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because il ia alive. Look at our C. E. mono
gram-an E inside the Can endeavor society
in and through Christ. A live society in a
church-that is why pastor, people and young
people value it."
DR.. Power of the Vermont Avenue Christian
Church was unable to be present but sent a
letter in which he said: 1.-The Y. p. s. C. Z. has
been constant support to me.
Rev. G. ". Mccullough of the Anacostia Bap-
fist Church sent word: The endeavor society
has been very helpful to the pastor and church.
1t has had a remarkable spiritual progress"
SINGING "Ar THE CROSS"
. The meeting closed with singing "At the
Cross" the Christian Endeavor benediction
and prayer by Rev. Francis E. Clark.
The singing was led by Mr.. W. s. Macarthur.
Prof. Toof presided at the organ.
The platform tastefully decorated with
flowers and plants. and overhead in large let
tiers Of gold appeared the monogram of the
society and the Christian Endeavor motto,
"For Christ and the Church"
In the afternoon DIR. Clark addressed meet
ing of junior societies in the vestry of the same
church. at which GOO boys and girls were pres
ent with their leaders
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from the little village Of Wildwood. Mo-to be
solder was private in the first regiment,
third division, Missouri state guard-then a
part OF Prices army. The first human being
saw killed was a boy of fourteen. Our regi-
ment was at the battle of Wilson's Creek, and
some one In our ranks fired the shot that killed
Gen. Lyon. thirtcen-year-oldb boy in COM
pany D claimed to have fired that shot and
while he may not have found it possible to
prove his assertion no attempt was ever made
to controvert it, We went into that battle
with z36 men and after eleven hours Of hard
hghtlng came cut with los. The BOYS were
conspicuous there. Capt. Halleck commanded
one of our companies He had been a land
ONCE ohclal under buchanan and was well
known. In his company were his two sons
AlonZo, aged nineteen, and William aged four
teen. Father and sons were bound by the
most affectionate ties their tenderness toward
each other was touching and beautiful After we
Lad been lighting Tor about three hours Capt.
Haileck was shot through the brain right in
sight OF his boys. We were moving forward
then and had only gone something like IL quar-
ter OF mile when AlonZo was shot through
the heart. Willie ran to him and held him In
his arms for the brief period before death
came II L lived a thousand years l could
never forget that little scene, how tho survivor
cried for awhile as though the light had gone
out OF his lie, and how he picked up ms mus
ket, took his place in line and fought until the
battle ended.
Don't forget that the boys played big
part In the war"
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PEACEFUL VIEWS IN CHILE.
The Chamber of Deputies Discusses I
Strained Relations

The Chamber of Deputies Discusses the
Strained Relations.
Special Cable to the New York Herald
SANTIAGO, Jan. 22.-The question Of the
strained relations between the United States
and Chile came up il the chamber Of deputies
yesterday, and the tone of the declarations
made will give scant comfort for those VINO are
looking for warlike termination of the trouble.
Deputy Matthew brought the matter before
the chamber. saying that in view of the alarm
ing rumors which had gained circulation in the
press and among the people relative to the
questions at issue between the United States
and Chile, he desired to know from the govern
ment the actual state of affairs in order to quiet
the public feeling.
Senior Barros Luco, replying for the govern
ment said that the questions pending were as
summing an eminently pacific tone and there ia
absolutely no foundation for the alarming
rumors.
When the negotiations werc concluded at an
early date documents in relation to the matter
will be laid before the chamber.
l learned this morning that a cable dispatch
has been received from Senior Pedro Montt
Chilean minister at Washington. He states
that Secretary Of State Blaine requests the
Chilean government to regard the contents OF
the dispatch as confidential for the present. !
tenor OF the dispatch was decidedly peaceful,
and indicated a speedy and harmonious settle.
ment Of the trouble.
Private letters received here say that Q rev.
olution Is imminent in Ecuador based on the
assumption of dictatoriA powers by the prssi.
dent
Passengers on tho wrecked steamer John
Elder publicly denouncs the Pacific Steam
Navigation Company for the manner In which
they were treated
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DISSENSIONS IN SAMOA.
King Malietoa Sends Chief Into the Dis
affected Di,tricts.

