A. P. A.. IN POLITICS.
PRESIDENT TRAYNOR SETS
FORTH HIS VIEWS.
Advises Against Potting: Up an A. P. A.
Candidate for President Only m Few
Prominent Republicans Bare 80 Far
Openly Endersed Their Principles
Waited Lonr for Recognition.
A. P. A. Annual Address.
Washington, May 16. The most
noteworthy feature of yesterday's ses
sion of tbe American Protective As
sociation was the innovation made by
giving- to the public the annual ad
dress of President W. J. II- Traynor.
He deals at great length with the
political phases of the A. P. A. He
says:
"The American Protective Associa
tion is to-day a recognized feature in
American politics, whose favor is
openly courted by political leaders,
organizers and postulants for publis
office, who, a year or two ago, ignored,
treated with contempt or denounced
if
Then he warn, the order against
eleventh hour converts and says:
"The A. P. P. is a standing menace
to the perpetuity of every party, being
composed, as it is, of the members of
every party. So long as it remains
unmoved by threats, unyielding to
the pressure of party machines, It will
be hated but respected by every party
whicn dares not incorporate the plat
form of the order in its own.
"The great majority of our order
have waited patiently during the past
year for some sign from one or other
of the political parties that it has re
ceived a change of heart and is honest
enough to publicly express it. There
are a few Republicans, such as Linton,
of Michigan; Gear, of Iowa; Bradley,
of Kentucky, who have been fearless
in their indorsement of our princi
ples, and while it may be fortunate
that they are Republicans, it is more
than fortunate that they are not
either the Republican party or repre
sentatives of that body, and the ques
tion should be asked and answered
here and now that while the A. P.
A. isms of these men is tolerated by
the party for the A. P. A. votes which
each of them carries behind him, what
assurance have we that this tolera
tion will not cease the moment the
votes have been delivered."
The enly references to church mat
ters in the address are the following:
"A well meaning and by no means
unimportant section of the order has
arisen which advocates peace with the
priest and his subjects and harmony
between them and the members of the
order. Some would even go so far as
to negotiate with them politically,
than which nothing- could be more
dangerous to the perpetuity of the as
sociation. Others go so far as to take
the position that a member of the or
der possesses the right to determine
for himself the question cf loyalty or
disloyalty of any papist postulant for
office, and reserves to himself the
right to persuade others to vote for
aid papist. Such a contention is not
only absolutely untenable, but highly
dangerous. The candidate volunta
rilv renounces the right of private
judgment in this essential when he
becomes a member of the order. It is
a solemn compact which be can
neither modify nor amend. The key
stone of the A. P. A. is the fact that
a papist, no matter how liberal nomi
nally, is not a consistent citizen of
the United States. Entire renuncia
tion of the papacy must precede his
acceptance of our association as a
candidate worthy of its suffrages."
VICTORY FOR TELLER.
He Had Fall Control of the Colorado
Convention Fully Indorsed.
Pceblo, Colo., May lC The Colo
rado Republican State convention re
sultec in a victory for Senator Henry
M. Teller and his followers. Teller
was not only elected delegate-at-large
to the national convention at St.
Louis, but he was commended as the
ablest American of them ill," and
the other delegates were instructed to
follow his leadership. Senator Wol
cott, who has said he would not bolt
the St. Louis convention. was not con
demned, but he was indorsed only in
an omnibus resolution which included
all tbe Colorado delegation at Wash
ington. Senator Wolcott's name was
not mentioned, and his telegram de
clining to be a delegate let his sup
porters out of an awkward position.
No mention of a bolt is made, nor was
one suggested in snv way.
Pay For a Scalp Wanted.
. Washington, May 10. The bill in
troduced by Mr. Curtis of Kansas to
pay to the Chippewa Indians of
Franklin county, Kan., SiO.OOO due to
them from the government, and also
to authorize the patenting of the lands
belonging to them, was reported fa
vorably yesterday from the Indian
committee, as was also a bill asking
an investigation of the claim of R. M.
McOee of Excelsior Springs, Mo., for
S10.0CO for his scalp, which was taken
by the Brule Indians several years
affo.
Louisiana Democrats Elected.
Baton Rogue, La., May 16. The
two houses, in joint session yesterday
received the returns from the late
election for State officers. A protest
was presented from Captain J. N.
