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New-York tribune., 1897-09-01
BROOKLYNITES URGE DELAY
THE COMMITTEE OF FIFTY'S ADVICE TO
THE CITIZENS UNION.
IF 1T rs HEFDED. MR.. LOW WILL. NOT BE PUT IN
NOMINATION. -DAY-LATEsT DEVELOP
MENTs IN THE MAYOR
Atty SITUATION

All political interest in Greater New-York CEN
tres n the Citizens Union conference which
meets at noon to-day at No 80 Liberty-st. The
directors OF that organization say that they will
to-day nominate Seth Low for Mayor Of the
new metropolis. Unless there is an unlocked
for hitch In the programme. the nomination
Will be made without much preliminary talk. and
Mr.. Lows name will be promptly placed in the
field
There will be no delay, It is declared, to await
action by the Republicans or any other anti
Tammany body. The letter to inform Mr.. Low
OF his nomination has already been prepared.
and Will he sen; TO him at his country resting
place on the adjournment Of the conference.
The plan of sending a committee to wait upon
Mr.. Low at Northeast Harbor. on the coast Of
Maine, has been abandoned. and the Citizens Will
trust Uncle Sans mails for the safe delivery Of
the Information to the candidate. If COM
mittee carried the notice and handed it to Mr..
Low, It's members would be expected to return
to New-Yorll with the nominees acceptance.
At least they think that they should bring back
with them n strong int!maton of Mr. Lows in
tentions. The method adopted Of forwarding the
letter by mail does away with difficulties which
have been foreseen. and leaves Mr.. Low free to
take all the time he desires before writing his
acceptance. Nobody apprehends a declinator.
but the candidate may postpone his formal ac-
ceptance II he pleases until after the meeting
of the Republican City Convention.
No other place on the Citizens Union ticket
except the head will be filled to-day All the
other nominations will be laid over for future
action. This course will open a number Of in
tcresting possibilities in making up the list OF
candidates to complete the ticket headed by Seth
Low.
New-York tribune., 1897-09-01
IN FAVOR or 4 GOLD BASIS.
NICARAGUA MERCHANTS MAKE AN APPEAL TO
THE GOVERNMENT

Managio Nicaragua. via Galveston. Tex. Aug.
GA largely IT ended meeting OF merchants WAS
held hero to-day Resolutions were adopted de-
ploring the present financial condition of Mica
!aSua. and pctitIonng the Government 10 place the
country on a gold basis. estimating the present
pap,r dollar or silver dollars a. 30 cents gold,
ask nS for the Issuance Of gold certificates In their
pace and at this valuation and requesting the
Goyernment TO export and sell the present coinage
OF Nicaragua.
New-York tribune., 1897-09-01

The dispatch shows that the ST Paul has again
reduced her time between this port and Southan,p-
ton lowering the record made on her last trip. when
she beat her best previous performance eastward
The st. Paul left here last Wednesday August 25.
clearing the bar at Ii :a3 a. m. Allowing ten hours.
The usual time from Sc.lly Islands to the Needles
the time Of her voyage will be about six days ten
hours and ffty-hve minutes
New-York tribune., 1897-09-01
THE ST. PAUL LOWERS HER RECORD.

Southampton, Aug a.-The American Line steam
ship ST. Paul. Captain Jameson. from New-fork.
was reported passing scy Islands at I o'clock
this evening.
New-York tribune., 1897-09-01
COCNSELLING DELAY.

The Brooklyn Committee of FIFTY, which met
last night In the Brooklyn Library. furnished
the only element OF doubt regarding Mr.. Lows
nomination to-day. After a session OF nearly
three hours the Brooklyn committee unanimous
ly passed resolutions advising that to-day's con-
ference postpone Mr.. Lows nomination in defer
to the wishes of the Republican organiza-
tion and other anti-Tammany bodies.
Whether this advice will he needed or not re-
mains to he seen. Chairman Reynolds OF the
Citizens Union Executive Committee said yes
terday he did no, believe that even II delay
should hc suggested by the Brooklyn committee
the recommendation would he needed.
III You were assured that the Republicans
would consent - Mr. Lows nomination in case
YOU postponed action. would you he Wiling 20
do so?' he was asked?
Il couldn't answer that until the proposition
IL made" was Mr.. Rcynods's reply. u will say
this however. that we have never thought OF
that contingency"
Mr. Reynolds said that no nominations except
that ~ MAYOR would be made today. and that
later on the nomination would be ratified at a
mass-me~ting
New-York tribune., 1897-09-01
THE BROOKLYN MEETING.

