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LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD. VOL. XXX. GENERAL TofM The Plumed Kuight Inter viewed Again. AN ORPHAN ASYLUM IN FLAMES. A Father Suicides on Accoutit of His Daughter's Wayward Deeds. [Associated Pros? Dispatches to the Hkrai.p.] New Yoke. May 19.—1n view of the fact that in spite of Blnine'd Florence letter, State delegations to the Chicago Convention are being instructed to vote for Bla,'ns's nomination. The World, ctl Tuesday last, instructed L Crawford, its London representative, to visit Blame in Paris und to secure an answer to the question wheth er if nominated Blame would accept. • Crawford had been in former years an intimate personal friend of Blame, and was received by him with much cordial ity. He was accorded several interviews by Mr. Blame, and cables to the World to-night authorized his statements. He says: "I have seen Blame several times within the last three days, generally f-urrounded by his family. As regards his first question whether ho would accept, it can be said Mr. Blame adheres to his Florence letter and does not withdraw one word of his interview last February in Florence. I havo no authority to say more than that as Mr. Blame did not wish to be interviewed again on this subject. His Florence interview was so explicit that tlie fact that now he has nothrrg to add to it by way of qualification should be enough to satisfy tho m- st doubtful of Mr. Blame's enemies as to his future in tentions. His declarations at Flor ence correctly represented his present state of mind. Those who associate with Mr. Blame have no doubt of his absolute goo 1 faith in with drawing." Crawford adds that Mr. Blame will !e tve for England in a few days aud expects to reach I/mdoti in the neighborhood of the first of Juna to j in Andrew Carnegie's coaching trip into Scotland. He will probably leave for home long before the campaign begins, ready* to take hold and aesiil the nominee of the Chicago Con vention. All the time of the Chi cago Convention, how-ver, he will be m Carnegie's coach, approaching the extreme north of Suotlaud. Ileyond the range of ordin ary telegraphic communication. Of his health, Mr. Crawford says: It needs no medical expert to pass upon it. The bright clear look of his eyes, his color aud vigor show in every one of his movements, B|>eak for themselves. He has to-day the health that comes to a man as a rewatd of a lite of simple habits and tastes. The World, in an editorial on the sub ject, calls attention to the subject that tho statement as sent is authorized by- Mr. Blaiue, and that he might have dis sipated .the doubts about nis candidacy with a few word", but that he carefully and s'tidionsiA' refuses to refute tbe nom ination or say that a movement in that direction is without his approval. YOI'HU If>C'K\OIAKH;«. All Orplinn Atrluiu In Flames—The Worb of Hud Bos s. San Rafael, Cal., May 10. —A tele phone message was received to-day from Father Kheinhardt, of St. Vincent's Orphan.Asylum, stating that fire had broken out in the asylum, and asking for assistance. The San Rafael firo department at once left for the scene, an Associated Press conespdndent accompanying. When the asylum was reached it -was found that the old recrea tion pavilion and clothes room, situated in the northwest part of tie recrea tion grounds, were one mass of flames. The neighbors iv tlie vicinity had quickly repaired to the assistance of ihe inmates, but, owing to the lack of a water supply, were unable to combat the flames suc cessfully. Chief Moorhead, on his ar rival directed that the efforts of the fire department be exerted to save the main building, in widen were situated dormitories, school rooms, baking-shop and class-rooms, which owing to the const* nt changes of the wind,were in danger of being ignited. The water supply was found very inade quate for an institution of its siz i, and it was some time before a mat ked change was made in the prospects. After two nnd a-half hours incessant play tho buildings were pronounced out of danger. During the progress of the firo, ihe gates having been locked, quite a panic was started in tlie upper end of the yard, where 000 inmates were con fined. Father Rheinhardt ordered the gates to be thrown open when the inmates rushed forth and scat tered in all directions. A sur vey was made of the grounds and it was found the chapel and pavilion buildini-s were a total loss. Tho boys were marshalled into the dining room for luuch, and it was found