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J VSIABLISBID 1860. INCOUPi .HATED 1888. -
I J. H. ESIILL, President. 1
WILSON'S MUTILATED BILL.
The Senate Caucus Sends the Measure
Back to Committee.
The Committee Given a Strong: Hint
to Amend It According to the Con
sensus of Opinion Expressed in the
Caucus— The Caucus Defeats a Mo
tion to Restore Iron to the Dutiable
List by a Vote of 19 to 17.
Washington, Feb. 38.—After spending
the better part of three days in a caucus
on the tariff bill, the democratic senators
this afternoon sent the bill back to the
finance ocommittee without expressed,
but with strongly implied in
structions to amend it according to
the consensus of opinion as expressed
during the discussion. No dictation was
made to the committee as to what articles
should be put on the dutiable list, nor
were any rates suggested—the commit
tee being left free to exercise its own
Judgment in the light of what has trans
pired during the past three days.
A VOTE ON IRON ORE.
The only effort made to secure an ex
pression by a vote on any special schedule
was made this afternoon by Senator
Pugh on iron ore, and that resulted in an
indorsement— although by an exceedingly
tmail majority—of the committee's action.
Senator ' Pugh moved that iron ore
be changed from the free to the
dutiable list, and on a yea and
nay vote this proposition was defeated by
a vote of 1!) to 17. The bill is again in the
hands of the democrats of the finance
committee and an effort will bo made to
have it repaired in time to lay before the
full committee on finance by Saturday, or
at latest Monday morning.
ANOTHER CAUCUS IMPROBABLE.
There wifi probably not be another cau
cus. but in order .o provid ■ for emergen
cies, Senator Gorman has beeu given au
thority to issue a call if tie thinks it best.
When the caucus adjourned last night
all the states had been called, and those
senators who desired to speak had been
given the opportunity. In this call Ala
bama, Cahiornia ami Maryland were
passed over at the request of the
senators. This morning Mr. V\ hitc, of
California, consumed almost all the time
in a discussion of the fruit schedule and
other Items affecting the Pacific slope, in
the reduction of which, he contended, the
slope had been unfairly treated. When
Mr. White had concluded tne hour for the
convening of the Senate had arrived, and
an adjournment was taken without any
thing of interest having occurred.
CAUCUS WORK OUT OP CAUCUS.
A great deal of caucus work was prose
cuted without regard to the session of
the Senate. The democratic members of
the finance committee went at once to
Senator Voorhees' room where they
were followed by the conservatives—
Senators Hill, Murphy, Smith, Brice.
Gorman, Caffery and White of Louisiana.
A further conference was held in this
committee room for almost two hours,
these gentlemen insisting that changes
be made in the direction of increased
duties on many of the schedules in which
their constituents were interested. No
compromises were suggested by the com
mittee, but the promise was made that
the matters presented should receive
careful attention. Senator Murphy was
a.so heard by the finance committee in
behalf of the collars and cuffs industry of
his state, and as a result of this confer
ence has hopes that the committee will
see its way clear to add largely to the
duty fixed by the House bill on these ar
ticles.
GORMAN VERT DIPLOMATIC.
Senator Gorman was among the first
speakers at the afternoon session His
speech was very diplomatic in charac er
and was a strong plea for democrats to
narmomze and get together. Mr. Gor
man was questioned closely by a number
. sdoators, and, in response, said it
uas apparent that some con
cessions must be made. Referring to
tne income tax Senator GOrmon expre ised
ms bitter opposition to that tax. it was,
ne said, undemocratic and against dcuio
crata- ideas. He hoped it would be
stricken from the bill, but if it was not,
ne would, he said, as he expressed it,
swallow the dose,” but assured his col
leagues that it would be the‘‘bitterest
ose ‘ le yet been compelled to take. ”
PUGH SEOURES A VOTE.
Senator Pugh made a speech favoring a
utj on iron ore, and foretold what would
ccur to the new industries in Alabama
tins was left on the free list. Senator
W0 ! lt fu rther than the other sena
s, and insisted that some expression be
i '*,uu this proposition. Accordingly he
.need that the committee be directed to
Put iron ore on the dutiable list, ‘‘the
_ le “ s coal,” which was accepted to
mean 50 cents a ton.
< *, n f yea and nay vote this was de
r“r,, . by vote of 19 to 17, Senator Hill
Senator Pugh then said that
' nuch as the vote was so close, an l
f J?® se,| ators were absent he did not
rmh, ) ? un< L by tbc vote aoJ reserved the
it o offer an amendment to the bill
n it came into the Senate.
the GLASS SCHEDULE .
rm°^ e , Con ! meiu was made on the heavy
'■nj.i ln f* lo (?IRBS schedule. This
anH u '“° was cut deeply in the House,
funh„ en ®fe committee has still
Thr. reduced that duty by one-half.
dnrH n 'u b ! schedule has also been re
t v , but not 10 80 Croat an extent,
heen rary , t 0 general report, whisky has
dt'nt , men d only in the must inci
anv w a mHnucr and no Action suggested in
liTm° inlorn& l revenue features of the
T‘h„ , ‘! e been apparently lost sight of.
