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Evening star., 1897-06-02
SENATOR SMITHS DENIAL.
1t Is q Surprise to Some Who Though,
They Knew

II IN q Surprise to Some Who Thought
They Knew.
The very emphatic denial made by Sem
ator smith yesterday that he had engaged
IN sugar speculation during this Congress
or at any other time when legislation. re-
lating to sugar was pending has caused
surprise. Mr. Smith was not compelled to
make the denial, and it Is to be presumed
that he made it voluntarily. That he
should solemnly and formally dispute a
matter that some persons sincerely believe
to be true, that belief being Based on infor-
nation that 1t had never occurred to them
to doubt, naturally causes surprise. Such
a denial Is calculated to bewilder those who
think they know something about the
sugar scandal of the time Of the Wilson
Dill ana might raise doubt as TO whether
there ever was any sugar, speculation by
any one In public life. If Mr.. Smiths
clerk, who was an expert telegraph ope-
rator. formerly connected with a once
famous banking and brokers establish
ment, had not died. and could now be
called in to substantIate Mt. Smiths de-
niai, 1t would relieve the minds and con-
science of some who are now left In doubt
as to whether they have been victims of a
cream and have been doing Mr.. Smith
violent injustice.
Unfortunately this clerk or private Sec
retary Is dead, and though he was alive
and at the Capitol daily during the IA
nous Senate sugar Investigation, his tes-
time that he had beer notified to appear
before the committee, but that the notice
had been recalled. 1t is regarded as un-
fortunate, perhaps. that this testimony
was not then taken.
OF course, Mr.. Smith knows better than
does any one else what the facts in the
case are and his denial must be accepted,
but sometimes information comes in such
q YVpo YNr10W 20 f4y~xr raO1 I,
nial of Its accuracy come almost as a
shock.
Evening star., 1897-06-02
THEIR POSTS IN FUTURE.
Assignment of Omcers to Regiment
Announced.

- OAsCCEB 10 xkeKlmentn
Announced.
The following assignments of Officers IN
regiments are announced:
Col Jacob Kline, to the 21st Infantry;
Lieut.. Col Ezra p. Ewers. to the 9th In
fantry: MAJ. Erasmus C. Gilbreath, to the
9th infantry; Capt. Pierce N. B. Travis, to
the 11th Infantry. Company B; First Lieut.
Willis Uline. to the 1lth Infantry, Company
<; Second Lieut. Alfred T. Smith. to the
i2th Infantry. Company I. Fort Niobrara.
Neb.; Col Marcus z. Miller. to the Sd Ar
tiilery: Lieut.. Col. Jacob B. Rawles. to the
1st Artillery; MAI. Lewis Smith, to the 4th
Artillery: Capt. Charles w. Hobbs. to the
Sd Artillery. Battery X; First Lieut.. Della
E:- Additional Second Lieut.. Clarence III
Mcneil LIST Artillery. to q vacancy Of sec
end lieutenant. 5th Artillery, Battery Al:
Additional. Second Lieut. Joseph p. Tracy
LIST Artillery, to vacancy of second lieu.
tenant, 9th Artillery. Battery c.
Evening star., 1897-06-02
McKINLEY's DEPARTURE
He Was Accompanied by q Number Of
Representatives and Diplomats.