that over 200 failed to answer to their names, but no fears are entertained for their safety. It is believed the fire was au incendiary one. A week ago W. Busted, Tom Sullivan, John Wilkinson and Joseph De La Balles, a blind boy, attempted to escape, but were frustrated by some of the teachers in charge. It is supposed they planned this scheme to escape. They had bored a hole in the soft ground under the pavilion aud stored a quantity of dried grass under tho building which they morn ing with the foregoing result" The loss on the buildings and material de stroyed is estimated at $5,000, partly covered by insurance. Owing to lhe ab sence of Father Croke, the superintend ent, no definite amount can bo fixed in regards to the loss. Tho boys who escaped are being taken in charge as fast as they arrive in San Rafael, and already ninety-two are locked in box-cais at tho Donahue railroad depot awaiting transportation to the asylum. THE -.."HMIF.rS SI It IBM. Driven to Deuth by a Wayward Daughter. New Yohk, May 19.—1t is understood that Marsden, the playwright who com mitted suicide this morning, was il river, to the deed by the waywardness and de sertion of his only daughter, Blanche, ajjod 21 years. It seems he discovered she was in bad company and ordered her to stay at home. She then .left the house and when he asked her to return she refused. Believing she had gone to the bad, the heart of the father broke. Every effort lie made to recall her was met with lebtifT, until she was finally lost, and her present where abouts are unknown. Mrs. Marsden says two prominent married men of this city, who were in the habit of visiting at .Marsden's residence, are responsible for het daughter'sconduct. Marsden leftalov ine, sorrowful, partly incoherent note for his wife, iv which he referred to letters, marked books and ciphers intended for his daughter, which he had dis covered, und tho narrow escape which ho had from committing minder as a consequence. Marsden is v norn de plume, his real name was William A. Sliver. Kerry Govt, Clouds, '/Ap, Bob, y.ara and The Irish Minstrel arc among his plays. B AsK II 1,1,. Coort tiame at Stockton— Ihe Score In iite Eait. Stockton, May 111.—Ihe Stocktons lit on Creaner to-day ami sized him for eleven hits, including a home run, two three-baggers and one two-bagger. The Pioneers scored two runs in tho third inning on errors of Sweeny and White head. In the eighth Jack Smith lined out a two-baggor to center and scored on Hughey Smith's single to right. White head scored the first run for the Stock tons in the fourth inning on his two bagger and a sin;;!e by Stock-veil. On Nick Smith's Overthrow to firt,t the home teats added tno more runs in the fifth, and in the sixth they bunched their hits to number live and scored six more rue*. Hays scored (he tenth inn in the last v nine on Creaner's muff ol his fly, swaling second and third, and running in after the capture of Flynn's high fly by Perrier. Donahue played finely oo second, Selnu fielded superbly, and Flynn pitched au unusually good game. Score: Stocktons 10, Pioneers 3. KASTEKS GAMES. Pittsburg, May 19. —Today's game was well played ott both sides, and inter esting. Whitney had to leave the box after tho seventh inning, having been struck in the breast by a hot ball and quite badly hurt, fccore: Pittsburg 2, Washington 1. Indianapolis, May 19.—The home team wre unable to win to day, and their defeat was contributed to in no little measure by the wretched umpiring of Decker. The Bostons wore successful in bunching i h ir hits. Score: Boston, 7; Indianapolis 4. Chicago, May 19.—Tim home team and Philadelphia played a hard game here to-day, which abounded in bril liant work on both sides. Van Haltren pitched a splendid ganie, as did also Gleason up to tbe seventh inning After that time, however, the "colts" got on to him aud hit him hard enough to win the game. Score: Chicago, 6; Philadelphia 4. Detroit, May 19. —The weather to-day was miserably old, grounif" slippery and playing of both f earns rather poor. Titiajuib pitched a good game and his support wan bad for the most part. Score: Detroit, 5: Now York 3. New Haven, Conn., May 19. —An im mense crowd witnessed the first game of 'he season between Yale and Harvard to-day. Yale won by a score of 7to 1. Base hits—Yale, 0; Harvard, 5. Errors —Yale, 4; Harvard, 9. Pitchers—Stags for Yale; Bates (freshman) for Harvard. Cleveland, May IP.—Cincinnati 5, Cleveland 0. New . York, May 19.— Br i.klyn 0, R tnaas t "itv 1. Philadelphia. May 19.