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CHAMPIONS OF SILVER.
Salt Lake's Welcome to
the White Metal
Men.
PATRIOTS ALL IN LINE.
Governor Rickards Fires the
First Gun in the Con
ference.
HONEST MONEY IS DEMANDED.
In the Great Battle the Sentiment Is
Non-Partisan In All Its
Phases.
SALT LAKE, Utah, May 15.— The peo
ple of Salt Lake were up early to-day to
witness the opening of the silver confer
ence, about which so much lias been said
during the past month. From the head of
East Temple street to its foot, in the busi
ness districts and on all the cross districts
in the section, buildings were gayly decor
ated in the National colors, while from
every flagstaff waved the stars and stripes
in honor of the great event. Inscriptions,
mottoes and divers other devices em
blematic of the sentiments of silver cham
pions were n!«-o in evidence.
The procession left the Knutsford about
11 o'clock, headed by the Denhalter Band
and a platoon of police.
In the first carriage were seated: Gov
ernor West of Utah. Governor Rickards of
Monta/ia, Governor MeConnell of Idaho
and ex-Governor Prince of New Mexico.
The procession reached the Tabernacle
about noon, where a large audience had
already assembled. The decoration of the
Tabernacle presented a picturesque ap
pearance, 1100 American flags and over
40u0 yards of bunting having been used in
the decorations.
From conspicuous parts of the gallery
hung the following mottoes: "Financial
Independence," "Our Pong— Silver Threads
Among the Gold," "Sound Money, say the
Gold Bogs; Silver, say the People" ; "We
Want a Circulating Medium That Will
Circulate/
At 12:20 o'clock Governor Rickards
called the convention to order and deliv
ered the following speech:
In the history of nations no great wrong was
ever righted rave through the concerted efforts
of earnest men. I have faith enough in hu
manity to believe that the natural patriotism
of the heart is equal to the duty of hone6t ef
fort and tireless action in the cause of right,
when the right is clearly understood. Misdi
rected activity in any cause that concerns the
welfare of the people advertises a paternity of
ignorance rather than a fatherhood of malice.
We have met to-day, not as censors, parading
the causes of our discontent, heralding to the
wcrld the bitterness we feel over the injustice
that has made our co-operation the nece.-sity of
the hour, but as earnest men, representatives
of a great cause, and delegated to the perform
ance of a duty by a constituency whose inter
ests are environed only by the geographical
limits of the Republic. We have met as cham
pions of honest money — of money so honest
that its pure white luster Is never tarnished by
the tear* of the starving, or rusted by the
t>li>od of crime as it moves through the chan
n< < of commerce in a current of perpetual
hope.
We have met, not to appeal to the prejudices
that may cluster instir.ctively around the self
interests of any community or people; not to
weigh anchor upon a sea of uncertainty, in the
trade winds of politics, but to institute a new
movement, along new lines, for the better edu;
cation of the masses on the financial problems
of the day.
In calling this conference and Inviting the
co-operation of Western Governors in an inter
state educational movement in the interests of
the free coinage of silver, I was impelled by
the belief that in the home circle of the Ameri
can citizen lay the destiny of the white metal.
The time has come when we must appeal not
only to the business sense of the voters with
non-partisan logic, but we must reach down
Into the moral activities of the heart and ask
that the individual conscience stand up and
be counted on the side of the right. There
never was a time in history when the moral
side of a great question appealed with greater
force to the intelligent voter than to-day, with
the evils of monometallism emphasized in the
misery that afflicts our land.
The argument of the single-standard advo
cate has matured from a gilded theory Into a
condition that ought to appeal with irresisti
ble force to the candid observer of events. It
becomes our duty to supplement the argument
of smokeless smokestacks and abandoned farms,
of broken banks and crushed commercial en
terprises with incisive reasoning as to the
solstice that ushered in the "winter of our dis
content." Existing conditions, reflecting the
misfortunes of the business world upon every
phase of our industrial and social life, have
stimulated a demand on the part of the masses
for a better knowledge of financial propo
eitions that self-interests may be respected at
the polls. In no way can the interests of silver
be better served in the receptive condition of
the public mind than through a systematic
course of education that will reech the indi
vidual intelligence In the sacred circle of the
home.
The eminent gentlemen who represent the
several States in this conference have been made
delegates with the responsibility of devising
ways and means for the carrying out of this
object, and that your labors will prove an
aggressive step in a most successful campaign
of education I doubt not.
Already the European wing of the American
Republic is beating the air in an effort to retain
its lofty perch. The gold men of both conti
nents read in the signs of the times the poari
bi.ity of an early defeat and are bending their
eii*-rtripe to the annihilation of the object of
th.-:' fpars. All that literature can do, all that
oratory can accomplish, all that gold can
achieve, will be done to strangle the growing
sentiment for silver. A subsidized press, con
trolled by the financial interests that thrive on
them- f the people, has entered with
enthusiasm 115.011 the mission delegated to it
by the cuttodiaoa of its conscience. The lines
of battle have been formed by the logic of
events and the struggle for re-enforcements
promises to be the greatest contest in the his
tory <.f i!j<..iern times.
