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46, NO. 198. ST. LOUIS. SUNDAY MOKNING.

FEBRUARY 24. TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES. PRICE. 5 CENTS. Boxnm-PM attorn Sunday Pemt-BispMch.

PeK If 9 1895 9 72,366 GREAT BIG MONEY IS IN SEDALIA'S DEAL. WANTS ALLIMDNY FROM HIS WIFE. fnand, when the time was ripe, an army of from 1.000 to 1,200, at his own estimate, of the best legislation infiuencers in the State. The money raised was used In paying for the first option on the land, which amounted to about or 5 per cent of the purchase price of the 10,000 acres. A Email balance of about $15,000 remained which, added the sundry civil bill is sure to provoke considerable debate, over the various financial amendments attached thereto.

Tne deficiency bill, with a multitude of controversial points, has not yet reached the Senate. Nothing can be plainer or truer than the contention which was used to-day against the pooling bill that only the most unifed and harmonious action can possibly clear the Senate calendar of the necessary appropriation bills, without devoting even an hour to the other measures- 1 THE VOTE ON THE BTT.T,. The Removal of the State Capital Is a Big Real Estate Speculation. Who Are the Holders of 3,900 Shares; Commonwealth Land Co. Stock? Ugly Rumors Hay Force Legislators to flake a Thorough Investigation.

from Jefferson City to Sedalia. Mr. Quigley and his colleagues Insist that the way the Legislature was influenced was legitimate. They say that while the deal Is a big one, while it fnvolves millions of dollars, and while it would have proven a mere bubble had the Legislature refused to Vote for the submission of the constitutional amendment, they see nothing out of the way in interesting yes, that's the word they use, "interesting," prominent men and politicians in the removal plan by making them part and parcel of the deal and then through them working the Legislature. "And, then," said Mr.

Quigley, the State will be a big gainer. The commission, headed' by the Governor, can come here and pick any site It likes. No matter what side of town or what part of town they go, they can't miss us. We own every bit of vacant property in Sedalia. We will give them all the land they want, twenty, forty, fifty acres.

Then' six months before the vote takes place, we will have prepared plans for the Capitol buildings and "submit them to the Governor, which any architect will tell him will cost a million and a half to build. We will put up a bond for that amount to build exactly such a building as the plans call for. It shall not cost the State a cent. All we ask is that the city put up $100,000 and the county $100,000." This they are only too willing to do." anyone ask any The capital never could have been removed any other way and Sedalia wants it. New capital buildings can only be secured by removal, and the State wants them.

We will make a little money. That's all there Is to it." Every real estate man in Sedalia says that little will not be a cent less than $10,000,000. But then Sedalians are just now in rainbow mood. -FAVORED SITES." The accompanying map of Sedalia shows the sites selected as the most eligible for the erection of the Capitol buildings. The spot marked Capitol Hill is considered first choice.

It is a high spot of ground and commands a good view of the city. The second choice is the place marked McVey tract, end the third choice is the Gentry tract. But no matter which side of the city the capital is located it must be located upon property on which the Commonwealth company has an option. As the politicians drifted in from Jefferson City yesterday, nothing but capital removal was talked of. Possible stockholders were singled out.

As Is well known4o eyery Legislator at the capital X)ennfs Ryan, now a Custom-house employe, was chief lobbyist. For three or four weeks he has spent most of his time in Jefferson City and Sedalla. THE FARWELL SYNDICATE. When questioned regarding his connection with Senator Farwell or the Farwell Is there a cloaked scandal under the Missouri capital removal scheme? Who are' the owners of the 3900 shares of the Commonwealth Land the most business-like artificial person now known to the laws of the State? In the language of the turf they stand to win over $10,000,000, and still the Senators and Representatives, who put them In a fair way to make this Immense fortune, deny that they know the stockholders of this corporation or that there were any private considerations in their vote. Rumors are in the meantime smirching reputations.

It is charged that the resolution submitting the question to a vote was carried through the General Assembly by influence bought in a partition of prospective profits. Whatever truth there may be in the allegations these facts are conceded. Louis, where he had lived for 'more than twenty-five years. Ho first came into prominence as a remover when he tried, with other Sedalians, to have the State University moved from Columbia to Sedalla two years ago. He was unsuccessful in his attempt, and made up his mind then that to get the captlal.

which Sedalia has wanted for twenty years, something more than a plea would have to be made to the various legislators. One of the men who helped defeat the University removal scheme was Representative D. J. Ryan of St. Louis.

