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and may be privileged to get all the
freight and passenger business they can.
This will enable persons to ship or
travel by their favorite lines, but the
general management of all the lines will
centre in the acquiring company. and it
will be in the Office of that company that
all rates for the freight and passenger
traffic will be made.
End of Rate Cutting.
This will make impossible the cutting
of rates that sometimes occurs now, and
it will make possible such freight rates
for the United States Steel Corporation
as will make that company able to COM
pete against the world. no matter almost,
what Industrial conditions prevail, in the
products of iron and steel.
"At present there Is no plan which In
cludes the German lines In the union. 1t
is believed, however. by those interested
in the deal that III time both German and
French lines will be glad to E:ake over
lures for admission into this Auslo-Saxon
alliance Of he ships of peace"
The Washington times., 1902-01-19
WAR TAX CAUCUS ABANDONED.
Republicans Give Up Plan Temporal
ri1y Mt Chairman Paync's Request.

ri1y Mt Chairman Paync's Request.
The movement for a caucus of the Re-
pubiicans of the House on the PROPOSE
tion to abolish all the war taxes has
been abandoned for the present at the re-
quest of Chairman Payne of the Ways and
Means Committee.
Mr.. Payne favcrs a partial reduction of
the tax and says he might be brought to
endorse absolute repeal if the facts will
justify such a course. lie desires that ac-
tion be deferred until the Cuban hearings
shall have been concluded and until he
can get final statement Of conditions
from the internal revenue department.
His wishes will be respected and the
petition for caucus will be for the time
being withdrawn.
There is some talk on the part Of the
Republicans who want Southern Repre-
sentation in Congress reduced to put
Representative Crumpacker of Indiana on
the rack, to learn why he has failed to
demand a caucus on the subject, after
his petition for one had received sigma
lures of practically all the House. Rep
resentative Shattuc of Ohio intends to
raise the question in some form.
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UNION DEPOT SITE.
Location South of the Proposed Mall
Improvement Suggested.


Senator Mcmillan, Chairman of the
Committee on the District of Columbia.
is daily in receipt of letters relative to
the proposed union railroad station.
Among those received yesterday was the
following from Ansou S. Taylor, an at
torney:
Il am afraid that come too late with
this suggestion Mr.. Taylor writes. but
why not abandon that portion of the city
south of Maryland and Virginia Avenues
now occupied by the railroads to them,
except that part now owned by the United
States. Let the union depot be located
in the squares east of Seventh Street and
south of the crossing of the two avenues.
Let the Baltimore and Ohio defect at
about Hyattsville, the Metropolitan
branch at or near Stotts, joining the Bal
timore and Ohio at Hyattsville. both
roads coming in on the line from the
point where the Baltimore and Ohio
freight now crosses the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks. This will take the Bal
timore and Ohio roads out of the north
east section. and restore all that part of
the city to it's proper use, residence and
business
This plan will concentrate all the rail
road business at one point, and will give
the river front and other parts for manu-
featuring purposes, and will not interfere
with the proposed park plans, and will
cost less than to have the union depot
erected on Massa chusetts Avenue"
The Washington times., 1902-01-19
COMPANIES IN
SHIP COMBINE.
Plan More Extensive Than
First Suggested.
LIKE. THE STEEL CORPORATION.
Lines May Keep Distinctive Names,
But VIII Have One General Direc-
torate-TO Acquire All Atlantic
Freight aud Passenger Busincss-
Originated With Mr.. Griscom.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.-lf all goes we'll
the White Star Liner Celtic, with off,
GERS of that and the Leyland and Ameri-
can lines aboard, should arrive at this
port next Thursday. Not many days
thereafter, according to information given
today, announcement will be officially
made of the alliance of steamship lines
which carry the bulk of the freight and
passengers between this country and Eu-
rope.
Extent of the Plans.
The word Europe is used advisedly, for
it was learned yesterday, that the plans
for the merger are, much more compre-
hensive than those which include only
an alliance between the American Line
England
This alliance, or merger. or whatever
those who have planned it may choose
to call it, will include the following lines:
American, Red Star, White Star. Cunard,
Holland American, Anchor. Atlantic
Transport, Allan, and Leyland lines. and
win represent united capital of nearly
half billion dollars.
Under Way for Two Years.
A man who claimed to know said to-
dav:
The plans for this alliance of steam
ship lines have been nearly three years
in maturing. The men who have been
working on them are. chiefly, J. P. Nor
gan and Clement A. Griscom, and 1t may
be interesting to add that the plan did
not originate with Mr. Morgan, but with
Mr.. Griscom. Mr.. Griscom outlined his
scheme to Mr.. Cassatt, one of the direc-
tors of the international Navigation Com
pany. TO Mr.. Morgan, and to one or two
others.
Approved by All.
Everybody to whom it was suggested
approved 1t, and Mr.. Griscom went to
work. When the official announcement of
the deal is made, it is quite probable that
mention will be made only of an agree
ment or some such thing between the
companies for the transfer of the freight
business of the uniting lines, under the
management of one company. which, to
all intents and purposes, will be the In
ternational Navigation Company.
But that will be only a stage in the
proceedings. The end and aim of the
whole scheme is a combination of all the
Atlantic freight and passenger business
under one management, and the director
general so 10 speak, of the acquiring
company will be Clement \. Griscom.
Like Steel Combine.
at is possible that the acquiring COM
pany will be, in its corporate nature, very
much like the United States Steel Corpor-
alton That is to say, the uniting com
panies may keep their corporate entities
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URGENT DEFICIENCY BILL CARRIES
APPROPRIATION OF SIG. .7Od, ,445.34.

