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CURRENCY HIS THEME
Carlisle Endeavors to
Enlighten Voters
of Kentucky.
HAS NO USE FOR SILVER.
So He Talks on the Lines
Laid Down by the Ad
ministration.
GOLD THE PROPER MEDIUM.
Coinage of the White Metal, Says
the Secretary, Would Cause
a Great Panic.
BOWLING GREEN, Ky., May 25.—
Hon. J. G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treas
ury, spoke here to-day in the opera-house
on the currency question. The seating
capacity of the house is only about 2000,
and it was found necessary to exclude
women and children, voters only being ad
mitted. When Mr. Carlisle was, escorted
upon the stage he was greeted with loud
applause. After a brief statement that he
was there as a Democrat to discuss public
questions and not in any way to apologize
for the administration, which he knew
needed no apology, Mr. Carlisle com
menced as follows:
The question is whether we shall continue
to preserve our present monetary system, under
which all the dollars in use with the people,
whether gold, silver or paper, are equal in pur
chasing power in all markets. The proposition
of our fellow-citizens in favor of the free and
unlimited coinage of legal tender silver is that
• the United States alone, without the assistance
and co-operation of any other Govern
ment, shall legalize the coinage of
41-Jo grains of standard silver into
dollars, and by law compel the people of
the United States, but nobody else, to receive
these dollars in payment of debts of all kinds,
*vhen, as a matter of fact, the silver contained
in such a coin is only worth about 50 cents.
But the claim by the free-coinage men that
iree coinage at 16 to 1 would appreciate
silver and bring it to a parity with gold de
stroys the argument that it would furnish the
people with cheap currency with which to pay
debts.
No country can establish the free coinage of
both metals, giving to each full legal tender
equality and both increase at the same time.
England tried for five hundred years with
strict laws against the exportation of coin.
She —i all her gold and was driven in 1805
to the single standard. Wherever in the cur
rency of a country a metal is overrated in com
pardon with another metal the undervalued
metal is driven out of the country. There are
live premises which absolutely, cannot be
avoided.
First— There is not a free coinage country in i
the world that is not on a silver basis.
Second— There is not a gold standard country
in the world to-day that does not use silver for
money along with gold.
Third— There is not a silver standard country
in the world that uses any gold as money along
with silver.
Fourth— There is not a silver standard coun
try in the world to-day that has more than one
third of the circulation per capita than the
United States, i
Find— There is not a silver standard country
in the 4 *oajL4 to-day where the .laboring man re
eeivr.'< fair.. pay for his day's work. . „
!lil United States could coin all the silver
in the world available for coinage the37l}<£
grains of pare silver contained : in our dollar
would not be worth in this country as much,
as the silver dollar, but the silver dollar itself
would be depreciated. The Mexican dollar
with 77.17 grains of silver, six grains more
than the American dollar, is only worth about
50 cents of our money. That would be exactly
the effect on our silver dollar if we coined for
private account free all the silver brought. If
we can, by making the ratio sixteen to one,
make a silver dollar pass as 100 cents when it
is only worth 50 cents, why could it not be
done at a ratio of ten to one?
Before free coinage of silver can be brought
about another Congress and another President
favorable to it would have to be elected. This
would certainly take three years, and during
that time every creditor in the country, seeing
the coming of cheap money, would call on his
debtors to liquidate before the cheap money
was in effect. This would bring upon the coun
try a panic compared with which all former
panics were nothing. In 1806, when the Span
ish dollar and the French crown were made
legal tender and were slightly under weight, it
drove all the full-weight American silver dol
lars out of the country, so that Jefferson
stopped the coinage of the silver dollar. The
subsidiary coin was also driven out because
of full fractional weight, and the coins were
slightly reduced in weight in order to hold
them in circulation.
CARLISLE'S JJV CONSISTENCIES.
They Are Vividly Pointed Out by Senator
Blackburn.
