THE EVENING GAZ.E TTE.
PENSION LEGISLATION.
I Much of the Senate’s Time Was Taken
Up With Private Bills.
CONTENTION or MR. MORGAN
He Declares That Congress Is Not'Now
and Has Not Been Legally In Ses-
sion—0n the Tarifl‘ Schedules
Again—Capital Chitchat.
Washington, June 30.——Several hun-
dred pension bills were reported to the
senate today as the result of the first
meeting of the pension committee since
the present congress assembled. Mr.
Gallinger (N. H.), chairman of the
committee, stated the it had been de-
cided to report favorably all those bills
which had formerly passed either
branch of congress or had been favor-
ably considered in committee.
Three general pension bills were in—
cluded, two of them amending the law
of 1890 and another referring to proof
in pension cases.
It took half an hour to read the list
of private pension bills. When it was
concluded, Mr. Morgan (Ala.) com-
mented on the fact that the men and.
women named in these bills must wait
for relief owing- to the inaction of. one
of the branches of congress. At this
time congress was without the oppor-
tunity or liberty to pass one of these
pension bills. Congress was not even
in session, asserted Mr. Morgan. The
lawyers of the country would look into
this question, and there was a great
deal of trofible ahead over this ques-
tion of congress being in session.
At first Mr. Morgan urged the adop-
tion of a resolution postponing all ac-
tion on pension bills until next Decem—
ber, but he was dissuaded from this,
saying his main desire was to call the
attention of pensioners to the manner
in which they were mocked by having
bills reported to an inactive congress.
Tariff Bill Taken Up.
The tariff bill was then taken up and
paragraph 189, relating to watch move-
ments, clocks, etc.. perfected by strikr
ing out the clauses on watches and on
jewels for making watches and confin—
ing the paragraph to those articles not
made of china, porcelain, etc.
The foregoing changes were made to
the original house paragraph. They led
to extended opposition from Mr. Vest
and Mr. Jones (Ark.), who protested
against the heavy duties on articles of
prime necessity.
Mr. Lodge (Mass) answered that the
watch industry had been revolutionized
by American machinery. We made
watches so much better and cheaper
that no handmade watch could com-
pete with them. Now the Swiss makers
had bought American machinery, and
operated it with comparatively cheap
labor. Mr. Lodge exhibited Swiss
watches which purported to be of
American make, and as such were in-
vading the American market.
Mr. Hoar (Mass), after reviewing the
growth of the American watch indus-
try, predicted that the proposed duties
would give the American market better
American watches and in time at a
reduction of 50 or 60 per cent of present
prices.
Mr. Gear (1a.) showed a Japanese
watch purporting to be of American
make produced by cheap Japanese la-
bor and selling for 88, while the Ameri-
can watch of the same kind could not
be produced for less than $17.
After further debate the paragraph
was agreed to with the changes noted,
36—26.
- Postmaé'ters Appointed.
Washington, June 30.——-The fourth
class postmasters appointed today were:
Pennsylvania——Emmans, U. H. Wiand;
New Hamburg, F. B. Hum; Vallonia,
Harry Star; Washingtonboro, F. G.
Charles.
New York—Ballston Lake, A. H. Cut-
ler;‘ Garoga, I. M. Everest; Hurleyville,
C.V.Tyler: Neperan, Alfred Cox; North
Greece, Henry C. Phelps; Vail Mills,
Edward Vosburgh.
Drank Themselves Blind.
Washington, June 30.—The Indian
agent at the La Point agency, in Wis-
consin, has reported two singular cases
of blindness. The victims were John
Sky and Red Otter. They got intoxi-
cated by drinking essence of pepper-
mint, one taking almost ten ounces
clear. In each case blindness followed
within a few hours.
Against Bidwell’s Appointment.
Washington, June 30.—A delegation
of' prominent New York Republicans,
consisting of General Anson G. McCook,
William Brookfield, Van R. Cruger and
Robert J. Wright, called on the presi-
dent today to protest against the ap-
pointment of George R. Bidwell, the
organization candidate for collector of
the port.
The President to Go to Canton.
Washington, June 30.+—The president
today definitely decided to go to his old
home at Canton, 0., on'Friday to visit
his mother for a few days. Mrs. Mc—
Kinley, Miss Mabel McKinley and prob—
ably Assistant Secretary of State and
Mrs. Day will accompany him.
One Day’s Government Receipts.
Washington, June 30.—National bank
notes received for redemption, $263, 034;
government receipts from internal rev-
enue, $376, 553; customs, $1, 384 .769; mis-
cellaneous, $11, 397.
Disappearance of a Chicago Professor.
Chicago, June 30.4
chancellor of the Spanish consulate in
Chicago, and professor of Spanish in
the Berlitz School of Languages in the
Auditorium, has mysteriously disap-
peared from his home, taking with him
35, 000 and leaving his Wife of less than
a year destitute. Mrs. Torre reported
'the disappearance of her husband to
the police, and said she was firmly of
the opinion that he had been accom—
panied in“ his flight by one of his young
. woman pupils. '
Two Men Faint In Court.
New York, June 30. -—-Max Blum, the
aged firebug, pleaded guilty of arson in
the third degree before Justice Furs-
man today, and imnmdiately threw up
his hands and fell in a faint. His son
who stood beside him, fainted also.
Great excitement and disorder followed.
Men and women shouted and a rush
\was made to the door. Court officers
lamon Torre, '
GIRL A TRAIN WREGKBR?
