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TTTE MORNING OREGONIAN, . TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1000. OTiSrSftW 'M'KftLEY "Explained tb,e Situation in the. Philippines. COINCIDES WITH TAFPS: VIEWS Practcally All tbe Rebel Leaders EitKer Dead, Captured or Pact fled Ag-alnaldo a. Dead Inane. WASHINGTON. Jane 1L Major-Gerf-eral Otla, accompanied by bl. aids. Cap ttain Slayden and Lieutenant Stanley, re ported at the War Ttepartrnent today. He Tvas met at the station by Adjutant-General Corbin and General Sch-vean. and the party was driven to he Arlington Hotel. JVtter breakfasting. General Otis repaired to the War Dopartment, -where he for mally reported to Mr. Meikeljohn, Acting Secretary- Thence. General Corbin es corted Mm and his aids to the White Hour. The President -r-ju? in his private office, in close consultation with Senator Alfson. Senator Cullom and Justice Har la?j when the party arrived. General Otis a.ad General Corbin were Immediately Mshered into the Presidential library, whore Mr. McKinley -met General Otis with thp utmost cordiality,, congratulating him upon his apparent good health and thanking him several times ftfr his signal services to the country. General Otls-tnade jio report to the Pres ident in detail. After a few minutes, the. rreslflx-nt invited General Otis Into his office and. prewmted him to Senators Alli son and CulVom and Justice Harlan, and for over half an hour General Otis re TOr"irtcd talWng over the situation in the PJUHpplnejt. The President and, hb visit or's were intensely Interested in what the General had to say, and Ith his opinion the -existing- situation In- thearrchlpel 'ngo. After General Otis left the White House lie was naturally reticent concerning the subject of Wis interview with the Presi dent. But he did not hesitate to reiterate nis statement, made repeatedly since land- f San Frandsco. that the Filipino rxobelllon, as an organization, is dead. "When bis attention was called to the T,r7 JudSe TafU- president of the Philippine Commlsblon.prlpted this morn ing. he,expressej the opTSftan that they "weie ,JrttMctb'rjr.'W 5K6Vtmited States wuldrffe compelleQnaCItaln In the PJillptflhes for a conslderatile period as Irrge an army js is there at present. "The anriy." said he. "uill be needed as ta measure of repression until the robbers and guerrillas are stamped out. The maintenance of this large force Is neces sary, owing to the vast extent of terri tory which, we mut coverT We have es tablished ourselves in IegroSi Cebu. Sa mar and many of the other islands. In ad dition to Luzon, and- are today actually -exercising -effective authority over more territory than Spafn ever did." General Otis ild" practically all the headers of the Insurrection were either 4ead. captured or pacified. The recent capture of PIo del Pilar, he thought, has 3ecn effected -with the consent of that -General. So far as "Agulnalflo himself was concerned. General Otis, was not inclined to credit the report of hi death. In his opinion. It mattered lirtlct however, Whether Aguinaldo was dead or alive, as his Influence had been completely de stroyed. . "Aguinaldo." he sal3 "is probably in hiding somewhere In the mountain of Northern Luzon, but he carries little more influence than anv other Individual at .arge. He is discre Uea and a dead issue." Asked as to Whether. In the event of more acute cprtrJIcatlons in China, troops. :ould be spared front the-Pillijmines for' fl-rvice there. 'General Otis replied: "Pos sibly, possibly NOT OVERWORKING HIMSELF. HacArtlir Turns Over to- Subordi - n1tcA the DcjtnJU -qf. HlsOJuce. . MAVrjj 2Say 15. General MacArthur. durir the few days he has sat In the Go'AJrnor-Geperal's chal?, has already af rfponstrated that he believes In letting tAe chiefs of bureaus do their share of trork. He has handed over to the staff officers of the department 'many matters Which hae formerly been considered in the Governor-General's office, giving them discretion in the settlement of details and only holding them responsible for results. One of his first official acts was to placo tho issuance of passes, such as permits to go through the lines, or to be on the streets of Manila after 10 o'clock. In the hands of the Provost Marshal. During the past 10 months General Otter aid, Lieut enam Stanley, had sighed 45.000 of these permits, and a large jiroportlon of the applications had perbonally been consld erM by General Otis. Another order which met with general approval was the appointment of Lleut-enant-Colonel E. H. Crowder to be secre tary to the Military Governor, with powers 5blch make the .office .one. of, Importance fiecqnd only. to. that fit, the Governor in civil affairs. . Among xho hraoches. of public business which will come under Colonel Crow dor's supervision nro the-Judiciary, customs, revenue, postal and telegraph, -treasury, auditors, municipal governments, schools, public works, claims, prisons, patents. ColdheVOrowder was more closely as sociated with General Otis in the civil branch of the last administration than any other officer, and General. Otis gave great weight to his opinions. Before the -organization of the- Supreme Court and the ifijBtem of FlJIpmo Judiciary Colonel Crow