The Morning Call.SAN FRANCISCO, THUKSDAY MORNING OCTOBER 5, 1893. PRICE FIVE CENTS.Volume lxxiv-no. 121/
SWEPT TO DEATH.'\u25a0.*:*\u25a0 "\ V.'. .
Thousands Perish on the'f:::-1/ Gulf Coast.
AFTERMATH OF THE GALE.
. I-:.• Without Warning Their Doom:;;4}: .: .:Came Upon Them. J
•-.."\u25a0 '. V:--" '• \u25a0' /FRAIL HOUSES CRASHED DOWN
. And the Unfortunate Occupants Found'.\u25a0: \u25a0')'. '\u25a0' Themselves Buffeting With tile'
:°... ;\ ; W'nd and Waves. /
V ."-•';N«w Orleans. Oct. 4.—Over 3800 per-\u25a0 \ itMJS killedand nearly $5,000,000 worth of'
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;property '.demolished is the record of the'. great eulistorm in Louisiana. There never
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• his Been anything approximating it since-.'•%•• the country was settled. Mora* than half,':, tWpopulation in the devastated region is
.Eyefythinij is wrecked and th«';\u25a0•' ::.B6ryiv6ts -are without food, shelter or:-.;;|Bl»tltiBg»-I::
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=Tie; fieaths so far reported aggregate
: \.bve£ :2000 a> follows: Cbienere Caminda. «20, fishermen at sea 240, Shell Beach 212,-
Adams Bay. 200, Bayou Lafond 110, Grand,"•:'• Me 100, '. Bayou Cook 87, Bird Island: 17. .the ...fishing settlement 43, Bayou.. ClealtbQ 40, Pass a l'Outre 40, Bayou
"Andre \u25a0 40, Oyster Bayou 28, Grand
„*•'8ay0u.26, San Malo 25, Daisy Postoffice 20.. Bayou Cabinage 20, Rosario Island 20.: Weber 20, Simon Island 16, Pleasant Point'. 10, .Tropical Bend 10, Bayou Dufon 10,•' " Hospital Bay 8, Grand Bank 8, Duras; Peint 8.
"Sixty-mile Point 6, Barthly.:' 9. Fort St. Philip 5, Razor Island 5, Grand'
Prairie 5, Fort Cross 5,Port a la Hache 4,ion; a lugger 4,
;' '-..Over TO.others are reported lost; in bogs
. and at various place*, and over 120 fishing
..'; vessels, were in the gulf fishing when the\u25a0 storm, broke over Chieuiere and not a word
.'.'• has been heard from them or their occu-•\u25a0;: pants; since.
\u25a0^;; DEATH IN THE NIQHT.
, Thrilling Experiences of Some Who\u25a0••V Uved-Out the Storm.';:;JS'e"W Orleans, Oct. 4.- The disaster at
..-•••• Grkj&d island and Chenlere Is unparal-• -..ieredin this section. The first authentic•":": tmwa; pi it .came this morning, when sev-
eral, survivors reached here. They tell'heartrending stories. A tidal wave swept
./ ctvertJte.ialana, destroying lives and prop-'".•"erty:«ijill)sides. One hundred and forty-
• '•\u25a0• -fire, families", are said to have perished, and:. .thß death, list will run up into the bun-:v dyed »;"'.Arson 2 the dead are Dr. Frey, a
.:• proba.lbejnt physician, and his wife. The:•'. .steamer Joe Weber was blown to pieces
\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 tAd several of her crew lost. GDenlere,\u25a0
• -'e.opQSi'tJef. Grand Isle, was less exposed than.= tn-elatte-t; Itis the home of quite a settle-/ ;in^nt.pi;jfishermen, has a Catholic cnurch,. '\u25a0"\u25a0 a.'sch;bo"lhpusO in the course of construc-
tion arid- several stores.'"\u25a0', Matthew Schurtz of Gonldsboro, one of
\u25a0*••.; tbe. survivors of the Cheniere-Caminda. 'caiaojity-,: ;.arrived this morning. He'-.;brbpi&t a harrowing tale of the loss of•: .life tbtrey .He was engaged in construct-
:.. '. ingaischaolhouse, and boarded in a house;>\u25a0 where .twenty-five people were lodeed.. T-tt.e.:hou?e was demolished and it is be-
•lieved all the inmates were killed.• "
.sthurtz hiin*eif was frightfully knocked•"-.6bout; and bruised, and his clothes torn to
;'-. stjreds. i&5"estimates the loss of life on. ;. 6rjaiid«.:Isle, :Chen iere, and in Grand and
Adahis:l3ay and Cook, Cnalton and OysterBayou Jret>lements, at 800 to 1000. When
\u25a0.^^syieft.- Chenlere Island yesterday he\u25a0;\u25a0 counted but five houses standing out of a
total <ni\u25a0 about 300. The land was coveredI£ with corpses.•-. ::As. the wind increased In severity the
'\u25a0;\u25a0':}' tip began, to go to pieces. The wind•\u25a0"\u25a0_ ?;picked :.t:he. .roofs off as though they had
\u25a0.';; shaved from the rafters witha great. . c.'arvliig knife. Then the buildings began
:•;.••• to.rock violently and one by one they were\.,-fo.rti.tQ' .pieces, crashing down upon and
killing the occupants, then rapidlydrifting, •waywith the terrible current sweeping'". across .t.lie;lands. The shrieks and groansZ'i r f. the un.forfuuate people were heartrend-
.'.\u25a0 ingas they were burled in the ruins of their•= :' frail .homes. .
