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PORTLAND DAILY PRESS.
ESTABI t>ao uiiK-a,ijf ^ ^ ^1862—VOL. 23. PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1886. SI®“/ah?matter} PRICE THREE CEN I S
SPECIAL NOTICES.
CLOAK SALE.
All our stock of Winter Cloaks now to be
closed out at lower prices.
fiTery Garment for Ladies or Children
marked down.
Ladies’ Dolmans, small and
medium size, $3.90.
Ladies’ Fur Trimmed Short
Wraps $5.75.
Ladies’ Assorted Sacks, odd
styles, from $2.50 up.
Ladies’ $25.00 Silk Dolmans
$14.00.
Children’s Sacks,from lOto 16
years, from $2.50 up.
Ladies wlio can call at our Cloak Rooms
will be almost sure to iind some warm
garments at so low priec they will be
extra well suited to buy.
RINES BROS.
mar3 *13t
Insurance.
W.D. LITTLE & CO.,
31 EXCHANGE STREET,
KxtabliNhed in 1843*
Reliable Insurance against Fire or Lightning in first
class American and Foreign Co's at Lowest Rates.
Also Life and Accident Insurance.
Telephone 701. iel7snly
THE WfATHER.
Washington, March 3.
Indications lor Portland and vicinity—
Local snows,followed by fair, slightly warm
er weather.
Indications for Hew England to-day are
local snows followed by fair, slightly warm
er weather and westerly winds.
LOCAL WEATHER REPORT,
Portland, Me., Match 2, 1886.
| 7 A M 111 AMI :i T M j 7 P M 111 f M
Barometer 20.346 20.352 29.366 29.303 29.394
Thermo'r. 8.0 15.3 19.3 18. T 17.7
Dew Point 2.6 6.3 10.7 7.7 7.6
Humidity, i 78 4 t <15.0 68.2 70.0 G3.7
Wind. W NW NW NW NW
Velocity.,. 21 :28 10 18 20
Weather.. ICloudylCloudy Fair Cloudy Cloudy
Mean dally bar.. .29.3691 Maximum titer-... 20.6
Mean daily titer.. 16.0 I Minimum ther.. .. -3.1
Mean daily d’w pt. 7.0 Max.vel.wind.29NW
Mean daily hum,. 70.1 iTotalprecip.03
meteorolooical report.
(March 2, 188G, 10.00 P. M.)
Observations taken rtt the same moment of time
at all stations. __
Thermo’ter Wind
i to L
Place of 3 fe i " £ I . | s-2
Observation. J| | fj j § o|
«b a I 9; • B ■ 2
.5 ; a S
W a *
^ . ft
New Loh(toni20.Gl 17 xlO NW 16 Cloudy
Boston, Mass'29.50 16 xl5 NW 21 Cloudy
Kastport. Me 29.20 21 x28 NW 15 Clear
Mt, Wasli’t’n 29.58! 6 x40| NW 16 Foggy
Portland, Me 29.40: 17) x20| NW 20 Clear
Albany, N. Y 29.821 15| x9< NW 10 Fair
New York.■■ 29.74 20 x9 NW 48 Clear
Norfolk. Va. 29.97 82 X4 NW 17 Clear
Philadelpliia.i29.8ti: 24 x8 NW 20 Clear
Washington., 80.01 22i 0 NW 20 Clear
Atlanta, Ga.. 30.18 40: -1 NW 10 Fair
Charleston... 30.06 50 1x2 NW Lt Clear
Jacksonville. 30.08 55, x6 Clm .... Cloudy
Savannah,GaSO.oO 62 xl SW 7 Clear
New Orleans 30.12; 52; —3 NE 10 Cloudy
Cincinnati, 0:30.35, 26' x3 NW 8 Clear
Memphis.30.20 40 x3 NE 7 Cloudy
Pittsburg—,30.23 22; x8 NWj 47 Fair
Buffalo, N.Y. 30.16] 15 x9 AV 15 Lt Shw
Cleveland.... 130.27 20! x5 NW 8 Clear
Detroit. 30.31 23: x7' N I 10 Clear
Oswego. 20.07 18! xll; NW 22 Lt Shw
Alpena,Mich 30.32 12 xu NW |16 Clear
Cliicago, Ills. 30.48 21 —2 W ; 6 Clear
Duluth.Minn 30.56 16, x6 Clm!.. Clear
Marquette... 30.-44' 11' xlo! W ; 14 Fair
Milwaukee. 30.46; 16 xl W 10 Clear
81. Louis. Mo 30.41! 30 0, NE 11 Clear
St.Paul,Minn 30.35 12! xl Clin .... Clear
Omaha, Neb. 30.441 22; 0 SE 8 Clear
St. Vineeut ..]30.5Ui 1G| x2 S Lt Clear
Deliver.80.01) 30 X3j N Lt Clear
Cheyenne.... 30.02) 32; x9; SE 11 Foggy
El Paso.29.87; 59, x4i W 0 Clear
Leavenworth 30.38 30;.I NE Lt Clear
Yankton.(30.43) 28) —2; SK 10 Cloudy
—Inappreciable.
Is. A. Kinney.
Private, Signal Corps, U. S. A.
PRESS AND PRESIDENT.
What the Newspapors Say of the
Message.
New Yokk, March 2.--Commenting on the
President’s message to the Senate, the Times
tills morning says the message is frank,plain
and straightforward, and that it is strong
may be inferred from its effect upon Senator
Edmunds. It threw that gentleman into a
tit of petulance that upset Ins recollection of
his history, and caused him to indulge in
very undignified and foolish language.
The Tribune characterizes the message as
au extraordinary document, and says: “Mr,
Edmunds appropriately likened it to the
message sent to Parliament by the misguided
monarch, Charles I.”
The World says: “The message is a re
markable document; remarkable in tone in
its defiant character, and in its evident de
sire to provoke rather than to avoid a con
llict. The President makes two points, one
in justification of his absolute right to sus
pend during the Senate recess, in ills discre
tion, and his independence of any obligation
to furnish the Senate with reasons.
The Star says: "The President has put
an end to all paltering raised by the Kepub
lican senators. In his message yesterday lie
told the Senate plainly and boldly that he
did not propose to submit to it documents
and papers, most of them confidential.”
The Sun and Herald refrain from any
comments. _
CANADA AND THE CHINESE.
They Will Adopt No Repressive Meas
ure for Fear of Injuring England’s
Interest.
Ottawa, Ont., March 2.—From present
indications there is likely to be no material
change in the Chinese restrictive act passed
last session. The British government has,
in view of certain negotiations which are
now going on between Great Britain and
China, intimated to the Dominion govern
ment that they desire that no steps shall be
taken at present regarding a more restrictive
measure for the expulsion or exclusion of
Chinese, which might have a tendency t»
disturb the good feeling now existing be
tween the two countries, and possibly defeat
the diplomatic negotiations now going on.
■runmiru a DDinrC
Bad Accident on the New York, On
tario & Western Railroad-Four Men
Missing
Binghampton, N. Y., March 2.—A bad
accident occurred tonight on the New York,
Ontario & Western Railway. A “double
header” freight train broke through the
bridge across the east branch of the Dela
ware river at Fisher’s Eddy, and five cars
went into the river. Conductors Raymond
and Smith and two hrakemen cannot be
found, and it is thought they are in the
wreck. The bridge caught tire and was
burned. _ __
SOUTH AMERICA.
Relations Between the Argentine Re
public and Uruguay in a Critical
Condition.
Montevideo, via Galveston, March
The relations between the Argentine Repub
lic and Uruguay are in a critical condition
and it is procable the Uruguayan legation
will retire from Buenos Ayres. Notes ha'®
been exchanged, and the diplomatic corps
have met to deliberate upon the best means
to be adopted for a settlement of the trouble.
A Wife Beater Murdered.
Alton, 111., March 2-About 12 o’clock
last night Jonathan Johnson was killed by
his step-sou, Charles Carr, aged 19. John
son was whipping his wife in a brutal man
ner, when the boy interfered. Johnson
threatened to kill him, when the boy seized
a shotgun and fired upon his enraged father,
killing him instantly.
