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Frightful Moral Effects oi the Fam
ine in Parts of Russia.
TEAYEL THERE NO LONGEli SAFE.
Greece Confronted by a Crisis Which May
Lead to Ciril War.
EITAL CABINETS AT THE CAPITAL
Iokdok, March L The English special
correspondent, who is traveling in the fam
ine districts ot Russia, writes from Saratov
that crimes ot violence in the valley of the
Volga are of frequent occurrence. Clergy
men's houses have been lobbed, and the
bodies ot murdered men are found on the
high.ds. The correspondent was warned
of the dangers ot traveling about the coun
try, and he seldom drove at night
Caravans of merchandise are escorted by
an armed force. The correspondent says
that while he was 6leighiug on the Volga
one evening he was tracked for half an hour
by a raffged, ill-looking peasant armed with
a musket and a cudgel. It was his inten
tion to signal the approach of the corre
spondent to an ambush prepared' by robbers,
who infest both sides of the Volga. The
correspondent showed his revolver and the
peasant retired.
The correspondent adds that villages in
the Government of Samara, which were
prosperous in 18S6, are now plunged into
the deepest misery, and the population has
been decimated.
Heavy Debts for Government Taxes.
In one village 2,763 of its 7,856 inhab
itants have migrated. Of those remaining,
1,250 are dependent upon charity. In three
months the people ot this village have lost
4,038 head of live stock. They are indebted
to the State in the sum of 72,380 roubles.
Similar conditions prevail in other villages.
Forty thousand acres ot land are idle in
the province of Samara, owing to a lack of
seed wherewitn to plant this area. Aniim
ber of German colonists live in holes in the
earth for warmth. They eat bread made of
wild hemp and the carcasses of horses. This
diet causes severe, often (atal, nausea.
The famine is changing the peasants into
wild beasts. In one case a man attempted
to hanc his daughter because she had not
been successful in begging. A loaf of bread
was given to a peasant, who began to de
vour it with the avidity of a famished wolf.
While he was in the act of gulping down
the bread he fell in a fit and died.
SpeaUng of the resources of the province,
the correspondent says that land in the
basin of the Volga is exhausted and the cli
mate is changing. He suggests that 100,000
)f the German colonists be assisted to emi
grate to Canada and the United States.
They are a fine race, he says, and would
make successful colonists in those coun
tries. 8,000 Loaves for 18,000 People.
A cable dispatch from Vienna says: The
distribution of free bread to the poor at the
offices of the Socialist paper, Vti&x Presse,
was attended with a great deal oi disorder
to-day. Eight thousand loaves of bread had
been provided, but fully 12,000 men and
women assembled in front of the offices with
the expectation of receiving a share.
When it became known that the supplies
had been exhausted, many of those who had
received nothing assailed the others more
fortunate and fought with maniacal fury
lor the food they coveted, the possessors
of which fiercely defended their rights
against their ravenous opponent. In 'the
crush ten women were injured. The efforts
oi a strong torce oi police were imally suc
cessful in checking the rioting.
Another cable dispatch from Dantzic,
ays: Tne unemployed of this city marched
in procession to the Town Hall to-day and
asked for relief. The municipal authorities
decided to put them tc work reclaiming
waste lands.
A BLACKMAILER OF HOBLEltEKr
Earl Knssell Berused lo Be Bled Before His
Marriage to the Conntesr.
IiONTKXS, March 1. JIaitland Francis
Morland, aged 65 years, the Oxford tutor
who was charged with attempting trf obtain
from Lord Hothfield 70 by blackmailing
methods, was to-day rearraigned. Earl
Bussell was the first witness called. He
said that in 1888 he received a letter, sim
ilar to the one addressed to Lord Hothfield.
The letter purported to be from a very
young widow, who informed His Lordship
that he could ca'l as often as he liked. She
asked for 50 as a loan. Earl Russell said
he foolishly replied to this letter, and that
the next year, after his marriage engage
ment, he received an unsigned letter saving
that some gentleman had called upon "Ruth
Morland" and offered 50 for His Lord
ship's letter. The Earl replied that he
would be glad to receive the information
that his letters had been destroyed, as hers
had been. ,
He afterward received a letter declaring
that if his letter meant an ofler of 50 for
the return of his correspondence the matter
could be easily arranged; if not, it was inti
mated, his indiscretion would be revealed
and the secret would be disclosed to some
one who would be only too glad to get pos
session of it. He then received a letter
stating that Miss Scott, the Earl's intended
bride (to whom he was afterward married)
should see the letter, but he persisted in his
refusal to be blackmailed. Finally Earl
Bussell received a letter from "Butt Mor
land," saying that unless 50 were sent her
the writer intended confessing to her hus
band. After hearing further evidence
against the prisoner he was committed for
trial.
FIGHTIHG IS TEIP0LL
2Pitives Object to Heine Conscripted Into
the Army by the Tories.
