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( THE MORNING NEWS, 1
j ESTABi.ISHED 1350. iNCOmPOHATID 1888. V
j J. H. ESTILL, President. j
DIXIE'S BRAINY EDITORS.
the southern press associa
tion IN CONVENTION.
A Resolution in Opposition to Gov
ernment Telegraphy Unanimously-
Adopted— lmprovement of the Mis
sissippi River at Government Ex
pense Favored Editor Watterson
Dol.vers His Lecture on Money and
Morals.
Charleston, S. C., April 30.—At a meet
ing of the Southern Press Association here
to-day the following resolution was intro
duced by Hon. Patrick Walsh of the Au
gusta Chronicle, and unanimously adopted:
Whereas, A measure is pending in congress
making the government a party to a general
telegraph scheme: and
Wuereas, This is a dangerous departure from
the principles of democratic-republican gov
ernment, as defined by Jefferson, which are best
calculated to protect life and property, secure
the liberties of the people and promote the wel
fare of the citizen; and
Whereas. The tendency to centralization in
the administration of the government and in
crease of office-holders ought to be checked;
and
Whereas, To make the handling of the tele
graphic business of the newspapers of the
United States dependent on the good-will of
employes subject to party controi would be an
ringement of the liberty of the press and
subversive of the best interests of the people;
therefore, be it
Resolved, That we, the members of the
Southern Press Association, earnestly request
our senators and representatives in congress to
use their best endeavors to secure repeal of this
iniquitious measure.
Remlvtd, That this action be communicated
to the senators and representatives by the
president and secretary.
IMPROVEMENT OFfTHE MISSISSIPPI.
L. D. Pool of the New Orleans Times-
Democrat introduced the following resolu
tion relative to government improvement
of the Mississippi river, which was adopted
after some discussion:
Resolved, That it is the sense of the members
of the Southern Press Association that the main
tenance of an efficient system of levees on the
Jlississipl river is a matter of national concern,
and that the government should take the neces
sary steps to build and sustain such a system.
Experience has shown that the people living
along the banks of the river are unable to bear
the burden of taxation necessary to support
such a system, and it is not right that they
should be required to do so. The Mississippi is
essentially a national river, and its tloods
should be restrained by the national govern
ment.
AN ADDRESS BY WATTERSON.
Henry Watterson delivered an address
this evening before the Southern Pross As
sociation and South Carolina Press Associa
tion. There was a large audience present
and he met with an enthusiastic reception.
Mr. Watterson’s subject was “Money and
Morals.” He dwelt on the uses and abuses
of money, which he said is a good thing if
honestly obtained, and still better if honest
ly applied, but full of illusions and delusions,
and, like things all else in life, except love
and duty, purely relative. “Yes,” be said,
money is very relative. A man with
810,000,000 cuts a poor figure by a man who
has 8-00,000,000 or $300,000,000, whilst a
man who has merely $1,000,000 is, in the es
timation of those kind of men, a pauper. A
man who has SIOO,OOO income and $150,000
of wants is worse off than a man who has
nothing and w ants his dinner.
NEW YORK’S NABOBS.
“There are men who try to eke out a
scanty livelihood on $50,000 a year in New
York, who, discounting the difference be
tween the cost of living there and in
Charleston, are unable to conceive how any
man can subsist here on less than $25,000.
Yet 1 have a suspicion that 1 might, with a
search warrant, find here a few who by
close economy make ends meet on half that
sum. The nation’s real danger is its
besetting sin. What; is the chief
trouble with us? Is it failure of
methods end processes of municipal gov
ernment that is the serious menace to our
ce tors of population, but hardly far reach
ing enough to bode national ruin? Is it the
race question at the south? That constitutes
a great trial to people there. Its true solu
tion the wisest have not been able to com
pass. Its finality the most sagacious cannot
see. I know so much about it that I long
ugo ceased to have a theory.
ELEVATION AND EDUCATION.
“My hope and faith are embarked in the
gradual elevation and education of both
races, and a sublime trust in God, who can
raise up as he has cast down, and who
doeth all things well. Is it the labor ques
tion, the social question, the question of
fair elections? Not organically. In the dem
ocratic republic, where ail is open to
every man, there ought to be no motive or
occasion for any general resort to combus
tible agencies and revolutionary expedients.
Left to the legitimate operation of
our electoral and representative ma
chinery, those questions ought to
settle themselves. The poorest babe has
the same chauco of becoming a President
as the richest. Gararianism has no place
here. We may safely leave the result.under
God, with that noiseless snow-fall of ballots
which soon or late will swallow up the po
litical organization that is persistently, con
sciously faithless to its duty.
THE TARIFF ISSUE.
“Someone may ask whether the greatest
evil that threatens us is not the tariff. Well,
my friends, that old sinner has been sinning
a long time,’l admit, and he is a very tough
citizen in the bargain. He has grown rich
and proud, and wears a mighty ruffle to his
shirt and a great watch fob dangling
by his capacious stomach. He
makes himself exceedingly active
and aggravating about election time,
and at all times, more or less, self-compla
cent and boastful, blind of one eye and deaf
of one year, though seeing more
and knowing more than • is good
fi r anybody to see, and whilst to the other
half it were best forgotten. But Ido not
despair, even of our delightful, audacious
old friend, high tariff. Ho has ha<la good
deal of fat fried out of him lately, and is
not nearly so stout as he was.
