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COSTLY CONC % National Lawmakers . Out of Business Un - APPROPRIATIONS ENORMOUS! % v? Chairman of Committees of i Both Houses Present Fi14 nancial Statements as to Expenditures. A Washington special says: The | second session of the fifty-eighth con- i gress was declared adjourned at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon by Pres- j ! ident Pro Tern Frye, in the senaie j and Speaker Cannon in the house. Adjournment came as a climax to | a busy session in both branches, which began at 10 .o'clock. Before nocn President Roosevelt went to the capitol and signed up i wt ^ n A ^ 11 XT no PC. f m^oouxco nuxv.u uau utcu iil?O,UJ J/ao??ed. In this work he was assisted by j members of the cabinet, who investi- . gated each document before the president affixed his official signature. Both the senate and the house sent *w- committees to the president s-hortlj ; after noon, notifying him that con : gress was ready to adjourn. The pres.. ... . . . * went replied mat ne naa no runner matters he wished to bring before congress at this time. . The conclusion of a session, as + -usual, was cf considerable interest: in the galleries as well as on the door. I At 11:25 the president affixed his : signature to the last of the general suppiy measures?the postoffice appro ? priatlon bill. Prior tp that time lu had signed the sundry civil, the general deficiency and the military acad emy bills, in addition to scores of measures of minor importance. The last of the important bills to receive the signature of tEe president were the river and- harbor and *he~ treasure providing ior tne government of the Panama canal zone. All of he surveys which the senate provided for in tfce river and harbor bill were stricfcen out in conference. -* A Costly Congress During the closing session the re. publican and democratic reviews of appropriations made thus far by the fifty-eighth congress were presented to ** the house by Chairman Hemenway, of; the appropriations committee, and ^ T iT-i'n flOAr- I XlViWiCUiaill C LilUligClUU, Vi. UVUi gTa, the ranking democratic memoer: of that committee. "Good government housekeeping," is \ the caption chosen by Mr. Hemenway I to represent his views. "A congress that has done nothing j hut spend money," is the heading of Mr. Livingston's summary. Mr. Livingston, in his statement, compares the expenditures of democrtic congresses with republican congresses, and adds: "The appropriations for each of the fiscal years 1S95 and 1896, as made i by a democratic congress, do not materially vary, as will be seen, one from the Other, and average only $494,6.19,602 for each year. "The table also shows that appropriations for federal expenditures made under a republican administration for a republican congress for the next fiscal year have reached the startling sum of $7S1.574,629, or an increase of $286,955,027 over the av-1 erage or xne last iwo venrs uuuci , * democratic control, and within a pe-; riod of less than ten years. "I do not question the honesty of i the vast appropriation, neither in j their aggregate amount or in their j details; but I challenge the wisdom j of it he policy of the dominant party that has made these enormous expcn- j ditures necessary through the increase! N of the military and naval establish J ments, the maintenance cf which is! at the expense of needed internal improvements, such as river and harbor works and public buildings. During % the session which is just about to close the representatives of the people have been denied consideration of; V the demands of their constituents all! along this line, and yet the appr?pri-j ations for the army show an increase , over what IS cost in 1S96 of $54,000,- j 000 and the navy, the still greater in- i crease of $69,000,000. "Whatever may have been the sins of commission of this congress, they j are as nothing compared to its sins i of omission, denying consideration to \ ail legislation looking to the welfare j PURCHASE OF ROAD CONFIRMED. I The Georgia, Florida and Alabama has Extended its System. At Savannah, Ga., Thursday, J. P. Williams, president of the Georgia, Fiorina and Alabama railroad, confirmed the reported purchase of the; Carribelle, Tallahassee and Georgia railroad by interests friendly to the