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4 T HE ST. PAUL GLOBE TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1898. Published Daily. Sundays and Weekly. NEWSPAPER ROW. Fourth ond Minnesota Street*. St Paul, Minnesota. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. ■ 7 ~~ 6 12 mo mos mos *-) al l v " .4 0c $2 .25 |4 .00 Daily Hn."Sum!ay".... .60c 1.75 5.00 Sunday J* 52 /Weefc •.- ** 00 Entered at Postoffice at St. Paul, Minn., as Second-class Matter. Adiiress all communications and make all Remittances payable to THE GLOBE CO.. St. Paul. Minnesota. Anon .ni jjus communications not noticed. Re jex Zc. manuscripts will not be returned un less accompanied by postage. BRANCH OFFICES: New York 10 Spruce St. W-iKliliiKton Corcoran Eullding < lii«-ii»rt....Room 609, No. 87 Washington St HOW TO ORDER. ; Orders for the delivery of THE ST. PAIL GLOBE, either rebidence or place or business, may be made by postal card or through telephone. Any irregularity In de livery should be TMMEDIATELY reported to the rfflre of publication. ' CHANGE OF ADDRESS. t«" Subscribers ordering addresses of their papers changed must always leave their for mer as well as present address. TELEPHONES: GLOBE Publication Offlce 1065 Editorial looms 78 TUESDAY'S WEATHER. Fair and Warmer. By l'nitod States Weather Bur<v.u. MINNESOTA— Fair and warmer; southerly winds. NORTH DAKOTA— Fair and warmer; south erly winds. SOUTH DAKOTA— Fair aud warmer; south erlj winds. Fair and warmer; southerly winds. WISCt *JSlN— Fair; warmer; fresh northerly winds, becoming variable. MONTANA— PartIy cloudy weather, with showers In western portions; cooler in western portion; westerly winds. _ESTERDAY*S TEMPERATURES. The Northwest. St. Paul ~i- Prince Albert 61 Duluth J'.S CaU.irv 74 Huron 51 Medicine Hat 74 Bismarck B0 Swift Current 68 Wil_HtOii BOjQu'Appelle 55 Havre SO Minnedaaa , r 2 Helena 78 Winnipeg 52 Batt! .■.■;Vrd 08' Buffalo KO-541 Montreal 4V-56 Boston 12-illXew Orleans ....72-76 Chey.mue 6->"-70i New York 46-50 Chicago -ii* il Pittsburg 51-CO Cincinnati 50 _\ OCEAN LINERS. NEW YORK— Arrived: in Normandie, Havre: Moravia. Hamburg. LIVERPOOL— Arrived: Corinthia. Bostof. GIBRALTAR— SaiIed: Fulda. New York. Arrived: Aller, New York for Naples and Genoa. HAVRE — Arrived: La Champagne, New York. a VTWERP— Arrived: Friesland. Nev York. BREMEN— Arrived: Saul. New York via Clurbour*:. TODAY'S EVENTS. METROPOLITAN— "The Wrong Mr. Wright." GRAND— Marie Wainwright in "Shall We Forgive Her." First Ward Democrat-Citizens' meeting, Sal vation Army hall, 8 PM. Sixth Ward Democrat-Citinns' meeting, 817 Ohio street, 8 PM. Eighth Ward Democrat-Citizens' meeting, Weiler'a hall, 8 PM. Fifth Ward Democrat-Ci*i-:cns' meeting, St. Francis' hall. 8 PM. fee;, id Ward Demo'-rat-Cit'-iens' meeting, SonneUalb hall. 8 PM. Eighth Ward Democrat-Citizens' meeting Minnohah and Dale, 8 PM. Ninth Ward Democrat-Citizens' meeting Knights of Labor hall. 8 PM. Art Exhibition, Rice building, day and even ing. — = — Spain's flying squadron is the Ca nary fleet. — Every dog has his day. The dogs oT war are taking theirs. —Those big guns want a chance to speak on the question before the house. —On board the flagship New York, off Havana. — "All Is quiet along the Potomac." —The big gun 3at Morro do about as little damage when they speak as the big guns in the senate. — While other Spaniards are contrib uting their fortunes, Weyler might give his typewriter to the service of his country. —"Tomorrow" was said to be the watchword of the administration, and to Morro is the watchword of the fleet Off Havana. —Spain has laid down the rules un der which this flght is to proceed. They are not London prize rings, nor Marquis of yueensberry, but they suit Spain. —It is curious how soon Spain rec ognized war after the Nashville flred on the Buena Ventura. For years past she hasn't known war when she saw it down in Cuba. —Since Rear Admiral Sampson has been making a naval demonstration in Cuban waters the European powers have come to the conclusion that one on their part had better be postponed. —In the war orders Issued by the Ninth New York each man is required to carry a hair brush, a whisk broom twenty-four handkerchiefs, etc. It is not stated whether he Ib to carry a gun or not. —News from abroad says that hun dreds of Greeks have made application for enlistment in the United States army. As the United States has no flying squadron in Its land forces their services will be declined. —President Patton, of Princeton, say« this la an age of second-class men. Can It be that President Patton does not know Mr. Joel Heatwole. of Northfleld Mr. Frederic C. Stevens, of St. Paul, and Gen Lew Wallace, of Indiana? An Enemy of Our Schools. J. J. McCardy, during the entire pe riod of his incumbency of the comp troller's office, has been in more or less antagonism to our public schools. In this respect he stands In striking con trast with Anthony Yoerg, who has al ways, in or out of office, proved him self the earnest friend of the schools. The man who strikes at the school hits nine-tenths of the voters as well, lie hurts them and pleases the other tenth, who either have no children, or are wealthy enough to give them pri vate Instruction, or care more for their money than they do for their children oi the state. He strikes at the schools who impairs their efficiency. This is done when tax ation ls reduced so that needed school room cannot be provided; when night seh- o s, for the lar^e number who would get what early misfortune prevented them from getting, are debarred; when salaries must be cut down and the best teachers are engaged by other cities where adequate compensation is paid. He strikes at our schools who re mains the old fogy, with his antiquat ed notions of education, and refuses to accept the improvements that have come into educational methods as well as into every other department of human activity. Suoh would have our schools plod along ln the rut where they were when he had his training, while every other branch ls driven by the dynamo; he would read by a candle dip when electric lights counterfeit sun light. McCardy has been all these. As comptroller and as citizen, he has done all