Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1887 — Page 7

NEWS OF THE WEEK

A rxbber boot trust has been formed. Next : . The journeymen barbers have organised a National Association. * Mrs. John Jacob Aator died at her home in New York, Monday. California wool gro were are opposed te reducing the tariff on wool. A Straight labor ticket will be rmn in the Boston municipal election. The VirginiaJHguse of delegates urges the repeal of the internal revenue system. - ■ The Texas law taxing commercial travelers has been declared unconstitutional. c The typhoid fever epidemic at Pittsburg is increasing. The disease is of a mild type. The Philadelphia authorities have begun a war of extirmination against bucket ships. Twsnty thousand through passengers arrived in California from the East during November. Sioux City, lowa, brewers have gone •ut of business on account of the recent Supreme Court decisions. Fire at Montgomery, Ala, Wednesday morning burned out three wholesale groceries and other smaller places. Seven men were killed by falling walls •f the Anderson flouring mills at Portsmouth, Ohio, which burned Wednesday. John 8. Barbour has been nominated by the Virginia Legislature to succeed Riddleberger, whose term as Senator expires March 4,1880. The city government of Atlanta is ntirely in the hands of the “wets,” and licenses will be issued in January. The wholesale tax is SI,BOO. A box containing enough nitro glycerine to kill a dozen men was sent through the mails to United States Marshal Jones at Topeka, Thursday. Samuel Spencer was Saturday elected President of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and his salary fixed at $25,000. The salary of ex-President Robert Garrat was $14,000. The wholesale boot and shoe house of Phelps, Dodge & Co., at Chicago, was totally destroyed by fire, Monday evening. The loss runs up into the hundreds of thousands. The railroad companies between Chicago and the Missouri river have agreed to a reduction of 25 per cent, in freight rates, which means a loss of $10,000,000 a year in net revenues. The Secretary of War has ordered the eviction of one thousand colored people from the Arlington estate. The time for the eviction is fixed by formal ordet for middle of February. A dynamite bomb,made out of a piece of gas pipe, was found on the steps of the Reformed Church, at Irvington, N. V., Thursday. The fuse attached to it had been ignited, but it had failed to explode. It is reporte that the Ku Kluk haved broken out in Smith county, Tenn. They whipped four men Monday night and thiee others Thursday night of last week. A regular war is anticipated between them and the citizens. A band of regulators went to the house of Williams brothers (colored), at Lake, Miss., to “regulate” them for misdemeanors. The negroes fired on the crowd, killing Ben Griffith and John McCrany (white) and escaped. Joseph Houser, a colored pension agent of Cairo. 111., was brutally pounded and kicked by a ino'i, at La Forge, Mo., Saturday, whither he had gone on pension business. The cause for the outrageous treatment is not known unless it can be ascribed to his color. The neighborhood of River, a small town in Tennessee, was Wednesday the scene of a triple lynching. Adam Oharies, Andy Miller and Wm. Smith were the victims. The cause was an assault on a ten-year old child, the daughter of Mr. M. Meyers. A Superior Court jury have settled a solemn and momentous question in Massachusetts. They decided that cigars are a medicine, and therefore their sale on the Sabbath is not unlawful. This settles a great many similar cases which are now pending. Wednesday, United States Marshal Byer, as receiver, seized the Mormon Church president’s office, ledgers, books, etc., at Salt Lake City, leaving some minor books, which he required James Jack, church custo* dian, to receipt for as receiver’s agent. The steamer Aleeia, which brought cholera patients to New York sometime ago' has landed 614 passengers at New Orleans from the same infected districts, and they have allowed to separate. Cholera has been introduced twice into this country through New Orleans. On motion of District Attorney Martine, the indictment for forgery against Wm. Kissane, found in November, 1854, was dismissed, Wednesday, by Recorder Smith. Kissane, who is now a wealthy citizen of Calliornia, known as W. K. Rogers, was charged in the indictment with forging a check on the Chemical Bank of New York. fornia,. is creating consternation and eonfoßion by a wholesale removal of Democratic officials. Some of tjre Democrats are holding on so that the State has a double Board of Health, double Board of Fish Commissioners, and is likely to have several other officers in duplicate. A dispatch sayc “The dar-

