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The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20
HoKE SMITHS LATEST.
Methodist Ministers Object to the ousting
of DIR. Dorchester.

New York, December 1S.-When Sec
retary Hoke Smith wrote to DR.. Dor
chester of Boston, the Indian commits
sioner, asking him to resign, it is quite
likely that he little dreamed that he was
pulling down upon his administration
the disapprobation of the Methodist min
listers, but such was the case. At today's
meeting of the Methodist ministers of
New York, Brooklyn and vicinity tele-
gram from DR.. Dorchester was presented
stating that he had been asked to resign.
This caused unanimous protest on the
part of the preachers, and resolution
was passed addressed to President Cleve-
land asking that the request for his res
ignation be withdrawn
DR.. Heileman of LaPorte, Ind, it is re-
ported from Washington, has been ap-
pointed successor to DR.. Dorchester.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20
What New York Papers Say.

New York, Decembvf 19-Commenting
on the Presidents message in. regard to
the Hawaiian question, the Sun says..
1.-THE President has been brought up
with round turn in his secret pursuit
of the policy of infamy He prefaces
his message of yesterday not, as Is custo-
mary, with straight forward statement
of t6estruth, namely, that it is sub
mitted in consequence of and in obedi-
ence to the command of the federal legis-
lature, but with the sneaking pretence
that this emessage originates solely
within his own volition, and is now
written in pursuance, of previously
expressed intention, of transmitting
further information on the subject when
Cleveland's presentation is no stronger
than. was Secretary Gresham's Gresham
carried no more weight than Blount;
what Blount is worth the whole country,
including. Congress, now perfectly un
derstands. The main point to be noticed
is the Presidents careful avoid ance of
any intelligible explanation of the
method by which he originally intended
to accomplish the restoration of the
monarchy in the islands, at the time
when he hoped TO put Liliuokalani back
on her throne before Congress or the
country should know his plans The pro-
cess of inquiry by Congress is not yet
complete"
The Herald says: "Mr. Cleveland has
never sent to Congress a stronger message
than that in which he depicts the
Hawaiian revolution as an annexation
conspiracy, which for fragrant abuse of
the authority of the United States has
no parallel in our diplomatic annals
!, The Tribune says: No light what
ever is thrown by this message on the
real practical problem presented by the
Hawaiian complications, Mr. Cleveland
now turns the whole matter over to Con-
gress with the offer to cooperate with
that branch of the government in any
plan which is consistent with Ameri-
can honor, integrity and morality.
That the President should have deemed
it necessary to suggest such limitation
to the plans that Congress might devise
exhibits his self.righteous arrogance in
it's most offensive light. He has placed
himself in the way of any settlement of
the real Hawaiian problem
A Dissatisfied Democrat
Cincinnati, Ohio, December 19.-The
Enquirer, Democrat, says of the Presi-
dents message:
"The country is to be CONGRATULATED
that the miserable business has been
brought to an end. 1t has been severe
strain on public patience and has not
added to the reputation, either for wis
dom or prudence of the President or his
Secretary Of State"
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20
$500 IN A NOTE FROM &c. c."
How the President Helped the Boys of the
Old Dominion.

Richmond, Va, December 19.-The
fact that President Cleveland contributed
$500 to the Democratic campaign fund in
Virginia, during the late canvas was de-
yeloped yesterday, in the investigation
of alleged improper methods used to Sc
cure the nomination of Thomas S. Mar
tin to the United States Senate. General
Fitzhugh Lee, who was defeated by Mr..
Martin. gave this information.s
He was required to submit list Of
persons who had contributed through
him. He said that he was in Washing
ton one day, and called on the President,
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20
WILSON'S ARGUMENT.
The Majority Report in Favor of the TARIFF
Bill