he could to impair the capacity of the schools. When it was discovered that the parsimony of a few owners of vacant real estate and empty boom buildings had secured a reduction of real estate valuations, which caught the schco's between the decreased val uation and the arbitrary limitation of percentage of taxation for support of the schools, McCardy set himself in opposition to the steps taken for relief. He opposed the measure pending in the legislature to increase the limit of tax levy from 2% to 3% mills on the dollar, leviable for support of the schools. He argued against it before the chamber cf commerce. He stated to it that the levy was sufficient for this year, after the reductions that had been made in the wages of teachers. His statement induced that body to vote against the request for legislative relief. Representing the business ele ment of the city this action was in fluential with the legislature. It was this situation that impelled the movement to secure for the city a home rule charter in order that the high standing our schools had attained might be restored, for McCardylsm had lowered it. If that source of relief is denied by an adverse vote, if the char ter ls rejected, McCardyism will prevail and our schools will continue the back ward movement taken since parsimony and avarice got in their work on them. There is but one course open for the voter who cares more for the welfare of his ohildren than for his pocket or his party. Next Tuesday he must go into the booth and vote the new charter and Yoerg in and McCardy and Mc- Cardyism out. Th 2 Dispatch Spoils the Gam 3. Really, Mr. Hiler Horton, as director general of the double-headed Repub lican campaign, should put the brakes on his organ. It is overdoing the trick badly. There was a certain adroitness in the plan of campaign that brought Erwin out as a "Democratic" candidate, but its whole success rested in its hav ing the appearance of Independence. Had the organ acted with just ordinary sagacity voters not counted as dull of comprehension would never have per ceived the connection of the Kiefer and Erwin campaigns. But it is always risky to set a bungler at work that re quires finesse. . In its eagerness to ad vance Kiefer the Dispatch has played the Erwin part of the Republican cam paign too strongly. The thickest-witted voter ln the city sees now that Erwin is nothing but Kiefer's understudy. With Erwln's h-enchmen claiming that he will get only 3,000 votes lt Is a bit too gauzy to have the Dispatch solemnly warning the Republicans of the Seventh or of any ward that Kie fer's real opponent, the one to be feared is Erwin. That is rubbing lt in too thick. It makes the Erwin attachment to the Republican ticket too plain. In its Inception the plan had a certain cuteness, but it had to be played with an adept's hand, not with an appren tice's. We have no other concern in it than a dislike to see the game of poli tics played so bunglingly. These alli ances are worthless unless their con nection is artfully concealed. It would have made no difference with the re sult had the game been well played. Schiffmann would not have had quite so large a majority as he will now have. Some suckers would have been caught. Now none will be; nothing but a few incorrigible bullheads. But it is too bad to see Horton's ace trumped by his partner. A Path it ie Scandal. The retirement of John Sherman from the cabinet terminates a scandal tinged with pathos. The scandal lies In the events that placed him in the chair of the department of state; the pathos lies ln such an ending to such a career. When the administration of William McKinley is written by an Impartial pen, against what there ls of good ln it will be written the record of its sub servience to the manager of his ante convention and ante-election campaign. The story of the recklessness with which that manager pledged offices, the responsibility for the character of the appointees of which would rest alone upon the president, and that of the re demption of those pledges regardless of the bad character of the appointees, will be plainly told. The contrast will be drawn between this president and his Republican predecessor who refus ed to recognize similar pledges, as em phasizing the observation President Cleveland made to Representative Mil iikin that "this is no place for a mort gaged man." The manager demanded his reward. Public opinion opposed his appoint ment to the cabinet. John Sherman held the only place available. He was ending forty years of public service ln the senate. His mental powers were impaired to a degree that rendered him unfit for any other place. Mere force of mental habits, the momentum of past achievements, would let him be of some service there. Hanna wanted his place. Vanity, that blindness to decadence that characterizes advanced years, possibly some pressure, led Sherman' to accept the proffered pre miership. Hanna stepped Into his THE ST. PAUL GLOBE TUESDAY APRIL 26, 1893. place, flrst by appointment, second by questionable methods. Unfamiliar with the duties, unfitted for them, Incapaci tated for them by approaching senility, Sherman has been but a figurehead to his offlce. A decent interval has elaps ed, and he resigns. No one supposes that it ls done voluntarily. The cir cumstances refute any such assertion. He was brushed out of the senate to reward the manager. He is brushed out of the cabinet now that the reward is secured. The man who might have been president but for the chicanery of the man who sat at- the council table with him as war secretary, ends forty years of eminent service as a mere pawn in Hanna's game of politics. The ending of the careers of Clay and Web ster did not equal in pathos that of John Sherman. Terrenee ! It's all right, Terrenee Kenny. You needn't sit down and laboriously dictate a reply to the query propounded by The Globe scribe yesterday regarding the St. Paul Gas Light company, and your humble self. Prom information which we accept as authentic the gas com pany ls not spending money to elect aldermen from the Third or any ward. And as to the preparation of that re port, Terrenee, we absolve you. It is not in your style. And, come to recall the