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COM MO DORK REACHED CURA.
Ill a Fit of Anger Fireman Owen Has
Made a Full Confession.
Edward Owen, ono of the crew of
lho Commodore has made a startling
statement to the Spanish consul at
Charleston. Owen said that all the
stories about flinging the cargo of am
munition overboard wore false.
“In the first place,” ho said, “tho
Commodore went to Cuba.”
Threo firemen, Edward Owen, John
Johnson and Edward Olsen, were
‘‘shanghaied” to Cuba. “Shanghaied”
fneaus that tlioy wore shipped lor Tam
pa and not taken there, but to Cuba,
or in other words, were taken under
false pretenses. Pay was at the rate
of $30 per month and tho men were
paid off last Thursday.
If tlioy had known that they wero
going to Cuba they would lmvo asked
much more. No sum smaller than
$500 would have tempted them to go
to Cuba.
Owen says that it was an outrago;
that his life was endangered ; that ho
shipped for a coasting voyage and did.
not expect to go anywhere but to
Tampa.
“Wo took General DeSoto,” said
Owen. “He was in our boat. Tho
arms were landed in the province of
Santa Anna.”
The firemen, ho says, were promised
more money to keep their mouths
shut when thoy should reuch port, but
bad not been paid yet, and so ho made
this statement to bring the managers
of the Commodore to their senses, and
if they don’t make arrangements to
suit lie will tell more.
Owen says they had arms and am
munition on board and lauded them.
It took six boatloads to take the cargo.
Owen had made threo trips to Cuba,
but for the firKt two he had been paid
$1,000. Ho will libel the Commodore
for his wages and the Spanish consul
will no doubt, on the part of the na
tion, prosecute tho Commodore for
violation of the neutrility laws.
Turner for the President.
Senator Palmer, of Illinois, wants
Mr. Turner, of Georgia, for president.
Tho Illinois senator thinks that Mr.
Turner’s advocacy of the gold standard
places him in line for nomination. He
prepared an interview on that line for
the Washington Post.
TITB HOUSK.
Tho house spout most of Thursday’s
session in discussing in committee of
the whole the motion offered by Mr. 1
Hanley, member of the committee on
naval affairs, to amend the naval ap
propriation bill for the year ending
Juno 30, 1897, by providing for tho
construction of six battleships instead
of four, ns recommended by tho com
mittee. Tho motion was supported by
Messrs. Hnnloy, Johnson, republican,
of California, and Cummings, of New
York, and opposed by Messrs. Hulick,
of Ohio; Robinson, of Pennsylvania,
and Boutolle, of Maine. Tho motion
wns lost—82 to 134.
Without further amendment tho bill
was reported to tho house and passed,
exactly as rooommouded by tho com
mittee—tho first appropriation bill of
the session to pass without amend
ments. Among tho morning miscel
laneous business transacted was tho
passage of two or throe private bills,
tho presentation of a concurrent reso
lution by Mr. Heatwole, of Minnesota,
authorizing the appointment by the
president of a Dunking and cur
rency commission to consist of
nine citizens to act with tho comp
troller of tho currency and to report
their recommendations and conclus
ions to congress which was referred to
tho committee on banking and cur
rency and the presentation of tho re
port of the congressional committee
on tho opening of tho Ohickamanga
National park, by Mr. Grosvenor. Mr.
Cannon reported tho sundry civil ap
propriation hill for tho year ending
Juno 30, 1877, and gavo notice that ho
would ask tho houso to oousidor it
Friday.
At 5:10 o’clock tho house adjourned.
Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio,
has submitted to tho house the report
of tho joint committee representing
congress that participated in tho threo
days’ dedicatory oxerciso of thu Ghicka-
mauga and Chattanooga national park
in September last. Tho report says
the evont proved to bo without prece
dent in tho history of wars, and ono
which would not be possiblo in any
other nation but this, for hero wero
found gathered in enthusiastic com
radeship tho most distinguished sur
viving loaders of both sides, and many
thousands of tho rank and file of tho
onoo contending forces.
