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HEELING, IV. YA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1894. VOLUME xTF^yUMBER 87. ^
lEWll LASP
gM*Ion of tbe Democratic Congress
Convenes To-day.
bitterness hmqnq democrats
the Administration Growtag
Out of the Election
jMY PRECIPITATE fl FAMILY ROW,
Xboufiti tbe Democratic Leader* will
do Their Bom to Preront It?Xho
Pnaldeni'a Financial Scheme, an
Olilloed In the Mtuljo, Which la
- -?a Mi.. Pnrnlali Hl?
Bpfcwu ?
Opponents Tbelr Opportunity?An
Ijnpcaobment Case Which May
Attract tho Attention oftho Country.
ffiunxoTos, D. 0., Dec. 2.?The
stood session of the Fifty-third Conpai,
begins at noon to-morrow. Boyood
the paaaage of the regular appropriation
bills, it seema probable that Titlit
la the way of iegialation will be accomplished
attbe ahortseseion,although
lateral important propoaitions will
doabtleM be pressed to the front.
Among the memberi of the dominant
party in the house, over half of whom
wsrs defeated for re-election, there is a
great deal of bitter feeling against the
idmloiatration for real or fancied grievances.
It will be the purpose of the Democratic
leaders to curb, aa far aa possible,
the display of reaentment.
It the Freaideat outlines a financial
icbeme in Ills message to-morrow, as
anticipated, it will probably furnish
Ibe opponente of his banking and financial
views their desired opportunity. Id
tbacourae of the session it is underitood
me Nicaragua canal project will be
brought prominently forward. At the
opeaiog of the Congress, however,
routine matters will bo kept to tho tore
toatareofl aa far as poaaibfe unpleasant
>eterencee to the election which would
prove distasteful to the majority, but
bis policy can onlv be partiallvsuccess1
' **-- -II i? ??
IUI,aB lilt) IHUIUUD nuwnou ?? UUUM.V Vu
appropriation billa will throw the doors
open to remarks on any subject.
Before the adjournment for the holidays
it will be necessary to pass an appropriation
to carry out the taritt bill
provision levying a tax on incomes, tho
collection of which begins January 1,
and while it will no doubt meet with
much opposition and lead to a general
review of the arguments against such a
tax, the general impression is that it will
pais by a large majority.
The impeachment of Judge Ricks, of
the Northern District of Ohio, will also
furnish a diversion before the holidays,
if the judiciary committee which investigated
the charges should present a
resolution of impeachment and it
should carry. The trial would occur in
the senate, tho chiof justice presiding.
Impeachment proceedings aro rare and
novel, and this one, the first since the
trial of President Johnson, would attract
national attention.
To-morrow, if a quorum is prosont in
the bouse, as seems almost certain,
after the calling of the roll nothing will
be done probably beyond the reading of
the President's message. No definite
programme has been arranged for the
remainder of the week. The committee
on appropriations, however, has two
bills aimost prepared, tho pensions and
fortification bills, and they will be re
ported on Tuesday, ao that work upon
tbemcan bo entored upon Wednesday.
THE SENATE.
The senate will be callcd to ordor
Monday at 12 o'clock noon when the
last session of the Fifty-third Congress
will begin. Tho vice president is in the
city aud will preside. The session will
begin with a lull calendar, the rosult of
committee action during the long sea*
(ion, and it contains at least two hundred
items, covering a wide range of
matters. Nothing has transpired to indicate
which of these two hundrod
questions will receive first attention,
whether they will be taken in their
order, or whether tho calendar will be
followed at all.
| Much interest is felt among senators
of all political beliefs in the President's
mesingo and in tho recommendations
which the secretary of the treasury will
make on financial questions. These
will have much to do in directing the
courso of the senate. If thuro aro recommendations
for radical departures
in financial method*, they nro sure to
lead to much speech-making early in
the session, and later to form tho basis
of comn.ittoe actions.
Significance is also attached to Senator
Vooriiees' declaration that he will
uk the finance committee to sit on
Tuesday. Tuesday is the day for tho
regular weokly meeting of this committee.
but it il nu nnfc nr/iitinrilv mnnt an 1
promptly nftor the assembling of the
senate. Chairman Voorhooa decliuoa
to itate tho object of the mooting
farther than to say that it ia to be held
for tho purpose of permitting nn exchange
of viewa among members. If
tha President's message ia received
Monday, tho executive recommendations
could, of courao, bo taken up, but
as there had been no positivo assurance
to when the message would come in
I the mooting wae docided upon, it
would appear that tho chairman had
other objects in view. ?.
