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THE PITTSBUEGr ' DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY. MARCH
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MAD
Appropriation Scalping in the
House Now Carried to"
the Extreme
FOB CAMPAIGN PUEPOSES.
The Republican Policy to let the
Majority Have All the Bope
MCESSAEY TO HAM ITSELF WILL
The Opposition to Be Freelj Allowed to
Fight Among Itself
ELEG1KT LTOCHEON AT A. BEflTOE'S
israelii, tzixgbafhic iettes.i
Btnttitr or The Dispatch, 1
WjLSHEf GToir, D. O, March 1.
Almost each new day's progress bring
new proof that the policy of the Democrats
of the House of Representatives is one of
economy run mad. It really should not he
dignified by the name of economy, for true
economy despises mere Earing, and counsels
liberal expenditure to the extent of the
means at command for all that can add to
the welfare, progress and development of
the people and the resources of the country.
I say the Democrats of -the House, for the
Democratic Senators do not sympathize
with their policy. Ihey faror sensible ex
penditure, and believe that It Would meet
the approbation of the rank and file of their
party throughout the country, more than
would a policy of stinginess, and that
merely for the purpose of making a record
for campaign use.
IVork Bound to Be Left Undone.
If the plan of the House majority be
carried out, not only will new operations
necessary in the puhlio interest be pro
hibited, hut projects now under war will be
retarded and works permitted to go to ruin
from neglect upon which much money has
been already expended. The plow will be
left standing in the furrow and the ax lying
at the root of the tree half cut down. Much
needed new public buildings will not be
provided for, and meager appropriations
will be made for those now being con
structed. Improvements on rivers and
harbors now in progress will suffer injury
from lack of funds to prosecute the work,
and new improvements will await the action
of another Congress.
Committees and sub-committees are doing
petty detective work to discover where
salaries can be reduced in the departments,
the reduction to afiect efficient and ineffi
cient alike, instead of devising and exe
cuting, what is needed more than all else in
the Department service, the removal of
worthless clerks, of which there are hun
dreds, and filling their places with in
dustrious and able ones.
Barnacles Getting Plenty.
Tens of thousands of dollars are paid out
for the maintenance of these barnacles every
year, and the number is constantly growing,
but rather than remove them the policy Is
to continue to pay them for services not
rendered, and if possible, reduce salaries
and refuse to increase the force in bureaus
where an increase is absolutely necessary
for the prompt and thorough performance
of the work.
The latest attempt at "economy" appears
to-day in the District appropriation bill, in
. which the amount appropriated for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1893, is $1,600,000
less than the estimates of the District com
missioners, half a million less than the
estimates ef the Secretary of the Treasury,
and more than $600,000 less than the appro
priation for the current fiscal year.
All this is done in the face
of the fact that the revenues of the District,
out of which half of all expenditures must
be paid, wouldjustifvamuch more liberal
appropriation. If the appropriation bill
pass reported to the House to-day, upward
of $800,000 will remain in the District treas
ury after the expenditure of the half for
which the District is liable.
If ot Enough to Go Around.
Populous sections of the city which are
without water or sewerage will have to re
main in that unhealthy condition. The
money tor street improvements will doubt
less, as too often in the past, be spent in
favored localities, because there is "not
enough to go round," and streets thickly
lined with, the tenements of the "common
' people," who have little money and no in
fluence, will yet remain deep with dirt in
dry weather and deep with mud in weather
of the other sort.
All this 'economy" is to be exercised in
the domain of utility. As for literature,
art and ornament, as embodied in the pro
posed purchase of valuable private libra
ries which may be had now and perhaps
never more, ana ot paintings ana statuary
of both historical and art value, such prop
ositions are met with scorn and derision.
The very idea of buying books and pictures
and statues and monuments when Demo
crats of the House anxious for re-election
are straining their eyes, searching in dark
and out-of-the-war corners for opportuni
ties to prevent the spending of a dollar,
though its expenditure might be the very
highest and broadest of economy!
One Way to Hake Congress Longer.
This.appropriation-scalping may serve to
prolong the session of Congress not a little.
The Senate is certain to insist on important
expenditures to which the House is obsti
nately opposed, and long contests in confer
ence committees between conferees of the
House and Senate will be the order of the
day.
Possibly another session will find the
House less economical. Before the short
session opens next December, the Congres
sional and Presidents! elections will have
decided the late of all candidates for an
other term of years, and it is quite possible
that a large portion of the false and demi
gogic economy of this session may then find
Its remedy; in minds no longer distracted by
the anxieties of partisan ambition.