• ;After the house in which Schurtz re-"sided: hati been swept away be clung to the
V; floating.debris until be saw a light twink-• !Hag ina house not faraway. He swam.jto;\%:and was admitted. He had hardly
entered,. however, when the structure also'went to pieces, and of those in itSchurtz,
V a lady and .a>child escaped. Schurtz sue-"• ceeded in getting the woman and the baby\. Into a tree, where they remained allnight,-:tbe hiirh waves continually dashing over
them. .The wind was blowing a hurricaneand the rain fallingIn torrents.
'•\u25a0 When daylight broke the picture of deso-lation was. awful to behold. Only hereand there stood a house, and everywherethere were merely foundations to markwhere bouses had been. Furniture, bed-ding,and clothing were scattered about in!promiscuous confusion, and everywherewere ghastly 1 faces turned upward to theskies,. many. stillbearing evidences of the
'tprrible: agony they had suffered beforedeath:' Sujn.e.lost their lives in the wreckof their homes, some were drowned afterescorting front their houses, and manywho "we're.mortally wounded lived throughthe night, with nothing to quench theirthirst and no medical assistance at band.Tinre were broken arms and legs, bruisedand.b'a(tered bodies, faces slashed out ofall .human form. •
The '.Cheniere settlement was even more
|tnic.kly;popu"l»tedthan Grand Island. It
comprised: a colony of 1400 souls, theSpanish race predominating. Hundredsof fishin smacks owned by the residents
either beached or demolished. Thepriest who looked after the spiritual wel-'. -'"':the \u25a0 islanders was among thosesaved. an3. the lady who occuDiei thehouse with .him as housekeeper was like-wise spared. The fate of Dr. Frey andfamily is uaknown, but he is missing andpr.obably.lnet entire family has perished.Tbe.bpdy. of ..Miss Annie Douglass, the"schoolteacher,, was found amoug thewreckage;.;;..fScbres.' .of bodies were ]lying around,begM-n.n-i.ng:W.sntiw signs of 'decomposition,and for the- safety of the rest of the colony-itobecame necessary to bury them imru«-dia.teriyV # There was no time to makecoffin's,-. nor-was there. material or imple-ments, -90. lift-livingdug trenches in which
to derfsit the remains. Up to 12 o'clockSchu|z had assisted in the grewsome taskand Anticipated in the interment of notlessahan fiftypersons, men, women andChilien.Ifbe Rando saved himself, his wife and
tvgichildren by swimming about until hebi£ gathered sufficient lumber to make animpromptu raft. He put the family upon
jjfend they drifted to a place of safety,
fom Valence, his wife and several chil-dren, are believed to be drowueJ, as wellas his brother Tony, with his wife andithree children.
Itwillnever be accurately known howmany lives are lost. The population ofCbeniere was about 1400, and Schurtzthinks at least 1000 are missing. Iiis alsoimpossible as yet togive even the financialloss, but itruns into tbe hundreds of thou-sands ofdollars.
Unless steps are immediately taken forrelief it is not unlikely that many willperish from starvation and thirst. Alltheprovisions on the island were swept away
and fresh water is so scarce that there isnot sufficient to relieve the thirst of thehundreds who are now without anythingto eat and with scarcely anything to wear.
Schurtz was one of a party of thir-teen that came to the city on the lugger
Good Mother and each had a thrilliug
story to relate.Matthew Weertzez and Dominic Mirgo-
dich. sailors, were rescued by one of theluggers. The story they tell of the disasterat Grande Isle is horrible in the extreme.During the recital of the scenes of that ter-rible night they wept bitterly. They saidthe sea, raging all day, Increased alarm,
ingly toward night. About 10 P. m. tbewind shifted to the southwest. These menlived on the west end of the island. Farout at sea, as the flashes of lightning illumi-nated the darkness, mammoth wavescould be seen traveling with wonderfulrauidity toward the island, accompanied
by a noise like thunder. On came the ter-
rible thing, growing larger momentarily.
The island was wrapped in slumber.The men were too frightened to go to theirhomes and remained in the boat during theterrible night. Horrified, they watchedthe tidal wave approach the island untilItstruck. Then all was darkness and theisland, as far as the eye could reach, wascovered with water. The next flash oflightning the two fishermen foui d them-selves far off to the north of the island,and lookingabout could see nothing but asheet of water, the island having totallydisappeared.
