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VOL. VIII. HURRIED TO DOOM. East St. Louis Deputies Fire Into an Excited Crowd, And Precipitate a Riot of Large Dimensions, In Which Nine Persons Lay Down Their Lives. Illinois Militia Rapidly Sent to the Scene. The Mayor of St. Louis Closes All Saloons. Very Pew Strikers Among the Killed and Wounded. Red Riot in Eait St. I.oui*. St. LOUIS, April o.— Ever since the rail road employes In East St. Louis ceased work in support of the striking Knights on the Gould Southwestern system rumors of riots and bloodshed have daily gained cir jailation, but until to day no serious conflict lias occurred. The county sheriff has sworn in numerous deputies, and upon several oc casions has brought to that city bodies of armed men to Buppreia an anticipated at tack on railroad yards and their protectors. Upon one occasion only, however, has the presence of these men been really needed, and the railroads have, with some lew exceptions done their usual business. To-day opened with but little prospect of serious trouble, although some of the Striken intimated that the roads would tind it less easy to move trains than they had anticipated, and early in the morning the yards presented an animated scene. Switch engines were running back ward and forward nakißg Dp trains; plat form men 'were busy loading and unloading freight, and trains were arriving and de parting without any interference. This condition of affairs continued till noon, and it was thought the day would pass without any demonstration by the strikers. At that hour, however, the trouble which afterward grew to such alarming proportions began. A Dumber of strikers, without apparently having formed any I'KKCOXCERTED PLAN, congregated at the relay depot and began a discussion of the general situation. As time passed their number was augmented until the original knot of men increased to lull v -00. The discussion became ani mated, and the crowd more demonstrates, until some one proposed that they go to the Louisville A Nashville yards and drive out the men employed there. The cry of "On to Nashville yard!" was caught up and the crowd advanced. As they proceeded their numbers again increased, some joining the mob simply as spectators, while others were in full sympathy with the movement until from 300 to 400 were advancing to wards the yards. Arriving there they swarmed into the yards and persuaded the men at work to desert their posts. The crowd remained in the yards for some time, and although considerable excitement prevailed no violence was re sorted to. Just at this time, however, a Louisville & Nashville freight train was slowly passing guarded by eight deputy sheriffs armed with Winchester rifles. In the meantime crowds of men, women and children had congregated m Broadway, where the Louisville & Nashville tracks cross the street, and also upon the Broad way bridge, which spans the Cahokia creek, aud in the open space to the east. Just as the train reached the Broadway crossing the trouble began. The crowd on the bridge began to yell and jeer at the of ncers, and it is asserted stones were thrown Which struck two or three of them, and it is also said that a pistol was discharged. The deputies immediately leveled their riries and tired two volleys into the crowd on the bridge with fatal effect, four men be ing killed and one woman mortally wounded. THE DEAD AKEC PATRICK DHISCOL, a Wabash seotion hand, not a striker. OSCAK WASHINGTON, a painter, not a BtriKer. JOHN BONNER, a coal miner, not a Striker. MAJ. RYCHMAN, a mill employe, not a Btiikf-r. MRS. PFEFFER. supposed to be the wife of a striker, was shot in the back and mor tally wounded. The greatest excitement immediately pre vailed and pandemonium reigned. The crowd tied in every direction, and when the deputies realized how fearful was the result of their tire they sought means of escape, but rushed for the bridge with a view of lleeiug to this city. At the ap proach, and just at the bridge tower on the Last side, they were met by .Mayor Joyce, City Clerk Canty and a third man, who seized the deputies* guns and endeavored to turn them back. One of the deputies in his terror Bred upon the trio, killing a man named C. E. Thompson, who 6tood between Joyce and Canty. Some hliots were fired by the remaining deputies at the approaching strikers and all started over the bridge. The scene on the bridge was one of the wildest confusion and ex citement. Coal teams and other teams with wagons were galloping westward and their drivers shouting to all pedestrians and teamsters to run back. Women and men on foot were running toward the city, and waving back all they met, while im mediately behind came the deputies. PUKSTTED BY THE VASOUAKD of the crowd from East St. Louis. One of the frightened guards threw his gun into the river, while another hid his weapon in awagon that was in full retreat. On ar riving in this city, the deputies went at once to the Chestnut street police station, where after stating the facts they surren dered to the sergeant in charge, and were taken to the four courts, whers they were placed in custody after giving the follow ing names: P. G. Hewlett, John Hague, Sam Jones. John F. Williams, G. Luster, Stewart Martin, George Marnell and W. P. Laird. About half an hour after the shoot ing, an excited angry mob gathered in the square between the city hall and the police station. A man named Uwyer, a gambler in no way connected with the strike, became a center of a crowd, who cheered the in cendiary statements which he uttered. He urged the men to "hang and kill," aud was in the midst of an appeal to the mob to follow him to the Ohio & Mis sissippi depot to hunt the deputy sheriffs, when John W. Hayes, a member of the general executive committee. Knights of Labor, IL O'Neill, and Knight of Labor Brown arrived from this side. Mr. Brown, who travels with the general board in the capacity of Knights of Labor orator and lecturer, mounted the stairs leading to the police station and yelled at the mob for attention, but the infuriated men auswered him with "HANG THK CUKS!" "Kill him!" Mr. Hayes, who was stand ing at Brown's side, turned to a prominent knight and asked him to introduce Mr. Brown to the mob as the representative of the teneral executive committee. The man replied, in a frightened manner, "If 1 do they will hang me." Brown turned on him and said: "Yes, if you don't they ought to hang you." Then turning to the mob, which kept up the cry to "kill!" "kill!" and burn!" Brown began in an impassioned appeal for quiet, law and order, and by the sheer force of his earnestness riveted the attention of the crowd, but only for a few minutes at a time, for they would break \ iTH^ ISk f 9 t*-^ away from his eloquence and take up their revolutionary yells. He said: Men and Brothers: For God's sake keep quiet. 