At the meeting OF the Brooklyn Committee o'
Fifty last night. tho subcommittee OF cohrer-
ence, composed Of Messrs' orr, MaK"eii ana
Steele, made report Of talk they had win
c,a.ressman Quigs, representing the Republi-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24

II. H.. Terrill was third assistant from 1869
to 1873; James n. Tyner was
second assistant from 1919 TO 1876
and first assistant from 1876 to ISL;
Thomas j. Brady was second assistant
from 1876 to 1881. She has had one assistant
secretary of the treasury. john G. New.
from 1852 to 1SS5, and ole assistant secretary
OF the interior. William y. Otto. from 1873
to ISL OF Cabinet o1ncers she has had
John w. Foster. secrrta-y IF state from
1882 to 1893; Hugh Mccdl,o IN. secretary Of
the treasury from 1863 to 1869. and again
from October. 1854. 20 March. 1856; Walter
q. Gresham, from oct. a To OcS. p, ISL;
secretary of the interior, Ialep d. smith.
from 1861 to 1s63. and John j. Usher. FROM
1853 TO 1865: secretary of the navy. Richard
W. Thompson. from 1871 to Isl: postmaster
general. James n. Tyner, from 1875 to 1877,
and Walter Q. Gresham from 1853 to 1854.
attorney general, w. II. Il. Mil.cr from 1889
to- 1sg3.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24
TEXAS BANK CLOSED.
FURRY Caused by Failure of the
and Merchants. of Paris.

PARIS. Tex. March 23.-The Farmers
and Merchants Bank closed its doors az
10 o'clock this morning. 1t was one of the
oldest institutions in the State. and had
a paid-up capital Of $500. O00. The failure Of
Martin, Wise & Fitzhugh yesterday caused
Il run on the bank. which forced ii To the
wall. join Martin was president of the
bank until yesterday. when he resigned
When the Farmers and Merchants Bank
closed its doors the news flew over the city
like wiidfire. People became panic-stricken.
a rush WAS made for the City National
Bank, which WIS a large creditor of Martin.
Wise * Fltzhugh, and the people began To
withdraw their deposits. An excited crowd
gathered in front OF the building along the
sidewalks the length OF the block. II be-
came nece ssary TOR the police L. clear a
passage. Everybody expected the doors TO
close every moment. AT II O'Clock Colonel
George z. Hicks. vice president of the First
National. walked into the City National
with 100000 and told the depositors TO
come on Gnc get your money The Off
Gals of the City National announced that
it would remain open until 6 o'clock 10 pay
deposits. This quieted the fears of some.
but Il great many continued To draw out
their money. 1t Is difficult to predict the
end.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24

The decision of the United States Su-
preme Court in the case of the United
States against the Transmissouri Freight
Association is one of great Importance and
f~ar-reaching possibilities. Its Importance is
enhanced by the fact that il overrules sew
eral decisions heretofore made by federal
courts of lower jurisdiction and establishes
an Interpretation of the antitrust law of
1890 which adds very greatly 10 its scope
and effectiveness. The tendency of pre-
vious decisions has been to restrict the op-
Grafton and lessen the efficiency of the act
as TO commercial trusts and totally deny
its applicability TO railroad combinations
and pools. On the latter point the present
decision is a complete reversal of all for
mer ones. The late attorney general said
in his last annual report:
The case of the United States vs.. The
Transmissouri Freight Association, consist
ing OF eighteen railways west of the Mis-
trict of Kansas to enjOin a contract and
combination among these companies to
maintain rates of freight, was decided
against the government in both the Circuit
Court and the Circuit Court of Appeals.
one judge of the latter court dissenting.
supreme Court OF the United States. and
will be argued about the time Congress as
sembies. The Circuit Cour held in this
case that the law in question does not APP
ply to railroads, chiefly on the ground that
they are exclusively regulated by the in
act. The Circuit Court
OF Appeals. without directly passing upon
this question. held that the action of the
railway mpan les was not in violation OF
the act OF July ,. 1890. The claim that the
act does not apply 10 railroads is urged
with confidence in the briefs of counsel
now on file in the Supreme Court. While
I maintain the opposite view and feel con-
fdent or its correctness. the fact that such
a question can be raised. and has already
been raised successfully in one court. AT
fOrds an instance of the indetiniteness of
the terms OF this law. which Is a serious
obstacle in the way OF its prompt enforce
ment.
Thus IL appears that In this very ease
the United States Circuit Court and the APP
pellate Court had held that the law Of 1896
did not apply to railroad pools To the
same effect was a decision rendered last
week by the United States Circuit Court OF
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24
GREET ED EY M'kINLEY.
N~ewspa per Correspondents Welcomed
tn the White House.