COQUETTING WITH THE STAR-EYED GODDESS
‘‘l know what I am talking about when I
tell you that he has recently been caught
taking more than one furtive look into the
sweet face of that star-eyed divinity who
has from the first stretched out her bands
to save and not hurt him; and I have
thought I observed upon those stern, iron
clad features of his a certain pleased ex
pression, if not actual Bmirk. lam not in
the least afraid of the tariff. That will
come round all right, and meanwhile, no
matter how high you t uild it, I can live
under it and enjoy myself as long and as
much as the rest can. I am
afraid of no single political issue
at this moment. Speaking as a philosopher
and in a historic spirit, the present stock in
trade of boih our parties make! up a sum
total of what I call very small politics.
here has never i eea a period in the his
tory of the country when there was less to
apprehend from the drift and tonor of cur
tout partisan contention.
trxfi.es light as air.
lin-hT* 19 c '* !r, ' ronces that disturb us are trifles
a , s . air compared with the dangers and
nicultics that'disturbed our grandfathers
Ul ? r fathers, and those of us who are old
j-JJ*; 110 remember the times that did in*
,'. trjr l , UCil ’' i souls. I have in my own
, seen fe o federal union, not too strongly
f t together in the first place, come out of
Ibe Jlofning
a great war of sections with its vitality in
vigorated and renewed; its credit rehabili
tated and enlarged; its resources augmented;
its power increased; its honor intact, and
its flag Hying over 60,000,000 of God-fearing
men and women, thoroughly reconciled and
homogeneous. I have seen the constitution
outlast the strain, not merely of the recon
structory ordeal and presidential impeach
ment, but of the dispute of the count of
an electoral vote, a congressional dead
lock and an extra-constitutional tribunal,
yet standing firm as a rock against the
assaults of its enemies, and finally I saw
the gigantic fabric of the government
passed from hands that had held it for a
quarter of a century to other hinds without
so much as a protest or bloody nose, though
the fight to the finish had been so close that
a blanket might have covered both contest
ants for the chief office.
NOTHING ALARMING NOW.
“He who has seen these things, and who
has borne bis part in the awful responsibili
ties, is not likely to lose mucli sleep about
what is now going on at Washington or
whether Bill Jones’ pension is increased $1
or $1 50 a week, or the duty of slap ups is
altered from 42 specific to 37% ad valorem.
Certainly wo want to be frugal in expendi
tures, just in appropriations and otherwise
careful of the peoples’ money. We want t >
go slow in the matter of new legisla
tion and innovations of every sort.
Both the parties are too evenly
balanced and thfe issues that
divide them arise too much out of questions
of mere expediency, or local or selfish, or
party interest to excite in the minds of
thoughtful people the idea that we shall go
to smash if such and such an act of congress
is or is not carried.
REAL DANGER OF THE COUNTRY.
“The real danger to the country rises
directly from the relation of money to the
moral nature of the people. The money
Btandord becomes most and readiest, and is
found everywhere, from the SIO,OOO a
year pulpit to the SIOO,OOO seat in
the Senate. The trial of the trademark is
over us all. Honorable poverty seems to
be one of the lost arts. Agassiz refused
SIOO,OOO for 100 successive lectures. The
people thought him crazy, but it is to be
regretted that we have not an Agassiz or
two in every community throughout the
land. The genius of the country is no
longer engaged in works of patriotic duty,
imagination, and humble piety, but in the
construction and development in money
making.”
Discussing the union between the two
agents of demoralization and misgovern
ment, that is avarice and intolerance and
lust for money and party spirit, Mr. Wat
terson said he had given the combined force
a name some years ago which had stuck.
He had called it the money devil. This
money devil is the lion across the highway
of our future, and he stands just at the
fork of the roads which lead respect
ively up the bights of national
glory and down into the depths of
plutocracy, which yawn3 before us.
Already it costs $1,000,000 to set a
presidential ticket lu the field; already
SIOO,OOO to sustainfa contest for a seat in the
Senate. How long will it bo before our
publio men become a race of mercenary
princes without the learning or arti of
Florence, and the presidential chair a mere
commodity, to be auctioned off to the
highest bidder. With a standard so high,
and a moral standard so low, it might well
be asked whether there is any hope
for us at all. In thi3 regard,
however, he was an optimist.
He thought there were centuries of great
ness and glory before us. He believed in
moral forces and organized ideas. He was
something of a Methodist in the conceit
that we are steadily going forward from
grace to grace toward perfection.
A WORD TO THE EDITORS.
In closing, Mr. Watterson turned to the
editors and spoke directly and particularly
to them: “And now, dear friends and
brothers in arms, in those arms which
ought to embrace the good and great, the
noble and gentle in our domestic,
personal, and constitutional life, never
to be turned with mailed hand
and hostile spirit against either society or
truth, let me close with a word especially
to you. Go back to your homes and y our
sanctums and teach the people that in
morals, at least, old things are the best.
Standing to this regal city, at once a type
of the splendor and the squalor of the south,
with the tints and travail of antiquity upon
its walls, yet its gardens and the hearts
still turned, t'lank God, uoward to the sun,
I set my foot upon the cant of the ‘new
south’ abcut w hich we have heard so much.
Under this spurious label it is sought to
bring among us the delusive morality of
the quack philanthropist and the swindling
methods of the bucket shop.
BOOMS DENOUNCED.
“Whenever and wherever you see the
‘boomer’ spot him. Tbe ‘boom’ is the devil's
own invention, first to rob the victim of his
money and then the ‘boomer’ of his soul.
