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THE ST. PAUL GLOBE
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The Democratic State T ckct.
Governor JOHN LIND, Brown county
Lieut. Gov J. M. BOWLER. Renvi'.le
Sec. State J. J. HEINRICH. Hennepin
Treasurer ALEX. M'KINNON. Polk
. Auditor GEORGE N. LA.MPHERE, Cay
Attorney General. .JOHN F. KELLY, Ramsey
Clerk Supreme Court.Z. H. AUSTIN, St. Louis
Judges ITHOMAS CANTY. Hennepin
Supreme IDANIEL BUCK. Blue Earth
Court !\VM. MITCHELL. Wluona
WEDNESDAY'S WEATHER.
Showers; Cooler.
By the United States Weather Bureau.
MINNESOTA— Showers and thunder storms;
cooler In western portions; southerly winds,
lie, oming northwesterly.
NORTH DAKOTA— Fair, oxr-ept showers in :
m iiortions; cooler; northwestern |
v inds.
BOUTH DAKOTA— Fair, except showers in !
ias era portions; cooler; northwestern
winds.
WISCONSIN — Increasing cloudiness, with
showers; brisk southerly winds.
lOWA— Showers and thunder storms; cooler !
in western portions; southerly winds, be
comlng northerly.
MONTANA — Fair; cooler In eastern portions;
north w. sti rly winds.
TEMPERATURES.
lie- Northwest,
St. Paul 7-> Battleford C>
Duluth 5 > Prince Aibrrt (0 i
riuroil 7SCaleary 64 i
Bismarck SI Medicine Hat K
WUllston 72Swift Current 74
Havre 7J Qu'ApjiflSe 80
Helena 70Minrcd-*!-*a SO
Edmonton SsWiunlpeg £0
DAILY MEANS.
Barometer 30. C0 !
Relative i.ii:i:u!!ty 12 1
M< .-.v temperature 72 j
Wind at B i>. m Southeast
Weather Pa:tly cloudy
Maximum temperature 81
Minimum temperature 61
Daily range 17
Amount o: precipitation in last twenty
lour hours 0
RIVER AT 8 A. M.
Danger Gauge Chirg^ln
Station. Line. Reidipg. 24 Hours
St. Paul 14 5.0 *0.1
La c.ose 10 5.4 —0.3
Davenport 15 5.5
St. Louis 30 20.2
•Rise. —Fall.
The river will continue risng from St. Paul
to Red Wing from now to Thursday, July 7.
Note— Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. P. F. L>o:;s, Observer.
ATLANTIC LINERS.
NEW YORK— Sailed: Qeopgtc, Liverpool;
Servla, Liverpool; Kaiser Wllhelm dar
Grosse, Bremen; Laranipiue, Antwerp. Ar
rived: Arizona, Stettin.
GENOA -Arrive I: Kuida. New York.
SOUTHAMPTON — Arrived: Chester, New
York
BREMEN— Arrived: Dresden, Baltimore.
MOVlLLE— Arrived: Ethiopia, New York
MARSEILLES — Arrived: California. New
York.
TODAY'S EVENTS.
BRAND— "The Charity Ball." 2:30 and 8:15
PM.
M E n>o:>; 11.1T.A N— Dark.
Base BsK, St. Paul vs. Mlnnoaoolis, Lexing
ton Park, S:4S.
Ninth Annual Convention, United Polissh
Singers Bf America, Jarosz's Hall, Thomas
and Oeultier Streets, 10 AM.
Schcol Board Meets, Central High School. 3:*:o
PM.
Republican City Committee Meets, Windsor
Hotel. "■ PM.
Moonlight Parade, AVhite Bear Yacht Club.
S I'M.
We can now adopt the cry "The
Maine Is a verged!"
Isn'it it about time for Spain to have
anolhei seri< s of riots?
We appear also to need a regiment
of barbed-wire immuaes.
A go »(3 many people are spelling
Bam] son's name S-c-h-1-c-y.
Oh, yes, being a free American cltl
-2i :i, you can stamp your foot, too!
The w.:r pcet ha:3 climbed a tree. The
American hero is now named legion.
Don't be In a hurry, Camara. You'll
go; a run f r your money soon enough.
The buttle will now be filled with
American goods, but the cork will be
left out-
These fat generals are all right. No
body fought Letter at Gettysburg than
Gen. Hancock.
Paradoxical as it may seem, the
American troops are before Santiago
and af(er Santiago.
At any rate. It must be admitted that
Oervera lias none of the elements of
the coward ln him.
Tbi y have wagonloads of dust at
Dawson City, but go-body up there has
asked for a sprinkling cart.
Tlie opening battle before Santiago
may now be known as little Quasina
and the other as big easir.o.
The deaf mute and the lover are
very much alike, in that they say a
great deal without talking at all.
Wilt this cup never pass? it has been
ascertained that the cruiser O'Hlggins
hadn't been pur-chased by anybody.
Our Haitian Sacrifices.
TVe read with shudders of the sacri
fices of human beings made by people
whom we complacently regard as bar
barians; how Hindoo mothers toss
babes to the Ganges In propitiation
of the deities; how the Aztec offered
burnt sacrifice with men and women
for the offerings, and how the angel
of the Lord intervened to stop old
David from cutting the throat of his
son ln sacrificial service. We thank
our stars, as we read the curdling nar
ratives, that we live in a later era
where such barbarities are no longer |
practiced.
And then on every recurring fifth |
day of July we read In our morning j
papers the long list of what we now |
call "accidents," but what are in sober !
fact but sacrifices of life or limb to
our modern goddess, Liberty, whom we '
worship ns devoutly as ever did hea
then his material gods or ancient He- 1
brew his invisible Jehovah. Various <
are the methods of the offerings, a I
bursting cannon here, a giant fire- j
cracker there, a toy pistol in one place j
and a powder can in another; here a
life lost, there a hand or an eye, crip
ples for life made by the hundred, all
sacrifices to our invisible, intangible,
idealistic goddess. Liberty.
