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GREAT FALLS WEEKLY TRIBUNE. VOLUME XVI.- GREAT FALLS, MONTANA, FRIDAY , DECEMEER 14, 1894. $1.60 PER YEAR. QUACKS ATWR tl It Carlisle Attempts to Show That He i Cam Doctor the National w Finances. ft A STATE BANK CURRENCY Recommended as a Panacea for All ni the Evils That Are Now ai Existing. li ft WAsaxnoroie, Dec. 10.-Secretary Car- a lisle appeared before the house commit tee on banking and currency today to b present in detail the features of the new at currency plan proposed in his annual re port and endorsed in the president's at message. Besides the full membership ( of the committee. Senor Romero, the hi Mexican minister, and many members of congress were present. Carlisle took gi up each section of his recommendation. ti First, the repeal of all laws requiring or b authorizing a deposit of United States bonds as security for circulation; and, second, to permit national banks to issue notes to an amount not exceeding 75 per cent. of their paid up and unimpaired capital, but to require each bank, before receiving the notes, to depoeit a guaran-V tee fund consisting of United States ti legal tender notes, including treasury a notes of the issue of 1890, to the ti amount of 30 per cent. on the circulating u notes applied for; this percentage of de- h posits upon circulating notes outstand- ti ing to be maintained at all times, and ri whenever the bank retiree its circulation T in whole or in part the guarantee fund P is to be returned to it in proportion to 0 the amount of notes retired. Carlisle el said he was satisfied the preent law re- b quiring a deposit of bonds to secure the J' circulation. prevented elasticity of the e currency. "TLe provision outlined," said d Carlisle, "gives ample protection without h the deposit of bonds as required by law." " He said the practical value of a reserve fund in currency was shown in 1893. There was a demand for money '*ggre- t gating $40,000,000. The treasury did its best to meet the stringency, but by the time the notes were ready to distribute, c the demand had gone by and many of a the packages of notes were returned un paid. The secretary invited criticism on this particular section. Chairman Springer asked how the secretary's plan f differed from the Baltimore plan. Car lisle explained the technical difference. The Baltimore plan proposed a deposit f of 50 per cent under certain conditions, while the treasury plan proposed a de r posit of 30 per cent. When a bank failed c the treasury plan contemplated an assess- c ment on all national banks, they in turn I having a lien on the failed bank. Repre sentative Hall of Missouri suggested that there was a prevailing opinion that it was unsafe to place the power of the currency in the bands of corporations and banks. "It will work automatically," said Carlisle, "the banks will not expand the currency unless the public needs it. Their interest will be to expand and con tract as the common interest demands. t These interests will, therefore, control e at all times." The secretary stated that t this flexibility was much more desirable j than the rigid system by which a certain c amount of currency was outstanding. At one time the stringency wasso great that the banks drew out $13,000,000 under the pressure, and if it bad not been for the Canadian banks, who sent currency into this country serious results might have ensced. HE IiROKE DOWN. A Murderer Who nunts to Die and Should IBe Accoumiodated. MINNEAI'Ol.iH, Dec. 10.-Claus A. Blixt, the confessed murderer of Catharine Ging, is a pitiable object today. He weeps continually and says he wants to die. He says that Harry Hayward con trolled him, as he did Mise Ging, by hypnoticpower. A large crowd assembled in front of the municipal court today, expecting that Blixt would be arraigned and ominous mutterings were heard It was decided that Blixt be taken directly before the grand jury. After reading Blixt's confession in today's papers, Hayward said the story was a fake, concocted by Blixt to save his neck. SHORT OF FISH. The Commercial Bank of Newfoundland Compelled to Suspend. ST. JonaN, N. F., Dec. 10.-The com mercial bank of Newfoundland, having headquarters in this city, suspended payment this morning owing to the fail ure of several of the large fish exporting houses to respond to liabilities to the bank. This has involved other banks and crippled one of the largest concerns here. BUTTE MINING DEAL. The Butte a Boston Gets Full Control ef the Blue Jay Mine. Burrrx, Dec. 10.