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4 THE ST. PAUL GLOBE ' " " THE GLOBE CO.. PUBLISHERS ; ? OFFICIAL PAPER <^§|i^> CITY OF SI. PAUL Entered at Postoffice at St. Pau!, Minn., as Second-Clas3 Mattsr. TELEPHONE CALLS. gßrthwesterr.— 1065 Main. Editorial, 78 Main. TWin City— Business. 1065. Editorial, 78. 7 CITY SUBSCRIPTIONS. , . By Carrier > | Imo | 6 mos | mos Dailyonly 40 $2.25 $4.00 Daily and Sunday . 50 2.75 5.00 Sunday... , ... 15 .75 1-00 i COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS. ■ __ : By Mail | 1 mo | 6 mos I 1 2 mos Dailyonly I .25 $1.50 | $3.00 Daily and Sunday | .35 2.00 4.00 Sunday , .75 I 1.00 BRANCH OFFICES. New York. 10 Spruce Strest, Chas. H. Eddy in Charge. Chiiaeo, No. 87 Washington St., The F. S. Webb ComDany la Chargs FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1903. MR. O'BRIEN'S TIMELY ACTION. Mr. C. D. O'Brien gave timely expression a few even ings ago to the feeling, not only of his fellow attorneys, but of the general public, when he declared at the banquet of the liar association that the Ramsey county bar owes it to the honor of its members that the charges and coun tercharges of jury bribing and other malpractices which were indulged in so generally in connection with a re cent personal injury case tried in our courts should be in vestigated. Something like an organized system of jury-fixing would seem to have been in existence in this city, if it is not still in existence, if the testimony of certain of the witnesses in that case is to be believed. Nor have the al leged operations of the parties to that litigation or certain of them and their representatives, professional and per sonal," been limited to jury-fixing alone. The newspaper reports show that each side, on the statement of the other, resorted to subornation of perjury in order to secure a favorable A-erdict. The conduct of cases of personal injury is supposed to be frequently attended in most communities by more or less of malpractice. Nor is the charge confined to either of the parties in litigation of that character. In the case which, no doubt, Mr. O'Brien had in mind when he made his suggestion at the banquet, our recollection is that the attorneys for the defendant railway charged that the rep resentatives of the plaintiff had approached one of their witnesses with a proposal to give false testimony in favor of the plaintiff. On the other hand, the plaintiff's attorneys insisted that the testimony given or sought to be given by such witness was true, and that the attorneys for the railroad or its attorneys had bought up the witness in question and induced him to concoct the story of having been corruptly approached by the other side. Whichever story was true, the jury, if we are not mistaken; that the plaintiff's story of the transaction was true, and • that of the defendant railway and its attorneys was false.' The charge of jury-fixing subsequently heard was un doubtedly an echo of this case. There can be no question as to corrupt practices hay- v ing been indulged in by either or both of the parties, of which their attorneys or some of them must have been cog nizant. The public history of the case is inconsistent with any other view. It occasioned some surprise at the time that the presiding judge did not intervene on behalf of public decency, and order an inquiry on the part of the court. No doubt the fact that either one or the other side of the litigation might have been unduly prejudiced by such action operated to prevent judicial cognizance being taken of the case. Whatever the motive of the court may have been in declining to take any action in the matter, it is the duty of the bar of Ramsey county, as Mr. O'Brien pointed out, to take the necessary action and take it at once. The pro ' fessional standard is lower today here and elsewhere^.than, in the past, and decent members of the profession owe it to themselves that when such an alleged state of facts as was made public in the litigation in question, or as the outcome of it, is brought to their attention they shall see to it that the offenders against public and professional morals alike shall be made known and punished. The Globe waits with some interest to learn what action, if any, the Ramsey County Bar association will take in this shameful case. What a credulous mortal Chairman Gray, of the an thracite commission, must be when he expresses surprise that the state of Pennsylvania would submit to any cor poration paying its employes for their public services. And Delaware is so near to Philadelphia, too! YOUNGER'S APPLICATION. Since the formation of the state board of pardons dis tinctively political influence has practically ceased to be available in the pardoning of convicts. No application which is not now backed by the strongest considerations of public policy and individual justice is able to get a suc cessful hearing from that body. Indeed it may, without discourtesy or disrespect, be said of the body that its er