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toTA jussie 18M. Ixeowo&jTXD 1688. V
J. H.ESTllJUPresidant. )
CLEVELAND'S SENSATION.
OPINIONS DIFFER AS TO IT3 EFFECT
ON HIS CHANCES.
Ttis Silver Men Loud In Their Asser
tions that It Makes Bis Election as
President Impossible—Most of the
Congressmen and Senators of the
Opinion that It Won’t Hurt Him
Materially.
Washington, Feb. 12.—Ex-President
Cleveland’s anti-free coinage letter created
a sensation in oongrees second only to that
created by his famous tariff reform mes
(fga To-day, as in December, 1887, he
surprised most of the men in congress, but
n3Wt as then, the democratic managers
knew vchat was coming, and had done all
that they could to prevent it, using similar
arguments both times. When it was known
here several days ago that Mr. Cleveland
was about to write a letter on the silver
question, the democratic managers, know
ing very well that in spite of a change of
nnnd Mr. Cleveland stood just whore
ha stood when he wrote the
anti-free coinage letter to the
democrat* in congress before he was in
augurated wrote to him and endeavored to
get liim not to write any letter, but to keep
silent on the subject altogether. They knew
rerv well that he would not write an am
biguous letter, so they begged him not to
write any letter at all on the subject. Their
theory was that, as Mr. Watersou said, Mr.
Cleveland was the choice of the democrats
for President and that nothing could pre
vent his nomination and election but bis
opposition to free coinage. It they could
only get this out of the way they thought
there would be no doubt about the outcome
in 1892.
THEIR PLANS.
They bad things in trim for getting out
of the House coinage committee to-morrow
a substitute bill for limited free coinage to
American silver, which they thought oould
be put through, and which they thought
would dispose of the matter, whether Presi
dent Harrison signed or vetoed it. Then
the way would be clear to President Cleve
land, who would have nothing to do but to
keep still. But now, as it was in 18S5, this
was just the thing which President Cleve
land could not and would not do. He must
speak out, and he must say what
he thought Now, as then, most of the
politicians think he has made a fatal
mistake. They agree that bis letter, by
stiffening up the anti-free coinage men, will
probably prevent any legislation this ses
sion on the silver question, and this, they
say, makes the silver question the most
prominent one for the next session and next
year. This, they think, will either prevent
Sir. Cleveland’s nomination, or defeat him
if he is nominated. This was to-day the
opinion expressed by a majority of both
sides.
MAY STRENGTHEN HIM.
On the other band a minority of the demo
crats and a minority of the republicans ex
pressed the belief that Mr. Cleveland’s
candor, sincerity and courage, as shown
In the letter, would strung then’him in the
popular affection; that regardless of the
silver question he would have a greater fol
lowing than ever, and would now be in
evitably nominated and re-elected, solidify
ing the Democratic party on the silver
question as he did on the tariff
question. “But he will not solidify
the Democratic party,” said the ob
jectors. “His nomination with his lettor
as his platform, so far as silver was con
cerned, would bring about inevitably a
nomination by the farmers’ alliance, and
that would take four-fifths of the southern
democratic voters away from Mr. Cleve
land. Why, if the farmers’ alliance should
nominate Senator Stanford and the republi
cans should indorse him, President Cleve
land could not carry Georgia.”
This talk is a sample of what was said by
some of the less thoughtful congressmen In
response to the question so universally pre
sented around the capitol to-day.
"What do you think of Cleveland’s let
ter?”
COURSE OF THE COOLER HEADS.
The cooler and more conservative man
agers deprecated this loose and thoughtless
talk, but they oould not stop it even by
representing that it did not hurt Mr. Clave
land and did hurt the Democratic party.
Some of the leaders. Senator Gorman,
Senator Carlisle and Representative Mills,
for example, absolutely refused to say any
thing for publication.
Senator Vest, who was said to have had
a letter from Mr. Cleveland of an opposite
tenor, would say nothing.
P. Breckinridge said: “Cleveland
will be nominated and elected in 1892.”
Roswell P. Flower said: “Cleveland has
the courage of his convictions.”
Mr, Bynum said: “Cleveland never
dodges.”
Mr. Vaux said: “Cleveland is a great
P’nn. He will be nominated and eleoted in
lo.k, as sure as hell is hot.”
•‘tk , Wilsoa of West Virginia, said:
the letter is characteristic of the man,
ana shows the courage regardless of its
otiect on his own political fortunes that so
impresses the American people with Mr.
Cleveland’s personality. It’s effect? Well,
i course, it will temporarily alienate many
upportere, as expressions around me indi
cate, but no man can foretell its affection the
presidenUa l nomination in 1892.
♦ni "i' •’'; utchler of Pennsylvania said: “I
naay hurt him in the south and
eat, but he leaves no doubt in any one’s
“ t 0 where he stands, and that is a
* 1 thing. His expressions will meet with
tsE ? 1 in Pennsylvania, New York and
nniir* i OU * ttle eaßt - It may not injure his
1 al P ros Pects. Silver may not be an
on? .i he com PaiKn of 1893. It may be
f the way. With the tariff as the
l„ u ?>. as ‘t should be and undoubtedly will
, ms opinions on silver ought not to hurt
ln the south and west.”
