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( J. H. ESTILL, President )
A MEW MOVE IN CENTRAL
THE SDPK3MB COURT ASKED TO
STOP FORECLOSURE.
The Petitioners urge Holders of the
Bonds of the Macon and Northern
and Chattanooga Rome and Colum
bus Roads—They Offer to Pay the
Holders of the Tripartite Bonds—The
Reorganization Committee Extends
the Time for Receiving Deposits.
Washington, March 31.— This morntug
an application was made to Justice Jackson
of the United States supreme court by Pat
Calhoun and Leopold Wallach of New
York, with whom Senator M. C. Butter
appeared as associate counsel, in behalf of
Alexander Brown & Cos. of Baltimore,
Simon Borg & Cos. of New York and Hebert
L. Harrison, large holders of the junior se
curities of the Central railroad of Georgia,
to stay the foreclosure proceedings in the
suit brought by the Farmers’ Loan and
Trust Company of New York against the
Central railroad for $5,000,000 tripartite
bonds, on the ground that the foreclosure is
hostile to the best interests of the junior se
curity holders of the Central road and its
associated lines.
Alexander Brown & Cos. own more than
$1,000,000 of the Macon and Northern
bonds, guaranteed, both principal and in
terest, by the Central railroad.
Simon Borg & Cos. own over $300,000
bonds of the Chattanooga. Rome and Co
lumbus road, $348,000 Savannah and West
ern bonds, $19,000 Central debentures and
300 shares of Central railroad stock.
Robert L. Harrison of New York, an
other petitioner, is also a large holder of
junior securities.
OFFER TO PAY OFF THE BONDS.
Asa condition to their request for a stay
of said foreclosure proceedings the peti
tioners offer to pay ail that is due on the
Central’s tripartite 7 per cent, bonds at the
office of the New York Guaranty and In
demnity Company, 59 Cedar etreet. New
York. Their offer includes the principal of
said bonds, the past due coupons thereon
and ail accrued interest.
Among the papers presented to Justice
' Jackson there was a letter from the New
York Guaranty and Indemnity Company,
stating their readiness to pay for all of
said bonds, amounting, with past due
interest, to about $5,550,000. The pe
titioners, after describing the mort
gaged property, state that “the assets
of the company are a trust fund to be ad
ministered for the benefit of all its creditors
and stockholders, and that the petitioners
are cestuy qua trust of said fund. That the
sale of said mortgaged property under the
foreclosure suit of the said Farmers’ Loan
and Trust Company would operate to cause
said property to be sacrificed, and the in
terest of the petitioners to be seriously im
paired, if not totally destroyed, and irrep
arable damage would result therefrom;
that the petitioners, as junior security
holders of said Central Railroad and Bank
ing Company, having in equity a charge
upon the assets of said company, including
said mortgaged premise#, respectfully olaim
the right to redeem and hold for their own
protection and benefit without Impairment
of obligation or security the said bonds
eecured by said tripartite mortgage and to
stay the foreclosure thereof, and to be sub
rogated and substituted to all of
the rights, seourity and privileges
of the present holders of the
said tripartite bonds; petitioners
believing and charging to be true that if
same be done and the foreclosure be pre
vented at the present time the interest of
the junior security holders and stockholders
can be preserved and protected, and the
values of their several securities und stock
preserved from a logs whioh would other
wise ensue. Petitioners are prepared to
purchase from and pay the present holders
of said tripartite bonds all that Is due
thereon.”
THE PRAYER TO THE PETITION.
The prayer to the petition is very short.
Here Is the whole of it:
1. Wherefore, petitioners pray that the pro
ceedings to foreclose said mortgages be stayed
until the further order of court and so long as
petitioners are ready to purchase said bonds at
a price equal to all that is due thereon.
2. That petitioners be made parties in the
foreclosure suit and that the Central railroad
and the parties in said litigation show cause
why the stay of said foreclosure proceedings
should not be continued.
Mr. Cirouit Justioe Jackson made the fol
lowing order:
Let this petition be filed as a petition pro in
terest su. Let all proceedings in the foreclosure
of said mortgage be stayed until the further
order of this court, and let the parties to this
cause show cause before me at my chambers in
in the city of Washington on the 20th day of
April, 1893, at the hour of 10 o’clock a. ra., or as
soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, why
the prayers of said petitioners should not be
granted and the stay of the foreclosure pro
ceedings be continued.
He further provided that the petitioners
should give a bond of $100.(X)0; that they
would In good faith carry out the offer to
buy the tripartite bonds contained in their
petition. Wbat the effect of this suit will
be cannot be foretold. Mr. Calhoun is here
and leaves for Atlanta to-night. He de
clined to be interviewed except to soy that
the interests of hie clients were
merely the common interests of
every junior security holder, and that he
presumed every one who had any real in
terest in the company, or indeed in the state
of Georgia, would welcome the wresting of
the property from foreclosure and ruin.
“It is a great property," Mr. Calhoun de
clared, "and if we can get its real owners
to unite in an effort to save it they will find
how far they have been misled by state
ments disparaging its value. Ail the inter
ests should be harmonized and the real
owners should pull together.”
It is stated that a more equitable schema
of reorganization is now in process of
preparation and will be submitted to the
seourity holders shortly.
