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the morning NEWS, 1
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“ Th. ESTILL, President. (
STEALING HOUSE SEATS.
ths radicals getting in more
OP THEIR WORK.
The Majority Report Id the South
Carolina Contest Full of Trumped
Up Charges of Illegal Methods on
the Part of the Democrats The
Alabama Case Under Debate in the
House.
Washington, June c.—The majority
report in the case of Miller vs. Elliott,
from the Seventh South Carolina district,
vcas submitted to the House committee on
elections this morning. The report is some
what sensational, in that at the very begin
ning it declares that the entire South Caro
lina registration and election laws are
unconstitutional. The basis for this
declaration, as stated in the report,
is that the state law imposes
a number of restrictions upon the exercise
of the right of suffrage which are in con
flict with the state constitution. Whereas
the constitution deprives a person of the
right of suffrage only upon the conviction
of murder, felony, dueling and
treason, the state law prohibits
the exercise of the right of
suffrage by persons who were entitled to
register in 1881, and neglected to do so; by
those who moved into the state and neg
lected to register at the first ensuing regis
tration; and by those who sold their regis
trations certificates for a valuable consider
ation.
RATHER FISHY.
The report says that a number of negroes
have been compelled by poverty, while
waiting for the maturity of the cotton
crop, to negotiate their certificates to
traders, who immediately send them to
political headquarters with the result that
the negroes are permanently disfranchised.
After laying down this proposition the
report proceeds to discuss the legal aspects
of the election from the usual standpoint
and recites the fact that in certain precincts
what amounted to an educational test (and
therefore an illegal test) was imposed by
lettering the ballot boxes, which were sep
arate iu the case of each office, and that
voters were deceived by an intentional
shifting of the boxes so that the judges of
election were able to throw out all of the
ballots cast in the wrong boxes.
There was also, says the report, evidence
of ballot box stuffing.
Summing up, it is found that taking the
position most favorable to the sitting mem
ber, Contestant Miller had a majority of
757, while, if the law is strictly followed,
his majority will reach 1,448.
Mr. Wilson of Missouri will prepare a
minority report.
THE ALABAMA CASE.
The House to-day proceeded to consider
ation of the Alabama contested election
case of McDuffie V 9. Turpin.
Mr. Comstock of Minnesota opened the
discussion with an argument in favor of the
claims of the contestant.
Mr. Crisp presented the claims of the
contestee. After reviewing portions of
the evidence he referred to the slim attend
ance in the House. The majority report
Baid that the election in the Fourth district
of Alabama was a farce. What was this?
[Laughter.] What kind of an election was
this? How many members outside of the
members of the committee on elections bad
read the report of the committee? He
would pause to allow any gentleman to
reply.
Mr. Allen of Michigan said that so far as
he was concerned the report had been care
fully attended to.
Mr. Crisp—Did you read it?
Mr. Allen—Yes.
Mr. Crisp—Then I commend the gentle
man to his constituents.
Mr. Allen—And my constituents will re
spond heartily. How many counties are in
the district under consideration?
Mr. Crisp—Five.
Mr. Allen—l just wanted to know.
Mr. Crisp—Did you think I knew as little
about the case as you do? [Laughter.]
PARTIALITY OF THE COMMITTEE.
Mr. Crisp denounced what he declared
was the partiality of the elections commit
tee. This was in contrast with the demo
cratic congress. Democratio congresses
had often seated republicans. How many
gentlemen on the republican side had voted
in congress for a democrat? He saw one,
only one (referring to Mr. Hill of Illinois)
Mr. Comstock—Has not everv republican
vote been cast to keep three democrats iu
their seats!
Mr. Crisp—Yes, sir, and I think that was
done in order that you might have monu
ments of your generosity to point to.
[Laughter.]
Mr. Comstock—Can the gentleman point
to any monument on his side?
Mr. Crisp—l can point to two or three
gentlemen on that side who are monuments
of the generosity, or rather the justice of the
last House.
Mr. Howell of Illinois inquired if it was a
fair and honest law by which one party did
all the counting in an election.
Mr. Crisp replied, referring to the pro
posed Rowell supervision bill, that if it
were not disrespectful to the gentlemen he
would say that the proposed bill was a dis
honest proposition.
NOT SO IN THIS CASE.
Mr. Rowell—ls not such the fact in this
very election case?
Mr. Crisp—No; you will find a few pre
cincts, probably, where the officers were of
°m part y> but the majority of them the
officers were of different political parties.
Mr. Rowell—There were not six precincts
in the district where there were trustworthy
republican officers. [Democratic laughter.]
Mr. Crisp—ln a few such cases that was
true; but they were the best you had.
[Laughter. J
. In conclusion Mr. Crisp put Mr. Turpin
in nomination as the representative from
the Fourth Alabama district. That was all
he could do. [Laughter.]
Mr. Bergen of New Jersey submitted an
argument in favor of MoDuffle’s right to
the seat.
Mr. Oates, in supporting Mr. Turpin’s
claims, said that it had beoome too common
on both sides of the House simply to take
the reports that came from the committee
on elections and blindly to follow them with
out investigation and without seeking to
know the truth.
Mr. Rowell defended the committee on
elections from the charge of partiality, and
alluding to Mr. Crisp’s nomination of Mr.