>r„ dargan’s views.
to;V a . r ? anofSouth Carolina said: “It
wiiL- 1 h ! m Wlth the politicians, but it
■ ... s him with the people. It is
Clmfii 'otter and he is right. I believe
or .k “disso strong and has such a hold
‘he confidence of the people that although
r the party in the House are
t° him ou this proposition he will
countr y w *th hitn. I think it for
is ,that he wrote ths letter. His course
;. anI y an( l that of a statesman.”
tlo 7‘ Hoiman of Indiana said: “It will
ti at foct the action of the party in the
‘i.,® 0 nor ln the national convention.”
spirt \. lr,a ?, seriou * l y affect his candidacy,”
rnn .,~ lr - Barnea of Georgia, "but the silver
lim<> er i *** out of the way by that
hi. ,^_ ratuer think it will. In that event
wi*h if- Vlews would hold many people
injury 1 ®! anii this letter would do him no
U>' :^ nJrews sa *B tbat he thought that
BtrVi 6r , wou ? and affect him only by
tioa b ' ,tleian ß him in the popular eotima
. y lots of courage.
shoQ Arkansas said: “The letter
‘ to H„ J r - Cleveland has lots of cour
anv r,n,. be has 110 intention to deoeive
hnsß Position ho takes is no sur
th .an" lt , mer oly clears away the doubts of
chanUvTnl tUou S bt he might have
Btud/r f ' rlews alter a more careful
’ of the question. He holds the same
JHafnittg |frto£.
view* still. The letter will strengthen him
in New Fork and throughout the east.
It will probably do him some damage
in the south and west, but his bold staud on
the tariff has endeared him to the hearts of
the western and southern people. They
would rather vote for him than any other
living man. They will respect hit frank
ness and courage in maintaining his per
sonal convictions, even if they do not agree
with him, and they will probably be for
him anyhow.”
Mr. Tracey of New York said: "Mr.
Cleveland having been Invited to attend the
meeting at New York acted courteously and
properly in sending a reply. To have sent a
letter without giving any expression of hie
opinion would have bean the act of a weak
man, which Mr. Cleveland is not. He has
decided convictions in opposition to trying
the experiment of free coinage at present,
and it is better that he frankly made them
known when circumstances arose calling for
a statement of his views.”
Mr. Dunphy of New York, HIU democrat,
said: “Mr. Cleveland undoubtedly ex
presses the views of New York, and no man
who does not can carry New York, New
Jersey or Connecticut.”
BLAND SARCASTIC.
On the other hand Mr. Bland, speaking
for the free coinage men, says: “Every one
must see that Mr. Cleveland has made a
mistake. This is the first time that we have
heard from this patriotic reform club. We
have been under the shadow of a threatened
despotism controlling the elections of the
country during all this congress. This club
was dumb. It was not the east that rescued
the oountry from oentrallzstlou and despot
ism, it was au alliance of the west and south
whioh fought the battle of .freedom. They
got no encouragement from the reform
club of New York. Only when the monev
bags of Wall street were threatened
patriotic indignation eeemed to have seised
a hold upon them. The free ooinage of silver
is a western and southern measure in the
interest of freedom and from the thralldom
of Wall street. Free elections and free
coinage go hand in band, and no man can
be elected on a democratic platform who is
not in sympathy with that movement. The
farmers of the west, northwest and south
are solidly banded together on these propo
sitions of the freedom of the states, the con
stitutional money of our fathers, free silver
and free gold, and they propose to press the
fighting in that line. Even the state
of Kansas denounces the elections bill
as a sectional measure, while the money
bags of Wall street were silent on that ques
tion. Mr. Cleveland’s letter makes his can
didacy tor the presidency ridiculous. He
will have no following west of the Alle
ghany mountains.”
Senator Faulkner, expressing the senti
menu of Senators Barbour, Pugh, Daniel
and a large majority of the other demo
cratic senators, said: “It was a mistake.
The Democratic party is now united on the
tariff question. Mr. Cleveland's letter dis
places that for the silver quostion, on which
it is not united. It forces that question on
the next national convention, and you know
how tho democratic state conventions have
declared upon it.”
Mr. Pugh added: “If the silver question
was before the country in 1892, Mr. Cleve
land would not be though t of in connection
with the democratic nomination.”
Mr. Crisp said: “It was a mistake. The
people want free coinage."
IN THE SAME BOAT.
The Critic says Mr. Wilson, a republican,
of Kentucky, thinks that the letter puts
Mr. Cleveland and President Harrison in
the same boat. He asked Mr. Dalzell, a
Pennsylvania republican member, if he
was for Cleveland or Harrison. Mr. Dalzell
said he was lor Cleveland. He asked Mr.
Dickinson, a democratic member from Ken
tucky the same question. He replied that
he was for Cleveland.
BROUGHT UP IN THE HOUSE.
Washington, Feb. 12. —The House this
morning went into committee of the whole,
with Mr. Payson as chairman, on the legis
lative appropriation bilk In speaking to a
verbal amendment Mr. Grosvenor
of Ohio sent to the clerk’s desk,
with his hearty indorsement, an acoount
of the meeting at Cooper Union
last night, and the letter addressed by
Grovei Cleveland to E. Ellery Anderson.
The letter having been read, Mr. Grosvenor
said he had thus placed this important and
statesmanlike document in the permanent
records of the country to the end that in
tlie coming campaign it should be available
under the frank of the members of the
next congress to be used in disseminating
the information throughout the country.
[Republican laughter.]
Mr. Kerr also commented upon the Cleve
land letter.
Mr. Bland —I thought the gentleman was
in favor of free coinage.
Mr. Kerr—l am.
Mr. Bland—Theu you ought to be called
“Young-Man-Afraid-of-Free-Coinage,” for
you never vote that way.
