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The New Law Under Which a
Perfect System of High
ways is Expected.
CASH FROM THE TREASURY.
The Attorney General Decides That
There Can be No Constitu
tional Objection.
A RADICAL CHANGE OP METHODS.
Woikinj Out of laies U be Practically
Suppressed bjr the Statute Which
is to be Adopted.
M) DAJGER OF A POLITICAL MACHINE.
Tie Ojsaticis Will ke largely Undtr Km-Ptrtisia
Ccrbri, ud Those ia Chug: Held to
a Strict Account
HtESENT PLANS OF TEE STATE CQJ
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IlAERISBJ . . the
framing W . Pennsyl
vania I . -e its features.
A eomiii.uc! : State Eoad Commission
has been in session here to-day. The pur
pose of the meeting was to decide the policy
to be adhered to in drafting the proposed
law.
The Dispatch, realizing that there is a
general sentiment throughout the State for
a more thorough system of country road im
provement, and, feeling that a bill caretully
and properly drafted will so centralize the
sentiment that a law can be readily enacted,
&f nt me to the committee meeting to get the
earliest possible information of the forthcom
ing legislation.
The Members of the Committee.
Hon. John M. Fright, of Manordale,
"Westmoreland county; Hon. Hannibal K.
Sloan, of Indiana county ; Cyrus Gordon,
Lq., of Clearfield ; Superintendent Good
win, of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and
Cftarlcs V. Ettla, the secretary, of Philadel
phia, were present. Senators Mylin, of
Lancaster, and Harlan, of Chester, also
members of the committee, were absent.
The meeting lasted from 10 A. M. until 4
l. m. A visit was then paid to the Attorney
General. The committee told him they in
tended to recommend the appropriation of
money by the State Legislature for the
permanent improvement of public high
wavs, but tliev first wished to know it it
would b; constitutional to appropriate-!
money out of the State ticasury for that
purpose.
Tue money is put there largely, if not al
together, from revenues derived from cities
and towns, by taxes on moneyed interests,
etc. If tome of thoss funds are devoted to
the repairing of rural roads, could the ques
tion of the profits ot the revenues not com
ing back to cities and towns be considered a
constitutional obstacle?
Xo Possible Constitutional Objection.
The Attorney General replied that while
he reserved the right to criticise the road
Mil when it came to him officially from the
Governor he at this time could see no pos
sible constitutional objection in the point
laid before him. The Government improve
ment of country roads is essentially a gen
eral benefit, he held, and therefore the ap
propriations ot State funds to that purpose
was (or the welfare of the people of the
whole Commonwealth, and, considered in
its general aspect, is therefore within the
piivileges allowed the Legislature by the
Constitution.
The committee then left for Philadelphia,
where they will meet to-morrow to hear the
arguments of the Citizens' Road Associa
tion for advanced measures in the problem
of road improvement. Prof. Lewis Haunt,
of the University of Pennsylvania, the cele
brated economist, is President of the so
ciety, and has in bis possession the essays
on road making, which that university
offered $300 in prizes for recently. The so
ciety is anxious that the State I toad Com
mission shall hear these essays. In the aft
ernoon and cveniug the committee will
frame the new law. The whole commission
will then be called together to finally pass
upon the bill prepared by the committee.
The meeting of the commission will prob
ably be held in Pittsburg.
Tolnts of the New Statute.
To-day's deliberations were most import
ant. They took a wide range, covering
about every phase of the road question.
"Western Pennsylvania ideas came to the
front and more than once a member was ob
served to pull out of his pocketbook a clip
ping of some one ot the numerous communi
cations in The DisrATCH and refer to it.
As each phase of the matter was discussed
the views of the members gradually con
verged until the generaldrift indicated what
the thought and will of the majority would
he in framing the law.
The bill submitted by the committee to
the commission for ratification or amend
ment will provide for a plan like this: In
every township three road commissioners
shall be elected by the people. They will
hold relatively the same position to the
people as the school directors, honorary,
rather than political or pecuniary. These
commissioners will appoint road masters, as
many as they think fit, to act as bosses over
the persons working on the roads. The
master will be paid wages for each day he
works, and will be held strictly accountable
for the duty assigned him.
"Working Out the Itoad Tar.
It will be required that farmers shall
notify the Commissioners not later than
April 15 of each year whether,they desire to
work out the amount of their road tax. If
to, the road masters will notify them indi
vidually of the exact day and place where
they must report for work. If they are not
there at the appointed time the master must
promptly hire somebody else and notify the
Commissioners, who will collect the full cash
tax from the absentee. Or they will do the
same if he does work yet does not perform
the work in proper manner.
In the foregoing provisions the committee
REVOLUTION
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believes it has practically abolished the
System of "working out taxes," or at least
brought it within proper control. TT nder
the present arrangements a farmer works
out his tax in many communities just when
and where he chooses. He takes the time
in which he has nothing on his farm to do.
He selects the easiest parts of roads to re
pair. He invariably works under a road
supervisor who was elected through his in
fluence, is afraid to insist upon honest toil
and Aits down with the tanner in the general
traffic of fence-corner narratives.
A Radical Change of System.
All is changed by the system proposed.
Work will now be done on the roads in the
best season for road work. The farmer will
be compelled to drop his farm work at once
and report for road work just like a
laborer. If he does not do so promptly, he
loses the privilege. The result of this will
be that more larmers will pay the tax than
work it, because they cannot leave their
farms at certain times. "Where they do
work out taxes, they will be under a boss,
who is simplv paid so much per day for
conscientious bossing, and who is liable to
be bounced on the discovery of any bad
patch of road by the Commissioners, who
appoint him as a school board appoints and
dismisses a teacher.
The matter of local taxes and State aid is
handled in this way: A treasurer, who may
citber be one of the road commissioners or a
person appointed by them in each township,
shall receive ali taxes levied for roads, and
set aside a certain portion or them each year
for permanent improvements of the roads
in that township. The road commissioners
shall decide in each township just what sort
of material will make a permanent road
there.