rors on applications for pardon are much more likely to operate against the convict than in his favor. Public sentiment in this state has remained for an entire generation adverse to the extension of leniency to ward the Younger brothers. No measure of good conduct on their part in the long period of their imprisonment has been adequate to change the conviction that they should be made to fulfill in their entirety the sentences imposed on them. The tragic sequel to the last efforts of the Youngers to secure executive clemency so as to enable them to return to their former homes in Missouri still re mains in the public mind. The victim of that tragedy died with words of bitterness on his lips toward the par doning board and the officials of the state prison. The spirit in which he appears to have taken his departure from this world would seem to indicate pardonably, per haps, that he regarded himself as the object of injustice from society and the individual alike. He appears to have made little account of the prejudice which his words might create against his surviving brother. It is, of course, not conceivable that the bitter words of James Younger will influence the action of the board of pardons one way or the other on the pending applica tion of his brother. The general public will probably only recall the statements of the deceased man in the light of the fact that he thought he saw the way to his future hap piness as the husband of a devoted woman barred to him for ever, and that, acting under the influence of that feel ing, he closed his last account with humanity. Favorable action by the board on the pending application of the one brother is quite likely as the result of the desperate act of the other, to be regarded with much more general favor than ever before. The Globe has no hesitation in urging on the mem bers of the pardoning boaid, on the score of public policy and mercy alike, that they grant the petition of the sur viving brother of the Youngers the poor favor of allowing him, an old and broken man, to spend his last days in his native state and among his friends. Were the pol icy of the law in such cases purely punitive the plea of Cole Younger would still have much to sustain it. But reformation, more than punishment, is the end sought by society in such cases. And in that view it will seem to most men, as it must inevitably seem to Younger himself, that the denial of his appeal is the mere expression of offi cial and public impl'^-a.bi"**'. DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING. The possibility of members of the Democratic major ity of the common council voting to elect Jtepublican ad ministrative officers seems to be giving political observers some concern these days. Whether any such possibility exists, The G1 obe is not in position to express an intel- ligent opinion. The present corporation attorney retains his position owing to the backsliding of certain members of the former council calling themselves Democrats. He is a good official, and it is no doubt true that the public has lost nothing by his re-election. But it is also true that the gentleman then named as his successor by the Demo crats of the city was his equal in every respect in point of personal and professional character and ability. The Globe has denounced the action of those so called Democrats whose votes were cast against the elec tion of Mr. Michael, on the principle that, everything else being equal, a moral obligation under prevailing political methods rested on every Democrat to support the party candidate. It still occupies that attitude, and will always continue to occupy it as long as it professes to speak for Democrats. There is a city corporation attorney and a city clerk soon to be elected by the council. Neither of these officials ought to be appointed by the council. The appointment of both of them should rightfully have been left with the city executive. But the party and public obligation being vested alike in the council, it is as much the duty of that body, as it would be of the mayor, to appoint a Democrat to each position, as long as a capable and honest Demo crat can be found in the community qualified to hold either position. There is not a member of the council professing to be a Democrat who could have been elected under any cir- cumstances wholly by Republican votes. He could not have been nominated legally as a Democratic candidate, with the aid of even a single Republican vote. His de pendence must have rested wholly on the members of the party to which he professes to belong. Under such circumstances the casting of Democratic votes against the chosen nominee of the majority of the Democratic members of the council is pure and simple an act of treachery, and deserves to be punished as such by the future exclusion of those who cast such votes from the councils of the party and from the public positions which they hold. LECTURE OF ALBERT KELSEY. The superior advantages that St. Paul