LIE OFJIMIHLS, Vell-KiiOTYii Pittslrargers Dis cuss the Advisability of a Penal Colony. A DIYEBSITY OP OPTION. Snperintendent Warner Favors It and Cites Local History. WAEDEN WEIGHT IS OPPOSED TO IT. Thomas M. Marshall TTonld Make the Ee peaters "Work or Staire. JUDGE EWEfGSEESDASGEEIXTIIE PLAN tWBiri5 IOB THE DISPATCH. Just ofter Henry Warner resigned as Su perintendent of the Allegheny County workhouse, and a few days before he left Claremont, he was telling me some incidents of his long ffiAP&Jvl)jtfl Pr"on- The con VSwHy TOfci. rersation broadened in scope when, from his valuable ex perience in the man agement of a large community of law- Benry Warner. breakers, llr. W ar er commenced to point out the benefits and disadvantages of our present policy in dealing -with criminals. So far as the pres ent penal system goes, he said, connty and Etate prisons are as nearly perfect as they can be. Carload after carload of prisoners come to Claremont from the two cities of Pittsburg and Allegheny, day in and day out. They must be kept out of the way of society, and they must be kept for nothing. The system of convict labor had been the outcome of this. That question iias been thrashed over and over again, and to some extent has righted itself, but out of it all has been evolved the present method of keeping these hordsi of offenders. The vorkhone, its shops, its farm and the routine of peaceful life there, all speak for themseles. Mr. "Warner assumed. As far a the law permits, he thinks, the manage ment of law-breakers has been successful. The Defect Mr. Warner See. "But our penal system has one fatal de fect," continued Superintendent Warner, ".ind the future generation will have that to remedy. It m3y be illustrated by the case of that prisoner'you see over yonder." We were sitting on the lawn in front of the workhouse. The convict the Superin tendent pointed out was pushing a wheel barrowful of boards. Back of him was a squad of men, and only one guad was in charge of them alL "That prisoner has been serving terms in the workhouse for the past nine years," Mr. Warner resumed. 'These terms have varied in length from two to twelve months each. He was gener ally sent here for some of the more common oOesseb, such as disorderly conduct, fight ing, petty thieving, or, perhaps, forth more serious grades of crime, such as bur glary, stabbing or the like. No doubt in every instance he was sentenced to the usual limit of the law, but in a comparatively short time he finished his term and was set free. Coming under our Btrict discipline so often, he knows what to expect, and we have, perhaps, less trouble with him than with a new-comer. We have scores of other prisoners like him. Some have been re peaters for more than nine years; others for less time. A Contented and Happy Man. Now, this prisoner, who has been sen tenced time alter time during nine rears. bears the record of being one of our best beha'ved inmates. He works diligently, obeys cheerfully, and, to all appearances, is contented and happy. At any rate, he is of some use to his fellow-men here, for we keep him employed at honest toil, and in many of his duties he actually contributes to the sustenanceof the other 700 prisoners. "But when he is free, when he is among rociety at large, he will not work, refuses to obey the law, becomes discontented and un happy, and is of no uc to his fellow-man. On the contrary, he becomes a pest to soci ety as well as dangerous to the public wel fare. I submit to j ou in all reason, when that man is a cheerful laborer here, when he bears the record of being one of our best be haved and most useful men, why should he be sent back into the open world at all? If I had a horse who is not fractious, but who serves me well, and who enjoys his stable and feed, would it not be wrong for me to send him adrift into some barren sand field, there to stay until he becomes wild and hun gry? In other words, should not that pris oner Be Put Away Forever From the outer world? If he is only useful and happy and good under restraints, then why not keep him isolated all the time un der mild restraints? Would It not be a kindness to him as well as a blessing for so ciety? My idea is that it is cruel totheman himself to send him away from a place where he works well and lives decently. In the world at large he is unable, either from total depravity or from mental weakness, to live peacefully or successfully. While he is away from this prison his life is a misera ble debauch, and he is the one, perhaps, who suffers most by it He never knows happi ness when he has freedom. But here he is cheerful and easy to manage, Look at him now." Once more glancing across the workhouse lawn I saw that the prisoner was alone. The squad had retired, and nowhere was a guard in sight Oddly enough he was whistling gajly to himself, end vigorously trudged here and there w ith his wheel-barrow. A freight train was passing on the WestPenn li&ilroad below, but the nine year "repeater" showed not the slightest disposition to jump it and escape. Mr. Warner continued: Send Them to an Island. "Ah, every time that man came back here on a sentence I felt that he should never have been allowed to go back into the world. Apparently the only success he is capable of is behind these high walls. For gueh men and women I would advise a new penal Eystein in the United States. I would have a department of the ifational Govern ment take charge of them, and where they have served three or more terms of impris onment, transport them to some isolated spot !ay an island and there let them live the remainder of their lives. Let them fraduate out of a prison-house there by good ehavior, and then give them a lot or farm, and teach them to be some use to them selves by building a home upon it; but keep them altogether, and isolate them from gen eral society forever. My word for it, they will be the happier ana the world at large all the better. "I am aware the leading objection to such a plan w ould be the supposed expense that w ould attach to it If I have been able to support prisoners here in this workhouse, surrounded by populous Allegheny county, for something like 37 cents a day, I think 51 a day would certainly cover all the sup port of prisoners on an island, who every year would approach nearer and nearer selt- support la the general benefit to society, Ws 5 in the lessening of police, court and prison expenses locally, the national expense could be easily borne." A Bather Severe View. "This is a hard thing to say, I know. Mankind will not thank you for telling it that