Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-03-26
WASHINGTON BUDGET.
Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, Dead
Another Monetary Conference
"A scheme to Defraud
the Navy.

"A scheme to Defraud
| the Navy.
Washington, March 26.-United State
Senator Alfred Holt Colquitt, of Georgia
died at his residence in this city thi
morning. Around the bedside when hi
passed away, we're Senator Gordon ant
his daughter Mrs. Jones, Senator Col
quits private secretary, his nephew
Mr.. Dunn, his son, Mrs. Colquitt, thre,
unmarried daughters and his daughte
Mrs. Marshall, of Chicago. As the enc
approached the senator's breathing be
came very heavy, but he relapsed into
Inconsistencies and suffered no pain.
Senator Colquitt was born in Waltor
county, Georgia, April 20 1924. He was
a member of the secession convention
served as captain in the Confederate
army, acted as governor in 1876, served
four years of an unex pired term and was
reelected United States senator for a
second term which would have expired in
1895. He was stricken with paralysis in
July 1892, since when he has been unable
towalk without assistance.
NEW MONETARY CONFERENCE.
There are said to be strong probabili-
ties of new international monetary con-
ference being called together. This time
it will be called on invitations of the Re-
public Of Mexico. There is a belief in
some we'll informed circles that the pro-
posed meeting will take place next autumn
and the United States will participate, al
though this can not be officially verified.
Senor Romero, the Mexican minister, de-
clines to affirm or deny the statements
that his government has taken the initia-
tive in the matter. It is not however
doubted that he brought the subject to
the attention of Secretary Gresham and
that the purpose to locate the next con-
ference in the City of Mexico is now a
fact.
FRAUDULENT TRANsAoTIONs.
Sec. Herbert to-day sent to the house
his answer to the Cummings resolution
calling for statement in details OF the
recent alleged crookedness in the con-
tracts Of Carnegie, Phipps & Co., for the
manufacture of armor plate for the
navy. The reply is very long and gives
the history Of the case and discovery at
great length. It appears that the en-
ployes of Carnegie having in their pos
session .all the facts of the fraud, sold
them to the government for $3.50 per cent
of the money recovered.
The men showed m ost conclusively that
the company failed to temper the armor
properly and had plugged blow holes
xph,oh mould houo porcol tho rai ioofi n
of the plates. They reiterated plates at
night which had been selected for tests,
so as to make them better and tougher
than the groups from which they had been
selected. Altered reports were handed
in by the heaters from which statements
were prepared for the government in
spector and many other fraudulent acts
we're committed. Upon this showing the
government assessed damages sustained
at Is per cent upon all premiums paid
the company. The secretary does not
believe Mr.. Frick, chief of the company,
or Mr.. Hunsicker had any knowledge of
these Irregularities. Mr.. Frick agreed to
make prompt reparation and upon the
recommendation Of the navy department,
approved by the president, he paid the
aSSes5eQ uHmHSeS OF |l4U,4oJ.
NATIONAL NOTES.
The senate committee on Indian affairs
has made unanimous favorable report
on the Ute removal bill.
There will be 1888 money order offices
and thirteen postal note offices establish
ed throughout the country on April 2.
The senate has confirmed the nomina-
tion of Marshal H. Williams as associate
justice of the supreme court of Arizona.
The Notifications bill as reported to
the senate increases the total of the house
appropriations $829,405, the bill carrying
$S,o54,1o4.
The Democratic national congressional
headquarters will be formally opened to-
morrow by reception to Democratic
senators and representatives.
Assistant Surgeon H. E. McVay has
been directed, on being relieved from
duty at San Carlos, Ariz.; by Assistant
Surgeon Straub, to report at Fort
Huachuca instead Of Whipple barracks.
The Curtis bill to modernize the militia
by the adoption of tactics, organization
and equipment adopted by the federal
army has been reported to the house. 1t
appropriates 100000.
The subcommittee of the house COM
mittee on Indian affairs has decided to
submit the southern Ute bill to the full
committee without recommendation, a
meeting of the full committee occurring
to day, and the Colorado delegation ex-
poets favorable report.
The sixty-three internal revenue COL
lectors have reported upon the number
of Cinnamon registered under the Geary
act in their districts. In California,
where the census gives 72,472 Cinnamon,
1886 have registered. In Colorado 377
out of 1898, and in New Mexico 1853 out
of 861.
Senator Hansbrough, of North Dakota,
is preparing an amendment which he will
offer to the tariff hill, restoring the
present bounty on sugar, and placing a
duty of 6 per cent ad valorem on re-
fined sugar. He thinks it will receive
the support of all Republicans, the
Populists and the two Louisiana senators,
which would carry it in the senate by d
majority of one vote.
Kossuth's Funeral.
Turin, March 26.-Preparations for the