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, THE MORNING NEWS. 1
JehtaBUSHBP IfUO.INCORTOaATTOim r
■) J. H. ESTILL, President. \
HILL TAKES Ills SEAT.
- a SENATORS GIVB SIM A REGU
LAR OVATION.
A Delegation of Forty Democrats
Vfent Over From the Houbo to See
jj.rQ sworn In and Congratulate
H rc _Bepreafntatlve Catcbings tbe
ol ,iy leader Who Was Conspicuous
b y Eia Frtsence.
Washington, Jan. 7.— David Bennett
jjjjl bushed with pride in the Senate to-day
ti i bis face locked like one of the gorgeous
tu-ci t* o( America's beauties which gome
" yß ous fair friend bad placed on hig
It was literally the proudest moment
cf bis life ben he took his seat, even if it
a temporarily and physically a back seat in
the Senate. Not of course that ho values
tue senatorial seat compared with the Presi
" p, or even the gubernatorial chair, but
because his admirers among the dem
ocrats of the Senato and House made
ji much fuss over him as if ho
bid been elected president pro tempore of
the Senate instead of a freshman member
0 f that body. Really, if Senator Hill
could be embarrassed he would ha-*> been
embarrassed by the unprecedented atten
tions these admirers showered upon him.
\tben Senator Sherman, the greatest in
tellect in tbe Republican party, returns
fiampbant from bis victory over Ex-Gov.
F raker he will not have such a demonstra
tion. No one iti our clay Ims had It, not
even Logan after his last senatorial victory,
when the Illinois representatives come over
(bin the House to joiu the republican
senators in welcoming him back.
A DELEGATION TO SDK HILL.
Fully forty democrats, mostly from tho
south and west, came over from the House to
leeSuuator Hill take the oath aud seat. They
were headed by Re 1 resentative Catchings
of Mississippi, a Hill enthusiastic, who is
Speaker Crisp’s closest friend. Chief Lieu
tenant Whiting of Michigan, of tho ways
and means committee, aud Representative
Newoerry of Illinois wore amoug the west
ern men. Mr. Catcbings was the
only leader, now or old, iu tbe crowd.
Neither Representative Holman nor Repre
sentative Springer appeared, and of course
none of tho old guard in tho House. After
Senator Hill ha i come out of the democratic
cloak room, where be had been chatting
with democratic senators, Senators Gorman,
Bnoe and Colquitt being the most promi
nent, during the chaplain’s prayer and had
go: e and >wn on the arm of the nonchalant
| and lethargic Hiscock, who announced his
pre>e:.ce most abruptly, and had taken the
iron-clad oath as administered by Vice
President Morton, and had been es
c rted back to his seat by Senator
Brice, he held a regular levee,
A HAND SHAKING.
Headed by Mr. Catcbings the forty
House democrats formed inline and were
led past, shaking Senator Hill’s hand. They
were congratulating him on his recent work
in New York as well as on his arrival in
Washington, notwithstanding tho rapping
to order of the Vico Hrosidnnt’s gavel. Then
when tho democratic representatives had
gone the d-mreratio eenatois shook his
hand, Senators Alias and Carlisle among
rest, till finally Senator Gorinau took
him away to the democratic consulta
tion room u; stairs. There is no doubt
that much of this greeting was for effect
and that much of the rest of it was due to
his recent success. Senator Hill was given
Ins c ommittee piaces to-day, and was noti
fied that 33 accrued salary was await
s order. It is said that upon the
advice of Senator Gorman he will draw it
and then hand it back to be oonverted into
the treasury.
THK PROCEEINGS IN DETAIL.
I<V the Auociated Prest.
ssrington, Jan. 7. —When the Senate
ir.“t to-lay every state responded by its two
frastors except Nevada, from which Mr.
•'tn.es has not yet been sworn in for his new
hriii, and the state of New York, whoso
ssnator-eleet (ex-G'ov. Hill) had presouted
jus credentials. After prayor bv the c.iap
h n, Mr. Hill entered the chamber and was
*:i surrounded by senators from both
1:1 " , welcoming him to his new scone of
I public duty. As soon as the journal had
era real Mr. Hi.icock announced David B.
mil,senator-elect from the state of New
f f * present on * prepared to take the*oatb
; * :ce - The Vice President invited Mr.
n i to come forward and take the oath,
■hicbhe did under escort of Mr. Hircock .
ten he went back to tiis seat the greotiogs
m congratulations were renewed.
. uiong the bills introduced and referred
ioneby Mr. Var.ce fur a monument to
’-wreeno of the revolutionary army on
beb&ttio field of Guilford, N. C.
„ hill’s committee places.
*- oc kreU was excused from serving
Phare' co ™ K1 'V o e on immigration; Mr. Mc
t- ;°® " rora service on the committee on
u ' 0: Jl r - Colquitt on interstate oom
fr.^ancl , r t Voorhees on relations with
‘-a and Mr. Hill was appointed to
frnn ?, aoß ' Mr. Gorman was also excused
Ca * on relations with
Wsp'ace™ -^ r - Colquitt was appointed in
eiin S ro?o Struc ? ng committee on for
th ß ijj ,atm i* to inquire Into the condition of
on miri^ ra^ 1 ?, oaria * was taken up and was,
1 “ r - Vest, amended by instruct
'' 10 inquire wfc t amount
fo r wh J bad actually been expended and
other pu . rposo > a,!f l what contracts or
oo.nna v lons bad been made by the
agreed to Ine resolution as amended was
ChMr nf U i tlor , int roduced a bill to revive the
IV e- le ntenant general of the army,
till Monday 0 111811 • at 1 : o’clock, adjourned
BILL’S ENTRY.
