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Wisconsin Fair, preceded by light snow in
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GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
United staii-s Department of Agriculture,
r Bureau, Washington, Jan. 2G, 6:48
p. m. Local Tim<\ s p. in. 75th Meridian
Time. — Observations taken at the same mo
ment of time at all station.
TEMPERATURES.
Tiace. Tom. ! Tern.
St. Paul 22 Minnedosa —16
Dulutli 1! Winnipeg —20
Huron 2A)
Bismarck vz Buffalo 28-28
Wiliston 18' Boston :',O-3-t
Havre 26 Cheyenne lx-3>;
Helena 28 Chicago is-iil
ton 34 Cincinnati 30-36
Battleford 12 Cleveland 28-30
Calgary 34 Montreal 20-22
Medicine Hat 28 Now Orleans OT-58
Swift Current 24 New York 30-3S
Qu'Appelle — _ I'ittsburg 32-8
— Beiow zero.
DAILY MEANS.
meter, 30.05; mean temperature, IS;
relative humidity, 80; wind at s p. m., north
• •■. partly cloudy; maximum tem
perature, 26; minimum temperature, 9; daily
17; amount of precipitation In last
twenty-four bouse, trac< .
Note- Barometer corrected for temperature
ar.d elevation. P. F. Lyons, Observer.
HAS IT PAID?
f>nr can readily conjecture that, as
the wires brought to Senator Arthur
Pue Gorman the news that a Republi
can had been elected by the Maryland
lature as his successor, his mem
ory ran over the political history of
his party for the last seven years, and
the question rose in his mind whether
his efforts then begun to "down Cleve
land" and elevate himself have paid.
Possibly not, for men are given more
to finding causes for disaster outside
than in themselves. Mr. Gorman and
his associates succeeded in downing
Clevelard, but they and their party
!:<■ In the"debris of the wreck they
caused. A brief review of then- work
and Its effects is not untimely when
the second Republican ever sent to the
Pf-nate from the state, of Maryland is
chosen to take the place of Mr. Gor
man.
When President Cleveland, in his
message of 1887, gave to his party a
greater cause than even he then sus
pected, the protectionist element in and
out of the party took alarm. Gorman
repr< sented it in the senate, as Ran
dall did in the house. Gorman refus
ed assistance in the campaign of 188 S.
and his influence was cast against the
party. When the currents indicated
that the party rose from that defeat
Btronger, more earnest than ever, and,
when they indicated that the rank and
file looked to Mr. Cleveland to again
lead the cause, Gorman and his fel
lows set to work to "down Cleveland"
In the coming convention. The first
move was to defeat Mills, who stood,
In his candidacy for speaker, as the
leader of the movement that was to
lead the Democratic party back to the
advocacy of a trade made as free of
taxation as the necessities of revenue
would allow. Crisp was elected speaker,
and in bis hi adquarters the jubilation
was not because he was elected, but
be ; ause it was taken to mean the over
throw of Cleveland. The next move was
made by Crisp when, in the same ses-
Bior he sidetracked the tariff and gave
silver the main track, not for silver's
sake, but because Cleveland and tariff
r< form were identical. The summer
saw the senatorial party making its
transcontinental tour, consulting with
leading Democrats as to the means
thai might be used to prevent Cleve
land's nomination in 1892. Gorman in-
B] ii • i the tour, and its work was di
rected against his nomination.
Defeated in the national convention,
these traitors to party principle set
themselves to work to defeat the con
summation of all the party had fought
for and won in the election of 1892.
Two conditions favored them, the con
servatism of :\lr. C!e\ eland's letter of
acceptance, taken as a repudiation of
the Chicago plank, and the panic that
was the culmination of commercial
end legislative causes. "When it was
too late Mr. Cleveland saw the mistake
he had made in counseling moderation
in tariff revision. The departure from
the policy decreed by the national as
sembly, made by the house bill, put
Into the hands of the Gormanites an
excuse for increasing the quantity of
protection in the bill when it 'reached
the senate, until it became so anti-
Democratic that even Andrew Car
regie advised his fellow Republicans
that it was satisfactory and that it
might and should receive their support.
The letters of the president to Mr.
Catchings and Mr. Wilson show that,
when it was too late, he realized the
gravity of the blunder of consulting
expediency instead of principle.
In whatever measure the defeats that
followed were due to the panic, no one
■who felt the discouragement, the dis
heartenment of the rank and file of
the party and saw the abandonment
in disgust of the Republicans who
had been won to free or freer trade,
but knows that the larger and more
potent cause that brought disaster was
the failure of the party's representa
tives in congress to make redemption
of the promise made at Chicago, and
that that failure was mainly due to
Mr. Gorman and the "five Judas Is
cariots" of the senate who purposely
mangled the house bill to "down Cleve-
land." And the results? Two Re
publican senators from New Jersey;
two from Ohio, where for years but
one ever sat with other than a Dem
ocratic colleague; a Republican sen
ator from New York, displacing one
of the five; Illinois and Wisconsin
turned back, and Indiana half lost; the
party split by the issue injected in
1890 merely to "down Cleveland." And
the five senators, where are they?