LAWRENCEBURG, Xy m May 25.—
Senator Joseph Blackburn, replying to Sec
retary Carlisle in his speech here to-day, de
clared the administration was not satisfied
. to let Mr. McCreary, Mr. Buckner, Mr.
Brown and himself fight this battle on its
merits, but they imported a man who is
no greater than John the Baptist to drive
1 back this silver craze as they call it. Con
tinuing, he said:
"Now understand what I am going to
say about Mr. Carlisle will be said in the
mildest tones possible." He went on to
prove Mr. Carlisle's inconsistency in view
of the Secretary's record in Congress. < The
►■■ speaker then said:
'.'Now, 1 know you will say that showing
bis inconsistency does not answer his
argument. I know that, and I am now
going to answer his argument— point
of it. 1 thought when the mighty Carlisle
came they were going to throw new light
on this subject, but they did not. He
did not advance a single new idea.
First he made the assertion that
if you have free coinage of silver,
you will put the country on a silver basis
and would drive all gold out of the coun
try. This is not true. . We have tried it
' once and when we quit had $3 to $1 in gold
' more than when we began. He says this
country would be the dumping ground for
■ all silver bullion. He is off there, for ours
is the only nation under the sun which has
silver, bullion."
The speaker went on to answer every
point of Mr. Carlisle's. speech to his own
satisfaction. Mr. Blackburn then attacked
. the administration, saying:
"I am greatly handicapped, but let
. Messrs. Cleveland, Carlisle and all the rest
take the stump and I will make this race
in spite of the whole combination."
AT A SILVER m7s~S-MEETIXQ.
! jar. Bryan Wmkm a Masterly Speech for
the' White Metal.
JACKSON, Ten:.., May 25.-A silver
mass-meeting was held at the Tabernacle
this afternoon, attended by 5000 people
• from Northern Mississippi, Western Ten
nessee and Kentucky.
Hon. William Bryan of Nebraska was
• the principal speaker, and received an ova
tion when he was '( called on to speak. ■He
said the opponents of free coinage had for
years shielded themselves behind aiabigu
ous phrases and have pretended to be
adherents of bimetallism.
It has for that reason been difficult to
make the issue clear and distinct. Since
Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle have now
pronounced for gold there is no longer any
need of doubt or concealment.
A universal gold standard would be a
crime against mankind. Our Nation as a
debtor Nation would suffer much more
tnan England from a gold standard.
The speaker here quoted from a memo
rial presented yesterday to the Chancellor
of the English Exchequer regretting the
growing agitation in favoj of bimetallism.
The United States should take the lead
for the restoration of silver. The ratio of
It) to lis the most practicable ratio. If it
should be fixed differently, say 24 to 1, by
international agreement, it would contract
the metallic money o' the world one-sixth,
increase the debts of the world by millions
of dollars, and decrease the market value
of the property of the world.
"I believe the United States is large
enough to afford an unlimited market for
all tiie silver that would come to it and
maintain the parity at the present ratio.
It is absurd to speak of the silver dollar as
a cheap dollar and then complain that free
coinage would enrich the mine-owner.
"Mr. Cleveland and his associates seem to
be trying to run the Democratic party on
the financial policy of John Sherman.
The agitation going on will soon be over
and the Democratic party will rest again
in undisturbed possession of Democratic
principles, and will present an almost un
broken front in favor of the gold and silver
coinage of the constitution."
SHEEP MEN ARE EXCITED.
There Is a Prospect of a
Lively Conflict in
Colorado.
Owners of Cattle In Bear Valley
Decide to Make a Determined
Stand.
