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0 THE NEW YOKE TIMES. SATURDAY. MARCH 18. 1800, AIISTERDAI1 AYEfflJE BILL Senator Ford Reviews the History of the Contest DISCRIMINATION NOT INTENDED Confusion Attributed to the IneonsiaV tacy of tin Bil1rrrit Committee OoTernor's Attitude Explained. ALBANY.

jUrcn JT. Senator rord this afternoon gave out the following statement concerning the lUtiM of tbe Aaastar-tea Avenue controversy. "EerJy la tha session the Aaatarfca Arenas bill was Introduced and printed, Bubaeauently aa endeavor to obvlata tbe objections raise to It. It was amended aad put la too form la which tbe people the west aid wanted It. There could bo bo doubt la tao minds of any member of tao Hajlroede Committee as to the unanimity wUa which they agreed to tao bill aad demanded tta pases go.

The moot Impressive bearings that I orar beard upon any measure wsrs bad npoa this. At tbo flrat boar-la there appeared a largo number of rep-resentatlv ottlaeas who pees ntod to tao committee too (root Injury threatened to very interest oo tbo west atdo la tbo cotv-tam plated operation of four Independent trolley tracks upon Amsterdam Avenue, At a subsequent bearing tboro appoarod la opposition to tba bill Judge Brown aad lir. Vreeland 00 behalf of tbo Metropolitan Street Railway Company, aad Mr. Trull and Mr. Lauterbaca on behalf of tbo Third Avenue Hallway Company.

For tbo property owners there appeared John Proctor Clarke, John Coleman, aad 3. Van Vecb-tea Otoott. Tbo legal aapoeta ot tbo ques-tlona were discussed ably on both sides. Aa the aceauy for the passage of tha till from tbo point of view of the best Interests of the people on tbo west atdo was shown at tbe first bearing without a dissenting vote, the competency aad duty of the Legislature to afford the relief asked for waa demonstrated by tbe able counsel for the property owners. No member of tbo Senate, so far aa 1 know, has ever questioned either the desirability of the legislation, the necessity of It-glslatlve enactment to euro the evil complained of.

nor the power of tbo Legislature to act la tbe prem- Tbe Railroads Committee, without notice and 'without a beefing upon the added language, reported the property owners' bill emaacutateu uy a long amendment known to have been drawn by the counsel of the Metropollthan Street Railway Company. Not a. word of the amendment waa changed by the committee Id adopting It front the original draft aa It came from tbe hands of tbe corporation's attorney. When the bill waa reported with the Metropolitan amendment In the Senate, I moved to strike out that amendment, and In the presence of hundreds of the residents of the west sld, the Be rials refused after a protracted debate to strike out the amendment by a Vote of 111 to 17, the members of tbe Railroads Committee voting unanimously with the majority. Ju, the gentlemen who have the master lit viidxge on behalf of the property-owners are cool-headed, shrewd, and practical men.

They certainly were warranted In taktnir thla fnrB.Liii tf ik. ilrlu Committee and of the Senate aa genuine, and in concluding that the Senate and Its Railroads Committee were both In favor of liie amendment of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, and they did the sensible and practical thing under the circumstances, when overtures were made to them oy inn persons wno represented the amendment which had so secured the seemingly. overh.l3tlDgly Indorsement of the Sena-ale, In entering Into negotiations with the view to agreeing on an amendment which w-ould rorne as noar aa possible to the one appeared to have the support of the Setir.te. They therefore took as the basis of tha compromise amendment tbe one proposed by the Metropolitan Street Railway people and struck out the objectionable mat. lev so aa to insure them the relief the wanted and to safeguard tba Interests of tba 'y- "The compromise amendment I brought to A I Ivan with the unreserved Indorsement i amendment they wanted any amendment were necessary.

In be meantime, the Fallows bill, identical with mlnn. had passed the Assembly and nd reached the Railroads Committee of the Senate. I appeared before, the com-ntftU'e and, offered tbe people' amendment and urged Its adoption. It contained no word ir. derugaiion of the rights of the Third Avenue Company that was not In the very amendment that they bad adopted the preceding week, yet they brushed it aside, as they had In the preceding week, and adopted the amendment drawn by the fop the Metropolitan Street Rall-wy Incorporated In the Fallows bill voluminous amendments drawn and presented to the committee by Kdward Lauterbach.

the attorney for tbe Third Avenue Street Railway Company. latter ass as much In favor of the Third Avenue Company and against the Metropolitan Company as the amendment they had approved the week hefnr waa against the Third Avenue Company and In ravor ot tne Metropolitan Company. It la to this remarkable Inconsistency of tbe Railroads Committee that all the confusion that enshrouds the situation la due. There la al-tOKVlher too much controversy and too many hair-spMtting argumenta over tbo rlghte and privileges of tbe railway companies. So Important have these discussions be-eocne that It would appear that the rights and privileges of the people are overlooked.

There bag been bo desire oo tbo part of tho people of the west side or myself to discriminate between the two companies on Amsterdam Avenue, but distinctly deny that the so-called. Ford bill Inflicts any hardship on any company not demanded by tbe Interests of the public. The Fallows bill with tbe Third Avenue fnmmflv am.4.MA fc clal order for Monday night. We shall then sea whether the wishes of the people or those of a railway corporation are to prevail. As for myself, I have no doubt that thebUl wlU pass with the people's amend- Gov.

Roosevelt stated to-day that be bad been misquoted In a morning paper to the effect that be waa In favor of the Ford or Fallows Amsterdam Avenue Railroad bin la Its original form. Ha la not so sura aa to the constitutionality of either of these measures. Ha haa heard that there Is a question aa to their ultimate effect. What he doea believe is that the citisena Interests! and the representatives of the railroad companies affected, should get together aad agree on a bill, but if the representatives of the companies do not agree then the cltlsens should go ahead and paaa the measure which they tbiak will best aooom-pUab tbt object sought. TH8 AMSTERDAM AVEXt'B BAUT.

