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' U Wf !'. 'J' -'[ 1 1 M ' iUl " " 'J-1 /"' L "' w """- ''?" "rr ' - " i t " i!PB & * PRICE TWO CENTS. THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1902. \ 12 PAGES-FIVE O'CLOCK. ^ f^ t HENDERSON'S ! "SEPTAL! Party Workers Complain of the Tactics to Freeze Out Courtright. WAYBLOCKED BY TAWNEY Prevents Agreement to Close Debate on the Cuban BUI. Some Little Talk of a Bolt Democrats May Run Un cle Horace Boies. , Grosvenor, Advocating the Bill, Mildly Lectures the Insurgents. WILLWU COME HERE? Chinese Minister Still Hesi tates Over the Minneap olis Invitation. POLITICAL SEED SOWING. S HannaIf I'm to get into this game it must needs be by a seratch. WINTER WHEAT Government Bulletin Places It at 78.7, Against 91.7 Last Year. Washington, April 10.The condition of winter wheat is 73.7 against 91.7 April 1 last year. BELGIAN RIOT, Socialists Subdued After Fight That Goes Hard With Police. SAIL THE AIR WYNNE LANDS Santos-Dumont Hopes to See New York the Chief Aerial Post. Newspaper Man to Be First Assistant Postmaster General. Brussels, April 10.Repeated charges of police and mounted gendarmes with drawn sabres resulted In the dispersal of the riot mobs here early this morning. One policeman was shot through the bony and face. His comrades, having ex hausted their ammunition fled, and the wounded man was overwhelmed, kicked and stoned. Another policeman sought refuge in the attic of a cafe, whereupon the socialists sacked the establishment, exploded a lamp which set Are to the building and completed its ruin. The flames forced the rioters to retire. Another mob proceeded to the North ern railroad station, where it collided with the police. Revolver shots were ex changed and the rioters seized a police man, beat him until he was unconscious an-.' left him, bleeding on the ground. After many rioters had been wounded the mobs dispersed. The civic guards of Schaerbek and Saint Josse Ten-Noode, near here, have been ordered on duty this evening and the burgomasters of those two communes have prohibited assemblages in the streets of more than five people. Lancers and chasseurs have been dis patched from Mons to Charlerol, where trouble is looked for this evening. The civic guards of La Louviere, where build ings were dynamited last night, have been reinforced by mounted chasseurs. At Houdeng Aimerles, province of Hei naut, dynamite cartridges were exploded outside the Catholic club, which was par tially wrecked. The burgomaster of Liege has made a requisition for artillery and has called out the civic guard. All the troops at Liege are confined to their barracks. The council generate of the labor party, in session here, has decided to issue a manifesto recommending a general strike for April 14. A warrant is about to be issued for the arrest of M. Volkaert, president of the Society of the Young So cialist Guard, whose members were prom inent in the riots of yesterday evening, who Is charged with being largely re sponsible for the disturbances. Troop* All but Mutinous. The troops called out are in a state bordering on mutiny. Many .of the militia responded to the call to the colors but are marching through the streets singing the "Car magnol" and the "Marseillaise." Great excitement prevails in the industrial dis tricts. Several militiamen have been ar rested for insubordination, and the regu lars are confined to their barracks. Ball cartridges Lave been issued to the troops. BOER LEADERS CONFER Decision of British Peace Terms Will Soon Be Announced. Pretoria. April 10.President Steyn of the Orange Free State Secretary of State Reitz of the Transvaal, Acting President Schalkburger of the Transvaal and Gen eral Lucas Me.yer, commander-in-chief of the Orange Free State forces, passed through Kroonstad, Orange Free State, Sunday, on their way to Klerksdrop, southwestern Transvaal, where General Botha, the Transvaal commander-in-chief, arrived Monday. It was expected that Generals De Wet and Delarey would at tend the conference to that place there. It is understood that the Boer leaders are fully possessed of the British peace terms and that the conference then as sembling was to enable the leaders to discuss these terms thoroughly. It is expected that the final decision of the burghers will shortly be made known. New York, April 10.Alberto Santos Dumont, builder and navigator of air-, ships, arrived here to-day on the steam ship Deutschland. He has come to the United States to discuss plans for an ex hibition of aerial navigation with the managers of the St. Louis exposition and will be in the country for three weeks. He will do no flying during the present visit to the country. He said: I hape to see New York the principal air port of the world before I pass away. I have no doubt