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Sunday July 21-1895 Partes 9-16 II I. V. -J I I I 'VJ yVWXJ' 'if I IJ IV II II II I li II .11 II II IT 7 i I I 1 7 1 1 I PSOGRAMMEOFTHETORIES Ccaserratives May Try to Do Without the ibamberUin HIECOCRrS WORK TO. BE -NULLIFIED ft Irish Question Vlll Come to the Front with Renewed Vigor Incidents of the 'Present ill I' Campaign. LONDON.

July 0. Now that a jstrong Unionist majority bfi the nxt Parliament assured. Profit ar beginning to ssk what Prima Minister, will do Lord Salisbury, thi irith It. Born rol lit. will It survive the the Parti amen tary ses-The Unionists are con- full natural term jj tiott seven years! Heat that it will.

nd their confidence in its Timorous lire for wie ruu term la built on tb solidity of the'jjparty when It was In op- position and the Seeming cbsehce 1 ef dangerous elements of i Toe UDerais coiyuort ineinaeives reverting to the past ixpertence of Parliament with great roajorltli. whlsh majorities have always shewn a tendency to (all, to pieces. They have alto special reason to anticipate that the present or coming Unionist majority will not prove an exception to this ex-perlence. I Refsrdlng the permanence of great major ities. Sir William Harcourt.

speaking to the electors of Monmouth, remlnaed them of bw In 1SS0 the Liberals were confronted by a majority In the House of Commons of majority was finally converted Into a minority of, 40. i. The Dally -News, The Westminster Osteite, and other leading organs take precisely the same view as previously expressedthat Parliaments with great majorities always show a tendency to fall to pieces, and that the overwhelming strength ef the Conservative majority will compel Lord Salisbury to legislate In favor of land, church, and sectarian education on lines which will lead to a rupture In the Llberal-t'nlsnlst ranks. Judging from the results of the elections thai far held, there Is a strong probability (hat the purely Conservative majority will attain such dimensions as will render that party independent of Mr. Chamberlain and his allies.

It Is a notorious fact that the genuine Conservatives fear and detest Mr. Chamberlain. Th.i old supporters of Lord Salisbury, whose (claims to office have been overlooked In the formation of tine new Government In ffvor of Liberal-Unionists, will' certainly soen enter Into a cabal to oust the latter, at the party shall; be able to act without the support of the Liberal Unionists. i Much depends (upon the maintenance of Ministerial harqtony In the future pro-) gramme of the party which went into the campaign with no announced programme to use the words of Lord Salisbury, the programme of dissolution. If Mr.

Cham, berlain consents to abandon every Libera measure with which his name is still associated, and confines himself to his recent! It formulated social platform, he will be likely to remain in the Cabinet. Bat It will be difficult for him and his followers to submit to a reactionist policy like that embodied In sectarian education, which Lord Salisbury Is credited with intending to promote. It will be still worse for the Liberal Union-, bus if the Cabinet should seek to gratlfv a yearning- for some return to protection. The new Parliament jwill contain a considerable increase in the? number of Protectionist members. The puke of Devonshire.

President of the Council, had a prospective Conservative revolt iln view when toe; issued a letter last "Wednesday in which he defined the position of the Liberal Unionists, saying that they were! not fused with (the Conservatives; but fWere their allies until the ghost of home rule should be which is a somewhat different position from that announced at a jmeetlne some time since of the National Conservative Association when. Tor the nrst time in its history, Mr. Chamberlain and the Duke of Devonshire, era, respectively, In the House of Commons of Lords of the Liberal ana the House unionists, were! honored ruests. It was then Implied that the relation between the two parties haUj become such that it would not be long before conjointly they would be known as the; National Party. But from present appeanuhoes the harp of harmony toen Angered by the speakers already has a broken strlnglj A significant article In The Times.

In which the are advised to abandon home rule and start afresh on the old partv attracts attention, as it Is supposed to have been Inspired an influential adherent jof Joseph Chamberlain, besides forecasting what may happen if the Tory intrigues are successful in weakening the Liberal-Unionist element In the Government. i The symptom ot tn Intention of the Tories to guide she Government policy with a masterful hand, independent oC the feel-tags of the Literal-Unionists, has become so pronounced that It Is not really premature to predict I that Mr. Chamberlain and his followers wflll be obliged to submit or desert the exlstlhe coalition. Sir Michael HIcks-Beaoh tells his constituents that about the first act of the new Government-, will be the undoing of the effects of Sir Wjlllam Harcourt-s democratic budget by returning large aums ta the landlords In rebatelof the rates paid: by them. Similarly the Tory candidates everywhere announce that lithe public funds must be freely used to aniilst denominational schooLa.

and In the manufacturing districts they promise to -repeal the cotton duties. Lord Salisbury undoubtedly begins his ad-tninlatratlon of Government unhampered by a single pledke. But his supporters, having heartily and honestly promised much. Will Insist that ftheir pledcres be carried out. Lord Sallsburv has the advantage of months before he will be obliged to Ols-elose his proKitamme.

After the swearing In ef members i after the House of Corn-toons meets In jhe second week In August, nothing need bit! done beyond securing supplies. NothlnjrSwill be done before actual work Is ehtere upon, early In February. The Irish question Is likely to ibe acutely to the fore, if events verify current reports. The physical force party, which 1 ad been organizing to compel action by the Liberals, was prepared to make: such hostile demonstrations as would show that, irish discontent would not brook longer in satisfy! the Irish demands. It Is stated that sedret drilling has been widely revived in Ireland by old malcontents.

A number of welljknown members of the Irish communities in? London, Glasgow, and Liverpool have left within the month for Ire-' land, making nb sercet to their oom patriots that something. was brewing in which they meant to sharejii The triumph oMbe-Cnion-Ists and prospective coercion may' be giving impetus to the secret societies, and may precipitate outbreaks In Ireland In their latent speeches. Mr. Halfour and Mr. Chamberlain foreshadow the Introduction in Parliament of two great Irish measures.

