POPULISM DEFENDED.
NEBRASKA'S SENIOR SENATOR
'TAKES THE FLOOR.
^ .It
i« East Called Down—Not the Slightest
Danger that the Dominant Party In
Nebraska and Kansas Will Be Unjust to
Anyone—Senator Hoar's Remarks Re
plied To.
Hot Shot From Senator Allen.
Washington, Dec. 1.5—Mr. Teller of
Colorado made his appearance cn the
floor of the senate to-day for the first
time since the session opened. He was
•cordially greeted by his associates on
both sides of the chamber.
The vice president announced the
■ dames of Messrs. Sherman of Ohio,
Elkins of West Virginia and Mitchell
•of Wisconsin as a committee to arrange
for the coming inauguration of the
President-elect in accordance with a
resolution introduced by Mr. Sherman.
After some other routine business.
Mr. Allen, Populist, of Nebraska called
• up the resolution introduced by him
self last week declaring the sacredness
■of contracts, devoting himself to a
refutation of the charge that the legis
lation in states which had elected Popu
list legislatures, such as Kansas and
Nebraska, would be such as to retard,
if not prohibit, the enforcement of
legal contracts and of legal obligations.
.V He declared that so far as Nebraska
\?was concerned: ‘-There is not the
7 slightest ground to fear that anything
y will be done that will in any respect
violate legal obligations or place a
barrier across the pathway of their
prompt and effectual enforcement. ”
populists will be just to all.
“The Populist party of Nebraska,”
Mr. Allen went on, “is composed of
■men who understand quite as well the
inviol ability of all contracts, as well
as the sacredness of public and private
property and the right of citizens.
The party was not born'to destroy,
hut to build up and make more secure
the rights of all, and to give to all that
full measure of justice their position
as members of society entitles them to.
“Those who live elsewhere and have,
or may have, obligations against the
state, or any of its subdivisions, or
citizens, will not be deprived of enter
ing our courts and enforcing
them as fully and completely as
they can in the courts of their own
state. They will find no prejudice
against them or their cause if meri
torious. Our judges will compare
favorably with those of the oldest
•states in the Union in the point of
ability, integrity, and a knowledge of
the duties of their offices. They will
hold the scales of justice impartially
between residents and non-residents;
they will enforce all legal obligations
in their letter and spirit, and defeat
those in violation of law. They are, in
•every conceivable respect, abreast of
the times, and fully armed and equip
ped by character and education, to im
partially discharge their duties without
fear or favor.
“Eastern holders of stocks in our
^■•trailway corporations sometimes ex
Vpress fear of hostile legislation, and I
desire to say to them that such a feel
ling is groundless. While I do not
doubt that the legislature will enact
measures looking to the prevention of
overcapitalization, wild and reckless
management, and will take strong
grounds against railways interfering
In political matters and favoring one
, political party by the free service of
their trains to the rigid exclusion of
others from a like privilege, yet so far
as equitable and just passenger and
freight rates are concerned there will
be nothing done of which any fair
minded man may justly complain.”
'MASSACHUSETTS SHARPLY RAPPED.
"Mr. Alien also declared that there
would be no disposition to legislate so
as to injure the beet sugar factories of
* the state, as had been charged would
be done, and he replied vigorously to
a quotation from a banquet speech
said to have been made by Senator
Hoar before the Home Market club in
Boston in November, in which the
Massachusetts senator was represented
as characterizing the efforts of the
Democrats and Populists, especially of
Kansas and Nebraska, as a “crazy at
tempt at revolution and a passionate
crusade of dishonor.” “Nebraska,”
said ne, in reply to tftis, has never
engaged in a revolution that was not
pacific and lofty in' its character and
directly within the true province of a
Christian government.
- “I do not speak of this misrepresent
ation as strongly as I feel, but I must
be permitted to say that it was an un
warranted, gratuitous open and fla
grant insult to an honest, intelligent,
poor but struggling Christian people.
