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THE SPEIXO THAW A5D RAINS.
The Waters In the Tallapoosa and Tomblgbee
Subsiding.
Birmingham. All., March 30. la the general
report in yesterday's dispatch, the Atlanta &
Great Southern road should hare been excepted
from the statement that all roads . leading into
Birmingham were blockaded by wash -oats.
The Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham
trains stopped on account of the darkness and
storm at Bangor, but came through all right
and went out on time yesterday morning. The
Georgia Pacific is all right west to Meridian.
The track at Tallapoosa river, east of this city,
is submersed, and no trains can pass over it. It
is thought the track is all right. The Louisville
Ss Nashville Is all rleht to three miles this side
of Montgomery. A, half mile of track is sub
merged below Elmore. Passengers and freight
by the-Louisville & Nashville are carried from
Elmore over another road to points touched.
" The Atlantic & Great Southwest and the Mo
bile & North western are all clear, and the
fast mall and passengers went out last
rleht for Shreveport The Kansas City, Mem
phis & Birmingham is not so much damaged an
was supposed, and its trains are running to-day.
Tbe Tomblgbee at Colurnbus, Miss., is still ris
ing and is only eighteen inches below high-water
mark. The lower portions of the city bare
been abandoned and the water is several feet
deep in many houses at Evergreen, on tbe
Mobile division of tbe Louisville & Nashville.
No trains have passed since Tuesday. The
water is falling and ma-r be down to its normal
height by Saturday. No important bridges have
been destroyed, and the wash-outs are not so
serious as have been reported. It is thought
all roads will be open by Sunday. The water
courses In Alabama are not quite so high as tbe
freshet of 1886. The weather is fine and the
floods abating.
Tne Herald's specials show that four persons
have been drowned. There were many narrow
escapes and great damage has been done to
roads, bridges and farms. All street cars and
dummies resumed regular trips yesterday morn
ing. High Water at Other Places.
SiOUX City, la., March 30. The weather has
. turned warmer and the snow is rapidly melting.
Nevertheless the water in the Missouri river
yesterday fell about twelve inches. This is be
lieved to b e due to the complete closing of the
gorge at the mouth of the Sioux river. An
officer of the Milwaukee Railroad Company re
ports that the water is rushing over the low
lands Eeveral miles above the gorge. An exami
nation of the great gorge shows that the chan
nel is jammed with ice for four or five mile.
Five miles below Elk Point, D. T., there is
another big gorge which is rapidly augmenting,
and the water is running over the bottom lands.
From tb'-s exposed locality the farmers have
gone to higher erounds and moved their stock
thither. The flood on the upper river has not
yet reached here, and the great danger of the
situation is in the probability that the eorre
will hold fast.
Dstroit, March 30. The sudden melting of
six inches of scow and the heavy rains of the
past week have caused the overflow of the sev
eral streams' in this county, sixty bridges have
been wasbed away, and about 700 acres of land
flooded, destroying many acres of fheat
A Fatal Jump.
St. Joseph, Ma, March 30. Wra Baker, a
Twitchman in the employ of the Kansas City,
St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad Company,
in tbe upper yards, was run over and instantly
killed at 1:30 p. M., to-day. He had set the
brakes on three cars at tbe south eod of the
receiving freight-house and attempted to jump
to tbe too of a string of moving ears on a par
allel track. He landed two feet from tbe end of
the middle car, staggered and fell, and was
literally ground to pieces. A coroner's Jury in
vestigated tbe accident and returned a verdict
exonerating the engineer, fireman and other
employes. Baker's home is at Barnard, Mo. He
came to St. Joseph this morning, secured work
and was sworn ia as a special deputy sheriff.
He went to wort at 1 o'clock. The yards were
blocked for an hour.
A Crime of Tears Ago.
Dayton. O., March 30. Workmen in remod
eling an old stone dwelling at Piqua, discovered
the bones of four children, evidently from nine
to twelve years of age at the time of death. It
i murder mystery, and tradition says the
Children, who were heirs to a considerable for
tune, disappeared from that house and all trace
was lost of them maoy years ago, ,
BaISu.
Memphis, Tenn., March 30. Memphis de
feated tbe Si. Louis Browns to-day in a well
contested game. Koouff and Boyle were tbe
battery for St. Louis, Nichols and MeKeogn for
Memphis. Scoro:
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As to our daily chat with cur friends,
Perhaps it may turn out a song,
Perhaps turn out a sermon.
But we always seek to have it convey some
information of some sort. In a daily paper,
yesterday, appeared the following:
"MArSDT T:iT7SSDAYrt AND "GOOD TBIDAY" AND
"BASTES."
To the Editor:
In your advertising columns I notice that the above
terms are unod fertile parpo&e of giving point to and
furnishing a theme for an advertisement to sell goods.
These terms and tbe days they describe are dear and
sacred to at least a portion of tLe Christian people.
And I respectfully urge that no oue has any right to
outrage their feelings by bring: ng them and the
sacred scenes they commemorate before the world to
sell merchandise.
The information that we convey as to that
may be found in the word at the head of this
advertisement.
Speaking of "Eats" reminds nas that we
have some gloves made of their skins. Good
people call them "kid" and wear them for
kid, though, they know better.