—Athletica •">, Louisville 0. Baltimore, May 19 —Baltimore 3, St. Luiis 5. 'iiit; w.i'j'Ußs HKciimiv. H»t«l ot the ureal Flood Itelieved lo be Over. Qi isrv, May 19—The river has fallen three and <t-half inches since last night, and it is now believed tho wont of the flood i« over. Depots have beeu estab lished by tho relief Committee at various points throughout thefl >odeddis tricts from which provisions and el-ithing are bein r distiibuted. Investi gations made to-day show that the pre vious reports of want and desti'ution had not been exaggerated, hundreds of families requiting immediate assistance. II INCEPTION to i nam . Fresno Proud of Iter Sun—tn Ova* lion rendered H!m. FIIEBNO, May 18. —A reception was tendered to K. B. Terry, the candidate for Congress from this district on his re turn from Los Angeles to-day. Over 2.000 people were present at the depot. The Opera House, where the reception w as held was filled to overflowing. The Ntnuford< <»olnc Abroad. San Francisco, May 19.—V special to the Chronicle from Washington says Sen ator Stanford has engaged passage on the Alaska for himself and wife for Liv erpool. He sails on the 29th inst., and will proceed to Carlsbad. Mrs. Stan ford's health has not been very good of late, and her physician recommends that she go to the famous springs iv Germany. Senator and Mrs. Stanford will remain abroad for three months. Senator Stan ford says he (pcs reluctantly, and the only thing that induced him to leave the Senate was that his wife needs the change at once. Kloped With «lrl and C>*h. Philadelphia, May 19. — John K. Miles, manager of the Philadelphia of fice of the Shoe and leather Reporter, has eloped with Miss Jennie (.'arson, aged 17 and prominent in society. Be fore leaving Miles cashed a $4000 forged check at the office of the Pennsylvania company for insurance on lives an I granting of annuities. International Drill. Austin. Texas, May 19.—Tbo groat lu -1 tomational drill and capital celebration ; closed to-day. Fully 25,000 persons witnessed the sham battle in tlie after noon. About 2,500 troops took part in the battle including four batteries of i artillery and live troops of cavalry from the regular army. ' ttii:titriiple I, y nchiii|r. Chicago, May lit. —A special from ' Spring City, Tennessee, says it is report ed four negro laborers have lieen lynched 1 near Worthington for outraging a while I tvoman a couplo of nights ago. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 20, 1688. EUROPE. Weekly Renew of Continen tal Affairs. WAR DRUMS FAINTLY BEATING. Emperor Frederick's Improved Con dition—Preparations For a Royal Weddlu<r. [Copyrighted 1888, bvthc Sew York Associated Picas. I Berlin, May 19.—For the first time since bis critical relapse, the Emperor has been seen to day outside of the Scliloss Shortly after 5 oclcck the peo ple assembled in front of the Palace were gratified by the appearance of the Emperor aud Empress in an open car riage. The three princesses followed in a second carriage, and in a third were Dr. Mackenzie and General Win terfield. Tho imperial carriage pro ceeded very slowly and enabled many people to come forward and present flow ers to the Emperor and Empress, who received them till the carriage was heaped whh them. Tho weather was bright aud the heat was almost that of midsummer. Tbe Emperor still bears marked traces of fever, but his appearAni c daily im proves. The drive was continued to the shooting lodge at Grunowald, and after a short rest the Imperial family returned to the Schloss. During the drive the Emperor remained reclining on pillows. Every day this week he showed a per ceptible increase of general strength. While walking he looks very frail and ia obliged to lean on a staff. Every step taken is taken with evident effort. He takes strong interest in the prepara tions for the wedding of Prince Henry and Princess liene. It is expected the marriage instead of being semi-private will be a court celebration associated witli the Emperor's recovery. Three hundred and twenty guests have been invited, including tlie Prince of Wales, the King of Saxony, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Baden, the Prince and Princess of Anbalt, the Crown Prince of Greece, and all the members of the Hohenzollen and Hesse families. The wedding dinner party will consist of forty royal person ages", and covers for two hundred and eighty will lie laid at Mars Halle for tho household and suitas of the royal guests. The wedding ceremony will be per formed in the palace chapel, where