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subscribers to The Times vis City the country or seaside resorts iting the summer can have the during daily mailed to them, for a week or longer, by ordering and prepaying for the same at the publication ofhave: it delivered in fice, or they can of the seaside towns by orderany ing from the local agent, and paying In advance. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. During the year 1894 there were thirty-one murders in the State of Michigan, which has a population of somewhat more than two millions. In the Dominion of Canada during the same year there were nineteen mur. ders, the population of Canada being nearly five millions.
The records for the ten years ending with 1894 show that there were 23.1 murders in Michigan to every 100,000 persons, while in Canada during the same period there were only 4.6 murders per 100,000 of population. These statistics are of especial interest in view of the fact that the punishment for murder in Michigan is imprisonment for life, while the death penalty is inflicted in Canada. The foregoing figures, of course, are not conclusive proof of the efficacy of the death penalty as a deterrent of murder. A more equitable comparison would be between the various States of this Union. The Times has not at hand the statistics necessary to make such a comparison, but it is highly probable that such statistics, if compiled, would show a preponderance of murder in States where the death penalty is not in force.
The arguments against capital punishment are many and plausible. It is claimed that life-imprisonment is a severer punishment than death; that innocent men are often hanged; that murderers are often allowed to escape through the disinclination of juries and judges to prescribe the death penalty; and that the chief objects of punishment are as well subserved by life-imprisonment as by death. There is more or less force in these and other arguments which are advanced by opponents of the death penalty for murder. On the other side there are many and cogent arguments in favor of that form of punishment, which need not be repeated here. The question is an old one, and each side will always have adherents, irrespective of the facts of experience.
But aside from the pros and cons of this question, one fact is conspicuously apparent to all who have given the matter especial attention. This fact Is the laxness with which the law's penalties are enforced, whatever the form of punishment prescribed. The number of convictions is ridiculously small in proportion to the number of murders, and the certainty of punishment, after conviction is had, is by no means to be depended upon. What is most needed, throughout this country, is a more prompt and thorough enforcement of the laws; not only of the laws against murder, but of those against minor crimes of every description, They do these things better in England--and, in point of fact, in all other civilized countries -than we do them in America. There is no nation on earth where the laws are SO imperfectly enforced as in the United States.
To this deplorable fact is due, in a large degree, the prevalence of crime in this country. We have laws enough if they were rigidly enforced. Only by such enforcement can a proper respect for law be inculcated. There has been a noticeable growth of disrespect for law within the past few years. The tendency is not a pleasant thing to contemplate.
Here is a field for reform which is worthy the efforts of the most zealous reformers. Men should be chosen for judges who are known to have adequate conceptions of the law, and who have the courage to enforce It to the extent of their ability, without fear or favor. It might be well to give the judges of our principal courts lite terms, in order that they may be free and Independent in the adminis: tration of justice. In any case, if greater care were taken to selectsonly the best men for judicial positions, the laws would be more thoroughly enforced, and much good would result. According to reports made to the con- rention of Congregational churches held In Poston recently, "a virtual benthenism exists in a large portion of rural New England, which the churches are not reaching, and by present nock Creek Canal on the Fort Hall reservation is about under construction.
The contracts have been signed at Seattle for the canal which will connect Puget Sound and Lake Washington. The excavation and filling will cost $6,000,000. The Great Falls Water Company of Anaconda, has added two immense pumps, and has largely extended its system. Public and private irrigation work is pushed with considerable vigor throughout Southern California this year. IN SOCIAL SPHERES.
Master Howard Shafer gave an enJoyable hayride to his friends on the evening of July 4. The was driven by C. W. Shafer and the party chaperoned by Miss Lulu Goldsmith and Miss Estella Darcy. The guests Misses Edna Fraser, Sarah Sutherland, Meriam Leake, Maud Dering, Minnie Montague, Effie Shafer, Grace Dering, Olive Baringer, Grace Pirtle and Messrs.
Warren Baringer, Leao Gibson, Fred Bright, Arthur Gowen, Eddie Van Horn, Ed Reddy, Jay Manley, Rodney Montague, Murry Bailais, John Perrell, Fred Darcy, Ed Montague and Howard Shafer. The party was driven to Westlake and enjoyed a moonlight boatride. NOTES AND PERSONALS. Miss Kierulff left for her home in Berkeley yesterday. The S.W.C.A.
midsummer boating fete, which is to be given at Westlake Park, Friday evening, August 2, will be a delightful affair. Miss Edith Furrey goes over to Catalina today, to be the guest of Mrs. McCrea. Mrs. Charles S.
