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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-02-23
WILL NOT INVESTIGATE,

Gen. Boynton's Charges Against the Lit
erary Ring Come to Nothing.
Chairman Amos Cummings, of the House Lii
brary Committee, reported upon the resolution
asking for an investigation of the literary
ring" of the State Department on Wednesday,
Feb. Is, and asked the House to table the rsso-
luton; which was done. The report consists
OF Gen. H. v. Boynton's statement before the
committee, and Mr.. William Henry Smiths
affidavit, both of which are to the effect that
the latter gentleman was not permitted to copy
State papers, and distractions were thrown in
his way for q number Of years, while Henry
Cabot Lodge and Mr. Adams were given access
to the same documents without hindrance
The statement of Gen. Boynton and Mr. Smiths
affidavit were referred to the Department of
State by Chairman Cummings. aud elected the
following reply from Secretary John w. Foster:
In response to your letter of the 30th ult. have
the honor to advise you that i have caused
the statement of Gen. II. v. Boynton and Mr..
William Henry Smith, respectively, to be
fully examined, and that they have been found
10 relate TO accusations touching the conduct of
Mr.. Theodore F. Dwight. at the time of their origin
be an officer ofthis Department. and that they
concerned with questions which, in my opinion,
this Department cannot determine.
Secretary Foster also transmits copies of some
letters which were sent to Senator Farwell and
MIR. Smith. which show on their face that Mr.
Smith WAS debarred from access to the histori-
cal papers he desired while Messrs. Lodge and
Adams were abstracting their contents.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-02-23
MR.. CUMMINGS INDIGNANT,

Congressman Amos Cummings was very in
dignant at tho manner in which the debate on
the pension appropriation bill was conduc
Although he Is not a member Of the Committee
on Appropriations he had, he states, the assur-
ance of Mr.. Mntchler, the Democratic member
in charge of ths bill. and also of Mr. Grout of
Vermont, who controlled the Republican side
of the debate, that he should have at least 10
minutes, AS an ex-solder, to oppose the report
of the committee. In referring TO lis treatment
on Wednesday, Feb. Is, Mr.. Cummings said
that the gentlemen Who psrcelled out the de-
bate took good care not to give any eX soldier
who is Democrat chance to oppose the bill.
He could hardly expect Mr.. Grout to yield him
time because there were so many Republicans
who wished to speak on tho subject, but Mr..
Mutchler in disposing of the time divided it up
among the members Of the committee Who were
known to favor The BILL thus shutting OF any
discussion by Democratic members whe were
not in accord with the proposed legislation.
Mr.. Cummings condemns the present rules,
which deny members the right to participate
in general debate, except at the will and
sanction of one or two men who happen to have
charge of the measure under discussion.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-02-23
ARMY AND NAVY.

