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WASHINGTON NOTES
WHAT IS GOING ON AT UNCLE
SAM’S HEADQUARTERS.
Comment Concerning Transactions in
the Various Departments.
The president Monday sent to the
senate,the nomination of Charles Nell
son, of Maryland, to be second assist¬
ant postmaster general, vice J. Lowrie
Bell, resigned. . .
The democratic managers • are be¬
coming impatient at the, time being
consumed by the republicans in the
discussion of the metal schedule and
are beginning -to talk among them¬
selves of tbeadvisability of prolonging
the hours of debate.
District Attorney Birney concluded
to la*y‘ the .'matter .of the . two . corre¬
spondents who refuged to answ r er investi¬ ques¬
tions asked them by the.sugar 'grand
gating committee before' the
jury. Mr. Birney said he did not ex T
pect th§ indictment to be made out in
less than ten days and it will take
nearly that length of time to prepare
the document.
Though aU kinds of sensational sto-.
ties haye .be.en printed and talked of
involving 'Mr.’Cleveland and Mr. Car¬
lisle i,fiitbe*&ugar scandals, Mr. Carlisle
lias appeared ^before. the ; bribery com
mittog and given such a straightforward
and boniest statement of his connection
with life matter' that : no one now be¬
lieves hirn-to 7 Jiave beep involved.in-any
way> • « ’• .
.
A 'Washington special . says: Second
Assistant Postmaster General Lowrie
Bell has. tendered.'liis resignation to
the pp?sident through the postmaster
general, to take effect at the end of
the present fiscal year, June 30th, in
order traffii? to accept the position of general
manager of the Central Rail
road.of New; Jersey, with headquarters
at Neiy York. *
The.official treasury statement is¬
sued June 1st shows that the expendi
tures.^f the government for the eleven
mo®th$ of the current fiscal: year have
exceeded the aggregate the receipts standing by in $72,000,000, round fig
ures: Reeeipts, $268,000,000; expen¬
ditures; $340,000,000. These figures
indicate a total deficit for the twelve
months of ■ the fiscal year of about
$78,0.00,000.
Ord^fS Rave been cabled to the flag¬
ship Baltimore, of the Asiatic squad¬
ron, t©‘ .proceed with all possible dis¬
patch to the coast of Corea and take
whatever measures are necessary for
the j^ptection of American interests.
An official note of thanks will be sent
to th'e' King of Corea for his timely
warning of the rebellion of some of his
subjdbts : which is said to be directed
agaidlt Americans.
Mr* Honk, republican, of Tennes¬
see, h’as introduced in the house a bill
appropriating $196,000 for necessary
and special facilities on trunk lines
from Toledo, 0., via Cincinnati,
Knoxville, Chattanooga and Atlanta
to New Orleans, The. bill provides
that no part of the appropriation shall
be expended unless the postmaster
general shall deem it necessary in
order to promote the interest of the
postal service.
Strong pressure has been brought
to bear upon the president within the
past week to secure the removal of
Civil Service Commissioner Lyman.
While the objections to Mr. Lyman in
the past have originated principally,
although not entirely, with the oppo¬
nents of the civil service, the recent ef¬
forts against him have come from the
friends of the reform. -‘It is under¬
stood that the president has given a
qualified consent to Mr. Lyman’s re¬
moval.
The Debt Statement.
The debt statement, issued Friday
afternoon, shows a net increase in the
public debt, less cash in the treasury,
during May, of $6,603,030. The in¬
terest bearing debt decreased $460;
the non-interest bearing debt decreas¬
ed $7,243,450. The balance of the
several classes of bebt at the
close of business May 31st,were: Inter¬
est-bearing debt,$635,041,840; debt on
which interest has ceased sinee matu¬
rity, $1,858,390; debt bearing no in¬
terest, $380,016,329. Total, $1,016,
916,560. The certificates and treasu¬
ry notes offset by an equal amount of
cash in the treasury outstanding at
the end of the month were $621,128,-
445, .an increase, of $1,136,650. The
total cash in the treasury, $783,283,-
264 ;.the gold reserve was $78,693,267,-
267 ; net cash balances, $39,161^)63.
The Atlanta Exposition Bill.
