Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1897 — ROW IN THE SENATE. [ARTICLE]

ROW IN THE SENATE.

TILLMAN RAISES A DISTURBANCE OVER ARMOR PLATE. Personal Conflict Almoat Caused by the Raab South Carolinian’s Accusations—London Brokers Bay Wool Cannot Be Cornered. Hawley Greatly Offended. Senator Tillman of South Carolina almost provoked a personal conflict with Senator Hawley of Connecticut, who resented his (Tillman’s) charges that the armor-plate manufacturers have paid agents in the Senate to rob the Government. Senator Hawley had spoken against an amendment to reduce the price of armor plate to S3OO a ton. Mr. Tillman then made his charges, and also claimed that armor plate could be made for S2OO a- ton. Some high words were bandied, and Senator Hawley was induced by his friends to go to the cloak room. The amendment to reduce the price to S3OO a ton was finally passed. PROTECTING SEABIRDS’ EGGS. Lighthonac Board Stops Robbery of Guillemots on the Farrullonce. At the solicitation of the Committee on Bird Protection of the American Ornithologists’ Union, of which Prof. Leverett M. Loomis of the California Academy of Sciences is a member, the Government officials have set the seal of their displeasure on the importing of seabirds’ eggs from the Farrallones. The lighthouse board at Washington, which has the affairs of the Farrallones in charge as a sort of United States Government preserve, has issued a decree that the traffic in the eggs of the seabirds must cease. The mandate of the lighthouse board will bring to a close a unique industry of San Francisco. The eggs of the murre, or foolish guillemot, have been shipped to the markets of San Francisco in great quantities ever since 1849, at which date they were almost the only fresh eggs to be had, bringing over $1 a dozen. As high as twenty thousand dozen of the eggs were annually brought to market by the Greeks and Italian fishermen. They are twice the size of an ordinary hen’s egg, for which they are said to be an excellent substitute, and they sold at retail from 15 to 25 cents per dozen. During the last four or five seasons the Greeks have been driven off, and the egg industry has been carried on by the lighthouse keepers on the Farrallones. CANNOT CORNER WOOL. London Brokers Pay It Would Require Fully $500,000,000. In regard to the reported Boston wool corner, leading London wool brokers ridicule the idea that there is any possibility of cornering wool. They say it would require the purchase of two clips to do so, meaning the cornering of at least 8,000,000 bales and the expenditure of $500.000,000. As the situation is understood in London, the Bostonians bought at the last sale 45,000 bales of the higher grease wools, and they will probably purchase as much more at the next sale with the view of making $1,000,000 out of their deal under the new tariff, in which, however, the London brokers believe they will be disappointed. For the next wool sale there are already 300,000 bales offered, and the number will probably reach 330,000 bales.

ACCIDENT 13 AVERTED. Train Carrying Governor Tanner and Party Comra Near Being Wrecked. The inaugural train carrying Gov. Tanner of Illinois and party narrowly missed being wrecked by running into a landslide in the West Virginia mountains near Moundsville. Hundreds of tons of earth and rock had fallen on the track, the track walker being knocked down and his lantern broken by the avalanche. The train carrying the Governor’s party was almost due to arrive at that point, and the track walker hurriedly scrambled over the debris and flagged the train with a burning newspaper. The train was stopped within a car length of the obstruction. FOREST ORDER OVERRULED. Senate's Sunday Session Connteracts the President's Order. The Senate, by unanimous vote, has added an amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill, counteracting the President's recent order withdrawing 21,000,000 acres of land from the public domain and establishing it as forest reserves. The usual Sunday quiet of the capitol building was disturbed by a session of the Senate, made necessary to pass the appropriation bills. Large crowds filled the galleries and overflowed to the corridors. The sundry civil bill was passed. These Banks Will P a y. The Comptroller of the Currency has declared dividends in favor of the creditors of insolvent national banks as follows: Forty per cent, the First National Bank of Garnett, Ark.; 25 per cent, the First National Bank of Fort Payne, Ala.; 5 per cent, the Oregon National Bank of Portland, Ore.; 5 per cent, the Second National Bank of Columbia, Tenn.

Minister Peake Has Resigned. A letter has been received by the Kansas City, Mo., law firm of Ball & Peake from John L. Peake, United States minister to Switzerland, in which he says his resignation has been forwarded to Washington, to take effect immediately, in order, he says, to not hamper the new administration. Ex-Governor Long Accepts. Ex-Gov. John D. Long of Massachusetts has accepted the navy portfolio in President McKinley’s cabinet. Sou Shoots His Father. John Zimmerman, a farmer who lived near Seneca, Kan., was shot and instantly killed by his son Robert, 19 years of age. The youth took the part of his mother in a family quarrel and fired the fatal shot when his father attempted to strike him with a chair. Over 2,000 Rebels Killed. Cable dispatches received from Manila say that over 2,000 insurgents were killed in the recent battles fought with the Gov» ernment troops at Silang and Las Marimaa. ’ Two Deaths from Peculiar Causes. ’ William Murray died at Norristown, Pa., of blood poisoning, due to scratching a pimple on his nbse with his finger nails. Only the day before his neighbor farmer, George Miller, of Green Lane, died of Wood poisoning, due to a cold taken in a boil uniier his eye. Serious Fire at St. Louis. At 2:30 Wednesday morning flames were discovered, breaking forth from the >of of the Merchants ’ Exchange building in St Louis. The fire started in the elevator shaft, presumably from defective light wires, and spread to the offices on