DENVER, Colo., May 25.— A dispatch
from Steamboat Springs, Colo., says:
Excitement over sheep troubles con
tinues unabated. J. G. Edwards, the rep
resentative of the Wyoming sheep men,
chief among whom is supposed to be Ex-
Governor Osborhe of Wyoming, said before
his departure for the sheep territory that
he would not heed the advices of the citi
zens' meeting held here on the 20th. He
added :
"I have a constitutional right to drive
my flocks through Routt County, and I,
as well as those who are interested with
me, intend to do so at all hazards. We
only want to drive through simply so as to
get to a shipping point on the Rio Grande
Railway. There are men interested in this
movement who will see thefr privileges
protected if the entire West has to be
called out to preserve the law."
If the sheep men persist in their en
deavor to occupy the Bear River Valley a
conflict will occur. Both sides are seem
ingly determined. At present the sheep
are held in California Park, tne source of
Fortification Creek, and it is not deter
mined, it is understood, by the cattle men
whether sheep will be removed into Wyo
ming now or wait until their movement
decides that the sheep men will advance.
TROOPS READY FOR PEXDER.
Serious Trouble Reported at the Winne
bngo Reservation.
OMAHA, Nebr., May 25.— From the best
information obtainable at the headquarters
of the department of the Platte, the Sec
ond Regiment is held in readiness to pro
ceed at a moment's notice to Pender to
quell disturbances, which are reported to
have broken out on the Winnebago Agency.
At a late hour to-night General Coppin
ger, commanding the Department of the
Platte, states he had received no orders
from Washington about the moving of the
troops.
A special to the Bee from Pender at a
late hour says everything is apparently
quiet on the Winnebago reservation this
evening in spite of the reports which have
gained currency in the East. No evictions
were attempted to-day or yesterday. No
United States troops have arrived here.
SHOT ALL IX SIGHT.
An Enraged Blacksmith Kills Two Men,
a Horse and a Dog.
WACO, Tex., May 25.— At Third and
Franklin streets to-day George D. Griffice,
a blacksmith, stood just within his shop
and fired upon Wash Anderson and his
brother, L. Anderson, who were driving
by. Wash was shot through the head and
killed instantly.
Griffice fired three or four more shots,
one fatally wounding John Lewis (colored)
and seriously injuring Willie Smith (col
ored). The trouble grew out of divorce
proceedings, in progress here, entered by
Wash Anderson, who is Griffice's son-in
law. A horse and dog were also killed.
MURDER OF DR. POPE.
William Brusseau Tells of the Crime on
the Witness-Stand.
DETROIT, Mich., May 25.— William
Brusseau, the confessed murderer of Dr.
Pope, was the star witness in Mrs. Pope's
trial to-day. The witness gave details of
the conspiracy between the woman and
himself to slay the doctor so as to get his
$5000 insurance money. Brusseau says he
finally agreed to kill Pope with a hatchet,
and finally summoned up enough nerve to
deal him the fatal blows.
-Yot Invest is/atiny Wheelmen.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 25.—Chair
man Gideon of tbe League of American
Wheelmen board denied to the representa
tive of the Associated Press this afternoon
that he was investigating Sanger, Bald,
Titus or Tyler. He said he would be glad
to get any information against the men if
they were crooked, but if they were
straight he wanted them left alone.
And the Preacher Escaped.
GUTHRIE, O. T., May 25.-The Rev.
J. L. Smith, a country preacher, was con
victed of stealing meat at Stillwater
Wednesday and sentenced to the peniten
tiary for one year. He is nearly dead with
consumption and on the advice of a phy
sician the Sheriff allowed him to sleep out
in the corridor and during last night he
pried open the outer door and escaped.
Charges Against Jtyrnes.
NEW YORK, N. V., May 25. — The
World to-morrow will say: Charges
against Chief of Police Byrnes will be pre
ferred by at least one of the Police Com
missioners within ten days unless Mr.
Byrnes in the meantime avails himseif of
an opportunity to claim a pension under
the mandatory law.
Xot Fit for Prisoner*.
CHICAGO, 111., May 25.— Judge Tnley,
in the Superior Court, to-day ordered a
man who was sentenced to confinement in
the County Jail released on the ground
that it was unhealthy, overcrowded and
generally unfit for human occupation.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 26, 1895.
