jj^KISS on strikes.
, m0D1FIEs the northern
1,6 PACIFIC ORDER.
_oli„K« Strongly Uphold—The Conrta
torfd to Hare Ample Power to Pre
t Threatened Injury to Property
tnder Their Control—The Anti-Strike
Injure!!00 Continued In Pull Force—
’ unndy Telke Plainly.
>ori hern Pacific Strike Order. t
MintAiiKEE, Wis., April 7.—The
looked for decision by United
Circuit Judge Jenkins on the
notion made by the chiefs of the great
tjilway organizations for a modifica
of his famous Northern Pacific
(trike order was rendered in the
juited States circuit court at 8 o’clock
Jo, afternoon. The petition of the
Bfn asked for the modification of the
injunction of December 19,' by
(ponging the words “and from
(tuning and conspiring to quit,
fjtli or without notice, the service
dfsaiil receivers with the object and
jjtant of crippling the property in
U,eir custody or embarrassing the
operation of said road and from so
quitting the said receivers with or
gltliout notice, as to cripple the prop
irtv or to prevent or hinder the opera
(on of said railroad.” It also asked
that the passage in the supplementary
Injunction (which is much stronger)
(jeering the same ground, be elim
juate i- The object of the motion was
to king to a direct issue before the
oiurt the question whether the courts
(onlit grant injunctions to restrain
implores from striking.
The judge modified his in junctional
order by striking out the clause which
Kids ‘‘and from ordering, recom
mending. approving or advising oth
trs to quit the service of the receivers
of the Northern Pacific railroad on
January 1, 1894, or at any other time.”
Id all other respects he denied the
notion of the men, thus continuing
the strike injunction in full force.
The judge held that it was not the
province of the court to take part in
■nv contest between labor and capital
except to restrain those warring
factions so far as their action
might infringe the - declared law
of the land, that society might
not he disrupted or its peace
invaded, or that individual and cor
porate rights might not be infringed
upon. If the combination and con
ipiraey alleged and the acts threatened
to he (lone in pursuance thereof were
unlawful, it could not, he thought, be
mcoessfully denied that restraint by
injunction would be ' the appropriate
remedy, especially if the proposed ac
tions, if carried into effect, would re
mit in paralysis of the railroad’s bus
iness. stopping the commerce ebbing
lad flowing through seven states of
the union, causing incalculable injury
to the property and causing great pub
lic privation.
"It is no longer open to contro
versy.' the judge went on to say,
'that a court of equity may restrain
threatened trespass involving the im
mediate or ultimate destruction of
property, [working irreparable injury
mil for which there would be no
adequate compensation of law. It
will in extreme cases, where the
iperil is imminent and the danger
great, issue mandators injunctions,
requiring a particular service to
be performed or a particular direc
tion to be given, or particular order
to be revoked, in time of a threaten
ed tresspass upon property or upon
public rights. I need not enlarge
trpon this subject. The jurisdiction
beyond question is plenary and com
prehensive.”
The judge then cited several au
thorities and continued: “It would
be anomalous, indeed, if the court,
holding this property in possession in
trust, could not protect it from in
jury and could not restrain inter
ference which would render abortive
efforts to perform the public
duties charged upon this railroad.”
JUDGE DUNDY AGGRIEVED.
hlki Plainly to the Railroad Xcn
About Judge Jenklna’ Precedent.
