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The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-12-08
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Views of Representatives Concerning the
 Presidents Message.

Washington, Dec 7.-Neither senate nor house had good opportunity of judging of the presidents message by the public reading of it, which was done In the most perfunctory and monoto- nous manner, no one in either chamber paid marked attention to it. after the Cuban passage had been read. The re- port ofSecretary Olney, copies of which had be obtained, seemed to attract as much interest as the message itself.
 Members and senators were chary in their comments. Some of the opinions expressed follow:
 Speaker Reed said "It seems hardly necessary to Comment upon the mes sage. It is calm in tone and on the Cuban question will be much more sat- isfactory to the community than it would have been year ago, as much sounder ideas prevail than prevailed then.
 T wish there had been as frank an acknowledgment of the deficit a year ago as now. The idea that the revenue is sufficient, being made so by borrow ing, seems to me hardly tenable."
 Representative Barrett, rep, Massa- chusetts.- "The message shows that the administration will do nothing re- garding Cuba, An attempt will be made to get congress to force the presi- dent into some radical measures. do not believe it will succeed. That and the Hawaiian question will go over to the new administration. The demo- crats get no cue from the message ex- cept to do nothing. The measure shows a clear purpose to veto every republi- can measure of relief
 Representative Morse--''What the president says of the Turkish situation does credit to his humanity. His de- nunciation of the treachery, weakness and imbecility of the Turkish govern ment speak the sentiment of the coun- try. What he says about the struggle in Cuba and his intentions to Spain are patriotic, humane and perhaps as far as the country is justified in going in the present situation.
 Representative Walker of Massachu- setts-"What the president says about the weakness of our banking system and it's reform is most admirable. When he suggests, however, that the greenbacks be retired by the issue of bonds he forgets that we passed an act in 1866 to retire them and when only S59000,000 had been retired the people rose up and congress repealed the act"
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NEW YORK'S BICYCLE RACE.
Feature of Yesterdays Riding Was tn
 Work of Hale and Reading.

New York, Dec. 7.-The feature of the first day of the six day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden was the battle for the leadership in the nine teenth and twentieth hours between Teddy Hale the Irish rider, and Read in, of Omaha. Hale retired for about forty-five minutes and at 12 o'clock, be- ing then in the lead at 230 miles, laps. Reading, who had been following close on the Irishman's heels. then assumed the lead and held it until o'clock Hale had been gaining steadily and a des- perate sprinting match between the pair set in at o'clock, when Hale was a trifie under two miles behind the Omaha man. The Irishman had the Tanks speed. Reading distinguished himself during the early hours by his endurance ride. He remained in the saddle without change until he had ac- complished 260 miles in 14 hours, 10 for endurance in a bicycle contest of any kind.
 The value of his performance was further enhanced by the fact that he only dismounted to change his saddle. He divided the honors of leadership with Hale throughout the afternoon, and was close up at midnight. All previous records were surpassed every hour by the leaders. Waller, who was badly shaken up in a collision with Van Ernbergh in the early morning, was forced to retire during the after noon Van Embergh was unable to ride after the fall, but Waller went on. It is doubtful if the latter will be able to come in. Champion Eddie Bald rode an exhibition mile in the evening. paced by the "black and white tan dem. His time was POS 1-5 seconds on the outside of the track, the fastest mile ever ridden in the garden.
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GERMAN EDITORS GUIHTY.
All But One Sentenced to Various Terms Q
 Imprisonment,