It r-mains to be seen whether the blight of
ponomeUlltem that has withered the energies
of our Industrial hie hah burned into the heart
et.d conscience of the citizen and made him
the willing pumi of nobler ar.d better lessons
in (lattice. In the tidal wave that is now
gathering str.»np:h all over the land for the
free coinage of silver I see the avant-courier of
better days to come. To place wholesale finan
cial literature in th c hands of the Eastern
voter becomes a duty that overshadows every
other obligation of a public character that we
owe to our fellow men.
The object of this. conference is not to devise
arguments in favor of the free coinage of the
white metal, for such arguments are indelibly
written upon the progress and prosperity of
the human race, but to place in the hands of
the voter these argument* fashioned into lan
guage that tbe wayfaring man can understand
and apply. If this mission be accomplished,
the victory is won. In a conference of this
character no political prejudices are invited,
and in its non-partisanship rests the pledge of
it> sincerity. We do not meet as Republicans,
as Democrats or as Populists, but as American
citizen?, zealous for the right "as God gives us
to see the right," and earnest in the advocacy
of sound financial principles.
fivery prophecy made by the gold men has
been discredited by the progress of events, and
every prediction made by the silver men has
been verified in the colcs-al misfortunes that
have visited our land. Tne logic of the situa
tion demands a reversal of the public judg
ment, and it will come. The masses of the
people in the East are as much interested in
the revival of prosperity as are the citizens of
the West. To secure their intelligent co-opera
tion it is only necessary to educate them as to
the causes of the hard times, and they will
seek with avidity the only cure within the
reach cf mankind and help eliminate from the
financial system of our Government the disas
trous policy of monometallism. The field for
an educational campaign, conducted on broad
and patriotic grounds, is a most inviting one.
To make this campaign a Fuccessful one is
merely to avail ourselves of the opportunities
presented and dedicate to the mission of honest
money our earnest and unremitting efforts.
It is unnecessary, in this connection, for me to
suggest ways and means for laying before the
Eastern voter the gospel of sound finance. An
interchange of views in the various committees,
to which much of the practical work of this
conference will be delegated, will evolve
methods and plans most consistent with good
results.
Yet with the treasuries of Europe behind
them, with the best talent that money can em
ploy, with a subsidized press retailing opinions
and" manufacturing facts for pay, the goldbugs
are hampered by the testimony of current
events. The movement to corner the gold
output of our intermountain region, that
another issue of Government bonds may be
forced to replenish the outflow of money from
the treasury of the United States, has raised
the danger signal in every community in the
land. It proves the dangerous possibilities of
monometallism and verifies the suspicions
that cling to the skirts of its chief advocates
and champions. The aggressiveness of greed
that characterizes the campaign of the mono
metallists, as contrasted with the plans and
purposes of bimetallism, carries within its
activities the seeds of its own defeat.
Differences of opinion as to the value o£ this
policy or that are blended into a common
cause of self-defense when the treasury of the
United States becomes an object for speculation
and the credit of the nation is marked for
plunder. In the coming crisis in the great
struggle for honest money— in carrying the flag
of bimetallism to the victory that awaits it—
we must be disciplined by the exigencies of
lhe hour and proceed to outline our work in a
spirit of perfect harmony.
Governor West then delivered a happy
address of welcome, saying that all con
ditions were favorable to the silver senti
ment in this Territory.
• Mayor Baskin followed in an address of
welcome on the part of the city. Governor
Prince responded enthusiastically on the
part of the delegates.
Hon. Thomas G. Merrill of Montana,
father of the conference, was unanimously
chosen as temporary chairman, and Hon.
Henry W. Laugenour of California was
made secretary.
Committees on credentials and perma
nent organization and order of business
were named, and the conference took a re
cess until 3 :30 r. m. to meet in the city and
county building.
This afternoon's session of the silver con
ference was held in the City Council cham
ber. The committee on credentials re
ported the following delegations:
California— Hon. Thomas J. Clunie, Hon.
Henry Laugenour, Hon. W. L. Holt.
Colorado— Hon. Alva Adams, Hon. John F.
H. Shaforth.E. B. Light.
Idaho— G. V. Bryan, J. W. Plummer, W. E.
Borah, with Joseph Hutchinson, who was
afterwards made assistant secretary without a
vote.
Montana— Hon. Thomas G. Merrill, Hon. F.
E. Sergeant, Hon. Walter F. Bickford.
Nevada— H. F. Bartine, Sol Hilp, B. F. Leete.
Xew Mexico— Governor L. B. Prince, Hon. J.
C. Young, Sydney Dell.
Washington— lion. Patrick Henry Winston,
B. C. Kingsbury, Nelson Bennett.
Wyoming— Hon. C. D. Clark, Hon. F. E. War
ren (by F. M. Foote, proxy), Hon. F. W. Man
dell.
Alternates — Idaho, W. Watt, John Meyers;
Washington, J. J. Brown, W. H. Plummer, C.
W. Bushnell, W. M. Welch; Montana. F. P.
Sterling, Robert Smith, George Haldorn.
A proposition to change the name
"conference" was made by Mr. Dell of
Oregon, but was voted down.
The Washington delegation wanted to
enlarge the membership by admitting
delegates named by Chambers of Com
merce, Boards of Trade or mass-meetings,
but the conference decided to hold the
membership to three from each State or
Territory, as originally appointed.