He Was Accompanied by q Number Of
Representatives. and Diplomats.
At 8 o'clock this morning President Nc
Kinley and a distinguished party left here
over the Pennsylvania road to be present
at Philadelphia today at the various ex-
ercises attendant upon the opening of the
Commercial Museum and the annual meet
ings Of the National Manufacturers Asso-
citation and the American Medical Associa-
ton.
The train carrying the party was a fine
one The private car of President Thomson
was sent for use by the President, and
the train was in charge of Tourist Agent
Bell of the company. The train was made
up of six coaches. One was for the Pres
the cabinet and two for members Of Con-
gress, of the diplomatic corps and for 9TH
er invited guests. Then there was splen-
did dining car, and in front, next to the
engine, baggage coach. The entire party,
including the President, took breakfast on
the train.
In President Thomsons car were Presi-
dent and Mrs. Mckinley. Secretary and
Mrs. Porter, Mrs. Saxten and Mrs. Bates.
Two members of the cabinet-Messrs. Nc
Kenna and Wilson-represented that part
Of the government. There were, however,
a number of ladies of the. cabinet. Secre-
tary Sherman was unable to go, but the
State Department was represented by Chief
Clerk Michael and Prof. Frederick Emory,
chief of the bureau of foreign commerce.
Commissioner of Pensions H. Clay Evans
was a member of the party. Among the
members of Congress were Representatives
Dingley, Grosvenor, Dalzell Tawney, Nor
ris and Newlands. A number of the MEM
bers of the postal congress were in the
party. The diplomatic corps was especially
well represented, the ministers from the
South American republics taking a great
interest in The trip and the museum
Among those ia the party were Senior
Romero. the Mexican minister; Senior Men
donca, the Brazilian minister; Senior Gar
cia-Merou, the Argentine minister; Senior
Cana, the Chilean minister; Senior Andrade,
the Venezuelan minister; Senor Calvo, the
Costa Rican minister, and the ministers
from Ecuador, China and Corea
Evening star., 1897-06-02
SIGNED by THE PRESIDENT.

Congregational Acts Receive Presiden-
tial Approval
The President has signed the act making
appropriations to supply an urgent de-
fciency in the printing and binding appro-
priations, and the act amending the act
relative to procuring steamers for the
transportation Of grain to the starving
poor of India, so as to permit the Navy De-
pertinent to utilize a ship of foreign regis
ter In the relief work. In anticipation CT
the Presidents action, Judge Advocate Cen
eral Lemly already had given instructions
to the officers at New York, and bids were
to be opened this afternoon for the supply
Of two suitable steamships.
Evening star., 1897-06-02
GOULDS SAIL FOR EUROPE.
Many Prominent Peaple Go Abroad nm
the st. Louis Today

NEW YORK.June 2-Mr.and Mrs. George
]. Gould, with their five children, sailed
on the American line steamship ST. Louis
for Southampton today. Mr. Gould said
he would be away for about Two months.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie We're also
passengers by the st. Louis. Mr.. Carne-
gle stated that they were going to Clumy,
Scotland. for a holiday. He could not
say how long he would be away.
Other passengers were ChauEccy NJ. De-
pew, president of the New York Central
railroad; Charles H. Cramp, the Phila-
delphia ship builder; Mrs. George w.
Childs of Philadelphia, Countess Pappen-
helm, Lieutenant A. NJ. Thackara. United
States consul at Havre, and E. S. Willard
and ten members of his dramatic COM
pany.
Evening star., 1897-06-02
TREASURY PROMOTIONS.
Changes in the Omces Of Two
Auditors.

Changes I'm the Omces Of Two
Auditors.
Promotiors have been made as follows
In the Treasury Department.:
Office Of anditor for Treasury Depart
ment-A. B. Jameson. Penpay1vanta. from
S.60o to 1880; A. s. Bryan, Pennsylvania,
from 81. 400 to $1.600: ]. W. Butcher, Dis
trict Of Columbia. from $1,20o to $1,4OO:
Miss II. r. Jennings, Wisconsin, from
81. 600 to 1920.
Office of auditor for war.sDepaTtment-
John c, Baxter. Ohio. from clerk 81 800 to
chief Of division: N. G. Martin. New York,
from clerk 81. 600 to 1880: g. H. Martin,
Pennsylvania. from clerk $LbOO Ia 81 500;
F. 9: Deland: Maine. from elerk q 600 to
q 800; F. B. Dalrymble. Neys Jersey, from
clerk 400 to 400; W. F, Miney, District
w. B.. Shaw. Maine, from aeEk Il 400 to
$1.600; =. A: Clark. Iowa, freFn sclesI s., 400
TO M.9W =. J. Barden, Connectic1t, from
clerk 81, ,20O to 81, 400.
The above cases are all reinstatements.
Evening star., 1897-06-02
TESTIMONY WAS DAMAGING.
Baron Won Tausch Told Witness 4
Had Spies In the Palace.