1 Ur *?j n 8a *-hat in the election here there
would be an honest count and no stuffing of
tne ballot—a thing which had not taken
plac in the Fourth district of Alabama for
me last ten years.
, Pending further discussion the House at
8:1a o’clock adjourned.
Louisiana's Thanks.
IV ASHINGTON, June 3.—Among the me
morials and other papers presented and re
ferred in the Senate this morning were reso
lutions from the Louisiaua legislature ex
tending thanks to congress and the Presi
dent for the relief afforded the sufferers
irom the recent MississiDpi floods.
Adulteration of Drugs.
Washington, June 3.—The Senate hill
ror preventing the adulteration of food and
drugs was reported and placed on the cal
e idar of the Senate this morning.
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SENATORS AND THE TARIFF.
The Subcommittee Hears the Plea of
the Fur Men.
Washington, June 3.—Senators Allison,
Aldnch, Hisoock and Jones of the subcom
mittee of the republicans of the Senate
finance committee to-day continued con
sideration of the tariff bill. The items in
the wood schedule were examined and
passed, and then the sugar schedule was
laid over for the present, it being deemed
best to await the return of Senators Morrill
and Sherman before taking up a subject of
such importance.
Two New York fur dealers, representing,
they said, 100 houses engaged in the prepar
ation of furs and the manufacture of fur
goods were given a hearing of a few min
utes. They asked an increase of the duty
ou dressed fur and manufactured articles
over that provided in the House bill. The
fur-makers said that until recently the
home market has not been Invaded
by foreign manufacturers and that the
old rate of duty was sufficient,
although the resident manufacturers paid
their workmen S3O to $25 a week, while
foreign manufacturers paid but $8 and $lO
for the same olass of labor. Now the
cheaper foreign produot is finding its way
to us, and the manufacturers have pleaded
for a higher rate of duty to protect them
selves and their employes. The members of
the finance committee who heard the plea
are inclined to believe, it is said, that the
rates proposed in ths House bill—2o per cent,
ad valorem on dressed furs and 30 per cent,
on manufactured articles—are sufficiently
high.
other schedules passed over.
The subcommittee also passed over with
out action the tobacco, wines and agricult
ural products schedules,which, with sugar,
ocoupy twenty pages of the printed bill. A
start was made upon the sugar schedule, but
it was late before that was taken up and not
much was done with it.
During the afternoon several gentlemen in
terested in various products affected by the
bill, and introduced by their senator or repre
sentative, explained their views to the sub
committee and preferred their requests
with regard to the rates of duty that should
be imposed.
To-morrow morning the New York im
porters will be heard by the committee.
KILLING OF CLAYTON.
The House Committee Agrees to Hear
More Testimony.
Washington, June 3.—The subcommit
tee of the House committee on elections,
which has had under consideration the
question of taking further testimony in the
Clayton-Brecklnridge Arkansas contested
election case, has decided the question,
practically, in the negative. In its decision
the committee says: “The application of
the contestee to take further testimony in
Arkansas is denied. Full opportunity was
given to take suoh testimony at Little Rock,
and the case was there closed as to such tes
timony with the consent of the contestee.
NOT CLOSED AT WASHINGTON.
“The closing of the oase, however, at
that point, related only to the taking of
testimony in Little Rock, leaving the sub
ject of further testimony at Washington to
be considered on the arrival of the com
mittee here. As to, the three witnesses
asked for—Dr. C. M. Taylor, C. R. Breck
inridge and Powell Clayton—while the
committee knows of no reason why their
testimony was not sufficiently taken at
Little Rock, yet, as all three of said wit
nesses are to-day, the com
mittee will hear their further testimony
if the contestee desires to have it taken. As
to all the documentary evidence called for
the committee will receive it and place it on
the record subjeot to all proper objections as
to relevancy, materiality and competency,
provided it is furnished before the record is
fully printed. In the absence of any show
ing whatever that the proposed testimony
will throw any further light on the Hooper
theory of the case the committee does not
deem it proper to delay the case in order to
take the proposed testimony of California
witnesses.’
A SERVICE PENSION SPLIT.
The Conferees of Congress Unable
to Agree.
Washington, June 3.—After a talk yes
terday between Senator Davis and Repre
sentative Morrill, chairmen of the two
committees on pensions, it was believed that
an agreement would be finally and formally
reached to-day by the conferees on the
general pension bill. But when the House
conferees came up this morning
with the instructions of the republican
caucus of last night to maintain the princi
ple of service pensions, it was manifest that
an agreement could not be secured under
those conditions, and a vote to report a dis
agreement to the respective houses was
adopted. The service pension feature was
the only one of any importance upon which
thh conferees oould not agree.
ACTION OF THE SENATE.
In the Senate this morning Mr. Davis,
from the conference oommittee on the de
pendent pension bill, reported that the c om
mittee had been unable to agree.
Mr. Edmunds inquired (in order to under
stand the form of doing business between
the two houses) which house had asked for
a conference.
The Presiding Officer (Mr. Ingalls)—The
conference was asked by the Senate.
Mr. Edmunds —Then I submit that this
report should be made first to the House of
Representatives.
