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4 THE PflliY GLOBE is published" every~day AT XEWSPAPEII ROW; COR. FOURTH AND MWMKSOTA STS. Address all letters and telegrams to THE GLOBE. SC I'aul. Minn. WASHINGTON BUREAU. l«3 F ST. N. W. Complete files of tlie Globe always kept on band for reference. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Payable in Advance. Dully and Sunday, per Month ..*"iO Daily t:nd Sundisy, Sis Jlont!>» - $2.75 Dully and Snnday, One 1 ear - $5.0 i) Daily Only, jjer Month -- - - .4O Daily Only, Six Months _ - - - - 3--2S Daily Only, One Year - $-*.O(> '■ Sunday Only, One Vcar - - - - 51.50 \ Weekly, One Year -_---- $1.00 TODAY'S WE ITHBR. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. — Forecast for Wednesday: For Mini "air; easterly to southerly windy. Wisconsin—Fair, preceded by loral snows on ; tho lakes: northeasterly wine's. South Dakota—Partly cloudy, with local : snows; slightly warmer; variable winds. North Dal rally fair; warmer; winds shifing to southerly. Montana—Fair; westerly winds. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. United States Department of Agriculture, j Weather Bureau, Washington, Feb. 8, 6:13 p. m. Local Time, S p. m. 75th Meridian I Time. —Obeervaftic ns taken at the same mo ment of time at all stations. TEMPERATURES. place. Torn. | St. Paul 28 Mlnnedosa 16 j Duluth 30 Winnipeg 10 j Huron 14 I Bismarck 8 Buffalo 28-82 WUliston V Boston 34-34 Havre 14 Cheyenne 10-56 Helena -v 34-38 Battleford 32-34 Prince Albert 20 Vfonitreal 22-2(5 ne Hat 20 New Orleans ">4-~>s i Swift Currant 24'Pittsburg 86-40 Qu'Api". lie L 8 j Baro- ■ 26; relative ! mini- j mum •' ' ■•. 26; daily range, .">: amount ; of rainfall or mi four hours. Note . rature and elevation. —P. F. Lyons Observer. aw vma mj:\t mo-M analogy. Without caring' to anticipate or to : controvert the proceedings of the forth- j coming' banquet of the rrlends of free j silver in this city a week hence, it may i be proper to call attention to the fcl- j lowing extract from the programme of toasts that has been published: "Silver Republicans—Expo-n<.r.:s of Lincoln j Republicanism"—"The m.lll who has pur- 1 eliased any article—say a horse—on rredlt at J $100 whe'i there? are $200,000,000 circulating in untry, if the quantity be reduced by by the arrival of pay day will j find the horse but sufficient to pay half the debt."—John Lind. It is arguments like this which tell ■ most powerfully with common people, j who, without giving- serious thought ! to the matter, are made to believe that > the price of any commodity is depend- ! ent upon the amount of money in use ! in the community in which that com- ! modity is bought and sold. Nothing could be farther from the truth. When, | in old times, a single community, say a city. ietured and dealt exclu- ■ sively in all the articles that its peo- | pie needed; when it furnished its own currency and needed no other; when, in a word, trade wirh outsiders was prac tically nothing: and any ether money | than that produced within the corn- ! munity was unknown, the proposition was pretty nearly true. All the busi ness of the community had to be car ried on with the community's money, and the price of everything would rise and fall as the volume of its circulat ing1 medium rose or fell. In the?e times of free inter national exchange the proposition \ has to be extended accordingly. I It is probably true that the prices of all commodities in the world today, including in "the world" all the leading civilized and commercial na tions, depend upon the aggregate amount of the circulating medium in that world. In that circulating medium, of course, are included not only coin and notes, but the representatives of and substitutes for money, which dis charge so important a function in trade and displace actual coin and bills more and more as commercial processes be come mare numerous and complex. Thu^, we know that the price of wheat, to take an illustration, does not go up or down in proportion to the fluctua tions in the money volume of a single country. The production of wheat and the demand for it are both world-wide. The price of wheat will vary on the. market, day by day, witn favorable or unfavorable reports from India, from Russia, from France, from the Argen tine and from all four quarters of the globe. Since demand and supply thus balance each other over the whole commercial world, that element of price Which is determined by the money volume varies correspondingly. To say that you can chasffe prices by increasing or decreasing the cur rency of a single country is true only in the ratio which the currency cf that country bears to the currency of the entire world. To use the analogy which all bimetallists use, and not without force, that of a reservoir consisting of two tanks connected by a pipe, we have, in the erase of prices, an enor mous reservoir. World-Wide in its ex tent, conn: tva many tanks as there are peoples engaged in trade, and the currencies used in buying and seil ing. Add to one of th;se tanks a cer tain amount and you do affect the general level of the reservoir, but by no means in proportion to the effect upon the single tank. If a tank contains a thousand gallons and you make it five thousand, you would raise its level im mensely; but, since it is connected by freely-flowing currents with all the other tanks in the reservoir, if their aggregate contents are a million gal lons, you have raised the general level only Imperceptibly. Applying to the text contained in the toast the test of further illustration, let us say that the money volume of the country and the world remains sta tionai-y, but that instead of having 200, --000,000 bushel* of wheat for sale one year, this country has only 100,000,000 bushels for sale another. Will any one contend that this difference doubles the market price