" O - X, - D0 Y0U WANT A SITUATION? 1 AJA4V 4lrfaJk-wf Af 1 " " NTOIBEBS OF GOOD OPENINGS fl MusiiaUrii dvert,sed every horn,ng m (jV 9 '- , thTdispatch. v J 19, 1891. . THREE CENTSL : -Jl r M THIS IS THE SEASON TO SELL AND KENT HOCSES. BUYERSAND RENTER LOOK FOR BARGAINS IN THE EVERY MORNING DISPATCH. ptlkttg t FORTY-SIXTH YEA3. PITTSBURG, THURSDAY, MARCH w I NEW TAXSYSTEM Now Slowly but Surely Being Forced Through the Legislature. FARMERS IN FULL CONTROL, And Very Determined That City and Corporate Property Shall Bear the Burdens. THE IKCOME FEATUBE DROPPED. An Attempt to Iiempt the Deposits of the Working Classes in SaTings Banks Fails After a fight. BESATOES KEAELI SLUG EACH OTHER. TTie Prospects for a Costtitatiostl Convention Believed to Hsve Been Much Inksneedry Eeecnt Events. BEETEES IMPART THEIR VIEWS AT LENGTH ITBOSI A STAFF COKEESrONDEST. Hakrisburg, March 18. For nearly five weary, windy hours the House wrestled with the revenue bill to-day, and with all the work and wind only succeeded in disposing of 8 of the 23 sections. It seemed as though almost every member tried his "'prentice hand" on amending it, but its friends stuck together, and, with the exception of one lit tle amendment exempting musical instru ments from taxation, no amendments were permitted to be made except those offered by its sponsor, Mr. Taggart. The first amendment was offered by Mr. Capp, and was a substitute for the first sec tion, his objection being that this part of the bill defined the meaning to be placed upon certain terms, such as "moneys and credits," "transportation companies," "taxable per 'on," etc Coming Into Contact With the Courts. This, Mr. Capp stated, was usurping the function of the courts, whose duty it was to construe the laws. He slated that he had never seen an act of Assembly which pre scribed the construction to be placed upon its terms, but Mr. "Wherry speedily en lightened him by producing the mining law of 1885, which contains no less than 19 such definitions, and further informed the gen tleman from Lebanon that if he would give him 30 minutes he would -produce 100 laws containing similar provisions. And Mr. Capp's amendment went glimmering. MrFFowendeavored to have stricken out of the clause exempting from taxation money deposited in banks and savings institutions not drawing interest and subject to check the words "not drawing interest and subject to check," thus exempting all interest-bearing deposits in those institutions. He argued that this was nothing but justice to the working people, who otherwise would be taxed by the bill on their earnings under the income clause, and also upon their sav ings. A Difficult Point to Adjust. This was agreed to, but the result had hardly been declared when Mr. Baker moved its reconsideration, on the ground that this would exempt large depositors as well as small, and also large trust funds de posited in these institutions. It was recon sidered, despite the vigorous opposition of 'the Philadelphia delegation, whereupon 31r. "Walton tried to amend by exempting funds in institutions which limited to 300 the amount to be deposited in any one year. Mr. Finley, of "Washington, promptly objected, because this would simply point out the institntions where money could be deposited free from taxation, thereby work ing injustice to other banking concerns. There was a long discussion on this ques tion, resulting in the section being left un changed. The.lncome Tax Feature Abandoned. On motion of Mr. Taggart the section im posing a tax on all incomes in excess of $300 was stricken out. The opposition to this feature was so strong that it was feared that its retention would imperil the passage of the bill, and it was thought wise to sacri fice it. The irrepressible Fow next moved to strike out the provision taxing all ma chinery not taxed as real estate, declaring that this would affect hundreds of manu facturers in Philadelphia who operated ma chinery worth 100,000,000, and would drive them out of the business or into other States. Mr. Taggart intimated that Mr. Fow did not know what He was talking about, inas much as machinery attached to the realty was taxed now, and this provision was only to catch leased machinery which goes scot free. Fow denied this, and attacked the farmers savagely. He asserted that thev lived offof the cities. Take Philadelphia and the other cities out of the State, and where would the farmers sell their produce? Farmers always attacked the corporations, and yet the latter Paid Two-Thirds the State Taxes, while farmers paid one. They complained of raying heavy taxes," while paying only 50 to 70 per cent as much as did the residents oi cities and boroughs. And now they wanted to tax machinery and drive the manufacturers ont of the State. Mr. Baker, of Delaware, proceeded to rip Mr. Fowandthe other Philadelphia mem bers who supported the amindment clear up the back, by asserting that if .Philadelphia bad not been taxing machinery she had been violating the law, or had exempted it by local ordinance. It was onlv exemnt when leased, and the bill aimed to cure this defect. Philadelphia was always making the Legislatuie trouble, simply because Jier representatives did not know their owb hus iuess. "When country judges all over the State knew they could transfer licenses the Philadelphia judges did" not, and her dele gation came asking for legislation which they already had. "Isn't that bo?" he asked Mr. Brooks, aud the apostle of high license blushinglv owned the soft impeachment .An Attack on the Cities. Mr. Baker asserted that Philadelphia members should be the last to say anything against the farmers, or to claim that the ntv benefited them. When anv atiemnt vjs made to put into effect the provisions oftj the Constitution, and tirotPPt larm.. c f-nm unjnst discrimination, the cities onlv looked after their corporate interests, and allowed nn fair competition with those of Oh ,h SI2 West Pending the consideration of the amendment, J the orders of the day were called and the House adjourned. la addition to those amendments mentioned, others were Insetted by Mr. Tag cart exempting the mortgages of buildiag and loan associ&tieas, taxing book accounts bearing interest, including transportation companies, bridge, turnpike and Rater companies, and ex empting wearing apparel. The result of to day's action shows that the country members are practically solid for the bill, and that it will Co through the Honse without material amend ment. All the attempts to change came from Philadelphia, and had the solid support of her delegation, without regard to party affiliation. The friends of the measure arc greatly encouraged, and say that if the Senate defeats it they will make the grant for Bchoolsmthe general appropriation bill large enonch to ex haust all the State's funds outside of the ex penses of the State Government and public in stitutions, cutting out all charitable appropria tions. This will bit the cities hard, almost all the charitable institutions being located therein, and the holding of this rod over them will doubtless prevent the failure of the meas ure. Verily the advocates of tax equalization are in dead earnest. Tho Cost to the Railroads. Calculations are being made as to the in crease of taxation which the Taggart hill will impose upon the railroads of the State. It is impossible to