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_- BUt’if Japan Demands Too Much China
' , 4 Will Continue to “Fight.”
DUPLICITY-OF THE CHINESE.
I‘ Mr. Denby Has Been Annoyed by It—Li
Hung Chang' Seems to Have Again Got
. Into the Emperor’s Good Graces.
He Has Accepted the Mission.
LONDON, Feb. 28.——A Central News dis-
patch from Peking says that an interview
was obtained with Prince Kung at the
close of the meeting of the privy council
in that city, his fellow councilors remain-
ing and acquiescing in what the prince
said, .
Prince Kung remarked that Japan had
seized Korea and made the Korean trou-
bles a pretext for war. The disputes, how-
ever, could easily have been settled peace-
ably. He admitted that China had faults,
. that the war had been managed unwisely
and that some of her officers were unfit
and incompetent. For these disadvantages
China must sufier.
He expressed himself as ignorant of
what Japan wanted or why she was fight-
ing. Upon being told that Japan probably
wanted possession of the territory she had
conquered, together with 400, 000. 000 taels
indemnity, Prince Kung said he ques—
» tioned very seriously whether it would be
possible for her to make such a. claim,
adding: “China standsupon principle and
Japan upon power. China knows that she
is weak from a military point of view and
has therefore concluded that her only op-
tion is to sue for peace. She has sent en- '
voys fer that purpose to consult with rep-
resentatives of Japan and to agree to pay
indemnity. China’s purpose is sincere. If
Japan will meet her in a friendly spirit,
the conclusion of peace will be possible.
If her demands are exorbitant, China will
continue to fight.”
This Is Really Funny.
Replying to the suggestion that China
must expect continued defeats, Prince
Kung put these queries:
”Can Japan overrun all of our provinces?
Will heaven permit it? Will the other na-
tions acquiesce in it?”
“If China is wrong,” he continued, “ she
is willing to suffer. ”
The foregoing utterances of Prince Kung
undoubtedly express the general sentiment
of the council. It was the dowagcr em-
press and Prince Kung who nominated Li
Hung Chang as peace envoy, the other
members of the council agreeing to the ap-
pointment. ‘
A Central News dispatch from Peking
says that United—States Minister Denby is
greatly annoyed at the duplicity exhibited
by the Tsungli Yamen in the matter of is-
suing credentials to the late peace envoys
to Japan.
The Times this morning prints a dis-
patch from Chefu saying that documents
found at Wei-Hai-Wei show that .Admiral
Ting wisely decided to dismantle the main~
land forts as a source of weakness, but he
was overruled. He afterward determined
to die fighting. but his captains refused to
support him. The Japanese looted but lit-
tle and committed no atrocities.
Li Seems to Be In Favor.
LONDON, Feb. 28.—A dispatch to The
Times from Peking says that Li Hung
Chang has been received three times in
audience by the emperor of China, who
treated him graciously. It is added that
the viceroy has accepted the mission of go-
ing to Japan in order to negotiate for peace
with that country.
A Typical Mexican Mine.
PITTSBURG, Feb. 28.~—Thc entire inter-
ests and holdings of the Le Noria Silver
Mining company in Mexico have been sold
at auction to Frank Osburn of this city
for $500. Mr. Osburn is attorney for
W. I. Mustin, who is the real purchaser.
The stock was mainly held by Pittsburg-
ers, who, from 1885 to 1891, paid nearly
$500,000 to keep the mines going and
any/:- rpmaiyed a cent in return.
A GREAT MANY CHILDREN
--have been cured of scrofula and
other skin diseases—as
well as thousandsk of
rown eo 1e, b ta in
til/I gr. PierIde’spGoldhn Medg-
.I '3 ical Discovery. Every dis-
' \ (3 order that can be reached
. ’ through the blood, yields to
its purifying qualities. Be-
, sides, it builds up wholesome
h and strength ; . not
,, merely fat like God liver
. .' oils. A scrofulous con-
_\ dition of the blood in-
' "_ vites Catarrh, Bronchi-
' tis and Consumption.