Xear Burras the bodies of three little>rir!«, evidently sis'ers, were found lyine
together, horribly mangled by a barbedwire fence, against whinh they had beenthrown by the force of the wind.
Aman, his wife and two children wenton btard a schooner outside of Bayou
Cook. The schooner was wrecked and thehusband and children drowned. Thewoman lashed herself to a broken mastand floated iv the angry sea allnight. Shewas rescued in tbe morning by a passingvessel and brought here ro-dny.
John A. Sebut, a fisherman from the
shores of Bayou Cook, told a representa-
tive of the Associated Press that nothingwan left either on tbe shores of the bayouor the inlands.
On Bayou Simon, situated In Grand Bay,there were fourteen fishermen. Allweredrowned.
He said not a house is left on BayouCook, and where tbe people are the Al-mighty only knows.
The family of Juan Barbier, a fisher-man in Bayou Cook, were washed away.
The husband and two children weredrowned, the wife and four children wererescued.In the bouse adjoining a man was saved,
but his wife and two children weredrowned.
The house of George Cefarochl wai
washed away with his family, wife andthree children. Allwere drowned.
The next neighbor, a man named Bar-ton, and his two daughters were drowned.
Only one person was saved from theOyster Bayou catastrophe. He was foundhanging by one hand to a post, uncon-scious. He willdie.
The wife and children of Thomas Mory-orich were lost at Bayou Cook.
John Stook, an Italian boy, was Instant-lykilled.
Luke Detrovitch lost four daughters,his wife and two of <iiis sailors on SimunIsle.
There were eighteen inhabitants of theoyster camps and sixteen were drowned.
On Razor Island there was a camp offive men. Allwere drowned.
On Bird Island about 150 people lived.Allwere drowned.
On Grand Bank eight persons werekilled.
There is only sadness in the news fromBayou Cook and places tributary thereto,for there bas been frightfulloss of lifethroughout tbat section. Houses havebeen blown to pieces and smacks destroyedand wrecked.
Many bodies were carried into tbemarshes and willnover be found. Traincrews arriving on tbe Grand Island roadreport the tracks strewn with bodies anda large number already burled. Tbjcountry is a scene of wreck and devasta-tion. One passenger said tbat no less thaneigety-seven bodies were seen along theroad. Throughout the Bayou Cook,
country tbe distress is appalling.Trains arriving to-day brought many
snrvivors to the city, all relating terribletales of suffering. Anthony Negovitchsaw his wife swept by him in the torrent,appealing piteousiy for tbe help be wasunable to render. He saw scores of pe:>-lle drown about him. Many who did notdro«n had their lives crushed out bywreckage. George Signorovilcn saw hiswife and childrt-n perish before him whilein the water up to his chin.Itis variously estimated tbat from 200 to
500 people perished on Bayou Cook. Thedeaths at otner points willswell the totalto not less than 1200, according to the bestinformation now obtainable.
At Grand Bayou not less than twenty-six perished. On Rosario and LindenIslands the loss of life has been considera-ble. The old fort on Grand Terre besbeen considerably damaged, but the light-house is still s and'nti.Itwas difficult to establish the correct-
ness of the report of the great loss of life,on Grand Island. There were only about200 people resident on the Island, and noone has yet arrived directly from there.
Several boats have already left the citystocked with provisions for the sufferers.
Shell Bench was visited by the: stnrm,
and twelve or thirteen people lost theirlives there. .
St. Malo Island Is reported to have beenBwent.]pj§psl ..-'. .
Twenty-five people resided on the island/and as far as known not one is left to tellthe tale.
Ex-Congressman Dudley Coleman and
party have reached the city from Wotp-
land and report two sebnouers lost, withten men. Along Bayou Senet there weremany Chinese engaged in the occupation
of drying shrimps. They were in thetrack of the storm and many undoubtedlyperished.
LOSS AT MOBILE.
As Yet It Cannot Be AccuratelyEstimated.
Mobile, Ala., Oct. 4.—The loss of lifein the recent storm cannot be estimated.The following are known to be lost: J. T.Graham, Ed Brewer, Mrs. Stephen Walterand niece. Miss Carrie Weise, Ike Weirand several negroes. Lewis Graham andMiss Huron, schoolteachers, are missing.
On both sides of the br.y there were manyvillages. Some are totally destroyed andthe inhabitants gone. An unknown vesselIs ashore on Navy Cove. It is supposedihe crew are all lost.