predict with any degree of accur acy what valuation would be placed upon them under the provisions of this bill, but, taking the basis suggested by ex-Attornev General Palmer in the general revenue bill of 1SS7, which was to rate them on the appraised value of their capital stock and the par value of tneir bonds, it will be seen tnat even at these figures the bill would, in some instauces, at least more than double their taxes. The Pennsylvania Company pays tax upon $110,000,000 of capital stock, and has issued bowls for construction to the amount of 65,000,000 more. Four mills tax upon $175,000, 000 would yield 700.000. At present the Penn slvanla pays $330,000 capital stock tax and S'lSO.OOO gross receipt tax for State purposes. This added to the $700,000 local taxes under the Taggart bill would make an annual total of 1,215,000. It is not difficult to understand why the railroads are so violently opposed to Mr. Taggart's little bill. Beset Hall. HE DREW THEIR FIRE. SENATOR GRADY STIES UP A HORNETS NEST IK THE SENATE. He Criticises a Bill of General Gobin's and the Latter Hotly Resents It Senator Ross Also Fiercely Denounces the Quaker City Gentleman. rpnoM a staff coBKEsrosDrirr.i Habbisburg, March 18. For a time this morning it looked as though the House of Lords might be the scene of a plebeian slugging match. Senator Grady attacked a bill introduced by Senator Gobin, authoriz ing the Auditor General to compromize and settle certain long standing claims for build ing the Korristown Insane Asylum. He said he was weary of Norristown scandals. Bills came from there with a stench that prevented a decent man from voting for them. He recalled one passed some years ago through the efforts of a lawyer now dead, who had received 66 2-3 per cent of the amount appropriated as his fees. Another bill to pay for 23,000 bricks, had been amended on second reading to 50,000 bricks. This bill was too general. It left only the Auditor Gen eral between the contractors and the State Treasury. General Gobin hotly asserted that it did not lie in the month of Senator Grady to say that ho would bring a bill here to raid the State Treasury. He thonght that Mr. Grady had about as much knowledge of scandals as any body in the Senate, and also showed a remark able familiarity with percentages in securing legislation. He himself knew nothing- abont it, but wonld take Mr. Grady's word. This bill was simply to settle honest claims. Senator Boss declared that the asylum trus tees knew nothing of the bill, nor had any interest in it. He bad no sympathy with the cowardly inuendo of the Senator from Phila delphia. No fair-minded man would insinuate what he dared not assert. Mr. Grady's refer ence to a dead man was the most unman! of all. He did not know who he was, bnt the old adage. "Of the deau say nothing bnt good," should never be forgotten." Mr. Grady seemed startled by the ontburstof wrath he had broaght upon himself and Quietly subsided. The bill then passed. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. The Delegates Will Be Chosen as Members of the Legislature Are. 1FB03I A STAFF CORRESPONDENT. 1 Haerisburo, March 18. If it should be de cided to call a Constitutional Convention, as now seems very probable, it is said that Sena tor Bobinson's bill tor that purpose will be ma terially amended. Instead of providing for minority representation, the delegates will be chosen as Senators and Bepresentatives are now elected, thus making the membership of the convention stand politically abont as the House and Senate stand in the present Legis lature. This would be a Republican majority of 53. Should It be decided to elect delegates at large, there will be 30 more, or one for each Congressman under the new apportionment. These, of conrse, wonld be Republicans, which would increase the majority in the convention to 88. This latter feature of the bill hasn't yet, however, been finally determined npon. Should Governor Pattison object to the failure to al low minority representation and veto the bill, he must do so at the risk of incurring tlin riio. pleasure of those who demand a Constitutional Convention, in order to secure an absolutely secret ballot. TWO PLANS PB0P0SED For New or Improved State Capital Building at Harrlsburjr. irr.OW A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.! HARRlSBmta, March 18. The Public Build ing Commission met to night and concluded to present two propositions to the Legislature. The first is lor the erection of a new library and departmental bmlding, at a cost not to ex ceed $500,000. The second recommends the ap propriation of $125,000, or so much as is neces sary, to so alter the present capital building as to furnish proper accommodations for the House of Representatives, and make such other improvements as may be thought necessary. A bob committee, composed of the Governor Speaker Thompson, President Pro Tem Pen rose, Attorney General Hensel and Treasurer Boyer, was appointed to frame a bill for this purpose, to be presented as part of their report. This committee will report to the full com mittee to-morrow night The action proposed in this bill i9 practically the same as that pro vided for In the bill introduced by Speaker Boyer in 1SS7, and which was passed, bat vetoed by Governor Beaver. EXEMPTION ASKED FOB In the New Brooks Bill by Pittsburg Brewers and Distillers. rrnoM a STArr cobexsfondekt.i Harrisburo, March 18. Theodore Stranb, Edward Frauenbeim, brewers; Isador Coblenz and Henry Bcnziehauseo, distillers, of Pitts burg, appeared before the Ways and Means Committee of the House to be heard on the Brooks wholesale liquor bill, ibieh was re committed for this purpose. They asked that brewers and distillers be exempted from the discretionary power which the bill proposes to give the courts In the grant ing of licenses. A KNOTTY PROBLEM. Only 313,000,000 Revenae Out or Which to Pay 523,000,000 Now Appropriated. rrROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT. Harrisburg, March 18. The total amount of appropriations asked for up to the present is 117,107,936. This does not include the general appropriation bill or the $300,000 asked for the World's Fair. Adding these, the grand total will foot up about $23,000,000. How to pay these from 813,000,000 of revenue is a question with which the Appropriations Committee is now wrestling. PROTECTING STATE DEPOSITS. Tb.e rian Now Proposed Condemned Being Utterly Impracticable. IFBOM A STAFF CORRKpowdwt. Harrisburg, March 18. The Treasury In. vestlgatlon Committee held a session to-night J. C. Bomberger and J. TJhler, .Harrisburg bankers, both ot whom have had State de posits, and the former a bondsman of Treas urer Boyer, were examined, and agreed in the opinion that the present system is the best that could be devised. The proposed plan of enter ing up judgments on the bonds of those who secure the State deposits, as the only safe way of indemnifying the State was utterly im practicable. Not a single banking Institution in the State conld take deposits under this could not be obtained, as the judgments would be heralded throughout the country by the mercantile agencies and greatly injure the credit of thoso against whom they were entered. The committee will meet in Philadelphia on Saturday. A HALT CALLED On the Introduction of Bills In the House After Next Tuesday. rsPECiAi. hxiguh