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

Mr.. Joy, who was unseated yesterday, says
| he will be a candidate for Congress this Fall
Representative Wolverton, of Pennsylvania,
introduced bill yesterday changing the law
regarding United States commissioners.
Comptroller Fitch. of New York city, was in
Washington yesterday urging that the Inherit
| ance tax in the tariff bill should be eliminated
Senator Allen presented yesterday in the Sem
ate an amendment to the tariff bill providing for
| the free coinage of silver, and also for other
changes In the bill
| The House Committee on Invalid Pensions
yesterday agreed on the text Of bill providing
for the granting of pensions to members Of state
| militia organizations who were disabled in the
| late war.
Mrs Mary W. Faulkner mother Of Senator
Faulkner, Of West Virginia, and widow Of
Charles j. Faulkner, minister to France under
Buchanan's administration, died at Winchester,
Va, yesterday.
Representative Wilson, Of the Ways and
Means COMMITTEE will return to assume the ac-
tive management Of the tariff bill when 1t
emerges from the Senate and Is returned to the
House. Representative Tarsney, Of Missouri, so
stated yesterday.
In the House yesterday Representative Bailey,
OF Texas, introduced resolution providing for
the compilation and printing of 5000 COPIES Of
all the annual, special, and veto messages,
proclamations, and inaugural addresses of the
Presidents Of the United States from 17s9 to 1884
The House Judiciary Committee yesterday au-
thorized favorable report on the resolution
calling on the Secretary Of the Treasury for in
formation regarding the amount of Treasury
notes bearing interest at 1910 per cent issued
by the government from June 80, 1861, to June
50, 1855, etc.
The House Committee on Banking and Cur.
rency yesterday considered without action the
Dill introduced by Mr. Cooper, providing that all
circulating notes Of national banking associations
and all United States legal tender notes and all
other notes and certificates Of the United states
payable on demand and circulating as currency
shall not be exempt from taxation under the
! authority Of any state or territory.
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1T OUGHT TO BE BEATEN.

THE TIMES has taken pains. before express
ing itself upon the advisability of granting
$4,000 and more to the Southern fast
mail. so-called, to examine into the history Of
legislation of similar kind, and of the
practice of the railroads in carrying it out
under the direction of the Post Office De-
partrnent. 1t appears that no other subsidy
of similar kind is granted anywhere else in
the United States; that the mails supposed to
be provided for by this grant of money are
not fast but slow, and that in all business
probability the Southern mails, for the trans
portation of which this money is allowed.
would be quite as effective, if not more so, if
the railroads which are able to enjoy these
allowances were left entirely to themselves.
This journal must not be understood as de-
string to hamper or curtail in any way the
swift, accurate, and frequent Transmission Of
the mails; and especially would it disclaim
any participation in any effort to hamper the
mail service which necessarily affects Wash
ington city and the country tributary to it
on the north and south. 1t desires in every
way. and it stands ready at all times, to help
quicken and improve this mail service. But
it doesn't believe that n service which de-
mands so much in many other directions.
and which is indeed SO sorely in need of lib
eral appropriations in all directions, should
be expected to provide better for one railroad
than another simply because it puts certain
'infuenee" at work upon the ground. and
especially since other railroads which are not
favored and cannot be favored in this way
perform their contracts much better.
For the best Of general and special reasons,
therefore, this subsidy deserves to be beaten.
Let it be beaten.
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MORE AMENDMENTS.
Tariff Bill Again DOctOred bv the Fiuance
Committee.

