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VOL. XV.
SARCASTIC STEVENS.
Ec Rushes Into Print to An
swer Cleveland.
IS INNOCENT AS A CHILD.
Diplomatic Chicanery Mere
Infamous Than Bayonets.
QUEEN'S IMMORAL FAVORITE.
Wilson Comes In for a Share
of the Billingsgate.
BOTHING HEW IN HIS STORY.
Augusta, Me., Dec. 20.— Ex-Mmister
Stevens tonight made the following
reply to President Cleveland's message
aud bis criticisms of Mr. Steveus' offi
cial conduct:
"Only once in our political history
has a majority of the congress of tne
Uniteu States solemnly resolved in
favor of impeaching the occupant
oi :!.e executive chair. Probably it
was well that the effort to re
move Andrew Johnsou from his
office was arrested just on the briuk
oi success. •The great reluctance of
the conservative men of the country to
remove the chief executive for abuse of
power seems to have encouraged Presi
dent Cleveland to resort to the extraor
diuary measure of overturning the
provisional government of Hawaii,
while as much as possible concealing
his arbitrary design from the American
congress and the American people.
Loul; at the historical tacts dis
passionately, and no oiie wili deny
that the lines of usurpation aud in
justiceon which President Cleveland
and the secretary of state have actea
since the 7th of March last, coupled with
the ex-parte star-chamber course of
Commissioner LJlount relative to the ac
cepted testimony of Liliuokalaui's
fallen aud corrupt mi ulsters, are
more sweeping and more hostile to
Anglo-Saxon liberty than the acts
ci George 111. and the Lord North
ministry, which drove the American
colonies to successful revolt. There is
nothing iv American history more
Shameful in its scope of injustice and
tyranny than the attempt of President
Cleveland and Secretary Gresham to
crush out libel ty and American inter
ests in Hawaii by the threat to restore
the extinct Hawaiian monarchy by force
oi arms or by
DIPLOMATIC CHICANERY
and pressure, more infamous, if possi
ble, than the use of bail and bayonet.
President Cleveland's recent special
message, in which he so severely criti
cises the course of the American minis
ter at Honolulu, is but a feeble repe
tition of the statement of Secretary
Gresham, previously published. In my
answer to Blouiu's report, extensively
published in the United states, I
showed conclusively, as did Min
ister Tliurston, and other thor
oughly responsible witnesses have
shown, that the allegations in that
report against the official conduct of
Capt. Wiltse and myself are grossly uu
.true, are in manifest antagonism to all
reasonable probabilities and logic of
the situation in Honolulu in January
last. President Cleveland's grossly un
true and shamefully unjust allegation
against myself and the naval com
mander rests entirely on the statements
of the four notoriously corrupt
ministers of the fallen queen,
of Wilson, the queen's favorite,
and other thoroughly discredited testi
mony. 1 repent here what has been
amply verified again and again, that
neither by force or by threat of force, or
by any action of mine, was the fall of
the monarchy precipitated. From th*
hour on which 1 entered on my duties
as the head of the United States |
.legation, to the termination of
:uy official responsibility* i main-
Taiued the determination to call
on the naval commander for
aid only in the event that American life
and property were in danger. Cau
tiousiy but firmly, perhaps some times
too silently, I made this my fixed rule
of action, not only to the representa
tives of the queen, but to the leaders of
the parties who saw no safe alternative
for the welfare of the islands but in the
total abolishment of toe monarchy. If
President Cleveland sees fit to make a
point against
MY OFFICIAL CONDUCT
that months before the vents of last
January I had advocated annexation,
he deliberately and purposely conceals
that what 1 said in my dispatch in
November, 1892, was a confidential
statement to the department of state of
. the true condition of affairs in Hawaii,
a report of facts which by the established
rules and practice of diplomacy I was
in duty bound to make known to my gov
ernment. At that date my opinions
were so privately held that both in
Honolulu and California it was believed
that the American minister was averse
to annexation. For months prior to the
date of this dispatch there had been a
continual struggle between the legisla
ture and the queen as to their respective
rights regarding the constitu
tion and the responsibility of
cabinet ministry after the ministry
had been appointed in defiance of
the votes of the legislature and respon
sible public opinion. The queen, her
in. moral favorite, Wilson, and the lot
tery ring openly denied the legislature
and the property holders of the islands.
Only the remarkable self-possession of
the respectable and responsible men of
the islands prevented an outbreak and
the overthrow of the monarchy
at an earlier day. The self
possession and forbearance of the
men thus defied by the monarchy
and its parasites, were remarkable, con
sidering that they were enduring abuses
and scandals which no American city or
stale would tolerate these days. But
when the queen and her favorite, Wil
son, yielded by the appointment of
the Jones-Wilcox cabinet, men of
the highest respectability and re
sponsibility, thirty-three of them
men of wealth, wishing not
lor office, confidentially reached
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the conclusion, as the close of the legis
lature was near, that this ministry
would be able io carry on the govern
ment safely for the following eighteen
months and until the election of a new
legislature. In this belief I left Hono
lulu in the United States ship Boston
Jau. 4on a trip to Hiio, 250 miles from
Honolulu, the first time for many
mouths when I had deemed it
SAFE TO LEAVE HONOLULU.