All day long the anti-free coinage mem
bers of the House have been endeavoring
to estimate their strength for the contest of
next Mondav aeainst the toIb TmnrtrH
yesterday setting apart March 22, 23 and 24
for the consideration of the Bland bilL
All day long the lree coinage members
have been bracing up the wavering and
timid brothers and writing and telegraph
ing to absent ones not to fail to be in their
seats on Monday. There are 20 or 30
Democrats absent, and most of them are
free coinage men. AYith the large majority
of their party they can well afford to be
absent, usually, but now they arA wanted,
and they are wanted -very badly. No
matter if their presence would not change
the result, both sides are anxious to mare
as fine a show of strength as possible, and
they want every man at his post
Lot or Blnff and Blaster.
The antis are doing -a deal of blustering
and bluffing, but they are forced to confess
that they depend wholly on obstruction, in
so far as" their own strength is concerned.
Their only other recourse is the assistance
of the Republicans. Thev nlaintiTrW .
sume that the Republican anti-free coinage.
men cannot anoru iu gu iu tneir constitu
ents with the admission that they.had the
opportunity to defeat a tree coinage hill and
refused to take advantage of it.
This is droll reasoning. With the Republi
cans it is not a question of the passage or de.
feat of the Bland bilL They know that if it
be'p'aued in objectionatf e form it will ie re-
turned from the White House with the
Executive neeative.and that will be the end
of it Their business is to sow dissension
is the already disorganized and inharmoni
x&2jfci3toaZ&L si .
ous ranks of Democrats. Tip to this time
they refuse to admit any sense of responsi
bility whatever. It is for the majority to
shape legislation, and if the majority fall
out with one another it is not the province
of the small minority to assist or oppose
either faction.
The Policy of the Republicans.
I am assured by high authority that it it
now the determination ot the Republicans,
aside from a few Western members, who
must vote for free coinage to save their own
bacon, to remain passive and applaud the
scientific blows ot both sides, no matter by
whom delivered. This policy is shrewd in
more ways than one., It will not offend the
anti-silver Republicans of the country, who
know very well the President is with them,
and that his power is supreme in the dis
posal of the Bland bill if it should ever
reach him, and it (the policy) will certainly
meet the approbation of the silver constitu
encies, which are well aware that, were the
Republicans so disposed, they could
promptly make an end of the Bland bill in
the House. Thus the Republicans will not
draw the fire of the opposition either way,
nor divert attention from the grand quarrel
of the Democrats of the House.
The Senate Republicans are also planning
a shrewd bit of political strategy. If the
Bland bill should pass the House the Sen
ate would then have to deal with it To
risk its possible passage in the Senate,
where there is a Republican majority, pre
vious to the nominating conventions, would
turn aside the criticism that would other
wise be visited on the House alone, wonld
do much to lessen its disorganizing effect
on the Demtcratio party, and would make
the disposal of the silver question in the
Democratic platform much more easy than
it would be, were the House the only power
responsible for free coinage legislation at
the time of the conventions.
It is therefore now contemplated by the
Republican leaders of the Senate to delay
action on the Bland bill for a time after itr
reaches the Senate, and if it be brought up
for consideration prior to the National Con
ventions, to Keep it a suoject tor speecn
making until the platform and nominations
are made. As there is no rule of the Senate
under which speechmaking can be checked
by a call of the previous question or by any
other means, it wonld be very easy to thus
delay exposure by a formal vote of the Re
publicans on the difference of opinion in the
Senate on the silver question.
Stanford Shines In Society.
Senator Stanford is full of sympathy for
the poor, the lowly, the mortgage-ridden.
He would have all men rich, though pos
sibly not worth 120,000,000 or 30,000,000
like himself. He does not let his sympathy
keep his house in mourning for the miser
able and starving, however, and he does not
stint his magnificent hospitality to give to
the needy. The Lenten season shut its
leaden doors against all festivity as the mid
night chimes ring out to-night, and the par
ties and teas for the last two days have been
unusually lavish in "society. Mrs. Stan
ford gave a highly select luncheon to-day.
Here is the account of it as published in
the Evening Star:
Hrs.S tanf ord's vellow and scarlet luncheon
to day was one of the most elegant of her
series. The dining room and the hall were
full of the -spicy odors of branches of flr,
eucalyptus, wild laurel, full of white and
pink blossoms and of the date palm, all cut
from favorite trees at Senator Stanford's
country home at Palo Alto, CaL There were
also branches from orange trees filled with
the golden fruit that are especial favorites
near the mansion at Palo Alto. Vine roses In
vases here and then all over the parlor
suite made fragrant hits of oolor against
tbe shiny greens of California winter
foliage. The table was laid for Si. Tbe
cloth was embroidered all over in white silk
in a pomegranate design and was bordered
in antique lace. The napkins folded on the
gold plates were also edged with the same
lace and had a handsomely embroidered
monogram. Under the lace of the cloth a
gold colored satin oloth was laid. 8quares
of antique lace over yellow aatin were on
either side of the epergne. On these rested
the silver dishes of scarlet tulips.