And none has the heathen merit of
voluntariness; none is premeditated, I
Intentional; the essential spirit of sac- I
rifice is lacking, but the sacrifice is j
made just the same. It resembles more i
the offerings made by victorious cap
tors to the gods of captives taken in
the wars in the lack of willingness of j
the victims. None of them intends to I
give up a life or an eye or a limb, but 1
they do it. Does an invisible fate !
stand beside them and strike the fa- |
tal blow? Is what we call "careless- j
nc-ss" this fate? And is It a vague j
recognition of this that makes us ca'.l !
these sacrifices "fatalities?" Is Lib^r- !
•ty a goddess of such uncertain ter- I
perament that she can only be kept |
from wedding Tyranny by these pro- |
pitiatory offerings? Is it really essen
tial to the preservation of freedom
for man that there must be this an
nual giving up of life and limb? Are
we yet so near our barbaric ancestors 1
that we cannot worship Liberty by !
other means than noisy explosions
that bring grief into so many homes?
Must we be ever tied to China for our
methods of celebrating?
Don Qu!xotes or What?
John Sherman shares the views The
Globe stated when the- country wes
drifting into war in en exaltation of
lofty sentiment of sympathy with the
noble, patriotic, struggling, heroic,
idc-alreed Cubans. We took no stock
then, nor do we now, in the Cuban.
We refuse to idealize him. We insist
upon seeing him as he is, either a
Spaniard, identically the same fellow
whom wa denounce as unfit to govern,
or what is worse, always a degenerate,
a mixture of Spaniaid and black. Where
are those thousands ol Cubans waiting
only for arms to join our forces and
win their liberty? Where is that
junta with its assurance that if we
would but recognize Cuban belliger
ency it was all that was needed. Then
arms could be procured and the peo
ple would rise ln mass and drive the
Spaniard out without our help. In
all the thickly populated province of
Santiago but three thousand ragged
tatterdemalions are led by Garcia, and
he refuses to intervene between Li
nares and Pando's relieving column
because Pando has the greater force.
Mr. Sherman, in the interview given
In Tuesday's Globe, says. In closing
his comment on the pity of the sacri
fice we are making in such a cause:
"We are not a nation of Don Qui
xotes." If we are not, what then be
comes of all our pretenses of devotion
to the cause of human liberty on whioh
the war was based? What could have
been more grotesquely Quixotic than
this rush into bioody war, this squan
dering of millions of treasure, this
sending the tax collector out among
the people to gather up the millions,
if, indeed, we were not making it ad
visedly, with full knowledge of all in
volved in it, and with the sole purpose
of releasing a liberty-loving people
from grievous tyranny? If they are
not a people loving freedom, hating
tyranny, fighting to the death against
tremendous odds for liberty to govern
themselves; if they are mere revolu
tionists for love of revolt like their
kindred in the so-called republics on
the Southern continent, are we not
charging on windmills? And if we are
not Quixotic what are we? Was Gros
venor speaking ex cathedra when he
said that this administration would
never lower our flag when once raised
on Spanish soil? Was that represent
ative speaking by the book when he
said that no foreign flag would ever
wave over the graves where American
soldiers were buried? Was the Cuban
revolt the opportunity and our pre
tense of aid to struggling patriots and
our denunciation of Spanish brutality
but the mask to hide the real purpose
of grabbing? If not Quixotes, what?
Spain's Financial Plight.
The complete destruction, within a
period of sixty days, by the United
States navy, of two Spanish fleets,
representing practically the backbone
of that nation's strength on the seas,
ought to be sufficient to bring the gov
ernment of Spain to a realization of
the hopelessness of their struggle with
this country. But even though they
shall persist in bruising their heads
against the stone wall of fate, it Is
reason-able to assume that before very
kmg they must cease their display of
brutal madness from sheer force of
exhaustion of their resources. A bank
rupt nation cannot long pursue a
wasteful war, and there Is every In
dication that this is Spain's condition
today. Indeed, suspicions seem to be
well founded that not only Is Spain
already bankrupt, but that In her ef
forts to sustain her credit she has
been guilty of what, in an individual,
would be criminal falsification.
It appears that authority was re
cently given to the Bank of Spain to
add 1,000,000,000 pesetas to its note is
sues. Simultaneously there was au
thorization for the issue of internal
bonds for a like amount. The pur
pose of this last-mentioned grant of
power was, It is alleged, to supply se
curities to cover increased circulation.
.M- an while, it is charged, there has
h- en, in a sleight-of-hand way, a re
issue of 1.000,000,000 pesetas of circula
tion that had been withdrawn. A
more delightful theory of finance was
never exploited, even by our own na
tive greenback advocates of a decade
or two ago, than that which has ap
parently given to the manufacturers
of paper money In Spain this enlarged
fiat power.
The desperation of the government
is, cf course, responsible for this dLs-
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE WEDNESDAY- — JULY 6, 1893.
play of audacity, which will be the
more thoroughly appreciated in the
light of tho statement that against 245,
--000,000 pesetas ln gold the banks al
ready had a note circulation of about
1,500,000,000 pesetas — a not too strong
basis of security even under normal
conditions cf governmental finance. But
there are indications that, under the
stress of misfortune, the government
has drawiv upon this gold reserve,
though to what extent is not known,
thereby decreasing the original security
in equal measure. Yet on the cold face
of the 'transaction the note issue Is
Increased two-thirds, to say nothing of
the alleged .surreptitious reissue of cir
culation that had from time to time
been withdrawn. Furthermore, a stop
has been practically put to 'the with
drawal of silver from the bank. The
July interest is due on a portion of
Spanish 4 per cent bonds, and this is
payable in gold. Although It Is an
nounced that the payments are to be
made in gold, the method of payment
had not, alt last advices, been deter
mined, because of some technical diffi
culties in the way, and the discovery
of these difficulties just now has all
the appearance of a resort to that de
lay proverbially attaching to Spanish
diplomacy.