AN EXTENSION FOB DEPOSITS.
New York, March 31. —The reorganiza
tion committe of the Georgia Central has
extended the limit of time until which
securities shall be received under the plan to
May !, 1893. The committee is of the opinion
that the plan will bo successfully carried
through. {Secretary Wharton states that
after May 1 securities will only be received,
if at all, upon payment of penalty of 8 per
cent, in the discretion of the committee
upon the par value of the deposits.
TREASURY EMPLOYES.
Carlisle to Have the Places More
Evenly Divided Among the States.
Washington, March 31.—Secretary Car
lisle is having prepared a list of the employes
of the treasury department with the salaries
they receive, and will have it arranged by
states. When completed it will show the
number of employes credited to each state,
the aggregate salary the people from each
state receive, and a column showing what
by the law of apportionment the state
should receive. The lißt has been prepared
already to suoh an extent as to
show great disproportion among the states,
some of the states having many more olerks
than their proper quota, and others less.
The District of Columbia is credited with
more than 1,000 out of 4,000 employees,
when its quota, it is said, should only ba
eleven people. Secretary Carlisle, it is un
derstood, Intends by every means in his
power, to reduce the District of Columbia's
list of employees, that the states may re
oeive their proper quota of appointments.
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS.
Carlisle Weeding the Republicans Out
of Hla Department.
Washington, March 31.—Secretary Car
lisle was busy to-day, this being the last
of the month, in making official
changes in the treasury department. He
called for the resignation of H. O. MoLean,
chief clerk of the arohiteot’s offloe, and in
his place appointed Charles E. Kemper of
Staunton, Va.
The resignation of Frank Smith, chief of
the division in the arohiteot’s office, was
tendered and accept ed.
Gen. Daniel McCauley, late appointment
clerk of the treasury department, was ap
pointed chief olerk of the immigration
bureau, vice Mr. Hall, resigned.
Two messengers were discharged, and two
democrats were appointed in their places.
One of the discharged men had been in his
plaoe twenty-one years.
SENATORIAL INVESTIGATIONS.
Nothing Likely to Be Accomplished
at the Extra Session.
Washington, March 31.—A republican
senator who stands high in the party coun
cils said to-day that the proposed senatorial
investigations of private characters and the
reorganization scheme would come to
nothing this session. They could not
be considered while the oontested
seats are under discussion, and when that
subjeot is disposed of the Senate will prob
ably adjourn, as a quorum would otherwise
disappear within two days after the Presi
dent notifies the body that he has no further
business to present to it.
WABBHOOBB RECBIPT9.
Luck of the Government in Refusing
to Recognize Them.
Washington, March 31.— Treasury
officials recall with satisfaction, in view of
recent disclosures, that only two weeks ago
the Secretary of the Treasury decided that
the government could not in any way
recognize warehouse receipts as being in the
purview of the custom authorities. It is
now stated that $300,000 of these forged
warehouse receipts are ia circulation, and if
the government had recognized them it
would now be partly responsible for them.
Much pressure has recently been brought
on the treasury department to that end.
MORTON'S DEPARTMENT.
Applicants for Positions Must Stand
an Examination.
Washington, March 31. Secretary
Morton of the department of agriculture
has devised a plan to test the fitness of ap
plicants for positions in ths department that
are not governed by the civil service rules.
Esoh aspirant in filing his applioat on will
bo rsquired to answer certain questions as
to moral and physical fltne3s, and also ques
tions bearing upon the work he desires to
perform. This will enable the secretary to
more accurately determine the qualifica
tions of applicants and attain a high stand
ard of work in the department.
AN INDEX OP LEGISLATION.
Cierks freparing a Reference Book
on the Work of the Last Congress.
Washington, Maroh 31.—The clerks of
the Senate and House committees on appro
priations are engaged upon compilation of
lecislation of the last oongress which, when
finished, will show all the appropriations
that have been made, the new offices that
have been created, offices abolished, salaries
increased and salaries reduced. The work
will be completed and accompanied by an
index that will make it one of ready refer
ence. It will not be ready before May 1.
LAND OP THE CHECROKHEB.
Priority of Seizure to Cut No Figure
Hereafter.
Washington, March 31.—Although the
regulations which will govern in the open
ing of the Cherokee strip have not been
perfected, yet it can be stated now that they
will be prepared so as to prevent the possi
bility of any advantage being obtained by
those who rush upon the strip before it is
legally opened by. executive proclamation.
A system is being perfected by Fecrotary
Smith whioh will entirely do away with
the priority resulting from physical seiz
ure.
Choctaw Warriors Ready to Fight.
Washington, March 31.—Late last night
Secretary Hoke Smith reoeived a telegram
from Commissioner Gibbons at Athens,
I. TANARUS., in whicb he stated that unless steps
were immediately taken to prevent a col
lision between the rival faotioas of Chootaw
Indians bloodshed would follow. Secretary
Smith at onco communicated with the Sec
retary of War with the result that the
officer in oummand of the United States
troops nearest the scene of the threatened
trouble has been instructed to promptly
inform himself of the exact situation and
take such action as it seems to warrant.
Agent Bennett at Musoogee has also been
directed to proceed at once to the locality
and report upon the situation.
BOYS SENT UP FOR FORTY YEARS.