Baron Won Tausch Told Witness He
Had Spies In the Palace.
BERLIN, June 2.-In the trial Of Herr-von
Tausch, the former chief OF the secret po-
litical police, today q newspaper man
named Kraemer testified that Won Tausch
furnished most Of the definite information
regarding Emperor William. According to
the witness Won Tausch said he heard
through his spies every word spoken in the
palace.
Continuing, Kraemer said that after Em-
peror Williams return from Abbazia Won
Tausch Informed the witness that the ex-
pected operation upon his majesty was mot
performed owing to the opposition OF the
empress.
Another newspaper man testified that Won
Tausch spoke disparagingiy of Baron
Marschall Won Biebcrstein the minister for
Foreign affairs, called him Q dish clout."
and declared upon several occasions that
he ought to be replaced by q minister shar-
ing the views of Prince Bismarck.
All the evidence has been presented and
counsel viii sum up tomorrow.
Evening star., 1897-06-02
PAYING FOR INDIAN LANDS.
A Large Number Of Warrants Signe
by Assistant Secretary Vanderlip.

A LdfKe NumDef OF WaFfAnf8 SfKned
by Assistant Secretary Vanderlip.
Assistant Secretary Vanderlip's first duty
in his new Office was to sign 72S per capita
warrants in favor of Nez Percez Indians
in payment of lands ceded to the United
States under an agreement ratified by an
act of Congress Of August, 1894. The war
rants were made out in the names of indi-
vidual Indians and aggregated SIG, COS. All
the names are long and grotesque, and
many of them are unfit for publication.
The warrants will be sent to the Indian
agent Mt the Nez Percez reservation in
is not imposed upon in the negotiation OF
his warrant. The average mail of Assist
ant Secretary Vanderlip's office Is 800 let
ters, but today he was compelled to write
his long signature over a thousand times.
Evening star., 1897-06-02
SEIZURE of THE DAuNrLEss.

Report OF Capt. Elmer, Commnndtn.
the MaFblehead.
Captain Elmer. commanding the cruiser
Marblehead. has telegraphed the Navy De-
partment from Key West that he seized
the Dauntless on charge Of filfbusterinr
Monday, and that he has turned her
over to the collector OF customs of Key
West. His report makes no mention of
the Incidents OF the chase and CAPTURE
Of the famous little dlibustering craft
Evening star., 1897-06-02
.Personal Mention.

Gen. j. M. Wilson. chief of engineers, has
returned from West Point, where he took
part tn the battle monument exercises yes
terday. s:sse~E II - ~
Capt George B. Davss q Ii subsistence
department has reporteal the War De-
partment for. duty In the Sn8e Of the conn
@ street.
Lieut. A. r. Piper. 18th Infantry. is un-
dergoiEg treatment at the Soldiers. Home
Hospital. sssEz-s s =
A cablegraRn received at the y1nR Depart
states that he win be IN Rome on the 18th
and expects to be In Vienna On the 9Th.
Mr. Water Stetson, and Mr. Sol. Gold
smith left Sunday for Phfladelphsa, where
they win rsu1ain two wssli. s.
Evening star., 1897-06-02

The regular permanent family
circulation of The Evening Star
is more than double that of any
other paper in Washington,
whether published in the morn
ing or in the afternoon.
AS a medium for unobjec-
tionable advertisements it there
fore stands unequaled and un-
approachable.
Evening star., 1897-06-02
DIR. MiLBURN EXCUSED.
Blind Chaplain of the senate Will
spend His Vacation Abroad.