THOSE POP-OCN BILLS.
H is possible that his purpose may bo
to arrango a policy upon the aupplojnantal
tariff bills. These bills hove oil
been roported by the committee, but it
toay be considered necossary to discuaa
them further before deciding upon a
plan of action. The Domocratic majority-of
the finance committoo ia on
'ecord in favor of tho passago of tho
hull, and it is not improbable that tho
7 action of the committoo is sought
to'frustrateany attempt to provent con 'deration.
This ia not altogether sur?
*n?se, for it is known that somo of the
o-called conservative senators have adJ'?ed
that a general party conferonco bo
?aiu soon aftor the senato convenes lor
the consideration of this question.
The experience of last aeuion shows
l&at whenever caucuses wero held tho
conservatives carried thoir point.
Jienco, there iaroason for tho prompt
J^oool thefriondsof the supplementThere
appears to be nothing out of
flnincial or tar III questions likely to
excite a ripple daring (be week and it
it not certain ttoat, whatever may bappen
later in the union, there will be
much in theie linai to disturb the general
serenity of the senate daring tbe
next few dayi.
After the receipt of the President's
message, and when it gets to business,
the senate may take up the calendar in
regular order, orit may proceed to consider
oat of order some of the more
important bills which have beon reported,
such as those for the admission
of Arizona and New Mexico, or the
bankruptcy, anti-option or Nicaragua
bill.
In any event the daily sessions of the
week will bo short, with the probability
strongly in favor of an adjournment
from Thursday until Monday of the
week following.
A QUORUM PRESENT.
So few members of either house of
Congress wero to be found In Washington
last week that there ill a Beamingly
well founded apprehension that both
tbe senate and the house might find
themselves without quorums and he
unablo to accomplish any business in
the first week of tbe session. The hotel
registers to-day show that there will
probably be a quorum of members of
both houses in their seats to listen to
the President's inessago to-morrow.
Senators and representatives have been
brought to the city on every train arriving
Saturday and Sunday.
CAPTUHE OF SMUGGLERS.
A Gnnc That Has Keen dwindling Uncle
Sam for a Year It Caught.
Dstroit, Mich., Dec. 2,?The police
uid custom officer! have just run down
a gang of smugglers who bave for over
a year past been smuggling thousands
of dollara worth of Turkish (embroideries
and fancy goods from Windsor to
Detroit. Four members of the gang
have been arrested, two of the being
women. .Most of the gooda were
shipped to New York. Certain Armenian
and Syrian merchants in New York
hare been selling these goods at less than
theircoattoimportera, butalthongb they
were closely watched, the discovery of
the smugglers was brought about by the
Detroit police. The latter recently noticed
that empty trunks were being
carried into a room at 270 Jefferson avenue
and taken out again filled and
shipped to New York. The police detectives
shadowed this ooeration Saturday,
and tben entered the room and
captured Asaph Ghobreen and Mrs.
Selma Ghobreen, Syrians; Mrs. Kate
Moore, of Windsor, and a young Italian
from Now York named George Micalam.
A trunk which had jnst been filled
for shipment contained quantities of |
costly embroideries and Turkish fancy
goods valued at $1,300. Around the
bodies of the two women were found
$500 worth of the same kind of goods,
which had just been brought across tho
river, The duties on the articles would
amonnt to about 60 per cont. Another
thousand dollars worth billed for shipment
was also captured.
Government Inspectors Carter, Jennary
and Downs are due to arrive in
New York this evening whither they
had gone to arrost John Abdelnor, a
Syrian merchant, who is believed to be
Selrna Ghobreon's husband and an accomplice
of the gang. It was at first
intendod to wire the New York officers
to arrest Abdelnoor, but Inspector Carter
preferrod to attend to the capture
personally.
Selma Ghobreen was arrested in Boston
last year for a similar offense.
KOLU'S PROGRAM JIB.
lJelleved That He Slui]>ly Want* to Make
a Record?A Quiet Sunday.
Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 2.?In spite
of hor dual government, Alabama has
enjoyed as peaceiai ana quiet a ouuuay
as any state in the union.
Most of the visitors including the
twenty-six companies of state troops,
left the city soon after midnight
last night. The enthasiaim politicians
exhausted with tho excitement and
anxiety of yesterday have been resting
at their horao3 to-day. Neither Governor
Gates nor Captain Kolb have been
seeu on the streets.