circumstances of Its presentation,' forgotten for the moment, the author and source were openly and frankly admitted, and you were neither the one nor the other, as was implied in the brief epistle addressed to you in The GI o b c's news columns yesterday. The company Is out of lt, Terrenee, but you are very much in it, when upo-i your record you presume to run fui a re-election in the Third. There are other subjects than gas upon which you can properly be ques tioned by your constituents, and the campaign is not yet ended. — The spirit of compromise never found ampler display than in those marvelously constructed sentences In which congress gave vent to its belli cosity. Compromise stretched a friend ly hand to the nationalist and to the unionist; to the obliterator of state rights and to their preserver, and beamed on each a conciliatory smile. She spread her generous arms and took the "Ares" and the "Ises" to her bos om. She proclaimed that "the United States hereby disclaim an intention," and the "Ares" clapped their hands at this recognition of their plurality. Then she blandly announced that "the Unit ed States asserts its intention," ard both pluralites and slngleites shouted, for in that wonderful jumble of numbers each was recognized. Unhappily the eld contention remains. Congress has straddled again. The country continues in doubt whether the United States "is" or "are." A Gu.ss — That Spain has abandoned thia continent for good, leaving Blanco and the nrst of th* Spaniards bottled up In the yellow fever Isle That our fleets will need the strongest glasses ever made to discover the where abouts of Spanish vessels In Western Afantic waters. That Sagasta was fooling the Madrid mob as well as toying with American diplomacy when he put on such a war-like front. That the mob will have its way aud we shall here more of warfare on the Iberan peninsula than on the high seas. That the Havanese will weaken early, hav ing no liking for the fate that befell so'ma:*y thousands of hungry reconcentrados. That this government will ultimately re lease the rum-laden vessel towed into port by the Associated Press correspondent, the lumber schooner and sundry other worms siezed early by our alert navy— for we must do no injustice to the Spaniards. That Woodford will never go back to Spain — he ls too credulous. That the bitterest opponent of John Sher man will never hold him the most remotely responsible for this war. That the Temerario will never be fouml at Montevideo, Buenos Ayres or aay other port south or north of the equator by the battle ship Oregon. That this "war" may laßt 30, 60 or 90 days, and the complications thereafter for five years— and never ba settled to the entire satisfaction of the Spaniards. That the national pension roll will not be sufficiently augmented to enable Hanna to carry this country ln 1900. DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL. METROPOLITAN. Mr. Roland Reed presented Broadhurst's "The Wrong Mr. Wright" to a large audi ence at the Metropolitan last evening, and also delivered a speech that was by no means the least funny part of the show. The speech was made in response to a persistent curtain call at the close of the second act. He said a good many funny things, and he did not lay his hand on his heart and tell how profoundly grateful he was. He likewise neglected to bore his hearers by going into the ethics of the stage and he said he must decline to make the performance a continu ous affair. He was altogether very happy and added to the favorable impression made on the audience by the comedy. "The Wrong Mr. Wright" has been seen here before and there is nothing to add to the good things that were then said of it. Mr. Reed is always clever ln whatever he does, and there are few comediennes on the stage who are the equal of Miss Rush. She is bright, beautiful, extremely graceful, and her gowns are good to look upon. More over she can act. The same is, in measure, true of the rest of the people in the cast. Mr. Sheridan Tup per was unctuously good as Wayland Cling stone. Mr. Owen Westford was really funny in make-up, and reading as Lord Brazenface, Mr. Charles S. Abbe and Mr. Harle Brown were quite equal to what ls required of them as Frederick Bonds and Lieut. Crosby, re spectively. Miss Maude White ls a charming young woman who has the art terpslchorean very much at her command. She is refreshingly chic in manner, and her dancing was repeat edly encored. The rest of the people were up to all the requirements of the comedy. A notable Incident of the performance was the outburst of applause that held the stage empty for several minutes on the going up of the curtain on the third act. The scene presented ls the Interior of Portress Mon roe and from a flag staff on the parapet there was flying m tiny silk American flag that was fluttering in the breeze. That started the house into a burst of applause which be came most enthusiastic when there was pres ently run up under the stars and stripes, the* flag of Cuba Libre. The thing was a bit stagy, but it went with a hurrah and put the house in such humor that it would have ap plauded much worse acting than that which followed. Mr. Reed and his company will give the same play tonight and at the matinee Wednesday. Wednesday evening "A Man of Ideas" will be given here for the flrst time. Entertainment nt the Hnmboldt. A musical and literary entertainment will be given by the class of '98 of the Humbldt high school Thursday evening. The following ls the programme: Piano Solo Miss Louise Chryst Recitation Genevieve Bode Hen ° ol ° • Georgia Geddes Recitation Miss Slotterbec S&X | 00 Mr- John Jaeger Vo vai Solo . Mlss Flora Hare Recitation Genevieve Bodelsen Vocal Solo Morrle Jeff §vet- MiSS SloUerbe <- Mlss J. Davis and Mr. Adelbert Barker Vocal Solo Morrle .leffry Series of Tableaux. "America" ; Chords J. CONGRESS UNITED FOR WAR THE DECLARATION PASSES BOTH HOUSES UNANIMOUSLY Lens Tliiin Two . Minute* In the Hou-te Nearly Two Uoon' De hate, One Amendment Voted Down and Another Withdrawn Warn the Record of the Senate The Law of the Land at « O'Clock. WASHINGTON, April 25.