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WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Forecast for Sat
urday: Minnesota—Threatening weather and |
BDOgr, clearing in northwest portion; winds ;
shifting to northwesterly; colder.
Wisconsin—Generally cloudy weather, with j
light snows; southeast winds, becoming va- ;
riable; colder Saturday night.
SoutSi Dakota—Snow, followed by clearing I
weather; colder; northwesterly winds.
North Dakota.—Fair, preceded by local snows
In east portions; nor:h\vesterly winds.
Montana—Generally fair; not so cold; west
erly winds.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United States Department of Agriculture.
"Weather Bureau, Washington, Feb. 12. 6:48
p. ni. IxK'al Time. S p. m. 75th Meridian
Tinu.—Observations taken at the same mo
ment of time at all stations.
TEMPERATURES.
Place. Tern.! Place. Tern.
St. Paul '. SOQu'Appelle 14
Duluxh. 26 Minn^flcvsa 18
Huron .. SO Winnipeg 22
Bismarck 18
\Villiston ltiHuffalo 18-24
Havre IS Boston 14-22
Helena 21 Cheyenne 86-44
Edmonton 24 Chicago :>O-32
Battleford 20 Cincinnati 38-38
Prince Albert 18; Montreal 10-10
Calgary 16, New Orleans 54-56
Medicine Hat 1- Now York 2n-24
Swift Current 18 Pittaburg 32-42
DAILY MEANS.
Barometer, 29.94; thermometer, 28; relative
humidity. 89; wind, southeast: weather,
cloudy; maximum thermometer, 32; mir.imuui
thermometer, 24: daily range. 8; amount of
melted snow in last twenty-four hours, .04.
Note—Ri.-c"- ■ corrected for temperature
"id elevation. —P. F. Lyons, Observer.
OIR GREATEST TROI'BLK.
One who is searching for the cause of
business depression and of the general
distress and discouragement prevailing
in a country rich in resources and in
the vigor and ability of its people may
read a lesson out of the results of the
bursting of the steel rail pool. That
pool, aided by the robber tariff, has
kept the price of steel rails up to
a point which was practically prohib
itory of purchasers. It did not mat
ter that this price was secondarily as
injurious to the manufacturer, as it was
primarily to the consumer. It needed
but a short glance ahead to show that
railroads would not be built, and, there
fore, steel rails would not be purchased
as long as the material could not be
had except at boom prices in what
were very far from boom times. The
greedy trust preferred a present sacri
fice, closing down mills everywhere, or
running them on part time, and keep,
ing men out of employment indefinitely,
in order to curtail production, rather
than to meet the market and make
reasonable terms. It chose to sell a
very few rails at an abominably ex
orbitant price rather than to invite the
public demand and meet it. The re
sult has been a practical prostration
of the industry until one great manu
facturer broke away from the combine
and put prices where they belong.
What is the consequence of this rup
ture of a trust and this permission of
the demand and supply to equalize
each other? The first consequence
seems to have been the sale of 50,000
tons of steel rails by one concern at
the reduced rate. Prices tumbled ev
erywhere, and orders rolled in until it
is reported by Bradstreet's that 300,000
tons of steel rails have been sold since
the collapse of the pool, and that these
orders alone will keep all the mills busy
for months to come and occupy the
largest plant in the country for a full
year.
This is a sample of the irregular and
destructive development of industry in
a country where trade is not free. First
a drought and then a flood is the Amer
ican business principle. For years we
have the great steel mills hampered by
an insufficient demand and their em
ployes idle a great part of the time.
During all this period plenty of orders
could have been had, meaning activity
In railroad and other construction and
a larger distribution of general pros
perity, if prices had been accommodat
ed to the market. Those prices were
maintained by the pool solely by virtue
of tariffs on foreign-made rails,
which kept the English and German
product out of our market and enabled
the domestic maker to maintain a price
$S a ton above the normal. Just the
instant that one firm breaks away,
and the price is made a fair one, we
learn how enormous is the accumulated
demand. Buyers rush their orders in
to t^e different steel plants, and the
work that should have been done in
the past three years will all have to be
crowded into the next.
The believer in Democracy who ex
amines the details, the forerunners and
the subsequent developments of such
an event as this, will see wherein our
great trouble lies. He will find that
the complaint of the unemployed is
jUHt; that it lies against these powerful
combinations in trade which so poorly
tai-.e the place of demand and supply,
and that they, in their turn, maintain
thfilr existence, despite the disintegrat
ing effect of competition, mainly
through the favoritism of a protective
tariff. If the tariff on steel rails had
"been repealed at any time within the
last year or two, exactly the same
effects would have followed as have
fceen seen since the dissolution of the
pool. It would have meant a lowered
price, big orders far goods and ac
tive production, with employment and
wageg for all. The reduction of $8 per
ton in prioe made by the break of the
Carnegie company is exactly the same
to :t« effeot* as would have been the
break of $8 In price produced by re-
S*«iin* the tariff amounting to that
figure and making foreign competition
effective.
The same holds good everywhere else.
If all our tariffs were done away with,
the increase in consumption would be
almost incalculable, and there would
be a corresponding increase in activity
in all lines of industry in this country.
Not the money question and not the
power of one class in a community
over the others, but the iniquity of
trusts, sustained and made possible by
tariffs, is the desperate issue of our
times. Let the people look to it.
i:uim>i:\\ possililLlTißS.
