Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-02-23
THE WEEK.

The abandonment of the fight for free
coinage by the silver Senator's and the
sale Of the new government bond issue
were the topics Of leading interest during
the week. By votes of 80 to q and 81 to
p the silver men made the bill for the I'M
restricted coinage Of silver the unfinished
business In the Senate. Then followed a
struggle Of endurance. 1t becoming evident
that a quorum Of Senators could not be
maintained all night. and Mr.. Jones him
self made the motion to adjourn. The
opponents of the new battle ships for the
navy suffered defeat In the House when
Mfr. Savers motion to strike out the au-
thcrization for war vessels was lost first
In the committee Of the whole by vote
of 1921, and later in the House by vote
Of 67-190. The naval bill authorizes the
exclusive of armor. $4.OOO.OOO each. and
twelve torpedo boats. to cost $4,000 each.
Senator Chandler created something Of a
sensation by outlining some steps to be
taken by the next Congress. including
congressional investigation Of the recent
purchase of gold by the President. The
House defeated the Senate amendment to
the consular appropriation bill appropriat-
Islands by ia to 1872, sixteen democrats
voting for the cable. The House commit
tee on Pacific railroads decided to report Il
new bill based on the Reilly bill, but con-
tanning important changes. Charles F.
Warwick. republican, was elected mayor
Of Philadelphia by 10000 majority Moses
Kimball, founder of the Boston Museum,
and philanthropist, died in Brookline, a
suburb Of Boston. at the age of eighty-six
years. Ex-Gov. Benjamin F.Prescott died at
Erping. NH. at the age of sixty-two years.
The centennial of the birth of George Pea
body was celebrated at Peabody, the birth
place Of the philanthropist. The annual
meeting of the department of super1ntend-
ents of the Educational Association was
held in Cleveland The north wing of
Music Hall. in Buffalo, was damaged by
fire to the extent of about $4,000. A strike
among the building trades on all the build
ings In course of construction in New York
was declared by the board of walking dele
gates; the strike Is In sympathy with
that of the Electrical Workers Union.
Foreign.
Witnesses examined before the Armenian
commission testified against the Turkish
officials, and declared that they were wit
nesses to the massacre of children. The
new American As were subscribed for
twenty times over in London. The Japa-
nese government will ask parliament for
an appropriation of $5OOOO,OOO to carry on
the war against China. The motion of Sir
Henry James in the British house of COM
mons for an adjournment. in order to call
attention to the Indian import duties on
cotton, did not precipitate a government
crisis, as had been predicted, 1t being re-
jected by vote of 3O4 to 100. Two thou
sand Chinese soldiers were killed by the
explosion Of large powder magazine In
the forts at Takao. on the Island of For
mosa. The reichstag passed the bill to
repeal the anti-Jesuit law. A motion for
the second reading of the bill submitted by
the radical popular party, providing for
popular representation in the federal states
of Germany. was defeated In the reichstag.
In the District.
Az result Of tho canvass
for contributions for the poor. which was
carried on under the auspices of the CEN
trail relief committee. the total receipts
reported were s13,2S5.0S. The National
Council of Women and the National So
ciety of the Daughters of the American
Revolution were in session during the
week. Possession was taken of the new
armory, on l. street between 4th and 9TH
streets. by the National Guard. Owing to
depression. caused by i'll health. NJ. Pierre
Bogdanoff. the first secretary of the Rus
sian legation, committed suicide at his
lodging in this city by shooting. Much
satisfaction was expressed by the COM
munity at the action of the committee of
conference in deciding to restore to the
appropriation bill the clause providing
money for raising the dam at the Great
Falls and thus securing at an early day
the much needed increase in the water
means of arousing the attention of Con-
gress to the Importance of this matter
was the water coupon petition of The
Star, which was numerouSly signed by
citizens; at meeting of the board of
trade resolutions were adopted urging Con-
greSs to make this appropriation. Lack
of quorum at a night session of the Sem
ate prevented any action by that body
on the bond-issue bill. The celebration
of the birthday Of General Washington
was very general in this city: number
of meetings were held and there was a
parade in the afternoon of military COM
panies. The death of Frederick Douglass.
the most famous Afro-Americ IN of his
time. occurred suddenly at his home In
Anacostia.