there are some from whom liberty should be withheld. But I have seen these peculiar people for many years, and have tried to think of every phase of treatment for them, and it seems to me that crouned off to themselves in some secluded place mey migui live Dener lives, j. see no other way." Nearly a week after the foregoing conver sation with Mr. Warner, the following news item appeared in the news columns of The Dispatch: "Hello, Bogor.t exclaimed an elderly, flne looking woman, yesterday afternoon, as she reached out cor hand to the big Superinten dent of Polioe, at Central station. Her name is .Bridget iL Morris, ana she had just re turned from the workhouse and was shak ing hands with Inspector McAleeso and the detectives. "How many years have you been in the workhouso in'tlie last SO yearst" Inquired Ietotlve Coulson. "About 13 or 19 years, I reckon. But, law sakes, it's been the making of me, I'd been dead long ago If It wasn't for the works. It Just builds a person up." "Suppose you'll have to celebrate to-night, and we'll have you hero in the morning," remarked Inspector McAleese. On Her Way Bock Already. "Kot yet," replied the woman, "although I did get a good drink this afternoon, live got plenty of friends. Judge Gripp's a friend of mine. Why, last time ho only gave me SO davs." With that she toddled off and Inspector M oAleese said he did not believe there was any doubt that she would be in a cell before morning. "She always celebrates w hen she gets out and we give her five days to jailand then next tune we usually return her to the works." The stray news item was a striking con firmation of ex-Superintendent Warner's statement Would such an individual as described therein be reclaimed entirely by the transport system? It was an interesting field for thought To ' cuiajuragt: us uiscussiou x siaieu me suo stance of Mr. Warner' theory to Hon. Thomas Ewing, Thomas M. Marshall, Esq., Warden Wright, of the Penitentiary; George A. Kelley, President of the Peni tentiary Inspectors, and to W. D. Moore, Esq. 1 requested their views on the subject W. D. Moore replied orally that he be lieved a penal island, or colony, impractica ble. Mr. Kelley was unable to spare time to write his views. The replies of the other gentlemen are given below: WARDEN WRIGHT'S VIEWS.. The Head of the State Penitentiary in Alle gheny Argues That a Fcnal Colony is TJnwlso and Impracticable He Offers an Interesting Flan. Criminals of a far more dangerous type than those found at Claremont fill the cells and workshops of Riverside Peni tentiary in Alle gheny City. Yet there are "repeat ers" at the peniten tiary also. The Warden o f this prison, Captain Ed ward S. Wright, has spent & score of years and more in the management of the institution, and he has made every Warden Wright. phase of the penal problem a study. His connection vith ,the"",JTational Prison Association has brought hira into con tact, too, with many thinkers along that line. Eor these reasons Warden Wright's response fo the request for his views on what Mr. Warner terms a defect in our penal system, will be read with interest The Warden's communication is as follows: In the article upon prison treatment by Henry Warner, Esq., I see he proposes that habitual criminals 'be banished to a penal colony, to be established under control of the general Government The remedy, it seems to me, is worse than the "defect" in our present penal system, to which he re fers, and is alike unwise, impracticable and counter to the trend of civilization. Object of Criminal regulation. The object sought is the diminution in crime; to be reached by curing the 'criminal or by diminishing the number of convic tions by long terms of Imprisonment To reach the entire subject legislation isneeded to secure uniform administration of justice, and prisons should be so graded and classi fied that corrigible offenders may be helped in their efforts to a better life. Criminals are usually termed accidental or professional, as the facts seem to indicate. An accidental offender, who has committed a crime under impulse of sudden passion, poverty or sore temptation, as a rule strives to obey all prison rules, is anxious for use ful employment and desirous of earning all the benefits to be secured by good conduct not alone for present gain, but because he really hopes to make his first sentence the only one in his life. A professional crimi nal rarely evinces shame at his imprison ment, and his status in crime is quickly recognized by those who are accustomed to the habits and language or special phrases used by such men. Very few who are criminals by heredity or incorrigibility, ever withdraw from the life and habits of early dajs. Their lives are hard and they are to be pitied as fallen men, who often find in prison the best life thev ever knew. Many inmates of the various institutions are only guilty of petty crimes when drunk, yet they are so confirmed in vicious prac tices when able to secure liquor that there seems no other form of treatment than the one intended for confirmed criminals; in one of Mr. Warner's reports he defines the remedy as "permanent retirement for those who spend repeated terms in prison is best b,oth lor society and the criminal." The Cost of the Two Flans. " While the facts in the case demand cer tain and radical changes in prison treat ment, the number of habitual criminals has not reached proportions requiring change in all the remedial legislation of the past 70 years. The cost of a penal settlement, on an island, presumably in some distant sea, would far exceed the maintenance of such as may De aeemea naoituai criminals in a prison like the admirable institution at Claremont There, or wherever thev are within reach of friends, and under inspec tion ot many, and riot ot few officials, life may be gloomy, but not all sorrow, and the treatment, at all events, will not be barbar ous. I do not believe it is seriously pro posed to enter upon a system whose records reek with barbarity. Do we so soon forget the horrors of the Siberian prisons of Eus sia, or the penal colonies of Great Britain Prance and Spain? Before it is seriously discussed, I hope that all who are interested in the subject will seek exact information on the matter; when they do this, I am per suaded the verdict will be in the language ot Archbishop Whitely, who declared trans portation "a system begun in defiance of all reason, and continued in defiance of all ex perience." I believe that all sentences to imprison ment should be steadily cumulative, and shall briefly outline my theory. The term of