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THE PITTSBURG DISPATCH, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1891.
SPENT II ME DAY.
President Harrison and Wana
maker Attend Services at
a Presbyterian Church.
CONFERRING ABOUT CATTLE
A Kuraber of Western Men Call Upon
Kusk and the Chief Magistrate,
PLEA FOR THE MEECHAKT MARINE
The resident's Speech in Tavor of Culti
Tating the Southern Trade.
AfiTOCATES 5EW LINES AKD NEW SHIPS
GAI.TESTOS", April 19. The President
and the members of his party enjoyed a
much-needed rest at Galveston to-day.
While the people were desirous of showing
every honor and attention to the Chief Mag
istrate, they respected his request t to be al
lowed to pass the day in quiet and repose,
and abandoned several demonstrations re
served for to-day. He as well as all other
111 embers ot the party are loud in their
praises ol the unbounded hospitality, of the
people of Texas. It is the first time that
the Chief Magistrate of the nation has ever
visited tne State in his official capacity, but
if President Harrison is anything of a
prophet, and his successors are at all moved
by his pleasant experience here, it will
never be overlooked in that respect in the
future.
A noteworthy feature of the crand de
monstration of yesterday was the cordial
welcome given the President by the Italian
colon v of the city. AH their local societies
participated in the parade, acting as a
tpecial escort to the Italian Consul at Gal
veston, and that gentleman aiterward on
their behalf presented the President with a
beautiful floral design symbolic of peace
and fratermtr. Hie American and Italian
flairs were crossed at the top 01 the piece
with a floral dove between them. The
Italian Consul also paid bis respects to the
President in company with the other foreign
consuls resident here. The floral tributes
received lrom the citizensof Galveston were
io numerous that tliey nearly filled the two
apartments assigned to the President and
Mrs. Harrison. Postmaster General Wana
maker rejoined the party at Galveston last
evening. Hon. William H. Crain, the
Congressional representative from this dis
trict, also arrived in Galyeston last night.
lie took a prominent part in the demonstra
tion and made a ringing address of welcome.
lie accompanieda committee of citizens ap
pointed to accompany the Presidental party
'o San Antonio.
Conferring With Secretary Bask.
Among to-day's arrivals at the Beach
Hotel were Senators Teller, of Colorado,
and Squire, ol Oregon, Senator Warren,
of Wyoming, and oiher gentlemen from
those States and Montana. They
had a long and satisfactory con
ference with Secretary Busk in regard
to the shipment of cattle to the States
named duiing the summer months. Secre
tary Husk informed them that the Presi
dent's order in regard to that matter would
be chauged to suit their wishes, provided
the cattle so shipped would not bereshipped
South be 'ore the first of December. The
gentlemen afterward paid their respects to
the President and Mrs. Harrison. Secre
tary Rusk having accomplished the busi
ness tnst brought him to Texas has con
cluded to remain with the President during
the remainder of his trip.
General Stanley, commanding the depart
ment of Texas, joined the Presidental party
at Galveston. and accompanied it to San
Antonio for the purpose of explaining the
military situation along the Mexican
border. Major Sanger, United States
Army, who accompanies the President as
bis military aid, always appears at his side
in full uniform on all ceremonious occa
sions. The President, accompanied by
Postmaster General Wanamaker, attended
divine services this morning at the First
Presbyterian Church, and listened to a
sermon by the Rev. Dr. Scott, who took his
text from St. John i., 13. The church was
crowded.
In the atternoon the President went out
for a walk through the city with Mrs. Dim
mick and Mrs. useil Harrison. The
people regarded this as an act of democratic
simplicity, and were much pleated thereat.
Secretary Kusk and other members of the
Presidental party enjoyed a sail on the
Gnlt this afternoon, as the guests ol Gov
ernor Hogg.
Harrison's Speech. Saturday Night.
The main points of President Harrison's
speeeu last night at the reception given him
at the Beach Hotel are appended. After
thanking the people of Galveston for their
cordial welcome, he said, among other
things':
I am glad to have beeen able to rest my eves
upon the city ot Galveston. I am glad to have
been able to trarerso I his harbor and to look
upon that liberal work which a liberal and
united government has inaugurated for your
benefit and for the benefit of the Northwest,
lime alwais believed that it was one of the
undisputed functions ot the General Govern
ment to make tnese great waterways which
penetrate our country, and these harbors into
which our shipping must come to receive the
tribute of rail and river, safe and easy of access
This ministering care should extend to our
whole country, ana 1 am glad that a
policy with relereuce to the harbor work here,
at luist, which I moisted upon in a nubile mes
sage has been adopted.
llie appropriation has been made adequate
to a dilligeui and prompt completion ot the
work. In the past the Government has under
taken too many things at once and its annual
appropriations have been so inadequate that
tueworkof the engineers was much retarded
and eften senuusl damaged in the interval of
waiting for fresh appropriations. It Is a better
policy when a nork has once been determined
to be of national significance, that the appro
priation should be sufficient to bring it speedily
and without loss to a concision. lam glad
that the scheme ot Ibe engineer for giving deep
water to Galveston is tun to be prosecuted. I
have said some of our South Atlantic and Gulf
ports occupy a most favorame position for the
new commerce toward which we are reaching
out our hands and which is reaching out its
hands to us.
Doesn't Believe in False Economy.