Cities are not built by ‘booms’; countries are
not advanced by them. They are the merest
artificial stimulants, compounded of brandy,
printers’ ink and midnight, and as fatal
to the community to which they are ap
plied as a dynamite snell. True prosperity
is diffusion of wealth, cheap homes for the
poor and opportunities for all. If we must
have a ‘new south’ let it be an honest ‘new
south,’ for with all the shortcomings and
mistakes that were ever ascribed to us, our
arrogance, ignorance and barbarism,
we were never accused of picking
a pocket or turning our back
upon an enemy or friend.
Let us stand by all that was good in the
old south, all that was upright in thought
and brave in action, and with our past
behind us alike to warn us and to cheer,
let us turn our face to the future, erect in
the sight of heaven and earth and saying to
mankind, 'Applaud us if we run, console us
if we fail, but let us pass on, for God’s sake
let us pass on.’ ”
A BRILLIANT AUDIENCE.
Mr. Watterson’s address was delivered
at the grand opera house in the presence of
one of the most brilliant audiences ever as
sembled in Charleston. The stage was
decorated with plants and banks of
roses. The distinguished speaker was
greeted throughout the oration with
applause, and the humorous points
of the address convulsed the house with
laughter. After the oration the representa
tives of the press and invited guests attended
a banquet at the Charleston notel. Covers
were laid for 200 people, and the banquet
was the most successful affair known in the
south for many years. The toasts were as
follows:
Mr. Watterson responded to “The orator
of the day.”
Col. W. W. Screws of the Montgomery
Advertiser to the “Press.”
Gen. B. H. Rutledge, to the “Old South
and New South—one and inseparable.”
\V. B. Somerville, to the “Western
Prof. Charles R. Williams of New York,
assistant general manager of the Associated
Press, to the “Associated Pres3.”
Government Bond Purchases.
Washington, April 30.—The bond offer
ings to-day aggregated $719 200. All were
accepted at 123 for 4s, and for 4, ; .j 5.
Decrease of the Public Debt.
Washington, April 30.— 1 t is estimated
that there has been a decrease off I.OW.VW
in the public debt since April L
REPUBLICANS RUN RIOT.
THE WORSTED AND SERVICE PEN
SION BILLS PASSED.
The Democrats Refrain from Voting
on the Tariflf Measure—Mr. Carlisle
Makes a Strong Protest Against the
Cannon-Ball Method of Rushing
Through the Pension Bill.
Washington, April 30.—After the read
ing of the journal this morning, the House
proceeded to vote upon the passage of the
bill for the classification of worsted cloths
as woolen cloths. The bill was passed by a
vote of 138 yeas to 0 nays, the speaker
counting a quorum. The text of the bill is
as follows:
That the Secretary of the Treasury be.and he
is hereby authorized and directed to classify as
woolen cloths all Imports of worsted cloths
whether known under the name of worsted
cloth or under the names of worsteds, or diag
onals, or otherwise.
THE PENSION BILL.
Mr. McKinley, from the committee on
rules, reported a resolution providing for
the immediate consideration of the Senate
service pension bill, to which the Morrill
service pension bill may be added as a sub
stitute, the previous question to be consid
ered as ordered at 4 o’clock.
Mr. Carlisle of Keutucky protested
against the adoption of resolutions of this
character, which took away from com
mittee of the whole the right to consider
many bills, and forced the House to vote
upon them after a brief debate.
THE EXPENDITURE INVOLVED.
It was estimated that the Morrill full in
volved an expenditure of $40,003,000 and
the Senate bill an expenditure of $37,000,000.
One of these bills it was proposed to pass
after three hours debate. It was unfair to
the members of the house. It was not fair
to the taxpayers of the country. The pen
sion estimates were never large enough, and
ho undertook to say that the expenditure
under the Senate bill would amount, to
$45,000,000 and under the house bill to
$50,000,000.
NO GOOD REASON PRESENTED.
Thera was no reason that they should not
be considered under the rules of the House.
What was the reason for this proceeding?
Was it because the gentlemen feared discus
sion? He imagined not, for if they were
meritorious bills, the more discussion there
was the more their merit would appear.
Was it because they feared amendments,
which the gentlemen supposed the soldiers
of the country desired? lie imagined that
this was the real cause. While he would
vote for either bill he did not see any sub
stantial reason why they should not be con
sidered in the usual way.
THE OKLAHOMA BILL.
The Oklahoma bill had been taken out of
committee of the wholo with the previ
ous question ordered upon it. The"same
had teen true of the great court bill. If
this was not a confession that the new code
of rules had failed to facilitate the business
of the House, he did not understand its
meaning. [Applause on the democratic side.]
From this time on he would protest
against this system and insist upon the
rights of the members on both sides to have
opportunity for discussion and amendment,
which overy just code of rules must secure
to them.
Mr. McKinley argued that the resolution
was justified undor the present code of
rules; not only this, but it was justified
by precedents by the House over
which the gentleman from Ken
tucky (Mr. Carlisle) presided. The re
publicans wanted to do the public
business of the country. Talk about con
sidering measures—the democrats considered
and did nothing, the republicans considered
and did something. What the country
wanted was results and not speeches.
[Applause on the republican side.]
THE RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
The resolution was adopted, and Mr.
Morrill of Kansas took tho floor in explana
tion and support of his bill. This act of
justice, he said, had teen too long post
poned. If the government * were
to grant a service pension it
should grant it without delay.