It is obvious that the Spanish treas
ury is In a sorry plight, and that the
creditors of that nation are fretful over
a rense of their insecurity. It has been
stated several times thait it was Spain's
purpose to prolong the war in order to
make it as expensive as possible to th.-j
United States. But this rule of revenge
has a recoil action. Whence shall be
derived the means with which Spain
shall replace her fleets now lying in
the bottom of the south Pacific ocean
and the Caribbean sea? However, that
is no concern of ours, though in the
face of such transparent facts as are
revealed in connection with the finan
cial condition of Spain, the perversity
of her people in prolonging the unequal
struggle appears like madness fore
dooming them to national ruin.
Sampson played in bad luck on the
3d. How he and the crew of the New
Tork must have "kicked" themselves
when they found that Cervera had
taken 'the moment to slip out of that
"bottle" when the flagship was steam
ing down to Aguadores to batter down
the batteries at the crossing of the
San Juan river, where Duffield had
halted and turned back. And, steam
back as fast as a full head of steam
could drive the cruiser through the
retarding waters, Sampson could only
get there in time to see the little Glou
cester putting the finishing touches to
the Pluton and Furor. To think that
It fell to Schley to fight the battle
that wiped the second Spanish squad
ron off the sea. It was mighty tough
on Sampson.
Not because there Is any need of it,
but just as a gu**-ss ait what will hap
pen at Santiago bay, It will be remem
bered that Farragut drove his fleet of
wooden ships between Forts Morgan
and Games into Mobile bay, and when
the beat ahead signaled "torpedoes"
Farragut replied: "D n the tor
pedoes; go ahead."
Mr. Watterson Is a different kind of a Demo
crat from Grover Cleveland.— Minneapolis
Tribune.
Yes, very different. Mr. Cleveland, for in
stance. Isn't always full.
I Episte to If. Psa-. |
When they get Comptroller McCardy out of
town they treat him Just as though he d dii't
carry them all in he hollow of his hand.
Meaning the council. Down at Omaha last
week they knocked the underpinning from
his dignity and "gave him a merry chase.
They tried him, in the presence ot the c:ty
officials of Omaha, and Corporation At
torney Morkham prosecuted h:m on the
charges that were prefeircd with a vigor th.-.t
savored enough of realism to rile Mac.
The members of the St. Paul council and
some of the city officers met in the council
chamber at Omaha last Thursday, for the
purpose of tossing bouquets at their guests
and having some laurels handed to them
selves. After the formal proceeding the
members of the two city governments went
In for a little fun. Sam Haas, the St. Paul
building inspector, was of the party and
some cf the councilmen had put up a little
conspiracy. W. T. Kirke was managing the
affair, and it was proposed that Sam be trud
for malfeasance in office. Mr. Haas got en
to the little scheme and was ready to take
his medicine when the St. Paul council was
called to order and nine members responded
to the roll call by City Clerk Jensen. Kirke
was just gcing to get up to prefer the charg s
against Haas when the Inspiration came to
the latter. He saw McCardy in the room.
He leaned over to Mr. Mark ham. and said:
"Get after Mac, great, great, get after
him."
Mark-ham fell ln with the idea. He got en
his feet before Kirke couid and moved the
Impeachment of J. J. McCardy on several
ground's, including secreting the clty'3 boolts,
making way with the city's cash, and beii'g
ln a deal with Tim Reardon to Interfere with
the city's business. Mac was paralyzed.
Everybody took a hand ln the trial and as
all of them have had something held up by
McCardy at one time or other there was a
good deal of earnestness ln the manner of
some of them. Markham summed up and
left the comptroller no chance of escape.
McCardy had made up his mind that he was
going to have some fun with the gang him
self, but Markham anticipated this by mov
ing that he be not heard, but be deposed
from office summarily. The proposition went
through with a whoop and J. J. McCardy was
fired with much show of solemnity.
Dr. Rudolph Schlffmann has long been
known as a genial, popular and adaptable
man, but It Is doubtful if he has lever been
in a better position to render a service to
his fellow men than was the case last Sat
urday morning.
The recent candidate for mayor was ln
Chicago on a business trip and ran up to
Milwaukee Saturday morning. On the way
to the train he picked up the Staatszeifing
and sauntered to the depot.
The coach was already well filled, and
knots of drummers and other tourists were
clustered here and there speculating as to
the events of the jiight before ln Cuba and
elsewhere.
Dr. Schiffmnnn paid little or no attention
to them, but, dropping into his seat, pulled
his Staatszettung from his pocket and sat
down to enjoy It.
"Where did you get that paper?"
"What paper Is that?"
"Where ln the deuce did you get that?"
As he rustled the sheet he found himself
ln a vortex of Interrogation, and tha upshot
of the matter was that while the rest of the
passengers gathered around the St. Paul
physician's seat, he had to translato every
word of the telegraph news ln the German
paper for the accommodation of his anxious
fellow passengers.
NEARLY A MILLION.
National Volnnteers Have Men Suffi
cient for Many Warn.
NEW YORK, July 6.— Regarding the pre
vailing impression that the headquarters of
the National Volunteers have been permanent
ly closed. Col. William H. Washington, presi
dent of the organization, said today:
"Our work is not ended, as our institution
Is to be a permanent one, and we have simply
ceased enrolling for the time being. We have
from COO.OOO to 700,000 men, and, to quote
Gen. .S-cofield, the_head of our movement we
have men enough for two or three wars like
the present"
CUBA CANNOT BE RETAINED
SO ASSERTS SENATOR HOAR,
OF MASACHUSETTS
Relieve* That , If the United States
Come* © u t ot the War With
Spain Without Retaining Foreign
Pukhobsi,,,,, Europe Will Let
America Alone for a Century at
l.enM Hawaiian Annexation.