I am an economist in the sense that I would
not waste SI of the pnblic money. But I at?
not an economist in the sense that I would
leave incomplete or suffer to lag any great
work highly promotiro of the Irue interests of
our people. We are great enough and'rich
enough to reach f nrw ard to grander concep
tions than have entered the minds ofsiuie of
our statesmen in the past. If un are content,
I am not. that the nations of Europe shall ab
rb neatly the entire commerce of these near
sister republics that lie south of us. It is nat
urally, in large measure, our-r-ours by neigh
borhood, ours by nearness of access, ours by
that sympathy that binds a hemisphere without
a king.
The fraternal and kindly spirit that was
manifested by our Southern neighbors has
stimulated a desire in tnem and in our people
fur a larger intercourse ot commerce and of
friendship. The provisions of the bill passed
at the la.t session looking to a reciprocity of
trade not only met with my official approval
when I signed tbe bill, but with my zealous
promotion, before tbe hill was reported. Its
provision concerning reciprocity is that we
hae placed upon our free list sugar, tea, cof
fee ana hides, and have said to those nations
from whom we receive these great staples:
Give ns tree access to our ports for an equiva
lent amount of our produce in exchange or
we will reimpose duties upon tbe articles
named.
The law leaves it wholly 'with the" Executive
to negotiate these arrangements. It does not
need that they shall take tbe form of a treaty.
They need not be submitted for the concur
rence of the State. It only needs that we,
having made our offer, chill receive their offer
in return; and when they have made up an ac
ceptable schedule of articles produced by us
that shall have free access to their ports, a
proclamation by the President closes the whole
business. Already one treaty with that young
est of the South Americn republics, the great
Republic of Brazil, has been negotiated and
proclaimed. I think, without disclosing any
executive secrets, 1 may tell you that tbe ar
rangement with Brazil is not lltelyto abide
j lnncsumenes much longer.
Oilier Treaties Will Bo Made.
1 hat others areto follow, and that as a result
of ihee trade arrangements the products of
the United States, our meats, our breadstuff,
and certain lines of manufactured goods, are
to find free or favored access to tbe ports of
many ot these South abd Central American
States. All the States will share in these ben
fits. We have had some analyses made of the
mauifests of some of our steamers now sailing
to South. American ports. And in a single
steamer it was found that 25 of our States con
tributed to tbe cargo. But we shall need some
thing more. We shall need American steam
ships to carry American goods to these ports.
The last Congress passed a bill appropriating
about $1,500,000 and authorizing tbe Postmaster
General to -contract with steamship companies
for a period not exceeding ten years for tbe
carrying of the United States mail. The for
eign mail service is the only mail service out
of which tbe Government has been making a
net profit. We do not make a profit out of our
land services. There is an annual deficiency,
which my good friend, the Fbstmaster Gen
eral, has been trying very hard to reduce or
wipe out.
The theory of our mall service is that it is
for the people.that we aro not to make a proflt
out ot it, tbat wo are to give them as cheap
postage as is possible. We are many of us
looking forward to a time when we shall have
1 cent postage in this country. We have been
so close and pennrions in dealing with our ships
in tbe carrying of foreign mails tbat we have
actually made revenue out of, that business.
Hot having so.nt for it what we have received
from it now we propose to change tbat policy
and to make more liberal contracts with
American lines, carrying American mail.
Some one may say we ought not to go into this
business, that it is subsidy. But. mv friends,
every other great nation if the world has been
doing it and is doing it to-day. Great Britain
aad France have built up their great steamship
lines bv Government aid, and it seems to me
our attitude with reference to that is aptly pro
tected by au illustration 1 mentioned the other
day.
Sew lanes and New Skips.
It has been tbe careful study of tbe Post
master General, in preparing to execute tbe
law to which I have referred, to see how much
increase in routes and ships we Could secure by
it. We have said to the few existing American
lines: You must not treat tbis appropriation as
a plate of soup, to be divided and consumed by
j ourselves. You must give ns new lines, new
ships, increased trips and new ports ot call.
Already tbe steamship lines are looking over
the routes to see what they can do with a view
of increasing their tonnage and in establisbing
new lines. The Postmaster General has invited
the attention and suggestion of all tbe Boards
of Trade of all our seaboard cities. Undoubt
edly you have received such a letter. This ap
propriation isJfor one year. What the future
is to he must depend upon the deliberate judg
ment of tbe people. If during my term of
office they shall strike down a law that I believe
to be beneficial, or destroy energy by 'with
holding appropriations, I shall bow to their
will, but I shall feel great disappointment if
wo do not make tins an era for the revival of
American commerce. I do much want that the
time shall come when our citizens living in
temporary exile in foreign ports shall now and
then see steaming Into these distant ports a flee
modern man-of-war flying the United States
flag, with the best modern guns on her deck
and a brave American crew in her forecastle.
1 want also, tbat in these ports so long un
familiar with the American flag there shall
again be found our steamships and our sailing
vessels flying tbe flag tbat we all love, and car
rying from our shores tbe products that these
men ot toil have brought to them to exchange
lor tbe products of other climes.
I think we should add to all this, if
happily it is likely to be accomplished
by individual effort, the early com.
pletion of tbe Nicaragua canaL The Pa
cific coast should bo longer be found by sea
only bv tbe passage of the Horn. Tbe short
route "should be opened, and it will be, and
then with this wondrous stirring among the
people of all our States, this awakening to new
business plans and more careful and economi
cal work.thero will come great prosperity to all
our people.
