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SEARLES ON THE STAND
Ho Tells About His Talk With Secre-

tary Corlisle.

MR. LODGE’S WOOL SPEECH.

The Massachusetts Senator Makes a Vigor‘
Gus Attack on the “7001 Schedule
In the Tariff Bill—The Presi-
dent‘s Outing.

WASHINGTON, J une 15.——In his testi-
mony given before the senate Sugar trust
investigating committee John E. Senr‘les,
secretary and treasurer of the American
Sugar refinery, told of an interview he
had had with Senator Jones in his com-
mittee room at the capitol on a. Sunday.
He said he had met Jones there by ap—
pointment, because Jones wished to in
quire as to the effect of this schedule, and
as to whether there was any way in which
it could be improved to make it more
equitable “Senator Jones understood
from my previous conversation with him
that this schedule was defective, I think,
and I judge that this interview was with
the view to see whether it was possible to
make it in any way more equitable, and
yet not to change it. ”

Senator Gray—What was the schedule
suggested by you to improve it in that
way? -
\Vhat Sear-103 Suggested.

Mr. Scarles—Thc schedule as prepared
by the committee provided that on sugar
testing not above 80 per cent there should
be a duty of 1 cent per pound; that there
should be then on sugar testing from SC
to 90 degrees one one-hundredth of a cent
additional for each degree; from 90 to 95
two one—hundredths, and on all sugar
above 96 1.40 cents. I explained to Sena-
tor Jones th :1“; they were putting the least
difference per degree on the lower grades
of sugar where the difference in value was
greatest. He asked me to explain, and]
said:

"You have already studied this sugar
question sufficiently to know that the
commercial value of a. degree of sugar is
si:~;-hundrcdt~hs of a cent?" He said he
understood. .

"Very well, ” I said, ‘ you have alsc
found that (:11 a sugar testing 80 degrees
23.31 cents a pound is a. maximum price?"
He thought that was true.

“Very well.” I said, “if you tax a su
gar costing 21/; cents a. pound 1 cent, you
are taxing that sugar just 40 per cent,
aren‘t you?" He said, “Yes; that is 4C
per cent." Mr. Scarlcs followed out his
reasoning to show that the refined sugar
should have 1.60 instead of 1.40

“That is true, " Mr. Jones said, "but
our committce will not give more than
1.40 per hundred. The committee will not
tax refined sugar above 1.40. ”

I said: "The only other thing to do is
to begin with 80 degrees and tax that sug‘
ar at eight-tenths of a a cent. That-will
bring you to $1.40 on refined sugar.”

He replied: “Yes, but the Louisiana
senators will not take eight-tenths of a
cent for 80 degree sugar. They want a
cent protection on that. They have put in
a peg at 80 degrees a cent per pound; the
committee have put another on refined at
$1.40, and there we are.”

. He Saw Secretary Carlisle.

"Very well,” I said,“‘if that is the case,
you are simply guilty of putting before
the senate a schedule which is indefensi-
ble, according to your own admissions,
and it does not seem to me right that a
great industry like the sugar refining in-
dustry should be put in any such position
as that.” End With that our interview
closed.

Senator Gray—How does that differ, il
it does differ, from the present proposed
schedule of 40 per cent and an eighth dif-
forential?

Mr. Sear‘les—A difference of two—tenth:
of a cent in the raw sugar schedule be
tween 80 and 100. Under the present
schedule, whatever the value of raw sugar,
we pay 40 per cent on that.

Senator Lodge—Did you see Mr. szr-lisle
while you were lzerc?

Mr. S cries—I did. I called upon Mr.
Carlisle after learning from Senator Jones
that objections had been raised to the ad
valorem form of tariff because of the possi-
bility of fraud. I asked him whether in
his judgment such an arrangement of the
tariff would be objectionable to the trees-
ury department.

Senator Lodge—What was his reply?

Mr. Searlcs—I-lis reply was that he

thought it was not objectionable, in his
opinion; that, on the contrary, it would
be a perfectly safe form of collecting the
revenue. I would prefer the present sched-
ule to a schedule which carried 40 per
cent ad valorem on raw and 45 per cent
ad valorem on refined. I never had that
proposition, however, submitted to me by
anybody as possible.
_ Senator Lindsay—Is it to the interest
of the sugar refiners to have this bill take
effect at once in view of this fact, or to
postpone it until the 1st of January?