Gilbert will spend the summer at Long Beach. Mrs. H. J. English left last evening for Chicago.
Miss Leah Bletso leaves today for Colorado Springs, where she will spend the summer. Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Dunn are at the Redondo Hotel for the summer. Mrs. Margaret Collier Graham gives a reception this afternoon from 3 to 6, at her home in South Pasadena, in honor of Miss Beatrice Harraden. Carriages will meet each electric car, for the accommodation of the guests. Miss Harraden will be a guest at the Friday Morning Club meeting tomorrow morning.
Miss Gall of Stockton is visiting Miss Bell at her home, No. 908 East Third street. Mr. and Mrs. John F.
Francis are guests of the Hotel Redondo. There the market Francis is a will undoubtedly, soon, be a corner in devoted disciple of Isaac Walton. The High-school summer class of '95 will hold a reunion Thursday evening, July 18, at the residence of Rea Smith, No. 2419 South Grand avenue. BALL-BORDEN.
Willard D. Ball, general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. of this city, and Miss Pearl A. Borden, adopted daughter of Rev. and Mrs.
Frank W. Townsend of Canton, N. were married June 20, at the First Presbyterian Church of that town, the Rev. Mr. Townsend, pastor, officiating.
The church was a bower of bloom, the work of the ladies of the parish, and the wedding was the social event of the season. PITH OF THE COAST PRESS. (San Francisco Call:) The proposed railroad from Ogden to San Diego will be a happy deliverance the extreme southern end of the State. (San Diego Sun:) The oracular utterance that "the President has been heard to criticise bloomers" is telegraphed from Washington. But it: won't cause any "frost" to settle on the bloomer crop.
(Phoenix, Gazette:) Railroad traffic is increasing in all directions. If present crop prospects shall be realized at the harvest, the prosperity of the transportation companies will be equal to that before the panic. (Washington Standard:) All admit that the costume that has come into, bloomion since the bicycle craze makes women of mature age look like maidens in their teens, and that goes very far toward establishing its permanent use. (Florence, Tribune:) Reavis is still behind the bars in Santa Fe. The other day he was heard to remark: "I know I am a d-d old fraud, but there are bigger frauds still at large in Arizona." Rest easy, baron, they will be with you ere long.
(San Francisco Call:) Every workman, mechanic or artisan employed in an industrial establishment in this State should be loyal enough to his fellow-workmen to purchase only home-made goods for his own use whenever it is possible to do (Phoenix Republican:) The "new woman" has also appeared among the Indians. In the god old times the bucks did all the shooting, but-we have changed all that. Down in Oklahoma a Kickapoo squaw takes up a shotgun and holds up a railway contractor in dentense of woman's rights. (Tucson, Star:) Massachusetts will become a decidedely unpopular State in the mind of the professional tramp it the proposed State farm, where such of these wanderers as cross their borders are to be put to work, should become a reality. There is nothing like a hint of work to give the professional tramp a.
nervous chill. (Tucson Citizen:) No one ever heard the people of Arizona complain, advertise their poverty, ask for seed wheat or old clothes, but stil poor deluded fools will continue to rush to Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. God's country is in the far southwest, but 16. His truths are not acceptable to the multitude of home-seekers, let them suffer the consequences, and suffer they do and must. (Phoenix (Ariz.) Herald:) The orchard men of California are beginning a war on "big orchards." It is the small orchard that pays the largest profit per acre, just as it is the small farm that pays the most.
In this it might be well for orchardmen of this valley to take a hint as to their future conduct of the business. (Arroyo Grande Herald:) The members of the State Bureau of Highways are on a tour of investigation and will visit every county in the State to vlew the roads and confer with the Board of Supervisors. When they visit this county won't they smole a smile to see our mountains of bitumen and not a single bituminized roadway--not even a street? (Pasadena News:) A movement is on foot to establish a musical society in Pasadena that shall combine the eleof ments of a Such choral society and a college a plan should be made to work in Pasadena, where there 19 a strong element of music lovers, and it is hoped that the effort being made to bring together a large society will be a success. (San Diego Union:) The citizens of Eureka, Humboldt county, do not propose to be outdone by other California for towns. They three' have accordingly arranged a grand days' fete, which will be called the "Sequoia carnival." The as well as on land.