-The Butte & Boston today lifted the bond of $80,000 on the Blue Jay property. This mine was a portion of the J C. C. Thornton estate, and is located north and eastof the high school building. It was bonded by the Butte & Boston about eighteen months ago, and since then has become one of the richest producers of that company. It is likely that some extensive improve ments in the way of machinery will be made at this mine, and that it will be A worked on a very large scale in the future, 11Y FIVE MASKED MEN, Man Living Near Wichita Shot and The T Robbed. WICHITA, Kan., Dec. 10.-About mid night last night five masked men made D an attack on Michael McGinty, a farmer living alone just north of the city, and rubbed him of $900 that he had drawn from a bank the day before. Mr. Mc. Ginty was called to his door, and he had no sooner opened it than a winchester a! ball shattered his arm and a second one el struck him in the body. Five men then entered the house, and, T after being threatened with death, Mc- T Ginty told them where his money was w hidden. The bandits seemed so well or ganized and so well under the control of a a leader that the authorities think that a] they must belong to an Indian territory v band of outlaws. -_ w BUTCHERY. a Jlisanes Accus.ed of the Most Wanton, t and UncaIled-For Atrocitis,.. NEw Yont, Dec. 12.-A cable to the e1 World from Yokohama says theJapanese at troops entered Port Arthur Nov. 21 and et massacred practically the entire popula tion in cold blood. The defenseless and A unarmed people were butchered in their p . houses and the bodies unspeakably mu- q - tilated. There was an unrestrained tl reign of murder which lasted three days ti The whole town was plundered with ap- R palling atrocities. It was the first stain s, upon Japamiose civilization. The Japan- t cee in this instance relapsed into bar- '[ b barlem. All pretenses that circumstances tv a justified the atrocities are false. The t; 9 civilized world will be horrified by the c details. The foreign correspondents, r t horrified by the spectacle, left the army i in a body. THE KNOT TIED. I- A Dunghter of Senator Jahn haerman o United in Wedlock. e WASrINaTON, Dec 12.-Tue wedding I 3, of Mis3 Mary Sherman, daughter of Sen if ator Sherman of Ohio, and Mr. James 1- Ives McCallum took place today at noon, n and brought together a number of peo 0 pie from all parts of the country, as the n family connection is a large one. The ceremony took place at Senator Sher a. man's house on K street, and was per- I it formed by Rev. Dr. McKim of the 5, Church of the Epiphany. The brides 3 maids were Miss Cecilia Miles, daughter d of Major General Miles, and Miss Hoyt I 3- of New York, and the best man was Lee 1 n Philips of Washington. It TWO OF A KIND. Kansa and Mrs. Lease Mn ut lie of the Same Opinion. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10.-Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease of Kansas is in the city. She says she has come to California to purchase a small farm in the San Joaquin valley. She will reside upon the property, removing thither upon the expiration of her term as president of the board of trustees of Kansas, one year hence. "I am tired of the barren plains of Kansas," she said in explanation of her desertion of that state." BeCOMING MOI)ElRNIZED. New aed Important Railroad Will Be Built iI Mexico. JAL.APA, Mex.,Dec.11.-- Delfin Sauches a railroad magnate of Mexico, has re turned from Paris and London, where he says he was successful in securing the required amount of capital for the build ing of an extension of the Inter Oceanic railroad from Chitla to Acapulco on the Pacific coast. The concession for this extension was obtained from the govern ment by Sauchez some time ago. The road will cross the Sierra mountains and some great engineering feats must be accomplished. STRETCHING OUT. Report That the Standard Oil Company liHa Absorbed the sugar Trust. NEw YomK, Dec. 10.-A story is told here that the Standard Oil people have practically bought control of the sugar stock, and this fact influenced the declar ation of the 3 per cent dividend last week and prevented the publication of a statement intended to be given out by the directors. NOT FAST ENOITUGI. A Hand Car Was Easily Overtaken by an Eogiue. OTTrutwA, Iowa, Dec. 10.-Burglars robbed the Burligton depot at Bavaria latt night and taking a hand car started towards Ottumwa. Detective Harrison and others pursued on an engine. A battle was fought and one burglar was killed. Two escaped. Harrison received a flesh wound. Cbinameon (.cttuig Mad. PIenacI, Dec. 11.-The angry feeling of < the Chinese population here against for I signers is increasing. I Annual Meeting of the American Fed eration in Convention at Denver. THOMAS M. PATTERSON TALKS Declaration of Principles Imported SFrom England Will Be Adopted. DENVER, Dec. 10.