Mr. Scarles—My own personal View
would be that there would be nothing
gained by postponing it to the refiners,
but I have never considered it. I have
always supposed that that concession of
the 1st of January was for the benefit of
the producers of this country in order to
give them another year of bounty.

Senator Gray’—Did you make any such
claim upon the committee or upon any
senator that it should be postponed?

Mr. Searles—The question was suggest-
ed to me, I do not know by Whom, as tc
whether it would be an advantage to the
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indifferent to that matfar; that I judged
that it was in the interests of the Ameri-
can producers that we should not antag-
onize it at all. But I do not think it would
be of any benefit to our company.
McKinley Bill Better For the Trust.

Senator Allen—You may state briefly
what difference in your judgment there
is between the McKinley act and the pendi
lng act as the senate proposes to amend it,
or has amended it, to the American Sugar
Refining company—which is the better act
for you?

Mr. Searlcs—The McKinley bill by far.
I think by one-half. That is. I think the
protection in the margin to thercfiner in
the proposed schedule is not over one-half
of what it is in the McKinley bill.

Toward the close of the day’s session
Senator Allen said: "As a member offiihis
committee I insist that this witness, Mr.
Searlcs, and also the witness, Mr. Have-
meyer, shall be required to state the
amount of funds contributed by the Amer-

_ ican Sugar Refining company for political

purposes in the years 1892 and 1893, and
that upon failure to testify upon that sub-

ject they shall be reported to the senate as
other witnesses have been reported.”

Mr. Searles made no response to thl:~

statement, and the matter was not again
referred to before the committee adjourned
for the day.

The Sugar-trust Investigating commit.
tee will now begin to question senators,
and it is understood will have every mem-
ber of the senate before them before ceas-
ing this line of inquiry. The idea of the
committee is to have every senator answer
for himself as to whether he has boughl
or sold sugar stock, furnished informa-
tion concerning tariff legislation on sugar,
or has been in any way improperly influ~
enced in his official actions by the trust.
It is not known yet what senators will
be called first.

There was but one witness before the
committee today, and his examination
did not consume more than 15 minutes’
time. The witness was Charles Coster or
the firm of Drexel, Morgan 6‘; Co. of New
York, and he was summoned because 01
reports that his firm had bought and sold
large quantities of sugar stock. Mr. Cos-
ter said there was no foundation whatever
for this story, and that instead of having
handled large quantities of the stock they
had not dealt in it at all. He also said he
knew of no cpcculatlon in the stock by
senators nor of any effort. to influence
legislation in any manner by the Sugar
trust.

Lodge Speaks Against Free Wool.

WASHINGTON, J une lei—Some routine
business preceded the resumption of the
tarifi‘ debate in the senate today. Bills
were passed as follows: To pay Joseph
Redfern, one of the Ford theater victims,
$2,748; to authorize the appointment of
women as public school trustees in the
District of Columbia; for the development
and encouragement of silk culture in the
United States, under the supervision of
the secretary of agriculture. The last bill
was championed by Mr. Pefi‘er, its object
being to give the secretary of agriculture
authority to designate five agricultural
stations where experiments in silk culture
should be made.

A bill to pay the heirs of James Bridger
$6, 000 was also passed. A bill for the re-
lief of the heirs of John VVelghtman,
passed some time ago on' motion of Mr.
Quay (Rep, Pa.) was reconsidered and
recommitted. Then the tariff bill was laid
before the senate, and Mr. Lodge (Rep.,
Mass.) took the floor with an argument
against free wool.

Wool, Mr. Lodge said, ought to be the
first to receive and the last to lose the pro
tection of the government. For centuries
wool was regarded as the foundation of
England’s prosperity. In the time of
Elizabeth an act was passed by parliament
to prevent its exportation. The woolsack
on which the speaker of the house of com-
mons sits today was the symbol of the
source of Great Britain’s commercial and
financial reatness. Mr. Lodge proceeded
to cal at 'ention to the fact that in the
garly days of the republic the fostering of
the wool growing industry engaged the
attention of Washington and other states-
men not merely because it was regarded
as a useful industry, but because its pro-
duction and manufacture were considered
one of the greatest necessities of an inde-
pendent nation. Yet, he said, it was pro-
posed to destroy this vast industr in or-
der to furnish a valuable campaign cry
for the Democratic party. There was no
trust in wool raising. The growers of
sheep were widely scattered. They could
not concentrate their forces to come here
and secure protection fOr their products.