Georgia, Florida and Alabama. A C EffC-'W.. . ;-j: ,ijj?o'" .rV if? ! j at Washington Go j til Next December. I I i I of the great masses of the people.' j After reviewing r.ne expenditures lor the fiscal year 2.1 r. Hem en way, in his statement, concludes: "The expenditures of our go\ eminent in their aggregate exhibited by the appropriations of congress are j large and by unthinking persons, es- i pecially by misguided newspapers, are I denounced as extravagant, and yet, ac- j cording to the very best authority, our j national government is the most eco- j immiraiiv administered of any in the | civilized world. A table to subsnan- j tiate this statement is given, showing i the per capita expenditures of the j leading nations. The highest given is j New Zealand, where the per capital ex- j pease is $30.SS, the lowest is the Unit- j ed States with a per capita shewing j of $7.97. I The total appropriations made by ; this congress aggregate, according to Mr. Hemenway, $7S1,554,029, of this sum $26,801,843 was to pay deficien- | cies for prior fiscal years and $56,- j 500,000 is set aside for application j to the sinking fund. This leaves the j total appropriation for the expenses of the government for the year 1905, $698,272,783. The total estimate revenues for this period are $704,472,060, j or an excess over appropriations or j authorized expenditures of $6.1 [9,274. j Continuing, Mr. Hemenway says: ^ "Experience has demonstrated that : one year with another the actual ex- i penditures of the government, are ! about 5 per cent less than the appro- ! priations made by congress; and, an- I ticipating that the coming fiscal year j will not prove an exception to this j practically well established rule, it is j safe to assume that the apparent sur- j plus of revenues over expenditures will j be augmented by no less than $35.t;0U.- | 000. thus affording a safe margin of j at least $40,000,000 between revenues ! and expenditures with which to meet { all legitimate* deficiencies that may j ?rise and that may have to be pr-vid- | pd for next session and also affording j a considerable sum to be devoted to i the sinking fund." I Figures Presented in Senate. In the senate, Mr. Allison, chairman of the committee on appropriations, submitted a series of tables, prepared by the clerks of the appropriations committee showing an increase of $28,000,000 over the appropriations for last season. He gave the principal items of increase as follows: For the navy $16,000,000; on account of the postal service, including rural free delivery, $S,000,000. Ke also stated that tnera is an increase of $3,832,000 in the permanent' annual appropriations. the chief item being $3,000,000 for the bank note redemption fund; and the next most important i item being $2,250,000 for the irrigation J re-clamation fund. Mr. Allison spoke also of the increase in the deficiency appropna-1 tions, the principal item in that ecnnection being the loan of $6,400,000 i made to the exposition. Replying to j an inquiry from Mr. Aldrich, he said I that outside the loan to the exposi- | tion, the cost of that institution to j the national treasury, including the cost of governmental exhibit, is abnut $6,500,000. ? llionn cai/? tVlO nhlforqHcnS. *MLl . niiiOUii uuiu wv*.0.-.v j aside from appropriations incurred at the prosent session, amount to $24,000.000. Mr. Culberson, of Texas, presented a review of appropriations for the past twelve years, covering the last administration of Mr. Cleveland, and ?he McKinley and Roosevelt administrations. He said the total expenditures under j the Roosevelt administration had been i $2,640,000,000, cr $221,000,000 more than j the four years of the McKinley ad-! ministration and $SS3,000.000 greater: than in the four years of the Cleveland administration. These increases he sub-divided as follows: Civil administration $160,000,000; naval $231,000,000; military $2S4,000,0C0. Confirmed by Senate. The senate confirmed the following postmasters before adjourning | Thursday: Florida: John F. Stunkel, Lees- I burg; James G. Baskin, Dunellon; ! Thomas H. Alexander, White Springs; f Harry C. Budge, Miami} Lawrence ! Hmwn Milton: Rov S. Hanna, St.! Petersburg. i Georgia: John F. Tenkins, Ash- j burn. MINE CAVE KILLS FIFTY. ~ j A Pit Horror in Spain, is Frightfully Fatal to Coal Diggers. Advices from Madrid, Spain, state j that the cave in one cf the coal mines , at Tocina, Seville, Thursday, buried j many minors. Fifty bodies have been ; recovered. J Ten of the minors were rescued, j but all of them are badly injured, and j many may not recover. '!5V T- .