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Pf ?&$- v-: c If THE ASHrffGrTON TtMES, SUNDAY, APIHL 22, 1894. 3 tt A f WORKINGMEN MAKE PROTEST Large Delegation of American Labor Marched to the Capitol Yesterday. AKE AGAINST THE TARIFF BILL Over One Thousand lien Representing Penn sylvania and Hew Jersey Industries Pre sented a Petition and Memorial to the Senate All Proceedings Were Orderly More than ono thousand workingmen from rhllailelplila and New Jersey marched down Pennsylvania avenue yesterday to emphasize their protest against the Wilson tariff bill. Hen and womon wero in lino, marching four abreast, under the American flag and flutter ing banners, displaying mottoes opposed to tho Wilson bilL The special train from Philadelphia which pulled into Baltimore and Ohio station at 11 o'cloct to-day carried G70 men. This delega tion was mot by the company of SCO which had arrived yesterday. Tho depot fairly bristled with special policemen. Major Moore, tho chief of police, with Lieutenant Kelly and two sergeants, were on hand, and when tho procession formed it was guided by the lieu tenant. In tho front rank was carriod a great Bilk American flag, which had been donated by John Wanamaker for the demonstration. Behind that was a black banner with the legend in gold letters "Xon-rartisan Delega tion of American Workingmen from Bristol, united in defense of their homo industries and to prevent transfers to nations hostile to a Democratic or Bepublican Government." Tho procession filed down a cross street and turned into Tonnsjhanla avenuo, tho principal street ol tho city, and marched down tweho squares to Metzcrott's hall. JIanv Senators and Congressmen walking up tho Avenuo at that hour to tho Capitol eyed the parado curiously. Ono of them was Sen ator Quay. No demonstrations of any sort was made by tho spectators. Gathered at Mctzerott's hall, tho commit tees delegated to wait upon arious Senators made their reports. Ephrlam ltigg reported that Senator Voorhoes, tho chairman of tho finance Committee, in chargo of the bill, had been written to, and had been called for at Ills home and at the Senate, but could not be found. Jeers greeted this announcement. Delegates who had called upon Senators Brice, Smith, and Murphy reported that thoe Senators could not bo found. Senator Hill had promised to meet tho delegates at noon, and Senators Cameron and Quay had prom ised to do all In their power to bring tho memorial of the convention to tho attention of tho Senate. The resolutions adopted by the special com mittee were read by Secretary 31. J. Kelly. They wero a3 follows: "Petition and protest of American Workiugmen to the Titty-third Congress of tho United States, at amass meet ing of representative wage earners of tho United States assembled in Washington, D. C. (this 20th day of April, 1S01). the following preamble and resolutions were adopted. Whereas for nearly ten months the business of this country has been paralyzed, and the prom ises of improvement in conequenro of certain tlnancial legislation not realized; and Mhereas, Wo pee ourselves and others de prived of tho means of livelihood by reason of threatened revision of tariff laws under which we have boon bo prosperous, and by the contin uance of which, without prospect of change, wo feel assured that all business would be restored to its former prosperous condition; and A hereas, 1 he wages of labor in this country under unassalled protective customs laws have been fully twico that of the highest in any other country; and Vt horcis. Any rednctlon in the customs duty on any article manufactured or produced in this country means a corresponding reduction In the wages of labor employed in its manufacture or production; and Whereas, In our free country the interests of one class of workmen are the Interests of all; nnJ Whereas, We believe that all laws framed br our rcpreentatives should bo for tho benefit of their constituents tho peoplo of the United Hates, and not the peoplo of other countries; therefore Kesolved, That we, tho authorized representa tives of millions of Amerknn workmen, without distinction of party, hereby respectfully demand of our representatives in the Congress of the United States that no chango shall be made in existing laws that shall in any way deprivo us of the capacity to earn the full amount of wages to svhlch we were accustomed during the years in which there wero no prospective or threatened changes in tariff laws to provent us from i rovid iuc for our families better homes, better educa tlon, and more comforts than in any other coun try on the face of the globe. Then follows a memorial addressed "To tho right honorable body of tho United States Senators," presenting for consideration" tho pincere objections of the memorahsts to mak ing the Wilson tariff bill a law of the land. Paragraphs of grievances ngainst this bill are then given, the first reciting that should the Wilson bill become a law its effect will bo the depreciation of all values In tho United states 40 per cent, or more. No precautions were taken on account of tho delegation at the Senate except thoso usually taken when a crowd is expected. The men at the doors of tho Senate galleries wero instructed to eeo that there was no crowding of tho galleries and that tho cor ridors wero not blocked, but beyond this nothing was done, as no trouble was an ticipated. If was generally understood that tho Pennsylvania crowd was composed of law- Boming ana peaccauio citizens. Tho comention has apparently given up all Idea of securing a hearing in the Senate or from tho Senato Committee on Finance, nnd the plan has bten ndoptcd of fcendlng small committees to call ujon in dividual Senators. Tho houses of sovcral Senators, including Senators Cameron and Quay of Pennsylvania, were visited this morn ing and both accorded hearings to tho dele gations. The committees in speaking to the fcenators said they appreciated the situation and fcaid they felt that tho coming of Coxey and the movoment on tho lines laid down by him would have a tendency to prevent them from receiving tho attention which might othcrwiso be accorded them. Still they be lieved tho enactment of the Wilson bill would be most injurious to their intere-ts, and they were anxious that their representationsshould reccivo some attention. Senators Cameron and Quay both assured that they agreed with them as to the bad effects of the bill and the dairabillty of defeating It, If possible. Mr. Cameron said that the hard times which were now felt and the consequent agitation over the country wero traceable directly to the un settled condition of the tariff question and tho lack of a sufficient volume of currency. Senator Voorhees. chairman of the commit tee on Finance, said at noon that up to that time no delegation had called upon him to re quest the committee to grant the Pennsyl vania people n hearing. "But," he said, "if tho request should be made, it could not bo granted. Wo cannot give hearings ntthis tago of the tariff legislation, and we cannot make an exception to the general rule adopted by tho committee. If wo should hear 400 to day wo would probably 1iavo 4,000 to hear next week, and thoprogramme would bo good for the entire Congress. It is impracticable, nnd there is not an honest republican Senator who will not agree with mo In this." Jlavingadoplod these resolutions with great enthusiasm tho meeting adjourned. Outside of the hall the delegates reformed In line of march with the committee on resolu tions in the lead and headed for tho Senatp. Comparatively few peoplo turned out to gazo nt tho return march to the Capitol, as the popular mind has been satisflod upon tho vital point that Coxey's army had not arrived. Moreover thero being no brass band in line, enthusiasm of tho populace found no excuso for manifesting itself. More than half of tho t delegates fell out of lino before the proces sion reached the Capitol, boarding street cars to go sight seeing. Just in front of the Peaco monument, at tho foot of tho long steps leading to the Capitol, tho ranks wero broken, banners wero furled and left forsafe-keeninr-fn elim-n...