w ' mbers of Parliament Talk of Xoth ing"Else Than Ireland. VEEAL MEASURES INTRODUCED. . Balfour at a BanQuet Fires Hot Shot at the Gladstonians. BUDGET FKOH FOREIGN C1PITALS -iOXDOS, Feb. 17. In the House ot Com ns to-day, the bill introduced by Thomas Condon, member for East Tipperary, ex iding the municipal franchise in Ireland that municipal authorities in that coun will have powers similar to the same ss of officials in England, passed its ond reading. The Government did not pose the measure. Chomas Sexton, member for "West Belfast, expressing recret for the absence of "V. Jackson, Chief Secretary for Ireland, ring the discussion ot the first Irish bill the session, said thaWMrr Balfour's Irish al government bill would not be received thout contest when it is produced to rrow. He promises the Government a ely fight. Balfour Opposes One BUI. Tohn P. Xolan, member for Xorth Gal v, moved the second rcadinc of the bill enlarge Irish laborers allotments and to power local authorities to purchase land the erection of laborers' houses. In ting the motion, Sir. Nolan said the bill uld enable the laborers to improve their ition as they had done in the colonies I in the United States. Mr. Balfour opposed Jlr. Xolan's motion. said that the bill would take the money ivided by his own (Mr. Balfour's) Irish id purchase act for the creation ot small Idings, in order to purchase cottages a ry little cheaper than they could other se be obtained. Mr. Balfour denied that land act was a failure, and declared that was yettoosoon to judge of its operation. Mr. Sexton said he did not see why a small rtion of the land act funds should not he voted to the present scheme. John II Omond demanded the application of the ture, but the Speaker refused to close the bate. Gladstonians In a Dilemma. The Constitutional Clnb cave a banquet, night in honor of Arthur J. Balfour. In speech to a toast, Jlr. Balfour said that ide their inability to define their Irish licy, Gladstonians were in a dilemma. ey had made one set of promises to the iglish electors and another to the Irish ctors. The question was, AVho would be eated? "Who would be the dupes? He believed that the general election mid show that the patience of the English ctors had been exhausted. If the home le bill was carried the Irish members mid be so many soldiers of fortune, sup rting -any government willing to extend s already nndue limits granted by the bill an Irish Parliament. The Gladstonians ought no pressure upon the Government dissolve Parliament. In tact, they eaded nothing more than a return to power th a majority dependent upon the Irish ty. HAKGD HER OWN CHILD. i eDanghter of an Irish Nobleman Held for Trial for Murder. Colebaix, Ireland, Feb. 17. Jlrs. ana Margaret Montagu, daughter of Lord sbert Montagu, was committed for trial is morning, on the charge of causing the alb. of her daughter, Mary Helen Mon 2ru, a child only three years of age. The verness, for some childish escapade on e part of her charge, locked the little girl in a dark room and then informed the other. Going to the dark room Mrs. Mon zu tied her child's arms behind her back th some stout string and then connected e other end of the cord to a ring in the ill, fastening her to the wall, in order, parently, to prevent her from moving out while she was under punishment. A-ftcr the mother left the child in the po ion mentioned, the lattcr's cries grew inter and fainter and then ceased entirely, ten the door was opened and the little one is found hanging downward, the body be g upheld bv the string fastened around r arms and secured to the ring. The ild's iacc was horribly discolored and dis rted, and a iurther examination showed at she was dead, havinir been choked to ath. It is not generally believed that rs. Montagu had any intention of taking r child's life. It is said, however, that other serious instance of cruelty upon the jt of Mrs. Montagu to her child will be sclosed at the trial. THE CZAB'S MOVEMENTS. "World of Hlserj in Itnssia Which Be Has lime to Attend to. St. Petersburg, Feb. 17. Trains bear g physicians, medicines, disinfectants and rything that can be ucd in combatting ntagious diseases have been dispatched to e typhus provinces, and every effort will made by the Government to stamp out is disease, as well as the black smallpox, hich is ravaging seeral sections ot the untry. The reports received here show at the dUease is less deadly in the dis icts affected by famine than in other aces. The outbreak is attributed to bad inking water. The Famine Belief Committee has ar nged with the Holy Synod to erect a imber ot schools and