In tho house, Friday, Mr. Hitt,
chairman of tho foreign affairs coin-
roittoe, decided after consultation with
Speaker Reed not to call up tho con
ference report on the Cuban resolu
tions until the sundry civil appropria
tion bill, which Mr. Cannon gavo no
tice ho would cull up during the day,
had been passed.
Mr. Hepburn (Rep., Ia.) antago
nized tho consideration of tho sundry
civil appropriation hill, by moving
that tho house proceed to tho consid
eration of private claims. Friday,
under tho rules, belongs to tho com-
rnitteo on claims, but this was the first
time the question had been raised at
this session. Mr. Cannon opposed the
motion of Mr. Hepburn, but on a
rising voto bo was defeated—88 to GO.
Mr. Cannon then demanded the yeas
and nays which wero ordered. Tho
roll call resulted 142 to 77. Tho an
nouncement of tho victory over tho
appropriations committee was received
with great jubilation by tho members
interested in privuto bills.
Tho house then Jwent into com
mittee of tho whole for tho considera
tion of bills on The private calendar.
In the houso Monday tho Semite
joint resolution was agreed to ap
pointing Bernard R. Green as suc
cessor to the late General Casey as
superintendent of the new congres
sional library. Tho sundry civil ap
propriation bill was then taken up, in
committee of the whole, after notice
had been given by Mr. Hitt, republi
can, of Illinois, chairman of the com
mittee on foreign affairs, that when
the appropriation bill had boon dis
posed of ho would present a confer
ence report on tho Cuban resolutions.
General debate on the sundry civil
bill was limited to one hour and Mr.
Cannon, republican, of Illinois, ex
plained the various items going to
make up the $17,000,000 which were
carried in last year’s bill and omitted
in this.
Tho appropriations made to this bill
for rivers and harbors, public build
ings and fortifications under the con
tinuous contract was due to the fact
that these appropriations wero imme
diately available and tho next sundry
appropriation bill would become a law
before the expiration of those eight
months. This reduction was about
three millions.
Then tho last bill contained tho su
gar bounty refund, which this did
not.
Mr. Cannon gave the appropriations
made by the past three congresses and
stated that in his opinion those for
the first session of this congress would
not fall below $506,000,000. In the
present condition of tho treasury with
the rocoipts each quarter loss than the
expenditures, he appealed to oaoh in
dividual momber that no new work bo
entered upon. »
Mr. Sayers, democrat, 6f Texas, criti
cised the policy of limiting the con
tract appropriations to eight months,
and intimated it was dono for politioal
effect, to make n good showing in tho
coming presidential election.
Mr. Dockery, demoorat, of Mis
souri, also nttaokod tho policy. He
gave it as liis opinion that tho amount
appropriated by Ibis conuross would
exceod a billion dollars. lie did no*
soo, however, how a reduction oould
bo made without repealing somo- laws
authorizing contracts.
This concluded the general debate
and the bill was rend by paragraphs
for amendment.
After pnssiug ovor twelvo pages of
tho bill tho oommitteo roso and on
motion of Mr. Cannon at 5:05 p. m.
the houso adjourned until Tuesday.
Tnrc SENATE.
None of the matters that como up
before tho senate Thursday wore of
much public interest and importance.
One-third of tho time was consumed
over a joint resolution appointing Ber
nard R. Green successor to Gen. Casey
in the matter of the construction of the
new library building in Washington ;
nearly as much time on an amendment
to tho logislativo appropriation allow
ing a third clerk to the sonato com
mittee on pensions ; and ull tho rest
of the time on a motion made by Mr.
Sherman to strike out of tho legisla
tive bill all the sections in relation to
the compensation of United States dis
trict attorneys, clerks and marshals.
This latter subject was not disposed of
when the seuato adjourned.
Tho joint resolution reportod Wed
nesday by Mr. Sherman, from the
committee on foreign relations, author
izing Benjamin Harrison to accept
certain medals presented to him by
tho governments of Brazil and Spain
during his term of service ns president
of tho United States was taken up and
passed.