The total number of persons put upon the
pension roll under the provisions of the
bill was estimated at 440,000, at an annual
cost of $39,629,000. The object of the bill
was to render aid to every soldier over 62
years of age, to every disabled soldier with
out regard to age and to the widows of de
oeased soldiers who needed assistance.
Mr. Tarsney of Missouri opposed the bill
because it made no discrimination between
a soltjier who served three months and a
soldier who served three years; because it
made no distinction between disability
arising from service in the army and dis
ability resulting from vicious conduct of
the person to whom the pension was
granted. The pending bill ought not to go
into history as the Morrill bill, but under
the appellation of the immoral bill.
A CANNON BALL SCHEME.
Mr. Spinola criticised the majority for
rushing through a bill involving $42,000,000
with but throe hours’ debate and no oppor
tunity to the minority to offer amend
ments. He attributed it to cowardice. It
was a betrayal of the veterans of the coun
try by the republican party. It was a cun
ning device of the majority to prevent the
members of the minority from offering
amendments for the benefit of the soldiers.
Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio said that this bill
added to the prisoner-of-war bill, and when
it was passed would add 450,000 names to
the pension roll, and would make that roll
950,000. The total expenditure for pen
sions would reach $150,000,000 per annum.
This gross sum amounted to nearly 43 per
cant, of the gross income of the govern
ment. It did not dq all he wished, bat it
resulted in munificent generosity such as
the world had never before witnessed, and
exceeding that of all civilized nations com
bined.
DOWN TO A VOTE.
The debate having ended, the amendment
(agreed to in caucus) was adopted to the
Morrill bill reducing the age from 62 to 60
years of age.
The Morrill bill was agreed to as a substi
tute for the Senate bill, the vote being;
Yeas 183, nays 71.
Mr. Yoder moved to recommit the bill
with instructions to tho committee on in
valid pensions to report bick a per diem
pension bill. The motion to recommit was
lost by a vote of 48 yeas to 101 nays. The
Senate bill, as amended by the substitute,
was then passed, the vote being; Yeas 179,
Days 70. [Loud applause].
EFFECTS OF THE BILL.
The bill authorizes the Secretary of the
Interior to place on the pension roll the
name of any officer or enlisted man of 60
years of age or over, or who shall hereafter
reach that age, nho served ninety days or
more in the army, navy or marine corps of
the United States during the late war, and
shall have received an honorable discharge
therefrom, said pension to continue from
the date of application therefor, and to con
tinue during the life of said or enlisted
man, at the rate of $8 per month. All per
sons who served ninety da vs or more in the
military or naval service of the United
States during the late war, and who have
been honorably discharged therefrom, and
who are now or may hereafter be suffer
ing from mental or physical dis-
SAVANNAH, GA„ THURSDAY MAY 1, 1890.
ability, equivalent to the grade now
established in the pension office for a rating
of $8 per month upon due proof of tho fact,
according to such rules and regulations as
the Secretary of the Interior may provide,
shall be placed upon the list of invalid pen
sioners of the United States at the rate of
$8 per mouth. It also provides fora pension
to the widow of any soldier when she shall
arrive at tho age of 69 years, or when she
shall be without other means of support
than her daily labor.
The House then adjourned.
• SESSION OF THE SENATE.
The Exclusion of Chinese—The Cus
toms Administrative Bill.
Washington, April 30.—1n the Senate
this morning Mr. Dolph, from the com
mittee on foreign relations, reported a con
current resolution requesting the President
to negotiate with the governments of Great
Britain and Mexico with a visw of securing
treaty stipulations for the prevention of the
entry into the United States of Chinese
from Canada and Mexico, and he asked for
its immediate consideration.
Mr. Ingalls—Let it go over and be
printed.
The concurrent resolution went over till
to-morrow, and the Senate resumed consid
eration of the customs administrative bill.
The amendment offered yesterday by Mr.
Dawes, that in cases of tho importation of
books, magazines and periodicals in several
parte, but one declaration of entry shall bo
required. This was agreed to.
APPEALS FROM APPRAISEMENTS.
The amendment offered yesterday by Mr.
Vest, providing that tho general appraiser
who originally acted on the case shall bo
excluded from the board of three general
appraisers, to which an appeal may be
made, was discussed at much length. The
discussion turned largely on the right of an
importer to be represented by counsel be
fore the board of appraisers, Mr. Vest con
tending for that right, and calling atten
tion to tho fact that a sentence in the House
bill which provided for it had been struck
out by tho finance committee.
INTEBPOTATED A PRINCIPLE.
Mr. Allison stated that that the sentence
in the Houso bill was an interpolation of a
principle which had existed since the founda
tion of the government. He said that as a
matter of fact it was tho practice now on
proper occasion to hear counsel and often
to hear counsel at great length, but it
was not regarded as a wise thing
to compel executive officers to open their
offices as if they were public courts, and to
allow counsel to appear and cross-examine
witnesses. He submitted that that would be
so vicious in the city of New York as to
preclude absolutely tho transaction of busi
ness.
THE AMENDMENT DISAGREED TO.
Finally a vote was taken, and Mr. Vest’s
amendment (to exclude from the board of
appraisers the appraiser who had originally
acted on an entry) was disagreed to, tho
vote being: Yeas 20, nays 29 (a party vote
except that Mr. McPherson voted with the
republicans),
Mr. Gray moved to amend tho fifteenth
amendment of the administrative bill by
inserting a provision giving to an importer
who is dissatisfied a. .jght to begin a com
mon law suit in the United States circuit
court.
Without further action the bill was laid
aside, Mr. Gray’s amendment pending.