churches, and by is means furnish employment for numbers the starving. The Czar and Czarina will leave Moscow rthe Crimea in March. The object of eir visit is to see the Grand Duke George, eir son, who is an invalid there. They i not intend to visit the distressed dis icts. After their visit to the Crimea they ill go to Copenhagen to be present at the ilden wedding of the King and Qneen of which occurs on May 20. It is obable that they will travel to Copen igen via Berlin. The Steamer Cavonr Certainly Lost. EONDOX.Feh. 17. If any hope was enter ined that the missing steamer Cavour had jt been lost, and that the w reckage that jne ashore at Ioundstone showed only tat she had been damaged in the storm and ould probably reach p"ort in safety, that jpe must be abandoned now. A life boat om the ill-fated bark has been washed .hore on the Irish coast, and, to make as irance of her loss doubly sure, there has so come ashore a model of a ship on which the name of the Captain of the Covour. is believed that the only way this model raid have got adrift from the cabin ot the avour was through the capsizing or found ing of the bark. The Rich Monopolizing; Relief Toel. St. Petersburg, Feb 17. The Xovoe remya asserts that the wood from the State irests w hich was placed at the disposal of le famine sufferers by order of the Czar, ocs not tto to the poor, but to the profit of easants who take the logs to build houses, bile their unfortunate brethren are pens.li ig with cold because they do not possess orses to transport fuel. A Polish KlslDE Threatened. Cracow, Feb. 17. A large number of amphlets have been scattered broadcast trough Lithuania and Russian Poland, tiling upon the peasants to arise against :e Government and the landowners. Irish Moonlighters at Work Again. DUBLIN, Teb. 17. Several houses at fiSElOMT-VQUESTM; JlsSMfm9lK9Vm!!MMHHlssssHHBIs!iKr aSSXHtttBaJlmrilMimttSasiT tftjmr jjEaMaBS''MgPg'MligpWlglailE IriflmftfWTf IP itTfiT niT Iff il ;,TIi!mHn'ym7fs&)'m22PGP&m-- Wgssilp.llii Wj; - Tarf wvrfw m&ETSS2!S: day night by iMoonlichlers.". who fired a number of sh'ots at the 'doors and windows. The Moonlighters afterward raided some neighboring farms, seizing all the firearms tney could hnd. Kobody was injured. Jso arrests have been made. SHOW BTOEMS IN EUBOPZ. The rail Is General Tlirousnout Great Britain and in the Alps. Lojtdox, Feb. 17. The snow storm which began again this mqrning in Wales aud the Highlands of Scotland has become general throughout the country. The snow fall since Sunday has been heavier than all the other snows that have fallen dur ing the whole winter. To add to the general discomfort, the weather remains intensely cold. This in itself hampers the work of restoring tele graphic communication, which was greatly interfered with by the breaking of wires and the blowing down ot poles Sunday night and Monday, and it is expected that further damage will be done by the present storm. The snow is so deep and the weather so cold that the coursing for the AVaterloo cup, ope of the great sporting events of Great Brit ain, has been suspended. There is every in dication at present that the severe weather will continue. A cable dispatch from Vienna says: The snow tall in the eastern and central Alps has been incessant since Friday, and it now lies to a depth of from 12 to 1G feet in Hocheveitsch passes. A large number of cottages in Styria are almost buried. The weather moderated to Jay and a thaw set in, This has caused the utmost alarm among the people dwelling on the Lower Alps and in the mountain hamlets, as it is feared that mudh destruction will be caused by the ava lanche that is now threatening. DAISY NO L0NGEB A HEROINE. Miss Hopkins, of Cambridge, Sent TJp for Being Drank and Disorderly. London. Feb. 17. Miss Daisy Hopkins, the "Cambridge heroine," was sentenced to day to seven days' imprisonment for being drunk and disorderly and for using vile language and assaulting the police. Daisy Hopkins will be remembered as the "hero ine" of the Cambridge spinning house "out rage." She was locked up some months ago by the pro-proctor, Bev. Frederick 'Wallis, under an old law which gives the Univer sity authorities jurisdiction over the towns people of Cambridge for walking the streets with a college student. This "outrage" caused a storm of right eous indignation to sweep over Great Britain, and caused the unhappy pro-proctor to release his fair prisoner. Daisy told a sensational story of her experiences while a prisoner, and indignation meetings were held in Cambridge and elsewhere. Finally, on February 4, the Cambridge Council al most