sentence for an offender supposed to be in custody for a first crime shall be left to the Court, in the hope that it will be as merciful as the facts in the case may seem to justify. If recognized, when he reaches the prison, as a repeater, the sentence should be remitted to the Court for correction, no matter whether the term of court in which the sentence was imposed has expired or not Sentences are not recon sidered after the term ends now. Por a sec ond offense the sentence should be Jhefull extent of the law. but in everv case nriennors .should oe permitted to receive privileges and reductions granted as a reward for-good conduct The Indefinite Term Idea. All third-terra or habitual criminals should be sentenced indeterminately, that is without time, and not be subject to re lease or parole until the maximum termfor a second crime has been served, and only then if he has given evidence of true reformation. Even then he should be held as in legal cus tody and be Subject to return to prison for relapse into crime, so that he is in facta prisoner for life. But hope of release from confinement within walls should be possible for all prisoners. In mv indetnent even J life prisoners should have the boon of con ditional release after imprisonment of say 16 years; in some countries this is already recogmzea ior me prisoners. Every person should be permitted most people would say, hould be compelled to earn the cost of his food, clothes and medi cines. After paying this I would think it wise and humane to permit anysurplustobe paid to the family or dependent relations, without deduction of costs of prosecution, as that practically takes alL Ifhe has no one needing his Help it should be saved as a fund for his personal benefit when dis charged, and even then only disbursed in, small sums until expended. Beleased pris oners need help until able to start for them selves;, but many need to be kept aware of the fact that they are only entitled to the privileges of a common manhood, and after a very Brief period must look to their own labor for future support Edwaed S. Weight. MR. MARSHALL'S APPROVAL. He "Would Isolate a Hardened Criminal, Give Him Ground, Tools and a Pall of Seed, and Tell Him to Scratch for a liv ing or Else Starve. The views of HonThomas M. Marshall, the criminal latvycr, on the question of a better penal system, will be read with a de gree of curiosity. It is well known that he is opposed to capital punishment Just to what extent, therefore, Mr. War ner's theory of penal isolation would offer a 'substitute for hanging, for in stance, was one of the questions which Thomas'M.Jirarthaa. it was .expected "Glorious OldTom" would talk about And he did. He said to me: "Our penal system to-day is rotten. Por s great many years I have been an advocate of the colony plan. In the Pacific Ocean are a number of islands so completely iso lated that they would serve such a purpose admirably. Suppose a man, commits a crime possibly murder. Don't hang him, and if it is his first offense, make his pun ishment lenient We are all liable to sud den passion. When evil is done thereby, take the man in his soberer moments and point out to him the great gulf at the edge of which he stood. It will cure him, and the probabilities are that he will not commit murder again. Pirst offenses should always be dealt kindly with. "But if he does kill a second time then he should be nut nwav forever where he will never have the opportunity to' endanger a law-abiding people. Perhaps he va.j be rich. If so let the Court set aside his prop erty and fortune for the benefit of his wile and children, or, better still, divide it equally between his family and the family 'of some dead man. Then take that man. ba 'he'rich xr poor", transport him ttf-one'of these isolated islands, apportion hint offta plot of ground, give him a set of tools and a pail of seed, then tell him to scratch and live for himself or else die, but give him to under stand that he must stay there. A Case in Point "The notorious Ed Coffee, the Pittsburg murderer, was a type of the class of men I mean. His outlawry indicated that he was dissatisfied with the makeup of this world. Society did not suit him as it existed, and he rebelled. Instead of hanging him I would have said: "You don't like the way things are run here, therefore we will not have you stay longer.' Isolated from gen eral society, and among people of his stamp, the chances are he would have had some chance to improve his life thereafter. Put away somewhere where there are no laws and among a Jot of desperadoes, many of whom were more dangerous than himself, he would have very soon recognized the necessity of making laws, and preserving them, too. He would have to do so for self protection. This is the history of penal colonies heretofore tried. Look at Austra lia and New Zealand, for example civilized countries peopled with good citizens, the outgrowth of penal colonies. Lincoln's Reconstruction Policy. "After the War of the Rebellion Thad Stevens, Henry Winter Davis and others said that Abe Lincoln was all wrone in his theory of Reconstruction. Henry Winter Davis, Thad Stevens and others argued like this! 'We will not receive back Virginia as a State, or South Carolina as a State, or North Carolina as a State, because they are not States. f A State is formed of territory and loyal citizens. The citizenS of Virginia South Carolina or North Carolina must first satisfy us of their loyalty before we can re-'l eeive tnem DacK as states.' "And just in the same wayl would govern a penal colony of the United States. Iso late these criminals of two or more offenses as so manv disloval citizen. Sn-o- n v, as a colony: 'Whenever yon satisfy us of your loyalty you are welcome to citizenship and participation in the Government, but not until then.' It is manifest that with such liberality in policy the penal experi ment would result in no second Siberia. "Expensive? No, it could not approach the present expensive judicial system of th country. Just think of what the operations in yon Court House this single day are cost ing the county of Allegheny," and Mr. Marshall paused in the interview, as he pointed from his office window to tne mass ive building of granite across Diamond street A Few Figures on Courts. "Serving at this very hour in the various courts over yonder are 150 jurors and wit nesses." he continued. inroressivelT "Fncfc receives J2 per day, or $300 for this day alone. There is a Sheriff getting a salary of ?5,Q00 per annum, who is allowed 22 deputies at good salaries. In a short time there