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JTEWB OF THE WORLD.
The Islands.
I'he Filipino insurrection in Batan
province is practically ended as a
result of Gen. Bell’s energetic cam
paign.
The report of the house committee
an. interstate commerce strongly
recommends a government cable to
Hawaii and the Philippines.
Colonel Allen, chief of the Philip
pine constabulary, in a report to the
war department, said 15,000 troops
were sufficient to hold the Philippines.
Prince Henry.
The Kronprinz Wilhelm with
Prince Henry aboard arrived at
Southampton. Extra precautions
were taken to guard the royal
traveler from anarchists during the
ship’s stay there.
Admiral von Baudissin, comman
der of the German imperial yacnt
Hohenzollern, was kept busy receiv
ing and returning calls, ’n the morn
ing, wearing full uniform, with many
decorations and accompanied by
Lieut, von Wuertemburg, he called
upon Mayor Adolph Lanker cl
Hoboken.
Prince Henry and his suite left
Bremerhaven on the Kron Prinz
Wilhelm and is expected to arrive in
New York Saturday morning, Feb. 22.
ft is rumored by officials of the im
perial yacht that the vessel will not
•be open for visitors upon Prince
Henry’s arrival. Painters are at
work everywhere on the Hohenzol
lern in making her ready for the re
ception of the prince.
♦ Obituary.
Cornelius Roosevelt, a cousin of
the president, died suddenly.
Yang Yu, Chinese minister to Rus
sia, died at St. Petersburg after a
short illness.
The funeral of William H. West,
£he minstrel, who died in Chicago,
was held in Brooklyn.
Eri Richardson of Sioux City, la.,
died, aged 75 years. He was wealthy,
having made a fortune in railroad
building.
Joseph Florsheim. aged 45, com
mercial traveler for a Chicago firm,
was found dead in his bed at a hotel
in. Wichita, Kas.
William Tedlie, aged 80 years, an
early Illinois pioneer and tor litty
years a resident of Christian county,
at Pana, 111.
Professor James Bradley Thayer,
Weld professor of law in the Har
vard law school, died of heart
disease at Cambridge.
Patrick H. McSherry, aged 51, tor
rner police magistrate of Joliet, and a
well-known democrat, died as the re
sult of a paralytic stroke.
-Sir Archibald Milman, formerly
'clerk of the house of commons, died.
He had been in the service of the
house of commons from 1857 until re
cently.
The Danish minister of public
nvorks, Mr. Hoerup, who has had a
notable career as a journalist and
politician, is dead at Copenhagen of
cancer.
President Zelaya has released from
prison General Vasquez. former
president of Honduras, and has
granted him permission to leave
Nicaragua.
Thomas L. Carter of Kenosha.
Wis., died there. He was president
of the Carter Manufacturing com
fiany, and well know in business
‘circles there.
Henry J. Miller, aged 80 years,
died at Spring Valley. 111. He owned
all the before it was incorporat
ed. He was the father-in-law of
Charles Devlin.
Robinson W. Cator, one of the
most prominent business men of
Baltimore, and senior member of tne
firm of Armstrong, Cator & Com
pany, died. He was 70 years of age.
Kila Starr, a well-known con
tributor to newspapers and period
icals, is dead at Fishkill, N. Y., after
an illness of several months. She
was editor of Frank Leslie’s Young
Folks.
Mrs. Hannah Horner, Chicago,
widow of Henry Horner, founder of
the wholesale grocery house bearing
his name, died in Pasadena, Cal.,
where she went a week ago for her
health.
Mrs. Austin Page died at Sycamore,
111., aged 94. She settled in that
place when the country was new, in
4835, and was a sister of Dtr. Horatio
Page, the first doctor that located in
Sycamore.
George Ertel, 72 years old, inventor
and manufacturer of incubators and
hay presses, died at Pinta, Ari., on a
train crossing the desert en route to
Quincy, 111. He was suffering from
bright’s disease.
