11 HODPPOLE HOOSIER
Helps
to Prevent the Eebnild-
ing of the Navy Begun
l)y His Own Party.
HOLMAN HOLDING HIS OWN
And Blocking the Way to Progress
in His Country's Defense.
SHERMAN ON THE CHINESE BILL.
Back Number Candidate's Manner
iTening Up Things.
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CLERK TOUKG'S CASE IN THE SENATE
TEFECUI. TELEGEArmC LETTER.
Bcheau or The Dispatch, ?
Washcqtos, D. C, April 18. J
Statesman Holman, from the hoop-pole
district of Indiana, had everything his own
way to-day In the House. One after
another the amendments to the naval bill
proposed by Boutelle, of Maine, and Cum
mings, of Hew York, were defeated by
majorities ranging from 30 to 50, and then,
with a final hurrah, the last efiort to save
something by recommitting the bill from
the wreck of the navy yet to be built, was
given to oblivion by a majority of 73.
No argument affected Statesman Hol
man's numerous band of (Campaign
economists in the least. Pictures of
the destruction and carnage that did not
occur between the United States and Chile
and the United States and Great Britain
failed to affright for a single moment this
corps of undaunted Democrats. "With two
wars just closed and another possible at any
time, with public sentiment showing itself
in favor of a fight even though there were
no weapons to fight with, and with a vast
majority of the people of the whole country
in favor of the speediest construction of a
great navy, statesmanship of the region ot
Indiana hooppoles and of Ohio river flat
boats prevailed, and only the one war ves
sel which was provided for in the bill as it
came from the committee was left to show
that this great country of 6",000,000 citizens,
and which is growing more involved each
year in its international relations, is deter
mined to have a great navy.
Sarcasm at Mr. Holman'i Expense.
Sir. Holman attempted to obliterate the
provision for even this battle ship. De
feated in this purpose he proposed to amend
the section by inserting in lieu of one battle
ship four torpedo boats at 5120,000 each.
"Oh, make it four rowboats, -they're
cheaper," shouted Boutelle as Holman
offered his amendment, and the honppole
statesman looked as though he would like to
take Boutelle at his word.
It was peculiar that every Eepublican
present voted aye on every proposition to
increase the number of warcraft to be built.
But there were few Bepublicans present.
The dav was one of torrents of rain, and
being Easter Monday beside, the attendance
was small. The Democrats were out in
better force, because they had been notified
they must be on hand to defeat the Boutelle
amendment.
Only 35 Republicans voted on Bontelle's
motion to recommit the bill with instruc
tions to the committee to report an amend
ment embodying the amendments defeated
to-day. Ko less than 25 Democrats voted
with them, but it is somewhat amusing to
discover that these gentlemen are nearly all
from States having big harbors, with big
cities on them, and, also, most of these
cities lookins to benefits which might accrue
from the building of vessels.
Personnel of the War Democrats.
Twelve of the 25 are from New York, and
nearly all of these from the city and its ad
jacent districts. Two Amerman, of Scran
ton, and McAleer, of Philadelphia, are from
Pennsylvania. One is from" Boston, one
from San Francisco, one from Stillwater,
Minn., one from Paterson, If. J., three from
Illinois, one from Connecticut, 'one from
Hew Orleans, one from Bay Citv, Mich.,
and one, O'Neill, from St. Louis. Evidently
the rural members feel that in case of war
with a foreign nation they are not neces
sarily in danger of life and property, and
that the seaboard people can take care of
themselves.
It is hardly probable, however, that the
naval appropriation bill, with its meager
provision lor a new navy, win get tnrougn
the Senate in its present form. Senators
are brought more closelv into contact with
international dis($tes than are members of
the House. They have to deal with treat
ies, and in secret session they receive the
first knowledge of possible trouble. Upon
them is thrown a large share of the responsi
bility for negotiations that may result in
peace or war. More than once, in that
absurd conclave, the executive session,
during the last few months. Senators have
solemnly looked a probable war in the face,
and at the same time contemplated the
probability of naval defeat, the blocking of
United States ports and general commercial
disaster. The lack of a navy was deplored
by every Senator, and it will be strange, in
deed, it the Senate do not insist on a far
more liberal provision for the construction
of new war vessels than the pitiable appro
priation of the House bilL Moreover, they
know they will have the country with them
in such a movement.
Sherman on the Chinese Question.
