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CITY SUBSCRIPTION&
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Daily~onl7 "« 12-25 I H-Q
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Sunday .15 .76 ( 1.50 1
COUNTRY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
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BRANCH OFFICES.
New York. 10 Spruce St., Chas. H. Eddy
in Charge.
Chicago, No. 87 Washington St.. Harry
Fralick, Mgr., Williams & Lawrence In
Charge.
WEATHER FOR TODAY.
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Minnesota—Snow flurries Sunday; prob
ably snow Saturday; variable winds,
shift ing- to northwesterly.
lowa-Fair Saturday, with warmer in
eastern portion; winds shifting to easter
ly ; Sunday rain or snow.
North Dakota—Snow flurries Sunday;
probably snow Saturday; easterly winds.
South Dakoja—Snow flurries Sunday;
probably snow Saturday; easterly winds.
Montana—Rain or snow Saturday; prob
ably'snow and colder Sunday; winds
i) ,'istlv easterly.
■ Wisconsin—Fair and wanner Saturday;
rain or sr.ow Sunday; variable winds,
shifting to northwesterly.
ST. PAUL.
Yesterday's observations, taken by the
United Slates weather bureau, St. Paul,
>. F. Lyons observer, for the twenty
luur hours ended at 7 o'clock last night.
—Haronieter corrected for temperature
and elevation.
Highest temperature 16
Lowest temperature — Z
Average temperature 7
Daily range 18
Relative humidity 79
Precipitation 0
f p. m., temperature 14
I p. m.. wind, northwest; weather, partly
cloudy.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES.
♦SpmHigh, •SpmHigh
Battleford . —2 14 Chicago .... 16 20
Bismarck .. 6 18'Cincinnatl ..3ft 32
Calgary .... 18 22' Cleveland ..18 20
Duluth 6 12Denver 48 58
Edmonton . 8 16 Galveston ..56 66
.Havre 26 30Jack*vMe ... 44 54
Helena 33 40 M'tsromery . 52 66
Huron 24 30 N. Orleans . 62 62
Med. Hat .. 24 ..New York . 22 24
Minnedosa . —2 8" Omaha .... 32 36
Pr. Albert .. 12 20,Phila , 28 36
Qu'Appelle .—4 10 Plttsburg ... 20 22
fi. Current . 8 20 Pueblo 46 58
Wllllston ... 12 20S. Franclsoo 54 £6
"Winnipeg .. 0 2,St. Louis ... 34 36
Boston 16 20*'
♦Washington time (7 p. m. St. Paul).
—Below zero.
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 3. 1900.
UNDISPUTED PACTS.
The bitterly partisan observer of events
In Kentucky will brook no reasoning
from causes to consequences. This, as a
general proposition, remains true in spite
of the blood that has already been shed
and that may yet be shed before peace
and order have been restored. But with
citizens who have not the madness of
partisan politics in their blood, and who,
while adhering to the fortunes of their
party, are not susceptible to being wholly
blinded in political controversy. It is not
so. To them the situation that exists
appeals as demanding the thought and
action of patriots, rather than of par
tisans.
Are there no facts ?n this shameful
etrlfe upon which such men may agree?
Let us see: Acting Gov. Taylor was
duly decreed under the law by the elec
tion board to be the only constituted ex
ecutive of the state. That adjudication
has been accepted by both sides. So far
the so-called Goebel election law has
been regarded as worthy of respect and
observance by both sides, whatever In
dividual men may think of It. Under that
law an appeal lies to the state legisla
ture. That appeal has been taken. As
the result of that appeal, whether right
fully pr wrongfully, justly or unjustly,
a majority of both houses, acting in joint I
session, going behind the election re
turns (.which the election board declared
the law did not permit being done by
itself), decided that William Goebel was
the legal executive of the state.
So far there is no dispute as to the
facts of the political situation.
Taking the incidental circumstances;
■what facts, if any, are beyond dispute?
Let us see: The state of public senti
ment in Kentucky has throughout been
such as to incite men of both parties to
violence. Aside from threats made no
actual violence took place, arising direct
ly from the political controversy, save
alone the attempted assassination of the
Democratic candidate for the office of
governor. State troops had been called
out by the acting governor during the
election and after. A large body of armed
men, adherents of acting Gov. Tay
lor, acting in concert, appeared In the
state capital from outside counties, as
sembled on the state capitol grounds,
addressed a petition or remonstrance to
the state assembly, declaring that they
had come to secure just action at the
hands of the legislature. Just action, ac
cording to their understanding, they inti
mated, involved the seating o f Mr. Tay
lor as the do jure as well as the de facto
governor, and also the similar seating
of the de facto lieutenant governor. The
armed adherents of both sides walked the
streets of Frankfort during all these oc
currences.
This was the situation up to the shoot
ing of Mr. Goebel.
The shot which has brought that gen
tleman face to face with death, and
which may at any moment result fatally,
was fired from the building occupied by
the offices of the executive officials rep
presented by Mr. Taylor. No other class
of citizens resorted to that building-. Mr.
Taylor's adherents, many, if not all, of
them armed, who had come from
outside communities, found lodgment In
that building during their stay In Frank
fort. They had access to It all times,
day and night.
When Senator Goebel was shot down,
the state troops, then under arms In
Frankfort, acting under orders, sur
rounded the building- and arrested one
man making his exit from It. They also
took possession of the state capitol and
denied access thereto to the Democratic
members of the legislature, or. Indeed,
to any one not armed with a pass. They
also prevented these men by force from
assembling In different other buildings
in the city.
