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The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-01-21
y0ST- TUCKER CON {
Consideration Of the Case Gives the HoHsa 81
Chance 10 Discuss Virginia Elections II &
REPUBLICANS SPEAK FOR TUCKER
walker, of Virginia, Opposes 6iivfn#
Min the se"t-Tucker VIII yyin
Turpio Continues Eiis OnsIepsMs
against the Sicarngun Canal Biit
aew Custom House III New York.

washington, Jan. 20-The considera-!
tioh or a contested election case gave
1 ane fiouse to-day an opportunity to fin
uuise Iii some political discussion as re-;
.a.nhs .as 10 elections in Virginia. It5waAl
that OF Jacob Yost VS.. III. ST George
Tucker from the Tenth District of5Virss
GINA, Tor possession OF q seat In The
54th Congress. - -
the majority of the COMMITTEES on
I1lections NO 3, and the majority OF the.
tTTepuDiican tT'. members. recommended that
Iucker he permitted to retain his seat
Messrs: Walker Rep., Val and Thomas
hep:, N1ch.) reported that Yost was enc
titled to the seat.
IMPERFECT" BALLOTS. 3tss'
The point in dispute was as to tI1e
counting of certain 'imperfectn ballots
which the State law declared should be,
thrown out. If they We're counted, Yosts
WOULD nave small majority; if not,
tucker tucker would have n small Majority
The majority was of the opinion that
they came In fatal conflict with the law
ana should be rejected. The minority
said as the intent of the voter could not
ne determined from them, they should be
counted. The report OF the majority
MAS advocated by Messrs. Coddlng Rep.,
Pa.) and jenkins Rep., Wis). members,
of the committees; and that of the minor
ity by MI. Yost. the contestant, who waa
accorded the privilege OF the floor:
Messrs. Grosvenor CRep., Ohio) and
Daniels (Rep., N W. An agreement
was reached to take vote on the case
tomorrow at 4:30 o'clock. i7Sl5f
ARMY APPROPRIATIONS.
"A partial agreement Of the conference,
on the Army Appropriation bill was re-
ported and agreed to, the House In
sistlng upon further disagreement to-
the Senate amendments still in dispute
Biils were passed authorizing the con-
struction of bridges across the Cumber-
land and Tennessee rivers In Kent,Ickvs
and authorizing the Secretary of War.
TO grant certificates showing the SER
vices of telegraphers in the war for the
union. 'sis
At sis p. m. the House adjourned un-
til tomorrow.
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CANOyAs MAY RESIGN.
VIII DO So III Rebellion fs Sot soon
Crushed. ft is4

London, Jan. 20.-The Daily News to9l
morrow will publish dispatch from Pa
ris saying it is reported there that Senots
Canovas Del Castillo. the Spanish pre-
mier, has stated to his friends that iEs
General Weyler does not succeed In
crushing the revolution in Cuba by the
vas) Will resign. The writer OF the diss
patch asserts that negotiations were
proceeding between the government at
Washington and Madrid With yiew OK
settling the trouble in Cuba, and thet;
Prime Minister Canovas WAS preparing
was ended, when the Premier was sur,
prjsed and dlsmayed by the reoeipt last
week OF an intimation from WashihE4I y
ton that Secretary olney Ind not tifne to-
settle the Cuban question and wa stlid tSiSs
agnte 1t to the administ stra tion Of Fti'e ElsI
dent-elect Mckinley II
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chns. w. Dnbnoy Jr., Named.

Washington, Jan. 12.-Under proyi-
sion of the act of Congress concerning
the Tennessee centennial celebration,
President Cleveland to-day designated
Charles w. Dabney. Jr., as chairman of
the Government board of the exposition.
MIR. Bradley was chairman of the Gov
ernment board at the Atlanta exposI-
tion
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-01-21
NEW YORK CUSTOM HOUSE.
The Bill Providing for Its Erection
Passed by tho Sonnte,

