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The Washington times., 1894-04-25
NOTES FROM HOUSE AND SENATE.

The House Elections Committee yesterday
heard arguments in the contested election case
Of Good vs.. Epes, from the Foarth district of
Virginia.
The Senate Committee on Interstate Com
merce yesterday agreed to recommend the con-
f1rmation of James d. Yeomans as Interstate
Commerce Commissioner.
Representative Beltzhoover, who has been
seriously i'll at his home in Pennsylvania for sew
eral weeks, has returned to Washington consid-
erably improved In health.
Representative Burrows, of Michigan, is suffer-
ing from painful bruises to his right arm and
side as result OF being thrown from a cable
car Ithas not, however, kept him from attend
ing the sessions Of the House.
Senator Walsh, Of the Committee on Quadro
Centennial, will report favorably the bill author
the claim of the French Government in behalf of
its citizens whose property was destroyed by fire
in the liberal arts building at the Chicago Expo
sition.
Among the bills introduced and referred to
the appropriate committees yesterday was one
by Mr.. Hunton, Of virginia, for the erection of
municipal building for the District Of Columbia,
which was referred to the Committee on the
District Of Columbia
Representative Henderson, of North Carolina,
has introduced a bill relating to mailable mat
ter, providing that second class matter shall en-
brace all newspapers and other periodical pub
locations issued at stated intervals and as fire.
Quently as four times year
Sergeant-at-Arms Snow has sent to each Rep
resentative in Congress printed circular
marked important" giving specific tnforma-
tion as to the docking" Of salaries Of absentees,
to begin on May next, asking members to
avoid the protesting Of checks and drafts by not
drawing against their accounts until the dock
ings" for absent days has been made.
Representative Kiefer, Of Minnesota. who Is
interesting himself in the bill appropriating
$1,000 for the survey OF route for canal be-
tween Lake Superior and the Mississippi river,
has received q favorable report from the geolog-
ical survey Of his state in regard to the amount
Of water available to feed the canal II built,
which win be submitted at tho next me citing Of
the Committee On Railn ays snd Canals
The Washington times., 1894-04-25
Minor Accidents.

Joseph Cocker, young white boy living at
No. 1915 T street northwest. Lad his right
hand badly cut in lawn mower while cut
ting grass yesterday. The wound was dressed
at the Emergency hospital.
O. F. Putnam, living at Pennsylvania avenue
and Fifteenth street southeast, was taken to the
Emergency hospital yesterday with bad cut
In the right knee The accident happened
the day before while roofing a barn out at
College station.
W. q. Booker, . colored butler living at
l118 Westmore street northwest, fell two
flights Of stairs at the house at the corner of
Sixteenth and L streets about II o'clock last
night and sustained severe injuries on the
head and face. He was taken to the Emer-
gency hospital.
Ate o'clock last night Harrison Smith, q
colored boy five years old, while crossing the
southwest, was Knocked down and run over
by horse and buggy driven by Charles Has,
kins. His ankle was broken. Omcers Veil
and Mullins witnessed the a6atr and placed
Hakkins under arrest
The Washington times., 1894-04-25
TooTHPULLERs IN SESSION.

Joint Meeting Of the Washington and
Maryland state Dental Associations.
The Washington City Dental Association
gathered at the National Law School last night
for joint meeting for the reading of papers
anda general discussion ofmatters Of interest
to the dental profession.
The meeting will last until tonight, when
they will close with a banquet.
DR.. II. NJ Schooley. of this city, chairman
Of the joint committee, called the meeting to
order at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. In a
brief address the chairman spoke Of the foun-
dation of an association Of dentists of Mary
land and the District two years ago. This as
sociation was finally dsbgnded and the two
present organizations formed.
The main address of welcome was delivered
by DR.. W. E. Difienierfer. president of the
society, who gave an interesting resume of
the progress OF dentistry and Of necessary i'm
provements.
The response to this address Of welcome was
delivered by DR.. B. Holly Smith. OF Balti-
more. president OF the visiting association
DR.. Holly referred 10 the need OF securing
legislation to protect the public from quack-
cry. He suggested that If the meeting be
continued q clinic in Baltimore should be
held one afternoon in the quarter when cases
may be heard and papers read.
The report of the committee on publication
OF voluntary essays and dental legislation was
read by the chairman of the committee. DR..
II. F. Finley, of this city. The report con-
tanned the following list OF papers to be read
soft Gold Cylinders; How and Where to Use
Them" by Dr. S. c. T. Hugo; "Ambidextrous-
ness by DIR. H. B. Noble: Dental Legislation"
by DR.. A. W. Sweeney; "Strangulated Nerve" by
Dr.. A. j. Brown: Dental Legislation" by Drs.
Williams. Donnally, and Emory A. Bryant;
permanent Bridgework," by Dr. E. A. Bryant;
diseased Antrum," by Dr. NJ. g. Sykes; "Report
Of Case" by DIR. S. Hess
The afternoon session began at o'clock
Dr. Edward Nelson delivered the report Of
the committee on dental education. literature,
and dental nomenclature. The report was
followed by "Clinics," under the direction of
Williams Donnally.
The evening session began at 8 o'clock.
]. B. Hodgkin delivered the report Of the COM
mittee on mechanical dentistry and dental
chemistry.
An essay ON Uric Acid and the Dental Dis,
eases of the Gouty Diathesis' was read by S.
Ashley Taught, Of Philadelphia
The meeting was concluded by the reading
Of the report Of the committee on pathology
and terapeutics by the chairman, ]. Wilson
Davis, of this city.
The Washington times., 1894-04-25
GENEROUS AND LOYAL

It must surely be source Of qualification
to all lovers of generosity and loyalty that
Mr.. Cleveland has contributed considerable
sum Of money. $500 it is said. to the uses Of
the National Association of Democratic Clubs.
There has been noticeable in the past on the
part of many leading statesmen, and especi-
ally among certain punctillious candidates for
Office, a disposition not to tote any part Of the
load at all, to borrow q most picturesque
Southwestern expression. 1t has never been
SO with Mr.. Cleveland. When he has wanted
things, he has not denied 1t. We have
respected him for that. When 1t has been
proper for him to help to secure
things. to help secure them. This
kind of behavior is not merely an evidence
that Mr.. Cleveland possesses a true knowl-
edge of the proprieties of political life, but it
is an inspiration to all his followers, and no
doubt to many others. 1t is said that the
Lord helps those who help themselves. That
is doubtless true. But is not everybody, or
practically everybody, not merely willing, but
eager to help those who help themselves?
Undoubtedly.
The Washington times., 1894-04-25
ALL SHOW YOUR HANDS.

An enterprising journal for advertisers,
Progress, edited by Mr.. William A. Hunger
ford, one of the most rapid Of advertisement
writers in the Western Hemisphere, contains
this week the following letter from WASH
ington merchant:
Noticing the formation of an Ad-Writers'
Association, and assuming that it has the best
interest of the business men Of the city at heart
l sugges THAT it appoint committee Of three or
i've members and ascertain II the News asser-
tions in regard to the Stars circulation are true
or not, and have the committee wait upon
the Star, News" Post and Times and obtain
their exact circulation by proper investigation
for the benefit Of the merchants who advertise.
The papers could not possibly object, for under
stand they all court the fullest investigation.
Progress thinks the idea is excellent, as the
information called for is really due the mer-
chants 1t is; it is The idea is excellent; and
let a committee Of merchants be appointed.
supplies, delivery accounts. records of street
sales, etc.. and make certain what is the
actual circulation of all the Washington daily
papers. And let the committeeman inquire
and satisfy themselves what the bona fide paid
for calculations are Let them discriminate
(and give notice privately for their own bene-
fit, If any Of the papers should object to this
publicity, what the good circulations are and
what the bad ones.
Let them not make the mistake of suppos-
ing that the free distribution Of paper which
is not worth buying is Of value as real ad-
vertising circulation, for how shall the reader
of the newspaper be expected to care for 1t.
and believe its advertisements as well as its
news reports, if he finds it not worth paying
for? And how shall he buy the goods Of mer
chants If he is too indolent or parsimonious
to pay even his penny or two a day for his
newspaper.
By all means let a committee Of merchants
inquire really, and without fear or favor, into
the value of Washington newspaper mediums.
and let the examination be logical and
thorough.
The Washington times., 1894-04-25
ANNIVERSARY.

Dear wife, when thirty years ago,
In promised love we clasped the hand,
We did not think and could not know
How long the time that promise spanned.
How Fate would part us soon and far,
And sickness add its pains and fears,
And how the awful storm Of war
With dangers I'LL the heightened years.
OF separation; then and there
We only knew we two were one,
And humbly asked Gods loving care
For all the new life thus begun.
And In the years Of welded life,
In every change Of good or Ill,
You've been a true and faithful wife,
And have tried my part to NIL
Just as we promised; and perhaps,
Though when life's records we retrace
We see full many a name in caps
And ours in common lower case
And hopes have been full oft denied,
And all ambitions overthrown,
And fortunes favors turned aside,
And sorrows many We have known.
II may be, II we could but know,
What might have been, what may be yet,
We'd own that all is better 30,
And gladness would efface regret
At any rate, sti1l fond and true,
Well humbly try to do our best,
For us and ours, and others too,
And trust the Lord for all the rest
A F. 8
The Washington times., 1894-04-25
REV. DIR. ENNIS INSTALLED.
Interesting Services Last Night At til
Western Presbyterian Church.