Toast Rarsea Rhwoelea Will Preald Seat Meaday Tbo Cltlsens Committee having la charge tbo fight against four sub-trolley track ta Amsterdam Avenuo la aogagad la arranging for tba attendance of speakers at tbo aaa Academy on Monday evening." Louis A. Lebmaler, Cbairmaa of tbo committee, aald yesterday that bo and bis associates had received the promise of John Harse.i Rhoadea to preside at the meeting, and that Collector of the Port Oeorge R. Hid Well, William Aslor Cbanler, and Prof. George Guntop have given favorable answers to Invitations to address the people. A further llt -of speakers, Mr.

Lehmaier would probably be made public to-day. It expected that the meeting will be aa well attended, and aa pronounced In its opposition to four tracks as the gathering held la the same place last Monday night. Mr. Lehmaler Teeter lay expressed a cost-vtction that the Senate would paaa tao prohibitive measure. SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE.

Vfcte tho TrmrreM Fret Dockaco BUI Maeetieaeel la the Aseesably War 1c at tbe Seaate. ALBA NT, March IT. This moraine Aa-aemblymaa, PUlon of New York moved to correct tbo rota whereby Mr. Farrir Free Slip bill bad been passed yesterday, giving 77 votea for it. Mr.

Dillon aald be waa prepared to show thabonly 74 votes were really oaat for 1L Mr. Palmar. Mr. Kane, aad Mr. Sabine bad been recorded la tbo affirmative, which should not hare been' done, aa Mr.

Palmer did not vote at alL Mr. Kaae waa on tbo train en route to Buffalo when bo was recorded, and Mr. Sablna had voted aelnst It If MMuurr he mum affidavits from these members to substantiate bis statement. Tbo bill bavins goaa over to tbo Senate. Mr.

Finn, who waa oTV-ciatlng as tbe mlnontv leader, moved to recall it. On motion of Mr. Keller, the motion waa laid on tbo table on ill Monday iright. Aotong tbe oaaeed were the folio w- Inf: J. r.

BRKXSAN Ossapelltng street surface retirees' eompejites ta all ciu of tbe State to ihetr cars aroperly dastag the- Winter nmil aw Mr. MABIXB Preetdtag That (iinni wwfcrs slu.il esy the esses wivtlMj ot ta Uea law as are row sentrd aUMf emae workers. Mr. TORBIiRU Klails ta the dlaooatlmtaace of ttroueedlac tar tae Improvement of eertaia sirwts In the Tweatytxta Ward of Brooklyn. Mr.

WAX PiorkUni that mam of tbe la-spectars of Steas Vaaeele to be appalatsd by toe feupertnlenoVnt of PuMIe Works mast have ten years' upeleM la the enesunetloa aad ess of ui have aoted tve years aa chief engineer In the maaaaaotent of steam butlers. Mr. WILoM fermiiUng Ceaisalssl pairs of ttmmU Is New Tar County to make a eerUflca-if of thetr eat la tbe City of tw Tort to the City Clark. la tbe Senate to-day the Assembly amend-meate to Mr, KUsworta's Sid Path bill were agreed to. and the bill passed unanimously.

Manr btils of nivata and local character were passed, aad Mr. Marshall's cm catting on a part of Hempatead rrom tba Greater New Tork and adding It to Nassau County waa advanced to a third reading. Mr. Ford's bill orohihitina- the use of trading stamps aad similar gkf enterprises was ajso aovanceo. senatora Knim ana Brarkett oppoeed tbe advancement of Mr.

juggins's bill providing that towns may receive and pay Interest on private trusts for care and support of private cemeteries on the ground that the function of holding a trust fund is not a town function. REVISION OF THE STATUTES. Bill far at Xew ama Maa-Salarteal Csa aeiaaiaa Ietrwdaced la the As-scaiMy Yesterday. ALBANT. March 17 Another effort to terminate tba apparently endless task Of revising tbo General Statutes of tbo State, be gun la 1889 and still far from complete, is proposed In a bill Introduced in tbe Assembly to-day by Mr.

Kelsey, legislating out of office tbe present Statutory Revision Commission and establishing a no unsalaried body In Its atead. The bill contains an apparent criticism of the existing commission In its title, which la An act to facilitate tbe revision of the General Statutes and tbo codes." It directs tbe Governor within ten days to appoint three competent persona who shall be at torneys and oounselors-at-law. and who, together wltb tbo Attorney General and an attorney to bo designated by hint to take charge of tbe work under tbe direction of tne commission, shall constitute the Commission of Statutory Revision. The Commissioners are to receive their actual expenses, not exceeding $1,000 a year for all three, but no salary. The commission so constituted is td complete the revision of the General Statutes and submit the same, fcpge.ther with a revision -of tbe codes, to the Legislature not later than the session of 1UUL The entire expense of this work is not to exceed $12,500 In any one year.

The present Statutory Revision Commission waa established in lksu, with the provision that it should complete Its work and report to tbe Legislature In 1J. and an appropriation of SU.0O0 was made for It. In ISSN) a bill was passed extending the time for the completion of the work to isttt and appropriating S17.00O more. In Si 13 it waa made practically a permanent body by an amendment to the executive law which made It the duty of the commission to examine and draw bills for members of the Legislature and pass upon tbe constitutionality, consistency, and legal effect of proposed legislation. Since then it has become a busy and extensive bureau, occupying three larg rooms on the second floor of tne Capitol and employing a force of clerks and stenographers.

Liurlng the session of the Legislature the commission becomes a bill factory, many members depending on it to put Into shape the legislation they desire to propose. The present Revision Commissioners are Charles Z. Lincoln, A. Judd Northrup, and W. H.

Johnson. EAST RIVER TUNNEL BILLS. Sesster Marshall's Flaa ta Overcome the Opaoaltlesi of the City Adaalalstratlea. ALBANY, March 17. Senator Marshall's, bills In the Interest of tbe proposed Long Island Railroad tunnel under the East River are making progress In the Senate.