of wheat the world over? Thaf tbe proposition will not stand is ••JMfUI at a Klanc«. The subtraction of 100,000,000 bushels from the total of the world's supply, fixing the world's prices, will have an effect, but it will not double the price. Furthermore, in this illustration, the bushel of wheat is always the same in the good year as in the bad. Now, if we can add to the aggregate money of the world a certain quantity of equally good money, we shall unquestionably affect prices. We can so affect them ultimately in a single country In these days of unre stricted trade only in so far as we increase the sum total of the world's money in respect to the sum total of the world's commodities and commer cial transactions. If, however, a single country attempts this feat by Injecting into its currency something which is not recognized by the rest of the world ; as money of full value, it does the same thing as the farmer who adds tc a bushel of clean No. 1 wheat a bushel of chaff and screenings. He has dou- [ bled the quantity of what he has to ' sell. Has he doubled its value? Would the multiplication of our total wheat j product by this process affect serious ly in any way the market price of that farmer's product who insisted on tak ing to the elevator the old-fashioned j bushel of full weight and first grade grain? These are analogies which it is not only fair, but necessary, to bear in mind when considering .the money question from the point of view laid down in the toast quoted, and they are too often left altogether out of sight in discussions on the free silver side of the question. TUB REPVBUCAM TROCHA. The center of political control moves nrestward with the center of population, and the Eastern states see with dis may their influence waning. This has been apparent in both political parties In many directions. Prior to the war the national conventions were held in one or another of the cities on the east ern slope of the Aileghanies. The Re publicans broke into the precedent when they went to Chicago in ISCO, and the Democrats acknowledged the west ward movement by going tc St. Louis in 1876. In the selection of candidates the Republican party has seldom gene farther east than Ohio and not farther west than Illi nois. The traditions of the Demo cratic party were stronger, and it has made its selections of presidential can didates since the war from stales east of Ohio, mainly New York, giving the West the second place. The supersti tion that the electoral votes of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were essential to success has enabled those states to dictate the nomination in every convention until 1892. Mr. Cleveland was nominated that year in spite of the fact that he was a resident of New York and in spite of the opposition to him in me three "piv otal" states. It was the West and South that forced him upon a reluctant East, and one of the significant results of that campaign, indicating a west ward movement, was his election inde pendent of the votes of those three states. The effect was seen in 1896 when the convention broke away from the East and crossed the Mississippi for its candidate, who, had it made no mare serious mistake, would have been elected. It is not probable that the outcome of that election will re-estab lish the old precedents, and it is more than probable that Mr. Cleveland is the last candidate a Democratic national convention will take from any Eastern state for many years. The anti-Demo cratic influences are centering so strongly in the North Atlantic states, and all prominent Democrats there are becoming so associated with them, that Democratic national conventions will shun candidates from that quarter. Meanwhile, we may expect to see the Republicans continuing to take candi dates from the West to get votes, while taking the funds for the campaign from the East, the latter furnishing the money in consideration of the sup j port of its financial interests and, as ! against them, indifferent to the mere honor of having the presidency. The present situation emphasizes the force of this movement westward of poi.ti-.al supremacy. Mr. McKinley i takes his secretary of state from Ohio; i his secretary of war from Michigan; his secretary of the treasury from Illi nois, and his secretary of agriculture j from lowa. New England gets only | the navy department, and it is prob [abte that for the first time the Pacific : slope will have a cabinet chair. Should Payne go into the postmaster general's seat from Wisconsin, the cordon of I states, the Republican trocha, will be j complete and continuous from Ohio to lowa. The center of political strength and influence at the end of the cen tury thus closely follows the move ment westward of the center of popu lation. ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE PUBLIC. It seems to us, upon a careful consid | eration of the proposed agreement be ; tween the city of St. Paul and the i Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail ; road company presented to the council | ?ast night, that the advantage is so j decidedly on the side .of the city that j it should be accepted as tfie victorious : consummation of almost interminable j litigation. Suits by the city against i the company for its occupation of a i portion of the levee with its freight i warehouse have been pending in one j or more ce.urts for a great many years. I They may be carried on indefinitely ! almost, with great expense to both par | ties, before a final adjudication has j been reached. Varying decisions have been rendered, some in favor of and i some against the public If all the suits should be brought to a close, and if all the courts should mute in granting everything that our people claim, we could secure only title to the levee property, and either the railroad would be entitled to compensation for the im provements that it has made, or they would have to be taken into account in any lease that might be entered into with the company for future occupation of the property. That it is not needed for and cannot be de voted to any other purpose is plain. The steamboat traffic of the river is accommodated farther up the levee. Access by boat, indeed, to the major THE SAINT PAUL GLOBS,. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1897. portion of the property occupied by this warehouse is impossible, since the improvements by the government en gineers have shifted the channel far ther out toward the middle of the river. It is available at the present time for railroad purposes and for little else. It is extremely important that we as sert and maintain our title to this val uable bit of land, and equally impor tant that we make the best terms pos sible for its present tenancy. Now, the compromise which the rail road offers appears to grant all that we could reasonably ask. In the first place, which is all-important, our title to the property is to be admitted. All proceedings are to be withdrawn, and the disputed portion of the levee is to be the acknowledged property of the city of St. Paul for all time to come. No more than this could be decreed by any court. In the second ! place, another scrips of law suits is to be ended by acknowledging the claim of the city to the lower end of Broad way. A strip eighty feet in width, from the foot of Broadway to the river, is to be declared, without further litiga tion, city property, and in case the i Broadway bridge is constructed In the future it has a clear right of way, sub ject only to the reasonable condition that piers and abutments shall be so placed as not to obstruct traffic. In the third place, the controversy over the construction of the bridge on Summit avenue is to be closed. The railroad company will agree to spend the full amount asked by the city in build ing a bridge over its tracks at the Summit avenue crossing that shall be not merely useful, but as substan tial and ornamental as our people have requested, in order to grace properly their finest thoroughfare. That the railroad company might be compelled, in course of time, to build some kind of bridge is doubtless true. That it could ever be forced, as a matter of law, to comply fully with the public wishes in this particular is more than doubtful. In return for these conces sions the company asks a lease of the levee property, at a nominal rental, for a period of fifty years, with the privi lege of renewal for twenty-five years thereafter. As we have said, there is no present or prospective use to which this prop erty could be put except that to which it is now devoted. The simple propo sition, then, is that the city lease to the railroad this bit of the river bank for the period mentioned in exchange for the withdrawal of all suits, the end of complicated litigation, the con firmation of the city's title to the prop erty, the acknowledgment of the city's unobstructed right on Broadway to the river, and the immediate construction of a beautiful bridge on Summit ave nue. We would not advocate for one moment any surrender of public rights to any corporation. We do believe, from a study of these details, that the bar gain proposed is one in which the city has decidedly the better of it. The at titude of the company has not been generous in the past, but it has been brought, by the determined and proper resistance of our people, to see that its own interest is tied up with a fair and even generous disposition toward the public. There is no prospect that fur ther suits, even if carried on without cost to the public, which they cannot be, would ever obtain for the city the substantial benefits contained in this compromise. We regard it, therefore, much less a compromise than an un conditional surrender, and advise its acceptance by the people. m GIVE IT MODERATE SI'PPOUT. The management of the "Trans-Mis sissippi and International Exposition association" is soliciting support for the exhibition which it proposes to hold in Omaha in the year 1898. The position of the Globe in this matter is that which it has held from the first mention of the project. In as far as it is a legitimate enterprise, intend ed to foster and advance the material interests of the Western states, we believe that it should command and receive reasonable public assistance. In as far as it contemplates, as most such undertakings do, a more or leSB pretentious grab at the public treas ury, we think that it should be chas tised and denied. In the nature of the case, this exhibition will be limited geograph ically. While all the states may have representation, it is those of the middle and Northwest that will take the lead, and* that expect to de- I rive from it the principal benefit. It is improper that any such local affair should make itself a petitioner for large public bounty. An appropriation of $200,000 has already been secured from congress to put a government ex hibit in place. It is stated in the pros pectus of the concern that an attempt ! will be made at this session to in crease this amount to half a million dollars. If that is successful, no doubt another will be made next winter to make it a round million. Both of them ought to fail. Whether the gov ernment should go into the business j of paying for exhibitions in every local I show is a question. It could not re fuse to do as much for a New Eng land exposition, or an Atlantic expo sition, or a Gulf state exposition, or a Pacific coast exposition. If it is to in dulge in these luxuries, certainly the limit of its expenditure in any case ought to be the amount already ap propriated, $200,000. As far as Minnesota is concerned, we think that the state should be represented creditably at the Trans- Mississippi exposition, and that