The little girls of the Catholic Orphans'
Home called at the Beech Hotel this after
noon with a large bouquet of beautiful
flowers for the President, The President
and Mrs. Dimmick attended services at
Trinity Episcopal Church in the evening
with Mayor Fulton and afterwards visited
the beautiful residence of Mr. George
Sealey. Shortly after midnight the Presi
dental party left for San Antonio.
TWO STOLEN'CHILDREN. '
THEIB MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE IS
EXPLAINED,
The Parties Wlio Kidnaped Them Blake
an Explanation and Are Arrested De
scription of the Culprits and Their Mo
tives Tlie Children Were in Pltuborg.
Springfield, O.," April 19. A tre
mendous sensation was caused here to-night
by thearreitof Dr. L. E. Niles, G.C.Cutler,
his wife, Effie Cutler, and Ellen Talbot on a
charge of child-stealing or kidnaping. The
three last named have made a full confession
to taking the two little sons of Dr. Niles
from the place where they were boarding,
pending the decision ot the habeas corpus
case, which wonla decide whether .tbey
should be in the custody of Dr. Niles or his
wife. Mrs. Niles' attorney. John L.
Zimmerman, took the confession, and
it is extremely sensational in fact,
one of the most remarkable cases
of child-stealing on record ' in
Ohio. Miss Ellen- Talbot, who is an old
maid, dressmaker, about 45 years old, who
lives at Iff East 'North street, where the
children were kept, conlessed that she hired
a horse and buggy at tbe livery stable, and
took tlS children at 5 o'clock in the
morning to tbe place' of Mr. and
Mrs. Cutler, near St. Paris. They took
care of them until last Thursday, April 9,
when they were taken to Pittsburg, from
which city they were taken East a few days
ago. It is supposed the children are now in
some small town in Vermont.
Dr. Niles was .arrested at his office to
night on a warrant sworn out by a detective.
Niles still keeps a stiff upper lip, and
claims that be will come out all right, G.
C. Cutler, who with his wife took care of
the children, and is consequently impli
cated in the plot, is a carpenter. Miss
Talbot, who did the stealing, is a
dressmaker. She claims she has received
nothing for her services as yet, but says her
livery bill has been settled. It is said tbat
the Cutlers have already received $10 from
the agents of Dr. Niles for their services in
the business. It could not be learned who
the agents of Dr. Niles were, as tbe detec
tives and attorneys refused to divulge it.
No steps will be taken to" recover the
children until the parties are arraigned
Monday. Sheriff Baker went to tbe country
this afternoon and arrested tbe Cutlers and
lodged them in jail to-night.
A FRATERNAL FEAST
Will Be Indulged in by Georgia Veterans
and the Hawkins Zouaves.
rSPECIAI. TEI.XUKAU TO THE DISr ATCO.1
New York, April 19. The Third Geor
gia Confederate Veteran Survivors' Asso
ciation arrived this evening from Savannah
by the steamship Citv qf Augusta. They
came as the guests of their old opponents,
the Hawkins Ziuaves, of the Ninth New
York Volunteers. A commitlee ol ten from
the Hawkins Zouaves received the wsitors,
who were driven to the Hotel Brunswick.
The Hawkins Ziuaves will give a dinner to
their guests to-morrow at the Brunswick,
when a banner will be presented to tba
Zonaves by the association.
It is the regulation United States flag, and
is the work of Miss Lizzie Sneed, the
daughter ot Colonel Claiborne Sneed. Miss
Sneedwho accompanies the party, isknown
as the '"Daughter ot the IJegiment."
OPPOSE A STATE EXHIBIT.
Khode Island May Decide Not to Have One
at Chicago.
Providence, April 19. Commissioners
Gotland Sims, Bliode Island representatives
of the Colnmbian Pair Commission, will
appear before the committee In opposition
to the bill now pending in the Snite pro
posing a Stale exhibit and providing for an
appropriation.
The opposition will be on the ground tbat
their conferences have shown that the indus
tries of the State may be depended upon to
make a fitting exhibit,, and the State's inter
ests will be best served by the expenditure
of a much smaller amount, than tbat con
templated in tbe proposed bill.
NOT AFTER THE' POLE.
Lieutenant feary Only Hunting for
Greenland's Northern Point.
AN EXPEDITION OP DISCOVERT,
Which Promises to Be Very Yaluaole'to
Geography and Science.
HANI I0UNG ENTHUSIASTS YOLUXTEEK
Philadelphia; April 19. The 'whole
fascinating subject of Arctic exploration
and adventnre tomes up again with
'the trip Lieutenant- Robert Peary
is about to undertake to, tbe northern-
edge of Greenland. Lieutenant
Pjeary proposes to discover what is the
northern extremity of Greenland, something
that geographers and scientists have long
wanted to know. But as a matter of fact
this discovery will probably include sojour
ner further northward than has ever been
reached before a' new record in. high lati
tudes, in fact and very possibly a visit to
the pole ItselC
At first Lieutenant Peary had an idea
that fie could start upon such an enterprise
without attracting any public attention and
purposed to defray all expenses himself.
To this end he had embarked all "his private
means and all the pay he will receive from
the Navy Department while he is on his
year and a half leave of absence. Various
scientific societies took the matter up and
insisted upon bearing a share of the cost of
an exploration so valuable to geography.