ator Beveridge, was named by the Presi-
dent the friends of the unsuccessful
candidates and the labor leaders in In
diana announced their intention to oppose
his confirmation by the Senate.
The main objection OF the labor leaders
was that Mr.. Bakers father, who is Unit
ed States district judge in that circuit,
had issued iniunctions against the strik-
ers at Hammond. Another cause of COM
piaint was that the son would have to
pass on appeals taken from decisions rem
dered by the father in the court below.
The committee, after reviewing the
matter. found no reason for urfavorable
action and reported accordingly.
Favorable reports we're also ordered on
the nominations of Richard E. Sloan and
Fletcher NJ. Doan to be associate justices
OF the Supreme Court of Arizona.
The Washington times., 1902-01-19
ANNIVERSARY OF LOUISIANA PURCHASE
WILL BE CELEBRATED ON MAY |, 1903
Postponement of the Exposition WNot Interfere the
Centenary Festivities -Thurston Fears Delay
May Jeopardize Success.

Even II the Louisiana Purchase Expo
sition at St. Louis is officially postponed
until 1904. 1t will open in 1903. 1t is
planned that the grounds and as many
of the exposition buildings as are com
pleted will be thrown opeS about May 1.
1908, for great celebration in commem
Grafton OF the centenary OF the purchase
of the Louisiana Territory.
The festivities in this connection will
continue for week or so. Then the
grounds and buildingS viii be closed and
the work of completing them resumed. By
May, /, 1904, they willibe entirely finished,
and the exposition formally opened. 1t
is planned to lay the cornerstones of a
number OF buildings at theTcelebration in
1909. 3"
Fruncis Returns Home.
David X. Francis, president of the Lou
isiana Purchase Exposition. left Wash
ington last night for st. Louis. still ex-
pressing himself as opposed to the post
ponement of that enterprise until 1904. 1t
is a practical certainty, however, that it
cannot be held until that year, and it is
generally thought that Congress will soon
take action TO formally postpone it.
Few foreign Governments will be able
to have their exhibits in st. Louis in 1903.
and without these exhibits the exposition
will lose its worlds fair character.
Governor Francis in his consultations
with the President and Secretary Hay
has evidently endeavored to urge them to
bring influence to bear to induce foreign
to participate in the expo
sition, and to hurry up and place their
exhibits.
Fatr officials Reticent.
II is believed that the exposition OF
Acials are reticent in admitting that the
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CUPID LAUGHS
AT L0CKSMITHS.
Miss HanSbrough ElopeS
With POStOffiCe Clerk.
COUPLE Welded In BALTIMORE.
The Bride, Mrs. Loren NJ. Fryer, Has
Not Yet Informed Her Mother of
Her Marriage Clever Ruse In
Evade Interference Return to
Their Boarding House.