Taken from New Orleans Banks
Secretary Manning has answered the res
olution of the house calling for a statement
of the money seized at New Orleans by Gen
erals Butler and Banks between May 1, 1802,
and Mav 1st, 180.1. The secretary sav Gen
eral Butler seized and accounted for $202,534
taken from New Orleans banks while Gen.
Banks seized $48,880 in cash.
Newport Harbor Frozen Solid.
Newport, R. I., March 2.-Tlie harbor Is
frozen soul and all travel suspended. No
steamers left here today. All mails go and
vomtt by train via Providence, causing delay.
The wind is still high for the fifth day, and
the weather cold, with no prospect of a thaw
soon.
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Sudden Death.
[Special to tbe Press.]
Richmond, March 2.—Mr. James M.
Allen, an old resident of this town, died
suddenly last evening. His wife, who re
tired first, left him In his apparent usual
health, hut not appearing when she thought
he should, she arose to see what had become
of him, and found him lying on the floor
dead.
Killed by Cars.
Banook, March 2.—A young man named
David Edgecomb, belonging in Winterport,
was run over in the yard of the Maine Cen
tral this afternoon and instantly killed.
Franklins. J. Court.
Farmington, March 2.—The March term
of the Supreme Judicial Court for Franklin
county met this morning. In the absence of
Judge Danforth, the Clerk of Courts; Mr.
Thompson, presided. But as oniy four mem
bers of the grand jury and twelve of the
traverse juries were present, court ad
journed one day.
The Republican State Convention.
Augusta, March 2.—A meeting of the
members of the Republican State Committee
was held this evening at the rooms of the
committee in this city. After an informal
discussion it was decided to hold the next
State Convention at Lewiston; June 8th,
and the following basis of representation
Was Sgfeed upon: Each city, town and
plantation will be entitled to one delegate,
and for each 75 votes cast for the Republican
candidate for Governor in 1884 an additional
delegate, and for a fraction of 40 votes in
excess of 75 votes an additional delegate.
Fire at Bethel.
Bfctftfct, March 2.—The house and stable
of Calvin Turner were entirely consumed
by fire yesterday afternoon. Most of the
furniture was saved. Thd fire caught in the
attic from a defective chimney. Isaac York
was seriously if not fatally injured by a
falling chimney.
His Own Carelessness.
Bangor, March 2.—The coroner’s jury in
the case of David Edgecomb, killed by the
cars at the Maine Central depot this after
noon, entirely exonerated the road and em
ployes, and said death was the result of his
own carelessness.
The Dover Improvement Company.
[Special to Press.]
Dover, X. H., March 2.—At the annual
meeting of the Dover Improvement Associa
tion, the following board of directors were
elected: James E. Lothrop, John Holland,
James D. Guppy, Thomas B. Garland, John
Hanson, Joshua Converse, Clras. H. Trickey
A. Melvin Foss and Henry A. Worthen.
A Thief Captured.
[Special to the Press ]
Farmington, March 2.—Charles Arm
strong, the thief who broke in the window of
the jewelry store here, and was captured at
Candia, X. II., was tried liere today and
held in $500 bonds for appearance at the
September term of court.
Arranging for a Fat Wien's Conven
tion,
[Special to the Press.]
Dover, X. II., March 1.—A big meeting
was liolden here tonight to make arrange
ments for a fat man’s convention soon to be
holden here, when big prizes will be offered,
it being open to the world.to compete.
THE SAWDUST CAME.
Cambler Davis Tells a Story of Fraud
ahd Murder.
Xew York, March 2.—In court yesterday,
“The” Davis, gambler, crook and confidence
man, told his story of the killing of His
brother, Tom Davis, by the Texan, James T.
Holland, whom Tom Davis was attempting
to swindle by means of the sawdust game.
The judge, jury and spectators listened in
dead silence to the story of fraud and mur
der told by the man, who since boyhood, has
made it his business to dupe and rob his fel
lows. For fifteen years the two brothers
had carried on the “sawdust game” without
detection. The Texan came to buy some of
their counterfeit money,and being as shrewd
da uirj stivi uuuujju
killed the leading mover in it.
The plan of luring countrymen to this city
with the expectation of purchasing counter
feit money, and then sending them away
with a bag of sawdust instead of the coun
terfeit bills, has long been understood, but
seemed nevertheless, a revelation to the
jury. The story was givon in detail at the
time of the shooting, but its recital yesterday
has opened the eyes of the authorities to the
extent that a vigorous attempt will be made
to stop the evil. Inspector Byrnes and his
men have been instructed on this subject re
cently, and New York for some time to
come will not be a safe place for such crooks.
At the trial today, “The” Davis was again
called to the stand, and cross-examined by
Gen. Prior._
New England Y IVI. C A.
Sphi.nofieli), March 2.—Today’s session
of tlie second annual conference of New
England General Secretaries of the Young
Men’s Christian Association, which opened
in this city last night, were attended by
about 25 Secretaries and a number of others
specially interested in association work, the
different sections of New England being
well represented. The feature of the day
was an admirable paper on “The General
Secretaryship as a Profession, its claims up
on young men of education and ability,” by
J. L. Browne, who is in charge of the Young
Men’s Christian Association department of
the school for Christian workers m this city.
The claims of association work upon college
education young men were very strongly
presented, and the paper was received with
marked favor. State Secretary E. A. Law
rence of Connecticut, read a paner on “The
Necessity of Systematic Study on the Part of
the General Secretaries,” and the discussion
which followed was participated in by W. C.
Douglass. State Secretary of Massachusetts
and ltlisde Island, Mr. Browne and a num
ber of others. This afternoon H. Q. Wil
liams of New Haven, Conn., read a paper on
“The Secretary’s Relation to the Finances
of the Association,” and C. K. Flanders of
Norwich, Conn., read one on “How- to Pro
mote Fellowship and Sympathy among Sec
retaries.” _
Two Persons Killed and Four Injured
hv » Drunkpn Villian.
Catlettsbuiig, Ky., March 2.—News
comes from Marrow Done Creek, West V ir
ginia, of a tragedy at a school house last
Saturday night. Col. Dennett, a midget and
slight-of-hand performer, was giving an en
tertainment in a school house, when J. A.
Piekelheimer rode up drunk, with a shotgun
in his hands, and demanded admission. Be
ing refused, he fired through the door, kill
ing Col. Dennett instantly. Robert Hamil
ton, aged 7, died in a few hours from wounds,
and four other persons were wounded. I he
murderer escaped.
Mormon Movement in Alabama
Atlanta. Ga., March .2.-The Constitu
tion published today an investigation of a
representative in Alabama in regard to the
work of Mormons in that section. Several
elders have been zealously engaged in the
work for the past six months, and have made
many converts among country people. The
farmers in Choctlo and Shinbone valleys in
Clay county have notified them that they
must leave and threaten to use force. The
Elders refuse to go, saying that they are en
gaged in legitimate work and will be pro
tected by the government. A number of
women and some men have gone to Utah.
Municipal Elections.
Auburn, N. Y., March 2.—At the charter
election today the Republicans elected their
entire city ticket.
Newburgh, N. Y., March 2.—The Repub
licans today re-elected Odell mayor by 500
majority, and also elected the rest of their
city ticket.
Utica, NT. Y„ March 2.-The Knights of
Labor have elected two trustees in the town
election at Gloversville.
Failures in Boston
Boston, March 2.—John F. Ward, pulp
manufacturer, 31 Milk street, owes about
$25,0000; assets light.
William A. Travis, stock broker, 31 Milk
street, has gone into Insolvency. He owes
$11,940, of which $8,174 is nominally secured.
The assets for the unsecured creditors are
meagre.
THE LABOR QUESTION.
More About the Lime Burners’
Trouble In Knox County.
A Desire to Return to Work Mani
fested at Lewiston.
Increasing Wages in Various Man
ufactories.!
[Special to the Press.]
Camden, March. 2.—In my last special to
you in regard to the controversy between the
lime manufacturers and the Knights of
Labor, the manufacturers, all of whom are
represented in the Lime Association, voted
that they could not pay the advance asked
for, and shut dowu their kilns and quarries.
