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Mr. Bynum Talks of tho New Tariff Bill And Its Probable Effect on the Country. Recalls a Like Period in England's History. UNREST ANDTHEN ACTIVITY Conscientious Labor by tho Vaysand Means Committee. Reductions Which ATfect Industries in Indiana. Estimated Decrsa in Revenues $33,000,000. Chairman Wilson lonm it Lengthy Statement Concerning the Illll, and While Realising; the Great HeapouIblltty of the Committee, lie Declares That the Member Labored KnrnMllr and Faithfully to Prepare a Measure Which Would Meet the Culm, Deliberate Judgment of the Coantr Its Features. BUREAU OF THE SENTINEL, WASHINGTON. D. C. Nov. 27. The Mays and mean committee fulfilled its promises this morninj and brought before the public a draft of the new tariff measure. It has been prepared after weeks of labor as noted in this correspondence, and of the incisure. Mr. Bynum, one of the most prominent members of the committee, has this to say to The Sentinel correspondent: "The tariff bill proposed by the democratic members of the committee on ways and means will, I t.Mnk. receive the approval of the frlen.Js cf tariff reform throughout the country. A trenuous effort was made to influence the members In favor of some special interests, but a careful anal .sis of the measure will disclose the fact that selfish influences did not operate to control the minds of the membirs of the committee. There may. and no doubt will be, eome disappointments and some criticisms, but these will be short-lived. The democratic party Is earnestly ard honestly In favor of revenue reform and will, in my Judgment, come up enthusiastically and solidly to the support of that principle. I have every confidence that the bill will become a law without any rail?al change and that Its results will meet the expectations of its most san-'-Iro supporters. Illatory Itepeata Itaelf. "Our condition at present is similar to that of Great Urltain. After a long period of excesöve protection, in 1S41, Sir Robert Peel took oluce at the head of one of the most powerful majorities pledged to the maintenance of protection for the agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and colonial interests, and yet within f'.vj years und?r a ministry placed in power to uphold protection and a parliament chosen to maintain the system the corn laws were repealed and fr?e trade practically accomplished. "What lnfluenc operated to bring about such a remarkable change? Nothing but a practical demonstration, such as we are now experiencing', of the fatal results of the restrictive poli'-y of protection, which had been pursued for so many years. The commerce of the country had been pira'yzed. manufactories closed, labor turned out of employment and a qrowlng d?flci?ncy in the revenues of the government threatened the public credit. In describing the condition of affairs when the Peel minstry assumed power. Noble says: "Every Interest In the country was alike depressed. In the manufacturing districts mills and workshops were all closed and property depressed in value; In the seaports shipping was laid up useless la the harbor, agricultural laborers eking out a miserable existence upon tarvatlon wages and parochial relief; the revnue was Insufficient to meet the national expenditures; the country was brought to the very verge of national and universal bankruptcy.' "It was the experience of the time that drove the ministry and parliament to the adoption of some measure of reform which, when once inaugurated, proved so beneficial that the great cause of reform could not be checked, but triumphed over all opposition. And tt will be so with us. With four years under the Influence and operation of the propsed measure McKInleylsm will not command a respectful hearing even in the republican national convention." Aa Affecting; Indiana Indnatriee. Your correspondent also obtained from Mr. Bynum the following figures, which are important to the Industries of Indiana: Earthenware and pottery schedule Encaustic tile reduced from 43 to 23 per cent.; decorated, from 45 to 40 per cent. Common brown earthenware, from 25 to 20 per cent. Plain white granite ware, from 55 to 30 per cent. Plain china from 53 to 40. Decorated china from 60 to 45. Glass, large size plate glass, 23 per rent. to IS cents per square foot and EO to 30 per square ffot. The present rates upon an ad valorem basis are 71 and 138 per cent., while the proposed rates would be 33 and 73 per centum. Window glass !s reduced from 1. I7. 2 and Zy cents per pound to 14. 1 a-nd Wt cents per pound, the present ad valorem being 49, 100, 116, 120 and 115 per centum, while the proposed rates will give 23, 53, 56, 57 and 65 per centum. Iron Pig Iron is reduced from 1572 per ton to 22',i per centum, about $250 per ton. Kteel ingots and slabs, from an average ad valorem of 38 to 23 per centum. Bar Iron from 53 to 30 per centum ad valorem. Steel rail from about 0 to 25 per centum, or a reduction from 113 to $6.50 per ton. Wire rods from 33 to 30 per centum. Sheet steel and saw plates from 42 to 33 per centum. Oalvanized from 38 to 33 per centum. Black plates from 1 to 33 per centum. Tin plates from 73 to 49 per centum.