NEW YORK, June 12.-The Rev. VIM. II.
Milburn. DID,, the blind chaplain of the
United States Senate, has been excused oy
Vice President Hobart from service for the
re remainder of the session, the Rev. DIR.
Johnston, the Presidents pastor, kindly
substituting.
Dr. Milburn, with his daughters. sails on
the Germanic JuI.e . for "Trip through
England and Scotland, during which he
will fill a number Of pulpit engagements.
the longest being during August and Sep
tember at the Rev. DIR. Forsters church,
Harrow Road. London. where he preached
last summer.
Evening star., 1897-06-02
Army Orders.

Lieut.. F. G. Kalk. 9Th Infantry, has been
detailed to duty at the Iowa Wesleyan Cni-
versity. relieving Capt. Chas. L. Hodges,
2Jth Infantry, who will Join his company.
The order relieving Capt. C. II. Murray,
4th Cavalry. from duty at Brown Uhiver-
sity, Providence. r. l., has been SevOkcd.
Evening star., 1897-06-02
MINNEAPOLIS ORDERED HOME.
She Will Return to League Island and
Join the Reserve Fleet.

Join the Reserve Fleet.
The triple-screw cruiser Minneapolis,
which has been cruising in the eastern
Mediterranean for several months. looking
after American interests, has been ordered
home. She will be laid up III ordinary at
the League Island navy yard alongside her
sister ship. the Columbia. and. like her
will form part of the reserve feet. This
movement was decided upon some time
ago, but was delayed on account of the war
between Turkey and Greece. in view of
the cessation of hostilities, 1t was con-
cluded by Secretary Long that the Minne-
apolis was no longer needed in the Leyant,
and he yesterday issued an order for her
Homecoming.
Evening star., 1897-06-02
Reconnenaea for Pronot,o..

Commander Richard p. Leary has been
recommended for promotion to the grade
OF captain by = naval board which has
just completed his exsmination. This was
his second examipation. He failed on the
hrst examsnetfou On account Of alleged
Evening star., 1897-06-02
To Inspect wslIet,s Poa.st.

colonels H. NJ. Robert and g. L. diiles-
pie and Major H. n. Adams, cofps OF
engineers. have been appointed board OF
visitors to make the semi-annusI inspec-
tion Of the Z. 8. engineers school Il Wti-
let's Point, N. 7.
Evening star., 1897-06-02

An Appoaatnent Revoked.
The appointment Of Pay Clerk ,. Early Of
Evening star., 1897-06-02
On Caacoro nm.

Matanxas is reached at last. We may
not stop now to look out across the bay
which has made It celebrated. There win
be time enough later to hear OF the lost
trad and dead commerce OF this Liverpool
of the Antilles. We can easily understand
that splendid harbor cannot be illed WIN,
slips when the sugar they ones carried
away was this year only acres and acres
- s. fComfluneG] - lIinti RHea -:
Evening star., 1897-06-02

Senator Deboe and the Kentucky politi-
clans have agreed upon d. N. =commingore
for collector of internal revenue of the
sixth district. completing the slate for the
entire state. The Kentuckians are now
putting in their best efforts to have the
coiored republicans of the state recognized
by a good appointment. Besides w. A.
Gaines. who Is an applicant for the regis
tership OF the treasury. 8. E.. Smith Is
pushing his application Tor minister to L.
berta- One Of these men, II y, felt. wiz gsf
q place. The friends Of Gaines continue TO
be very hopeful -.
Evening star., 1897-06-02

(ContlMued en Ninth Raee.l
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-03