der was Judge-Advocate o the corps. As a. Justice of the Supreme Court he has done much to instil the spirit of the American Judiciary Into that body, which was not lacking In learning, but might have failed In other important respects but for such inspiration. At the same time he has sen ed on the Board of Claims, was a member of the committee which devised the present system of municipal covernments and helped to arrange the recent re-vision of Spanish criminal pro cedure. Major H. C. Hale, with three companies of the Forty-fourth Infantry, has become potentate of the Island of Bohol by peace ful conquest. Bohol is a third as large as the neighboring Island of Panay but had no armed insurgents. It had, however, a very completo and efficient little republic of Its own, -which formed a part of tie revolutionary government. m When-the-troops landed -Aitthe princi pal town, a body of local officials ap peared and handed to their new ruler a document which- was, .at first, supposed to be an address of welcome. The paner eel forth that the Senatq and Congress of sonoi naa neJd a joint session, hearing that the Americans were coming, that the inhabitants could not offer allegiance to the United States because that was forbidden by "the Honorable Emlllo Ag uinaldo, President of the Filipino Republic and the lawful head of the state," that Major Hale should first secure Agulnaldo's permission, then the Boholenos would agree to the occupation. But, the address continued, the Islanders were, unarmed, md Jn yinvf.Dt their poverty resulting, from Injur blockade could not be expected to attempt resistance. There Yore the President and Congress of "the Republic of "Bohol reiolved, flrst to avoid anything which" might be' viewed as prov ocation; second, to allow the commander of the United States military expedition to carry outh!s Qrders Tl.hout lnterfer enceilhlrd. to carrx onrthen&tiye civil gtfrOtfirnenttt-Ifh. the iawsrchich were received from the TillplniT Republic, and to do ever-ythVpg necessaryln the Interests of iawand prderj -pence 'and harmony. Major Hale 'could do nothingness than to meet so conciliatory a spirit half way. He installed the insurgent officials as servants of the United States with all their paraphernalia of office, but to their ' -"KrejLt'srief fe-t compelled t& insist uponjthe xcmwuBi? irom tne puDucsnuuaing oralis 3u-irifc!par. ornament, btg2painting of Ag "Glnaldo. He has btgun many public Urn -proveroents, started schools and new roads, but the Boholenos Temain true to their first love. They keep the Filipino ftas flying? In all the ..villages and only lower ftcwhtn "a; company pt American soldiers fectaes" along. -Then'they' hasten to swing out the Stars and Stripes as an evidence if-good faltiu- Apolonario Mablnl, the Premier of Ag ulnaldo's Cabinet, who is not only the most able among the leaders of the lnsurrrec tion. but almost the only one whose hon esty has never been questioned, has prob ably finished his career. His friends be lieve that he is dying. Mablnl remains in' an American prison in Manila because he has no where else to go. Before the revolution he was a. wealthy man, as riches are rated in the Philippines, but all his money was invested in the cause of "lndependencla." Recently, General Otis offered to release him from the prison in tho walled city where he has been housed comfortably since his arrival in Manila on condition that he would not take advantage of hja liberty to incite trouble. "But X have not changed my convic tions," said MablnL The General explained that was not re quired. Then Mablnl slid that he was en tirely destitute and preferred to remain in prison. Afterward, when his health was plainly falling, General Otis offered him a carriage for a dally drive. Mablnl re fused It, replying that "I cannot accept favors from the Americans." Mablnl isa paralytic, although a young man Thestfaln; ff his flight -with Aguin aldo rf r-pnr Tariac was a severe one- and now he cannot even rise from his chair without help. Those who know him pre dict that he will last but a few months. He remains extremely loyal to his dreams of an independent republic for the Fili pinos, but more practical men like Buen camlno scoff at him as an idealist vho cannot accept conditions. . The Manila newspapers are printing much about the troubles incident to build ing the great government Ice plant and cold storage warehouse which has been under jsray seVeral months, without re markable progress. The architect of the buildihg. Edward Barrath, of Chicago, and Prank L. Strong, formerly an engineer of the navy, were sent to Ma nila by the Quartermaster General to act as supervising architect and consulting engineer. General OUs detailed Major Roudlez of the army to have charge of the work. There was constant friction between the Major and the1-civilian engineers. Finally. Mr. .Barrath tendered his resignation. Maj or Roudlez returned It with the statement that the resignation was not accepted, but that Mr. Barrath was discharged by him. He also discharged Mr. Strong. These gentlemen appealed to General Otis, who declined j0 consider the question. They have .returned to the United States to. lay tho matter before the War Depart 'menC clofmlng that the Manila authori ties, especially , Major Roudlez. had no authority to discharge them. The American, workmen employed on the .buldlng jxre protesting because they are compelled to work 10 hours a day in a xroplcai country- The local papers are protesting because the cost of the build ing, half a million. Is charged to the. rev enues of the. Islands. They argue that it should be paid for by the United States because it is to he used solely for the storage of army supplies. FILIPINO FINANCES. Statement of the Rebel Government Found. MANILA, May 15. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) The Filipinos are addicted to the preservation of their rec ords, no matter how unimportant. Down in A.lhayr province, out troops recently pund;the yearly financial statement of the rebel government. While It is thought its figures are untrue, it is Interesting .qsan, example qf how the rebels o busl ness 'and -maintain -their prestige among their people. In the balance sheet for 1S99-1900, the Insurgent Minster of Finance states that during the year ISSS-1S97 the expenses -of the Spanish Government in -ndmlnstering-affairs 'amounted to $17,474,- 020, Mexican, but thanks to the capacity of the revolutionary leaders, the total ex penditures of the Insurgent government for last year only amounted to $6,342,407. "VA11 this economy was effected while the Manila Custom-House, a most lucrative source of Income, -was in he hands of the Americans. It was promised that as soon as the rebels gained possession of Man ila, which would be in a few weeks, they could manifestly reduce the rate of tax ation. In the meantime, money was need ed, and if was Incumbent on all good pa triots to pay all tbe tax collectors asked of them. With a few words describing Agulnaldo's glory and Invulnerability and the good time coming to everybody when tho American? are finally driven from the Islands, the Minister of Finance accounts for his income as follows: Income (all In Mexican currency) Ordinary indirect taxes 432,050 Ordinary direct taxes 1.016.757 Special taxe S43.C00 Extraordinary contributions 4,060.000 , Toml $5,342,407 The item of "extraordinary contribu tions" probably covers tho multitude of forced payments not Included In the other sources of Income. The expenditures are accounted for as follows: .General obligations...., $ 2S1.5S3 00 Foreign obligations S9.0W 03 Department of the Interior 203.550 00 War and Navy 4,997.654 3S Law and order 354.350 00 Public instruction 35.46S 03 Public vrorks 361.366 00 Agriculture, industry and com merce 21.6CS 00 Total $5,344,729 33 The statement shows a deficit of some $2000. The Insurgent government undoubt edly handled considerable money last year, but whether they collected $0,000,000 (Mexi can) Is "not known to outsiders. Their ex penses have been especially heavy m the matter of arms. Filibusters and others "have made them pay exorbitant prices for everything. Two of their Generals, Pana and Lut banare. are said to have largo accounts in the Hong Kong banks. According to this annual report, the yearly pay of a Lieutenant-General Is $720: a General com. mandlng a division gets $600; a Brigadier General gets $540: a Colonel, S4S0; a Lieutenant-Colon el,$420; a Major Is allotted .$360: a Captain draws $300; a First Lieu tenant $240. and a Second Lieutenant's stipend is J1S0. The wages of a Sergeant are $72 a year, a Corporal gets $60 and the man with the sun Is allowed $42 for 12 months pervJce to his country. This bal ance sheet further makes provision for 22,000 soldiers, 8XW of whom are Sergeants and 1800 Corporals, and the cost of keep ing them in provisions for one year is put down at $514,900 Mexican currency. Pontmaster Graham's Sentence. SALT LAKE. June 1L JohnC. Gra ham, found guilty tho 26th ulL of unlawful cohabitation with Mary Graham and Sarah Potter, or Graham, appeared before Judge Norrell today for sentence The 1 judgment -of the court was that the de fendant pay a fine in the sum of $250. or in lieu thereof, that he be confined in the Salt Lake- County Jail for a period of 250 .dags.. A. stay of 30 davs was cranted in 1 ojJder that he defendant might file a byi 1 ui exceptions. Hieing ine lnipnuun 01 me Supreme Court. "" 'RevoluHOn"lni'TI"hler Travel. Experlnfents liave proven that vessels mfelr.wiih propellers Tvhlch imitate the nns nn nevelop a remarkable propelling -pow:cn It-vnlVcanre a revojqtlon in water aft ways, axejbest. One cause of the remark- able success ofHdstetter's Stomach Blt- ters SDrinirs from the fact that It Is a harmless, natural medicine, made of Nan-re's" most strengthening herbs. It is a sure cure for eonstlnntlon. indfc-Mtion dyspepsia, biliousness or weak kidneys. WANTS -.MORE., MARINES : --. -z ' - AD MIR AIi KEMPFF CABLES FOR HK UNFORCEMENTS. Oac Hand-red Mea Will Be Seat i Him 3rrom Manila by tne Hospital-Sals Solace. WASHINGTON, June 1L The following undated dlsiatch has been received at tbe Navy Department: "Secretray of the Navy:. Forces landed by the different nations are opening com munications to Pekln. Americans joined. "KEMPFF." Admiral Kempff also reported the arrival of the Monccacy at Taku. The Navy Department later received the following cablegram from Admiral Kempff: "Tong Ku. June 1L Secretary of tbe