The Oklahoma bill was corrected as in
dicated in the joint resolution recalling it
from the President, and after an executive
session the Benate adjourned.
FORAKER TOO MUCH FOR THEM.
The Bouse Ballot-Box Committee
Completely Disgusted.
Washington, April 30.—Ex-Gov. For
aker seems to have been trifling with the
House ballot-box committee by sending
witnesses here with a view to delaying tho
report of the committee. The committee
seems to have come to this conclusion, for
to-day it shut off his stream of testimony
shortly after Benjamin Butterworth.had told
the particular hang-dog witness on exami
tion frankly and bluntly, “You’re lying,
and you know you are,” as he reeled off a
story reflecting ou Mr. Butterworth which
Foraker sent him here to tell. This last
witness was more than the patient commit
tee could stand, and it abruptly closed the
investigation.
AS MUCH AS THEY COULD STAND.
As one of the republicans of the commit
tee said afterward: “We have stood ju3t as
much of that Cincinnati scum as we could."
Foraker has hurt himself very much by this
insane course. No other member of the
committee will join Chairman Mason in
the attempt to white wish him. Messrs.
Cogswell and Btruble are likely to sign the
report which Mr. Turner of Georgia will
prepare, setting forth the facts. The com
mittee has given tbo governor until May 15
to prepare his argument, Foraker till May
25 to prepare his defense, and Mr. Grosvenor
until May 30 to prepare his reply to this.
So the reports will not be written till June.
LIMIT OF THE TARIFF DEBATE.
Eleven Days All lhat Speaker Reed
Proposes to Allow.
Washington, April 30.—Five days’ gen
eral debate and six days’ debate under the
five-minuto rule is all that Speaker Reed’s
little steering committee, composed of him
self and Messrs. McKinley and Cannon,
proposes to allow on tho tariff. It is to bo
hurried through the House without delib
eration, like all the other legislation now
being enacted. Of course the democrats
will object and protest, but they can’t resist
the republican majority, dominated and
directed as it now is by Speaker Reed. The
bill will go through tho House very much
as it was reported except for the carpet wool
amendment. The only hope against it is in
the failure of the Reed resolution in thg
Senate. ________________
A CHANGE TO FIGHT BBED.
The Worsted Bill Vote Opens the Way
for a Case in the Courts.
Washington, April 30.—The Star to
night says: “The democrats now iiave a
case that they may go into the supreme
court on to test the constitutionality of the
act of the speaker in counting members
who do not vote to make a quorum. They
refrained from voting on the Dingley
worsted bill, and it was passed by 138
affirmative votes, the speaker counting
a quorum. It is the purpose of the
importers to resist the operation of the bill
if it is passed by the Senate and receives
tbe President’s signature. By taking a test
case to the courts when an attempt is made
to collect the duty imposed on worsted by
the bill, they can carry the question before
the supreme court.”
Georgia Notea at Washington.
Washington, April 30.—Fifty corre
spondents, including tne vine president anil
the secretary of the Gridiron olub, will
leave for Augusta to-morrow morning as
tbe guests of that city.
Representative Stewart addressed tho
Maryland State Temperance Alliance at
Baltimore to-night.
A lady friend of the Willingham family
has taken Mrs. Willingham’s daughter away
from Senator Call’s,
LABOR AND ITS FIGHTS.
CHICAGO CARPENTERS APT TO
RESUME WORK MONDAY.
Committees from the New Associa
tion of Bosses and the Strikers
Agree on All But Two Points, and
They Will be Submitted to Arbitra
tion—The Mayday Outlook.
Chicago, April 30.—The committees of
the new bosses’ association and striking
carpenters met this morning to further
consider the terms of the proposed agree
ment for a resumption of work. At the
close of its session President O’Connell of
the carpenters’ council said that an agree
ment had been reached upon all points of
difference except two, and that it had been
agreed to submit these to arbitration. Each
side will choose a disinterested citizen, and
they will ohoose a third for this purpose.
President O’Connell added that work will
probably be resumed next Monday.
Representative* from all the packing
houses held a consultation to-day, and de
cided that thelre mployos may strike if they
want to. No attention was paid to the de
mand of the packing house laborers’ uniou
for an eight hoar day and 2% cents an hour
increase. Concerning tho demand of the
ooopers asking an eight hour day and agree
ing to a reduction of 19 per cent, in wages,
each employer, however, notified them
through their respective foremen that no
alteration in the working hours will be
granted.
mayday’s PARADE.
To-morrow, Mayday, in Chicago, will in
all probability witness 30,000 workingmen
in line. The demonstration here is in the
eight-hour day causo, and is held under the
joint auspices of the trade assembly and
central labor union. Some of the organ
ized leadors pr edict a turn out of at least
59,000, but i nis is probably beyond the mark.
About 100 trade organizations, it is
understood, will take part in it. Tbe time
for making arrangements for tho parade
has been short, and as most of the organi
zations have had strikes or threatened
strikes to contend with, but little attention
could be paid to the proposed demonstra
tion. However, all o l the organizations
that have held meetings since tbe notice
was sent out have voted to joiu the parade
in a body, and will generally do so. A
largo number of organizations have
taken no official action, but os there will bo
a division for miscellaneous workingmen no
one will be excluded from the ranks because
bis assembly or union is not represented by
its banner. Tho parade will form on the
west side and will march through the down
town streets and to tho lake front. It will
be led by the striking carpenters, about
6,000 strong, with bands and banners, form
ing the first division.