Mr. Allen, populist, of Nebraska,
offered a resolution as follows:
“Resolved, That congress should,
by appropriate legislation and without
further delay, restore silver to the free
and unlimited ooinngo at the ratio of
10 parts of standard silver to 1 part of
gold, and should, by appropriation,
withdraw from tho secretary of tho
treasury any power ho may now have
to issue tho bonds or other intorost-
beariug obligations of tho United
States until tho necessity thorofor
shall bo declared by congress and that
congress should not adjourn until those
things have boen accomplished.
Tho resolution was laid on tho tablo
for tho present.
At 5 :20 o’clock tho sonato adjournod
until Friday.
The legislative appropriation bill
passed tho sonato Friday aftor occupy
ing the attention of that body every
day during the past week. It appro
priates in round numbers $25,500,000.
There was much debate upon it—first
on Senator Sherman’s motion to strike
out all tho soction relating to tho com
pensation of United Statos district at
torneys, clerks and marshals (putting
thorn on a salary system of foes) and
then on Senator Hill’s motion to strike
out a provision changing tho time
of lho meeting of tho legislative as
sembly of Now Mexico. Mr. Sher
man’s motion was defeated—yeas 18,
nays 30, bo that tho bill remains (in
that respect) hh it passed tho house.
Mr. Hill’s motion developed a politi
cal controversy nnd notice was given
by Mr. Gorman, democrat of Mary
land, that the discussion could not he
cut off, but would assume pretty large
dimensions. With tho object of avoid
ing this threatened political debate
Mr. Cullom, republican, of Illinois,
who was in charge of the bill, moved
to lay M^r. Hill’s motion on tho tablo,
but Mr. Cnllom’s motion was disa
greed to—yeas 21, nays 29.
Tho democratic senators wero aided
by the votes of tho populists and of
two republicans, Senators Frye and
Wolcott. Thereupon Mr. Cullom
withdrew all opposition to Mr. Hill's
motion and it was agreed to. That
practically ended tho consideration of
tho bill and it was passed without a
division. Tho senate then, at 4:50
o’clock, adjourned until Monday.
Tho bill to approve a compromise
and settlement between the United
States and the state of Arkansas, aris
ing out of mutual claims for the prin
cipal and interest duo on state bonds
had by the United States, and for lands
claimed by the state under tbo swamp
lands act and other acts, was taken up in
tho Heuate Monday and was passed af
ter a debate lasting a couple of hours,
No other business was transacted ex
cept the passage of bills on tho calen
dar that wero nnobjectud to, including
one for public building at Indianapo
lis to cost $2,000,000.
When tho resolution providing for
a select committeo to investigate the
facts and circumstances of recent bond
issues was reaehod, objection to its
immediate consideration was made by
Senators Hill, democrat, of New York,
and Platt, republican, of Connecticut,
but Mr. I’effer, populist, of Kansas,
author of tho resolution, gave notice
that he would ask for its further con
sideration Tuesday. Two Color
ado senators, Teller and Walcott,
showed much earnestness
tho resolution taken up. Aftor
executive session the sonato, at
p. m., adjourned until Tuesday.
LUIS INATIONAL CAPITAL.
5:15
GEORGIA ROAD LOST.
lie Famous “Long and Short Haul”
Case Decided.
A Washington special says : An opin
ion was rendered in tho case known ns
tho long and Bhort haul case, involving
tho validity of tho provision of tho in
terstate commerce act prohibiting a
higher chargo for short than for a long
haul appealed from tho decision of the
circuit court of appeal for tho fifth
circuit.
The appeal was taken by tho railroads.
Its title witH tho Interstate Commerce
Commission vs. tho Cincinnati, New
Orleans and Texas Pacific Railroad
company, tho Western and Atlautio
Railroad company nnd the Georgia
Railroad company. Tho decision of
the court below was affirmed in the
main, the opinion holding that in cases
of shipments from ono state to another
on through hills of lading railroad
companies could not exempt parties
and give them special rates. Justice
Shims delivered tho opinion of tho
court.