First of these is the Philadelphia Academy
of Science, which has pledged one-half of
the sum necessary for the expedition. The
American Geographical Society and thp Na
tional Academy of Science also took a great
interest in the project as soon as they heard
of it.
Not Searching for the Pole.
Lieutenant Peary's interest in his journey
is entirely scientific, and when I saw him at
his home here to-day he had' little disposi
tion to talk about what he expected to do ex
cept as it might be valuable to science.
"The discovery of the North Pole," said
Lieutenant Peary, or the making of a
record of northern exploration is a mere
geographical leat. However interesting
these periormances might be to the world,
they would not amouut to much from a
purely scientific point of view. I have not
fixed upon either as my object and 1 shall
not be at all disappointed if I do not get
any farther north than others have gone. -
"The.whole northern part of Greenland
is practically unknown to geography.
"What I am after is to learn something
about it. I want to find out whether it is
an island with its northernmost point about
at Cape Lincoln, or whether it extends fur
ther north, perhaps even beyond the pole."
According to his present plans Lieuten
ant Peary will leave Philadelphia on May
1. To get as far north as possible by ships
he will take passage on one of the Arctic
whaling vessels and to do that he will prob
ably have to go to Dundee. There are no'
American whalers now that go as far up as
he wants to go, but the Dundee men circle
the ice in Melville Sound every year. A
few Danish ships occasionally come to the
United States from Greenland with a kind
of mineral used in tbe manufacture of soda,
and one of these would be available for tbe
Lieutenant's use if it should get around
here in time: hut that is uncertain.
The landing Place in Greenland.
The vessel he sails in, whatever it is, will
be hired to land Lieutenant Peary and his
party on the shore afWhale Sound, which
is somewhat further north than the whalers
usually go, and on the western coast of
Greenland. If you will look at a recent
map of that interesting country, you will
find that "Whale Sound is not far south on
the map, anyway of Cape Lincoln, and
Cape Lincoln is the northernmost point yet
attained by man, so far as we have record,
so tbat Lieutenant Pearv will beginwith an
excellent start northward.
The landing place a't Whale Sound should
be reached, as the Lieutenant has figured it
out, by the last of June or the first of July.
The short summer season will then- be Just
beginning, for the next 11 months or so
the party will stay about where they land,
preparing snpplies for the journey, laying
in game and getting their sledges ready.
At the beginning of tha following spring
they will start north over the inland ice.
Now, about the inland ice. The coasts of
Greenland, so far as discovered, are high,
precipitous mountains, breaking off at tbe
edge of the sea in sheer .cliffs 3,000 or 4,000
feet high. These are not in a straight line,
bnt are broken up by innumerable fiords,
where the slopes to the sea are gentle and
permit an ascent, such as it is. Even at
best climbing up the face of the ice every
thing is piled high with ice, of course is
the hardest kind of work. Tbe ice is broken
into high pinnacles and crevasses, and it is
necessary lor the Arctic traveler to lift his
sledge up one side of these and let it down
the other side, perhaps 0 times a day. His
progress is painfully slow. Sometimes a
whole day of the hardest work will not ad
vance him more than 200 or 300 leet. This
is where tbe great danger, and as Lieutenant
Peary views it the only danger, comes in.
A Plain for Those Who Know It.
But once away from the coast the ice is a
solid plain, comparatively level, and not
hard to travel for.those who knoV how.
Lieutenant Peary knows how, because he
has been there before. In 1886 he went to
Greenland alone and on his own motion,
and journeyed inland on a straight line east
from the coast 200 or 300 miles. He was
then not as far north as he-expects to be this
time, but far enough to learn a great deal
about the conntry, the climate and the ways
of getting about. t.
It is nis idea, from what he saw then and
has learned from others, that where be will
land the ascent to the inland ice plateau is
very much easier than it is further south, so
he expects little trouble from that source.
He intends to get upon the plateau and then
walk north, dmgginghissupply .sledges with
him until he finds what he wants.
Traveling upon the ice plateau is so easy
comparatively that he thinks he can com
plete his work during the summer and fall,
and start on his return before the next win
ter sets in. .As to how he will get back he
says frankly that he doesn't know. He
may return to civilization by the way of
Copenhagen or St. Johns, N- P-, or come
out by Siberia or some other way, only he
letls sute that he will get out somehow and
with his objects attained. Cape Lincoln is
the point reached by Lockwood and Brain
ard, of tbe unlucky Greely party, and is
known colloquially - as "Lockwood's
furthest." It is in latitude 83 24 north.
North of that absolutely nothing is known
about the coast of Greenland, andlt is not
even sure that Cape Lincoln is a. part of
Greenland at all. It may be-au island by
itself, and the shore ol the continent may
then trend back to the east and the south.
On the other hand, it is quite as likely that
the cape is merely a promontory on the main
land, which stretches tbeuce clear beyond
the Pole. These are some of tbe points tbat
the Lieutenant wants to settle.
To Stndy the Physical Geography.