They Murdered a Man and Then
Robbed Hia Corpse.
Chicago, Maroh 31.—William Blunck,
aged 14, and Thomas Luvienne, aged 15,
wei e sentenced to forty years in the peni
tentiary to-day for the murder of Albery
Eckroth. The crime was committed on the
night of May 15, 1893, when the youthful
criminals held up Eckroth on Western ave
nue, shot him through the h-art and robbed
bis body of a watch. Their extreme youth
saved them from a death penalty.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1898.
OFFICES .MAY GIVE OUT.
DANGER THAT THERE WON’T BE
ENOUGH TO GO AROUND.
Georgia's Quota in the Intsrtor De
partment Getting Near the Danger
Mark -Several of the Seekers After
Place Still at the Capital Unprovided
for.
Washington, March 31.— The Senate
observed Good Friday and did not sit to
day, but the Georgia colonels were on deck
early, as is their custom. The appointment
of Gen. Young to a SIO,OOO diplomatic place
makes the consular applicants from the
party apprehensive and Judge Hall’s $5,000
job in the interior department raises the
state’s quota in that offloe to the danger
mark,
Frank Flynt of Griffin started for home
to-night. It would appear from this that
Col. Renfroe has had enough of the light for
marshal of the Northern district. Mr.
Flynt, at least, knows when he is iioked at
political foot ball.
BANKER HILL. IN TOWN.
Lod Hill, the Atlanta banker, was on the
avenue to-day. He looks like an old man.
Just why he is here and just why Attorney
Harry Jackson is here at the same time is
another singular ohapter iu the history of
the Gate City Bank failure. Mr. Hill had
little to say, but he said enough to warrant
the statement that he thought Capt. Jack
son was pressing him,and Capt. Jackson de
clares that be is not going to let any grass
grow under the soles of his boots. W hen
the true inwardness of the Gate City Bank
scandal is exoosed there’s going to be a
sensation in Atlanta and all the st3te.
CANDIDATES FOR CONSULS.
Basoom Myrick of Americus, Dobbs of
Marietta and Jack Cohen of Atlanta stand
well for consular places.
Btan hope Sams is here and insists that he
is the ouly % Georgia colonel who oan
speak the Persian tongue. Sams is a clean
cut good fellow and would work well at
Teheran.
It is developed that CoL A. J. Mcßride of
Atlanta does not want a French consulate,
but longs to strike the east about Hong
Kong, in China, from which port he used
to import vases and other articles of Chi
nese bric-a-brao. The colonel has a good
strong pull on the state department and
there is no reason why he should not win.
Pieroe Young looked Jack Cobeu over for
bis aid de camp at Gautemala and pro
nounced him too young. Cohen feels flat
tered, and then he don’t feel flattered. Be
proposes to stick to his Spanish lingo and
wait for another administration.
AN OFFENSIVE PARTISAN.
Virginians Demand the Removal of a
Clerk in the Auditor’s Office.
W ASHINGTON. March 31.—A delegation of
Virginians from Loudoun county, headed
by Representative Meredith, appeared be
fore the commissioners of the District
of Columbia this morning and demanded
the removal of Yardly T. Brown, a
clerk la the auditor’s office, on the ground
that he is an offensive partisan. It was
during the latter part of President Harri
son’s administration that Maj. Halford, the
President’s private secretary, urgently re
quested the commissioners to appoint Mr.
Brown. Several other prominent repub
licans exerted themselves in the
matter, and one day, upon motion
of Commissioner Douglass, Mr. Brown
became a subject of discuss.on. Mr. Mere
dith, us soon as the board had assembled,
explained that the removal of Mr. Brown
was urgently asked by thg demooratsof
Loudoun. Mr. Brown, be said, runs a re
publican newspaper known as the Loudoun
Telephone and during President Cieve.
land’s campaign of 1884 it contained a num
ber of scurrilous articles against tha execu
tive. The speaker handed the commission
ers several papers with marked
editorials. Mr. Meredith explained that if
the commissioners paid no attention to this
matter ho proposed to go to the President
and have the man removed.
The matter was informally discussed at a
meeting of the boaid, but as yet no definite
action bas been taken.
Postmasters Removed.
Washington, Maroh 31.—Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General Maxwell to-day
appointed 136 fourt-hoiass postmasters,
which involved 59 removals. The largest
number of appointments were made in
Indiana, where there were 36, involviug 18
removals. In Missouri there were 16 ap
pointments and 7 removals; in Tennessee,
30appointments and 7 removals; in Ver
mont, 11 appointments and 10 removals; in
Kentucky, 9 appointments and 2 removals;
in West Virginia, 8 appointments, all the
incumbentshaving resigned.
Carlisle Fixes His Secretary.
Washington, March 31.—Secretary Car
lisle to-day appointed H. M. Gaines, his
private secretary, chieffof the moil division
of tne treasury department at a salary of
$2,500, vioe Niahols, resigned.
Two More Foreign Missions.
Washington, March 31.—1 t is reported
that two more prominent foreign missions
will ba filled Monday. Mr. Harris Taylor
of Mobile, Ala., it is'thought, will fill the
Spanish mission and John Allen of New
York the Italian.
Good Friday at the White House.