In the ten days of our absence from
the legation 1 had known no more of
what had been transpiring in Honolulu
than though I had been at that time in
Washington. CapC Wiltse and myself,
on the Boston, arrived in the harbor of
Honolulu on the forenoon of Jan. 14.
I was completely taken uy surprise at
what the queen, the palace associates
and the lottery gang haa accom
plished in ten days. The remon
strances of the chamber of commerce, of
the numerous petitions of some of the
best people of the islands, both whites
and natives, and the earnest pleadings'
of those who bad previously adhered to
the monarchy, had been defiantly dis
regarded. I found the city in great ex
citement and learned that for many
days there had been an obvious desire
for the return of the Boston, and
this desire was strong among the
more thoughtful supporters of the
monarchy, as well as among the great
body of the responsible citizens. The
surging irresistible tide of revolution
was then obvious to all persons not will
fully blind. I attempted togain access
to the queen and try by friendly advice
to arrest the revolution. It was too
late. The mobs of royal retainers were
already gathering to the palace to
aid the queen to carry out her
plan of overturning the constitution.
What took place at the palace the after
noon of Jan. 14 ended the Hawaiian
monarchy forever. Chief Justice Judd,
who has held his office for year*, always
conservative, a supporter of the inou
archy, in a recent great public meetine
in Honolulu gives the following accouut
as to
HOW THE MONARCHY FELL:
"I will not here repeat what 1 before
said to the American public as to the
falsity of the charges that the queen
was driven from her throne by Amer
ican force, by the threat of American
force in a;iy form or manner whatever.
As to the landing of the Boston marines
Jan. 16, 1 only did what had been done
on a previous Hawaiian crisis
by Commander Woodward, on the
request of Minister Merrill, act
ing under tho Cleveland-Bayard
order Aug. 1. 1889." The following is
the language of Minister Merrill's re
port to the department of state: "As
many with alarm were coming to the
legation, 1 at once requested Com-
Miamier Woodward to send to the lega
tion a body of marines, which request
he promptly complied with. The ap
pearance of the marines on the street
and at the legation had a favorable ef
fect on the populace."
At that time the United States lega
tion was near the royal palace, at a less
distance than the Anon hall, of which
Cleveland and Blount speak of as so
commanding. Of the hall 1 had never
heard until a lodeing place was needed
for tbe marines after they had
landed— a hall that 1 have never
yet seen. By an accurate map,
just received from Bouolulu.it is ob
vious that this hall does not command
the palace. The president's statement
that the three points at which our smali
navai force were placed was not favora
bly chosen for the protection or Amer
ican life and pi( p.';ty is
RADICALLY AN ERr.OR.
as all k;iow who ure familiar with the
map and the buildings of Honolulu.
The American is reported being iv all
the various sections of the city. Be
sides, the Cleveland-Bayard dispatch of
Juiy 12, 18S7, instructs the minister and
naval commander to maintain public
ordt-r, to protect American life and
property, and to preserve public order.
Especially to prevent incendiarism dur
ing the night, it was necessary tnat
naval marines should be centrally lo
cated.
The representations of tiie president
that the queen and Wilson had sufficient
force in the limited area of the police
station to sustain the monarchy, is no
toriously absurd to all honest persons
acquainted with the facts. If the queen
bad this force, wUy nad it not been en
tered while the outraged people were
openly holding their great mass meeting
and making their arrangements for the
establishment of a new government?
Why did Wilson and his so-called force
wait until the outraged citizens gath
ered with their rifles and bottled them
up in the police station house? Why
did the queen's representatives call at
tiie United States legation on the 17th
and ask the aid of the United States for
the support of herself? There uever
was a more
PREPOSTEBOTJB ASSUMPTION
that this assertion of the president,
that the queen, Jan. 17. had ample force
to sustain her, and to enable her to
carry on the government. This
studiously maintained assumption of
the president is based on the testimony
of the notoriously corrupt representa
tives of the rings that surrounded
the queen. That the Hawaiian
monarchy was overturned by United
States force was and is put forth for the
sole purpose of bringing discredit ou
the preceding administration at Wash
ington, and on the action of the foreign
relations committee of the United States
senate in favor of annexation. It re
mains to be seen if the American con
gress and Americans will approve the
conspiracy to make war on the provis
ional government at Hawaii, and
use military forces of the
United states, or the diplomatic
pressure of tiie United States for the
restoration or" a semi-oarbarous queen
in wanton defiance of the best American
opinions and antecedents, and by an ex
cessive use of executive power "against
an American colony, more positive and
more excusable than which George 111.
aud his ministers sought to impose on
the American colonies that formed the
government of the United States.
