W V 9 LIFE STUDIES I Y li. 14 A .XI tfte Aaifonal Capital will be made 1 fllSlll by THOMAS 3rAST. the greatest I IMI bT ' CortoFnist. for THE DISPATCH. g L'1IL' Tlie first will appear next Sunday, g B ' , i - : . , Ur' FORTY-FIFTH YEAR fONTHERESERVATiON. r siPictures of Life Among the Few Living Descendents of the Great Cornplanter. WARREN COUNTYWIGWAMS And Their Tenants Photographed After Several Qnite Amus ing Experiences. . IKTEEYIEWIKG THE BIG IKDIAKS DLscoTered on Trial to be a Somewhat Jz Monotonous and Kot Altogether Satisfactory Job. K1THEE taxpayers koe yotees, $ a ... TtU Tnnuf In Ota Satisfied Conld They See ALL HIGHWATS MADE FKEFECTLT STRAIGHT The Cornplanter Indians of the Pennsyl vania reservation hare no vote and pay no tax. Consequently they are little interested in the road question. The Dispatch com missioner found some difficulty in getting them to talk, bnt his description of what he saw while among the last remnants of this once noble people makes good reading. rom oub special commissioxebo The Pittsbctkj Dispatch 1 Country Road Expedition. Jonsxr Cake Station, Pa, April 29. I came up here to interview the Corn planter Indians about country roads. The Indian reservation in Pennsylvania is two miles long and half a mile wide. To get into it you must be ferried across the Alle gheny river at Johnny Cake Station, and as the ferry is simply a canoe it was impractic able for us to think of taking our wagon along, so it remained at Warren while the photographer and I enjoyed the luxury of car cushions in a railroad ride of 17 miles. How hard that wagon seat has seemed since then! Intervlcwine tbe Cornplanter. The Cornplanters are a remnant of the Seneca tribe, and they still use the Indian language among themselves. To white people, however, they address themselves in English. But the laconic way in which they answer questions renders interviewing anything but pleasant. I had been advised to seek some of ihe more intelligent de scendants of Chief Cornplanter. Therefore when we felt sure enough of the (raddling motion of the canoe, I asked: "Where may I find the residence of John Halftown?" "Up there," replied the young Indian at the paddle. "Where?" I inquired. "There," he said, waving the dripping paddle toward the hills of New York State, a mile farther up stream. j A Mnn of Vevr Words. "And where does Yellowblanket bold ,' forth?" "Up there." J "Oh, well, then you may point me out the '? wigwams of Mr. Eedeye, or Killbuck, or 1 else Willie Halfwhite. I'm not particular which. Either will do." "All up there," he replied as stolidly as -- ever, and this time his paddle described a semi-circle in such a perfect overhead man ner that it left me in doubt as to whether Messrs. Eedeye, Killbuck and Halfwhite were up in heaven, or np in New York sgM& '& A. Wigwam on the Reservation, State. Timidly I asked the ferryman. "Which?" "Up there," he repeated, and my hat al most fell into the water as I tried to follow the direction of his paddle. It was no use. He was beeching the light craft on a bar ren shore. On the Reservation. Two shanties were in sight. All else was woods both shores of tbe Allegheny from the water's edge to the sky line covered with young pines and scrub oaks. The country was a wilderness. I bad no idea where to look for Indians to interview in the .Key stone State, the Empire State, or the Heav enly State. A young Onedagia Indian, the school teacher of the the reservation, came to my jrescnejnst as we had climbed np the river bank. His name is Bennie Huff. "Half town and the other Senecas you name all live at Cold Spring and Bed House, a few miles above here over the line in New York State," he said. "The largest reservation lies there, tbe tribe numbering 900. Still there are quite -a number ot intelligent red -men on the Pennsylvania reservation here p who will talk to you." Talking to Sunboy. I took several names and directions he (gave me, and a walk of half a mile bronght into full view ot a small community of shanties. I approached the residence ol John Sunboy. He is an old man. but a. good type of the race I found him hang ing clothes out on a washline. John was tridently.. assisting his 6quaw. The old fellow paid no attention to us as we ap proached. "Are you in favor of macadamizing the roads of'your State, Mr. Sunboy?" I as,ked. He stared at us for full two minutes. At last something seemed to start away down in the sole of his boot, reverberate up through his stomach, and then roll out of his mouth. It was: "Ugh!" "Yes, I know," I replied, "but it won't make taxes any higher. The State will pay the hog's share, you see." Attempt to Aroose ITU Interest. I have read that Indians are great lovers of nature, and that is why I used the inele gant phrase, "the hog's share," in my over tures to Sunboy. Three clothespins dropped out of his cad nvarous jaws as -they opened wide with a very pronounced: "Ugh!" Quick as a flash the photographer's cam era was up and pointed at that mouth. But quickly too, the red jaws closed together, and the vouthful artist softly murmered, "Too late!" "Please be definite," I said to Mr. Sun boy, venturing a little nearer his ear. "Taxes?" he asked slowly, looking at me Ttondenngly. "No, roads," I corrected. "B-o-a-d-s-7" he queried still more slowly. "Yes, country roads." "C-o-u-n-t-r-y roads?" IIo la Made to Understand. "Certainly, my forest friend, country A COBNPLANTEB AND HIS SQUAW. roads the farmer's highways-the thorough fares of Western Pennsylvania the arcades of gardens the footpaths of rural states men once your Indian trails now the beaten tracks of a century tbe royal turup ilses of commerce the birth-cradles of railroads the shadeless and bottomless drives of Washington county the high roads to wagon destruction the "But do you understand now, Sunboy, old boy?" I asked, stopping short to get my breath. "Ugh!" "I looked at the old duffer. He was steadily looking at me. I waited. He waited. I wanted an interview. He wanted more