The Majority Report in Favor Of the Tariff
Washington, Decem ber 19-The major
ity report of the ways and means COM
mittee on the tariff bill, written by
Chairman Wilson and approved by all
the Democratic mem bers of the commit
tee, was presented to the House today
The report says:
"The American people after the fullest
and most thorough debate ever given by
any people to their fiscal policy, have
deliberately andsrightlysdecided that the
existing tariff is wrong in principle and
grievously unjust in operation. They
have decided, as free men must always
decide, that the power of taxation has
no lawful or constitutional exercise ex-
cepu for providing revenue for the sup
ure: u from this principle is departure
from the fundamental prin ciples of
popular institutions and inevitably
works out a gross inequality in the
citizenship of a country.
"The bill on which the committee has
expended much patient and anxious
labor, is not offered as complete re-
sponse to the mandate of the American
people. 1t no more processes to be
purged of all protection than to be free
of all error in its complex and manifold
details. However we may deny the ex-
lstence of any legislative pledge, or of
the right of any Congress to make such
pledge, for the continuance 6f duties
that carry with them more or less
acknowledged protection, we must
recognize that great interests do exist
whose existence and prosperlty,it is no
part of our reform either to 1mperil or
to curtail. We believe, and we have the
warrant of our own past experiences for
believing, that reduction of duties will
not injure but give more abundant life
to all our great manufacturing indus
tries, however much they may dread a
change.
When the reform tariff of 1S46 was be-
fore Congress the air was full of prophe-
cies that it would destroy our manufac-
turing industries, throw labor out of
employment, or compel it to work at
pauper wages, and dwarf and arrest the
prosperous growth of the country. Every
representatives of four great manu-
featuring states of New England voted
against it with gloomy forebodings of
its blighting effect The rate of duties
provided in that tariff was much lower
than those of the bill we offer. What
was the result? Instead of paralyzing
the industries and pauperizing the labor
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20
Weather Observations.

The following are the observations for
the Agricultural Department Weather
BureauI for yesterday. Dec. 10. taken
at p. M. 10Th meridian time. the OBJ
seryations for each station being given in
this order: Temperature. direction of
the wind. state of the weather:
Boston, 3So, W, cloudy; New York.
32o, SW, clear; Philadelphia, 32o, NV,
clear; Washington, 32o, NV, clear; Alba
ny, 32o, NV, cloudy; Buffalo, 1s0, NV,
snow; Detroit, 200, NV, fair; Chicago,
l60, NV, clear; ST. Paul, s., W, clear;
St. Vincent, %, S. clear; Huron, Oak.
50, NV, fair; Bismarck, s., SW, clear
Jacksonville, So, SW, clear.
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to formally recognize the provisional
government as the supreme and only
authority in the Hawaiian islands.
HANDLED WITHOUT GLOVES.

Professor Manatt Pitches Into "Para
mount" BIount for Insulting the Greeks.
Providence, R. l., December 19-James
H. Blount was handled without gloves
at meeting of the Unitarian Associa-
tion last evening. Among the speakers
was Professor J. Irving Manatt of Brown
University, who said in part:
"Mr. Chairman" said degenerate son
of the South, standing where Clay may
have stood, What need have we for a
minister at Greece? We are told that
muses. have long since deserted her
mountains. Her beautiful marble no
longer awakes the genius of her once
gifted sculptors. Her legends are fast
passing away from the earth.a Her halls
of philosophy are closed forever. Her sea
coast, once the centre of an immense
commerce, is almost as silent as at the
dawn of creation itself. In that land is
an ignorant, thriftiess, idle population,
standing beside the ruined tombs and
monuments of decayed and forever
departed greatness, What need have we
for minister to that port? l repeat,
In my childhood I remember to have
read the life of the first convert from
paganism. that till then fed on human
flesh in the Sandwich Islands. A report
on the present status at Honolulu based
on that book would be no less false in
spirit and in fact than this silhouette of
Greece, airily turned off by the Chair
man of the House committee on foreign
affairs two years ago; and am reserving
my judgment on the Hawaiian situation
became the author of the words | have
just read to you is the same Mr.. Blount
who has just DISTINGUISHED himself
1qCS-ir1 TT
A statesman, speaking as nations
representative, should never insult
sister nation, least of all on the authori-
ty OF books that were mouldy before his
birth. If the muses. have deserted her
mountains, the Athenian press is today
the most prolific in the world, and
Greece is certainly not behind Georgia
in letters.
Her beautiful marble does yet awake
the genius of her sculptors, and doubt
whether more exquisite work has been
done in our time than the Achilles and
Paris Of my friend Brutos at Athens
Her halls of philosophy may be closed to
MIR. Blount's vision, but her university is
crowded with 5000 students, her women's
college is training. teachers for all the
Greek communities in the East; her
gymnasia lavishing free public insrtuc-
tion on all her children. If the sea coast
is as silent as at the dawn of
creation, then creation must have had
regular Fourth of July dawn. Of course,
the Greeks are not trading much in the
Pacific and have no station at Atlanta
or Honolulu, but the carrying trade of
the Levant is in their hands and stays
there in the teeth of England. But Mr..
Blount reserved his sharpest arrow for
the final shot. "In that land is an
ignorant, thriftless, idle people," Of all
these gratuitous filings, this is the worst.
A more sober. frugal. industrious people
could heartily be found. There are
many lcafers in Athens. as there are in
Washington or Atlanta, but the only
tramp / saw in Greece was an American
sailor
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20
SHIPS ORDERED TO RIO,
The Administration Hears Rumors of
Rebel Success and MonarchicaI Plots.

