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ALLEGED FALSE CLAIM ATTORNEY CURTIS CHARGES GAS COMPANY AVITH DUPLICITY. Attorney Winter Taken by Snrprise in the Argument Refore Judge Baker at Goshen. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GOSHEN, Ind., Aug. 14.—Judge John H. Baker, of the Federal Court, In chambers here to-day heard argument In the Injunction prpceeding to restrain the city of Indianapolis from enforcing the 75-cent gas ordinance. Attorney Ferd Winter appeared for the gas company and City Attorney Curtis represented Indianapolis. The detailed petition of the gas company, covering twenty-two typewritten pages, was read by Mr. Winter, also affidavits by about all the officers of the company to the effect that the cost of manufacturing gas is 65.4 cents, and that the rate fixed by the ordinance does not allow the company sufficient margin to pay interest on investment. Three reasons w f ere given for asking the injunction: The city is charged with an attempt to deprive the company of its property by compelling it to sell gas at a price not sufficient to pay interest; with violating the contract right by ordinance, and with exceeding its power without concurrent action of the Board of Public Works. The lirst reason only was argued. Attorney Curtis, for the city, argued that the itemized statements as to expenses and other items furnished by the company’s bill were incorrect, taking them up in detail. He disproved the opposing counsel’s statement that the company did not have due notice of the intended passage of the ordinance by introducing an affidavit of the chairman of the Council committee stating that the company had agents present, and that an adjournment was taken at their request. Judge Baker took the matter under advisement and will not render a decision before Monday, , Mr. Curtis’s first move was the filing of the motion in behalf of the city of Indianapolis to dismiss the cause*. In beginning his argument Mr. Winter said that the ordinance passed by the Common Council amounted practically to confiscation of the gas company’s property without due process of law. He held that the company should not be asked to sell the people ot Indianapolis gas at a price that would not give the company a fair return on its investment. He said the owners were entitled to a reasonable compensation on the present cost of the gas plant, its cost at this time was $1,200,000, and it could not be replaced for bss than that sum. A regulation that did not allow a usual rate of interest was not a reasonable compensation, lie said the gross revenue by tno 75-cent ordinance would be only sl4!Viil.9l on the 1ft9.462.550 feet of gas sold each year. The expense, Mr. \\ intt r said, was sl*th,Bs,.o3. leaving a surplus of $22,684. or about 1 per cent on the investment. The attorney insisted that the return to the company should be at b’ast ST2.OuO a year, or at least the legal rate of Interest—s jar cent. City Attorney Curtis began talking at 2 o’clock and cited a number of authorities to show that the Council had a right to pass an ordinance to regulate the rates for gus, notwithstanding that there had been a previous ordinance fixing a rate. The Legislature had a rigid to give to the Council the power to make rates for the gas company. The Rushville Gas Company hail recCved the naked right to go into Rushville and operate a plant after it had made contracts with the citizens to supply gas amounting to SIB,OOO. Some of these contracts had been for three years. Then the Council had passed an ordinance fixing the price at which the company should sell Us gas. The Supreme Court had upheld the Council. There was a small sensation when Mr. Curtis proposed to file an affidavit of the vice president of the Council. Mr. Colter, allowing that statement that thy company

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had no notice of the ordinance was untrue; that on the contrary the company did have notice of the pending of the ordinance; that one of the very men whose name appeared on the pay roll of the company was present at a meeting and had the meeting adjourned to another date. “I would like to see someone make an affidavit of that kind,” exclaimed Mr. Winter. “Well, you will see it. for I shall file it.” “Well, I will take issue on the statement of facts if that kind of an affidavit is filed.” , Mr. Winter and Mr. Curtis began to get personal, when Judge Baker intimated that the argument should proceed. Mr, Curtis attacked the petition vigorously all of the afternoon. Mr. Curtis denounced the items in the bill as indefinite and not to be understood. The point made was that the cost of operating the plant, as set forth in the bill, was nftt correct; that the real profit of -he company was nearly $60,000 instead of SL.OOO, as asserted. He called attention to the fact that the company had no use as a gas company for the fine building at Indianapolis, wffiieh cost $275,000. There was nothing in the bill that show'ed that $2,670,000 of bonds were invested in the business of supplying artificial gas. The city attorney insisted that the ordinance was a reasonable one, and that even under the ordinance the company had a large profit, and was not entitled even to a temporary restraining order. Sues Gas Company for $20,000. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. NOBLESVILLE, Ind., Aug. 14,-Sult was filed in the Circuit Court here this morning by Wallace Shumack against the Indianapolis Gas Company, demanding damages In the sum of $20,000. Shumack was an employe of the gas company and in repairing a leak in the pipe line after dark was badly burned about the face, head and hands. The injury badly impaired his hearing and otherwise disfigured him. The accident occurred last December just north oil this COSMOPOLITAN ’UNIVERSITY. Tle New Institution of (Which Dr. Andrew* A% 111 Be President. NEW YORK, Aug. 14.—John Brisben Walker spoke readily to-day about the university which he is to found and of which Dr. Andrews, lately president of Brown University, is to be the first executive. The university is to be entitled the Cosmopolitan University, and work will be commenced Oct. 1 next. The work is to be carried on entirely on the Chautauqua correspondence plan. Dr. Andrews has already begun work by appointing the following asy members of the advisory board of ten: Spencer Trask, a well-known banker of New York; President McAllister, of the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia; Albert Shaw, American editor of the Review of ■ Reviews; General Samuel Thomas, a prominent railroad man; and George F. Seward, president of the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York. A feature of the new university will be that it entails no payment of fees of any kind on the part of its students. The services rendered will bo entirely free, and no charge will bo made directly or Indirectly. TWO WOMEN ASSAULTED. Mother and Daughter Victims of a AVhite Tennessee Fiend. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Aug. 14.—Mrs. Daniel Hescdtt and her tbirteen-years-old daughter, who reside in Chickamauga Park, were found lying unconscious in the back yard of their home about noon to-day. Whvn Mrs. Heseou regained he r senses she stated that an unknown white man had assaulted both her and her daughter and had used the most violent means to accomplish his purpose. Mrs. Heseott will recover, but her daughter Is badly hurt and will probably die. Mrs. Heseott is thv wife of an employe of the park commission Scores of men are searching for their rapist, and if he is caught the usual result will follow.

HALTED BY DEPUTIES ♦_ PITTSBURG DISTRICT MINERS NOT PERMITTED TO MARCH. *— Attempts Made at Sandy Creek: and Turtle Creek to Renew the Crusade, Despite Injunctions. ■ ♦ CONFERENCE OF LEADERS e—-—__ VIEWS OF RATCHFORD AND GOMPEKS ON THE SITUATION. - Action of Conrts Condemned—Offer of 80 Cents Rejected by Ilrar.il Miners —Affairs In West Virginia.

PITTSBI RG, Aug. 14.—For the next few days the eyes of the industrial world will be turned towards Pittsburg. The greatest anxiety will prevail until Monday, when the injunction proceedings against the marching miners will be finally heard. That there Is much Interest in the situation is evidenced by the presence here of a number of the foremost labor leaders in the country. Michael D. Ratchford, national president of the United Mine. Workers of America, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and James R. Sovereign, general master workman of the Knights of l.abor, arrived here this afternoon and will remain a few days. While they are here they will be kept busy. They caine from West Virginia and were brown and enthusiastic. President Ratchford seemed to be well pleasfed with the outlook and in an Interview said: “The fight is in a better condition to-day than it ever was. The men are solid as a rock, while they are Increasing in numbers and determination. They are growing stronger every day, and there are more organizers among them than there have been. We have reached the point where we are much curtailing the output and where we have the courts to fight. In this connection I wish to say for every man that is incarcerated, there will be one hundred friends for the cause. We have not como here to defy the courts and judges, but discharge a plain duty, as we know and understand It. If it be crime 1.0 talk to men of the benefits of trades unionism and call them together In peaceful assemblage, we are surely ready to meet the Issue. Fully 90 per cent, of the American people are opposed to oppressing the convictions of the public and if we shirk our duty we would be unworthy of the trust and confidence reposed in us. There was a feeling among some of the miners both of this State and West Virginia that their officers would desert them when injunctins were encountered. You can say for me that the officers will stand by the faith and this great cause until the last. We have entered into this contest to win, and if we fail to do so, it will be because the miners themselves have not taken our advice. 1 do not anticipate this, however, for I am sanguine of victory if the miners conduct themselves as they have in the recent past.’’ President Samuel Gompers expressed a hopeful view of the situation in West Virginia. He said there was some coal being prdueed in certain sections, but the supply was being gradually cut off. lie claimed there was general sympathy for the cause iu the mountain State and lie maintains that fully 13,000 of the 20,000 diggers of that State have joined the suspension. BIG MEETING TO-DAY. A series of meetings to be addressed by the labor leaders will be arranged. Ratchford, Gompers and Sovereign will address a big meeting at Camp Isolation, Plum Creek, to-morrow afternoon. It is expected to be one of the biggest meetings in the history of the strike. It is hoped to have nearly all of the minft's employed by the New \ork and Cleveland Company ut the meeting and make one grand effort to rally the faltering ones to the standard of the strikers. Despite their leaders’ orders the campers at Sandy Creek and Turtle Creek attempted to march on the mines this morning, but the deputies were on the alert and both bodies were forced to break ranks and return to their camps. There was the same show of resistance made by the marchers at fcandy Creek this morning that occurred at Plum Creek yesterday, but of a milder degree. The campers began the march at 3 o’clock, an hour and a half earlier than usual. This was done to outwit the deputies, but it failed. The sheriff’s men were on guard, and when the strikers came up the road they were met by twenty-six deputies and ordered to halt. The fnjunction was read to them and they were ordered back to camp. They Resisted at first, but when the deputies pressed forward the strikers quickly broke ranks and returned to their quarters. As the result of this, twenty-two diggers went into the mine. At Turtle Creek the men had just formed on the road w'hen the deputies appeared. After a short parley the strikers quietly withdrew. The output of the mine shows an increase. Yesterday it was seven cars of lump, three of slack and one and a half of nut. At Plum Creek the situation is a victory for the company so far as operation of the mine is concerned. There was no marching, the strikers having decided to obey President Dolan’s order to discontinue the marches until after the injunction proceeding next Monday. All was quiet during the night, and the campers and deputies had a good night’s rest. There w r ere 238 men in the mine to-day, a gain of 35. The output was twenty-seven cars' run of the mine. The sheriff arrived at 7 o'clock this morning with an additional force of deputies. They were distributed through the district to prevent ail marching even of squads of three or four. The strikers had decided to go about the pits in groups of from two to four men, but this will not be permitted by Sheriff Low ry. SCOUTING TOUR. This morning Chief Deputy Richards, Superintendent De Armitt and two deputies went to Clarksville on a scouting tour. They found several small bodies of men on the road. They were stopped and after the injunction had been read were ordered to disperse. The men invariably obeyed the orders. The object of the trip to Clarksville, it is said, was to secure names for the purpose of entering proceedings for contempt of court. A score of names were obtained, among them being President Dolan, Captain Dillingham, Paul Trimmer and James Bruce. . Notwithstanding the injunction secured by the Bunola Coal Company, the strikers continue to march every morning to the pit. This morning the deputies arrested -ighteen and brought them to Pittsburg. They were placed in jail on a charge of disorderly conduct. The Injunction, case against the Panola miners was heard before Judge Collier, of the county court, this morning and the decision reserved. The judge said he wanted to do Justice to both side-* and before rendering u decision he

desired to carefully examine the testimony. Pending his decision the preliminary inunction against the miners was continued. /About forty Italians returned to work at the Oak Hill mine to-day under guard of deputies. Most of the Italians carried knives, and as they marched to the train they kept close to the deputies, but no attempt was made to interfere with them. Distressing word comes from the Moon Run district, where three hundred families are said to be in want. It has been seven weeks since the miners went out and at that time they had little or nothing ahead of them. Much sickness is said to prevail. A fund for their relief has been started. Inactivity prevailed at the camps of the strikers about the mines of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company all day. After the return of the strikers to camp this morning from their unsuccessful attempts at marching in small bodies, they settled down to await the result of the injunction proceedings on Monday. While a number of the strikers, especially the foreign element, are anxious for another march to Oak Hill and Plum Creek, it is not thought there will be any further developments until Tuesday morning. The majority of the campers are awaiting anxiously for the court’s decision on Monday. They claim it w ill have an important bearing on their future course. In case the injunction is continued, it is altogether probable that some of the men may march in order to get arrested. The reason for holding off is said to be due to the fact that the men have hopes the injunctions will be quashed. In case tin y win, the strikers say they will camp rigiu where they are and march every morning until the strike is won. The camp commissaries are well stocked with provisions, and so far as the material man is concerned the strikers will not suffer. No move will be made by the