possesses in the making of a model city, whether it be considered from the utilitarian or artistic standpoint, has frequently been com mented upon not only by our own eminent and observant citizens in their published addresses, but by scores of critical visitors from our own and other lands. Hence it is a matter of no small moment when men like Albert'Kelsey, whose whole life has been given to the study of architectural art and civic improvement, comes to show us how we in St. Paul may use our own gTeat natural advantages in making a city as beautiful as it is commercially important. Having been president of the National Architectural League of America and of a similar organization in Pennsylvania and a successful practical architect and writer, he speaks with authority and will doubtless attract a large audience to the Commercial club rooms at 2 o'clock today from among the members of that •organization and of the Civic league under whose aus pices he appears. His theme, "The Model City," will doubtless follow along some of the same lines suggested by Mr. Cass Gilbert in his recent talk before the same tjody, and, like his, will be made more interesting and valuable by the slides and pictorial illustrations which he will present. Mr. Kelsey has been given entire charge of the model city exhibit at the world's exposition in St. Louis in 1904, and many of his views presented today will be of that exhibit. jg The Civic league has done much for St. Paul in bringing such men as Prof. Zueblin, Mr. Gilbert "and Mr. Kelsey to give us practical help in that which is to us of such vital importance—the building of a model city right here. PAN-AMERICAN ARBITRATION. Not even the most ardent adherent of the Monroe doc trine can close his eyes to the truth that nothing short of the prevailing paramount influence of the United States in international concerns renders the peaceful maintenance of that doctrine possible. Not even the moral support of the Latin-American republic is enjoyed by this people in its maintenance. We stand alone as the advocates of Eu ropean non-intervention in the political concerns of those nations. Revolution after revolution occurs within their borders. Indeed, no Central or South American nation, save Mexico alone, has been exempt from revolutionary operations during the present generation. The value there fore of Latin-American co-operation with us in the main tenance of the Monroe doctrine has not heretofore been appreciable. The report of the proposed Pan-American arbitration treaty by the senate committee on foreign relations must be accepted in the light of present knowledge as an impor tant step in the direction of a more complete understand ing among American republics in all directions which af fect their collective interests. Such a treaty as is thus reported will be the first movement of importance toward drawing the American republics together and is not un likely to result in promoting stability of government among our Southern neighbors. With at least the appearance of reasonableness the story is told in the cable dispatches that the German gov ernment is looking forward toward occupying the posi tion on this continent formerly occupied by French inter ests in the construction and maintenance of a transisth mian canal. This story comes to us on the heels of re peated assurances from many directions that German ag gression in Venezuela has an ultimate purpose of inter vention in the affairs of that, and it may be, of other Latin- American republics. The story has an English origin, and to that extent at least its truth is open to grave suspicion. It is nevertheless worthy of being borne in mind in consid ering the need of drawing the American nations more I closely together in the immediate future in political and commercial interest than has heretofore been the case. That postman who was obliged to resign because of age and infirmity, after having carried the mail for forty years, no doubt felt very grateful to the postmaster gen eral for wishing him health and happiness for years to come; and the postmaster general will have, too, the added consolation of knowing that there could be no cheaper form of recompense dealt out to a faithful public servant. Talk about republics being ungrateful! The protest against the passage of the Dardanelles by Russian warships simply proves that the Russian thorn still abides in the British side. As long as this question remains unsettled and the gates of Herat remain closed, there will ever be occasion for the existence of a tribunal more decisive in its awards than the peace body at The Hague. There will be a good many who will agree with Sen ator Scott, of West Virginia, as to the civil service regula tion, notwithstanding the assumed superior virtue and patriotism of its advocates. If there is anything really American about it, except the facility it affords of enabling politicians to hold down their jobs for the longest possible time, it is hard to distinguish what it is. It would not be surprising if President Roosevelt found that the closing up of a United States postoffice was a totally different thing to appointing to the office a polit ical partisan of his choice. There are a few people in the United States who still hang to the old-fashioned notion that the people, not any politician, it is who own the post offices of this country. How strangely appropriate ,will the old saw about saving one from his friends now appear to one Mr. John son, of Minneapolis, when he reflects on what might have THE ST. -PAUI, GLOBS, FRIDAY JANUARY 9, 1903. 