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T1IE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1907. SUBSCRIPTION BATES. CT IXVAEUBLT IX ADVANCE, (By Mall.) CIlr, Sunday mcjuded, on year $3.00 X)atly. Sunday lnc!jdd, six months.... 4.23 Daily. Sunday Included, three months. . 2.25 Ial!y, Sunday Includc-d, ono month. 75 Daily, without Sunday, on year 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, air months 3.25 Dally, without Sunday, three months., 1.73 Dally, without Sunday, one month..... -60 Sunday, one year ... Z.50 Weekly, one year (Issued Thursday ) . . . 1. 00 Sunday and Weekly, ono year BIT CAHRXEB. Daily, Sunday Included, one year 8 M Dally, Sunday Included, ono month.... .75 HOW TO RM1T Send postofllco money order, express order or personal check: on j-cur local bank. Strjnps, coin or currency re at the sender's risk. Glvo postotllco ad dress In tull, including county and ata-ta. POSTAGE SATES. Entered at Portland. Oregon. 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One naturally sets out to read euch a composition with weariness.. Our commercial prosperity is so "harped upon that an account of ' It Is worse than a twice-tofd tale. It haa been told from the etump, in the 'newspapers and in the magazines, not twice, but a thousand timee. until, like every tale of wonder, it has lost by repetition its power to thrill. Still, as one reads this pamphlet, which was written by Richard H. Edwards, in ejplte of the triteness of it all the pulse begins to beat fatter and the head to whirl. Surely if the strong adjective "amazing" was ever in place, it to ap propriate here. Our material advance in the last ten years has been amazing, and nothing less. Consider, for example, the increase in the value of farm products in Amer ica. From 1870 to 1890 the gain was about half a billion; hut during the next ten years it was more than four and a half times a much. In other worth, the annual advance in the value of farm products is now nine times as sreat no it was a quarter of a century ago. Nor is this adequately accounted for by the increase of the number of farmenn; for that hae only been about 4 per cent per annum. What to the i-eeret? A cause which in not always attended to in proportion to its impor tance Is the development of irrigation. An irrigating ditch will make land worth $100 an acre and upward which before the water came to It was worth nothing. The' water supply createe value by the billion dollars, .and it has been doing it, sometimes inconepicuoup ly, sometimes with pomp and circum stance, all over the arid West. With irrigation has come the era of Inten sive as distinguished from haphazard and wasteful agriculture. Land which must be urtllieially watered to too coftly for ehiftlesi farming. More over, the irrigationists have taught the whole nation, the art of extracting: great returns from small patches of toil. The day has gone 'by when our farmers sought by killing toil to make one man's Indus-try euilice for the cul tivation of land enough to keep a dozen busy. Small farms peiontlficaKy managed account for the rapid in crease In tho quantity and quality of agricultural products. But there has been an Increment of aggregate value which requires further explanation. Mr. EJwards points out that agri culture developed faster than manufac tures in this country. Hence there was' for years a continuous overeupply of foodftuffs with correspondingly low prices. It seems strange that " this could bo true, for there hat never been a time when the entire population of the world was properly fed. Still there could beand actually was more food' than could be consumed in America while the people of Europe were in want. The cost of transportation made the difficulty. The. development of manufactures has created a market for the farmer's product at his door, while the extension of railroads has cheap ened transportation. The result to that food is cheaper and better In Europe than it was twenty-five yeans -ago, while the farmer receives more for raising it than he didt then. The prob lem of overproduction has been solved by better transportation and the growth of the home market, although the quantity produced has been multi plied with startling rapidity. Farm values and the quantity of foodstuffs' which we fetnd to market are only one example of our prosperity. . Steel, cotton, lumber and almost every thing etoe that can be named have kept pace with tlvem. It is perhaps literally true that no age or country ever ex perienced anything like the material development of America d-urltu? the last two decades. But Mr. Edwards pre dicts that all this Is only a beginning. All that we have accomplished, he sayer is like the preliminary work of the farmer in clearing the stumps from hto land. The real creation of values" is yet to come, and it will be so vast that we must find some adjective of larger jnearUog. than "amazing" taJe.ar.ri be it This is probably true, though there are come grounds for misgiving. Ma terial prosperity depends largely on coal, iron and1 lumber, and of these natural resources we 'have not been economical There has "been wicked waste of them all. Enthusiasts are in the habit of paying that nature haa provided us with an "exhaustless sup ply," but this is far from the truth. Not only to the supply limited, but the lim its are in plain sight. Conservative es timates place the eod of our forests1, outside of the Government reserva tions, within twenty years. Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, whose for ests were juet as "exhaustless" as those of Oregon, are already stripped bare, and it does not take much acumen to discern what is going on here. Scien tists predict a comparatively early fail ure In the supply of coal aleo. Such facts as these need not frighten us, but they should lead us to mingle prudence with enthusiasm while -we contemplate the future. More hopeful even than the great ma terial development of the country is the equally amazing moral growth which we have experienced in the last few years. After a long period of financial anarchy we have at last be come rich enough as a nation to look after our souls a little. We are begin ning to find that the inner man Is of as much importance as the outer. Mor ality in public and private life has lately acquired an unprecedented im portance with us. The result is almost universal dissatisfaction with the con ditions of former years. Our familiar eins have made ue mourn and there fore we begin, quite properly, to hate them. This surprises the Manufactur ers' Record, which says that "our peo ple seem to be without poise or bal ance." We have poise enough, but, now that we are so rich, we naturally long to become respectable. Who can blame ue for it? Ol'B PRODIGAL CONGRESS. It cannot be denied' that the Fifty ninth Congress was rather given to ex travagance. It disbursed the public funds with a generous hand. But lib eral expenditures are not in themselves a cause for reproach, neither is parsi mony of necesity a virtue. Much de pends on what the money is spent for. The increase in our military expenses has heen very large, out of proportion one may frankly say, to the require ments of the Nation. The people ap prove a reasonable outlay for the Navy, but we are pretty likely to watch the growth of the Army with jealous eyes. No one can find much consolation in the fact that the Government spent more for pensions last year than ten years ago. The burden of our gratitude to the saviors of the country seems rather to be increased than diminished by time. 'Death thins the ranks of the veterans with pitiless hand, but still the pension 'bills increase. The simple fact is that a large fraction of those who now draw pensions on account of the Civil War took no part in the con flict. Some of them have to consult their history books to learn when it took place and what it was about. Many other pensioners are men of great wealth. It is a curious specula tion whether a patriotism which ac cepts a pension which it does not need Is genuine. Has the general effect of the pension system been to pauperize the recipients? It is com.monIy said that old-age pensions would pauperize worklngmen. Whj- should they act in one way upon people in general and in another way upon soldiers? There will be no popular protest against the increasing outlay of the Government for internal improvements. We have learned, albeit somewhat slowly, that the best way to solve our transportation problems is to perfect a system of internal waterways. Recent experience has shown that no railway system which we can construct will be adequate to do the carrying business of the country. Other nations learned long ago that rivers and canals are indispensable to supplement the rail ways, and now it Is our turn to take tho lesson. To carry it out in practice will require money, and a great deal of it. FOREST RESERVING OVERDONE. The most enthusiastic supporter of the President's forest reserve policy will hardly approve of the wholesale withdrawal from settlement at this time of more than 8,000.000 acres of land in Oregon and Washington. The original purpose of the forest reserve was to hold and protect substantial areas of heavily timbered land for the retention of moisture at the head of our large streams. The forest reserve was also invoked for withdrawal from settlement of large tracts of very mountainous and scenically beautiful land without great value for agricul tural purposes. Public land was plenti ful when the forest reserve idea was first put into effect, and the ease with which legitimate forest reserves were created awakened the cupidity of land thieves of both high and low degree. The Immense grants of the transcon tinental railroads embraced considera ble areas of land