to the dispatch. . Harrisbueq, March 18. The House adopted a resolution to-day to stop the intro duction of bills, except by unanimous consent, next Tuesday. Bills were introdnced as fol lows: By Stewart, Allegheny, making an appropria tion to supply the deficiency incurred by the examination of applicants for mine boss in tho bituminous region. By Flickingcr. Erie, repealing an act which enables the Atlantic and Great Western Bail road Company to end its road at Corry, instead of entering the city of Erie, as provided by its charter. Finley, Washington, making an appropria tion to the Western Pennsylvania Charitable Association. In the Senate to-day the following bills were introduced: By McDonald, Lackawanna, a judicial salary bill, similar to that of Representative Fow, ex cept that it fixes the salary of all judges out side of Philadelphia, Allegheny and the Eighth district (comprising Dauphin and Lebanon) at 57,000 a year, instead of $5,000, as provided in the Fow bill. By Marklev, Montgomery, to repeal an act regulating the collection ot taxes in the sev eral horougbs and townships. By Boss, Bncks, extending to the courts jur isdiction to grant divorce where either of the parties has been convicted of perjury or an in famous crime and sentenced to Imprisonment for two years or longer. Williamson, of Hnntingdon, presented a re monstrance against paroled prisoners of the Industrial Beformatory being put to work out side at half wages, to the disadvantage of resi- aentianorers. LIVE BIEDS FOB TBAPS. The BUI to Legalize Pigeon Shooting Passed Finally by the House. rerKCiAL miosui to the dispatch.! Harhisburo, March 18. In the House to day the following bills - ere passed finally: Fixing the compensation of road viewers at $2 0 a day; appropriating 5,000 to pay Phila delphia school superintendents and assistants, and $2,000 for a similar purpose in Pittsburg and Allegheny, and 12 cents per resi dent in all other cities, boroughs and town ships, providing no city of the third class shall receive more than 81,500 a year; to legalize the shooting of pigeons from traps; to provide for satisfaction and discharge of recognizances of sheriffs and coroners; appropriating 12,500 for the erection of monuments and tablets at Chickamauga, to mark the positions of Pennsylvania troops; House bill authoriz ing an annual transfer of 400,000 from the general to the sinking fnnd; limiting the time to 20 years, during which a mortgage shall be a lien after maturity: to pro vide suitable clerical assistance for Supreme Court, the amount of compensation not to ex ceed 1,000 for each judge; requiring all war rants to be charged and countersigned in the Auditor General's department; to provide a law library for the Supreme Court, to cost not exceeding 5,000. HO TIME TO WASTE. Speedy Action Necessary on the Bituminous Mining: Law Commission. rFEOM A STAFF COERESFONDINT. Harrisburo, March IS. If the commission to revise the bituminous mining laws Is to ac complish its work in time for anything to be done this session, the selection of the. eight op erators who are to serve on it oannot be much longer delayed. These gentlemen, one of whom must come from each inspection district, are to be selected by the president judges whose counties are inclnded In the district. In the Third Inspection district this duty devolves upon Judges Gunnison, Noyes, Henderson, Taylor, Menard. Wilson. Hazen, Bayburn, White, Doty and Wickham, and tho sooner these gentlemen, and the judges in the other districts as well, get together and select their man, the more likely the commission will be to accomplish its work. The commission must report to the Legisla ture within So uays after their appointment, after which that body must act upon their recommendations. The final adjonrnment will take place between May 10 and 15, which shows that there is no time to be wasted. THE E0AD BILL PASSED. It Goes Through the Senate After a Day of TFrangllng. ITBOM A STAFF COBBESPOlfDIlrr.l Harrisburg, March 18. Almost the entire session of the Senate to-day was spent in wrangling over the road bill. The Democrats, with the exception of Senator Lloyd, sent up amendment after "amendment, and Senators Brown, Green ana Sloan attacked the bill in protracted speeches. The Republicans, with the exception of Senators Bobbins, Critcbtield aud Packer, stood firm, and every change was promptly voted down. At last a final vote was reached, and the bill passed by a vote of 33 to 13. Although party lines bad been drawn by the Democrats in vot ing on the amendments, they broke on the final vote. Senators Dunlap, Hall, Herring, Hines, Lloyd. McDonald, Meek and Monaghan voting with the Renublicans. while Senators Critcbfield, Bobbins and Packer voted with the Democratic minority against the bill. GEANGEES' TAX BILL. The Clause Taxing Incomes Toted Out of the Measure by the House. ITOCIAb TELEOBASI TO THE DISPATCH.! HARRrSBURG, March 18. Tho consideration of the commission revenue measure (known as the grangers' tax bill) occupied considerable of the session of the House to-day. Amendments were inserted, exempting from taxation mort gages held by building and loan associations and taxing water companies and bridge and turnpike companies. A provision taxing Incomes of trades, profes sions, occupations or investments of money, a capital not exceeding 300, was voted out of the hill. A FAV0EABLE BEP0BT Will Be Made on the Franklin Amendments to the Brooks lair. rrROM A STAFF COKEESPOSDEXT. Harrisburg, March 18. The Franklin bill to amend the Brooks law, by permitting bonds men to be taken from the county instead ot from the ward or township where the liqnor is to be sold, and reducing the fee in third-class cities to $300. will be reported favorably by the Senate Finance Committee. Its chances for passing the Senate are not at all favorable, as a number of Republican. Sen ators are convinced that it would be an ex tremely unwise tmng to do. NEEB'S EXECUTION BILL, It Will Be Favorably Reported, and Turners Petition for Its Passage. rFEOM A STAFFy CORRESPONDENT. 1 HARRISBURG, March 18. The House Judi ciary General Committee to-day decldeifkr a unanimous vote to affirmatively report Senator Neeb's bill providing for executions, in the penitentiaries of the districts instead of m the county jails. i Senator Neeb had presented 20 petitions, largely signed by the Turners of Pittsburg and Allegheny, praying for the passage of the Flickinger Honse bill. INSUBAKCE MEN HEABD. A Delegation on Hand In Opposition Senator Bobinson's Measure. rrROM A STAFF CORBISFOXDEXT. Harrisburg, March 18. A delegation to of Eastern insurance men were before the Senate Insurance Committee to-night, in opposition to Senator Bobinson's bill, which ta tho mn measure introduced in the House by Mr. Lytic They were strong in their opposition to the bill. Insurance Commissioner Foster is cred ited with saying that it could not be worse than it Is. ORPHANS A BOFANZA. Charges That the Slate Schools Were Made to Yield More Than A MILLION IN ILLEGAL PK0FITS. TheJCourse of Action by Which the Money Hay let Be Recovered. SOMfi SLIGHTLI PECULIAR DOCUMENTS rSFXCIAX, TELEQEAM TO THE DISFATCB. I Philadelphia, March 18. The Record will say to-morrow that recent revelations at Mercer disclose the fact that the State of Pennsylvania has been robbed of over $1,000,000 in the management , of the sol diers' orphans' schools. The illegal profits of one of ten big schools amounted to $270, 000, and this school was one of three that were controlled by a syndicate headed hy ex-State Senator George W. "Wright, of Mercer, JPa. The fortunes accumulated by eight men through pinching the orphans and fleecing the State were roundly as follows: George Wright, 8300,000. John L Gordon, 1285,000. S. F. Thomson, $65,000. B. R. Wright, $65,000. James L. Paul, $60,000. Major Moore. White Hall, $125,000, Professor Sweet, Harford, $85,000 Rev. A. F. Waters, Uniontown, $80,000. Total, $1,095,000. A considerable part of this sum may be recovered, as the persons here named have retained 5730,000 of their ill-gotten profits. The question of recovery is indisputable. The statute of limitations does not work against the Commonwealth. An Direct Violation of the Law. All ot the gains appropriated by these men were acquired in direct violation of the law, without contract of any kind. The ig norance or stupidity of the head of the de partment, or the corrupt collusion of the actual manager of the department, will not interfere with a iull recovery. The method to be employed is very simple, and has been repeatedly done at Harrisburg. The Auditor General reopens the accounts and makes a new settlement Then the Commonwealth pro. ceeds in the courts to obtain the moneys that have been illegally taken from It for traffics in orphan misery. . within a recent period S. F. Thompson, one of the partners in the Mercer school, received from the treasurer of the Mercer Soldiers' Orphan School Company a check for $10,000 in partial settlement of a one-twentieth interest in the profits of the school. Thompson claims $2,000 additional, alleging thatthe profits of the school were $240,000 In excess of the original in vestment of $24,000 and of the payments made to George W. Wright as manager. It is there fore evident that the profits ot the school ex ceeded $270,000. Tho division of the interests of the Mercer school into twentieths came about in this way: The Ownership of the School. Prior to March 1, 1S74. J. G. White, of Mer cer, Pa., had been the owner of the Mercer Sol diers' Orphan School, having operated it from December, 1867, to the date named. In Janu ary, 1874, he sold the undivided four-fifths in terest in the school for $19,200 to George W. Wright, John L Gordon, R. E. Wright and S. F. Thompson. By agreement dated April 14, 1874, be sold the remaining one-fifth interest in the school property for $4,000, retaining, how ever, one-fiftb of tke.net profits ot the schoil alter tney naa reimonrsea tneraseive to tne extent of their original outlay of $21,000 with interest at 10 per cent In 1875 White became financially involved, and on February 1, 1875, transferred his interest in the profits of the Mercer school to his brother and father. White alleging that this transfer was in trusCfor him. On August, 1S75, C. H. aud H. C. White assigned the same interest to George W. Wright, the Whites claiming that they made the assignment to George W. Wright as trustee for J. G. White, but George W. Wright claimed that be bad received the assignment absolutely for the con sideration of $160. When George W. Wright acquired the White interest in the school he told his brother that he had made the purchase for the company, but be had a row with 8. F. Thompson over the purchase, and then he-claimed thatthe purchase had bren made on his individual ac count By the close of 1877 the White interest had reached $7,000, and on December 14. 1877, George W. Wright assigned to his brother Bicnard R. Wright one-fourth interest In the White assignment, or one-twentieth Interest in the net profits of the school for $1,100, the text of the agreement reading as follows: A Showing as to Profits. "For value received I hereby sell, assign and transfer to K,K Wright the undivided one fourth interest in a certain article of agree ment between the Mercer Soldiers Orphans' School Company and J. G. White, of Mercer Pa., wherein said company assigned and agreed to pay to said White the one-fifth of the profits of the Mercer Soldiers Orphans' School after deducting certain amounts as in said article stipulated, the said article having been as signed by the said J. G. White to Charles W. White and by him assigned to C. W. Wright it being distinctly understood that the estate intend to be conveyed by this assignment is the one-fourth of all the dividends and profits declared due on said article of agreement from and after this date, and in no war to in terfere with dividends heretofore declared, which was dne and have been paid to the said G. W. Wright, and the said jt. B. Wright agrees! to perform and pay fhe one-fourth part of all stipulations and agreements as con tained in said instrument between the Mercer Soldiers Orphans' schools ana J. G. White. Witness our hands and seal, December 14, 1877. "George W. Wright, "B. R. Wright," This agreement shows that the nee profit of the school from March 1, 1874. to December 14, 1877. was not less than $32,720, as by the White contract the school company was to receive its purchase money, $24,000, and 1,410 interest an nually before any dividends were paid on this one-fifth interest Thompson demanded his share in the Wnite interest, but George W. Wright refused to assign. In the summer of 1878 Thompson threatened to file a bul for an account against his copartners unless Wright would permit him to participate in the profits of this one-fifth interest Wright's answer was brutally frank. He declared that such aBuit would expose the excessive profits of" the schools and would ultimately result in the stop page of all appropriations. If Thompson could stand that Wright could. A Rather Peculiar Agreement. After frequent interchanges of threats the four partners, George W. Wright, John L Gordon, S. F. Thompson and R. R. Wright, en tered into an agreement that one-fourth of the profits arising from the White interest should remain in the hands of the treasurer, R. B. Wright until the schools snoum De closed, when the dispute betweeu Thompson and George W. Wright was to be settled in the courts, and the pending litigation was to be stopped wlthont prejudice to either party. The Mercer school closed in June, 1S8U, and sine that date Georgo W. Wright consented that the treasurer should pay to S. F. Thomp son nearly $10,000, the profits accrued on this one-twentieth interest between the summer of 1S79 and June. 18S9. Thompson still claims be tween HWO and $3,000, the profits on this one twentieth interest from the summer of 1879, which amount had been drawn out by Wright prior to his agreement with Thompson in 1879, as to future profits on this one-twentieth In terest If Thompson's share of the profits was $10,000, which he baa already received, and $2,000 which he still claims under his one twentieth Interest then the total profits can be computed as follows: Twenty times the payment to Thomp son $240,000 Original cost of school repaid 24,000 Interest from 1871 to 1877 4,320 Salary to George W. Wright 15,000 Total , 5283,320 In 1888 J. G. White sued for bis interest in the school, and from the papers in that case the foregoing information has been obtained. White lost his suit, and with it over $50,000, on two grounds: First, the master held that Wright had purchased this one-fifth