1 AT ST. PAUL THEATRES Elaborate Scenery and a first rate cast will go jfaj toward redeeming the fiercest sort, of a melodrama. These two meritorious features combine to make "The Suburban," what is known in common parlance as "a good show." The audience which witnessed this spectacle at, the Metropolitan last night procla^msd as much. If perchance any admirer of the pos sible drama,, whether tragedy or com edy, or genuine farce, strolled unwarily into the Metropolitan last night, ex pecting the intellectual pleasure afford ed by a clever play of any class, he must have been disappointed—griev ously. But if he knew that an up-to date melodrama was on the boards, as has been widely and frequently an nounced, he had—again borrowing from the street lexicon—"no kick coming." "The Suburban" is no better and no worse than a hundred " other melo dramas. It is better than eighty or perhaps ninety we could mention. No experienced theatergoer looks for rea son in modern melodrama. He knows better than to ask foolish questions or find fault with the audacious defiance of physical laws tha,t enables the au thor to perpetrate his dramatic sur prises and evoke the ear-splitting whistles and ecstatic shrieks of the gallery. It is all-sufficient that virtue is triumphant—a victory which, ac cording to Gilbert's sagacious Mikado, is achieved "in theatrical performances only." But to return to "The Suburban." It is written, or built rather, around the greatest horse racing event in this country. This, at once insures for it the sympathetic interest of a goodly proportion of the people resident in large cities, in close touch with the race track—by wire. A story is re quired as an excuse, and this C. T. Dazey, the author of "In Old Ken tucky," has supplied. It is an interest ing one, as melodramas go, furnishing good situations in the safe-robbing scene in the first act, and supplying one character bearing distinction. It is that of James Hyde, the scheming old attendant in", the rich household. This role was capitally portrayed by John Jennings. The scene for which everybody waits is that representing the grand stand and a section of the track at Sheepshead pay. This is an unqualified success in the eyes of all those who occupy seats in the body of the house. The track is between the audience and the grand stand, which is shown in the distance. It is packed with humanity, to all appearances. At least 20,000 people you would guess. Something tells you the great sea of human faces is but a painting, but when you see them waving handkerchiefs, hats and programmes as the race progresses, you doubt your senses. How all this is done, it wouldn't be fair to tell, even if the writer could. Suffice it to say that the spectacle is surprisingly ef fective and the race scene scores heavily. Ten horses gallop across the stage twice, the last time in an excit ing finish, but the main interest is focused on the grand stand, which seems to be alive with human beings, not supernumeraries. Managerial sagacity in the selection of the company is unmistakably in ev idence. J. H. Gilmour, an actor of un questionable talent and wide experi ence, playes the role of Robert Gor don, the elderly landed proprietor, with commendable dignity and excellent taste. Mr. Gilmour's bearing possesses the dignity and gentility essential to a convincing portrayal of the charac ter. W. S. Hart Impersonates the despic able Sir Ralph—one of those impossible, simon-pure villains destitute of a sin gle symptom of humanity, so dear to melodrama," with much ' intensity. Charles F. GgttHold is- allotted the role of Donald, the maligned hero, who has all the sympathy and applause. He is satisfactory. So is Theodore Mars ton, who plays a big-hearted, unso phisticated man from Montana. George C. Staley, in the role of Died - rich, a German servant, and Annie Mack Berlein, as his Hibernian oppo site, were breezy and entertaining. Fanchon Campbell, as Helen Gordon, and Jessie Izett, as the young wife of the hero, were acceptable. Creditable character bits were con tributed by Kingsley Benedict, as the honest stable boy; Taylor Granville as the "crooked" jockey, and George Wright as the drunken son of old Hyde. —Fred G. Hunt. Primrose & Dockstader's Minstrels will be the attraction at the Metro politan opera house Sunday night and the first half of next week, with the visual Wednesday matinee. The Royal Lilliputians, an aggre gation of clever little folks, will en tertain the patrons of the Grand next week, beginning Sunday evening. Their vehicle this 1, season is a musical farce, entitled ;"In Posterland." Mr. Mantell. will present "The Face in the Moonlight" this evening and to morrow afternoon and night at the Grand. ; The Vanity Fair Burlesquers are still filling ihe house twice a day at the Star. Today the usual ladies' matinee wiH be given, and the clever vaudeville bill should provS an at traction to shopping women. These matinees have been generously patron ized, and the performance offered to day is calculated to enhance the pop ularity of the innovation. Now It Is Up to Goodnow. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 8. —Third Assistant Secretary of State Peirce, who has been investigating the charges preferred by the American as sociation, of Shanghai, against United States Consul General John Goodncw, has completed his examination and has transmitted a copy of the charges to Mr. Goodnow, with a request that he make response thereto. -* Diplomatic Appropriation Bill. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 8. —The house committee on foreign affairs to day concluded the diplomatic and con sular appropriation bill. It carries ap proximately $1,900,000, which is less than the estimates and less than the appropriation of last year. WEATHER FOR TODAY. Minnesota—Fair and" colder -Friday; Saturday fair; fresh west to northwest winds. Upper Michigan and Wisconsin —Fair Friday; colder in west portion; Saturday fair; fresh west to northwest winds. lowa —Fai£JEriday; colder., in northwest portion; Saturday fair; colder in east and south portions." Montana — Friday and Saturday. St. Paul — Yesterday's temperatures, taken by the United States -weather bu reau" St. Paul, W. E. Oliver, observer, for the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night—Barometer corrected for tem perature and elevation. Highest tempera ture 17; lowest temperature, 4; average temperature. 10; v daily range. 13; barom eter 29.96; humidity, 84; precipitation, 0; 7 p. m., temperature, 14; 7 p. m., wind, northwest; weather, cloudy. * •• :, YesterdavT; Temperatures— - „•--. •fSßOHighl-'■■-■- - - *SpmHigh Alnena T; " 0 8 Kansas City .28 30 Battleford ■»- s4 -2jMarquette ... 6 S Bismarck ... 6 30 Milwaukee ... 10 12 Buffalo 1° 13iMinnedosa ... -6 8 **o*trm ... 24 38 Montgomery . 36 40 C^learv " r.'l6 18 Nashville .... 28 32 Chevenne'..-. 34 48 New Orleans. 46 48 'Chicago . .U-» 10 12 New York ... 24 34 Cincinnati ... 12 20 Norfolk 34 38 ■Cleveland .16 24 North Platte. 32 38 Davenport .. 1C Omaha 24 28 Dcs Moines . 20 24 Philadelphia . 28 34 Detroit !:.. 12 -'OUittsburg .... 18 2G Duluth S 14 Qu'Anpelle 6 Edmonton ... 8 12; San Francisco 58 58 Galveston ... 40 50 St. Louis .... 2G 28 Grand Haven 14 16 Salt Ike .... 34 42 Green Bay ... 4 12ISte. Marie .... 2 2 Helena -30 SftlWashington . 28 34 Huron .'.V... 14 22p.Vinr.ireg .... -6 10 Jacksonville 40 461 •Washington time (7 p. ra. St. Paul). ! T ; Sen Barker Sbn'Laik&en ?f*l SANTI £ r. Johnson THREE HINNESOTA SOJ-ONS SOLONS CAN'T DRAW MILEAGE Governor Refuses to Sign Appropriation Measure. Gov. Van Sant declined to affix his signature to S. F. 1 yesterday, owing to the engrossed bill as it reached him not being in proper form. The bill was introduced in the sen ate and passed both that body and the house without a dissenting vote. It provided for the, expenditure of $150,000 for the legislative expenses of the ses sion. In anticipation of the bill being ap proved by the governor as soon as it reached him the chief clerk of the house had prepared the mileage report giving 109 of the members of the house $4,000 in mileage. The ten members of the Fourth district delegation living in St. Paul were exempted from the draw ing of any mileage. When the members whose names were on the mileage report drifted into the state treasurer's office to get their warrants yesterday afternoon they were informed that as the governor had refused to sign the legislative ap propriation bill no warrants could bo drawn. There were all kinds of remarks made by the members of the house. They had adjourned until Monday, ex pecting to secure from the state treas ury sufficient funds to allow them to reach their homes and spend Sunday. "It is a case of us having to use our railroad passes instead of paying: mon ey for railroad fares," said one of the house members. "I have just 50 cents in my pocket, and will have to borrow in order to get home and secure some more cash," said Representative Nyquist. Some of the members, who were rather warmed up over the failure to draw their mileage, commenced to look up the' trouble and ascertained that Engrossing Clerk W. H. Alton, of the senate, had made the mistake which caused Gov. Van Sant to withhold his signature from the bill. The engrossing clerk had failed to state on the bill the day on which the measure passed either the senate or the house, although