It was during that fight that Mr. Quigley became acquainted II r. Ryan and appreciated his powers. Mr. Ryan is now Mr.

Quigley's right-hand man. When Mr. Quigley returned to Sedalla after losing his University removal fight he began evolving the great scheme, the climax T-TO THE SIDE TRACK. The Railroad Pooling Bill Laid Out for the Session. HOT DEBATE IN THE SENATE.

A Leading Member Charged With Being Unduly Interested in Pend ing Legislation. Spertnl to The Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, D. Feb. 23.

It Is seldom that a United States Senator on the floor of the Senate charges another Senator with being unduly interested in pending legislation. Not only was one Senator thus assailed to-day, but another came in for the same kind of drubbing by the same Senator on the same bill. The measure was the pooling bill, which has been passed by the House, and of which Senators Butler and Wolcott are the champions in the Senate. They and the bill were attacked by Senator Chandler this afternoon in the most sensational manner. The bill was practically thrown out of the chamber and its two friends were made to writhe under the veiled but stinging remarks of their New Hampshire opponent.

Their manifestations of resentment and anger were so plain that the crowds in the gallery, for they became packed as Chandler continued, semed to thoroughly enjoy the effect of the innuendoes and keen thrusts of the New Englander, who was in full possession of his powers of sarcasm and irony. Even the Senate Itself could not refrain from manifesting Its delight. John Sherman chuckled like a schoolboy at Chandler's clever hits; Hill looked as if he was on the point of clapping several times, and here and there Senators nudged each other during the roasting process. It was high time that somebody spoke out in the Senate against the lobbyists who have thronged the Capitol in the interests of this pooling bill. It is a measure designed by the railroad companies to prevent competition by law, and allow them to pool on freight rates and receipts, by repealing the prohibitory section of the Interstate Commerce Act.

To get this act through Congress the roads have sent their biggest men by the score to Washington, and they havttbewn at work. -upon jwmbtra of the Senate all winter. They were particularly busy to-day about the corridors on the Senate side, in the marble room, and even Invaded the committee rooms to influence Senators to support their bill. An attempt was made to call the pooling bill up at 3 o'clock this afternoon, and to pass it if possible. The alarm had been given and the opponents of the measure were prepared for the move.

It came on time. There were none of the agents of the railroads in the Senate at the moment, except those entitled to seats. Outside and waiting the result were W. B. Cable, President of the Rock Island.

E. B. Stahlman, vice president of the Southern Traffic Association, and one of the leading magnates of the Louisville and Nashville, G. K. Cowan, the General Counsel for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, who used his privilege as a member-elect of the Fifty-fourth Congress to sit on the floor of the House and coach the bill through the Fifty-third, George C.

Blanchard, one of the leading railroad men of the West. Jim Hill. President of the Great Northern, and C. P. Huntington, whose interests in the Pacific Railroad funding bill have not prevented him from advocating the pooling bill at the same time, are among the leading lights in the strongest lobby which has attracted Congress in twenty years.

For once principals and not agents have taken charge of the third House to pass this measure, rightly characterized by Senator Chandler as in the interests of eleven thousand million dollars of combined capital. HISTORY OF THE MEASURE. This measure has been one of many and conflicting interests. Had it been properly handled It might have been engineered to a successful issue. Senator Gorman early in the present Congress introduced a pooling bill modifying the anti-ppoling section of the Inter-State Commerce act, and had it referred to the Commerce Committee.

The course of the committee was significant. 1 hey waited till the pooling bill passed the House before taking decisive action. Every amendment prepared to the House bill was. promptly voted down in committee and the House bill, word for word, was reported to the Senate on the 22d of January. While the railroad magnates had at first been inclined to suggest certain amendments they finally agreed that the House bill should be pressed to a vote in the Senate absolutely without change.

