PRESIDENT CASTRO AND HIS CABINET IN COUNCIL

NEW-YORK. SATURDAY. APRIL 6, 1901. -FOURTEEN PAGES.-^t^^^/U^

STOLEX PA INTING FO VXD.

OFFICIAL STATEMENT MADE PUBLICIN ST. PETERSBURG,

RUSSIA EXPLAINS.

VOL-LX--..X0 19,865.

Castro is central figure, sitting down. On hisright, sitting. General Jos6 Ignacio Pulklo, Min-ister of Wir and Marine. On his left, sitting.

Dr. Eduardo Blanco, Minister of Foreign Af-fairs. Standing up. from left to right of illustra-

CARTER FRAUDS TRACED.

ARRESTS OF WELL KNOWN MEN MAY

SOON BE MADE.

GAINSBOROUGH PORTRAIT FROM AGNEW

GALLERIEB RECOVERED IN

CHICAGO, ITIS SAID.

On the Cunard steamer Etrurla. which lefthere last Saturday and is due in Liverpool to-day, is a painting said to be the famous Gains-borough portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire,which was stolen from the gallery of the owners,

the Messrs. Agnew, of London, on Mayan<! the whereabouts of which has not beenknown since that time.

AnmiiK the passengers on the Ktruria are Mr.and Mrs. C. Morland Aprnow. and they have thepaintlnsr with them. They came to this countryon the Ktruria. having learned that a paintingsupposed to be the one which was stolen fromthe Agnew galleries was in Chicago, and went

there to S' c it. Their visit was not fruitless.The story of the loss of the painting nnd its

recovery is an Interesting one. The painting

was a valuable one. Its subject was th« Duchessof Devonshire, sometimes styled the '"Electlon-eering Duchess." wife of William, fifth Duke ofDevonshire. She died in March. 1806.

The painting came into the possession of the

Messrs. Agnew at an auction. They paid for it

£I<».:.'mi. said to r>e the Kirc.-st sum paid for apicture r»y an English ;nti:n up to that time. It

v.as placed on exhibition In the Agnew Gallery.

No. ."¦'.' Bond-St.. and attracted great attention.On the nlsht of May li.Is7f«. thieves in somemjsi xious manner entered the gallery, cut thepicture from t!v> frame and carried it away.After the burglar)' the doors were found boltedand locked on the insi.l".

No trace of the painting was found untilfifteen rears ago. when the Pinkertons arrestedat PeekskiU, N. V.. a notorious forger named••Jo." Elliott

ThK man made a proposition to Mr.Plnkertonto return the picture In exchange for his liberty.

Mr i'iukerton declined to entertain such a pro-posal.

From time to time the Pinkertons heard of thepainting from various professional thieves. Awell known sporting man. an acquaintance ofMr. Prnkerton. became interested through the

tive in the recovery of the picture. Elliott,in connecting himself with the painting, said itbad been stolen solely for the purpose of using

s protection fora comrade who had beenarr.'Ste.i .in a charge of forgery, it was theIntention to use the painting to barter for thefreedom of their friend. As he was freed on ;vtechnicality, this use of the painting was un-:.• esss rj.

The picture was hc-lri by th« thieves with theexpectation of a hiph reward being offered for:t_ No sufficient reward being offered, the pict-ure was hroußht 10 this country about fifteen.years ago. ana since that time hits been stored FssVCIS B. T^OOMTSi.

T'ntted States Minister to Venezuela.

AMENDED DOCUMENT. DELIVERED TO

HIM, STIRS HIS WRATH.

MAYOR FUMES AT CHARTER

tlon. Castro's private secretary, Cardenas, S»norQulntero, Minister of Public Instruction; Gen-eral Ramon Ayala, Minister of Industry; SefiorOdafiez. Minister of Public Works; Seftor TelloMendez. Minister of Finance.

THE CASTRO GOVERXMEXTAXABSOLUTE MOXARCHY.

PKICE THREE CENTS.

VENEZUELA DESPOILED.

DECLARATION OF INTENTIONS AS REGARDSMANCHURIA—WILL. AWAIT EVENTS.