The Presiding Officer—The senator from
Vermont is correct. That is the parlia
mentary proceeding. The report will be
withdrawn until action is taken elsewhere.
The report was withdrawn.
PAN-AMERICAN PLANS.
Appropriations Needed to Put Them
in Execution.
Washington, June 3.—Senator Hale to
day proposed an amendment to the diplo
matic appropriation bill to carry out some
of the recommendations of the pan-Ameri
can conference. The amendment makes an
aggregate appropriation of $41,750 for
salaries, office and miscellaneous expenses,
and the printing of the proceedings of the
conference. The president is authorized to
invite the governments of other American
republics, and the Hawaiian kingdom to
appoint commissioners to meet in Washing
ton on the first Wednesday of June next to
consider the establishment of international
committees as recommended by the pan-
American conference. The United States
shall be represented by three commissioners.
An appropriation of $15,000 is provided for.
THE RAILWAY SCHEME.
The President is also authorized to ap
point three members of the inter-continental
railway commission, and $65,000 is appro
priated to defray this government’s share
of the expense involved in this scheme. For
the establishment of a customs information
union, recommended by the conference,
$30,000 is appropriated; and for the pur
chase or erection of a suitable building for
the accommodation of the Latin-American
Memorial Liorary $350,000; the building to
be dedicated on the 400th anniversary of the
discovery of America by Columbus.
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1890.
PUGII TALKS ON SHYER.
THE TARIFF RESPONSIBLE FOB THE
PRESENT BURDENS.
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Money Eas Never Been Too Plentiful
in This or Any Other Country—The
Necessity for a More Expansive Cur
rency Apparent—Senator Farwell in
Sympathy With the Objects of the
Bill.
Washington, June 3.—ln the Senate
this afternoon the silver bill was taken uo
and Mr. Pugh addressed the Senate. His
speech was largely devoted to a criticism of
the tariff bill. He saw in it with sadness an
attempt to satisfy the farmers and other
producers, and to Induce them to believe
that they would find greater prosperity and
lighter burdens when the McKinley bill be
came a law, imposing duties as it did on
Canadian eggs, potatoes, barley, rye and
com.
He referred to Mr. Butterworth’s speech
in the House exposing the “astounding
robbery” of the people by the copper cor
porations, and asked how it was that
the system which produced such monstrous
results oould continue to receive the sanc
tion of the great national party, that now
had possession of everv branch of the gov
ernment and had obtained the restoration of
its protective policy.
THE CAUSE OF DISCONTENT.
Could free coinage of silver, he asked, or
any other remediable legislation, remove
the causes of discontent, which pre
vailed all over the country, so
long as such a system of
tariff taxation absorbed the substance of
the people? Nothing that could be gained
from a greater volume of currency would
enable the people to save any surplus from
their bard earnings. The able speeches
made in the Senate in favor of free coinage
had left him but little to say. The people
did not care so much for the theories as they
did for the facts.
The enemies of silver used no weapons but
theories. Their arguments were always
based on theory, predictions, dogmatic
assertions. But silver, like truth when
crushed to earth, would rise again. For
himself, he was strongly in favor of making
money plentiful
MONEY NEVER TOO PLENTIFUL.
It had been a long time since the United
States had had anything like a redundant
circulation. The people had never suffered
In any age or country in commerce, trade
or otherwise from having too much coined
money in circulation, or as the basis of cir
culation. There could be no depression of
the unit of the money value combined of
gold and sliver so long as the unit was de
clared by congress to have the value of a
dollar. The only way that the ingenuity
of the shylock oould devise to destroy
silver and gold as a just measure of com
merce aud exchange, and as a standard for
the fulfillment of contracts was to separate
them and to make either a commodity.
That was the plan that had been resorted to
and put in execution in 1873 clandestinely
by the enemies of silver.
ROME’S FALL.
Mr. Pugh quoted from the English finan
cier, Goschen, a statement that the fall of
the Roman empire was largely brought
about by lack of sufficient circulation of
money and the absence of an expansive cur
rency, and he said that the United States
was now confronted with a great financial
phenomenon. In the near future, he said,
the entire output of the American gold and
silver mines would be insufficient to meet
the demands of the increasing population
and wealth, and the United States might
soon be in the position of the Roman empire,
when the debtor class would beoome clamor
ous for the relief law* made necessary by
the insufficiency of preoious metals to fur
nish enough currency.
THE NECESSITY APPARENT,
The necessity for a more expansive cur
rency was perfectly apparent, and its exist
ence could not be ignored by congress.
That necessity oould not be met by any
legislation that came short of making
available the entire supply of the American
mines to secure a circulation sufficiently
expansive to meet thb demands of the peo
ple and to satisfy their reasonable and
legitimate wants. He should, therefore,
join his vote to the votes of those who were
in favor of free, unlimited and compulsory
coinage of gold and silver bullion.
At the conclusion of Mr. Pugh’s speech
the silver bill was temporarily laid aside
and a number of Senate bills "were taken
from the calendar and passed. The most
important was one permitting bottling
houses to be connected with breweries by
piping, under the regulations set forth in
the bill
FARWELL ON SILVER.
The silver bill was again taken up, and
Mr. Farwell addressed the Senate. He
declared himself in full accord with the
purposes of the bill; but said that he was in
favor of going still further. He would use
for money all the silver offered and not a
stipulated sum as provided for in the bills,
and he would coin it at its market value.