l ing novelty of his administration is likely to make him the next Governor;” Hen Hopkins, of Cincinnati, son of the assistant cashier of the Fidelity Bank,testified in the Harper trial Thursday that he was approached by friends of Harper, who offered him SIOO,OOO to give evidence in Harper’s favor or withhold his information. When this came out, Harper became wild and accused Hopkins of stealing money. A sensation was produced in court. 'At Kansas City, Mo., two hundred' and thirty leet of solid masonry, at no place less than twenty feet in width,and of a depth of fifty feet, has disappeared. It waß a portion of the outwall of the vast reservoir, atQuindaro, of the v at* r works of that city. The sinking of this vast pile of stone into the ground has revealed the fact that the wtiole reservoir has been built on quicksand. Rsv. Hugh O. Pentecost, pastor of Congregational Church, Newark, whose sermon of sympathy with the Chicago anarchists was so severely criticised, resigned Bunday, telling the congregation that his piety and Christianity are of a variety superior to that taught in churches. Mr. Pentecost will propably preach hereafter in a hall in New York Citv, the expenses being met by subscription. BThe Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Cojpmission has submitted to Governor Ogleßby their report upon the Chatsworth train wreck, stating that, in their opinion, “the train would not have been destroyed if the bridge had Dot been burned before the train reached it . ” They found no evidence to show that the burning was the work of an incendiary, but held that the railroad is censurable for neg ect in failing to inspect the Condition of the track and bridges in advance of the train. FOKISIGN. Two young people were drowned at Beieoil, Quebec, Friday by falling through the ice while skating; also, two in*a pond at Lake View, near Chicago, from the same cause. At the annual meeting of the Central Chamber of Agriculture in London, Wednesday, many provincial delegates were present. A motion favoring protection was passed by a vote of 2 to 1. The English Government has dishonored bills to the amount of $200,000 drawn by the late General Gordon during the siege of Khartoum, although the Cairo mixed tribunal has decided in favor of them. Tne holders of the bills have begun action against the private estate of General Gordon for payment.

LUCKY CHICAGO.

The Republic a Convention Will Meet in That City Juue 19,1888. The Republican National Committee met at Thursday. In a brief speech Hon. B. L. Jones stated the object of the meeting in the following words: Gentlemen of the committee:—As stated in the call, this meeting is for the purpose of selecting a time and place for holding the next Republican national convention; also, to consider sui h other matters as may properly be brought before it. As everything connected, however remotely, with the government of this great country is important, our action to-day may have far reaching result. We should, therefore, carefully consider such subjects as may be brought before us thaj we may decide wisely. We may congratulate ourselves on the improved prospects of Ae Republican party since the national committee met in this city four years ago. for the same purpose that we are now- assembled. At tnat time the majority against the Republican party In the North at the last preceediug general State elections counted up into the hundreds of thousands. The great States ot New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio had Bern cratic Governors, New York’s elected by nearly 'tiO.OOO plurality; which was reduced for the same candidate in the presidential election to less than 1,100. Though by accident the Democratic party have the presidency, and the prest ge of success, the signs of the times are auspicious for the eh ction of a Repuolican President in 1888. The momentum acquired by twenty-five years of the preva len- e ol Republican principles has not vet lost its force, and the material interests of tire country are still prosperous as the result of Republican legislation. Recent utterances, however, indicate a determination to end this prosperity by adverse legislation forced upon the eountry by an Administration hostile to Ameiqtan industry: andalßO indicate the necessity of a return to power in the national government of the Republican party, so ‘hat American industry, woolgrowing and sugar-raising, equally with ironmaking and textile production may have son ttnued prosperity, and the employes in these in-dm-tries constant employment and son tinned good wages, such as American workmen should receive. The committee at once proceeded to consider the claims of the various cities for the convention. Ex Senator Windom spoke for Minneapolis, Gen. T. B. Henderson for St. Louis, Senator Manderson for Omaha, Congressman Butterworth for Cincinnati, Col. W. C. Elam for Richmond, Va. On the third ballot Chicago was chosen, and June 19th fixed as the day.

Wool Growers’ Conference.