WASHINGTON, July s.— The debate
on the Hawaiian resolutions were con
tinued ln the senate. Three speeches
were made. Mr. Hoar (Mass.), in ad
vocacy of annexation of the islands
and an urgent appeal against the ad
vocacy of a policy of general terri
torial acquisition in consequence of the
war. Mr. Lindsay (Ky.) opposed the
resolutions, directing his attack prin
cipally against their constituency. Mr.
White (Cal.) resumed his speech in
opposition.
Mr. Hoar, in his speech, found a
ground for objection in the arguments
advanced by the advocates of annexa
tion, and in connection stated general
antagonism to any policy of terri
torial expansion.
"If this is to be the first step in a
policy of dominion over barbarous
archipelagos; If we are to join with
Europe In the plunder of China and in
the pillage of Africa, we are to be
governed in part by people to whom
the Declaration of Independence is a
stranger, or if we are to govern peo
ple with whom life and property are
not sacred, then we should shun this
proposition."
He denied, however, that the propo
sition Involved the evils to which he
alluded. The desire now for holding
all countries taken incident to war
was but a passing inclination— the
child of excitement — and would
pass away when the war should end.
Mr. Hoar said the sole question 30
far as it was vital, was simply wheth
er the United States would admit into
immediate relationship territory and
people already In a situation that
made them really a part of the Union.
By a long established policy Hawaii
could not be taken, with or without
the will of the islanders by any other
power. Tihe United States already
had Pearl * harbor, and the pending
proposition only proposed to make
that possession more secure and ex
tend to the people of Hawaii blessings
which we expressly declare they
should not secure from any other great
power. He contended annexation
would extend the domain of peace.
"I believe," Mr. Hoar said, "that if
we come out of this war without enter
ing upon the fatal folly of retaining
far distant possessions, the world will
be so impressed with our strength that
no nation will attack us for a hundred
years."
He ridiculed the argument that the
introduction of the islands and their
rnaie population into the United States
would menace this country's institu
tions and -work injury to American
labor, and pointed out that the terri
tory of the islands was well nigh in
finitely small compared to the country's
present domain and the population of
Hawaii was not equal to that of a
ihiid-rate city.
CANNOT TAKE CUBA.
Mr. Hoar was proceeding to discuss
the danger of making the war one of
conquest, and was sounding a warning
against it. He spoke of the war be
ing the act of a great nation bearing
relief to an oppressed people ln accord
with the spirit of a great nation that
w<?s actuated by a broader humanity
than that which regards only self.
'As an authority," said Mr. Pettus,
of Alabama, ''does the senator from
Massachusetts believe this country can
take Cuba as its' own, or does the sen
ator think' that the United States is
bound in honor to not do so?"
'The United States." replied Mr.
Hoar, "cannot take Cuba unless it
ceases to be the United States." He
said it would be a crime for the coun
try in the present war to go farther
than the annexation of the Sandwich
islands— a matter substantially decided
upon by the people of the United States
long before the war was thought re
motely probable.
"The starry flag is no emblem of do
mination or a great navy, or an enor-
Itt it not lly over conquered territory.
It is the emblem of peace and free
dom."
Mr. Hoar said we did not want large
armies or a great navy, or an enor
mous debt or increased taxes, and the
president who had earned the love of
tne country for his firmness in his
refusal to lush prematurely into war,
would, Mr. Knar said, show the same
devotion and resolution when peace
should come to prevent the change of
the character of his country, and in
tie course of time a change of its con
stitution.
POETIC APOLOGY.
Mr. Lindsay (Dem., J-^-.) spoke wh-^n
Mr. Hoar concluded. He complimented
the latter's speech, saying the country
was well repaid for the prolongation of
the debate to a point where the Massa
chusetts senator spoke. "It "was in the
nature of a poetic apology for an act
about to be taken which, if not un
constitu'.lTr-al, is certainly extra con
stitutional," said Mr. Lindsay; "and it
was also a patriotic protest against
colonial expansion."
Mr. Lindsay then proceeded in op
position to the resolutions. He said
that in refusing to recognize the Cuban
republic and taking upon ourselves tha
authority to establish a government in
the island we would make the govern
ment dependent upon its creator and
ready to turn the islet)! over to the
United States as it was now proposed
to do with Hawaii. His argument was
then directed against the annexation
resolutions upon constitutional grounds.
Mr. Lindsay's argument occupied
more than two hours. At Its conclusion
Mr. White (Cal.) resumed his -?peeoh
begun many di-iys ago in opposition to
annexation. He defended the opposi
tion to annexation against charges of
being unpatriotic, coming from indi
viduals and the press.
Mr. White yielded shortly before 5
o'clock and Mr. Davis moved an ex
ecutive session.
At 5:14 p. m. the senate adjourned.
PACIFIC RAILROADS.
Honiip Revolted the Ray to Discus
sion of Refunding Amendments
WASHINGTON, July s.— At the open
ing of the house Chaplain Couden made
a feeling reference to the events at
Santiago.
Mr. Payne (Rep., N. V.) presided in
the absence of Speaker Reed, who was
detained in -New 1 York. A bill was
passed providing for local inspection of
mates, engineers and pilots of all steam
vessels and all barges ln tow of steam
vessels on the great lakes, and the
masters and i: chief officers of sailing
vessels of oyer tyO tons, and the bill
was amende^ to, permit of the inspec
tion of all aall vessels carrying pas
sengers on application.
The senate amendments to the bill
for the pay 'of the army from enroll
ment to the mustering in were con
curred in and the bill now goes to the
president.