-f -,!!,, cent bookseller, and dividing into small parties tho workingmen poured through tho various entrances to tho Capitol. Their com mitteo of tweho went directly to tho office of tho bergeant;at-Arm and Tent n messenger to notify the Pennsylvania Senators of their presence. Senators Cameron and Quay camtj out to tho marble room back oi tho Senato chamber and thero mot thn ,ieienn c era! other Senators wero attracted by tho unusual display of badges almost within tho precincts of tho chamber, and drew near There was no speechmaking. Tho resolutions ttero handed to tho Senators by Chairman George Walsh. They explained tho nature of their visit informally, an explanation en tirely unnecessary, and then, at tho sugges tion of Senator Cameron, signed their names to the petition and resolutions. Tho "committeemen wero Ephralm Biggs, Gcorgo Walsh, M. J. Kelly, Samuel L. Prince, Frederick W. Smith, Israel Marshall, Smith Fitzgerald, John Dunkerbr, John O. Bow land, Thomas A. Mollin, Paul Wallace, and J. H. Evans. After the presentation of the resolutions tho committee was handed over to an officer of the Senate, who escorted the twelve to seats In the reserved gallery. The publlo galleries 'were already occupied with solid lines of workingmen with the tri colorod ribbons on their coats, looking down upon the deliberations of the Senators. The galleries of. the House were also bristling with the badges, while groups of the Pennsyl vanians monopolized the corridors of the Capitol. Bepresontatlvo Harmer (Bep.), of Phila delphia, says that the visit of workingmen from Philadelphia cannot but have a strong effect in shaping the tariff bill. Sir. Harmer has done much to entertain the men during tho last two days, and during the afternoon his houso was open to thorn, whllo light re freshments wero served. Ho says they belong to tho best classes of Philadelphia working men, nnd are types of tho citizen producers of the country. Mr narmer believes that their visit will havo much greater effect than can bo measured by their actual accomplishments whllo here. It will, ho says. Incline eastern Senators from large manufacturing centers, 6uch as Hill, Murphy, Smith, and McPhorson, to give further heed to the desires of these laboring constituencies, thus graphically set forth by their actual presence Tho members of tho lenguo remained In Washington sight seeing yesterday, and their trains left for home nt 7 o'clock. A committee of three, Messrs. Ephraim Biggs, Paul Wallace, and Jesse Rowland, wills Hv behind for a con ference with the Populist Senatois on Mon day. Tho Populists have expressed a desiro to meet them. Tho workingmen will endonvor to secure from tho third party Senators a pledge to antagonize tho Wilson bill. .. The Convenient Pencil; Its Convenient Value. Ono of the most helpful things In theroutlno work of housekeeping Is the convenient pencil and paper, which combination produces a list of things to be attended to and which mate rially aids tho delinquent memory when thero are so very, very many matters to be thought of These are perhaps trilling in themselves, but sufficiently important if neglected to put a clog In the wheels of domestic machinery, thus throwing everything out of gear. There fore the easiest way out of tho difficulty is to jot down tho thoughts as they como and then attend to tbcm as you can. At housccleaning time such a list Is abso lutely Invaluable. There is a tiny leak In tho roof to bo mendod, a rat holo to be stopped up, on old sofa to be repaired, a broken lock to bo attended to, and a dozen other matters as well that are clamoring for timo and at tention. Now, no 6lnglo human being can, without a great effort, remember all theso in cidental necessary "must bes" of tho ordinary housekeeping cxisteneo. Thereforo as a re lief and prop to tho overtaxed brain and a suro means of not overlooking tho thousand and ono small but vastly Important details of tho daily routine just establish a list In evry room in the houso if one would not bo suf ficiently largo to hold all tho Jottings. It is such a satisfaction, too. to be able to scratch out ono after another of tho items until tho long formidable array has dwindled out of sight and you can look around your houso and know that tho little bothersome things, as well as tho greater wants, are all attended to. Thero is no use in a woman wearing herself out unnoccssarily. She has enough to do. goodness knows, even though supplied with every labor-saving device known to the iu ventivo genius of men; therefore if sho can by a simple little plan help herself over some of tho worrying mole hills that appear to her as mountains sho is wise to adopt it. no matter how trivial It may appear to the outsider who has nothing better to do than to run into her neighbor's kitchen and ask exasperating ques tions. YJHAT A YOMAN THINKS. From tho Philadelphia Times. What will tho harvest bo? The franchise for woman; her redemption from political inferiority; her right to protoct her earnings, her property, and herself from unjust control and sequestration, and the acknowledirment of her right to the samo protection, power nnd opportunities as are granted her husband and aro within the grasp of her own intelli gence and interests. The man who would abuse tho privilege of his latch key would abuse tho woman who permits him to havo its free use. Tho season draws near when the family Ice chest will havo more influence over the in mates of a house than will tho family plato chest. Light housekeeping is not always accom panied by light expenses. A fow plants and flowers will beautify any homo where the lady of the house will not trust to her servants to seo to her blooming treasures being kept clean and judiciously watered. The miller moth is getting ready for her season's work. Get ready to head her off. Sho will do more damage in a month than you can repair in a year. A Tacomn woman, 102 years old, has just been granted a divorce from her giddy hus band. It is never too lato to mend. What tho average woman most needs is more sleep, les3 hurry, fewer calls and quieter iiumo jue. It is just ns well that thero is no marrying or giving in mnrriage in heaven. There Is no record of any divorco court thero. Dresses for Girls. It is suggested by various fashion writers to mothers planning how to dress their little girl3 who are little only in years, having ac quired, as many girls of from 0 to 14 years do acquire, an aUogethcr redundant avoirdupois, that any 6tjIo which does not outline tno waist line adds to the slender effect. It may be said in passing that more than stout girls may make a noto of this, says the Now York Times. ibo frock which falU from a yoke or tho empire stylo is becoming to theso overstout girls, nnd when they hnvooutcrown thosoa skirt and looe jacket opening over a shirt waist is the next best fashion. Gimps, with short, fullwaisled frocks, aecentunted the size, and, while very effective on tho slender chil dren who seem to run off their flesh, so lit tlo do they retain, become abominations on their heav ier sisters. Blouse waists, comfort nblo as they arc, make big