SBQ A, me $m$bm& PEOPLE rno want HOUSES Should peruse the third pape of THE DISPATCH. All having: Houses to Bent can secure tenants by adver tising to THE DIS PATCH. SHREWD WEN IX BUSINESS Can reach the best class of Investors throutrh THE DIS PATCH. The best ny" business can Jcuwi reached tnftp.A ,thb Lia- pa,.;.'&, MmlOi 3 FORTY-THIRD YEAR. THE! WANT 11 FIGHT In Indiana County to Bring Out the Full Strength of the Temperance Vote, IT WILL BE A CLEAN SWEEP Fortlie ConstitntionalAmend- ment in That County, it is Claimed. GIYETJS SOMEONE TO LICK, Is the Earnest Cry of the Friends of Prohibition, Who Seriously Fear That the FAMOUS OLD WAR DOGS WILL BUST. Jndje Harry White, the Pioneer of Pro hibition. Talks in an Inter esting Strain. ' CHANGES MADE BY TIME'S WHIRLIGIG Indiana is another of the strictly agricul tural counties of Western Pennsylvania which will cast a majority of votes for the Constitutional amendment. Judge Harry "White talked to our special commissioner in an interesting strain. Thus far The Dis patch's canvass of counties shows the fol lowing result: 3 o o 2 S 2. Counties. , 0 O O JZ 5 ? g Armstrong... .Ilnfavorof 8.9SG Adopted Bedford. Infavorof ; 8,111 Adopted Cambria Against 11.702 Defeated Cameron Infavorof 1,345 Adopted Clarion........ Fairlv sure 6.95 Adopted Elk Against 3.197 Defeated Faette Veryd'btful 103 'Adopted Forest In favor of 1.W1 Defeated Greene. Infavorof G.&T0 Adopted Indiana Infavorof 7,(S0H (Adopted Jefferson Infavorof 7.5i" Adopted Potter. Infavorof 4,414 .Adopted Somerset Infavorof 7.SS2 1 Adopted Venango In favor ot 8.587 Adopted Warren Infavorof 7.P15 (Adopted Washington ... In favor of 13.219 . Adopted Westmoreland. Close 19.95S 'Adopted Aggregate of votes for Harrison, Cleveland and risk. traoM ock special commission-eim INDIANA, February 4. "Good Lord, give us somebody to lick!" That is not exactly the way Macaulay's ornate pen de Ecribed the prayer of Oliver Cromwell's soldiery, but it is actually the way temper ance people out in Indiana county talk when you ask them about the Constitutional amendment campaign. In the period of its glory Cromwell's army had things all its own way. The leaders are said to have feared dullness, lest carelessness and de moralization should he the result within the ranks. A prayer for activity was not unfamiliar in the camps at such seasons. So strong and preponderating is the pub lic sentiment in this county that the Consti tutional amendment will sweep everything before it next June if a full vote can be gotten out. Liquor men have so few friends here that the temperance people will have practically no one to fight. Unless they can find some scapegoat upon whom to ex ercise their fighting spirit they are really afraid that sufficient enthusiasm cannot be aroused among the masses to bring out the full vote. It's a pity, too, for there are some famous war dogs in Indiana. Most Fight or Prny. But when Cromwell's soldiers could find no excuse for fighting, they went to pray ing. That is what Indiana people will probably fall back upon. The county was settled by the good Scotch-Irish pioneers, whose influence for morality has been marked throughout Western Pennsylvania. Their descendants still keep the county straight. On Sabbath this town is literally isolated from the balance of the world, not a passenger or freight train, telegram or mail bag arriving or departing. All this state of affairs will have a powerful influ ence in the current campaign. As long ago as 1867 local prohibitory laws were enacted for the benefit of Blairsville, Saltsburg, East Mahoning and a number of other townships in Indiana county. These are still in force, the courts having decided that they were not repealed by the Brooks high license law. In Indiana town and the balance of the county absolute prohibition was inaugurated a few years ago by the well remembered action of General Harry White, after he had been elected Judge. Time's Whirligig. Judge White refused every license ap plication, and has done so steadily ever since. I just learned of a rather remarka ble coincidence in this particular. General White was a member of the State Senate when the general liquor license law of 18G7 was passed by the Legislature. He had as listed in framing it, and had actually written the sections placing such unlimited powers in the hands of the Judges of courts and providing for the presentation of re monstrances against applications for licenses. He did this, never dreaming that years afterward he would be called upon as a Judge to interpret these sections for the first time in his own county, and m a way that would set the examine for many other I that would set the example for many other judicial districts to imitate. After the whirligig of time had thrown the handsome soldier-statesman in and then out of Con gress, it landed him high and emphatically dry on the bench of Indiana county's courts. It was then that he ere ated a sensation by refusing all licenses, holding that it was not in his power to do otherwise, as the re monstrances were signed by more people than the petitions, and the law was plain on that point Ab he had been the author of that part of the law. he said he guessed he should know. This was only a few years ago. It was a revelation to the Judges of most all other counties, except Washington, and many of them took the ame ground that Judge White did. The Supreme Court, in an indirect manner, af firmed the principle, and now that part of the Brooks bill is practically a transcript of the old law. Jndgo While Talks. In regard to the present temperance cam paign, Indiana people all seem to take im mense pleasure in agreeing upon either 2,500 or 3,000 as the majority for the amend ment. One or the other of these estimates is given by each of the gentlemen named below, so that repetition will be avoided by this general statement Judge White was not at all averse to talk ing on the subject. He said: I am in favor of the amendment, I am anxious to see it adopted, and I shall vote for it That is about as forcible as I can state my position Tbero are so many people, and people, too, who have convictions on this question, who are afraid to speak out. They are afraid of it. It is a matter of too great importance to be silent about Whisky selling and making should be stopped. This is the proper way to accomplish that end. The question seems to be, will pro hibition prohibit? I say it vi ill. It has done it here in Indiana county. And it has been suc cessful in Kansas. I know that because I trav eled in that State recently and made a personal investigation of the state of things out there. Will it carry in Pennsylvania? Well that is not easy to predict It will depend nearly alto gether upon the vote in the larger cities. There the amendment will requlie very hard work, and considerable courare. The senti ment to