f»MAHA. Neb., April 7.—The Ameri
ca Railway union made application
®tlle United States district court to
Jiy to have the salaries of its mem
“ers on the Union Pacific road, which
*ere cut last August, restored to the
•“irate. Judge Dundy was visibly
«cited when addressing the attor
leys. He said:
"U it is stated that such a cut has
made in the wages of these men
«®nected with this organization—or
Wside of it—on this railroad, when
Mel's who are drawing higher pay
*,ve been so highly favored, I will
*e that those who are drawing less
pv.™ill he treated the same way and
"ill advise that the old pay be re
wed. still it is but fair to the other
that they should have notice,
on have to rely a great deal on the
stimony of railroad men in these
,es’ and they should have notice,
11 tv suggest the propriety, when
r. Dickinson returns, of making the
get
again
^°w I have got myself into diffi
. lly as you can readily see by follow
(? the example Judge Jinkins
»] e Jn ^*e Northern Pacific case
'•n he allowed a schedule reducing
• pay and binding in order that
jpws were bound to comply with it
•n no notice, not a minute, was
Len- 1 do not propose to
5,*1' a that shap
. be denounced in open
ti”rt where I have to preside at
J°es' I followed his order, though
he i'Vas ^ess atringent than his when
toil. not 8'ive the men a minute’s
ov < an<^ u°w I am denounced all
thfJT i country for doing the very
bis.” i e when I was following a
pnJ°”ent l18 set. My term of court
but 'lJ,nces st Norfolk on Monday,
j„l lf necessary I will postpone that
tfais'cas r t0 **ave 8 speedy hearing in
.If you want to make application to
»od oi116 °1^ Pay restored, I want you
the ever.v other one of the employes on
I,, r"a'l to understand that if they
film cn wronged by the reduction
«nintaey not have to join any
Hid i *■? a hearing, because, as I
the*, *orei I will hear one' person
bun i , a grievance, or I will hear a
»nd'rc' or 8 thousand, or four thous
~as they claim to have in this
, a and I will make no distinction
„\'{'en the parties.
■Kade the prder in the first in
•Unce vrheh this order was mads
27,-,*lvin? and granting
'jffht t° employes to come Into
U th^ matterdetermined
It *hyi * }* grieved. But some of
ol doin» that com
»t t threatening letters
•‘.me and ignored the order I
“e^e .,or. their benefit. I simply
authorized the receivers to put in
mldt ^e “chedule that hadP been
Slf J n d not order them to. It
was whoily unlike the one in the
fuda«ltn uifio case- There the
i“,dfre “ making the order, which I
followed, not only did what I did, but
directed and ordered the receivers to
put it into force, and I never did that.”
HILL ON THE TARIFF.
Ha I* to Makn an Address la the Senate
Wabhwoton, April 7.—In the senate
Mr. Hill of New York gave notice
that at 3 o’clock next Monday he
would submit a few remarks on the
pending tariff bill. 8ome amusement
was created by the introduction of
the following resolution by Mr.
George of Mississippi:
T1iaf'ln Tlew of the present de
ow Srt the people, the
Pt‘« o* ••r'cmtnral and otner^rSducM;
HXJSSfSX&WJ* the in
Sudfolarr^be6 dir«*» "SSmUtee oS the
directed to prepare a bill to re*
teruuf*er ?ent 411 incomes not pro
tected by the statutes of the United States
The resolution was referred, in ac
cordance with its terms, while some
of the senators indulged in good
natured bandiage at the expense of
Mr. George, Senator Gray remarking
sotto voice that it was worse than an
income tax.
At the request of Senator Hans
brough of North Dakota the Benate
took up the bill appropriating $1,000,
000 for the destruction of the Russian
thistle.
At 3 o’clock the tariff bill was laid
before the senate as unfinished busi
ness, and the thistle bill went over
without action. Mr. Peffer was rec
ognized, but Mr. Call asked the sena
tor to yield for a motion to go into ex
ecutive session, which Mr. Peffer
agreed to do on condition that it
would not last too long and that he
should be entitled to the floor when
the senate resumed its open session.
Mr. Harris, however, who asked Mr.
Peffer not to yield, as he did not wish
the tariff bill interfered with, ob
jected to the motion of Mr. Call and
demanded the yeas and nays. The
roll was called and the motion pre
vailed—31 to 19—and the senate went
into executive session, which lasted
until 5:10 p. m., when the senate
promptly adjourned.
FARM STATISTICS.
Those of Missouri and Kansas Summar
ised ln a Census Bulletin.
Washington, April 7.—In a census
bulletin just issued, giving the farm
statistics for the United States, Mis
souri and Kansas are thus summar
ized.