Township, County and State Duties.
"When it appeals that a township has
,'"' " "" " "-"lanently improved road
ur gravel fonnda-
jch shall be approved
ieer, then the county
oitional mile of perma-
.iie township and the State
build a third mile. The State need not
wait for the county, but both -county and
State stand pledged for two miles to every
one mile of the township's own building.
The County Commissioners will graut a
warrant on the County Treasurer to the
township officers to build the second mile,
and the State Treasurer will, through a
proper channel,send the money tor the third
mile.
In this way the State aid is simply put
up as an inducement and encouragement to
permanent road improvement among the
farmers themselves, and yet is given in a
most substantial way. The money is only
appropriated where good roads have been
made. If none are made then the money
will not go rapidly. At the same time the
road building itself is left in the hands of
the township people, not a State political
machine.
The road commission fixes no definite
amount of a general road appropriation.
The members believe that under the new
revenue bill there will be plenty of money
in the State treasury for this laudible object.
Somebody has already asked: "Why could
not the State's surplus, instead of lying all
over the State in a banking and political
sinking fund, be used for the nncleus of a
road building fund?" L. E. Stofiel.
PLANS OF THE GRANGE
BY NO MEANS IN ACC0BD WITH THE
FARMERS' ALLIANCE.
The Report of th e State Revenue Conmis
sion Strongly Favored A Conservativo
Position Upon tlio Tariff Question Non-
Fartisau Work the Best, i.
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rsrEClAI. TELEOBAlt TO TOT DISPATCH.!
Habrisburg. Dee. 9. The Grangers
are having the largest convention here in
the history of their State organization. Their
annual meeting is being held in the hall of
the House, and before its close between 500
aud GOO delegates will be participating in
the business of the Grange. To-night
Worthy Master Rhone, who has filled that
position for nine years, delivered his annual
address.
He claims that all the important legisla
tion in the interest of agriculture for the last
15 years has been secured through the non
partisan iufiaence of the Grange, namely:
The prevention of the extension of patents on
sewing machines saviug millions of dollars
to the people; curtailing the powers of
transportation companies by making them
subject to the control of the Government;
restricting the sale of oleomargarine by na
tional law and preventing its manufacture
and sale in this State; the driving out from
this country of alien landlords; the passage
of the inter-State commerce law; the estab
lishment of the Agricultural Department at
Washington; the increase of the appropria
tion to public schools from $1,000,000 to S2,
000,000; the procurement of many important
Changes in the State Re enne Law,
among which is the law paving back
into the conntv treasury one-half the taxes
levied and collected on money's at interest,
and one-third of the amount of license fees;
the creation of the State Revenue Commis
sion which has just closed its report to the
State Legislature, and the establishment of
a co-operative trade system, through which
farmers can purchase direct from manu
facturers and importers.
Mr. Rhone adds that through the Grantre
the tinff and currency questions will be
settled on a just and equitable basis. Com
plaint is made that new organizations are
being started to weaken the power of the
Grange. Mr. Rhone continues:
Tnat the great agricultural class of the
country is sorely depressed, largely the result
of pernicious legislation, I greatly regret is
only too true it is. indeed, a self-evident fact.
That real estate has been on a steady and rapid
decline in value from the same cause is equally
obvious. The depression is so great and gen
eral that not 1 per cent of the farms of the
State are Homing tneir own anu paying inter
est on the Investment.
The injustice of 'esislation which perpetuates
snch claring fraud upon the great agricul
tural class is too apparent to rtquire comment.
The favoritism which only requires the cor
porate aud personal wealth of the State to eon
tribute less than one-fifth of the amonnt exact
ed ot real estate is too obvious to be refuted by
argument.
Por the Free Coinage of Silver.
The hope is expressed that the Grange will
pass favorably on the new revenue bill. The
passage ot a dressed beef bill by tbeXegisla
ture is urged. The free coinage of silver is
recommended as a balm for business depres
sion, and as calculated to greatly enhance
the value of farms and farm products. Con
cludiiis. Mr. Rhone said that the Grange
occupied a conservative position upon the,
question during the exciting controversy
which grew out of the tariff discussion.
The representatives of the 'organization
insist, said he, that it tariff lor protection
was to be the future policy of the Govern
ment, then the farmer had the same right
to protection on his productions that the
manufacturer aud other industries were to
receive. If tariff for revenue only, then
the farmer would have to compete with
foreign productions and the manufacturer
with foreign manufacturers In a word, the
Grange, standing upon the immutable prin
ciples of our order, insisted upon equality
the same protection for the tanner as other
classes were to receive. The result has been
the passage of the recent act by Congress,
What the exact effect of the law will be
npon the business industries of the country
cannot yet be fully determined.
'A MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS.
A ranatical Chinese Society Attacks Their
Converted Countrymen.
San Francisco, Dec 9. -Advices from
I Chung King, China, state that the troubles
f Ije Ptt$wg
at Ta Chu Hsien arose from the massacre of
Chinese Christians as Loons Tny Tsin by
members of the Loo Sos Society, during a
celebration in honor of the society's patrcn
diety. After the celebration had lasted sev
eral days the brotherhood consulted their
gods as to whether it would be safe to
plunder the Christians. The reply being in
the affirmative, the brotherhood made a raid
on a number of well-to-do Christian families
and carried off a lot of booty.
A few days later they made a fresh at
tack and massacred over 20 persons, 19
bodies being counted in the streets, and
several more are known to be cut in pieces
and thrown into the river. The mission
buildings and many others were burned
and the corpses thrown into the flames. On
the following day the brotherhood pro
ceeded to another market town and made an
assault on the Christians there. The latter
fled, but one of them was killed.
FOR REVENUE ONLY.
A SPANIARD WEDS AN HEIRESS, SECURES
870,000 AND SKIPS.