Table cutlery from an average of 77 to 33 per centum. Pocket cutlery from an

i average of 90 to 43 per centum. Wood pulp from about 13 to 10 per centum. The Woolen Schedule. Woolen schedule The largest reductions occur In the woolen schedule by reason of the raw material having 1 been placed in the free l'st. Blanket are reduced from 87 and 104 to 2', 30 and 35 per centum. Woolen cloth from 97, 141 and 161 to 40 per centum. Ladies dress roods from an average of ÖS to 40 per centum. Clothing from $2 to 43 per centum. Carpets, autmsson from r9 to 35 per centum; saxony, melton and tourney from 6 to 30 per centum; brussela from SO to 30 i-r centum; tapestry 76 to 25 per centum, and ingrain 64 to 43 per centum. The reductions in the cotton seed'tH are In the fame proportion as that In the woolen allowing for free wool. Few items in the McKinley Uli escape reduction. Internal Revenue Fart Xot Heady. The internal revenue portion of the bill has not been prepared. . The committee will probably be able to submit to congress when it meets a bill raisin.; sufficient revenue to compensate for the reduction made in the Wilson Mil. The estimated loss of revenuo by reason of the reductions In the bill reported will be about SiA.OOfl.ooo. Some of the rates in the old bill are specific, and the ad valorem rates Riven instead of the specific are taken from the table of last year's importations. CH.tIIt.MAK MIL,SO.'S STATEJ1UXT. Faithful Effort to Lighten the Hürden of the Plnln People. Chairman Wilson has issued the following statement in regard to the bill: "The democratic members of the committee on ways and means have felt, as many others could foci, the momentous responsibility resting upon them, and the magnitude, difficulty and delicacy of the duty assigned to them of framing a tariff bill for a nation of 70,Ooo.000 of people. The bill they were called upon to reform is a vast and labyrinthian system of class taxation, the culmination of thirty years' control of the taxing power by a few great interests gathering into their, train a host of ictty toll gathering. It was carefully framed to prevent as long as possible what Its author called "uny monkeying with the tariff,' by which he meant any successful effort of the people to undu, or to lessen the bounties which Its beneficiaries were permitted to write therein in their own words, of their own figures. It transferred to the free list articles of proper and fruitful revenue, where most of the taxes paid by the people were received by their government and greatly increased the rates of those articles where all or most of the tax paid by the people went into private coffers, and it was bolstered up by many defences. Such were the conditions that confronted us at the threshhold of our work. The committee have welcomed information and counsel from every trustworthy source, and while they do Tiot expect their bill to escape just criticism in all its details, they do present It to the country as the result of months of patient, anxious toil, and of an honest desire to discharge their duty, purged of all taint of local and personal favoritism or prejudice. "Its main features are two: (1) The adoption, wherever it seemed practicable, of ad valorem instead of specific duties. (2) The freeing from taxes of those great materials of industry that He at the basis of-production. Specific rates of duty are objectionable for these reasonsi. They frequently conceal a rate of taxation too enormous to be submitted to, if exposed In. ad valorem terms, as the duty of 8 cents a hundred pounds on salt in bulk, which amounts to over 8 per cent, on a common necessary of life. They always bear heavily on the common article used by the masses and lightly on the expensive article consumed by the rich, as a tax of $30 on all houses would be little or nothing on the great mansion and very high on the humble home. And contrary to common lelief. specific duties lead to greater frauds in administration, for counting and weighing at the custom house are done bv the cheapest and most easily I corrupted labor, while ad valorem rates ! are assessed by the best paid and most ; responsible appraisers. The ad valorem i system has worked well in practice, it is essentially the fair system, because it is a tax upon the actual value of an : article and was declared by Mr. Clay himself to be in theory and according 1 to every sound principle of Justice, entitled to the preference and vindicated by long trial. I.;irge Free I.I t. "The boldest Innovation of the bill is Its large free list of the raw materials. Taxes upon production are double wrongs. They gather and accumulate on the consumers Of tho finished product. They hurt labor by narrowing the market for what it produces. Coal and iron are the foundations of modern industry. "Material progress is measured by the amount of their consumption. No other country can supply them as abundantly or cheaply as we. can. No possible competition can Interfere with our own producers a few miles in the interior of the I country. Remoteness from the sources cf supply is in itself enough disadvantageous to any section of the country'. Without further burdens In tariff taxes, untaxed ores, coal, lumber, wool and other things must immensely stimulate production In certain parts of our country. The thin edge of American manufactures has entered every country. With releases from taxes on their materials there is no limit