A short time after the lime manufacturers
at Rockport received the following:
Knights of Labor, Assembly No. 3283,1
Rockport, Feb. 4. I
The following action was taken by Assembly
No. 3283, K. of L., at their hall, and Is most re
spectfully submitted to your consideration:
Resolved, That there is no difference existing
between the laborers and manufacturers of Cam
den, and it is unjust that they cause a lockout of
labor at this time, and it is the sentiment of As
sembly No. 3283 of Rockport that the manufac
turers of Rockport resume productions of lime as
heretofore.
Resolved, That a copy of this resolve be sent to
each manufacturer In Rockport. Per order,
K. of L. Assembly No. 3283.
The manufacturers applied to the Lime
Association at Rockland asking them to re
scind the vote whereby they voted to stop
manufacturing, and after a while they did so
as far as Rockport was concerned.
The manufacturers having made, as they
presumed, satisfactory arrangements with
their employes, set fire to their kilns, the
employes agreeing to work for their old
wages, but after they had been at work a
few days, they demanded more, and gave
their employers this week to consider the
matter to pay them more or they will quit.
The manufacturers feel very much aggrieved
at the position taken by the Knights of
Labor and fear it will result in great injury
to the town, as it is almost Impossible at the
present cost of lime to compete with Ala
bama and other limes, Having lost the
markets of New Orleans, Galveston, Savan
nah, Washington, Baltimore aiid Alexan
dria, and in fact all Southern markets ex
cept Jacksonville, Charleston, Norfolk and
Richmond, retaining these only by selling at
cost, they are also having very sharp com
petion with Jersey and Glen Falls lime.
Canada lime is coming into Bangor in large
quanties, and Vermont is supplying all the
paper mills of Maine, sending annually for
these alone 40,000 barrels,
The manufacturers ard willing to yield
every point possible, and even to submit to a
fair arbitration,—that is, choose a man to
represent them, the Knights of Labor
to choose one, and they to select a third,—
knowing an examination will prove that
they are paying all they can.
The Bates Mill Trouble.
Lewiston, March 2.—Mr. Pratt, agent of
the Bates Manufacturing Company, has
handed to his overseers a list of prices ad
justed on the basis of a ten per cent. rise. So
far as is known the prices are satisfactory
to the help and there is a strong and grow
ing desire among the employes to return to
work. The only issue between the Bates
n.--- -1 *1,.. TW., . T «Lr.» in
whether the employe {Dalton shall be taken
back or not. The ground taken by Hr.
Pratt, that he being responsible to the own
ers for the good management of the mill,
must in the exercise of a sound discretion be
the judge of who he shall employi is on ma
ture and sober reflection by the employes
generally conceded to be fair.
Wages Increased.
Watertown, Mass., March 2.—Couimene
ing yesterday, the nearly 300 employes of
the -Etna Woolen Company here will re
ceive an increase of wages amounting to 10
percent. The agent, A. 0. Davidson, stated
this morning that the advance was volun
tary on tiie part of the company, made on ac
count of the present excellent legitimate de
mand for goods manufactured.
Troy, N. Y., March 2.—The Paris foun
dry at West Troy resumed operations this
morning, the proprietor having concluded to
grant the demands of the moulders for an
advance of 25 per cent. The resumption
gives employment to about 150 men.
Weekly Paymentsat Willimantlc.
Willim antic, Conn., March 2.—The Wil
limantic Thread Company is preparing to
adopt the weekly payment system. This an
nouncement will prove very gratifying, not
only to by far the larger share of the 1100
employes of the company, hut to the Willi
mantie tradesmen and community generally.
The effect will prove very salutary and help
ful to the whole community.
Situation at Manchester
Manchester, N. II., March 2.— The
Amoskeag Company has gained in its weav
ing rooms throughout the day, increasing
from 1732 last nigiit to 2830 looms when the
count was made this afternuon. A mass
meeting of the weavers this afternoon was
addressed by the leaders as usual, at the
conclusion of which a vote was taken to
continue the strike. The attendance was
smaller than usual. The weavers are
anxiously awaiting some action on the part
of the Knights of Labor.
A Strike on New York Street Rail,
ways.
New York, March 2.—Four more lines of
street railways in this city were blockaded
this morning by a strike of stablemen, and a
most serious embargo was thereby placed
upon the public patro*izing them. The
strikers demand that the rate of wages shall
he uniform as that on other lines of the city,
that 12 hours'work shall suffice fer a day,
and that better treatment shall be exercised
on the part of the men in charge of them.
The conductors and drivers have no griev
ance, but being in sympathy with the sta
blemen have also struck.
Troubles on the Texas Pacific.
Marshall, Tex., March 2.—The work
men in the Texas Pacific Railroad shops
here quit work in a body yesterday because
an employe was discharged, as they say for
attending a meeting of the Knights of Labor.
The managers of the shops claim that lie was
incompetent. It is rumored that the Knights
of Labor contemplate a general strike on
several railroads west of the Mississippi
river.
Punished for Being Knights of Labor
Crystal City, Mo., March 2.—Twenty
six men have left the glass works here be
cause of an order from the company notify
ing all the Knights of Labor in their employ
to leave the company’s works or the order.
Great excitement prevails. The company
seems bound to get rid of all Knights of
Labor. Six hundred men are employed.
Notes
The McCormick works at Chicago opened
as usual yesterday morning. There was no
iiicturhonpp Five hundred nnd fnrfcv men
reported for work, and increase of 200 over
yesterday’s number, and the managers of
the works expect that tiie number will be
increased to 800 tomorrow.
A strike lias begun at the Daminan Iron
and Nail Works at Lynchburg, Va., and the
mills have stopped. A compromise is prob
able, as an arbitration committee of the
Knights of Labor and stockholders are in
session. The strike was caused by a notice
of a reduction of wages on March 1st.
The operatives in the upper Pacific Mill at
Lowell, Mass., who struck work Monday
because they were not satisfied with the
wages paid, liad not returned yesterday.
They number 14 men and 9 boys. There are
no signs of serious trouble in any of the
other millls. _
No Trace of the Idlewild’s Men.
Port Jefferson, L. 1., March 2.—The
searchers have returned from patrolling the
beach between Oldfield and Eaton’s Neck
without finding the bodies of the men who
were lost from the life.boat of the steamer
Idlewild.
Bridgeport, Conn., March 2—No tid
ings have vet been received by the agents of
the steamer Idlewild in this city from the
missing passengers who were wrecked in
the steamer’s life-boat, which was found
yesterday near Port Jefferson. The Long
island shore has been searched, but no trace
of the missing men found. Fred Somers,
one of the rescued passengers from the
Idlewild, says there were eleven persons in
the life-boat when it left the steamer. The
fact that the life-boat was found right side
up witli no bodies in it leads many to believe
the men were picked np by some vessel
bound east, perhaps for Nova Scotia, and
would not be heard from for several days.
New Haven, Marcli 2.—It has been
learned that the men lost from the steamer
Idlewild Friday morning, and previously un
accounted for, are Geo. E. iobey, n lumber
dealer of Norfolk, Va., and Matthew Far
rell, formerly a Bridgeport machinist.
A Telephone Company’s Privileges
Repealed.
Hannibal, Mo., March 2.—The city coun
cil last night repealed the ordinance granting
the Missouri and Kansas Telephone Compa
ny franchise to use its street* and allays
over whleh to run it* wires. A contract 1#
in existence which says the company should
charge only #3 per month for each lnstru
ment when the number of subscribers reach
ed 100. Notwithstanding this the company
has been charging $4. The city council
made the demand several weeks ago that the
rate be reduced to the contract price. This
the company refused to do, and the council
last night repealed the ordinance granting
the company the privilege of using the
streets.
PILLSBURY AND CHASE.
Further Particulars of Their Rejec*
tion by the Senate.
[Boston Advertiser Special.]
Washington. March 1.—The nominations
of Chase and Pillsbury were rejected this af
ternoon. The scanty fight made by the
Democrats for them surprised the Republi
cans. They expected a prolonged struggle,
but the Democrats acquiesed very gracefully
in the result. They did not even ask for a
yea and nay vote. The reason assigned this
evening is that three or four of them would
in that case have gone on record in favor of
rejection, Rather than allow this the Dem
ocratic managers weie content to have a
simple viva voce vote and let it stop there.
