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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATTJKDaT, FEBRUARY 9, 1001. NO TIME FOR A VOTE Opposition to Settling Fate - -of the Subsidy Bill. PRITCHARD SPOKE IN ITS FAVOR Naval Appropriation Bill Considered b- the Senate The Bonae Passed 1S4 Private tension Bills Oth er Business Transacted. WASHINGTON, Feb. S. An Ineffectual effort was made In the Senate today to reach an agreement on a time for a final vote upon the chipping bill. Vigorous pro tests were made by opponents of the measure against such agreement, even for a date in the Indefinite future. Prjtcbard spqke today in support of tho Bhipplog: blU, and then the naval appro priation bill jvas considered the rest of the day, the shipping bill being laid aside Informally. The naval bill had not been acted upon when the Senate adjourned. There was no night session, and will be none tomorrow night. Soon after the Senate convened a reso lution previously offered by Pettigrew, calling on he Secretary of War for a copy of General MacArthur's report as 'to the conditions in the Philippines and for other papers relating to the Philippines was adopted, j. At the Ipstanofr of Frye, consideration of the shipping blU'was resumed. Frye then appealed' to the Senate that a time be fixed for thg vote upon the pending measure. He was exceedingly desirous for a vote. Personally, he had no more desire for n(ght sessions than any other Senator. He hoped that the Senate might agree upon some time for a vote a time far enough off to permit the necessary latitude for proper debate. Jones (Ark.) said he did not think at this time any agreement could be made for a vote. Hale said he could understand perfectly the views of those opposed to the meas ure, but believed the Senate would be in dulgent, as it always had been, with Sen ators who desire to prepare speeches upon the measure. He suggested that the pend ing measure Is in effect a political meas ure, and that the majority will have to assume the responsibility for it. He said he did not believe there is any desire to filibuster against the bill. Tillman expressed his admiration for the "wisdom and diplomacy always exhibited by the Senator from Maine (Hale), and the placidity with which he had attempted to smooth troubled waters here." He In quired, however, how the Senators could prepare speeches when they were now un der a full head of steam from 7 o'clock In the morning until 11 o'clock at night. Hale said he believed those who desired to prepare speeches would find time to do so. Tillman said he had no great objections to a vote upon the bill, provided he could be absolved from any responsibility for permitting the passage of the measure, because. In his opinion, the more rope the Republicans were given in drawing money from the Treasury, the sooner they would hang themselves. Chandler thought the solution of the pending question was to be found In an extra session of Congress. It was an In jurious custom to try to force through Congress at & short session much Import ant legislation in addition to the appro priation bills. Money declared Ms -willingness to accept the responsibility' for an extra session called to pass appropriation bills which might fall by reason of' debate upon the shipping bill. "The extra session would be your affair." said he, "not ours. We can go fishing." Prltchard spoke In support of the meas ure, dealing with It In connection with the advancement of Southern Industries. It was; in his opinion, the most vital measure presented to Congress In recent years, as it proposed to build up an In dustry not only valuable In Itself, but specially valuable In advancing the In terests of the entire country. He pro duced figures to prove that the South Was particularly interested in the enact ment of the pending measure. At the conclusion of Pritchard's speech, the shipping bill was, without objection, laid aside temporarily In order that the naval appropriation bill might be consid ered An amendment was agreed to pro viding that the promotion of officers of the Navy and marine corps, made on account of war services, shall not interfere with the regular promotion of officers. An amendment Involving the length of the course of study at the naval acad emy brought on a long discussion. The Senate committee had stricken out the House provision that the 'naval cadets who had completed their four years' reg ular course at the academy should be commissioned as naval officers at once. Hale explained that by the House provi sion 112 officers would be "dumped" Into the Navy at one time at the foot of the list, thus creating what was known tech nically as a "hump" in this list. This "hump" would stop the promotion of the younger officers. It was not expected. Hale said, that officers should be provided Immediately for all the war vessels au thorized. If such a plan were followed, it would cost $10.000,000 a year for the Navy. Tillman defended the action of the Sen ate committee, while Foraker, Caffery, McEnery and Butler insisted the House provision should be reinstated. Chandler, an ex-Secretary of the Navy, said that no greater mistake could be made than to reduce the cadet course from six years to four years, as the House had done. Without action, the Senate, after a brief executive session, at 6 P. M., adjourned. During the afternoon Spooner offered the following amendment to the Army appropriation bill: "That all military, civil and judicial powers necessary to govern the Philippine Islands, acquired from Spain by the treaty concluded at Paris on December 10. 