Mr. Balfpur declared his intention to Introduce a measure conferring greater economic advantages upon Ireland which is Interpreted to imvan that the Government will put the Irish contributions to the imperial finance upon the more just level long claimed for thtiin by Irish Mr. Cham'erlaln Indicated that a biil would be Introduced dealing with what he calls the greatest anomaly of the existing electoral system." whirh allows Ireland twenty-three members in Parliament mors than her population entitles her to. Hla. measure proposes to assign; these twenty-three members to England, as.

Scotland -is already represented. ijM Conservative papers talk reforming the Irish administration by the abolition of the vice royalty, and the creation of a State Secretaryship for Ireland similar to that now existing far Scotland. Th Irish -members of Parliament, though they hold In lithe greatest detestation the Castle control, will vigorously resist any measure looking to the abolition of the vice royalty as depriving the; country of the last semblance of separate national ex- Istence. friends of Gladstone say that the ex-Premier has followed -the elec-t tons with mbed feelings. -He Is not.

his n-ienos declare, sorry to see the disestablishment of thir Church In Wales receding into the dlitatwe. But he is load In his denunciation ofiithe action of the Cabinet In re Jetting-his advice to dissolve immediately upon the rejection by the -House of Lords of the Home JKule bill. Mr. Gladstone attributes the collapse of the party ito Vtnis jlii i Among the humors of the election are the JarferBtaaces p( CbL North, the filtrate vine-" in i- kxi.uin IJirj'- ne siooo in qp- ti.irim. iir rl uiaastone.

son or the fcuhiim nd Seated. He that knw nothing but "W1' followed the lead SlrilA dld- however, un-n Un lrde na how to bring to Leeds. i MJt'd deliver a political willXlt ih Platform a hired lecturer. Col. North declared th.t he did not suppose that politics was difficult.

As business man be had not studied politics before he chose to practice. But he would engage to learn more about It In six '0un Mr. Gladstone had acquired In firteen years. He urged his ieJL lBv Speaking to the he said: Boys, look here." pointing to some humble dwellings. that Is where I was born.

1 am now worth millions, and am ready to spend them among you." Col. North, who narrow ly escaped being returned to-day bade farewell to his sup- hve 'n a fortnight in politics. The next time I will know more about them, and will give ray opponent a fair show. I only now want to thank you. and the next thing.

I want a drink." In Southport two American ladies. Lady Naylor-Leyland and Mrs. Curxon, were active fighters In the Interests of their husbands. Mrs; i Curxon. formerly Miss Mary Letter of Chicago, succeeded in acquiring a popularity greater than her husband's, and won his battle for him.

Wherever she appeared thai people overwhelmed her with attentions, i La dy Naylor-Lyland. formerly MIrs Jennie Chamberlain of Cleveland, was a close rival to Mrs. Curxon. Speaking of her appearance in the campaign, a local Radical orator said that the fame of her loveliness was not confined to England. It extended throughout Europe and America.

But her husbands chances were blasted by his recent ratting from the Conaervatlve Party, and; Mr.1 Curxon will represent the district In the next Parliament. The Miner and Labor Leader. James Kelr-Hardlc's paper, describes the working-men who voted against the Independent labor candldatea aa -i" Curs, caitiffs, cads, noddles, numskulls, ninnies, slaves, sycophants, splltllckles, sweaters, scoundrels, caddlsheads. and cabbageheaded, crapulent cowards." T- Stead, formerly editor of The Pall Mall Gazette, and now editor and proprietor of Borderland, a quarterly devoted to the study of psychical phenomena, claims fr his spirit Julia the credit of predicting In lfft5 that In a comparatively abort time the Liberals would be In a minority in Parliament of over 100. "Julia" at the sme time foretold i that Lord Salisbury would pass a measure of local government for Ireland that would be home rule In all but name REPBKSEXTaTIOS OF THE MIXORIIY A Conference of Its Advocates to be Held At "aratoa-a Springs Xext Month.

A conference will be held In Saratoga Springs, beginning Aug. 27, which will have as its one; subject of discussion -the-proper representation of the minority. It will be under the auspices of the American Proportional Representation League- and the Proportional Representation Society of New-York. The sessions will be held In the Court of Appeals room of the Town Hall, beginning at 10 A. M.

on Aug. 27. and will probably continue for two days. The object which these organisations have In view Is thus briefly stated- by M. N.

Forney of 47 Cedar Street. New-York, the Secretary of the Committee of Arrangements: give electors greater freedom In the selection of candidates, to give greater dignity and permanence to public careers, and to enable all considerable bodies of voters in any district having like views and interests to elect one or more representatives." While there are diverse views as to the best way to accomplish these results. iMr. Forney lays down the general line upon which they are to be secured as follows: 1. Abandon the present system of electing single representatives from small districts by a majority of plurality voter and 2.

Enlarge the districts and elect several members from each by some system under which each elector will be free to choose from a larger number of candidates than he can where only two, or at most three, are nominated. land which will enable political parties to Secure representation In proportion to. theif numbers which will make it possible for any party or group of voters In a' district, whose number is equal to the total number of votes cast, divided by the number of candidates to be elected, to secure a representation. William Dudley Foulke of Richmond, the President of the league, will preside. The general Idea of the conference to make the alms and principles of proportional representation more widely understood.

Reports of Its progress and condition in this! and 'other countries will be read. Addresses will be made and papers will be read by prominent advocates of this reform. An1 attempt wll be made to formulate some definite plan or form of election which can be agreed upon and advocated by all Interested. It is also hoped to increase the' membership in the State and National i organizationa. All advocates of the plan -'are requested to send papers to the oommlttee through Mr.

