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TODAY'S WEATHER*
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urday: Minnesota — Fair; southwesterly
winds; warmer.
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ening weather in northern portion; warmer;
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p. in. Local Time. 8 p. m. Toth . Meridian
Time.— Observations taken <*t the same mo
ment of time at all stations).
TEMPERATURES.
place. Temp. Place. Temp.
Kt. Paul K> Mlnnedosa H
pulutli G Winnipeg 20
llurun —4' 1 —
Bismarck' 4 Buffalo 2t-30
Williston 4 Iloston 26-30
Havre 32 Cheyenne 14-' s
Helena 10 Chicago 32-32
Battleford 28 Cincinnati 38-40
Medicine Hat .. .. 34 New Orleans 72-78
Bwit'i Current 22,' Montreal :!0-;u
Qu'Appelle IS Pittsburg 38-40
— Below zero.
DAILY MEANS.
Barometer, 30.57; mean temperature, 8; rel
ative humidity, 70; wind at 8 p. in., north
we** weather, clear; maximum temperature.
V minimum temperature. 1; daily range, 14;
-mount, of precipitation in last twenty-four
hours. D.
Note Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. — P. !•'. Lyons, Observer.
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A RTCVIEW OP TRITSTS' GROWTH.
One of that numerous and very in
fluential class of business men, the
commercial travelers, himself a Repub
lican, said that his class generally
would reverse their votes last year for
Republicanism, because of the imme
diate increase of those combinations in
business kno\vn as trusts that has
Followed the return of that party to
power- a consequence of that return
ivith its encouragement to combine and
its failure to enforce existing: laws or
provide new remedial measures. It is
worth while to take a review of the
conditions since last November to see
what mound there is for the complaint
i<r the men of the road. There were
tbme indications last year that the
trusts were disintegrating. The glass
trust got cracked; the bolt trust dis
polved, and the wire nail trust found
It was not clinched on the under side.
Ji began to look as if there was an
economic law which was visiting its
penalty upon its violators.
But tlic ink was hardly dry upon the
presidential signature of approval to
the Dingley act before its beneficiaries
began to arrange to gather unto them
selves all there was in it. One month
later, Aug. 24, it was announced that
'.li" American Glass association was be
ing formed at a manufacturers' meet
ing in Chicago, which was to be
'"stronger than the old one" that got
Slacked, and was to be '"built on the
most modern trust lines." A month
later the manufacturers met in Pitts
burg and completed the trust with a
capitalization of $20,000,000. One sell-
Ins;- agent handles the trade. On Oct.
1!) an advance of 5 per cent was order
ed" in prices, and a further one of 5
per c.-tit was ordered for Nov. 1. Capt.
Brown, of the Brown & Heywood com
pany, of Minneapolis, jobbers, return-
Ing from Chicago, where Western job
bers had met to see what they could
do. reported that conditions in the
trail.' were due to the trust, the tariff
advances and the summer shut-down of
tho; glass works. The jobbers decided
itlso to have a consolidation of their
Btocks and one selling agent "to dis
tribute stocks in such a way as to
meet the most urgent needs of consum
ers and, of course, net the largest re
turns to the jobbers." The captain felt
compelled to explain that jobbers did
not pretend to be philanthropists, but
that their action was forced "by con
ditions not of our making." The Chi
cago Tribune said, in comment on the
effect of the trust, that "the consumer
will be absolutely defenseless in the
matter of price. * * * He can either
pay the price or go without glass."
In August the papers announced the
arrival in New York of the "Borax
King," one Smith, from California, who,
having his protection of 6 cents a
pound against borax from Turkey and
South America, was going to transfer
his refinery to that neighborhood from
Alamefta. The tariff made that trust
solid. On Sept. 20 the Maple Flooring'
Manufacturers' association was organ
ized in Chicago "to promote the social
end business relations between the
members of the maple floor fraternity,"
and mi the next day the malt trust
was completed in New York. .Earlier
In the field, confident of what Dingley
was going to do for them, were the
tin plate men to get "harmony of ac
tion" towards their employes on one
Bide and consumers on the other. The
Incandescent lamp companies had pool
ed in February, and the iron ore men
Rot together in April. The wife nail
frust reformed its shattered ranks and
began closing mills to reduce output
and keep up price, while the leather
belting trust felt obliged to raise its
prices 25 per cent to meet the Dingley
tax on hides. In July came the for
mation of the glucose trust, with a
capitalization of $40,000,000 and the cus
tomary business methods.
November was a fertile month in
trusts' growth. The enameled, ware
trust formed in St. Louis on the 19th
ivith $25,000,000 capitalization, a - very
fliffeivnt thing, by the way, from cap
ital. <>n the 13th, mills putting out 87
per ci nt of the ste^-1 tube product con
solidated into one company at Pitts-
bur«. On the 12th, the American Pulp
Paper Manufacturers' association was
formed In "to improve the
trade." Those present represented 90
per cent of the product In this country.
On the 28th, a meeting of the makers
of sewer pipe was held in Cleveland to
complete the organization begun a few
clays before, and "it is expected that
the pool will embrace all the factories
in the country." Just missing Novem
ber was the strawboard trust that
was formed, or reformed, at Anderson,
Ind., on Oct. 31. On the whole, this
brief review indicates a very healthy
condition of the trusts and that ten
dency to "stool out" that promises a
large crop of them. The apprehensions
of the commercial travelers appear to
have some foundation.
m
OX TRIAL.
