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FORTY SEVENTH TEAR
PITTSBURG. FRIDAY, MAY 6. 1892-TWELVE PAGES.
THREE CENTS
Bjfimtth
QUAY
m
MAGEE
HEAD THIS WAY
To Hold That Anti-Harrison
Conference in Pittsbnra
Le
on the Quiet.
A BLAKE B003I EEYIYED,
And Joe Manley Has a Long Talk
"With the Secretary of State.
Alger, Piatt and Others of the Dissatis
fied Expected to Quasi-Accidentally
Meet Each Other In Pittsburg: To
Day Quay Reported About Beady
to Withdraw His Opposition to
George Miller Harrison's Friends In
timate That the President May Yet
Conclude Not to Be a Candidate
His (Inaugural Address Recalled.
rSFECTAI, TELEOIIAM TO TTIE DISrATCH.J
"Washington', May 5. The meeting of
the anti-Harrison leaders will be held in
Pittsburg to-morrow. It was the intention
early in the -week to hold it here, but fear
ing that it would attract too much attention
it held under the shadow of the White
House the anti-Harrison leaders decided to
hold it at Pittsburg, where they could meet
"accidentally."
Senator Quay posted off for Pittsburg
this evening, and it is expected that he will
to-morrow meet there, "by chance," Gen
eral Alger, Tom Piatt and other leaders of
the opposition to Mr. Harrison's renomi
nation. To-day Senator Quay was in con
sultation with the anti-Harrison men at the
Capitol, and it is understood that he goes
to Pittsburg empowered to net for them.
Several of Quay's lieutenants also ran over
from Philadelphia to consult with him.
Among them were Dave Martin, ex-Collector
Leeds and Magistrates Heckett and
Durham.
Sir. Mateo's Doable Mission.
Magee, of Pittsburg, was also here, osten
sibly to invite the President to attend an
old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration at
Pittsburg, but it is rather a remarkable co
incidence that he and Quay should return
to Pittsburg on the same train. There is a
general impression among the Pennsylvania
Bepublicans here that Quay and Magee are
rapidly getting together, politically. Magee
has found that Dalzell has no possible
chance of overthrowing Senator Quay, and
being a shrewd politician, Dalzcll's friends
believe that Magee is getting ready to go
over to the opposition.
It is learned that Senator Quay is about
to withdraw his opposition to the confirma
tion of Miller as Internal .Revenue Collector
for the "Western district of Pennsylvania.
Miller ' 'Mr. 3uJu,'ee'i man, and the with
drawal o"t Senator Quay's opposition to his
confirmation is cited as proof positive that
the two old-time enemies have at last
clasped hands and buried the hatchet.
Quay and tho Keystone Delegates.
It is expected that at the conference to
morrow Mr. Quay will pledge the Pennsyl
vania delegation against the President. In
case it is decided to inaugurate an open
movement against the President, a procla
mation that has been prepared by Tom
Heed and others will be issued, setting
forth the reasons why Mr. Harrison's nomi
nation would be followed by disaster.
To-night an Intimation was thrown out
from the "White House to the effect that if
there is anything like a determined opposi
tion to him the President would decline to
be a candidate. This was done, it is &aid,
in order to give the President an opportunity
to retire gracefully, in case he finds he is
beaten before the convention meets. It is
further said that he will, if beaten, try to
throw the nomination to Cullom, of Illinois,
who withdrew three weeks ago in his favor.
Another Blaine Wave Rolling On.
President Harrison and his friends are
much disturbed by tho unmistakable re
vival of Blaine enthusiasm for the past few
days. Bepublicans generally are again
talking of the man from Maine as the prob
able candidate, and insisting that he must
consent to accept the nomination. Blaine
is the only man whom Harrison really fears.
He keeps well posted about the efforts his
opponents are making to find a man to beat
him with, but he is not actually afraid. He
still regards himself somewhat of a man of
destiny whom it would be hard to beat.
The Blaine sentiment, however, which ap
parently resists all eflort to smother it,
breaks forth in new places daily, and at
present there is another wave of genuine
Blaineism rallying over the llepublicans in
"Washington. There is not one of them who
does not know that Blaine could still have
the nomination for a nod of the head, and
many of them are fast beginning to think
that after all he will give it.
Manley Talks to the Secretary.
The fear of the President and his friends,
which has been gathering force rapidly of
late, is increased to-day by the fact that
"Joe" Manley came to town on an early
train, and has been in conference with
Blaine all day. The genial, if wily, "Joe"
is postmaster at Augusta, and so when he
comes to "Washington he always says he is
here on "routine matters at the Depart-
ment. ' To-day his official business
was not so important that he
did not have time for a long
and confidential chat with " the
Secretary of State, which, following closely
upon the heels of the election of Repub
lican delegates in Maine, is regarded as
highly significant.
The Blaine talk becomes more dangerous,
too, from the fact that the Secretary Is now
enjoying good health and is daily seen on
the streets and about the departments, look
ing wonderfully like the Blaine of old.
whenever the President becomes more
'ban usually frightened at the operations
of his political opponents within the party,
he begins to hedge a little and to intimate
that he is not so certain that he cares to
beacandidateatall. This semi-occasional
putting aside of the crown is again gone
through with to-day.
A Precaution or Little EHect.
Such a Dreeautinnftnr Kirmnl hna 1ifl
effect, however, in view of the telrirnmi nm.
pared on Tuesday last bv the "White House
, Literary Bureau, and telegraphed broad
cast to the effect that ennnrrh riplpcr.it,. -.r
already pledged to secure the President's
nomination on the first ballot. That pro
duction of over-sanguine PreBidental statis
ticians was quickly shown to be both incor
rect ana ansunt.