enforce it if adopted may not now exist In some counties of the State, but it will come with the development of things under the new way. An Enemy Sought. A. T. Morehead, editor of the Progress, said: The feeling in Indiana county is all so much the same way that there is only one danger, and that is apathy. We need something to fight. If the liquor men would only show their hand in this connty and give us some excuse for fighting, it would stir the people up. It mn&t be borne in mind throughout the Stato that this campaign is not for Pennsylvania alone. We will have to contend with money and influences from the liquor interests in Chi cago, St Louis, Cincinnati and New York. If we aro defeated it will set back prohibition 20 years. If we win the prohibition sentiment will gain footing fast In all the great States around us. John A. Finley, the County Register and Recorder, estimated that in Indiana county 40 per cent of the Democrats and 70 percent of the Republicans will vote for the amend ment S. C. Thompson, the Democratic Deputy of the Internal Revenue Department, said that the election iu his district would be al together non-partisan. He had observed that the sale of liquor in drug stores throughout the county was steadily de creasing, agd the amount of whisky pro duced by distillers in Armstrong county was going down, too. Early to Work. Hon. John B. Elkin, who was the father of the oleomargarine law while in the State Legislature, a few days ago said: The county is nearly altogether made up of the agricultural class, and they will give a tremendous vote for the amendment In the towns of the county temperance sentiment has steadily gamed with the absence of all licensed bars. There is no partisan feeling iu the cam paign. All parties aro the common enemy of liquor traffic here. We will try and have effective organization in order to get out the full vote. We were early at work in this re spect having held a Constitutional amendment meeting a month agf before the Legislature had acted yet A big audience was present, Jndgo White attended, and Belva Lockwood hapDcmng to be in town, also made a speech for us. As the general opinion among traveling salesmen seems to be that there is no busi ness of any account in a town where license is not allowed for the sale of liquor, I asked A. W. Wilson, the leading merchant of Indiana, to compare his present trade with the five years prior to Judge White's re fusal of licenses. Mr. Wilson replied that more women came to him with money from their husbands to buy goods than were ever able to have hosc money before. Busi ness, he said, was better in drygoods, gro ceries and shoes, than it was with liquor licenses in force. United States Commissioner J. R. Wilson, Prothonotary J. A. Scott, J. II. Leech, Esq., Judge Blair, Sheriff Mack and ex-Senator Hood, who were recently interviewed on this subject all predicted from 2,500 to 3,000 majority for the amendment in Indi ana county. L. E. Stofiel. PREPARING FOE WORK. Prohibitionists Are Harmonious In the Campaign for the Amendment. ISrECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.! Hareisbubg, February 4. Several members of the Executive Committee of the Prohibition party of the State have arrived to attend the meeting to-morrow, called for the purpose of devising means for the vig orous prosecution ot the campaign in favor of the prohibitory amendment The Pro hibitionists here say .that the main object of the prospective conference is to take steps looking to hearty co-operation with the various temperance organizations of the State in the effort to engraft on the Consti tution the proposed amendment, and that prospects are bright, and that all associa tions formed to eradicate intemperance will work harmoniously together. The party Prohibitionists have no desire, it is said, to monopolize the work of the campaign, and if deemed necessary to the success of the cause would be willing to take any position in the ranks of the tem perance army. Some of them think that it would probably have been more prudent if James Black, of Lancaster, President of the State Alliance, had called the initial meet ing of the Prohibition campaign instead of Chairman Stevens, ot the Executive Com mittees, but-if this was a mistake no ma terial harm would be inflicted on the cause. Rev. George Finley, of Allegheny county, who has been an ardent temperance advo cate for 30 years, expresses his joyful sur prise at the strong sentiment prevailing in his neighborhood in favor of the Constitu tional amendment WILL SERYE WITHOUT SALARY. A Lively Mnyorallty Outlook In the Cam paign at Eric. ISrECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCn.1 Ebie, February 4. The Democratic City Convention met to-night and nominated C. S. Clarke for Mayor, T. S. Alberstadt, Con troller, and Jeremiah McCarty, Assessor, in accordance wun oamruay mgnt s caucuses, Cjevelandi a prominent iron manufacturer, ..i. ,o. v.n 41il nnt -o ;;.,'. .. j: who has been called out as a citizen's candi date. Clarke is a candidate for the salary of 82,000, which has just been enacted by Councils, and Cleveland will act without salary. The campaign promises to be an exciting one. COLD IS THE NORTHWEST. Looking; for n Genuine Blizzard In miose sola and Dakota. St. Paul, February 4. Another cold wave is prevailing to-night in the North west The Signal Service folks expect the mercury to drop to zero by morning. This morning at Winnepeg and Minnedosall, Manitoba, the thermometer registered 14 below zero. Light to moderately heavy .snow has been general throughout' Dakota and Minnesota last night and to-day. ' WILL KUM THE WEST. Judge Brewer's Enforcement of the Rates Fixed by the Iowa Railroad Commis sioners Expected to Result In Commercial Disaster. ISrECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 Chicago, February 4. The decision of Judge Brewer, refusing the request of the Iowa roads for an injunction against the 'en forcement of the schedule of rates proposed last summer by the Railroad Commissioners of that State, was a complete surprise to the officials of the interested roads. It is quite certain that the Iowa Commissioners wtll not be slow to move on the roads if they fail to promptly adopt the schedule prepared for them last summer. The decis ion means a horizontal reduction in rates all oyer the State of Iowa of about 30 per cent Not only will Iowa rates have to comedown, but rates in Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri will be pulled down by the unyielding laws of competition to the same general basis. In order to learn if there was any possi bility of averting the threatened disaster to the great railway systems of the West THE Dispatch correspondent called on some of the leading solicitors connected with these corporations. Solicitor Walker, of the St. Paul road, said: "The decision is -a