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PART ELEVEN OF
Picturesque California
WILL BE READY TO-P AY.
VOLUME LXXV.-NO. 131.
TO ITS GOAL.
The Army Arrives in
Washington
AND PITCHES A CAMP.
The Commonwealers'Last
March.
WELCOMED AT THE CAPITAL.
The Whole City Turns Out to
Meet the Industrials.
GENERAL COKEY'S HARANGUE.
His Followers Are Now Waiting
Almost in the Shadow of
the Nation's Capitol.
Washington, April 29.— Citizan J. S.
Coxey. Commander-in-chief of the Good-
Koads Army of tbe Commonweal, standing
on bis rickeiy wagon in the center of
Brightwood Driving Park, waving aloft
his alpine hat to one of the most cosmo
politan and extensive audiences ever
gathered in Washington, announced this
afternoon that the greatest march of the
nineteenth century had been acconn lished.
Three hundred and fifty miserably
dressed, woe-begone, grumbling, out-at
the-elbows and run-down-at-the-heelspeci
mens of humanity marched into the park,
led by a wheezing apology for a band,
pitched Iheir tents and stretched them
selves in the sun. Thousands from the
city turned out to make a holiday of it and
inspect the curious aggregation. Thick
clouds of dust overhung the two roads
leading to Brigbtwood from the city ail
day long, and they were crowded with
travel.
Two endless processions swept along the
roads all day, with such a variety of trav
elers as has never turned out in Washing
ton since war times. Every horse and
wheel vehicle in the city had apparently
been pressed into service, while 'the little
trolley railroad line, which was buiit for
the benefit of the suburban resident?, whb
ridiculously inadequate to the demand
upon it. Lining the entrance to the park
enterprising colored citizens had estab
lished their booths for traffic in ginger
bread and sweetened water passed current
under the guise of lemonade.
The semblance to a circus layout was
further enforced by the thimble-rig
gers and shell men stalling about the out
skirts of (be crowd. Cut when tne people
poured into the park inclosure the sugges
lion cf circus day was in full bloom. In
the enter of the half-mile racetrack
flapped th«« canvass which encircled the
inclosure of the Commonweal Army. Half
a dozen weather-beaten army tents stood
about with several canvas-covered com
missary wagons. All the wagons were
covered with black painted daubs of . leg
ends. A queer mixture of good roads and
finance prevailed.
The great Percheron horses were
tethered about the wagons. Near by were
fastened two largo American flags and
emblatical banners were freely displayed.
But the queerest sight was the men who
had marched. They were the most unique
and inexplicable aggregation ever brought
together. Some of them were at work at
the tents and wagons, others curled up on
the damp ground munching great chunks
of bread, and many were stretched sleep
ing In the sun with their heads pillowed on
rolled-up coats.
In the most pretentious tent, which bore
the sign "headquarters" painted across it,
were found the leaders of the army. Gen
eral Coxey and Marshal Brown. The
marshal busied himself in changing his
buckskin suit for a more conventional
black cutaway in prenaration for the "in
carnation service?," which were about to
begin. Clad in fashionable spring attire of
light drab hue and as perfectly creased
trousers as could be seen on Fifth avenue,
sat General Coxey. witn a cup of coffee in
one hand and a boiled eg 2ia the other,
from which he alternately took refresh
ment and sustenance. The question which
has most agitated Washington of late was
propounded to him by the Associated
Press reporter.
"What do yon intend to do when the
police irevent you from holdiDg your
meeting in the Capitol grounds?"
"No one will prevent us," he replied.
"Does not the constitution guarantee the
right to peaceably assemble and petition
Congress?" he asked.
"Bnt there is a police regulation passed
by Congress which forbids persons and
assemblies on the Capitol grounds, and the
Dolice wiD stop your army if it attempts
to trespass."
"The constitution was written before
any police regulations," replied the gen
eral. "If they come In conflict with the
constitution they are void. We stand
squarely uion the constitution. That 13
our platform."
"How do you intend to enforce your
rights?"
"There is but one way— by an appeal to
the courts. We will go before the highest
courts in the land if necessary. Mean
while we will wait here in Washington if
il takes all summer. If the courts refuse
us our rights there will be a revolution.
I do not advocate revolution nor do 1 de
eire if, but it will be irresistible, and It
will be the greatest revolution of history if
the American people are only thoroughly
aroused."
The conversation of Mr. t'oxey was
broken into by a trumpet call, which sum
moned the choir of the army. Fallowing
Carl Browne the choir of a dozen privates
in the army came out to a platform wagon.
Brown climbed into the wagon, standing
beside a stalwart man holding aloft the
banner with the legend, '-The kingdom o!
heaven (on earth) is at hand." The choir
Bang in various keys, a key to each indi
vidual, a parody of the revival hymn.