1 Implore you, iv the name of human ity, in the name ol the trreut order of the KnlKbts of Labor, in the name of every law, both of the order aud your country, restrain yourselves and do no violence. Remember that you are our sworn brothers. Do not forget that you are the Knights, and that you are pledged to obey the laws of the order and the commands of your comtmtteemen. At this point Dwyer broke in with: Yes: why don't you talk for Jay Gould and be done with it? They shot our men dowu, and you ask us to be quiet. I say bang them; The crowd took up thn words, crying "liIKS, Kll.l. AM> SHOOT." Brown pointed his linger at Dwyer and asked him: • "Are you a Knight of Labor?" Dwrer dodged the question aud yelled ou, "Kill the brutes!" "Are you all Knights of Labor?" asked Brown. "No," answered Dwycr, "but I am with them on everything, you can bet." "I kuew you were not a Knight," said Brown. "I knew that do Knight would tali | us you do. Again, brothers, I appeal to you, | be culm aud disperse to your homes. If you < do not obey our laws, remember that you arc foresworn that you are no longer Knights of Labor. Brothers, I beg of you do nothing rash. What, oh what will tho Knights of tho country think of you? Oh, what will the wholo world think of our great order? Don't forget how hard wo have worked to build up our order. Oh, do not tear It down In ruins by one rash act. All men who Incite you to strife are not true Knights of Labor. They are worse than the detectives of the railroads who are trying to hunt you down. Shun them, shun them as you would a murderer. While Mr. Brown was speaking, Com mttteeman Hayes walked excitedly up and down the platform, exclaiming in a despair ing manner: Oh, my God! my God! I wish this had not happened." His eyes were water}'. He was almost crying, and when he addressed the mob after Brown's harangue his voice failed and he was obliged to pause for utterance. Hayes' speech was of the same tenor as Brown's. as was also that of Mr. O'Neil. who followed Hayes. Casper Keys, another prominent Knight, who had arrived in the meantime, was busy among the crowd trying upon the MOKE EXCITED INDIVIDUALS. the arguments which the cominitteemen were urging from the platform. After a while the temper of the mob cooled down and they dispersed with threats to avenge the deaths caused by the deputiy sheriffs. Mayor Joyce, after his encounter with the deputies on the bridge, w hen he attempted to arrest them in their flight, went through the excited crowds to his office. He at tempted to calm the men, but found it use less. The streets and sidewalks were blocked with men, women and children, who rushed in every direction. Reaching his otlice about an hour after the shooting, he at once issued a proclamation to close all saloons, and Warning women and minors to keep off the streets. He was seen with Messrs. Bailey and Hayes of the Knights of Labor, who were urging him to do all in his power to calm the men. He said that he had notified the governor two weeks ago, but that he had done nothing and he was utterly powerless. At bom to-day Sheriff Ropicequet sent the following dispatch to the governor. A mob of 200 men invested the entrance of he Lo uisville & Nashville yards and stopped ho empl oyes of the road. When commanded by me and my deputies to disperse, they ; hooted and derided my posse and applied epithets, and refused to disperse In MM pres ence of the city police olliccrs. With the torce at my disposal. 1 cannot preserve the peace and afford protection to the railroad companies. Under the circumstances I in tend to send my posse to their homes. I hereby invoke the aid of the state for militia sufficient to aid me in the execution of law and protection of property. I will forward a written request for militia by the next mail. Sheriff Kopiequet. DURING TUB SHOOTING Sheriff Ropiequet . scut the following dis patch: Gov. Oglesby. Springfield: The mob Is concentrating with rifles and guns to storm the Louisville it Nashville- freight house. One man was killed on the bridge. Danger is imminent. To this the governor replied: Your telegram received at 2 p.m. I have given orders for a militia force to report at once under charge of a colonel, who will be on the ground to take charge of forces, several companies, possibly eight or more, will go. You will have a reliable force upon which to depend. I will instruct the colonel to report to you, and I must exact of each of you the great care and earnestness in your councils and co-operation with tho officers In command of the force. If Gen. Vance leaves here on the 4 p. m. train, will send him down. Please keep this dispatch for the present to yourself. Will communicate with you more fully In writing. Keep me advised of impor tant events until the arrival of militia. HUNTINO FOR DEPUTIES. A few of the more violent strikers, after arming themselves, announced their Inten tion of attacking the deputies on guard at the Ohio & Mississippi yards and advanced in that direction, whan near the yards they were met by several deputies and fired upon, killing as they say. one of their num ber. Some of the deputies who failed to escape with those who lied to this city were chased by the crowd into the freight ware house and offices of the Louisville & Nash ville. The warehouse was surrounded by an immense crowd, who hooted and urged the men to attack the strong bold and drive the deputies out Men went among the crowds urging others to procure arms and >!iooi all the deputies they could find. Some of the deputies watching their opportunity slipped out and worked their way among the freight cars unobserved. A Louisville & Nashville freight car backed down alongside the plat form and took away the others to places of safety. Two were sighted by the btrikers. who had procured arms. and were chased un der the hridee. One ot them was caught in front of Toney's house on the levee and was beaten to death by the mob. Another was reported to have been shot as he was escaping under the approach to the bridge. The other deputies escaped unharmed. AT MIDNIOUT. The situation iv East St. Louis, so far as can be ascertained at midnight, has been pretty quiet. Comparatively few people were on the streets after dark, and only small knots of men congregated and dis cussed the events of the day. Later in the evening two companies of militia, one from Decatur