affected Districts.
The following advices from Apia Samoa IN
der date Of January 6, have been received at
San Francisco:
King Malietoa recently dispatched Chief Asi
and about 200 men across the islands to ascer-
tain the intentions of the inhabitants of the
village Of Liumu, who had been somewhat
disaffected When the force arrived it was
found a majority of these natives had re-
moved to an adjoining district. Chief Ash. how
ever, captured twelve of them and fifteen
guns and then proceeded to Aana district
and endeavored to get the people there to
join him. He Also requested King Malietoa
to forward larger body Of men SO that
NJ ataafa would be powerless against them.
The king. however. refused to do this, as he
did not wish to commence such a hostile DEM
onstration until all chances of peaceably ar
ranging the matter had been exhausted. The
Aana people also decided they would not assist
in such operations, though they remained en-
tirely loyal to the government Chief Asi ac-
cordlngly returned home. taking circuitous
route to avoid meeting Mataafa's men at Malie.
Word has been sent to all the islands for local
chiefs to send ali disaffected subjects with their
wives and children TO Male, but it remains to
be seen if they viii comply peaceably.
Nothing further has been heard concerning
the resignation Of Baron Won Pisach, president
OF the municipal council of Apia, and it is gem
orally believed the treaty powers do not con-
slider it worth while 10 take any action now In
view of the fact that there are only six months
to elapse before the treaty Will be taken up tor
consideration of the amendments
The municipal council has passed a resoiu-
ton to the effect that the president be re-
| quested to bring back the council fluids from
/ Sydney in United States gold. The money had
been deposited in banks there in the president 6
! name, as he claimed to be the only proper GUS
todian of public funds. Baron Won Pilsach, re-
plying to the resolution. states he cannot COM
ply with the request and in passing the resolu-
| ton the members OF the council had trans
crossed their authority.
Lieut. Uifsparro, com rlander of the Samoan
army. has returned to Germany and Clerk
OF Court L. Hogg is expected to leave here
shortly.
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Two things ere urgently needed at the Capt.
tol-more statesmen and more committee
rooms-and to this statement might reasonably
be added the announcement that if there were
more statesmen there would also be an ample
supply of committee rooms. A statesman is a
male individual who recognizes the needs of
his country and who straightway supplies that
which is lacking.
The demand for more room than now exists
within the great Capitol building is at this
time more than ordinarily energetic. Apart
ments that were once large enough and suffi-
cient in number are now unhealthy small and
comparatively few. The Capitol has not ex-
banded with the growth of the nation ana the
extension of national business. So strong was
the pressure for additional accommodations
that the Flfty-first Congress bought that big
hotel, once known as the Maltby House, and
now a number of Senators have offices therein;
in fact every room is occpicd. incidentally
it may not be out Of place to say that the
House Of Representatives is automatically
speaking, no match for the Senate. The
law under which this annex to the Senate was
purchased stated that it was for the use of
Congress and the executive departments under
control of the Senate committee rules. No
one who knows anything about the affair
doubts the controlling influence of the Senate
committee on rules. When the House ap-
proved the Item OF Sl2OUO0 for the purchase
of the Maltby House it was with an idea that it
would be able to capture few good rooms for
its own use-did not the paragraph say ''for
the use of Congress-" and was not
the House great big slice of
Congress? A few weeks ago some
one in the House thought It would
be good thing to occupy a
portion of the Maltby building and was very
much surprised when he found out that the
Senate had gobbled everything not previously
captured by them.
There was mistake made said he,
lin rechristening this place the Senate annex.
The House is truly not in it,"
Some of the Representatives thought they
would be able to gain foothold in the Butler
mansion. An impression had somehow gone
abroad that the s275,000 expended for the old
generals property on Capitol Hill was to bring
the House some immediate return. The i'm
preston was incorrect The buildings were
bought for the use of the Treasury Department
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sufficiency Of committee rooms for the legisla
| tors fifty years hence. The plans have beer
prepared for some time past. and they can bt
| consulted by any interested parties who care Il
visit the architects office. In its completeness.
| the new scheme would result in sixty-six rev
| rooms. 1t is nothing but an extension of the
| Capitol, or. ratheI, extensions on both the eas
| and west fronts. The main proposition is the
building of a connection running from the
wings to the central Duilding-a connection
which would be separated from the body Of
the old building by means 81 court yards. The
new additions would be constructed of marble
and would cover and shut out from view all the
unsightly sandstone portion Of the old
structure To make the design an architec
tural entirety the eastern and western central
porticoes would be enlarged. At present these
are less conspicuous than the wing porticoes
although the central porticoes should always be
the more imposing.
OF the forty-two additional rooms planned
for the east front twentv-one would be on the
House side of the rotunda. or the twenty-one
on the Senate side fourteen are planned for
the Supreme Court of the United States These
offices would be on the basement and principal
floors. The remaining seven, with the rooms
now occupied by Supreme Court officials would
belong to the Senate. When Congress does
what it some Gay must do-build a great temple
OF justice east of the Capitol and in harmony
with the new library building-then the SEN
ate will have fourteen additional apartments
All these new rooms, as well as the old ones.
would be amply supplied with daylight SO long
as daylight lasted, for the court yards would be
lined with white brick.
1t is hardly probable that Congress will be
asked to provide for both extensions at one
time. The west front will first be presented
FOR appropriative approval, and if Congress
authorizes the expenditure of 50, 500. 900 that
western front can be admirably remodeled.
Senate and House would gain twelve rooms
each.
The whole improvement (Which means the
extension Of both fronts) would cost So
100000. As the Capitol has, up to this date
cost for construction about $4,000. coo, il
would, if completed according to these plans,
cost nearly as much as the Philadelphia city
hall or the New York state capitol at Albany
The proposed change on the west front will
remove those deep and shadowy recesses that
now exist between the central building and the
wings. plan Of the Capitol as it now is bears
some resemblance to misshapen dumb-beli oil
to two dumb-bells laid end to end; the new
scheme equalizes the general outline of the
| structure. Now there is but ono connecting
thoroughfare on the basement and principal
floors; the improved plan would give an ad
ditional connection between the House and
Senate. 10 the average observer, however, the
most striking new features OF the picture
printed herewith will be the enlargement of tn,
central portico and the Strengthening OF the re
! cess lines
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and the Treasury Department was in full pos
DISCOMFORT IN THE HoUsr.