Joux L. Stevens.
Jesse Funk Indicted.
St. Louis, Dec. 20.— The coroner's
jury in the case of Jesse Funk, the lad
who murdered his father a few nights
ago, at Pittsfield, Mo., brought in a ver
dict of very probable guilt, and directed
that the boy be held without bail for
trial for murder iv the first degree.
Slugged and Robbed.
Forest, Mass., Dec. 20.— J. H. Bee
mau, ex-cougressmau from this district,
was called to the door of his residence,
near Ely. last niuht by two masked
men, and, after being brutally beaten,
waa robbed of $350. He is seriously
injured.
SAINT PADL MINN., THTJKSDAY HORNING, .DECEMBER 21, 1893.
VERY EXOITIHB ROBBERY.
ROBBER GIVEN A LONG CHASE BY
HIS VICTIM.
IT HAPPEMiD AT NOONDAY.
Henry Pnetz Arrives in St. Paul.
Is Picked Up by a "Con." Man
and Robbed of $210 in an East
Seventh Street Saloon — Kobber
Escapes After a Chase of Sev
eral Blocks.
Henry Puetz arrived in St. Paui yes
terday morning wiin ?2lu iv his posses
sion. It is not improbable that had he
been allowed to keep his money till
evening it would have been taken from
him by highwaymen. This. Dowever.
was not the case, but he was swindled
by three card monte sharks at noon out
of all his cash, so the result is practi
cally ttie same. Puetz was accosted
near the corner of Third and Jackson
streets by one of the numerous "steer
ers" who infest the city and taken to
the Mascotte saloon, at ISS East Seventh
I street. Here he was swindled, or
I rather robbed of his money in one of
I the rooms iv the rear of the saloon.
The police ciaim he was not robbed,
but lost his cash betting on a card
game. According to their system
there is a distinction between
the terms, but Puetz, who lacks
; experience such as all detectives have,
| fails to see any difference. A witness
to the swindle states that Puetz did not
bet on any game, but was taunted by
! the cans with having no money. In
order to prove that he did have he
"flashed his roll," and it was grabbed
by one of the gang. Puetz was then
taken out of the saloon by a rear en-
J trance, and the "steerer," who went
with him, endeavored to lose him.
Puetz, however, would not be lost, and
when the fellow attempted to leave
j him at the corner of Eighth and Stoley
streets, Puetz kept right at his heels.
Tiie swindler started on a run, but
Puetz followed suit, and at the same
time shouted "Stop that man." Down
Sibley street to Sixth ran the confi
dence man, with Puetz a lengtn
or two behind. A crowd, at
tracted by the shouts of Puetz,
accompanied him in the chase, and had
there been a policeman within half a
dozen blocks of the scene the fellow
might have been captured. As it was,
he turned into an alley just east of the
Ryan hotel, and was lost to sight.
From a man who was in the Mascotte
saloon at the time it was learned that
the "con" man entered the rear door of
the place, passed through and out the
front door, lie walked to the corner of
Seventh and Robert streets and toot a
Grand avenue car while the "sucker"
and the crowd were searching the alley
for him. Pueiz finally founi a police
officer, and, after stating the tacts to
him, was taken to the office of Chief
Garvin. Up to midnight last night no
arrest had been made, although the
detectives were said to be working on
the cuse.
B .RCHAUD ON TRIAL.
Evidence in Case of Man Who
Killed iiis Father.
Special to the Glodc
St. Cloud, Minn., Dec. 20.— Gustav
Barchard was placed on trial today
upon a charge of murder in the first de
gree, for killing his father, who was
ninety-four years of ate. The crime of
which young Barchard is accused was
committed last October. The most of
the day was takeu up in impaneling a
jury. County Attorney Sullivan pre
sented the case this afternoon, and sr.id
that the state would attempt to prove
j the charge on circumstantial evidence.
The doctors who made the autopsy were
the witnesses this afternoon, and gave
much expert testimony. It is claimed
that the murdered man was killed by a
blow oti the head, and the defense is
attempting to show tiiat this wound was
the result of an accident.
TRIED TO KILL. HIMSELF.
But Was Unsuccessful, and Told
an Untruth.
I Special to the Globe.
Winoxa. Minn.. Dec. 50.—Investiga
tion by Chief of Police Bogart has
I proven that Rudolf Petrick, who claimed
i to have been shot at La Moille last
j week by a tramp, thereby losing his
j right eye, made au attempt to commit
j suicide, going to the top of a bluff to
carry out his purpose. After the shot
he fell over the precipice of the bluff, a
distance of some fifty feet, the traces ot
the fall being plainly evident in the
snow. His cap and pools of blood were
fouud there. When confronted with
these facts Fetrick admitted his guilt.