Forney or to be present themselves at the conference, for the committee realizes that only by a full discussion, followed by united work on the line adopted, can the reform be secured. The other members of the Committee of Arrangements are Simon Sterne and Daniel S. Remsen of New-York, and Stoughton Cooley of 1 1- THE SETTLEMENT PLAN DISCUSSED i j. Mrs. Adams -Advocates Its Adoption Before the Pan-Amerlciui Congreis.

Ontario, July 20. The Rev. Dr. Burns of Hamilton occupied the chair at the Pan-American Coiigress this morning. Mr.

Jane Adams of Huilhouse, delivered an address upon the settle ment lda. She explained that the term meant group of persons in good circumstances Who settle in an industrial and depressed district In the city and exert ail the good they can. She denied that the institution with which she Is connected is a centre of Socialism or a singles tax and gave a vivid description of the crowded neighborhood where she works; of the efforts to make the neglected people feel that they are a part of ithe human Christian brotherhood, and of ithe attempt! to remedy the odious sweating system by co-operation and shortening of hours of labor, i The Rev. Morgan Wood of Detroit delivered an: address on the Church in modern life. The days of the theological discussions which had wasted the greater part or nineteen centuries had gone he declared, and added that no conversion ever took place as a result of a theological sermon.

Right living, right thinking, and right doing comprised his theological creed, and the stuay of theology separated men from real llf. Preachers would bej In their proper sphere when they earned their living every day Just like other day laborers. The Church, he said, should have been the leader In the labor movement, and the leader of capital as well; Mrs. S- J. Wood, Dominion President of the Girls' Friendly Societies, closed the programme with an interesting sketch of a movement for an enlarged and purer womanhood with which she has been so long identified.

I FIVE SEGROES KltLED WITH DTXAMITE i The KJllIaa the feqael to a Featd Between White Man and Xrgre. WACO. Texas, Jufy 20. At Mart, a small village (in this ouhty, five negroes were killed and one seriously wounded morning. vp Two' months ago dispute arose between A.

Phillips, a negro.) and Phil Arnold, white. Arnold shoti and klled Phillips, and was in turn killed py Phillips's son. Since Arnold and Phillips were killed, feeling has been bitter between their friends. The entire town was aroused this morning by a loud i report. I andi people found the house of Mrs.

Phillips, widow of the negro killed by Arnold, tn flames. A stick of dynamite had been thrown into the building, blowing it to pieces and setting fire to the wreck, invrff m.u n- uuhu Ing at the lime. five being killed. But one person escapcu die. 1 .11 and it Is thought he will Mrs.

Thomas McKernon lajnred. WASHINJTO, July 20. Mrs. Thomas McKernon. jwhoj lately came to Washington from yew-Amsterdam.

N. was accidentally thrown from an electric car last 3 night- She was oh ben, way from Chevy Chase, a suburban resort.HO ner nome, ana mt cm not stopping when she signaled the con ittwlAf; ilia, itfOMd Off. it at first thought she had been fatally injured, but it is believed now she will recover. UTEj IT IS Si ID English Sock' Startled ly a Report Prince Edward. About Ii TOPICS COMMERCIAL ASD SOCIAL Mrs.

Maybrit-k's Cnse to be Again Revived- Comtpents on Mr. Dwyer't Racing Doings of i Amei leans tn London. By Tee United Press. -LONDON, Ju 20. A.

report has been cir culated that hits caused the greatest kind of a sensation in society. It is to the effect that the Dukeknd Duchess of York's1 baby. Prince Edwari, is deaf and dumb. It Is impossible to I ascertain what amount of truth there is the report. The baby is a little over a ar old.

fend Is stout and well formed. His i holographs do not exhibit a trace of ment il defect, but the renort of this calamity bruited widely as a fact. The report ihat the Russo-Chinese loan had largely been subscribed for In Paris yesterday fell Jentlrely flat in London. Financiers here (assert Jhat the French con tractors engirieer the quotation, that the French public (has not taken the loan: that the premium brice has been Inflated, and that it will vanish when the loan sroea to allotment It Is recalled how the last ereat loan (of 20.000.000 was alleged to nave Deen takfn In France seven times over, and how, flndlly. the Paris syndicate had BO per cent, df the total amount taken off their hands Russia: because the loan had never been Jeally placed.

Accord 1 no- to London firms: the same trick is boinir played again The father df the thirteen and eleven vur old Coombes ioys, who stabbed and killed their mother In London July 8 and then spent ten daj i in the house, with the body, playing cards and otherwise enjoying themselves, is ate vard of ithe steamer France, which Is due in Xew-Tork to-day. A mob inea esterady to lynch a man named Fox who Is supposed to have been an accessory io me crime. I tie wore clothes belonging to air. oombesi pledged goods that the bnvi took from thfe house after they had killed tneir motherland joined the boys in spending the proceeds. The older boy exculpates Fox and that the muijder was due to the fact that his mother hbd threatened to thrush hi.

self and his bj-other for misconduct, and also i ineir uesire to obtain money to spend. DUln Dy BTm be keen and precocious. The elder Is perfectly calloua ni noi seem toj realise the enormity of his crime. Mr. Moore the British fnn.nl i Iranclsco.

slnds to the Foreign Office a gloomy account of the grain and fruit trade of Callfornli He says that In lu th price of wheit was so low that the returns in many casfs were under the cost of production. A Similar state of affair in the fruit tfade. the Eastern markets hav ing Deen glutted with California fruit. as tne area, of land nlanfarl tn soon be mucji greater than it is at present. Mr.

joore predicts further disaster to th growers. Id connection with Mr. Moore Slays it has rnaoht ih. i I depression khown. He adds that thr ho.

been a decline in values in most artil. commerce, ahd that San Fnni.on me aecune worse than any other part of the oiaie. ine report has attracted unusual at lenuon. Steinltx. tie chess Dlaver.

la mnii.i visitor to ampson's chess resort, in the Strand. He has been sriven a heartv tlon by his ild friends. He thinks ttat the cnauenge sent to Lasker. offering odds in a match if ten games ud. will not cepted.