In a addition to the festivities will be held on the water programme of attraction which the Eureka people are arranging, visitors will have an opportunity to see one of Califonia's redwood greatest wonders, the mighty The trees which are in that locality. plan of the carnival is, an unique one, and should meet with success. More continue speculations of Z. T. Lewis, the bond broker, The total to come to light at Urbana, amount of fraudulent bonds, 50 Lewis.
They aggregate over $100,000. Lewis as known, have been hypothecated by Urbana on Monday for Michigan, where family is sponding the summer. From he started for South America to get bethe reach of the law. AND ALLISON WEPT. transmission as second-class mall matter methods cannot reach." It appears that not more than 10 per cent.
of the nominal Protestants of the States named are church attendants. This is arather surprising showing for the land where Puritanism formerly held sway, and where church attendance was in the olden-time compulsory. The world never stands still, and the pendulum of progress is apt to swing from one extreme to the other. At the Republican State Convention of Iowa, held at Des Moines yesterday, the still, small boom of Senator Allison as a Presidential candidate was launched. Senator Allison of Iowa is an able man, but he will never be President of the United States.
A French journal says that "England will permit the Vuited States to build the Nicaragua Canal, and then she will control it." The French journal is evidently laboring under a misapprehension. Grover Cleveland's tenure-of-office is not for life. The Cornell crew were beaten yesterday by the Trinity Hall crew (English) at the Henley regatta. "Overtraining" is the explanation of the defeat given by the Cornell coxswain. The British lion's tail is frisking high in air.
Since the Democracy came into power in 1893 the annual interest charge on the public debt has increased over $4,000,000. The increase for the fiscal year just closed was about $3,000,000. A government loan was negotiated in England recently at 11-16 of 1 per cent. interest. There is some difference between this rate and 4 to 5 per the rate paid by Cleveland, Carlisle Co.
The Sultan of Turkey recently sent $200 to the New York Herald's ice-fund for the poor of that city. Perhaps, after all, the Sultan is not so black as he is painted. Texas raises something besides "hell and cotton." Her corn-crop this year, according to late advices, will be the largest within the history of the State. It is comforting to know that Mrs. Lease has learned to ride the bicycle.
Perhaps, hereafter, she will be less given to riding hobbies. Mr. Gladstone has had a seat in Parliament for fifteen different terms. He has well earned the rest which he proposes to take. The "armed peace" of Europe, it is estimated, has cost $25,000,000,000 during the past quarter of a century.
Does it pay? AT THE PLAYHOUSES. -The big comedy bill at the Orpheum is proving so attractive that the theater is none too large to accommodate the audiences this week. There are a number of intensely droll specialties on the programme, among them the old plantation sketch by McIntyre and Heath; Sherman and Morisey's burlesque trapeze performance and the comical acrobatic tricks of O'Dell and Page. Major, the lively little wrestling pony, who exhibits his prowess in "A is one of the favorites of the company. This diminutive equine comedian convulses the audience by his antics, and is accorded the heartiest kind reception every night.
"A Jay Circus" will be withdrawn after Sunday night to make room on the bills for some big novelties that are coming Monday. Progress in the South. (San Francisco Chronicle:) In Southern California the establishment a glass plant is under consideration, and the subject has been discussed for some time without definite outcome. The materials are there. of the market for the product seems to be the point of most importance in the present consideration of the subject matter.
The oil district in the city of Los Angeles 19 constantly widening under development. The fact that the wells are owned by comparatively poor men, also the lack of storage capacity, are adduced as reasons why more money has not been realized. A pipe line is now in operation, having pumping works on Second street. The iron trade in Los Angeles is brisk. A galvanizing plant will soon be added to the works of the LOB Angeles Iron and Steel Company.
Enough work is on hand to last one year. The iron pipe works are busy on well pipes, and oil-well machinery is also in good demand. Coal has been found in the New River Valley near the base of Signal Mountain, south of Indian Wells, which is considered of significance in the southern part of the State. Among other new enterprises a small piano factory has been started in Los Angeles, on East First street. The works of the Fulton Engine Company have been enlarged.
The Tombstone Foundry has been added to the estab. lishment and a new moulding-room and foundry building will be erected. Several large irrigation projects are on foot. The Puento Land and Water Company has filled articles of incorporation at Los Angeles to construct ditches, pipe lines, reservoirs, etc. The great "Victor" Canal system has been mentioned earlier.
