The Quebec chronicle, 20 mai 1901, lundi 20 mai 1901

[" LOCOS Pee® JOS.OOTH, Tobacoonist, the best, the cheap J ess, the greatest jobber in Cigars and Tobaooos in this city.A 2 QUEBEC, MONDAY, MAY 20, 190L my 4 \"40, WC LU THE QUESTION IS SETTLED AT LAST A Sum of $80,000 is in the Supplementary Estimates \u2014_\u2014\u2014 TO BUY PLAINS OF ABRAHAM \u2014- THE RECEPTION OF THE DUKE OF YORK \u2014THE MEMBERS' INDEMNITY INCREASED TO $1500 \u2014 SATURDAY'S WAS A BUSINESS SESSION.ae Ye (Special to the Chronicle.) Ottaws, May 18.\u2014A large amount of business was done in the House with very much less discussion than usual, the members seeming to he of one opinion that prorogation should be reached before the 24th.Mr.Fielding introduced a resolution i the members\u2019 indemnity permanently to $1500 per session, to take effect immediately.In the supplementary estimates brought down there was included an item of $80,000 for the purchase of the Plaine of Abraham by the Canadian Government.In the Senate, Hon.Mr.Landry read rom the Quebec Chronicle a detailed programme credited to Hon.Charles Fitzpatrick, for the day on which Their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York would arrived at Quebec.Hon.Mr.Mills did not know, but mid the Solicitor-General had | pro ably spoken from newspaper informa- r.Mills said that the members of the Governmsnt had: astually no in formation officially as to the \u2018pro gramme of the Royal party.een \u201cTHE CONFESSION OF FAITH\" Philadelphia, Mav 19.\u2014The great question \u2018before the Presbyterian Church for yearu\u2014lhe revision of the confession of faith\u2014wiil be taken up by the Assembly on Thursday.The heariez and the consideration of the report of the committee upon the revi- rion of the credal statement of the Church appointed at St.Louis last year was made a Complete order for that day and the matter will remain before (ke Assembly until it is disposed of.At this time it is isnpossi- ble to forecast the action of the com missioners.The committee in its report commends the appointment of a committee ag prov for in the form of government and that this committee be instructed to prepare a brief summary of \"the reformed faith bearing the same relation to the confession which the shorter catechimn bears to the larger catechism and formed on the general model of the concensus of creed prepared for the Assembly of 1892, or the \u2018articks of faith\u2019 of the Presbytetian Church of England.\u201d \u2018There is a considerable number of com missioner who gelieve such a com miseion wil} be appointed, but many of them will not venture an pinion as to what wili be the character of the instructions to be given the new committee.There are six or seven factions, and each one will contend that the committee ought to be given fnatruclions along the lines of its belief.After the credal question is out of the way the matter of a judicial commission Will \u2018be the order of business and will be considered until dis posed of- \u2018To-morrow, Tuesday and Wednesday will bo given up entirely to the consideration of the reports of special committees and the reports of the several Boards of the Church.Bentley's Liniment cures Sprains, TOLD BY \u2018 THE WIRES Mrs.MaKinley's physicians reported that she had a comiortable night, yes- tecday, and that the slight ri in tem ature bas disappeared.She je Thé reporte of scientific serving the eclipse of the incomplète, and are leas satisfactory than had been hoped, although some successful photographs of the corons have been taken.\u2018The Rev.Malbec Davenport Babcock, an American Evangelical minister, com mitted suicide at the International Hos pital, Naples, last week, by severing an artery of his wrist and swallowing cozrosive sublimat.The battleship Ohio was launched at San Francisco on Saturday.President McKinley was present, and the ship was christened by his niece, Miss Deshler.Mrs.McKinley was represented by Miss Barber, William Moore, assistant yard-master in the Baltimore and Ohio yards at Connelisville, Pa., was murdered on Saturday by two negroes, a man and his wile.An attempt was made to lynch them, but was frustrated hy the officers, and the couple were raken to Uniontown and placed in jail there.The death of Lord Rosebery's mother, the Duchess of Cleveland, at the advanced age of eighty-two, is reported from Germany.She was the author of \u2018\u2019The Roll of Battle Abbey,\" and an industrious reader, Lord Rose bery inheriting from her his strong Hteraty abilities.Navigation on the new Galops Canal was opened last week, and now boats drawing fourteen feet can »avi- gate al} the St.Lawrence cansh the depth varying from 15 to 18} feet.Protest is to be made against the delay to trafic in operating the new swing bridge over Galops canal, it re quiring 46 minutes to work it.- Ahmed Tewfik Pasha, Ottoman Minis ter of Foreign Affairs, has calied upon the Ambassadors and notified them of Turkey's desire to recstablish the status quo ante in the postal question, and her.intention to send a high functionary, probably the Foreign Minister himself, to apologize for the violations of the mail bags.The Ambassadors met afterwards at the residence of the German Ambassador to.determine what attitude to adopt in view of the complete submission of the Sublime c.®t df \u2014\u2014\u2014 BRITISH OPERATIONS (From British mail advices.) Pretoria, May 3.\u2014 Further proclamations which have been issued indicate an extension of civil administration, including permanent regulations for\u2019 civil police in the towns, These have airesiiy teen mie applicable to the towns-of Johannesbetg,Goksbur \u2018and Krugersdorp.| The esteblishmen of courts and resident magistrates has Also been extended to Heidelberg and Standerton.The prisoners captured by General Blood's and General Plumer's columns are arriving here in considerable num- hers.Their deportation is effected speedily.The arrangements made permit the northern columns executing a wide sweeping movement for the purpose of clearing the bush veldt.General Rundle has commenced similar movements in the northeast of the Orange River Colony.