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10'- . : ; - ... * ; v' \ mm hand" T ? i r Russ Auiccrat Tosses BombL V shelt Into Parliament. OEPUTiES TURNED DOWN 1 . Refused to See Committee Appointed to Present Address in Answer to Throne Speech?Act Considered an Affront. A bomb was thrown into the parliamentary camp at St. Petersburg Sunday afternoon by a note received by President Mouromtzeff of the lower house, from Peterhoff, which instead of making an appoiBtment for an audience at which he and the deputation could present the address j in reply to the speech from the throne, contained the information that the czar would not receive the deputation, and that the address must be presented through the ministry of the court. Disconcerted utterly at this unexpected development, the leaders of the majority in the house hastily summoned a caucus of the constitutional democratic deputies. President Mourcmtreft instead of sending the , address to Baron Fredericks, minister of the imperial house, immediately issued a call for a meeting of parliament at 11 o'clock Monday and ask "for further instructions. The first disposition of the caucus of constitutional democrats, which was in session all the afternoon and evening, aed at midnight had not i been concluded, was to regard the refusal to receive the deputation as a AVinllnntrn nnH on AnCn Q VL" Vli t"? h UJUU UU \Sjy\~JUL VMV) > V ? was only answerable by a counter declaration cf war. Tbe deputies were received with rage, but after the passion had ccoled the leaders realized the danger of too precipitate action and set for themselves the task of bringing their enraged followers under control. An interesting constitutional point is involved in the refusal of a personal audience by the emperor. According to the parliamentary law "the president submits to the consideration of the emperor tne transactions of the lower house," but it is not stated whether he does so personally, and a deputation is nowhere authorized. The Associated Press is informed by a member of the ministry that Emperor Nicholas was willing to Receive President Mouromtzeff, but that the act of the house in appointing a delegation to accompany him was re* garde-d as a dangerous precedent, capable of being stretched to include a deputation of any size?'even to the whole of the membership of the house. This minister intimated that if the leaders of the house decide to avoid a rupture tkey could do so either by accepting the instructions to present the address through the ministry of the court as a proper and justifiable matter of routine cr could, by keeping within the limits of the constitutional prevision, direct the president of the house to apply at once for an audience. It was pointed cut that no distinction had been made between lnwpr hmiso and the council of the empire, arkl that the last named body had also been instructed to present its address through the same channel. PRISONERS GAIN LIBERTY. Sawed Through the Steel Bars of Jail at Fort Oglethorpe. A Chattancoga dispatch says: By sawing through the steel bars that covered the windows eleven general prisoners escape^. from the guard house at Fort Oglethorpe Sunday night. They each had prison terms of from two to five years ahead of them. They had been brought from ' southern pests preparatory to being sent to Fort Leavenworth for permanent confinement. A sentry walked his post in front of the guard house and ether sentries, some of them mounted, patrolled other adjacent parts of the army post while the prisoners were sawj. iug through the steel bars. TO ASSIST THE SOUTH In Securing Labor, Immigration Commission Will Be Organized. On Monday and Tuesday, June 4 and 5, a meeting will be held in NewYork to organize and put in immediate operation "The Southern States Immigration Commission." the pur ^ pose of which is to serve as a distributing bureau, or clearing house, for immigration and labor to the south, acting under the state authorities ?n the south. Governors of the southern states have been requested to send one delegate each. DIVISION OF GEORGIA DIOCESE Decided Upon by Episcopalian Con. vention at Columbus. Division of the diocese of Georgia will be made, and the southeastern division, the section in which Savannah H is located, retains the title, "the diocese of Georgia." The Episcopalian convention at Columbus so decided Thursday after a discussion lasting for many hours. * % " - V V' ' > - -*'U SOLOMS FELT INSULTED. Anti-Graft Bill Defeated in Hcuee Because Congressmen Were Ir.eiau cd in Its Provisions. I>T a vote of HI to 00, tile house Saturday refused to pass the uuugralt bill, so-called, dealing with cotton loads and ether matters cf a confidential character which, shouid >.iey became publicly known, might have a tendency to affect max decs because the conferees hud recommended that iiieiube- s oi congxess be iiieluded within the scope oi the bill. The opposition v. as led by Mr. McCali oi .Massachusetts, assisted by sir. Ci umpac.ver of Indiana, 1mr. Grosvenor oi Ohio and Mr. Gardner of .Massachusetts, while the friends oi the measure were represented by dir. JSuriescn end dir. Jenkins. dir. dicCJaii of iViassachusetts, leading the opposition against making members of congress amenable to the penalties of the measure, said the clause of the bill sought to be