a modest amount should be appropriated for that purpose. We ought not to expend any large amount of money for what is an advertising affair of somewhat doubtful returns, and our place there ought not to be vacant We counsel the legislature to give such support as the financial condition of the state and its people warrant to placing a smali exhibit at the Trans- Mississippi exposition, and ask our representatives in congress to oppose * vigorously any further extension of the federal grant already made. iitti —=— NEBRASKA "GIGS BACK." Nebraska was one of the states to go into the fostering business and, un der Republican!aus£ices, gave a bounty of 1 cent a pound to the refiners of beet sugar. Driven out of power the bounty was withdrawn, but restored on their return. The $ist/j election again put the paternalists in a minority, and the bounty question is again before the legislature. The Majority membership held a public meeting in representative hall to consider' the question, and adopted this resolution: "Resolved.That we favor the establishment of a beet sugar factory in each and every coun ty of the state, and we invite capital to invest in the same, as the home steaders have done in Investing their capital in the building up of the great state of Nebraska, but do not ask us to pay bounty therefor." Considering that this majority is largely made up of Populists whose previous proposi tions of public policy have been de cidedly paternalistic, this hostility to bounties is significant. It looks as if the lump of Democratic leaven that broke off and got mixed with Populism is working and leavening the whole loaf. The "nerviest" murderer of the cen tury was arrested yesterday at San Frtncisco. He killed fourteen men in Australia. He robbed the last of these of his money and clothes, and shipped for San Francisco under the name of his victim. Pennsylvania's state house at Har risburg burned yesterday. This puts the Quaker state into a position where it can take advice from New York, which has been building a capitol these twenty-odd years. AT THE THEATERS. Director Frank; Danz finished the last of a dozen full rehearsals he has held of the programme for tonight's concert at the Metro politan opera house yesterday morning, and when the last strain of the exquisite melody of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3 had died cut he declared that he was satisfied, and that tonight's event would be all that could be asked in the way of musical per fection by an orchestra of forty-five men. Manager Scott has provided for popular prices for the concert, and the people of St. Paul will have an opportunity to hear music played as Thomas would direct for about a quarter the money he would ask. Follow ing Is the full programme far tonight: March. Overture—"Cricket on the Hearth"— c ,_ ■ ~ Goldmark Symphonic Poem—"Romeo and Juliet"— __ ■ „ . Svendsen Ballet Music Lassen Toreador and Andalouse Rubinstein Serenade (Trascribed by Adolph Rosen becker) Schubert Selection—"Faust" Gounod Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3 Liszt • • • Hoyt's "A Black Sheep" opens its en gagement at the Metropolitan opera house tomorrow evening. This is regarded as the brightest creation of this most proliflo writer, equaling in interest and being as sub stantial In satire as "A Texas Steer." The same company that presented this play in Boston for an engagement of twelve weeks, and for 130 nights in New York city, will be seen here. Otis Harlan is at its head. The character which he assumes of the "black sheep" of a distinguished family was writ ten especially for him.' Mr. Harlan has done many a clever thing in hi 3 life, but this is the best of them all. The conception of the lines and the display of humor and the nu merous details all go to make up one cf Hoyt's best farces. Mr. Hoyt has recently en gaged Miss Jeannette St. Henry, a handsome woman, with a good voice, to play the part of "The Queen of Burlesque." • • • Again last evening, the Grand opera house was filled with an audience which testified its appreciation of the humorous quality of "A Divorce Cure" by frequent and e.nthusi astic applause. Miss Bancker finds in this play the role of her stage career, and one which her beauty, originality and decided cleverness rendered exceptionally enjoyable. Today at 2:30 the first of the papular priced matinees well be given. • * ♦ Thomas W. Keene, the eminent tragedian, will appear in his various repertoire at the Metropolitan r.ext week. Charles B. Hanford, a popular young tragedian, who was for merly with Booth and Barrett, Fanny Dav enport, Modjeska and other stars, is asso ciated with Mr. Keene this season as leading man and manager. Mr. Keene will apen his engagement Mon day evening with "Richard III.," which will be repeated Saturday night. "Othello' will be presented Tuesday night. At the Wednes day matinee "Ingomar" will be given, with Mr. Hanford in the title role, assisted by Mr. Keene's company. "Richelieu" is an nounced for Wednesday night, "Julius Cae sar" Thursday night. "Owing to demands for 'Louis Xl.,' said Charles E. Dowe, Mr. Keene's advance rep resentative, last night, "this play will be pre sented Friday night instead of 'Hamlet,' which will be given at the Saturday mat inee." «^» WALKER BIIJL. DISCUSSED. So Better Tlian the Present System, Says Mb. Eckels. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The bank ing and currency committee of the house today continued the conference with Comptroller Eckels on proposed changes in the existing banking system. Taking up the Walker bill, Mr. Eckels paid that, generally speaking, it did not provide a surer and safer method for the current and final redemption of notes, but a cheaper one, than under existing laws. He thought it would prevent a large withdrawal of gold from the treasury for shipment abroad. During the discussion Mr. Eckels was interrupted by Mr. Cox, of Pennsyl vania, who was stopped by the chair man, Mr. Walker, of Massachusetts, who said that it was in violation of a rule adopted by the comemittee and that Mr. Eckels should make a full statement before being cross-examined. Mr. Cox said that unless he was al lowed to make a statement he would i leave the room! As Mr. Walker per sisted in his determination, Mir. Cox retired. After the lapse of about half an hour, Mr. Cox reappeared and ex planations followed. Mr. Cox was al lowed to propoiind his question and the hearing proceeded. ___ *^^^^_ —, WOIXOTT IN FRANCE. He II«» Seen President Fanre and the Premier. PARIS,Feb. 2.<— Under the auspices of M. Thiery, editor of' the Economist, and Deputy Fongeiriol,"both prominent bl metallists, Senator-Wolcott, of Colora do, who is visiting Europe in the inter est of bimetallism, had a short inter* view with President Faure on Sun day. Since then he has seen M. Lam bert, president of the senate, and M. Agnin, director of the Bank of France. Senator Wolcott expects to see M. Meline, the premier, today, and will start for Berlin this evening or to morrow. Doable Tragredy. TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 2.—A. W. Llnder strom, a farmer living on Anderson island, came home last night, and in a fit of anger took down a gun and blew out th« brains of his five-year-old son. He then (placed the muzzle of the gun to his bead and blew out his own brains. WES flOtf 05 IT VENEZUELAN BOUXttAUY "TREATY SIONKI> IIV SIR JIUI\ AND »E\OR A\I>iHADE. FOUR ARBITERS SELECTED. JUSTICES PIXIiJB.II AND IMIEWER, BAIROX lil HS( l!i:.,I, AND SIR RICHARD «. OixLINS. VENEZUELA MUST STILtL APPROVE* Trlbu.no 1 "Will Render a. Verdict In Three Months After the Cone . Close* If Possible. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—'As the rep resentatives of their respective govern ments, Sir Julian Pauncefote, the Brit ish ambassador, and Henry Jose An drade, Venezuelan minister to Wash ing-ton, at 4:30 o'clock today at the state department, sig-ned a treaty pro viding for the settlement by arbitration of the long standing dispute over the boundary between Venezuela and Brit ish Guiana, wfhlcfti has not only ruptur ed the relations between the principals and kept them apart, diplomatically, for years, but has threatened to in volve the two great English-speaking nations in hostilities. The treaty was really complete sev eral days ago, so far as all of the de tails were concerned, except the In sertion of one name, and there was a blank left to fill in with the name of a British jurist. Some difficulty had been experienced in finding the second mem ber of the British supreme tribunal who was willing to assume the arduous tesk of arbitrator and also could be spared from the bench. It was not un til this morning that word came over the cable that such a person had been found in Justice Collins, a*id that his appointment had been ratified by the British privy council, a necessary for mality. So all was ready for the sig nature of the treaty, and Mr. Storrow, for Venezuela, calling at the state de partment about neon, arranged that the | signatory persons should meet about 5 o'clock at the state department for the purpose of signing. Mr. Cridler, the chief of the diplomatic bureau of the state department, had prepared the copies of the treaty for signature, both being in English and, unlike the gen eral arbitration treaty, printed on thick red-edged paper. Sir Julian cafcne to the state depart ment just before 4 o'clock in company with his attache, Henry Outram Bax- Ironside. Senor Andrade followed in a short time with Mr. Storrow, and the parties were shown ait once into Sec retary Olney's private office where the secretary was awaiting them. A few minutes' delay occurred before Senor Pcmte, the attache of the Venezuelan legation, came in, and then the party proceeded at once to the business of the day. Mr. Cridler and Mr. Bax- Ironside made a careful comparison of the two copies, and then Sir Julian signed both of them. Senor Andrade placed his name after Sir Julian's and Mr. Cridler affixed the seals, with the aid of Mr. Blankford, the private sec retary to Secretary Olney, and the treaty was an accomplished fact save the single act of ratification by the Venezuelan congress. The signatures were written with a special pen, a beautiful gold holder and tipped with an eagle feather and orna mented with a gold heart studdsd with diamonds. This was sent from Vene zuela for the purpose and will be the property of Senor Andrade, brother of the minister. PROVISIONS OP THE TREATY. The treaty provides that the tribunal shall consist of five jurists, two on the part of Great Britain, nominated by the members of the judicial commit tee of her majesty's privy council, namely, the Rt. Hon. Baron Her schell and the Hon.. Sir Richard Henn Collins, one of the justices of her Bri tannic majesty's supreme court of ju dicature; two on the part of Venezue la, nominated^ one by tine president of the United States, namely, the Hon. Melville Weston Fuller, chief justice of the United States of America, and one nominated by the justices of th* supreme court of the United States of America, namely, the Hon. David Jcsiah Brewer, a justice of the supreme court of the United States of America, and a fifth justice to be selected by the four persons so nominated; or, in the event of their failure to agree within three months, the date of the exchange of ratifications of the present, treaty, to be selected by his majesty the king of Sweden and Norway. The jurist so selected shall be president of the tri bunal. In case of death, the supreme judi cial council of England or the United States supreme court shall, by major ity vote, fill the vacancy. In deciding the matter of dispute, the tribunal shall be