The epergne in the center and silver loving
cups at the extreme ends were also filled
with scarlet tulips. The souvenirs at each
place were heart-shaped pin cushions in yel
low satin prettily oecoratea in water ooiors.
Each was tied with a big butterfly of satin
ribbon, with long ends, upon one of which
the name was painted. Bun through the
loop of the bow each lady found a silver en
ameled glove buttoner.
Harrison Forgetting Bis Bible..
The attention of the Various societies for
the suppression of cruelty to 'animals is
called to the fact that the President of the
"United States is engaged in the killing and
wounding of sundry beautiful and inoffensive
fowls called ducks. It is not claimed that
such killing and maiming is necessary for
the relief of a hungry family at the White
House, which the President has rent free.
All of the accounts asstrt that "His Excel
lency" engages in this murderous business
for mere sport, and all of them declare that
he enjoys it immensely.
The President is a devoted Presbyterian
Christian. Doubtless he often reads and
admires the tender passage which says that
"not even a sparrow falls to the ground"
without His care. Do these dnoks, killed
for mere savage sport, fall to the ground
under the care of the Divine Master, who is
so devoutly worshiped' by Mr. Harrison?
Prize fighting becomes humane and respect
able compared with such "sports."
IiicmarEE.
WORSE THAN TRDST CHARGES.
WHISHT MEN TO .BE ABBESTKD TOB
SOUICDING A OEUTD JTJBT,
According to a Sensational Boston Story
Tbe Matter Has Been Kept Terr Quiet
A Kicker From Lowell, Mass., Makes a
Statement of His Case.
Boston-, March 1. A story published
this evening sayst More surprises are in
store for the people most interested in the
Whisky Trust cases before another 24 hours
have elapsed. It is not improbable, say
those who are in a position to know, that ar
rests will be made on indictments found by
the Federal grand jury now in session in
this city, which will create a profound sen
sation. The indictments have resulted from
the prosecution of Whisky Trust -officials,
and the charge contained in them is that of
tampering with members of the grand jury
and of attempting to prevent the finding of
an indictment The matter has been kept
exceedingly quiet District Attorney Allen
does not deny that indictments have been
found. He merely says he can give no in
formation. A. cuspatcn irom iowen, mass., says'
Charles X. Hood said to-day:
The statement that I was leader in light
ing this Whisky Trust is not correct. air.
Stictney, who purchased our alcohol, called
my attention some time ago to this combi
nation, but I was busy at the time and didn't
pay much attention to it We continued to
purchase our alcohol where we could get it
iub uueupesk, ttuu uuauy iur. QllCKney called
my attention to the fact that the agents of
this combination refused to redeem our re
bate checks. The rebate money is held by
the agents of this combination, and we do
not receive any interest on it.
When the agents of tbe combination re
fused to redeem our checks because we pur
chased alcohol of parties outside their com
bination, I wrote to the Attorney General
about tbe matter, and he relerred the com
munication to the United States District
Attorney for investigation. Notwithstand
ing the efforts of this combine, we have
been able to pui chase alcohol of outside
parties at a cheaper rate. I think we have
purchased alcohol from members of the
combination who hope to break down their
competitors. I have an idea that dealers in
Boston who are forced to supply customers
at once have to purchase alcohol of this
combination at prices named. I do not
wish to be placed In tbe nosition of fighting
tills trust or combination, but I want tbe
right to purchase alcohol in the cheapest
market.
C. A. Prince positively 'denies the report
that there has been any attempt on part oj
any of its members to bribe the grand jury
or to interfere with its deliberations, conse
quently he ridicules the rumor that any in
dictments upon the charge have been or
will be found against any member of the
trust
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A Big Blaxe In Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, March L L Leiser's drag
store, E. Boyer's toy store and several other
buildings were damaged by fire yesterday.
Loss, $100,000; partly insured.
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NAT GOODWIN'S WIFE
Charges the Popular Actor With-
Nearly All Kinds of Cruelly.
LIVELY SCENE IN A BATHROOM,
Where She Says He .Tried to Drown Her
While He Was Drank, and
HID GAMBLED AWAY ALL HIS M0MEI
imPtXt. TXLXOKAJC TO TBI DISPATCH. 1
New Yoek, March 1 The allegations in
the original suit of Nella B. Goodwin for a
separation from the actor, Nathaniel C.
Goodwin, have been snowed under by a
multitude of new charges made in the
amended pleadings. These were used to
day, on a motion for an additional counsel
fee for her, which Justice Ingraham denied.
In her first suit Mrs. Goodwin asked for
a limited divorce on the sole ground of
abandonment ' She said that her hnsband
had deserted her after she had been injured
in a carriage accident Her counsel, A.
