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I EJECTED MANVICRirTL-Tha Tlmaa Iom aot andaitaha to raturm raiaetad Boasuacripta; In alt caa wbara a ratitr of tha naniiarrlpt la alrad postaf muat ba tncloaad. Raadarp Golrj Out af Tw r.r&1ra ft Tha Tlmaa irninc out town an in lha papr ma I lad ta them fur Canta par it. and lUa addraaa ahanavd aa aftaa da- t.iri. TVVENTY'FOUB PAGES. bcndat, june.it, istx.

It not posiilbl to elicit evidence of pyatmatlQ corruption that bu so I'Tij rrevallM In th Folic Department "rem tho. wbo we, or hare bceti, on The violator of th law who for protection hava a fund of i.fiTmatlon which moat of them are un- or afraid to furnish, but tha po-l. a thctriK-lvwi woulj be the beat wlt-fiv'sra if they could be Induced to truthfully, and there may be officers ii ex-oRlcera who could do ao with without crlmlnatlnr themnelvea. If -y were aum that they could do ao v'hout Injuring themselvea. There ara pr three es-commlflslonem, Includlnf r.rhardt.

Gen. F1U John Porter, and -Mr. UacLean, who may have absolute knowledge that would be useful to the i committee. It aeems aa there muat be her and there an I Captain who deeplaea the evil that Lrgughr our police ayatem into dl-a i nre, and would be rlad to aee It rooted t. Hay there not be officers who have u.e courage to join In the work of ex i ure by which alone the rottenness can I pureed from the department if fully i ird that It would not put an end to t' tir career A break In that quarter juli be of Inestimable service, and It Is that a larr part of th police mleht put Itself on th aid of the hkh would prov to be th safe 'e fur them In the end.

I .1. XU LliUU chances la th averages shown by weekly bank report yesterday were i ortant, save In th fact that th a of any considerable rhanre Is Im -t. There was a decrease In specie l.i.i axl.la legal Unders of tM.ftoa, a total decrease in reserve of KdO.soo, r. liK-reased J229.W0 and depoalU fell ay leaving- th surplus reserve or lees by Kil.tTS than the week. The net export of gold Jan, 1 ara IU.7M.ttx, which $15..

i lee than for th corresponding last year. The banks bold IW.tOO,. l.i recle now, as agalnat $6.000.000 a erv and tu.000,000 legal tenders, as Jir.ooo.oo a year ago. The Treasury stock of gold, la only .1 th! a disagreeable but not i alarming featur of the sltua- t. u.

Two facts stand out in strife ccntrast with the middle of June. the great strength of the banks. i any sudden or excessive drain on Treasury Impossible, and the perfect tainty of the policy of the Treasury i to Uie currency not only certainty as 1 j-urp-e, but its ability to carry out purpt-s. TlThatever chang lay In th i future a year ago was likely for th wore. 'Whatever Is likely uow Is for the better.

1 .1 1 r.othlng new in the principle ly JuJr Gaynor la th case of Falls Polio Jostle, who 1 ai kinftir c.T.c. The peculiarity of tri rct that the town 1 scUon for the eleo-i ti vry four Jtrars, seining that action, havlr.g on chtvaen i tn Ziarch, and as a rvIar er A so lorg as the tlcUoa'of a rt-oll te Icjil, the of i t---i to CSerence, Tery .1 vot'T to choose his own late, or to accept any however he max. he put forward. In this case the self. nominated candidate got all the votes that were east for Police Justice, and was elected.

The principle that an elector may vote for whom he chooses, regardless of nominations, is well settled. Our neighbor The Sun says that it is authorised to announce that Represent-, stive Amos J. Cummlngs will a candidate for re-election, and from the Elev enth Congressional District, which be now represents." We commend the example of Mr. Cummlngs to the other members of th New-York City delegation In the Hous of Representatives, Thar are manifest advantages in an early and outspoken statement such as Mr. Cum-mlnt authorises.

It Is the best way to head off upstart opposition and underhanded intrigue among aspirants and political managers, while If a Representa tive doe not Intend to make the canvass again next Fall in bis district ought to say so, in order that other worthy cltl- sens may understand that the field is free, and unincumbered with pre-emption claims. Resides, It Is none too early la the Interest of the candidates and of the nemocratle Party to begin to think seriously about th nominations In th city dlstriet. Mr, Qulggs district ought to regained and th others all held, a task which th weakness ani th wickedness of th Democratic. Senate at Washington nas made a difficult one. In th political conditions likely to prevail this Fall para doxas will abundant, and on will be that protectionists will look upon New- Tortc City as a hopeful field for Republic an Congressional gains.