We’re. all exposed to
. the germs of consump-
‘ tion, grip, or malaria—
yet only the weak ones
suffer. _ When you’re
' weak, tired out, and de-
bilitated, or when pimples
and blotches appear—heed
the warning in time. The “ Discov- .
ery” sets all the organs into healthy
action—especially the liver, for that’s
the point of entrance for these
germs, then if the blood is pure,
they’ll be thrown off. There’s no
risk. If it fails to benefit or cure in
all cases of impure blood or inactive
liver, your money is returned.
, .The We'll/10' the situation
fi’ --eif ou' suffer from Ca-
tarrh, you’ll find in Dr.
~ .Sage’s Remedy. No mat-
_ ter how bad your case may
be, the proprietors of the
, medicine promise to pay
. " , ’$500 if they can’t cure
" you. You’re cured. or you’re paid.
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GORMAN’S BIG SPEECH
He Argued In Favor of His Certificates
of Indebtedness.
BTARTLING FIGURES GIVEN.
According to Them, Secretary Carlisle’s
Statement-That He Will Have a Surplus
at the Year’s End Is 3. Mistake.
\Vork of the House.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-—After working
until midnight the senators were slow in
arriving today, and only a .dozen were on
hand when consideration of the sundry
civil bill was resumed. After agreeing to
an amendment granting Henry Talbot,
clerk of the house ways and means com-
mittee, $2, 000 for assisting the senate
finance committee in its tariff work last
fall, Mr. Wolcott suggested the absence of.
a quorum. It was sometime before the
necessary number put in an appearance.
An amendment was agreed to appropriat-
ing $25,000 for a hospital at Fort Meade,
S. D., to take the place of the one recently
burned. This cleared the way for the long
impending contest over the financial
amendment to the sundry civil bill. It is
at the close of the bill and provides an is-
sue of $100, 000, 000 of certificates of indebt-
edness of small denominations bearing 3
per cent interest in order to meet deficien-
cies in the treasury.
“I make a point of order against this
financial amendment on the ground that
it is general legislation, ” said Mr. Berry
(Dem., Ark.)
Mr. Hill (Dem., N. Y.) offered a further
amendment that hereafter all treasury
notes and Unit-ed States notes when pre-
sented to the treasury shall not be reis-
sued, but shall be canceled.
Mr. Mills (Dem., Tex.) rose to suggest
that the point of order was of such impor-
tance in determining the whole question
that he hoped the presiding officer would
submit the question to the senate.
Efforts were made to have Mr. Berry
temporarily withdraw the point of order,
as it cut off debate on the merits of the
proposition and in particular a speech
which had been awaited with much inter-
est by Mr. German, the sponsor for the
financial amendment.
A Beautiful Tangle.
Mr. Hill sought to speak in explanation
of his amendment, but Mr. Mills insistcd
on the rule and an immediate decision on
the point of order. Mr. Hill continued
speaking, however. He said the amend-
ment for certificates of indebtedness and
for bonds was clearly general legislation
and contrary to the settled rule'that gen-
eral legislation could not be added to ap-
propriation bills. If these propositions
were not ruled out, then the senate was
launched on asca of discussion—on certifi-
cates, bonds, greenbacks, etc—for the next
week. .
Mr. Hill was interrupted with frequent
suggest-ions that debate was out of order.
There was considerable disorder, and the
vice president finally requested the ser-
geant-at-arms to see that order was pre-
served.
The vioe president was about to decide
the point of order and had begun the first
sentence when Mr. Mills interrupted:
” Does the chair decline to submit the ques-
tion to the senate? It is not only custom-
ary, but it is the rule that questions of or-
der shall be submitted to the senate. ”
The presiding officer paused in his deci-
sion. Then he said: /
“In view of the remarks of the senator
from Texas the question will be submitted
to the senate. ” He then directed a roll
call and again called on the sergeant~at~
arms with a sufiicient force to maintain
order.
