizzling
rain, and occasional showers set iu lost mid
night aud continued until 6 o’clock to-night,
causing a high tide along the gulf shore
and a rise of si* inches in the river at the
head of Caual street, the reading at 1 o’clock
last night being fifteen feet eight-tontbs,
and at noon to-day sixteen feet
three-tenths, sinoe which time there has
been no apparent change. Tbe gale
has also carried the gulf water through
Lake Borgne and Mississippi sound entirely
over the Louisville and Nashville railroad
track iu many places between Tichon aud
Lookout station, causing washouts between
the 17 and 18-inile posts, and delaving all
trains. The weather is still unsettled, but
the wind has abated somewhat, and Supt.
Marshall thinks they will be able to repair
the damage, and send out mail trains to
morrow.
A LEVEE GIVES WAY.
About noon to-day a levee gave away
just above tbe sugar house on T. H. Wilkin
son’s myrtle grove plantation. In twenty
minutes the break was said to be fifty feet
wide, and the water was pouring through
in an irresistible torrent. The levee at that
point is some thirty miles below the city.
The right bank was pretty high, and much
damage will result from the crevasse.
A draw on the south end of the north
eastern railroad bridge across Lake Pont
charti ain, which was so badly damaged
Saturday evening as to cause an entire sus
eension of traffic for nearly thirty-six
ours, has been repaired and the movement
of trains over it has beau resumed.
BAYOU SARA INVADED*
The Times-Democrat'* Bayou Sara
special says: “After a most bero'ic struggle
to save our city from the flood, we had to
surrender to the great father of waters at
12:30 o’clock this morning. At that hour
the guards reported that the levee had
given way at the foot of Fountain
street. A general alarm was
sounded and ;the people responded
promptly to the call. This break was
closed, but on examination it was found
that the rising river was running over the
front levees. All that human efforts
could do had been done, and at
last the solemn cry went up all
along the line: “Give us men; we are
gone,” and then the confusion of the people
can be better imagined than described.
Every impromptu boat and raft was
brought into requisiflon. Lanterns could
bo seen everywhere, aud the cries of men,
women and children attempting to save
their effects were heard.
NOT A HOUSE ESCAPES.
“Not a house in town has escaped. The
beautiful Fischer building, the home of
Mayor Irvine, supposed to be the highest, is
deluged. Our town is in ruins. Nothing
lut chaos and destruction meet the eye
at every view. To-day it is rain
ing hard, which makes the picture
more gloomy. The water is also running
over a large extent of Pointe Coupe from
the Taylor levee, which has given way, and
the Fanny Poor crevasse will probably
prove a very serious matter. The large
levees, from last accounts, are intact, but
things look critical."
STRIKE OF THE CARPENTERS.
No Progress Toward a Settlement
Made at Chicago.
Chicago, April 21.—N0 progress was
made toward a settlement of the carpen
ters’ strike to-day; iu fact a settlement
seems further off than ever. It was under
stood that as soon as the new Master Car
penters’ Association should become strong
enough to give employment to 4,000 men
work by that number would be resumed.
The leaders of the strikers now say that
they talked with the new organiza
tion as a matter of courtesy, but
that in no event will any of the strikers be
allowed to return to work until bosses
representing seven-eighths of the employing
capacity of the city have given in and
recognized the union. It is not probable
that this will ,be done soon. The citizens’
committee, which was appointed to
bring about a settlement of the
trou ole, was to have met a com
mittee of the employing carpenters
for the purpose of talking tbe matter over
this afternoon, but their conference was
given up under circumstances which point
to failure to effect anything in that direc
tion.
CAPT. COUCH DEAD.
A Party Organized to Lynch the Man
Who Shot Him.
Guthrie., I. TANARUS., April 21.—Capt Couch,
an old pioneer and widely known as the
organizer of the Oklahoma movement, died
this morning at 3 o’clock. His death was
the result of a wound inflicted by J. C.
Adams, with a Winchester rill->, April 4.
When it became known that Capt. Couch
could not live twenty-four hours a party
was organized to lynch Adams. United
States Marshal Walker was informed of
this, and yesterday boarded a train with
the prisoner for Wichita. He was placed
in jail there. Chpt Couoh was widely re
spected.
Fired a Bullet Into Hie Heart.
Birmingham, Ala., April 21.—A special
from Starkville, Miss., to the Age-Herald
says that T. F. Wilson, secretary of tbe
agricultural oollege there, committed sui
cide by shooting himself through the heart.
No cause can be imagined for the deed. He
leaves a wife and two children.
