-ii- -.'ifta PAGESu'TO' J- J -' ' I I j - -a. ... : , -.-. w . . . .-.- . - J ; , . Ji. . I PORTT-rOUHTH Y3DAK . ilTTS-BU-KU-, SA.TUJttD.a.y,, MflJ&QJtt af 1BM ADABK I Ambles Gently to the Front ip the Free-for-AII Race for Cabinet Honors. GEN. BENJAMIN F. TRACY. A Sure-Tiling Tip As Winner Tor the New York Com bination Stables. AN OLD-STYLE GENTLEMAN Who Will Honor the Nary Bureau, For Which He is Almost Surely Cast. A LIVELY BOW OVER GEN. PALMER. Everything in Readiness for the Inaugura tion Except the Hands of the Clock. AKOTHEE DAI OF WORRIES A5D JOIS. flalf of tho Expected Crowd ol 200,000 Strangers Already on Hand Toe Won derful Greed of Washinstoninns A Rich Harvest to Be Reaped Some Odd Mishaps Vice President-Elect Morton Splashed With Hind and Senator Payne Takes a Tnmble The Ladles Busy as Bees Babies nnd Their Callers The Pretty Lady of the Incoming Administra tion. Order is coming out of chaos. New York's warring factions seem to have called off their dogs. General Benjamin F. Tracy, of Brooklyn, President Cleveland's new law partner, is to have the Navy portfolio. Palmer's road is now the rocky one. Either he or Bask will get the new place in the Cabinet, it is thought. Everything and everybody in "Washington anxiously awaits Monday noon, and 100,000 of the expected 200,000 strangers are within the gates. rEOM A STAFF C0KBESr03OEXT.: "Washington, March 1. It looked very dnll at the Arlington, where general Harri son is quartered, but the dullness was only to be likened unto that of a volcano in im mediate readiness for eruption. It was dull in the lobbies and seething in-the private rooms. This will give an idea how hot things were for the little stocky man who is tc bo President next Monday. A messenger hoy rushed to The Di BATCH bureau with a telegram at 11 o'clock to-night. . The telegram was numbered 1,672. Usually at that hour tele grams are numbered about 100. The bright little boy said that six hundred messages had gone to General Harrison, and 900 came here, friends of Senator Pal mer, urging his appointment to the Cab inet Never was there such private tele graph business as that in the city of "Wash ington before. The upshot of the day's business seems to be the appointment of the best man yet put in the Cabinet with Blaine. He is General Benjamin Franklin Tracy, of Brooklyn. He is the man agreed upon by the Piatt wing of the party as the person most ac ceptable to them after Piatt himself. Believed Tracy Has Accepted. It is generally believed that General Tracy has been offered a place and has ac cepted. As to the fight against Palmer it will take another 24 hours to settle that. It is significant that Mr. Stephen B. Elkins said in New York, ten days ago, that General Tracy was a possible Cabinet man. That would indicate that Mr. Blaine favors Tracy, and it seems to prove that Blaine's avowed friendship for Piatt has been sincere. Colonel Shepard got into a funk over a rumor that General Tracy was a spiritual ist, an atheist, and many other horrible things of like nature. The Brooklyn men in town relieved the pious Colonel with the information that General Tracy attends Beecher's church. At about 10 o'clock at night the now bent and white-bearded figure of the well known lawyer appeared at the door of the Arlington. Before anyone could see the General he was taken to Senator Hiscock's room; there he was told that the navy portfolio was to be offered to him. He was both amazed and confused. He did not know what to say. "Why, I never had any idea but that I was to take the Attorney Generalship," he said. "That place and X would suit each other very well." Not Exactly His Choice. t He seemed inclined to refuse to consider the offer of the navy portfolio, but he was firmly and franklv informed that the State of New York would not be satisfied with anything except the navy. There is pat ronage both in the shape of labor and con tracts in the Navy Department, while the Attorney Generalship is considered about good enough for-the "West. In a Tery few minutes General Tracy was taken to General Harrison's parlor, and waited there the return of the President elect from a .dinner party. General Harrison was as curious as a child to see this popular eleventh-hour piece of Cabinet timher,but the New Yorkers were not afraid to have their man scanned never so closely, for he would look distinguished and able and Intellectual in any company. It did not seem to be 10 minutes later that the junior Senator from New York swung " lazily into the corridors and whispered : "It is settled.' In halt an hour men who had talked with Tracy, with Harrison, with Hiscock, with "Woodruff, Arkcll, Fassett and Shepard, all seemed to be agreed that Tracy is indeed to be a Cabinet minister. Evidences or (supreme Harmony. Bearing peculiarly upon this master was 18SE the arrival of Varner Miller, just when all the rest of the hoys thought they had every thing settled. "What Mr. Miller has come for nobody seems to know. His agents say that he has come to announce three things: First, that he doesn't want anything, and that he will be a bigger man out of the Cabinet than in it; second, that he doesn't choose to be con sidered as fighting Mr. Piatt, and, third, that it is not just to represent him as a disturbing force in New York politics. All this was only one thing on Harrison's mind to-day. The other was the devil's own row over Palmer, of Michigan Alger and Stockbridge are in a com bine to knock Palmer out Stock bridge signed a petition in favor of Busk yesterday. A reporter telegraphed an exposure of the conspiracy to Michigan. To judge by what is seen here to-day, all Michigan seems to have stood up like one man and grabbed a pencil and telegraphed to every Michigan man in "Washington and to General Harrison that Michigan wants Palmer. Stockbridge says that Harrison told him that he liked Palmer, but nobody had yet urged his claim. This fact, also telegraphed to Michigan, prob ably explains the excitement there, as well as supplies Harrison with plentyof indorse ment for Palmer. To-morrow will see the solution of this problem also. The Latest Slate. As the case stands now, the belief of the best informed men In "Washington is that the Cabinet will be as follows: Blalse State "WtaDosi Treatury Wanasiakeb Postofflce Tract. Navy Noble Interior Palmee Agriculture W. H. H. MlLLEB. Attorney General Pboctob War Of course, as has been said, Tracy's place is by no means sure. He wants to be-Attorney General. Palmer's case won't be settled