It is barely possible that a power so '
inconsiderable as Greece may have
taken the step that is at last to bring \
the Eastern question to a crisis and j
shatter the infamous rule of the Turk.
There is room for suspicion that the
troubles in the island of Crete are not I
wholly of Mussulman origin. It would
be strange indeed if wherever Christian !
and Turk meet on common ground the
former should not be stirred to as deep '
and implacable hatred as the latter i
knows how to cherish by what has
taken place in Armenia and in Con
stantinople. These Eastern Christians
have the feelings of men, and it is not
in human nature for them to pass over
lightly the atrocities which the past
two years have seen inflicted upon
their fellows in the faith. So one
may drop the question whether the
Cretan troubles are of Christian or
Mohammedan origin, and concern him
self only with the practical effect. The
fitting- out of an expedition from Greece
j for participation in the difficulties in
J Crete has alarmed all Europe. It threat
| ens to bring Greeks and Turks face
'to face in armed conflict. It is not
i likely that the sultan, who has openly
| defied all the powers, will submit tame
i ly to any interference now. On the other
hand, it is equally likely that this may
prove to be the spark which alone was
needed to fire the mine.
All Christendom, except the timorous
politicians who rule the destinies of
| most nations, has been ready for
many months for any sort of crusade
that would send the Turk scuttling out
jof Europe. Given an opportunity for
| an overt act, and the people were ready
to do the rest. It is possible that, if
the sultan should resent the act of
King George and if an armed conflict
should be the result of the overwhelm
| ing public sympathy of Europe with
! the Christians, the public would burst
i all restraints and end the question at
once and forever. That this may be
the result is the hope of every civilized
man. It has generally been true in
the past that great crises were pre
cipitated by comparatively insignificant
events at last. It may be that what
the blood of thousands of Armenians
| failed to purchase will be bought by a
threatened outbreak in an inconsidera
ble island of the Mediterranean. That
it may be so is the hope of the entire
world.
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STILL SRAYIXG.
The United States senate continues
to earn the condemnation of good citi
zens and decent men. It continues its
policy of deliberately choosing that
which will injure public business most
and neglecting or rejecting the most
pressing affairs of the day. There were
a very few important things that this
session might have seen accomplished.
Easily the first among these was the
passage of a bankruptcy bill. The busi
ness interests of the entire United
States have been clamoring for such an
act for the last fifteen or twenty years.
There has been comparative unanimity
on the subject even in congress, ex
cept as to matters of detail. A bank
ruptcy act passed the house long ago
and has been awaiting consideration in
the senate. A majority'of that body
has ruthlessly slaughtered it, not be
cause it was antagonistic to any other
measure of present or practical impor
tance, but solely in the interest of free
and unlimited gabble. The highest ideal
of senatorial excellence is to talk fool
ishly, pointlessly, wickedly against pub
lic interest, if need be, but, at any
rate, to talk unceasingly; and if upon
a subject that cannot have any rela
tion to practical affairs, so much the
better.
So we have seen the bankruptcy bill
put into the background week after
week to afford an opportunity for the
eternal debate over the Nicaragua
canal steal. The indictment against
the senate is not merely that this thing
was the most outrageous job ever at
tempted to be put through in this coun
try, but that, good, bad or indifferent,
it had no chance to become a law at
this session. It was, therefore, just as
useless to spend time in debating it in
the senate as it would have been to
argue the propriety of building a rail
road to the moon. Mr. Reed had defi
nitely declared that no time would be
allowed to consider it in the house. It
was well known that a majority of the
house would vote against it, even if
it could be considered. Therefore, the
Nicaragua oanal bill was absolutely
dead, since all legislative matters pend
ing before congress will expire by lim
itation on the 4th of March. Yet the
Abettors of this scheme kept it, day
and night, holding Its place in the sen
ate, and preventing action on any
other subject, solely that they might
talk uninterruptedly and unweariedly,
while duty waited outside the door.
When, at last, mainly through phys
ical weariness, the Nicaragua canal bill
went by the board, the bankruptcy
bill had to be taken up, because it was
next in the regular order of business.
But the proud and garrulous spirit of
the senate would not brook this inva
sion of a question of real practical im
port. Hardly had the bankruptcy bill
been presented before it was laid aside
in order that the senate might spend
the balance of the session in talk upon
the proposed arbitration treaty. If the
disposition of the senate be aa is now
understood, there is no more profit in
considering that treaty than there waa
In spending time over the Nicaragua
oanal. If the amendments agreed upon
by the senate committee are sustained,
THE SAINT PAUL GI*OBEr SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1897.
as It is understood they will be, the
treaty becomes mere waste paper.
Those amendments reduce the agree
ment to unadulterated Idiocy. They
say, In effect, that Great Britain and
the United States may arbitrate their
differences when the question involved
is one about which both of them are
perfectly indifferent and which raises
no question material to either party;
and that, if they do this, either of them
can back out and quit the game when
ever he pleases. Of course, this is not
merely to deny arbitration, but to make
it ridiculous. Neither our own depart
ment of state nor the English foreign
office would condescend to so much as
notice the treaty if it should be
agreed to by the senate in this shape.