interest outright from the White, and, second, thatthe statute of limitations barred his recovery. TTJBNED UP BY A DOG. The Body of a Dead Infant Found In a Pasteboard Box. rSFECZAI, TXLEOBAM TO THE DISPATCH.l ChamberSBUG, March 18. A dog prowling about a yard on West Market street dug up the body of a dead infant, wnicb( physicians. say, had been born alive and then strangled. The body was wrapped In a red flannel skirt and placed in & pasteboard box and buried in the garden. It is thought the body was1 buried about a month. It was preserved from decomposition by the cold, which froze it stiff. FIGHTING THE STANDARD. A PETITION TO TEE ATTORNEY GENEBAL 0 HEW T0BK Independent Refiners Ask Him to Bring Suit Against the Big Oil Company to Have Its Charter Annulled The Official's Decision Expected Soon, New York, March 18. J. D. Rocke feller, President of the Standard Oil Trust, and S. C. Dodd, the connsel to the trnst, de clined to say anything to-day about a peti tion that has been filed with the Attorney General by Roger A. Pryor, Jr., in behalf gf a number of independent oil refiners, :asking him to bring a suit in the name of the State against the Standard Oil Company, of this city, to have its charter declared forfeited, because it had become one of the constituent companies of the Standard Oil Trust v Mr. Dodd, who spoke for Mr. Rockefeller a'nd the trust, said he did not think it wise to try the case in the newspapers, at any rate at this stage of the proceedings. The matter was at present before the Attorney General await ing his decision. This application is the same method that was pursued in tho proceedings against the North River Sugar Refining Company, whose charter was subsequently declared forfeited by the courts. In that case General (now Judge) Roger A. Pryor appeared tor the Attorney Gen eral. If Attorney General Tabor decides to grant the petition filed by Roger A. Pryor, Jr; be will have to ask the Supreme Court, in special term, for permission to bring suit against the Standard Oil Company in the name of the people of the State. The Attorney Gen eral is expected to give bi3 decision in a few days. .- PISKEBTONB MUST 60. The Ohio Legislature Will Enact rw Barring Them From That State. .f FECIAL TEL2aitJLM TO THE DISPATCnl CoLUiiBUS, March 18. A. bill to prevent the Importation of armed police into the State in times of riot or labor tronbles was favorably reported in the Ohio Senate to-day and will be passed to-morrow. Tho bill passed the House by an unanimous vote. There was a chance thatthe measure might have been defeated, but the presence of a largo number of de tectives in the city for the past two weeks, and their operations in boring holes through the ccillncs at hotels, in order to learn what mem bers had to say on certain subjects, has had a tendency to incensi tbem against the service, and they will vote td'a man tor the bill. It is aimed at the Pinkerton and kindred agencies, and considerable Influence has been brpught to have the bill laid away, as it will seriously interfere with the workings of de tective agencies. Members of the Legislature believe the detectives who have been on their tracks for some time were from the Pinkerton agency, though they are not sure as to what tho detectives had in view. PEESIDENT OB0SS UT TEOTJBLE. Dakota Students Demand a Former Pitts hurger's Resignation. rPriCIAL TXXXQBAK TO TBS DISPATCH. I St. Paul, March 18. To-niebt's dispatches from Vermillion, S. D., indicate that the stu dents of the University of South Dakota are in open rebellion against the faculty In general iJiulPresidentll.-B, Grose-in particular. --Mr.-Gross was summoned to Vermillion from Pitts burg to take charge of the University imme diately after President Olson was killed at the Minneapolis Tribune fire, in November, 18S9, but the students formed a violent dislike for him, and to-day the senior and junior classes unanimously requested him to resign, charg ing him with incompetency. President Gross declined to entertain the re quest, whereupon the citizens took sides with the students and recommended to the trustees that they remove the President. AN TfUZITOWH'S SUICIDE. He Leaps to His Death. Into the Seething VTators of Niagara Falls. tSFXCIAX. TKLXORAM TO THB DISPATCH. I Niagara Falls, March" 18. A beautiful day has been marred by the suicide of an un known man from Prospect Point at about ISO o'clock this afternoon. At 4:15 o'clock the suicide alighted from a carriage in the park and dismissed the driver, remarking that be would remain there for .awhile. He went to ihe Point, just at' the edge of the American Falls, and stood watching the water as it tumbled over the brink and struck on the rocks below. J. A. Jarrett, of Buffalo, stood there at the same time, and remarks made to the stranger pased unanswered. Mr. Jarrett had proceeded toward Henne pin's View but a short distance when a lady screamed: "See that man!" He turned about and the man had gone from the point. The lady, Mrs. T. B. Berry, of Hudson, O., said she saw him leap upon the wall, jump into the water and pass over the falls. Soon after the body floated out into the lower river and passed down through the rapids into the whirlpool. A WIDOWS PLIGHT. Two Jealous Suitors Fight Over Her, and She Jumps Through a Window. rSPECIAt, TKLXGRAMTO THE DISPATCH, 1 Boston, March 18. A pretty little widow, who furnishes lodgings to sailors, had a red-tint time with two suitors last night. The widow's name is Alida M. Johnson. The suitors are Charles Johnson and Peter Nelson.both Swedes. Johnson proposed marriage just before shipping on a short voyage, and the widow promised an answer on his return. Last night he came borne, and, after drinking heavily, visited the widow. She showed him the door. Later he returned to find the widow sewing on a button for Peter Nelson. Johnson drew an ugly looking dirk, and a fierce conflict took place. Johnson is now a prisoner in the Tombs, tnd Nelson is laid up in a hospital. The widow, dur ing the fight, threw a mattress from the window and jumped out upon it. SMOTHERED IN FOAM. A Peculiar Fatal Accident to the Cook of a Steamship. SPECIAL TXLEOKAM TO THE DISPATCH.? New York, March 18. The Dalzell tug Stannart escorted the Ward line steamship Saratoga, bound for Cuba, from her berth to day. Sam Tul, the Stannart's cook, cast off the steamship's thick hawser. The steamship was going ahead at about six knots then, and the sailor men aboard hf r were haullne in the hawser. Tied to the end of this was the heavy line. Tail's heel was cauzht in a loop of the line. He was jerked from his feet, ca'ried overboard, and dragged in a smother of foam for 100 feet before the sailors tugging on the line or the captain of the Baratoga found out they had a human being in tow. The accident was soon seen on both vessels, hut too late. Tull's body, apparently lifeless, went.up the river on the swift side. FIEST DIBECT TAX EEFUNDED. New York State Now Has 83,813,330 In Its Treasury as a Special Deposit. ALBANY, March 18. General John G. Farns worth returned from Washington to-day, where he has been acting agent of New York State In the prosecution ot war claims, and handed to Governor Hill a check for 2,213,330. which is the amount due to the State of New York in pursuance of tho provisions of tho direct tax bill passed by the last Congress. Governor Hill indorsed upon the back of the check: "Pay to the order of Elliott Danforth. Treasurer 'pf the State of New York David B. 