The wool growers and dealers, Tuesday, adopted a series of resolutions declaring unjust the present classification of wool by the railroads of the country, and directing that they be urgently requested to place wool in their new classification on a basis that would, at least, be equal to the present classification, as it classified as follows: Wool in sacks, in quantities less than 10,000 pounds, in car-loads, second class; in quantities greater than 10,000 pounds, in car-loads, third class. Wool compressed in bales, in quantities less than 20,000 pounds, in car-loads, third ciass; in quantities greater than 20.000 pounds-, in car-loads, fourth class. The conference passed a resolution declaring lhat. recent events have demonstrated the necessity for a central organization at Washington orelsewhere, and with that purpose in view, request all wool growers, and officers of wool growerq associations in the United States, to immediately send their addresses to Albert Champman, at Middleburg, Yt,

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

There ara seven banks fn Montgomery oounty. Oxford was visited by a SIO,OOO fire Friday night. • Greensbnrg has nine gas wells, none of which, however, are gushers. A new military company atCrawfordsville, has been mustered into the > tate •or /ice. Mrs. Josie Stapleton, of Liberty, has brought suit, against her husband for divorce, charging him with bigamy and desertion after two days married life. Che grand juA ot Adams county, which was in ses'tion three « eek», re turned fifty-six indictments, most of which are against saloon keepers an 1 gamblers. Extensive salt works are to be started at the natural gas wells in Boone township, Harrison county, where strong brine and riatiiraTgis are in abundant supply. Mrs. Josephine Kubler, of Conneraville, has sued Herman Jones for $lO.000 damages for alleged rape committed last July, and for which defendant was recently fined S4OO. A meeting of the students of Wabash College, held Friday evening last, elected 8. C. Spencer, of Monticello, to represent the college at the oratorical contest, to be held in Indianapolis, January 3. Some miscreant dropped uncorked bottles of paris green into the well of Ed Chrisman, at Chesterville, a little village five miles West of Aurora, and seven persons were dangerously poisoned. Friday Adam Stine, a -farmer living southeast of Goshen, aged forty-five, while operating a wood sawing machine, was cut half through the waist by the buzz saw flying off ite axle. No hope for nis recovery. James Black, of Windfall, was convicted at Marion, Tuesday, for stealing a pair of mules, and was given two years in the penitentiary. Black is a prominent citizen of Madison county, having been the Republican candidate for Sheriff two years ago. A bomb was found in a box containing holiday goods that was shipped from Chicago to A 1 Queally, of Logansport. It consisted of an iron pipe, five inches long, containing a fuse and some explosive matter. It created a great sensation. Capt. David L. Peacock, of Seymour, a helpless cripple, drew his pension money, a considerable sum, on Friday. In the evening, while walking through a lumber yard on his way up town, he was assaulted by two unknown men. knocked down, badly hurt, and had his last cent stolen. Madison has some tall citizens. Martin Anger stands a little over six feet four and one-fourth inches. Get rge Straub is six feet four and one-fourth inches high. Dr. J. H. Martin, 1. T. Dunlap, Proiessor Carnagey, Mr. Ross and Mr. Samuel Holmes all range from six feet one inch in up to six feet (four. The State Teachers’ Associaticm, of which Mrs. Emma Mont. of Lafayette, is president, will meet at Indianapolis the 28 h, 29th and 30th inst., and an attendanceof 600 is expected. The College Association, the high school section and the Indiana Institute instructors will also meet at the same time. At Lawrenceburg Joseph Sky and Mary Wadsworth were granted license to marry. The groom is a stalwart chief, who came from the Indian Nation, Thursday, to takeas his bride an Indian princess who bas been visiting the family of Indian Inspector Bannister, and who owns in her own name over 1,000 acres of valuable lands. Jesse Reno, Lewis B. Sparkes and* Vores Biakeman,-of Columbus, aged about sixteen, have fbeen sentenced to the House of Refuge until of age They, with several other young boys, formed a “chicken syndicate,” and during the last week stole nearly two hundred chickens, taking from three to a dozen from different persons. A j ury in the Superior Court at Fort Wayne awarded to Mrs. Margaret Mey era, widow and executrix of Policeman Ferdinand Myers, $7,000 damages against the Pennsylvania Company, operating the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne A Chicago Railway, for the death of her husband, who was ran over and killed in the Fort Wayne yards last April. John Roger?, a well-known farmer, living north of Fort Wayne, died a short time since, willing the bulk of hiß property, amounling to $7,000, to two Catholic orphan asylums—St. Vincent’s, of Fort Wayne, and the Immaculate Virgin, of New York City. His heirs, who arc poor, have succeeded in breaking the will, on the ground of undue influence and childishness, and the estate will be divided. On Sunday night Henry Fasset, junior member of the milling firm of Fasset & Sons, of Hillsboro, lost a pocket-book at or near the restaurant ofJßty & Crayton, which he claimed contained cash to the amount of $785. Failing to find it, a great sensation was created by the swearing out of a search warrant, and' causing the premises of Dr. W. R. Stout, SpromineEt Citizenand leading physician, to be thoroughly searched.. It is estimated tnat more than a quarter of a million dollare,*! New Albany capital has been daring the past year in nnformnate speculations in town lots in alleged booming Western cities, in wild-cat mines and banking ventures. One or tws of the

