WILL FlGllllOleG‘lMl Congressman - Elect ‘ Roberts, of Utah, May Lose His Seat. SAID TO HAVE THREE WIVES ‘It is Claimed He Violated Edmun.‘s Act and Can be Tried When He Reaches the ;Capital,.Bitter Contest On. Churches of All Denominations Will Aid. Washington, D. 0., Nov. 22.-—The case. of Brigham H. Roberts, member-elect from Utah, is attracting much atten- tion here among ' congressmen, and when. he arrives his course beyond doubt will settle whether he is eligible to a seat. In the District of Columbia the Ed- niunds law in relation to polygamy is in existence, and Roberts could be ar- rested and tried if he brings more than one wife with him. The only way he could be unseated on the charge of being a polygamist would be to prove the fact. The first course would be to try him under the Edmunds act. If he is con- victed, of course Congress can easily get rid of him; but leading members of the House say it must first be pro- ven that he has three wives before anything can be done. The contest, however, will be brought into the House and will be foughtbit- terly. During the campaign it was intima- ted that, if elected,-Mr. Roberts would never get his seat. The Mormon Church, powerful as it is in Utah, has enemies all the more bitter, perhaps, because of their help— lessness, and it is announced that they will support the Populist candidate. Mr. W'arren Foster, who ran against Mr. Roberts in his contest for the seat. The contest will be based solely on the charge that Mr. Roberts is a po- lygamist and accordingly a violator of the Edmunds law. It is assumed, by lthe entiles of Utah, «as they are called by the Mormons, that in this fight against Mormonism, as represented by -Mr. Roberts, the churches . of every denomination will lend the aidof their far reaching in- fluence. . AS TO PEACE JUBlLEES. Why the President Objects to Premature ' Rejoicing. Washington, D. 0., Nov. 22.——Thc White House officials corroborate the pressdispatches stating that the presi- dent had requested the peace celebra- tion committee at Atlanta to change the form of its expression from peace jubilee to a celebration of the victory of our arms. The reason for this request is the. un- certainty of peace negotiations. Even should a treaty of apeace be signed, it could not be ratified until after Chris :- mas. Moreover, there are indications th there may be other troubles pursua- upon the peace treaty which we: make a peace jubilee celebration a 11:.- rtle premature. It is understood that the president regretted the various peace jubilees before peace has actually been accom- plished, but that in the case of Chi- cago and Philadelphia they had pro— ceeded too far for his suggestion to be of any avail. It is said here that the Atlanta peo- ple have expressed their willingness for the change and that the president is very much gratified. To Occ'upy Cienfuvgos January 1. Washington, D. 0., Nov. 22,—The oc- cupation of Cienfuegos, Cuba, which was expected to take place within the next few weeks, has been postponed until January 1. . A dispatch has been sent to Major General James H. Wilson, at Macor. Ga., notifying him of the change of plan, as follows: “It is found impracticable to occupy Cienfuegos before January 1. In view of the altered conditions, the secretary of war directs that you give such or- ders concerning brigade designated for this service as will meet the situa- tion. “H. C. CORBIN." atur Quay Indicted. Nov. 22.——The grand SP Philadelphia, jury has presented to the county court. trUe bills of indictment against United States Senator M. S. Quay, his son, Richard R. Quay, and ex-State Treas- urer Benjamin J. Haywood, charged with conspiring unlawfully to use pub- lic money deposited in the People‘s Bank of this city for the purchase and sale of stocks and for other purposes not authorized by law. John S. Hopkins, former cashier of the People‘s Bank, now dead, is named as a party to the conspiracy. Vote 0 S :ldicrs Receiv -d. Albany, N. Y., Nov. 22.—-The votes of four companies of the First Pro- visional regiment, stationed at Hono- lulu, have reached the secretary of state by mail. The remaining compa- nies of this organization, as well as the Forty-seventh regiment and the First United States engineers. doing‘ duty at Port'o Rico, still have to send in their votes. ' 2.2.1 Free To-day. New Rec-belle, Nov. 22.——The Twenty- second regiment of New York volun- teers will be mustered out of the ser- vice of the United States to-day. It is expected that the men will reach New York city about two o’clock in the afternoon and will march to their ar- mory, where they will turn in their arms and equipment. Mustermg Out Eighth Ohio. Wooster, Ohio, Nov. 22.