until to-morrow. Stockbridge bet a suit of clothes to a cigar to-night that Palmer wouldn't get a place. If so Busk may go in as the seed distributor. Harrison has aweakness for the GrandArray whieh Busk represents, but it is said to-night that Har rison complains that he cannot bring him self to the contemplation of a Cabinet Min ister who says "I have come." Swift seems to be definitely out of the business. EVERYTHING BEADY. Only the March of Time Delays the Inaairnr- ation Nearly 100,000 Strangers in the City Greed of Washing- tonlans Some Very Odd Mishaps. The crowds are now dense and the hotellob bies, the house fronts are gav and tremulous with bunting, the fakirs of every city line the curbstones, the sun has been shining, and nothing but the hands of time delay the inauguration. Everything else is in readiness. The great ball-room, with its bunting and medallions, is all ready for the dancers, and even the half-acre platform of bare boards in front of the Capitol is capt ioned with all the flags that can be nailed around its side, ready for Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison and Melville "W. Fuller to transfer the Government to its new managers. - There are nearly 100,000 strangers here, and they are all rushed with sightseeing, for even in ordinary times ihis is the great show town of America, -while jcitpow its sights are trebled. As half the,young women in "Washington try to look as much as pos sible like Mrs. Cleveland's picture, nearly every stranger thinks he has seen her, while he has in reality been looking at one of her imitators out riding or shopping. Seeing tho Sights in Congress, Congress is the gathering place of so many of the strangers that it is difficult for the people's representatives to make their way throutrh the halls, while the official guides are driving opulent bargains for pointing out the only ETarts, ;Amos J. Cummings, Sunset Cox, Senator Ingalls, the Speaker, and the other national char acters. Some noted artists who are here declared that nothing in the town is so interesting as the colored people, unless it be their shoes, which do indeed form a remarkable study. No matter how neatly or well-dressed a "Washington colored resident may be, all taste and concern vanishes athls or her foot gear. Each one seems to wear some one else's shoes. There is an endless study in (he greed of citizens. On Pennsylvania avenue there are few windows, except in the hotels, that are not placarded for rent. Scaffoldings rise in such abundance as to almost hide the buildings that are not marketing their windows. A Klch Harvest to be Reaped. At first these scaffoldings were merely single piazzas or balconies built over the store-fronts, but now the citizens are build ing them in tiers clear up to the roof gutters. There is method in their greed, for it seems that no one is able to get a seat in any of the numerous and enormous stands except by paying for it. Even the Treasury clerks are peddling seats in the stands put up for their accommodation. As the city has a population of 200,000, and it is expected that as many more persons will come here to see the sights, there is certainly a rich harvest to be reaped in selling points from which to see the principal sight of all the procession. The confusion, bustle and disorder that mark the closing hours of the session of Congress were manifested for the first time in Ihe Senate to-day. Crowds thronged the lobbies, climbed the stairs, and packed the galleries, the lazy doorkeepers' of which were kept on the move all day long in the attempt to preserve decorum. The Senators themselves caught the infection of nnrest and 'moved nervously, about the floor and became impatient of delay. Several Sorts of Odd Mishaps. All sorts of odd mishaps marked the day. The first befell Senator Hiscock and. Vice President-elect Morton on their way to the Capitol. They had stopped to view the in terior of the Pension building, where the great ball is to be held, and were walking on toward the Capitol when they met a dele gation of New Yorkers at the corner of Fifth and F streets. They stepped on the car tracks to greet the visitors. Mr. Morton had extended both hands to his friends, and Mr. Hiscock had removed his hat to let the wind blow through his luxuriant hair, when a reckless, bobtail car, driven at furious speed, dashed into the group. Some of the visitors were nearly knocked down by the horses, and both Messrs. Morton and His cock barely saved themselves from being run over by leaping on either Bide of the track. As it was, the Vice President-elect was terribly bespattered with mud, and the Senator's dignity received a shock from which he did not recover all day. Mr. Mor ton was safely landed at the Capitol, where he received visitors in. the Vice President's room. The Senate had not been long in session when Another Queer Mishap occurred in the Senate chamber. The ven erable Mr. Payne, of Ohto, id attempting to pass up the center aisle from the clerk's desk, stubbed his too on one of the steps and fell sprawling at full length on the green-and-gold carpet. Several Senators ran to his assistance, but the old gentleman, in spite of his 80 years, scrambled to his feet, unaided and unhurt. The crowds respect nobody and nothing, and they made an otherwise dull day at the "White House very lively by crowding in there until a man stationed at the door started them away. Colonel Lamont was not feeling well and had plenty to attend to at home, and the President was literally up to his eyebrows in bills from Congress. He did not have anvthing to remind him that another family had rented the old mansion and would move in with hag and baggage and babies in a day or two. He had no time to think of all that. He had made all arrangements for receiving the new tenants, and the subject was disposed of. On Mon day he will go to rooms 12 and 13 in Wil lard's Hotel, as every President 'has done ever since no one knows when, and there he will meet General Harrison. A Momentous Jonrney, Indeed. The two will then descend and take their seats in the same carriage for the moment ous journey to the Capitol. They will enter the building by wav of the great bronze doors, side by side, and will find seats re served for them in the Senate gallery. The floor of the Senate will he reserved for Sen ators, Congressmen, Supreme Court Judges, and army and navy officers and high civil officers. " The Vice President-elect will take the oath of office in the Senate chamber, and then while