that in niy time, perhaps ten years, If I/&et the proper encouragement and help, aerial navigation will be an accomplished fact. 1 have no doubt that I will live to see passengers transported by airship across the Atlantic from New York to Paris. I have not patented my airship in this country and I do not intend to. I want other men to lake my ideas and improve on them if they can. I have great hope for the future of the airship. You are doing some excellent work on it here in the United States, and your Professor Langley is one of the greatest men in the field in the world. This is the country, too, in which it should be taken up, for you have the (men, the money and the enterprise. Washington, April 10.Robert J. Wynne, the Washington correspondent of the New York Press, has accepted the office of first assistant postmaster general. The nom ination probably will be submitted to the senate immediately after the president's return from Charleston. The change will take effect May 1 or earlier, as W. M. Johnson of New Jersey, whom he suc ceeds, is anxious to retire. Sinclair Too Late. RESTIVE CHINKS Anti-Foreign Outbreak at Ning-poWarships Sent Thither. Shanghai, April 10.Allegations of cruelty against Catholic missionaries have caused an anti-foreign outbreak at Ning po, a city in the province of Che-Kiang, where a .statement was circulated that some of the missionaries gouged out a boy's eyes. Two British and two German warships have been despatched to Ning-po. Front The Journal Bureau, Boom e\&. JPojl Building, Waehington. Washington, April 10.Gossip to-day had - it that Daniel Sinclair of Winona was a promising candidate for first as sistant postmaster generalship. It was not known until to-day that he was a candidate. T h e J o u r n a l man picked the information up at the postoffice de partment and called on Representative Tawney for verification, who said Mr. Sinclair was not a candidate in the strict sense of the term, but was in the race about as L. P. Hunt of Mankato was in it. Mr. Tawney presented his name to -Postmaster General Payne and urged his appointment. Sinclair was for many years editor of the Winona Republican and Tawney's close friend. They fell out when Tawney declined to recommend his appointment as postmaster at Winona, and their relations, until recently, have been rather strained. This effort of Tawney to take care of him at Washington probably marks the restoration of the old friendliness. In cidentally the Sinclair candidacy acts as an offset to the candiday of L. P. Hunt, /he Mankato editor, who was urged by Representative McCleary. How much the difference of opinion between Tawney and lvlcCleary, growing out of the oleo flgnt, had to do with getting Sinclair into the race is unknown. Perhaps it had nothing, but the case looks a trifle suspicious. While trying to do something for an old Winona newspaper friend Mr. Tawney may feel that he was also quietly blocking the game of his colleague. McCleary. But this is only speculation. W. W. Jermane. Special to The Journal. ].. Waterloo, Iowa, April 10.Speaker Hen derson, in ordering the calling of the "snap" republican congressional conven j tion in this city on May 1, months ahead of the usual date for such conventions during the last twenty years, has accom plished two things. He has driven Sena tor Courtwright from the field and assured, his own renomination. At the same time he has aroused expression of indignation from eminent republican workers of this city, which show plainly that the fight is not ended. Though their candidate has been forced out of the race, they declare that the conditions which made Mm a i candidate are strengthened and given new force "by the tactics employed by the speaker. Friends of Mr. Henderson to a large ex tent express regret that their candidate should "stoop to such a mode of warfare." They say that he has injured his cause by precipitate haste, for which they think there was no occasion. One of these men said: "I did not favor Mr. Court right's candidacy, but I wish that a fair chance could have been given for his claims to be presented to the convention. I am afraid the action this year in call ing so early a convention will be fatal to 'Mr. Henderson two years from now, as it cannot help but excite much animosity." The expressions of other partizans af the speaker are formed along the same line, but they say that "all is fair in war and politics." The finality of the whole program apparently will be that the friends of Senator Courtright will not feel bound by the actions of a convention from which they think they have been vir tually shut out. The Daily Reporter, .the chief supporter of Senator Courtright, has declared itgelf as taking that position and Senator Court right in his letter has stated that his future