Express Employes Resign.
Chicago, Agril 21.— Several of the dis
satisfied employes of the United States Ex
press Company tendered their resignations
to-day.
LAND BUYING IN ERIN.
PARNELL MOVES THE REJECTION
OF BALFOUR’S BILL.
A Declaration that it Don’t Carry Out
What it Proposee-Tho Guarantees
Illusory and Insufficient The
Amount of Money Provided For
Only a Quarter of What Would be
Needed.
London, April 21.— 1 u the House of Com
mons to-day Mr. Parnell moved that the
Irish laud purchase bill be rejected by the
House. Speaking iu support of his motion
he said that the measure justified the claims
of the nationalists mods nine years ago.
He welcomed Secretary Balfour as the
latest recruit to the rank| of the land re
formers. While accepting tbe government’s
recognition of the principle of laud for the
people Mr. Parnell declared that he
be oould not admit that the
bill was a satisfactory solution of
the land question. ’ The initial
question would show how far tho British
taxpayers would go in lending credit to
their Irish landlords. The experience gained
by tho discussion of Mr. Gladstone’s land
bill in 1888 showed that the taxpayer would
not go far enough to finally settle the laud
difficulty. The present bill was meant
simply to enable one-ninth of the owners of
land in Ireland, this being the larger
absentee landlords, to sell out at exorbitant
prices, leaving their poorer resident breth
ren in the lurch.
WHAT IT AMOUNTS TO.
“I assume that he will only have to deal
with 55 per cent, of the area of his estate.
That reduction amounts to £16,100 yearly.
He has then left on the security funds Sec
retary Balfour’s proposed twenty j ears’
purchase, or £330. You may treat this
either as a permanent loan or as a sinking
fund. I prefer to treat it os a
loan. The new income then will
be £3l, with a sinking fund,
against £27 10s. under Secretary Balfour’s
system. Without a sinking fund it would
amount to £34 10s, or a loss of only 13%
per cent, on the original income of £4O, in
stead of a loss of 32% per cent under Secre
tary Balfour’s scheme. In such a typical
case Secretary Balfour says he requires
£2,000 to settle the question. I only require
£330. That is, with this system you only
require one-sixth of the sum that Secretary
Baifour requires in order to secure a re
duction of 30 per cent, iu cases where, under
the purchase system, you only secure a re
duction of 20 per cent.”
EXHAUSTED IRISH CREDIT.
Mr. Parnell objected to the bill on the
ground that it did not provide for carrying
out what it proposed, while it exhausted
the only Irish credit available. The bill,
he declared, was unsafe to the imperial
taxpayers, the guarantees and counter
guara itees it provided beiug illusory aud
insufficient. According to Secretary Bal
four’s figures relief would be provided for
only three-fourths of the tenants. Air.
Parnell further objected t> the bill
because it would exhaust Irish credit with
out tbe consent of the Irish, and
without any local co i trol in the applica
tion of the money to be distributed under
the provisions of the bill. Again, while
coeroion is applied as it is now, a tenant
can never be a free agent. The bill did not
deal with the congested districts. His own
proposal, he said, was the same that he
made in 1841, with a few modifications.
Dealing with tbe insufficiency of the bill,
Mr. Parnell said that the land question was
not so large as many people supposed, but
they could make it large by the method of
purchase proposed. If adopted, the bill
must make the question a larger question.
PRINCIPLE OF THE BILL.
The principle of the bill was to buy whole
estates and £40,000,009 was a ridiculously
inadequate sum for the purpose. Ireland
contained 14,000,000 acres of land, the poor
law valuation of which was £9,000,000,
amounting at 18% years’ purchase to £166,-
500,000, which amount would bo necessary
to provide a solution of the land question.
Otuerwise three-quariers of the question
would bo left untouched. Nine-tenths of
the landlords would have no prospect except
to continue strite with the tenants trying
to obtain tbe same treatment as the favored
minority.
Continuing, Mr. Parnell said the true test
of the worth of the guarantees provided
would be for Mr. Goschen to take them to
the London market, and try what he could
realize upon them.
MUST EFFECT A SETTLEMENT.
“The securities,” he said, “cannot be real
unless they effect a complete settlement of
the question under local authority. Other
wise tbe bill is a parody on a land purchase
and a swindle oa the English taxpayer.
