ra KBSI3I ESU w23S ra'f -$ - iii-1 -ANY-ONE CAN KAKEJAONEYJ IT'S JL ' ' SPLENDID MEDIUM. ;WANTS .' -Of aar Mad can teat b " .Who has a good article to sell, and who adver tises vigorously 'and liberally. Advertising is , truly tlie life or trade. All enterprising and judicious advertisers succeed. "v.i satisfied. r adrertWac ra If; the coluiaa 01 jbs x patch. t POSSESS ,:!Twir ftr WiPUilJ a w PORTY-POUKTH YEAR OLD ILK HERO Receives a Rousing Reception From Five Thousand British Voters. PARNELL SPEAKS BOLDLY On the Subjects of Erin's Wrongs and English Misgovernment. AN ELOQUENT AND SCATHING EFFORT.- Parnell Speaks at St. James Hall. London lie's n Jolly Good Fellow Slnslnc and Cheering An Arrnlcnment or the En. Cliah GoTernment Dnpllclty and In justice Toward Irelnnd Scoring Salis bury and Balfour The Parnell Commls slou a Wasto of Public Time and Money The Government Should Ilave Prose cutedEnglishmen HuuibugKCd on the Irish Question. Mr. Parnell has made a Dlainand forcible statement of his position on the question of home rule for Ireland. He made it before an assemblage of Englishmen and was cheered to the echo, notwithstanding he told some nnpleasant truths in a straightforward manner. He arraigned the Government for its treatment of Ireland, touched upon the Times forgeries, and thoroughly reviewed the whole subject tBT CABLE TO THE DISrATCU 1 LONDON, March 13. Copyright. The meeting in St James' Hall, at which Par nell spoke this evening, was one of the most remarkable political demonstrations witnessed in London for many years. The big building was crammed with some 4,000 or 5,000 people considerably more than it was built to hold and their enthusiasm at times almost amounted to frenzy, uhich is the more remarkable, seeing that 99 out of every 100 of the people present were Englishmen, not used to letting their emotions run away with them. Mr. John Morley and other Liberal leaders were on the platiorm, and also Ar nold Morley and Cyril Flowers, the official Liberal whips, whose presence signalized the public identification of the Liberal and Nationalist parties. John Morley made'a slashing speech, in the course of which he described the Gov ernmental connection with the forged letters as infamous, and promised Smith, Ballour and company a torrid time in Parliament A Jolly Good Fellow. When Parnell rose to speak the huge au dience, men and women alike, jnmped to their feet, cheered, and waved their hats and handkerchiefs forifive and a half minutes by the clock, and wound up by singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" with terrific vigor for another minute or two. Parnell's eyes glistened and his lips trembled with emotion, and several minutes elapsed before he had entirely recovered his composure. He spoke as follows: "I cannot attempt to describe my gratifi cation and delight at the reception given me. Such evenings will do more for the union than 20 centuries of the firm govern ment laughter of Salishurv and Balfour. I am sure my countrymen throughout the world will be equally honored with me by your reception of their cause. I prefer to draw lessons from passing events. This great meeting is assembled to protest against their petty and malignant meanness and of Mr. Balfour s government in Ireland. The Chairman expressed hope that I would be a Privy Councillor. On that point I must be pardoned for saying nothing. A Pointed Question. "But it is legitimate to inquire whether there is not something rotten in a system of Government which compels the ostracism from the affairs of your Empire of 86 of the 103 Irish members. That is one of the first results of seven centuries of firm govern ment much firmer than we are likely to see again Cheers Government under which it was only necessary Us get up forged let ters against a man and not to prove them to enable the Lord Lieutenant to have him beheaded. Fortunately they cannot do such things nowadays. What then has been one of the results of that system? That we Irish members Irom the very necessity of our position are unable to take that share in the duties of Government, which is one of the naturaland justifiable hopes of all men entering Parliament If we - iolated the pledge, upon which alone we obtained the trust of our constituencies, namely, that we should refuse to accept place or office for ourselves or others from any English Gov ernment as long as the just rights of Ireland were not conceded, were we to base and mean we should fail to find a single constituency to re-elect us. Twenty-Four 91. P.s Imprisoned. "Well, then, is it not a matter for inquiry why Mr. Balfour cannot govern Ireland two years without imprisoning 24 Irish members of Parliament as common felons for offenses unknown to your law in Eng land mainly for speaking and writing in the newspapers. Cries of shame. "We now come to another question. I will not enter into the details of the charges and allegatlens made by the Times, but speaking generally, I want to know why, if these charges ana allegations naa any foundation, the Government of the country did not take them up themselves, and inves tigate them to their source by the machin ery at their command, and if they want ed special machinery why 'did not they construct it with the power at their command? They had all the machinery in Ireland they required for the detection of crime, and especially constructed, lor tnem by Parliament. If they wanted extra power they could have obtained it When were these charges first started? When was the command first given to the forger and per jurer to obtain or invent evidence which would result in putting us on trial on crim inal chirgcs, the punishment of which was servitude? , An Amateur Failnre. vvf i""It was at the very moment when Lord viMlCarnarvon was inviting.us to confer with "him on the future government of Ireland, and as to a new constitution (for these were his words in opening the conversation) which was to be given to Ireland, establish ing her Parliament That was one of the reasons why this business of unearthing crime was left to amateurs laughter and a pretty mess they made of it "Why, again when Lord Carnarvon was driven from office owing to failure of his colleagues to carry out the pledges he had given us with the charges strengthened by the proofs ot forged letters, did not the Gov ernment undertake the job? And you must remember this no single matter sub stantiated by the Time was unknown to Lord Carnarvon and Lord Salisbury when they entered into these negotiations with us, so theyjcould not plead ignorance. Worthy of Englishmen. "Why, again, did