girls look much bigger, and, if worn by them, should bo tempered with a sleeveless Eaton jacket, which seems to reduce tho blousy effect, whllo it does not substitute tho objectionable waist line. m Turn Down the Light. "Will you bo my wife?" "I cannot answer such a question as that without taking time to consider." "Pardon my impetuosity, Jiow long must I wait?" "I think thero mil bo timo for you to closo tho doors and turn down tho light a little." Puck. Odd Items from All About. The Queen has sixty housemaids at Wind sor castio. Tho golden-crested wren is tho smallest bird in tbo world. Every civilized languago may bo heard in the streets of San Trancisco. Some antiquarians claim the locomotive cn gino was known in China 200 years ago. It is estimated that 3,000,000,000 oysters are consumed in tho United Kingdom nnnually. When piano forto kevs become discolored it i3becauso they have been demod light and air. In Turkey the house a man lives in cannot bo seized for debt, nnd sufficient land must bo left to servo to support him. It would take 12,000,000 years to pump tho sea dry at tho rate of 1,000 gallons per sec ond, so some man of figures has calculated. English noblemen aro tho only ones in Europe who ev er wear coronets on their heads, uuu tij -wiu uifisiuu wueumuy uo so is at tno coronation of tho sovereign. At 1 year old the infant alligator is twelvo inches long. Ho is 15 before he doubles that length, and ho does not nttain his maximum development till tho ago of 50. Somo of the early kings of England and Franco, when they wero traveling, wero at tended by coiners, who supplied them with money as it was needed, fresh from portable mints. " The Egyptians havo no lack of holidays. Thi year s calendar shows thnt there aro flity-two Sundays, fifty-two Hebrew Sabbaths. and fifty-two Moslem "Gummah," beside seventeen other. Gallery, Pit and Greenroom. The themes of "Aristooraoy" and "Ameri cans Abroad" are not dissimilar. Both treat of rich Americans who go forth Into the Eu ropean wilds on voyages of discovery and conquest; who meet strange animals, some of them beasts ol prey, some of them harmless; who never quite reach the rich gold mines and the fountains of youth and beauty. They are the analysis of this latest phase of our life, the rediscovery of the old civilization, this modern inversion of Ponce do Leon and Pizarro. But the treatment of the subject by Sardou and Bronson Howard Is different. Strange it seems for a moment that it is the Frenchman who tells the simple, playful 6tory tenderly and with touches of pathos, without bitterness or much satire, that hurts us, and that the American draws the picture of Old World crime and wickedness with the terrible fascinating Austrian court and the other accessories that wo havo been used to in French plays. But Sardou. was writing for Americans to amuso them. If he thought any French pessimism, it is not obtrusively apparent. Our own writer treats this folly of ours seriously and with withering Irony, much llko Frank Hatton's on tho samo subject. He paints strong, dork pictures with Hashes of lightning shooting through them. Ho paints the seductions of the subtle glitter and tho witchery of the pestilential glamor. These plays come together, and they aro In terpreted by tho strongest kind of companies, ono a Charles Frohman and ono a Daniel Frohman aggregation. "Aristocracy" Is un der tho management of Al Hayman and Charles Frohman. and the play ers aro Louis Massen. Frederick Bond, A. S. Llpman, 8. Miller Kent. Nell Warner, J. C. Buckstono, Bruce McKae, Charles Wlngato. Blanche Walsh, Mary Hampton, Helen Tracy, and Josephine Hall. Sardou's play is produced by tno Lyceum Comedy Company, wnom we all know. Wo will havo the best kind of a chanco to compare tho two plays. Several years ago E. H. Sothern went to England with nothing much in tho way of a roputatlon and camo back a great favorite. Wo took him up Immediately, saw all tho goodness of his work, forgot that wo had not recognized him before, nnd proclaimed him as a great American comodian, which ho is of course. Up to tho timo of its production In New York six years ago there had never been a play brought out in Now York which attained so rapid and genuine a success as "Lord Chnmloy." Mr. Sothern brings this first and greatest success of his to Washington again this year. It is ono of Belasco and Do Milie's cleverest. Mr. Sothern will bo hero next week. m Edwin Stovcns brings "Wang"tthls year next week. He is a tremendous man, like Hopper, nnd has besides a voico that sings. About Hopper's voice well, let's not say much. Stevens sings and is a real comedian. Ho was Trohman's leading man in "Glori ana," if you remember. I have a littlo story about him. Just before his company went to New York, where they now nro, tuey wero in Atlanta. It happened thnt ono of his chorus girls was stopping at tho same hotel with Mr. Stevens and his wife, and had a roam quite near to theirs in tho samo nan. jir. btevens camo in late ono night nnd walked Into tho wrong room, tho chorus girl's room, in fact. She raised her head and when she saw him scroamod. "Keep quiet, my dear, you'll wako tho house," ho said pleasantly. She screamed again. "You really mut not do that again," Mr. Stevens continued. And then ho discovered his mistake- and mnde apologies. But one of tho Atlanta papers found him out and pub lished him to tho world. 9 m Miss Atherton, of tho "Wang" company, who takes Annie O'Kcefo's old part nnd is by tho way the wifo of Prank Arnctte, tbo "Wang" advance man, now in town, was tho victim of a somewhat similar experience in Louisville a littlo while ago. The Louisville and Cincinnati papers made quite a sensation of it at tbo timo. Miss Atherton nnd oneof the company occupied a room in one of tho largo hotels. Miss Atherton was combing her hair I believe. The other girl was sitting on tbo edge of the bed talking about her flowers, maybe. Miss Atherton taw in her gloss a red bald head appear over the transom into the next room. She turned around quickly and the head was gone. Sho told the story to her friend, and, taking tbo tin case in which sho carried her clock, waited. Tho head appeared again. Thero were two littlo blue cj es sunk In tho head, and a yellow moustache adorned its Up. Sho threw the tin caonnd hit the bedpost, but tho head disappeared a second time. Then she rang for tho bell boy and summoned the clerk. Tho clerk knocked on the door of tho next room, when ho was told the story. Tho same head finally appeared at the door, this timo at the right elevation. It was a very sleepy-looking head, and wonted to know in a very thin voice wh.it the devil's tho matter. "W hy, my dear sir, I see you don't know who I am." His card read: 31k. So-avd-So Wilson", State Secretary, Young Men's Christian Association. "Why," Miss Atherton s,Ud when sho saw tho card, "its a wonder ho didn't break tho door down." Speaking of Mr. Steven', reminds me of De Wolf Hopper and his hairless head. Ho has not one stray lock anywhere on it nnd not ev en an cy ebrow. Bill Nyo has a luxuriant growth in comparison. You havo noticed Hopper's auburn looks, the magnificence of them, tbo asertiv eness of thini. Will, he takes them off when ho goes to bed. But that's tho only time. There are lots of men without hair among tho players. Benlly tho old joko about tho bald heads being in tho front row is all wrong. There's something in tho stage atmosphere that is bad for tho hair. It seems to havo no capillary attraction. BobertMantell now, the lady's man, the delicious Robert, is almost as bad off as Hopper. Tho girls look ut him VMth rapture in their