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Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
REAeAN,s RETIREMENT BILL.
How it is Likely to Affect Prospective
Legislation.

How it is Likely to Affect Prospective
Legislation.
WASHINGTON, April 30.-While no one
expects that Senator Reagans bill to
abolish the retired lists of the army,
navy and Judiciary will ever become a
law. or even receive the sanction of the
committee to which it has been referred,
its presentation and the authors remarks
thereon have caused no little uneasiness
among retired officers.
They fear, and with some reason, that
with public attention thus directed to
the large amount expended for this high
class of pensioners and the abuses of the
retirement laws, an attempt will be
made at wedding out, which may result
in loss of pay TO the deserving as well
as those who have no just claims, and
who are responsible for the attacks upon
the retired lists. There is another class
that has even more cause for alarm
than those against whom Mr.. Rea-
gan's remarks were directly made.
These are the ex-officers of the army
and navy who have bills pending before
congress giving them the benefit of the
retirement laws. 1t is now pretty GER
tain that if the Reagan bill goes no
further, it will at least operate to dimin-
ish the chances for this kind of legisla-
ton. The war department has also
about abandonded hope for the measure
which received the unanimous support of
the house military committee, for the re-
tirement of the fifty odd disabled Off
GERS now ON the active list of the army
Its chances were considered very good
until Mr.. Reagan presented his formida-
hle fipures
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30

Certain Class of Immigrants Who
Seek Our Shores.
Congressman Owen Talks on
the Need of a Change

In the Present immigration and Contract
ians DO More Harm Than GoOd-PrOb-
ably 500 People Unlawfully Enter the
UnitCd States Weekly.
WASHINGTON, April 80. Congressman
Owen and Stump and Senator Squire, of
the subcommittee on immigration. have
returned to Washington. Mr.. Owen
expects to have an immigration bill
ready for congress within the next two
weeks. In speaking of the proposed bill
he said; New York and New England
are suffering from the influx of class
of emigrants who remain here only a
few years, living in the meanwhile like
paupers and intent only on boarding and
scraping together every cent they can
and then returning home.
"This is particularly true Of Italians
and Hungarians, and they do the coun-
try far more. harm chan good. No emf
grant should be permitted to land here
who does not come with the intention to
build a permanent home. The privi-
leges of our institutions should no
longer be offered to any man who, after
a certain time, fails to become an Amer
ican citizen. The bill will provide that
the secretary of state shall forward If
our conslfls monthly the condition 90
our labor market, so that it can be
known abroad whether there is any
legitimate call for immigration labor.
A radical change i'll contract laws will
be recommended. There will have to be
a system of inspection by our cOnsuls or
by some other method ON the other side
of the water, and the law must be
changed so as to COMPEL the return of
immigrants coming into the country in
violation of the law.
There are probably 500 immigrants
coming here every week in violation of
the intent of the contract-labor law, and
yet, under the present letter of that law,
it is impossible for the inspector to detain
them. In framing the measure we will
have to consider that the character of
our immigration has unfortunately
changed, to great extent, from the
hitherto wholly desirable class to class,
large per centage of which, unfortun-
ately, is not only extremely undesirable,
but pernicious, in its effect on our wage
system and our civilization"
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
A MANIFESTO
Issued by President GOmperS to
the Federated Trades
After a Long Session of the
Executive Board.

Advised to Maintain Order and be Firm,
PeaceabIe and Positive May THE
Threatened Strike of the Employees of
the Chicago Stock Yards May Not be
Enacted-NOtes.
New YORK, April 30.-After a. pro-
tracted session of the executive board of
the Federation of Labor, President
Gompers issued the following mani
festo:
"The executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor having selected
the United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and JGiners of America to make the de-
mand for the enforcement of the eight
hour work day, ] ask you to refrain from
any sympathetic strike.
Rather remain at your work and aid
the carpenters and joiners to win in the
contest. To the carpenters and joiners
my adyiceis to demand and insist upon
the enforcement of the eight-hOur work
day. 1t is not matter of theory; it is
a positive fact, the question of wages
and conditions will regulate themselves,
and to your benefit, as soon as the eight
hour work day has been in operation.
For that reason, if you cannot secure the
eight ht-hour work day with other condi-
tions, then allow them to remain open
for future adjustment.
In the demonstration to be held May
/ turn out in vast numbers and by your
presence manifest your unalterable de-
termination to have the eight-hour work
day enforced, though by one trade at q
time, yet for all, as the ultimate result.
Allow no one to provoke you to a breach
of the peace. Maintain order, refrain
from all violence, engage in no riots, let
the watchword be the enforcement of
the eight-hour work day, firm, peaceable
and positive. With stout hearts and
clear heads let us concentrate all efforts
for victory upon the carpenters and
iOinars y
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30

