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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14
REHEARING rs THE TALK.
Lawyer Guthrie Will File a
Petition to Reopen the
Noted Case.
DECISION MAY BE CHANGED.
Justice Jackson May Take a Hand
and Change the Ruling of the
Court.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 13-Re-
ports to the Internal Revenue Office here
say the income tax returns are coming in
very rapidly, and in some cases the ap-
pointment of additional clerical force has
been necessary. 1t is probable that the
Revenue Bureau will hold sale of stand
ing timber, and royalties on coal, mineral,
oil and gas wells products will be treated
as rents, and therefore not subject to tax.
AS to the salary of United States Judges
no official action has yet been taken, and
it is probable that nothing will be done
until the courts have decided the question.
1t is believed that many Judges have al
ready made their returns.
The petition asking for rehearing of
the income-tax case probably will be made
for Monday by Lawyer Guthrie. In view
of the Importance of the case the impress
sion prevails that the court will grant the
motion. Justice Jackson's health has i'm
proved considerably of late, and it is
known he recently expressed his determi-
nation to come to Washington and resume
his official duties at once, in case the in
come-tax suits were set down for imme-
date hearing.
In view of this fact, it is believed that
the cases will be reopened and an early
decision be given upon those portions of
the law upon which the Justices are now
equally divided. The sudden forcing of
the income-tax suit to another early trial
is not agreeable to all parties to the last
suit, and very strong intimation was
given here to-day that some of the coun-
sci preferred waiting until next autumn,
as the impression prevails that Justice
Jackson is favorable to the income-taX law.
Later information concerning Justice
Jackson would indicate that he did not ex-
pect to return to Washington until Octo-
Der (which would delay rehearing until
them and that it was coupled with the
statement that if his health did not per-
nit him to resume his duties he would
send in his resignation to the President.
| There is no doubt as to the Presidents
views upon the expediency and constitu-
tionality of the income tax. His sugges-
ton to Congress that low rate income tax
should be enacted was only made after the
most careful examination of all the ques-
tons involved, and as a result of this ex-
animation he was, and is still convinced,
that an income tax law is constitutional
1t is understood that his views differ radi-
cally from those of the court in the rent
exemption question as contained in their
opinion of last Monday. Mr.. Cleveland,
it is said, holds to the opinion that the
taxation of incomes received from rents is
not direct tax within the meaning of the
constitution, and that in case of the re-
tirement of Justice Jackson during his
term of Office he will see to it that his sue
cessor's views coincide with his own on
this important point.
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FIRE IN A STATE HOUSE,
Flames Rage for an Hour in
the Illinois Senate
Chamber.
Considerable Damage and Excite
ment During a Raging
Gale.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, April 49, - Fire
broke out at noon to-day in the Senate
wing of the State House, and, famed by a
fierce gale, ragged for over an hour and
caused damage of $4,000.
During the fire the greatest excitement
prevailed among the inmates of the State
House, and owing to the high wind and
difficulty in getting at the fire. which was
under the roof, it was for a time feared
that the whole State House would be
ruined. The frightened employees in the
various departments were in panicky
state. At 1 80 o'clock, however, the flames
were under control and shortly after that
the fire was out.
The quantities of water poured in
through the roof leaked through the
Senate ceiling, causing considerable dam
age to the frescoes in the chamber. The
smoke penetrated all parts of the west
wing and has probably caused much dam
age to the walls. The fire is supposed to
have started from timers furnace left on
the roof. There is no insurance, as it has
never been the custom of the State to in
sure its property.
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ECHOES OF THE STRIKE,
DebS Backs Suits for Heavy
Damages for Arrests of
A. r. ". Men,.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and ST.
Paul Road Made the Defendant
in the Actions.