course will be controlled as mature deliberation over the acts of Henderson and his supporters shall dictate. The situation in this district at present appears to be more perilous than ever to the success of Mr. Henderson. In all his twenty years in congress never but once have the democrats attempted by real fighting with a strong candidate to dislodge him. That was in 1890, when Judge Couch of Waterloo, a law partner of former Governor Boies, made the race. That year the Dubuque colonel was "elected by a plurality of less than 200 .votes. In other years, with democratic candidates not especially strong, his ma jorities have varied from 5,000 to 12,000. With the disaffection in the republican ranks this year the democrats see hope of winning and 'or several weeks they have been plannign and organizing their forces in tie expectation of nominating former Governor Horace Boies. It is said that the ex-governor has practically given his consent to the use of his name and that he will enter the campaign with more vigor than he has ever disployed on the stump in Iowa. He Calls Boycott Here to the Attention of Secretary Hay. HERE'SFOOD , FOR "AUNTIES" 4 Report of Civil Governor of Tayabas Province Out at Last. ' Washington, April 10.The house to day resumed consideration of the Cuban reciprocity bill. Mr. Payne, the majority leader, attempted to secure an agree ment to close general debate on the bill next Monday, but Mr. Tawney (Minn.) demanded the "regular order." Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio) made an earnest speech in favor of the bill. He addressed himself to his republican colleagues who were opposing the bill and warned them that nothing he would sa,y could be used in the coming campaign to advance demo cratic success by striking at the merits of republian measures. He did not pur pose to assail those who had organized themselves into a hostile force against the administration, if they felt that their consciences or local self interest impelled them to that course. But he insisted that the pending bill constituted no deviation or defection from the pathway of protec tion. He reviewed the history of reciprocity and the sugar schedule since the days of the McKinley tariff bill. He told of the controversy between Blaine and McKin ley over-the free admission of sugar in the McKinley bill, Blaine desiring to use the tariff on sugar as a means of promot ing reciprocity. McKinley, he said, was also a disciple of reciprocity at that tme, but he did not agree with Blaine upon, the method of protecting sugar and Mr. Gros vener said he had himself been present at what might almost be described as an "ac- rimonious discussion" in the state depart ment between McKinley and Blane. Mr. Groavenor warned the republicans that the present tariff schedules could not exist forever. Irresistable demands for changes would be made, but this was not the time. It was not schedules, he said, but the protective principle for which the party stood. He warned the republican opponents of the bill not to overturn rulings of the chair and plunge the country into an agtation for revision of the tariff. Referring to the speech of President Roosevelt touching on reciprocity he sar castically wondered at the temerity of the president in making such statements while republicans of the house were de nouncing such sentiments as party dis loyalty. The present tariff on raw sugar, Mr. Grosvenor declared, was high beyond all reason. If the 20 per cent reduction were made the tariff on sugar would then be five per cent higher than the framers of the Dingley bill Intended. If the beet sugar people had an industry that could not stand against .the world with $1.40 a hundred protection then It would bet ter be abandoned. Mr. Weeks (Mich.) speaking in opposi tion, argued that there was no obliga tion upon us to aid Cuba. It was ridicu lous to say that because we freed Cuba at the cost of hundreds of lives and mil lions of dollars, we were under a load of debt to the island. Vrotn The Journal Bureau, Boom dJf, Pott Building, Washington. Military Excesses Delay the Establishment of Civil Government. Washington, April 10.Minister Wu Ting-fang has written a letter to Senator Nelson regarding the invitation of Rawlins post to visit Minneapolis, saying that his engagements at present are such, owing to the unusual press of official business, that he cannot definitely state whether he will be able to accept the in vitation, but that a little later he will write again. It is believed that he will accept the invitation if possible. As I predicted last week, he will not allow the resolutions of the Minneapolis Labor Council to influence him. Minister Wu is rather surprised not to have. received a copy of the resolutions, accompanied by a letter of