1S8S, and at Washington on November 7, 1900, shall, until otherwise provided by Con gress, be vested In such person and per sons, and shall be exercised in such man ner as the President of the United States shall direct for the establishment of civil government, and for maintaining and pro tecting the inhabitants of said islands in the fr.ee enjoyment of their liberty, prop erty and religion: providing that all fran chises granted under the authority here shall contain a reservation of the right to alter, amend or repeal the same." In the House. This was probably the last day to be de voted to private pension legislation by the House this Congress. The high-water mark, .made in the Fifty-first Congress, was -almost reached today, when 184 bills were passed against 197 passed at a single . session in. the former Congress. In all. the House at this Congress has passed about 90) bills, a number considerably ex ceeded in the Fifty-first. A general pension bill was passed to restore to the pension rolls widows of sol diers of the Rebellion who subsequently married and became wrtlowed or divorced. By the terras of the bill, however. Its benefits are limited to widows of soldiers who were married before the close of the Rebellion, and who are now dependent upon their own labor for support. Bills were passed to permit homestead ers on the abandoned Fort .Fetterman mil itary reservation In Wyoming to enter on the quarter sections of grazing lands; to confirm two locations of Chippewa half breedssoript In Salt LakeOKy. Utah, and lo 'exfSno. "the privileges' of Immediate transportation of dutiable goods to the Port of Honolulu. The Speaker laid before the House the following letter from Acting Secretary of Slate Hill: "I have the honor to Inform you of the receipt of a telegram from the Ambassa dor to Great Britain reporting that His Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs laid before the King the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives relating to the death of Queen Victoria, and that by the King's command, Lord Lansdowne expresses the royal appreciation of that mark, of respect, and also of the additional respect shown by the House to the mem ory of the late Queen by its immediate adjournment." The House adjourned at 5:40 P. M. Amending Immigration Xiaivs. WASHINGTON. Feb. 8. The bill amending the Immigration laws so as to exclude persons affected with Insanity, idiocy or epilepsy was today favorably reported from the House committee on Immigration and naturalization. HAWAIIAN LICENSE LAW. Supreme Court Declares It Unconsti tutional. HONOLULU, Jan. 30, via San Fran cisco, Feb. 8. The Supreme Court has d clared the Hawaiian merchandise license law to be unconstitutional, leaving tho territory without any law of the kind, un til the Legislature meets and enacts a new one. The old law provided for an importation license. This was held to be in conflict with the Interstate commerce laws. This decision was rendered in an action against Theodore Davies fc Co., in volving license fees of 53760 90, or three eighths of 1 per cent of the value of im ported goods sold by the firm in a year. Honolulu has seen the last of the round-the-horn fleet of sailing sugar vessels. This year the sugar crop goes to New York In the large new steamers of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. A large fleet of sailing vessels has been employed every Summer for some years past to take the sugar round the Horn. It is reported that the new company will put 11 large steamships, all now, on its New York-Honolulu-San Francisco line, running a steamer every two weeks to make the trip from New York here in 5S days via San Francisco. The failure of President McKlnley to appoint a Circuit Judge to succeed Judge Silllman, who resigned two months ago, has resulted in a serious overcrowding of the court calendar. When Judge Hum phreys opens the February term of the court on March 4 he will have twice as much new criminal business on the cal endar as he can attend to during the term. Cases on appeal and civil matters will have to be left to wait. News of the death of Queen Victoria was brought here on the steamship Sono ma on the 30th. Though expected, the news that the aged Queen had passed away profoundly shocked tho community. Flags were at once placed at half-mast and a number of business houses closed their doors on receipt of the news. Many Japanese and native workmen on the Island of Maul, have formed an as sociation on the lines of some American unions, and they have started a series of strikes. The plantation managers have been anticipating 'trouble among the Jap anese for some months, and are anxious to