governed by the following rules: (a)— Adverse 'holding of proscriptions during a period of fifty years sfoall make a good tLb'e. (b)— The arbitrators may recognize and give effect to rights and claims renting on any other ground whatever, valid according to international Jaw. (c)—ln dotermlniin'g the boundary Mne, If terrl'tory of one party be found by the tri bunal to have been ait the Alvle of ihls treaty in ilhe occupation of the subjects or citizens of the other party, such effect shall be given to such occupation as reason, justice, the principle of international law and the equities of the case shall, In the opinion of the tribunal require. The arbitrators shall meet in Paris within sixty days after the printed ar guments shall be delivered to them. It is left with the discretion of the tribunal to change the place of meet ing. All questions considered by the tri bunal, including the final decision, shall be determined by a majority of all the arbitrators. Each of the high contracting parties shall name one person as its agent to attend the tribunal and to represent it generally on all matters connected with the tribunal. Provision is made for the presenta tion of printed arguments and counter arguments, and all documents and re ports shall be available to both sides. The decision of the tribunal shall, if possible, be made within three months from the close of the argument on both sides. The high contracting parties engage to consider the result of the proceed ings of the tribunal of arbitration as a full, perfect and final settlement of all the questions referred to the arbi trator's. The arbiters chosen on each side are to be paid by the governments they represent. TREATY CHANGES. Text of the Mmllffcatlons Made by the Senate Committee. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Th« text of the changes made in the general ar bitration treaty by the senate commit tee on foreign relations is as follows: As sent to the senate, article 1 roads: "The high contracting parties agree to submit to arbitration, In accordance with the provisions and subject to the limitations of the treaty, all questions in difference between them which they may fail to adjust by diplomatic negoti ations." The senate committee to this adds the following: But no question which affects the foreign or domestic policy of either of the high contract ing parties or ths relations of either to any other state or power, by treaty or otherwise, shall be a subject for arbitration under this treaty, except by special agreement. Article 3 is amended by giving each government two instead of one jurist of repute and the following is stricken from the article: In case they &>ball fall to agree upon an umpire within three months of the date of an application made Co them in that behalf by the high contracting parties, or either of them, the umoiro shall be selected in the manner provided for in Article X. In article 5, the same clause is stricken out and whero the word "person" is used, meaning the fifth member of the tribunal, '"umpire" is substituted. Article 7 in the original treaty reads as follows: Objrctions to fhe jurisdiction of an arbitral tribunal, constituted under this treaty, nha-11 not' be taken, except as provided in this ar ticle. If before the close of the hearing upon a ciaim submitted to an arbitral tribunal oontsitu'ted under Article 111. or Article V., either of the hig-h con'traotlng panics shall move such wibunal to decide, and there upon it shall decide that the determination of such claim necessarily involves the de cision of a disputed question of principle or g-ravo general importance affecting the na tional rights of such party, as distinguished from tho private ni'ghia whereof it is merely the initfirna.ti'onal representative, vhe jurisdic tion of sudi arbitral tribunal over such e'.aim shall ee'asij, and the same shall be dealt with by arbitration under Article VI. Amended by the committee Is as fol lows: Objections to the jurisdiction of an arbitral tribunal constituted over this treaty shall not be taken exc-.pt as provided in this article. If ait any time before the close of the hearing, upon any matter except terri torial claims, submitted to an arbitral tribu nal c&cis&ituted under this treaty, either of the nig* contracting parties shall declare that the determination of such matter necessarily involves the decision of a disputed question which is excluded from, arbitration except by special agreement by the operation of Article 1., then the jurisdiction of such arbitral tri bunal over such matter shall cease. Article 10 which reads as follows was stricken out and nothing inserted in its place. If in any ease the nominating bodies des ignated in Articles 111. and V. shall fail to agree UDon an umpire in accordance with the provisions of ihe said article, the umpire shall tie apponited by his majesty, the king of Sweden and Norway. Either of the high contracting parties, however, may at any time give notice to the other thait, by rea son of material changes in conditions as ex istinig at the date of this treaty, it is of the opinion that a substitute for his majesty should T>e chosen either for all cases to arise under the treaty or for a particular specified case already arisen, and thereupon tho con tracting parties shall at once proceed to j agree upon such substitute to act either in all cases to arise under the treaty or in the particular specified case as may be indi cated by said notice, so provided, however, that such notice pba.ll have no effect upon an arbitration already begun by'the constitution of an arbitral tribunal under Article 111. The high cocitracHing parties shall also at once proceed to nominate a substitute for his majesty- in the event that his majesty shall at any time notify them of Ms desire to be re lieved from the functions graciously accepted by him under this treaty, either for all cases to arise thereunder or for any particular specified case already arisen. JOHN MULL. TIRED. Does Not Much Care What la Done With the Treaty. LONDON, Feb. 2.