Gorman, Crice, Hill, McPherson,
Smith, every one sent fnto retirement
by the indignant Democrats whom
they had betrayed. Verily, Mr. Gor
man has much food for reflection these
days, and he may -well ask himself
whether it has paid.
A FOOLISH ARGUMENT.
In the altogether foolish discussion
of the foolish resolution introduced by
Mr. Teller in the federal senate and
providing for the payment of all na
tional obligations in silver, the most
foolish feature is that dwelt upon with
emphasis and unction by most of the
speakers, who show, with a chuckle,
that such and such men, now promi
nent in public life as advocates of the
gold standard, voted for a similar reso
lution nineteen years ago when pre
sented in the senate by Mr. Stanley
Matthews. A large portion of the men
who then favored the Matthews reso
lution and still remain prominent In
public life are now opposed to it. This
is pointed out as another case of de
terioration, of treachory to principle
and of yielding to the insatiate de
mands of the "money power." We are
not interested in defending eminent
Republicans like Senator Allison and
Mr. McKinley himself from this attack,
but fair play and a proper idea of the
duty of public men who live for years
among changing circumstances require
some attention to facts.
As a matter of course, the situation
is totally different today from what it
was in 1879. At that time the act
dropping the silver dollar from our
coins was only six years old, and the
average bullion value of the silver dol
lar for that year was only a trifle less
than 87 cents. The difference between
declaring that a piece of metal worth
87 cents should be a valid tender for
a debt and the same declaration when
applied to a piece of metal worth 52
cents does not seem to require expla
nation. There is much more than that,
however, in the other changes that
twenty years have brought about.
No man who has endeavored conscien
tiously to discharge the duties of high
office over a long space of time can
avoid the charge of inconsistency and
of a change of base. This fol
lows from the fact that what
is good for public policy and public
morality in one epoch may become
something entirely different in another.
Parties themselves shift and change.
The man who stands steadfast to his
conviction may find himself with his
party at one time and opposed to it
a few years later. The man who goes
strictly with his party will find its
views and utterances of one day in
conflict with his views and utterances
of another. The man who, surveying
the whole situation, judges a certain
line of policy to be for the best inter
ests of the country in one crisis may
repudiate his own position without im
pugning his sincerity or honesty, at a
later date.
An interesting illustration of this
is recalled in the case of a con
stitutional amendment that was pass
ed just before the outbreak of the civil
war. This amendment provided spe
cifically that no future amendment to
the constitution of this country should
ever affect the domestic institutions
of any state, and particularly should
not interfere with the position of those
held to service under the laws of the
state. The purpose of this, of course.was
to tie the hands of the people against
any possible interference with negro
slavery. It passed the house by a
heavy majority and the senate by a
vote of two to one, and received the
signature of President Buchanan. Be
fore it could be brought before the
country effectively the rebellion came,
and the great question settled itself.
The point of interest is that Gen. Sher
man and other Republicans of equal
note, men who did their utmost, when
the break came, in the interest of the
North and of freedom, gave a hearty
concurrence to this amendment. They
believed in maintaining the status quo.
They believed that the issue of slav
ery would settle itself by the gradual
evolution of industry in this country.
They believed it vital to confine slav
ery to the states in which it then ex
isted, on the one side, and to prevent
any interference with it there by the
people of the free states on the other.
They regarded this amendment as a
condition and a necessity, if seces
sion, war and the rending of the Union
into fragments were to be prevented.
Consider, now, how easy to reproach
those men ten years later, when the
very word "slavery" had become a
thing of horror, and the institution it
self was forever banished from
the United States and territory
under its control, with evidence
of the fact that they had
voted for an act intended to fasten the
slave system upon the country for all
time to come. Yet the defense of such
public men was simple and valid. In
like manner men who, in 1879, might
have believed, in the then infancy of
currency discussion, that the Stanley
Matthews resolution was a harmless
or even a necessary thing, may well be
convinced, in the light of later experi
ence, and especially after the events
of the last few years, that to take sim
ilar action now would be the destruc
tion of national prosperity. Altogether
independent of the merits of the case, it
is obvious that it is no reflection upon
the honor and intelligence of a public
man to stand on opposing sides of this
question in the very different situa
tions created by the lapse of twenty
years.
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THE TRIBUNE'S IDEA.
The Minneapolis Tribune, noting the
appointment of a committee by the
Minneapolis chamber of commerce to
consider the publication of joint sta
tistics of the two cities as a step
toward future consolidation, has this
significant comment: "If the St. Paul
idea, however, is not to give the sta-
THE SAINT PAUJC* GI,OBS: THURSDAY, JANUARY 37, 1898.
tistics both separately and In consoli
dated form, the idea may as well be
abandoned." It follows this with the
customary announcement that Minne
apolis is so superior in all lines which
would be represented that it could do
it no possible good, and might do it
much harm, to publish the combined
statistics of the two cities. If the work
is to consist of putting out a pamphlet
to show that Minneapolis has the
larger population and milling interest,
it is quite willing that St. Paul should
insist on that line of advertising. Ap
parently, it is not assimilating in the
least the idea that there is a common
business center here, which can make
a more powerful and favorable impres
sion upon outside opinion by marshal
ing and combining all resources than
any portion of it can acting by itself.
