The Daily The Daily Inter Ocean. VOL. NO. 58. CHICAGO, MONDAY AMERICAN TURNER BUND.
Thirteenth Biennial Convention at the Hall of the Chicago Tarngebunde. Address by the President Oounselling Oalm Deliberation on the Questions Presented. Election of Officers -List of Delegates Present -Annual Report Presented and Read. A REPRESENTATIVE GATHERING. thirteenth biennial convention of the North American Turner Bund was called to order shortly after 10 o'clock yesterday morning at the ball of the Chicago Tarngebunde, 0 North Clark street, by Mr.
H. M. Starkloft, of St. Louis, the President of the association, all the proceedings being conducted in the German language. Mr.
Starkloff opened the proceedings with an eloquent address from which the following extracta, touching on the most interesting points which are likely to come up before the convention, are taken: The age of mighty commotion and excitement in which we now live brings before us questions the of the highest social importance, questions happy solution of which appears almost impossible, and which challenge the entire self ascrifice and the highest intellectual force of every nan of humane thoughts and sentiments. It is manifest that in such questions the Turnerbund must not hold back. It is equally clear that in discussing such questions the differences of opinion appear so clearly and sharply that it requires the most tranquil and calm consultation and consideration not to conjure up storms that would rend the "Bund" in twain; The means that must be employed in the solution of the burning social questions must be governed by the fundamental conditions of the land in which they arise. We have to deal, in the first place with that country which we have chosen as our permanent home and to which we have vowed to give our entire strength. Here we have the rights of free citizens, here we have ways and means of removing the greatest evils if we try always to preserve unity and fulfil our duty as citizens at the ballot box.
In this country there is not the least provocation for a revolution by violent means. The unhappy events of the last year have produced three things in the Turnerbund: the anarchist row, the action of the Green Bay Turn Verein, and the agitation against the official organ of the organization. They all have a connection and are really nothing else than different and yet joint manifestations of a reactionary current that attempts to run against the radical, liberal thinking of the Turner Bund. The tendency of the Turner Bund has no more in common with the doctrine of anarchism that declares war on the state in every form, or with doctrines of revolution by violence at all hazards even in a Republic, than the Republic has in common with monarchism, service of princes or spittlelicking in general. But every doctrine, even the most mistaken, must have liberty to express itself in the Republic.
Its correction is public criticism. The revolution by violence in Republic where the ballot-box is at our disposal must be rejected unconditionally. The platform of the North American Turner Bund says expressly that the spread of education and the cultivation of morality are the only means for thorough reform in the social, political, or religious field. Violent revolution is thereby excluded in the Republic, The aim of political. development is: The people's (democratic) state on a truly humane and popular basis, There is no room there for anarchism that is hostile to the state in any form.
That those who have sympathy for the unhappy events of the last years are called anarchists is as unjust as if we would call those turners monarchists and courtiers who sympathise with the sick German Emperor. The action of the Green Bay Turn Verein shows thats its members have never yet stood on the standpoint of the turners' platform, and that they oppose the principles of the turners and their organ on account of their liberal tendencies. It also shows that the Green Bay Turn Verein has not yet considered it worth while to read the constitution of our organization: otherwise they could not have acted in direct opposition to the law. It is not on account of the circular issued by the Green Bay Turn Verein, but on account of its contents, which threaten secession and turns directly to the daily press and the society itself with incriminations and charges; that the Green Bay Turn Verein deserves a severe reprimand. Nominations for temporary chairman of the convention were then called for.
The only nominations were the names of Mr. Louis Nettelhorst, the President of the Chicago Turngemeinde, and'Mr. Carl Eberhardt of Boston. The vote resulted in 148 votes- for Nettelhorst and 423 for Eberhardt. The latter was accordingly declared elected temporary chairman of the convention.
committee of three was then appointed to report on the credentials of the delegates to the convention, the committee appointed being Max Stern of Chicago, Carl Roeder of Newark, N. and Judge Nenbars of New York, and recess was taken to give other committees time to discharge their duties. 'The committee reported that of the thirty-four districts composing the association, thirty-one were represented by 290 delegates, The list of delegates is as follows: New -C. A. Long, Jacob Heintz, S.
D. Sewards, Heinrich Metzner, Charles J. Nehrbus, John Heinemann, Dr. Gustav Scholer. August Mann, Indiana--Herman Lieber Alexander Metzger, C.
Neumayer, Herman Kraft, Ernst Wilkomm, A. Biefermann. St. Louis -Heinrich Braun, Arthur Basch, Christian Stifel, Louis Duestrow, Richard Bartholdt, F. B.
Becker. Heinrich Troll, Karl Haeseller, Karl Lange, H. J. Oberschop, H. W.
Acker, c. C. Goedde, Jacob Nalter, J. R. Bollinger, Heinrich Lange, Ernst Helfensteller, H.
W. Feldmann, John Breger, Louis Reusser, F. W. Joestings, Jacob Grosch. New England--Carl Eberhardt, Herman F.
Rockelsperger. Wisconsin- Klessig, C. F. Carsten, G. Kuestermann, John Trobold.
M. Luening, Charles Barrbig, F. Sautofu, Jacob Laissen, Emil Nallker, A. M. Schuengel, Jacob Kehrein, F.
B. Huchting, Theodore Fritz, Jacob Regaz, G. N. Schroeder, M. Dueppke, Fritz Schaedler, 8.
Ritschie, Louis Wolff, E. Neumann, W. Albers. Bernhard Moser, Victor L. Berger, E.
P. Kanev. D. C. Luening, Dr.
F. Mueller, Jacob Werner, Hans Boebel, Karl Manthey, Franz Bader, Utto Gallern, Wilhelm Weiler, A. P. Fischer, Emil Court, Peter Barth, R. E.
Muenchoff, E. J. Eimermann, C. Herman Boppe, C. F.
Buckelmueller, F. Hermant, C. F. Schmidt, C. Bischoff, Robert Reuter, W.