Tho council of the Populist leaders
called for yesterday afternoon was not
held. It has doveloped that there is a
decided split in tho Populist ranks on
the inaugurated movement.
It hne leaked out that the members
of that party in the legislature wero
united against the inauguration of Captain
Kolb and did all in their power by
writing to their constituents to keep
Kolb's supporters away from tho city
to-day.
-4 v.ik
vjHIUUKUf a lib uio AUIU iimuKuiHHUii
recall the fact that only two or three of
the Popiiliat members were in
the crowd which heard Koib'fl address.
Kolb determined upon the
inauguration scheme which culled his
supporters here without consulting
any of his party loaders. Those who
wiil tolk acknowledge they would htve
counselled against it. It has unquestionably
produced friction in the ranks.
Tho Democratic leaders hero think
they know Kolb's purpose. They bolievo
he limply wants to put
himself on record. Governor
Oates will sign tho certificates
of the gentlemen declared to be
elected, and Kolb hopes that the Republicans
and Populists in tho houso
will soat tho contestants, and thereby
virtually recognize his as the proper
credentials.
Anowior morning ui mo jvuiuuuu ta
called for to-morrow. No ono can stato
at this time what will bo done after tho
nioflsftse is sent to tho legislature until
tho meeting to-morrow determine!.
FATAL WKKCK.
An Kasiueer Killed mid one Oilier Mnti
Fulfil Ir Ilurned.
Slatinoton, Pa., Dec. 2.?A freight
train on tho Jersey Contra! ran Into tho
rear end of a coal train, at an early
hour this morning, two miles below
Kockport. The engine of tho freight
train, and aoveral coal and freight care
wore badly wrecked. Engineer Hall, of
tho freight train, ia supposed to bo unilor
tho debris, but hie body has not yot
been recovorod. Ono other man was
seriously, if not fatally burned, In a fire
which followed tho wreck.
No One Killed.
Alton, III, Doc. 2.?TIib Chicngo
night oxpross on the Wabash was
wrucked at Namookl last uighl, A
freight train failed to lidetrsck ill lime
und a hoitd-on collision resulted.
Tho engines wore domolisbod and
much other dainnge wai done. Contrary
to reports, no one was seriously injured,
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CDRRENCY QUESTION. '
The Feature of Comptroller ot tfae
Treasury Eoklea' B?port.
IMPORTflNT RECOMMENDATIONS.
r
Change From the Bond System to
a Safety Fuad System
AS BASIS FOR BANK CIRCULATION.
A Scheme Co Give to the Business
Interests of the Country a Bank
No to Issue IteMponsive to Their
Needs and to Retire the Government
From tho Banking Duslnoss.
The Currency Quofltion Discussed
Fully? Itadical Changos in tho
Present System Recommended.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 2.?The report
of Hod. James Eclclet, comptroller
of the currency, submitted to Congress,
gives full information in regard to the
organization, .supervision and liquidation
of the national banks tor the year
ended October 31, 1804. It shows that
| during this period but fifty banks were
| organized with a capital stock of $5,285,000,
the smallest number chartered, as
well as the minimum amount of capital,
in any one year since 1879. Of these
now banks twenty-seven are in the
northern and eastern states, ten in the
southern states and thirteen in the
western or trans-Mississippi division.
On October 31, 1894, the total number
of national banks in operation was
3,766, with an ac^orized capital stock
of $672,671,366, represented by 7,955,067
shares of stock, owned by 287,893 shareholders.
Un October 3, ism, too date 01 moir
last report of condition, the total resources
of the banks were $3,473,922,055,
of which their loans and discounts
amounted to $2,007,122,101. and money
of all kinds in bank $422,428,192. Of
their liabilities ?1,738,418,819 represented
iidividual deposits, and $112,331,978
circulating notes outstanding. The total
circulation of national banks on October
31, 1894, amouted to $207,472,603, a
net decrease during tho year of $1,741,503,
nnd a gross docreaso of $3,014,804
in circulation secured by bonds.
During the year 79 banks, with an
aggregate capital stock of $10,475,000
passed out of the system by tho voluntary
liquidation, twenty-one, including
two which failed in 1893, with a capital
stock of $2,770,000 became insolvent and
were placed in charge of*iecoivers.
TIIE CURBBNCY QUESTION*.
The feature of the comptroller's report
is his discussion of tho currcncy
question and the defects which are said,
to exist iu the note issuing powers
vested in national banks. On this subject
he says: "No section of the law
should bo disturbed which cannot be
materially improved upon and no
amenduiont engrafted unless such
amendment will work out better results i
than How from the exiling order of
things.