Tho bill repealing the twenty-five-year limit for franchises fixed by the charter In so far as It applies to tunnel franchisee, is already on the General Orders calendar, having been reported out of the Senate Cities Committee over tbo votes of Senators Stranaban, Elsberg. Ford. White, and Grady more than a week ago. To-day the same committee reported favorably the companion bill allowing the Long Island Railroad to retain the surface right of way for the operation of a surface railroad where it Is required to elevate or depress Its tracks on Atlantic Avenue. Theae bills are being opposed by the city admlnlstrstion tbe Tunnel bill on the frround that the franchise ought to be United and ought to be sold, as the charter directs, and the Atlantic Avenue bill on tbe idea that to allow the railroad company to mnllnu.

ti a after elevating or depressing Its tracks, half of the tx Sense of which la borne by the city, is giving It more than it is entitled to or than the public Interest Justifies. Tbe bills are backed by the Atlantic Avenue Improvement Commission. Strong opposition baa developed to the Tunnel even among those who advocate the building ot the proposed Long Island Railroad tunnel, on account of lis general provisions. It gives to the Municipal Assembly the right to great perpetual franchises for the construction and operation of tunnel railroads under any of the streets or avenues of the entire City of New Tork. a power which the opponents of the bill claim would practically turn over tbe rapid transit question to the Municipal Assembly, and is out of all proportion to tbe professed purposes of the promoters of the enterprise.

In order to meet the emergency that may be created by tbe veto of the twine! charter amendment by the Mayor too late to pass It a second time. Senator Marshall has a bill In the hands of the Railroads Committee which accomplishes the same purpose through an amendment to the general railroad law which would not have to go to the Mayor. CANAL ADVISORY BOARD MEETS. Temporary Oramalaatloa Effected, with Qea. Greeae aa Chairaaaa.

ALBANY. March 17-The Canal Advisory Board, at its meeting to-day. effected a temporary organisation by tbo election of Gen. Greene aa Chairman. Permanent organisation was deferred Until all tbe members of tbo committee should bo present.

It was announced that tbe committee discussed in an informal manner the lines which Its Inquiries ahould take, and also that consideration was given to the subject of selecting a proper and competent statistician and secretary to the commission. The next meeting wlU be held on the call of Gen. Greene, the temporary Chairman. State Superintendent of Public Works Partridge bas Issued instructions to tbe various Superintendents of Repairs in which he announces that a change Is to be made in the method that has heretofore obtained in the maintaining of the canals, the making of the ordinary repairs, and tho making of minor appointments under the Section Superintendents. These instructions are to thm Ith1 th "oUon Superintendents will be held personally responsible for the care of their sections, this responsibility extending to tbe character of the employea In the communication Col.

Partridge announces that the canals will open ArU 17 if climatio conditions permit. "WATER ASP ELKCTRIQ POWER. Senator RieVa Meaaaree Reported Fav. eaady by Seaate Casaaaltteaa. ALBANY.

March of Senator SUcaa Water and Electrio Power bills, which attracted attention at the time of their tatroductioa on account of tbe far-reaching powers they conferred on proposed oorpo-miona. wore favorably reported to tba Senate to-day. One ot theae bCla Inoorporatea the High Falls Eectrtcal Power Company of Ulster County. As Introduced, St allowed the cora- anywhere ta the State, and apparently afforded the baaU for a combination of water aad electrical interests. This bill was renoetMi trZ-Z the Judiciary Commit wTS, ad? limiting ita operations to Ulster and adjoining counties.

The other bill Incorporates the Lake Kk-kaiom Water and Power Company wKh authority 10 impound th waterafttttakiU Creek for Its use and condemn tiVmHi plant already there or dole out water to them according to Its own The company Is authorised to oonduot the buJ-neea of supplying water or power derived therefrom la (Sreeaa and adJoEngSiaa! This bin was reported fretn tbo Mlwen- neoue Corpora Uona Oooanlttce without amendment. PLATT TO SPASK tlllD DOT Raaaara iseat the e-BMlare Prwfeeteel Ttalt fa Albany Xekt Week. ALBANY. March 17.S0mo commotion haa been created Ithe Republican Senators here by a report that Tbo: Piatt ts to visit Albany feezt week. Mr.

PUtt Is to come, it Is sa d. as tho guest of Gov. Roosevelt. Hls'vi ilts to tbe Capitol are not so frequent as to escape comment, and tbo Inference Is drawn that this one will have objects otbir than tbe ex change of social courtesieJ with tbo Gov- nwr. I oppose," said one of tbe bolting Re puuiican senators to-aay, man la ivimln I.

that the old gir-e us bad boys a spanking." and that view rUVtMl vlalt k. of the Senator's generally shared among the members of toe majority. Sew York City BUI: Reparted. ALBANY, March 17. Tbf Assembly Committee on Cities reported favorably this morning the following New York City bills: Providing for the apnolstnei by tbe Board ef Publle Charities of Kew Toi a of a Board of Lunacy Examiners to eoasui ot eleven physicians.

Providing that no provistoi of the existing charter ahall be deemed to remit tbe transfer of any police Captain. Kermiiit. Roundsman, or pairoimaji to any precinct oetaiue of the borough ia which be shall be eerrlaa kt tbe time of tbe pasaaae or tbe act. unless tl tiled with the head of the Pol! Sere shall be first It Department the writ tea request of the person! to be transferred. stating that euch transfer la desired by him.

rroviainc that the Hoard of Estimate and Ap portionment of New Tork nub in any year I re creaae or diminish the sum authorized to be paid to any Institution. aaeuaiaMon, or corporation ot New York City organized tr charitable. eieemoeynary, correctional, or I 1UIKMU. I Repaallna the act of lftOT llrinalne and reflat ing ine bones ot auctioneers In JCaw Tork City so far aa the bondlajr of aucttineers la Maklna the cost of ooenlni the nubile blace between Kmml One Hundred 2nd rtixtv-arat and Kaat One Hundred and Hixty---od Street in the Twenty-third Ward, a city eSjwnne. vacating tne aaMaament paving, curbing.

ruttertnit. and flaarsina One 11: jnired and rorty- fifth Street, from eleventh Avenue to the Boule vard, in the tloroush of Manhattan. To Pay Widows far Chi ALBANY. March 17. Ii Idren's Sapport the Senate to-a bill providing day Mr.

