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She Wcchln* Chronicle.
YESTERDAY IN
WASHINGTON.
The President Arrives at 10:40
from Wilmington.
He Was Greeted with Great En
thusiasm Everywhere.
The Architect of the Treasury Depart
ment Has Been Appointed.
Wilmington, Del, April 10. —Presi-
dent Grover Cleveland and party accom
panied by Ambassador Bayard left Del
amore place at 7:30 this morning
rode to the Pennsylvania depot in closed
carriages.. Crowds of people began
forming at the depot as early as 7
o’clock. The President, Secretary Gresh
am and Senator White, after bidding
Mr. Bayard a cordial farewell, hurried
into the ear as quickly as possible.
Crowds surrounded the ear and cheered
the President at every opportunity. The
regular express train rolled into the
depot at 8:01 o’clock. The special ear
mis quickly attached and the train drew
• on its way to Washington.
The President was standing on the
platform when the car was drawn out
on the main track. The tram pulled
out of the depot slowly. The crowd
cheered again and again. Mr. Cleveland
took off his hat and stood bareheaded
until the rear of the train had passed
from the shed. Then he turned and
went into the ear.
Washington, April 10. —Secretary Car
lisle has appointed Herman van Senden,
editor of the Paducah (Ky.) Standard,
his private secretary. Ann Senden is
30 years of age, a native of Kentucky,
and appointed on the recommendation of
Congressman Stone.
The Secretary today appointed Jere
miah O’Rourke of Newark. N. J., Su
pervising Architect of the Treasury De
partment.
The April report of the statistician oi
the Department of Agriculture makes
the average condition of winter wheat
on the first of April 77.4 against 81.2
last year, and that of rye 85.7. The
acreages of the principal wheat states
are: Ohio, 87; Michigan. 74;; Indiana,
Jl’jm'is. 72; Missouri. 76, and Kan
sa.ylit?. - The average of these six states
is 74.2 against 77 in April 1892. It is
88 in New York, 87 in Pennsylvania,
87 in Maryland, 87 in Virginia, the
Southern states ranging from 83 in
Tennessee to 1(H) in Texas. The Pacific
states show a favorwine condition wit]’
the exception of California, where too
much rain is reported.
THE GAMBLERS FINED.
No More Chicken and WineSuppirs for
Many of Them.
Yesterday was quite a sporty day
with his honor Judge Tierce, as the
dead game sports of Saturday night's
raid were up before him on the charge
of “shufliling the papers” »nd indulging
in a small game of “draw”
His honor fined the keener of the room
830, and several of the young men who
were present and indulged in poker play
ing. sls a piece.
Two got off on the plea that they wore
not playing, but simplv went to the
room upon the invitation of the proprie
tor to attend a chicken and wine sup
per. After court adjourned several of
the party were heard to say that in the
future they would tight she of “chicken
and wine suppers.”
SHOT AT KING CARLOS.
The Ball from the Revolver Passed Over
His Head.
London. April 10.—A despatch from
Lisbon savs that while King Carlos was
driving yesterday afternoon an attempt
was made to assassinate him. A young
man ran toward the carriage, brandish
ing a revolver, and before the police
amid seize him fired a shot which passed
above the king's head. The young man
was arrested and imprisoned, The at
tempt of the police to keep the matter
as quiet as possible, resulted, says the
despatch, in the circulation of the re
port that the young man merely' ran,
with his cane raised, toward the car
riage.
CLUBS MUST PAY.
New Orleans, April 10.—The supreme
court today decided the suit of the state
collector against the Boston and Pick
wick clubs to compel them to take out
regular barroom license in favor of the
collecJXr. Heretofore the clubs have
running barrooms and have failed
to pay license claiming that they bought
the liquor and sold it to members at
cost. The license fee is SI,OOO a year,
nearly oil the clubs here rim private
bans, and this decision means that they
must either discontinue the practice or
pay the state at least sloo,ooo a year.
J NORFOLK MAN KILLED.
\ Brooklyn, N. Y., April 10.—As the
Fulton ferryboat Fulton was making a
landing at tire foot of Fulton street.,
llbis city, a few minutes after 2 o'-clock
this morning a m-.in while in the horse
gangway was knocked down and run
<J ( ver by a team and instantly killed.
Trhe deceased was abut 50 years of age.
‘"TA card found in his pocket had the in
i scription , J-s E. Prince, proprietor City
Horse Shoe saloon. No. 134 Main street,
Norfolk, Va.
WILL REORGANIZE.