Th4 coming international tournament exciteJ the chess world, as the players are now limned to twenty-two. The contest is expected (to conclude by the end of Au gust. Queen Viqtoria intends to tn. House, her residence in the Isle of wiht against the advice of her physicians, who noia tnat tt air there Is too relaxing. They Sfi heJ rtra to Balmoral, her Highland sldence.

Referring to the conversations now heard In high cln les. The Woman says that the Queen, hea -ing laughter in a broup of Princes anc Princesses and others of the royal hous. hold, asked the cause of the fun. but body ventured to repeat what had been tn i v-. rv.

insisted upon being told, and' then ij "iiMieu me remara. Tne Queen listened coldly, and then, rising said- We are lot Among tl ie notable closing functions of the season was the concert idven by Mrs Ronalds. Uelba. Ancona, Plancon. ana other star artists were present.

Mrs. Ronalds also t. ing. Among- the quests were tne Duke of Sa ce-Coburg and Gotha, (the Duke of Edinburgh.) a number of the British aristocracy and many Americans The May brick Association, with which many Amt rican women are affiliated. Is about to resent a petition to the new Home Secretary.

8ir Matthew White Ridley, asklnt him to reopen the Maybrlck case. Mrs. Florence Maybrlck. it will be recalled. Is an American, woman, a native of Mobile, wlii) was some years sgo convicted of having olsoned her' husband, a wealthy merchant i Liverpool.

She was rentenced to be hani ed, but the sentence was commuted to li nprisonment for life. She Is now confined in the tWoking prison. Many persons believ she Is Innocent of the cliarge on which she van convicted. The Judge before whom she was tried later became Insane and was mpelled to retire from the bench by his associates. He always entertained a bitter preji dice Americans.

A Londoi jury has mulcted the composer Jakobowsk I of New-York in the sum of 7o0 in a suit fi breach of promise of marriage brought the singer Carla Dagmar. No defense is made, Jakobowski failing to appear, so only the plaintiffs side of the story-was ieard. According to thla, Jakobowski. af te becoming engaged to the plaintiff, marrlel lnNew-York a widow named Brown. The Spo ting Times, referring to the recent heav price which Mr.

Dwyer waa obliged to pay to retain Harry Reed after he had wo i the selling plate at Newmarket Tuesday, usks why a horse of his quality should api ear In a selling race. He Is good enough, le paper says, to win a really good race. In which his owner would not be obliged to give back with one hand what he had ta ten with the other. Slmms the paper, s. has earned the respect of the Newmerk racing circles.

Though the English nay not admire his seat, eminent trainers ld that there are not many Jockeys capab of giving him weight The sale of the Prince Of Wales's hackneys at Sandrlngham. Thursday of last wtek renlixed flw The free luncheon provided 1 the Prince for those present at H1hnsa at least fl.ouo, so that his profits are little Will-lam W. A stor. Cot. North, and the Earl of Coventry started bidding on a pair of bav mares at 2W.

which price was raised bv successive bids to 1,0,5, at which Azure the team ell to Mr. Astor. A baby show for children of aristocratic parents his been held in the week past at Mr Robert Crawshay. The first brtse for children under one year m.B5, wardfd to Dermot. son Lord Cask eriosse.

eleven months old who weighed iJVi pounds. The prise for weight and general development for children over one year I old went to Angels, daughter of Lord Ashbourne, eighteenth months old. who well hed 28 pounds and had cut fourteen teet It in definitely settled that the Cambridge a hletic team wHl accompany the team of the London Athletic Club on the CunaM lane steamer Auranla, which sails ifrs. hn W. Mackay's last concert ami reception of the season will held July Mme.

Mrlba and Messrs. PlancoA and Ancona an I other well-known artlsu been engaged for the occasion. Malor K. W. McClaughry? a delesate to U1 JnttrntlonJ.

Hs has een making a study of the English prison stem and. accompanied by Messri Ruggles and Brice of the English Commission. naking a tour of the EngUsh uW vtct establishments with freedJm rarely A DEAF- accorded visitors i We has lust' inspected 1nd "ttanl wx.ssru iu wAsClHl fllsl His company con tinues to comma nil pmi Gen. Oreelv da --r vit iuc UIUIOU Sf" fomln Oeogrsphlcal Congreis, Will (Hint rltlMte a hnnAs iiic icupt ana lllxil -Uo J'Ploratlons. a subject which i'nru iu treai in view his arctic experiences, i i Th7SU; Rensselaer flavor tsrlfs Boston are In this city.

Among tne saloon passengers on boarJ the Amrrlcnn n. fmM LU'tet0r New-York i -airs. u. r. Ayres, Dr.

V. Ingham, A. Abbey. 8. Omf nhelmoi- THE EXCISE DEPARTMOT BRIBERY Case Closed and Judjment Deferred4Little Ajrainst Clerk Connolly Inspectors tion and Steinberger Explain The hearln before the Excise Board In the cases of Inspectors Lion and Stein-berger and Clerk Connolly of the rnahier.

office, who were accused of extortion by John Llebenow and Mary Heuer, i ended yesterday. The Commissioners reserved decision, and refused to accede to the request of Lawyer Otto Irving Wise to dismiss the charges. Agent W. C. Rehm.

who Wat inve.ti. gated the charges, testified that Llebenow tola an untruth when he swore that Superintendent Dennett had not talked of paying him, and complaining that he had been misrepresented in the newspapers, made a personal explanation, and declared that he only acted with the Parkhurst society in the interests of reform and good government." Clerk Connolly's testimony was a positive denial that he was In Llebenow's place or In any oher saloon with Lion. He was an Inspector in the district two years, and was succeeded by Steinberger. Stelnberger. while denying the charge of receiving money from Llebenow or the weman, made a halting explanation of his visits to 73 Second Avenue, and of his writing the letter to Llebenow announcing that the.

police charge against the place had fallen through, and that Llebenow ought to be satisfled." On his own statement It appeared that Steinberger was in Llebenow's place on one occasion for an hour and a half listening to Mary Heuer's stories of adventure in Mexico and South America. He had, he said, met girls there, but they were waitresses. The letter to Llebenow was written at his request to be Informed of the outcome of the Liebepow said that he received 83 from Superintendent Dennett for appearing at the last hearing. Mary Heuer found an opportunity when recalled to say scandalous things about Lion and Steinberger. They had been, she declared, very free with the girls In the place and one of the girls became Infatuated with them.