At this Juncture, no overt acts of vio
lence having been committed, «aye the
shooting of Senator Goebel, the acting"
governor, declaring: that a state of insur
rection existed in the state and especial-
ly in Frankfort, decreed the legislature
adjourned, and directed by proclamation
that its meetings should thereafter, pre
sumably until order had been restored,
be held at London, a community of about
1,000 inhabitants.
Before the time set for the meeting
of the legislature had arrived, and with
out any violence or threats of violence
having resulted therefrom, the acting
governor appealed to the federal execu
tive for troops to suppress the Insurrec
tion. That appeal has been denied. The
contestants for the offices in dis
pute - applied to the state court*
for an order enjoining the act
ing governor from putting his proc
lamation of adjournment of the legisla
ture into effect. The court granted a
writ directed to Mr. Taylor, In the na
ture of an order to show cause why he
should not be so restrained, and made
that order returnable at a date prior to
the contemplated meeting of the legisla
ture. This order was met by the acting
governor directing his military forces
that all persons seeking to effect service
of it-should be excluded from his pres
ence and from the state house. Desplta
all his precautions, however, service,
which is declared legal, of the order has
been made.
No violence has be?n done or attempted
by any of the adherents of Goebel dur
ing the progress of these events, either
before or since his attempted assassina
tion.
Not one of these facts admits of dis
pute. The Globe endeavors to state
them as dispassionately and as fully as
possible. Let the reader, whatever hi 3
politics may be, examine them. If they
are of no further value their recital may
enable fair-minded men to more easily
reach just conclusions from the eventa
of the Immediate future than they might
do without having had placed before
them in consecutive form a statement of
facts and circumstances about which
there is and can be no dispute.
So far as the G1 ob c can discern there
Is but one substantial question, If any
question at all, in dispute between the
contending parties. That question 13
this: Whether the provision of the state
constitution which declares the findings
of the legislature in contested election
cases shall be concurred In by a majority
of both houses requires that it shall ba
concurred in not only by a majority In
joint session, but by a majority of each of
the two houses acting separately? If tha
action taken In jalnt session fulfills the
requirements of tha constitution, then
acting Gov. Taylor appears to us to
be a usurper. If, on the other hand, a
majority of each house is needful, the
failure of Goebel's adherents to secure
such a majority would result in Taylor's
installation. This is a question which th 3
courts of Kentucky are ordained to pass
upon. What part armed troop 3, state or
federal, should have. In that settlement
Is a matter which no Tatlonal man out
side of Kentucky can be expected to un
derstand.
LEE AND WHEELER.
Certain ladles of Chicago are reported
as having engaged themselves in a move
ment to do honor to Gens. Fitzhugh Lee
and Joe Wheeler. The movement may be
regarded as a remarkable one. Both of
these men, like air the forgotten or un
known heroes of the late war, are
"wrong" in their politics. This fact fully
explains the little concern they have re
ceived In the many movements toward
hero worship which have been so astutely
SvJt on foot from time to time by the
managers of the imperialist administra
tion.
In the case of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee it
may be said that no one ever looked for
ward to his appearing in any conspicuous
light In connection with the events of
the past year or two. Too early at the
outset of military events it was made
plain that he was doomed to play the
part of a military wall flower. It was a
beautiful thing in Its way to see the
old hero of the Confederacy once mere
buckle on his sword to di duty under
the authority of tfcs government against
which he was once in arms. But it was
no part in the imperialist programme of
burying civil dissension that he
should be allowed to add in former Span
ish dominions to the laurels which he had
won for himself in the fields of the South.
No doubt the old warrior early discover
ed the way In which the wind of Jm
perlalist favor blew, and was resigned
to resume the privacy from which he
emerged to volunteer his services to the
McKinley administration.
The case of Gen. Wheeler is somewhat
different. Fortune had it in sxore for
him that he should show the flre of his
young days once more on the field of
El Caney. There he won anew his spurs
as a valiant soldier, and when the end
had come and the public showed some
disposition to glorify the old trooper of
the Confederacy, he was shipped eff to
the Philippines, and he has sluc3 been
lost in the jungles of the island of Luzon.
, But he has his uses for the administra
tion politicians. He rode In tlie ch.uiot
of the imperialist president through the
cities and towns of the South, and made
the progress of that >rreat man one
which must have left a .leap impress on
the statesman -joul of the greit guardian
of Imperialism, the august senator from
Ohio.
But Joe Wheeler, like Fitzhngh Lee,
has met the doom so touchingly described
j by Mr. Cleveland as that of Innocuous
j desuetude. It Is meet, indeed, that
thoughtful women should take the cases
of these two warriors to their hearts.
They deserve the recognition they never
received, and which we fear they never
will receive so long as the imperialist
badge Is necessary to the winning of pub
lic adulation. They should be promoted,
or they should be allowed to remain in
the peaceful obscurity to which the exi
gencies of imperialist politics have dedi
cated both of them.
The case of one non-lmperiallst hero,
I that of Admiral Wlnfleld Scott Schley,
must always remain at once a warning
and a consolation to such men as they.
PERSONAL PROPERTY TAX DELIN
QUENTS.
That the scarcity of funds for maintain
ing the public schools of the city of St.
Paul and for carrying on the work of the
different departments of city government
la largely due to failure of citizens to
pay their taxes, can scarcely bo doubted.