— The house of representatives today passed the bill declaring the existence of a state of war between the United States and the kingdom of Spain. The speaker signed it at 4:49 p. m., just prior to adjourn ment. The president's message was read im mediately after the opening prayer. The speaker simply ordered it referred un der the rules, to the committee on for eign affairs, and printed for the in formation of the house. The house then proceeded with the consideration of District of Columbia business. No interest was manifested in the proceedings until after 1 o'clock. Act ing Chairman Adams entered the house, and the news that the commit tee had unanimously agreed upon a bill declaring the existence of a state cf war was known all over the house. Mr. Adams held hurried consultations with the speaker and Messrs. Dlnsmore and Berry, of the minority of the com mittee. At 1:20 p. m. he asked unanimous consent for the consideration of the bill declaring the existence of a state of war between this country and the king dom of Spain. There was not a mur mur of dissent. The bill was read. Mr. Maguire (Dem., Cal.) arose to ask a question, but re frained. The question was put on the third reading and passage of the bill, and in a magnificent chorus the whole house responded? "aj/e." The announce ment of its passage was greeted with a round of applause, and a cheer or two from the flpor and galleries. There was no excitement. It required exact ly one minute and; forty-one seconds for the house -to pass the bill. The house of representatives had simply paused in the consideration of its rou tine business to pass a declaration cf war. Mr. Maguire explained subsequently that his purpose in rising was to ask whether the declaration in the bill that war had existed since April 21 was in tended to legalize the seizure of the Buena Ventura. "I consider that act and the other seizures up to this time," he said em phatically, "nothing more than piracy." In the Senate. The senate passed the war bill after a debate of an hour and a half's dura tion, conducted in secret session. The debate wad based on an amend ment offered .by Senator Turpie, pro viding for the recognition of the belli gerent rights of the insurgent Cubans, the amendment being substantially in the following language: "We hereby recognise the rights of the riUy h r, der Gen ' Maximo Gtoie. to bl treated aa belligerents, the freedom and £■ dependence of the Cuban people having here tofore been recognized by act of congress." The same amendment had been urg ed in the committee on foreign relations previous to the reporting of the bill to the senate and the Indiana senator only agreed to the bringing in of the bill on condition that his amendment should be presented to the senate. Both in committee and in the senate Mr Turpie made elaborate argument in support of his proposition. He con tended that so long as the insurgent rights of the Cubans were unrecogniz ed, they could only be regarded as sub jects of Spain, and hence urged that our position in declaring for the recog nition of the freedom and independence cf the Cuban people was entirely in consistent with our refusal to recognize their belligerent rights. He also re peated his argument made when the resolution providing for the interven tion of this country in the Cuban war in regard to the interest of the holders of the Spanish bonds In preventing the due recognition of the rights of the Cuban insurgents.' The roll of the senate was called upon ihis amendment and it was defeated by a majority of fourteen, the vote standing 24 to 38. There was some criticism of the fact that the bill fixed a date In the past when the war had begun. Senator Pettigrew declared that the 21st instant was evidently used in order to make legal the capture of the lumber vessel, the Buena Ventura, on that date. He characterized this as a small piece of business for either the administration or congress to indulge in, and said that under the circumstances, if he had been president he would have returned the ship to Its owners. He predicted that the courts would, in the end, settle the claim against us regardless of this de claration. , Senator Davis replied briefly to this point, saying that the date was not fixed by the capture of the Buena Ven tura, but by the recognition of the Spanish government of a state of war as made on the 21st and as outlined in the president's message. Senator White took up the Pettigrew contention, holding that the president had not indicated any date for the be ginning of hostilities, but that he had rather shown in his message that he considered that the negotiations had by no means reached the point of hos tilities. "The president speaks," said the sen ator, "of our reasonable demands upon Spain. Did he expect Spain to take the view that his demands were rea sonable when he asked Spain to part with a large portion of her kingdom and to come up smiling in view of this polite request?" i Continuing, Mr. White said that it was his purpose I ' to Support the admin istration in all reasonable measures for the prosecution of the war, but he did not regard the fixing of this date as in any sense a response to a presidential request. There was a general plea on the part of senators for;speedy action on the bill and no amendment was pressed for a change of date. This motive also actuated Senator DaWs In withdrawing an amendment /Suggested by the com mittee on foreign /Rations directing the president to^prosecute the war to a successful termination. The withdraw al of this amendment left the bill Just as lt had passed the house, thus dis pensing with the necessity of a con ference and making it possible to send the bill to the president today. Gone to the President. The war bill was brought from the capital by the clerk of the enrolling division and reached the White house a few minutes before 6. The White house was almost deserted at the time no one of the cabinet being with the president except Attorney General Griggs. The enrolled copy was laid before the president in his office im mediately on its arrival and the attor ney general at once scanned carefully Its phraseology. The presidential sig- nature was affixed at 6:18, and the measure was then the law of the land. It will now follow the regular course of executive documents and will be sent to the rolls division of the state department, where lt will be printed and published as are other laws, and the original document will And its final resting place ln the archives of the state department, although, as with other momentous state papers, a pho tographic copy will probably be event ually prepared for exhibition in the de partment. M'KINLEYTs >IKSSV(.M. The President Calls I'juwn Congress to Declare War. WASHINGTON, April 25.