NO GREAT HURRY.Cleveland Taking His Time in the
Hawaiian Matter.Washington, Oct. 4.—Albert S. Willis,
the new Minister to Hawaii, had an inter-view withSecretary Greslmu at the StateDepartment this morning. He receivedhis final instructions and completed ar-rangements for his departure for his postof duty. He will leave here this eveuinnfor San Francisco, whence he will nailnext week for Honolulu. Consul-GeneralMills willjoin Mr. Willis nt Sa-i Franciscoand they will make the trip from there to-eether. The action of the administrationin sending a new Minister to Hawaii istaken by many persons as an indicationthat it does not expect a very speedy set-tlement of the Hawaiian question, andthere are a few who regard itas conclusiveof tbe adoption of a policy adverse to an-nexation of the islands. Thurston, theHawaiian Minister, who came to Wash-ington a short time ago, to look into tbesituation, has gone back to Chicago underthe impression that his presence here willnot be required for at least several weeks,so far as treaty negotiations are concerned.The President will probably make no com-munication to the Semite on the Hawaiiau
Iquestion until after the silver repeal billis acted upon, and there is no immediateprospect of the publication of Blouut'sspecial reports. The statement is madewith authority that the Hawaitans areconviuced that both the President and tbecommissioner are opposed 10 annexation,
and they are indoubt as to whether a pro-tectorate is f;»vnri"l.
MUCH TOO SWEEPING
Turning of the Northern Demo-cratic Worm at Last.
The South Is In the Saddle, but ItMust Not Use Its
Spurs.
Washington, Oct. 4.—ln the House to-day, alter thn presentation of several reso-lution?. P#»el, from the Committee onPublic Lann?, reported adversely Bowers'resolution calling on the Attorney-Genera!
fi>r Information as to whether the UnitedStates could be made a p^rtv to the casesbronchi by the Southern Pacific and vowpending, to dispossess settlers in Califor-nia.
The House passed the joint resolutionexDressine to foreign Governments par-ticipating in the World's Fair celebrationthe .ioknnwle'lssment,s of Congress.
Under the call of ooiimittfips, Oate» re-ported the bankruntcy bill ana McCreary
reported the substitute for the Everett billamending the Geary exclusion act.
After nrather heated debate on tbe pro-priety of recognizing war claims of theclass of which a portion had b^en paid bythe Confederate Government, the electionsdebate was resumed by Compton ofMary-land in support of the measure.
Sweet of Idaho denounced Cleveland forhis course on the silver Question, and saidthat Andrew Johnson was impeached forarts less odious. Cleveland Imagined him-self a dictator.
Lane of Illinois maintained that thearmed men at the polls should be with-drawn now and forever, and Murray, tbecolored Republican from South Carolina,closed the day's debate: "IfIowe alle-giancb to the Government," said he, "thenthe Government, which equepzes my lifoblood out in taxes owes frotection tome.The gunrdian of S'atesovereieuity is again
hoverine about the dome of tbe Capitol. Isubmit that men armed with rifles andshotguns, who stand at tbe ballot-box tomurder or terrorize us to prevent us fromvoting, are ns much armed enemies of theUnited States as an invading army."
Just before the Housa adjourned Chair-man Fitch cf tb» Election Committeereported a bill introduced as a substitutewhich strikes out the section of the Re-vised Statutes empowering military to keeppeace at tbe polls, and repeals all lawsregarding the appointment of supervisors
or deputy marshals. The substitute wouldleave Inforce the election laws relating toth« punishment of private individuals forbribery, and above all leaves in force thedeclaratory principles of the fifteentham endment. The Northern Democratsafter an Informal conference had decidedthat the Tucker bill was too sweeping andthis substitute was formulated to meettheir objections.
STRUCK BLACKLEOQE.
There Is a Hoodoo Upon the NewCruiser Montgomery.
New London, Oct. 4.—The new cruiserMontgomery reached the harbor at 4o'clock this morning. Just outside thisport sbr ran on Blnckledge at 11:45 lastnight, at low water, and stuck fast. Tugswere at once dispatched to the cruiser'sassistance, but the rising tide floated herbefore assistance arrived and she came toport under her own steam.
An examination disclosed a bad Indenta-tion under tbe starboard side and she isoaid tobe leaking badly. The probabilityis tbe trial will not take place just yet.The Montgomery made a splendid run tothis port, showlns 16% knots under easysteaming. She made the run from thecapes in twenty-four hours.
An Eloper Returns.New York, Oct. 4 —Dr. Almevon J.
Holcorube of Jersey City, who rpcentlyeloped with Mrs. Frank Amylie, has re-turned to town, having efft-cted a recon-ciliation with his wife iv Chicago. Mrs.Ainylieremains in San Francisco.
FOR FREE SILVER.
Action of the St. LouisConvention.
SECESSION NOT FAVORED.
But the West and South HaveCommon Interests.
MONEY CONGESTED INTHE EAST.
It Is the Duty of Congress to Bring
About a Changed Con-dition.
St. Louis, Oct. 4.—
When tb* Pan-American Bimetallic League met thismorning, the committee on resolutionsnot being ready to report, the conventionproceeded to consider general business.