supersede them with other laborers. Japanese who strike aro usually very promptly discharged. The 23 Tennessee negroes recently brought here have become dissatisfied and have left their work. They are said to be city men, of an undesirable class, and have proved an undesirable Importation. Many of them are making their way to Honolulu. They claim $28 a month with quarters, fuel, etc., free. The last lot of Porto Rlcans have proved a better class and are working satisfactorily. Sixty Portuguese who came here from New England are also well liked by their employers. The steamship Zealandla, on her next trip, will bring about 700 of these. She (will go south af ter leaving San Francisco, and take them direct from Los Angeles. WIRELESS TELEGRAPH. New System Developed Weather Bureau. by the NEW YORK, Feb. 8. A special to the World from Washington says: A new system of wireless telegraphy has been developed by the Weather Bu reau. "It is a success," said Willis S. Moore, chief of the bureau. "We have been ex perimenting for a year at Cobb's Island, In the Potomac River, 70 miles below Washington. We have completed an ap paratus that we expect will enable us to signal ships 500 miles or more out at sea. Wo shall soon send out ships equipped with receiving Instruments. We have just comDleted a station at Roanoke, N. C. and will soon have stations at Hat teras and Cape Henry. "We have succeeded in telegraphing perfectly with our wireless system for 60 miles over a rough country around Washington. That, I believe. Is fully equal to the best transmission that has ever been accomplished by the Marconi method. Our system Is quite distinct from his, and is being developed along our own lines. "We succeeded In sending messages for some distance from a staff only three feet high. We established regular communi cation between the laboratory and Wash ington, 60 miles. One of our men has a farm near Fort Myer, Va., just across from Washington. A staff 100 feet high was on the place and at the top we placed our instruments. We were able to com municate with the island as regularly and as freely as though we were working over a wire. The speed of the waves was prac tically that of light. We used a system of dots and dashes, and our receiver was of the 'sounder type. We read messages by sound. We expect, however, to de velop a receiver that will record messages. "Notwithstanding our success, it does not seem that wireless telegraphy is de veloped yet to the point where it can be used for ordinary commercial purposes on land. The earth disturbances and the con ditions that surround cities would prove obstacles." i Orders to the Tenth. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. The War De partment has Issued a general order des ignating the second battalion of the Tenth Infantry, which regiment Is now in Cuba, as depot battalion of that regiment, with stations as follows: "The Colonel's staff, band and company E, at Fort Crook; Company H, at Fort Niobrara; Company F, at Fort Robinson, and Company G, at Fort Mackenzie. The companies of the third battalion aer or dered to the Presidio, where they will be prepared for Immediate service In the Philippines. The two active battalions will oe filled by transfers and recruits to the maximum of 150 men per company. A Canadian Scandal. OTTAWA, Ont., Feb. 8. Senator Mac Kenzie Boweli, leader of the opposition in the Senate, has given notlco that he will move for a committee on inquiry Into the charges of H. H. Cook, former ly a members of the Commons, who said during the last general election that he was offered a Senatorship for $10,000. ECZEMA j NO CURB NO PAT. Tour druggist will refund your money U PAZO OINTMENT falls to cure Ringworm. Tetter. Old Ulcers and Sores, Pimples and Blackheads on the face. Itching Humors, Dan druff and all Skin Diseases no matter of how long standing. Price 60c If jour druggist should fall to hate It send us 60c In postage stamps and e will forward same by mall, and at any time you notify us that the cure was not satisfactory we will promptly return your money Tour druggist will tell you that we are reliable, as our LAXATIVE AROilO-OUINIKK J Tablets. hlch have a National reputation for wins, iuv uiuiuicu uj AiA ucussiau. jvaarcss PARIS MEDICINE CO.. St. Louis. Mo. THEY WILL FIGHT ANYWAY CINCINNATI PROMOTERS SAY THEY nUi PUXJi OFF CONTEST. Claim They Can Keep "Within the Bounds of a. Sparring; Match In Both. Contests. CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 8. With the ex ception of William A. Brady, who did not arrive from New York until tonight, all the witnesses have been heard on the ap plication for an Injunction against the Jeffrles-Ruhlln contest here next Friday night. Counsel -for the Saengerfest Ath letic Club are not sure .tonight that Brady will be called. In any event, coun sel on both sides have agreed to limit their arguments so .that the case will be closed tomorrow night. Judge Holllste is not expected to reserve his decision longer than next Monday, but there is no assurance on that point Even if an injunction is issued against a prizefight, so-called, It is stated that the