Ahearn introduced that widowed mothers have been committed to bf children who institutions In the Boroughs of Manhattan oil the New York City, may get the Ihlldren In their own care If they shall hale proved to the satisfaction of tbo Society Uon of Cruelty to Childreti for the Preven- and received a certincauon rrom a CTIty effect that, with an arS Magistrate to the ount or money equivalent to what the wise pay the "Institution ty would other- for the care of the children, they can su pport them rop eriy. The bill also provlil es for tne pay ment to the Widows' Fukd in the nanus of the Controller of New York City such sums as would otherwise tion. go to the institu- Relief for Leiowrh Official. ALBANY, March 17. The disposition of the present Legislature dppears to be to take care of the New police officials who wore the victims of le Lexow Investi gation.

A general bill. Introduced by Sen ator Ahearn, allowing the ment of the claims of all kudlting and pay- these officials waa favorably reported to the Senate from tho Judiciary Committee yesterday, and to-day the Assembly passed two kepaxate bills au- inonzing the hioard of i mate and Appor- tlonment to audit and allbw the claims of George S. Chapman and Michael Sheeban for legal expenses Incurred by them In de fending themselves from harges. Kflorts to enact similar legislai ion last session raiiea. Assembly Taxation Ill Us Reported.

ALBANY, March 17. Tlfe Assembly Com- mittee on Taxation and etrenchment has reported the following bi: la favorably: Kxemptlna' from taxation ti capital stock cor- poratlons whose entire capltid 1s invested ta Ira- real estate In thla SU Restrict tne the exemption own stock which haa been Stai. N.f Individuals who tdxed oa the corpora- tion to such only as hold stock of domestic corporations. Sxemptlnr real estate betiaglng to the N- tlorjd Academy of Liesign si Amsterdam Ave- nue, new xork uty. cxemptins; morts-aaes on agricultural lands wnicn bear Interest at per cent, a year.

a rdte not exceeding a Reducing the organisatlonl tax of stock cor- one-flftleth of 1 poraxiona rrom one-eighth per cent, on the amount of fcapltal etock. Providing- for the taxatiorf of cemetery asso- elation lanoa which lie tbJn the corporate limits of Kew Tork City. Against Alleged City Nalsaaces. ALBANY. March 17 Two new bills.

aimed at the abatement of the Barren Island and similar nuisances in the City of New York, were 1: trod deed in the Assem- bly to-day. One by ii the charter by adding Mahcr. amends the list of "of- tensive traaes wmch are forbidden that clams, or other of burning of oystefii. shellfish and ordering the removal from the city umits of all such dxistlag establlsh- menu, ine other is a a-enerai law ror the protection of public hi-alt ta. introduced by Mr.

De Graw. It pri h-iblts the manu- ucture ot cnenucats err odors inside the corpora IttinK obnoxious limits of anv city, and would, it Is nderstood. affect the fertiliser works In Island City. Les-tslattve otes. Aaaemblvmaji Maher yesttrday Introduced a bill which sets apart a pie the toot of Blx- teenin street, ew Tork pier.

Senator T. D. Sullivan as a recreation introduced a Mil prohibiting the running of st feet railwars In Elm street. New Tork City, Spring 8trels. between Howard and Senator Ooggeshali haa Ing tniHt and guarantee Introduced a bill requlr-to renort ail core sanies nuaineaa none outnlde the separate from their domest ate In a statement reports.

la the Senate yesterday Mrl a bill allowing cities of the! Jnhnwtn IntrsrMiii ,1 first -cla to estab- Ush outside of their corporate Jlmits honnitids for toe regular treatment ot pultnonary tuberculosis. Assemblyman Gardiner ha introduceit bllla Vkro. vidlng that no oereon ahall pe sentenced to cun- flnement in the Elmira Stat iterormauiry ror a term exceeding five years. power of the courts to allow the managers of the reiormatory to Ox the term ii mc Hnirncc. A bill to establish a State industrial home for colored orphans, to be mat ntained under the management and control of the Brooklyn Bow-and authorising the ard Colored Orphan Asylum appropriation by New Tork uiiy oi lor the establishment or the sclool, was Introduced yesterday by Assemblyman EalL IBON A27D STEEL.

Foreign Demand Kxercted to Take All the Bafplas. fYom Tbe Pittsburg (enn.) Dispatch. Additional evidence thkt everywhere in the Pittsburg district In Ing and wages going up ustiies are boom-s given by James C. Gray, constructing en neer of tbe Ohio Steel Company, at Tounistown. Mr.

Gray stated that a number ofl blast furnaces In and about Youngstown tlat have been Idle for years have been purchased and are about to bo put In operation, and that all the mills there are ninngi to their fullest rapacity day and night. He says that the present prosperity in the Iron and steel ln- dustry rests on a solid fbasls, and It will last for a long time. Akked whether the general Increase in ptic4 the effect of wrecking thfe would not have exnort trade, he aaxi: we are producing much cheaper than any Iron and steel so other munrrv In further without any darter of cutting off tue woriu inn oncea can ne nut nn atiii uur loreign maraets. im known that with all ourl their full capacity, and depending only oa home consumption, the rsarket would soon oe overstocked nut there prices will be forced up to ia no tear that exceed the limit at wnicn foreign buyers Only a dav or two itii would call a halt- the London and Northwestern Railroad it placed our great milla. a big order with one of And then we are likely to get a good deal or business rrom our new possessions.

Be- rore long, at least that ta loads of American rails. I mv opinion, ah I n- locomouvee. cars. and structural Iron will Cuba, Puerto Rico, and do an route to the Yankee enterprise will bake things hum in those Islands, you baa depend upon With regard to the attlnn nr r. reducing tho price of aSnor.

plate to JJuO ier tun, jar. uray saia: I injury to that Industry lnj It Will da great this countrr. The "rat cost or armor ptate "i im ousineaa tcannot be carried on at a profit at the rati for the finished nroduct. II Of t30k ner ton It would be differ- ent If the Government wtnild contract with tne armor-plate manufacturing concerns ten Mr. Ktalla laa freft Steadily.