H. Leupold, Louis Schuhkulcht. Chicago H. Suder, John C. Miller.
Adolph George, Louis Nettelhorst, Max Stern, Philip Stein, Theodore Harz, Emil Hoechster, Leo Austrian. William Huecken, William Waterstraal, Charles Kobell, August Zapp, Adolph Rhein, Max Oppenheimer, Carl Plum, George Landauer, John Gutgesell, William Zoeller, John Eloy, H. G. Zippe, Joseph Danziger, Charles Fuchs, Gustave Hoteldt, William Bluhm, F. Engelhardt, Moritz Schmidt, Balthasar Rau, August Ketting, Stephen Arnold, Joseph Knapp, Otto Kiesselbach, P.
F. Walzer, Julius Mueller, Michael Buchner, George F. Geyer, R. Westphal, John Balls, Jacob Jehle, Fritz Flentze, A. Lalter, Edward Grah, Louis Grosskipf, August Kresling, Peter Hell.
Southeast- H. H. Bergmann, J. W. Spier.
Philadelphia--Dr. Max Magnus, Frank Jer, Daniel Lietz. New Spiller, Jersey- A. F. -Christian Hoeltner, Wm.
Schlatter, Claus, F. A. Goetze, Schleger, Otto Paul Grechel. W. Roder, George Pittaburg- -W.
Wartmann, Julius Albert, Oscar Justus Scheer, Theodore Geiselhardt, Max Goscheidler, Mulert, M. Kaiser, Henry Etling, Jacob Munge, George Heyslermann, F. Rodewig, Adolph Riedel, Franz Eger. Central New York- -Ferdinand Goebel. Missouri Valley- E.
G. Grube, A. Mayer, F. Nuess, A N. Kaster, A.
W. Pretzel, Henry Hoffmeister, John Dobler, W. Mueller. Minnesota -M. Plaender, Isidor Monasch, M.
F. Propping. Upper Mississippi- Christian Mueller, M. Rholfs, G. Donald, W.
P. Schmidt, T. Blunck, A. Lerch, H. Korn.
F. Mueller, G. Hengel, H. J. Meyer, H.
Hensen, O. Geyer. A. Danguard. P.
Matzen, J. F. Hauge, Philip Dietz, B. Senmidt. Mountains -Philip Keller, Christian Schaefer, Philip Zang, Charles Burkhard, Edward Nollenberger.
New Orleans -Elias Guthmann. Central Illinois L. Schimpft, Friedrich Hauber. Charles W. A.
Gerken, F. F. Schmalz, Peter Hotermann, Henry Metz, Henry Schlaudemann, C. F. Grantz, John H.
Mueller, Edward Weiland, G. Gruehlig. Pacific- H. C. F.
Stahl, Heinrich Kuhn. Northwest- -G. F. Woost Connecticut- -David Sanand. Lake Erie -W.
O. Poiser, C. Kuebeler, Pani MORNING, MAY 21. Mueller, Robert Retzel, George Weltstein, Christ Haase, Louis Hul, M. Schroelkopt, Karl Zopp, Joseph Loehnert, Herman Mueller, Karl Ziegler, Ernst Mueller, Tobias Sigel.
Otto Mueller. Long Island -Karl Stahl, Adam Schoening. West New York- -Rugo Doige, William Meisberger, Paul Werner. Ohio Joel H. Steinberg, August H.
Rode, Fritz Mertsch, Karl Kroh, Heinrich Schneider, Franz Haffner, F. Dettmers, Jacob Dauben, Benno Damus, George A. Schneider, John George C. A. Wolfratt, Henry Bohling, Peter Brauch, Philip Frech, Fritz Klenk, Oscar Sputh, Louis Kaiser, Ernst Meyer, John M.
Walter, Albert Kaiser, Theodore Schemann. Central Michigan -H. Marquardt, A. Frank, Nork, Chris Vogel. Florida- -Christian Ruebsame.
North Pacific George Brosius. South California- Joseph Winter, Louis Herzog. Red River of the North-Adelbert Kriegar. Kansas William Katzung. Hermann Weber, H.
Von Langen, George Tember. Montana- John Steinmetz. following were appointed as a committee The report was concurred in. on nominations for permanent officers: William Pfaender, of Minnesota; H. W.
Ocker, of St. Louis; H. Metzner, of New York; Theodore Fritz, of Wisconsin, then and John Gloy, for of Chicago The convention adjourned dinner. The committee on nominations, on the convention reconvening, reported two persons to be voted for in the case of every office. The persons nominated for President were Herman Lieber, of Indianapolis, and.
Emil Wallber, of Milwankee. The vote for President stood 436 for Lieber and 141 for Wallber. The full list of officers elected is as follows: President, Herman Lieber, of Indianapolis. Vice President, 8. D.
Sewands, of New York; First Secretary. John R. Bollinger, of St. Louis; Assistant Secretaries, Victor L. Berger, of Milwaukee, and Ernst Gruhe, of Missouri.
Mr. Lieber, on assuming the chair, briefly returned thanks for his election. A committee of eleven WAS then appointed to report nominations for permanent committees, after which the chairman read the annual report of the executive board. The report stated that the organization had gained during the past year seventeen new societies and lost fourteen. The membership had increased by 2,425, and now numbered 29,147.
A teachers' seminary had been organized. The report further stated that the treasury was in excellent condition, bat the board who opposed the movement for a reduction of the per capita tax on the ground that money might be needed to oppose all kinds of political agitation such as know-nothingism, prohibition, etc. The report recommended opposition to the proposed bills restricting immigration. The board viewed with satisfaction the formation of leagues by Turners for the protection of per-. sonal liberty, of the increase of the prohibition movement.