Mr. Kerr—l never had a obance, though
I was a member of the last congress, when
the gentleman was chairman of the com
mittee on coinage, weights and measures.
Mr. Bland—You had a chance the other
day, but you did not vote with us. Now
that ex-President Cleveland has been con
firmed in bis views by such a great states
man as the gentleman from lowa,l don’t see
how he can ever change his views and be
converted.
HOOKER OBJECTS.
Later in the day Mr. Hooker of Missis
sippi referred to the printing of ex-President
Clevelan’s letter in the Record and said
that, for one, and speaking only for him
self, he was not disposed to permit that let
ter to become part of the Congressional
Record of the country without saying some
thing in regard to it, so that he might ex
press the sentiment of the people lie ia part
represented. He had very great defer
ence for the views of the distinguished
statesmen; he had very great deference
for the distinguished men who, in
the other branch of the legislature,
had declared that the judgmonc of the
American people as expressed on many
occasions, and especially at the last elec
tion, was unalterably fired iu favor of free
coinage of silver [applause]; and although
the business men of the great metropolitan
city of New York may have met and re
solved that it would disturb the business
interests of|the country, he thought they
ought to pause a moment and reflect that
in that great city not one brick would have
been piled upon' another had not the great
agricultural interest of the country
sown the earth in good season and
brought its produce to the sea
board. It was something for New York
to be monarch. She would be king without
a subject to obey her if agriculture did not
bring its produce to her port.
POWER OF THE PEOPLE.
It must be remembered that while busi
ness men might speak there was a power
behind the tnrone of the business men, be
hind the banks, behind the gold men, and
behind the silver men—the power of the
people of the country, who had declared in
unmistakable terms that they were in
favor of reiasnance of silver dollars, the
dollars of the fathers, the first
unit of value on this continent.
It oould not be said that those who were in
favor of free coinage of silver and a bi
metallic currency were in favor of displac
ing anything that had a superior value to
silver, because silver constituted the origi
nal unit of value. The people had arisen in
denunciation of the outrag'e perpetrated in
congress when silver was demonetised by a
SAVANNAH, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1891.
fraud upon the government so flagrant that
the President did not know it ana congress
did not kaew it He wished to say (while
he could not call la question
the opinion of men who differed with him)
that there wa* no man in this country,
whether he held a distinguished positon, or
whether he had an ambition to hold the
hignest position within tne gift of the
American people (be be of one party or an
other), who oould lay down the law
to the great masses of this country
who thought for themselves. [Applause.]
In regard to the publication, he wished to
say for himself, and he believed for hie con
stituents, that they wanted free coinage of
both metals. Whatever might be the
opinion of any one man, whether he bad
occupied an eminent position in the past or
expected to occupy it in the future, what
evor might he the opinion of any one man,
whether ne eat on the republican or tho
democratic side, no one man had a right to
speak for the great laboring Interests of the
oountry which stood back of a'd behind tho
constitution and the law. [Applause.]
Mr. Cannon—l would like to ask the gen
tleman whether he is in favor of Mr. Cleve
land for the next President.
Mr. Hooker—l will say that I do not
think that a man on the continent of Amer
ica will pvsr be a candidate of tno Demo
cratic party for President of the United
States who is opposed to free coinage of
silver. [Applause. ]
HOUSE COMMITTEE HEARINGS,
The House coinage committee to-day gave
further hearings to gentlemen opposed to
free silver coinage. Among the sneakers
were Frederick Fraley of Philadelphia,presi
dent of the National Board of Trade and
Transportation, and Joel Cook of Phila
delphia, financial editor of the Philadel
phia Ledger. The controversy broke out
afresh as to when these hearings should ter
minate. By unanimous consent it was
finally agreed to meet to-morrow morning
and then adjourn until Tuesday, and the
agreement to hold night sessions was re
scinded.
Without disposing of the bill the commit
tee rose and the House adjourned.
A CHANGE FOB SHERMAN.
If He Lives Till To-night He Will be
Ant to Recover.
New York, Feb. 12. —Gen. Eherman’s
condition has fluctuated through the after
noon and early evening. At 9 o’clock his
physicians held another consultation, and at
9:80 o’clock this bulletin was issued:
The physicians ln consultation say there is no
decided change. If Gen. Sherman maintains
his present status for twenty-four hours his sit
uation will be hopeful. John Su human.
The general’s private secretary said, soon
after the above was issu 'd, that the doctors
expressed the utmost confidence that if they
could keep the geueral alive for the
next twenty-four hours they could save
his life. No change Is expected
till morning. The storm doors of the Sher
man residence have been closed and the
window shades drawn, and the policeman
who guards the door was instructed to hold
all telegrams whioh nrrive after midnight
until morning.
A BAD BREAK BARELY AVOIDED.
Washington, Feb. 12.— At 1 o’clock to
day the Senate was preparing to adjourn
out of respect to the memory of Gen. Sher
man, whom private dispatches received by
senators stated had just died. Arrange
ments wore made for the memorial speeches,
whioh were to be made by Senators Hawley,
Mauderson, Evarts, Carlisle, Morgan and
other senators, before the motion to ad
journ should be adopted. The Seuate sat in
momentary expectation that the President’s
Droclamation would be issued, and the flags
half-masted, when at 1:30 o’clock came the
news that Gen. Bherinan was better.
FOSTER FOR SECRETARY.
The Republicans in Congress Favor
His Appointment.