MILWAUKEE, WIS, April 10. : The
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul has been
served with the summons in suit to be
brought for heavy damages growing out OF
the big strike of the A. R. U. and the con-
sequent arrest of alleged ringleaders in
this city. The suits are being brought by
two of the men who were arrested last July
on complaint of E. w. McKenna, then as
sistant general superintendent of the st.
Paul company, and now connected with
the Great Northern.
Although the suit is brought by indi-
viduals, it is probable that Eugene v.
Debs and the A. r. U. are behind it,
and if it proves successful similar suits
promise to spring up all over the big sys-
tenn of the ST. Paul.
The suit is brought in behalf of John J..
O'Rourke and Robert Blair, and the prin-
cipal allegations are false imprisonment
and malicious prosecution. In addition,
damages resulting from being placed on
the blacklist are asked. On this line the
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the lands, which will be done by the COM
missioners for each land district. The de-
cision of these commissioners will not be
final, but will go a long way toward de-
termining the character of the lands.
The commissioners will make reports
in each of the districts where they are
assigned to local land officers, and the re-
ports will be published. Thirty days will
be given in which the protests may be
filed. If no protests are filed the reports
will be submitted to the Secretary, and If
approved by him the action is final. Where
protests are filed local officers will treat
them as contests, and suits will follow to
determine the mineral or non-mineral
character of the land with appeals to the
commissioner and Secretary as in other
cases. Examinations by the commission
ers must be completed within three years.
The commissioners are allowed compensa-
ton of $40 day, but cannot exceed total
of $500 each per year. Two of the APP
poiptees, Messrs. Barnes of Wisconsin and
Pearson of Ohio, are ex-members of Con-
gress.
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Smith were given charge of the case, and
yesterday the latter was informed by Miss
Edith Reid that she had seen from her
residence a man with red mustache and
light overcoat leading the little Sterling
girl down the railroad track toward the
beach.
From the description, the officers de-
cided the man they wanted was Gilbert,
the night station agent at the depot. In
the daytime he worked for g. w. En-
mons. He slept in an old stable on the
Dennis estate near by, and Miss Reid
states she was positive the man went in
this direction.
The officers this afternoon instituted a
search of the premises surrounding both
the Dennis estate and the Emmons place.
During the search Gilbert was found at
work at the Emmons place and was placed
under arrest. The old stable was then
searched. When the manure pile was
searched Officer Perkins struck human
foot. A body was pdlled out and identi-
fed as Alice Sterling. Her skull was
crushed and the cause of her death was
apparent. Her clothing was torn. A
bloody ak was found near by, concealed
under a beam.
An autopsy will be held Monday. Gil
bert would not admit the crime, but when
brought handcuffed to view the body he
trembled like an aspen leaf Gilbert is
rather slim, almost six feet tall and is 26
years old. He came from Musquedoberl
Harbor, Nova Scotio, near a year ago, and
was considered good business man.
Miss Reid, who furnished the clew, and
another woman living near by, called at
the station late tonight and positively
identified the prisoner as the man they
saw with the little girl on Wednesday.
Mrs. Sterling is Frustrated over the affair
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FILES HIS SETTLEMENT.
President Clereldnd Among Those to
Comply With the Lar.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 13-The
Evening Star says to-day: Notwithstand-
ing the disagreeable weather President
Cleveland came to town to-day. The main
object of his visit was to make a return OF
his personal income in accordance with the
law. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Miller called on the President by agree
ment and assisted in filling out a personal
income blank.
1t is understood the President included
his salary of $4,000 as chief executive.
leaving it for the accounting officers OF
the treasury to determine in future
whether the payment of per cent is in
violation of the constitutional provision,
which says the salary of the President shall
not be increased or diminished during his
term of office. The tax on an income OF
$4,000 is 1920.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-14
THREE TORPEDO BOATS,
Award of an Important Con-
tract to a Firm in Bal
timOre.
In Future the Speed of These Yes
sells Will Be Considerably
Increased.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 13.-Secre-
tary Herbert decided to-day to award
to the Columbia Iron Works of Bal
timore the contract of building three tor
pedo-boats. This firm was the lowest bid
der at $97, 900 for each boat, and they will
be built in designs drawn by the Navy De-
partment. The competition for this work
was keen and brought out bids from all
parts of the country, and a strong effort
was made to secure a distribution of the
contracts and the acceptance of original de-
signs furnished by some of the bidders.
This last proposition was referred to a
special board, which reported, however, in
favor of the designs, but favored distribu-
ton so as to secure a faster but more ex-
penslve boat proposed by the Union Iron
Works of San Francisco, which last sug-
gestion was not accepted by the Secretary.
The department has been keeping a
watchful eye upon the performance OF
some of the new English torpedo-boats,
which have attained the marvellous speed
of % and 20 knots per hour, and having
disposed of the three boats above referred
to, Secretary Herbert has taken up the
subject of designs for the other boats au-
thorized by the last naval appropriation
bill. He has given suggestions that these
boats shall be larger all around than their
predecessors, which are to be 1873 tons dis
placement and 241l knots speed.
The new boats, for which bids will be
asked later on, viii be Of about $50 tons.
This is forty tons smaller than the English
class, the fastest they have afloat. Yet
they will be required to show q speed of 2S
knots per hour. In view of the favorable
terms secured for these three boats Just
awarded to the Columbian Iron Works, it
is believed that these three flyers can be
built within the approximation.
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aroused by Hunters Murder.