Washington, December 19.-Today, at
the cabinet meeting, it was determined
that the United States squadron in the
harbor of Rio Janeiro should be in.
creased. After the meeting, orders were
prepared directing the cruiser San Fran
cisco to proceed to Rio Janeiro without
delay. That vessel put into Trinidad,
West Indies, today, and a cable message
was sent to her commander. 1t is said
the San Francisco will reach Rio in about
a week. 1t is understood that it is the
intention of the Navy Department to
place the New York in readiness for sim
liar duty. The naval force of the United
States in the harbor of Rio now consists
of three vessels, the Charleston, Newark
and Detroit. The United States govern.
ment has been placed in possession of
information, which it considers trust
worthy. that Peixoto is weakening and
that the insurgents are likely to be victo-
rious. There is suspicion that the tri-
umph of the insurgents will mean an at
tempt at the re-establishment of the
This outcome would not be
gratifying to the United States. and un-
der such circumstances the presence of a
strong United States force might be con-
sldered desirable for many reasons.
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Local Weather Report.

Portland, Me-, December 19.-The local
signal office records as to the weather,
the following:
ga. m.-Barometer. 20. 79O; thermome-
ter. no; dew point, 16; humidity, 81;
wind. NV; velocity, Z; weather, light
snow.
8p. m.-Barometer, 29. 1890; thermome-
ter. PAP; dew point. 81; humidity, 81:
wind, W: velocity. 8: weather, cloudy.
The mean daily thermometer. 20: max
imum thermometer. 24.O; minimum ther-
mometer, 1876; maximum velocity of
wind, s, NV; total precipitation. 0.29
inch.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20

Washington, December 10. - The
House went into committee of the whole
for the consideration of the urgent de-
ficiency bill today. The clause under
consideration was that making an ap-
preparation for special examiners in the
pension office. An amendment was
adopted making pension vested right
which cannot be suspended without
proper notice. The bill was passed.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20
BRIEFLY TOLD.

President Peixoto's agents have con-
sented to pay the American aiticars Son Of
the dynamite cruiser Nictheroy sso0n
each to enter the Brazilian navy. 'VVO
The annual catalogue of Harvard rr,i
versity shows a total of 3,156 man, bou1 h u.
an increase of 1870. An increase nf ~
requirements has caused loss of Il 'Io in
the law school. IL III
Jose Codina, an anarchist, has con
fessed that he was the author of R tSa oon-
plosion in the theatre at BaroaIoeaa .aJ ea-
Spain, in which thirty peonie eeiona, Qua,
killed. Codina glories In the act act were
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20
THE WEATHER.
Fair and Cold.

Washington, December 19.-For New
England and eastern New York: Gener-
ally fair; moderate cold wave; north
westerly gales, diminishing. Signals
are displayed on the Atlantic coast from
New York to Boston and Boston Section
and at Eastport.
Boston, December 19.-Local forecast
for New England for Wednesday: Fair
and decidedly colder; northwest winds.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20
Some Signs of the Times.

The New Bedford spinners' union will
circulate among the mill operatives
petitions protesting against the cotton
schedule of the Wilson bill.
The wages of the 1900 employees of the
American Waltham Watch company have
been cut ten per cent.
The Globe yarn mills at Fall River are
reducing the number of operatives.
Lowell (Mass.) churches will trv to
raise $40. 600 for the poor next Snndav
A dlsbursing bureau will be established.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20
MISCELLANEOUS.
A SHORT
Linz LEADS
FROM a COUGH

To settled lung trouble. Lung Kuro in
stantly checks hacking cough and stops
tickling sensations in the throat and
lower air passages. Asthma, bronchitis
and settled winter colds yield quickly to
Lnng Kuro
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20
ToRPEDoEs IN A HURRY.
Cruiser New York May Be Getting Ready
for Foreign Service.