Rudyard Ktohnr was feported last night to bo steadily Improving During the after ar rn the partoe-aa wheeled thither oon na eat for an fc adenine his room. He ia aa inraikl's rMJr PUBLIC MEN DENOUNCED Wild Speeches at' the Dinner of Club at the Reform Club. HOT WORDS FOR W. C. WHITNEY Called tho Heal Boas Of New Tork Kc-Xixiley, Piatt, Mark Hanna, and Others Fiercely AaaallexL Quite a variety of public men were the objects ot fierce attacks at a dinner held by Club at the Reform 'Club, on Fifth Avenue, last night, at which the subject under discussion wss "The Recent Change of Masters." The speakers did not confine their attacks to Mr.

Croker and Senator Piatt, but extended their denunciation to Oov. Roosevelt. Beth Low, Ellhu Root. Ambassador Choate, President McKlniey, Mark Hanna, and William C. Whitney.

In fact, the whole evening waa spent In denouncing one person or another. John Jay Chapman. John De Witt Warner, Oswald G. Vlllard. Robert D.

Kohn. and Issac H. Klein were tbe principal speakers. A letter, which bad been sent out to the members of the club by the Committee on Dinners, contained the following account of what it was planned to talk about at the affair: The recent attack on the elevated railroad by the city officials bas not. as It seems to us.

received tbe attention It deserves as an Illustration of the business methods of corporations and of commercial rivalry. The press bas treated the matter somewhat superficially, and the real truth seems likely not to reach tbe people at all. You are aware that until a few years ago the ele-vatod railroad, telephone contpany, and other similar corporations were the undisputed owners and farmers of Tamimuiy liail. In a rival, in the person of William C. Whitney, began to Interfere with their business, and, by suocenslve steps, proceeded to wean away tho leaders of Tammany until he secured control of tbe lot.

Mr. Whitney and bis associates then begun farming on their own account, and this recognised power over Tammany, and through it over the city administration, has recently been ujd as an instrument for blackmailing the electric light company, whose enterprise they desired to control In their own interests. The elevated railroad, whose franchise Is probably tho moat valuable In the city. Is now being oppressed through the agency of the city administration, presumably In the Interest of men who desire to secure Its control for a consideration not acceptable to its present owners, our old masters. The situation is interesting to lovers of good government-" Mr.

Chapman, who presided, began the discussion by attacking the President and his adroifrlatration. The Government of the l-nited States." he said, ta In the hands of a syndicate. Mr. McKlniey Is only the creation of a syndicate. Mark Hanna is in it.

So are Alger and Kagan. They had to protect KiiKiin. so they retired him on full pay. I have heard that John Hay paid of Mr. McKinley's private debts." Secretary Alger and ilark Hanna, also, he biieved, had some such hold upon the President Then." he said, there is -Choate, who presumably knows what McKlniey stands for and what he Is, but he and none of those who are to blame by being In collusion will come out and tell what they know.

One man depends upon another. The social fabric is so knitted together that you can't get Into It anywhere, one man steals; the next divides, and another's Interests are such so closely Interwoven that he cannot afford to tell what Is going on. I haven't been able to find a society in New York City, except Club where they would not say iou do wrong to speak of Mr. Choate. He Is a good Mr.

Chapman waa trying to show that nearly all the prominent men holding high public office in favor with the present National or New York City administration were to be blamed because those who were not directly responsible for crimes being com-mltted knew of them and yet were afraid, because of their own Interests, to disassociate themselves from and aid in exposing tho guilty partiea In fact," he said to have government as bad as we have In America you've got to have almost the whole population engaged In collusion In one way or another. "I understand." he said, in discussing the Tammany administration of the city. that WUliam C. Whitney made use of tbe powers fie could control to blackmail tho electric light company whose enterprise he and his followers desired to get in their possession." John De Witt Warner said he was not interested in the receot "change of masters, because he had not Seen that it made muob difference. They all serve us Just ftlike.

said he. "and they are equally careful not to go to the extent that stirs up a successful revolt." He ass-rted that nine-tenths of the people did not really care to run their own city themselves, and that a large proportion were well satisfied with things as they are He thought that the best way to get good govepment waa to instruct and interest the people in public affairs, rather than rely upon their criticism of the bceses Oswald G. Vlllard of The Evening Post paid his respects to a number of State and city politicians. I think." he said that when we get the chance we ought to get up and tell the truth about the men who are disgracing the city. I don't think It's clone enough.

We find men like Roosevelt. lxw, and Root going to see a man like I. 8ittln down to luncheon with him. This goes to show what a low condition of affairs we have. Here Is Piatt, the worst kind of a character, whom we know to bo a thief, a blackmailer, who makes his living by wrongdoing, who.

like Croker. we can almost class as a murderer." 9rok.T only tne tool In the hands of the real boss," said Isaac Klein The man who owns this City of New York every nove William C. hitney. I have r.aaon to believe that every attack that has been made on vested K.haa In th interests of Wlllam C. Whitney and the men around PJ: have Information, which I believe, that hitney men have tried to blackmail the electric-light people to sell at less than actual value, and that Whitney and those men tried to secure control of the elevated b''vlnSf.

Whitney has "dTy" th m0et TSi.0QnCvcth?S?l.pre8nV-t the dinner waa Thomas M. Oe borne, who last Fall was the the Cltlsens' Union forJeu-tenant Governor. Senatorial Vote la PeaaeyITaala. HARRISBURG. March was.no quorum to-day.

In the joint convention of the Legislature, the total vote for United States Senator being only 102. Tho ballot resulted as foUows: Quay, (Rep.) Jenka 34; Dalxell, li: riTo It-win Huff Wldener (R-Vv Rioe. Grow. (Hen Twa Ballots la Callfarala. SACRAMENTO.

CaL, March the eighty-fourth ballot for United States Senator, taken to-day. Robinson changed from th eighty-fifth ballot Jesse D. Grant received three votes Othir-wtsa to-day's ballots showed no canes! Drat ec ratio Dinner Plaaa. The Jefferson Day dinner plana of the Democratio Club and of the Silver Democrats were at a standstill yesterday. Neither side had any progress to report, except that the eilver men expected that Justice William J- Oaynor would be present at the -dollar Richard Croker said last night that all the Invitations to the ten-doUardlnner" had been issued.