Miss Plan F. Hansbrough, young and
pretty Washington girl, and Loren NJ
| Fryer, of New Jersey, a clerk in the
Postoffice Department. travelled in COM
pany to Baltimore yesterday, and after
| various mishaps and adventures, succeed
| ed in getting married at Towson, the
| county seat Of Baltimore County, near
| that city.
Returned HGme Last Night.
Last evening they returned, the bride
radiant with happy smiles and the groom
filled with anxious forebodings of an an
cry mamma-in-law. They went immedi-
ately to their old home, 10l6 MaSSachu-
setts Avenue northwest, where both Mr..
and Mrs. Fryer have boarded for some
time, and where the acquaintance which
was finally famed into love was first
formed.
The brides mother Mrs. Anna o. Hans
broUgh late last night had not been in
formed of the matrimonial adventures of
her daughter, who, with her recently ac-
quired husband, made every effort to
keep the elopement secret.
Youthful Couple.
Mrs. Fryer is only twenty years old,
while the bridegroom is but three years
her senior. Both have many friends in
Washington. who will be surprised to
learn of the sudden marriage Mr.. Fryer
is a well-known and popular Postoffice
clerk. When he came to the Capital
some time ago chance led him to become
a boarder at the Massachusetts, Avenue
house. In a short time he became ac-
quainted with Miss Hansbrough, then in
her teens
The friendship which ensued grew rapid
ly into deeper affection, which culminat-
ed yesterday in the romantic Maryland
marriage.
Their Plans Well Laid.
The couple had made careful and we'll
laid plans. while the method in which
they accomplished their purpose was in
approved sixteenth century style. Every
feature of up-to-date elopement, with the
exception of an irate papa in post and
chaise. was made use of.
MIR. Fryer secured a half holiday from
his Office. Mrs. Fryer and her mother
had arranged to go shopping, at the
daughters suggestion, SO that when the
young woman made an excuse of visiting
a girl friend the mother was not sus-
picious. The girl met her lover in front
of the Postoffice building, on the Avenue.
and together they took a noon train for
Baltimore.
Married in the Suburbs.
1T the City Hall they endeavored
to secure license, but to be secure from
rotoriety they finally decided to go to
Towson, a suburb Here the marriage
ceremony was performed by the Rev. w.
II. H. Powers, pastor of the Trinity
Episcopal Church.
The eloping couple then boarded a train
for md a.-iN- N-nd Jal
ings about o'clock.
Mrs. Fryer is the daughter of the late
James I. Hansbrough. of this city who
died here about ten years ago.
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fair must be postponed, because they
think that such an announcement would
result in the Legislatures of several
States deferring the granting of appro-
priatfons for representation at the ex-
position.
The announcement on the part of the
exposition management that the fair must
be postponed might also work to the dis
advantage of the additional appropriation
of s., O0O. 600 sought from the Government
Ex-senator John NJ Thurston, of Ne
braska, one of the Government commits
sioners of the exposition, believes that il
would be good thing TO postpone it until
1904, if it were not for the fact that IL is
a Presidential election year, and business
conditions will probably be rather unset
tied at the time.
Mr.. Thurston called at the White House
yesterday. Although he did not talk to
the President about the exposition he
said when he went away from the White
House that he feared postponement to
1904 might jeopardize the success of the
fair. which is naturally dependent upon
settled and prosperous business condi-
tions. otherwise he would favor post
ponement.
Germany Mny Not Exhibit.
Joseph Brucker. Commissioner of the
exposition management to Germany. and
who has just come from Berlin. where he
is the publisher of German American
commercial journal. admitted that the fair
could not be opened in 1903.
He said that Germany would hardly
place an exhibit at that time. inasmuch
as 1t had Just undergone great expense
in exhibiting at the Paris Exposition
From Mr.. Brucker's speech, 1t was evil
dent, however, that 1t was q part of the
policy Of the exposition management not
to announce the necessity for postpone
meut at this time.
The Washington times., 1902-01-19
CHINA GETS $376, 600.
United States Refunds Treasure
Taken at Tfentsin,

Minister WI was probably the most
pleased visitor at the State Department
yesterday. The occasion was the an
nouncement that this Government had or
dered the repayment to China of S378, 800,
and tie payment is to be made. through
Minister WI. who has been authorized
by his Government to receive 1t.
Back in the Chinese campaign the de-
tacbment Of United States marines at the
sacking of Tientsin came across a large
amount of silvor bullion, the proceeds
of the collection Of taxes on salt.
Instead of appropriating this treasure.
the Americans assumed to themselves
trusteeship. Later the bullion was sold
at auction. and the money received sent
to Secretary Long. He in turn sent 1t to
the Treasury, where 1t has since remained
awaiting the formation of a stable Gov
ernment in China.
Yesterday it was decided that that con-
dition now existed, and the order to re-
fund was issued. The Navy Department
accordingly drew its check for the sum
and this check has been handed to Min
lister WI, who doubtless finds in it an
other reason why he should respect and
admire the American people.
The Washington times., 1902-01-19
APPEAL BRIEE OF ADMIRAL SCHLEY
READY TO Be SENT TO PRESIDENT.
Officer Coming to This City to Look Over Document Which
IsLohg-AFriends Angry at Published Rumor
Regarding Chicago Banquet.