a*. „' onst ' ns us of opinion among the sen
an V,i,uP pea ? 10 k® l hat whisky may get
tv.'--,!! '?'!? 1 , 10 cenls without any ex
■cm of the bonded period.
the duty on sugar.
w - very strong belief is that the bill
di'ia>5 ei y? rtc< * will have sugar on the
, , llst at eight tenths of a cent a
S. foraU sugar up to 80“ by the
hur„ ) :S' ,i, 7 ost and increasing one ono
rrr, a cent for each additional de
srinn v llß is the original propo
se ,q Ub l? uUed the committee, but
wmtJf Adit was over the addition
tion 011 refined sugar The explana
dutvis 8 n L ade to-day that under this
tenth „ would get between one
of it aDl * one " o icbth of a cent the best
EFrECT OF ft'GH’S MOTION.-
vote ?,„ ac ' icm of Senator Pugh in forcing a
cUninCT ’r 011 , oro schedule, and then ae
clusiim bound by it, led to the con
fer rh tbat ** would be impossible
thi.._ - caucus to accomplish any
recommtl 1 ® 1 and the me'ion to
detnocroti- the . bill to the full
commit? 110 mem bcrship of the finance
commute* -to shape ft iu accordance
£l)c iflormmi BCfins.
with the views expressed and to harmon
ize the differences'’ was made by Senator
\ oorhees. This motion was carried with
out opposition. There was no resolution
nor an.v specific instructions. The
question of what shall, or shall
not, be dutiable, or what the vote j
shall be, is still open. One senator
wbo took a prominent part in the caucus,
explained the meaning of this action to
be a notice to the committee that they
had made a bill that could not pass, and
must now proceed, in the light of what
they haa heard, to construct a bill that
could pass.
, GOES TO THE FULL COMMITTEE.
It does not go to the sub-committee but
to the full democratic membership, and
the attempt will be made to lay it thus
changed, before the republican members
at a special meeting Monday at the latest,
with the hope of being able to report it
to the Senate Tuesday morning. The ma
jority of the finance committee will work
day and night from now until they have
finished the bill.
It is understood that the “conservative”
element will not be content to have the
bill reported until it shall have been sub
mitted to a further caucus. A prominent
senator is authority for the statement
that this protracted caucus had been
characterized by the utmost good feeling,
save the one speech of Senator White, of
Louisiana, who is said to have attacked
the members of the committee bitterly,
and called forth a couple of sharp replies
from Senators Vest and Voorhees.
CENTRAL’S COLLATERALS.
A Petition to Lift tho Attachment Is
sued For the Danville.
New York, Feb. 28.—H. B. Collins &
Cos., Kuhn, Loeb & Cos., the Mercantile
Trust Company, Equitable Life Assur
ance Society, the Knickerbocker Trust
Company and Lehman Bros., to-day pre
sented a petition to Judge Lacombe, in
the United States circuit court, asking
that an attachment issued in the supreme
court in the state of New
York against the Central Railroad
and Banking Company of Georgia,
in a suit brought by F. W. Huidekoper
and Reuben Foster, receivers of the
Richmond and Danville Railroad Com
pany, be lifted, and that certain bonds,
stocks and property, received for the
hswefit of the petitioners and other credi
tors of the company in pledge for claims
and notes, be deposited and held in pledge
by the Mercantile Trust Company, of
New York, to represent all of the credi
tors. It had besD agreed between
the petitioners aud the railroad
company before the writ was issued
that all the bonds, stocks, ancj collateral
securities pledged, might be so held for
the benefit of the creditors, and it is held
that such debt is a lien superior to any
attachment. Judge Lacombe entered an
order giving the creditors the right to so
deposit their—provided that ail
the property so held in pledge by the
Mercantile Trust Company be bound by
the attachment, but reserving to the pe
titioners all prior rights.
SOUTHERN RAILWAYS.
The Association Still in. Session at
Louisville.
Louisville, Ky., Feb. 28.—As much
secrecy is being observed by the members
of the Southern Railway and Steamship
Association to-day as yesterday. Com
missioner Stahlman, before the meeting
was called to ord<;r, said the association
would not dissolve even should the Louis
ville aud Nashville leave it, which would
mean a rate war. He refused to make
public President Smith's letter. Mr. Fel
ton arrived in this city this morning and
is in attendance at the meeting.
OTHER ROADS READY TO QUIT.
Louisville, Feb. 28, 11:20 p. m.—The
Louisville and Nashville and the Nash
ville and Chattanooga railroads, b.v Presi
dents Smith and Thompson, to-day an
nounced in the executive session
of the Southern Railway and Steam
ship /Association that they were out
of the association and under no con
sideration would they withdraw
their resignations. Tnercupon the Il
linois Central, the Yazoo and Mississippi
Valley, the Louisville, New Orleans and
Texas and the Mobile and Ohio roads
gave notice that they reserved the right
to withdraw, for tho withdrawal of the
first named two roads made it
imDossible for the four last
named to protect their own
interests in the matter of rates. In short,
if the Louisville and Nashville and the
Nashville. Chattanooga and St. Louis
slashed rates, as some fear they will,
these roads will get out of the association
and protect themsoives by meeting the
cuts as far as possible. After
a brief talk over the situation
generally the sitting was adjourned to
meet again in New York March 18. By
that time it will be known whether the
Louisville and Nashville, and. tho Nash
ville. Chattanooga, and ,St. Louis, intend
cutting rates, and something defi
nite can be arrived at. The
Louisville and Nashville, it is
known, is getting out a tariff, whi "h
materially lowers rates, but these figures,
it is said, were compiled in the belief that
the association would go to pieces. As it
is still intact, however, the opinion was
expressed at the meeting that the tariff
would not bo declared effective.
