Show I A Marlllnc Incident Nms Yonic Marcli 10What might have been a serious aceident occurred on the stage of the Eden Mu ee tonight An exciting contest I w in progress between Miss < Jagcman and Shercr two of the most skilful Viennese fencing girls Heavy sabres were used and the wire mask worn by MISS Sberer became unfastened and fell Just aMiss a-Miss Jageman dealt her a vicious blow The sabre cut a gash in the pretty fencers forehead from whIch the blood spouted MU Shercr fell upon the floor in a faint and was carried Into a dressing I room Dr i Lahardie who was in the audience rushed to the front and put several stitches in the wound Ho said I the wound had been a trifle deeper It might have proved fatal GOVERNMENT LOANS StHator Stanfords Resolution a n < Ob5 raton Before the tle Senate REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT Subjects Taken In Hand by Congress Con-gress The Home Programme 8J Tdph to l alnwaj GOvERNmENT LOANS I acnloa NIaalerdOisbnII Uh lIe 01110 I line Senale WASMIJGTOJ Mach 10Tue special House subcommittee on the VnrldsFalrheldanighierconferenre with the visiting Chicago delegation delega-tion h today and completed fhn a bill rt n l n o committee ss soon as the chaIrman can call it together A few changes ITtl ire made The provision for a un Jonal commission composed of two members from each Stat nomln ated by the governors and appointed appoint-ed by the President I retained bu an amendment I added providlu that the commIssioner shall b dl 1 vided equally between the two Tide eunly btwLn po itlcnl ladles The government commissIoner are to have control oC he operation of the fair tbo appointment ap-pointment of juries distribution oC awards elc but the Illinois corporation corpor-ation Is t prepare the site construe he buildings and retain control oC the financial alTalrs DUTY OS COFFEE Representative ODonnel Mlchl r r gun introduced a bill In the House today prTdll1 for the collection of a duty on codec equivalent to the export duty levied by certain coun trios ColTec coming from those countries exacting export duties hall bo admitted free aud whet he nations now collecting tI on coffees exported to tho United ltn hall abolish the same no duty shall 0 collected at any American prt TiE WINDOW SILVEU HILL The House committee on coinage weights and measures again his J uadcr consideration the Windon liver bill and Informally passed upon it Four members ps3 committee were absent A number oC amendments were offered but uly two were adopted One was the addition of a provision to wctior five This section makes It the duty oC Secretary of the Treasury to refuse the deposits of silver when the market price shall l exceed om te exC dollar for 37125 grains sliver I pure Tue amendment provides i for tin fro coinage of silver whenever the price of silver reaches Use price mentioned above Theotheramcnd lent added to section two Ir TIde that nothing in the act Iml L contrued 10 change the legal tender quality of thin standard silver dollar Final action was postjourel until Monday ABOUT iiors The ways anti mentis committee her further arguments upon the proposition to increase the duty on hops Representative Hermann Org < enl the statement which he said tad been madu that the people ol he Pacific sloro did not desire to Increase the duty on hDp Chinese labor was becoming very scarce and dear Indians could no longer b had l land was lucr lng in value AH there thinS meant increased cost of production of bop At present the nctuil rot of growing them on the Paeillc Coast was from chgttt to ten cents a pound Representative Itutterworth argued ar-gued in opposition t an Increase of tise duty Ho affirmed lib protectionist protec-tionist principles but held that this was a case where increased duty did not mean added protection Sew York State was In the position of northern Ohioln tliatshc > a trying with wornout lands unsuIted climatically to compete with the rte and productive WIt One section of the country could not b irotected against another by any ouch device as an increase of duty THE STATiSTICAL HETOKT or the Department of Agriculture for March relates t the distribution and consumption of corn and whet I makes the pro > ortou of the corn crop In the hands of the growers at 459 per cent or 970000000 bushel and of the whet crop 319 per cent or 156000090 bushels Thu clock of corn on hand i the largest ever reported ported in March The average of eight annual returns i U7791000 bushels and that of last yearS 000000 bushels The estimated con mptlon to March 1st is 1131000 0 bushels figures exceeding only last year and In 1SSG The proportion of merchantable cornoftitecrop of 1SS9 tI is S5T ior cent exceeded in I recent years only by those of 1SS4 and 1SS6 The average aver-age value of all corn on thu 1st of December was 2S3 cents per bushel jeaveraguon the btof March oem 2715 cents for merchantable and 192 for unmerchantable