Mrs. Harriet Livergood formerly
of Chicago, died at tne home of her
daughter in Los Angeles, Cal. She
leaves one son, Frank Livergocd, who
is now in business in Chicago, who
will inherit a large estate.
Rev. George Carter Needham, the
evangelist, died suddenly of neuralgia
of the heart his home at Narberth,
a suburb of Philadelphia. Among
his best known works are Conflict
mud Courage and Street Arabs.
Rev. J. F. C. Lochner died at Mil
waukee of apoplexy, aged 80 years.
Dr. Lochner was one of the founders
of the Missouri Lutheran synod in
184 G; also of the Lutheran Teachers'
seminary, now located at Addison, ill.
Professor J. K. M’Gregor, aged 58
years, died at Mondovi, Wis. He
was superintendent of the state in
dustrial school for boys at Waukesha
for several years, and was superinten
dent of the Eau Claire schools for
'fifteen years.
The remains of Rev. Henry Martin
Grant, who died at Eau Claire, of
apoplexy, were shipped to Cortland,
N. ¥., for Rurial. He was born in
Persia in 1836 and was a cousin of
Ulysses S. Grant. He leaves a
widow and two sons, both clerymen.
Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, widow of
Alexander Mitchell, first president
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul railroad, and mother ot former
United States Senator John L.
Mitchell of Wisconsin, died at villa
Alexandria, a suburb of Jacksonville,
Fla. aged 84 years.
Otto D. Swearingen, a well-known
Chicago lawyer, died in St. Paul, or
pneumonia. Mr. Swearingen was re
turning to his home in Chicago from
a trip to Seattle. He was taken ill
only thirty hours before he died.
Mrs. Celia B. Swearingen and a
daughter survive him.
Rev. Charles C. Carlton, president
of Carlton college, and one of the
prominent educators of Texas, died
at his home in Bonham, Texas. He
was born in England in 1821, ami
served as a seaman for a number of
years, coming to Texas and establish
ing a college in 1867.
Israel Schmid, aged 90 years, the
pioneer wagon-maker of the central
west, died at Mishawaka, Ind. He
came from Germany sixty years ago
and built the first carriage for the
Studebakers, who then carried on a
business in a log shop. This ve
hicle was sent to the Philadelphia
exposition and won a gold medal.
Dr. John L. Million, one of the
most prominent physicians in Spring
field. 111., died, aged 75 years. He
was surgeon of the 31st Illinois in
fantry, General John A. Logan’s
regiment, during the civil war. For
thirty years previous to two years
ago, he was chief medical examiner
of the Ancient Order of United Work
men. He was appointed member of
| the board of pension examiners by
President Cleveland in 1885, holding
the position until 1887, and was re
appointed by Cleveland in 1893, and
retained under McKinley.
Dr. Thomas Neall Penrose, medical
director U. S. N. (retired), died m
the United States naval hospital at
Philadelphia, of heart and Kidney
trouble. He was born in Phila
delphia 67 years ago, and was gradu
ated from the University of Penn
sylvania. At the beginning of the
civil war he entered the army as as
sistant surgeon, and served through
out the war. From 1872 to 1874 he
was stationed at the naval hospital
in Philadelphia, and in 1893 was in
command of the naval hospital at
Norfolk. He was retired in 1897.
Domestic.
Geneva, N. Y., suffered a SIOO,OOO
fire.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., is much im
proved.
The populist party of Kansas has
gone out of existence.
Miss Shaw of St. Louis is to paint
the portrait of Queen Alexandra this
summer.
The Women’s Suffrage convention
celebrated 82d birthday of Susan B.
Anthony.
The Louisiana supreme court de
cided that betting on horse racing is
not illegal.
The skeletons of two mastodons and
parts of another were dug up near
Morris, 111.
Jeffries and Fitzsimmons signed
articles to fight in San Francisco
about May 15.
At Clintonville Wis.. Conductor De
masker of the North-Western road is
ill with smallpox.
Edwin Boyce, head of the Western
Federation of Miners, offered $1,500,-
ODO for a mining claim in Idaho.