The committee on permanent organiza
tion named ex-Governor Thompson of
Oregon for permanent president and
Hon. Henry Laugenour of California for
permanent secretary, whien was agreed to.
' Vice-presidents were elected as follows:
Hon. J. T. Clunie of California, Hon. Alva
Adams of Colorado. Assistant Secretary
Hon. Joseph L. Hutchinson of Idaho.
On taking the chair Hon. David Thomp
son spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the Conference: I thank you
for this very gieat honor which you have con
ferred upon me in electing me to preside over
your deliberations. This, in my opinion, is a
very important conference. I would have you
to know that I represent a State which is not a
silver-producing State. We produce gold, we
produce iron ore, we produce coal, but our
great agricultural interests, our lumber inter
ests and our fishing interests suffer from the
great depression that has taken place by the
demonetization of silver through legislation of
our Congress, commencing with 1873. Our
State is depressed and we are looking for some
means of a revival of our interests.
This, we believe, can only be obtained
through the remonetization of tbe white metal.
Our people are not a unit on this. Our bank
men, our men who hoard the gold in their cof
fers, many of them to-day tell me that they can
make more money by hoarding their gold in
the bank vaults than they can by putting it in
circulation, because of the continual appre
ciation of gold and the consequent deprecia
tion of everything else.
I know from a little experience that I had
last week that this is true. Some weeks ago I
had occasion to buy some 200,000 grain bags.
I went to one of our largest grain-dealers and
inquired the price of thes-e, and he informed
me that they were 4V« cents apiece. He was a
mono-metallist, or an international bimetal
list, which is the same thing. I went to the
same man a few weeks ago and asked him the
price again, and he said: "Two weeks ago I
could have sold you those bags for 4% cents,
but now they are worth 4^ cents." I asked
him the cause for this, and he replied: "Why,
have you not observed in reading the papers
that silver has gone up?"
Two weeks after I went to the same man and
inquired of him the price of these bapg. He
told me that they were then worth 4}4 cents,
informing me that silver had gone up still
higher, and was then worth 6G cents. I asked
him about wheat and he told me that wheat
had also advanced in price. "Well, does silver
also affect wheat?" I asked. "Well, he said, "it
appears to."
This is the effect it has on the business of our
country, aud I believe it is so everywhere: that
depression takes place because of the great de
pression in the metal.
Now, adopt a standard on a parity between
gold and silver of 16 to 1 and you will stop
that appreciation of gold that has been going
on for several years pasf That should be done
by the education of the people of the whole
country. We need but little of that in the
West, because we are better educated here on
that question than they are anywhere else.
As I said before, we are not a silver-producing
ing State, but we produce a great deal of gold
in our State, and the gold-miners are the only
thrifty people that we have within the confines
of Oregon to-day, and I believe they will con
tinue to be such until the Congress of the
United States passes a law providing for the
free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1 of
gold and the President signs it. And no man
should be elected as President who would not
pledge himself before election to do that.
This conference, as I understand it, is for
the purpose of educating the people, the Re
publicans, the Democrats and the Populists to
see to this matter in their conventions which
will be held next year to nominate men for
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1895.
President of the United States, and it is the in
tention, as I believe, of all the parties at this
time to do that. For that purpose; as I under
stand it, this conference has been called. With
this I will close my remarks.
The conference then went into executive
session. It was decided to appoint a com
mittee on resolutions and address, viz:
Clunie of California. Shafroth of Colorado,
Bryan of Idaho, Bickford of Montana,
Bartine of Nevada, Prince of New Mexico,
Dell of Oregon, Winston of Washington,
Mandell of Wyoming, Goodwin of Utah.
A committee on plan of action as fol
lows was appointed: Laugenour of Cali
fornia. Light of Colorado, Plummer of
Idaho, Merrill of Montana, Hilp of Nev-
Ada, Prince of New Nexico, Thompson of
Oregon, Bennett of Washington, Foote of
Wyoming, Chambers of Utah,
The conference then adjourned until
evening at the Tabernacle, where there
was an organ recital and an address by
Hon. Wharton F. Barker of Philadelphia.
Fully 5000 people assembled in the Taber
nacle this evening to hear silver speeches
and the organ recital. All were delighted
with the magnificent music, and the
enthusiasm was high. Governor Thomp
son presided. Wharton Barker addressed
the convention, urging remonetization of
silver as the only relief for depressed in
dustries and urging that the United States
is abundantly able to undertake free coin
age unsupported by any other nation. He
read largely from his editorial in the Phila
delphia American, in advocacy of free
silver coinage, and of protection.
Following Mr. Barker ■:'■: ex-Governor
Prince of New Mexico addressed the crowd
and was received with great enthusiasm.
He advocated the free coinage of silver and
urged practical work at this time.
DELEGATES ME AX BUSINESS.
Montana and Idaho Men Turn Out in
Great Force.
SALT LAKE, Utah, May 15.— The dele
gates appointed from Montana form merely
a part of the large number here from that
State, as the Butte Chamber of Commerce
took the matter in hand, and a delegation
was sent to the city composed of able and
earnest men who know the necessity of
silver money.