"Hold the Fort." Before the singing was
ended several hundred people passed
around the wagon with uplifted faces.
Across the racetrack, in front of the im
provised platform, the grand stand seats
were filled with solid rows of men and
women as on a race day. The track itself
was full of carriage!, in some of which
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ladies and gentlemen of the fashiouabie
world leaned back, shaded by parasols and
listening curiously. Senators Mauderson
and Frye. with their wives, were there in
hauasome carriages; Senator Coke and
Representative Kilgore of Texas stood
wedged in by the populace, and the long
gray beard of Senator Dolph of Oregon
showed conspicuously. Representative
Doiliver was at the. head of another group
of Congressmen. Mrs. Anna L. Diggs of
Kansas, the Populist speaker, stood with
a baby in her arms.
The speech of Carl Browne was a strange
mixture of theology and finance. He ac
knowledged that he was a crank, because
it took a crank to move anything. The
present condition of tDe country he de-
clared to be the fulfillment of the revela-
tion of St. John. The horns of the beast
were the seven conspiracies against the
money of tho people. The ten horns were
I the ten monoplies, foremost among them
the sugar trust. Grover Cleveland bad
called an extra session of Congress, and
' | by the aid of "that cray-headed rat from
Ohio, John Sherman," he had been able to
heal the wounds of tl'.eseventh head by re
pealing the silver purchasing bill. Browne's
speech was listened to with impatience,,
because the people wanted to hear Coxey.
When finally the General scrambled
awkwardly np into the wagon and was in
troduced he waved his hat to each quar
ter of the compass. He then launched
forth into his description of the millions
of starving unemployed, shouting: "We'll
stay here all summer, until Congress takes
action on these bills. [Gieat applause,
with bell accompaniment.]
"I believe they will be passed in two
weeks," he continued. "You only have
j to pick up the papers to see what desper
ate straits these men are coming to get to
Washington. Look at the trains that have
been seized. I don't believe in lawless
ness. No, far from It. It makes no dif
ference if tney don't get here Tuesday.
We will go to the Capitol and mate our
demand and come back here to camp and
wait.
• i "This revolutionary spirit of '7G is roak
' ing the money-lenders t-emble now. Con
j Kress takes two years to vote on anything
lif left to itself. Twenty millions of people
| are hungry and can't wait two years to
'■ eat. Four million idle men for nine
I months— that's what Grover Cleveland has
cost this country. [Great applause.] Sher
; man and Tom Reed have helped him, so
i the Kepuolicans have not yet got the horse
on the Democrats.
"If Congress knows what the people
need and doesn't give it, Congress i a dis
honest. We propose to give them the
benefit of trie doubt and show them the
way out of the muddle."
In this strain Coxey talked half an hour,
! bareheaded, under the hot sun, expla ning
his bill for good roads, plenty of money,
i and its companion-piece, universal luxury
through non-interest bearing bonds.
i Every thrust at the plutocrats was accen
| tuated by the clang of the bell, and the
! crowd which listened was constantly
i changing, altogetheran attentive one.
Meanwhile the army inside the canvas
' had been disposing of a miserable meal.
i The men lined up before a commissary
( wagon from which squares of the br»>art
1 which they call "punk" was dealt out to
| them. This they took over to the camp
i fire, on which several buckets of
i uninviting-looking meat stew had been
; 2xed. Each Commonwealer received a
I big spoonful of the stew on his bread and
i they sat about on the ground gnawing
this in a famished way.
The gate receipts for the day are paid to
be only SlO. General Coxey declares his
army will march to the Capitol, hold its
great mass-meeting on the steps to present
its bills and then return to wait for their
passage.
Boston, April 29. — Several hundred
people assembled on the Common this
afternoon in the expectation of bearing
Morris I. Swift of the unemployed Jinny,
but were disappointed, as Swift is in New
London. Speeches were made by Mrs.
Merefield. Patrick O'Neil and others.
O'Neil said one of the poDular features of
the delegations going to Wasinaton was
that it was the first time in the history of
this country that a band of honest men
had had gone there and the honest men
had come face to face with Grover Cleve
land and his gang.
New Haven, Conn., April 29.— A num
ber of i'ale students on bicycles left this
afternoon for Baybrook to meet the New
England division of Coxey's army. They
will ascort tnem to this city, where a bie
reception will be given them hy the col
legians.
Collmbxts, Ohio, April 29.— The Galvin
contingent of the Qoxey's army reached
this city last night at midnigtit. Thpy
went into camp beyond the west bank of
the Sciota, a part, however, sleeping in
the Trades Assembly Hall. To-day all
went into camp. Their wants are being
supplied by the Trades Assembly of thiß
city, which 19 furnishing them provisions
and raisins a sum of money to transport
the army as far as Wheeling or Pittsburg.