The partial conference report on the
general deficiency bill, leaving only the
senate Pacific railroad refunding
amendment open, was adopted.
The minority fought for an extended
debate on the accepted amendment.
Mr. Cannon asked for three days,
but agreement was reached for a vote
tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock.
After passing a bill to print 75,000
additional copies of the bankruptcy
. law, Mr. Cannon, chairman of the ap-
proprlatlon committee, opened the de
bate on the Paolflc road. Mr. Cannon
spoke of the wisdom of tihe senate
amendment and said It was policy now
to secure the payment of the great
treasure due the country. He denied
that these roads had paid anything for
thirty yeaj-s. He was not willing to say
whether or not there might have been
■better legislation to develop that great
country west of the Missouri river,
than was added. But, he added, we
find here today this great indebted
ness of J59,000,000 to the government,
with $27,000,000 ajhead of it as a first
Hen on the property, covering a rail
way without terminals. The agree
ment contemplated in the amendment,
he pointed out, would be adopted un
der the white light of public orltlclsm
and there should, therefore, be no ap
prehensions as to the result.
Mr. Magulre followed ln opposition.
He said he favored enforcing the exist
ing law against these companies and
believed there was no reason for legis
lation to complicate the relations exist
ing between the government and these
Pacific railroads. He asserted it was
proposed to prevent the government
from dealing with the men who want
to operate It, to prevent the govern
ment from op*ening the matter of pur
chase to all bidders and confine the
government through the proposed com
mission to dickering and negotiating
with men who want to buy it up to
prevent competition. Mr. Maguire con
cluded by reading numerous telegrams
from California protesting against any
extension or delay of tne payments.
Mr. Ba-rham (Rep., Cal.) had read an
amendment he would offer tomorrow,
providing that unless the settlement
authorized is perfected within one year
after the passage of the act, the presi
dent shall at onoe proceed to foreclose
all liens and securities now held by
the government against the companies
and to collect that indebtedness.
Mr. Powell (Rep.), chairman of the
house committee on Pacific roads,
spoke of the results of the construc
tion of the lines and paid a tribute to
their promoters.
The house at 4:57 p. m. adjourned
until tomorrow.
ARMY OFFICERS NAMED.
Nomination-! Sent to the Senate by
tlie President.
WASHINGTON, July s.— The president to
day sent these nominations to the senate:
Regular Army— Quartermaster's department,
Charles D. A. Loeffler, District of Columbia,
to be military storekeeper, with rank of cap
tain.
Volunteer Infantry— Second Regiment-
Charles B. Carlisle, of Louisiana, to be chap
lain.
Third Regiment— To be captains. Charles K.
Maddox, William Y. Carter, Jefferson Wilcox,
of Georgia; first lieutenants, Lee C. Hoyt,
Thad C. Parker, of Georgia; second lieu
tenants, James H. Blount. Georgia,
Fourth Regiment— Second lieutenant, John
Mackay Baldwin, of Virginia.
Fifth Regiment— To be chaplain, Robert D.
Wear, of Alabama; to be captain, James K.
Vardaman, of Mississippi; first lieutenant,
William E. Darby, of Mississippi; second
lieutenant, Samuel K. Mayers, of Mississippi.
Eighth Regiment— To be captain, Reuben
V. Baskette, of Tennessee; first lieutenant,
Richard E. Toomcy, private Company C,
Eighth volunteer infantry.
Ninth Regiment— To be chaplain, Charles
T. Walker, of Georgia.
Tenth Regiment— First lieutenant, James A.
Boston, of District of Columbia.
Volunteer Engineer**— Second Regiment— To
be captain, Thomas W. M. Draper, of Col
orado; to be first lieutenants, E. Storer Tico,
of Colorado; Frederick Mills, of Idaho; Fred
erick C. Turner, of California; Frank L. Brit
taln, of California; Lawrence P. Butler,
sergeant Ccmpany I, Fourth Missouri volun
teers; second lieutenant, Thomas Cooney, ot
Montana.
Third Regiment — First lieutenant, Charles
G. Post, Quartermaater sergeant, battalion
engineers, U. S. A.
Volunteer Infantry— Sidney R. Riley, of
Georgia, to be first lieutenant, Third regi
ment (to correct former nomination); Hugh
C. Preston, of Virginia, captain Fourth regi
ment (nomination Henry C. Preston, Virginia,
withdrawn).
Fifth Regiment— John E. Davis, assistant
surgeon, with rank of first lieutenant; Charles
T. Pollard, of Alabama, assistant surgeon,
with rank of first lieutenant (nomihation of
Charles P. Pollard, of Alabma, for above
office withdrawn).
FEEDING CUBANS.
Charitable Work Is Progressing
Favorably and Satisfactorily.
WASHINGTON, July s.— The plan
of feeding the starving Cubans is pro
ceeding systematically, despite the at
tention which the authorities are
obliged to give to the war. These
plans are being carried out by the
commissary of the department of the
army. Today large consignments of
food are being leaded on the steamer
Port Victor, at New Tork, viz: 750,000
pounds of cornmeal, 5G2,000 pounds of
flour, 750,000 pounds of bacon, 90,000
pounds of coffee, 150,000 pounds of su
gar, 60,000 pounds of soap, 60,000
pounds of salt, and 3,000 pounds
of pepper. These will be made up
Into rations and distributed over a
wide territory to the Cubans.
This is but one of several consign
ments, as the work of relief has be^n
going on for the past two months,
hundreds of thousands of government
rations being distributed. The sup
plies will now include refrigerated and
cold storage beef for Cuban troops and
the reconcentiados.
The first consignment of this kind
will leave Tampa on next Saturday,
and will be sufficient to last until the
next consignment of refrigerated beef
goes foiward.
SEEKING DISCHARGE.
Relatives of Volunteers Want Them
Relenxed From Service.