■The percentage of illiteracy in Nebras
ka is smaller than in Massachusetts.
Her churches and schools, according to
lier population, are fully as numerous
And as well equipped to impart Chris
tian and secular education as are those
of Massachusetts. Our charitable in
stitutions are among the finest of the
■world; our people are industrious, eco
nomical, honest, intelligent, persever
ing and loyal.
“It cannot be truthfully said of
Nebraska that she joined in a crazy
■and dishonorable crusade to enforce
the provisions of a brutal fugitive slave
law. Her people have never been
guilty of mobbing one of their own
citizens for no greater offense than
raising his voice against oppression and
wrong. The stillness of her atmos
phere has not been broken by the ap
peals for assistance of cringing met
and defenseless women and children,
guilty of no offense but fleeing to her
soil for freedom, only to be captured
and placed in chains by her citizens
and returned to servitude for a reward.
NO BLOT ON NEBRASKA'S RECORD.
“Whatever may be said of Nebraska,
■ebe has not been guilty of any of these
crimes against the laws of God and
civilization. She has never dishonored
her foremost citizen, when living, for
extolling the cause of liberty, and
placed wreaths on his grave, when
dead, because he had been the friend
of liberty. She has done none of
these, and no dishonor of this kind at
taches to her name or imperils her
glory.”
Mr. Allen said that he understood
perfectly that there were those who
sad been born and lived in Massachu
setts who had conceived a most bitter
hatred fpr the West and every
thing Western, and who believed
that neither good nor intelligence
could he found in that section of the
country, but he declared that the
patriotism of the people of Nebraska
was as broad and limitless as her
plains; their Christianitysense of
duty os pure and untainted as her at
mosphere. Never thus far in the his-,
tory of the state had she been guilty
of dishonor, and never as long as in
telligence should be predominant and
God should reign in the hearts of her
people would she be guilty of anything
that would place a stain upon her good
name.
MACEO WAS ASSASSINATED.
Betrayed by Hla Doctor and Foully Mur
dered by the Spanish
Jacksonviu-e, Fla., Dec. 15.—Colonel
J. A, Juan, head of the Florida branch
of the Cuban junta, received a letter
from a trusted correspondent in Ha
vana which fully confirmed the report
of the death of General Antonio Maceo,
the famous Cuban leader, and further
declared that Maceo and his entire
staff, except Dr. Zertucha, his phy
sician, had been assassinated Decem
ber 7 while on his way to attend a con
ference to which he had been invited
by the Marquis Ahumada, acting cap
tain general during General Weyler’a
absence from Havana in the field.
According to the correspondent the
Marquis Ahumada sent a letter to Gen
eral Maceo inviting him to a confer
ence near Punta Brava, stating that he
desired to discuss with him as to some
means of stopping bloodshed and the
great waste of human life. Maceo,
wno was tne soul 01 honor, never for a
moment thought treachery was in
tended, especially as the invitation
came from such a noted Spaniard as
the marquis, and he immediately re
turned an answer, saying he would be
glad to meet the Spanish general.
Attended by his staff only, consist
ing of thirty-five men and officers,
Maceo went to the rendezvous. On his
arrival at the trocha the Spanish sol
diers there, acting under orders, salut
ed the rebel chieftain as he passed, but
after reaching the rendezvous on the
east side, near a hillside thickly wood
ed, the Cuban leader was surprised to
see, instead of the Marquis of Ahuma
da, a large body of Spanish soldiers.
Maceo felt that he had been cruelly
trapped, and his suspicions were con
firmed when peremptory orders came
from Major Cirujeda, who dashed up
to the Cuban leader as he stood sur
rounded by his staff and demanded his
unconditional surrender.
“Never,” was the brave reply, and
hardly had the words been uttered
when volley after volley was poured
into ths little band, who, although
hemmed in on all sides and outnum
bered almost one hundred to one,
struck spu-^i to their horses, with cries
of “Cuba Libre,” and rode gallantly to
their death, striking down as many of
the enemy as they could.