To-day is "Holy Saturday;" to-morrow will
be Easter, also April fool's day.
You can get Gloves, and Clothes, and Hats
to-day and until 10 o'clock to-night at
THE WHEN
LEADERS OF LOW PRICES
DRESS GOODS, SATEENS, WHITE GOODS.
Bargains in Hosiery.
See onr leaders at 18c or 3 pairs for 50a.
New Styles in CHILD REKS' HOSE, very cheap,
Seeo ar Fast Black, all sizes, 15o or 2 pairs for 25c,
Fifty pieces TABLE LINEN of different grades to
be sold this week at manufacturers' prices, - Also
argains ia TOWELS AnD NAP.KINS.
STEVENSON &J0HNST0NE
37 East Washington Street.
THE RICH HILL EXPLOSION.
The Dead Nott Number Twenty-One, but the
List May Be Swelled to Thirty.
Kansas City, Mo., March 30. The Times re
porters, sent by special train to Rich Hill, re
turned to-nicat, and from thei? information, the
situation may he summarized as follows: The
dead list has reached twenty-oae and nine of tbe
Injured are expected to die, making the probable
loss of life by the explosion thirty. The follow
ing is the latest authentic list of the victims:
Dead Charles Smith, colored; George May,
.white; G. C McPherson. white; Frank Lawler,
white; Jordan Smith, colored; Joshua Trumble,
white; John Roberts, white; George Block, col
ored; C Black, colored; W. B ack, colored; H.
S. Shepard, colored; J. C. Neptune, white; John
Lefuer, white; Charles Kay, white; John Gray,
white; Brnoe Brown, white: L. R. Dixon, white;
Fred Henderson, colored; W. II. Hill, colored;
Alexander White, colored; Gibson McFerron,
white.
Of the above-named, the first five were taken
from the mine dead, Trumbull -and Roberta
died after being taxen out and the last fourteen
are the unfortunate imprisoned miners who
were suffocated in the west end. Of the eight
een injured .taken out, nine are reported to be
in a critical condition, but thei? names are not
ascertainable.
There is still a great deal of conjecture as to
the cause of the catastrophe, some persons
claiming that natural gas was the cause, while
others contend the accumulation of foul gases,
without proper ventilation, was the real
cause of the explosion. State Mine Inspector
Wolf is strongly censured by the miners.
He examined the mine oa March 6 last, and
pronounced it perfectly safe. The Richfield
Herald, this evening strongly denounces him,
and ' demands his immediate suspension from
office. Tbe mine is located nearly six miles
from the town of Rich Hill and is practically
isolated from both telephone and telegraphic
communication. The scene of the calamity is
reached only with considerable difficulty, tbe
roads being almost impassable. The depth of
the shaft is 265 feet, it was in the west end
that the explosion occurred, and none on this
side of the shaft escaped. Most of those in the
eastern side escaped.
The coroner arrived from Butler at 1 'o'clock
this afternoon and the inquest will begin to
morrow. All the victims will be buried at tbe expense
of the owners of - the mine Msssrs. Keith and
Perry, of Kansas City. t
The following dispatch to the Associated Press
-nas received late to-night from Rich Hill:
"The scenes around the shaft, where the great,
mine explosion occurred yesterdav, were heart
rending during the entire day. Up to noon to
day twenty had been taken out, tire of whom
were dead. Four of the liring that were taken
out have since died. 'Several others are danger
ously injured. Seven more dead have been
taken out since noon, and seven more are known
to be yet in the mine, but are at points bard to
reach, and it is difficult to find volunteers tq go
down and make tbe search. Those miners who
have risked their lives to rescue the buried liv
ing, and bring to the surface the dead, are
from the mines of the Rich Hill coal
and Mining Company, under charge of Superin
tendent Joseph T. Reavely, who yesterday,
after Superintendent Geo. Sweeney, of the
Keith & Perry Coal Company was so seriously
burned, volunteered his services, and has since
been in charge of the exploded mine, and to
whose careful work, good judgment and courage
is lareely due the succesn of ths rescuing corps.
All night last night men were at work in search
for the living and the dectd, notwithstanding tbe
mine was so filled with natural-gas that it
burned above the regular blaze of the one safety
lamp used.
There seems to be no question but the ex
plosion was caused from natural gas, which
abounds in the earth at and below tbe depth of
this mine in a large section of country south and
west, frequent explosions and great damage and
loss of life having occurred heretofore. State
Mine Inspector Wolfe, though having reported
the mine in excellent condition, knew of the
existence of large quantities of natural gas, and
bas frequently unofficially so stated, and so
great irdienatfon prevails among tbe living
miners of No. 6 mine, that it would have been
dangerous for Mr. Wolfe to have put in an ap
pearance at the mine yesterday or to-day.
Mr. Blaine's Health.
Boston, March 30. A dispatch to "The
Journal' from Augusta, Maine, says that the
family and near friends of Mr, Blaine emphati
cally assert that he ia in perfect health, vigor
ous in body and mind, and say that all state
ments to the contrary are part of a plan to tra
duce him. One of his near political friends said:
"I would give a great deal if I possessed as
much vigor, both mental and physical, as he.