WASHINGTON, April 80. = Secretary
Proctor has received several replies to
his kilograms asking for information in
regard to the extent of suffering in the
overfowed districts of the south. The
governor of Louisiana said that ten
days rations for $4,000 people should be
sent to New Orleans for distribution
throughout the state. The governor of
Mississippi said there are probably 20,000
persons in that state needing assistance,
and the governor of Arkansas said that
800 people in Phillips county and con-
siderable number in Desha county are in
great need of relief.
Capt Weston has been instructed to
use his own discretion in regard to the
issue of green shoulders and corn meal
instead of bacon and -four, and to do at
once what he can for the relief of all
who need it. He has been given ample
powers in the matter of transportation
and the employment of assistants.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
THE MISSISSIPPI OUTLET.
The Question Brought Up and Discussed
sat Length in the Senate.

| Ihe question Brought Up ana discussed
'at Length in the Senate.
WASHINGTON, April 30.-- In connec-
ton with the presentation of memo
rial in relation to the Mississippi river,
discussion sprung up in the senate and
was participated in by many senators,
the point turning on the question
whether the jetty system or the outlet
| system was the correct one, or whether
there should not be combination of the
| two.
Mr.. Vest gave it as his opinion that
the two systems could not stand to-
| gether and that congress should adopt
the one system or the other.
! Mr.. Frye, chairman of the committee
on commerce, spoke of hearing which
| that committee had given last Thursday
to the friends of the outlet system, and
said that it had left his mind in greater
confusion than ever. The friends of the
outlet system had taken the ground,
very strongly, that the levee system had
| raised the bed of the river and was con-
tinually raising it, and that the outlet
system was the only way to relieve the
river He had not now the remotest
idea what ought to he done on the sub
ject.
Mr.. Reagan said that investigation
had convinced him that the levee system
was failure, as it had proved to be on
the Yellow river, of China.
Mr.. Berry said that every engineer
except one, perhapsl who had had any
thing to do with the river had reported
that the levee system was the only true
system.
Mr.. Washburn was frank to say that
he was in doubt ON the subject The re-
suits that had been anticipated from the
levee system had certainly not been
realized. 1t seemed to him that it would
be unwise for congress to proceed fur
ther until it knew more.
Mr.. Harris suggested the appointment
of a commission of scientists to be
charged with the duty of thorough in
vestigation of the subject.
Mr. Paddock suggested that the hear
ings on the subject begun i'll the last con-
gress be renewed.
Mr. Eustis, Mr.. Hawley and Mr..
Walthall defended the levee system,
though Mr.. Hawley said he believed
combination of the two systems would
be successful.
Mr.. Vest asked what would be the
effect of the Lake Borgne outlet ON the
Mississippi jetties.
Mr. Wallthall replied that there was
no doubt that the river below the Lake
Borgne outlet would shoal Just rs it
had shoaled few years ago below the
Bonnet Carre crevasse and the Belle Gre
vase, and that the whole theory of the
Eads system would be defeated.
Mr.. Gibson said that in spite of the
-Atchafalaya outlet the river was higher
than it ever had been.
After further discussion morning bust
ness was resumed, and at its conclusion,
the land forfeiture bill was taken up,
the pending question being Mr., Calls
amendment relative to railroad lands in
Florida.
Mr. Pasco and Mr.. Dolph opposed the
amendment. The bill finally went over
without action.
Senate bill to incorporate the society
of the Sons of the American Revolution
was considered and was still pending at
5:l5, when the senate adjourned.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
IT'S A MISTAKE.
The Report That Gladstone Had
Changed His Views
In Reference to the Irish Land
Purchase.