TO END LEADVILLE STRIKE. Legislative Committee Recommend* Arbitration Board. The legislative committee appointed to Investigate the Leadville strike submitted a report which was, to say the least, a great surprise to the mine owners. E, J. Dewar, secretary of the Leadville Miners’ Union, says the committee’s conclusions are eminently satisfactory to the miners. The committee recommends that a board of arbitration be appointed, two to be chosen by the mine owners and two by the miners, the fifth to be chosen by the four. Whatever decision this board of arbitration shall arrive at must be binding on both sides, and an agreement to that effect must be signed beforehand. To facilitate this much-desired end the committee submits an agreement in full, which will be the bone of contention between the opposing factions. It provides in the first place that the scale of wages in force immediately before the strike shall be conceded by the mine owners and shall remain in force until the board of arbitration shall have arrived at a decision. The proposed agreement also provides that the mine owners shall recognize labor unions, and that members of unions and non-union men shall work side by side. Further, it is provided that no strike or lockout shall be declared by a labor organization or by an organization of employers unless by secret ballot. The proposed agreement makes a further proviso that no strike or lockout shall be declared on foreign labor imported without both sides submitting their grievances to the arbitration committee, and that mine owners shall not discriminate against a man because he is a member of a labor union. All differences regarding the future scale of wages must be submitted to the arbitration board.

THEY SEEK WIVES AND PLENTY. Ninety-seven Bachelors Ftart for the South Sea Islands. The brig Percy Edwards has cleared at #Gn Francisco for the Tahiti Islands, and with her goes the United Brotherhood of the South Sea Islands. The brig goes to *Tahiti and from that port will sail wherever the fancy of those on board dictates. /Die Expedition was brought about by the ■publication of a story to the effect that on St. John’s Island, in the South Sea, were a number of dusky women who were pining for husbands. All the men had been killed in war and the women were lonely. A company w#s organized in San Francisco to go to the relief of the dusky damsels and on board the Edwards are nine-ty-seven men, who sigh for the tropical clime and the easy life in the South Seas. It has since developed that the Adaihless Eyen story was a myth, but the company organized determined to go some place. Each man contributed SIOO to a common fund. The old whaling brig Edwards was bought and provisioned and the expedition started. The men are provided with agricultural implements and several trades are represented. They will look for some uninhabited island and when they have found it they propose to settle down to a life of ease. WANT WORK, NOT CHARITY. Unemployed of St. Paul Denounce the Relief Fund Distribution. There was almost a riot at a mass meeting of the unemployed at St. Paul, Minn. The City Council recently appropriated SIO,OOO to be used in relief work and the meeting was in protest of the way the sum was being expended. Rev. R. G. Smith, who has been prominent in the relief work, was hooted and yelled at in his attempts at explaining the system of distributing the relief. After much excitement and many violent speeches, resolutions were adopted which, after declaring the unemployed wanted work and not charity, further resolved: “That we will do our utmost in the next municipal election to retire to private life the Mayor and members of the Council who have delegated to a charitable organization a duty which they nre paid by the city to perform.” Another resolution, calling for a committee of five to call on the Legislature next Friday afternoon with all the unemployed who can be induced to accompany it and ask the Legislature to do something for those out of work, was also passed.

Line le to Be Defined. The full text of the Alaskais boundary treaty signed by Secretary Olney and Sir Julian Pauncefote has been made public. It provides for the appointment of one commissioner by the United States and one by Great Britain, with whom shall be associated such surveyors and other assistants as each government shall elect. The commissioners shall, as early as possible, proceed to trace and mark so much of the one hundred and forty-first meridian of west longitude as is necessary to be defined for the purpose of determining the exact limits of the territory ceded to the United States by the treaty between the United States and Russia of M-arch 30, 1867. Inasmuch as the summit of Mount St. Elias, although not ascertained io lie in fact upon said one hundred and forty-first meridian, is so nearly coincident therewith that it may conveniently be taken as a visible landmark whereby the initial part of said meridian shall be established, it is agreed that the commissioners, should they conclude that it is advisable, may deflect the most southerly portion of said line so as to make the same range with the summit of Mount St. Elias, such deflection not to extend more than twenty geographical miles northwardly from the initial point. The location of the one hundred and forty-first meridian as determined hereunder shall be marked by intervisible objects, natural or artificial, at such distances apart as the commissioners shall agree, and the line thus marked, in whole or in part, shall be deemed to permanently define for all international purposes the one hundred and forty-first meridian. Each government shall bear the expenses incident to the employment of its own appointees and of the operations conducted by them, but the cost of material used in permanently marking the meridian and of its transportation shall be borne jointly and equally by the two governments.