space had been left for the very important information on the engrossed bill just above the signatures of President Jones, of the senate, and Speaker Babcock, of the house. The error will be rectified on Monday night, when both branches of the leg islature will again be in session. HIGH SCHOOL CLUB GIVES THE MIKADO Musical Students Give a Clever Per- formance of Opera. Gilbert & Sullivan's opera, 'The Mikado," was most successfully pre sented last night by the Central High School Glee club, under the direction of Miss Olive Long. The opera was given on the stage of the high school assembly hall and was witnessed by an audience that filled the hall to over owing. A year ago the club made its first appearance in musical comedy with somewhat indifferent results, but in its presentation of "The Mikado" last night it scored an unqualified success. The two acts were well staged and the costumes were artistic and effect ive. Scenery specially painted for the opera made an attractive background for the pretty kimonas worn by pretty high school girls, the fluttering fans and parasols and the swaying "Jap" lanterns. A large chorus presented a most attractive appearance and sang in excellent time and tune. This chorus had only the music of the pia no to support it, but the accompani ment was so well played by Miss Vera Putz that it seemed entirely ade quate. George "Woods, who sang the role of "Ko-Ko," the lord high executioner, was most satisfactory in the part. He invested the role with a distinct and most ludicrous personality, that found instant favor with the audience. Mar tin Richardson, who was "Nanki Poo," possesses a very sweet voice which he used most effectively. Adolph Rank, as "Pooh Bah," and James Boxell in the lesser role of the mikado, were both satisfactory. The three little girls from school, Martha Noble as "Yum Yum," Evelyn Dockstader as "Pitti- Sing," and Louise Fowble as "Peep- Boo" made most attractive Japanese maidens and sang their roles accept ably. Gertrude Ford, as "Katisha,' looked very gorgeous in her crimson kimona, and aided Mr. Richardson and Mr. Rank in furnishing the comic ele ment in the opera. KITCHENER LEADS TROOPS OF INDIA IN REVIEW Last Important Event of the Coronation Durbar. DELHI, India, Jan. The review to day by the viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, of 30 000 British and native troops led by Lord' Kitchener was the last important event of the coronation durbar. The viceroy. the Duke of Connaugrht and the Grand Duke of Hess surrounded by a brilliant staff, took up their positions at the salu*/g roint bt*ffeen the grand stands From every side an immense multitude of Europeans and natives watched the march past and cheere.d the "a Lad IV G Cufzon eiand the Duchess of Con naueht witnessed the revl&w from car riages The scene was not less brilliant in coloring than the preceding: events and it equaled them in picturesquoness. Mexico Quakes a Little. riTILPANCINGO, Mex., Jan. B.— v -ere earthquake shock has been felt at Tapachula. At La Union, ; not far from that place subterranean noises have been freauently heard since the eruption of the Santa Maria volcano in Guatamela. Ihe shocK at Tapachula was of short dura tion ard -lid no considerable damage to i Tu-nDerty. . - -', i FATHER CONWAY TALKS ON THE CONFESSIONAL Institution of Catholic Church Is De- fended by Paulist. The interest felt in the Paulist Fath er's mission at St. Luke's church re sulted last night in an audience of 700 persons, fully one-half of the num ber estimated to be non-Catholics. The fifth in the series of lectures delivered by Paulist priests was last night given by Father Conway. The subject was "Confession." Father Conway enswered the chief objection against confession brought forward-by non-Catholics. "1. Why not go to God directly? Because it is not the way established by Christ. Why does not a soldier re port to his general? Because the army regulations demand that he re port to his immediate officer. "2. Do Catholics have to pay for confession? No, this is a calumny of the enemies of the church. Catholics call it the sin of Simon Magus to sell spiritual things for money. "3. Does it not give the priest too much power? No; the power is Christ's given to him as a successor of the apostles. He says with St. Paul: 'If I have pardoned anything, for your sakes have I done it in the person of Christ.' (11. Cor., i., 10.) "4. How can a sin be pardoned by merely telling it. It cannot be. For giveness is only given to those who repent for the past with a supernat ural sorrow, promising never to offend again, to make good the evil done, and to avoid in future ail danger of sin ning. "5. Did not the priests invent con fession? No; the Catholic church asks confidently for any» outsider to put his finger on the date of its human origin. There is no record of it in history. We go back to the day of Christ's resurrection from the dead. So great an institution could not have been foisted quietly upon