which were practical ly worthless for anything but forest reserves. In due season the men in charge of these grants discovered that it was a comparatively easy matter to have the limits of forest reserves ex tended to take in this worthless land. In effect this amounted to confiscation of private property of the railroads, and, as this of course was wrong, the Government remunerated the roads by offering them the choice of other lands to the amount of the-same area in lieu of that confiscated. This lieu-land act was the most powerful weapon that could have been placed in the hands of the land thieves. It led to creation of forest reserves for no other purpose than to furnish a 'base from which lieu land scrip could toe secured. But land thievery of this nature has been, pretty well checked, and the heavy withdraw als made this week by the President were all of lands which were not affect ed -by the lieu-land laws. The injustice of the proceeding lies in the fact that, scattered throughout Oregon, Washington and Idaho, are thousands of honest settlers who, fail ing to find homes to suit them in the surveyed districts, have entered these lands now embraced In this sweeping forest reserve wthdrawal and have hewn out homes in anticipation of the opening of the country and recognition of their squatter's rights. Withdrawal of such an Immense area at this time will not only work a hardship on these settlers, who are entitled to considera tion, but it will also retard immigra tion to this country. There is, of course, considerable good land yet available for settlement, but much of it is of a poorer character than that in cluded in these latest withdrawals. The rich Colville country is an ex ample of the development-stifling effect Cl th' .n'-v. Tr-e, Eff. )"SC-rVft -2lU take nearly 1.000,000 acres from the Col ville Indian reservation, and the hun dreds of poor settlers who have been camping for years on the borders of this rich region awaiting its opening for settlement will toe compelled to move on and take something of an in ferior grade. Oregon and Washington have suffered much through the land frauds, though it is perhaps the iniqui ties of some of our own people that has brought on us the punishment now be ing administered. It seems strange, however, that the vast timber regions of the South arrd Southwest are im mune from this forest-reserve mania. With their pubUc domain still open for settlement while so much of ours Is closed, the other states and territories will profit by the influx of settlers who are barred from the Pacific Northwest. Posterity may rise up and bless the present Administration for stunting our development now in order that it may have an opportunity to expand later. but the policy is working an injustice on a large number' of legitimate home seekers, on whom the gates have been closed. SUBSIDY POST MORTEM. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is In deep despair over the death of the ship subsidy bill. It devotes nearly a col umn to a post mortem over the re mains. Unfortunately, the Seattle pa per is about as far from the facts in the case as it was before an inquest be came necessary. "Oregon is indifferent or hostile to shipping subsidies because the carrying trade of Oregon is done by foreign vessels," asserts the Seattle pa per, and "California is not keenly anx ious for aid to American shipping for much the same reason." For the in formation of the P.-I. we will say that Oregon Is opposed to ship subsidies be cause the only 'base on which the plea for subsidies is made is that the for eigners are carrying our commerce Joo cheaply. If it could 'be shown that a subsidy would reduce freight rates and thus add to our profits and admit of the expansion of our business, Oregon and all other states would support it. "The Harriman syndicate," continues the P.-I., "prefers to have foreign steamships do its carrying to the Ori ent because they are beyond the reach of any American regulation or control." The Harriman syndicate is today op erating out of San Francisco four 'of the largest, fastest and finest Ameri can ships afloat, not even excepting the Atlantic liners which fly the American flag. The assumption of the Post-Intelligencer is that American steamships in the foreign trade are found only on Puget Sound, when, as a matter of fact, San Francisco annually clears foreign more American steamships than are cleared from Puget Sound. But there is still hope for the truth, even on the part of subsidy-hunters, and we heartily agree with the P.