All But One Sentenced to Various Terms of Imprisonment
 Berlin, Dec. 7.--At the conclusion of a long speech to-day the public prosecu- tor in the libel suits against Herr Leck- ert, Baron von ,Leutzow, and others demanded that the two named should be sentenced to eighteen months inn prisonment, and the others to- shorter terms.
 During the progress of the trial to- day Count Philip Eulenberg, German ambassador to Austria, who arrived in Berlin yesterday for the purpose of ap- bearing as witness, was called to the stand. He said he had learned to know Major von TauschNduring the wis., it of the kaiser to AbaZzin and had af- rewards proposed Tausch as deserving of decoration. Witness said that he had received letter from Tausch which, as it was of no importance, he had destroyed. Count Eulenberg said he had never been connected with any intrigues against Freiherr Marschal von Bierberstein and knew absolutely nothing about the existence of any tn-
 
 trigues against him.
 A motion was made by the public prosecutor that in view of the con- fession of Baron Luetzow, in which he stated that Herr Leckert supplied the material for the article against Count Gutenberg, he be discharged.
 When the court returned it announc- ed that decision had been arrived at in respect to all the prisoners. All but one of them were found guilty. Von Leutzow and Lefket were sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment each Berger was condemned to be confined for one month. Ploetz was fined 300 marks and Foellmar 300 marks. Leck- ert's father was also accused but noth- ing was proved against him and he was discharged.
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STATE LOSES $50, ,OOO.
Caused by Error in Computing the Tax of
 N N H. and II. R.sR.

NY, N. H and H. R.sR.
 Hartford, Dec. 7.-Henry L. Goodwin of East Hartford, a stockholder of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, has written a letter to State Treasurer Hodge claiming that an er- TOT has been made in computing the tax due the state from the company and that the error makes the tax ap- pear to be about S50,000 less than it actually is. The error consists in de- ducting from the amount of the rail- roads property subject to taxation the sum of $7632, BPS and in computing the tax on only the remainder left after such deduction was made
 MT. Goodwin claims that in making the returns to the comptroller the road has not used the blank forms issued by the state but has made it's returns in type-written form, emitting to give the funding and floating debt occasioned by expenses of construction and equip ment and the amount of capital stock issued for each construction and equip ment His contention is that the road reports having expended $4,75S,703 for  the construction and equipment of the Harlem river and Portchester railroad, a leased road, when the Consolidated road has issued no capital stock nor incurred any indebtedness for expen- ditures on that road.
 MT. Goodwin urges the treasurer to not accept the tax to be paid as full payment to the state, but to give the road a receipt on account. The state board of equalization has accepted the returns as submitted by the road Sev- eral years ago in a suit brought by the state against the road to recover back taxes due through incorrect re- turns the supreme court held that the returns were incorrect, but that the acceptance of the returns by the board of equalizat ton was final.
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4 PERPETUAL CAND1DArE.
Henry Watterson Again Pays His Respects
 to President Cleveland.


 Louisville, Dec. 7.-The Anzeiger, a German daily. contained a page inter- view with Henry Watterson this morn ing, in which the Courier-JournaPs ed- itor again hauled President Cleveland over the coals. After expressing the opinion that an ex-president ought al- ways in his actions to have respect for the great distinction conferred upon him, MT. Watterson said:
 Tt was, for example, scandalous In my opinion that Grover Cleveland, as ex-president, practiced law in the su- preme court of the United States, two of the judges of which had been ap- pointed by him. The American people pay their president so liberally that 1t should not be necessary for him, after his return to private life, to exert him. self to earn money"
 Continuing, MT Watterson said that he was under obligations to Cleveland for opposing his nomination at Indi- annapolis. He had never expected to accept the nomination, so that Cleve- land had done him a real kindness by his opposition. When asked whether he had read that in certain circles there was talk of the nomination of Cleve- land in 1900, MT. Watterson said:
 T have not read that but l do not need the assistance of newspapers to know that Grover Cleveland will be a presidential candidate as long as he lives The presidency suits the man exactly, and if he lives to be a hun dred years old he will never cease to be a candidiate.'
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JOHN R. FELLOWS DEAD.
Passed Away Yesterday Afternoon-Fi-
 brous Tumor the Cause.