The Republicans were also well pleased, for
gome of thetn had feared that Plumb and
Riddleberger might fail them. They were
the only two of whom any suspicion was
felt, and that may have been unjust. The
scene in secret session was not particularly
exciting. Hale opened the debate with
a statement of the case against both Pills
bury and Chase. He reviewed their connec
tion with the “count out” and showed tiiat
Pillsbnry’s hand was in and through it all,
by his own confession and by extracts trom
ins papers. He took up Chase’s lame defence
of ignorance of the Garcelon steal, saying
that if it was true Chase was a fool, and if
false Sa knave. Meantime Chase hung
about the corridors, waiting in anxious
suspense to hear the verdict. After
Hale finished Beck took up the cud
gel in behalf of his Democratic friends,
lie argued upon the statements they made
before the finance committee, but evidently
in a half hearted way. It was noteworthy
that neither he nor .McPherson, who suc
ceeded him, had one word to say in defence
of the “count out.” He did not attempt
that, but pleaded that Pillsbury was entirely
innocent and Chase irresponsible for that
affair. Beck really argued more for the
President's right to select his agents than
for either Pillsbury or Chase personally.
Then McPherson, even more languidly than
Beck, characterized Chase as "a dull sort of
mamtho could not have been responsible
for afly ‘count out,’ and not equal to impor
tant affairs.” Voorhees, who bad been ex
pected to speak, failed to do so, and the ad
ministration senators throughout appeared
to take little interest in the result. Call of
Florida and Vance of North Carolina, in a
perfunctory way, spoke briefly for the Dem
ocrats, and Call asked why it was that the
Republicans were pouring out the vials of
iiieir wrawi on two puui uuu ucaciuug men
like the two in question. To this, Senator
Edmunds replied that the Republicans pro
pose to stand out against every man who
was known to have been concerned in any
form of outrage on free elections and an
honest count. This aroused the aged Sauls
bury of Delaware. He took up the gauntlet,
defending the Democrats against the impli
cation conveyed, and trying to show
that the Republicans are not immacu
late in that regard. This sally from
Saulsbury, who never sees any harm in a
Democrat nor good in a Republican, aroused
Senator Frye, who up to that time had taken
no part, lie addressed himself to Saulsbury
and while not chary in his remarks about
Pillsbury and Chase, he took the occasion to
speak his mind about the still greater frauds
in elections in the South, which are condon
ed and defended by the Democrats. At
times the tones of his voice could be heard
outside the closed doors. He did not leave
the Garcelon affair without showing how
groundless were the boasts of Pillsbury that
he would not be foulid Voting against con
firmation. After he finished, nothing more
remained to be said, as it was not thought
necessary by the Republicans to make the
slightest reference to Pillsbury’s “copper
head" record. When the vote was taken,
the response was, as a New England Senator
termed it, “overwhelming,” and the Demo
crats who voted did it in a half-hearted w ay.
They were satisfied that the case had been
fairly stated, and they saw that it was the
best policy not to make a prolonged fight.
The question now is whether the President
will nominate their successors right away,or
allow them to hang on until the end of the
session. A number of Democratic senators
will urge him to take the former course and
not invite criticism by keeping Chase and
Pillsbury in. . „
.Mr. Chase said in conversation this after
noon: “The rejection of my nomination
does not hurt uie at all. The questions
raised in the objections to Pillsbury and my
self were tried in Maine, and decided in our
favor by the people. They cannot be tried
and determined here. The rejection of our
nominations has been ordered by Blaine,and
his humble servants, the Maine Senators,
have simply earried out his wishes at the ex
pense of their own conviction, and in disre
gard of the advice of some of their most in
fluential political friends. There is no rea
son why Pillsbury’s nomination and my
nomination should have been considered to
gether ; no reason, except that Blaine wish
ed it so. But, as 1 say, it does not matter to
me. I am taking it very coolly. 1 would
not have come back here but that some of
the Democratic Senators sent for me, think
ing it well that I should be on the ground.
Eugene Hale cannot injure me at home."
He intimated that he could, however, injure
Eugene Hale, and that in the contingency
that Reed should contest with Hale for sena
torial honors next year, he would pay off the
score he has against Hale.
It is denied at the White House that the
President proposes to appoint either Pills
bury or Chase to any other office.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Mr. Hoarand the Education Bill.
to flip Press.!
Washington, March -■—Mr. Ilale made a
short but eloquent speech this afternoon in
behalf of Mr Allison’s amendment to the
education hill, providing for a division of the
money in States having separate schools for
the white and colored races in proportion
to the illiteracy of the two. He said
that unless the amendment was adopted he
should feel constrained to vote against the
bill. An attempt was made to reach a vote
tonight, but several Senators expressing a
desire to speak further upon it, the attempt
was unsuccessful. A vote will probably be
taken tomorrow, after which the Edmunds
resolution will probably be taken up, with
every prospect of an exciting debate.
The Frye Fishery Resolution.
The Frye fishery resolution is also likely to
come up at any time after passage of the edu
cation bill.
President Cleveland’s Message on
the Chinese Troubles.
The President sent a message to Congress
today in regard to the Chinese troubles, and
lie referred particularly to ttie massacre of
Chinese at Rock Springs, Wyoming, a year
ago. Tlie President expresses gratification
that it lias not been proven that any one of
American birth had anything to do With the
outrage. He quotes from the treaty of 1880
with China, and says that:
In ease of the ill treatment of Chinese in the
United States this government is bonud to exert
all its power to devise measures for their pro
tection by securing to them the rights to which
equally with any and all other foreigners, they
are entitled.
Whether it is now incumbent upon the
United States to amend their general laws
Ul ucuau ItV" im/wuuivuj *VD'- .
does not consider in tile present communi
cation, but confines himself to the particular
point raised by the outrage and massacre at
Hock Springs, that the Chinese must be pro
tected by all the power the government can
control.' The President,however, denies the
legality of the claim of the Chinese minister,
that Chinese subjects who were victims at
Kock Springs should be indemnified, but he
leaves the question of bounty and generosity
of tlie government to the Senators.
He Wants to Celebrate.
Senator Gorman introduced a bill today to
provide for a joint celebration by the sixteen
American republics on the 4th of March,
1889, in honor ol the 100th anniversary of
the constitution of the parent republic in the
United States. It authorizes the President
to invite the Presidents of Mexico, Guate
mala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, San Salvador,
Honduras, United States of Colombia, Ven
ezuela, Bolivia, Peru. Chili, Uruguay, Para
guay, Ecuador and Argentine Republic, to
visit Washington the 4th of March, 1889, and
join with the President of the _ United
States, and others who may be invited, in
suitable ceremonies in honor of the event
and that the Presidents of these republics be
requested to have prepared concise histories
of their constitutions and amendments
thereto, and a commission be appoint
ed by the President to have the said
histories translated into English and pub
lished. The bill appropriates $100,000 to de
fray the expenses incident to the celebra
tion.
Salaries of Judges.
The judiciary committee of the House to
day agreed to report adversely the Senate
bill providing for an increase of the salaries
of judges ol the United States District
Court to $5,000 per annum.
More Postmasters.
The following Maine postmasters have
been appointed:
At Hamlin—Joeepb Auboy.
At Upper Madawaeka—Maglolre Sirols.
At Crawford—A. H. Bridges, In place ol Frank
S. Averin, resigned.
COMPULSORY PILOTACE.
Mr. Dingley’s Bill Regulating the
Matter.
A Measure of Importance to Owners
of Vessels.
Washington, March 2.—The Dlngley bill
relating to pilotage, was today reported from
the shipping committee by Mr. Dunn of Ar
kansas. The first section gives masters or
mates of American sailing vessels employed
in the coasting trade the same right to be ex
amined by United States inspectors, and if
found competent, to license them to pilot
their own vessels into and out of ports of
such local inspection districts as has been
given to masters or mates of American
steamers since 1852.
The second section relieves American
coastwise vessels from the obligation to pay
State pilots whose services are not needed,
when these vessels are towed by a steam ves
sel in charge of a United States pilot.