eyes lor his ilao face, his nose, his chin, but mot of nil his delightful hair, and ho wears a topee. A topeo is the namo tho stage wigmaker gives to a wig for the top of the head. In his mot passionnto moments, when his fine face lights up, you know how, ho wears a tapco,und there is a largo bald spot under It. When ho swears that ho will love Char lotto Behrcns till deatli doth them part ho wears a topee. When ho stands under Juliet's balcony with tho moonlight falling lovingly on his upturned face, tho hair that receives its magic glamor is his topee. In "Hamlet" ho soliloquizes topee or not topeo. Handsome Bob Hilliard wears a topee too. S. Miller Kent, with his largo reputation as a masher, weara a topee. Nat Goodwin, who ha3 tho reputation of being the ugliest man in the business, off tho 6tago wears a ragged mop-looking wig or the stuff th it they make certain tasseU of. Ho wears it on and off tho stage. But with the help of tho stage deceptions ho sometimes looks qulto numan. mm "I Am Engaged," a delightfully sprightly four-act comedy by Miss Emma Poesche, will bo produced for the first timo early in May in Washington. Tho play Is in tho hands of competent peoplo. now undergoing rehearsal. Ibis is said to be tho best of Miss Tocscho's pkvys. Most of her former comedies have been in German. Miss Coghlan c losed tho weofc with "Forget-3Ie-Xot." She shows the extent of her pow ers in depicting tho'abjectness of physical fear. It Is a startlingly vhld picture, a hor rible one, not pleasant to look on, and not real art, thoso who believe in art for beauty's sake must think. But it is matchless acting. The story is of a woman who believes that a Corsican whom sho has ruined will murder her, and tho plot supposes that an English man, a man of the world, believes this too, believes that thero is no possible escape for her from his fiendish, devilish hatred, fimnt. I lng this, to say tho least, somewhat tmprob- able condition of things in the nineteenth century, the plot shows the woman suffering from her fear and groveling under it at the sight of the man she is in fear of. The latest gossip in the Coghlan affair is that Kuehne Boveridge-Coghlan has received an offer from a friend in Germany to play leading ports with a German heavy tragedy company. Betitna Gerard has bad a great success in Chicago with "In Old Kentucky." I am told that she has been in great demand in New York with the managers since she left Chi cago, and that furthermore she baa made her engagement for next season with Hoyt A McKee to play Bossy in "A Texas 8teer." This would make two excellent Washington people in this company, except that Tim Mur phy has, unfortunately for the Steer dccldod to star next season with a company of his own. Tho cast of the "Mikado" for Thursday's performance by the "Mask and Wig Club" is now finally decided on, and I am enabled to give it in full: Mikado Oliver C Bine Xankl-Poo James O. Traylor Koko William II. Conley Pooh-Bah Charles T. Hall Pish Tush William II. Domer Katlsha William II. 11 arris Yum-Yum...S. llazcn Bond rittI-Slng....Wm. H. Harris Peep-Bo Geo. E. Terry Mr. Wallace G. Ormels understudy for Mr. Terry, in case his recent illness should pre vent his appearance. The chorus is as follows: Leroy Gough, William Kcmball. Dr. Phil Welsner, T. ltarr, ltobert Smart, J. A. Uendley, E. D. Flather, F. M. buplee. It de Maury, Frank Needbam, Hunter Jones, II. JI. Kills, Br. N. Willis l'omoroy, A. D. lilce, Harry l'latt, G. V. Scharf, J. T. bcharf, B. W. Becbe, Barry Lewis, Arthur ltose, W. T. Heed, H. O Asmussen, F. It. Underwood, Dr. E. G. beibert, W. A. Fmnkland, W. G. Deeble, A. L. Houghton, J. C. llalton, 1L T. Domer, Wallace G. Orme, Harry Uoblnson, Ed. Softon, E. E. Jlerrltt, W. It Forbes, John JL Hall, Willis M. Uaum, Uranvillo Lewis, and b. T. Ison. N. Dushano Cioward, director; lllis It 3Iagruder, assistant stage manager; S. S. Ikora. accompanist; Prof. J. II. Vermilya, director of dancing; Joseph C. Fisher, of Philadelphia, ccstumer; Hunter Jones, architect; Couut It de Maury, decorator; J. It Galloway, electrician. CHANGES IK THE TARIFF BILL. There Will Be Many and Senator Harrison Wants Them in Writing. Tho negotiations between the Democratic members of tho Senate Committee on Finance and tho Democratic Senators who are dissat isfied w ith tho tariff bill, which wero begun soon after Senator Hill mado, his speech on tho incomo tax, have been continued with more or les3 regularity since that timo nnd bavo progressed sufficiently to justify tho prediction that many changes will yet bo mado in tho bill. The negotiations hat o been conducted largely by Senators Jones nnd Gorman, representing tho differing elements. Tuoy havo not reached a conclusion on any of tbo schedules, and probably would not go to tbo ovtent of announcing an agreement, even it it should bo reached, Deioro consulting witn other Democratio leaders In the Senato, but they havo gone far enough to justify tho be lief that before tbo .bill shall bo put upon its passage tho conservatives will havo secured concessions of n nnturo to mako sure of the passage of tho bill by the full Democratic voto in the Senate. Among features of tho bill which it is safe to say will bo changed is tho incomo tax. which will bo greatly modified if present plans do not miscarry. There will also bo many changes in tho various schedules, be ginning with chemicals and going well through the bill. Indeed, the present out look indicates that utmost every schedule may bo more or less altered to comply with the de mands of the New i'ork, New Jersey and Maryland Senators and Senator Brice, of Ohio. It is not probable that in every in stance, or in n majority of them, the changes to bo made will be what the conservatives do mand, but they will be sufficiently marked to secure their votes and thus unito tho party upon tbo bill. There is good reason for believing that Sen ntor Smith had assurances of these changes before delivering his sjieeeh of last Tuesday, as It is known thnt ho rewrote a large portion of it after preparing tho first drnft and niter conferences with members of tho Finance Committee. When Senator Harris wa3 asked about tho prospect of amending the bill, he said that no agreement had been reached, but that it was true, as gencrully understood, that the mal contents in the Democratic side of the Senato were clamorous fcr changes, nnd that he had suirgested that they put their demands in writing, so that they could be intelligently considered. When this should be dono he would bo nble, ho said, to speak more intelligently ns to tho ns to the probability of nmendinents. fakticulakly'fok komex. Ifnte nre of moJium height this season, and bonnets aro small. The eombinationof black with rich carmine shades claims ns prominent a place In Spring millinery as it has held all Winter. Clack is much in eWdcnpe In all tho new headgear, almost everything displaced consisting in part at least of somo black ma terial. Tho Spring coats, no matter of what mate rials, aro trimmed profusely with laee, and the lace bow under tbo chin is n pretty and inevi table accompaniment to tho laco trimmed coats. A hlch collar-band, requiring two buttons to fasten it, has a turned-down collar at tached to the gingham, edged with embroid ery, or else entirely of the embroidery. Nar row cuffs to match aro on the mutton-leg sleeves. Tho sLirt, gored in front and on tho sides, but straight in tho back, is widely bemmea, and Is gathered to a belt of the gingham (lined with stout muslm. which passes over tho gathered part of the waist, and is concealed by a belt r.tibon. A beautiful hat, especially suitable