The carpenters’ unions to-night decided
that all the men employed by eight hour
firms Hhould go to work to-morrow and that
he remainder should strike.
PREPARING FOR RIOTS IN GERMANY.
Berlin, April 30.—The government is
taking great precautions to suppress any
disorder that may arise from the calebra
brations to-morrow by workingmen. The
troops in t a various districts in which
trouble ii threatened are being paraded
and put through a course of exer
ciso in the tactics for the sup
pression of rioting. A detachment of
troops around Rotsilam has been supplied
with ball cartridges, which they will use if
called upon to disperse the rioters and meet
with resistance. Railway trains are held
in readiness to instautly convey reinforce
ments of troops to auy point where dis
turbances break out. The Volksblatt, a
workman's paper, says ttie workmen are
determined to act iu a peaceable manner
to-morrow. All attempts to create disor
der, the paper says, will fail.
It is estimated that 25,099 workmen ore
on strike iu Germany.
MILWAUKEE’S CARPENTERS.
Milwaukee, Wis., April 30.—None of
the uniou carpenters in Milwaukee will go
to work to-morrow inorniug before 8
o’clock. The evasive reply of the Contract
ing Carpenters’ association to the demaud
of tho unions for tbe adoption of an eight
hour day left the matter iu an unsettled
aud unsatisfactory condition, and the men
havo concluded to inaugurate anew order
of things without tbeassistauco of their em
ployers. IV here the contractors oppose the
innovation strikes will rosult, but Secretary
Stein of the errpontors’ council says he does
not anticipate a general strike.
HIE DIB CAST AT DETROIT.
Detroit, April 30.— The die in oast and
when the carpenters of the city laid aside
saw, hammer and plane at the close of work
to-day it was to inaugurate a strike to
morrow for an eight-hour work day and
pay at the rato of 30 cents a:i hour. This
ultimatum, which was reached by the car
penters Monday night, was formally sealed
last evening by the action of the builders’
exchange, who refused the demand of the
carpenters as stated above. The master
builders have organized ami adopted a plan
of campaign. About 13,000 carpenters will
go out. It is not thought there will be a
strike In any of the other trades here.
TO STRIKE AT PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia, April 30.—A large and
enthusiastic meeting of union carpenters
was held to-night,at which a determination
to strike to-morrow unless an increase in
wages from 30 to 35 cents an hour is granted
was reaffirmed. It was announced that 500
men employed by different builders in the
city had been granted an increase. There
are about 2,3j0 members of the Brother
hood of Carpenters outside of these, who it
is believed will go on a strike to-morrow if
ordered.
PITTSBURG’S DANGER PASSED.
Pittsburo, April 30.—The threatened
strike hereon all the railroads is over, and
to-night the executive council of the federa
tion of railroaders ordered the men to con
tinue work at the rates offered by the differ
ent companies. These rates are 18 and 19
cents per hour for day and night brakemen
respectively, and 21 and 25 cents for day
mid night conductors. The men are accent
ing the terms, and will soon catch up on the
delayed freight.
TROOPS READY IN SPAIN.
Madrid, April 30.—Troops occupy all the
principal buildings in Valencia. Uneasiness
prevails in the provinces and many families
are leaving their homes. No disorder, how
ever, is expected. The governor has issued
a proclamation calling the attention of the
populace to the penal code and other laws
regulating riots. An anarchist committee
of tuls city has invited the workingmen to
assemble iu the iooal music hall.
BOSTON CARPENTERS TO STRIKE.
Boston, April 30.—The threatened strike
of the union carpenters of Boston for an
eight-hour workday seems inevitable, as
their representatives have been unable to
secure a conference with the bosses. It is
stated that the. employers’ association not
only have refused to Kraut a conference, but
have determined under any circumstances
to force work to nine boars a day.
FORT WAYNE CARPENTERS STRIKE.
Fort Wayne, Ind., April 30. The
master builders of this city yesterday re
fused to grant the demands of the car
penters’ union for a nine-hour working day
with a minimum rate of 25 cents an hour,
and the carpenters inaugurated a strike this
evening. Ail the carpenters in the city
belong to t he union.
CONCESSIONS AT BIRMINGHAM.
Birmingham, Ala., April 30.—The Bir
mingham rolling mills, employing 1,000
men, will start up Monday. The null shut
down in January on a demand by the men
that the union bo recognized, which tbo
company refused, and the men quit work
and have been idle since. Negotiations
havo resulted in mutual concessions. *
MINERS’ STRIKE AT PEORIA.
Peoria, 111., April 30.—About 1,000 coal
miners in thel vicinity of Peoria went out
on a strike to-night for 85 cents a ton.
They have been receiving 72} j cents per
ton. They also ask that the company’s
stores lie abolished. One hundred union
car(>enters and 300 street laborers will strike
for nine hours to-morrow.
HAVANA’S MAY-DAY.
Havana, April 80.—Various trade or
ganizations have petitioned the authorities
to allow a demonstration to-morrow, May
day, and to permit a procession through
the principal streets of the city. Permis
sion lias been granted on condition that the
workmen maintain good order.
TROUBLB AT THE HAGUE.
Tne Hague, April 30.—A meeting of
4,000 workingmen was held to-day in con
nection with the eight-hour movement.
While the meeting was dispersing a col
lision occurred with the police, and several
workingmen were hurt by policemon’s
batons.
AUSTRIA’S ALARM SUBSIDING.
Vienna, April 30.—The alarm is sub
siding. Labor journals enjoin the workmen
to preserve order. The factory operatives
at Koniggratz have decided to work to
morrow.