In consequence the hotels are crowded
with a party of men from the great mining
center who are here to work tn the inter
ests of the white metal. The campaign
for silver, which is about to be inaugu
rated, will have its birth in this conven
tion, and the full delegation is solid for
Salt Lake as the headquarters of the move
ment.
In an interview with the Tribune this
morning. Governor McConnell of Idaho
said:
"I favor the perfecting of an organiza
tion for thorough work, and believe the
headquarters of the organization should be
here in Salt Lake City."
W. E. Boral of Idaho, W. M. Bickford of
Montana, Congressman Shafroth of Colo
rado and Thomas G. Merr 11 of Montana,
the latter being the father of the move
ment, all expressed the same idea as re
gards the permanent campaign and the
sentiment expressed to-day by many of
the delegates is to the effect that such a
campaign is about to be inaugurated and
that the West generally will favor the
question.
The Call correspondent held an inter
view with one of the Utah delegates to
night, a prominent Democrat and one of
the largest mine-owners here, who said
that even though the work of the conven
tion had not as yet begun, he was sure that
it would be a most profitable thing for the
industry of the West.
One thing was to be worked for, the free
coinage of silver, and he felt sure that the
resolutions to be passed would not be weak
ones, but would prove to be of the most
stirring character, as befits the crisis at
band.
The Knights of the Mystic Shrine gave
an elaborate banquet to-night, at which
many of the distinguished visitors were
present. Governor McConnell is a great
noble and his wit on these occasions is far
famed. Nothing has been left undone by
the citizens to royally entertain the dele
gates and the hours between sessions will
be spent at Saltair.
General Penro3e give* a review of his
command on Friday at Fort Douglas and
the most elaborate arrangements are in
hand for the banquet at the Knutsford on
Friday evening.
TO DISCUSS SO VXD MOXEI.
There Will Be a Large Attendance at the
Memphis Conference.
MEMPHIS, Ten*., May 15.— The com
mittee on arrangements of the con%'ention
to be held here May 23, to discu.es "Sound
money and better banking facilities," has
advices from the following points that will
be represented by delegates:
Texas— Dallas, Sherman, Waco, Denni
son, San Antonio and Jefferson.
Tennessee — Nashville, Chattanooga, Ce
dar Hill, Knoxviile, Humboldt, Franklin.
Arkansas— Liitle Rock, Helena, Cotton
Plant, Russellvihe, Butler.
Mississippi— Vicksburg, Jackson, Meri
dian, Senatobia.
Alabama — Birmingham, Montgomery,
Athens.
Georgia— Atlanta, Macon, Augusta, Sa
vannah.
Virginia — Richmond, Norfolk, Staunton,
Lynchburg.
Florida — Jacksonville, Pensacola.
North Carolina— Charlotte, Raleigh.
South Carolina— Charleston, Columbia.
Kentucky — Louisville, Paduoah.
Maryland — Baltimore.
Missouri — St. Louis.
West Virginia— Bluefield.
WARNER IS FOR SIBLEY.
Take* So Stock in the Report That He
lias Keen Denounced.
COLFAX, Wash., May 15.— General A.
J. Warner and J. C. Sibley of Pennsyl
vania discussed the silver question before
an auaience of 1500 people this afternoon.
They urged the organization of a silver
league. Both gentlemen leave here to
morrow for Portland, where they will
make addresses Friday. They go to Seat
tle Saturday and to Spokane on Monday,
when they will continue on their way East.
After speaking, General Warner was
shown a dispatch announcing that the
California State Silver League had with
drawn from the American Limetallic party
and denounced Warner for booming Sibley
for President. He said :
"I am confident that no such action has
been taken. There is, properly speaking,
no State Silver League in California. The
only organization that might be called so
is the Silver League of Los Angeles, which
we addressed last Thursday, when 300 ac
cessions were made.
"There were some cranks at the Los
Angeles meeting, headed by an anarchist
| named Udell, who threatened to denounce
me and Mr. Sibley, but the fact of the
matter is that this opposition was engen
dered because the disapproves were Popu
lists, and wanted to control the movement
in the interests of Populism. I might say
more about this attempted attack, but w ; ll
not be drawn into a personal controversy.
I am certainly advocating Mr. Sibiey's
candidacy for the Presidency. The con
vention which organized the American
Silver party decided that he was the fittest
exponent of this doctrine to choose for a
standard-bearer, and 1 am emphatically of
that opinion."
When the Associated Press reporter an
nounced to Mr. Siblpy the reported action
of the California Silver Leauge he posi
tively declined to make any statement
other than what had been authorized by
General Warner. He disclaimed being a
candidate for any office, but did not deny
that the American Silver League had, by
resolution, favored his nomination, and
that General vVarner had been comment
ing favorably thereon whenever he had
spoken, but contended he was not a candi
date for the Presidency.
yOT STRAIGHT STLTERITES.
Colonel Berry Tells of the Men WJio
Oppote Mr. Sibley.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 15.— A San
Francisco press dispatch dated Tuesday
stated that owing to the efforts of General
A. J. Warner, chairman of the National
Executive Committee of the American Bi
metallic party, to boom Joseph C. Sibley
for the presidency in 1896, the late visit of
these gentlemen to California has not pro
duced the expected results for free coinage
and that one of the effects of it had been
the flat secession of the State Silver League
from General Warner's organization, which
secession is represented to have occurred
at a meeting of the executive committee of
said league held in Los Angeles last Satur
day.