.New York. Anril 10.—It is understood
timt Drexel, Morgan & Co., have ar
riuiged to go on with the reorganization
of the Richmond Terminal and proper
ties controlled by it. The affairs of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia,
which have been the element in the sit
uation which caused the delay, have
been fully arranged and it is expected
that the reorganization will be begun
soon.
forstalling trouble.
Dublin, April 10.—Baron Houghton.
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, has issued
an order limiting the importation of
arms and ammunition to Ireland. Arms
and ammunition must be imported only
nt certain ports, and all consigners must,
previous to consignment, obtain a per
mit for importation from the customs
officers, giving particulars of the arms
consigned. The customs officials are au
thorized to open packages suspected, of
containing firearms or ammunition im
parted contrary to orders.
REPUBLICANS TO MEET.
Helena. Mont., April 10.—Chairman
T II Carter this afternoon issued a call
for a meeting of the republican national
committee ite lu -
■i
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1893.
THE HOME RULE BILL.
The Opposition Hed the Opening *t the Sve
*lon Yesterday.
London, April 10.—There was a thin
attendance in the house of commons to
day when Gladstone resumed bis mo
tion for a second reading of the home
rule bill. The first speaker was Her
bert W. Paul, liberal member of parlia
ment for South Edinburgh. Paul’s re
marks did not fill the benches, and it
was not until Joseph Chamberlain arose
that the members hurried in. and the
house assumed an aspect of interest and
attention. Chamberlain said that the
bill proposed to establish a brand new
constitution for Ireland. The prime min
ister asked them, continued Chamber
lain. when the controversy would be
settled if the measure should bo rejected.
The whole question really was. Would
the bill settle the controversy? Wag not
Gladstone in too groat a burry, and was
he not too impatient to deal with the
Irish difficulty? A now era had opened
for Ireland with the disestablishment of
the Irish church. Then the agrarian’
question had been partly settled. Time
ought to be given to allow for the bene
ficial operation of these other measures.
But the prime minister said that Ireland
was still discontented, and that no pro
gress toward conciliation had been made.
If such was the case then the predictions
such was the case, then the predictions so
of the prime minister regarding the meas
ures he had already promoted for Ire
land had proven fallacious, and threw
discredit on similar predictions in re
gard to the present measure, giving Ire
land a separate legislature. Probably,
added Mr. Chamberlain, the people of
England would accept the bill if they
believed that it would enable them to
get rid of the Irish question. (Hear,
hear!) But he feared il would do noth
ing of the kind. Gladstone had disre
garded the rights of the minority, and
treated the most influential ami pros
perous section of the Irish people with
contempt He proposed to subject that
section of the Irish people to such legis
lative conditions as would wreck their
interests and expose the whole country
to financial ruin. Not Ireland alone, hut
England equally had reason to drend
the results of the measure. The whole
of the property classes, continued Mr.
Cha.mberl.iin. whatever their religion,
were opposed to the bill.
Justin McCarthy, the leader of the
anti-Parnellites. ridiculed Chamberlain’s
prophecies of disaster. The Irish peo
ple. he said, hailed the bill as a rdedge
that their aspirations would be satisfied.
They would accept it as a message of
lasting peace. The predictions that they
would use it to foment discord and dis
loyalty, could be made honestly only
by those mistaking the present mood of
the Irish nation. He could not sav that 1
the Irish party were quite satisfied with
the financial clauses of the Home Rule
bill; nevertheless they accepted tile bill
generally as an honest settlement of the
question. (Cheers). As far as the Irish
party could see it might wove a final
settlement. If the bill were carried,
the prime minister would win the un
dying gratitude of millions of men. (Pro
longed cheers). William Redmond, lead
er of the Parnellites, said that the bill
had been discussed sufficiently by the
House. Nothing was to be gained by
prolonging the debate and division was
now ne°dcd to give effect to the wishes
expressed by the nation at the last gen
eral election. Redmond ridiculed the
Idea that Ulster had anything to fear
from Catholic Ireland. If disturbances
in Ireland should follow the passage of
the bill, they would be due to the con
duct of opposition leaders, who had not
hesitated to excite the worst passions
of both Catholics and Protestants.
(Hear, hear).
THE GOVEKOR’S CONVENTION.
It Is Expected to Convene tn Rlehnaoud To
morrow.