■> •» , • ■ •• - >r . -I. ; •• „ . , ■ - . 1 luckless capitalists have saved a portion of their investments from the wreck,and say that they will as soon as possible commence the erection of dwellings for renting purposes. The jury in the Pensterberg bond case at Vincennes rendered a verdict finding for the city in the sum of sll,057 77. Deußterberg was elected city treasurer in 1885. About a year ago a shortage was found in his accounts of $10,431.86 He was impeached, tried Sfor embezzlement of the city’s funds, and acquitted. The case was tried once before and the jury disagreed. The city offered, last week, to compromise with the bondsmen for fß,ooo,but they would not agree to it.. The judgment included interest on the money since the shortage '»as discovered. N --wk has just been received from English. Gray ford county, of more White Can depredations. An old German citizen named KAus. Thursday night, was taken from his home and unmercifully lashed, after which he was thrown into a creek and left to drown. The old man, in Mis almost helpless, state, succeeded in getting home, where he was properly cared for. He recognized several of the gang, and after their description had been given tne citizens, who had been apprised of what, had been done, organized a posse at once for the purpose of running down the villains, with a view of hanging them. The greatest consternation prevails in that section, and now, it is said, lawabiding citizens have openly avowed their intention of taking the l w in their own hands, come what will. The annual report of Harvey M. LaFollette, Stato Superintendent of Public Instruction, made to the Governor gives some interesting facts regarding the common school system of the Stats. It shows a total enumeration of 760.529 school children, an increase of 15,470 over last year, divided as follows: White males, 381,269; fema1e5,361,237; colored males, 8,897; females, 8,772. The financial exhibit is as follows: Amount held by counties, June 1, 1886, $3,081,444.59; received from county clerks for fines, $35,633 79; from justices for fines, $30,112.63; from other sources, $82,587.69. Total, $3,163,982.18, which, in addition to the $3,904,783 21 of non-negotiable bonds gives a total school fund of $7,068,765 37. The congressional townshi p fund amounts to $2,548,608 39, giving a grand total of $9,617,373 85, an increase of $98,486.12 over last year. The school revenue for the year was as follows: From State school tax, $1,443,176.65; from interest on common school fund, $125,325 89, State interest on non-ne-gotiable bonds, $234 286.28; unclaimed fees, $54,336 89 In the congressional fund the revenue from interest wsb $197,748 67; from local tuition tax, $975,451 89, and from liquor licenses $331,256 89, making the total revenue for the year, $3,460,613 01.

ANOTHER VILLAIN [PUNISHED.

Harper the Fidelity Bank Wrecker Sent up for Ten Tears—Tearful Conrt Scenes The j ury in the case of E. L. Harper, of Fidelity Bank wrecking fame, found the defendant guilty Monday, and the speculator was sentenced to ten years in the Ohio penitentiary. The Judge directed Harper t@ stand up. It was a most distressing scene. The strong man stood erect, with tears coursing down his ch ek3 r but no other sign, of emotion, save his blanched face. Behind his chair,with bowed head,sat his wife in’an agony that had no better manifestation than the wringing of her hands. T.-ars did not come to her relief. So they sat, while the Court with impressive solemnity recited the usual form of sentence, saying the evidence left no doubt of the defendant’s guilt, and that the offense meri ed the highest penalty of the law, which the Court would now impose—ten years in the Ohio penitentiary, and that the marshal convey him thither at once. _ ... „. . Still no outcry. Mr. Harper sat down, turning to his wife. Their lips met, her hands were around his neck, his arms encircled her. The silence in the court room w-as -awful. Jurors wept; women and men all over the court room were in tears. The silence was broken by Mr. Blackburn making a last request from the court. That was that the order of immediate imprisonment be suspended, and gave as a reason that there was much business to be attended to by Harper in which his wife was closely concerned, and that it would be exceedingly difficult to attend to it nnless Mr. Harper could remain for a few days. But the court was relentless. Judge Sage said there would be art’opportunity for his wife to see him in Columbus, and he repented the order to the marshal to convey him thither. An attempt was made, Saturday, to assassinate M. Jules Ferry bj a dissolute fellow named Auhertin. Two balls took effect on Ferry’s person, neither of which were serious. Auberin claims to belong to an organization pledged to take the lives of many of the prominent men of France. His mind is probably unbalanced.^ Mr. Sexton’s election as Lord Mayor of Dublin has been set aside by the Court ol Qneen’s Bench because he has violated the crimes act, and in his capacity as high sheriff neglectedA>r refused to perform all the functions to his office. .