Washington, Feb. 12.— The President’s
present inclination is unquestionably to ap
point ex-Gov. Foster of Ohio Secretary of
the Treasury, os the best man who is at once
eligible and available. Unless the President
changes his mind ex-Gov. Foster will be
Secretary Windom’s successor. The Presi
dent has” taken occasion to sound the Ohio
republican leaders here as to the accepta
bility of ex-Gov. Foster’s appoint
ment. Messrs. McKinley, Grosvenor
and the rest have all recom
mended it strongly. Tho President sent
for Senator Sherman to come up and talk
with him about ex-Gov. Foster’s appoint
ment the day Senator Shermau left for New
York. Senator Sherman sent word
that he could not oome, be
cause he was just leaving to go
to his brother’s bedside, but that he would
be peculiarly gratified with the appoint
ment of ex-Gov. Foster as Secretary of the
Treasury.
HARRISON COMING SOUTH.
Ho Will Make tho Trip Part of One to
the Pacific Coast.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 13.—William
Youngblood, member of the republican
national executive committee for Alabama,
is authority for the statement that immedi
ately after the adjournment of congress
President Harrison, Postmaster General
Wanamaker and other members of the
cabinet will make a tour of the southern
states.
GOING TO THE SLOPE.
Washington, Feb. 12.—The President
and most of his cabinet will visit the Pacifio
coast soon after tho adjournment of con
gress, and have arranged the trip so us to
include a tour of the southern states. No
details have yet been arranged, but it is
probable that the Darty will start from
Washington in the early part of April.
Silver Pool Witnesses Sick.
Washington, Feb. 12.—The silver pool
investigating committee met to-day but
heard no witnesses.
An affidavit from-Henry Clews was ac
cepted in lieu of his prese ce, stating that
he is too ill to present himself iu person,
and that he has no knowledge of the kind
the committee is searching for. He hopes
to oome before the committee next Mon
day.
8. V. White of New York also expresses
a hope that he may be present on Mon
day. "
A Caucus Postponed.
Washington, Feb. 12.—Owing to the
fact that a number of republican repre
sentatives desired to attend a meeting of
the Loyal Legion this evening, the caucus
called for to-night has been postponed until
to-morrow night.
NORTON RESIGNS.
The Louisville and Nashville to Have
a New President.
New York, Feh. 12.— President Norton
of the Louisville and Nasbvills company to
day tendered his resignation to the board of
directors, to take effect April 15, or before
that date If his successor is elected.
He states that he has always intended
to resign from the office as soon as the com
pany's affairs warranted the payment of
cash dividends. The resignation was ac
cepted by the directors, to take effeot as
soon as his successor qualified.
PLOT OF THE RUM TRUST.
AN INFERNAL MACHINE IN DE
WAR’S POSSESSION.
A Flying Bullet Was to Pierce a Vat
of Spirits and Let Its Contents Fall
on an Inflammable I lquid Beneath—
Whisky Trust Bonds In Dewar's
Name.
Washington, Feb. 13.—Commissioner of
Internal Revenue Mason is evidently much
worried over the alleged Chicago whisky
conspiracy and denied himself to oallers to
day on a plea that he was not feeling well.
He left instructions with his private secre
tary, however, to tell ail newspaper men
who might oall that he had nothing
to say about the alleged conspiracy,
except that the Associated Press dispatch
from Chicago in the morning papers was
substantially true according to the infor
mation received by him. The private secre
tory added that the case had been managed
entirely bv the commissioner, and that
Solicitor Hart had gone to Chicago as hi*
legal representative.
A DENIAL BY THE SECRETARY.
Chicago, Fob. 13— Charles J. Gibson,
secretary of the whisky trust, who woe ar
rested here yesterday, left for Cleveland
last night. In au interview before leaving
he said regarding the charges against him:
“This is a damnable plot to ruin me, but it
will fail. 1 have been instructed by my
attorneys to say nothiug, but I will say this:
I am innocent of any crime,”
“But about the solution in the bottles;
what is that?”
“That is only a medicinal wh. When
it is tested the secret eervjpo officers will
find bow ridioulous they have made them
solve*.”
“What was the nature of your relations
with DeWare*”
“I decline to answer. Do you for a
moment suppose that I would further any
such scheme of wholesale destruction of
life as is talked of? 1 am a man, and have
a man’s heart. Such talk is nonsense.”
Secretary Gibson's son was interviewed
also. The son said that bis father had done
no Intentional wrong. “The flask that was
found in his valise,” he continued, “con
tained nothing but Schiedam schnapps, and
there was no dynamite ornitro-glycerine in
it. Father is the central victim of a con
spiracy that has for its draughtsman a dis
charged employe of the syndicate, a man
who ha* recently been employed by the gov
ernment to spy and lie.”
THE INFERNAL MACHINE.
One of the government officers who has
been working on the case said: “I would
not do what Dewar has ‘been doing for the
last two weeks for tbs $25,000 promised him.
Dewar has carried with him that infernal
machine since it was given him. It consists of
a tin box, about the size of an oyster can,
open at one end. In this is a section of a
gun-barrel, in one end of which is fitted a
turned steel oonic&l bullet, which pro
trude# from the open end of the
can. Behind the bullet is a heavy
charge of gun-powder. A smaller tube
runs into the open end of the gun-barrel.
Dewar was to pour some of the inflamma
ble liquid into tbe tube and then place the
box on the floor under a large vat of high
wines in the distillery, with the bullet
direoted upward. On exposure to the air
the chemical would ignite and soon cause
the powder to explode. The eteel bullet
would he driven through the bottom of the
vat, the spirits would pour down on the
fluino beneath, and in a moment ail would
be ln flames. It was about Jon. 10 when
Gibson delivered the explosive to Dewar,
aud Gibson has been daily expecting news
of the carrying out of the plot.