On the subject of the alleged anarchistic sympathies of certain Turner societies, the report says: repeat here most emphatically that the North Americen Turnerbund stands on the basis of law, and has no connection with any lawless acts." The permanent committees were then announced by the committee on nominations, after which the convention adjourned until 2 o'clock to-day. In the evening there was a fourfold combination of good things. An instrumental concert by Rosenbecker's orchestra, singing by famous mannerchors, muscular exhibitions by the crack Turners of Chicago, and dancing by all Among the prominent pieces on this potpourri" programme were "The Turners' March, the overture to Rossini's Tell," Sweizerland. Wach Auf," "Hoffnung." Othello fantasie, the overture to Wagner's Hemrath," the "Lohengrin" fantasie, and gymnastic exhibitions by the Chicago Turner societies. The vocal music was performed, and excellently, by the Orpheus and Sweizer Mannerchors, the Sennefelder Liederkranz, and the Fidelia Society.
FUNDS FOR GRANT UNIVERSITY. President Spence on Collecting TourNeeds of the Institution. NEW YORE, May -The Grant Memorial University of Tennessee is in need of funds and the President of the institation, Dr. John F. Spence, is on a collecting tour.
Services were held to this end at St. Luke's M. E. Church tonight The Rev. Dr.
John P. Newman was present and spoke highly of the university and the need of education. Dr. Spence followed He has been at the head of the institution for twenty yeara. It is not for the education of colored people, he said, as some have supposed, but for Southern whites.
It is fact that 750,000 people in the South are illiterate. Many of them do not know whether they voted for Grover Cleveland or Andrew Jackson in 1884. In North Carolina over 95,000 white women are unable to read or write. In 1867 General Grant made the first donation to the university, a check for $100. After his death the university was named after him.
It has now over 1,000 students. The so-called "white trash" in the South are not more numerous than the dudes and tramps in the North, Over $8,000 has been collected the last few days. TO TUNNEL DETROIT RIVER. The Plan Pronounced Feasible and a Powerful Syndicate Ready to Proceed, DETROIT, May syndicate has been formed to tunnel the Detroit River at this point. B.
Baker, of London, the engineer of the immense Forth bridge, in Scotland, and James Ross, of Quebec, one of the contractors of the Canadian Pacifio, were in the city yesterday, and after a thorough investigation, announced that the building of the tunnel can be accomplished with comparative ease. gigantic syndicate, known 88 the Michigan and Canada Tunnel Company, and representing more than $100,000,000 of capital, has just been legally formed in Canada and will be properly qualified for transacting business under the Michigan laws at once. This syndicate is composed of D. 0. Mills and George Bliss, of New York; Mr.
Laidlaw. of the Bauk of California, and several of the officials of the Michigan Central Railroad SELLING HORSE MEAT FOR BEEF. William Williams, Cincinnati Butcher, Brought Up with a Round Turn, CINCINNATI, Ohio, May Telegram. -In several instances of late persons have been discovered handling horse beef in different parts of the city. Last evening William Williams, a Walnut Hills butcher, was arrested by Meat and Live Stock Inspector Fred Meyer for driving through the streets with an animal that died from injury.
Williams' son, John, and Pat Sweeney were also found with the carCA88 of a horse, the hide removed and the meat neatly trimmed from the bones The boys said that the horse fell down an embankment and broke its neck and that the elder Williams skinned the animal and cut up the mest. They said they were taking it to the disiccating company. Meyer paid a visit to Williams' slaughter-house on Walnut Hills and found parts of the horse flesh hanging up to dry and also the jaw-bone of a bullock afflicted with big jaw. The health board is investigating it CRUSHED UNDER SIX CARS. Arthur J.
Cook, Peoria Miller, Receives Horrible and Fatal Injuries. PEORIA, IlL, May 20. -Special Telegram.While Arthur J. Cook, the miller at the Oatmeal Works, was attempting to get off a moving train on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacifio Road, his foot slipped and he fell on the track, six cars passing over his left leg and the lower portion of his body. He lived only a few houre.
He WAS 28 years old, and leaves a wife and young child BOTH LEGS CUT OFF BY CARS. GALESBURG, May 20. -Special Telegram. -James Burkhalter, son of Captain J. L.
Burkhalter, President of the Mechanics National Bank here, was run over by the cars this forenoon and both legs out off above the knee. He will probably die THE SALOON CURSE. The Action of the City Counell in Rejecting 1 the Ordinance De. nounced. Churchmen of All Denominations to Unite and Expunge the Saloon Element.
Catholics Demand that the Whisky Shop! Shall Not Longer Offend Public Decency. BISHOP FALLOWS' SOUND SENSE. The rejection of the saloon ordinance was the theme of Bishop Fallows' sermon last evening. He selected the following as his text: "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wretchedness in high places. take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to -Ephesians vi.
12, 13. words," said the Bishop, "are applicable to every contest that the may be engaged in for the glory of God and the welfare of men. It is not my purpose this evening to portray the iniquity of the saloon business, or to indulge in invective. But let me say that the church is the antithesis of the saloon. Light and darkness, Christ and Behal, have as much concord the one with the other.
The saloon is the enemy of the laborer, the corrupter of youth. It has no moral standing in any community. We asked the City Council to take a short step in the direction of restricting this evil. We did not wish the saloon to be within whispering distance of our churches and schools. We asked the very minimum that could be asked of gentlemen on this question.
The men who received this petition did so with jests and sneers, and voted it down with as much celerity as they swallow their own fiery potations. "It seems there are nineteen members of the Council who claim to be Roman Catholics. They voted against the ordinance, claiming that they did so at the instance of their constituents. am glad to know from the Bishop and clergy of the Catholic Church that they are with us in restricting the evil. The Common Council has made the 18810 against the churches and the schools, and we should be unworthy the name of men if we did not take up the gage--to change the Common Council.
We must meet the issue by organization, by agitation. Protestants, Catholics, and Israelites, believers and unbetievers, native Americans and Americans by adoption, we must all join hands to create a sentiment that will elect a Common Council different to the one now in power." Bishop Fallows did not believe with so many Prohibitionists, that the only proper method to deal with the question would be to let the evil loose unless it could be absolutely put an end to. In speaking of the action of Mayor Roche, he said he had not the slightest reason for doubting that the Mayor would favor the enactment of a similar ordinance to the one defeated, and he did not share the opinion that it was the specitic duty of the Mayor to proceed against saloon-keepers in general. THE REV. W.