not the Government, instead of fighting behind the petticoats of the Times, say boldly, 'We think these matters worthy of clearing up, and will our selves appoint a tribunal for the purpose. We shall ourselves be responsible for the proceedings, and we shall ourselves prose cute the parties who may be found in the result worthy of prosecution.' That would have been a Government worthy of En glishmen. Cheers. But no, they had recourse to every subterfuge and dodge. In deed, they pretended that they had estab lished the commission to enable me to disprove the letters. But they so care fully framed the terms of the act that the Times was enabled to compel us to appear in court day after day for nearly six. months for 52 actual sitting days of the commis sion while every. charge, every allegation, devisable by the cupidity and ingenuity of informers and jailbirds against everybody else but ourselves, was brought forward and investigated, untilat length theyapproached the letters most unwillingly, and gave us for the first time an opportunity. A Judicial SenndaL "The skill of Sir Charles Kussell and other gentlemen was promptly used for ex posing what, without disrespect to the Judges, I shall venture to call one of the most scandalous wastes of public time and money ever instituted under the guise of a judicial investigation. Cheers. Why do our political opponents go to all this trouble to attempt to throw discredit upon the repreientatives of Ireland, and necessar ily upon the cause they represent and their allies? "Well, I think the plain answer is be cause this country being remote from Ire land, the people of England not being in contact or communication with, and not un derstanding the real wishes, thoughts and aspirations of the people of Ireland, it is comparatively easy to lead them astray on any political question in Ireland. Cheers. Humbugged Englishmen. The Tories know that they cannot hum bug you on one of your own questions, so they allowed their domestic and Imperial policies questions you understand full well, to be swayed by those prudential considera tions to enable them to avoid a vote of censure upon any English, Scotch or Imperial matter, but not so with Ireland. They can humbug at least they have been able up to the present and hoodwink you upon an Irish question with the utmost facility. So it happened that the Tory party, which in 1885, by the mouth of Lord Carnarvon, promised us an Irish Parliament in 1886-'87, turned right around and renewed their policy of coercion and produced forged letters as proofs of the criminality of Irish members. Cries of shame. I think we are entitled to ask all thinking, reflective men and women in England to consider this: "Is it right that the future and the liber ties of Ireland should be dependent upon a casual publication ot a forged letter by the Times on the morning of a great division. Cries of "No." It has been admitted on oath by the manager ot the Times that the publication was purposed to affect the divi sion. Cries of shame. The Irish Question. ''Now let us come to the question of the government of Ireland. The land question, tor instance, is only one example of the bungles every English Government makes in an attempt to rule Ireland from West minster. I do not say that the land ques tion is an Irish question, but bring it forward as a most salient example of the unfortunate incapacity of the English Par liament to do justice to Ireland." Referring lengthily to the history of the land qucstron, the improvements made by tenants and the fact that the ocenpants had built their houses, the speaker proceeded: "You English men and women ought to reflect when you read of forcible resistance in some cases by Irish tenants against armed force that it is not real resistance, be cause it amounts to such resistance as a fly might make to an elephant about to crush it under its foot. Cheers and laughter. But when you hear these things you must reflect that after all these people are being expelled from homes they built themselves and which are their own property, although the law has not yet efficiently protected that property. Beyond Hnman Endurance. "You must see that it is sometimes not in human nature to endure and withstand this provocation as passively as we desire they should for the sake ot the future of their country, and that sometimes their manhood revolts and they strike a blow in their own defense." Here Mr. Parnell related a story which he had heard of a man convicted of joining in a revolutionary movement, not unjustly, perhaps, but a man made bitter by recol lections of the famine period and of days without food a man who recollected hav ing seen his mother carry a dead daughter two miles on her back to bury her, and who had seen her return from the sorry funeral only to find her remaining daughter dead, when she had to perform the same office again. "That," said Mr. Parnell, "is the history of many men who are denounced to-day as dynamitards and Fenians. And although from' every point of view we condemn vio lence and illegal unconstitutional action from the point of view of the interests of Ire land from the point ot viewot morality and of hope and confidence in the future yet sometimes we cannot help thinking that after all there has been much in the lessons that English Misgovernment has taught Ireland for generations to justify or excuse the actions of these rash, hot headed men; cheers men who, despair ing of parliamentary agitation, losing, and justly, all trust in their Irish representa tives who so lepeatedly had betrayed the constituencies which trusted them, turned to criminal methods as the only hope for the luture of Ireland. But it is an honor able thought which I feel to-night, that since the introduction of the great measure of 188C Ireland has definitely turned her back upon all these base, hopeless and des perate courses; that she is confident that in the ways of the Constitution lie her safety, and that under the genins and guidance of that great and devoted Englishman, Gladstone prolonged cheers, with the new hope that has come into all our hearts and breasts, the day of ultimate freedom for Ireland cannot be long deferred. We tire now on the eve ot a great popular up heaval a movement which will not subside until you have enabled your great leader to carry through the legislature of the Empire a measure which will give Ire land all legitimate control of her own future, her own interests and her own welfare with out any shadow of harm or ill to your own greater interest" Mr. Parnell resumed his