It is probable that thero could be no
better plan for simply insuring the
noteholder against lets than the present
requirement of a deposit of bonds to
secure a bank's circulation, but it is i
equally certain, liowover, that a method
could bo devised, not leas safe in this i
respect, and in addition thereto possessing
that which is essential and is now i
wholly wonting?elasticity of issue.
The complaint, therefore, made against i
the present system is that, larking in i
elasticity of issue, it fails to ineot as <
fully as it ought the varying wants of i
the country's trade anil commerce, i
This defect muBt attach to every scheme I
for a currency issued by tho banks i
against a deposit of bonds, the market <
value of which flactuates whilo the percentage
of issue, less than the value of
the bonds granted the banks, remains
unchanged.
"It is respectfully suggested that not
only as good but better results would bo
attained if the presont bank act were (
amended by repealing the provision
theroof, requiring each bank as a pre- 1
requisite to deposit government bonds. 1
In lieu of such provision should be sub- I
stituted one permitting the banks to is- ,
buo circulating notes against their assets i
to nn amount oqual to at least lifty per ,
cont of their unimpaired capital."
a safety fund. j
The comptroller follows this sugges- i
tion with tho furthor one for the !
muintainanco of a safety fund to be pro
vided by graduated taxation upon tho J
outstanding circulation of tho bank until
tho samo shall bo equal to not less i
than five per cent of tho total of such 1
outstanding circulation, this fund to bo i
held by tno government as an agent
only and for tbn purposo of immediately
redeeming tho notes of insolvont 1
banks. it ia iintnodiately to be replen- i
ished out of the assets of the banks,
on which It aliall havo a first and par- <
amount lion and from assessment to tho
extant of the double liability on tho 1
shareholder*. Tho comptroller says: 1
"Whatever ofchor changes, if any, it
would be necessary to make in tho pros- <
ent system relativo to current redemp- 1
tion of bank notes and the government's
position toward thp aamo and kindrod <
mnttor, it is not nocemry to sot forth.
It tho rocoiniuondations hore made, to- '
gather with that which will follow, >
should recoivo consideration at tho
hands of Congress, a hill drawn aftor
caroful study and investigation of tho
whole subject would noceisarilv om- I
body all tho details incident to a charge
troro a bond ton safety fund socurity ai
abasia for bank circulation."
TUo.cotnptrollor then citos sucli proof i
and gives such statistics as seom to liiin (
to mnko tho plan supgovted a porfectly
afe ono to ontor upon, liosays: "Tlio 1
changoi tliua outlined will, upon inves*
tigation, it is boliovod, provo to be safe 1
in affording complete lecurity to the '
noteholder and give to the buiinoss interests
of tho country a banknote issue
responsivo to their needs."
Continuing, tho comptroller novs:
"The profit upon tlio issue of clrcula- <
tion to tho bnnks by such cliaugo would
bo so augmonted that it is giving to i
thotn a franchise, for which it is sug*
gestod they should bo called upon to
make proper return to the general gov*
eminent. This result should not, howover,
bo of such a character a* to defeat
theonds sought in tho privilego given.
TO FIIBB THE GOVERNMENT.
"The general govern mo nt ought to bo
wholly frco from the direct ieiuiDR and J i
redeeming of notes to pan as money
among the people. No gorernment has
ever yet successfully engaged in so
doing, and ttie experience of the govern- (
ment of the United State* bai proven
no exception to the role.
"These issues out to bn redeemed and i
cancelled and the government time en- J
abled to retire from the banking ban- (
una, a business for which it ia to poorly
equipped.'! 1
Intheligbtof the Dreaent condition '
of tbegovernment's linaneos, the comp- i
troller continue!, that which ought to |
have been done when there was a anr- ,
pins in the treaaury cannot no* be an- (
dertaken and the same conditions mint |
continue to weaken the country'* credit |
and plaguo the linea of basinets anlen i
a means ia devised for removing these j
iisuei from the channel of current re- ,
demption until such time as the gov- <
eminent finds itaelf in a position to do j
that which at first was the intent of ail i
?gradually redeem and cancel them.
If the franchise ia granted the banks of
issuing circulating notes against their
assets instead of against a bond securi- '
ty, it ia suggested that the bnnka in return
ehould recompense the government
bv relieving the treasury depart- I
ment of the current redemption in ooin ,
of the preaent treasury issues.