MISSOURI.
Number of farms. 198,011
Acres Improved. 19,792,813
Acres unimproved. 10,987,077
Total acres. 90.780,290
Value land, fences and buildings... 1029,868,901
Value Implements and machinery. 21,839,719
Value live stock on band June 1,
1890. 1:8,701,173
Estimated value of farm products,
1889. 109,751,021
Number of horses. 916,101
Number of mules. 261.711
Total number of cattle. 2,869,710
Swine. 1,997,432
Sheep not including spring lambs.. 959.562
Pounds of wool. 4,010,081
KANSAS.
Number of farms. 163,617
Improved acres . 22, ill ,Sol
Acres unimproved. 7,911,195
Total acres. 3),214,156
Value land, fences and buildings—1559,726,016
Value Implements and machinery... 18,869,790
Value live stock on hand June 1,1890 128,068,306
Estimated value farm product, 1889 96,070,080
Number of horses. 930.905
Mules. 96,937
Total cattle. 8,188 023
Swine. 4,022,9 <8
Sheep. 401,192
Pounds of wool. 2,2oi,240
NATIONAL BANK FINANCES.
Summary of Their Condition Coder the
Recent Call of the Comptroller.
Washington, April 7.—Reports
from all of the 3,777 national banks in
the country, under the recent call,
have been received by the comptroller
of the currency. A summary of these
reports show, the lawful money re
serve on February 38, 1894, to
have been $133,^80,201, made
up of the following items:
Gold coin. $134,904,830; gold
treasury certificates, $06,450,110; gold
clearing house certificates, $7,825,000;
silver dollars, $7,741,303; silver treas
ury certificates, $43,181,160; silver
fractional coin, $6,Of 8,278. Total
specie, $356,166,585; legal tender notes,
$142,768,676; United States certifica
tes for deposit for legal tender notes,
$35,045,000. The aggregate reserve
on December 19, 1893, the date of the
last call, was $414,135,407.
Appropriation Bills in the House*
Washington, April 7.—The house
spent the day in committee of the
whole. After soma good natured
banter by Mr. Reed on the subject of
the “billioju-dollar congress,” the
urgency deficiency bill was taken up.
The bill, which carries something
oyer #1,000,000, was passed with one
important amendment providing for
the continuation of the census bureau
until March 4, 1895, and providing for
the publication of a condensed volume
of 250 pages of an abstract of all the
data procured by the census.
After the deficiency bill was dis
posed of, the consideration of the
postofiice appropriation bill was re
sumed. Only one amendment was
adopted—setting aside #30,000 for
the establishment of star routes to
new postoffices.
Simpson Want* a Ship Canal.
Washington, April 7.—Representa
tive Simpson of Kansas is preparing a
joint resolution which he will soon
submit to congress, proposing an in
ternational commission between the
United States and Canada for a system
of canals and waterways closely con
necting the great lakes with the At
lantic ocean. Mr. Simpson, who sailed
the lakes in his early days, is an ex
pert on the matter.
4 Caucus on the State Bank Issue.
. Washington, April 7.—Over 150
.Democratic members of the house to
day united in a request to Chairman
Holman of the Democratic caucus for
a caucus on the state bank question
next Tuesday. ,
ONION PACIFIC MEN.
THEY ARBWINNERSINTHB FED
ERAL COURT.
Jadye Oftldwill Doeldos In Thslr Tiror—*
*»!• Sehednlo nnd Regulations of
Post to Contlnoo In EffKt—Oood
Words Spoken for the Labor Orgnalao*
tloa The Reoelrert Indirectly Rebaked
by tbs Coart—An Important Decleion.
Union Pacino Wage Schedule.
Omaha, Nob., April A—United
States Circuit Judge Caldwell’s decis
ion in the Union Pacific wage sched
ule case was rendered this morning
and was a complete victory for the
employes. The opinion was lengthy,
and went into the history of the
Union Paclfio schedules and appoint
ment of receivers.