,oston, March 1. A dispatch from
"iripoli announces that there has been seri
us rioting there, growing out of the issuing
fa firman by the Sultan making natives
liable to conscription, from which they have
hitherto been exempt. While an official was
reading the firman to the public in the mar
ket place he w as attacked and beaten by a
mob, and the document was torn up. A de
tachment of cavalry had to be called out to
disnerse the mob. Soon afterward thous
ands of Arabs assembled outside the walls
ot the city and advanced to the gates de
manding the withdrawal of the firman. The
Arabs have already had an encounter with
the troops, several being killed and many
wounded. The Europeans living in the
vicinity have taken refuge in the city.
Business is entirely suspended.
A dispatch from Constantinople savs: The
secret of the disturbances in the Afro-Turkish
province of Tripoli is that the Sultan
wishes to strengthen Turkish rule in the
piovince and make it abase of operations in
dealing with Egypt on the one hand, or
France and Turkey on the other.
PASIS AIT AECHISTS BLTJKDEEED.
The Dynamite TThlch Blew TJp a Princess
Bouse Was Meant for a Consulate.
PAKIS, March L An attempt yesterday
morning, to blow uj the residence of the
Princess de Sagan promises to be a nine
days' wonder. KoDody can conceive why
the Princess should Ije attacked in this
manner. It now appears thatthe dynamit
ers made a blunder. The Spanish Em
bassv was lormeriy located iu a neighbor
ing "building, and th sympathizers here
with the Spanish Anarchists, who placed
the dynamite, did not know that the Em
bassy had been removed.
A letter was received at the building
formerly occupied by the Embassy, signed
J by a committee
of Spanish and" French
ic certain demands, and
i Anarchists, making certain
threatening, if thev were not complied
with, that the building would be blown up.
The letter was handed to the police by the
occupants of the
house, and nothing more
was heard of it.
TWO CABINETS IN ATHENS.
A Critical Situation Which May Lead to
Civil War The Belyannii Ministry K-
tnses to Accept a Dismissal and Gets a
Unanimous Tote of Confidence.
Atheus, March L The Greek Cabinet,
of which M. Delyannis was the Prime
Minister, has resigned and the King nai
summoned M. Tricoupis to form a new
Ministry. This will bring to an end the
proceedings that had been taken by the
Delyannis Ministry to impeach M. Tn
coupis, who was formerly Premier. The
greatest excitement has been caused by the
resignation of the Ministry. No definite
information is at present obtainable as to
the cause which led to the crisis, but it is
known that the King requested M. Delyan
nis and his Cabinet to resign. The Minis
ters declined to voluntarily accede to the
king's demands, as they have a majority in
the Chamber.
The King, since seeing M, Tricoupis, has
had a conferer.ee with M. Constamopoulo,
the leader of the th'rd party, and with M.
Condotorius, Grand Marshal of the court.
Contrary to the usual order of things politi
cal in "Greece, M. Tricoupis. declined to
form a Ministry, and it is now announced
that M. Constantopoulo has consented to
form a Cabinet.
In spite of the selection of M. Constanto
poulo, the supporters of M. Delyannis this
afternoon resumed their session- in the
Chamber, where M Delyannis made a state
ment He sa:d that he and his colleagues
had been summoned by the King to resign,
but had declined to do so, whereupon the
King dismissed the Cabinet. M DelyannU
now asked the Chamber for a vote of Confi
dence. The vote was carried unanimously.
There was no member of the opposition
present.
After the adjournment of the Chamber a
large crowd escorted M. Delyannis to bis
residence, from the balcony of which he
made an impassioned speech. He said that
the people had twice honored him with
their confidence, and he would never aban
don his post He relied upon the sup
port of the nation. A counter demonstra
tion was held in front of the residence of M.
Tricoupis.
The -situation has become critical. The
King persists in the dismissal of the Dely
annis Ministry. The Boyal Palace is
guarded by detachments of cavalry. It has
been learned at the palace that the King's
motive in dismissing the Ministry was his
fear ot an aggravation of the financial crisis.
THE POPE'S TWO OBJECTS.
Redemption of Boly Places and the Inde
pendence of the Church.
Rome, March L The Pope to-day gave
a solemn audience to all the members of
the College of Cardinals present in Borne.
Cardinal La Valcta, Bishop of
Ostia and Velletri, expressed to His Holi
ness the devotion of his colleagues and
voiced their congratulation on the anni
versary to-morrow of his 82d birthday, and
also upon the 14th anniversary of his crown
ing in the Sistine chapel.
The Pope made a speech in reply, in
which he expressed his appreciation of the
Cardinal's good wishes. The Pope referred .
to the two guiding principles of Pope Inno
cent III., the redemption of the
holy places and the independence of
the Church. To attain these two
things, His Holiness declared, he would
die. Changes in public opinion, he added,
had rendered the Pope's achieving
these more difficult than at the period
of Pope Innocent IIL The dominant
influence then was faith, which vivified the
social and political organization. But little
faith prevails to-dav, and this emboldened,
tne enemies ot tne (Jnurcn and the Papacy
to try to extinguish even, the,
name of Christian. Such condi
tions afforded good ground " for a
decree to return, not to the sensuous civili
sation and defective institutions of the Mid
dle Ages, but to the robust faith rooted in
the conscience of the people. That alone
would render possible the cure of the ills of
nations.
GEKKANS COMING 300,000 STK0NG.