seat amid loud and prolonged cheering. THE TIMES THROUGH. Bnssell Bos Three Weeks In Which to Pre pare His Aralauche of Argument The Last Lame Testimony No Interim Report. fBY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH. London, March 13. Copyright The Times case came to a lame, impotent and fitting conclusion to-day, the last two wit nesses being informers whose evidence in one instance was utterly discredited and in the other was completely neutralized by his admissions in cross-examination. Mr. Charles Kussell will have nearly three weeks in which to arrange the course of the defenso, and he will receive the assistance of William O'Brien and Edward Harring ton, both of whom are to be released from prison for that purpose. Mr. Biggar in forms me that his present intention is to make a speech and call witnesses in his own behalf entirely irrespective of what the others may do. The Irish leaders and their lawyers will shortly meet to discuss the course they shall take. Prior to the adjournment Sir Charles Kussell asked the Court whether it was pie pared to express judgment regarding the question of an interim report on the forged letters. In reply Presiding Justice Hannen said: "We are not prepared to give an an swer limiting our freedom of action. The extraordinary circumstances attending the withdrawal of the letters speak for them selves. No report can enhance or diminish their effect. But we have not yet come to a decision as regards the making of a report" The Daily ITews, referring to the absence of an interim report bv the Parnell Commis sion, says that Presiding Justice Hannen's emphatic and weighty words almost amount to a substitute for a definite judgment A GREAT IBISH CEIS1B. Gladstone Writes a Letter Defining the Present Situation. , London, March 13. Mr. Gladstone has written a letter, in which he says: "The Irish crisis has become acute to an unusual degree, and is pressing itself be yond all former experience on the mind and conscience of the people of England. A great conspiracy which aimed at the stabbing of the vital interests of Ire land by means of forged letters through the honor of Mr. Parnell, has been disgracefully exploded, and those who urged the inquisi tion with such eager glee are now only seek ing means to disown and evade responsi bility." AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE. The Sad Scqncl of the Murder of McCIure and Flanagan. rsrECIALTELEGn.nl TO THE DISPATCn.l New Yoek, March 13. Michael Riz zolo, alias "Ked-Nose Mike," who was re cently convicted at Wilkesbarre of the mur der of Bernard McCIure and Hugh Flana gan, made a confession, implicating Giu seppe Bevivino and Vmcenzo Villela, Bevivino and Villela fled to Italy. Pink erton sent an agent to look for them. With the aid of the Italian Carabiniera, or police, the agent caught Villela and recovered $1,000 of the money stolen from Flanagan and McCIure. Bevivino couldn't be found. On February 17 the Italian police mis took a youth named Basillio Fablani for .Bevivino. He resisted arrest and was killed in an attempt to escape, 'The people of the town weremuch grieved at the occurrenpe, as Fabiani belonged to one of the best fami lies, of Maida,and was a young man of great promise THE WHISKY TRUST'S MAN. Tbey Have a Candidate for Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Chicago, March 13. The Whisky Trust, as well as the united Illinois Repub lican Congressional delegation at the Na tional Capital, is supporting Asa Matthews for Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Nearly, if not quite, one-half the total tax collected on spirits in the United States is paid by the trust, and the position of that organization was stated in conversation this evening by Adolph Woolner, a Peoria dis tiller, who is one of the nine trustees of the big combination. Mr. Woolner said: The whisky men are in favor of Matthews because they think he will collect the tax closely. You see it is to our interest to have the revenue laws strictly enforced. A new man who lacks experience and doesn't know the law cannot prevent the violation of the law and illicit distilling. Miller, the present commissioner, did pretty well the first two years, but Congress cut down the appropria tions and hampered him so much that moon shiners have sprung up in nearly every Southern State. COMMENDED BY THE POPE. The New Catholie University at Washing ton Formally Approved. Rome, March 13. A papal brief approv ing the statutes of the Washington Uni versity, will appear to-morrow. The brief is dated March 7. In it the Pope commends the Episcopate for establishing the universi ty, from which, he says the Papal See ex pects to derive great advantages. His Holi ness recalls the fact that the establishment of the new institution coincides with the centenary of the Catholic hierarchy in America, of which it is a commemorative monument On themotion of the Cardinals and the congregation of the propaganda fide, the Pope willingly approves the statutes of the university and authorizes the professors to confer academical degrees in philosophy, theology and canonical law. The conclu sion of the brief places the university under the control of the American primate, the Pope reserving the right of revising the programme of instruction. CARE FILES HIS CLAIM. He Tolls Why He Should bo Governor of the State. Chableston, W. Va., March 13. In the Supreme Court to-day. President Carr, of the Senate, submitted his petition for a peremptory writ of mandamus against E. W. Wilson, setting forth that there is a va cancy in the office of Governor, which has been usurped by E. W. Wilson, a private individual; that petitioner is President of the Senate and by law entitled to the office, etc Governor Wilson responded in person denying the allegation ot Carr. A decision is expected on Friday. TRY IT ALL OYER AGAIN. Bhode Island Will Endeavor to Get Bid of Prohibition. Providence, R. I., March 13. After a disenssion of less than half an hour the Senate, by a vote ot 22 to 15, has passed the resolution resubmitting the prohibitory amendment to the Constitution. The reso lution must now pass the Assembly to be submitted to the people in 1890. Not the Engineer's Fault. Mauch CitUNK, Pav March 13. Henry Cook, engineer of the first engine that crushed into the excursion train 'at Mud Run, was put on the stand this morning. He claimed that the collision was not his fault, but that the signals were wrong. PITTSBURG, THURSDAY, MARCH 14,'" 1889. CAME HOME TO BOOST. Captain. Skinner Thinks Belribnlion Overtook Allegheny Connty. HE MAKES A