incorporated was an adveitisement to the world that the members were crooked. Ho said members of congress were neither collectors nor the guardians of secret governmental statistics. They are representatives and can have no secrets from their con- j stituenis. "If you are to enter upon this field," dir. McCall said, "why not make a complete code. Why not provide that members shall be taken into the police court and fined when they fail to vote, imprisoned when they do not attend the sessions of the house, and that the speaker, when he plays the czar, shall be flogged at the cart's tail in the public square. "If you want to encourage filling the chamber of two houses with patriots of the 'gumshoe' breed, whose footfalls you never hear, men who want always to stand behind somebody, somebody who perhaps at the moment is playing all the rcles of An f tVi^n nc or? onr?V* o "Kill ! vv;i uiiitutj tiivii puuo u wiu as this. Laws like these will make congress still less attractive to honest men." FAIRBANKS ON CHURCH UNION. Vice President Gives Views of SubN ject Before Methodist Conference. In his address before the Methodist general conference at Birmingham, Vice President Fairbanks, in referring to the prospective union of the two churches, said: "I do not know how long the followers of John Wesley will dwell apart in the United 'States. I have faith to believe that the barriers which still divide us are growing less formidable with the lapse of time, and that they will ultimately yield, and union will be established between the Methodist Episcopal church and the Methodist Episcopal church, south, thereby creating one of the greatest instruments for good in the entire Christian world. "We each and all desire to see the symmetrical development of our ccm| inon country. W;e wish to see an intellectual, industrious, patriotic and religious people, firmly welded together. We desire particularly to see the lines of division between sections completely obliterated and forgotten. "I trust that Methodism may not long be divided upon lines of former sectional differences ? differences which, thank God, are past and gone forever and forever. "May we not hope to see the great bishops whom you honor and whom we honor in the north presiding over conferences in every portion of the republic. Mtay we not hope to see a united church, freely transferring its ministers between the north and the south, as well as between the west and the east? ' Such interchange between the various portions of our country will serve mightily to advance a whole- ! some national purpose. We all earn- j estly hope to see the myriad influences making for good among us, threading from north to south and from cast to west, weaving the peopie of all sections into a homogeneous u ^ l.. \\ IMJIC. "Consolidated Methodism would tend in a considerable degree to promote the intellectual and moral interests of the entire country. National solidarity will be advanced in some measure, in fact, as well as in name, when Methodism comes into complete organic fellowship." The vice president spent a day in Birmingham and delivered .five speeches. The first was a short talk to the general conference m the morning. At the Country Club he spoke, to representatives of the commercial bodies of the city. At 4 o'clock he made a public speech at Capitol Park. At 8 o'clock he gave the formal address to the conference, and following this there was a banquet by the Scottish Rite Masons at the temple, where the vice j president -spOKe oneriy. CRUISER GOES TO SAN DOMINGO. Columbia at League Island Navy Yard Gets h+urry Orders. The cruiser Columbia, which arrived at the League Island navy yard, at Philadelphia several days ago to undergo repairs, is being hastily prepared for sea and will leave for Santo Domingo immediately with SD9 marines. Under hurry orders frcm the navy department detachments of marines from Boston, Brooklyn, Washington and Norfolk arrived Sunday. ?fV". - -- --.w. . RATE BILL PASSED Measure Adopted in Senate by Whooping Majority. ONLY THREE NAY VOTES More Power Given Interstate Commerce Commission and People's Rights Are Safeguarded?Bad Feeling Dissipated. After seventy days of almost continuous deliberation, by a vote of 71 to 3 the senate late Friday afternoon } I passed the railway rate regulation bill, thus placing upon the statute books the law strengthening the hands of the interstate commerce commission. While this- new law is the embodiment of democratic principles, its passage i3 in large measure due to the activities and energies of President Roosevelt. With but seven votes against it in the house and but three in the senate, this new law cannot be construed as partisan legisiution in any sense. It reflects the popular desire. '.Supplementing, as this does, the original interstate commerce law, under which many abuses have been regulated, and the anti-rebate law, under which so many successful prosecutions against rebating have?especially within the past two years?been conducted, this new law places in. the hands of the federal authorities full power for the regulation of all abuses in interstate commerce that has been complained of, including now the power to fix and establish just and reasonable rates, and this new law represents an important advance In legislation. Under it, the interstate