■eca.vcß a More Cordial Welcome
‘-an ! 8 Usually Extended.
S,/y^’ oToN '- Jan. 7.—Senator Hill of
After t'-> ta rema * ,let l bi his seat for an hour
object ** ‘i ourniae,l t to-day. He was au
tad ratrim.! t ' r,,st to the P u i>lic, which then
ikciuud ln ’° the ball. Ho was much
•Pect a t., ra * nd ! lo *“ted out by little knots of
Q eks !. Kalhered in the rear of the
herlv . occupied the seat for
°f South !■ ~ by Senator Hamptou
* n theiio m ar °bna, in th* last row
tt " fcintn- „ ratic slt t° of the chamber. The
otu 51 , reo “ivcd a measure of welcome
e ' I ' ir ''nt'vl'u’™ et * to now-oomers in tho
not only was lie
O'title Viul‘ >l!t ‘ vl b - 7 nearly all of his dem-
Kfi.,?," 1 ' 08 ’ ljut by ninny of the re-
STfised t-* u< i be must have been
J s, hir.u n„ t." how tfany pors'ms in
®Mge hv n ■ known bim well for years,
profuse declarations.
, 4 J Rodgera Dyinsr.
* I l .' io3i N ’ J - I.—Hear Admiral
h* 1 ‘Maiit Ker -> United States navy, (re
r “tint k ," r " usl y 'll with heart trouble.
nav T department this nfter-
re is no chance of bis recovery.
W 43n Ur ' Bp Better -
'ban. 7.—The condition of
ts ‘ ; -lay *’ slio " e '* cous.durableimprovo-
SESSION OF THB HOUSE.
Eome of the Ellis Introduced Under
the Call of the States.
Washington, Jan. 7.— After the ap
proval of the journal and the appropriate
reference of various executive communi
cations, on motion of Mr. Springer of Illi
nois, it was ordered that when the House ad
journ it be to meet ou Monday next.
Mr. Richards of Tennessee, chairman of
the committee ou printing, offered a con
current resolution authorizing that com
mittee to examine Into the errors of the in
dex of the Jiecord of the present session and
to take steps bo remedy the defects. He
thought that the resolution presented a
question of privilege, os it effected the in
tegrity of the record of the proceedings. He
called for the reading ot rule 9, relating
to questions of privilege.
Messrs. Boutolie of Maine, Henderson of
lowa, and Buchanan of New Jersey inquired
as to the congress to which that rule be
longed.
The speaker pro tern, replied that is was
rule 9 of the Fiftieth congress.
The rule having been read, Mr. Richard
son explained that whoever compiled the
index had fafiel to mention the iiamea of
the seven members from Tennessee and the
names of a number of others. The resolu
tion was agreed to.
Tbe call of the states was then resuind.
80MB OF THE BILLS INTRODUCED.
Under the call of the states tho flood of
bills was resumed. Among those intro
duced and referred were the following;
By Mr. Richardson of Tennessee—To
equalize taxation and impose ati ino >me tax;
also for a public buildlug at Tullahoma,
Tenn.
By Mr. Pierce ot Tennessee—For free
ooinage of silver; also for the imposition of
an iucome tax; also for ths prevention of
trusts.
By .Mr. Lanham of Texas—For free coin
age of silver; also a resolution directing the
committee on the judiciary to investigate
and report whether the act of 1837, provid
ing lhat gold and silver bulion brought to
tho mint* for coinage 6hall bo coiaed;for
the benefit of tbe depositors is still in force.
By Mr. Htewartof Texas —Placing bag
ging and cotton ties on tbe free list; also to
promote reciprocity between the United
States and Mexioo; also fixing the presi
dential term at six years.
By Mr. Tucker of Virginia—To place
sulphuric acid, oil of vitriol and binding
twine ou the frse list; also for a public
building at Lexington, Va.
By Mr. Wise of Virginia—For a publio
building at Manchester, Va.
By Mr. Lawson of Virginia—For public
buildings at Newport News aud Ports
mouth, Va.
By Mr. Brosius of Pennsylvania—An
anti-option bill; also a bill defining lard,
and imposing a tax on the manufacture of
compound lard.
By Mr. Stump of Maryland—A resolu
tion calling on the President for informa
tion regarding the famine said to exist in
Russia.
By Mr. Livingston of Georgia—For the
appointment of a special committee to
gather and submit certain information
touching United Htates bonds, ourrency
and other matters relating to the financial
system of toe United Btates.
By Mr. Lester of Georgia—For a public
building at Brunswick, Ga.
By Mr. Enloeof Tennessee—To repeal the
McKinley iaw; also to repeal the ocean mail
subsidy act; also to reduce the expenses of
senators and representatives attending con
gressional funerali.
Mr. Blount entered a motion to recon
sider tbe vote by which the House yesterday
decided to indefinitely postpone the .Senate
joint resolution authorizing the Secretary
of the Navy to transport certain contribu
tions to the suffering poor or Russia.
The House then adjourned until Monday.
LIVINGSTON AT WORK.
He Proposes the Appointment of a
Committee of Inquiry.
Washington, Jan. 7. Representative
Livingston of Georgia, who is now recog
nized as tho leader of the democratic farm
ers’ allianceraen, agrees with Jerry Simp
son, who is now recognized as the
leaner of the independent farmers’ alli
ancemen, that some new patent med
icine is needed by the body po
litic. Representative Simpson is preparing
a nostrum which he has not quite finished.