New York, Dec. 7.-District Attorney J. F. Fellows, who had been seriously i'll from a fibrous tumor of the stomach since Tuesday last, died at his resi- dence here at five minutes past one o'clock this afternoon. Colonel Eel lows was anxious to see his son and aided by a strong constitution made @ brave struggle for life. After he was compelled to take to his bed on We'd nesday last Colonel Fellows took no nourishment whatever except such Sas was administered by injection.
 He himself did not realize the seri- ous nature of his illness until yester- day Even then he held the idea that it was pneumonia he was suffering from. and when Mrs. Fellows told him that his illness was of a much more serious nature he replied that, if it was pneumonia, he would get we'll He asked frequently yesterday whether Jack" his son, had get home and In his delirium called his name. From midnight last night until four o'clock this morning the patient seemed to hold his own, and the physicians were en- couraged to believe that he would live to see his son.
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YIETs OF SENATORS
On Presidents Message-Senator PIatt fthara ctar.izns it as Canserratiu

Characterizes it as Conservative.
 Washington, Dec 27--Of the members of the senate committee on foreign relations Senators Sherman, Davis, Cameron, Lodge, Gray, Turpie, Daniel and Mills refused to discuss the presi- dents message,in the most formal way. Other senators of prominence who de- clined to talk were Messrs. Adlrich, Vest, Faulkner, Hill, Wolcott, German and Jones.
 Senator Morgan of Alabama, mem Der of the committee on foreign rela- tions, said the assertion by the presi- dent that no other nation must inter- fere in Cuban affairs was the most decisive declaration of the Monroe doc Urine that has yet been made The message called the great civil war an insurrection and, on this false declara- tion it justified active aid to Spain in furnishing all kinds of military muni- tions and refused the right to send any, thing to the insurgents. Senator Mor- gan regretted that this national action was so illogical and unjust and must still cost many lives and suffering to a people admitted by the message to be at war for the sake of liberty.
 Senator Frye of Maine, of the for eign relations committee, said: "The message is commonplace. So far as the Cuban question is concerted the presi- dent argues on both sides of the sub- ject."
 Senator Platt said: 5"The message is conservative, but contains an intima- tion to Spain that if the war is not ter minated by according home rule in Gu ba the United States will be called up- on to act. In this the people of the United States will sustain the pres- dent. On the tariff question MT Cleve- land has, manifestly, not seen any change of heart from his free trade fallacies."
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THE BIG HAMBURG STRIKE.
Employers and Employees Are Apparently
 as Far Apart as Ever.

Employers and Employees Are Apparently
 as Far Apart as Ever.
 Hamburg, Dec 7.--Numerous meet ings of the striking dock lajborers were held in this city to-day. The largest of these was a mass meeting at which Herr Molkenbuhr. socialist member of the reichstag for Hamburg, announced that the subscriptions to the fund for the support of the strikers had so in- creased that the distributors of the fund would be enabled to raise the weekly grants to unmarried men by one mark a week and to give to mar ried men an additional allowance ac- cording to the number of children i'll their families.
 The employers have held another meeting, at which their refusal to sub- init the dispute between the striking dockmen and themselves to an arbitra- tion tribunal was reaffirmed. This ac- tion is due to the fact that a guarantee fund amounting to $250,000 has been signed for the protection and aid of the smaller employers.
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DEFEAT FOR HEALTH BOARD
CONTIGUOUS HOSPLTAL WILL NOT
 GO TO CLINTON AVENUE.