The physical geography of the country
will also engage his attention. "When he
was up there before he made drawings rep
resenting tbe relief of the contineut, its
mountains and valleys. These drawings
are regarded by geographers as of the great
est possible value. They demonstrated that
in some places the ice in Greenland is a
mile and more thick. At one spot the
Lientenant stood upon the point of a moun
tain more than 7,000 feet above the sea, and
the' valley between it and the next range
was completely filled with the ice accumu
lations of centuries. No snch complete ob
servations have been made elsewhere in
Greenland, and Lieutenant Peary intends
to carry them out ns far North as he goes,
giving science its first authentic informa
tion about the surface of the conntry as well
as the shape of its coasts. Being s practised
civil engineer he will have nnusual advan
tages for this sort of work.
The expedition is not connected with the
Government in any wayfand none of those
who go with it will go for hire, or even
glory. Experience has shown that there is
no salary big enough to induce a man to do
what is necessary to be done in the Arctic
regions if he hasn't the pure scientific en
thusiasm. Four or five young Philadel
phians, whose ideas' about exploration are
like those of Lieutenant Peary, and whose
ardor is almost as great as his, have volun
teered to go with him for the love of it. The
expectation is that tbey will do much more
effective work and have much better. chances
of getting out, alive than If they were paid"
to go.
Quite Confident of Success.
As to the chances, Lieutenant Peary is
convinced they are all in his favor. His
experience in the frigid zone makes him
believe that a man who knows how to take
care of himself is as safe there as anywhere
safer, in fact, than in a 'crowded city or on
the "Western plains in winter, for instance.
The chance of disease is less, tha chance of
an accident is less. In fact, the Lieutenant,
who is a rdodest young man, doesn't think
he is undertaking anything wonderful, and
wishes people would leave him alone abont
his trip.
As to his outfit he wiil probably have the
best that ever was taken into the ice regions.
When he was in Greeland in 1886 he made
a special study of what was necessary to en
able a man to live there- safely, and even in
comfort, and be thinks he has' found out
what it is. He will take scientific instru
ments or course, and will collect some speci
mens that will be interesting to zoologists as
well as facts of value to other scientists.
Starvation will havnomenaceforhisparty.
They will take along enough condensed food
to last them their entire trip. Then before
tbey start over the ice they wilt prepare
enough game to meet every possible exigency
and leave it along their route.
The precautions about tbese things will
be so ample that there will be no chance of
any of the horrors that befell the Greely
party. Then these men will be under no or
ders 'but their own, so tbey can go where
tbey want to and when they want to, and
there will be no waiting"-for reliefs or any ot
those fatal instructions tbaf have caused so
many deaths up there. Since the publica
tion of his projected trip Lieutenant Peary
has got letters from scientists and 'scientific
societies abroad asking about tbe details of
his plan anil expressing great interest in his
objects.
REV. DR. BRIGGS' BELIEF.
DISCUSSION OVB IT AM0HG PHILA
DELPHIA, PBESBYTEBIAHS.
The Opinion of a Well-Known Minister
and a Prominent Church Lawyer The
Latter Says They May as Well Close Up
if llriggs Is to Be Followed. .
Philadelphia, April 19. Philadel
phia Presbytery's overture to the fieneral
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, con
demning tbe doctrine of Prof. Briggs, of the
Union Theological Seminary, has brought
out an ingenious and purely legal
plea from Henry Day, a lawyer,
and an elder in Kev. Dr. John
Hall's Church in New York, defending
Dr. Briggs' status with the church. The
paper incidentally declared that the stand
ot the Philadelphia Presbytery, and the
other bodies of that denomination in this
city, indorsing it were virtually prejudging
the case without a hearing. Presbyteries all
over tbe country, are taking one by one,
similar action, disapproving Dr. Briggs'
utterances and the topics is likely to be most
prominent matter of argument before the
General Assembly this summer. As already
printed, Prof. Briggs in an address at the
seminary, declared a doctrine, which shorn
of externals, distinctly advocates the use of
individual judgment-in deciding what por
tions of the Scriptures are actually inspired
by God, and what are not to be believed. '
Eev. J. D. Paxton, .pastor of the West
Sprnce street church, gave his views of Mr.
Day's defense. He said:
'There were three points covered by Mr.
Dav in bis presentation ol the case. First:
he regarded the actionaif -tbe.Presbytery as
a, nreiudement ot tba case. I think this "was
scarcely true as it had mildly called attention
to the case, and referred the whole matter to
the judgment of the General Assembly.
'"Second: Mr. Day's position, that the New
York Presbytery alone has jurisdiction in the
case, I regard as manifestly incorrect; the
Presbytery has a right to adjudicate when a
minister is heretical, but a theological profes
sor ocenpies different ground. His views are
of Interest to the whole chnrch, and the Gen
eral Assembly alone is the guardian of the
whole chuVch. Ihe New York Presbytery
could not try Prof. Briegs as a professor. They
might try him as a minister, hut a minister's
views are tar less important;
"As to Or. Briggs having before occnpied a
professor's chair, it should be remembered that
the chair of Old Testament Literature, where
Hebrew was taught, is quite unimportant com
pared with the chair ot Bibical Theology, im
mediately concerning doctrines.
Third, the third point that Mr. Day makes
is tbat the Directors of Union Seminary cannot
give their authority over to tbe General
Assembly; tbat tbey cannot bind tbe directors
in future years to any such course. Union
Seminary, in comtrinn witb all other semi
naries has already delegated these matters to
the General Assembly and cannot take it
back."
One of the most prominent lawyers of the
Philadelphia bar, himself a theologian by
taste and study from his youth up, and a
lay delegate to "former General.Asscmblies,
in which he has made his mark as a national
figure in Presbyterianism, was asked for his
opinion concerning the legal aspect of the
case.