-The fourteenth annual convention of the American Fed eration of labor was called to order by President Gompers at 10 o'clock today. There were 125 delegates present. Pres ident Rhody Kenehan of the Denver Trades Assembly delivered an address of welcome, to which Gompere briefly res t ponded. Gompere spoke feelingly of the almost desperate condition of labor at the present time. Referring to the inno Y vation of holding this convention so far west as Denver, he suggested that within a decade he westward movement of industry might take the conventions of the Federation to the Golden Gate. John Burne, the English labor leader, e entered the hall and was greeted with a e storm of appiAuse. Thomas M. Patter I son of Denver delivered an address on "Labor's Rough and Noble Struggle." 1 His delineation of industrial conditions. r past and present, was received with fre quent applause. One of the changes in d the situation from the past he attributed to the increase of corporations. He said while the individual proper might feel a n sympathy for his employe, the corpora. i- lon could entertain no such emotion. r- The action of the Federal government in 5 the Pullman strike was denounced as e tyranny. The, General Manager's asso e elation, he said, should have been held s, responsible for delays of the mails. Cap. Y ital controlled legislation, either by influencing theelectionsor by purchasing members of national and state legisla tures. ,n The principal business before the del egates will be the adoption of a political ig platform. As a basis for such a matter a. the following program, made by the as different trades assemblies of Great n, Britain, has been recommended for con sideration: "Compulsory education; direct legisla tiou; legal eight hour work day; a san itary inspection of workshop, mine and home; liability of employers for injury to health, body or life; the abolition of the sweating system; the municipal owner ship of street cars and gas and electric plants for the public distribution of light, heat and power; the nationaliza tion of telegraphs, telephones, railroads and mines; the principle of referendum in all legislation." With the exception of the c'ause re ferring to the government ownership of railways, telegraphs and telephones, this platform will probably be favorably received and adopted without discussion. BLUE EOUTLOOK. An Authority Claims That Nu Foreigners Are Safe in China. LONDAo, Dec. 11.-The Globe this afternoon prints a letter from a British resident of China, who occupies a posi tion which brings him in touch with the mandarins and the masses. He says: "A tragedy may occur some day, and when the Japanese come in eight of the capital I feel certain that every foreigner will be massacred. The foreign ministers will incur a perfectly insane risk if they remain there after the ice has closed the port of Tien Tein. The greatest danger is in the fact that nearly all of the soldiers are members of secret societies, which are ready to break out at the first chance." NORTHERN PACIFIC. A Story of [loge Bribery and Corruption in Taronus. Naw Yotix, Dec. 11.--A special to the World from Tacoma says: "C. B. Wright of Philadelphia. the heaviest stockholder in the Northern Pacific Rail road company, is charged in a suit brought by the city of Tacoma with using $100,000 to bribe voters here to favor the purchase of the light and water plant mainly owned by him. 'The city paid $1,750,000 for the plant, which, it is alleged, is worth less than $750,000." ASIONG THE CLOUDS Senator Morrill Pays His Respects to Some of Senator Peifl.r's Mills. W.osslmworoxf, Dec. 11:-In the senate today Dolph reported n memorial from the citizens of Phwnix, Ari., in the mat ter of Indian depredation claims. Berry of Arkansas presented a few remarks urging the passage of a bill introduced by him last week to establish the terri tory of Indianola out of the Indian Ter ritory. Morrill of Vermont addressed the senate on "some marvelous senato rial bills and quack panaceas for real and imaginary grievances." The bills concerning which the esnator spoke were introduced by Petfer providing for the issue of great rums of greenbacks for vat/pue purposes. There were nine of tiem, which the committees on finance had reported adversely, recommending indefinite postponement. SILVER ENEMHIES. 0b1I$ Bags Appear in Force the Banking and Currency Committee. WAsHIxGTON, Dec. 11.