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The times., 1899-02-04
GENERAL DEFICIENCY BILL.
The Various Appropriations for the
District Of Columbia.

Secretary Gage yesterday transmitted 10
Congress estimates of appropriations re-
quired by the several departments of the
Government TO complete the service of the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1893, and for
prior years, amounting to Sl3,l97, 1866.
and for the postal service, payable from
postal revenues, amounting to S2,US6,gIi i.03.
Among the appropriations for the Dis
trict of Columbia are the following: To
pay the deputy coroner for services during
the absence of the coroner. for the fiscal
year 1899, $l60; for compensation of the
members OF the plumbing board for the
fiscal year 1899, 81 .459; TO pay l.. W. Glaze
brook for taking notes at coroner's in
quests, for service Of the fiscal year 1898,
SIS; TO pay outstanding accounts for gem
eral advertising, $4l0T; TO pay the Capital
Investment Company deficiencies in rent
for District Offices for the years 1896, 1897
1898, and 1899, $1,000; TO pay retent under
contract 1923, being for the service of the
fiscal year 1898, $l22; main and pipe sew
ers sci; for amount required for the eX-
tension OF sidewalks adjacent to the
Georgetown Market, being for the service
of the fiscal year 1899. $500; extension of
Connecticut Avenue. to be paid wholly
from the revenues of the District of Col
umbia, $23; public schools, $G36. militia,
$3597; Metropolitan police contingent cx-
penses, Sl,50O; Metropolitan police, for a
central police station and site for the
same, to be located in the First police pre-
cinct, between Seventh and Fifteenth
streets west, and b and + streets north as
per plans submitted. 10 take the place of
present station No. /, $50, 900. Fire Depart
ment: Contingent expenses, $1,57475; tel
egraph and telephone service, $7437
Health Department, $ll,000. Courts: Sup
tom
convicts, 5000; for support of convicts,
District of Columbia. for the fiscal year
1888, $9i4; expenses for maintenance of the
jail of the District. and for support of
prisoners therein, $1,000; for support of
prisoners, District of Columbia. for the
fiscal year 1896, 1864; for the payment of
| judgments against the District of Column
| bia, s3,559, together with legal interest
from the dates of the respective judgments;
defending suits in Court of Claims
Amount required for service of fiscal year
1900, $1,000; amount required for service
The times., 1899-02-04
-FOUR MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS UNSEATED
Wheeler, Colson, Campbell, and
Robbins in the List.
Those Who Served Oh CommissiC n
Not Disturbed.
The Judiciary Committee Will Make
Its Report to the House in
II Few Days.

As exclusively predicted in The Times
nearly month ago and denied by all other
news sources in the city, General"Wheeler
and his three army comrades-Colonel Col
son. Colonel Campbell, and Major Robbins
will lose their seats in the House OF Rep
resentatives.
The Committee on Judiciary, after gong
thoroughly into the matter, after receiv-
ing briefs from all concerned and after
considering the matter for three days in
long executive sessions, yesterday after
noon decided to declare vacant the ssats OF
the four military Congressman, and to re-
tain in their posts the members of the
various commissions whose seats had also
been called into question. The comm .ttee
was unanimous from the first in recon-
mending this action in regard to General
Wheeler and his associates, but 1T took
some time before they could agree on re-
port in regard to the Others
Those who will be unseated by yester-
day's decision are General Wheeler OF Ala
bama, Colonels Campbell of Illinois, and
Colson of Kentucky, and Major Robbins OF
Pennsylvania. General Wheeler retains his
army commission and has drawn no pay as
a Congressman. Colonel Colson does the
same, but his regiment has been ordered
to be mustered out, and as another has
been elected in his place to the nsxt Con-
gress he will be permanently out. Colonel
Campbell has not considered himself a
member of Congress, and has drawn only
his army pay since he accepted his army
commission. Major Robbins accepted no
army pay and resigned his commission
when Congress met last December, think
ing thereby to escape unseating. He, like
Colson, will not be a member of the next
House.
The report will be very thorough one
and probably will not be handed in for a
week or more.
The times., 1899-02-04
WOMEN NURSES.
4 Hearing Given Before the Military
Affairs Committee.