St. Petersburg. April The "Official Messen-ger" to-day publishes a detailed review of thenegotiations conducted by the allied powers with

the Chinese plenipotentiaries at T!en-T.«in andPeking, and of the negotiations that led to thepresentation of the French draft of peace condi-tions, which consisted of twelve points, butwhich are not yet concluded. The Russian Gov-

ernment then makes the following statement:While anticipating an early settlement of the

questions! affecting the mutual relations betweenall the powers and China, the Russian Govern-ment, on its part, considered it necessary toconcern Itself with the establishment of a per-manent order of things in the Chinese territoriesalong the borders of which the Russian Asiaticpossessions extend for a distance of eight thou-sand versts (5,300 miles). To this end, pro-visional written conditions for a modus viv<»ndi•were agreed upon first between the Russianmilitary authorities and the Chinese governorsof three Manohurian provinces.

With reference to the institution of a localcivil administration, subsequently, and after acareful consideration of all the circumstances.the Russian Government drew up the draft ofa special agreement with China, providing forthe gradual evaluation of Manchuria, as wella? it '.he adoption of provisional measures toassure peace in that territory, and to preventthe recurrence of events similar to those ofIsm year. Unfortunately, with the object ofttirring up public opinion against Russia, alarm-i=t nora were circulated in the foreign pressregarding the purpose and Intentions of theRuFsian Government. Falsified texts of a treatyestablishing a protectorate over Manchuriawere quoted, and erroneous reports were de-fig-nedly spread of an alleged agreement betweenRussia and China. As a matter of fact, thisagreement was to serve as a basis for the res-torauon to China, as contemplated by the Rus-sian Government, of the province of Manchuria,which. In consequence of the alarmir.s ( ventsof last year, was occupied by Russian troops.In order that the requisite military measuresmightbe taken, itwas Imperative that the ques-tion should be settled one way or the other. Itwas Impossible to lay down forthwith, by meansof a mutual agreement, the conditions of theevacuation of Manchuria. According to the newsreceived, serious hindrances were placed in theway of the conclusion of such an agreement,

and. in consequence, its acceptance by China,which was indispensable for the gradual evacu-ation of the province, proved to he impossible.

As regards the eventual restoration of the prov-inces to China, it is manifest that such intentioncan only be carried out when the normal situa-tion la completely restored In the empire, andthe central government established at the cap-ita!Independent and strong enough to guarantee

Russia against a recurrence of the events of lastyear.

The Russian Government concludes Its state-ment respecting the Manchurian agreement inthese words:

While the Russian Government maintains itspresent organization in Manchuria, to preserveorder in the vicinity of the broad frontiers ofRussia and remains faithful to its original andoft repeated political programme, it will quietly£wait the further course of events.

As previously pointed out in these dispatches.

Russia now blames the powers for China's re-fusal to accept the conditions of the evacuationef Manchuria, and calmly says she is in noharry and can await events. The unbiassedopinion here is that Russia occupies an lm-prepnable diplomatic Eosjtion from which no-body can dislodge her. However warlike Japanmay feel, Russia is confident that no opportunity•sill be given her to take the offensive withoutplacing herself in the wrong. As far as can beseen, Japanese threats have not caused a rippleOf excitement here.

GAINSBOROUGH PORTRAIT OF THE DUCHESSOF DEVONSHIRE.

Stolen in 1576 and just recovered.

ULTIMATUM FROM JAPAN.A SECOND AND MORE PEREMPTORY RE-

MONSTRANCE TO RUSSIA.London, April 6.

—"Russia's reply concerning:

Manchuria being unsatisfactory, the Japanese

iiiuimt has decided." says the Yokohamacorrespondent of "The Daily Mail," telegraph-teg on Thursday, "after a conference with the

beads of the army and navy and of the Depart-

ments of Finance and Foreign Affairs, to ad-

dress a second and more peremptory remon-

ftrance, demanding a reply within a stated-pe-

riod. This remonstrance, communicated through

Hat Japanese Minister in St. Petersburg, almost

amounts to an ultimatum."

in safe deposit vaults and warehouses in New-York, Brooklyn, Boston and Philadelphia. Itha:- all this, time iain in an hermetically sealedbox. rolled up :n cotton hattinp ami <1i1. •> < ¦t ViThis box was fastened in the bottom of a trunkespecially made for the purpose. A false bot-tom hid the picture from view.