The formal reply of Mayor Schleren to the ladles who requested him to appoint five women to th Hoard of Education is different in tenor from his reported remarks on the subject. lie desires to sim plify the composition and organisation of the board as much as possible, and thinks legislation necessary. In the meantime, he believes It more Judicious not to make so radical an Innovation in the membership of the board. But he suggests that in th new law a mandatory provision could be embodied to hay at least one-third of the board women. As to th changes in th board, the Mayor's views are perfectly sound, and women would stand a much better chance to be useful In a reformed board than In the present one, In which, indeed.

It is almost Impracticable to do any really useful work of Importance. STATE AKD CITT. notice a not unnatural feeling ex pressed In th Journals of soma parts of the State that the Constitutional Convention Is asked to consider the City of New. York too much In proportion to the at tention given to the State as a whole. If New-York claims more than her share, or claims anything that is likely to be Injurious to the rest of the State, she ought not to get it, and considering the distribution of delegates we do not suppose that she will get 1C It Is at least a fair inference that nothing will be done for or about New-York that the majority of the convention do not think to be for the general Interest, and the majority certainly do not come from New -York.

Apart from this' general consideration, there Is the plain fact that the whole Stat Is deeply interested in the good government of this city, and for a va riety of reasons. In the first place 28 per cent, of th population of the State live in this city, and in this city and Brooklyn and the two have th same re quirements as to constitutional law-there Is 40 per cent of the population, and If to these add th cities of Buffalo and Rochester having over 100,000 each all with the same requirements, have very nearly one-half of the people of th State. In the next place, the taxea paid in the City of New-York ar much greater In proportion to population than In other parts of the State. The greater th prosperity of th city, and prosperity depends very directly on good government, the lighter will be the burden for th rest of the Again, a very large shar of th business of the Stat Is done In New-York, which is the chief market for buyers and sellers throughout th State. Oood government makes business at one easier and less costly, and tends directly to promote the welfare of all Interested In Rainess.

There are substantial reasons connected with th pecuniary Interests of th whole State why the Constitutional Convention should do all that can be for good local government la New-York and In all large cities. a The on thing that can be don and that Is fundamentally necessary Is so to arrange elections ta th State that elec tions In the large cities will not com In the same yars aa elections, for State and National offices. This Is requisite to secure a full and fair decision of the voters of the cities on their own affairs, so that they will choose men to manage them. not because they are Democrats or Republicans, or of any political party, but because they ar best fitted for the work they have to da. Every sensible man knows that he cannot do two wldely-dlf fering pieces of work at the earn time and do them both welL The one that in.

terests him most will get th most atten Uon. and th other will suffer. Th voters of a city cannot run a general election and a city election at once with out getting them badly mixed, and it Is th city election that gets the worst of It-It not sensible and It is not fair ask a voter to sacrlnce his general party interests and Imperil his party choice for President or Governor or Congressman la order to east a vote for good city gov ernmenc Most men would not do It, even if they knew they could get good city government In that way. and as a rule, they do not se that they would. men who make a trad vt politics do It.

and they take advantage of it. i They know ti.it If there is a general ejection at the sme time as a city nine out of ten of each party will tote th straight arty ticket for city officers' as well as fo others, and the character! of tbe city no nlnations thus becomes rel-j atlvely unimportant in Its effect upon their success. There has a feeling throughdulj the State thi New-York Is a very badj place politically, and that it had better be kept undi the control of the State Legislature. That feellnr is. we believe! ujiug wui mi ler me mnuenoe oi a pretty conclusive a nount of experience.

Thi plan does it work. The' Influence of L.ixy politics upon in legis lature la morje powerful than that of the legislature i pon the city. The Legislature is demoraiixed rather than the city Improved. "his Is due chiefly to th great'grdwth of the city as compare With that tha 8tate. Men who can control New -York any degree of concentratioi and energy have a tremendous ad antage In legislation.

And what applies to the State Legislature applies, in a di reren form, to th State organisations the several parties. We hardly think that any sensible politician from the ini erior of the Stat will deny the Infiuenc of New-York City in th management of his own party, whichever it Is, or will claim that it' has generally been a heal by or progressive or beneficial lnfluen Each party has had Its experience i ith the class -known. In 'a geperal way as Tammany Democrats or' Tammany Republicans, and neither party has gs Ined by It Ha not the time com when xth parties would do better to reduce ti ie Importance of the politicians of thii city to what they Can fairly Claim witho it reference to the peculiar elements lnv aived In purely local politics We do not i enture to predict that if the people of ew-York ar left to themselves, with a chance for city elections not tangled up with State and! National politics, the will bring about a municipal millennJ im within the lifetime of this generation. But. we do predict with entire confldei ce that they will do a great deal better than they have done Inj a long time 'and that the whole State will greatly ben at.

by It, And we urge this the more st rongly because there la absolutely no irm to be done to any other part of the State and no risk of any jn any form. This feeling is growing steadily thi we shall not be surprised to see it exprt ssed In the pjatforms of both of the greit parties In the State this year. CRIME AjN'D "CniMISAI. rTE-XT. The only ground upon which to rest th Plea In beh if of Mr.