The last section provides that this act
shall go into force six months after its pas
sage. The report says that since 1852, the
American steam vessels in the coastwise
trade, which includes lakes and rivers, have
been relieved from the obligation to pay fees
to State pilots not used when such vessels
are piloted by their masters or mates, who
have been examined and licensed by United
States inspectors to pilot their own vessel.
This bill simply extends the same privilege
to American sailing vessels in the same
grade, and also relieves them from the obli
gation to pay State pilots not used when
snch vessels are towed by a steam vessel un
der charge of a United States pilot. The
necessity of this relief is made all the more
necessary by the fact that all the States ex
cept eleven Atlantic and Gulf Southern
States (who do not own much shipping), have
relieved coastwise vessels from compulsory
pilotage fees. Thus, a Maine, Massachu
setts or New York coaster which goes to a
port in Maryland, or any port on the coast
south, must pay pilot fees to pilots who are
not used, while a Maryland coaster may go
to Maine or any other northern port without
paying fees to a pilot not used. A Boston
coaster which is compelled to enter the port
of Savannah, and with a tug under a United
States pilot, which must be paid, and is all
lilllt 10 UCCUCU Ul uoou, union U »VV V*
$75 to a State pilot, who does nothing except
to demand his fees; but a Savonnali coaster
can go to Boston without paying such an ex
orbitant fee. Some States, Georgia for ex
ample, exempts vessels trading between its
ow n ports from such fees, hut authorizes
Slate piiots to collect fees from vessels from
the ports of other States.
The report says that the objections to the
bill made by New York pilots in their circu
lar sent to labor organizations are that it is
in the interest of foreign vessels; that it
will destroy the pilotage system; that it is
in the interest of capital and against labor,
and that it will increase shipwrecks and
loss of life. To these objections the report
replies that the bill relieves only American
vessels, and not a single foreign vessel; that
it is in the interest of seamen and compara
tively poor owners of coasters, men who do
not on an average earn near as much from
their vessels by voluntary service as pilots
do by their monopoly law; that while the
bill will render a less number of pilots ne
cessary, it will not injure the efficiency of
pilotage anywhere, as it has not anywhere
that a voluntary system prevails, and that
34 years’ trial of the system with the coast
wise steamers and many years’ trial of the
voluntary system in sixteen States have
proved that it has not increased shipwrecks
nor loss of life. The large expenditure of
the government for lights, buoys, monu
ments, surveys and charts justify the exten
sion of relief to our struggling shipping
from unnecessary pilotage fees to pilots who
are not used.
Secretary Folger, to whom a similar bill
was submitted when he was at the head of
tlie Treasury Department, wrote:
“Inasmuch as the bill puts sailing vessels of the
United States on the same footing as regards pi
lots as steam vessels, I approve of the bill. There
is no reasonable ground for discriminating against
sailiug vessels in the matter of pilotage by con
ceding greater privileges to steam vessels.”
XLIXth CONGRESS-FIRST SESSION.
SENATE. /
Washington, March 2.
Among the petitions presented was one by
Mr. Hoar from workingmen employed in
government worksnops since tne s-nour law
of 1808 was passed, praying for compensa
tion for over time, or a reference of their
claims to some tribunal that may adjudicate
the question whether they ought to iiave
such compensation. Mr. Hoar favored the
request of the petitioners.
Tlie Senate then took up the education bill
and Mr. Call addressed the Senate in opposi
tion to Mr. Allison’s amendment.
Mr. Saulsbury opposed the bill whether
with or without the Allison amendment.
There was not only no constitutional author
ity for it, he said, but not even the slightest
necessity for it. The Southern States were
amply able to educate all their illiterate.
Mr. Kiddleberger opposed tlie Allison
amendment as it would give S3 tp colored
enildren for every SI going to white chil
dren. It would destroy the hill and would
destroy the public schools of Virginia.
Mr. 'Hampton said he was a sincere friend
of tlie colored men and would be very sorry
to see the Allison amendment adopted.
Mr. Ingalls had heard that no Democratic
Senator give any reason for the bill except
as being necessary to enable them to take
care of the colored illiterates in the South.
If this money were to be distributed we
should throw about it all the safeguards
possible. Who was to administer this fund
of $77,000,000'.’ Tlie Secretary of the In
terior. Who was the assistant attorney of
the Department of the Interior? One Mr.
Zach Montgomery. What were his views
about common school education? Mr. In
galls read many extracts from a book entitled
"Drops from the poisoned fountain; facts
that are stronger than fictionby Zach
Montgomery of the California bar. Among
the abstracts were the following:
“We promise to prove that our boasted New
England public school system as now by law
established throughout the length and breadth of
the American republic is a poisonous fountain
fraught with the seeds or human misery and
moral death. It is a crime and pauper breeding
system, a system which being conceived in crime,
brought forth in crime and nurtured in crime,
must if necessity propogate crime.”
This bill, too, Mr. Ingalls said, was for a
fund to be applied to non-sectarian schools.
He then read from a speech delivered by the
same Zach Montgomery before the Roman
Catholic Sunday School teachers association
of California in 1873. Speaking of the tele
graph, railroad and the newslpaper the
pamphlet report says:
They are means of spreading false rumors and
moral sentiments that corrupt the minds of good
Catholics In this laud. “Instead of reading cor
rupting newspapers teach them (the children) the
truths of the church, oud that will save them from
the whirlpool of Protestantism and heresy in all
its forms.’' I wish to warn you to abstain from
tlie Protestant theory of independence, making
up our minds for ourselves on matters of religion
are false as well as damnable in the extreme.
“The is no such thing as personal freedom in
religion and mortality.”
“The Whole power lies with the successor of
Saint Peter, the holy l’io Nino and Holy Sea of
Home.”
Mr. Blair said that Zach Montgomery had
not yet been confirmed by the Senate. If
that person had been correctly reported Mr.
Blair hoped the judiciary committee (of
which Mr. Ingalls was a member) would pro
tect the common schools against him. Mr.
Blair strongly opposed the Allison amend
ment which he said would be a defeat of the
Dill.
Mr. Hoar said that Presidents Garfield,
Grant, Hayes and Arthur, all Republican
Presidents, and the last three Republican
conventions had all favored a policy of ex
tending aid to the common school system of
the South.
Mr. Harrison rose to make some remarks
but yielded to Mr. Allison.
Mr. Platt wanted to adjourn.
Mr. Blair wished the Senate to make ar
rangement for an hour to-morrow when a
vote might be taken.
Mr. Edmunds would not consent to an ar
rangement that might result in preventing
him from making some remarks in favor of
Mr. Allison’s amendment and stating his
reasons for voting against the bill if that
amendment should be rejected.
Mr. Allison defended his amendment. It
had been on principle embodied in the litera
ture of the question of education for the
South. Education of the colored people had
been reported by all educators as an essen
tial feature of any bill of this character, and
all that had been said or could be said on the
subject showed that the precautions of this
amendment were necessary. Mr. Edmunds
said the amendment was clearly necessary
to secure “fair play.”
Mr. Logan said he had himself introduced
three or four of these general education bills
and desired to make some remarks on this
bill. He submitted as amendments the sub
stance of the measures heretofore introduced
by him—one providing an appropriation of
$10,00,000 the first year; $17,500,000 the sec
ond year: $20,000,000 the third year; $8,000,
000 tlie fourth year; $10,000,000tne fifth vear;
$14,000,000 the sixth year; $12,000,000 the
seventh year; $10,000,000 eighth year; $18,
000,000 the ninth year; $0,000,000 the tenth
year; and when all the appropriations under
the act shall cease an amendment providing
a special fund of $2,000,000 to aid in building
school houses in sparely populated districts
not more than $100 on any one house nor
more than one-half the cost of the school
house in any case.
Messrs. Dolpk and Hoar also submitted
amendments which were ordered printed,,and
the Senate at 6 n. m. adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Wise of Virginia, on behalf of the
| committee on manufacturers, in the morning
hour called up the bill, authorizing the Pres
ident to appoint a committee of seven ex
perts skilled in the investigation, production
and use of metalic substances and other
structural materials to execute tests and ex
periments on iron, steel and other minerals
used in the construction of bridges, build
ings and mechanical structures and deduct
useful rules therefor.