Tariff Bill Again DOctored bv the Fiuance
Committee.
Senator Vest submitted to the Senate a
number Of amendments to the tariff bill
yesterday, which had been considered by the
Finance Committee, and a.terward referred
to that committee by the Senate. The amend
ments are:
In the chemical schedule a new paragraph
is added, as follows: Drugs, such as barks.
beans. berries. balsams. buds, bulbs, and
bulbous roots and excrescences, such as nut
gals, fruits, flowers, dried fbers, gums, and
gum resins, herbs. leaves. lichens, MOSES
nuts, roots, and stems. spices. vegetables.
seeds (aromatic. not garden seeds) and seeds
of morbid growth weeds, woods used ex-
pressly for dyeing, and dried insects, being
of the foregoing. which are edible, but which
have advanced in value or condition by re-
filming or grinding, or by other process OF
manufacture, and not specially provided ioIr
in this act, 10 per cent. ad valorem. Other
changes were of no great significance.
In the coal paragraph the word culm is
modified so as to provide for duty on culm
which will pass through hali-inch screen
There are also changes in the income tax
part OF the bill. One Of these changes adds
the word assessed" at the beginning of Sec
tion "a. and it is afterward provided that
this assessment shall be made by the COM
missioner Of internal revenue
A proviso is added as follows: "That all
nonresident corporations shall be subject to
a tax of per cent. upon all undistributed
sums sent abroad, which sums, for the pur-
poses of this act, shall be held to be dividends
to foreign stockholders or policy holders, and
the resident agent or manager OF such for
eign corporations shall withhold said tax Of 9
per cent. from all such undistributed sums
and make return thereof and pay the tax
therapn -
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Senator Hills Method of Attack.
rFrom Daily America


Senator Hill can speak any time after Wednes-
day, and all interest centers in his speech
1t will be the great feature of the long debate
1t is known that it will be a vigorous attack
upon the bill as it now is constructed. The chief
attack will be upon the income tax feature, but,
in addition to this, the New York senior Senator
will attack the bill from n moral standpoint.
He will charge that 1t is an immoral measure on
account OF the ad valorem features. He can
refer to every Democratic paper in New York as
having time and again exp ised the frghtful
system OF under valuation that prev allied in the
New York custom house for years and years
previous to the Mckinley bill. Ii was largely on
account OF the New York Democratic papers
that Mckinley adopted specific duty in the
collection of tariff taxes. II can be readily
shown that an ad valorem system puts pre-
MUM upon perjury. and that Ii Is very difIlcult
for honest importers o compete with their RE
Aals who will take c, rrupt advantage Of this
system of collection. 1t is entirely new feat
ure of attack. and IL has lot entered in among
the usual objections that have boen made to the
hill
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Flashes from the Wire.

Physicians Of Plainfeld, N j., say that many
people there are in the habit Of getting drunk
on paregoric.
Col A r. Mcclure resumed his editorial work
in the Philadelphia Times yesterday, after an
absence of six months
Two white men and five Indians are reported
killed in g fight in the Cheyenne country, west
Of Ell Reno, Oklahoma
New York State Entomologst Linter says
that the seventeen year locusts will appear
in large numbers in the state this year
Dispatches from different points in Kansas say
that the wheat crop in the state Is in q critical
condition and in urgent need Of rain.
The Atlantic and Danville railroad was sold in
Norfolk yesterday, under order Of the United
States court, for 81 Jos 600 to B. Newgass and
sociates
Six Of the leading steel-casting companies of
the country have formed q combination known
as the American Steel Casting Company and
have organized under the laws Of New Jersey
with capital stock Of a 100000
Walter Stokes, of Memphis, Tenn, has sued J.
A. Murphy Co., Chicago stock brokers, for
$22S ,000 half Of which is for the benefit of Cook
county. Tho suit is brought under the state
gambling act. which provides that If any suit
shall involve gambling transaction the plaintiff
shall sue for treble the amount lost and that half
of the amount, II recovered, shall be paid TO the
county.
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HERE'S A PRETTY MESS.
Rebates Granted TO Railroad Corporation:
Without Warrant of Law.


ALBANY. n. Y, April 3.--Dennis ]. Devon,
the expert who has been investigating the
affairs Of the Comptrollers Office, made his
repert to-day to Comptroller Roberts. He
claims that the system OF bookkeeping has
been of the loosest possible kind, and that big
corporations have been granted rebates on
business done in this state without any war
rant Of law and without any good reason
being given.
Many books were kept in lead pencil. In
some cases, he says. the rebates were given
to companies that never did interstate bus
iness. He says:
II desire to call the Comptrollers attention
to the fact that about all OF the large rebates
to which l have referred in the foregoing were
made during the very last days of the terms
of Office of the comptrollers who granted
them. How it was discovered by these
officials just as they were about to retire from
office that rebates to the companies aggre-
eating over 81 SOC, 900 should be made, l
must leave TO the discernment Of those more
competent to judge than / am. Those re-
bates not made just before the close Of a
comptroller's term were nearly all made not
far from election time"
He gives il detail how tho rebates were
granted and furnishes list of the railroads
receiving them and the amount rebated.
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Robinson, Cherry &C.,,
1900, 1902, and 1904 F ST. n. W
NEW TORPEDO BOATS.
vesuvius viii Abandon Her Dynamil
Guns and Be RemodelIed.
cIorH1ERs AND FURNISHES,