The caucus bill which has been intro
the caucus practically the same safe
guards that now surround the election.
A list of voters qualified to vote in q
Republican or Democratic caucus is to be
made up under thesauspioes of the Re-
publican or Democratic town or city COM
mittse, the lat so prepared is to be pub
Ideally exhibited for the inspection of
the voters several days before the caucus
and'fors correction and when the caucus is
held nobody is to be allowed to vote I'M
less his name is found upon the list.
Voters are forbidden to take part in the
caucus of more thnn one party, and
trsnsgression of ssthis provision is pun
ished by fine ami imprisonment. The
law does not undertake to fix the quail
ications of voters for taking part in the
caucus, but leaves that to the respective
party committees, and here it Is to be
feared difficulties are to he encountered
that it will be very hard to satisfactorily
overcome. What testssis Republican or
- " Apply AZ NSoS>
mining what men ought to be permitted
to vote at q Republican caucus aud
what at Democratic caucus? The way
that men voted in the last succeeding cleo
ton might be fair criterion, but under
the Australian method of voting 1t is
practically impossible to determine that
point. How they intend to vote at the
next election might be fair test Also
but voters intention one day might
be changed the next. The general
political reputation seems to be about
the only test that is practicable, but
everybody knows there is a considerable
body of voters in every large community
who have the reputation of skipping
from ons side to the other. Today . the
checklists in this city are apparently
marked on the strength OF general repu-
tation, but the result is far from salts
factory. What the solution sof this prob
lem is we confess we do not know, and
apparently the authors of the pending
caucus bill did not know either, for they
left.it entirely unsolyed, indeed they
made no attempt to solve it.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-03
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR

It is said that on the tom b of Alexandra
Dumas, ills, which the sculptor Saint
Marceaux is executing, the French novel
list will be represented as reclining at
full length in the robe which he wore
when at work, and with his bars feet,
as was his custom.
The John Crerar Public Library in
Chicago will be opened April 1. There
will be IS, 900 books to start with, and q
unique feature of the institution is that
not single one of them will be novel.
Puvis de Chavannss, the French artist,
lives in Montmartre. His home consists
of studio, bedroom and dressing room,
while his furniture is compassed by a
big table, a few arm chairs and sofa.
When working he ordinarily wears ii
long, brown monkish looking gown.
His working studio is at Neuilly, out
side Paris, and is a great bare room vast
enough for his largest canvasses. He
works here alone, on ladder, from in
the morning till dark, stopping only for
light lunch.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-03
A LIFE SAVED.
A Return to Happiness and Health
After rlonths of Weary Pain
Few People Realize What
the Pangs of Dyspep-
STA Signify.

There are very few of the thousands Of
dyspeptics who realize exactly the condition Tito!
sleeplessness, loss of flesh, extreme irritabil
ity, and resort to anything that will give
them temporary relief until the day which
invariably comes when they succumb to this
dread malady. In case of dyspepsia, the
stomach becoming irritated ceases to perform
its natural functions, the food is not digested
and thus the nourishment which should be
taken from that which we eat fails to be dis
tributed throughout the body, for the pur..
pose Of creating new tissue. The blood
becomes impoverished and the patient con-
tinually losing flesh soon reaches the state
where gastric ulcers are formed, which
increase the suffering of the victim. If
death does not soon result from state OF
collapse due to an inability to obtain nourish-
ment, the outcome will be an internal
hemorrhage due to the perforation of one of
the ulcers. But there is no need for any one
to experience such an end, or in fact, to suf-
fer at all the pangs of indigestion. Kickapoo
Indian Sagwa, the greatest of all remedies
for the liver, kidneys, stomach and blood, is
especially beneficial in this trouble. Thou
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-03