Thf- sporting man through an nW acquaint-

ance two years ago learned something aboutthe whereabouts of the painting and <omniunl-c.Ttr-rl with Mr. rink'-rton. At last, by th' offerof a sufficient reward for the recovery of thepainting, the arrangement whs made for \t»return through the sporting man. Mr. Pinker-ton sent a cable dispatch to Mr. Agnew, theson of thf original owner, and he camp to thiscountry to get it. It is said that when thepaintinpr was unrolled before Mr. Agnew hewas perfectly satisfied of its genuineness. Th»amount of the reward paid will not be madepublic, owing to a stipulation in the compact forIt ret urn.

6. i. Avery, jr.. said 1n =t nifcht that he wasthoroughly acquainted v\it.h the- story of theth'-ft of the painting, and that Mr. Agnew calledupon him when he arrived here. Mr. Agnew,hesaii. told him th-it he was on his way to Chi-cago, but suifl nothttiK of h!s errand.

CALLS IT RIOTOUS LEGISLATION. AND DE-

CLARES THAT NO ONE HAS YET

READ IT THROUGH.

Mayor Van Wych apparently has made up his

mind In advance to veto the amended charter,

and if his language and temper last night areany indication of what is coming in his vetomessage, the document willindeed be abllsterer.

Mr. De Cant, a Senate clerk, brought a copy of

the printed amended charter to the city, andwent to the Democratic Club before S o'clock,having previously made an appointment with

the Mayor. Senator Grady an.i John F. Car-

roll were with the Mayor when Mr. De Cant

handed the printed book to Mr. Van Wyck. Heand Senator Orady went off to one side and dis-

cussed it. the Mayor getting angrier all the

time. At 8:80 o'clock, when he was seen by thereporters, he was "brittle."

"This Is the most riotous piece of legislation

that ever was passed in America." said he. for

a starter. "The revision of the charter aspassed has never been read by any man in the

State of New- York The legislature has pre-pared this bill like so many pounds of beef, anddumped it down on us. No man knows what is

in it—not even the men who passed it. least ofall the members of the Charter Revision Com-mission. It violates the law in regard to allforms of new bills, and new legislation, in thatnew matter is not underscored, and that matter

stricken out is not bracketed.It remains now for the Mayor of New-York."

continued Mr. Van Wyck severely, "to gothrough ;his bill and arrange all these discrep-ancies, and then for him to compare it withthe present charter. Then he must consider itintelligently and reach a decision. Iam in-formed that absolutely no one has read thjs billthrough. (Turning to Senator Grady). Senator,has any one read this bill yet?"

"1 am informer!," said Senator Grady. withjudicial gravity, "that no man has real it yet."

"It has been left to the Mayor of New-York,"resumed the Mayor, savagely, "to be the firstman to read the new charter of New- York. Thewhole abominable business has been patchedtogether by both houses of the legislature with-out consideration or consultation."

After this deliverance the Mayor and Messrs.Carroll and Grady went away together.

The revised charter covers about one thousandpages of coarsely printed matter. It is thoughtthat the Mayor willact on it with a fair degreeof promptness, as the Tammany district leadersare fearful that if the legislature does not ad-journ at an early date there may be more legis-lation hostile to Tammany. Under the law theMayor may hold the bill flifreen days.

VICEROYS WILLING TO HELP JAPAN.London, April ?».—"Japan is taking measures

T-Jth a view to hostilities with Russia," says thePeking correspondent of "The Daily Express.""She has »nf»red into an arrangement with Liv

Kun V!. Viceroy of Nan-King, who is acting

on behalf of the other friendly viceroys andgovernors, regarding the course they will pursueIn the way of. aiding Japan apainst Russia. Itis understood that they have promised to place

the telegraphic communications and transport

facilities at the service of Japan."

NEW RUSSIAN PLEDGES.

form. The few thousand dollars which, during

Ills court m.irti.il trial, he confessed to have Inbank, he said he received from his wealthyfather-in-law, R. F. Westcott, of Brooklyn ButMr Westcott ha.s denied positively ever havingjjiven to Carter any of the large sums of moneyCarter claims to have received from him. Car-t> rs wife died several years before he pot intotrouble, but he continued to claim, even afterth-^ court martial sentence was published, thatthe father of his v ad wife lavished money bythe tens of thousands and other irifts upon him.