H. CRAWFORD. The Rev. W. H.
Crawford, of Fulton Street M. E. Church, has been closely following the course of the city officials in the agitation of the saloon problem. The results of his efforts were presented to his congregation last night in sermon on the question, the Mayor and City Council in cahoot with the saloonkeepers?" Mr. Crawford did not answer his inquiry, but tried, in his address, to prove that he had good reasons for making it In his opening, Mr.
Crawford said the reforms asked of the Council were not of so radical a nature as to give rise to the violent opposition that had been developed. It was but a small concession to make to the Christian sentiment of the community, that the immediate neighborhood of churches and schools be kept clear of saloons. This was the proposition that the Council negatived by a vote of 20 to 17. It was a small matter to close saloons on the Sabbath. The State law asserted that it was right that Sunday should be free from the traffic in intoxicants, and a majority of the law-abiding people of Chicago would support a movement in this direction.
When a petition signed by 10,000 or 12,000 of the best names in the city, was presented to the Council, asking that an ordinance to enforce Sunday closing be passed, it received with boots and jeers, and referred to committee, amidst the laughter of the Aldermen. When the Mayor Was asked to help in this movement, he said it was not in his province, but the State's Attorney might be able to enforce the laws already existing. This gentleman referred his interrogator to the Chief of Police, and he in turn said that all power rested with the Mayor. "Under these circ*mstances," said Mr. Crawford, "I ask the question of my text word cahoot may displease you, but it rightly expresses my idea of the unholy alliance I am considering.
The labor of proving or disproving the loyalty of our executive resta with u8. While the bill to abolish saloons from the precincts of our churches and schools may be dead, the Sunday closing issue is a live one and one that we can fight for. The Jesuits, at their meeting to-day, said they were willing, if they could not secure peace and quiet for whole Sunday, to agree to a measure that would give u8 few hours, during the continuance of worship in the churches. Let us take this if we can get no more and fight our way niche by niche. Two hours of freedom from the evils of a desecrated Sabbath are worth working for.
is purified. Watch the course of the We can iucrease them as fast as our government Aldermen when this question is brought up. They can not evade it, and on their decision will rest their honor." A LOOK INTO HEAVEN. The Rev. Wesley Guard, of Dublin, preached at Trinity M.
E. Church, on Indiana avenue, yestorday morning, his subject being "A Look Into He roferred to the difficulty of interpreting the book of Revelations, and explained several of the passages, remarking upon the position of honor before the throne of the white-robed multitude, symbolic of purity and victory. There was also something said of the number of the white-robed multitude, the number signifying or illustrating the efficiency of the atonement and glorious triumph of the gospel of Jesus Carist. The variety of the multitude was commented upon, with reference to ita composition, being made up of all nations and people, 48 showing the universal adaptation of gospel of Jesus Christ. CATHOLICS FOR TEMPERANCE.
Nearly thoueand Catholic citizens of the Nineteenth Ward assembled in Sodality Hall yesterday afternoon to take action on the vote of their aldermanio representativos on the saloon ordinance, presented two weeks ago to-night The meeting was called by the following committee, who are members of the Church of the Holy Family: John Brennoch, M. W. Kelly, John Commiskey, Dr. McCarthy, D. F.
Bremner and T. F. Mullaney. The gentlemen made house to house canvass among their neighbors, and their efforts were in every way successful as the mass meeting yesterday testified. At 3 e'clock, when Mr.
Kelly called the assembly to order, the hall was well filled, and before Mr. Commiskey, who was called upon to preside, had concluded his address, nearly every. sent on the main floor was occupied. The Chairman then read list of vice-presidenta, who were unanimously elected. Mr.
T. F. Mullaney was called upon to act as secretary. After a short speech by Father Hayes, who said it was but natural that the Catholic citizens of the ward should have been misrepresented an the newepapers when they were misrepresented by their own aldermen. MR.
KELLY READ THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTIONS: WHEREAS, The organized Catholic societies of this parish, on recent occasion, expressed by unanimous vote their hearty and earnest concurrence in the moderate recommendations formulated by the City Collector looking to the better regulation of the saloon traffic by the city authorities, and in conformity with this action petitions from these societies were respectfully laid before the City Council earnestly pleading for the adoption of the proposed reasonable regulations aud restrictions as to the exclusion or whisky saloons from the immediate vicinity of churches and schools, and WHEREAS, One of the lending public journals of this city has called attention to the votes cast in the City Council by which the reasonable demands of the people Were ignored and the ordinance reported by the Judiciary Committee was defeated, seventeen of said adverse votes being cast, it is alleged, by so-called Catholics, including the two Aldermen from the Nineteenth Ward, which is largely included within the limits of this parish, said Aldermen being also alleged Catholics, be it Resolved, That the Catholics of the parish of the Holy Family, in mass-meeting assembled, speaking for themselves, and in the name Catholic laymen of the parish, distinctly and qualifiedly declare that the defeat of the ordinance in question was contrarr to the wishes and desires of the people of this congregation, and we believe contrary also to the wishes and desires of the overwhelming majority of the citizens of the ward, whose interests and petitions have in this instance been most glaringly disregarded by their aldermanic representatives. Resolved, That the Catholic people of this parish, and the Catholics of the entire city, as we are well persuaded, are of one heart and mind and in full accord with their brethren of every religious denomination, and with all decent, self- respecting, order-loving citizens, in demanding and insistang that the whisky-shop and saloon shall not be permitted to offend public decency in front of the churches dedicated to the worship of God, nor alongside of our schools, to contaminate and imperil the innocence of our and we moreover believe that we have the right to claim protection from the same unwelcome intrusion in residence neighborhoods from the pest which threatens and menaces our home peace and our property interests. Resolved, That the so-called Catholic Aldermen who voted to defeat these reasonable and natural demands do not represent the sentiments and wishes of the Catholics of this parish. Resolved, That as Catholics and citizens we are naturally in favor of the decent the public observance of Sunday by those engaged in liquor traffic, and we believe it is only reasonable to demand that saloons shall be closed, at least during the hours of divine worship on that day. And, therefore, in accordance with the spirit of the above resolutions, we call ou the Aldermen of this ward to reconsider their former action in reference to the aforesaid ordinance, and cast their votes in consonance with the wishes of respectable and law-abiding citizens or resign their seats.