commerce commission is given full power to regulate such discriminations in in terstate commerce as the shippers of the country, have long been complaining, and justly, for without the power to fix a just and reasonable rate?the railroad's rate having, upon investigation, been found unjust and unreasonable ? the c( amission has been helpless. As it passes the senate the bill in so far as it relates to the ratemaking power of the commission, is practically unchanged. The senate has, however, added some important features. By amendments it has removed doubts where they occurred, it has safeguarded the constitutionality of the measure in several important particulars; it has added provisions aimed at the evil of railroads owning and dealing in coal and other products; it has put pipe lines, express companies, and sleeping car companies within the purview of the act. it has restored the imprisonment penalties, which had been stricken out by the Elkins law; it has provided additional and severe penalties upon consigners and consignees,which force or take rebates from the railroads, this provision being aimed particularly at the great trusts such as Standard Oil; it has given the com mission the power to compel railroads to put in switches to connect with the private tracks of shippers; it has provided that the courts shall not hold up the commission's rates on exparte hearings, but no temporary injunction or interlocutory decree shall be granted until after five days' notice to the commission and after a hearing before three judges, this being the Bacon amendment. It is expected that the house will accept these senate amendments without change, as they all tend to strengthen the bill as it came from the house. With the final passage of the bill by the senate, peace and happiness has been restored in that body. All the factional differences and bitterness developed in the heat of negotiation and debate have been forgotten. The three negative votes were cast by Senator Foraker, republican, of Ohio, and Senators Morgan and Pettus, democrats, of Alabama. ADDRESS BY FAIRBANKS. Made to Methodists In Conference at J Birmingham. The feature of Thursday's session of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, was the address by Vice President C. W. Fairbanks, fraternal delegate from 'the northern Methodist Episcopal church. The immense auditorium was packed and hundreds were turned away. Rev. Dr. W. iS. Matthew of Berkeley, Cal., clerical delegate from the northern church, also spoke. MRS. DAVIS SUFFERS RELAPSE. Use cf Oxygen Necessary to Prolong Her Life. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, wife of the president of the Southern Confederacy, who i3 ill at the Hotel Glrard, in New York, suffered a relapse early Thursday and her condition for several hours was serious. During the morning hours resort was had to the use of oxygen. About noon Mrs. Davis rallied to seme extent [ . > ? " ' v . J. . . ' ' .; ... --* /., ; :; - jJif. 1 OLD TIME LIMIT STANDS.1 Methodist Conference Decides Four Years Are Enough for Ministers to Remain at One Station. The general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, Wednesday afternoon adopted, by an overwhelming majority, the minority report of the committee o nitinerancy opposing any extension of the time limit of pastors. The majority of the committee had reported in favor of extending the limit from four to six years. The report ? -ecipitated a j ions debate, which was quiTe acrimonious at times. In connection with the recent action of the conference creating a com- I mission to meet similar reports from j other branches of Methodism looking ! to a revision was a re-statement of the church's creed, Dinsdale T. Young, the fraternal delegate from Great Britain, attending the conference, is inclined to believe that a special act of parliament will be necessary if such a step is taken by the Wesley an church in England. Mt. Young said: "My impression is that we cannot have a genuine re-statement of revision of the creed without the consent of parliament, owing to John Wesley^ poll deed, the legal foundation of j Methodism. This certainly applies to any alteration of the three-year ministerial limit without an act of parliament, and I think the same rule apto any alteration or revision of the doctrine as well as the constitution of the church." IRREGULARITIES CHARGED To Grand Master of Exchequer of the Georgia Knights of Pythias. The election of officers and the drill of the uniformed rank of the Knights of Pythias grand lodge at Augusta, Ga., was dwarfed in public interest Wednesday by rumors that were later confirmed of irregularities in the books and accounts of Grand Master of the Exchequer W. A. McArthur of Augusta, who was superseded in office. The officers and Knights are reticent in talking, but IT is acknowledged that a statement was made to the grand lodge at Wednesday's session to the effect that irregularities were found that ? unt to a shortage of more than $3,000. Friends of Mr. McArthur deny that there was any intentional wrongdoing on his part and that the matter will be found to come out all right. A close friend of Mr. , JlcArthur says that McArthur acknowledged that he had endorsed notes for friends who had gone back on him and that was the cause of his I trouble. / CHANDLER