the Senate is being organized, the procession to the east front of the Capi tol will be formed. There the President elect will deliver his inaugural address and be sworn in, unless the weather proves stormy, in which event these duties will be performed by him in the Senate chamber. A storm on Monday will seem the most dreadful calamity to a quarter of a million persons who are now harkening credulously to what the wiseacres have to say about a change ot the moon, which denotes fair weather. Tetc-a-Tete Over a Luncheon. The retiring President and the new one will then drive to the "White House and lunch together, no guests being invited to share the meal with them. Then Mr. Cleve land will bid the President goodby, and drive to Secretary Fairchild's house. He will not review the procession or attend the inaugural ball. President Arthur did so, but that was a precedent which for obvious reasons few Presidents are likely to follow. From this luncheon, the first meal Mr. Har rison will enjoy as the master of the "White House, he will cross the front lawn to a .great sprawling stand that has been put up beside the avenue, and from thatwill review the parade, rain or shine, for the stand is roofed over, and the parade will move no matter what the weather. AN EASIER TIME. General Harrison Not Bothered so Much by the Faction Fighters of New York Foraker His Principal Visitor Daring the Day. General Harrison had an easier time of it to-day than yesterday. He has seen more people, but he has not seen them so hard, so to speak. For some reason the faction fighters who yesterday swiveled and eddied about him like a tide about a particularly stubborn piece of rock were not sp numer-. ous to-day. The majority of his callers were politician?, but they were of the sort of politicians with whom he was not com pelled to talk. All he had to do was to continue that function to which months of practice have so accustomed him the func tion of listening to a lot and saying little. It does not tire General Harrison to listen, hut to part with gems from his store of garnered information costs him all the men tal effort that a miser expends in parting with his gold. About the only caller of theday who really seemed to be important was Governor Foraker, and his call, in fact, was Important Only in Appearance. The relations between General Harrison and John Sherman are not yet so strained that Foraker is even possibly a factor of any vast influence with the administration. The only significance in the Foraker visit was what it may have gained from the fact that he was assisted by that other fire alarm, Boutelle, of Maine. The conference of these two with the President-elect was neither very long nor very private. The New York men were conspicuously less prominent among the callers upon the President-elect than yesterday. The Piatt men, by the way, had recovered much ot the spirit and dash which they seemed to have lost last evening, and were again in their natural hopeful mood. Vice President-elect Morton dropped in for awhile, as usual, but was with General Harrison very little, devoting most of his attention to the ladies. General Harrison breakfasted before 9 o'clock, only the family joining in the meal, and the callers began to send up their cards before he was done. A Disappointed Delegation. Most of the early comers were members of Congress who called before they went to the Capitol. Among these were the.only formal delegates of the day, the members from Michigan. Headed by Mr. O'Donnell they had intended to put in warm commendation of what they supposed had been done for their State in the way of the selection of Senator Palmer for Secretary of Agriculture, but the information that Senator Stock bridge had signed a petition in favor of Busk, and the additional fact that his de fense for so doing was that he had been told by the President-elect that Palmer was out of the question, had thrown the "Wolverines ranks ipto confusion, and they simply bowed and said, "How dy," to General Harrison, and then walked out again. Senators Blair, Chandler and George, and Bepresentative Bayne were among the best known of the men who paid their calls before noon. Governor Pound, of "Wiscon sin, and Governor Larabee, of Iowa, were also among the callers, and so were Justice and Mrs. Strong. AFRAID BEN WAS I0ST. A IiHtio Scnre that the President-Elect Gave to His Friends. There was considerable wonder, not un mingled with alarm, at the length of time that General Harrison was absent when he went out for his walk this afternoon. Thte matter was explained to-night, when it was learned that General Harrison went from the hotel directly to the house of Sena tor Edmunds, and was there lor nearly the whole of the time that he was supposed to be taking his constitutional. FIRST DINNER OUT. The Harrison's Fnlflll an Engagement Hade Four Months Before Election. The stream of callers was so steady and the work of receiving them so less weari some than usual to-day, that General Har rison skipped his usual noon constitutional, walk and remained in the house nntil after lunch time. Almost immediately after that meal, however, he went oat alone and wps gone over an hour. After he came back he remained in the house until it was time tot himself and Mrs. Harrison to go out and Continued on Sixth-Page,- j THE ADYANCE GUARD Moves Down on the City of Washing ton in Full Force, and at Once PREPARES TO DEFY THE MALARIA. The Inaugural Committee Puts the Finishing- Touches to Its Work. ALL ARE AMERICANS AT SUCH TIMES. The Entire Affair, Thonjh Costly, Expected to Set a Very Fair Profit Che advance guard of the army of 200,000 visitors to the inauguration is on hand in large numbers, and, as usual, is painting the town a vivid carmine. Final arrange ments for the parade have been made by the hard-working committee. The whole affair, it is calculated, will net the merchants of "Washington at least 5500,000, and a snug balance will be left to the credit of the. Inaugural Committee. JFEOII A STAFF CORRESPOND EXT. "Washington, March 1. The Inau gural Committee has put the finishing touches to its workr and now Governor Beaver, who leads the way as Chief Mar-1 shal of Monday's great procession, and OJngadler uenerai nan i. Hastings, me Governor's Chief of Staff, await the result with anxious interest. There will be fully 50,000 paraders, and there . will be more aides and captains and generals and bosses generally than "Washington has ever seen at au inauguration. They will come from