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A NEWJOVE
Crisp atWortfortheBest
- Interests of Party
and- Country.
NOVEL TARIFF BASIS
Outlined by Mr. Springer, Who-ls to
Succeed McKinley.
NO MORE MILLS BILL FOR HIM.
Manufacturers to Be Seen -Before Duties
Are Ciangei
No Tariff Bill to Bo Reported In Its En
tiretyThe Raw Materials to Be Fa
voredIt All Depends Upon Next
Year's Election Whether There Will
Be Any New Bill Other Proposed
Departures From Precedence Com
mittees Not to Be Named on the
Lines Followed lor Many Years
The New Speaker Thinking for Him
selfOne of the Most Accessible
Men in Washington.
srxciAL TEtrGRAPnic better.
Bcueau of The Dispatch. )
WASHHtoiror, D. C, Dec. 10.
Speaker Crisp is not spreading his
confidences around piomiscuously just at
present, but enough has been intimated
in the past 24 hours to indicate what will
be his policy in the important matter of
tariff reform. It seem1! now pretty well
assured that Mr. Springer, of Illinois, and
not Mr. Mills.will be the head of the "Ways
and Means Committee ior the next two
years. The significance of this is that the
purpose of the Speaker is to have tariff
reform, without substituting an entirely
new measure for the McKinley act.
It is known that Mr. Mills favors action
by this Congress in the shape of a compre
hensive revision of the tariff on the lines
of tho former Mills bill. It is of course
understood that such a measure, no matter
how favorably received by the House,
would not pass the Senate, nor be approved
by President Harrison. But it would de
fine the tariff istue specifically as it exists
between the two parties, and upon these
lines the Presidental battle of next year
would be fonght.
Springer's Ideaof aNeTrTarlfrBlIl.
Mr. Springer is committed to another
plan, namely, the parage of separate bills
to reach what he regards as proper to be
repealed in the McKinley act atthissession,
but to proceed carefully in the preparation
of a general bill.
"My Met of a tariffbill," lie said to-day,
"is to have the Committee on -Manufactures
sub-divide itself into commjttees, and make
a tour of the country early next year,
collecting information respecting all manu
facturers and the respect in which they are
benefited by protection, or by the introduc
tion of the free raw material. After all
this infoimation has been gathered it can
be passed over to the "Ways and Means
Committee, and used in formulating a tariff
bill that can be prepared during the recess
and be ready for presentation at the lirst
day of the next Fession. If the elections,
which will then have passed, result in Re
publican success, w e will not present the
bill. If, on the other hand, a Democratic
President is elected, as I think one will be,
we will push the measure at once.
".Inpuficlu-ers to Ho Cotiulted.
"I think the Committee on Manufactures,
with able in estimators on it, should consist
of IS members, tea Democrats and five Re
publicans. This would make five sub-com-m'ttees
of three each. They should divide
the work, one investigating textile indus
tries, another iron production, another
glassware and pottery, and so on. This
committee would be a sort of adjunct to the
Waj s and Means. Committee, whicli could
go on with its work, and then subsequently
get all the testimony without a long list of
hearings.
"These sub-committees could go on dur
ing the session and also during the recess.
Their inquiries should not be conducted
with a spirit of hostility toward the manu
facturers, but with a view to ascertain the
bottom facts, and ascertain in each case
what, If any, degree of protection is needed,
as I have a suspicion that frequently it is
represented that they need a great deal
more protection than is really the case.
Information to Fight Tariff With.
"It should be ascertained what is the
labor cost on things produced; the wages
paid; whether the work be steady or not;
the profits on actual capital and not on
'watered' stock; the relative cost of pro
duction here and abroad; whether there are
tacit or direct agreements to limit pro
duction, and much more information of a
practical character. This information is
not now to be had. The party could then
fight the McKinley bill."'
It is assumed that Mr. Springer reflects
the position of the Speaker. The sug
gestion of Mr. Springer was made bv friends
ofthe Speaker, who seemed inclined to
sound public sentiment before appointing a
Chairman of the Ways and Means Commit
tee. So fjr there has been general ap
proval, and the Speaker feels that his choice
will satisfy the party.
1 Iit 31111s Is Not Counted in It.
Mr. Mills does not appear to desire the
place, his ambition being now directed to
ward the United States Senate. Early in
the spring the Texas Legislature will be
called to elect a successor to Senator
Reagan, resigned, whose seat is now filled
by the Governor's appointee, Senator Chil
ton. Mr. Mills expects to oe cnosen to rep
resent his State in the Senate. To place
him at the head of the "Ways and Means
Committee of the House, with a reasonable
expectation that he would be able to serve
but a short time in that capacity, would in
vite complications and embarrassments
when it came to transfer the work of the
committee to other hands-
From the manner in which he has started
out it is evidently the purpose, of Speaker
Crisp to conduct his office on a broad, na
tional basis. As rpidly as possible he is
informing himself on the views of the new
members regarding what are known as tho
general issues. His office at the Capitol ii
practically open to all comers, and 'there ii
no exclusion ofthe humbler members of his
party or of those who opposed him in his
canvass. He is honestly endeavoring to get
the sense of the country through the mem
bers of the House.