WASHINGTON, July s.— Scores of
applications for the discharging of en
listed men in the army have been re
ceived at the war department. They
come from fathers and mothers, wives
and friends, all of whom are bringing
every possible element of influence to
bear to have the requests granted.
Senators and representatives have
urged the requests upon the depart
ment, and the war ofticials have ex
pended a deal of time and patience in
Investigating the cases brought to
their attention.
In order that a clear understanding
may be had by the public regarding
the discharges from the army Assist
ant Secretary of War Meiklejohn to
day rendered a decision which will be
the guide for future action made by
the department upon applications for
discharge from the service. The sec
retary der-iies it to be understood dis
tinctly that all such applications must
be made to the war dt-partment
through the regular military channels.
Satisfactory evidence that an enlisted
man is under eighteen years of ag>
will entitle him to discharge upon ap
plication, but enlisted men between
eighteen and forty-five will be requir
ed to present perfectly satisfactory
reasons for the discharge for which
they may ask.
The decision of Assistant Secretary
Meiklejohn is embodied In the follow
ing, which will be published ln gen
eral orders to the army:
"Under the act to provido fcr temporarily
Increasing the military c B'abllShment of the
Tnlted States in time of w.ir. : pproved April
22, 1898, the ;ige limits for eoMtaU of the na
tional forces are fixed at eighteen to forty
five years. Persons not less than eighteen
nor mere than forty-five years of ago -.n
--llstlng ln the volunteer army and posspss'ng
the other qualifications mentioned In the net
are legally enllsti-d. Fpon appll atlon o
the secretary of war ar.d satisfactory pro if
that any volunteer soldier Is under the *ge
ot eighteen ho will bs at once di3-*harg--a.
Minors over eighteen ypfrs of age are n.>t
entitled to discharge, but meritorious casss
will be considered. All applications for dis
charge must be made through miiltary chan
nels to the secretary of wer.
"Attention I; called to p: r.i- r.phs 970 anl
971, army regulations."
WATER SVPPI/ir
Found Aninle and "Wholesome at
Clilcknitianga Camp.
WASHINGTON, July s.— Gen. H. V. Boyn
ton lias received dispatches from Chicka
mauga which lie describes as effectually dis-
posing of all criticisms of the water sup
ply at Camp Thomas, both as to abundance
and the more Important element of whole-
Bomenesa.
To definitely settle the question of the
•water used by the troops, Gen. Brooke, two
•weeks since, forwarded to Washington for
official analysis two packages of the water,
one taken from the deepest artesian well on
the park, ln which the water comes from a
bed of gravel, received after drilling through
155 feet of eolld rock, the other from the
Chickamauga river at the Intake of the pipe
line, which line supplies nine miles of camps.
No Indication was furnished as to the exact
origin of the water sent. As the result
of careful analysis both specimens were pro
nounced excellent, and the river water was
found to be of exactly the same character
as the artesian well water, except for a
little silt, caused by a slight freshet ln the
stream.
As to quantity, the recent hot spell and
the presence of nearly 55,000 soldiers fully
tested the capacity of the water supply, but
all wants were met This result gave much
satisfaction, as It entirely disposed of the
persistent claim that the river water would
prove unwholesome and as the hot season
progressed would cause sickness.
There Is at present one artesian well for
each two regiments, in addition to abundant
supply from the pipe line. This latter was
largely Increased yesterday by the addition
of a third pump of sufficient capacity to fill
the entire pipe line. To guard against failure
from any disabling of machinery, three
pumps and two boilers, each capable of run
ning the entire plant, are now available for
use.
MANILA BUGABOO REMOVED.
Believed Foreign Interference Is
X-K-.V Out of the Question.
WASHINGTON, July s.— As yet the state
dopartment has received no confirmation of
the report that reaches here from London,
that upon tho arrival of the land force, sev
eral warships of Germany and other Euro
pean powers, which had beeu there for some
time, left immediately for other ports.
In official circles, however, the announce
ment Is regarded as authentic. It is pointed
out that the only possible pretext upon which
forces from foreign men-of-war could have
been landed ln Manila would have been th.c
protection of tho lives or Interests of their
own countrymen resident there. State de
partment officials say that with the arrival
of the American reinforcements for Admiral
Dewey the danger to foreigners was elimi
nated from the situation, and the larger por
tion of the warships left merely because
their presence was no longer necessary,
YELLOW FEVER.
Situation at McHenry Reported
Greatly Improved.
WASHINGTON. July s.— The official dis
patch to the marine hospital service from
Camp Fontalnebleau, the yellow fever de
tention camp near McHenry, Miss., gives a
most favorable outlook for the fever situation.
The cases at McHenry have been reduced
until now there is but one. and there are no
new cases. The authorities have agreed to
narrow the quarantine limits at the end of
this week. The coast Is officially reported
clear from New Orleans to Mobile.
FRENCH CABLE OPEN.
Business MenNagei Can Be Sent Sub
ject to Censorship.
WASHINGTON, July s.— The French cable
via Haytl, used by the government in com
municating with the army, is now'op^n to the
public for ordinary business. This Is ln ac
cordance with Instructions Issued by Chief
Signal Officer Gen. A. W. Greely.
All messages, however, are relayed at Plava
i del Este, and are there subject to censor
j ship of Lieut. Col. Allen, of the signal terv
lce, before being allowed to proceed either
way.
REVOLUTIONISTS CAPITULATE.
Advices From American Minister to
Uruguay So State.
WASHINGTON, July B.— This evening ad
vices were received by the state department
from United States (Minister Fitch, at Monte
video, that the revolutionists had capitulated
after a demonstration against the govern
ment lasting only two days. The minister
says the fighting was heavy while It lasted,
sixty persons being killed and about 800
wounded.
Nominations Confirmed.
WASHINGTON. July s.— The senate today
confirmed these nominations:
Volunteer Infaiury, Tnlrd Regiment— E.