V.'h. ;¦•• the other uv.ncy stol r: by c arter andhis accomplices— a matter of .<l..".<t»i.tnx> hasKone. [s still a question to be legally deter-

B. D. Gre< ne and John F. Gaynor. ofNew-York, were named in The .•¦urt martial

• . ¦

¦ 'arter. Bui they are civll-u iof course ituld not be tried by a miii-

in>v court. However, they have be*q indictedby the United Statei District Court for the

m District of Georgia at Savannah, huten arraigned. It Is s;dci ar the

Department of .' •IfGreene and Gay-

nor ar-- convicted wn>-n finally t'roußht to trial:it Savannah, the government will take thesame course for the recovery <>f th^ money fromthem which is about to !>.¦ taken in the c.i?-- ofCarter Greene is ;tls>> .in ex-army offlcfr, an i,!!!•;•¦ Carter, he b long d to the Engineer Corps.He resigned from the an '-ars ago,;iti'ibecame s ; irtner of Gaynor in the contract-

Their business waa mainly \\;thMi-- government They operated undi r tho nameOf the Atlantic I y i;nynor

¦ en prominent tn Dei politics inNew-York, and at one time was treasurer of thel'¦ nocratic s rate Commit:. •

CARTER'S REMARKABLE RECORD.Army officers, from Lieutenani General Miles

anil Adjutant-General Corbin down to those ofthe lowest grades, declare thai in some respectsOberlin M. Carter la the mjosi remarkable maneve- graduated from West Pojnt. FYom his firstto vis last year at thai Institution he .•¦to,.d atthe head of his class, graduating with a higheraverage than has been attained by ;.n>- othercadel :if the Military Academy. He was ;i^-

slgned to the Engineer Corps after entering thearmy, and Boon attained In that branch of the.*• r\ i.c a standing which corresponded with hisunprecedented standing at Wesi Point. Whenthe discovery of his peculations was made atSavannah by bis successor, Captain Gillette,Cart- r was in London as military attach^ of theAmerican Embassy He also had been namedas chief engineer of the Walker Nicaraguac.niiil Commission, i"it had not reported fordutj.

Th names «if the confidential agents of theDepartment of Justice who have located themoney I '• by Carti r am >¦ nItl hi !I :•¦ the of-flclals, although they will !.e mad.' known whenthe attachment proceedings are begun. A highofficer of the department said to-day t<> a rep-resentative of The Tribune: "The men who formore than two years have been tracing themoney stolen by Carter know where nearlyevery cent of it is at this moment. That is. theyhavi located by nami and amount every in-vestment made by Carter, and finally will re-cv.-r nearly the whole .-1111011111 stnien from thegovernment by Carter and his ji tmplices.When Carter servea out his term of five yearsat Leavenworth Imposed by the court martialthis department may prosecute him on othercriminal charges."

/'. C AVO.V ACCEPTS.

GROUND TO DEATH UNDER WHEELS

THE FIRST TIME HE GOES OUT

AT NIGHT.

A harrowing trolley accident occurred lastnight in Summer-aye.. Newark, resulting in th.-

death of a boy. and serious injury of his sister.Mrs. Harry Chad wick, of No. NT Summer-aye.,

tent her son Thomas, five years old, and his sis-

ter Ella eight years old, on an errand. It wasthe first time she had trusted them out at night,

for fear of the trolley cars, and she accompanied

th<»m to the door and saw them start.

Three minutes afterward she heard shouts in

the street, and, going to the door, met a mancarrying her daughter, who was badly injured.

She was not told until later about the boy.

The children were crossing the street when acar of the Forest Hill line bore down upon them

as they were between the tracks. Some people

on the sidewalk said afterward that the girl

could have escaped injury,but tried to save her

brother. She was hurled some distance.The boy was struck squarely and literally

ground to death under the car, every bone being

broken. It was necessary to Jack up the carto release his body. The- neighborhood is aquiet section. "Tom" Kramer, the motorman.and Thomas Pearce, the conductor, were lockedup at the Second Precinct police station. Themotorman asserted thai the car was running at

moderate speed, and that the accident was un-avoidable, as he put his brake down hard.