Pending discussion the morning hour ex
pired and the House went into committee of
the whole on the pension appropriation
bills.
Mr. Wilson of West Virginia, regretted
that on Thursdap last the House had been
presented with a spectacle of a politician in
search of some political issue. There was no
longer any successful congering with the is
sues raised by the gentleman from Iowa.
(Mr. Henderson.) If he did not mistake
the recent action of the American people
and the general temper of the American
people, a sectional issue, wherever or by
whomsoever raised, would lead no man nor
party to political victory in this country.
He vigorously defended Commissioner Black
from the criticism of the gentleman from
Iowa (Mr. Henderson) and declared that the
country had regarded Ills appointment by
the President as an eminently wise and
patriotic selection. Mr. Wilson regretted to
near the gentleman from Maine (Mr.
Boutelle) criticising the Southern people be
cause they had in one or two points raised
modest memorials to their dead. Such utter
ances hardly comported with the brave and
Abnxn/ifnx rtf flin rrontlmiian fenin
Maine. It was true that Southern people
had erected humble monuments to sons,
brothers and fathers, and placed upon them
the flowers of that section, but they had
done it in no spirit of disloyalty to this
country. The war had secured the preserva
tion of the Union, but it had secured
a result greater than the preservation of the
Union in the extinction of slavery, and
greater than the extinction of slavery was
the utter annihilation of any ground, cause
or exercise for further sectional prejudice or
sectional hate. (Applause on the Demo
cratic side.)
Mr. Wilson’s speech was listened to with
great attention by both sides of* the House,
and he was frequently interrupted with the
applause of his party collegues.
The discussion was continued to some
length and was participated in by Messrs.
Butterworth of Ohio, Hammond of Georgia
and Matson of Indiana, and pending further
discussion the committee rose, and at 5.15
o’clock the House adjourned.
A Democratic caucus was announced to
take place at 7.30 o’clock this evening.
FOREICN.
Austria Disgusted at Russian In
trigues.
Vienna, March 2.—The Austrian govern
ment has demanded of Prince Nicholas of
Montenegro an explanation of his plans for
the construction of a port at Antivan. an Al
banian town on the Adriatic. It is reported
that Prince Nicholas has been supplied with
funds from the Russian treasury to enable
him to create a fort under the plans of Rus
sian military engineers. The real object of
the Russian government, it is asserted, is to
establish a secret naval rendezvous in the
Mediterranean. Austria, under the 29th ar
ticle of the treaty of Berlin, claims that An
tivari is under the military and police con
trol of Austria, and that Montenegrin trading
vessels are under the protection of the Aus
trian flag.
Discussing the Irish Situation.
London, March 2.—The government to
day indicated through a ministerial utter
ance that they expect to follow the Irish
question. "The utterance was made by
Marley, chief secretary for Ireland, in an ad
dress at a conference of Liberal delegates
held today. Marley was discussing the Irish
question. He denounced Lord Randolph
Churchill’s recent flagrant attempt to stir up
a civil war in Ulster, and urged the Liberals
to do their utmost to place their party in a
state of complete preparation for a general
election. For, said the speaker, the govern
ment is now face to face with the Irish diffi
culty, and will probably be compelled to
make an early appeal to the country.
Pope Leo’s 76th Anniversary
Rome, March 2.—Pope Leo XIII. celebrat
ed the 7(ith anniversary of his birthday and
tlie 8th anniversary of his coronation, which
falls tomorrow, by an address to the mem
bers of the Sacred College. In this II is
Holiness eulogized the union existing among
the cardinals, and urged concord among
Catholics against those seeking to corrupt
and weaken the authority of the church. He
deplored the oppressed condition of the Holy
Sea as unworthy of the head of the church
imlpnpmipnpp.
His Holiness spoke with much severity con
cerning the attempt to corrupt the ecclesias
tical authority with the crime of furnishing
the foreign enemies of Italy secret informa
tion about its military defenses as was done
recently in the case of a man on trial at
Rome on a charge of having sold such infor
mation to a foreign power. His Holiness re
pelled this inputation with indignation, and
condemned the impunity with which vulgar
malignity of this kind has been employed to
excite against the Vatican the hatred of the
multitude.
Attempt to Assassinate the London
Times Paris Correspondent,
Paiiis, Starch 2.—An attempt was made
last night to assassinate Dr. Blowitz, the
Paris correspondent of the London r imes.
As the doctor was ascending the stairs of his
home a shot was fired at him by some un
known person. The bullet missed him,
struck against the wall in front of him and
fell flattened at his feet. No clue to the
would-be assassin has yet been discovered.
The Steamer Missouri a Total Loss.
London, March 2.—All hopes of saving
the steamer Missouri, from Boston for
Liverpool, which stranded oil Holyhead, has
been abandoned. The steamer has capsized
and lies broadside to the sea, and her de
struction is believed to be only a question of
time. The crew left her just before she
went over. They reached the land in safety.
The cargo is washing out of the wrecked
vessel and boats are near her rescuing what
portions of it they can. Two hundred and
ninety-five head of cattle were lost.
Terrible Mortality on the Panama
Canal.
Paris, March 2.—The French journal
Success charges the official Panama Bulletin
witli suppressing facts relating to the
Panama Canal. It asserts that private ad
vices show that laborers on the canal are
dying at the rate of 40 daily and 14,000 year
ly, and that out of 30 Frenchmen who arrived
at tiie works by the steamer Washington on
October 20, 15 are dead.
Snow Storm in England.
London, March 5.—The snow storm con
tinues in the north, and mails between Scot
land and London are behind thirteen hours,
and at least twelve trains are at present em
bedded in the snow.
International Hurdle Race.
A grand international hurdle race was run
today at Craydon, and was won by the Duke
of Hamilton’s (formerly J. R. Keene’s) six
year old bay horse Bolero by four lengths.
Import Duties on Foreign Corn.
The Associated Chambers of Agriculture
of Great Britain today adopted a resolution
favoring the imposition of import duties on
foreign com.
Foreign Notes.
Cardinal Angelo Jacobeni of Rome is
dead. __
SUSPENDED OFFICIALS.
Why the President Declines to Fur
nish Papers.
Full Text of His Message to the
Senate.
Following is the full text of President
Cleveland’s message to the Senate regarding
his refusal to furnish the "charges” against
suspended officers:
To the Senate of the United States:
Ever since the beginning of the present
session of the Senate, the different heads of
departments attached to the executive branch
of the government have been plied with va
rious requests and demands from committees
of the Senate, from members of such com
mittees, and at last from the Senate itself, re
quiring the transmission of the reasons for the
suspension of certain officials during the re
cess of that body, or for papers touching
the conduct of such officials, or for
all papers and documents relating
to such suspensions, or for all docu
ments and papers filed in such department in
relation to the management and eonduct of
the offices hold by such suspended officials.
The different terms from time to time adopt
ed in making these requests and demands,
the order In which they succeeded each
other, and the fact that when made by the
Senate, the resolution for that pur
Eose was passed in executive session
ave led to a presumption, the cor
rectness of which will, I suppose, be
candidly admitted that from first to last, the
information thus sought, and the papers thus
demanded, were desired for use by tlie Senate
and its committees in considering the propri
ety of the suspensions referred to. Though
these suspensions are my executive acts,
based upon considerations addressed to me
alone, "and for which I am wholly
responsible, I have had no invitation
from the Senate to state the position
which 1 have felt constrained to assume in
relation to the same or to interpret for mv
self my acts and motives in the premises.
In this condition of affairs, I have forborn
addressing the Senate upon tire subject lest I
might be accused of thrusting myself unbid
den upon the attention of that body. But
the report of the committee on judiciary of
the Senate, lately presented and published,
whic— censures the Attorney General of the
United States for his refusal to transmit cer
tain papers relating to a suspension from office
and which also, if I correctly interpret it,
evinces a misapprehension of the position of
the Executive upon the question of such sus
pension, will, I hope, justify this communi
cation. This report is predicated upon the
resolution of the Senate directed to the At
torney General, and his replj to the same.