—The muster-, ing out of the Eighth Ohio volunteer infantry, \“the president’s own'," began yesterday. The muster out will in— .clude 1,106'ofilcers and men, over $135,— 000 being required to pay the regiment off. ‘ Cotton Workers on Strike. AugustaLGa" Nov. 22,—Three thou- sand operatives in the cotton mills here struck yesterday on account of a reduction inmates. 3‘ a. THE»<Sll=A*RliEjYJ=60ll-lilll‘l"lllLl. Tom Sharkey theillinner in the i ? .llintliglimmd On a Foul. i . third to See -. the Fight. New York, Nov. 23.—After several weeks of severe preparation the heavy— weight boxers, Jim Corbettrand Tom Sharkey, met last evening in a 20- roundcontest at the Lenox Club. The struggle wasfor a purse of $20,- 000, 75 per cent to tne winner and 25 per cent. to the loser. ‘ The crowd for the fight gathered early. The doors were opened at 6.15, and immediately |the $3 seats at the end of the hall began to fill. Sharkey arrived at 8.15 o'clock with George Dixon; The crowd outside rec- ognizedhim and there was a great cheer. The police arrangements inside and outside were perfect. Chief Devery himself was presentand Inspector Mc- Laughlin had charge of the details. There wereone hundred and fifty po- licemen in all. " There was a rumor current to the effect that in the event of Sharkey adopting tactics of a rough order the police would stop the fight. The big contest began at 10.56 o’clock Sharkey’s seconds Were Tom O’Rourke, Jack Dougherty and George Dixon. George Considine, Charley White, Connie McVey and Paddy Gorman were behind Corbett. The Lenox Athletic Club' building was crowded to its utmost capacity when the first bout was called. City oflicials and prominent business men were in evidence. The betting was lively, the prevail- ing odds being. 100 to 80 on Corbett. Tom O’Rourke was said to have wag- ered $800 to $1,000 on his man, Sharkey, at the ringside. Denny Sullivan and Billy Long also backed Sharkey at the prevailing odds, and Joe Vendig bet $1,500 to $1,300 on Corbett. Round 1.——Sharkey rushed Corbett and missed a right swing. Sharkey landed on Corbett’s jaw and body and had the best of the round. ‘ Round 2.——Both men rushed each other. Corbett jabbed Sharkey in the face. Sharkey floored Corbett with a right on the jaw. Corbett got up quick- ly. Sharkey landed a right on the jaw. Corbett was excited. Round Q’s—Corbett jabbed Sharkey in the face, Sharkey’s right to ribs. Sharkey’s left to face. Corbett’s left to body. Corbett clinched}. repeatedly to save himself. Corbett seemed to have gone back. key seeming to find Corbett at will. Sharkey chased Jim around the ring and Corbett landed left on face. Round 5.——Sharkey landed on Cor— ; bett’s face several times, Corbett re- turning with left. Both men were tir- ed when the bell rang. Round 6.—Sharkey landed two lefts on Corbett’s face, shoving Corbett’s head back. Sharkey rushed Corbett . hard, landing on face and body. Cor- . bett’s returns seemed to lack speed. ' It was Sharkey’s round. Round 7.—Sharkey rushed Corbett, landing on face, kidney and ribs, Jim returning lightly. Both landed with lefts on face and body as bell rang. Both very tired. 'Round 8.~—-Sharkey continued to land ' on ear, face and jaw; COrbett jabbing at the body. Corbett landed two hard lefts and a right, but Sharkey returned fiercely. Sharkey reached Corbett's face as bell rang. Round 9.——Both landed on face. Mc- Vey jumped into the ring and a foul was allowed. All bets Were declared off. SPAIN DISPOSED TO YIELD. Crumbling However over America’s De- mand. Madrid, Nov. 23.-—The proposals of the United States peace commission- ers have been received here without any public sensation. The general feel- ing is in favor ofa speedy ending of the negotiations. The newspapers lament the. “III"TG‘l- erosity” of the. United States in offer-- ing “such a small indemnity." They think that Japan or some of the European powers would have‘paid a higher price. ‘ There are those who contend that it would be better to decline indemnity altogether, because the government could then decline responsibility for the. I'll-lung. There Is much lT?‘lI’"I-f‘?“ " thy of Europe. The Imparcial has the following: “President McKinley now boasts of having himself written the protocol in order to mislead Spain. Th's is adding insult'to injury. Yet Europelooks on undisturbed. All ideas of justice have vanished from the world." British Island for Us. ‘ London, Nov. 23.