The John A. Roebling public school
and two frame buildings in Trenton,
N. J., were destroyed. Loss $15,000.
Registrar Hoy of Cornell announced
that seventy-two students had been
dropped for failure to maintain schol
arship.
Citizens of Bayonne, N. J., formed
an orginazation to save E. M. Brodie,
a soldier, from life imprisonment for
murder. ,
The fireproofing trust elected as
president Charles K. Robinson, form
erly treasurer of the Barber asphalt
company.
A military company is to be or
ganized at the Kankakee insane
asylum made up of patients of the in
stitution.
C. R. McLaughlin, doing business
as the McLaughlin Lumber company,
Columbus, Ohio, filed a petition in
bankruptcy.
The Rives cotton warehouse, at Jef
ferson, Tex., containing 1,400 bales of
cotton and 200 linters, was burned.
Loss, $60,000.
The will of James W. Tufts left
SBO,OOO to his workmen in the Boston
branch of the American Soda Foun
tain company.
The Woman’s National Suffrage
convention scored the administra
tion for crowding women out of gov
ernment offices.
Frank C. Andrews, vice president of
a Detroit bank, wos locked up in de
fault of bonds on second w’arrant
charging fraud.
Two masked robbers raided a
gambling-room at Clinton, la., secur
ing SI,BOO in money and diamonds
from eleven men.
Albert O. Klein of Chicago, a stu
dent at the University of Michigan,
committed suicide because he though L
his life a failure.
The establishment of the order of
Paulist fathers among the Episcopal
clergy is urged by many ministers of
that denomination.
Frank L. Slaker, formerly full
back of the Chicago University team,
was elected head coach of the Stan
ford football team.
William A. Mills, ex-city solicitor
of Toledo, was arrested on the charge
of obtaining money under false pre
tenses while in office.
The National Civil Service Reform
league issued a circular urging old
soldiers to oppose the various veteran
preference bills before congress.
Bills establishing marine hospitals
at Pittsburg and at Savannah, Ga.,
were ordered favorably reported by
the house committee on commerce.
A new York court ordered George
J. and Helen Gould to pay a $54,485
judgment obtained in the Paris courts
against the Countess de Castellane.
Caleb Johnson attempted to explore
a mysterious cave at St. Genevieve,
Mo., and lost his way, wandering in
the depths of the earth for four days.
The diplomatic and consular appro
priation bill, completed by the house
committee on foreign affairs, carries
$1,900,000, a small increase over last
year.
In Philadelphia a jury found Oscar
Dunlap guilty of conspiracy in the
abduction of Mabel Goodrich and he
was sentenced to two years’ imprison
ment.
J. W. Cope, who has played the
part of Henry Canby in the Arizona
company, disappeared after a matinee
at Sioux City, and has not been seen
since.
The selection of Booker T. Wash
ington as commencement day orator
for the University of Nebraska next
June, was announced by Chancellor
Anrdews.
G. A. Flavelle of Chicago and C.
M. Carrington reported to have suc
cumbed to hardships while exploring
the jungles in the unknown parts of
Venezuela.
Officials of the Illinois Central are
said to have a plan in mind whereby
it is expected that traffic between
Cuba and New Orleans can be great
ly increased.
The closing of the last gap between
the telephone systems of the eastern
and western states is promised by the
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone com
pany for 1903.
A lamp explosion in the house of
Wiley Taylor, a negro, caused a fire
at South Mills, N. C., which swept
away 25 buildings. Loss $40,000:
insurance, $15,000.
Walter S. Brooks, aged 20, son of a
rich New York man, was found dead
in a hotel with a bullet wound in
his head. Florence W. Burns, aged
19, is held pending inquiry.
New York and Brooklyn were visit
ed by the worst snow-storm experi
enced there since the blizzard of 1888.
Streets were blockaded by snow
drifts and traffice was suspended.
The San Francisco Call says J.
Pierpont Morgan’s recent visit has re
sulted in plans for a fine hotel and
many other buildings. The architect
has been selcted to prepare designs.