The board of aldermen and th^legal
department of the city government are
now on trial in the matter in con
troversy between the city and the
street railway company. The assem
bly has passed, by a unanimous vote
oT all the members present; the resolu
tion declaring forfeited the franchise
of the company as to its cable line on
Fourth and Third streets and Selby
avenue, and has directed the city at
torney to take all necessary steps to
enforce its decree. This will come be
fore the board of aldermen at the next
meeting, and the public will wait with
no Httle interest and curiosity the re
sult of its deliberation and action. It
will be a fair and square test of the
devotion of the members to the peo
ple's interests or to those of the street
railway company. We cannot have
any more shilly-shallying or any more
of the crude and stale devices proposed
for the last year and a half of passing
different ordinances on the same sub
ject.and having them neutralize each
other.
A great many people in St. Paul are
still in doubt whether to believe that
the council has been sincere in at
tempting to do' something with the
street railway ' company and has
simply suffered from incompetence, or
whether it has .been all the time play
ing the company's game. There will
be no question as to the issue this
time. The resolution, as passed by the
assembly, raises the question squarely,
and requires and admits of no amend
ment. It is in the form approved by
the corporation attorney. An attempt
to amend it in the board of aldermen
would be exactly -the same as a vote
against it. It would indicate a deter
mination to sustain the street
l ail way company in its policy
of denying reasonable service
and refusing to submit to rea
sonable conditions. More than that,
there is every reason to think that the
testing of this matter in the courts will
be productive of benefits to our peo
ple that reach far beyond the simple
question of the cable line and its
operation. It involves considera
tions of the validity of the com
pany's franchise in general; and we
have no doubt, and the public has
none, that this franchise is as full of
holes as a sieve.
There is no desire anywhere, as far
as we can find, to do injustice to the
company, or to exclude it from its I
reasonable rights and privileges.
There is a determination that it shall
not hold itself superior to the public
altogether, or lay down new and im
possible conditions on which alone ]
proper service will be rendered. There |
is no time like the present for "having j
the fight out to a finish. As far as the
cable line is concerned, there seems to
be an unquestioned violation, of obliga
tions sufficient to warrant a general
forfeiture. It is desirable above all
things to have this tested, and' to have
it done at once. We cannot see how,
for any conceivable reason, there
should be a single vote in the board of
aldermen against the resolution adopt
ed by the assembly. We hope and are
prepared to.believe that the approval
of it there will be equally unanimous.
It is well for the members of the lower
branch of the council to' remember that
the eyes of the people are upon them;
and that, as far as their own political
futures are concerned, no act of the
whole term of office will compare in
importance or in' the decisiveness of
its consequences with the vote that is
to be taken on the question of forfeit
ure at the next meeting.
THE NEXT REKOHNU
Gov._ Tanner is being pressed to call
the legislature of Illinois in special scs
i sion, and the press of that state is
] quite unanimously urging that the
! enactment of a primary election law
be one of the objects named in the
call. In Wisconsin, ex-Congressman
Follette has been touring the state dis
cussing the relations of the primaries
to government, their present capacity
for mischief, and outlining a pian that
makes them a portion of the elective
system, controlled and regulated by
law, conducted with all the formally
of general elections, with the same
persons acting as judges and clerks,
who make return under oath of the
votes cast and for whom. We advert-
I ed recently to the South Carolina plan
: under which even the United States
; senators are chosen. A peculiar fea
ture there Is the . provision that the
successful candidate must have a ma
jority of all votes cast; and, if no one
has that, there must be another con
test between .the~two having the .high
est number of ballots. This is an adap
tation of the rule In Germany and
France In their generat elections,
where second elections are frequent,
and is one whose adoption, in all elec
tions In this country might profitably
be followed. The president and vice
president of the United State* must be
so chosen, and, if the rule Is a wise
one there, it is equally wise anywhei'e.
Kentucky has been operating under
a primary election law for five years
that has produced excellent results. It
was the result of the conference of the
I representatives of both political par
■ ties. The law provides -that -all pri
| maries of any.. political .party shall be
; held according to its provisions, and
I the conduct and penalties for violation
are identical with those for general
THE SAINT PAUL GLOB 3: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, lwr.
elections. Officers are sworn and pun
ishment provided for their acts of
fraud. Any party desiring to hold a
primary election must give forty days'
notice, conspicuously posted, of the
time and place, the hours during which
the polls will be open, and the officers
to be nominated. It provides for a com
plete registration of the voters of each
party, kept in books In which the party
affiliation of the voter is recorded, if he
wish to declare it; If not, he may re
main neutral. This is done for each
election, and thus each party has a
complete roll of its members, the reg
istry lists being cleared annually of
names of all persons who have died or
moved away. This puts an end to vot
ing dead men and to the familiar prac
tice under our own system of borrow
ing men from other parties to carry a
primary. A penalty is provided for the
man who registers or attempts to reg
ister in more than one party.
Having registered, the law guar
antees him the same secrecy in voting
given voters at the general election.
The ballots are provided by the public,
as are our general election ballots, and
•the voter gets them from the officers
only. The use of counterfeit or imita
tion ballots is prohibited, and it is made
a felony to have outside the polling
place either a genuine or counterfeit
ballot. No electioneering is permitted
inside of or within fifty feet from any
booth. A voter or officer is punished
if he so mark his ballot as to lead to
its identification, and bribery is punish
ed with the same penalty provided for
the same crime at general elections.
The same punishment is meted out to
the election officers who "doctor" the
returns, and the same safeguards are
made for the honesty of the count that
secure the purity of the returns for gen
eral elections. The effect has been sat
isfactory. It provides each voter an
opportunity for a free expression of
his choice, and it eliminates all those
features of our caucuses, the packing,
fighting and bosslsm that now keep
away from the primaries men unwilling
to engage in or .submit to them. This
is the next needed reform. We have
begun at the top and are now at the
bottom. To it attention must next be
given.