He Is Not, and Never Was, a Strong Sup
porter of the Principle-Report Circu-
lated Thst General Boulanger WIN RE-
turn to Paris May Day TO Participate,
in the Demonstration.
LONDON, April 3O.--The assertion of
the Conservative organs that Mr.. Glad
stones speech in the house OF commons
last Thursday shows him to have mater
tally changed his views within the last
few years regarding Irish land purchase
is not well founded II is altogether
mistake TO suppose that Mr.. Gladstone is,
or ever has been, strong supporter of
the principle of land purchase.
While he has been the author or the
advocate of more than one land pur-
chase bill he has always been careful
to insist upon the necessity of certain
well defined conditions being complied
with before any extensive operations of
land purchase could with safety be set
in motion through the direct interven-
tion of the state. When Mr.. Gladstone
moved for leave to introduce bill to
make amended provision for the sale
and purchase of land in Ireland in 1865,
he took occasion 10 indicate what he re-
garded as blot in the existing land pur-
chase acts.
II consider he said, ''that these acts
present an extremely bad and dangerous
form of dealing with this obligation, and
do so on the ground that their bases
are to place the British treasury in con-
tact with the individual occupier and
farmer in Ireland. In my opinion this
is not wise policy. / do not entertain
mistrust Of the Irishman's disposition to
liquidate his pecuniary engagements.
Il believe that he may very well, ex-
cepting under circumstances of peculiar
evaporation, bear comparison with his
class in other countries in that matter.
But 1t IL n dangerous thing for state
which the course of policy and the con
dition of legislation have led the people
to regard as essentially a foreign state,
to make those people in great numbers
individually its debtors; dangerous, be-
cause tempting the debtor; dangerous,
because extremely unsafe for the state,
considered as the creditor
Notwithstanding the safeguards in
Mr.. Gladstone's bill for land purchase,
forty members of the present Unionist
party in parliament opposed the meas
ure, number intimating that they
would have supported the Liberal lead
ers' Home Rule bill if he had not saddled
upon them his land purchase bill, the
latter causing their secession.
Yet the majority, if not all, of these
same members now propose to support
Mr.. Balfour's land purchase scheme,
which, ii it had been introduced by Mr.
Gladstone in 1888, would not have left
him a dozen followers 1t is hardly
necessary to mention the fact that III
1885 the Conservative party to u man
opposed Mr.. Gladstone's Irish land pur-
chase bill.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
IOreIgn Notes.

The Delagoa Bay railway has been COM
pleted TO the Transvaal frontier.
The Socialists of Silesia have decided
not to observe May as holiday.
The Shah of Persia has vetoed the
project for the construction of Russian
railway between the cities of Enzeli and
Resht.
The state of siege having been raised,
and martial law abandoned ON the island,
the Christian inhabitants of Crete are
jubilant.
The speedy publication of Lieut. Rust's
narrative of the Emin expedition is an
nOunced. The book will give a detailed
description of the journey of DR. Peters.
The Hamburger Nachrichten repeats
the assertion that Prince Bismarck will
appear In parliament, but says he will
do so only to lend his counsel 20 the
state
Five hundred and thirty-one Alsatians
have been condemned to pay fine Of 1900
marks for emiRrating in order TO escape
military service, and the property OF those
who left any behind them has been
levied on.
A deputation from Biala waited upon
the Austrian emperor and asked thar n
garrison be permanently located at that
place. The emperor requested the deputa-
tion to inform him as 10 the real cause of
recent outbreak in that locality
lie Temps publishes dispatch from
Kotanau stating that the King Of Dahomy
wrote to Col Terrillon, ON April 20,
threatening to attack Port Nov ON the
9Th. Capt. Fournier, the naval COM
mander, the dispatch says, will retaliate
I by bombarding Whydah.
The negotiations conducted with the
Vatican by Gen. simmons have resulted
| in an agreement by which Malta is const-
tuted from Catholic missionary center
Hereafter such missionaries will be dis
patched from Malta TO those places in the
east and In Africa which have been under
the control of foreign missionaries.
The Russian naval and military officers
at St. Petersburg are treating the naval
and military attaches Of the German en-
bsssy with marked coolness and mediate
| securing their expulsion from the clubs Of
which they are members. The feeling
arises from the recent discoveries anent
| the sale Of fort tifications and mobilization
| plans.
Seven men. who have been most promi-
nent among the leaders of the Anarchists
/ in this city. were arrested Monday. A
search OF their residences revealed a secret
printing press and a large quantity Of
/ revolutionary documents. Arrests con
tinne TO be made throughout the country
Of persons suspected Of inciting the work
J ingmen to yioleaee on May l.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30