aud one from Nashville, 111., came in aud were assigned quarters. Still later a good deal of excitement was caused by the discovery of lire in a car loaded with hay in the Louisville <fc Nashville yards, but no damage was done beyond the burn ing of the car. About 11 o'clock fire broke out in the Cairo Short Line yard, at the lower end of the island, aud reports from there at midnight say three or four cars were burned, but no other damage was done. Two fire engines and a Babcock ex tinguisher were sent over from her* soon after the fire in the Louisville & Nashville yard, and it was through their assistance that no more property was destroyed. Three more militia companies from Springfield and one from Carlinville came in about midnight. The Louisville & Nashville freight house is now guarded by troops, and a company will no doubt be sent to the Cairo short line. A THICD FIRE started in the Cairo short line premises about 1 o'clock, and report says the ma chine and car shops are burning, but no definite information as to this has jet reached here. There is also a report that the Cuttle rolling-mill, a mile or more south, of the Cairo short-line, is on fire, but this was not verified at 2a. in. Maj. Kichman and Mrs. Pfreffer died to-night, and some man whose name is unknown is said to have been shot on Cahokia bridge, and that his body rolled into the creek but has not yet been found. INTERVIEWED. niiMR He DorkuH Think llie Engineers Will strike. Scranton, Pa., April 9.— Mr. Frederick Turner, secretary and treasurer of the Knights of Labor, arrived in this city this ST. PAUL, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1886.— SIXTEEN PAGES. morning to make his official report to Grand Master Workman Powderly. Mr. Turner I was asked this afternoon: "Do you think tho striko at St. Louii will be settled soon?" "1 don't kuow. Mr. Hoxio and Mr. Gould have gone back on their agreement, and now when we Issue an order to resume work they refuse to employ any Knights of Labor. The statement that trains are running on tho Missouri Pacific as usual lit untrue. They may be gettiug nve or Fix cars out of East St. Louis a day. When the strike commenced there were a few loaded can* lv the yard, and I they may have succeeded iv getting these out." "Are there any prospects of tho engineers going out on a strike?" "1 cannot tell. It is not probable unless Mr. Arthur Issues au order to that effect. The Brotherhood of Engineers is strongly in sympathy with the Mrikl "la there no »«y in which the strike at St. Louis can be controlled?" "No. sir; none that 1 know of." Mr. Turner left for Philadelphia at 4:UO p.m. Mr. i'owileily to-day sent the fol lowing telegram: To Hon. A. O. Curttn, Washington, D. C: Urge the Immediate passage of your resolu tion to appoint a committee to luvestitrate tho labor troubles at St. I,oui«. The commit tee should be at work now. The public has a right to kuow who is to blame in the mat ter. After sending the above Mr. Powderly received a dispatch from St. Louis, an nouncing the killing of six strikers by the deputies. Still ."No Agreement. Wheeling, W. Ta., April 9.— Contrary to general speculation the conference be tween the manufacturers of the Western Nail association and the United Nailers' and Heaters' association of America ad journed to-day at noon without reaching a settlement, and matters are iv the same shai>e as before the conference. The nail er's agreed to wane their objections to the continued employment of the non-union men but they demanded what Is known as the MiiiL'o scale lor nailing and heatiug aud this the manufacturers would not con cede, declining to pay more than they now pay to the new men. They claim that they i"an lill out their mills at this scale, and after a ten-months' strike do not propose to go above it There is also a wide margin iv what is deinauded for heat ini: as compared with what the mills that now use the gas f urnares actually pay, and this, too. was an obstacle to an agreement Opinions differ as to what result will follow this failure to finally terminate the long existing nail strike. By some it is claimed that a number of nailers will resume their old places in tue mills at an early day. Will MnUe i. tin ur- mines. St. Louis, April 9.— lt is thought that the Knights of Labor will soon strike a blow at the railroad companies by shutting down on the coal supply. The preseut plan of the strikers, which lias been decided upo«, is first to begin at the Ellsworth mine, owned by Jay Gould. The company em ploys a number of miners at Mount Olive, Stauton and Warden, where the shafts are located. A great proportion of these are Knights of Labor. To the assembly word has been sent to make, upon notification, a iaflMSi upon the company to cease to load coal for the Missouri Pacific or any of its branches. Should this demand not be com plied with a cessation of work is next on tiic program. Mr. Bailey of the general executive board of the Kuights of Labor was seen and questioned concerning this plan. He wxs reluctant lo say anything, but finally admitted that the story was in substance true. Fatal Labor Iliot. Lyons. April 9.— A fatal riot occurred in this city to-day at Giraud's Silk mills. A sub prefect and a number of gendarmes at tempted to close up the chapel connected with the mills, and were resisted by the operatives and local residents, and an open tight ensued. The populace, the major portion of whom were women, used btonesand sticks aud the soldiers used their firearms. One womau was shot dead and a number were wounded. The sub prefect and three of his gendarmes were wounded. A Collision at Argenfa. Little Rock, April 9. —Deputy Sheriff Williams was attacked at 1 o'clock this morning at the Iron Mountain roundhouse at Argenta by a mob of strikers. A hun dred shots were fired and Williams badly wounded. Four strikers were arrested. Industrial Items. The coal miners of Pittsburjr district, who were recently jrranted an advance from 2*^ to 2 3 4 cents per bushel for minlntr, have vol untarily notified ttieir employers that they will not accept the increase until May 1. when a general demand for the "% rate will be made. The Chicago billiard table trouble is settled by the company granting the demands of the strikers. An Energetic Spouse. Special to the Globe. Milwaukee, Wis., April 9.