Washington, Jan. 20.-The Senate
passed to-day the bill for the erection
OF new Custom House building In New
York on the site of the present building.
at a cost not exceeding $1,000. 900; appro-,
priating S250000 for one years rental OF
temporary premises, and appointing at
q salary Of $4,000 each board Of FIVE
building commissioners. The bill now
goes to the House.
PACIFIC RAILROAD DEFAULTS.
The resolution heretofore offered by
Morgan as to the Pacific railroad de,
faults was laid aside without action. and
that offered by Mr.. Pettigrew Silver,
s. d.. as to the divisional lines between
Venezuela and British Guiana, was re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Re-
lations.
The joint resolution as to electric con-
duits in the city of Washington was dis
cussed during the morning hour Mr..
Faulkner (Dem., w. Na), replying to the
speech of Mr.. Hill Dem., N. " on.
Tuesday. 1t went over without action.
NICARAGUA CANAL BILL.
Mr.. Turpie Dem, Ind.) continued his
onslaught against the Nicaragua Canal.
bill. speaking for two hours and leay-.
Ing his speech still unfinished. He
likened the securities offered by the
company for the hundred millions Of
concession by the Government to bogus
mortgage and to Peter Funk securitfes,
and quoted the figures of the companyss
estimate of costs and of the Government
engineers estimates to prove what he
termed the enormity of suppression:
practised by the company. s
The legislative appropriation bill was
then taken up and finished, and House
bill of last session. relieving foreign,
yachts from tonnage charges, was taken
up and passed.
Mr.. Chandler's bill for Representations
OF the United States at a monetary cons
ference was postponed till Tuesday next.
At o'clock the Senate adjourned until
tomorrow.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-01-21

Twenty-eight mills for the manufac-
turc of newspaper agree TO form trust
to raise prices SO as to increase profits
Sc, ,000,O 900 a year. - 60 81
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-01-21
Enrthaunke shocIs.

Athens. Ca. Jan. 20.--Severe shocks of
earthquake have been experienced In the
province of Delvino Epirus. A number
OF villages have been destroyed and 1t Is
feared that many of the Inhabitants os
the province have been killed or injured.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-01-21

us surely to Il continuance ,fsiss atIvs $fi asF
WHO has given per capita cost thqugftf3l
consideration IS q E.rginia1 a1ysr rigs9ss$H
from that hour. His answer iss iI, The ysfstfjj fsj
giniaTs-it Is Yes! III
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-01-21

Mr. Freeman was severely cross ex-
ahmed by Judge Brooke, in the course
of which witness said that the option
brought to linn by Mr.. Young was upon
a letter head and in pencil 1t was not
The paper produced then and there Ly
Judge Brooke, purporting TO be the op-
ton III question.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-01-21

The answer soughtsB by tho
advertiser Gesiriug to reach
the largest number or buy
ers Mt the lowest cost per
capita. leads Inevitably ltoa
II trial OF Tho Sirginsan. and
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-16
ANTI-SILVER HANIFESTO.
The Protest of the London Bankers Submitted
to the Chancellor.