Chicago, April 29.— Unless something
unforseen happens the Chicago contingent
of the Commonweal Army will leave for
Washington on Tuesday. Numbers of peo
ple visited the barracks to-day and quite a
sum was realized from their generosity.
Ixdiaxapolis, April 29. At a meeting of
Commonwealers to-night Colonel Aubrey,
recruiting for General Fry, after telling
the people wnat a curse to the country the
monopolist was, explained what the army
would do when it reached Washington.
••Nearly 1,000.000 men will compose
the army," said he, "and when we arrive
there we will say to Congress, 'Here we
are, now what are you going to do with
us?' They will give us something, you
can bet on that, and it will be the best for
them to do so. A million starving men
are likely to cause trouble, and if they
absolutely refuse to do auything for us
we will take possession of the Capitol."
At this point the police interfered and
broke up the meeting.
KELLY AT DES MOINES.
His Soldiers Fed and Quartered in a
a Stove Factory.
Dcs Moines, lowa, April 29.— Des
.Monies is in a state of intense excitement
to-nignt over the arrival of Kelly's In
dustrial Army. The men had marched
iwenty-seven miles last night without
food acd were held by the police five miles
out of the city in a driving rainstorm all
day, with no provisions or shelter.
The action of the authorises raised much
indignation among the labori g people and
when at 5 o'clock this evening the army
finally marched up Grand avenue to the
camp on the east side of town, wet, hag
| gard and weary, their pitiable condition
, arousfld sympathy almost us great as that
I which was theirs at Council B!uifs. A
j uiass-ineeting of laboring men has beeu
I called for to-morrow, committees are at
I work s'jlicltiue food aud money and threats
SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 3O t 1894.
are made that uuless transportation is se
cured to Chicago radical steps will be
taken.
During the last twenty-four hours the
army has undergone greater hardships
than at any time since it left Utah. But
notwithstanding the severe test not twen
ty-five men were missing when Dcs
Moines was reached. The men straggled
in during the afternoon and 1000 men
gathered. Mayor Hill has sent thirty po
licemen and Sheriff McGaraugb, with as
many deputies, to meet the army and in
torm them they would have to puss on
through Dcs Moines to a deserted stove
factory, where ample food and shelter was
provided.
This Kelly flatly refused to do, saying
his men must be fed before they marched
the additional distance. The officers were
obdurate and the 1000 hungry men stood
shivering in the rain until half-past 4
o'clock, hoping for provisions. General
Weaver sent out forty loaves of bread and
that served as dinner. Mayor Hill has
said if the men will not go to where the
food was they should have none. At last
Kelly Cdusen ted to move and the march
was begun.
The streets were lined with spectator?,
and as the weary men marched by, weak
from hunger, women wept from sympathy.
The stove factory is one and a half miles
east of the capitol and furnished shelter
for all hands. The drooping spirits of the
soldiers soon revived when a wholesome
supper, furnished by the city, was given
them.
To-night the authorities of Dcs Moines
are much exercised over the unexpecedly
rapid development of sentiment favorable
to Kelly. The Mayor announced that the
city would furnish but one day'? provisions
ana then request the army to move on.
The Trades and Labor Assembly called a
meeting, denouncing tbe authorities and
appointed a committee to secure food and
raise money for transportation. The im
pression is general that the Chicago &
Great Western will furni9h a stock train to
Chicago if paid for.
Division Superintendent Egan said to
nieht he Had no orders to carry the men for
less than full fare, but he did not know
what orders might be issued by his supe-
General Superintendent Dunlap of
rior.
the Rock Island reasserted to-night that
the army could not ride on bis road for
less than full fare.
The army expects to remain quietly in
camp to-morrow awaiting the results of the
Trade and Labor Assembly to secure
transportation. To-morrow's mass-meeting
is expected to decide what will be done.
Governor Jackson said to an Associated
Press reporter to-night that he would take
no action until requested to do so by the
county authorities.
A SACRAMENTO DISCOVERY.
The Chief Officer of the Army Has
"Done Time."
Sacramento, April 29.— The Indus
trial army business has received a hard
blow here. Colonel Inman of tue Stock
ton contingent, which came here two
weeks ago aLd has since gathered in 250
mure idle men, is now under arrest in tbe
CitT Jail charged With vagrancy. .Last
night War ;eo Aull of tbe Foisom prison
telephoned Chief of Police Drew that an
officer «f the prison had identified Icinan
as one Van Pi. Carpenter, a four-term con
vict, who was discharged from the peni
tentiary the day the St"Ckton army arrived,
and he told Chief Drew how this fact
could be verified by marks on the man's
body.
Captain Green went out to Sutter Fort
and requested Colonel Inman to come in
and see Chief Drew, which he did. Very
much to his surprise he was made to take
off his coat and vest, and sure enough bis
arms bore the marks described by Warden
Aull. Inman asked what it all meant,
and was told be must be locked up for
vagrancy. He had on bis person a revol
ver and S7O in money. Being asked if he
was not an ex-convict he replied that he
was, anil admitted having served three
terms, two of them for stealing horses and
biißeies while drunk and one for forgery.