great surprise. It removes the last legal barrier and leaves the roads at the mercy of the Iowa Railroad Commissioners. I see no means now of preventing the enforcement of the Commissioners' low schedule of rates. It is unfortunate, because it means, if the rates are enforced as it is claimed they will be, bankruptcy for the Iowa roads and dis aster to the commercial interests ot the West" Solicitor W. C. Goudy said: "There is a general understanding regarding the de cision. It does not settle the Iowa railroad cases, as many supposed, or as the dis patches lead the public to infer." Judge Brewer reaffirms what he said in the opinion he rendered last August. He seems to leave the question as to reasona bleness of rates to be decided on the evi dence presented at the final hearing, rather than deciding that question upon the affi davits presented on the argument of the mo tion. The only course for the railroads to pursue is to take their evidence for the pur pose of showing that the rates fixed by the commissioners are not compensatory, and ask a decision from which either party may appeal to the Supreme Court, where alone the disputed question can finally be set tled. Tronbles never come singly. Following closely on the heels of the railroad contro versy in Iowa comes an order from the Kan sas Railroad Commissioners that the roads in that State discontinue their present sys tem of charging live stock shipments "by weight and return to the old carload system. The Missouri Railroad Commissioners take a similar stand, and threaten complaint be fore the inter-State Commission. A VERY SEYERE LIFE. Primitive Observance Nans to llavo a New Convent in New York. -SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. New Yobk, February 4. Archbishop Corrigan is about to introduce into New York the Dominican nuns of the primitive observance, who maintain a perpetual ado ration of the blessed sacrament The build ing of a convent for these sisters at Lafay ette avenue, near Hunter's Point, where a site has been purchased, will also give Mr. John D, Crimmins an opportunity to build a memorial to his wife, who was one of the foremost charitable workers among the Catholic ladies of New York. Mr. Crim mins will pay for the chapel of the convent, the outside cost of which is put at $25,000. An anonymous contributor has sent to Archbishop Corrigan 510,000 to help build the cloister. Archbishop Corrigan was the first to in troduce the order into the Eastern States, when he was bishop of Newark. The par ent house is in Newark. Although the life is very severe the institution is prosperous, a recent accession being a sister-in-law of Fire Commissioner Purroy. The nuns never eat meat ar"l during lent observe what is known as the "black fast," that is, abstinence from even eggs and milk. Two nuns kneel constantly before the blessed sacrament in the tabernacle day and night. The nuns support themselves by making vestments and altar ornaments and by illuminating books. The new convent will be called Corpus Christi Convent. ALL IN BDT G0FF. The West Virginia Result Declared on Ev erything Except Governor. 'SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 Charleston, W. Va., Februarys The balloting for a United Stales Senator was continued to-day, with results about the sameas usual. Three ballots were taken It is not likely that any material change will be made to-morrow, and it is safe to predict that there will be no election. The time of both Houses to-day was occu pied in jointassembly in discussing Lively's resolution that the returns be opened and the result declared for all the Slate officers except for Governor, At 6 o'clock a 'recess was taken until 7:30, and after another two hours of debate the resolution was passed by a vote of 38 to 37. A resolution was in troduced by Mr. Hanen that, as according to the returns, General Gofl" was elected by a maiority of 110, that he be declared duly elected Governor for the term of four years, provided the resolution shall not in any way conflict with Judge Fleming's rights to con test. This resolution under the rules lays over for one day. It is stated that a Democratic delegate said in conversation a short time ago that no matter how the matter might go in the beginning there was enough honesty in the Democratio party to give Goff the Governorship when tue nnal contest came. HE DEFIED DEATH, But the Grim Reaper Brooked No Delay and Immediately Gathered Him In. ISrECIAL TELEGRAM TO TnE DISPATCH. New Haven, Conn., February 4. Jay Cowdry, of Hartford, came to this city Saturday, and yesterday went out to West Haven to treat Mrs. Nathaniel Hale, who is a patient of his, he being one of the school of Mind Cure Physicians. Last night he gave a lecture to a few guests in Mrs. Hale's parlor on "Christian Science." After reading from his manuscripts a few moments, he made the statement to his hearers that the Christian scientists could defy death. Scarcely had the words left his mouth when he fell over backward and became unconscious. After being carried to an adjoining room he rallied slight ly, but died in an hour. Dr. Shepard at tended him and states that apoplexy caused his death. PENNSYLVANIA DAIRYMEN. The State Association Will Meet at Mend. tIIIc, Commencing To-Day. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 Meadvixle, February 4. The fifteenth annual session of the Pennsylvania State Dairymen's Association wili assemble in this city to-morrow, and continue in session three days. Addresses will be made by Hon. J. C. Sibley, Hon. Hiram Smith, Dr. Charles C. McLean, Prof, James W. Robertson and others. There will be about 300 farmers and .dairymen present at the meeting. The ad dresses are expected to be very interesting. PITTSBURG, TUESDAY, THE SECOND CHOICE. Major McEinley Considering the Offer of Allison's leavings. HE WOULD BATHER BE SPEAKER, But in the Cabinet He Conld Make His Way Easj to the Senatorship. BLAINE'S ENEMIES BAYING NOTHING. Allison Feels Bart Becauso Ha is Vacillating. Accused of Being One of the entertaining Cabinet stories, in which considerable credence is being placed because its source is the gentleman who first knew of Senator Allison's declina tion, is that Major McKinley is seriously considering the advisability of accepting the Treasury portfolio. His chief objection seems to be that of several Senators, he doesn't care to be second choice. Pride is preventing more than one man from accept ing cast-off shoes. TSrECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 Washington, February 4. A Republi can Senator, who stated the day Mr. Alli son returned from Indianapolis that he had declined to be Secretary of the Treasury, said to-day that Major William McKinley is now struggling with the same question that confronted the Iowa Senator's waking moments until he penned his letter of re fusal on