While we were at a convention in 1876 a bulle
tin was received announcing that Mr. Blaine
would live only a short time. WelL he has sur
vived and bas done work since and withstood
mental strain which would overcome a large
majority of the men who are alarmed about his
heaith. Yet at regular intervals some news
paper correspondent distinguishes himself by
giving his attention to Mr. BlaicVs physical con
dition. That gentleman, who ie endeavoring to
enjoy a little recreation with hit family in for
eign lands, is said to be afflicted with an incur
able disease, and to be moving slowly, but sure
ly toward the end of bis life. This is all non
sense, and there is no ground whatever for such
statements. I have no more to say about this
ill health bugbear. It is not worth further at
tention." Steamship News.
New Yosk, March 30. Arrived: Waesland,
from Antwerp; City of Berlin, from Liverpool.
Baltimore, March 30. Arrived: Steamer
Parisian, from Li verpooL
Southampton, March CO. Arrived: Al'.er,
from New York, far Bremen.
GKOVER HANKERS FOR GRAY
And Earnestly Desires that He Bo Nom
inated for the Vice-Presidency.
The Conditions Upon Which Senator Yoorhees,
Ex-Senator McDonald and Colonel Dick
1 Bright Will Consent To Be Mollified.
Talk at the Capital About Presidential
Candidates and Dark Horses.
The Women in Their Xational Council Spend
the Day and Evening in Talking
About Social Parity and Politic J
GEOVEK'S PREFERENCE.
Despite All Opposition lie Wants Governor
Gray on the Ticket with liim.
Special to the XndlanaooIIs Journal.
Washington, March 30. The announcement
made at tbe . White Honse a few days ago,
through Private Secretary Lamont, that Pres
ident Cleveland was not interfering with or
making suggestions about the vice-presidential
candidate, and that he had expressed no prefer
ence in that direction, is untrue. It may
be that Colonel Lamont is ignorant of
what is going on. but I have undisputable
evidence that President Cleveland has stated,
during the past month, to at least two Demo
cratic members of Congress, that he preferred
Governor Gray, of Indiana, and that he hoped
the Democrats of that State would give Gray a
solid support in the St. Louis convention. There
can be no doubt about this. I have the informa
tion from two sources verbally, and
a third source Mn tho President's own
handwriting. If Governor Gray is nominated
for the second place oa the ticket with Presi
dent Cleveland it will raise a large disturbance
in the Democratic ranks in Indiana, unless
something is done to pacify the feeling enter
tained by old-line Democrats against Gray.
This eondition of affairs the President is
familiar witb, and he his been in
formed that he must do something to quiet
ex-Senator McDonald, Senator Voorhees, Col.
Dick Bright, and other prominent old-time Dem
ocrats, now in this city, or they will openly
knife Gray and the administration during cam
paign. I understand that the price of their re
conciliation is the appointment of ex-Senator
McDonald to the vacancy on the
Supreme Bench, caused by the death
of Chief-justice Waite; that the friends
of ex-Senator McDonald do not ask that he be
appointed to the chief-justiceship, but that he
be given a place on the bench in one capacity or
the other. The President, I am further informed,
does not take to the suggestion just like a duck
to water, and that if he is persuaded to
make the appointment, he will have to undergo
a wide change of mind. lie regards ex-Senator
McDonald, personally, very highly, but he con
siders him too old for the position, forgetting
that McDonald is more vigorous than Lamar,
who wa.9 but recently taken from the Interior
Department, where he was too ancient for active
duty, and placed on the bench.
THE CANDIDATES.
A Chat Between Two Gentlemen Who Ad
mire Major McKinley.
Special to tbe Xudianasolis Jonrnau
" Washington, March 30. In the House
restaurant this afternoon Representatives Far
quhar, of New York, and Yost, of Virginia,
both vigorous Republicans and young men,
lunched together. During the hour they spent
at the table they fell to talking over presidential
matters.
''New York-will send a delegation to Chi
cago," said Major Farqubar, "with Chauncey M.
Depew at its head, and Chauncey M. Depew for
its watchword. Thero is no doubt that New
York will vote for Depew, although he himself
says that he does not expect or want the nom
ination. Depew could carry New York, but I
doubt the propriety of running him in the
granger States. I believe that we are going to
trot a pair of young horses in this campaign."
"Who do you believe will be the first onef in
quired Mr. Yost.
"I wouldn't be surprised to see Representa
tive McKinley, of Ohio, get the nomination," re
plied Major Farquhar, adding: "I have a
premonition that Senator Sherman will not get
the nomination, although he will go into tbe
convention with a very large following. As I
said before, I expect to see a young horse in the
harness.'
''Major McKinley would carry the Virginias
as slick 83 a wrfistle," said Mr. Yost. "His re
port against the Morrison tariff bill was the
strongest campaign document we had in the
Virginias last year. It was an admirable plat
form for the party. , We are strong protection,
ists down our way, and there are several State3
in the South for tariff protection. McKinley
Btrikea the poDular chord. His ideas exactly fit
those of the leading men in my country. I am
for McKinley, too, and believe that although be
will go to Chicago and act enthusiastically and
sincerely for Sherman, there ia more than a pos
sibility in the case of a deadlockkthat the conven
tion will turu to him. Governor Foraker is also
a likely dark horse, and he will work at Chicago
faithfully for Sherman; but I agree with you,
Major .Farquhar,' that the fates seem to be
against the men who have so frequently been
before the convention for nomination. We want
new men in both places on the ticket, and I be
lieve we will get them."