Interesting Services Last Night At the
Western Presbyterian Church.
Last evening in the presence Of large
gathering of the Presbyterian ministers and
laymen, Rev. Howard Wilbur Ennis was in
stalled as pastor Of the Western Presbyterian
church, on H street between Nineteenth and
Twentieth northwest.
The Rev. Benjamin F. Bittinger, D. D.,
presided. and after the opening ofthe services
by the singing of the beautiful anthem ''How
Beautiful Upon the Mountains" the invocation n
was made by the Rev. Charles Alvin Smith.
Following scripture reading by the Rev.
J. R. Verbrycke and the singing OF the Gloria,
the installation prayer was offered by the
Rev. William C. Alexander, D. D. The install
lation sermon was preached by the Rev. Teu-
mis- s. Hamlin, D. D.. and the ceremony per-
formed by the Rev. Benjamin F. Bittinger,
D. D.
Rev. T. G. Easton, D. D., made the charge
to the pastor, and the Rev. William A. Bart
lette, D. D.. made the charge to the people
An able choir, under the direction of Mr..
Robert G.. Sutton, rendered very pleasing
music throughout the services.
At present the board OF elders consists OF
J. W. Easily, W. H. Il. Smith, James A.
Wortham. W. J. Simpson. The deacons: W.
s. Armstrong. d. p Cottell, Capt. Robert
Armour, W. Il. Pearson, ]. G. Allen, q. G.
Barclay. The trustees: E. G. Brandenburg.
J B. Pearson, Capt. Robert Armour, A. R. 8.
Forte, NJ. R. Thorps, ". c. Beckford, James
B. Lambie, and Col. Amos Webster.
The Washington times., 1894-04-25
RAILROAD POOL BILL.
More Progress Made Yesterday in Its Con.
siderati0n in Committee.

More Progress Made Yesterday in Its Con.
sideration In Committee.
The Interstate Commerce Committee OF the
Senate had the pooling bill under considera-
tion yesterday and when the meeting Of the
committee adjourned, member Of the commit
tee expressed Che opinion that the bill would
be completed ut the next sitting, and that the
bill with various amendments would be favor
ably reported.
Among the amendments agreed upon is one
to the effect that copies Of schedules, tariff
rates, contracts between common carriers.
statistics and tables contained in annual re-
ports shall be preserved as records in the GUS
tody OF the Interstate Commerce Commission,
and shall be prfma facie evidence In cases
coming before the commission.
An amendment was agreed on providing
that p fine not exceeding $1,000 shall be in.
ficted upon corporation in lieu Of fine and
Imprisonment against agents or employees Of
the company.
The Washington times., 1894-04-25
They Danced for Prizes.

A large event In the dancing season was .
grand prize waltz held at Prof ODays dane
ing academy, G. A. r. hall, Seventh and L
streets northwest, last night. Sixteen couple
entered the contest. The judges were the fol-
lowing gentlemen: Harry Cumberland, Milo
Burbage, T. W. Stodjard, Harry Twine and
Harry Little. The large gold medals were
awarded to Mr.. Bradley and Miss Mary E. La
Coppidan. Among the ladies present were:
Miss Maggie NJ. DonneI, Miss Maggie Atz,
Misses Sweeney, Frawley, Saur, Hensley, Dona-
hue, Hinnies, Gates, Lynch. Buckley, Mcnamara,
Loring, Collins, Norcorn, Holland. Davis, Rice,
Summers, Joy, Groveman, Jones, Murphy, Dill
lon, Busey, Newmyer. Among the gentlemen
present were I. Wood, G. Smith, n. ODay, j.
Vanderbilt, G. Lash, J. Lash, F. Saur. E. Roche,
J. oppenheimer, d. Gladmon, NJ Torrens, H.
Mockabee, c. Bryan, w. Ashdown, W. ChiIds,
I. Mcnamara, j. Farrell, j. Knighton, B. Cross,
and A. keinberg. Prof. O'Day will close his
school next month with o grand May ball
The Washington times., 1894-04-25
cADDIs CASE POSTPONED.
Question Raised ON the Authority of thu
Court in Such Suits.