WASHINGTON. March 2S.-President Nc
Kinley to-day gave a reception to the news
paper correspondents stationed in Washing
ton and the representatives of the local
press. Although it was a busy
day in Congress, at least 80
representatives of the leading newspapers
of the country had gathered in the East
room when the President entered at 3
o'clock. During his fourteen years service
in Congress Major Mckinley had become
intimately acquainted with a majority CT
the correspondents, and although some Of
them entertained political views at variance
with his. ii was plainly manifest that for
him personally and as President they all
entertain the highest respect. His cordial
greeting of his old acquaintances was d
pleasant feature of the reception. The cor
respondents were introduced by Mr.. Dun
nell. the chairman of the standing COM
mittee of correspondents. and at the conclI-
sion of the handshaking the President min
gled freely with his callers and again ,x-
pressed mis- pleasure in meeting the CORE
spondents of Washington whom he mad so
pleasantly known In the years gone by.
Soon after the correspondents retired the
government board of managers of the Ma
tional Home for Disabled Volunteer Sol
dierS Were presented To the President. and
these were followed by a California dele
cation OF Cinnamon, representing the See
1upS Society.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24

The old city Of Bristol, England. is pre-
pairing to celebrate in June next the four
hundredth anniversary of the Cabot expe-
ditions of 1887 and 1898. which resulted in
discovering and pre-empting the North
American continent for English-speaking
peoples. The great enterprise of Columbus
in 1892 resulted in the discovery of the
West India Islands and the continent, but it
remained for the Cabots. John and Sebas-
tan. father and son. to discover the north
ern continent and plant the English stand
ard at five different points. The two expe-
ditions which made these discoveries sailed
from Bristol, in Bristol ships, QUILTED by
Bristol money and manned by Bristol sail
ors. No other city in the world. therefore,
has rs good a right to claim the honor of
discovering and locating that portion of
the western world which is now occupied
by the United States as Bristol has. The
arrangements for the celebration are pro-
ceeding on a liberal scale. A strong COM
mittee has been organized of representa-
tive and influential citizens. and about
500 has been raised for the erection OF a
monument. 1t is desired. however, to swell
this sum TO 2 .0O0. and citizens Of the
United States who feel like contributing
are asked TO send their subscriptions to
Lorin a. Lathrop, United States consul,
Bristol.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24
GRATIFIED.
Pleased Because the Antitrust LAW
Was Upheld by the supreme Court.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, March 23.-Secretary
Sherman is very much g~ratified over the
decision of the Supreme Court upholding
the antitrust law that bears his name and
applying it specifically to railroad associa-
items and pools. He has contended all
along that the decision of the same court
last year in a Sugar Trust case. which was
against the government. did not seriously
affect the main underlying principles of his
law, but in this view he ran counter to the
opinion of the generality of lawyers. IL
seems, however. that he was right and Is
now enjoying a quiet laugh at the discom-
nture OF those who have been insisting that
the Supreme Court had driven Il two-horse
team through his antitrust enactment.
The railroad people are completely at sea
again and may now abandon further at
tempts TO devise a plan TO get around the
anti-poo.ing provision of the interstate
law. They will probably concen-
trate their efforts once more on Congress
TO secure the passage of a bill legitlmatizing
pooling
The Illinois Steel Company has made an
other move against the Carnegies In the
great fight between the two concerns, by
sending a representative to Washington
with authority and Instructions to bid for
the armor plate for the war vessels in pro-
cess of construction at $500 per ton or less.
This forces the CarneSies into bidding or
quitting the field.
Senator Turpie had the pleasure of talk
ing 10 empty seats this afternoon for an
hour and a half on the proposition of elect
ing senators by popular vote. He has dis
cussed this theme at length on previous
occasions and his colleagues are familiar
with his views on the subject. SO they
sought the seclusion of the cloak and CON-
mittee rooms until he had concluded his
remarks.
The board of managers of national SOL
diers' homes, at to-day's meeting, appropri-
ated $1,000 TO defray the quarters expenses
OF the home at Marion, Ind. The board, at
its session tomorrow. will consider the
charge against the management of the
Leavenworth home. indications tonight
are that Governor Andrew Smith will not
be dismissed, a revulSion of sentiment in
the board having taken place.
Representative Steele has secured a re-
duction i'm the proposed duty on boiling
cloth from 30 per cent. to % per cent. the
millers of Indiana and the West having
made a protest against the higher tax.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24