Representative Livingston more modestly
proposes a congressional investigation be
fore he will attempt legislation. He offered
in the House to-day a preamble reciting the
distress and unrest among the people and a
resolution creating a special committee of
seven, of which he would naturally be
chairman, to investigate and report upon
the following subjecis:
1. The amount of the national bank notos
outstanding; amount of United States
bouds held by national banks; contraction
of the volume of national currency; rate of
interest charged by banks and the profits
of the system.
*>. The amount of contraction in every
species of currency since 1855; amount of
currency now in the United States, and its
location and distribution.
8. Amount of currency in kinds held
by the United States treasury and by
national banks as reserves.
4. Volume of business transacted in the
United States during the year 1890 with the
amounts, based upon cash and credit.
5. To wtiat extent foreign is capital used
in the United States and its effects upon the
industries, the manner in which interest
and dividends upon such investments are
paid and to what extent do such invest
ments control the products and labor of
this oountry, and how and why.
6. Also toroport amendments and sugges
tions to the present financial system.
The resolution went to the committee on
rules, which, when Speaker Crisp recovers,
will probably report it favorably.
livingbton’s explanation.
When asked to-night for an explanation
of his resolution Representative Livingston
dictated the following: “There is nothing
partisan, sectional or local in it. If that
investigation is hold all the facts in financial
matters will bo brought out. If the distress
of the people of the country is due to finan
cial fault* congress wants to know it and
remedy it. If not the people want to know
it so that they can look elsewhere for relief.
It will fettle all this agitation. It will place
the f "Cts before us and a correct opinion can
be formed as to what is needed.
It will bring congress and the
people nearer than they hare been
for twenty-five years. Me want to
meet the unrest at home with
facts and not with demagogy and decep
tion. Wo want to show up the facts of the
rational banking system in order that we
CB „ mend the system so that tho states that
were not prosperous just after the war can
have currency as well as the
states that were able to buy
to,ids and establish .national
banks. If the facts warrant legislation for
any particular olass or section, then they
nrJentitled to it. If not, then the people
ought to know it. All our people want is
for congress to do what is right. Then we
shall get rid of all this strife and turmoih
We want to find the actual situation.
When we do tho remedy can be applied.
Earl of Litchfield Dead
London, Jan. 7.-The Earl of Litchfield
died to-day.
SAVANNAH, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1892.
BLAINE IS STILL IN BED.
HIS ATTACK LOOKED UPON A3 AN
IMPORTANT STRAW.
Disinterested Politicians of the Opin
ion That .It Demonstrates That the
Secretary is Out of the Presidential
Race—Blaine’s Friends Hot Against
the Harrison Men For Their Asser
tions.
Washington, Jan. 7. —Secretary Blaine
spent the day in bed and not in returning
the calls made yesterday by the President
and the cabinet and the diplomatic corps,
or in work at the Btate department as his
too zealous friend* prophesied yesterday.
Indeed he was still a weak and nervous, if
not an ill man, and although late in the
afternoon he was able to see John W. Foster
and one or two others who called on him. It
was only for a brief time in each case, as he
lay or, at the most, sat up in bed. Uf course
he hopes to be up and out to-morrow but
the President would be surprised to see him
at the cabinet meeting.
BLAINE’S FRIENDS HOT.
Secretary Blaine's friends were very hot
to-day over the confident assertion of the
Harrisonians that this latest attack demon
strated beyond doubt that Secretary Blaine
was out of the presidential race. They in
sisted that on the oontrnry it demonstrated
plainly that Secretary Blaine had no apo
plectic symptoms, such as the Harrisonians
have been talking about, and would demon
strate when Secretary Blaine got out in a
day or two that he was in such good health
that even an acute attack of indigestion
would not Eeriously interfere with his use
fulness.
OPINION OF THE DISINTERESTED.
There is no doubt, however, that the drift
of opinion among the disinterested, is that
the Harrisonians ore nearer right than the
Blainiites. If Secretary Blaine were a well
man little importance would be given to his
attack of Indigestion, even if it was acuta
enough to keep him in bed aud asleep most
of the time for two days and nights, but
everybody's mind is full of recollections not
only of his collapseslast May, after such an
attack, but of bis thin, sallow, aged look
since Senator Plumb’s death. Men of 00
who looks like men of 80, are not usually
healthy men, still Secretary Blaine’s will is
wonderful, and he could doubtless live
through a campaign, if not through an ad
ministration, cn that alone.
TARIFF RETALIATION.
The Issuing of tbe Proclamation Post
poned Till March 15. ,
Washington, Jan. 7.—ln view of the
provision in the reciprocity section of the
tariff iaw of Oot. 1, 1890, making it the duty
of the President, after Jan. 1, 1892, to sus
pend by proclamation free admission of
sugars, molasses, ooffee, tea and hides
aguinst such countries producing these
articles, as after that dote maintain tariff
duties upon American agricultural
and other products whi h he may deem
unequal and unreasonable, the President
submitted to the Attorney General the ques
tion whether the law authorized him to
issue a proclamation fixing a future day
when the duties imposed bv virtue of the
proclamation would take effe -t. The At
torney General has given an opinion that
duties must attach aud be collected on and
after the date of the proclamation and that
a future day cannot be named by the Presi
dent.
GIVING IMPORTERS A CHANCE.