Fine Iron Ore Deposits.
Ditlutfi. Minn., Dec. 20.— What ap
pear to be valuable deposits of iron ore
! have just been discovered close to the
' surface on sections 5 and 6. township
I 57, range 17. This is directly south of
I township SS, range 17, which is the
wealthiest township on the Mesaba.
These finds apparently indicate that the
ore deposits extend considerably to the
south, thus increasing materially the
area of the deposits.
Shop and House Burned.
Special to ibe Globe.
Winsted, Minn.. Dec 20.— The har
ness shop and residence of A. Smolke
was nearly destroyed by fire this after
noon. Cause, a defective chimney. The
full extent of Mr. Smolke's loss is not
yet ascertained. The building was in
sured.
Gets a Hoiier Mill.
Special to the GloDe.
Hancock, Dec. 20. — A special elec
tion was held to decide upon giving a
bonus of ?900 to have the Biver Park
mill moved to Hancock, which was pur
chased for $3,000 from T. Lien and Jule
Nelson by N. Paulson and A. Larson.
The bouus carried by a large majority.
Found Dead by Her Son.
Special to the Globe.
Lake City, Minn., Dec. 20.— Mrs.
Margaret Cronin, who resided alone in
the lower part af town, was found dead
by her son this morning. Deceased
was a widow about seventy-eight years
of age. and old age and heart failure
were the causes of her demise.
HARRISON ON STRIKES.
THE EX-PRESIDENT GROWS TALKA
TIVE AFTER DINNER.
ADVICE TO YOI.VG MEN.
Sad and Dangerous Fact That
Capital and Labor Are Antag
onistic, Too Often as Enemies
—He Winds Up His Talk Tell
ing What He Knows About
Trusts.
Philadelphia, Dec. 20.—Ex-Presi
dent Benjamin Harrison was the chief
guest at a dinner given in his honor fay
Thomas May Pierce at the Belle
vue this afternoon. In the even
ing the ex-president delivered
an address at the commencement
exercises of the Pierce Business college
in the Academy of Music The address
was In tne main confined to advice to
young men, but there were portions of
it which dealt with public matters. Of
strikes and labor organizations the
speaker said generally: "It is a
sad nnd dangerous fact that capital and
labor are organized to fight each other;
that the laboring man is taught to re
gard his employer as an antagonist—
too often as an enemy— and that
the greedy or vexed and impa
tient employer, distrustful of what he
regards as unwarranted interference
with the business, is sometimes
too ready to treat a workman with a
grievance as he would treat a jolting,
unbalance! machines— throw it into
the scrap pile.Like the armed peace now
maintained in Europe, this situation is
costly and dangerous. Every benevolent
and thoughtful man is anxious and
distressed. I sup Dose a Just and ppr
fect peace will not be established until
the kingdom of the elder brother is set
up throughout the world and the golden
rule becomes the law of human life.
THE BIGHT TO ACQUIRE
is more important to the poor man than
to the rich. Many reforms are weak
ened by their exelusiveness— the invi
tation is net wide enough. Men are put
on the other side because of their sur
roundings, or the color of their skins,
without a chance to make their own
choice, it is the, most whole
some and saving fact that
the working people of the United States
so generally reject the teachings of ao
archy. The workman is a producer,
the anarchist a destroyer, and fellow
ship is impossible. How shall the poor
be helped by the destruction of
other men's property, or by as
sassination? When doors ace
barred and the streets are
full of tumult and men's iiearts of fear,
is there any harvest for toil? There is
only one good thing about these evil
times, an.l that is good will. They
give men an opportunity to show their
concern for each other. The will
of the largest brotherhood is
being called, and men see with
great wonder how great the family is.
How many idle workmen now see that
it is not safe to assume that the employ
ers' interest and theirs are wholly an
tagonistic, or that one umbrella may
not shelter both. Is not the con
clusion too clear to escape the most
sluggish understanding, that hard titn c
for the employer caunot be good times
for the employe? A brisk and regular
demand for the products of labor at fair
prices is the only safe support of ilie
wage scale, as it is of dividends."
CONCERNING TP.CSTS
Mr. Harrison has this to say: "As be
tween natural persons, using their busi
ness pursuits only powers ■ that are
common to all, competition is upon a
reasonably fair basis. But it has been
found convenient, and probably neces
sary to create artificial persons, called
corporations, and to confer upon them
special powers— such as perpetuity of
life, limited liability of the sharehold
ers, the rieht to appropriate another
man's property without his consent
upon making compensation, to take
toils, etc. Those endowed corpora
tions, in many branches or busi
ness become the competitors of natural
persons, and in all powerfully
affect and influence trade. They have
been, perhaps, the greatest factor in the
rapid development of the national
wealth — they are indispensable, but tbe
magnitude and multitude of these
corporations — the enormous powers
they possess aLd the often elus
ive character of their owner
ship and manairemeut surest restraint,
control and limitation. We have been
most profligate In our grants of these
special powers, but the mistake will not
be corrected, but duplicated, by a policy
of destruction. Here as elsewhere, pas
sion epithets hinder the truth and
retard reform. Persecution has so
strong a reaction ttiat it may
even popularize a corporation.