CHEAP RATES TO CALIFORNIA.
The Round Trip Rate From Houston,
Tex., Cut to $35.50.
Houston, Tex., Feb. 28.—The war be
tween the Southern Pacific and the At
chison, on California business, took an
other lively turn to-day. The slash in
rates, announced by General Passenger
Agent Keenan, of the Gulf Colorado and
Santa Fe, as a part of the Atchison sys
tem. has been met by the lowest rates
to California points on the Southern Pa
cific that the oldest railroad man can re
oail. A circular was issued by Assistant
General Passenger Agent Parks to day
authorizing a one way n.te of S2O from
Houston to San Francisco and other
named coints in California. The round
trip rate wus placed at $85,50.
A rate of S2O to San Francisco means a
reduction of #3B 25 at orte swoop, as the
former one way rate was $52 25. Tho
round trip rate was formerly SOS 50, so
travelers taking advantage of this reduc
tion of #35 50 will make a saving of ex
actly #3O.
The Greater New York.
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 28. Gov. Flower
has signed the greater New York bill,
which means that tnequestion of whether
New York and Brooklyn shall be consoli
dated is to be decided by a vote of the
people of both cities and their suburbs.
SAVANNAH, GA„ THURSDAY. MARCH 1,1894.
BLAND RALLIES A QUORUM.
Tracey Subsequently Questions the
Correctness of the Count.
When Pressed into a Corner, However,
he Declines to Impeach the Accuracy
of the Official Figures—Later on Reed
and Burrows Attack the Clerk's Man
ner of Calling the Roll, #
Washington, Feb. 28.—1n the House to
day, after the cajl of the committees for
reports, Mr. Kilgore offered a resolution
which, he said, ought to boa matter of
privilege, if it were not. It was read for
information. It recited the law requir
ing the sergeant-at-arms to withhold the
salary of a representative who was ab
sent, except on account of sickness of
himself or a member of his family; that
at this session of congress many members
had been absent: and he called upon the
sergeant-at-arms to report whether or not
the law in this respect had been obeyed
by him, and, if he had been derelict
therein, to report why. He was also
asked if in his opinion tho law could not
be enforced, and to inform the House the
reasons therefor.
Mr. Reed made the point that the reso
lution did not present a matter of privi
lege in the way in which it was drawn.
It was simply a resolution asking an offi
cer of the House his opinion upon a ques
tion of law.
Vryr a privileged resolution.
Speaker Crisp called the attention of
Mr. Kilgore to the fact that the resolution*
contained no allegation that an o fiber of
the House had failed to discharge Ins duty
under the rules, or under the law. which
was necessary to make it a privileged
matter It was simply a resolution of ip
quir.v directed to an officer of the House.
Mr. Kilgore thereupon withdrew the
resolution.
Mr. Bland moved that the House go
into committee of tho whole upon his
seigniorage bill, and that the general de
bate be closed at 3 o'clock Thursday. On
this motion the vote by division way
127 to 2.
Mr. Tracey made the point of no quor
um and the yeas and nays were called.
Before the result of tho vote .as an
nounced. Mr. Livingston, dem., of Geor
gia, said he desired to submit a motion.
Rule 8, he said, required members present,
unless excused, to vote upon every pro
position presented to the House. The
gentleman from New York, Mr. Traee.y,
had refused to vote, and he demanded
that he be brought before the bar of the
House and explain his refusal to vote.
Mr. Johnson, dem., of Ohio, said he had
a list of 'twenty-five members who had
violated the rule, which he offered to
send to the desk.
UNABLE TO ENrORCE IT.
The chair stated that the point was
well taken. The chair could not enforce
the rule otherwise than by appealing to
members to observe it. The chair was
but the organ of the House and would
never make a rule unless authorized and
directed so to do by the House. [Ap
plause.]
Mr. Boatner, dem., of Louisiana, argued
in support of Mr. Livington’s motion. It
was. he said, an effort to bring a member
to answer to a willful contempt and viola
tion of the rules. The House ought to
determine here and now whether or not
a member can defy its rules.
The chair stated that, under the rules,
it was his duty to announce the result of
the vote. The result was, yeas 169, nays
s—five5 —five short of a quorum. It was said
that five supporters of Mr. Bland failed
to get their votes in because they were
not in the hall of the House when called.
These, in addition to those recorded,
would have made a quorum. Messrs.
Clancy and Magner, of the New York
delegation, who had heretofore refrained
from voting, voted in favor of the propo
sition.
WATCHED WITH INTEREST.
These proceedings had been watched
with the keenest interest by the mem
bers. especially the republicans, as hav
ing within them the possibility of his
tory-making. When the chair announced
the vote, however, and the incident was
over, the humdrum of routine was re
sumed, and the members who had been
eagerly crowding into the pit in front of
the clerk’s desk faded rapidly away.