Washington, Maroh 31.—Good Friday
was spent quietly at the white bouse. The
President saw a few congressmen from 10
to 11 o’clock when the cabinet meeting be
gan. Mrs. Cleveland usually receive* on
Fridays, but she did not receive to-day.
THIEVES OF TIME.
The Missouri Pacific Company Fleeced
by Engineers and Firemen.
Sedalia, Mo., Maroh 81.—A big steal
among the engineers and firemen on the
Missouri Faolfio railroad has been brought
to light in this oity. An official investiga
tion resulted to-day in the discharge of a
timekeeper, niue engineers and sir firemen,
with a probability of many others being
Implicated. The trainmen, in collusion
with the timekeeper, had drawn cheoks for
time not put in by them. The oompany’s
loss will reach into the thousands, and ex
tends over a period of about ten months.
No names are given.
A Spice Company Burned Out.
Philadelphia, Pa., March 31.—The
5-story buildings Nos. 129 to 137 North
Front street, owned and oooupied by the
Weikel & Smith Spioe Company, were par
tially destroyed by fire this morning. The
lost la $75,000, oovered by insurance.
Rippey Indicted.
San Francisco, March 31,—W. C. Rip
pey. the men who snot John W. Meekay
and then shot bltnself, has been indicted
by the grand jury for an aosault to commit
murder. Ilia hail waa fixed at $5,000.
CAROLINA’S PATRONAGE.
The Reform Congressmen Suggest
• Men for Appointment.
Washington, March 81.—The reform
congressmen from South Carolina sent the
following letter to President Cleveland to
night:
Ms. President—You are aware of the un
fortunate factional divieioa of the Democratic
party ia South Carolina. It did not arise by
reason of any national issue, but was the result
of an effort looking to the reformation of the
local government in that state. The factions
are known as reform and anti reform The un
dersigned members of congress represent what
is known in South Carolina as the reform ele
ment in looal .politics We have
made everv effort consonant with the
dignity of the positions we hold in fairness and
justice to equitably divide the patronage of our
state in a delegation meeting, but failed on ac
count of the minority refusing to co-operate
with us iu a proposition in line with the custom
that has prevailed immemorially in congress.
It is now your province to settle tnis matter ac
cording to what to you seems good and proper.
MAt a meeting of tha undersigned, it was
unanimously agreed to recommend the lion. S.
Pope of Newberry, 8. C., for the position of
marshal; Hon. I. H. McCalls of Abbeville
county for the oolleetor of internal revenue.
Hon. Joseph H. Carlo of Greenville. forUnlted
Slates district attorney, and the Hon. A. M.
Voumans of Hampton, 8. 0., for collector of
the port of Beaufort.
All of these names belong to our faction ex
cept the Hob. J. H. Earle, who was the nomi
nee for governor of the other faction against
Gov. B. K, Tillman in 18$b. His attitude toward
our faction since that time has'been that of a
conservative, in the strict sense of the word,
and he occupied the peouliar and striking posi
tion of standing between the two factions en
joying the confidence respect of both. We
concede this position to him because we know
that his appointment would give universal sat
isfaction and pleasure to both factions.
We honestly believe that we are entitled to
three fifths of this patronage on acoount of the
numerical strength of onr fuction, it being 80,-
000 out of the 90,030 white democratic voters of
the state. Wo ho[io that you will regard this
as our final appeal for the recognition of tne
democrats whom w have the honor to repre
sent in our state. With the hope that this un
fortunate division may be satisfactorily ad
justed we beg leave to subscribe ourselves, very
respectfully, your obedient servants.
John L. M. Irby, U. 8. 8.
A. 8. Latimer, M. C.
John McLaurin, M. C.
W. J. Talbert, M. C.
T. J. Strait, M. C.
I indorse the foregoing, with the exception of
I. H. McCalls, forcolleotor of internal revenue,
having already Indorsed the petition of Mr.
Perry for that place. U. W. Shell, M. C.
VIRGINIA’B PATRONACV-
The President’* Attitude Reported to
the Delegation.
Washington, Marob 31.—Messrs. O’Fer
rall and Lawson, tha committee appointed
by tbe Virginia delegation in congress to
ascertain tbe President’s views in regard to
tba distribution of the patronage in that
state, reported to a meeting of the full dele
gation to-night. Their report was to the
effect that the President would not bind
himself to an appointmeut recommended by
the united delegation, but would giro due
consideration to their recommendation. In
view of this action six applicants for the
various appointments at tbe President’s dis
posal will use tbsir individual influence
with him.
A BREWERY SEIZED.
An Illicit Molasses Rum Distillery
Run in It.
Philadelphia, Pa., March3l.—lnternal
Revenue Collector Brooks to-day seized the
brewery of Philip Klein & Son. No. 2309
and 2311 Wallace street, as a result of a dis
covery made yesterday that an illicit mo
lasses rum distillery of 1,200 gallon’s oapacity
was being conducted therein. The discov
ery was made by Revenue Collector E. A.
Alexander of this city, and Gen
eral Deputy Collector A. V. Mason
of West Virginia, who have been working
on the case for four months, and who forci
bly entered an upper room. A small quan
tity of warm rum spirits was found, and it
wns evident that a larger quantity had been
run into a sewer through rubber hose, which
appliance was kept in readiness in oase of
discovery. The plant is valued at $75,000,
and the illegal distillery isono of the largest
ever unearthed. Philip Klein, Jr., the sod,
was held in $1,500 bail by United States
Commissioner iieli for further hearing to
morrow.