[Cbeers.l If you adopt the limit
of tenants not exceeding a £SO
valuation, you reduce the amount
needed to 55 per cent, of the sum men
tioned in the bill. Secretary Balfour pro
poses to give tho landlords so many years’
purchase for reducing the reals of judicial
tenants to a satisfactory standard. Tiie
landlord may use the money so obtained to
pay off the most oaerous incumbrance*,
thus effacing heavy arrears of inter
est, while the tenants will get the
30 per cent, reduction they clamor for,
without which peaceable agrarian relations
are impossible. [Hear! hear!] In a typical
case a landlord at £IOO pounds yearly who
is encumbered to the extent of £I,OOO is left
under the best conditions under this bill
with his present income of £4O reduced to
£27 10s. Under my proposal he gives a re
duction of 30 par cent, on £55 worth of the
net annual value of his estate.
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS.
London, April 22, 4 a. m.— The Tele
graph, commenting on Mr. Parnell’s speech
in the House of Commons last night, says
that eve o in his most frigid and unimpas
sioned moments Mr. Parnell has seldom
spoken in a more formal and perfunctory
manner.
Tho Chronicle says that Mr. Parnell
must have felt himself in a cleft stick.
Both papers consider that the alternative
proposed by him was not intended seriously.
The Daily News says: “Mr. Parnell’s
plan will doubtless receive the attention it
deserves, but the landlord will be unusually
far sighted if ha voluntarily agrees ou any
conditions to further lowering of judicial
rents.”
T o Times says that Mr. Parnell was so
occupied with his new bantling that he
failed to draw a serious indictment against
Secretary Balfour’s bill.
The Standard says: “Mr. Parnell has
done the government one ot those services
that onlv a bitter enemy can render. Not
only bas his attack failed, but he has car
ried confusion into the ranks of his own
friends.”
Messrs. Hartington, Dillon, Gladstone
and Randolph Churchill listened to Mr.
Parnell's speech.
Air. Gladstone will speak Thursday.
(Speaker Peel is ill with varicose veins.
The Parnellite are divided in their opin
ions on Mr. Parnell’s motion. They think
an explanation is necessary.
Lost With Fifteen Lives.
London, April 21. —The steamer Billsoa,
from Grimsby, April 8, for London, has
been lost in the North sea. Fifteen persons
were drowsed.
TO BE TALKED TO DEATH.
; The Budget Debate In the Reicbsrath
to Brin? Out 1,490 Speeches.
Vienna, April 21.—1n the Reicbsrath
to-day notice was given of 1,490 speeches to
be made during the budget debate. Count
von Taate explained that when he under
took to form a cabinet ho was charged to
reconcile the German* and Czechs. That,
he said, was not anew idea of the emper
or's. He hoped soon to meet with entire
success, and in the meantime he appealed
to the source to curtail the debate.
BARBAROUS WAR IN DAHOMEY.
Both Natives and French Behead
Prisoners.
Paris, April 21.—The Gaulois says that
the Dahomians have made two vigorous as
saults upon the French positions in Da
homey. Four French soldiers at the out
posts were captured and beheaded. The
French retaliated upon the Dahomians by
beheading five of the female warriors of
the king, who had been captured.
Gorman Shoemakers Strike.
Berlin, April 21.—Seven hundred shoe
makers at Frankfort have struck for higher
wages. A general striko of the shoemakers
has been decided upon.
Sixteen thousand Berlin shoemakers have
struck. They demand a working day of
ten hours and wages of not less than Id
marks per week.
Russian Ministers Resign.
St. Petersburg, April 21—Count Mark
off, assistant minister of justice, has
resigned his office nnd the resignation of
Count Manassein, minister of justice, is ex
pected daily. This is the result of difficul
ties encountered in executing reforms pro
posed by Count Tolstoi.
Rise of the Darling
Sydney, N. B. W., April 21.—The Dar
ling river is still rising. A large expanse of
country is flooded. Several buildings in the
submerged town of Bourke have collapsed.
Hundreds of the inhabitants have takeu
refuge In the railway depot, custom house
and postofflee, which are protected by dams.
Socialists Renounced.
Berlin, April 21.—Delegates of the
Rhenish and Westphalian miners held a
meeting to-day and adopted resolutions
denouncing connection with socialists and
favoring the formation of anew union on a
Christian and patriotic basis.
Austrian Miners Strike.
Vienna, April 21.—The minersof the lead
and copper mines at Bleiberg have gone out
on a strike.
The Wittkowitz miners and some other
strikers have resumed work unconditional
ly. The strike is collapsing.
A Swarm of Bpies Dismissed.
Constantinople, April 21.—The sultan
has dismissed a swarm of palace spies, thus
saving £IO,OOO yearly, and he will reorgan
ize the intelligence department on a better
footing.