spe cial accommodations are being prepared for the Emperor and Dowager Empress Augusta. The Princesses Victoria, Sophie and Margareth and the Princess Alexandra, of Hesse, will be the brides maids. Queen Victoiia has sent, tho bride an entire ttousseau of unusual mag nificence, and alsoa pnrnre of diamonds, emeralds and pearls. The relations between the Empress and Prince Bismarck are again strained. Before the Chancellor went to Varsin the Empress submitted to the Emperor the names of several court officials on whom she desired to have conferred 'dia tinguisnedorders. Piince Bismarck pro tested and the whole ministry signed the the paper stating that if the orders were conferred they would resign. The Empress then withdrew the names. The feeling of bitterness be tween tho court and Prince Bismarck' 3 partisans is intensified. Ihe Chancellor will return to Berlin at the end of tho next week. The situa tion is too critical to permit of further rest for him. The war drum beats wilh subdued resonance, but ever and anon the official press re-awakeas in terest by some fresh alarm. Russia's preparations are not ominous. Tho news of the week is to the effect that Russia has accepted a French syndicate's terms for a loin. Vi-hnegradski, the Russian Minister of Finance, ruptures tlie negotiations with the Comptoir d'Escomptc, angrily rejecting the pro posals as a slur upon Russian solvency. Though details of tho negotiations which have been concluded are meagre, enough is known to show that Vishnegradski felt the pinch and submitted to the syn dicate's conditions. The Russian treas ury contains an immediate advance of 1,500,000 pounds sterling, 'lhe total loan amounts to £44,000,000, and the balance will be issued in the autumn. The North German Gazette and other Government organs havo received in spiration for a vigorous renewal of at tacks ou Russia, hence the accusation that the Czar's agents aro seeking to fo ment a revolution in Macedonia, 'lhe Gazette, in an article headed "A Rus sian Fortrer-s in Turkish Territory," de nounces the celebrated convents on Mount Athos, as the center of the Pan-Slavist conspiracy, and states that Russian pil grims, who are really veteran soldiers disguised, crowd the convents to the number of ten thousand. Supplies of arms and munitions of war are hidden in the vicinity. The Porte has been cautioned to maintain a close watch, as at any moment the signal may be given for an insurrection, preceding liussim autrance into Bulgaria. Russian activi ties centre, in the meantime, in Southern Russia. The latest frontier incident illustrating the position of affairs is tlie arrest of the Russian General Rehborg at Przemyst Austrian oflkids state that General Reh i borg carried a trade's passport, but wa | really a spy upon the new fortification- j at. Przemyst, which is now the <•• nter of defense of Eastern Galicia. After a detention of eighteen hours General Kehborg was permitted to pro ceed to Cracow under sm veillanc), from ' thenco returning to Warsaw. General llehborg's arrest following the detention of the Russian General Hinz at Cracow I evokes threats from the Moscow press, and as a matter of fact reprisals have already bsen taken. The Aus trian war office has advices .of the disappearance of several officers on a tour in jTolhyma, Poland, with open passports. The Austrian pres» ' appears to have received orders to keep " silent iv regard to the incidents occurring lon the frontier. ' The arrival at Vienna ou Thursday ' last of a number of staff officers under General Yon Planitz, Chief of Staff of the Twelfth German Army Corps, is too pregnant and 1 significant to be overlooked. General - Yon Planitz, with his staff, goes on a 1 tour through Galicia aud Transylvania in c obedience to a plan of campaign long sines designed and appro.cd by the Bar lin and Vienna war offices,and the Saxon army corps will fight by the side of the Austro-Hungarian troops. It is assered that the French official.! purposely insult German subjects and appear to be authorized to do so by high French authorities. Those insults, the press holds, must lead to reprisals. General Yon Sehellendorf, War Minis ter, has approved a new method of in flating war balloons by which gas ia produced on the spot, whenever wanted. Military attaches of European powers who were prnsent at the experiments at Furstenwalde, concurred in the opinion that it was an important advanco in scientific warfare. Tlie North German Gazette gives preeminence to complaints of Germans, who are