Question Raised ON the Authority Of the
Court in Such Suits.
The hearing in the mandamus case insti-
tuted by Eugene e. Gsddis, formerly clerk
in the Treasury Department, against secre-
tary Carlisle to compel reinstatement has
been postponed until next Saturday.
Gsddis asserts that he was discharged for
political reasons contrary to the civil service
law. Assistant Attorney General Whitney.
representing Secretary Carlisle, pleaded lack
Of time for preparing an answer, and on his
motion postponement was ordered.
The statement that the Civil Service Com
missioners instfgated the test case made by
Mr.. Gaddis was denied at the ofice Of the
Commission yesterday.
1t is stated that few days before the suit
was filed Mr.. Gaddis was advised by the Com
missioners to take no judicial steps, on the
ground that the case rested with the Secretary
Of the Treasury and was not matter for set
tlement by the courts.
The Washington times., 1894-04-25
CORRIDOR AND CURB.

Representative Jacob LIE Fevre, Of New
York, says that he Is very fayorably impressed
by the appearance Of Coxey's army. II have
seen . photograph Of number Of members
and they do not resemble the ordinary tramp;
and believe that they are workingmen sim
ply advancing on the capital to ask for work.
The ordinary tramp does not march twenty
miles day. He usually objects to two. There
fore, I think committee from Coxey's army
should be entitled to hearing as much as a
delegation from any class Of workingmen
who might appeal to Congress for relief"
Hon Tom Reed. speaking of the organiza-
ton OF Young Mems Republican League in
this District, said last night: "If you desire
to unite all the state organizations into one
association I am very favorably impressed
with the idea. It is an excellent idea; one OF
best ever proposed"
Ugly things are leaking out at the Pension
Office touching sundry appropriations. A little
while before Mr.. Cleveland was inaugurated
paper was circulated through the Pension
Once recommending Mr.. Bell for the ap-
pointment Of Deputy Commissioner. 1t was
largely signed. Some. however, declined to
sign 1t for sundry reasons. 1t is now said
nate in receiving promotions. while those
who declined TO sign have been equally un-
fortunate, and that many Of them have been
reduced in salary. All this Is charged against
sir. Bell, who Is said to have n long memory
and to be good hater.
Mr.. W. W. Tracey, president OF the ma
tional league Of Republican clubs, sail last
night:
"The league will have larger conven-
ton at Denver next June than ever before in
its history. Yes, l am heartily in favor of
league club in this city. Heretofore, rs l
understand it. there have been separate state
organizations. l am inclined to think that
ship all the citizens OF different states resi-
dent in Washington, will be in position to
do more effective work than under the former
plan OF state organizations"
The old soldiers are not very well pleased
with the service pension bill introduced by
Mr.. Turpie. 1t provides pension equal to
one cent day for the time actually in the
service, that is, il the soldiers served three
years he shall receive monthly Sl0.95, and at
that rate for shorter or a longer service. 1t
further provides that at the age 60, if the SOL
dier is drawing less than IS per month, it
shall be increased to that amount, and If dis
abled for manual labor 10 Sl2. This is to be
in addition to any pension now received.
The complaint Of the soldiers is that the in
crease to IS and Sl2 Is fixed at sixty years of
age, when it ought to be at fifty, and that Sl2
is too little for one who is disabled for manual
labor. They say such sum to one who is
disabled will not keep him out Of the pauper
asyiums.
Considerable comment is heard on the
streets touching the action ofseveral Senators
who rushed of to New York last Friday night
to avoid meeting the workingmen from their
states who came to the city to protest against
the passage OF the Wilson bill. The working
men say the Senators might at least have
heard what they had to say
The Washington times., 1894-04-25
PROFITS OF THE TELEGRAPH.