will be 11 judges sitting there each receiving ?6,000, or 566,000 a year for the judges. Add to that the rate of interest on the $2,000,000 invested in those big build ings and you have some idea of what the administration of the law is costing the country. Sir, the expense of the judicial system to-day is sapping at the vitals of the American workingmen. "A colony system would certainly reduce these heavy expenses. The -benefits to so ciety wonld be so great that whatever ex penses would attach to a colony would be cheerfully faid, and eventually the prison ers would support themselves. .Mr. Marshall is also a believer in the public whipping post for some of the smaller grades of offenses, as he demonstrated in this illustration from his vast experience in legally dealing with the darker side of so ciety, and as told in his characteristlo way: A Case for tlie Whipping Post "Saturday afternoon Bill spends his meager earnings of the week in somo low dive," said Mr. Marshall. "He gets drunk and quarrelsome, and finally tries to whip a cronie of the barroom, but he's too tipsy and. gets whipped' himself. Pull of re vengeful, ugly feelings, he staggers home. There he sees Nancy and the children. He knows he can whip Nancy and not get hurt, Continued on Tenth JPags. HTTSBUBg; SUKDAY, JOKE . T, 1891 , ' ' M DK.; BRIGGS' BELIEFS Are Very Hard to Understand From His Eiecenl Utterances. IF HE SUSTAINS THE STANDARDS He Had a Queer Way of Saying So In His Inaugural Address. HOT BEAYE ENOUGH FOE A HEEEHO wmiTjur ron the dispatch. Now that the General Assembly of the great Presbyterian Church in America has uttered its voice, and the obstreperous Dr. Brlggs has had its yeto placed upon his ap pointment to the Chair of Biblical Theology in the Union Theological Seminary, it may be a relief to the readers of The Dispatch whose nerves have been-drawn to a danger ous tension over the startling revelations j-brought, to the knowledge of the vulgar populace in connection with the SirGordon-Cummings-Prince of Wales baccarat scandal, to be informed of the real nature of the Briggs matter and the causes which have led up to the present untoward results. Here, then, is the case in as few words as I can possibly put it, and at the same time give any intelligent presentation of the matter. Por 17 years prior to his transference to the Chair of Biblical Theology, Dr. Briggs had been quietly and acceptably filling the Chair of "Hebrew and Cognate Languages" in the same institution. By his studious methods and fluent pen he had won for him self an enviable reputation as a student of the Scriptures. His published writings have always attracted attention as in every way worthy of the man and the abundant opportunities afforded him in his special calling. His recent articles on the revision of the standards of the Presbyterian Church were to the minds of many unanswerable in their logic, and proved effective in drawing very many To the Advocacy of Revision. To me his criticisms seemed thoroughly reasonable and scriptural, and, I am free to confess, facilitated me in forming my con clusions as to the imperative need of a cnange in many particulars in tne autnora tive statements of Presbyterian belief. Por many years a growing conviction had taken possesion of my mind that the Westminster divines were very fallible in their judg ments ana exceedingly narsn ana unscrip tural in their conclusions. It is now confi dently, and with considerable more com placency than is pleasing to nie, asserted that by the unfortunate break of Dr. Briggs, revision has received a blow from which it is not likely soon to recover. If that is the case I am very sorry for it, for if there is anything that needs to be straightened out and pruned, and modified and eliminated, and qualified and reversed, it is that same Confession of Paith in many of its state ments. Well, so far, all my sympathies were with Dr. Briggs and the stand that he had taken. But when it comes to his inaugural address on the occasion of his installation ' in the professorship of Biblical Theology last Jan uary, I feel a reluctance, as do many of his sincerest admirers, to follow him in his meanderings and dogmatizings, especially since he took it all back in his subsequent categorical replies to the pointed interroga tories of the directors of the same instltu- lilUU. vl fN5-j-. jaejinauty or tne moms, .t Before I consent to "spoil the Egyptians' and start forth into the wilderness in search of the' promised' land I want to be assured that our Moses will not desert us at the Bed Sea, just when Pharoah and his hosts have caugnt up with us. Ho man maces a good heretic unless he is prepared to stick to his statements through thick and thin, and even giye stronger emphasis to them when called to account To me the strong point in Ser vetus favor, when Calvin and his coadjutors had decided to burn him, was that he pro tested with all earnestness against such a cruel fate, and expressed his great dread of it, but at the same time-assured his relent less persecutors that he believed every word which determined his fate; and even amid the flames insisted that he could not believe otherwise. Had Dr. Briggs declined to recant, and beside, not recanted, as he certainly did in effect when he answered those questions of the directors; and had he, like a man of courage and steadfast convictions, gone boldly to Detroit and confronted his ac cusers, I verily believe that the vote would not have been so beggarly small in his de fense, while his admirers throughout the land would have had more heart to stand by his cause. The unfortunate utterance of Dr. Briggs on the occasion referred to, as his friends generally regard them, or his heretical doctrines, as his most zealous op ponents pronounce them, do not to the or dinary mind present themselves as either very unfortunate nor dangerously hetero dox. The Elasticity of Language. 