promoters will claim the tight to pull SIGNOR wsmammtmmmmMmmmmmBmmammBBmmmanmmmMamBmBamammmmmmmssma PRESIDENT OF THE ITALIAN MINISTRY JUST DEFEATED. ROME, Feb. 8. King Victor Emmanuel conferred today with Slgnors Ivllla, Rlcottl, Ru dlnl and Biancherl, with the view of forming a new Cabinet to succeed the Saracco Minis try, which resigned yesterday. off a boxing contest here next Friday night and keep within the bounds of a sparring match in both the 10-round bout between Childs and Martin and the 20 round contest between Jeffries and Ruh lln. The defendants deny the jurisdiction of the court to restrain -such a boxing contest as is allowed under the Ohio statutes, and' they insist that they do notd Hiienu. mm- laere sua.ii ue " viuiuuuu ui the law at any stage of the contest. The defendants, on these grounds, expect to appeal the case to a higher court If Judge Hollister grants the Injunction, and they feel confident that, with absolute assur ances of a boxing contest only, as de scribed In the permit of the Mayor, and not a prizefight, they will be able to carry out their programme. The star witness today was Billy Mad den, who was on the stand most of the forenoon and all of the afternoon. He insisted that boxing was in the Interest of health as well as skill. He said the training of boxers was simply an exer cise for the perfection of health, so that they would be In such conditoln as to be Immune from injury. Madden insisted that there had been no prizefights by champions in recent years, and that Jeffries, Ruhlin, Childs and Mar tin belong to a later school of scientific boxers, and that none of them had ever engaged In a prizefight. Troops Will Be Ready. LIMA, O., Feb. 8. Colonel Ream, of the Second 'Ohio Regiment, says he has been notified that his regiment will be called upon to go to Cincinnati In case the troops are used to prevent the Jeffries Ruhlln fight. RACETRACK WAR. Tnnforan Meeting May Continue In definitely. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8. The local racing world was surprised today by a declaration of war between the Tanforan and Oakland racetracks. Prince Ponla towsky, president of the San Francisco Jockey Club, announced that the Tanfor an meeting would continue Indefinitely. According to the arrangement heretofore prevailing between the tracks, Tanforan would have closed tomorrow for the cus tomary period of time, and the sport would have been taken up across the bay Monday. Included In the declaration of the Prince was the statement that there would be a special handicap at Tan foran next Saturday afternoon for which a purse of 510,000 would be offered. This handicap Is to offset the attraction at Oakland Park next Saturday afternoon, where the Burns handicap, one of the greatest racing events of the year. Is scheduled to come off. Owners of racing horses at Oakland will not be allowed to start at Tanforan. Prince Ponlatowsky explained the dec laration of war by saying It was due to the fact that he believed President Will iams, of the California Jockey Club, which controls the Oakland track, was responsi ble for the San Mateo legislation, shorten ing the Tanforan season. The special match race between Canmore and Articu late has been postponed until next Wed nesday. Results at Tanforan today were: Six furlongs, selling Impromptu won, Courtier second. Raveling third; time, 1:194. Three and a half furlong3, purse Sol Llchtensteln won, Rosewar second, Rory Ough third; time, 0:4 Six and a half furlongs, selling Morella won, March Seven second, Vantine third; time. 1:28. Mile and a quarter, ptfrse Anjou won, Astor second. Bogus Bill third; time, 2:14. Six furlongs, selling Quiz II won, Birdie Stone second, Rathgar third; time, 1:1S. One mile, selling Imperious won, Billy Moore second, Phil Archibald third; time, 1:46. Races nt Nevr Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 8. Results: One mile, selling Rushfleld won, Locus Blossom second. Heroics third; time, l:4SU- Mile and a sixteenth, selling Joe Col lins won. Little Boy Blue second. Mitt Roykln third; time, 1:56. Six furlongs (heats), selling First heat, Albert Vale won, Tildy Ann second, Dousterswivel third; time, 1:19V. Second heat, General McGruder won, Douster swivel second, Albert Vale third; time, 1;20. Run-off, General McGruder won, Al bert Vale second; time, 1:214. Six furlongs, handicap Educate won. Empress of Beauty second. The Elbat third; time, 1:19. Mile and an eighth Lancewood won, Zolo second, Nearest tfllrd; time, 2:02.. Mile and a sixteenth, selling Madeline G. won. Brown Vail second, Claude Wal ton third; time, l:5Gi. Barry Outpointed Turner. DENVER, Feb. 8. Dave Barry, light weight champion of Canada, outpointed Rufe Turner, the lightweight champion of the Pacific Coast, two to one, and was given the decision at the end of a 10-round go before the Colorado Athletic Association here tonight. KILLED WIFE, THEN HIMSELF Act of Portland Man in Oakland Domestic Trouble Was Cause. SAN FRANCISCoTFeb. 