The bill appropriating $200,000 for
a government exhibit at the Atlanta
exposition was favorably reported
Monday by the appropriation commit¬
tee, but not without strong opposition
on the part of nearly half of those
present. The supporters of the bill
were’ Messrs. Livingston, of Georgia;
Coombs, of New York; O’Neill, of
Massachusetts; Dingley, of Maine, and
Cannon, of Illinois. The negative
vote was cast by Messrs. Sayers,
of Texas, chairman of. the commit¬
tee;.Brookshire, of Indiana; Williams,
of Illinois, and Washington, of Ten¬
nessee—all democrats. The opposition
to the appropriation was based upon
several considerations, briefly these:
That the present is a period of great
financial depression, and that the ut¬
most economy should be used in the
expenditure of public money; that the
time is inopportune, coming, as it did,
so closely after the World’s Fair at
Chicago; that each of the quartet in
opposition was opposed to govern¬
mental aid for such purposes;
and finally, that the means to defray
expenses were too much in pro¬
spective and not sufficiently in hand to
justify the belief that it would prove a
success. Reference is made in this
connection to the estimated receipts
which were submitted Washington by the commit¬
tee which visited several
weeks ago. It is understood that, had
the full committee been present the
affirmative vote would have been ma¬
terially increased. A minority report
embracing the foregoing objection will
be filed. ’ •. •. .
TRADE NOTES.
Business of the I’ast. Week as Re¬
viewed by Dun & Co.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: “It is a sign of cheering
import that in finished business, rep¬
resented by clearings and railway ton¬
nage, there has been less decrease since
the strike began than might have been
expected. But in incoliate business,
the orders which start the wheels to
result in tonnage and payment weeks
or months later, there seems to be an
actual decrease. Not only are new
orders few and small in most depart¬
ments, but cancellation of orders pre¬
viously given is increasingly numerous.
This is, in part, the effect of the uncer¬
tainties which the strikes produce, but
it extends also to numerous industries
which the proposed changes of duty
might affect. Meanwhile exports of gold
rapidly deplete, the treasury reserve,
while idle money gathers there in unus¬
ual amount for the season, although crop
prospects continue, on the whole, most
favorable. The stoppage of iron fur¬
naces between the Alleghany moun¬
tains and the Mississippi river has be¬
come complete, and a great number of
concerns manufacturing iron, and
others requiring soft-coal-or coke for
fuel, hav© been forced to, stop.
“Business cannot increasein volume
under such circumstances, and yet
payments through all clearing houses'
for the week show a decrease of only
20.8 per cent, compared with last year
and are nearly as large as in April,
averaging about $142,000,000 daily at
all cities, against $144,000,000 in that
month and March, against $140,000,
000 in February.
“Though a large number of works
are idle, the demands for products is
not what might be expected, either in
volume or in urgency. The output of
iron and steel has been suddenly and
sharply reduced, but the reduced sup¬
ply seems about as sufficient for the
demand as it was a month ago, except
in Bessemer. Sales of small lots of
Bessemer pig at places as distant w r est
as Troy and Duluth for transportation
to the Carnegie works, near Pittsburg,
disclose how completely stocks are ex¬
hausted, and sales for delivery in July
and August at $11 to $11.15, a price
$1.50 higher than prevailed a few
weeks ago, indicates the belief that the
termination of the strike will not soon
bring back the old prices. But for
most products, notwithstanding the
interruption, the demand is unexpect¬
edly narrow, and buyers feel that the
present advance is but temporary.
“The outgo of gold continues and is
now believed to be due, in part, to
preparation for gold redemption in
Austria. The loss of $5,600,000 this
week and $28,000,000 since May 1st,
has reduced the treasury gold to about
$77,000,000. Meanwhile the Bank of
England holds the largest gold reserve
since 1879, the year of specie resump¬
tion here, Currency continues to
come hither in great amounts from the
interior, and bankers estimate that the
sum required to be sent west, in con¬
nection with the crop movement next
fall, wfill be not half as large as usual.
At present low prices the movement of
grain is not likely to be rapid.
“Liabilities reported in failures for
the fourth week of May were $2,593,
087, and for four weeks ending May
24th, $11,392, of which $4,445,005
were of manufacturing and $5,806,891
of trading concerns. Reports yet to
come in may increase the aggregate to
$14,000,000. been 183
“Failures this week have
in the United States against 238 last
year, and 27 in Canada against 21 last
year. Only two failures, 1 o h bank
ings are for $100,000 or more.”
A COACH TURNS OVER /
And Nearly Every Passenger Receives
Injuries.
There was a fearful accident on the
Columbus, Ga., extension Wednesday
morning. The rear coach of an ex¬
cursion train left the track on a grade
just after Holt’s station was passed.
The excursionists were mostly negroes
on their w T ay to the Memorial Day
celebration at Andersonville, but
the reaT coach was reserved for whites
and the occupants of this coach were
the victims of the accident. The train
was on an embankment and was run¬
ning at the rate of twenty miles an
hour when the accident occurred. The
derailed coach with its human freight
turned over three times and nearly
every one in it was more or lees hurt.