every State and Territory in the Union, and already the advance guard can be seen in contingents roaming through the streets and bolstering up the bars in the hotels and in places aloDg Pennsylvania avenue and the side streets and alleys of the City o'f Magnificent Distances. It seems that about every man who comes here is armed with a prescription calling for whisky and quinine as a preventative against the malarial flights of the Potomac flats, and 99 out of every 100 of these pre scriptions are verbal in their character, but they are none the less commanding and posi tive in their nature. The fact that snow it on the ground, and that even Potomac ma laria is apt to become dormant in the win ter months, has nothing whatever to do with the case. WHEN PABTISANISM IS DBOPPED. It is reliably stated that between 930,000 and $40,000 was the highest amount ever spent by an inaugural committee. This was when Grover Cleveland was seated, four years ago, and when Governor Beaver, as strong a Republican then as now, was." also Unlet .Marshal ot the show, uoverpor Beaver was given a dinner at John Cham berlain's, last night, and speaking' of his prominence at the Cleveland and Hendricks inauguration, he said: "I was quitewilling to take part in the parade four years ago, although the politics of the President did not agree with mine. This is a nation, and the head of it is entitled to the respect of all its citizens. "When we come to the inaugur ation of a President we cease to be Bepubll cans or Democrats, and come as Ameri- ram." SSb. ! This year anywhere from $30,000 fo SBRQfi 000 will be spent for the pageant that-formal?! ly presents the Indiana man and his New "fork associate to the people of Washington and the 200,000 strangers who are expected to be in town by Monday morning. "We perhaps cannot have any adequate idea of the labor, the envies and jealousies, and the anxiety that surround the work of the in augural committee. In the first place, all but several societies andone or two book keepers contribute their services to the committee. The others work day and night "for the love of it," as one of the chief managers said to-day. THE CHIEF OP THE WORK. The committee has one whole floor in the Atlantic building. They have had these headquarters since a few days after election day, and will only vacate them when all the bills are audited and everything straight e'ned out, a week or so after the inaugura tion. 'There are as many managers as brigadier generals after the war, and in numerable clerks and typewriters and door openers and animated chair-weights greet one on every hand. All the supreme ones wear bronze medals, with a bas-relief of General Harrison, with his name under it, and "Twenty-third President of the United States'- The medals are attached to the coat by yellow, or red, white and blue, or red and white, or red ribbons, the different colored rib bons representing .the rank of the commif teeman. Ifheisin a place to chat with Governor Beaver and General Hastings his bronze medal has a yellow ribbon, and so on down. It should be explained that an inaugural committee is started on its way by subscriptions which are refunded to the doners after the inauguration. It is all in the interest of tile hotels and shops, and everything else pu -ely and essential Wash ingtonian. It would be mi ghty interesting reading if one could secun a correct list of the con tributors to the 550,000- iund which started the Harrison and plorton Inaugural Com mittee in Dusinesi A MONET-MAXING SHOW. It was confidently asserted to-dav bv one of the managers that Washington will profit fully 500,000 btfthe investment The com mittee has to hare ready money in the be ginning for the expenses of headquarters, printing, and h thousand incidentals, and also to build the grand stands that line Pennsylvaniafavenue on Government prop erty. The committee sells the privileges of stands, and Also the privileges at the in augural ball, and the tickets to the ball, and in that tray reimburses the contributors to the original "fund. It is an interesting fact that all inaugural committee! in recent years have escaped without hss, and this year there will be a surplus, hough to whom this is togo is not yet knotra. Already 6,000 tickets to the inaugural ball have been sold, and at the E resent flemand for them, over 12,000 will ave bein sold when General Harrison dons his new swallowtail and Mrs. Harrison her fine gqwn on Monday night .Many have boughtf tickets who will be thousands of miles from "Washington on the night of the ball. Consuls from all over the world send checks for ball tickets to keep them as momentoes, and army and navy officers do likewise. 'the hoosieb headquaetebs. ie Hoosiers opened a special inaugura tion headquarters atthe Metropolitan Hotel. to-Jlay. It is in charge of General J. B. Cpnahan, a neighbor of General Harrison, arid Dr. Johnson and Colonel Brideland are associated with him. Every effort will be made to give General Harrison a booming Hoosier sendoff. It is not probable that there will be any organized brigade of the Indianians in the parade, but General Car nahan wants them all to be on hand along the line of Pennsylvania avenue and shout for all they are worth. At present it is es timated that nearly 5,000 Indianians will be on hand to show their loyalty to the man from their State. Great holes were chopped to-day in, the asphalt pavement on Pennsylvania ave nue, from the Capitol to the Treasury buildine. They will hold the posts which are to support the stout ropes that will withstand the surging thousands as the in auguration parade moves along. Among 'the aides to General,. Beaver are 'the H6n. William F. Cody, better known ias "Buffalo Bill," and the Hon. "Webster Flanagan, of Flanagan's Mills, in' Texas, who gained renown lour years ago by reply ing to the frilled and ante-campaign argu ments of his brother Bepublicans by de manding "What are we, here for?" .meaning the offices. ., THE CENTEB OP ATTEACTIOK. After the aides will follqw the Presiden tal party in carriages, escorted by Colonel Samuel Merrill, commanding the survivors of the Seventieth Indiana Volunteers. Then will come the United States 'army, the navy, marines, seamen, and then the National Guard, with the 'divisions com manded by Brigadier General Ordway, Major General "Hartranft, Governor Fora ker, and many more of that distinction. The Third Brigade, with Brigadier Gen eral Fitzgerald, of New York, and his staff, will lead the way for the gallant