Colonel John R. Berry, secretary of the
Los Angeles League of the American Bi
metallic party, when shown the dispatch
by an Associated Press reporter, said :
"The fact is that all there is of the so
called State League is the so-called execu
tive committee, and all there is of that
committee, so far as its active members
are concerned, is a quartet of ex-Populists
who were members of the local free silver
movement started here last winter, who
refused to join the Republicans and
Democrats associated in that movement in
indorsing the National movement of which
General Warner is the executive head.
The names of this quartet are: Enoch
Pepper, Alva Udell, H. H. Savage and
John Robson.
"These men were leaders in a factional
row in the Populist party here last fall on
account of which Pepper had to resign his
position of chairman of the Populist
County Committee before the campaign
ended. Something ought to be known of
Udell in San Francisco from his being
mixed up in the Benson land frauds.
"Pepper was elected chairman of the
executive committee of the local move
ment (which assumed to be a State com
mittee, although its members all resided
in Los Angeles) as a last choice, no one
else being willing to take the office because
these ex-Populists had succeeded in load
ing it down with an inflation proposition,
declaring for a volume of currency equal
to 15 per cent of the domestic trade of the
country, and a plan of organization, which
was prepared by Udell, which required the
chairman of the committee to appoint
nearly 6000 committeemen in the voting
precincts of California. For three months
this committee met and never could get a
quorum. When the National movement
developed the committee voted to fall in
line with it. A week afterward the Popu
lists aforesaid repudiated this action and
walked out of the meeting.
"The rest of the committee went on and
organized the Los Angeles League of the
American Bimetallic party, which now
has upward of 500 members.
"When Warner and Sibley came to San
Francisco the Pepper-Udeli crowd flooded
them with letters and telegrams. They
first attempted to get recognition. Failing
in that they next attempted to prevent
Warner and Sibley from coming to Los
Angeles to hold a meeting and failed in
that also.
"When Warner and Sibley came to Los
Angeles these men renewed their attempts
for recognition, but again failed, General
Warner telling them that they could not
expect recognition on a platform contain
ing a plank that is not in the platform of
the National movement, which is the 15
per cent plank referred to. As a last re
sort Udell tried threats, notifying General
Warner that unless he acceded to their de
mands they would do just what they had
done — proclaim their opposition to the
National movement and continue a side
show of their own.
General Warner was disgusted with their
methods and stood firm. Warner and Sib
ley left Los Angeles last Friday. Before
they left, H. H. Savage told General War
ner that they had concluded not to execute
the threat Udell had made. This threat
was in writing. On the next day the so
called act of secession was passed.
"None will be more amused than War
ner and Sibley on learning that Pepper,
Udell et al. have seceded from the Na
tional Free Silver movement and are going
to get up a national movement of their
own.''
Silver .V<"n Orr/nttixe,
SEATTLE, Wash., May 15.— The free
silver men of this city to-night organized
temporarily with John Wiley as chairman
and F. S. Griffith as secretary and ap
pointed a committee to draft a constitu
tion. Plans were arranged for the enter
tainment of Messrs. Sibley and Warner,
who are expected in a few days.
POLICE CHIEFS CAREFUL
Decide Not to Let Detectives
Enter Their Union as Hon
orary Members.
Atlanta Selected as the Place for
Holding the Next Con
vention.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 15.— The
convention of Police Chiefs disposed of its
most important routine business to-day.
The report of the committee appointed at
the last convention to secure cheaper tele
graphic tolls for the business of police de
partments, reported that a reply to its in
quiries had been made by one telegraph
company which distinctly negatived the
proposition, saying that such an innova
tion would make it necessary to grant con
cessions to all branches of municipal of
ficials. Accordingly the committee was
discharged and the attempt abandoned.
The adoption of a constitution occupied
most of the morning. The proposition to
make Sheriffs, postofflce inspectors and
officers of the United States secret service
honorary members was killed. The office
of chaplain was created and Chief Oliver
of Athens, Ga., an ex-minister, was elected
to lill it.
Invitations for the next convention were
received from Atlanta, Pittsburc, Dallas,
Fort Worth and Colorado Springs. The
vot* was 28 each for Pittsburg and Atlanta,
and President Eldridge cast the deciding
vote in favor of Atlanta.
Condition of the Treasury.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 15.-To
day's statement of the condition of the
treasury shows: Available cash balance,
$181,119,343: gold reserve, $96,128,882.
TRADE WITH CHINA.
Falls Off Sufficient to
Excite Some
Anxiety.
LOSS TO THIS COUNTRY.
Consul Gerringan Somewhat
of an Alarmist on the
Subject.
GOLD AND SILVER FIGURE.