Mr. Lodge characterized the demand of
some of the woolen manufacturers for
free raw material as I.tterdy selfish and
short sighted. Moreover, he denied that
any large proportion Of the manufacturers
shared in this demand and produced rc-
solutions passed by the manufacturers of
New England in support of his statement.

Those who did desire free wool, he said,
.Were mainlyMugwumps and dilletante rc-

eformers. The events of the last 12 months
had caused even them to see the error of
their ways, and they were rapidly disap-
pearing. Mr. Lodge also protested against
the woolen schedule as inadequate for the
protection of the laborers inthe woolen
mills and read a number of petitions from
the New England operatives predicting
that the enactment of this schedule would
result in a reduction of their wages. Mr.
Lodge charged that Jacob Schoenhof, the
consul to Tunstall. England, under the
last Cleveland administration, had been
largely instrumental in framing the wool-
en schedule. Mr. Vest denied this. Mr.
Lodge said that a bill that placed fairly
protective duties on cotton goods and de-
stroys the woolen industry by withholding
justice to it was monstrous and indefensi-
le. Protection could be defended, he said,
u conclusion, free trade could be defended,
but a bi l of preference: was infamous.
Mr. Te ler (Rep, Colo.) followed Mr.
Lodge with some remarks in favor of a

dutv on raw wool.

To Stamp Out the Paar-one System.

WASHINGTON, J une 15.—The resolution
which passed regarding the padrone sys-
tem was introduced by Senator Chandler
after a. consultation with Baron Fava;
the Italian embassador, who has request-
ed the assistance of the United States gov.
ernment in stamping out the system_as
far as possible.

Presidential Postmaster-s.
WASHINGTON, June 15.-—The president
has nominated the following postmasters:
Frederick B. Clark, Moodus, Conn.; Fred-
erick E. Jacobs, North Haven, Conn.

The Philadelphia Mint she.
W'ASHINGTGN, J unc 15.-—Secretary Car'-
.lisle has decided not to take up the ques-
tion of a site for the Philadelphia mint

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Nota Dollar to Pay Millions In Debts.
DENVER, .I one 15.——L. C. Ellsworth,

assignee of Hum; h-rcy Chamberlain and.
the Chmnbcrlain Investmnnt company,-.

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Mumps BACK.

He Tells Why He Was Expelled From
the Knights. A

A SCORING FOE HAYES.

Mr. Powderly Says His Conviction Is That
His Enemies Are Seeking to Dis-
rupt the Order and Get All

Its Property. ‘

PHILADELPHIA, June 15.—Terence V.
Powderly, cx-general master workman of
the Knights of Labor, has issued for pri-
vate circulation among the members of
the order a statement containing the in-
side history of the movement which com-
pelled his voluntary retirement. It forms
a. pamphlet of 34 pages. Mr. Powderly
opened his statement with a. reference to
what he styles the well known misleading
character of the official report of the pro-
ceedings of the last session of the general
assembly in this city, as issued by Gener-
al Secretary-Treasurer John W. Hayes. In
a review of the circumstances leading up
to the events of last fall, which have prov-
ed so momentous to the Knights of Labor,
he refers to the candidacy of John O’Keefe
in 1892 against Mr. Hayes for the office
of general secretary-treasurer, which was
followed by Mr. O’Keefe’s discharge by
Hayes from his position in the general
office. Mr. O’Keefe’s complaint to the
general executive board brought to light
complaints from other general office om»
ployees, all members of the order, of being
watched, dogged and browbcaten.

Listening at Keylroles.

“They asked for redress, ” says Mr. Pow-
derly, “and tho gcneral executive board
then gave them a hearing in the gener-
al office. The grand secretary-treasurer,
who was present when the clerks and oth-
er employees were called, retired and re-
fused to be present at the hearing. The
statements made at the hearing were tak-
en down in shorthand and disclosed acon-
dition of affairs which gave the members
of the general executive board no little
uneasiness. Listening at keyholes, pick-
ing of pockets, watching each insignificant
move, reading of personal letters, and, in
fact, such practices as Would not be toler-
ated in any factory or other industrial in-
stitution in the land, were stated to be
of daily occurrence in the general office.