This resolution was adopted in an executive
session devoted entirely to business connect
ed with the consideration of nominations
for office. It required the Attorney General
‘'to transmit to the Senate copies of all doc
uments and papers that have been filed in
the Department of Justice since the first of
January, 1885, in relation to the management
and conduct of the office of District Attor
ney of the United States of the southern
district of Alabama.”
The incumbent of this office, on the first
of January, 1885, and until the 18th of July
ensuing, was George M. Dustin, who, on the
day last named, was suspended by an execu
tive order, and John I). Uumett designated
to perform the duties of said office. At the
time of the passage of the resolution above
referred to, the nomination of Burnett for
said office was pending before the Senate,
and all papers relating to said nomination
were before that bodv for its inspection and
information. In reply to this resolution, the
Attorney General, after referring to the fact
that the papers relating to the nomination
of Burnett had already been sent to the Sen
ate, stated that he was directed by the Pres
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mentioned in said resolution and still re
maining in the custody of this de
partment, having exclusive reference
to the suspension by the President
of Geo. M. Dustin, the late incumbent of
the oftice of district attorney for the South
ern district of Alabama, it is not considered
that the public interests will be promoted by
a compliance with said resolution and trans
mission of the papers and documents therein
mentioned to the Senate in executive session.
Upon this resolution and answer thereto the
issue is thus stated by the committee on
judiciary at the outset of the report: “The
important question then is whether it is
within the constitutional competency of
either house ot Congress to have access tr
official papers and documents in the various
public offices of the United States created by
laws enacted by themselves”. I do not sup
pose that the “public offices of the United
States” are regulated orcontrolledin their re
lations to either House of Congress by the fact
that they were “created by laws enacted by
themselves". It must be that these instru
mentalities were created for the benefit of
the people and to answer the general pur
poses of the government under the constitu
tion and the laws, and that they are unincum
bered by any lien in favor of either branch
of Congress growing out of their construc
tion and unembarrassed by any obligations
to the Senate as the price of their creation.
The complaint of the committee that ac
cess to official papers in public offices is de
nied the Senate is met by the statement that
at no time has it been the disposition or in
tention of the President or any department
of the executive branch of the government to
withhold from the Senate official documents
or papers filed in any of the public offices.
While it is by no means conceded that the
Senate has the right in any case to review
the act of the executive in removing or sus
pending a public officer, upon official docu
ments or otherwise, it is considered that doc
uments and papers of that nature should,
because they are official, be freely transmit
ted to the Senate on its demand, trusting the
use of the same for proper and legitimate
purposes to the good faith of that body and,
though no such paper or document has been
specifically demanded in any of the numer
ous requests and demands made upon the
departments, yet as often as they were found
in the public offices they have been fur
nished in answer to such application.
The letter of the attorney general in re
sponse to the resolution of the Senate in the
particular case mentioned in the committee’s
report was written at my suggestion and by
my direction. There had been no official pa
pers or any documents filed in his depart
ment relating to the case within the period
specified in the resolution. The letter was
intended by its description of the papers and
documents remaining in the custody of the
department to convey the idea that they
were not official and it was assumed that the
resolution called for information, papers and
documents of the same character as were re
quired by the requests and demands which
preceded it. Everything that has been
written or done on behalf of the Senate from
the beginning pointed to all the letters and
papers of a private and unofficial nature, as
the objects of search, if they were to be
found in the departments, and provided that
they had been presented to the executive
with a view to their consideration upon the
question of suspension from office.
Against the transmission of such papers
and documents I have interposed my advice
and direction. This has not been, as I sug
gested in the committee’s report, upon the
assumption on my part that the Attorney
General or any head of a department, “is the
servant of the President, and is to give or
withhold copies of documents in his office ac
U, Hm nrill f fK.. o A nrst
otherwise,” but because I regard the papers
and documents withheld and addressed to
me or intended for my use or action, purely
unofficial and private, not infrequently con
fidential, and having reference to the per
formance of a duty exclusively mine. I con
sider them in no proper sense as upon the
tiles of the department, but as deposited
there for my convenience, remaining still
completely under my control. I suppose if I
desire to take them into my custody, I might
do so with entire propriety, and if I saw fit
to destroy them no one could complain. Ev
en the committee in its report appears to con
cede that there may be with the President or
in the departments papers and documents
which, on account of their unofficial charac
ter, are not subject to the inspection of Con
gress. A reference in the report to in
stances where the House of Representatives
ought not to succeed in a call for the pro
duction of papers, is immediately followed
by this statement:
The commit ee feels authorized tojstate after a
somewhat careful research that within the fore
going limits there is scarcely in the history of this
government until now any instance of a refusal
By a head of a department, or even of the Presi
dent himself, to communicate official facts and in
formation, as distinguished from private and un
official papers, motives, views, reasons and opin
ions, to either house of Congress when uncon
ditionally demanded.
To which of the-classes thus recognized do
the papers and documents belong that are
now the objects of the Senate’s quest? They
consist of letters and representations ad
dressed to the executive, or intended for his
inspection; they are voluntarily written and
presented by private citizens, who are not in
the least instigated thereto by official invita
tion, or at all subject to official control.
While some of them are entitled to executive
consideration, many of them are so irrele
vant, or, in the light of other facts, so worth
less, that they have not been given the least
weight in determining the question to which
they are supposed to relate. Are all, these,
simply because they are preserved, to be
considered official documents and sub
ject to tile inspection of the Senate?
If not who is to determine which
belong to this class? Are the motives
and purposes of the Senate as they are day by
day developed such as would be satisfied
with my selection? Am I to submit to theirs
at the risk of being charged with making a
suspension from office on evidence which
was not even considered ? Are these pa
pers to be regarded as official because they
have not only been presented, but preserved
in the public offices? Their nature and
character remain the same, whether they ere
kept in the Executive Mansion or deposited
in the departments. There is no mys
terious power of transmutation in depart
mental custom, nor is there magic in the' un
defined and sacred solemnity of department
files. If the presence of these papers in the
public offices is a stumbling block in the
way of the performance of Senatorial duty
it can be easily removed. The papers and
documents which have been described de
rive no omcial cuaracter irom any constitu
tional, statutory or other requirement making
them necessary to the performance of the offi
cial duty of the executive.
It will not be denied, I suppose, that the
President may suspend a public officer in the
entire absence of any papers or documents to
aid bis official judgment and discretion. 1
am quite prepared to avow that the cases are
not few in which the suspensions from office
have depended more on oral representation
made to me by citizens of known good re
pute and by members of the House of Rep
resentatives and Senators of the United
States, than upon any letters and documents
presented for my examination. I have
not fe't justified in suspecting the veracity
integrity and patriotism of Senators, or ig
noring their representations because they
were not in party affiliation with the majority
of their associates and 1 recall a few suspen
sions which bear the approval of individual
members identified politically with the ma
jority in the Senate.
While, therefore, I am constrained to deny
the right of the Senate to the papers and
documents described so far as the right to
the same is based on the claim that
they are in any view of the sub
ject official, I am also led un
equivocally to dispute the right of the
Senate by the aid of any documents what
ever or in any way save through the judicial
process of a trial or impeachment to review
or reverse the act of the executive in the
suspension during the recess of the Senate of
federal officials.
1 believe the power to remove or to sus
pend such officials is vested in the President
only by the Constitution, which, in express
terms, provides that “the executive powei
shall be vested in a President of the United
States of America,” and that “he shall take
care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
The Senate belongs to the legislative duties
tlie right to advise aud consent to appoint
ments to office, and to set as a court of im
peachment, it eonlerred upou that body all
the control and regulation of executive ac
tion supposed to be necessary for the safety
of tire people, and this express and special
grant of such extraordinary powers, not in
any way related to or grou mg out of general
senatorial duty, aud m itself a departure
from the general plan of our government,
should be held under a familiar maxim of
construction to exclude every other right of
interference with executive functions.