According to the London Mail the muir
murs in certain quarters are not loud. out
deep. about the arrangements Cor the
Queens great celebration in June. for the
reason that no provision has been made for
society on the great day. In all pre-
vious festivities of the kind" said the
Mail. .'there has been a service in West
Minister Abbey. and at that room was found
for ministers. NJ. P.'s. the great officials.
and their wives. The al fresco service out
side ST. Paul's will take place on SO tiny
a piece of ground that there will not be
room for a tenth part of the procession it
self. let alone the peeresses whose RICH. to
assist has hitherto been regarded 80 a mat
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24

Appeals in New York. In a suit against
the Joint Traffic Association brought by the
United States district attorney the Circuit
Court decided tina the agreement among
the railroads was unlawful. but the Court
OF Appeals reversed this decision and held
that the United States could not maintain
the suit either under the interstate-com-
merce act or the antitrust law OF 1870
The decision of the Supreme Court reverses
all these decisions and establishes the rule
that the law of 1880 does apply to railroad
pools and combinations of every kind to
establish and control freight rates. That
the question is a close one is shown by the
fact that four of the justices of the Su-
preme Court joined i'm a dissenting opinion,
the judgment of the court being supported
by five justices. This has no bearing on the
binding force of the decision, though, taken
in connection with previous decisions by
lower courts, it might Indicate that the
weight of opinion, if not OF authority. is
in favor of the opposite view. 1t is too
soon to decide what the effect of the de-
cision will be. AT present it looks as if
it would put an end to railroad pools or
combinations to maintain rates and make
the roads much more amenable to control
by the Interstate-commerce Commission
than they have been heretofore. 1t may be
that the railroads will find a way of evad-
ing the law by indirection, thus escaping
the force of the present decision. but ii
looks very much as if all existing traffic
associations would have to be wound up or
reorganized on entirely new lines.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24
General Notes.

WASHINGTON. March %. -o-day's
statement of the condition OF the treasury
shows: Available cash balance, S2lS,J62. az:
gold reserve, $l5l.511.00
The Chinese empire has sent notice 10 this
government that il will be represented at
the universal postal congress to be helc in
this city next May. This viii be the first
time China has been represented at such a
gathering. which il held s~eXtennially. AMI
the delegates will be sent with a view 10
the entrance OF the empire into the Cniver-
sal Postal Union.
Representative Evans. of Kentucky, to-
day introduced 4 resolution requesting the
President to give notice of the desire OF
the United States TO terminate. at the end
of the twelve months, the existing COM
mercial reciprocity convention with the
Hawaiian republic.
As a recognition of their feeling ana re-
gard for ex-senator Dubois and his efforts
In behalf of the silver cause. a number OF
the senators and representatives OF that
faith in this Congress rendered him a din
ner at the Wellington Hotel tonight.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24

ter of course. Her Majesty has decided on a
popular display-and popular indeed will 1t
be with the masses-but the prospect II
having TO pay enormous sums for poKy
rooms and small windows. and to BID for
them in competition with the Bradley-Mar-
tins. has started a mild furo:e of discor-
tent in the class that considers itself sg-
grieved by the arrangement" This dllus:on
to the Bradley-Martins grows out of The re-
port that these wealthy Americans nave
ca5led 5000 for two diamond jubilee pre-
to be asked to live up TO this scale OF prices,
and harder still to have nc private eShibi-
ton to which the mob is not admitted. hut
at this distance it 1ooks as if the arisioc-
racy would have to join the plebeian crowd
or miss the show.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24