"When the general secretary-treasurer
was requsted by the board to abolish the
system of espionage which prevailed in the
office, he denied that any such condition
of affairs existed. We could not believe
that so many men and women would tes‘
tlfy to the same state of afi'airs were these
statements not true and endeavored to rea-
son the secretary-treasurer out of the de-
lusion that the employcosfl‘ere in need of
watching. When we pressed him too hard,
he said in substance: ,

“ ‘I have information that will damn
the whole of you. I can go to the world
with a statement that you are all engaged
in stock jobbing, land speculating, and in
every way neglecting the business of the
order for personal affairs. ’ When told that
that would not be true, he said: ‘It don’t
make a bit of difference. Once a lie is
told it will go, and I will lie whenever I
want to score a point.’ When I asked him
what he meant by stock jobbing, he said:
‘Oh, you are as bad as the rest. You are
in the Tintic mine scheme all right.’ ”

The Hayes Charges.

The statement continues with a disclos-
ure of incidents of spying upon the gen-
eral executive board itself and the prepar-
ation of a scandalous circular which Mr.
Hayes was about to send out to the order.
When his plans were discovered, his fur-
ther action in the matter was stopped by
threats of legal proceedings. This was
followed by the presentation by Mr. Hayes
of charges against Messrs. Powder-1y,
Wright and Devlin, all of the general ex-
ecutive board.

The charges were of malfeasance in
office, in having formed a league inside
the order called Governor; of entering in-
to a conspiracy to deprive him of his of-
fice; of using the funds of the order for
their own personal gain, of conspiring to
form a. land company at the expense of
the order; of receiving on their own ac-
count stock of a silver mine in return for
advertising in the official organ of the
order.

Individual charges were against Mr.
Powderly of having private printing done
at the expense of the order without pay-
ing for it; of defrauding the order out of
$1,000 in the sales of his book, “Thirty
Years of Labor, ” by putting out a. cheap
edition before the order could dispose of
copies of the high priced edition.

Mr. l-‘owdcrly’s Reply.

In reply to the first charge, Mr. Pow-
dcrly said that he helped, along with
Hayes himself, to establish the “Govern-
or," which was established “for the per-
petuation of the principles of the order and
no other organization on earth, ” and
Hayes remained silent “until his own ten-
ure of ofiice was threatened." '

The “land company” referred to, Mr.
Powderly says, was .the Homestead asso-
ciation, which has been reported on by
him in full in his annual address.

The “silver mine stock, ” Mr. Powderly
says, he has paid an assessment upon and
is ready to transfer it to the order “when
the order settles with me.” “I am not in:
terested in a silver or any other mine, ”
cpntinues he, “and am not now and never
have been a stockholder in any concern.”

In reply to the charge of having private
printing done for which he did not pay,
Mr. Powderly said, “Hayes has acknowl-
edged that the charge was false.”

Mr. Powderly answers the charge about
the “Thirty Years of Labor” by showing
that the $1,000 worth. of the high priced
edition had been bought by Hayes himself
almost a year after typesetting on the
cheap edition was begun in the printing
office of the order, then under direct super-
vision of General Secretary-Treasurer
Hayes.

In refutation of the charge of deception
in the matter of salary account Mr. Pow-
der-1y quotes from the official report of the
general assembly proceedings of last fall,
which showed that Hayes admitted that
his charge that the order’s funds had been
misappropriated was false.

Mr. Powderly says that "in his speech
on that occasion Hayes said:

“ ‘I always wanted to get rich. I want to
be rich, and I will get rich if I can. ’

“ ‘At another time, after explaining the
workings of a. gas scheme in which he is
engaged, he said:

“ ‘I am the manager, the treasurer and
the board of directors of the company. I
made $5,000 on it this morning, and I
have the money in my inside pocket now.’

And yet men could walk up to the desk
of thutanan after caucussing and voting

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to retain him in office and lay down a
piece of paper assigning reasons for voting
for my resignation, in which these words
occur, .He has engaged in private enter-
prrses.’

"I have answered for you the charges as
I answered them before the G. A. After
the answer was made a vote was passed
to vacate the Ofiices, and bad I been the
dishonest thing the G. S. T. charged me
with being I should not have been elected
again.”

Mr. Powderly then enters into a eulogy
of Hugh Cavanaugh, defeated for general
Worthy foreman, against whom no charges
had been made. He says: .

“He stood a man among men, and his
defect was a blistering, cowardly shame.

Money to Defeat His lie-election.