THE READING OF THE RESOLUTIONS was frequently interrupted by applause, and the last clause created storm of enthusiasm. They were adopted by a rising vote. Mr. Kelly then read a petition on the question to the City Council After the reading it was carried around the audience, and every member signed it. The petition reads as follows: The undersigned Catholic citizens of the Holy Family parish, Nineteenth Ward, do hereby declare that the aldermen of this ward, in voting for Sunday saloons and for locating dramshops in front of our churches and parochial schools, voted in opposition to the wishes of the respectable citizens of this parish and ward, The undersigned are heartily in favor of legistation in the sense of the Hamline ordinance, and do hereby petition the honorable City Council to pass said ordinance, or one of similar import, closing saloons at least on Sunday morning, and removing all saloons from the immediate neighborhood of churches, hospitals, and schools, While the petition was being signed several speeches were made.
Mr. T. O'Neill Byrne was the first speaker. He referred to the aggressiveness of the saloon interest, saying it menaced the oxistonce of republican government. It was impossible, he said, to have government by the people when the voters were degraded by drink.
Degradation would surely follow the existence of an unrestricted liquor traffic he cause is followed by effect Mr. T. McEnery. then made abort but forcible address on the question. He was fol lowed by Mr.
William Brown, who declared that the Aldermen for the Nineteenth Ward did not represent their Catholio He said the malicious charges against them could be refuted by the presentation of the petition and resolutions road by Mr. Kelly. MI. D. F.
BREMNER, who was the next speaker, said that the Catholic citizens of the ward bad allowed themselves to be misrepresented by their apathy in city politica. Now they could give these Aldermen the Hie direct He hoped this meeting would make an end to any such misrepresentation in the future, Dr. McCarthy the made a short speech He was followed by Mr. Hugh Maguire, who said that at present be was total abstainer, although at one time he had had a good deal to do with politics. He referred to saloons as hell holes, and advocated prohibition at a future date Ex-Alderman Wood ward was then called up by the chairman.
Mr. Woodward said the ordinance defeated by the saloon-keepers should have been passed by An unanimous vote. He made a short speech on temperance, making use of the regulation statistics. After the speakers had all been heard, the chairman appointed the following committee to present the petition and resolntions to the Common Council: M. W.
Kelly. John. Brennock, Martin Mulianey, and Dr. William McCarthy. The meeting then adjourned.
Mr. Kelly called the committee together after the hall had been partially cleared, and after short consultation it was decided to present the petition to-night at 7 o'clock. ASKING RELIEF FROM CONGRESS. An Appropriation for a Temporary Dam Congress. A LAND OFFICE DECISION.
at Rook Island, ROCK ISLAND, May 20. -Special Telegram. -At a largely attended meeting of the Rock Island Business Men's Association last night resolutions were adopted, setting forth that, whereas the recent floods of the Mississippi had swept away the government dam at this point that furnishes the water power for the Rock Island Arsenal and the extensive factories of the city of Moline, and affords harborage for the logs of the numerous saw-milla of the cities of Rock Island and Moline, thereby hampering the operations of the arsenal and paralyzing the factories and saw-mills named, and throwing out of employment more than thousand laborers and mechanics: the association earnestly petitions Congress to relieve the urgent emergency that exists by appropriating funds for the construction of temporary dam at least which will restore the water power and log harbor. A committee was appointed to bear copies of these resolutions to the Secretary of War and the Senators and Representatives in WASHINGTON, May Commissioner of the General Land Office has recommended to the Secretary of the Interior a readjudication in the case of Thomas J. Rutledge vs.
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company and the Leavenworth, Lawrence and Galveston Railroad Company, involying land in Kansas, The land is situated in the over-lapping tenmile limits of the grants, for said companies Rutledge filed pre emption declaratory statement for the land, alleging settlement Dec. 16, 1860, and a few montus thereafter enlisted in the army. During his absence map of general route WAS filed by the railroad companies and the land withdrawn. On his return he made a homestead entry for the tract, subsequent to which the lines of road were definitely located. His homestead entry was cancelled, after appeal to the Secretary, for conflict with the grant, The land not having been patented to either of the railroads, the Commissioner recommenda the canceliation of the railroad claims and the award of the land to Rutledge.
This action is taken upon the theory that Rutledge's absence in the army can not be construed as an abandonment of his claim. It is said that there a large number of cases similarly situated. 'NAI B'RITH CONVENTION. TERRE HAUTE, May The thirtyseventu annual convention of the District Grand Lodge, No. 2, Independent Order of B'uni B'rith, opened in this city at 10 o'clock this morning with seventh-five delegates present President August Brutone delivered his annual message.
The suasion will continue for several days. LABOR AND CAPITAL. Close of the Series of Economic Conferences at Madison Street Theater. Mr. Cameron on the Trades Unionist's View of the Labor Problem.
Instead of Fostering or Precipitating Strikes Trades Unions Seek to Avoid Them. THE GOOD ACCOMPLISHED. In the absence of Alderman Manierre, President of the economic conferences, Mark Crawford, the Vice President, last night, at the Madison Street Theater, presided. The audience was not so large as on previous occasions, but that was perhaps due to the fact that the close of the series had been reached. Mr.