Pharr, fusion candidate for governor,
against the returns as tabulated. It
was laid on the t&bla and the count
proceeded with, resulting in the
declaration that the entire Democratic
State ticket, headed by M. J. Foster
for governor was elected.
Tbe Beeehei Trial Split Healed.
New York, May 16. The Manhat
tan and New York and Brooklyn con
ferences of the Congregational church
bave united after a separation of more
than twenty years, occasioned by diffi
culties growing out of the Beecher
trial.
Kentucky's Quintuplets All Dead.
Mat field, Ky., May 16. The quin
tuplets born in this city April 29 to
Mrs. Oscar Lyons, are all dead. The
doctors think death was the result of
worry caused by the enormous visit
ing crowds.
THE GOLD PROBLEM.
Eleven Millions Decreas In Two Weeks"
Tbe President May Act Sharply.
Washington, Ma7 16. May 1 the
gold reserve in the treasury stood at
$125,000,000; to-day it is a trifle over
SH4, 000,000. In twelve working days
311,000,000 in gold has been taken
from the treasury, and there is not,
it is said, the slightest in
dication of any abatement in the ex
port of the yellow metal. The last
payments of the recent popular loan
have been made, and the gold reserve
can, therefore, expect no accretions
other than those which will come to
it in the ordinary way. While the
withdrawals of gold are not enough
to be a positive menace, they are
causing anxiety to the treasury of
ficials. If there is anything like a
steady increase in the amount of
withdrawals it is expected Mr. Cleve
land will make an effort to secure legis
lation to check it. Congress expects to
adjourn some time between June 2
and 10. There is a long stretch between
that date and the first Monday in
December, in which the president
would have to act without the aid of
Congress should the conditions of last
fall be duplicated. The administra
tion has for some time been consider
ing the probability of just 6uch a
situation developing after the ad
journment of Congress. Should the
conditions warrant the measure, it is
said the president will send a message
to Congress on the eve of adjournment
insisting that Congress furnish some
measures of relief to the treasury be
fore adjournment.
FOR A WORLD'S COINAGE.
The House Committee Acts on the Schema
of Mr. Stone of Pennsylvania.
Washington, May 16. The House
committee on coinage, weights and
measures decided by a unanimous vote
yesterday to authorize a favorable re
port on a resolution introduced by
Representative Stone of Pennsylvania
authorizing the president to invite
an expression of opinion from the
other principal commercial nations of
the, world as to the desirability and
feasibility of the adoption of interna
tional coins to be current in all the
countries adopting them at a uniform
value, and be especially adopted
for invoice purposes. If the
expressions that are thus obtained
from other nations are such as, in the
judgment of the President, to render
a conference desirable, be is author
ized to invite it at a time and place to
be designated by him to consider and
report a plan for the adoption and use
of such coins composed of gold or
silver or both. The President is au
thorized to appoint three representa
tives subject to confirmation by the
Senate.
CONFEREES FAR APART.
Sectarian Schools and Dawes Com mission
Causes in Dispute.
Washington, May 16. The action
of the Senate in referring back to the
conferees on the Indian appropriation
bill all of the points heretofore agreed
upon, means a prolongation of the
struggle, which may last until the
close of the session. This afternoon
work in committee was resumed, but
the differences between the two
Houses are so distinctly outlined that
it is merely a fight to see which will
win.
The House decided against any aid
for sectarian schools, while the Senate
gave the Indian schools two years in
which to prepare for the discontin
uance of aid from the government.
This is one of the points of difference
over which the conferees can reach no
agreement.
There is also a marked difference of
opinion over the failure to clothe with
proper power the Dawes commission.
X RAYS AND DIPHTHERIA.
Successful Experiments With Guinea
Pies at Missouri State University.
Columbia. Ma, May 16. The ex
periments that have been going on at
the electrical laboiatory, testing the
effect of the Roentgen rays upon
diphtheria bacilli, all confirm the
theory that the germs may be de
stroyed by the rays. The last experi
ment was made with a live guinea
pig, probably the first experiment of
the k?- 1 upon a living animal ever
made ... this country. Two guinea
pigs were inoculated xvith a culture of
diphtheria. One of the pigs was ex
posed to the Roentgen rays for four
hours. After seventy-two hours this
pig shows no signs of diphtheria, and
is just as lively as before, whereas the
pig which was not exposed to the
rays died in twenty-eight hours after
the injection and the post mortem
slibwed that its death was due to the
injection of diphtheria. Further in
vestigations are beiug made on this
and other irerms.