New York Seventh, with Colonel, .Clark in -command, and then in order will come the Fourth, Thirty-seventh and Tenth, separate compa nies of Ne,w York. After the militia will be the Grand Army posts and the civio or ganizations. There will be flambeau clubs from Salem, Sedalia, Detroit and Atchison, but the Harrison and Morton cowboys, from Den ver, 150 strong, will be -the shining feature. They are to parade in all the togs of a cow boy sombreros, lariats, fringed chapperals and the drum major who leads them will wear a hat made ot a great Buffalo's head with horns branching out. , their music, mingled with the .booming of guns, win proclaim the climax on uapitoi Hill. MOEE MONEY IN IT, A Proposed Bankruptcy ham- That Woald Possibly IieaTo Something far the Conns to Divide A Catch. '' As-Cnn Straggle. ISrECIAt, TELEOBAU TO TUX DISFATCJT.l St. Lopis, March 1. The National Con vention of business men, called to formulate a bankruptcy bill, did not get down to work to-day with the celerity that was antici pated. This tardiness was due to the fact that the Committee on Bills was engaged during the whole night in a catch-as-catch-can struggle with a mountain of manu script. This morning the permanent offi cers were reinforced by 25 vice-presidents, and then the convention adjourned TVtU 2 o'clock. At that "hour the Committee on .Bills held under discussion what they con' cidered the proper measure. It is based on the "Lowell bill," drawn up by Judge Eowell, of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, and submitted to Congress, six years ago. Some "minor changes have been advocated, but the great alteration contemplated is in a petition to abolish the office of receiver. It is maintained that the excessive cost of the receivership was the weakest point in tbe last bankruptcy law, and this is -sought to be avoided by an in genious scheme- "Within 60 days after the declaration of bankruptcy the estate is to be turned over to the creditors or to an agent appointed by them, bonds being given for its custody. In this way it is expected that the great cost of winding up an estate, which was the great reason for the last law being al lowed tp expire by limitation, will be avoided, and the creditors are more inter ested than anyone else in obtaining the greatest possible returns from the estate. With the consent of all parties interested any creditor may buy the estate of the bankrupt, this operating as a discharge in full. 1 This bill was discussed by thajdalegates auu uicifiriujrgcuciu jjfifUTiil. Xb will UB presented to the convention to-morrow night, and if adopted will be followed by a sine die adjournment FOR SWEET CHARITI'S SAEE. Eastern Institutions That Desire Rather Liberal State Appropriations. 1SFECIAI, TELEORAM TO THE DIgPATCE.l Haeeisbueg, March 1. The sub-committee selected to visit the Philadelphia in stitutions that have made application for ap propriations from the State left for that city to-day to complete its work. The commit tee on a former tour of inspection inquired into the needs of all hut five of the institu tions assigned to them for investigation. These are the Western Temporary Home, which wants $10,000 for the erection of a building, the appropriation of tbe money beiny contingent on the raising of $5,000 by private subscription; the Pennsylvania Widows' Asylum, St Christopher Hospital for Children, and the Philadelphia Home for Infants, each ot which has asked for $5,000; the Union Home for Old Ladies, which has made application for $20,000 for the erection of an infirmarv, and the Penn sylvania Home for Blind Women, whioh has asked (or $75,000 for the next two years, a large portion of which is to be applied to the buildipg of workshops. The sab-committee will report to the gen eral Committee on .Appropriations next week, when its recommendations will be adopted unless there should be a deviation from the custom established. t LIKELY TO BE TROUBLE. Preparing on the Border to Enforce the Contract Labor Law. rSFXCIAL TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH.l Lockpokt, N. Y., March 1. J. J. Grace, of Troy, N. Y., representing the Treasury Department, is at Suspension Bridge and Niagara Falls, notifying Canadians who work on this side of the pro visions of the contract foreign labor law and the probability of its enforcement. The law does not affect American citizens resid ing on the Canadian side, only British sub jects, and as there are quite a number of those who come over every morning to work on this side, there is -likely to be some trouble. The agent was brought there by the Col lector ot Cnstoms at tbe bridge. He has prepared a list of the violators of tbe law and handed it to the Collecter. These in clude the railroad, the Oneida community and the Carter Company and a few other smaller corporations. The Collector has given them until March 10 to come under tbe provisions of the law or suffer the con sequences. L0IAL TO THE LAST. The Democrats of tho Dying Honse Still Sustain the President. 1SFECIAL TKtEGRAlt TO TUB DISPATCH.! Washikgtonv March 1. The success'of the bill for a public building at Kalamazoo, the passage of -which almost took the breath away from the House the other day, en couraged the always hopeful Sowden to think that there was yet a cha'nee for the Allentown public building bill which passed the Senate some time ago. Of course there is a disposition In the House to take up Senate bills that have passed the Senate, instead of passing any further bills of its own, but this courtesy did not extend to the Allentown bill, for when Mr. Sowden attempted to call it up this morning in the hour that is devoted to the passage of bills by unanimous consent, he was met with a storm of objections from members of fiis own party who wish to put themselves on record as sustaining the President to the very last. PARIS EXPOSITION, ffi&Z fortabtp and economically, and where to go and what to ite when you get there, is told m detail by Henry Haynie, whose first letter from aris an the. subject appears in io-morrouft Dispatch, . - ' GE1 SIGEIS SOBEOW: His' Son Arrested by United States Officials and Charged Witu FORGING A PENSIONER'S CHECKS. Young Bige Admits His Guilt, Bui Says the Old Man WAS SATISJIED JV1TH WHAT HE GOT. A Number cf Other Charges to tie Hale Against the Prfsantr. Eobert Sigel son of General Franz Sigel has been arrested in NeWYork on charges of violating pension laws The defendant makesn partial admission of his guilt, and offers a remarkable excuse for