BY Prior to 1860 there were
MEMBER OF some fifty or sixty telegraph
companies in different parts
of the United States, none
icAL POSTAL of them running over the
TELEGRAPH CON- whole territory, and the
- rates were irregular. Often
times it took from one to
two days for telegram to 20 from New York
TO New Orleans or to the far West. The rates
were very high, running from so or 60
cents up to 81 or So. About 1860 there
was combination of the six principal
lines, by which increased dispatch was OBJ
tanned, and the expenses and rates were re-
duced. Competition followed, and then came
In 1856 the great combination of all the COM
panies. The history of the telegraph up to
1866 Is OF series Of small companies, gradu-
ally concentrated into the Western Union,
which had proved to be very successful, and
had issued enormous amounts of stock divi-
dends. The stock capital by these dividends
became so large that the price went down.
The stock dividends declared, between 1858
and 1866, amounted to s17,s1O146, and the
stock issued for new lines was 81, 937, $50, so
that the capital stock on July 1, 1866, was
ego. l33, 300. In this latter year new stock
was created to the amount CT S20,45O,-
500, making the total capital SAC, ,5ss, 800 on
July 1, 1867. The largest dividend declared
up to 1874 was 414 per cent. The largest
amount of stock ever divided at one time
was slo, ,000. 900, for which not cent by way
Of equivalent was paid, and for a period of
about seven years the dividends were about
100 per cent. year on its average capital. 1t
was by adding dividends to dividends and
by piling the one up on top of the other that
this tremendous amount Of capital and debt
was created.
From uncontroverted statements made be-
fore the Committee on Post Offices and Post
Roads Of tho House during the hearings
above referred to it appears that the Western
Union Telegraph Company was organized in
1852 with capital of s240, 900. How insig-
nilcant those figures seem when compared
with the sl0o.0Oo,0OO or more represented
by the stock at this time. Probably on account
OF the refusal Of Congress to Incorporate the
system with the post Office, the existence of
large number of rival companies and the con-
'equent composition between them, to which
may be added the fact that the managers had
hot as yet leaned the lesson Of combination
md consolidation which has been brought to
such nice degree Of perfection In these later
lays, tho growth Of the company for the first |
ew years of its existence was comparatively |
los. for in 1858 the capital had only In
creased to ss5s,7oo. Lest IL be imagined |
hat the company experienced difficulty In
The Washington times., 1894-04-25
EVERYBODY PARTICIPATES IN 1T.

THE TIMES is the peoples cooperative
paper, not merely in the sense that it has
been started and is operated successfully, and
must always continue, as an enterprise labored
by all its people, having proportion in each
case OF what the paper earns; it is co-opera-
tive concern in other ways. 1t defends the
rights and promotes the aspirations OF all the
people; and just as it is intended to defend
and satisfy them, so they defend and satisfy
1t. They promote it. They send news to it
items, communications, business in the shape
of advertising. They feel common and
joint proprierorship in The TINES, and it is
right that they should. Its columns are open
to them. 1t is theirs to talk through. They
criticise it and improve it. They also enrich its
columns. The TIMES is invincible; it has so
many friends.
The Washington times., 1894-04-25
A WORD OF SYMPATHY.

The readers of The TIMES, as well as the
readers Of the Post, will be shocked and
grieved to learn that Mr.. Hetton has been
stricken with appoplexy. Here is a man,
frank, hearty, true. His brilliant career has
never hardened him, has never made him
different. He is always the same old friend.
The readers Of The TIMES wish that he may
soon be entirely restored to his same old
health, and his same rollicking good spirits.
The Washington times., 1894-04-25

fatal to Democratic prospects next fall. Evi-
IDENTIFY It behooves Mr.. holman not to object.
Tho Harrison and Depew Presidential
booms might get together and try to make
that long lost Secretaryship Of State reality.
1t is not true that Gen. Carl schurz intends
to organize an army to meet the Coxeyites
and President Cleveland at Phillippi.
Ex-senator Reagan's well-known bathing
proclivities certainly entitle him to be con-
sidered the leading commonwealth Of Texas.
There Is no evidence obtainable that Hon.
Tom Platt has lost control Of the Republican
machine in New York.
People are rot half so bad as the amateur
photographers would make out to be.
=, It Is remarked by the st. Louis Post Dis
patch that the South Carolinian now again
has the inalienable right to make a tank Of
himself.
1t will be curious II Gen. James B. Weaver
doesn't organize Coxey army in Kansas.
1t is rumered that citizens of Duluth will
protest against the confirmation OF Mr.. Helm
ski, lately appointed postmaster. THE TINES
will rush to his rescue at the proper moment.
Carl Browne speaks OF "the bloodless and
bloated capitalists who will charge the Ameri-
can flag tax to wave on the highway"
According to Will Carleton 5000, 900 poems
comprise the annual poetry output OF this
country in these recent days.
The Omaha authorities said, "Slide, Kelly,
slide," while the Coxey army of the West was
in that town; this, If the Chicago Times is to
be believed.
It is to be hoped that the son OF Allen
Whitewings Thurman, who has just been mar.
ried, will never grow weary.
The Washington times., 1894-04-25
Elevated Electric Road.

The House Judiciary Committee Yesterday
listened to statement Of ex-Representative
Hemphill IN support OF the bill chartering the
National Rapid Transit Company, and author
izing II to construct an elevated electric rail-
way between Washington aad New York. Mr..
Hemphil explained the features of the bill
and said that it was intended for the trans
portation OF troops, passengers, and light
freight