for a joung girl, was of plaited straw, in golden brown. In shape it was rather low and broad, nnd tho trimming wa3 arranged ac cordingly. Tho front llared irom a oand of brown velvet thnt rested on the hair and nbovo tho brim was set a chou of violet vel vet, with ears that pointed on the sides. Around tho crown was a hundsorro wreath of v iolcts, with clusters drooping low at the back. Ginger applied to the cheeks warms and gives them a natural glow, nnd thereforo aJds a luster to thoees. A Service Pension Bill. ffSenatorTurpio introduced a service pen sion bill yesterday. It provides that any offi cer or prhato who served In the civil war shall bo granted a pension nt tho rato of 1 cent, per Jay per month for tho time served. Every pensioner receiving under this a t less than iS per month is to havo his pension in creased to that umount upon reaching tho ago of sixty jears, nnd to $12 per month if incapacitated for manual labor. Tho period of sevrice Is to dite from tho timo of mu3ter to tho dato of discharge, evceptiu cascswhero pensioners have been discharged on account of wound before tLo expiration of their terms of enlistment. rashlonnMc Parasols. The fashionable parasol has a slender stick, long rather than short, with a knob on the end. Crooks aro out of date, aud tho knob must be small, scarcely wider than tho stick, and oval. This genteel knob is overlaid with gold and perhaps jeweled, or it is eloigned, or it is of crvstal, with an open gold fretwork over it. Other handles aro of carved ivory. Tho points should match tho knob, and very fastidious peoplo buy the set of knob and points and order the sunshade made. Uoavy gulpuro insertions 'laid over color are of crimped chiffon. Changeable silk is bome- what out of date. Fashion Tanclcs. Ribbon velvet is fast gaining favor as trim ming, nnd tho prediction is that it will be highly popular as an enhancement to Sum mer gowns of Tayetta, foulard. China silk, challle, etc. In millinery quantities of beautiful laco pins, buckles and slides of mock jewels, pearl and gold gimp and exquisite French flowers and follago are shown, and used too. Shot silk and reversible satin ribbon aro used for bows, rosettes and standing loops. Many of the new skirts opon on the side tho entire length of the skirt over a petticoat of some contrasting color and caught at in tervals by immense bows of ribbon matching in color the petticoat. For walking and visiting costumes the soft beige and mushroom colors are once more popular. Theso colors are in many cases mure becoming than any on the silver order. The People's Forifm, COXEY'S EXACT PLAN. What Ills Desired Expenditure of Money for Good Roads Would Accomplish. To th Editor of Tub Times. In substance Coxey wants Congress to iasa $500,000,000 non-interest-betiing greenbacks, re ceivable for all public and private debts. (This fig ure is doubtless bosod upon the customary ratio in salts for damage caeca.) With this money the government la immediately to set about build ing improved roads and highways, establishing' aneigni-nouraay, ana a minimum oi wages oi 91.C0 a day. Everyone knows oar roads area source of wonder and ridicule for all foreigners who travel through our country; In the matter of roads we are a century behind all civilized coun tries. But In this way half million of men might be at once employed, at wages remunerative enough to restore to them their power of as sumption; then to supply tholr wants and tbo wants of those depending on them would em ploy perhaps another half a million, and so ono after another the wheels of trade might be set in motion. But that is not alL Aside from this, the money thus expended would be the best In vestment the government has ever made, for as fast as the roads were Improved the land valuos adjacent to them would increase from 10 to 100 per cent, especially near tho commercial centers. Then again to Interstate commerce and travel by these Improved highways the gain would bo almost Incalculable; for as soon as the roadbeds were Improved, they would be occupied by elec tric railways and other improved means of transit. Compare this Investment with tbo mil lions Invested in our fancy warships and big cannons, too fancy and too big and expensive ever to be used. What returns will the peoplo ever get from them? Now whilst there was not a shadow of law or necessity for Issuing that COtO00t000 Interest-bearing bonds, theie can be no doubt of tho perfect legality, necessity, humanity and entire proctl bility of Issuing the non-interest-bearing green backs and the method for their expenditure, as proposed by ilr. Coxey. The only ones who could and would object to it will be the Interest takers and their representatives in Congress. The great mass of the people when they under stand It will applaud. But if the interest takers and their representa tives In Congress have an eye to their Interest, intelligent selfishness (as benator Lodge puts U) will Impel them to grant Coxey's petition at once In full, for by so doing they will postpono what every one feels to bo tho Inevitable crash now Impending for at least twenty years, and If wo continue our present competitive tlnanclal system, by that time they will have all these millions and the best part of Its earnings in their own co flora anyhow, but the country will gain that much time for further education and preparation for more humane and peaceful adjustment of our present social fabric, which every thoughtful citizen knows Is worn out and rotten from center to circumference. Bat II our iKilice mot hods obtain, and they in vito bloodshed and violence, as, if the daily press can be neitevcd, they are preparing to do, and Congress refuso even to hear Mr. Coxey, they will precipitate the crash and then may God have mercy en our country and the Interest takers had better take to tho sea In our pony cruisers. L. I. Wild. THE TfiOUBtn IN THIS COUNTRY. "Justice" Points Out What It Is nnd What the Kcmcdy Will Be. To the Editor of The Times: Not many years ago a supreme Judge declared that "the black man had no right under the i Constitution which a whlto man was bound to re spect." The Judge was maligned all over tho North for rendering that decision, was called a sympathizer with slaveholders. It matters not what his prejudices may have been, his Judicial opinion of the Constitution as it then existed was correct. That Constitution was an Index of th selfishness of the white man. It was the": truthlulnebs of the decision that hurt. Tho northern politicians were mad because the de cision showed the rotten ess of the laws In a freo republic. Now instead of a race, it's a clas. 44A poor man out of work has no rights a rich man or police court Is bound to repect." The police Judge may be prejudiced against tramps or idle men, but their decisions are In side the law. The laws are cruelly wrong. The conditions Lincoln feared have been upon us for some time: great corporations and trusts are largely controlling legislation, and their repre sentatives are the floor managers at national conventions. The last campaign waBlg Four or "standard Oil," whlch The people took the latter for a change," no preference for either, tentative In either case, lryto shake off both. It shows tho unsettled state of mind with tho voters when there is such rebounds in election majorities as havo been in the past ten years. The soldiers of tho North and touth have been kept "fighting the warover'1 for the past thirty years, during which time the corporations and a few peoplo perhaps 10 per cent. have legis lated the wealth of the country into their hands, yet the IH) percent, with so