By a singular parliamentary situation
the order for the vote made the amend-
ment subject to debate, and Mr. Gorman
addressed the senate. He said it had be-
come evident that there was to be no finan-
cial relief unless it was made a part of an
appropriation bill. He regretted that it
had not come as an independent measure
from a co-ordinatc branch of the govern-
ment, but such action had not been taken,
and the plain question now was, Is it nec-
essary that the treasury of the United
States should have this legislation?
On the point of order Mr. German said
the same question had been raised two-
years ago, and the senate had voted 28 to
18 that a bond amendment could go on an
appropriation bill. He desired to restrict
the question to the simple needs of the
treasury and not to go into a broad dis-
cussion of currency and financial questions.
Mr. Wolcott hcrc interrupted with the
query, “Has the secretary of the treasury
notified the senate that he does not want
such legislation as this?”
Mr. GormanSpeaks.
“That is the whole question, ” respond-
ed Mr. German, “and if the senator will
permit me I will, in my own crude way,
present the question of the treasury’s nec-
essities.
”Is the treasury in such condition that
it can provide for the wants of the govern-
ment?” asked Mr. German. “Are the rev-
enues coming in sufficient to meet the ex-
penditures and ,the appropriations we are
making? If our actual expenditures are
greater than our receipts, we cannot afford
to adjourn until we meet this emergency
unless congress wants more bonds sold to
meet our obligations.” Mr. German then
unfolded an elaborate table of financial
figures. He said the answers made by the
secretary of the treasury in response to in-
quiries by the senate were on their face
somewhat misleading, showing littlezcause
for fear of deficiency, but an analysis of
these figures presented a far less hopeful
aspect. Mr. German then turned his at-
tention to the figures. On July 1, 1890,
we had to begin with $89,993,104. Since
then our total receipts had been $1,590,-
481,836. In the same time our total ex-
penditures were $1,737, 290,560, showing
I total excess of expenditures over receipts
in round numbers of $146, 000, 000.
He then took up the expenditures by
fiscal and calendar years and the payments
of the proceeds from $106, 000, 000 of bonds.
The secretary of the treasury had infermed
the senate, said Mr. German, that he
would have sufficient revenue for this cal-
endar year. But this was misleading, as
the ~government accomts werg madc'fpr
,Norwalk, 001111., Thursday Evening, February 28, 1895.
EScar, not calendar, years. That report by
the secretary of the treasm'y was so in-
volved that it would take an accountant
to understand it.
Some Telling Figures.
“I think I will be able to demonstrate, ”
said Mr. German earnestly, “that the sec-
retary of the treasury will have a deficiency
of $30, 000, 000 for the calendar year and
$60, 000,000 for the fiscal year.” Return-
ing to the figures, Mr. German said the
secretary’s reply to the senate stated that
there was $106,000,000 on hand available
to pay ordinary expenses. He (German)
knew this was a mistake, and he went to
the treasury and said to those who had
made up the figures: “Your figures are
misleading. You have made a mistake. ”
He called their attention to the fact that
they had omitted checks, drafts, etc., out-
standing. These had been included in the
monthly report. It disclosed that there
was actually $67,000,000 available. Here
was a mistake of about $30, 000, 000 to be-
gin with. Mr. German proceeded to item-
ize the immense sums due for rivers and
harbors, public buildings, etc. He also
took up the secretary’s estimates of re-_
ceipts he hoped to have. The secretary
estimated his total expenditures at $358,-
000,000. In 1893 the appropriations were
8507, 000,000 and already the house had ap.
propriated $374, 000, 000 for this year. The
senate will add $20, 000,000. The total will
be $390, 000, 000, and the senator said he
would stake his reputation that it would
reach $400, 000, 000. And yet the secretary,
of the treasury tells us his estimate for all
expenses this year is $358,000,000. What
was the cause of this error? The secretary
himself could not question the accuracy of
the foregoing figures.