MACEO AND HIS MEN SHOT DOWN.
Maceo is reported to have fallen at
the first fire with a bullet through his
head, which broke his jaw, while an
other hit him in the abdomen.
Young Francisco Gomez, son of the
Cuban commander in chief, was the
next to fall, and in a few moments
bloody corpses, all shot almost beyond
recognition, so fierce and concentrated
was the Spanish fire, were all that re
mained of the gallant Cubans, who had
trusted to Spanish honor. Only one
member of the staff escaped—Dr. Zer
tucha. This, the Cubans regard as
very peculiar.
The letter declares that the corpses
were buried in the field, and every
precaution taken to keep the details of
the horrible assassination from being
made pub1
OFFEKo OK ASSIS TANCE,
Many Tenders of Aid to the Cuban Le
gation at Washington*
Washington, D. C., Dee. 15.—The
headquarters of the Cuban legation in
this city was the center of interest to
a number of 'callers yesterday, who
had come to express to Senor Quesada
their sorrows at the death of General
Maceo, and to offer their sympathy
and in some cases help for the Cuban
cause. These callers included a num
ber of congressmen and two senators
(whose names the Cuban representa
tive declined to disclose), who told him
of their desire to see some action by
congress that be of assistance to the
insurgents.
Senor Quesada' says he has received
during the past few days about fifty
letters, many of which come from per
sons and organizations offering to send
men to assist the Cubans in fighting
for liberty. Among the states and
cities represented in these letters are:
Washington, Wyoming, Kansas, In
dianapolis, Buffalo, Evansville, Ind.,
and Waterbury, Conn. Responsive to
these letters, Mr. Quesada authorizes
his former statement that the Cubans
have enough men and leaders to gain
the cause for which they are fighting.
They can avail themselves of 60,000
men and more if necessary, but what
they need is arms and ammunition and
medicine for the sick and wounded.
Turnpike Bights Upheld.
Washington, Dec. 15.—In the su
preme court of the United State;
to-day Justice Harlan delivered the
opinion in the case of the Covington
and Lexington Turnpike road com
pany vs. Sanford and others. The ac
tion grew out of the act of the Ken
tucky legislature of 1890, prescribing
rates of toll which the turnpike com
pany refused to observe. Sanford and
others brought suit to compel accept
ance of the act. The case was decided
by the Kentucky court of appeals in
favor of the law. The decision to-day
reversed this on the ground that the
law in question violated the Fourteenth
amendment by taking the property ol
the turnpike company without due
process of law.
Commissioner Veascy’s Successor.
Washington, Dec. 15.—Whcelock G.
Veasey of Vermont sent his resigna
tion to President Cleveland as a mem.
ber of the interstate commerce com
mission because of ill health due to
a heatstroke. The President at once
named Charles R. Prouty of Vermont
to the vacancy.
NOT FOE AGITATION
AN ADDRESS ISSUED TO THE
BIMETALLISTS.
S
Adrien Olran and Agitation Frowned
Down—Silver Men Urged to Modera
tion In Order that the Hepnblleans Maj
Bare a Fair Show of Carrying Onl
Their Policy — Confident that Thetl
Canto Will Win.
Address to Bimetallists.
Saw Francisco, Dec. 14.—Charles D.
Lane, chairman of the national Bi
metallist party, has issued the follow
ing address:
“San Francisco, Dec. 10, 1896. To
the Bimetallists of the United States:
The contest of 1896, which for some
months has engaged public attention,
was determined at the ballot box upon
the 3d ult. in favor of the Republican
candidate.
“While the supporters of Mr. Bryan
and the great-principles which he es
poused have no reason to regret the
efforts made in his behalf, and which
we will renew when occasion requires
it, it is only the part of wisdom to ac
cept with the utmost good faith the
decision of the American people upon
this or any other question submitted
to their deliberative judgment, which
is always sure in the end to be cor
rectly decided by that tribunal.