eloquence. I was played out. We passed on. No Road Taxes for Him. Morris Lee was coming down from the woods carrying a crosscut saw on bis shoul der. He is a big, grave-faced Seneca. Leaving the photographer in a shanty hard by I waylaid Morris as he crossed the little bridge over Cornplanter run. "Is vour name Let?" I'asked. "Yen." "John Sunboy tells me your road taxes are very heavy. How is that?" "Na." "But, are they heavy?" "Na." "Come, now, tell me how much taxes do you pay?" and I adjusted my spectacles iu a way that always conveys a threat. "Me pay no taxes. This reserbation. State gave it to Cornplanter. We're de scendants and connections of Cornplanter. No taxes at all. Sunboy lies." Lots of Professed Ignorance. "I was sure he did," I said confidentially to Lee. "If I had time I'd get you to pry Sunboy's lips apart with those handsome fists of yours. Bnt bow about those roads? Who pays for them?" "Don't know." "Don't von fellows work out a road tax on them?" "Na. Have no taxes." "Well, but are not the roads repaired now and then?" "Yeh?" "Then who repairs them?" "Don't know. White men come over them with scoops and shovels every spring." "Who sends them?" "Don't know." "Do they work hard?" Iiee Attempt! to Smile. A broad grin spread over the swarthy face, and the fellow's prominent cheek bone's stood out in even greater prominence than before as he said: "Don't hurt themselves. Jnst shovel dirtout of irutter. Easv work!" That was the nearest approach to a laugh I saw on the reservation that day. "Would you like to see these roads macadamized, Lee?" I continued. "Yeh." "You .know what that is?" "Yeh?" "What is it?" "Yeh." "So you're in favor of macadam without stone in it, are you?" "Yeh?" I was highlv flattered with my success. But Thomas W. Jacobs, father of the boy who attends to the ferry, and Oakley Pearce were two Cornplanter Indians who, in intel ligence, fully made up for the balance of the tribe. Without Totes or Tnxes. They talked to me pleasantly for a long time, and although they too carry down to this late date that epigrammatic speech of their forefathers, its conciseness in them be came sententious. Short as they speak, some Indians, even now, in the age of their race's degeneration, have "thoughts that breathe and words that burn." Messrs. Jacobs and Pearce explained to me how the Indians, on the reservation, be ing assessed no taxes and having no vote, have no interest in the roads traversing Warren county through their grounds. If they are repaired at all, they must be re paired at the expense of the white taxpay ers in Elk township, in which the Pennsyl vania reservation is situated. Elk town ship Supervisors look after the roads on the reservation every spring, but spend precious little time or money upon them. straight Ronds Would Salt. About the only views I could get from either of the gentlemen as to improvements now contemplated by the State were that "the roads should be straight." Does this idea come from the love ot trails so inherent in the Indian breast? Messrs. Jacobs and Pearce think that, being born and raised on Pennsylvania soil, they should be allowed to vote and have some voice in the manage ment of Warren county affairs. Bennie Huff, the Onedagia schoolteacher, said to me: "We shonld be made to pay taxes and that would entitle1 us to a vote. Bnt tbe payment of taxes would give us some title to our land. This reservation in Pennsylvania was apportioned by Corn planter equally among the families who live here. Each family may deed it to heirs. But it is different on the larger reservation over there in New York State. The land is held in common and affairs are managed by a council of Indians. The wealthier men usually compose the council. IIcw Poor I.o In Cheated. "A poor Indian is given a tract of land. He clears off tbe timber, cultivates it and perhaps in five or six years has increased the value of the land two-fold. Some white man sees that the land has increased in value. He coes to the Council and opens negotiations to lease it. A good price is offered and tbe result is the poor Indian is given some uncultivated piece of land else where on the reservation. If he could pay taxes and call this land his own, how differ ent all this would be. "Hon. J. S. Whipple, of Cataragus coun ty, N. Y., has a bill pending in the Legis lature of that State providing that 20 acres of land and $750 shall be given to every In dian upon his coming of ace, and that only those sharing in this severalty shall enjoy the benefits of citizenship. Pennsylvania's Legislature should follow suit in this matter. Then the Indian at home will have some show." Tbe Photographer In n Fix. In the meantime the photographer had gotten into trouble. He was anxious to get some pictures typical of Indian life on the reservation. In my absence he had set up his camera in a fence corner and was about to draw a bead on a group of civilized and Presbytcrianized papooses. The chil dren did not see him but a party of Indian wood-cutters did. Thev surrounded him. They believed he was a railroad surveyor, bent on slicing off a portion of their reser vation by the right of eminent domain. His camera tripod confirmed their suspicions. Hd would have been forced to vacate, and perhaps ford the river, had I not came to his rescue, and displayed one of those Ger man silver reportorial badges presented the newspaper men in Pittsburg recently by Chief joe Brown of tbe Department o'f Public Safety. A Group of Squaws. We wanted to photograph some of the In dian women. They were generally attired in striking costumes Jeresy jackets ;of gay colors and red neckerchiefs. These, with their luxuriant growth of jet black hair, made them decidedly picturesque. First we treated witn Mrs. Oakley Pearce. She was shy. The photographer was coy. So I had to do all the talking. I tried to induce Mrs. Pearce to pose for her picture. Bnt she wouldn't consent. At last she said she might let us photograph her if we would take her