MORE ARMOUR MEN OUT.
Discharge of Employes at the Big- Plant
Continues.
Kansas City, Ma, May 16. The
Armour Packing company, which has
been cutting down its forces of em
ployes since the labor organizations
declared a boycott against its pro
ducts, laid off 100 more men tc-day.
This makes a total of about 1,000
Armour employes who have been
thrown out of employment since Mon
day. The big packing house, how
ever, is in operation with between
1.5U0 and ;,8U0 men and women at
work. Nearly all of the men who
have been laid off or discharged are
union men. This fact has added a
bitterness to the fight, and has- given
rise to the belief among the . labor
leaders that the company intends to
non-unionize the entire house.
Commissioner Loch re n to Become a
Federal Jndce.
Washington, May 16. The Presi
dent sent to the Senate to-day the
name of Commissioner of Pensions
William Lochren to be United States
judge of the District of Minnesota.
The vacancy was caused by the resig
nation of Judge Rensselaer Nelson.
The president also nominated Dom
inick L Murphy of Pennsylvania, now
first deputy commissioner of pensions,
to be commissioner of pensions, vice
Mr. Lochren, and Napoleon J. T.
Dana of New Uampshne to be first
deputy commissioner of pensions, vice
Mr. Murphv.
TOO OLD FOR WORK.
BISHOPS BOWMAN AND FOSTER
ARE RETIRED.
The Venerable Methodist Divines Appear
Before the General Conference and
Accept the Decision In a Pathetic
Scene The Pastorate Limit Issue M.
E Conference Work.
Two Bishops Retired.
Cleveland, O., May 15. Atto-days
session of the Methodist Episcopal
general conference,there was the larg
est attendance "of the session, both of
delegates and spectators.
After some minor committee re
ports had been made. Dr. Buckley.the
chairman, made the report of the com
mittee on episcopacy. This stated
that, in the opinion of the committee,
Bishops Bowman and Foster were too
old to stand the strain of the duties,
and recommended their retirement at
the end of the conference as non-effective,
and that three new bishops
should be elected. Iu the list of the
bishops returned as effective were all
the other bishops, with the exception
of Bishop Taylor.whose name was not
mentioned because of his request to be
allowed to continue his work in Af
rica. A generous appropriation was
urged for the two retiring bishops,
an I the respect felt for them was fully
set forth. Bishop Bowman is 80 years
old and Bishop Foster 76.
As soon as the report was read,
Bishop Foster advanced, and the en
tire audience arose and received him
with applause. In the midst of a most
impressive silence the low tones of his
voice were heard. He said that he
simply had a request to make. He
knew the question was one of great
delicacy, and ho begged to be permit
ted to retire. Cries of "No. no" came
from all parts of the hall, but he ex
tended his arms, saying "Please
please." He spoke for a few moments,
and the conference, by a rising vote,
granted him his request.
Bishop Bowman said that he would
make the same request, as he had just
learned for the first time in his life
that he was not effective. A cali was
made for a few remarks from him, but
he declined to say anything, and the
two white-haired fathers left the halL
Bishop Bowman lives in St. Louis,
Mo., to which place he will probably
retire to spend his last days.
The committee on itineracy will
recommend that in rare cases the five
year limit may be extended one year
by an appeal of the congregation to
the quarterly conference, where it
must "have a three-quarter vote, after
which it must receive the vote of a
majority of the cabinet of presiding
elders, including that of the presiding
elder having charge of the church,
and then the bishop must consent.
This may be done year after year for
five years, making the longest possi
ble pastorate ten years. A minority
committee report asking for the abol
ishment of the time limit will be sub
mitted to the conference and will
probably be supported by the laity.
SCOTT JACKSON GUILTY.
Convicted of the Wilful Murder of Miss
Pearl Bryan.
Newport, K3-., May 15. The Scott
Jackson case went to the jury at 10
o'clock this morning, the judge's tpye
written instructions, the bloody
clothes, the letters and other articles
that were shown in evidence being
placed in the hands of the members.
At 12:03 o'clock the jury returned
to the court room and the foreman
handed the verdict to the clerk, who
read as follows: "We, the jury, find
the defendant, Scott Jackson, guilty
of murder in the first degree and fix
his penalty at death."