“When the St. Louis general assembly
was in session, ” continues the statement,
“J arnes Hughes told me that the national
Democratic committee had $5,000 there to
defeat me for re-elcction. At the banquet
given by the St. Louis locals that evening
James R. Sovereign wrote on a card and
handed it to me. From that card 11on be-
fore me I quote these words:

“ ‘There are $5,000 here from the east
to defeat your re-election. Say nothing.
It will fail.’

“In conversation he said he was posi-
tive that the statement was correct, and
that he knew who had the money.”

A degree of the order: called the “Phil-
osopher’s Stone,” of which there is no
written work, had been conferred by Uriah
S. Stephens, the founder of the order, up-
on Mr. Powderly. After Mr. Powderly’s
retirement from office in the order the
new general executive board demanded
that "the work" of this degree be given
to the new board. Mr. Powderly refused,
and Hayes got him expelled from the or-
der.

The Real Reason For His Suspension.

“The real reason for suspending me,”
says Mr. Powderly, “lies In section 27 of
the constitution. It reads:

“ ‘Tho retiring general master workman
shall fill the position of past general mas-
ter workman and shall receive the same
mileage for attendance at the sessions of
the general assembly and be entitled to

A the same privileges as a representative.’

“The fear that at New Orleans the past
general master workman might be present
is the real cause of my suspension, and it
is as well that the whole order should
know it. It is a conviction with me that
the intention is to disrupt the order, dis-
gust its membership, drive true men and
women out of it, and then its valuable
property will fall to those who remain.
There can be no other reason assigned for
such a. suicidal policy as we are now wit-
nessing.”

The ex-gcneral master workman closes
with an appeal to the members to hold
their old assemblies together, but to scru-
tinize all new ones and not allow so many
“paper assemblies” to be organized that
the genuine ones will be outvoted at the
next general assembly at New Orleans.

 

THE CORNERSTONE LAID.

Connor: Boom at Dobbs Ferry In Honor- of
a. Historical Event.

Doses FERRY, N. Y., June 15.—Amid
the booming of many cannon from the
decks of two United States warships Dr.
Chauncey M. Depew today laid the corner-
stone of a monument which is to com-
memorate the spot where Washington and
Rochambeau planned the victorious York-
town campaign. A brillant assemblage
was present to witness the patriotic event.

The rest of the programme included a
blessing invoked by Archdeacon Charles
0.; Tiffany, representing Bishop Henry C.
Potter; response by Colonel John 0. Cal-
houn, chairman of the monument com~
mittee. to the address of welcome by D.
0. Bradley, chairman of the Dobbs
Ferry citizens’ committee; addresses by
the vice president of the United States,
Adlai E. Stevenson; the French minister,
General Horace Porter, president general
of the Sons of the American Revolution,
and General Stewart ,L. Woodford, and a
benediction by Archbishop Corrigan.

FINANCIAL 2ND COZIEIERCIAL.

 

Closing Quotatiops of the New York Stock
Exchange.

New Yo BK, J one 14.—Money on call easy at l
per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 2%@4%.
Sterling exchange dull, with actual business in
bankers’ bills at 4.88% for demand and at 4.87%
for 60 days. Posted rates. 4.88l§@4.90. Com-
mercial bills, 4.86%. Silver certificates, 64@
65; no sales. Bur silver, 62%. Mexican dollars.
51%. Government bonds firm. State bonds
dull. Railroad bonds steady.

The noon market was dull and Without special
movement during the half hour following 11
o’clock, the only changes of moment being a
decline of 1% per cent in Tobacco and % in
United States Leather preferred. At 11:30
Sugar was heavily pressed for sale on conflict-
ing reports from \Vasbington as to threatened
changes in the sugar schedule, and a break of
1% per cent was made, which brought the price
down 2% below last. night’s closing. Chicago
Gas fell 03 31;. per cent on the announcement
that the directors would not meet this week to
declare the regular quarterly dividend, as was
expected. The Grz- gers were firm on buying
by commission lluLlhl’b. Burlington being in de-
mand to cover short contracts. Missouri Pacific
was offered for sale by the room traders to real-
ize profits, but. is only down §é from last night.
Union Pacific shows most weakness in the rail-
way list. declining 1 per cent on a. selling move-
ment of some magnitude, probably based on
difficulties in the way of reorganization. To-
bacco reacted lvé, General Electric 96 and the
other shares traded in a. smaller fraction. The
market at the close was easier in tone.