The advocates of the bill to authorize
the employment. of women as nurses in
the regular army of the United States had
a hearing before the Military Affairs
Committee of the House yesterday. Among
those present were Mrs. Amos e. Draper,
Miss Margaret Astor Chanler, Mrs. j. Ell
len Foster, Mrs. Nelson A. Miles, Mrs.
Letter, Mrs. Mcmillan, Mrs. Chandler, Mrs.
Manning, Mrs. Ludlow, Mrs. Elkins, Mrs.
Slater, Mrs. Mussey, Miss Patten. Mrs.
Wadsworth. Mrs. Fred MCGUIRE. the
Misses Wheeler. Mrs. Hamlin, Mrs. Nc
Kim, and Mrs. Hull.
1t is claimed that the wisdom of util-
izing this service was fully demonstrated
during the past summer. While at first
the call for these nurses was received as
something of a shock by conservative reg
ular army men-nOt that they questioned
the ability of the women. but because they
did doubt the practicability of the new de-
parture-it was not long before regular
army men, volunteers. civilians, and, more
than all, the sick and wounded soldiers
united in praise of the women nurses. and
il is said to have been clearly proved that
wherever the trained nurse took her sta
tion in camp hospital wards there quickly
came change for the better in all the
surrounding conditions. The women We're
kind and even tender, but they were not
sentimental or silly; they were servants,
but not servile; sympathetic, but not hys-
terical: they were heroic in assuming and
bearing responsibilities, and they obeyed
the orders of their superiors TO the letter.
Their very course of training, it is said.
makes their work particularly adaptable
TO army requirements.
The times., 1899-02-04
THE HULL BILL INCREASE.
Army Reorganization Calls 70
Many New Officers.

a statement has been prepared at the
War Department, which shows the in
crease Of line and staff officers which will
result should the Hull army reorganiza-
tion bill become law. The statement fol-
lows:
Total increase in the number of line
officers is 725, distributed as follows: Col
onels-Cavalry, .; artillery. :; infantry, !;
total, II. Lieutenant enthusiastically, 2;
artillery, 4; infantry, 5; total, IA. Majors
Cavalry, c; artillery, u; Infantry, 40;
total o..
Captains. cavalry. co; artillery. 9S: in
fantry, $50; total, 3OS. First lieutenants.
cavalry, 30: artillery, l02, and infantry,
100; total, 2i2 Second lieutenants. caval-
ry, "a tveterinariansl infantry, so; total,
81
The total increase in the number of staff
officers is PA, distributed as follows:
Adjutant Generals observation-disclosures
tenant colonels, !; majors s; total. Z.
Inspector Generals Department-Colo-
mel, ]; lieutenant colonels, 2; majors, E;
total. 9.
Judge Advocate Generals Department
Colonel, ]; lieutenant colonel, l. major, !;
total, 3.
Quartermaster's Department-Coloncls
.; lieutenant colonies, I; majors, c; cap
tains, 20; total %.
Subsistence Department. Colonel, !;
lieutenant coloneIs, .; captains Il; total
Is.
Medical Departmental Colonies, .; lieu
tenant colonels, lG; majors 10; first lieu
tenants 25; total, 49,
Pay observation-disclosures I: lleutenan;
| colonels, ?; majors 10; total, IS
Engineer Department-Colonel. /: lieu
tenant colonels, .; majors 2; first lieu
tenants, 10; second lieutenants, IS; total
49,
Ordnance Department-Co Colonels. .: lieu-
tenant colonels, 3; majors, 4; captains, .;
/ first iieutenants, 6; total. II
| Signal Corps-Colonel, /; lieutenant col
onels, 2; majors, 4; captains, Z; Iieuten-
ants, Il; total, IS.
The total increase in the staff is: Col.
onels, u; lieutenant cOlonels, "A; majors
! 81; captains, IL; first iieutenants, 30; sec
ond lieutenants, 2S grand total, PA.
In addition the Hull bill also provide!
for one brigadier general and one lieuten,
ant colonel in the Record and Pension Of
| flee.
The total increase of officers is OIL; o.
which 725 are in the line, PA in the staff
and in the Record and Pension Office.
The times., 1899-02-04
MAGowAN's sTovE-PIPE ROLL
How He Got the Money With Which
He Lighted Cigars.