-I. In the statement that "soon or late the common sense of the American people will assert itself and there will be real inquiry into the subject." When that inquiry becomes searching, we shall find the Post-lntelligencer, Represent ative Humphrey and all of the other honest but uninformed subsidy artisans working hard to undo the harm which their efforts in behalf of the subsidy steal has wrought. "Wrhile the light holds out to burn," etc. A NOTABLE DEBATE. In the current number of The Read ers' Magazine Mr. Bryan and Mr. Bev eridge begin a debate on state rights which everybody will find lively and some may find amusing and some, per haps, edifying. Mr. Bryan harps upon the old theme that somebody wishes to withdraw power from the states and confer It upon the Federal Government. This is absurd. Nobody proposes to do anything of the sort. The plain fact of the case is that Jt Is essential to the public welfare that some of our govern log agencies hould exercise a power which, has hitherto lain absolutely in abeyance. The states have not claimed it. The Federal Gov ernment has not seized it. It is not among the much-vaunted "reserve powers" of the states because when the Constitution was adopted it was never dreamed of. We refer to the power to regulate the great corporations which carry on interstate business. Shall this authority go to the states or to the Federal Government? Which of them can do the duty beet? To ask the question is to answer it. The conflicting legislation of the states concerning corporations amounts to no regulation. This the corporations well know, and therefore they are, almost without exception, ardent advocates of extreme state rights. The regulation of the trusts is something that the states could not do if they would: but hitherto they have not shown the slightest wish to do it. The clamor about state rights in the premises began exactly when the Federal Government took up the problem of regulating the trusts. Its purpose therefore was manifest. It was to paralyze all action and continue the anarchy wiilch had up to that time .prevailed. We do not accuse Mr. Bryan of being a secret friend; of the monop olies, nut his incessant desire to com plicate the question of regulating them with the entirely different matter of state rights looks like thoughtlessness, to say the least. John Kelly, whose death occurred at the North Pacific Sanitarium yesterday after a brief illness from pneumonia was widely and most favorably known in various business capacities in this city. A seafaring man in his youth, he was known in early navigation Inter ests between this city and San Fran cisco. Becoming tired of life afloat, he engaged in business in life ashore in the early '70s, andi in 1S81 formed a partnership with David M. Dunne, which continued until about sixteen years ago. He was Commissioner from Oregon to the Paris Exposition-, and later engaged In fire and marine insur ance. His business versatility and en ergy were attested throughout all the years of his life. 'He was noted for probity In "business for good comrade ship among his associates, and in his earlier years for his active public splnt Hls death comes as a surprise to his many friends. . The man who seeks to get back the wife who has left him, "not because he wants her, but to punish her for leaving him," proclaims by word of his own mouth the woman's reason- for abandoning him and his home. This a recently deserted husband of Oregon City proclaims as his purpose in put ting the police of several cities on the track of his eloping wife. Leaving the children out of the question, as the par ents have done In this case the mother having left them and the father not caring to have tier return on their ac count It Is not difficult to approve the woman's abandonment of her husband even though, as is surmised, she went away wiih a, Mg. $1j;4pxJds but kind- hearted boy. No doubt the girl , wife and mother and assistant breadwinner s used! to "punishment." She had lived several years with a creature who. according to his own appraisement of himself, is a very small specimen of a man when It comes to effectiveness in the world of labor and of kindness in the domain of home. Wouldn't it be a fine thine if all the newspapers and all the nennte were shouting "Best Legislature Oregon ever naa .' But tney are not. There ore inety men who have lost an opportu ity to go down in history as the hest lawmaking body ever assembled in this state, borne of the members lost the pportunlty through no fault of their own. for they were in the minority. But each must suffer in a measure for tne acts of all. This should have been record-breakine- TecrUlsiriire r...