The publication by the "Washington Post,
this morning, of extracts from the inaugural
message of President "William Henry Har
rison in 1811, denouncing the ambition for a
second term as degrading and corrupting to
the mind of the incumbent of the Presi
dents! office, calls attention to the fact that
President Harrison, in his inaugural mes
sage, indorsed what his grandfather had
said before him. Borne of the cautious
friends of the President are now pointing to
this Harrison family political history
as an indication that the President will
soon declare that he is not a candidate for
renomination. No well-posted man in
"Washington, however, whether Republican
or Democrat, expects to see any letter of
renunciation emanating from the "White
House at present. It is apt to come only If
Blaine withdraws his letter of last winter,
addressed to J. S. Clarkson, and the latter
contingency is what haunts the President's
waking and sleeping dreams at present.
Doesn't Want the South Alone.
It is well known that the men who seek
to have President Harrison renominated
are relying on the delegates from Alabama,
Arkansas. Florida, Georgia, Ken
tucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missis
sippi, North and South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas and the two "Virginias.
They concede that without these delega
tions Harrison cannot hope for the nomina
tion. But the President has announced at
a Cabinet meeting that if the nomination
depends upon the Southern votes he will
not accept it.
Harrison recognizes the tact that not one
of the Southern States will elect Repub
lican members of the electoral college if he
heads the ticket, and he does not wish to
owe his nomination to these barren delega
tions. The statement that Harrison has made
such a declaration was mode publicly Tues
day evening by one of the members of the
Cabinet while in conversation with a
prominent Hew York gentleman
who is on a visit to the
capital. Should the President adhere to
his decision he cannot be made the Re
publican candidate. The convention will
then be compelled to unite on either Blaine,
Lincoln or McKinley.
GLENN TO SUCCEED LEACH.'
Magee's Sllsslon to Harrlsburg teaks Oat
He Wanted Quay's Old Secretary
Fired, and lie Gained Bis Point
Colonel Glenn Will Take the Job.
Harrisbubo, May & Atrial."
Colonel John A. Glenn, the deposed cor
poration clerk of the Auditor General's De
partment, will shortly succeed Deputy
Sherifl Frank "Willing Leach, of Philadel
phia, as Secretary of the State Republican
Central Committee. Glenn has been in
dorsed for the position by Senators Quay
and Cameron, C. L. Magee, State Senator
Fllnn, General Reeder and other prominent
Republican leaders. The candidates for
Justice of the Supreme Court and Congress
man at large, by whom the Chairman and
Secretary of the State Central Committee
are chosen, have no objections to Colonel
Glenn, and have promised to his friends to
elect him, at a meeting to be held in a few
days for that purpose.
Mr. Magee came to Harrisburg on Tues
day of last week on the pretense of appear
ing before the Board of Pardons and re
mained in the city several hours. It now
transpires that tha real object of his visit
was to see Glenn and urge him to be a can
didate for the Secretaryship of the State
Central Committee. A lengthy conference
was held at the Commonwealth Hotel and
resulted in Glenn agreeing to take the posi
tion if Leach would retire without a con
test. Magee promised Glenn that he would
have no trouble and the next day went to
"Washington to see Senator Quay.
Ever since the last Republican Conven
tion it was determined that Leach should
not succeed himself. After he had ob
tained Glenn's consent to take the place,
Mr. Magee went to "Washington, knowing
that Senator Quay was as close to Glenn as
to Leach, and demanded that Leach be re
tired, and that the Senator indorse Glenn as
his successor. Quay is said to have at once
seen the wisdom of Macee's selection. He
promised to support Glenn for the Secre
taryship, and the Allegheny leader returned
to his home, pleased with having obtained
Quay's consent to set aside the wily young
Deputy Sheriff.
Senator Flinn is even more bitter against
Leach than Magee, and is alleged to have
recently told Senator Quay that he (Quay)
was being pulled down by such fool lriends
as Andrews and Leach.
PLATT DOESH'T CONCEDE MUCH.
Ho Seems to Think Colonel Shepard Is Har
rison's Standby In New Tork.
NewYoek, May 5. If Mr. Blaine holds
to his present determination, the availabil
ity of other leaders, like Reed, McKinley
and Lincoln, will be considered by the
anti-Harrison men when they meet at Pitts
burg, but, without Blaine, the prospect of
defeating Harrison is generally considered
pretty nearly hopeless. Ex-Senator Piatt evi
dently does not, however, take that view of
the situation. Though he would not discuss
tne .rrcsiuent s chances ot renomination to
day, he declared, in emphatic lan
guage, that not one delegate from the
State of Kew York had been instruct
ed for Harrison, notwithstanding the
claim that there were 26 Harrison dele
gates. "When asked if there were any dele
gates who would vote for Harrison he re
plied, "Well, Colonel Elliott F. Shepard is
a delegate, I believe."
Mr. Piatt is undoubtedly correct in his
statement, but, though there are no in
structed delegates, it is believed that there
are over 20 of the 72 delegates who can be
saieiy counted upon to vote lor the Presi
dent Of the "Big Four," it is understood
that Depew and Hiscock are in favor of
Harrison. "With a revival of Blaine talk a
big increase in the boom for Cleveland mav
be expectedthis month The movement for
his nomination is now well organized and is
being skilfully conducted.
CANADA'S BLACK ErE.