to the growth of our foreign trade. This will more than compensate the home producers of raw material, who, tariff or no tariff, control all the Interior of the country' from any apprehended loss of markets anywhere along the seaboard. Its incalculable advantage to labor is apparent. In every great line of manufactures, we can produce In six months to i nine months enough for our home mar- : ket. We can get rid of our surplus only j by foreign trade. As long as we have ! taxes on the materials of industry, we ! can not build up that trade, hence the I other alternative is to keep down proI duction to the home market. "The worklngman can see whether his interests Is with a system that represses production and robs htm of employment, or with a system that gives natural and healthy play to production and emancipates him from trusts and like combinations of capital. Some Detnila. "As to details of the bill, I will briefly recapitulate the salient changes of the several schedules. In the dhcmlstry schedule we have transferred to the free list quite a number of artlcls used in manuiaciurng. me most important of which Is sulphuric acid, one of the commodi ties of all chemical industry. j i ne auiy on cusiur on is reduced from 83 to 35 cents per gallon. And tho

J fluty on linseed oil, which was revised to i 35 cents by the conference committee ot

the McKinley bill. after each house had openly voted for a lower duty, we put at 13 cents a gallon. Pig lead Li reduced from 2 cents to 1 cent. Lead paints are conspicuously reduced. The McKinley bill increased the duty on opium prepared for smoking to $12 a pound in the vain hope of lessening its importation. The custom house oillcers on the Pacific coast declare that this increase of duty has simply placed It in the hand of smugglers, to the demoralization of the custom service and the loss of over a half a million revenue. The duty proposed Is believed to be collectible, and will put the traffic under government control and supervision. In the pottery schedule reductions are made. Plain white ware is decreased from the high schedule in which it mysteriously crowned Itself. Decorated ware Is reduced from 60 to 43 per cent., undecorated from 53 to 43 per cent. "In common window-glass, where close combinations have kept up the prices to consumers under the scale of duties averaging a hundred per cent., a reduction of more than one-half has been made In 11 the larger sizes. There is no doubt that these rates will permit a very healthy growth of the Industry here. In plate glass reductions are made, the largest size from 50 cents to 'M cents per square foot; on silvered, from CO cents to 33 cents. Iron und Steel. "In the iron and steel schedule we begin with free ore. The discovery of the immense deposits of bessemer ores in the lake regions and the foundry ores In Alabama has rapidly swept us to the leadership of the world in the production of iron and steel, and brought near at hand an undisputed supremacy in the great field of manufactures. The use of sUam-shovels reduces the cost of mining to a point where the wages paid 'natural labor are Irrelevant. Pig iron we reduce from $6.72 per ton, which Is from 50 to 1)0 per cent., to a uniform duty of 22H per cent., a rate somewhat higher In proportion than the rest of the schedule, because of cheap freight rates on foreign pig, it being a favorite freight on westward voyages. Steel rails we reduce from $13.44 per ton now 75 per cent., to 25 per cent. As the pool which has kept up prices so many years in this country seems now disorganized, the other producers will soon need protection, more against Mr. Carnegie at Pittsburg and Mr. Sterling at Chicago, than against foreign producers. "The residue of the schedule varies from 23 to 30 per cent. IVams and girders are 33 per cent. because of the waste of cutting beams, and the variety of lengths and also of the frequent necessity of changing the rolls in making beams and girders, because of the irregular quantities and lengths and sizes of orders. "Tin-plates are reduced to 40 per cent., a little more than one-half of the McKinley rate. This is a revenue duty, and at the same time enough to permit any existing mills to live and flourish. Cheaper grades of pocket cutlery are 33 per cent., higher grades 43. Table cutlery is put at 33 i-r cent. There are very substantial reductions from present rates which, being siecific, reach, in j.m grades of pocket cutlery as high as r0 per cent., but with release of taxes on raw materials, especially on pearl and ivory for handle.-, seem3 ample. Copper, MeUel nnd Lend. "Both copper and pig iron are made free, we being large exporters of the latter and the duty fining only to enable the producer to sell higher to our people than to foreigners. Nickel is free. Pig lead, 1 cent a pound. Lead ores are restored to the free list. "Unmanufactured lumber is free; manufactured is put at 23 per cent., with the proviso that in any export duties or charges on foreign lumber It shall be admitted only at the rates now existing. "Sugar has been a difficult subject to deal with. Raw sugar was transferred to the free list by the McKinley bill because nearly all the taxes paid on it went to the public treasury. A Btrong desire amongst members of the committee wad to put an ad valorem duty of 20 or 23 per cent, on It and to abolish the bounty at once. After much consideration it was decided to reduce to one-half