Mrs. Catherine Voepel, a widow was
mysteriously murdered in her flat in
New York. The necktie of a man
was found in her hand. Robbery
was apparently not the motive of the
crime.
Seven men were killed and fourteen
seriously injured in a wreck on the
Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf rail
road, near Little Rock, Ark. A huge
bowlder crashed down on the ca
boose.
Mrs. Charles H. Deere of Moline de
feated Mrs. Wiles for Illinois regent
of the D. A. R. by vote of 25 to 14.
Two of the members of the Chicago
chapter refused to obey instructions
for Mrs. Wiles.
John Jordan, with several aliases,
the king of green goods men. was ar
rested in New York by secret service
agents of the postoffice department.
He swindled victims out of thousands
by a new method.
Documents were received in New
York testifying that the pope had
honored Erwin Steinbeek, head in
New York of the firm of F. Pasted &
Co., with knighthood in Order of St.
Gregory the Great.
No opposition has developed in the
probate court at New Haven, Conn.,
to the acceptance of the report of
the executors of the will of the late
Henry B. Plant, whose estate is
valued at $16,000,000.
Congressman Loud’s scheme of sup
planting the rural free delivery serv
ice by the contract star route sys
tem will be defeated by the republi
cans in the house, who fear a recur
rence of old scandals
Three serious railroad wrecks in
Illinois and lowa cost six lives. Four
men were killed near Gifford, la., and
two were killed at Shop Creek Siding,
111. Several persons were badly in
jured near Carbondale, 111.
Peter Buschwah, a pioneer real es
tate dealer of Chicago, was found
dead in his office. The body sat up
right in a chair, with the feet rest
ing on a desk. Eight gas jets were
found open indicating suicide.
Acting Secretary Darling of the
navy has ruled that an enlisted man
must submit under pain of court
martial for disobedience, to minor sur
gical operations required to fit him
for the performance of his duties.
President Roosevelt has reached a
decision in the Schley case which will
not please the friends of tne rear
admiral, and finds, among other
things, that Sampson was technica’.ly
in command at the battle off Santiago.
A summons has been issued agairst
E. W. Gilham, proprietor of the Em
pire hotel, St. Louis, in which elev?n
persons lost their lives commandiig
him to sho-w cause why he should not
be punished for violation of the fife
escape ordinance.
Nothing definite will be done :o
ward the erection of the Carnegie pib
lic library in Janesville until after
the estate of the late F. S. Eldred is
settled. Mr. Eldred willed $10,9)0
toward the library, as a memorial to
his daughter. This sum is not avail
able until the estate is settled, whieh
will be some time next March. Tms,
with the $30,000 given by Carnegie,
gives the library board $40,000 for the
building.
William J. Arkell, for la years pres
ident of the Judge company, has re
signed that position, and also his
mebership in the executive committee
to devote his time to his increasing
outside business interests, which of
late have required much of his atten
tion.
At Richmond, Ky., a fight occurred
in the streets between James Estill,
Leslie Estill and Shelton Chambers,
as the result of which Leslie Estill
and Chambers will probably die. The
men were drinking and quarreled
about a trivial matter. Fifteen shots
were fired in the fusillade.
The 12-year-old daughter of Will
iam Gallagher, living near Eddyville
lowa, was assaulted on the public
highway and may die. A mob tried
to lynch Edward Davidson, who is
accused by the girl, but he was slip
ped out of the back door of the jail
and hurried to Ottumwa, where he is
closely guarded.
Frank James stated that he would
be unable to furnish the $4,000 bond
required by Judge Teasdale in Kan
sas City when he granted James’ ap
plication for an injunction to prevent
the production of the play The James
Boys in Missouri. The order of the
court does not become effective until
the bond is approved.
Foreign.
Ambassador Choate is ill with in
fluenza.
Plague deaths in the Punjab, India,
number l,buO a day.
Columbian revolutionists were de
feated by government forces in two
engagements.
Asuncion Esquivel obtained a
majority in the election for the
presidency of Costa Rica.
Great Britain will begin work April
1 on 13 new battleships, 22 armored
cruisers, and 28 other war-ships.