A Change In Committee Naming.
Speaker Crisp is discussing with the older
members a scheme which will embrace a,
change in the practice relating to the ap
pointment of a Committee on. Rules. The
practice has been to have this committee
composed of fire members, the Speaker
being the chairman ex-officio, and the other
two members of the majority being the
chairman of the "Ways and Means Com
mittee and the chairman of the Committee
on Appropriations. This practically put
the control ofthe business in the hands ot
these three persons.
It is suggested and the suggestion comes
from the Speaker that a Committee on
Rules be created, composed of a reasonably
lnrge number of the members, and these
will, for legislative purposes, be the equiva
lent of the steerinir committee. Under such
an arrangement the party leaders would
share with tho Speaker in the control of
legislation. The result would doubtless be
beneficial, and if the Speaker can satisfy
himself that such an arrangement would
facilitate business the experiment will be
tried.
Other Novelties Contemplated.
Another change tlfat is in contemplation
relates to appropriations. There are many
appropriations, such as for rivers and har
bors, the naval establlshmentacriculture,
etc., which are not passed upon by the Ap
propriations Committee, but by the com
mittees having those special matters in
charge. The separation of the appropria
tion bills wasdone some years since, to cur
tail Mr. Randall's power when he was at
the head of the Appropriations Committee.
The apparent effect has been to increase the
aggregate appropriations.
It is proposed to reunite these separated
appropriations by having them all restored
to the regular Appropriations Committee,
which will be presided over by Mr. Hol
man, of Indiana. "With the mention of that
name no more need be said. His platform
is to reduce the appropriations 5100,000,000
from what they were last year.
Evident Purpose ofthe New Speaker.
The above comprises the principal changes
which the Speaker is now considering.
Nothing has been definitely determined
upon, and the newly elected presiding
officer of the House is open to receive sug
gestions from any quarter. He is carrying
no revenges with him, but seems to be ds
sirou9 of impressing the country that the
Democracy is a national and not a sectional
party.
One of the first subjects to occupy the at
tention of the Foreign Affairs Committee,
after the organization of the. committees of
the House by Speaker Crisp, says the corre
spondent of the Associated Press, will be
that of hari treatment of Hebrews by
Russia. This question will b; earnestly
pressed upon the attention of the commit
tee, and it will be urged to go ns far as pos
sible in cvprcssinc its sympathy with the
Russian Hebrews in their distress, and to
take sucli measures, consonant with the
usages of diplomacy, as will tend to secure.
u auicuuruiiuu ui lueir cuuuiuua. xms
Government will be asked to continue the
use of its good offices as an intercessory
with the Czar in behalf of the Hebrews.
Dea! In Line With the Message.
The President in his message devoted
some space to the question of wholesale
banishment of Hebrews from Russia, and to
the endeavors which this Government had
thus far put forth in their behalf. The sub-
I ject will be brought to the attention of the
committee, prooaDiy y me miroaucuon oi
a formal resolution, but the customary dis
tribution of the various portions of the
President's message will bring the matter
before the committee in the absence of any
resolution whatever.
Representative Rayner, of Maryland,wbo
was one ot the more prominent of the new
members of the House in the Fiftieth Con
gress, said this morning that he should not
feck the chairmanship of any committee,
but that he earnestly desired a position as a
member of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
He tool: a deep interest in the question of
the Russian treatment of the Hebrews, and
wished to be in a position where he could
do the most effective work. He did not
think his Coneressional experience entitled
him to a chairmanship when there were
older members in his State Congressional
delegation, and he would be content with
his two rocmittee assignments in the Fif
tieth Congress, namely, places on the For
eign Afiairs and Commerce Committees.
An Idle Day 1 ilh Congressmen.
About two score members of Congress
were in and about the House of Represent
athesthis morning, answering correspond
ence, chattering, and listening to appeals
for office and considering the now-absorbing
topic of committee assignments. The House
not being in session, it was comparatively
an idle day for the members, but for the
new Speaker it was one of arduons and un
remitting toil.
Mr. Carlisle, when he became Speaker,
departed from the custom of selecting mem
bers of the Committee on Rules regardless
of their committee assignments, and made
its membership go as a matter of course to
the chairmen of the two most important
committees, namelv, "Ways and Means and
Appropriations. Speaker Reed followed
the same course. The previous Speakers,
Messrs. Randall and Keifer, had selected
the Rules Committee with regard to other
considerations. Messrs. Blackburn and
Alexander H. Stephens being the former's
associates and having otherwise special
committee prominence. A number of Dem
ocratic Congressmen urge a return to this
policy, and represent that its effect would
be to strengthen the Speaker.