Letters of regmt and sympathy fromA. J. Warner of Washington, D. C.;Con-gressman I>. P. Blank, Governor WilliamM.Fishback of Arkansas, T. L.NugeutofTexas and David Obermeyer of Kansasand others were read. That of GovernorFisbback was an extensive statistical ar-gument for bimetallism and the use of thewater routes to the gulf and thence to Eu-rope, thus reducing the freight pxpen&es
there by givingthe Mississippi Valley theposition it deserves in the commercialworld.
With the finishing of the reading of tbeletters Walter 11. Alien of Kansas was in-
troduced, and be briefly,as a farmer, ad-dressed the convention, pleading for freecoinage, but more especially denouncing
what is known as the "exception clause"in the silver act, which provides for thenaming of any uther money than silver ivcontracts, if so desired. With this as atext he argued that the silver dollar waseven now demonetized, for It was In thepower of individuals to refuse to accept It.
"No international bimetallism withGreat Britaiu included is possible" wasthe titleof a paper read for the author byCaptain C. A. Power of Kansas. Its argu-ment was that Great Britaiu as a creditornation controlled the world.
On behalf of the Kuuhis of Labor dele-gates present, T. A. Osborne of Kansaspresented the convention with an addressindorsing its objects. After reviewing ingeneral terms the present financial andlabor situation, iturges an increase of themedium of exchange, piedges oppositionto the destruction of silver as money,favors free and unlimited coinage of silverat tbe ration of 16 to 1, and closes with areiolution to "lay aside all other issues forthe present and ask the South and West tounite no remonetization of silver." "Asthe East is solid aeaiost it,"he Haid, "solei the West and bout's -sa nd together andpay ihc East its bond According to the con-tract, but no more." Incidentally iturgedthe convention to educate and vote insteadof remaining ignorant and having to shoot.
The Colorado delegation presented forconsideration of the convention the bul-lion bureau plan, which is to be urgeduponthe State Legislature of Colorado. lJuderthe plan of tbe bureau the State creationshould receive bullion for storage nn abasis of units, such units to consist of371% grains pure, silver, and the certifi-cates of such receipt uf units to be receiv-able within the State for texes and lands,except school lands, water rentals, inter-est and all other dues to the State.
At tbe afternoon session, while waitingfor the report of tbe committee on resolu-tions, several speeches on tbe silver ques-tion were listened to. Governor Stone ofMissouri said it was his conviction thatfree coinage was for the best interests ofthe people.
He favored the maintenance of the ex-isting ratio of 16 to 1, as any changemeant the payment of debts in differentamounts from which they were con-tracted. He expressed tho conviction thatthe supply of silver, instead of becoming
too great for the demand, would actuallyprove too small. Tbe question of section-alism as connected with tbe conventionwas sheer nonsense. He desired neitherpolitical, commercial nor financial inde-pendence of the £:ist; h« was simply tiredof dependence upon it. He had for yearsfelt the necessity of closer relationship be-tween the people of the South and Westin the protection of their own interests,not in a hostile sense, but as a measure ofself-protection.
The nine Northeastern States, whetherIn national banks. State banks, or loanand trust companies, possessed togetherbankable resources equal to about 55 percent of all in the country, against 45 percent possessed by the other States andTerritories. From this came the mute ap-peal to tbe convention to protect the peo-ple from the rapacity of the East and toassert tbelr refusal to be dependentfurther. Itwas not secession, but tbe co-operation of tbe West and South in theadvancement of their own community ofInterest.
The Committee on Resolution! thenpresented a lengthy report. It declaresthat
Whereas, Tbe producing, manufactur-ing, mercantile financial, transportationand other business interests of the UnitedStates are paralyzed by the universallyconfessed lack of actual money tomeet therequirements of trade, and, whereas, theconvention believes in givins full andequal legal power to every dollar bparingthe stamp of the Government, it is essen-tial that Congress take such action relativeto the coinage of the two money metals aswillrestore silver to the position itheldin 1873.
The present deplorable condition of thecommercial interests of the country is thelegitimate fruit of tbe vicious financialsystem established by and maintained inthe interests of a plutocracy which threat-ens the liberties of the people, and thatunited action is necessary.
The Western and Southern States andTerritories, by all their capabilities andresources, are happily fitted for mutualintercourse and dependence, responding
alike to the same beneficent or detrimentalinfluence and efforts, whether legislative,financial or commercial.
Tbe resolutions declare that it Is tbesense of the convention in view of thesefacts and of the continued flagrant disre-gard of the vitalinterests of the great pro-ducing States by dominant influences innational centers, financial and political,that a closer alliance between the inhabi-tants of the West and South is impera-
tively demanded for the purpose of mutualprotection and advancement along alllegitimate lines.
We assert that while this is true of theSouthern and Western States, it is alsotrue that tbe manufacturing States of theEast cannot enjoy prosperity while theSontb and West: are depressed and notprovided with money to purchase theproducts of their factories.
Tbe coinage of silver upon the basisdemanded below has been repeatedly in-vited and is conceded to be necessary tothe upbuilding of true relations of incal-culable macnituiie between the UnitedStates and the sister republics of Northand South America.