Second Lieut.. Capers ID. Vance 18th o. g.
Inf, who was lately court martialed and dis
missed from the service for making an assaults
on the wife of First Lieut.. Johnston, also of
the 10th Inf. shot himself through the head al
Fort Douglas near Salt Lake City. Utah. on
Saturday. Feb. IL, and died from the effects Of
his wound. Vance was appointed cadet "a
the Military Academy from Arkansas, in 1881
and grad aated in 1888, being appointed Addi-
tional Second Lieutenant in the 2Ist Inf He
was promoted Second Lieutenant 18th Inf in
October, 1888. He was native of Arkansas.
Bids were opened in the office of the Secrs-
tary of the Navy on Thursday Feb. 18 for
6, 100 tons of nickel steel and Hsrveyized steel
srmor for vessels now being constructed for the
navy, in conformity with an act of Congress ap-
propriating 100000 for the purchase. A
number of prominent steel manufacturers were
present. among them Mr.. III. c. Frick, of the
Carnegie Steel Company. Contrary to expects-
tion there were two bidders only. the Carnegis
Steel Company, of Pittsburg. and the Bethlehem
Iron Works, of Bethlehem. Pa. On account of
the complicated nature of the bids submitted
it is imposs bic ut this time to give COMPARE
tive statement of them. The prices asked for
the nickel steel ranged from $525 to $3.50 per
ton, according TO the shape of the plate, and
for Haryeyized steel from 1910 TO 1878 per ton.
The lowest bids on the principal single exhibits
were as follows: By the Bethlehem Company
On 13-ineh turret plates of nickel steel, S2l2-
0l3; Harveyized. $3.50 232; on - inch turrets
of nickel steel. 1921 .976; Harveyized, S355. 010
on 8-inch side armOr of nickel STEEL 1887 351:
Harveyized. S37l711. By the Carnegie Steel
COmpany-On S-iuch turret plates OF nickel
steel, So. ISL; Hsrveyized. 500. $40
By direction of President Harrison the sem
tencs of the general court-msrtial, as mitigated,
imp posed on Haj. Charles b. Throek morton, I'd
Art has been reduced to three years suspension
from rank and command. with forfeiture of half
his pay. Maj Throckmorton was convicted by
q court-martIal OF peculiar transactions with
regard to checks on New York banks and sem
fenced to dismissal, but the President, on
March 20 last, mitigated this to FIVE years.
from rank and command, with for
fixture of half his pay. The last action of the
President reduces his penalty by two years.
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RECENT ExTRADITIoN TREATIES.
Very Friendly Relations Between the United
States, France and Russia. ~,

Very Friendly II Citations Between the United
States, France and Russia.
Sensational dispatches have recently been
published which have announced that there
was q hidden significance In the extradition
treaties recently ratified by the United States
Senate with Russia and France. Naturally,
these reports have occasiored many inquiries
to be addressed to officials here in Washington,
az we'll as to Senators who are in q position to
know all the facts. According to these dis.
patches :" q triple alliance between this coun-
try. France, and Russia, for mutual benefit aud
defeuse, which has been secretly pending for
the last six years, unknown TO either the dpio-.
matte or political world. at large, eliminated in
Executive session of the United States
Senate few days ago." when the extradition
treaties between the United States and Russia
and France were ratified ~~t
There ia not the slightest ground to sustain
such Interpretation Of these two trsatieR
according to persons who would DO likely to
know all about the matter, and 1t il asserted
that there is no provision In either Of these
treaties which differs very widely from those
negotiated between this country, Great Britain,
Germany, and other powers. And still further,
and perhaps more to the point. there WAS ne
provision in the treaties with Russia and
France that essentially differs from the extra
ditiun negotiated with Sweden, which was
ratified at the same time.
One of the Senators who participated in the
discussion of these treaties has since publicly
expressed his opinion shat the ratification Of
these treaties would be regarded by Russia and
France "a a tacit agreement cementing those
ancient bonds of alliance which had led France
to aid us in our Revolution, and had induced
Russia to send its feet to our moral aid when
Napoleon was trying to induce Great Britain to
recognize the Confederacy.
1t is pointed out that, though these views
may have largely influenced Senators in the
ratification OF the treaty, and though some
idea OF the same kind may we'll have been
present in the minds of the high contracting
powers there is considerable space separst-
ing the renewal of friendly sentiments from
the negotiation of an offensive and defensive
alliance.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-02-23
THE NEGRO PROBLEM.
Bishop Turner Thinks It's Solution is Emf
grafton to Africa.