The capital error in our legislation has
been the failure to limit and to super
vise corporate securities: to require
that the stock shall represent an invest
ment, and that the investment snail be
adequate to the enterprise, tliat credit
ors may be secured, and that the public
may not be tolled or the _
LABOBEBB* WAGES CUT
to pay interest or dividends on securi
ties that do not stand for investments.
The restraint of trusts and combines
and corners by which some particular
article of commerce is monopo
lized, either permanently or tor
a time, is another obvious
and urgent duty. They unsettle
that fair balance of things, that equality
of opportunities, whicb must be pre
served, if the poor are to be content and
the rich secure. But neither is this the
work of thoughtless passion. What is
done should be done with discrimina
tion, calmness and justice."
The ex-president condemns lynching
in the following terms: -These frinht
iul lvnchings that the daily papers
record, witli their shocking incidents of
cruelty, shame our civilization. The
victims are the poor and weak and
the adequacy of the courts to punish
such has never been impeached. Tbe
tendency of such acts is not to
repress crime, but to propagate hate
and to incite the vicious to revenge— to
brutalize not only the participants,
but those who read the bloody story. It
is not enough openly to con
demn such crime. We must rr.ake
the sentiment of disapproval
dominant, and boldly reinforce
the officers of the law. If a crime is
done in the uame of temperance or
labor, or if in any other good cause, or
bides under its skirts, the friends of that
good cause should If ad the chase after
the law-breaker and never rest until
they have thoroughly disassociated the
good cause aud the bad mau."
Tomorrow evening the ex-pre9ident's
reception at the Union league wili take
place. Two thousand invitatious Uave
been sent out.
ALL BUSINESS SUSPENDED,
THINGS GETTING SERIOUS FOR THE
BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT.
BANKS ALL CLOSED DOWN
Admiral Mello's Fleet Pouring in
Hot Shot, and Things Looking
Blue for Peixoto — Serious Naval
Engagement Said to Have
Takeu Place — Protection of
Foreign Commerce Impossible.
[Copyrighted. 1533, by the Associated Press.]
London, Dec. 20.— The Times will
publish tomorrow the following; dis
patch from Rio de Janeiro dated Dec.
10. via Montevideo Dec. 20:
"Since my last dispatch the insur
gents have directed a heavy rifle and
machine gun fire on the shore front,
driving the government troops from
the custom house, Largo da Paco
and other points. Consequently all
busine s of the city is practically
stopped, the banks are closed, and there
is no communication between the ship
plug and the shore. The heavy artillery
fire continues. Thursday afternoon
when the garrison of Yillegaignon was
dining a shell from a ten-inch Armstrong
gun on Fort Sao Joao penetrated the
caiements,killing five men and seriously
wounding nine others. Friday five men
at Fort Villegaiguon were wounded.
Nictheroy is quiet, and only occasional
shots from the batteries are tired against
Cobras island. The government Thurs
day attempted to retake Governador
island, but the insurgents surround
ed the invaders, who comprised a
thousand men and some artillery.
Gen. Telles commanding, cutting off
their retreat. The government troops,
ou landing, began firing at a small in
surgent hospital for contagious diseases
and then the main body appeared and
advanced without seeing Admiral da
Gama, who, with 200 men and four
field guns was concealed iv the
brushwood on rising ground. When
the government troops were 300 yards
distant, the insurgent battery opened
fire from the four guns.firiug 6 JO rounds
in two hours and also directing a heavy
machine gun and rifle lire upon the en
emy, killing and severely wounding
many, Gen. Telles was one of the first
wounded. The government troops broke
immediately and fled i:i ail directions.
The insurgents had seven wounded.
Steam launches posted near the fort
report that uo fugitives have yet at
tempted ts re-cross to the mainland, and
it is thought probable that the govern
ment troops are entrapped and that
they wiil surrender. During the skir
mishes on the shore fronts, during
the past week, the insurgents lost five
killed and fifteen wounded, and the gov
ernment lost a hundred. It is impossi
ble to ascertain the exact figures. Per
sistent rumors are in circulation regard
ing a naval engagement said to have
taken place between the Aquidabanand
Kepublica and Tiradentes and Monitor
Bahia, resulting in the capture of the
two latter. Admiral ;da Gama informs
me that the Aquidabati aud Kepublica
will bombard Santos next week, Gen.