Canadians are objecting to the
Monroe doctrine because it forbids
the dominion the right of other com
munities on the continent.
Troops were called out at Rome to
quell labor riots. A state of siege
has been proclaimed at Barcelona on
account of strike troubles.
Three men, Alex Smith, Joe
Couture and John Ryan were drown
ed near the north end of Taxedo,
according to news brought to Van
couver.
Lord Rosebery in a speech at
Liverpool declared that England can
never grant a separate parliament to
Ireland- Liberals must disown
their former allies.
A steamer which has arrived from
the Congo reports that a fresh revolt
recently occurred in the Welle dis
trict and that the Batetela rebels
have been annihilated.
Lord Cranborne told the house of
commons that Lord, Pauncefoote nad
no authority from his government to
attempt intervention in the Spanish
war.
In the house of commons Lord
Cranbourne said that Wei-Hai-Wei
would still be used as a naval base.
Work on fortifications had been dis
continued for strategic reasons.
Unprecedented floods have oc
curred in the southwestern portion of
Cape Colony, resulting in great de
structon of houses bridges, and rail
road property. Twenty-five persons
have been drowned.
Santos-Dumont caused his balloon
to fall into the bay of Monaco to pre
vent an explosion of gas. The ac
cident was caused by a rope catching
in the machinery. The aeronaut was
rescued by launches.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Washington, Feb, 12. —With the ex
ception of a sharp clash between
Senators Lodge and Patterson over
the matter of the admission of rep
resentatives of the press to the in
vestigation of the Philippines com
mittee on the Philippine tariff bill,
the senate was quiet. The Colorado
senator desired that all newspaper
men be admitted to the committee
hearings, declaring that as now con
ducted they were of the star cham
ber character. He said his recollec
tion was that Senator Lodge had sug
gested the hearings be entirely
secret. This drew the fire of the
Massachusets senator, who indig
nantly denied he had suggested any
thing of the kind. He insisted that
reports made of the hearings by
press associations were accurate and
fair to both sides of the controversy.
A communication from the secretary
of war transmitting a memorial or
the federal party in the Philippine
islands in support of American rule
in the islands called from Senator
Patterson the statement that the
federal party had obtained control in
the Philippines by promising the
Filipinos they would be admitted
ultimately to statehood in the United
States.
Washington, Feb. 12. —The house
passed the oleomargarine bill. There
was no division on final passage, the
real test of strength having been
made on the motion to recommit,
which was defeated by a majority
of 34. The provision to relinquish
the inspection and branding of ren
ovated butter, adopted by a com
mittee of the whole, was retained.
As finally passed the bill is some
what modified from the form in
which it was reported from the com
mittee on agriculture. It makes oleo
margarine or imitation butter or
cheese transported into any state or
territory for use, sale or consump
tion therein subject to the laws of
such state or territory, notwithstand
ing it may be introduced in original
packages, and imposes a tax of 10
cents per pound on oleomargarine
made in imitation of “butter of any
shade of yellow.” When not made
in such imitation the tax is reduced
to one-fourth of one cent a pound.
The second section is intended to
prevent dealers, hotel proprietors,
restaurant and boarding house keep
ers from coloring the uncolored
article by making any person who
colors the product and then sells or
furnishes it to others a manufacturer
within the meaning of the act.
Heavy penalties are provided. War
claims occupied the attention of the
house after the passage of the oleo
margarine bill and the day was made
notable by the passage of the first
bill for the payment of claims or
United States citizens arising out of
the Spanish war. It carried some
thing over $55,000 for the payment of
202 claims for property taken within
the United States for use in the
army. An omnibus bill carrying
claims aggregating $2,114,552 for
stores and supplies taken from
loyal citizens during the civil war
also passed. These claims were al
lowed under provisions of the Bow
man act and the bill was identical
with one passed by the house at the
last session. Two other bills, which
had been before congress 28 years,
to refer certain claims for additional
compensation by builders of certain
monitors during the civil war to the
court of claims, were also passed.