Keeping In Touch A itji His Party.
The "Ways and Means and Appropriations
Committees now have prior rights under
the rules over other committees, and with
their respective chairmen on the Rules
Committee, which is the guiding or "steer
ing" body of the nouse, the result is repre
sented to'bc disastrous to other committees,
whose business may be important. Mem
bership on this Rules Committee, it is
urged, should be high enough honor with
out other committee assignments except of
a very Ordinary character, such as the
chairmanship perhaps of some minor com
mittee. Moreover, as the chairmen of the
two principal committees would be the
managers of work originating with their
committees, the Speaker would have these
men as his active lieutenants in fiscal and
revenue affairs, and the Rules 'Committee
members as lieutenants in other proposed
legislation, and altogether would have n
excellent opportunity to keep thoroughly
in touch with his party.
It has been presumed that ex-Speaker
Reed would be one of the minority repre
sentatives on the Rules Committee, but
under this policy such, perhaps, would
not be the case, as Mr. Reed might
prefer to lead the minority of the Commit
tee on "Ways and Means. There are two
sides, however, to the proposed method of
constituting the Rules Committee, and the
Speaker also heard the objections that were
urged against the plan.
The King or Gxoeoa lias Smallpox.
Athens, Dec. 10. The illness from
which King George is suffering, which was
at first stated to be chicken pox, is now pro
nounced smallpox.
HOPES rlUBERTY
Held Out to Mrs. Maybrick,
the Fair American Now
in an English Jail,
BY HER NOBLE MOTHEB.
An Affecting Meeting, in Which the
Prospects Are Talked Over.
MB. MAEIUS MAKES ADMISSIONS,
The St John Divorce Case Enlivened fcy
Evidence of Quarrels.
ENGLISH EDITORS JDMP ON OUR BEN
London, Dec. 10. One of tho seldom
granted privileges to life prAners in Brit
ish prisons was allowed to-day to Mrs. Flor
ence Maybrick, the American woman who
is serving in Woking Prison a sentence of
life imprisonment on the charge of poison
ing her husband, James Maybrick, a Liver
pool merchant. This privilege was permis
sion for her to receive a visitor from the
outside world.
For months this young woman has been
immured in her dreary prison, and her feel
ings may be better imagined than describ'cd
as the time approached for her to gaze into
the face of a friend and to hear something of
what was going on outside of the walls. The
time allowed by the prison regulations is
but an hour.
As the time for a friend to visit the pris
oner approached, Baroness Caroline de
Roque, the mother of Mrs. Maybrick, left
her home in Rouen, France, and came to
England. She at once proceeded to "Woking,
and as soon as the officials allowed her to do
so she entered the prison, andjn, a short time
wasJe'r;nltt&.lo!3lurtlaughter.,
Holding Ont Hope for-Xlberty.
Theh-meotinjr was most affectionate, and
though the visit was made in the presence
of a prison officer, the Baroness conveyed to
her daughter intelligence of tbe efforts
being made to restore her to her children
and 'the world. She told her of the money
that had been contributed by tbe people of
the United States to pay counsel to procure
her release, and of the Manchester fund
which has been raised for the same purpose.
'J.he pale face of the beautiful convict
lighted up with joy as she heard ofthe sym
pathy of the women of America for her.
Milch passed between the mother and
daughter that does not concern the, outside
worm. Y nen me prison omcer notiuea tne
Baronness that her hour was up, and that
she must leave the prison, she and her
daughter, amid tears and sobs, tenderly em
braced and kissed each other. The Baron
ness then withdrew, and Mrs. Maybrick re
sumed her usual prison employment.
Caunot Endure Her Prison Fare.
After the Baronness de Roque had left the
prison she was interviewed regarding Mrs.
Maybrick by a reporter. The Baronness said
she found her daughter looking ill. She is
intensely weak, and frequently an inmate of
the prison hospital. She is unable to sleep,
or to eat the coarse food given to the pris
oners. During the course of their short con
versation to-day Mrs. Maybrick said in de
spairing tones to her mother:
"I have done nothing. Nothing has been
proved against me. "Why do they keep me
here? Is it because I am apoor, little Amer
ican girl? I cannot understand why they
will not give mercy or pardon, and let you
take me away. I feel deeply grateful to my
American friends for all they have done in
my behalf."
Baroness de Roque said that Mr. Mat
thews, the Home Secretary, and the prison
officials always gave her the greatest facil
ities when she "visited the prison. She de
clared that Mrs. Maybrick is treated with
the utmost courtesy by those in whose
charge she is.
Mr. liumley, tne solicitor, nas nad and is
still having many conferences with Sir
Charles Russell to "discuss new points in re
lation to arsenic and arsenical poisoning.
These points were not submitted at Mrs.
Maybrick's trial. They are regarded as
having such an important bearing on the
case that both Mr. Lumley and Sir Charles
Russell believe they will be sufficient to
bring about the release of Mrs. Maybrick.