- haps it was. but the records broken, if any, were not in the direction of lee-ls- ition for the people. The newspapers nd the people have a few words of ommendation for the work of the re ent session, but the praise Is thrown i incidentally In a mass of criticism What an honor it would have been to be a member of the "best Les-islatnre Oregon ever had." The members of' the session of 1907 will hand no such honor down to posterity. The TTn-lverslt v nf nrdnn ; tlon iS Salrl tO Vie thrMtana ,a,lnn,l,f by the referendum. While the amount voted to the university is heavy and inueeu iormiaaDie, it would be little short of a calamity to that institution to Vtfl.ve it "hftH ,,rv An,un A - -v ..v..u ir LJl lUUIIllia, state university may be a mistake. The location of the University of Oregon may be regretted by many. But if Ore gon is to have a university that bears its name ana speaKS, or Is supposed to speak, for its educational endeavor .lOnCT higher linen It chnnlH ha nmna.ltr a , -w -..wu.u flVVllj equipped for work by the state. Other wise its work will drag and the gradu ates Of itS hiCTh nnrl other nreno a o - - schools will be drawn to other universi ties, unis is tne plain fact. The uni- VerSitV ShOtlM either ha anjmilatalv equipped and supported by the state or it etiouia oe aroppea entirely from the list of the state's educational benefi ciaries. The millmen's strike in this city at the very opening of a busy season and a prosperous year is a matter of deep regret. It can only be hoped that the men will prove reas'onable in their de mands and the millowners ready In ac quiescence, so far as these demands are reasonable. When stubbornness meets stubbornness in a case of this kind, the interests of the public suffer and local prosperity Is checked. Laborers can not afford to lose time when wages admit of substantial savings, nor can manufacturers afford to close their ex pensive plants when the demand for their products is active and insistent. The counsel of moderation in a case of this kind is the voice of wisdom. General Batyanoff, a Russian naval officer, is quoted in a St. Petersburg came, as declaring that American ship building yards can turn out in two years as many ships as European yards can turn out in five years. iHe accord ingly recommends that the Czar let to American builders a contract for con struction of a Far Eastern squadron. General Batyanoff probablyhad in view the present crowded condition of Euro pean yards when he made the state ment with which he is credited, but he would have been indulging in no exag geration had he stated that the Amer ican yards could build better ships than have ever been turned out by the for eign yards. Farmers of the Willamette Valley will note a recognition of their needs in the item in the river and harbor bill that provides $60,000 for the improve ment of the Upper Willamette River. While recognizing the value of rail roads and ardently desiring their ex tension, the farmer folk are loyal to the river and'hail with satisfaction an appropriation of public moneys for the purpose of keeping it open, to naviga tion during the shipping season. A rumor is out that John. D. Rocke feller is about to make another elabor ate donation to the cause of education or philanthropy. On being questioned, all that the oil king would say was that "I have something in mind which I believe will be of great 'benefit to the public." Possibly Mr. Rockefeller in tends to reduce the price of oil or gaso line. The Government authorities working on the Chicago Subtreasury shortage are proceeding on the theory that the money was taken by some practical joker who is now afraid to restore It. If thisis true, some difficulty will be experienced in determining whom the joke was on. Dr. Evans, the Thaw alienist, says it was all due to a "brain storm"; but the storm is now over. Your true ex pert always manages to evolve a mlll-llon-dollar theory to fit a million-dollar client. There was something the matter, it seems, with all the initiative petitions filed at the City Hall Monday. Just at this juncture the City Hall seems to be living up to all expectations. Dr. Driver tells the Portland preach ers that they are in more danger of damnation than their congregations. Go gently, doctor Not more; only as much or as little. Now they are talking about a refer endum for the State University appro priation. Two years ago we had a nor mal school referendum, and- the normal schools won. St. Johns is on the iast lap of her third year as a municipality. Can any other three-year-old in the Pacific Northwest show greater speed? For those who have expert testimony to sell, the first two months of the year 1907 seem to have been an unusually profitable season. Oregon will never forget Its debt to President Roosevelt for protection of 4.000.000 acres of forest against future vandalism. Consumers of whisky, beer, cigars, tobacco and imported luxuries will pay the billion-d'ollar National expense bill. No Oregonian teels unkindly toward Uncle Sam on account of $3,750,000 for rivers and -harbors. . And now Mr. Abraham Ruef will spend some bad half hours under Mr. Heney's scalpel. BALLIXGER TAKES OFFICE. Succeeds Richards In Land Depart ment Pollock to Be Retained. WASHINGTON., March 5. Judge Richard A. Ballinger, of Washington, today succeeded Governor William A. Richards, of Wyoming, as Commission er 6f the General Land Office. After being sworn in, Mr. Ballinger had an informal