He is Accompanied In His Flight by a
Young Companion of the Bride Tho
Tale of Woe Related by a Kentucky
Belle of Good Family.
rSPECTAI. TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.:
New York, Dec. 9. A remarkable
story, containing material enough to con
struct a modern four-act society play, has
just come to light. The heroine is a tall,
auburn-haired Southern beauty of 2.1. Her
name was Cecil Watkins. She is now
Senora Lavero. Her tale of woe reveals the
extraordinary statement that within a year
she was wooed by a handsome Spaniard of
supposed noble birth named Jornando
Uberlo Lavero, married to him at her home
in Paris, Ky., made over to him her fortune
of 570,000 and was deserted by him in this
city.
The story begins in Kentucky a year ago.
Colonel Mark Antony Watkins, the father
of Cecil, who died ten years ago, was the
owner of the Kennedy stock farm, and the
family live in an old mansion known as
Maplewood Manor. Colonel Watkins
deeded the manor to Cecil. It was valued
at between 50,000 and SGO.000. She was to
come into possession of the Kennedy estate
when she attained her majority. He also
left her S40.000 in the First National Bank
of Louisville. A year ago Lulu Martin,
her 17-year-old cousin, of Crab Orchard,
Ky., and herseli were churns at St. Cathe
rine's Academy, Springfield, Ky. When
vacation time came in May, 1S90, an
other invited Cecil and Lulu to visit
her at her mother's house in Louisville.
There the handsome Spaniard, Lavero, was
introduced to the girls. With Cecil it was
a case of love at first sicht. Lavero was
looked upon as a prize, for he never tired of
telling ot his father's castles and vast es
tates near Barcelona, andot the great wealth
he was to inherit. Six weeks later Cecil
AYatkins was mirried to him. August 14,
having attained her majority, gave her hus
band power of attorney over all her prop
erty. The next morning Lavero sold the
Kennedy estate and homestead for 30,000,
which was far below its real value. Then
Lavero and his bride went to Louisville, he
drawing the 840,000 from the bank. They
met Lulu Martin, and later on the couple
and Lulu came to New York.
The beginning of the last act came on No
vember 13, when Lavero told his young wife
that his father in Spain had notified him
that his presence was needed at once to ad
just matters relating to their estate, "and,''
he added. "a 'he does-not yet know oCnr
marriatrer'it will be iust "asVfelt fof me to'
go and. pave the way, as he expected me to
wed a Spanish heiress." Cecil objected,
bnt her entreaties were ot no avail. He left
her $1,000 for current expenses, taking about
$69,000 along, and she has not heard ot him
since. But she did hear from Lulu "Martin
two days after Lavcro's departure. Pinned
to her pillow she found this note: "I am
going away, away with the man I love.
You know that I come of a passionate race
and would die for the man I love."
THE LYMPH IN NEW YORK.
A Small Vial Received by a Physician of
That City.
ISrECIAI. TELIGBAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
New Yokk, Dec 9. Dr. Abraham
Jacobt received the vial of Dr. Koch's
lymph, which was consigned to him about
two weeks ago from Berlin. It arrived on
the steamship Saale on Monday. With the
box addressed to Dr. Jacobi was another
twice the size directed to John S. Billings,
Washington. The bottle was about two
inches long and three-quarters of inch in
diameter and contained a thick liquid of a
reddish-brown color. Assistant Appraiser
Pratt decided that the lymph was a sample
to be used for scientific purposes. The bot
tle was taken to Appraiser Cooper, who in
spected it with curiosity.
Dr. Scherer, in charge of the chemical
laboratory at the appriasers' stores, esti
mated the contents at 50 drops. On the
white paper wrapper were printed in Ger
man directions for the use of the lymph.
Dr. Jacobi received the lymph in the after
noon, and, with Dr. Liebman and other
physicians, shut himself up to study it. At
the ML Sinai Hospital this evening it was
said that no application had been made of
the lymph.
ESCAPED TO OLD MEXICO.
Tho Cotton Belt Train Robber lias Once
More Escaped Justice.
rSPECIAI. TELEGRAM TO THE LHRPATCrL. I
Fort Worth, Tex., Dec. 9. Napoleon
McDaniel, the Cotton Belt train robber who
escaped from Texarkana jail.on December 2
by knocking down the jailer and breaking
the bars of his cell, is in old Mexico. Two
days ago he came to Fort Worth in com
pany with another man and was recognized
by a person who told the police. The police
could not locate him at once, but sup
posed he was in hiding on the south
side, where they could lay hands on hint
when wanted. They wired "for particulars
of his crime and the reward offered, but in
the meantime McDaniel made good his es
cape. When the police went for him last
night he and his pal were gone.
To-day it was learned they got out of the
city in a farmer's team, caught the Texas
Pacific west-bound express a few miles west
of here, and by this time have safely passed
into old Mexico from El Paso.
INDIAN FEUD IN COLORADO.
Apache Indians Axe Seeking to Avenge a
Comrade's Death.
Dueanoo, Cou, Dec. 9. Saturday
night, about 9 o'clock, Thomas Franklyn, a
carpenter, sot into an altercation with two
Indians in a saloon at Armago, N. M. He
struck both Indians over the head with the
butt end of a billiard cue, crushing the skull
of one and killing him, and Injuring the
other.
Yesterday the Apaches came to Armago,
intent upon his scalp, but Sheriff Stallsteiner
aud a posse secreted him in a pile ot saw
dust, and the Indians were unable to find
him. Great excitement is prevailing, the
Indians declaring that they only want
justice. But it any attempt is made to get
Franklyn out of the town there will be
trouble: The entire population are attend
ing to business with six-shooters strapped
around their waists, and a number are
carrying Winchesters to be prepared tor
nnymergencjv
PITTSBURG, "WEDNESDAY,
THE ELECTIONS BILL
May Hare Some Rough Sailing Before
it Passes tlie Senate.
STATUS OP SOME REPUBLICANS.
Qaay Likely to Offer a Substitute for the
Lodge Measure,
DEFEAT IS CONSIDERED POSSIBLE
FROM A STAFF COBRZSPONDEST.1
Washington, Dec 9. It is evident
that the elections bill is not to have the
plain sailing among Republicans that has
been predicted for it. The probabilities are
that if Senator Hoar had yesterday pressed
bis request for unanimous consent to take a
vote on the bill Friday, and if the Demo
crats had not objected, antagonism would
have cropped out on the Republican side.