A CASE OF MOTHER-IN-LAW,
Mr. Marios Talks on the Stand or His
Quarrel "With Miss St. John.
London, Dec. 10. Mr. Marius, the de
fendant in the St. John divorce suit, was
still on ibe stand to-day. He denied the
testimony given by Miss St, John that he
had thrown his watch at her. He said he
and his wife had had a quarred and he be
came so angry that he threw the watch on
the floor and smashed it. He denied most
emphatically that he had slapped his wife's
face or pushed her. The witness admitted
that once, after a quarrel with his wife, he
.tried to force his way ont of the door,
threatening to leave the house. He
said his first wife had been divorced from
him on the grounds of immorality and de
sertion. Mr. Marius declared that if it were not
for Miss St John's mother and brother he
and his wife could live happily together.
He denied that he went to the Gaiety The
ater and demanded 100 from his" wife. He
hid no need of asking for that or any other
sum.
HOI BH0T FOB HABBIS0N.
English Editors Say His Message Is a Vote
Catching Paper.
London, Dec. 10. The St James Gazette,
commenting on President Harrison's mes
sage, says the most important part in the
document is that part having reference to
the results of the McKinley tariff. The fig
ures presented, the Gazette declares,compare
significantly with British figures, which re
main stationary. It is all very, well to say
that the Americans will-presently discover J
.- tlh. ." W y l -4fr ' .
Una. MAYBRICg.
..je-BSR -&- ri i-!. A -r2 :. - .. .
the mistake in their fiscal policy; but per
haps they may not. In the meantime, the
calculations of tbe supporters of the McKin
ley bill are working out much better than
anyone in England had reason to expect.
The Globe sarcastically comments on the
message, which it says is adroitly' traced on
catch-vote lines. In some passages spread
eagleism is served up hot: in others nervous
J Yankees are assured that the Government
knows how to climb down, as. in the cases ot
Chile and the Bering Sea dispute. Lord
Salisbury, the Globe adds, need not be much
frightened at President Harrison's tre
mendous menace and expression cf 'concern
at foreign encroachments on territories con
trolled by American Governments. If
Venezuela passed uuder American control,
the least that could be expected would be
that the suzerain power would forthwith
guarantee the Venezuelan debt. The Globe
disputes the statement made in the message
that the prosperity of the United States is
entirely due to the McKinley bill. On the
contrary, ,it says the prosperity of the
country is' due to an exceptional harvest
there at a time when Europe is short of
grain.
KHXED AND BOBBED HEE 805.
An Awful Doable Tragedy In a tittle
Tillage in Austria.
Vienna, Dec. 10. The son of, a" peasant
couple living in Wieselburg recently re
turned to them after an absence of 16
years in America. He was much changed
in looks, and, thinking to give his
parents a pleasant surprise later on, did not
disclose his identity, supposing that
neither of them recognized him. This sup
position was correct as regarded his mother,
but his father recognized him, although he
concealed the fact.
The seeming stranger's request ior en
tertainment was granted, and during a con
versation which followed he showed his en
tertainers the contents of a bag in which he
carried 600 sovereigns. The sight
violently aroused the peasant wo
man's " covetousness, and - after her
supposed lodger had retired for the
night and was asleep, she cut his throat in
order to secure the money. "When told by
her husband that she hod not killed the
stranger, but her own son, the shock she
experienced was so great that she herself
fell dead.
KILLED BY A CORPSE.
THE DEATH GRIP OF A WOMAN STB AN
GLBS HEK MOTHER,
Strange Affair That Occnrred In a Western
Hamlet An Aged and Foeblo Woman's
Terrlblo Fate The Awful Discovery
Mado by Her Elderly Son.
Cincinnati, Deo 10. Special. One of
the strangest affairs occurred.Jast night at
Elizabethtown, an insignificant hamlet on
the Ohio river, ten miles below this city.
The McDole family has lived for years in
the most abject poverty. The mother is
past 80. Besides her the family consists of
son and daughter, each about 60 years of
age. The son is a veteran, and greatly en
feebled by wounds received in the war and
aggravated by insufficient and indifferent
food.
Mother and daugnter slept together, the
mother being very feeble. The daughter
was the most robust ofthe three. The family
retired as usual, lost night, and the son
noticed nothing out of the ordinary, until
early this morning, when groans from ".his;
mother's room,calleuhim,ther.to"vtitnessA
blood curdJing-sigut. ' "
During the night the sister had been
taken mortally ill. In her despair she had
caught her aed' mother in her arms and
pinioned her tight against her breast. At
the same time the mother's head had been
pulled down under the covers and partly bent
downward, causing partial suffocation. The
horror of the situation had caused her to
faint, and while thus unconscious the daugh
ter had died, hugging the mother.