making the ng recatc value 35000000 less than t 100 e lnn In December Six spring wheat Stales have only 000000 bushels 18000000 of hlcli will b required for spring seed and the remainder Ix scarcely more than four months consump tOI for their population Ohio Michigan Indiana Illlnoi Mli FUr and Kansas the only winUr I whet States east of Use Rocky ountalns contributing t commercial commer-cial distribution have only 60000 0 half of which will b needed at icme and part of the remainder commercially unavailable at present prices Therefore the available upply for export and home diatribe 1101 t July is small The depleted Car reserves have been measurably filled except in a few State but It wili require a pressure of high prices to squeeze any considerable proton ion of them Into commercial dl tricts trelF LEAKS The investigation of leaks ° has continued today by Senator Dolphs > ecal committee The Senators were summoned as near as lcohble In alphabetical ore I is not b eved that any of the witnesses of the past few days incriminated themselves LOANS ON nEAL EAT Senator Stanford in resenting his resolution to the Senate today said Government loans on real estate from the earliest civilization there has existed In ail countries the need of some commodity that will stand n a representative of values through which exchanges can b made without the comma dillon themselves being pasted from land to band In the process of time gold and silver came into use Cor the purpose of equalizing e change and today when stamped 1 responsible governments those etals have a value as money Ca beyond any possible value they might have were they only used in thin art Money becomes valuable n it stimulates industry nna Call It cs the exchange of the production ofmans labor A government bend is I valuable to tbo bolder on Account of the In enat I em As an energetic actor in tho transactions of men It only amounts to the percentage which it draws but when the bondholder bond-holder by depositing it with t lie government receives back 0 Jr germ government bills 0 per cent of Il value becomes tranfformn into an active commodity giving employment t the ENERGIES OK THE COUNTRY In like manner if the farmer wer ablo t borrow torn the govcnimen without interest a certain amount of its bilk giving his farm as fe curity therefor t that extent hl land would become an active force and he would enabled while gtv log employment to the ex tent of hhe money loaned him to improve harm h-arm and Increase its value to the I full amount of tho loan Thus the government loan would b doing a uoubleduty Now Uie activities oC this money do not terminate wlhi Its expenditure by thufarmer These who have received It In their c will make use of it as an energizing factor In the forces of life to an indefinite in-definite period As money employ abor It brings to Ilfu a continuing Con labor begetting labor as certainly tainly as IU fruits are valuable Anotnerway uywmcn we conap predate what money actively ue < nay perform In tho settlement of balances is to be found In the values of the commodities produced and exchanged compared with the amount of money In circulation How far the boumllifi resources 01 our country ehallbu put luto activity depends not only upon the actlv Industry of our people but upon thin power necessary t Induce that iu dustryand it should be the fostering care of the government to Fr that such industry receives encouragement encourage-ment An abundant hUPlLT OF IOlT means to Individuals of capacity a field for the uw of their abilities In prosecuting their various call ngsofllfeaud will 1 bo particular valuable to associations of Individuals Individ-uals by affording them facilities COI obtaining capital for transactions oC very kind of business An abuud once of money means universal ctivlty bringing In Il tram all the blessings that belong to a constant employed Industrious and Intelli gent people I tliesc proposed loans could b niadn by the government without risk I dp not think there would be any serious obstacle in the way oC be accomplishment of the object or UII resolution In oplidonaniple protection would be aQordcd the prleton ntore government I I limited its loan t inhalf or oncquarteroftheasesseil alueofthe property given n security se-curity and upon appraisement of covernment officers esneciallv o ected for that duty I seems to me that the great taught of humanity should la how advance Ute great multitude of toiler Increase their power of pro IMi nftf uction and ivIMi condition In the prosperity of the masses cl the people tho prosperity of all Is I assured Man is 1 the rightful hell to ieace and pros pi r ty and very much depends upmi the Intelligence 01 vernment To me one of the most Uectivo means plicing at man Ijposal the tone Inherent lit the ature property in thoroughly fur niohsing n tountlrul supply uCmonlY placed Ufou iicqucstloned and sc cure values |