The judge had previously announced
that no demonstration of approval or
disapproval by spectators would be
permitted, and deputies had been
placed throughout the room with in
structions to bring before the court
any person disobeying this instruction,
to be punished for contempt. Conse
quently the verdict was heard with
silence, but immediately upon the ad
journment of court the spectators
rushed to the jurors and shook their
hands heartily.
Jackson himself received the ver
dict with no manifestation of emotion
except ashen paleness of the face.
None of his relatives were present.
The aged father of Pearl Bryan and
her brother, Fred Bryan, were pres
ent when the verdict was rendered.
The usual motion for a new trial
was made, and then Jackson was
taken to jail, surrounded by half a
dozen or more officers, although there
was no demonstration to indicate a
necessity for such care.
FREE HOMESNEARLYSURE.
The Senate Indian Committee Reports
tbe Flynn BUI.
Washington, May :5. The Senate
committee on Indian affairs to-day
considered the House bill providing
for. free homesteads on public lands
in Oklahoma for actual settlers, and
after amending it so as to make it ap
ply to all the states and territories
agreed to report it favorably. As
amended it suspends the homestead
laws in all the public land states and
also suspends the land laws in the
territory hitherto known as Greer
county, Texas.
The committee also agreed to a fa
vorable report on the Senate bill de
fining the rights of mixed blood In
dians, declaring that all persons who
have Indian blood and who have main
tained tribal relations with any tribe
of Indians are Indians and entitled to
all the rights and privileges of full
bloods.
A Recount Ordered.
Washington, May 15. The House,
after one of the hardest fought parli
amentary battles of the session, which
continued until almost 9 o'clock last
night, recommitted the contested elec
tion case of Rinaker vs. Downing,frorn
the Sixteenth Illinois district, to the
committee on elections, with instruct
ions to recount the ballots in dispute.
Drouth in Central Missouri Broken.
Mexico, Mo., May 15. The drouth
in Central Missouri was broken last
evening by a good rain. Wheat and
oats have been damaged slightly, bat
corn has not been hur
BADLY TORN UP.
Colorado Republicans Far From Being
Harmonious.
Pueblo, CoL, May 13. The dele
gates to the Republican state conven
tion which will meet here to-night,
are split up in several factions, and
unless some middle ground may be
found upon Which all may come to
gether, there will be a bitter fight
which may result in a bolt
While it is agreed that Senator
Teller shall be elected by acclamation
as the first delegate-at-large, friends
of Senator Wolcott threaten to bolt
and send a contesting delegation to
St. Louis should any stigma be cast
upon the junior senator in the resolu
tions or otherwise. A strong section
of the party insists that Wolcott shall
be condemned and his resignation as
senator demanded in consequence of
his course regarding the silver issue
and the Venezuelan question.
Delegates from forty-one of the
forty-two counties held a caucus this
forenoon and agreed upon the follow
ing, which will be incorporated in the
platform, and undoubtedly adopted:
"We hereby indorse the course of our
representative members of Congress
on the silver question, and heartily
indorse the Hon. Henry M. Teller in
his stand and actions in the United
States Senate on the tariff in main
taining that no tariff legislation be
passed by Congress until silver is re
stored to its proper place in the cur
rency of the country and there is free
coinage of that metal at a ratio with
gold of 16 to 1."
Should the Wolcott men bolt, the
delegates who remain will adopt a
resolution demanding his resignation
as United States Senator.
RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.
It Passes the Senate by a Vote of Only
Nine Negatives.
Washington, May lo. The river
and harbor appropriation bill was
passed by the Senate after an unusu
ally stormy experience lasting many
days. As finally passed, the bill makes
direct appropriations of SI", 200,000,
and authorizes continuing contracts
of 864,000,000, an aggregate of about
$76,000,000. During the debate the
statement was made that this was the
largest aggregate for a river and har
bor bill in the history of the govern
ment. Mr. Gorman sought to secure
an amendment to the bill limiting the
contract expenditures to 310,000,000
annually, but the amendment was
tabled yeas 40, nays 23. Mr. Frye,
chairman of the commerce committee,
closed the debate on the bill by a
statement showing the remarkable
development of American commerce
and the consequent decreasing freight
rates. On the final passage of the bill
nine Senators voted in the negative.