vesuvius viii Abandon Her Dynamite
Guns and Be Remodelled.
The dynamite cruiser vesuvius is likely to
go out of commission as a ship throwing
dynamite projectiles, as result Of the action
Of the House Committee on Naval Affairs
yesterday. A provision was inserted in the
naval appropriation bill authorizing the
Secretary of the Navy. in his discretion, to
alter the vesuvius into atorpedo boat. These
boats are of regulation pattern, and the
change would retire the dynamite guns and
so change the ship as to make her effective
against unarmorcd vessels.
The committee further agreed on three new
torpedo boats. They are to take the place OF
the second dynamite cruiser not yet begun.
Congress has already appropriated funds for
the second cruiser. but the committee, follow
ing the advice Of the Secretary of the Navy,
provide that these funds be used for three
torpedo boats instead Of the dynamite boat.
The committee took further step in cutting
down the item for armor plate, another $780,
900. This leaves it at $4,000, 900, or a total
reduction OF S2, 500 900 from the estimates.
The Washington times., 1894-04-04
pATERNALISM,

BYA Paternalism is the great
SENATOR bug-bear of capitalists. No
opportunity to inveigh
f"oA against it or to cast re-
SOUTH DAKOTA proach upon its advocates
is allowed to pass by. Every capitalistic news
paper of the East warns its readers against
the spread of heresy, while Congressman fire.
quently refer to 1t in their speeches as a
threatening danger to the republic. All seem
to see In it the death of individual enterprise
and the enthronement of socialism. And yet
it is strange and true that the civilized world
is drifting toward socialism. Germany,
France, and England have become honey
combed with the doctrine since the days of
Owen and Karl Marx. The oppressed classes
have waited patiently reign after reign for re-
lief, while they saw power and privilege dis
pensed by central divine right bureau.
There is apparent cause for an uprising OF
the people, and all loyal Americans sympa-
thize with them. But our capitalistic friends
fail to see parallel in the condition of the
working classes of the United States. How
ever, the reform movement along paternalistic
grounds has kept pace with the sentiment Of
Europe and forms to-day the underlying
principles of all labor platforms. There mus st,
therefore, exist some reason for this even un-
der free government, and when traced to
It's proper source the power and oppression
Of money will be found to be the cause of
the uprising in America as In Europe. The
people are driven almost to desperate means
for existence, and they willingly grasp at
anything which promises deliverance from
the oppression Of capital.
The legislation of the past thirty years has
proved ruinous to small enterprises and has
centralized capital, power, and influence in
New York and the New England States.
Great wealth has not only been accumulated
by few persons, but wealth has been massed
together by combination until capital can
make and unmake panics, and can convert in
/ day million laborers into tramps. This is
In striking contrast with the conditions thirty
fears ago, the day Of small things, when |
The Washington times., 1894-04-04
AS THE CROWDS CONE OUT.