They Will Z.eave the Volga Provinces of
Russia for the X-and of Plenty.
St. Petersburg, March L The 300,000
Germans who are preparing to leave the
Volga provinces for the United States
are very different from the
natives of Germany. They are nine
teenth century Rip Van "Winkles, gaunt
in form, wearing garments of the style of a
hundred years ago, and having the
furniture yet that their ancestors
brought from Germany to Russia.
They are excellent people, industri
ous in their wavs, and honest in everything,
but entirelv ignorant of the world as it
really is. The Russians look upon them as
foreigners, and are apparently willing to let
them eo. ' i
At Saratof the Russian Government feeds
the Russians, while it allows the Germans
in equally necessitous circumstances to
starve The salaries of the German
clergy and schoolmasters, who are
sober and faithful and in these re
spects in marked contrast to the Rus
sians, have gone unpaid for years. The
people have been reduced to necessity of
using manure for fuel, and this makes the
atmosphere of the villages at times in
tolerable. .
CAPKIVI AGAIH SHOCKED OUT.
The Belchstag Refuses to Reinsert 'If aval
Estimates That Were Stricken Out.
Berlin, March L The appeal yesterday
of Chancellor Von Caprivi for the restora
tion of the clause in the naval estimates
providing for the construction of corvettes
and cruisers, which had been eliminated
by the committee of the Reichstag,
availed the Government nothing, for
when the question was put to a
vote in the Reichstag to-day the Govern
ment was defeated, the House refusing to
have the sums of money asked for reinsert
ed in the estimates. The other naval ex
penditures proposed by the committee were
passed.
In speaking against the adoption of Chan
cellor von Caprivi's proposal, Herr Voll
niar, a Socialist member, protested that the
Government was attempting to take advan
tage of the prevailing distress, the exist
ence of which it had previously denied, in
order to obtain the granting ot "unjustifiable
military demands. Herr Barth, Socialist,
urged the Government to repeal the corn
duties, and thus alleviate the distress.
WHITE CAPS F02CIBLY OBJECT
To the Marriac" of 90-rar-OId Woman
to a Terr Tonthful Peddler.
Belfast, March 1. Last night "White
Caps attacked the house of Ann French,
the wealthy old lady of 90 who mar
ried the young peddler, Herbert
Penny, broke in the front door and
ransacked the house. They found.
Penny half dressed, hid in the haymow,
with two revolvers, and disarmed him. He
was roughly handled, pelted with eggs and
notified to leave town before to-night, or he
would be tarred and feathered and ridden
on a rail to the town line.
Penny captured one of the White Caps
and locked him in a closet at the point ot a
pistol. Rt RevJ Hackett, of the Congrega
tional Church, who performed the cere
mony, says that the room was darkened,
and that he was deceived.
Kntsla Wants Cotton Manufactures.
St. Petersburg, March L In order lo
stimulate the'manufacture of cotton goods
in Russia, the Government has issued a de
cree that the import duty on raw cotton
shall be j-ef nnded. to the exporters of the
manufactured product.
More Cardinals Onttide of Italy.
Rome, March 1. It is said by high au
thority to be the intention of the Pope to
appoint at the next conclave more foreign
cardinals, in order to establish a certain
equilibrium in the College of Cardinals.
Notes From Beyond the Sea. "
Tire Kaiser won't come to the World's
Fair.
Pakbell's Avondale estate will be sold at
auction.
The majority of English bankers favor
Goschen's cunency scheme.
The Queensland Government, in Australia,
will prohibit immigration for the present
Emperor Tbakois Joseph heads the sub
scription to the Austrian relief fund with
$2,500.
Trrirus fever and other epidemics are af
flicting the people of Northern Hungary.
The famine there is so severe that the peo
ple are eating the barks of trees.
Mdir, the London shoemaker who some
time ago murdered a woman named Sulli
van, who was living with him as hi wife,
was hanged to-day. He was not "Jack
the Kipper," as he was at first supposed to
be.
Dcriho a murder trial in Nogpur, India,
the alleged weapon, a hatchet, was plated
on the Judge's table and put in evidence.
The prisoner suddenly seized the hatchet
and came near Killing the Judge, inflicting
a severe scalp wound before he was ovei
powered. M. Cazeiles, Director of Public Safety, and
M. Etenne, Under Colonial .Secretary, have
followed II. Constans, late Minister of the
Interior, into retirement. Jt is rumored
thatthe Radicals will join the members of
the Bight and that they intend to tiring the
matter of the alleced intrizues ofGeneral
Brueere. Secretary of the President's Mili
tary Household, before the Chamber of
Deputies, with the view of having him dis
missed from the Klysee Palace.
THE D. & H. MYSTERY.
A Rnmor That the Mew York Central and
the Erie Will Control the Road These
Who Shonld Know are Reticent and
Shady.
If ew YoRK,March L 5pecwrf. Official
denials made in the most positive and
sweeping terms were not considered at all
in the -discussion in the street. 'yesterday
as to the causes for the advance in
the Delaware and Hudson stock.