It is generally believed that these med
dlesome old women will not ratify the
treaty containing any practical or use
ful provisions. It is known that the
governments concerned will not pay
any attention to the silly business
which the senate has in mind. There
fore, once more, all debate that can be
had over this treaty is practically use
less except as it serves to gratify the
craving, now risen to monomania, of
a lot of imbecile old men for intermi
nable speech-making.
The fact is that the senate, under
its present rules, is wholly In the grip
of a few old fogies in their second
childhood and a few paid servants of
great corporations. What delights
these men most is to sidetrack every
practical business measure and keep
the main line open for gab. If a re
j form in the rules that make this pos
j sible does not come very soon, a deep
er-seated reform will be necessary. We
believe, from present appearances, that
within the next ten years the question
j of how to reconstitute or else abolish
I the federal senate will be one of the
leading issues of the day.
SHOULD BECOME QUALIFIED.
To the Editor of the Globe.
Will you please answer in the columns of
your paper the questions which are in the
minds of s-o many of the voters in regard
to their voting and holding offices when they
have only their first papers?
Have the town clerks or supervisors any
right to act in the coming town and village
elections as judges of the same without their
second papers? If they are barred from vot
ing, are they not also barred from acting aa
judges, and won't there have to be clerks
and supervisors appointed in their places to
make the town meetings legal? As the time
for the holding of the town meeting is draw
ing near, you will do the readers of the
Globe a great favor by answering the
same. —James L. Fitch.
Sunrise City,- Feb. 8, 1897.
All persons acting as election officers
should become qualified electors before
| entering on the performance of their
I duties. Section 57 of the Statutes of
j Minnesota, compiled in 1894, reads as
follows:
Two qualified electors in each election dis
trict shall be appointed judges of election
therein to serve as clerks of election for such
district, except that in towns the town clerk,
and in villages having but one election dis
trict, and not included in any township elec
tion district, the village clerk shall serve as
one of the clerks of election in the election
district in which he resides. No more than
two judges and one clerk of election shall
belong to the same political party, and no
person shall be eligible or servo as judge or
clerk of election unless he be a qualified
voter within the election district in which
he sits, nor unless he can read, write and
speak the English language understanding^,
nor if he be a candidate for any office.
The language of this is very explicit.
No person shall be eligible to serve
as judge or clerk of election unless he
is a qualified voter. Under the consti
stutional amendment, in order to be
a qualified voter he must have taken
out his full papers of citizenship. It is
therefore obvious that persons selected
to such places should be fully qualified
citizens.
There is a note to this section in the
general statutes, referring to a case
in which it was decided that the fact
that some of the judges of election
were not qualified voters did not au
thorize the rejection of the vote of
their precinct. It is a question of
law, however, how far this exception
would be held to extend, and the only
safe and legal plan is for the election
officers to qualify themselves fully be
fore entering on the discharge of their
duties.
AT THE THEATERS.
Louis XI. Is unquestionably Thoma-3 W.
Keene's greatest characterization. Mr. Keene
demonstrated this unanswerably at the Metro
politan opera house last night. It is to be re
gretted that the people do not recognize this
and patronize this performance more liberally.
Mr. Keene, however, is largely responsible for
this in that he has chosen to identify himself
with Richard 111., which is not his best char
acter. Mr. Keene's Louis XI. is a rare piece
of character acting. It ranks with the finest
achievements on our stage. The actor's per
sonality is lost in the role. The picture is
more than a photograph; it is a portrait. Those
i so fortunate as to witness it remember the
malicious, sensual, hypocritical, superstitious,
cruel old monarch, not Mr. Keene, the actor.
Mr. Keene has evidently given this character
an intelligent study and "close denotement"
not bestowed upon some of his roles. The
portrayal is elaborated with that effective de
tail that gives it the semblance of life. The
sense of humor which Mr. Keene possesses to
a marked degree proves most helpful to him
in the delineation of this moral or immoral
monstrosity. Every movement is spontaneous,
every expression and every word a part oj the
man. .The actor is never visible, Louis XI.
always.
The entire performance was satisfying. Mr.
Hanford, who impersonated the fearless
Nemours, was admirable, and Lawrence Low e ll
contributed an excellent characterization of
the Dauiphin,
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The final performances of "Shaft No. 2,"
the electrical drama at the Grand, wiil be
given at the matinee today at 2:30 and to
night's performance at 8:15. "Humanity,"
which had its first production at the Academy
of Music, where it ran for over 1(M) nights,
will be seen at the Grand for the first time
next week, opening tomorrow night.
• * *
Thomas W. Keene will close a week's suc
cessful engagement at the Metropolitan opera
house with two performances today. For the
matinee he will present "Hamlet," and to
night "Richard III."
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Rice's beautiful "Evangeline," his first and
mo3t successful burlesque, will bo the at
traction at the Metropolitan opera house all
next week, commencing tomorrow evening.
• • •
Tomorrow afternoon Seibert's orchestra will
give their third concert at the Metropolitan
opera house, presenting a programme which,
in many ways, surpasses that of any previous
concert of the series.
i
(iner.ta Prom the Junt.-i.
GRAND RAPIDS, Midh., Feb. 12.—The Lin
coln club, of tblß city, banqueted tonight Jn
honor of Lincoln's birthday. The most prom
inent gueeta were Sanors Qucsada and Alber
tlna. the Washington representatives of the
Cuban Junta, Senor Quesada spoke on
"Cuba, the Gam of the Antilles." He drew a
vivid picture of Spanish oppression of tho
Cuban people and of their struggle for freo
dom.