Closing prices:

Atchison .......... 7% N. J. Central ...... 106%
Eur. & Quincy... 77% North American. 4

C.. C.. C. & St. L. 38 Northern Pacific. 4%
Chesapeakc& 0. 17% Do. pref .......... 16%
Chicago Gas ...... 76% N. Y. Central .. .. 98%
Cordage .......... 22% Omaha. ............ 36%
Cotton Oil ..... 28% Ontario& West” 15%
Del. & Hud ....... 131 Pacific Mall ...... 14%
Distillers' Trust" 2.5% Reading .......... 10%
Erie ............... 1‘ Richmond Term. 10%
General Electric. 36% Rock Island ...... 68%
Hocking Valley.. 17% Silver Bullion.... 62%
Lackawnnna ..... 160% St. Paul..... ..... 60%
Lake Shore ...... "131% Sugar- Refiniug... 97%
Lead .............. 38 Texas Pacific ..... 8%
InulsvillerNash. 45% Union Pacific...-. 18%
Missouri Pacific. 27% Wabash pref..... 1m
Northwestern....106}§ Western Union.. 896

New England“ . . . 93-5
General Mnrketé.

NEW YORK, June 14.——FLOUR—Stcto and
western quiet and somewhat irregular; clty
mills patents. 34.153430; winter patents. 83.25
@335; city mill clears. $3.l':[email protected]; winter
straiflhis. [email protected].

WHEAT—No. 2 red opened weaker on short
soles. easier cables and foreign selling. but
promptly rallied on dry weather and covering.
afterward easing of! on reports of good rains:

' July. 6l%@62%c.; September. “@6450.

CORN—No. 2 opened firm on unfavorable
crop news but later eased ofl; July, 4'5%@46%c.;
September. 47%@37}4.

OATS-No. :1 opened firmer but later reacted
‘with the other markets. J uiy. Mléc: September.
35@35%0-

BEEF—Steady:
mess. $8.

PORK—Quiet; new mess. [email protected]: fam-
ily. 513.503; 3 :5. _

LAllD—'.-:tea.:ly; prime western steam. $7.11;
asked. .

BUTTER—Slow; barely steady; state dairy.
lmlscg slate creamer-y, 1:33.939.

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554. ‘12.

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ARMOR up mos.

Informer Sill Tells HOW the Govern-
ment Was Imposed Upon.

HE GETS $6,000 FOR TELLING.

Interesting Story of the Manner In \Vhlclr
Alleged Defective Plates Were Foisted
Upon the Navy Department by

the Carnegie Company. I

WASHINGTON, June Iii—Charles Edgar
Sill, the former Carnegie workman, who
has made the chief disclosures concerning

defective armor plates furnished the gov- ,

 

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Be In Calledbythe Dem-ornthomd

_ Erastus Wlman.

NEW YORK, June 15.—thn them. '
trial was resumed, General Tracy can
called Mr. Wiman to the witness m;
The lawyer held in his hand a copy at I
letter written in pencil and covering "v
eral large sheets of paper. It puzporfld
to be a copy of a letter written byMr.
Wirnan. on Jan: 14, 1893, in answer to
Mr. Dun’s letter of J on. 12. Mr. -Wiman
said he had himself mailed the original to
Mr. Dun. He had made the copy in pencil
early in the morning, having written the
letter on the previous evening. Mr. Woll-
man objected to the mirri: sion as evidence
of this letter withonr ,. her proof that
the original had been received by Mr.
Dun. Justice Ingmhmn sustained the ob-
..jection. General Tracy then called R. G.
Dun to the witness stand.

“Mr. Dun, did you receive an answer

ernment, was before the congressional in i 30 your letter to Mr. W1iman Of Jan. 12?"

vestigating commmittee today. _ There was 1

little of a criminal»: character , in Llit-
testimony until Sill told of the manner
in which he made written reports on the
result of certain processes of manufacture.
These reports were then put on the (lo-13:
of Superintendent Kline, who c‘wn'; :1
them so as to make them Show My .- }:-'
processes conformed‘ to the rep 1 - z

and specifications of the governmm. ' :5 n

tract. Sill took his report from o:i . 2: I.
entries on slates used by the worl-zn. . .
showing what they had actually mu

After Kline had changed the reports 11;... .
were returned to Sill, who made up a
complete report, including Kline's alter-a-
tlons, to be submitted to the government
ofilcials as the record of what had been
done.

Kline had directed this to be done.
Kline made many alterations in the orig-
lnal reports. Mr. Sill said he had “kept
tab” on these alterations, and he had his
notes with him.