little property, pay heavily of the taxes, and If the 90 per cent, are too poor to pay car tare they are not supposed to have even the right to walk down a railroad track. It was the privilege of some, in fact many of the 90 per cent, to "tramp through Georgia" anuimo asmngion xo save me country, anu now they aro not supposed to have the right to walk oat In search of employment In this land of the free. Instead of "the land of the free, it Is "the land of the few." A corporation-cursed country, thoso with largo Incomes objecting to be taxed on their Income, as If surplus Incomo could not cexier pay tax inau anyining else; it is just what should pay tax. There n ill be no conflict between the people and militia, xUce and regular army, unless the latter three or their over-zealous representa tives provoke It, in the which case it will be a sad day for those w ho attempt to shoot or bayo net peaceable assembling of the people to de clare their right of petition. That the masses are patient needs not be here stated; what they have quietly endured the past year Is the great est commendation to the toilers of the country. For public Journals to condemn unemployed men as tramps and talk about tho "tClciency of the District troops" is to challenge a conflict. The battle If not sooner provoked will be at the polls in November, and then will be the struggle for the supremacy In 96. The bimet alllsts and labor people will gain largely in Con gress, and as the next House is likely to have the selection of President, the Industrial classes should mako an elTort to serum the balance of power. The single standard men of both par ties mako common cause. The bimetallist should do so; they are not asking all. but only a Just share. v hen a silver dollar was buying more of the necessaries of life than for year, and buying as much as a gold dollar, it was stricken down. Mlver was called down and a- panic predicted and created, but it was not the laboring man's talk thit made the pan la The Issues of the war of C1 are well over. Wo can no more live on them to-day than on rations we drow then. The masses have new Issuer nnd dangers confronting tuem. If a banker or cor poration attorney has tho right to rldo into this city ou a railroad train, a pauper has the right to walk In ou tho track. Otherwise he has no rlcht "to life, liberty, aud the pursuit of happi ness," or Its equivalent, to seek honest employ ment, which insures him "life, liberty, and hap piness." JCsTICE. NOT A MYTH. What the Ad ancc of Coxey Is Intended to Illustrate nnd Teach. To the Editor of TnE Times: As Coxey's advance on Washington is no longer a myth, but a certainty, as neither priva tion, ridicule. Jeers, or threats havo turned tho tide backward, wo are obliged to face facts. For humanity's sake, I am glad when I read suggestions of common sense as to tho manner of meeting theso representatives of our laboring people. I wonder If thoso who have surrcestod nrimn bars, and Jails, and workhouses fur thl3 army coming to Washington to pleid for the enact ment of laws to give relief to the poor, have over suffered for bread or left their hearts blood turn to ko because they were freezing? ivten In prosperous times thousands of peoplo In the est hae been on tho verge of starva tion when flood and Are and cyclone swept over thn land, and when thousands are as sure to ttarvo as the sjn is to rise and set unless this government comes to the rescue, can wo dare turn a deaf car to tho appeal of thousands through tho patient, persistent men who, weary and footsore, aro com in? to asfc this Congress to do something? God knows its time the mem bers had something to bring them to their senses and to awaken them to the gravity ol the situation. Look at the Idle unemployed in our own city. Hundreds of jouug men, middle-aged men, and old men aro treading our streets praying for something to ao, ana yet v. asnington is a para dise compared with the rest of the country. liad I not lived in tho West and pu Cored priva tion and misery; had not atone time starvation stared me in the face with bundreis more after tho fearful cyclono on tho frontier in 1356, 1 might laugh in score just at tbo thought of this army of needy ones coming to this great city to beg Congress to provide a means of relief. Had I not in this ery city seen men and women of culture and refinement suffering for tho actual necessities of lifo because they would not beg I might call out In alarm for pro tection against the Invasion of God's poor. The time has como when tho rich and well-to-do must think and act. The law of humanity has somo claim on this government, and tho protec tion of our poor the world over win be the most Important question ever presented to Congress I believe that God has put It Into tho hearts of this multitude of men to accomplish that which nothing elso could accomplish, viz.: to bring fact and figure, and faces and forms, as an examplo of the gravity of tho situation. Thousands and tens of thousands are appealing for wort. All they ajsk Is employment and fair wages. The commonweal army may bo callod by what ever name wo choose; its -oico will go down to the ages a tho cry of one man against wrong. Every reform has como through somo unusual method, and the leaders of all great movements have been ridiculed and sometimes thrown into prison; but the result has been reached, even through those we choose to term fanatics. Shall the stranger within our gates bo met by armed forces or received as men -who bring tho people's appeal to the counselors of our nation? wo can certainly trust oar police and tholr con tingent to discriminate between the tramp ele ment and tho peaceable army of the people. As Congress has tns power to tarn the world npsldo down. It can no doubt turn tbo army Into wage earnere and work miracles In a wonderfnl man ner by wise legislation. Una. U. S. Luicolx. AS TOLD BY TENNYSON. A. Comparison of Present Conditions With Those In a Beautiful Poem. To the Editor of Thx Teas: Alfred Tennyson, the brightest poetic genlns of the Victorian age, was a set r as well as a poet. No person who will now read "Locksley Hall," a poem written more than fifty years ago, will oyer doubt that he "looked Into the future far as ho man eye can see." The armies of the unemployed are marching and countermarching all orer this land. Sereral diTlslons are moring slowly In th. direction of Washington. Did not Tennyson see it all when be wrote: "Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creep ing higher; Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly dying lire." The unemployed are "creeping nlgher," and how apt the figure "as a llon'r when tbey come naked and hungry. The gorercment, the col lective constituted authority, "nods and winks," and liberty and a "gorernment of the people, by the people, and for the people," Is tho "slowly dying fire." Coxey's army Is moving. Bow suggestlre of this is another couplet in the same poem: "Far along the worldwIde whl9per of the south wind rushing warm With tho standards of the peoples plunging through the thunder storm." The hope they cherl&h that the gorernment may yet do something to rescue the perishing people is to tbom the "whisper of the south wind rushing warm." The banner of "peace on earth, good will to men" Is literally plunging through the storms. There Is no new or strange device on that banner. It was giren to men by One who lored them, and it has been plunging through the storms of centuries. If e who gave It was rockoned more a crank than Coxey, and was more despltefully used by the ruling classes than Coxey will erer be. The standards of the