Britton Havens, obtained an order from
Justice Lawrence last June granting her
f 75 a week alimony and a counsel fee of
J250. She asked to-day for an additional
allowance for counsel of 52,000, to procure
evidence of cruelty. '
She says now that while they were living
together in West End avenue her husband
came home drank one night, swore at her,
dragged her out ot bed with his hands abont
her throat, threatened to choke her, and
would not relinquish his hold when she
knelt before him and begged of him to' stop.
This charge the actor denies.
More Cruelty Charges Denied.
At Fenwick Hall, Saybrook, in August,
1889, he had been continually gambling,
she says, had lost heavily, and vented his
anger on her. One night he came back
from the game, said he had lost hun
dreds of dollars, and struck her a stunning
blow on the head. This the actor also de
nies. The following day he returned to New
York. Several days later she found him at
the Hoffman House and learned that he
had been on a prolonged spree. He cried
and appeared to be repentant The next
day he struck her. This the aotor denies.
While thy were in Toronto, in Septem
ber, 1889, she says he repeatedly struck her
and cursed her, all of which the actor de
nies, At the Leland Hotel, in Chicago, in
September, 1889, while intoxicated, as she
says, he cursed and severely beat her, and
caused her great fright by pretending to
throw himself from their window in an
upper story, to kill himself. An illness
followed, which brought her to the point of
death.
Mr. Goodwin says her illness was the re
sult of being thrown from her carriage. He
says he nursed her then himself and pro
cured a physician for her.
Plot for a Bathroom Flay.
While they were at Anaconda, Mont, and
she was in her bath, she says, 'he came into
the bathroom, "crazed with dnnfc, his hair
standing on ends, his eyes bloodshot and
bulging out of his head," He then shouted:
"Now I have got you where I want you. I
am going to drown you. All your jewels
are gone. I gambled them away. I have
been gambling all night, and have lost
everything."
He then turned on the water, although
the bath was nearly full, and he held her
head under. By a desperate effort she re
leased herself, He then struck her some
terrible .blows, and threw her with such
force across the bed in the adjoining room
that she thought her back was broken.
Mr. Goodwin says she threw her jewels
(whioh had been his first wife's) at him in
a fit of drunken anger, and that he returned
them, He never saw her in a bath in his
life.
InParis, in 1890, she says, when she had
nursed him through a protracted illness, he
left their hotel and went to London, leav
ing her without moneyor friends. A week
later she learned that he was leading a fast
life in London. She telegraphed for money,
went to London, and found him living in
the greatest-luxury. He met her with "the
vilest abuse and threats."
Nat Calls His "Wife a Drunkard.
He says he was driven out of his sick
room by the anger, drunkenness and irrita
bility of his wife, and that his physicians
ordered him to go away immediately. Be
fore he departed' he gave his wife $1,000.
He was still sicr and under the care of a
physician when she rejoined him in Lon
don. ,
In London, she alleges, he strnck her in
the face at the theater, struck her again on
the stairs of the Victoria Hotel, and when
they reached their room struck her again so
that she fell and her spine was injured.
Mr. Goodwin denies these charges.
She says he nearly killed her at the
Broadwater Hotel, at Helena She rang
for help, and when a bellboy came she sent
for one of Mr. Goodwin's theatrical friends.
Mr. Goodwin said to his friend, with a hor
rible oath, "You can have her if you want
her."
He said that his wife attempted to flirt
with his friend, who took it jocosely. His
wife said she meant no harm.
After "a little jocular conversation," Mr.
Goodwin says, knowing his friend to be a
gentleman and a man of honor, he jestingly
said to the plaintiff: "I .will leave you in
each other s society." To his friend he
said: "You can have her. I don't want
her." He adds, "The whole occurrence
was a mere pleasantry, plaintiff being
slightly intoxicated."
A Private Watchman Necessary.
She says that since she began the suit she
has had to hire a watchman to keep him out
of her house in West End avenue. He
once tried to get in disguised as a messenger
boy. Again he tried to gain entrance
from the roof of an adjoining house, upon
the pretext that he was a telegraph line
man. He tried to get in by the doors, and
employed a locksmith.
On August 1, last, while she was standing
at the window of the parlor, in the presence
of a crowd in the street he smashed a win
dow with a hammer. One of the pieces of J
glass cut ner neaa.
Mr. Goodwin says he owns the house. He
says that his wife has been addicted to
drink since October 1888; has locked him in
his room at tbe theater, time after time,
scratched his face, and accused him of vari
ous things. On a train from Duluth to
Chicago, in June,, 1890, she was drunk.
While he was conversing with two ladies of
his company, and six gentlemen, she seized
him violently and tried to drag him away.