"There, is no legal aspect." he. replied
with somewarmtb,no,I don't care to see Mr.
Day's paper, nor any summary of its points,
nor to discuss his views in favor of Pro
lessor Briggs at all.
"If Dr. Briggs is to be followed, we Pres
byterians might as well shut up our
churches. "We teach and believe that the
Bible is God's word; not that it contains it,
as a pile of grain on a bam floor may contain
wheat, but is not wheat until it shall have
been winnowed.
STABBED WITH A BTUEETO.
Two Italians in New York Have n Fight
With the Usual Result.
NEW YOKE, April 19. Two young Ital
ians had a quarrel on the sidewalk in One
Hundred and Fourth street this afternoon
when one of them, Charles Moro,stabbed the
other, Ferdinand Magrano,in the left side
with a stilletto. '
Tbe injured man was taken to a hospital
in a critical condition -and Moro was ar
rested. Tbe weapon with which the injur
ies were inflicted was a murderous affair
with a 12-inch blade.
TEE PIKE BEC0BD.
A wire occurred early yesterday morning in
the Cblpman building, Court and Haaover
streets, Boston. It is a five story brick struc
ture, and is principally occupied by Bailey antl
Rankin, jobbers and retailers or carpets. The
loss on the building is estimated at about 55,000,
and to the several tenants about 319.000. While
the fire was dt its height the roof fell without,
warning to tbe men who were pouring streams
upon it from underneath. Beams and burn
ing timbers imprisoned nearly 20- firemen.
Chief Engineer Webber was an.ong those
who were caught, and although brul-ed and
burned; he did not relinquish his command.
Through a hole made iu tbe roof District
Chief Reagan was one bf the first to emerge,
and his injuries, although painful, are not
serious. Captain Willot, of Engine 26, w ho 1 ol
lowed, him, was In jo rod about the back and
shoulders. Captain Griffin, of Hook and Lad
der No. JS, had been pinned down by heavy tim
bers, which had to be sawed apart before he
could be released. District Engineor Creswell
was one of thdlast ones taken ont, and it took
nearly an hour to reach him. He is badly hurt.
District Chief H. W. Pope, of Cbarlestown,
had his hand badly cut by glass and was
severely hurt in ,the back. Assistant Engine
man John Long was seriously Injured by being
struck in the abdomen by a piece of -hose which
blew off Jts coupling.
Fell Off a Bridge.
John Burke, while tipsy, fell off the Alle
gheny end ot tbe Ft. Wayne bridge. Both
arms were broken and he was badly cut about
the face and bead. His condition is net serious.
TtfE: PANAMA CANAL.
Lienr.' Wyse Urges That the Colom
bian Concession Be Extended.
EFFORTS TO SATE SOME MONEY.
Uow Mo Advo'eates Having the -Work Car
ried on to Completion.
TALKING 1B0DTTUE EUSSIAN ALLIAKCE
Pabis, April 19. A report on the Pan
ama Canal has been sent to the liquidator of
the company, M. Monchicourt, by Lieuten
ant "Wyse, who has been negotiating- with
the Colombian Government to prolong the
concession. The report is a voluminous
document It was probably prepared with
the object of concealing, amid an endless
mass of whrds and reiterated expressions
about sanguine prospects, the actual hope
lessness of any further enterprise in that
direction.. After detailing the negotiations,
Lieutenant Wyse eonclndes:
"If success with Colombia is not to remain
barren, the hour has come for a strong reso
lution to take immediate and energetic ac
tion to save the capital invested in the wort,
and to preserve trom destruction the vastest
project of the' epoch. If underground
maneuvers, against whieh it is time to arm,
do not cause pending financial combinations
to fail, the unfortunate French public will
soon recover through the completion of the
canal the greater part of the savings reck
lessly squandered."
Proceeding to make practical suggestions,
Lieutenant Wyse advocates six locks with
a single artificial lake in the center. He
places the time required to execute the
work nt five years, and the maximum cost
at 600,000,000 francs. He expresses the.
conviction tbat before the expiration of ten
years the profits of the new company, if it
completes the canal, will snmce to pay a
progressive propertionate share to the share
holders of the old company, besides paying
a dividend on shares of the new company.
M. Monchicourt personally considers that
the report offers a favorable basis" for the
new financial operations. The report was
fcsued to-day, and the press has' had no
time as yet to criticise it
That Visit of Empress Frederick.
A statement reproduced here from Ger
man nacers. declares that tbe French Gov
ernment is chagrined by a 'communication
from the Czars regarding the demonstration
made'Quring the visit of Empress Frederick
to Paris. This statement also says that
when the attitude of Emperor William
seemed menacing, the Czar, being sounded
as to whether he was prepared to support
France iu the controversy, replied that he
disapproved of the laxness of the French
Government in permitting an insult to an
imperial personage, his relative. The state
ment adds that this rebuke was keenly felt
for a time, and had the eflect of modifying
the pro-Bussian programme of the foreign
office.