British Farmers Acknowledge That
the
McKinley Bill Hurts Canucks.
Toronto, Ont., May 6. Special: The
story is published here that one of the re
ports of the two British farmers appointed
by the Dominion Government to report on
the condition of Nova Scotia and the other
maritime provinces of Canada, and the ad
vantages they offered for immigration, have
been suppressed by the Dominion Govern
ment because the report pointed out that
agriculture in the maritime provinces is
sunering trom the exclusion of its products
from the United States markets by the Mc
Kinley tariff.
Mr. McQueen, the Scotch farmer who
drew up the report, referred to the exodus
from Canada to the States, which he
ascribed in great part, to the want of better
trade relations with the natural market for
the surplus produce. He said he could not
recommend English or Scotch farmers to go
there as long as the American market re
mained closed to Canadians.
PATT1S0N WAS LIBELED.
The Two Harrisburg Editors Plead Guilty
and Will Soon Be Sentenced.
Philadelphia, May 6. "W. F. Jordan
and J. J. MoLaurin, of the Harrisburg Call,
were arraigned in the Court of Quarter Ses
sions to-day before Judge Thayer, charged
by Governor Pattison with criminal libel.
Both defendants pleaded guilty, and Gover
nor Pattison was placed on the stand and re
lated the nature of the libel for the benefit
of the Court in passing sentence.
At ine concinsion ot Governor Paulson's
testimony, the Court announced that sen
tence would be suspended for three weeks, j
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CUKED' BY A RELIC.
A Little Church in New York Filled
Daily by the Faithful
TO VENERATE A BIT OF AN ARM
Said to Have Once Been a Part of the Virgin
Mother's Body;
lit EPILEPTIC HEALED BI ITS TOUCH
iSrKCTAL TKLEOBAM TO THI OISPAICn.l
New York, May 5. In the Catholio
Church of St. Jean Baptiste, sn East Seventy-sixth
street, near Lexington avenue, is
a relic which has attracted devout Catholics
to the little structure since Sunday. Mgr.
Marquis, of NIcolet, Canada, brought the
relic to this city Saturday from Rome.
Three months ago Mgr. Marquis went to
Rome with a petition from Cardinal Tasch
ereau, of Quebec, asking that the Pope be
queath to the Basilica of Ste. Anne de
Beaupres a relic of St. Anna, the mother of
the Virgin Mary and the patroness of the
church.
Ste. Anne de Beaupres is the most famous
shrine in Canada. It is on the shores of
the St. Lawrence, 20 miles below Quebec.
It is in charge of Redemptorist fathers, and
for years it has attracted attention, because
of reported cures of the lame, the blind and
the halt that have been effected there.
Mgr. Marquis took to Rome with him
photographs of the interior and exterior of
the Basilica. The interior views showed
piles of crutches that had been left in tho
church by patients who had come on with
and gone away withont them.
An Arm of the Virgin's Mother.
The Pope received Monsigneur Marquis
and listened with interest to his stories of
the miracles wrought at Ste. Anne de Beau
pres. Among the relics in the Basilica of
St. Panl, outside the walls in Rome, is what
is said to be an arm of Ste. Anne, the
mother of the Virgin Mary. The Basilica
is in charge of Benedictine Monks. Ste.
Anne de Beaupres, in Canada, had already
a small fragment from the finger. Thou
sands of pilgrims visit the shrine every
year, and Cardinal Taschereau and the
fathers In charge of it believed that they
ought to procure a larger relic
when Mgr. Marquis had explained this
to the Pope, the Pope instructed his private
chaplain to write to Father Leopold Zelli
Jacobuzzi, Abbot of St Paul's, and ask
him to grant the wish of the Canadian
prelate, if possible. Armed with the Pope's
letter, Mgr. Marquis visited the Benedictine
abbot
The Monsignor, who is in his 71st year,
narrated to the abbot the story of Ste. Anne
de Beaupres. He says that the abbot at
ones aereed to eive him a niece of the arm.
On April 18 he arrived in this city with the
relic. He determined to spend a few days
with Rev. Frederick Petreau, pastor of tho
Church of St Jean Baptiste. He has been
the French priest's guest
The Belle Borrowed for Awhile.
Father Petreau prevailed on Mgr. Mar
quis to expose the relic in the church in
Seventy-sixth street On Sunday morning
the relic was first exposed, and every day
since crowds have assembled in the little
church to venerate it
Mgr. Marquis said to-day that the arm of
St Anna has been In Rome for many cen
turies, "and that the Popes have refused to
consent to the removal of any part of it
The arm, he said, was in a good state of
preservation when he saw it Mgr. Mar
quis went with the prior of St Paul's to the
place where the relic is kept The prior
began to saw a piece off the wrist The
saw broke, and Mgr. Marquis had to use a
saw he himself had brought The fragment
he secured is one-halt" of the wrist, about
three inches long, and to it the skin and
flesh, darkened and shriveled by time, still
adhere. This was put into a casket of bronze
lined with gold, The casket is about six
inches long. It has a glass cover, through
which the relic can be seen.
Around the relic is a slip of paper on
which is printed "Ex Brachio S. Anna;, M.
B. M. V.," which means, "From the Arm
of Ste. Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin
Mary."
The Little Church Crowded Bally.
The abbot of St Paul's put a seal on the
casket, and it is still unbroken. Father
Petreau announced to his congregation on
Sunday that the relic would be exposed
every morning from 0:30 to 10 o'clock, until
Mgr." Marquis' departure. Every morning
since Sunday his little church has been
crowded.