Among those Senators who are 'hot satisfied
with the substitute for the Lodge, or House
bill, reported by the Senate Committee, are
Senators Quay and Cameron.
It was well known that they were not
wholly friendly to it when it made its ap
pearance last session, and their admiration
for it has not been enhanced by the late elec
tions, nor by the tone of the leading news
papers of the country in regard to it.
The Talk of a Qnay Substitute.
The rumor which gained currency yester
day that Senator Quay bad in view a substi
tute for the Senate substitute, which he would
offer and follow it with a speech, was par
tially confirmed to-day by the Senator. In
conversation with the correspondent of The
Dispatch Senator Quay said that the mat
ter of a substitute is under consideration,
but that no bill has been completed, nor will
be within two days; nor could the Senator
say how soon it would be proposed in the
Senate, or if it would be reported at all.
It is inferred by some from the situation
of affairs with regard to the elections bill,
that the Senators who are insisting on the
passage of that measure, will soon realize
that it is not only unpopular with a
large portion of the Republican party, and
that it will be powerless to accomplish its
purpose even if it be enacted into a law,
but that it has a strong, though now silent,
for policy's sake, opposition among the Re
publican Senators. It is donbtless the in
tention of this opposition to defeat the bill,
if possible, without openly antagonizing its
sponsors in the Senate, but behind the
scenes Senators Edmunds and Hoar are
being made to reel the strong hand of the
master manager, as they did when the elec
tions bill and other measures were postponed
last session and the tariff bill forced on
rapidly to a conclusion.
Fretting Over the Bill.
It will be remembered that at one time
Edmunds Hoar and Evarts fumed and
threatened with vague vengeance the pro
moters of the movement to postpone the
elections measure to save the tariff bill.
They are no less restive now. They know
they cannot afford to have even one Repub
lican vote against the bill, as that would
destroy the unanimity which is necessary to
impress upon the people that it is a measure
imperatively demanded by the part-.-.
They went gleefully into the fight a week
ago, convinced by the want of opposition
that the Republicans of the Senate were
agreed upon the matter, and attaching no
importance to the fact that Quay and Cam
eron and other Senators were absent fr-.ra
the caucus at which it was decided to take
up the elections bill at once. They now
admit possible defeat, as to the bill under
consideration, least, anjl.thn probabili
ties seem to oe that -lp a .suoslituts oe;pro
posed a disagreement will be provoked
within the party that will be fatal to any
clectious bill whatsoever.
When the bill was taken up Mr. Berry
addressed the Senate in opposition. He in
sisted that it had been brought forward to
disturb harmony and to inflict an injury on
business relations at a time when the rela
tions of the people of the several States
were becoming more and more extended and
complicated, and when the ablest and best
men of the Southern States were seeking to
find a remedy for the evils that surround
them. Mr. Daniels also spoke in opposition
to the bill. It went over without action.
LlGHTNER.
AN APPORTIONMENT BILL.
Dnnnell's Measure for Representation
Under the New Census.
Washington, Dec. 9. Mr. Dunnell,
Chairman of the House Committee on the
11th census, introduced in the House to-day
a bill making an apportionment of Repre
sentatives in Congress among the several
States.
The bill provides that after the third day
of March, 1833, the House shall be composed
ol 35G members. The representation of some
of the States is increased as follows: Ala
bama, 1; Arkansas, 2; California, 1; Col
orado, 1; Georgia, 1; Illinois, 2; Kansas, 1;
Massachusetts, 1; Michigan, 1; Minnesota,
2; Missouri, 1; Nebraska, 3; New Jersey, 1;
Oregon, 1; Pennsylvania, 2; Tennessee, 2;
Texas, 2; Washington, 1; Wisconsin, 1.
The representation in the other States will
remain unchanged.
AN ERROR IN THE TARIFF.
Senator Quay Wants to Have n MIstako in
Typography Changed.
Washington, Dec. 9. Senator Quay
to-day offered a resolution for an amend
ment to the tariff bill on the subject of cord
age and twine, which is intended to correct
a typographical error, consisting of the mis
placing of the final parenthesis, by which
the words "composed in whole or in part of
Istle or tampico fibre, manilla, sisal grass
or sunn" were included in the parenthesis.
The effect of the error, as asserted by cer
tain Customs officers, was that the duty on
all twines, other than binding twine, was
fixed at 114 cents per pound, while the in
tention, was to limit this rate to the fibres
above specified. A similar bill was intro
duced in the House to-day.
FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Many Thousands for tho Convenience of the
Government Emplojes.
Washington, Dec. 9. The House to
day, just before adjournment, proceeded
under the special order to the disposition of
public building measures, previously re
ported from the Committee of the Whole.
The following bills for the erection of public
buildings were passed with a limitation of
cost as stated:
Mankato. Minn., 500,000; Youngstown, O.,
875,000: Sioux Falls, S. D., $150,000: Beatrice,
Neb., S60.000: Davenport, la., 8100.000: Sioux
City. Ia.. 8250,000: Lima, O.. 8tSO,000: Portland,
Ore., 8100.000; Kansas City, Mo., fLXH.000; Ak
ron, O., $100,000, and Rockford, 111., 8100,000.
MEXICAN LOTTERY CIRCULARS
Can No Longer be Sent Tnroagh the Malls
In This Country.
Washington, Sec 9. It is stated at
the Postoffice Department that the mails
sent from Mexico into the United States
have recently been burdened with the circu
lars of Mexican lotteries Inclosed in sealed
envelopes, the corners of which were clipped
and the postage paid thereon at the rate of
1 cent, which was permissible under the
Mexican postal laws. Under the laws of
I the United States Inclosureof such circulars
iu a sealed envelope would require them to
DECEMBER 10, 1890.
be held for postage and refused admission
to the mail as printed matter.