Saraiva attacking Sao Paulo at the
same time. Admiral da Gama's
manifesto has elicited many ex
pressions of sympathy from the
provinces of Menas Geraes and Sao
Paulo, the monarchists saying that the
insurgents' success means the restora
tion of the monarchy. The government
is endeavoring to make C3pital out of
the manifesto, and is calling upon the
citizens to defend the republic. The
geueral impression at Rio de Janeiro
is distinctly favorable to Admiral
da GauiH. The cruiser Cid
passed Ceara on Wednesday under
the Brazilian flag. 1 applied formally,
through the British minister, to the
Brazilian government for permission to
superintend the Red Cross work of aid
ing the insurgent sick and wounded,
numbering 230. The government at hrst
was disinclined, saying that Brazil
never entered the Geneva convention;
finally 1 was refused permission to
establish a Red Cross corps for tiie in
surgents on the ground that the men,
when cured, woulu again fight against
the government. lam trying to obtain
the details of the rumored naval engage
ment in the South."
The dispatch concludes with the re
mark that further protection of foreign
commerce is impossible, unless the
armed intervention of foreign powers
prevents further GUzhtinx.
REPUBLICANS BLUFFING.
Still Whistling to Keep Their
Courage Up in Chicago.
Chicago, Dec. 20.— Nothing has yet
materialized on the charges of fraud
made by the Republicans in the mayor
alty contest. It is not likely that any
thing will be done until after the offi
cial canvass of the vote, which ought to
be finished by tomorrow night. The
Republican leaders were holding ses
sions all day with their challengers,
and claimed to have evidence which
will wipe out the majority of Hopkins.
They were not specific, however. The
Democrats do not expect a contest un
less the official canvass shows the vote
to be very close.
Will Get a Few Dollars.
. Ixdiaxapolis, Ind., Dec. 20.— The
certificate holders of th 3 Iron Hal! will
get a few dollars out of that concern in
time for Christmas uses. Tomorrow
Receiver Failey, under the recent order
of Judge Winter, will commence to pay
alO per ceut dividend to all certificate
holders of the order who have filed and
proved their claims. This, however,
does not include the warrant holders or
the holders of matured certificates at
the time the receiver was appointed.
The amount to be distributed will be in
the neighborhood of half a million dol
lars.
Dynamiter Arrested.
Breckeniudge, Col., Dec. 20.— John
Rohrer. attorney, is under arrest here
charged with having attempted to as
sassinate Banker Engle Monday by
throwing a bomb into his bed room. He
has resided here for two years, and it is
said he has made threats against Mr.
Eagle, _
Prairie Blizzard.
Special to the Globe.
Hancock, Minn., Dec 30.— A regular
northwester has been blowing at tne
rate of fifty miles an hour, making the
public roads impassable.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
UNCLE SAM'S WAR DOGS BEGINNING
TO GROWL.
ACTIVITY IN THE NAVY IABD.
Cruiser Sew York and Monitor
Miantonomah Ordered to Get
Ready for Sea— Officials Mys
teriously Mum on the Question
— Congress Will Adjourn To
morrow for the Holidays.
Washington, Dec. 20.— The navy
department has ordered the cruiser
New York and the monitor Miantono
mah to get ready for sea. It is sup
posed they are to proceed to Rio, but
the navy department declines to give
definite information on this point. The
situation at Rio is admittedly growing
sufficiently serious to awaken appiehen
sions. It will require a week to put
the Miantouomah in condition for sea.
The Now York is to be docked today,
her bottom cleaned and painted, which
has not been done since her trial. Some
impatience is displayed at the depart
ment at the New York not being ready
for sea. It is definitely stated that she
has no orders as yet to proceed to Rio.
As to the Miantonomah nothing so defi
nite is stated. Secretary Herbert this
afternoon declined to say what was to
be the future movement of the New
York and the Miantonomah when they
shall have been made ready for sea.
The ordering of the San Fran
cisco to Rio, with Admiral Ben
ham on board, puts that officer in
command of the United States uaval
force there. Secretary Herbert said in
reply to a query that this was not to be
construed as a decision of the Stanton
case, aud that the. order was not in
tended to bear ou that case. Tha de
cision in the Stanton case, he said,
would very soon be given to the public.
Secretary Gresham was asked whether
it was the intention of the United States
government to opeu a possible blockade
at Rio Uarber in the interest of Ameri
can commerce. The only reply he
would consent to make was that he did
not understand that Rio was a blockaded
port. In other quarters the reported
intention of the United States govern
ment to interfere should Mello attempt
to blockade the port of Rio is dis
credited.
The Kearsarge has been ordered from
New lork to San Domingo to protect
American interests. A disturbance of
some sort has occurred there, but its
exact nature cannot be learned.
PREPARING FOR HOLIDAYS.
House Cleaning Day at Washing
ton.