unanimously approved a draft of a bill abolishing entirely the jurisdiction Of the University over the townspeople of 'Cam bridge borough. This bill was to have been presented in the House of Commons to morrow. MOBE CLERICAL THAN EEFOEE Is the Prussian Education Bill as Amended by the Committee. Berlin, Feb. 17. The Committee of the Prussian Diet, which has been considering the measure, to-day adopted the fourth clause of the sectarian primary education bilk This clause establishes the denomina tional principle, providing that children belonging to religious denominations recog nized by the State shall be instructed by teachers of their own denomination, except in popular schools already established, where present arrangements remain un changed. The committee has accentuated the de nominational principle by inserting a para graph, to the effect that religious teachers professing the creed of the minority may only teach secular subjects with the consent of school managers who would represent the creed of the majority. LDXE AN IEISH ELECTION. The Government Obliged to Stop the Toting in a Japanese Town Because of Riots. Yokohama, Feb. 17. Dispatches re ceived here from various places throughout Japan, show that the elections for members of the House of Representatives have been attended with disturbances in many places. In Ogi, where, in common with the whole empire, political feeling ran very high, all the male inhabitants became involved in a general riot. The police were powerless to disperse the fighting crowds, and though they several times charged the rioters, they were each time repulsed and several ot them were quite severely injured. A dispatch from Saga, capital of the pro vince ot Fizen, on the island of Kioo Sioo, where serious election riots were reported vesterday, states that several persons were killed in the fighting. In consequence tire government has ordered that the elections there be stopped. BIG POLISH GAME CAPTTBED. The Son of the Patriot T7bo Drove Russians From Warsaw, Bonnd for Siberia. St. Petersburg, Feb. 17. General Fredericks, Chief of the "Warsaw police, has arrested at Dumbowa the son of the famous patriot and historian, Joachim Lelewell, who was prominent in the Polish uprising of 1830, when the Russians wgre driven lrom Warsaw. General Fredericks' prisonerwas escorted by a strong military force from the place where he was arrested to "Warsaw, whence he will be banished to Siberia. The charge made against him is kept a profound secret. There is much mjstery attached to the case. Coming to America En Masse. Odessa Russia, Feb. 17. As a protest against the imposition of military service, the members of a German, colony which had been established in the vicinity of Tashkend, a town of Asiatic Russia, have decided Jo emigrate en masse to the United States. Callings From the Cables. Gaixicia. Is snowbound. Mt. Arisuvics has broken loose again. S1MLT has been allocked by an earthquake. Aii other Spanish anarchist band has been broken up. A number of duels has followed the Hun garian elections. The Khalifa of the Soudan is marching upon Ezvpt again. The latest English gales caused the usual number of shlpw leeks, Tttbus fever, smallpox and politics are three evils afflicting unhappy Toland. Goversmot leaders at London aio still talking of an early absolution or Parlia ment. Bahos Nathamel Rothschild nairowly escaped befnR hurled over a precipicce dur ing a runaway accident in Austria Monday. Ax insane mother al Liverpool hanged her two children to death and then slashed her selfinto unconsciousness. She is In a criti cal condition. Dr. Howacd AiraoLD, nephew of the late Matthew Arnold, bus committed suicide with prussic acid. Cause, giip and slecp ncssnesi. Por fine close-grained( light bread that w ill keep sweet and moist, use Minnehaha flour. lbs The largest line of room molding ever brought to the chy at John S. Roberts' new store, 719 and 72i Liberty street, head of "Wood street Mlh Special Bent Advertisements To-day in The Dispatch. See third page. Mondays and Thursdays are special rent days. IlanturkrCountvCork, were attacked Mon day nitrht bv 'IMoonli (Thiers." who fired a i wnrpS MM ill M"4aBa!tste4Sf-''''JV That Disturb the Peace of Some of jthe Capital's Citizens. THEY HAM OUT ON THE LINE And Flaunt in the Ejes of the People as lhey Pass by the Spot INTEKXAT10NAL QUESTIONS MAT AKISE rsrxciAi. teleobaw to the dispatch. "Washington, D. C, Feb. 17. A thrifty instinct has got Herr P. "W. Buddecke, Chancellor of the German Legation, into a curious quarrel with his neighbors. Herr Buddecke has in front of his house one of those