The case involved the construction
of tho fourth soction of tho interstate
commerce act known as tho long and
short haul section. The dispute con
cerning this mattor is one that has
Leon continually arising in various
parts of tho country and it is of grout
publio importance, as woll to tbo in
terests of commerce as tp tho railways
of overy part of tho country, that the
question be put at root,
f There was also drawn in question in
tho case tho very important question
of the interstate commerce commission
to fix maximum ratos in cases properly
brought before it as distinguished
from a moro decision that a particular
rato is oxoossive.
Tho threo railroad companies are
tho connecting roads running from
Cincinnati, O., to Augusta, Ga. This
litigation began through tho com
plaint of a seller of buggeis at Cincin
nati, to tho interstate commerce com
mission, that the rates to Augusta, at
tho end of tho Goorgia railroad, and to
Sooial Circle, which was a point on tho
Georgia railroad 60 miles below At
lanta, wero such as to unfairly dis
criminate ugainst 1 Sooial Circle.
“ Th'o Texas Pacific and the Western
tiffd Atlantic railroads claimed in their
answer that tho rate to Social Oirole
could only bo made by tho consont of
tho Georgia road, on which it is loca
ted. The Georgia company admitted
that the ratos to Social Circlo wero tho
rules to Atlanta plus the rates from At
lanta to' Sooial Circle, and contended
that thoy wero not unreasonable, the
rato to Atlanta boing less than it should
bo because of tho competition with
lines from that city to Baltimore.
GOSS 11* OF WASHINGTON IN
BRIEF PARAGRAPHS.
COMPETITION DOWNED} THEM.
creases this almost $100,000 and makes
a lump appropriation under the gen
eral bead of free delivery sorvioe.
TRADE TOPICS.
Now England Mills Will Cease Mak
ing Coarse Clotli.
A special from Boston, Mass., states
that New England' cotton mills are
giving up tho fight against competition
in Georgia and tho Carolines and will
soon cease to manufacture coarso
cloths.
Monday tho Lawrence Manufactur
ing Company, of Lowell, one of tho
biggest plants in New England stop
ped making cloth eutiroly. Tho di
rectors decidod to refund to the stock
holders half of the capital stock, shut
down half of the mill and make noth
ing but hosiery.
This is only the first of a serios.
Other New England mills will very
soon have to shut down. Treasurer
Baker, of tho Lawrenoo company, says
that this iB a crisiH which lias been
ponding for three years. He says that
tho low wages paid for southern mill
labor is tho causo of tho trouble here.
The coat of labor there is 30 per cent
lower than it is here. Consequently
tho southern manufacturers have an
advantage over those of tho north of
from 1$ to 2 cents a pound.
Most of thoso mills aro located in
tho Carolines and Georgia, although
all tho southern states aro manufactur
ing cotton, Mr. Bakor says that tho
Lawrence Manufacturing Company
nover expocts to return to tho manu
facture of coarse cottons, as there is
such a surplus of labor in the south fts
to last for a generation at least, mak
ing it impossible for many years to
manufacture hero at a profit. Ho says
that the southern mills do not manu
facture onough to supply the Ameri
can trade, but they make enough to
oontrol the price, and that the north
ern mills have to meet it and that
manufacturing in tho south is increas
ing fast enough to discourage it hero
for good.
WRECKED IIY WINDS.
Southwest Virginia Visited by Cy
clones—Two Women Drowned.
Great destruction of property from
tho cyclone and heavy ruin in south
west Virginia Sunday afternoon is re
ported. Near Rural Rotreat tho wind
swept whole tracts of tirabor laud clean,
blew down barns and scattered fences.
Tho depot at Gate City, Scott county,
was Btruck by lightning and burned
down and in that vicinity two women
were drowned. Several railroad
bridges have been swept uwn.y.
Doings of the Chiefs and Heads of tho
Various Departments.
Judge John I. Hall formally ten
dered his resignation Thursday. Col
onel Little, of Columbus, will nssumo
tho duties of tho office as Judgo Hall’s
successor on tlio 15th of next mouth.
General Whoeler, of Alabama, lias
offered in tho houso a bill providing
that so long as the gold standard is
maintained in this country the salaries
of all officials, including congressmen,
but excepting tho United States judges,
shall bo reduced to throo-fourths tho
salaries as now providod by law.