Thursday last. Mr. McKinley, ho says, is being urged to become Fairchild's successor, and his friends in the House are quite generally advising him to accept This Senator, who is in frequent communication with General Harrison, says there is no truth in the re port telegraphed from Indianapolis yester day, that the President-elect has said that no man in Congress is being considered for a Cabinet place. It is true, he thinks, that no'Senator will get into the Cabinet because none of them would lower their pride suf ficiently to become the second choice of the President-elect HE CAN'T AFFOBD TO BEFUSE. Many of Major McKinley'a friends, how ever, are emphatic in pointing out to him that he cannot afford to refuse such an honorable place as that which Mr. Allison has declined for political reasons. These reasons do 1not apply to Mr. McKin ley as they did to Senator Allison, Even if the Presidency were out of the question, a place in the Cabinet can be made the stepping stone to the Senate. The latter body is a much better point from which to reach the Presidency than the Cabinet, but from the head of the Treasury Department to the Senate is a much shorter step. Major McKinley has no chance to be come a Senator now, because Charley Fos ter and Fire-alarm Foraker both stand in his way for the vacancy that may soon oc cur by the defeat of Mr. Payne or the volun tary retirement of John Sherman. As Sec retary of the Treasury, Mr. McKinley could send his enemies abroad or dispose of them elsewhere. If it came to a contest h could beat them -with the power of the Treasury behind him. If he turns a deaf ear now to General Harrison's offer it will be because be sees the Speakership within his grasp and feels that his political horizon has a brighter look from the height of the Speaker's'cbair than from the position of a Cabinet officer. SURELY CONSIDEEING THE MATTER. The statements made that Major McKin ley would not even consider an invitation into the Cabinet are denied by the men who know him. He is in fact considering the matter now, and there are many men at both ends of the Capitol-beside the Senator quoted, who are ready to wager that the popular Ohio member will be the next Sec retary of the Treasury. The docility with which Blaine's enemies in the Senate have settled down to the con viction that he is to be the next Secretary of State is remarkable. Two months ago at least three-fourths of the Republican Sene tors were bitter in their opposition to the recognition of the man from Maine, and to day all but one or two smilingly admit that he has been put down as the Premier of the administration. They predicted unanimously the disruption of the party should he be chosen, and now they calmly see him renting a big house for the pur pose of taking charge of Washington society for the next few years without a murmur. Although nothing definite has been learned about Blaine, every man in the Senate thinks he has been offered and accepted the Secretaryship of State, and the party still lives. The Sen ators are nearly all against Blaine, but they still have great fear of him, and are very careful now not to openly criticise his se lection. ALLISON SOMEWHAT HURT. Senator Allison feels somewhat hurt at the insinuation in certain quarters that he has been trifling with General Harrison, when from the very first he has been deter mined not to go into the Cabinet, and though recently he seemed likely to yield to the pressure put upon him by the President-elect, he has never given the General any reason to suppose he wanted a Cabinet appointment, or wouia even take it except under compulsion. Six weeks ago a gentleman in this city learned of an effort made by a number of New York politicians to kill off Senator Allison as a possible Secretary of the Treas ury, with a view to opening the way for Tom Piatt. The gentleman went to the Senator and told him what he had found ont Senator Allison said: "I am very much obliged to you for tell ing me about the scheme, bat please do nothing to head it off. If there is any dan ger of General Harrison's offering me a place in the Cabinet I hope these New York people will succeed in their efforts to pre vent it. I really couldn't accept, and it is a very delicate matter to decline. Offering a man a place in the Cabinet is a good deal like offering a girl your heart, and a declin ation is rather mortifying to one party and embarrassing to the other, so I hope no offer will be made me." THE MONOTONY BROKEN. Slr.'Bayne Succeeds la Waking a Dull Con gress for a Little While. . Washington, February 4. A break in the monotony of the filibustering in the House to-day was made by Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, who stating that it was apparent that nothing would be done under a sus pension of the rules.called up as a matter of the highest privilege the conference report on the bill to amend the inter-State com merce act The points upon which the conferees have been unable to come to any agreement relate to the transportation of oil in barrels and in tank cars, and to confer ring concurrent jurisdiction upon the State courts to hear and determine questions aris ing under the act The amendment relative to the transpor tation ot oil gave rise to some discussion, Mr, Bayne, of Pennsylvania, making a motion that the House recede from the amendment. The motion was advocated by Messrs. Bayne, Stewart of "Vermont, and White of New York, and ODDOsed by 'Messrs. Crisp and Grosvenor, of Ohio. -FEBRUARY 5, 1889. OPPOSITION TO THE COPYRIGHT. The Fight Over the Mensuro Waxing Ex ceedingly Warm An Anti-Petition. I SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1 Washington,' February 4. The fight over the international copyright bill is waxing warm. "Mark Twain is here to stay with the, bill for awhile, and is to be joined by other eminent writers. Mr. Clemens spent all of to-day in the press galleries with the correspondents, and in corridors wrestling with obstinate states men, The opposition is also well repre sented, and to-day had offered by Judge Chipman, of Michigan, a petition which recites the strongest argument against the passage of the bill. As it embodies the complete ground of opposition it is here with appended in full. The petition recites: First That the bill Is not really an interna tional measure; copyright should be a subject of treaty negotiation and based on reciprocity. No rights' should be granted to foreign authors in America that are not granted to Americans abroad. Second The bill has been drawn in accord ance with the desires of a combination of selfish interests, similar to the great printing houses, which form an international trust to enhance enormously the price of books. Third The bill will give to publishing mo nopolies the right to raise the price of foreign books sold here to the level ot the high prices