DISCOMFORT IN THE HOUSE.
The House Of Representatives is therefore in
most uncomfortably compressed condition,
and as it is pledged to retrenchment and re-
form-whatever that is-the possibilities of
relief are decidedly slim. Given an equal
number OF rooms for the two houses and the
Senate would be ahead; House committees are
moro numerous and have larger membership.
30 long as the accommodations refuse to -ac-
commodate on the House side no new commit
tees can easily be appointed, and even on the
Senate side tho good work of
creating committees to give some
good fellow" room will have
to be discontinued. 1t is true that even now
the Senate committee on rules cannot find a
suitable place In which to install Chairman
sanders and the committee on enrolled bills
mat committee must have its home in the
capitol and the home should be as close
as possible to the engrossing clerks (who are
IN the secretarys Office 1t has been sug-
gested--so limited is the field-that this home
less committee be given the Presidents room.
Senator Sanders would consent to this, he even
going so far as to say that whenever the Presi-
dent came to the Capitol he (Sanders) would be
pleased to have him occupy his ROOM The
PRESIDENT only visits the Capitol once in twelve
months. and 1t has been urged that only senti-
mental fooliShness could compel the non-occu-
pancy OF an apartment for 365 days in this
year when rooms are SO scarce. On
the occasions Of his rare visits the President
might easily use the marblV -oom. In its
desperation the Senate committee on rules for
a time entertained a proposition to make three
or four rooms of the chief clerks Office. As a
matter OF fact there is too little space in that
office now. The same conditions prevail at the
other end Of the Capitol Several of the House
committees have to double up, two organiza-
lions in one room being far from uncommon
Ibis arrangement or disarrangement is the
cause OF much proftless friction and law-delay-
ing annoyance.
People who know anything about the prac-
teal side of public life must realize the diff
cultiss which beset Representative who tries
to attend to his correspondence at his desk in
the hall OF the House. Writing is almost i'm
possible prior to the meeting of the House. be-
cause visitors come around and try to lift the
desk lid to find out who the man is that happens
to be engaged on that particular desk Just then
After the House assemblies the interruption is
even worse; Enloe or Springer or both will be
talking. That serious thought which is essen
tial to sound composition takes fight in
stantly when SO assailed.
ARCHITECT CLARK's PLAN.
To the relief of this situation Architect Clark
has applied himself. and if Congress would only
put Its hand in the nations pocket and abstract
therefrom about S6, 600 600 there would be a
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QUAY WINS AGAIN.
A Verdict Given Against the PlttsburG "Poss'
PROPRIETOR.