— The presi dent today sent congress the following message, recommending a declaration of war against Spain: I transmit to the congress for its con sideration and appropriate aotion copies of correspondence recently had with the rep resentative of Spain in the United States, with the United States minister at Madrid, and through the latter with tho govern ment of Spain, showing the action taken under the Joint resolution approved April 20, 1898, 'Tor the recognition of the inde pendence of the people of Cuba, demanding ■ that the government of Spain relinquish Its authority and government in the Island of Cuba, and withdraw Its land and naval forces from Cuba and Cuban waters, and di recting the president of the United States to use the land and naval forces of the United States to carry these resolutions into effect." Upon communicating to the Spanish min ister in Washington the demand which it became the duty of the executive to address to the government of Spain, in obedience to said resolution, the said minister asked for his passports and withdrew. The United States minister at Madrid was In turn notified by the Spanish minister for foreign affairs that the withdrawal of the Spanish representative from the United States had terminated diplomatic relations between the two countries, and all offi cial communications through their respective representatives ceased therewith. I recommend to your special attention the note addressed to the United States min ister at Madrid, by the Spanish minister of foreign affairs on the 21st inst., whereby the foregoing notification was conveyed. It will be perceived therefrom that the govern ment of Spain, having cognizance of the joint resolution of the United States con gross, and ln view of things which the pres ident is thereby required and authorized to do, responds by treating the representative demands of this government as measures of hostilities, following with that instant and complete severance of relations by its ac tion whereby the usage of nations accom panies an existent state of war between sovereign powers. The position of Spain being thus made known, and the demands of the United • States being denied with a complete rup ture of intercourse by the act of Spain, I have been constrained in exercise of the power and authority conferred upon me by the joint resolution aforesaid, to proclaim under date of April 22, 1898, a blockade of certain ports of the north coast of Cuba, lying between Cardenas and Bahia Honda, and of the port of Cienfuegos on the south coast of Cuba, and further in exercise of my constitutional powers, and using the authority conferred upon me by the act of congress, approved April 22, 1898, to issue my proclamation, dated April 23, 1898, call ing for volunteers in order to carry into ef fect the said resolution of April 20, 1898. Copies of these proclamations are hereunto appended. In view of measures so taken, and with a view to the adoption of such other meas ures as may be necessary to enable me to carry out the expressed will of the congress of the United States in the premises, I now recommend to your honorable body the adoption of a joint resolut'on declaring that a state of war exists botween the United States of America and the kingdom of Spain, and I urge speedy action thereon to the end that the definition of the Interna tional status of the United States as a bel ligerent power may be made known, and the assertion of all its rights and the maintenance of all its duties in the con duct of a public war may be assured. —William McKinley. REQUEST FOR PASSPORTS. Woodford's Note to the Spanisii Min ister ot Foreign Affairs. WASHINGTON, April 25.— 1n the cor respondence accompanying the presi dents' message was the following: On April 21, IS9B, Minister Woodford tele graphed Secretary Sherman as follows Following is a text of my reply to the of ficial note received this morning at 7:80 from the Spanish minister of state: "I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt this morning of your note of this date informing me that the Spanish min ister at Washington has been ordered to withdraw with all his legation, and with out loss of time, from North American ter ritory. You also Inform me that by this act diplomatic relations between the two countries are broken off, that all official communication between their respective representatives ceases. I have, accordingly, this day, telegraphed the American consul general at Barcelona to instruct all the consuls of the United States in Spain to turn their respective consulates over to the British consuls, and to leave Spain at once. 1 have myself turned this legation over to her Britannic majesty's embassy at Madrid. That embassy will from this time have the care of all American interasts ln Spain. I now request passports and the safe conduct to the French frontier for myself and the personnel of this legatlon.