Show WHY THE sellme fan e of itt to a fact llie tr ai CA jontef I 1 NEW YORK oct 18 the following private cable from london was received in this city yesterday the ot lie bacalian Cac alian government to establish a fast atlantic service to compete with the ocean greyhounds grey hounds that ply between new york and lu ropa seems to bo frustrated for the tino bearg at least at the lafit session 0 alib canadian parliament an annual ol 01 was ol 01 effic I 1 ir the of a farat alais clais capable of making he passage across the atlantic at an average depeel of twenty knos an benr the dominions winter port would hi halifax or S john N K and it was calculated that lie pas age could be made ona land to land in flie diep the cacayan ra railway people to ha highly inhere led in petting a quick servile established as it would contribute really to the 0 their efforts to the carriage of aiila and other freight bog fleedy deli very between england and the kat with lie tame end in view the company liis been promoting a fait pacific steamship steam service sir geoe smith and sir donald smith urged andersen anderian the well hip owners and agents of london to take ap the ca bahan ba han governments oner of a bubbi dy aliey subscribed their names aa willing to ake shares in any company that might be started it has now received a by sir george and sir donald withdrawing thir names from alie eliare list the action of sir george and sir donald smith in suddenly withdraw ing their names from the lists of destroy ed whatever chance the scheme had of being ultimately real iz d and it is difficult to be accounted f r they should be a much interested in I 1 he success of the catline fat line project as the dominion government tal yet at the dement they desert it it is broadly hint d a areli dal d al to squeeze the government in the interest of the canadian pacific railway has some connection with their rapid chadee of front and it ial a big game of bluff associated oct 18 secretary noblee first letter to comal elloner tanner on the subject of the re rating of pensions is made public to it is dated july the secretary acknowledges the receipt of tanners letter of baly alth marked unofficial but which he rot receive as anything but an official paper raia ng as it did the question of authority between the commissioner and the f secretary and asserting that of the commissioner to be superior as to the matter discussed your position in your own language bays the secretary is that while the secretary of the interior lias lie power to a decision of the of pensions on an appeal by a claimant against whom the commissioner baa decided on alie oilier hand he may offer any reason that ft claimant lias been granted too much person the commissioner himself is abo only who has power to call a halt and reduce the pension the commissioner commis ioner is laboring under a grat misapprehension alie fee detary has control to correct aay abuses in tha bureau of pensions or any kotlier bureau in the department the fee efard in support of his goei tion quotes copiously from the revised ard add to tay the secretary may not interfere and stop by his power his own pott er alia acceptance of any orders obviously illegal and arbitrary the secretary is responsible for the conduct of the commissioner and ia bouce to see that alie law is enforced that the public ia not fully inada in add and that one citizen entitled to a right whether of penion or and or anything epe ia not unduly preferred either in time of hearing or allowance of money ahe takes up the re rating cases which tie earp seem to be largely mere increases c f pension allowed for long prior to the date of alie examining burgeons berli ficaia establishing establish ng the fame under a p nd ng hiir for increase in fact ne earp alie commissioner liiro self acknowledged them to he cases of increase of the secretary tary continues that cases referred to ten in in each one 0 these the claimant was an employee empo yee in the pension bureau receiving a salary tor his subsistence at in s work daily toey w ere together of them have b en in their places under a former administration but they did not then prefab their cims they made attim goon after the advent of the present adminis tra tion was no reason under existing rules that r cases ba nude or rushed through in advance of all oter on the contrary there was then and hid been for years a pretended rule in full force that no casas be made special except in case of or when the applicant hiis at the point of deah yet other cacs were buniea through by the tommie bitners Bio ners order while hun druda of thousands of other were awaiting anai ting throughout the land the allowance for the first time of the bounty the government profited hem these other pension claimants were baoy of ii m supported pup ported by no eucla salar es as these pirt icolar men were receiving rec eivin and the association together of thea men whereby this beamed to leave been and sub orient alo obtain eil ia iu itself a fact haa bleir purpose was to impose upon the further the tact in each case is that the w as allowed p lor to the burgeons c pending a claim a d that the sunn aggregate ten thousand dollars nor I 1 can affa affi rd to act upon per eoral considerations in a matter of this magnitude we ae carh bound by law in all things and it is our duly to take the law aa we find it to fully ex ercile that power agnen to either if us and abstain from abuse of it in any berec w whatever hat ever the to the duties of the board of ic bew and baya it is an established ani we known rulo that the department will uniformly refue to disturb an ad of by a former ad ministration except uon u on most conclusive evidence that an error has been committed whan alie question ia as to alie propriety riven is one of merely depending upon the weight of evicci cp f e de parl ment wl not albov fill opinion of today to day and forsher more alil aas will rut he ea nor except up n he prison stion of bmw and mits rial evidencia evid enca tending to show the existence of a palpable error or a tiffalo mif falo the department does not entertain the least oba action to an increate inc reaKe