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ROW OVER A PAMPHLET
Its Criticism of the Board of
Home Missions Not
Relished.
Now the Session of the General
Presbyterian Assembly Is
Nearlngr a Close.
PITTSBURG, Pa., May 25.— During the
sessions of the Presbyterian Assembly a
pamphlet has been circulated in which Dr.
Roberts of the Board of Home Missions
stated that the receipts of the board had
fallen off $03,000 during the month of
March, 1895. After the appearance of a
pamphlet in which the missionary boards
were criticized for their action in purchas
ing a site in New York and erecting a
building thereon at a cost of $1,750,000,
Mr. McDougall of Cincinnati, the author
of the pamphlet, wrote a letter to Modera
tor Booth in which he demanded that a
retraction of the statement be made by Dr.
Roberts.
A portion of the letter was read to the
assembly to-day, and the floor was given
to Dr. Roberts, who began to read a paper
protesting against the entry of the letter
of Mr. McDougall on the minutes of the
assembly, saying these allegations were
based on rumor, and that they were care
lessly drawn and too sweeping in their
implication-), being unwise and unsup
ported by facts.
A motion was mad« to table the matter,
but the moderator ruled that there was
nothing to lay on the table, this being only
a question of privilege before the house.
Before this ruling there was a cnorus of
questions, in the midst of which Elder
George E. Sterry of New York mounted
tbe steps of the platform. He attempted
to speak, but was unable to be heard on
account of the noise. The moderator in-
terfered for his benefit, using his gavel and
saying in a loud voice, "You shall hear
Elder Sterry."
When at last he was heard he said that
Mr. McDougall had told him that the con
nection of his pamphlet with the Jailing
off in contributions was false, since no cop
ies went out before the first of April.
Just here Dr. Roberts stepped to the
front of the platform, waving a copy of the
pamphlet above his head, shouting: "This
was in my hands on the 25th of March '
Another commissioner had stated that he
received a copy mailed from Cincinnati as
early as the middle of March, if not ear
lier.
Governor Beaver now took a hand in the
fray, moving that there be no record of
either letter, reply or discussion placed on
the minutes of the assembly.
This action was taken after some re
marks from the floor, and the assembly
adjourned until Monday morning. The
clerk informed the assembly that the pros
pects were that the final adjournment will
be reached on Monday between 3 and 4
p. m. In the afternoon the assembly went
for a carriage ride at the invitation of the
committee on arrangements.
CAPSIZE OF THE TRILBY.
A Steam Yacht Goes Down in the Ham
burg Canal.
BUFFALO, N. V., May 25.— A steam
yacht bearing Ihe name of Trilby was cap
sized in the Hamburg canal this morning,
and two or three men are thought to be
drowned. The accident occurred at the
M ichigan-street bridge, which is being re
paired.
The yacht was used as a ferry to carry
workmen across the canal, and to-day
there was a large crowd of Polish laborers
who sought conveyance to their work.
They clambered aboard like a flock of
sheep. The Trilby took three loads safely
across, but when she returned for the
fourth, the Poles made a rush for her, and
all jumping together on one side, caused
her to lurch, capsize and go to the bottom.
For several minutes the canal was alive
with the half-crazy, terrified human
beings, few of whom could swim, but all
of whom were struggling and clutching at
each other or anything within reach.
Many climbed out on the dock, but others
were seen to sink and were not seen again.
The canal is being dregped.
It seems impossible that all escaped, and
it was believed that two or tnree Poles are
missing.
Grappling continued until noon without
being able to bring up any bodies. Harbor
Master Soper, who superintended the work,
now says that he believes that nobody was
drowned. The yacht has not yet been
raised.
BLOODY FEUD IN TEXAS.
There Have Been Several Killings and
Ten Arrests.