GREAT SOLDIER PLEA, A Favorable Report tote Made on the Australian Ballot Bill. THE SCHOOL BOOK RING TICT0EI0US, Tbey Succeed In Qettioz the BrtMns Bill Defeated In Committee. The well-known negatived border raid bill is again under consideration in the Honse, a resolution to place it on the; calen dar, having passed yesterday by a vote ot 122 to 47. Captain Skinner, who has It in charge, made a great soldier speech on the subject. The Australian ballot bill is to be reported favorably. Senator Robbins' text book bill has been killed in committee. rrsOJI A STAFF C0BBISPO3DEST.J Habbisbubg, March 13. Captain Skin ner, of Fulton, to-day called up his resolu tion to place his bill, popularly known as the border raid bill, on the calendar. The measure in some form or other is a well known one in the halls of legislation, the matter having recurred at regular intervals since 1864. The State appropriated (400,000 for the relief of the people of Chambersburg whoso homes had been consumed by the torches of rebel raiders, ann inl868a special commission ascertained the damages done in the border counties of Pennsylvania and fixed the total damage at $3,000,000, giving the victims certificates stating the amount of their individual losses. The State there after did nothing. The present bill was negatived by the Judiciary General Committee of the House, and it required a vote of a majority of the whole House to place it on the calendar, which was done by a vote of 122 to 47, after Captain Skinner had made an eloauent speech. Chambersburg, he said, would not have been burned by the rebels had the sons she sent to battle been at home, armed to defend her. A GREAT SOLDIER SPEECH. It was one of the best soldier speeches of the session, and the big veteran thrilled his hearers as he pictured the stars one night looking down on the ashes of Cham bersburg and on the pale, upturned faces' of her dead sons who had fallen in battle for their countryon the soil of Georgia. Captain Skinner said that when the Pittsburg papers, 19 -years ago, made vio lent attacks on the measure for the relief of the border county sufferers, he had said in his speech on the floor of the House that the time might arrive when Pittsburg would come to the Legislature asking such relief for herself. His words seemed prophetic of the great Pittsburg riots, and he believed that when Allegheny came to the Legisla ture, seeking relief, she would have ob tained it had she not brought a lobbr. The form of Captain Skinner's bill is to give citizens the right to bring suit against the State for damages. Some of the Alle gheny members think THEY SEE AN OPENING in this, and a caucus is called for to-morrow morning, to consider the advisability ofattemDtiae ioJiavelhe bill amended to . give cities and counties this same 'right i xnis wouia, it is. arguea, permit .rittsuurg and Allegheny county to bring suit against the State for damages caused by the riots. The big stumbling block in the way is a special law which bars Allegheny and Philadelphia counties from such benefits, and exempts them from responsibility for the losses of other parts of the State. Mr. Lytle, of Huntingdon, who followed Mr. Johnson, of Cameron, in a speech against the measure, charged that a syndicate had bought up claims and wis pushing the bill. He also said that many of the original claimants were dead, and their heirs wore pushing the claims. Mr. Kreps and Cap tain Skinner both denied the syndicate al Jegation, and the latter said it wasn't the fault qf the deceased original claimants that they were dead, nor was if their fault that manyof them had died in the poorhouse. The Captain quite won the sympathy of the Spouse, but his bill cannot be passed in regular order, and it isn't likely a special order will be made for it Simpson, BEATEN IN COMMITTEE. Senator Bobbins' Text Book Bill Knocked Out OfTtlio Floor. rrEOM A STATP COBBESPOITDEJrT.I ' Habbisbubg, March 13. The Senate Educational Committee this afternoon nega tiveil Senator Bobbins' bill providing for a Btaje Commission to prepare uniform text books for the borough and township schools of tine State. Prof. Wickersbam, State Superintendent Higbee, and Superintendent Luctey, of Pittsburg, talked against the bill yesterday, and Senator Robbins says thejr talk was all in favor of the school booU publishers, many of whom have been here working against the bill. Senator Robuina says the influence of the Depart ment of Public Instruction has been against the measure, and it is defeated in committee in spite of the fact that he showed con clusively the economy and utility of his plan. The committee was a tie on the question, and Chairman Stamen cast the de ciding vote against it Mrl Robbins' county, Westmoreland, has sent aim a petition of 3,000 names in favor of thf bill, and he has indorsements of it from half the county superintendents of the Statei He will endeavor to have it placed orrthti calendar, and will at least bring its merits before the Senate. The Australian Ballot BUI Favored. F80K A STATP COBHXSPOSDE1TT.1 HaIrbisbubg, March 13. The Senate Elect; ons Committee will favorably report the Australian ballot bill, with aniend- menti One of these fixes the time for the systen: ;i ijt trn Info effpitf. .TitinaMr 1QOO tn. steadof July, 1889. The right of the voter to vote tor wnom ne pleases is also ex tended. i f I The Right to Attnch Wages. ) trsoM a STArr cobbksposdixt.3 Habbisbubg, March 13. The House Judiciary General Committee to-night actecj favorably on Representative Lafferty's bill giving merchants the right to attach wages for debt This is the bill advocated by the Retail Merchants Protective Asso tion, of Pittsburg. Need of a Good Bond Law. I tFROM A STAFF COEBESPOXDEHT. Habbisbubg, March 13. County Com missioner McKee is here in the interest of several county bills affecting Allegheny. He) would like to see a good general road latv passed, but is of the opinion that it will be; a long time coming. la a Sub-Committee's Hands. TFROM A STAFF COBBESPONDEKT.J Habbisbubg, March 13. Representa tive Robinson's alien land owners' bill has peen referred by the Ways and Means Cora- muec iu a suD-commiuee, consisting oi Sillingsley, Biter and MacDonald. SMOOTH SAIL-TO. No Farther Troublefor the General Revenue Bill In the House The Auditor Gen- eral Disappointed Natural Gas Companies Protest. f rBOSI A STATP COBBEPOXDSr.l Habbisbubg, March 13. It was plain sailing for the remaining sections of the general revenue bijl, to-day. The adoption by the House last evening of the amend ment exempting from the 3 mill tax, all