Wages and Products Hinge Largely
Upon the Mediums
of Money.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 15.-Consul-
GeneralGerringan at Shanghai, China, has
sent to the State Department a compre
hensive report of trade relations with
China. After prefacing the statement
with a report about the civil govern
ment of China and the principal com
mercial city of the empire the Consul-
General argues in favorable terms of an
international standard of value. He says:
"China is a large market for cotton goods,
but there has been a falling off from 65,
--859,000 yards in 1892 to 27,706,000 yards in
1893. There has been a falling off in the
case of Great Britain from 497,475,000 yards
in 1892 to 345,405,000 in 1893. The loss as
regards the United States is so great, he
says, as to excite anxiety. In 1873 the
mills of the Orient and Occident were com
peting on relatively equal terms and re
ceiving good returns.
"Now, in 1895 each mill employs the
same amount of labor as it did in 1893, but
the owner of the mill in the United States
pays for the labor in gold at the old rates,
while the owner of the mill in Japan pays
for labor in silver at the old rate. Not only
does this principle of the difference in the
value of currency in which labor is paid in
the eastern and western counties apply to
wages, but it applies to whatever is essen
tial to the success of agricultural and
manufacturing enterprises.
•'lf the land acquired twenty-five years
ago by the foreigners in Shanghai was now
•worth $2.5,000,000, and was sold for what it
originally cost in silver and the proceeds
converted into gold, the loss would be
about $12,000,000, and by this rule it ap
pears that the inequality in the value of
silver and gold has reduced the gold value
of the world's property one-half.
"I am not writing in favor of a gold or a
silver standard, but in favor of an equal
izing adjustment between the two. Silver
is used by one half the world and gold by
the other half, and while wages are in one
half paid in a depreciated currency and in
the other half by an appreciated currency
a rivalry between the respective product"
of the labor of each is encouraged
with the advantage from the outset
to the products of the laborer
paid in depreciated currency, especially
when the latter can supply his daily wants
with such a currency, and which he will
ingly receives and is contented with.
"Notwithstanding the plague and the
war and consequent obstructions at the
ports the total value of foreign commerce
of China in 1894 was greater than ever be
fore. The customs receipts were greater
than in any other year except in 1891."
CHANGES ON THE MAP
Discovery Relating to the Brit
ish-Venezuelan Boun-
dary Dispute.
How England Enlarged Its Claims
to the Disputed Terri
tory.
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 15.-Accord
ing to advices received here important
British documents have been found at
Honolulu as to the pending British-
Venezuela boundary question, in which
the United States has urged arbitration as
a means of settlement.
Assistant Surveyor-General Curtis J.
Lyons of Hawaii ha* examined them, and
has made a map, accompanied by a state
ment, which, it is said, supports Vene
zuelan contention, even on the evidence
thus far presented by the British.
The records brought to public attention
by Mr. Lyons were furnished Hawaii by
the British Foreign Office when Hawaii
was a monarcny largely under British con
trol. They are on file in the surveyor's
office at Honolulu.
Kg Lyons was led to make an investigation
by the publication last month of the official
map of the Guiana territory. On compar
ing this with the map furnished by the
Foreign Office twenty years ago he fouud
the boundary line entirely changed. The
first map gave the line as Venezuela claims
it should be. The Ja«t map shifts the line
far westward and includes as British terri
tory about 10,000 square miles which the
first map showed to be clearly Venezuelan
territory. The old map was made by the
Koyal Geographical Society of England,
and thereafter was given official approval
and sent out by the Foreign Office. It is
therefore considered of scientific as well as
of ofticial value. Mr. Lyons says:
'•The area thus taken in, as shown on
these maps themselves, is 10,000 square
miles or more— larger than the area of
either Massachusetts or Vermont. What
the Venezuelans are claiming we have
not the means of knowing, bnt it is very
natural they should claim at least that
British Guiana should adhere to the orig
inal map."
OF INTEREST TO THE COAST.
Discontinuance of a JPostofflce and Grant
ing of Pensions,
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 15.— The
postoffice at El Capitan, San Diego County,
will be discontinued after May 31. -
, Pensions have been granted as follows:
California: Original widows, etc. — Nor
man Baker (father), East Oakland, Ala
meda County. ;
Washington: Reissue— lsaac J. Stratton,
Vancouver, Clarke County ; John H. Nibbe,
Sidney, Kitsap County.
Oregon: Original— George Risch, Myrtle
Creek, Douglas County.
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Going to Get Mrs. Mack.
WASHINGTON. D. C., v May 15.-Chief
Hazen of the secret service, left for Ottawa,
Canada, to-day with President Cleveland's
warrant giving the agent of the United
States authority to bring to Buffalo, for
trial, Mrs. M L. Mack, charged with couni
terfeiting and uttering United States post
age stamps. Mrs. Mack, it is alleged, was
a member of the Chicago gan« of counter
feiters of which Warren T. Thompson, it
is charged, was the head.
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Did Xot Help Colombians.
"WASHINGTON, D. C, May 15.— Senor
Calva, the Costa Rican Minister here, has
entered a strong denial of the report from
Panama to the effect that his Government
has been giving assistance to the revolu
tionists in Colombia and has entered into
a secret alliance with them. He has in
formation from his Government to show it
has been doing everything in its power to
prevent a*ny infringement of the neutrality
laws by the Colombian refugees or others.
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Wreck of the Kate Kelly.