the duty on refined sugars and to repeal the bounty one-eighth each year, leaving raw sugar untaxed at present. "In the tobacco schedule those rates were sought which would bring most revenue. The present taxes of $2.75 per pound on wrapper leaf have blotted many smaller establishments and actually impaired revenues. We make the rates $1 and $1.75 per pound on wrapper leaf and 33 cents and 50 cents per pound on filler tobacco unstemmed and stemmed in each. Cigars are reduced from $4.50 per pound and 23 per cent, ad valorem to $3 per pound and 25 per cent. It Is believed to be the most productive revenue rate and is higher than the law of 1803. HreadatntYs. "Live animals are put at 20 per cent. Barley is reduced from 30 cents per bushel to 20 per cent., which is about 12 cents. Breadstuffs, of which we are immense exporters, are made free, except when Imported from countries putting duties on our like products, In which case it is 20 per cent. Vegetables, fruit, eggs and like food products are untaxed for the benefit of our own consumers, largely the working people of the cities. Salt In bulk Is free; in packages the salt is free, but the covering dutiable at rates prescribed for like articles. "The tari.T on spirits is put at double the internal revenue rates on like spirits, and some slight reduction is made on still wines, malt liquors, ginger ale and like beverages in the interest of increased revenue. The duty on sparkling wines is likewise lightly reduced for the same reason as that on champagne, being at $7 per dozen quarts, as against $S In the McKinley bill and $3 In the law of 1SS3. "Hemp and flax are made free; dressed line of hemp and flax, 1 cent and l'x cent, respectively. Burlaps and cotton and grain bagging are put at 15 per cent., but when Imported for covering of articles to be exported are duty free. Wool Made Free. , "Wool is made free. This takes the stilt from under woolen manufactures and begets the hope that they may recover from the languishing condition In which they have been for a quarter of a century and that we may get woolen goods at reasonable rates instead of at duties that on the common grades frequently reach 100 per cent., and In cases two or three times that merciless figure. "Cloths and dry goods are put at 40 per cent. Clothing at 45 per cent.; rates higher than the committee desired but deemed temporarily necessary because our manufacturers have so long been excluded from two-thirds of the wool of the world that they will have to acquire the art of manufacturing with free wool. A sliding scale is therefore added by which the rates in the woolen schedule are to come down five points with the lapse of five years. Carpets, an Industry in which we will soon be independent of competition, are put at 33 per cent. for Axmlnsters, moquette and Wilton; 30 per cent, for Brussels, while common grades 50 down to 20 per cent. The bill provides that the duty shall be removed from wool on March 1 and re

duced on woolen goods July 1. Tn the silk schedule the reduction of rates Is smaller' than in cotton or woolen fabrics. Sole leather Is reduced from 10 to 5 per cent; leather gloves are classified according to material and length, and are uniformly rated at specific duties, which average not over 23 per cent, on the cemmon varieties and near 40 per cent, on th fine lamb and kid gloves. In the schedule of sundries, many articles like hatters' plush are put on the free list. The duty on cut diamonds, pearls and other precious stones is increased. Effect on the Itevenne. "Works of art are, I am delighted to say, put back on the free list. The above is a rapid summary of the chief

changes made by th proposed bill and will give a satisfactory Idea I believe of Its general structure. It Is estimated that it will reduce revenues on the basis of the importations of 1S92 about $50,000.000. Something more on the basis of 1832 with an immensely larger decrease of of tax burdens to the American people. The administrative law is repealed with a few amendments suggested by experience of Its operation. That law was chlfcfly prepared by Mr. Hewitt when he was in congress and the changes proposed In our bill are to make it more effective while at the same time softening some of the features added by the McKinley bill that would treat tho business of importing as outlawry, not entitled to the protection of the government." THE DELAY WILL BE SHORT, SEXATOR VOOnilERH TALKS COXCF.HMXCi TUB TAH IFF HILL. He Doe Xot Relieve Obstructive Meaaurea AVOl He Resorted To, AltlmnRh the Hill Will l'HM by a Strict Party Vote What He Una to Say Concerning the Federal Flection Illll. Senator Voorhees passed through the city Wednesday afternoon on his war to Washington. He did not stop off, as had been expected, and as a consequence many persons who were anxious to see him while he was in the West were disappointed. A goodly number were, however, apprised of the fact of his coming and were at the station awaiting his arrival. Governor Cray was among the number, and he and Mr. Voorhees spent a few moments in earnest conversation. Governor Gray was compelled to oe absent from the city on the day of the meeting In this city of the democratic state central committee when Senator Voorhees was here and Wednesday's meeting was the first between the two old friends since Governor Gray became Minister Gray. A. E. Manning, the colored democrat of this city, who wants to be