HONEST ABE'S DAY
THE MEMORY OF LIXCOLX CELE
RATED IDj A NUMBER OF
STATES.
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MARK HANNA AT ZANESVILLE.
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XATIOXAL CHA'iRMAX THE GIKST
OF THE REFVBiaCAuN LEAGUE
OV OHIO.
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POTATO PIXGREiE IX CHICAGO.
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Mlchig-nn'ii Governor-Mayor One of
the Speakers at the Muruuette
Clnb Dinner.
ZANESVILLE, 0., Feb. 12.—The
memory of Lincoln, or the anniversary
of his birth, was celebrated here to
night by the Ohio Republican league.
It was 10:30 when the doors were open
ed for the banquet. Gov. Bushnell pre
sided. On his right sat Mark Hanna,
next to whom was Senator John M.
Thurston. To the governor's left were
State President Charles F. Leach and
National President Woodmansee. Then
in order came on either side Sylvester
T. Everett, Maj. Charles Dick, Booker
T. Washington, William Allen White,
Congressman S. A. Noithway and other
guests.
The toasts were: President's address,
Charles F. Leach; "Abraham Lincoln,"
Senator John M. Thurston; "The Ameri
can Congress," Hon. James T. Mc-
Cleary; "To the Chairman of the Na
tional Committee," to be drunk stand
ing. "What's the Matter With Kan
sas?" William Allen White; "Solving
the Negro Question in the Black Belt
of the South," Booker T. Washington;
"The Nation's Verdict," D. D. Wocd
tnansee; "The Work of the Last Cam
paign," Charles F. Dick.
Booker T. Washington said:
The negro problem is passing from a ques
tion of sentiment into one of industrial and
commercial business. Dlttle can be gained
for the negro by abuse of the South. Little
can be gained for the white man by abuse
of the negro. The negro that loves a white
man ia tenfold greater than a white man
who hates a negro. The key to the solution of
the race problem in the South is in the com
mercial and industrial development in the
negro that shall rest upon the highest and
broadest culcure. .
When a black man haa the best farm In
his county, every white man will respect him.
In all history can you find a race that pos
sessed property, industry and intelligence I
that has long been denied its rights? If the
possession of these, elements do not briug to
the negro every right enjoyed by other cit
izens, then the Bitoe and the teachings of the
great Jehovah are wrong.
The most marked event of the league
business session this afternoon occur
red when Gov.. Asa S. Bushnell and
Hon. Mark Hanna with other promi
nent Republicans, entered the hall to
gether. Delegates jumped to their feet
and cheered and the .audience of ladies
and gentlemen joined in the applause
until it was deafening. Both were
introduced to the audience and spoke
briefly. The usual resolutions were
adopted asking for the legislative enact
ment of the naitionaJ platform of the
party and congratulating McKinley on
his election. Officers were chosen with
out exception by acclamation, as fol
lows: President, Hon. John J. Sulli-
VKn, of Warren; secretary, Charles
Case, of Columbus; treasurer, John L.
Means, of Steubenville.
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CHICAGO C&LKBRATION.
Poo Bali Pinj^rew ■ Gaest of the Mar
qiiet<e Club.
CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—The Marquette
club tonight celebrated the anniver
sary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln,
by a banquet at the Auditorium hotel.
About six hundred wera present, the
majority of them being msmbers of the
club. The great banquet hall of the
hotel was decorated in lavish manner
with garlands, cut flowers and the na
tional colors. The banquet proper be
gan early in the evening and it was
three hours later before the intellectual
portion of the programme was reached.
Elden C. Dewitt, the president or the
club, made a short address and Intro
duced as the first speaker Herman B
Wickersham, of this city, who spoke
briefly on the history of the Marquette
club. Mayor Swift made a neat ad
dress of welcome in behalf of Chicago
and Gov. Tanner spoke in the same
strain for the state of Illinois. The list
of speakers including a long list of
governors of the state who spoke on
the following subjects: "The Duties ot
Citizenship," Gov. Hastings, of Penn
sylvania; "The Grand Old Paity," Gov.
Lippett, of Rhode Island; "lowa—They
Said She was Doubtful," Gov. Drake, of
Iowa; "The New Old Dominion," Gov.
Atkinson, of West Virginia; "The Far^
m-er in Politics," Gov. Mount, of In
diana; "Republican Wisconsin," Gov.
Stofield, of Wisconsin; "The Great
Northwest," Gov. Briggs, of North Da
kota; "Municipal Reform." Gov. Pin
gree, of Michigan. United States Sen
ator Wm. E. Mason, closed the pro
gramme by a short address on "Illi
nois."
In the course of his address, Gov
Pingree said: "I assume that we all
love to draw a prize in life. In our
private capacity we figure, I will as
sume, for a contract with a city and
get it by paying the price. This as
sumes that the city fathers poektt tho
price. Of course, if the contract is
for a street railway, the rates of fare
must stand very high, because if
they do not, our watered stock does not
go off our hands -cry easy. The game
is to show, in our contract, that we
can pul! millions out of the public!
Then we can get any amount of wa
tered stock in the hands of a gullible
public. This, of course, is speculation
and not business. It is a kind of lot
tery system. Almost everybody knows
it and admits It. We condemn it in
public and resort to it in private.
Speculation seems to have put on the
mask of business in the United States.