A C. Cameron, venerable member of the Typographical Union, spoke upon a trade unionist's view of the labor problem. In the course of his lecture, Mr. Cameron said: It that manis a public benefactor who makes blade of grass grow where none grew before, that individual is equally 50 who contributes his mite to bring about better relationship between employer and employe And although the various speakers at these conferences have differed, and are likely to continue to differ as to the most practical or effective methods to accomplish this much desired end, there is little doubt that then interchange of opinions secured will ultimately prove beneficial to the interests of the community at large. Capital has too long looked at workingmen through the eye of prejudice, while on the other hand the wage-worker has generally.
regarded the capitalist as a veritable ogre. GREAT EFFORT to remove these false positions has, in my humble opinion, been made at these conferences. Let the great bulk of the American peopie, whose sympathies are always right, when enlightened, thoroughly understand the merits of the controversy, the issues involved, and the objects sought to be accomplished, and the day of labor's redemption draweth nigh. Without going into the history of the 'ancient guilds, permit me to Bay that trades unions are the creatures of necessity and will remain so as long as our competitive wage system prevaile. The right to combine for seli-protection is guaranteed by law, and the advantages of such combinations have been too often demonstrated to require any defense at my hands.
They are, and. have been, the educators of the artisan and are the steppingstones to further and more advanced action. and not defiance" 18 their motto. They are based upon a practical recogaition of the fundamental principle of a democratic form of government- the greatest good to the greateat number:" of the fact that in union there is strength. The following are the objects definitely set forth in the constitution land, preamble of the Chicago Typographical Union: 1.
To elevate the position, and maintain and protect the interest of the craft in. general 2. To establish and uphold a fair and equitable rate of wages, and to regulate all trade matters pertaining to the welfare of members. 3,. To induence the apprenticeship system in the direction of intelligence, competency, and skill, in the interests alike af employers and employed.
To endeavor to replace strikes and their attendant bitterness and pecuniary loss by tion and conciliation in the settlement of all disI putes concerning wages and conditions of employment. 5. To relieve the deserving needy, and provide for the decent burial of deceased members. THESE OBJECTS NEED NO COMMENDATION or explanation. They silence carping criticism and command the approbation of every rightthinking man.
Trades unions have not been improvised, they are not sudden and impulsive combinations carelessly formed to be heedlessly abaudoned; they are the outgrowth of natural laws Indeed, they have been forced into existence by oppression, and maintained on the principle that self-preservation is the first law of nature. To the objections so often urged that trades unions are the nurseries of strikes, reply there were strikes before there were trades unions, and it is a fact worth remembering that the most violent strikes have been where unions did not exist And to-day, in all well-regulated trades unions, no strike is sanetioned until the merits of the controversy have been placed before the local bodies and the approval of a majority of them is secured. The reason is obvious A ratified strike means tax on the earnings of those who approve it parent society never organized strike, but it has stopped many." was the testimony of Mr. McDonald, Secretary of the Housepainters' Alliance, when examined before the English Royal Commissioners. The charge so frequently made that the advice of the ultraist is generally accepted in preference to that of the so-called conservatist is entirely unwarranted.
For more than thirty years I have been somewhat prominently identified with the interests of trades unious not of one craft, but of many, and I assert, fearless of contradiction, that in large majority of CASES THE SOBER SECOND THOUGHT PREVAILS Again, to the statement made that no discrimination is made between superior and medium workmen, I simply reply that trades unions merely establish a minimum rate- the employer may pay exceptionally good men as much more as they are worth. But trades unioniste do not regard their organizations as the ultima thule, of the labor movement, but rather as their educators. Their members see, as others see, that the strained relations at present existing between capital and labor, render it imperative that some practical steps should be taken to remove this friction and establish an era of good feeling. One of the first, most important and feasible agencies to accomplish this result, is the recognition, adoption and enforcement of the principle of arbitration. It the constant dripping which wears away the stone.
Consistent and persistent agitation is demanded. To secure the adoption of arbitration two plans have been suggested. First, its voluntary recognition by employer and employe; secoud, by legislative action. This naturally leads me to what I have long esteemed one of the most practical, it not the only practical, solution of the labor questionthat of co operation or profit-sharing- giving the employe a direct interest in the results of his own labor. I certainly do not propose to let a business enterprise which requires experience, tact, and executive ability be controlled by men who do not know what business is I DON'T PROPOSE to take a good mechanic from his bench, and seat him in morrocco covered chair, in the counting room, to supervise something he knows nothing at all about, while depriving the establishment of his valuable services, nor to put the hind quarters where the headquarters should be, but simply that business should be conducted on business principles, arid every workman employed shall be a direct shirer 10 the profits secured.
of course co institutions, like other business institutions, will have their fluctuations, but not to the same extent; for where all are actuated by common impulse, working for 1 common reward, the probabilities are that the maximum of labor with the minimum of expense will be secured. But Lam not going to lay all the blame on the shoulders of capital and capitalists. Workingmen are in measure responsible, for they themselves do not pull together. Although the outlook 15 not ay reassuring lovera of humanity would like to see it, let us remember the darkest hour is just before dawn; that the bane and antidote generally go together, and that self-preservation is nature's first law. Once arouse and enlighten the powerful laverage of public sentiment, and the wrongs of which the industrial classes so justly complain will be righted.
When tyranny and oppression of every kind and character shall be uprooted and dostroyed, and when the freemen of America shall occupy that proud distinction which God intended they should occupy: when we shall march under one banner, and that flag our glorious National ensign, having emblazoned on one side the pregnant inscription, Fraternity, Equality aud on the other, "Glory to God in the highest, poace on earth and good will to men," the redemption day of labor will come. AT THE CLOSE OF THE LECTURE, on motion of Mr. Schilling, vote of- thanks was unanimously tendered to Mr. Salter, the projector of the scheme for the conferences, and expressing the hope that another series would be arranged. Mr.