It was : remarked, in connection with Major
McKinley. that be was in favor of General Har
rison, of Indiana, next after Senator Sherman,
when one of tbe gentlemen present said:
"Theve is a strong man Harrison. He would
run a splendid race, would be elected, and would
make one of the cleanest Presidents we ever
saw. I would not be surprised to see hi m nom
inated, for this reason: He antagonizes no one '
element or faction in being placed in tbe field,
ana is not considered a Blaine or a Stalwart fol
lower in that sense that he would be antagon
ized in either the convention or the field oy one
ot these factions. I have been told by one of
Mr. Sherman's strongest supporters tnat the
Ohio candidate would prefer to see Harrison
take tbe nomination than anybody if be cannot
get it himself. The Ohio raen generally look
with great favor on Harrison, and if it should
appear that Sherman cannot get the nomination
I wouid not be surprised to seethe Indiana man
take the Senator's strength. I know that Sher
man has a high regard for Harrison. Probably
it is largely beeause, aside from tbe fact tbat
they are warm personal friends, Indiana would
be inclined to give her votes in the convention
to tbe Ohioan, if she had not a candidate of her
own.9 '
Tbe regard tbat Senator Allison, of Iowa,
holds for General Harrison can be gleaned from
what be said to the Journal correspondent tbe
other day. General Harrison is exceptionally
strong in Iowa, Kansas. Nebraska, Colorado,
and other States where Mr. Allison's followers
are mostly located. It would be the most
natural thing therefore for the lowan's follow
ers to turn to General Harrison if it should ap
pear that their favorite cannot be nominated.
Green It. Xlaum on the Sherman Boom.
Speciel to tbe Indianapolis Journal.
Washington, March 3a -Gen. Green B.
Raum, late Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
has charge of one of the most important arms
of Senator Sherman's presidential boom. Being
thoroughly acquainted with the prominent peo
ple in States most directly interested in internal
revenue matters, General Rasm would naturally
be strong throughout the South, and he bas
been paying special attention to that section of .
country for Senator Sherman. One of the Gn
erals intimate friends tells . me that
Senator Sherman will have practically a solid
South on the first ballot in the Chicago conven
tion. Bo quotes General Raum as saying tnat
at this time be considers all of the South
ern States, except possibly Louisiana and part
of Alabama, as unanimous in their support of
Sherman. While General Raum has no hesi
tancy iu saying tbat he believes that Senator
Sherman will eet the nomination, he has kind
words for other gentlemen who are being urged
for tbe presidential nomination. He admires
General Harrison, of Indiana, and Senator Alli
son, of Iowa, and says they are both very able
men, and would not only make successful can
didates, but admirable Presidents. General
Raum claims that Senator Sherman will have
almost a majority of the delegates on the first
ballot, and tbat there will be an ample major
ity for bim on tbe subsequent ballot, be being
tho seoond choice of more States than any other
man spoken of. There will be also a number of
States reoresented in the convention whose dele
gates will be not instructed, and a majority of
these, the General thinks, will be for Senator J
Sherman when they discover his strength.
THE WOMEN'S COUNCIL.
The Day DevoteU Principally to Papers on
Social Parity.
Washington, March 30. "Social Purity,"
the subject chosen by Mrs. Elizabeth Lisle
Saxon, vice-president of the National Woman's
Suffrage Association of Tennessee, created a de
cided sensation in the woman's suffrage conven
tion this mort ing. After an address by Mrs.
Herbert, Mrs. Saxon stepped forward. She
spoke vary plainly of the sooial evil, of the im
prudence of women in not- confiding to their
children the great secrets and truths of life in
stead of learning them from children , and
servants. Sons and daughters, alike, should be
taught the awful power of Sex, for the building
of character begins in the very hour
of conception. Intemperance in desire
has marred the ; happiness of thousands
of families. Young girls should be
taught the eacredness of marriage, and hold
the control of her person against her husband's
lust. Christ preached tbe first sermon of equal
rights for men and women, but society con
demns the Woman and condones the man. Only
through woman's own efforts can she be free in
the control of her person. Men perpetually
blame woman if or the sins of the world, because
of the Bible story of Adam's fall through "Eve.
Mrs. Saxon has talked and preached freely on
this subject for twelve years, before audiences
in some cases composed entirely of men. Mrs.