appointed minister to Liberia to till the vacancy occasioned by the death of Minister McCoy, was present. He wanted to enlist Senator Voorhees's aid in his cause, and probably succeeded, as he canw away In the best of humor. Edward Hawkins was also there. His business related to some matters connected with the Indianapolis national bank. The train was pulling out before The Sentinel man, who happened to be on board, had an opportunity to speak to Mr. Voorhees on the subject of the work before congress. "The tariff bill will be the first consideration," said Mr. Voorhees. "It will probably take a few days to prepare the minority report, and of course this will be allowed, but I anticipate that the house will not retain the bill later than the holidays. Possibly it may not reach the senate before early in January, but I look for it by that time at the latest. The senate, I think, will have passed it by the latter part of January so that it can go to the president early in February." "You do not then look for any attempt to obstruct the passage of the bill such as was experienced with the repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act?" "No. There will be some delay, of course, but only in debate. It la true that the bill will pass on a strictly party vote, but there will be no attempt on the part of the majority to shut off debate. Then there will be many amendments offered which will have to be considered. I think the bill will not be changed materially, but everything will have to be gone over in detail, and that takes time." "Will the leadership in the senate debate on the bill fall to you?" "I think not. Senator McPherson is generally considered to bo the best Informed member"' on the subject, having been the democratic c omber of the subcommittee which had the tariff under consideration when the McKinley bill was before the senate." "What will the senate do while this bill is in the house?" "It will find plenty to do. I expect that the first thing will be to pass the federal election bill which was passed by the house during the extra session." RESCUED AT LAST. Capt. Randall. Wife nnd Son nnd Ten Men Saved. FIRE ISLAND, Nov. 29. Capt. Randall, with his wife and little son, and the ten men of the crew, who for upward of twenty-four hours were lashed to the spray-drenched rigging of the wrecked schooner Louise H. Randali oft Smith's Point, were rescued at daylight today by the tug I. J. Merritts In spite of the exposure and numbing weather to which they have been subjected since the schooner went on the beach Monday night, all are alive and will recover when proper care can be given them. A Xovel and Simple Fire Protector. Fire and Water states that one of the cheapest, simplest and most efficient devices for the protection of shingle roofs from fire is being introduced in some cities. It consists of nothing more than a water pipe running along the rldgeboard of the roof and connected with the water service of the building. The roof pipe is perforated at short Intervals, so that at a moment's notice the roof can be flooded and rendered impervious to sparks and blazing fragments blown from burning buildings- in the neighbor hood. The device is at once so simple and effective that one wonders why its introduction was not coeval with that of water mains and hydrants. A Clear Headed Younic Man." Mamma "Johnnie, why don't you try and have as nice table manners as Harry Jones?" - Johnnie "Well, because I'm at home and he's a-visltlng."

FAVOR AN INCOME TAX.

DEMOCRATS OF TUB WAY S AXD MEAXS CO MM ITT KB DECIDED. The Only Question of Difference I Concerning the Details Secretary Carlisle Cilves the Committee Soma Facts The Internal Revenue Schedule. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29. The democratic members of the ways and means committee met this afternoon to consider the internal revenue and Income tax schedules of the new tariff bill.. A full meeting of the committee has been called for Friday and it was the hope of the democratic members that the Internal revenue schedule might be completed by that time. This does not appear probable now, however, as there Is considerable difference of opinion among the members on some important details and further data from official sources may 1m? necessary before a final conclusion Is reached. v The Income tax question was the principal theme of discussion today, and it was definitely concluded that such a plan should be reported, but there was much diversity of opinion as to its scope. Messrs. Ryan. McMillin, Whiting and others favored a plan providing for a gradual tax on all. Incomes in excess of $3,000 per annum, but other members of the committee urged that the plan adopted should only apply to wealthy corporations and companies holding exclusive franchises and that individuals should not be included In its provisions. It is therefore on these questions of detail only that any doubt now remains. An income tax plan is to be reported and it will Impose a tax on the incomes of corporations, of companies holding valuable and exclusive franchises, legacies. Inheritances and successions of all kind and possibly on all incomes accruing to foreigners and non-residents. A provision may be drawn to Include English and other foreign capitalists who own land in Texas, Illinois and other western states. In like manner it will be diligently sought to reach those incomes wiiich foreigners are deriving from American mines and other industries which have become the special objects of syndicate aggrandizement. During the course of the meeting Secretary' Carlisle of the treasury arrived to participate in the conference on the Internal revenue schedules, and he gave a brief history of the Income tax system In vogue during the war and after the close of the war. IIo did not seem opposed to a system which confined its operations to a tax on corporations, successions, etc., and, indeed, the wholo democratic membership of the committee now seems favorable to this plan, the only difference of opinion be ir.