The apparent rights of speculation
have increased taxation, but such
rights are more apparent than real.
The excessive rate of fare and freight
transportation caused by speculation
are slowly gaining the earnings of this
country and are also slowly crippling
transportation because excess reacts.
"When I say. that all true capital
is earnings of the country, I do not
say anything new. . I only repeat jr.
new words what Lincoln said. This is
what he said:
'Labor is prior to and Indispensable to capi
tal. Capital 53 only ihe fruit of labor. Capi
tal could never have existed if labor had not
first existed. Labor is the superior of capi
tal and deserves much the higher considera
tion.' " !
"I do not know of a better way to
keep fresh the memory of the illus
trious dead than to quote the words
that pointed to. his work. I know of
no other way of keeping a party alive
than doing the work of the party
I know of no other way of keeping
capital alive than by keeping labor
alive. The trufe words of a true man
live forever. The words of 1861 are true
of today. The words live. The work
lives. If the work is shirked, the
party dies. If Lincoln's words are sa
cred, then the work is sacred. Let us
not live in the mere fame of the words
and work of Lincoln. It is a nobler
way to continue that work."
Travel In Snfe.
SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 12.—The North Ger
man Lloyd iteamohip Trave arrived here to
night from Now York, after a very stormy
passage, and during the latter part of the
voyaga running through a dense fo£. The
Trave sustained no damage.
POSTAL BILL PASSED
NRAHLY A 111 NDRED MILLION DOL
LARS APPRUPRUTEO FOR THE
CIRRE\T YEAR.
SPECIAL MAIL FACILITIES.
customary fight made on the
service: with the usiajl
RESULT.
ALL PRIVATE BILLS HEADED OFF.
To Fill In the lime the House
Lidtened to the Sundry Civil Act
Text.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The Btatue
of Abraham Lincoln in the old hall
of representatives was draped today
in the American flag and wreathed
with flowers in honor of the anniversa
ry of his birth, but the house did not
suspend business. On the contrary, it
celebrated the anniversary by discuss
ing the necessities of the postal serv
ice, and passing the postolflce appro
priation bill. The perennial fight was
made to strike out the appropriation, of
$196,000 for special mail facilities from
Boston to New Orleans, but it was
defeated—46 to 107, although that por
tion of the appropriation providing
special facilities for Boston to New
York was stricken out after it had
been shown that this part of the ap
propriation had not been expended for
several years. The bill as passed car
ries $96,435,714.
The house resumed consideration of
the bill, immediately after the reading
of the journal. It was arranged that
the general debate should close in one
hour. Mr. Cromwell (Rep., O.) resumed
his argument against the appropria
tion of $196,000 for special mail facili
ties from Boston to New Orleans. Re
plying to Mr. Swanson's remarks, of
yesterday, he declared it was absurd
to say that the Southern railroad car
ried more mail than any other trunk
line in the country. There wa3, hs
said, twenty-five trunk lines which
carried more mail than the Southern.
He referred to the advantage gained
by the New York papers by this special
mall train, and pointed out that news
paper specials run out of Chicago, St.
Louis, Cincinnati and other centers ob
tained no special compensation.
Mr. Gardiner (Rep., N. J.) and Mr.
Pearson (Rep., N. C.) defended the ap
propriation. The latter called attention
to the fact that the bill appropriated
$80,000 for expediting the malls to the
islands of the Paoiiic. Were not the
Democrats and Republicans of the
South, and even the Populists, he
asked, entitled to as much considera
tion as the residents of the South Sea
islands.
Mir. Simpkins (Rep., Mass.) opposed
the appropriation. After some further
remarks, the general debate closed and
the bill was taken up for amendmenc
under the five-minute rule.
Mr. Southard (Rep., O.) moved to
strike out the proviso to the appropria
tion for marine delivery at Detroit,
designed to abolish the use of a stom
launch and to confine the service to
row boats. He said the proviso would
seriously cripple this important ser
vice at Detroit. Mr. Belknap (Rep.,
111.) and other representatives of the
cities of the Great Lakes, supported
the amendment. T*he amendment was
agreed to.
On motion of Mr. Talbot (Dem.. S.
C.) the appropriation for experimental
rural free delivery, was increased from
$50,000 to $100,000.
Mr. Williams offered as an amend
ment to the appropriation for tlhe trans
portation of the mails, a proviso to
reduce the compensation to non-aided
reads to the amount paid land grant
reads. In support of his amendment,
he recalled Mr. Loud's statement yes
terday, that the land grant railroads
made a good profit in canying the mails
at the reduced rates.
The amendment was ruled out on
point of order. While a discussion was
in progress as to the rate of compen
sation allowed street car mail service,
Mr. Hepburn (Rep., Iowa) asked what
function these cars performed.
"It has been intimaited," said Mr.
Terry (Dem., Ark.), "that these cars are
put on street car lines so that they
can be filled with federal bayonets to
suppress strikers."
When the item appropriating $196,000
for special mail facilities from Boston
to New Orleans was reached. Mr.
Bromwell (Rep., O.) moved to strike it
out. The house immediately divided,
and the Bromwell motion was lost, 46
to 107.
Mr. Simpkins (Rep., Mass.) then mov
ed to strike out so much of the pro
vision as related to the special facili
ties between Boston and New York
and to reduce the appropriation to
$171,208. The amendment was adopted
without division.