8. F. M. Seely. of Portland Or., a railroad man, shot and killed his wife at her home In Oakland tonight, and then committed suicide with the same revolver. Domestic trouble was the cause. The couple had been living apart for some time, and had quarreled over the possession of their 9-year-old SARACCO. daughter, which Mrs. Seely succeeded In getting In Portland last December after some trouble. Seely arrived from Port land Thursday to recover the child. When he called on his wife tonight he found her entertaining a friend, who left tho room when Seely entered. Shortly after ward shots were heard in the room. . The members of tye bpusehold pushed in and found the couple dying. Mrs. Seely's father, J. H. Drumraond, lives at Cloverdale, near Portland, and a sister, Mrs. D. B. Ladd, Is a resident of San Jose. Seely was secretary of Mount Hood Division, No. 91, Order of Railway Conductors, at Portland. There is a Frank M. Seely given In the city directory as residing at 321 Mechanic street. Inquiry at the Terminal depot elicited this Information: "About a year or two ago there was a Frank M. Seely employed on the O. R. & N. trains as a conductor, and ho afterward joined the police force for some little time. He was about 43 years old." A personal friend of the dead man said last night: "I knew Frank M. Seely when he was a conductor on the Astoria & Columbia River Railroad, about two years ago. He was In a train wreck, and one of his legs was amputated. Then he went to Alaska, and came back" to a position as news agent on the O. R. & N. trains." BANKER CREEL'S VISIT. To Arrange Some Way of Putting; Mexico on a Gold Basis. NEW YORK, Feb.l. At a dinner giv en In his honor by Charles R. Flint, Senor Enrique C. Creel, a banker of the City of Mexico, was the principal speaker. The dinner was attended by a number of prominent financiers. It is the general belief that Senor Creel has come to ar range some way of putting Mexico on a gold basis, instead of her present silver standard. Senor Creel said: "Senor Llmantour will be the acting President of Mexico during the European trip of President Diaz, which will take place In the near future. France will be the first country visited, but the proba bilities are that he will visit London and all tho great Continental cities. On the return trip New York will, according to the present programme, be the port of debarkation. "So far as the United States and Mexico are concerned, the financial and indus trial interests of the two countries are of the closest and most Important char acter. Hitherto American capital has found ample field for Investment at home. Its increase has been so enormous in re cent years that it now seeka Investment abroad. Mexico is the most profitable field to which It can turn. I am not alone In this opinion. Many of the most eminent American financiers think so:" LARGEST YEAR IN ITS HISTORY Business of the Mutual Life Insur ance Compnny for 1000. NEW YORK, Feb. 8. The last of the annual statements of the three great life .Insurance companies, the Equitable, the Mutual and the New York, Is just out. The amount of business written by these companies In 1900 was $52S,297,175, and their Insurance In force at the beginning of the year reached the enormous total of $3,460, 629,600. As usual the Mutual Life Insur ance Company of New York Is far in the lead and easily maintains Its po sition as the largest, strongest, most pro gressive life Insurance company In the world. Its assets amount to $325,753,152; Its Income was over $60,000,000, and the volume of its business was the greatest In Its history. Nearly $2,500,000 were paid in div idends. All the companies are looking for ward to an exceptionally prosperous year. Dally Treasury Statement. WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Today's state ment of the Treasury balances in the gen eral fund, exclusive of the $150,000,000 gold reserve In the division of redemption, shows: Available cash balances $143,649,467 Gold .... 71,516,136 TO CORE A COLD IN ONE DAY, Take Laxative Bromo-Qulnlne Tablets. All druggists refund the money If It falls to cure. E. Y. Grove's signature la on each box. 23c CARNEGIE GETS HIS PRICE TO RECEIVE ?1500 FOB, EACH SHARE pF STOCK. Minority Holders Who Desire to Sell Will Receive the Same Terms Sew Company to Be Formed. NEW YORK, Feb. 8.-The new develop ments today In connection with the nego tiations touching the transfer of the con trol of the Carnegie Steel Company to J. P. Morgan, and his associates were: First, that Mr. Carnegie Is to receive $1500 for each $1000 share of his stock; second, that ' minority noiaers who desire to sell wui receive the same terms as those given to Mr. Carnegjej third, that the present stage of the negotiations contemplates tho formation of a new corporation, whose bonds will play a large part In the price to be paid Mr. Carnegie, and, fourth, the first public announcement in connection with pending negotiations of an official character, cosisting of a statement by E. H. Gary, president of the Federal Steel Company, confirming the news that J. P. Morgan is planning the acquisition of the properties of some of the largest iron and steel companies of this country. Judge Gary's statement follows: "J. P. Morgan & Company are undoubt edly considering