None in it were kiUed outright. A
spreading rail caused the accident.
NEWS IN GENERAL.
A BRIEF SUMMARY OF IMPORT¬
ANT HAPPENINGS
Showing What is Going On In Our
Own and Foreign Lands.
It is reported that the village of
Yabaulica, Mexico, was visited by a
terrible storm a few days ago. A num¬
ber of the adobe and frame residences
and store buildings were blown away
and ten persons killed and fifteen
wounded.
After a . long meeting of the coal
miners of Alliance, Ohio, they decided
to accept the operators’ terms of $1.05
for mining and return to work. .Three
large mines near the city limits will be
started by this decision and a ’famine
will be averted,
* The conference of the coal operators-,
of Illinois, held at Springfield to ar¬
range prices and to come to an agree¬
ment whereby the competition--of the
northern and southern and central Il¬
linois fields could be adjusted.to the.
end of settling the great, coal strike,'
came to naught.
At Cincinnati, Thursday, . Judge
Taft decided that the receivers of the
Queen and Crescent (Cincinnati South¬
ern) had the right to reduce the scale
of wages or lessen • the number of
hqurs, thereby accomplishing the same
result. He pays high tribute to Re¬
ceiver Felton’s ability. '
Fifteen business houses and twenty
residences in Ottumwa, la.) were de¬
stroyed by fire Sunday. Five blocks
area mass of blackened ruins. For
four hours the fire raged fiercely. The
loss is estimated at $225,000, and the
insurance about one-third. A spark
from a locomotive is supposed to have
started the blaze.
' Wi
Commander Kelly and his industrial
army arrived at St. Genevieve, Mo.,
and were provided with a day’s rations
by the mayor, under instructions from
the city council. Kelly claimed to
have 1,200 men in his boats. The flo¬
tilla landed five miles below the city.
Kelley has about perfected arrange¬
ments for a tow up the Ohio river to
Wheeling, W. Va.
Owing to the scarcity of coal the Il¬
linois Central will discontinue two
passenger trains in the Springfield and
Gilman division and every freight train
except one. The Wabash shops, em¬
ploying nearly 1,000 men, will close
down, and every freight train not abso¬
lutely necessary will be abandoned.
Within one week it is thought every
industry in Springfield will be at a
standstill for lack of coal.
A private dispatch from Ridgeway,
Elk county, Pa., states that Sheriff
Elliott had deputized 150 men from*
Ridgeway and the surrounding towns
to protect the men who will attempt to
go to work in Hall, Kaul <fc Co.’s mines
at Skawmut. Resistance is expected
from the striking miners -who have
been reinforced by 800 men from con¬
tiguous regions. Bloodshed is feared.
The miners are well armed and des¬
perate.
A London cable dispatch says: The
formation of a French cabinet with
three ministers—Poincare,Decasse and
Hanotaux—avowedly hostile to Great
Britain, excites grave apprehensions in
English ministerial circles. The rec¬
ord of Hanotaux, the new French min¬
ister of foreign affairs, places him in
the fropt rank as a combatant of Eng¬
lish occupation of Egypt and general¬
ly an enemy of England wherever the
latter comes into competing contact
with France.
A great drought in the far western
part of Nebraska is reported. The'
farmers have been unable to raise a
crop or obtain water for stock. As a
consequence hundreds of fauns in
Lincoln and adjoining counties are
being deserted by their tenants, who
are moving eastward in wagons. No
rain has fallen in weeks, and all vege¬
tation is parched. Other portions of
the state fare very much better, but
in many places the small grain is a
failure.
A terrific storm struck Hillsboro,
Tex., at 2 o’clock Thursday morning,
accompanied by torrents of rain and
incessant lightning. The Episcopal
church was completely demolished, as
was also the house of John Morgan.
The pump-house at Lake park was to¬
tally. demolished and the grand stand
at the fair grounds blown into the lake
thirty yards distant. Quite a number
of ! di-ellings were blown from their
foundations and badly damaged. The
destruction to the oat crop and shade
and fruit trees was very great.
The whistle at the Denver paper
mills, south of the city of Denver,Col.,
began to blow shortly after 11 o’clock
Thursday night to warn the residents
of the Platte river bottoms to seek
higher grounds. The river has been
steadily rising at the rate of from four
to six inches an hour, and is outside
its banks. The water is backed up to
the Rio Grande shops at Burnham. At
Jerome park the residents sought ref¬
uge in a school house, which is now
partially submerged. There is much
excitement in the flooded districts, but
it is thought that all will be rescued.
Heavy Loss By Fire.