She said: "How dare you associate with a
woman ofyour company while am on the
train?" He tried to exoostulate wijth her,
and she tried to pull the bell cord to stop
the train. With assistance he released her
hold of the btll cord.
Big Bar BUI for a Week.
She drank intemperately on the steam
ship La Bourgogne, in June, 1890, and
her bar bill tor seven days cost him $75.
She accused him of intlmaoy with several
women, and once, in 1890, at St Louis,
she swallowed a little diluted carbolic acid,
out of unfounded jealousy. Her reported
charges of this kind made things unpleas
ant for the actresses who appeared with
him. She was jealous of every woman he ever
knew, not excepting her own sister. She
even quarreled with him because he showed
natural affection for his mother.
Mr. Goodwin calls attention to an affida
vit she made May 4, 1891, to be used in her
motion for alimony, in which she says he
had maintained her in luxury, giving her a
retinue of servants, and allowed her pin
money of $100 a week, procured a beautiful
villa in the suburbs of London for her, and
? laced a steam yacht at her disposal on the
'names. This was to show that he had
money, but he thinks it shows now that he
spent it freely for her. Mrs. Goodwin says
his earnings have been averaging $15,000 a
year, and that he has $50,000 in realty and
securities. He admits her allegation that
he is well-known aotor.
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1NGALLS BOBS UP AGAIN.
Once More His Voice and Parse Are Placed
at His Party's Service He Says He Will
. Not Be a Candidate for the Senate
Again.
Topeka, Kan., March 1 John J.
Ingalls has again entered actively the poli
tical arena, and from now on his voice will
be heard in the State councils of his party.
He made his first' really public appearance
to-night, after seclusion for nearly
a- year in a speech before the
State League of Republican clubs in which
be defended his late inactivity in political
affairs, " and announced his future pro
gramme. He said that some of the Repub
licans who passed upon the cre
dentials of Republicans seem to de
sire to believe that he was no longer
a Republican. He was a Republican, and
he believed that that party just now stood
in need of active recruits more than of vic
tims (referring to the attempts in his own
State to read him out of the party.).
It had been stated, he said, that he had
taken no part in recent campaigns. That
was a fact, hut he was obliged to state that
the State Central Committee had solicited
from him neither his services nor his money.
He had been ignored.
Not a Candidate for the Senate.
In conclusion, he said: "I am not a
candidate for the United States Senate. My
name shall not be used in connection with
any office that may be .given in coming
election nor for any office that may be the
result of it" He offered his services to the
State Central Committee, volunteer
ing to go as a private wherever the generals
sent him.
Topeka was in the hands of the Repub
licans of Kansas to-day. The hotels are
crowded. It was the largest convention of
the Republican League ever held in Kansas.
At 10:30 this morning every seat in Repre
sentative Hall was filled. Pending the re
I torts speeches were made. Barton, of Abi
ene, said that "David B Hill was the gen
tleman the Republicans had to face and the
Democrats to swallow."
At the afternoon session the Committee
on Resolutions reported one of the shortest
platforms on record. It consisted of only
four brief paragraphs. The first renewed
allegiance to the Republican party and
pledged support to all its principles, and
especially to the great economical principles
of protection, honest money and reciprocity.
The second paragraph Indorsed President
Harrison and tbe third Secretary Blame,
'while the fourth was an expression of the
loss the party felt in the death of the late
Senator Plumb.
An Amendment at Once.
When the resolutions were read, D4R.
Anthony, of Leavenworth, jumped imme
diately to his feet and proposed an amend
ment to the effect that the Republican party
demanded a free ballot and a fair count
The amendment was accepted by the com
mittee on resolutions, and as amended they
were adopted.
Although no definite action was taken by
the club on the stiver question, the senti
ment of Kansas Republicans became
apparent when, just before adjourn
ment, D. R. Anthony, who has here
tofore been a rabid free silver man,
announced in a short speech that he had
changed his views upon that subject, and
was now opposed to the free coinage of sil
ver. When the speaker made this an
nouncement the convention rose as one
man and cheered with enthusiasm.
A BADLY MIXED CASK
County Detective Beltzhoover Has a Queer
Experience With a Fleeing Young Man
Several Stories About the A flair The
Police Spend the Day Investigating It.
Several stories were afloat yesterday
about a little shooting affair occurring in
the morning about 1 o'clock in which County
Detective Beltzhoover had a part, which
turned out, after investigation, to be
nothing more than a combination of peculiar
circumstances. At the time mentioned
Officers Downey and Ludwig heard three
shots from the vicinity of, Ann and Magee
streets. On arriving there they found De
tective Beltzhoover and a boy, who seemed
frightened half to death. The detective
said he had been walking out Fifth avenue
when he heard somebody yell "murder"
and saw a young man running toward him.
He reached out to catch him, but the young
man was going at such speed that the de
tective was knocked down.