CHICAGO, ILL, April 13.-The murder
of e. R. Hunter at the Stockyards Ex-
change last night created much excitement
among stockyards people to-day. mass
meeting of merchants and brokers was
held at the exchange, and reward of
$1,000 was offered for the arrest and convic-
ton of the murderer, and resolutions were
adopted asking the Union Stockyards
Company to offer a similar reward. A
large force of detectives are working on the
case, but so far no clews to the assassin
have been found.
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Mrs. Coudrey Wants a Dirorce.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, April 13.-Mrs. Mary
Coudrey, wife of G. w. Coudrey, who re-
Gently secured a verdict of $4,000 dam
ages against the alleged Messiah, George
j. Schweinfurth, filed bill for divorce to-
day. She alleges cruelty, and that her
husbands suit and the sensational
charges of her being alienated from his
affections have so crushed and Inundated
her that she has not the physical strength
to. refute the charges. Religious intoler-
ance and neglect are also charged.
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GROVER TO GIVE DETAILS
Soon the President Will An
swer Business Men of
Chicago.
CARLISLE TAKES A HAND.
Members of the Cabinet to Join in
the Campaign of Money
Education"

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 13.-The
interest the administration takes in the
campaign against the free silver movement
is uhdisguised The letter which Mr..
Cleveland is preparing to send to the Chi
cago business men, in reply to their invi-
tation to deliver an address upon the cur
rency, is no less emphatic than he ad-
dressed to the Chamber of Commerce OF
New York early in 1892 although it is
probable that he viii go more into details
and more explicitly state the reasons for
his opposition to the free coinage of silver
at 16 to 1.
Secretary Carlisle will deliver two
speeches on the subject of the currency,
but largely devoted to silver. He will
probably speak once in Kentucky and once
in Tennessee early in May. His Kentucky
speech may be delivered at Louisville, al
though there have been requests from his
old home in Coyington to talk to the peo-
pie there. In Tennessee he will speak at
Memphis or Nashville.
Other members of the Cabinet will also
speak on the silver question, although no
spIace has been fixed on. They believe that
a campaign of education on the money
question will have the effect of checking
the movement toward free silver, which
they believe has been a serious menace to
the integrity of the Democratic party.
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Strikers Erpect to Hin.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., April 13.-The
$4,000 striking operatives of the Atlantic
Mills were to-day in complacent mood
and profess to have no doubt of an early
victory. At mass-meeting of the strik-
ers to-day vigilance committee was or
ganized, bureau established to secure
outside employment, delegates appointed
to confer with the corporation managers
whenever the latter may desire, and ar
rangements perfected to feed 500 people
daily.
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SENATOR THURSrOws Views.
no Financial Legislation Mag Be Es-
pected la the Merit Congress.

no Financial Legislation Mag Be En-
pected ia the Nert Congress.
OMAHA, NEBR.. April BIN an inter
view with a representative of the Asso-
ciated Press Senator Thurston denied that
he had changed his views on the financial
question during his tour of the West. He
had always declared himself in harmony
with the Republican national platform
favoring American bimetallism. He was
strongly opposed to the opening of the
minis to the free coinage of the silver prod
uct of other countries until an interna-
tional bimetallic agreement had been
reached. He was in favor, however, of the
free coinage of the American product,
under legislation which would maintain
the equal purchasing and debt-paying
power of all American dollars.
Senator Thurston predicted that the
next Congress would give no financial leg
islation for the reason that, while there
was a majority for free silver in the Senate,
the President undoubtedly stood commit
ted to the gold standard. So soon as one
political party is in power in all branches
Mr.. Thurston predicts legislation on the
silver question, but not before. Such leg
lslation when it comes, he added, cannot
be expected to meet the demands for the
extremists on either side. 1t would be the
result of compromise Mr.. Thurston ex-
pressed the belief that the business par
alysis was the result of the abandonment
of protection, but he had seen signs of i'm
proVement during his Western tour.
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BAkNES SLAYER sENTENCED.
Jordan to Be Sent to Joliet for a life
Term,

CHICAGO, Ill, April 13.-Edmund Jor-
dan was sentenced to life imprisonment in
the Joliet prison to-day by Judge Freeman
for the murder of Alfred Barnes in the
Hiawatha fats in December, 1894 Annie
Mahoney who was convicted as an access
sorry to the murder, was sentenced to three
months in the County Jail and to pay a
fine of $500.
The crime was a revolving one, the muir
dered mans body having been cut to
pieces, packed in shipping-case and
thrown into an alley.
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Editor and owner of Kate Fields Washing
ton of Washington, d. c., a paper devoted to
the cause of temperance. stated in a recent
speech that the prohibition laws as enforced in
the several States were not promoting the
make moderate allowance of mild beverages.
In her estimation this would help the temper
ance cause more than prohibition laws Miss
Rates head is level, and as to mild drinks we
recommend Anaheuser-Busch Brewing Associ-
atoms beer.
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WILL PROSECUTE GoEBE1.
Sanford's Slayer to Be arrested for Man
slaughter.