Richmond, April 10.—The convention of
Southern governors is expected to meet
Wednesday at noon in the Senate Cham
ber of the State I'apitol building. After
adjournment they will be given a lunch at
the Confederate Memorial Bazar, which
opens tomorrow night. Wednesday after
noon tlie distinguished guests will be driv
en around tlie city sight-seeing after which
they will dine with Governor McKinny,
at "tlie Executive Mansion. Tlie West
moreland Club will entertain the gover
nors In handsome style Thursday evening.
Every member has the privilege of taking
a lady and ns there are over three hun
dred members, a brilliant gathering will
be present including the beauty, wealth
and fashion of the city. Governor Fish
back, of Arkansas, Is here and Governors
McCorkle, of West Virginin, Tillman, ot
South Carolina, Carr, of North Carolina,
Foster, of Louisiana, are expected in the
morning.
Speaking of the convention today. Gov
ernor Flshback said he would offer a mo
tion in the meeting to the effect that Pres
ident Cleveland be informed as to the
exact condition of the South and asked
to aid in any way in which he can do so
witii propriety tlie development of this
section of toe country.
MORE PRACTICE DRILL.
Fort Monroe, April 10.—Admiral Ghcrar
di lins decided to have another practice
drill with tlie squadron before any more
foreign visitors arrive. The vessels are
expected to sail at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning if the weather is not too stormy
and will be absent about two or three
days. They will cruise off tlie capes dur
ing the day and return to Lynnhaven Bay
for anchorage at night. The Philadelphia
with Admiral Gherardl will remain in the
Roads to receive any foreign visitors that
may arrive during their absence. As Rear
Admiral Benham ranks Admiral Walker,
he will command the manoeuvres while
the fleet is outside. A notheast storm is
now working up the coast which may de
lay their departure until Wednesday.
ONLY A FEW STRIKERS.
Topeka, April 10.—About one hundred of
the five hundred men in the locomotive
shops of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe railroad who struck Saturday returned
to work this morning. None of the men in
the car shops, who the machinists claimed
would join them, are out today. There are
enough men in the locomotive shops to
keep up with the dally repair work but
not enough to do any general overhauling.
No attempt has been made by the company
to fill the places of the strikers and none
will be made until every possible effort
has been made to settle the trouble.
ROUTING REBELS.
London, April 10.—A dispatch to the
Brazillian legation in Ixmdon from Rio
Janeiro states that the insurrection in
the province of Rio Grande Do-Sul is be
ing surpassed and that the rebels every
where are being pursued by government
forces and have been driven close to
the Uruguayan frontier.
AFTERNOON PRESS MEETS.
Washington, April 10.—The Southern Af
ternoon Press Bureau met here today in
annual convention. Twenty-five uews
naners were represented and several new
members were admitted. They spent the
day in discussing plans for improving their
news servee.
DEATH PENALTY ABOLISHED.
Albany, April 10—In the assembly to
night the 1)111 abolishing the death penalty
was passed by a vote of ayes 78, nays 29.
The bill as passed goes into effect Septem
ber 1 next and under the present circum
stances will not afford any relief to Carlyle
W. Harris.
CHOLERA IN GALICIA.
Vienna, April 10.—Sixteen eases of chol
era are reported from different parts of
Galicia*
YESTERDAY IN
THE SENATE.
The Recent Labor Decisions Were
Brought Up.
Judge Speer’s Opinion Strongly
Criticised.
A Oommitteo Appointed to Wait on the
President.
Senator Hoar presented the petition ol
Jseph W. Ady for an investigation of
the election of the United States sena
tor freiu Kansas. Referred to the com
mit te on privileges and elections.
The resolution for the committee to
wait on President Cleveland and inform
him that the senate is ready to adjourn
sine die was offered and agreed to with
out question, but subsequently a motion
to reconsider waa made by Senator Hoar
and entered. tx> be called up hereafter.
Senator Hoar's reason for moving lo re
consider was understood to be his deter
mination, if possible, to force the senate
to take action in the way of investigat
ing Senator Roach of North Dakota.
The resolutions to investigate Sentutor
Roach's case and that of Senator Power
of Montana were offered by Senators
Hoar and Chandler and went over with
out action. In persuance of the same
purpose Senator Hoar successfully re
sisted a motion to proceed to executive
business.