—-The DailyChroni- cle publishes a dispatch from Vienna according to which England has ceded on leaSe to the United States for a naval’coaling station, the island of So- kotra, off the gulf of Aden." the Ameri— can government undertaking =to erect on it two lighthouses, but not to fortify the island or sell coal here, as this iwould injure the British coal trade of Perim and Aden. The Chronicle adds editorially: “We are doing a good deal for Amer— ica just now, and everybody in this country will be glad of it; but we shall all be. the more interested to learn what she is proposing to do for us in re- turn." ' Sultan shuts an Orphanage. London, Nov. 23.—The Constantinople correspondent if the Daily Chronicle says: The sultan has ordered the closing of an orphanage at Zeitung which shel- ters sixty homeless victimsof the Ar menian troubles. The institution is admirablymanaged by American mis- sionaries, 'being chiefly supported IO; British charity. , - Mr. Oscar Strauss, the United States minister, andeir Nicholas O'Conor, the BritishambaSsador, are both interven- .in‘g energetically. ' ‘ ' .« .V'a Round 4.——Both led repeatedly, Shari >iv .:.L . . . /' ~ GREELY’S SHARP CRITICISM. . a“ :-. iu/ :cmér Signal .Oilicer Comments Severely ' on Conduct of \Var. l ' San Francisco; Cal, Nov. 21.-Gen- eral A. F. Greely, chief signal officer of the army, is reported to have made something of a stir by his response to a toast at the Chit Chat Club’s ban- quet a few nights ago. - In effect he is said to have called the system of army organization “anti- ‘quated and inelastic,” and told of the inefficiency of the new officers, scoring the methods of appointment through political influence. . . He did not think much of volunteer .soldiers. The alleged incompetency in landing ‘troops and supplies at Santiago came in for lively comments. General Gree- ly said that at the time hostilities Were first threatened there was not a. gun south of Mason and Dixon’s line that could be fired. He praised the presi- dentfor delaying the final outbreak. He was particularly severe in speak- ing of poor methods of handling sup- plies. He cited instances of gross blunders in forwarding supplies. At Tampa he was forced to break into nearly two hundred freight cars to se- cure provisions intended for his de- partment. The same incompetency characteriz- ed the loading of provision ships. In one case where men had been sent to a steamer to procure general rations for troops at Santiago, they found nothing in the vessel but canned toma- toes. ‘.' Q MRS. GUILFORD COMES BACK. The Bridgeport Practitioner Arrested in London Reachesgflere. New York, Nov. 21.—0n board the Cunard line steamer Lucania, which arrived here Saturday from Liverpool and Queenstown, was Dr. Nancy'Gulb ford, the Connecticut practitioner, who is charged with the murder of Emma Gill. She was .in the custody of Detective Cronin of the Bridgeport police. Mrs. Guilford appears on the list as Mrs. N. Brown. She occupied saloon state- room E on the forward saloon deck of the steamer. Mrs. Guilford was on deck when the steamer reached quarantine. Detect- ive Cronin said: “Mrs. Guilford was seasick for more than half the voyage. She managed to get on deck during the past few days. But few of the passengers on board knew of her identity. She gave me not the slightest trouble during the voyage, neither has she made any statement or confession. She appeared anxious to reach home and see her family.” Detective Cronin started for Bridge- port with his prisoner on the eleven o’clock train from the Grand Central depot. Bride Balks at the Altar. Scranton, Pa., Nov. 21.-—In St. Cath- erine's church, at noon Saturday, a. bride deserted her would be husband at the altar during the ceremony, biushingly walked down the aisle to the door and made a. hasty exit. Miss Margaret Moore was attired beautifully as she met Timothy Foley and the bridal party at the sanctuary rail in the church. The Rev. R. H. W'alsh was reading the marriage service and already the bridegroom had taken his solemn vow. “Will you, Margaret Moore, take. Timothy Foley to be your lawful hus- band?” asked the priest. There was a hesitation. “Is it yet too late?” asked the bride-elect. “Not yet,” replied Father Walsh. “No, I will not,” said Miss Moore. as she turned from the altar, and, fac- ing the astonished crowd of guests which filled the church, started for the door. . The motive which prompted the bride so summarily to end the ceremony has not yet been explained. 5th Cavalry in Porto Rico. San Juan de Porto Rico, Nov. 21.