Owing to this decision, and that justice
to importers of the articles named in sec
tion 3 of the tariff law requires that reason
able notice should be given of the Presi
dent’s intended action, Secretary Illaine
to-day sent notes to the diplomatic repre
sentatives in this city of Austria-Hungary,
Colombia, Hoyti, Nicaragua. Honduras,
Spain (for the Philippine Is
lands), and Venezuela, informing
them that on March 15, next, the President
would, unless in the meantime some satis
factory reciprocity arrangement should be
made with the countries named, issue his
proclamation suspending tho pro
visions of the tariff law relating to
free introduction into the United Htates of
sugars, molass-s, coffee, tea and hides, the
product cf or exported from such countries,
and on and after that date the du
ties fixed in section 3 would be imposed on
those articles. Tbe notice to Spain, how
ever, only applies to the Philippine Islands.
Negotiations with Franco and some other
countries have reaohed such a stage as, in
the opinion of the President, to warrant the
Secretary of State in withholding notice to
them of the proclamation affecting their
products.
NEW BILLS IN THE HOUSE. •
A Total of 370 Introduced Yesterday.
Livlngeton’B Bill.
Washington', Jan. 7. —When the last
state was reached in the call of bills to-day
in the House 370 bills of a general character
had been put in, making a total for the two
days during which the call operated of over
700 bills, exclusive of a large number of in
dividual pension bills and others of a private
nature. Many of the bills introduced were
measures of the last and previous oongresses
which failed of passage, and in some in
stances of consideration. They were bills
which if passod would affect many pursuits
of the people, and in a general way modify
or change existing laws in all directions.
Not a few of them were measures proposing
changes in tho tariff laws, and one, intro
duced by Mr. Euloe, was to repeal the en
tire McKinley act
APPROPRIATION BILLS.
They Will be Disti tbuted Among the
Committees.
Washington, Jan. 7.— lt is practically
settled that there will be no assemblage of
general appropriation bills in the appro
priations committee of the House, and the
distribution of ths appropriation hills among
the several committees will remain as in the
two previous congress. The ways and moans
committee did little routine business pre
liminary to beginning work on tariff legis
lation. Reuter Springer, son of the chair
man, succeeds John M. Carson as principal
clerk. Alexander Jones, a Chicago news
paper man, was appointed asaiscaut olerfc.
Only eight members—a bare quorum—were
present.
deep water for savannah.
Representative Le=tar Introduces a
Bill on the SubLct.
Washington, Jan. 7.— Representative
Lester introduced a resolution in the House
to-day providing that contracts may be en
tered Into by tbe Secretary of War for such
materials aud work as may be necessary to
< arry out and complete tbe plans contained
in the report of the chief of engineers for
securing the tweDty-six feet of water ap
proved by the Secretary of War July 22,
1890, lor Improving the harbor of Savan
nah, to be paid for as appropriations may
from time to time be made by law.
CLOBE ON GARZAS HEELS.
News of His Death or Capture Mo
mentarily Expected.
Ban Antonio, Tex., Jan. 7.—One of
tbe clerks at the government headquarters
said last night: "The capture of Garza is
regarded os only a question of a few hours,
and while the officers are guarding the se
cret very closely, he has ben located poei
tively at a ranch eighteen miles from San
Diego, and a force sufficient to insure bis
capture is now after him. 1 expect to bear
soon that he has either been captured or
slain, probably the latter, as ho has boasted
that he would never be taken alive. I be
lieve with his death or capture, tho revolu
tion, if it can be so called, will com* to a
sudden termination.”
REVOLUTIONISTS ROUTED.
Laredo, Tex., Jan. 7. —A la'egram re
ceived late last evening from Gen. Reyes,
commander of tho Mexican troops, now
operating on tbe border against the' Garza
revolutionists, states that a considerable en
gagement took place yesterday evening
between the United States troops and a
band of Garza’s troops at
La Joha, a crossing on the Rio
Granda in which the Garz* men were put
to tlight, leaving a nutuner of horses and
arms in possession of the United States
forces. The fight took place ou the bank of
the river and two of the bandits jumped
into the river to mane their escape. One of
them was shot and the other taken prisoner
by the Mexican toops who bad moved along
the river front on the Mexican side in con
junction with the United States forces.
A later telegram from Gon. Reyes says a
report has reached his headquarters that a
detachmeut American cavalry escorting a
lot of captured Garza men to Brownsville
for trial by the United Htates court were
attacked by u company of Garza men below
Edenburg aud the prisoners rescued.
GOV. RUSSELL’S NEW TERM.
His Message Full of Recommenda
tions to the Legislature.
Boston, Jnn. 7. —William E. Russell was
to-day inaugurated governor of Massa
chusetts, and bis address read to the two
branches of the legislature. Gov. Russell
devotes the larger portion of his message to
an argument against divided responsibility,
or no responsibility, in the system of ex
ecutive management established in this
commonwealth. He earnestly recommends
favorable consideration of such legislation
as will give power to remove adminis
trative officers for cause stated to the
governor, leaving the council power of
confirmation of hia appointments. He then
reviews several executive boards and offi
ces, making suggestions and recommenda
tions as to each one. He reoom mended the
passage of a comprehensive and stringent
law to secure the publication of election
expenses, and if possible, to limit their
amount and define their proper object
VOTING FOB ELECTORS.
He urges an amendment to the ballot law
so that a single manic may constitute a vote
for all the presidential electors of a political
party. At present, to give full effect to a
vote for President, the voter must mark
separately the names of the fifteen eleotors.