manufacturing corporations except those enjoying the right of eminent domain and brewing, distilling and canning companies', settled the principal point of difference against the framers of the bill. Auditor General McCamant said in refer ence to the amendment to-day "that he was of course sorry his jdea of the matter had not been carried out In the bill, but the Leg islature of course had the disposal of the matter in its own hands, and he was not re sponsible, for its action. He has yet to meet a lawyer, he says, who will say the exemp tion is constitutional. It was expected that there would be trouble to-day over the section imposing the 8-mill tax on gross receipts. Objections were to have been made on behalf of the natural gas companies, but Mr. Hall had an amendment inserted in the section confining its provisions to incorporated natural gas companies. There were few objections to the remain ing sections of the bill, and the House took little notice of .them. Some, debate oc curred on the making of a new special order for the bill on third reading. -Thursday of next week was finally fixed on as a date agreeable to every one, and it will come up at 10:30 a. m. on that day. J. M, Dickoy, ef the Franklin Natural Gas Company, arrived here to-day to repre sent the peculiar case of a number of natural fas corporations and the injustice that will e done them by the bill. His own com pany is a prominent example. This com Eany buys its gas from the Oil City Fuel apply Company, which pipes the gas to the city limits of Franklin, where the Franklin Natural Gas Company receives it. The gross receipts of the Franklin Natural Gas Company are about 65,000 a year. Half of this sum it pays to the Oil City Fuel Supply Company, under its contract with the latter. Tire Franklin company will, of course, be compelled- to pay the 8 mill tax on its gross receipts, and as the Oil City company will have to pay the 8-mill tax on its gross receipts, it will pay a tax on the sum it receives from the Franklin company, which sum will therefore pay the tax twice. THE G. A. E. IN DEAD EARNEST. They Dlenn to Take the Soldiers Orphans' Schools Fromhe Syndicnte. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO Till DISPATCn.l Habbisbubg, March 13. Senator Gobin this morning introduced in the Sen ate an act for the government ot the Soldiers Orphans' Schools. The bill provides for a commission, consisting of the Governor, Superintendent of Public Instruction, De partment Commander of the G. A. R. of Pennsylvania, one Senator, two members of the House and five members of the G. A. R. This, commission shall make all ar rangements for the comfort of the children, gay what schools shall be continued, and appoint a male and a female inspector, at $1,800 and $1,000 salary respectively. Orphans under 10 years will get $100 a year, and between 10 and IS years $113 a year. The bill, if passed, will go into effect on June 1 next The members of the G. A. R. are very anxious to get the schools away from the rapacious syndicate, and will make an effort to push the bill to final pass age. phe Education C9mmitte5LafL.ihftJ3enate. took charge of the bill this afternoon, but postponed: consideration of it until morning, at the request of the joint committee of the Legislature of soldiers' orphans. The bill is unsatisfactory to members of the commit tee, in that it gives the State Department of the i. A. K. a majority representation on the commission, to take charge of the or phans and the schools. The bill is the one recommended by the graduates of the sol diers' orphans schools at the meeting in Philadelphia, and, it was understood, the sub-committee of the joint committee to which it was referred would revise it but it 'didn't do so. AGAINST TRUSTS. The Dressed Beef Convention Sits Down on the Combinations Inspection on the Hoof Favored After a Warm Debnte. Sz. Louis, March 13. At the Cattle Con vention to-day resolutions were introduced by the Texas delegation declaring against trusts, and outlining a measure to suppress them. The clause concerning the infliction of punishment provides that any cor poration violating any of the provisions of this act shall forfeit Its charter and franchises and its corporate existence shall cease. Any foreign corporation under simi lar conditions shall he denied the right to do business in the State. Any violation is aho declared a conspiracy against trade and upon conviction carries a fine and impris onment, the maximum being $5,000 and two years. The evening session was devoted to the consideration of a measure for the inspec tion of meat on the hoof in eaoh State. After a prolonged and warm debate lasting until after midnight, in which Texas and Illinois delegates were most bitterly op posed to the measure, the bill was adopted by a vote of 46 to 25, and the convention adjourned sine die. A HUSBAND'S INSANE EAGE. He Hacks His Wife's Face nnd Cats His Own Throat. 1SPECIAL TILEQItAM TO TIIE DISPATCH.) Erie, March 13. Adam Lauix, a wagon maker in this city, 55 years old, attacked his wife with a knife to-day in a fit of jealousy. He deliberately stabbed and slashed her face in the most horrible manner, driving a hroad-bladed knife through her nose, laying her cheeks open below the eyes and otherwise disfiguring her. She made her escape and fled into the street drenched with blood. Lauix then placed a note where it would be seen In which he declared his perfect sanity and responsibility in the matter, after which he cut his own throat, hacking and mangling it so that pieces of the trachse are gone, and although he is still alive, he must die, as the wounds cannot be stitched. M rs. Lauix may recover, but she will be hideously scarred. TO BE G0YEEN0E HILL'S BEIDE. MIsiHotchklss' Friends Reiterate the Story of the Engagement. (SrSCtAL TELXaBAM TO TIIE DISFATCII.l Ottawa, March 13. The engagement of Governor Hill, of New York, to Miss Hotchkiss, daughter of the United States Consul at Ottawa, is announced here among the friends of the young lady. Consul Hotchkiss laughed when shown the published denial of the Governor, but de clined to say anything about it He says that Governor Hill ought to know all about it, and to him he would leave any explana tion that might be made. It is learned beyond doubt, however, that the Governor and Miss Hotchkis3 are en gaged, and that the charming young daughter of the popular Consul at the Do minion capital will at an early day adorn the Exeeutive Mansion at Albany as Mrs. Hill. IKMN& TOO SLOWLY. The" Grumblers Want President Har rison to Get a Move on Him., HISWAKT