Te city of St. Johns, N. B., suffered
from serious fires Sunday morning,
the total loss from which is $283,000,
CONGRESSIONAL.
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH
HOUSE AND SENATE.
The Discussion of Important Measures
Briefly Epitomi/.ed.
Wednesday being Decoration Day,
Mr. Catohings at the opening of the
session of the house, Tuesday, moved
that when the house adjourned it be
until Thursday noon. Agreed to.
Committees having been called for re¬
ports, the house went into committee
of .the whole—Mr. Richardson, of Ten¬
nessee, in the chair—on the 10 per
cent bank tax bill. Speeches were
made by Messrs. Cox, of- Tennessee,
Johnson, of Indiana, and Black, cf
Georgia. Mr. Strauss,
In the house, Friday, joint-resolu¬
of New York, offered a
tion- on the extradition treaty with
.Russia, and it was referred to the
committee on foreign affairs. After a
•call of committees for reports, Mr.
Enloe, of Tennessee, antagonized Mr.
Springer's motion to take up the bank
tax bill, by a motion to consider-bills
on the private calendar. The vote on
a division was, yeas 60, noes 93. Mr.
Reed demanded a vote by yeas and
nays. The motion was defeated, and
.
the house proceeded to consider the
bank tax bill. Mr. Wheeler, of Ala¬
bama, was entitled to the floor, but re¬
linquished it in favor of Mr. Brosius,
of Pennsylvania, a member of the
committee on banking and currency,
announcing that he would finish his
own speech at a later period..
The house went into committee of
the whole at Saturday’s session to fur¬
ther consider the bill to repeal the
state bank tax act, and Mr. Izlar, of
South Carolina, continued his remarks
begun Friday in favor of the repeal.
The house renewed consideration of
the bill to repeal the state bank ta'x act
at Monday’s session, the first speaker
being Mr. Dazzell, who sustained the
constitutionality of the law. Mr. Hol¬
man gave notice that he would, on
Tuesday, call up the Indian appropri¬
ation bill for consideration.
THE SENATE.
The senate, Thursday, voted to put
lumber on the free list of the tariff
bill. This, of course, will not be sat¬
isfactory to the lumbermen of Georgia
and Alabama. They have petitioned
for a duty, as they sell large quantities
of lumber ip the north and west where
Canadian lumber will now compete
with the product of Georgia and Ala¬
bama. The sugar schedule was taken
up, but the progress on it jiromises to
be very slow. The great fight against
the Dill which republicans are to make
will be on this. They believe if they
can defeat this schedule and put sugar
on the free list it will mean the defeat
of the entire bill, as several democrats
will vote against the bill unless sugar
is protected. Friday, the resolution
In the senate,
offered by Mr. Call went over till Sat¬
urday for the appointment of a select
committee of five senators to investi¬
gate the subject of the organized offorts
of corpoi’ations to control the elections
of state legislators and members of
congress and whether corrupt means,
such as bribery by free transportation
and the subsidizing of newspapers, has
been resorted to and whether such acts
are consistent with the preservation of
the republic of the United States and
the rights and liberties of the people.
At 10:40 the tariff bill was laid before
the senate, the sugar schedule being
the pending question, and Mr, Man
derson proceeded to speak upon it.
In the senate, Saturday Mr. Hill
called up his resolution, directing the
special committee to investigate the
charges of bribery, senatorial specula¬
tion and the influence of the sugar
trust in the framing of the sugar sched¬
ule, to throw open its doors while
testimony was being taken. He
took the floor in support of the res¬
olution. He argued that the terms of
the resolution under which the special
committee was appointed neither au¬
thorized nor refused authority for se¬
cret sessions. The senate made laws
in the interest of the public. Why
should not the committees investigate
in the eyes of the public? The dis¬
cussion was further continued by
Messrs. Gray, Lodge, Allen and Hill.
Then Mr. Gordon, of Georgia, asked
unanimous consent that the resolution
be voted on without further debate.
Mr. Dolph objected and argued in fa¬
vor of winging the contumacious wit¬
nesses before the senate and punishing
them for contempt. Then Mr. Gordon
renewed his suggestion,and Washburn
objected. The resolution went over
without action.
The first business done by the sen¬
ate Monday was the passage of a joint
resolution appropriating $10,000 for
the expenses of the inquiries and
investigations ordered by the senate.
The tariff bill was taken up and the
amendments to paragraph 182, offered
by the finance committee, changing
the time when the repeal of the sugar
bounty is to take effect from July 1st,
1894, to June 1st, 1895, was agreed to.
Subsequently by unanimous consent,
that action was reconsidered and the
amendments still remain open. Mr.