A number of House bills on the cal
endar were passed during the day, in
cluding the bill requiring a year's res
idence in any territory as a requisite
to divorce. The Dupont contest comes
up by agreement to-day.
CLUB EXPELS A PRINCE.
Iturblde, tbe Mexican Claimant, Dropped
by the Metropolitan of Washington.
Washington, May 15. It is said
that Prince Iturbide, who claims to
be heir to the Mexican throne, has
been expelled from the Metropolitan
Club.
It seems that society women here
received letters composed of clippings
from printed matter threatening to
inform their husbands of alleged in
discretions on their part and contain
ing charges against their husbands.
Prince Iturbide and Henry May de
clared that the anonymous communi
cations were the work of Miss Will
iams, who has a number of friends in
the club. The board of managers in
vestigated and found that a proposal
of marriage by Iturbide to Miss Will
iams had been rejected by her and
that he had made ugly threats against
her. What more thej' learned to
justify the expulsion of Iturbide is
not known.
McKinley A. P. A.'s Active.
Washington, May 15. Whenever
the A. P. A. supreme council shall
take up the executive council's attack
on Major McKinley, it is probable that
a pamphlet, in which Judge J. D.
Stevens, the head of the order in Mis
souri, aua the originator of the war
on McKinley, is accused o? all sorts
of misdeeds, will figure largely. The
McKinley men here say that Stevens
was the employe of the anti-McKinley
combine in securing a decision of the
executive council against the Ohio
governor.
Iowa SUverltes Claim a Majority.
Des Moines, Iowa, May 15. Up to
date, seventy-eight out of ninety-nine
counties in Iowa have held Democratic
conventions. The free silver men
have elected 512 delegates, the gold
men 224, six delegates only being
doubtfuL The silverites claim a ma
jority of ninety-one in the State con
vention at Dubuque, even if the gold
men should elect all the rest of the
delegates from the twenty-one remain
ing counties.
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
' John II. McKelvy, president of the
National Lead and Oil trust is dead.
Conservative men say that we are
nearer war with Spain than most peo
ple think.
Anti-missionary riots have broken
out at Kiang Yen, China. The British
mission was looted.
Frank H. Harding of Quincy, 111.,
shot his mother fatally in the back
and attempted suicide. Insane.
Miss Mazie Todd, a cousin of Rob
ert T. Lincoln, was killed by a trolley
car at Lexington, Ky... while bicy
cling. Mike Dwyer bought Ben Eder for
810,000 from McGuigan, and won the
Clark stakes at Louisville, worth ,
SG,500. j
A young girl was assassinated on
the street at Unionville, Iowa. Her
former sweetheart is suspected of the
crime.
German See, the distinguished
French physician, is dead. He wrote '
a large number of treatises and de-'
vised a number of important new
medicines.
HONORS TO HANCOCK.
j UNVEILING OF THE WASHING
TON STATUE. "
A. Large Audience Participate In the
Ceremonies President Cleveland, Vice
President Stevenson, Supreme Court,
Diplomatic Corps, Both Houses of Con
gress and Other Notables In Attend
ance. Unveiling of the Statu.
Washington, May 13. The heroic
equestrian statue of Major General
Winfield Scott Hancock was unveiled
here this afternoon before an immense
gathering, which included President
Cleveland, Vice President Stevenson
and representatives of the Supreme
court, the diplomatic corps, both
houses of Congress and many army
veterans and colleagues of the late
general. Four companies of artillery,
marching as infantry, four companies
of marines, with the Marine band,
light battery C, Third artillary, a
squadron from the Sixth cavalry, the
full district militia and numerous
military organizations, including the
Second army corps, at the head of
which General Hancock achieved his
greatest victories, participated in the
parade. Brigadier . General Brooke,
commanding the department of the
Dakotas, U. S. A., was the grand
martial of the day.
The exercises opened with a prayer
by the Right Rev. James Y. Satterlee,
bishop of Washington. The principal
address was delivered by Senator
John M. Palmer of Illinois, major
general of the United States volun
teers during the war. A salute was
fired as the unveiling of the statue
took place.
Senator Palmer's address was de
voted to a eulogy of the manly and
soldierly qualities of General Han
cock and contained a beautiful tribute
to his wife, who was his biographer.
The statue stands in the heart of
the business district of Washington.