Haralson, of Georgia, second lieutenant.
Engineers, Second Regiment— B. F. Dick=on
of Indiana, captain; A. E. Balfllne, of Oiiio
first lieutenant.
Signal Corps— First lieutenant, Second
Lieutenant E. Eklborn Jr.
InTantry— Regular Promotions— First lieu
tenants to be captains, F. B. McCoy. Ellas
Chandler, F. O. Dodds, C. R. Noves, C. W
Abbott, R. M. Blatchford, J. E. B;e t J h'
Beacon, W. T. May, H. W. Hovey, T. j'.
Hearn, J. H. Shollenberger, W. K. Wright
I C. B. Hardin, E. P. Pendleton. H. A. Leon
hauser, C. B. Voge3. C. W. Penrose, D. L
Howell.
Additional Army Officers.
WASHINGTON, July 5.— Seerftary Alger
I sent to the house today the draft of a bill
] to increase the Judge advocate's department
| ir. the army by adding to It one colonel ond
one lieutenant colonel.
Snrn*eoiiH for Shafter's Army.
WASHINGTON. July 8.-Surgeon General
Sternberg, of the army, is making arraage
monts to send a nunibsr of surgco'is for
j Shafter's army on the steamer Gi and Duoi
css, which is soon to leave Newport News
for Santiago.
D. N. RICHARDSON DEAD.
Was Editor of the Davenport Dem
ocrat.
DAVENPORT, 10., July 5.-D. N. Richard
son, editor of the Democrat, died at Groton,
Vt., last night. He had boen out of health
for several years. Mr. Richardson was one
of the oldest settlers of Davenport and was
well known throughout the West, having
been at one time president of the Northwest
I ress asscciation. He was an extensive trav
eler, had published a book about his jour
neys and had some reputation as a llterateur.
He was an ardent Democrat and had be*»n
conspicuous in state politics. It is under
i siood tho body will be brought here for
i burial.
| JOHN N. CONGE R-John N. Conger, a
j well known railroad builder, died at Mil
! waukee Tuesday, aged 75. Mr. Conger caina '
West from New York forty years ago, set- i
I tling in Chicago. He was at one time ln- i
terested in one of the big Mississippi boat j
lines and was also associated with "Diamond"
Joe Reynolds in the building of the Hot
Springs railroad.
FRANK G. WOODWARD— Frank Gaston
Woodward, the eldest son of Austin M. Wood- j
ward and Ella F. Woodward, died on Sun- |
i day morning, July 3, at Sentile. Wash., of I
j typhoid fever. He was sick in a hospital
there three weeks, his lather being will*.
him during most of that time. He would I
have completed his nineteenth year on the
26th cf July, and had graduated" a year ago I
from the St. Paul high school, having lived '
for about ten years at St. Anthony Park.
The funeral will take place on Friday alter- I
noon at 2 o'clock at the family home, 215
Clifton avenue. Minneapolis.
CAPT. MATTHEW SHERMAN-r.--.pt. Mat
thew Sherman, a noted na- al veteran and
ex-miner of San Diego and prominent in the
Mexican war, died at San Diego, Cal., Tues
day afternoon of paralysis.
CAPT. CARL BRANDES-Capt. Carl Bran
dos, a heroic soldier of the Civil war, and
formerly captain of the Sixty-eighth New
York volunteers, is dead at Washington, D.
C. Capt. EraiK'es was well known in New
York city, where he lived a number of years.
His death was quite sudden. He was in the
eightieth year of his age. Ho had a distin
guished record in tho War of tho Rebellion,
cnli.-ting and serving throughout the entire
war under the command of Gen. Sickles. The
interment will probably take place at Ar
lington.
WILLIAM K. CARLISLE— WiIIiam K. Car
lisle is dend in New York at the homo of
his father, John G. Carlisle, ex-secretary of
the treasury. Mr. Carlisle had been a resi
dent of New York only about, six months.
He went to that city to assume the practice
of his brother, Logan, who died recently.
He had practiced In Kentucky, Kansas and
Chicago courts.
DREYER SENTENCED.
Former CliiciiKo Hunker (iiveii nn
Indefinite Term in Prison.
CHICAGO, Ju'.y s.— Edward S. Dreyer,
former head of the banking and real estats
firm of E. S. Dryer & Co.. was B'i:tence3
today by Judge Smith to the penitentiary, to
serve ari indefinite peiiod, for the emre-zla
met-t of $316,000 which the Wos'. Park com
mission entrusted to him as it 3 t.e.s.irer.
The court has signed a bill of exceptions
ln the case which will be taken to the su
preme court.
SHADOW FALLS PARKWAY
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND ASKED
TO CEDE LAND REQUIRED
Park Board Appoints a Committee
to Ask the Cession of the Strip
Required to Make a People's
Pi ft j' lf round of Shadow Falls, the
Glen and Half a Mile of Hirer
Dank.
Steps were taken at the meeting ot
the park board last evening looking to
ward securing from Archbishop Ireland
a cession of property along the river
bank at the end of Summit avenue
and the Shadow falls ravine in order
that tlie Summit avenue boulevard ex
tension plan may be consummated.
According to the plan submitted by
the city engineer the archbishop will
be asked for property along the river
bank from Summit to Laurel avenue,
sufficiently wide to construct a six'y
foot roadway, and also for the ravine
made by Shadow Fal/s, a gully 2,700
feet long, the purpose being to con
struct a boulevard skirting the ravine
to connect with the road alone the
river bluff.
Archbishop Ireland has viewed the
property in company with the park
board and is said to have been favora
bly inclined to the proposition of the
board. President Wheelock and Com
missioner Newport were appointed a
committee to confer with Archbishop
Ireland for the purpose of securing
from him the cession of the property
desired.