Navy: In case all communications with Pckln are cut, I am not able to go it alone. If other nations go I will join to relieve Americans, pending instructions. The sit uation is serious. A battalion of marines from Manila has been urgently requested. Answer. KEMPFF." Upon receipt of the above, Secretary Long sent t)ie collowlng cablegram to Ad miral Remey, at Manlm: "Navy Department. Remey, Manila: Stnd by Solace Immediately with all dis patch to Kempff, 100 marines, arranging ll practicable, that afterlandlng the "Solace, shall continue the homeward voyage, as previously ordered. LONG." Minister Conger was heard irom again today. His telegram was to the effect that at Pao Ting Fu the foreign -missionaries are safe up to the present, and the Chinese Government has sent troops there and promises ample protection to the mis sions, though it is not thought that this protection will Insure safety. According to Minister Conger. It is im possible at this moment to send any for eign forces from Pekln to Pao Ting Fu. Mr. Conger's doubt as to the permanence of the Chinese ability to protect the mis sions is in line with his previous expres sions of opinion, indicating a belief in his mind that a few Chinese Generals, who are disposed to protect foreigners, are to be overcome by the element at the Chinese Court which is favorable to the Boxers. Mr. Conger asked for .further Instruc tions, and was directed to proceed with energy In the protection pf American in terests, and more especially with the pro tection of the American Legation and the lives of American citizens in China. He was warned, however, not to be a party to any alliance, combination or group of powers. He was to act Independently whenever this was practicable, although he was not forbidden to take concurrent action with other diplomatic representa tives. If sudden necessity should arise for It. He was to do nothing to commit the United States to further action. Tho tra ditional policy of the United States In this respect was to be strictly observed. The Naval officials say that the Nash ville can scarcely reach Taku before Fri day or Saturday next. Then the run up the shallow and rapid Pel Ho River to Tien Tsln will consume another day. The Yorktown and Castlne, at Shanghai, are rapidly being pat Into shape for sea. They were undergoing repairs, but this work doubtless will be hastened, so that If the conditions become more grave at Tien Tsin, one or both ships can reach there from Shanghai even before the Nashville arrives. "WILL ACT INDEPENDENTLY. America Has Gone as Far as Neces- ary. NEW YORK, June 1L A special to the Tribune from Washington says: The intervention -of-the United States In tho Chln"ese crisis. Involving the represon tlons already made by Minister CongeV together with the action taken by Ad miral Kempff, both under the discretion allowed them by the President's instruc tions, are declared officially to exhaust this Government's resources, so far as they can be applied at the present time. Without a distinct change in National policy, which Is regarded as most remote, and except under gravely complicated In ternational conditions affecting not only the stability of the Chinese Empire, but the equilibrium of Europe, the officers of American agencies at Pekln and Tien Tsln, as well as in future centers of disturbances, will be limited to such efforts for the pro tection of American interests as the parti, cipatlon by Minister Conger in the in sistent demands made by all the foreign representatives upon the Tsung 11 Yamun and the Dowager Empress for affording security to the life and property of aliens, and as the landing of armed forces and the dispatch of gunboats to furnish the neces sary protection In case of China's -failure to comply. Beyond this, it Is now clearly understood In Washington, other nations propose to go, perhaps at once, but the United States, while entering the concert up to that point, will act independently. It at all, in proceedings which will probably lead to a change of dynasty and perhaps a revolu tion throughout the empire. It is prob able, howeer, that -"whatever occurs, the commercial interests of this country, upon the baEis established In the written "open door" compact, will not be modified, even in case of the occupation by other powers of all the remaining coast line and the ex tension of spheres of influence beyond their present exceedingly elastic limits. The contingency of permanent territorial encroachment is regarded as too distant Just now to call for more specific expres sion by the United States than has already been given, for it Is believed the extensive military operations by the foreign forces around Pekln and Tien Tsln may involve only a brief campaign, resulting in such a salutary lesson to the unprogresslvc ele ment of China a8 to permit prompt with drawal after order Is restored. These op erations, upon rather a large scale, it is feared, cannot be avoided, but It Is unlike ly that tho United States will contribute ashore more, than 300 marines and sailors to the combined forces. This number is regarded as a fair proportion for the Unit ed States to supply, considering the rela tive number and valuo of the Americans and property requiring protection. If, as