Mr. Bland moved a call of the House.
On this motion there were first a viva
voce vote; then a vote by division, third
a vote by tellers—Messrs. Bland and
Reed officiating, and finally a vote by
yeas and nays. The latter resulted:
yeas 189, nays 4. So the call was order
ed. It showed 265 members preseut
and responding to their names.
On the motion to dispense with further
proceedings under the call, the same pro
cedure was followed—four separate votes
being taken, ending with the yeas and
nays. The call resulted: yeas 183, nays
3, thus-dispensing with further proceed
ings.
A QUORUM AT LAST.
Mr. Bland renewed his motion and the
yeas and nays were cal.ed. As the roll
proceeded, it bocame apparent to many
that a quorum would be obtained, and
members keeping tally crowded about
tho clerk’s desk. Mi-. Tracey, dem . of
New York, occupied the seat at which,
for two weeks past, he has kepi tally
with the clerk on roll calls, closely fol
lowing tho response to the call. When it
was determined that a quorum had been
obtained on the second call of the roll,
Mr. Tracey voted yea, amid slight ap
plause from tho democratic side, his pur
pose. as afterward appeared, being to
move a re onsideration.
The announcement of the vote by tho
speaker—l 77 yeas to 7 nays—evoked a
round of applause from the democrats and
populists.
Mr. Outhwaite. dem., of Ohio, and Mr.
Tr ice.y, dotn , of New York, were on thoir
feet demanding recognition-the former
to present an order from the committee
on rules, limiting the debate on the pond
ing bill and amendments to two hours,
and the later to move a reconsideration
of the vote just taken. Mr. Outhwaite
was given the iloor, and the speaker
stated, after putting the question,. that
Mr. Tracey had interposed amotion to re
consider.
Mr. Outhwaite demanded the previous
question on his motion, but the yeas anil
nays were ordered without a division.
THE COUNT ATTACKED.
After a name or two had been called,
Mr. Ilecd precipitated an angry discus
sion, which, for intensity, equaled the
famous scenes in the Fifty-first congress,
when Speaker Reed was counting quo
rums.
The gentleman from Maine sug
gested that a roll call was out of order,
inasmuch as the last vote did not disclose
the presence of a quorum.
The Speaker—By what authority does
the gentleman make that statement?
Mr. Reed—l am informed by the gentle-
man from New Y’ork, Mr. Tracey, that he
kept a tally, and that it did not show a
quorum voting.
The Speaker— I Thegentleman from New
York is not she keeper of the rtill for the
House. | Applaqse. j Tile clerk will pro
ceed with the call.
Mr. Reed, persisting, amid cries of
“regular order,” stated that when a mem
ber arose and suggested that an error had
been committed, he was entitied to re
spectful treatment from the chsir and
from the House.
The Speaker—Has not the gentleman
had it? There has beer, no suggestion
that the vote had been impeached by tho
gentleman from Near York. If one is made
the chair will oe glad to have it examined
in the interest of right and truth.
AN EXCITING MOMENT.
While this colloquy was proceeding,
members rushed down the aisles to the
center, aud Messrs. Outhwaite and Mc-
Millin. dem., of Tennessee, asserted that
Mr. Tracey had accepted the validity and
correctness of the vole by moving to re
consider it. His remedy was to have the
vote recapitulated, and this he had failed
to do.
The confusion became so great, mem
bers shouting at each other and the chair,
that the speaker suspended proceedings
until comparative order was restored by
the members taking their seats.
Mr. Reed, resuming, stated that he had
been out of the hall while the roll was be
ing called, attending a meeting of the
committee on rules, at which he under
stood he was to have an opportunity
to be heard n the order reported, ami, of
course, did not know what had occurred.
The gentleman from. Now York. Mr.
Tracey, had informed him that a quorum
had not voted, and knowing that the gen
tleman had been keeping tally for a num
ber of days without making an error, ho
was so much impressed with the stute
inent%)f the gentleman that he felt it to
be his duty to call the attention of the
chair and the House to it, that the error
might be corrected if one had been made.
Mr. McMilHn, dem., of Ten ness -e, de
clared that the gentleman from New
York should speak for himself, and not by
proxy.
Mr. Meredith, dem , of Virginia -Mr.
Speaker there has been a comedy of
errors here, and the gentleman from New
York has been in error for some weeks,
and is in error now.
TRACEY EXPLAINS.
Mr. Tracey endeavored to make h im
self heard, and finally succeeded. He
said that it was a matter of but little
momeut. A quorum would be scoured in
any event, he conceded. But he had kept
what he believed to be a correct tally,
and it showed but 174 votes. But lie
would not undertake to itnfloach the ac
curacy of the official count. 'Whereupon
the storm subsided and the roll call pro
ceeded.
When the letter T was reached there
was a slight squall. Mr. Reed called the
attention of the chair to the fact that the
clerk, after calling Mr. Talbert, of South
Carolina, returned and called Mr. Stock
dale, of Mississippi, which he said was
out of order.
CRISP AGREES WITH REED,
The speaker coincided with the gentle
man from Maine, who continued to hold
the floor, and said: “It is decidedly out
of order. The clerks have no right to in
terest themselves on the floor to back up
their actions, but it is only a part of what
we have been having.”