The people of Yuma county, are looking forward with hope to the canal to irrigate that county. The engineers are in the feld making a survey. The Carolina Land and Irrigation Company has purchased 8 pumping outfit to sink wells near the Colorado River, Canal construction is under way in the northwest. The Ban- AN AFFECTING SCENE YESTERDAY AT DES MOINES. Republicans Give Vent to Their Enthusiasm for Iowa's Favorite Son.
Temporary Chairman Joseph Lone Screws Up the Convention to Concert Pitch. He Favors a Fight on Democrats and to a Finish-Bimetallism, Not Free Silver, and William B. tor President. (REGULAR ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.) DES MOINES (Iowa,) July The Iowa Republican State Convention attracted more than the usual attention on account of the possibilities affecting the Presidential boom of Iowa's favorite son, William B. Allison.
The utterances of the temporary chairman of the convention, Joseph R. Lane of Davenport, were listened to with marked interest, as an outline of Allison's ideas as present political situation. He favored international bimetallism, but opposed independent free coinage of silver by this country alone. Gentlemen of the convention: I congratulate you upon the magnificent harmony existing at the present time in the Republican party throughout the State. The Republican in the past has been in favor of a protective tariff; in favor of American wages for American labor; in favor of American industries and American products; in favor of America first and England last.
There we stand today. Under the favoring influences of the protective tariff and reciprocity, enacted by the Republican party, we had prosperity, good times and plenty of money, Under It labor was ennobled. Through it was made possible the American home, unknown to any other country or any other people. The American home is the foundation, the stability of this government. Legislate away the ability to build and maintain in America the homes and you will fill this country with a class of roving, reckless, impoverished people that must result in anarchy.
In 1892, through the deception and false promises of the Democratic party, Benjamin Harrison was defeated and Grover Cleveland elected. A majority of the people thought that they wanted a change. They got it. It is matter of history In what doses it came and how soon they learned they did not want it. Hardly had Mr.
Cleveland been inaugurated before their Democratic free- promises and threats culminated in panic as severe in its disastrous results as it was sudden in its coming. It swept down upon us, an avalanche of distrust and fear of Democratic legislation. They promised to repeal the McKinley tariff law and to enact a law to collect duties for the the purpose of "revenue only." The Gorman-Wilson bill, enacted because of the Sugar Trust and other combinations, satisfied the people that the Democratic party was truly in favor of a tariff for revenue. This legislative outrage was so patent that President Cleveland was forced to publicly declare that they had "marked the places where the deadly blight of treason had blasted the councils of the brave in their hour of It was of 80 the false to the pledges and promises Democratic party that the President publicly denounced it as a "party perfidy and dishonor." This bill was so opposed to the interests of our people, our institutions and our principles, so un-American, that it was left by the President at the door of Congress, unsigned, unnamed. without a father, a public foundling forever It was this class of legislation that made it possible delegation to give Iowa a solid Republican in Congress and to sweep the country with Republican victories.
Cognizant of its gigantic blunders, smarting under the stinging rebuke of 1894, leaders who at once wonders that the Democratic attempted to conceal their free-trade sacrifice by turning their tom-toms upon the currency question. Now that prospective Republican legislation has restored business confidence; now that the fires in our furnaces are being rekindled; now that the wages of laborers are again being advanced to the American standard, let us see to it that the Democratic party does not name both the battle-ground and the weapons. Let us demand that the tariff question be one of the issues. Let us force the fight and to a. finish.
You have met to nominate the next Governor: of the State. You have anant other, duty; and to my mind, a very importto declare and announce the principles. and policy of the Republlcan party in the State of Iowa. This is not only important as affecting the coming influence State election, but in haping the and position of Iowa in the national convention of 1896. If wisdom prevails here today, we have a good prospect that the next President of the United States will be from Iowa.
The Republican party has been, and is now, in favor of a sound national currency. A currency always redeemable in coin. Whatever the form of our money, must whether gold, silver or paper, It have equal purchasing power. Gold and silver have always been, and will continue to be, the money of the world. They are not the creature of legislation.