Viva Serpa Pinto.
Lisbon, April 21.—Threatening groups
paraded the streets last evening crying,
‘‘Viva Serpa Pinto!” The British consul
ate is guarded by police. So far there has
been no disturbances.
Caravans May Pass.
Zanzibar, April 21. —Owing to the repre
sentation by British Consul Weissman, the
decree forbidding the passage of caravans
through the country behind Tanga and
Pangani has heen withdrawn.
Sentenced to be Bhot.
St. Petersburg, April 21.—1 tis stated
that Col. Schmidt, who sold the plans of the
Cronstadt fortress, has been sentenced to be
shot.
Irish Spinners Strike.
Dublin, April 21.—Two thousand spin
ners at Newry have struck for higher
wages.
Gladstone Dlnea with Americans.
London, April 21.—Mr. Gladstone dined
at the Grand hotel this evening with several
American friends.
A Strike at Cork.
Cork, April 21.—The carrying trade is
paralyzed, owing to a strike of the shipping
and railway men.
The Kaiser at Bremen.
Berlin, April 21.—Emperor William
arrived at Bremen to-day, where a round
of festivities was held.
Ponsonby Estate Evictions.
Dublin, April 2L—Evictions on the Pon
sonby estate have been resumed. Fourteen
families have been evicted.
AN ARBITRATION AGREEMENT.
An Effort to be Made to End the
Strike at Indianapolis.
Indianapolis, April 21—This afternoon
Mayor Sullivan sent letters to the striking
carpenters’ union stating that the welfare
of the city required an arbitration of the
present eight-hour trouble. Ho asked it to
appoint a committee to confer at his office
with a like committee from the contractor's
association. The utiion readily con
sented to do this and to-nignt the
contractors and b;wses appointed their com
mittee with power to act and to meet the
carpenters’ committee. To-morrow after
noon these committees will attempt to
arbitrate the existing difficulty. There are
but few non-union carpenters in the
city, and this work is almost
at a standstill. About 500 men are out.
AN INMAN STEAMER SEIZED.
She Bogan Unloading Without the
Custom House Permit.
Ni:v York, April 21. —The Inman line
steamor City of Berlin arrived here yester
day and in the hurry to get her unloaded
work was commenced this morning before
a permit was obtained from the custom
house. Two of Surveyor Lyons’ inspectors
were present but they allowed the work to
go on. A largo amount of the cargo
bad been taken off before the cus
tom house authorities discovered it,
wi en they forbade further discharge of the
vessel’s contents. The agents of toe line
were summoned to the custom house, and
the in-pector suspended. Tne penalty for
this t flense is forfeiture of the goods and a
heavy fine. The vessel will be detained till
the case is settled.
Apalachicola's Military Pete.
Apalachicola, Fla., April 21.—The
Frankllc. County Guards are the pride of
the city. A fair given at the opera house
last week by the enterprising ladies of this
place resulted in a benefit of $241 10, which
is intended to be used for uniforming the
comps iv. At an election of officers last
week feobert Knickermver was made
cantaiu and Fs B. Wakefield first lieuten
ant.
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I’AN-AMERICANS GO BACK
THE TRIP THROUGH THE 80UrE£
ABANDONED.
Only Two Delegates and Ten or Fif
teen Attaches With the Special
Train When it Reached Richmond.
Secretary Blaine Didn’t Think it
Worth While to Spend SIO,OOO on
Bo Small a Party.
Washington, April 21.—The Secretary
of State this morning telegraphed Capfc.
Bourke, who is in charge of the special
train that was carrying the pan-Americana
on their southern tour, to return to Wash
ington from Richmond. This was dona
because so few of the delegates desired to
make the excursion. Thirteen of tha
foreign delegate* accopted tne invitation,
but only two of them— Uartinez-Silva oC
Columbia and Mr. Zaqarra of Peru—loft
Washington with the party.
letters of regret.
The others sent 1 tters of rogret, giving
various reasons for withdrawing their ac
ceptances. Some of them were detained by
important business; sime were called to
New York by telegraph; others had decided
to sail at onco for their homes, and the rest
were ill or too tired to make the journey.
Several promised to join the excursion all
Richmond to-day, but were unable to do so,
and the Secretary < f State deck.'* 1 that th®
number of these going would not justify tha
expense of the journey, which would cost as
much as if the entire conference tiad gone.
The whole outlay would probably have been
SIO,OOO.
BLAINE'S REGRETS.