continuing an ambiguous policy" and
appeal to it to do nothing rash in
India The Standard confesses that
the scarcity of currency in India, since
the mints closed, has been a serious
matter but it says that a small COM
mittee of business men might be ap-
pointed to settle the question without
reference to the wishes of American or
other silver mine owners.
''If silver" says the Standard, sis the
best currency for India, let her have it,;
but no rash decision ought to be taken
without ample discussion"
The Daily Telegraph this morning
devotes it's financial article to the
Slump in Americans" 1t says:
During the recent boom the British
public, which has learned something
from its experience of past wrongs,
gradually unloaded its holdings on the
market and avoided the error of re-
purchasing at high prices. Wall street,
therefore, had to swallow the bait in
tended for the Britisher. The or1gina-
tors of the boom got all the shares
themselves and there is every proba-
bility that they will have to keep them
With the prospect of dear money IN
New York this is not a comfortable
position. The boom was worked WITH
borrowed money. Therefore, it is easy
tC see how a Tightening OF the rates
might bring down the whole 1aprlc,
for there is no market here. Shoulu
Wall street attempt to press safes IL
would not be surprising, now mat all
the shares are held in New York. Any
relief must come from a new set OF
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LONDON. Oct. 15-The following is
a copy Of the memorial to the chancel-
lor of the eXchequer, Sir Michael
Hicks Beach, which has been signed
extensively by the English bankers:
"Sir: We, the undersigned, are en-
gagged in various mercantile, banking
and financial enterprises in the city of
London of no slight magnitude, and we
are therefore deeply interested in all
that affects the monetary position of
the country, the credit of the bank note
and the solvency of banking institu-
tions. We are aware of the visit of the
delegates from the president of the
United States to this and other coun-
tries, but have no authoritative infur-
nation as to the nature of their pro-
posals. From the communication of
the governor of the Bank of England
to yourself, lately made public, and
from general report, We cannot but as
sumo that negotiations of some sort
touching the metallic currency OF this
country are proceeding.
I'VE feel inpelled by a strong sense
of duty respectfully to lay before her
ma:esty's government the following
four considerations, the great impor-
tance of which we trust may be ap
parent:
"First-That no alterations should be in
troduced affecting the circulating medium of
this country except after full discussion in
parliament and by the public at large. SO
that the changes proposed may have as ample
consideration as their Importance deserves.
whatever should the pledges of successive gov
ernments to the British pound sterling and
the single gold Standard of this country be
set aside, either directly or indirectly, and
that no steps should be taken by or with
the consent of our government which has
for its object any alteration in the value of
that standard.
"Third-Phat this country as ore of the
great nations Of the world, enjoys under her
mint regulations coinage system absolutely
free from embarrassments, internal or ex-
ternal, and we conceive that any departure
therefrom In the direction of reliance upon
engagements with other countries would be a
fatal mistake.
''Fourth-That, the minis of Isdia being
closed as to the policy OF which we express
no opinion, state of circumstances has
arisen in which the greatest caution is nee
essary, whatever may be tEe next step which
the Indian government may be advised to
take, but we urge that no retrograde step
be taken, except upon as exhaustive an in
quiry as that which led up to the present
position, and then only If Indian interests
will be primarily benefited thereby.
1--WE most strongly urge the forego-
ing considerations upon her majesty's
government, speaking, as we believe
we are justified in stating, with some
little knowledge, of the problems in
volved and of the interests at stake,
and we are prepared. if necessary, to
give our reasons at length, if it be your
wish to receive a deputation.
The Times, Daily News and STAN
dard all comment upon the anti bime-
tallic memorial presented yesterday to
the chancellor of the exchequer. With
the utmost seriousness they impress
upon the government 'the danger Of
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dead and injured Is as follows The
dead:
MRS. LUCY COHEN.
MRS. GEORGE KLEEMAN.
Dangerously injured
DIR. GOLDMAN
MRS. STUMDER.
MARY STUMDER.
MARY HAAS.
UNKNOWN WOMAN.
Seriously slightly injured: Pearl Hail.
Grace Connor, c. j. Weiss, Jacob, Weyle,
Mary Hess, John White. Amelia Weye Mary
Howe, Ella Lorman, Della Algier and her
three children, Stanley, Joseph and John
Daisy Fairhead, S. E. Long, S. ]. Fairland
T. p. Wiley, Fred jerks, William Moten, W.
]. McGabb, Clint Deal Kate White, Maggie
Studder, Amelia Wayle, Samuel iiosenbam
Clint Steele.
The scene in front of the hospital
door was a sad one. Hundreds of peo-
pie gathered there clamoring for the
names of the injured. An attendant
stood at the door with list of those
brought to the hospital and answered
anxious inquirers. Many names were
inquired for that were not on the hos
pftal list.
AT the opera house ropes were
stretched across all approaching streets
and the police had all they could do 10
keep the crowd of seven or eight thou
sand people from crushing through
All sorts OF wild rumorS were af1Oat
and public curiosity was on tip toe all
the more ardent because of these
rumors. There was a story afioat that
one man was missing. 1t was a wild
story for he could not be in the opera
house where the debris was so scat
tered that it did not form piled up
mass anywhere.
Any one standing at the door of the
hospital in front of that pitiful, sor-
rowful, anxiously inquisitive crowd,
could understand how not one man, but
many men, women and children were
missing.
The damage to the structure was
nothing at all to the stage, compara-
lively little to the gallery, which suf-
fered most, almost nothing to the dress
circle and much less than one would
think from the debris scattered around
through the parquet, where the main
truss landed. The truss rested in the
parquet very much in the shape of
capital letter "V." The wonder is that
so few were hurt, and of the few hurt
so many escaped with slight injuries.
The cause of the accident tonight
seems to be easily discovered. Among
the first who entered the building after
the dome had fallen, was President
George w. Rapp, of the Cincinnati
Chapter American Institute of Archi
tects. 'It was not that DOME" said he,
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Mr.. G0RMAN LAYS ASIDE HIS MANTLE.
Course WlI Harmonize fhe Fairly.