Saxon spoke of herself as the champion of those
who have never yet had a champion the im
pure woman, made so, not by fault of her own.
but by man's lust. Slavery caused the indiffer
ence of man to purity of women, and the colored
man, above all, was most bestial in being indif
ferent to tbe purity of ven his own household,
but since emancipation he has begun to look
upon impurity in his own household as does his
white brother. '
Annie Rice Powell, of the commission for the
prevention of Stats regulation of vice, intro
duced ber subject by saying tbat it has been as
serted tbat the history of prostitution is the his
tory of woman, but she has always been its vic
tim. There have alwaya been certain women
set apart, and it bas been stated tbat the virtue
of tbe favored woman is safe Only at the ex
pense of these pariahs. The result of such a
state of affairs has been the effort to license this
vice by legalized immorality, so as to evade its
natural consequence, loathsome disease; but this
has proven a failure in a sanitary sense, and is
morally most deplorable, because it does not
check licentiousness, only gives man a safe in
dulgence. Society never forgives in a woman
what it condones in a man. Innocent girls, by
the license system, through the necessary med
ical inspection, are liable to he subjected to this
awful degradation merely on suspicion. She
then spoke of the acre of protection in various
States, and paid a tribute to Kansas as hsving
made that age eighteen years, while in one State
I -it "jviae low aa seven years.
r n" - : a t-w i it,.. :.t3i...i
lure, lriuietvu vumij t was liicu uiaiuuvcu.
She has been engaged ia this work for twenty
five years. She vouched for the truthfulness of
Mr. Stead's cbarjres, published in tbe Pall Mall
Gazette, sayine sbe would stake ber life on their
correctness. She spoke principally of the work
of the Social Purity Societies in Great Britain.
Since the beginning of Mrs. Chant's work she
bas seen marvelous results. She has eiven
meetings for women alone, as well as mixed
meetings. In her meetings for women, they
came at first heavily veiled, but the veils were
thrown aside. She denounced the British gov
ernment's blue book, as containing stories of tbe
wrone doings of the peers of Great Britain even
worse than those published in the Pall Mall
Gazette. One member of Parlia
ment, when the question of increasing
the age at which consent could be given was
being agitated, said that for his part be wished
it was ten years. Tbe ladies of his borough got
together and made it so hot for him tbat he had
to get out. Girls, before thero was legislation
in the matter, were taken in droves by pro
curesses to tbe continent to fill houses of ill-fame
under the pretense of getting them places at
service. Now ladieB of high character and stand
ing are to be found at all seaport towns and
railroad stations to guard unsnspeetinc girls
who may bo thus deluded by false advertise
ments. Some of the women of England who
might have done and are doing excellent work
in all philanthropic branches asked, "what has
women to do witb politics?" This question Mrs.
Chant answered by saying that it has been a
splendid education for women. She intimated that
a woman should decide when and how often
children should be born to her, and especially as
she is tbe molder of their minds and souls, as
well as of their bodily frames. Sbe was the first
one to nut the criminal amendment bill into
force. If anyone says that it ia dangerous for
women to engage in work of this kind, the an
swer is that the women who have been engaged
in it stand forth to-day with whole skins and
hearts. She preferred to speak to the mixed
meetings, because the men 'and the women are
equally responsible for the commission of sin
She also said that the dressing of our children
should be a moral as well as a physical cover
ing. Mrs. Chant's address was enthusiasiasti
ally received by the audience She represents
in the council the Ed In burg National Society
for Woman Suffrage.
Mrs. Caroline M. S. Frazier, of the National
Moral Educational Society, and Dr. Caroline B.
Winslow, delegate from the District of Colum
bia Moral Educational Society, spoke upon
"The Starting Point," Harriett B. Shattuck
said tbat a wrong to one was a wrong to all, and
that no woman had a right to forgive a man
who had done a wrong to another woman. She
also discussed, briefly, the question of marriage
and divorce. Marriage, she declared, is not a
contract, but an institution of God.
Clara Clayborne Hoffman said tbat pregnant
women should receive the same attention as
cattle, and yet ninety-five times out of one hun
dred sbe is the victim of man's lust, and she
knows it is wrong, and ber nature rebels against
it. All remedieswould be but partial and dis
appointing until woman stands everywhere in a
perfect equality with man; until society, and
ehnrcb, and law regard marriage aa a perfect
partnership and she an equal partner. .The hor
ror of lustful children being brought into the
world will continue until woman ia recognized
as having the right to say when the new life
shall begin. When the parents themselves are
pure tbey will stand on different grounds of
equality with each other, and the man wiil
honor and cherish his wife, instead of loving ber
and lusting after her. Parents, when that time
arrives, will have no shame in teaching their
children the sacred mysteries of life, instead of
having them learn them from ignorant servants. .
When this era arrives, children will be born
who can say "My strength is as the strength of
ten, because my heart is pure."-
It waa voted to send cablegrams to Queen
Victoria and the Empress of Germany. '
Frances Willard, fhe next speaker, as a preface
to her remarks, read a petition to be signed by
the women of tbe council urging Congress to
pass a bill to raise tbe age of consent, wherever
it has absolute control, to eighteen years. She
attacked low-necked dresses and said that those
wearing them borrowed tbe idea from women
whom she would be ashamed to touch. She
also said that in the new era tbe half-nude
pictures of women used as advertisements by
cigar dealers would not stay in the windows
over night. She also touched upon tbe impro
priety of stage dressing and the evils of round
dancing. The Arabs love to aay of a pure man
"be is a brother of girls." as typifying their
best and greatest idea of purity. When women
are not dolls nor toys, but duchesses crowned
with hearts of love and Drains of fire, the new
day would coma The professors in the Ger
man universities, she said, impress upon the
young men tbe necessity of chastity if they
wish to have a magnificent brain.