S-mator Butler reported from the com
mittee on interstate commerce a resolu
tion authorizing that committee to in
quire whether or not the methods pre
vailing in the transportation of freight
and passengers on great railway lines of
the country, and the conditions and ne
cessities of shippers and transportation
companies justify or require the modifi
cation of section five of the interstate
commerce act. which prohibits pooling
under any circumstances. Also to in
quire whether the system of closing and
sealing cars engaged in the transporta
tion of merchandise from one state to
another through foreign territory and
from such territory in the United States
needs to be modified: whether all rail
roads engaged ill such traffic should be
either required to conform to all condi
tions of the interstate commerce act or
prohibited from continuing such trans
portation; also whether any modifica
tions should Im- made in the law concern
ing the relations between common ear
ners and their employees. The resolution
was referred bo the committee on con
tingent expenses. Later it became si
basis of discussion into which entered
the recant decisions of Judges Taft and
Ricks in Ohio, and Speer in Georgia, in
relation to the rights and duties of rail
road employees.
Senator Gorman took the load in the
discussion. He said the investigation
proposed by the interstate commerce com
mittee was a most pressing and import
ant one. It effected millions of people
and hundreds of millions of invested capi
ital. One question wais whether it was
possible to make provision by law to
iSiable railroad companies to protect
themselves in the matter of freights
and freight charges without doing an in
justice to the communities and individ
uals. While on the threshold of that
investigation another matter to be in
quired into was the recent decisions of
the United States judges, and whether
in view of the interstate commerce law
and the anti-trust law the judges had a
right not only to determine what a rail
road employe should do but what he
should not do. Those decisions were the
first great steps on the part of the judi
ciary to make serfs of the men who were
employed by railroad corporations. If
the law warranted these decisions! and
possibly it did) then the law ought to be
modified or repealed. He did not be
lieve the American people would ever
submit to any branch of government,
whether judiciary or legislative, putting
such impositions upon them as were put
in the recent judicial decisions.
Senator Hoar then asked Senator Gor
man to be somewhat more specific.
Senator Gorman explained that what
he meant to say was that the recent
judicial decisions that railroad employ
ees might be restrained by an order of
court, might, lie fined and imprisoned if
they resigned their positions, was a most
extraordinary decision, and one that had
to be met at the very threshold of the
next Congress. It ought to be inquired
into carefully by men who had but one
motive and that was to see, while pro
tecting the interest of commerce, that
no injustice was done to individuals and
that the courts of the United States
should not be armed with power as arbi
trary as that of the Czar of Russia.
Senator Flatt said that he had not yet
seen in the decision referred to anything
that looked like a usurpation iff power
by the courts or looked like degrading
the workmen of the country to the con
dition of serfs. He believed that the
employees of railroads had no more right
to engage in discrimination of commerce
than their employers had, aud he did not
believe there was anything either in the
interstate commerce act or the anti-trust
act that was not an affirmation of well
considered and well established common
law.
Senator Hoar remarked that the anti
trust law simply extended to the com
merce of the United States principles of
common law. so that he was quite cer
tain that no such doctrine tut that ap
prehended bv Senator Gorman would lie
warranted by that law. It was a mere
extension of the common, law in regard
txi combi nations in rostmint of tru.de in
United States commerce.
The interstate commerce law was a
different one. That was a new piece of
machinery', and he had no doubt it con
tained a good deal that would at some
day return to plague the inventor.
Senator Vest thought it unfortunate
that this matter should have come up for
discussion because it was necessarily in
the matter of “ex parte” criticism. Every
lawyer knew how unsafe it was to take
newspaper statements of judicial decis
ions. He had. for instance, been startled
this morning to see in the Washington
Post that a great revolution had taken
place The article was headled “A
Great Triumph for the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers,” and the impres
sion was conveyed in the article that
Judge Speer of Georgia had decided that
the regulations of the Association of Lo
comotive Engineers were to be recog
nized hereafter by the federal judiciary.
On reading Judge Speers decision
he had found that the text did not at
all bear out the heading and that Judge
Speer had only affirmed what every law
yer knew to be common law. He had
decided that any contract or restraint
of commerce of the United States was
absolutely void; that any engineer laid a
right to give up his employment; but
that when the Association of Locomo
tive engineers oi- any other association
or corporation undertook to make a
rule, and to enforce it in restraint of
commerce, that rule was absolutely void.
There was nothing startling or revolu
tionary in that. If any judge had de
clared such doctrine as the senator from
Maryland spoke of, it would be reversed
by the supreme court of the United
States without one dissenting opinion
against its reversal. Such doctrine would
be monstrous.
Senator utler understood that one of
the points to decide a.t Toledo was that
the court had a right to enjoin employ
ees of railroad companies from combin
ing iu such away as to obstruct the
operations of the road. That decision
seemed to have gone very much farther
than the court had gone heretofore. He
understood that was the object of in
quiry proposed in the resolution offered
some days ago by the senator from In
diana (Vorhoes).