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 19Oa
and any action or measure calculated to
enforce the payment of delinquent tax©3,
whether on real or personal property, will
no doubt be welcomed by tho taxpayers
as tending to relieve them from increased
assessment In the future. The forthcom
ing forfeited tax sale, the list for which
is said to include 17,000 descriptions of real
property, will doubtless result In a large
amount of back taxes being paid into tha
city and county treasuries; but, while at
tention is turned to the delinquent taxO3
on realty, It would be well to pay at
tention to the condition of payments of
taxes on personal property.
The collection of personal property tax
for many years past has been farcical.
Several thousand citizens have neglected
for years to make payment of such taxes,
and the impression has got abroad that
"only suckers pay their personal property
tax." This elegant expression aptly de
scribes the attitude not only of many
thousands of people .on the question of
payment of personal property tax, but
also the attitude of some of the county
officials towards the question. There
appears to be no sincere effort on the part
of the county officials charged with the
collection of these taxes to recover tho
same. Certain perfunctory motions are
gone through each year, certain lists are
made, postal cards mailed, notices served,
judgments secured, and there the matter
ends.
The system appears to be absolutely in
operative, and whether the failure to cil
lect personal property taxes is due to
negligence on the part of county official*,
or is due to a defect in the law or the sys
tem, the result Is the same—the taxes are
not paid, and the honest taxpayer bear 3
a double burden In consequence, while the
schools and every department of gov
ernment suffer from lack of funds.
Perhaps as effective a way as any to
secure payment of personal property
taxes would be to make public the names
of delinquents and the amounts of tha
unpaid taxes, as in the case of real prop
erty delinquents. Publicity will often
times spur a delinquent to pay his taxe3
when nothing else will, and such a list,
If advertised in the newspapers, would
afford the public some indication as to tb.3
manner in which county officials are do-
Ing their duty.
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The governor of Utah has called a spe
cial election to fill the seat of Congress
man-eject Roberts. To be on the safe side
it Is probable a bachelor will be chosen.
The interior department has taken step 3
to preserve Wind Cave, South Dakota,
as a national park; possibly as a home
for ex-members of the senate.
Suburban life in New Jersey Is no joke.
A man there was nearly drowned in his
own cellar the other day while rowing
over to flx his furnace.
Testimony before the senate committee
indicates that thousand-dollar bills are
the fractional currency of every-day use
in Montana.
Unless the groundhog was suffering
from temporary blindness yesterday, St.
Paul Is in for six weeks of cold weather.
Kentucky legislators are no longer put
In the preferred class by life Insurance
companies.
Cleveland has an appendicitis club. No
one with a vermiform appendix need ap
ply.
Mr. McKinley is not anxious to stick
his fingers into the Kentucky buzz-saw.
The concert of Europe just now is de
cidedly Wagnerian in its tone.
Hurry along, Mr. Buller; your week is
nearly up.
AT THE THEATERS.
PEOPLE'S CHURCH.
Another large audience filled the Peo
ple's church last night and were delighted
by a splendid concert company of ar
tists, headed by the Listemann quar
tette, under the leadership of that vener
able violinist and artist, Bernard Liste
mann, who gave some masterly interpre
tations from Haydn, Rubinstein and
Tchaikowski, violin and 'cello solos. The
opening number was the quartette In
G major, with the allegro, minuet, alle
gretto and presto movements. As is well
known to quartette and orchestra play
ers Haydn was the creaitor of the sym
phony and sonata in Its present form,
and the Haydn string quartettes are the
height of musical satisfaction to the
quartette player. The assisting artist
was Miss Harriet Dement Packard, a so
prano of pleasing personality and vocal
ability. Miss Packard was at her best in
the "Geisha" selection, and in "Thine,"
by Bohm, reached a dramatic climax.
Miss Packard's voice, while brilliant and
of wide range, is hardly suited to an
auditorium of the size of the People's
church.
The artistic number on the programme
was the violin solo given by Mr. Bernard
Listemann, who played the adagio and
finale from the Concerto In D, by Pajja
nin. Mr. Listemann, who is a veteran as
a violin soloist, gave the concerto a ren
dition worthy that of younger virtuosos of
the modern school. Mr. Wagner is so
well known as the former 'cellist of the
Thomas orchestra that any comment is
unnecessary. He played a Saltarello, by
Popper, in a finished manner. The finale
from Rubinstein's Quartette in P major
closed the programme, and added one
more laurel to the Y. M. C. A. series so
auspiciously opened and liberally patron
ized.
SCHUBERT CLUB.
Yesterday afternoon was memorial day
for the Schubert club, and a large audi.
ence gathered at 3:30 in Raudenbush hall
to enjoy the "Schubert day" programme.
The opening number was a selection from
Raff for two pianos, and played by MiS3
Canby and Miss Morton. This was the
only number that was not by Schubert.
The second number introduced to the
audience Mrs. Johanna Lohrbauer, a so
prano, who gave a double number of
Schubert Lleder. The lyric element can
be easily traced In Schubert, as the influ
ence of the Lied was always strong with
him. Mrs. Lohrbauer appeared In anoth
er group at the close of the programme,
and made a pleasing impression upon her
listeners. The feature of the afternoon
was the Schubert Fantaisie, arranged by
Liszt, and played on two pianos by Miss
Edna Zenzlus and Miss Gertrude Hall.
Both young ladies are excellent soloists!
acquirements which add to the strong
combination of the two artists. Splendid
tone, technique and phrasing gave the se
lection a brilliant and artistic rendition,
and one worthy a second hearing. Mr 3.