The icy arms had stiffened and the aged
victim was held as if in a vise. Help was
summoned, but it required the united
strength of two men to remove the dead
woman's arms and release the mother, who
is so low from the shock and choking she re
ceived that it is scarcely probable she.-can
recover.
SABGENPS F0BTBAIX 01 TOM HEED
Attractlns More Attention Than Anything
Else Now In the Capitol.
Washington, Dec. 10. Serial. Sar
gent's oil painting of ex-Speaker Reed at
tracts more attention at present than any
thing about the Capitol. To-day the por
trait was removed a few feet from its former
location, and now hangs between the crayon
pictures of ex-Speakers Randall and Car
lisle. Almost every member of both Houses
of Congress has been to inspect it, and hun
dreds of visitors stand before it daily, giv
ing their opinions as to its value as a like
ness and a work of art.
The opinions vary widely, but' the con
sensus seems to be that the portrait is most
artistic, even if the likeness is not as cor
rect as it ought to be. The chief criticism
is that the expression of Mr. Reed's face is
one that those who have seen him in the
House are not familiar with, and there is no
doubt this criticism is well founded.
A MISER'S MISERABLE EHD.
Overtaken by Death While Encaged in
Coantlnc Over 833,000.
-West Superior, Wis., Deo. 10. -aof.J
Thomas Koeher came nere in 1853
from Pennsylvania, and that his time has
not been lost since then was proved this
morning, when a neighbor, alarmed at the
old man's non-appearance, broke into his
residence and found him stretched dead on
his bed, a pile of gold beside him, a bundle
of bills on the table, and a miscellaneous as
sortment of Government bonds, mortgages
and other securities scattered on the floor.
Wealth to the amount of over f 22,000 was
scattered about the room. Investigation
showed that the old man had been engaged
in counting his wealth when stricken by
heart disease.
G0VEBH0R. HILL GUARDED.
His
Friends Prevail Upon Him to Take
Frecantions Against Cranks.
t Albany, N. Y., Dec. 10. Spofcrf. In
view of the excitement over Senatorial con.
tests, and the frequent assaults of late by
cranks, Governor Hill's friends have pre
vailed upon him the necessity of his having
a bodyguard to and from the Capitol.
Heretofore the Governor has proceeded to
the mansion from the Capitol at all hours of
the night through the lonely streets unac
companied. Now three detectives shadow
him, and a watchman does duty in the Ex
ecutive mansion grounds at night.
CHARLIE EVARTB SUDDEN DEATH.
An Invalid Son of the Ex-Senator Found
Dead in His lied.
"Wisdsor, Vt., Dec 10. Special
Charles B. Evarts, son of ex-Senator W. M.
Evarts, was found dead to-day in bed at his
father's country place here. He was in his
47th year. Ho entered Yale College in the
class of '66, but left before graduation and
enlisted in the Union army during the late
civil war.
Afterward he entered the school of mines
of Columbia College. He returned' to the
family homenere, where He has aince lived.
He, was never married and was on invalid,
BLAINE WON'T TALK
But His Friends Eefnse to
Believe That He WH1
Decline to Kim.
HIS-HEALTH EXCELLENT.
State Auditor Poe, of Ohio, Says He
LateljrSpoke of 1884, and
DECLARED HE WAS COUNTED OUT.
Shepard's Paper Still Harping on That
Looked-For Letter.
HARBISON'S BOOMERS TAKING HEART
rSrECIAL TOLXOIUIT TO THE CISr-ATCTT.1
Columbus, O., Dec. 10. State Auditor
Poe .returned to-day from Washington,
where he called upon and had two inter
views with Secretary Blaine. Mr. Poe says
so far as Blaine's physical condition is con
corned, he will be abundantly able for the
fatigue of a Presidental campaign, and that
the cry of ill-health cannot of itself oper
ate to prevent his nomination, if he is will
ing to accept. Mr. Poe is disinclined to ex
press an opinion as to the probabilities in
the matter, however.
"I found," he said, "that Mx. Blaine's
memory, which has always beon exceptional,
remained good. He recalled having met
me in 1884, during his Presidental campaign.
He was passing through the State en route
to Detroit, and I boarded the train on which
he was traveling at one of the stations in
Wood county. It was the day before our
State election, which was then held in Oc
tober. I introduced Mr. Blaine to the
crowds that gathered at a couple of stations
at which the train stopped, and he urged
them to be loyal to their party, telling them
that as Ohio went in October the country
would go in November.
Blaine Says He Was Counted Out.
"Mr. Blaine spoke of this incident of his
trip as familiarly as though it. had occurred
but yesterday, and he also talked quite
freely of other matters pertaining to his
campaign. He made the remark that he
was counted out in New York. This opin
ion is, of course, shared by many who have
not the same information on the subject
that Mr. Blaine has.