Jumping up at once he ran after the flee
ing man, calling for him to stop. The latter
only ran the faster. He raced up Magee
street and turned into Ann. As he did so
the detective fired three shots in the air.
This frightened the young man so that he
stopped. A moment later the omcers ar
rived.
The prisoner, after he got over his fright,
said he had quarreled with a friend in an
Elm street pool room, and when they came
out the other started after him with a brick.
Before they had cone tar the man with the
brick tripped and fell in the gutter. The
young man, seeing this, started back, when
the one in the gutter, evidently thinking
the tables were to be turned on him, began
to veil. Then the young man thought it best
to make his escape, and started to run.
When the detective tried to stop him it
only, increased his desire to get away, and
nothing but fear of the revolver brought
him to a halt
The officers, detective and prisoner went
back to find the man with the brick, but he,
too, had evidently concluded it best to get
out of that neighborhood and was not be
found. As there was nothing to hold the
young man on he was released.
The police are said to have another ver
sion of the affair and a couple of officers,
spent all day yesterday investigating it
They will report to Superintendent O'Mara
this morning.
ANOTHER NATIONAL CONVENTION
To Be Called by the Southern Antl-Snb-Treasury
Alliance Men.
Jackson, Miss., March L Representa
tive McAllister, Chairman of the National
Committee of the Anti-Sub-Treasury Al
liance, was this morning asked by a reporter
what he thought of the recent labor confer
ence at St. Louis and its bearing upon the
politics of the South. He said:
The pretended opposition of the Southern
delegates to the third party movement was
themerest sham. Xhey were all in full
sympathy with it, possibly with the ex
ception of Livingtone, of Georgia, who is In
doubt as to whether his Stato is ripe for the
movement. There is no doubt but that the
sub-Treasury party in the Southern Alliance
will join the movement. The third partyites
uuopieu iuc ucaia pimiorm, ana mis ele
ment believes their political salvation de
pends upon the success of the sub-Treasury
scheme. Tho movement is fraught with
danger to the Democrats in several Southern
States, notably in North Carolina, Alabama
and Louisiana. A fusion of this eloment
with the Republicans would seriously im
peril Democratic success. . Bepublican man
agers recognize the waning fortunes of their
party in the Northwest, gi owing out of this
movement, and will eagerly embrace any
fusion in the Sonth as an offset.
Our committee will issue a call during this
month for a national convention to resist
the sub-Treasury and other party sch ernes.
CLEV2LAHD HAS CLAK10N.
Besolntions Passed Strongly Indorsing
Fattlinn and the Ex-President.
Clap.ion, Pa., March 1. The Demo
cratic County Committee met to-day and
elected W. A. Hindman, J. A. Hoy, K. S.
Coulter and A. M. Keeley delegates to the
Slate Convention, and instructed for W. A.
Hindman for national delegate. Resolutions
strongly indorsing Patticon's administration
were passed with great enthusiasm, as were"
resolutions instructing the delegates to use
all honorable means in favor of a Cleveland
delegation to Chicago. .
An attempt was made to prevent instruc
tions, but the CJeyeland-Pattison element
carried everything. A very cordial resolu
tion recommending Colonel W. W: Green
land for. Adjutant General was pasted by a
rising vote unid applaase.
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RET. DK. r-ARKHURST
Eebnked by Jndse and Jury for
Bringing Unfounded Charges
AGAINST MVY TOBK'S OFFICIALS.
Hearsay Evidence that He Made No Efforts
at All to Confirm
USED AS GOSPEL FE0JI THE PULPIT
r8PXCIAI.TEI.raRAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1
New Yoek, March L The grand jurjr,
now in session to-day, made a report or its
investigations into tbe charges made byRey.
Charles H. Parkhurst, ofthe Madison Square
Presbyterian Church, against' certain city
officials in a sermon preached by him some
time since. The findings were handed to
Judge Martinez, and are as follows:
"During the present term of thi3 court
there were published in the journals of this
city, as the accounts of a discourse deliv
ered from the pulpit of one of our
.churches, certain accusations against the
character and fitness of the officials charged
with the duty of administering our munici
pal government The imputations were not
limited to any particular branch of the city
government, hut in sweeping terms con
demned the entire body of officials, in lan
guage so lacking in specification, however,
that, -with ono exception, no cogniz
ance could be taken of them. One
assertion, however, was sufficiently specific
as to warrant attention by this body,
namely, the declaration to the effect that
the District Attorney had, in November,
1891, refused to supply, although in his
power so to do, evidence required by the
grand jury then in session, for the purpose
of founding a prosecution against a notor
ious and disreputable resort, the proprietor
(McGlory) of which has since been con
victed and is now undergoing the penalty
of the law; and that by such refusal and
neglecting to proceed against the proprietor
of such resort the District Attorney had
encouraged him in its conduct and main
tenance. A Speedy Investigation Granted.