Wlman. that he had no criminal intent in transferring money of the firm for which he acted to his own account tli rough the forged Indorsement of a check rawn to pay a bill of the fi-m, was that intended to make this amount good In tine. There was.no question that he hi Indorsed the name -of itha payee on th check without the latter authority Ir knowledge, and without I the knowledgelof the head of th firm whose funds wr personal ufae. There was verv evident of concealment in the transaction, and all that could Ibe said for the defendant Was that after bivertinar th funds atf tha fls-rvi fUlU replace thtm, and Intended to do'soj It would certainly not be safe to allow iuh plea as a. defense against a criminal it were to have that effect it charge.

would be a hard matter to exact the penalty ol many a criminal violation of financial ist The commonest form of embezxlei lent is that In which some trusted ei todian of iploye of a bank or some cus- unds belonging to others vent urea to ui some oi those Tunas In specu-some transactlonfif which he expect to make a phflt la lion or confident! lie ex; to be abl to restore the amount propriated. and Intends to do so. Does I that purpose relieve him from criminal Intent in diverting to his own use nionjy belonging to others, which happen lo in his charge or within his writ LI UI If that! were a valid defense beszllng jf funds In such a. way would not even be attended by the terrors of exposure Exposur might mean humiliation an i shame, but it would mean no serious for the excuse would be made thi there was no Intention to defraud, ai it was only accident or mis fortune that prevented the from. KA.tta.aB aa I being Tn piea bf no criminal intent Is only less ridiculous than done.

Of only doing what others have IaM1u. 1 suwuna ruiuniien nav suc- ceeded returning stolen monevL tnJ have tped exposure, and others ha manai when discovered, to settle the matt but that only makes It more lmporta i ueai severely with every comes to light and make th th practice as great as pos danger sible. it Is true that business men fonre Indorsement to checks sometlr la a ret and fraudulent manner, to effect me nurooei of 1 I vim, anai straighten matters out afterward! it Is an evil and they have no right' to expect to eecan th -Hvuw aj. The maintenance; of hlah' comme ial standard requires that1 if one they themselves within the meshes of th meat. Such aw they shall suffer the unlah uung circumstance ai ar -f At to i md In the Wlman Case mri oeoul.

lar. ey led to a rccommeruWis. i mercy iy the Jury that doubtles oughi to be aeeded. There is an m.ti i the and lnal quality of what Wlman did. criminal Intent la clear in th legal sense.

But he aeems to technic Inn's Tt-rntttaBW-l sjaav Li i Kng permuieov not only to tnanag the business of the concern or R. G. Dun Co. in his own wav. but ti 1 Its (fund pretty frely ta all manner of Irre rular ways for his outside purpos s.

Thia looseness could hav bn st oppd by th partners, when first dUT red. but they teem tir con- tioned It and to hav allowed its re peti tion to passagala and again. WIman's crime is not to be excused. Commercial safety demands that such offenses shall be punished, but he was not alone in his disregard 4f the requirements of safe business methods. It la clear that his partners, through mistaken leniency, wer guflty of contributory negligence.

LORD COLERIDGE. It muat be admitted that Um beach of British Themis has sustained serious Injuries In jthe public respect by th conduct of the two latest dead of th conspicuous Judge. What mischief was don In tils way' by th late Justice Stephen Is scarcely to be imputed to him for a fault He iad many Impressive and forcible qualities, but Judicial impartiality was never one of them. Nobody who read eltherhis literary or his professional writings would think of ascribing this quality to him. Nevertheless, the ferocious partisanship which he showed In the last celebrated case over the trial of which he presided was obviously th result of th mental infirmity which not long afterward forced his retirement from the bench It Had never been exhibited in! anything like the same degree while retained' his mental vigor.