— Frank Hoefflin, who has at different times ap peared in an unenviable light before the public is again in trouble with a charge of bigamy hanging over him. Hoefflin, about a year ago, left for Germany, for the os tensible purpose of securing a fortune which he claimed had been left him. During his absence his wife died in child birth. The case excited much attention at the time, as the woman and family were found to have been suffering for the neces sities of life for some time prior to the death of the former. Hoeftlin was arrested on his return for abandoning his family, but the case was settled. The man then" mar- ried again, but soon after left his second wife. Recently a rumor reached the latter that he had married again. An examina tion of the records at the Capuchin convent proved the truth of the rumor. Mrs. Hoeffiin has consulted a lawyer, and will probably have her erratic spouse arrested on a charge of bigamy. In the meantime she is endeavoring to secure a divorce. I. ATE MINNEAPOLIS .\E\VS. Patsy Cardiff and Prof. Donaldson had a glove contest at the Theatre Coinique last night. These sparrers have come together several times in Minneapolis, but they never gave a better or more scientific set-to. The house was packed and everybody was satis tied. It was not child's play, as the black ened eyes of tiie contestants will show. Peter Boyle, a machinist who works on the East side, fell off the bridge across River street over the Manitoba railway tracks last night, a distance of seventy-five feet and was painfully injured. The city physician was called and the injuries were found to be only severe bruises. Ed Put nam, a hack driver, was arrested last night forgetting into an altercation with the doorkeeper of the dime museum. By the Morphine Home. Special to the Globe, Omaha, Neb., April 9.— W. D. Carpen ter, who lost his situation in the Burling ton A Missouri River railway headquarters, about a week ago, died to-day from the effects of morphine, supposed to have been taken with suicidal intent. This makes the fourth suicide from morphine in Omaha in live days. ▲ Disastrous Fire. German-town, 0., April 9. — An explo sion of gasoline oofurred this evening, which was followed by a disastrous fire. The loss is roughly estimated at 880,000. John Koeppel, in whose store the explosion oc curred, was dangerously burned. Prominent Democrat Dead. Indianapolis, April 9. — Patrick Shan non, a banker of Terre Haute, and one of the best known Democratic politicians in the state, died at his home in that city to-day. He had beeu ill but a short time. GLADSTONE'S SCHEME For the Bale of Ireland Given a Vigor ous Turning Over in the House of Commons. Violent Opposition Speeches by Liberals, Among Them Those of Chamber lain and Hartington. Lubbock Says the Upshot Will be DU memberment-Morlejr'i Strong Defense. Debate to Close on Monday* the Bud get to Come Tuesday and the Land Bill Thursday. Yesterday In the Common*. London, April 9. — The house of com mons was again crowded. Among the visitors were the Dukes of Connaugbt and Cambridge and many peers aud ambassa dors. Although the attendance shared the intense interest that is taken In the debate on the Irish bill, public excitement has somewhat abated. Mr. Gladstone was cheered when he arose and said that the debate would be continued until Monday, when he hoped to close the discussion. He announced that the budget would be intro duced on Tuesday and the Irish land bill on Thursday, the latter being a necessary supplement to the home-rule bilL He pro posed that the house adjourn for a week at Easter. Mr. Chamberlain was received with faint cheers upon rising to resume the debate. He said that he rose more for the purpose of makiug a personal explanation than with the object of entering upon a de tailed discussion of the speech of Mr. Glad stoue. Continuing, he said that when he was asked to join the government be told Mr. Gladstone that he did not think it pos sible to reconcile a separate parliament at Dublin, as demanded by the Irish members. with the conditions of full guarantees for Die security of the empire, and Mr. Glad stone informed him that all he wanted then was an independent inquiry into the sub ject of the government of Ireland. He wrote a letter to Mr. Gladstone on Jan. 3. in which he explained that he could not consent to the establishment of A SEPARATE PARLIAMENT in Dublin, and it was on that understanding that he consented to join the cabinet He had presumed from what Mr. Gladstone had told him that the whole cabinet would proceed step by step in cousaltatiou to build a scheme for home rule not Involving sep paration. It was not until March 13 that Mr. Gladstone startled the cabinet by bring ing forward a scheme involving the issue of £150,000,000 in consols. At this point Mr. Gladstone interrupted and reminded Mr. Chamberlain that he had not received permission of her majesty's government to reveal the land proposals. Mr. Chamber lain' continuing, said that he would reserve his explanation. He did not resign on the laud-purchase proposals alone, but on the whole scheme. Still, he asked, how could he explain his position if his hands were tied. [Conservative cheers.] He asked if he might be permit ted to read his letter to Mr. Gladstone. Here an angry discussion took place be tween Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Gladstoue. The latter declared that he could not go beyond the limits of the permission given Mr. Chamberlain, who thereupon complained that his explanation would be lame and incomplete. He would never be able to justify his conduct to the house and to the country. He took four principal objections to the scheme for the govern ment of Ireland. The first was the pro posal to exclude the Irish members from Westminster. His second objection was to renouncing, as proposed, tm- exercise of the right of IMPERIAL TAXATION. In the third place he objected to the sur render of the appointmepts of judges and magistrates, and finally he objected to the supreme authority given to the Irish parlia ment in matters not specially excluded from its authority. Since he had loft the cabinet he said, an important change had been made by retaining power over the customs and excise duties, but the pro posal now appeared utterly inconsistent with the principal that taxation and representation should go together. He further objected to any scheme that laid upon the British taxpayer tre mendous liability with excessive risk, as such a project could ouly be looked upon as a bribe to modify the hostility of Irish land owners to home rule. He did not believe that the Irish people would agree to be deprived of all voice in the control of matters and policies in which they were deeply interested. and he asserted that Ireland was being asked to occupy a degrading position, which the people would never accept Further, the contribution which Ireland