"I rode out from Washington in company
with Congressman J. D. Taylor, and we be
came acquainted with a Dakota gentleman
who was a Democrat. We got to discuss
ing Blaine, and the Dakotan said to us that
he did not think the Democrats could
nominate anyone able to defeat Blaine next
year. He believed that he would unify and
enthuse the wavering Republicans of the
Northwestern States-.as. j,, no. othr man
could.'
ij- --$y??'.r' "Sc'
, Ehepard's 'Paper Keeps K Up.
The Now York Mail and Express has the
following this afternoon from Chicago:
"The Washington dispatch yesterday
foreshadowing an authoritative announce
ment of Secretary Blaine's future course In
regard to the Presidental nomination has
attracted a great deal of attention here to
day. It was telegraphed from New York
to all the morning papers and reprinted
here this morning. Substantiating as it
does the frequent publications of the rela
tions and understanding existing between
President Harrison and his Cabinet chief,
yesterday's publication is regarded here as
virtually takinir Mr. Blaine out ofthe race.
as certainly as did his celebrated letter
from Florence to B. F. Jones in Februarv,
1888.
"Chicago is full of ambitious people,
politically as well as in other ways, and
with hundreds knocking at tne doors of
only a score of public offices it is no wonder
that President Harrison has had to decide
in a way that has left heartburning and dis
appointments rankling in many breasts.
Hence the movement against his renomina
tion, which the disgruntled ones started
some months ago in many parts of the
country, under the guise of a Blaine boom,
has had some support here.
Dismay Among- Blaine's Friends.
"It can be imagined, therefore, how great
was the consternation among them to-day
when they read the Washington special. It
was a bombshell in their midst, for despite
the frequent warnings they have had that
Mr. Blaine could not be made a consolation
candidate for disappointed office-seekers,
they have continued their efforts to drag
him into a position of disloyalty to his
chief, and nothing short of such" announce
ment as that made yesterday could make
any impression upon them. To-day, how
ever, they find themselves in the
position of boomers with nothing to
boom, and some of the more discreet
among them are beginning to fall into line
with dominant sentiment here that Presi
dent Harrison is entitled to a renomination.
Thev now realize that it would be political
suicide to stand in the way of the time-honored
custom of the party to reward work
well done, whether of the chief magistrate
ofthe nation or ofthe lowest officer in their
own local government at home.
"Here in Illinois the unselfish and patri
otic Republicans who want to win the great
battle of next year are as solidly arrayed in
favor of President Harrison's nomination,
as in New York and other Eastern States.
They are not trumpeting the necessity for
him in the Democratic and Mugwump
newspapers, but they recognize that the
masses of the party are for him and stnnd
with them in favor of his renomination."
STANDING
BY PROHIBITION.
Iowa Temperance Folks Urge Republicans
to Stick to Their Pledges.
Des Moines, Dec 10. The fate of pro
hibition in this State is a matter of con
cern with politicians and people at the pres
ent time, and a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the State Temperance Alli
ance was held here to-day. The result of
the meeting is the issuance of an address to
the people of the State of Iowa, declaring
their loyalty to prohibition, and expressing
a belief that the election was not a
repudiation of prohibition. The address
says that the Republican members of the
General Assembly cannot go back on the
platform on which they were elected, and
also asserts that all votes against Boies were
prohibition votes, ana that therefore the
majority ofthe State is for prohibition.
The address further says that prohibition
has been a source of otrength to the Repub
lican party, and expresses the belief that
the Constitutional amendment of 1882 was
legally addpted, and, further, that the Su
preme Court will finally so declare. The
address closes by urging all temperance
people to renewed activity for the enforce
ment of the laws.
San Francisco Wants the Convention.
SAN Francisco, Dec 10. At a meeting
ofthe Citizens' Committee lost night a dele
gation was named to go to Washington to
confer with th Dnmocratie National Corn-
Jmlttee and endeavor to secure the selection J
Jg$z0
Just Enough English, Ton Know, to Keep Mm
Out of the White Bouse.
of San Francisco as the place where the
next Democratic National C-vention is to
be held. .
Harrity Solid in4
faJ-fj, "-
Bedford, Dec. 10.
Fletcher, Chairman of the DemoStH?
ty Committee, who is also a memberO'Vn
Democratic State Committee, has announu'O
himself, favorable to the election of Hon.
William F. Harrity to the vacancy on the
Democratic National Committee caused by
the death of Hon. William L. Scott.
COLD DAYFORWARMCASTLE.
INDICATIONS THAT HE IS UELT TO
BE BOUNCED.
His Friends in Pittstrars Are Booming Him
for Congress The Collector Calls Upon
Commissioner Mason He Mnst Go and
Case Will Probably Succeed Him.