There is no room for surprise when the
eye falls upo a newspaper item 10 this
effect: Frank Burton while out near Bel
vedere last Monday afternoon got hustled
of a bicycle, and finally hustled into the
General Hospital" No room at all. but.
nevertheless. the paper being published in
far-off Calcutta, the Western reader ex-
periences a slight jolting of his mental ma
chinery-a disturbance that is more marked
as he goes to another paragraph relating
to the number of women who are riding
bicycles in Calcutta at the present time,
wearing bloomers instead of skirts. Verify,
the world is small and the wheel goes all
around il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24
WAR ON DEPARTMENTS STORES.
Governor Tanner Promises TO sign "a
Bal to Abolish Them.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, March 25.-The Cook
County iChicago) Business Mems Associa-
ton, 400 strong, arrived from Chicago on
a special train to-day TO wage, through the
Legislature. a war on the great department.
stores of Chicago. The first delegation was
followed by another special train, with an
additional 200 business men. The Spring.
field Business Mems Association and Gro
GERS Association sent committees TO the
trains and escorted the visitors 10 the State
Capitol, where Governor Tanner. in an adj
dress, promised to sign the anti-department
store bill II IL was constitutional and i'm
form when il reached him. The visitors
crowded the House galleries later and ap-
plauded the advancement of the bill TO thifd
reading, after il had been amended TO APP
ply only TO cities of over $4,000 population.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-24
ENGLAND'S A

The anxiety of the British government
for an arbitration treaty with the United
States does not prevent il from prosecuting
in American waters it's traditional policy of
strengthening old or building new fortifi-
cations. The military works bill now before
the House of Commons contains a large APP
preparation for Notifications in the Ber-
mudas, where England already has strong
works. The Bermudas are not exactly in
American waters. but they are only about
500 miles from the coast of the United States.
They are one link in the chain of fortifca-
tons which Great Britain maintains
around us from Halifax on the East to
Vancouver's island on the West. a London
cablegram in yesterdays Journal said:
John Dillon. leader of the Irish Nation
alists, said that In view of the fact that
a treaty of peace and arbitration had yir-
tually been concluded between Great Bril-
tain and the United States, he must protest
against a proposal of large expenditure
upon fortifications at the very doors OF the
United States. He would not say that they
were TO be erected with a hostile intention,
but they were ut any rate intended as de-
lenses, and he would advise the United
States TO watch very carefully the erection
of fortifications in the Bermudas under the
circumstances.
Sir Charles Dixie, member Tor the FOreSt
Of Dean. replied that fortified coaling sta
tons would be an absolute necessity to
Great Britain on the American side of the
Atlantic in the event of a great war. Most
of England's food supply came from Amer
lea. 1t was very improbable that the United
States would ever be opposed in war to
England, and the use of the BermudaS as
a basis of British naval operations On the
American side of the atlantic was in no
sense whatever directed against the United
States.
If the United States should take Mr..
Dillon's advice to watch very carefully
1.-The erection of British Notifications in the
Bermudas" it would only do what England
would do under like circumstances. The
British lion sleeps with one eye open. and
no great power could strengthen its fortifi-
cations within 800 miles of the British
coast without attracting his attention and
eliciting a growl. 1t is not to be supposed
for a moment that England's action in this
| matter is intended as a menace to the
United States, except in the general sense
that 1t is a menace to the world. and notice
that. arbitration or no arbitration. Great
Britain intends to be always prepared for
war. The reply TO Mr.. Dillon's protest was
not to the point. England would have no
use for the as d basis of naval
operations in a war with European powers,
and while she may have no intention or
desire TO have trouble with the
United States. it does not require much
penetration TO see that such an event, of
all others, would make the Bermudas i'm
portant to her. Mr.. Dillon's protest was
unheeded. and the appropriation for the
Notifications passed. England may trust in
Providence and arbitration, but she keeps
her powder dry.