Like all great combinations they were too sure of their strength and began to make mistakes. The first one was in allowing the Baltimore lawyer-politician and civil service reform-g Cowan, to fiill too prominent a no'sition in behalf of the measure. This immediately aroused the antagonism of Senator Gorman whom Cowan has fought for a generation in Maryland politics. Gorman the craftiest financier in the Democratic rortv His batteries are always masked snn ne IS xuiiu ion of his amendments by the Commerce Commission gave him sufficient excuse to nerionally oppose the measure and he useS his position as Chairman of the Democratic Steering Cimmlttee to defer conTderation until this late day In the Session when it was sure to be antagonized bt a half dozen appropriation bills. The railroad managers had counted noses accu-Sy enough and could the bill have been broueht to a vote In the Senate it would un-auesfionably have passed.

But with the certainty that it would be debated to the end of the session on the motion to give it consideration was overwhelmingly uefeat- and counter-charges are thick to- The acrimony of defeat has nettled "lobby and the supporters of the pooling Kin in the Senate. To the charge of Senator Phtndwtbrt the entire railroad capital of kJm-ntry was backing the measure, the ifmade that the Canadian Pacific rC 2 Grand Trunk roads, which would 2 injuriously affected by the passing of hill are not without their advocate in hlenatt Senator Butler veiled his allus- the Standard Oil Trust, the Sugar nrl the Dressed Beef Combine as be- TrU rteenfv interested in 4he defeat of the ing deeply mie of whlch woum to the unfair advantage which hSe been able to maintain against all thTinon by their ability to exact prefer-competition prlVlle(re9 and spring enht JTrom the roads competing for their traffic. While it Is true that the bh? IPPiM Combines are opposed to the their Resistance played a sma 1 part in defeat Compared with the logic of the six full days of life yet remain to the Flftv-tnird Congress. Five appropriation Mils are itil I in conference. One of them.

itnVltlc and consular bill, contains cable amendment, over wnicn a hot combat win yet on i the defeat of the measure v. Ko tt-in vet he waired possiDiy to the defeat of the measure PPrjPJl-atinn before the Senate, or tnese. Trusten P. Dyer Has Begun an Extraordinary Divorce Suit. ASKS FOR $10,000 TO LIVE ON He Has Been in Seattle Since He Hastily Left St.

Louis With His Masonic Home Accounts In Bad Shape. There are many persons In St. Louis who remember Trusten P. Dyer, nephew" of CoL Pat. Dyer, an attorney, man about town, and at one time prominent in Masonic circles, and a bit of news that came last night from the Pacific, coast will doubtless interest them.

Dyer has been almost lost sight of during the years that have elapsed since his hasty departure in 1889. He was then Secretary of, the Masonic Home of Missouri. Since he went away about all that has come back to his old associates about" him is that he had settled In Seattle, and had married a woman of large means; in short, that he had tumbled Into a good thing. Now comes the news that because of his bad conduct his rich young wife has turned him out of the house, and that to revenge himself he has brought suit againsther for divorce, grounds not stated, and has asked the court to allow him $10,000 ali' mony. Perhaps the basis of his bill is non-support.

Those who know him best say it cannot be desertion, for he was never known, his friends say, to suffer anyone with money to desert him, and they think he would have clung to his rich wife, It she had let him, till the grave opened. When Dyer handed his resignation to the Board of Directors of the Masonic Home of Missouri. In 1889, it was promptly accepted and nothing more thought of th matter, beyond the election of his successor, until a relative of Dyer called on the directors and told them that If. any mistakes were found In the young; marl's counts to say nothing: about It but to let this relative know, and any shortage that might exist would be settled. This peculiar offer startled the directors, who until then had suspected nothing wrong, and quickly concluding that there was a black face in the wood pile, they began to Up to the time of hls departure Dyer had handled all the funds of the institution, amounting at times to a very considerable sum.1 R.

H. Dyer, an expert accountant, who has an office in the Union Trust Building, spent a week or more going over the and -when he had completed the work he announced to the astonished directors- that he had found a number of mistakes. All told they represented a shortage of $2,000. The report of the expert was Immediately spread before Dyer's relative, and without any show of protest he drew up a check for the full amount. Unfortunately, however, he carelessly drew thff check against a bank In which he had no funds on deposit, and this bit of carelessness caused the directors Increased-uneasiness.

A grand row was imminent; a row which bade fair to rent the secrecy that Is supposed to seal the Hps of Masonry. Threats of prosecution were made, but were never carried into effect, for Dyer's brother-in law, a Mr. Jackson, came from his home in Troy, and paid the full amount of the shortage. It is also said that Dyer secured $1,000 from his bride to pay off part of this obligation to the Masons, and that he used it for another purpose. Dyer led a gay life In St.