Standing room was at a premium when the
evening session began. The theme for discus
sion wss, "Political Conditions and Woman's
Rigbta to the Ballot." The first address was by
Mrs. Isabella Beerber Hooker, of Connecticut,
who spoke on "The Right of Women to Vote
Under tbe National Constitution." She asserted
tbat tb words, "tho people," everywhere used
in the Constitution, showed tnat it was the in
tention of its framers to place women on a per
fect equality with men. State legislation,
which made sex a condition precedent to voting
for members of Congress, she insisted was un
constitutional and void. Precedent, prejudice,
custom and blind conservatism were the only
real barriers against woman's right to take part
in government affairs. She appealed to women
to claim, and whenever they were able, to exer
c'se the right to vote, and also appealed to men
to remove The barriers of unjust and unconsti
tutional legislation that now stand in tbe way of
woman suffrage.
J. Ellen Foster said that woman was already
in politics, and that the only thine to be deter
mined now was whether sbe could continue to
exert influence in every way exeept at the ballot-box.
The denial of woman's rights to vote
was a defiance of the nineteenth-century civili
zation. The women of the United States, she
said, would never cease this agitation until
liberty of heart, head and hand is secured to
every citizen of the republic. When that time
came she pledged moral and material support to
ber sisters of other countries. The objection
that women were not fitted for noli ticians ap
plied only to the villains of New York politics.
Tbey did not underatand buying and selling
votes, tbey did not know anything about saloon
politics, but they were versed in the higher poli
tics to which we were coming. Tbe saloon, she
declared in conclusion, would never go out of
America to stay out until woman bas the right
jto vote.
Mrs. Harriet H. Robinson's subject was "Tbe
Present Attitude of Political Partiea Toward
Woman Suffrage." Nothing, she said, was to be
expected from either of the two leading political
partiea Continuing, Mrs. Robinson said: "The
Prohibition party is very good about passing
resolutions in our favor, but it has as yet no po
litical power, and the majoritv of its members
usually ote the Republican ticket We do not
eoust a great deal on its help. Since such is the
atiitiiue of parties toward woman suffrage, oor
only hope seems to be in the formation of a new
party, which shall advocate our own with other
leading reforms. Old parties are slowly dying
out. The young men of to-day, or many of
them, are interested in something besides dis
cussing what the G. O. IV has done, or what
the wicked Democrats did before the last war.
They are thinking of temperance legislation, la
bor reform, free trade and the woman question,
and they will find a field in which to work for
these issues."
Mrs. Martha A. Everett, representing the
Massachusetts School Suffrage Association,
said that the Bay State law allowing women to
vote in school affairs had had a beneficial effect,
but that fulier privileges were wanted.
Laura M. Johns, of Kansas, who spoke on
"Municipal Suffrage," declared that woman's
influence on local elections in Kansas had all
been for good, and that where women took an
active part in municipal elections the liquor
laws were stringently enforced,
rs. Marble, of Minneapolis, said that she
was a suffragist because she wanted better
things for her son and her daughter tban her
father and ber mother had had.
The Rev. Annie H. Shaw, of Massachusetts,
gave an amusing account of the first time women
had voted in her seaport town under the law
giving women "school suffrage."
Frances E. Willard, the last speaker, said
that when women went in to politics they would
take dust brooms and pans and have a clearing
out of Brother Jonathan's kitchen, which had
not of late been kept in good order.
Programme for Saturday and Sunday.
Washington Special.
At the morning session Saturday, the 31st,
there will be a "conference of the pioneers."
John W. Hutchinson, of Lynn, Mass., will sing
two songs. The addresses will be by Elizabeths
Cady Stanton, New York; Frederick Douglass,
Washington, D. C; Lucy Stone, Boston, Mass.;
Henry B. Black well, Boston, . Mass.; Antoinette
Brown Blackwell, Elizabeth, NX; Caroline II.
Dall, Washington. D. C; Mary Grew, Philadel
phia, Pa.; Samuel E. Se wall, Boston, Mass.;
Matilda Jolyn Gage, Syracuse, N, Y.; Robert
Purvis, Philadelphia, Pa; A. G. Riddle,
Washington, D. C; Samuel C. Pomeroy,
Washington, D. C-. and Susan B. Anthony,
Rochester, N. Y. Among the pioneers on the
stage will be: Amy Post, Sara'n H. Willis,
Mary H. Hallowell, Sarah Anthony Burtis,
Mary S. Anthony, Rochester, N.: Y.; Adeline
Thompson, Philadelphia; Harriet W. Sewall,
Boston; Sarah E. .Wall, Worcester, Mass.
Clemence S. Losier, M. D., New
York; Olive Frazer Ingalls. Glenora,
N. Y.; Susan E. Wattles. Kansas; Esther Wat
tles, Oberlin, O.; Virginia L. Minor, St. Louis.
'Political Conditions" will be the topic for the
evening session. The speaker will be Helen H.
Gardener, who will be heard in "Sex in Brain;"
Mrs. Ashton Dilke, of England, and Helen M.