We don't like the way some of our local
merchants display their underwear. A mod
est man doesn't like to be driven off the re
tail side of Summit street.— Toledo Bee.
Has Toledo no ordinance against indecent
exposure? The Bee's modest man should in
voke the power of the police and make those
merchants attire themselves properly.
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The change from wheels to runners was
very sudden, and in several instances bills
were added, making the. advent of winter
more certain.— Granite Falls Tribune.
The addition of coal bills puts the advent
of winter with us beyond question.
STATE FAIR MANAGERS
Closing; Ii» the Business for the
Year,
A meeting of the boarcf'of managers
of the State Agricultural society was
held at the Windsor yesterday to close
up the business for the year, this be
ing the last meeting of the present
board. In the absence of Presiden Ed
Weaver, Vice President D. R. McGinnis
presided.
The principal item of business was
the report of the treasurer, whi'oh was
accepted and referred to an auditing
board appointed by Gov. Clough. It
shows a balance on hand of $5,912,
which is about $1,000 less than a year
ago. The board is jubilant at this show
ing, how ever, as during the year the
Mamie Lane damage case was settled,
at a cost to the society of about $5,000.
Then, again, the last two or three days
of the fair were darkened by continu
ous rain and the receipts were accord
ingly light.
The annual meeting of the society
will be held in January, at which time
the officers will be elected for the com
ing year; four new members \vill also
be added to the board, the retiring ones
being W. M. Liggett, J. H. Letson, D.
R. McGinnis and Wyman Elliott.
CITY SEWER WORK.
Engineer Wilson's Report of the
Summer* Doings.
George L. Wilson, in charge of the
sewer department of the city engineer's
office, has prepared a report showing
that 1.6 miles of sewers have been built
during the past year under contract
and that the cost of the same was
$13,505.36. This gives a total mileage
of sewers in the city of 151 miles, the
cost of which has been $2,854,517.47. The
most important sewer built this year
was the one on Gaultier and Sycamore
streets. This provided an outlet for
the Como avenue sewer, draining the
territory between Rice street and
Western avenue, north of Thomas
street. The territory had previously
had nothing but surface draining, al
though it was generally built up and
thickly settled. As compared with the
year 1896, the mileage of sewers con
structed this year was a little less. The
figures for 1896 were 1.59 miles con
structed, at a cost of $10,973.55.
STREET RAILWAY PI<ACID.
Xwt Perturbed at All by the Fran
eliise Revocation.
If the officials of the street railway com
pany are at all exercised over the passage of
the ordinance revoking the cable line fran
chise, no outward signs of perturbation are
noticeable. Attorney M. D. Munn, when
asked yesterday what the company intended
doing in case the ordinance passed the board
of aldermen, gazed upward at the elevator,
which he had just missed by reason of being
halted, and said he really didn't know. He
had given the matter no attention and was not
prepared to talk as to the company's atti
tude.
One of the city officials, who has kept in as
close touch with the street railway problem
as possible, said yesterday that as soon as
the ordinance passed the board of aldermen
the company would rush in with a proposi
tion for settlement and agree to almost any
thing the city wanted. There was a possi
bility, the official said, that the ordlnane.9
might be hung up in the board of alder
men on some pretext, but in case It passed
he looked for the company to come to terms
very quickly and give the city what was
demanded.
FILLERTOX IS BACK.
State Game Warden Has Been to
Lake of the Woods.
Samuel F. Fullerton, executive agent
of the state ganje and fish commission,
returned yesterday from an extended
trip through the northern part of the
state, some of the incidents of which,
notably his encounter at Roseau with a
citizen in his attempt to enforce the
game laws, are already familiar to
readers of the Globe. Mr. Fullerton
and his deputies went through from
Stephen to Lake of the Woods, where
they seized aljout 2,000 feet of gill nets,
which violators of the fishing laws had
in the lake. Prosecutions will follow
soon. Mr. Fullerton reports that the
road between Stephen and the War
Road river Is in very bad shape and
that the trip overland was a trying one.
He expects to remain in St. Paul
for a time now, as the shipment of
contraband game, he thinks, has now
been practically suppressed.
Mourn Custodian Dayton.
The engineers. Janitors and elevator men
at the court house and city hall met yesterday
and adopted resolutions of condolence on the
death of Franis 11. Dayton, the late custo
diau
APPROVE THE U|»I01»
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLU
TION INDORSE THE PROPOSED
ALLIANCE
OF THE TWO ORGANIZATIONS.
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RESOLUTION*! oifr REGRET AT THE
DEPARTURE OF REV. DR. IX
GERSOLi PROM ST. PAUL.
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OFFICERS FOR YEAR.
Rukard Htirti the President and Rt.
Rev. Muhjpn \. Gilbert Vice
President— Banquet.
The members . of the Minnesota So
ciety Sons of the Revolution met last
night at the Ryan hotel, passed with
out dissent a resolution favoring the
mucß" discussed alliance with the state
society of the Sons of the American
Revolution, transacted some other
business, and after electing officers for
the ensuing year sat down to and par
took of an informal banquet which was
declared at an end only after a bouquet
of brief talks by the members had
been told off by President Rukard
Hurd. The business meeting was held
in the parlors of the hotel.