-.yi taxation of individual incomes. The democrats met again tonight at the residence of Secretary Carlisle and resumed the discussion of the various plans for an income tax. and It was thought probable the internal revenue schedules might bo completed by the next meeting of the committee. FATAL FIRE AT OIL CITY. MRS. SHIELDS AMI 1IBR THREE CHILDHEX CREMATED. With Her Habe in Her Arm It I ThouRht She Tried to Rescne Ilse Others nnd All Were Loa t The Loan Small Other Fires. OIL CITY, Ta,, Nov. 28. Ono of the most destructive fires that has visited Oil City for many years started this morning in Hugh Shields's restaurant building. The whole block between Center and" Sycamore, Elm and Railroad, was soon reduced to ruins. The horrible and deplorable feature of the fire is the loss of human life, and shortly after the flames had been got under control by the firemen it was reported that Mrs. Shields and three of her children had perished in the flames. Mrs. Shields was seen on the sidewalk with her babe in her arms shortly after the alarm was sounded. It is supposed she missed the other children and rushed back in the building to find them and was overcome by the dense smoke. Up to 10 o'clock tonight the bodies of Mrs. Shields and her three children had not been recovered. Scores of men have been at work all day searching for the bodies of the missing ones, but the heat was so Intense that It is feared they have been completely incinerated. Those who lost their lives were: Mrs. HUGH SHIELDS, aged thirtysix. FANNIE SHIELDS, aged fourteen years. CHARLES SHIELDS, aged five years. MYRTLE SHIELDS, aged nine months. The losses will foot up over $90,0i0, with insurance of $47,500. The origin of the fire is unknown. Forty minutes from the discovery of the fire the block was a mass of glowing ruins. DISARMS A CRAXK. Letter of One of (he Genua to a Secret Service Olllcer. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 29. A crank, armed with a 38-caliber revolver and with murder in his soul, appeared at the federal building this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock, and but for the note of warning which he himself wrote, would have killed Secret Service Operator John F. McCollough. The crank, who lives . In a distant part of the state, wrote a letter in which he said: "I am coming to you. I will be .t your office on the 29th or 30th to kill you." Mr. McCullough sat in his office prepared to receive the unwelcome visitor and at 1:30 o'clock the door slowly opened and the crank appeared. Mr. McCullough did not move, but said: "Come in and make yourself at home." The crank, taken by surprise, walked in. McCullough leaped up, seized him, took a 38-caliber revolver from the fellow's trouser's pockets and shoved him into a chair. McCullough then said: "Why do you want to kill me?" "I do not want to kill you, but they tell me to kill you. Prendergast did not want to kill Carter Harrison, but some one told him to kill the mayor." The crank, whose name is Nathan Whltworth' of Byrnesvllle, Mo., was arrested, but was afterward placed on a trwLn ticketed for home.

TUB LOUHV 1Y C'OXXBCTICCT.

A Hody That Make Money by "Tying ' t p' Legislation. HARTFORD. Conn., Nov. 17. The expenditure of $33.000 in lobbying the Hartford bridge- bill through the legislature, in June, Is still exciting wide Interest in this state. The Glastonbury town committee, which was appointed to investigate the scandal, so far as that town was concerned, is at work on the case and will bring in a report severely criticising the entire transaction. It is expected that a suit will be instituted by the town against P. H. Goodrich, w ho was a member of the bridge board from Glastonbury, to recover the amount that was spent for the town in the lobby. The most important result of the agitation thus far lias been the disclosure of the lobby Influences and control in the legislature. Facts are constantly coming to light, shmvlng the greed and unscrupulous character of the "third house" in the Connecticut legislature. Men of prominence in the state can N cited as authority for the statement that no man can be elected speaker of the house who has not consented to make hjs committer appointments in keeping with the wishes of the lobby. The committeeships, it Is alleged, are distributed so as to promote lobby schemes and Interests. It is specifically stated that the committee of the last bouse, which was charged with the report on the Hartford bridge bi, was selected weeks before the assembling of tho leirfslature, every one of the number being in favor with the lobby. Hut tha Hartford bridge was but one of scores of interests that came under the eye of the "third house." The Churter Oak park association, the Middletown bridge project, the Insurance legislation that came up, and the charter amendment