now apprehended, the anti-foreign rioting is to extend beyond the small dis trict of its present violence, and the wide spread American missionary interests up the Yangtse aro endangered, it Js more than likely that Admiral Kempff will have to spare much of bis available force in that dlrectldn. v The" battle-ship Oregon will be continued in commission with barely one-third of her regular complement, under the system which worked so well In the last week with the Indiana and the Massachusetts, and only skeleton crews will be main tained on the Monterey and Monadnock to keep those vessels ready for an emergency if the far East should require armored ships. MISSIONARIES APPEAL. Cablegram From Peltln Sent to 'the President. NEW YORK. June U. The following cable from Pekln was received today at the Methodist EpUcopal Board: "Pekin, June 9. Massacre of -native Christians. Situation of foreigners- is crit ical. Press Washington-Davis, GameweH." This came directly from the missionary society at Pekln, of T,hleh Messrs. Davis and Gamewetl are in charge. -A, copy of the message was Immediately sent t. President McKinley. In- repeating the cahle to the President, Rev. A. B. Lom bard of the "Missionary Soelety, -added the following: ., This means that our people are. In great peril, and trreafly need euch pro tection as our Government can afford." All the foreign missionary, society of ficers In New York are apprehensive as to the safety of missionaries In the North or China district sent out under Ameri can auspices. The Methodist Episcopal. Church has 14 missionaries in the 'district where the Box-trs are making trouble. The Congregational Church In this country reports more missionaries In the North China district than any other u55ana- tion. The Christian and Missionary Al liance has nlnu American missionaries Jn Chan SI Province. There are also 24 Swedish missionaries' about these points. Russian Troop Landed. LONDON. -T;tm llAiynrAlnir n a ilia. patch from Shanghai, dated today, 4000 Russians, with 20 guns, have already been landed at Tien Tsin and are- marching In tne direction of Pekin. A dispatch from Pekln, dated Saturday evening, says: "Another edict this morning orders the mllltaiv eovernor to toHo tho ttrAAts with cavalry and Infantry. Nevertheless, In the neighborhood of the legation the street continues thronged with the rough est una ox -a moD, reaay to break out at Minister Conger has sent 20 marines, and" ie xirjusa jaimster. air Claude MacDon ald, 12 marines to guard the Methodist Missions, a Comnonnr whore momhorK nf all denominations of Protestants have neen gathered. Business Is practically at sianasuu. McCalla "Was Firm. TIEN TSIN, June 1L It Is learned that but for the firmness of tho United States Consul and Captain McCalla (of the New ark), in charge of the American landing party, and the British Consul, there would have been further delay In dispatching the international riruard. to "Pkin nnrt the majority of (he forces would not have been British. At a meeting of the Consuls and Commanders of trnnni last Pi-onlm? hen the necessity" for the Imedlate dls- paicn ot troops was considered, the repre sentatives of two European powers ques- uuneu me necessity, ana afterward dis paraged the idea that the British force should nrenondirat Thn Amrln-AVriBrl- cans, however. Insisted and carried their poinu Advices to German Foreign Office. BERLIN, June 11. The German Foreign Office has received .a dispatch from Pekin, dated Sunday, saying the American mission-house at. Tung Chow, the river port of Pekln, has be.en burned by natives. The dispatch further says the Interna tional Club, outside of the gate of Pekln, has been burned, and that the Belgian secretary of legation was attacked by Chinese soldiers. The Foreign Office In terprets the latter news as confirming the serious views taken of the situation, and expresses fear that the German embassy will be next attacked. The German gunboat Tiger has been or dered to co-operate In quelling the dis turbances. Troops to Go to Tons Shan. TIHN TSIN, June 10. Telegraphic com munication' between here and Pekin was interrupted this morning. A special train left at 5 o'clock this evening with 20 British., troops to guard Tong Shan. If trouble arises In Tong Shan all the Nor thern China railways will be at a stand still. Empress Goes to Russian Legation. LONDON, June 1L A special dispatch from Tien Tsln sajs It Is reported that the Dowager Emprefn has fled to tho Rus sian Legation at Pekln. NEW YORK'S CENSUS. Little Difficulty Experienced la the Foreign Quarter. NEW YORK, JUne 1L But five more days remain for the taking of the cenouh In this city. According to law the task must be completed next Friday night, when tho work of tabulating- tho return 'will begin. Supervisor Charles -S. Wil bur, who has charge of the work In the boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx, is confident that his fdrce will finish its la bors 1n good time, and in a manner which will meet with approval. One-tenth of tho districts in this county are complete, and tho returns have been forwarded to the Census Bureau in Washington. Contrary to expectations there has been but little difficulty experienced In getting at facts from