Gougar, president Indiana National Woman
Suffrage Association, on "People, Press and
Pulpit.1
Sunday afternoon, April 1, there will be a
"Religious Symposium," Susan B. Anthony pre
siding. The Rev. Antoinette Brown .Blackwell
will speak on "Science and Religious Truth,"
and remarks will also be made by Matilda Joelyn
Gage, Elizabeth Boynton Harbert. Mary A.
Livermore, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Julia Ward Howe,
Elizabeth G. Stuart and Zerelda G. Wallace.
The close of tbe council will be observed by
an evening session, at which Zerelda G. Wallace
will talk on "The Moral Power of the Ballot,"
and Elizabeth Cady Stanton will deliver the
"Closing Address."
CONCERNING THE. CIVIL. SERVICE.
Tlif President Very Anxious that the Commis
sion's Itnles Re Amended and Improved.
Washington, March 30. The President has
sent the following letter to the Civil-service
Commission, recommending an extension of tbe
limits of the classified service:
Executive Mansion, )
Washingtox, March 21, 1888.
To the United States ivil-ervice Commission:
. Gentlemen I desire to make a suggestion re
garding subdivision C, General Rule 111, of the
amended civil-service rules, promulgated Feb.
2, 1S88. It provides for tbe promotion of an
employe in a department who is below or out
side of the classified service, to a place within
said classified service in the same department
upon tbe request of tbe appointing officer, upon
the recommendation of the commission and ap
proval of the President, after a non-competitive
examination, in case such parson bas served
continuously for two years in the place from
which it is proposed to promote him, aud "be
cause of his faithfulness and efficiency in the
position occupied by bim, and because of bis
qualifications for the place to which tbe appoint
ing officer desires his promotion." It has occurred
to me that this provision must be executed with
caution, to avoid the application of it to cases
not intended, and tbe undue relaxation of the
general purposes aud restrictions of the civil
service law. Non-competitive examinations are
the exceptions to the plan of the act, and the
rules permitting the same should be strictly
construed. The eases arising under the ex
ception above recited should be very few, and
when presented tbey should precisely meet all
the requirements specified, and should be sup
ported by facts which will develop tbe basis and
reason of the application of the appointing offi
cer, and which will commend them to the judg
ment of the commission and the President. Tne
sole purpose of the provision is to benefit tbe
public service, and it should never be permitted
to operate as an evasion of the main feature of
the law, which is competitive examinations. As
these eases will first be presented to tbe commis
sion for recommendation, I have to request tbat
you will formulate a plan by which their merits
can be tested. This . will naturally involve a
statement of all the fact3 deemed necessary for
the determination of such applications, includ
ing the kind of work which has been done by tbe
person proposed for promotion, and the consid
erations upon which the allegations of tbe faith
fulness, efficiency aud qualifications mentioned
in the rules are predicated.
What has already been written naturally sug
gests another very important subject to whieb I
invite your attention. Tbe desirability of the'
rule which I have commented upon would be
nearly if not entirely removed, and other diffi
culties which now embarrass tbe execution of
the civil-service law would be obviated if there
was a better and uniform classification of the
employes in tbe different departments. The
importance of this is entirely obvious. The
present imperfect classifications, hastily made,
apparently witb but little care for uniformity,
and promulgated after the last presidential elec
tion and prior to the installation of the present
administration, should not have been permitted
to continue until this time. It apnears that in
the War Department tbe employes were divided
on the 19th day of November, 1834, into eight
classes and sub-classes, embracing those earning
annual salaries from $y00 to 2,000. The Navy De
partment was classified on Nov, 22, IsS-i. and its
employes were divided into seven classes and
sub classes, embracing those who received an
nual salaries from $720 to ? 1,800. In the late
rior Department the classification was mad o f
the Cth day of December. lbSl. It consists of
eight classes and sub-classes, and embraces em-
Coutmued on becond !'.
TROUBLES OF THE KAILWAYS
The Chicago, Milwaukee Ss St. Paul
Switchmen at Chicago on Strike,
Eecanse the Company Demands that Thej
Repair the DamagfpR Committed by Them
in Derailing a Train on Thartthj.
Arrival of Recruits for the "(T Who
Seem To Be Prepared for Business.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer!
Indorses the Course of Chief Arthur Gen
eral Strike JSews at Various Points.
OJT THE ST. PAUL.
A Demand for the Kepair of Thursday's Dam
age Results in a Strike.
Chicago, March 30. The St. Paul yardmen
whe started to go to work last night at 10
o'clock had but begun to get their engines
started out when a message came to the Western-avenue
round-bouse that all the men should
wait until Assistant General Superintendent
Earling bad seen them before resuming work.
Mr. Earlicg soon arrived, accompanied by Di-
wl.iAn 0 Am A An Pulltna m n I fl.vilcnail
Jerry Dougherty, an engineer, acted aa spokes
men for the men. Mr. Earling stated the case
briefly, as he understood it, and then' said:
"We have submitted to many acts that we
have considered, unjustifiable on your part.