The danger is that with the present extent
of partial voting many voters, through
carelessness or mistake, will net mark the
full list of electors. In a close election this
would oertainly lead to unintentional divis
ion of the doctoral vote of the state. He asks
further legislation iu the interest of labor
aud requests that the national legislature be
petitioned for providing for the adoption of
a safety appliance in coupling and un
ooupliug cars. The #75,000 appropriated
for the world’s (Joluusbian exposition is
considered inadequate, and he reoumpiends
that ths amount be increased. o
FIVB LYNCHED, f I
Another Batch of tho Sims Gong Re
ported Lynched. h=;
Mobile, Ala. , Jan. 7. —News came late
last night from Womaok Hill, Ala., the
scene of tbe reoent Sims outrages and
hangings, that Neal, brother of Bob, two
other men, and Laura and {Beatrice Sims,
two daughters of Bob, were on their way
from Womack Hill last night going
iu the direction of Laet, Miss., tho
rendezvous of the rest of the
gang. They were met by a posse searching
for Neal Sims, who is wanted for murder.
It is said that Neal resisted arrest and was
ha iged and afterward shot, and also that
the rest of tbe party attempted to interfere
in Neal’s behalf and were strung up to an
oak tree along the roadside, the women be
ing among the number lynched. Great ex
citement is said to prevail.
THE REPORT DENIED.
Mobile, Ala., Jon. 7, 7 p. m.— The re
port of the lynching of Neal Sims and two
daughters of Bob Sims, near Womack Hill,
Tuesday night, is denied by the sheriff of
Wayne county, at Waynesboro, Miss., the
nearest telegraph station lo ’Womack Hill.
EXPRESS PACKAGES STOLEN.
They Are Supposed to Have Contained
SIO,OOO or More.
Houston, Tex., Jan. 7. — Late Tuesday
night the branch office of Wells, Farg ) &
Co.’s express at the Grand Central depot
was robbed of four packages of money
amounting to #IO,OOO or more. The exact
sum is unobtainable on aocount of the reti
cence of tbe officials. The night clerk had
received the money from the
messengers, who had come in
on the night train and placed
it in the 6afe without loosing it. He stepped
out for a moment through one door and
through one on the opposite sida of the
room a thief entered, getting the money and
making his escape before theclerk returned.
He was seen by one of the drivers to croxe
the street with the money packages in his
arms, but he thought it was a baggageman
with letters. There is no other clew.
A STEAME and REPORTED AS TORE.
The Report Probably Started Under a
Misapprehension.
Washington, Jan. 7.—lt is reported
here unofficially that a large steamship is
ashore near the Wachspreague life-suviug
station, Virginia. As there is no telegraphic
communication with that station it was im
possible to get word to the keeper on the
subject to-day.
PROBABLY A FALSE REPORT.
Norfolk, Va., Jan. 7.—Telegrams were
received here yesterday asking about a
steamship reported to be ashore near Cape
Cburles. Sergt. Janies P. Sherry, in charge
of the signal station at Cape Henry, sig
naled the pilots to ask if they knew any
thing of the matter. The pilots answered
that the rumor probably originated from
the fact that the steamship Gvingham was
at anchor well in under shore near Cape
Charles, discharging ballast.
An Electric Car Run Down.
St. Joseph, Mo., Jan. 7.—An electric
street car was run into by a freight tram
.while crossing the Kansas City, St. Joseph
and Council Bluffs railroad tracks lost
night. Nine passengers were injured by
the collision. Henry Warner, a machinist,
and Willis Tream were fatally injured.
RUSSIA UNDER A CLOUD.
THB PROSPECT FOB NEXT TEAR A
Dismal one.
One of the Most Remarkable Men in
the Empire Attributes the Famine
to Thirty Years of Mismanagement.
Danger That Food Will Be Scarcer
Than Ever Next Year.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 7. —A correspond
ent making a tour of Riazaa writes as fol
lows: "Absolute starvation is rare, but a
majority' of the peasants are verging on
that condition. Tlie local gentry find it
difficult to estimate the real condition of the
peasants,owing to their complete waut of
touch with them. Officials declare that
the peasants, knowing that relief is
comi -g conceal their stores anil
fabricate stores of distress. An assistant
of Count Tolstoi refers to 'sham starvation.’
Never.heless, widespread misery exists and
relief is urgently needed. The and istress is
rapidly becoming worse. Some say: We
expect to be pillaged and to have our build
ings burned down before spring by people
rendered desperate by the raintue. Count
Tolstoi has (established a number of eating
houses, where he has fe l the people at 3
shillings each per month, giving them
cabbage soup, good bread and occasionally
eggs, hut never meat. Count Tolstoi has
limited Himself and his assl-tants to tho
saute diet. He and his helpers are erecting
huts of refuge for the peasants, many of
whom have burned their own barns and
homesteads piece-meal in order to keep
warm, before starting to tramp. Count
Tolstoi has kept open village schools and
children look bright and healthy."
THE RESULT OF BAD MANAGEMENT.
Moscow, Jan. 7. —In an interview on tho
famine with an eminent Russian official,
one of tho most remarkable nteu in tho em
pire, he said, after pledging the corre
spondent to secrecy regarding his name:
"Tbe present famine is not a bolt from tho
sky—a siuglo phenomenon that nas come
suddenly and will as suddenly depart. It
is a natural consequence of thirty years of
bad management and will become chronic.
If it had not occurred this year, it would
have occurred some other year. It is an
inevitable result of a senes of causes. The
peasants may be relieved: we may buy corn
for them and feed them, but how are we to
give them back their hurses and oaltle 1
They have already killed half of them. This
is one consideration. There is still another.
NEXT YF.AR’S OUTLOOK.
“These sixteen or seventeen provinces
which are now suffering from want, are
not the only ones which will be In need of
help next spring. Fifty, uotsixteon, provin
ces will he in a state of starvation then.