It remains to be seen whether this is
the Minneapolis idea or only the Min
neapolis Tribune's idea of concerted ac
tion.
The public can rest assured that
any movement looking toward genuine
harmony of action between the two
cities will meet with a cordial and
sympathetic reception In St. Paul.
If the union of St. Paul and Minne
apolis Is ever to come about, a fact
which, In any event, must lie some dis
tance in the future, the preparatory
work will lie along the lines of allied
labor in the development of commer
cial and general business interests.
Commerce is the great unifier. It
draws larger and smaller communities,
cities, states and nations to one an
other, and overruns the globe in its.elim
ination of differences and its estab
lishment of points of similarity and
identity. There coujd be no better be
ginning for concord in the Northwest,
and a campaign for progress by the
united forces of these two cities than
the suggested publication of joint sta
tistics. Out of this each city would get
practically all the material benefits, as
far as the country is concerned, that
would accrue from actual political con
solidation. Whatever Greater New
Yoil: lias gained by the more imposing
array of its totals the Twin Cities
would gain by such a combination.
It dees not 'need even to be stated
that, if the figures are to be used sepa
rately, as well as conjointly, they
would nut be worth the labor and. cost
of compilation. Such statistics are al
ready put out by each city for itself,
and are available to any one who wish
es them. To impress the country with
the existence and weight of the popu
lation gathered about the head of navi
gation on the Mississippi, including
these two cities, would be well worth
while, and this means the use of joint
statistics and nothing else. Such a
project would, we believe, be approved
by the people of St. Paul. If the Trib
une notion should be the Minneapolis
notion, which we have no reason as
yet to believe, all value is struck out of
the proposition, and it would have to
be abandoned.
A POOR PRETENSB,
Among the latest attempts that have
come to our notice of the advocates of
the annexation of Hawaii to make a
showing for themselves and to adduce
some responsible authority for their
position we find in a contemporary an
exceedingly curious and Interesting
list, purporting to exhibit the uniform
approval of this policy by many presi
dents of the United States. One who
takes the trouble to peruse the ex
tracts, culled with labor and with
many reproaches of conscience, if the
selecters possess that troublesome at
tribute, will be struck with the simi
larity they bear to the argument of
Senator Morgan. This consisted of a
simple and easy falsehood. He merely
declared that Grover Cleveland favor
ed annexation, and that settled it in
his mind.
The annexatlonists, in like man
ner, quote from a message of
President Tyler in 1842. The
only statement approaching their
views is found in the declara
tion that any attempt by a power other
than the United States to take pos
session of the Sandwich islands would
"create dissatisfaction." This Is mere
ly a mild reafßrmation of the Monroe
doctrine, which all administrations
have agreed in upholding. So far from
being In line with annexation, it Is the
anr.exationists who deliberately and
openly repudiate the Monroe doctrine.
They say that it is not sufficient to
hold Hawaii in line; that, if we do not
take these islands, somebody else will;
and that the great principle of action
which today saves this hemisphere
from invasion by the European pow
ers is not strong enough to preserve
the independence of the handful of
people in the Sandwich Islands. Ty
ler's declaration Is no more to the point
than the original announcement of
President Monroe.
The next quotation is from a mes
sage of Andrew Johnson, dating from
1868. What he recommends Is the
establishment of a reciprocity treaty.
Since that policy has long been in ef
fect, It has no bearing on the present
situation. President Johnson believed
that the sanction of such a treaty
would be valuable until such time as
the people of the islands should "vol
untarily apply for admission into the
Union." Not only have they not done
so, but a petition remonstrating
against annexation has been signed by
21,000 natives; and no member of the
Dole government and no jingo in the
United States would propose or dare
to permit the reference of this treaty
to a vote of all the people of the isl
ands themselvs.
We come next to the message of
President Grant. It seems to us that
a judicious editor would have omitted
this altogether. As a matter of fact,
Gen. Grant simply said, with reference
to annexation, that he did not "deem
it advisable to express any opinion or
to make any recommendation in re
gard to the subject at that juncture."
Men are pretty hard pushed when they
have to quote such a sentence in sup
port of the annexation theory. Had
President Grant expressed a much
more positive opinion, then it would
have to be borne in mind that he urg
ed, also, the annexation of Santo Do-
mingo. Every argument now put forth
to Justify the annexation of Hawaii
was used at that time with reference
to the "West Indian island named. We
were told that it was "a key;" that
the security of our southern coasts and
all the immense traffic between our
ports and those of Mexico and Central
America, together with the possible
business of an interoceanlc canal,
would be utterly defenseless unless the
United States possessed. this property.
We were told, also, that we must act
at once, or some European power
would instantly grab the country and
deprive us of our last chance of ob
taining it. The years have passed, and
not one of these predictions has been
verified, although each one of them
was a thousandfold more reasonable
and probable In those premises than
when applied to Hawaii.
The only other presidents left are
Harrison, who planned the steal be
gun by the assistance of the United
States forces, and McKinley, who con
dones and approves it. It is not an
exceedingly formidable list of author
ities that these gentlemen are able to
compile. We think that, upon scanning
it again, they will admit their serious
blunder in not including the name of
Grover Cleveland as an advocate of
annexation on the authority of Senator
Morgan. Such an addition would be
no sillier or more open to the charge
of false pretenses than half of those
that they used.