residente of the foreign quarters district In the city. While mem bers of the various foreign colonies were at first .somewhat reticent, they became only too willing to answer questions when tho matter was fully explained to them by the interpreters who are attached to Mr. Wilbur's staff. There has been little or no trouble in Chlna'town. The residents of that section have readily given to the enu merators the information -wanted. In Mr. Wilbur's opinion this has chiefly heen due to the Consular prpclamatlon which was Issued by the Chinese Consuls-General In Sari Francisco or.f this city In obedience to tho commands of tho Chlneee Minister. It Is believed that tho surprise of the census, so far as New York Is concerned, will be the great number of Italians re siding in this city who do hot understand tho English language. There has "been a largo increase In the local Italian pop ulation since the census was taken 10 years ago. There are three Italian settle ments now in this country the old Italian quarter in Mulberry Bend, one in East Harlem, and one in tho Borough of Bronx, situated In the neighborhood of Morris avenue and One Hundred and Forty-ninth street. From unofficial eources It Is learned that there Is a larger percentage of Ital ians who do not understand English than any other class of Immigrants who have located here. Congressman Boutclle's Condition. NEW YORK, June 11. A special to tho Times from Washington says: In making their calculations on carrying the House of RepresentatUcs next Fall, most of the Republican arithmeticians con cede the probable loss of Boutelle's district In maine. Boutellc has been renominated, and will doubtless be re-elected, but his condition is such as to make it very im probable that he will be able to attend the first session of the 57th Congress. One of tho most slgniflcane indications of tho general belief that Boutelle will be unable to resume his duties for a long time to come is the announcement Just made that Representative Foss, of Illi nois, will not take a vacation. He intends to put in the Summer, up to the beginning of the active part of the Fall campaign. In studying matters pertaining to the Navy. There U. very little. doubt that Foss will be charman of the naval com mittee for a long time to come. If the Re publicans retain control of the House. ' Cave-In at the United Verde. JEROME, Ariz., June 11. This morning about 1 o'clock there was a serious cave-In on the 500-foot level of the United Verde mine. In which John Gray, of Salt Lake, and Jed Torreno lost their lives, and Rob ert Northers, of London, was slightly in jured. James Melckle, a laborer, had his arm and thigh broken, and recehed in ternal injuries which are likely to prove fatal. The accident occurred in what was supposed to be the .safest place in the mine. Contract Not Taxable. DENVER. June 1L The State Court of Appeals today decided that a membership in or a contract with the Associated Press is not a 'property" which can be taxed. The suit was brought by the Rocky Moun tain News on behalf of the papers in the city using the service, to prevent the as sessment of the Associated Press fran chise at $25,000. The decision of the lower court that it was not a taxable property is affirmed. For Baby's Salxe, as well as her own, the, mother should use MALT-N U TRINE, the helpful food drink, to promote appetite, restore health, build body and brain. Made by Anheuser Busch Brewing Ass'n St. Louis. U. S. A. J For sale by all druggists. DONNELLY ACCEPTS IT RELATION OF PEOPLE'S PARTY, TO THE DEMOCRACY. Money Questioa. From a Popallst Standpoint Trusts and 'Hott He fVoald Deal With, Them. .HASTINGS. Minn.. June 1L Ignatius Donnelly's letter o acceptance of the nomination of the Vice-Presidency fol lows: "Hon: M. W. Howard. J. M. Mallett and W. S. Morgan, Committee, People's Party Gentlemen: I have received your valued letter of the 15th ult., formally no tifying me of my nomination on the 10th ult, as candidate of tho People's party for the office -of Vice-President of the United States. I acknowledge the great honor done me In that nomination, and, if elected, Bhall strive to discharge the duties of- the position- to the satisfaction of the whole country. I indorse every word -of the platform adopted by the con vention. Anxious to be brie, they did not perhaps cover every question upon which they were agreed.-- "Money is a necessity of civilization. Without it the productions of the ' peo ple cannot be exchanged. Wlthout-lt all trade and commerce must end. If it is furnished in insufficient quantities, .its purchasing power increases, and the prices of labor, and all commodities pro, duced by labor, correspondingly falL The rich therefore become richer and the poor poorer. To supply the peopJe with money is the supreme, function of government; for the only end of government a ihe prosperity and happiness of the governed. Hence the Constitution declares that Con gress shall 'coin money and regulate the value thereof. And in the same section it provides that Congress shall 'declare War, rdlse and support armies,' and 'pro vide and maintain a navy.' Congress has no more, right to authorize private bank ing corporations to coin money and Issue It to the citizens, than