GOOD FRIDAY IN GOTHAM.
Nearly All the Exchangee Suspend
Business.
New York, Maroh 31.—T0-day being
Good Friday there was an air of quietness
downtown occasioned by the closing of
the exchanges and courts. It is not, a legal
holiday and the custom house and banks
were all open as usual.
By a vote of the members, however, the
stock exchange and consolidated exchange
did not open this morning. The produce
exchange was also closed. The cotton and
cattle exchange* shut down yesterday until
Monday. The real estate exchange closed
but business was done at the auctioneers'
sales rooms.
The mercantile exchange was open this
morning, but close! at noon.
The maritime exchange offices were open
for the convenience of members, but the
exchange waa closed for business.
Continuous services wore held throughout
the day in all the Roman Catholic and
Protestant Episoopal churches.
GEN. KIRBY SMITH’S FUNERAL.
Over 500 Veterans anti Two Military
Companies in the Cortoge.
Skwanee, Tenn., Maroh 31.—The fun
eral of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith took
place this morning at 12 o’clock. A special
train of six oars arrived from Nashville
with nearly 500 veterans and two compa
nies of the state troops. The funeral was
of military character. A beautiful floral
tribute was presented by the students of the
university of which the late general was a
professor. Telegrams of condolence have
poured in from all parts of the union, show
ing the eeteem in which he was held.
COT HIS THROAT AND DIED.
The Man Who Wanted to Get Up a
Bull fight Ends Hie Life.
Columbia, S. C., March 31.—A special to
the State says that B. T. Ilayne Bell, a
prosperous farmer and merchant in Laurens
county, committed suicide this morning by
cutting bis throat with a razor. Hayue is
the man who tried to get up a bull-fight in
this city recently during the state fair, but
was prevented by the Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals. He was in
comfortable circumstances and waa a
leader in bis community.
WILD EXTRAVAGANCE.
TUB BERING SEA COMMISSION A
COSTLY LUXURY,
Fat Subordinate Places Made for Fa
vorites by the Last Administration.
Halford Drawing $4,000 a Year as a
Paymaster in the Army and to Be
Given in Addition sls a Day for Ex
penses.
VVashington, March 31. —President Har
rison is said by a friend to have had his
doubts as to the propriety of sending such
a large staff of assistants and clerks, more
than fifteen In number, with the American
representatives in and before the Bering
sea commission at Paris. If he had known
the size for allowances for expenses made
to the members of the stall he would prob
ably have had some additional doubts. He
would certainly not be eurprised to learn
that President Cleveland, to whose
attention this matter has been
brought, thinks both the staff and the ex
pense allowances unwarrantably large and
is disposed to have both cut down. Presi
dent Harrison apparently approved the un
precedented order detailing Maj. Elijah W.
Halford as disbursing officer to the Amer
ican delegation, to perform the duties
always porfbrmod hitherto by a civilian
clerk, iu connection with other work, so
that he might be surprised if Secrotary
Lament should recall Maj. Halford to per
forin the regular duties of an army pay
master in this country. BjJ; it does not
appear that President Harrison know that
in additon to his army pay and allowances,
amounting to about $4,000 a year, Maj.
Halford was to receive sls a day for ex
penses while on this speoial service, anil he
would hardly be surprised if this allowauce
should be cut off.
STANLEY BROWN’S LUCK.
President Harrison knew that J. Stanley
Brown, private secretary aud son-in-law of
President Garfield, had been detached from
the treasury department, where be was re
ceiving $lO a day ns an expert on the fur
seal after one visit to Alaska, to go to Paris,
and knowing his limitations as a seal expert
may have disapproved ibo selection, as ha
doubtless would have disapproved the allow
ance made to him by the start department
of sls a day for his expenses. In the cir
cumstances the reduction of .Stanley
Brown’s allowance or his recall to Washing
ton by Secretary Carlisle would probably
not surprise Mr. Harrison,
The disclosures as to the allowances made
to the gentlemen representing the United
States in more or loss important capacities
at Paris have come from the treasury de
partment, and not from the state depart
ment. Secretary Gresham, whatever he
may have said to the President privately,
would be tbo last man, in vtew of bis life
long friendship with ex-Seoretary Foster
and his appreciation of the proprieties, end
of the fact that Maj. Halford was associated
with ex-President Harrisoo, to give the
facts to the press. Secretary Carlisle, even,
has been uuwilling to do this, Dut. having
been sent to him officially b, Secretary
Gresham in response to an official request
for a statement of the appropriations in
trusted for expenditures to the state depart
ment, the facts got out through subordi
nates.
COST OF THE REPRESENTATION.