sheriff towards raiding the camps until after the hearing on Monday. If the injunction is continued, he says the camps will be broken up in short order. But under the present circumstances the men can remain there so long as they are peaceable and well behaved. .A secret meeting of the Plum Creek miners was held on the company property this afternoon. The situation was discussed, and it was agreed by a majority to continue work. After the meeting the minority, numbering about seventyfive, marched to the camp and joined the strikers. They were received with open arms and there was great rejoicing throughout the camp. The Plum Creek men announced that they would stand out for the 69-cent rate until the company granted their demands. The accession of these men is a great victory for the strikers and they expect that to-mor-row’s meeting wdll be followed by a wholesale desertion from the I lumcreek mine. There was also a mass meeting of the strikers at Plum Creek, willed served to act as a stimulus <>n the men who had been chafing und’er the Inactivity of the day. Addresses were made ny a number of loeai leaders, who counseled the men to keep the pvace and obey the law'. It is stated that several men who were discharged from Oak Hill will be evicted from the company’s houses on Monday. Such action promises to stir up a good deal of feeling among' the strikers and their friends. . , . The Boone mine of the Canonsburg Coal Company was closed to-day, owing to a report that another march was contemplated. The strikers In camp at McGovern are paying no attention to the sheriff’s order prohibiting marching. Ihe Cooke mine is still being operates, but the iu.i quota of men at work. . There was a big meeting of striking miners at McKeesport to-night. Over three thousand strikers were present anil addresses w’ere made by Ratchford, Gompers, Sovereign and Mrs. Jones. L'LYrs meeting there was a parade of l.ottO miners and striking steel-workers The speakers mvdicted success, <i6nouncin& th 6 injunc Uons and advised the strikers to obey the laws. A Superintendent Assaulted. HAZLETON, Pa., Aug. 14.-The drivers and miners employed at the Honeybrook No. 5 colliery struck this morning for an advance in wages. Some of the drivers are Americans and others are Hungarians and Italians. They have been getting from $:. to $1.35 per day according to the grade of teams. They claim they have to work one hour per day without pay and for this they want remuneration. This morning two drivers left the strikers’ ranks and were going to the strippings when about thirty strikers met them and tried to persuade them to come back. Superintendent Jones put in an appearance about this time. A light followed which developed into a small sized riot, in which Jones was knocked down and kicked. Levi Watts, a carpenter, who came to his aid, was struck on the head with a rock and was severely injured. The arrival of a number of English-speak-ing miners probably saved the superintendent from a serious flogging, as he is unpopular with the men. The coal and iron police were called from this city, but before their arrival the crowd dispersed quietly and no further trouble has developed.

lline Bos# Poisoned. DUNBAR, Pa., Aug. 11.—Thomas Jeffries, night boss at the Ferguson mine, was poisoned this morning by drinking coffee in which had been placed Paris green. Ho was taken violently ill, but is now believed to be out of danger. An examination of his dinner bucket showed traces of the poison. The Paris green was evidently put in the bucket by someone in the mine. Jeffries incurred the enmity of a number of strikers in 18P4 by acting as a deputy for the Dunbar Company. The Ferguson mine is in the coke region and there is no trouble thereat present. Teller*# View of Injunction#. DENVER, Col., Aug. 14.—“ Heretofore it has been supposed to be the province of the courts to punish man for crime's committed,” said Senator Teller, in discussing the injunctions against the striking coal miners, “but now it seems to be the accepted idea that the courts can punish men for crimes which somebody alleges they may commit.” i ♦ IN WEST VIRGINIA. Many of the Coni Digger# Will Ile#ume Work on Monday. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Aug. 11.-The campaign for effecting a general strike in the Kanawha Held closed with to-day, and Ditcher, Weber and other strike leaders left to-night for the New river field. It looks now like the strike would soon beat an end in the Kanawha valley. This is the_ fifth day since Dilcher told the coal diggers that if they would quit work the strike would not last but five days. Those who came out did so on that promise. Less than one-fourth of all the miners in the Kanawha valley east of Charleston were at work to-day. C< sequently there was practically a suspension of work, but the men now seem to be ready to resume. The coal diggers at Winifrede held a meeting to-day and decided by a large majority, U! to 56, to return to work Monday. There were about two hundred present at the meeting. There seems to be an understanding among the miners on the river front between Montgomery and Mt. Carbon to return to work Monday. The information from the New river field is that the coal diggers in that region are strongly opposed to striking, and it is believed that Dilcher and his associates will have but little success in that region. CIUSADE IN ILLINOIS. Marching Striker# Fall at Some Place#, hut Succeed at Other's. MARION, 111., Aug. 14, —The marching miners failed to get the men who are working here to join the strikers and have gone to Centerville, the miners at which place have the largest output of any jn southern Illinois. The marchers expect reinforcements at Centerville, and a big meeting will be held to-morrow. The sheriff has sworn in a number of deputies and declares the men here and at Centerville will be protected if they want to work. DECATUR. 