The Postmaster General has been in cor
respondence with the Director General of
the Postoffice of Mexico, on the subject, and
it has been agreed that the lottery circulars
referred to shall no longer be carried in the
mails or delivered to addresses in this coun
try. An order to that effect has been issued
by the Postmaster General. The Mexican
Postoffice Department will instruct post
masters in that country not to forward
printed matter in scaled envelopes uulesi
prepaid at letter rates, and not to forward
among printed matter destined to the United
States, any article whatever relating to lot
teries. FREE COINAGE OF SILVER.
REPRESENTATIVE M'CREARY AND THE
COMING MONETARY CONGRESS.
He Want the United States Delegates to
be Instructed That They Must Vote for
the Circulation of Common Gold and
Sliver Coins.
rrKOJt A STAFF CORRESPONDENT."!
Washington, Dec. 9. The free coin
age men in the House have not given up all
hopes of securing something from this ses
sion in line with their views, and if they
cannot get it by direct means they are per
fectly willing to accomplish the same ends
by indirect methods. Congressman Mc
Creary, of Kentucky, has got an idea which
he Is preparing to formulate in the shape of
a bill to be introduced before long in the
House, which has met with the hearty sup
port and approval of a number of his Demo
cratic colleagues of more or less pronounced
views on this question.
His proposition is in brief for Congress to
instruct the United States delegates to the
International Monetary Conference, which
is to meet in this city during the coming
month, how to vote on this subject. His
bill will provide that delegates shall be in
structed to favor the adoption of common
gold and silver coins for circulation and in
terchange among all of the countries which
will be represented at the conference, and
that they be further instructed to favor the
adoption by the all the American nations of
gold and silver coin now authorized by the
laws of the United States and the free coin
age thereof.
This international monetary conference is,
of course, an offshoot of the Pan-American
Congress which recently adjourned, and
being largely a foreign affair, it isonlyright
in the opinion of Representative McCreary
that matters connected with it should be re
ferred to the Foreign Affairs Committee of
the House, of which he himself is a mem
ber. It would not do to have the bill go to
the Coinage Committee of the House, be
cause that is opposed to free coinage, but
there are at least two of Republican mem
bers of the Foreign Affairs Committee who
might be willing to report the bill to the
Honse. These two gentlemen are Messrs.
Morrow, of California, and Coleman, of
Louisiana, and it is believed that with their
co-operation the bill could be got out of
committee.
Mr. McCreary thinks that if the members
of the House voted their honest sentiments
on this question the bill would pass; but
anyway, he is of the opinion that nothing
will be lost bv testing the sense of the
House in this way. The bill will be intro
duced at an early day.
TAX UPON COMPOUND LARD.
Two Bills Reported In tho Senate With No
Recommendation.
.JSZashington, Dec. 9. In the Senate
'J'wci?ills.'inipoirnEka,.tflxppon com
pound lard were reported without recom
mendation by Senator Paddock, from the
Committee on Agriculture. One of them is
the bill that passed the House last session and
the other is the bill introduced in the Senate
last Jannary by Senator Dawes, which has
never been reported by the committee. Both
bills are similar in purpose and provide
for the imposition of a tax upon and regu
lation of the manufacture of compound
lard.
The bills were reported without recom
mendation in order to avoid the controversy
of last session and the hearing of argument,
which would necessarily have greatly de
layed any action upon them by the com
mittee. It is understood that some features
of the House bill were objected to by several
Senators, but rather than consider the bills
section by section in the committee, it was
deemed best to report them to the Senate at
once, leaving the objectionable points to be
considered when the bills come up in the
Senate for consideration.
THE HOUSE POSTMASTER.
A Republican Caucus Selects Mr. Hathaway,
of Montana.
Washington, Dec. 9. The Republican
members of the House held a short caucus
after adjournment to-day to select a post
master to succeed Mr. Wheat, of Wiscon
sin. Mr. Carters, of Montana, secured 73
votes for his candidate, Mr. Hathaway, of
Montana, against 39 for the other four can
didates, Hosmer, of Massachusetts, at pres
ent assistant postmaster; Reed, of Min
nesota, and Barnes and Bnlph, of Illinois.
Mr. Hathaway is a native of Ohio. He
enlisted in the One Hundred and Fifth
Ohio in 18G2, and was permanently disabled
by a wound received at the battle of Perry
ville, Ky. He removed to Montana at the
close of the war, and has lived there ever
since. He has held several Federal and
county offices, and is at present Secretary
of the Republican State Committee.
A SECOND LYNCHING.
A Colored Would-Bo Avenger of a Murder
Swung to a Tree.
Iialta Bena, Miss., Dee. 9. There
was another lynching at Roebuck, Miss.,
to-day, as a sequel to the Aron murder. One
Moses Lemon, colored, became very indig
nant at the lynching of Dennis Martin for
the killing of Gus Aron, and it was learned
that he was circulating among the negroes,
trying to get up a mob and go to Aron's
store, murder the clerks and fire the build
ing. The people of the neighborhood, both
whiteand black, formed themselves into an
organization and swung Lemon to a tree.
REVENGED ON HIS STOMACH.
A Kentucky Man, Crazed With Fain, Com
mits Suicide in a Terrible Way.
ffTECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Lexington, Ky., Dec. 9. An old and
highly respected citizen of Lincoln county
committed suicide this morning by cutting
his stomach open with a razor. He had suf
fered with ulcerated stomach so long that
he became insane to-day.
After he had committed the deed he re
marked to those who found him in his room:
"My old stomach won't hurt me any more
now, I reckon." In a few minutes he was
dead.
DESTITU1I0N IN KANSAS.
The Railroads "Will Transport Contributions
Free of Charge.
Topeka, Dec 9. A meeting of Kansas
railroad men occurred bete to-day, at which
it was decided to transport free of charge all
contributions to the destitute farmers in
Western and Northwestern Kansas.
Considerable destitution existsln those por
tions of the State, but not enough to require
the solicitation of aid outside of the State,
mpmn
ME DOLLAR IN TEN
Now the Ruling Quotation for
Claims on the Defunct
Delamater Bank.