was to be called on to pay to the Imperial treasury was fixed by the scheme and could not be increased even in case the United Kingdom should be placed in a position of the direst peril, and w'lere then, he asked, was the integrity of the empire? The financial qnestion, he con tinued, divided itself into ten parts. The English taxpayer would object to ANT ADDITIONAL. Bt'KDEN being thrown on him to make good Irish deficiencies, and the Iri>h taxpayers, if there was a deficiency iv the budget owiue to the failure of excise and customs duties, would be called on to pay new taxes, failing iv which, the government would be obliged to repudiate their obligations. The scheme would be accepted grudgingly, aud in the course of two years there would be an at tempt to revise or alter it As for himself, rather than face the future agitation which would be certain to prevail between the two countries, rather than face the distractions and foreign complications which would arise by having a quasi-independent gov ernment, he would vote for separa tion pure and simple. (Loud cheers). The opponents of the government's scheme were told that the only alternative was coercion. That was not his alternative. The agrarian discontent bad arisen chiefly through evictions by landlords. lie would propose to deprive landlords of the power to evict for six months, quarantining them six months, the land being security for the sum advanced. During this period a peace commission, composed of members every section represented in parliament, could conduct an exhaustive inquiry into the land question. Besides this he looked for a solu tion of the home rule matter iv the direc tion of federation. He was not, he de clared, pedantically pledged to his former proposals for a national council. Under a federatlan Ireland would remain an integral portion of the empire. The principle of federation had been successful in Italy, Germany and America would be asserted. Maintain the imperial unity, and at the same time satisfy the desires of the Irish people for local self-government. MB. HEALY taunted Mr. Chamberlain with using his live years' experience to attack a minister of fifty years' experience. He ridiculed the scheme of Mr. Chamberlain as imprac ticable and as involving an indefinite post ponement of legislation. How could they, he asked, set up a federation in Ireland without first starting some kind of a local legislature. Mr. Chamberlain's speech was received with marked coldness. Sir John Lubbock (Liberal) said he believed if the bill passed at all it would be against the wishes of the great majority of the people of the country. The bill was entirely op posed to the views expressed by the premier in his Midlothian speeches, and it . result will be the dismemberment of the empire. Marquis Hartington rose to speak at 10 p. m. and was loudly cheered. It required, he said, no prolonged examina tion of the scheme submitted last uight with so much eloquence and ability to say the project for establishing future relations between this country and Ireland was one which It would be absolutely impossible for them to make themselves parties to. [cheers] The distinguishing feature of the act <>f union was the creation of one sover eign legislature, which was to be the sole legislative body for the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, aud it was the king dom thus legislatively united that was meant when they spoke of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [cheers]. The country, he said, had no sufficient warning, and it had KO WARNING at all that any proposals of the magnitude and vastuess ot those which were explained last night were to be considered in the present parliament, much less that they \stn- to form the lirst subject for consider ation. (Cheers]. The house of commons had no moral right to initiate legislation of which constituencies had not been pre viously informed. The result of the last election was not altogether what had been expected. The pMMSt triumph of the Liberal party was not as complete as had been anticipated, and if it had been known that the lirst work of the new parliament aud the liberal ministry was to be the en tire re-set ileiuunr ef tliu legislative relations between England and Ireland, it was im possible to say the result 11 not have been the return of a large Con servative majority. [Opi>osition cheers.] If the proposals of the prime minister were accepted by the Ir'sh members it would only give them vantage ground for demand ing fnx>h concoMnun. Whatever might be the fatu of the measure its introduction by a lesjKjnsible minister would have done murh that could never be recalled. [Cheers.] This measure would henceforth be the minimum of Irish demand. It, as be thought likely, it did not command the support of the people of the country, its introduction without adequate consideration or preparatiou would have added vastly to the great difficulties of the future govern ment of Ireland. [Cheers.] He could not believe the people of England would con sent to THE LOYAL MINORITY in Ireland being handed over to the major ity without more effectual aud more ade quate protection than was afforded by the provisions of this bill. [Loud cheers.] If the scheme was good for Ireland it was good equally for Scotland and Wales. If the latter demanded domestic legislatures of their own and the demand was conceded the result would be there would be a house of parliament with every Scotch and Welsh member excluded, acting as an Imperial leg islature for the whole of the United King dom. [Cheers.] If the people or England and Scotland thought injustice was being done to the minority iv Ireland that mi nority would not appeal to them in vain, aud lie feared tiiat in that way this bill, in troduced in the interests of peace, was likely to occasion more serious disturbance than any that had yet arisen. We cannot escape from responsibility by the delegation to auotber body of executive power which we know would be used by it in a manner we should condemn. Continuing, he said now that the people had been brought face to face with the al ternative of disruption of the empire or evils and calamities that would follow from the rejection of this scheme, they would, he believed, require that their rep resentatives should iv relation to Irish affairs agree to sink all minor differences [opposition cheers] aud unite as one man to hand dowu to their successors the great empire COMPACT AND COMPLETE as they inherited and maintain it through out its length aud breadth, undisputed supremacy of the law. Lord Hartington's speech met with a