annoyed by French frontier officials, referring to-day to the in cident of a German , commer cial traveler being forbidden to journey through France. Rigorous surveillance is carried on to prevent lhe smuggling of prohibited papers, and it is reported that the Swiss police oven have consented to assist in tho preparation of a list of Socialist refu gees w ho are suspected of spreading their doctrines. A forest fire is in progress near Inns bruck which threatens to destroy tho village of lenhach and Fiatzberg Castle. Three hundred soldiers aro engaged in the attempt to check the flames. Ofadstonc Answers tialfour. London, May 19. —Gladstone replying to the statement of Balfour, that the practice of increasing sentences ou ap peal had been resorted to in Ireland while the Liberals were in power, writes: "It was without our knowledge and it is with a knowledge in such matters that responsibility begins. I rejoice thai the discovery has been made. It is new proof of how deeply the spirit of evil traditions has entered into the Irish administration. \Ve do not now, as in the days described by Lord Cornwallis, employ torture and murder as instruments of Irish govern ment, but practices seem to survive which disgrace the name of justice and which would not for a moment be tolerated ou this side of tho Channel. I hope Balfour will continue his researches and drag into daylight every evil usage which, unknown to us, has disgraced Irish judiciature or admin istration. He will thus supply new proof of the necessity and advantage of vesting tho Irish people with power over the affairs and property of their own and providing that they shall be governed as we a-e, not in an unnatural spirit. Coast Cullings. The Marine Railway, on North Island, across the bay from ban Diego, was for mally opened yesterday, when the first vessel to go on was hauled out. Captain Bellinger, aliar Delgreed, etc., formerly a British army officer, pleaded guilty to petit larceny at San Diego, and is serving a sentence on the chain-gang. William Delaney, who had appeared demented recently, committed suicide al Boca last night by placing his neck across the railroad track in front of a passing train. His head was completely and smoothly severed from the body. Lee Stennett, Walter Hicks and several other boys were on the common at Oak land yesterday. Hicks had a revolver with which he was playing, with Sten nett standing within a few feet of him, when the weapon was discharged, the ball entering the right side of Stennett's head, lodging in the brain. A physician was procured, but tho boy died in about an hour. B.thboys were about fifteen years of age. r-imon Hambi rg, recently convicted of swindling F. M. Parker, an Oregon farmer, out of ab#ut ten thousand dol lars, by a fraudulent exchange of real property, has been sentenced by Judge Toohey to cue rear's imprisonment and $10,000 fine. If not paid the term of im prisonment will amount to fifty-three years. An exception to the judgement was taken, and notice of appeal to the Supreme Court was given. Eaatcrn tcltocm. Rev. Wm. F. Morgan, D. D., for over thirty years rector of St. Thomas Church, New York, died yesterday morning. The verdict of $102,000 in favor of David Stewart vs. C. P. Huntington for non-performance of contract upon the sale of two hundred shares of Central Pacific stock in 1887 has been affirmed by the Supreme Court. Letters from Blame's party in Europe indicate that the ladies will not take the coaching trip in Scotland with the Carne gies. Mrs. Maine expects to sail for home June lGth, accompanied by her daughter, Gail Hamilton and the Misses Elkins and Davis. Smith Hogan, of Spencer county, Ind., a member of the G. A. R. and a pen sioner, was taken to the woods by the "White Caps" switch committee a few nights ago and given 00 lashes on the back for alleged wife beating. Hogan was left gagged aud tied to a tiee. A party of vigilants captured four men driving a herd of stolen ponies in "No Man's" Land" Thursday night and lynched the whole party. Two of them were noted outlaws known as Chstwood and Dandy Hood. The brothers of Cbet wood have declared vengeance. I'red Marsden, a well-known play | wright, was found dead in his room a • New York yesterday morning, having I committed suicide by closing the win ! dows and turning on the gas. Marsden j was one of the most successful play i wrigiits in America and had an income cf | about $10,000 s year. He has been de spondent for some time. Extinction nf Ninvory In Hrazll. New Yokk, May 19.