people of this country aro plunging through storms of adversity and depression the like of which we have never known. Tennyson's prophetic vision beheld all the dangers, the trials, and the tribulations that were to beset the people. Yet ho saw farther and gave us hope: "Yet I doubt not through the ages one Increas ing purpose runs. And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns." He had faith In the common sense of the peo ple, for he told that "The common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm In awe." We must not lose faith in the "common sense of most." It is the bulwark of democratic Insti tutions, the rule of the majority. The coming of Coxey will in no wise diminish tho "common sense of most." lie may arouse "most" from their lethargy. Ilo will surely make "most" realizo that there Is something radically, per haps we should say criminally, wrong in our In stitutions when millions of men, women, and children are In want to the verge of starvation in a land of plenty. Don't sneer at the Coxey movement. Don't slur the men who have not where to lay their heads. They are brothers of our common race. Their condition Is bad, but tbey have hearts and souls, appetites, and nakedness to be clothed. Luck Is against them. Circumstances over which they have no control at present keen them on the lower leveL IL A. Tnu.EE. SYMPTOMS OF THE DISEASE. The Remedy to Corner ith Timo and with the Ballot. To the Editor of The Tdies: Theso popular movements, this unrest of the people all over tho country, from Maine to Cali fornia, from the Dakotas to Texas, the march of the "industrial army1 under Gen. Quixote Coxey, contributions hy sympathetic and sentimental men and women of bread and fodder and socks and clean collars and neckties, are in some as pects ludicrous, farclal. Idiotic. A march to ashlngton to Influence the legislation of Con gress! A mass meeting of the pilgrims and cru saders on the steps of the Cap! toll Processions through the streets with a band of music, and a halt to rest in the public parks, with a distribu tion of bread and cheese furnished by charltyl hat folly as you look at it one way. Yet In fact and in truth bowtminously significant of a fearful force and power underneath and behind, half-suppressed, ill-concealed, and all the more dangerous because unreasoning and misguided. hat Macaulay, the great historian, said and predicted more than Ctty years ago has come to pass In a letter to Mr. Kandall, the biogra pher of Jefferson, he criticised freely the weak points of our Institutions and form of government "Your constitution I quote from memory) 'Is all sail and no anchor. Your coun try has been prosperous, because labor has been employed, because population has not been crowded, because lands are cheap, and subsist ence easily obtained. But wait until your people bocorae as crowded as the people of Middlesex, then you will see bread riots and popular out breaks that will either be put down by bullets and bayonets, or will essentially change the whole form of your government," and so on, and so on, to the samo effect. Carlyle was right, too, when he said, also a half century ago, in one of his "Latter Day Pam phlets" (quoted again from the recollection); "Ihese blind and sullen movements of the hun gry unemployed In England, this Insolence and this arrogance of .inherited wealth two boiling, seething, and antagonistic whirlpools, side by side, with only a thin partition between cannot be kept apart forever! That flimsy partition will hurst asunder at the least, the slightest ex tra shock, and then tho hell of waters U upon you, and what help!" and so the grim old philos opher goes on and on in language that will well apply to tilings now taking place, Mr. idltor, undor your nose. What is to bo done? What will or can Congress do' Nothing not In a day, or a week, or a month; or, as Inherently constituted of Imbecility and inaptitude, in a term and session lasting till doomsday. The remedy, I say, is not of a day. It Is not in free silver, or Prof. Wilson's tariff, or an Issue of Ave hundred million of nun-interest bearing bonds, or greenbacks, or in any of ten mild lunacies of brother PetTer, or In an appro priation by Congress to set Coxey's army to work In building roads. "o, not at alL ltellef, if it comes at all. must come with time, tho great reformer, as my Lord Bacon says, with patience, self-restraint, and with intelligent use of tho ballot. C. W. K. -Money .Makes a Difference. To the Editor of The Times: At no time within the remembrance of the oldest inhabitant has Washington erer failed to welcome all people who decided to come hero with a remarkable expression of hospitality and courtesy if the expected visitor possessed ample means to pay for his entertainment. Diligent inquiry has failed to discover a single Instance where a soldier has met a man on the border of the District nnd, with a bayonet thrust, told him he was not wanted If he had no money. Our solons have stood on that sacred spot where our laws are made, and havo gazed and squinted until their eyes ached to catch a glimpse of the first representative who arrived with a million dollars to defray his legitimate expenses. Gen. Ordway never got out his militia to pre vent an entrance of that sort, and the "finest" have always bowed with a profound deference when this individual got to town. Things are now changed. The citizens of the republic are coming, and they are welcomed much as the laboring people of Homo were prior to ono of her greatest tragedies. "Hence: home, you Idle creatures get you home Is th Is a holiday? bat! know you not, Ueiug mechanical, you ought not walk Upon a laboring day?" Gilbert Hukd. rrom a Brother Human Being. To tho Editor of The Times: Allow me a word In deferse of myself. Somo of your officers are continually finding fault with tho poor man who is trying to make an honest living. The well-tolo persons escape their notice it matters not what theiroffense. Xlne-tentbs of lhoe arrested are of the poorer class, and many of those for very trivial oifenses. even too worth less to mention. True, our city is full of thieves, but our ofilcers might ho able to discriminate be tween a poor man, though he be a foreigner, who wishes an honest living, and a vagabond- They seem to think every poor foreigner not worthy of the clothes be wears. I am not a beggar. I pay for all my fruit nnd everything f get. They have destroyed much for mo wttbin the past six months I am poor, but a brother human being for all that. Itjlo. ract nnd Fancy. Fainting is caused by an interruption of the supply cf blood to the brain. Tho head mast bo lowered immediately. Often laying the person down will revive her without other measures. The head mny be allowed to hang over the side for n few minutes. Smelling salts may be held to the no-o nnd heat ap plied over tho heart to stimulate its action. Open a window or outer door to admit plenty of fresh air and unfasten the clothing to permit circulation of tho blood. In severe cases, where unconsciousness is prolonged, a mustard plaster may be placed over tho heart. If the breathing stops, artificial respiration can bo begun. It is useless to try to givo stimulants by mouth unless the person is suf ficiently conscious to be able to swallow. Tho attack usually passes off in a fow minates.but the patient should be made to lie still and bo kept quiet for some time after It. Men or women who havo always a tolo to tell of ,-how ho suffered that way himself' should bo kept out of the patient's room. Their sympathy will do harm every time. In the sick chamber, if the patient can see com pany at nil, there should be only bright, cheery talk, and tho creaturo with 'symp toms" can ttlk a man into having any and every disease on earth in less than halt an hour. A sick man should be led to forget his ills, and not to rehearse them or compare notes. it Granulated sugar. 