DECOY LETTERS,
Since Feb. 10 dhbson has written several
letters and sent telegrams to Dewar. All
these are in tbe possession of the author,
ities.
Of these Solicitor Hart says: “I fre
quently admonished Dewar that he was not
using the dispatob he ought in the matter.
Last Monday the department dictated a de
coy letter to Gibson, having Dewar write it.
The letter was to tho effect that be (Dewar)
had made several attempts to carry out the
plot aud bad failed on aocount of tho
liquid. He said he thought it
had lost its virtue. He instructed
Gibson to come to Chicago Wednes
dry and bring anew bottle of the stuff. He
also told him to bring evidence that he in
tended to pay him for the job. Gibson
answered by telegraph that he would oome
to Chicago Wednesday morning. Dewar
met him at the train and made au appoint
ment to meet Gibson at the Grand Pacific
hotel. Officers who were watching Dewar
followed Gibson to the hotel and arrested
him. The contents of his grip were a shirt,
a few collars, a bottle of liquid and 100
shares of whisky trust stock assigned to
Dewar. It was part of the deal to pay
Dewar in part with stock, said Solicitor
Hart, and he evidently brought the bonds
to show Dewar aud spur biin on to do the
deed. I think the fluid is sulphuric acid
and phosphorus. I know that as soon as it
is exposed for a moment to tho air it will
ignite. In a box which Gibson gave to
Dewar in January was a section of a gun
barrel partly filled with oakum and ootton.
What the nature of the explosive in the
barrel beneath the oakum is I do not
know.
REFORM AT THE AGENCIES.
Harrison’s Letter to a Civil Service
Reform Association.
Boston, Feb. 12.—The Cambridge Civil
Service Reform Association has reoeived
from President Harrison tho following re
ply to their address of Jan. 31:
Executive Mansion, i
Washington, Li. C-, Feb. 18, IH9I. f
Gentlemen—l hare received by the hand of
Senator Hoar a communication addressed to
me by the officers of tbe Cambridge Civil Ser
vice Reform Association, and in riply beg to
say that your suggestions ★ill
have my respectful attention. • Your
reference to tbe recent outbreak
among the Sioux as affording convincing evi
dence of the necessity of a change in the man
ner of appointing officials of tbe Indian bureau
leads me to say that I have not found in a very
full examination of all the iacts trim all
soujees evidence of any deterioration in
tbe Indian service On tho other
hand the board of Indian com
missioners, through Moirill E. Gates, their
chairman have, as a result of close Observation,
declared tome, under date of Jan. 10 last, that
upon the “whole the Indian service is now In
better condition that ever before.” The object
of their communication was to urge extension
of the civil Borneo rules to tbe Indian
service, but they were careful to
recognize that argument was not to be found
in any special or recent incident, but ou tbe
broader fact that the work among the Indians
is educational and philanthropic, and should
tb-refore be separated from party ties. I may
aid that before any special appeal bad been
made to me from any source the subject of in
cluding Indian agency clerks and employes in
tbe classified service had been under coniidera
tion. Very respectfully,
Benjamin Harkison.
Pennsylvania and the Force Bill.
Harrisburg, Feb. 12.— 1n tbe Senate fc>-
day the veto message of the governor on the
resolutions instructing tbe United States
senators from Pennsylvania to favor the
federal elections bill was called up, and
after several speeches of a political nature a
motion that the matter be indefinitely post
poned was unanimously adopted.
SESSION o 7 THE BSNATE.
Tbe District of Oeiumbla 'Appropria
tion Bill Passed.
Washington, Feb. 12—In the Senate
this morning a resolution was reported
from the oommittee on privileges and elec
tions, and agreed to. to pay to ex-Benator
Rloe of Arkansas the amount due to him
os senator from March 4, 1867, until he was
paid.
At 12 o’clock the Senate resumed consid
eration of the copyright bill, the
pending question being tbe amend
ment offered by Mr. Sherman to strike
out the woid “prohibited," and insert the
words "subject to the duties provided by
law,” so that foreign copies of books pat
ented in the United States shall not be pro
hibited, but shall be subjeot to tariff
duties.
The discussion had proceeded but a few
minutes when the bill was laid aside tem
porarily because of the absenoe of Senator
Sherman, who had given notice of his in
tention to offer amendments to tho peudiug
clause. Mr. Sherman is fn New York at
the bedside of his brother, the genera).
MONEY FOR THE DISTRICT.
A few bills of minor consequence were
taken from the calendar and passed,and then
the Senate took up the District of Columbia
appropriation bill. Its consideration ran
smoothly, there being no controversy over
any of the numerous oommittee amend
ments to tho bill as it came from the House,
whioh relate to the details of the adminis
tration of the district government. The
committee recommended anew section,
crediting to the city the charge heretofore
made against the aurront revenue for
its share of the expenses for
the water supply, aud requiring it
to be paid in tweDty-five annual Install
ments; also ropealing the requirement that
the district shall pay half the expenses of
the National Zoologioal park; also another
ni* section appropriating |2,750,000 to
redeem bond# of the District of Columbia
falling due July 1,1891 (to be repaid with 3
per cent, interest out of the linking fund of
the district). Both were agreed to. The
bill passed without any further new
amendments.
