Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-17
THE WEEK.

as the most important trial in America |
since that Of Aaron Burr closed in Brook |
lyn ON Thursday with the conviction OF
John Y. McKane, the autocrat of Coney
Island, with violating the elections law
in preventing accredited persons from ex-
amining and copying the registry lists In
connection with the last election. The YER !
dict was generally regarded as stern
rebuke of bossism in politics. Mckane
is to be sentenced on Monday. The penalty
is from two to ten years Imprisonment:
Next to the Mckane case the action or
the Senate on the nomination of Wheeler
H. Peckham, to be associate justice or the
Supreme Court, has been of general inter-
est. The House has up for discussion
Mr.. BANDS silver coinage bill, known as
the segniorage bill from the fact that he
proposes to make the segniorage, at pres
ent an imaginary thing. Immediately avail
able for government expenses Mr. Cum
mings wants his popular bond" bill substi-
tuted; Mr.. Bland and the silver men are OPP
posed to any more bonds. Owing to the re-
fusal of his opponents to vote, Mr.. Bland
has not succeeded in having a quorum vote
on his motion fixing a time at which de-
bate will end. The Senate has been debat-
ing the Hawaiian question. To the litera-
ture of this question an important contribu-
ton was made during the week in the shape
of a long letter from President Dole to
Minister Willis. This document showed
how Secretary Gresham and Minister Willis
allowed the impression to go forth. even II
they did not create 1t, that force would
be used to restore Liliuokalani. He charges
the representatives of the American gov
eminent with double dealing and evasion,
but expresses the hope that there was mu-
tual Misrepresentation. The House passed
the urgency deficiency BILL which included
$4,000 for carrying into effect the Chinese
exclusion act. and $l1.05S for repairing the
old Fords Theater building. During the
early part of the week snow and wind
storms swept across the country and the
temperature fell very low. In New York
| city the storm resembled the blizzard of
| 1883. In the Cherokee strip and Western
Kansas there was great suffering from the
cold. A particularly sad affair was the
| caving in of a mine at Plymouth Pa. bury
ing thirteen miners. An event of interest
| sets legislature of bill abolishing
Fast day. which had long ago
lost its original significance. Ben
White. colored, was convicted at Manas-
sas. Va. of assaulting a white woman,
and, with Jim Robinson, his companion,
was sentenced to death. Hardly had he
| been taken to the Alexandria JAIL when a
similar crime occurred in Prince Georges
| county Nd, little girl being the victim.
and Jim Allen. a negro, the guilty one.
| There were threats of lynching. but Allen
was lodged in Jail at Upper Marlboro and
was yesterday held for the action of the
| grand jury. On Monday evening Lincoln's
birthday was celebrated by republican or
| ganiza tons throughout the country. and
| the administration was generally attacked
Town elections throughout New York state
showed large republican gains. A. j. Nc
| Laurin. the new Senator from Mississippi,
reached Washington and was sworn in.
| Abroad.
With the reassembling of the British
parliament. English politics has reached
q feverish state. The feeling against the
house of lords for rejecting Mr.. Gladstone 5
reform bills or rather amending them, SO
Aa oh; hIa 70 thnir re
has become bitter. The London Times
intimates that the peers will yield some
what The National Liberal Federation met
; at Portsmouth and openly declared war on
the peers. Mr.. Gladstone Is averse to such
, a radical position. Fresh dynamite out
RACES have occupied the attention of Eu
rope; an anarchist named Emile Henry
: threw a bomb in the cafe of the Hotel Ter
minus of the St. LaZare railway station a
Paris, which wounded a score Of persons
, when it exploded. His cry was that of tht
recently executed Valiant. Down with 30
: ciety" He was a friend of valiant. An
other of his ilk. Bourdin by name. was NOR
tally wounded at Greenwich, England
through the premature explosion of an in
fernal machine, which, 1t is thought n
was going to explode at the observatory
5 Minister Terrell at Constantinople secured
Y the release of two NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. from
: custody by threatening the use of an iroi
clad The steamer Paris, from Southamp
ton, broke her rudder. and had to go Il
Queenstown for repairs. Severe storm
: have swept Europe and wrecked vessels
1 causing much loss of life. France continue
to growl at Russia for concluding a treat
with Germany and proposes to tax Russian
imports more heavily. No change has oc
CURED in the status of the Brazilian revolt
3 Within the District.
: The positive conviction expressed b.
( Chairman Bankhead of the House commit
e tee on public buildings and grounds that thi
= city needs municipal building, is locke
: upon as a recognition in an influential guar
s ter of what has long been regarded as one O
= the pressing needs of the city. In addltio
to an interesting discussion of several i'm
portant local matters. the board of trade, a
i its meeting at WormleyS, adopted the pre-
posed bill providing for a permanent boar
! of assessors. The increase of tramps and @
street begging, which promised to reac
dangerous proportions. was checked by tn
l. prompt action of the police and the Pole
q Court Judge McComas announces that h
| has no intention of leaving the bench {
| re-enter public life as the cousressiong
| candidate in the sixth Maryland distric
| The Moody meetings at Convention Ha
q continue to hold the attention and interes
- of the public, and immense audiences gathe
there twice each day. The sessions OF I'll
e National Woman's Suffrage Assocatio
II were begun, with indications of increase
| confidence on the part of the members an
interest on the part of the public. I'll
! celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversar
IS of the Medical Society of the District {
l. Columbia was marked by a public meetin
l. in Rifles Hall, when appropriate a1dresse
were delivered, and by banquet afterwar
| at the Arlington. Graduates of Princeto
and Harvard sat down to dinner, as Is the
y annual custom.