Mr. Springer, dem., of Illinois, stated
that Mr. Stockdale had responded when
his name was called.
Speaker Crisp directed the olerk not to
return to a name after it had been passed;
it was not in order.
Mr. Outhwaite s demand for the prevD
ous question was seconded by a vote of
170 to 1, and again the friends of the
pending bill expressed their pleasure at
the result by vigorous hand-clapping.
On tlie passage of the order, th ‘| vote
on the division was: ayes 145; noes 0. Tho
yeas and nays were ordered. Before the
call had proceeded far. however. Mr. Bar
rows aud Mr Reed crith lsed the mothods
of the reading clerks. Mr. Burrows said
the roll was really called four times
every name being repeated on each roll
call. Mr. Reed called attention to the
fact that the calling was irregular, some
names being called once, others twi e. and
some three times, until the olerk forces an
answer. There was no authority for this,
they contended.
The speaker, stated that. he cid not
know how the practice has grown up, but
ever since he bad been in the House the
names liad been called twice when mem
ber failed to aaswor. The philosphy of
the rule, he supposel to be that with tho
least necessary delay every member
should have an opportunity to, vote and
a repetition of the name probably was
the best method of securing that end.
The vote resulted: Yeas 165, nays 11-
three less than a quorum; and at 4
o’clock, on motion of Mr. Outhwaite, the
House adjornod uu’.ll noon to-morrow.
BLAND’S VICTORY v
It Ends One of the Most Extended Fil
ibustering Contests in Years.
Washington, Feb. 28.—Tho establish
ment of a quorum in the House this after
noon ended one of the most
celebrated and extended fili
bustering contests of late years. The
Bland seigniorage bill was called up in
the House on Feb. 9 and debated gener
ally for several days. On Feb.
13 the opponents of the bill began
to filibuster by refusing to
answer the roll calls, thus preventing tho
presence of a quorum. The repiilfiicans,
under tho leadership of Mr. Keod, of
Maine, refrained from voting, with the
exception of a few representatives from
the west, who favor the free coinage of
silver. Tho ranks of the republicans
were reinforced by all the democrats
from New Y'ork and New England, with
a few scattering votes from some of the
other northern states east of the Missis
sippi.
HOW THE VOTE STOOD.
On the vote by which Mr. ’ Blau#i se
cured a quorum on his motion to lane up
the bill for consideration the following
republicans voted with the democrats ami
populists in the affirmative: Messrs.
Aitkon, Bowers of California, Brodert ‘k,
Doolittle, Ellis of Oregon, Funston. Hart
man, Herman. Hilborn, Lacy, Lucas,
Marsh, Pickier, Settle and Sweet.—ls.
Messrs. Clancy. Cummings, Haines,
ner, and Trapey of New York, demo rats,
also vote 1 in the affirmative—Tracey to
move a re consideration. The negative
vote comprised Messrs. Causey, McAleer,
Muchler, Page, Pigott, Husk and Ryan
all democrats.
At 3 o'clock this afternoon when tho
presence of a quorum was established the
crow i was so dense that the doors could
not be closed, and scores of persons stood
in the corridors outside unable even to see
the floor beneath. Many of the visitors
were strangers in tho city.
Judge J. W. McDill Dead.
Washington, Feb. 28.—Judge James W
McDill, of the interstate commerce com
mission, died at C res ton, ].. at 10:30
o'cloi k-this morning, from the effects of
malarial fever.
FRYE TALKS ON HAWAII.
The Administration Attacked For its
Altitude Toward Dole.
The President Accused of Attempting
to Overthrow the Provisional Gov
ernment—His Right to Put the Naval
Force at the Command of Minister
Willis Denied—Senator Gray Recalls
Similar Action by President Grant-
Wash ington, Feb. 28.—1n the Senate to
day Mr. Voorhees, dem., of Indiana,
chairman of tho finance committee, of
lcred a resolution appointing Mr. Mills,
dem., of Texas, a member of the finance
committee during the absence and dis
ability of Senator Vance, dem., of North
Carolina. Ho asked immediate action
upon it; but Mr. Hoar, rep., of Massachu
setts, suggested that the resolution had
better lie over until to-morrow, and it
accordingly went over.
Thereupon, Mr. Frye, rep., of Maine,
rose to address the Senate on the Ha
waiian resolution. He opened his speech
with this sentence: “A chapter of diplo
matic history has just been written in
our republic, discreditable to this admin
istration and intensely humiliating to our
people. The relations between tho Uni
ted States and the Hawaiian islands for
half a century, have been very peculiar,
differing entirely from those Tic tween us
and any other people.”
He proceeded to sketch the condition of
tho islands and their history down to the
point of the revolution which overthrew
the queen and established the provisional
government.
THE EFFORT TO RESTORE THE QUEEN.
Where, Mr. Frye asked, had tho
President of the United States obtained
his authority to interfere with the estab
lished government for its overthrow?
Admittedly tho President had been con
triving to overthrow the existing govern
ment and restore the queen. He had
sent James H. Blount jto Honolulu with
powers more extraordinary than were
over given to any ambassador,
minister, consul, general, or com
mander from the United States. Mr.