THE OPHIR REACHES ADEX.Aden, Aprils.— The. steamer Ophir. with the Duke

and Duchess of Cornwall and York on hoard, whicharrived h«»re to-day, received the usual salutes, andthe cuntomary official visits were exchanged. TheDuke and Duchess are in excellent health and arethoroughly enjoying their trip.

The Ophir on April 1 passed the .steamer Indiain th* Gulf of Suez, with I*ady Curzon, wife ofLord Ciirzon of Kedleston. Viceroy of India, onboard. The two steamers exchanged greetings.

( AR KILLSHOY;SISTER HURT

EXTORTION PRACTISED.

In the first month of his dictatorship Castrocalled to his presence a number of wealthy rep-resent merchants and bankers, and in-

formed them that they must contribute to thesupport of his government. According to his

own estimate of the amount of their fortunes, he

fixed the sum which each shpuld pay into histreasury at once. The amounts ranged from$20.0<X> to £60.000.

According to the statement of one who per-

sonally knew all the victims, most of them sub-

mitted forthwith, believing discretion to be the

better part of valor;but a few of them objected,

thereby proving their lack of diplomacy. For

these refractory ones only quitted the presence

of the Dictator to learn that they were prisoners,

and straightway found themselves conveyed to

THE DICTATOR MULCTS CITIZENS AND*

FOREIGNERS ALIKE, IMPRISONS AT

HIS PLEASURE AND ANNULS

CONCESSIONS ARBITRARILY. \

Th*> following story purports tn jsly«> mclear anil truthful Account of the condition*and circumstance* rr-iponilblo for thestrained relation, lir.i.,-,,. lh«» Inlt-,1State*and Venezuela. Itcomes from a writer tat*.1> well known i,, .Nm-Vnrk. not connectedwith The Trlbane, For the pnrnnse ofverify-ing thin story and slvlnK all concerned a.fair opportunity to make whatever crlti-••»•»• or corrections they dealred, printedproofs were submitted to th* Venezuelan,I-eeration in Wajihlnston, the VenezuelanConsulate in this city.

The fact that Frank L. Loomis. United. StatesMinister to Venezuela, has been called to Wash-ington has released an avalanche of informa-tion concerning the methods of the Venezuelangovernment headed by Castro, the Dictator.New-York business men who own large com-mercial Interests in Venezuela, and who are*kept informed by their representatives in Ca-racas of the state of affairs in our ever turbu-lent sister republic, have within the last few*days {riven to the -writer facts long: withheld.

From these merchants it is learned that th«Dictator. Cipriano Castro, is revising the consti-tution to suit his revolutionary policy.He called;'his Congress together February 20. a mil

—whose members are all of Castro's chooElnsr.Th« first act of his minions. thus assembled,was to pass, according to his orders, an amend-ment to the constitution extending the term, ofoffice of the President from four years to six.This was done without any pretension of con-sulting the choice of the people. During th<*first week in March he appointed as membersof his Cabinet seven men •who have learnedthat it is best to subjugate their will to that «£

Ithe Dictator.Castro has been Dictator ever since he drova

President Andrade by force of arms from th*Yellow House. Venezuela's Executive Mansion,

Ieighteen months ago. As the self-appointed;| constitutional President he has yet to serve th«remaining year of Andrade's term, which doe 3

inot expire tillFebruary 20. 1002. Then. accord-Ing to his revision of the constitution, he willenjoy six years more in office, making eight and'one-half years altogether. The reason for hladesire to remain chief executive as long:as pos-»'

slble will appear later.Meanwhile, the real President of Venezuela is

Andrade The day the revolutionary forces,

under General Castro, fought their way intoCaracas at one end. Andrade left th*city at th»other end. and boarded a gunboat which carriedhim to Barbadoes. With a degree of finesse pos-sessed only by politicians of South Americanrepublics, he sent the gunboat back to Castro,with his compliments, and with a note saying-that his "distinguished successor** in office might

ineed It. Andrade is to-day in the island ofCuracoa. which he- has chosen as the start-

;ins point of the proposed expedition, and wherehe Is now preparing, -In a practical.— material"way, for action. If h? succeeds in landing inVenezuela, interesting developments in the situ-ation there may be expected: for it is statedthat the soldiers of the Venezuelan army, to aman. love Andrade. as they fear and hate Cas-tro. It will be a case parallel, though on asmaller scale, with Napoleon's return from Elba.