WHY NANSEN QUITS.
Explorer Claim* His Managers Were
Not Keeping Their Contract.
NEW YORK, Jan. 27.— The Sun gives
some interesting facts regarding Nan
sen's sudden change of plans and his
determination to return to Norway,
leaving his course of lectures in Ameri
ca unfinished. The Sun says:
The dispute -with his managers grew not
directly out of his original contract with,
them, although it is understood that they
seek to recover, but out of a renewal as to
the terms of which the principals differ. It
Is set forth that Dr. Nansen entered Into
agreement with his managers at his home in
Norway on Dec. 30, 1896, to deliver in this
counrtry and Canada fifty lectures, ho to have
55 per cent of the gross receipts of each
lecture, to bo paid Immediately after the lec
ture, and the managers guaranteeing that his
share should be in no instance less than £100,
or about $500 a lecture. There was a clause
providing for a renewal of tho contract for
fifty lectures more. The start in this country
was so favorable that the renewal provided
for was agreed to at an early date, and all
v/ent well until the audiences began to fall
off. Ait the first lecture in Brooklyn the
Academy of Music was crowded, and the
Norwegian colony of this section furnished a
large percentage of the attendance. At the
second lecture there, however, the house was
not full and the lecturer's fellow countrymen
were not markedly in evidence. The doctor
went as for West as St. Paul, and there It
was expected that the Scandinavians would
turn out In large numbers to greet him,
but the doctor's secretary, Mr. Clapham, Is
authority for the statement that there, as
at the second lecture In Brooklyn, he auditors
were not so many as it had been supposed
they would be.
I>r. Nansen has up to date delivered seven
teen of the second fifty lectures, or sixty
seven lectures in all. Really it should be said
that he has given sixty-seven repetitions of
the same lecture. In this point lies, perhaps,
one cause of the falling off of interest in
his appearances. His agents have lv some
instances gone to newspaper offices and com
plained that Dr. Nansen thought that he
did not receive as much "space" in the news
columns as he should receive; that the papers
did not publish his lectures as fully as he
felt himself justified in believing that they
would. A reminder that papers publishing
news, telegraph and local, could not be ex
pected to print the same lecture twice, was
without eftect.
When It came to the making of payments
to the doctor on his second series of lectures
a dispute arose as to the £100 guarantee. As
long as he drew $3,000 or $4,000 houses or
better this question did not come up, but
when the receipts fell off it did. Dr. Nansen
claimed his guarantee under the continuance
of the original agreement. It was said In
his behalf yesterday that his managers held
that under the renewal he was to receive
only the 55 per cent of- the gross receipts,
asserting that there was no agreement to
pay the guarantee after the first fifty lec
tures; and it is added that when he was not
paid as he thought he ought to be He cut
loose from tho managers, and, refusing to
djrliver any more lectures under their direc
tion, took the train for New York, with the
intention of sailing for home as soon "as prac
ticable.
It is said in some Norwegian circles that
Nansen has found some fault with the hotels
where his managers have put him up—accord
ing to the contract the managers paid all
the expenses of himself and his secretary f.nd
valet— ai;d that he has been made the object
of some Yankee guying, jollying, or roasting
bs them or at their Instance. His secretary,
Mr. Clapham, denied that the managers had
put the doctor in any hotels that were not
of high enough class to be satisfactory, al
though he said that perhaps the most fashion
able had not been selected.
In the suit which, Hathaway and Heard
have brought In tho supreme court, and In
which the attachment was issued, the plaint
iffs say that the agreement with Nansen pro
vided that If he failed to perform his part of
the contract he should pay $20,000 liquidated
damages. They say that on Jan. ID he re
fused to deliver another lecture on the terms
of the contract. The attachment was ob
tained on the ground that Dr. Nansen is a
resident of Lysaker, a suburb of Christiania
Norway.
Dr. Nansen can hardly depart from the
United States broken-hearted, or purse-broken
either, for, as the proceeds of his first fifty
lectures, he must have received $25,000, even
if he got only his guarantee for each lecture
For the first Brooklyn lecture and those In
this city, at least, he received, of course
very much more than the guarantee.
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STILLWATER NEWS.
Prison City Schools in Need of
Money to Complete tlie Year.
AI. Lammers received a telegram yesterday
from the clerk at one of Lammers Bros &
Nelson's logging camps, near Fosston, Minn,
stating that Isaac Hullquist, an cmplaye had
been killed on the landing. Deceased l-^sided
at Center City, Chisago county, and was
well kno-wn among woodsmen having worked
in the pineries for many years. The re
mains will be taken to Center City.
The board of education met Tuesday even-
Ing and decided to employ Miss Phelan of the
ht. Paul schools, to give a series "of six
lectures to the teachers of the schools in
this city. Her subject will bs Spear p s method
of mathematics. The board also authorized
the proper officers to borrow $S,OOO for the
immediate needs of the school.