Having laid his ambition to be President
to rest forever, Senator Sherman is evi
dently somewhat careless of the ambition of
others of his party. He desires to defeat
the Geary Chinese bill, which passed the
House by a large majority, by substituting
for it something similar to the Scott bill,
which will lapse within ten days. If the
Republican Senate fail to pass a bill which
will satisty the Pacific coast, three or tour
States will almost certainly go Democratic
on that one issue.
Senator Sherman seems to think that
treaties (always made to be broken) and
"the spirit of our institutions," whatever
that may be, are of more importance than
Republican victories in California, Oregon,
and possibly other States afflicted by the
Coinese.
The Democratic House has done its work.
Possibly it has overdone it. But in this
case the coast people will prefer the over
done rather than the underdone, or the not-done-at-all.
Whatever be done must be done within
ten days, or thousands of Chinese lingering
on the border in Mexico or in British Co
lumbia will walk into the United States
without fear of the law, and such a catas
trophe would greatly injure the Eepublican
party on the eoast, even though it were
closely followed by the enactment of the
Geary law.
"o Flace Here for Snch People.
The truth is, that aside from the senti
mental argument that all men are of one
blood, and that this great country is an
asylum for the poor and oppressed of all
nations, there is absolutely no argument for
the admission of the Chinese. They live
like pigs, eat food that would not keep an
animal alive, have no morality that is not
repulsive to the moral, and come here only
to make a Chinese fortune and then get
themselves back to their own country. Only
good would result from an absolute prohibi
tion of their entrance into the United
States except as students. Genuine students
who desire to study in our colleges should
certainly be admitted.
If, in retaliation against the enactment of
& prohibitory law, China should drive from
her borders all citizens of the United States,
to much the better. Then all the Chinese
in the United States would be expelled,
and American citizens would do the work of
the washee-washees in all the cities of the
land, and for the wealthy winemakers and
fruit-growers of California, who Join In the
outcry against the Chinese but take precious
good care to employ them rather than
Americans to gather their grapes and pick
their fruit.
Mr. Harrison is verv nervous on account
of Senator Sherman's stand on the Geary
bill. Possibly by his treatment of the mat
ter the Senate may gain sweet revenge upon
the Bepublican party for not making him
President. When Samson died he pulled
the temple down about his ears.
Clerk Tonne' Case Mot Settled.
In a long letter to Vice President Morton,
ex-ofncio President of the Senate, James
Rankin Young, late executive clerk ot the
Senate, recounts his infamous treatment by
the Senate, his refusal to resign under fire and
his absolute innocence of the charge of per
juring himself by a betrayal of the secrets of
the execntive session. While the letter is
manly and dignified, it is decidedly aggres
sive, as it invites tho Senator or Senators
who trumped up the charges to step out
irom concealment ot the secret session
where Mr. Young can meet him or them on
equal ground and prove that he has never
to the extent of a single hint betrayed the
proceedings of an executive session.
Of course Senator Hale, who started the
movement against Youne, will do no such
thing. He will continue to skulk behind
the closed doors of the Senate, claiming im
munity on account of his office, and will
probably stab others who cannot defend
themselves, a coward and a .sneak, whose
own career would wear a vastly prettier
complexion had it been lived within the se
clusion of one long, unending social and
political executive session.
A Man In Need of Mo Defense.
Of course Mr. Young needs no defense.
Everyone who knows him knows him to be
innocent ot the charge made against him in
so cowardly a manner. But the fact of his
dismissal after 15 years' of admittedly hon
orable service without a hearing and with
out even being informed of the identity of
his accusers, with little more consideration
than one would kick out a mangy cur, must
make the blood of every decent man grow
hot in his veins. Such outrages can hardly
wait long for their retribution.
If personal vengeance be not visited upon
the perpetrators of this foul calumny on an
innocent man, vengeance will certainly
come in the form of the abolition of the
executive session. In this, if not imme
diately in Mr. Young, every newspaper in
this country, every citizen who, equally
with Senators, is a sovereign, every voter
who helps to make Senators7and who must
feel, when he thinks of it, something more
than indignation against that monstrosity
in a. republican government, the star
chamber session, is interested in compelling
his representatives to sit with open doors.
The executive session has been condemned
before, but the crusade against it will now
be increased a thousand times in volume.
u.ne inquisition was more natural and par
donable in its day than the star chamber
session of the United States Senate is in
this. Senators know this. Many of them
favor open executive sessions. Enough
fogies are still unfortunately this side the
grave, and in the Senate, to insist on this
wretched limitation of customs which are
now obsolete even in monarchies. The
secret session must go. LlQHTNEB.