111., Aug. 14,-The four hundred miners who are encamped near here remained quietly outside, the limits prescribed by the 15G deputy sheriffs who are still guarding the town. The miners say they have provisions to last two weeks and will await an opportunity to talk to the men who are working here. A large meeting is to be held near the coal mines tomorrow. MORRIS, 111., Aug. 14.—The Morris miners were pervaded on to suspend work to-day. A meeting of the'Wilmington district miners at Coal City to-morrow will pass upon the request of the Morris men to mine coai for local consumption. STRIKERS HEFI SE SO CENTS. Promptly Voted Down Flattering Offer# Made at Hrav.il. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, Ind., Aug. 14.—One of the largest gathering of miners ever seen In Clay county convened at the Courthouse to-day. The fact that a committee of laborers of

the Central Iron and Steel Company was announced to be present and present an offer to the miners, brought a large number of other employes and citizens to the meeting. The large room in the Courthouse was packed. John L. Sullivan presented the proposition of the Central Iron and Steel Company and received the closest attention. The proposition was that if the miners would allow the Jackson Coal and Mining Company to mine sufficient coal at SO cents a ton to supply the Central Iron and Steel Company s mills the employes of the company would donate S2O to $-5 a day to support the miners during the strike. The proposition was promptly voted down, amid profound cheering and clapping of hands. The miners declared it to be their purpose to adhere to their first stand not to allow any coal toi be mined. Spirited speeches wore made oenouncing some miners who are at work In sc,me of the pits of the county. It was decided that the committee of watchers should at once take steps to force these men from the mines. The committee has frequently tried persuasion, but to no avail. D. C. O’MALLEY SHOT. Proprietor of the New Orleans Item Wounded in the Shoulder. NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 14.—D. C. O'Malley, proprietor of the Item, was shot by ex-Recorder Edward S. Whitaker this evening. The paper recently published some severe articles about Whitaker, und when he approached O’Malley this evening to ask iedress the latter struck him with a cane. Whitaker drew' a revolver and began shooting. O’Malley, being unarmed, retreated, and received a bullet in his shoulder. The wound is not necessarily dangerous. DESPERADO'DYNAMITED THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE BROKEN B 1 A SHERIFF’S POSSE. Fruitless Attempt to Capture “Cap’’ lint licit! nnd His Gang- by Destroying Their Stronghold. 0 HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Aug. 14.—Onehalf of the Devil’s Backbone, the rocky fortress of the Hatfields in the mountains on Tug river, was shattered by dynamite to-day and.Hutfteld and his men were driven from their stionghold by Sheriff Keaale and his posse after a desperate fight. Several of the sheriff’s men are badly wounded, but the Hatfields are still free. Only this has been accomplished—that the rocky crest where the Hatfields have for years defied the law and from which they have carried out their bloody plans is no longer a tenable fortress. It was decided by the sheriff’s forces to dynamite the desperado and his gang. All day Friday and Friday night the closest watch was kept. At 9 o'clock this morning the dynamite arrived and by II the explosive was placed. The fuse was laid, the match was applied and the attacking force begun to fall back. Until now the besieged seemed not to suspect what w r as being done, but with the flashing of the train which led to the dynamite realization of their peril came. Men jumped from cover and rushed hither and thither in. full view. Hatfield W'as seen to start for the path heedless of a shower of bullets. A rush was made down the side of the mountain. Three men dropped wounded. It was useless to try to escape by the well-known path and the desperadoes returned to the top of their rocky fort, Hatfield directing them. Great bowlders were hurled over the rocks in hopes of breaking the fuse. Then came the explosion. Pieces of rock and trees flew in every direction. When the smoke cleared Hatfield and his men seemed unharmed. Dan Lewis, Steve Stanley and Jake Monroe, who presumed in the excitement to leave shelter, were shot and are not expected to recover. Another charge of dynamite was trained, but under the cover of the explosion llatiieid and the rest of his men escaped. The chase was renewed, and, hampered as he is by his wounds, Hatfield’s capture within twenty-four hours must follow.