They show that the appropriation made
for the representation of the United States
in and before the Bering sea commission,
amounting to $250,1)00, was apportioned
with the sanction, if not by the personal
act, of ex-Seoretary Foster amoug the repre
sentatives of the United States, large and
small, with a liberality which amounted to
extravagance. The allowances made to the
American members of the commission,
Justice Harlan and Senator Morgan, to
the agent of the United States, ex-Secretary
Foster himself, and to the distinguished
counsel, ex-Minister Edward J. Phelps, ex-
Judge H. W. Blodgett and James 0. Carter
aro not out of proportion to the importance
of the occasion, hut, in the first place, an
unusually large number of assistants of
various grades was appointed, end in the
next place they were given un
usually large allowances. Maj. Halford
and Stanley Brown are the only at
taches, appparently, who receive as much
as sls a day allowances, but all the others,
from ex-Secretary Foster’s son-in-law,
Robert Lansing, assistant counsel, with an
allowance of $lO a 'day, dow;n, receive, in
addition to their salaries, large amounts for
expenses.
A TYPICAL CASE.
A typical case among the subordinates is
that of Mr. Lewis, clerk of Mr. Justice
Harlan, who, in addition to his salary of
SI,BOO, is allowed s>) a day for expenses.
The extravagance involved in these al
lowances is emphasized by the fact that a
number of the attaches were al
ready employed by the govern
ment at fair salnries and without,
of course, any allowance for expenses
here in Washington. But when they were
detailed to Paris, hearing what large ex
pense ailowanoe others wore gotting, they
succeeded in getting similar allowances
themselves. It is a delicate matter for this
administration to handle. Any official
action which it might take would almost
cortainly involve our representatives at
Paris in a scandal which would prejudice
the United States in the arbitration and
put us to shame in Europe. But if Presi
dent Cleveland feels free to follow his in
clinations in the matter he will bring to
timo those responsible for it.
TO GO ON THE BLOCK.
The On ited States Rolling’Stock Com
Dany’e Assets Ordered Sold.
New York, March 31.—1n the United
States circuit court to-day Judge Lacomba
authorized William C. Lane, as permanent
reoeiverof the United States Rolling Stock
Company to sell all the securities, land an and
patent rights belonging to the company and
now in his possession. Several suits are
now pending in Illinois, Ohio, Alabama
and other states for tho foreclosure of the
consolidated real estate and mortgage bonds
of the company. The value of the securi
ties set forth in the application of the re
reiver is $578,853 90, besides fifteen patents,
several lots of real estate at Hogowisoh ,
111., 1,554J<J acres of land at Ball Play, Ala.,
and cars and barges.
A New Press Association.
Trenton, N. J., March 31.—The Ameri
can Press, an organization for tho gather
ing and dissemination of news, filed articles
of incorporation here to-day. The
capital stock is $3,500,000 and the
incorporators aro Orlando J. Smith
of the American Pre9 Association, Albert
P. hanglev of the Hpringfield Union,
Robert W UUams of the Paterson Call, Al
bert I-AWson of tne Clnciunatti Tribune
and James M. Emerson of the Ansonia
Sentinel.
Hx-Gov. Mocrath Dying.
Chauudhton, S. C., March 31.—Kx-Gov.
A. G. Magrath, the last war governor ot
South Carolina, is desperately ill and Is not
expected to live through tho night.
THROUGH A TRESTLE.
A Train on the Gainesville, Jefferson
and southern Wrecked sud Bevsrsl
Injured.
Jpg Tavern, Ga„ March 31. —A train
on the Gainesville, Jefferson and Southern
railway went through a trestle a few miles
from hers this afternoon, and was totally
wrecked. The engine remained on the
track. Eight freight and two passengers
oars fell a distance of fifty feet. They were
torn into splinters. The injured are:
Conductor C. F. Moss, out over the right
eye aud badly bruteed.
Judge Windburn, mail clerk, right leg
and thigh broken and brnlsed luternally.
J. U. Lay, exprese messenger, slightly out
and bruised.
Rev. J. H. Wood of Jug Tavern, badly
masbed on the head and body aud Internally
bruised.
Miss Williamson of Social Circle,dan
gerously hurt and not expected (olive.
Mrs. AtticUS Nowell of Hotsohins, slightly
bruised.
George Lyon (colored),a train hand, badly
hurt.
Steve Thomas (colored), a train hand, has
since died.
FRANCE’S CRISIS.
Public Opinion In Favor of Dissolu
tion of the Chamber.
Paris, March 31.—The cabinet crisis is
tbo subject of general discussion both in the
nrees aud in public places. Most of the
newspapers, including the republican or
gans, concur in demanding that the
ministry shall be composed of new men.
The refusal of the chamber to grant M.
Tirard supplies for more than a month is
regarded as clear proof that the chamber
desires dissolution to be doferred until after
tho budget has been voted and the legisla
ture will have come into au entente with
tho new cabinet, which, it is believed, is
likely to be called upon to issue a decree for
holding general eleotions.
The Journal dm Debut s, conservative re
publican, and the republican Siecle botn
protest agaiust tho patched-up ministry.
The Petit Journal, Liberal, republican,
end republican Voltaire demand the lm
itiodiate dissolution of the chamber.
The radical Lanteme says that dissolu
tion is impossible until the Henato gives way
to the chamber in regard to the budget.
WOULD HAVE BEEN DEFEATED.
The Jtnpublique Francaite (republican)
says that it the cabinet had challenged a
direct vote of confidence it would have suf
fered defeat by 100 rotes. The Republlque
Fratu'.aise adds: “There Is every sign that
the crisis will be long and solution diffi
cult."