At the close of Mr. Farwell’s speech, the
silver bill was again laid aside.
FUNDB FOR FORTIFIOATIONB.
The Benate Dlscusaes Amendments to
the Bill.
Washington, June 3.—ln the Senate
to-day the fortification Dill was taken up.
An amendment to increase the appropria
tion for rifled seacoast mortars from $250,-
000 to $400,000 gave rise to a discussion in
which the condition of American seaports
was described by Messrs. Dawes and Hale,
and their apprehensions were ridiculed by
Mr. Cockrell. The discussion was partici
pated in by Messrs. McPherson, Gorman,
Plumb, Dolph, Reagan and Platt. Finally
a vote was taken and the amendment was
agreed to by a vote of 24 to 23.
WATERVLIET ARSENAL.
The next amendment that attracted at
tention was a proposition to strike out two
items for the Watervliet arsenal at New
York —one appropriating $248,743 for the
erection of a south wing, and the other ap
propriating $780,000 for machinery. In
lieu of the items proposed to be stricken
out Mr. Dawes moved to insert the follow
ing: For boring and turning lathes, rifling
machinery, and an 80 -ton traveling crane,
fully equipped for the manufacture of
twelve-inch guns at Watervliet arsenal.
New York, $285,000. With this amend
ment pending the Benate adjourned.
A Confederate Flag Incident.
Washington, June 3. —Chairman Cooley
of the interstate commerce commission
noticed this afternoon that one of the
clerks of the commission was wearing a
confederate flag in bis button hole aud
directed Secretary Mosely to remove the
flag or the clerk. Secretary Mosely re
moved the flag.
Vaux Visits the Senate.
Washington, June 4.—Representative
Richard Vaux made his first visit to the
Senate this afternoon. He was warmly
welcomed by his friends and introduced to
all the celebritioe, to whom be made him
self very agreeable.
LOVBLANS'a CLOUDBURST.
Mrs. Bailee Drowned Before the Eyes
of Her Husband and Son.
Mission Valley, la., June 3.—Another
account of the cloudburst at Loveland
says: “The village of Loveland, eight miles
from here, was almost totally destroyed
Saturday night by a cloudburst. The town
Is located on Boyer river, and to the east is
a gully which gradually increasea in width
as it continues westward. The cloudburst
occurred a mile or two up this gully, and
its force was terrific. As it made its way
toward the village it swept everything be
fore it, leaving hardly a home in the town.
The amount of water which suddenly
poured out upon the unfortunate village
was any where from three to ten feet in
depth, according to the locality.
A WOMAN DROWNED.
“The house of Luke Salley a short dis
tanoe from the river, was the scene of the
greatest mishaps of all The family con
eisted of Bailee, his wife and son, the latter
a young man 22 years old. They were
driven out of the house by the incoming
flood. Finding escape cut off in front, they
left the house hand in hand by the back
door. In the back yard there is quite a
downward slope from front to back, and
the ourrent was so swift that all three were
swept away from their feet and lost their
hold upon one another. The old man
and his son caught bold of
a clump of bushes, past which they were
swept by the torrent, and managed to save
themselves. Mrs. Bailee, however, was car
ried past this slender refuge, and all her
husband and son could do was to watch the
mad waves sweep her down into the Boyer
to her death. So far no other lives are re
ported lost.”
HANGING TOO GOOD FOR HIM.
A Deputy Marshal Murders a Man In
Cold Blood.
Knoxville, Tenn., June B.—Reports re
ceived here last night state that Bud Lind
say, a deputy United States marshal, shot
and killed Kilts, a distiller in Campbell
county. Lindsay wished a gallon of whis
key. Kilts told him he could not sell less
than ten dollars worth under bis
license. Lindsay got mad aud abused
Kilts. The distiller’s fourteen-year-old
son thought his father in danger
and threw a rock at Lindsay. Lindsay
attempted to shoot Kilts, but his party took
his pistols from him; they left, and when a
mile away Lindsay asked for his pistols,
saying he would do no harm. He got his
pistols, wheeled his horse, and rode back to
Kilts’ house.
COLD-BLOODED MURDER.
The latter saw him coming and looked
the door, but Lindsay broke it down and
shot Kilts twice, killing him instantly. He
then attempted to shoot the boy, but
missed him and hit a little girl,
but did not seriously wound her.
It is reported that Lindsay’s party arrested
him and gave him over to the sheriff of the
county. Lindsay is a desperate character,
having murdered a prominent citizen of
Campbell county five years ago and escaped
because of lack of evidence, claiming self
defense, and there were no witnesses. The
place of the recent killing is twenty-five
miles from a telegraph station.
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'FRISCO'S BRIDGE HORROR.
The Jury Censures the Engineer and
the Railroad Company.
San Francisco, June 3.—Several other
witnesses were examined at the railroad
disaster inquest late last night, but their
testimony contained few facts not already
known. An effort was made to have
Engineer Dunn present to relate the circum
stances cf the accident, but he could not be
found.
Conductor T. A. Davis testified that ho
knew nothing about the draw being open
until the engine ond car went into the
water. He did not think the train was run
ning more than two miles an hour at the
time.