The tape showed that something was going
on, and the strength in the Vanderbilt
stocks was taken as evidence that New
York Central was in some way to
be the gainer. Men who are credited
with engineering the deal either refnse
to answer questions or disclaim any knowl
edge of it No verification of the rumor
could be obtained, but the report that
seemed most plausible was that tne buying
of Delaware and Hudson was by an inter
est representing both New York Central
and Erie.
The New York Central people are sup
posed to have had for some time
a desire for closer relations with
the Delaware and Hudson. The Del
aware and Hudson is a large contributor
to the coal tonnage of the Erie, and it is
considered natural that that road should
contest its control with the New York Cen
tral. Resides, it is to be remembered that
many of the securities of the Erie Railway
have been sold by the banking house of
Drexel, Morgan & Co., of which Mr. J.
Pierpont Morgan, who is one of the execu
tive board of the New York Central, is a
member.
Mr. Morgan denied that he knew any
reason whv the Delaware and Hudson stock
should advance in price. Mr. Legrand
Cannon said that he and the other directors
in the company were "absolutely
4n the dark." But Wall street has pretty
well decided that by lease or otherwise New
Xork Central and Erie will
,have the power to direct the
affairs of this coal road, and
that it has now only to learn the details of
the combination. Mr. McCollough, of the
Erie, refused to be seen and sent word to a
Dispatch reporter that he had nothing to
say. It is not believed that Messrs. Max
well and Baker hare been concerned in the
deal," nor that they are to represent the
Reading combination in the board of direc
tors. THE TYPHUS SPREADS.
Five of the North Brother ' Island Fever
Hospital Staff Taken 111 Cases Crop TJp
In Parts of the City Not Before In
fected. New York, March L Specie!. Five
of the staff of the typhus fever hospital on
North Brother Island are reported on the
sick list One female nurse and one male a
helper are down with symptoms of the fever,
and three male helpers, too ill to do duty,
are isolated under suspicion.
Seven Russian Hebrews, who were among
the first batch of sufferers taken from 42
East Twelfth street and 166 Division street,
were discharged yesterday as cured. They
went to 118 Ridge street.
Joseph Zeigler, who had been delirious
since Saturday in his father's rooms in the
tenement, 185 Rivington street, a
hitherto unsuspected locality, was sent
to the hospital as a typhus pa
tient His condition was reported
to the Department by a private person.
The tenement shelters 15 families. It was
fumigated and put under observation.
Zeigler is the junior of H. Zeigler &
Son, who conduct small drygoods
and ready-made clothing stores at
81 Hester street and 107 Ridge street The
inspectors have been unable to find that he
came into contact with any ot the passen
gers of the Massilia, and tear that the con
tagion may have been transmitted from the
tailor shops at 85 Monroe street.
Julius Watermann, of 20 Ludlow street,
in Bellevue Hospital, has pneumonia and
not typhus. Again, there were not Alder
men enough present at the board's regular
meeting to-day to permit the Health Board
to build a temporary typhus pavilion for
(6,000 without public letting.
OPPOSED TO THE BETTJEH OP FUGS.
The Catholic Organ in Mexico Says It Is a
Grievous National Insult
City of Mexico, March L The Catho
lic organ of Mexico, El Tanpio, has opened
a register for the purpose of in
scribing the names of all the Mexicans
opposed to the return of the flags tendered
by the United States. El Tempio has been pub
lishing a series of virulent articles on the
subject, and claims, the dignity of the
Nation was outraged by the offer.
This paper has always, been violent and
abusive in its denunciations of every
thing American. Being the leading
church organ, it it evident that
the articles in jome manner reflect the
sentiments ot theCatholic Church of Mexi
co to theAmerican people, whose future pre
dominance as Protestants they already view
with alarm and disfavor.
GOULD WELL ENOUGH 10 TRAVEL.
Tet St LonU Reporters Infer Hli Condition
Is Still Precarious.
St. Louis, March 1. Attached to the
Pennsylvania line express, which arrived
here this evening, delayed beyond its usual
time, was the private car of Jay Gould, which
left New York yesterday morning with Gould
and his party en route for the Southwest
Immediately upon arrival here a special
was made up and the Gould party left over
the Iron Mountain Railroad for Texas.
General Manager S. H. H. Clark's car wag
attached to the special. During the short
stay here neither Mr. Gould nor any of his
party was visible to either reporter) or of
ficials of the Gould system. Dr. Munn re
fused alio to be seen. From this belief is
strengthened that Mr. Gould's physical
condition ii very precarious.
MR.POWDERLY'S REPLY
To the Citation of Attorney General
flensel lays Down the Law.
m POSITIVE EVIDENCE TtTOFFER,
But He Quotes a Precedent Quite Apropos to
the Reading Deal.
WHT OFFICIAL ACTION IS NEEDED
SCRANTOlf, Pa., March 1. General
Master Workman Powderly's answer to
Attorney General HenseTs letter, notify
ing him to be present March 3 at the bear
ing to be given the Reading deal, was
mailed last evening and in full reads as
follows:
ScRAirrox, Pa., Feb. 29.