Another rot of reports was made by Sill,
covering 1., .c labor done on plates through
the prec..ding nights. One of these re-
ports went to the government inspectors
and was accurate, except that certain
plates partially finished were not reported
as touched. They were carried forward
from day to day until Superlntenent Kline
ordered them to be reported to the govern-
ment officers. In some cases sponson plates
and the side armor of ships received no
treatment at all. Sill said his notes would
show to which ships these untreated spon-
sons and plates went. At the suggestion
of Chairman Cummings “fake work” was
used by the committee and witnesses to
designate these alterations.

“What was the percentage of this fake
work?” asked Mr. Cummings.

"From 75 to 90 per cent was fake work.
I think that would be a fair average. ”

Kline Repeatedly \Varned Him.

Superintendent Kline gave witness in-
structions and cautions repeatedly. The
book showing red ink/false entries was
guarded under lock an key. Kline di-
rected him not to let the government offi-
cers See these records under any circum-
stances. A cupboard was built in which
to keep the altered records. Sill said that
a plate treated a. few minutes or not at all
might be entered as treated. from one to
five hours. The same falsification occur-
red in the oil process. the time varying up

‘ to four hr are. In other processes the falsl:

ficatlon ran up to 30 and 40 hours and
_in some cases up to 50 and 60 hours. Su-
perintendent Corry of the armor depart-
ment (Kline being superintendent of the
press department) had books showing the
fake reports. -

Sill related how Superintendent Kline
had given orders for re-treatin ends of
plates to cover up defects. '1‘ 9 orders
were written and verbal and often by dia«
gram. Sill shoWed a rough diagram which
constituted one of the orders. The dia.‘
gram was made by Kline, and the wording
on it was in Kline’s handwriting. The
witness had a bundle of these diagrams.

“Do you mean to say,” asked Represent-

.atlve Dolliver, “that these diagrams were
for the purpose of producing false and
fraudulent results on the government?”

LEI (10.17

“And he left the evidence of this bogus
work in your hands?”

“He did.” . ~

“How much did you get from the gov.
cmment as an informer?” asked Mr. Dol-
liver.

“Six thousand dollars,” answered Sill,
who said he was led to make the disclos-
ures through the ill treatment he and oth
ers received from Kline. The latter, Sill
said, was a. “human brute.”

Witness said he submitted his story tc
Pittsburg attorneys and then to ex-Solicl-
tor General J enks. It was then given to
the secretary of the navy.

A Rollo of Johnstown’s Flood.

JOHNSTOWN, P3,, June 15.—Whlle dig.
glng a trench through a cellar that had
been excavated and then filled up by the
flood of 1889 workmen unearthed a parlor
car that was lost from the ill fated day ex-
press at Conemaugh. It is believed that
further search will unearth bodies of per
sons lost on that train.

Bob Cook Gets Wet.

GALE’S FERRY, 001121., June 15,—“This is
what you' don’t. want to do,” said Bob
Cook, the famous coach of the _Yale crew
as he attempted to illustrate by suddenly
jerking his starboard oar. It did not touch
the water, and the nex* i stant the great
coach was floundering the river. The
crew rescued him.

 

McNamara Declared Not- Guilty.

LIBERTY, Mo., June 15.-—J. V. McNa-
mara, who styles himself bishop of the
Reformed Catholic church, was tried on
the charge of falsely accusing oé'rtaln
priests and nuns. Large A. P. A. delegac
tions were present. The jury returned a
verdict of not guilty.

The Insurgents \Vero Bouted.

RIO J ANEIBO, J une 15.—An official
denial is published of the report that Gen-
eral Machado, commander of the govern-
ment forces, was recently defeated by the
insurgent troops. It is stated that, on the
contrary, General Machado routed. the in-
surgentsu

 

Korean Rebels Beaten.
W‘ASHINGTON. June' 15.——The Korean
legution r. chcd :1 (ablcgram from Seoul,

the capital of Korea, stating that every- '

thing was ru‘t-t in Korea: that the rebels
had been «A arc-«nus. :.n-;l tho. pence ha]
been restored. '

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was General Tracy’s first question.

“I have no recollection of having re-
ceived any answer whatever to it. ”

General Tracy handed the copy of the
letter to Mr. Dun, and the witness read.
parts of it.

“Now do you remember ‘hat you r..-
ceived such a leltcr?” asked General
Tracy.