BALTIMORE, Md, Oct. 15.-United
States Senator German today issued an
open letter to Edwin F. Abel, pub
Usher of the Baltimore Sun, in which
he offers to relinquish the leadership
of the Democracy in Maryland, pro-
port the Democratic ticket in the COM
ing state and legislative campaign. He
also intimates that he will forego his
ambition to succeed himself in the
United States senate, if it can be
shown that such a step is necessary to
Democratic success. The letter, which
is a very long one, reviews the course
of the Sun in it's opposition to Mr..
German, because of his views upon
civil service, tariff and ballot reform
measures. To all the charges made
against him upon this score, Mr.. Cor
man pleads guilty, but quotes the Sun
as having admitted that such questions
were largely matters of opinion and
asserts that every man is free to think
as he pleases regarding them. He de-
fends his course in regard to all these
questions and concludes with the fol-
lowing proposition:
"And now, Mr.. Abel, let US pass to
a question touching which there can
be no misunderstanding These state
mentS and counter statements, argu-
ments and retorts-all this petty clash
of protestation and Impeachment
amount to very little at the best. You
have declared your undying devotion
to the Democratic party and have said
that my leadership, my personal ambi-
tions, my selfish purposes, and these
only, prevent you from restoring your
newspaper to the service Of the loyal
people who originally made it rich and
powerful by theiErpatronage, their con-
f1dence and their support. You have
given Maryland to understand that,
but for me and the 'bossism' you are
pleased to attribute to me, you would
bring back the Baltimore Sun to its old
moorings and devote it to the exposi-
ton of Democfatic principles and the
confusion and overthrow of Republican
rule in this state.
'eYou have stated in effect-certainly
with the intent of being so understood
that you still love the Democratic
party and still wish to see it predom-
mate in Maryland, and you thereby
involve yourself in a pledge to cast off
YOUR Republican affiliations, repudiate
your Republican alliances, and labor,
heart and soul, for the success of the
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the party They want to see the old
lines restored and the old operations
rehabilitated. And I owe them so much
as to feel not only willing, but anxious
to consummate any wish Of theirs, no
matter at what cost to me.
Are you ready and willing and free
to meet on this ground in good faith,
in all loyalty, without provisions or
reservations, on the honor of a gentle
man? Are you at liberty to take
charge personally, and through your
agents of the Democratic campaign for
the mayoralty of Baltimore, for the
legislature, and for the success to that
place In the senate concerning which
L have but one desire-that of seeing
1t filled by Democrat whose loyalty
to the party is unquestioned and prov
ed, and who will advocate and uphold
the principles to which you profess un-
selfish and sincere devotion? If you
are, | am ready to meet you more than
half way. Let me hear from you, and
let our fellow citizens judge between
US by the measure of our personal good
faith and party loyalty therein"
Mr. Abel tonight declined to say
what course he would pursue in the
matter, or to express any opinion con-
cern1ng the letter which will appear in
the Sun tomorrow as paid advertise
ment
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Democratic party as it will remain
after being purged by me.
IF you be sincere in this, the solu
ton of the difficulty is almost enough.
If my aspirations my leadership, my
influence constitute the only obstacles
to your return to the people who made
YOUR newspaper and founded your for
tunes and gave reality to your posi-
ton and your power, l stand ready to
remove them. Office is less to me than
you suppose Political leadership is
not so necessary to my happiness as
you, in your ignorance of my charac-
ter and motives, are pleased to say.
Strange as it may seem to you, L am
willing to surrender every prospect OF
personal promotion, if by so doing l
can reunite the Democratic party, re-
store to it's ranks all their pristine
strength and harmony, allay the dis
sensions and animosities that now eX-
list, and efface the humiliating specta-
Gle presented by yourself and men of
your way Of thinking-the spectacle of
the Democratic party betrayed into
the hands of the enemy by those whom
Democrats have in the past exalted
and enriched. I do not undertake to
say how much you or any other man
may love the Democratic party, but I
know how much I love it, and 1 know
that I have no personal ambitions I
will not sacrifice for its honor and well
fare. l know, too, that / have no af-
filiations, no engagements, no plans of
any kind that could by any possibility
embarrass me in making the proposed
arrangement.
You may understand this as an
overture of surrender on my part-as
an admission that the Democratic or
ganization cannot hope for further life
without your aid and countenance. I
am prepared for that. I have been
misunderstood by you so long and so
unreasonably that a little more er less
will count for nothing. AS a matter
of fact, I am satisfied that the people
of Maryland have become disgusted
with the two years of Republican NAL
administration, which you did so much
to make possible, and that they are in
the hunor to make an end of the eX-
pertinent. 1t is not only what has
and the corruption, which they see
awaiting them in the event of a per-
petuation of Republican rule. They
feel that every substantial interest in
the state is jeopardized, and they are
determined, with or without your aid,
to restore to power the Democratic
party, which has never heretofore be-
trayed them, and in whose hands they
will feel their honor and their interests
to be secure
LAS to this, 1 have not the shadow of
a doubt But they want, also, a re-
storatfon Of the former harmony of
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CAMPAIGN OPENED.
Republicans Begin Their Fight in
the Bay State.