B0YER UPON THE GROUND
Looking for the Scattering Remnants
of tlie Sinking Fund,
nUMESMAKES A REPLY TO BEAYER
Ho Predicts That Pattison Will Cause a
Change in Short Order.
THREATS OP CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS
IFItOM A STAFF COSBESFOXDENT.J
Meadville, Dec 9. State Treasurer
Henry K. Boyer arrived here at 2:13 this
afternoon, and has since been in close con
sultation with Judge Pearson Church, who
will act as his counsel in the matter of the
State funds in the Delamater bank. The
Dispatch correspondent, of course, called
on Mr. Boyer, and asked him what be had
to say.
"I have nothing to say," said Mr. Boyer,
"and if I had I would not say it."
"This gentleman certainly has nothing to
say." said Mr. Church, and everybody
smiled pleasantly and changed the conver
sation to purely personal topics. Treasurer
Boyer is hard hit by the failure. The de
posit was left a legacy to him from the pre
ceding Treasurer, which makes Mr. Boyer's
position peculiarly pitiable, and it is safe to
say thousands of people have the fullest
sympathy with the genial gentleman.
Ten Cents on the Dollar.
The State takes its chances with the
other creditors of the defunct bank, and the
quotation in this city to-day on claims on
tne Delamaters is not over 10 cents on the
dollar. The petition for appraisers was
filed by the assignees yesterday, but the
court has not yet appointed them. He may
name them to-morrow, or he may defer
action until the session of court opens on
Monday.
It is understood that unless the failure is
proven to have been perfectly straight and
without crooked work a number of criminal
actions will be begun at once. Depositors
are bitter. They can give no information
not already published, but they intend to
have criminal actions begun ir matters are
not explained to their satisfaction.
Ex-Senator Homer J. Humes, author of
the funding law under which the State is
actine, was seen this evening and asked
what he thought of Governor Beaver's de
fense of the sinking fund management, as
published in The Dispatch to-day. Said
he: "I have just read that defense, and can
say that no Governor of Pennsylvania ex
cept Beaver would
-Attempt toTJerond the Management
of commissioners of the sinking fund during
his administration, let alone advising the
commissioners to sell the 31,000,000 oi
United States bonds that were by them sold
in December, 1887, and January, 1888. The
sale of these bonds was a flagrant violation
of the law. as I clearly showed iu the open
letters to Governor Beaver in 1888.
"Under the law United States bonds can
only be sold when State bonds can be pur
chased, or when their proceeds are required
for the payment of the pub'ic debt. The
flimsy excuse of Governor Beaver that the
sale 'had its inspiration in an understanding
with certain men that they would apply the
proceeds to the redemption of an equal
amount of State bonds' is simply false. The
sole reason for the sale of the bonds and the
refusal to invest the surplus sinking fund
money in State or United States bonds was
lor the purpose, of accumulating a large sur
plus iu cash and distributing it among the
State Treasury ring banks, to be used for
political purposes, as I feel certain will be
demonstrated concerning the $100,000 left
with,Delamater & Co. There is no use saying
more about this affair.
Sure to Bankrupt State Treasurers,
"Probablv the State has never lost any
money by following the Beaver policy,"
continued Mr. Humes, "but nearly every
StateTreasurer who has followed that policy
has been made bankrupt. The sinking
fund revenues must be reduced nearly one"
half by the'next State Legislature, becanse
the United States bonds and cash in the
sinking fund is now more than sufficient to
pay all State bonds coming due prior to
January 1, 1892.
"Governor Pattison understands the law,
and also the mode of its execution, and I
have no doubt his first message will make it
so plain that the Legislature, although
strongly Republican, will at once adopt hU
suggestions, and if the commissioners of the
sinking fund do not at once invest their
surplus in State or United States bonds, as
required bylaw, Pattison will again resort
to the courts, as he did in the fall of 1883.
It Would nave Saved Boyer.
"Had this money been invested by the
present board as this law requires, poor
Boyer would not now be a poor man and
obliged to work for years to come to pay his
bondsmen's losses."
Mr. Humes also has worked out a solu
tion of the problem of bow to pass an Aus
tralian ballot law which will not be invali
dated by the subsequent amendment of the
Constitution by a constitutional conven
tion so as to do away with marked ballots,
out, as ne nas given nis views to uovernor
elect Pattison, subject to his revision, he
declines to elucidate the plan, Csum.
THE ASSETS IN ERIE.
Boyer Enters Another Jndgment Upon
Some Property That Is Visible.
rBFECIAL TXLEOBAJ1 TO THE DISFATCU.1
Eeie, Dec. 9. The failure of the Dela
maters has reached Erie through the busi
ness relations of the senior Delamater.
State Treasurer Boyer, who has entered a
judgment of 200,000 against the Delamaters
here, entered a judgment to-day against No
ble Eawle and co-owners of extensive coal
and ore docks valued at 75,000.
The member of the firm is Hon. George
B. Delamater, who has other interests in
Eric.
IS THERE A WARRANT OUT I
Ono Said to Have Been Issued for the
Cashier of the Bank.
SPECIAL TXLKOBAM TO TUB DISPATCB.1
Meadville, Dec. 9. A correspondent
to-day saw a warrant which was issued for
the arrest of Victor M. Delamater, late
cashier of the banc, he being charged with
accepting the money of depositors after
banking hours and with the full knowledge
that an assignment was to be announced in
less than 24 hours.
A lawyer who was interested in the case
caid: "Victor was not deeply Into the
NO USE FOR THEM.
The American Federation of Labor and the
Delesates Who Adhere to Socialism.
affairs of the bank, and I doubt that he did
know there was going to be an assignment."
BOYER TO DELAMATER.
THE
FORMER FRIENDS HAVE A DE
CIDEDLY BRIEF INTERVIEW.