“I recognize many of the expressions,”
replied Mr. Dun, “and I think that pos-
sibly I may have received a letter contain-
ing them, but whether this is an exact
copy of that letter I do not know.”

“So you acknowledge that you did re-
ceive such a letter?” continued General ‘
Tracy in an exultant tone.

“I think possibly I did.”

“That will do, ” said Justice Ingraham.

“Let Mr. Wiman read the letter.”

The letter indicated plainly that in
January, 1893, Mr. Dun did not know all
about Mr. Wiman’s overdraft and seems
to raise the questiOn simply of whether
Mr. Wiman defrauded R. G. Dun or not.

“Did you have any doubt about your
ability to pay R. G. Dun all your obliga-
tions and indebtedness to him?” General
Tracy asked Wiman.

“Not the slightest. ”

“When you drew this Bulllnger' check,
had you any intention of defrauding R.
G. Dun?” .

“None whatever.”

“Why did you make it?”

“Because I did not want to make my
coconut in the office appear larger, and I
wanted to use the money. Mr. Bullinger
had frequently indorsed for me. Our te«
lotions were exceedingly pleasant. ”

MINEBS ATTACK OHIO TROOPS.

Then They Fled, and the Militia Fallod to
Capture Thorn. ‘

BEACH CITY, 0., J une Iii—Miners fired
upon the Barclay Dubbs pickets, second
platoon of Logan rifles, stationed one mile
below this city, at 3 o’clock. The fire
was returned. A patrol was formed under-
Lieuenant Perkins and a thorough search
made, but no one was captured.

An attack was made on Company A,
Fourteenth regiment, stationed at Second
Bridge, below here. An attempt was made
to destroy the railroad bridge at Beach
City, but owing to the good picket duty
of the first platoon no damage was done.
No shot took effect on the militia.

 

Strikers Use Dynamite.
GREENSBURG, Pa, J une 15.—-The pump
house at the Alverton coke plant of Mo
Clure & Co. was blown up with dynamite
shortly after midnight. The building
was completely wrecked. The striker?
are held responsible for the outrage. ,

 

A Legal Tilt: M-
The following amiable contest 0c? .

cured in Westminister hall between
Lord Campbell and an eminent queen’s
counsel. The action was one brought to
recover for damages done to a. carriage
which the Q. C. repeatedly called a
broug-ham, pronouncing both syllables
of the word brougham, whereupon
Lord Campbell pompously observed:
“Broom is the more usual pronunci.“
tion. A carriage of the kind you mean
is generally and not incorrectly called a.
broom. That pronunciation is open to no
grave Objection, and it has the great ad-
vantage of saving the time consumed by
uttering an extra syllable. ” Half an
hour later in the some trial Lord Camp-
bell, alluding to a decision given ina
similar action, said, “In that the car-
riage which. had sustained injury was
an omnibus”-— “Pardon me, my lord,”
interposed the Q. C., “a. earrings of the
kind to which you draw attention is
usually termed a. ‘bus. ’ That pronuncia-
tion is open to no great objection, and
it has the great advantage of saving the
time consumed by uttering two extra
syllables.” The interruption was fol-
lowed by a. roar of laughter, in which
Lord Campbell joined more heartily
than any one else—Argosy.

 

“Dyed Milk” For Londoners.

A writer reveals some of the secrets
of the milk trade as discovered by him‘
self in an attempt to run a. London dai-
ry up‘on honest principles. His first dis-
covery was that all London milk has to
be “dyed” to suit the London fancy.
This is effected by mixing about one
teaspoonful of liquid“‘anotta, ” vegeta-
ble dye of a harmless nature, with
every eight quarts of milk. In vain he
explained to his London customers that

.the proper color of most milk is white.

“They insisted that my white milk was
‘chalk and water’ and other people’s
‘cream colored’ milk was creamy, beau-
tiful, rich and fresh. , My milk was
skimmed, etc. I gave way in this thing
alone. I gave them their hearts’ desire
—the cream colored milk. ”—London
Standard.

No Time to Waste.

Mrs. de Style—I. should just like to
know who that young man is that you
seem to be encouraging.

Miss (19 Style—His family came over
in the Mayflower, and among his tan-
cestors are William the Conqueror, King
Egbert, thc— .

Mrs. dc Style—That will do; Poo—
ple with family trees like that .re al-«
ways too near to many. Dismiss him