The following resolutions on the
matter of union with the Society of
the Sons of the American Revolution
were introduced from the floor by
President Rukard Hurd. They were
adopted unanimously:
Whereas, the general society of the Sons
of the Revolution, at its meetings held in
New York in 1883, in Baltimore 1894, in Bos
ton 1895 and in Savannah 1896, considered
the question of union with the Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution, which at
the Savannah meeting of 18% assumed such
definite and substantial proportions that the
general officers elected at that meeting (a
majority of the delegates being positively in
favor of union.) were instructed to confer with
the national officers of the Society of the
Sous of the American Revolution, to bring
about, after a proper consideration and ar
arrangement of necessary details, an actual
union. And, upon call made by several state
societies, the general society of the Sons
of the Revolution held a special meeting iv
Philadelphia April lit, 1897, at which meet
ing the general society placed the matter
in the hands of: a conference committee (ap
pointing also a committee on revision of rolls)
with instructions "'to come to an agreement,
if possible, respecting a new constitution, and
plan of union betwecu the two societies," and
requested the national society of the Sons
of the American Revolution to appoint similar
committees, making thus a joint committee
on conference- aifd a joint committee on re
vision of rolls, and then adjourned to meet
in Cincinnati Oct. 12, 1897, to hear and con
sider the reports of these committees, and
Whereas, at the Cincinnati meeting of Oct.
12, 1897. the general society of the Sons of the
Revolution adopted the report of the joint
conference committee, which provided a ma
tured, well-considered, safe, just and equitable
basis, terms and plan of union under a new
constitution, to 'take effect when ratified by
a majority of the state societies of the Sons
of the Revolution and the Sons of the Amer
ican Revolution,, and
Whereas, the national society of the Sons
of the American Revolution, meeting in Cin
cinnati at the same time and under the same
roof, adopted promptly aud unanimously the
same report of the joint conference commit
tee, as well as every resolution and recom
mendation presented to it by the notifica
tion committee of the general society of the
Sons of the Revolution, thereby meeting com- |
plctely and patriotically every objection ever j
raised by the opponents of union, and there
by -winning by its patriotic action the honor
and respect of the Minnesota Society of the
Sons of the Revolution, and
W r hereas, it is the sense of the Minnesota
Society of the Sous of the Revolution that
it would be to the lasting regret of the so
cieties forming the general society of the
Sons of the Revolution, to reject the official
I action of the general society of the Sons of
the Revolution, uiniyrs negotiations with the
national society- -of The ' Sons of'tho American
Revolution, which culminated,, after many
years in the plan of union accepted officially
by this general society and officially by the
national society of the Sous of the Ameri- i
ran Revolution. For it would be to the
discredit of the Sons of the Revolution to
stand befre a critical, discriminating public
as rejecting union upon any such untenable
ground that the majority is absolutely power
less to change in the slightest the instrument
that unites the state societies into and creates
their general society: their compact, articles
of partnership, general constitution. That the
Creator cannot change, adjust or readjust its
creation by the tinu'-tried and customary rule
of the majority. The Minnesota Society of
the Sons of the Revolution protests against
such a stand as being trivial, technical, un-
American and unpatriotic. For the laws of
every commonwealth provide for changes of
name and changes of management of incor
porated bodies, and
Whereas, The Minnesota Society of the
Sons of the Revolution is for union, and be- j
lieves that that cause will triumph despite
individual animosities and personalities. It
believes that the true and only practicable
solution of the problem of handling many
thousands of patriotic men of a common an
cestry, 'after the necessary details of unit-
Ing them into a great, powerful national or
ganization has been accompanied, Is by the
voluntary association of state members into
chapters" of congenial friends, as shown in
every walk of life, church, business, clubs,
lodges etc., these, united and upheld by the
power' dignity and prestige of one national
society standing in each community the ex
ponents, leaders and defenders of patriotism;
therefore, „ .
Resolved, That the Minnesota Society of the
Sons of the Revolution approves, indorses and
ratifies the proposed new constitution and
resolutions submitted to it by the general so
ciety of the Sons of the Revolution; and
Resolved That this action be officially' com
municated to the officers of the general so
ciety and to each state society of the Sons
of the Revolution.
The following resolution regarding
Rev. Edward P. Ingersoll, D. D., who
for several terms has been the chap
lain of the society, now in his new
field in Brooklyn, were adopted, and
the members signed a richly engross
ed parchment copy to be presented to
Dr. Ingersoll:
By unanimous reso'.ution, the Minnesota
Society of the Sons of the Revolution to its
Chaplain, the Rev. Edward Payson Ingersoll,
V). D.— Greeting: The following members of
the Minnesota Society of the Sons of the
Revolution, attending the" annual meeting of
the society held this the .Id day of Decem
ber in the year of our Lord 1897, In the city
of St. Paul, by these presents, desire to
testify officially "this society's appreciation of
your earnest, patriotic efforts in its behalf,
and for your untiring labor in the cause of
patriotism and good citizenship. It has been
a privilege to have known and honored one
of "God's noblempn." We part with you
with deepest regret. We bid you God speed
in your new field of labor. May your days
be long and your strength as your years that
you may continue your blessed work of up
lifting and enobling your fellow man."
The following officers for the coming
year were next elected: Rukard Hurd,
president; Rt. Rev. Mahlon N. Gilbert,
vice president; John Townsend, secre
tary; Joseph E. McTVilliams, treasurer;
R. B. C. Bement, registrar; Rev. John
Paul Egbert, D. D., chaplain; board of
managers, Charles P. Noyes, George C.
Squires Nathaniel -Elwell, William P.
Clough,' Thaddeus E. Field, and Tracy
Lyon.