transmittal. They were addressed to him, and natural ly he supposed he would get them in due course of time by mail, but they have not yet appeared. So even if he wanted to take them into account in making up his mind regarding whether to visit Minne apolis, he would ibe unable to do so. It is possible that the minister, in the event of his acceptance, will fix the date in May or early June. By that time pub lic business will be pretty well out of the way. To-day Minister Wu has written to Secretary Hay, laying before him the sit uation in Minneapolis growing out of the boycott of the Chinese restaurants, and asking that the secretary give it imme diate consideration. The letter will reach the secretary to-morrow morning through the mail. What he will do cannot be forecast. Wong Guy's letter to Wu ar rived yesterday afternoon and explained the trouble in detail. Mr. Wu does not know whether 'the case is one that can be reached through the state department, but purposes to do all he can for the relief of his countrymen. W. W. Jermane. Major Gardener Fears That the Filipinos Are Being Alienated. 1 FLOOD Portage la Prairie Inundated and Railway Bridge Washed Away. Special to The Journal. Winnipeg, Man., April 10.An Ice jam in the Assiniboine river at Portage la Prairie is causing serious trouble. All the streets in town are under water. The river rose seven feet in two hours. The bridge on the Canadian Pacific road's main line was washed away and the through express is running by the way of Souris. WEAR 'EM ALL OUT BIGCOMBINE IN HARDWIRE All Leading Minnesota Job bers Said to Be .. ., in.It. Leaders CALL FOR KNOX ELECTION OF SENATORS Depew Seems Perfectly Content With the Present Method. Washington, April 10.Senator Depew to-day offered this amendment to the resolution to provide for the election of senators by popular vote: The qualification of citizens entitled to vote for United States senators and representa tives in congress shall be uniform in all tine states and congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation and to provide for the registration of citizens entitled to vote, the conduct of such elections and the certification of the result. Mr. Depew spoke in support of his amendment. He combatted the proposi tion "to make the senate a popular body and reverse the principle upon' which the government has existed down to the pres ent time." He said: I am not, under .ordinary circumstances and normal conditions, in favor of the pro posed reduction of representatives in the southern states I am not in favor of any ldfcislation by the general government which interferes with the local affairs of those commonwealths but if the door is opened by 'the adoption of this amendment to the constitution for the changing of the character and constitution of the senate of the United States, then that measure must necessarily be accompanied by power to insure a full and honest vote of the citizens of the repub lic and protect this body in the election of those who may be designated here as senators. May Be Quay Candidate for Governor of Penn- sylvania. FALL ODT DiplomaticRelationsBetween Switzerland and Italy Are Ruptured. Wet* York Sun Smtotml Smrvlom Washington, April 10.Attorney Gen eral Knox may be drafted from the cab inet of President - Roosevelt to become governor of Pennsylvania. The republi can machine of that state is in a quandary over the local campaign. There is so much dissatisfaction with the Quay regime that the boss is compelled to look about for a popular candidate for govern or. He now wants Don Cameron to come out of retirement and make the race. Cameron may not consent. If he declines Quay's next choice is Attorney General Knox. Quay would like to get a candidate out of the .administration so that he may have a chance to run the campaign on national instead of state lines, and thus get away as far as possible from the odious record which his henchmen have made at Har risburg. There is said to be danger that the democrats may carry ,the state for governor, as they did ten or twelve years ago, when the people had become sick of Quayism. If Mr. Knox goes into the Pennsylvania campaign he will be prom ised the senatorship to succeed Quay two years hence. Berne, Switzerland, April 10.Diplo- matic relations between Switzerland and Italy have been ruptured. This action arises from the refusal of Switzerland to give satisfaction regarding an article published in Geneva insulting the memory of the murdered King Hum bert. The bundesrath has sent the following communication to parliament: Regrettable misunderstandings have oc curred between us and Signor Silvestrelli, the Italian minister. We have felt constrained to request the Italian government, in the in terest of the good relaitions of the. two coun tries, to recall