better reception than did that of Chamberlain. John Morley, on rising, was greeted with vociferous cheers by the Parnellites. He said the debate to night had been a painful one and he little thought at the last election he would be called upon in parliament to .vindicate his position against two of his oldest comrades in political arms, but the occasion had come and he agreed that the crisis found with them was they did not know what the suppression of the national league was. The failure of the policy of the present ministry would be the signal for the necessity of dealing with the league. That was not to be done by a pen and ink proclamation. It would mean the passing of a coercion act giving the executive in Ireland power to suppress meetings, arrest persons on suspicion, enter houses, and it would be necessary to lock up a good many priests. He called upon Lord Hartington for a statement as to how he would propose to rescue the country from a renewal of the past policy of vacillation, alternate hesita tion and precipitancy. The proposals of the ministry were, in their opinion, the only lines on which, under the system of FREE AND TOPCLAB institutions, the government of Ireland could possibly be carried on, and he (Mor ley) believed Irish legislation would be as capable as one in which private feeling must yield to public consideration, though be had little to fear. In ransacking of past utterances about Ireland he thought it would be better for purposes of high con stitutional debate to pass a great amnesty and abstain from an attempt to prove uo litical inconsistency. If members of par liament thought so ill of the people of Ireland as to think they would be in sym pathy with burglars and conspirators, let them not talk about free institutions. Let them show the courage of their opinions and say boldly what many of them thought, that Irishmen were not fit for self-govern ment and not ripe for representative insti tutions. Liberal as he was. Radical as he was, he would rather go up in lines of strong repression than proceed upon the policy that had been pursued for the last fifty years. Neither Chambeilain nor Hartington ap peared to realize that the immediate and pressing problem before parliament was how Ireland was to be governed. He re gretted that Chamberlain should have thought It necessary to have referred to Gladstone's statement during the civil war in the United States that the South made a nation that was MISTAKEN IN JUDGMENT. On a great historical occasion, but his tory- would judge it very leniently when it looked back upon Italy, Greece* and Bul garia, and now upon Ireland. As to the course which Chauiberlin advised should be pursued in preference to the scheme of the government, it was the most extraordin ary proposal ever made by a person of Chamberlain's eminence ai.d character. Preliminary measures would not pass in a hurry, and when passed they were only to prepare the way for a scheme of federation which only existed in Cham berlain's active and energetic brain. The late government did not play with a serious danger. Those who recognized the danger would be disposed to give the government proposals for consideration. If they dif fered from them they ought to be prepared with an alternative policy, and they ought to make that policy conciliatory and com plete. On motion of Lord Churchill the debate was adjourned. HARTINGTON AND SALISBURY. Lord Hartington, in an interview with Lord Salisbury to-day, arranged that no motion should be made against the home rule bill until the second reading. Lord Hartington do*** not Intend to propose an alternative scheme, though he will oppose Mr. Gladstone's bill root and branch. Mr. G haniberlain has also rejected overtures from the Conservatives for a coalition. Among the various Radical workinz men's clubs the feeling is in favor of Mr. Gladstone. Several meetings were held to-night to dis- OM the project of a grand mass demon* stration in support of the home-rule bill. It is understood that the Tory and Whif leaders of the opposition to Mr. Gladstones Irish scheme preferred to force a decision on the first reading of the bill, but abandoned the idea because of Mr. Chamberlain's strong opposition to it. Burns, the Socialist leader, In defending himself aud his colleagues to-day during their trial on the charge of having incited ( ontinued ra leurlk fare. SPOONEE SLANDERED. The Olaim That He Represented the Sionx Oity Before the Senate and Supreme Oouxt False. Woman Suffrage Eeceives a Boost in the Defeat of Eustis' Washington Territory Amendment. A Chronic Objector Prevents the House From Sending Gladstone Its Sympathy. SUlson Hutchlna Refuses to Publish Rogers' Poetry for 910,000 Pan-Electric Stock. An Injustice to Itlr. Spooner. Special to the Globe. Washington, April 9. — This morning a New York paper contained a story about Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, that is false in essential particulars and does him great injustice. Senator Spooner was the at torney for the Sioux City <fc St. Paul Railroad company before the supreme court In the case recently argued to de termine certain rights in the public lands. The senate recently passed a bill providing for the settlement in the courts of the rival claims of the road named and the Chicago, Milwaukee «fc St. Paul Rail road company. The story published this morning is to the effect that Senator Spooner not only represented the Sioux City & St. Paul road before the supreme court, but also in the senate, and made great efforts to attach to the bill referred to an amendment that was of great interest to the Sioux City & St. Paul. but did not succeed. The fact is that the amendment the senator from Wisconsin of fered was adopted by a very large majority, and it was in the interest of the Milwaukee road. The Milwaukee company did com plete its road within the time stipulated, and it DID NOT SEEM JUST that the lauds it had earned should be thrown into litigation. The Sioux City & St. Paul never did complete its road, and it was proper enough that its claims should go to the courts. The Milwaukee road is a rival of the line for which Mr. Spooner has tor some years been the attorney, and it was the other party in the litigation in which Mr. Spooner represented the Sioux City & St. Paul, so that Mr. Spooner, as senator, was not even on the same side of the case as Mr. Spooner, the attorney. Furthermore, Senator McMillan offered the amendment which would have given the Sioux City &St Paul its pro rate share of a land grant for two- thirds of a ten-mile sec tion, which it did complete, and for which it never