A little child of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wohler3
on the South hill, dded Tuesday evening of
diphtheria. A number of cases of diphtheria
have occurred here during the past two or
three weeks, but the disease is not epidemic
The prison population is receding a trifle'
the population numbering only 530 yesterday'
In the district court yesterday Judge
Crosiby and a number of attorneys were en
gaged In hearing the disclosure proceeding*
brought against. McLaughlin & Kilty who
made an assignment of their shoe business
some time ago.
CITY OF DULUThTsHORE.
Steamer on a Bar and Will Prob
nbly Be Destroyed.
CHICAGO, Jan. 26.— The steamer
City of Duluth, of this city, is report- I
ed tonight a.s being stuck on a bar off
St. Joseph, Mich., and pounding heav
ily. The boat left South Chicago for
St. Joseph and Benton harbor yester
day and it isjsaid.that she struck the
bar at the mouth of the river this
morning while trying to force her way
into the river. A .heavy sea was rut:- |
ning at the time and it was found im
possible for the tugs that were sum
moned from St. Joseph to pull her off
and in a short time she began to
pound so badly that there seemed to
be but small chance of saving her. The
last report received from there at mid- !
night was that the boat was almost !
certain to be destroyed and that the
life saving crew at St. Jcseph were pre- '
paring to throw life lines to assist the !
members of the crew to the shore. Th;- j
boat carried no passengers and a crew
of about twenty-five men. She is owr»- j
ed by the Lake Michigan and Lake :
Superior Transportation company, is j
of 1,000 tons burden aud is valued at i
$30,000 |
Pliftfl IS IfIDORSED
INDIANAPOLIS CONVENTION ADOPTS
THE IDEAS OP THE MONETARY
COMMISSION.
NO WASTING OF MOMENTS.
THE BUSINESS PUSHED TO A CLOSE
IN AN ENERGETIC
WAY.
STILL SUBJECT TO HANNA'S CALL.
Chairman of the Executive Commit
tee Authorized to Summon Dele
srates When He Sees Fit.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 26.— 1t
was not expected that the monetary
convention would remain In session
more than two days, and this expecta
tion was realized. It settled down to
work promptly at 10 o'clock this morn
ing and adjourned at 2 o'clock, subject
to the call of the chairman, Mr. Hugh
H. Hanna,
It was a convention that was notable
for the prominence of its delegates In
business circles and for the large num
ber who, at the sacrifice of their pri
vate interests, made the long Journey
to Indianapolis to emphasize by their
presence their strong sympathy with
the movement for currency reform.
The number of bankers who attended
was limited to less than a dozen. The
remainder of the 400 delegates were
representatives of the various commer
cial bodies, with a sprinkling of politi
cal economists, prominent among
whom was Prof. Taussig, of Harvard
university.
The proceedings of the convention
were transacted with that businesslike
method which was choracteristic of the
men engaged. There was about them
a snap and a vim and energy, combin
ed with an absence of superfluities and
hair-splitting points of order that fur
nished a refreshing contrast to a pure
ly political convention, where promi
nent action is less required than the
advantage of this or that party for a
candidate. There was no desire to
shirk the work entrusted to the dele
gates, nor was there on the other hand
any purpose to delay its completion.
The business of the convention was to
indorse the report of the monetary
commission which is now before con
gress In the form of a bill, and when
this was done it promptly adjourned.
Many of the delegates returned to
their homes this afternoon. All of the
New York and Eastern men left on
early trains, and some of the lowa
delegates were equally prompt in get
ting away. Tonight only a score of
the delegates are about the hotel lob
bies, and the convention of which they
were a part has already passed into
history.
PLAN INDORSED.
The convention convened at 10
o'clock. Pending the report of the com
mittee on resolutions, the secretary
read a number of telegrams from the
various commercial bodies of the coun
try, indorsing the plan of the com
mission. E. J. Parker, of Illinois, pre
sented a resolution approving the ef
forts of the national business league
to forward a movement for the es
tablishment of a national department
of commerce and industries, the head
of which shall be a member of the
cabinet.
Charles S. Fairchild, ex-secretary of
the treasury, delivered a speech, in
which he said that the commission had
done its work under the Inspiration of
the convention of 1897. , He said a gov
ernment should try to learn facts and
conform its laws thereto.
At the conclusion of Mr. Fairchild's
address, a motion was made and car
ried that when the convention adjourn
it be subject to the call of the execu
tive committee. Permanent Chairman j
Shaw declared that "this convention
never adjourns," and E. O. Stannard,
of Missouri, took the gavel to preside.
The next speaker was Congressman
Jesse Overstreet, of the Indianapolis
district, who introduced the monetary
bill into congress.
Mr. Wheelock, of Minnesota, chair
man of the committee on resolutions,
asked John C. Bullitt, of Pennsylvania,
to read the resolutions. The resolu
tions recognize the convention's obll- ■
gations to the executive committee,
and cordially approve the plan of cur
rency reforms submitted by the com
mittee, which is set out as follows:
RESOLUTIONS REPORTED.
First — To remove at once and forever all
doubt as to what the standard of value in the
United States is and is to be.
Second — To establish the credit of the
United States at the highest point among iho
nations of the world.
Third — To eliminate from our currency sys
tem those features which reason and experi
ence show to be elements of weakness and
danger.