These metals are the natural money of the world, because of their divisibility and their non-destructibility. The value or price of these metals, gold and silver, is and must of necessity be determined and measured by the same rule applied to all other commodities; that is, by the quantity produced and the demand for its use. By this rule gold is more precious, and this silver the less valuable. We recognize difference in value in the coinage of silver and gold into money at a fair ratio. That ratio thus fixed may become changed and seriously distrubed by an abnormal increase in the production of one or the other.
The enormous production of silver in the past few years in this and other countries has increased the quantity without relatiyely Increasing the demand, and has lowered the value. Silver being necessary in the money of the world, we must either maintain Its coinage at par, by legislative limitation of the amount, or change the coinage ratio to the basis of its market value. Under the policy of legislative limitation of the amount, aided by redemption when in excess of the demand, we have been able to maintain at par our silver coin, although its intrinsic value is much less. This policy was satisfactory so long as the price of silver continued high, but when it became reduced on account of the over-production and other, causes, there sprung up a demand by the producers of silver for special silver legislation. This claim is now crystallized Into a demand for the free and unlimited colnage of silver and gold at the ratto of 16 to 1.
This means to give to every man, to every nation, the right to deposit at the mints of the United States silver in unlimited quantity and to demand and recelve in return, free of charge or cost, that silver coined into money at the ratio of 16 to 1, bearing the stamp of our government. In my judgment such a polloy will establish America to be the dumpingground of the silver of the world. That means that we would be brought at once to 8 silver basis. It means the degradation of our dollar to 50 cents. It means repudiation.
It will bring an avalanche of sliver, but a rest for labor. The Republicans of Iowa oppose this. In the State of Iowa, if we owe a debt, we expect to pay it in money worth par, worth 100 cents on the dollar; in money of equal purchasing power with any other money of the world. If anyone owes us we demand and expect payment in money of equal value. This is a vital question to all classes.
The farmer, the laborer, merchant, manufacturer, all classes have an Interest in the maintenance of good currency, The dollar they receiye for their products and labor should have the highest purchasing power and be as good as the best dollar in the world: Upon a sound currency depends to a large extent the development, the prosperity, the success and maintenance of our people, So, now, the Republican party must not be lured aside by what might be called an apparent craze sweeping over the country, but must take its position according to every right of this question. In my view we should favor bimetallism, the use of both silver and gold, with the largest use of silver in our currency that will not impair or endanger in any way the parity in value of all money in circulation, whether metallic or paper; that we should favor an international, conference to adopt a measure that will insure the parity of value between gold and silver for use as money throughout the world; that the United States should not open its mints to free coinage of silver until arrangements have all been with other leading commercial nations, whereby all will agree to concurrently open their mints to free coinage at an agreed ratio. Let this convention, with the spirit of harmony and wisdom that prevails among you, nominate its candidates and declare its platform and you will carry the State by 75,000 majority. When Chairman Lane referred to Allison as a Presidential possibility the applause became 90 that exUnited States Senator George Wright led the distinguished statesman to the front of the stage while he blushed like a schoolgirl, and the tears rolled down his cheeks. The convention adjourned till 2 o'clock.
This afternoon Gov. Jackson and other dignitaries occupied the platform. Every seat in the vast auditorium was filled. Hon. Lafe Young was elected permanent chairman and J.
W. Willets secretary. Chairman Young made a speech in which he said that neither defeat nor success seems to have any effect on the Democratic party. It was needless, he thought, to say anything about the Democrats, they were saying worse things of each other than "we dare to say to them." The convention then proceeded to a formal ballot for Governor. The first ballot resulted as follows: Drake, 366 8-15; Harlan, 248 3-15; Parrott, 208 4-15; McFarland, 116; Harsh, 86; Ormsby, 84; Kamrar, 80; Letts, 24; Conaway, 22; Russel, 15.
The second resulted: Drake, 425; Harlan, 805; McFarland, 39; Parrott, 213; Harsh, 79; Ormsby, 29; Kamrar, 65; Conaway, Letts, 25. Great excitement prevailed during the announcement of Polk county. Harlan made a gain of eight votes. The declaration of the chairman was called in question by the Harlan men who insisted that the poll was not correctly given. The third, fourth and fifth ballots resulted in no choice, but showed gains by Drake.
Before the sixth ballot had proceeded far Drake's nomination was assured. The following was the result: Drake, 864; Harlan, 133; Parrott, 231; Harsh, Kamrar, Ormsby, 2. With the announcement of the vote Chairman Young declared Gen. Drake the nominee of the convention for Governor. After prolonged cheering the balloting for 1 Lieutenant-Governor was commenced.