No reply had been received from William Bryan to the Invitation sent to hlrnn" bad any of the other Invited auesta Mr. Croker declined saV To whom theae Invitations had been aent that when revile would be may Preliminary- Pearlas; Boats. The preliminary bouts for the amateur fencing championships, which wUl he decided at the Boston Athletic Association next month, were held at the Fencers' Club 37 West Twenty-oecond Street last night! Tbera were only a few boats decided. In th boat with foils W. J.

Wldaasnp, New Tork Turn Vareln, cot 63 points, and W. D. Lyon, htm Tork Athletic Club. WLboth qualifying for tba finals, flfty-rtve belnir tbe necessary number to qualify. Ia thl contest with duelling swords Chaiiea TmZ bam.

rencera' Club, beat W. IX Lyon, Tn Cop Coatings Ult ire accptioul!" wen trepan, to please csfi Tasty ta every coa cdcablt rabrk. tbt last sMpaest Qerrisa Bcae'Cwcm ve cpta today i utter lock tbza cwr at oace (tn seniB9 nark am please yoa asl cad) is the goods. $25 td $40. Surnbattu Phillips eastern Dileriaa Only.

Ceaple ecart Jfcsex, 119 nassaa St. THE 7 1ST EXGI1EENT EH00T. Csapasy Tletarlaaa la the Coa teat for the lieaaer Trophy. Company won the shoot for the Homer Trophy at the Seventy-first Regiment Armory last night. The match was open to teams of five men, each man firing five shots standing at yards and five shots prone a yards.

The scores: COMPANY B. FIRST. wui. r. weymao Serrt.

Etebcock at) trp. Elen 21 Private Ijaube 2i Private Ecclestcne 21 Total 10.I Company first iW Cnmpany first utf danpany II. second iou Oomiiany A Cumpany K9 Company 1 HS Company D. second 5 21 43 au 23 44 24 44 10 40 vn 210 110 2ii KM 2 1J 3 10O 'JIM 9 1W hi 172 HO lt GYMNASTS CONTEST FOR HONORS. Otto atenTea Wlae the AINArosad la-dlvldaal Cbaaaplaashlp.

The annual gymnastic championships of the Amateur Athletic Union were decided under the aasplces of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club last night. There were eight events on the programme. The contest for the all-around Individual championship was tho feature, the contest for It being decided on the parallel and horizontal bars, and side and long horses. Otto Steffen of the New York Turn Vereln won with a score of 1C1H points, J. F.

Blsslnger. New York Turn Vereln, was second, with 155; E. C. Brendlln, third, with 137, and L. A.

Jlrsa. Knickerbocker AthleUc Club, fourth, with 13a. Summary of events: Pre7rlleIl.r?- York Turn Camden Turn v2 2- i' 'naar. York Turn Vereln E. c.

Bren.llln. Ctotral Turn Vereln. 8i Charles Berndt, Anchor A. C. 31W; Vn.il'" Ancnor 85; A.

Jersa, York Turn Vereln. 82; C. NurweKlan Turners Society, 3.. The tie for second prUe was decidad by each dolns a turn. Uana- won.

'mblng; 2S Feet. Won bv K. Kunath. Anchor A. C.

0.O6 3-6; O. H. Hoffman, Knlck-erbr-ker A. 0.O7 2-3. fecond; W.

K. Scheer, Pastime A. 0.O8 1-5. third. Horlsontal Bar.

Won by i Herndt, Anchor A. C-, 41 points; O. StelTon, New York Turn Vereln, 40; J. F. Clurlnner.

New York Turn Jereln. at; A. Jlraa. Knickerbocker A. C.

WtH: C. Surura, Xorwssian Turners Society. 81S; P. C. ClHrke.

Knickerbocker A. 24 1-6. Tumbllnit. Won by Staler, runtime A. C.

polnu; P. W. Curtln, Knickerbocker A. C. Paul Steler, Pastime A.

C. 8. K. Thomas. New York tnuh.

Side Horx. Won by J. F. BmsinnT. New Tork Turn Vereln.

4U'i polntK; Crmrleii MatiK. Cain-den Turn Veretn. and J. Bteflens. New Y'ork' Turn Vereln, 3a-: Henry Hess.

New York Turn Vereln. 8tt; E. C. Brendlln. Central Turn Vereln.

85S; L. A. Jlrsa. Knickerbocker A. SteSens won second prize after an extra Long IWT Club Swrnaing.

Won by F. Uetz. Newark Y. M. C.

2S poUiU; H. J. Lng. New York Turn Vereln, 2DVa; J. D.

Harris, Pastime C. 23H- Flying Rings. Won by C. Herndt. Anchor A.

C. St points: A. B. de Younr. ColumMa University.

SS; E. Kunath. Anchor A. 37Si. Lawyer Weeks files lila Brief.

Another brief In tbe case of Roland B. Mollneux was yesterday filed with Judge Blsncihsrd In the Court of General Bes-siona. The brief In question waa filed by Lawyer Weeks in answer to that of the District Attorney, opposing the motion on the part of counsel for Mollneux to Inspect the minutes of the Jury. It la. for the most part, in the sbepe of an argument to the effoct that counsel should oe entitled to an examination of the minutes of the Grand Jury on the ground that Mollneux is entitled to the same as a matter of Justloe.

Trajtspart to Brlasr Soldier Dead. The transport Roumanian Is expected to leave Santiago next Thursday for this port. She was ordered by the Government to bring back the bodies of the doad soldiers from Puerto Rioo and Santiago. Notice has been sent by the Adjutant General to the relatives of the dead soldiers. It Is feared that many of the bodies will be so unrecognizable that the relatives will be unable to make an Identification.

All those will be burled in the Arlington Cemetery, In Washington. A I Ml Blanltoba Official Attempts Salelde. WINNIPEG. Manitoba. March 17.

The Treasurer of Rhlneland Municipality, G. Llmprecht, attempted suicide by shooting at Alloona this afternoon white about to be arrested for alleged discrepancy In his books. The bullet entered the head and the wound ta likely to prove fatal. The shortage charged la about 43.000. The Offspring at Cb I NEWPORT, R.