'Hill, Governor," and turned it over to the State Treasurer, in whose hands the money will remain as&snecial denosit. snhiectta the .disposition of the Legislature. close tooillm p PLENTY OF HOTELS, Official Figures on the Appropriations VAC-lr'' of the Late Congress. V Spi Reports of Scores of First-Class I Mr&- II ?flli ir . n. i- i a CANNON A Clear Increase of '$170,446,269 Oyer the v Last Democratic Body. FEATURES WHICH C011E EATHEE HIGH Washington, March 18. Before the Fifty-first Congress adjourned authority was given Senator Allison and Mr. Cannon, chairmen respectively of the Senate and House Committees on Appropriations, to prepare statements for insertion in the Record showing the amounts appropriated by the last Congress and the increases or de creases of appropriation compared with the Fiftieth Congress. These statements have been carefully pre pared, and show in detail bow the public money has been expended. The statement prepared by Mr. Cannon shows the amonnts appropriated during the Fiftieth and Fifty first Congresses under the several bills' to have aggregated as follows: During the Fiftieth Congress, covering the fiscal years of 1889-1890, the total appropri ated for agriculture, army, diplomatic and consular. District of Columbia, fortifica tions,Indian, legislative, Military Academy, navy, pensions (including deficiencies), postoffice, rivers and harbors and sundry civil, was $518,811,445. A, Clear Increase of 8170,446,869. To this is added deficiencies, exclusive of pensions, 21,393,901; miscellaneous, $20, 426,657; permanent annual appropriations, 5224,331,854, giving a grand total of $817, 963,859. 'The same items are covered in the Fifty-first Coneress, embracing the fiscal years of 1891-1892, and result in the grand total of $988,410,129. The net apparent in crease of the last Congress over the one be fore it is $170,446,269. Mr. Cannon, in an appendix to these fig ures, says there should be added to the ap propriations of the Fiftieth Congress and deducted from the appropriations ot the Fifty-first Congress the sum of $25,321,907 to meet the known deficiency for the payment of pensions in the appropriations made by the former Congress. Mr. Cannon then argues against Increasing the number of committees having charge of appropriation bills, and says the system of dis tributing the appropriation bills among various committees is vicious and tends to extrava gance in appropriations. He thinks one com mittee of the House shonld he charged with tne preparation ot tne money nuis ior its con sideration, and indulges the hope that the in coming Honse will remedy the error of its pred ecessor and commit the general appropriation bills to one committee. He cites as an ex ample of the unwisdom of having many appro priation committees the Indian appropriation bill of the past session, prepared by and under the parliamentary control of the Committee on Indian Affairs, and adds: One Very Serious Mistake. "The Senate placed upon the Indiap appro priation bill by way of amendment an item of legislation and appropriation giving to the Choctaw ana Chickasaw Indians in round num bers 3,000,000 for 3 supposed equity in certain lands in the Indian Territory, which equity tho Secretary of the interior states does not exist, and which, if it does exist, is of no value. This amendment was carried in the Senate and House. In my opinion the result can only be explained by the action of the minority, on the supposition that they were not responsinle, and I am satisfied it wonld not have been ac complished it the Indian appropriation bill, with all the other ceneral appropriation bills. had been under the parliamentary control of I onn ommllIAfl on snnroDriatl0n&f , 4 Chairman Allison, In. his statement, gives somewhat in detail the reasons which operated in the several appropriation acts to increase oxpenditure authorized by the present Con gress over those of its predecessor. He says an increase of $1,-141,473 under the agricultural appropriation-act was caused by the establish ment of agricultural experiment and the trans fer of the Weather Bureau from the War De partment. In the army appropriation bill the small increase of $32,085 was for the expenses of recruiting, and in the diplomatic and consular service a reduction of 540,750 was made. The Causes for the Additions. An increase of 637,819 for the District of Co lumbia was for the police department,street im provement and public schools, and nnder forti fication an Increase of 32,302,114 was for con tinuing the construction of mortar batteries for tho defense of Boston, New York, San Francisco and other harbors, and for the new gun factory at Watervliet. N. Y. In the Indian bill an Increase of 57,307,148 was made to carry into effect recent treaties negotiates: with various Indian tribes. An in crease of SL 456. 633 under the lezislative. execu tive and judicial branch of the Government was for clerical force in the various depart ments, mainly in the Pension Office. An in crease of $300,000 was made in the internal rev enue service, principally on account of the ex penses of inspection of sugar upon which a bounty is to be paid. The appropriations for the Military Academy were less than those made by the last Congress by $380,449. The navy appropriations show an increase of $14,042,344 for now repairs for the navy and im provements at navy yards. Pensions show an increase of $113,312,351, includin g deficiencies made by the Fifty-first Congress over the Fif tieth Congress. Thl3 increase was caused in part by the failure to make sufficient appro priations for pensions for the year 1890. leaving a aencieucy ox eo,oi,w io va provmeu ior. One Which Is Easily Explained. An increase of 22,668,343 under the postoffice bill was due to the growth and expansion of the service throughout the country. The increase of 2,733,678 for river and harbor improvements was duo to enlarged appropriations for some of the principal works of improvementiu progress, such as the Mississippi and Missouri river im provements. The increase for sundry civil ex penses of $15,530,499 was for the river and har bor improvements; expenses of the eleventh census; public buildings: Government Printing Office; Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers; military posts; for artificial limbs for soldiers; the World's Fair; for the Life-Savlng Service; for recoinage of silver coins; quarantine ser vice. The deficiency appropriations, exclusive of pension deficiencies, were 1,726,264 less than those made by the Fiftieth Congress, although an appropriation of $1,304,000 for the payment of French spoliation claims was included in the bill. The miscellaneous appropriations act shows a decrease of $9,159,221 over the Fiftieth Con gress. This was caused in the main by the fact that many public buildings acts passed by the Fiftieth Congress carried appropriations there for, while the Fifty-first Congress excluded most of such appropriations from the acts and made special provisions in the sundry civil acts. THE BTNEWS OF WAS. About 810,000 Sent From Columbus to tho Coke Strikers in Two Weeks. tSPECIAL TXLEOBAJI TO THE DISPATCH. 