got any land patented to it, because the law provided that the land should be certified to in ten-mile sections. Although Mr. Spooner had been the attorney of this road, he did not believe that, under the law, it was entitled to this piece of land claimed, and he voted against Senator Mc- Millan's amendment, which was defeated. WASHINGTON TERRITORY. Eustis' Limitation of Suffrage Anieudmaut Defeated. Washington, April 9. — Senator lngalls (by request) introduced in the senate a bill to provide for the appointment of aboard of arbitration to examine and settle differ ences between railroad companies and their employes. Hon. George Hearst of Califor nia was sworn in as a senator. . Mr. Frye took the Hour in support of his resolution on the fisheries, urging that Great Britain had always had the best of the United States in regulating treaties and that this government had never derived any benefit from the treaty of Washington. Secretary Bayard recommended a joint commission and he and the president had fallen into the diplomatic trap of Mr. West. Mr. Morgan said the president simply proposed negoti ation. The Washington Territory admis sion bill was then placed before the senate, the pending question being on Mr. Eustis' proposed amendment limiting the right of suffrage in the proposed new state to qual ified male electors only. Mr. Butler said he would vote against the amendment. Mr. Beck favored the amendment and spoke in its support. He would do everything in his power, he said, to advance the condition of woman, but was not prepared to Rive them tbe right of suffrage now. His main reason for this was that the constitution prohibited any dis crimination on account of race or color. Senators could not give the right of suffrage to the most IXTELLJOEST WOMAN in America without giving it to the most ig norant negro woman of the South. He read the provisions of the United States consti tution as to citizenship and naturalization, and said they ought to apply in Wasbingtou territory. Men who might tie six months in a territory and might have declared an inten tion to become citizens, which intention they might abandon in a moment, were not the class of men who ought to be allowed to take possession of a great territory and frame its constitution and fundamental laws. Mr. Teller said: 1 hardly expected that the senator from Kentucky would have thrown any obstacles in the way of people becoming citizens of the United States. If that senator were now in his own country I doubt very much whether he would be a "home-ruler." I doubt whether Mr. Beck would be in sympathy with the struggling people of Ireland or with the great statesman who just made the world ring with noble utterances in behalf of self-govern ment. Mr. Gladstone's speech was the great est ever made on the subjeot to which it re lated, and made by probably tho greatest man of the age. Gladstone's words will live as long as the English language lives. As to woman suffrage, I believe it would be one of the greatest blessings to civilization. Mr. Eustis said: My amendment limiting the right of suffrage to qualified male electors did not dis franchise woman, because woman has no right to vote to-day, so far as the purposes of the bill are concerned. When congress au thorized tho formation of this territory it liuited suffrage to male citizens. Mr. Butler— The limit was only male at the first election under the territorial govern ment. THE ATMOSPHERE OF REFORM. Mr. Eustis— am suspicious when I see Republican unanimity on the question of ad mission of a state. lam aware that we are now living in a very highly-scented atmos phere of reform. | Laughter, Mr. Edmunds (sotto voce) — Yes, very highly scented, lndeed. It "smelts to heaven." [Renewed laughter.] Mr. Eustis — I know that under the saintly leadership of the Eatonian school of political philosophy we are ceasing to be partisans, and are to become reconciled to a life of po litical monasticism, but I will continue to { have one falling, viz. : In my humble way to be vigilant of the purposes, designs and craft of the Republican leaders as I have endeav ored to do in th« past. Mr. Butler said: If I were to believe in woman suffrage and had the power to confer it, I would be far from conferring it on all women. If, too, I had the power of conferring manhood suff rage, I wo uld be fax from conferring it on all men. I believe many of the troubles of the country have arisen, and will continue to arise, from universal manhood suffrage. That form of suffrage established by the re construction laws in the South, with almost universal ignorance among the class exercis ing It, has kept the South long upon a vol cano. '•'-. ▲ SENSIBLE CONCLUSION. Mr, Voorhees said: I am opposed to female suffrage, but regard it in this instance as a matter for the people of Washington territory to settle for them selves. 1 think the time is coming, too, when the question of woman suffrage will have to be faced aquarlov and intelligently. Burke has said that statesmanship was th» science of circumstances, and circumstances might hereafter arise when it would be not merely policy, but statesmanship to give i woman the ballot. I do not think the time I ripe yet. Mr. Blackburn thought the bill as It stood a departure from the settled practice of the government. He favored Mr. Eustis' amend NO. 10 0. meat, and said if the people »f tnw proposed state wanted to confer suffrage on women, they could «k> so, without interference by congress, at the first sesaloa of the new state legislature. He would not consent that con gress should by this bill strike from the people of Washington territory the power to nx the suffrage for themselves. Mr. Morgan supported Mr. Eustis' amend ment and -nronjfly opposed woman suffrage. He paid an eloquent tribute to the graces and virtues of women and their controlling influ eooe upon civilization. The banner of Chris tianity, be declared, was upbeld by the wo men. If it were to depend upon the men we would retrograde three centuries In three weeks. He would not put upon women the burdens that should be borne by men. He would keep keep her out of politics and out of associations with dirty pot-house politi cians. One bad woman could undo the good that many good women could do, and the bal- Jot in the bunds of a corrupt woman was the most dangerous instrumentality for t»vil tbat the world bad ever seen. The Eustis amendment was rejected — yeas, 12; nays, 25. The yeas were Messrs. Beck, Berry, Coke, Eustis, Gorman, Gray, Ingails, Jackson, Maxey, Pugh, Saulisbury and Walthall. A 1111 111 her of pairs were announced, Mr. Morgan among them. Among the senators voting against Mr. Eustis' amendment was Mr. Edmunds. The senate then adjourned till to-morrow. A PKL\C£LY OFFER DECLINED. Rovers Couldn't Bribe Hutching to Publihh IIW Poetry. Washington, April 9.