NOW AN ABSOLUTE MONARCHY.

In the interim Castro reigns, and Venezuela,as the knowing ones say. is in every practicalsense an absolute monarchy. It Is a republiconly in name. A movement of Castro's littlefinger, the liftingof his eyelid, his

—this

Is the law in Venezuela.It is said that Castro's power, self-assumed, la

hardly exceeded by the power possessed by the.Czar. The taking of human life is theonly Czariike prerogative which the Dic-tator has not taken la himself. In Venez-uela there is no such thing as capital pun-ishment. Crime's penalties stop at Imprison-

ment for ten years. In the case of one man,however. Castro said. "There shall be capitalpunishment," and there was. The man wasshot. General Acosta. revolutionary leader,

friend of Andrade and enemy of Castro, was the-victim. He had dared to take up arms againstthe Dictator. He was the head of the revolu-tionary party in the field. Castro declared: "If,

ever Icapture Aecsta Iwill shooi him Acorrespondent for a weekly newspaper, who re-cently returned from Venezuela, telJs howAe<Mta was capture and, in spite of the lawagainst this form of punishment, was shot, by

Castro's order, on February 11> last. Acostawas the first revolutionary leader— and in Venez-uela such leaders are legion—to suffer punish-

ment by death.All Venezuela, itis asserted. Is in the grip of

the mailed and merciless hand of the Dictator.Government dignitaries, the justices of thecourts, local officials in the various cities andStates, retain their places as long only as theyobey, without question, the orders of the Dic-

tator. The merest glimmer of suspicion with,regard to an official leads to his Instant removal,

followed very often with Incarceration. InJanuary last two justices of th* Supreme Courtfailed in a certain case to ha .'ldown a decisionthat accorded with the Dictator's notion ofJus-tice. These judges were thrown into a dungeon

cell, and kept there until they agreed to think

with Castro's mind. 0In dealing with those who come in personal

contact with him. one who knows him well de-clares that ha gives little heed to words, butusually watches the speaker's eye? and the ex-pression of his face. Ifhe doubts the man's sin-cerity, questions his loyalty, thinks he is play-ing a game, believes he is double dealing, away

with him to the Rotunda, the vilest prison InCaracas.

THE UNITED STATER ASSURED THAT

OCCUPATION OF MANCHURIA

IS ONLY TEMPORARY.

lET TEI-EORAPH to THE ibwitxe.lWashington. April !».— Russia has disarmed

roc. of the opposition to the Manchurian agree-

ment by removing the obnoxious secrecy of that

document and making new pledges as to its

temporary character. As a result of the Rus-¦Jaa representation* just made. It Is believedthat China will be no longer encouraged not toelm the agreement, and that under these satis-factory assurances order will be restored In

Manchuria by Russia alone, with neither theassistance nor the opposition of the other pow-er" and without leading to war or to the dis-

memberment of China.The Russian note addressed to the United

States Government was delivered to Secretary

Hay last night, and was almost Immediatelypfamd. before the resident. While it is not yet

rneAf-. public. it 1* Bald to satisfy this govern-

ment that Russia does not Intend to despoilChina by the acquisition of Manchuria, hut thatth*- Russian troops which are required to pre-*rv#> order there and safeguard the railways

and Russian colonists are to be withdrawn asrapidly a* circumstances will permit.'* The

ratios] that the operations are to be not

Cn'y temporary, but hastened to the earliestconclusion, and the pledge that the occupation*•

under no circumstances to be permanent or(lt long duration, are said to|be of a convincing

haracter. and practically to minimize appre-hension as to Russia's sincerity of purpose. The*"ff^ct of this communication, which, by Its cor-dial expresßioriß materially relieves the acute

• DAILYSERVICE TO FLORIDA.The Seaboard Air Line Railway has decided to

continue its "FLORIDA AND METROPOLITAN-LIMITED."leaving New York at 1.-oo P. M. daily,for Jacksonville. Fla. This train willb* operate!

solid through to St. Augustine Mondays. Wednes-days and Fridays until April24th. Through Train.'.Sleeping Cars. Dining Cars. ObservaUoa Cui.Office* 357 and 1306 Broadway.—Adv.t.