whole family with her. So she got the baby in her arhs and the Masters and Misses Pearce stood around her. But at the last moment she backed out. Mr. Pearce himself tried to prevail upon her to try again. I promised to send them portraits. ButMrs. Pearce would cot even do so for her liege lord. After that we tried to get picture of other women of the reservation. They were all shy. We were nonplussed. We interviewed more Indian women that after noon than men. We plead with them for an hour. It was all of no avail. Successful at Lnst. But Just before sunset wc came to tbe wigwam of John Turkev and his wife. I discovered that she made fancy beadwork for sale, and bought some. Then I inno cently proposed taking their pictures and making them a present of their faces ou paper. They accepted the proposition with alacrity. They were only too willinc. It had been many vears since they had seen "a picture man," they said. I was aston ished by their willingness, but I was glad. Long before we had the camera set, they were out on the porch where I had said they could pose. He wore tbe traditional slouch hat, and a red bandana twisted into a cravat over his shirt bosom. She wore a straw hat equally as wide in the rim. When we had photographed the old couple we told them we were through. But ther still stood there. They evidently liked posing. We moved the camera several yards back to get a good view of the wigwam, showing how the inhabitants come outside to climb into the second-story bodoirs. ' We told Mr. and Mrs. Turkey we were through with them, that we only wanted to photograph the house. But they remained firm. They wanted to be in that picture, too. They Liked to Pose. We finished the work, boxed the camera and started for the river. Looking back we saw husband and wife yet rooted to the spot. They enjoyed posing immensely. Half way ever the stream the rapid current turned the canoe half way round, and again we faced the Turkey wigwam. There they stood like statues. They wanted to be pho tographed some more. "Be easy, young man," I yelled to the ferry-boy, as the canoe took a sudden dip. "Where do you suppose we will all go if you upset this cruiser?" "Up there I" he grunted. . L. E." Stofiel. PATRIOTIC DEMOCRATS Want to Hold Tbclr btato Convention Upon the Fourth of Jnty. rSFECIAl. TELEGRAM TO TUB DISPATCH. Habbisbubo, April 29. Chairman Eis ner and B. F. Meyers, and Messrs. Wright, and Kerr, members of the Democratic Ex ecutive Committee, had a consultation in this city to-night relative to the time of the meeting of the State Convention. The uni form sentiment was favorable to an early convention, bnt there was a division of opinion as to whether it should be held be fore or alter the Republican State Conven tion. Some of tbe members of the committee would like to have the Democratic Conven tion held as earlr as the middle of June, others want it in session on the 18th of that month, while some favor tbe 3d of July and the making of the nomination for Governor and other officers, in a blaze of patriotic glerv, on the 4th of July. The adoption of the fatter date is probable at to-morrow's meeting, which is expected to be fully at tended. now joe a emeus. Allen O. Meyers Before tbe Ohio Supremo Court Iu Bla Own Behalf. rsrzciAx. tzlegbam'to ths dispatoim Columbus, April 29. Allen O. Meyers will argue in the Supremo Court to-morrow, tbe merits of his case for a reversal of tbe decision of the lower courts which sentenced him to serve 15 daysin the county jail. A Sewing Machine Agent Snlcldes. rcrjtciAL TBLroBAir to !rn dispatch.! Wabeen, O., April 29. At North Bloomfield, in this connty, William Mc Donald, a sewing machine agent, took opfum with suicidal intent and died to pppmi PITTSBURG, WEDNESDAY. CKACKING THE WHIP. Republican Kickers in Congress Will be Forced Into Line, If HEED HAS TO TAKE TDE FL00B. Legislation That Will Insure Permanent Party Control WILL BE PDT THROUGH WITH A RUSH. Sherman. Malts an Effort to Hare a Quorum Counted in the Senate. Tbe Republican Congressmen held a caucus last night. It was decided to rush partisan legislation and force the kickers into line. Eeed will take the floor in per son, i! necessary. A change in the Senate rules seems to be imminent. CPEOM A BTAFP COItnESPONDENT.l Washington, April 29. The leaders of the majority in Congress are beginning! to be alarmed at the slow progress that is be ing made in regard to important measures. Several days ago Senator Chandler, in his proposition for new rules to enforce haste I when the tug of war should come, made plain his conviction that the Honse would prolong the session to so late a day that it would be impossible to pass some of its most important bills in the Senate without putting on the screws to stop too much talking. The House leaders are also show ing their anxiety in regard to the situation, and at a caucus to-night discussed it freely and vigorously. A NUMBER OP KICKEES. It appears that a considerable number of Republicans can be found who ou account of local influence are opposed to each of tne bills which are important to party measures, such as the tariff bill, the pension bills, the federal election bill, the silver bill and others of less moment. It has become pretty evident that these objectors would be pleaded to see these measures iorced along into the hot months when every member begins to be anxious to see ihe end of the session. For that reason the caucus to-night toofc strong ground in favor of the passage of an electoral bill and a tariff bill, practically deciding that these measures must be pushed through before adjournment could be thought of. There was some objection to the project of the Federal election bill, but the party leaders were firm in their determina tion to draw party lines closely. Speaker Reed's utterances in his Pittsburg speech were a forecast of the position taKen by the leaders in the consultation this evening. No shirking or skulking will be allowed. EEED "WILL TAKE THE