Trenton. y. j., Feb. 3.-There has been
much speculation here among the friends
of former Mayor Frank A. Morgan as to
where he obtained the e-pipe roll of
bills which he claims We're stolen from him
by Buttner, the proprietor of the Broad
way Garden.
In his charge. as well as on the witness
stand he stated that the amount he had
when in the garden was 81, 500. of which
there were two $1,000 notes, one for $500,
and one for s100.
1t is now known that Col. A. R. Kuser,
of Newark, who, with several other capi-
talists have recently secured control of
the two gas and electric light companies
of this city, paid Mcgowan the money in
bills of the denominations named above
for block of electric light stock on the
day before the robbery is alleged to have
occurred. 1t is believed that Mcgowan
split up his $500 note and that it was with
these small bills that he is said to have
lighted cigars for the amusement of the
girls.
The times., 1899-02-04
The "EraternaI Record

The "FraJernal Record" new weekly
publication devoted to the interest Of the
fraternal societies and their members. has
been established, with Frank II. Hosford
editor and William l.. Crounse publisher.
Mr.. Harrison Dingman is president of the
company; John l. Brown. vice president;
Frank Fl. Thomas, treasurer, and Jonas
IL. McGowan. counsel. The publication Of
flee is at 14l5 G. Street northwest. Both
Mr.. Hosford and MIR. Crounse have for
years been among the prominent corre-
spondents in Newspaper Row.
The times., 1899-02-04
BENTON AND BLAIR.
Statues of the Two Great Missouri
ans to BE Accepted.

The House Will devote the remainder of
the day after 3 p. m. today to formal ac-
ceptance of the statues of Thomas H. Ben
ton and Franklin Blair. presented by Mis-
souri, TO Statuary Hall in the Capitol.
Speeches will be made by Congressman
Champ Clark. Dockery, and Lloyd of Mis-
souri,, and Carmack of Tennessee. The
Missourians have prepared with care their
speeches upon these illustrious sons of the
State, and no doubt they will contain ac-
curate and interesting reviews of their
lives and services 10 Missouri and the
nation.
The Benton and Blair statues were un-
veiled some time since and stand in con-
spicuous positions in the Capitol. They
are admired as works of art no less than
as tynes of DISTINGUISHED Americans.
The times., 1899-02-04
GENERAL BoYNToN HoNoRED.
Citizens of Chattanooga Prcsen, Him
with "a Sword.

Chattanooga, Feb. 3.-In the presence Of
several thousand people at the Auditorium,
Brig. Gen. H. V. Boynton was tonight pre-
sentcd with 4 handsome sword as a token
of personal esteem by the citizens of Chat
tanooga. The blade was handsomely en-
graved and cost 81 goo. A reception to the
Third Tennessee Volunteers, recently mus
tered out. was held in connection with the
presentation. Regarding the report that
he is candidate for Librarian of Congress
General Boynton said:
The mention of my name for Librarian
is friendly matter entirely. | am not
candidate for the place and even if /
could get it | should not want it. honora-
bic as the position is. These are too stir
ring times to be shelved with books and so
Withdrawn from the great current of af-
fairs as TO have no part in them
The times., 1899-02-04
sons of Old laie to Dine.

1t is expected that the Yale alumni din
ner. to be given at the Shoreham this
evening. will he one of the most delectl-
BILE affairs of the banquet season. The
toastmaster will be Ellis IL. Roberts, Treas
urer of the United States, who is also pres
ident OF the Yale Alumni Association. The
post -prandial programme will be intro
duced by toast to the President of the
United States. America" will then be
sung. and. after the Rev John l.. EwelPs
invocation, the programme will be as TO-
lows: Greetings From the University"
Prof. Arthur 7. Haudley. Yale University;
Beginnings OF the Washington Alumni
Association" |. Edwards Clark Bureau OF
Education; Alaska John g. Brady. gov
ernor of Alaska; Yale in the National
Administration. John Addison Porter,
secretary to the President; An Interval of
Sixty nine Years" Prof. Samuel Porter,
class of 1929. and Brainerd w. Parker.
class OF 1898; "a Study in Black" Prof.
Isaac Clark, Howard University; Yale in
Modern Life and Modern Life in YALE
Representative Charles n. Fowler; yale
The times., 1899-02-04