The first OF ones thoughts in witnessing
Creston Clarke's Hamlet is that he looks
the part ideally. Youthful, intellectual, poetic,
handsomely, princely his face is, and his
every movement is full of dignity and grace.
His face in the forehead and eyes is marvel.
ously like Edwin Booths. and his form and
gesture recall his uncles Hamlet vividly. As
to the place that this young man is to fill,
there can be no doubt that it would be in
significant if he relied on his handsome face
and figure and his likeness to Booth; but
there is no reason to believe that he means
an imitation, and there is every
indication in his clear-cut, purposeful
rendering that he conceives of part of his
own, and will perfect it. There are passages
which could not have a filter rendering than
his, where he seems to have grasped, as his
uncle did, the utmost subtelety of the thought,
And there are others where his words glow as
his does, with fire and poetry. And with this
the whole conception is well balanced and
smooth. and free from crudities. Which all
means that Mr.. Clarke is great Hamlet now.
It's not fair to say less of praise of
him now, because he will undoubtedly be
greater afterward.
Mr.. Olcott has been specially requested to
sing in addition to the other songs of his,
"She and Together" and will do so at each
of the remaining performances OF 'Marvour-
neen."
1t was good many years ago that John
Jack, the tragedlan and ranter, used to fret
the rafters in this part Of the country. Once
man with big bill and small soul for art
had an attachment served on John Jack when
he was in Washington, and all his stage para
phernalia taken ruthlessly away. John Jack ,as
you will see, lived in region above petty evils.
He went over to Willards hotel and had q
conference with the steward and the cham
bermaids and the kitchen maids. That night
the Roman warriors used dishpans for shields
and coffee-pots for helmets and blankets for
togas.
I see that Miss Coghlan is coming in two
weeks with that strong play "a Woman OF No
Importance" and without her brother
Charles. Charles Coghlan, when he was
sober, used to be the strongest man and the
greatest artist in this fine company of hers.
1t is too bad, maybe, that he is not still with
them. Sometimes you can't see why private
morals, or immorals, should have anything
to do with our appreciation of art. This fact
of Coghlan's being gone, and the added ones
of his ill-fortune since his episode with
Kuhne Beveridge and Rose Coghlan's dlsmis-
sal of him, and of the renewed interest in his
story just now, recall the fact that Rose Cogh-
Ian once before showed her displeasure at
lax morals among stage people. Robert
Mantell was once, two years ago, at Long
Branch, to play in an open air performance
with Rose Coghlan. Charlotte Behrens was
also to take part. Suddenly Miss Coghlan
refused to play with the other two and advised
Mrs. Mantell to get divorce, which she did.
Mantell is still eminently successful, and Miss
Behrens is his leading lady.
The Washington times., 1894-04-04
Sparks from the Wires.


Mrs David Parker, colored, q former slave,
died at Fountain Grove, Pa, yesterday. 1t Is
claimed that she was lie years old
Hon. n B. Heiner, Congressman from the
First Pennsylvania district, Is lying Ill at his
house In Kittanning with malarial fever.
The cross-examination of witnesses for the
prosecution In the case Of Navigator Lyman Of
the wrecked Kearsarge occupied the time Of the
general court-martial at the Brooklyn navy yard
yesterday.
Frank Cole, noted burglar, with two others,
tried to escape from the Richmond, Va ,peniten-
tiary early yesterday morning by cutting hole
through the roof, but was discovered by guard
and recaptured.
The Herreshon Manufacturing Company closed
its large yacht building establishment at Bris-
tol Me- for an indefinite period, and it is proba-
BILE that very fast yachts will be put on the
stocks in their yards this year.
A new American play from the pen Of Russ
Whytal an American actor, was presented for
the first time on any stage at the Girard Avenue
theater, Philadelphia, last night The name Of
the new play is virginia" and it deals with in-
cidents OF the late civil war.
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IT WILL BE LOOKED INTO.

It is charged openly that the appointment
of Charles H. ]. Taylor, to be recorder OF
deeds of the District, has been due to cor
rupt agreement to provide for this fellow in
some quarter. 1t is ground enough to pro-
test against this thing that the home rule
plank (so-called) in the Democratic platform
has been taken out and stamped on. 1t is
additional cause for public anger that the
people of the District are made the dumping
ground, the common sewer, for the refuse
material, turned over and kicked about by a
committee of the Senate and by the Senate
itself. The nomination of Taylor will be
looked into. 1t will be rejected because it
must be rejected.
The Washington times., 1894-04-04
Corcoran CADETS, Ban.

The twenty-fifth complimentary hop Of the
Corcoran Cadet Corps took place last evening
at National Rifles armory, and was in every
way a success. Representatives from the
various military organizations of the city
were present, together with a large crowd OF
young ladies and gentlemen anxious to enjoy
the excellent dancing programme afforded by
the corps. under the direction of Private L.
H. Phelps, floor director. The committee
having charge Of the affair were: Capt. C. C.
Edwards. Lieut.. @. A. Myer. Sergt. L. Pro-
sise. Sergt. W. E. Thompson. Sergt. G. B.
Matthews, Private A. B. Malone, and Private
L. H. Phelps
The Washington times., 1894-04-04
HITS-OR MISSES.