Allison took the floor and argued
against the repeal of the sugar bounty
and against the repeal of the sugar on
the dutiable list.
THROUG H THE SOUTH
ITEMS OF INTEREST GATHERED
FROM SOUTHERN STATES.
fulled and Condensed From Our
Daily Dispatches.
George H. Donnell, of Mississippi,
has been appointed chief clerk of the
census bureau at $2,500 per annum.
James H. Wardle, of New York, whom
Donnell succeeds, has been transfer¬
red to the pension office.
Abingdon, A T a., is threatened with
an epidemic of smallpox. NIartha
Washington- Female college was closed
Thursday and Jackson Female insti
ttite’is said to be ■ in. 'Strict 1 quarantine.
J. Irby Hurt, a young lawyer, is the
only, stricken person at present.
Dave Turner, ft wealthy citizen of
Anthony,-Fla.; committed suicide by.
hanging himself to a girder in his
barn. He left a note stating that he
was too miserable to live. Why he
_ he
was miserable. - no one^ knows, as
possessed a comfortable fortune and
his domestic relations xvere pleasant. •
A Knoxville, Tenn. special says:
Three hundred miners stopped work
at Goal Creek Friday because they
w.ere informed that the Jellieo district,
thirty-six miles distant, would send a
thousand armed, men and would stop
them by force if it could be done in no
other way. ' One thousand Coal Creek
ers however, are still at • work, and say
they will not stop., This may mean
.
work for the state militia.
Holders of certificates of indebted
ness of the Central railroad to the
amount of $1,140,800 met at Savan¬
nah Thursday. All had signed an
agreement, which became operative
when signed by $1, 000,000, face value
of the debentures. A committee of
five was appointed to act as trustees of
the debenture holders in securing for
them proper recognition in any re¬
organization plan that may be put for¬
ward.
A rousing meeting of Hamilton
county, Tenn., populists was held in
Chattanooga Saturday and endorsed
Colonel Mimms, of Nashville, for gov¬
ernor and chose delegates to the third
district congressional convention.
Frank Dickey, of Monroe county, who
made the race in 1892; ex-Governor
Sherwood, of Franklin county, and
others are mentioned to make the race
for congress, Judge R. C. McRee
was named for chancellor.
A Richmond, Va., dispatch says:
The celebrated White Sulphur springs
property has been sold to Julian T.
Burke, of Alexandria, Va., agent for
the preferred bond holders, for the
sum of $265,000. The season at the
White usually opens June 1st and
while there is no definite information
to that effect, it is expected that
Major Earle, who has conducted the
popular resort for many years, will
again become the lessee and that the
springs will be opened as usual.
The steamer of J. O’Connel with
Frye’s commonweal army arrived at
Parkersburg, W. Va., Sunday morn¬
ing. The city officials supplied the
army with provisions, but refused to
permit them to land. The leaders said
that the contract with- the steamer was
to land the army at Marietta, where
they would embark and go overland to
Pittsburg. The boat, however, land¬
ed the army three miles above Park¬
ersburg. The army sent s committee
back to Parkersburg asking permission
to return, but this was refused.
Fire at the Laconia oar works
at Laconia, New Hampshire,
burned over $100,000 worth of
property; insurance, $50,000. The
car company’s loss includes three
large buildings in the passenger car
department,their entire malleable iron
foundry plant, with patterns, etc.,and
two small dwelling houses. A large
refrigerator building and office owned
by the Swift Beef Company is a total
loss. The fire started in the paint shop
in the car works. There are indica
tions of incendiarism.
The mines at Wbitwell, Tenn., have
been leased by the Pikeville Mining
Company, and it is reported that work
will be resumed at once. The striking
miners will go back into the shafts on the
old scale, the action being merely out
of sympathy with the general strike.
The Tennesse Coal, Iron and Railway
Company, owners of this extensive
property, elosely following the strike,
abandoned the place, shipping away
all their movable property, and many
families left the mining settlement of
3,000 souls to cast their fortunes else¬
where. Six hundred men will be
given work.
A FATAL WRECK
In Which Eight are Killed and Fifteen
or Twenty Injured.
An accident resulting in the loss of
eight lives and the injury of fifteen to
twenty persons, more or less seriously,
occurred at Marshfield, Wis. Train No.
26, on the Wisconsin Central railway
went through an open switch and was
completely wrecked. The cars after¬
ward took fire and were consumed.
Four persons were taken from the
wreck dead and four others are miss¬
ing, supposed to have been caught id
the mass of broken timbers and crushed.
Among the dead are the engineer, fire¬
man and one of the Tweedy