"Soon after the publication of these state
ments the District Attorney requested us to
send for the author "of them and
ascertain their truth or falsity, a request
which we were not slow to grant, inasmuch
as the District Attorney is the legal qd visor
ofthe grand jury, and necessarily brought
into daily association with it We there
upon caused to attend and be examined
before us the author of the statements in
question, and all other persons who could
throw light on their truth or falsity, and,
after a thorough investigation, desire to
present to the Court as follows:
v "We find the author ofthe charges had
no evidence on which to base them except
alleged newspaper reports, which, in the
form published, had no foundation in fact
We find that no request. B ever made to
the District Attorney to lj the grand
jury with any evidence in the matter
named, and that upon the trial of the in
dictment the District Attorney presented
to the Court evidence collected wholly by
himself, and that a conviction was obtained
by him withont reference to the testimony
taken before the grand jury.
Unfounded Charges Denounced.
"We desire, further, to express our disap
proval and condemnation of unfounded
charges of this character, which, whatever
may be the motive in uttering them, can
only serve to create a feeling of unwar
ranted distrust in the minds of the com
munity with regard to the integrity of pub
lic ouiciais, auu iciiua uuiy iu iiiuucr tue
prompt administration of justice."
After Judge Martine had read the pre
sentment, he arose, and addressing the
grand jury said:
'Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of the Grand Jury:
"It is gratifying, indeed, to find that your
body has, seen "fit to make some investigation
of the attack made in the public press by a
certain gentleman in this community. Com
ing as it does from a clergyman, coming
from one who, naturally, from his calling,
has a standing and repute in this commu
nity, it is quite natural that some credence
should be given to the statement, and quite
fair to assume that a person of that charac
ter would not make unwarranted and un
founded attacks; and the public might as
sume there was some basis for the attack,
or was at the time it was made, when it had
gained such publicity in the public press.
An Attack Withont Foundation.
"It was an attack upon the officials of
this community. An attack of this char
acter has the effect usually to bring officials
into contempt and into disrepute, but when
it is suggested that they are guilty of mal
feasance and misconduct in office,' and sug
gested that they failed to discharge the
duties of office and had gone a step further
in refusing to aid or assist those who wanted
to bring about an investigation of crime,
then it becomes a serious accusation, calling
for an investigation by such a body as
yours.
"After the first inquiry after the first
suggestion of official inquiry the people
came to apprehend that there was no founda
tion for the accusation, and it is indeed
gratifying to find that, after your investiga
tion, there was nothing but rumor, nothing
but hearsay to base any accusation upon.
It is an easy matter to bring a public officer
into disrepute, and then a difficult matter
for a public officer to reinstate himself in
the confidence of the public
"Gentlemen, in this case I think vou
have done what you should have done. The
District Attorney of this county was your
legal adviser. You confined your investiga
tion to an investigation of the attacks made
against him. The person who made the ac
cusations against him must have had some
reason of his own either a desire lor pub
lic notoriety, or he may have believed it
might result in some general good, or what
not What his motives may have been I
can't say; but it may well iseem that a per
fon occupying his station, a person in his
calling, should be careful before making
snch an accusation, unleis he has some
foundation for it I tbank you, gentleman,
for this presentment of yours, and I will
see that it has due publichy."
THE SMALLEST PAETT.
Only
Four Delegates Show Up at a Con
vention Held in Missouri.
Excelsior Springs, Mo., March 1.
The meeting of the Supreme Lodge Knights
of Reciprocity, which it was announced
would fire the first gun ofthe campaign, re
sulted in a grand fizzle. Only lour dele
gates fiom the many hundreds of lodges
which the organizations claims in the United
States showed up. The band played "Hail
to the Chief, and three newspaper report
ers ascended the steps of Elm's Hotel. Be
sides four delegates there vtere present a
number of visitors.
Jesse Taylor, of Garden City, Kan., Su
preme Judge of the order, made his annual
address to the forlorn lour., The delegates
present were W. H. Harrison, ot Kansas
"City, Mo.; P. A. Flanagan, ot Carthage, Mo.;
ex-Congressman S. It. Peters, ot Newton,
Kan., and H. S. Gregory, of Garden Citv,
,Kan. The Knights ot Reciprocity is a secret
political order organized a year ago last No
vember at Garden City, Kan., to offset the
work of the Faruers' Alliance.
Captured in a Cellar.
About 2 o'clock yesterday morning S. B.