FoUNTANHEAD, Tenn, April 80. -
Spotted fever has again broken out in
the Pleasant Hill neighborhood. A
child of Mr.. Richard Kirkham, 1s
months old, took it last Tuesday and
died the following night, Wednesday
Mr.. Kirkham himself was taken and
died Wednesday night. Several new
cases are reported, In all there have
been eleven cases, and ten of the number
have been fatal. 1t seems to battle the
skill of the best physicians. The region
of the country to which it is confined is
very high and dry, and has as pure free
stone water as ever ran out of the earth
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
THE OKLAHOMA BILL.
Mistake in Its PhraseolOgy - Must he

Mistake in Its PhraseOlOgy - Must He
Amended.
WASHINGTON, April 30.-The bill Gre
ating the territory of Oklahoma, which
was passed by the house and senate, and
sent to the president last Friday, must
be referred again to congress, because of
fatal defect in its phraseology. The
commissioner of the general land office,
to whom the bill was referred, reports
that the clause describing the boundaries
of the territory reads western line of
Texas" where it should read eastern
line of Texas" The president will send
the bill back to congress with message
calling attention to this defect, and con-
gress will have to amend the BILL
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30

ALEXANDRIA, La, April 3O.-Last Sat
urday night on Hemphill creek, in this
parish, about twenty-five miles west of
Alexandria, young man, aged IA,
named james Berry johnson, was killed,
and F. M. Mitchell and James Ritchie
were wounded. Claude Stewart and
Thomas Gentry, charged with the hon.
eide. were arrested. Stewart was re-
Gently married and the young men gave
him charivari During the perform.
ance they were fred upon by Stewart.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30

WASHINGTON, April 30.--The Wash
iugton workingmen are growing restless
and threatening to join the eight-hour
strike. 1t is reported that bricklayers,
carpenters and plasterers will demand
May I. that thereafter eight hours be
constituted days labor. A refusal on
the part of the employers may lead to u
general strike: meanwhile attention is
centered on the outcome of the move
ment in Chicago.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
situation at Colorado Springs.

DENVER, Col, April 30.-The labor
situation at Colorado Springs is growing
more complicated. Most of the con-
tractors have decided to grant the de-
mand of the carpenters for nine hours
with ten hours pay, but few have held
off, and the men say that unless the boss
carpenters all concede the request by
May there will be general walk
out. Quarry and bricliyard men are
asked to supply no building material
until the trouble is settled.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30

BURLINGTON, Iowa, April 30,-Michael
H. Kitson put strychnine in the sugar
bowl at Barrett's restaurant and liber-
ally dosed his coffee. He died in short
time. A little later Benjamin Barrett,
the proprietor of the restaurant, sat
down to supper and used sugar out of
the same bowl. He was taken violently
sick. and his life was saved only by hard
work ON the part of a physician, Kitson
was led to self-destruction by despond.
ency produced by drink,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
Signing the TrentY.

WASHINGTON, April 30.-The repre-
sentatives of about ten of the American
nations have signed the arbitration
agreement recommended by the Pan
American conference at the state depart
ment. Among the nations which signed
the treaty were Brazil, Bolivia, Colum-
bia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Salvador and
Honduras. All the nations represented
at the conference, it is expected, will
eventually exchange treaties.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30