Paul Zumbach, the well known soprano,
delighted her audience with a triple num
ber of Lieder. Mrs. Zumbach has a voioe
of pure and resonant quality, and her ap
pearance Is always a musical treat.
A pleasant surprise and closing of the
day's programme was the artistic play
ing of the string quartette, consisting of
Arthur Bergh, Emll Gelst, Louis Marr
and Wai. Geist. They played, in accord
ance with the day, one of Schubert's
quartettes, and deserve much praise and
commendation for their musical efforts.
For the age and experience of the quar
tette, they play with a unanimity and at
tack that is only acquired by years of co
operation and orchestra p'.ayirg. This 1.?
the only organization of the kind in the
city, and should be encouraged to more
concert appearances. At the close of the
programme Mra. Dorr addressed the club
In reference to the coming appearance of
Miss Leonora Jackson, who appears in St.
Paul on Thursday with the Schubert club,
chorus, orchestra, and Mrs. De Wolf, the
soloist. One of the features of the singing
side of the programme will be the "In
flammatus," solo, quartette and chorus,
all under the direction of Mr. Emll
Ober-Hoffer.
METROPOLITAN.
"Mile. Fifl" has scored a most pro
nounced hit at the Metropolitan. A pop
ular price matinee will be given this aft
ernoon, and "Mile. Fifl" will' bid farewell
to St. Paul t<stii*ht.
The second of the Danz Symphony or
chestra concerts will occur at the Met
ropolitan opera house tomorrow after
noon at 3:30. The programme for this oc
casion will be of the popular order. The
classical number of the day will be "Mer
ry Wives of Windsor," and the special 1
features will consist of a tenor solo,
"When Thou. Art Near," and two selec
tions by the string orchestra.
The cinematograph pictures of the Pas
sion play will he presented at a special
children's performance at the Metropoli
tan at 10:15 this morning. There will also
be a production of the Passion play to
morrow night at 8:15.
What will,, undoubtedly constitute one
of the most notable events of the amuse
ment season will occur at the Metropoli
tan next Monday night, when the Keleey-
Shannon company present their famous
play, "The Moth and the Flame." This
organization is claimed to be one of the
best, and the play the most impressive
and brilliant bit of dramatic work which
has yet emanated from an American
dramatist.
Julia Arthur, in her superb new play,
"More Than Queen," will 1 enter upon a
short engagement at the Metropolitan on
Thursday, Feb. 8. In this Napoleonic
spectacle Julia Arthur has won and de
served a splendid triumph, one that will
take precedence over all her former suc
cesses. Her Josephine is an idealized
creation. The play for wealth of scenic
settings and splendor of costuming is
unique in the annatei of the American
stage. It Is to be regretted that Miss Ar
thur, today the most lavish producer of
plays, should have decided to abandon
touring the country after thia season and
to appear only in New York and London.
Thi3 will therefore be her farewell ap
pearance In this city.
GRAND.
Fulgora's Stars, which have been en
tertaining large audiences at the Grand
opera house this week, will close here
with performances this afternoon at 2:30
and tonight at 8:15. For the afternoon
performance Little Fred and his family
of animals will present a programme
especially designed to please the ladies
and children. Every one who has seen
this excellent vaudeville production has
complimented it.
The attraction at Ihe Grand next week,
commencing tomorrow night, will be the
melodrama, "Through the Breakers."
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I Cljat of tye Capital I
fj Washington Gossip, PollUcti **i Other- X
V wise, for the ReaJwi of tho Olobs. <
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb.
cial.)—The people of Washington are
making preparations to celebrate, next
December, the 100 th anniversary of the
establishment of the national capital
here. This month the Washington
centennial committee, which has in charge
the plans for the celebration, will 1 give a
banquet which, the Washington Post
states, will be the most notable one ever
seen in this city. This committee, as is
well known, includes the governors of all
the states, as well as the two special
committees appointed from the United
States senate," the house of representa
tives and a citliehs' committee, of which
John B. Wight* one' of the District of
Columbia commissioners, Is chairman.
The banquet will' be given at the Ar
lington hotel, and is In honor of the chief
executives of the various states who will
be in attendance. The Washington board
of trade will be the host. At the meet
ing mentioned it is expected that these
committees will map out all the plans
for the anniversary celebration. It is
said that the prominent feature of this
celebration will be the laying of the cor
ner stone of the national memorial bridge
across the Potomac. The committee will
draft the resolution urging this improve
ment, and It will be presented to the
president for his action. It is said that
MaJ. McKlnley is in thorough accord
with this movement. It is expected that
the plan will be so advanced that the
corner stone of the memorial bridge can
be laid in December.
* a •
The department of agriculture has Is
sued a bulletin of great interest to the
people interested In irrigation plans.
This bulletin was written by J. C. Ull
rich, an irrigation engineer at Denver.
It describes the agricultural conditions
of the Rocky mountain region, covering
all the states In that particular section
of the country. The bulletin tells all
about the climate, resources and appear
ance of this region and explains how
ditches are built, rights to water estab
lished and the water diverted into the
channels and ditches and applied to the
land. The purpose of this is to instruct
those who are new to the subject and
enable them to avoid costly mistakes
which novices in Irrigating farming are
apt to make.