WHARTON. Tex., May 29.-The bodies
of three murdered members of the Crocker
family have been found on the open
prairie, about two miles from where the
assassination occurred. The bloody work
was done by a faction opposed to Crocker
remaining in the country any longer.
Two years ago Crocker's house was
burned. Last winter Mrs. Crooker killed
a man and the same day a man who shot
at Crocker was killed by him. Young
Crocker also killed one member of a mob.
There are ten men under arrest. One is
said to have made a full confession.
Sibley and Warner Speak.
SALT LAKE, Utah, May 25. — Hon.
Joseph C. Bibiey and General A. j.
Warner addressed an audience here to
on the silver question.
THE DANVILLE LYNCHING.
Would Not Give Governor Alt
geld a Chance to Pardon
the Men.
How the Mob of Angry Farmers
Was Urged to Hang Two
Prisoners.
DANVILLE, 111., May 25.-During the
lynching of John Halls and William Royce,
early this morning. Judge Bookwalter ad
dressed the mob. At first his words pro
duced a telling effect, but the leaders, the
most prominent men in the county, re
plied: "Yes, we know a jury will convict
them and give them a severe sentence, but
Governor Altgeld will pardon them.
"He recently pardoned three brutes you
sent up from Champaign County for
twenty years. If any other man than
Altgeld was Governor we would not lynch
these men. But we are determined that
he will never have a chance to turn them
loose."
The mob was composed of 1000 people,
mostly farmers from nearlndianola, where
Miss Barrett lived. In the jail, before
being taken out, both the prisoners pro
tested their innocence, although identified
by Miss Barrett's companion yesterday at
the jail.
CHICAGO. 111., May 25.— Touching the
charge made by one of the speakers at the
double lynching at Danville, 111., last night,
to the effect that the mob did not propose
to allow the law to take its course because
Governor Altgeld would pardon the guilty
man, the Governor, who is now here, said:
"This is simply the result of Republican
vilification, and a part of the system of the
deliberate lying which has been carried on
for sevtral years.
"Th« Republican newspaper men know
the records in the capitol at Springfield show
that 1 have fallen far below the average of
pardons and commutations granted each
year, while the number of prisoners have
nearly doubled, and consequently the
number of applications for pardons has
nearly doubled."
The Governor then proceeded to quote
figures in substantiation of his statement.
OFF OJV A TRIAL TRIP.
first Voyage of the Giant Steamship St.
; : Louis. . « <-J; ...;
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 25.— At
11 :45 o'clock to-day the pioneer of the mod
ern merchant marine, the giant steamship
St. Louis, cast off her hawser at Cramp's
shipyard and started down the Delaware
River on her initial ocean voyage.
As the big steamer pointed her nose
down the stream she was greeted by all
kinds of craft in the river, the noise being
simply deafening. This was continued
until the St. Louis had passed League
Island, the extreme low end of the city.
The St. Louis is the largest vessel that
has ever sailed down the Delaware River.
She is in command of Captain William
G. Randle and a crew of 400 men, who
sailed away with her to-day, will take the
big vessel on her initial voyage across the
Atlantic. It is expected that she will re
main at sea from four to five days and
then go to New York. The contract of the
St. Louis calls for a speed of twenty knots
an hour, but it is thought she will easily
surpass this speed.
OA'XT OXE IS HELD.
Examination of Three Women for Hav
ing Counterfeit Hollars.
DENVER, Colo., May 25.— The prelimi
nary hearing of Gertrude Corbett, Mamie
Allen and Millie Hyland, three sisters,
charged with having counterfeit dollars in
their possession, occurred to-day before
United States Commissioner Capron.
Of the trio Mrs. Corbett thus far seems
to have been the most deeply implicated,
inasmuch as she had endeavored to destroy
or hide the certain alleged counterfeiting
machinery after the arrest of her husband.
The connection of Mrs. Allen in the mat
ter thus far is rather remote, and there has
been absolutely nothing to indicate that
the third sister, Mrs. Hyland of Butte,
Mont., knew anything about the matter.