Senator Brice inquired more particu
larly as to what Senator Vest understood
to bo Judge Speer's decision and wiaa
told that Senator Vest simply understood
it to tie an extension of the ordinary
jurisdiction of the court over the actions
of a receiver appointed by it.
The senate committee on finance will
hold its regular weekly meeting tomor
row and will take up the nominations
that are now before it and make its re
port to the senate. The only nomination
of importance still to be acted upon is
that of Mr. Eckels of Illinois nominated
to be comptroller of the currency. It
seems likely that this case will lie finally
disposed of tomorrow and thait a favor
able recommendation will be made. Such
a recommendation will be equivalent to
confirmation, although some adverse
criticism will be made on the floor of the
senate. The committee feels that there
is no determtontion on the part of Mr.
Cleveland to recall the nomination. In
his inaugural the president, members of
the committee say. practically advocated
the repeal of the 10 per cent, tax on
state banks aind if such legislation is
undertaken it will result in state banks
buimg put, in some way, under a quasi
government control, at least. ’I his would
necessitate the presence of a master of
finance at the bead of the coptroilers
office, and it is this possible contingency
that causra the senators serious concern
iti their consideration of this nomination.
The responsibility has, they claim, how
ever, been assumed by the President
and members of the committee opposed
to his choice will content themselves
with entering their protest against the
nomination and cease endeavoring to
bring about a recall of Mr. Eckel s name.
Senator Voorhee. ®a<’.d that his atten
tion had teen .all-d a few mornings ago
to the recent decision of Judge raft
and Judge Ricks, and that, those decis
iohs had prompted the resolution which
hi had offered. He was satisfied that
the Interstate Commerce net went farth
er than any one supposed it did at the
■time of its passage. He had read Judge
Speer’s decision iu the no’”spapers. He
thought, however, that the fault was
in the law. and perhaps in the willing
ness and eagerness of Federal Judges tc
construe the law in favor of corporate
power and against the labor ot the
comtvv. The most dangerous question
thVl the country was facing today was
th’ encroachments of corporate power,
<>l.| crlossal wealth against those who
wi re helplessfly in its power, and whom
it ’wanted to have chained to their labor
as* completely ss the gallev slave was
chained to his oar. This newer claimed
that the railroad employe was enlistwl
as a private soldier; that if he leit Ins
noMt he v/as to be punished ns a deserter.
When an issue of that kind was pre
sented toe country hud reached the
point where it became the senators to
halt He heartily responded to the sen
timent of the senator from Maryland
(Gorman) as to the grasping power of
the Federal judiciary, but thought that
the Senate ought first to clean its own
skirts, and ought to see to it that no
law remained on its statute books which
punished an individual lab’rer for leav
ing the employment of a corporation
whenever he choose to do so. He had
therefore felt it his duty to introduce n
resolution :>s t> wb it action might, be
necessary for the better protection of
the laboring people of the T.nited State?
in their natural rights, and for their
greater security from the encroachment
of corporation powers:. Nobody pre
tended that a railroad engineer could
'eave his engine endangering a train ot
‘ears and endangering th- fives of its
PR.Bsenffers. But that was not all tlLit
was contemplated in the Interstate ( om
merce law. That law said in plain terms
that he could not alone, and in an or
derly wav. sever his connwtion from i
corporation; that be' was enlisted to stay
and was to be punished as a deserter if
he did not slay. He (Voorhees) ha<
•only this to say in regard to the juili
oiary, that when bad laws are enacted,
when mistakes -are made, some judges
are -lad to mitigate those laws and to
show no pleasure in their enforcement;
but there were other judges who grasp
ed after power, who loved power tor
its own sake and enforced it rigidly.
Jefferson, the groat apostle of popmar
liberty in this country, foreseeing that
danger, had once said that the Federal
judiciaries were the sappers and miners
of constitutional liberty, and, Voorhees
added, so thev are. such of them as have
with a greedv thirst and hunger to en
force the laws of this kind to their ut
most limit. I think that the Committee
on Interstate Commerce cannot be better
employed than inquiring into this dan
gerous position.
Senator Platt did not feel that the crit
icisms passed upon the imlicial decisions
referred to were well taken. They
seemed to eminently resemble in plan
the purpose of good law and common
sense The real laboring man of thi*
country desired to engage in no organi
zation or association or to be guilty of
anv act that would affect disastrously
the operations of trade, and no greater
•injury could be done to him and to his
than by intemperate appeals to him to
defend any fancied right, to engage in
associations or organizations calculated
to do public injury. It was not wise
(Platt, went on to say) to attack the
judiciary of the United States. It was
not wise to charge the miheiary with
desiring to usurp power. It was not
wise to intimate that judges were czars.