FLOOK.' The Spoaker's backbone, to which Colonel Clarkson so admiringly referred, apparently to be used to stiffen all ot the weak members of the party, and the prospects are that what the leaders are convinced is lackiug in vigor and daring in-tbe administration, will be furnished bv the policy of the Congressional majoritv led by Speaker Reed. Either Ihe Lodge bill or another Federal election bill, or possibly a modification of tbe Lodge bill, will be passed by the House if Sneaker Reed does not .lose his grip, and Reed will himself take the floor in support of it. However slow Congress may seem to be going therefore, it may "be expected that something will be done that will wake the enthusiasm of the Republican party, if Mr. Reed's genius can compass it, and possibly insure a return of the Republican majority about which so many Republicans have re cently made gloomy predictions. Among the subjects under discussion at the caucus to-night was the McComas bill. Mr. McComas explained the provisions of his bill, saying that it proposed to make the election districts com pact in form and as near as possible uniform in population. Until this was done, alter 'the reapportionment based on the next census, the State Legislatures were to be stopped from changing the boun daries of election districts, which were to remain as they were when the members of the present House were elected. JUSTIFYING THE CHANGE. Mr. McComas made a constitutional argu ment to justify tbe proposed action by Con gress, finding warrant for it under the clause conferring on Congress the power to Erescribo the time, place and manner of olding elections for Representatives. He referred to the action ot the Maryland and Ohio Legislatures as indicative of the need for immediate action upon the subject. Representative Lodge, of Massachusetts, indorsed all that Mr. McComas had said. Representative Kennedy, of Ohio, opposed it. Mr. Frank, of Missouri, opposed the bill because, in his opinion, it was the ex ercise of a constitutional power for the first time for party purposes and could not be justified. It was retroactive and would be invidious and unpopular. It transferred to the National Congress the odious species of gerrymandering which now and then States resort to, without ef fecting any purpose. Iu Missouri, which was rapidly growing to be a Republican State, it would tie the hands of the Repub lican parly for ten years, and permit Con gressional rule to remain with the Demo crats for that length of time. A DIFrEEENCE OF OPINION. The debate ran along for fully two hour?. Several members, like Mr. Frank, feared that the bill would, if passed, prove to be a two-edged sword, and might cut as heavily into the Republican strongholds as into the Democratic camps. Although' it was ap parent, without the taking of a teat vote, that the bill had great strength in the cau cus, it was finally postponed in order to aflord an opportunity to discuss the subject of a service pension oui. This came up on the proposition by Messrs. Boothman, Cheadle and others to amend the Morrill service pension bill as passed upon by the last caucus so as to re duce the age limitations from 62 to 5C years. There was a long discussion over this amendment, and it was midnight before the caucus adjourned, having compromised upon an amendment which will reduce the age limitation to 60 years. E. W. L, WANT TO BE RECOGNIZED. Colored Republican! Have a Candidato far Secretary of Oklahoma. Washington, April 29. A delegation of 20 yopng colored men, representing the Africo-Americ3n press, with Mr. E. L. Thornton, of New York, as spokesman, waited on tbe President to-day and urged the appointment of Ed. W. McCabe, of Oklahoma, as Secretary of that Territory. Mr. Thornton said that the colored people formed nearly one-third of the population of that Territory, and their relations to the Re publican partv in the Territory abundantly warranted official recognition at the hands of the President He praised the President's policy in re gard to the enforcement of the laws in Florida, and said there was a growing dis content of the colored people over the pres ent state of affairs in the South and else where. The President promised to consider their wishes. How to In It Over Again. Washington, April 29. The bill cre ating the Territory of Oklahoma, which was passed by the House aud Senate and sent to the President last Friday, must be referred again, to Congress, because of a fatal defect in its phraseology. InaL .aWv .aaQtaW .'' .allat. EASTS SKETCHES S W jM UCaWm aar'W VW Of Rotables at play, at dinner ana at M I HlB 8 I AM II II home will be a unique feature of Hf I 7N I I Tl C , 8 I I I THE DISPATCH. Bee next Sun- .'M (jx J , day'su""- . J APKEL 30, 1890. THREE CENTS M SURPRISE IN THE SENATE. SHERMAN WAS EAGER TO HAVE A QUORUM COUNTED. Blackburn'lllnde a Ylcorom Defenae of the Eatnbliahed Rnlea and Precedents A LI rely Debate, but Short, Upon a Point of Order. Washington, April 29. To-day the land forfeiture bill was under consideration in the Senate. On a motion to lay the reso lution on the table there was not a quorum voting, bnt as a call of the Senate showed tbe presence of 52 members, the vote was about to be taken again, when Mr. Sherman rose and gave notice that whenever there was a quorum present, and the vote did not disclose that fact, he shonld insist upon the sensible rule that the Senators present and not voting should be counted. Mr. Blackburn Is it the purpose of the Senator from Ohio either to disregard the pairs of Senators or to disregard the rule of the Senate, and authorize its presiding officer to do that which the Speaker of the House has been recently engaged in doing? , Mr. Sherman 1 would not break a pair. But there are one or two Senators present, whom I will not name, for whom pairs were not announced, and who did not vote on the last vote. In such a case as that, I think that the fact of their being present, consti tuting a quorum, may be properly an