Washington, Dec. 20.— The house
spent the day iv the consideration of the
two pending conference reports, those
on the urgent deficiency of the List ses
sion, and for the New York &, New
Jersey bridge bill, preparatory to the
adjournment tor thu holiday recess to
morrow. Both reports were agreed to
after some very lively speeches. The
deficiency bill called forth a very bitter
arraignment of both parties for wanton
extravagance from Mr. Hutchison, of
Texas, and the bridge bil). as amended
by the senate, was vigorously opposed
by Mr. Cummings, Mr. Warner, Gen.
Sickles and Mr. Bartlett, of New York,
but it was finally passed by a decisive
vote. The pure food bill, intro
duced by Mr. Hatch yesterday,
was referred to the committee on
commerce, and when the house
met this uiorninc Mr. Hatch moved a
change of reference to the agricultural
committee,of which he is chairman, but
the demand was temporarily withdrawn
to permit matters of more urgent im
portance to be disposed of. The report
of the secretary of the treasury was
laid before the house. Mr. Savers then
called up the conference report on the
urgent deficiency bill of th*j last session
and- Mr. Hutchison took the floor. He
made a vigorous speech in which he
scored congress, and the members of
all political parties, for the reckless
and wanton extravagance displayed in
these halls. Before he came to con
gress he had worshiped the Democratic
party as a man worships his mother.
He now wishes to apologize for the
words of glorification he had uttered
during his canvass. "Oh, the gentle
man from Ransas (Mr.Surspson) need not
smile."' he said, squarely facing the
Kansas Populist. "I intend to pay my
respects to his party before 1 finish.
He stood here yesterday when members
were voting him mileage, like Casa
bianca on the burning deck, whence
all but him had lied. But where were
his Populist colleagues? Every one of
them voted for the steal." He had
lost hope of the Populist party when
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but one member (Mr. Simpson) would
vote against such plundering as took
place yesterday. He still looKed with
hope, however, to the silver Democrats;
forty-seven of tha forty-eight who voted
against the mileage proposition yester
day were silver Democrats.
At the conclusion of Mr. Hutchison ? s
remarks a vote was taken, which re
sulted 141 to 89, and the house receded
from its disagreement. This disposed
of the bill.
Mr. Geary then presented the con
ference report on the New York &
New Jersey bridge bill. A long dis
cussion followed, but' the conference
report was agreed to, 162 to 52.
ABERDEEN INVOLVED
In a Decision by the Secretary of
tbe Interior.
Special to the Globe.
Washington, Dec. 20.— Secretary
Smith today filed a decision in the case
of McChesney et al. vs. The City of Ab
erdeen, S. D. Four or five contestants
claim the land, which is located in the
corporate limits of the city ot Aberdeen.
It is described as the southeast quarter
of section 14, town 123 north, range
west. John T. McChesney and Joseph
M. Keen filed applications, respectively,
Oct. 20, 18S7, and March 27, 1559, each on
eighty acres. The decision is on motion
of these two to set aside and revoke the
departmental decision of April 22, 1593.
The secretary denies the motion and
orders the local office to proceed to as
certain all tiio facts and evidence pos
sible concerning other claimants, which
include the corporation of Aberdeen,
and submit to the general land office for
guidance.
MacVeagh Confirmed.
Washington, Dec. 22.— The senate
In executive session today confirmed
<^^^^^^v
the nomination of Wayne MacVeagh, of
Pennsylvania, to be ambassador of the
United States to Italy.
Stryker Seems Satisfied.
Special to the Globe.
Washington, Dec. 20.— Mr. Stryker
has finished his business before the land
office and supreme court, and will take
his departure for New York tomorrow
morning. Questioned as to his chances
for the district attorueyship, he smiled
blandly, but remained reticent. He lias
the appearance, however, of a gentle
man who is entirely satisfied with his
four days' labor in Washington, lie
expects to reach St. Paul by Christmas
morning.
In Aid of Gen. Dana.
Special to the Globe.
Washington, Dec. 20. — Senator
Davis today called up and had passed
the bill to place Gen. N. J.T.Dana
upon the retired list of the army with
the rank of colonel. Gen. Dana, it will
be remembered, succeeded Col. Gorman
as commander of the old First Minne
sota regiment when the latter was pro
motea to the rank ot brigadier generai.
.Mrs. T. C. Montgomery, of St. Paul,
is sojourning with friends at t^ie St.
James hotel.
Withdraws Mineral Lands.
Special to the Globe.
Washington, Dec. 20.— Maj. Baldwin
introduced a bill authorizing the secre
tary of the interior to withdraw gold
and silver-bearing lauds from occu
pancy under the homestead act, and to
dispose of them according to tue pro
visions of the mineral laws.
Minnesota Pensions.
Special to tbe Giobe.
Washington, Dec. 20.— Minnesota
pensions: original, Asa R. Green, West
Concord; original widow's, Augeline
Nault, Merrit.
Call lor Statements.