In the first Congress which assembled af
ter the adoption of the Constitution, com
prising many who aided in its preparation, a
legislative construction was given to that in
strument in which the independence of the
executive in the matter of removals from
office was fully sustained. I think it will be
found that in the subsequent discussions of
this question there was generally, if not at
all times, a proposition pending to in some
way curtail this power of the President by
legislation, which furnishes evidence that to
limit such power it was supposed to be nec
essary to supplement the constitution by
such legislation. The first enactment of this
description was passed under a stress of par
tisanship and political bitterness, which
culminated in the President's impeach
ment. This law provided that the federal
offices to which it applied could only be sus
pended during the recess of the senate when
shown by evidence satisfactory to the Presi
dent to he guilty of misconduct iu office or
crime, or when incapable or disqualified to
perform their duties, and that within 20 days
after the next meeting of the Senate it should
be the duty of the President “to report to
the Senate such suspension, with the evi
dence and reasons for his action iu the case.
This statute, passed iu ist>7, when Congress
was overwhelmingly and bitterly opposed,
politically, to the President, may he regard
ed as an indication that even then it was
thought necessary by a Congress determined
upon the subjugation of the Executive to
legislate well to furnish itself a law for that
purpose, instead of attempting to reacli the
object intended by an invocation of any pre
tended constitutional right. The law which
thus found its way to our statute book was
plain in its terms, and the intent needed no
avowal. If valid, and now in operation, it
would justify the present course of the Sen
ate and command the obedience of the Exec
uuve 10 us uemanus. it may, However, oe re
marked in passing, that under this law the
President had the privilege of presenting to
the body which assumed to review his exec
utive acts, liis reasons therefor, instead of
being excluded from explanation or judged
by papers found in the departments. Two
years after the law of 1867 was passed, and
within less than five weeks after the inaugu
ration of a President, in accord with hoth
branches of Congress, the sections of the act
regulating suspensions from office during the
recess of the Senate, were entirely repealed,
and in their place were substituted provis
ions, which; instead of limiting the causes of
suspension to misconduct, crime, disability,
or disqualification, expressly permitted such
suspension by the President "in liis discre
tion,” and completely abandoned the re
quirement obliging him to report to the
Senate the evidence and reason for his ac
tion. Witli these modifications, and witli all
brandies of the government in political
harmony, and in the absence of partisan in
centive to captious obstruction, the law as
it was left by the amendment of 1869 was
much less destructive of executive discre
tion, and yet the great general and patriotic
citizen who,, on the 4th day of March, 1869,
assumed the duties of chief executive and
for whose administration of liis high office
the most hateful restraints of the law of
1867 were, on the 5th day of April, 1869, re
moved, mindful of his obligation to defend
and protect every prerogative of his great
trust and apprehensive of the injury threat
ened tlie public service in the continued
operation of these statutes, even in their
modified form, in liis first message to Con
gress advised their repeal and set forth
their unconstitutional character and hurtful
tendency in the following language:
It may be well to mention here the embarrass
ment possible to arise from leaving on the statute
books the so-called “tenure of office acts,” and to
earnestly recommend their total repeal. It could
not have’ been the intention of the framers of the
Constitution when providing that appointments
made by the President should receive the con
sent of the Senate, that the latter should have
power to retain iii office persons placed tliere by
tederal appointment against the will of the Pres
ident. The law is inconsistent with a faithful
and efficient administration of the government.
What faith can an executive put in officials
forced upon him, and those, too, whom he has
suspended for reasons? llow will such officials
be fikely to serve an administration which they
know does not trust them?
I am unable to state whether or not this
recommendation for a repeal of these laws
has been since repeated. If it lias not, the
Jeason can probably be found in the experi
ence which demonstrated the fact that the
necessities of the political situation hut rare
ly developed their vicious character; and so
it happens that, after an existence of nearly
twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude,
these iaws are brought forth, apparently the
repealed as well as the unrepealed, and put
in the w ay of an executive w ho is willing, if
permitted, to attempt an improvement in the
methods of administration.
The constitutionality of these laws is by no
means admitted. But why should the pro
visions of the repealed law, requiring specific
cause for suspension and report to the Sen
ate of “evidence and reasons” be now, in ef
fect, applied to the present executive instead
of the law afterwards passed and unrepealed
which distinctly permits suspensions by the
President “in liis discretion, and carefully
omits the requirement that “evidence and
reasons for his action in the case” shall be
reported to the Senate ?
The requests and demands which by the
score have for nearly three months been pre
sented to the different departments of the
irrivummunt whatAVAr mav hfi thflir form.
have but one complexion. They assume the
right of the Senate to sit in judgment on the
exercise of my exclusive discretion and ex
ecutive function, for which 1 am solely re
sponsible to the people from whom I have
lately received the sacred trust of office. My
oath to support and defend the Constitution,
my duty to the people w ho have chosen me
to execute the powers of their great office,
and not to relinquish them, and my duty to
the chief magistracy, which I must preserve
unimpaired in all its dignity and vigor, com
pel me to refuse to comply with these de
mands. To the end that the service may be
improved, the Senate is invited to the fullest
scrutiny of the persons submitted to them
for office in recognition of the con
stitutional power of that body to
advise and consent to their appoint
ment. I shall continue, as I have thus
far done, to furnish, at tiie request
of the confirming bodv, all the information I
possess touching the fitness of the nominees
placed before them for their action; but
when they are proposed to fill vacancies and
to take the place of susuended officials, upon
a refusal to confirm, I shall not assume the
right to ask tiie reasons for the action of the
Senate, nor question its determination. I
cannot think that anything more is required
to secure worthy incumbents in public office
than a careful and independent discharge of
our respective duties within their well defin
ed limits. Though the propriety of suspen
sions might be better assured if the action of
the President was subject to review by the
Senate; vet, if the Constitution and the
laws have placed this responsibility upon
the executive branch of the government, it
should not be divided, nor the discretion
which it involves relinquished.
It has been claimed that tiie present execu
officials except for cause, the fact of their
suspension implies sucli misconduct on the
part of a suspended official as injures his
character and reputation, and, therefore, the
Senate should review the case for his vindi
cation. I have said that certain officials
should not, in my opinion, be removed dur
ing the continuance of the term for which
they were appointed, solely for the purpose
of putting in their place those in political af
filiation with the appointing power, and this
declaration was Immediately followed by a
description of official partisanship which
ought not to entitle those in whom it was ex
hibited, to consideration. It is not apparent
how an adherence to the course thus an
nounced carries with it the consequences de
scribed. If, in any degree, the suggestion is
worthy of consideration, it is to be lipped that
there may be a defenee against unjust sus
pension in the justice of the executive.
Every pledge which I have made, by which
I have placed a limitation on my exercise of
executive power, has been faithfully redeem
ed. Of course, the pretence is not put forth
that no mistakes have been committed, hut
not a suspension lias been made unless it ap
peared to my satisfaction that the public
welfare would be improved thereby. Many
applications for suspension have been denied
and the adherence to the rule laid down to
eovern my action as to such suspensions has
caused much irritation and impatience on
the part of those who have insisted upon
more changes in the offices. The pledges I
have made were made to the people, and to
them I am responsible for the manner in
which thev have been redeemed. I am not
responsible to the Senate, and I am unwil
ling to submit my actions and official con
duct to them for judgment.
There are no grounds for an allegation that
the fear of being found false to my profes
sions influences me in decliningto submit to
the demands of the Senate. 1 have not con
stantly refused to suspend officials and thus
incurred the displeasure of political friends
and yet wilfully broken faith with the people
for the sake of being false to them. Neither
the discontent of party friends, nor the al
lurements constantly offered of confirmations
of appointees conditioned upon the avowal
that suspensions have been made upon party
grounds alone; nor the threat proposed m
the resolutions now before the Senate, that
no confirmations will be made unless the de
mands of that body be complied with, are
sufficient to discourage or deter me from fol
lowing in the way which I am convinced
leads to better government for the people.
, (iKOVKIt Of.KVJO.AK0.
Executive Mansion, Washington, D. V.,
March 1, lssti.
BASE BALL.
At a well attended meeting of citizens
held in Manchester, N. U., last night a base
ball association was organized, with Herbert
S. Clough president, Lark H. Kelley secre
tary, and Charles F. < raign treasurer.
Fruuk J. Leonard of NewLurypurt, Mass.,
was signed as manager. The association
starts with sufficient funds to warrant suc
cess.