* i?**--*".?-. * 5~ T-'r. ;/.-r, ganauSeTpaid! I 1 Paris Bankers Vchntcer io 1 Advance the Monty. j FURNISH FORTY MILLIONS; ! . i i i That Sum is Turned Over to the ; French Company?Uncle Sam Will Honor Draft When I Presented. I Attorney General Knox has received j cablegrams from Messrs. Day and I Russell, who went to Paris as his \ representatives to conduct the closing j negotiations for the Panama eana? ! property, to the effect that the deeds i of the property, archives and all other | papers and documents which will be- j long io the United States under ihe transfer have already been turned over to them, and that the purchase price of $40,000,000 has been advanced to the canal company by a Paris syndicate of bankers. This syndicate, it is understood, offered to pay over the money with a view to expediting ine consummation of the sale on the assurance of the attorney general that the draft on the United States for $40,000,000 would be honored on presentation at the treasury at Washington. At the time the money was paid over to the canal company in Paris, Major Mark Brooke, of the engineer corps of the army, now in Colon, was i authorized to formally receive ho property on the isthmus in the name of the United States. Whether this transfer has actually been made by the republic of Panama the department of justice has no- wbeen advised, but it is assumed it will be made within a day or two. Messrs. Day and Fucsell are expected to return to Wasnlngt'on within the next ten days and will bring with Them the title deeds of the canal proper'y. Though sympathizing with the efforts of the European holders of Colombian bonds to induce the new sfate of Panama to assume some share of -the foreign indebtedness of Colombia, ! tHe state department has made no j move in that matter smce the retirement from Washington of M. Bunau-Varilla, the Panamnn minister. Before the minister left "Washington Secretary Kay took occasion to impress upon him the fact that considerations of equity should move Panama to an assumption cf some part of the national debt, but the minuter was not particularly impressed, anrl no effort was made to bring pressure to bear upon the new government. The attempt to delnv the payment of the $10,000,000 to Panama by the presentation of old Colon fire claims probably will not receive the endo-sement of the department * PRITCHARD SUCCEEDS S1MONTON President Names North Carolinian Judge of Fourth Judicial Crcult. A Washington special says: Presi- j dent Roosevelt took snap judgment upon the friends of Senator McComas and those of several other eminent republican lawyers when he sent to the senate the nomination cf Judge Peter C. Pritchard as the successor of Judge j Simonton or tne iourin juuiciai circuit. There was a good deal of criticism of the president's action in the matter on the ground that he had i shown exceedingly bad taste in mak- i ing an appointment practically before the body of Judge Simonton had been taken from the hospital where he died. A number of senators, some of them democrats, had determined upon presenting and indorsing Senator McComas, who was a judge upon the District of Columbia bench when elected to the senate, and who has the highest qualifications for high judicial position. These gentlemen and the friends of other' possible candidates had refrained from motives of delicacy from presenting to the president the names of their candidates before j Judge Simonton had been buried. Judge Pritchard's name was sent to j the senate the first thing "Wednesday | morning. I AFTER PANAMA'S MILLIONS. Holder of Colombian Bonds Meet in I London and Pass Resolutions. j At a general meeting in London of ! the holders of bonds of the external j debt of Colombia, z. resolution has j been adopted in which the bond-liold- j ers placed on record their "right to require from government of Panama j that it assume the obligation for a ! just and equitable proportion of the ! external debt of Colombia based on i the money that the government will: receive