WANT LOIS OF CASH.
General Sully's Scouts Have Been
Fold
Twice, but Bob Up Again.
Minneapolis, April ia The passage
by the Senate of Pettigrew's bill appro
priating money to pay Indian scouts em
ployed by General Sully in 1864 reveals ihe
fact that these scouts have already been
paid twice. Ex-Governor Faulk, of
Yankton, makes the following statement:
On the application or Delegate Burleigh,
Congress appropriated $10,000 to pay these
scouts. See act approved February 25, 1869.
This sum was paid by Governor Faulk. Tho
War Department in JS71 also paid them $75
eacn, cue secretary nnaing no enaenco in
his office that they were paid before. The
bill of February 25, JSC9, provided for pay
ment through the War Department, but the
House amended it, makiuir the Governor of
Dakota the disbursing officer. These facts
show that $10,000 was paid in 1869 and $75
each in 1871, the latter sum alone beinc con
sidered by the War Department as just and
proper compensation for the time and serv
ice as reported by General Sully.
WHITE WASH USED,
The Majority Report on the Case or Judge
Maynard.
Albany, N. Y., April 18. The majority
and minority reports of the Maynard inves
tigating committee have been presented to
the Legislature to-night. The major
ity report contains about 6,000 words.
It is held by the majority that all
that Judge Maynard did he did as an hon
orable, upright and conscientious lawver,
and recommends the adoption of resolutions
indorsing the action of Judge Maynard in
taking the Duchess county returns from the
Comptroller's office, and also indorses the
action of the State Board of Canvassers in
determining the four contested election
cases. .
The minority report would fill about six
columns and reviews the litigation in the
election cases. It characterizes Maynard's
action in connection with the Duchess
county returns as a criminal act, and closes
with a resolution demanding his removal
from the Court of Appeals bench.
AN TraiHPOETAHT EEBELLIOH.
Kio Janeiro's Government Tabes Energetic
Steps to Suppress thn Movement.
Eio Janeiuo, April 18. An official dis
patch says that the rising in the State of
Matto Grosso is of little importance and
cannot disturb the general peace. The Cen
tral Government has taken energetic meas
ures to suppress the movement.
Cuyaba, the capital ot Matto Grosso, re
mains loral. At Dornmbe. near the Para
guayan frontier, a number of rebels have as
sembled, led by recently transported rebels
from the capital.
AN EXPEESS TEAIN WEECKED.
Bnn Into by a Freight Whose Engineer Did
Hot Kotice Signals.
New Bkitain, Conn., April 18. The
Long Island express and a west bound pas
senger train collided at Black Eock on the
Hew England road at 3 o'clock this after
noon. Both engines are total wrecks. En
gineer Mitchell, of the Long Island express,
had his foot cut off and the fireman was
injured in the head.
The cause of the wreck is said to be
Engineer Haven's failure to notice the sig
nal to stop.
A WEALTHY OIL MAN SEAS.
Charles Wade Dief Suddenly at the Bali
road Depot in Find lay.
FlNDLAT, O., April 18. rjcdatl Chas.
Wade, a wealthy oil man of this city, fell
dead this evening while boarding a train at
the Toledo, Columbus and Cincinnati Hail
road depot.
He was one of the most successful oil
operators in this part -of Ohio, and had an
income from his uclls of about $100 a day.
Heart disease is the supposed cause of
death.
Death or Mrs. Eliza McKee.
St. Louis, April 18. Special' Mrs.
Eliza McKee, principal owner of the St
Louis Globe-Democrat and widow of the late
William McKee, who 'founded the Democrat,
which was subsequently consolidated with
the Globe, died to-night She' was about 75
years of age.
A Socialist on a Bat.
NEW Yoek, April IS. Special John
Ulrica Gampcr, a Socialist orator, went
home to-day and because supper was not
ready he knocked bis' daughter -down and
shot his wife. Neither will die. Gamper
was arrested. " "
PICNICKERS KILLED.
Two Women and Six Children
Crushed to Death at Hampstead.
HEAP OP STRUGGLING- HUMANITY.
Scores of Excursionists Thrown Down a
Stairway Together.
DISCUSSING THE MAT DAT PAEADES
London, April 18. A terrible catas
trophe took place at Hampstead Heath, by
which two women and six children were
killed and 13 other persons were seriously
injured. Hampstead, which is a favorite
holiday resort about four miles from Lon
don, was visited by thousands of ex
cursionists to-day, and as the day closed
there was a great rush of people to catch the
trains to return home. In the crush
somebody fell at the foot of a staircase of
the railway station, and in a moment the
hundreds of persons above were thrown into
a heap of strnggling humanity. The police
at once closed the doors and set to work to
extricate the dead and injured.