A strikingiexample of French subserv
iency to the Eussian alliance has just oc
curred in club circles. Young De,Giers, an
attache of the Eussian Embassy, son of
the Eussian Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, introduced at a leading club a
friend as a temporary member. At the ex
piration of the term of temporary member
ship, M. DeGiers proposed his friend for
permanent membership. The committee
found the candidate objectionable, and wrote
M. DeGiers, advising him to with
draw his nomination. 11. DeGiers
was irritated and refused to do so. The
committee again advised tbe withdrawal of
the nomination, whereupon Baron DeMoh
renheim, tbe Eussian Ambassador, inter
fered and wrote to the committee that if the
candidate was blackballed he would cause
every member of the Russian Embassy to re
sign. Interest In the Chicago Fair.
H. H. Kohlsaat. of the Chicago Fair
Directory, has arrived here after an extensive
tour of Europe.- He reports that business
houses are taking a greater interest in the
fair.and that the continental press is treating
the fair more justly. Mr. Kohlsaat will
start for Chicago at the end of the month,
alter making another tour of Europe.
General J. AV. Foster and J. G. Blaine,
Jr., have arrived here from Madrid. They
went to cbnrch to-day with. Mr. Eeid, tbe
United States Minister. Mr. Eenl will
present Mr. Blaine to the Prince of "Wales.
General Foster will proceed home without
delay.
Tbe past week has been a festive one at
the United States legation. On Monday
Mrs. Eeid gave a reception, which was fol
lowed by two large dinners and a inusicale.
On Thursday a dinner ot xi cover, was
given in honor of Bishops Doane and
Whipple, among the guests being Count
von Monster, the German Ambassador; Mr.
McLane, the lornier American Minister to
France; T. W. Barnes, J. G. Blaine,
Jr., Stanford Newell, Mrs. Stratford
Dngdale and Mrs. Admiral Baldwin. The
guests at another dinner were Baron and
Baroness Alphonse Eothschild, tbe Mar
quis and Marchioness of Bassano, the Mar
quis and Marchioness of Baillenl, Mr. and
Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt,' Mrs. Justice
John Davis, Mrs. Governor Wetmore and
Count Louis Turenne.
According to a leading Marseilles paper,
the Government, in view of the prospective
failure of the harvest of wheat and the dear
ness of bread, will propose in the chambers
a temporary suspension of the tariffs on
cereals. Tbat the report is true is improb
able, but it is notable as an indication of
the difficulties that are awaiting the Gov
ernment during debates in tbe face of the
diminution of tbe crops.
THE WEDDING FEAST P0IS0NIHG.
It
Is Likely That There May Be Several
More Deaths.
Louisville, April 19. The sufferers
from the poisoning at Lindon are in ntarly
the same condition as reoorted last night.
Those considered ont of danger are grad
ually improving, and one or two of those
more seriously affected are growing, better.
On the other hand Mr. and Mrs. William
Terry, at Anchorage, are worse, and Mrs.
Robert Graham and Mrs. Clarence Warren,
of Louisville, are unable, to take nourish
ment and are slowly sinking. George
Beacham, tbe colored driver, is also much
worse and is not expected to live until
morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Snooks, who are sick at
Eminence, Ky., are the father and mother
of the groom. He and his bride are at the
Burnet Honse, Cincinnati, both quite ill.
EEAB ADMIRAL TAYLOK DEAD.
One of the Oldest Betired Naval Officers
Passes Away at Washington.
Washington, April 19. Bear Admiral
Alfred Taylor, U. S. N., retired, died in
this city this afternoon from pneumonia and
acute bronchitis, following an attack of the
grip. His children were with him at the
time of his death, having been summoned
here several days ago.
He was born in Fairfax county, Va. , in
1810. He reached the grade of Lientenant
in 1837, and in the Mexican war, during the
blockade of Vera Cruz and other naval
operations along the Mexican coast, he
served witb the frigate Cumberland. He
was on duty in the steamer Mississippi, with
Commodore Perry's expedition to Japan in
,18S3-'S5. Two of th? sons hold commissions
in the army and the third lives in New
York City. "
HEW CABMELITE C0SVEHT.
The Corner Stone Laid by Archbishop Jans
sens at New Orleans.
New. Orleans, April 19. The corner
stone of the new Carmelite Convent was laid
to-day with imposing ceremonies. Arch
bishop Janssens conducted the ceremonies.
Bishop Brennan, of Dallas, assisting,
Judge PauLE. Theard delivered an oration
in Freach, and J. D. Coleman, President of
the Gatholic Knights of America, spoke In
English.
John T. Gibbons, a brother of the Car
dinal, was Grand Marshal of the affair, but
Cardinal Gibbons declined an invitation to
be present, not desiring to seta precedent and
intending to avoid publicity while here and
devote his entire visit to needed rest Tbe
convent is to be built by a co-operative as
sociation composed of leading citizens and
ladiss. ,
NEW OHLEANS BAHKEITPT.
It Cannot Pay the Judgment Won by the
Myra Clark Gaines Succession.
New Orleans, April 19. A final judg
ment, based on the mandate of tbe
United States Supreme Court in the
matter of William Wallace Whitney,
administrator of the succession of Myra
Clark Gaines against tbe. city of
New Orleans, bas been rendered iu the
United States Circuit Court by Judge E.