pretty, but small parked enclosures common in Washington. In this enclosure poles and lines have been erected, and upon these lines the Buddecke family washing is hung out to dry once a week. As regularly as washday comes the .Bud deck e garments, large and small, men tionable and unmentionable, flaunt the air, and merrily swing in the breezes. "When the wind blows hard these various garments are inflated into rude balloon-like carica tures of the Buddecke household's various figures. There in swelling outlines are the nether limbs of the Chancellor himself, rudely dismembered from the official trunk, which appears upon another part of the line in bulging magnificence. There are pitiless effigies of the Buddecke ladles, done to shameless perfection in many colors and textures. The Neighbors Protest In Vain. There, too, are the figures of such other members of the family as may have the privilege of being hung on the line. Herr Buddecke's neighbors made frequent and courteous protests ncainst these exhibitions, Eartjy upon grounds of propriety,and partly ecause this voluminous family wash cut oil the street view from neighboring windows. But the Chancellor was unmoved by these Jirotests. None of his neighbors used the ittle parks in such fashion, but that was their look-out and he kept up his thrifty habits with due regularity. At length the disturbed neighbors, tired of vain protests, began to look up the law. Its a difficult matter, however, to deal with an attache of a foreign legation. International law guar antees foreign representatives from arrest in most cases, and they are really almost a law unto themselves! At length, however, . steps were taken to obtain a warrant for Herr Buddecke. It has not been issued as yet, however, and meanwhile the aggrieved neighbors are talking to the reporters. Object to Having Their Views Cnt Oft Dr. B. Kelson, who lives in the second house from the Chancellor, said: "This is an old matter with us, and Mr. Murphy and myself talked over the drafting of a bill to be presented to Congress to give us relief. You see, Mr. Murphy's view down New Jersey avenue is thoroughly shut off on wash days, and , it is a regular habit for me to pull down the blinds every Monday in order to keep out the sight. "I have no yard of consequence and am forced to send out my washing to a laundry. If I should attempt to hang out the clothes in front the police would quickly stop me. But the Chancellor can do as he pleases. It seems to me he should be amenable to the law, as he owns the house and lot and pavs taxes on them." One of the district offi cials said: "This may lead to an interna tional question. The complaint will most likely be investigated and" perhaps a note sent to the Chancellor with the intimation that hanging clothes on the parking is ob jectionable to the neighbors. An International Question May Arise. "Then if the Chancellor refuses to abate the nuisance a letter might be sent the Ger .man Minister, reciting the facts in the case, and calling his attention to such a pro nounced infraction of the proprieties on the part ot his subordinates. IT the Minister fails to come to time and admonish his Chan cellor, the next step would be an appeal to the Secretary of State to exert his diplomacy in securing tne desired concessions. It promises to become a celebrated case before the end is reached." ' Everybody is justly amused at the thought of international complioationsrover a question of drying linen, but the sturdy German stands by what he believes to be his rights and is determined to have his washing done at home so long as his su periors do not interfere. It has been pointed out that the Chancellor's neighbors are lucky in that the Buddecke family do not cling to the rural German custom of having a monster washday once in three months instead of a little one once a week. TEXAS EIPUBLICANS ANGB7. They Think Attorney General Miller Isn't Treating Them Fairly. San Antonio, Feb. 17. Special The Republicans of the "Western district of Texas are greatly exercised over the order issued by Attorney General Miller that an investigation be. instituted by United States Court Examiner Dougall into the charges made against United States Marshal Paul Fricke by United States Dis trict Attorney.John Evans, alleging that he has been seriously derelict of duty, in his efforts at subduing the Garza revolutionary mm ement on this side of the -Rio Grande border. The citizens of the turbulent territory, irrespective of party, uphold Mr. Fiicke's actions, which they claim have been decisive and of good effect throughout the whole trouble. Fricke