Signor Silvestrelli. The Ital ian government having refused to do this, we 'broke off relations with Signor Sllver strelli, whereupon the Italian government, on its part, has now broken off relations with our minister at Rome. We shall publish the documents relating to this conflict. LOCUSTS COMING Indiana State Geologist Herald* the 17-Year Insects. Jndlanapolis, April 10.State Geologist Blatchley says that Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky will be infested with the seventeen year locust plague this summer, and that Indiana will have more locusts than all the other central states Dut together. MUST "CUT" THE WEED Order of North-Western Trainmen. Koad to A new book just issued by the Chicago & North-Western railway contains new rules for the guidance of engineers and trainment. There are a few radical de partures from old established practices. One of these forbids trainment to use to- ,, bacco in any form, at or near stations. - s1 * A BIG SYSTEM A Reported Deal Will Make the Pennsylvania's Total 20,000 Miles. ^ Will Let Insurgents Talk Themselves Tired. jV Torfc Sun Special Serviee Washington, April 10.From present indications there will be no limitation of debate on the Cuban reciprocity bill, and the talk may run on until the end of next week. The policy of the republican lead ers is not to limit the discussion and especially not to provoke the beet sugar men. The belief that if the debate Is allowed to run along without acrimony and without any violent speeches on either side, the house will soon tire it self out and there will be but little op position to ordering the previous ques tion. The real test of the fate of the measure will come on the motion to sustain the ruling of the speaker, who will decide that general tariff amendments are mani festly not germane to the measure under consideration. On this ruling of the chair the democrats generally will vote in op position, and if they are joined by enough beet sugar republicans they might be able to open the doors for a general tariff debate. Won't Be Too Rebellious. The policy of the republican leaders is,, therefore, to let the orators of the house exhaust themselves. It is not believed that any considerable number of the beet sugar republicans will commit themselves to such flagrant party rebellion as to vote to upset a well-considered ruling of the republican speaker of the house. This would amount to reading themselves out of the party, and it is scarcely believed that more than eight or ten will carry their opposition to such lengths. It is also the belief of the house leaders that public sentiment is becoming strong er and stronger every day in favor of Cuban reciprocity, so that every day of debate probably means a loss of one, or two, or three beet sugar votes on the republican side of the house. Friendly to French Treaty. The republicans are becoming so anx ious over the political outlook and so fearful that their failure to do anything toward revision of the tariff this year may work great harm to them, that they are now beginning to talk of trying to do something in the reciprocity line, after all. Western senators are showing more friendliness to the French treaty. They argue that it would be a good policy to do something to show the people that the McKinley policy has not been completely bowled out by the high protectionists. A week or two ago the western men had virtually surrendered to Senator Aldrich, the leader of the high' tariff forces. Now they are trying to pluck up courage. It is understood that next week the foreign relations committee will re port the French treaty to the senate, and therefore it will have to be considered in executive session. There has been a de cided change of sentiment in Its favor, but no one dares as yet to predict its ratification. I**. , if^^iu-SBii.t-jdi Special to The Journal. Chicago, April 10.Upon the authority of a large stockholder in the Plant sys tem it was stated yesterday that the Pennsylvania interests would soon acquire possession of the allied Plant and Atlantic Coast line systems. In this fact, it is alleged, is to be found the reason for the purchase by the At lantic coast line of the Plant system, which was announced recently, and which sm prised'the railroad world. Should the Pennsylvania secure the., two systems they will add a total of 3,970 miles of line bringing the total to 20,000 miles under one control. , _ -"- a A combination of the leading hardware jobbing interests of the country, as re ported iflrst in T h e J o u r n a l about three months ago, is announced from New York to-day as completed, with a cap italization of $120,000,000. Among the firms reported as about to enter the con solidation are the principal houses of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth, includ ing Janney, Semple, Hill & Co., the Mar shall-Wells Hardware company of Du luth, the Simmons Hardware company of St. Louis, Bindley Hardware company of Pittsburg, William Bingham company of Cleveland, Supple Hardware company of Philadelphia, Pacific Hardware and Steel company of San Francisco, Bigelow & Dowse company of Boston,, Vancamp Hardware and Iron company of Indianapo lis, George Tritch Hardware company of Denver, and forty other houses repre senting nearly every important trade cen ter of the country. The general headquarters will be in St. Louis the eastern headquarters in New York city. It is proposed that the first officers shall be as follows: E. C. Sim mons, president John Bindley, vice pres ident, and W. D. Simmons, chairman of executive committee of nine. The board of directors shall consist of from twenty five to .thirty persons. The financial end is attended to by Moore & Schley of New York, and George B. Hill & Co., of Pitts burg. Among the economies secured may be mentioned the following: All houses constituting the company will be in a position to take cash discounts. It Is estimated that at least $100,000 per annum will be saved in. catalogues. It is intended to continue the present forc9 of salesmen connected with the various houses, that existing personal relations be tween wholesale and retail distributors may be served. There may perhaps be gradually a transfer of. salesmen from territory that is overworked at present to other territory where the salesmen's efforts can be more ad vantageously expended. A representative of the firm of Janney, Semple, Hill & Co, one of the largest in the country, said to-day that under certain conditions the firm might enter the com bination. No information had yet been received that these conditions had been met. Washington, April 10.When the sen ate committee on the Philippines met to day, Senator Lodge, chairman, laid be fore the committee the report of Major Cornelius Gardener, civil governor of the Philippines province of Tayabas, to which reference was made by General Miles in his correspondence with Secretary Root. This report had been withheld, and this caused the adoption of a resolution re questing the secretary of war to send the report to the committee. The report is dated Dec. 16, 1901, and is largely a re view of conditions in the province. The governor says: A vigorous campaign was at once organized against insurgents in arms, with the troop* acting under positive orders to shoot no un armed natives and to burn no houses except barracks. Looting was prohibited under tha strictest penalties. Company and other com manders were ordered to pay for everything taken for necessity or bought from the na tives. As civil governor, I feel it my duty to say that it is may firm conviction that the United States troops should, at the earliest possible opportunity, be concentrated in one or two garrisons, if it is thought desirable that the good sentiment and loyalty that formerly ex isted toward ithe United States amons the people of this province should be conserved an'd encouraged. Hatred Engendered. Being In close touch with the people, hav ing visited all the pueblos one or more times, I know that such a sentiment once existed. Of late, by reason of the conduct of tne troops, such as the extensive burning of the barrios in trying to lay waste the country, so that the insurgents cannot occupy it the torturing of itlhe natives by the Bo-called wa ter cure and other methods in order to ob tain Information the harsh treatment of na tives generally, and the failure of Inexperi enced and lately appointed lieutenants, com manding posts, to distinguish between those who are friendly and those unfriendly, and to treat every native as if he were, whether or no, an insurrecto at heart, this favorable sentiment above referred to is being fast de stroyed and a deep hatred toward us engen dered. K these things need be done, they had ibest be done by native troops, so that the people of the United States will not be credited therewith. The course now being pursued in this prov ince and in the provinces of Batangas, La guna and Samar is, in my opinion, sowing the seeds of a perpetual revolution against us hereafter whenever a good opportunity offers. Under present conditions the political situa tion In this province is slowly retrograding, and the sentiment is decreasing as we are daily making permanent enemies. In the ..course above referred to, troops make no distinction often between the prop erty of uhose natives who are insurgent or insurgent sympathizers and the property of those 'who heretofore have risked their live* by toeing loyal to the United States and giv ing us information against their countrymen It arms. Often every house in a barrios is burned. MORE