nounced by the Chair, and I believe that even the rule adopted by the House of Rep resentatives is in exact accordance with our own rule and with the constitution. Mr. Blackburn Will the Senator answer me one other question? Mr. Sherman Yes. Mr. Blackburn Does he, in the face of the rules under which this body has acted, hold that it is within the power of the pre siding officer to recognize as present any Senator who, under his obligation as he construes it, thinks that he has no right to vote? Mr. Plumb I rise to a question of order. The pending motion is to lay the amend ment on the table, and debate is not in order. Mr. Blackburn I ask unanimous con sent to have time given to the Senator from Ohio to answer the question which I have propounded to him. ' Mr, Sherman I would rather not answer it now. There is a non-debatable question pending a motion to lay on the table. The question was again taken; and Mr. Call's amendment was laid on the table by a strict party vote yeas, 30; nays, 18. CHINESE STILL C0MOTG. There la Not on Adeqnato Force Guarding: tho JUexIcaa Border Line. Washington, April 29. The Secretary of the Treasury has received a long report from Mr. D. E. Coon, Chinese inspector at Sau Diego, Cal.. in regard to the smuggling of Chinese into the United States from Mexico. He says that a careful inspection of tne country and roads crossing tbe State line, from Tia Juanna to the monument at the sea, shows that the opportunities for crossing over into this country are many, and that it is Impossible with the present force to prevent all the Chinese from enter ing our country. He says that the smug gling of Chinamen into the United States is a profitable traffic of no small dimensions and backed by a very heavy capital, with the principal headquarters at San Francisco. The evidence seems to be that contracts are made in 'China to deliver' safely each Chinaman on American soil, and a guar antee is given. The Cninamen are provided in China with tickets to various ports in Mexico, and on arrival in the harbor of San Francisco are transferred to a coaster, by which they are taken to Ensenada or other points. AFTER THE TANK CARS. ' A Bill Which Aflecta the Railroads and the Standard Company. Washington, April 29. Representa tive Grosvenor, of Ohio, has introduced in the House a bill to amend the inter-State commerce act by tbe addition of a section making it unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of the act to carry refined oils or other petroleum products, cotton-seed oil or turpentine, for any ship per in tank or cylinder cars at a less rate than for the transportation of these products in wooden packages or barrels in "carload lots, the tank and cylinder and wooden packages and barrels being carried free on each case. Senator Sherman introduced a similar bill in the Senate. FREE WOOL DEFEATED. CoDcrcMinnn Breckinridge Made a Motion Which Reed Ruled Out. Washington, April 29. While a bill classifying woolen and worsted goods was up in tbe House to-day, Mr. Breckinridge,' of Kentucky, offered an amendment providing for free raw wool and a duty of35 per centad valorem on worsted and woolen cloths after October 1, 1890. The Chairman ruled the amendment out on a point of order on the ground that the bill referred to classification and not to rates ot duty. Mr. Breckinridge appealed from the de cision, stating that the bill, though it nom inally referred to classification, was really intended to increase the duty on worsted cloth. The decision was sustained 74 to 36. SENATORS CANNOT AGREE. The Silver Question Will bo Dropped by Tiicm for tbe Preaenl. Washington, April 29. It is an nounced that the Senate Republican caucus committee on silver will not meet to-day. Some of the members express the opinion that no further effort will be made to reach an agreement, the differences between the contending interests represented on the com mittee being radical. The matter, they say, will be allowed to rest where it is until the House acts on the bill now pending before that body. LICENSE LAW NULL AND VOID. michleun Liquor Men Score c Decided Victory In Ibo State Snprcmo Court. ISFXCIAL TELEGRAM TO Till DISPATCH, t Lansing, Mich., April 29. The Su preme Court decided this afternoon that the high license liquor law of 1889, as signed by the Governor, did not pass tbe Legislature and is null and void,, The old law of 1887 is therefore still in efiect. The case on which the court passed to-day was a test one arranged by the saloonists' organization. Last week Captain Ed. Rode, a saloonist, went to the County Treasurer s office and tendered $300 for a malt liquor license. The law passed last year fixed tbe price of licenses at 5500. The Treasurer refused to issue a license lor less. Rode applied for a mandamus to compel the Treasurer to issue the beer licenses for $300 as under the previous law. The points on which the law is unconsti tutional are that the law as signed by the Govtrnor is not fhe one passed by the Legis lature. Shortly after the bill was signed by the Governor attention was called to the fact that in engrossing the bill errors had crept into the third section and that several amendments reported by conference com mittees and passed by both Honses had been lelt out of the bill. Another Protest Asalnit the. Bill. WAsniNGTONt April 29. A large num ber of persons interested in cotton hosiery and nnderwear to-day appeared before the Committee on Ways and, Means, and pro tested against any change in existing rates of dnty on these articles. ONE STEIEE SETTLED. The Chicago Carpenters Have About Secured Their Demands. MANY OTHERS READY TO 60 OUT. The light-Hoar Situation Throughout the Entire Country. VEEY IMPORTANT AKEESTS AT PARIS. Conspirators Hare Taken Adrantase of the Manj Labor Demonstrations. The Chicago carpenters' stritce is now practically settled. The men will return to work on Friday. Trouble is expected from the striking packing house employes, and measures are being taken to