dredged from the proposed channel would
eventually congest the harhor at Calves
ton, and no provision for obviating this by
exacting 4 guarantee from contractors
that the dirt would be safely disposed Of
OF otherwise. had been made.
Last Wednesday, during the Considera-
tion of the River and Harbor bill, Mr.
Hawley presented these facts to the House,
and his objections were sufficiently Vlgor-
Gus to knock out the S25O.0O0 appropria-
ton. He asked permission TO extend his
remarks upon the subject in the Record. "
which was given him. and they appeared
yesterday morning after the bill ha l
passed.
Ir. BUrton's Ipdisnation.
At the opening of the session yesterday
Mr. Burton arose TO a question of personal
privilege and moved that MIR. Hawley' 5
remarks he stricken from the Record.
His reason for asking this was that Mr..
Hawleys speech as printed contained re-
lections upon the integrity OF the River
and Harbor Committee, which had not
been made before the House by Mr. Haw-
ley. who Mr.. Burton accused OF having
supplemented his speach with uncompli-
mentary sayings before sending it TO the
Record" printer.
This Mr.. Hawley denied. explaining that
he had only changed the verbiage here
and there, and that the substance of his
remarks was the same in the Record
as delivered by him on the floor OF the
House.
Before the vote a combat at repartee
occurred between the gentleman from
Texas and the gentleman from Ohio,
which was interrupted by Mr.. CatchinGs
of Mississippi, who attempted TO act as
molliiier. His efforts were OF little avail
and vote was demanded. The viva voce
vote was not satisfactory, and division
was asked for The result was still un-
satisfactory. and finally, by an yea and
nav vote. Mr.. Burtons motion 10 strike
the offending remarks from the Record
was agreed to.
The times., 1899-02-04
STOCK MEN CENsURE MILES.
An Inspection of the Methods %.
Emhniming Meat Invited

Chicago, Feb. 3.-The executive commit
tee of the National Live Stock Exchange
have adopted resolutions in which it is de-
clared that the agitation caused b. unjust
statements reported to be by officials high
in authority, notably those made by G u
eral Miles" have created Il feeling of dis
trust against American packed beef. Caus-
ing the loss of millions of dollars to both
live stock producers and packers TAe
resolutions further urged the United States
Government to ask foreign governments 10
inspect the American methods of handling
dressed meats
The times., 1899-02-04
POLICEMAN coGH1LL IMPROVES.
The Men Charged With Running
Him Down Under Arrest.

The condition of Policeman Coghill, who
was knocked down and run over on Penn
sylvania Avenue Thursday night was last
night reported at the Emergency Hospital
to be improved. and no serious results
from the injuries sustained are now an
ticipated.
John Anderson. John c. Nelson. and
Robert Drew. the latter colored, who were
arrested Thursday night on suspicion of
being responsible for the accident to Cog
hill. were yesterday arraigned in the Po-
lice Court. Their cases were continued 10
await the result Of the policeman's in
iuries.
The times., 1899-02-04
The Plumbers Supplies Trust.

Philadelphia Feb 3.-Within a month S
time it is expected that the proposed com
bination of manufacturers of plumbers
supplies and the jobbers in the trade will
be in working order. IL is understood that
about fifty of the largest concerns located
in Philadelphia. New York, Chicago, st.
Louis. Boston. Cincinnati and other cen
tres Of the trade have agreed TO take stock
in the combination in lieu OF their bust
ness The proposed combination will be
incorporated with capital stock of $780,
000, 600.
The times., 1899-02-04

in Higher Education William T. Harris.
United States Commissioner of Education:
Yale on the Supreme Bench" Henry B.
Brown. Justice United States Supreme
Court. 'Sons-in-Law Of the University"
United States Senator Joseph R. Hawlsy;
Our National Problems Representative
John Dalzell and Representative A. V. S.
Cochrane. College songs will BE- sung
during the evening by the alumni.
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THE TREATY UNFINISHED.
Night Sessions Being Held by the
Joint High Commission.

The Anglo-American Joint High Com
mission will adjourn until Monday, after
the night session this evening. The
Alaskan boundary and reciprocity sub
committees held long sessions yesterday
morning and last night.
Although the time set for the compile
ton of the Treaty expired several DAYS
ago. no definite agreement has yet been
reached, and it is not known how soon
that document will be ready for presenta-
The times., 1899-02-04
KILLED HER ASSAILANT.
\ Young Woman shoots Love
Who ChoiSed Her.

Parkersburg, w. Va, Feb 3.-Henry
Defibaugh, a young married man of Sis
tersville. was killed this morning by a
young woman named Emma Bowen, of
that place. Deilibaugh's wife had brought
suit for divorce. and Defbaugh sought to
pay attention to the Bowen girl. The girl
ordered him from her house last night.
and this morning, when Defbaugh saw her
on the street he caught and tried to choke
her. whereupon the young woman fired
four bullets into his body. killing him in
stantly. She then gave herself UP.
The times., 1899-02-04

of fiscal year 1899, $1,000. Reform School
for Girls-'ro pay Anna f. Dean for SER
vices as treasurer for fiscal years 1899 and
1898, $500. Northern Liberty Market
claims-To pay James G. Payne for SER
vices rendered examining and auditing for
settlement the Northern Liberty Market
claims, $4,000; total District of Columbia,
S265 004.
The times., 1899-02-04
20 Years OF vile catnrrh.-ch,