— The United States transport Michigan has arrived with three troops of the Fifth United States cavalry. The rest of the regiment was landed at Ponce and Mayaguez. The Michigan will take home Com- pany F, Eighth inrantry, Troop H, Sixth cavalry, Troop. B, Second cav- alry and two batteries of the Seventh Light Artillery, a total of five hun- dred and forty men and five hundred and thirty-three herses. Spanish. steamerscontinue to bring large quantities of provisions from Spain, particularly rice, beans, oils and Wines. There is a good deal of complaint as to the irregularity of the transport mail service between Porto Rico and the United States. General Buell Dead. Louisville, Ky., Nov. 21.—-Genera| Don Carlos Buell died at his home, four miles from Rockport, Ky., yesterday. The end had been expected, for the general had been very ill for several months. ‘ General Buell was born at Marietta- Ohio, on March 23,1818. He was grad: uated at West P'ointin 1841. In the Mexican war he Was promoted for gallantry :to‘brevet major, and when the civilwar began he was made a brigadiergeneral. At Shiloh he .came to the relief of Grant. He resignedhis commissionin the army in June, 1864, and had lived\, in retirement ever since. Yellow Fever in Washington. Washington, D. 0., Nov. 21.-—Archie S., Miller, a civil engineer, aged 32 years, unmarried, died in a hotel in this city from what the physicians have pronounced lto be yellow fever. He had been in Washington two days. having‘ come from New York city, where he arrived on Monday from Nicaragua, where he had been since last April. He left there about two weeks ago on a steamer bound for New York, but was stopped at Port Limon, Costa Rica, an infected port. . Rush Orders on “Fan-ships. , Boston. Mass, Nov..21,.—Rush orders fo‘r the war vessels now being repaired at the Charlestown navy. yard have been received at that place. Three vcsseis. the double turreted monitor Amph-irtrite,‘ the cruiser De- trolt and the gunboat Castine were VSpecia‘lly' mentioned in the order. "Lass-4» « 0"". FLKLg iaOR‘WALn- G A ZE ,1 Will REVENUE TAXES No Reduction or Modification Dur- ing'Next Session—of Congress. ’ CHAIRMAN DINGwLEY’S IDEA He Says the Expenditures Growing Out of the War Will Continue for Some Time the Dlngley Bill. Washington, Nov. 21.——Chairman Dingley of the ways and means com- mittee of the House, intimates that ex- penditures growing out of the war will continue for a long time Yet cer- tainly for a. year, and that for the next six or eight months the “treasury W111 expend about $15,000,000 a month for war purposes. _ “By the first of J anuary," said Chair- man Dlngley, ‘the war expenditures will have exceeded $200,000,000. Not- withstanding the fact that active hos- tilities have ceased,’ $25,000,000 were spent on account of the war during the month of October, and there will be fully $20,000,000 this month. These big expenditures will be only slightly in- creased during the balance of the pres- ent fiscal year. I believe that for the next six or seven months the disburse- ments on account of the war will not be less than $10,000,000 a month, and more likely 815,000,000 3. month . The treasury statement will, for the next year, show‘that we are still making large payments growing out of the war. . “In view of the amount of revenue being derived from the war taxes, it is foolish to talk of repealing any of the revenue raising items, particularly so before a peace treaty is signed. The war revenues produce about $10,000,000 a month, and the monthly war ex— penses are considerably more than this. “The deficit thus created is being made .up by the proceeds of the $200,- 000,000 issue of bonds. The war ex— penses for October were $15,000,000 in excess of the revenues for the same month, and the excess of expenditures will be. fully $10,000,000 for the month of November. “My estimate of a monthly expendi- ture of between $10,000,000 and $15,000,- 000 during the next fiscal year, is, of course, based on the assumption that hostilities will not be resumed. We will be at considerable expense in ad- justing the affairs of the new terri- tory acquired by us. I believe that the war expenses will get down below the revenues some time during the next year. In the meantime, we have a sur- plus of about $130,000,000, and whatever deficit there may be will be paid out of this fund. “In view of these facts the people of the country must realize that there is no prospect of cutting off existing tax- es. The great bulk of the public knows this, for I receive very few petitions to lower the taxes. There will be no re- duction or modification of the war tax- es during the present season, and I do not agree with those who think it will be necessary to increase them. The law is