Judge Caldwell said that when a
court of equity took upon itself the
conduct and operation of a great line
of trail road, the men engaged in eon
ducting the business and operating
the road became the employes of the
court, and were subject to its orders
in all matters relating to the discharge
of their duties, and entitled to its
protection. An essential and in
dispensible requisite to the safe and
successful operation of the road is the
employment of sober, intelligent, ex
perienced and capable men for that
purpose. When a road comes under
the management of a court in which
the employes are conceded to possess
these qualifications—and that conces
sion is made in the fullest manner
here—the court will not upon light or
trivial grounds, dispense with their
services or reduce their wages. And
when the schedule or wagesln force at
the time the court assumes the man
agement of the road is the result of a
mutual agreement between the com
pany and the employes which has
been in force for years, the court will
presume the schedule is reasonable
and just and any on6 disputing that
presumption will be required to over
throw it by satisfactory proofs. This
the court contends has not been done
by the receivers, although they had
all recommended that a cut be made.
It is the court’s belief that the re
ceivers made the request ignorantly
as only one of them is a practical
railroad man and their opinions upon
the subject of wage schedules is con
fessedly of little value. The court
shares in their anxiety to have an
economical administration of this
trust to the end that those that own
the property and have liens upon it
may get out of it what is fairly their
due.
The wages of the men, the judge
went on, must not be reduced below a
reasonable and just compensation for
their services. They must be paid
fair wages, though no dividends are
paid on the stock and no interest on
the bonds. It is a part of the publio
history of the country, of which the
court will take judicial notice, that
for the first.$36,000,000 of stock issued,
the company received less than two
cents on the dollar and the profits of
the construction, represented by out
standing bonds, was 943,020,338.34.
There would seem to be no equity in
reducing the wages of the employes
below what is reasonable and just in
order to pay dividends on stock and
interest on bonds of this character.
BIGHTS or LABOR AND CAPITAL.
The recommendation of the receiv
ers to adopt their schedule cannot be
accepted by the court for another rea
son. That schedule was adopted
without affording to the men or their
representatives any opportunity to be
heard. This was in violation of the
agreement existing between the com
pany and the men, by the terms of
which no change of the schedules was
to be made without notice to the men
and granting them a hearing. This
was a fundamental error. The re
ceivers were the first to break the con
tract between the court and its em
ployes, but if the converse had been
the case the court could not have di
rected or enjoined the men to con
tinue in its service. Specific perform
ance of a contract to render personal
service cannot be enforced by injunc
tion, by pains and penalties or by any
means. The period of compulsory
personal service, save as a punish
ment for crime, has passed in this
country. In this country it is not un
lawful for employes to associate,
consult and confer together with a
view to maintain or increase their
wages by lawful and peaceful means
any more than it was unlawful for
the receivers to counsel and confer to
gether for the purpose of reducing
their wages. A corporation is organ
ized capital; organized labor is organ
ized capital; what it is lawful for one
to do is lawful for the other to do.
The system of rules and regulations
by which the company has been able
to bring into service and retain for
twenty-five years, in some instances,
the class of men who have appeared
before the court at this hearing is
certainly commendable, and meets
the entire approval of this court. In
the opinion of the court the allowance
made by the schedules now in force
are just and equitable. The employes,
under the present system, share the
burdens of diminished business.
THJC JUDGE’S COSCLUSIOWS.
In conclusion Judge Caldwell said:
"We may be indulged in giving ex
pression to the hope that in future
differences about wages between
courts and their employes, at least,
and we would fain hope that between
all employers and employes, resort
may be had to reason and not
to passion, to the law and not to
violence, to the courts and not to
a strike. It is a reproach to our civili
sation that such differences should re
sult, as they often have, in personal
violence, loss of life, destruction of
property, loss of wages to the men
and loss of earnings to the employer,
and, when they occur on great lines
of railroad, great damage and incon
venience to the public.”