claims to have abundant testimony showing that all the valuable services on the border have been accom plished by the deputy marshals and not the United States troops, although the latter have received nearly all the credit. SCARED BT A DUMMY BOMB. How a Tillage Gets Even With a Batcher 11 ho Fences Roads. New York, Feb. 17. Special A dummy bomb was thrown into John M. Sammis' butcher shop at the head of Audrey avenue, in Oyster'Bay, last night. It shattered a pane of glass and landed on the floor. Mr. Sammis has been waging war against the village. He op- Eosed the opening of two streets through is land. The village opened both streets, however, and since then Mr. Sammis has amused himself by building fences across them. The fences have been destroyed repeatedly and as often rebuilt by Mr. Sammis. Some think the missile was thrown as a warning to Mr. Sammis not to interfere with public improvement. The matter is being in vestigated. ANTI-BOWMANITES HUSTLING To Get Possession of Evangelical Church Buildings in East Pennsylvania. Reading, Feb. 17. Bishop Dubs, of Chicago, left Reading this afternoon for Lebanon to preside at the annual meeting of the anti-Bowman East Pennsylvania Evan gelical Conference, which will be in session there next week. As all the anti-Bowman pastors will be at the Lebanon conference ext Sunday extra precautions have been token to secure their churches throughout this section. Several claim they have information that the other side may attempt to get into the edifice by forcable means, but this the Bow man followers deny. Bishop Dubs is now under an injunction, forbidding him from giving any advice whatever in the present church fight. No Readlng-B. & O. Deal. Philadelphia, Feb. 17. President McLeod and other officials of the Reading Railroad were nnestinnerl tn-rtirrhr. pnnnpra. ing the report that the Reading Company I r&iSr "sSiiHiVAWViirriSr-rS-tf had tecuredconirol - of the TJalthnore and"" Ohio Railroad,v'and were' emphatic in deny- ing that any deal had been effected, or that negotiations looking to that end were, in progress. . , - THE TONGUELESS MAN. STRASGE PENANCE OF A GAMBLER IN PEIESTLT GARB. ' ' He Is the Black sheep or a New Tork Family and Has Jast Inherited s For tune His Family .Looking for Dim at Los Angeles. Los Angeles, Feb. 17. fijtxcfa?. One of the greatest mysteries of this city has been that of the Tongueless Man, which has just been solved. Last November a priestly-looking man hired a room at the lodging house at the corner of Fifth and Broadway. He was quiet, well behaved and a great church member. One morning he was found in his room, blood issuing from his mouth and a bloody razor in bis hand. On examination it was found .that he had cut out his tongue with the razor. Bloody tracks to the door, out in the hall and the bathroom indicated that he had been there. Search showedthat he had thrown his tongue down a drain-pipe. Nothing could be learned from him about his iden tity. He had plenty of money and paid his bills. After his wound healed he dis appeared. He was thonght to have been a Catholic priest. It now turns out that his name is George "Wilson. He goes garbed as a priest, but he is a professional gambler. His family is wealthy and live in New York. His father has just died and left an estate of 5150,000, 550,000 of whioh was left to him. The estate cannot be set tled up until George has been foupd, and detectives from New York are now in this city looking for him. They state that George has been the black sheep of the family, and that his conduct has caused them untold trouble. This state ment suggested that the man's strange act of cutting out his tongue was prompted by remorse and humiliation for his past deeds. "When last seen in this city he was still, wearing his priestly garb, and was believed to be staying at St. "Vincent's School. TWO MILLIONS IN ASHES. A Fire Begins BeforeSHdnight and Is Still Raging at New Orleans. New Orleans, Feb. 17. At 11 o'clock to-night fire broke out in the drygoods store of A. Scharz & Sons, corner of Canal and Bourbon streets, and in less than ten minutes the place was ablaze from ground to roof. The skylight gave way and the flame shot up more than 100 feet above the walls, and the heat 'nas so great that the firemen could not go near the burning build ing. In half an hour the place was com pletely gutted and the walls fell in. The fire then spread to Phillip "Were lein's music store east, to Cluverie's drug store west, and extended on Canal street and consumed the stores of Runkle, dry goods and notions: John McCloskey, con lrctionery; Kuhn, gloves