Fourth— To provide a paper currency con
vertible into gold and equal to it in value at
all times and places, in which, with a volume
adequate to the general and usual needs of
business there should be combined a quality
of growth and clas.iclty through which it
will adjust itself automatically and promptly
to all variations of demands, whether sud
den or gradual, and which shall distribute it
self throughout the country as the wants of
the different sections may require.
Fifth — To so utilize the existing silver dollar
as to maintain their parity with gold, with
out imposing undue burdens upon the treas
ury.
Sixih — To avoid any injurious contraction of
the currency.
Seventh— To avoid the issue of interest
bearing boxids, except in case of unlookcd
for emergencies; but to confer the power to
issue bonds when necessary for the preserva
tion of the credit of the government.
Eighth— To accomplish these ends by a
plan which would lead from our present con
fused and uncertain system by gradual and |
progressive steps without shock or violent
change to a monetary system which will be j
thoroughly safe and good, and capable of
growth to any extent that the country may
require.
Approving of tho expressed purpose of the
commission and of Its plan, we do most earn
estly and cordially commend it to our fellow
citizens as worthy of their approval and
adoption, and we urge upon the congress of
the United States that the principles embodied
by the commission in their report should be
enacted into law with the belief and expecta
tion that the effect would be ta secure a solid, j
substantial and stable financial system that
would redound to the credit of the country |
and insure a state of prosperity that can not
be achieved unless there i 3 a system of
finance, the integrity and adaptability of
which cannot be questioned or gainsaid.
The time has now come when the prospects
for the establishment of the gold standard ■
upon a firm and enduring basis are brighten- !
ing and encouraging. The people want a note
currency which shall be as good as gold. ■
This movement proposes to bring about ihat
result.
T.he people want a "volume of currency
ad( quate to the general and usual needs of
business, with a quality of growth and elas
ticity through which it will adjust itself au
tomatically and prAmptly to all variations of
demand, whe.her sudden or gradual."
Tho pecple of the Western and Southern
states wish the issues so distributed that
the scarcity of currency will no longer ham- ;
per and distress hem in their business opera- i
iens. A method is proposed whereby their j
wanrs can be supplied and their demands can
be complied with.
We appeal to them— we appeal to all patri
otic citizens to unite with ur; in an earnest
and determined effort to secure from congress
such legislation as will wisely but surely
eventuate in bringing about sound financial
methrda and in bu.'.diug up and escablishing
confidence, security and safety In business
transactions and in the ownership and value
of property.
That the executive committee be continued
■with power and authority to add to their
number and to fill any vacancies which may
occur, and also with power to adopt such
nutisures for procuring the needed legisla
tion from congress, as they in their judgment
may deem advisable and expedient.
FAVORABLE DEBATE.
Mr. Bullitt spoke at length in favor
of the resolutions, and as a gold Demo
crat urged concentrated effort looking
to currency reform without regard to
party ties. The resolutions were dis
cussed in five minute speeches.
John Harsen P.hodes, of New York,
favored the plan of the commission.
He said: "What is needed in this coun
try today Is not more currency, but a
better credit, which alone can come
from a desire and will on the part of
the legislator and individual alike to
deal in honesty and with honor among
our fellow men. "When this great truth
Is recognized and followed In all sec
tions of the land, then, and not until
then, will it be found that capital will
flow freely into city and town and
hamlet, and peace and prosperity will
follow everything In its train. It is
full time that the merchant, the manu
facturer, the fai-mer and the artisan
and all who by thrift and enterprise J
have accumulated property, be the sum !
great or small, should arise from their !
lethargy and spring to the front to de- !
fend the rights of property and estab- '
lish a standard of value and a system j
for the exchange of commodity which
Will place and keep this country in I
the foremost of all the civilized coun- I
tries of the world; first In liberty, first ;
In commercial development, first in the
arts and sciences, a leader and not a
follower in the race for social, econom
ic and mental development."
Other prominent speakers were Wil
liam E. Dodge, of New York; ex-Gov.
O. V. Coffin, of Connecticut, and Judge
Crawford, of Texas.
A long resolution prepared and sub
mitted by the executive committee and
which was enthusiastically adopted by
the convention, expressed hearty ap
preciation of the monetary commis
sions report and of their recommenda
tions it embodied. The resolution re
cites the«fact that the eleven members
of the commission, who are severally
named, gave to their work without any
compensation or reward, except the
consciousness of duty well and faith
fully done, many months of arduous
work, at great sacrifice by each of
them, in absence from home and in
valuable time needed for their own
serious and important duties, and de
clares it to be he earnest conviction of
the convention that there has never
been in the history of our country a
body of men more truly representative
of all that Is best In American life,
manhood, patriotism and intellig-encu,
nor one that undertook and fulfilled a
great task for the general welfare in
a spirit of more unselfish devotion to
our country.
At 2 o'clock, after two hours of fa
vorable debate, the resolutions were
unanimously adopted. The convention
adjourned, subject to the call of the
executive committee.