The business /over, President Hurd
announced tha£ the .banquet was next
in order and the score or more of mem
bers had the following named gentle
men for their guests: Gen. John C.
Wade Gen. E. C. Mason, Lieut. Almy;
W. F. Myers, Maj. ( E. S. Chittenden,
Dr. Wharton, Kenneth Clark, of St.
Paul, and H. V. Jones, of Minneapolis.
The ordinary wa« graily decorated with
silken banners and portraits of Revo
lutionary heroes. At 9:30, after Bishop
Gilbert had asked.*, blessing. President
Hurd rose ami prp posed a toast to
"Patriotism," which was responded to
by the diners, to '
Bishop Gilbert, fti a brief speech,
said this was °a significant occasion
which marked the coming of a new
epoch— the union of the %wo societies.
The resolution favoring wiion, he said,
was the declaration not of indepen
dence, but of freedom. His hearers
were .far from the scenes of valor and
bravery, but he liked the feeling dis
played, and thought it ought to ac
centuate the principle of commemorat
ing the worthy acts of the doughty
forefathers. Bishop Gilbert explained
that while lauding the signal bravery
of the Northern troops, it should not
be, but was, often forgotten that in
Maryland and Virginia and South
Carolina were as brave troops as those
■which hailed from New York and
Pennsylvania.
Charles M. Jordan, of the Minne
apolis public schools, made a witty
speech in which he referred to his in
herited military record. Naught but
clever things could well be said of an
organization which turned the best
thoughts of men to the records of the
forefathers who fought for political and
personal liberty. It must not be lost
sight of that the American public
schools were the best medium for ad
vancing the matter of better self-gov
ernment and that in those institutions
were the seeds sowed not only of in
telligence but of patriotism— of better
manhood and better womanhood. The
schools were now filled with those who
were to take the places of those now
handling the affairs of the state and
the government. -
Maj. E. S. Chittenden, the secretary
of the Sons of the American Revolu
tion, brought greetings from his society
and in a few words said that his fellow
members were in favor, to a man, of
perpetuating the common feeling. His
society, he felt sure, would pass a fav
orable resolution at their annual meet
ing on the 16th with no dissenting voice.
Maj. Chittenden said with the material
the great state of Minnesota furnished,
there was no good reason why the
amalgamated society should not com
pare favorably with the big societies of
the East, and be 1,000 strong.
Hon. Edwin C. Kennedy, of West Su
perior, urged that he was so late in ar
riving that he lost the inspiration of
the beefsteak and corncob pipe, but
he felt that the step already taken was
mest eloquent as showing the best sort
of feeling between the two societies,
who, during the dark times of war,
knew no division, but fought as one
great brotherhood for what they
thought was right.
Judge John W. Willis felt that those
present should be brave, owing to an
inheritance from their ancestry. Still
they had all allowed themselves to be
led to the stake by President Rukard
Hurd, who was calling upon them to
speak without assigning them topics.
Such speeches might, the judge
thought, resemble fables without mor
als attached. Waxing serious. Judge
Willis spoke^of patriotism— patriotism
of the real sort, which did not consist
of gush over the flag, but which re
quired earnest, consistent and power
ful effort to make the government
realize the plan upon which it is found
ed. He deprecated conservatism, which
hi said nourished tyranny, and hoped
this government might always have a
flag which would not have stars for
the wealthy and stripes for the poor.
Rev. John H. Rhodes, of St. John's,
believed there was a wide diversity of
feeling among men as to the brave
acts of their worthy ancestry. Most
prominent, he thought, was conserva
tism rather than what might be termed
revolutionary instinct. The members
of the society were heirs of men who
were not impelled by the feelings of
the Marseillaise — the commune of Paris
— but who, with no tremulous hand,
signed in their legislative halls the
declaration of their freedom and inde
pendence.
Dr. Rhodes begged that there be no
desultory argument about the cut of a
ribbon or the set of an insignia, but
that the members of both societies weld
themselves into a unified body with the
same patriotic, gallant forefathers, till
the amalgamated body was stronger
and more noble as shewing the ad
vanced spirit of the twentieth century.
Messrs. Thompson and Daggett, of
Minneapolis, and Dr. Thomas McDav
itt, of St. Paul, explained at the sug
gestion of the president why they were
members of the society, and each in
I his own way gave satisfactory expla
nations. Dr. McDavltt felt it absurd
that there should exist two bodies with
the common purpose, and said when he
joined one, if he had known of the. oth
er, he would have joined that also.
President Hurd called on Capt. Philip
Readf\ of the army, to say "taps." Th»>
army man. in an exceedingly witty
speech, told of the various good nights
possible and .closed his remarks with
the following appropriate verse:
Two words of our erratic speech
• Torment me with malicious spite;
I halt and stammer over each —
I find it hard to say "Good night."
It may be c-asy for some men.
But when arms, dimpled, round and white,
Draw down one's head— l tell you then
One scarcely can pronounce "Good night."
And when the loving lips have clung
In sweet caresses, soft and light.
There Is a force that ties the tongue
Until it cannot say "Good night."
They're Anglo-Saxon, as I see.
And so, of course, they must be right;
But. ah! I know there are for me
No words so hard as these, "Good night."
Now farewell, sons and friends so bright;
To each and all we wish good night.
And rosy dreams and slumbers bright.
Good night! Good night! Parting Is such sweet
sorrow.
That we may say good night! till it be to
morrow.
SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE
In Reinsured, St. I'anl Affenclea
Writing the Riskn.