and fancy goods; Kreeger. gloves and fancy goods; the Nickle Plate Shoe Store; Quibble, gloves and fancy goods; Kraus Brothers, fancy goods and notions; Hoffman, worsted and fancy goods; Brill's saloon; "Wenger's beer saloon. The fire is still burning fiercely. The buildings and stocks already destroyed will approximate 52,000,000. FATAL BLAST IN A MINE. Four Men Killed and a Firth Has a Very Narrow Escape. PlattsbiT3G, N. Y., Feb. 17. Special Three men were instantly killed, one fatally injured, and another slightly hurt in the Arnold ore mine between 8 and 9 o'clock this morning. Those killed are "William Nolan, married, wife and nine children; Cornelius Dewey, married, wife and one child; Henry.Patrow, unmarried, aged 17. The accident was caused by a blast which caused the roof of the mine to give way, letting down 200 tons of ore and burying the three men under it. The body of Dewey has been recovered, but the-bodies of Nolan and Patrow are under the fallen mass., The mine rapidly filled with water, and Russell had a narrow escape, being driwn from the mine with a rope by the united efforts of ten men when the water was within a few inches of his mouth. OPJBEATOES ASK AN ADVANCE. A Very Polite Request Made of Lake Shore Railroad Officials at Toledo. Toledo, Feb. 17. At a meeting of the representative telegraph operators employed on the several divisions of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, to consider the advisability of asking an increase of salaries, there were over 40 present. A peti tion had been prepared for presentation to the officfals of the road, representing that the telegraph operators were insufficiently paid, their salaries averaging only 540 and 550 monthly, less than the pay ot section hands, it was claimed. It was decided to ask for a stated increase for all the operators, and an extra day's pay for Sunday work, whether night or day men. Resolutions were adopted expressing con fidence of the operators in the' officials of the road, and hoping tor a continuance, of the pleasant relations. A committee was appointed to present the claims to Superin tendent Kline. HAYES FOB HIGHEB EDUCATION. The Ex-President Defore a Committee ot the Ohio Legislature. Columbus, Feb. 17. Ex-President Hayes made a strong plea to-night before the legislative committee having in charge what is known as the Nichols bill, pro posing to divide the levy of one-twentieth of a mill for Ohio State University with the other colleges of the State. He opposed the bill in the interest of higher education, and desires a manual training school for the training of teachers for the higher departments of educational work. ts LUZEBNE IN DANGER. The Upper Workings of a Mine Caving in and threatening Disaster. AVilkesbaere, Feb. 17. The upper workings of the Cooper vein in "W. G. Payne & Co.'s mines, Luzerne, have caved in. Three or four houses on Cooper Hill were more or less damaged, and it is feared that the settling is not yet ended. ' The cave has occurred at intervals for some time, but the last one seems to be the most extensive that has yet occurred. To night the people living near the place were much excited, fearing it may extend. The Very .Latest Gold Discovery. Ourav, COL., Feb. 17. A new placer gold' field discovery is reported at the head of Portland creek, in the Paquin district,five miles from here. It has run from 20 to 40 ounces of gold to the ton. One hundred claims have already been staked out, and hundreds of miners are on their way there. A Dynamite Accident Near Altoona. Altoona, Feb. 17. An -accidental ex plosion of dynamite occurred on a new rail road extension near Carrollton this morning. Seven Hungarians were more or less in jured. One is dead. , If you have an unsightly hearth, come and get some washable English tile paper and make it look like a genuine tile hearth. John S. Roberts, 719-721 Liberty street, head of "Wood. MTh Special Rent Advertisements To-day In The Dispatch. See third page. Mondays and Thursdays aie special rent days. IHrsIDwUuES'ra, Bobs Up in the Hearing of Protests to the Anti-Option Bill. PUECHASING POWER OF A DOLLAfi Questioned If a Miller Who Thinks It Worth, a Good Deal Now. THE BROKER AGAINST THE FARMER "WAsninGTON, Feb. 17. The silver ques tion was broached this, morning again, and this time it was in the hearing before the House Committee on Agriculture on the anti-options bill, which has been under dis cussion by the committee for the past two weeks. Charles A. Pillsbury, the Minne apolis miller, was on the stand. He stated in the course of his remarks that the world's surplus supply of wheat