“Our position was met and antagon
ized by the combined wealth of two
e munents. it was sought to be ob
scured by feigned issues, opprobious
epithetsv dishonest methods and par
tisan zeal. Every intrigue which
wealth could insDire or ingenuity sug
gest was brought to requisition. The
debtor class was threatened by its
creditors, the laboring class by its em
ployers and the patrons of savings
banks and insurance companies were
made the victims of unscrupulous dem
agogues, who declared that their in
vestments in these institutions were
to be sacrified if free coinage of silver
should be accomplished as the result
of the election. These methods of po
litical warfare were as dishonest and
unjust as the advantage gained is
fleeting and destined to ultimate de
feat. No success secured by misrepre-.
sentation can have more than a tem
porary lodgment in the hearts of a
generous and right thinking people
and the result of this election will
prove in the end a more signal victory
for those who went down in apparent
defeat than for those who are now
flushed with apparent victory.
“But the election has been accom
plished, and it is now the duty of
every citizen to accept the result in a!
spirit of patriotism, unsullied by parti
san rancor and unembarassed by fac
tious agitation of the issues which
have just been fought out. While we
as bimetallists still adhere to the con
viction that there can be no permanent
relief to the people based upon the
single gold standard, and that time
will demonstrate the accuracy of our,
position we at the same time regard'
it as a duty enjoined upon every citi
zen to do everything in his power to
assist the President-elect in every ef
fort to promote the welfare of the
people by any policy which he may
consider will accomplish that result..
To this end we earnestly advise all our
friends and coadjutors throughout thel
United States to suspend active agita
tion of the subject of free coinage of!
silver further than a simple mobil
izing of the free silver clubs through
out the union and the keeping up of the.
club rolls for future service. By this
means we shall furnish to our adver
saries every opportunity to fulfill the
promises which they made to the peo
ple during the campaign of restoring'
to the United States that measure of'
prosperity which its resources and!
commercial standing entitles it to cn-.‘
joy among the nations of the earth,
and, if it shall be demonstrated that
the incoming administration shall be
able to accomplish this result of the
people, we shall have no reason to re
gret the outcome of the issue at the
polls. But if, on the contrary, we are
furnished only with broken pledges
and the old makeshift of issuing bends,
the vain attempt to keep up our credit
by running farther into debt, is again
resorted to, we promise to renew the
struggle until bimetallism shall be
come an accomplished fact in the
United States.
“As national chairman of the Bi
metallic party I call upon all of its
forces throughout the United States,
regardless of past party affiliations, to
accept the result with dignity and for
bearance and to join in upholding the
hands of Major McKinley as president
of the United States and to support
him in all of his efforts to increase the
prosperity and wellbeing of the citi
zens of this republic, but in no manner
to abate their eagerness in the cause
of free coinage, so that when it shall
be again necessary to assert the prin
ciple we may be in better condition
from the standpoint of organization
than was possible in the recent strug
gle. It is an old adage that ‘Truth,
crushed to the earth, will rise again,’
and believing as we do, that bimetal
lism is the only refugo for the strug
gling people, we shall stand entrenched
behind this principle and shall await
with anxiety the first opportunity to
establish it as an American policy. ”
Weekly Review of Trade.
I?ew Yobk, Dec. 14.—R. G. Dun &
Co. ’8 weekly review of trade says: The
approach of holidays and doubt about
the action of Congress put off further
improvement until the new year.
'While industries have gained in work
I ing force, they are waiting for com
! mensurato gain in demand, and
meanwhile are trying to clear away
embarrassments which restrict them.
The Proposed Army Appropriation.