Warden Aull was called up to-day, and
be stated that Carpemer (alias Inman)
was released from Folsom Prison on April
16, and in less than twenty-four hours
afterward was an officer in the Industrial
Army, quartered at Agricultural Park in
this city. He made his boast before he
left that in a few days he would be at the
head of one of these bands of Industrials.
Warden Aull says Carpenter, or luman,
servel two terms in San Quentin and two
at Folsom. The first term Aull could not
tell about, but the second time Carpenter
went to the prison it was for two years—
from Ventura County— for robbery. He
was pardonpd by Governor Stoneman
February 1, 1885. under the belief that be
was about to die of His
third term was also for robbery, committed
in Santa Clara County, and again he was
thought to be dying when his term ex
pired. His last conviction was for forg
ery, committed in Contra Costa County.
Carpenter, or Inman, as he is known
here, succeeded in having Colonel Williams
deposed a week ago from the command of
the local army and himself elevated to that
position. He Is a rather bright man and
his address is greatly in his favor. He had
succeeded in impressing the city officials
and others with the idea that he is an
honest toiler, who had been unfor
tunate enough to get out of work and de
sired to do something for the cause of the
so-called commonweal by leading a host of
men to Washington. Just who will suc
ceed him in command is not now known,
but the exposure of his criminal career
will doubtless have a bad effect on his fol
lowers by causing the public to lose confi
dence in the men composing the band, few
of whom are known to any citizen.
The San Francisco and Oakland Indus
trial Armies, numbering about 900 men,
arrived here at 6 o'clock this evening from
Kichland, fifteen miles down the river,
where they camped last night. They took
up their quarters at the baseball grounds
in the outskirts of the city. The grounds
consist of two blocks Inclosed with a high
fence and with two large stands roofed
over. Accommodations are very poor and
many men are without blankets. They
are pretty well supplied with food, how
ever, one man on the road having given
them three steers. Wagons were procured
on the way for hauling their baggage to
the city.
Mrs. Anna Smith, who heads the Oak
land contingent, came to the city this
morning to look up a camping place. Mi
first went to Sutler's Fore, where the
Stockton army and its recruits are located,
but had a cold reception there, the mene
refusing to have anything to do with the
San Francisco and Oakland men, as Barker
played thPin false in ordering them hern
while he was making arrangament<i to go
East by way of Mojave.
Mrs. Smith then called on Chief of Police
Drew and asked him » bat he was going
to do with the newcomers. He told her
the city had no place for them and that
Ihev would be treated the same as other
strang-rs. They must look out for them
selves and If any of them -violated the law
they would be punished. Mrs. Smith tried
to see Director Hancock of the State Agri
cultural Society about getting the use of
the racetrack, but be could not be found.
The park had been closed and could not be
occupied except by force, so Mrs. Smith
concluded to take the ball grounds, which
were not in use.
What the newcomers are going to do no
body knows. It is not likely that tbe
citizens will feed them more than a day or
two at the most, and the Governor has re
peatedly said he has no power to take
money from the State treasury for any
such purpose. It has been inferred from
statements alleged to have been made by
liarker before leaving Oakland that he
expected to in some way compel the rail
road company to take the army East, but
it is not easy to see bow they are going to
capture any trains.
In the meantime the military officials
are on the alert, and if any emergency
should arise to justify tt several hundred
men of tbe local military companies would
be called into service.
Sax Bernardino, April 29.— A party
of fifty-five Industrials captured a freight
train on tbe Atlantic and Pacific road at
Barstow at midnight last night and re
fused to vacate them whon ordered to do.
Deputy Sheriff Prindle arrested the whole
crowd and thus released the train. This
afternoon they were discharged and were
camped near the station at Barstow. In
case of further trouble the United States
authorities will be called upon to protect
the road, as it is in the hands of receivers.
Vlnnette and eight of the Industrials
who were arrested in Cotton several
weeks ago. still languish in tbe County
Jail. Their trials will take place in about
two weeks.
Portland, April 29.— The Portland
contingent of Coxey's army who seized a
Union Pacific train at Troutdale yester
day and were arrested by United States
troops at Arlington were brought bark to
this city early this morning. "General"
Sheffler, "Quartermaster Genera!" Breck
ridge and fifty others were taken to jail
and the remainder were placed under
guard of the regular troops.
The industrials number 607 In all. They
are being fed at the expense of the United
States and express no desir9 to escape.