abroad, ignoring completely the interests of the Araorican people who buy and read books. The wuuiesome enect oi cneap literature cannot oe over-estimated. Fourth Important business and labor inter ests would be injuriously affected. The paper industry would be damaged, and the demand for printers, electrotypers and pressmen in the United States reduced to an enormous degree. Fifth It is doubtful if the interests of American authors would be advanced bv the passage of the bill they would still be li)om petion with foreign authors, who, there is no reason to assume, would be less formidable competitors if protected by copyright Our great American authors need no protection; many of them have secured enormous for tunes, and tho profession is better paid in America than in any other country in the world. Sixth Compensation shonld not be made to .foreign authors by the granting to them by Congress of the right to collect a royalty on their books sold here, leaving American pub lishers as free to reproduce as at present but without creating a monopoly in foreign liter ature in this country. Seventh If the bill is amended in this re port, tho House of Representatives will find that the selfish combinations which have pre sented the bill do not want such a measure of justice to foreign authors. In conclusion tho petitioners pray that the House will defeat the bill as it stands or sub stitute an equitable measure granting to for eign authors a reasonable royalty on their books published in this country, and saying to the American people that system of free com petition in the publishing business which is more wholesome, important and iar-reaching than can well be imagined. . THE TOBACCO TAX REPEAL Tbonght by tho Author of the Bill the Only Present Means of Reducing the Surplus. .'SPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1 Washington, February 4. Mr. Co wles, of North Carolina, in speaking of the tariff situation to-day, said: "It is absurd to sup pose that any .tariff legislation can be ac complished at this session. There are but 24 legislative days left; the last 6 of these are, under the rules, 'suspension days,' and each Monday is set apart for a certain order of prescribed business, leaving but 15 days in which to do general work. The expres sion in some of the papers that the Ways and Means Committee intends to bring in a compromise bill with the hope of passing it, is all bosh. "The only chance for any reduction of the revenue, and at the same time giving the people relief from the burden of taxation and the most vexatious and intermeddling portion of our tax laws, was for the ApDro priations Committee to have reported promptly my bill, which is nothing more than what the Ways and Means Committee approved at the last session and pressed be fore Congress and the people. I thought and still think that the committee will act, but a child may understand that it is high time that the bill was on the calendar if any result is to be accomplished, and that is what I most earnestly desire. If a majority of the committee refuse to join in a favor able report, let them report it adversely and a minority report can "be made which the House can adopt and pass the bill. "With' the lights before me and the lights of the last campaign behind me I think it is the most stupendous stupidity for the Democratic party not to seize the first op portunity to repeal the tobacco tax and give to the people the other relief contained in these provisions of the Mills bill, and I am satisfied that, if given the opportunity, it will meet with strong approval from both sides of the House." SAYED TEN PER CENT. A Cat on tho Pay for Carrying the Malls Prevented for the Present. rSFECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH. Washington, February 4. The rail roads were saved to-day from a cut of 13 per cent of the pay for carrying the mails Dy the fact that there is no law that compels them to carry the mails, and many Congressmen were afraid that if the rate of pay were cut down the roads would refuse to carry the mails and the entire postal system would stop. More substantial than the fear that the roads all oyer the country would refuse SO cents for the work because they were not ouered a dollar was the tear that they would refuse to run the fast trains which are now operated under arrangement with the Post office Department, and, except in the South, without extra compensation. ' The proposition to make a reduction of 10 per cent was defeated in the committee by a vote of7to6the members dividing not on party lines, but pretty closely on geogra phical lines. The Eastern men were in favor of the cut The present appropriation bill, however, contains a clause making the car riage of the mail compulsory, and when this is done Congress will be less timid about touching the rates of pay. ANOTHER SAM0AN CONFERENCE. The Proposition From Prince Bismarck Received by Secretary Bayard. Washington, February 4. Count Von Arco, the German Minister, called at the State Department this afternoon and had a conference with Secretary Bayard in regard to Samoan affairs. He informed the Secre tary that he had received a communication from Prince Bismarck to the effect that the German Government proposes a resumption at Berlin of the consultations which took place in Washington between representa tives of Germany and Great Britain and the United States in 1887, on the subjects of Samoa. The above information was furnished to the press by Secretary Bayard, with the statement that it was all he would say on the subject at present. It was therefore im possible to obtain to-day the full text of Prince Bismarck's communication. It is probable, however, that it will be trans mitted to Congress to-morrow or the next day, with Secretary Bayaid's view of the subject AN ATTEMPT TO SAVE TIME. A Bill Introduced in tho Senate to Sell Pitts burg Government Property. 