Max Fendrick, who had the saloon at 75 Second Avenue before Llebenow bought It, appeared for the defense, and denied Llebenow's statement that he, Fendrick was present when money was paid to Lion' Lion, on his own behalf, denied in toto the accusations of Llebenow and the woman. Heuer. i The case will probably be decided early this Week. BR00XLY.V CITY HALL BELFQY Estimates to Build It of Marble Will Be Received This Weeki There was a conference in the Brooklyn City Hall yesterday between Mayor Schie-ren. Commissioner White of the Department of City Works, Commissioner Bush of the Building Department, and Architects Griffiths Stoughton, whose design for the new belfry has been accepted.

Mayor Schieren, after the conference, made this statement: 1 The architects." he said, submitted two estimates of the cost of repairing the City Hall and constructing the new belfry, together with a balustrade around the roof. The first estimate waa for $34,000 for the entire work. It leaves out a number, of things and calls for Ohio limestone Instead of marble for the balustrade and belfry tower. The committee is not in favor of this estimate, because Ohio limestone gels darker and the effect would be bad In time. The committee believes the old portion of the City Hall should be cleaned off and painted up wherever necessary.

The other estimate is for Tuckahoe marble at a cost of S115.0U0. and woulii exceed the appropriation Sluo.OOO. While the committee Is not In favor of exceeding the appropriation. It believes the people want a creditable structure, and to secure it marble must be used Instead of limestone, even if it is necessary to appeal to the Legislature for an additional sum to complete the repairs. The architects stated that they would be able to submit closer estimates of the work next week, giving the actual cost for Tuckahoe marble.

I am emphatic In having no material used other than marble, believing that the people of Brooklyn do not want two classes of material in the building. The reason the appropriation is exceeded is largely due to the fact that the committee did not expect to have a belfry, but made an approximate estimate on a low Mome made of metal. As the special committee decided on a belfry, and as it is impossible to come within the the architects have submitted an Improved design for the belfry which is superior to their original one." WOULD KOT VACATE AX ASSESSMEAT Jastice Gnynor Declined, to i Open a Door to Favoritism and Corrnption. Application was made to Justice Gaynor in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, yesterday, on behalf of a trust and guarantee company to reduce its assessed valuation on property In Long Island City from (90,000 to $00,000. Justice Gaynor ascertained that the application was made' on the consent of the Corporation Counsel's office of that city, and he at once denied the application, How can I sign Buch an order as this? he asked.

It Is consented to by both sides." the lawyer meekly replied. That makes ho difference to me," he said; this question Involves a public Inter-est, and no one has the power to give away such an Interest by any consent. If assessments and taxes could be reduced or wiped out by consents In such a way, it would open the widest door to corruption that has yet been opened in this Government." i But," said the lawyer, how can we have this reduction made, then?" "The statute provides for the appointment of a referee on application, to take the proofs and report back to the Court." said Justice Gaynor. You must pursue that course, or you must come here to the Court with your evidence. I will sign no order reducing taxes except upon full proof of overvaluation.

If such a could be done on consent. It would lead to no end of favoritism and corruption." Pealteatlary Pays Its Expenses. Warden Patrick Hayes of the Kings County Penitentiary has, at the request of Mr. Hlrsh, the counsel for the Assembly committee now investigating the Charities Department, made a report of the earnings and expenses of that Institution for the eleven months ending July 1. Warden Hayes reports the earnings as being and the expenses The principal Items In the expense account are supplies, S54.e4tt.04; keepers' salaries.

S43.177.b3. The average number of Inmates was 1,120. To Iaspeacli San Fraaelseo Sapcrrlsors SAN FRANCISCO. July to Impeach eight of the twelve members of the Board of Supervisors for malfeasance in office were begun M. K.

Smith, an attorney, is the plaintiff. The complaint charges thai the eight willingly and knowingly violated their official duties and conspired together against tne public interest and in the Interest of the Market Htreet Railway, otherwise the Southern Pacific. A citation was issued, returnable July 31. A bitter fight In the courts Is expected, as other ctarges are likely to fallow. 1 si sssm ssnjssBassBBS OPPOSED TO THE MIKADO Japan's Progressionists and Oilier Fac-lions "Making Trouble.

CESSION' OF LIAO TDXG THE BASIS Return of the vPenlnsula to China the Flrsileaspn the Malcontent Have Had for Amal. Carnation. TOKIO. Japan, July 2 via Victoria. B.

July 20. There Is agitation in Japan on account of the restoration to China of the Liao Tung Peninsula. When the statesmen now In power In Japan agreed to re-" store the Llao Tung Peninsula to China at the biddings Germany, France, and Russia," it was well understood that the act must cause great discontent among politicians outside of the official ranks. The opposition in Japan consists of a number of parties, each far too small and unln-fiuentlal to undertake the task of administering the empire's affairs, but all animated by a common desire to overthrow the Government. These parties are not ostensibly dfvlded by any essential political principles, but the most accurate student of the times could not draw up for each a programme that would be accepted by the rest.