The leaders wjll be arraigned In the
Federal Court to-morrow on the charge of
contempt. Tho main body is side-tracked
on the east side of the river and they have
been the object of general curiosity all
day. Si>ine excitement was caused when
th«* leaders were marched off to the jail
under a guard of policemen, bnt no at
tempt to inierfere was made. When the
officers and their prisoners reached the
County Jail a meeting of Commonweal
sympathizers was being held on tue plaza
opposite. When the prisoners were ob
served the crowd deserted the speaker
and rushed around the prisoners, ebeerlnz
them and following them to the jail
entrance.
The result of the tn- . tlnp on tr-e ple/.a
was the organization of a home reserve,
and it is claimed that 2500 signatures have
already been obtained. A Union Pacific
steamer is in readiness here to convey
troops from Vancouver to Kalama at a mo
ment's notice in the event of any trouble
at Puyallup with tbe Tacoma and Seattle
contingents.
Salt Lake, April 29. — A number of un
employed men here, estimated at from 200
to 300, under the leadership of a man
by the name of Carter, have a desire to so
to Washington. They have been fed by
the citizens for the past week. They pro
pose to have a parade to-morrow morning
and then start on their journey on foot, as
no means of transportation has been fur
nished. The understanding is that they
will go via Denver.
ARE TRAMPS AND CRIMINALS.
Henry Watterson's Opinion of the
industrial Army.
Tacoma, April 29.— T0 a Ledeer re
porter Henry Watterson said to-day:
"This Coxey crusade of the idle is not a
demonstration for labor. Half of these
men are tramps, pure and simple. Half
of the other half are criminals, pure and
simple. The remaining fourth are merely
lads on a lark. It is only a question of
time when sonic dire tragedy will come of
it. Then, as by a toich in the darkness
the true nature and meaning of the whole
affair will be disclosed to the great body
of people— takeu now somewhat by sur
prise — and public opinion thoroughly
aroused and united, indecision and timid
ity will disappear, and the official who es
says to do hit duty will be lost. Mean
while, there is not an honest, hardwork
ing, laboring man in the laud, but who, in
the inner recesses of bis heart, looks npon
these harlequins as the veriest wretches,
the end of whose burlesque must bring
the true workingman into discredit.
"In a (treat Democratic republic like
ours, where all things are open to all
men, such grotesque exhibitions can only
be humiliating to those actual sons of toil
whose children have the same chance of
sitting in the high places as the children
of millionaires. There is not a wife who
spins nor a husband who digs and delves
who is not sought to be degraded by these
caricatures of God's working army that
make a farce of honest industry and a
travesty of the homely virtues of the
lowly and the poor. The sooner the strong
hand of the "law is put forth, the better
fur humanity and for authority. As to
the leaders, they are the merest swindlers,
who richly deserve to be banged for the
suffering and waste they hare already oc
casioned.
"What do I think of the Wilson bill?
Why. 1 shot my fowling-piece at the Wil
son bilJ the Bth of last January and then
took to the woods. Since then the Wilson
bill seems to have been doing some
wandering in the wilderness itself. To
speaK accurately, there is no such bill as
the Wilson bill. There was a measure
that went by that name when it came out
of the Ways ana Means Committee. But it
lost one of its eyes and had its nose broken
in the House, and since it has gone to the
Senate its disfigurement has continued to
the degree that its author would not rec
ognize It if be should meet it at midday
in the rotunda of tbe Capitol. No, sir.
there is no such bill a* tbe Wilton bill.
There is a monstrosity undergoing the
process of incubation, which is so base
that «f 1 had a half-educated Democratic
dog mean enough to wag his tail for it I
would have him taken out and shot."
Away to the North.
Tromso. Norway, April 29. --The North
Poie expedition under the command of
Walter Wellinan has arrived here en roire
(or the Island of Spitzbergtn.
CARLISLE TALKS.
The Secretary's Views on
the Bill.
WHAT THE CHANGES WILL BE
That on Sugar Will Make but
Little Difference.
TROUBLE Wit H THE INCOME TAX.
Some Parts of It Must Certainly Be
Modified Before It Will Meet
With Approval.
Washington, April 29.— Secretary Car
lisle has authorized the following state
ment in reply to an inquiry by an Asso
ciated Press reporter as to whether it was
true he had taken part in tbe conferences
which it has been said were being eld for
the purpose of agreeing upon certain
amendments to the pending tariff bill:
"I have had no conference upon this
subject with anybody except the Demo
cratic members or tbe Senate Committee
on Finance, and therefore cannot state of
my own personal knowledge which has
occurred in any of those conferences that
may have taken place. It is true an
effort is being made to agree upon such
changes io the pending bill as will secure
for it tbe united and active support of all
the Democrats in the Senate.
"The indications now are that their sup
port can and will be secured without
making radical changes in tbe rates of
duty or material alterations in the form or
structure of the tariff schedules as they
were rassed by the House. In fact 1 re
gard most of tbe changes now under con
sideration as quite unimportant, while the
remainder are not of such a character as
substantially to effect tbe merits of the
bill as a measure for tbe reformation of
tbe worst features of tbe existing legisla
tion upon this subject.