what he terms his indiscretions. The"penalties prescribed for such offenses aretvery severe, and-the prisoner's gallant old father ia heart-broken at his son's disgrace. rSTECTAX TXLZOBAU TO TBX StSFATC3.lt New York; March 1. Three we?ks ago information "was received" at the Pension Bureau in Washington of irregularities in tbe United States pension agency in this city, -which is at 396 Canal street General Franz Sigel Is the pension agent Special Agents Josiah E. Jacobs and Thomas J. Shannon came on here, and as a result of their tinvestigation they arrested to-day EoberfrlSIge!, a son of General Franz Sigel. Boherthaff'been employed .as his father's private secretary and confidential clerk. He is aecused of forgery and violating the pension laws by receiving fees from pen sioners. Eobert Sigel is 50 years old and has been living with his wife at his father's resi dence, 563 Mott avenue. According to his written confession, the four years in which he has. been 'employed in the pension agency he has, violated the pension law over 150 times and received fees ranging from $1 up to $10 for pbtaining pensions, a species of misdoing on which the Government is es pecially severe. ji. run, CONFESSION. He seemed completely dazedjto-day by his arrest, and insisted on making a confes sion ot what he called his indiscretion. In his capacity as clerk he was very active in making charges at the United States Dis trict Attorney's office against the lawyers who call themselves ''pension agents" and take larger fees than the law allows to attorneys for obtaining certificates or collecting pensions. This was all right enough, for the Government discourager pensioners from employing such intermedi aries, and in the mere collection of pension money by the holder of a certificate has made the intervention of attorneys super fluous. But this is not dope with the inten tion that its own agents shall get from the pensioner the fees it seeks to save from the attorney. When young Sigel was arraigned to-day before United States Commissioner Shields the special ageqts charged him with forg ing the indorsement of Sidney Knight on two' checks drawn August 25" to Knight's order. Sidney Knight is a blind veteran of the last war, who is living in Port Henrv. Essex county. A pension and back. pay. amounting--"- i to 83, 780 47J was"1 granted to ,hjm last August. Eobert Sigel who, by way of ex cuse, says tbatvhe was instrumental in ob taining all this, money for Knight, made out four checks, payable to Sidnev Knight, for amounts that were, respectively, $2,480 47, 2,500, $400 and $400. FOEGED CHECKS. MrKnight received the first two checks aggregating $4,980 47, and the two checks for $400 with Sidney Knight's mark forged on the back, Witnessed by E. Sigel, were cashed by a New York City bank on the day on which they were drawn. Assistant United States District Attorney Eose said to-day that he intended to sue this bank. Mr. Knight says that he has not been in New York since the war and knew nothing of the two checks for $400 each. Justice Beers, of Port Henry, as Mr. Knight's attorney, received the two checks for $4,980 47. Eobert Sigel says he went to Port Henry to turn the pension money over to Mr. Knight's attorney. He registered at the hotel under the name of Smith, and says he gave Justice Beers $190 for his fee as notary. In his examination to day Sigel admitted that he had "forged Knight's name on the two checks for $400 each, but urged that he had obtained the Eension for the old man, and that Knight ad been perfectly satisfied with what he had got. "And do you think that because Mr. Knight knew nothing of his loss your act was justifiable?" asked Commissioner Shields. Sigel admitted that it was an indiscretion on his part, but that as Knight was satis fied, he had thought there would be no trouble. He said that the checks for 5400 were indorsed by him with Mr. Knight's consent. , OTEEB SERIOUS CHAEOES. Another charge which the special agents made against Sigel was appropriating $25 and foreing the name of Mrs. Jennie Heine man, of this city. She should have received $375 60. Eobe'rt Sigel made out three checks of $150, $125 and $100 to her. The checks for $150 and $125 were cashed with Mrs. Heineman's indorse ment witnessed by E. Sigel. The third check for $100 was cashed by Sigel. It was indorsed by Mrs. Heineman's mark wit nessed by a clerk in the office and certified by E. Sigel. He sent Mrs. Heineman $75 as the proceeds of this check and kept $25. Sigel says that Mrs. Heineman requested him to do this. In addition to the charges of forgery Sigel, according to his own admission, has many times violated the pension law which forbids any agent or clerk of 'the pension bureau to receive a lee from pensioners. Eobert Sigel told Commissioner Shields that he could clear himself of all the charges, notwithstanding his own. admis sions. The penalty for the lorgery, if it is made out, is ten years for each offense. Commissioner Shields committed Sigel to the Ludlow street jail, in default of $20,000 bail, to await examination next Tuesday afternoon. General Franz Sigel was com pletely heartbroken at his son's disgrace. He spent the afternoon in hunting for bail. "TUP Ml V OP BOCBON," by Maurice Int LIU I Thompson, begins in to-morrow's DISPATCH. It is a powerful story of piratical days in the Gulf of Mexico. All who delight in pure fiction, based on American historical events, should not fail to read "The Lily of Boehon." HAEEISON'S GUARD OP HONOR. His Old Regiment is on the Koad to the Capital, Indianapolis, March L One hundred and sixty survivors of the Seventieth In diana Eegiment, which was commanded by General Harrison, left this afternoon for Washington. The veterans are under com mand of Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Mer rill, and are accompanied by Marshal's military band of Topeka. On inauguration day they .will act as the personal escort of President 'Harrison, S i pigott suioipes. vf)o fflOCKEDITOUTl The Forcer, Ferjnrer and Blackmailer E Capes to Spain Hs is Arrested, at QIadrld, and Escapes thoXnw' Vengeanco by Taking; HI Own Life. MADElD,March 1. An Englishman.snp- posed to he Biehard Pigott, was arrested at the Hotel Des Ambassadeurs to-day tinder the name of Eonald Ponsonby. The man afterward committed suicide, with a re volver. The description of the suicide corresponds with that of Pigott The man spoke En glish only. A small amount of silver was found in his pockets. The police have taken possession of the