plans for the acquisition of the properties of some of the largest Iron and steel companies of this country. Presumably they will not make or autho rize any official statement until after the plans are perfected, and It is probaine that they will manage the ownership or control so as to secure perfect and per manent harmony in the larger lines of this Industry. It is not Intended, however, to obtain control of any line of business or to create any monopoly or trust, or in any way to antagonize any people, policy or law. The success of the enterprise wi.i result In great benefit to investors in se curities, consumers and worklngmen or employes." The statement throws little light upon the details of the great transaction that Is now In progress, and It is probable that actual official Information in this respect will not be obtainable until the deal Is really- completed. The statement was, however, the subject of much guessing. It apparently confirms the general Impres sion that all the "Morgan companies" are actively Interested In the transaction, and, while nothing was said as to the Ameri can Steel & Wire Company, the fact uat counsel of that company attended the conferrences between President Gary and Mr. Morgan seems to leave little doubt that the negotiations uner way include the steel and wire consolidation. Inci dentally, It is said that interesting de velopments may occur at the annual meet ing of the corporation February 14. The "Morgan companies" are not generally supposed to have any Interest In the financial side of the new deal, but it is believed that they will be disposed to work In harmony with tho Morgan interests, at least while the market conditions con tinue favorable. It appears not unlikely, however, that the Pennsylvania Steel Company may be Included In the "com munity of ownership" plans, a theory that gains some color from tho report that Pennsylvania Railroad capitalists are to have an Interest In the financing of the current deal. A feature suggesting that Mr. Carnegie had In mind the sale of his company at the time of chartej- in New Jersey is the peculiar clause in the charter providing that the dnrectors of the company may dispose of the property of the company as an entirety. It is this clause of the charter that the men who are at present engaged In financing the deal are taking advantage of. If, fds now seems certain, Mr. Carnegie Is to receive $1500 for each $1000 share of his stock, the transfers in his case alone will bo the equivalent of nearly $130,000,000, Inasmuch as the ' great steel magnate's holdings at present amount to $$6,000,000. If, aa seems probablo, the mi nority holders are to be looked after by Mr. Morgan's syndicate, the financiering will Involve the equivalent of $240,000,000. It Is certainly beyond even Mr. Morgan's ability to provide this sum In cash on short notice for a single transaction with out seriously affecting the money mar ket, and no surprise was, therefore, felt when Judge Gary made the statement to day that the actual transfers of cash would be small. Mr. Carnegie is not likely to give up such gilt-edged securities as the shares of his own company for anything less at tractive, and no surprise was expressed in financial circles today when it became known that the financial plan contem plated either the reorganization on a greatly enlarged basis of one of the ex isting steel companies or the formation of an entirely new corporation to hold the controlling stock of the various com panies, all of such stock to constitute the collateral of the new bonds which shall be issued to Mr. Carnegie and to such other of tho present Carnegie Com pany stockholders as may wish to sell out with him. It may be stated, on what is practical authority, that the full details of the pro posed scheme of financing the big trans fer had not been completed up to a late hour this evening, but the general out lines of the plan, it is stated, do contem plate either the Issue of bonds or a sys tem of notes guaranteed in the manner already described. It was proposed during the negotiations today that a plan of pay ment might be agreed whereby Mr. Car negie should receive a certain amount of cash and the balance in notes of the underwriting syndicate, coming due at specified dates, bo that the transaction could be spread over a considerable period of time, thus overcoming the objection of a possible stringency In the money market. These notes were to be secured by the deposit In trust of the Carnegie stock as collateral. This scheme, how ever, did not meet Mr. Carnegie's objec tion to parting with personal control of the company until he had received full payment. Such an agreement would re quire the actual tlelng up, not only of a part but of all the stock that the Car negie Company stockholders sell until the notes should be taken up, a proposition which It was pointed out would tend to Increase rather than decrease the im portance of the transaction, if viewed en tirely as a possible money market in fluence. If Mr. Carnegie released a cer tain amount of stock as the notes were paid, he would become a minority stock holder in