— Mr. Stilson Hutch ins of the Washington Post appeared before the telephone investigating commit tee to-day, and being questioned by the chairman as to his offer to buy Senator Vest's Pau-Electric stock, he gave a history of the transactions: An advertisement had appeared In the col umns of bis paper offering to purchase Pan- Electric stock, and Senator Vest, who was ill at the time, had sent witness a note asking witness to come and see him. He had gone to the senate chamber aud saw Senator Vest in the lobby. The senator wanted to inquire whether he knew who was the author of th« advertisement in his paper. Witness did not know, and alter inquiry had failed to flud out. He returned and told Senator Vest tbat ho could not find out, and the senator said that he hud a certificate for 100 shares of Pan-Electric stock. He said the news papers were making so much clamor about it tbat if he could tlud a bona fide purchaser lor It he did not know but he would sell it. In a SPASM OP OtNEROSITT, witness supposed, he told Senator Vest that he would take the stock at the price the sena tor had paid for it. The senator made no conclusive response at the time, but after wards wrote to witness, thanking him for his offer and stating that considering the clamor to be unjust he hud come to the conclusion that he would retain the stock. Witness bad the note, if the committee desired to embel lish the proceedings with it. He never bait a share of the stock and knew nothing about its value at the time he made the proposition. He hud once been offered a considerable amsuut of Pan-Electric stock to publish Dr. Rogers' poetry, but he had declined. [Laughter.] Mr. Oates— Did you think the poetry was as good as the stock? Witness— l thought both very bad. I neve* read tho poetry. 1 once read "Invocation td Jeff Davis." by Rogers, and mentally resolved never to read another poem of his. Mr. Ranney — Was the stock sent to you as an inducement to read the poetry? Witness— l think his letter stated that the stock was coming up In the market, that he had written poetry which he would 11 ke to have published, and that if I would publish it he would give me $10,000 in Pan-Eiectrio stock. Adjourned. Would Sympathize with Gladstone. Washington. April 9.— The house went into committee of the whole on the private calendar. When the committee rose Mr. O'Neil of Missouri asked unanimous consent for the present consideration of the following resolution: Resolved, Tbat the house of representatives of the United States earnestly sympathizes with the lit. Hou. William E. Gladstone and his associates in their efforts to secure a free parliament for the people of Ireland, and congratulate the people cf that hitherto un happy country on the prospect of an early aud successful termination of their long and patriotic struggle for the rights of loyal sel> governmeat. Resolved, That the speaker of the house be directed to communicate a copy of these- res olutions to Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Cox of North Carolina objected and the resolutions were not received. A recess to 7:10 was taken, the evening session to be for the consideration of pension bills. At its evening session the house passed twenty-five pension bills and adjourned till to-morrow. live Stock Inspectors. Washington', April 9. — The house com mittee on commerce to-day instructed Rep resentative Dunham to report favorably hit bill to authorize the president to appoint inspectors of live stock, dressed meats and houie products intended for foreign ship ment, to a number not exceeding fifteen for any one customs district It shall be the duty of these inspectors, upon application, to inspect live stock, hog product, or dressed meats submitted for their inspection, and to furnish a written certificate of the result of such inspection. This certificate shall accompany any of these articles which it is intended to ship abioad. The bill makes it a misdemeanor punishable by fine, impris onment and forfeiture of goods to import into the United States any adultarated or unwholesome food or liquor, and author izes the president to suspend the importa tion of any article which he has good reason to believe is injurious to the health or wel fare of the people. Somebody Has Lied. Wasiiixgton, April 9. — The acting sec retary of the treasury has received tele grams from the collector, surveyor and superintendent of the mint at San Fran cisco denying that any discourtesy was shown the Chinese embassador, asserting, on the contrary, that the envoy expressed thauks to the surveyor for- the courtesy shown him, and invited the surveyor to call on him at his hotel. Washington Waif*. Secretary Manning continues to improve, slowly. He is very anxious to ait up again, and the doctor told him that he would allow aim to do so to-day. The postmaster general, accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Vilas, and several other ladies, visited several bureaus of the depart ment yesterday. The ladies were much pleased with the dead-letter office. Thoie Who Were Saved. Special to the Globe. Boston, April 9.— The mutiny which re sulted in the burning of the Boston ship Frank A. Thayer in the South Atlantic ocean in Janury will be recalled as one of the bloodiest tragedies of the sea in recent history. Seven of . the crew of the ship reached this city to-day from St. Helena. Their names are William St. Clair of San Francisco, August Koper of Germany, John K. Inman and Robert San born of Sweden, Louis Anson, H. Wilson and C. Henderson of Norway. They state that Capt. Clash and Mate Holmes were very abusive and that was the undoubted cause of the mutiny. It was a common thing tor the noise of beating and clubbing sailors to be heard in the night, and this accounts for no notice being taken of the * mutiny in which two men only were concerned until hey had secured possession of the ship, which they held for more than twenty-four hours. The two manilla men, who com mitted the murders, were frequently beaten and it was the outrageous conduct Inflicted on them which led to the mutiny. The men give detailed accounts of their brutal treat ment and also a story of the mutiny similar to that which has been already printed. The Russian ministry has opposed a project to lay a pipe line, for the conveyance of oil, from the Baker petroleum fields, on the Cas« plan sea. to Black sea ports.