Bishop Henry N. Turner, of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church, who is about to
start from the United States on mis- visitation
10 the African Missions, makes the following
strong appeal for the return of the negro race
to the African continent:
THE negro cannot remain here as 4 perms-
nent factor and occupy his present ignobls
status The negro problem has only one So
luton, and that is for the negro TO return TO
Africa in sufficient numbers to build up a civil
lied country Of his ewn. develop the resources
of that continent. establish commerce with the
civilized nations of the world, and impart his
civilization and Christianity to his brethren in
heather Africa, and thus answer the ends
for which God tolerated bis temporary en-
slavement and contact with this giant white
race.
That is the only solution of the negro
problem; anything else is humbug and nom
sense. All the negro wants is line Of
steamers between the South and Africa and
be will solve his own problem aad at the
same time enrich the South beyond the con-
ception of Imagination. No injustice, oppres-
sion. railroad discrimination, denial of the
ballot, ruling of the jury or species of lynch
law will sver solve the negro problem. A
line of African steamships alone can do it,
and until that line is established the self-rs-
liant and manly negro, as well as the mean
and vicious black man, will be thorn in
the flesh Of the country.
You may send negroes to the pen until
half of them are eonVicts but it will do ne
good. They will still be q menace to the
country. For God has 3 purpose to serve in
the negro, and the white man must help
him to serve it, and any subterfugs is simply
bosb. Europe can keep hundred and sew
enty-odd ships, nearly all steamers. huggiug
the the shores of Africa the year round. and
this country can keep but two little old
sailing ScifoOners, going once in six months
except a whisky craft which goes out Of
Boston occasionally. laden down with hundreds
of gallons of the most deadly drug, commonly
called whisky stuff that never saw the
still-house and as destructive to life as pos
sible"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-02-23
A SPIRITUAL SRANCR.
Investigators Who Raised Rumpus Les
on by the Court.

Investigators Who Raised Runpus Les
on by the Court.
The Police Court, presided over By Judge
Miller, was crowded TO the doors one day lsss
week by curious people who uishsd 20 yitness
the outcome of the trial Of thrss young msn
who were charged with disturbing ths peace az
Spiritual seance held at the Hotel Albert
during the month Of January. Charles Ross
the husband of the trance medium was the
brst witness. and he said that while the sesncs
was in progress, Shannon ons Of the men
charged with the disturbance Jumped from his
seat, ran across the room aid grabbed an old gen.
tlsmsn by the leg and threw him down. The old
gentleman who was thrown down and injured
by shannon was DR.. Wheat one OF the believers
VINO was at that time talking with his mother:
that Shannon also kicked over table and
broke a music box which was resting thereon.
When cross examined Ross admitted that he had
been arrested in Boston for obtaining money
under false pretsDses and had had troubls with
the authorities elsewhere.
DIR. Wheat also testified to the assault made
on him by Shannon, who. he said, had pulled
his legs from under him whiIs be was con-
yersing with his mother, who had long been
dead
When Shannon took the stand he said hs vas
an investigator Of Spritualistic phenomena
ana when ne saw few things at the seancs
which he knew to be frauds he endeayored 70
expose them Ross seemed t. be afraid of him.
and had put aim at some distance from tho
cabinet, and between two believers, who yers
to keep him STILL When be noticed that thu
interviews between Julius Cesar, Hannibal
and other worthless who had been dead for
hundreds of years were all in a voice resem-
bling that of Mrs. Ross, and that they and
Washington, the father of his country were
made to use yillsinous grammar he jumped I'D
aud caught the medium by the leg. not DR..
Wheat. He found . substantial leg and when
his friends struck q bundle of matches tied to-
sether. he found ne had hold of Mrs. Ross who
screamed and kicked until there was no doubt
about the identity Of the spirit when be re-
leased her and she went into ths next room.
When the gas was lighted, Shannon said he
picked up pair Of corsets, garter and part
OF stocking that had bean lost in she struggle
As Ross would not swear that his wife had
gotten out Of the cabinet by supernatural means,
Judge Miller said that. in the light of the evil
dence, he would not be able to hold the defend
ants guilty. unless he could believe that Mrs
Ross had melted into thin air and slid ont
through the key hole-s thing he was not pre-
pared to do; and as the Assistant District At
torney at this juncture threw up the case, the
defendants were released.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-02-23
QEN, e. A. CARR'S CASE,
He Denies Having Entered into an Under
standing About Retirement