Collector Warmcastle's friends who are
confirmed in the opinion that the Collector
must either-resign his office or be turned
out, are already booming Mr. Warmcastle
for Congress in Mr. Dalzell's district. They
believe that in their fight for Warmcastle
ior Congress they will have the assistance
of both Quay and Macee. Many of -the
workers who heretofore were opposed to
Mr. Warmcastle are now in the field work
ing for him for Congress. A telegram from
Washington last night said:
"Collector Warmcastle called upon the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue just
before the department closed this after
noon There had been some sort of an un
derstanding that he would be informed at
that time as to what disposition the Presi
dent would make of his case. It trans
pired, however, that the President had not
reached a decision, or at least was not pre
pared to announce one at that time. The
Commissioner intimated that the Pres
ident .and himself would probably hold
another conference before final action w'ould
be made public
'.'On all hands it is rumored that Mr.
Warmcastle will have to go This seems to
emenatefrom the Internal Revenue Bureau,
but official confirmation is withheld. An
additional rumor has gained circulation
(that the successor of Collector Warmcastle
will be ex-Collector Frank Case, and that
the appointment will be dictated by Con
gressman Dalzell. In that event it is inti
mated that Senators Quay and Cameron
would appeal to Senatorial courtesy and
have the nomination held up."
SOKE FREIGHT RATES REDUCED.
Important Action Taken by tho Central
Traffic Association.
Chicago, Dec 10. Special. The
freight department of the Central Traffic
Association has authorized the Pacific Com
pany to reduce class and commodity rates
between Chicago and various Indiana and
Ohio points to the same basis now in effect
between those points and Cleveland, in
order that the company may forward traffic
to and from Cleveland over its own route
via Alliance. Chairman Blanchard was re-quested-to
arrange an early meeting oflines
interested in ice traffic for the purpose of
fixing winter rates on ice from the various
producing points to points in the territory
of the association.
It was decided that the same rates may
be applied from Chicago to Benton Harbor
and St. Joseph, Mich., that are in effect
from Benton Harbor and St. Joseph to Chi
cago. These are: First-class, 22 cents; sec
ond, 18; third, 13; fourth, 10; fifth, 8; sixth.
7; grain and lumber, 7. These rates will
take effect December 15.
MISHAP TO A WHALEBACE.
Her Rudder Drops Off, tea-fin
Her a
Helpless Hnllc at Sea.
Astoria, Ore., Dec 10. The first whale
back to visit the Pacific Ocean has met
with a $250,000 mishap before completing
her initial voyage. The British steamship
Zambesi, from Hong Kong, arrived here to
night, having in tow the disabled whale
back steamer Charles W. Wetmore, out 83
days from Philadelphia.
Though able to steam when discovered,
she had no way of steering, the rudder hav
ing dropped off, leaving nothing but the
rudder frame.
ALL ABOABD FOB 60UTH AMERICA.
The First Dirt Thrown on the line of the
Pan-American Road.
Victoria, Tex., Dec 10. The first dirt
on tbe new Pan-American Railway was
thrown to-day in the presence of a large con
course by Major Fly, of this place, and
work was begun in earnest.
It will be the shortest line to the City of
Mexico by nearly 300 miles, and will open
one of the finest sections on the continent.
The line is said to have good financial
backing.
THIS JIOENIXG'S XEW3 DIRECTORY.
Topic. Page.
No Free Trade for Crisp 1
Mrs. Maybrick and Her Mother I
Still Harping on Blaine 1
Crimes of Great Men's Sons 1
Quay in Allegheny Politics 3
Bitter Fight on Burled Wires 3
latest Phase of the Eewls Scandal 3
ARomance of Old Papers.. ..1 3
Editorial Comment and Social News .... 4
Niedringhuus Booms Plttsbnrc. 3
Analysis or the Armor Tests O
The Senate's Biggest Bill Day 7
Denver's Sensjtlonal Murder Trial 7
Oleo Men Appeiil for Clemency. 8
Prinreton's Side ofthe Football Game.... 8
Caprivl on the McKinley Tariff.., 9
Yesterday's Hotel Arrivals. O
Tenor of the New Pension Bills O
Lawyers Toast the Presidents 9
All the Court H ue News 10
Oil Producers' Pipe and Field Work 10
Iron Markets and Financial...., 11
Christmas Home Suggestions...;....; 13
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SONS. OFGREAT MEN
Blacken Instead of Brighten
Their Honored Family
Escutcheons.
KIT CABSOFS SON KILLS
His Wife's Father and Mother and
Flees From a Posse.
JOAQUIN MILLER'S BOY K0BS
When
Made Desperate by Hunger and
Languishes In JaiL
A CHILD OP PATE AND HIS ST0RT
Denveb, Dec 10. A special from La
Junta jays: Kit Carson, Jr., a son ofthe
famous old scout by the same name, to-day
killed his father-in-law and mqther-in-law
and then made good his escape.