from the United States in : respect to the canal concessions." j , i -? i WAR NEWS MEAGRE. Disappointment in St. Petersburg Over Dearth of Official Information. Disappointment prevails in St. ?e- j tersburg that no official dispatches giv- : ing details of the operations on the Yalu river havo been made public. The ! press dispatches are so meagre as to becloud rather than enlighten the people who are hourly awaiting new-;. " - ; : . - ; / 3 SLAUGHTER "CREATil : I Further Details of Bloody | Fight of Jap and Russ. EXECUTION ' APPALLING I In Hasty Retreat Russians Leave ! I Many Dead and Wcunried to Be Cared for Joy Victors?Many Field Guns Captured. I j Further details are given in an As- i sociated Press dispatch from Chefoo j regarding the great battle between i Russians and Japs* Sunday. The spe- | cial says: After all their boasting of superior- I ity on land, ithe Russians have been I signally defeated in their first impor- I tani battle with the Japanese. The Russian army, fully 40,000 strong, has been driven from its chosen positions on the Manchurian side of the Yalu river, and is in full re treat to the interior, leaving dead and : wounded to be'cared for by the victo- j rious Japanese. Fighting For Almost a Week. The Japanese victory was achieved after five days of fighting, in which the losses on both sides were heavy. The killed and wounded are variously estimated. Some accounts place the I Russian loss in killed alone at 1,500, while the Japanese death roll, it is said, will reach 1,000. According to eye-witnesses of the engagements, who reached Chefoo on Monday afternoon, on a dispatch boat, the fighting was of the most determined character, the Russians at many points making a brave resistance, but in the end being compelled to give way before the daring of the Japanese. The Japanese were in every instance on the aggressive, the Russians fighting behind intrenchments. That the Japanese did not lose more heavily is due to the terrible effectiveness of their artillery fire, which demoralized the Russians and also to the skill shown by the Japanese generals in ordering flank movements. The Japanese sharpshooters also did most effective work, picking off scores of Russian officers whosye brilliant uniforms rendered them conspicuous targets. Among the Russian ^officers wounded were Generals Sassnlttch and Kashtalinsky, who were in command along the line of the Yalu. Both of these officers were shot by Japauese sharpshooters while attempting to rally their men. The most desperate engagement of the week-long battle occurred at Antung. which 'he Russians made a determined effort to hold on account of its strategic value. At Antung the fragments of the Russian army, which had been driven from position after position, rallied and, urged by the officers, prepared' to stay' the advance ' of the Japanese. Death-Dealing Fire. The Japanese advanced on Antung from three sides. On every point of vantage they planted their batteries and at a given signal fire from many guns was opened on the demoralized Russians. The precision of the Jap anese fire was marvelous an<f the ex- j ecution done was appalling. Entire j companies cf Russians melted away j under the rain of shells. After an ; hour of this cannonading, the Russians broke and fled by the only avenue of escape left to them. H'ad 'hey delayed their flight an hour longer, they would have been surrounded and either annihilated or forced to surrender, as a Japanese column was hastening to close fhe line of retreaf. As the Russians fled from Anitung, they ns-ed the torch and the Japanese entered the city to find it in flames. From the Yalu to Antung the country is strewn with the impediments of the Russian army. The ground is I strewn with guns, standards, knap- j sacks, dead horses and dead men. Among the trophies taken by the J Japanese aie 00 uc^uuu, .uimu. v?t wivm 1 quick-firing. So swiftly did the Jap- j anese advance that some of these guns | were captured before they could be fired. RECEIVERSHIP CASE POSTPONED, j Status of Affairs of Brunswick and j Birmingham Railroad. The Brunswick and Birmingham re- J ceivership case came up before Judge , i Speer in the United States court at Macon, Ga., Monday morning, but.' j the hearing was postponed on account of the iilness of Attorney