DEMANDS AT HAMBURG.
Hamburg, April 30. —The Builders’ Union
at a meeting to-day attended by 4,000 per
sons resolved to demand au advance of
5 pfennigs per hour aud a working day of
nine hours.
AMSTERDAM’S PROSPECTS.
Amsterdam, April 30.—The municipal
council bus forbidden a procession on May
day. Tho socialist loaders will deliver
speeches in Plancius halt A strike is con
sidered improbable.
A MASS MEETING AT LISBON.
Lisbon, April 30.—The workingmen of
this city have been summoned to a inass
meeting on Sunday to demand a working
day of eight hours.
PROCESSIONS FORBIDDEN AT LONDON.
London, April 80.—All processions of
workingmen here to-morrow except one
which will be compelled to follow a speci
fied route, have been forbidden.
FRANCK’S PLOTTBR3.
All Tholr Plans Laid for Proclaiming
Duke d' Orleans King.
Paris, April 30. —Tho authorities through
out Franco coutiuue energetic measures to
prevent disturbances to-morrow. The police
continue to arrest anarchists in this city
suspected of beiug connected with the plot
to inaugurate a revolution by means of
dynamite. Among those taken into custody
is a Roumanian named BtojonufT, who is
tho author of a revolutionary placard posted
ab iut the city.
It is rumored that liouiso Michel, the
well-known anarchist, has been arrested at
Lyons.
DUKE DE HTVffES TO BE ARRESTED.
Several of tho Paris papers state that the
Duke de Luynes will be a: rested in conse
quonoe of the discovery by the police at the
residence of the Marquis de Mores of papers
implicating him in the plot of the Marquis
de Mores and his friends to proclaim tho
Duke d’Orleaus king of France. M. Mon
dacq, private secretary to tho Marquis de
Mores, who was arrested on suspicion of be
iug implicated in Die conspiracy, has been
discharged from custody.
An Italian anarchism named Ciphrlanl,
who was arrested for inciting workingmen
to violence, will be expelled from the ooun
trv.
Two cavalry regiments have been sent to
Vincennes from Fontainebleau and Melun.
Tho prefect of the district of tne Rhine
has instructed the mayor of Lyons not to
receive any deputation while disorder pre
vails in the streets. The mayor has, there
fore, closed the town balL
A republican newspaner confirms the re
port that the Marquis de Mores and other
Royalists wore engaged in a plot to place the
Duke of Orleans on the throne of France,
and that a warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Duke de Luynes on a charge of
being implicated in th conspiracy. 'The
paper says the duke has fled to Lausanne.
RECEIVING DEPUTATIONS. *
M. Floquet, president of the Chamber of
Deputies, has instructed tho questors of the
chamber to receive deputations of workmen
who cotno to present their grievances, when
such deputations are composed of m t mi re
than five persons. No deputation from a
street assembly, however, will be re
ceived. In addition to the regular Paris
garrison, which will be held in
their bar.-aekr to-morrow In readiness for
service, eight cavalry regiments have been
placed at the disposal of the governor of
tho city. Ti ese troops will be Btationed at
tho palace of the Elysee, President Carnot’s
residence, the legislative *0 jamher* and at
other points where disorder is likely to
occur. There will be no interruption by
the authorities of street traffic throughout
the city. Meetings of workingmen on the
streets will not be allowed.
One of the anarohlsts arrested yesterday
had in his possession a manifesto, which
shows that he intended with friends to sack
shops and banks. In consequence of this
revelation the number of watchmen in all
the banks has been doublod. The labor ex
change is guarded by police.
Louis Michel and throe other anarchists
were arrested this evening
CONSTANS HAS NO FEAR.
London, May 1, 4 a. m.— Tho Paris cor
respondent of the l imes says that in an in
terview Minister Constans declared that he
had no fear concerning May day. Tho dis
contented, he said, would exhibit their
strength; but so, also, would the larger
party of law abiders, thus facilitating the
task of the government. The minister
continued; “I have ordered tho arrest
of fifty anarchists in Paris and elsewhere.
Louis E. Michel was arrested for incendi
ary speeches at Roanno. Six hundred and
fifty cudgels were found in the house of the
Marquis de Mores, which were Intended to
arm rioters. I shall continue to take
precautions until all danger has
passed. Then I shall take stops to expei
from France 4,000 or 5,000 foreigners who
eudauger the pubiio security. Toleration
has become a crime. I intend to purge the
country witnout delay, it is time to stop
the attempt to start a permanent conflagra
tion among us, which, if it should break
out, would consume the world.”
Revolution In Paraguay.
Buenos Ayres, April 30.—A revolution
has broken out in Paraguay. Several per
sons have been killed aud many wounded.
Telegraphic communication is interrupted,
and the details received are meager.
Egypt’s Cotton Crop.
Cairo, April 30.—Cold weather has de
layed the cotton crop. The plants are
healthy.
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HILTON AND THE WORLD.
INDICTMENTS FOB CRIMINAL,
LIBEL RETURNED.
Joseph Pulitzer, John H. Cockrell,
Julius Chambers and John T. Gra
ham Named by the Grand Jury—A
Peppery Latter from the Judge to
the District Attorney.
New York, April 30.— The grand jury
has handed in indictments against Joseph
Pulitzer, John H. Cockrill, Julius Chambers
and James T. Graham of the New York
World for criminal libel. The indictment
was found on complaint of ex-Judge Hilton.