He Denies Having Entered into an Under
standing About Retirement.
brighten. Eugene A. Carr, of the Army, has
been making strenuous resistance TO efforts that
were recently being made to place him on the
Retired List, and his attorneys, Shelabarger Il
Wilson, have fled q brief ia favor OF the Con.
erals retention in active service. The case il
very interesting one and presents the question
whether the President has . right to retire an
officer without his consent. Gen. Carr was pro-
NOTED Brigadier- General last year, and accord
ing to law would not retire until 1894 It ID
claimed. however. that when he was promoted
Brigadier General it was with ,he understand
ing that he would retire voluntarily before the
18th of March, 1923, so az to give the President
the opportunity Of appointing younger officer
In his plscs. Gen. Schofeld recon u ended on
the last day of January that Gen. Carr be re-
tired, and that Col. w. P. Carlin bs promoted
to the vacancy and at once retired, so that q
younger Colonel might be promoted Brigadier-
General. Gen. Carr Immediately Oh receipt of
this news wrote to the President, protesting
against the approval of Gen. Sehofsld's recon-
the position OF Brigadier-General with the
understanding that he should be retired before
the 4th of next March.
Notwithstanding Gen. Cars protest, by
direction of President Harrison, the Adjutsnt-
General of the Army issued an order on Fri
day, Feb. II, placing Brig. Gen. E. A. Carr on
the Retired List on account of age. This ac-
ton was taken against the protest of Gen.
Carr. In recommending Gen. Cars retire.
ment Maj.-Gen. schofsld requested that Col
Csrln be promoted to the vacancy and imme-
diately retired, and that . younger Colonel be
appointed Col. Otis has been selected for the
Brigad Ter Generalship.
somewhat similar point 10 said to have
arisen in connection with the retirement of
Brighten. Robert Williams, the Adiutant-
General Of the Army. Col. @. D. Ruggles,
Assistant Adjutant General, it Is said. had been
selected for promotion in case Adj't-Gen. WILL
liams retired before the 4th of March.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1893-02-23
M. M. PARKER APPOINTED,
The President Selects a Veteran for Distrfc.
Commissioners.

Mr.. Myron NJ. Parker was nominated by
| President Harrison on Tuesday, Feb a. to
be District Commissioner to succeed Hon.
| John w. Douglass, whose term Of office has
| expired. When seen at his home in the
afternoon. after the nomination had been sent
to the Senate, Comrade Parker said the nomi-
nation WAS perhaps a greater surprise to him
than anybody else. He had not sought the
position on the contrary. had been using
his influence in behalf of Mr., Chaplin Brown
When the President offered hiIa the position
he told him he could not accept it for the
reason that it would necessarily be a sacri-
fee for him in a financial way. Since the
President had seen fit to nominate him. he
would accept. and if he was confirmed by the
Senate wonld enter upon the immediate dis
charge Of his duties. The nomination s favor
ably received. as Mr.. Parker has been
resident of Washington for over % years.
Comrade Parker born in Fairfax County.
VT, in 1913, and was educated IL the public
schools. He enlisted as q private in the 1st VT
Cav, and served through the war, having a
splendid military record. At the close of the
war he accepted position in the Adjutant- Gem
erals Office, which be held until appointed As
sistaDt Postmaster of Washington City by Gen.
Hayes. He graduated from the Law Depart
ment of the Columbian University in 1876 He
was Grand Master of Masons in 1854 and 1885,
and officiated n such at the dedication of the
Washington Monument. He was Chairman of
the Triennial Committee to receive and enter
tain the Grand Encampment knights Templar
Of the United States at its oath Conclave held
in this city, in 1889. He WAS . member of the
Executive Committee having in charge the
inauguration of President Garfield, and was
Vice Chairman of the Inaugural Committee
for President Harrison.
Mr.. Parker is a Republican, and has always
taken active interest in the advancement of
Washington. He one of the promoters of
the Worlds Columbian Exposition in 1892 and
was one Of the three selected to present the |
claims of Washington before the committee of !
Congress- He is President of the Board of |
Trade and Secretary of the Washington he |
mortal Association, the President Of which Ii |
Chief Justice Fuller, and the objects of which |
are to preserve historical houses in Washing |
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Case distinguished himself in the war WITH
Mexico ana IN The rebellion. His service. In
mexico included the capture and defense of the
town Of PaIisada with p men, After the m a
;. POrPoise had taken possession OF Da0una
AdmIrsl Case. then a young officer, went nm
the Palisads River in a small boat with thu
number OF men named. captured the town. and
held 1t for two weeks against a large BODY Of
cavalry. His object in holding the place was "a
intercept Gen. Santa Ana in his reported en-
deavor to escape TO Honduras through the
Palisads passes. In the late war he was the
Fleet Captain of tho famous North Atlantic
Bi0ckading Squadron. and was present st the
capture Of Forts Hattsras and Clark. Roanoke
Island, Sewsli Point, and Norfolk City.
After the war he continued t. rise through
all the grades OF service. receiving the rank Of
Rsar-Admiral in 1872. while in command of the
European Squadron.
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WHOLESALE ROBBERY.
The Ceiored Driver of u Mail Wagon Sc
cures Lots of Plumber.