This afternoon men in our employ deliberately
derailed and wrecked a number of cars that are
our property. In addition to that they assaulted
and beat Superintendent Besler, of the Bur
lington road. This is inexcusable. We will
consent to overlook this, and' you can go to
work; but the first work that is to be done will
be to replace those cars upon the track aud put
them on the track where they belong." , s
'Never, never," shouted a score of voioes. A
hot discussion followed. Dougherty claimed
that the men were not responsible for tbe condi
tion of the cars, i
"As an engineman," asked Mr. Earling, "will
you volunteer to place that train where it be
longs!" .' . . ,
"No, I will 'do nothing of thei kind," said
Dongherty. 'The Chicago, Milwaukee & St
Paul has attempted this as a feeler, and I hope
they are satisfied. We Will never consent to
handle any cars pulled by a Q' engine. We re
gret that these happen to be your cars, but can
not help it", , i .
. This ended the conference, the men with
drawing from the room. The officials held a
short consultation and departed. The strikers
home. The strike was on. The round house
was incapable of accommodating the combined
force of day and night engines, and several of
them were left on a sido-track.. Tbe men who
ing crews of five men each, a total of 120 men.
As a direct and immediate consequence of the
strike the entire night freight traffic, both
through and local, wss completely suspended.
Ten freight trains had been made np and would
have been sent west. The Milwaukee & St.
Paul and the Council Bluffs express trains de
parted on schedule time. . " r
"This trouble has been brewing for three
weeks," said Dougherty late last night. "We
have reason to believe in fact we know the
St Paul bas been aiding the 'Q from the start.
If we thought that the handling of their cars
would end this meddling with Q' freight we
would offer no objection. The line had to be
drawn somewhere, and we have drawn it. The
'Q' engineers now on a strike will be supported
to the full extent of all our resources, and we
have not yet commenced."
"The company intends to stand by the ulti
matum submitted to-night," said Mr. Earling.
"The menwill be allowed to return to work only
on the condition that tbey repair, to the best of
their ability, the damage they have done. Tbat
is all I care to say to-night."
"Will they be compelled to handle 'Q' freight
In the future!"
"I do not care to answer that question. The
company will carefully consider the situation."
, The strikers held a big meeting in a hall adja'
cent to the the round-house, lasting until late
this morning. They were enthosiastie in the
position tbey have taken.
Secretary Simmsott, of Switchmen's Unioo(
aid to-day that no more trouble was looked for.
and that without doubt the St Paul switch
men who bad gone out last night would go'
back in a short time. Speaking of the "Q"
strike, he said both sides were obstinate and no
immediate change was perceptible, although he
felt confident the backbone of the "Q" oppo
sition would be broken in a few days.
The Company Will Make a Vigorous Fight.
Chicago, March 30. The switchmen, en
gineers and firemen of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
St. Paul, who struck yesterday, assembled at the
yards at Western avenue and Kinzie street tbia
morning, but none of them went to work. Tbe
passenger trains were moving, nt the freight
business was tied up and not a yard engine waa
moving. The men stood about in crowds, and
many sympathizers wero with them. There
waa no effort on the part of the police in the
yards to disperse them. They were reticent
and refused to talk of their action or outline
their demands, but were unanimous in their de
termination not to return to work.
Superintendent Collins, of the St. Paul, said
this morning tbat his company would at one
begin preparations to secure new switchmen and
switch engineers to take the places vacated
by tbe strikers yesterday. He said tbe St Paul
being a uirect competitor of the 'Q,' bad main
tained a strictly neutral position sinee the Bur-
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uuKiou engineers orsc ntut oat, ana ne Knows)
no reason why his switchmen should have quit
work.
No work was done by the regular St. Paul
switchmen this morning, but tbe officials of the
road succeeded in moving out tbe new ears
which caused yesterday's trouble. This waa
done under a guard of Pinkertoa . men. Tbe
strikers, however, did not attempt io interfere
with the workmen in the least
Superintendent Amsden, of the Lake Shore,
said: "We are having no trouble as yet, and
unaer the existing order of things can have'
none. We are not delivering any freight to the
Burlington, because that road ia in no eondition
to receive it. The Burlington ears that come in
over eur road are switched out of the way Sn onr
own yards until such time as the Burlington is
able to take them out No trouble is antici
pated until traffic is resumed, and even then eur
confidence in onr employes is such that we do
not look for any outbreak. Wo have received
no intimation, either from onr engineers, switch
men or brakemen, as to tbe course tbey intend to
pursue, and have had no conference with them.
Tbe St. Paul officials have taken matters into
their own hands right from tbe start This
forenoon a squad of special police of the St.
Paul road reached tbe yards from Milwaukee
and intermediate stations, and were given quar
ters in tbe freight-house and sleeping cars.
They will be fed in dining cars and kept oa tbe
ground night and day. The force numbered 165.
About dozen engineers have been picked up
among the freight conductors and at some of the '
outside stations, and this force has been put to
work. Tbey are all old engineers who bad quit
the cab for some other kind of work. Aa
attempt will be made some time to-day
to move a train of freight ears that has been
at a stand-still since the strike yesterday, but it
feared the result will be another riot. The
strikers wer driven off the ground by the police
this morning. They held a meeting and clinched
their determination to stand out They strag
gled back latlr, and at coon were hanging about
the tracks. They refused t talk further than
to intimate that it the men who had replaced
them attempted to move the big freight train
there would be trouble. The St Paul men are
in anytbng but a good humor toward the effi;
clals. They say tie trouble was brought oo
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