The secretary said to-night that he sin
cerely regretted that the commercial or
ganizations and citizens of the south, who
had made preparations to entertain tha
delegates, bad to be disappointed, but felß
that they would appreciate the circum
stances which compelled the abandonment
of the excursion. The foreign delegate*
have now been in this country for seven
months, nnd some of thorn even longer, and
are anxious to return to their homes a*
soon os possible. They are grateful for tha
hospitality extended them, aid very much
regret that they cannot accept it.
BLAINE FEELS TROUBLED.
Secretary Blaine is really troubled by tha
collapse of the southern tour of the pan-
American conference. He sees that it lay*
the state department open to disagreeable
criticism, if not to charges of bod faith
with the southern communities whose in
vitations were acoepted. But he can't help
himself. The pan-Americans have had
enough and they want to get home. Most!
of them are tired of this country and many
of them are tired of Blaine and anxious to
get out from his protecting care as speedily
as possible. His abrupt manner of bringing
about a final agreement on the anti-couqueet>
resolutions and a final adjournment was
the last straw for their weary backs. They
get some satisfaction out of an almost
unanimous withdrawal from the trip.
THE DAT AT RICHMOND.
Richmond, Va„ April 21.—After a day
spent in the enjoyment of the free, open
hearted hospitality of the people of Rich
mond, the pan-American excursionist*
found, on their return to the train this
evening, instructions awaiting those in
charge to abandon the excursion and re
turn to Washington. When the train left
the national capital Saturday night it was
pretty bard to find a delegate to the late
conference on board and two only jour
neyed as far as Richmond. It was ex
pected, however, that a re-onforcement of
six delegates would join the party here, but
advices received from Washington announc
ing the abandonment of the southern tour
stated that these delegates had decided not
not to made the trip, and it was deemed best
to discontinue the journey. With the two
delegates were ten or fifteen attaches and
instructions were received by Capt. Bourke,
who is in charge of the party, authorizing
him to secure a Pullman car to be attached
to the regular train to curry such member*
of the excursion as desired to proceed south.
Those not desiring to accept this
offer wero to be tendered an escort back
to Washington. The foreign delegates
and foreign secretaries upon learning
the situation left the train and had their
baggage removed. All of them will remain
here to-night. To-morrow some of them
will continue southward, with New Orleans
as their objective point, and others will re
turn to W ashington.
A MAGNIFICENT RECEPTION.
The reception given the visitors by the
citizens of Richmond gave them substantial
evidence of the generous hospitality they
might have expected throughout their
journey had it not been cut short at its very
beginning. In the words of one of the dele
gates who summarized the day’s experi
ences on his return to the train, it was: “A
splendid day, a beautiful city and a mag
nificent hospitality.”
On leaving the train this morning th
party was driven to various places of Inter
est in the old part of the town. The sighl
of Libby prison and the house of Mary Eliza
beth Van Lew who, during the war per
formed efficient service to the union cause
as a spy for Oens. Grant and Butler, were
first visited. Two American flags were fly
ing from the windows of tho Van Lew
homestead.
A PANORAMIC VIEW.
From the hights along the James river a
panoramic view of the city was secured,and
soon afterward the party stood in the little
old church in which Patrick Henry
thundered to the house of burgesses his cry
for liberty or death.
The house of Jefferson Davis, now used as
a school, was passed, and in the studio of
Edward 8. Valentine a partly finished
statue of Htouewall Jackson was shown.
The visitors then found much to interest
them in one of Richmond’s chief industries,
cigarette and tobacco manufacturing.
Large numbers of negroes singing religious
hyuin3 as they worked kept the party listen,
iug for some time.
In the old state bouse, used by the con
federate congress during the war. Gov.
McKinney and Mayor Ellyson welcomed
them, and subsequently joined them at a
lunch at tho Westmoreland Club, given by
leading citizens of Richmond.
The drive through the residence Dart of
the town lasted until dusk, and it was 7
o’clock when tho party reached the train,
and learned of the abandonment of the
tour.
The pan-American train left here for
Washington at 10:10 o’clock to-night. Sev
eral of the party remained over and will
leave for a southern trip on their own ao
count.
Arguments in the Holmes Case.
Romb, Ga., April 21.—Argument began
in the Holmes case this morning. Two
speeches were made in the forenoon and two
in the afternoon. Judge Branham will
speak for the defense in the morning. Hon.
Nathaniel Hammond will close for the
prosecution. A great crowd of ladies filled
the court room to-day.
Death of a Conductor.
Augusta, Ga., April 21.—Capt. J
Purcell, for years a conductor on the Geor>
gia railroad, died to-night after a long
illness,