In the regular course of events the gen
eral eleotions would be next held in Bnptein
ber. President Carnot, however, has a
right to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies
at any time upon the advice of the Senate,
and the oommeuts of the newspapers indi
cate a strong public tendency in favor of
the dissolution.
M. Clement, detailed to assist M. An
drioux in capturing Arton, has withdrawn
from the search for the fugitive lobbyist
it is reported that he considers the clews
given by M. Andrieux as to M. Arton s
whereabouts to t>e Insufficient.
Tho majority which overthrew the gov
ernment yesterday was composed of 118
rightists, 101 republicans and 28
Buiilangists. The republicans voting with
the minority numbered 220. The names of
Develle, Melina, Burdeau and Constant are
mentioned in connection with the succession
to the premiership.
BRANDES’ DEPARTURE.
The Chief of Police Denies That He
Was stoned.
Paris, Maroh 31.— M. Peietan, oommis
nussary of tbs police in Aanieres, denies
that sticks and stones were thrown at any
of Otto Jlranden’ family when they were
leaving the oity. The Brandes girls, he
says, laughed, sang and jeered at the people
iu tbo streets aud thus provoked gamins to
cry, “Down with the Prussians.” They also
exclaimed,says M. Peietan," Wbat onwards
them Frenchman are." They would have
said more, M. Peietan psserts, had they not
boon warned by him to desist The story
that Miss Brandes reoaived a severe cut in
tho bead is pronounced false by
the oommissary. She made this complaint
in his presence, be says, but when asked to
show the wound answered that it was not
dangerous and declined to say more
about it.
EUROPE’S PLAGUK.
Cholera Spreading in Hungary, Gal
llcla and Russia.
Vienna, Maroh 31.—A Vienna physician
sent to Southeastern Hungary to report on
tbe progress of the oholera, says that the
epidemic is spreading rapidly in that re
gidn. At Peter wardein it Is especially
virulent.
The villages of Zalucze and Kudrynge, in
Galicia, have been lsolatod.
SPREADING IN RUSSIA.
St. Petersburg, March 31. Several
oases of oholera bavo been reported in the
suburbs. News was received to-day of the
appearance of the disease in sevsfral western
provinces.
ELECTRIC WORKS BURNED.
Private Plante to be Depended on to
Light a City.
McKeesport. Pa., March 31. This
morning at 8:30 o’clock the McKeesport
.Electric Light Company’s plant caught flro
and was totally destroyed. Tbe loss is from
$75,000 to SIOO,OOO. The blaze was ignited
by a toroh in tbe hands of an oiler coming
in contact with a bunch of oil-soaked waste.
This oomrnnnicated tha Same to au oil tur
ret, which exploded, scattering tbe fire in
all directions. Theoity’s public highways will
bo left in darkness to-night unless three pri
vate light plants* here can be connected with
the public street wires and provide light.
The Duqueone Electric railway and the Citi
zens’ Electric railway are also left without
power.
Weavers on a Strike.
Palmer, Mass. , March 31. —The weavers
in the No. 2 mill of tbe Thorndyke com
pany at Thorndyke struck this morning for
more pay. They held a meeting this morn
ing and presented an ultimatum to tbe com
pany this afternoon. The weavers claim
that the company has increased tha number
of yards in the out cloth but has not in
creased the price per cut for weaving.
Suicide of a Farmer.
Fayetteville, N. C., Maroh3l .—Henry
Collins, a well-known truck farmer, in a fit
of inanity, to-day shot bis son, tbe ball
strikiug the ear, but not seriously wounding
bim, and then committed suicide by hor
ribly butchering himself with an ax. He
had accumulated considerable property and
was muoh esteemed by the community.
< DAILY. $lO A YEAR. ft
J S CENTS A COPY.
{ WEEKLY (ISA YEAR. )
ATLANTA’S BROKEN BANK
A REPORTERS STORY STIRS UP
THE TOWN.
Ha Wrote That Nothing But the Build*
lng Remained of tbe $1,000,000 of
Assets of the Instltatlon—His Report
Denounced by tho President and
Cashier of the Bank.
Ati.anta. Ga, March 31. —S. A. Rosea*
feld, a reporter on the Macon Evening
.Veins, is in very hot water on acoount of •
report sent to his paper of yesterday re la*
tive to the Gate City Bank failure. But for
the fact that Rosenfeld had returned to
Maoon and was out of reach of personal
handling when the paper containing the ob
jectionable publication reached here, ue
would undoubtedly have been mixed up in
a lively fight. He wasdillgently sought fur
by G. 8. McCandless, cashier of tbe
Gate City Bank, Dan Rountree, John
Ryan and several otbors who felt aggrieved.
These gentlemen were excited, and to those
of whom inquiry was made plainly stated
what they wantod with the Macon news
paper man. When his departure was
known the following card was prepared and
published by Cashier McCandless:
A WORD TO Till PUBLIC.
Mv intention having hern called to a very
sen sail, mal report printed in the Macon Eve
ning Acini, iul which contained gross false
hoods ns to the I'nndlMon of the (late City Na
tional bank, aud also in regard to the president
and the cashier, and winch *i.< signed hy one
8. A. Hosenfeld, purporting to have been writ
ten In Atlanta hy him, undo, dale of March 30.