VERDICT OF THE JURY.
The jury rendered a verdict finding that
the victims of the accident came to their
deaths by drowning, caused by criminal
negligence on the part of Engineer Dunn.
The verdict further relates: "We find En
gineer Dunn guilty of manslaughter. We
also find that the railway company does not
take sufficient caution to signal trains when
approaching the drawbridge.”
OREGON’S ELECTION.
The Democrats Put in Their Governor
But That is AIL
Portland, Ore., June 8. Herriman’s
(republican) majority for congress is esti
mated from 6,000 to 8,000.
The republican state central committee
concede the re-election of Pennoyer (demo
crat) for governor by 500 to 1,000 majority.
The democrats claim 1,500 to 2,000.
Both branches of the legislature are
republican by large majorities.
Tne republicans elect all their state ticket,
except the governor, by majorities ranging
from 4,000 to 6,000. The legislature will
stand: Senate—Republicans, 22; democrats,
7. House—Republicans, 28; democrats, 22.
A STORM IN IOWA.
Two Boys Killed and Six Injured at
Glen wood.
Council*Bluffs, la., June 3.—A special
to the Nonpareil from Glenwood, fifteen
miles southeast of here, gives news of a dis
aster wrought in that city by a great storm
early this morning. At the state institution
for tho feoble-minded a heavy smokestack
was blown over and fell opon the roof of
the building, crushing it in. Two boys were
killed aud six others badly injured. Several
other buildings were wrecked. The storm
was soon over, but its effeects were terrible.
LODGE’S MEDAL BILL.
Gen. Felix Agnus Before the House
Military Committee.
Washington, June 3.—Gen. Felix Ag
nus, proprietor of the Baltimore American,
appeared before the House committee on
military affairs this morning to argue in
favor of Lodge’s bill giving medals to the
survivors of the forlorn hope at Port Hud
ton, of whom Agnus was one. He had to
wait an hour for the committee to assemble,
and then Acting Chairman Rockwell of
Massachusetts limited him to five minutes,
there being others to speak. Agnus de
clared that this was insulting, and left the
committee room, although the other mem
bers of the committee begged him to go on.
John S. Bell Dismissed.
Washington, June 3.—John S. Bell,
chief of the secret service of the treasury,
having failed to comply with a request for
bis resignation, has been dismissed, to take
effect from yesterday. Mr. Bell was ap
pointed during the last administration. His
successor has not,yet been selected but will
be in a few days.
Bond Acceptances.
Washington, June 3.—Bond acceptances
to-day were $71,000, all of which were
accepted at 122 for 4s and 102% for 4%5.
DOWN WITH HIGH DUTIES
A GREAT TARIFF REFORM RALLY
AT PHILADELPHIA.
Business Men Set the Ball in Motion
by a Maas Meeting In the A fternoon
to Denounce the McKinley Bill-
Workmen Follow it Up at Night—A
Letter from Cleveland.
Philadelphia. June 3. A business
men’s meeting for the purpose of protesting
against the passage of the McKinley tariff
bill was held at the Walnut Street theater,
in this city, this afternoon. Alexander K.
McClure presided, and the list of vioe presi
dents included the names of many promi
nent business men of Philadelphia. The
building was crowded, the tobacco, tin
plate and woolen industries being largely
represented. The speakers were Congress
men MoAdoo of New Jersey, Springer of
Illinois, Bynum of Indiaua, and Breckin
ridge of Kentucky.
A MEETING OF TOILERS.
To-night a mass meeting of textile
workers, called for the same purpose as tho
afternoon meeting, was held at Textile hall,
in Konsington, a suburb of Philadelphia,
in which most of tne large woolen mills are
located. The meeting was gotten ud under
the auspices of the tariff reform club, the
membership of which consists mostly of
workmen in the mills, who are opposed to
the proposed increase in the duty on im
ported wools. Messrs. Springer, Breckin
ridge, McAdoo aud Bynum were the prin
cipal speakers at this meeting. It was a
tremendous affair. It is estimated that from
7,000 to 10,000 people, most of them work
ing men, participated
OVERFLOW MEETINGS.
In addition to the meeting at Textile
hall, where over 2,000 people listened to the
S| eeches of Messrs. Springer, Breckinridge,
McAdoo and Byaurn, three overflow meet
ings were necessary in order that all who
desired to see and hear the distinguished
speakers might be gratified.
A PARADE.
Early in the evening a parade of working
men took place. Tho line formed at Broad
and Diamond streets, and between 3,000
and 4,000 men marched from there to the
scene of the evening demonstration.
John Moore, a carpet weaver, preelded at
the Textile hall meeting.
Two of the overflow meetings were held
in the open air. At both of these the at
tendance was very large. A third overflow
meeting assembled at Enterprise hall. Each
of the four speakers addressed all four of
the meetings, ttieir remarks creating intense
enthusiasm. The following proamble aud
resolutions were adopted:
THE RESOLUTIONS.