prevent an out break. rsriciAi. TELHOKAJI TO TUI DISPATCH.! Chicago, April 29. It is announced on tbe yery best authority that the carpenters' strike has been settled and that the men wilt be taken back Mf work Friday morn ing. This desirable result has been brought about bv the new Boss Carpenters' and Builders' Association. The terms of the settlement have not been made public, though it is understood that concessions were made on both sides. The only reason the men did not go back to work to-day was that the leaders thought it belter to let matters remain in statu quo nntil after the parade on Thursday. Though the old Master Carpenters' Asso ciation has taken no part in the settlement which has been reached, there is little doubt that, as individuals, many of them will hire member) of the union. The new organization has an employing capac ity ot about 4,000 men, and there are about 0,000 carpenters out of work at pres ent. Even if the old association persists in its determination to employ none but non union men, there are enough contractors and builders outside of both associations to give employment to the union men of tbe city. A POSSIBLE SLIP. This afternoon a strong feeling developed among the men against a settlement of tbe strike with the new association. They think that the new organization cannot em ploy more than 2,000 or 3,000 hands and are opposed to coming to terms unless permanent work can be guaranteed to all the members of tbe union. They say that the work has accumulated during the strike, and that the new organi zation conld furnish work for all hands for a week or two, bnt afterthat most of them would have to discharge half their em ployes. The Mayor was kept busy all day receiv ing deputations, principally representing the labor movement. The boss carpenters called on Chief Marsh to consult about police protection for the non-union men and then a visit was paid to the Mayor. In a general way, the designation was informed as far as the police were concerned, no riot ing would be allowed, but it was impossible to put a guard ou every building. The pending strike at the stock yards may now be defined with considerable certainty. The coopers and the laborers wilt go out Thursday to the number of about 4,000, and their employers will make no effort to pre vent them by any sort of associations what ever. ait ttlthiatum issued. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of tbe Packing House Laborers' Union, last night, nn ultimatum was written out and approved and ordered to be sent to the packers, so that this morning when the managers of the slaughter aud packing honses reached their private offices they found on their desks awaiting them the document signed by Frank O'Neil as Presi dent. The men who will go out Thursday are for the most part a hotheaded set, consisting of a variety of nationalities, many of them ignorant and nearly all of a quarrelsome turn, so that trouble may be expected unless they are restrained. They will try to force the butchers to quit work and to prevent non-union men from taking their places. The police expect this and are preparing to mass a large force of men at the lake station, so as to be ready to nip any ontbreak in the bud. The labor parade Thursday will be a monster afiair. Four carpenters, whose minds have been unbalanced by the strike, were locked up in the detentionhospital last night. Thorwald Johnson, a Swede who was on his way to the old country, was taken off a Minneapolis train last night. He was then a raving ma niac, talking of nothing but strike, unions and eight hours. affecting othee tnteeests. The carpenters' strike has seriously affect ed the lumber interests at this port. Lum ber vessel:, have been lying at the lumber market from four to five days, there being no sale at any price, the buyers taking ad vantage of the strike to hammer the market down. At present there are some 10,000,000 feet of lumber on the market. The shippers and buyers had laid out for a year of unusual activity unless something unforeseen happened, and it has happened. At the opening of the season there was an increased demand for all grades ot lumber for house' building. At all points along the lakes await large piles of lumber ready for shipment. FAVORABLE TO TTTR MEN. An Advance Offered to Flvo Hundred of lbs Coke Workers. rSTECIAf. TILEGBAJI TO TBI DISPATCH.! West Newton, April 29. The mining situation at Smithton, where 1,000 miners and coke workers are idle, and ass: for the Columbus scale, looks favorable to the men. The uen employed at five plants are idle, and tbe situation is as follows: The Hew York and Port Royal Coal and Coke Com pany has agreed to an advance of 1 cents per bushel in the entire Connellsville re gion wages for coke workers. This is satis factory to the men, and all the employes of tbe company's two shafts are at work. There are about 500 of them. The advance is nearly equal to the Columbus scale of 75 cents per ton. All tbe miners in the Smithton district are within the 40 miles radius of Pittsburg used by the railroads as a means of deter mining freight tolls, and consequently tbe miners are classed with the Fonrth Fool miners on the Monongahela river, and are entitled to the same wages. If tbe otber companies concede the wages paid by the Port Royal Company they say they will re turn to work. Stoner & Co., tbe second largest firm in the district, to-day agreed to increase the wages to the rate paid by the Port Royal Company, before the present ad vance was given, but their employes in dignantly rejected the proposition. AGAINST NON-UNION MEN. Brnddock Flnninc Mill Employes will De mand Their DIscharee. rSPICIAI. TELIOKAM TO TBI DISPATCH. Bbaddock, April 29.