Frye read President Cleveland’s letter to
President Dole, commending Commis
sioner Blount to him, aud closing with
the words, “May God have your excel
lency in his wise keeping.”
"Mr. President,” Mr. Frye continued,
“I believe God heard that prayer of
President Cleveland, and answered it.
The magnificent courage of that little
band of white men which enabled them
to say, Lriuly, with dignity. ’We will
never surrender,’ could only have been
divinely inspired.”
RESPONSIBILITY OF NAVAL OFFICERS. "*
Mr. Frye read the standing naval regu
lations, which give the sole responsibility
for landing United States toroes on for
eign soil to the officers commanding the
navy at that point; and then he read the
dispatch from Secretary of the Navy
Herbert, to Admiral Skerritt, saying:
“You will consult freely with Mr. Blount,
and will obey any instructions you may
receive from him.” There could not, Mr.
Frye said, be found a parallel for such an
outrageous violation of law and common
decency, as that order of Mr. Herbert.
Mr. Gray, dem., of Delaware, lound a
parallel for it in the instructions given by
President Grant to Mr. Babcock, placing
the naval forces at San Domingo, “at his
disposal.”
“No senator,” said Mr. Frye, “has a
right to presume that the words ‘At your
disposal,’ “meant a violation of law or of
the regulations of the navy. On the con
trary, he is compelled to presume that it
meant, ‘ln accordance with law and with
the regulations of the navy.’ ”
FRYE POINTS OUT A DIFFERENCE.
“Why,” Mr. Gray asked, “will youp re
sumethat in the one case, and not in the
other?”
“Because,” Mr. Frye replied, “here tho
order is direct. ‘You shall obo the in
structions given to you by Commissioner
Blount.’ ”
“What does‘at your disposal’ mean in
Gen. Grant’s instruction to Mr. Bab
cock?”
‘■lt means something entirely different,”
said Mr. Frye; “and suppose Gen. Grant
did violate the law, is one violation of the
law, a justificable precedent for another?”
“I say no,” Mr. Gray admitted, “but
the senator says that there is no parallel
for this order.”
“And I still say so,” Mr. Frye persis
ted.
Mr. Fr.ye went on to quote the instruc
tions given to Minister Willis in regard
to the restoration of the queenand quoted
from Minister Willis' speech to President
Dole, in which he gave renewed assur
ances of the friendship and hearty
good will of the Ameri
can government to President
Do e and to the people of the Hawaiian
Islands, and congratulated them on hav
ing entered into the great family of the
fiee. “And when he said that,” Mr.
Frye exclaimed, “he had in his pocket in
structions from the President of the
United Slates to drive tnem outside of
the great family of the free aud to reduce
them into abject slavery under an en
feebled, weak, degraded monarchy.”
“What did Minister Willis mean?” Mr.
Gray asked, “as the groat family of the
tree?”
“Free nations,’.’ was Mr. Frye’s inter
pretation.
“I think that was a very good speech,”
Mr. Gray remarked, “and was not consist
ent with gobbling them up afterwards.’’
AN OUTBURST OF ELOQUENCE.
Farther on his speech, Mr. Frye broke
into a passionate outburst of eloquence.
"Think of it." he said, “a wicked queen,
with barbarian instincts and vile pur
poses, blindly stumbles off from her
throne. A government representing
progress, enterprise, Christianity,
civilization, springs iuto exist
ence, is recognized by all of
the great powers, by our minister,
by Presidents Harrison and Cleveland,
and by a commissioner and by two min
isters, one of them welcoming them into
the great family of tho free, while he had in
his po ket instructions to destroy forevor
that government which he was effusively
welcoming! Are we proud of that?
Think of it. A President of 65,600,000 of
people having a minister contriving and
s homing, assiduously, working night and
day lo restore a rotten monarchy, inter
viewing again and again a self-dethroned
queen, listening to talk from her so bar
barous and saiage that the President did
not dare to send it to congress and to the
people.”
At this point Mr. Frye paused and sug
gested, as it was now 2 o'clock, and he
understood there was to be a caucus at
2:30 o'clock, and some executive business
might be desired, be would now yield the
floor.
“You may go on,” said Mr. Gray, in an
undertone
“I would like to have some more demo
crats to hear me," Mr. Frye said, as he
had noticed that there were not more
than ten democratic senators in the cham
ber.
An executive session was thereupon
proposed by Mr. Morgan and was ordered
I h' Senate afterward, at 8:26 o'clock, ad
Joumod until to-morrow.
RAISING OE THE KEARSARGE.
Four Offers to Do tho Work Received
by Secretary Herbert.
Washington, Feb. 28—Secretary Her
bert lias received four offers for raising
the Kearsarge from Roncador reef. In ad
dition to that from the Merritt Wrecking
Company. The new bidders are the Bos
ton 'Towboat Company, of Boston, Mass.;
the Davis Coast Wrecking Corporation,
of New Bedford, Mass.; Lewis Lueken
baeh, of New Y'ork, and the Chapman
Derrick and Wrecking Company, of New
i ork. The amounts bid will not ho mado
public at present, and Secretary Herbert
will continue to rooeivo bids for several
days yet. When congress appropriates
the money for raising tho wreck the con
tract will be awarded.