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ODELL FAVORS THE BILL.

THE GOVERNORS VIEWS ON AMENDMENTS

TO CHARTER REVISION.

Albany. April 5 (Special).— Governor Odell ex-pressed his heart? satisfaction to-night with thework done by the Charter Revision Co— an.lby thi> committees of the legislature in revising thecharter of New-York. "Ib»>ileve." he said, "the

amendments have greatly Improved the charter.He added that the chief purpose Of those mem-

bers of the legislature Who had charge of the re-vision was to concentrate the responsibility of ad-ministering the city's affairs in the hands of of-ficials elected by th" people. There had been 111amendments made to the Charter Revision bill asit was drawn up by the commission, but must ofthese amendments merely touched matters of de-tail, and were made for the purpose of simplifyingcertain provisions of the charter.

"Perhaps the most Important of the amendmentsare those relating to the Mayor." continued theGovernor. He expressed the opinion that the re-duction of the Mayor's term to two years would begenerally commended. ifa Mayor proved to be agood official he could now be renomloated and re-elected, since- the provision making him Ineligible

for re-election had been stricken out.

The conferring upon the Mayor authority to re-move subordinates throughout his term of office

, was also, said Governor OdeU, an excellent Idea.."Ifany of his subordinates prove to be unfit for

office." he added, "the Mayor should have thepower to remove them and the responsibility fortheir continuance in office should rest solely uponhim."

The Governor further said that he thought theplacing of the Dock Department under one headwas an excellent amendment. Controller Coler ha«Jsaid that the present board of three- Dock Com-missioners had the power to run the city Into debtto any amount, without regard to the constitutionaldebt limit. The Charter Revision bill very properlygave to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment,whose members- would be elected by the people, sole jcontrol of all the city expenditures. Thus mendirectly responsible to the people would have chargeof the financial affairs of New-York.

Lastly, the Governor called attention to the pro-vision of the Charter" Revision bill Intended toprevent the removal of employes of the Street'

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*Continued on arrond pane.

PENNSYLVANIA LIMITED TO ST. LOUISMakes the run from New

-York la twenty-elgUt

hours. No extra fare,—Advt. ,-— '

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COMMISSION OP TMK NEW ATTORNEY-GEN-BRAL SIGNED BY THE PRESIDENT.

Washing m, Ar.ril 5.- When the Cabinet metto-day President McKlnley announced to themembers that P. C. Knox, of Pittsburg. ha.] ac-cepted the Attorney-Generalship, which was of-fered to him last week. Mr Kntix's commission,which is dated to-day, waa signed immediatelyafter the President announced his acceptance.

GOVERNMENT DETECTIVES FIND WHERETHE) GREATER PART OF THE EX-CAP-

TAIN'S STEALINGS WENT.

fnT TKXJBOBAFIITO TDK TRir.rVE.]Washington, April r>.— lmportant devlop-

ments in the sensational Oberlin M. Carter caseare likely to occur within a few day?1. Cartwas convicted by a court martini three years

ago of gigantic swindling operations against thgovernment while he, as a captain In the Corps

of Engineers, had charge of th" harborImprovements near Savannah. Ga. CarterIs now serving a sentence of five year

Imprisonment In the government penitentiaryat Leavenworth, Kan. Another part o* . the.punishment inflicted on him by the courtmartial was a fine of $5,000, dishonorabledismissal from the army, and to be p.-petually barred from associating or commu-nicating with officers of the army on the penaltyof dismissal of every officer who speaks to him.Major-General E. B. Otis, the first MilitaryGov-ernor of the Philippines, wan president of thcourt martial which tried Carter.