"I do not think we ought to permit dif
ferences of opinion upon mere matters of
detail or in regard to a small increase or
reduction of rates in tbe bill as it now
stands to prevent a redemption of our
pledges to tbe people, and therefore I am
in favor of securing, if possible, without
any surrender ol principle and without
abandoning any part of tbe Democratic
policy of tariff reform, such mutual con
cessions upon tbese points as will consoli
date our strength and pass tbe measure at
the earliest possible date.
"So far as tbe proposed amendments re
late to duties upon important articles of
consumption now subject to duty, tbe rates
suggested as tbe basis for adjustment are
much lower than in tbe present law, while
there are only a few instances In which
they are higher than in the bill reported
by the Senate committee.
"By far the most Important single ar
ticle upon which a change of duty is now
proposed is sugar, raw and refined, and it
is strenuously contended by persons in
terested in the production of this article
that the specific rates already in the bill
as reported by the Senate committee are
higher than the ad-valorem rates which it
is now proposed to insert
"Whether this is correct or not depends
on the price of sugar In the foreign mar
kets from time to time, and therefore it is
not possible to make an exactly accurate
statement upon the subject; but lam sat
isfied that the difference, if any, between
the specific rates heretofore proposed and
the ad-valorem rate now under considera
tion is so small as to be of no material
consequence either way. At any rate, I
think differences of opinion upon this
question, which have always been trouble
some and vexatious, should not be allowed
to defeat the passage of the tariff bill, and
I believe this is the opinion of all intelli
gent and sincere advocates of revenue re
form.
"The repeal of the McKinley act and the
substitution of a more equitable measure
is of vital importance to thejirosperi'y of
the country, and the people have a right to
expect that all who are really in favor of a
reduction of tariff taxation will make such
reasonable concessions to' each other's
views as will certainly accomplish these
results. If the country is to wait for tariff
roform until a measure i 9 devised which is
entirely acceptable iv all its parts to every
Senator and representative whose vote is
necessary to pass It, our promises will
never be kept."
"Are any changes proposed In that part
of the bill which relates to the Income
tax?" was asked.
"It Is well known," said the Secretary,
"that there has been from the beginning
considerable opposition to the proposed
income tax, even among those who nave
voted for and supported the bill with that
feature in it. Much of this opposition has
been based upon the provisions of the bill
which prescribe the methods of ascertain
ing and collecting the tax, some of which
are alleged to be arbitrary and Inquisi
torial.
"In my opinion many of these objec
tionable provisions ought to be and can be
safely omitted from the bill, and other
changes can be made which the advocates
of the income tax can consistently accept
and which will at the same time remove
the principal objections of its opponents
and secure their support of the bill"
THE SECOND STEP.
A Proposal to Put Samoa Directly
Under British Control.
Sydney. N. 5. W.. April 29.-The Hon.
Sir George Gibbs, Prime Minister, has
telegraphed to the Prime Minister of Vic
toria, saying that New South Wales is in
favor of Samoa being placed under the sole
protection of Great Britain, rather than
under the control of a colony which per
haps would have no power to enforce its
orders. The colony that Sir George refers
to Is New Zealand, which recently sug
gested it be entrusted with the adminis
tration of Samoan affairs.
MORE TROUBLE FOR COLORADO.
A Co-Operative Scheme to Be Intro-
duced in I hat State.
Denver, April 29.— A special to the
Rocky Mountain News from Chicago says :
A scheme of Drodlglous proportion*,
which contemplates the overthrow of the
country and Government in the interests
of cn-oDerative enthusiasts, was sprung
ttiis afteruoon at a meeting of tba White
City Co-operative Association, a powerful
organizatiou of known socialistic tenden
cies. Colorado was declared to be the
State where the overthrow should begin.
It is intended to place co-operative com
mittees in one State, so they could
multiply and eventually control the legis
lation of that State to the establishment
of a complete State co-operative machine,
and then :he conquest of tha balance of
the country would be the more easy and
more quickly secured through the ex
ample of its practical operation on so large
a scale as a State. It will be some time
before the onward movement begins.
FALL OF PARANAQUA.
The Last of the Rebels Surrender to
President Peixoto.
New York, April 30.— The Herald's
Montevideo dispatch says: President
Peixoto's fleet has captured Paranagua,
Brazil, the last of the rebel forces offering
any resistance. General Martinez went to
Buenos Avres last night, accompanied by
General Bachimot, Ttier had a confer
ence with Admiral da Gama and with
more than 100 of da Gama'a men. They
will embark for Santome for the purpose
of rejoining General Gumceruido Recrul
via ou the western Dart of Rio Grandn do
Sul. The latest advices from there are
that the erjtire force of General Saralva.
numbering 4000 men, are making forced
marches toward Mage for the purpose of
re-enforcing General Pina.