The differences between ditches built
and operated by individuals, corporations
or districts are described, as are the
methods of operation. On the latter point
the bulletin makes the following observa
tion:
"The owner of an Individual ditch op
erates as he pleases, subject only to the
state laws governing the diversion and
use of water. But when several persons
are interested In the same ditch the
necessity of some system of control
arises. In the case of unincorporated
canals this control is secured by the se
lection of a water master. It is on the |
large corporation canals,, however, that
the necessity for a careful system of op
eration is most apparent. Many of these
canals are maro than fifty miles long,
and number their water users by hun
dreds. The Ridenbaugh canal, in the
Boise valley, Idaho, furnished water to
more than 500 farmers. Other canals
furnish water to many hundreds of far
mers."
The ditch rider is the official with whom
the farmer comes in most constant con
tact. His duty consists in patrolling the
ditch throughout the season of actual op
eration, keeping it In repair and superin
tending the distribution of water. Where
a ditch does not exceed twelve or fifteen
mites in length one rider patrols the en
tire length, but where the ditch is in
an extensive system several riders may
be required to perform this duty. The
length of a division, covered by one man
depends on the character of his duties,
the amount of repairs, etc., to be looked
after.
The advantage of reservoirs in the equal
distribution of water is pointed out as
a good thing.
—J. S. Van Antwerp.
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Bank Deposit Notice.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The secretary
of the treasury today notified all national
bank depositories that no further deposits
of internal revenue receipts would be for
warded to New York for distribution to
banks which have deposited bonds for
security under the secretary's offer of
Dec 18 last. Hereafter all excess receipts
from internal revenue and other sources
will be sent to the various subtreasuries
as was done prior to Dec. 18.
The amount of Internal revenue re
ceipts on deposit with national bank
depositories under the secretary's recent
order is about $27,000,000.
rolysjamy Measures.
WASHINGTON/ Feb. 2.—The house
judiciary committee decided today to
give hearings next Tuesday on the various
bills and resolutions relating to polygamy.
W R- Campbell, of Utah, an anti-Mor
mon, will be heard, as will such others
who are present. 1
PRICES HARDENING
BRADSTRE(ET*S TAKES AN OPTIMIS
TIC VIEW OP THE COUNTRY'S
HI'SIXESS OUTLOOK
SOME FEATURES DISCOURAGING
On the Whole, However, the Outlook
Is Far Better Than During; Cor
responding Period of Former
Years—Wheat Shows Narked Gain
In Strength, With Market In a
Bullish Vein.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-Bradstreet'a to
morrow will say:
"Weather influences have played no
small part in the general trade situation
this week, and yet some of the unques
tionable improvement In tone can hard
ly be charged to the more seasonable
weather experienced. Whatever the
causes, however, and they have been di
verse, the fact remains that a number
of staples, no less than speculative se
curities, have hardened in value during
the week. One Industry, that of anthra
cite coal, prices in which have begun to
drop because of the open winter, ha 3
been perceptibly braced. The influence
of cold weather, too. Is perceptible In the
wheat market. Much of the winter
sown crop is unprotected by snow, and
other influences of strength in this mar
ket have been the reports as to foreign
crops, the Argentine plague and conse
quent strength of European advices.
"Among products not affected by cur
rent weather conditions, however, might
be mentioned the Souths great staple,
cotton, which, owing largely to the bet
ter foreign buying and the reported
abandonment of extremely large Eng
lish crop estimates, has reached the
highest point for a number of years.
"There is little comfort to the hopes
for lower prices in the reports from the
iron trade this week. It is true that some
concessions have been made from the
high points reached on a number of prod
ucts, but the concessions In pig iron are
claimed to have been few, and mostly on
the product of furnaces recently put in
blast, where the output had not been con
tracted for. Inquiry at the leading iron
markets of the country fail to indicate
any widespread weakening, and the con
cessions are claimed to have been really
in the nature of readjustments. The
steel situation is not over clear, and some
business is reported possible at conces
sions of ?1 to $2 a ton, where the product
has not been contracted ahead. Some
export business in rails to Norway Is
reported this week, while from Birming
ham comes reports of some good sales of
pig iron, with further export business
checked by advancing freight rates. The
production of leading Southern interests
is reported sold up to January. Iron
trade authorities are slow to predict
beyond that date, but the strength of
foreign markets is regarded as a guar
antee against^ any possible perpendicular
drop In domestic quotations.
"In distributive trade the reports for
tho month of January vary with the
branches of trade concerned. Retail dis
tribution was undoubtedly unfavorably
affected by mild weather, and stocks of
retailers In some sections of the country
are reported large. In spring account,
however, the January business apears to
have been in a high degree satisfactory,
shipments from reading centers being
much heavier than In January a year
ago, whatever complaints that were re
ceived of backward new business being
attributed to earlier buying having an
ticipated the regular season.
"Woolen goods are holding the ad
vances recently asked, and raw wool is
firm, though sales are smaller than for
some weeks past, owing, it Is claimed, to
domestic stocks of desirable wool being
smart.
"Wheat, Including flour, shipments for
the week aggregated 2,724,937 bushels,
against 3,581,197 bushels last week, 6,555,
--418 bushels In the corresponding week of
1899. 3,635.035 bushels in 1898, 3,168,746 bush
els in 1597, and 2,907,354 bushel 3in 1896.
Since July 1, this season, the exports of
wheats aggregated 120,109,965 bushels,
against 150,817,659 bushels last year, and
150,230,035 bushels in 1597-98. Corn exports
for week aggregated 3,598,962 bushefe,
against 3,526,834 bushels last week, 3,695,
--731 bushels in this week a year ago, -4,104,
--981 bushels in 1898, 3,659,960 bushels in 1897,
and 3,222,832 bushels in 189 C. Since July 1,
this season, corn exports aggregated
129,155,865 bushels, against 99,453,654 bush
els during the same period a year ago,
and 100,99t>,659 bushels in 1897-98.