meeting with our expectations and it is only a matter of time before thesvar eXpenses and war receopts will be equa ." In speaking of the revenue produc- ing qualities of the tariff of 1897 Chair- man Dingley said that the revenue produced by the new'Iaw for the past four months exceeded the amount de- rived from the Wilson law in the same months in the last year of its existence by nearly $25,000,000, which indicates that the Dingley law will produce from $60,000,000 to $75,000,000 per annum more than the Wilson tariff. ' “The revenue now derived under the tariff for the month of October exclu- sive of war taxes," said Mr. Dingley, ,“was more than $15,000,000 in excess of the revenue yielded by the Wilson tar- iff law in the last October of its en- forcement, and the revenue produced this month by the new law, exclusive of war revenues, will be more than $6,- 000,000 in excess of the revenue pro- duced by the Wilson law in the last November of its existence. The reve- nues from February 1 have been more than the peace expenditures on the ba~ sis of the expenditures for the last five years. In other words, the new tariff is producing all the revenue that was expected from it and is ample to meet the expenses of the government if we had not been plunged into war." Christmas Presents orr'tor Manila, .San Francisco, Nov. 21.—The trans- port St. Paul has sailed for Manila, carrying a cargo‘of Christmas presents for the soldiers and sailors in the Phi- l lippines. . Thousands of packages have reached the quartermaster’s department in the last ten .days from' all parts of the country..since, it became known that Uncle Sam would act as Santa Claus and convey ChriStmas gifts free of charge. A number of soldiers drafted to re- cruit companies, now at Manila and forty trained nurse’s‘sailed on the ves- se . Twenty of the nurses will remain at Honolulu. ( Before the War Board. New._York, Nov..21.-—.Five witnesses were examined. by the war investigat- ing commission Saturday in the Fifth Avenue Hotel. They were Mrs. Edwin G. Allis.~ a'volu er nurse of No. 29 East Twenty-firs istreet: Captain Ed-» ' ' 'wln'H. Plummerbf the Tenth cavalry, now on General Shafter's staff; Ma- jor Lorigan of the Ninth New York; Margaret nurse of Morristown, N. J., and Lieu- tenant Charles E_dwards of the. Seven- ty-first regiment, ' The commission adjourned until to-‘ day at 9.30 a. m. Tht commission hopes to call some of the high officials of the ‘ army this week. Race Troubles at Anniston. Anniston, Ala, Nov. 20.—A riot is imminent‘here. Negro soldiers inter- fered with the White provost guard as they were arresting: adrunken ne- gro soldier.- The negro was finally landed in the jail, which is now sur- rounded by an angrymob of White sol- diers clamoring for his blood. The feeling. is intense and moré'trouble is * feared. Yet. Revenue Producing Qualities of H. Garrard, a volunteer 4 PREPARING ‘FDRCENSUS Believei Thit a. Bill. Wm 30°11‘73" . J ,tf.. .. . .z..- ‘ “31;. .‘- . '30 loads a Commissirsgippointed to Give President Mom-slay Information, ‘ 'New York, Nov. 22.——Major General Calixto Garcia, until recently comman— der of the Department of tlfe East or the Cuban army, arrived yesterday from Havana on the steamer Seguran- ca, at the head of the commission ap- pointed by the mllitary assembly. ~Three members of the commission accompanied General Garcia—General Jose Miguel Gomez (not a.relative of Maximo Gomez), Colonel Gonzales La- nuza and Lieutenant Colonel J. R. Vil- lalon. General Miguel Sanguilly, the fifth commissioner, arrived in this city two days ago. There was a. great crowd of Cubans and their friends at Pier No. 17 when the Seguranca docked. General Gar- cia’s two sons, Captain Justo Garcia and Ezequiel Garcia,- were there to meet=their father. When the tall form of General Garcia appeared at the top of the gang plank the Cubans on‘the pier set up a rous- ing cheer and the old campaigner re- moved his broad-brimmcd soft hat with a graceful gesture. He no sooner set his foot ori the pier than he was sur- rounded and embraced by a score of friends and relatives. General Garcia presented a striking picture. His hair and moustache was as white as snow, and his face is bronzed, bringing out into striking re- lief the great scar in the center of his forehead, an honorable relic of the ten years' war. He was dressed in civilian clothes, the only sign that his vocation had been one of war rather than peace be- ing the soft campaign hat and a long overcoat which might have belonged to a military uniform. A crowd of two hundred Cubans, men and women, followed the general off the pier. They didnot want to let him get out of their sight. Finally his sons carried him off to his home, No. 165 Lenox avenue, where he will remain until he is ready to go to Washington. Anti-Cigarette Law Stands. Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 22.——The antl- cigarette law passed by the last Ten- nessee legislature is declared constitu- tional in an opinion given to the press by Judge Caldwell of the supreme court of the state. The opinion declares that cigarettes are not legitimate articles of com- merce, because they are wholly nox- ious and deleterious to health, and therefore are not within the provision of the federal constitution protecting legitimate commerce. ' Kansas Cattle Dying. Topeka, Kansas, Nov. 22.—Informa- tion comes to the live stock sanitary board that cattle in many sections of Central Kansas are dying from eating frostbitten oats. The voluntary growth in the fields was very rank, and whenever stock was turned on the oat stu'bble death resulted. Scores of cattle have died from the poison and the live stock sanitary board is warning the farmers against the danger. Blizzard in Kansas. Topeka, Kan, Nov. 22,—Kansas is experiencing a genuine western bliz- zard. Sleet began falling shortly be— fore midnight Sunday, which later on turned to snow. A high wind is blow- ing, drifting the snow badly. Trains on all the railroads are being delayed. The thermometer has fallen over thirty degrees in twenty-four hours. Cattle are suffering severely and in some localities the coal supply is in- sufficient. ' Dewey Says Keep the Whole. Montpelier, Vt., Nov. 22.—President Brown of Norwich University has re- ceiVed a personal letter from Admiral Davey under date of October 3, in which the admiral says: “I trust the entire archipelago will be retained by the United States. Any other arrangement will lead to no end of trouble.” Rush Orders on Warships. Boston, Mass, Nov. 21.—Rush orders for the war vessels now being repaired at the Charlestown navy yard have been received at that place. Three vessels, the double turreted monitor Amphi-trite, the cruiser De- troit and the gunboat Castine were specially mentioned in the order. Bits ofNews. The war has decided to visit Montauk Point on Wednesday. The business section of the town of Perry, 1a., suffered a fire loss of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars on Monday morning. Attorney General Griggs has decide-d that a person may draw money on a check without a stamp, provided the check be payable to himself from his own funds. ' Fire in John P. Squire 8n Company’s lard manufactory at Cambridge, Mass. ' caused a property loss of eighty thou- sand dollars and many firemen were injured. The customs receipts for one hundred and forty days of the pggsent fiscal year amounted to $73,340,429, or a little Imore‘ than the promised rate of $500,- 000 a day, under the new tariff law. _ Captain General Blanco received from Paris yesterday a cable dispatch authorizing him to draw on Paris for plied to the payment of the Spanish troops in Cuba. John W. Parsons of New York city has been elected general master work- man of the Knights of Labor. He' is president of the National Association of Letter Carriers and has been promi- nent in labor affairs. The Royal Geographical Society of London has issued an appeal for funds to fit out an Antartic expedition. Al- fred Harmsworth, proprietor of the London Daily Mail, and the Evening News, has. offered 5,000 pounds for the expedition. ‘ Agoncilla, the agent of~Agulnaldo, has declared in an interview in Lon- don that' the Filipinos would never again submit to the yoke of a. colonial government, and that his instructions were to demand recognition of the in-_ dependence of the islands. ,1 investigating commission .for miles north of and parallel 'two million dollars in gold, to be ap—. fire. *— .. . fl... Be Taken Up. HYDE MAY ISUPEEINTEND ‘: The Present Statistician of the Agricultural Department Likely to Have Charge of the Work. The Twelfth Census Not Like- ly to Include All the Classifications Con-3 taincd in the Eleventh. \Vashington, D. 0., Nov. 22.