-The union men em ployed at the Union planing mill held a meeting last night to consider tbe advisa bility of asking the firm to discharge all non-union men in their employ. The climax will be reached by Thursday next, when a protest will be entered against ail of the non-union men retained in the place. - ' A FEAEFDL PLOT DISCOVERED. i,& 4f ICfiCC flC ! ICC B MARQUIS DE MORES CHARGED WITH V LlHuL Ul LIIX HW PLANNING MURDER AND PILLAGE. ri J V v sovJ o O TaW Numerous Arrests of Anarchists In Paris Treason In tbe Army nnd an Orlennlst Scheme Alleged Boulauger to be Called Back. .- Pabis, April 29. Fifty-two Anarchists have been arrested in this city during the past 24 hours. In various places throughout France numerous arrests have been made, the charge 'beintr that the men are agitators, inspiring working men to riot on May 1. Among those taken into custody were the Marquis de Mores, his secretary, M. Mondacq, and M. Pre vost, Secretary of the Hair Dressers' Union. The Marquis de Mores was examined and remanded. He is treated as a first-class prisoner. He is charged with inciting mur der, pillage and arson, and revolt in the army. Soldiers revealed the sedi tious pamphlets which led to bis arrest. It is stated tbat the Marquis de Mores and his friends were engaged inaplot to proclaim the Dnke of Orleans with the assistance of revolting Anarchists and Blan quists, who were incited by the protectionist spirit of the Chamber of Deputies as tending to increase the price of necessaries. The plotters counted upon the neutrality of the higher grades in the army, amonir which dissatisfaction has existed because a civ ilian was-appointed Minister of War. The police assert tbat the Rhone Anarchists have stores of dynamite cartridges con cealed. It is said that 'arrangements are being made for the return of General Boulanger to take part in the coming labor demonstra tion. A Vienna dispatch says: Thirty-eight rioters have been sentenced to terms of im prisonment varying from eight months to three years. There was a workmen's riot at Frankstadt to-day. A factory was pillaged by the mob. The troops bayoneted many of the rioters. NINE HOURS OR NO WORE. Poughkeepsie Carpenters' Programme On nnd After May 1. rSFZClAI. TELEOKAM TO TUI OtSPATCH.1 ' Rondout, N. X., April 29. On the 1st of May the carpenters of Pougbkeepsie will demand that nine hours shall constitute a day's work. This is in accordance with a resolution recently passed by the Carpenters' Union of that city. The builders have not as yet decided whether to accede to the reduced time. Some of the contractors are in favor of the demand made, and others say they will not accede to it. They say that in making contracts they have been forced to figure closely and therefore would be at a loss. The carpenters are united and determined it shall be nine hours or no work and a strike is possible. Emperor William Has Sand. Beelin, April 29. Emperor William has been advised to absent himself from Berlin on May Day, but he declines to do so. In most of the large towns tbe pro prietors of public halls have refused to al low meetings to be held therein on Thurs day. WAY OF THE TEANSGBESS0H. A STIssInE Asent of the Pittsburg; and West ern Found in Ohio (SPECIAL TH.EQRA3I TO THE DISPATCS.1 Columbus, April 29. G. J. Lund, agent of the American Surety Company, was here to-day and took into custody C. M. Sommer, who is wanted at Morris, Pa., to answer the charge of misappropriating funds of tbe Pittsburg and Western road, of which he was agent. Sommer is highly connected and a finely educated man, his trouble being due to ex cessive drink. He will return without the formality of a requisition. MISS CLEVELAND'S ESCAPE. While Sailing On the Florida Coast She Is Caught in a Storm. Louisville, April 29. Ex-Congressman Oscar Tucker has a letter from his daughter saying that Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland with herself and husband, A. D. Milliken, had a narrow escape from drowning while sailing along the Florida coast near Pnnta Gorda. In a violent storm the decks of iheir boat, a small sailing craft, were swept clean, all baggage going with tbe rest. A BROKEN BANE. Tbe Homestead Bank or New York Suc cumbs to Bad Bnslness. New Tobk, April 29. The Homestead Bank, doing business at tbe corner of Tenth avenue and Fifty-third street, has shut down. Its affairs are now in the hands of N. A. Chapman, who was connected with the Western National Bank. Bad business is the cause of the suspension.. The Homestead Bank had a capital of $100,000. It is said every one will receive the money due him. REVISION IS CARRIED And the Presbyteries Approvo of It by a Iinrge DInjorliy. New Yoek, April 29. The Independent this week publishes returns from 193 pres byteries in the vote on revision of the "Westminster Confession of Faith." Of these 193 presbyteries, 127 have voted for a revision, 61 against revision, and 5 have not voted at all. There are yet 20 presbyteries to be heard from, nearly one-half of which are in foreign lands. BOW AMONG THE ELKS. Tbe Nevr Tork Lodge Suspended by Ex- .Hul Rnla. OnlMlIn. rSPXCIAI. TXLIOBAK TO THX DISPATCH. 1 I fYiT.TTMBUS. April 29. Dr. Quinlin. Exl alted Euler of the Benevolent Order of Elks, has suspended the New York Lodge, which got out an injunction against the meeting of the Grand Lodge at Cleveland July 8. GAINED HER POINT, And Made 810,000 Om of tho Virus Points Used on Her. . Boston, April 29. The Superior Court has found for defendant in the case of Mary O'Brien versus Cunard Steamship Com-' pany.'a snit for 510,000 for alleged damages tp health, arising from compulsory vaccina tion. Hadji Khan Weds an American. (SPECIAL TELEOBAM TO TBS DISPATUB.1 Philadelphia, April 29. Hadji Has sein Khan appeared in License Clerk Bird's office to-day in company with Miss Marie de Xamfiesta, a maid of 22 years, as bis in tended bride. He obtained a marriage license. Mr. Khan resides at the Rlggs House, Washington. More Recrulta for Pnttlson. rKrXCIAt, TEXEOBAM TO TU DISr ATCJt.l Philadelphia, April 29. The surprise of tbe day was tbe announcement that Senator McAleer and Select Councilman Peter Monroe will assist in securing the Domination for Governor of ex-Governor Robert E. Pattisoa. m G$ l to Kemmler. the