There are several conflicting reports as to
the exact origin ot the catastrophe. Ac
cording to one story, a door at the bottom
of the staircase was snddenly closed, thus
blocking the progress of the crowd. The
officials decline to give ont any informa
tion. Four of the dead have been identified as
Emily Hamilton, age 55; Annie Eaton, age
40; John, age 9, and Thomas Longford, age
14. The other bodies are those of boys of
from 10 to 15 years. The persons seriously
injured were sent to hospitals.
A BED HOT ELECTION.
Pistols and Knives Used and a Ballot Box
Stolen In Barcelona.
Barcelona, April 18. This city was
yesterday the scene ot a number of affrays,
some of which are likely to result seriously
to a number of the participants. The occa
sion was a bye-election for a member of the
Cortes. Partisan feeling was excited to the
highest degree and free fights were of fre
quent occurrence. Sticks and knives were
freely used as weapons of defense and of
fense and some very severe wounds were
inflicted. In the midst of the uproar two
men armed with revolvers and knives en
tered a polling booth and rushing up to the
platform they seized the voting box and
smashed it to pieces, the ballots ueing scat
tered in everv direction.
The spectators attempted to arrest tho
men but the latter slashed right and left
with their knives and cut their way out of
the booth. They finally made their escape,
but the police expect soon to capture them,
as they are both well known. Senor
Salmeron, the well known Eepublican and
ex-member of the Cortes, who was defeated at
the general election in February, 1891, was
elected.
DISTEESS IN LTOHAK
Ten Thousand English Miners Promise to
Betnrn to Work on Thursday.
London, April 18. Considerable sur
prise has been caused by the resolution of
the Kenunction miners of Durham, about
10,000 in nnmber, to resume work on Thurs
day. These men had nothing to do with the
strike, but were forced out of employment
by the strike.
Owing to the stoppage of furnaces and
other work through the Durham coal strike,
between 18,000 and 20,000 men, women and
children, who are not parties to the dis
pute, were deprived of the means of earn
ing their livelihood. Therefore there is
deep and widespread distress at Darlington,
Stockton, Middlesborough, the Hartlepools
and the surrounding district
POFUIATINQ SIBEBIA.
Another Offense Added to the Russian "Laws
for Exiling Citizens.
St. Petersburg, April 18. Three meas
ures adopted by the Council of the Empire
to prevent the divulging of any facts in con
nection with Bussian army affairs, provide
that any civilian who betrays official secrets
to any foreign power will be exiled to the
most remote part of Siberia.
In the case of officials betraying the trust
reposed in them they will first be con
demned to seven vears' imprisonment in the
fortress of' St Peter and St. Paul, after
which they will be exiled to Siberia for life.
Officials whose negligence leads to the be
trayal of secrets will be liable to several
years imprisonment
A Q00D DOSE OF DYNAMITE.
One Hundred and Three Cartridges Found
in ft House at Hon.
Brussels, April 18. A few days ago it
came to the knowledge of the police ot
Mons, the capital of the Province of Main
ant, that an Anarchist named Deuvier had
in his possession a quantity of dynamite,
which it was supposed he was about to use
unlawfully.
At about the same time Deuvier learned
that the police knew of his having the
dvnamite and he disappeared. The police
made a search for him and after several
days' pursuit they succeeded in capturing
him. The officers found in the house in
which he had concealed himself 103 loaded
cartridges.
FEAE THE KAY DAY.
Italian
Offldals Will Deal Severely With
Disturbers of the Peace.
Bome, April ia Much anxiety is felt
throughout Italy as to the celebration. The
Socialists, of whom there are many in all
the Italian cities, threaten to show their
strength on that day, and it is feared that
the authorities will have their hands full to
preserve even the semblance of order.
The authorities, however, are fully alive
to the demands of the occasion, and at
tempts to create disturbances will be se
verely repressed.
XAY DAY IN BBUSSELS.
Miners to Hold a Big Demonstration for
Shorter Hours and More Pay.
Brussels, April 18. The Labor party
here has arranged to celebrate May Day by
festive gatherings in Leopold Park, which
the Burgomaster has placed at their dis
posal. No trouble of any kind is antici
pated. At Charleroi, 30,000 miners employed in
that district, will bold a meeting to agitate
the questions of shorter hours and more
pay.