BALTIMORE. Jan. 1S.-Rear Admiral
Schley has been notified by Attorney Cen
eral lsador Rayner, his counsel, that the
appeal brief in his case is ready for pre-
sentation to President Roosevelt.
VIII Go Over Document.
Admiral Schley will reach Washington
Monday, and will be met there either
Tuesday or Wednesday by Mr.. Rayner.
when the matter will be gone over, pre-
sented to the President. and given to the
public.
The brief covers 100 pages of typewrit-
ten matter.
SAVANNAH. Ga, Jan. IS. = The an
nouncement telegraphed from Chicago
that Rear Admiral Schley, at banquet
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to be given by the Hamilton Club very
soon, would make a public utterance rela-
tive to the Court Of Enquiry. 1t Is de-
clared, does that officer great injustice.
and Mrs. Schley and the friends and fam
lily OF the admiral in Savannah are In
dignant over the publication of the rumor.
Surprised at Statement.
The admiral is away today, hunting
with Mr. Jacob Rauers and friends on St.
GATHERINGS Island. but 1t is known that
those who are nearest to him in the city
are very much surprised that such a
statement should have been made.
Nothing In the receptions of Admiral
Schley in Savannah has been said about
the Court of Enquiry. nor has he in any
public way mentioned the case. The ad-
miral will return tomorrow and will leave
for Washington at noon Monday.
The Washington times., 1902-01-19
1MPRovING DELAWARE RIVER.
House Committee Hears DeIega-
tion From Philadelphia.

House Committee Hears n Delega-
tion From Philadelphia.
The House Committee on Rivers and
Harbors yesterday heard delegation from
Philadelphia on the project for improving
the Delaware River.
They asked an immediate appropriation
of 100000 and continuance of contracts
of S2.400, 900 for the purpose Of construct
ing channel from Philadelphia to deep
water. fifty-six miles long. six hundred
feet in width, and thirty feet in depth.
Joel Cook was the spokesman of the del
egation, which represented the Board of
Trade, the Commercial Exchange, Mari
time Exchange. Manufacturer Club, the
Grocer5 and Importers Exchange. the
Trades League, the Bourse. the Board of
Port Wardens. Board of Harbor Commits
sioners, the Drug Exchange. and the Vessel
Owners and Captains Association.
The Washington times., 1902-01-19
KING DELAYED BY MISHAP.

Queens Necklace Broke md Pearls
Had to He Gathered.
King Edward w in keeping his appoint
ments Is proverbial. 1t came, therefore.
as a great surprise when the royal pro-
cession to the houses of Parliament, on
Thursday started behind time.
1t seems that the King was not to
blame. When he drove up to Bucking-
ham Palace he found no one ready to re-
ceive him for some minutes. When at
length Queen Alexandra came out, the
large rope of pearls which she was wear
ing broke, and Immediately all the court
functionaries were busy scrambling on
the ground collecting the stones.
The Washington times., 1902-01-19
LAND GRADES GIVEN
OUT TO DEALERS
SECRET RECORDS OBTAINED.
Dawes Commission to Make Public
Its Work In Indian Territory
surveying Nearly
Finished.

MUSkOGEE, I. r, Jan. ia regular
system of traficking in the records com
piled by the Dawes Commission has been
unearthed, and the consequence will be
that records heretofore jealousIy guarded
by the commission will be opened for pub
lie inspection.
The surveying corps of the commission
and the appraisers of land values have
practically finished their work in the
Creek Nation, and are well advanced in
the other nations. There are nine grades
of land, and each forty-acre tract must be
graded and appraised according to it's
grade.
Companies Get Information.
Different land companies and real es-
tate agents have for months been endeav-
oring to secure these grades as made by
the appraisers on account of the enor-
nous advantage 1t would give them over
their competitors in disposing of the prop
erty to buyers.
The first indication the commission had
that traffic in these reports was going on
was when one of the employees on the
engineering corps informed Major Breck-
enridge, one of the members of the com
mission that a certain amount of the
grades were in the possession of three or
four prominent realty companies. An in
vestigation was at once started, which
verified the information.
A call was then made on Bert R. Greer,
who was one of the people mentioned for
the recovery of the records, but he re-
fused to answer any questions, and stood
on his constitutional rights. The same
result happened with r. l.. Baugh. an ex-
tensive dealer in Creek realty.
Engineer Discharged.
The commission, however, had positive
and convincing evidence that sales had
been made of these grades to the differ
ent land commissions, and the head OF
the engineering department, Hackbusch,
was called before the commission TO give
an explanation of the affair. The accumu-
lated evidence was presented to him, and
as his explanation of his part In the mat
ter was not satisfactory to the commits
sion he was summarily discharged.
The Washington times., 1902-01-19
BILLS PASSED BY HOUSE.
Car Transfer and Aerial Railway
Over Duluth Canal.