The relic is placed on a small table inside
the sanctuary rail. A priest stands by it
The people come up to the rail and kiss th'e
glass covering. Vicar General Farley and
Mgr. Bernard O'Reilly, the biographer of
.Pope Leo JU.li., 6aw tne relic yesterday.
On Sunday there are to be special services
in the church. Mgr. O'Reilly will preach a
sermon in French in the morning, and In
English in the evening. On Monday night
Mgr. Marquis will start for Canada w'ith the
relic, oo large a crowd visuea tne cnurcn
to-day that the relic was exposed all day.
It will be exhibited every day from now
until Monday.
Father Petreau said to-day his church is
to receive a small fragment of the arm from
Rome shortly, and that he will expose it
for the veneration of devout Catholics in
the chapel in the basement
Cures That Have Been Beported.
Father Petreau to-day reported that last
Monday morning a woman enterted the
church on crutches, hobbled to the altar,
kissed the relic, and touched il to the part
of her body affected. Then she knelt in
prayer for a long time. "When she picked
up her crutches she found she was able to
walk without Ihem. She left the church,
he said, praising God and completely cured.
Sunday evening the relic was exposed at
vespers. The church was crowded. Father
Petreau invited the people to step up to the
altar rail and kiss the relic A line was
formed, and men, women and children
walked up the middle aisle to the rail.
"When 50 people had kissed the casket,
which Father Petreau held in his hand, a
weak-looking young man stood at the altar
rail. Just as he was about to press his lips
to the relic he fell to the floor in what ap
peared to be an epileptic fit. Men and
women crowded up to the rail. Father
Petreau told them to go back and they
went The priest sprang over the altar rail
with the relic in his right hand. The man
on the floor was shaking convulsively.
Epilepsy Believed Immediately.
Father Petreau took the man's right hand
in his left hand, and touched the relic.to it
It is said the man's convulsions ceased at
once, and that he immediately became him
self. The young man was Pacific Charbon
neau, the 21-year-old son of Amablle Char
bonneau, of 185 East Eighth street
Mr. Charbonneau is a member of St Jean
Baptiste's Church. Nine years ago, when
the church was established, he was its sex
ton for a few months. "My son," he said
to-night, "has been subject to epileptic
fits lor nine years. He usually has one
every week and often twice a week. Or
dinarily he is prostrated for a long time
when he has a fit On Sunday night he
recovered as soon as the relio was ap
plied to him. "Whether a permanent
cure will be effected I cannot say yet
To-night he had another fit, but it was a
comparatively mild one I believe it was
brought on by medicine which he took. I
have great faith in the relic "
lot of talk among Father Petreau's pariah-
Sunday nlgnt s incident has occasioned a
loners. Thev believe the relic restored
young Charbonneau. Father Petreau him
self will not say that he believes the inci
dent was miraculous.
CHINESE BILL SIGNED.
A Grave Question Leads Harrison to Act
Promptly The Chinese Minister May
Leave America An Indignant Tloo
Consul's Strong Protest Against the
Exclusion.
"Washington, May 0. Special The
"act to prohibit the coming of Chinese per
sons into the United States" was laid before
the President to-day, and he had a confer
ence with the Attorney General in regard to
it Tha latter examined the matter care
fully, and informed the President that it
was a very grave question whether all the
existing restrictive legislation did not ex
pire to-morrow. In order, therefore, to
avoid any possible legal complications that
might arise on the point, the President
affixed his signature to the bill, and it is the
law of the land from to-day.
The most sensational reports are afloat as
to the effect of the new law upon our com
mercial and diplomatic relations with
China. It is said to-night that the Chinese
Minister is so indignant that he has plainly
intimated his intention to ask for his pass
ports and formally withdraw the legation
from "Washington. No anthority can be
given for the statement, however. "When
the original Geary bill was put through the
House in such hot haste the Chinese
Minister made no secret of the fact that he
regarded the act as not only wholly un
necessary but decidedly unfriendly, and
entirely unconstitutional and illegal as
being a plain violation of treaty obli
gations. The Minister is of course equally
firm in that opinion as regards the less
vigorous measure framed by the Conference
Committee.
A New York special says: Vice Consul L.
"Wing, when questioned on the subject to
day at the Chinese consulate said that Shen
Woon, the chief representative of the Chi
nese Government in this city, has been ill
for several days and could not receive visi
tors. He continued:
As formvself. it wonld not do for me to
say anything in my official capacity, hut per
sonally I think it is an outrage and an insult
to Chinese residents in this country that
will not soon he forgotten. It wns had
enough to stop further Immigration from
China, in obedience to the clamor of politi
cal demagogues and timid cranks, hut this
latest move has not even the shadow of a
reasonable excuse, except to gratuitously
Insult every Chinaman In this country,
many of whom have been hero for years and
are thoroughly Americanized.
The Insult Is gratuitous, because It really
effects nothing. The text of tho amendment
says that all Chinese laborers shall obtain a
certificate of residence. If this is adhered
to only a small proportion of the Chinese in
the country are amenable to the new law.
It cannot Include merchants, clerks, cigar
makers, domestic servants or laundrymen.
A laborer here means one who does heavy
manual work which requires no skill, hut
merely hrute stiensrth. There is not a sin
gle Chinaman who does snch work in this
art of tne countiy; and. In fact, it can only
e annlled to those who work on the rail
roads and In the mines out West and on the
Pacific coast This is evidence to me that
the sole reason for the amendment Is to in
sult tho Chinese nation."
BALL PLAYERS KNOCKED OUT.