The insurance on the buildings at the
school of agriculture, amounting to
$204,000, has all been rewritten under
a special form adopted for that pur
pose, and the state gains about $3,000
by the action. The insurance was all
placed in St. Paul. Out of the total
insurance placed, $32,000 had expired
and bids were advertised for with the
it suit that it was written for thrae
years at 1 per cent. The remaining
$152,000 was unexpjred insurance, which
was rewritten for five years at 2 per
cent by the companies in which the
policies were placed. The premiums
were prorated from the old rate, which
was about 4 per cent. Had the board
or regents simply canceled these old
policies, they would have had to pay
a short rate which would have been
expensive, but as the companies them
selves canceled them in order to make
this new agreement, the expense falls
on the companies in the form of re
turn premiums, covering pro rata the
difference between the time the policies
wore to have run and the time they
were canceled. The insurance is all
placed in first-class companies and the
state is the gainer by a substantial
sum.
ANTHONY HOPE TODAY.
Two Anthor'n Recitals at the Peo
ple* Clmroh.
The appearance of the prince of Eng
lish romantic novels appears at the
People's church this afternoon and
evo-ning in a varied and brilliant series
of selections from the '"Prisoner of
Zc-rda" and "Phroso," giving dramatic
situations and passion, with the best of
the mirth provoking "Dolly Diologues"
as sauce piquant. He is described as
being equally effective on the platform
as with the pen. He has a striking
stage presence and a powerful and
musical voice. The audiences promise
to be proportional to the attractive
ness of the man, and the popularity of
his work. But it is not enough that
there shall be good audiences. The gen
erous prices and the distinguished
guest demand an ovation.
WORST NOT YET COME.
State Treasurer Kwrner'a Predic
tion am to State Finances.
State Auditor Dunn calls attention to
a misleading statement in his declara
tion of yesterday about the state funds,
which was to the effect that $150,000 of
funding bonds had been paid out of the
state revenue fund when they were
not. strictly speaking, but out of a .2
mill funding tax.
State Treasurer Koerner does not co
incide with the opinion of the state au
ditor to the effect that the worst of the
situation has been seen, but predicts
that the statement of the treasury: for
Dec. 31, will show a condition even
more to be deplored than that of
Nov. 30.
Mr. Dunn also says that he and his
deputy, Sam G. Iverson, repeatedly
called the attention of the legislators
during the last session to the fact that
an increase of tax levy or retrenchment
of expenses was necessary. Cut in vain.
Senator Wyman fought hard to hold
down the expenditures, but was equal
ly unsuccessful.
XO OTHER POWERS.
St. Panl School Board Corned Within
General School Laws.
It looks from a cursory examina
tion of the Special Law of 1593, which
created the present board of school in
spectors to take the place of the old
St. Paul board of education and re
pealed all the previous laws relating; to
the management of the schools of this
city, as though County Superintend
ent Hogan's powers in the premises
were not abated by anything in the
law. "While there is an assumption
throughout that the board shall have
charge of all matters pertaining to
the management of the school, there
is nowhere in the law the express ex
emption of the district from the in
spection of the county superintendent.
Section 129, of the 1897 compilation
of the state school laws, which is sec
tion 3743 of the General Statutes of
1894, fixes the duties of the superin
tendent as follows:
County superintendents of schools shall ex
amine and license teachers and annual cer
tificates for cause shown; visit and instruct
the schools of their counties at least once
in each term, and give such advice to the
teachers as may be requisite and necessary.
They Bhall organize and conduct at least oue
institute for the instruction of teachers in
each year, if they deem the same expedient;
encourage teachers' associations, introduce to
the notice of teachers and the people the
best modes of instruction, the most opproved
plans of building and ventilating BChop]
houses, of ornamenting and adapting school
grounds to convenience, and the healthful ex
ercise of children, stimulate school officers
to the prompt and proper discharge of their
duties, receive the reports of school district
clerks and teachers, and transmit an abstract
of the same to the state superintendent, add
ing thereto a written statement on the con
dition and prospects of the schools under
their charge, together with such other in
formation and suggestions as they think prop
er to communicate. To insure accuracy and
uniformity in such reports, county superin
tendents may, annually, at suitable times and
place 3, call conventions of district clerks in
their counties, to continue in session one
day, considering methods of obtaining or re
porting statistics % and discussing other mat
ters involving such educational topics and in
terests as may come within the sphere of
district and county school officers."
At one time it was the custom of the
city schools, through the superintend
ent, to submit to the county superin
tendent the annual report the same as
other schools, but upon the superin
tendent of public instruction once com
plaining that the county superintend
ent had not properly included the city
schools in his report to that office.
The city schools reported afterward
direct to the state superintendent,
rather than endanger the loss of their
share in state aid through the neglect
of another official to so report them.
The following excerpts from the
school laws of 1891 are as nearly as
it comes to expressly exempting tin-
St. Paul schools from the operation of
the general school laws:
The board of inspectors shall exe
cute all the powers vested by this act
or by the general laws of the state in
any school district or in the city of
St. Paul, as a separate and independ
ent school district and no other pow
ers, and to adopt such rules and regu
lations aa It shall deem best not in
consistent with the intent and provi
sions of this act.
The city of St. Paul shall be and
hereby is made a separate and inde
pendent school district and vested
with all the powers and rights Bepci
fied in any general law of the state of
Minnesota in relation to .school dis
tricts.
\noi\D THE HOTELS.
x
Who Were neutered H t St. I'iiiil's
Inns I.jisl Niiilil.
William Grace, a prosperous farmer of
Dakota county, is registered at the Windsor,
coming to the city in the interest of that
as yet uncompleted highway from Rosemont
to St. l'aul. The roa<l was commenced
twenty-three years ago and a section of it has
been built— from Rosemount to Inver Grove.