Now m ,sa j& ius Murderer, Who Have METDEATHBYELECTRICITY Writ of Habeas Corpus Issned From the United States Court. IT IS A CONSTITOTIOJiAL POINT, Which May Set All tha Umpire Assassins at Liberty. Stats SATED ALMOST AT THE LAST M0MEST If tbe apparatus had been ready Kemm ler, the New York murderer!, would have died of electricity yesterday morning. At noon a United States writ of habeas corpus was served, which indefinitely postpones the whole matter. The point raised, if sus tained, may give freedom to all the murder ers in the State now under sentence. .SPECIAL TELEORAM TO TBE DISPATC1X.1 Aububn, N. Y., April 29. Kemmler will not die by electricity this week, if, in deed, he ever does. This has been accom plished by the serving of a writ of habeas corpus, and not in many years has there been so dramatic an illustration in New York State of the tremendous power ex erted by that venerable Anglo-Saxon process. Here was a low, brutal, uneducated mur derer coudemed to death, and awaiting only the order to leave his cell and walk to the fatal chair; he had made his will civing away all be was worth in the world, a slate, a pictorial Bible, a Testament and a trick puzzle; he had just been baptized into tbe faith of the Methodist Church, and was receiving the last words of his ministerial advisers; his coffin had been made, when at this last moment a lawyer, unknown to Warden Durstan, and not only unknown to the prisoner, but even unexpected by him, a lawyor from a distant connty of New York, who in his regular practice has nothing to do with murder cases, suddenly appears and gives the condemned man a new lease of life. The lawyer who caused this commotion was Roger M. Sherman. He bad never communicated with Kemmler, and very likely had never known anything about him except through the newspapers. It is only by chance that the present step, ostensibly in behalt of Kemmler, counts for anything, for, bad there not been a little dslay inige'ttlng- the apparatus in final or der and in completing other arrangements, the criminal would have been shocked into the next world just after daybreak.- It was the Warden's intention to do the deed thi3 morning. Had his plan been carried out the movements of Kemmler's. mysterious friends would have been fruitless. A pebtinent question. A frequent topic of speculation, there fore, since the development of to-day, has been upon the point as to when and where the writ of habeas corpus proceedings had its inception. This morning's trains brought at the same time Mr. Sherman and Mr. Henry D. Gailey. The New York news paper men recognized these lawyers and immediately became suspicious. Mr. Galley is ol the law firm of Carter, Hughes & Cra vatt, attorneys for the United States Elec tric Lizht Company, the Brush Company, and in some ways for the Westinghouse concern, whoso system has been adopted for execution in this State and which Kemm ler was to have been executed this week. Mr. Gailey declared tbat be had nothing to do with the interference in Kemmler's behalf, and that the Westinghouse Company had no interest in the present movement. He" had a telegram while" here from George Westinghouse. The last part of it read tbat Westinghouse people had nothing to do with the stay of proceedinas. Soon after Mr. Sherman arrived in Auburn he saw Warden Dnrstin, and cold that custodian of tbe life of Kemmler tbat he drawn a writ of habeas corpns, which would relieve the Sheriff of an unwelcome job, A COMPLTE SUBPBISE. The warden was surprised. Mr. Dnrstin told tbe lawyer this was soon after II o'clock this morning that any man might show what purported to be a writ of habeas corpus for Kemmler and ask tbat it be ac cepted. "I must have some assurance of the regularity of this proceeding," said the warden. Thereupon Mr. Sherman went before Su preme Court Judge Dwight, who was sitting in Chambers here, and made affidavit that he was a lawyer and had obtained tbe fol lowing writ of habeas corpus from. Judge Wallace: The President of the United States to Charles I Dnrstin, warden an agent or Auburn prUon: Greeting Ihe President or the United States, whom God defend, do command you tbat you bava the body of William Kemmler, by you Imprisoned and detained; as it Is said, together witb the time and cause of such Im prisonment and detention by whatsoever name the said William Kemmler is called, before tho Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern district of New York to be held At LCanandalgna on the third Monday of June, at nil n'oTivlf In fhA mnpnlnff Witnoaa f. TT.n Melville F. Fuller. Chief Justice of tbe United States. Fail not at your peril, and have yon there then this writ. Ihe wlthia writ is granted this 23th day ot April, 1S30. William J. Wallace, Judge United States Circuit Court THE EXECUTION STATED. Mr. Sherman had also prepared a paper for Kemmler to sign certifying that Mr. Sherman was authorized to act as his coun sel and to apply for the writ. It was a quarter past 2 when Warden Dnrstin stepped from his office into the prison corri dor and formally announced that the writ bad been served upon him. Not nntil about 3 o'clock was the first in timation conveyed to Kemmler. Tbat com monplace individnal who is the chief! point of interest in all this matter had been pass ing tbe hours in bis accustomed simple way. The fellow has little or no intellect, nnd is almost absolutely devoid of moral under standing. When David B. McNeal, who is a store keeper in the prison, went with Warden Dnrstin to get Kemmler's signature to the affidavit certi lying to Mr. Sherman's reten tion as counsel it was supposed that Kemm ler wonld exhibit some joyful appreciation of the new and unexpected chance presented to save bis life. A TEST DUMB PBISONEB. Up to this time Kemmler bad had cause to think only of his coming death. The ap- ' pearance of Notary McNeal and Warden Continued on Sixth, Fagu 4. v i V: t Y3 ' f - ? ' s ' - &- 'AnitA
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