1 Columbus, March 18. Large sums ot money go from Columbus to the relief of the miners on a strike in the Connellsville coke regions of Pennsylvania. To-day a committee from Divi sion No. 4, of the United Mine Workers, em bracing that region, Messrs. James McBride and John McNulty, was at the headquarters In this city seeking to have a more systematic distribution of the defense fund. At present it is the rule to only give to members in good standing, bnt they wish to have it extended in this extreme case to all others, which will be granted. Before leaving, they were given a check for $5,000, and when they go to Cumberland, Md., to get the signature of President Bae, who is attending a convention there, the money will be ready for distribution. Last week $4,800 was gent from here, making $10,000 in two weeks. LAB0E LEADEBS ARRESTED. Sensational Turn to the Rochester Cloth ing Cutters Lockout Investigation. nTECIAL T1H.SPBAM TO TUI DISPATCH.! Rochester, March 18. After tbe State Board of Mediation and Arbitration closed tbe investigation of tbe clothing cutters' lockout this noon three of the persons in attendance were placed under arrest. They are Frederick A. Archer, Master Workman of the Clothing u utters- xiocai Assemniy at, ivnignts ox ladot; . Z """""i .,"" ""., I John Q. Thein, an officer of .the same local, I AND ALLISON EXPLAIN. sL XT' A 1J i r nouses io oe rouna m TT tSl J . "llnK!5 inPittshmv. 1 fjffiZpf jm z j? rv' ' m Hf - ffP L,CENSE C0URT DISCVERY I HBjISIIh sii-V-4lJf I Wj,ie and Fifth Avennes WonId Be 1 If I HilfeS- Overrun if All Were Granted. M i B' eestatjeahts dk't f ay tbeee -I K5i-'3G Ba' a "core of People Are Willing to Zep ' .p"s," Them With Saloons. M PITTSBURG'S PLIGBT. LIFE I5JECTED IJT0 THE HEAEIHGS. 9 and also a m " the National Executive Committee sW "" ed Clothing Cutters, Trimmers a- s'J&r, ""rth America, who are organizr.iffVA n Vt o1 L and James ACjO -' Jo "-'phia. Na tional Organizero P-Tn. 4fi ""-Tne charge against each m iff Off- "Ojv Louis Westerman, anotb $ jJ'D leaaors, was arresicu iujs cku e arrpsts am exnected. Ail the Mt' aer ited here have given bail in the sum of $Zbjacb. At tne session ol me iwam u& jucu..iuu this afternoon, the fact was brought out that the" Clothiers' Exchange-has on deposit a fnnd of $123,000, or 2 per cent of the sales of last year, which will be expended, if necessary, on efforts toward mutual protection. In addition to the above arrests Walter 8. Westerbrook, Mecretarv of the Cutters' Union, is under arrest in New York; President James Hughes, of the union, is In custody in Phila delphia, and James McGuire. of the union, has been arrested in Chicago. The men will all be brought here. The arrests were made on the charge of extorting money from clothing manufacturers in settlement of strikes. FOSTER NOT A CANDIDATE. THE SECEETAET SPEAKS OF THE OHIO 8E2TATOBSHD? MATTES. The Cabinet Officer Does Not Decline the Honor Outright, but Ho Thinks Sherman Will Be His Own Successor if a Bepun. lican Is Sleeted. Toledo, March 18. A reporter has se cured an authorized interview with Secre tary of the Treasury Charles Foster, who Is in the city attending a meeting of the Trus tees of the Northwestern Ohio Insane Asylum, of which body he is a member. Mr. Foster, on being asked his view of the Senatorial situation in Ohio, replied: "Why, one thine seems certain to me that if we elect a Bepublican Legislature Mr. Sherman will De re-elected, if he is a candidate." "Will Mr. Sherman be a candidate?" "There have been some intimations made by his friends that he contemplates retiring at the end of bis present term. If he concludes to do so. no doubt be will make it known in ample time for the f nil discussion of the ques tion of his successor." On beinE asked as to the truth of recent newspaper statements to the effect that he him seiris a candidate to succeed Mr. Sherman, Mr. Foster replied: "It Is a question that has been presented to me more than once lately. Had I remained in private life I probably shonld have been a candidate for the Senator- .mliln Rnt In nnt thn nsjtA nnw nmavrha.l. diffnr. teat? 1 have scceptea a Cabinet position; will it nor iook a uttie too mnca uko seu-see&inz lor me to come up within a year as a candidate for another very Important placet" "But your present term as Secretary will end on tne uay inai tne next senatorial term begins." "Yes, I know; bnt it seems to me that It would look more as it I were considering my own personal ends than the good of the Repub lican party of Ohio, If I shouIdannounce my self as in line for the Senatorship." "You forget Governor Hill, of New York, and bis recent election to the Senate?" The Secretary laughed. "Well, HH1 Is a Democrat; I am a Republican." "Then you are not a candidate as Mr. Sher man's successor?" "I certainly do not feel that I would be doing what is best for the party were I to be a candi date," frankly replied Mr, Foster. The Secre tary left this evening for his home In Fostoria, and goes back to Washington next week. BEIBEEY TO BE INVESTIGATED. Another Fruitless Ballot Taken in the Call fornla Senatorial Fight. Saceamesto, March 18. The tally list of certain members of the Legislature found in the office of the State Librarian was the one torn up by Assemblyman Dibble, the leader of the Republicans, in the Assembly, who sala he had been checking it off and tore it up in con nection with one of the county division bills, and that nothing improper should be done in connection with it. Immediately upon the opening of the Senate this morning. Senator Voorhies Introduced a joint resolution, calling upon both Houses to appoint a committee of three to meet with the Attorney General for the purpose of investigating the documents found in the State Library yesterday. The committee was appointed. The House took similar action, and Assemblyman Dibble, in a speech, said that he desired the fullest Inquiry into all the facts connected with the case. The first ballot to-day in the joint session of the Legislature resulted: Fstee, 46; Felton, 34; Johnston, 4; Blanchard, 1. After some changes had been made, the ballot was cor rected to stand: Estee. 47; Felton, 35; Johnston, 3: Blanchard, 2. At the close of the ballot Fenton's friends demanded an adjournment, and on call of roll this was carried by a vote of 63 to 50. AH AMAZON ASKS A PENSION. She Served Through the War as a Man Sol dier and Was Wounded. GOSHEN, Ikd., March 18. Mary E. Dewey, alias Charles Dewey, has applied for a pen sion. Ihe grounds of her claim are that she served through the war in the Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteers, and that while in the service she received a gunshot wound which has left her disabled. THE BREAK IN THE LEVEE. It Is Increasing, and the Water Flowing Through, Inundates a Parish. New Ohleans, March 18. Reports received at noon to-day from tbe crevasse on the S. M. Ames White House plantation are to tne effect that th6 crevasse is now 200 feet wide and 15 feet deep, the water going throngh with irre sistible force. A large portion of Jefferson parish will be in undated, and the loss will be very great. ANOTHER OCEAN H0BB0R. Twelve Lives Lost In the Wreck of the Nor wegian Bark Imperator. San Francisco. March 18. The Merchants' Exchange has advices that the Norwegian bark Imperator; bound from Cardiff to Santa Rosalia, is a total wreck east of Boavlsta, Cape De Verde islands, and 12 of the crew were