It woufd have to authorize similar private corporations to declare war. raise and support armies and provide and, maintain a navy. "And when the Issue of the money of tho Nation la left in the hands of private corporations, whose interest It Is to make it scarce, and. therefore dear, not a dollar of it can come- to the people- across their counters until some one borrows It and pays, interest on It, The country -is then in a: horrible" condition. It is as if we were charged for the air we breathe. It Is as if our army, controlled by private corporations, refused to resist the In-vaders of -our country until every citizen came forward and paid them a private bonus for defending his home. "Originally all business was barter; and gold and silver, valuable because the pa gan priesthood adorned therewith the tem ptes of the sun- and moon, became stand ard commodities; and being compact and portable, were finally used in making ex changes, and called 'money'; and so de scended to our own times. Lately, how ever, a criminal conspiracy was organ ized among the capitalists of the Old and New Worlds to deny the moon's metal, silver, access to the mints. They have thu3 reduced tho metallic-barter basis of all , business over all the earth one-half. Political necessity has forced them, in this country, to Issue paper banknotes to supply this silver vacuum; but these are only to reach the people by being bor rowed and paid for, with more interest and more eventual bankruptcy. And so they have set the pyramid of currency upon its apex the gold supply of the world a cube about 27 feet square, which all nations are struggling to secure; and pow tho Inverted pyramid is tottering to its fall, andi the bankers will ncarcely be able to prop- It up until after tho next, electloik. And when4t falls, mankind will be overwhelmed with calamities, for which history affords no parallel, While we re gard the redemption of the money of our country In gold and sliver as a relic of barbarism and a survival of pagan super stition, nevertheless, we demand that If either metal Is so used, both shall be .so used. If there Is to be a metallic basis for our currency, it must be as broad as possible. "There Is no more reason for making our money of metals than there I3 for engraving our National bonds on plates of gold, or printing our postage stamps on tags of silver. When silver was de monetized, it fell one-half In value; gold similarly treated would shrink In the same way. There is little intrinsic useful ness in either. Civilization could endure without both of them; It could scarcely live w'lthout Iron or copper. In our Civil War. Government paper money, without bankers, saved-the Nation; and Its life can be maintained, in" time of peace, by the greenbacks. "It Js a crime to compel SO.CCO.OOO of free people to depend for the first essential of human society upon a few thousand bankers, who make the people pay heavi ly for doing for them what the people are abundnntly able to do for themselves. The banker's note Is redeemable In green backs. Why not then destroy the bank notes and Tssue the superior paper the greenbacks? The world is today trying to solve the problem, Shall wealth or manhood rule humanity? "A great republic, based on the theory of 'equal rights to all and special privi leges to none,' and which, by Its Consti tution, prohibits monarchy and aristoc racy, needs a political party that is de voted to liberty and nothing else. Of what avail Is flag or sail. Or land or life. If freedom fail? "Can we reach the ends we have In view through the Democratic party? Sup pose that the old Whig party. Instead of decently dying in 1S55, when it had out lived Its function, had lingered superflu ous on the stage, and the people of tho United States had tried to use it as an In strumentality to destroy slavery, could they possibly have succeeded? No; they would have found one-half of Its mem bership favorable to slavery and one half opposed to It; and Instead of reform, we should have had continuous Interne cine warfare. "Slavery was destroyed by a party, every member of which was opposed to slavery. Plutocracy will never be over thrown by the Democratic party, with its head In Wall street and Its tail In tho Mississippi Valley. We must have a party dreadfully In earnest and in which there is not a single plutocrat. If 10 horses are hitched to the front of a cart, and 10 horses, equally strong, are fastened to the tall end, will not the cart stand still? Regret It as we may. plutocracy Is a3 much of a sectional question today as slavery was In 1S56. It Is the battle of the, money-lending region against the money-iorrowlng region; the section where the dollar Is bigger than the man against the hsectlon where the man Is In finitely bigger than the dollar. It Is Threadneedle street against the spirit of 1776. Its roots reach down to the Issue of monarchy versus republic; nay, they go even deeper. It is the iorwara move ment of God for the ble3slng of his chil dren, against tho troglodyte In his cav ern, cracking the leg-bories of his vic tim, to extract the marrow for his can nibalistic feast. "The famines, the suffering, the strikes, 'the poverty, the wretchedness, the sui cides of the multitudes, are all