'The fact is. those who have never shown any sympathy with the man or his opinions freely concede that they were capable of be ing stated intelligibly in language such that not the slightest taint of heresy would at tach to them. That there is a broad de batable territory between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, by reason of the tricks which the English tongue will occasionally prac tice upon us, is only too apparent from the vexatious controversies which have been waged in ecclesiastical assemblies over the utterances of some unlucky tneo logic wlght which were not pitched in the same key with that in which his inerrant brethren were wont to render them. The trouble in which Dr. Briggs has in volved himself was not so much on account of any bald heresies uttered by him, but rather because of what his opponents regard as an arraignment of Protestantism, and his ill-tempered attacks upon the accepted teachers of the Church lor whose ministry he had been selected to train young men. After having deliberately taken the oath to defend the standards of the Church he seem ingly attacked several of its tenets, and in general spoke deprecatingly of attachment to creeds and dogmas. Without going into details, or attempting to defend or refute his statements, they may be briefly summed up as follows; His Confidence In Reason. In declaring that there were "Three trreat .fountains of divine authority the Bible, the jnurcn ana tne .tteason, his adversaries contend that he treated all these as co ordinate, and of equal authority; that any one of them independently could be depend ed upon to assure one s salvation. He seemed to argue that by the exercise of pure reason independently of the Church or Bible man can find trust and rest in God. He charges Protestantism with substituting for the Word of God "The authority of a Prot estantf rule of faith," and with "enveloping the Bible with creeds and ecclesiastical de cisions." All of which seemed out of place in one Who was about to undertake to train men far service in the church which stood by these offensive creeds and decisions. Then he seemed to his antagonists to un duly depreciate the attachment which Prot estants in common were wont to manifest toward the Holy Scriptures, an attachment which he styled as "Bibliolatry." As to "Verbal Inspiration," he scouts at the idea, and stands up merely for the inspiration of tho "concept," notwithstanding his affirma tion that the "Bible was the only infallible rule of faith and practice." As to the au- thorship of the Bible he maintains thnt "the great mass ofthe Old Testament was written by authors whose names or connection with their writings are lost in oblivion." Authors of the Old Testament. In opposition to the accepted belief of the great mass orthe writers and thinkers in the church with which he stands con nected, he goes on to deolare that "Mosea did not write the Pentateuch or Job; Ezra did not write the Chronicles, Ezra or Nehe miah; Jeremiah did not write the Kings or Lamentations; David did not -write tho Psalter, but only a few of the Psalms; Solo rnon did not write the Song of Songs, or Ecclesiastes, and only a portion of the Proverbs; Isaiah did not write half of the book that bears his name." Then, in faoe of the fact that he bad just avowed his be lief in the infallibility of the Scriptures, he proceeds to arraign his brethren in gen eral for setting up a barrier to keep men away, m the ''dogma of the inerrenoy ofi scripture." Says he: "So far as I can see, there are errors in the Scriptures that no one has been able to explain away," a state ment which hardly corresponds with .the solemn oath which he had just taken, nor "with his answers subsequently made to the "uiure oi tne seminary. -As to "Predictive Prophecy," he boldly asserts "Many of these predictions have been reversed by history;" and that "tne great body of the Messianio prediction has not only never been fulfilled, but cannot now be fulfilled, for the reason that its own time has passed forever." Antagonized Church Standards. And so I might go on quoting from this address in proof of the fact that however much he might protest his loyalty to the standards of belief of his church, his po sition was undoubtedly that of open antag onism to the very doctrines to which he had professed adherence. Those who harshly reflect upon the Gen eral Assembly for refusing to confirm the appointment of this man, and charge that body with persecuting him for his liberal sentiments, are very wide of the mark in their misstatements. Dr. Briggs is to-day a minister in full standing in the Presby terian Church, whose functions have not been impaired in the slightest by this action of the Assembly. In the exercise of its authority it has simply declined to confirm his appointment to the Chair of Biblical Theology in Union .Seminary, as they had anundoubted right to do by the compact existing between them, on the grounds of nis contusing and ambiguous ana contra- uiciury statements, wnicn prove mm unnt in the estimation of the Assembly to occupy such a responsible position, in which he would be expected to maintain the integ rity of the Scriptures and, in addition, that the Confession of Paith should be sincerely received and taught by him "as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures." Two Horns of the Dilemma. If Dr. Briggs sincerely believes in the doctrines set forth in great prominence in his famous inaugural address he oughtneyer to nave Dacxea water, as ne seems to nave done in his subsequent utterances; or if, as his friends insist, he did not mean to arraign the teachings of his church, nor to assert anything derogatory to the integrity of the standards, then his position is very far from satisfactory to such as sympathize with his criticisms on dogmas which de served to be exploded a long time ago: while such as cling to these time-honored beliefs are not prepared to hand over to one whose position is so equivocal the prepara tion of those who are to carry forward the standards of this important wing of the one great army of the living God. In the midst of peace and the greatest de gree of prosperity Dr. Briggs raised this issue and forced its decision upon the high est court of Cthe hurch, and now that it has been boldly met and effectually settled, no intelligent lover of the cause in which this church is engaged has the slightest fears that her onward progress will be impeded in the least, and let it not be forgotten that the friends of revision have yet in Israel multitudes -of champions who have not, nor are they in dancer, of bowin? the knpn tn JnaW v mt tJLSi J30HEHO0w 4 CHASED BY A HABEAS C0BEUS 17311. A Bemarkable-Contest in Progress Over a Banker Prisoner. ' Chicago, June 6. Banker Charles E. Cook, of Juneau, "Wis, is being driven across, the country through the rain. Pol lowing him is a United States Deputy Marshal with a Pederal writ of habeas cor pus, which, if served, will again delay Cook's removal from Chicago. Cook was arrested two months ago on a requisition charging' him with illegal Ibanking at Hartford and Juneau. Before the messenger from Wisconsin could take his man out of the State a writ of habeas cor pus, issued by Judge Baker, prevented further