Proprieiors.
The second Of Senator Quay's projected series
Of libel suits has ended as did the first, in .
victory for the republican leader. The YER
dict, though expected, created q sensation,
owing to the strong defense made in trying 10
shift the blame on Attorney General Hensel.
Mr. Quay took the early train frcm PIttsburg
fo- Beaver yesterday afternoon, and was not
aware of the nature OF the verdict until in
formed by q correspondent HIS cordial smile
and emphatic statement that be was glad Of
it." were the only comment he would make On
the verdict.
II wish to deny, however" said the Senator,
''the report that intend TO bring suit for libel
against Attorney General Hensel an view OF the
re Violations made at the Post trial. There 10
not one word of truth in the report Label
suits" said he, dryly, ARE pleasant diver
sions but there is something else in life 10 live
for"
He declined TO talk Of his suit against Chair
man Kerr, but complained that at the present
rate Of progress il would take ten years 70 60
the round OF papers that had hbeled him. thus
'.leaying him no time TO tsh-"
The Senator is suffering from o severe cold
and late last night allowed u physician 10 Be
called In, more for precaution than Necessity.
He will not leave for Washington until entirely
recovered
shortly after ! O'Clock yesterday afternooa
Judge Porter began his charge to the jury in
the case against the Pittsburg Post The court
whose legal ability and keen nose for intricate
points las never been disputed, cheerfully
launched into an opinion that lasted over tve
hours in its delivery.
Regarding this opinion one Of the defendauts
groaned, He puts the knife into u with every
period"
At o'clock, after the recess, the Jury asksd
for instructions and were told BY the Judge
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The second vice pres
ident is Mr.. George F.
Muth. another WE'LL
known business man.
Mr.. Mutb is not young
in years, but is young
in heart, and takes great
interest in Christian
work among young
people. He is a mem
Der Of st. Paul's En-
glish Lutheran Church.
Mr.. Muth is enthusiastic
in his praises Of the En-
deavor movement and
wishes that it had been
known in his younger
days. as do many others.
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steamer VIA NOrfolk.
MeSsrs. Lewis and Nc
Arthur, the committee
OF arrangements, have
already been at work
some months making
preparations. The ac-
tivity and energy of Mr..
William II. Lewis is
we'll known among
Christian Endeavorers.
HIS experience as bus,-
ness manager OF the
delegations attending
the St. Louis and Min
neapolis conventions
will help materially i'll
the preparations for the
larger event this year.
Mr.. Lewis is private Sec
rotary to MIR. Justice
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number of friends of Mr.. Ii. p r. Holt of
this city upon invitation met in the Grand
Army Hall yesterday afternoon, where they
were given an opportunity to hear Mr.. Hollis
lecture entitled Washington, the Beautiful"
beautifully and profusely illustrated with fine
stereopticon views Under Mr.. Holt guidance
the audience visited the many points of interest
il and without the city.
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Mr.. L. A. Conner. jr.,
the first vice president,
is also the president of
the local society of the
First Congregational
Church; into which So
ciety he has infused
some of his activity and
energy. Mr.. Conner is
a draughtsman, and his
taste and skillhave been
freely contributed to
the Christian Endeavor
cause. The b a n n e r
which was carried to
the st. Louis and Min
neaplis conventions. as
we'll as the badges worn
on those occasions, were
designed by him.
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Wills Filed Yesterday.