OP SYSTEM A BOTHER. Walker Blaine the Confidential Legal Ad viser of His Father. EUGENE SCHUILEE BACK IN OFFICE. Secretary Blaine Bnjlag BI; Blocks of Washington Eeal Estate. Active Republican politicians in Wash ington are reported as grumbling because the ins are not being turned out fast enough. President Harrison, they say, is making haste a little too slowly. Secre tary Blaine is making preparations for a lengthy residence in Washington. He is purchasing big blooks of real estate. A Clarion county crank turns up at the White House. SPECIAL TZLXOXAX TO THE DISPATCH. Washington, March 13. The poli ticians who are in the habit of knowing things a little in advance are grumbling because they don't know anything about what the President will do, and nobody seems to have any idea of what is likely to happen. They have decided that the tronble is that while other Presidents have usually had each a guide, philosopher and friend, President Harrison has no adviser, or has adopted the whole American people as advisers. There is a good deal of irri tability on the part of the politicians be cause the nominations are made so slowly, and because there seems to be no system or theory on which they are made. Political considerations are thus far quite subordinate to personal considerations, and, geograph ically considered, the appointments seem to be made on the carpet-bag principle. FABWELL TALKS BIGHT OUT. Senator Farwell explained his idea of civil service reform to the President to-day. He told, him that the elder Harrison and Zachary Taylor were killecfl by the impor tunity of office seekers, and he would be if he didn't put a stop to the sort of thing now going on. Furthermore, the Senator said he didn't like to come to the President and beg things; he was not in the habit of beg ging. He wanted to know what Illinois could have, and the Illinois delegation would recommend the right men for the places.) Senator Farwell insisted that Asa Mat thews, of Illinois, was just the man for Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and it never would do to appoint a West Virginian to office where the chief work was to pre vent the manufacture of moonshine whisky in the South. The President replied that the appointment had not been decided On, and there Senator Farwell left it. Senator Cullom didn't go, because he didn't see that calls at the White Honse led to any visible results, and he was tired of talking. Vf ALKEB BLAIK E'S NEW JOB. Walker Blaine is to be his father's legal adviser. He takes the office which Mr. TfvniH fillpd with li lflfftTl. CfiaWftTi one of the highest authorities on criminal and international law this country has pro duced. A few years ago young Mr. Blaine assisted ex-Postmaster General Cress well itr representing the United' States before the Alabama Claims Com mission, and Mr. Cresswell speaks in the highest terms of his assistant's abili ty. The office of First Assistant Secretary, instead of going to Walker Blaine, goes to Eugene Schuyler, nominally of New York, bnt a resident of Europe. Colonel Bussey, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, is another personal selection with a portable residence. He lived in Iowa before the war, in Louisiana after the war, and lately has been making his head quarters in New York, to which State his appointment is credited. In the Civil War he was Colonel of the Third Iowa Cavalry, and he promoted Lieutenant John W. Noble over the heads of 12 captains to be Major, and now Secretary John W. Noble gets Colonel Bussey appointed as Assistant Secretary of the Interior. JI0TING ENTIEELI TOO SLOW. Republican Congressmen Anxious to Have the Guillotine Work Faster. ISPECIAI. TELEOEAlt TO THE DISPATCB.I Washington, March 13. The slow ness with which-the chief appointments are being made is causing a deal of discontent among Republican members of Congress who are forced to remain here to look after the interests of applicants for positions, and who Can do nothing until higher officials, whose duty it is to attend to appointments in their departments.are themselves confirmed. The decision of Clarkson, of Iowa, to ac cept the position of First Postmaster Gen eral, will probably afford some relief to these Congressmen, who as soonashe is confirmed, can present to him the cases of applicants for postmasterships which are not of the Presidental class. There are hundreds of suoh places waiting to be filled, and charges will be preferred against hundreds more, which will doubt less result in their removal, so that the new First Assistant will have his hands full. QUATS NEW COMMITTEE E00M. It Will be Handy for Him to Communicate With the Fress. ISPXCIAI. TILSOBAM TO THE DI1PATCH.1 Washington, March 13. A sign painter was busy to-day, changing the let tering on the door of Senator Quay's new committee room. It is located in the gal lery of the Senate chamber, close to the press gallery, and the Senator will therefore oe handy to the boys, that they may ask him for the columns of news which he has every day, but never gives to them. One door leads to two rooms, which have hitherto been used by the Inter-State Com merce Committee. Senator Quay will have the inner room, which is the pleasanter of the two, and the lettering will now read. "Inter-State Commerce" and "Transporta tion Routes to the Seaboard," the latter being the committee of which the Senator is Chairman. ' ME. WATTS HOLDS THE FOET. He Will bo Allowed to Kemaln for the Time Being. Washington, March 13. Attorney Gen eral Miller said this afternoon that no fur ther action had been taken in the case of District Attorney Waits, of West Virginia, who has notified the department that he does not propose to comply with the request for his resignation. The Attorney General said that no one has yet been selected for Mr. Watts' place, and that the latter would probably be allowed to remain until his successor has been nom inated and confirmed. Quay Getting In His Work. Washington, March 13. Postmaster General Wanamaker has appointed the fol lowing named fourth-class postmasters: William P. Lashley, at Buck Valley, Pa.; John Fillman, atMillmont, PaV A CLASI0N COUNT! CRANE Calls at the White House nnd Lands la the Lap of Justice. srxciAx. TZLxasAx to ins dispatch. Washington, March 13. A 30-year old man arraigned in the police court this morning, on a charge of vagrancy, claims he is 'Uncle Sam," but when asked his name, gave it as Benjamin Shirrv. He hails from Clarion connty, Pa., and has been- here three days. Me spent the nigMft at the night lodging house, and during the day he visited