An amendment was adopted reducing
the per diem of railway postal service
agents for expenses from $5 to $4 per
day. Without further amendment the
bill was reported to the house, where,
on the appeal of Mr. Loud, the amend
ment adopted in committee to increase
the appropriation for rural free delivery
was rejected, and the bill was passed.
The remainder of the day until 4:45
o'clock, was devoted to reading the
sundry civil bill. The formal first
reading of a bill is usually dispensed
with, but this expedient was adopted to
prevent the consideration of private
bills, which is the regular order for
Friday. At 4:45 p. m., the house ad
journed until tomorrow, thus dispens
ing with the regular Friday night ses
sion.
SECTARIAN SCHOOLS.
Some Changes Mn«le by the Kew In
dian Appropriation Hil!.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—Senator Petti
grew, from the committee on appropriations,
today reported the Indian appropriation bill.
As reported, the bill carries as an amendment
the provision for the allotment of lands In
Indian territory and for displacing the local
Indian courts by a system of federal judiciary
which was sent out yesterday by the Assa
ciated Press. Another amendment throws
open to settlement the lands of the Unuoai
pahgre reservation in Utah. A provision la al
so .inserted in regard to the support of Indian
schools, giving the secretary authority to
make contracts with contract schools, appor
tioning the amount paid thus among the va
rious religious denominations, but these con
tracts are to be made only where non-sec
tarian schools cannot be procured. The pro
vision is the same as that of the present law,
except that the percentage is reduced from 50
to 40 per cent.
As reported the bill shows fin increase of
$247 839 over the amount appropriated -"by tho
houso bill, making a total of $7,390,496. The
principal item of this increase is $141500 for
thf rosurvey of the lands of tho Chlckasav
Nation. Forty thousand dollars is provided
for irrigation on Indian reservations, instead
of $30,000. as in the house bill.
TARIFF PROGRESS.
"Wood Pulp. Paper and Metal Ratea
Decided Ipon.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The RepuWcan
members of the ways and means eommitteo
made Important progress on the tratff bill to
day. They decided upwn the rates for puij>
Bnd printing paper, and fixed several import
ant items In the motal schedules. The duties
on pulp were changed fio.n ad valorem, aa In
the Wilson bill, which makes them ten per
cent, to specific duties somewhat below th«
McKinley rates. In the metal schedule the
committee decided to continue the present
rates on nickel and zinc, which are: Nickel,
nickel oxide, alloy In which nickel la the
article of chief value, six cents per pound;
zinc in blocks or pigs, one cent per pound; in
sheets, not polished nor further advanced
than rolled, one and one-half cents per pound;
zinc, old and unfit only to be re-manufac
tured, three-fourths cents per pound.
The McKinley rates on type metal were re
stored. They are one and a half cents a
pound for the lead contained In the metal and
fifteen cents ad valorem on new type. The
present rates are three-fourths cents and flf
ten per cent ad valorem.
For the basket clause, which covers all
metal articles not especially provided for, the
McKinley rate, forty-five per cent ad valorem,
was substituted for the present rate, thirty
five per cent.
SOOVEL'S CASE.
Attention of Olney Called to It by
the Senate.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—The senate today
passed a resolution offered by Mr. Hill <N.
V.) requesting Secretary Olney to use every
effort toward bettering the condition of Syl
vester Scovel, the newspaper correspondent,
imprisoned In Cuba, and to insist on all treaty
rights to which he Is entitled. Mr. Morgan
(Dem., Ala.), offered a resolution for the
abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwex treaty, and
indicated a purpose to call up the resolution
tomorrow.
A legal discussion occurred when Mr. Pet
tlgrew (Pop., S. D.) endeavored to amend the
bill relating to Umber culture which had
been recalled from the president. Mr. Hill
(Dem., N. V.) contended that it was beyond
the power of congress to amend a bill in
substance after it had once gone to the presl
demt. It was a farce, he said, and an evasion
of constitutional provisions. On hia motion
the question was referred to the judiciary '
committee for a report on the right of
amendment when a bill had ones passed. At
1 o'clock the senate went into executive ses
sion and at 4:55 adjourned.
HINT'S PROSPECTS IMPROVE.
Stand* at the Head of Candidates
for Oflice of Public Printer.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The indications
today are that Minnesota will capture a nice
federal prize under the incoming adminis
tration. L. P. Hunt, the Mankato editor
will probably be the lucky individual. It U
said that Senator Quay has abandoned his
candidate for public printer, and it is thought
that Hunt stands a better show than any
other man in the race. Quay will not push
his candidate for the reason that the office
will carry little patronage with it on ac
count of the civil service laws. Unless unex
pected complications arise over the distribu
tion of patronage in Minnesota, the Mankato
editor will probably be the next public printer.
Expect Plclcler to Win.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.— The Republican
leaders in Washington are greatly interested
in the South Dakota senatorial fight, believ
ing that Maj. Pickler's prospects for captur
ing the toga are fairly good. The Democrats i
and Populists are likewise downcast. They |
did not anticipate that he would be able to i
hold the Republican members practically i
solid so long as h« has been able to, and it
25 be said that Mr. Pettigrew Is the most i
distinguished man la the outfit. It is thought
here now that if Piekler cannot win no other
man can.
Wright Renonilnu-ted.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 12.-The president to
day nominated Carroll D. Wright, of Massa
chusetts, to be commissioner of labor a re
appolntment.