Up to the time he was convicted of stealing

hundreds of thousands of dollars from the gov-ernment. Carter was under the jurisdiction ofand was prosecuted by the War Depart!Since then the civil authorities of th<» government, acting through the Department of Jus-tice, have been quietly, but vigorously and re-lentlessly, tracing stop by step the money Car-ter stole, and now have the great bulk of it lo-cated, and are about ready to recover it andturn ft back into the Treasury.

PARTNERS GOT TWO-THIRDS.The total stealings, covering the period of

about ten years, In which Carter had control ofthe river and harbor Improvements at Savan-nah, amounted to something like $2,500,000!Only one-third of this sum was kept by Carteras his share of the I die." The other two-

thirds went to Carter's partners In crime. TheDepartment of Justice has discovered that Car-ter's profits from the shrewd swindling Bchenwhich he worked successfully for so long a timewere $722,000. The government detectives whofor three years have been on the ex-army offi-cer's trail have located nearly every cent ofthis money, and as soon as certain unimportantdetails are completed the legal steps necessaito recover it will be taken by the Department ofJustice. Attachments will be sworn out byUnited States District Attorneys in New-TorCity, in Savannah, and at other places whereCarter invested the stolen money, and it Is notImpossible that as a result of these proceedingthe arrest of two or three well known men,charged with knowingly taking part in protecting Carter's stealings, will follow.

It has been learned that Carter Invested themoney as fast as he stole it. Tie put the mostof it in gilt edged securities, and some of it heInvested in real estate around New-York. Allof these securities, as well as the real estate,have been located, and the government willswoop down on them as soon as the attach-ments are obtained.

CARTER'S FIGHT FOR LIBERTY.Whether or not Carter's lawyers will light th

proceeding Is not known, it is known, how-ever, that they have exhausted every meansknown to the law to get Carter out of thLeavenworth Penitentiary. Only two or threeweeks ago one of his lawyers in Chicago tried Philander C tLitoX was born

,„Brownsville

to secure his liberation on habeas corpus pro- !Finn, on MayI1853 Hi- father was David S.ceedings, brought in the United States Circuit Knox, a banker. He attended Mount Union Col-Court at St. Louis. When the court denied the le£<". Alliance. Ohio, graduating in 1812. In his cnl-application for this writ, Carter's attorneys an- If'e'> days he became acquainted with President Me-nounced that they had not given up the fight I

Kinl(>>'. who at that time was prosecuting attorneyfor him. though what their next move will or for Stark County. After completing his college

can be is not known. But even If,by the ills- !™Urfe Mr' Xn°* went to Pltrshl""S. and entered

co^ °'rr fata, .echn,™, ... iM.&£!'i:"':'" Bggg£S3g «g ™',;is':;,"

and conviction, the lawyers should succeed in I Mr. .scope's successor. David Reed. Mr Knox wasgetting him out of the penitentiary, the govern- j admitted to the Allegheny County bar in Januarymerit's purpose to recover the $700,000 of Car- j ISTS. Soon afterward he was appointed Assistantter's stealings could not be stopped. Indeed It United States Attorney for the Western Districtis not thought that Carter would right the pro- ,

" Pennsylvania. He resigned this office in 1818, to

cedure at all ifhe could secure his release from US"m.fr,prlv3to practice. In March. 1*77. he formed

\u0084 . , a partnership with J. H. Reed, which exists atprison; but Ifhe does not gain his liberty it Is \ present. Mr. Knox has been connected with manybelieved he will advise his lawyers to fight to ; ';!I;!Iknown suits. He was president of the Perm-..... sylvanis Bar Association in lS!i" and attracted atsave the money which the government says he : ttntion by an address before that body on corpora"stole. j «f°ni>}?f K

He is a member of the Duquesne Club.Even from his prison cell at Leavenworth Car- &T."^ £**Z?<s\£H£%e£^ljr«2l

ter has issued two or'three long statements de- Hl".rirbe

stongs*^\^Vlirori^ *™™y£»*¦nying his guilt, and asserting that he is the yers" Club, of New-York, and the Lawyers' Club,victim of army persecution. Inthese statements

° Philadelphia.

he also denied that he had any considerable SHORT LINE TO CHICAGO AND ST LOUISamount of money Invested anywhere or in any The Pennsylvania Railroad is the connecting link; , between New York and the commercial centres of

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