Confirmed as Postmasters.
Washington. Feb. 28.—The Senate has
confirmed tho nominations of the follow
ing postmasters:
Florida—D. Shepard Shine, at Orlando.
North Carolina—J. 1). Helms, at Mon
roe.
Virginia—K. S. Dudley at Pulaski City.
RICHTER RAISES THE ROOF.
Bennigsen’s Assault Resented in a
Speech Full of Personalities.
Berlin, Feb. 28.—T0-day’s debate ln tho
Reichstag on the Germaii-ltussian treaty
was very oxciting. Dr. von Bennlgsen,
the loader of the national llborals, hav
ing made a speech yesterday in which he
dooriod the Richter radicals, Eugene
Richter rose to reply to him to-day. He
began with a violent assault upon Dr.
von Bennlgsen, and his remarks to
the end bristled with personalities. Ho
denounced the assertion that he and his
colleagues were and had been opposed to
the government ever since 1870 ns false.
The opposition of the radical* to the gov
ernment, he said, had been confined to
resisting curtailment of the constitutional
rights of the German states in the
Reichstag whenever such attempts ihad
been made. He doplored the spectacle
of Dr. vou Bennigsen defending
the conservative aristocracy, which
he said, had proved Itself
unable to fulfill the demands of modern
times, or to meet the requirements of the
people. The Richterites, he claimed,
had closed their ranks and stood firm in
support of the government, whereas the
conservative and clerical divisions were
wholly responsible for ifto existing doubt
as to the fate of the treaty.
Herr Lieber said that a portion of tho
clerical party believed that the rejection
of the treaty would be a national disaster.
Nevertheless, others of t]io party op
posed the measure avowedly because
they believod its operations would be
more advantageous to Russia than to
Germany.
THE MILITARY POLICY ATTACKED.
Herr Lieber attacked the government’s
military policy. He believed that Ger
many’s armaments were too heavy, and
therefore measures tending to relieve the
country of the burden they imposed
ought to be suppoited.
Herr Schultz, social democrat, sup
ported the arguments of Herr Lieber, but
in such violent terms that he was fre
quently called to order. He vehemently
assailed Chancellor von Caprivi, and de
clared that Prince Bismarck would never
have made such concessions as were
granted by the treaty. Better, he said,
ten years in penal servitude than two
years a German farmer under its opera
tion.
SICILY’S UPRISING.
The Conspiracy Fomented by Anarch
ists at Marseilles.
Rome, Feb. 28. —In the Chamber of
Deputies to day Signor Crispi, tho prime
minister, explained the government’s
reasons for proclaiming a state of siege in
Sicily. Documents which came into pos
session of the authorities at Massa di
Carrara proved the existence of
socialist and anarchist plans to
reorganize and repeat their uj>-
rising on scale approaching
the proportions of a revolution. With this
view foreign anarchist leaders were
flocking to Sicily. At a meeting of for
eign and Italian anarchists recently held
in Marseilles, he said, it was resolved to
foment an uprising of the peasants in
Sicily, promises to be made to the peas
antry to divide the lands among them.
This outbreak was' to occur during
1894, when, according to the
representations of the conspirators, a
foreign war would break out. Piedmont
would be invaded and a Russian fleet
would occupy Italian waters. These dis
coveries having been made, the govern
ment promptly seized all the anarchist
property and documents to be found and
pro, laimed a state of sieve.
The statement of Signor Crispi, and the
documents he mentioned, made a profound
Impression upon the chamber.
A RUSSO-GERMAN CLASH.
Rumors of a Fatal Fight Between Sol
diers on the Frontier.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 28.—Humors of a
battle between Russian and German
troops on the frontier, have been current
in military circles in Mos ow for several
days. One version of the fight is as fol
lows: A squadron of Russian dragoons
saw a party of Prussian huluns making a
target of a frontier post on which the
Russian arms were displayed. The Rus
sian commandor requested the Prussians
to stop firing at the post. The Prussians
ignored the request. A skirmish followed
in which several men on both sides were
killed. The Russians pursued the Prus
sians for some distance after the fight.
Tho war office, however, has received
no information whatever of the reported
fight and no credence Is given to the
story hero.
PARISH COUNCILS.
The House of Commons Rejects an
Amendment.
London, Feb. 28.—The House of Lords,
to-day, by a vote of 60 to 55, refused
to accept the House of Common'-! re
jection of Lord Salisbury’s amendment to
the Parish councils bill, enabling small
parishes to dispose with councils if they
numbered less than 200 to 50(1 inhabitants*
The peers offered a compromise amend
ment.
Rupee Paper Not in Demand.
London, Feb. 28.—0n tho stock ex
change to-day rupee paper to the amount
of 200 lacs was tendered but only 50 lacs
were allotod.
I DAILY, #lO A YEAR. I
< 5 CENTS A COPY. I
I WEEKLY, tl 85 A YEAR. |
BLOODY WORK IN A HOTEL.
A Pitcher Shoots an Actress and Then
Commits Suicide.
*
Three Btillet Wounds in the Woman’*
Head and Neck and Her Recovery
Considered Improbable- She Was *
Member of the Alvin Joslyn Com*
pany The Murderer McNabb of th*
Baltimore* -The Cause of the Tra
gedy Unknown.
Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 58, A terribl*
tragedy was enacted at the Hotel Eiffel, at
508 Smith field street at 3:30 o’clock to-night
from which Pitcher the Bal
timore club, is .mad, and (.ouiso Kellogg
will likely die from tho result of wounds
received from a pistol in tho hands of
McNabb.
Louise Kellogg was a inemher of the
Alvin Joslyn Theatrical Company, and
came here from New Y’ork to-day. She
met McNabb a short time before 8:30
o’clock to night, and they went to the hotel
where a room was engaged.
the piseovr-nY.
A young man named Gillen, a friend of
both McNabb and the Kellogg woman,
went up to their room about 8:30
o’clock to call on them. He heard the
woman tgrouning and called for help.
As it is right across from the city hall, In
spector McKelvy and several officers were
soon on the scone. Tho door was burst
open und a bloody sight met their gaze.
On tlie floor lay the woman with throe
bullet wounds in her head and neck.
McNabb was lying beside her with two
shots through tho head that killed him aP
most instantly.
Tho woman was taken to the homie
opathie hospital. She can hardly re
cover. McNabb’s body was removed to
tho morgue.
THE FIIIINO NOT HEAltn.
There was a Are a few doors above the
hotel at the time McNabb did the shoot
ing. This caused much excitement in the
vicinity find the hotel people did not even
hear the shots tired. McNabb evidently
meant murder when he went to the room,
for he was only there a short time before
he did the shooting. Kellogg’s
right name is Mrs. K. E. Rockwell, and
she has a husband living at Seattle,
Wash. Kellogg was hor stage
name. Her parents live at Uraddook,
near this city. Unless she regains con
sciousness, the cause of the shooting may
never be known.
A THEORY OF THE TRAOEDT.
Loulso Kellogg, or Mrs. Rockwell, tho
woman's right name, is the wife of tho
president of the California Base Ball
league. From what could be learnoil
from young Gillen after the sliootiug.
Miss Kellogg was endeavoring lo break
off her relations with McNabb. A
number of letters belonging to Miss
Kellogg showed that she had
been keeping McNabb supplied with
money for tho past few months. The
company she was with disbanded some
time ago. and sho came here with tho
prooable intention of either staying with
her parents in Braddoek, or getting
money to tide her over until she procured
another engagement. McNabb met her
here, and us the woman was probably
trying to break off her intimacy with him,
this probably prompted McNabb to shoot
the woman and himself.
GLADSTONE’S RETIREMENT.
The Day’* Developments Tend to Con
firm the Truth of the Rumor.
fjondq*. Feb. 28.—The Edinburg Even
ing News to-day repeats emphatically
that Mr. Gladstone has resigned the pre
miership, and that it has beeu offered to
Lord Rosebery.
Tho Times declares that whatever la
done about the leadership, It is certain
that home rule will be dropped, and
neKuor Lord Rosebery nor Sir William
Vernon Harcourt is likely to revive it.
Tlie Times adds: “However they may
differ upon either point, they know per
fectly well that the British public is sicl*
of paying blackmail to criminal conspira
tors. ■
The St. James Gazette says that the ale
reoffy widely published comments upon
the statements made have diminished
the weight of ihe official denials. The
Increasing reticence of his entourage is
regarded as an actual intimation of the
possibility of Mr. Gladstone’s withdrawal
at any moment.
THE IRISH QUESTION.
Mr. Gladstone is understood to have
made a proposafto his colleagues to re
vive the borne rule q uestion in the shape
of a resolution pledging the House of
Commons to deal with home rule for Ire
land at the following session ol parlia
ment. This proposal is said not to have
found favor with the cabinet minister.
Tho Indepeudent. of Dublin, accepts
the reports of Mr. Gladstone's retirement
as meaning that the movement in favor oi
homo rule will be dropped.
The Freeman's Journal party will con
tinue to insist that the settlement of the
Irish question is to be the controlling ex
citement of whatever ministry governs.
GLADSTONE WITH TIIF.
The Central News bulletins tho state
ment that Mr. Gladstone drove from
Downing street to Buckingham palace at
3 o'clock and hud an audience of an hour's
duration with the queen. He did not
tender his resignation. That Mr.
Gladstone's eyesight has grown
so much worse, that an operation
will be soon neei ssary, almost everybody
believes, and it is understood that he in
formed his colleagues that for this reason
he would be compelled to retire, though
he hoped his retirement would only ba
temporary.
The liberal papers insist that in the
event of his retirement home rule will
survive, but the conservative papers take
the opposite view.
MEIIELY A QUESTION OF DATS.
The Westminster Gazette says the re
tirement of Mr. Gladstone Is now merely
a question of days or weeks, rather than
months. His retirement, however, must
not shelve the question of home rule,
which Is still the leading and dominant
factor in the situation. Whoever shall
follow Mr. Gladstone must nail the green
flag to the mast.
The Pall M(UI Gazette says that be
sides tho physical and political reasons
for Mr. Gladstone's retirement, he has
never liked the ideas of the now radical
ism. Outside of the question of home
rule, he is a staunch whig. If Mr.
Gladstone remains in the cabinet 4 hi*
sue, essor to the premiership will have a
barren and difficult career.