Business on the calendar wa* then re
sumed aud the following bills, among
others, w ere passed: The Sepate bill, ap
propriating (100,000 for'a public building
at Fernaudina, Fla., the Senate bill to
authorize the Norfolk and Western Rail
road Company of Virginia, and th# Wash,
mgton ana Cumberland Railroad Company
of Maryland, to extend their respective
lines into and within the Distrlot of Colum
bia.
Also a large number of pension bills, in
cluding the House bill, granting a pension
of (1,200 yearly to Geu. N. P. Banks.
The bill granting a pension to Mery Ann
Dougherty having been reached, Mr. Cock
rell objeoted to it, and Mr. Blair moved
that it be considered, notwithstanding the
objection. Thereupon Mr. Cockrell de
clared that tho till could not be passed, as
theio never was such an infamous fraud,
adding that the woman was a drunken
debauchee. (President Cleveland vetoed
the bill for her benefit, and her case was
almost made a political iesue.)
Mr. Blair contented himself with scowl
ing at tho Missouri senator and withdraw
ing his motion.
After a short executive session tbe Senate,
at 6 o’clock, adjourned.
A BIOT AT A THREAD MILL.
Special Police Fire ln the Air and Are
Stoned by a Mob.
Newark, N. J., Feb. 12—A riot and
bloodshed occurred at Clarke's thread mills
at Kearny at 6 o’clock this evening. When
the new spinners quit work they were car
ried over from the river on the Newark
side in a launch, and when they lauded ou
the Kearny side they were met by
a throng of 2,000 tiersons. fiupt. Walmsly
led the line, guarded on each side hy
special offers. When the spinners got in
side the dock gome one threw a stone over
tbe fence and a special offioor attempted to
rush out ou the crowd. Chief Turnbull of
Kearny ordered the spoclals back. A
woman threw a Stone, smashing the mill
office window. Thereupon the spe
cials rushed out on the crowd,
shooting in the air. The
crowd surged buck, but flung a shower of
stones, which crashed through the mill win
dows. Men inside the mill played a line of
water on the men. The water made the
crowd more angry, aud the window
smashing went on. Several persons were
crushed in the stampede, and one
girl was crushed. A 9-year-old boy was
shot through the foot by a special who shot
downward. Intense excitement prevails.
It is thought there is a likelihood of a
worse riot to-morrow night, and the proba
bilities are that the militia will be called
out.
A RECEIVER FOB A CEMETERY.
Colored Churchmen In a Bow With
Queer Features.
Charleston, a. 0., Feb. 12.—One of the
queerest of the many church oases that find
their way into court was settled to-day. The
oongregation of the Morris Street
Baptist church (oolored) had a fall
ing out and split into two fac
tions, one, of course, headed by the
pastor. Her. J. L. Dart. The other faction
got out an injunction recently restraining
the pastor’s faction from using the ohurch,
and asking that all the property be sold and
divided ont among the congregation.
A temporary injunction was granted
and the case argued to-day. Among
the property of the church is a
cemetery, and the point was raised that this
portion of the assets could hardly be sold
out and the proceeds divided. Bending the
decision a receiver was appointed for the
cemetery, with instructions to allow
anybody to be interred therein
who might be entitled to interment.
Judge Norton to-day dissolved
the injunction and the pastor’s party will
resume postessiou at once. The congrega
tion is the largest and most prosperous
colored Baptist congregation in the state.
The case will probably be carried up to the
supreme court.
TERMINAL'S NflW DB ALS.
Bettor Connection With Now York
—The Louisville’s and Nashville.
New York, Feb. 12.—President Inman
of the Richmond Terminal Company denies
that he bolds an option on Baltimore and
Ohio stock, but admits that negotiations
have been held with President Mayer by
which the Richmond Termlual may control
tho Baltimore and Ohio soon. He says that
in about ten days, when the rest of the di
rector*’ party returns from tho
south, a meeting of tne directors
will be held and some action
taken toward giving the Richmond Ter
minal better connection with New York.
He also states that seven months ago the
plan to merge the Louisville and Nashville
and Richmond Terminal systems into one
company was completed and would have
been presented to the stockholders but for
the financial crisis in November.
KILLED BT TBE SCORE.
Horrible Lose of Life by a Boiler Ex
plosion at Quebec.
Quebec, Feb. 18.— Thig morning the
boiler In the Quebeo Worsted Company’*
factory at Hare Point exploded, oompietely
demolishing the engine house and about
half the factory. A large number of bauds
were burled In the ruins. The works are
situated in the northeastern outskirts of the
city. They cover a targe area
and employ more hands than any
other manufacturing establishment in the
oity. They had tieen oloeed down for two
weeks, while the boilers and machinery
were being overhauled aud refitted.
Operations were to have been returned this
morning and 300 of the operatives were on
hand. Owing to some causa the machinery
was not started, and they wors dismissed.
Many of thora, however, remained about
the building, a number keening in the
vicinity of the engine room for the sake of
warmth.
THE EXPLOSION.
About 9:45 o’clock there was a sudden ex
plosion whioh completely wrecked the en
gine heusn and damaged a large part of the
main building. The cause of the accldeut
it not known, but it is thought that some of
the pipes may have been froaen while the
tires were out, and eo caused a stoppage
when steam was got up.
Mr. Harvey, foreman of Carrier, Lana
& Cos. of Jjevia, who were making
repairs to the machinery and boilers,
says that he was in the engine
room when the explosion took place.
He instinctively threw himself under the
sholter of a large wheel, and so escaped
being crushed by the fulling brloks and
rafters. He was rescued half an hour later,
and has onlv slight i Juries. He cannot
account for the accident.