The horror with which the English
protested to regard the raid of DR..
Jameson into the Boer Republic has evil
IDENTIFY passed away, for Cecil Rhodes, who
frankly admits that he instigated and
planned the raid and that his only regret
in regard to it is that it did not succeed,
is ostentatiously shaken by the hand by
the PrinceIof Wales even while he Is svir-
tualIy Oh trial for his part in the
episode, and the whole atmosphere that
surrounds him savors of hero worship
rather than of condemnation or criticism
even. Jameson was sent to Jail for his
part in the raid, but Rhodes who Was the
principal in the affair and whose orders
Jameson was acting under, is the lion of
the hour, hobnobbingswit royalty and
the members of Parliament who are sup
posed to be Investigating him, evidently
without fear of punishment and appar-
entv not without hope of reward. Per-
hans there has been a change of public
sentiment since Jameson twas tried, but
the probability is that5at that time The
English down deep IN their hearts were
ust as tolerant of the Transvaal business
as they are now, but felt obliged for the
sake of appearances to make Jameson a
sceue goat: not so much for what he had
done as for what he failed to do-not s
mueh.for raiding the Transvaal as for
raiding it unsuoCessfully.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-03

The late Sir John Millais income
ranged as high as $1,000 in his best
years, and from an early date in his
| career his terms for portraits exceeded
those charged by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
For many years bis lowest price for u
half length of life size wac 50, OJ0 and he
not only made money but did not waste
| it. His fayorite amusement in ondon
was playing whist at the Garr.cs but
his happiest times were speat in salmon
fishing in the Tay. Among his most in
innate friends we're Thackeray, Anthony
Troilcpe, Landseer, Tennyson and Wilkie
Collins. He was graceful speaker, but
his speeches cost him great deal OF time
and labor. When dinner was given at
the Arts club on Lsighton's appoint
ment as president, Millais made an ad.
miraDla speech, and WAS congratulated
on speaking so spontaneously. "Spon-
taneously, he said:" why, that wretched
speech has kept me awake for the last
| five weeks!"
Five and q half ounces of grapes are
required to make glass of good wine.
1t is said that of CO. 900 looms in Bum
ley, England, 5000 are working short
time, while there is vacant space for
| G, 900 looms to be let.
| When dentist in China is pulling a
| tooth for person an assistant hammers
on gong to drown the cries of the vic
tim.
A ST. Paul judge has awarded citizen
SIS damages because motorman refused
| to stop car for him.
One of the potsherds, inscribed with
the name of Themistocles, with which
the Athenians voted for his ostracism in
All B. c., has been discovered at
Athens.
In mock honor of Governor Pingree, OF
Michigan, the legislators of the
Wolverine State have solemnly intro
duced a bill to make the "Pingree Peach
bio W potato blossom the State flower.
The personal habits and priv ate life
of few writer's are SO little known as those
of Donald 6. Mitchell, or "Ike Marvel,
author of "Dream Life and "Reveriei
of Bachelor. /" MIR. Mitchell is now ar
old man, and lives quietly at small
village in Connecticut near New Haven
Surrounded by his books and garden, he
is happy in the memories of a we'll spent
| life, He is reserved and shrinking, and
has horror of the interviewer. -
Prof. Munk, of the Universitysof Ber-
lin, famous for his discoveries in the
physiology of the brain, says tits great
mistake to suppose that ''gymnastic exer'
cises sandwiched in between school hours
rest the pupils. On the contrary, he says
they still more fatigue the brain, which
ought to have absolute rest. If both
studies and gymnastics are to be in
dulged in on the same day, he says they
should De separated by intervals OF rest.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-03-03
WOMEN VOTERS IN EUROPE.
In Finland and Iceland They Have the
Greatest Privileges,

The only countries in Europe where
women vote to any extent are in those
places that we would least expect it; for
example in Finland and Iceland. On the
Continent the woman suffrage movement
has made no great Roadway Of late years
says the j." Chautauquan. The women
have no voting privileges to speak of in
either France or Germany.
In several European countries they are
allowed to vote =by proxy. Thus in the
Austrian PROVINCES women can vote for
members OF the provincial and imperial
Parliaments but by proxy. They can
vote in person at local elections. The
same is true of Russia where women who
are heads of households votesat local eleu-
tons. AS to the widows they have the
right to vote at municipal elections in
Belgium while in Italy they can vote
for members fof Parliament.