Preparing for War. The massing of Turkish troops and munitions of war on the frontier is proceeding with feverish haste. All the soldiers on furlough have been recalled, and eleven batteries of artillery, a regiment of cavalry and two battalions of infantry have gone from Salonica, Monastir and elsewhere to Elassona. Two additional battalions of infantry have reached Katerina. The reliefs from Smyrna, Brusa, Trebizonde and elsewhere in Anatolia are on their way to the frontier, where a total of six divisions will be formed with headquarters at Elassona. Herbert Will Practice Law. Secretary Herbert has announced that he would open a law office in Washington at an early day and resume the profession which he abandoned many years ago to serve his State and later his country. The Secretary has been in public life twenty years. Murdered by Natives. Further details from New Guinea of the massacre by the natives of Manbare, in which the governor resident was killed, say that in addition six miners and 40 natives were murdered. Steady Gain in Commerce. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: “Genuine improvement in business does not come with a rush, like the breaking of a great dam. The growth

for some weeks past has been more encouraging, because in nearly all lines it has been gradual and moderate. The rupture of the steel rail and other combinations in the iron business has brought out a vast quantity of trade which has been held back and has set many thousand men at work, while the slow but steady gain in other great industries has given employment to many thousands more, but the full effects will not appear until increased purchases by all these swell the distribution of goods. Meanwhile, it is substantial ground for confidence that months which were regarded by many in the money market with serious apprehensions have passed without disturbance and with steady gains in the position of the country and of the treasury.” BIG HOUSE FAIL’. Willoughby, Hill & Co. Closed by the Sher.ff on Judgment Notes. Willoughby, Hill & Co., the Chicago clothiers, were closed .Saturday by the Sheriff on two judgment notes held by the Fort Dearborn National Bank and aggregating $81,611. The minority stockholders, represented by Attorney Newman, charge that the filing of the notes was in contempt of a suppressed restraining order entered by Judge Showalter of the Federal Court, bint at fraud in the notes themselves, and say they will have them examined by microscopic experts to determine their authenticity. Soon after the Sheriff’s levy Alfred Benjamin & Co., creditors of the concern for $3,405, filed a bill in the Circuit Court tor a receiver, and Judge Hanecy appointed E. B. McKee, who qualified with bonds of S7S,(XX). The litigation in which the clothing house is involved is primarily the outcome of troubles among the stockholders, the Hill interests in Chicago being arrayed on one side and members of the Stein-Bloch company, clothing manufacturers of Rochester, N. Y„ who are the minority stockholders in the Chicago concern, on the other.

OLNEY STANDS BY LEE. Serves Notice that Spain Must Respect Aniericin Rights. While the State Department has not backed up Consul General Lee unreservedly, the administration has taken a firm stand on one question, and that is tiie length of time an American citizen can-be held incomunicado in a Spanish- prison. Upon this question Secretary Olney has authorized Gen. Lee to demand the release of each and every American who may be arrested an,) kept incomunicadt for more than seventy-two hours. Only a few weeks ago Gen. Weyler informed Gen. Lee, both verbally and in writing, that the Spanish Government had, and proposed to exercise, the right of keeping Americans in prison and incomunicado seventy-two days if it should be so decided. Must Stop Spanish Atrocities. Shall Americans abroad be protected? Is the strong arm of our Uncle Samuel to be stretched to their defense, wherever they may be? In short, are Americans Americans everywhere, or only when they are within the confines of the United States? Such were the themes for discussion in the Senate Wednesday. The debate was, parliameutarily, on the resolutions introduced growing out of the Lee incident. There was an attempt on the part of certain Senators to sidetrack these resolutions to make way for appropriation bills. Senators Daniel, Morgan and others, however, said that the sanctity of American citizenship wherever it may be found is paramount to appropriations and should be settled first. The influence of the administration was exerted to secure a postponement of the debate on the theory that the reports of the discussion going abroad will “hurt Spain’s feelings and hinder the administration’s plans for peace in Cuba.” Regarding his resolution calling on Olney for the facts in the Ruiz case, Senator Mills said: “It was inspired by the diepatch in the New York Sun from Havana. If it is true that Dr. Ruiz was tortured to death, as described in the Sun, and I believe it is, we should have official information before us. Everything concerning the death of Dr. Ruiz ought to be in the hands of the State Department. As I have repeatedly said on the floor and in newspaper interviews, I believe the time has come when we should put a stop to those Spanish atrocities. It is cowardly for us to stand by and see American citizens butchered in cold blood. Something ought to be done and immediately.” Senator Mills expressed the opinion that the passage of the resolution recognizing Cuban independence would be one of the first acts of the new Congress.

Cheaper than English Steel. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company has placed an order with the Carnegie company for 65,000 tons of steel rails. At the lowest rate since the break in prices this involves an expenditure of considerably over $1,000,000. At the rate now quoted in the open market—-S2O per ton—the purchase would amount to sl,300,000. Freight War on in the West. A freight rate \var affecting the Rocky mountain region has been inaugurated. The rate, first-class, heretofore prevailing through the gulf ports, was $2.20 per 100 pounds. The revised rate through the gulf ports will be $1.86. No Fights in Utah, Representative Kenner's bill, introduced in the Utah Legislature several days ago, to legalize prize fighting, was defeated in the House.