u coin mence under alie pending clairn as tha law dirats and upon evidence to it tho then re uewl at lenatti the cases of three of the ii office em aloyes who had aerated pensions and concludes that lie was illegal and unwarranted hn adds 1 I aill not go into the other cases they are before you I 1 haie said enough I 1 think to how that the secretary mv arll call a halt until these cases can be more carefully examined I 1 notice you eay in your letter that yon have mch regard for your official and personal reputation that you will not these cases to remain aa they are but will order each of tho claimants for medical before men whore word apon medical points will be unchallenged when stated the question is not what may yet and berea tr t r be out abent these men ahe question is have ben done upon record M it stood when judgment was rendered it maybe that this government la strong and great and has at its command a surplus that no other nation ever had but it gums of money to the amount above may be granted any further consideration or 01 factor law than seems to hae been given in these cases it will depend solely upon a simile officer a disposition whether the of the government ceball be sufficient for a maintenance or cot there are roote than enough 0 those applina in the field and which are increasing daily to exhaust the surplus of which eo much has been baid in with this matter and I 1 am informed that applications tor rerat re rat ings a re greatly on the increase and now reach an amount of from seven ti eight a w eek the secretary further 8 he intends to have all the e cases re examined and has ordered an investigation 01 the pension office pending a report of the investigating board he will issue no further but expresses his belief in his authority to control abuses in bia department by any means he deems legal and expedient ili trial of father LONDON oct 19 the BO called trial of father mcfadden and a score of donegal peasants some for alie murder of police ioB martin others for conspiracy connected with commenced at marlborough maryborough Mary borough on wednesday is still going and is likely to occupy at least another week or two dublin castle has made up its mind that the oncas shall be and has taken characteristic measures for the gratification of its desire the law of the church political and agrarian prisoners in ireland and it has in this case ie n twisted and strained in a and shameful fashion catholic priests and peasants are baing tried by a protestant tory jury all men known to ie of their own faith or are suspected of the least taint of nationalism or even of mild liberalism having been excluded should any of the prisoners be convicted by this packed jury 99 irishmen out of aad s majority of englishmen lish men will regard it as jaJic ial muter and an effort to carry out the sen tince would inevitably arouse a storm of sufficient to overwhelm the government and its base instruments english members of parliament are present in the court their sympathy and special correspondents have been bent by several english newspapers to note and describe the trial which will figure in history aa one of the utmost in irish jurisprudence had the jury been fairly im paneled there would have been no doubt of the result for the prisoners were arrested haphazard in the hope eliat some among them might prove to be lie mad bened men who threw the stones at and hit the unfortunate oll icer in cross examination it bad been proved out of the months of the prosecuting policemen that the trouble commenced aber the people saw their roverud priest secured and wounded that blood was streaming down his face that maddened them martins behavior and demeanor w needlessly violent and insulting father mcfadden Fadden Me repeatedly implored hia people to retire that entered hia house upon the entreaty of carey and it wa after ho disappeared miltia mag struck down h ia tarter philadelphia oct 19 kela he sugar refiner here from sau francisco this evening ho will at once beet to work preparations tor opening his big refinery here he ia very sanguine and thinks that as soon as his refinery gets fairly started the sugar trust will find he as in earnest spreckels eaid tonight to night that miny false reports had been circulated to the effect eliat his new refinery here will never be operated by himself he enters a general unqualified denial of these reports mr spreckels has addressed a to baston and new york papers which published the reports in which be bays in part my refinery in philadelphia was not built to be eola and I 1 have neer had the least intention of of it although numerous propositions have been made to me to do so lime never into willi the sugar trust ui on any single occasion but the sugar trust haa approached me upon several occasions I 1 have purchased raw sugar it is true and intend to pay myself every dollar upon such purchase I 1 have no know ledge that the trust intends to pay duties and make a present of the but I 1 shall refine the whole of the raw sugar that I 1 base purchased in my ow n refinery and for my own benefit As far as I 1 am concerned has been no collusion and no attempt at collusion between the trust and myself I 1 never aked the rust to purchase my and I 1 never i named a euin for w kiich it be bought but I 1 have been asked to el asked to djin the fruat but I 1 hive absolutely declined both my california re tint ry is not and bever wis for ealo my Ini lAdelphia refinery has ben built tor the purpose I 1 originally aad from which I 1 have naver in thought deviated As long as I 1 am ach a it is my intention to in bisin eia entirely on my on n account and without lie bater fereria or co operation of any other ir di vidual I 1 do not need and never awe needed assistance from other and I 1 certainly have no we cpr the cuaar trust experience of the past two cars hai shown that those who refused to join the trust have acted wisely aud fared very much better than those who were foolish enough to enter into BUA an illegal combination DAYTON ohio oct 19 this atter noun some unknown w terson opened the door of police commie ard C anderson fired a wounding him in the thigh |