Whkrels, Both political parties have prom
ised to correct the Inequalities aud discrimina
tions of the present tariff laws, which, by plac
ing undue burdens upon the raw materials of
our industries and the necessaries of life, de
stroy our opportunities for enlarged markets,
restrict the opportunities for work and reduce
the wages of tabor; aud
Whereas, The party now in control in con
gress, Instead of redeeming its pledges and
keeping faith with the workingmen, is attempt
ing to foiat upoa the American people a most
iniquitous measure, commonly known as the
McKinley bill, which, by increasing Umqual
lties and discriminations will strengthen monop
oly, destroy our Industries and crush labor,
therefore we, the workingmen of Kensington,
in mass meeting assembled.
Resolve, That we cannot too strongly de
nounce the McKinley bill as a dangerous
measure or too earnestly protest against its
passage by the United States, and that we
hereby give notice that we will not be satisfied
with anything short of froo raw material and
such a corresponding reduction of the general
tariff rates as will make living cheaper and
give us a chance to enter foreign markets with
our products, as well as to keep and control our
own, knowing full well that only by these means
can the tollers secure steady work and good
wages.
A LETTER FROM CLEVELAND.
When Chairman Mooro announced that
he bad a letter from ex-I’resident Grover
Cleveland regretting bis inability to attend
the demonstration, the great hall rang with
cheers. When quiet had been restored the
letter was read, as follows:
New York, May 29, 1890.
F. A. Herwig, Esq., President:
t Mv Dear Sir—l desire through you to thank
the Kensington Reform Club, formerly known
as the Workingmen’s Tariff Reform Association,
for the courteous invitation I have received to
attend a mass meeting on the evening of the 3d
of June. The terms in which the invitation is
expressed convince me that tho question of
tariff reform is receiving the attention it de
serves from those most vitally interested
in its just and fair solution. I know that
with the feeling now abroad in our land
and with the Intense existence and activity of
such clubs os yours, the claim presumptuously
mode that the people at the last election finally
passed upon the subject of tariff adjustment
will be emphatically denied; and that our work
ingmen and our farmers will continue to agi
tate this and all other questions involving their
welfare witn increased zeal, and in the
light of increased knowledge and experience,
until determined finally and in accordance with
American sentiment of fair play. I use no idle
form of words when I say that I regret that my
engagements and professional occupations will
not permit me to meet the members of your
club on the occasion of their mass meeting.
Hoping that those who are fortunate enough
to participate will find it to their profit, and
that the meeting will in all respects he a great
success, I am yours very truly,
Grover Cleveland.
BAYNE TO QUIT CONGRESS.
He Declines a Renomlnation In His
District Convention.
Pittsburg, Fa., June 3.—Hon. Thomas
M. Bayne, congressman from the Twenty
third district, refuted a renomlnation to-day,
and CoL William A. Stone, ex-United
States district attorney, was nominated.
Col Bayne had two-thirds of the
delegatee to the convention in his
favor, and being assured of a nomination,
mado an address to the delegates withdraw
ing in favor of CoL Stone.
In the Twenty-second district Hon. John
Dalzell was renominated.
Mr. Bayne’s excuse for refusing the
nomination was that he was worn out aud
unable to work. He had worked for the
honor of the nomination as a vindication,
had succeeded and was satisfied.
CAUSE OF THE DECLINATION.
Washington, June B.—The retirement
of Tom Bayne, a friend of Tom Reed, and
Pennsylvania member of the ways and
means oommittee, was the great congres
sional topic this evening. The report was
not believed when it first arrived in the
afternoon, because Mr. Bayne had told
everybody when he left last week that he
was going to fight for a renomination and
expected to get it, and also to be re
elected. When the report was con
firmed by dispatches in the evening
papers the opinion expressed by
the other members of the Pennsylvania
delegation was that Mr. Biyne must have
come to the conclusion that his fidelity to
Quay would prevent his re-election, inas
much as he is right in the thick of the anti-
Quav sentiment of Western Pennsylvania.
Evidently, Mr. Bayne thinks Delamater is
to be nominated by Quay and beaten by
the democrats, aud does noUpropose to be
beaten with him.
Papal Consistories.
Rome, June 8. —A private consistory has
'been convoked for June 23 and a public
consistory for June 26.
PANAMA CANAL EARNINGS.
The Commission Prepares a Fresh Re
port of Estimates.
Paris, June 3.—The special Panama
canal commission has prepared s fresh re
port on the prospective earniugs of the
canal in case it it completed. In this the
annual cost of maintenance is placed at
6,500,000 francs, the expenses of the admin
istration are placed at 1,800.000 francs an
nually, and the cost of transit is estimated
at 10,000,000 francs annually. The tnoome
for the first four years is estimated at
51,250.000 francs. This ia calculated on an
average annual tonnage for that period of
4,100,000 tons, and the proposed rate of
chsrge per ton is 12% franoa
THE INCREASE IN TONNAGE.
The commission estimates that after the
first four years there will bo an annual in
crease in tonnage of 250,000 tons, until the
maximum tonnage of 6,000,000 should be
reached. After the canal has been in opera
tion tnelve years the annual net receipts,
all expenses being deduotod, are estimated
at 67,000,000 'francs. This amount would
be distributed between tho present and
future shareholders in accordance with the
term* of the oontraot to be concluded be
tween the old oompany and the new.
DOBS BLAINE WANT WAR?
A London Editor Don’t Like His
Behring Sea Policy.