The First Row of the Season Puts Rhines on
the Blacklist
Cincinnati, May 5. Special Not
content with making a fizzle of his ambi
tions to shine as a wrestler, Pitcher Rhines
tried a new tack about midnight, and made
a play to shine as a pugilist In company
with Jerry Harrington and EddieJBurke he
led in a debate which wou52 up in a fight
Both players were nicely pounded up, and
for theif drunken escapade the trio has
been disciplined. Rhines was suspended
for the season, and each of the others fined
5100.
President Brush happened to arrive just
in time to read the riot act, and after he had
finished, Harrington and Burke avowed
their delight in escaping the black list.
Burke played about the best game of any
Red in the team this afternoon. Rhines is
in disgrace. He was tho oilender. He is
$500 ahead of the club, and will go home to
Ridgeway, Pa. Captain Comiskey will do
business with Jim Duryea to-morrow.
0'S ULLIVAN, THE ICEMAN, DEAD.
no maintained BIi Innocence of the Cronln
Mnrder to the Last.
Joliet, III., May 5. Patrick O'Sulli
van, the Cronin suspect, died in the prison
hospital this evening at 7:45 o'clock. "With
him at the time of his death were his sister,
Miss O'Sullivan, of Chicago, and a brother
from Fondaia, the latter arriving a few
minutes before his death; the prison physi
cian, Br. S. T. Ferguson, and Captain
Kane
To the last O'Sullivan maintained his in
nocence He was unconscious until a few
minutes before his death, when he seemed
to regain consciousness, and indicated that
he wished some water, which was given
him. His body will be sent to Marion,
"Wis., Friday.
A DOUBLE DIV0ECE.
A New Tork Insurance Man and a Lawyer
Figure in a Bad Scrape
New York, May 6. Special. Newell
"W. Bloss, a well-known insurance man of
this city, and at present President of the
National Mntual Insurance Company, has
begun an action against his wife, Emma C.
Bloss, for absolute divorce, charging im
morality, and naming J. Olivier Keane, a
well-known Fourth ward politician and
lawyer, as co-respondent.
Mrs. Keane is now about to start a suit
for absolute divorce against her husband,
naming Mrs. Bloss as co-respondent She
has retained the same counsel as Mr. Bloss.
ALHY SAYS HE 13 ABBOIT.
The
Murderer of Christie Warden to Ex
piate His Crimes XS'ext Tear.
Plymouth, H". H., May 5, Special
At last Murderer Almy's life has been un
sealed, and he has cleared up the mystery
surrounding his career by confessing that he
is indeed George Abbott, the outlaw who
had committed crimes enough before he mur
dered Christie Warden to insure his im
drisonment for life if he was again cap
tured. Almy was returned to Concord this morn
ing, to be confined in the State prison until
his execution a year hence.
ALL FAVOR OUR CANAL
The
Senate Anthorlzas a Sarve7 of the
Route at a Cost of SIO.OOO.
Washington, May 5. The Senate Com
mittee on Commerce to-day ordered a favor
able report on the bill authorizing the Sec
retary of War to have a survey made for a
ship canal connecting Lake Erie and the
Ohio river, for which purpose $10,000 is ap
propriated. The Ponslon Xorcer Bound Over.
Philadelphia, May & Henry Huston,
the industrial census agent who was arrested
yesterday, charged with forgery, perjury
and false returns, was given a final hearing
to-day and held in $1,000 bail for trial
Little Washington's Pabllo HaUdlng.
Washington, May 8. Among the bills
passed to-day by the Senate was one appro
priating $50,000 for a public building at
Washington, Pa.
FEEDING THE CABLE.
The Fifth Avenue Traction Road
Be Made a Trunk Line and
to
FORBES STEEET TO BE ABANDONED.
Dnqnesne's East End Electric Branches
Serve as Feeders.
to
ECONOMIZING IN MONEY AND POWER
"William L. Elkinsand P. A. B. Widener,
the great street railway magnates who con
trol the Pittsburg and Duquesne traction
lines in this city, and are said: to be after
more, and who control even greater fran
chises in several other leading American
cities, arrived here last "night from
Philadelphia. A meeting of the directory
of the two lines here is scheduled for this
afternoon, when some business of great Im
portance to Pittsburg people will be dis
cussed. President C. L. Magee, of the
Duquesne Traction Company, will return
this morning and will participate in the
deliberations of the big syndicate, he and
Senator Fllnn, under the consolidation
agreement, being members of directorate of
both lines.
On their arrival last night Messrs. Elkins
and "Widener were driven to the Duquesne
Club, where they spent the greater part of
the night in conference with President
George Elkins, of the Fifth avenue line.
Radical Changes In Contemplation.
Senator Flinn also called on them.but did
not stay long. No other visitors were re
ceived and a reporter's card was returned
with an invitation to "call to-morrow."
It is known, however, that the big trac
tion men have in contemplation some rad
ical changes in the operation of the lines
controlled by them in this city, and the
changes are to go into effect as
rapidly as they can be arranged
for. They propose to practically
abandon the Forbes street line now used by
the Duquesne cars and make a trunk line of
the Fifth avenue cable road, and all the
tracks beyond Craig street are to be utilized
as feeders to the trunk line. The East End
section of the cable road, from Oakland to
Penn and Highland avenues, is to be changed
by shortening the cable and running it only
to Craig street. The cable road east of
Craig street will be transformed into an
electric line and will be a direct line from
Craig street to "Wilkinsburg.
Electric Feeders to the Cable.