Bills were passed by the House yesterday
granting the city of Duluth the right to
construct a car transfer and aerian rail-
way over the Duluth canal; authorizing
incorporated cities and towns in Indian
Territory to issue bonds for school pur-
poses, and authorizing the Attorney Cen
eral. whenever in the opinion of the Judge
OF the United States Court for the Dis
trict of Alaska it shall be necessary, to
require an increase of the bond of the
Marshal of that district from $40, 900 to
s75, 600.
The House at 12:40 adjourned until
tomorrow
The Washington times., 1902-01-19
BIG BILLS INTRODUCED.

One of 600 Pages Provides for a
Code of the Judicial Laws.
Representative Warner OF Illinois in
troduced bill yesterday to codify the
judicial laws of the United States. 1t is
bill of nearly 600 pages.
Delegate Wilcox of Hawaii introduced
one with eighty pages, providing for a
free school system in the Hawaiian Is
lands.
Mr.. Jenkins of Wisconsin introduced
bill requiring an applicant for natural
ization to have resided ten years within
the United States.
The Washington times., 1902-01-19
Private Land Claims Estimates.

Secretary Gage yesterday transmitted to
the House of Representatives a letter
from the Attorney General submitting an
estimate of appropriations for salaries
and expenses, Court of Private Land
Claims, for the fiscal year ending June
80. 1903. amounting to s37,500. The letter
was referred to the Committee on Appro-
priations.
The Washington times., 1902-01-19
SAILING TOWARD GREECE.
Movement of European Squadron
Not Directed Against Turkey.

The European squadron, consisting of
the cruisers Chicago and Albany and the
gunboat Nashville, under command of
Rear Admiral Cromwell has sailed from
Genoa for Piraeus, Greece, the port of
Athens.
The squadron's eastward movement has
no connection with the case of Miss Ellen
NJ Stone, the American missionary held
captive by Bulgarian brigands. The Gov
ernment does not contemplate any demon
stration against Turkey or Bulgaria on
account of the failure to secure the re-
lease of Miss Stone.
The Washington times., 1902-01-19
REMOVES ALL DIFFICULTIES.
Confirmation of the Agreement at
Mexico Received Here.

Confirmation of the agreement reached
on Friday by the Pan-American confer
ence on the subject OF arbitration was
received by the Secretary of State yester-
day in telegram from Mr.. Buchanan, the
senior member OF the American delega-
tion in the City of Mexico.
This agreement disposes of the most
embarrassing question before the confer
ence. and it is expected that the neces-
sary treaties will be signed and the con-
gress will adjourn within the next two
weeks.
The Washington times., 1902-01-19
COLLECTOR SUMMONED.
Colonel Bliss to Testify In Regard
to Cuban Reciprocity.

The War Department has been asked
by the Senate Committee on Insular AZ
fairs to summon Col Tasker f. Bliss.
collector of customs of Havana, to come
to Washington and appear before the
committee in regard TO the revenues OF
the island.
The purpose of the committee is to
secure additional information which will
enable them to reach conclusion as to
how much reduction should be made in
the tariff on sugar coming into the
United States from Cuba.
1t is said by some of the War Depart
ment officials that the reduction will be
Gbout 20 or 30 per cent instead Of 50 per
cent which was at first urged. Secre-
tary Root has been of the opinion that
% per cent would not be sufficient.
Colonel Bliss is expected to leave Ha-
yana at once and reach Washington by
the middle of next week.
The Washington times., 1902-01-19
The New York Enrolment.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1S.-The board of elee-
tions announced today the figures OF the
party enrolment in Manhattan at the last
election. The Republican enrolment was
rs .527. and the Democratic, Ill ,s54. 1925
persons voted but did not enroll.