Washington, Dec. 14.—The army
appropriation bill for the fiscal year of
18'J8 has been completed by the House
military affairs committee, and Chair
man Hull expects to call it up early
next week. The amount is $23,122,400,
8150,000 less than for the current year
and 8716,000 below the estimates, the
reduction being due to provision for
average instead of full legal strength
I The principal reductions in estimates
are in pay, subsistence and the quar
termaster's department. A provision
is embodied to turn over to the interior
I department the hospital at Hot
I Springs, Ark
SPAIN GREATLY INCENSED.
The Portion of Cleveland'* Melange ttam
le Mot Liked.
Washixgtow, Dec. 15.—The state de
partment has received unofficial ad
vices that the Spanish government is
greatly incensed over that portion of
President Cleveland's message which
practically demands a prompt termina
tion of the civil war in Cuba, with the
alternative of action by the United
States.
The cablegrams published to-day
from Madrid report that a note from
Spain to the European powers will
protest against the attitude of this
country toward Cuba and its hint that
active intervention in the near future
may be necessitated. The state de
partment is not at all disturbed by
these reports, because there is prac
tically no European power to which
such a note could be addressed which
has not been called upon to forcibly
Intervene to protect the property of its
citizens in other countries or colonies
where the nominally dominant govern
ment was unable to do so.
There is no disposition on the part of
the admin istration to change its attitude
towards Spain with respect to Cuba,
unless it shall be compelled to do so on
the lines laid down in President Cleve
land's message, or unless Spanish inso
lence shall compel reprisal on the part
of this government. At the same time
it cannot be denied that there is a
growing sentiment in congress in favor
of forcing in some way a settlement of
the Cuban question before the entire
island shall have been laid waste or
entire provinces desolated and their
inhabitants exterminated by the sav
age methods of warfare of the Span
iards.
The reported assassination of Maceo
was almost the sole topic of conversa
tion on the floor before the House met
to-day, and there was a general expec
tation that some sensational resolu
tions would be introduced.
CALI, BITTER ON MACEO’S DEATH.
In the Senate this afternoon Mr.
Call of Florida presented three sepa
rate resolutions. One announced the
killing of General Antonio Maceo, as
follows:
“Resolved, That the killing of Gen
eral Antonio Maceo, a renowned gen
eral in the service of the republic of
Cuba, if true, while under a flag of
truce and with an assurance of safety
from the Spanish captain general, was
a violation of the rules of civilized
war, an outrage of base treachery, a
murder cowardly and disgraceful,
which demands the execration of every
government and all the world, whether
civilized or savage; that the govern
ment which authorizes, permits oi
fails to punish the assassins who arc
connected in any way with the guili
of this crime, with the extreme pen
alty of the law, is an outcast from the
family of nations and from the pale ol
civilization and public law; that the
committee on foreign relations be di
rected to make inquiry as to the facta
and report to the senate at an early
day.
Another resolution by Mr. Call re
quested the President to demand the
release of all United States citizens im
prisoned in the Spanish penal colony
on the island of Ceuta, off the coast ol
Africa.
A third resolution from Mr. Cal'
asked the secretary of state for a lis<
of all United States citizens imprisoned
in Spanish settlements, with the eirl
’u instances of arrest, charges, convio
tion, etc.
The three resolutions were referred
without comment to the committee oi
foreign relations.
Senor Quesada has documents bean
ing on the treatment of soldiers in
Cuba which he intends to place before
Congress in attempting to secure from
that body action favorable to the in
surgent cause. The Snanlards. he
says, agreed to abide by the terms of
the Geneva Red Cross agreement for
the treatment of soldiers captured in
the war, but failed utterly to keep the
agreement, notwithstanding the Cu
bans treated the Spanish captives with
great magnanimity.
('all* Her Up by ’Phone.
Canton, Ohio, Dec. 15.—One of Majo^
McKinley’s friends to-day remarked
that since Mrs. McKinley is in Chicago
he behaves like a new bridegroom sep
arated for the first time from his
bride. Each morning he anxiously
awaits a telegram of greeting from
her, and each afternoon he calls het
up by long distance telephone for n
chat. He receives nothing but good
reports from her. She has experienced
no inconvenience for her journey; is in
her usual health and enjoying herself
very much.