The ultimate redemption of coin of
course must all be upon the govern- 1
ment, but the embarrassment does not i
arise irora ineir uiuoibw, uut iruui
their current redemption.
Aa against this deposit of legal tender*
and treasury notes 00 made there should
bo issued to the badks, dollar for dollar,
national bank notes, either of the same
or diflerent design as micht be deemed
beat, that thus the yolumo of the currency
aa itia now contributed to by the
issues of the government should not be
contracted so long, at leaat, as the banka
making each deposita are in existence.
The percentage of the bank notes issued
against this depoait should be free from
any taxation imposed upon circulation
aud ought to be auch percentage aa ia
deemed equitable tp be ased aa a part of
the banka legal reserve held against deposits.
The government should not undertake
or in any wise become responsible
for the current redemption of these
notes.
The elasticity of is&ue in tho national
bank circulation will be found in the
percentage of issue against assets, sub- ,
joct to the necessary rate of taxation
and insured by an adequate safety fund
to guarantee the note holders against
loss. No violent contraction of the*
currency would follow such a course,
but whenever contraction occurs it
would not be loss gradual than at other
limos the expansion incident thereto.
A CUHKE5CY C0MU18SI0H.
It ia suggested that as a necessary
element to the aocuring of proper elaa*
ticity of issue in our bank note curroncy,
section 9, act ot July 12,1892,
regulating the retirement and issuing
of circulation to banks within a flxea :
period of timo, should be repealed, and ]
also that an amendment should be
made to the law necessitating tho <
banks keeping in the office of the <
comptroller of the currency a sufficient 1
amount of blank notos as will enable J
them to secure circulation at once in- 1
itead of after a period of delay. I
Suggestions have been recoivod from
many eminent sources that the whole 1
question of a banking and currency ays- ?
tem ought to bo referred bv Congress to i
a commission to be created by law, ap- j
pointed by tho President, and clothed t
with propor authority. i
A commission, non-partisan in its 1
character, composed of men ot eminent i
abilities, could unquestionably devise a
currency system sound in every part, t
and one which would commend itself 1
to every interest of the country. It 1
could largely take the queation out of i
politics, and have it considered simply f
in its business aspects and upon its '
merits; but if the presentConereis is to t
enact a law upon the subject, appoint- >
ment of a commission could avail noth- 1
ing. If, however, nothing more defi- t
nito can do accomplished, ins quuouua
of the creation of such a commission i
jught to bo considered and acted upon. 1
JUST LIKK SI ELKY. J
\ Similar Dofnlcntlon by Book Keeper J
Leltck of h Willlnmiburg Hunk.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Dec. 2.?Justice
[xoettinjr to-morrow morning will in all <
probability be asked to isiue warrants
for tho arroat of E. Austin Leitcb, a
former book-keepor in the Manufactur- 1
sra' National Bank at Williamsburg, e
and Isaac Meag, who roiido in that dia- *
LricU Thoso two men are implicated t
in another bank defalcation, that, in I
many rnspects, is similar to the Shoo c
and Leather Bank aflair. Tho amount i
In this instance, however, totalling $7,- e
300, which the Manufacturers' bank 1
lOPOB. I
Loitch had boon omployod in that in- r
ititation up to a fow months aeo when d
lie was diBcharsod. It wan then found c
that ho had a shortage in his accounts 1
to tho amount of soveral thousand dol- j
lars, tho exact amount being a-certnlned
only yesterday. His mothods were, it n
is n'tatod by the bttnk authorities, simi- c
Inr to those adopted by t-eeley, tho Shoo t
& Leather Bank defaulter. n
Meajr, tt was triven oui uv me wmu ?
iiuthority to-night, was his accomplioe. "
Iho lattor ontored into an arrangement
with Leitch whoroby he was enabled to
ilraw from tho band amounts far in oxcess
of his deposits. *
Shortly after tho defalcation wasdis- t
covered, President 1/onghran, of the
Manufacturers' Uauk had Leitch
brought before him and tho rosult of a g
curofnl cross-examination that followod g
was that tho latter broke down and con- ,(
fescod his Riiilt. Prosidont Loughran Q
Jcciarod to-night that ho would press t
>1.. nnninat fhn tWO 111011.
wuo v?ao ...w ...