To Hon. TV. U. Ueusel. Attorney General Com
mon well th of Pemuylvanla:
Dear Sib I have before me your letter of
February 23, in which you say that you have
fixed Thursday, March 3. as the time when,
and the Chamber of the Supreme Court at
Harrisburg as tb.e place where, you jvlU
hear the complaint I have already made or
any further matter bearins on the subject
which I may desue to present; eltlier in per
son or by counsel.
While it will afford me the gieatest pleas
ure to co-operate with you in securing such
evidence as will prove that the Constitution
of the Commonwealth has been violated in
the formation of the combination by which
the Philadelphia and Heading Company
gains control or the Central Railroad of
New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company, I cannot, from any actual knowl
edge of the facts in the case, make affidavit
.to the complaint I have already made, or do
anything in addition thereto. As stated in
my letter to the Governor, I knew of no
authorized form of making complaints.
Took the Governor at His Word.
I was prompted to the act by a reported
interview with the Governor, in which he
was quoted as follows: "I have heard no com
plaint and have ,no knowledge of the exist
ence of such a combination, but will enter
tain any respectful complaint ot the abuse
or misuse of corporate franchises," etc. dn
reading that interview I determined that
the Governor would soon have cause for ac
tion, so that he could proceed against the
parties who have formed the combination.
I, therefore, made a "respectful complaint,"
believing that, havinjr called the attention
of the Executive to the matter, it was duly
ended there.
It was a matter of no little surprise to me
to find, from a perusal of your letter, that I
would be requited to proceed to Harrisburg
to repeat tne complaint I had "already
made." If my memory serves me aright,
there were no complaints made to either the.
Executive or the legal authorities of this
State in 1886, when Governor Fattlson took
congnizance of the existence of a combina
tion to restrict the cojI output of the an
thracite legion. In his leference of the
matter to the Attorney General, he said:
"My attention has been directed to the fact
within the past fortnight that certain cor
porations chartered by the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, acting in concert, have
ordered two advances In the price of anthra
cite ooal," etc.
It was my aim to direct the attention of
the Governor to the fact that a combination
.was beine formed which would have
absolute control of the coal output, and
which could, without ltt or hindrance, ad
vance and double the price of coal.
Quoting Paulson on s Previous Case.
Closing his presentment to the Attorney
General, the Governor said: "These facts,
which have been reported to me and authen
ticated, I deem of sufficient importance to
refer to you for your consideration and for
such action as the circumstances may war
rant." To my mind it was quite clear that
the facts in the case now under considera
tion were measurably authenticated on the
day I entered my complaint, and I
furthermore felt that if the facts
in the former case were of sufficient
importance to warrant the Governor
iu presenting them to the Attorney General
or the Commonwealth, the statements with
which every paper in the land bristled for
several days before I took steps In the mat
ter were of even greater importance, since
they comprehended a wider field of opera
tions: a massing of a greater aggregation of
capital, and, as a natural sequence, greater
opportunities to advance tbe price of coat
I am, in common with tbe vnst majority
of the citizens of this State, powerless to
produce such evidence as will jjrove a viola
tion of the fundamental law of the Common
wealth, unless the proper authority shall
institute Judicial proceedings and compel an
obedience to the laws or the State., I am not
bound under penalty of any kind to go to
Harrisburg or anywhere else to give testi
mony. The fact that Mr. Cassatt has refnsed
to appear would indicate that others may do
the same.
A Notification Not Sufficient.
In your letter to me you say you have noti
fied tbe Presidents of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company, the Central Railroad of
New Jersey and the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad Company, of this appointment,
etc. You will pardon me for presuming to
say to you that a mere notification to do a
thing will not cause a guilty person to do it,
and if there ts vested in the authorities of this
Commonwealth no stronger or greater power
than that which is comprehended in a mere
notification, then the investigation of next
Thursday will not De prolific of good to the
people ot tbe Commonwealth.
I say this in all seriousness and earnest
ness, for I entered a complaint in that spirit,
and had reason to hope that it would enable
the Governor to see bis way clear to take
the initial step against a combination that,
to laymen like myself, at least, is in viola
tion, not only of tbe spirit, but of the exact
letter of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.
I can swear to nothing, and yet am morally
certain that this combination exists.
Were I to ask the parties to the combina
tion to allow me the privilege of examining
contracts, leases, papers, etc., it is probable
tuat tney wouiu not grant my requests.
Without these or tbe evidence or witnesses
I could not give you more than 3 ou have al
ready learned from the daily papers.
Private litigation is totally inadequate to
protect the Commonwealth against wrong.
In this case it is not the individual, or even
the limited number of Individuals, who will
suffer, bnt the people and the good name of
the Commonwealth.
Holding to the Pennsy Precedent.
. I expected and had a reasonable right to
expect that, as in the case of the attempted
purchase of the South Pennsylvania Bail
road by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Gov
ernor would protect the interests, of the
Commonwealth and compel obedience to
the Constitution. I am not prepared to be
lieve that there is one law for the Pennsyl
vania and another for tbe Philadelphia and
Beading. In this view of the case I hope
you will agree with me.