About a year ago Carson married Miss
Susie Richardson, but because of his
drunkenness and cruelty she was compelled
drai
return to her father a home, which is in
, 'Nine Mile Bottom," some 25 miles from
To-day Carson went to Mr. Richard-
- - "'se and demanded his
;,
wife. The
v-y .' man refused the
request, when
,- fj. ji at mm, me oaii passing tnTOUgn
both. 8. Mrs. Richardson, wh was in
the kitchen, heard the shots and hurried to
the room where Carson was and was shot
directly through the forehead, dying in
stantly. The murderer then mounted his
horse and escaped into Bent Canon, headed
for New Mexico.
This is not the first shooting affair Carson
has been implicated in, and if captured this
time there is every reason to believe that
this one will be his last.
Poet Joaqoln Miller's Bad Boy.
A San Francisco dispatch says: Harry
Miller, the young son-ot Joaquin Miller,
poet, wh"owas arrested on the charge of
holding up the mail stage in Mendocing
county, has been brought here. In an in
terview in which bfc told the story of his
life, he claimed that hunger had driven him
to the crime. He said:
".Up to the age of 10 years I lived with
my mother, Minnie Myrle, in Portland.
She gave me into the keeping of my aunt
at Goose Bay, N. D., and went East after
my sister, who was being educated in a
convent. A year after she left they told me
she was dead." The next seven years of my
life was passed on my aunt's farm.
His Early Hopes Blasted.
"I attended a little country school at
Goose Bay, but the taste of education I re
ceived there only sharpened my appetite for
more. I wrote to my father at Oakland,
CaL, teUing him ofc-ray"&Mffe?atfa"nd',sent
forjne to work on his ranch. I was satis
fied to So this, because I thought with tho
money he promised me for my labor X could
-or ' aii. itt,, ., ,
educate myself in the higher branches.
When ho declined to pay, anger and disap
pointment came over me, and I left him.
I traveled about the State doing odd jobs,
working in San Francisco as a messenger
for the telegraph company. I drifted back
to Oregon, and hungry and desperate, I
joined a stranger In breaking into a house,
but we were caught and sent to the peniten
tiary. I escaped, and assuming the name
of Joseph McKay, resumed my wanderings.
Hunger Drove Him to Desperation.
"One day, tramping through Mendocing
county in search of work, I came npon a
house which had been left unguarded. I
was famished and ate my fill, then stole a
gun and cartridges and some other articles
and went on. Next day I suddenly came
upon the stage coach toiling up the hilL
The idea of robbing it came to me as an in
spiration, and I stepped behind a tree and
ordered the driver to stop. Had he shown
fight I should probably have run away, be
cause I was frightened and shaking like a
leaf. When the stage disappeared I opened
the treasure box which the driver threw me,
in which I found a pair of baby's shoes, a
couple of money waybills, but not a cent of
money. Sheriff Standley arrested me at
Santa Rosa, and I shall plead guilty and
suffer the penalty.
He Bears His Father No 111 Will.
"I bear my father no ill will, and all I
ask is that he keep away from 'me. If it
had not been for my brother's letter my
identity would never have been known, and
I would have gone to prison as Joseph Mc
Kay." Miller was held this afternoon by United
States Commissioner Sawyer in 510,000 bail
on the charge of attempting to rob the
United States mails.
ANOTHER SWELL DIVORCE SUIT.
De Lancey NIcoll's Sister Living In Dakota
to Obtain a Separation.
Flushing, L. I., Dec 10. Special.' It
is reported here that Mrs. J. McKim Mia
ton, sister of De Lancey Nicoll, District
Attorney of New York, has gone to South
Dakota to secure a divorce from her hus
band. It is said that she left in September
last. De Lancey Nicoll would neither
affirm nor deny it. Mr. McKim Minton
was also seen. He refused to give any in
formation whatever.
A special telegram to The Dispatch
from Sioux Falls says: Mrs. J. McKim Min
ton came to Sioux Fafls about five months
ago and rented a cottage, here she and her
two children, with their maid, have lived
ever since. They have lately kept them
selves very secluded. Two months ago Mrs.
Minton applied for a divorce on the ground
of desertion, and the suit will probably bo
tried at the present term of the Circuit
Court. A few weeks ago 3Irs. Minton had
served upon her papers for divorce. Her
husband named seven co-respondents. Mrs.
Minton for several weeks bore the name of
Mrs. McLean, but has lately dropped the
disguise She is an intimate friend of Mrs.
James G. Blaine, Jr.
The Bomb Thrower Still Unknown.
Upw York, Dec 10. The identity of the
bomb thrower is still amatter ot conjecture.
Several people called to-day, among whom
was a car driver named John Kutner,
whose manner led the morgue keeper to be
lieve he knew something of the case He
left his name and address reluctantly, and
promised to 'call again.
Uncle Sam as a Saloon Keeper.
Des Moines, Dec 10. The Statt
Grange, which has been in session here
three days, adjourned to-night after adopt
ing anti-monopolistic resolutions and agree
ing that the way to control the liquor traffic
is by the United States Government taking
it In charge and running it as postomcei arc
now.
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