Washington, Feb. 13. —While no
definite agreement has been reached,
the vote on the Philippine tariff bill in
the senate seems to be in sight. It ap
pears likely, judging from the discus
sion of the subject today, that the
vote may be had next week, although
the matter yet is involved in some
uncertainty. Senator Teller of Col
orado concluded his speech. He
urged strongly that the Filipinos be
given the fullest possible measure of
self government, the United States
simply maintaining a protectorate
over the islands. He said he would
prefer that this government should
withdraw absolutely and without con
ditions from the archipelago than that
the present war should be continued.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon made a
speech in support of his amendment
to reduce tariff duties upon Philippine
products coming into this country to
50 per cent, of the Dingley rates,
maintaining that congress owed this
concession to the Pacific coast states
as well as to the Philippines them
selves.
The house unanimously adopted a
resolution proposing an amendment to
the constitution of the United States
for the election of senators by direct
popular vote. This is the fourth time
the house has adopted a similar res
olution. Two bills of general im
portance were passed. One was a
senate bill to provide for the payment
of claims of confederate officers and
soldiers whose horses, sidearms and
baggage were taken from them by
union soldiers contrary to the terms
of the surrender of Lee’s and John
son’s armies. The amount to be paid
under the bill is limited to $50,000.
The other bill was to confer on the
Spanish claims commission authority
to send for persons and papers and
punish for contempt. Mr. Corliss,
who is the author of the bill for a
government cable from San Fran
cisco to Manila, made a speech in op
position to the laying of such a
cable by a private corporation.
Washington, Feb. 14. —A little
flurry was created in the senate over
the employment since the beginning
of the session of a score or more of
extra clerks and messengers for the
committees. Charges of extrav
agance made induced the reference
of the whole subject of clerical em
ployment to a committee for inves
tigation. The bill creating a per
manent census office was under con
sideration for a time, but was not
dipsosed of finally.
The monotony of private pension
day of the house was enlivened by a
sensational speech from Mr. Wheeler
of Kentucky in denunciation of what
he denominated “flunkeyism” toward
foreign countries. He took recent
statements emanating from con
tinental cabinets regarding the at
titude of Great Britain during the
Spanish war as a text for wholesale
attacks upon the trend of our recent
diplomacy. He severely scored Sec
retary Hay and declared that it
Lord Pauncefote had sought, as al
leged, to circumvent us curing the
war of 1898 the sooner he was ship
ped across the seas the bettor.
also criticised the president tor nis
reported intention to send his daugh
ter to the coronation of King Edward
and protester against the official re
ception of Prince Henry. His speech
aroused the house to a high pitch of
excitement and elicited from Mr.
Boutelle of Illinois a spirited defense
of Secretary Hay. Several other
members of the republican side took
a hand and later in the afternoon Mr.
Grosvenor of Ohio took Mr. Wheeler
to task for his “inopportune protest”
and rehearsed the history of the
visit of the prince of Wales to this
country in 1860 and his reception lyv
President Buchanan.
Washington, Feb. 15. —During the
entire session the senate had under
consideration the bill establishing a
permanent census office. The great
contest of the day, of course, was
over the transfer to the classified
service of the employes of the census
office who will be retained in the per
manent establishment. It involved
the entire civil service question and
the debate covered much ground that
has heretofore been gone over in
congressional debates.
Washington, Feb. 17. —in little
more than an hour’s time the senate
disposed of the treaty with Denmaik
ceding to the United States for a con
sideration of $5,000,000 the islands of
St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix,
composing the group known as the
Danish West Indies and lying just
east of Porto Rico and thus, so far
as this country is concerned, con
summated a transaction which had
been under consideration intermittent
ly since the administration of Presi
dent Lincoln. The treaty and report
on it were read at length and more
or less discussion of the proposition
was indulged in. Senator Cullom,
chairman of the committee on foreign
relations, made a speech explaining
the advantages of the acquisition of
the islands and Senators Bacon and
McLaurin of Mississippi made brief
remarks, saying while they could not
endorse all the provisions of the
agreement they would place no
obstacles in the way of ratification.