was steadily dwindling. He said if a man owned the wheat crop raised in this country this year it would have been possible to get SI 60 for it from Europe just as easy as 90 cents, because Europe had to have it Russia had none to export and India had shipped its surplus of previous years. Mr. Lewis Then the statistical position of wheat has been growing better for five years past, and the price (except for a spurt this year) has been growing weaker? Mr. Pillsbury That is so. Mr. Lewis Doesn't the value. of money have a great deal to do with it? Isn't money worth more than ever? Mr. Pillsbury I think, as a whole, the dollar will buy more goods now than ever. Purchasing Power of the Dollar. Mr. Lewis If we had 51,500,000,000 in stead of 5650,000,000 in circulation, would not the farmers cet more for their wheat? Mr. Pillsbury More nominal dollars, but perhaps they would not buy so much. Mr. Lewis It would g'ive the farmers more debt-paying capacity? Mr. Pillsbury Oh, yes. Mr. Lewis quickly retorted: "That is what is the trouble w'lth them, is it not?" There was a general laugh in the com mittee. In reply to a further question from Mr. Lewis, Mr. Pillsbury admitted that short selling alone would not account for the decline in wheat. It was too great to be chargeable to one cause alone. In his address to the committee, Mr. Pillsbury advocated the passage of an anti- options bilL He said that the owners of tne immense wneai neias oi tne .norinwesi had less to say about the price of that wheat than some young man howling prices on the Chicago Exchange, who, perhaps, conld not tell the difference between a grain of wheat and a gram of barley. He (Mr. Pillsbury) was one of the largest buyers of actual wheat, but his buying had less actual effect on prices than someone at the wheat pit, whose office was in his hat. All persons agreed that the bucket shops should be wiped out. The difference be tween the bucket shop and the Chicago Board of Trade was that in the former 99 per cent of all sales were illegitimate, and in the latter 90 per cent were illegitimate. Short Selling an Injury to Farmers. t TTi believe a bill could be drawn whinh would prohibit illegitimate dealings with out interfering with legitimate dealings. Brokers had said this "short" selling was necessary, but there was no short selling in the real estate nor in the dairy business, which overshadowed all others. It had been stated that the millers sold flour months ahead. That was true, but he would stake ljia reputation that 99 per cent of all flour sales were followed by deliveries. He had never known a speculative offer ing of flour. Formerly millers kept large supplies of wheat and flour on hand, but they now hardly recognize that it was hard ly safe for a man to be "long" over night of a large amount of wheat unless he had contracts already made, for he could no longer reckon the law of supply and de mand. It seemed to him as plain as the rule of three that this short selling of "wind" wneat injures tne rarmers by de pressing prices. The buyers of wheat had to take care of all actuarwheat, and in ad dition care for millions of bushels of wind. That wind was just as heavy as actual wheat, and was so much more of a load to be carried. Mr. Pillsbury said there should have, been high prices for wheat this year, but partly in consequence of this short selling, millers and others were living from hand to mouth. The world was drawing on the surplus sup ply of wheat each year, for consumption was steadily increasing. The Two Kinds of Sales. Mr. "White asked for a diflnition of legi timate and illegitimate sales. Mr. Pillsbury thought contracts should be negotiable, and that sales of contracts were legitimate, providing the first maker actually had the wheat. "Where a contract was ma'de-and the wheat was not behind it, the sale was a mere gamble. The burden of proof, in his opinion, should be put upon the seller to show that he had the wheat he sold. To Mr. "Wilson he said he thought all Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report JL - jgsBt iG ABSOLUTELY PURE B8 trt FflaaSLsSSSsMEntafB MW&W&ffSiSSttffifflMm &g8gag&iji&&m2mwmm?.,',.-$id2 and BUIIiU UF THIS WHUliiS JtJlSSSi.5.