Those governments which have had good
harvests are not self-supporting ones.
They have generally to import
oorn in tbe winter and early spring for
themselves. This year their state is much
worse Beoing that they have exported all tho
corn they could spare to the famine- tricken
districts. What their condition will bo in
the spring you may imagine.
CONDITION OF THE PEASANTRY.
"The state of the peasantry is extremely
unsaisfaetory. Theyaroat once apathetic
and desperate. They are prortrate in the
faoe of the terrible calamity that has befal
len them. But their apathy cannot last.
Rislugs may be expeoted. Tho peasants
believe It to be the ezir’s duty to feed
them. I have heard them talk
as follows: 'The czar must feed us, and if
he does not we must choose another.’ What
sooiety to do in the faoe of such feelings?
How are we to prevent a cataclysm? The
little influence and onergy which our so
ciety possesses the government endeavors
to take from it.
HOW THJE EMPIRE IS HELD TOGETHER.
"There are only two forces which keep
tbe state together, tbe oburoh and the army
—and the present regime has made for it
eelf entmies in both—not small, insignifi
cant enemies, but powerful and in
fluential ones. 1 will not mention
names for fear of drawing attention
to them, but I think it is very improba
ble that tho soldiers and their comrades
if called from tbe Polish frontiers to shoot
down their starving fathers aud brothers
would be likely to obey their orders. But
if tbe Polish frontier should be deriued of
troops and the country be generally dis
turbed, I cannot conceive that Austria and
Germany would look oa quietly and not
make an effort to render harmless for a
time the power which they have learned to
regard as their greatest and most dangerous
foe.
RUSSIA’S ENEMIES.
“We have made e omies, not only
amongst our neighbors but in our own
house. The inhabitants of the Baltic prov
inces, once our most loyal subjects, are now
our enemies. We have not only the Gor
man question there; we are oreating an
Esthonian, Lithuanian, Lettish and a num
ber of other questl ms. Findland we have
also stirred up against us. But not content
with these achievements, we are now elab
orating Tartar and an Armenian question.
"Of Poland I need not sneak. You have
beard how that country legards the czar.
They have no notion of legitimacy. One
czar is as good as another. They obey the
institution; they do not understand tbs
legitimacy of succession. As it happens tho
present government has had tue misfortune
to make an enemy who mav btome very use
ful in the hands of the agitators. I mean the
vouug grand duke, Michael Michelovitch.
He is very popular.
TEKHIBLB TIMES.
"We are living in terrible times. Our
society is sunk iu materialism and cares for
nothing but taeir enjoyment, and the paas
ant has caused to be tho thoughtless czar
worshiper of (Jthe past. Besides there ap
pears to be a party at the head of affairs
which is comp sed of nihilists in disguise.
They are nihilists only. They have altered
their methods and they are loading the
country to ruin and disaster in tho most
loyal fashion in the world. I regard this
famine as a ble-slng in di-guise; it may
rouse us and show us the pitfalls into which
we are going.”
It would cause great surprise was the
name of this gentleman known to the pub
lic. His official views and his private
opinion, however, are so directly in o in
flict that he will run great risk if his
Identity was revealed to the government.
THE ACCIDENT OF 1888.
Berlin, Jan. 7. —The Kreuz Zeiluna
publishes an account ot the manner In which
it is alleged tho "aocldent” to the osar’s
train at Boerki, Oct. 17, 1-88, really origi
nated. The account states that a kitchen
boy who was employed on the imperial
train, and was supposed to have been killed
in the accident, escaped death, and that ho
was recently arrested on suspicion
of being a nihilist, and banded over to the
Russian police. According to the Krexis
Zeitung, this youth, since his arrest, has
confessed that be placed an infernal clock
in a compartment next to tbe imperial
dining saloon, and fearing that it would
explode too soon, turned it the wrong way,
with the result that ft exploded in a down
ward direction, causing the aocldent.
Snow In Groat Britain.
London, Jan. 7.— Heavy snow storms
prevail in Yorkshire ami Dorsetshire, Eng
land, and in the northern part of Ireland.
Street traffic in Belfast has been partially
suspended on account of tbe snow.
ASKALDN’S EXCITEMENT.
Four Men Killed in a Running Fight
With Sheriff Dunn’s Slayers.
Askalon, Kan., Jan. 7.—ln a running
fight to day in an attempt to arrest parties
accused of participation iu the recent mur
der of Sheriff Dunn, by ambushing him
and bis pone, it is known that four men
were killed.
THE EXCITEMENT SUBSIDING.
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 7. —A special to
the Star from Soringdold, Kan., sent at 8
o'clock ibis morning, says: “The intense
fever of excitement under which the people
of this locality have labored since the murder
of Hhe iff Dunn appears to tie subsiding
and matters are gradually assuming their
normal aspect. Further trouble may fol-'
low. but ic is not thought likely. Company
H of tbe stale troops, under Cupt. Heaton,
arrived here at sundown last night
and went into camp. This
morning many armed men are soon on the
streets with Winchesters, but not one of
them composed the mob who assassinated
Sheriff Dunn, That mob comprised fifty
men, and ha- absolutely vanished. This
morning Judge Botkin will open court at
10 o’clock, being protected by a strong
guard. Ho will adjourn court immediately
and proceed tiy wagon, protected by the
guard, to Santa Fe. where court will be
opened."
FOUR ARRESTS MADE.
A dispatch to the Star from Topeka,
Kan. , says: "Gov. Humphreys received a
dispatch this afternoou from Adjr. Uen.