conference with the bureau and division chiefs. J. H. Ballinger, of Seattle, a cousin of the Commission er, will act as his private secretary. Judge Ballinger enters upon his du ties as Commissioner coincidentally with the entrance of James R. Gar field as Secretary of the Interior. Sec retary Garfield and Judge Ballinger were classmates at college. Before retiring, Mr. Richards re ceived the following letter from the President: t hereby accept your resignation. Two years ago you told me that you could not stay longer than this date. I told you then how I regretted to have you go. Let me reit erate my assurances of my personal regard for you and of appreciation for your long and faithful services. You have given your oest aDUlty to the disinterested service or the Government. I thank you for 'It on be half of the Government and I extend you my heartiest good wishes for your future. Mr. Richards will return to Wyo ming. It is reported that the present As sistant Commissioner, George F. Pol lock, will be retained. Mr. Pollock is a friend of the new Secretary. Gar field, and of Gifford Pinchot, who has great influence with the Administra tion. With this support, it Is believed, Mr. Pollock will continue to hold his position. Should there be a change, it Is stated with positlveness that Special Inspector Greene, of the General Land Office, who is a candidate for the place, will not be appointed. TAFT WILL VISIT CARIBBEAN Congressmen Accompany Him to Panama, Cuba and Porto Rico. WASHINGTON. March 5. Secretary Taft has invited Senator Klttredge of South Dakota, and Representatives Bur ton and DeArmond of Missouri to ac company him on his approaching trip to Cuba, the Isthmus of Panama and Porto Rico, and they have accepted the invi tation in order to acquaint themselves with conditions in those places so as to help them in .participating in the legis lation In the next Congress relative thereto. Messrs. Noble, Stearns and Freeman. all engineers, will also- be of the nartv. with the special purpose of examining the test pits that have been dug on the site of the projected locks at Gatun and giv ing the Secretary the benefit of their pro fessional opinions as to the work in progress. The trip will be made In a naval vessel. The start will be made March 24 and the party will go directly to Colon, stoo on the Isthmus two or three days, run over to Cuba, making a similar stop, and men go to forto Rico. The stay in Porto Rico will only be for a dav. and Governor Winthrop, who is quitting the island to assume his new offices as As sistant Secretary of the Treasury, will accompany the party home. REFORM IN POSTAL SERVICE Commission to Suggest Improve ments for Meyer to Execute. WARHIVCTflV 1 .. l....;.i . Roosevelt today had a conference with Postmaster-General Meyer and members of the Postal Commission, including Sen ators Penrose and Carter and Represent atives Overstreet and Gardner of New Jersey. The Commission is to make a inorougn investigation or the methods of the administration ddirIavmI In tii ntai service, with the view to suggesting re- torms ana improvements that may be for the betterment of the ttprvW Thara was a general exchange of Ideas between ine r-resiaent ana nis. callers regarding the work. Mr. Mever heliev-en that tha im proved business methods should be adopt ed in all hronr-haa f tha nnet.l 1 w. ivoiai OTTIlYtrir, with a view to its being entirely self- supporting, ana mat rerorms should be put Into effect wherever there is any evi dence of a want of system or laxity of methods. STEVENS MAKING GOOD RECORD Excavation in February Beats Any Month March Still Better. WASHINGTON, March 5. Chief En gineer Stevens is trying to make a record before he turns the Panama work over to his successor. Colonel Goethals, as Is evidenced by a cablegram from him received by Secretary Taft, which says: "In 23 working days in February exca vation In the Culebra cut was 638,644 yards. On the same basis a full month would have been 722.000 yards. March should go considerably over 800,000 yards." HENRI POST FOR GOVERNOR Secretary of Porto Rico Chosen to Succeed Winthrop. WASHINGTON, March 6. Mr. Henri Post, of Bayport. L. I., and a former Assemblyman for that district, has been selected as Governor of Porto Rico by the President, to succeed Gov ernor Winthrop, who is to become As sistant Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Post is now Secretary of the Insular Government, and is about 43 years of age. , APPOINTS WICKERSHAM AGAIN President Refuses to Turn Down Alaska Federal Judge. WASHINGTON, March 6. The Presi dent today signed a recess appointment for District Judge James Wickersham, of Alaska. The Judge is now serving his second term on the bench, but his nomi nation for that term has not been con firmed by the Senate. Charges against him are being investigated by the Depart ment of Justice. Xew Rules for Private