1 have made diligent search this morning
to find the author of tbe article that I
might deal with him in person, but have been
unable to lind him. as be has moved to Macon
aud dc as not live hem. My only recourse now
is to publish S. A. Itosenfehl to the public as an
unmitigated malicious liar aud slanderer, and
1 uncondllionallv and unreservedly denounce
him as such. With this card l dismiss the mat
ter as (ar as newspaper controversy Is con*
cernod. Respectfully,
E. 8. McC'aniii.ess.
WHAT THE AItTIChK CONTAINED.
The art tale referred to was about tha
grand jury investigation of the bank case la
whioh Rosenfeld raid that ‘ out of nearly
$1,000,000 of assets only the bank building
reiuaiuedthat ‘*5750,000 had been lootod;’'
that it was “believed the grand jury had
prepared bills of indictment against L. J.
Hill, president, and E. S. McCandless,
cashier of the bank." The whole story waa
highly sensational, and tho Gata City Bank
officials feel outraged.
To-day it was learned for a fact that
when the bank failed W. U. Patterson, is
broker, was indebted to it about $35,000 uu
personal paper, whioh is in violation of tha
federal banking law and renders the baulc
liable to forfeiture of its charter. Mr. Pat*
terson was cashier of tbe Citizens’ Bank:
which caused a paulo ten years ago by it*
heavy failure. Since the bank olusud ha
hue liquidated a part of his indebtedness, so
that at present it comes within the amount!
allowed to be loaned one individual under
tbe law.
PARNELL KICKING.
District Attorney Darnell Is apparently
highly wrought up at the action of the de
partment of justice in stopping tbe Investi
gation. and states that he will give tbe pub
lic ail the details if the Investigation is nob
officially proceeded with. In disouasinic
Attorney General Gluey’s action he said:
“I think it is au outrage for anybody to
clog the wheels of justice. Capt, Jacksou
and myself were working bard arid con
scientiously on the oase, when h<re come*
au order from the Attorney General to stop
the proceedings. For my part 1 don’t sea
why the Attorney General wants to muss
with oriminal cases down here in Georgia.
Wo are going to the bottom of tbe whole
thing and would have caught the whales aa
well as the minnows if wo had been lets,
alone.
“The grand jury was never free given ao*
cess to that hank. Somehow or other wa
couldn’t get right into the bank's affairs as
we wished to, and I believe it would ba
right for me to tell everything I know iff
this matter is not prosecuted to tbe end.
'Hew to the line, lot the chips fall where
they may,’ is my motto, and Capt. Jacksoi*
wa* with me.” In view of District Attor
ney Darnell’s severe criticism of the de
partment of justioa the possibility of bis
removal from office on that account waa
discussed among lawyers. His term ex
pires on April 4, and he will then go out of
office, but the idea discussed was that Air.
Darnell might be removed to preserve tha
dignity of the department.
TAFT. JACKSON TALKS.
Washington, March 31.—Capt. Henry
W. Jackson of Atlanta, special Uuitcxl
States attorney In connection with the Red
wine defalcation m the Gate City Bank,
wboae presence in Washington at this timw
has excited a good deal of interest, has this
to say on tbo subjeot:
“Itls an error to suppose that my pres*
enco in Washington has anything to dp
with the Gat* City Bank affairs. 1 have
three cases before tbe United States su
preme court, and as it is a body that watts
for no man, I waa forced to be here. Know
ing that Attorney General Olney
had ordered a temporary oessatiox
of the investigation of the bank's
affairs, the people of Atlanta
connected my departure with that faot. L
would have come anyhow and my ooming
would have stopped the investigation any
how. I have seen the Attorney General bub
am not at liberty to state what passed be*
tween us. The information will have to
come from tbe department of justioe. 1
will state, however, that it is bis
intention to probe the affair to the
bottom. There will be serious devel
opments, of course. It is no secret!
in Atlauta that I have prepared several pa
pers for presentation to the judge and jury.
I leave for New York to-night and will
spend Saturday and part of Sunday an
Cambridge. I have a son at Harvard. £
will be in Washington on Monday and hops
to leave on Wednesday next. presume
that tbe investigation will be resumed as
soon after my arrival in Atlanta as possi
ble.”
Joseph James, recently appointed attor*
pey for the Northern district of Georgia,
was with the Attorney General yesterday
morning, but Mr. Olney gave him no in
structions in regard to the Gate City Bank
matter. It was not mentioned.
Convicted of Train Robbery.
Birmingham, Ala., March 31.—Jeff
Harrison was to-day convicted in the
United States district court of robbing an
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia mall
train near Piedmont last fall. He is a
young married man who lives an ordinary
farmer’s life among tbe North Alabama
mountains. He was convicted on the testi
mony of bis alleged acoomplioe. Tbe trial
lasted over a week.
Bequests to Charleston.
Charleston, 3. C.. Maroh 31.—John
Thompson, who died In this city two days
ago, waa buried to-day. He was very rich
and it is rumored has left most of his prop
erty, estimated to be worth several hundred
thousand dollars, to various publio aud
charitable institutions in this city. The
will is to be read at noon to-morrow. The
deceased has no living relatives In tbit
country.