The viii OF the late Mary Dorsey was fled
yesterday. She leaves her property 10 hes
granddaughter and other relatives-one-third
each TO Mary Miller and Ellen Norris and the
remaining third 10 be divided between others
The will Of Mary L. Hartley has been iled,
by which she leaves $4,000 10 her son Il. b
Hartley. and, after certain specific bequssts 70
relatives, sisters and nieces and friends, the
balance to her son. who she names ss executos.
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Miss L. Jurney, the present corresponding
secretary also filled the same position last year.
She is employed in the signal bureau and is
well known an active member Of the Mount
Vernon Place Methodist Church.
The treasurer, Miss Ella c. Lyman. is the
daughter of Commissioner Lyman and is a
prominent worker in the Assembly Presbyterian
Church. Miss Lyman was popular member
Of the delegation which attended the conven-
ton at Minneapolis last July.
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The president. Mr..
Percy s. Foster, though
a young man. is promi-
nent i'll business, musi-
cal and religious work.
He was for two years q
director in the Central
Union Mission, and is
now organist and choir
leader of the First Bap-
fist Church. Mr.. Foster
is q man of considerable
versatility. Besides his
transactions in real es-,
tate, he has been en-
ployed as q private
secretary. a newspaper
editor and a business
manager, so that he
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-23

Mr.. c. B. Titus, the
recording secretary, is
a clerk in the Indian
Office. He is known as
an active worker in the
young but vigorous
Ninth Street Christian
Church, a branch of the
Vermont Avenue Chris
tan Church, of which
Mr.. Titus is a member.
The Young Mems Chris
tian Association also en-
joys a large share Of
Mr.. Titus efforts and
values his abilities as a
ready speaker in the de-
batting society.
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ONE OF THE VETERANS.

The first president Of
the District of Columbia
union was Mr.. W. H. II.
Smith, a Christian
worker well known in
Washington. Though
not a young man, his
enthusiasm and expert
ence in religious work
have been of great
value to the organiza-
ton Of young people.
Mr.. Smith is also an
active member Of the
Young Mems Christian
Association, is president
of the Christian En-
deavor Society Of his
own church. the West
ern Presbyterian. ard
also superintenlent Of
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SOCIETIES AND WORKERS.

One of the largest So
cieties in the city is that
of the Calvary Baptist
Church. The pastor,
Rev. Samuel H. Greene.
is always successful in
religious work among
young people and
finds the society an in
valuable factor in his
church labors. He is
present at almost every
, meeting of his local
society. DIR. Greene is
an ardent supporter of
the Christian Endeavor
movement.
Another leading pas
tor who believes in
young people and
Christian Endeavor is
Rev s NJ Newman of
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The French government has accepted Bull
garia's note Of apology for sxpulsion Of y.
Chadouine.
ticket agent Of the Texas and Pacific railroad,
has died as Hot Springs, Ark. Tbs body win b
taken 70 Sydney, Ohio. for intsEmenk
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REV. rEUNIs g. HAMLIN, DID.

The board of trustees of the United Society
Of Christian Endeavor consists Of prominent
men, both divines and laymen. selected from
the recognized leaders in different denomins-
tions. The District of Columbia il represented
on the board by Rev. Tennis S. Hamlin, pastor
of the Church OF the Covenant Christian En-
deayor in Washington has no ADLER supporter
or member of wider reputation than DIR. Ham
lin. His interest in the work has been active