When writing to the Governor, I had in
mind more than the present-combination;
and wben I said that Article IT, in every sec
tion and clause, is being violated and set
aside by the action of the Philadelphia and
Beading Company, I had hopedr that it
would be possible to investigate the right or
that concern to absorb the Philadelphia and
Beading Coal and Iron Company and the
Schuylkill Coal Company. Beginning on
-page 15 of the Report of the Congressional
lnvestisation Committee of 1888, you will
find the testimony of Mr. A A. McLeod, then
Vice Piesident of the Philadelphia and
Reading Company, in which he admitted
that tbe latter company had absorbed the
two companies named above.
It is not necessary for me to quote from
that report I simply direct your attention
to it, and would suggest that it contains
sufficient evidence from the lips of those in
terested in this piesent combination to
prove that the constitution ot tne state has
been broken roD
been broken repeatedly.
The Philadelphia and Beading Coal and
Iron Company controls, by lease or other
wise, 191,052 acres of coal, iron and timber
lands and the $3,000,000 stock is owned by the
Beading Railroad.
The Great Power of the Deal.
Such a vast aggregate of capital operating
within the limits of the Commonwealth is
in itself a menace to tbe perpetuity of our
institutions; but, without entering upon
arguments to the probable effects of that
consol'dation on these interests, let me
nsseit that, in view of the fact that in tbe
present "deal," cities, towns and counties
are absolutely placed at the mercy of a
dozen men, it oecomes the duty of the
thoughtful citizen to en tor his protest, if no
more, against the sti engthenfng of bonds
which can mean nothing less tban slavery
for the laborers of these cities, towns and
counties.
I cab not, as yon are aware, enter com
plaint other than as a citizen. The order
of the Knights of Labor has no corporate ex
istence and cannot, tnerefore, be heard be
fore the courts, .-.Were -It otherwise,' we
wqnld be represented by counsel as you sug
gest Sin.ce I acted in my individual capacity
as it citizen in repiesentinir the complaint, I
should not be oxpeoted to bo represented by
counsel to defend the Constitution of the
State, since that duty falls .upon the
shoulders of the Stateiiutliorlties. '
If you summon the employes of the Lehigh
Valley Bailroad Company and those ot the
Central Bailroad of New Jersey yon will
learn that an order has been issued from the
office of the Philadelphia and. Beading Bail
load, subordinating tbe officials and em
ployes of tne first two named companies to
the management of the latter. Further
more, it will be discovered that many em
ployes of the Leblgh Valley Bailroad Com
pany have been discharged, on , the order of
the management of the Beading combina
tion. Sure Evidence ot the Combine.
The Port Beading Company, as' is well
known, is but an insignificant concern and
is the property of the Philadelphia and
Beading Company, which is the name of a
branch road made use of. Instead of the
company whioh owns it, If tne transaction
is honest and constitutional.
In this, region, the officials of the Phila
delphia and Beading are making contracts
with coal operators along the line of the
Lehigh Valley and Central Bailroad of New
Jersey for the delivery of coal. Will it be
argued that tbe Beading Bailroad runs
through this reiion, or that the corporation
can receive that tonnage in any other way
than over the tracks of the two companies
it has absorbed? From the office of Drexel,
Morgan 4 Co. this statement has been given
out. An arrangement similar to a lease has
been made, by which the Philadelphia and
Beading takes control of the two railroads
in question. And the following is given out
as the contract:
The Beading will guarantee to the New
Jersey Central stockholders 7 per cent on
their stock, and any excessive earnings over
this amount will be divided equally between
the New Jersey Central and the Beading
stockholders. The Beading guarantees to
the Lehigh Valley stockholders 6 per cent
to next July: For a year the guarantee is 6
per cent, and thereafter, from July 1, 1893,
the guarante will ie 7 per cent.
The Beading Company, as it is reported in
tbe papers without denial, has deposited
with Drexel, Morgan & Co. $3,000,000 in secur
ities to secure tbe Lehigh Valley lease and
$2,000 000 securities, to secure the lease of the
Jersey Central. I am apprised of these
transactions by the daily press, which gives
presumptive evidence of the existence of
a combination encli as is positively forbid
den in article 17 of the constitution.
Appealing to Honsel's Official Oath.
Your oath of office, it appears to me, re
quires that the slightest attempt at viola
tion of the constitution should be noted in
an official way by you. The Constitution, in
its denial of such privileges to corporations,
is positive or meaningless. If positive, then
vour dutv is clear: if meaningless, we should
know it from the highest legal authority of
the Commonwealth, that we may amend,
alter or abolish, as allowed by tho Bill of
Bights.
It may be that I have taken the wrong
course in attempting to have legal proceed
ings entered against those whom I believed
to bo conspiring against the peace and wel
fare of the State. 1 am not a lawyer and can
not, therefore, be held to be blameworthy
for not being conversant, at the time I en
tered the complaint, with the fact that
there is in the statutes of the State a law "to
prohibit foreign corporations from doing
business in Pennsylvania without having
known places of business and authorized."
If that combination comes under the head
of corporations, then it should be required
to comply with Section 2 of that law, which
leads:
It shall not be lawful for any such corpora
tion to do any business in this Common
wealth until it shall have filed in tbe office of
the Secretary of the Commonwealth a state
ment under the seal of said corporation and
signed by the President or Secretary there
of, showing the title and object or said cor
poration, the location of its office, and the
name or names of its authorized agent or
agents, etc
The Foreign Corporation, Phase.