the event of a subsequent de- fault on the later notes, when it would become necessary to realize on the col lateral. Whatever the exact shape that the financial transactions might take, there Is little doubt whatever that It represents the termination of a battle royal between modern financial giants. Tho contest It self may be said to have grown out of the "community of Interests" Idea of such a policy which Is now controlling the railroads. It started on its most serious stage as a result of the Pennsylvania Railroad's policy, Instituted In a radical form by President Cassatt, of refusing to cut rates In all directions, regardless of whether the shippers were large or small. Mr. Carnegie had been used to receiving favorable rates under an, old contract be cause of the Immensity of his shipments, and he objected, it is said, to the policy Instituted by President Qassatt. The lat ter, however, refused to renew the old contract. Mr. Carnegie then appealed to Mr. Morgan without success, and thus found himself "bottled up," as it were, in Pittsburg, with transportation facilities no more advantageous than his smallest competitors. This was a situation to which a man of his capital, nerve and energy could not be expected to submit, and the next thing heard was that he had purchased thousands of acres on the Lake Erie front and that he had made definite plans, to compete with Mr. Morgan's steel Interests at the most vulnerable point, namely, by building an enomous up-to-date tube plant. Not only, did Mr. Carnegie do this, but he went about it in a practical way, acquiring control of railroad property with the apparent determination of securing his own road to tide water. It then became apparently a question of a contest with a "determined man with ample capital and general resources, and it was generally agreed that a war of rates In railroads as well as In steel would mean the loss of millions. President Cassatt about this time decided to make concessions In the rates for large shippers, such as might have been satisfactory to Mr. Carnegie at tho outset but the latter continued upon his competitive policy, and appears to have convinced Mr. Morgan's associates in the steel business that the only way he could be "harmonized" was to be bought out. Mr. Carnegie was perfectly willing to sell at his own valuation of his property, and he has apparently convinced Mr. Morgan and his friends that his valu ation of the interests in the Carnegie com pany was not excessive. The acquisition of the control of the Carnegie Company in the interest of other large consolidations Is undoubtedly of vast Importance, Inasmuch as there will now be no reason for the carrying out of some of the new competitive projects of that company which have caused so much con cern. In the Iron and steel trade. It Is claimed, during the last few years there has been an enormous Increase in the producing capacity of the industry. In many departments this capacity Is far ahead of the consumptive demand. For these reasons, bankers and financiers In touch with the Interests Involved In the Carnegie-Morgan deal believe that some of the most extensive and daring plans Instituted by Mr. Carnegie under the spur of competition will not be carried for ward when the control has finally passed to new hands. DUTY ON PEARLS. Recent Decision Saves the Govern ment a Quarter of a Million. NEW YORK, Feb. 8. A decision saving the Government $250,000 or more has been handed down by Justice Coxe, In the United States District Court, for the Northern District of New York. It is the final outcome of an action started two years ago to determine the amount of duty on pearls. The tariff on pearls in the natural state Is 10 per cent. On those that are strung or set there Is a duty of 60 per cent, but for a third class of pearls no duty was set down In the tariff laws. The Board of Appraisers fixed the duty at 20 per cent, but this met with opposi tion from members of the trade. An ap peal was made to the Board of General Appraisers to lower the duty, but the Board sustained the action fixing the rate at 20 per cent. Then the matter was carried to the United States Circuit Court, and Judgo Lacombe sustained the Board. Ho, how ever, suggested that If the suit had been brought under the similitude clause, a different result might have followed. Tho matter was then taken to tho United States District Court, where the Board of Appraisers have been finally sustained. It is estimated that had the decision been against the appraisers, more than $250,000 would have had to be returned to Importers who paid the duty under pro test. Lack of Assistant Surgeons. NEW YORK, Feb. 8. A special to the Herald from Washington says: Serious embarrassment prevails In the Navy because of the inability of the Med ical Corps to obtain competent young physicians willing to accept appointments as assistant surgeons. There are now 15 vacancies and two more will occur dur ing the year by the retirement of Medical Director W. K. Scofleld, senior officer of the Medical, Corps, and Medical Director J. G. Ayers. 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