- W r.1 "" - ' l- ?! t ' r,-a - ' '..sacr- . ,j . tin. sales forffnture"delly"enr'tendd to depreir prices ana snould-not be. permitted unless tha wheat was about ready for delivery. Mr. Cheatham said the Southern'.people were wheat consumers, and asked jf the present systeni gave them cheaper bread. Mr. Pillsbury replied in the affirmativet provided the question were looked at from a purely Southern standpoint, and with nothing save wheat taken into considera tion. A question having been asked relative to the terms of a good bill. Chairman Hatch said the published statement that the bill was to be railroaded through the committee and the House -was too ridiculous for denial. The committee would give very" close and careful consideration to the provisions of any proposed bill, would listen to all. criti cisms, and would give ample time for public discussion of the bill before calling it up in the House. How England Has Acted. Mr. Giffbrd, of Kankakee, 111., said that in a surplus-producing country no good ef fect could follow "short" selling, for the "shorts" always wanted lower prices. Eng land, being an importing country, had passed years ago a law against the bulls, and America, being an exporting country, should pass a law to prevent a depression of prices that was contrary to the law of sup ply and demand. He thought the law should be so framed as to give the right to buy for future delivery, and when delivery was contracted for, to sell those contracts, either before or after delivery. He pro posed a number of other modifications in the terms of the bill before the committee. The hearings will close to-morrow. ROBBERS, NOT COLONISTS. A Sensational Exposure of German Rale In Xast Africa Only a Pretense of Tilling the Soli Growing Fat Off Customs Shocking Barbarity. Berlin, Feb. 17. Eugene "Wolff, the newspaper correspondent whose reports to the TageUatt on the disaster of the Zelewski expedition and other matters caused Chan cellor von Caprivi to order his expulsion from German East Africa in November last, has published an amplified attack on Baron Soden's administration of the Gov ernorship of the East African, colony. "Wolff says that all officers of experience in East Africa have either been dismissed from the service or have resigned in dis gust, and that the Soden regime has de stroyed public confidence and stopped prog ress and is bound to end in disaster. "Wolffs article will form the subject of an interpellation in the Reichstag. Dr. Marseille, the medical adviser of the Sultan of Zanzibar, gave two years ago de tails with regard to the causes of the troubles in East Africa and how the Ger mans acted toward the natives. He said the attempts at plantation made by the German colony in the vast territory ceded by the Sultan were never serious. In the meantime, the Germans led at Zanzibar a luxurious life, and the greater part of the money was spent in champagne. For the administration of this territory, which they had obtained from the Sultan, they had en gaged to pay annually 300,000 rupees; but their chief object was the receiving'of the customs duties. The contract, however, was drawn up in such a way that the 300,000 rupees never had to be paid, the Sultan being made their debtor lor the opening of ways ot communication and for other im provements. The convention came into operation on the 14th of August, and within two months, from that date the German civilizers had despoiled everything. The Germans be haved with extreme brutality, and for the merest trifles shot down the natives. The Germans commenced by suppressing the flag of the Sultan, which was to float with the German flag on the custom houses, and even to have the chief position, as the Sul tan remained sole proprietor of the terri tories administered by the Germans. The protests of the natives were met by acts of violence. A BONANZA. IN SILVES. Almost Solid Ore In, Massive .Chunks Taken Out by the Carload. Cripple CkSeKjCol., Feb.T7. Special The greatest strike yet made in this camp was made yesterday, in the Blue Bell, on J3quaw Gulch. About 4 p. jr., a blast in the tunnel opened a body of silver glance 26 inches thick. The ore comes out in. masive chunks, weighing as high as 300 pounds. The entire matter is almost solid ore. Mr. Guyot, the assayer, says it is the finest silver ore he has seen in years. Stock in this property, which is stocked at $50,000, went up in an hour from 10 cents to 25 cents per share. Three shifts of men are working night and day, and the first full ' car of ore from this prop erty will be shipped this week. If the vein continues at its present thickness at least a carload of high grade ore per day can be shipped if tne roads are improved. On Galena Hill, just south of the town of Lawrence, over 50 claims have been staked within the past 24 hours. maer HUhlHbLOOU CIiKMl THE COMPLEXION, BRIGHTER THE EYES, SWEETEN THE BREATH, TONE THE STOMACH, ' BEGTOATE THE LIVER AND BOWELS HXSTE31 TO rEKrai'l' HliAi,Tll. 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