Directors of General Hospital Will Confer
 With City Committee-One Will be Ap-
 pointed-Aldermen's Busy Night-Hack
 Ordinance Killed-Report of Finance
 Board.
 The opponents of the proposed loca- ton in the Twelfth ward of the conta- gious disease hospital were out in force last evening, at the aldermanic meet ing. Arranged along the rear of the room were the remonstrants ready to support, if called upon, the members who espoused their cause. When Clerk Lyon had finished reading the report of the committee on ordi- nances, Alderman Kinney moved to strike out the recommendation of the committee and insert the prayer ofsthe remonstrants. The recommendation referred to was in substance that the board of health proceed with the erec- tion of the hospital on the lot already purchased. The prayer of the remon- strants asked that the board be not al lowed to locate the hospital in the lot in question.
 Alderman Kinney withdrew his mo- tion at the request of Alderman Chill lingworth, who said that at the request of a brother alderman he had opened negotiations with the General Hospital society for the location of the propos- ed isolated hospital on the hospital grounds, and, together with the alder men, had written letter to the presi- dent of the society asking whether the society would entertain a proposition to enter into contract with the city of New Haven, as provided for in sec tion of the act approved June 2S, 1898. Also, the communication asked upon what terms such contract could be .made.
 As result of this communication over twenty of the directors of the so- ciety met and carefully considered the matter, which resulted in the adoption of the following resolution and letter: Whereas, the president of the society has been informally asked by members of the city government if the society would enter the establishment of an Isolated Hospital on the grounds of the society," Yoted-That the directors of the society would consider favorably such proposi- tion provided the Isolation Hospital was placed under the control and management of this society.
 A true copy of vote. passed by the Di. rectors of the General Hospital Society of Connecticut, Dec. 4th, 1896.
 T. H. BISHOP, Secretary.
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General Pension Bill.

Washington, Dec. 7.-The general pension bill for the year ending June 90. 1898, which was to-day reported to the house from the committee, carries a total of S141 ,269,S ,SSO This is s65, 900 less than the appropriation for the cur rent year and the same amount under the estimates submitted by the commis- sioner of pensions.
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In the Senate.

Washington, Dec. 7.-At first close attention was paid to the message by senators, most of them following the reading with pamphlet copies of the message in hand. The judicial sum ming up of the Cuban question by the statement that when the inability of Spain to deal successfully with the in- surgents has, become manifest a situa- tion will be presented in which our ob- legations, which we can hardly hesitate to recognize and discharge also. seem ed to be satisfactory to both sides of the chamber. Very little attention was paid by senators to the other portions of the message which had to do solely with internal affairs. The reading oc- cupied an hour and fifty minutes. The message was laid on the table and the senate adjourned.
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NEEDS OF NEXT TEN YEA

 Remodeling Eaton, $25, GOO Remodeling Dwight, 15,000 Remodeling Skinner, 5000 Remodeling Wooster, 15,000 Remodeling Washington, 15,O00 New water closets Greenwich ave-, 2,5OO New water closets, West street, 2,5000 New water closets, Ferry stret, 2,500 New water closets, Oak street.. 2,500
 and furnishing 5000 Equipment Boardman,. 5000 To reduce number of children to
 42 in a room will require 12 rooms
 additional, which can be obtained
 by additions to present buildings
 at probable cost of 45,000 building, 35,ooo new building, s5,oo0 The average annual increase In the
 enumeration of school children
 for the last ten years has been
 3936; about two-thirds of this
 number are enrolled in the public
 schoolS-262.4.
 If the rate of increase for the next
 ten years the same as for the last
 ten years we will have to provide
 seats for 2,624 pupils in the next
 ten years.
 The rate of increase probably will
 be greater and it is undoubtedly
 q conservative estimate to place
 the probable demand at 5000 This will require six school houses
 of 12 rooms each. 5x12 equals 72.
 72x42 equals 3.024
 When a new high school is built,
 the present high school can be used
 for a grammar school so that pro-
 bably only five new buildings will
 be needed.
 These buildings with necessary
 land will probably cost $75.000
 each and will probably located as winchester District, S75ooo Lowell District, 75000 Day District, 75,000 Woolsey-Strong, 75000 Cedar Street school. 75,O00 Reseating and changing old High
 school for Grammar school, 5000
 Total of 10 years need, s590 GOO It is hoped by the board that the Sherman school can be completed for $63, ,o00. Ail the sums mentioned in the first paragraph of this statement as al- ready covered by contracts will be ex- pended by next summer. The sum for the remodelling of Eaton school has been already voted, but not yet col 1ected. The remodelling of Eaton school will also be done next summer, so that the total amount to be expend- ed during the next two years for re- pairing, remodelling and building will be something over s1O0.000, which will all be used the first of these two years. The one mill tax which is to be laid to meet such expenses will not be suf- ficient to pay this amount the first year and therefore the amount neces- sary in addition to the proceeds of the one mill tax for the first year to pay the $100,O00, will be borrowed on the one mill tax of the second year.
 It will be seen by the above state ment that the total estimated needs of the next ten years will be S500,000. and 1t is thought that the one mill tax for the ten years will produce revenue enough to pay this sum. MT. Stoddard suggested that the pre- mium on the proposed s500,000 bond is- sue be used as a sinking fund and es- timated that this premium would be nearly. if not quite s9O.OO0. The sug- festion was favorably discussed by the gentlemen of the board.
 Mir. Moran of the committee on (Continued on Fifth Page.)
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Chairman of Inaugural Committee.