Brown, journalist. OF Duluth Mimi, writes: "a
have been sufferer from Throat and Nasal Ca.
tarrh for over twenty years, during which time
my head has been stopped up and my condition
truly miserable. Within fifteen minutes after us
ing Dr. Aenew's Catarrhal Powder | obtained re
lief Three bottles have almost, il not entirely
cured me Sold by +. ). Williams, Ninth and
Streets; Edmonds x Williams, Third Street an,
Pennsylvania Ayenue.-92.
The times., 1899-02-04
An Honest Medicine for In Grippe.

George W. Watt, Of South Gardiner, Ne, says:
Il have had the worst cough, cold, chills, and
grip and have taken lots Of trash Of no account
but proht to the vendor. Chamberlain's Cough
kemedy IS the only thing that has done any good
whatever. have used one 5O-cent bottle and the
chills cold, and grip have all left me- / CON
gIatuiate the manufacturers of an honest medi-
cine For sale by Henry Evans, Wholesale and
and st. NV, and 142s Nd. ave. me-
The times., 1899-02-04
FRIEND KILLS FRIEND.
The Result of IL silly Controversy
Over Diamonds and Dress.

San Francisco, Feb. 3.-Chris Refs. jr,
son of former City Treasurer Refs. today
fatally shot his friend. William $. Pardy.
assistant secretary of the Pacific States
Building and Loan Association. Several
days ago the two young men quarreled
over their taste in diamonds and dress.
Today Refs entered Pardy's Office and be-
gan abus ng him, when Pasdy slapped Rais'
face. Instantly Refs pulled small pistol
and shot Pardy over the heart. Refs
bought the pistol several days ago. though
heretofore he had carried no weapon.
The times., 1899-02-04
Positive Proof of Purity.

The Government dieaarantecs
every bottle of 0. F. C.. Whiskey
to be 100 per cent proof. Don't
drink doetorsd whiskey when you
can have a positive guarantee in
The times., 1899-02-04
TnIc of TcNns CITY.

Surrounding the past, present, and fu-
ture Of Texas City there is a tale. and on
the town itself hangs the success Of 4
financial scheme in which are concerYad
certain Ohio and Minnesota speculators
Texas City is a boom town. II lies dl-
rectly across Galveston Bay from Calves
ton. on the main land. With its present
harbor and shipping facilities it can never
rival Galveston, and hence The scheme to
cut deep water channel across the bay
connecting Galveston with the boom town
Mr.. Hawley's speech tells its own story,
but there is more Of it. He had intro
duced in the House resolution which was
subsequently referred to the River and
Harbor Committee asking an appropria-
ton of 100000 with which to improve
brazos River. When the completed bill
was presented TO the House he was sur
prised to find that his Brazos River project
mad been dismissed with a paragraph au-
thorizlng q survey, and $685. 600 was ap-
propriated for the Texas City channel. for
winch there had never been an official sur
Tey. Mr.. Hawley feared that the dirt
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-18
A MISTAKE,

Last week IN the report or lecture by
Prof. George D. Heron, delivered in Chi
cago, the following sentence crawled in
to our columns:
"It follows, then, that the public owner
ship OF the sources and means of produce
ton is the sole answer to the social question
and the sole basis Of spiritual liberty. Pri-
vate ownership Of public resources is private
ownership of human beings. The common
ownership of the earth is the only ground
upon which true property and liberty can
be built. the only soil in which individuality
can take root. Liberty, as a human fact,
means communism in natural resources
democracy in production, equality in use,
private property in consumption, and the
responsibility of each for all and all for
EACH
We do not believe any such nonsense
The foundations of civilization are the
fact of honest men planted on the soil
owned by themselves.
The laws of the land should be so di-
rected as to give. every Industrious man
a homestead
To reduce the land owners to tramps
is not means to that end We must
build up-nOt tear down.
II we had our way 1t should be the
duty of the government to provide every
married man with a piece of land that
he and his could hold forever, and which
no tax-gatherer or sheriff or constable
should ever invade
Whenever the country contains a vast
population of paupers who have no hold
upon the soil, liberty is in danger. And
that is the condition the old parties are
driving us to today. Can you blame a
man for selling out his country IL it
brings him nothing but poverty and
toll.
Make the home secure Don't invite
the landless to climb the fence and
scramble for what they can grab. But
give the landless help to make home
of their own. l. d.