London, June 4, 3a. m.—The Timet de
clares that the order to dispatch American
cruisers to Rehring sea smacks too much of
the methods of the first Napoleon in dealing
with weak statesmen, and that if the order
is executed British men-of-war must
follow. “We can only imagine,” the
Times continues, “that pressure from
Irlsh-Americaus has induced Secretary
Blaine to withdraw from his apparent desire
for a diplomatic settlement Wo believe
that England will agree to close the time
for taking seals, but suoh an arrangement
must be international, and can’t be imposed
upon the world by American gunboats at
the bidding of Mr. Blaine.”
TALLEYRAND'S MBMOIRB.
The Duke de Broglie Pronounces Them
Bogus.
Paris, May 3.—The Duke de Broglie has
written a letter to the papern, in which ho
says that articles recently published pur
porting to be extracts from the memorials
of Prince Talleyrand, were not genuine. No
one but a few intimate friends, who would
not divulge the contents of the papers, has
ever seen tho manuscript. The alleged
extracts, the duke says, were supplied by n
man who had been secretary to Prince Tal
ley raud. He imitated the handwriting of
the original manuscript and drew upon his
imagination for the alleged facts.
A PBINOB TAKEN ILL
The Accident In Which the Kaiser was
Hurt the Cause.
Berlin, June 3. —The Prince of Raxe-
Meininger, brother-in-law of the emperor,
who is visiting at Cobelesree, was taken
suddenly ill at bis hotel at that place last
night. The attack is attributed to injuries
received by the upsetting of a carriage in
which he was riding with Emperor WilTiain
on Sunday, May 25, at whloh time the em
peror sprained his foot. Three doctors
were summoned to attend the prince, and
they advise that he bo immediately re
moved to Berlin.
France’s Duty on Maize.
Paris, June 3.—ln the Chamber of Dep
uties to-day M. Develle, minister of agri
culture, announced that the government
accepted the proposal to impose a duty of
3 fraucs on maize.
M. Viette, free trader, demanded an ad
journment, but bis demand was rejected.
The discussion will be resumed Thursday.
A Parnellite V/hlp.
London, June 3.—An urgent Parnellite
“whip” has been issued, calling upon the
nationalist members of the House of Com
mons to be in their seats Thursday. It is
reported that a motion will be mode to
adjourn the Houso in order to censure the
government for proclaiming recent meet
ings at Tipperary.
A New Nihilist Conspiracy.
Bt. Petersburg, June 3.—lt has come
to the knowledge of the police of this city
that the nihilists in France are engaged in
a fresh conspiracy against the life of the
czar. The French police have been made
cognizant of tho conspiracy by the authori
ties here, and placed on the track of the
oonepirators.
Pardon for the Duke of Orleans.
Paris, June 3.—President Carnot has
pardoned the Duko of Orleans, who was
sent to prison in February last for violating
the decree of exile issued against the mem
bers of his family. The duke will be con
ducted to the frontier during the night.
The Congo Tariff.
Brussels, June 3. —All the delegates to
the anti-elavory conference in sets.on in
this city, with tho exception of those rep
resenting the United States, have formally
adhered to the Congo tariff as defined by
the convention.
Expelled from Bulgaria.
Sofia, June 3.—A1l of the persons ac
quitted of complicity in the recent I’anitza
trial, with the exception of Matheff, have
been expelled from Bulgaria.
Repression of Anarchy.
London, June 3. —Tho governments of
Germany, France, Russia aud Switzerland
have sigued a treaty for the repression of
anarchy.
Yellow Jack In BrazlL
Lisbon, June 3.—The German steamer
Ohio, from Brazil, is in quarantine here,
having four cases of yellow fever on board.
A BOY SAVES A TRAIN.
He Saw Two Men Turn a Switch and
Reported the Fact.
Omaha, Neb., June 3.—The heroism of a
boy named Mike Haley prevented the wreok
of the Union Pacific flyer between here and
South Omaha at a place called
Summit Young Haley was return
ing home, when be saw two
men unlock a switch and turn it. He ran
to South Omaha and notified the train men
just as the train, which consisted of twelve
coaches, was pulling out There was an
unusually large number of passengers on
board, and, had not the plot been dis
covered, the loss of life must have been
great __
A New Gunboat Launched.
Chester, Pa. . J une 3.—The United States
gunboat Bennington was launched at
Roach’s shipyard at noon to-day in the
presence of a large oompany of spectators,
including visitors from New York and
Washington, interested in government
works.
I DATLT,SIO A TEAK I
4 SCENTOA COPT. f
( WEEKLY.I.ZS A YEAR,
POWDER SPREADS DEATH
A MOTHER AND HER TWO CHIL
DREN FATALLY INJURED.
The Horror the Result of the Contact
of a Flash of Lightning With 5,000
Pounds of the Explosive—A Neigh
boring House Leveled to Its Founda
tion.
Cleveland, 0., May 3.—At 4 o’clock
this afternoon during a thunder storm,
lightning struck a powder bouse one mils
east of Mansfield, 0., owned by Tracy &
Avery, which contained over 5,000 pounds
of powder. A terifle explosion followed
that was felt distinctly in all parts of tbs
city. Not a vestige of the little building
was left, but a swath of destruotioa
and desolation had been swept in every di
rection.