REDUCED THE CLAIM.
Switzerland Arbitrates the Claim
Made by Chile.
London. April 30.— A dispatch to the
Standard from Berne says that Switzer
land has represented to Dr. Claperde, tbe
Swiss Minister at Washington, that it has
decided in regard to the arbitration be
tween Chile and America to award $240,
--564, instead of the $9,000,000 demanded.
NOT HALF WAS TOLD.
The Destruction Caused by the
Grecian Earthquake.
Mountains Vibrated Like Pendulums
and Masses of Rock Were Hurled
Into the Valleys.
Athens, April 29.— The official report
scut from the earthquake-stricken district
in Nowise minimizes tbe first report of the
disaster. The whole coast line from the
anient port of Laryma to Tbeopolyte suf
fered terribly. King George was deeply
stirred by the scenes of suffering be wit
nessed during bis visit to Atalanti. He
has anuounced his intention of visiting
Thebes and extending aid and sympathy
to the afflicted people there.
The loss of life on Friday night last
must have been very great. M. Boupides,
Minister of the Interior, lias received ad
vices that in the Lokrist district alone 300
persons were killed, and of these 233 bodies
have already been recovered. About 300
were injured.
The people of Atalanti have fled to the
hills for safety.. In this district there was
a continuous series of shocks. In seven
hoars and a half 315 shocks were counted.
When tbe earth movpineLts began and
houses tottered and fell many of tbe in
habitants forgot everything except their
personal safety. They ran wildly from
their doomed city and sought a firm stand
ing-place on the hills that rise behind the
town. The earth swung to aud fro like a
pendulum, and between the swings would
tremble and quiver. Much damage was
done along the shore by a seismic wave
which encroached upon the coast for a
distance of twenty meters. A number of
houses were destroyed by this movement,
and there can be no doubt lives were lost.
It will perhaps be several days before an
accurate list of tbe fatalities can be
made up.
Huge masses of rock were detached from
the mountains and burled with a thunder
ing crash into th« valleys below. Eye
witnesses of the scene describe it as hav
ing been an awe-inspiring exhibition of
the mighty forces of nature, before which
man was utterly helpless. Deep subter
ranean rumblings and reports resembling
the sound of cannon tired at a distance
continue to be heard, and the people are
in mortal fear that other and more severe
shocks may follow.
The contour of part of the coast line has
been materially changed. The shore on
the Eubeean side has sunk six feet. Other
natural phenomena accompanied the dis
turbance. The sulphur springs at Aidipso
were temporarily changed in character,
and spouted forth torrents of almost boll
ing water, and sprines of pure fresh water
appeared in the crater of an extinct vol
cano. The renter of the disturbance lies
between Laryma and '.he Mallan Gulf,
but throughout entire Greece the shocks
were felt .
Londox, April 29.— A special dispatch
to the Times from Athens says : No deaths
were caused at Atnlanti by the earthquake
Friday night. A village near Atalanti and
the monastery ef St. Catherine were de
stroyed. The shock was violent at Lim
nacb. At Dracbmanion a number of bouses
and the churches were thrown down. Two
persons were killed and many injured.
Earth tremors continue to be felt almost
continuously and deop anxiety is felt lest
there be a repetition of the shocks.
AN EXPLORER'S RETURN.
William Astor Chandler's Trip to
Central Africa.
New York. April 30.— The Herald's
Cairo* dispatch says: Mr. William Astor
Chandler has arrived here from Zanzibar,
after his second Central African expedi
tion, aod is the guest of United States
Minister Penfield. He leaves Tuesday for
Vienna, and will then go for a cure to one
of the German springs. Mr. Chandler
says that his expedition was fairly success
ful, though he was beset by many mishaps.
He will contribute a report of bis explora
tions to the Geographical Society.
The Lyons Exposition Opened.
Lyons, April 29. —The exhibition in this
city was opened to-day by Prime Minister
Casimir-Ferler who was assisted Id tbe
inauguration ceremonies by M. Birdeau,
Minister of Finance, and M. MartiD, Min
ister of Commerce. A great throng of
people gathered to witness the formal open
ing of the exhibition.
The Queen at Windsor Castle.
.London, April 29.— The Queen arriTed
from the Continent to-day and lias taken
up her residence io Windsor Castle.
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Ruins of the St. Charles
Hotel.
ONE WALL LEFT STANDING.
Four People Known to Have
Perished in the Flames.
IT WAS AN HISTORIC BUILDING.
The Famous Hostlery Had Been the
Canter of Southern Politics
for Many Years.
New Oeleans, April 29.— A few miD
utes before 11 o'clock last nigbt a fire
broke out in the kitchen of the St. Charles
Hotel. A large audience was tearing the
bt. Charles Theater at trie time and in a
few minutes the wildest excitement pre
vailed iv the street.