Salter responded to a call, and said that the outcome of the conferences had been most satisfactory, in that it had brought the peppie into a closer relation, and a better understanding of each other, and he hoped to see them resume at some future time. THE IRON ORE OUTPUT. ESCANABA, May 20. Special Telegram. -Ore shipping has now been going forward for -two weeks, but compared with the shipments of the first half of May in 1887 they show marked falling off.
The ore moves eluggishly for two reasons: First, because very few mines have made any important sales of ore, and are holding back their product to await more settled market, and (it they can be obtained), higher prices for ore. Second, because the owners of lake crafts are greatly dissatisfied with their rates, which are only a trifle over half what they received last year, and are lower than for the past five years and they are anxious to carry something else than iron ore it they can get it to carry at remunerative rates. While the shipping opens inauspiciously, it is certain that nearly as much ore will be handled from this port this year as last, when over 2,000,000 tons were shipped from Escanaba -nearly one-half of the total shipments of ore from the entire Lake Superior district The volume of ore shipments from this port has increased each vear. The reason for this is two-fold As Escanaba is on Lake Michigan lake freights are cheaper than from Marquette, Ashland. or Two Harbors.
The Cuicago and Northwestern Railroad, which has the headquarters of its Peninsula division in this city has within the last eighteen months greatly extended its mileage in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Until two years ago it reached only to the Menominee and Felch Mountain iron ranges, aud to Negaunee and Ishpeming in the Marquette County iron dietrict. Last year its Menominee Valley line was extended from Iron River to Watersmeet, and during the fail months a considerable amount of Gogebic ore was shipped from Escanaba instead of Asbland, the saving in Lake freights making it possible to pay much higher rail freights Last November an extension of the main line from Ishpeming to Michigamme, with a spur to Republic, was graded and the laying of rail was begun about ten days ago. This extension will be in working shape within another mouth, and the Chicago and Northwestern, which has Escanaba for its shipping port, will then reach all parts of the Menominee, Marquette, and Gogebie iron ranges. A proposed extension from Metropolitan to Republic will effect a great saving in distance, and will enable this line to compete even more strongly with the other lines of road.
By all of these extensions Escanaba profits, 86 all ore hauled over the Northwestern (except a few all-rail. shipments from the mines direct to Wisconsin and Ilhnois blast furnaces) must be shipped from here The Escanate ore docks are conceded by vessel and raitroad men to be the best on the great lakes Vessels are loaded and trimmed in twelve hours, whereas at other ports they are frequently compelled to lie over for two aud even three days Lu the busy season this means great loss to vessel-owners, and indirectly to shippers, who pay the freight, At Gladstone, the "boom" town seven miles north of here on the Little Bay De Nocque, great coal docks are to be built by the Line, and that railroad will made an effort to make Gladstone the principal coal port of the Northwest, outeide of Chicago, The Company operates an air line between the twin cities of Minneapolis and 8t. Paul, and Sault Ste Mario, where it connects with the Canadian Pacific Gladstone is its only seaport of auy importance, and every effort is being made to have it capture the business now handled by Duluth. The outcome is a trifle doubtful though, as Duluth has a pretty big start, and Gladstone won't be year old till the Fourth of July. The announcement made last fall that the Milwaukee and Northern would build ore docks at Gladstone proves to have been an entirely mistaken one.
Menominee and Marinette are the natural lake porte of the Northern. To reach Gladstone the road would have to build a spur track forty miles in length, when it already has a good harbor at the mouth of the Menominee River. The ore docks of the Milwaukee and Northern at Gladstone will not be seen this year- or any other year. ARREST OF A RAILWAY MAIL CLERK. Fred Gordon Takes Letter Containing Marked Bills.
CONCORD, N. May 20. -Fred A. Gordon, railway mail clerk, was arrested in St. Albans Friday night for robbing his mail, and brought here to-night and lodged in jail.
Th special agent put a letter in the mail at Nashua, addressed to himself at St. Albans, and enclosed five $1 bills marked. He went on the same train with it, but when he called for it at the St. Albans postoffice he found that the letter had not been received, and Gordon was arrested and the letter with the marked bills was found on his person. The prisoner belongs in Manchester, and worked in the postoffice there before his appointment as paper clerk on the St.
Albans and Boston run. He about 30 years old. A MYSTERIOUS ASSASSINATION. Chief Freighter Stroope Shot in Cold Blood Two Unknown Men. cers are in pursuit.
A DROWNED MAN'S COAT FOUND. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 20. -News reaches here from Junction City of the murder of J. T. Stroope, the chief freighter in that section.
Stroope with two of his teamsters were followed six miles by two unknown persons. After the teamsters had gone into camp about an hour after dark Stroope was shot to death. The two teamsters were then ordered to go a certain distance away from the camp. When the fact of Stroope's death -had been ascertained they were permitted to depart, the murderers saying that they had accomplished their errand. Offi- CHIPPEWA FALLS, Win, May 20.
-Special Telegram. -While an old man was fishing today he found in a wood just off the river the cost of William Williams, who was drowned few weeks ago. No trace of either Shay or Willjams has been found yet, but search by the Chippewa Lumber Company is being made. TUBE WORKS MEN WILL STRIKE. PITTSBURG, Pa, May -A strike against the reduction in wages ordered at the National Tube Works, McKeesport, Pa, is probable The workmen are required to give an answer to the company Tuesday, and a large number seen to- night said they would not accept the reduction.
A strike will effect nearly 4,000 men. WAGON MAKERS CONVENTION. LOUISVILLE, May -The Southern sociation of wagon makers closed two days' scasion here yesterday. No question of wages was discussed, and only routine business transacted. CANADIAN TRADE WITH CHINA.
HALIPAX, N. 8., May car-load of cotton goods consigned to Shanghai was started from this city. to day. The goods will go by rail to Vancoiry B. di, thence by steamer.