NEW “AMERICAN PARTY." Some of the Plank# That May He Incorporated in It# Platform. DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 14.—Promoters of the new “American party,” which had its inception in Detroit, met here to day and elected delegates to represent the State at the national convention of the party called at St. Louis Aug. 25. The platform adopted includes the following planks: Ail public utilities to be placed under state control; the prohibition of private armed bodies; direct legislation by the people through the initiative and referendum; the sintplihcation of elections; equal suffrage for the sexes on an educational basis; absolute separation of church and state; abolition of all exemptions from taxation; only those in full sympathy with American institutions to be eligible for officers or teachers; the protection of wage-earners from alien competition and that of convict labor; trusts and combines to be restricted bv the state; local option approved and the importation into any such state of dquor under the interstate-commerce law is condemned. A platform similar to the above will probably be approved by the national gathering at St. Louis. Col. E. H. Sellers, chief promoter of the new party, says delegates will be present at St. Louis from twenty-eight States. THE FULTON RIOT. Rock Inlander# and Tlielr Friend# Were In Contempt of Court. FULTON, 111., Aug. 14.—N0 record of Judge Gest’s decision issuing the injunction against th§ removal of Head Clerk Hawes, of the Modern Woodmen of America, from Fulton has been tiled at Morrison, where the injunction was granted. Therefore, the injunction is still in force. The Fultonites, it is claimed, were Justiiied in repelling the Rock Island Woodmen invaders last night, and the Rock Islanders and friends who assisted are in contempt of court. Head Attorney Johnson, of the Modern Woodmen of America, charged with inciting to riot, has been released on bond of $5oO. What the Governor Nay#. SPRINGFIELD, Hi., Aug. 14,-Govornor Tanner received many dispatches during the day about the Woodmen trouble. A call for troops was made by Hon. T. J. Medill, mayor of Rock Island. The Governor has given out th*o following statement concerning the affair: "The messages received have led me to believe that Rock Island people or the Woodmen pursued an unwise course in chartering the train and loading it with 500 Rock Island citizens and proceeding to Fulton with so much gusto and show. Such a course was calculated to create riot, if the court’s decree that the records and books of th*e Modern Woodmen belong in and shall be removed to Rook Island, the whole power of the State is behind the courts to enforce their decree. But in order to procure that powVr they must proceed in an orderly, lawful and peaceful manner. 1 am pleased to-day to see that all is peaceful and quiet and mat the outcome has justified the wisdom of my action in refusing troops." Presidentt Spend# a Quiet Duy. BLUFF POINT, N. Y., Aug. 14.—Having r.o traveling engagements, President McKinley spent the day quietly at Hotel Champlain. Trooi> were reviewed by Secretary of War Alger and Vice President Hobart, the President looking on from his own balcony. Secretary of the Interior Bliss and Postmaster General Gary were the day’s accessions. In company with the officials here and their wives, they dined with President and Mrs. McKinley, the party not breaking up until late. At 7 o’clock Mrs. McKinley received the wives of the officer# of the Twenty-drst Regiment.