All the other parts and branches of the
present Duquesne line will be made feeders
of the trunk line and as the electric cars
come into the terminal at Craig street they
will be attached to the cable cars and
hauled down town as trailers. Ellsworth ave
nue main line will become a branch line the
same as the Center and Negley avenue, the
Larimer avenue and the Highland avenue
branches are now. It is also likely that
the present Highland avenue branch will be
so extended that electric cars will pass
along the entire length of Highland avenue,
reaching Craig street by way of Fifth ave
nue The details for opening up the Hamilton
avenue, formerly Grazier street, branch
will also be arranged, thus securing an en
trance to "Wilkinsburg on the north side,
and catching the traffic that may escape th'e
branch entering the town on the south, and
securing the "patronage of a pooulous dis
trict en route "
Banning on Tfalf-KIlnate Schedule..
Cars on the trunk line will be run on half
minute time, and for the summer months 15
or 20 of the double-deck cars, with some
improvements, will be added to the
equipment A loop for the shortened
cable road will be formed
by turning from Fifth avenue at Neville
street and then by way of the private road
of the Duquesne which passes the car barn
to Craig street and thence to Fifth avenuo
again. It is probable that the Fifth avenue
residence property, of which the car barn
lot was formerly a part, will be at least
partially covered with another big building,
and possibly a power plant will be a part
of it
In order to stand the strain of the in
creased number of cars the cables on the
trunk line will be made heavier, and to
avoid too heavy a strain on the engines by
this arrangement the speed will probably
be slackened somewhat It is estimated
that in the operation of a cable 75 per cent
ot the total operating expense is incurred
in keeping the big cables in motion.
Reducing the Operating Expenses.
The addition of a few cars makes very lit
tle difference in the cost on a cable road,
while it means everything on an electric
line. By the shortening ot the cable on the
east end of Fifth avenue, the cost of mov
ing that cable will be reduced nearlv one-
half by reducing the amount of power re
quired, and the whole proposed scheme
of operation is expected to cause
a big reduction in operating expenses and a
great increase in receipts. Tne abandon
ment of the Forbes street line will be com
plete so far as public accommodation is con
cerned, though one car will be kept runing
over it to hold the franchise of the company.
"What other big schemes will receive at
tention when the traction magnates get
down to business can only be gnessed at, but
it is probable that a traffic arrangement
with the Manchester Traction Company will
be one of them.
P0WDERLY WAXES Yv'ROTH.
He Accuses the Beading Combine With
Attempted Wholesale Bribery.
Sckanton, May 5. Special At a
Knights of Labor mass meeting last night
at Archbald, General Master Workman
Powderly, referring to the Beading com
bine, said there was no other State so firmly
held in corporate power as Pennsylvania.
He closed with the statement that for some
time a Beading emissary had been in the
Lackawanna Valley for the purpose of ad
vancing the interests of the combine; that
this man had seen every minister and priest
of every denomination, to some of whom ho
offered passes and money. Church debts
the combine agreed to assume, and in at
least two instances Catholic priests were ap
proached with offers to pay the cost of
erecting parochial schools, if the combine
should be indorsed and approved by them
from their pulpits.
One clergyman whom this agent ap
proached, Mr. Powderly said, indignantly
refused the offer, with the remark that he
would rather lay aside his clerical robes and
take up the shotgun against the greed of the
corporations.
RUDINI WILL PROBABLY GO.
The Italian Premier Defeated on a Very
Vital Vote of Confidence.
Bome, May 5. In the Chamber of Depu
ties to-day, the Government demanded a
vote of confidence on its financial pro
gramme. The demand caused a long and
heated debate, and when the question was
put to a vote the Government was defeated,
185 members supporting the demand and
193 opposing it The debate was in refer
ence to Premier Budini's financial state
ment of yesterday. The proceedings were
heated throughout and uproarious. The
attack upon the Government wos opened
by Signer Giolitti, who proceeded amid
constant interruptions, members on each
side of the House excitedly rising and ex
changing vituperative epithets with mem-
bers on the other side The uproar finally
reached such a pitch that tne presiding
officers were obliged to close the debate.
"When quiet was restored the debate was re
sumed, and Minister Grimaldi moved a
vote of confidence in the Government As
soon as the defeat of the Government was
announced, Premier Budini arose and said
he must immediately consult with his col
leagues in the Cabinet.
A SLUMBERING VOLCANO.
Politicians In Washington Claim That a
Resignation Is Forthcoming to Avoid a
Gigantic Scandal One of Russell Har
rison's Great Friends Involved.
Washington, May 6. Special' A man
of high official position in Washington is
authority for the statement that the con
templated resignation of Thomas H. Carter,
Commissioner of the General Land Office, is
for the purpose of avoiding a scandal of
gigantic proportions in connection with the
management of the Land Office for the past
year or two.
"Tom" Carter, as he is generally known,
was first a delegate to and then a member of
the Fifty-first Congress from Montana. He
was then, as he ' now, the especial friend
of Russell B. H -"d through his in
fluence obtainer'j. JlTn "nt as Com
missioner. AlxLo'fjijp uO j0 -as the
Secretary of the LutQI -": ''" ri"n
Committee during the elec'.l tyCtfr, UlrJ
was himself defeated for a secon'-1 Jj .
Congress by a Democrat
It is said here that certain influential
Democrats have in their possession the most
damaging evidence regarding the manner in
which the management of the Land Office
fios been dovetailed into the political affairs
in the "Western and Northwestern States.
and that an explosion is imminent that will
cause disaster to a clique of politicians who
stand very close to the administration.