nepunhcahs beg1n The1r Fight In
the Bay State.
BOSTON, Mass, Oct. 15-The Repub-
lican campaign in this state was for
mally opened tonight with a grand
ratification meeting in Masonic hall. at
which Gov. Wolcott and the two Mas
sachuSettS senator's, Hoar and Lodge.
spoke to a gathering of party support
ers that completely filled the hall.
GOV. WolcOtt was introduced amid wild
enthusiasm. He said, in part: There
are certain phrases in the nomencla-
ture of politics that [ would gladly see
pass into early and final disuse One
of these is the phrase an off year.
There is no such thing as an off year
in the politics of the American repub-
lie. This year the election will be as
important as every election is in the
old commonwealth of Massachusetts,
The Republicans of this commonwealth
should grid up their loins to meet
united opposition. The orderly, just,
progressive control of the affairs of
this commonwealth for which we are
Indebted to the Republican party is
before the eyes of all it's citizens. Pass
fair judgment upon it, gentlemen, and
answer the question whether or not the
people of this commonwealth wish to
entruSt its complicated affairs to new
and untried hands or whether on the
Wnole tney are satisfied with the or
derly conduct of the affairs by the Re-
publican party"
Senator Hoar paid a high tribute to
Gov. Wolcotts first administration of
state affairs, and in commencing his
political affiliations said: "He did not
have to change his coat to show It's
silver lining; did not have to denounce
the courts of his country, which are
the protectors and guardians Of every
thing that we hold dear in prosperity
or in the home and summon to tear
them down an audience which had to
be kept from tearing each other to
pieces. They tell you that although
prosperity may have come, 1t did not
come quite so quick as we predicted
last year. Well, a Democratic national
administration is a disease that it takes
longer to recover from than I thought
it would. They tell you that there IS
judge in West Virginia and another in
Illinois who have issued some injunc-
tions which they think ought not to
have been issued. Well, [ cannot un-
derstand what practical bearing it has
ON the state election in Massachusetts
this year I think we can trust the SUI
preme court of Massachusetts,
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pointing to the huge heap in the center
of the floor, that caused the trouble
The fault lies with the roof trusses
One of the trusses had rotted away
from it's fastenings; it had parted and
thrown the two sections down and they
in their descent pulled the dome with
them. The roof of this theater is liable
to come down at any minute The
building inspector also made an exami-
nation of the trusses. He coincided
with Mr.. Rapp that the fault was with
them. Building Inspector Tooker said
that tomorrow the broken trusses
would be removed and the roof would
be made secure AS it is now there is
danger at any time. A singular coinci-
dence that the play announced for next
week was entitled "Under the Dome"
Tonight's disaster recalls forcibly a
more fearful one which took place in
the same building in February, 1876
Tonight there was a real cause for
panic and loss of life; then there was
no cause whatever except the foolish
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-16

cry of fire started when a little sput-
tering hiss came from the calcium
light in the upper gallery. The house
was packed, mostly with women and
children. With the single cry of fire in
such an assembly the mischief was
done. Plunging into the aisles and
rushing down the stairways and toward
the wide doorway leading to the street,
the inevitable blockade of fallen human
bodies occurred and the wild and saw
age struggle for escape by those be-
hind completed the dreadful mischief.
Only when outward progress was ab-
solutely blocked and time was given to
the living to use their senses to discov-
er that there was no fire and no cause
for alarm, did the insane panic cease.
Then followed the sickening rescue Of
the dead and the many who were in
jured. Tonight's catastrophe, however,
had a cause for panic, and if the con-
ditions had been the same as those Of
the 1876 horror, the result would have
been fearful beyond calculation.