Knapp Confirmed,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-The senate in
executive session, today confirmed the nomi
nation of Hon. Martin A. Knapp, of New
York, to be interstate commerce commissioner
No opposition was manifested.
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MARS IS HOT.
Little Town in Pennsylvania Re.
IJorted ns Hunting.
PITTSBURG, Pa., Feb. 13. 2 a. m.-Intel-
Igence has just reached this city that the
little town of Mara, on the Plttsburg &
v.estern railroad, is burning down. Tho
p aoe is about twenty miles west of here but
■ no particulars are at present available be
; cause of the poor telegraph and telephone
i facilities. The nearest telegraph office 13
j Bowneyville, with but one wire, and it is a
I railroad curcuit vrhicfh is being used exclu
sively for railroad business. The town of
Mars has only about 800 inhabitants, and it
Is understood every house has been con
sumed. Particulars later if obtainable.
SHE FOISD VAIGHS.
Blneksnakc Used by an Angry Wife
to Yevy Good Purpose.
CHICAGO, Feb. 12.—Four months ago Lind
sey Vaughn abandoned his wife, and she
j during all of that time kept up a search for
i him. 'She located him today, and, after
swearing out a warrant for his arrest on
the charge of abandonment, took an officer
to the flat where Vaughn had taken up his
residence for the purpose of making the ar
rest. When the two knocked at the door of
Vaughn's flat he appeared clad only in his
night robe. Mrs. Vaughn pulled a black
snake whip from undar her cloak and began
to use it on her husband In an unmerciful
fashion. Vaughn made desperate efforts to
get the whip from the woman, but was un
able to do so, and she only ceased whipping
him when he went down on his knees and
begged for mercy. This was granted in tho
shape of an arrest by the officer, who had
stood by while the whipping was in pro
gress. Vaughn u'as locked in a cell for sev
eral hours, but finally secured his release
on bail.
Honored in Indiana.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 12.—The Indi
ana commandery of the Loyal Lesion cele
brated Abraham Lincoln's birthday tonight
with a banquet at the Commercial club, at
which covers were laid for 175 members of
the legion in the state and guests. Gen. Lew
Wallace presided and responses were made
by Capt. S. M. Taylor, of Huntington. To j
"Lincoln, the Master of English;" by M. A. I
Bowden, of Louisville, to "Lincoln, the Com- j
uaander and Statesman;" by Capt. Ed Merrl
fleld, of Indianapolis, to "The Burning of
the Flagship of the Mississippi Squadron."
Appropriate and eloquent addresses were
made by United States Senator-elect Charles
W. Fairbanks and Gen. Wallace.
Modjeska 111 \u~: in.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 12.—Mme. Mod- ]
jeska is suffering from an attack of acute |
colitis, necessitating the cancellation of her i
present engagement. Modjeska has just re- j
covered from an attack of paralysis and re
turned to the stage only three weeks ago.
WITH IXTEXT TO AMISE.
She —The young lady next door has eloped j
■with her music teacher.
He—lt Isn't possible!
She—Why Isn't it possible? Do you know
the parties?
He —No; I meant merely that it's too good I
to be true. —Puck.
Woman of the World (to youthful admiror)
—"You seem to know a great deal about
married life. Are you married?
Youthful Admirer (with a blase air) —No,
but my father is.—Household Words.
Convict —I'm in here for having five wives.
Visitor—How are you enjoying your lib
erty?— Town Topics.
"I have heard such a beautiful new opera
tonight."
"Yes?"
"Oh, beautiful! In five entr'actes!"
Strictly, it might be doubtful if she had
heard a thing but herself, but accuracy of
expression would not be insisted upon with
one who looked so well with her mouth open.
—Detroit Journal.
Mrs. Ferry—Well, the idea! Here is a story
in the paper of a man who tradod his wife
for a pipe.
Mr. Ferry—I bet she was a. woman who
would not allow him to smoke in the house.—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Freddie—Ma, wfaat is tho baby's name?
Ma—Tho baby hasn't any name.
Freddie—Then how did he know he be
longed here? —New York Truth.
"I wonder, said the pale, blonde one, "if
she really Is as high iv society as she
claims."
"I know she Is." sa!d tho brunette with
the wealth of raven locks. "She is the only
woman in town who dares to havo reporters
received by the butler."Clncinnati Enquirer.
Odious Oliver—Ef I had de right sort of Job
I'd go to work.
Moldy Mike—You s'prlso me, Ollle. Wot
sort o' jdb would you work at?
Odious Oliver—l'd like to be in one o' dem
places wliere dey "do do rest" for ammytoor
photographers.—New York World.
"I hear Rants, the tragedian, has given up
traveling on account of nervousness."
"Was his nervousness caused by overwork?"
"No; you see, so many people have be«n
killed lately while walking on the tracks."—
New York Journal.
TREATY TO GO OVER
IN WASHINGTON NO FINAL ACTION
EXPECTED AT THE KHESEXT
SESSION.
SHERMAN WILL AMEND IT
IN THE HOPE! OF MAKING TUB
AGREEMENT SATISFACTORY TO
AL.L*
ONE MORE DAY OF DIBCV»»[OX.
I nlejtii There Is a. Hutlttoatiou Tu;la.y
the Subject Will Be Pontponed.
for the Prevent.