Dahomey's Wealth Wanted.
London, April 18. The Globe to-day
publishes a long story to the effect that
there is 500,000,000 francs in gold in Da
homey's capital, and the greedy eyes of the
French are cast thereon. A war is promised.
Britishers Having a Little War.
Bangoon, April 18. The British column
has had continuous jungle fighting along
the Kaukkive river. Six men were wounded
in carrying telegrams. Two were killed
and four wounded in a fight with Dacoits.
New Treaties for Japan.
Yokohama, April 18. The Mikado has
appointed a committee of seven members,
including five leading noblemen, to report
a draft of a revision of the treaties between '
Japan and the Western powers.
Fortngaese .Ex-Minister Robbed.
BY CABLE TO THE DISPATCH.!
Lisbon, April ia The Portuguese
Minister of Finance, Carvahlao, was heid
np nml robbed in his home. A man ap
peared in his studyand demanded that 500
milreis be given him under penalty ot in
stant death. He got 150 milreis and (was
later arrested. He is believed to be an An
archist. GOT IN DEEPER.
Wlstlg. Who Insulted the Ladles, Tries to
Sqanrn Himself More of His Rtmarki
StricKen From the Minutes Be Says He
Is Persecuted.
Albany, April 18. Phillip Wissig, the
New York Assemblymen, who, speaking
last week on the woman's suffrage bill, de
livered himself of utterances that were ex
punged from the record because of their in
decency, at to-night's session rose to a
question of privilege. He said that during
the passage of the woman's suffrage bill a
number of members explained their votes,
and he had done likewise.
In all sincerity he had not intended to
insult anyone of either House, of which he
was a member, or the ladies. He said this
in justice to his family, his friends and his
organization. He must deny the words
that had been attributed to him. The words
that he used had been misconstrued by evil
minded men. The newspapers had been
more than unjust to him, and he trusted
those which bad abused him so outrageously
would now print his speech.
Mr. Hill also rose to a question of privi
lege. All of the members had heard what the
gentleman said last Friday. He therefore
moved that such portion of his present
speech as related to "evil-minded" persons
be also stricken from the minutes.
The Speaker said that when the motion
had first been put he had announced that
the speeeh was not on the Journal, and that
the motion had been changed so that the
speech should be stricken from the stenog
rapher s minutes. J-nis naa oeen carriea
and the stenographer had destroyed his
notes. Mr. Hill's position was not a ques
tion of privilege, and his motion was out of
order.
THE FXEST DEFENDEEa
A Demand That the Pennsylvania Veterans
Bs Given the Best Plaoe.
Beading, April 18. The survivors of
the five companies composing the "First
Defenders," so called because they were
the first to reach Washington after Presi
dent Lincoln's call for troops, arriving there
on April 18, 1861, held their first re-union
here to-day. There were two companies
from Pottsville, and one each from Beading,
Allentown and Lewistown. The visiting
delegations were received at the depot by
their comrades of the Binggold Artillery,
after which a parade took place. Mayor
Merritt delivered an address of welcome.
This afternoon the following officers were
elected: Colonel O. S. BosbysheU, Phila
delphia, President; Ed. J. Gavnor and
Amos Forseman, Pottsville; Frederick M.
Yeager, Beading; Thomas M. Otley, Lewis
town, and James Geitner, Allentown, Vice
Presidents; Heister McKnight, Beading,
Treasurer, and Henry C. Russell, Potts
villo, Secretarv. The next meeting, on
April 18, 1893, 'will be held in Allentown.
It was decided to parade in Washington
with the G. A. B. in September, provided
the First Defenders will have the post of
honon Otherwise they will have their own
parade the day before.
SOUIHSIDE EECEPTI0NS.
The Turn Sisters Give a Leap Tear Party at
Turner Halt
There were over a dozen receptions and
entertainments on the Southside last night
The majority of them were quiet, orderly
affairs, and not one of them resulted in an
arrest Among these events were a leap
year party by the Turn Sisters at the new
Turner Hall, an entertainment and dance
by the Union Social at Odd Fellows' Hall,
reception at the Birmingham Turner Hall
by the Mutual Camping Club, a social at
Germania Hall by the families of the mem
bers of the Germania Maennerchor, a recep
tion at St Clair Hall by Arlington Council,
Jr. O. TJ. A. M., .hpp by the Allentown
Turners at their haft,' a benefit dramatic en
tertainment at Maennerchor Hall by the
William Engel Dramatic Company, a leap
year party in Metropolitan Hall, West
End, by the German Lutheran congrega
tion, an entertainment by St Peter's Paro
chial School, South Twenty-eighth street,
and a reception In Grandvi ew Hail.