Work is now at an end, however, for it will
require about 18,000 to complete it. and the
people down that way are rrf the opinion
that Ramsey county should pay the $8,000.
Samuel Flint and wife, of San Francisco,
are guests of the Windsor. Mr. Flint is
superintendent of the railway mail service
from San Francisco to Spokane, and is i ,i
hi 3 way home from a trip to Washington, in
company with Mormon Perkins.
G. H. Compton, -of Barabco, Wis., is the
guest of his brother, W. .1. Compton, at. tbe
Windsor.
Benj. D. Smith and A. B. Moffatt. of Man
kato, are stopping at the. Windsor.
A Windsor guest yesterday was J. M.
Underwood, of Lake City.
G. H. Hulton and wife, of WtktervHle, arc
at the Windsor.
C. C. Manning and wife, of Chicago, are
stepping at the Clarendon.
A Clarendon guest is J. C. Williams, of St.
Cloud.
Henri' Feig inscribed his name on the
Clarendon register yesterday.
J. P. Sherman, of Liveimore, 10., is a
Clarendon guest.
Among yesterday's arrivals at the Ryan was
H. T. Pinkney, of Sunderland. Eng.
E. C. Kennedy, of West Superior, is a
Ryan guest.
C. F. Daily, of Hudson, is stopping at the
Ryan.
A Ryan guest yesterday was U. E. Baker,
of Duluth.
D. C. Coolidge, of Downing, Is at the
Merchants'.
W. M. Dodge and wife registered at the
Merchants' yesterday.
J. R. Howard and wife, of Sauk Center, Is
in the city, stopping at the Merchants'.
G. M. Potter, of Pipestone, was at the
Merchants' yesterday.
P. Nelson, of Red Wing, is at the Metropol
itan.
O. S. Pew, of Detroit, Mich., is at the Met
ropolitan.
FIGHTING 8K1.1.S RELEASE.
Authorities Oppose All Effort! to
Get Bail.
Robert Bell, who is still in the coun
ty Jail under an indictment charging
him with perjury, made another ap
plication to be admitted to bail yester
day. This time he offered a well
known security company. But County
Attorney Zollman objected to receiving
the bond of any surety company in a
criminal case. He argued that it was
not only unusual, but illegel. He made
the further point that the incentive of
an accused person to jump bail fur
nished by a surety company was
greater than it would be in cases where
the bail bond is furnished by the rela
tives or friends of th«« accused.
Judge Lewis took the matter under
advisement. (
FRIDAY FOR HAMM.NK.
Methodist ( ..l<-i.-s Clinic Day at the
City Hospital.
Commencing next Friday, clinics will bo
held at the city hospital every Friday, from
9 to 3 o'clock, for the Hamline medical stu
dents. This Is in response to a request re
cently made by Dr. G. H. Bridgman. presi
dent of the Hamline university. There are
about ninety medical students at the uni
versity, but the clinics will be only for those
in the third and fourth year of the cours \
the others being engaged in laboratory work.
This arrangement was entered Into in a per
fectly amicable manner by the hospital au
thorities, and will undoubtedly add much to
the value of the university course.
Dr Charles E. Smith, recently appointed
to the hospital staff, will give the lectures
in general medicine, and Dr. H. J. O'Brien
will conduct the surgical work. Dr. O'Brien
is one of the original members of the hos
pital staff, and in fact was appointed two
years before there was a hospital staff.
Hot Tamale Man Arrented.
John Wynacht, vender of "hot tamales,"
was arers'ted last evening by Patrolman
Holland. Wynacht visited the saloon of
John Thill, in the Germania bauk building,
and, according to the proprietor of the place,
created a disturbance with several of the
patrons of the resort. When taken to the
station Wynacht had a damaged optic and
nose and hla portable gasoline range wan
wrecked. He told a slightly different tola
about the trouble and both sides will be heard
before Judge Orr this moining. Wynacht de
posited |15 bail for his appearance In tha
police court this morning.
STOCK MEN WIDE AWAKE.
Great Interest Shown in the (oniiim
Convention.
D R. McGinnls reports that the pros
pects are bright for the success of the
meeting: of the Live i,, s and
Breeders of America in St. Paul on
Jan. 11 and 12, and he expects a large
representation of them from all parts
of the country, and especially th*
>iortnwest, to be present. Many stock
men, breeders of lv>rses. cattle, sheep
and hogs have written for particulars
of the meeting. This national meeting
in St. Paul will be followed a week
later by a similar meeting in Denver
and many will go from here to that
city.
C. D. Gilflllan, of Morgan, Minn.,
of the best known stock men in th"
Northwest, has written that he will
prepare and read a description of th
most successful breeding methods
which he lias put Into effect In Minne
sota for a number of years past He
also claims that h* will be able to show
by actual results that cattle will put
on more fat In less time in this -
than in localities far to the s mthward
T. F. B. Sothatn, the great Hereford
breeder, of Chilli. oth-. Mo will be
present and will give a talk on methods
of beef making.
Mr. McGinnLs, who is on the council
of arrangements. held ;i confer*
terday afternoon withe, mi. M. 1> Flow
er, president of the stockyards at South
St. Paul, with regards t,, the details of
the meeting, and it was decided to In
vite prominent packers of live s
products to attend and tell the stock
men what kinds of stock they can
handle with most profit and which they
will pay the highest prices for.
Kx-Gov. Furnis. of Nebraska, will be
present, aria says that he will bring
along a large delegation from that
state.