Louis, and was a member of the Mercantile Club. SHE IS A HARD KICKER, The Part Played by a Congressman's Wife in a Political Row. GADSDEN, Feb. 23. M.

W. Howard, the young Populist recently elected to Congress, was the subject of an attack by Ben Janeway. a student. In an essay read by him at the Friday afternoon'exerclse at the Fort Payne Institute. Janeway repeated the charges used against Howard during the recent campaign, to the effect that he was an anarchist, a libertine and a slanderer of decent women.

Howard's wife and his young brother were In the audience. Young Howard and Janeway afterward tnpt outside and engaged in a fight. Mrs. Howard ook part In it, and kicked Janeway twice in the stomach. A general fight followed.

In which friends on both sides took part. Judge Hilbro, who was holding court, armed a posse of twenty-five men and ordered them to the scene. The Howards were arrested, and thuj morning Mis. Howard was fined. BOTH -SIDES' FIRM.

Developments in th8 New York Building Trades Strike. NEW YORK. Feb. 23. At the Walkln Delegates meeting to-day It was decided not to change the course adopted since th inceirfion of the electrical worVra' strike.

There will be a meetlnir on. Monday of the boss builders to' consider the trlk. It i said that they, will indorse contractors. effect that the secretary of the Workers' Union. No.

S. hl bwn ml" ff to a llko amount subscribed by the citizens of Sedalia, was used to grease the wheels and pay for printing and other necessary expenses. If the bill for submission of the removal could not be passed this money would be lost. As it was only a small amnunt frnm each shareholder the loss would not be felt. When he thought the proper time for ac tion had arrived Mr.

Quigley set the wheels nf the machine in motion. Politicians- bosses who had a pull-saw their repre sentatives and Senators personally, ine prominent men in the small towns got up petitions on the quiet, and sent them, together with personal letters to their representatives. They told them that they must vote for the removal bill. Both the Democratic and Republican bosses wielded the whip and enough legislators to carry the thing through with a. whirl were swung into line.

Ex-Representative D. J. Ryan was summoned to Sedalia and the lobby work at Jefferson City placed in his hands. He has divided his time between Jefferson City and Sedalia ever since. He is said by Mr.

Quigley not to own any stock in the company, so perhaps he did the work for amusement. At any rate he worked and Sedalla people say he worked hard. Gradually the thing came to a head. All Sedalia knew what was going on, but no one else. Every one in the city knew of the options on the property, but not a word was allowed to go out.

The local correspondents for outside papers, more loyal to their town than to their papers, suppressed the news. The time was near at hand. Senator Lancaster of St. Louis was summoned to Sedalia on Feb. 15 and the final arrangements were made.

The following Tuesday the Sedalia delegation swooped down on the Legislature, and the world knows the result. The capital was captured while the Jefferson Cityites were rubbing their eyes and trying to collect their senses. During the time of securing the options W. l. Porter acted as agent for the company not yet organized.

The contracts were all made out In his name, he at the same time giving a contract to turn the options over to the company as Boon as. organized. On, Feb. 4. in corpora nun papers were filed and the Commonwealth Land and Development Co.

came into existence and the contracts were turned over. Prior to that time, the concern was simply known as the "Syndicate." The officers are: President, John B. Quigley; Vice-President, W. M. Johns; Secretary, W.

J. Maltby; Treasurer, M. L. Andrews. These, together with J.

H. Pilkington, form the Board of Directors, and together, with O. A. Cran-dall and W. L.

Porter, are all the names possible to obtain for a certainty as holding stock. i Mr. Quigley declares that not a single Senator or Representative owns a share, "or," he says, "they did not when the vote was taken; they may have bought some since." Everybody in Sedalla says, and everybody knew all about the deal at least two weeks before the grand finale, that the St. Louis stockholder are CoL Ed Butler, John A. Lee, Chauncey I.

Filley and Cyrus P. Wal-bridge. Mr. Quigley says the St. Louis shareholders are numerous, but refuses to divulge their names without their consent.

The stock of everyone, except the directors, is held by Mr. Quigley as trustee. The question arises where will the $320,000 come from to make the next payment on the property in six months. Sedalians who profess to know all about it say' John B. Farwell of Chicago will furnish the money to carry the deal.