It is understood that Commissioner Carter
intends to have his resignation take effect at
the close of the fiscal year, July 1. The ex
posure of the Land Office frauds will prob
ably take place soon after the National Con
vention in June.
RUSS HARRISON IN FOR IT.
His Yellowstone Parte Stock Wns Given
Htm Became He Was the President's
Son No rroot That It Was Even
Transferred for a Consideration.
Washington, May C E. C. Waters,
formerly manager of the Yellowstone Park
Association, to-day resumed his testimony
before the House Committee on Public
Lands, but failed to bring the papers con
cerning leases which he had promised to
bring. Waters said that he had never
spoken to Bussell Harrison on the subject
of putting stock in trust for him, but had
put the stock in trust for Mr. Harrison
without that gentleman's knowledge.
Chairman McEae Did you appeal to
Bussell Harrison to help you in the matter?
Witness I think I "asked him to say to
the Secretary that anything I said could be
relied on.
Waters said that he did not know B. C
Kerens, but had used Kerens' name as
trustee for the stock because, from events
which bad taken place in Montana, he knew
Kerens to be a friend of Bussell Harrison's.
Mr. McBae wanted to know whether the
stock set aside tor Bussell Harrison was for
a consideration or as a gift; but the answer
of the witness was not definite, and several
times he said be did not know exactly why
he had it set aside, except that he wanted
Bussell Harrison to have it Finally, he
said that he had asked Bussell Harrison to
see the SecretaryoCthe- Interior.'and -he
felt ti.v he might!t''l6yjtll,')n Jgfe again
for something right and proper. AVItness
had not seen Bussell Harrison since he
(witness) was on the stand Saturday.
FATHER M0LLINGER CURES.
The tame Walk and tho Blind See After a
Visit to Troy Hill.
Bethlehem, Pa., May 5. Peter Shee
han and his sister, Mary Sheehan,have both
returned from Troy Hill, Allegheny, where
both were cured of diseases through Father
Mollinger. Peter Sheehan suffered from in
flammatory rheumatism and was unable to
walk. He had to be taken to Allegheny on
a stretcher. He received three blessings.
After the second he left with a cane, and
after the third was much better.
Mary Sheehau was blind. She, too, re
ceived three blessings. She will be well in
a few weeks, it is said. Both firmly at
tribute their cure to Father Mollinger's
wonderful power and their faith in the
priest's cross of St Anthony.
FEVEB IH A MILITABx" SCHOOL.
Sanitary Authorities at Chester Trylne; to
Find Oat Where It Came From.
Chester, Pa., May 5. Dr. Billings, of
Washington, the sanitary expert, and Dr.
Abbott, microscoplst, of Baltimore, who
made an examination of the Pennsylvania
Military Academy to ascertain, if possible,
the cause of typhoid fever existing in that
institution, have submitted their report to
Colonel Hyatt. They found nothing in or
about the building to give rise to the dis
ease, but are of the opinion that it was
brought to the premises.
Their report shows conclusively that the
academy is in excellent sanitary condition-
Colonel Hyatt has removed his academy to
Bidley Park for the present, and opened
school in the hotel building at that place
with 72 cadets, about half the corps.
COENELL'S FBESIDEHT BESIGNS.
He Disagreed With the Trustees on Ad
ministrative Questions.
Ithaca, N. Y., May 5. Owing to grave
and seemingly irreconcilable difference of
opinion in regard to matters of administra
tive importance, President Adams, of Cor
nell University, has sent his resignation to
the Board of Trustees.
Jndgo liean In Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, May 5. Judge
John
Dean, of Hollidaysburg, who was nomi
nated by the recent Republican State Con
vention for Judge of the Supreme Court,
came to the city on a visit to-day. The
Judge's visit has no political significance,
as he merely came to see some friends. He
had a large number of callers this evening,
who tendered their congratulations upon
his nomination. v
THIS JIORXING'S NEWS.
Tcpic Page.
Quay to Plot Against Harrison Here...... 1
A Portion ot tho Virgin in New York.. 1
Sensational Traction News 1
Uncle Sam Shadowing Immigrants. ..... 1
City Economx to Conae. ......... ........... 2
Lovo Almost Causes Murder.. 2
Insurance Bates Golns Vp Here. S
Editorial Comment and Miscellaneous.... 4
The Trouble at Princeton .... 4
Uolman Still Parsimonious. B
Widening of Eighth Street Discussed O
Bill to Enter Flower Soon................. 7
A Fatal Railroad Wreck 7
Pew Against Polpit at Omha. 7
Salllvanand His Partner Disagree 7
How a Ball Game Was Won 8
The Close of the Shooting Tonrney 8
Bailsman's New Congregation 8
Another Batch of Conventions. O
Tho Business World's Budget O
Chess and Checker Problems 10
Live Stock Markets 10
OH and Commercial Markets. 11
Work of All the Courts 13
CLOWE GATES,
The Government Taking Steps
to Stop Indiscriminate
Immigration.
WHAT BECOMES OF ALIENS.
Inspectors Preparing Eeports to Lay
Before Congress.
EUROPE FURNISHES CRIMINALS.
In Educational Clause Needed in the Neir
Legislation.
AMEBIC! SO IMGEE BEGS FOR PEOPLE
The Government has at lost become
alarmed at the rate foreign criminals and
paupers are pourinc into America, and is
preparing to contract the meshes in the
immigration sieve. The movement was
commenced by Immigrant Inspector Bobert
Layton, of Pittsburg, and now the depart
ment has taken it up and is gathering in
formation to lay before Congress to secure
more restrictive legislation.