At the conclusion of the hearing, Mrs.
Hyland and Mrs. Allen were discharged
while Mrs. Corbett was held in $500 bond.
On the Viamond.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 25.— Clevelands 8,
base hits IG, errors 7; New Yorks 11, base hits
14, errors 4. Batteries— O'Connor and Cuppy,
Wilson and Meelcin.
PITTSBURG, Pa., May 25.-Pittsburgs 1,
base hits 5 ; Bostons O, base hits 4. Batteries—
Sugden and Ilawley, Ryan and Nichols.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 25.— Cincinnatis 8,
base hits 7, errors 5 ; Philadelphias 4, base hits
8, errors 2. Batteries— Merritt and Foreman;
Grady, Buckley and Smith.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 25.— Louisvllles 7,
base hits 17, errors 6. Brooklyns ',), base hits 9,
errors 4. Batteries— Louisvile's, Welch, Zahner
and McDermott; Brooklyns— Dailey and Daub.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 25.— St. Louis 1, base
hits 3, errors 5. Washingtons 5, base hits 9,
errors 3. Batteries— Clarkson and Reitz, Mercer
and MoGuire.
CHICAGO, 111., May 25.-Chicagos 7, base
hits 14, errors 3. Baltimores 3 base hits 8,
errors^. Batteries— Hutchinson and Donohue,
Robinson and Hemming.
To Oust a JCeceiver.
DENVER, Colo., May 25.— Attorney E.
H. Wilson, representing creditors of the
Colorado Securities Company to the
amount of $127,000, tiled a petition in court
to-day for the removal of Receiver Frank
G. Patterson. The petition alleges that
the appointment of Patterson was secured
through false representations to the court,
and that he has not managed the affairs of
the company in the interest of its cred
itors.
AS TO PUBLIC CHARITIES.
First Regular Session of the
National Conference in
Connecticut.
Some Interesting Reports Received
From Various States and
Territories.
NEW HAVEN, Conk., May 25.— The
first regular session of the National Con
ference of Charities and Corrections began
at i) o'clock this morning. Robert Treat
Paine of Boston presided, and the meeting
was devoted to hearing reports from the
States. The first report was prepared by
Sheldon Jackson of Bitka, Alaska, but was
read by H. H. Hart, the corresponding
secretary of the conference. The report
dealt largely with the question of intem
perance, which prevails to an alarming
extent in the Territory.
John E. Coffin of Whittier, Cal., made a
report from the State officials. He said
the State Legislature had passed a com
mendable act forbidding the sale of cigar
ettes.
J. H. Gabriel, secretary of the State
Board of Charities of Colorado, bore
especially hard on Colorado politics and
made the statement that the State is more
completely subject to the spoils system
than any other State in the Union. He
said the work done there in aid of the
poor and helpless was excellent.
This ended the reading of reports for the
day and was followed by Dr. F H. Wines
of Illinois, who read a paper on the sub
ject, "The Ideal Function of State Boards
in the Economy of the Commonwealth."
Following this was a symposium on
State boards, Clarence E. Snyder of the
Wisconsin Slate Board of Control speak
ing in the affirmative.
sooy'Eßs a ut: shut out.
Few Applicants for the Kickapoo Lands
Are Accepted.
OKLAHOMA CITY, O. T., May 25.—
The penalty for "soonerism" is being in
flicted already. Of the 227 applicants
offered at the Land Office to-day for tiling
only twenty-seven were accepted. The
others were rejected on account of the ap
plicant having entered the Kickapoo coun
try since March 3, 1893.
This is causing great excitement here
and will afr\ct the great majority of men
who made the race for land.
Nearly every man in this country has
been across the Kickapoo Strip since that
date on business or pleasure. If the Secre
tary of the Interior should uphold the
action of the Land Office it will cause hun
dreds of contests.
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