Roberts, dated Askalou, staling that he
had arrested and was holding four prison
ers. He added that he anticipated no
trouble as long as the troops remalnod.
Gov. Humphreys wired Adjt. Uen. Roberts
a* follows: "You are only to hold tho
prisoners until warrants can be secured and
served upon them. There should be no un
necessary delay in tills.” Judge Botkin
was informed by wire that Gen. Roberts
would assist him in preserving the peace
and aid him in securing warrants for
the arrest ot parties properly
charged with the killing. Judge Botkin's
request made for a stand ot arms on the day
ot tho difficulty, is believed to have been for
the purpose of arm rig his friends, and that
had they bean sent a general fight would
have followed. Judge Botkin has showed
no disposition to re ire from tbe bench, and
the impression prevails here that he will re
main oven If it becomes necessary to place
his entire judicial dl-triet under military
rule. Tho only way in which he can be re
moved is by impeachment, mid this will
hardly lie tried again.”
A COURIER'S STORY.
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 7. 11 p. m.— A
special to the Journal from Arkalon, Kan.,
says: “A oouriar arrived here at noon just
in from tho south line of the state. He re
ports a running conflict between fleeing des
peradoes and au armed posse. According
to his report there were two wagons loaded
with fifteen of tho men who participated In
the canyon battle. They had been encamped
in a guloh south of Springfield, where they
were ditcovered. They saw their pur
sue: s at about the same moment and then
commenced a life and death raoc. For ten
miles the two parties were not within firiug
distance, but just before dusk the pursuing
party came within less than a quarter of a
mils of the desperadoes and then firing com
menced. This running fight was kept up
o i the level plain for a distauce of four
miles.
FALL FROM THE SEATS.
“Following one fueilade four men were
seen to tumble from their seats in tbe
wagon. It could not be ascertained
whether they were killed or wounded.
“The pursuing party finding that their
hortes would not carry them further mads
a detour of half a mile to a ranon, where
they procured fresh horses, aud the race was
resumed. Tbe courier started baok from
that point. He says tho pursuing
party, numbering fourteen men, will follow
the desperadoes into No Man’s land if nec
essary, and bring them back dead or alive.
Anothor courier is hourly expected with the
nows ot tho battle.”
A NEW SCANDAL IN CANADA.
Lady MacDonald Accused of Being
Involved in a Land Grab.
Toronto, Ont. , Jan. 7. —The Regina
Leader (conservative) tho other day made
a oharge to the effect that while the Hon.
Mr. Dowdney was lieutenant governor of
the northwest territories he used bis official
knowledge to have land adjoining the
future town site of Regina corralled, and
that a certain personage of Ottawa, who
wielded a great influence, was in tbe pool.
To-day's Globe , commenting on the above,
says: “it is not worth while mincing mat
ters. The [lersonage referred to is Lady
MacDonald, She, tbe wife of tho premier of
the day, is virtually accused by this con
servative journal of having neon a partner
with Mr. Dowdney and the reet in the
transaction, which all concerned must have
kuowu to be shady and disreputable, anil it
would be well for parliament to order an
Investigation."
WOMEN AT THE POLLS.
Their First Appeurance ns Electors
at Toronto.
Toronto, Ont., Jan. 7.— The returns of
the city election show that for tbe first time
in the history of Canada women have been
elected to offioe, Mrs. Mary McDonnell,
leader of the Canadian woman suffrage,
movement, being elected to the
publio school board with two
other ladies, Dr. Augusta Gullen and
Mrs. Harrison. Numbers of women tax
payers voted for all the city offioers and
and were courteously received at the polls.
REVOLUTION IN GUATEMALA.
No Dispatches Received From the Re
public fcince Mew Year’s Day.
City of Mexico, Jan. 7. —There are
well-founded rumors here that a revolu
tion is in pr‘gross in Guatemala, os no dis
patches since tbe presidential elections on
Jan. 1 have bean received here from any
part of the country. The governor of
Chiapas, a border state, telegraphs that be
is without information from that country,
but has set on foot an inquiry.
Franoe and the Fair.
Paris, Jan. 7.—M. Roche, minister of
commerce, to-day inforino i the cabinet
that he would sDortly introduce in the
Chamber of Deputies a bill granting credit
to be expended in making a proper French
exhibit at tbe Chicago Columbian ex
position.
Yellow Fever at Kingston.
Halifax, N. 8., Jan. 7. — Advices have
been received from Kingston, Jamaioa, to
the effect that yellow fever has broken out
there, and that the troops have been re
moved to Newcastle in oonsequonce. Some
of tbe artillery are down with the disease.
England's Commerce.
London, Jan. 7. —The returns issued by
the board of trade for tbe month ot Decem
ber show that the imports increased £3,830,-
000 and the exports decreased £1,540,000
compared with those of the corresponding
mouth of 1891.
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VALPARAISO’S MOB WORK
THS SAILOR WHO STARTER THB
RIOT TILLS HIS STORY.
An Attack on the Baltimore's Man
Previously Contemplated by a Gang
of Disbanded Chilean Soldiers and
Sailors—The Knock-Down Blow th
Signs! for tbe Attack
Vallejo, Cal., Jan. 7. —The investiga
tion into tne assault on ths Baltimore’s sail
ors in Valparaiso began this morning at
Mare Island, iu the presence of Judge Ad
vocate General Kemy, United Htates Dis
trict Attorney Uartlr and United States
Commissioner Hanley. Judgs Homy con
ducted the investigation.