The Ceiored Driver of q Mail Wagon Sc
cures Lots of Plumber.
Postofics Inspector w. e. Smiths room at
the Department had the appearance of a second.
hand fancy goods store Friday, Feb. IL.
Scattered over the table were pipes, cigars
manicure instruments, photographs, toilet soa DE-
stationery, necklaces gold watches, penk hives,
combs, brushes ladies' Workings, neokties,
cheap jewelry. etc, which articles had been
sent through the mails to all parts of the United
States, and to many foreign lands but had
found their way back to Washington, and had
been found in the possession of negro mail
driver.
George Proctor. colored, has been employed
mail driver for the Postoffice Department
since last May He is about 90 years of age
aud intelligent. About two weeks ago Capt d.
p. Liebhardt Superintendent of the Dead
Letter Office. began TO miss packages from the
bags containing second class matter from the
Office in New York. He at once reported the
fact to the Inspector and the work Of looking
up the shortage was begun.
Inspector Smith, with one of his assistants
investigated the Dead Letter Office and then
the departments where the bags arc opened.
He could get no clew.
Then he began looking after the drivers.
An envelope or wrapper of a package which had
been returned to the Dead Letter Office was
found in the wagon of George Proctor
Another clew was obtained. and Friday
morning at TAO o'clock Proctor was placed
under arrest He was found with two Of the
mail packages in his possession. He was then
charged with the robbery and confessed his
guilt. He said he had been stealing since De-
cember 16. He was taken before United States
Commissioner Mills, and in default of 81, 900
bail sent to Jail.
Before Proctor was tried Capt. Smith went
with him to his boarding place, 425 Fifth street
southeast, and found in his room all the articles
which had recently been taken from the mails.
large number Of such articles enumsr-
ated are sent through the mails. When
they reach the New York Office many are |
found to be unavailable or without suf aeient
postage to convey them across the sea Or to |
their destinations in the States. They are |
manifested and returned to tho Dead Letter |
Office at Washington.
Proctor had key to his wagon, and BE- |
fore unloading it would 60 through the bags |
and take out such packages as he thought |
valuable. The seeond-class matter Ia sent In |
bags which are not locke but simply tagged and |
tied. Proctor had but little trouble in rihing the |
bags. His work was eleysrly done but ii
was not clever enough 10 eluds the detective
skill Of Inspector Smith
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Wishes to speak through the Register OF
the beneficial results he has received
from regular use of Ayers Pills.
He says: 81 was feeling sick and tired
and my stomach seemed all out OF order.
tried number OF remedies, but none
seemed to give me relief until was in
duced to try the old reliable Ayers
Pills. have taken only one box, but I
feel like new man. I think they are
the most pleasant and easy to take Of
anything / ever used, being 80 finely
sugar-coated that even child will take
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