Disposition of the Funds liaised in Philadel
phia Last Week Delamater Talks of the
Check "Which Collector Martin Indorsed
for Him Ills Explanation,
rBFECIAt. TXtEPBAM TO THE D
Philadelphia, Dec. O.A-fff'
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spondent of the Times telegrapi
Meadville as follows:
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btate -lreasnrer uoyer arrived nere to-aayv.
from Philadelphia, and at once went to the
office of Senator Delamatcr's attorney, where
be found the Senator in waitings Without
delay Mr. Boyer informed the Senator that he
had come here for the purpose of learning the
exact situation of affairs at the bank. It was
their first meeting since the failure.
"That's just what we are trying to And out,"
said Mr. Delamater. "1 can't say just when a
clear and concise statement can be made ready,
but I am anxious to have it as early as possi
ble. "I have engaged Judge Church as my at
torney. He is here to loos: after my interests,"
said the State Treasurer. "Thi3 whole thing
has been a big surprise to me. and it came
wholly unexpected. I am going to Harnsburg,
and will communicate with my attorney from
that point." The entire Interview lasted only
two minutes. As the State Treasurer left the
office surprise as pictured upon the face of
Senator Delamater,
Later in the day Mr. Delamater was asked
about the money be raised in Philadelphia last
week. He said: "There has been a number of
things said regarding my action there on that
occasion that are untrue. I went to Philadel
phia fully expecting to make an arrangement
which would tide U3 through oar trouble, and
had it not been for the tichtenpd condition of
the money market I would have succeeded, bnt
the people who had promised to let me hare
the money told me they could not do it, and I
was forced to raise enough funds to square our
accounts in New York. 1 bad frequently mado
deposits of $5,000 and o7er with the Finance
Company, and they had often cashed my drafts
to oblige me when in a pinch. I needed the
money, and after getting it at once sent throueh
the proper channels to meet obligations of our
bank.
"Regarding the check transaction with David
Martin," said Mr. Delamater in answer to a
question, "it occurred in tlrj way: I went to
see Dave and tola htm I needed So.OOOard.t
.once.. 1 toltUiIiutUAttro Wf.!iautire3:cd In Cj
f-Mercbants' Bank of Erie to Are. extefiror&n.
I Mi. .-- .. .. . , J . . "
uw. auuiaatii ue wouiu cjes me cnecK casnea
for me I would be oulieed, and-that it would be
allri;ht. I fully expected it wonld be, as the
bank had previously honored my checks. I did
not say anything about having a deposit In the
bank. That statement is a mistake, and bad
we not assigned on Friday, I fully believe that
the thins would have turned out all right. I
feel very sorry for Dave, and regret that the
matter has turned out as It did. It has been
reported that 1 kept the money. That is not
true, either. I sent It to New York through
the First National Bank ot Philadelphia, which
fact can readily De verified. I bad only a few
dollars with me when 1 arrived home and
learned that tho worst had taken place.'
QUAY IN NO WAY INVOLVED.
That is the Positive Statement of the Junior
Senator.
frr.OM A STAFF COlinrSFOXDE'-fT.J
Washington, Dec 9. In regard to
certain reports that Senator Quay is per
sonally in debt to State Senator Delamater,
and that the relations of the two gentlemen
are not as cordial as formerly, the Senator
said this evening to the correspondent of
The DisrATCH:
"I owe Mr. Delamater nothing, am not on
any paper of his making and am in no way
involved in his failure. Nothing haspassed
between us to change our relations."
FIENDISH CHARLIE MILLER.
Tho Boy Who Killed and Then Bobbed Two
Men in a Box Car.
rsrrciAt. teleqbam to thi DiS""ATcn.t
Cheyenne, Dec. 9. Full houses were
iu attendance all dnring the second day of
the trial of Charles Miller, slayer of Ross
Fishbaugh and Waldo Emerson, the dead
men of the box car mystery. The defendant,
a frail, subdued lad of fiendish face, was
heard. He repeated his confession and told his
entire life story as one would relate an ordi
nary happening. The first mention of the
actual killing by him was when ha said
that at Sydney, Neb., he divided a lunch,
earned by carrying coal for a baker, with
two young well-dressed tramps.
"Who were these men?" inquired the at
tornev conducting the examination.
"Why," said tne lad, with a falter, "the
men I killed the next day."
Miller offers no justification for the double
murder beyond the statement that he was
sore over his impecunious condition. He
says he thought of the crime but a moment
before carrying his plan into effect.
Emerson, who was instantly killed, slept
soundlv. but Fishbaush dozed, and sur
vived the shot several hours. On reviewing
his victims Miller says he felt bad, but
searcnea tne ooaies and lound $4U,
a new revolver, a watch and a
couple of knives. In Cheyenne
he had a shave and hair cut. At Grover,
Col., he bought a hat and gloves, and
marked them "Kansas Charlie," his stage
name. A newspaper story of the killing in
duced him to tell his story to his brother.
Miller served a couple of years in the print
ing business.
DIED FROM HEART FAILURE.
Another Case Where Koch's Lymph Did
Not Save the Patient.
TUT DUSLAF'S CABLE COIFaST.1
Berlin, Dec. 9. Another death has oc
curred from heart failure after inocculstion
with Koch's lymph. The deceased was
Eugene Horn, whose case wa3 very pre
carious when he was admitted.
It presented a marked resemblance to that
of Hermann Feudler, who died in Gerhardt's
clinical hospital on Sunday, and in whom
after a second injection of the fluid the tem
perature rose to a great height and heart
failure succeeded by death ensued.
At 2 o'clock this morning a fire broke out
in one of the corridors of the newcharitv
hospital in which consumptive patients are
being treated by Koch's lymph. It was
caused by the accidental explosion of a can
of kerosineoll, but It was discovered very
soon and put out, thereby preventing the
'wholesale roasting of the patients.
SPECIAL CABLE NEWS
13 A FEATURE OF
THEDISPATCH.
IT IS THE PEOPLE'S PAPER.
THREE CENTS.
SOCIALISTS BARRED.
The Federation of Labor Sends Saniel
Back to Kew York.
HOW HIKERS CAST THIEE VOTES.