The World recently published a series of
articles giving a true account, as it alleged,
of ex-Judge Hilton’s connection with A, T.
Stewart’s estate.
The following letter was received by Dis-
Attorcey Fellows from Ex-Judga Henry
Hilton, on the 23rd inst: “I beg to
call attention to a series of libelous articlss
upon the iate Alexander T. Stewart and
upon myself, which appeared in the New
York World from tho 14th to the 19th In
stant. The article;, as will appear on the
most casual inspection, are grossly libelous
on their face, though they consist chiefly in
groundless insinuations, assumptions and
conclusions,and are conspicuously barren of
allegations of fact.
DENIES BEING DISTURBED.
“I have lived too long and had too much
experience of life and been too much accus
tomed to have misrepresentation and abuse
to bo disturbed by the utterances of such
mendacious miscreants and cannot be com
pelled to buy any peace from abuse by
thorn, eithor by the [layment of money or by
advertising in such an infamous sheet, nor
woukl I think of dignifying them by
bringing a civil suit for libel.
Ido not go skunk hunting for pleasure. It
is a game tho capture of which scarcely
repays tho chase. Ik sides, however much
such libelous articles may gratify the
tastes of the envious and vicious, I know
that thoy do not generally influence thq
opinions of decent men, except to inspire
disgust for the writer and publisher of them.
WORLD JOURNALISM.
“The base motive of these articles is quite
apparent to any one who knows anything
of the so-called ’journalism’ practiced by
this paper. Had these articles been confined
to libeling mo I should have treated them
with contemptuous silence, but when they
malign the memory of my dear friend and
benefactor, whose name was a synonym for
high character, perfect integrity and un
questioned personal purity, as well as
matchless sagacity and business success,
when he is held up as the authur of ‘a dark
and secret crime,’ and a man who in
vitod guests to meet his ‘mistresses at
his table’ as ’the pirate of the dry goods
ocean,’ and l know that suoh infamous
libels are not only false, but absolutely
without the slightest foundation in fact, I
owe It to his memory that such shameless
and wanton truduoers —beside whom the
robbers of bis grave wore gentlemen of re
finement and character—should be brought
to answer for their infamous crime at the
bar of public justico.
MAKES HIS EXHIBITS.
“It is with that purpose in view that I
write this letter and send these papers that
you may exhibit these libels to the grand
jury for such action as thoy may deem
proper. I am informed and believe that
the World company Is a corporation; that
Joseph Pulitzer, who Is said to be
to now in Europe, Is tho nomi
nal editor as well ns president
of the corporation; that William L. Davis
is vice president; that John A. Cocksrill.
James F. Graham, Julias Chambers and
Douglas A. Levine are editors of said paper,
and that one Tumor is nominal publisher.
E. D. Harris, who can t e found at No. 281)
Broadway, purchased the papers I send
over the counter of the World company.”
Dolancov Niooil, counsel for the World,
informed Messrs. Graham and Chambers of
the finding of the grand jury, and both
went to the district attorney’s office and
furnished the required bail—sl,ooo each.
Mr. Pulitzer is in Europe, and Mr.
Cockerill is out of town ou a two weeks’
vacation.
BANK DOORS CLOSED.
The Institution a Philadelphia Concern
Under the State Laws.
Philadelphia, April 30.— The Bank of
America of this city closed its doors this
afternoon, aplacard at the entranoe simply
announcing, “This bank has temporarily
suspended.” The failure has not caused
much of a sensation, because it has for
three days been known to be in difficulties.
A run upon it began Monday which caused
It to lose SIOO,OOO in deposits. It is a state
Institution and had twelve branches scat
tered about the city. The deposits of the
main office and its branches aggregate
$700,000.
ALLIED TO AN INSURANCE COMPANY.
The bank is closely allied to the insurance
company of America and several other
financial institutions of this city, and to
day’s suspension is due to rumors which
were set afloat on Saturday affecting the
credit of President McFarlane of the in
surance company.
A RECEIVER APPOINTED.
William M. Smith, president of the com
mon council, has been appointed receiver.
The losses will fall mostly on small shop
keepers and others who cannot well afTord
to lose their money. The branches of the
bank located in outlying sections of the city
attracted this class of customers, the total
number of depositors being said to be 4,003.
CRUISE OF THE BALTIMORE.
She Behaved Splendidly and Will go
Into Service at Once.
Washington, April 30.—The orders of
the cruiser Baltimore were issued to-day.
She will coal at Norfolk, and be in Balti
more not later than May 10, and leave
there May 14, lor Haytian waters, where
she will report to Rear Admiral Gherard,
commanding the north Atlantic squadron
as his flagship. The board of inspection, of
which Admiral Kimberly is president, has
reported that the vessel behaved admirably
on her recent sea cruise, making sixteen
knots under natural draught aud eight
knots with one boiler and one propeller, and
the other propeller dragging.
DOWN ON M’KINLET’S BILL.
New York Merchants and Importers
Protest Against It.
New York, April 30. — Two hundred and
fifty merohauts and importers met at the
Metropolitan hotel this afternoonn to pro
test against the passage of the McKinley
tariff bill. James M. Constable of Arnold,
Constable & Cos., presided and explained
the objects of the meeting. Mr. Taylor of
Lord & Taylor’s dry gccls house said that
in almost every instance the McKinley bid
raised the duty. Several others protested
agai ust the bill on the same grounds. A
resolution was adopted condemning the bill
and delegating the chairman to goto Wash
ington to put the matter before congress.