cannibal istic; but the banqueters are better dressed, than their predecessors of tbe .caverns. They do not beat their victims' "brains, out with, clubs they crush them with laws and combinations, or petrify them with false statements and false ar- guments. "This is a new country, based on a new idea the sovereignty of the common peo ple. Europe furnished us with our set tlers, and now it is overwhelming us with Its ideas. Aristocracy today rules the I greater part of Europe and America, Our Government Is a republic, and yet our rulers have stood'silently by while a mon archy has trampled the life out of two of our fellow republics. In South Africa. Give the People's party power, and we will put a stop to this state of things. War Is evil, but National degradation 13 a greater evil. "Better the eagle on the mountain top "night famished in "the fel lowship of storms," than the beastly rep tile in the swamp, bloated with filth and sleeping away Its wretched existence. Abraham Lincoln spoke of 'keeping the Jewel of liberty In the family of freedom'; btrt we have no 'family of freedom. Everywhere the tendency is toward des potism. "If this Nation Is to live, as a free re public. It needs the People's party, with its heroic breed of statesmen; who. aim at eomethine higher than a squabble for petty offices.' 'Tls not in mortals to command success; But we'll do more we'll deserve It "IGNATIUS DONNELLY." OHIO DEMOCRATS. State Convention Will 3Ieet at Co lumbus Today. COLUMBUS, 6;. June 1L The Demo cratic State Convention will be -held here tomorrow. It was at one time proposed to hold the convention last week, while Admiral Dewey was hers, but some of the subscribers to the Dewey contribution fund objected, and the plan was aban doned. The Dewey decorations, exterior and interior, however, still remain all over the city. The hotels have large por traits of Dewey displayed, and none of the Democratic heroes except Bryan. There is- much talk about Bryan and Dewey being nominated at Kansas City. John R. McLean has announced that he must sail for Europe with his family next Saturday, and that he cannot attend the convention In Columbus this week. Mr. McLean does not expect to return in time to attend the Kansas City conven tion. He would be placed at the head of the Ohio delegation to Kansas City If he would give his consent, but he declines. absolutely. Those who propose the combination of Bryan and Dewey believe there Is no doubt about the Admiral accepting. There Js some diversity of opinion as to wheth er this convention should take the Initial step In indorsing Dewey a3 well as Bryan for the National ticket. The officers to be nominated in tomor row's convention are Secretary of State, Dairy and Food Commissioner, member of the Board of Public Works and Jus tice of the State Supreme CoUrt. For each of these nominations there are sev eral candidates. Four delegates-at-large to Kansas City will also be selected. In this connection, the names most frequent ly .mentioned are those of ex-Congressman Tom. L. Johnson. James Kilbourne, Congressman John J. Lentz. Judge A. W. Patrick. Frank M. Marriott, Herman Groesbeck, William S. Thomas and Judge E. J. Blandln. The hottest contest for delegate-at-large Is between Congressman Lentz and Colonel James Kilbourne, both of whom reside in Columbus. CLARK-DALY FEUD. Sllverbow, Mont., Democrats Hold Rlvnl Conventions. BUTTE, Mont., June 1L The old Demo cratic feud resulted today In a split be tween the Daly and Clark people, and two county conventions, each of which will send delegations to the state conven tion. The Daly people bad the party or ganization and a majority of the regularly returned delegates. The Clark people con tested In a number of the precincts. The Daly people contested but one precinct. In this the Clark delegation was seated. Upon the announcement of the result, tha Clark delegates and the contestants left the convention hall and organized a sep arate convention. The Daly people con tinued in session, elected delegates, and In their platform condemned the methods alleged to have been pursued by the Clark people. , The Clark convention made a temporary orgariizatldn and adjdurned un til tomorrow. . ' LYNCH WAS ELECTED. New President of the International Typographical Union. INDIANAPOLIS. June 11. The official count of the ballots cast for officers of the International Typographical Union has been completed tor the first half of the ticket. The count shows: For president Samuel J. Donnelly, New York, 906; James M. Lynch, Syracuse, 14.143. First vice-president C. E. Hawkes, Chicago. 10.5C0: J. W. Hays. Minneapolis. 9064; S. L. Lefflngwell, Indianapolis, 3557. "" Fourth vice-president T. J. Canary, New York, 10,919; C. B. Menaugh. St. Louis, 9255". " Secretary-treasurer J. W. T3ramwood, Denver, 20,227. Trustees Union Printers' Home "Will lam Almlson, Nashville, 13.423; Daniel Black. Detroit. 11.511; John A. Churchill, Philadelphia, 8826; E. W. Patton. Wash ington. 9S40; S. T. Pfund. Hartford, 6S29; L. C. Shepard, Chicago, 076; R. L. Tatem, Philadelphia. (510; J. W. White. Kansas City, S67S; Bernard Wolf. 7372. The four receiving the highest votes for trustees were elected. 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