"Business failures for the week in the
United States are only 171, as compared
with 252 last week, 207 in this week a
year ago, 295 in 1898, 305 in 1897, and 333
in 1896. For the week Canadian failures
numbered only 31, as compared with 39
last week, 3C m this week a year ago 42
in IS9S, 58 in 1897, and 00 in 1896."
TRADE OUTLOOK.
Summing- Vp o* Situation by R. G.
Dun & Co.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade of tomor
row will say:
"Thl3 year starts with much of the
year's business already done, and all
comparisons will prove misleading if that
fact is not taken into account. Last year
the certainty of great improvement had
come before the year opened, and there
was a rush to get in orders before works
became crowded and prices advanced.
This year the works were already crowd
ed for months ahead In most lines, and
prices had already advanced so far that
recoil had already commenced in some
branches and was thought probable in
others.
"With the exception of woolen manu
factures, the chief industries have met
less new business In January than last
year, though deliveries on previous con
tracts have been larger than a year ago.
In work turned out, the past month
probably suspasses all others, and, right
ly considered, the fact that new contracts
for works already well supplied are
smaller than last year, is not of Itself
discouraging. The great burst of specu
lation last year swelled January pay
ments through clearing houses far be
yond those of this year at New York,
and such payments at other cities also
averaged per business day a shade larg
er than this year. But a much greater de
crease must have appeared in transac
tions connected with formation of new
companies.
"The Iron and steel industry is so far
tied up by contracts reaching through
most of the year that the effect of pro
duction, exceeding consumption, Is felt
only in some branches. A little lower
price has been made for foundry iron
in considerable transactions, though Bes
semer does not yield, but steel billets
are offered by some at $33 per ton. Dif
ferences, betweeen producers and some of
the largest consumers of steel block the
market. In plates and bars concessions
are still made to secure business, in
sheets the demand Is stronger, and in
rails, structural forms, tin plates and
nails prices are held firmly."
BULGE IN COTTON.
Bulls Wove Suddenly Hurled From
Heights of Exuberant Joy.
NEW YORK, Fob. 2.—lt was an excit
ing day In the cotton market, with specu
lation fully as large, if not In excess of
that of yesterday. With a great bull flour
ish the market opened firm In tone at an
advance of s@lo points. Energetic and
general buying soor carried prices to a
level of 9 to 13 points above yesterday's
closing figures, and for a time shorts
were in confusion bordering on panic. The
cables indicated excitement, with sensa
tional advances on the English market.
The statistical situation abroad, as well
as in the belt, was shown by week:y fig
ures to b° very strong. The investment
public took a greater interest in the sta
ple, an avalanche of buying orders corn-
Ing from all points of the compass, nota
bly Europe. The advance carried July
within 2 points of the coveted "8 cents,"
and all signs pointed to May reaching
that point before midday.
But when the bulls were most confident,
and in the midst of an aggressive move
ment, the cable news suddenly changed.
Heavy liquidations were sent In on the
local exchange, and before a breathing
spell was taken prices had tumbled 10@12
points.
Before midday, however, the market
had recuperated partially, but spirited
bull speculation did not again prevail.
JANUARY BANK CLEARINGS.
Comparisons With Prevlons Periods
Made by Bradntreet's.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Bradstreet's to
morrow will say:
"At first the January bank clearings
do not appear as favorable as might b«
wished for. The aggregate for the month
at elglity cities of the United States was
only $7,504,808,783, a total 8.6 per cent
smaller than that of December, 1899, and
'< per cent less than January a year ago.
It is to be recalled, however, that bank
clearings a year ago reflected heavy spec
ulation in stocks, and In other commodi
ties, not to mention numerous large in
dustrial flotations. This year stock
speculation has been notably dull, and
the - same is true of dealings in other
commodities, while new industrial flota
tions were conspicuous by their absence.,
and yet, if the clearings at the metropo
lis, which usually reflect much of the
speculative activity of the country, are
deducted, it will be found that bank
clearings in the rest of the country maka
a very good showing, having, in fact nee\
exceeded only twice In the last thirteen
months.
"Comparisons with the years Jaack of
1899, are, of course, extremely favorable.
The Increase as compared with January,
ISM, was 26 per cent, and as compared
with the same month of 1897 the gain la
70 per cent, while Increases over earlier
years are correspondingly heavier.
"As illustrating the activity of the
country at large it might be stated that
only two groups, the Eastern and Middle
states cities, show decreases, these being
due, of course, to large decreases shown
at New York and Boston. The decreaga
In the Middle states group is 15.7 per cent
from a year ago, while in New England
the falling off Is 3.7 per cent.
"The heaviest gain Is that shown in the
far West—2s per cent, but the Western
group shows a gain of 15.5 per cent; the
Southwestern cities an increase of 9.4 per
cent, and the Northwestern cities a gain
of 8 per cent.
"Smaller speculative activity at Balti
more is reflected in the increase of 1.9
per cent In the Southern group, but near
ly all tho other Southern cities sho?»
gains, notwithstanding the small move
ment of the cotton crop.
"Outside New York city the aggregate
clearings for the country as a whole ag.
gregate $2,930,224,388. a gain of nearly «
per cent over a year ago, and, conse
quently, a heavy increase over any pre
ceding month in the country's history.