proceeding. Hearing on the writ was postponed from time to time, and the last argument was not finished until this morning. Judge Baker then remanded Cook to the Sheriff's custody. In obedience to the requisition, that officer gave the man to Deputy SheriffPratt, of Wisconsin, and the party at once drove away from the county building. Cook's friends hurried to the Pederal Court, and there obtained another writ Only 20 minutes after the banker had been hurried away from the Sheriff's oflice Deputy Marshal Poster came in with the papers. He took a carriage and the chase began. Pnrther 'particulars of the local prosecution of the Cook case is something of a surprise, for a week ago dispatches from "Wisconsin announced that criminal pro ceedings would be discontinued because Cook had turned over his property to the bank creditors; WALLEB. "Wnj; STAY AT HOME. The Government Declines to Fay His Ex penses on the Foreign Junket. Chicago, June 6. Hon. Thomas M. "Waller, it is announced, will not go to Europe with the great "World's Pair junket ing party. "Waller wants to go, but he is not willing to undertake the trip at his own expense. Mr. "Waller learned last night from Secretary Poster that the Government would not pay his expenses. Mr. "Waller is Pirst Vice President ofthe National Commission, and under the laws of that body he is a national officer. As such he cannot draw a salary for two offices. The .Treasury Department rules that the" payment of Governor "Waller's expenses while abroad is equivalent to paying nim so much salary. The diplomatist is unwilling to resign as Pirst Vice President, hence he cannot go to Europe. an janramiTm taps two tills. j The Police Clerk of Toledo Victimizes Hla City and an Insurance Company. Toledo, June 6. The grand jury tnis morning reported four charges of embezzle ment against Police Clerk "William H. Cook, of this city. Three counts charge him with appropriat ing city funds to the sum of $20,000, and the fourth of embezzling f2,000 belonging to the Equitable Xife Insurance Company of New York, while acting in the capacity of agent. Cook is in jail, unable to procure bail. . THE HJHDS 60 TO U'OASTHY. An Injunction to Bostraln Dillon and O'Brien Money Being Sent Denied. New Yosk, June 6. Judge Bartlett, of the Kings County Supreme Court, rendered a decision to-day' upon the application of Mr. O'Neil to enjoin Eugene Kelly, the Treasurer of the fund raised at the Dillon and O'Brien meeting in this city, from sending the money to Justin McCarthy and others. The application for a preliminary injunc tion is denied. SlcrLT.iAir awnings, absolutely sun-fast, at Mamaux & Son's, 639 Penn avenue. Tele phone 1372. EensixqxoxJ Kensington! Kensington! r ' , -- HIS HANDS AEE TED. 1 B T 1 1 I "r?llha. tUn Charles L. Davis Declares He Has m ft r Hit 1 " fl til " ' Nothing to Do With the J r r i n: TO JmbMr I f ms employed at his theateb. f EAST LIBERTY IHrl3i(BI i 1 mKSi-r"wilm 11 Hi His Contraors Hold Him to His Bonds, - 1 Is CCKITGL - SRE xLI!!' ii.Oll and He Can't Cut loose. H lJ3C3l0jttnn.f aleeadx toeeatmed tvith stjits I 1 Q n T W Mfl. . lJ!m"l'Sj rji( Charles L. Davis, "Alvin Joslyn," is a ' O X """"" "t (iljfrffl W -gBsSvr V 1 JllriY I much worried man; so is his architect and m ' EAST LIBERTY jfjjf ojjSf . WOULDN'T SATJS BELIEVED THEY NEVER SAY DE. Close of Dr. McAllister's Argument for Pittsburg Presbytery. SILE5CE IS SOMETIMES GOLDEN A'Wide Eange Allowed a Covenanter If He KeepiiaoutliShut THE DEFENSE WffiL EEJOK TO-MORROW As a large number of B. P. ministers were billed to fill pulpits- to-day and were excused in consequence, the attendance was light at the Synod yesterday. Dr. McAllis ter resuming, said the facts had simply been presented in the several cases and it was-remarkable that the appellants had admitted that they were guilty of political dissent and non-incorporation. It ia admitted' that these tenets are correct, but they con tend that the phurch should no$ insist on holding them as a term of communion. This makes theline distinct between the Presby tery and JhaPkst End platform, and these are the basio principles of iHe Covenanter Cnrorcb. TTo are not allowed to have fel lowship with the unfruitful works of dark ness, and the Church has made this a term of communion, as much as political dissent and non-incorporation. To deny that there was any evidenoa of organization among the young men was next to an insult to the intelligence of Synod. ' Twenty years ago, in this church, they had taken the oath to stand by the Covenants of the Church, and to-day they were called to face the same question. As to the basis of settlement offered the young men, it is the only one the Church can offer; it is the covenant sworn to in this- church 20 years ago, and here it is in section 3: The Oath of Twenty Tears Ago. Persuaded that God Is the source of all legitimate power; that He has Instituted civil government for His own glory and the good of ma"n; that He has appointed His Son, tho Mediator, to headship over the na tions, and that the Bible Is the supremo law and rule in national as In all other things, wo will maintain the responsibility of na tions to God, the rightful dominion of Jesns Christ over the commonwealth, and tho obligations of nations to legislate in con formity with the written word. We take ourselves sacredly bound to regulate' all our civil relations, attachments, professions and deportment, by our alle giance and loyalty to the Lord, our King, Lawgiver and Judge; and by this, our oath, we are pledged to promote the Inter ests of publio order and Justice, to support cheerfully whatever is for the good ofthe commonwealth In which we dwell, and to pursue this object In all things not forbidden by the law of God, or Inconsistent with pub lic dissent from an unscriptural and Immoral civil power. We will pray and labor for the peace and welfare of our country, and for its reformation by a constitutional recognition of God. as the source of all power, of Jesus Christ as the Buler of Nations, of the Holy Scriptures as tho supreme rule, and of the true Christian religion; and we will continue to refuse" to Incorporate by any act, with tbe political body, until this blessed reformation has been secured. Dr. McAllister diverged sufficiently to pay his respects to those who desecrate the first day ofthe week, not omitting thePost master General, and asked if tne Chnrch were not in the right in insisting on a sus- Sension of these infractions. The olumbian Exposition also came in for a touching up. Continuing. Dr. McAllister said the "Efl.it End platform assailed