The resolutions then demand the freeand unlimited coinage of silver at theestablished ratio of 16 to 1,giving to suchcoin equal legal tender powers withgold,and unalterably oppose the repeal of theSherman law, except by the passage of alaw providing for said free coinage.
Representatives in Congress are di-rected to instruct the President to issuen call for the early convention of allnations interested in and favorable to thefree coinage of silver at tbe ratio named,for the purpose of establishing c!osor com-mercial and financial relations with th^m.They further declare that the total amountof e-ila now in existence or capable of pro-duction under tne stimulus of increasedvalue is totally inadequate to supply thedemand of the world for money, and thatthe adoption of a single gold s'andard willresult in universal bankruptcy and ruin.
Such action would be a violation of theconstitution furthermore, tn that itwouldimpair all existing contracts and doublothn obligations of all debtors.
Tbe resolutions declare it the duty of allpntriotic citizens to resist in the courts andat the ballot-box its adoption and its en-forcement ifadopted.
The resolutions oppose the further issueof bonds as a perpetuation of the nationalbanks system, to which they are unalter-ably opposed, as It enables a few selfishIndividuals at their pleasure to contract orexpand the volume of the currency to tbegreat injury of the masses. A financialsystem is demanded which will preventthe congestion of money in tbe financialcenters of the East.
The resolutions furthfrurge the speedyimprovement by the National Governmentof the great waterways, and invite itsactive cooperation for more direct routesto (he ocean, that our products mayreach the markets of the w orld at a mini-mum cost.
The report wns unanimously adopted
amid great enthusiasm. Governor Waiteof Colorado wanted introduce a supple-mental resolution declaring the right of aState to establish currency within its ownborders of the same standard as the Na-tional currency, but it was by this timedark in the hall, and the convention ad-journed until to-morrow.
ONE COURSE IS OPEN.
Senator Butler Thinks He HasSolved the Problem.
ThelOnly Possible Way to Settle theSilver Question Is by Com-
promise.
Washington, Oct. 4.— When the Senatemet this morning there were by actualcount one Democrat and six Republicanspresent. After some delay a quorum wassecured ana Morgan (if Alabama reportedfrom the Foreign Relations Committee thebillmaking au appropriation to enable theSecretary of the Treasury to enforce theChinese exclusion acts. Referred.
Morgan offered a resolution, which wentover, instructing tbe Committee on Judi-ciary to report what provisions, if any, ofthe coinage act of January 18, 1837, arenow in force.
A resolution by Dolpb calling for infor-mation as to pensions paid persons resid-ing in foreign countries was agreed to.
The repeal bill was then taken up andButler (D.) of South Carolina addressedthe Senate. He said that itwas apparentit was the purpose of those Senators whofavored the bill to force it through theSenate without regard for orconsiderationof tbe rights of the minority. The minor-ity of the Senate was not attempting tocoerce anybody and did not intend to becoerced themselves. There is no despot-ism so oppressive as the despotism ol amajority unrestrained."Iam asked," said Butler, "
'What is tobe done?' Ireply, compromise. Com-promise is tbn solution of the struggle.But we are told that compromise meansdefeat
—a surrender to the majority.
Compromise Is the very essence of ourform of government. There is Lot ameasure which is contested, in this Houseor the other, that becomes a law except asthe result of compromise."
Butler denied that there had been fili-bustering on the repeal bill, and ridiculedthe idea that the proceedings of the op-ponents of repeal wero revolutionary ortreasonable. He then took up the allegedinterference of the President in legislativematters. He could not believe that thePresident has attempted to use his bigboffice to Influence legislation.
Blackburn of Kentucky addressed theSenate in opposition to tbe bill. He saidhe was a blmetallist in the broadest andtruest sense of the word. The repeal ofthe Sherman law would not cure thetroubles under which the country labored.The tariff system must be revised and itsprohibitive features eliminated. Widermarkets iuusi be obtained for the productsof labor. The financial system must beremodeled. Gold and Mlvermnstbe madethe standards and paper money based uponthis standard and issued direct by theGovernment, and not filtered thronghtheagency of the netted and fostered nationalbanks. The 10 per cent tax on State bankcurrency must be repealed. The Govern-ment must be economically administeredand tba pension list purged of speculationand fraud. Blackburn hnd but one con-dition to impose upon a compromise. Un-lock the doors of the mints to silver. Tbepeople were demanding a settlement oftbis question. Blackburn then enteredinto a long defense of the administration,after which Call spoke in opposition totbe bill, and the Senate adjourned.
REASONS FOR NULLIFICATION.
Carlisle Thought ItHis Duty to De-preciate Silver.