Matt Parrott of Waterloo was nominated on the third ballot, defeating Dungan of Chariton. Henry Sabin was renominated for Superintendent of Public Instruction, George W. Perkins for Railroad Commissioner and Joseph Given for Judge of the Supreme In a speech Gen. Drake said before the convention that he was prepared to make a vigorous campaign on thRee broad national platform adopted by convention. The platform presented to the convention was adopted without debate or dissent.
The following are the main planks: "We reaffirm our fealty to the great principles which our national party from its birth has steadfastly proclaimed. We congratulate the people of this country, upon the evidences of returning prosperity, and rejoice in each instance of, laborers re-employed, wages restored and industry re-established upon a prosperous basis. On the record of the building up of our industries upon Republican policy, their paralysis under Democratic power and their revival with the repudiation of the Democratic party and the dissolution of the Democratic House of Representatives, succeeded by one elected upon the platform of the Republican party, the vindication of the policy of protection. Democratic party is convicted of obtaining power in 1892 under false the policy of protection, be pretenses. In ita.
platform it declared, stitutional, and in its campaign it de-1 nounced the polloy as But with complete power in its hands, its lawmakers have utterly failed to carry out the policy to which they were pledged. It is a farcical pretense for the Democratic party to claim credit now for a measure from which nine months ago its President withheld his approval and denounced as a humiliating abandonment of their cardinal principles. The Senate bill, substituted for the Wilson bill, is not a measure which the Republican party would father; it reduces the revenue upon the luxuries, a method of levy more effective than any income tax; it restores taxation to It reduces the wage rate in many industries in which labor is the chief element of cost, but it maintains in many of its parts the principle which the Democratic party declares to be unconstitutional. To claim credit under it is to claim credit for abandoning its policy and adopting the principles which it has denounced." The platform further deplores the revocation of reciprocity, denounces tariff for revenue only and declares for American wages. On currency the platform says: "We affirm the declarations of the Republican national platform of 1892, adopted at Minneapolis, that the American people from tradition, and Interest favor bimetallism, and the Republican party demands the use of both gold and silver as standard money, with such restriction and under such provisions to be determined by legislation as will secure the maintenance of parity of the value of the two metals.
The purchasing and debt-paying power of the dollar, whether silver, gold, or paper, shall be at all times equal. The interest of the producers of the country, its farmers, and the working men demand that every dollar, paper or coin, issued by the government, shall be as good as any other. "We urge that the United States exert its influence to establish with the important commercial nations of the world an international agreement that will enable this country to re-open its mints to the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold, without loss of one or the other from the volume of our money." The platform favors restriction of 1m- migration, and pensions for all honorably discharged Union soldiers: IT MADE BLACKBURN LAUGH. LOUISVILLE. July -A speclal to the Times from Versailles, says that Senator Blackburn laughed when shown a telegram today from the New York Herald saying that it was reported in the East that he had withdrawn from the senatorial race.
was never. more In race than I am now." said he, "and never felt more confident of success." When asked about the reports that he had been requested by the chairman of the State Committee to make no more silver speeches, he said: committee has made no request on me to ignore the currency issue. The late State convention by a very decided majority refused to put a freesilver plank in the platform, and by a very much more decided majority it to indorse a single gold standard. Its only utterance on the currency question was a reaffirmation of the national platform of 1892, leaving the party in Kentucky, so far as its issue 18 concerned, precisely where it has been for the last three years. My views upon this subject are well known and of long standing.
They have not been changed or modified to any extent whatever." ONLY ONE BIG GUN. WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE (0.,) July -The free-silver rally and conference held here this afternoon was not largely attended. Gen. A. J.
Warner was the only one of the big guns who appeared. Senator Billed, W. J. Bryan and A. W.
Thurman were advertised to speak but not come. Gen. Coxey of the Industrial Army had a large audience at the Opera house tonight. Gen. Warner and Alexander Delmar of California spoke at the afternoon meeting.