After the decision had been ren
dered, the engineers who had been
attending the conference, adopted a
series of resolutions thanking Judge
Caldwell for his fairnes a
Petitions were presented to the
judge to restore the pay of the month
ly employes which were cut last Sep
tember and also to give employes con
trol of the hospital funda The judge
said he could not take.tiae to receive
•liher of these and advised the men
to first present them to the receivers
I for action.
SBIONIORAOB BILL DEAD.
Th» inn Rtfuw to Fm* tl over the
Pnildint'i Vato.
Washihgtoh, April 8.—As mob m
the house met yesterday the Republl
cobs commenced their filibustering
tactics to prevent the unseating of
Hilborn, Republican of California.
The resolution, however, finally car*
ried by a vote of 170 to 13, and the
resolution to seat Mr. English was
adopted by a vote of 105 to 17, the
Republicans declining to vote.
Mr. Bland then called up the
seigniorage bill, returned by the
president without his approval, and
moved that it pass, the objection of
the executive to the contrary notwith
standing.
Mr. Tracey of New York raised the
question of consideration against it,
and Mr. Bailey made the point of
order that the constitution required
the consideration of a bill returned
with a veto, and that the question of
consideration therefore should not be
raised against it. The speaker sus
tained the point of order.
Mr. Bland stated that on Saturday
at 3 o'clock he would demand the pre
vious question. From all quarters of
the Democratic side there seemed to
be a general desire to avoid the con
flict of opinion in debate, and Mr.
Bland’s suggestion of three days' de
bate was met with a chorus of cries of
“Vote, vote.”
Then followed ope of the most re
markable scenes witnessed in the
house in years. The Republicans were
euchered out of their chance of see
ing the dissensions in the Democratic
ranks thoroughly aired. Mr. Tracey
who was standing in a side aisle, said
that as far as the Democrats of the min
ority of the coinage committee were
concerned they were willing to take a
vote immediately. This statement
was received with shouts of applause
from the Democratic side. Mr. Tracey
went on to say, however, he had not
conferred with the Republicans of
the committee, and suggested that he
would like to have the opinion of Mr.
C. W. Stone of Pennsylvania, who
made the minority report against the
Mr. Stone replied, after conferring
a moment with those about him on
, the Republican side, that the debate
in the house when the seigniorage bill
was passed had been so limited he
was unwilling to enter into
any agreement to close the
debate at this time. When
he ceased speaking there was great
confusion on the floor. Members on
bath sides were conferring in groups.
The speaker, with uplifted gavel, sur
veyed the house for a moment. Mr.
Bland expressed a willingness to have
the vote taken immediately. Mr.
Reed, Mr. Burrows, Mr. Dingley and
Mr. Stone were in earnest consulta
tion to the left of the speaker’s ros
trum. As it subsequently appeared
they agreed that Mr. Dingiey should
make the opening argument for his
side. Meantime no one addressed the
chair and the speaker stated the ques
tion to be on the motion to pass the
bill, the president's objection to the
contrary notwithstanding.
The Republicans made strenuous
efforts to have the veto discussed, and
pandemonium reigned for a time, but
the speaker choked them off and
ordered the roll call to proceed.
The Republicans were beside them
selves with anger. They refused to
vote on the first roll call. The anti
silver Democrats were in despair, as
the first roll call gave the silver
men the necessary two-thirds.
Finally, after a * consultation
they agreed to vote and did
vote on the second roll call. This
turned the tide, and upon the an
nouncement of the vote it was found
the motion to pass the bill over the
veto had been defeated, the silver
men lacking 74, the necessary two
thirds. The house then at 5 o’clock
adiourned.
THE PBENPEROAST CASE.
Execution Postponed Until July 9—la aa
Awful Tangle.
Chicago, Aprils.—Assassin Prender
gast will not be hanged before July 3,
and not until May 31 will the investi
gation into the condition of his mind
be commenced. Such was the order
issued by Judge Chetlain yesterday.