The idea is simply following up the im
migrants after they leave Ellis Island and
finding what proportion become good citi
zens and how many become charges on pub
lic charity. Besides this, from the prisons,
the workhouses, the almshouses and the
Coroners' offices are being gathered facts on
the foreigners' cost to the county, State
and nation. When a foreigner asks for
charity or commits a crime they find out
where he came from, on what steamer, how
long he has been here and what he has done.
The criminal records show that most ot the
crimes committed in Allegheny county are
by aliens or alien born. Last month of all
the murderers now in the jail only one was
an American, and that one was there for
accidental shooting.
Coroner McDowell Started the BalL
Inspector Layton first had his attention
drawn to the matter through Coroner Mc
Dowell's report, in which he called atten
tion to the alarming increase in the number
of murders, and said it was almost wholly
caused by the criminals of Europe being
dumped here in America, where they con
tinue their crimes. Starting on that, Mr.
Layton has been gathering information
which has met with such approval that it is
being made a duly for all the immigrant in
spectors to make such reports with, a view
to securing a change of the law.
Each morn the rising sun looks down on
the land of the Stars and Stripes it lends
its light to 7,000 new-born American
citizens, so great is the national increase.
The Government, in view of this fact, finds
that it no longer needs to stand on its
shores with its hat off beckoning to over
crowded Europe. The time has come when
it need not receive people indiscriminately,
but can make a judicial selection of those
who would-becorao citizens of the United
States. . ,
"f lit.T, f Totectel Than Cltlzt'aJ.
The Immigration laws to-day give to the
immigrant a protection the country refuses
to its home-made citizens. All that the
alien needs is a sound body. He may not
have friends, a cent in the "world or any em
ployment, but the country receives him,
while an American citizen in that predica
ment is arrested lor vagrancy because he
has no visible means of support
Immigrant Inspector Layton yesterday,
in telling how he started on the work, said
Pittsburg was the best place in the country
to gather such information, for it is the
center to which nearly all the immigrants
rush as soon as they land. It is the great
distributing center for the West, the new
towns in this locality, and also for tha
many improvements in the South. Then
he said:
The amendment of tne Immigration laws
of 1390 opened up a new field, but the Treas
ury Department sent no speciflo instructions
to the Inspectors. We were left to our own
resources and to make our own interpre
tation of the law. My Idea of duty was to
investigate the case- of all Immigrants who
had come into this country within a year
and who had fallen by the wayside and
become charges on public or private charity.
I decided the only way to discover this was
to appeal to the charitable institutions and
I sent copies of the law to all the alms
houses in the State with the request that
they report to me all foreigners who have
become charges within a year after land
ing. Emptying the Almshonses.
The only people who really took tho mat
ter up and carried it out to tho lull extent
were Chief Elliot, of Pittsburg, and Chief
Grubhs, of Allegheny. The result 13 that
the almshouses of both cities havo been
thoroughly cleared of professional paupers,
and they have been sent back to Europo and
the expense of maintaining them taken oh
tho cities. Tney have been paupers at
home, and were sent here to got rid of them.
I believe some people have a mental bias
against work, or else a determined obstinacy
against any labor. 1 sometimes believo lazi
ness is a disease, and that this is known in
the old countries and the victims are sent
here to get rid of them. Once landed they
become life charges on the community on
which they fasten themselves. Chief Elliot,
who, by the way, has the best-conducted
almshouse I ever entered, is an enthusiast on
this subject
Under the new law we do not know Just
how to act for each case is anew cose. I have
one on hand now. An Irishman and his wife
and child came here a short time azo from
Dublin. They sold out a business there, but
since he has been here ho lost his money and
cannot get work. He is now a public charge
and the question is whether the law contem
plates sending back such people. A narrow
constrnction would call them paupers, bat In
time they would become good citizens. Tho
facts have to be sent on for the department
to decide and in the meantime they have to
bo maintained by public charity. Tho Coro
ner's office also shows how many aliens be
come a burden to the public even after
death, and that a large percentage of the
criminals come rrom the loreigncrs.
An Astonlsher for the Treasury.
From the facts I had gained I made a re
port on what becomes of the foreigner after
he lands. The department seemed aston
ished at the facts I had given them, and Su
perintendent Owens, in a letter last month,
asked me to continue the work and declared
the facts I presented to be Just what tho
Government wanted. He said my report
showed a necessity for a change in the law
and the necessity for the strongest examina
tion at our ports. My attention was called
to tlieso facts by Coroner McDowell's an
nual report, and I started to formulate a
report of the probable cost of a man who
enters this country penniless and without
friends. The Government wants to And
how far it pays to receive foreigners Indis
criminately, even if they abide by the pres
ent laws.
The present laws compel us to receive
anyone who Is able bodied,but many of them
walk close to the fence of the poorhouse.
Mayhap they escape that and quarrel with
their countrymen and are killed. In death
they are a charge to the community, and if
they turn out criminals they cost still more.
I have Investigated the Jail, the workhouse
and the penitentiary and I find a large pro-
Jortlonofthe criminals are foreign born,
t all leads me to she conclusion, and I be
lieve tho department will bear me out, that
thore should be an educational qualification
in the law. This would shut out at least 80
per cent of the immigrants. They should be
able to read and write In their own lan
guage. If they can do that they will find
papers In their own language and will be
able to find notices of jwhere work can be
found.
If they do not know how to read or write
It shows that they must have lived lnde
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