Personal Jealousies and a history with pages that time has not yet effaced The Kew Liverpool hold them apart. They know, however, that without amalgamation they can never anything solid, and they therefore watch eagerly for some Incentive strong enough to fuse them into a compact whole. The restoration of the Liao Tung Peninsula seems to furnish such an Incentive, While the Liao, and by holding the Re-when It became evident that Japan would be completely -victorious, all the newspaper organs of these parties Insisted that an Important area of territory in Manchuria must be wrested from China. Unanimous In disavowing any lust for territorial aggrandizement, they nevertheless argued that to maintain Corean independence it was necessary to sever China's overland and oversea communications with the little Kingdom objects that could be achieved only by acqulr5g the portion of Southern Shinklng Included between the Yalu and the Liao, and by 'holding the Regent's Sword" Peninsula. Therefore, when the Government, after successfully pressing that claim upon China, ultimately agreed to abandon it, the opposition parties thought rate had at length placed ih their hands a lever strong enough to overturn the Cabinet.

But public opinion was against them. Already wearied, by the perpetual bickerings of political cabals, the Nation had learned from the Regent what strength lies in uidon -and had been further awakened by the arbitrary interference of Germany. Russia, and France to a keen perception of the fact that unless the country were content thenceforth to accept European dictation, it must strain every nerve to devel-ope its material resources and to place its army and navy upon a greatly Increased footing. With such tasks in hand, there was no time for party agitation. The retrocession of the Laio Tung Peninsula was a painful shock to the country.

But, since any struggle to retain it in the face of such overwhelming force as the three European powers wield must have resulted in disaster and humiliation, the nation, on the whole, felt no umbrage against the Cabinet that had yielded with the best grace possible under the circumstances. The country's sole duty now was provide against the contingencies revealed by- this sudden apparition of European dictatorship Eastern affairs. Thus, when the opposition' parties began to agitate on the platform and In the presj they found an apathetic, if not hostile, audience. None the less, their leaders, unwilling to sacrifice the occasion, struggled hard to achieve their project of union. Delegates from the, various parties assembled to discuss a programme, and finally adopted a title and a manifesto.

To Western minds It will appear that the only obstruction lying in the path of politicians desirous of association Is the evolution of a creed to which all can subscribe. But In Japan there are other difficulties. The law, as enacted by the Diet Itself, provides that every political party must duly notify the police of Its existence, must register as a party, and 'must not combine with another party unless one or the other dissolves its own organization and abandons Its Independent status. With these terms It was hard for the" opposition coterie in Japan to comply. The factions could not trust each other sufficiently to break up their separate organisations with any certainty or a strong coalition emerging from the ruins, and they could not form the nucleus of a new fiarty without the conditions prescribed by aws of their own enactment.

They adopted the latter alternative, attempting to evade the law by pretending that their assemblies were merely fortuitous gatherings of men holding similar views, and that their manifesto was a kind of spontaneous expression of these views. The Government was not hoodwinked One morning the agitating politicians received an intimation from the police tha having failed to observe proper legal formalities, their meetings must henceforth be discontinued, the projectors being at the same time summoned to answer before the courts for their unlawful procedure. A trial ot great Interest ensued, a curious feature of the drama being that one of the politicians arraigned had himself drafted and proposed in the Diet the very provision under which he stood charged. The six defendants were represented by seven barristers, all violent partisans of the 'lews held by their cllenta The accused at their examination, as well as counsel in their speeches, endeavored to convert the courtroom proceedings into cn occasion for condemning the retrocession of the Liao Tung Peninsula, and denouncing the statesmen that had agreed to give back the territory; but the Judge stoutly repressed these attempted demonstration, and after a careful hearing, the accused were found guilty and fined 20 yen each. Meanwhile the police have resorted to most drastic measures.

Wherever and whenever the agitators attempted to meet they were quickly dispersed, and In more than one instance the guardian of the law certainly their Constitutional powers by violating the sanctity of private houses. The former Jaoanes reo- resentative to Cores. OiahL was among the sufferers by these arbitrary proceedings. But his complaint speedily elicited from the Chief of the Tokio police an admission that the constables had acted Improperly and an aoology for their misconduct. By this time it nad become evident that the whole agitation was fomented and maintained by one party, the Progressionists.

(Kaishlnto.) who, under the leadership of one of Japan's ablest statesmen. Count Okuma. formerly Minister of Finance and of Foreign Affairs, have never ceased to oppose the Government at every point since Count Okuma went out of office, In The party made Us last struggle In, the resent crisis, June iti. A grand mass meet-ng was announced to be held in one of the principal buildings In the capital, admission being rree. and celebrated politt-icans being advertised to spesk.

An audience of iOwi assembled In the spacious hall, and twelve orators ascended the platform in turn, all men of capacity and repute. The audlsnca showed great casern to bear them. But not one managed to prolong, his address for more than ten minutes. No sooner did a speaker touch upon the retrocession of the Liao Tung Peninsula or begin to arraign the Cabinet's diplomacy than he was ordered by the police to resume his seat. The whole demonstration resolved Itself Into a fiasco.

Two facts, however, were established: That the Government Is determined to employ every means within Its power to save the country from futile agitation at this critical period, and, that the organisers and supporters are confined to the Progressionists Jarty that commands only forty-seven votes In the lower house of the Xiet. These repressive measures, which will, of course, cause more or less umbrage among the people, are taken by the Government under a law authorising the suspension of any speech or the dispersal of any meeting calculated to disturb public peace or good order. There can be no doubt that the authorities are acting within their powers, and that the agitators are dlrectlv contravening the terms of the Imperial rescript of May lo. in which document the Emperor, In announcing the retrocession of the 14ao Tuna- Peninsula, enjoined npon his subjects the duties of respecting the Imperial will and. avoiding erroneous tendencies." i On the whole, the firmness of the Cabinet and the futile character of the agitation will produce a Rood effect upon the nation.

Hut the former will certainly be misconstrued and the latter misrepresented in some of the accounts sent to the West. LIVERPOOL BIYEBSIDE STATI03 Uoars Saved to Traasatlaatlo Travelers Beeaase of It. From The London Sketch. Liverpool has faced with great energy the rivalry created In Manchester by the Ship Canal and at Southampton as an American traffic port, by bringing the railway terminus to the Prince's Dock, where the Atlantic liners anchor. In this effort to keep itself abreast, Liverpool has had the advantage of the co-opera- ndiaa; Place.