ANGRY WOOL GROWERS.

They DoNotLlkc th« of ih« I’resldenr on Th«t Subjfct At Wednesday's session of the conference of wool growers and wool dealer? of the United States, called by the President of the National Association of Wool Growers, the following was unani-mously-adopted: “The wool dealers and wool growers of the United States, -representing a capital of over $500,000,000 and a constituency of a million wool growers and wool dealers, assembled in conference in the city of Washington, the 7th day of December, 1887, having read the first annual message of the President to the fiftieth Congress, declare that the sentiments of the message are a direct attack upon their industry, one of the most important of the country, and in positive violation of the national Demo ratic platform of 1884, as interpreted- by the party leaders, and accepted by the rank and file of the party; that the argument made by the President for the removal of our protection against foreign competition, is the old one,repeatedly made by the enemies of OHr industrial progress, and effectively answered in nearly every school district of our land, and so thoroughly disproved by the logic of facts and demonstration of experience and history, as to need no answer from us. - * “We acknowledge thal our “small holdings,’ our scattered and unorganized condition makes us the easy prey of the free traders, but we had a right to expect something different from the chief executive of the Nation, at once the most happy, most prosperous and contented of any of the world, made so by a policy of protection and development which he now seeks to destroy. We had a right to expect that our Prosident would favor the wool-growers of the United and confess oar deep disappointment that instead, he favors the interests of foreign competitors. “Justly alarmed at his position, we make an appeal from his recommendations to the people, to all the people, to the seven and three-fourths millions of our fellow-citizens engaged in agriculture, to the millions engaged in manufacturing, to the army of wage earners whose wages are maintained by the protective system, to the tradesmen and merchants whose prosperity depends npon ours, confident that their judgment and decision will be based upon justice and patriotism, and therefore ;for the maintainance of the American policy of protection to which the country is indebted for its unexampled develop*ment and prosperity. “To demonstrate the injustness of the President’s policy and the fallacy of the remedy he proposes for the reduction of the surplus, we point to the fact that if the whole amount of the revenue derived from wool was abolished it would reduce the surplus only about $5 000,000 or less than ten cents per capita of the population, which is paid by foreigners, while the old war taxes he recommends retained yield over one hundred and nineteen millions and is a direct tax per capita of two dollars each and is what makes up the great bulk of the surplus of one hundred and forty millions and which fosters a most dangerous monopoly. “We would further add the following statistics in regard to the wool industry. The annual revenue derived from import of wool under the tariff of 1887, was iess than $1,700 Under the reduced tariff, of 1883 the revenue last year was over five millions. The number of sheep in the country in 1884, was 50,626,626. In 1887 it was 44,759,314, a decrease of nearly six millions, and a decrease in the annual wool product of over 25,000,000 pounds, thus showing that reducing the tariff by the act of 1883 ha 3 increased the revefiue from imported wools and diminished the number of sheep in the United States about twelve per cent., and the annual product in the same proportion. “The President’s policy would be to bring about the destruction of this industry, and the same policy of reduction or abolition of the tariff would end in disaster to all the other industrial and productive enterprises of the country.

Farmers Fighting for Coal.

A wide spread coal famine has been prevailing through the entire western part of Kansas for some time. Railroad companies have been shipping hundreds of carloads of coal through from Colorado to Wichita and eastern points, but only once in a while can they be induced to drop off a load in the western part of the fltate. One night last week farmers captured a train of coal care and took what they wanted. Private dispatches to Wichita say another mob of settlers took in charge another train and filled their wagons. They left their names and money for what they took, and told the train hands that their company conld airest them if they wanted to. Bonie of the farmers live fifty and seventy five miles from the railroad, and great suffering has been the result of the lack of fuel. The settlers complain fhaL-they are aLthfe mercy of the monopoly and they can’t get enough fuel to keep them warm. Trouble is is feared if the railroad does not fumisn fuel for the western settlers, as they have grown desperate: Upon one of the wagons which was filled with coal Wednesday night was the motto. “Goal or blood.” * „ —:——— - _— i :.

WASHINGTON.