the Departments, He got through all right until he visited the White House last evening. There he attempted to assert' his rights, and declared his intention of going upstairs foriis clothes. He also wanted to see three of his lady friends, Misses Connors, Hughes and Finley, who he said were there from Clarion county. He says he knows them well, and cannot under stand why he was prevented from going up-itairs- He takes no notice whatever of the Presi dent, but is especially interested in the ladies. He knows that Mrs. Cleveland has left the White House, but denies that Mrs. Harrison has yet arrived there. When in formed that he had been given 60 days on the farm, he anxiously inquired how he could send word to his lady friends. He was told that he could call at the end of two months, but one of the colored prisoners informed him that he wonld then get an other two months. The good-natured pris oner remarked that by that time he would be in Europe. NAMED AND C0NFIEMED. President Harrison's Appointments All Rushed Through the Senate. Washington, March 13. The Presi dent to-day sent the following nominations to the Senate: Eugene Schuyler, of New York, to be As sistant Secretary of State, vice George L. Rivts, resigned. Walker Blaine, of Maine, to be Examiner of Claims for the Department of State, vice Francis Wharton, deceased. Cyrus Bnssey, of New York City, .to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior, vice David L. Haw kins, resigned. The Senate has confirmed the following nominations: A. C. Mellette, to be Governor of Dakota. L. B. Richardson, to be Secretary of Dakota. Cornelius H. Hanford, of Washington Terri tory, to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Conrt of the Territory of Washington. George W. Irvln, of Montana, to be Marshal of the United States for the Territory of Montana. Smiley N. Chambers, of Indiana, to be United States Attorney for the District of Indiana. George S. Batcheller, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, vice Hugh S. Thompson, resigned. Albert G. Porter; of Indiana, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Min ister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Italy. John A. .nander, of Illinois, to be Minister Resident and Consul General ot the United States to Denmark. Walker Blaine, of Maine, to be Examiner of Claims in the State Department. Richard Root, to be Post master at Keokuk, la. The confirmation of Walker Blaine was out of the usual order, and made by unani mous consent, probably as a compliment to his father. The position to which he is ap pointed is practically that of legal adviser, or "law officer" of the State Department, and its incumbent -necessarily occupies specially confidential relations with the Secretary. BLAINE BUIING WASHINGTON. " The New Sccretnry Intent Upon Becoming a Big Property Holder. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO TUX DISPATCn.l I Washington, March 13. Secretary Blaine has only been one week in office, but he has already become an extensive investor in real estate. Within 21 hours there have been placed on the books at the Recorder's office a record ofthe.purchase by Mr. Blaine of lots on Meridian Hill at the head of Sixteenth street, the various sums paid ag gregating about $30,000. Sixteenth is the broad, beautiful street which is located ex actly on the longitudinal meridian ot Wash ington and extends north from the center of Lafayette park, in a direct line from the north entrance of the White House. Many of the recent new dwellings of notable people, the finest in the cltv, have been erected on this street. At its head, on the brow of the hill, is the new, solid stone, castellated residence of ex-Senator Hender son, of Missouri, who was prominently mentioned for a Cabinet office, and his mag nificent structure has given an impetus to the sale of lots in that neighborhood where all of those purchased by Mr. Blaine are located. WHAT ME. EEYN0LDS WANTS. He Will bo Satisfied With the Deputy Com misslooershlp of Pensions. SPECIAL TXtEOKAM TO THE DISFATCII.l Washington. March 13. It was de veloped to-day that the delegation from Northeast Pennsylvania headed by ex-Congressman Jadwln, Congressman-elect Wright, and State Senator Newell, which came here last evening to urge the Hon. William N. Reynolds, of Tunkhannock, for some position whose identity they wouldn't disclose, are desirous of securing for that gentleman .the post of Deputy Com missioner of Pensions. Mr. Reynolds is said to have the "backing of both Pennsylvania Senators and neaily everybody in his part of the State, as well as the State Government and Legislature. DAWSON'S DEATH EEGEETTED. Ex-Fresldcnt Cleveland Sends a message of Condolence to the Widow. Charleston, S. C, March 13. The Coroner's jury in the Dawson murder case will not meet until 11 o'clock to-morrow, when a thorough investigation of the crime will be made. Dr. McDow is in jail, and, under the advice ot his counsel, ex-Governor Magrath, will not speak of the cir cumstances attending the bloody deed. Messages of sympathy have been pouring in to Mrs. Dawson to-day from all parts bf the country. Ex-President Cleveland tele graphed: "I am shocked by the death of your husband and I sadly tender you my heartfelt sympathy and condolence." The funeral this afternoon was attended by an immense crowd, representing all classes of the community. NUMBEE ONE IN PUESUIT. A Wealthy German With Too many Re puted Helpmeets. Cleveland, March 13. Nearly 20 years ago a well-bred German came to Cleveland and soon took a prominent place in German society. He prospered and Mr. and Mrs. William Schuetrumpf became known in many German organizations. Yesterday they disappeared with their children. The cause nf their flight is the fact that Schuetrumprs genuincwife and grown-up son had learned of bis prosperity and loca tion and the latter had come to America on a tour of investigation. Schuetrumpf and the woman had eloped and left Germany in 1869. BLAMES IT TO THE KNIGHTS. A Itlnn Who Forsook the Order and Then Committed Suicide. Elizabeth, N. J., March 13. James Payne, aged 48 years, last night shot him self in the left temple, at his home, 258 Liv ingston street He cannot recover. He was married. Sometime he was prominent in the Knights of Labor, but-recently with drew from that organization, and has since complained that the labor men were hound ing him and seeking to throw him out of employment and threatening him with per sonal violence. THREE CENTS MIPS MUCH MKED: IndianK'.'Strs Secede Froat tked M g Associalion.