CHICAGO, 111., May 15.— A1l doubt that
the schooner Kate Kelly was lost in Mon
day's storm was removed to-day when the
tug Charm picked up wreckage bearing the
schooner's name. The Kelly left Sheboy
gan Monday night for Chicago with a cargo
of ties. Captain Hatch and the crew of
five men, it is believod, are lost.
CONSERVATIVE VICTORIES.
Result of Elections in Two English
Divisions.
LONDON, Eno., May 15.— 1n the semi
election in the Walworth division of New
ington yesterday, James Btiley, Conserva
tive, won his seat with 2676 votes against
2105 for Colonel J. Coiquohon Read,
Liberal, thus increasing the number of
Conservative members for the seat pre
viously held by the late William Saunder,
Radical.
A polling for member of Parliament for
the West division of Dorset, to succeed the
late Henry R. Farquaharson, Con
servative, resulted in theMection of Colonel
Williams, Conservative, and the Unionist
candidate, as follows: Colonel Wil
liams 3358, G. Wood Homer (Independ
ent) 2325.
CHASING CHIEF MACEO.
Lively Skirmishes Between
Soldiers and Bands of
Guerrillas.
Censors Prevent the Sending Out of
Accounts cf Victories by
Insurgents.
NEW YORK, N. V., May 15.— A special
to the World from Santiago, Cuba, says:
It is almost impossible to get accurate
news of the revolution to the United
States.
Information sent by mail and telegraph
is suppressed by Government censors, who
are acting under orders. From news
brought by men directly from interior
provinces it appears that all the eastern
end of the island, with the exception of
garrisoned towns, is at the mercy of bands
of insurgents. They are prowling around
within six miles of the city of Santiago
and the Spanish soldiers are afraid of
them. The village of Cainey, only rive
miles from here, has been attacked by a
band of rebels under the leadership of
Victoriano Garcoono. The inhabitants
fled in terror.
The Government troops are now in close
pursuit of Maceo, who is continually
obliged to change his headquarters. He
has just camped on a coffee plantation in
the mountains between here and Guana
tananio. He managed to hold a conver
sation there with his first lieutenants and
the representaiives of nearly 6000 armed
followers. He assigned them to duty at
different parts of the provinces, but re
tained 2000 men to act under his own di
rection. Recruits are coming in faster
than he can provide arms for them.
Maceo threatens to burn the towns of
San Luis, Songola and Christo, because
the Spaniards are using them as the base
of supplies.
Maceo seems to De conducting his cam
paign in small towns along the line of the
railways. In these guerrilla skirmishes the
Spanish have met with small losses so far.
The soldiers are persistent in their efforts
to put down the rebellion.
A special to a local paper from Havana,
Cuba, says: General Martinez Campos
has arrived from Cienfuegos by railroad.
He was greeted with the loyal acclamations
of the people as he passed through the
cities along his route.
It has been decided to begin important
public works throughout Cuba, and to
undertake reforms wherever necessary.
The most optimistic opinions prevail as to
the prompt terminatiun of the war. The
Autononnum and Reformist parties lend
their general support to the plans of
Martinez Campos.
Confidence in de Cnmpoa.
CADIZ, Spaix. May 15.— Persons who
have arrived here recently from Havana
declare that the campaign which is being
directed by Captain-General Martinez de
Campos against the Cuban insurgents will
be briefer than generally expected.
The military operations, they add, will
be pushed during the rainy season. Gen
eral de Campos will remain in Cuba until
order is completely restored, which, it is
claimed, will probably be before the end of
the year.
MADRID, Spain. May 15.— A dispatch
from Havana Fays that Colonel Arizan,
with seventy cavalry, defeated 200 insur
gents. The dispatch adds that the rebels
commanded by Carlos Castillo have been
dispersed.
Penalties for Iflghtcay Robbery.
CITY OF MEXICO, Mex., May 15.— The
Chamber of Deputies yesterday passed the
first reading of the bill against highway
robbers and train-robbers, making them
liable to the death penalty when caught in
the act, if the act causes death. In other
cases of delaying or damaging trains, rob
bing mails, cutting telegraph wires or
damaging other railroad mater.als, the
punishment is made from live to twelve
years' imprisonment.
Xatwes Attack the British.
CALCUTTA, India, May 15.— According
to a telegram received here from Simla
dispatches have been received from Dir, in
the territory of Chitral, announcing that
the natives are again attacking the British
posts. Only a few casualties, however,
have occurred. Lieutenaut Limond of the
British force in occupation of the disturbed
districts has been stabbed to death by a
fanatic near Rosela.
Troops Join the Rebels.
TANGIER, Morocco, May 15. — The
rebellion of the tribes around Morocco
city continues, and it is reported that the
rebels have succeeded in entering the city.
It is added that the Sultan's troops, which
were sent to reinforce the garrison of Mo
rocco city, have joined issue with the
rebels. *
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An Outbreak at Soor.
BERLIN, Germany, May 15.— A dis
patch from Beyrout, a seaport town of
Syria, announces that the Turkish Gov
ernor of that place has gone to Soor, in
order to quell an outbreak there arising
from < ; .isturbanc«B between the Christians
and Mohammedans.
REVOKES THE LEAVE.
Rear-Admiral Meade Not
Permitted to Go
Abroad.