Attorney Genera) Garland recommends 4he erection of a Supreme Conit building in Washington. During the past year he repo t* 12.905 criminal prosecutions Judgments for $650,250 for the United States in civil suits. Fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed during the year aggregated $457,514. Probably the most notable gathering of Republican leaders ever held in Washington assembled at the clubhouse of the Republican National League Thursday evening on the occasion of the reception tend-red by the League to National Republican Committee. Almost all the Republican members of both branches of Congress as well as manv ex-Congressmen and well krowjr Republican politicians were present. The members of the National Republican Committee and'the members of the visiting delegations herein behalf of their respective cities were in attendance to a man. Flowers, national flags and portraits of prominent Republicans abounded in all the rooms, and placards bearing mottoes of Republican doctrines were displayed throughout the house. The main idea contained in the latter was protection to American industry and enterprise, and this was the key note of all the speeches delivered during the evening. The speakers assailed the President’s utterances on the tariff ia - his recent message to Congress, and advoc ted protection to American labor. A times the enthusiasm ran to a high pitch. Speeches were delivered by Senators CulJom, Stewart of Nevada; Allison, Hawley and Evarts, Murat Halstead, of the Cincinnati CommercialGazette; Delegate Plummer, of Dakota, and Representatives Cutcheon.of Michigan; Morrow of California, and McComas, of Maryland.

The Treasury Department.

The Secretary of the Treasury, in his annual report submitted to Congress, Wednesday, says that the total ordinary receipts of Government during the year ending June 30, 1887, were $371,403 277, and that, the total ordinary expenses were $315 835.426, leaving a surplus of $65,567,849, which, with an amount drawn from the cash balance in the Treasury of $24,455,720, make k total surplus of $80,023,570,which was offered to the redemption of bonds. The receipts tor the year show an increase of $84,963 550 over the year before, and the expenditures show an increase of $25,449,041. For the present year the revenues are estimated at $383 000 , and the expenditures at $316,817 », leaving an estimated surplus of $66,. 214 June 30, 1888. The Secretary estimates the surplus for the year 1889 at $56,469,206. In regard to the surplus reveuue, the Secretary says: Taxation and currency reform were the questions which ray.distingnished predecessor deemed to be of most pressing imporiaoce,and to them he devoted a large part of the two annual reports which he made to CoDgress. I find the same subje, ts to Oe still the most important of aS those to which it is my duty to call your attention. and it is not nece-sary to do otherwise than follow the general lines laid down by him in treaiiug them. Circumstances have (tightened the immediate urgeney of »axation reform as affecting the surplus revenues of the Government The urgency is so great tha the question of K nr plus revenues detnandt the earnest attention of both the legislative ami executive branches as the Government. The Secretary then gives’the following ways in which the receipts and expenditures oi the Government may be made about equal. 1. The purchase oi tha interest-bearing debt of the Government. 2. Larger exfienditures by the Government for other purposes than the pnrehase of the bonds, so that they shall each year equal the taxation « that year. 3. Reduction of the revenue from taxation ta tte amount actually required to meet the necessary expenses. All of these expedients have in common the one merit of preventing the derangement to business which must follow hoarding or locking up In the Treasury the circulating media of tfes people. The Secretary argued against the abolition of the tax on liquor an 4 tobacco.

The Naval Report.

Secretrary Whitney says he finds himself unable to concur in the recommendation that the single turreted monitors be repaired and made ready far coast defense vessels. An examination of their characteristics shows that, outside of the ships in our own navy, no antagonist could probably ba found against which they could stand for a moment. They were good vessels for their time, but are entirely obsolete. It would be little less than murder to send men in these ships, at the present time, to encounter any recently built ironclad. I appreciate fully that it is only as a etmporarv expedient that it is suggested, and with the thought that in the absence of anything else these might be better than nothing. This has been ihe tbeoiy upon which over <60,000,000, and probably $75000,000, have been spent since the close of the war. After describing the extravagant system of repairing vessels in past years, the repairs often costing several times as much ai t le vessel did, the Secretary sayß: “It is often the subject of Wonder what has become of the $70,030,000' spent upon war vessels since the close of the war in vie w of the fact that there is now no navy. The foregoing hjt of history will serve as an illustration.” He recommends the adoption of the dynamite gun, a naval reserve and establishment uf~anaval station on the~ Gulf of Mexico. The estimates for the navy and marine corps for the current fiscal year amounted to $25586479 02, and the appropriations to $26,182,723.79. The estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1889. amount to $23,427 940.13, or <2.161.538 86 less than the estimates and $2,754,783 66 less than the appropriations for the current fiscal year.