- I intend leaving this afternoon at 4 o'clock for Paris. —Woodford.'' Other correspondence is as follows: On April 14 Secretary Sherman notified Mr. Woodford of the passage in the house the previous day of the Cuban resolutions and of the reporting to the senate of the United States the resolutions from the for eign relations committee. On that day Secretary Sherman wired: "Ultimate resolution in conference cannot now be forecasted, but will doubtless direct intervention by force if need be to secure free Cuba. The situation is most critical." On Sunday morning last, Acting Secretary Day notified Mr. Woodford of the passage by the senate of the resolution amending all of the house resolutions after the enact ing clause and informed him the house re cessed until Monday, and that if It non-con curred conference would follow. He again announced the ultimate form of resolution could not be foreseen. Last Tuesday Acting Secretary Day noti fied Minister Woodford of the final adop tion of the resolution by both houses. "An instruction will be telegraphed you later im mediately on the president signing the joint resolution. In the meantime you will pre pare for withdrawal from Spain and notify consuls to be ready for the signal to leave. If any consul Is In danger he may quietly leave at his discretion." On April 20, Secretary Sherman wired Minister Woodford the following: "Sanor Polo y Bcrnaibe has asked for his passports for himself, his family and suite. Unless previously handed your passports, you will be expected to remain near the court cf Spain until Saturday neon of this week, and unless by that date and hour some commu nication is received from the government of Spain wliich you deem will be satisfactory to this government, you are to ask for your passports and safe conduct." FEARS FOR ALASKA GOLD. Revenne Cntters Being Armed to Gnnrd Against Attack. CHICAGO, April 25.— Special telegram to the Chronicle from San Francisco, Cal.: The expectation that Spanish auxiliary cruisers from the Chilean and Peruvian coasts will attempt to cap ture the Klondike fleet and Its gr<:at wealth is causing every effort to be made to get the revenue cutters Rush, Corwin and Grant In fighting shape! Everything possible is being done at Mare island to get their armament placed. New precautions have beeen taken to guard San Francisco. If a hostile ship is sighted, a signal will be given, and all the lights and other marks of navigation about the bay will be obliterated. Fog signals will cease, and a foreign ship will not know Which way to turn. The crew of the fish commissioners' steamer Albatross has been ordered to report for duty tomorrow. The ship will be at once fitted with rapid-fire guns. DIED AT ST. LUKE'S. Joseph Fancet, ol Milbank, S. D. Who "Was Brought to St. Paul for Treatment. Joseph Fanset, a pioneer resident and mer chant of Milbank, S. D., died ln this city at St. Luke's hospital Sunday. Mr. Fanset came to St. Paul to receive treatment for a carbuncle on which an operation was nec essary. The remains were taken to Milbank for In terment yesterday. The deceased was fifty-nine years of age He went to Milbank in 1879 from Lake City MiDK [jTwmJsjSLij The Colonial Dames and the ti. A. R. Will -Work for the Country. Mrs. Cruch and Mrs. Walworth outline the proposed plans of the two organization. Mrs. Benjamin Silllman Cruch, a founder of the Colonial Dames of America, when asked what the organization would do to aid In the present struggle, said: "The national society and the state so cieties, together with the branches in the non-colonial states which form the national society will take action, and will also work ln unison, the component bodies carrying out the orders of the parent association as far as required." When pressed for more definite information as to the line of action, Mrs. Cruch stated that the Dames wouid provide nurses, and many of them would render personal service; that they would form sanitary commissions and special committees to look after sup plies. Mrs. Ellen Hardin Walworth, one of the founders and leaders of the Daughters of the American Revolution, made the following statement in regard to the action of the Daughters: "It is likely," she declared, "that the na tional society, whose headquarters are ln ■Washington, will issue a printed plan of action to be followed by the chapters through out the United States. There are now about 25,000 representative Daughters, and with their concerted and systematized efforts an almost incalculable amount of work of all kinds can be accomplished. It ls not that the Daughters are signally different from other American women, but they are splendidly organized, can strike at once, and co-operate on all sides. "I expect a longer pull than Is generally conceded," Interpolated Mrs. Walworth. "We are a young and confident country, but war once declared, lt means a long slego and a troublesome one. "A good part of the fighting is likely to take place near Cuba, and the Spanish are more accustomed to a hot and unwholesome climate than our men. There will be danger of low fevers as well as wounds, particularly yellow fever, and we must prepare for that phase." "The money for the work," said Mrs. Walworth, "will be raised chiefly by sub scription. I should not advise using the sums in the national or chapter treasuries, put there for special patriotic purposes. I am confident It would not take very long to secure any amount needed. Many will con tribute personally and get their friends to give, others will Institute entertainments and affairs of all kinds to draw ln outside sup plies. The members are an energetic and quick-witted Eet of ladles, and will devise all sorts of methods for raising the money." "I think it would be well to have a body of nurses recognized as belonging to the Daughters of the American Revolution, and subject to their orders. Many of them wouid probably be Daughters who had volunteered their services, others regular nurses paid for their labor." It is Mrs. Walworth's idea to establish a training school or to organize classes where women could be taught how to take care of the disabled soldiers. There are women physicians who would be more than willing to give courses In surgery and other training needed. It is her idea also to collect a special fund for an ambulance ship, to be known as the Daughters' ship, and subject to their orders. "It could be thorougl'l : equipped with hospital wards, doctors and nurse 3, and a.l the paraphernalia to go w!th them." Another Daughter suggests a correspond ence department where certain of the Daugh ters would be always on duty for the sole purpose of writing or reading for the sick zni wounded, to send letters or telegrams to thi relatives or friends of the sufferers and to take messages. Of the Interest and patrlot'sm exhibited within the organization Mrs. Walworth says: "I have already had letters from Daugh ters who p.re eager and anxious to take part if nerd be. A rich Western girl writes