This President Quigley denies. He says the Missouri Trust Co. will furnish the entire balance of the $1,600,000 and take a blanket mortgage on the whole property, with the arrangement that as each piece of property is sold it can be cleared of the incumbrance. When asked where the money was to come from he said from England, where most of the debenture bonds of the Trust company are now held. The stock of the Commonwealth company has already gone up to $100, a share and Is in demand, with none on the market.

The only members of the Legislature, it is said', who will directly derive any benefit from the advance in property here are Sena- THE STATE CAPITOL. tor Charles E. Yeater and Representative John of Sedalia, who own considerable property in the city, and Lieut. -Gov. O'Meara, who Is said to own the large stone store on Ohio, near Fourth, although the county records do not show it.

He is said to have acquired the property In a trade. This Is the true story of how the Legislature came' to vote to' give the people chance to vote for the removal of the capital Mr. Butler's motion to takfr up the bill was lost by the following vote: YEAS. Rlnnohard, Harris, B'ltlcr, Hlwrlim, Cattery, Hnuton. Camden, Lindsay, Cameron, Lod-o.

Carey. MePBerson, Hanlel. undersoil. Faulkner, Mitchell of Grsy. Wisconsin, NATS.

Aldrlch, Gorman, Alleo. Hale, Allison, Hiinsbrongh, Bates, Hawley, Perry. mn, Blackbnrn. nf Murphy, Proctor, Quay, ltai'snm. Squire, Walsh.

Wolcott 24. JYfTer. Iettigrew, n.itt. Power, I'uRh. It iiac h.

Sherman, Smith, Teller. Tnrpie, VlTit, VilaK. Washbjirn 42. Call. Arkansas.

Chandler, Kyle. Clark. lel.nrtn, Cockrell, McMillin. Davis. Mantle.

IMxon. Mitchell of Imlioig, Oregon, Frye. Murom. tieortte. Morrill.

BUTLER DEFENDS HIS COURSE. Mr. Butler claimed that the bill was directly In the favor of the people and expressed his indignation that the bill should be side-tracked. Mr. Hale criticised Mr.

Butler for allowing his bill to drag along through almost three weeks, until the very end of the session before making a determined effort to secure consideration and said that the fault for failure was his alone. "Ho cannot pass this bin," he concluded, "in twenty-four hours nor in the rest of the session, and he knows it." Mr. Butler retorted that this was the plea that had been made at every stage of the procedure. "It is the best plea," said Mr. Hale, "and the plea and the reasons for It grow more urgent every day." "Does not the Senator know," asked -Mr.

Wolcott, of Mr. Hale, "that scores and scores of Senators on this side of the chamber have been requested to speak on amendments to appropriation bills in which they had not the slightest interest, for the sole purpose of consuming time and so prevent the consideration of the. pooling bill? Mr. Hale disclaimed any knowledge of such a state of things. He that no such speeches had been made or-would be necessary for the consumption of all the time to the end of the session.

Even under the five-minute rule, which he hoped to see adopted next week, all the time would be taken and the Senate will be crowded. Mr. Butler said that when yesterday the announcement was made of the decision of the steering committee, the Indian bill could have been passed in two hours. But Immediately there had been prolonged debate and very shortly afterwards executive session. "That might deceive some he added "but it did not deceive me.

Let tis" have a vote on this bill." 'JYou cannot get a vote on a bill until you; get It before the Senate, replied Mr. Hale.j Will vou vote to taxe it up now? eager Iv asked Mr. Butler. "No." was the reply. "I'll not vote to take up this bill or any otheri until we can see our way clear for.

the ap-; nroDriatlons. Mr. Butler said that If he could get the bill up and found it would interfere with the ap propriation bills or Jeopardize them ne would withdraw the measure. "The Senator from said. sarcastically, referring to Mr.

Jones." "may exceed me in grace in withdrawing bills, but not in readiness when the need becomes ap parent. Mr. Peffer said that it might be some re lief to the Senator from South Carolina to know that he could not pass the bill for twenty days, in proof of which he adduced the fact that there were at least twelve sen ators prepared to debate it indefinitely, and that he himself would expect to be heard for at least a aay. Mr.Butler said that Mr. Peffer was frank er than other Senators In confessing a ae- termination on the part of himself and eleven other Senators to filibuster the bill to death, and added that he would only like to have an opportunity to give them a chance to try the filibuster.