'SPECIAL TELEGBAM TO THE DISPATCH. Washington, February 4. Senator Cameron introduced in the Senate to-day, and had referred to the Committee on Mili tary Affairs, a bill providing for the sale at auction of the Government property in Pittsburg, on Penn avenue and Garrison alley. It is the same bill introduced in the House early last session by Representative Dalzell, and it is now introduced in the Senate to save time in case the House should pass it in the last days of the session. CLAYTONS' CHAEGES. Two Brothers of the Murdered Man Issue a Sensational Address. THIS CRIME BUT ONE OF A SERIES Of Bold and Brntal Deeds Enacted Political Purposes. for THE YICTIM WAS WARNED BY FRIENDS Eat Decided to Hale a Firm Stand for What He Beliered Weie Ills Eights. Powell Clayton and W. H. Clayton, brothers of the murdered John M. Clayton, have issued a statement to the public. In it they charge that the crime was a political assassination. A lull history of the events leading up to the deed is given! A number of very serious charges are made against the officials of the State. Little Rock, February 4. General Powell Clayton and Judge W. H. Clayton, brothers of the Hon. John M. Clayton, who was assassinated in the night of Jan uary 29, have furnished the following state ment to the public: That the publio may understand the circum stances leading up to and culminating in tho assassination of our brother, John M. Clayton, we desire, oyer our own signatures, to make the following statement of facts: All believe that this was apolitical assassi nation, and it will be therefore necessary for us to refer to the political conditions and cir cumstances surrounding it We do this in no partisan spirit, bnt only that justice may be done our brother and that a knowledge of the facts which led to this assassination mayinduce the people ot this State to correct the evils from which this and other great crimes have sprung, and that however sad the circum stances may be to us, his martyrdom may re sult in good to the people of this and other States. A CAENITAL OF CEIME. Although since the commencement of the last political canvass for State officers in Ar kansas, many political crimes have been com mitted in different parts of the State; in this statement however, we will confine ourselves to the limits of Conway county, within which Blummervllle, the scene of this murder is situated, and only to those circumstances which in our opinion led to the commission of the crime. Prior to the September election and during tho canvass a political clnb was organized at Morrillton, the county seat of Connor connty, with one Stowers, fresh from Mississippi, at its head. This club soon after resolved itself into a militia company, and about two weeks before the election, at a time of profound peace in the country, the Hon. Simon P. Hughes,then Gov ernor, not only supplied it with State arms, but furnished it with a full supply of ammunition. This was the beginning of the troubles in Con way county. From this time until the day of election Stowers, with his armed partisans, al most daily paraded the streets of Morrillton. On election day their gnns wero deposited, loaded and ready for action, in a convenient place in the building in which the election was held. On the morning of that day the Repub lican Judge of Election, on his way to assume tho duties of his office, on a frivolous and pre concerted pretext was arrested, whereupon Stowers, with his men, marched to the polls, and, upon nl3 nomination and their votes, he and another person was elected to fill the vacancy. A SOLID BOARD. By these unlawful proceedings the Election Board, composed of citizens representing both political parties, was made solidly Democratic Whether Stowers and his men at this time were acting as a political clnb or as a company ot State militia, we are not advised, but certain it is their loaded guns were near at hand. While at Morrillton these things were being done, the citizens of the town of Plummeryille, who wero nearly all opposed, politically, to our brother, whilo those of tho farming parts of the precinct were his political friends, the lat ter greatly outnumbering the former, collected at the voting place before the hour fixed by law for the opening of the polls and organized a full set of election officers of their party, and, when the two Republican judges appeared, they found their places usurped and the elec tion in f nil blast The result of the September election, so con ducted in Conway county, was a complete change of its political status, so far as its offi cers were concerned, but not as to the senti ments of its people. Under these changed con ditions, about two months thereafter, the Con gressional election occurred, John M. Clayton being the Republican candidate and U. R, Breckinridge the Democratic The day before this election M. V. Benjamin, a prominent Re publican lawyer of Little Rock, and one of Ar kansas' best citizens, was sent to Conway county by the Republican State Committee, with instructions to use his best endeavors to secure an honest election. Upon his arrival at the depot at Morrillton, bo was confronted by an infuriated mob of several hundred citizens, who threw him from the cars, assaulted and beat him, pulled from his face handfuls of beard, and met all of bis appeals to their humanity with kicks and cuffs, finally shooting him in the forehead with a weapon of a sufficient force to imbed and flatten a bullet upon his skull. A short time afterward Mr. Benjamin died, telling his wife before death that his sufferings were due to the treatment received at the hands of the Morrill ton mob. ONE WAT OF DOING IT. On the following day, being the day of elec tion at Plummeryille, at the hour for opening the polls, the two Republican Judges were on hand, ready to perform their duties, but were ignored by the Democratic Judge, who put in nomination two members of his own party, and upon a mere affirmative vote, without putting the negative, declared them elected and they were installed. The Republican Judges, not being permitted to act, accompanied by the Republican United States Supervisor, under took to open polls elsewhere, but were notified by Democratic party Sheriffs, five of whom were present that they would not be permitted to do so. Under these and other threats they aban doned their purpose, and the Republican Su pervisor returned to wnere tno election. nrst orgamzea, was oe mained in the faithfnl first organized, was being held, where he re mained in the iaitnim perioi until the polls were closed. erformance of his duty )5ed. Whereunon the election judge, by whose illegal action the hoard was organized, as before stated, took the ballot box and carried it from place to place, through the town, followed, however, persist ently by the faithful supervisor, Charles Wahl. At last, finding that he could not shake him off, be and the supervisor returned about 9 o'clock to the polling place, finding one of their judges there. Remaining few minutes .ho again left at tempting to carry the box with him, which he only desisted from doing by the insistance of the supervisor that the box should lie left at the polling place with the other juCe who was there. About half an hour thereafter four masked and armed men rnsbed ii.to the room, and at the muzzles of their pistols compelled the remaining judge and supervisor to turn their backs, wheieupon theyseized tne box and poll books and carried them away. STOLEN BALLOTS. We are informed by Wahl and other credita ble persons that the box so stolen contained C97 ballots, of which at least 272 were cast for John M. Clayton. Upon learning of these un lawful "acts, together with many others in different parts of his district, be (Clayton) felt it his duty to institute a contest for his seat in