the-Christian people by human authority. It is like ly that if priests had the intelligence to found such an institution that they would have subjected themselves also to its law. For the pope must go to confession with the humblest Catho lic. "6. Does not the Confession of sin make sin easy? On the contrary, it makes sin more difficult. It is quite easy to kneel down in one's room and confess to God; but to confess to a fellow mortal, who will insist on a strong purpose of amendment, and by whom a promise is strictly exacted to avoid the dangers of sin requires strong determination. FUNEBAL OF W. H. HOYT LARGELY ATTENDED Veterans Turn Out in Large Numbers at Obsequies. The funeral of the late William Hen ry Hoyt took place from the Central Park M. E. church yesterday- after noon. A large number of friends at tended the services and followed the remains to the grave at Oakland. The services were attended by six teen survivors of the First Minnesota infantry, from whose number the pall bearers, Richard L. Gorman and Frank Hausdorf, of St. Paul, Myron Shepard, of Stillwater, and J. H. Brown, Augus tus Plummer and Henry Childs, of Minneapolis, were taken. Acker post, 'G. A. R., of which the deceased was a member, was well represented, and oc cupied a position of honor. Many members of the Territorial Pioneers, an organization which Mr. Hoyt helped to found, and of the Fif teenth infantry, were in attendance. The funeral was also attended by the St. Paul company of Sons of Veterans in uniform, with arms reversed. The casket was draped with a large American flag and surrounded by floral tributes. Conspicuous among these was a pillow of roses, given by the veterans of the First Minnesota, which bore the simple inscription, "Comrade." The services were conducted by Rev. Benjamin F. Longley, assisted by Mrs. J. B. Brimhall and Frank Wilson, who sang several hymns. . . .«■». i . TOPICS FOR CONSIDERATION BY NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE New Constitution to Be Adopted at Washington Convention. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. The thirty-third annual convention of the Na tional Board of Trade will be held at the Shoreham hotel, in this city, commencing Tuesday, Jan. 13, and will continue three or four days. A new constitution and by-laws will be adopted, with a view of broadening the field of the body, and per manent quarters will -be established in Washington, in charge of a commission, whose duty it will be to keep in close touch with public affairs and conduct a bureau of information for the benefit of members. At the convention the following resolutions will be considered: Favoring amendment of the interstate commerce law at the present session of consress; anti-scalping legislation and ship' subsidies; urging immediate estab lishment of a department of commerce; favoring amendment of banking and cur rency laws; urging consular and postal re form; legislation with reference to the tariff revision, advocating reciprocity; fa voring amendments of the national bank ruptcy and naturalization laws, and urg ing prompt action in behalf of construc tion of an isthmian canal. The report of the committee of the board which inves tigated census returns, with reference to agricultural statistics will also be con sidered. ' ■ _. WIRELESS MESSAGES SENT ACROSS SEA IN A STORM Marccni Has No Trouble in Communl- eating With England. SYDNEY, C. 8., Jan. B.—-Marconi will leave here Monday for Cape Cod to give attention to the completion of the wire less trans-Atlantic station at that point. He took advantage of last night's snow storm to test the behavior of the weless system under adverse weather conditions. Messages were sent to England success fully. There was a severe storm also on the English coast at the time, but the messag? went across without a b.teh After the completion of the Cape Cod station, the work of establishing a line between Italy and South America will be taken up. SENATORS TALK ON COAL AND THE TARIFF Vest and Aldrich Exchange Views Over an Alleged Statement by the Late Mr. Dingley—Philippine Con stabulary Bill Passes the House. WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. B.—To day the senate again discussed the Vest resolution requesting the finance committee to report a bill removing the duty on anthracite coal, and Mr. Aldrich replied to some of the criti cisms of Mr. Vest, made last Tuesday. Mr. Aldrich insisted the resolution will not accomplish the result desired, and that it infringed on the constitutional rights of the house in. respect to rev enue. Mr. Aldrich said that a Democratic senate voted to put a duty of 40 cent 3 on coal, in 1894 and that It favored free coal except on the day when it could have voted for free coal into the tariff bill. Mr. Vest, in reply, said that the 40 --cent duty on coal was the result of a "hold-up" by a few Democratic sen ators. To confirm his assertion that Mr. Dingley had made the statement that the Dingley rates were placed high in