England. tlon of the harbor authorlUes and of the London and Northwestern Railway Company, and the new riverside station will be formally opened to-day. The dock has had to be deepened, and the railway extended. The saving In time Is very considerable. Thus, the passengers by the Lueanla, though the ocean passage occupied 5 hours and 11 minutes longer than the same vessel record voyage, were set down in London in 6 days 8 hours and 43 minutes from Sandy Hook.

or. in 2 hours and 12 minutes less time than the fastest passage yet made 'Hook and the Needles. A further 4 hours would be necessary in the transit from the Needles to Southampton. GOLD SHIPMENTS C1USE SO 1SXIETI Sub-Treasury Officials and Bankers Satisfled with the Sltnatlon. Sub-Treasury officials and the bankers Interested in protecting the wold reserve expressed themselves yesterday as satisfied regarding the go'ld situation.

Further commercial shipments of gold will probably occur. One firm of coffee merchants. Hard A Rand, announced yesterday that $100,000 would be taken esrly this week. Such exports excite no concern, and they are hardly avoidable. It will not be surprising if demands of this character shall be more than offset by deposits of gold at the Sub-Treasury in exchange for small bills.

The time is near when demands wllTi oe raaae on tne DanKs by the West for small bills to provide -for laborers' wages for harvesting the crops. It always happens that the banks take the bills from the Sub-Treasury and give gold for them. Money required on this account, from present" indications, will be much greater in amount than any possible exports. Thus the net reserve may actually grow, while the gold needs of commercial houses are supplied. The shipments of gold last week were exceptional, because of the S1.0U0.UU0 sent by one firm and.

by another. The shipments amounted to of which was French gold, in transit- to Havre, which did not affect the Treasury reserve. Exports since Jan. 1 have been $35,014,734. against $73,752,425 for the same period last year.

THE TWO SEW BATTLESHIPS Secretary Herbert Decides that Tbejr Shall Have Doable-Decked Turrets. WASHINGTON. July 20. Secretary Herbert announced to-day in a letter to the Naval Board of Construction, consisting of five of the bureau chiefs of the Navy Department, that he had decided. In accordance with the recommendation of four members of the board, that the two new battleships the construction of which was authorized by the last Congress should be fitted with double-decked turrets, equipped wlthT KMneh guns on the lower deck and 8-inch guns on the upper.

The recommendation of the Board of Construction was approved by several naval officers of high standing, including Admiral Ramsay, Commodore Sicard, Commander Bradford, and Commander Converse. Chief Constructor HI eh born, alone of the board, opposed the Innovation. The questions of the position of the armor belt and of the weight of the machinery were recommitted by the Secretary to the board for its further action. His llosie oa Fire Three Times. The four-story furnished room house at 15C East Forty-second Street was burned out yesterday afternoon for the third time within eight months.

John McGlew had charge of the place, and his wife and baby were on the top floor when the fire broke out. When McGlew discovered the fire, he rushed to the relief of his family, and he had some difficulty in taking his wife and children to a point of safety. The cause of the fire Is unknown. The loss amounts to or $700. and the insurance on the building is for $1,500 McGlew thinks the Ores were due to malice.

Fire Officials oa Datr. All of the new appointees named by the Fire Commissioners Friday, repotted for duty yesterday, except Auditor Jewell. Ex-A sals tan Fire Marshal Wilson was on hand and initiated Marsn.il Holl later and Deputy O' Sullivan into the intricacies of the Fire Marshal's Bureau. Marshal HolUster said to a reporter: We are simply trying to adjust our collars so ss to equalise the strain. We are dolnc no work, and have nothing to say." Bacteriologist Wolff Arrested HARTFORD.

July 2a Dr? Air red J. Wolff, the bacteriologist, was arrested to-day In a suit brought by CapC Ernest Perry of the Putnam Phalanx to recover il.Msj damages for Injury to person and defamation of character. Bonds of were furnished by L. Foster, a clotaln? merchant. The suit will be tried in the Court of Common Pleas in September.

Xewspaper Exhibits at Atlanta's Fat. ATLANTA, July 20. A concession Das oeen granted T. J. Kelley of The At lanta Constitution for a building for newspaper exhibitors at ths Cotton States and international fexposuten.

Mr. Kelley ai ready has communications from mtimml. Han newspapers which will be represented, VICTORIES OF GERMANY To be Celebrated This Sassier tne Several Battlefields. SOCIALIST PEASAST PEOPAGASDA Chinese Loan Xot Belo Touched by Berlin Bankers Ontr One Newspaper Kind to BtasntmlofC -'j BERLIN. July yesterday! celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the declaration -of war by Prussia against Francs, July 19,1 1870.

the programme Of the ft tea in commemoration of the Franco-. German war includes the celebration of -every great German victory and every other event connected jwlih the war, beginning with the celebration of the bloody battle at Wlssemburg Aug-. 4. and ending- with grand jubilation jupon the' anniversary cf the battle of Sedan. Sept.