DULUTH, MINI, April 3O.-The car
penters here are getting ready to join in
the eight-hOur movement. They have
demanded Of contractors thirty cents
an hour and days work of eight hours.
Fifty contractors held a lengthy meet
ing in which the situation was thorough
" canvassed. and as result passed a
resolution refusing the demands.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
milwaukee Gambling Houses.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, April 3O.-Chief of
Police Jansen issued an order to close all
gambling houses and base ball pool
rooms. The proprietors of the former,
which We're quietly re-opened after
Mayor Peck's inauguration, complied
with the order, and at midnight the
lights were turned ont in every gambling
house. Only one pool room has been
running, and Gil. Johan, the proprietor,
says he will make no effort to contest
the chiefs order,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
Noted outlaw Captured,

FoRr SMITH. Ark, April 3O.-Green-
leaf, the notorious Seminole outlaw,
who has eluded all efforts to arrest for
the past eighteen years, has been cap
tured and was Monday placed in the
United States Jail. He has three cases
of murder pending against him in the
Federal court here, and has killed four
of his own tribs since.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
shot in a school Room,

MARTINsvILLE, Ind, April 3O,-While
Everett Herley, son of Nixon Herley,
and schoolmate named Charles Phillips,
living nine miles northwest of here,
were examining into the intricate work.
ings of an old-fashioned pepper-box re-
volver during school hours, the weapon
was discharged, the bullet striking Phil
lins in the face, wounding him severely.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
Child Labor In SnnIn.

MADRID, April 90,--In the cortes a bill
has been introduced which prohibits the
employment of boys under 10 and girls
under 12 years of age. The measure
also prohibits all minors from being EN-
ployed in mines. circuses. or in any un-
healthy occupation. Ali holidays, Sun
days and fete days are to be secured to
such minors, and the maximum days
labor il TO be five hours
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30

CHICAGO, April 3O.-Police Justice
Cleveland, of Norwood park, sentenced
Frank Evans, thirteen years old, to con-
fnement i'll the county Jail thirty days.
The boys offense was placing a live
snake in one Of Solomon H. Burhans'
boots, @the snake having string around
It's neck, res ulting in severe shock to
the wife of said Burhans." The pris-
oner was placed in the boys department
of tha iaiI
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
TOOK DESPERATE CHANCES.
Convict Leaps From an Express Train
and Escapes.


and Escapes.
COLUMBIA, S. c., April 30.--A remark
able leap from moving train was made
on Sunday by Vince Story, an escaped
convict, who had been recaptured in
Georgia and was being taken to the pen
itentary. Story was in charge of a
guard and had his hands tied together.
While the train was passing through
Edgefield county, at the rate of forty
miles an hour, the prisoner was left
alone for moment. He Immediately
sprang, head first, through an open win
dow. The train was stopped as soon as
possible, and ran back to the place
where the terrible leap was made, but no
trace of Story could be found, The
guard remained behind to continue the
aanrnh
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
Shot HImself while Drunk.

NEW YORK, April S0-G. F. Smith,
who has been employed as gardener by
Mr.. w. B. Williams, of South Nyack,
N. Y, for the past few months, shot
himself dead in a fit of drunken. jealous
rage. He had previously unsuccessfully
tried to Kill his wife, and fired one shot
at Henry Chappell, wounding him sew
erely in the thigh.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
Boulanger May Return.

PARIS, April 3O,--It is reported here
that the Boulangist leaders, Messieurs
Naquet, Deroulede and Laguerre are in
Jersey arranging for the return to Paris
ON May Day of Gen. Boulanger. 1t is
represented to be the generals intention
TO participate in the demonstrations of
that day.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
At Grand Ranida.

GRAND RAPIDs, Mich, April 30,-At a
meeting of carvors it was decided to go
ont on q strike May unless the demand
for nine hours is granted, The manu-
facturers are firm and will not grant the
demand A general strike may follow If
outgiGe caryers are brought in,
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30
Memphis Bakers strike.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 30 The bak-
ers of this city have struck. The men
demand ten hours as a days work (they
are now working thirteen); an increase
in wages and the right to board where
they choose. The men have heretofore
been required to board with the bosses.
Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-04-30

BLACK JACK. Tex, April 8O.-At the
convict camp, on the Cotton Belt rail
road four miles north of here, four con-
yicts made a Lreak for liberty. They
were fired upon 10y the guard. One was
killed ami another fatally wOnndSd'
The other two escaped.