that she is prepared to donate her money, time and strength. Another an nounces that she will do anything — even to carrying arms. My own daughter is ready to do anything required of her, without a moment's warning, whether to nurs^ ln a hospital, give out supplies or go to the front with orders. I pledge myself to active work, and shall be glad to encourage other Daughters to do the same. "Although I speak pointedly in regard to the Daughters of the American Revo'.a tion," said Mrs. Walworth in conclusion, "I believe the true way ls for all the patriotic societies of women to unite, the Daughters taking the lead naturally, b? cause of their superior numbers; but to work ln uniEon — one grand sanitary army upon which the government could depenl, and who would go to the aid of officers, soldiers and sailors if the worst ccmos to worst." AS YOU LIKE IT. A little Irving school boy called attention yesterday to this fact that America's three great wars all began in April. Is it a fools' or a fighters' month? A little girl lying on her s'.omach on the floor, her heels kicking ln the air and her elbows resting on an open geography, sud denly burst forth with, "Well, there at last is Cuble! Wat a little country to make wat a fuss!" ' Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, of Pleasanton, Cal., is now the proud possessor of a dog kennel, for the erection of which she paid 157,000! Mrs. Rebecca Lash, aged 95 years, and a resident of Chelsea, Mass., knew Paul Revere personally. She describes the colonel as an old man of medium stature, with snow-white hair, knee-breeches and buckles, ruffled shirt and an especial love for a dressing gown of a large and somewhat conspicuous flower pat tern. IN CLUBDOM. Chicago boasts of three organizations whose membership ls confined to women writers. The oldest of the three is" the Illinois Woman's Press association, which was or ganized in 1885, with a charter membership of forty-two representative women, among whom were Frances Willard, Mary A. Ahrens, LL. D. ; Dr. Julia Holmes Smith, Dr. Sirah Hackett Stevenson, Dr. Alice B. SJjockham. Mrs. A. Shackle-ford Sullivan, Dr. Mary Weeks Burnett. Antoinette V. H. Wakeman, Mrs. Mllward Adams and Sarah Wilder Pratt. Over one hundred names, many of them dis tinguished, are now upon the books of the association, and its honorary members In clude Lady Henry Somerset, Lucinda B. Chandler and Mlss Anna Ballard, the flrst American woman to take up the work of a traveling correspondent for the press. The Chicago Press league and the Pen women's club, of Chicago, are the other two I organizations. The flrst Is for newspaper women exclusively and the latter for more leisurely journalists. The primary object of the three clubs Ib social relaxation and ma- i terial advancement. I The Rembrandt club, of Brooklyn, an or- ' ganlzation of art collectors, and art lovers, finding there were a few hundred dollars In i the trasury at the end of the season, voted to purchase a rare Chinese bronze to be given ' to the Brooklyn Institute museum. While the J Rembrandt club Is a close corporation in one sense, lt upholds no fads and refrains from 1 meddling in affairs lt might be a temptation ' to interfere with, but In its own quiet, taste- ! ful way it is a potent influence for the artistic welfare of Brooklyn. j When the field of hospital and private nurs- 1 ing was opened for women by Florence Night- ' ingale, Mrs. Browning wrote: "The nursing J movement Is a revival of old virtues. Slnco the siege of Troy and earlier we have had ' princesses binding wounds with their hands. ■ It is strictly the woman's part, and men un- ' derstand It so. Every man Is on his knees ( before ladies carrying lint, whereas If they I stir an inch as thinkers or artists from the beaten line (Involving more good to general j humanity than U involved in lint), the very i same men would curse the impudence of the very same women." WOMAN IN BUSINESS WOEID. The queen of business women of America is Emma Sutro Merritt, of San Francisco. She ls the eldest daughter of Adolph Sutro, and a guardian of his person and estate. She Is a practicing physician and will this week be chosen president of the Sutro Electrlo railway. Says the San Francisco Chronicle: O. yon Rhein, president of the Sutro road, has resigned. His resignation will be pre sented at the next meeting of the directors of the road, which will be held Thursday Mrs. Merrltt will be made a director at that time and her elevation to the presi dency is only a matter of course. In Los Angeles there is an electric railway largely owned and entirely managed by a woman. She was the first president of a street rail way in California. Dr. Merrltt will be the second, and the pioneer, so far as San Francisco ls concerned. Dr. Merritt ls Intensely modest and retir ing and has no desire to shine as a woman rk affairs. Nevertheless, it is predicted that she will make a very distinguished success aa a railway president. She is a woman of the Broadest Culture and education, and. though she bas devoted ncr life to medicine, she is by no means a physician merely. She is of middle age. and strongly resembles her father in physical characteristics. She was sent to Vassar college before the Western co-edu cational colleges had assumed much im portance. From Vassar she was graduated with honors in 1877. Upon her return to San Francisco this eldest and favorite daughter of Adolph Sutro entered Toland Medical college, where she received her de gree in 1881. In the School of Medicine in Paris, an institution very difficult to enter, she received one of the few degrees granted to an American woman. Mrs. Browning, who did so much to dignify and elevate the position of woman, made a protest against the uncomplimentary leniency with which judgment is often passed on a woman's work. She said: If the day's work's scant. Why, call it scant. Affect no compromise. And. ln that we have nobly striven at least Deal with us nobly, women though we be. And honor us with truth If not with praise. ADVICE TO OL'R VOLUNTEERS From One Who Followed the Flag In the Tropics for Seven Years. To The St. Paul Globe: Having served for seven years under the colors In a tropical