HERESY Methodist Pastor Removed for Teaching Theosophieal Tenet. Lebanon, 111., April 10.Because of the authorship of a book advocating the doc trine of reincarnation of souls, and offer ing Scriptural reference in support there of, Rev. Columbus Bradford has been re moved from the pastorate of the Metho dist Episcopal church at Okawville, to which he was appointed last year, and at RICH PAUPER ^ Francisco Gorgi Says Men Should Retire From Business at OO. New York, April 10.Tenderhearted persons in the Harlem police court were shocked when Francisco Gorgi, an aged Italian organ grinder, was fined $5 for begging. The white-haired old man brought forth a grimy old bag and counted out pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters until he had paid his fine. Then he paid $5 also in small change to his lawyer. To the astonishment of the court attaches and dismay of those who hadpackage sympathized with him, he produced- a con - taining $150 in bills and a hank book on the Bank of Rome, Italy, showing he had $12,000 on deposit' there. Gorgi, who is 60, says he will retire from "business." He thinks a man should retire at 60. The beggar recently gave his daughter $2,000 as a wedding present. Harsh Means Hot Justified. In my opinion the small number of irrecon cilable insurgents still in arms, although ad mittedly difficult to catch, does not justify the means employed, especially when taking into consideration the suffering that must be undergone by the innocent and its effect upon the relations with the people hereafter. The work of the Philippine commission, and the laws that have been enacted by it, are everywhere favorably commented upon by the natives. The efforts being made for the gen eral education of the people arc appreciated by all. The provincial government and the municipal governments established are slow ly bringing order out of chaos, and anarchy, and there begins to be visible everywhere in this province progress and prosperity. True loyaWy and contentment can only come under a benign civil government The attitude of the army, thereby meaning most of its officers and soldiers is, however, decidedly hostile to the provincial and muni cipal government in this province, and to civil government in these islands in general. It is stated in Manila that the army should remain in charge for the next twenty years. Outrages committed by officers and soldiers against natives in an organized municipality and province are often' not punished. This, in my opinion, is unfortunate, because loyal natives begin to fear /that that local self government promised them will not last long and that any slight disturbance in a province may at any time be made the pretext to again plac6 It under military rule, and this is just the thing the insurgents at heart most de sire. Kind Treatment Necessary. It has been stated that a Filipino or an oriental does not appreciate just or kindly treatment and that he considers it an evi dence of weakness and that severe and harsh measures are the only ones that are per manently effective with Filipinos. I have found that just and kind treatment, uniform and continued, Is the only way in which these people can become our friends and satisfied with United States sovereignty. As an officer of the army I regret that my duty as civil governor of this province impels me to state tfte attitude of the majority of my fellow officers toward civil government in these islands and its effect upon the island people, but I feel thtft. the interests involved and the future of these people, are of such vast importance that I ought to report things aa I see and know them, in order that my civil- superiors may be able Intelligently to order what the situation demands. With the report is a copy of a letter by General Corbin to General Chaffee dated Feb. 19, saying he encloses the re port of Major Gardener and that there should be a complete Investigation. There also is a cable message dated April 2, in which General Chaffee is directed to make the investigation with all speed consist ent with a thorough investigation. ..*: #f- - '$*$ They Cut Cards for an Office M Special to The Journal. Wausau, Wis., April 10.At, thoi e recent city election there was a tie-vote for alderman in the eighteh ward. matter was settled at the last council meeting In a peculiar mannern.- IA t was agreed between the two candidates that they should cut cards,t thet king of any suit to be high and the ace low, and the one cutting the thTnert meeUnVoftie LebBiwn^ c a r d 0 w i n e w PThe a d k c a r d s w a s secured and shuffled and the first conference he will be called on to answer I o n e t o c u d r e w t l i e t n o f spades, while the best the oUuc could do was the alft a charge- oi feereej. ^ | apot^of hearts Mm& Df*etiv Page 1