It was none the less 'astonishing and lamentable. There are iot wanting many people who contend that by reason of th Judge's prepossession, a1 cruel injustice was done to 'an lnndcent person. Under the English systen of using th pardoning power, in which public opinion, unless expressed through the authorized channels, counts for so muf leas than with ourselves, it might easjly happen that her Majesty would rfus to interfere unless she was petitioned I to do so by the -Judge who trjed th cau8ej who might be the very person whose conduct was called in question It rntghtj happen, that Is to say, that an Innocent person was done to death by an insan Judge. jThe suspicion that Judg Stephen's mental, alienation affected his Judicial conduct befor his Insanity became mani- fast necessarily reproach upon the British Judiciary, though this is an in- Jury that mightb Inflicted by like means upon any actual or even any conceivable Judicial systemj Our own Judicial records ar not fre from a similar scandal, which arose when the friends of an lra-bjeclie Judge Insisted rupon his keeping bis seat on the bench, though he was Incapable of exerclBirig any Judicial functions, until he was bought off by a special provision giving hjm th retiring pension to Which he Was not eligible. The retlbencejof the British press about details of scandals, to which It refers In a general way, and the extreme fear of "scanpalumj magnatum," have kept from the Spubll any minute explanation vhy th jate liord Coleridge lost on the bench the standing he had gained at the bar.

Everybody knows, however, that his treatment. his own daughter was not Only (devoid of ludloJaJ htit almn r.f human qualities. He pursued her with a 'eroeity that ccfuld not but disgust sens'- lv people. Ofj all men In the world, ex- sept perhaps tb Archbishop of Canter- ury, a Lord Chief Justice of England might fexpscted scrupulously to abstain from thej practice of doing his family jaundering in pliblic Even If he had been In the right of the dispute, it waa his place as a Jijdge, not less than aa a parent, tc keep; from tha public that there Was any family quarrel. As a matter of fact waa, jso far as th public has jbeen enabled Judge, entirely and grossly In thej wrong.

Tha result is that his brilliant alent and his eloquent speech, I of whichjhis rkply to the address of the American barjln the Academy of Music was an ekample that nobody who either .1 I neara orsreaa it is likely to have forgotten, coull not enable him to maintain the dignity of bis fxeat office, and that if he had died- as Sir John Duke Coleridge, the Solicitor General, he would have had a clearerj and perhaps a wider fame than eave as Lbrd Chief Justice. It majf not be a legitimate source of comfort jo us that the British bench is no more than our own impeccable. But we certainlyl can 1 nltate with advantage one feature if th British system. The British payj their- Judges well; the great Judgeship are the great prizes, ind the English are spared two spectacles thai are common with us and that dojot tend to Increase th popular respect for the administration of justice. On is the spoctacl of a high Judge who i not necessarily among the leaders of nis profession and before whom a man may bej arguing who has refused the Judge's place hercould not afford totakajlt Tpe other is the spectacle of the "ei-Judge" who returns from the serene Mevation of the bench to the struggles of bar.

It Is very likely that Lord Coleridge's income as a barrister wasj larger than his salary as Lord Chief that salary is exceeded by many lawyers' incomes. But nev-erthelesk the Chief Justiceship in England is, as It ught to be. In every way a great professional prize. Any lawyer. Engl iahj or American, who should refuse a Judgeship for Ufe.

with an annual salary of $40,000. because fie could not afford to tak It would be esteemed a very sordid proa. i THB ESTATE I.NDCHTRT. The keT. Georga Frederick Burgoyne Howard, otherwise known as William Lord Mjoora, js safely held in th penitentiary at Columbus, but th unclaimed foreign estate industry has not been suppressed by th eonvicUon of the most successful operator who ever- was n-agdyla It Bull, 'it la now carried on under panyj dlfficulUea.

This Is shown hy thej recent prosecution in England of th men whp obtained from certain expectant heirs la this State about to be used In establishing their claims to an estate reported to be worth 000.000.) and Who were unabl to account satisfactorily for th expenditure of the money It also shown by th prosectt- tloa aad eonvictlOQ. tn RnOiuc Pena, on th 12th Inst4 of one A. J. Dress, who had been making a living out of the mythical property called the Spang estate. Some months ago we mentioned the efforts of certain men to convince a group of persons in Pennsylvania bearing the name of Spang that they, were the right ful heirs to an estate in Germany, valued at about $20,000,000, and that they could obtain this property by proving that they were the descendants of one' John George Christian Spang.

It now appears that th chief operator In this schero of fraud was A. J. Dress of PhUlipsburg, who called the "heirs" together-three years ago and promised to procure tha estate for them If they would make him their agent and pay his expenses. They sent him to Germany and in du Urn received from him by mall what said was a copy of the will of John George Christian Spang, dated Jan. 29, 1820.

This will, which was wholly fictitious, gave to- John George Spang and Christian Philip Spang of Pennsylvania $6,000,000 eiach. and to their sisters, Christine and WU- helmlne Spang. $5,000,000 each. Dress wrote on May 12, 1892, to the from Bremen: "I haVe everything but the old family record, and am working that up and will soon have it I got the will and the death certificate." Of course, he asked for more money. also de clared that he had Inspected the lands and the "old Iron works and copper works." which wer a part of the estate.