Tho committoo on ways and means
liavo ordered a favorable report on tbo
bill of Mr. EvnuB, of Kentucky, to
allow tho bottling of distilled spirits
in bond. Tho bottling is to bo dono
in tho bonded warehouses undor the
supervision of tho government officers
and without intermingling spirits of
different kinds, ago or proof.
Appropriation Bill Completed.
Tho naval appropriation bill for tho
fiscal year which begins on July 1
next has been completed by tho house
committeo on naval affairs. Tho total
amount carried bv tlio bill is $31,Gil,-
034, of which $12,779,133 iH for tho
increase of tho navy. Tho appropria
tion is an increaso ovor tho amount of
the last bill, which was about twenty-
nine nnd one-third millions. Undor
tho increaso of tho navy the chief
items aro tho four new battleships and
fifteen torpedo boats.
An Important Bill.
A bill was favorably roportod to tbo
senate Thursday from tho committee
on education and labor, agriculture
and capital for tbo purpose of investi
gating thoso quoBtions and recommend
ing such legislation to congress ns may
bo necessary. Thoso representing la
bor are to bo solected by the president
upon tho recommendation of labor or
ganizations; those representing agri
culture, three from the farmers’ alli
ance and two from tho national grange;
those representing capital from various
manufacturing industries.
Cuban Resolutions Accepted.
The conference committeo on the
Cuban resolutions bus nrrangod to re
port it in favor of tho original senate
bill. It is not expressed exactly in the
terms tho conferees wonld prefer, but
it is tho best that can be dono at thiB
time in viow of tho opposition which
has been manifested in tho sonato.
That will end tho matter so far as eon-
gross is concerned, for tho senate lias
alroady adopted them. In tho form
an agreed to, tho resolutions are us
follows:
Rosolved by tho senate (tho houso of
representatives concurring thoroiu),
That, in tho opinion of congress, a
condition of public war exists between
the government of Spain and tho gov
ernment proclaimed, and for some
time maintained by force of arms by
•the pooplo of Cuba, and that tho
United Statos of America should
muintain a strict neutrality between
tho contending powers, according to
each all tho rights of belligerents in
the ports and territory of tho Unitod
States.
“Resolved furthor, That tho friend
ly offices of the United States should
be oflorod by the president to the
Spanish government for tho recogni
tion of tho independence of Cuba.”
They express the sentiment of con
gress, but are not binding upon the
president, ns would bo joint resold
tions. What tho president will do no
one seoms to know.
Tlio PostoHlce Bill Reported.
The president has nominated B. J.
Franklin, of Arizona, to bo governor
of Arizona. The senate committoo on
appropriations reported tho postoffice
bill Monday. A net increaso of $1,352,-
00G is mndo to tlio houso bill, tho total
as reported to the sonato, being $93,
171,564. The estimates for 1897 wore
$94, 817,900 and ns passed by tho houso
$91,818,557. Tho estimated postal
revenues for 1897 aro placed at $:
793,120.
Tho chief items of increase mndo by
tho sonato aro: Clerks in postofliees,
$150,000; inland mail transportation
by railroad routes, $1,000,000; rail
way postoffice car service, $100,000;
transportation of foreign mails,
$80,000. A reduction of $10,000 is
made in the item' for rewards for de
tection of postoffico burglars, etc.
Among tho now provisions iuoorpo
rated in tho bill is:
“Provided that no postoffico estab
lished at any county seat shall bo abol
ished or discontinued by reason of any
consolidation of postofflces mado by
tho postmaster general undor oxisting
law, and any such postoffico at a
county seat heretofore consolidated
shall bo established as a soparato post-
ofiioo at such county seat.”
Tho house bill under the head of
free delivery service divides tho aggre
gate of $12,748,250 specifically into
appropriations for the letter curriers,
horso hire, street letter boxes, inci
dental expenses, otc. Tho senate in
Dun & Co’s. Business Review for tho
Past Week.