Sueur Itoflnorlen Hemming.
linooKLVX N. Y? Dec. 2.?Work at
tlio sugar refliiories which recently shut o
lown ia tho eastern district, was re- r
sumcd to-night. r
To-morrow morning it is protnisod r
that 1,000 men additional will also be i
given employment. Fourteen hundred ti
raon wero sot to work. J
South CArollttit'fi Election Lmr.
Columdia, 6. 0., Dec. 2.?Thosuprome
court tomorrow will liour arKumonts as I
to tlio constitutionality of tlio olection r
law on tho potition of Senator Butlor. 1
An advorno docieion may koofi Tillman i
from aucccoding to Butler'u seat. t
Hon. 1). J. nict'omuft Demi.
III'XTIXOTON, W. V*., Dec. 2.?lion.
R J. McOomas, ono of tho oidost nnd k
beat known attorneys ill the itnte, died ?
at his homo hefo to-dny of blood pol- 1
loniug, t
CHCJIICH GUFIEI) BY FIRE.
ASoppoaed Inrendlnrjr Itlnx* nt limiting.
ion?An 51. F. Church lluru*.
fpecial Dt?patc\ to tke InitUigenctr. _
Huntington, W. Va., Dec. 2.?This
uorning about 6 o'clock the Johnson
Memorial M. ?. church, South, was diajovered
to be on fire, and before the do- |
partment could do anything the interior
rraa completely destroyed. The loaa ia l
ibout $5,000. The building ie injured
or $15,000. but the furniture wan uninlured.
This ia the largest church in the
:ity, seating about eight hundred peo*
>le, and Evangelist SchooiflMd was to
lave opened a big revival meeting there
o-night. It wis transferred to the
[)avis theatre, which wan filled with
ibout fifteen hundred people. The
jriffin of the church fire wa* from tko
innnniflH whil#? manv think
t was the work of an incendiary.
ATTACKS ON TUB ShiltCM.
Claim* for the llaJiring Diphtheria Car?
Opposed?Orrmitn Sewn
Bsaux, Dec. 2.?A reaction against
bo unmeasured claims advanced (or the
mrative effects of Prof. Behring's diphtheria
serum is setting in rather seriousy.
'The most significant utterance in
;his respect was made at a meeting on
Wednesday last of the fierliu medical
tociety, when Dr. Hansemann, an asais;ant
in Prof. Virchow's pathological inititate,
as moathpioce of 1'rof. Virchow
liuiself, sharply criticiaod in detail
Prof. Behring's serum therapeutic*.
He deniod that the serum immunizes
luman beings, and declares that no
lufflcient proof had been produced rejecting
its curative properties. Furfiermore,
Dr. Hansemann claimed that
;heellectof serum treatment in many
:asea was dangerous to health, and evon
10 life. The statistics thus far obtainibie
of the results of the serum treatnent
he pronounced to be unreliable
md often misleading.
Dr. G. H. F. Nutall, a young American
physician, who ia now assistant
irofesao'r of the Hygienic institute, of
Berlin, in view of the fact that his share
n the discovery of the serum treatment
ias not apparently been clearly underitood,
has made the following state
nnnt to the Associated Press: He
itudled in 1877 and 1888 under Profes- \
lor Fluegge, at lireslan and at Goot
.insreu, and while pursuing experi- 1
nents in the laboratories he madecer- t
.ain discoveries which enabled him to c
lemonstrate for the first time that blood t
>oss?88orf bacteriological properties, i
:Io published the results of those a
eaearches, among which was the fact c
hat the blood of an immunized sheep i
lestroyed more anthax, or bacilli, than
he blood of non-iinraunized animals. I
rle thus clearly showod tho way which p
Sehring and others subsequently took, ?
ind, in point of fact, laid the foundation t
>f the present blood scrum treatment.
Harvard university awarded Nutall the r
srizo for original research. c
A dispatch from Varzin announces c
ihat Dr. Schweninger leave* there to- c
iay, as the condition of Prince Bis- i
narck's health is satisfactory. Prince a
Bismarck has received telegrams and
etters of cohdolence from all parts of n
:he world. c
The enormous revival of the export v
jusinesa since October 15 has been renarked
at the United States consulate ti
n this city. '1 his revival has been ea- T
socially romarkable in paper ware, but- b
Ions, dress goods and reoily mono doming.