The defense insisted on the case be
ing tried before a jury from the reg
ular venire, and to this the state’s at
torney stoutly objected. He insisted
a special venire should be made, as he
wanted ‘‘men of-intelligence,” not the
kind of men to be found on the regu
lation jury.
When the hearing came up before
Judge Chetlain it was agreed- that
only one continuance should be made
and that one long enough to provide
for the full trial of the case. The
state asked for four months and the
defense asked for two weeks more.
The trial of the case was reckoned to
take a month and consequently the
dates of May 31 and July 3 were
agreed upon. The case is now in an
awful tangle, and neither State's At
torney Kern, Special Counsel Trude,
upon whom the burden of the prose
cution rests, nor the attorneys for the
defense are prepared to say what will
be the outcome.
STOCK OF WHEAT.
Statement of Visible and Invisible Supply
Submitted to Congress.
Washington, April The report
of the secretary of agriculture in re*
ply to the resolution of Senator Petti
grew calling for a statement of the
visible and invisible supply of wheat
was submitted to the Senate.
The total supply on March 1,
1893, he states, was 610,000,000
bushels. Exports from March 1, 1393,
to March 1, 1894, consumption from
March 1. 1893, to March 1, 1894, amount
in farmers’ hands March 1, 1893,
and visible supply March 1, 1894, he
states amounted to 729,000,000 bushels,
which he gives as the total amount
distributed and available for distri
bution. The apparent discrepancy is
119.000. 000 bushels. The supply on
hand March 1, 1894, he says, was
190.000. 000. The probable consumption
from March 1 to July 1, 1894, he puts
at 121,000,000 bushels, leaving 69,000,
000 bushels available for export from
| March 1 to July 1, 1894.
IT IS A BOCKX BOAD
THAT BROTHKR BRECKENRIDQE
HAS TO TRAVEL.
A Croas-Bsansintttloa that Mate Rim
Squirm—R* i>«bIm Point Aftsr ratal—
Hit Oaflaltloa of Expression of ASto
tloa Finely Drawn—Nsvor Mate a Pro*
toatatlon of Loro to the Plaintiff—Mra
Blaekbarn'a Evidence Mildly Denied,
Breekenrldge on tha Raok.
Wuhuotox, April S. — Colonel
Breokinrldge looked quite pale when
he atepped into the witness place this
morning1. The first question Attorney
Wilson asked him was whether he
had ever been in Goldsboro to which
he replied that he had been in the
little hamlet once to make a speech
at a little barbecue which he thought
was in 1880 or 1888. He did not re
member the colored woman who
opened the door at No. 1810 H street
the day after he took luncheon there
in April last (as heretofore testified
to) nor having complimented her on
the lunoheon.
"Did you not say to her that when
you and Madeline went to keeping
house you wanted her to come and
cook for you?" was asked.
“That is entirely fanciful. I never
said anything of the sort to any color
ed woman."
“Did she not say that she had been
in service in that family a long time
and did not want to leave?"
“No such conversation could have
occurred."
Referring to Breckinridge’s state
ment that he had made no protesta
tions of love to Miss Pollara on the
occasion of the momentous carriage
ride, Mr. Wilson asked him when he
first began to talk to her affection
ately.
“1 never did make protestations of
love. I talked to her kindly, encour
agingly, when she was depressed; en
deavored to get her to do something
to make a place in the world for her
self. I spoke solicitously to her, par
ticularly when I first learned that she
was in trouble, having the interest in
her that a man might for a young un
married woman with whom his life
has become interwoven."
EXPRESSIONS OF LOVE DENIED. •
“There were no expressions of af
fection?"
“There were expressions of affeo
tlonate interest, but not such as oould
be construed into an intimation that
our relations could be on a different
basis than they were.”
“Then it was a sort of business in
terest for her welfare?”
“Expressions of kindly interest.”
“Were the expressions which might
be understood by her to be expres
sions of love?'
Breckinridge wished to draw the
distinction carefully between expres
sions and demonstrations. He said
there was nothing but perfect under
standing on their part of their rela
tions.
“There were no expressions of love
on her part?”