John W. Talbot, an apprentice on the
Baltimore, was tbe first witue-.R. He was
one of the liberty yarty on Sept. 16. Ha
states that C. VV. Kiggin, tbe boatswain’s
mate, one of tbe killed, was with him during
the afternoon. About 3 o’oiook they wens
together in a saloon called the Shakespeare,
in the southern part of town.
The proprietor ordered them out. declaring
that a mob of diabandod sailors aud soldie. s
were preparing to attack the Baltimore’s
men. and he did not want any trouble in
his place. Kiggin and Talbot laughed all
tbe warning, but left the place, aud went ta
the True Blue saloon.
HEOWNIN9 or THE RIOT.
Talbot continued : “About 4 o’clock,
coming out 1 sow Kiggin being threatened
by Chilean tailors in a man-of -war uniform.
I ran across and tried to separate them.
One of the Chileans spat in my faoe and I
knocked bi.n down. Instantly a
crowd of over 100 people appeared
on tho street, aud wo started to
run but soon jumped on a passing oar. The
mob followed mid stoned the car , and wo
wore instantly surrounded by the mob. I
saw Kiggin fall and tnod to reach him, Dus
woj siaubod in the baok, utid turned to
run. After going a few blooks I turued
into a doorway and was again stabbed in
the back. I got iu, however, and got into
a corner and defended myself with a
chair. Tne mob followed me
aud a Chilean sailor in a man-of
war uniform stabbed mo again. The bar
tender finally put them out and barri
caded the door. The mob olamored outside
for admittance, and afisr an hour a police
man arrested me and took me to jail. Ha
disguised me by substituting a bat for my
sailor’s cap with the word Baltimore on it,
no they would not notice that I was an
American sailor. The officer turned roe
over to two other policemen, who struck
me soieral times, although I was making
no resistance. I had no arms of any kind,
and was perfectly sober. After a short
time in jail I was sent to a hospital, with
Hamilton, Fainter and Davidson, all badly
hurt. W e wore kept there four days, anij
wore then sent to the ship, where I was in
the hospital forty-five days. None except
American sailors were attacked by the
inob.”
This ended Talbot’s examination, and the
commission took h reoess.
STORY OF THE ARMORER.
The next witness was James A. Johnson,
armorer of the Baltimore. “While sitting
in a restaurant,” he said, “I was told they
were killing our men outside and warned
not to go out. 1 went upstuirs and looked
out of a window and saw that a man was
lying face dftwn in the middle
of the street, two or three
policeman and a mob of citizens around
him. They were stabbing blru In the back
as he lay there. The police made no effors
to stop them. I left the hotel and went to
the place. The man was Kiggin. I turned
him over and found bit pulsj
still faintly heating, I gave him a
glass of liquor aud a moment aftor bn
recovered and said: ’For God’s sake, John
son, taka me out of this before they kill
me.’ 1 lifted him aud drew him to one side,
when I saw a squad of soldiers approaching,
followed by a howling mob. When within
six feet the soldiers fired two shots. One
grazed my left cheek, another struck
Riggin in the neck, and be fell front
my shoulder as if his neck was
broken. I had backed against a wall, but
seeing Riggin was dead I skipped off to the
side, past the soldiers and got hook into the
boarding house. I sew smoke come out of
the soldiers’ ritles, and I am sure that It was
a soldier that shot. I heard no other shot*
fired.”
The investigation will probably last a
week.
EGYPT’S KHEDIVE DEAD.
Influenza and Other Complications
Brought a Sudden End.
Cairo, Jan, 7. —The Khedive of Egypt
died this evening of the influenza which
superluduoed cardiac and other complica
tions. His death was sudden and took the
community by surprise, although it was
known that he was seriously ill. His condi
tion took a sudden change for the worse late
this afterneon and at 7 o’clock his death was
announced.
ON THE WANE AT BERLIN.
London, Jan. 8,3 a. m.—Physicians in
Berlin express a belief that the influenza
epidemic lias passed the acme there aud is
waning.
All the clergy connected with the cathe
dral at Treves sre prostrated with the in
fluenza. Vicar General Henke has died
from tbe complaint.
This distemper is spreading rapidly in the
Netherlands, especially in the southern
provinces and also in Sweden, but iu a mild
form. It is reported to be on the waue in
Italy. The pope, owing to tho fact that so
much sioknsss prevails, hag dispensed with
the ohurch regulations as to fasting In Turin
and elsewhere.
COPENHAGEN INFECTED.
Copenhagen, Jan. 7.— During the post
week there has been reported in this city
3,2*8 fresh cases of the influenza, and dur
ing tho same time there were 110 deaths
from the disease.
GUERNSEY SUFFERING.
London, Jan. 7.—Five thousand cases of
Influenza have been reported on the Island
of Guernsey.
COMMIITHE ON CfiMMEROB.
Representative ’Wise to Call It to Or
der To-morrow.
Washington, Jan. 7.— The House com
mittee on foreign and interstate commerce
of which Representative Mills is chairman,
will be called to order Saturday by Repre
sentative George D. Wise of Virgiuia, who
will act as chairman for the present. Mr.
Mills bas not fully recovered bis health, and
having obtained an indefinite leave of ab
sence from the House has gone to his horns
in Texas.
ALLIANCE PRESIDENTS MEET.
Several Minor Administrative Matters
Under Discussion.
W A9HINGTON, Jan. 7.—Pursuant to a oall
by President Polk, about twenty state presi
dents of the farmers’ alliance met here to
day in secret session. President Polk stated
that the meeting was called to discuis sev
eral minor administrative matters. Noth
ing, however, would at present be mads
public. Tho meeting will continue through
to-ruorrow.