The monetary executive committee
was in session most of the afternoon
discussing plans for furthering the
educational feature of the work. It
was decided to continue the Washing
ton and Indianapolis bureaus indefin
itely and to attempt by the dissemina
tion of literature to work up popular
sentiment for the commissioner's plan
rather than to convert individual con
gressmen. Chairman Hanna was given
carte blanche to conduct a campaign
along this line. The speeches of the
convention will be distributed in
pamphlet form and a vast amount of
other literature will be distributed.
Sufficient money to conduct the cam
paign has been pledged.
XO CURRENCY ACTION.
Session of (lie House Banking; Com
mittee Very Brief.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.— The house
committee on banking and currency
met today but after a brief session did
not take action towards reporting any
currency bill. Considerable interest
attached to the meeting in view of the
recent extended hearinjf and of the
present monetary meetings at Indian- j
apolis. At the outset, Mr. Johnson
(Ind.), who is regarded as favorable to
the monetary commission bill, secured
the adoption of a resolution for a state
ment from each member as to his posi
tion on the general question of a revis
ion of the currency. Mr. Brosius, of
Pennsylvania, was the first one called
upon, and he stated that he was not
ready to define his views on so broad a
proposition. As the inquiry promised
to lead to some differences, Mr. John
son withdrew the motion, with a view
to having the Republican members I
canvass the subject among themselves
later. In behalf of the minority Mr.
Cox (Tcnn.), moved that the official
proceedings embrace the application j
for a hearing of President Warner, of j
the bimetallic union, and Chairman
Towne, of the silver Republican com
mittee, and the refusal of the com
mittee to hear them. The motion was
defeated by a party vote, with the ex
ception of Chairman Walker, who
voted with the minority. The com
mittee then adjourned until next
Wednesday and the Republican mem
bers went into secret session, with a
view of reaching some common under
standing if possible.
NOTE OF DISCORD.
\«*iv VorU >I«'r«"hnnts Object to the
( ()-ii!;)isHioii I'ln:i.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 2G.— The
Merchants' association, of Now York,
repr< senting thousands of business j
houses and millions of invested capital, \
through its representatives sent to the
monetary convention has announced j
that the bill incorporating thf plan of !
the commission will be fought in con- !
gress in its present form and that
changes must be made. The represen
tatives, Alvah Trowbridge, vice presi
dent of the National Bank of North
America; J. S. M. Creery. Richard
Cross, of Morton. Bliss & Co.; U. If.
Eddy, of Flint, Eddy & Co., and James
B. Dill, counsel for the association,
came here prepared to protest on the
floor of the convention and offer
amendments. Leaders of the move
ment argued to them the importance
of a united front to secure some action
from congress towards currency re
form and they contented themselves
with filing their proposed changes with
the convention which railroaded them I
to the resolutions committee unread, 1
and they died there. The representa
tives are anxious for currency reform
and so agreed not to make their fight
at the present stage.
STANDARD FOR INDIA.
Country Likely to Be Put I'pon a
'wild Baals.
LONDON, Jan. 2rt.— Lord George Hamilton,
secretary of state for India, speaking tonight
at Chiswick, said he thought that during the
course of the iuxt twelve months the govern
ment might take steps to establish a gold
standard for India.
Discussing India's immense productive ca
pacity, which he referred to as "not yet
fully dove loped, but capable of being de
veloped by an influx of idle British capital."
Lord George Hamilton said: "A stable ex
change, attracting that capital, could be se- j
cured by International bimetallic arrangement
cr by Ind ; a ostsbl.shing a gold standard. The
result of the Wolcott mission showed that the
former is impracticable: but the difficulties
in tho wr-.y of the pold standard are not so
inseparable as seme believe."
His lordship said he believed the home
government could materially assist India In
this matter, and he v/ould venture the opin
ion that it would do India "innnitely more
g:K>d than any temporary loan of a million
or two to meet the expenses of the frontier
war."
«,«.
River Fulling.
CINCINNATI. 0.. Jan. 2*.— The flood in the
Ohio r?aehtd a maximum of ~fl feet and 4
lochea at 5 o'clotk this morning and it has
beguu to recede
W Of PROSPERITY!
PREDICTED FOR THE I, I VI] STOCK
INDUSTRY BY THE DENVER
DELEGATES.
SECOND DAY OF THE SESSION.
A NUMBER OF PAPERS OF TIM MM.
CAIi INTEREST ON' THE IMtO
QRAMME.
OPPOSED TO TICKET SCALPING.
i
National Manufacturer, at New York j
Adopt a Resolution Indorsing
tlie Pending Hill.
.. <
' DENVER, Col., Jan. 26,-Tho follow
ing telegram was sent today to T
dore Schurmeter, of St. Paul, president
of the American Live Stock Feeders' '
and Breeders' association, slffned by '
President Springer, of the national a
eociation, now In session here, and by '
George L. Gouldingr, chairman of the
executive committee: "In courteous
recognition of the deference of you and
your association, the National Stock
Growers' convention elect you honorary
first vice president and tender through
you to the American Feeders' and
Breeders' association the right hand of
fellowship."