It was not wise to taik about the dis
position of the judiciary to reduce labor
ers to the condition of serfs; to talk
about laborers being chained to theii
oars The laboring man bad confidence
in the courts and he would be protecten
in all his legal rights. But he (Platt)
did not believe, that while engaged in
the employment of common carriers he
could choose his own time to leave that
employment. Senator Platt, apprehended
That no laboring man, whether he be
longed to a labor organization or not,
would set up that right, a.nd therefore
it was not true, as a matter of law, that
the eraplove could always quit the ser
vice of the common carrier Just when
and how he might quit that service, and
under what circumstances, he would not
undertake to say. 1 liat might safely
be left to -the courts. If the courts had
made anv mistakes in the recent de
cisions, the Supreme Court, of the United
States would set it right. Debate was
con’tinued by Senators Butler. Hoar, Cul
lom, Call ami Chandler aud then the
question went over till tomorrow, when
Senator Palmer will speuk upon it.
Senator Gorman moved to executive
session. Senator Hoar antagiinized the
motion and called for a division. The
voTe stood yeas, 24; nays. 10, no quorum,
and the Senate adjourned.
DYING BY HUNDREDS.
The People Have Ceased Trying to Bury
the Dead.
Moscow, April 10.—The famine in the
European part of the government of
Pehtu is worse than ever before. That
poor are dying by hundreds. In thd
smaller villages the people have ceased
trying to bury all the bodies. The re
latives of the dead lire often too weak!
to provide burial for their dead aiuli
so leave the bodies lying on the roofs
of the houses. Despite the severity of;
the law against seqret societies and the
prohibition of the collection of funds
save through officials, private associn-!
tious are forming to secure food aod.j
clothes for tlie sufferers. These asso
ciations. although inadequate, give the
only relief which the peasants can ob
tain. The state committee has beerr
dissolved and the provincial authorities
have taken no steps to reorganize it.
It is estimated that 252,000,000 pounds]
of grain are required to alleviate thej
distress and keep tile peasants in food
until the next harvest.
IMPEACH M ENT PROCEEDING S.
Lincoln, Neb., April 10.—The judges
of the Supreme Court of Nebraska, met
as court of impeachment this afternoon
for the first formal hearing of state offi
cers and ex-officers. Each of the defend
ants was represented bv counsel, and
there appeared as persecutors the legi»
lative eomimiittee and three attorneys
who assisted in preparing the article!'
of impeachment. Ex-Trensnrer Hill and
Auditor Benton, announced that thev
would question the jurisdiction of the
court on the ground that it was un
constitutional to bring impeachment pro
ceedings against ex-officials, but ex-At
torney General Leese declared himself
ready for trial. After some discussion
the court issued a rule requiring the
attorneys for Hill and Benton to file
their pleas in abatement next Monday,
which will be heard a week from next ;
Friday. General Leese will answer by i
next Monday and the others two weeks
from today. The hearing of the eases
on their merits will occur three weeks
from today.
DR. BRIGGS WINS.
New York. April 10.—The election of
delegates from the New York Presbytery
to the general assembly at Washington re
sulted in the choice of the following:
Rev. Drs. Alexander, Tompkins. Brown.
Spinning, Booth, Chambers and Wylie.
It is regarded as a victory for the Briggs
men. The first four named are supporters
of Dr. Briggs and the other three are
auti-Brlggs men. Dr. Brown, who Is Dr.
Briggs’ counsel, led. receiving 80 out of 150
votes cast; C. H. Woodbury received the
irighest number of votes east for lay com
missioner, 74 out of 144; N. A. Wheelock,
73; T. 8. Strong, 69; Henry R. Elliott. 68.
These are Briggs men, the anti-Briggs men
securing A. P. Ketcham, 71; Geo. E. Star
ry, 65; James Yearance, 63. The complex
ion of the delegation is therefore 8 to 6 in
favor of Briggs.
THE SANTA MARIA ARRIVES.
Havana, April 10.—The Caravel, Santa
Marie, arrived here nt 5:45 o'clj. k yester
day afternoon. More than 30,000 persons
were on the wharves and beach cheering
her as she entered the harbor in tow of
the warship Jorge Juan which brought her
from Cape Mayse. Al! the principal streets
were decorated with flags yesterday after
noon and in the evening the public build
ings and many private houses were illum
inated. Fires were built along the beach
and flreworks were set off from the
shipping in the harbor. The municipality
entertained the crew of the Santa Maria
today at. a banquet, and tomorrow will
entertain the commander and officers.