After his return to this country, however, he admitted that he had seen neither the will nor any part of th prop erty. But he had spent the money which the "heirs" had given or sent to him. and he had enjoyed himself for two years in Europe at their expense. The evidence against him was conclusive, and the Jury speedily pronounced him guilty. In his charge, the Judge said: There is a distinct class of awindieni.

successfully plying their trade, who llv by extracting money from credulous people in this country foolish enough to believe in th existence of great fortunes left to them in the old country many rears aca. Thta fnr. elgn inheritance business, as well-informed men everywhere know, is nothing but a swindle, and an organized swindle at that. Nothing has ever come out of the supposed enorxs to recover such fortunes, and nothing ever will, except expenses and disappointments. People who ao Into such schemes must make up their minds to meet with both, with absolute certainty, and without any prospect of ever seeing a cent" of money for their pains." We haye recently noticed In Pennsyl vania papers a story about another es tate of $0,000,000, which James Slattery rti vi onamoaun ana his six brothers and sisters are Invited to take.

James was urged a few weeks ago by an attorney In London to cross the Atlantic at once. taking two of his brothers with him, In order that he might obtain his share without delay. The courts were waiting for them, it was said, and would hand over th $20,000,000 as soon as the. authenticity of a few documents should have been proved. This comfortable estate, we are told.

was left by "the late Admiral Sir William K. Ball of the Queen's Navy," who was one of the wealthiest men In Great Britain about eighty years ago. It con sists of the flourishing town of Gloucestershire, comprising houses," and a large sum of money which has been lying in the Melrose Bank, Scotland," since 1806, drawing compound interest. A brief calculation shows that this sum must now exceed $70,000,000, and we presume that the bank would like to get rid of it Sir William's sister would not listen to her brother's suggestion that she should marry an eligible scion of royalty," but chose "a dashing young civilian and came to this country, where her husband went to' work in the Schuylkill County ooal mines. Her descendants are the expectant "heirs." It Is quite probable that the Rev.

George Frederick Burgoyne Howard was not interested in the Spang estate, but we suspect that thia resident of Columbus could tell the Slatterys something about the Ball property. We advise the Slatterys to make inquiry at the office of the American Consul General In London be fore they. Impoverish themselves In the pursuit of those 2,500 houses and the 000,000, more or less, lying In the Scottish bank. THE BROKE CROCKERY PERIOD. Every one knows that during the Glacial Period the entire northern hemisphere was covered to an enormous depth with Ice.

Scientific men now us that another Glacial Period Is among the certainties of the future. They can. very nearly calculate" the precise time when New-York and Paris and Pekin will be buried under hundreds of feet of ice, and despotism, constitutional monarchy, and republicanism will all alike be frozen stiff. Our only cemfort is that this calamity will not take place for something like two hundred millions of years, and will not therefore seriously Inconvenience those of us who are now living. Curiously enough, the Scientific Persona who can thus confidently predict what Is to happen two hundred millions of years in the- future have failed to notice that a Broken Crockery Period is comparatively close at hand, and that in a very few millions of years at the furthest the entire globe, with the possible exception of Central Africa and a few other barbarous places, will be buried hundreds of feet deep under a Stratum of broken glass and broken china.

The data upon which this conclusion is founded are accessible to every observer, and were It not that a Scientific, Person prefers to see what Is millions of miles away. Instead of what is In close proximity to his personal nose, th precise Aate when th Broken Crockery Period Will reach its final stage would long ago hive been accurately predicted. The average man has not the slightest Idea of the Immense amount of crockery which Is broken and thrown away every year. The most careful statisticians are of the opinion that the amount broken th United States alone is eanivJnt eight bushels of fragments for every man. woman, and child of th ntlre popula uon.

ut tha rat of breakage la the United States is very small compared with that which takes place tn more densely populated countries, where peopl with glassware or china In their nands are constantly running against ether people and smashing their burdens, la England the amount of breakage per bead is twenty-three bushels of fragments per annum, and In th rest of Western Eu rope it is even greater. Then, again, the amount of crockery broken on ocean steamer and thrown overboard la enormous. It baa been calculated! that on the steamer Etruria a little more than three thousand articles of glass and china are broken during every voyage. If a Ilk rat of breakage prevails on all other ocean steamers, tt follows that the Atlantic Ocean will soon become shallow and overflow Its shores. solely in consequence of the enormous amount of broken crockery which, is year ly cast Into its depths.