“I would not say that. She was
at times very demonstrative; at times
otherwise.”
“Your relations were those of lust
rather than love?”
“1 would not say that. She was a
young woman of colloquial talents,
sprightly and interesting.”
“And do you think that a man is
under obligations to prevent the de
struction of a young woman?"
Most assuredly I do, and if he does
not he should be punished. I have
had my punishment and am trying to
take it without complaint."
Mr. Wilson asked when the subject
of marriage had first been mentioned
between them, to which the colonel
replied that it was September, 1803,
when she first spoke of going to Ber
lin. He had told her that for many
reasons, among them the disparity in
their ages, that since he knew what
he did of her relations to Rhodes, and
that as she had bled him three years
and then thrown him away like a
sucked orange, marriage between
them was impossible.
RELATIONS CAREFULLY RIDDEN.
Then Mr. Wilson got affirmative
answers to the questions that Miss
Pollard had associated with the best
families of Kentucky in the city, hod
lived in houses of the highest respect
ability and was a brilliant young
woman.
“Your relations were carefully con
cealed,” asked the attorney, “so that
there were no impediments in that
direction?"
“We had endeavored to conceal
them, but they were known to several
people.”
“There was never from you any
proposal of marriage?”
“Never under any circumstances,"
most emphatically.
“Then it was understood that you
were to carry out the semblance of a
marriage contract which you both
understood was never to be fulfilled?"
“There was a semblance of a con
tract to be carried out before only
one living person, and that person
Mrs. Governor Blackburn."
After more fencing Breckinridge
stated that the contract before Mrs.
Blackburn had been made to enable
Miss Pollard to die out of his life and
separate from Mrs. Blackburn. The
examination then went on:
“And with a view to enabling her
to die out of your life and Mrs. Black
burn's you took her to Mrs. Blackburn
and said you would place her under
Mrs. Blackburn's care?”
“I did not. My recollection and the
recollection of Mrs. Blackburn upon
that point differ as to the meaning’ of
my words.”
“And you went to see Mrs. Black
burn again alone?”
“I went to see her several times
afterward.”
“And you caressed the plaintiff in
.her presence, as a part of that decep
tion?”
“I did not caress the plaintiff. 1
will explain that.”
“But what passed there was for the
purpose of carrying out the decep
tion?”
“Indubitably."
ASSUMED NAMES AFTER MARRIAGE.
In further cross examination Mr.
Wilson brought out the fact that in
filling out the certificate of marriage
of Mrs. Wing to Colonel Breckinridge
it wasjmade to appear that the mar
--—..-.. .
rlifiWM thd colonel'* second, whn
it «ii really hie third; that he had
asked Dr. Paxton not to- make that
marriage public,' and that after hie
marriage with Mrs. Wing he stopped
with her at the hotel Loereau in New
York, registering aa William J. Camp* ,
bell and wife. Ho could not recall at
that time that he had sent certain
telegrams to Mrs. lilackburn.
"Do you deny," asked Mr. Wilson, >
"that you said to- Mrs. lilackburn *1
Intend to murry this young woman■%
when a sufficient time haa elapeed
after the denth of my wife?’ "
"My recollection is that nothing
was said about my wifo at that inter*
view. Mrs. lilackburn seems to have
contused that with a subsequent in* >
All of Mrs. Blackburn's statements
being read to him categorically, the
colonel said that Mrs. Blackburn's
recollection diffored on all those
points from his own. He denied that
be had said that he was thirty-one
years older than the plaintiff, and
was sure that he had not said that she
supposed he was foolish to marry a
woman so much younger than himself.
He was sure that Mrs Blackburn
must hare confused things said by
the plaintiff about the matter with
what he said and must havo put Into
her own language her understanding
of his statements.
"I have no recollection of that,"
Breckinridge said of Mrs. Blackburn's
recital that on his second yislt he had
said that ha noticed she was much
shocked by the announcement of bis
engagement.