FALSE TRANSIxATIONS.
London, April 10.—Blue books con
taining the American case ami coon
ter-case in the Bering Sea have been is
sued!. The false translations lin thel
American evidence is described under I
the heading. “Imposition Practiced Upon >
the United States.” The stntemnet con-'
eludes thus: “In partly restating their |
position the United States will at the
same time introduce such criticisms
upqn, or rebutting evidence to. the i
British case, as may seem called for.”
THE LAURENS SENSATION.
Charleston, S. C., April 10. —There!
were some developments today iu the
case of Jennings, the negro preacher at
Laurens, 0. H., who seduced a Young
girl pupil. A rude box containing a
well dressed baby was found this morn- '
ing covered with leaves in a ravine at
the rear of the barn of Bullock, the i
father of the young mother. The child’s |
stomach is to be examined for trace of
poison.
SUPPOSED INCENDIARY.
Last night about 1:35 an alarm was
sent in from Box 14. The firemen on ar
riving on the scene of fire found an
outhouse of Doc Botic, which he used
to store fodder in, to lie enveloped in
flames. The loss will amount to about
$75. Doc believes some one set the house
on fire but has no clew to the perpetra
tor.
TO PRESERVE PEACE.
Chicago, April 10.—Comnany A. 13th
Infantry, in command of Capt. John B.
Guthrie, has been ordered from Fort
Reno, O. T., to the scene of the Indian
troubles in Choctaw country, by Gen.
Miles. The orders given to Capt. Guth
rie are that he is simply to preserve
peace and protect life.
TURPIN PARDONED.
P-iris April 10.—President Carnot has
issued an order for the release of Turpin,
the inventor of Melinite, convicted of be
traying seerets in connection with the
manufacture of Melinite, an explosive, the
secret of which was owned by the govern
ment of France. Since the retirement of
rte Freycinet from the war department.
Turpin's friends have been actively at
work to secure his release.
SUPREME COURT M EETS.
Nashville, April 10.—The Supremo
Court of Tennessee met at Jackson to
day. Justice W. K. McAllister, recent-i
ly appointed, was sworn in and Justice
B. J. Lee was elected by the court chief'
justice, vice 11. H. Lurton resigned.
TO WATCH INFECTED VESSELS.]
Hamburg, April 10. —Th» Senate has '
sent eight physicians to Cuxhaven with
instructions that they adopt energetic
measures against inward bound vessels
infected with cholera.
TEN DEATHS FROM CHOLERA.
April 10.—The latest report
from Lorient says that there were ten !
deaths from cholera there on Sunday. I
Albany, N. Y., April 10.—In the Senate ;
tonight, the capital punishment bill as-i
ter a long discussion, on motion of Sen- i
ator Roesch was recommitted to the
Judiciary Committee with instructions
to strike out the enactinr clause. The
motion was carried, 24 to 6. Senators
Brown, Coggeshall, Endres. McClelland,
Saxton and Smith voting iu the nega
tive.
TERMS 81 PER YEAR.
4,000 MECHANICS
ON A STRIKE.
Union Workmen at the World’s
Fair Go Out.
Their Places Are Being Rapidly
Filled.
No Rioting or Bloodshed in Anticipated
by the Authorities.
Chicago, April 10.—In obedience to
the order of the Building Trades conn
<‘U, lour tiiousaud union iDechanies cm
ployed at the World's Fair grounds, did
i not go to work this morning. The trades
represented are carpenters, painters, or
niL'mentii! iron wotikers, hod curriers,
tin and slwet iron workers, laChers, cor
nice . workers, etc., brick layers, stone
cutters, land plash-rens not included,
j The men claim that the council of ad
ministration of the World’s fair has
broken faith with allied trades upon the
arbitration question. The men are quiet
but as fust as workmen approached they
were taken in hand by pickets and re
quested not to go to work. Probably
eighty per cent, of the trades interested
did not work. At 10 o’clock a messen
ger came from the administration build
ing anviiting representatives of the
strikers to n conference. The invita
tion was at. once accepted..
Nothing looking to a settlement was
accomplished in the conference, the pres
ident taking the ground that there was
nothing to arbitrate. Iliginboth.-im pro
fessed to be not the leas t dismayed
when he heard the men had gone out.