of the Coe brass company of Waterbury were some of the interests that were beset by the lobby In the live months' session. President Charles F. Brooker of the Coe brass company was a member of the senate, and when the bill amending the charter of his comiany came up for action it was tabled on the motion of an associate senator. Mr. Brooker so the story goes went to the man after adjournment and demanded what was meant by tabling the bill. Said the senator in reply: "This is a pretty big thing, isn't It?" Senator Brooker replied with Ill-concealed ar.ger: "You will call that bill up in the senate tomorrow or I will do so and state my reasons for that course." It was Senator Krooker's course alone in dealing with his colleague that prevented his company from being levied on by the lobby. It is also alleged that when the Middletown bridge project was in the hands of the committee on incorporations word was sent to the managers that nothing would be done for them until they "camo up and settled." The project was for the erection of a public bridge across the Connecticut river at MIddletown. Its importance was vital, as affecting the citizens and business of Middlesex county. When the anti-pool legislation was at Its hight, the proposition was made to rescue Charter Oak park from the effects of the law. One of the members "of the house approached a leading member of the Trotting T'ark association and wanted to know what there was "in the park." He added, in explanation: "There are filty oi us Who will stand togethc-f."-The suggestion was rejected on the spot, and the park was included in the pro Isions of the anti-pool act. The bills relating to insurance interests in this city were expected to prove sources of revenue to the lobby. There were three companies in particular that were to be drained. These were the Aetna life, the Travelers', and the Hartford steam boiler Inspection and insurance company. The bills introduced in the interest of these companies wore tied up for two or three months between the two houses. The bills were not acted on in the end until every hope of getting something out of the companies on, account of their passage was abandoned. These instances might be multiplied by the dozen. But they show sufficiently the gauntlet that must be run by every measure In the general assembly that can be forced under lobbly control. There are trained manipulators in the state by the dozen, who may be found at the carltol every session, making a living by the barter and sale of legislative influence and votes. The $35,000 that was paid by th towns of Hartford. East Hartford, Glastonbury, Manchester and South Windsor can be traced, in part at least. Of the lobbyists who received insallments, sev eral hold prominent positions in state and national politics. Some are officeholders at the present moment. The agitation concerning this bridge expenditure will claruy the legislative atmosphere to a certain extent, and will place the lobbyists at a disadvantage temporarily. The evil will not be exterminated until a better class of citizens shall be elected as members of the legislature. N. Y. Times. HUE HLOOD IX HIS VEINS. Sntclde of AognMn. M. Serlbn, Deaceudant of Alfred the Grent. SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 2S. Strange developments have followed the fact that an old man known as Augustus M. Scriba committed suicide in ptr lodgings here Friday night by morphine. He was in needy circumstances and despondent. Among his effects was found a letter, in which the deceased declared he was a lineal descendant of Alfred the Great and Edmund Ironside of Charlemagne, and of Otto the Great of Malcolm Canemare and St. Margaret, but little attention was paid to the letter. Further investigation among Scriba's effects revealed a record lineage elegantly printed and bound, running over three hundred years and undoubtedly establishing the old man's claims. Other papers found prove Scriba to be well known In New York, where he has a son practicing law, and that he came here from Portland, Ore., where he was, in 1S02, vice-president of the National guarantee and trust company and connected with John R. Foster. It was further discovered that Scriba was examiner of national banks in New York in 1886. A letter from John Agnew to Abram S. Hewett, ex-mayor of New York, requested that Scriba be retained in the position on account of his efficiency. Jt is presumed that Scriba came from Portland to this city in search of employment. As he had always been a man of position he objected to taking a menial situation, rather prefering death. The two trunks and valices found in his room were carefully addressed to Mrs. Mary A. Garrigan, Montrose, On-the-Hudson, N. Y. He also requested that Mrs. Anna II. Piatt of 109 O-st.. N. W., Washington, D. C, be notified of his death. And the Iloateaa AVaa Snrprlaed. Two lady travelers in Maryland recently were spending the night in a little village, at the one hostelry of the place. The room allotted them was reasonably tidy, but there was a suspicious lack of freshness in the linen of the bed. 'One of the guests Inquired, "This bed hasn't been used since it was made up, has it?" The good landlady turned from trimming the candle with a lenient smile for such notional folks. "Why, only by our girls," Ehe answered, and was surprised to find that more sheets and rillows were required, even alter her explanation. Exchanre.