-—Al- . though the appropriation bills will en- gage the attention of the House dur-b ing the first few weeks of the coming session, it is the general opinion here that a bill authorizing the taking of the twelfth census will be under con- sideration before the New Year. This matter was put off from day to day during the last session and de- spite the urgent appeals of those 211-- terested in the work, no action was taken by both houses on it. During the closing days of that ses- sion, however, a. bill directing the com- ‘ pilation of the next census and making» provision for its administration, pas- sed the Senate and went over to the House. Speaker Reed appointed a. large and powerful special committee, with Con- gressman Hopkins of Illinois as its chairman, to take charge of the Senate bill. Chairman Hopkins has given notice that he intends to get his associates in session early in December for the pur- pose of considering the Senate meas- ure, and the chances are excellent for . its passage by both branches of Con- ,. gress in January or February. If this programme is followed out. the president will have an opportunity to appoint the superintendent and start the census work as soon as the pre— 4 liminaries were begun about ten years ago. The last act authorizing the taking of the census was approved by the president March 1, 1889, and the ap- pointment of Robert Porter as super- intendent was made on April 20. President McKinley asked Mr. Porter to take charge of the work this cen— sus, but he declined. It is believed to be practically set- tled that the twelfth census will not include all the classifications of statis~ tics compiled for the eleventh census. There was no end of charges that, un- necessary work was done ten ,years ago, and that much of the data/gath- ered at great expense was perfectly useless. _-‘ There were innumerable divisions of the various branches, and," many of these are to be dropped with the com- ing work. - , There are already a number of can- didates for superintendent in the field, prominent among whom is Jo‘lrn Hyde, statistician of the agricultural.‘ de- partment. ‘- Mr. Hyde was a the last census and has practically en- tire charge of collecting the population figures. He outlined the system to be followed by the enumerators in the big cities and in the country districts, and planned the classification of the’ re- turns at the headquarters in Wash- ington. ' Mr. Hyde is, from Nebraska, and it is understood that he has the solid sup- port of the senatorial and congressio- nal delegation from that state in his candidacy for the position of superin- tendent of the next census. He has also been assured that he will be in- dorsed by a large number of other western senators and representatives for the place. - 5: Marsh W’ants to Plead Guilty. Philadelphia, Nov. 22.—The trial of Gideon W. Marsh, the former presi- dent of the. wrecked Keystone Bank, will probably begin on next Mon- day. The.November term of the United States district court began yesterday»: and there was a chance that Marsh would be arraigned to plead to the five indictments against him, a possibility‘ that drew a very large crowd to the court house. , There is no doubt that the returned fugitive desires to plead guilty if he can be assured of a light sentence, The maximum punishment for Marsh’s crime is twenty-two years’ imprison- ment. The minimum is eleven years. If Marsh will consent to divulge the names of the men who profited by the Keystone Bank frauds and who have never been punished, it is possible that he may be let off with a light sen- tence. A Fire Thirteen Miles Long. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 22.—-A special from Macomb, Mo., says: The largest and most destructive conflagration that has swept the Ozark mountains since' 1884 is now circumscribing this town with the Memphis railroad. The autumn heavy foliage has rap—. idly fallen since frost and the fire is supposed to have been started from sparks from freight engines yesterday afternoon. A scope of country thirteen miles long is in flames, miles of fences, or- chards, plantations, farms and dry pasture fields, stocked with cattle and otheranimals, and many old settlers’ homes lie directly in the path .of the The residents find themselves to:- tally unable to check the spread of the flames. For a. New Silk Plant. . New Haven, Conn., Nov. 22.—-The silk firm of J. B. Martin & Co., of Ly—j ens, France, has 'substantially decided to establish a large branch at Nor- wich, Conn. ‘ The company has a capital of five. million dollars and employs three thousand hands. A town meeting at Norwich on Sat- urday night last voted to relieve the projected enterprise from local taxa- tion for ten years and to give one thousand dollars to a. local "construc- tion company which is to be formed _ .to buy water power and supply .55 I plant. . ' ~ - -l... .. -.._.. ._.......d’... ‘ Before this committee could be 3 called together, however, Congress had 4... ' adjourned. ’ ~ r chief of division in ‘- 0 .5 l
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