these positions, and the evidence was before the Presbytery that the young men had not been faithful to them. Bev. J. S. T. Milligan raised the point that there had been no evidence on this point before the Synod. Dr. McAllister Drops the Question. Dr, McAllister said he would drop the question, Bev. O. B. Milligan objected, saying that he could bring testimony to prove the con trary. To this Bey. J. S. T. Milligan objected that no new testimony could be heard. Dr. McAllister went on to say that he honored the men who had left the Church. They were consistent and the rest of the suspended should have followed their ex ample and not have remained in it with in tent to revolutionize it Bev. -J. a T. ililligan suggested the word "reform" for "revolution." Accepting the correction, Dr McAllister asked how it was to be reiormed. It must be done regularly. -Overtures should be made and the Church provided means and methods therefore. But individuals pro posed to do it, and in the Eighth Street Church three members, influenced by what theyhavo read and heard, exercssed the right to vote at civil elections and had been suspended. He said it was not reform but revolution, revolt and an assault on the B, P. Church. He objected to any reform whioh abrogated the principles of political dissent and non-incorporation. I)r. Mc Allister said the accused referred to him as their teacher, and admitted that he had been, adding that he had taught them and studied these principles 25 years and might possibly be obliged to study them 25 years more, and suggested that it might be more modest for the young men to study the w IT TWEUTT 7EASS AOd. doctrines a little longer say 25 years be fore deciding that he was wrong. Accused of Schism and Sectarianism. They had followed him up to a certain point, and decided that beyond that he wa wrong. He charged them with schism and sectarianism. It would moke the church the same as the United Presbyterian Church, and yet keep the two bodies apart. "Is not that dividing the body of Christ?" Dr. McAllister said he did not propose to fetter any man's thought, but freedom of thought must be restricted in expression; the latter must be balanced by law and must depend on the law regulating the particu lar subject of expression. He referred to the case of Vallandingham, who was punished, not for his thoughts, but for the expression of them. Anything said to aflf ct the peace and order of government or society to which the speaker belongs is wrong and should be punished, and herein the Bast End platform offended. Dr. McAllister said if there were anything wrong in the sermon he had preached 20 years ago or in his course since, he was ready to be libeled. TJte Church had never changed and the course of the young men alone had brought about this unfortunate state of things. As to the sentence of Presbytery, if the young men "had, when they were found guilty ot loiiawing divisive courses, ac- Knowieagea their error, it would have ended. The,jsenreace was la. conformity with the word as well as the rules of disci pline. They say theyVere only suspended from the ministry of the B. P. Church. This is not true. They were suspended from the exercise of ministerial duties. Dr. McAllister called on MlssMcConnell, of McKeesport, to make a statement, but Bev. J. B. Thompson objected, holding that it was no time for the hearing of wit- BCSSCSa Dr. McAllister I wish to reply to that, and the Moderator will decide. Caused a Small-Sized Tempest. ' Bev. Mr. Thompson Oh, yes, of course he will decide in your favor. A number of men rose to their feet and called for an apology from Mr. Thompson, and Prof. D. B. "Wilson moved that Mr. Thompson withdraw his remark and apol ogize. Mr. Thompson said his remark was prompted because Dr. .McAllister had said the Moderator would side with him. Dr. McAllister angrily called on Mr. Thompson to repeat his statement, when the latter said: 'Imay have been wrong, and I withdraw my remark." In conclusion Dr. McAllister said that he wanted to say that interdenominational courtesy had been violated in this case. Congregations should not have allowed' these men to occupy their pulpits, ae by so doing they put a premium on law breaking and were discourteous to the B. P. Church and the Pittsburg Presbytery. Dr. McAllister concluded at 12 o'clock, after a six hours' argument. The accused have a whole week before them when they commence their rejoinder to-morrow morn ias. All efforts of sensationalists to give proceedings a lurid tint have failed of late, J as uoiu Blues uavo gubieu uuwu tu tueir pomace and recognize that they have hard work before them, with a long time be tween drinks. Basinets ofthe Afternoon Session. Yesterday's afternoon session was a short one and devoted to devotional exercises and the consideration of routine business. The letter of resignation from the B. P. Semin ary of Bev. Prof. McClurKin and his with drawal from the It. P. Church was referred to briefly, but left on the table for further consideration. Prof. D. B. "Wilson, Chair man of the Committee on Sabbath Schools, offered a report. It recommended the pub lication of monthly and quarterly lesson papers by the uentral uoara, ana that the board digest plans to effect this and present them to the next meeting of the Synod. This was amended that a committee of seven be appointed to attend to the matter instead ofthe board. Amotion was carried that seven delegates from the Synod be ap pointed to attend the National Temperance Convention to be held at Saratoga in July. A Resolution was offered by Bev. D. O. Martin, complimenting and thanking Bev. Dr. McAllister in behalf ot the Synod for his painstaking care and fruitful labor in collecting and ar ranging the sacred musio of the Church and preparing an 'index of the Psalms. The resolution was carried. A number of Presbyterial records were examined, after which the Synod adjourned until to-morrow morning. A KAN COOKED ALIVE. He rell Into a Tank Fined "With Dolling "Water at an Iron Mill. ErXCIAI. TZLXOSAM TO TUX PISFATCn. SiEUCEKVim:, June 6.' A horrible ac cident happened at the Mingo Iron "Works Friday ofternooD, while "William Criss and his helper, Albert Gusky, were putting a steel rail through" the rolls Back of the roller was a tank filled with boiling water, containing sulphuric acid. Into this tank Gusky accidentally tell, and was completely submerged, except one leg. "Criss immediately pulled his helper out of his boiling bath, and, with assistance, carried him to a cool water tank. Gusky's sufferings were frightful. The greater part of his body