At the conclusion of the remarks, on
Senator Cullom’s motion, the treaty
was ratified by a viva voce vote.
After an extended debate the
senate passed the bill establishing
the permanent census office. The dis
cussion related principally to the col
lection and publication by the direc
tor of the census of statistics re
specting the production of cotton.
Senator Allison vigorously opposed
the provision, maintaining that cot
ton statistics gathered by the depart
ment of agriculture were complete
and accurate and that no necessity
existed for their duplication. De
spite his opposition, the provision
was inserted in the bill. Several
other bills of importance on the
calendar, were passed, among them
one extending the charters of the
national banks.
Representative H. C. Smith of
Michigan introduced a bill amending
the act of July 24, 1897, authorizing
the president to negotiate a reci
procity treaty between the United
States and Cuba for a period of ten
years, by which the United States
shall refund to the Cuban govern
ment quarterly 40 per cent, of the
duties on condition that Cuba shall
grant a concession of all duties on
articles imported by Cuba from the
United States and on condition that
no duties shall be refunded on any
article for the introduction of which
any bounty has been offered, provid
ed for or paid. It is explained that
Mr. Smith’s bill is in line with the
general sentiment of the Michigan
delegation to protect the beet sugar
industry of that state as the refund
ing proposed is to the Cuban govern
ment and not to the sugar planters.
By an unanimous vote of 278 the
house passed the Lili repealing taxes
and at the same time gave an exam
ple of the celerity with which con
gress can transact business when it
makes up its mind to do so. The
bill was adopted rather unexpectedly
by a clever parliamentary move on
the part of Representative Richard
son, the democratic leader, the result
of which was that the war revenue
repeal bill was adopted by the house
one day earlier than was contem
plated by the republican leaders.
Washington, Feb. 18. —It was
agreed by the senate that the final
vote on the Philippine tariff bill and
pending amendments should be taken
next Monday. The only stipulation
made by the minority was that the
last day of the debate should be de
voted to speeches not exceeding 15
minutes in duration. Senator Well
ington of Maryland spoke in opposi
tion to the bill and Senator Stewart
of Nevada in support of it. Senator
Wellington set forth his views force
fully. He always had been as a republi
can, he said, a believer in the sys
tem of protection and a supporter of
the gold standard, but he had come
to the parting of the ways with his
party in 1898, when it developed “its
imperialistic tendencies.” He op
posed the pending bill because he did
not think that congress had the right
to enact legislation by which people
were taxed without representatior
and governed without their consent.
Senator Stewart made a constitution
al argument in support of the author
ity of congress to hold the Philip
pines and provide a proper govern
ment for their inhabitants.
The speech of Mr. Wheeler of Ken
tucky in t|ie house last Friday whei
he bitterly assailed Secretary Haj
and Lord Pauncefote and criticisec
the official preparations for the recep
Cm of Jh'ince Henry had a sequel in
the house during the debate on the
Indian appropriation bill. Mr. Gillette
of Massachusetts declared that th'’
intemperance of Mr. Wheelers
language carried its own condemna
tion. Nevertheless, he (Gillette),
grievously deplored such an affront
to a foreign country. During the
course of the speech two democrats
Messrs. Robinson of Indiana and
Thayer of Massachusetts —disclaimed
any sympathy with Mr. Wheeler’s ut
terances. These disclaimers drew
from Mr. Talbert of South Carolina
the statement that he desired to share
in the responsibility of the speech
every word of which he said he en
dorsed. Mr. Wheeler himself subse
quently replied to Mr. Gillette, reaf
firming what he had said and declar
ing he would stand by his word?
whether they were discreet or not. Hi
read a number of letters and tele
grams and one cablegram from Lon
don commending his utterances
Earlier in the session, Mr. Hill o
Connecticut and Mr. Shafroth of Cok
rado discussed the former’s bill t
redeem silver in gold. Mr. Burlei
son of Texas criticised the presidon
for changing his position on trusts.