R. G. Dun & Co., in their weekly
review of trade Bays:
The returns of failures aro somewhat
disappointing. Soveral of magnitude
wero mentioned a woek ago, and thoy
have swollod tho aggregate of defaulted
labilities for threo weoks of March to
$12,383,614, against $11,271,121 last
year. A heavy failure in Texas will
also swell the aggregate of failures for
the past week, which includes 295 in
tlio United States against 234 last
year, and 39 in Canada, against 42
last woek.
No important clinngo has oocured in
tho goneral condition of trade during
tho woek, and if trades in somo re
spects look worse, in other rospeots
thoy look better. Somo failures of mag
nitude havojoccnrretl, which have caused
much apprehension and willingness
to lend nrnong bankers, and thero have
been somewhat less favorable features
iu the dry goods market, but in iron
nud steal conditions aro slightly, and
in boots and shoes considerably moro
hopeful. Foreign trado is a littlo
moro satisfactory, exports from Now
York for throo weeks showing an in
crease ovor last year of 6 per cent,
while imports have shown nearly tho
same rate of docreaso. In genoral,
the oourso of domestio pricos tends to
favor tho marketing of staples abroad.
Cotton bad a lively riso with the
covering of short-sellors; but began to
decliuo again a week ago and has been
lagging ovor sinco. Tho rocoipts from
plantations continue quite as largo as
in the samo weeks of tho last short
crop year, and the stocks in sight,
with tho quantities known to bo hold
by European and American mills,mado
up an ample supply for tho ro3t of tho
crop year.
EX-GOV. SEAY DEAD.
Tho Distinguished Alabamian Passed
Away.
Ex-Governor Thomas Seay, who
has been ill at his homo in Greensboro,
Ala., for two webks with la grippe,
died at 1:35 o’clock Monday after
noon.
Few mon in Alabama wore more
loved than Governor Seay. Ho was
prominent in publio life for ovor a
quarter of a century and wns always a
movor in anything looking to the wel
fare or advancement of his state or
oonntry.
It was thought, on Saturday that tho
attack of lagrippe, which has been
severe from tho first, would pass off
without a fatal result, but at a late
hour Sunday ho changed for tho worse,
and when the end came Monday after
noon ho was surrounded by the mem
bers of his family, who had been by
his sido for ton hours watching him
as he quietly passed into eternity.
MAY PROSECUTE COMMODORE.
Report that She Landed Soldiers and
Guns In Cuba.
Tho collector of customs at Charles
ton, S. C., has informed the treasury
department at Washington that an en
gineer on tho steamer Commodore has
mado a statement to himthut tho Com
modore recoutly landed on her last
trip from Charleston a lot of arms and
a body of men on Cuban soil. Tho ves
sel’s papers on tho trip were taken out
for the coastwise service as far as Tam
pa, Eia., and did not permit her to
touch on foreign soil. The collector
ijays ho hns turned over the informa
tion to tho United States district at
torney nnd if tho engineer’s state
ment is corroborated by other testi
mony tho vessel will be proceeded
against for violation of tho Unitod
States navigation laws. In case of
conviction tho Commodore is liable to
forfeiture under section 4337 of the
rovisod statues.
KLINE HAS RESIGNED.
Ho Will Accept a Railroad Position
in Mexico.
A spocial from Savannah, Ga., is to
the effect that President Comer, of tho
Central of Goorgia Railway company,
confirms tho report that General Su
perintendent Tlieo D. Kline, of tho
Central, has resigned for the purpose
of going with the Intoroceauio Rail
way of Mexico. He has had numbers
of opplications for tho position, but
nothing whatever has beon dono with
regard to filling it.
Mr. Kline will not leave tho Central
until May 1st. Tho officials of the Cen
tral all say he has been an able man-
uger, nnd they dislike very much to soo
him go. His salary boro has baon$10,-
000, and tho cause of his going is that
a better proposition has been mude
him iu Mexico.
Must Show Tax Receipts.
The Tennossee supreme court has
delivered an opinion in whioh they
sustained tho validity of the law com
pelling a man to show his poll tax re
ceipt. In view of the fact that the
committee of governor’s elootion in tho
last legislature throw out thousands of
votes where voters wero not compelled
to show receipts, this decision is of
great importance.