"I am sure I have no reoolleetlon of
that," Breckinridge said when con
fronted with Mrs Blackburn's state
ment that he was giving a poor return
for all the devotion of his wife.
“I deny that that occurred in that
way and in that connection," was the
answer when Mr. Wilson pinned him
down to a dlreot statement regarding
his story to Mrs. Blackburn that, be
ing a man of honor, he had been
obliged to propose marriage to Miss
Pollard on discovering her feelings
toward him.
"Now Mrs. Blackburn says that she
told you you had an unusually high
sense of honor in that connection.
Do you deny that?" Mr. Wilson per
sisted.
"I deny that I have any recollection
of it having happened in that way."
Breckinridge's version of the con
versations between himself and Mrs
Blackburn regarding the trip to Eu
rope differed radically from that
lady’s as did his memory of
what she said about being
obliged to withdraw her protection
from Miss Pollard unless they were
more discreet in their conduct. "That
did not happen in that form and in
that connection," he said, and the
answer was substantially the same re
garding his (Breckinridge's) request
that Mrs. Blackburn should go to
New York with the plaintiff until
they were married.
"I was,” said Breckinridge, "urging
her so far as I could without exciting
her suspicion to get the young woman
ont of town. I endeavored to leave
the impression on her mind always that
we were engaged. If I may use
such a word, I was honestly endeavor
ing to carry out the contract with
Miss Pollard to deceive her, and I do
not blame Mrs. Blackburn for feeling
a little acerbity."
"Do you deny that?" Mr. Wilson de
manded, after reading Mrs. Blaok
burn’s testimony regarding his de
scription of the interest he felt in
Miss Pollard and of the standing of
her family.
"I have no recollection of that, and
my recollection is that it happened in
a different way,” was the final an
swer. "Mm Blackburn puts her own
construction on my words."
TO TAX THB GREENBACKS.
The Boom Banking Committee Reports
in Favor of a Radical Change.
Washington, April By a vote of
8 to 5 the house committee on banking
and currency decided to-day to report
in favor of subjecting greenbacks to
state and municipal taxation. The bill
was Introduced by Representative
Cooper of Indiana and is regarded as
an important one bearing on the gen
eral currency-question. Representative
Springer of Illinois was the only Dem
ocrat to vote against reporting the
bill and Representative Walker of
Massachusetts the only Republican to
vote in favor of it.
Representative Caminetti of Cali
fornia. introduced in the house to-day
a resolution for the holding of a con
ference of nations of the Western'
hemisphere to draft treaties looking
to remonetization of silver.
CASH FOR THE CHEROKEES.
Nearly She Bad Three-Qsartar Million Dol
lar* In Currency on Deposit.
New York, April 5.—In the sub
treasury yesterday a group of admir
ing officials surrounded a pile of paper
currency, the dlmenslona of which
were about thirty cubio feet It rep
resented 88,740,000, and waa the mon
ey paid in by R. T. Wilson and com
pany, the Wall street bankers, for the
bonds of the Cherokee nation, which
were awarded to them after a long
fight
• It was not an easy matter to get
this amount of currency, but the
Union trust company finally supplied
it, and in the afternoon it was put in
a cab and taken to the subtreasury.
The money is in all denominations,
from 1,000 dollar bills to tens. It will
remain in the subtreasury until the
Cherokee nation demands the whole
or any part of it.
Killed the Elephant*
Wichita, Kan., April 5.—George, a
big elephant belonging to Howe &
Cushing’s show, got on a rampage ^
yesterday, and his keeper is now in
the hospital. A new keeper then
took charge and had the elephant
strapped down and beaten with stake
pins and bored with red hot irons. A
terrible struggle took place between
keepers and the animal, and then in
the fight that ensued the elephant was
badly hurt and died at noon yester
day. _
One Tliuiuand Mouses Destroyed.
Shanghai, April 5.—Last night a •>
fire broke out in that part of Shanghai
occupied by the natives and despite
all the efforts made to check the
flames they spread in every direction.
The fire burned all night destroying
I 1,000 houses.