—The following particulars of the new law abolishing slavery in Brazil have been received: All emancipated negroes now on coffee plantations are required to remain there i until the next coffee crop is gathered, but in the meantime they are to receive a small rate of wages from their former i owners, and will not be locked up in their quarters as formerly. The former owners receive no compensation for the slaves liberated by the new law. i The Pope has sent a golden cross to ; the Prince Regent of Brazil. Snooting- Follows Speculation. i Summit, N. J., May 19.—Robert J. Ar- I nold, one of the wealthiest and most i prominent residents of Summit, who is I believed to have speculated largely in coffee in New York, committed suicide i last night by shooting. He had inherited i a fortune from his"mother, and his wife, ; the daughter of General Butterfleld. ■ brought him au additional $100,000. THE MILLS BILL ! Laid Aside for a Week or i Ten Days. END OF THE GREAT DEBATE. i Baker arid Breckenridge Have a | Tilt—Speaker Carlisle Closes , The Discussion. i Associated .Press Dispatches to the HaaAi.o. I Washington, May 19.—Long before ' the House mot every seat iv the galler ies except a few reserved for the Presi dent, and family was occupied. After i the reading of the journal, Biker, of Illi nois was recoguized. He said that yes -1 terday at a moment when he was out of _ the nail, words were spoken by tlie gen i tleman from Kentucky (Breckenridge) reflecting on his honor, reflecting upon • the honor of his constituents. iHo -then had read the remarks of Breckenridge reflecting upon the man i ncr in which the defeat of W. R. Morri son,of the Eighteenth. Illinois district, had been accomplished. "In my own name," continued Baker, "aud in the ! name of the Eighteenth Congressional i district of Illinois, which lie has dared to defame, I hurl the words back to the gentleman from Kentucky and denounce their imputation as grossly untrue. I hurl the words back into the face and teeth of the gentleman from Kentucky with absolute and unmitigated defiance. [Applause and laughter.] No gen tleman from Kentucky shall swing his blacksnake whip over my shoulders and over the shoulders of my constituents with impunity. He would at least run the risk of having it wrenched from his hand and feeling the hot end of it. "If there be distinction in the adjec tive Kentuckian, then I am a Kentuck ian. I first saw the light of day hard by the shades of Ashland, the home of that important Kentuckian, Henry Clay, un swerving as adamant in his great hearted patriotism, and whose old-time seat of peerless honor and glory in this hall is now, alas! worse than empty. [Applause and laughter.] That seat is filled by a gentleman whose speeches are garlands of flowers without leaves or fruit; totally unsuited to public affairs and well adapted to the ladies' bqndoir [laughter], but for their habitual touches of something approaching domineering arrogance. That old-time seat, as I say, is worse than empty. It is occupied by a gentleman who hissed, through his tirade with uninformed rea son, the grand idea of the grand old statesman whom he succeeded. The colossal shade of that great man hovers over the Republic. It wakes the north land and the south-land, and will at all times be an inspiration of his mighty contest on this ground and will lift Presi dent Cleveland frjm the White House, and very probably lift the gentleman from the seat of the honored Clay. [Ap plause on the Republican side.] The words of the gentleman from Ken tucky challenge comparison between his district and mine. The Congressional directory shows that 30,339 votes were cast for Congress in my district, while in his but 4,791 wore cast (applause), about one eighth of the voting population and all voting on one side. Whatever reason for this curious arrangement there may have been, the gentleman from Kentucky represents one-sixth of the votes I repre sent. It will be seen that the gentleman does not occupy the ground that makes it prudent for him to indulge in reckless da . natory statements reviling the honor of an election in another State of which he actually knows nothing, even if the law of fair and honest manly dealing was not sufficient to restrain him. "The gentleman from Kentucky is as unfortunate ; n his historical relation to his own great father, as in the seat he occupies. Robert J. Breckenridge is a name that belongs to the whole Repub -1 c. He was great as a thinker, as a scholar, as a writer, as an orator, and t;anscendently