HE REFUSED TO RESIGN

AXD WAS SI MM AniLY DISMISSED DY TUB phbsim:xt. Cnwe of CItll Service Commissioner Johnaton, AYho Filed n. Minority Report Wlint He IIa to Say Concern. Injf lila 0 n Action. WASHINGTON. Nov. 2?. Regarding the removal of George IX' Johnson front ; the civil service commission it is state J by a well-known southern congressman that Mr. Johnson filed with the presid.nt a minority rcirt on. the operation of the commission during the lat year i and took siuh radical views upon the ! Important question, differing so widely I fnm those of the other memlers, that j Mr. Roosevelt stated frankly and posilively that either he cr Mr. Johnson must leave the commission, and thai after examining into the facts of the case the president decided that he coul I much letter spare Mr. Johnson than Mr. Roosevelt, and therefore asked the former for bis resign a tio.i. This, it Is said, Mr. Johnson devliiu-d to give, and w.'ls at once informed by Mr. Cleveland that either the resignation must b forthcoming or he would be dismissed. Mr. Johnson himself says: T could not approve the annual report submitted by my colleagues and felt In duty bound to state my views in a minority report. While this minority report had ho part In influencing th president In his decision that I should retire from the commission, for he nutd up his mind to this before he knew cf my purpose to rubmit the minority retort, it m;iy have precipitated his action, as I know that he objected to my making a report that was not In agreement with my colleagues. The public will Appreciate the principbs which guided me in my official conduct a commissioner when they see and rend my report which was sent to the president." WASHINGTON. D. C, Nov. 29John R. Procter of Kentucky has been appointed civil service commissioner in place of George D. Johnson, removed. Mr. Troctor Is a native of Kentucky and a resident of Frankfort. He has been prominent In democratic circles in that state for many years, and at the time of his appointment wa state, geologist, a position which he has held for ten years. SECRETARY LAMOST'S REI'OnT. Review of tho Condition nnd Opern tiona of the Ami). The following is a synopsis of th annual report of the secretary of war, It gives the usual review of the condb tion and operations of the army and In addition is devoted especially to the progress of the work on the seaeoast defenses. Secretary Lamont reports it may be assumed that Indian warfar-i is practically over in the United States, and that in consequence the gradual concentra tion of tho army on the seacoast and the frontiers is prescribed by the conditions of the ' time. Any considerable increase in the number! of the army wouldn't meet with popular favor, and it is not suggested by any contingency, immediate or remote; but the work of fortification at thirteen of our largest seaports already begun or projected for the near future renders the conversion ef a portion ol the infantry to the artillery and a manifest necessity of the icriod directly ahead of us. The total strength cf the army on Sept. Co, isy3. was 2.114 officers and 25.77S enlisted men. From various eause, discharge, purchase, desertion, etc., the army lost enlisted men during the year and gained 9,074 recruits. The seeretary of war recommends strongly the repeal of the law fixing ten years as the maximum period of enlLtment, and favors a reduction of the Ieri'l of enlistment to three years in stead of five. The adoption of magazine rifle Is the most Important step taken for the infantry since the civil war. A limited numler will be completed within sixty days at the Springfield armory and the entire infantry force will be equipped with the new gun before the close of the coming year. The invention a.id manufacture of American brown and smokeless iowdera for heavy ordinance and for the maga7.ine rifle have made slow progress and the secretary of war urges manufacturers to solve the problem for their own profit and our national pride. The report pas much attention to the education of officers and men of the army and the instruction of the militia and military schools, holding that th short duration of recent wars demonstrates the important part of the exact sciences in modern warfare, and that progress In the war department must be along the lines of a national university of military science as well as along those of coast defense. An lmTease in the number of cadets at the West Point miltiary academy to meet the demands of high character and more general military instruction is suggested for an early da' in the future. Growing interest in military Instruction at colleges and schools is re-orted. In 1S90. 17.3C5 students were reported under instruction by army officers at these institutions. In lf'2-3 the number was 10.970, a gain of 42 per cent. It is recommended that congress taice appropriate action for the relief of the sufferers in the accident at the old Ford's theater building. Expenditures for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, are as follows: Salarle and contingent expanses. $l.f".2..rSl; military establishments, $23.S77.S2S: public works including river and harbor improvements. $20,51S,632; miscellaneous objects, $G,077,033. Total. $.'1,9G6,074. Appropriations for fiscal year ending June 3. 1S94, were as follows: Salaries and contingent expenses. $2.04.".19G; military establishments, 524,53,91 : publio works including river and harbor Improvements, 117,201,165; miscellaneous objects. $4.213,1S3. Total, $48,023.523. Estimates for fiscal year ending June 30, 1S95: Salaries and contingent expenses, $1.697.016; military' establishments. $25,709.893: public works including river and harbor improvements, $21,403,307; miscellaneous objects, $3,97C,28L Total, $52,840.493. AXOTIIER POIXT FOR PARK11CRST, Seenrea be Indictment of a "Cfir York Police Captain. NEW YORK, Nov. 29. The grand jury completed its work for the November term to date, handing in, among other indictments, one against Police, Capt. William S. Devery of the Eldrldgest. station for malfeasance in office and criminal neglect of duty. The Indictment is founded upon charges preferred by the Rev. Dr. Charles 11. ParkhursL. The captain is charged with being aware of the character of certain houses In his precinct and falling to abolish thxin after being reauested to do so.