drowned. THE AST0S HOUSE SUICIDE. The Remains Exhumed and Fully Identified As Those of Wright. New Yoek, March 18. The body of "Fred Evans, of England," the mysterious Astor House suicide, has been dng up, and fully identified as Wrlgnt, the supposed murderer of Ruttinger, the murdered man found near Staten Island. ANOTHER $1,000,000 BLAZE, A Fire at Ellzabethport, N. J Throws 600 Persons Ont of Employment. Elizabethport. -N. J., March 18. Tne Ellzabethport Steam Cordage Works were de stroyed by fire this afternoon. Loss probably j.,ww,uai. Bixnunurea persons are inr own oat of employment, There has been one faot developed in License Court that would perhaps never, have been known were it not for the interro gation of applicants by the judges. Pitts burg is chock full of first-class hotels and restaurants. On every street and sometimes two or three in a block can be found a first class restaurant or hotel that is. if yon accept the sworn testimony of applicants for renewals of their liquor licenses. And yet the city Is not overcrowded. Scores of men are willing and anxions to go into the restaurant or hotel business if the judges see fit to clothe them with the power to sell liquors, spirituous and malt. The first-class! hotels range up from, four rooms. Bat with all its faults the License Court has developed some cases of refreshing honesty. There are, seml-occasionIly. of course men who honestly admit that tb,ey can't run a hotel in four rooms or a restaurant where noons will eat. Because of thei honesty men may sometimes injure their chances of securing licenses, but tbe Judges jipnear inclined to ra ward those who do tell tne truth. Wylie and Fifth avennes would be overrun with saloons if all the applicants were success ful). It was the burden of Jndge White's elo quence yesterday that about four-fifths of those applicants would be disappointed. Business went very slow yesterday and al though court was kept running until after 5 o'clock, only abont 65 cases were disposed of. To-day they will commence with the Ninth ttard. IN THE FORENOON. The Hotel Boyer Case Opened Court With Testimony In Rebuttal Judge White Thinks a Saloon Not Good for tk Woman The Restaurant Attachment. ; When court opened yesterday morning the Hotel Boyer case was taken np. The! clerk testified that J. C. Eedman, who it ' was alleged got drunk there and later died, was kept out. He refused to allow him to' register or to take dinner because he was in-1 tozicated. The register was produced to show that he commenced to register, but tha pen was taken from him. One of the bar tenders testified that it was Mr. Beyer's orders not to sell to this man, who was drunk. Ho was afterward refused. The clerk was re called, and said that Redman had skipped his bill two weeks before his last visit. A cross-, petition in answer to the remonstrance was offered signed by citizens of the ward and guertsof the hotel. X . Terrenes Hines keeps a cigar storo at 121 and; 123 Wylie avenue and would like to add a stock of liquors. His brother applied for the same place last year. Mrs. Ida Murphy, a comely widow with two children, keeps boarders at 196 Fourth avenae, and would like to move to No. 3 Wylie avenue and open a saloon and restaurant. It is a four story house of seven rooms, the first floor oc cupied by a billiard room. Thinks It Hardly Right. Judge White I doubt very mudi the propri ety of your going into the saloon business. Mrs. Mnrnhy I have a brother who woul'd run the saloon and I would run tha restaurant. Judge White Still I doubt the wisdom of your trying tbe business. Mr s. Murphy 1 have had experience. I as sisted my father when be run the Court House - Exchange on Fifth avenue. Dennis McGllnchy's Dream is at No. 18 and 20 Bedford avenue where he has kept a hotel for four years. He wants to run s saloon and that has ceen bis unrealized desire before. Peter McGee bad a license the past year at 99 Webster avenue, and as he has kept the law, wants to continue. Two years ago tbe church next to him asked that he be given the license to quiet the neighborhood. At No. 21 Wylie avenue Thomas McDerznott would like to go into business. At present he is a cracker maker, but he would like to fur nish "skull cracker" to men who have the price. "I've been working nieh on to 31 years for other Deoole." said he. "and no w I thought it was about time to do something for myself. I am 50 years old and in a few years no one will have me." Judge Magee Why don't yon live on what you have? McDermott I don't want to eat up the bricks my father left me. He Is Minus the Restaurant. Frank McLaughlin has a place at Tunnel street and Wylie avenue. He keeps only a saloon and no restaurant. Judge White There are a number of people who are ready to start restaurants with saloons. It wonld be manifestly unfair to give Mr. Mc Laughlin a license for a mere Saloon. McLaughlin It would not pay to keep a restaurant. It would only be an excuse. It tha conrt so desires I'll tryto open a restaurant. Daniel C. Neary who keeps a saloon on Smithfleld street and as he was compelled to go out he decided to try at 227 and 229 Fifth ave nue, now occupied by a clothing store. John O'Neil wants to continue at 600 and 603 Grant street, where he has erectea a large building for a hotel. George Pfordt has a saloon and restaurant at 29 Wylie avenue. His restaurant Is 40 feet long and he feeds on an average ot seven a day and it runs as high as U or 17. Mr. Christy Who furnished yon money to start tbe saloon business. Pfordt I borrowed money. Mr. Christy Who keeps books? Pfordt My daughter. Mr. Christy She also keeps books for John Lauber, don't she? Pfordt Yes sir. Mr. Christy And you take tbe money down there to her. How much ot it does John New ell get? Pfordt Not any. Lots of Wylie Avenue Places. John Russell now keeps at 41 Wylie avenue ana is after the court's permission to continue. Morris Rosenthal applied donble last year . for 33 Wylie avenue and secured only the wholesale license. J udqe White Your sales were mainly by tha quart? Rosenthal Well, yes sir. Judge White What extent was your Jug business? Rosenthal About $8 or $10 a day. Judge .White Why do you keep open until 10:45? Rosenthal Becauso the most of the trade came in after nlgbt. That was the local trade. Judge White That's not a wholesale busi ness. I suppose you did no more than the ma jority of the wholesalers. That is one of the worst features of our law. These small whole sale houses are as bad as the retailjilaces. James F. Scott Is sick and his attorney fur nished a physician's certificate. James Stafford, who has been refused tha past two years, don't know why. and applies again for 42 Wylie avenue. He is keeping a grocery store, but don't like It. L. Sablodowski lives at 10 Wylie avenue and wonld like to bave a saloon located there with himself as tbe bead. He has a restaurant, Phillip H. Tress is located at 508 Grant street, where he sets up a cold lunch with his beer. His sales amount to $75 or $30 daily. Ha wants to keep open another year. There Must Be No Discrimination. Joseph B. Walker, colored, was refused last year, but be applies again this year for No. 20 ' Wylie avenue. Attorney Fetterman made a strong plea for IContimted on Eighth page. 1 i 1 3 kJki'Jr ' & . '-&. r- .- 5 "2s jttt&&a li-.. i BlKHiSS!
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