—ln the house of commons today, Mr. Curzon, parlia mentary secretary for the foreign of fice, replying to Mr. Bowles, Conserva tive member for Lynn, said that, If the latter introduced a motion asking that the text of the arbitration treaty be laid on the table, the government would not oppose it. The St. James Gazette, commenting' on the probability of President Cleve land droppip.gr the arbitration treaty, says: "Should, however, President Cleveland or his successor ask us to accept an amended treaty, it would be just as well to do so and thereby again show how much we wish to keep on friendly terms with the United States. In the meanwhile, what a les son the whole story gives as to the value of the great principle of arbi tration between two states more close ly related in language and blood than any others in the world. They are without a real cause for quarrel, yet they cannot even agree to arbitrate without elaborate provisions which ex ciude everything of the least genuine importance." The Globe states: "Here in England we are loth to rid ourselves of old time delusions and that is undoubtedly why we still cling: to the idea that the people of the United States are our American cousins. Considering how tender we always are with the United States and how anxious we are to spare tneir feelings in every way we periodically wonder why they are in return so discourteous and malevolent to us. The fact, of course, is that the people of the United States are a very mixed race and are no more related to us, as a whole, than to Germany " The Daily Chronicle claims that the amendments to the Anglo-American arbitration treaty reported to the United States senate are even worse than expected. "The amendments would take the treaty a mere husk. If the United States senate succeeds in thus wrecking- the treaty, the rela tions of all nations will be worse than if the word arbitration had never been mentioned. England can, however do nothing further. There is only one things additional that we shou'd like to see in this particular, and that is a manifesto in favor of the treaty signed by every minister of religion in both countries. If some erf our American contemporios would under take to get the signatures of th* American clerg-y, the Chronicle would aznnrer for the signatures of the Brit ish clergy. Then the United States senate would be able to see the posi tion it. really occupies." The Standard s-as's: "The treatment of the treaty by the United States senate is a significant evidence of the dangerous vitality of jingoism among tho leading American politicians." The Daily News says: "The amend ments to the treaty reported to the senate were clearly made with the view of amending It out of existence." House Talked Apnrcprintlonii. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The day in the house was Tery dul-i, the whole day being devoted to debate on appropriation hills. The diplomatic and consular bill was passed, and COMtdM*b)a progress made with the Dis trict of Columbia bill. The bill as | carries $1,673,7C8. Resolutions arranging for the formal canvassing- of L'ho electoral' vote of the last presidential election ou Wednes day, Fob. 10, were adopted. At 5:03 the house cdjourned. Bottling- Bill Anprovrii. WASHINGTON, Fob. 2.—The senate cwra mittee on finairca today decided to report favorable the 'So-called bottling bill, wlr'oh has bffro pending before it. This bill w« desired by the distillers, and may be oiip-ooed by some members of the committee in tho senate. The bill provides for the bottling of spirits in bond. Senator Ilarrln Better. WASHINGTON. Feb. I—Senator HarrUr' condition is reported much Improved today and h.is friends are hopeful that ho will fcm provo continuously. Farmers Will Ilaild. Special to the Globe. ELYSIAN. Minn.. Feb. 2.—The farmere of this vlc.nlty, at a meeting held hero ar ranged to build a 6,000 pound butter factory here, early In tlie spring. Heating I*lant l'urvlmsnl. Special to the Globe. SL.AYTON, Minn., Feb. 2.—The contract for tho steam heating plant m the new school house has been let to W. S. Molo, of Dubuquo, Social Event. Special to the Globe. AITKIN, Minn., Feb. 2.—The Odd Fellows gave the second social of their serko Uiis evening in the K. of P. h«JI to tho members and their friends. It proved to be Uie social •vent of the winter. GIBSON'S SIR GUN TRAINED O3T THE IMMIGRATION CONFERENCE: REIPOiRT IN THE SENATE. MR. LODGE TO THE RESCUE. TWO HOURS OF SPIRITED CAWON ADING WITH NO PRACTICAL. RESULTS. DEBATE OX CANAL, lifLL, RESUMED. Bimetallic Resolution Offered by- Senator Chniidlcr for the Benefit of Pettlgrew and Vllan. WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The fea ture of the senate today was a very spirited debate of the conference re port on tbe immigration bill. Mr. Gib son (Md.) opposed the report, and lfr. .Lodge defended it. After a two-hour struggle, tlie report went over and the Nicaragua canal bill was taken up, Mr. Vilas continuing his remarks. Mr. Teller (Col.) also entered the de bate in opposition to the measure. Early in the day Mr. Chandler intro duced a resolution, the full text of which follows: That it Is the sense of the senate that th» United States should not permanently ac quiesce in die single gold standard, and that the efforts of the government in all Its branches should bo steadily directed to secura and maintain the use of silver as well as gold as standard money, with the fres coinage of both under a system of bimetallism to b« established through international agreement, with such safe-guards of legislation as will insure the surety of value of metals at a fixed ratio; furnish a