Postcards. WASHINGTON. March 5. An order has been issued by the Postmaster-General providing new regulations governing the size, form and weight of private post cards entering the mails. Such cards must be made of an unfolded piece of cardboard, not exceeding 3 9-16 by 5 9-16 Inches, nor less than 2 by 4 Inches. They must in form and in quality and weight of paper be substantially like the Government postcards. They may be of any color, not interfering with a legi ble address and postmark. Very thin sheets of paper may be attached to them on condition that they completely adhere to the card. Cards bearing particles of glass, metal, mica, sand, tinsel or' other similar substances, will not be accepted for mailing, except when Inclosed in en velopes. Cannon's Party Starts for Isthmus. NEW TORK. March 5. To the West Indies, the Spanish Main and a two days' stop at Colon, that the Panama Canal work may be visited. the steamship Bluecher. of yie Hamburg-American line, sails today with her cabins full. In the large party are several members of Con gress. Including Speaker Cannon, who takes the trip to see the operations upon the Isthmus of Panama. BRITAIN STILL RILES WAVES Minister Says She Can Whip Any Any Two Navies Afloat. LONDON. March 5. In Introducing the navy estimates in the House of Com mons today, the Parliamentary Secretary of the Admiralty, Mr. Robertson, went over much of the ground covered in the memorandum on the subject referred to in these dispatches February 28. He said the Admiralty believed the two-power standard would be adequately maintained by the proposed programme for construc tion. During the past 10 years Great Britain had added 1.132,205 tons to her navy, while Russia, France and Germany together had added only L 108,208 tons. The British navy was the cheapest in the world. It costs $445 per ton. That of France costs $620; Russia, $463, and Ger many, $485. Two years hence Great Britain will have completed six new bat tleships, including three of the Dread naught class and three armored cruisers of the Invincible class, while neither France nor Germany would have a single ship of those types completed. The home fleet was a logical develop ment of its concentration in home waters, and furnished additional security against the remote risk of invasion. The chan nel fleet was stronger now than in 1903. HE PREFERS TO KEEP WARM German Aeronaut Declines to Ac company Wellman to Pole. BERLIN, March 5. Walter Wellman, head of the Chicago Record-Herald Polar expedition, recently wrote a letter to Captain Von Krogh, one of the best known German aeronauts. Inviting him to be his assistant in the attempt Mr. Well man will make this Summer to reach the North Pole In a balloon. According to the Lokal Anzeiger. Cap tain Von Krogh has declined this invita tion, believing dirigible ballooning has not yet reached a stage of perfection that guarantees the success of 'a Polar at tempt. German Aristocrats in Business. BERLIN, March 5. A young German" nobleman, in an appeal to his class to enter trade, dropping the obsolete Idea that it is 'beneath their dignity, points to some illustrious examples that they may follow. The Kaiser, he says. It is well known, possesses extensive pottery works on his estate at Kadinen, in East Prussia, and conducts them himself with vigorous com mercial zeal. The productions of these imperial factories are sold in Berlin by a branch of the business known as the Hohenzollern stores. Prince Christian Hohenlohe Is another example pointed to. He conducts differ ent businesses on his estate in Wurtem- bursr. One factory makes oatmeal, an other makes cakes and a third makes corsets. Others who have prospered In business, he said, are Prince Furstenherg, who owns several large breweries, and Prince Donnersmarck, who conducts a silk man ufactory. Forms New Party In Venezuela. NEW YORK. March 5. Nicaor Bolet, a son of the late General Bolet, Pare- za ex-Minister of Venezula. at Wash ington, is one of the promoters here of a new political party for Venezula to be known as the Partldo Independent Mr. Bolet hopes to be able to bring into its ranks many of the mcmhers ol the Liberal party, as well as members of the Nationalist or Conservative party, of which General Jose Manuel Hernandez (El Mocha), Is the recog nized head. The Independent party will advocate absolute adherence to the Constitution. Therefore It will favor the succesion of Vice-President John Gomez for the unexpired term of Castro. -Medals for Dutch Llfcsavcrs HOOK OF HOLLAND, March 5. Prince Henry of the Neltherlands, In behalf of Queen Wtlhelmina, has dec orated Captains Sperling, Jansen and Berkhout with the gold medal of the Orde of Orange-NaBsau. All of the crews of the boats which participated In saving the lives of the passengers and crew of the steamer Berlin, which went ashore here February 21 were given silver medals of the same order. Denies Intrigue Against France. PARIS, March 5. The Madrid corre spondent of the Eclair, in a dispatch dat ed today, quoted Garcia Alix, who was Minister of Finance in the Villaverde Cabinet, as denying that the Vatican au thorities made efforts to prevent King Al fonso from visiting France, as semi officially stated in Paris, March 2. Push Reforms, Leave Church Alone. MADRID, March 5. Premier Maura, in an interview today was quoted as Faying he will try to realize many of the re forms upon the liberal programme, but that the multiplicity of other and more serious questions compels the relegation of the church issue to the rear. 