Kansas Bold Some Liquor.
Washington, Dec. 15.—The annual
report of the commissioner of internal
revenue shows that the collections in
Kansas last year for liquor licenses
were $248,739. The persons who paid
special taxes numbered 3,538, and there
was one rectifier, 3,088 retailers, thir
teen wholesale liquor dealers, twq
brewers, 310 retailers of malt liquors,
two manufacturers of oleomargarine,
seventy-one retailers and one whole
sale dealer in oleomargarine.
Ready to Take a Recess.
Washington, Dec. 15.—When th«
House met to-day. Mr. Dingley, chair
man of the ways and means committee,
presented a concurrent resolution for
a holiday recess from Tuesday, Decem
ber 32, until Tuesday, January 5. The
resolution was adopted without di
vision.
To Fight the Spaniards.
Kokomo, Ind., Dec. 15.—A stranger,
declining to give his name, opened
headquarters here yesterday to recruit
volunteers for the cause of Cuba. He
has succeeded in interesting a number
of people and hopes to muster a full
company in this vicinity to fight the
Spaniards.
A Veteran Hotel Man Dead.
Auroba, Mo., Dec. 15.—Captain B. D.
Fabyan of this city, one of the best
known hotel men in Southwest Mis
souri, died yesterday after a few weeks'
illness._
Tariff Hearings for Two Weeks.
Washington, Dec. 15.—The ways
and means committee of the House to
day decided to begin hearings on the
j tariff on December 38 and continued
I them for two weeks.
FOUR HUNDRED LOST.
THE STEAMER SALIER WRECKED
IN A GALE.
All on Board Drownad—Hot a Boat Es
caped to Tell the Tale—The Ship Weal
to rieeea Doric* a Gale—Had on Board
S40 Passengers and a Craw of 85—
Boand for Booth America.
An Awtnl Lota of Ufa
Loudon, Dec. 12.—A special dispatch
from Berlin says that the Lloyd steam
er Sailer was wrecked Monday night
during a severe gale four miles north
of Villageria, Spain, and two and one
half miles from land. The dispatch
further says that she must have broken
up almost immediately, as parts of the
steamer have already washed ashqre.
She had on board about 340 passengers,
mostly steerage, bound for South
America, and a crew of sixty-flve men.
All on board were drowned. Many of
the passengers were Spaniards, who
embarked Sunday.
Corvnna, Spain, Dec. 11.—The Salicr
was commanded by Captain Wempe
and had a general cargo. It had a
rough passage from Bremen to this
port, two of its boats being swept over
board by the heavy seas which did
other damage.
The steamer struck during a dense
fog and a storm on a ledge of rocks
about two and qne-half miles off Cape
Carrubedo, on her way from this place
to Villa Garcia, where she was to ship
another lot of steerage passengers,
bound for Buenos Ayres. A large
amount of wreckrge is reported to have
washed ashore. The search made for
possible survivors of the wreck has so
far been without result.
The Salier was an old vessels, which
the North German Lloyd company had
agreed to sell to an Italian firm trad
ing between Italy and American ports,
but owing to a slight disagreement as
to terms the deal was not completed,
and the steamer was sent on another
voyage. She was considered to be in
every way seaworthy, and the only
reason the North German Lloyd com
pany had for selling her was that they
desired modern boats of the same line
to take her place. The last trip across
the Atlantic was made in September
last, when she left Baltimore for Bre
men, arriving there safely Septem
ber 23.
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.
Republican* Already at Work Upon the
Heaiure.
WASiniroToif, Dec. 12.—The ways
and means committee of the house will
begin work before the holiday recess
of congress upon the tariff bill, which
is to be the chief feature in the policy
of the incoming administration, and
will endearor to perfect the bill sc
that it may be presented to the house
of the Fifty-fifth congress early in the
special session which President McKin
ley will summon for revising the tariff
laws.