- . , aw ' " A BABEL 0i" 1SI0N ENSTI1D. IP, John HcBride Bolters ffi Moral irdfoa wT "W C0STELI0 THINKS HE WAS INSULTEBvl lis Contention Sefased to Listen to tee FittsSa K. of L Leaden, The convention of miners and operators k in a tangle. Indiana's contingent has with drawn and refused to be bound by any eon- elusion reached. Ohio and Pennsylvania exhibit a radical disagreement as to the basis of the scale. John Costello was re fused permission to address the meeting un less he would answer questions propounded by W. T. Lewis. If the association sur vives the next meeting will be held in Pitts burg. rtPECIAI. TXLXGBAX TO ZSS DI3PATCH.1 Columbus, March 13. At the joint meeting of the miners and operators to-day there was trouble from, the start The source of unpleasantness was the attitude of the Indiana operators. As soon as Presi dent Dempiter called the meeting to order he said the report of the scale committee would be in order. One of the Indiana operators was chair man of the committee, and some time was spent in looking him up, when he reported that the committee was unable to agree and had adjourned. There was at once a de mand to know how the committee stood by States, and Secretary McBride reported as follows: Operators, Ohio Scale base, 60 cents. Operators, Pennsylvania Scale base, 69 cents. Operators, Indiana Bituminous, 50 cents; black, 65 ceVts. The miners were willing to work at the scale of prices of last year, which, were as follows: "Ohio Hocking, 63 and 70 cents; Pennsylvania, 74 and 79 cents; Indiana, 65 and 80 cents. After some discussion the report was laid on the table and John McBride, National President of the Miners' Union, insisted that the Indiana operators should give some reason for their unusual demand. CHARGED WITH COWARDICE. The Indiana men were about to withdraw when McBride charged them with not hav ing the moral courage to face an intelligent body of men. A short recess was taker, when the Indiana operators came in and re ported in writing, but at once withdrew. The communication proved to be belligerent in attitude, uncompromising iu tone, and in reality a declaration of war against the con vention. In closing, the communication said: "The Indiana operators, because ol the position taken by the Ohio and Penn sylvania operators; because of the irrecon ciliable difference in the scale of prices, would withdraw from the convention, would take no part in its deliberations and would not be bound by its decisions." The convention was at once thrown into a state of confusion and the President, Mr. Towasend,. of. Cleveland, and one or two others were constituted a committee to hunt up the Indiana belligerents and, if possible, get them to attend the afternoon session that the convention might learn more about their position. At the afternoon session the committee reported a conference, and that the Indiana operators had said that they could get their mining done at the prices they proposed and refused to take further part in the convention. , A. DECISIVE EOINX. " as. ea cSS'J John McBride said the convention had"H5a come to a point where it would be necessary to determine whether they should proceed to fix a scale. It was decided under the rules Of the joint agreement that the In diana operators still had a voice in the meeting, but could not vote. The ScSle Committee for Ohio and Pennsylvania was ordered to hold a meeting, which they did, and reported they had not agreed. The miners insisted on the scale being main tained the same as last year, while the oper ators made a proposition of 55 cents per too for half the year and 60 cents for the re mainder of the year. McBride stated there were certain condi tions in the, proposition of the miners which he desired 'to present. He reviewed briefly the mining situation, and said the miners were willing to make a conditional scale, which would enable the operators, to hold their markets. They were' not prepared, however, to recede from their present posi tion in anticipation ot a condition of affairs in Indiana which they did not believe would come about. McBride expressed the opin ion that Illinois had not been benefited by withdrawing from the agreement last year. It the agreement in Ohio and Indiana was not maintained he did not know where the demoralization would end. He thought the fight should be confined to Indiana. Mr, Robbins, representing the operators of Pennsylvania, said he thought Mr. McBride viewed the situation only from the condition of affairs precipitated by the action of the Indiana operators. He could not see that Illinois operators had not been benefited by withdrawing from the inter-State agreement THE PENNSYLVANIA IDEA. The output of coal from mines in that State had increased 1,600,000 tons in the past year. He did not believe that any one Who- understood the condition of the trade in Ohio and Pennsylvania could see that it did not warrant a reduction in the price of mining. If the miners were here with iron-clad instructions the agreement might as well be broken up, as it was the unanimous feeling among the operators that they would agree to no other terms thin those they had proposed. At the evening session there was a long discussion, which resulted in the discharge of the Scale Committee and the appoint ment of a Committee on Conference, to meet, at 0 o'clock to-morrow morning, as follows: Ohio Miners: McBride. Chris. Evans and W. T. Lewis; operators: Townsend, Morton and Zerby. Pennsylvania Miners: Conway, McBride and Patterson; operators: Dempster, Robbins and Anderson. If the Conference Committee fails to agree, the matter, nnder the rules of the agreement, can be submitted to arbitration, or everything can be decided off and each State look after its own interests. COSTELLO INSULTED. Daring the evening John Costello, o'f Pittsburg, member of the Executive Board of the Knights of Libor, asked permission to explain the position of the Knights, and answer the charge that they had agreed to acceDt a reduction on the part of the miners in Indiana. W. T. Lewis, Secretary of the National Union, wanted to know if Cos- . tello would make the statement as anoffl- cial or simply as a personal opinion. Cos tello looked upon this as an attack upon his dignity, and the convention decided that he must answer the questions of Lewis before he could proceed. He refused to say anything further and considered be had been insulted. Mr. San ford, an operator of Pittsburg, stated on be half of Pennsylvania that they must have a reduction in the price of mining or they would be compelled to close their raises. . m I I . ' I "r