Billings. The decree is for about 561,000,
with interest at 5 per cent, for .ten years,
making the total nearlr J8A0,000. An exe
cution was duly issued, and United States
Marshal Donnelly to-day made formal de
mand on Mayor Shakespeare for the amount
of tbe judgment, and was told that the city
was bankrupt
Th.e case is stil complicated by the Evans
will, whieh a number of experts, familiar
with Mrs. Gaines' handwriting, have de
clared was written by her. If this
will be admitted to probate the heirs
under its provisions, who- have taken
no part in the litigation thus far, and
who are not bound by the decree, even if
the citv paid the jndgment to Whitney as
administrator, might still be in a position
to press their claim. The litigation in the
Gaines case was commenced come 50 years
ago, and in some of its various phases has
beeu before tbe courts ever since.
The will which Mrs. Gaines declared
was made by her father, Daniel Clark, was
probated before the war, and the first decree
against tbe city was entered in 1860 for
(1,900,000. About $200,000 has been ex
pended for litigation on both sides. It is
not impossible tbat all of the judgments will
be eaten up by promises to pay, which Mrs.
Gaines is said to have issued quite freely
some time before her death.
FAITH IK BLAIHE.
Seth BIllIIken.Says the Flumed Knight Is
More Popular Than Ever.
Washington, April 19. Bepresenta
ti ve Seth Milhken, of Maine, is not a Blaine
enthusiast; in fact, be rather sides with Eeed
in the factional fight in the Pine Tree State.
Nevertheless, he is a steady-going believer
in the destiny of the Plumed Knight Mr.
Milliken regards Blaine's reciprocity scheme
as a new Mercator's projection, upon which
tbe Eepublicans can map their course of
plain sailing.
. "There is no necessity for Mr. Blaine to
resign from the Cabinet," said Mr. Milli
ken, "and go off on a hippodroming tour
through the country to boom himself. Let
him keep on sawing wood and the Eepubli
cans will do the rest. AU Mr. Blaine's
friends ask is that he will write no
.more Florence letters tbat will interfere
wjth their plans. We don't want him to
decline the nomination in advance. In the
last few weeks I have been to the Pacific
coast by one route and back by another. I
passed tbrongh 20 States and territories. I
talked with Eepublicans in all sections of
the country and I found that Blaine was
first in their thoughts and their hearts. He
is more popular now than he ever was.
Despite stories to the contrary Mr. Blaine's
health is good and no mau in the country
has brighter prospects."
M00NSHIHEHS UP HORTH.
The Mountains and Hills of Vermont In
fested With Them.
COBnmr,JVT., April 19. For several.'
years the mountains and hills in this sec
tion of Vermont have been infested with
gangs of moonshiners, who carried on their
unlawful business, and who hare up to
Wednesday avoided capture.
That aay, however, was a disastrous one
to illicit distillers of the ardent, and as a re
sult of tbe crait of Sheriff John Buzzell, of
Orange, and Sheriff Dan C. Jones, ot South
Eoyalton, four moonshiners will have to
answer to the law and one still has been
closed for a time at least
On Wednesday night the officers suspect
ing illicit distilling, surrounded Eastman's
house, near Corinth, and arrested him and
his son and Charles Barnes, tbe latter tend
ing tbe cider brandy still, which was iu full
operation. The prosecution was commenced
by State's Attorney Peckett Bradford, and
the trial is now in progress with 100 wit
nesses in attendance to prove sales of liquor.
Deputy Collector C. S. Forbes appeared on
the ground to-day and took possession of the
still, and the moonshiners will have to ap
pear also before the United States Court.
For Western Pennsyl
vania: Fair, North west
erly Winds, Stationart
Temperature, Except in
Southern Portion
Lower Temperature.
For OHip and West
Virginia: Fair, North
westerly Winds, 8lightly Cooler,
Except in Extreme Northern Ohio
Stationary Temperature.
Pittsbotkj, April 19.
The United States Signal Service officer in
this City furnishes the following:
Time.
8:00.1.. X....
Ther.
...66
Ther.
. 63
. "3
Mr. sr.
JOlOOA. M
U.OOA. u
12:00 Si 74
2:00 P. X.
tar. ji
Maximum temp....
Minimum; temn...,.
57
21
Me&otenrp..
Rainfall...
rvoujte..
67.5
SPECIAL WEATHEB BTOLETUf.
Severe Local Storms Prevailing Near Chi
cago and Ohio and Indiana.
IPBEFAIIXD FOB TUE DISPATCH.
The warm wave remained over the Middle
Atlantic States yesterday. It was also warm
in the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys, but de
cidedly cooler in Northern New York, and
throughout the lake regions. West to Minne
sota, the temperature throughout this entire
area registering close to 40 in tbe morn
ing, with about C0 for maximum The warm
est place was Montgomery, 86. Generally
clondy weather and rain covered the States
west of the -Mississippi. A storm area was
moving eastward from Kansas, and should
cause rain in tbe Mississippi Valley to-day.
There were indications last night of severe
local storms near Chicago and in Indiana and
Ohio. Fair weather prevailed in the Eastern
bait of the 'country, save for light rain in
Northern New England In the. morning. The
winds on the' Middle Atlantic 'and New Eng
land Coast were northwest, from IS to SO miles
an hour.
Blver Telegrams,
isrxcut- TXLxanAHg to the bisfat.!
"WABBEX-Rlver 3 feet and falling. Clear and
warm.
DnowKSViLLX Kirer S feet and falling. Ther
mometer, 75 at 4 P. M. Clear.
Moboasiowx River 5 'feet and stationary.
Thermometer, 64 at 7 r. M. Clean
Whiiliko Klver 9 feet and falllnr. Clear
and pleasant.
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. I.'alr and warm.
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