DENVER. Col., Jan. 26.-Chairman
Springer called the National Stock
Growers' convention to order at 10
o'clock this morning. There was a
full attendance of delegates. A com
mittee was chosen of one from each
state represented to draft a constitu
tion and by-laws. The first address
was on "Statistics as to Values of Live
Stock and Prospective Conditions," by '
John H. Neff, editor of the Drover's
Telegram. Kansas City. The speaker
reviewed the history of the stock grow
ers' business of the past fifteen years
showing that the industry, which was.
on the down grade for a number of '
years, reached bottom a couple of
years ago. and has since been improv
ing. He expressed the fear that stock-
Ing and feeding cattle are now bring
ing more money than they will bring
In the market when fattened. What Is
true of cattle, he asserted. Is also true
of sheep, horses and hogs. Comparing
the stock industry with that of mining,
he said, if the silver men had Teller,
Jones and Stewart at Washington, the
stock growers had Dingley, Grosvenor
and McKinley. He spoke optimistical
ly upon the probable effect of the Ding
ley bill, and especially on the sheep In-*
dustry. He closed with a prediction of
prosperity for the future.
Gov. Richards, of Wyoming, next
spoke on "The Cession of the Arid Pub
lic Lands to the States."
Gov. Richards look the position that
not only the arid lands but all the pub
lic lands should be given to the states
He said the money received from tha
sale of public lands had been very
largely used in states other than those
In which the lands were situated to
the advantage of the older at the ex
panse of the younger states. Eldwood
Meade, of Wyoming, predicted that the
day of range cattle herds will soon bo
past and favored the leasing of publio
lands and the entire breaking up of
free ranges as the only moans of stop
ping cattle and sheep wars.
The afternoon session opened with a
series of papers on "Contageous Dis
eases Affecting Values of Livestock."
OPPOSED TO SCALPING.
National Association of Manufactur
ers Indorses (he Pending mil.
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.— The conven
tion of the National Association of
Manufacturers was continued today.
A motion introduced by Warner Mil
ler, urging steps which would Increase
trade in the South and foreign trade
and favoring the International banking
bill now before congress, was refi rred
to the executive committee with in
structions to report at the annual con
vention. Warner Miller spoke at .some
length on the benefits which would ac
crue through American control of the •
Nicaragua canal.
On the motion of Dplngato Smyth, of
South Carolina, President Search's re
port on tli- Nlcaraguan canal question
was adopted as a whole. Other recom
mendations made by the president took
the same course
A committee of which Charles Davis.
of Ohio, was appointed chairman, was
Instructed to report a*, the next con
vention on the president's recommen
dations regarding the rr-form of the
consular service.
The state taxation of foreign corpo
rations was then taken up. Without -
having taken any dt finite action on the **
question the convention on [-"assem
bling for the afternoon took up the
question of patents and patent laws.
Speaking on this question Delegate "W.
C. Carker, after reporting on behalf of
the committee on pal -red a»-»
resolution asking the assistance of the
association in urging the passage of
two bills on the subject now pending
in congress. No specific action was
taken.
A resolution urging the passage of
the anti-s^alping bill now before con
gress was also adopted. Th^ com
mittee on metric weights and meas
ures will, it was decided, report at the
next convention.
At the session tomorrow the officers
will be elected ami In the evening a
banquet will be given at th^ Waldorf-
Astoria, at which r McKinley
will be present.
WHAT IS ENGLAND UP TO? *
Cruiser Keinp; Hnrrlod South on a
Mysterious Errand.
SAX DIEGO, Cal., Jan. 26.— Much
mystery attaches to the destination of
the British cruiser Pheasant, now
here, en route .Southward. While the
officers convey the impression that
their trip down the c-;ast is merely an
ordinary cruise, th« more communica
tive subordinates say that the warship
is bring hurried to reach Southern
waters, where she is to join the big
cruiser Amphion, and that two will go .
on South to Iquique. The Leander and
the torpedo destroyer Sparrow Hawk
are also understood to be on th Ir way
South and were to have left Bsquimault
y>st rday. ( It ts impossible to learn
what trouble is anticipated oft the
coast of Chili, but it Is considered sig
mt for tho Leander and Sparrow *'
Hawk to be ordered from Esquimault
South so soon after their long voyage
from England.
No Election.
NASHVILLE, Tcnti., Jan. 26. Tho two
branches of tho general assembly met in
Joint convention today and tho vote taken
ypstorda ■ for United States Benator was an
nounced. Another ballot was taken a"d re-
Baited i:i McMillin re r!,ing four vote*. Tur ey
three and Taylor two. Two of tiie l'o^ulist
nit mbors voted for McMillin and one for
Turley. The other D^nwerattc votes were
scattered a3 wa3 done yesterday. The Ke
publicans voted solidly for Hon. O. X Till
man -
Mirliacl Sues for Divorce.
CROWN POINT. Ind.. lan. 28.— 1n th<- Lake
circuit court Jimmie .Michael, th? Welsb bi
cyclist, through his attorney, has Bled a suit
for a divorce from liU wif r >. Fanny Michael,
nee Lewis. In hi; complaint the "Welsh
Wonder" says h.- marreld Fanny Lewis In
the city of Cardiff. Wales, March VS. IS9">.
and tliMt she deserted him In the city of*
Aberman. Wales, ihree mouth.; after ihelr
marriage.