40. Monday another spe cial present day. Tns Ore at Atlantic jlsd Pa one TZA Coxfakt, corner Seventh and E. BENEDICT'S CONFIRMATION Why Senator Gorman Finds Himself Not Perspiring Over IL FAULKNER'S SAGB PREDICTION Secretary lament Kainly Bespoiujibl. for ti i URsv Pnblic Printer AdyUed to Avdd th. Gentleman from Maryland Henco Tfo, Horrr Hew York H ominationi Slow. On tho 2d Instant the President nominated Thomas E. Benedict to the office of Pnblio Printer The nomination was immediately sent to the Printing Commttee, and there it stays. Messrs. Gorman, Hanson and Hender son aro the members of that committee. They know Mr. Benedict well. They aro not un mindful of the fact that ho wo3 formerly an efficient Public Printer, and ono of the most polite, obliging and popular of men. And so it is that many are at a loss to understand why the liommitteo hold np the nomination. Thoso who havo Investigated the matter are satisfied that they know tho reason. Mr. Gorman wa3 not consulted by tho President or his friends as to the selection. Mr. Richardson, chairman of the House Printing Committee, was token Into the ad ministration confidence, and ho made the first announcement to those who hod been working for a change In that office that a change would be made. Ho said ho had been called to the 'White House and told about it by the President It was natural enough that tho President should consult with the chair man of the Houso committee, for most of tho legislation that concerns the Printing Office must pass through Mr. Richardson's hands. But thero was a double reason, it is thought, Mr. Gorman should have been taken Into tho President's confidence. That same legisla tion must run the gauntlet of his committee, and the fate of the nominee must Inevitably fall into his nanus. Secretary Lamont discovered Mr. Benedict under the previous administration. He en gineered this second appointment. Between CoL Lamont and Senator Gorman there does not exist that effusive cordiality that usually characterizes tho relations of such distinguished Democrats. The Maryland Senator is not a cuckoo of any degree, and his estimate of tho wisdom of Col. Lamont's selection for the war office does not tower many stories above his opinion of Secretary Gresham. Both the President and Mr. La mont cautioned Mr. Benedict to hold aloof from Senator Gorman and by no means mako terms wtth him to secure confirmation. This reached the ears of Senator Gorman. Ha had no desire or intention of extorting any terms from whomever the President might nnnnoa lint ..Iia.. )... ?.....i1 1.I...ai.1 .. ..1. ....ww.3., . n uu uo iuuuu miuaGti ou wu- Ject of White House suspicion, to be shunned, it was natural that he should not be amiably dlsposed,toward Mr. Benedict. The latter has been following hlsinitrno tions literally and has held aloof. The Print ing Committee have expressed no desire to see him. Having many other pressing mat ters on hand, they have not got around to Mr. Benedict's case; and it 13 not to be pressumed that they will reach it until they are ready. Tho Democrats who are anxious for a chango have been interviewing Senator Faulkner on the subject. He assures them that there 13 no opposition and Mr. Benedict will be confirmed. If it Is not done speedily he will hurry matters by calling the nomina tion up from tho Printing Committee. It is doubtful if Senator Faulkner gave any such promise. That would be an unheard of inter ference with committee prerogatives, and senatorial courtesy would not tolerate such an infraction of its canon3. In the sacred precincts of the cloak room Senator Faulkner micht venture to slap the Marylander on the back, call him "Senator, old man," and then call up Mr. Benedict's name under the rose, but that Is as far as he could go with senato rial courtesy. Even then thero is much room to doubt the valuo of any satisfaction ho might get if Senator Gorman should be indis posed to talk on that subject and inclined to undermine the administration generally. The Senate has shown no disposition to hurry the confirmation of New York appoint ments. Some of them have been in commit tees as much as four or five months, and are likely to remain there some time longer. HICARAGUA CAHAL BILL, Senator Davis 'Will Have Something to Say About It Later On. It was generally understood when Senator Morgan reported the Xicaraguon canal bill that it did not wholly meet tho approval of all members of the committee, especially SenatorDavis, of Minnesota, who was opposed to the bill when it was previously before tho Senate. Senator Davis has not put his objec tions in the form of a report, and will not do so, but he will probably make a speech against the bill if it is ever called up. As to this con tingency, it is well understood that as long as the tariff bill is before the Senate there will not bo the least possibility of considering the Nicaragua or any other bill, but when the tariff is out of tho way on effort will be made to bring up the Nicaragua bill. "Yes, I expect to make a speech against the bill," said Senator Davis, "and I will en deavor to point out some reasons why the bill should not pass. Why should the United States put $100,000,000 Into a canal when wo have not a navy to hold it ten days against England, Germany, France or Italy? Thero is another feature that ought not to be lost sight of, and that is the fact that vessels aro obliged to round Cape Horn Is a wonderful defense for tho United States. It is no small matter to send a naval vessel around Cape Horn. It we were to cut a canal through to the Pacific, it would be open in time of peace and as many vessels could be put through as are needed In case trouble was contemplated in the near future. Without the canal the vessels would be obliged to go around the Horn. With 810.000,000 and the immense iron mines on the Pacific coast, wo could make a show of defense In a short timo for all vessels that any nation would care to send around tho Horn. But the worst feature of It is that we could not hold tho canal nor could wo recover it if it was lost." Conferring Oter tho Seals. The United States and Great Britain are now acting together in perfecting as rapidly a3 possible tho details ,ot the arrangement for the government of the seal fisheries, so that everything will be in readiness by tho first of May. when the close season begins. Yesterday morning there was a long confer ence at the Treasury Department between Secretaries Gresham and Carlisle, Sir Julian Pauncefote. Mr. Goschen, the first secretary of the British embassy, and Dr. Dawson, rep resenting tho Canadian department of fisher ies. Collections by n Collector. "Our preacher made a big mistake lost Sun day and lost a good collection," said a Man chester man. "How?" "Well, ho appointed a tax collector to go round with a plato, and every man in the congregation asked him to call again." Tid-Bits. i Connected by .Mnrriage. Sho He is connected with you In some way by marntge. Isn't he? He Yes;he married my fiancee. Pearson'" Weekly. Learning English rirst-Ratc. Twickenham How Is your daughter's French tutor getting on with her? Biltcr Very nicely. He ha3 got so he can speak English first-rate. Brooklyn Life. ffiNO FOR SALE AND RENT.. DEPOT FOR Steinway, ANU OTHER LEASING INSTRUMENTS EDW.EDR00P$S0NS. 323 Fennsylunnia Avenue, kl .-ei'1 Fyrfta.- k.j, SEj&ayt4V3fg