Guessing for Mnnslons a Shaky Business.
An investigation which has been made of
the methods ot the Pennsylvania Publishing
Company, conducted by one Lorin
Chambers at Philadelphia, shows it to be a
shaky investment for those induced to go
in. He advertises to give away a $30,000
mansion to the buyer of one of his 50
cent books who guesses nearest to the
actual cost of the building, and has gold
thousands of the books. Since the scheme
has been exposed in Philadelphia the sales
have fallen off there and in this city.
Chambers, -it is alleged, has been arrested
several times for connection with get-rich-quick
schemes. Many of the books have
been sold in this city.
School Teachers Ont on Strike.
Ft. Dodge, Ia., April 18. Sptcial
The school teachers refuse to teach in tho
public shools unless their salaries are
raised, and many ot them have left town to
seek employment elsewhere. The pay
given to teachers is very small, and there is
now a general protest against it on the part
of the teachers. The sympathy of the
people is very generally with the striking
teachers.
Charged With Embezzling Funds.
Wilmington, Del., April 18. John 0.
Allen, an insurance agent, was arrested to
day and held under ?2,000 bail upon the
chargo of embezzling funds of John A.
Logan Castle, No. 6, Knights of the Mystic
Chain. Allen instituted the order a year
ago and was installed as treasurer. His
peculations are said to date from the for
mation of the order.
Decision in the Davis Memoirs Case.
New York, April 18. Judge Lecomte
to-day granted an order continning the in
junction against Bobert Bel ford and the
Belford Company, and also the United
States Book Company, restraining them
from transferring or assigning their inter
est m the Jefferson Davis Memoirs, unless
the defense agree to furnish security.
A nother Will Under the Hammer.
Boston, April ia The probate of the
will of G. F. T. Beed, which contains a
$50,000 bequest for a public library in
Bnckeye, Peoria county, 111., and $20,000 to
the Boston Homeopathic Association has
been witheld owing to a notice of contest
made by some relatives of the deceased.
Orangemen to Celebrate at Montreal.
Montreal, April ia For the first time
in 25 years the Orangemen of this city will
celebrate July 12, the anniversary of the
battle of the Boyne. There will be no pro
cession. It has been decided that the cele
bration shall consist only of a banquet and
public meeting.
New Tork's World's Fair Exhibit.
Albant, April 18. Governor Flower
has appointed Hon. Daniel McNaugh(on,
ex-State Senator, to the position of Chief
Executive Officer of the Board of General
Managers of the exhibit of the State of New
yorfc at the World s Columbian Exposition.
Object to the Drinkables.
xboy, JN. x., April IB. At the Trdy
Methodist Conference at Plattsourcr to-dav
a resolution was adopted, "Earnestly and
emphatically protesting against making our
Columbian Exposition a vast saloon." ,
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Forty-Three Pomaces Started.
Painter's West End mill started 48 of
its puddling furnaces yesterday. They
have been idle for six weeks. It is
thought they will be kept running steadily.
BOLD CHALlfa.
The Senate's Dismissal of Cleric Young
Brings Oat a Sharp Letter. '
A CHANCE FOE HIS WHITE ALLEY
Demanded by the Man Who Eerred the
Senate for Fifteen Tears
AS FAITHFULLY AS ANYONE COULD
tSnCTAL TILMRAM TO THE DISPATCH. 1
Washington, April 18. It is learned
to-night that the Senate has ordered that all
reference to the removal of Executive Clerk
Young and the action of the Senate in re
gard to the declaring his office vacant be ex
punged from the records. The Senators
who indorse his removal profess to believe
that their course in thus providing against
the future will offset their determination
not to give Mr. Young a hearing. They say
there can be no investigation, because no
charge has been made against him, and then
they disprove their own statement by order
ing that all traces of their action relative
to his removal be blotted from the record.
Mr. Young's friends in the Senate hope
that their appeals for justice and fair play
will avail, and that an Investigation will be
had.
Mr. Young's removal came np in the ex
ecutive session of the Senate, to-day, for a
few minutes, in connection with a letter
written by Henry'Watterson, editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, making a strong
plea for Mr. Young.
Mr. Young's Challenge to the Senate.