The work of rescuing those buried under
the ruius is still going on. The Marine hos
pital, which is situated in the same locality
tu the mill, has been opened to receive the
dead and wounded, and it besieged by people
searching for missing relatives.
The body of Engineer Grancoeur of the
works was found crushed out of all shape.
About twenty dead hare been taken out
of the ruins so far. but owing to the confu
sion the total number of casualties has not
been ascertained yet.
BALFOUR'S BELIEF FUND.
The Secretary Bays the Government
Hae Nothing to Do With It.
•London, Feb. 12. —In\he House of Com
mons to-day Timothy Healy, member for
North Longford, greeted the reappearance
of Chief Secretary Balfour, “because," he
said, “the Irish are anxious to know when
any portion of the relief fund will be paid
cash down.”
Mr. Balfour, responding, asked: “What
fund?”
“The Earl of Zotland’s fund,” aswered
Mr. Ilealy.
Mr. Balfour remarked thnt he could not
believe t hat the member for North Longford
would ask in the House of Commous for
information about a private fund with
which the House hasaothlng to do.
“Nothing to do,” cried Mr. Healy In sur-
E rise—an exclamation which was followed
y cheers from the Irish party.
J. G. N. McNeill, member for South Done
gal, addressing the ohiet secretary for Ire
laud, said: 1 ‘Did not the Earl of Zetland aud
yourself make the appeal for fundi in your
official capacity f"
Mr. Balfour replied, “Certainly not.”
DILI ON AND O’BRIEN IN PRISON.
They Will Be Taken to Ireland T-day
to Serve Tbelr Time.
Boulogne, Fob. 12.—William O’Brien
and Mrs. O’Brien, accompanied by John
Dillon and Thomas P. OUI, left here to-day
for Folkestone. It is expected that Messrs.
Dillon and O'Brien will be arrested the
moment thoy set foot on British soil, in
order that they may be compelled to serve the
terms of imprisonment imposed upon them
some months ago by the Tipperary court
for conspiracy to incite tenants on the
Smith-Barry cstato not to pay rent.
SURRENDERED VOLUNTARILY.
Folkestone, Fob. 12.— Messrs. Dillon
nnd O’Brien, upon their arrival at this place
from Boulogne, voluntarily surrendered
themselves to the polloe authorities here.
LODGED IN SCOTLAND YARD.
London, Feb. 12.—Messrs. Dillon and
O’Brien were brought to London and taken
to .Scotland Yard for tho night. To-morrow
they will be taken to Ireland. They bad
many callers at Scotland Yard.
STRIKE OF THE DOCKMBN.
The Mon Out Botn in Liverpool and
, London.
Liverpool, Feb. 12.— The unionist dock
laborers on the steamships Locbinore and
Lake Ontario struck to-day because they
were not allowed to wear a button, which
is the distinctive badge of the union, while
at work. Non-union men have taken their
plaoes.
OUT AT LONDON.
London, Feb. 12.—The dock laborers
employed m the export trade have gone
out on a strike. Those engaged in the im
port trade are still at work. The outlook is
of the most serious nature. In addition to
these labor troubles a strike of lightermen
In imminent.
France Invited to the Fair.
Paris, Fob. 12.—1 t is officially announced
that M. Ribot, minister of foreigu affairs,
has received an Invitation on behalf of the
United States government askiug France
to be represented at the world’s fair in Chi
cago in 1893.
Passing the Tithes Bill.
London, Feb. 12.—The tithes bill passed
its third reading by a vote of 250 to 101.
SHORT $03,000.
Criminal Prosecution of an Ex-State
Treasurer Recommended.
Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 12.— T0-day
the report of the joint committee appointed
to investigate the state auditor’s and state
treasurer’s books was adopted by both
houses of the legislature. They found the
amount of currency in the office of the
treasurer $03,740 less than the auditor’s
books showed should be there, and recom
mend that criminal proceedings be brought
against ex-Treasurer Woodruff.
Newspapers and the Fair.
New York, Feb. 12. —The American
Newspaper Publishers’ Convention to-day
adopted resolutions expressing sympathy
with the effort to establlsn a world’s fair,
and providing for the appointment of a
committee to advise with the fair officials
as to the best way to make it a success. The
date of the annual convention was changed
from the second to the third Wednesday in
February. ’
Zouaves On to Augusta.
Mobile, Ala., Feb. 12. —The Elizabeth
Zouaves left here for Augusta, Oa., late to
night, after a day spent moat pleosautly
here.
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W ATTERSOX WROTE IJILL
HB EXPRESSES SORROW AT 188
GOVERNOR'S ANGER
The Letter Intended In the Best of
Faith—The Editor Opens Hie Expla
nation by Telling Why He Woe In
duced to Write the Now Famous
Bptstla
Louisville, Ky„ Feb. 12.—0n returning
to this oity this afternoon Mr. Wattersoo, in
response to a request of the Associated
Frees and lo answer tu some hundreds of
telegrams whioh have come to Louisville
during the last tweuty-four hours, gave
the following statement for publication:
Locusviiax Kr.. Feb. IS, 1901.