Resolutions to Boycott Certain Dealers and
Manufacturers.
THOUSANDS OP WORKERS EEPBESENTED
rsrXCTAI. TZXEOBAM TO TUB DISFATCTM
Deteoit, Dec 9. The same old fight
has been on between the Central Labor
Union, of New York, and the administra
tion as beaded by President Gompers was
renewed at to-day's session of the Federa
tion of Labor, aud took the entire time of
the convention. The committee to which
was referred the matter ot admitting Saniel
and his conferees, reported in favor of re
turning the credentials, and delegate Mor
gan, from Chicago, moved as an amendment
that the whole question be referred to the
next session of the Federation.
In reply to this amendment, which was
seconded, President Gompers took the floor
and in an address lasting one hour and ten
minutes went over the whole situation.
He told how the charter of the old Cen
tral Union had been returned, aud how it
bad lapsed by reason of its return. He
then went on to explain that after it had
been given up he received a petition from 65
labor organization for its renewal, and
found it headed by the socialistic organiza
tion, whose organization was political and
directly opposed to the terms of the Federa
tion. Gompers Wanted It Voted Upon.
He had decided to return it after consult-
O -I'SChtbe Advisory Board. He did not
tiJ inestinn nnstnnnprlr hr wanted it
Jn't, i, T10 ,nd j, he nad been
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wtw-y J''' d the convention to say so.
To post-; p jnld be cowardly, he said, and
be bad aJv ,. Saniel to come here that the
matter might he settled.
Gompers was frequently interrupted by
Morgan, who championed the Saniel dele
gation, and sharp words passed between
them. Morgan saw that the convention was
in no mood to admit Saniel and he aban
doned that field, going entirely for the
tabling of the whole subject, because; it was
the polite thins to do. He argned that the
charter had not lapsed, just because one
man returned, and charged Gompers with
not lurnishing proof that it had.
Saniel is Tired Out.
The discussion, which was very hot,
lasted three bours.and a half before a vote
was taken. The result, as was expected,
was heavily iu favor of sending back the
credentials of Saniel. One thousand six
hundred and ninety-nine voted to send it
back, aud 535 to postpone. The vote to
postpone was greatly augmented by the
solid vote of the miners' organization, which
would have voted to shut out Saniel, but
did not like some portions of the report.
They cast over 300 of the S35 votes for post
ponement. The resolutions were then re
ferred to the committee without discussion
for report. To-day's session was attended
by 99 delegates, representing over 750,000.
Among the many resolutions introduced
and referred were the following: Boycotting
certain Pittsburg theaters on account of the
employment of non-union men; to place the
telegraphs iu the hands of the Government.
J aod PSlS.h'Aia lebor congress- Chicago
l rfiSlL A peculiar resolution iSoking to
the delense of the members of the unions in
the Federation from the aggressions of the
Knights of Labor created sympathetic
amusement. Other similar resolutions fol
lowed, showing a decided antagonism be
tween the two grand divisions of labor,
especially in New York City. A resolution
lookinc to opposition to police aggressions,
especially the coal police of Pennsylvania,
was greeted with applause.
Resolutions of Varied Character.
A change in the constitution was asked
for limiting the election of President of the
Federation to two consecutive terms. The
Federation was asked to indorse woman
suffrage. Various resolutions looking to
boycotting manufacturers, the supporting of
various union strikes and requests
for co-operation and assistance to
organize a large number of unions
of the Federation were offered.
Complaint was brought against the Car
penters' Union, of Rochester, N". Y., as
affiliated with the Knights of Labor to the
injury of the federate unions. Iu the
resolntion which brought this ease up, cer
tain individuals were named and charges
preferred against them which caused the
Chair to exclude the papers on the ground
that the convention deals only with organl
tions and not with individuals.
BR0SI TO COME BACK.
Tlie Canadian Authorities to Turn Him
Over to the United States.
-SPECIAL TX-LEGKAU TO Till DISPATCH. I
Toeonto, Dec. 9. The case of John C.
Brosi, in gaol at Windsor for forging the
name of his uncle, ex-Mayor Miller, of
Pittsburg, by which he obtained 51,700, was
before high court here to-day. Alter the
crime Brosi fled to Canada, andafter his ap
prehension in this country, neither money
nor legai lore has been spared to obtain his
release.
AVhen the magistrate remanded Brosi for
extradition, motion after motion was made
before the various courts, but each judge
agreed upon the question ot Brosi's guilt.
To-day the entire bench agreed to extradite
Brosi, and he will be surrendered to the
United States for trial.
STRIKE ON THE UNION PACIFIC.
Switchmen at Ogden Anirry Because
of
Three Discharges.
Ooden, Utah, Dec. 9. About ten days
ago the Union Pacific discharged three men
from the night force of switchmen in the
yard in this city. The result was a strike
of the night men. Last Sunday a com
mittee ot the strikers visited General Man
ager Ressegnie but received no satisfaction,
and yeiterday the entire force of Union ana
non-union men went out, and not a wheel
turned in the yards.
To-day it is said that Grand Master
Sweeney, of the Switchmen's union, does
not sustain the action of the men.
BOTH TTTT.T.Tn BY ONE BULLET.
An Indian Territory Man and His Step-dau-jhter
Murdered.
DOUOHEBTV, Ind. T., Dec 9. Joseph
Brown and his stepdaughter were murdered
last night in a brutal manner. Brown lived
with his stepdauchter in a small cabin fonr
miles from Dougherty.
Last night some unknown parties called
him to the door and fired upon with a
Winchester. One ball struck him in the
heart, passed through his bodv and struck
&is stepdaughter, who was standing behind
mm in tne neaa, Jtiuiug uom instantly, -rto
clew.
rarncirs Friends In Chicago.
Chicago, Dec. 9. At a conference of
well-known Irish-Americans, representing
every part of the city, action was taken to
night looking to an active movement toward
upholding Mr. Parnell in his present diffi.
culties. It was decided to have s mast
meeting for that purpose at an early date,
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