Taking the first ten cities of the United
States In importance of clearings, it is
found that three of them. New York,
Boston and Baltimore, show decreases,
the first of 18 per cent, the second of 3
per cent and the third of 13.6 per cent.
Plttsburg shows the heaviest gain, 32.9
per cent, followed by San Francisco, with
23 2 per cent gain, Cincinnati with a gain
of 9.3 per cent, Chicago of 6.7 per cent
and Minneapolis of 3.6 per cent. St.
Louis notes an increase of LI per cent,
while Philadelphia's gain ts only half ol
1 per cent."
. FINANCIAL OtTLOOK.
Bradstreet's Summing Up of "Week
Jnst Closing.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.—Eradstreefa
financial review tomorrow will say:
"Financial conditions for the time being
have assumed a condition of settled ease,
which to some extent Induces Investment
buying of bonds and prime dividend-pay
ing railroad and other stocks. The In
creased facilities with which sp;cu'ative
holdings can be carried has also led to
renewed activity by bull pools and manip
ulative operations, and even attracted a
certain amount of fresh public purchas
ing In Wall street.
"The fact that London itse'f seems to
have discounted all the bad new 3 from
the seat of war In South Africa renders
such Intelligence as the abandonment of
the forward movement of Gen. Buller's
forces at Natal of little Influence in a
bearish sense, and the American rt ck
market public also appears to have come
to the conclusion that the reported com
plications are to play a decided part in
shaping the action of speculation on this
Bide of the ocean. More time has conse
quently been given to the favorable sldi
of affairs at home.
"The continued excellent exhibit of
earnings made by various roads are not
neglected, but so far as Immediate ef
fects on the markets are concerned they
yielded to the current developments con
cerning industrial organlzat'ons.
"The most important development of
the week was the announcement that the
American Steel and Wire company had
declared 7 per cent on Its common stock
out of the earnings of the ytar 1899, the
figures given out at the same t me indi
cating that the company had earned
about 18 per cent on that portion of its
capital."
Weekly Bank Clearings.
NEW YORK. Feb. 2.—The following
table.complled by Bradstreet's, shows the
bank clearings at the principal cities for
the week ended Feb. 2, with the percen
tage of Increase and decrease as com
pared with the corresponding week last
year:
| Inc.| Dec.
New York $931,681,054!...... | 33.1
Boston 109,763,813 29.1
Chicago 116,551,318 4.2
Philadelphia ...".... 89,364.562 9.8
St Louis 28,351,498 2.9
Plttsburg 29,007,457 25.5
Baltimore 18,861,049 22.3
San Fraucisco 18,399,705 7.9
Cincinnati 14.230,850 7.6
Kansas City 12,479,810 4.8
New Orleans 12,110,428 19.4......
Minneapolis 9,068,704 3.2
Detroit 8,112,333 7.7
Cleveland 10.148.39S 11.6
Louisville 10,160,964 17.0......
Providence 5.593,700 14.1
Milwaukee ' 6,092,129 21.5
St Paul 3,960,406
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ssasSEE fflfe*!
Washington ?'£?■}£ 8 Vi
Portland. Or HK( fH
Dcs Moines 1.J£.2T0 ...... 26.9
Seattle 1,862,011 IZ.i
Tacoma 1-064-IH| 64.8 ......
Spokane SS'IS-'Va 10-2
Sioux City S^.SM 4.0
Farso N D 249,727
Si^x'Falls.S.D... 134.3*9 21.8
Helena 590,160 28.8
Totals U. S $1,52fr,387,158 25.1
Totals outside N.YJ^_588,706,105 7.8
DOMINION OF CANADA.
Montreal '• ?A
Toronto —ii 17>6
Winnipeg M&jS H
Halifax 4-* •••••-
Hamilton ff*^ •••• •• 6.9
St. John, N. B 558,691 1.0
Vancouver 624.** »•* -"••
Victoria «i.«B 32.7
Totals $25,647,647 15.8
HAGUE PEACE TREATY.
Senator Davis Say* Interests In
volved Reqnlre Consideration.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The senate In
executive session today took up The
Hague peace treaty. There was a brief
discussion of it, but no opposition was
developed. The treaty would have been
ratified, but under the rules It had to be
laid over twenty-four hours after being
read.
Senator' Davis explained there were
many Interests Involved In the various
treaties, and time was necessary for their
consideration.
Tariff System for Puerto Rico.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—At a special
meeting of the ways and means commit
tee today it was decided to report a bill
establishing a tariff system for Puerto
Rico on a basis of 25 per cent of the
rates In the regular tariff law.
DEADLOCK Iflf HOUSE
NIGHT SESSION PROVES PRODUC
TIVE OF SOME! EXCITING
SCENES AND DEBATE
MR. TALBERT WAITTS QUORUM *
Will Not Permit the Passage of Any
More Special Pension Bills at
Friday Night Sessions Unless a
Qnor-im Is Present—Attempts to
Adjonrn Result In a Deadlock,
Which In Maintained to Finish.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-Representative
Talbert. of South Carolina, who gave no
tice during the consideration of the pen
sion appropriation bill last week that he •
proposed to block all special pension leg
islation at Friday's night sessions, unless
a quorum of members was present, car
ried out his threat at tonight's session.
As soon as the house was called to order
he sent to the clerk's desk, and had read,
several editorials from different papers,
warning congress of a scheme to put
through a bill to place every soldier who
served sixty days in the Civil war on
the rolls, thereby increasing pension ex
penditures $70,000,000 a year. There was
to be a return, one of the editorials said, «
to the halycon days when pension at
torneys made $1,000 a day.