Washington, Oct. 4.—Secretary Car-lisle has sent to the House his reply to theresolution of tbat body asking him why4,500,000 ounces of silver bullion were Dot
purchased during July and August as re-quired by law. The ret>ly says that as the
United States is the largest purchaser ofsilver in the world the Secretary of theTreasury, after an examination of theoffers aud quotations each day, should de-termine what in his judgment is a fairmarket price. Ho either has to purchase4.500,000 ounces at dealers' prices, no mat-ter how unreasonable or exorbitant, or nemust employ such means as are at hiscommand to ascertain the actu.il marketprice. The effort of the department sinceJuly 12 has been to simply ascertain theface market price of the bullion on eachday that it was offered for sale, and whenascertained make the purchases at thatprice.
LOOKING FOR GOLD.
Carlisle Said to Be Dealing With aForeign Syndicate.
Berlin, Oct. 4.— The Cologne Gazettedeclares the United States Government hasasked a syndicate of Paris bankers to tak*10,000,000 of 3 per cent bonds, on whichthey are to advance certain sums, and thebankers have consented, on condition thatthey have the right to sell thp bonds at aprice mutually agreed on. There is noquestion of the new 1 an being effected ifnegotiations continue.
Rome. Oct. 4.— The monetary conferenceof the Latin States will meet in Paris,Octobers
FIRED ON THE CITY.
The Rebels Determined to Give
Rio but Little Rest.
It Is Said, However, That the For-eign Warships Have Interfered
With the Sport.
Rio dk Janeiro, Oct. 4.—The ships ofMollobegan firing upon the city again to-day, but the aim of the gunners on theships was wild, and for this reason littledamage was done In the city generally,although the greatest alai niis felt through-
out the town.Many private residences have been al-
ready deserted, whole families having
fled to escape the barbarities perpetratedby Peixoto's troops. The President'sforces are replying to the lire of the ships
from the batteries which were thrown upalong the water front at the time the fleetchanged its anchorage a few days ago.
From Desterro comes the announcementthat parts of the crews of the Brazilianwar ships Republica and Pallag, whichrecently arrived there, have gone ashoreand occupied the forts in that city and onthe island of Santa Catbarina.Itis the intention to establish Mello's
headquarters in De«terro and proclaim aprovisional government. In this city thePresident is in active opposition to thecandidacy of Tajes as bis successor andfavors Elian, who, however, is meetingwith considerable antagonism. Tajas isthe choice of the socialists, who are con-duuting a vigorous canvass.
The commanders of tbe British,French, Italian, American and Portu-guese men-of-war here have receiveddispatcht-s giving them discretionarypower to take such action as maybe necessary to prevent further at-tacks by the rebel gunboats on tbe city,
whicb might endanger the lives and prop-erty of foreign subjects. The command-ers have already acted on this authoriza-tion by informing Admiral de Mello thatno further attack on the city will be per-mitted.
Germany alone refrained from takingsimilar action on the ground that itdoesnot desire to interfere in a domestictrouble.
SURROUNDED BY MOORS.The Spaniards Find but Little Peace
in Africa.Madrid, O t. 4.
—Dispatches from Me-lilla say 27,000 Moors, including 5000 cav-alry, are surrounding that place. TheMoors swear they will never permit theerection of a Spanish fort at Guartach.
The Ministry here has decided to erect afort at any cost, and reinforcements arebeing sent to the front as rapidly as possi-
ble. The gunboat Cuerva has arrived atMelilla. It has been shelling the Moorishforts on the coast all day.
The War Office has ordered all theavailable mnn ac Malaga to proceed tollelilla. The force will number3000 men, and its instructionsgiven to commanding generals are to at-tack the Moors with the utmost vigor.
The Government is determined theMonrs are responsible for the assault onMnlilland shall be promptly punished.
Other troops will probably be sent fromSeville. The captain-general of that placewas ordered to hold the troops inreadiness to start for Morocco atonce should it be found the forcealready forwarded should not be strongenough to cope with the Moors. A largequantity of munitions of war and pro-visions have already been sent toMelilla.
BANKNEAD WANTS TO KNOW.
Calling for Papers in the San Fran-cisco Postofiice Deal.
Washington, Oct. 4.— RepresentativeHank head this morning offered and theHouse adopted the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasurybe requested to transmit to the House all pa-pers relating to the selection and puicli;is#of asite for a Government bulldiue at San Fran-cisco, iucludiug dally reports of the SpecialAgent of the Treasury Department wlio con-ducted the borings on said lot.
Banknead says that the Secretary of theTreasury will probably transmit to theHouse to-morrow or at furthest withintwo or three days the papers asked for inhis resolutioD of to-day. When he has ex-amined the papers and finds tbat all thefacts substantiate his allegation of fraudand collusion and the wortblessness of theSeventh and Mission streets site for thePostofiice building he will prepare bisresolution authorizing an investigation
and will make a speech thereon. He stillcontends tbat at least one of the titles tothe parcel of land included Inthe site par-chased is defective, though be refuses tosay yet just what part itis.
"The Postofnce building is not erectedyet by a long way," be said significantlyto-day.