papers and other ar ticles found upon him. The Standard says it U able toconfirm the statement that the suicide was Pigott When arrested he took the-situation calmly and threw' the officers off the scent, with the excuse that he wished to get his overcoat' He retired to an alcove and there shot himself in the mouth with a revolver. He died instantly. His head was horribly disfigured. A dispatch from Madrid to the London Times says: The arrest of the suicide was made in consequesta of a telegram from the British foreign office "Ponsonby" arrived from Paris on Thurs day morning. His only baggage ,was a small hand-hag. Soon after his arrival hs sent a telegraphic dispatch to Xondon." The description given of the man who committed suicide in Madrid yesterday tallies with that of the man who called at the Hotel Des Deux Mondes in Taris after Pigott's flight The suicide is undoubtedly Pigott. He doubt less assumed the name of "Eonald Pon sonDy" becanse the initials corresponded with those on his baggage. FAILED POR OYER A MILLION. Another Bis; Collapse Chronicled ia tbe Rubber Trade. SPXCIAt. TZLIQEAM TO TUX DISPATCH.! Boston, March 1. Another big failure was chronicled this afternoon Jn the rubber trade, Henry A. Gould & Co, being swamped beneath liabilities aggregating . more than $1,000,000. The failure of the National Eubber Company, some time ago, was the beginning of the firm's troubles. Deacon Ezra Farnsworth indorsed Mr. Gould's pa per to the extent of more than $300,000, and he is the largest individual creditor.' There are no large creditors outside of Boston. The assets are not estimated as yet, and no more definite statement in regard to them can be made than that they consist of in dico, catch, camphor and rubber, the valua tion of which ii unknown. Mr7 Gould has been in business nearly 20 years, and has imported largely from the East Indies and South America. He has branch houses in Philadelphi-vand New Yorkaod a purchasing house fa J?ra Brazil, the latter being the oldest American house in that city. He is said to have a $15,000 interest in the reorganized National Eubber Company, and also an Interest in the Brook Haven Eubber Shoe Company, formerly the S. B. Smith Eubber Company. He has two camphor refineries, one of them being at Eumney, N. H., and the other at Stamford, Conn., and is said to control the product of a German manufactory of ana lines. He is also engaged in the manufact ure of liquid cutch. A L1YELI FOURTH IF SIGHT. Three Men Who Will Ail be Governors on ZUondnT rsrSCIAI, TEI.EGKAM TO THX DISPATCH. Chaeleston, W. Va., March 1. Presi dent Carr has employed Judge Ferguson as his connsel, and on Monday will qualify as Governor of the State. General Goff will arrive from Washington to-morrow or Sun day, and he of course will qualify, while Governor Wilson is equally determined to hold on to his office until the last moment Judge Ferguson states it as his opinion that it was the duty of the Legislature to declare the result for Governor, but as it failed in this Goff has no legal ground upon which to qualify, and as the Constitution provides that the present Governor cannot hold over, Carr is entitled'to the seat until the contest is settled. Of course the outcome will be watched with much interest. McGinnis, the Eepnblican candidate for Congress, does not seem to be the least dis heartened from the fact that certificate has been given to Anderson, and says that he will be In Washington .in due timeand that it will only be a short time before his seat is given him, even If Anderson's name is placed on the roll. Governor Wilson stated to-night that he had no intention of calling a special session of the Legislature before the 4th of March. D0NATHIS AFAT0RITE. The Fight for the Position of Fabllc Printer Is Lively. ISriCIAI. TXXIOEAlt TO TUB DISFATCH.l Washington, March 1, The strife for the office of Public Printer is something un precedented. The candidates are gathering in from Maine to California and each one has a formidable backing, So far the battle seems to be between Meredith, of Chicago, and Donatb, of Pennsylvania. The latter has practically the entire backing of the State from the Governor down, besides strong recommendations from other parts of the country. Nearly every member of Con gress from Pennsylvania has signed his Setition, ' including Senators Quay and ameron. The opinion is quite general among poli ticians, who were most conversant with the operations of the National Committee dur ing the campaign, that if any man deserves a place on account of services to the party which probably no one else could have rendered, it is Donath. General Harrison has recognized his efforts and many think he will get the place. AN ENTIRE FAMILY DROWNED. Father, Mother nnd Seven Children Perish ia a Swamp. SPECIAL TXLIOBAU TO TBS DISFATCS.l Chattanooga, March 1. Last night the family of Mr. Bud Hynes, nine in all, were drowned in a swamp In Decatur county, near the Tennessee river. A colored man who was with them escaped to , tell the story. The family were moving in a wagon, and after dark became lost in the swamp. They came to a stream, which the colored driver refused to attempt to cross. Mr. Hynes thereupon took the lines and forced tbe team to go ahead. In a moment they were in water ten feet deep, and father, mother and seven children were lost Three of the bodies have been recovered. THk rTTrRTTrC. TCxrrp5 fa -O-JVJ, iittHUi, WUI..4.W fc.9 Xa 'fj - i TheVs-Are Anxious and' tef to Discover Who ml DEFEATEDTHBDRESSEDMEATBILIil Legislators, to ha Investigated ly TTn4' Constituents. ANDRETfo BERENELI PEHOSOPHGAIi? Tbe Committee Will 'Get DowntaBasiaessASeztte Iainicixtto. The State Grange of Pennsylvania is de termined to place the blame for the defeat of their pet measure the dressed meat bill. They make no charges of bribery, but admit 'that there is something very mysterious ia the affair. It is proposed not to let thar matter rest after the completion, of &m Legislative investigation, but to holdfeftek-j. member responsible for the part he took la the defeat of the hill, and use it as a weapon in the next campaign. rrBOU A STAFF COBBZSrOSSXNT.I Haeeisbueg, March 1. The commfttea to investigate the dressed beef boodle rumors' , Tj.j . , at. i ,t?' wis suspeuueu operations unui aiie ui inauguration of President-elect Benjamia Harrison, Then the matter will be takes ' up and, In the language of Chairman Bil llngsley, will he pushed for all there is in it. State Chairman Andrews at first felt son over