MR. HERBERT'S RULING.
The Retirement of the Officer
May Also Be Considerably
Delayed.
NOT TO BE COURT-MARTIALED.
Civilians Cannot Bo Compelled to
Appear and Give Direct
Testimony.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 15.-The
Secretary of tlie Navy has issued an order
revoking the leava of absence granted to
Rear-Admiral Meade several days ago.
When Admiral Meade became dissatis
fied with his command and asked to be de
tached from the command of the North
Atlantic squadron he also asked fora leave
of absence of a year with permission to co
abroad, saying at the same time that he
would ask in a day or two to be relieved.
His request to be detached was imme
diately granted, as was the request for a
year's leave of absence.
Then came the request to be retired, but
before any action could be taken the inter
view was published which caused so much
! difficulty. No action has been taken upon
! the request for retirement, but the action
revoking the leave of absence indicates
that the request for retirement will not be
{ complied with. The effect will be to place
| Admiral Meade on waiting orders, subject
I to any duty at any time which the depart
ment may desire to assign him.
. It was understood the leave of absence
granted Admiral Meade contained permis
sion to go abroad, and ho intended to
spend the summer in Europe. He could
not go abroad while on waiting orders
without violating, the naval regulations.
If he were not ready to respond to any or
der of the department when issued he
would al?o be subject to discipline for not
obeying orders. V .
It is believed now that it is hardly likely
any action will be. taken to court-martial
Admiral Meade for his expression of dis
approval of : the administration, as it is
said to be impossible to obtain testimony
from competent witnesses. Civilians can
not be obliged to testify in naval court
martials, although their testimony may be
taken if voluntarily offered. It is not be
lieved that any direct testimony against
Admiral Meade can be so obtained.
Spain' Join* the I'rotett.
LONDON, Eni... May 15.— The Times
announces that it ha* been informed that
Spain has addressed no note to Germany,
France and Russia, protesting against the
occupation of the island of Formosa by
the Japanese, as was stated in a Central
News dispatch from Madrid, which was
printed in the Times on Tuesday.
Restricting Copper Shipments*
LONDON, BBS., May 15.— At a meeting
of the representatives of the American
copper producers to-day it was decided to
restrict the shipments to 00,000 tons for a
year. The European producers agree to
reduce the output of copper 7 per cent.
IDAHO'S SKELETON.
Living, Breathing, and Yet
He Weighed Only a
Trifle.
THE DOCTORS ARE PUZZLED
A Man, In His Full Prime and Vigor,
Suddenly Began to Waste
Away and No One Could
Discover the Cause.
Authentic information comes from Pocatello,
Idaho, of a peculiar case of emaciation. It is
that of Henry J. Tillman, who until eight
months ago was a carpenter working at his
trade. Before his decline he weighed 160
pounds and was considered a strong, vigorous
man. It is not known the direct cause of his
waning away. Many are ttie conjectures, how-
ever. Some of the prominent physicians assert
that this man had taken Into his system some-
thins of a metallic nature, which lodged in one
of his small intestines. Be the matter as it
may, Tillman began to lose flesh rapidly,
".hen he had lost 40 pounds he was quit*
alarmed and he visited Tortlaud in order to
consult with some of the best doctors of that
city. Everything that could be done
for Tillman was tried— to no avail. Steadily he
lost flesh. As he grew thinner his appetite
failed him; he could digest nothing. Gases
formed in his stomach and rumbled so loudly
that it was positively sickening to be in his
company. His friends despaired. His face
became deathly yellow. There was no cough,
no signs of any spinal trouhle, except a stomach
affliction. It was (riven out that poor Tillman
would soon be no more, he grew so puny.
As a last resort, and this iswnat seems too
miraculous to be true, his friend tried a Cali-
fornia remedy called Joy's Vegetable Sarsa-
parilla. On the bottle of the medicine it is
stated that the individual should begin with
modcrate-teaspoonful doses. Tillman began to
use a teaspoonf ul. He used a third of the bot-
tle in teaspoonful doses. He then used the
full strength of the dose — one tablespoonful.
He took a complete bottle oi Joy's Vegetable
Sarsaparii'.a, and showed no signs of reliei ex-
cept that he lost the yellow, leaden color in
his face. Just the faintest spark of hope re-
vived in him.
A second bottle of Joy's Ye fret able Sarsa-
parilla was procured and Tillman began using
the medicine. After the fourth day he began
to have more frequentevacuationsof the bowels
and his appetite was Improved.
Like a drowning man clutcMntr at anything—
the ripple of a wave, a straw — be became more
hopeful and walked about his room taking reg-
ular exercise daily.
His improvement was most marked after the
use of the third bottle. The doctors were puz-
zled. Care had not been taken to see what
was passed by the poor man. However, he
gained so steadily and become so strong again
that all the doctors were puzzled over his case.
It is known that by * SDbUe combination of the
herbs that grow on the mountain tops and
valleys of California a compound is made
which has worked most remarkable cures.
Joy's Vegetable Sarsaparilla is the name of this
medicine. If the cures continue to come to
light in the next month as they have iv the
past California will be known all over the wide
world, for this medicine Is peculiarly Cali-
fornian.
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