Washington, Dec. 7.-C. J. Bell of this city was this morning rendered the chairmanship of the inaugural com mittee by MT. Hanna and has accepted the proffer. He is a republican and a well known business man.
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Putnam, Dec. But little interest was taken in the municipal elections held here to-day. Four aldermen were the officers to be chosen. Of these the democrats elected two and the republi- cans the same number These are; Republicans, P. NJ, Wheaton and Charles Kelley; democrats, Ernest Da- wis and Frank McGourty.
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ROCKVILLE IND PUTNAM.
Results of the Elections in These Two
 Cities Yesterday.


 Rockville, Dec. At the city election here to-day the republicans elected two aldermen and three councilmen. The democrats elected only one councilman in the Third ward. The city council will now stand ten republicans to two democrats on joint ballot-a gain of one democrat. A small vote was cast, as there was no election for mayor or city officers this year.
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FOR A $5OO,OOO BOND ISSUE
BOARD OF EDUCATION DECIDED
 THAT IT W8S NECESSARY.

The District Meeting VIII be Asked to
 Authorize the Board to Apply to the
 Legislature for Power to Make the Issue
 A One Mill Tax to be Levied for Ten
 Years for School Expenses.
 A special meeting of the board of education was held last evening for the purpose of preparing call for a dis trict meeting to be held December 15, Messrs. Asher, Moran, Hooker, Stod- ard, Betts. Manson, Farnsworth, O'Con- ner and Superintendent Kendall being present. The chief business done at the meeting was to discuss financial matters, and to decide upon what in this line should be incorporated in the call for the district meeting
 It was voted that the district meet ing be requested to authorize the board of education to apply to the legislature for permission to issue $5oo,O0o worth of bonds for the purpose of paying ex- isting indebtedness, for the completion of buildings now in process of erection, and to erect, equip and furnish new High school. It was also voted to re- quest the district meeting to authorize the board of education to sell these bonds fist, to pay the floating indebted ness of July 14, 1896, and second to pay the debts contracted for Board- man, Strong and Sherman schools.
 It was voted to recommend the dis trict meeting to annually lay a one mill tax, the proceeds to be set aside in a building fund, for the purpose of pur- chasing sites, for the erection, furnish- ing and equipment of new buildings; remodelling buildings, and building ad- ditions to present buildings and furn- ishing and equipping the same as may be voted by the district.
 It was then decided to recommend to the district meeting that tax of one mill be laid on the grand list of 1896, payable September 1, 1897, to be used for the purposes named in the preced- ing recommendation.
 The idea back of these recommenda- tions is to go in debt for no more new school buildings, but to pay for them and the expenses incident to repairing and adding to the old buildings as soon as such expenses are incurred. The financial committee gave out the following financial statement, which gives not only the present idebtedness of the district, but also estimates of the needs for the next ten vars The statement is revised to December z, 1896, and is as follows:
 Bonded Debt, $500, GOO Floating debt, July IA, 1896, 206, ,000 Already contracted for
 and extras, 1o,5oo
 tion) 5000 Boardman equipment, 4,500
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