Not to dwell longer on the details of the Broken Crock ery Period, it may be briefly asserted that at th present rate of breakage the entire civilized part of the earth will covered at the end of about two aad a half millions of years from the present time with broken crockery to a uniform depth of seventy-four feet that is to say. In round numbers. Of course, there will be places where the deposit will be even greater than seventy-four ft Vast gla ciers, so to speak, of broken crockery will descent along our valleys, especially those which are In the neighborhood of Summer hotels, and it Is thought that in Swltterland there will be crockery gla ciers of five or six hundred feet in thickness, owing to the excessive number of Summer hotels and the amount of broken crockery which, as every one who has suffered from a Swiss landlord knows, Is invariably charged la the bill of the departing tourist As nothing can grow on a surf aee of broken crockery, life will become extinct during the Broken Crockery Period, with the exception, of course, of such goats as learn to eat broken glass and to fatten on broken, china. Man, however, will be driven jinto the interior of Africa or to some other savage region, where crockery is unknown, there to dwell until in the slow process of ages the Broken Crockery stratum disintegrates and becomes ra-solved lnto Its earthy elements. This Is a prospect which Is much nearer, and hence much more alarming, than the prospect of the return of the Glacial Period, and Scientific Persons ought long ago to: have foreseen it and given us due warning.

There is one competent observer who believes that the earth has already passed through at one Broken Crockery Period. There is a hill at Rome, called, Monte Testacclo, which Is "entirely composed of fragments of broken pottery. No archaeologist has ever been able to explain how these fragments could have been gathered together in th shape of a small fountain. If. howevr, suppose that' they are th remains of a prehistoric Broken Crockery 'Period and wer thrown up In-the shape of a hill by aom volcanic convulBion, the existence of Monte Testaecio presents no further mystery.

It is probable that, could we dig deep enough Into the heart of th arth, we should find, even below the Mesopota-mlan and Maesogothic strata, the rei mains of the stratum of broken crockery depoejted during a Broken Crockery Period millions and billions of years ago. The earth probably passes through Broken Crockery Periods with the aame regularity with which she passes through Glacial Periods, and it Is a solemn thought that every time we throw an empty bottle Into our neighbor's yard or fill our dustbin with bite of broken plates and Jugs we are contributing to hasten the arrival of the next great Broken Crockery Period that is to make tha earth a particularly unpleasant sort o. wilderness. OUTBOrVD SIXiJUam CSOWSKOl Mr Fasaragars Sailed Yesterday Any Pravloa Day TUi Taar. The steamships which sailed for Europ yesterday carried out more passengers than had sailed on any previous day this year.

The full list of departures was printed in The 'New-York Times yesterday. Among the well-known voyagers on the Campania are Baron Beaupre. the Marquis de Maha Yotha. Siamese Minister to the United States and Great Britain; A. H.

Baring. Johnj Armstrong Chamber, Prof. J. J. Chla-holm.

Tony Pastor. Edwin 8. Batch. Thomas Willing, and Mr. and Mrs.

Frank D. Fairbanks. Onf La Bretagn' long list of saloon passengers are the names of the Count and Countess de Glbacoa, Count Lodochowskl. CoL C. Mitchell, Mrs.

Livingstone, Prof! Louis G. PaUbot, Mr. and Mrs. 8. D.

Ames. Charles F. Newman. Mr. and Mrs.

C. H. Peaalee, J. J. Stranahan.

W. K. Underbill. Howard P. Wahrman, Mrs.

Frederick Tudor, and Miss Rosamond Tudor. Among tbos who ar bound to the Mediterranean on board the North German Lloyd steamship Fulda, ar Mr. and Mrs. David Manning. Gen.

John Watts Kearney and Mrs. Kearney, Count Steinberg. Mr. and Mrs. F.

R. Blount Dr. C. Black-shear, Mrs. A.

D. Cooper, and Thomas K. Cooper. The Aller, bound for Bremen, has on broad Howard A. Colby.

Everett Colby, Qur Pherps Dodge. William T. Rasmus, Dr T. asiliard Thomas, and Mrs. Thomas, Dr Cornelius N.

Hoagland and Mrs. Hoariand. Mr. and Mrs, H. Belmont, and Baron von Rosen, the Russian Minister to Mexico.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wallace, Virginia Harned, Cape James LitU, E. jc Bruce, and- Miss Katherine Florence ware among those who Bailed by the Ancherla for Glasgow. May la Hrth.

of Britain. From The 'Westminster Gasetta. Juaa Hera in Tsssilsle." write a correspond-cnti "all looks Ilka midwinter. Th hills are white with snow, and at la terra Is have driving ahowers of si eat la the valley a Th sever frosts hav don serious damage to the fruit crop, and th potatoes look most melancholy. Th oak and beech foliage has th appearance of Autumn; th leaves ar brown and crisp, aad I ear their beauty Is poUd for thi year." Th month of May closed with a depth of over ninety Inches of snow on the ton of Ben Nevis.