1. Large bodies it veterans will go to Wlssemburg to take part in the anniversary ceremonies there, and win afterward proceed to the different battlefields for the purpose of reviving oil memories. j-i -i li: Aug. 14 and IS will be observed practically, as decoration days on the fields of Grave- lotte, St- and Mars La Tour, whea the graves, tombs, and monuments of the' Germans who on these fields will bo covered with flowers and wreaths by their families and surviving comrades. A congress of the various veterans unions will be held at Strasburg during the fetes com-memoratlng the: fall of that city, when bronze medals struck from the French cannon were captured there win ba given to the veterans on behalf of the War Office.

i j. The railways have agreed to fix an as-' pechUly cheap rata of far for the veterans' who attend these fetes, and the general public will also get the benefit of occasional cheap trips. The importance and algnincance of these demonstrations lie In the tact that they have been organised by the Government and largely extended since the celebration of the opening of the North Sea-Baltic Canal at Kiel, when several unpleasant Incidents occurred in connection with the visit of the French warships, and that the Government has deckled that the celebrations shall not be In the slightest degree restrained on account T' any sensitive ness on the part of the French. The annual congress of the German So-- clallsts will meet Oct. 8 ln Breslau, whero Ferdinand La Salle, the great German democratic leader.

hurled. Although a Salle is not now the Ideal of the Socialists' of Germany, his memory is still potent to, stimulate their oratory, and, so long as they can, hear themselves talk, they are as happy as Socialists can be In tills world. The Executive Committee of the Socialist Party selected Breslau as the place of meeting really on account of the proximity of that city to the agricultural districts in which the farm laborers are the worst paid and the most discontented of any peopleof that class tn Germany. For -the first tbno the Socialist Party programme gives the chief prominence to the needs of the agrarian population. It proposes the abolition of ths fiscal and political privilege now en-Joyed by the landlords; the.

extension of communal ownership and administration of land by State or the nationalisation of mortgages, and the reduction of interest thereon; tate Insurance against agricultural losses from storms, cattle diseases, Ac, and compensation for damage) sustained through Incursions of privileged hunters In search of game. The difference between this programme '-and tLe one previously formulated by tho party lies In tits- subordination of then usual theoretical declaration In favor; of nationalising everything to more practical proposals. Their agenda contain none of the -old resolutions denouncing the? holding-of private property, and consequently mangr of the lines of Socialisnv w-ill be able to- give their- approval to mi large pan -of -the which -waa. 'molded by Herr Vollmar and -other moderates among the The mors extreme section of the party will be sure nurncue in we congress -unies' the perfervid ones are allowed to blow off their steam in a series of ldsUist declare, tions, but. having done this to their satisfaction, tney will subside, as- into a state of harmless discontent.

ji xne vcrwaerts. the Socialist organ, says the meetlns- will oiv imtn. tn ganda among the laboring classes, and wHl oon win them over by wholesale to Social-tent. The Duvr dniw nn however, the universal diatrumt lujiuv ncicnstag i jsaroo-. von Hammerste.n,! the deposed and absconding; editor In chief of The Kreus Zeitusg.

li about to be declared vacant, and The Rhine Gaxette announces that tho conservative electors of Mlnden are on the eve of holding- a meeting to demand his resignation. A curious circumstance attending the fall YOn Hammerstein Is the fact that while he was a strong anti-Semite and a leader of the Jew-baiters his enormous- prl- ,.7 wra aue 10 nut relations tun j(wim, upon wnom he lavished money. Jewelry. and vrr liiTim. wealth could ri The report that Berlin bankers are largely buying the Russo-Chineaa loan i- founds lion.

Of the loin financed in LvnJon' iiimwu merlin was issuea nere. and tho National Bank repeatedly covered But the BoerseTslmost ignored the Chinese' loan' issued in Paris. The statement made by Herr formerly Minister to China. In regard to the bad financial future of tho Celestial Kingdom has greatly added to tho skepticism a to the values, of anv tees that the Government at Pekln can offer uiurci joana. nerr rsranai expects ta see an increase In th nhtnM- duties, which will sericbsly affect the for-' According to advices from St Petersburg-the Cxar.

unon hearins- of the tion of M.i Stambuloff. summoned the- Bulgarian Mission, which la now In St. Petersburg, and in a few fiercely uttered words denounced! them and their Government for the murder, i The practical result of tho mission Is that Russia will appoint official agents in Sofia and Bourgas, but will refuse in the meantime to recognise Ferdinand as Prince of Bulgaria. Russia wllL however, officially recognise the Government of Bulgaria as it Is established and resume the relations with that countrv which were broken off In 1886. The Hamburger Nachrichten riooifn.

Join In the chorus of German newspapers are ehargins; Russia with having Incited and -assisted the plotters ajrainst the life of Stambuloff. What Js tho object." says-Prince Bismarck's organ and n-cothplece. of praising Stamhuintr ant accusing Russia of complicity In this DwmuuHin never aid anytnine? fofi r- many. and Russia will -aural ku abuse." The Governments of. Germany ana AusV trla have decided unon holding an tlonal conference, with a view of settllng-the question concerning the payment of export bounties on sugar.

The Governments of France. and Russia have been invited to take part In the conference. Emperor William arrived at Hemosand. on the Swedish Island of Herno, to-day Hla Majesty ha timed his trip, so that he' will --r-iei juiy xit ana pass tferougtg the canal 2. Afterward he wilt go to Cowes to be present at the regatta.

Count i von Rottenburg, Assistant 'Secretary of the who Is the husband -of the daughter of the late William Waiter Phelps, formerly United Stales Mirister to Germany, stlU adheres to his decision to retire from office on account of ill health. Although pressed to remain In office, i In tho meantime taking an Indefinite leave of absence, hs pleads that his health Is so broken down that he will not be able at any time to resume his official duties except at tho risk of his bfe. He will, therefore, positively and his official career In October. The English. Italian.

Austrian. Turkish. and French Ambassadors have lollowed tho yon. and are enjoying holidays abroad. The daughter of Herr Barney, the celebrated German actor, was married in Berlin to-day i to Herr Rosenstock.

distinguished Berlin advocate. The condition of -Prof. RodolpheV Gnelst, the German Jurisconsult and politic! writer, shows no Improvement though he is In no immediate danger. He was subjected to second: operation yesterday, i 111 Wlad That Blow Xebodr Good. JERSEY! CITY, N.

J- July SoJ-TroUcJ Car 327 this afternoon ran into one of the big trucks belonging to the sugar bouse. The driver was not hurt, but nine barrel Knswt AiaM and anoaa a A along th street. Much of It waa carrlai a as- sjsaau iiv 0uj.a ev sxss ssaat. bs.b t.svw nj poor alVteC seal fcrt.