“The truth is,” said Mr. Gorman, “that
they made a mistake about a year ago in
making up their balances of $60, 000,000,
and they have been trying to adhere to it
ever since. ”
There had been scares befOre. Eight
years ago Secretary of the Treasury Man:
ning had been panic stricken as to going
to a silver basis and had sent a telegram
to the senate that we would be on a silver
basis in 30 days, but the fear was not real-
ized. Mr. German related how President
Cleveland’s first administration had read-
ily raised gold without going to the money
kings, but there was a surplus then, and
with that gone there was not this easy
means of meeting expenses.
Mr. Mills (Dem., Tex.) followed with a
strong criticism of the issuing of bonds.
He spoke of the public abhorrence of a na-
tional debt.
In the House.
The house met at 11 o’clock today. The
speaker laid before the house the presi-
dent’s veto of the bill to pension Eunice
Putnam.
Mr. Cockrcll (Dem., Tex.) moved eon—
currence in the senate amendment to the
joint resolution prohibiting the importa-
tion of goods in bond from the United
States through the free zone of Mexico.
Mr. Crain (Dem., Tex.) vigorously op-
posed concurrence in the amendment which
struck out the provision limiting the pro-
hibition to any point between the western
boundary of the cit) of Laredo, Tcx., and
the Pacific ocean. This amendment, he
declared, would in effect prohibit the im-
portation of goods through the United
States into Mexico unless the latter coun-
try abolishcd the free zone. But 12 ,per
cent of the goods remained in the free zone,
and he repelled with vigor the slander that
this zone was the abiding place of smug—
glers and outlaws.
Mr. Cockrell’s motion was agreed to.
Mr. O’Neil (Dem., Mass.) presented the
conference report on the pension appropri-
ation bill. An agreement had been reach-
ed, he explained, on all points.
The Alleged Episode at Colon.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.———Ncithcr the
state nor navy department had any news
today concerning the reported injury of an
American vessel by a British warship at
Colon. It is suggested that if an Ameri-
can vessel were injured, as reported, it
possibly may have been the result of an
accident. The matter will be investigated.
~ For a. hIonument to Benham.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.———Reprcsentative
Bartlett (N. Y.) has introduced a bill ap-
propriating $10,000 for the erection of a
monument in memory of the late Com-
mander Timothy Green Benham at Rich-
mond, Staten Island, N. Y.
A \Vel'l.' Known Jurist Dead.
SALEM, Mass, Feb. 28.——-I.rincoln Flagg
Brigham, cx-chief justice of the superior
court, died at his home here today. He
was born in Cambridge Oct. 4, 1819, and
was admitted to the Bristol county bar in
1845. In 1854 he was appointed district
attorney for the southern district of Mas-
sachusetts. During Governor Bank’s ad-
ministration hc was appointed on the su-
perior benclsland was made chief justice in
1869.
Money Awaits an Heir.
. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 28.-—The estate of
Sarah Toomey or Shea in New York,
valued at $50,000, awaits the claim of the
dead woman’s son. He came to California
15 years ago and worked on ranches in
various parts of the state. For the last few
years no word has been received from him.
Mrs. Toomey was supposed to be poor, but
had evidently been saving her pennies.
Efforts are being made to trace the boy.
For a. Big-Iron Trust.
SHEFFIELD, England, Fob. 28.——The
Telegraph publishes the draft of a Scheme
proposing to 200 iron firms of South York-
shire, Lancashirc, Dcrbyshlro, Stafford,
Worcester and Shropshire to form an or-
ganization to be known as the Midland
Iron Trade association, and which will
regulate the prices of all classes of manu-
factured iron. Heavy fines will be imposed
for breaches of agreement.
Afflicted with-Rheumatism.
Mr. Geo..,A.. Mills, . of Lebanon, Conn,
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my backallolast'iwzinter. It Was ‘so severe
at times that I could not stand upfstraight,
but~ 'w'hs drawn ’ov‘er on one side. ._,I tried
different remediés'fi‘hvithout receiving any
relief until I boughta bottle of Chamberlain’s
Pain Balm. After using it for three days,
according to directions, my rheumatism was
gone and has not returned since. Ii have
since recommended. it’to others and'know
they have been benefited by its use. 7 For
sale by Gregory & Co.
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