In framing that law In accord with the
constitution, It was the evident Intention to
have a record for all foreign corporations
doing business within the State. It is illegal
for any corporation, foreign or domestic, to
transact its business In this State without a
warrant of law. If a mere corporation Is
denied the privilege of doing business unless
it places the application and charter open to
the inspection of any citizen, can It be less
so for an aggregation of capital, orin other
words, so vast a combination of corpora
tions as make up wb' lskriown as the
"Beading deall" . ...
This is a foreign institution to Pennsylva
nia. It was born In New York. If the law
above referred to does not in any way apply
to this case, it may be that the remedy may
be found in "An act regulating the election
of the Secretary of International Affairs,"
and fixing his salary. Part of section 4 of
that act reads like this:
"It shall be his especial duty to exercise
watchful supervision over the railroad,
banking, mining, manufacturing and other
business corporations of tbe State, and to
see that they confine themselves strictly:
within their corporate limits; and In case
any citizen shall charge under oath
any corporation with transcending its
corporate functions or infringing upon the
lights of individual citizens, said Secretary
shall carefully investigate such charges, and
may require from said corporations a spe
cial report, as enjoined in the Constitution
of the State, and in case he believes that tbe
charges are Just and tbe matter complained
of is beyond the ordinary province of Indi
vidual redress, he shall certify his opinion
to thd Attorney General, whose duty it shall
be to redress the same by a proceeding In
the courts."
Powderly Awaits a Reply hy Wire.
If. in making my complaint direct to the
Governor, as I felt that in courtesy I should
do so, I have erred, I will cheerfully proceed
to procure the required affidavits and place
them in tbe hands of the Secretary of In
ternal Affairs, so that official may act. I
will not have time to procure the affidavits
before the 3d, and could not place before
you an iota more of evidence than Is con.
tained in this statement, for the length of
which I beg to be excused.
Were I to go to Havrisburg I would but re
peat what I have already written; but If
you helleve that 1 should ao so, 1 win nom
myself in readiness to obey your summons.
I have an Important engagement for the
evening of the 2d, which must be canceled
ir I go to Harrisburg, and I, therefore, ask
as a special favor, that you kindly wire me
on receipt ot this, whether it will be neces
sary to attend, so that I may give due notice
to the parties ooncemed in my arrange
ments for the evening of the 2d.
Truly yours,
T. V. PowniELT.
Attorney General Hensel sent the follow
ing reply to Mr. Powderly this evening:
ToT. V. Powderly, Esq., Ecranton, Pa.:
Your letter of February 29,forwarded from
Harrisburg, has Just reached mo here. Re
plying, I beg to say I have not assumed that
you are bound under any penalty
to repair to Harrisburg. I felt ft
my duty to give you notice of the
hearing and an opportunity to at
tend it You must determine whether or not
you should do so. If you desire afterward
to be heard further, or to file additional
matter, opportunity will be afforded you.
W. U. Hzsszl, Attorney General.
THE P2XHSY W0BSTM) AOAIK,
Its Hated Rival, the Reading, Secures An
other Large Section of IU Traffic.
Philadelphia, March L The Times
to-morrow will, in its financial article, say
the firm of Coxe Brothers, the largest indi
vidual coal operators in the State, have
consummated a deal with the firm of
Pardee Brothers & Co. for the control of
their three mines and two breakers at Lati
mer, and for the control of the mines of
Pardee Sons & Co. at Mount Pleasant, and
C. Pardee & Co. at Hollywood, near
Wilkesbarre.
The contract, it is said, will divert carry
ing of the product of these collieries over
the Reading system from Bethlehem to
Philadelphia, instead of shipping it by
way of Phillipsburg, New Jersey,
over Belvidere division of the
the . Pennsylvania Railroad. Coxe
Brothers' tonnage h now estimated at over
1,000,000 annually, with 1,000 men and boys
employed. It is expected that, their ton
nage will now be inoreased to 2,500,000 per
year. ,
The Chinaman Got Scared.
Wee Chung, a Chinese laundryman at
Twenty-eighth and Carson streets, South
side, was given a hearing yesterday before
Alderman Caldwell, of the Twenty-fourth
ward, on tbe charge of larceny by bailee. It
was the old story of a lost check. Mrs.
James Macon, ot 2711 Carson street, sent a
package to the laundry and lost the check.
When she called for tne package the China
man, said it was gone. He, was afraid the
case would besent to court and settled the
case by paying tor the package and costs of
the case.
PAID FOR. HIS CLAIM.
SuperintendentNPratt, of the Indian
School at Carlisle, -
CUT 1,000 A TEAR BY CONGRESS
For
Eeiterating by. Wire His Charges
i gainst Catholics. '
TEE SENATE TAKING THETGS QUIETLY
Washington, March L The Catholic
Church and the charge that it maintains a
lobby at Washington to manipulate appro
priations in behalf of Indian sectarian,
schools were the subjects of three hours' ac
rimonions.discussion in the House to-day.