CINCINNATI, ONO, April 13-At Gov
ington, KY, to-day the case OF Senator
William Goebel for killing Banker J. L.
Sanford was continued until next Tuesday.
The postponement was due TO the brother
of Sanford swearing out warrant charging
Goebel with manslaughter. To-day addi-
tional counsel has been secured on both
sides, and the friends of Sanford will prose
cute to the end. Senator Blackburn is here
to attend the funeral of his friend, and it is
reported that he will assist in the prosecu-
ton.
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IS TO M1NERAL 1ANDs.
Disputes in Montana and Idaho WaIl
Soon BE Settled.

oOOH DC ocLttcUs
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 13.-The
Mineral Land Commissioners appointed by
the President are expected to settle the
dispute that has long existed in the charac-
ter OF lands in Montana and Idaho within
the grant OF the Northern Pacific Railroad.
The creation of these different boards
arose from the Borden decision of the Su-
preme Court, deciding that mineral lands
within the grant were expected and were
a part OF the public lands of the United
States for mineral purposes. Patents have
been withheld pending an examination of
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MORRLSONS IDEA OF 1T.
Says the SiIrer Question Is Second Only
to the Tariff.

Sans the SiIre1. Question Is Second Only
to the Tariff.
WATERLOO, Ill, April 13.-The Hon.
William Morrison, who arrived here yes
terday, was asked by an Associated Press
reporter to-day to give his views on the
silver question. He said his presence at
home al this time had no connection with
nor relation to the June Democratic con-
vention. He had simply stopped over on
his way West, where the Interstate Com
merce Commission had some business. He
said that during the canvass last year he
had made several speeches and in one dis
cussed the silver question freely and fully,
stating his own views.
'The Importance of this subject" he
said, sis second only to the tariff. It's I'M
satisfactory and unsettled condition is be-
lieved to have aggravated the financial
and business difficulties through which
we have been compelled to pass. The
place which silver shall occupy in our
monetary system, it seems, is a question
which will not down. The effort to settle
it through the Sherman bill by the Repub-
ican party was a confessed failure. That
party FASTENED to join in undoing its work
The sentiment in favor of larger use of
gold seems to be growing both here and
abroad.
apparently nobody in Europe is cour-
ageous or relentless enough to attempt the
double standard without England's con-
sent. We can safely do this with England
and all Europe opposing. 1t is not the
legal-tender quality which makes our silver
dollars more valuable than the silver in
them. 1t is because under the practice of
our financial system they are interchange
able with gold through the treasury.
"When silver was discredited by being
being left out Of the coinage laws of 1873,
there was nothing in the relative values of
silver and gold to justify it. This is not
the only cause, but it is one reason why
the commercial value of silver is not more
than it is. In prosperous times we could
safely use large amount of silver, always
providing for its conyertibility into money
which does not get its value from the law
The Secretary of the Interior, Hoke Smith,
said in speech that the bullion in the
treasury was being coined as fast as the
minis could do it, which would increase
our circulation to the extent of 500, O00, o0O
It would seem to mean that the bullion in
the treasury, including seigniorage, is
being coined "
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Threatened bu Ls,,,ch as.

MORGANTOWN. KY, April 13.-Spen-
Ger and Pelcher, the murderers of Major
Hamilton, who helped plan the escape of
the Union prisoners from the Libbey
prison, were taken to Louisville to-day for
safe-keeping. The Sheriff got information
that mob of 500 had formed for the pur.
pose of Nnching the prisoners tonight.
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Uanted for. a cold Brich S,yind,.

DENVER, Colo. April 13-Chief of Po-
lice Golding to-day received letter from
Deputy United States Marshal Thomas
Fowler at Provo, Utah, inquiring about
Larry King. The communication informs
the Chief that King is wanted at Provo for
gold-brick swindIe. King was under ar
rest at Denver, but has been released.
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battle is expected to rage. 0'Rourke and
Blair were arrested on charges of conspir-
acy on the stopping of mail train at the
Union depot. AT the preliminary exami-
nation they were discharged.
In the suit brought by O'Rourke and
Blair, E. w. McKenna is made joint de-
PENDANT with the railroad company and it
is claimed it was through his information
the arrests were made.
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THE FREE SILVER PARTY.
Efforts to Offset the Plans of Chicago Gold
Hen.

CHICAGO Ill, April 13.-The Free Sill
yer party has headquarters in Chicago to-
day, This morning General A. j. Warner,
chairman of the national committee, and
Congressman Joe Sibley arrived and were
met by Charles Miller, Sibley's business
partner, Colonel Turner, leader of the Free
Silver party of Michigan, and General VOL
colt. This afternoon they were joined by
Senator Jones of Nevada, and tonight they
will leave for the West.
To-day conference was held with some
Chicago silver people to canvass the result
of the anticipated Democratic declaration
on free silver in Illinois, and set in mo-
ton arrangements for monster free-silver
mass-meeting to offset the one being ar
ranged by the Chicago gold men.