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MINISTER TO RUSSIA NATHAN A. HITCHCOCK TO SUCCEED CLIFTON it. BRECKINRIDGE. . Well-Known St. Lon In Man ofnotnrer, Who In Snid to Ben War in IVruonal Friend of President McKinley. DISPUTE OVER THE TARIFF - IMPORTANT Oi ESTION INVOLVED IN CONSTRICTION OF SEC. 22. * Change of the Word "Imported" to "Came From" May Result in Levying a Discriminating Duty. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—J. A. Porter, secretary to President McKinley, has sent the following dispatch from Hotel Champlain, N. Y., to the Associated Press: “Nathan A. Hitchcock, of St. Louis, ha been offered and has accepted the ministership to Russia, and will be appointed iimmediately.” The appointment of Mr. Hitchcock created no surprise here, for among Missourians the selection had been for some time regarded as a foregone conclusion. He succeeds Clifton R. Breckinridge, of Arkansas, w ho had been a representative in Congress ivhen he was sent to the St. Petersburg post. Mr. Hitchcock Is a warm personal friend of President McKinley, and is said not to have been a candidate. Asa manufacturer he is well known in business circle's throughout the country. He has had occasion to come to Washington frequently in connection with tariff matters. On one of the earlier of thes6 visits he is said to have first met Mr. McKinley, then a member of Congress, und the acquaintance then formed has since developed into the closest friendship. A dispatch from St. Louis says: Hon. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, a prominent citizen of St. Louis, w hom President McKinley recently appointed embassador to Russia, lias accepted the position. A telegram to this effect was received to-night by Mr. George Hitchcock from his father, who is spending his vacation at Monadnock, N. H. Mr. Hitchcock said to-night that he did not know exactly w’hat his father’s plans were, but that he did not think he would return to bt. Louis before the middle of September. He would then probably make arrangements to go to the Russian capital and assume the emba^sadorship. Ethan Allen Hitchcock is a great-grand-son of Col. Ethan Allen, who captured Fort Ticonderoga “in the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress.” His grandfather married the second daughter of Ethan Allen and took a prominent part In the early history of Vermont, and was made United States circuit judge for the Second circuit by President John Adams. Mr. Hitchcock's father, Henry Hitchcock, w r as born in Burlington, Vt.. troni which place he went to Alabama to practice law, in which he was eminently successful, being at the time of his death, in 1889, the chief justice of the Supremo Court of that State. Ethan Allen Hitchcock was born in Mobile, September, 1835, where he remained until ls4o, when lie moved with his family to Tennessee. After taking an academic course in New Haven Conn., he went to St. Louis in 1851, and engaged in business up to IMK), when, at the urgent request of relatives in China, he left-lor that country to accept Employment in the old-established firm of Oliphunt & Cos. .Mr. Hitchcock remained In China for twelve years. Returning to St. Louis in ls.i, he has since been actively engaged in business as president of several large manufacturing and railway corporations, w.'licit positions lie has resigned in order to accept this appointm’cnt abroad.

T A 111 FF-LAW 11E AItIN G. Ambiguous Phrase Lead# to Argo. ment# Before the Attorney General. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Attorney General McKenna to-day gave a hearing to part'es interested in the question involved in Section 22 of tho new tariff act. Some days ago the secretary of the treasury received infoi mation from the collector of customs at Chicago that a large invoice of teas and other goods from Japan had been received at that i>ort over a Canadian railroad and akKing whether the 10 per cent, discriminating duty, provided for in Section 22, applied to these goods. The question was at once referred to the attorney general for an opinion. At the request of the Boston ifc Maine Railroad Company, however, the attorney general decided to give a hearing to-day to persons interested. Former Secretary Carlisle appeared for th Boston & Maine Railroad, and former Assistant Secretary Hamlin represented tha Associated Board of Trade and the Merchants’ Association of Boston. Mr. Hamlin was the first speaker. Th* question, ho said, was whether good# shipped from China or Japan to points in the United States through Canada were importations from Can#la within the meaning of the statute. In the case of a transaction, for instance, said he, of the sale of goods in China to a merchant ia Boston, there was no intermediary. The transit of the goods, though they might come in through Canada, was never interrupted. The goods, lie insisted, could not fairly be said to be exportations from Canada. Mr. Hamlin cited a great many rulings, both of the Treasury Department and tho Department of Justice, in support of his contention. In the case of goods going through United States territory in bond from a point in Canada to another point in Canada the solicitor of the treasury, in an exhaustive ruling, had decided that such entry of goods did not constitute an Importation within the meaning of the statute. lie contended, thurefore, that, conversely, goods coming into the United States through Canada in transit from another country were not exportations from Canada. The decision of the above question, Mr. Hamlin said, hinged upon the construction to be placed upon these words of the statute; “Came into the United States from” contiguous countries. He submitted that the words did not apply to goods in transit. The Century Dictionary defined “from" as "expressing departure” from a point. These goods took their departure from China or Japan, not from Canada. As well, said he, might it be contended that a man traveling from New York to Washington through Baltimore “departed" from Baltimore. The goods did not appear in the Canadian reports as exports from Canada, nor in our reports as imports from Canada. He cited as an analogous statute the law requiring the deportation of Chinamen to the country from whence they earns. In construing that stutute the attorney general had decided ill-- words “from whence he emui" meant his ultimate country of departure (China) unless the Chinaman had been naturalized by tin* Dominion government. It would be strange. Indeed, said Mr. Hamlin.if the country through which he came should tie considered the country from w hence tie came. And so with goods In bond. It wa# their place of shipment, not a point cit route, which must he considered. He spoke