At first tbe lira was raging in the interior
of tbe court, but the flames made a com
paratively small showing from the start,
as the fire brigade responded promptly,
and hopes were entertained for some time
that anything like a serious disaster would
he prevented. But those within the walls
realized that tbe whole building was
doomed. Guests and employes of the hotel
were soon hurrying out of the building,
half clad and with such few personal
effects as could be snatched in their hurried
exit from their sleeping-rooms.
As nearly as could be ascertained four
lives have been sacrificed. One man
leaped from the fourth story and was al
most instantly killed 1 ? while four men and
one woman was seen to leap from tbe iron
staircase leading from the rear of the
building and were lost to view into the
court, which looked to be almost a solid
mass of flames. One of these men suc
ceeded in reaching the street, but nothing
has been seen of the others. It is also re
ported that a child was missing, but this
lacks confirmation.
Tbe scene inside tbe hotel at this time
was one of terror and confusion. Terror
stricken, half-clad guests were flying from
the llames which were roaring behind
them. Some were dragging their trunks
with them and offered extravagant prices
for help to convey their valuables to a
place of safety.
Meanwhile the fire continued to ad
vance toward the front of the building,
which was still intact. St. Charles street
looked dark and somber, though tbe
upper stories of the buildings opposite
the hotel were lit up with the reflection of
the flames.
Tbe hopelessness of the situation as far
as savins tbe hotel was coucerned became
evident almost as eocn as the fire broSe
oat At the center of the vast pile of ma
sonry which forms the hotel and occupies
ever balf of tbe square in which it Is
situated, was a kind of cylinder amphi
theater, built for the purpose of Riving air
to tbe rooms which did not face on tbe
street. Having got a fair start over the
engines, tbe fire spread with lightning
rapidity.
The flames made their way into the
rooms and then finding such inflammable
material as bedding and light furniture,
increased tbe wild riot of its advance.
Room after room, being deserted by its
terror-stricken occupants, fell a prey to
tbe fire and added to tbe magnificent pyro
technic display which thousands from all
parts of the city bad gathered in a vast
crowd to witness.
About 2 a. m. a portion of the wall on
Gravier street, as well a3 a section on
Common street, fell in, and a small por
tion of the Gravier-street fell outward,
wrecking about fifty telegraph wires. By
3 A. m. the last of the interior of the build
ing had tumbled in, leaving only the St.
Charles-street walls intact On Gravier
street the flames weie eating their way
into three buildings which intervened be
tween the wall of the hotel and the old
Union Bank at the corner. These build
ings on Gravier street were occupied by a
number of firms engaged in the insurance
and machinery agency business.
The loss is estimated at from $300,000 to
$400,000. Benides the St. Charles Hotel,
there are other losses. The first ouiside
building to be ignited was 169 Gravier
street, the ground floor being occupied by
the New Orleans Electric Company, and
the upper floors as a boarding-house. The
building was gutted in a short time. Sev
eral ladies were rescued from the third
story by the police. No. 171 Gravier street
was also badly damaged, and ISB and 160
Common street were almost destroyed,
and Nob. 162 and 164 considerably dam
aged. Nearly all the buildings in tne rear
of the hotel in the same square and front
ing on Carondelet street were more or less
damaged by fire and water.
The ground floor of tbe hotel building
was occupied by various places of busi
ness, almost the entire contents of which
were destroyed, as but little of conse
queuce was removed. Among the losers
are Alexander Levy, tailor, the Turf Ex
change, the ticket and freight office of the
Texas Pacific, damaged to tbe extent nf
$15,000; a barber-shop; Rnsenfielder *
Herrick, shoes; J. C. Smith, shirts; Tepe
lie, tailor; A. Bonne, shoes; the ticket
office of tbe Louisville &, Nashville, the
Piedmont • Railroad office, and W. H.
Brown, coal.
Beneath the staircase was the handsome
barroom owned by the widow of Leon
Lamont. To-day a gang of workmen were
set to work removing tbe debris and la
search of the bodies of the missing em
ployes. The man who was killed by leap
ing from tbe building was John Reilly, a
baker.
The St. Charles Hotel was first built in
1838, the work of construction having been
commenced in 1835. The cost o,f the build
ing was 5600.000, and the ground cost
8100,000. The dining-room was one of the
finest finished apartments in America, the
ceiling being composed of the beautiful
elliptic domes for chandeliers. Tbe ceiling
and walls were handsomely frescoed by
Canova, nephew nf the great Italian
sculptor, and the building contained some
handsome statuary. This building was de
stroyed by fire in 1851. Tbe building of
tbe new hotel was at once commenced, and
the building then completed was again de
stroyed last nisht. It attracted attention
throughout the world from the fact that
it was tbe finest hotel in the world and the
first great hotel of the United States.
Toe building was of the same style and