great as a patriot—a patriot whose intellect, whose heart, whose soul, embraced the entire country, instead of a fragment of it. It is narrated of him that on meeting a young man who was about to join the Confederate army in the war of secession, he remarked to him: 'I under stand you are going to join the Rebel army. Your father brought you to me iv his arms, a straggling infant, and asked than I might baptize you and dedi cate you to the service of the Almighty God, but had I known at that hour that you would ha/c ever betrayed your country and entered the ranks of those seeking to destroy it, I would have found it in my heart to have strangled you at the baptismal foatt.' There was a Ken tuckian that was a Kentuckian." At the conclusion of his remarks Mr. Baker was greeted with loud applause. Breckenridge arose to reply, and said he had made no charge against the ven erable gentleman from Illinois. He was the simple usufruct of what others made. "He got the benefit of what other par ties did, and I have no doubt from what I have heard of him, that he was in the main ignorant of what was done; in the innocence of his simple way he thought it. was his intellect and great popularity that accounted for the defeat of Morri son, and I am sorry if the facte should j dispel that pleasing conceit of the vener able gentleman from Illinois." [Ap plause on Democratic side.] Air. Breckenridge then had read some extracts from "John Jarrett ami the , American Tin Plate Association" and ' r other documents, the nature of which ' was made public soor after tho defeat of Mr. Morrison two year.: ago. After refer i ring at some length to these, Brecken i ridge said in regard to Baker's remarks , about his (Breckenridge's) father, '. that Baker did not know no one • into whose family the plowshare .of that terrific war did not run —knew - the awful dilemma in which a son with f the dictates of conscience on one side, aud witli inconceivable veneration fo/ > his father on the other, was placed. Hiß father was a Kentuckian, who never gave utterau c to the miserable deceit that gentleman h .d put into his mouth. •He would say to the ven>irable gentleman t that he forgave him for hiding behind i the grave of a dead father to wound the i living son. [Great applause on Detno s cratic side.] ! Baker said the Kentucky mountain had , labored very hard and bad brougUt forth , a mouse. While the gentleman was looking after the purity of the ballot he NO. 46. should be more exercised about that con siderable region ot country where it was generally understood that the ballot of , immense masses of American people waa suppressed. [Republican applause.] The Tariff debate was opened by Heed of Maine, who was listened to with close attention. Ueed began with a general discussion of the principles . of free trade and prote3tion, and said referring to tho President's tariff mes sage, that incidental protection was a t sham, and that tariff for revenue only went down before the same arguments which were used against protection. In cidental protection was most inexcus able. It was an accident, which ought to be avoided as railway accidents. The President, he said, was the leader of i the Democracy. He was also the dispenser of patronage, and as he was rapidly shaking the dust of civil ssrvice reform off his feet ho was assuming control over his party. There was but one free trade and the President was its prophet. Whoever fell in battle ! in the services of this Allah and the prophet, for him shall open the spring ing gates of heaven, foreign missions and federal offices. Reed said he did not propose to de fend protection. Its vast growth within the last quarter of a century defended it better oven than eloquent orations. It was bo'n with the Republicans, it was the faith and practice of every civilized nation under the sun, save "one. The Russian granary of Europe had aban doned free trade, with tho striking result that whereas in 1876, before duties were raised, she bought eight million hundred weight of British metals and paid thorefor thirty million dollars; she got the same quantity in 1884 and paid only seventeen millions for it. Austria, Germany. Italy, Mexico and the Do minion of Canada, that child of Britain, herself, had all join:d in the array of protection. Continuing, Reed said: "But if the revenue reform orator looks on this monopoly as terrible, there is a theme on which he can take up the notes cf the dying swan. How we do love to hear him on the impoverished farmer! Then he is not