Newport, r. l., December 19.-The
first torpedo outfit, according to the
modern term, for one of Uncle Sam's
ships, was shipped from here tonight on
the United States tug Fortune. Tele-
graphic orders were received at the sta
ton this afternoon for the cruiser New
York's outfit to be shipped on the tug
to the New York navy yard with all
speed. The reason for this display of
life is not known here, except that the
cruiser is to go on the dry dock in day
or two, and then, upon coming off, viii
be ordered off on important duty at once
The speedy fulfillment of the unexpected
order is causing much comment among
naval people here tonight. There is also
much conjecture as to why so urgent
call for the outfit has been made.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20
At Isle of Shoals.

Portsmouth, N. H., December 19.-An
United States weather Office has been es-
tablished at Isle of Shoals, and signals
were displayed today for the first time.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20

The Jacksonville, (Fla.,) city council
will pass over the mayor veto, an ordi-
nance designed to prevent the Corbett-
Mitchell fight in that city.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20
Carter Harrison's Successor.

Chicago, December 19.-John P.
Hopkins, Democrat, was today elected
mayor ny plurality Of is34 to all the
Carter Harrison.
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Mr.. Eoar Will Then Open the Discussion
1t Is Reported that the President May
Back Down Altogether and Order
Willis to Recognize the Provisional
Government Again-Another Stormy
Session in the House-Mrss Boutelle's
Gallant Fight.
The Portland daily press., 1893-12-20

How Two Great Horses Made and Ruined
Green Country Boy-They Enabled
Him to Make Way Station in Iowa a
Centre of Interest to Horsemen-Metro-
politan Conveniences at the Way sta
ton, However, Proved Disastrous.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-20
THE KANSAS MILITIA

TOPEKA. Kan. May 19-1he state mill
tary board adjourned last evening after
having completed arrangements for re
organization of the militia on a basis TO
conform 10 the national military regula-
tIous adopted last year. BY the new plan
the Kansas militia, which now mum bers
about l. 800 men, is reduced to about J. 100
men. A company will now consist Of
eight guards of eight men each with five
officers and bugler maximum OF
seventy men. while under the old reLula-
tions the maximum was sixty men. There
will now be only three regiments instead
OF four. but the enlargement of the com
panies in the regiments makes no material
change In the strength OF the army. There
will be two battaljons to each regiment or
six bgttalious Of four companies each.
The state i, By the new arrangement
divided into three brigade divisions, wit b
General W. II. Sears OF Lawrence III COM
nand of the first General l. .. Hettlug-r
OF Wichita in command OF the second. and
General W II. Parsons Of Clyde IN com
mand of the third TIE militia is row IN
complete control of the popu,Ists, the three
brigade generals being }appointecs OF TOW
ernOr Leweiilny This reorgauizttI0n re-
duces the number Of companies from
thirty-two To tweuty-four. From the
saving Of rentals and other expenditures
which Will result from this reduction the
board Will conduct battalion encamp-
ynentS. for which the best military III
strucJion will be secured AuIutAnt Cen
eral ArJz's plan to organize an army OF
- gJ0 was not even mentioned AZ the meet
ing Of the board
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RECFiNC RCHIPS

| CLEVELAND, O., May 19-In the United
States circuit court this morning re-
celver was appointed for the Clover Leaf
railroad The order for the appointment
was made by Judge A. j. Kicks, in the
United States district court, at II O'Clock,
on the application OF Stout & Corey OF
N5w York, who filed bill against the
Toledo, st. Louis and Kansas City rail.
road. claiming to have a judgment for
$4,000 in the common pleas court at
| Toledo, upon which the execution had
been returned unsatisfied.
In their bill the plaintiffs set forth that
Il large number of unsecured claims are
pending against the defendants in the
states Of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, aGgre-
eating III all nearly ST. 900 COO Suits, they
say, have been begnn on many of these
claims, and others about TO be insti-
! tuted, and that the road IS insolvent and
| unable TO meet them. The prosecution OF
| this great number of suits, it j. set FORTH
would entail n great accumulation OF
costs, and, TO avoid this unnecessary cost
ana to prevent the struggles of conflicting
creditors and the depreciation of the
property OF the company, and to protect
all creditors alike, they asked for the APP
poiutment OF receiver, Judge Ricks
granted the petition and named MIR.
Samuel Il Galloway of Toledo, the present
president of the company, for the position
Colonel Robert q. Ingersoll, general
counsel for the company, who WAS present,
consented to the appointment on behalf of
the company. An application was at once
made before Judge Woods of the United
States circuit court at Chicago for II SINH
lar appointment for Indiana and illinois.
KANSAS CITY. May l9-Felix Llforce
and W. T. Clarke, receivers for the defuuct
Winner Building company, filed "A suit at
independence late yesterday afternoon
against the Kansas City directors OF the
company for S150 coo, 10 compel them TO
show what disposition they have made OF
that amount of money. When the com
paGy was organized the capital was placed
at 81, 100000, and the directors certified
that one-haif of this amount was paid up.
The receivers have been at work for
months upon the company's books, aud
are unable to discover what became of
800 900. In the trial of the suit brought
here and OF those to be brought elsewhere
some sensational testimony may be eX-
pected concerning the methods OF the man
agemeut of the Winner enterprises, and
especially of the building company.
CHICAGO. May I9-Wiliiam Deering 81
Co. have dismissed all their attachment
suits against the National CordSge COM
pany at their own cost, leaving the receiv-
ers IN undisputed possession of the prop
erty OF the National Cordage company.
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TAE WORI DIS EAIR.