Harris, counsel of E. C. Machen. The defense 1 will claim that the United States court j has no jurisdiction over the case, as } Machen, the former president of the road, is a citizen of Georgia instead i of New York. j anticipated a strike. I Santa Fe Officials Employ Armed . Guards to Forestall Workers. When the 2,000 Santa Fe machinists ' and workmen gathered at the big rail- j way shops in Topeka. Xans., Monday to go to work they found the gates locked. The men were told by armed guards' that "there was nothing do- ! ing." ] The Santa Fe officials assert that j they were simply anticipating a strike. Russians Lose 800 Mikado's Men ; Mill K TERRIFIC I Five Days' of Desultory Skirmishes Wind Up in Sanguinary Conflict on Banks of the ?AT BATTL ? ? j Men While 700 of 1 are Slaughtered. i FAIR GATES OPENED J St. Louis Exposition Starts | Off Auspiciously. PRESIDENT TOUCHES KEY J Great Throng Witnessed Launching of % Greatest Show on Earth. Enthusiasm at Highest Pitch. The Louisiana Purchase Exposition -Jj was formally opened at St. Louis Sat- J| urday. President Roosevelt touched an elec- % trie button in Washington at 1:04 o'clock p. m. As he did so, the report <|| of a cannon was heard in the exposition city by the expectant multitude,- J| flags unfurled as if by magic, an ava- 'i|B lanche of water poured down the cascades,* the great engines in the machinery palace and power houses started throbbing?and the great show was ; open to the word. The opening cere-1 monies wei'fe so simple and so plain ' that they were in perfect harmony "M with the methods of President Fran- % cis and his efficient aids, but they ???; were at the same time very impres- 0M sive, and made a fitting prelude to one of the most memorable events in -J| American history. The dedication Jjg ceremonies, a year ago, were attended by a military pageant that was significant of the nation's progress, and -.M after the baptism of arms comes the :*|a Yalu .River. The first great land battle of the war lias occurred on the Yalu ri/er. Sixteen thousand Japanese crossed the stream and attacked 30,000 Russians, who were strongly fortified. Associated Press advices from the front say that Japanese forces began an attack on the Russians on i.ne Yalu river Tuesday. Tne oattle was continued Wednesday, Thursday Friday and Saturday. A decisive struggle occurred Sunday. The Japanese losses in this battle were about seven hundred killed and wounded. The Russians lost over eight hundred men. The Japanese captured twentyeight quick-firing guns, twenty officers and many men. The Russians made two stands, but were routed n both instances. On Thursday the Japanese effected a crossing of the Yalu and secured a lodgment on the right hank of the | | Yalu river. The fighting on Saturday was at j long range and there was a duel with j heavy guns across the river. Fight- J ing was resumed at daylight Sunday. The News From Tokio. A special Associated Press dispatch from Tokio says: After five days of lighting, largely with artillery, the first Japanese army, under General : Kuroki has forced a crossing of the Yalu river, and today (Sunday) wPh j a gallant infantry charge covering a j frontage of 4 miles, it drove the Rus- J sians from Chiu Tien Cheng and the i heights on the right bank of the Iho 1 or Alda river, which enters the Yalu I from the north almost opposite Wlji. I The Japanese turned the left flank j of the Russian position, -^Lnd in the j battle fierce they swept away the! new front interposed by the Russians j to check their onward movement. A supplementary report from General Kuroki covering Sunday's fighting j says: "The Russians made two stands, j The enemy's strength included all of 1 the Third division, two regiments of tue Sixth division, one cavalry brigade, about forty quick-firing guns and eight machine guns. Vi<*ir?? *olran tnrontvjsio'lit n71 ifir i VT V V/ ?