March 17. Four" terriers were born aboard the torpedo boat Morris to-day. the mother being Chic, who went through the Spanish war on the Morris. Xaraea siaa Cyclometers. From Tbe London Globe.

Cabmen have boycotted taxameters; and If there were such a thing as a Nursemaids' Trades Union. It would doubtless boycott cyclometers. For the connection between a nursemaid and a cyclometer we are indebted to The West End. Below a dainty picture Illustrating the very, height of luxury In babydom. so far as spidery peram-tailators and pretty nursea go, this enterprising Journaf explains' the situation.

There are nurses. It says In efTect, but there are also policemen and soldiers. Bo it often happens that when King Baby is sup-posed to be making his regal procession round the park or along the aea front, he Is resQIy whiling the weary time away in a stationary position, playing with his fingers or toes, while nurse sits upon a seat and discusses politics and the weather with a gentleman In uniform. At thla point the cyclometer la supposed to come In, and two contrasting pictures are drawn of the guilty nurse coming home with a hangdog look and a cyclometer registering only 100 yards, and the virtuous nurse, broardiy beaming with three snlles to her credit. Alaal that we should have to spoO.

so pioturaeaue a but a third picture arises before the mind. In the foreground we see tbe naughty nurse and the gentleman in, uniform sitting aa before, and behind the seat on the damp grass we sea the spidery perambulator, turned upside dowrL By ita aide we see a tiny figure steadily playtnV a pretty game which nurse baa taught It. The gatne consists merely In sending round the front wheal as fast aa It can; and with each the wheel the cyclometer goea -tick tick." Then that nurse aTtsea! tfckl King Baby Into his perambulator. wheele him. some fifty vards.

borne ae-ain. The cyclometer registers about four mllei and King Baby fat very tired. Balling; H1U Read. Frees The LrwUtoa (Ma) Journal. They can it bailing tbe hills down tn Aroostook County when they turn the mad which haa run over the top of a hill down around tta base.

It is like letting down the bafl a water pau. and the distance to greater, while the Journey i eaailr iv either borae or mat hems tick! pVofeaeor Tsj Book far Pickpockets, From Tbt London Globe. Th Chaplain of a prison haa stated thai book watch to saost eeaetaaUr asked fpr by prisoners Is Dr. SmCea's mUbS JLsood boo Jo, tAckpocaaUs Horse. Won by O.

Steffens. New York Turn Vereln, -'H'S points: C. Mang. Cundrn Turn Vereln. 34i; J.

F. Blsalnirer, New York Turn Vereln L. A. Jiroa. Knickerbocker ARMOUR AND HIS MEN.

1 Frees The Chieage TtBsee-MeraM. Philip D. Armour Is one of tbe largest Individual employers of labor in the world. In the busy season his pay-roll carries as high aa 20.000 namea. and in the dull time never less than 15,000.

Averaging the pay ot all tbe employes of Mr. Armour at $5uo a year, be disburses' In wages 10.OUO.000 annually, Tba average is probably too small. He has one employe to whom is paid a year for faithful scrvioe. The gross volume of Mr. Armour's business Is greater annually than that of near ly every railroad centring in Chicago.

He moves more freight ot a mixed character than any other shipper In the world. His beet products, by-products, and wheat transactions In tne end feed more people than thne of any other concern In existence. How Mr. Armour raree for his labor, for the men who work for him, what Interest be doea or doea not take la them Is an Interesting story. Many fables have been told of bla personal care for his employee: msny true stories have never come to light.

But there Is one specrric proposition not con tradlcted by any Armour employe, and that Is: Mr. Armour, with the assistance of his sons, knows every man who works for him, whether the Individual employe la aware of It or not. No formal civil service system exists for tbe control of these men, who range In capacities from butchers Snd packers up to expert aooountama and auditors. The system that prevails waa one established by himself when he laid the foundation of bis fortune personal knowledge of what an employe is doing and can do. Tne personal lndependeree of Mr.

Armour in all that he undertakes Is a quality which a great many men have not liked, a number have feared, and Innumerable ones have respected. The Armour recipe for nearly all the ordinary burdens of life is: Hard, healthy work, and plenty of It. Any man entering Mr. Armour's employ finds that rule the very first one which be has to learn if he has never mastered It before. The Armour theory of making the moat and the bec use of men is summed up In that recipe.

Personally Mr. Armour does not believe that hard work under rightful conditions ever Injured any man. but that worry sends as many men to their graves as tioes disease. So the bead of the famous house stands for work and work his men must or cult. And they do work.

It has passed Into a proverb on La Salle Street that no class of office employes do so much In so short a space of time as the Armour men. At the stock yards the Armour men are kept in the same workinw condition that a trained race horse Is an ounce of superfluous flenn. This Is also true of the men in the glue works, his traveling auditors, his grain buyers, and so on. The man who built the house will not stand for lasy bones. He was never lazy himself, and he cannot see why any other well man should be so.

"How is It thst you are lata every morning he Is said to 'have naked one of his clerks, who did not suppose thst the top of the noticed him at the bottom. The clerk stammered In answer: Well, I'm only a few minutes late." The sharp reply to this was: That's why you are not a good man. You are just a few minutes too late In all the bright things you do." The man who starts out with Armour has work to face, and If he understands that he is up, to the aecond proposition intelligent work. The possibility of wastefulness or bad Judgment costing the Armour Interest a million dollars In a year is not a distant one. The Income from many of his products Is governed by a market that Is always fluctuating.

Many of his stores must be moved with great rapidity at certain times. Every part of a steer is valuable to his business but the gastric juice, and be may utiltse that yet. But It Is not possible for any one man to see that all these things are done Just so. Two men could not do it. nor ten.

That thlnrs are done right must be left to the work, ability, and judgment of the Armour employe. Mr. Armour realised this to a preat extent when he began the building of his business. He chose employes that he could keep always, men who would weave their beings Into his affairs until the two were almost inseparable. Then be began building up other men who could take the places of these first men when death or other should remove them.

And then at the bottom he encouraged young men to come In, work, learn, and wait. The result of this syxtem is. aa an Armour empiove In the general offices put It recently: "There is not a man in this room that, if he dropped om to-dav. Mr. Armour could not replace In the morning.