FATAL INJURIES.
Just across the road was the dwelliug of
Henry Roost, iu whioh at the time were
his wife and three children. The bouse was
shivered to atoms. One of the children. 15
months old, was crushed and hurled 150 feet
away lifeless' another, 4 years old, was so
badly injured that she will die, and the
mother is yet unconscious from injuries that’
will likely prove fatal.
Anew unoccupied dwelling adjacent to
the Roost house was leveled to its founda
tion.
BRICKS FLYING IN THB AIR.
The force of the explosion was so terrific
that the bricks of the powder bouse were
hurled fully a quarter of a mile away, the
debris sweeping over the fields and through
the adjacent woods, leaving a path like that
of a shell-swept battlefield.
All the windows of bouses within a radius
of half a mile were shattered, and a plate
glass window in tho postoifice, about a mile
and a half away, was broken.
B’NAI BRITH.
Endowments, Consolidation and th#
Ritual Discussed.
Richmond, Va., May 3.—Routine work
oocuDiod the attention of the grand lodge
of the Independent Order of B’Nai Brith at
the morning session. A recess was taken in
order to allow some fifty members to accept
an invitation to dine with Mayor Ellyson.
When tho oonvention reassembled the oom
mittee on endowment made a report recom
mending that the entire subject of endow
ments he relegated to the unrestricted con
trol of the various distriot grand lodges.
The report was adopted.
CONSOLIDATION DISCUSSED.
The special committee appointed to con
sider the subject of consolidation with
other Jewish societies presented their re
port. They recommended that seven mem
bers of the grand lodge from each distriot
be appointed; that this commission be
authorized to formulate a plan of consolida
tion, and that if a consolidation be effected,
the commission shall promulgate the same
t > the district lodges, any expense incurred
to be paid by the executive committee.
Tho report was adopted by a vote of 59 ayes
to 15 nays.
THE RITUAL.
The oommittee on ritual made a report in
which they stated that elaborate rituals are
coming into disuse; that lengthy rituals or
paraphernalia are In contradistinction to
the spirit of Judaism and to the demands of
the order. They presented the following
resolution: “That a special committee of
five be appointed to draft a now ritual in
conformity with the views expressed In the
report; that suoh ritual, however, shall pro
vide but for a single rito of initiation; that
in such ritual the special features shall be
such as shall awaken interest in its use,
not alone as men, but as Jews.”
It was further resolved that the
report of the special oommittee be promul
gated within twelve months after the ad
journment of this convention. The report
was adopted amid great applause.
David Kline, chairman of the committee,
was heartily congratulated by tho president
and members of the convention.
To-night the members were entertained
at a banquet at the Exchange hotel.
RUMORS OF A DUEL.
Two Citizens of Aiken Said to bs Going
to Band Bar Ferry.
Charleston, B. C., June 3,—lt is re
ported here that George W. Craft and P,
A. Emanuel, both of Aiken, have gone to
Augusta to fight a duel The cause of ths
quarrel is not known.
AUGUSTA ON THE ALERT.
Augusta, Ga., June 3.—lt is rumored
here that P. A. Emanuel and George W.
Croft, both of Aiken, 8. C., are making top
Hand Bar ferry to fight a duel. The causa
of their difference is unknown here, and a
most active investigation of the hotels,
trains and railroad men fails to secure a
clew to their presence in the city.
It is a bright moonlight night:
and a duel could easily be
fought to-night. The parties may not bava
oome to Augusta by rail, but might have
ridden across the country. After wiring
this the News correspondent leaves tot
Hand Bar ferry, and it there is any due]
there to-night will telegraph the facts.
PRINTERS WANT MORE PAY.
The Men on Two Chattanooga Papers
on a Strike.
Chattanooga, Tenn., June 3.—Tha
printers on the Times and Evening Newt
walked out of both offices to-dar because 4
demand for increased pay was refused.
Editors, reporters and a few friends are at
the cases to-night, and the papers will bq
issued as usual, but with short reading mat
ter. The printers were getting 33% cents
per 1,000 on the Times, and making
from S2O to $25 per week. They demanded
increase to 37% cents. President Plant ol
the International Typographical Union was
here to-day aud discountenanced the strike,
but it took place nevertheless. They pub
lishers say they will have a full foroe in two
or three days to be supplied by the Printers’
Protective Fraternity.
Gotham’s Broken Brokers.
New Yory, June 3.—The assignment of
Bondel & Jenkins, stock brokers of Wall
street, who suspended yesterday, was filed
in court to-day. The members of the firm
are Thomas H. Bondeu of Mont Clair, N.
J., aud Frank Jenkins of Beontown, N. J.
The assignee is R, Floyd Clarke. The
firm succeeded Collins, Bonden & Jenkins,
and its assignment includes the property
of that firm. Preferences to the amount of
$41,000 are given.
Killed by Wild Parsnips.
Kingston, Ont., June 3.—Four members
Of the iamily poisoned by eating wild para
nips near Lake George are now dead, and it
is feared that tho other three will die.
Alabama's Republicans.
Montgomery, Ala. .June 3—The Repub
lican state convention will meet here to-mor
row. It is not probable that a state ticket
will be nominated.