Toby Hamilton, an Ate ward politician o.
New York, says that ''Grover Cleveland has 6
backbone like circus pole" So it seems.
If Major Estes G. Rathbone comes to Con.
gress he can conceive and carry out more
market hall conventions by which Presidents
are really made.
Chairman Carter carries the country for the
Republicans better In magazine article than
elsewhere; but then nobody could have done
any better in '92.
Ex-President Mcleod, of the Reading,
travels in a palace car. Others who have
been more successful in the railroad business
walk.
Secretary Morton desires US to say that his
agrostologist is not grass widower.
1t simply cannot be that Louisville coun-
Gilman has been bribed for s5.
William D. Howells says that every man
should do a little manual labor every day;
and this gives additional color to the surmise
that he writes his novels by main strength.
The man who has never bin tempted don't
kno how dishonest he iz.-Josh Billings.
Hon. Pat Walsh won't be obliged to sacri-
fee himself for the integrity of Democratic
House.
We welcome the Boston schoolmarms to our
open arms literally.
Hon. John G. New has gone to the eastern
sho' for few days to 'launch" Harrison
boom there.
They are called dispensaries because Gov
ernor Tillman and others would like to dis
pense with them.
If it is an lad" for the Century Magazine
to say that Mr.. Richard Watson elders poem
on the Breckenridge case will appear In the
next number, why let 1t be SO.
Bob Ingersoll says there is only air enough
between the North Pole and the Isthmus to
float one flag.
Hon. Pat Walsh has gone to New York to
order his Senatorial toga.
Major Manderson is talked Of for next COM
mander-in-chief Of the Grand Army but that
would be quite too exciting for Senator.
Edward Everett Hale is 70 to-day, bless his
dear old heart.
"In the homely traditions of German
mothers and housewives is stronger and
more trustworthy guarantee of our political
future than any walls or cannon Of our fort
resses. Bismarck.
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cock upon 'sThe Life and Literature Of the
Times OF King Arthur" BE outlined the
transition from Roman rule to Saxon denim
ion in England, and made many references
to the fanciful and fantastic literature OF
Great Britain. A paper from Rev. Myron
Eells, of British Columbia, was read by Mr..
J. N. B. Hewitt, on ''Uhinook Jargon,"
language which grew up on the Northern
Pacific slope. for use between the whites and
Indians. The Indians acquired this as q nat
ural language, but 1t is 80 far inferior to the
English that It is now fast disappearing.
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LOVELY CHARLEY scooPED.
Deserted by Followers and Hit in the Mouth
With Brick.


With a Brick.
BUFFALO, N. Y. April 3.-There was clash
between union and non-union grain scoopers
to-day, as the outcome Of an attempt to un-
load the America with non-union men at
less than union rates. Charles Flynn, com
monty known as Lovely Charley" essayed
to do the work, and led out gang of sixty
five scoopers, mostly Italians, under guard Of
q sergeant and six policemen.
When they arrived at the dock where the
America was moored it was black with union
shovelers. Flynn and the sergeant dared not
try to land their men until they had been re-
inforced by another squad of blueeoats. The
officers cleared the decks of the vessels,
whereupon Flynn led his gang on board.
No sooner, however, were they on deck
than every man leaped off into the crowd OF
union men, leaving Flynn standing alone
upon the vessel. The union men gave wild
veil of triumph at this desertion of the
Italians to their ranks.
Flynn attempted to make a speech, but was
hit with brick square in the mouth.
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Officers Elected for All Souls Church.

Officers Elected for All Souls Church.
The annual election of officers and trustees
Of All Souls Unitarian Church was held Inst
night, and resulted in the unanimous selec-
tion OF the following: Church trustees. Hon.
Carroll D. Wright, Prof. E. A. Fay. George
Doolittle, Gen. Rufus Saxton; secretary. Mr..
W. C. Keech, and treasurer, DR.. George n.
French. The officers OF the Sunday school
are: Mr.. Bernard r. Green, superintendent;
Miss Helen G. Nichols, assistant superintend-
ent; Mr.. Edward B. Eynon, secretary and
treasure; Mr.. Arthur L. Bryant and rMr. W.
II. G. Simmons, librarians.
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QUEEN CITY.
Goodman Is Released.

Thomas A. Goodman, who has been at the
Emergency hospital since his attempt to COM
NIT suicide in the Georgetown Jail last Satur-
day and who has constantly been watched
over and guarded by policeman detailed for
that purpose, was yesterday released. 1t was
untruthfully reported yesterday afternoon
that Lawrence, the partner of Goodman, had
died from the effect Of his wounds.