OUR RUSSIAN FRIEND. CZAR ALEXANDER OFFERED HIS GOLD TO GROVER. Remarkable Episode That Has Been Kept Secret for Over Two Years- -The Muscovite Despot Desirous of Tiding This Country Over Its Financial Orisis. (REGULAR ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.) CHICAGO, July special from Washington to the Post says that discussion of the gold reserve in the treasury and the action past and probable of the Morgan-Rothschild bond syndicate brought to light today the fact that Czar Alexander III of Russia offered to loan the United States all the gold necessary to maintain the reserve at any figure desired. The friendly tender was declined by President Cleveland, because, after several weeks of deliberation and telegraphic correspondence between Washington and St.
Petersburg, it was decided that the President had no authority to issue bonds or otherwise incur indebtedness on behalf of the government. Since then the power of the President and Secretary of the Treasury to issue bonds has been determined, and, if the offer were repeated by the present Russian ruler it might be accepted. A REMARKABLE STORY. CHICAGO, July The story of the proposition made by the Czar a a and the way. It was received by the President and his advisers was one of the bestkept secrets of the White House.
Although the incident occurred some two years ago, no hint of it has reached the public until now. It was some time in May, 1893, that the State Department was surprised by the receipt of a communication from Andrew D. White, then American Minister at St. Petersburg, stating that the Czar had, through M. de Giers, offered to loan to the President of the United States any amount of gold required to carry the Treasury over through the pending crisis.
Help was needed at that time: the new administration had been in power but a few months and the financial question was pressing on Mr. Cleveland for solution. The Wilson bill had been framed, but not. passed and the business of the country was already suffering from the depression which later grew into a commercial and financial panic. The gold reserve in the Treasury was being depleted steadily and rapidly by the monthly purchases of silver bullion under the Sherman law and the receipts of gold from customs had fallen off so that each month saw the Treasury drained of its gold.
The country was clamoring for rellef and the President was considering the advisability of calling Congress together in an extra session, which he did subsequently, to legislate on the' financial situation and to repeal the Sherman law. It was in the midst of such a situation that Secretary Gresham presented at a Cabinet meeting one morning the letter he received from Minister White. The Czar's offer of assistance was direct but simple. Mr. White stated in his official communication to the State Department that he had been called upon by M.
de Giers, who said that the Czar had instructed him to confer with the American representative at the court of St. Petersburg and to inform him that the Czar stood ready to make a personal loan to the President, of gold to the amount of $50,000,000, or as much more as might be desired, at a nominal rate of interest and for an Indefinite period. The interest indicated was a fraction more than 2 per cent. Nothing was said about security and It was evident that Alexander III. believed that the President could take this money and apply it to the needs of the United States Treasury with but little formality.
and that he had the power to do so. It was a generous manifestation of the good will of the Russian sovereign toward the United States and a striking illustration of his desire to assist this country in any way possible. As may be supposed, the letter produced a great sensation in the Cabinet. The President was much affected by this evidence of esteem on the part of 80 powerful a personage as the autocrat of all the Russias. There was something besides the friendly relations of the two nations Involved in the offer.
The Czar intended his tender of financial help as a personal compliment to the President. The President and his Cabinet debated the tion long and earnestly. Secretary Carlisle was in favor of accepting the loan, but he doubted the power of the President and himself to make debts for the government without special authority of Congress. The matter was discussed at every Cabinet meeting for a week or two, and, meantime, there was much telegraphic correspondence between Washington and St. Petersburg relative to the conditions on which the Russian Emperor proposed to make the loan of this enormous sum.
After all the explanations had been received, and the details of the Ruselan monarch's offer had been laid before the Cabinet, it was evident that the CHar was not bothering himself about the manner or method of the transaction. Reduced to its simplest terms, the Csar's offer was that he would advance as much. gold as the United States Treasury might require, and would accept as security therefor President Cleveland's personal note until such time as Congress should convene and authorize the issue of bonds. In short, the Car wished to help the United States with a loan of $50,000,000 or more, and he was not particular whether he received security or not. It was to be a personal matter with him, and it was plain that he did not quite understand why the Prestdent did not treat it in the same way.
One nation needed money, and the ruler of friendly country proposed to lend the Chief Executive of the distressed people money to help them. It WAS Just a friendly act, requiring, in the opinion of the Czar. no red tape or circumlocutory officialiam. But President Cleveland. and hia Cabinet felt, after carefully considering the proposition in all its aspects that they could not accept 1t.