Congress, and for the purpose of ascer taining the actual yoto cast for bim at Plum meryille precinct, that he might engraft that tact in his notice of contest, he employed a responsible citizen named Alexander, of the Plummerville precinct to obtain the names of over 450 such voters, when on the 17th of Decem ber his work suddenly terminated by reason of the events which wo now proceed to detail. On tho 17th of December Wahl, the afore mentioned Supervisor, was inveigled into a game of cards at night in the back room of a doctor's office in Plummerville, when he was seated in close proximity to a glass door, through which he was shot by a irould-be assas sin, the ball piercing the lobe of hts left ear and cutting a gash in his neck about three inches long. Wahl fled to the house of the aforementioned Alexander, where he remained tul daylight, after which he teached his home and soon after repaired to Little Rock, where he now remains for safety. This attempt upon the life of Wahl so alarmed Alexander as to cause him to abandon his wort and fly from the State. For the crimes above enumerated no man has been ar rested by State or county authorities, nor has any official reward been offered. AN UNARMED MAN. John M. Clayton went to Plummeryille un armed and unescorted, recognizing the futility of such precautions against the stealthy assas sin, and believing that bis opponent Mr. Breckinridge, who was aware of the condition of affairs In this county, would be willing and able to restrain his partisans. While passing through Little Rock, on his way there, he said to Hon. Henry M. Cooper, In response to a sug gestion of danger: "I do not believe that I will be harmed, but men who yoted for me believe that I was elected and so do L and I will go there, even at the risk of my life." And so he went After having engaged for several days In tak ing testimony, about 9 o'clock T. M. of January 29, while in his room at his boarding house, in the act of sitting down at a table near a window to write to bis motherless children, he was shot through the window by concealed assassins a few feet from him and instantly killed. We were nn able to remove his body until 330 P. Jt. of the next day, up to which time the Sheriff of the county had not appeared, being, in the lan guage of his deputy, engaged in the more im portant business of collecting taxes. Nor had any citizen of the town made the slightest ef fort to trace or apprehend his murderers. 1 ho foregoing facts we stand ready to sub stantiate in every essential particular, and every oue of them we believe to be a material link in the chain of circumstances surrounding and leading to the inhuman murder of our brother, John M. Clayton. Powell Clayton, W. H. H. Clayton. MAEEIED TO SEPAEATE. An Actress Is Wedded After Signing an Agreement to Immediately Leave the Groom She Now Sacs Her Husband for Desertion. rSPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.1 New York, February 4. Mrs. Caroline Aurelia McNair, nee Hill, soubrette of the Gibson & Ryan "Irish Aristocracy" Com pany, appeared against her husband, Rob ert McNair, an actor in the Scanlon Compa ny, at Jefferson Market Court to-day, charging him with abandonment At the examination it appeared that the couple had lived together for -i years as man and wife before they were formally married, on August 30, 1888, by Judge Ehrlich, of the City Court Mrs. McNair said she was compelled to write and sign the following agreement, at McNair's dictation, on the morning of August 30, before he consented to marry her: L Caroline Aurelia Hill, do hereby agree by all that I hold sacred that. In consideration of Robert McNair agreeing to marry me legally, I solemnly promise that from the time of the marriage I will never molest or exact from Robert McNair anjr of the duties of a husband in supporting me, nor will ever interfere with him in any manner whatever. I also solemnly promiso to agree to procure a divorce from him upon my own responsibility. From the time of the marriage ho, Robert McNair. shall be free from me in ail respects. Caroline a. Hill. Anna Moktland. In place of separating after the ceremony was performed, as they had agreed to do, they lived together a few days longer. Then they parted. Justice O'Reilly ordered that McNair give bail to pay his wife $8 alimony each week. McNair had no bondsman, and was locked up. WILD WIND, WEAK WALL. Fivo Persons Killed In a Horror Similar to That ia Pittsburg;. OMAnA, February 4. High wind at 2 o'clock this afternoon blew down the large section of the east wall of the Max Meyer brick building, on the corner of Farnum and Eleventh streets, which was recently gutted by fire. Two buildings on the east side were wrecked. Five people are known to be killed, and several others injured, and two people are believed to be imprisoned in the debris. One of the crushed buildings was brick, occupied by P. Boyer & Co., safe dealers, and D. Dunbar & Co., engravers, and the frame building occupied by Edward Oleson, clothing man. Oleson was taken from the ruins crashed, burned ana dead. Mrs. Hincher, who lived in the sec ond story of the frame building, died shortly after being taken from the ruins. Mike Martin's dead body was found under the boiler in the basement of the brickbuilding, crushed into a shapeless mass. Thomas Houston, employe of Dunbar & Co., died about 4 o'clock this afternoon. The injured, so far as known, are: G. H. Silver, engraver, shoulder crushed and finger broken; E. A. Phileo, engraver, bruised; John Jackson and Miss Emma Oliver, slightly injured; Charles Blake, a draughtsman, injured about the face and will lose his left eye; Charles Csesar, fire man of Dunbar's art department, was badly bruised, but succeeded in getting out with out assistance. George S. Emeries and E. A. Phileo, employes of Dunbar & Co., es caped with slight injuries. A later dispatch says that the bodies of Peter Boyer, senior member of the firm of P. Boyer & Co., and Rudolph Mitchell, an insurance agent, have been taken from the ruins. It is believed that there are no more bodies in the ruins, and the search has been discontinued. THE EIGHTH SLEEPER. An Attica Woman Who Has Slumbered for Thirty-Three Days. ISFECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH. Attica, N. Y., February 4. Mrs. Emma Althouse, the sleeping woman, this evening completed the thirty-third day of her present sleep, and there are no indica tions that she will ever arouse from the comatose condition. This is her longest sleep,and when she entered upon it she told her sister that it would probably be her last. Her breathing to-day was an inter mittent series of gasps. Twice have the physicians tried to awaken the woman, but without much effect A galvanic battery was applied, cold water thrown on ber face and other means used, but she didn't regain consciousness and only exhibited