Washington, Dec. 20.— The comp
troller ot the currency today issued a
call for a statement of the condition of
national banks at the close of business
Dec. 19.
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UNCLE SAM'S FUNDS.
Secretary Carlisle's Report
Presented to Congress.
READABLE PAPER THROUGHOUT.
Over $28,000,000 of a Deficit
at Close of the Year.
THE SALE OF BONDS ADVISED.
Tariff a Tax That Must B9
Paid by Consumer.
FREE RAW MATERIAL WANTED
Washington-, Dec. 20.— The annual
report of Secretary Carl isle was sent to
both houses of congress today. The
document is a very thorough and ex
haustive review of the coudition of the
government's finances, and contains
various recommendations for the relief
of the treasury. The secretary discusses
at considerable length the following
general topics, viz: "Condition of the
Treasury," "Currency Legislation" and
"Review of the Revenue Laws.'' What
the secretary has to say on the questions
follows:
THE XRKASURY.
Decrease of Receipts and Increase
of Expenditures.
During the first fi?e months of the
present fiscal year the expenditures of
the government have exceeded its re-,
ceipts to the amount of §29,915,0i)5.86.
There lias been not only a decrease of
receipts, bat also au increase of expend
itures during this period as compared
with the corresponding five months oC
the last fiscal year. The revenues from
customs have fallen off
from internal taxes, .?7,$GtU>G7.'J6, and'
from miscellaneous receipts, 5324.152.39>.
The expenditures on account ot the war ,
department in theexecutioii of contracts
made during the last fiscal year have
increased ?<U02,132.42; on account
of the navy department for the same
reason the increase was $1,912,289.31;
on account of Indians, $53t;,075.55, and
on account of interest, £<;9,45'J.25; but
there have been reductions in seme
other branches of the public service to
the amount of 50,352.206, as compared
with the corresponding period last year.
The result of these changes is that on
the Ist day of December, 1893. the actual
net balance in tire treasury, after de
ducting the bank note 5 per cent re
demption fund, outstanding drafts and
checks, disbursing officers' balances,
agency accounts, and the gold reserve,
was only $11,038,448.25, and of the total
amount held $13,347,517.80 was in sub
sidiary silver and minor coius.
It may be safely assured that the
worst effects of the recent financial
disturbances and consequent business
depression have been realized, and that
the condition will be much more favor
able hereafter for the collection of an
adequate revenue for the support of the
government; Diit it can scarcely be ex
pected that the receipts during the re
mainder of the fiscal year will exceed
the expenditures for , the same time to
such an extent as to prevent a very
considerable deficiency. I have there
fore estimated a probable deficiency of
§28,000,000 at the close of the year, and
if congress concurs in this view of tho
situation it will be incumbent upon it
to make some provision for raising that
amount as soon as practicable by Hi
action or otherwise.
BOND ISSUE.
Sensible Suggestions as to Sale
of Bond*.
On account of the difficulty in secur
ing such a. sum within the time it would
be required by the imposition and col
lect on of additional taxes, 1 recommend
that the third section of the act to pro«
vide for the resumption of specie pay*
ments, approved Jan. 14, lb~s, which
confers authority upon the secretary of
the treasury to issue and sell certain
descriptions of United States bonds, ba
so amended as to authorize him to issue
and sell, at not less than par in coin,
bonds to an amount not exceeding 9200, i
000.000, bearing a lower rate of interest
and having a shorter time to run thau
those now provided for, and that he b(
permitted to use, from time to time,
such part of the proceeds as may be
necessary to supply any deficiencies in
the public revenue that may occur dur
ing the fiscal year 1894 and 1595.
The section referred to provides that
toenable the secretary of the treasury U
prepare and provide lor redemption, it
tills act authorized or required, he id
authorized to use any surplus revenue!
from time to time in the treasury noi
otherwise appropriated, and to issue^
sell aud dispose of at not less than pai
in coin, either of the descriptions oi
bonds of the United States described in
the act of congress approved July 14t
1370, entitled "An act to authorize thi
refunding of the national debt." Tha
bonds authorized by the act of July 14,
15:70, are described as follows
First— Bonds not exceeding in the ag
gregate two hundred million dollars, iq
such forms as the secretary may pre
scribe, and of denominations of tifty
dollars, or some multiple of that sum,
redeemable in coin of the then standard
value, at the pleasure of the United
States after ten years from the date ol
their issue, and bearing interest pay«
able semi-annualiy in sucn coin at tin
rate of 5 per cent per annum.
Second— Bonds not exceeding In the
aggregate §300,000.000, the same in all -
respects as those above described, but
payabie at the pleasure of the United
States after fifteeu years of the date of -
their issue, and bearing interest at tha
rate of 454 per cent per annum.
Third — Bonds not exceeding in th»
aggregate 000,000.000, the same in all
respects, but payable at the pleasure o£
the United States after thirty years
1 rum the date ot their issue, and bear-
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