was either burned or literally cooked. His chances for recovery are small. ' Kensington! Kensington! Kensington!. Come to Kensington "Wednesday, June 10. Charles Xt. Davis, "Alvin Joslyn," is a much worried man; so is his architect and his contractor and, in fact, so is every per son concerned In the erection of the Alvin Theater, on Sixth street. It is all owing fo the strike. Mr. Davis is worried be cause he can't get his building erected more rapidly; because he is charged with being inimical to union men, whereas he has, from the commencement,expressed his sym-' pathy and declared his preference for or ganized workmen; and because he has al ready been served with notice by Howe Ss Hummel, the New York lawyers, acting on behalf of the managers of two companies, that they will hold him to his contract to play in his house during the month of Sep tember. "W. Ev'Beed, the architect, is wor ried because everybody else is, and Douglas Heckman, of B. C. Ballinger & Co., who have the general contract, is very wroth be cause he is falsely accused of seeking to em- . ploy non-union workmen and because he will be either sued or, have to sue himself if ha does not get his work finished on data. He' Has 2fohoir to Dictate. Was ever anything more preposterous," exclaimed Mr. Davis yesterday afternoon, as he glanced around his unfinished theater, "than the accusation brought against me that I don't want to employ union labor! "Why, I have no more to do with employing men on this building than the man in the moon, and have as niuch to say as to who shall or who shall not work here as the policeman on the corner has. I have de dared at the start, and reiterate It now, that I wish union men to get the preference of all work on this job. But I have nothing whatever to do with their employment. In this matter I am tied hand and foot Mr. Heckman here," indicating that gentleman who was by, "has entered into-bonds with me for the fulfilment of this contract, and I don't sup pose he is prepared to allow me to interfere with him. In fact, he has told me he will not suffer me to depart from my agreement with him under penalty of a suit for dam ages for breach thereof." "I told Mr. Davis," Mr. Heckman inter posed, "that I would not allow him to inter fere in any way with the progress of tha work, and in point of fact as long as we are executing the work to the satisfaction of his architect he has no business here at alL "We want to employ union men, and none but union men. and are working to-day with none but men who are thoroughly union, and when we failed to get men in Pittsburar McCandless & Kinser, the sub-contractors for the brick work, brought on a dozen men belonging to the Bricklayers' Union ia Philadelphia, but they were stolen from us when they arnveo. Paying Nothing for Non-Union Men. "The strikers charse that we-sou?ht to bring non-union men here,but that is a false hood, we have not paid a cent toward bringing any men to the town, and we don't propose to. The Builders' Exchange has guaranteed to see us through this job, and we io-js. u; mat poav n una us union jaear lo uo UJB rvrji. xuuy eaj vsey-goa ao it, and we are looking for them; we want no other. "We have 40 men working here now, and they are all Pittsburgers, excepting jthe foreman. Of these 16 ore boss bricklayers, and if a master bricklayer employing union journey, men is not counted in as a union man, X want to know who is. "When the leaders of the men on strike came to me about this iob I told them that if they would assume the contracts and give bonds for the due per formance of the work I would take the job from the Builders' Exchange and give it to them." ""What did they say?" "Xhey said they couldn't lurnish the bonds, and so we continued to carry on the .work under the guarantee of the Exchange. This is purely a matter of business. Mr. Davis is bound to us and we to him, and we expect he will hold us to our contract just as we propose to hold him to his. "We shall make every effort to get the work dona on time." Between Satan and the Deep Sea. "And meanwhile," said Mr. Davis, "look at the position I am placed in. lam charged with keeping union men out of the job and employing scabs, when I have absolutely no power one way or the other. I come into the town, buy a lot, put up a theater at a cost of 5150,000, the sayings of a lifetime, which will give employment to 67 people and benefit the city just so much, and yet am blackguarded and spoken of as if I had perpetrated a crime. I want union men to do the work, and to do it at once, because if I don't open on the 1st of September I shall have to face suits for breaches of contract with managers. I have already been served with two notices by Howe & Hummel that they will hold me to dates tor the first weeks in September. I consulted my lawyers as to the possibility of taking the contract away from Ballinger & Co., but they advised me that if I did I would " leave myself open to a big suit for damages. So what have I to do?" The Builders' Exchange has pledged itself to see that the Alvin theater is erected on time, and the appearances are that it will. Mr. Swartz, ofthe Strike Committee, re ported yesterday that all the unions repre sented in the Carpenters' Council had yoted on the question of continuing the strike. Over 1,500 men, Mr. Swartz says, voted, and they were all practically unanimous for con tinuing it. Excursion to Cleveland. On Monday, June 13, and morning trains of Tuesday, June 16, the Pittsburg and Lake Erie Bailroad will sell tickets to Cleveland and return at $3 each, gooeffor-return up to and including Sunday, June 21. zhpsa See Display Advertisement Telling about Kensington. Page 10. 35o Floor Oil Cloth at 15c Elegant patterns, too. This is lower than you buy 'em elsewhere, but not lower, pro portionately, than we offer yon carpets in ingrain, brussels and velets this week. ' J. H. KUKKEL & BKO., 1347-1349 Penn avenue. KensingtonI Kensington! Kensington! Wheeling, W. Va. The B. & O. B. B. will sell excursion tickets to "Wheellngevery Sunday at rate of $1 50 the round trip. Train leaves depot at 8:30 A. M, Kenshtgxojt Large ady't, third page. Uuexceixed for flavor -Iron City Brewery's Pilsner Beer. On tap in first ck&sbars. Tree Train "Wednesday, June 10, Tb Kensington. Bee advt, page 3. fy J2 I son concerned In the erection of the Alvin Household goods packed and stored. . JM HatJch & Kees-ajj, 33 and 34 "Water si, fM 8a j yB Buy r Lot at Kensington. AVS Bee large advt. Page 10 to-day; ." Wm A t .1 A i 3H sit . m8h
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