I wrote the letter to Gov. Hill, and I was Inv
pellod to do so by moll res the eiaceremt and
most disinterested. There appeared in many of
the great newspapers last Sunday a nenaacional
account of how a caucus of United States sen
ators had resolved upon retiring Oov. Hill ."root
the presidential arena: of how I had been selected
as the instrument of these senators, and of how
1 hail dispatched him a letter potent enough to
alter his plans. Whence this fantastic story
emanated I cannot divine, but it was
absurd, .and did such injustice to both
Gov. Hill and myself that I thought first that
there could be no objection on the part of any
body to the publication of the truth, which flatly
contradicted it. I waa Induced to this by tho
ch-oumstancs that Gov. Hill seemed to have
adopted the course suggested by considerations
alico honorable to bis character aud credittbis
to Ilia judgment; more so, indeed, smoe the
letter hi question furnished him and bis
friends impartial teaUmony to answer
ami refute a most odious and widely
circulated oalumny. I confess that I
am surprised that the governor should maks
such haute to disavow and disown the course
whioh. however prompted, gratified every dem
oorat In the United States outside of the state
Of Nsw York, removing him at once from the
field of mere political scheming and self-seek
ing, aud placlug him in the front rank of states
men having the good of their country ami party
at ejart. lain equally distressed by the repre
sentation that Gov. Hill should regard my
plain but friendly words as Impertinent and
insulting. I did not so Intend them. I cannot
help thinking that the same words might with
propriety bo addressed to him as to
any democratic aspirant by the humblest
democrat In the land; and I still hope that,
annoyed by the publication, which annoyed me
aa wall, he hae proceeded upon a uiisapprehen
•lon of the facta of the gash. I can asture him
that neither in the writing or printing of my
letter was there any purpose to take an ad
vantage of him, and, least of all, to do him
an injustice 1 am no man's man, and
exist in no man’s Interest. To use his own
happy expression: I’m a democrat, who hna
liassed a lifetime In the service of principle*
and policies from which I have never sought
the slightest personal recognition or reward, I
am only humiliated by the retleotlon that my
years of service waa not sufficient in the estima
tion of Gov. Hill to protect me against his dis
pleasure, and that In the harsh constructldk
which ho puts upon the genuine, and not forged,
letter, he visits mo with what 1 must regard ad
unmerited suspicion.
Hxnbv Wsttxksos.
CLEVELAND TO THB BUILDERS.
Be Delivers a Lon? Speech Free from
Political Matters.
New York, Feb. 13.—The National Asso
ciation of Builders concluded their annual
mooting to-night with a banquet in the
Lenox Lyoeum. The guest of honor was
ex-Fresident Grover Clevelsnd, and he
spoke to the toast, “Our country,” making
an address of 2,000 word* or more
in length, in whioh there Is not a
single reference to any * political
topic. Hu complimented his hearers upon
tho large share they had takou in “building
up" our oountry to its present position
among the tmtl<mH,aud touched humorously
upon the irrepressible conflict that is
always pending between the builders and
those who employ them. Mr. Cleveland
was inclined to think that on
tho whole "the relatione of tho builder
with hie fellow men have been fairly ami
cable. It this were not so, and If the dis
putes and misunderstam lings were ordinary
incidents of building contracts, it ie quits
apparent that the buildings which
have been put up in our country
would have caused enough of quar
rels not only to endanger our social fabric,
but to transfer much of the wealth in the
bands of the builders and their patrons to
the pockets of the members of that peaceful
and honest profession to which I
have the honor to belong. Though
this latter result would not be
altogether mournful, the legal profession are
so patriotic and so easily satisfied that I
arn quite certain they are contented with
the existing conditions.”
A RIVER ON A TE alt.
The Tennessee Out of Its Banks and
Still Rising.
Nashville, Tens., Feb. 12.—A Chatta
nooga, Tenn., special says: “The Tennessee
river at this point has passed the danger
line, 83 feet, and 1s still rising steadily, and
will, in all probability, poos the 40-foot
mark, although no eerioua consequences will
follow. Thousands of logs have drifted past
all day from the wreck of the boom at Lou
don, entailing irloss of more than $40,000.
The stream is almost out of its banks, and
people in the low-lying plaoes are taking
shelter elsewhere. Only one of the regular
fleet of steamboats is making regular trips.
The others are giving assistanoe, especially
at the Islands. A big rise is ootning do wa
from the headwaters of the Tennessee.’’
LIABILITY OF HOTEL MEN.
A Quest Who Fell in a Dark Hall
Awarded Damages.
Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 12.—A Mont
gomery (Ala.) special says: “A case of
interest to hotel men everywhere, involving,
as It dues, the extent of their liability for
damage in cases of aocident to guests, naa
been decided here. In July, 1889, W. A.
Thomas, a guest of the Windsor hotel, of
which Capt. D. R. West is proprietor, fell
in a hallway alleged to ba poorly lighted.
Both of his arms were broken. The plaintiff
sued Capt. West for SIO,OOO. A jury yes
terday, after being out forty-eight hours,
returnod a verdict awarding the plaintiff
$2,500.”
OHIO’S REPUBLICAN CLUBS.
' William McKinley, Jr., Assumes to
Answer Bx-Presldent Cleveland.
Toledo, 0., Feb. 12.— Tc-day, Lincoln’s
birthday, was chosen as the date for
the Fourth annual oonventlon of the Ohio
league of republican clubs. The convention
wound np to-night with a banquet, at which
William McKinley, Jr , was tne most prom
inent speaker, and his subject was “Au
American Tariff for the American People."
His speech was essentially a reply to ex-
President Cleveland’s speech at the Thur
man banquet at Columbus last November,
and a criticism of bis letter to the New
York Cooper Union meeting upon the ques
tion of free sliver coinage.
Harrison Declines to Pardon.
Washington, Feb. 12.— The Pretident
has refused to pardon Robert T. K. Bain,
who was convicted of misapplication of
funds of the Exchange National Bank of
Norfolk, Va , and sentenced to five years
imprisonment.