the allegations, but soon revised his. opinion,'and now takes a very philosophic view of the subject He thinks it better that the matter should be brought to a head! now and disposed of than be permitted to go floatinz about from mouth to mouth growing In detail and increasing in propor tion until by the fall campaign it might overshadow the Eepnblican party like th genii of the bottle, and do incalculable mis chief. At that time, too, only a personal denial could be made. Now the matter; will be disposed of once and for all by a committee composed in part of Democrats, and Chairman Andrews is of the opinion, that the vindication of which he is certain will be particularly valuable in keeping; s the next campaign free from personalities that would otherwise be sure to appear. A VIGOBOTJS ATTACK. The Granger campaign against members, of the Legislature who voted against tba dressed beef bill has already opened. The first attack is in the shape of a broadside di rected against the legislators in general who opposed the measure. It takes as its texttha rumors first given currency by the Harris burg correspondent of the New York World and in circular form has appeared in the mail of each member of the Legislature, with due notification that it-will be pub lished in the Farmers' Friend, the organ of the State Grange, on March 2. The circu lar goes right to the point in the following terms: "We are not prepared to affirm the charge of the use of 80,000 Jorthe defeat of this measure, and we do not believe that sensational false hoods will at any time advance the cause ot the) farmers In our legislative halls- It Is true, however, that the State Grange Legislative Committee and the great majority ot the coun try members of the Legislature, confidently ex pected our dressed beet bill to go upon the calendar and receive consideration from our lawmakers as it drerred. The neatlvo report of. the bill by tho Jodiei3rj,Generl. Committed was a complete surprise, aot-tonly to tbe friends, bat also to some of the enemies of the bill. How this was brought about we are un able even to conjecture, but hopo to learn definitely before tbe time for the election ot newLesblature. AN OUTRAGE. The result of Brother Taggart's attempt to place the bill on tbe calender after its buck eye in the committee was a further surprise, as there is no question of the ability of the coun try members to have accomplished this pur pose bad they remained in the Honse and voted for Brother Taggart's motion 103 votes only being required to place the billon tba calendar. Eighty country members stood1 squarely up to tbe work, and voted in accord ance with the wishes ot their constituents; 75 members voted against the motion, and 47 mem bers, a large number of them from country districts, dodged the issue by remaining out of their seats wben the yeas and nays were called. We have in this office, and at the proper time will give to our readers, the record of the action of every member of the House of Rep resentatives on this question. At this writing we have only to say that it was simply an oat rage upon tbe 50,000 or more petitioners who asked for the passage of this bill that it shou'd, be smothered without a respectful consider ation by the Legislature. The time for final reckoning with the mem bers ot tbe Legislature who failed to carry out the wishes of their constituents is notnow. Bat as the Grange organization in the State of Pennsylvania is a very much more powerful in stitution than is generally supposed by the out side world, the enemies of the dressed beef bill may feel assured that it will be heard from on this same subject in the not distant future. i Colonel Thomas, Secretary of the State Grange, stated in a conversation with The Dispatch correspondent that 135 members of the House ot Eepresentatives were pledged to the bill. This nnmber is 32 more than sufficient to have placed the bill on the calendar and passed it finally, so that the Senate might have had a chance at it. Secretary Thomas talks about sudden and. mysterious changes of opinion concerning the bill, but knows nothing as to what caused them. The circular concludes in the following highly interesting manner: WILIi INVESTIGATE. ' One more thins requires mention: The rumor that ex-Lieutenant Governor Black was the au thor of the defeated measure and that ha de sired "to make political capital out of it by get ting the support of the Grange element." This statement Is absolutely false, and itls due to ex-Lieutenant Governor Black to say that ho was not at any time consulted by the State; Grange Committee having the bill in charge, nor were his views on tbe subject sought for. We have learned with much pleasure that hw favored the passage of tbe bill, and we believo that be did this from an innate sense of right and justice. With regard to the proposed in vestigation we have only to say, that is the business of tbe Legislature itself with which the Grange has nothing to do. The members of our organization who demanded tbe passage of this bill will, however, "Investigate" their? respective members in their own counties at tbe proper time and in the proper manner. Bepresentative Ly tie, of Huntingdon, was one of the two members of the Judiciary General Committee of the House who voted in committee to report the bill affirmatively. Mr. Lytle, of course, stood with the gran gers in asserting that cattle raising was a lost occupation in Pennsylvania because of the competition of Western beef. On Thurs day, however, when the bill for tbe repeal of the fence law was up Mr. Lytle, in op. posing the measure, rashly reversed, his for mer position by stating that in many sec tions of the State farmers had so many cat tle they could not pasture them all on their lands. The point in favor of the farmer which he was trying to make was that he oughtn't to be compelled to fence in his s cattle, but should be allowed to let them . " roam and seek succulent herbage at will. Simpson, Punishment for Bomb Throwing. MiDDtETOWN, Conn., March 1. -The faculty of Wesleyan College has imposed punishment for participation in the Wash- inpton'sBirthrlav fwrrane- Six-freshmen wem ' suspended nntil thn be-innin? of the next, college year, two were suspended until May, x auu nine were censurea. GAIL HAMILTON, &JStf& cusses, in a briahL incisive manner, the rela tions of the salons of society to the slums. an& expanses upon ine iatett jaa oj we &' aawaaon jurmy. L2k t L.Vs
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