CHICAGO. May 19.-The attendance at
the woman's congress today exceeded that
of any previous session. Every hall was
fl He'd aud many could not gaiu admission
at all Today was the last day of depart
ment aud special congresses. Tomorrow
the general congress will open. The hall
where the meeting OF the National Society
of the Daughters of the Revolution was
held WAS crowded TO sutfocation. Letltia
Green Stevenson, wife of Vice President
Stevenson presided, as president general
She made some interesting remarks.
The other sections of the congress were
well entertained with addresses by women
of national reputation, among thein being
Mrs. Alice May Scudder, Mrs. j. Ellen
Foster, Lily Toomey, Helen Z. Starrett,
Jane Adams and Susan Il. Anthony.
At n conference of the womin's Unitar-
ian societies of the Pacific coast, Rev. Ida
c. Hutton aroused great applause by urg
ing her hearers 20 90 en- masse 10 the world S
fair on Sundays for principle sake.
The international Council Of Women
elected officers tonight. Lady Aberdeen
was elected president: May Wright Sew
all, vice president; Madam MARITIME of
France, secretary, and Baroness Grippen-
berger of Finland, treasurer.
The Sunday opening question Is still in
statu quo. The judiciary committee of
the national commission, to which the
matter was referred, will not report till
Monday.
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AN ATTEMPTED TRAIN ROBBERY.

GUTHRIE, O. T., May 19-An attemp'
was made tonight, supposedly by the
Starr gang, to hold mp passenger train No.
403 on the Santa Fe at Ponca. -Four
masked men tagged the train. The train
was stopped and Il brakeman sent ahead
and another back to flag coming trains
When Conductor Glazier saw that the
train had been iltgged Dy robbers, he or
dered the engineer TO go ahead, aud the
train pulled out. Ia the mean time United
States Deputy Marshal Heck Thomas got
off he train to take hand in the affair
Several shots were fred, but no one 50 far
known, was injured. The brakemeu
and Thomas were left at Ponca whsu the
train pulled out. Members of The Starr
gang have been lettering around Ponca
for some days, ana there is no doubt in
the minds of the railway people that they
are the would-be robbers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-20
IlIRE WINNIE ERS-

PHILADELPHIA, May l9-Ths was the
closing day at the spring trottiug meeting
In the S:2S class Tony Clock won, with
Nellie Gray second and General Turner
third. Best time, 2:2l4. In the 2:25 class.
pacing, Hadley, Jr.. won. Free Trade was
second and Emily Hall third Best time
2:23l.. in the Ply class, trotting and pac-
lrg, Charlie c. won. Sadie NJ. was second
and David Copperfield third. Best time,
2:i74.
GRAvEsEND. l.. l., May 19-Winners:
Tormentor. Joe Ripley. Sport. Equity
Chnrister. Cuiaco.
LOUISVILLE. May l9.-ThiS was the clos
ing day OF one the most successful meet
lngS ever held at Churchill Downs. The
feature of the day was the Kentucky hand
icsp, worth s. $40 To the winner It was
taken by Rudolph, 8 To l, by one and one
haif lengths. The winners of other races
were Jackson. Rosamond, Rachael, Nc
Allister, Loudou.
EAST ST. Louis. May Ia Winners:
ID. ". Brooks, Nelox, Mandy Brooks,
Horaoo Leland, Fred Taral
Sr. Louis, May l9-Winners: RadcljfT,
BtIlinger, Viola Belle, Uncle Jim, Lucille,
Manette, Belfast.