Van Alen Will Get It.\u25a0•Washington, Oct. 4.—The Senate Com-
mittee on Foreign Relations this morning
considered the appointment of J. J. VanAlen ns Embassador Italy. Itis under-stood iireadied a favorable conclusion.
ITS TEETH DRAWN
McCreary Reports HisSubstitute.
GIVEN ANOTHER CHANCE.
John Chinaman and His Friendsof the East.
CARLISLE GIVES SOME FIGURES.
Made the Basis of the Attempt toRelieve Chinese Breakers of
the Law.
Washington, Oct. 4.— From the HouseCommittee ou Foreign Affairs to-day Chair-man MeCreary reported bifl substitute forthe Everett Milamending the Geary Chl-npss exclusion act. The report accompa-uying Hie bill is as follows:
"It seems just and fair that the many
Chinese who were misled by the opinions
rendered by Messis. Choate, Carter andAshton, attorneys for the Chinese, shouldhave addtional time in which to registerand obtain certificates of residence.
"The report of the Secretary of theTreasury shows that 13,240 Chinese per-sons registered, leaving 93,445 who failedto avail themselves of the privilege. As-suming that about 10 per cent of tbesswould be entitled to exemption as mer-chants, students, actors aud others of tbeexempt class, there would remain about85,000 liable to deportation.
"The Secretary of the Treasury reportsthat the lowest cost of transporting themfrom San Francisco to Hong-Kong is $36per capita. The other Incidental expenses,such as the expense of arrest, trial and in-land transportation, would average notless than $35 more per capita.
"If,therefore, all tbe Chinese personsabove referred tn who are not registeredshould be transported to China tbe costinvolved would aggregate in round num-bers 56.000.000."
The full text of the new measure is asfollows:
Section 1. That section 6 of the act entitled"Anact to prohibit the coining ol Chinese per-sons into the United States," approved May 6,1892, Is hereby amended so as io read as fol-lows: "Section 6. And It shall be the duty of.all Chinese lahoiers within the limits of theUnited States entitled to remain in the UnitedStates before the passage of the act to whichthis act Is an amendment to apply to the Col-lector of Internal Revenue of their respectivedistricts withinsix in->n hs after the passage ofthis act for a certificate of residence, aud anyChinese laborer within the limits of the UnitedStales who shall fail, neglect or lefuse to com-ply with the provisions or this act and the actto whicl) this is an amendment, or who afterthe expiration of said sixnionihs shall be foundwithin the Jurisdiction of the United Stateswithout such certificate of residence, shall bedeemed and adjudged to be unlawfullywithinthe United States and may be arrested byanyUnited States customs official,collector of In-ternal revenue or his deputies, United StatesMarshal or his deputies, and taken before aUnited Mates Judge, whose duty Itshall be toorder that he be deported from the UnitedStates, as provided by this act and the act towhich this Is an amendment, unless he shallshow clearly to the satisfaction of said Judgethat by reason of accidenr, sickness or otherunavoidable cause be has been unable to pro-cure bis certificate, and shall show to the satis-faction of the United States Judge by at leastone creditable witness other than Chinese thatbe was a resident of the United States on May5, 1892, and If upon hearing; It shall appearthat be is entitled to a ceitlficatait shall be granted upon bis payingtbe costs. Should it appear that saidChinaman bad procured a certificate whicb hadbeen lost or destroyed, he shall be detalmd andjudgment suspended a reasonable time to en-able him to procure a duplicate from the officergranting it. and in such case tbe cost of arrestand trial shall b \u25a0 in tbe discretion of the Judge.Any Chinese person other than £ Chinese la-borer, having the right to be and remain IntheUnited States and desiring such certificate asevidence of such right, may apply for and re-ceive the same wtthoat charge, and that no pro-
ceeulug for violitiorjs of the provisions of saidsection 6 of satd act as originally enacted shallherealter be Instituted and that allproceedingsfor said violation now pending ate herebydiscontinued.
Section 2—The words "laborer" or "laborers"wherever used Inthis act or Inthe act to whichthis is an amendment shall be construed tomean both skilled and unsMlled manuallaborers, Including Chinese employed Idmln-liiii.Id fishing, huckstering, peddling, launUry-nien, or those engaged In taking and drying orotherwise preserving shell or other fish forhome consumption or exportation.
The meeting to definitely determinewhen the bill shall be considered was notheld as expected, but itwillprobably cornsup in the House on Wednesday next.Itis feared there will be no quorum in
the House as soon as a vote is taken on theFederal election law repeal bill,and effortswill be made to get the bill up as soonafter this vote as possible. Some of itsopponents want to put it off until the Istof next November to wait for a quorum.There is little doubt expressed that thabillwillgo through as soon as a vote can.be reached. Several Western members arepreparing speeches whi h will severelyarraign the administration for non-en-forcement of the Geary law.
WillBe No Reduction.Omaha, Oct. 4.—The Union Pacific em*
ployes' representatives were in sessionmost of the day, but with no result as yet,They confidently predict tbat tbere willbeno reduction.
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