'GUESS I'LL HAVE TO GO DOWN THERE AND DO IT MYSELF" CURZON AGAINST iROSEBERY Warm Contest for Chancellorship of Oxford University. LONDON, March 5. An Interesting con test Is Imminent between Lord Curzon and Lord Rosebery for the vacant Chan cellorship of Oxford University. It has been supposed that Lord Curzon, who wa3 nominated to this office some days ago, would be returned without op position, but now Lord Rosebery also has accepted a nomination and the mat ter will be decided on March 14, when the election will be held. Asks Czar to Build Ships in America. ST. PETERSBURG. March 5. General Batyanoff. formerly an officer in the navy. Is trying to persuade the Emperor that Russia should have a squadron in Far Eastern "waters at the earliest pos sible moment, and is recommending that the projected warships be built in the United States and not in Europe. The General declares that the American ship building yards could turn out In two years as many ships as European yards could In five. Russia is soon to, begin the construc tion of two battleships of 21.800 tons dis placement, with a speed of 21 knots, tur bine machinery and armaments of ten 12-inch guns each. It is reported these vessels will be laid down In St. Peters burg yards this Spring, and it is hoped to finish them in four years. Terms of New Japanese Loan. LONDON. March 3. The prospectus of the Japanese conversion loan will be Is sued March 9 and lists opened March 11. The amount will be $llo.000.000 at 6 per cent, and the issue price will be 99Vj. Half of the amount will be apportioned in London and the rest to Paris, where tha loan will be handled by Rothschild Brothers. In London the issuing banks will be Parrs' Bank, the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Yokohama Specie Bank and the Roths childs. The loan is intended exclusive ly for the redemption of $110,000,000 6 per cent bonds issued in 1904. People Flee From Moving Mountain. NAPLES, March 5. The mountain in the Province of Polenz, above Monte murro, which for two days past has1 been slipping down into the valley, seems to be moving much more slowly. The flight of the inhabitants, however, con tinues, fearing a repetition of the terrible earthquake of 1S37, in which 300 persons lost their lives. The present avalanche has destroyed 20 dwellings and two churches, but there have been no victims, the people having had sufficient warning . to escape. Hamburg Stevedores Strike. HAMBURG, March 5. The controversy between the shipowners of this port and the stevedores has become active again. The latter refuse to do any night work, which has been abandoned since May day 1906, as a demonstration against thfe pun ishment of their comrades who particiJ pated in the May day celebration. This afternoon the owners decided to engage men at other places and substitute them for the stevedores. Sulphur Yellow the Proper Shade. LONDON, March 6. According to Dra per's record, sulphur yellow, which al ready has a vogue In Paris, will be th popular shade this year for both wom en's frocks and household decorations. Prince of Wales Full Admiral. LONDON, March 6. The Prince of! Wales, who held the title of Vice-Ad-miral in the navy, has been promoted to be a full-fledged Admiral. - Morocco State Bank Incorporated.' PARIS, Maroh 5. The Senate today passed the bill Incorporating the Morocco State Bank. King Edward at Biarritz. BIARRITZ, France, March 5. King Ed ward arrived today on a special traili from Paris. Garfield Takes Oath as Secretary, WASHINGTON, March 5. James R. Garfield took the oath of office as Secre tary of the Interior today. The oath was administered by Warren R. Choate, chief clerk of the Bureau of Corpora tions, over which Mr. Garfield has pre sided up to the present time. Retiring Secretary HitchcocMi was present. He expressed appreciation of the manner in which the press of the country bad ,up held him during the many trying ordeals of his administration. Duchess of Marlborough Coming. NEW YORK, March 5 A. W. Eager manager of the Hotel Martha Washings ton, announced tonight that a suite of rooms had been engaged at the hotel by the Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Miss Consuelo Vanderbllt, and that she would occupy them on April 13. -From the Chicago-Record Herald.