The temperature la avr very high there, but so much snow at this time of year Is aot usual. Last year all tha snow had disappeared by th middle of tha merry month. Xew Traste far Vast Kaatraaal Ratal, KEWBURQ, N. JuDB la-In th. Bupram Court her to-day.

befar JaaUea Chanaa Braara, a anatioa raa saada iar ta appaliilauiui a aa addltdoaal traatea af tn- Batata of jeha Vaa Noatrsad of Brooktya. taka tha A. who committed aulola Uat Wtntar Axtor arpuneat tha mart appothtad Mrs. LfttuB B. Van Xoatran aa tha thirS iraiiiV So to atuairfy tx.0utf.00 Jm th rala lha property lavaave.

"raD4 IiiDIAIi SDFrLY BZFGT-SIAYS AEEZIOYAL lEOU KFST.TOEX CUT PT5TE1V BY lflS. STBATJ3. Th Rider Prftvldlag far th tepf Changed; Cfclcage gfrlekesj Oat a Point Order Mad by Kew-Yerls Repr-eaeaUtlre Th Appraprlattea Bill PaaaeC After Tharoack Dlaeaaaioa of XU Its Provisions. Indian supply depot has been pavad to Xev-Tork, The rider attached to the Indian Appro-' piiation bill providing that the office for purchasing goods and supplies and the principal depot shall established at Chi- cago, and the bids shall opened was stricken out this afternoon in the Hous Committee of th Whol by the order of' Chairman O'Neill, whose ruling was bMd on the point of order made by Representative Straus of New-York, that the rider was nw legislation and did not reduce expenditures, Mr. Straus went to th Capltrt this mora-" ing fully prepared to thwart the plan remove th Indian supply depot front New-York to Chicago.

It was plain te him that th cunning gentlemen who had caused the rider to be affixed to th Apprlprlatlon bill bad overreached themselves. had so difficulty Jn securing recornl-Uon at th proper moment and his point of was made with great clearness. Attention waa called to the fact that tb proposed law made It incumbent upon Secretary: of the Tnterior to sUbllih a warehouse in Chicago contrary, te any previous regulations, which directly refutij th claim that there would be a decrease expenditures. There would be, on the contrary, be asserted, an Increased' expenditure. Representative Campbell supported Mr.

Straus in a speech which was strengthened by a petition which he presented from th Clothing Manufacturers' Association of New-York agalnat the proposed removal of the supply depot This petition caDed attention again to the fact which has bees, stated In these dispatches, that a large proportion of the Indian supplies ar produced la New-York or contiguous territory, gad must be directly or Indirectly ptirehaaed there, and that no bids have ever been sub mltted from Western points. It was declared further that the removal of the depot would be an injustice to New-York merchants and to the Mr. Hojroaa made a very tame defense of the rider. He admitted that the provia-lon did not "upon it face" retrench expenditures; but added that as a matter cf fact it did, as a reduction of $28,000 had been mad by th authority of th Commissioner of Indian Affairs from th appropriation in the bill on account of this provision 418.0W of the amount for transportation and for the warahous. which amounts would saved to th 2vv eminent In deciding the question Chairman CNeill called attention to Mr.

Holmans admission that the provision did 'not on ita face reduc expenditures, and said that th Chair could not ro beyond the fare of the provision. It la unquestionably new legislation, Mr." O'Neill said, in conclusion, and th CbaU sustains th point of order." The decision is a source of great gratification to Mr. Straus, bnt some of the Wrsv MH RMMURt.tluM I 11.1 who had figured upon striking a blow at New-York, are much cast down. This ends for the present the movement to transfer the supply depot to Chicago. After ten days consideration of the mess ure.

the Hous to-day, operating under the rul adopted yeaterday. finally disposed of the Indian Appropriation bill Substantially as reported to tha Houae by the Conunltte on Indian Affairs. There wer numerous minor amendments agreed to in th cours wlJ5n upon th bill. Th Committee on Indian Affairs proposed certain modiflcationo to th treaty of the csstoo of the Yankton Sioux Reserva-n' oth Dakota, providing a method of disposing of th lands after they shall hav been acquired 'These were not in harmorr? with the public land laws, and various points of order were mad against them for that i Thepoirita 0f order were all overruled by th Chair, on the ground that the lacSi were not part of th public domain mcul purchased, and that It was proper to amend the text of th treaty as agreed te by ta Commissioners. A number of amendments were offered wbicb were in lot- Ipwlng: Abolishing the Pueblo-end Jacarffla Area-cy.