Mr. Peffer disclaimed any desire to fill buster. GORMAN. REPLIES. Mr.

Gorman arose to reply to what he characterized as Mr. Butler's assault upon him, which was uncalled for, and, so far as he was aware, unjustified by any action of his. is true," he said, "as stated by the Senator from South Carolina, that I intro- ritiferl a nnnliner bill, and it is true that I announced that I was friendly to a pooling bill that would be rair and just to tne railroads and the people, but I introduced It as I Introduce hundreds of other bills, and I was not committed to any single provision of it to nothing in it, except to the general idea," "Early in the present session the Democratic caucus decided upon an order of business and I as the exeoutive officer of that body have endeavored to carry out its decree, which not only provided what measures were to be considered but provided the order in which they were to be considered." He then gave the order which was, first, the Nicaragua bill; second, any financial measure which might be reported by the oommlttee; third, the bankruptcy bill; fourth, the; appropriation bills over and above anything else, and fifth, the Territorial admission bills. The programme had, he said, been interfered with somewhat by the President's message which had precipitated a financial discussion which had consumed fully ten days of the precious time of the Senate. This, he declared, he had struggled to prevent In order to keep the appropriation bills to the front and thus make time for the other general bills.

He told how he had protested against the taking up of the, silver bill to illustrate his point, and asserted that the appropriation committee had been practically paralyzed by the vote to take up that bill. Changing the line of his remarks. Mr. Gorman said that many of the best friends he had were among the great railroad magnates of the country, and he then told how he had been Importuned by them In the Interest of the bill. Mr.

Chandler deprecated the disposition among the Senators-ta Impute motives to each other in their conduct In connection with any measure. Will the Senators who do not take the same view of this question as do the Senators from Maryland and myself be kind enough to concede that- we also stand on the same plane. He then discussed the bill on Its merits, asserting that the railroad managers had demanded that the bill should be passed Just as it came from the house. He took occasion to except the first section and predicted that It would never be passed either by the present or any other Congress. Mr Butler abandoned his fight with an impassioned reply to Mr.

Chandler's aspersions about the railroad' lobby. "No lobby has any terrors for an honest man he declared. "I have always encouraged Information from that or any other Fource on a great public -question and on this bill have been very glad to receive suggestions from American citizens Interested in transportation. Mr. Butler repented Mr.

Chandler's reflections upon the Integrity of the railroad men of the country. Mr. Chandler, he proceeded upon, the assumption that every man connected with the roads Is a thief. He denounced! that view as a slander. After the conclusion of Mr.

Butler's remarks, the Senate Went on with the consideration of the InfUn bill and Mr. Cockrell gave notice that) he would move later to taka UP the undfV civil bilU If 11 4 mm0W J. B. yi'iGLKY. The Head of the Capitol Removal Project.

Back of the movement providing for the removal of the State capital from Jefferson City to Sedalia Is the biggest real estate deal ever consummated in Missouri. At present It Involves 10,000 acres of land In and about Sedalia, and an Investment of $1,600,000. Should the proposition to remove the capital carry, that amount will be Increased to $10,000,000 or $15,000,000. In this deal are Interested from 1,000 to 1,200 of the leading- politicians and others throughout the State. It has required two years to conceive and carry out the plans, but now that they have come to light the reason why the removal resolution passed the Legislature with such smoothness is plain.

The projectors and chief movers of the deal claim that there is nothing illegitimate in the way legislators were influenced, but of that the citizens of the State can best Judge for themselves after hearing the story. Briefly told these thousand or more sons referred to compose the Common-wealth Land and Development and this company' has secured an option upon 000 acres of land in and about Sedalia, com- syndicate's connection with the removal plan," Mr. Quigley made this statement: "The Farwell syndicate has absolutely nothing to do with this company, nor have I ever talked with any of the Farwell people on the subject. The only business relations I ever had with the Farwell syndicate, so- was at the time of the Texas capital removal to Austin. I am by profession a civil engineer and had surveyed and made notes of most all the land connected with that enterprise.