Richards was discovered in the cellar of
Mrs. Taylor's house on First avenue. The
lady kept him confined till Officer Smith
came. Richards jfare the officer a hard
struggle, biting his hand badly, and finally
breaking away irom him. He was soon re
captured and sent to Central station. Later
in tbe morning Magistrate McKenna fined
him 1100 and sentenced him six months to
the workhouse in addition. This is the
third time he has broken into Mrs. Taylor's
hooii. "
-THE SWITCHMAN FORGOT.
HIS
CAKEI.ESSNES3 SENDS
EOULS ISTO XTEKNITT.
SEVES
A Passenger Train Crashes Into a Car
rilled With Laborers in the City Limits
of Milwaukee The Negligent Switch
man Arrested After a Chase.
Milwaukee, March 1. The Watertown
local train ran into and demolished the rear
endofatraiu loaded with employes ofthe
West Milwaukee shops of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul Railroad this evening,
killing seven men. The switchman, Emil
Bartel, had forgotten to turn the switch
after the workmen's train had been side
tracked, and the "local" a moment after
passed on the short switch and telescoped
the rear car. The seven men killed were
terribly mangled. Bartel disappeared and
officers started in pursuit, and he was ar
rested at 8 o'clock.
The engine and baggage car of the "local"
and four cars of the workmen's train were
derailed, but none of the "local's" passen
gers were injured. The occupants of -the
coach had no warning of the impending
danger, and in an instant they were ground
between the sides of the overturned car
and the cinder-covered road bed.
A strange part of the accident is that
there was but one man injured, and he but
slightly. The work of recovering bodies was
begun "at once. Patrol wagons and ambu
lances were soon at hand, and in half an
hour all ,had been removed to the morgue.
The'identifications are, Stanislaus Kataaen
ski, John Grunskowski, Paul Wagner and
Robert Wrese.
The Weakness
And prostration, like that tired feeling,'so
sure to follow tho Grip, is really the most
dangerous staze of the disease and can only
bo overcome by taking a good tonic medi
cine like
Hood's Sarsaparilia
Which builds up the whole system, purifies
the blood and prevents relapse and attacks
of other diseases. Be sure to et Hood's.
Severe Straggle with the
Grip Postmaster Foster,
Of Lubec, Me., says regarding Hood's Sarsa
parilia: "Last spring I had a severe attack
ofthe Grip which left me In a very feeble
condition. I had no appetite, was nervous,'
and was in a poor way generally. I was ad
Vised to taeo
Hood's Sarsaparilia
And in a few days I began to improve. My
appetite increased till it seemed that I could
not get enough to eat. When I had taken
thrcn bottles I felt as well as ever, and I may
say better than ovor. I heartily recommend
Hood's Sarsaparilia."
HOOD'S FILLS aro purely vegetable and
aro the best family cathartic.
BUSINESS ACTIVITY.
'Below are a few of the many manufactories located at
KENSINGTON
That are completed and being operated to their fullest capacity:
THE PITTSBURG-REDUCTION CO., .
Manufacturers of aluminum.
THE BROWNSVILLE PLATE GLASS CO.,'
Manufacturers of Heavy Plate Glass.
THE BRADLEY FOUNDRY CO.,
Manufacturers of Stoves and Castings.
THE PITTSBURG TIN PLATE CO.,
, Manufacturers of Tin Plate.
The CHAMBERS GLASS CO.'S factories are being built and will start
in a short time. They will give employment to 1,800 people.
The Excelsior Flint Glass Co. is finished and almost ready to start.
Kensington is now an established manufacturing city and will always be
a good place to locate, either to go into business or to secure employment.
Money invested in property there will be safe and profitable.
This is the time to make selections and buy lots.
No mistake, can be made in putting money in property there, a3 it is fast
increasing in value, and handsome results can be had in a short time if pur
chases are made now.
"visit EZEnsrsusra-Toisr.
Free railroad tickets given there and return.
For further information apply at o$ce of
m mm uprovbient hupae
ROOMS 30, 32 AND 34,
NO. 96 FOURTH AVENUE,
PITTSBURG, PA.
REMOVALTHE BDRRELL IMPROVEMENT CO., &k sB&&
TON properties, will remove their offices onApril 1 to 79 Fourth ave., Hostet
ter building, in room lately occupied by tho Fort Pitt National Bant.
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500 ODD CURTAINS
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We have 1,000 pairs of Curtains, all of one style, regular
price $2. 50 they are full taped and $ yards long during
this sale only x
AT $1.00.
$0DD PAIRS CURTAINS, ONE, TWO OR THREE PAIR OF A
KIND J AT HALF-PRICE
435 Market St 437
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
EXTRA.
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of the Celebrated
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The designs are more beautiful than
ever the wearing quality of these
Linens is well known.
We also place on sale our impor
tations for 1 89 2. of New Linens from
the well-known- house of JOHN S.
BROWN & SONS, Eelfast, Ireland.
JOS. HORNE a CO.,
607-621 PENN AVENUE.
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