The most striking parts of Mr. Young's
letter to Vice President Morton follow. He
says:
A portion of the Commiitee on Foreign
Relations, in a panic over the Bering sea
business, or under some Influence, I may not
divine, conceives the fancy that a clerk is
responsible for the publication of secret
news. It could have summoned that clerk,
and had at least tue advantage of 10 minutes'
inquiry. Something In his manner, even if
he had been a hardened criminal, and not,
as in my case, a trusted official of 15 years'
standing, would have enabled its members
to have formed a reasonable suspicion of
guilt. But no. A resolution is passed re
moving the clerk, and reported to the Senate
in secret session. Here again the clerk
could have been questioned at his desk by
the Senators. He could have made
some statement or explanation. But no.
The- doors are not only closed, but he is
specially asked to leave, and no intimation
given him of any charge of suspicion. An
earnost debate ensues. Certain Senators
intervene to arrest what? they deemed an
injustice. The resolution is on the point of
defeat, and is withdrawn only upon the
assurance or a Senator that he will practi
cally obtain Irom the clerk an admission of
guilt. This admission would be found in a
resignation, which, as an act of mercy, would
be accepted.
The Senator alluded to approached Mr.
Young and asked for his resignation, but
was met with a flat refusal and a demand
for an investigation.
The letter continues:
Not a Bequest for Defense.
I am not writing in any spirit of exagger
ation. My right as a citizen to absolute J ns
tice is as sacred as the dignity of the Sen
ate, and if I cannot obtain it at that august
tribunal, I can appeal to one even more
august that of my countrymen. This I
now do through you. I have approached no
Senator for aid, nor sought in any way to in
fluence the act of gentlemen so many of
whom have become dear to me through
years of friendship and association.
When friends advised me to poll
the Senate, and make some kind of
campaign, as is often the custom when
matters aie at Issue. I said that I asked no
defense, no exculpation, no palliation, no
appeal for mercy. He was my enemy who
would do it In my name. I simply asked
qold, unsparing Justice. Two weeks passed
and the Senate resumed my case. After de
bate, and under pressure of a portion of the
Comiqlttee on Foreign Relations, a resolu
tion was passed declaring my office vacant.
The Senate whioh passed it, I understand,
was so small that a quorum was obtained
with difficulty.
So ends my 15 years of service. All 1
asked from the Senate was an inquiry.
This a slim, coerced, reluctant majority de
nied. Because I declined to accept the ad
vice of Senator Cameron, and resign, my
office has been declared vacant. All I ask
now is that oue of the Senators who have
pursued me in secret should waive the con
stitutional privilege of immunity for words
spoken in debate, and avow in public a re
sponsibility for charges made during two
afternoonB of angry discussion. I shall
then be in the open, and able to protect my
self. I ran promise a swift and decisive
answer, one that will satisfy the country.
This is au appeal to manliness, Justice and
fair play. I cannot believe that it is 'made
in vain.
Henry Watterson's Flea for Jostles.
Mr, Henry Watterson's letter to Vice
President Morton is as follows:
WAsmaoToy, April 18.
My Dear Sir I havo just lead in the
Washington Post of this date a letter ad
dressed to you by James Kan kin Young,
late Executive Clerk of the Senate, and
without his knowledge, or that of any of
his friends, 1 venture to Join my entieaty
to his, and with him, to appeal to you, and
through yon to the Senate, for an act of
Justice, not only to a citizen but to an entire
body of citizeus, whose character and honor
the recent act of the Senate, in a manner,
questions and assails.
To the force of the argument made by
Mr. Young let me add that secrets shared by
88 persons cannot, in the nature of the case,
be wholly safe, und that the responsibility
for their disclosure should be conclusively
ascertained and clearly fixed before con
demnation can be Justly visited upon anv
individual.
During the second session of the Forty
fourth Congress I served as Chairman or a
Caucus Committee appointed to investigate
transactions of this kind. Then, as now,
suspicion lay upon ceitain gentlemen con
nected with the newspaper service. Tho
result of our inquiries showed that no one
person was to blame, but that little by little,
a word here and a hint there, enough bad
baen gathered from those within by those
witnout to make a toieraDiy iair report.
1 have known Mr. Young from hisbov-
hood, and can fully attest his integrity and
discietion. But private sentiments aside,
there is a principle of Justice here involved,
and the press and the public have a claim
upon the earof the Senate, which can be best
reached through you, not merely its chief
organ and officer, but the one direct repre
sentative in the Senate of all the people of
the United States.
I address you both as a citizen and as a
Journalist, confident of receiving at your
hands that never-failing courtesy and ex.
alted sense of duty which have marked your
personal and official career, and I am, dear
and honored sir, with great respect,
Your obedient servant,
Hksrt Waiters ow.