Fannie Taylor Charged With Placing 01;-
structions on the Track.
Providence, June 30.—Fannie Taylor,
19, was arrested today at Slocumville,
near hereqon a charge of train wreck-
ing. She is thought to be crazy.
Since last Tuesday night five sepa-
rate attempts have been made to wreck
the postal express train that passes
Slocumville at 12: 55 o ’cl.ock A peculiar
feature of: the case is that the ob-
structions have all been placed on the
track at practically the same point,
and on four occasions apparently un-
der the very eyes of the patrolmen.
The railroad officials became seriously
alarmed on Saturday, and Deputy Sher-
iff Wilcox was put in charge of the
case. He began by sending one of his
men to watch the cabin of a farmhand
who lives back in the woods about half
a mile from the point where the several
attempts to Wreck the train had been
made. While the section hands were
patrolling the track the night after the
first attempt to derail the train the sec-
tion boss, Myron Plimpton, had seen
the man’s 19- --year -old daughter on the
track near the place where the train
subsequently crashed through a pile of
fence rails. On Saturday night the
sheriff’s man saw the girl leave the
house. Later on, in spite of all this
watching, rails were again found on
the tracks within 100 feet of the place
where the. former attempts had been
made.
The girl, it seems, has agted queerly
for some time, and her mind is appar—
ently affected. The one definite at-
tempt on which the suspicions against
her are based—that of her being found
on the tracks at a very unusual hour—
is in part discounted by the statement
that she has long been in the habit of
roaming the woods at unseasonable
hours.
The postal express is run for the ac-
commodation of the government and
the express companies. It is made up
of three postal cars and from three to
six express cars. Valuable express mat-
ter. the exchange of the banks, to say
nothing of the registered mail matter,
are said to make it, of all trains on the
road, the. one that wreckers would be
likely to attempt to reach.
The point where the attempts to ditch
the train have been made is about 600
yards north of Slocumville station,
about midway between Slocumville sig—
nal tower and Kingston Hill crossing.
The road here passes through a narrow
cut and stretches away on either hand
for six or seven miles in an almost
straight line. The low hills in this vi-
cinity are crowded with a dense, low
trable.
MAY RECALL WEYLER.
Spain’s Attitude In the Pending Negotia-
tions For Peace. ..
London, June 30.—The Pall Mall Ga-
zette this afternoon prints the following
dispatch from its correspondent at
Madnid: '
“Public attention is engrossed by the
appointment of General Stewart L.
Woodford as United States minister to
Spain. While the government continues
to repudiate the intention of recalling
General Weyler, I am in a position to
reiterate that his recall will be an ac-
complished fact at no distant date. I
learn that in all probability Generals
Blanco and Macris will proceed to the
island and divide the supreme com-
mand, and I have good reason to be-
lieve that coincident with the arrival
here of General Woodford Marshal
Campos will proceed upon his separate
mission to Cuba.
“In accordance with the wishes of
President McKinley, Campos should be
the executor of any arrangements pos-
sibly reached between Spain and the
United States. Intimate friends of Senor
Canovas del Castillo, however, declare
the premier will strenuously oppose
autonomy. Castelar, the Liberal lead-
er, is also opposed to'anything of the
kind. They both consider that such a
concession- would render it very diffi-
cult to maintainNSpanish sovereignty.
“The report that the United States
will i‘esist upon autonomy and the with—
drawal of the Spanish troops, and that
otherwise it will intervene by force, if
necessary, does not make for a peace-
ful solution, and the position is regard—
ed throughout Spain with considerable
anxiety.”
DYNAMITE IN SOUTH SCRANTON.
A Business Block and Twenty Other
Houses Were Injured.
Scranton, Pa., June 30.—-A dynamite
explosion early this morning in South
Scranton blew up the business block of
Leon Olchefski, a double dwelling house
owned by him and a single house owned
by Michael O’Hara. The business
block, a two story building, was torn
to pieces.
Twenty other houses had all the win-
dows blown out and plaster torn from
the walls. The shock was felt all over
the city. The total loss willereach $25,-
000.
The cause of the explosion is un-
known, but Olchefski places its perpe-
tration upon enemies he made during
political and church disputes in that
section, he being one of the principals
in troubles which led to a split in the
Polish Roman Catholic congregation.
Olchefski was seriously injured in sav-
ing his wife, and his recovery is doubt—
ful.
Following the explosion the wrecked
building took fire, but the flames were
kept from spreading. The infant child
of Michael Joyce'was dangerously in-
jured and a little son of John Klein
almost suffocated.
A Kentucky Bank Case.
" Louisville, June 30.—In the case of
one of the stockholders of the failed
Louisville Deposit bank against the
German National bank. John G. Car-
llsle, ex-secretary of the treasury. ap-
peared for the receiver .of the failed
bank, asking to be made a party to the
suit. This was resisted unsuccessfully by
the plaintiff’s attorney, the court grant-
ing an order in' favor of Mr. Carlisle's
client.
Theodore A. Figel Arrested.
San Francisco-June 30.—Theodore A.
Figel was arrested on four charges of
felony and embezzlement. preferred by
E. S. Rothschild, partner of the late
Isaac Hoffman, and released on $12,000
bail, furnished byhis father’and mother.
Great Coal Strike Threatened.
Pittsburg, June 30.-——Notwithstanding
the denials of the local officials of the
Miners' association, an afternoon paper
.states that the national officers of the
union will tomorrow order a coal strike
in five states. involving 126,000 men.
growth of trees that is almost impene- -
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