Homo branches of the export a
trade which have recently been dor- h
mant now show signs of revival. tl
According to an evening newspnpor, fl
.he speech which the emperor will dc- tl
iver at the opening of tho reichstag on v
Wednesday nest will point out the
lecessityof combatting all revolution- ft
try agitation by stringent legislation, ci
ind express confidence that the reichs- C
ag will lend aid to the vaiious govern- n
nents in this conflict with the revolu- g
ionary forces. It is also paid that rof- w
irence will be made in the emperor's ei
ipeech to renowed efforts to place the fi
inances of the empire upon a firmer ci
)asis. a
The fact that Princess Hohenlone, 13
rife of the chancellor, hmgone to Paris ir
or a time has caused mnch comment
iere. n
PKAOB NEGOTIATIONS
Continue Thrnagli the of the United
States?Jnpaaene Couuter?I'ropoiiUlon. n:
Toaio, Dec. 2.?Peace) negotiations
ire proceeding. The minister of for- l(
lign affairs has handed to United suites a
Minister Dun a counter-proposition for
ransraiision to United States Minister ?
)enby. Owing to tho impenetrable ne- lr
rocy surrounding the negotiations it is l.c
inpossible at this atago to discover the ,
xaet nature of this counter-proponition al
>ut is supposed to diUer from Minister w
)enby's original proposition mainly in !n
ospect to tho amount of the indemnity "
lemanded by Japan and in the addition nl
if certain rather enormous guarantees
or lUe faithful execution of Ciiiua's l.J
dodges. t
It is rumored that ono of those gtinr- '}|
inteea is tho continuation of Japaueso
iccupation of Port Arthur until the 1(3
reaty conditions are fulfilled, but it is
pprehendod that such u demand may 11
nvolve Great Britain, to which nations f?
uch occupation would he obnoxious. bl
Accept* Knglmxl'ii Loan, III
London*, Doc. 2.?A dispatch from ui
Jorlin states that China has accepted
ho English oiler of a four and a half
ler cont loan of 1,200,000 pounds.
A dispatch to the Timos from Vienna
tates that Japan advicoa to the end of ^
lepteinber show that the war tiail boon
B89 injurious to trade than wan expoct- rc
d. Tho rico XJrop promises to be trom to
on to twenty per cent above tiie aver- Hi
lil
KW*
llr Denim It.
Yokohama, Dec. 2.?Mr. Potrintr, tho
nvoy who visited Japan for the pur* 6i
tote of negotiating a pence and whose pi
illusion Droved a failure, tho nrirao
sinister declining to meet him, hns
written a privnto Iett??r to the primo tl]
minister denying that ho was sent to ?u
rapan by Li Hung Chang. jh
Frnuc#'? Turn.
Pams, Dec. 2.?i lie Figaro urges
^rance to temporarily occupy aomo
>oint in China as a reply to tho Eng- l
ish demonstration nt Chusnn, which if JJ
nterpreta as an intontion to occupy
he island. ni
? Mi
Tlirr? Rlllnl, I'trnnty Injured. 7
IlRt/MBUt, I)er.2.?'Three persons were J*
JIM and twentv injured by an exploion
to-day in*n torclto factory at CanDie
near tho Bevorloo camp. The
luilding was blown to atoms, 1:
JOHN BURNS HERE
ilngland'a Great Labor Leader
Arrives in New York Olty.
IE GIVES THE OBJECT OF HIS VISIT
n an Interview?llegnrd* the Defeat
of Tammany a* a Victory lor Municipal
Iteform, In Which Uo is Much
Interested?He Comes to Study the
Labor Movement In America?Tbe
.SocialInt Movement In l^ngland, H*
Nays, Hum Como to Stay.
New York, Dec. 2.?Among the paismgers
on the Cunard steamer Ktruria,
rhich arrived here thii morning, was
fohn Hurnp, M.P., the great socialist
tnd labor leader of Londoo. A delegaion
from the labor organizations of
S'ew York City met him at Quarantine,
rtie delegation consisted of E. F. MoSweeney,
nsaiitant commissioner of
abor, Samuel Gompers, president of
he American Federation of Labor,
Shris Evans, sectetnry of the orgnnizaion,
and William O'Brien, the walking
lelegate.
Mr. Burns is accompanied on his
iro'ont trip by two iellow inembera of
>arliaraent, Mr. David Holmes, who
'Anrnmnlnil iIim tnivn nf Kurnlnr. in
Lincolnshire, and who is president of
he Woavers' Association and a do ?'gato
o the conference of tho Federation of
^nhor, and Mr. John Williams Bonn,
nemberof tho London county council
ind M. P. for fc?t. George's, J'jast.
Mr. Benn in deeply interested in tern*
>erance a Hair 8.