The Indian appropriation bill was the meas
ure under discussion, and the immediate
cause of the religious discussion was the
section making an appropriation for the
Carlisle Indian school. It was stated in the
House that Captain R. H. Pratt, of the
United States Army, superintendent of that
school, In speaking of the attack made in
the House against the appropriation for the
Indian school, had said: "They were made
through the Catholic Church, in paying
Congressmen to attack the national schools,
because they are detrimental to their pa
rochial schools, which are given three times
the amount by the Government that other
denominations receive.
The Attack on Captain Pratt.
Congressman Mansur, of Missouri, Stock
dale, of Mississippi, and Pendleton, of
West Virginia!-, who were understood, by
implication, to be the Congressmen referred
to, made a lively attack on Captain Pratt,
and demanded as a penalty for his utter
ances that the $1,000 appropriation which
be annually receives as superintendent of
the Carlisle Indian school be stricken from
the Indian appropriation MIL The House
was powerless to express its displeasure in
any more forcible way than this, as, Captain
Pratt being an officer in the United States
Army, his rank .and pay as captain are
beyond the reach and regulation of Con
gress. Tbe superintendent of the Indian school
had many valiant defenders in the House,
however, and it was more his reiterated
declaration by telegraph to-day than the
original newspaper statement that finally
led the House to adopt the amendment cut
ting oil his salary as superintendent. Sev
eral of his Congressional friends who doubted
whether the superintendent had made the
statement attributed in the Associated Press
dispatches telegraphed him to-day to know
his exact declarations.
A Bad Matter Made Worse
The answer which was wired back, and
subsequently read in the House, was about
as bad as the original statement. "My re
marks," telegraphed Captain Pratt, "were
that Catholics got more than double as
much of the Indian School appropriations
as all other denominations' combined; that
they maintain a powerful lobby in Wash
ington, and manipulate politics to accom
plish their purposes. These were the gen
eral statements, having no bearing what
ever on individual members of Congress,
much less to Mr. Mansur, in whose general
views I concur."
This was quite satisfactory toMr.Mansur,
bnt it was not very consoling to anybody
else, and its reading had the effect oi caus
ing the House to promptly adopt the
proposed amendment
Mr. Bynum, of Indiana, presided In the
committee of the whole when the considera
tion of the Indian appropriation bill was
resumed, and the attack on Captain. Pratt,
first begun last night, was revived in a mo
tion of Mr. Mansur to strike out the "1,000
extra annual allowance to Captain Pratt as
Superintendent of the Carlisle school.
After a long debate the motion to strike out
was agreed to 93 to 37 and the committee
rose and reported the bill to the House.
The Jndlan Bill at Last Passed.
The previous question having been or
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dered, Mr. Pickler, of South Dakota, de
manded a separate vote on the amendment
providing when .vacancies, shall hereafter
occur in Indian Agencies they shall be
filled by army officers detailed for the duty
bv the President. -The. amendyient wai".
adopted yeas, 142; nays, 54.
Mr. Joseph, of New Mexico, was fortun
ate enough to secure (notwithstanding Mr.
Holman's opposition) the adoption of an
amendment increasing by alipost $5,0Q0 tbe
appropriation for the Indian school at
Santa Fe, N. M. The bill was passed.
Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, from tha
Committee on Ways and Means, reported!
the free wool bill, which was referred to tha
committee ot the whole, together with tha
views of the minority presented by Mr.
Burrows; of Michigan. - -
Mr. McMillan stated that it had been tha
intention of the committee to call this bill
I up for consideration during the latter part
ui iuc wcc&, uub iuat, owing to tne uiness 01
Chairman Springer, he would not call it up
until Tuesday next
Mr. Bryan, of Nebraska, and Mr. Turner,
of Georgia, respectively from the same com
mittee, reported bills lor the free entry of
binding twine and cotton bagging and ties,
which were referred to the committee or
the' whole, and leave was granted to Mr.
Payne, of New York, and Mr. Dalzell, of
Pennsylvania, to present the views of tha
minority on those measures. The House
then adjourned.
Short Shrift In the Senate.
In the Senate to-dav, after the transaction
of routine business, tne Idaho election case
was taken up and Mr. Sanders addressed
the Senate in defense of Mr. Claggett's right
to the seat. Mr. Morgan made a legal and
constitutional argument against the right ot
Mr. Dubois to occupy a seat in the Senate.
Without action on the case the Senate ad
journed. Plttsbnr-jors in New fork.
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ing Pittsburgers are registered at New
York hotels:'
Mrs. A. Bell, Jfurray Bill; G. Caruthers,
Metropolitan; B. Heynemann, Coleman
House; F. R. Loballo, Devonshire; M. L.
Magnire, Continental; C McCaffrey, Grand
Union: 6. Mercer, Astor House; H.
A. Sillier, St. James Hotel; J. A. Bow
er, Westminster; TV. C. Clar-:, Hotel
Imperial; Mrs. H. J. Green, Coleman,
W. A. Larimer and wife. Imperial; J. Rice,
Belvidere House; A. C. Buckenberger, Fifth.'
Avenue: Aj K. Scandrett, Fifth-Avenue: W.
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