WASHINGTON,Feb. 12.—The feature
of today's discussion of the An*?lo-
Amerfcan arbitration treaty by the
stnait© was the general effort to reach
a basis of agreement whereby the
treaty could be disposed of and other
business taken up. The session close*
with an announcement by Senator
Sherman, chairman of the foreign com
mittee, that he wouJd tesue a call for
a meeting of his committee to be held
PTevous to tomorrow's session of the
senate with the hope of being able to
present an amendment that would bo
so acceptable to the senate as to make
it possible to secure the ratification of
the treaty before aljournment tomor
row. He also announced that he would
not ask the senate to devote more thaa
one more day to the questicoi this ses
sion.
This aiwicaicement had been preceded
by a debate in which a large number
of senators had participated, lasting
from 1 until 5 ojclcck. There were sev
eral speeches on the merits of the
treaty as such, but these were inter
spersed through the entire proceedings
with suggestions looking to the im
portance of speedily disposing of the
treaty, either temporarily or perma
nently, by agreeing to a postponement
until the extra session or by a direct
vote on the document, which would
result either in its ratification or rejec
tion. The suggestion, which appeared
to meet with the most general favor,
was one looking to the postponement
of further consideration until imme
diately after the 4th of March, and
the prediction was freely made after
adjournment tonight that this would be
the outcome.
There were innumerable short
speeches during the day, but the prin
cipal addresses on the merits of the
treaty were made by Senators Daniel.
Stewart, Hoar, Lodge and Chandler.
The proposition advanced yesterday by
Senator Turpie that any negotiation
under the treaty would.under its terms
necessarily be submitted to the sen
ate just as would any original treaty
formed the basis of today's pro<eee<l
ings. It was generally conceded by
all those who spoke that, if there could
be any assurance that this interpreta
tion would be placed on the treaty, if
accepted, there would be no e=pe~iai
opposition to its ratification. Senator
Turpie contended that no other position
[ was possible, in view of the indisputa
ble fact that the senate was a part
of the treaty-making power of the
United States.
Senator Daniel, however, took am op
posite view, as did Senator Chandler
and most of the other senators who
spoke. Senator Daniel made an elab
orate argument, taking a view rad
ically different from that advanced by
the Indiana senator, and showing that
from his point of view the government
of the United States wc-uld,- by the
acceptance of the treaty, place itself
in a position to make this country
subordinate to England in many im
portant respects. He held, with Senator
Morgan, that the senate, in accepting
the treaty, would voluntarily delegate
to another authority its share in the
treaty-making power, and contended
that it could not legitimately do this
under the constitution.
Senator Hoar's speech was a classi
cal presentation of the merits of the
general subject of arbitration, and a
strong plea for the recognition of the
principle. The final ratification of an
agreement for the settlement of all
disputes by resort to a tribunal of
I peace between the two great English
speaking nations would, he said, be .i
splendid example to the world at larg.2
and would, he believed, tend to make
arbitration general among civilized na
tions. It would at least be an entering
wedge. He said that he had been will
ing to accept the treaty as reported
by the committee, but that, if it could
be further amended so as to render it
more acceptable without completely
destroying its effect, he would be will
ing that this course should be taken.
Senator Chandler announced himsei'
as for the treaty if amended; as op
posed to it if not amended, and aa
favorable to a postponement until the
6th of March. He urged that the sen
ate could best consider the treaty dur
ing the special executive session im
mediately following the inauguration
of Mr. McKinley, when it would other
wise have nothing to do except to
pass upon nominations. He urged
the treaty was too important a ques
tion to be disposed of hastily, and
called attention to the fart that the
senate had held the Russian extradi
tion treaty for a year before acting
upon it.
Senator Lodge said that his interest
in the treaty was such, and that he
was so anxious to secure its adoption
that he would agree to any change
in reason that would insure its accep
tance. He would, he said, accept any
amendment that might afford a better
safeguard for the rights of this coun
try than the treaty is now supposed
to contain or that might explain ita
ambiguous phrases. He believed that
an amendment could be formulated,
which, while maintaining the integrity
of the document, would still render it
acceptable to the senate.
Senator Elkins urged that the whole
question should be postponed until the
next session. Speeches were also made
by Senators Vest, Vilas, Stewart,
Blackburn and others.
The talk of postponement and of the
necessity for amendment had tho
effect of bringing Senator Sherman to
his feet. It was just before the ad
journment of the senate. He said that
he would ask the senate to consider the
treaty tomorrow and that if no con
clusion was reached, he would not ask
further time, but would allow th? treaty
to be postponed for this session. Ho
added that the committee on foreign re
lations would tomorrow report an
amendment covering all points and
making the treaty clear of ambiguities,
which he believed would answer all
objections.
"In other -words," said Senator 1 Till,
"the senator from Ohio means to notify
the opponents of the treaty that if they
hold out another day, he will not fur
ther press the treaty, but will allow it
to go over."
Without a repudiation of this inter
pretation of his statement. Senator
Sherman allowed the senate to adjourn.
An amendment suggested, which
seemed to meet with general favor,
provides for the insertion of the words:
"And to the acceptance of the treaty
making powers of the two govern
ments," after the word "treaty" in the
third line of the first article of the
treaty. This amendment, it is claimed,
wculd render it necessary to secure the
approval of the senate to any negotia
tions and thus avoid the objection that
the senate had abrogated Its pow«r.