sublime, but he is pathetic; great. I heard him first, ten years ago. To me, innocent and an tra veled, it seemed as if the Western farmer was the most woe-begone, down trodden, luckless, unsuccessful, dis pirited man on the face of the earth. The Eastern vampire had mortgaged his farm and thrown his fence down and scattered his substance to the winds. In the full ness of. time I traveled West myself. You may well imagine my astonishment, who never saw ten acreß together in corn to behold fields of that great staple stretching far away to the horizon's edge; to see tracts of land which seemed to have no boun daries but the visible sky; land so rich that if we had one acre of it in Maine it could be sold by the bushel, while on every side were brick houses, and such only as the village squire lived in in our villages. After some days of this I be came sulky; I said: Gentlemen, of course we have robbed you; your Con gressmen would not lie ah jut trifles like that; but what disgusts me is that we did not do it more thoroughly." In conclusion, Reed spoke eloquently of tho growth and prosperity of the country under wise protective laws. During the course of his speech he was frequently interrupted with laughter and applause. When he resumed his seat he was greeted with round after round of applause and was-the recipient of many hearty congratulations from his party colleagues who clustered around him and warmly grasped his hand. As Speaker Car.isle asked for recogni tion from the Chair, an enthusiastic greeting was accorded him. Amid the clapping of hands and cheers which came from the lloor and galleries, Mr. Carlisle stood at the desk of Mr. Catch ings, of Mississippi, and quietly waited for the demonstration to cease. It was some time, however, before Chairman Springer could secure order, but when he had finally succeeded in doing so Carlisle proceeded. Carlisle began by replying to Reed's charge of insincerity. He said that he might retort that if protection was a sound doctriue.it should be carried to tho logical conclusion —totally prohib iting duties. In the Chinese Empire the doctrine was carried out, and produced its logical effect. With every resource of National wealth and a very industrious people, the arts and manufactures were in tbeir infancy. We wanted no Chi nese laws. All taxation was an evil aud we should endeavour to make trade as free as possible with the lowest tax that would afford necessary revonue. Reed had made no reference to tbe actual situation which made it ituperatively necessary to reduce the revenue. The first of (his month there was $136, --000,000 in the Treasury, more than was required to meet all Government liabili ties. No monarchial government would dare extort such a sum iv excess of its needs. The effect of accumulation was to encourage useless and extravagant ex penditure without constitutional war: ant. The people, almost to a man, were de manding its return to them. We still have a large public debt outstanding.but it is not sound policy to continue to raise the revenue to buy bonds at a pre mium. In one month the Secretary had pur chased 13,000,000 bonds, for which he paid if,'!, 510,000 above principal and ac crued interest. This unjust process must go on indefinitely, unless Congress come to his relief and reduce taxation. He claimed that every interest should be considered in a friendly soirit, but he insisted that the interests of the many should not be subordinated to the inter ests of the few. [Applause.] Taxation should be distributed among the people according to their ability to pay. Until that was done we should always be em barrassed in the effort to increase or re duce taxes. If the present measure should fail and disaster come upon our industries by reason of over taxation, the present vicious system would be re sponsible for it. Carlisle spoke of the increase of manu factures during the so-called "free trade period" between 1850 and 1800, aud said the people were in favor of legislation that would >ring it about. Again, he went on to say that the subsequent hard times were the outgrowth ot the high tariff system. Continuing, Carlisesaiu: "In view of the fact that internal revenue taxes remain only on luxuries, it is but > fair that any further reduction of taxation should be made upou necessaries, hut, recognizing the difference of opinion up on that subject, the committee had dealt with it accordingly." He would have hesitated to vote for • the hi]! if he believed it would result in t ■ ' I I I CONTINVKD ON FIFTH FMt