order to negotiate reciprocity trea ties, Mr. Vest read from a letter ad dressed to him by the editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin, in which the writer declared that Mr. Dingley ad mitted this to one of his Washington correspondents. Mr. Aldrich expressed his disbelief in the statement. The Dingley bill he regarded as "a great, magnificent and munificent gift to the American people in the cause of protection and pros perity." The resolution went over un til the next legislative day. Mr. Nelson resumed his remarks against the omnibus statehood bill. Northwestern Bills Passed. The following bills were passed: Granting additional lands adjacent to the site of the University of Mon tana for the university; redivide the district of Alaska into three recording and judicial divisions; to provide for the construction of a bridge against Rainy river, in Minnesota. A joint resolution tendering the thanks of congress to Gen. Adna R. Chaffee and the officers and men who served with him in China was intro duced by Mr. Foraker. Mr. Hoar pre sented a resolution tendering thanks to the officers and men of Company C, Ninth infantry, who were at Balan giga. Island of Samar. on the occasion of the massacre which occurred there Sept. 28, 1901. Mr. McCumber, chairman of the sen ate committee on manufacturers, re ported from that committee as a sub stitute for the pure food bill, which recently passed the house. The substi tute strikes out the provision requir ing the agricultural department to fixx a standard of purity for foods and drugs, and confines itself largely to prohibiting interstate commerce in adulterated or misbranded articles. Adjourned till Monday. Passed by the House. The house passed the Philippine constabulary bill as it was reported from the committee, except for an amendment limiting the number of as sistant chiefs to four. The bill pro vides that the chief of the constabu lary and the assistant chiefs who are United States army officers, shall have the rank, pay and allowances of brig adier general and colonel respectively,, the difference between such pay and their regular grades to be paid out of the Philippine treasury. When the Philippine scouts are ordered to assist the constabulary, they shall be under the command of the chief or assistant chiefs. A substitute offered by Mr. Hull, of lowa provides that the chief shall rank as brigadier of the army and the assistant chiefs officers not below the rank of lieutenant colonels, was defeated. The present chief of the constabulary is Capt. Allen, of the army. Mr. L,oudenslager introduced a bill providing that veterans upon arriving at the age of seventy years, be held to be wholly disabled and entitled to the maximum rating of $12 per month in the administration of the pension act of June 27, 1890- GRAIN MARGINS AFFECT RIGHTS OF PROPERTY Illinois Appellate Court Decides Against Chicago Dealers. CHICAGO, Jan. B.—The appellate court today sustained the injunction issued by Judge Chytraus against eight board of trade members charged with operating a "corner" and sustaining the- contention against the "cornering of the market. , • * i ,„ The court holds that under the laws of the state dealers cannot be forced to settle trades upon the basis of an artificial value created by the corner ing of the market, and that margins deposited in banks or elsewhere are within the jurisdiction of the courts in that they affect the right of prop erty. The decision makes a distinction be tween questions touching the disciplin ary rights of the board, in which the latter has repeatedly been held to be sovereign, and questions of property rights, and holds that disputes between members involving finances can, if de sired by either party, be submitted to the courts for decision. * WISCONSIN MAN ASSISTANT m _ ■ % NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR More Northwestern Postmasterships Disposed Of. WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. B.—The president today sent the following nominations to the senate: Assistant naval constructor, Julius Furer, Wis consin. Postmasters: Minnesota —William J. Cowling, Ely; Brown Buckstad, Fer tile; Isaac I. Bargen, Mountain Lake; George W. Rowell, North Branch. lowa —John Myer, Alton; Charle9 Terwilliger, Garner; Gilbert Cooley, Strawberry Point; Hiram Lamb, Mur ray; Andrew H. Bjorge, Ken3et. North —William J. Hoskins, Rolla. _ Wisconsin— W. " Woodworth, ; Ellsworth; Bernard Beck, Horicon; Harry C. Hall, Iron River; Joseph W. Fritz, Ladysmith; Edward A. Bass, Montello. , _ :— m Midshipman With Political Pulls. WASHINGTON, D. C.f Jan. 8. —Sec- retary of the Navy Moody has written a letter to the superintendent of the naval academy at Annapolis express ing the department's disapproval of the alleged use of political influence by midshipmen in connection with their assignment to duty. Secretary Moody says the department has be come aware that some of the midship men at the academy have reported to such action.