climate, I ask your permission to make a few suggestions to our boys, going Cuba-wards, concerning equipment Carry as little as you can— great coats and blankets are an unnecessary burden. Use flannel next the skln and woolen socks; both dry out quicker after a wetting, and do not chill when wet. Carry a four-ounce bottle of quinine. A good strong (15-gram) dose of this taken at the first sign will drive off fever. Carry a small vial of cholordyne and use fifteen to twenty drops at any dysenteric signs. Bad water and irregular food, almost sure to be a campaigner's lot, have a dis. organizing effect on the bowels. Wear a cholera belt next to the skin; this is a surcingle of double flannel about ten Inches wide, to keep the abdomen and kid neys warm. The head gear should be light and afford ing ample ventilation. Our military hel mets were made of woven cane with a funnel on top open to the front, and open spaces all around the head, so that the air might h«ve perfect circulation. The cane was covered with a quilted cover, having a cur tain hanging behind to protect the neck. Have a good, stout pair of extra shoes, well-fitting, though not tight. A leather bottle of about two-quarts ca pacity ls better than a tin canteen or any other water carrier. It is porous and will keep the water cool on the hottest day. Above all, avoid spirits. — A. H. H. j EPISTLES TO ST. PAUL. ] They're telling a story of a St. Paul man who is not half as wise as he thought he was and who has no great opinion of his own wisdom now. It wouldn't be fair to g.ve his aame. A week cr more ago some friend was talk ing to him going up on the cable car and they got to conversing about feminine curi osity. The friend remarked that If he should cut a piece out of the paper he was carry ing and should then take it home his wife would never rest until she had found out just what it was that had been cut out. "My wife has no curiosity," sa'.d he. "But I'll Just try her." So he cut out a nice little yarn from the weekly society paper that he had with him and left a yawning vacancy there. The yarn he cut out was something of great interest— atcut the number of suits the prince buys In the course of a year, or something like that. He carried the paper home and threw It on the table. After dinner his wife read it vi til she got to the page wheTe the elision occurred. Ste locked up at her husband, but she said nothing. He noticed the look and smiled to himself. "She bites, all right," he said musingly, "I wonder what she'll do?" She went on through the paper, but came back to the page with a hole in lt and sh* mused. Then she t:ld him she was going to run over to a neighbor's for a minute. The neighbor takes the same society paper and she knew lt. In ten minutes she was back with another copy of the paper. She stuck lt under his nt.se and hissed: "You beast, now that I have found y;u out I'm going home to my mother." Then she fell into a chair and sobbed and berated him and to.d him she knew he was a monster and had been tricking her for years. He did not understand and tried to get something definite out of her, but couldn't do lt. She wound up her wail of grief by de claring she would not stay under his roof another night and rushed out of the room. He picked up the paper and looked up the item he had cut out. It was the same on the page he had cut, but she had it folded the other way. On the ether side of the clip ping this item caught his eye: "There is a good deal of talk in certain circles about the rapper that was given the otlier evening by a St. Paul man to a spr.ght ly and well-known actress and a couple of her friends. They say lt was the best thing that has come off in Minneapolis for many a moon, and people are wondering what would happen if the St. Paul man's wife should hear of it." As it happened he was away from home for a couple of days about the time referred to. He remembered th'.s fact and before he set to work on his wife he wrote a letter of an extremely violent, personal character to the friend who suggested that women were curious. Why shouid there be any d fflaulty a'cout the matter of getting colonels for the three regiments of state militia that are to co to the front? In the capitol itself there are col onels enough to equip an army corps. Of course, there are but three colonels requirel. and that may make tt difficult for the gov ernor. The capitol list of military titles is not a bad one, though. There is, in the flrst place. Col. Wade. If he couid use half the energy In directing a regiment that he does in conversation there would be no use for other ammunition to disperse *he enemy. And then there is Col. Berg. He would ba rather a mark for the bullet 3of the enemy, and If he fought on foot at the head of a regiment there wouid be no chance of any man ln the command being bowled over until he was laid out. Gen. Muehlburg hlmsje f would do for a colonel unless there ls truth in the rumor that he is to go as an army "Muehl." Col. Bob Dunn and MaJ. George Flinn have been wearing empty honors long enough, and either would not object to a colonelcy that wouid allow him to break away from po i tics. Col. Koerner is insisting that he will not Btay here to be bothered running for offle again, so he might be reckoned as a volun teer. Col. Dan Shell doesn't live at the capitol but he is very close to it indeed, and If hj cannot be given a regiment he might have a place as substitute for a megaphone on a warship. Col. Darius Furioso Reese wiil not remain In the state while there is war gong cn— ih.it Is, during actual hostilities. He has beon practicing at fighting the War of thi' Retxl lion over during so many political campaigns that he Is not likely to let this chance go by tor real warfare. Then there is Gen. Childs. He would not be likely to claim his exemption, and migh' trade his nominal title of general for the real title of -colonel. Commander-in-Chief Clough might get out st the row that he will find himself engigel In when it comes to the question of mak ng Reeve, of Minneapolis, or Bean, or IMa of 3t. Paul, commanding officers, by organ z'ng his colonels into a regiment r.nd going to the wars himself at the head of them.