a little more life. No nourishment has been absorbed oby the pa tient, efforts to feed her with milk and whisky having been practically unsuc cessful. The case puzzles the doctors who are un able to account for it. A year ago one sleep lasted 30 days. The first sleep oc curred in August, 1837, when Mrs. Alt house slept three days. A COLLAPSED STRIKE. The Brooklyn Street Car Men Are Thinking; of Going; to Work. New York, February 4. A committee of three from the striking employes of Deacon Richardson's Brooklyn street car lines, and Commissioner Florence F. Dono van had a conference at Mr. Richardson's residence to-night, which opened at 7:30 r. 2f. and lasted till 11 o'clock. The result was tba't Richardson gives this ultimatum: He said he would take back such drivers and conductors as he needed to fill places, but would not discharge any of the compe tent new men now employed in the place of the strikers. He would not take back the tow boys, but would employ men in their places. He only required of stable men less than he employed hitherto. This morning the proposition will be submitted by the committee to the various assemblies for action. CENTS . r TG"Vit .V KZ m The Riverside Hospital Row is to be Investigated, but Not in Secret, To-Day. A FAIR SPIRIT OF INQUIRY Is Evinced by the Officials in Charge of the Penitentiary. ANOTHER WITNESS OX BRIBERY. John Tan Stnnden Tells a Story of Baying; His Way Into the Hospital on a Promise to Pay, and Then Going Back to the Blocks Becaase He Couldn't The Jimmy Elliott Incident A Letter With Homicide In It Is Sent to the Governor The Visit ing Committee Summons Cadwallader Biddle A Possible Legislative Inquiry. The penitentiary investigation goes on to day. President Kelly's remarks about con ducting the Riverside inquiry with secrecy seem to have been officially regarded as somewhat premature. The doors are to be open to the press, not closed as Presi dent Kelly thought at first they ought to be. The only really new developments are another possible bribery witness, a let ter to Governor Beaver, an intimation of a Legislative inquiry and a telegraphic sum mons to Cadwallader Biddle to come on. The penitentiary investigation, which has undoubtedly awakened a wider interest than any like local event of recent years, will proceed at Riverside to-day. (Since the pub lication of what President Kelly said on Sunday about the public being- entitled to no further information through the news papers on the subject, the Board of Inspec tors have decided, with evident fairness and wisdom, to proceed with doors compara tively open'. They have also concluded that instead of any postponement whatever, it would be prudent to proceed at once in their line of duty. Consequently, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, if there shall be no further change of pro gramme, the Board of Inspectors will meet at the prison, to conduct the investigation, and, as they now say, to conclude it, if pos sible. To this end they have invited not only the resident members of the Board of Charities to be) present, but also one repre' sentative from each of the five or six Pitts burg daily newspapers that issue morning editions. The members of the press thus in vited have been assured of every facility for giving the fullest possible report on the proceedings, in order that nothing be con cealed or withheld. MANY VAGUE EtTJIOES. In this connection it is but fair to say that the publicity which the investigation has already attained has tended to bring forward many men who fancy they have a grievance against the penitentiary officials. These men could hardly be expected to en tertain pleasant or grateful recollections towards an institution where, as convicts, they had been necessarily subjected to rig orous discipline. So, as a very natural con sequence, many of them, including a few discharged subordinates of the prison staff, are ready to give currency to all sorts of rumors intended to be ruinous. To that class, or its apologists, The Dispatch gives no heed, for it would be manifestly unfair, pending an investigation that should rest solely upon fact and justice, to lend currency to vague, indefinite, irresponsible charcres, utt i with an animus all too evi dent, against everything connected with an institution that has heretofore deserved the public respect accorded, so far as the public knows. The question of the hour, which the offi cials have finally shown a fair disposition to have answered, is: Were and are there any such actual abuses in Riverside Peni tentiary as have been charged, under oath, to its account? And if so, who was or is re sponsible for them? With the answer to this question anonymous or TSgue allega tions have nothing to do. AS TO THE PAETICITLAR POINT. That there has been money in the prison, circulating among the prisoners, though en tirely against the rules, has been admitted by the inspectors, who say that, so long as visitors are permitted to enter from the out side, they cannot be prevented from slipping a little cold cash to their friends beWnd the bars. That is one thing. The use these prisoners may or may not have made of this money is another. As bearing upon good Mrs. Mair's allega tion that she for a long time held a receipt from Dr. Hahameke to prisoner No. 6316 for 5 paid by the prisoner to the doctor for the delivery of a charity chicken to the sick man, an ex-convict, who is now, ap parently, living an honorable and indus trious life, and who is not afraid to vouch by name for the accuracy of his in? formation, gave some seemingly important news to a reporter yesterday. The ex-convict's name is John Van Standen, and he was in prison during the years 1883, 18S4 and 1883; how much longer is immaterial. He is now a faithful em ploye in one of the glass factories on the Southside. Mrs. Mair's testimony, as to the scene at Jimmy Elliott's coffin, when her prayers for the dead were alleged to have been interrupted by brutal official profanity, recall to Van Standeu the inci dent upon which his statement turns and he promises to appear before the board this afternoon and swear to every word of it van standen's story. Van Standen said to the reporter just what follows: "I remember the prayer by Jimmy Elliott's coffin, and its rude interruption, perfectly. I stood there, with head bowed, and with one hand in that of No. 6816, and another In the hand of another prisoner. "I also remember another incident one directly bearing upon bribery allegations just such as those now sworn to against Dr. Maharneke. In the fall or summer of 1885, sometime after I had been a cook in the prison kitchen, I was in my cell, and quite as much also 'in he dumps.' I was sick of what l had daily to do, and was ready to jump at almost t means of relief. Mabarneki Tj DP 1 i J 3
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