< ?? VUV^ V/*0" V u? w m m. firing guns, many rifles, ammunition, more than twenty officers and many non-commissioned officers and men as prisoners. "Our casualities number about 700 and the Russian loss is more than 800 men." Japs Capture Antung. The Russians were forced to aban don Antung Sunday morning. They burned the town and retreated to Feng Huan Cheng. The Japanese now control the estuary of the Yalu. Tne Japanese also captured Chiu Tien vmeng, 10 miles north of Antung, which is regarded as the key to the Russian position on the right bank of the Yalu. It is expected that the Russians will rpfreat tn Fsns? Huan Chan?, which is on the road to Liao Yang. Account from St. Petersburg. A St. Petersburg special says: The general staff account of the operations on the Yalu river Sunday is as follows: "At 4 o'clock this morning Japanese batteries with 47 guns opened a terrific fire on our postion at Turenchen and on our troops posted near Potient-! insky. "The overwhelming superiority of j the Japanese in artillery and the < heavy losses their fire inflicted on our i ( troops occupying these positions made j ; it clear to General Sassulitch that it! ] was impossible to hold Turenchen.! i Consequently the troops were ordered j < to retire -from Turenchen while still ] holding the Potietinsky road. i SPANISH SHIP GOES DOWN . In Collision with 3ritish Steamer and Thirteen of Crew Drowned. The Spanish steamer Zazphirak Bat I was sunk off the Scilly islands Satur- j day evening in a collision with the ; British steamer Cresyl, bound from Cardiff for Buenos Ayres. Thirteen members of the crew of the Zazphirak- j Bat were drowned. The Cresyl landed ten men at Fal-. : mouth, Errand. i1 7 ? 1 sweet presence of art and science, ?9j and the formal opening Saturday was marked by the absence of soldiery In || uniformj Promptly at half past 10 the exercises of the day began. There was littie formality, hardly any display to <-%9 attract the seekers of the picturesque,- v|8 and still the programme was carried '38 out amid surroundings and in a manner in all ways appropriate. The cer- ^|8 emonies were opened with an invoca- 9 tion by the Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulus, of Chicago. The invocation was fol- -|| lowed by the rendering of "America** by the bands, and an address bv the .jjM Hon. D. R. Francis, president of the ?3 exposition. President Francis was.giv- ^8 en a great ovation. After several addresses by the head* of various departments, Secretary of '29 , War Taft delivered the oration of the -Ja As Secretary Taft stepped forward to deliver his speech the volume of 'Jj8 applause shook the very firmament, and it was at once seen that the roal- :-"la titude regarded the secretary of war ^ as the central figure of the day's ex- J8 ercises. Secretary Taft's address was -Ja brief and very characteristic of the -M man, who is known to be as modest is as he is able. When these formalities were con- . eluded there came a scene that was "J| notable for its intense impressiveness. -Jfl President Francis stepped to the front ;Jj? of the stand and faced the multitude. 'JB It was a few minutes past the noon hour, and these words came from the 18 clearest of voices: "Ladies and Gentlemen: I will now 'J| dictate a telegram: "To the President of the Umted ;^| States of America. Washington, D. C.: -;|i The representatives of the nations send greetings, and request that you jss put in motion the machinery of the dl Louisiana Purchase Exposition." A few feet away sat the telegraph operator who sent every word as it fell from the lips of the speaker. After a few moments of intense sus- . jg pense the report of a cannon was! -.*! heard, the people jumped, applauded. shouted, frantically waved their handkerchiefs and gave every other indication of rare delight. The band played, every cne shook hands-with his neighbor v/i*h the notables present, and fairly nobbed Pres- . % ident Francis and the other officials 'i and directors who had made the scene -JS possible. Those who lingered about yij the speakers' stana resa inn reiegr'uw . 3f congratulation exchanged between ~j| President Roosevelt and President 'M Francis. The majority of the multi- "'|S tude, however, were up and gone, X# sager to see what the great expos*"Ion ^ looked like now that it was really an iccompHshed fact. i~CDMAWC AT WHITE HOUSE. UUIllfioaiw - - ? President Dines Party now Touring the ^ United States. President and Mrs. Roosevelt entertained at luncheon Saturday a distinguished party of Germans who are making a tour of the United States. The men of the party were present- .11 ed to the president by Ambassador _ Sternberg. They remained with him in his office at the executive building only a brief time.