And there are few men. In that big room who have not grown up with Mr. Armour. He does not encourage the discharge of employes by department heads nor the filling of vacant places from outside. He has the reputation of being more patient wHh unruly employee than his department chiefs are.

In this quality la found the foundation for this extract from a letter of his to a New Tork man: I have sent more than four hunlred n.cn to Dwis-ht. and they have been sent back cured." While hating a drunkard and Inxlstlnsr that he must leave his employ or quit liouor, Mr. Armour haa a reputation for constantly striving to save a man from drink and of giving him every chance to remain in his employ If be shows a dixpoeitjon to be sober. The Armour employe havtnr shown his cspaeity for work and then displayed Intelligence of more than averare quality, is called on for a third test ability to make the business more profitable. No sot ruins are tendered him for the display of this quality, but Che thick-set.

ruddy-faced man In the central office in the home building knows something of his daily progress all the time. Mr. Armour reasons that he pays fair wages, that promotion awaits a man with the capacity for better work, and that therefore his Investment in the labor of a man should bring some greater return than so much work for so many dollars. In other words, he ts looking for the man as all business men do who does a little more work than he Is paid for. That Is the kind of man Mr.

Armour adheres to. If he doea more than he Is paid to perform, he must be a thinking man, he must desire advancement, he must have his employer's Interest at heart, and in his desire to advance he must In due course of time develop some new Ideas of value to the bouse. Therefore watch him and keep him. The Armours lay off certain classes of employes in dull times and take them on again in good times, but the great body of the men have employment the year round, and the concern has never paid to any man in Its employ starvation wages." The severest critics of accumulations of great wealth, ot moDopolle, have no criticism, to pass upon tbe general average ot the Armour wage nor his steadfast purpose of once having a good man to keep him. With his business and Ms employee located In every State in tbe Union and In Important points In Europe, it is a theory of Mr.

Armour's that his employes should be given Just ss few opportunities as possible to be tempted to dishonesty. He makes of Chicago, therefore, a great ol earing house for all bis transactions, and to Chicago must come every business transaction that be undertakes and every dollar paid over to him. In order to Insure accuracy In the reports to him and to guard against those possible fallings of employee that end In embezzlement and flight, a secret service system r'evalls that is said to be one ot the most elaborate ot Its kind In the world. It Is not what Is called a eprrttlnsr system, with an Inevitable series ot false reports, but a syste.u of auditors, checkers, and travelers by which wHh six hours' use of the wires, Mr. Armour could know to an ounce how many pounds of provisions he had ecattered all over the world and how much he had sold In the seven preceding days.

The Armour branch repreaentatrve In soma Eastern city finds tn bis warehouse soma morning a stranger, who presents credentials from the head office, instantly takes possession of tbe place, checks np all the stock on hand, weighs everything, counts the cash, makes out a report, forwards it to Chicago, and there it as checked with tbe home account. Under such a system It Is hardly poealhle for much to get away from tbe house. The auditor, of course, in his Journeying, easily learna if the branch representative Ja gambling, if ha Is a drunkard or It he Is truckling with rival concerns. The brancti does not know thla and probably often wonders why Ks connection with Armour suddenly severed. But the wondering doea little good.

The auditors not follow beaten paths. They are switched around all over rhe country, aent away on the most unexpected missions, tested aa to their aa fully aa tbe humbler employes are. And their positions are so well paid and so Important that applications for them exceed by twice the number of plaoes to be filled. When Armour ordered the wheat out of pulutb that was to give the Letter deal Us first bad blow In December. 18W7.

Dulnth Harbor waa fro sen out. bug coma It must. Every empiaye exMnerned In the shipment of that wheat was given his orders: The Ice at Duluth waa dynamited and the wheal moved. A mn with 2O.0O0 employes doea not expect to be disappointed by them, and ne not If be la anything of a ntaaTblm. aedf.

It Is la thla way that Mr. Armour su ceeds In getting such good control of his men. He works aa hard as they do. Every Armour employe baa a fashion of referring to the head ef tbe boose aa the "old man.3 They know that as a ruie. aad not aa aa exc4-ptloo, he la out ot bed In the aMrnfnaT before they are.

He la tn his office a con: sMerabta ttme before many of them are required to be at their desks. He doea not Idle at nisdesk. and he ar home when they do. SVar a nan approaching the sev-eertleahe, la resnarkaMy acUvaTarld preach- iSf.THL"1 fca 4U when ha wag tccty. MORNINGS EVOUHGS are still cool.

A Top-Coat a necessity. make you one from tha NEVEST SHADES In berring-bono cheTiotj FOR 16.00. WTiy be without ono? 77J Broadvmy, 43'47 Bowery ua 1 1 II II IlliiassaMia' 12 CORTLANDT ST. Our Spring Derby will make friend of yoa sur If you five them i chince. DUtinctlySwelT 1.90 to 2.90 Alpines too 1.

90 14 SUk Hats (absolutely correct styles), 3.90 to 4.80. NO MIDDLEMEN'S PROFITS. Keeping Warm In winter ts not to much a matter of heavy clothing' as It la a matter of RICH, RED, PLENTIFUL BLOOD. rU0 TMt eiaerf TABLETS warm the body by enriching the blood with Iron. They Increase appetite and weight, and make people strong.

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Druggists, 60 cts. or by saalL ELY Warren BL.N.T. 5Tea AN ENORMOUS CONVENIENCE TO BUSY MEN. 103E 6LQBE-WERN1CKE ESKS sartiaaa! Letter aad Oaee sweat 'llee are Caa veaiat, aiaatia aad rrwctieal. THE LOBE Fulton Pearl Sts.

DESKS, Great Variety of SrrW aad Price. T. SELLEYT II ii ii ffCHAPPED 3 jp7 HAHDS Cutelix T1 ser a a ii i I eTSS-s CI s. -AssssssesW 1 STI aVBBBBWS aSBBBBW SUM ESPlCS CIGARETTES, crPOWDEB New Yerlc, E.RXJCU3U AC OLB tr ALL fcaUMttlS.