-The hearing before the house banking and currency committee on the question of the reor gapitation of the currency laws was resumed today. Among those present wea's Horace White of the New York Evening Post, 0. G. Homer of Balti more, chairman of the committe on na tional bankers toformulate the so-called Baltimore plan, and R. E. Hepburn of New York, ex-comptroller of the cur- - _ rescy. The gentlemen represent the - y currency ideas embodied in the Balti more plan. It was expected Secretary Carlisle would present his currency bill r and continue his statement, but as he f was late Mr. White opened the hearing. ,. In answer to questions he stated that e he had drafted a bill on the lines of the * Baltimore plan, and it was arranged that . this shall be placed before the commit , tee. White's statement was read from n manuscript and was a carefully prepared If review of the banking question. At the ,f close of White's statement he sub mitted his bill on the Baltimore plan. Homer stated that the committee of Dý r tional bankers had not yet formulateda r- bill. Johnson of Ohio asked White's n opinion of Secretary Carlisle's currency + plan. White said that he did not think B the secretary's plan would give the elase tic currency it sought to secure. It n compelled the banks to put up 30 cents d every time they issued 75 cents. d 'eniou Frauds. a WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.-The pension a- bureau has received a report from Spe ° cial Examiner Stockslager at Fort Smith, ý0 Ark., announcing the sentence of Tom is Bear to six years in the penitentiary and 0 of T. J. Tornton to six months in jail Id and a fine of $200. They were connected with 500 pension claims said to be fraud iy ulent and a commission of five special Ig examiners under the supervision of Er a- amber Stockelager is still at work on il the conspiracy. al THE REFERENDUM. Knights of Labor Will Apply the Doctrine in Their Proceedings. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 12.-The execu -ttrt board of the Klnights of Labor is sending out today to the various ssem blies thruughuut the country copies of the amendments to the constitution adopted at the New Orleans general as sembly, and which are to be ratified or rejected by means of the referendum. The tendency of several amendments is to allow greater latitude to the local and district assemblies to transact business in their own way and under their own by laws with as little intervention from the general constitution as possible. The executive council has also issued an ex planation of the action of the general as sembly in excluding the miners' dele gates 'from the floor. It says the only issue was whether the delegates repre sented an assembly of the Knights of Labor or the United Mine Workers, and the general assembly decided that they represented the latter and that no dele gates could be admitted with divided allegiances. It is added that the miners will now be reorganized into the Knights of Labor so that hereafter there will be no question concerning their entity. IN KENTUCKY. How the Itesidents of This Section Run lthe Courts. LExINuTON, Dec. 12,-News comes from Hazard, Ky., that Judge Hall was warned that if he did not reteaie on bail Jessie Fields and Joe Atkins, charged with shooting ox-County Judge Coombs from Ambush, there would be trouble Field's brother. a county judge, was in court, and when Judge Hall refused to allow bail, Fields tired at Hall. The court officers caught Fields, but his friends released him. BIG BLOW. It Was a Sunall Town But There Was Nothling Left. Forsruto:, Ga., Dec. 1.---A terrific tornado reached Forsythe at 3 a. in. today. Several people were badly in jured, and the loss to the town is $30,000 to $50,000. The Methediet church, val ed at $18,000, was destroyed. People became panic stricken. Every store on the west side of the public square was unroofed. The Hanks Case. l{Er.wNA, Dec. 12.-George F. Shelton occupied the entire morning with his arguments in the ifanks trial. On his 1 conclusion court was adjocrned until "':30 this afternoon. In his argument Mr. Shelton reviewed the case from the beginning to the conclusion. At the present rate it will probably be tomorrow afternoon before the case will get to the jury. Lucky Ensape. D)ENVER, Dec. 12.-The seceIary of war has notified the department of Colo rado that the order directing the holding of a court-martial on Capt. T. W. Morri seo has been rescinded. SHave You Read of THE BIG FIRE! .... AT...... t k i/A. NATHA N'S I. e i-" CLOTH ING le t SI GREAT FALLS. HOUSE) 0. a Q worth of Clothing, Boots, ,U Shoes and Furnishing t Goods were thrown open for sale at their Central Avenue Store on )n ' Monday Morning, Dec. 10 d Iil These Goods will Positively be sold at Hal onHalf of Eastern Cost. OUR LAVIAKERS Allen of Nebraska Has a Word to lay in Behalf of settlers in the West. CHARY OF THE SUGAH BILL lIcidentally the Income Tax En gages the Attention of the Lower House. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-There was but a small attendance in the senate today when called to order. On motion of Allen of Nebraska the senate paseed an amendment to the house bill amending section 3 of the act of March 3, 1889, withdrawing public lands from private entry. He explained that the bill was important at this time on account of the large number of persons in the north west who were driven from their homes on account of the drought. At 2 p. m.Senator Gray moved to take up tie sugar bill. The motion was lost by a vote of 23 to 27. Vest then moved to take up his cloture resolution. Vest's motion was lost-24 to 34. The Houne. WAN..sssos'O, Dec. 12.-On the motion of Breckinridge of Kentucky the house went into committee of the whole for consideration of the urgeincy deficiency appropriation bill. The bill carried r', 006,90 , but there were two disputed items, an appropriation of $230,000 for the collection of income tax and $23O.000 for expenses of special examiners of the pension illice. An attempt to secure an agreement tixing the limit of general de bate failed, owing to the objection of Bartlett of New York, who led the op position to the income tax item. and Henderson of Iowa, who led the opposi tion to the appropriation for special ex aminers of the pension otfice. Currency Tinkers. WV issyC'TON, Dec. 12.--A letter was received from Lyman J. Gage, the promi nent banker of Chicago. at the opening of the hearing of the house committee on banking and currency today. Re ferring to the recommendations of the president and the secretary of the treas ury, Mr. Gage said: "Agreeing with the criticism of these otficers as to the pres ent weakness of our situation and the great desirability of separating the gov ernment from direct responsibility for currency issues I am persuaded that the country is not ready to accept their rec ommendations. Any change of method should be so simple that all can compre hend it, and it should be seen that the incidental expense would not be in any direction disturbing the trade, com merce, or individual. I believe the Bal timore plan carries the true principles of a credit currency, but we cannot reach it by one step, and years may intervene before it can be realized." A letter was also read from Edward N. Gibbs, treasurer of the New York Life Insurance company, approvinz of the national bank system, with some moditications. George C. Butler of New Haven, Conn., presented a currency plan differing from the secretary's and the Baltimore plan. Its features include note issues up to 8 per cent of the bank capital and the removal of the office of comptroller of the currency to New York, where he is to have control of the specie reserve, made up of 25 per cent of the notes is sued. Butler's plan also proposed a board of bank officers in New York pro sided over by the comptroller, and also the erection of a suitable building in New York for a currency bureau. ( H(R('H (t" ils YM., g Leo \1ll. UIns. Brought the (;reek (;Burch g Within the iold. Rome, Dec. 12.- A papal decree. the - outcome of the recent conference look s ing to the reunion of the Roman and Eastern churches, has just been proiul e gated. t It pros ides that ecclesiastical colleges I founded in the east by the papacy shall s be developed in favor of the Eastern church. The rites of the latier ci urcn shall be maintained intact. Any Latin priest trying to proselyte among Greek Christians shall be suspended. Roman Catholics in places where there r are no priests of that church ma; at tend services held by priests of the Eastern rite without prejudice to their own religion. No more Boman Catholic r colleges may be established in the east without papal permission. The pope will found collcgos and churches there. All members of the E:tstern church who live outside Eastern sees will re ceive instruction according to the rites of their own church, and those who have embraced the Roman Catholic faith can return to the Eastern rite, Ti,, Was int Cieelantid. Ct.r. ELAN i, 0.. 15ec. 12.- William 11 Price of the firm of Chandler \ Price, was murdered by a burglar at 2:30 this morning. The burglars were found in the house by Price. One shot him in the breast and he lived only a few min utes. The burglars escaped. Honors Were Salrt. Vyosoi:, Eng., Dec. 12.-Sir John Thompson, Canadian prime minister, died at Windsor today after the meeting of the privy council. at which he was eworn in as a member. Tilltman (eta lhere. Conua:.tnta, S. C., Dec. 11.-Il R. Till man was elected United States senator at noon, receiving 131 out of 155 votes cast. Metal Market. New YORK, Dc. 12.-Bi r sisver, 600; f lead, 163.