Mr. Burns, after ho had (tree tod the
lommittee, asked to be excused for a
noraent while ho glanced over a letter
rotn a relative which had heen handed
o him by Mr. (tampers, pleading that
'the solidity of labor began in the
touHohold." Then ho talked to tho
enreaentatives of the Associated Press.
"It would be unfair for tho American
>eople for me to talk about them now,"
dr. Burns Haiti, "for really 1 know very
ittio about them. I was pleaded with
he result of your recent municipal
ilection in New York City, for, as we
inderstood it, tho victory was in the
nterest of pure municipal politics, and
ia my principal work at present is as a
ouu'ty councilor, it was particularly
nteresting to me.
"As for tho Socialist movement in
Dnpiand, it has come to stay. It will
:row as it adapts itnolf to circumstances.
lociauem as 11 niieuiH uiuiucijini mmern
is not mixed up with other issues.
"I have boon watciiing the labor
ovement in America as closely ub I
ould from a distance and I have conluded
that thero must he a little more
if the milk of humnn kindness injected
nto labor atrnirs if (hey are to progress
,11 would like to aoe them progress."
On the dock were gathered about 200
Qcmhers of the locnl labor unions who
hoered loudly for "John Burns," as ho
ralked down the gang plank.
Then an informal reception wa9
andered to liim and Mr. Dumar, of
ypographical Union No. 6, made a
rief speoch of welcome.
In responding Mr. Burns said it was
n agreeable coincidence, that ho. who
ad been so strongly identified with
lie docks in England, should make liia
rat spooch in America on a dock with
lie rattle of trucks and tho swash of
rater in his ears.
Mr. David Holmes followed with a
?w remarks and then tho party proaeded,
democratically, on foot, to tho
lolonnade hotel along West street. On
lany of the corners wero gathered
roups of dock laborers and cattlemen
ho cheered (or Burns as he approachi
and many of them who had como
ora London greeted hi in with the old
ry of tho London dock strike, "How
re you, John?" to which inquiry Mr.
urns rosponded by stopping and shakig
hands with them.
Later in tho day Mr. Burns received a
umber of newspaper men and talked
>r an hour.
Of his own visit, he said he camo first
> observe the condition of the labor
tovemeut in America, and in what reject
it diiTers from that in England;
?d second, a member of parliament,
> visit Confess and get a grasp of
merican political afiairs.
Tiio workings of the labor department
nder Carroll D. Wright were of great
iterost to him. Mr. Burns is inclined
i beiiove that among the cosmopolitan
merican people it is possible to bring
)out concerted action for holding the
oalthy in check, to prevent thom from
_ .U_._ .,..1.u..?.
JCrOaHinK lliuir UUIUniK. nn J ...
ijretofore, nnd lie will devote particular
.tontion to tlio study of that problem.
ISutabovo all, he declared, it was for
ado unionism that he wa< to work,
e bftlievod that ultimately the princU
!es of the trndo union would be uniirsally
lor carrying out any movemont
r human prou're^s.
In rognrd to the diflerencos arising in
le English labor movement. .Mr. Burns
lid of course tlioy prevailed at times,
jt the unions wero generally all to.
jthor and had boon singularly success,1
in separating politics nnd trado
nionism. He was for fusion against
ction in affairs of this kind, an appliod
i international atlnirs.
(JiM innn Fulitlni.
Losnox, Dec. 3.?A special to the
lines from Berlin save that the antivolntionnry
measuros to besubmittod
i tlio reicliHtair nre bolievod to bo so
mited in ecopu tlint they will not be
cely to provoke serious opposition.
The dispatch add* that Herr Sncht,
mtrollorof tlio relation* of the Altrtes
ivernment with the prow, has boon
unmone'l to Jiorli?i to reorganize the
ro8B department at headquarters.
Strfim<til|> Arrival*.
N'ew York?Steamer* Ktnirla from Liverpool
d Queoagtotrn: U llonrpwio from Havre;
iA*ilrtin from Rotterdam ami Boulogne; Voii?i
from stoiiln. etc.: Colorado from Hull;
ilnrl from lift nburjr: Kuropa from Londou;
lam froui Amsterdam.
Wnntlicr Fowrmit for Tn-dnv.
For Won Virginia, fnlr; colder; northweit
nd?.
For Weitera Penn*rlvanla and Ohio. fnlr. expt
loral mioih on tne lnkt>; colder; northwcit
ud>. occomiuK variable.
THS lEStrEKATVaE SATURDAY.
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