To Hon. Levi P. Morton, Vice President ot
the United States.
A Sample of Young's Honesty.
At the time the matter for which Mr.
Young was dismissed was being considered
Mr. Young was not in the Senate Chamber,
but came in shortly after. The disclosure
was made by a member of the Senate, who
wrote the information on the backs of three
envelopes and sent them to a newspaper
man. After Mr. Young was accused ot
breach of trnst this correspondent went to
Mr. Young and proffered him these en
velopes, saying: '1 am not willing that you
shall be under false accusation. Here is the
evidence to prove your innocence. Use it
and I will stand by it "
Mr. Young declined to take the envel
opes or to use the evidence, saying: "While
I am anxious to defend my own honor, I
cannot abuse the honor or integrity of any
Senator, and I will not use the information
you have. I thank you for your kind inter
est in me, but you can readily understand
the propriety of my position. "
Said to Be Spite Work.
Max Schneider, the well-known ex-member
of the Legislature and ex-member ot,
Allegheny Councils,' and proprietor of -the
Hotel Federal, was arrested yesterday on a
charge of selling liquor to minors. The
suit was brought by W. A. Muncey, of
Pittsburg. Mr. Schneider did not want to
talk, but Detective Hesser declares the suit
is spite work, and only brought on account
of the determined stand he and the North
side Liquor League, of which Schneider is
President, has taken against the speak
easies and other violators of the Honor law
NOT DOE TO NEGLIGENCE.
Verdict of the Coroner's Jury In the
Homestead Accident Case The Firm
Asked to Make Alteration to Prevent
a Recurrence.
Coroner McDowell conclnded the inquest
yesterday into the death of the men who
died from injuries received in the accident
at the Homestead Steel Works on March 26.
There were eight witnesses who testified
yesterday, all of whose testimony was simi
lar to that of those heard previously. John
McLuckie, the Burgess of the borongh,
formerly worked at the steel mill and is a
steel man. He never heard of any com
plaints about the pressure pipe in the mill,
or of the scull on the over shed being dan-
gerous. So far as he knew he never
eard of the Mill Committee suggesting
that it was dangerous. He never knew
the scull to fall in that way, and had seen
employes engaged in scraping the scull off
the shed to guard against such a calamity.
Bobert Devine never knew of the pipe to
be broken, and had seen men on the shed
scraping the scull off to prevent its accumu
lation. Joseph Cooster also never heard
any complaints as to the danger of the out
side shed, and had worked about the place
for ten years. He thought it was bad
policy to take the night man of! the work,
but he had been put on again, and any
possible danger was thought to have been
averted.
Charles Goeddel had worked about the
mill for nine years and never knew the pipe
to be broken from the same cause. Hillard
Colgan and Patrick McCollnm, employes at
Jones Sc Laughlin's,formerly worked in the
mill, but neither knew of an accident where
the fatal one occurred. One of the men in
jured in the accident, Albert Williams, is
still confined to his home in Homestead,
and the Coroner went there to get his state
ment. He did not know how it happened,
but was positive it was an unavoidable acci
dent, only occurring and resulting in in
jury by an odd circumstance, that of the
converter being turned in the direction it
was when the pipe broke.
The jury after hearing 30 pages of manu
script testimony returned a verdict that the
deaths resulting were from accident, but
recommended that the firm take such steps
toward making alterations as to prevent a
recurrence ot the casualty.
I00KIHQ FOB JULIA GALL4GHEB.
A Brother Hunting a Sister Who Left
Home to Make a Fortune.
Michael Gallagher, of Fifty-sixth street,
came into The Dispatch office last night.
He is searching for a lost sister.
"I came to America from Carnucua Vil
lage, County Mayo, Ireland, four or five
years ago," said he. "After living in Cal
ifornia for a couple of years I came to Pitts
burg. My sister Julia also came to the
United States and finally located in Pitts
burg. For a while she sent money back to
our parents. They wrote to heraflerawhile
that they did not need any more money and
from then on she ceased to write home. Be
fore my sister left Ireland we wanted her to
marry, but she refused, saying, 'I'll go to
America and make a fortune.'
"It is now three years since I have heard
of her. She was then working at the Cen
tral Hotel. I have hunted her everywhere
and used all the possible means to find her
I could.' She is about 36 years of age."
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Crawtord Cyrus Crawford, a deaf mnte,
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Hamilton John Hamilton had a foot
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