The convention is Intended for the
Interchange of views of practical men
on the important matters o( feeding,
breeding and marketing all classes -i 1
live stock. The Twin Cities are becom
ing one of the most Important centers
for winter feeding iv the United States
and by reason of this fact the meeting
conies at a very opportune time. Ii is.
in fact, to be a meeting of breeders of
the most approved classes of stock, and
equally so of farmers and other small
breeders who raise merely a few head
".' sto.-k in connection with their other
crops. The delegates to the convention
are not appointed beforehand, but
every person interested In live stock
will be constituted a delegate by re
porting his name to the secretar;
the opening of the session, it is assur
ed that th" movement will have the
hearty co-operation of the railways.
and that greatly reduced rates will bu
secured.
GALLICK I\ THE TOWER.
Sng-greatton That the Court Conmli.
■loner Be Elevated.
The joint court house ;md city hall
commission at its regular meeting
terday afternoon, considered the ques
tion of furnishing more office and
vault room tor the clerk of courts and
the county auditor. Nothing definite
was done however, except to list .-n to
suggestions to Clerk of Court R ■
and Register of Deeds Krahmer. The
commission adjourned until Monday
afternoon, when, as a committee of the
whole, they will visM the various coun
ty offices and see what can be done
Jt is quite likely that the suggestion
of Mr. Krahmer will be adopted to the
effect that the cast sidi >t his office,
which is now occupied a^ an office bj
Court Commissioner Gal lick, be util
ized to make room for a vauH to hold
the court records. It was also sug
gested by one of the commission, thai
• 'apt. Gallick be given an office in the
tower.
In case a vault is constructed In the
register of deed's office for the clerk
of courts, the countj auditor may be
given the room now occupied by the
assessor, and the latter mtfy move into
the room now used by the count) com
missioners, joint couri house and city
hall commission and board of ♦luaiv
zation, in which event, these bodies
can meet in th»/councli chamber.
1)1 LI Till \\s i:\ i(ol TE.
To Ippear Before the Board of Par
dona Toilh > .
There promises to !>•• a lively tii
the meeting of the board of pai
this morning. A special dispatch to
the Globe from Iniluth la i night
said:
"A l;irn>' party <>f prominent citizens left
here on tin* late train tonight for .-'t. Paul
to be i>n\s<.'iit at thr hearing of the applica
tion for the pardon of ex-Register of Deeds
Peter Borgßtrom, which will !>■• heard at a
special meeting of the board called for that
purpose tomorrow morning. Th" majority
of tin' party will appear in behall of the
granting of the pardon. In tli.' party were
Attorney I. L. Washburn, John <!. William
Coroner Eklund, Collector of Customs L. M.
Wiiicuts. Blmer Mitchell, County Attorney
Arbury mid Ex-Cit) Attorney Benham. C.
I). Baldwin, who prosecuted Bor{
in the party and will light againsi the grant-
Ing of the pardon. The p. rsonal petition ■>?
Borgst.roin that was Bled with the board »cv
eral days ago is causing much unfavorable
comment in this city, and ii la s.ii'l n
the ex-register's chances for » pardon have
been materially decreased on sccount of It.
SECOND V\ \HI> TOMt.in.
Doing" «>r Hie Committee ««> Xatnrnl
l/.e Alien*.
Second ward Democrats "ill hold a
meeting tonight ai Kaltanhauser'a hall
at Mendota and Margarei Btreeta, for
Hi.- purpose of making preparations f'>r
naturalization of Second ward resi
dents. All desiring second paper.- aw
Invited to attend the n ting Irrespec
tive of party. It is expected that Hon.
John VV. Willis. .J.'lin [yes and T. 11.
Kane will address the meetti
Th« district court will be in session
next Wednesday night for the pui
of naturalizing residents of * the Sev
enth, Tenth and Eleventh wards. <>n
tii.- Wednesday night following, De
15. the Third and Fourth wards will be
given a lik-- opportunity.
\sk run. us TO \( r.
(.utility Attorney Will Pan* I i> tin-
Salarj *>iii<*.
County Attorney Anderson, when
asked yesterday if he would defend the
suit brought againsi th- county audi
tor and County Commissioner Morlta
to determine the constitutionality of
law of 189;". regulating the salaries "f
county officials said that he would prob
ably turn the matter over to the attor
ney general. Inasmuch as the county
attorney, being affected by the law. is
an interested party.
FIGURES FOR NOVEMBER.
District I oart Naturalized 2^)06 St.
I'mii Citizens.
The total number of people naturaliz
ed by the district court during the No
vember term, is 1, :;•!•;, which mak< .-; the
total for the months of Octdber and
November about G.OOO.
Will Visit Ml ii n <li uli a < ouikll.
At a meeting of a committee from Ramsey
council of the Royal Arcanum, hold at the
Windsor last evening, arrangement!
made to visit Minnehaha council, of Minn*
apolis. Dec. Tl. It is expected that fully ICQ
members will be In the party.
special interurban cars will be chartered.
The guests will be entertained at a banquet.
The Ramsey and Minnehaha councils are the
largest in the state, with a combined mem
bership of B'X».
i. or it \k\\s n»> i 89.
The entert-ainment given for the '
of the Ladies' G. A. R. Monument assoi
at the Minnesota Afro-American art exhibit
on Wabasha street last evening, was very
poorly attended, and was worthy of a
audience. The programme Included an in
teresting talk on "Monuments' 1 by Capt J.
J McCardv. while F. B. Doran. in tolling of
■Prisoners" <A War." r-! v.-l i!;- Incidei
the two times he was raptured by the enemy.
C. Miller contributed a vocal solo.