It is the woik of Henry J. Elliott, the
noted sculptor, and its total height is
33 feet 8 inches. The distance from
the plinth to the top of the hat is 14
feet 6 inches, and the height of the
pedestal from the ground to the plinth
is 19 feet 2 inches. The proportions
of the rider are such that if standing
erect he would measure ten feet in
height.
PLATT ON M'KINLEY.
Says He Is Neither Great, Well-Balanced,
Educated Nor Politically Astute.
New York, May 13. Ex-Sen a tor
Piatt issued a formal statement yes
terday in regard to the presidential
situation, in which the nomination of
Major McKinley is vigorously op
posed: "My opposition to Governor Mc
Kinley," Mr. Piatt says, "proceeds
almost entirely from my belief that
he will get the Republican party into
turmoil and trouble. He is not a
well-balanced man of affairs, as Gov
ernor Morton is. He is not a great
man, as Mr. Reed is. He is not a
trained and educated public man, as
Senator Allison is. He is not an as
tute political leader, as Senator Quay
is. He is simply a clever gentleman,
much too amiable and much too im
pressionable to be safely intrusted
with great executive office, whose
quest for honor happens to have the
accidental advantage of the associa
toin of his name with tbe last Repub
lican protective tariff.
'When the delegates at St. Louis
come to consider these matters their
choice for President will not be Wil
liam McKinley of Ohio. They are not
going to determine the destiny of
their party in any 'hurrah, boys,'
spirit. Mr. McKinley is still many
votes short of a nomination, and when
the delegates get together and com
pare notes they will realize that their
candidate should be a wise, temper
ate, conservative, educated states
man, with definite policies, fixed opin
ions and a safe record."
A WOMAN IN THE CHAIR.
Denver Republicans Quarrel Bitterly De
spite a Fair Presiding Officer.
Denver, Col., May 13. -The Arapahoe
county Republican convention, to
elect delegates to the First congress
ional district convention and to the
State convention, was in session until
3 o'clock this morning without accom
plishing anything more than organiz
ation. Although for five hours Mrs.
Carrie O. Kitter was in the chair, the
convention resembled a beer garden
and numerous personal altercations
occurred. The water and tramway
companies' adherents finally obtained
the upper hand and beat Mayor Mc
Murray's followers. Both sides pro
fess to be in favor of sending Senator
Teller as a delegate to the national
convention.
FRANKIE BREWER DEAD.
The Daughter of the Associate Justice
Passes Away of Consumption.
San Antonio, Texas, May 13 Miss
Frankie Brewer, daughter of Associ
ate Justice Brewer of the United
States Supreme court, died here last
night of consumption. Her father
will arrive Thursday. Funeral ar
rangements have not yet been made.
China Settles Missionary Claims.
Tientsin, May 10. United States
Chairman Reed, the chairman of the
Cheng-Tu commission, has succeeded
in securing payment in full of the
Baptist missionary union claims for
property losses in the Se-Chuen riots.
Thus all the American claims have
been settled in a friendly manner,
China paying the whole amount de
manded. Bond Inveitlgators Appointed.
Washington, May 13. At a meeting
of the committee. Chairman Morrill
appointed as the subcommittee of five
to investigate the bond sales, Senators
Harris, Vest and Walthall, Democrats,
and Piatt, Republican, and Jones of
Nevada. Populist.
Maeon's Postmaster Dead.
Macon, Ma, May 13. Postmaster
Frank A. Dessert died this morning
of dropsy of the heart, at the age of
47. He had been postmaster before,
and a delegate to nearly every State
Democratic convention for twenty
years.
DEFEND HUNTINGTON.
Senators Frye and Test Have Kind
Woids for the Railroad Magnate.
Washington, May :3. The Califor
nia deep water harbor project was be
fore the Senate most of yesterday.but
wa3 not completed. It is seldom that
a local improvement arouses so much
feeling among Senators, manifesting
itself in a debate of unusual anima
tion and of considerable personal
feeling. Mr. Berry of Arkansas began
the debate, declaring that this pro
posed expenditure of S3.O0O.OO0 was
against the public interest and in the
private interest of C. P. Huntington
of the Southern Pacific Senators
Vest ana Caffery took the ground
that no appropriation should be made
at present. Mr. Frye, chairman of
the commerce committee, replied to
the strictures on the proposition and
vehemently characterized the criti
cisms of Mr. Huntington as "savoring
of the slogan of the sand lots."