sufficient volume erf metallic money and give immunity to the world of trade from violent fluctuations of exchange. Mr. Chandler said he would call up the resolution in a day or so for the purpose of making a few remarks in striking contrast to those recently made by the gold morcunetallist from. Wisconsin (Vilas) and the silver mon ometallist from South Dakota (Petti grew), who had joined hands in vot ing against the bill for an international monetary conference. Mr. Lodge then called up the con ference report on the immigration bill and sought to secure its adoption. This, however, wa-s objected to by Mr. Gibson, who made a point of order against the report as a whole. Ho declared that the conference commit tef had far exceeded its powers and had injected new legislation into the measure, thus violating the rules of the senate. Mr. Gibson said the bill had been so changed that wives would bu separated from their husbands, re peating the cruelties of slave days. Mr. Lodge, in charge of the bill, de fended the conference report, and, In vigorous terms, arraigned the steam ship lines opposing this measure, par ticularly the North German Lloyd. This company, subsidized by a foreign government, not only had its agents at the capltol, but had agents tele graph threats to senators and mem bers. Prom the same source came reports that the president would veto the bill. No president would mak* such a statement before seeing a bill. It came from the same quarter as that sending threatening telegrams to sen ators. This same steamship company he added, will carry its raid from the capital to the White house. When a great foreign corporation sought to take senators by the throat it was time to limit this insolent USE OF CORPORATE POWER. Mr. Lodge resented the statement that the bill would separate man and wife and renew the cruelties of slave cays. The bill sougrht to make a broad limitation against illiteracy, and if an exception was made as to wives, It would have to be made as to brothers sisters, etc. There would be none of the heartrending results depicted by Mr. Gibson. At the close of Mr. Lodge's remarks Mr. Morgan called up the Nicaragua canal bill. Mr. Teller proposed an amendment to the bill as follows: The bonds hereinbefore mentioned BfcAi] not be guaranteed, and no montm sball"*.)e ex pended in the construction ol the caoaJ until a survey has been made by a competent board of engineers, to fc» appointed by the president of the United States, and *a" com- Piete plan prepared for the entire work and such plans shall bo approved by t"-e president of the Unitc-d States. Should It appear from the report of said board c? en gineers that the cost of said canal would be more than 850.000,000, the president anall rejec the plan, and the bonds heretofore provided for shall not be guaranteed, and the government of tlie United States rhall not assume liability in the construction o* said canal. Mr. Teller satfd he would debate the bill as long as it was necessary be it one day or two days. He said those who opposed the bill were not responsi ble, if legislation was blocked. Mr. Vilas offered a substitute for the canal bill, which he asked should be road and printed. Mr. Morgan's dec laration that the concession did not expire April next, he said he con tested. Mr. Vilas drew attention to the fact that the friends of the bill seemed to be filibustering, if any ore was filibustering. Those opposed to the bill were willing that it be laid aside temporarily, m order to transact other business. He took up his argu ment where it ended yesterday The only use for the canal in time of war would be to transport ships for the defense of one of our coasts Neither the Atlantic nor the Pacific coast waa bo defenseless as to need additional strength. Senator Vilas today presented a sub stitute for the Nicaraguan canal bdU which he gave notice he wouhl offer at the proper time. It -prm-ides for a ccOTroiasion to be composed of one member of -the engineer corps of the army, a naval engineer and three other citizens of the United States to be nom i mated by the president and confirmed by the senate, which shall investigate the entire question. The commission is to bo known as the in-ter-oceanic canal commission, and the members are to be paid at the rate of $500 per month. The board is to be required to visit and personally inspect the several Lnes or routes projected, or which may feem to said board to be sufficiently practicable to demand an inquiry for an inter oceanic canal to connect the Atlantic and Pa-ific ocean. They are required to make surveys etc., to determine the most feasible practical and economical route for the canal, and to submit plans, specifica catioss .<tc. for the samp. The com misston is instructed to make complete estimates on the probable cost of such work on the route selected as well as such routes as are considered competi tive on that chosen. For the purposes of the bills $1,000,000 is made available by appropriation. Senator Carter offered an amendment to the ponding bill providing for tho elimination of Section 7 of the law in corporating tlie canal company, and also amending Section 3 of the pending bill, striking out provisions for the it turn of stock and the cancellation of contracts. Mr. Vilas did not conclude and will resume his remarks tomorrow. Mr. Carter (Mont.) offered a/mendmen'ts which were ordered printed. During the day Mr. Roach (N. D.) presented the credentials of his colleague, Mr. Hansbroush, for another term. Antong the bills presented was one by Mr. Mills to Increase the pensions of the survivors of the war of 1812 to $30 per month. Another bill by Mr. Lindsay (Dem., Ky.) proposed a pension for CassLus M. Clay, of Kentucky, at $100 per month. The house bill to allow the bottling of spirits in bond waa re ported favorably. At 5:05 the senate adjourned.