This program was formally decided
upon last night by a conference of the
Republican members of the committee,
held in General Grosvenor's rooms at
the Cochran hotel. It gives semi- offi
cial confirmation to the announcements
a week ago that the President-elect
had concluded to have an extra session
and that the Republican leaders had
abandoned the Dingley bill, the tem
porary measure which was passed by
the House in the last session and
amended with a free silver substitute
by the Senate.
All Republican ways and means men
attended the conference except Mr.
Steele, of Indiana, who was detained.
There will be no sub-committee given
charge of the measure, but the lull
Republican contingent will work to
gether, although the various members
will devote their attention to the par
ticular schedules with which they are
most familiar
According to the trend of discussion,
the reciprocity policy is to he made an
important feature of the Republican
tariff system; even more -important
than it was in the Harrison administra
tion, if a practical scheme can be de
vised.
The conference was of two hours’
duration and the participant! said that
they had been unanimous upon the
policy to be pursued. “A moderate
tariff bill,” they explained, was to be
their object A moderate bill is under
stood to be one whose average rates
would be somewhat lower than the
rates of the McKinley bill of 1890,
though a considerable average advance
over the Wilson-Gorman duties, and
the committeemen said they would not
hesitate to advance rates beyond the
McKinley bill in cases where experi
ence hod shown the advance to be ad
visable.
General Grosvenor and Mr. Dingley,
it is understood, conveyed the views of
the President-elect upon the program
to their colleagues.
LIABLE FOR MISTAKES.
m. ■ *|iu vuiu|)Kuiea nnpouiiuiv
Errors In Irantmlaalon.
Kansas CtTr, Mo., Dec. 11.—The su
preme court of Missouri has made the
important ruling that a telegraph
company is liable for mistakes made
by it in the transmission of telegraphic
messages. The supreme court declares
that the printed contract at the head
of every telegraphic message blank,
providing that the company is not
liable for unrepeated messages, is in
valid. The supreme court in making
this ruling reverses the ruling made
by itself in 1866.
Thirty-two Yean In Building.
New York, Dec. 12.—One more for
midable addition to the navy of the
United States was made yesterday
when the monitor ram Puritan was
formally put in commission at the
j Brooklyn navy yard. It is thirty-two
| years since the keel of the Puritan was
j [aid, and four years since she was
I launched. Now that she is ready for
j service, she is regarded as for defens
! ive purposes superior to navy vessels
of the first class, while for offensive
warfare she is a little inferior to first
class craft. She is 300 feet long and
80 feet,wide, and h'as a displacement
I of 6,200 tons,
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NOTED WOMEN SUICIDE.
■n, aad Miss Caspar of Baa frutlrn
Dii by Gat.
Sait Fbancisco, Deo. IS.—Mrs. Sarah
B. Cooper and her daughter, Harriet
Cooper, were found dead in their homo
in this city this morning- with tha
gas turned on and every evidence of
suicide.
Mrs. Cooper was president of tha
City Kindergarten association, presi
dent of the Women’s Press association,
president of the Woman’s Suffrage as
sociation, and prominent as an officer
of the Woman’s Christian Temperance
union, while her daughter was deputy
kindergarten superintendent. For
many years she taught the largest
bible class in the city in the First Con
gregational churoh, her class number
ing several hundred adults. She was
also assistant pastor of the church
under the pastorate of the Bev. Dr. (X
O. Brown, and had often preached in
Congregational pulpits and engaged in
other departments of Ohristian work.
The Coopers had lived entirely alone
for thirty years here, except for a Chi
nese cook who had been in their em
ploy for twenty years. He has not yet
been found, but it is expected that ho
can throw some light on the tragedy.
When the scandal concerning Dr.
Brown was first talked about, Mra.