IS FACETIOUS. White House "Messenger Boy" Glad Irr^rialist Days Are Over. A Washington dispatch says: The most interesting feature of Mr. Chandler's letter to Mr. Tillman is contained in the closing paragraph, in which he says; "On the whole, perhaps I ought to consider myself fortunate. If the old imperialist days had been revived at the white house, one whom I considered the best of friends, Senator Ledge, upon demand would have cut off my head and taken it to President Rocsevelt on a charger, and I should have spoken no more. Now, at least, I have left me the power of speech. Eut I shall never use it again as a mission from President Roosevelt to the democratic party." WANT MONSTER BATTLESHIP. House Has Important Question Up for Settlement. Shall the United States have a battleship, the peer, if not the superior of any battleship, in the world, carrying as heavy armor and ai- ? verful armament as any known vessel of its class? was the question which presented itself to the house Wednesday during the consideration of the naval appropriations bill. DYNAMITE WRECKS TOWN. Report Says Much Damage Was Done, But No Lives Were Lost. A report was sent out from North Bay, Ont, Friday, that Cabalt, one of the mining centers in New Ontario, was completely destroyed by fire. It is also reported that several persons were killed by an explosion. A later dispatch says a large quantity of dynamite in the northeastern section of the town ignited by a bush fire, exploded, wrecking twenty-five houses. Several persons were Injured, du,c so iar as can De learned no one was killed. CZAR NICHOLAS IS BLUFFED. Russian Autocrat Anxious Not to Break With Parliament. A St. Petersburg dispatch says: In r-?'te of the fear that the addresses in reply to the speech from the throne !n <he lower house of parliament would precipitate an immediate conflict between the crown and parliament, Emperor Nicholas is determined to avoid a breach if possible. : - " "1- - . . V; : ' ':fW. t j THREE NEW BISHOPS | Elected by Methodist Conference in Birmingham. | TIGERT, WARD, ATKINS Twelve Da!lots Were Taken and Great Enthusiasm Was Manifested. L Money is Awarded for the Extension cf Schools. After a day cf exciting balloting at the ^Methodist Episcopal general conference, at Blrruingxiani, Thursday, which continued up to 10:30 o'clock p. m., the following three new bisii [ ops were elected: Dr. Seth Ward, assistant missionary secretary of the church; Dr. John J. Tigert, book editor; Dr. James Atkins, Sunday school editor. Tigert was elected on the first ballot, Ward on the third and Atkins on the twelfth. J. J. Tigert was born in Louisville November 25, 1S56. He was graduated from Vanderbilt University and from the Southern Br., ist Theological Seminary at Louisville. He was licensed to preach in 1S75. He received his degree of LL. D. from the University of Missouri. James Atkins was born in Knoxville, Tenn., April 18, 1850. He received his education in Tennesee schools and was licensed to preach in 1870. He has been president of two Methodist schools, is the originar tor of the Bible Teachers' Study Circle, and is author of several books. Dr. Seth Ward was born in Leon county, Texas, November 1, 1858. His boyhood days were spent on a Texas farm. He received the degree of D. D. from Southwestern University. Three sessions of the conference were held during the day. The principal business transacted besides the election of the bishops was the adoption of that part of the report of the committee on eaucauon providing ior an assessment of $50,000 for school1 ' extension. The committee on episcopacy reported memorials on the death of Eishops J. C. Keener and R. K. Hargrove. THE RATE BILL ROW. Summary of Charges and Counter. Charges in Controversy. A Washington special says: The Tillman charge that President Roosevelt betrayed the democrats in the rate bill matter is the talk of Washington. The president appears to lack ?lb11c approval. iNot since he has been in the white house has he been so bitterly attacked with so few defenders. To the impartial observer there is some right and some wrong on both sides. Here are the issues concisely: Tillman and Bailey, corroborated by Chandler, charge: First ? That President Roosevelt surrendered to the railway senators in accepting the Hepburn bill with the "Allison amendment" as to court review. second?That the surrender was unnecessary and was made at the moment when victory was assured. Third?That President Roosevelt went over to the enemy without notice to his democratic allies who had made victory possible. Fourth?That the treachery was less excusable since he had himselr sought the alliance. * To theso charges, the president has replied: First?That he has net surrendered in acc.