The board adopted a resolution favor
ing the condemnation proceedings for
the proposed Como park extension and
sent a chart and communication to the
board of public works requesting that
body to at once proceed in the matter.
This same action waa taken a year
ago, but was allowed to lapse.
In response to a communication from
the chamber of commerce the board
passed a resolution authorizing the
park superintendent to commence work
on the midway park roadway as soon
as possible after July 11, when the con
demnation proceedings will have been
completed. The action is taken to give
access to the state fair grounds through
a. pleasant driveway by the time the
fair opens in September.
At the request of Aid. Shepard
the board authorized the improvement
of Feronia park, in Union Park.
Several of the commissioners were
•severe in their arraignment of the city
railway management of entertainments
at Lake Como. The company's con
tract specifies that a St. Paul repre
sentative shall have charge of its af
-2 \ n .connection with Como, while
the board claims that the Lake Como <
programmes are gotten up and carried
out tw ?i innea P* lls - It was pointed
out tha^t the company had failed to
Put in certain electric lights which it
fnnfhlS ? . ? asreed t0 d 0 a nd
further claimed that the Minneapolis
representative arbitrarily arranged for
t unTn£ JiX* at - c Como Without con!
suiting either Supt. Nussbaumer
or the park board. One crit
icism in particular was the alleged lack
or system in transporting passengers
from the lake it being claimed that
{{TSS^A^ S 2 get aS
The discussion terminated with ln
struc ons to the secretaiy to Inform
the city railway company that it must
live up to the stipulations in its con
tract with the board.
A resolution was passed requesting
the workhouse commission to appoint
a date for a conference with the park
board regarding the Improvement of
the workhouse grounds.
Communications were ordered sent to
the Northern Pacific railroad compa
ny asking that safety gates be erected
at noth the Como avenue and the
Lexington avenue crossings Thee
points the board considered danger
ous to travel, especially as it was
claimed that no watchman was now
kept at either crossing after 7 o'clock
In the evening.
The council was requested by resolu
tion to authorize the city railway
company to, as soon as possible re
move its tracks from Lexington 'ave
nue This affects the Hamline and
state fair ground line, which at pres
ent runs on Lexington avenue from
University avenue to Minnehaha
street. The railway company proposal
relaying this stretch of track on Ham-
Ine avenue, half a mile west of Lex
ington avenue.
The monthly pay roll for park maln-
Jf'nance for June. amounting to
?u,2_B.Gi, was passed.
The board granted permission to T
T. Harris, representing the Union
Recreation Stamp company, of Min
neapolis, to put in Circulation checks
which would he honored f.»r boat nil*
at Como park. The plan is to distrib
ute among local merchants 100 o'~>o of
these checks, the merchants to issue
one check with every 10-cent purchase
Persons holding twenty-five of the
checks will be given a coupon good for 10
cents in payment for one hour's boat
hire on the lake. The stamp comnany
agrees to redeem the checks accepted
by the park board.
SOLDIERS' LETTERS.
Consul G«HM Snyder Has Expend
ed His Salary Forwarding Them.
Copyrighted Corresrondor-p. Associated Pre*a
PORT ANTONIO. Jama'oa, June *9 -Tha
Amcr'ean soldiers in Cuba are having grc<it
difficulty ft getting thpir letters throuch to
the United States. Almost tally thouairds of
letters pre brought in here by the govern
ment dispatch loats. but only for the gener
osity and patriotism of United States Consul
Snyaer, at th!.-- port, very few of them wo id
get through. The Brtßsll postal lows requi,©
that a.l letters sent out from here must rot
only pass through thp Part Antonio BDStofflce
but must have the Jamaica-English stimp'
which posts five cents. Most of tho loiters
coming in here have the United States stin*-.
but that g.-ies for nothing. Nor will the nX
tboritiea here al'cw any shin to tcko the
letters to an American port unless they be*r
the JauMtea-EngHsh Stamp. The result of it
all Is t*-at the lartre bags and bu*-d>s of
■Mia its letters are taken to Consul Snyder
and from his own pocket he p.ivs the " la
maica postage and Beads thnn oh to Bal I
morp. Philadelphia, New York or i-os on via
one of the Boston fruit commnVs steamers
Slr.ee the troops landed in Cuba posto n
bo. fliers i.-tters have oost Mr. Snyder -.nora
tihan his salary. Tho j-ostPl authorities at
V\Khirg«on have beep appealed to and It is
prrfoable t:-;. «h„;^ adjus'ir.pn t or the matter
Will be mad*.
It is ii-trrpstlng to look throiuh a lare
bag full of soldiers letters as they come fr m "
'he fleet and the Tuhan oamt-s. At least tw ■-
third* of the mis-ivps are address *d to "Vl^s"
or 'Mr?.," perhaps the greater -number to
M»." Tor under this title conic bi-th tha
mothers ond wives. Many of the letters be r
no stamp, but are simply marked "soldier's
letter," or "ship's letter."
TRAIN HELD TTP.
Rohbers, Evidently Amiilrnm, dot
About s.-,(»:>.
mCO, Col.. .I*uly s.— The Rio Grande
Southern train was held up at Stony Crrek.
twenty miles west of Rloo, at 11:10 o'clock
this morning, by three men tuprosd to bo
Mex'caus. The train had stopped for water
when the hold-ups appeared. The train was
placed under guard after which two rob
bers went through the cars relieving the
passengers of about tCOO. Thoy were evi
dently amateurs, and go: but a smull part <t
the money the train. The express aud
mail oars were unmolested.
AMERICAN ARMOR.
It Will Hereafter lie Kuviirrd by
European Nation*.
LONDON, July 6.— The Daily Mall says:
"The battle of Santiago de Cuba Is consid
ered to have proved the superiority of Ameri
can armor plating and artillery, and it Is
believed la the future European nations will
give large orders to American manufacturer*
for armor, guna and the like."