The State Department therefore no notified Mr. White, who In turn Informed M. de Giers, that the American President, while profoundly grateful for the Czar's kind offer, was prevented by law from incurring obligations of this kind without the consent of Congress. The majority of the Cabinet was in favor of taking the Czar's loan, and the President looked kindly upon the proposition. There is no doubt that but for the legal objections raised by one of the lawyers in the Cabinet, the loan would have been accepted, and one probable result would have been the reduction in the rate of Interest on large loans, especially to nations.
The fact that Czar Alexander was able to make a proposition of this kind is not surprising. The exchequer of the Empire is absolutely under his control. Then, too, all of the gold mines in the Russian territory belong to the crown, and the product is the property of the royal family. Alexander If. Was alWays very friendly to the United States, as shown by his dispatch of a Russian fleet to New York during the CIvil War to prevent England or France espousing the cause of the Confederacy.
It 18 not improbable that when the arrangement with the More gan-Rothschild syndicate shall have expired, the government may apply to the Russians for a loan, should one be necessary. Alexander 18 not on the throne now, but it is said that Emperor Nicholas is quite as ardent an admirer of the Americans as WAS his father. IT WAS A CHICAGO STORY. made. The University's President.
WASHINGTON, July Officials at State Department and those about the Treasury Department who should be in a position to know, have no knowledge of a tender by the Russian government to the United States of gold to make good our gold reserve, as is reported to have been made about two years ago. They say that if such an offer was made it must have been in an informal manner, but from the fact that the Russian government itself had been obliged to negotiate a gold loan since that time, they are inclined to think that no such proposition was At the annual meeting of the board of directors of University of Southern California, the board, in accepting the resignation of Rev. J. P. Widney, A.M., M.D., president of the university, adopted resolutions, expressing their high appreciation of the services he had rendered to that institution, and their deep regret that he could not yield to their request, and withdraw his resignation.
LORDSBURG. LORDSBURG, July Correspondence.) J. S. Soto and a party of young men started with four-horse wagon and tents and a camping outfit for Bear Valley Tuesday morning. The ladies of.
the party from dena, railroad to Lordsburg San and Bernardino Redlands Wednesday went by morning. There will be eight or ten in the party altogether, who expect to spend several weeks in hunting, fishing hand having a good time generally, up at the lake. Rev. J. S.
Mohler, an evangelist of the Dunkard Church who has made Lordsburg his home for some months, went to Redondo Beach Wednesday morning, to arrange for opening a series of meetings at the beach. He will probably pitch his tent the beach and continue meetings for some weeks. Clarence M. Griggs has gone to Santa Monica for a few weeks recreation. Herman Silvers of Los Angeles spent a few hours here Wednesday on bustness.
J. D. McCoy and wife, Fred Ellsworth and wife and J. W. Tucker and wife have returned from their excursion to San Diego, and report having had very enjoyable trip over the coast line of the Santa Fe.
Frank Jasen started for a drive to Santa Barbara Tuesday noon. He will probably be gone two weeks. Miss Juntata de Soto and a party of friends took the early Santa Fe train Wednesday morning to Lamanda Park. HINTS FOR HOUSEKEEPERS, AND PRACTICAL HEALTH CALENDAR. THURSDAY, JULY 11 Temperature yesterday: Maximum, 75 minimum, 59 cloudy.
Who through long hours of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in soul the music Of wonderful melodies. -(Longfellow. BREAKFAST. Bananas with Lemon Juice. Hominy.
Muffins. Eggs on Toast. Cold Meat; Garnish of Parsley. Graham Waters. Coffee.
DINNER. Boiled Chicken. Sardine Salad; Toasted Crackers. Potatoes. String Beans.
Cheese. White Bread. Raspberry Tart. SUPPER. Omelet.
Dried Beef. Stewed Apricots. Bread and Butter. Cake. Tea.
SARDINE SALAD. Split each sardine carefully, removing bones. Lay inside out on a plate. Dredge with fresh grated lemon peel and a little pepper. Divide each half into four parts.
Make a bed of lettuce, torn in bite, chopped parsley and sliced lemon, add a little cayenne, a tablespoonful lemon juice and the oil of the sardines. Mix all together, lay on the fillets and garnish with egg rings. (Copyright, 1895, by George Beale Company. Boston, Mass.) CLEVELAND'S Only rounded spoonful is required, of Cleveland's Baking Powder not a heaping spoonful. MAKING PONDER "Pure" and Sure." Food raised with Cleveland's baking powder has no bitter taste, but is sweet and keeps sweet and fresh..