Mr. Vest said he could not see the
necessity for this expenditure, either
at Santa Monica or San Pedro. He
took no stock, he said, in the attacks
on Mr. Huntington because he was a
railroad president and a rich man.
Like other men he looked after his
own interests. Mr. Vest believed Mr.
Huntington was sincere in saying
Santa Monica was the best point for a
harbor. The senator said ne dropped
out of account all talk of monopolies
and lobbies. Any United States sen
ator who would permit a lobby to con
trol him was unworthy of a seat here,
said Mr. Vest, ne based his objeotion
on the fact that the country did not
have a full treasury, and the river and
harbor bill already reached an enor
mous aggregate.
Unfortunately, said Mr. Vest, Mr.
Huntington is a political factor in Cal
ifornia. Not even a town meeting
can be held there without asking if
this man is a Huntington man and
that man is an anti-IIuntington man.
In view of the state of public feeling,
Mr. Vest said, he did not believe in
settling this question and making the
appropriation now.
A. P. A.S IN CONVENTION.
Credentials Being Examined and Speeches
Heard Lively Contests Expected.
Washington, May 13. The supreme
council of the American Protective
association held an informal meeting
this morning, but no business was
transacted except the appointment of
a committee on credentials, which at
once began making up the roll of the
council.
Supreme President IL J. Traynor
declared that if the old party refuses
to recognize the principles of the A.
P. A., a call will be issued for a na
tional convention to organize a new
party which wiljbe joined by citizens
who are tired of ring rule.
A meeting of the full advisory board
will be held to-night, when the action
of the executive committee of that
board on McKinley's candidacy will
be considered.
THE FEDERAL PRISON.
The House Judiciary Committee Reports
Favorably tbe House BIIL
Washington, May 13. The House
committee on judiciary to-day ordered
a favorable report on the bill to es
tablish a site for a federal peniten
tiary to cost not exceeding S150.000,
on the military reservation at Fort
Leavenworth.
QUAYLE WENT TOO FAR.
Kansas City Methodist's Attack on En
deavorers Arouses the Conference.
Cleveland, Ohio, May 13. At the
meeting of the committee on the state
of the church of the Methodist gen
eral conference yesterday evening,
the Rev. Dr. Quayle of Kansas
City, in the course of his
remarks about the Christian Endear
orers, in their attempt to secure a
recognition of the Deity in the
United States constitution, is quoted
by the morniDg papers as having said:
'Not long ago that organization not
only made itself ridiculous and all the
churches which it represented, but
actually made the religion of Christ
ridiculous by praying for the redemp
tion of Bob Ingersoll. Do you think
that the Methodist church would ever
be guilty of such an act of absolute
idiocy?"
To-day in the Methodist conference
F. J. Cheny of Central New York pre
sented a resolution which recited the
fact that the local morning papers
had quoted a member of the confer
ence as above, and disclaimed any re
sponsibility for such sentiment by the
general conference, and also Indorsed
the En deavorers The resolution re
pudiating the purported language of
Dr. Quayle oy the conference was
adopted after a hot discussion.
A Colored Secret Political Order.
Frankfort, Kan., May 13. It is re
ported that a new secret political or
der has been formed among the col
ored people called the Mystic Band of
the Great Emancipator. It is said to
have originated in Leavenworth and
Atchison and to be for the political
and social benefit of the coloted people
of Kansas.
Government Crop Report
Washington, May 13. The May
returns of the statistical division of
the department of agriculture on the
condition of winter wheat show an
increase of 5.6 points above the April
average, being 2.7 against ?7. 1 last
month, and 82. y in May, 1695. The
averages in nine principal winter
wheat states are: Pennsylvania o,
Ohio 55, Michigan 90, Indiana 85, Ken
tucky 77, Illinois 90. Missouri 81, Kan
sas 96, California 100. .
DEPUTY SHERIFF KILLED.
Shot Down While Tryin to Make ao
Arrest.
Kansas Citt, Mo., May 13. William
Conway, a deputy sheriff of Wyan
dotte county, Kansas, was shot and
killed at 8 o'clock last evening while
trying to arrest two men supposed to
be chicken thieves. The shooting
took place at vhite Church, a station
on the Northwestern road ten miles
from Kansas City, Kan. Although a
dozen men saw the shooting and fired
volley after volley at the murderers,
both managed to escape.