New-Mexico, and consolidating it with the Southern Ute Agency. Making thJ unexpended balanc of th appropriation for Indian Agents a valla Ma for school instruction, la additloa to th specifically appropriated 1 tb bill for that purpoae. Authorising the Secretary of th Interior to detail an Inspector te treat with th Shoe hone and Arapahoe Indians for th purchas of a portion of th ghoahon Reservation in Wyoming. Mr. Mahon offered aa amendment prohibiting the removal of any child under the age fourteen from any Tnrllan raMAfrva tlrta-i aakA at awa) wir ar TtlCaVLUfU WlUaUail Wf consent of Its parents, if alive.

It waa near the hour fixed for reporting the bill to the House (3:30 o'clock) when this waa offered, and Mr. Hoi man talked out th Una, shutting off a number of Members who desired to offer amendments. There was uiutu guuu-naium coniusion tn tne cnamDer, but Mr. Hoi man continued to bold Uanoorl until checked. by the Chairman, whe tea aow uicr ivsv.Jk KJUUVQ a ailu bc awuuisiy bu uuwd.

In the House, Mr. Mahon' ameodaeut ported by the Committee of tb Whoia agreed to. The bill having been engrossed. Mr. Get Iowa.) moved -to recommit with in tmintlAna tn til, frt9nvnm aw Inl.a If.

fairs to report it back with all provision far the support and education of Indians to schools named tn the bill, and appropriating 1X230.000. with which the Secretary of tha Interior shall provide for the education of the Indians in Government- schools, on reservations, or el pew here that tt has estab ashed them, and to build necessary additional buildings. For the year tt necessary, the Secretary may put the India at school under contract. Mr. O'Neil made the peist of order that tinder th rale th ssetioa waa not in order, because the chang sra-poaed would aot have been in order a aa amendment to ta bill while It was onaer con aider Uon.

Th point was held te be good by ta Speaker, on the ground that it was aarar legialation. by which it was sought te gt rid of the contract system of at boot a. Sara a propoaithm. he said, would not be admia-sible as an amendmect to the bill wail sader oonaideration. Mr.

Cannoq appealed from th decision, and a motion te lay the appeal oa th tatw was agreed to on division 1T1 te Th yea and nays were asked by Mr. Burr Mich.) and Mr. Canaan, and they wer ordered. The appeal was laid oa tb table yea. 15S; aaya.

da. The vote was generally along party Unea, the Populist voting with the Deinecrat, and the following Republicans also, ana-tain the Speaker. Messrs. Apslry. Breder-lck.

ChUds, CorsweU. Draper. Hersiana, Plckler. and Walker. Mr.

McRa (Deni. Ark, moved to recommit with instructions to an oka th feul provide for the dlspasi of tb lands la the Yankton Sioux Reoervatio, South Dakota, after they shall have beea aoqulred, under the provisions of the general land. la w. Lost 0 to 190. The question then was, "Shall the bin rs?" On division the House voted 137 the Republicans refraining.

"No quorum was suggested, and tellers were ordered. Th wot was: Teas. 1S6: nay. 13. So the bill paaaed and th Hous aijoura.

Th Haaaarat Real ate ae alt-' KITWPORT. R. L. Jnne 1C Amos T. Tt Kew-Tork to-day parchaaed.

aaortaes sale, tb gammer residence of Bowlaad V. Baaatd of Kaw-Tark for S2S.200. Ta paoparty aatladas a tart raald e. Mabia. sod tXX3 asnare fsat Of land.

Mr, lodre Oray at Afbanv Knoaritoa and wife of Broakrra arrtrvd at th eottacaa aadar Othar piaaatnean arrivals -nlfht ara: Riihard Potter, lira. Dr. PoUr. a W. Brtdahaiil, f.

M. Brown. BtuyvaaSM rioh Nta-Tark. El wood Davla aad wtfa, B. R.

SmRk and wtfa. Pr. and Mra. Biraer. and WUllaai Stwa-maker and family of Phtladeiphla.

aad Maw Uf iiy WUaaa at CaJlronaia. T. J. McStaaaa Weald Oa to Coagr. Taaaaa.J.

McMahus. Who Is ea-taaator Oaargt W. Plaaaltt aawociat iaadar la tha Taaunsar Hall rgaalaaIo la tha ataaota AaaasUair IMatrtct. is a raadidat tor tb Tammany aea-laatioa far ConTrs. to aaeeead John 1 wTC Vamar.

IVnator Piunkiti I said to bnrtoear-In tba boom. It Is ckmlmad U.at Tannanr vul bat renominate Mr. Ti ariw. If Mr. Wci I lmnlBata rtwaaroaa 4wt lo ra.