MR. TALBERT OBJECTS.
"Now and henceforth, Mr. Speaker."
announced Mr. Talbert, "I shall insist
upon a quorum of the house when pen
sion bills aro under consideration at the
Friday evening sessions. So long as I
may be able to drag myself to the capl
tol no pension bill (and there is n 0 quali
fication to this ultimatum) shall pass the
house without a quorum of its members
present. The abuse must stop. Innocent
people will be hurt, possibly, but that will
only accentuate the responsibility. I de- *
mand a quorum. If the house is without
a quorum I shall ask an immediate ad
journment. If that Is refused I shall In
sist that the house exhaust its powers
to secure a quorum. 1 believe the pension
laws are sufficiently liberal to provide
for any deserving soldier and widow, and
I am opposed to sitting here every Friday
night, as a court of appeals, to pass spe
cial cases which have been refused by
the pension bureau. If it is to be done,
there must be a quorum. Members cry
aloud their love fo»- the old soldier, but
they will not give up their pink teas and
poker parties, and that sort of thing, to
vote pensions."
NO QUORUM PRESENT.
When Mr. Sulloway, of New Hamp
shire, chairman of the committee on In
valid pensions, moved to go into commit
tee of the whole to consider pension leg
islation, only eighty-nine membar3 were
present, and Mr. Talbert made the point
of no quorum. Therefore a call of the
house was ordered, but only 108 members
responded. There was a general desire
to adjourn, as it was manifestly Impos
sible to secure a quorum, but some of the
members contended that the absentees
should be arrested and brought to the
house. Finally Mr. Sulloway moved to
adjourn.
"Vote it down, vote it down," cried Mr,
Norton (Dem., O.) and other members,
and the motion was defeated, 25 to 88.
The sergeaht-at-arms, on motion of Mr.
Norton, was ordered to arrest absentees.
Numerous roll calls were had on mo
tions to adjourn, but were voted down.
On call votes the y«as had a majority,
but on roll calls, where the members
went on record, the nays had a large
majority.
At 10 o'clock, without breaking the
deadlock, under the rule the house ad
journed.
SUBSIDY BILL, IN DANGER.
Congressman Stevens, of St. Paul, . _
! iifiirt!)* Some Objections.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 2.—Con- ,
gressman Stevens, of St. Paul, who, as
Sf member of the merchant marine and
fisheries committee, has been leading the
fight against the Hanna-Payne subsidy
bill, has made a discovery which threat
ens to upset that bill entirely and call for ;
its radical modification. The point he
makes seems to be well taken and Its '/■
force Is admitted even by the stancheat i
friends of the bill, who say that If
Stevens is right the bill is doomed.
Mr. Stevens has for several weeks been
reading the commercial treaties between
this government and other countries with
a view to posting himself thoroughly as
to their meaning and limitations. Yes
terday he took up the treaty with Japan,
which la the last one made and was ne
gotiated by W. Q. Gresham, secretary of
state under President Cleveland. Thero
is a section in the Japanese treaty which
provides that the citizens of both the
high contracting parties shall have in
both countries equal rights and privileges
as to "warehousing, bounties, facilities
and drawbacks." The word "bounties"
occurs in many of the other commercial
treaties, but invariably with some clause . _
of limitation. In the British treaty, for
example, it is "bounties on exports;" in
the Russian treaty, "bounties on goods
and merchandise," and so on. In tha
Japanese 'treaty, however, there is no
limitation whatever, and Mr. Stevens con
tends that the treaty is of such a char
acter as to permit Japanese ships to take
full advantage of all the subsidies offer
ed in the pending bill; and if Japan Is so
permitted, then all other nations would
; be entitled to come in under the "favored
nations" clause.
Mr. Stevens' discovery is vital and fun
damental and strikes at the very hecrt
I of all questions connected with the prI*ent1*-
ent bill. His points were yesterday sub
mitted to the leading house members who
favor the bill and to leading railroad of
ficials of the East, among them the presi
dent of the Pennsylvania system, all of
whom declared that if Stevens was right
tho pending bill must be abandoned.
MR. FETTIGREW FAILED.
Checked in Attempt to Address the
Senate on Philippine".
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-An effort by.
Senator Pettlgrew, of South Dakota, to
discuss the Philippine question in the
senate today was of no avail, as he was
met by a point of order which took him
from the floor. He had gotten only so
far as to charge that the great Journals
of the country would not publish tho
facts concerning the Philippine war. Sub
sequently he offered another resolution
on which he will speak next week.
Senator Allen, of Nebraska, concluded
Ma speech In arraignment of Secretary
Gage, because of his transactions with
the National City Bank of New York. He
had previously Introduced a resolution
providing for an Investigation by the
senate of the treasury department, but
objection to Us consideration sent it over
until next week.
INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL.
Honne Devoted the Day to Consid
eration of It.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The house to
day devoted Its attention to the Indian
appropriation bill. It got no further, how
ever, than the appropriations for Indian
schools, where an effort was inaugurat
ed by Mr. Fitzgerald (N. T.) to authorlzs
th» secretary of the Interior to contract
with schools for the education of Indian
children where the government lacks fa
cilities. No provision is made for con
tract schools in this bill. It Is claimed
the present school system Is Inadequate.
New Government Building*.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—The senftte"'
committee on public buildings and
grounds today authorized favorable re
porta on the bills authorizing government
ouildiiißs at Seattle, Wash.; Natchez,
Miss., and Kvanston, Wyo., the latter to
cost $100,000.