Cooper stood by her pastor and ex
pressed confidence in him. Later on •
developments caused her to change
her mind and she and her daughter
became his leading opponents and
accusers after Mrs. Davidson. Much
bitterness in church circles was
engendered by Mrs. Cooper’s state
menu on, the witness stand at
the church trial. Miss Cooper waa
even mqre pronounced than her mother
in opposition to Dr. Brown. The
action estranged many of the old
friends, and the suicide of mother and
daughter is ascribed to brooding over *
the coldness and Bnubs from former
friends. Mrs. Coooper had also of fata
been much worried over the illness of
her daughter, who had been suffering
from nervous prostration caused by
the outcome of the church troubles,
Mrs. Cooper formerly resided in New
Orleans and acted as nurse during tha
war. Her husband and other children
died in New Orleans, the former, it is
said, also by his own hand.
It is said that on several prior occa
sions Harriet Cooper had tried to taka
her life, but this time the mother
seems to have joined the daughter fas
the effort to end their lives.
In her will Mrs. Cooper said that bar
stated intention to commit suicida
would afford sufficient proof to render
unnecessary a coroner's investigation,
and asked that the bodies should nob
be taken to the morgue. Many influ
ential friends tried to have her wishea
carried out, but Coroner Hawkins or
dered both bodies taken to the mqsguas
IMM MIGRATION BILL.
Lodge Bill Substituted for House BUI—
Will Pan the Senate.
Washington, Dec. IS.—The Senate
got into the regular channel of busi
ness yesterday, taking up the immigra
tion bill and partly perfecting it. Tha
disposition to put through the immi
gration bill was shown by the defeat
of a motion by Mr. Gibson of Maryland
to postpone the measure until after tha
holidays. Only thirteen votes, all
Democrats, were given in favor of tha
postponement. The proposition served
to involve Messrs. Chandler, Lodge
and Gibson in several spirited personal
colloquies.
The merits of the immigration ques
tion were discussed in a general way
on several proposed amendments. Mr.
Vest and Mr. Palmer suggested that
limits should be placed on the restric
tions, while Mr. Lodge and Mr. Chand
ler urged that the restrictions be
sweeping in character. The bill waa
not passed upon up to the time of ad
journment, but the Senate agreed to
what is generally known as the Lodge
bill as a substitute to the House meas
ure. The substitute requires that all
immigrants over the age of 14 years
shall be able to read and write their
native language, and shall be required
to read and write in the presence of a
United States official at least five lines
of the United States constitution.
EX-QUEEN LIL IN AMERICA.
The Deposed Heweilan Monarch OoUg
to Washington or England. .• ‘
- San Fkancisco, Dec. 12.—Among
the passengers who landed from
the steamer China from Honolulu
at noon yesterday was ex-Queen..
Llliuokalani and her attendants.
It is said she is on her way to Wash
ington to make a plea to the President
and Congress for her restoration. Some
of the passengers deny this, and say
she is merely going on a pleasure tnp
to England, with the consent of the
Hawaiian government, which recently
pardoned her for complicity in the Ha
waiian uprising.
New Schema for the Cabinet.
Washington, Dec. 12.—Representa
tive Barrett, of Massachusetts, has iin
troduced a bill providing that members,
of the President’s cabinet shall be
chosen from either the Senate or House
of Representatives with the restriction
that the Secretary of the Treasury
shall be chosen from the House of Rep
resentatives and the Secretary of State
from the Senate. They are to retain
their seats in Congress and lose their
portfolios when the term to which they
are elected expires.
Paper iruj. u » sscailtjr.
New "Sore, Dec. 12.—The confer
ences that have been in progress for
ten days between the principal manu
facturers of white newspaper have re
sulted in a practical agreement of all
concerned to pool interests and to deal
with consumers only through a gen
eral agency, which is to be established
in this city._
I* hi 11 Ip pine Rebellion.
Washington, Dec. 13.—The Cuban
delegation here has received news to
the effect that “if things continue 84
they are in the Philippine islands,
they will be free before Cuba.*