= - Boers continue to surrender in considerable numbers daily throughout the country.From the despondent tenor of our telegrams and letters it will be understood how anxiously \u2018wc are looking here for signs which may be confidently construed as indicating definite re sults.The last fortnight has witness ed at Standerton, Heidelberg and Springs the first real, bona fide surrenders of armed burghers in any num- hers since Commandant Prinsloo\u2019s capitulation.and we have information that others of General Botha's [ollow- ers have moved north with the object of surrendering, but they are so terrified hy interference on the part of Botha's whips that they are afraid 1e come direct to the British outposts.We can only hope, now that the real surrenders have commenced, that many who have openly stated that they were hut waiting for a precedent will follow soon.But no surrenders of {his nature have yet been made in the Orange River Colony.The success of Kitchener's Scouts under Colonel Grenfell, northeast of Pietersburg removes the last of the four now historic G-inch Canet-chneideg tion guns, the mobility, of whic has proved one of the most surprising lessons in modern watfare, va crn veteran ties ob are still Strains, eto, For hest value in carpets, oflcledhs and linoleume-Glover, Fry & Go.L T.BAOON.* - JULES P.TAONR.J.P.TACHE & CO, - BANKERS AND BROKERS, 1 No.724 St.Peter Street, Quebec\u2014 ae Buy and Sell Stocks, Bonds, Shares and Debentures, For Cash or on Margin.Brokerage in Quebeo - Members Quebee à, in Now York 3-16, arr) and Toronto Stock Exchanges: « - - TELEPHONE 1464 - - - MACHINISTS WILL , ALL STRIKE TO-DAY 21°=\u2014 Whole of the United States Will te Affected ttm a\u2014\u2014 SOME EMPLOYERS NAVE YIELDED \u2014\u2014 OVER 50,000 MEN WILL SUSPEND OPERATIONS \u2014 THEY WANT A NINE HOUR DAY AND NO REDUCTION IN WAGES, \u2014_\u2014\u2014 Washingtoa, May 19.\u2014The strike order imued by the Executive Board of the International Order of Machinists goes into effect, at seven o'clock tomorrow morning.President (Connell sid to-night that about 50,000 men will te aflected.The order instructs the men to lefuse to go to work 4n all shops where notices granting the nine hour working dav bave not been posted at seven o'clock.The ofticefs of the Association expect that in many cass a setilement will be reached during the day or on Tuesday morning.Word came to-day that all the Arms Jp St.Louis and also those in New Orleans had ac ceded to the demands of the men.Scattered reports from other cities favorable to the men also were re ceived.The estimate is mow that 35 per cent of the emploving Arms have signed.At least 0 union machinists were working nine hours or less when the question was taken up by tie As sociation.The 25,000 men who will suspend work are scattered al] over the country.The national officers are hope ful that a speedy settlement will be reached in mos tof the eastern cities.\u2018| but they fear a more prolonged sirug- gle on_the Pacific coast, The Union Iron Works at San Francisco, where the battleship Ohio is building, and other large concerns are \u2018preparing to resist the demand.In a number of cities there ure questions pending between the emplovers and men which may operate to pre vent decisive action to-morrow, but which will be settled for or against a strike in a day or two.These include cities where counter propositions have ben made by the manufacturers and where conferences with headquarters at Washinglon may be necessary before action is taken.In these cases compromises mav be reached.New York, Mav 19.\u2014Leading labor men and representatives of the leading emplovers said today that they though pending questions would be settled without any general strike.Meetings of the machinists were held at various nlagea In this city to-day to discuss the local situation.After getting reports from all the shops in the metropolitan ditrict the conclusion reached was that shops emploving about one-half of all the inachinists in the greater citv would grant the nine hour dav and the 12) per cent of wages without (roubles and that not more than 4,000 men at the outside would go out on strike.Scranton, Pa.May 19.\u2014The 1,000 Scranton and Wilkesbarre emploves of the Dickson Manufacturing Company's machine shops, now a part of the ed to accept the Company's offer of a nine hour day and arbitration of the wage question and will go on strike in the morning._ It looks to-night as though the 3,000 machinists in Scranton and vicinity escept the 100 men of the Dunmorr Iron and Steel Company will be on strike to-morrow.Philadelphia, May 19.\u2014About 2,000 machinisis will bo on strike in this city to-morrow for the nine hour dav, according to John J.Keegan, business agent in this vicinity of the Internationa] Association of Machinists.There are about 6,000 machinists in the city emploved by about 150 firms.Of these 47 will go on nine hours tomorrow.Wilkestarre, Pa, May 19.\u2014The le high Valley Railroad and the Central of New Jersey have declined to grant the machinists employed in their shops hete a nine hour day and the en wilt go out on strike to-morrow.About 1.400 men are affected.San Francisco, Cal, May 19.\u2014There seems no doubl that there will Le a walk out to-morrow of the machinists in the Union Iron Works and the Ris don Iron Works.The number of men affecied is not vet known.Denver, Mav 19.\u2014The threatencd strike of the manufacturing machinists of Denver has been averted.The local members of the National Mctal Trades Association have granted the nine hour dav and the scale of wages demanded bv the Machinists\u2019 Union.New Haven, Conn-, May 19.\u2014The strikers of to-morrow, it seems, are confined to à portion only of Connecticul cities, but where they will recur they will be verv general and will accomplish & virtually complete {icing up of the machinists, screw workers and metal workers industries.Hartford, Waterbury, Bridgeport, New Hritain and the neghboring cities of Ansoais and y are the starm centres.In these an estimated total of 6,000 men will be idie when the opening time comes to-morrow morning.WHAT BRITAIN PROPOSES Loadon, May 90.\u2014 Dr.Morrison, witing to tho Times from Pekin yesterday, says :: The British plan of à bond issue for the payment of the