A proposition was made to me for the field notes and I refused to give them up unless I was let Into the deal. After some haggling a proposition was made me. which I accepted, but the pro visions of the proposal were never carried out and I have the notes yet. That is my entire connection with the Farwell people." O'MEARA. Lieut.

-Gov. O'Meara returned from Jef ferson City yesterday morning and was busy over his private affairs when a re porter for the Post-Dispatch called at his office. In response to an inquiry, he said: "I know absolutely nothing about Mr. Quigley or his company, except what I have heard about Jefferson City that there was a company interested in the removal of the capital to Sedalia. I have a little property there, which I bought as ah It consists of store buildings and brings, me $300 a month.

It is certainly recorded, as you can see," and Mr. O'Meara produced the deed, showing it had been filed on Dec' 31, 1893. The property- is held in the name of the O'Meara Realty Co. It was filed the last day of the year, and, as the Recorder's office changed hands Jan. 18, the failure to index It may have been due to oversight.

It was known that Mr. O'Meara was called suddenly to Chicago on the midnight train some three weeks ago, and he was asked if the trip thither had any connection with the capital removal. "Absolutely nothing," he declared, "I went up purely on a matter connected with my personal business. "Now-1 have heard all sorts of rumors about this removal company; that both Fllley and Ed Butler were stockholders, but I tell you truthfully I know nothing about it." GRIEF AND DEATH. A St.

Joseph Man's Suicide Over His Daughter's Fate. Feb. 23. Despondent from grief over the loss of his favorite daughter Anna, who was drowned in Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, three years ago while touring the continent with a party of friends, Joseph Scorge, a well-known nnd prosperous business man of this city, ended his life by hanging. His dead body was found in his room this morning.

He leaves a wife and four daughters. His death was a great shock to his friends. SENATOR FROM OREGON. George W. McBride Chosen On the Thirtieth Ballot.

SALEM. Feb. W. Mo-Bride, ex-Secretary ot State, was elected to-night, on the thirtieth ballot, as United States Senator, to succeed J. N.

Dolph. in which was reached in the Senate last Wednesday. He unfolded it to his chief colleague, O. A. Cranuall, President of the Missouri Trust Co.

of Sedalla. His scheme was this: He decided to form a corporation with a capital stock of The shares should be $25 each, and with the capital he would secure an option, on. every piece of vacant property in Sedalia. The shareholders should be prominent men in every small town in the State and prominent politicians in all the large With the incentive before them to make big money in case the capital was removed he felt sure these prominent men and politicians would use all their Influence to have the capital taken to The result shows that he was right. POSSIBLE SITES FOR During the past two years either Mr.

Quigley or his agent has personally called upon the men he had decided upon, both Democrats and Republicans, and Induced them' to take from one to four shares of stock. The number of shares was 4.000, and all but about 800 shares, which Mr. Quigley. Mr. Crandall and W.

Porter, a real estate man of Sedalla, hold, were Anally disposed of to these prominent men and nnlittclitna: By this means Mr. Quigley had at his corn- 'gum kJJgi I 'P i nnni hi prising every available parcel of ground upon which the Capitol can be located, besides every vacant piece of property in the City of Sedalia. For this property a bonus of $80,000 ha already been paid. Within the next six months $320,000 more must be paid, and before the question of removal comes to a vote of the people $400,000 more will have to be paid. Yet een with this great expenditure upon an uncertainty, the promoters of the plan 'Tp': gT i i (SSSSD of say they will make $500,000 If the capital ly never moved, and hope to clear rrom 000 to $15,000,000 If It is.

While the names of but two persona outside the five incorporators are made public by the promoter of the scheme. It is stated on good authority that two of the St. Louis stockholders are Chauncey I. Fllley and Col. Kdward Butler.

The last of these two names was given to the Post-Dispatch correspondent by a man who has helped to secure the options on the property. The man who conceived this gigantic deal and, with but very little help at first, put it through is John B. Quigley, President of Sedalla Water Works and formerly nager of the Interstate Oas and Water co. of St. Louts.

He was born In thlrty-eleht years ago. and years ago was a citizen of St. I since Tuesday and that na-i the papers pertaining to the Work win prd-red stopped on ftve nrw buildings thl af lernoon by the or TV. it relc(tate In aid of the tn or tr Thl tk- out l.S 4-dltTonai i mh.nlc- tolki number luvolred up to I.