SOUTH END BANK WILL RESUME. COLUMBUS, Ohio, May The court has vacated the receivership of the South End Bank, local private enterprise, and the bank will resumo the Brat of the MORGAN AND SCHILLING. The Trades and Labor Assembly Engaged in Suicidal Struggle. "Tommy' Me 5 More than His Match ge, and Is Very Si Angry. You He Better More to Break Up the Knights of Labor." IT GLARING SUBTERFUGE war to the knife between the Trade and or Assembly and District Assembly No.
24. It cropped out in every subject before the Trades Assembly yesterday, and was in fact nearly the sole subject of debate. The proceedings were commenced by the reading of numerous letters of withdrawal from Knights of Labor assemblies and from good many Trades. Union assemblies. Among the organizations which withdrew their delegates yesterday from the Trades Assembly were Local Assembly No.
820, Plasterers', No. Tin and Sheet Iron Workers, No, Harness Workers, No. 1,835, and Carpenters, No. 9,272. A communication was received from District Assembly No.
24 declining to revoke its recent order, and reiterating its order with increased emphasis Mr. Morgan stated that District Assembly No. 24 had not only withdrawn all Knights of Labor delegates from the Trades Assembly, but it had recently passed an order absolutely refusing to allow any one to sit in District Assembly No. 24 who was a member of the Trades Assembly. "'That 18 intended to knock me out." said Mr.
Morgan the debate proceeded the object of this latest order by District Assembly No. 24 became apparent Several Knights of Labor assemblies, among them the one to which Morg belongs, sought to evade the order of District Assembly No. 24. These gentlemen would meet as Knights of Labor in their regular body, and upon their adjournment would reassemble as Trade Unionists. It the former capacity they expected representation In District Assembly No.
24, Knights of Labor, and in the latter to still hold their membership in the Trades Aesembly. George Schilling had pronounced this subterfuge, and District Assembly No. 24 had issued the new order to prevent It. William Galvin moved that the Committee on Organization be instructed to gather up these disaffected assemblies. and constitute them AS members of the Trades Aseembly and of the American Federation of Labor.
Delegate Lyons shouted: had better move to break up the Knights of Labor." A young man named Kelly, with waxed mustache and hair parted in the middle, delivered a little oration to the same effect. Delegate Hogan said the Trades Assembly was now being filled up with bogus organizations, and he knew of bodies that were represented which in fact didn't have over three members The wrath of the assembly was particularly directed against George A. Schilling. One delegate said District Assembly No. $4 had decided to hold their picnic just two days before the regular picnic of the Trade a Labor Assembly.
Mr. Brennock said Schilling had told him that he would run the carpenters' tions if he had to cut their hearts out to do it. and Mr. Kliver said the same thing debate of three hours vas made on Galvin' motion, which finally carried, and the resl war between the two organizations will continue, not in the form of skirmishes, but in the shape of pitched battles The only question now is as to which of the two so-called labor lenders, George A. Schilling or Thomas J.
Morgan, will be able toloutgenera: the other. THE CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAMME. WASHINGTON, May -By unanimous agreement of the Senate, measures on the calendar are entitled in their order standing to consideration during the next legislative day, and it is the general impression that to-morrow will be devoted to them. Among these are about sixty private pension bills, It is expected that the fisheries treaty will be taken up in secret 805- sesion Tuesday, and the further proceedings the week will depend largely upon the disposition manifested to debate that measure. the Senate conclude the consideration of the treaty speedily, or decide to intermit its labors on secret 8885100, the bill to establish Department of Labor and the bills to admit the North Territories of Washington, Montana and Dakota are in positiona to claim its attention.
It is the intention of the Appropriations Committee to call up the Indian appropriation bill Thursday, which, it the committee insists, may displace everything else. According to the present arrangement, the tariff bill will be laid aside by the House this week and appropriation bills will be taken up in the following order: The legislative, the District of Columbia, and the postoffice bills. ratification morrow of morning this will be consumed in the programme and the introduction of public bills, and in the afternoon, if the regular order prevails, motions to suspend the rules and pass by a two-thirds vote will be in order. BUPPALO BILL BACK. The Wild West Comes with Him and the Nation Breathes More Easily NEW YORK, May 20.
The Hon. William F. Cody, Indians, cowboys, animals, tents, and paraphernalia arrived to-day on the Persian Monarch. The deck was crowded with the company. Buffalo Bill was of course the center of attraction.
The shore was lined with spectators, many of whom had field glasses. All are to proceded to Erastina, Staten Island, where the Wild West show opens May 30. Invitations for the event have been sent to President Cleveland, General Shermau, and a large number of other prominent people. EX-SECRETARY THOMSON'S HEALTH. INDIANAPOLIS, May 20.
-For a day or 80 past, sensational announcements have appeared in various newspapers relating tu the health of the Hon. Richard W. Thompson, ex-Secretary of the Navy. Colonel Thompson is at his home at Terre Haute and except a slight cold, is in good health as at any time in the past ten years. W.
C. T. U. PRESENT TO MRS CLEVELAND. WASHINGTON, May The Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Monroe County, New York, lias presented Mrs.
Cleveland with an elegant Griffith Club microscope and 3000S- sories in recognition of her temperance views The microscope was made especially for this gift and is of the finest workmanship. STRIKING PUDDLERS DISCHARGED. HALLIDAYSBURG, May 20. Yesterday McLanahan, Smith Co. invited their striking puddlers to go to work at $3.75 a ton, but they refused, demanding $3.85, The firm thereupon discharged them and will start mills this with non-union men.
Ail the iron mills have been idle here for seven weeks and 700 men are out of employment. A HORSE THIEF OF JUDGMENT. LIMA, Ohio, May TelegramLast night the Sheriff of Fort Wayne, came to this city and arrested George Haschett on the charge of horse stealing, and took him to that place, The animal taken was valued at $500. REVOLVERS AND KNIVES STOLEN. ASHLAND, Wis, May 20.
Special Telegram. -About 2 o'clock this morning burglars entered the hardware store of Leither Garnishi and got away with $200 worth of revolvers knives No clew to their identity..