He said he was sorry that they had de
termined to go out, but the fair was a
gigantic enterprise which no labor strike
could seriously affect. Every place would
be tilled, and that soon. The question of
the. employment of Union labor only
. which the building trades council want
'ed to reopen, Higiubetham said, was
permanently settled two years ago when
it was agreed between the council and
fair officials that there should be no dis
crimination, tluit union and nonunion
men should be employed alike. Now
twenty days before the completion of
the fair council asks to have that mat
ter .arbitrated on as if it w’ere a new
subject. He thought work would not be
greatly delayed, but if it should be, the
pimple would know where to place the
blame. He anticipated no rioting, no
bloodshed. The fair had ample police
protection and work would bo pushed.
Already signs are being placed about
the grounds and in the neighltorbood of
the park announcing that carpenters,
liainters, iron workers and various other
trades workers are wanted. Many men
applied for work today and were at once
given employment. Fully two thousand
men remained at work in spite of tlie
order to quit. The miwrtonai-y work of
the strikers among the workmen who
refused to quit led to a few personal en
counters, but nothing worse than fists
were used and as a rule quiet and good
nature prevailed.
Chicago, April 10.—The strike inau
gurated at the World's Fair grounds
this morning was amicably settled to
night at the meeting of the council of ’
administration with the executive com
mittee of the Building Trades council.
The whole troubled is settled so far as
the exposition company is concerned
but there are. however, several contrac
tors on the grounds who must sign the
agreement before their men will return
to work. There are 2,000 men who will
not return to work in the morning on
this account. The committee will be at
work early endeavoring to get these
contractors to sigu the agreement, which
. will put these men at work and enable
s tlie great, enterprise to be pushed to an
I early completion. The session of the two
i committees this afternoon was a long
lone and both sides of the trouble were
j thoroughly discussed.
I Director of Works Burnham proved
to President Russelll, of the Building
Trades council tluit tlie building trades
; had agreed when work on the fair was
• commenced that, union and non-union
men should work together without, dis
crimination. It was this question of hir-
I ing non-union men that was the real
1 cause of the strike. President Russell
finally acknowledged that in one partic
ular the building trades were iu the
wrong.
! An agreement was drawn up and sign
ed and the strike was declared off, and
i Preriidewt Russell promised that the
! men should return to work tomorrow
morning as if nothing had happened.
! Delegates will be stationed outside the
I grounds to instruct the men to go back
j but not to allow the men working for
' those cowtractors who have not. signed
the new scale to resume work. The meet
' ing broke up in a very friendly manner,
the delegates shaking hands with Presi
; dent Higginbotham and Director of
Works Burnham.
REPARATION MADE.
The Peruvian Governments Regrets the At
tack On Our Consulate.
Washington, April 10.—The Peruvian
government has taken initiatory steps
towards complying with the demands of
the United States that reparation be
made for the outrage committed on one
of its consular agencies in Peru. It,
was not until this morning that the
name of the place attacked, which was
omitted in the first dispatch from Minis
ter Hicks, notifying Secretary Gresham
of the affair, was made known to the
State Department. Information was,
contained in a eabtegrani from Minister
Hicks stating that the consular agency
attacked is at Mo’lendo. Peru, and that
in answer to a demand for satisfaction
made by the administration the govern
ment of Peru immediately removed the
subprefect of the department in which
Mollendo is situated and promised to
provide suitable reparation, and further
more, that the government has expressed,
its regrets for 'the occurrence. This in
formation is entirely satisfactory to the
United States government.
The name of the consular agent at
i Mollendo. which is omitted from the
! dispatches weived from Minister Hicks.
|is Win. R. Griffiith. He was appointed
I from Pennsylvania March 30. 1889. No
' news was received by Secretay Gresham
i concerning a reported outrage against
a United States consulate iu Bolivia.
HUMANE ACT REWARDED.
Milwaukee Lawyer Is Bequeathed SlT.OtiO
bv a Man He Befriended.
| Milwaukee. Wi-s.. April 10.—Attorney
‘ A. J. Eimerman of this city has been no
-1 tilled bv the law firm of Kuhn & Pa tz
‘of Houston. Tex., that In- is the heir
; loalsmtsl7,ooo. u portion of the estate
I of S. A. Wazler. a real estate speculator
iof that city. Before Mr. Eimerman be
came a lawyer he was a barber and lived
in Chicago. Some time before the fire
he befriended Mr. Wazler, who lived in
the same house with him. and who was
was then not only poor but sick.