* ing the Allison amendment, but has, in fact, gained a great and substantial victory. Second?That he did not break off negotiations with the democratic allies until it had been "demonstrated that victory was not possible on the basis of their proposals. Third?No reply. Fourth ? That the alliance was sought by the democrats and that the Tillman-Bailey-Chandler-ilcody conferences were no more sismifioirit and no mere binding than numerous other conferences which were continuously being held. To which the following rejoinder is made by the president's critics: If, as claimed, the Hepburn bil! was always satisfactory why did the president raise the issue of a restricted court review? Why did he call the conference at the white house, '< at which the "Long amendment" was i drafted? Why did he for no less than ten days tell all callers that the "thing to do now was to kill the broad court review amendment?" Why did he net discover sooner that the naked Hepburn bill with the ! Allison amendment gives a broad re- ^ view, and practically all the anti-law- 1 yers for once agree with them? pen for mother and son. Convicted at New Haven for Murder Of HUSOana arta oicpidmci. At New Haven. Conn.. Wednesday, Mrs. Ida J. Jennings and her son, : Herbert W. Taylor, were convicted of 1 murder i nthe second degree for kill- < ing Joseph E. Jennings, the husband 1 of Mrs. Jennings, on the night of < April 1. Both were sentenced to life j imprisonment I VAST TRACTS LAI D WASTE Forest Fires Sweep Michigan Counties?Large Area Containing Sav* eral Towns, Desolated. A dispatch from Escanaba, Mich., says: Driven by a heavy gale,, one cf the most destructive forest fires in the history of the district Friday afternoon laid waste a. tract of land fifty miles square and at. a late hour Friday night was spreading. It' is definitely known that the following cities and villages have been completely wiped out: , ">>j Quinnesec, population 2,000; Schae* ?er, 600; Ralphs, 400; Saivoie, 200; Cornell, 500; V?roodland, 200;. Talbot, - 400. At North and several other points cn the line of the Escanaba and Lake Superior road at six-, o'clock, Friday night, when all. communication was cut off. the fire had reached the outskirts of the villages and no hope; o! saving any of the property was offered. Hundreds of people are. homeless and are being brought into Escanaba as fast, as trains, can be sent to the burned district. In addition to the loss of several saw mills and other buildings, millions of feet of cut timber have been burned and great tracts of standing timber havebeen badly damaged. As far as can be learned, no lives ' L have been lost, although families of several homesteaders are missing. The safety of a large lumber crew at work in the heart of the heavily a-nr>HpH rnnntrv and xtnth no railroad facilities is feared for. PHYSICIANS FULLY EXONERATED County Grand Jury Knocked Out by County Commissioners. At Atlanta, Friday, tlie county physicians, Dr. E. D. Richardson and Dr. J. W. Hurt against v/hose professional workx among the inhabitants of the Fulton county Jail and the Fulton county convict camps the Fulton coun- / ty grand jury recently made complaint, were fully exonerated by the Fulton county commissioners alter a most searching investigation. A few weeks ago the grand jury in returning its general presentments for the term declared that Drs. Hurt and Richardson had been neglectful of the prisoners within the custody of | the county. Both physicians quickly sought the board of county commissioners to which they are employed and demanded an investigation of the charges made. The board heard the request and passed a resolution providing for the investigation the physicians ask - - ? ?? - A +VlA ea, Hi Ult: bilLUtJ LliiiC U1JL uiu county attorney to conduct the prosecution. The evidence-produced during the trial indicated that the 'physicians might have been somewhat tardy at times when calls were made upon ^ them. Yet it was shown conclusively that both Doctors Hurt and Richardson had worked most industrious- | ly in behalf of tne prisoners, the tables of mortality indicating a very small per cent After giving the day to the hearing of the evidence the board declared | that the charges were without founds- j tion, the views of the board being expressed in the following resolution: "Whereas, tbe grand jury of Fulton county fo*r the March term, 19C6, in its presentments reported that the county physicians, Dr. John W. Hurt and Dr. E. D. Richardson, had been guilty of gross neglect in their treatment of the convicts and recommend- ' ed that the board of, commissioners of roads and revenues discharge them from their positions; "And whereas an exhaustive inves1 * - ?r <w\A mrl ^ nn rui UgattOll Ol cut; Uiiai a.uu vnuvuwv taken in support cf said charges and ' -U in refutation thereof has been heard . j| by said board of commissioners; "Resolved, by the board of commissioners of reads and revenues of said county, that Doctors John W. Hurt and E. D. Richardson be and they are fully exonerated from said charges and the same are dismissed.' MEETING IS POSTPONED Populist Committee of Georgia Will Hold Conference Later. J. J. Holloway, chairman of tbe populist state committee, has issued a statement to the press, announcing the posti.-mement of the meeting of the committee, which was called to meet in Atlanta, May 21. He states that it will probably be held about cne miatne 01 juiy. ine present unsettled .condition of affairs politically Is given as one of the re/jons for the postponement of the committee's session. PREACHERS PALL IN HEAP. Lined Up for Group Photograph When Platform Collapsed. At DesMoines, Iowa, Friday afternoon, five commissioners to the Presbyterian general assembly were bruised and injured by the collapse of a temporary stand, which had been erected for the purpose of getting a croup photographs. Only one was seriously Injured. M ;:!?