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ji$S! PWr e-f Pfp iilij&'-fcW ifV-pr -Wf- jp.- THE" MOKNINO OT?F.GOyx X vWEDNES$AY, MAY , 1, 1901. OUR NEW DUTIES ABROAD KKSPOSSIBItilTIES BROUGHT TO US BY HECEKT EVENTS. Vice-President Roosevelt's Speech at the Annual Dinner of the Home "Market Club, of v Boston. BOSTON, April 30. An Imposing array of speakers, headed by Vice-President Roosevelt, held the attention of 1600 mem bers of the Home Market Club at Its twelfth annual dinner at Mechanics' Hall tonight. Vice-President Boosevelt was seated on the right of the president of the club, George R. Draper. Among the others near President Draper were Sena tors George F. Hoar and Henry Cabot Lodge, Joseph H. Manley of Augusta, Me.; Bishop William Lawrence, of Mas sachusetts; William F. Draper, ex-ambassador to Italy, and Bear Admiral Samp son. Previous to the dinner, a reception was held in honor of Mr. Roosevelt. The immense hall was hung on all sides with a mass of color, numerous political mot toes and pictures. Mr. Roosevelt was greeted with a storm of applause and three cheers. When he could make him--self heard he said: 'In reading the profoundly Interesting and suggestive biography of the great scientist Huxley, one cannot but be struck by his constant insistence upon the need, not merely of telling the truth, but of doing it. That is, of facing facts rec ognizing actual conditions so as the bet ter to grapple -with them. One way of facing facts is to remember that funda mentally what Is needed for success and righteous living in the Individual is also what is needed for the nation, which is itself but an aggregate of. individuals. Of course the analogy cannot be pushed too far, because there is a vital difference; for thB individual forms part of a com munity which he and his fellows have agreed shall be governed under certain Jaws; "whereas the nations of the world have not yet come to any such agreement, and Indeed, cannot come to any agreement that shall affect all until all are on a more nearly common plane of civilization. But the underlying fact remains that with individuals and nations alike success of the kind which is alone worth having must come from obeying the laws ,that tell both for our moral and our material well being. We cannot afford to follow that sordid teaching which would bid us pay heed only to the body; nor on the oth er hand, can we afford in any way to neglect the questions of material pros perity. In 6hort, we, as a nation, must act much as each man here tries to act, while seeking so to do his life work as to leave his children better off and to win and keep the respect of his fellows. No man here has any business to be "weak, any more than he has any business to be wicked. He must do no wrong; and he must also show that he can hold his own in the hurly-burly of life. Each of us wishes Ms son to earn bis living, to support himself, to prosper materially; and of course as a nation we must so strive to shape our governmental pollicles In matters of finance, of tariff and of for eign relations as to bring about the high, est material prosperity which can be ob tained by legislation. Some excellent per sons seem to think that the argument of material prosperity is a base argument; whereas of course such is not the case, any more than it Is base In a man to teach his son that it Is a prime duty to be self-supporting. But to argue only from the standpoint of material prosper ity would be base. A good man always hopes to see his son do more than eary his own living. In addition to doing well as a merchant or mechanic, farmer or labor er, doctor or lawyer whatever his pro fession may be he also wishes to see him do his duty before God and man, his duty to those dependent upon him, his duty to his fellows individually, and his duty to his state as a whole. Even so, each -of us should desire to see America become more and more a name cf pride,, not merely because It "symbolizes vast- -material prosperity, but also because it stands for lofty arid generous aspira tions, high effort and" unyielding resolu tion., "In dealing with our new duties abroad, we must approach them In the same spir it necessary for the solution of the prob lems that confront us at home that is, in a spirit which shall combine business ef ficiency with the highest standard of fearlessness and integrity practical com mon sense "with resolute devotion to duty. "As regards China, I need say but tut little, for it 'is "hardly worth while wasting breath on the very few who criticise our Chinese policy. We have simply performed our part In a bit of international police duty; we, at any rate, have never sought aggrandizement as a result of our action, and whoever feels we were not Justified in what we did ought logically to object to all exercise of the police power at home. There was no more 'militarism' in what was done by us In China than there Is 'militarism' "when a policeman arrests a highway rob ber or murderer. We would 'haie been branded with, infamy had we not taken Immediate measures to put a stop to the unspeakable cruelties of the Boxers, and to protect our accredited representatives at Pekln from the half-official attack -upon them. All civilized nations were a unit in this matter, and It is greatly to the credit of our Government that -we were among the few who were ready to act In time; that the gallant force under gallant General Chaffee "was a part of the expeditionary army which reached Pekin In the nick of time to avert a fear ful tragedy." Proud, Indeed, should -we be as American t$iat the stars and stripes fluttered among the flags whose approach meant safety from torture and murder and -worse than torture and mur der to the hunted women and children and despairing men who stood at bay be- 1 hind the crumbling legation walls. We should be proud of the signal gallantry of our General and his troops; and we t,hould be even prouder because that gal lantry "was unstained by murder and cru elty. Under the greatest provocation, our Government refused to yield to the clamor for mere revenge, and refused to take part In, or connive at, any effort to parti tion China, while our soldiers have so borne themselves that their camps have been crowded by Chinese refugees of all sexes and ages, who flee io them because they have learned that though our people are terrible in battle, they are gentle in victorj', and that the helpless are sure of protection under the American flag. "In Cuba we have had to face a harder, because, a less simple task. We were pledged to bring peace and freedom and independence to the Islands, and we have been resolutely bent on keeping that pledge, not merely in the letter, but in the spirit. To have driven out the Span iard and then immediately withdrawn our qwn forces, would have meant the brealdng of our own pledge, for it would have meant the absolute certainty of our being speedily forced to Interfere again. We would commit a grave wrong to our own people if we permitted the great island which Js our neighbor once more to become a plague-spot of civilization; a still graver wrong if we permitted the possibility of its ever being used against us by some strong alien power. Our bus iness was to help In the development of those qualities in the Cubans which would render them able to solve the difficult problem of self-government; to further every movement for decency In the Island, and to give our aid to the new Cuban commonwealth as It strove to walk alone. It is everywhere necessary to have good laws; but It is even more necessary to have good men to execute those laws. Something can.be done under a bad law by a first-class man; but the best law ever put upon the statute books Is use less In incapable or dishonest hands. The President chose in Leonard Wood." exact lv the man to put this policy Into effect. We "ask that it -be judged by Its fruits; compare the peace and order and justice of today with the unspeakable misery, the bloody jumble of -anarchy and tyran ny of three years ago. Think of the strides made in the school system and the courts; think of what has been' done toward the cleansing of the cities,." toward stamping out disease. Remem ber that the change is solely due to the fact that we dared to go to war -for a righteous cause. If ever in history an action has justified Itself, our action in Interfering in Cuba has thus furnished Its own justification. "Finally, we come to the Philippines, where the difficulties were greatest pf all. Perhaps few better tests of our worth as a Nation have ever been offered than" this Philippine problem. The temptation was great to shirk it altogether. Such a course would have appealed not only to many thoroughly honest and excellent peo ple who were Imperfectly informed, or who -were misted by false analogies or by sentimental considerations, but It would also have been greeted with enthusiasm by all short-sighted people and by all In -whom the legitimate dislike of needless effort and worry tends to become an un healthy fear of all risk and trouble. But as we look back we can now see that the National duty was really plain. We could not give the Islands back to Spain; we could not see them taken away by some other European power; and, least of all. could we turn them over to be scrambled for by insurgent leaders, most of whom were but little above the level of ban ditti, and the success of any of whom meant destruction to the peaceful .and law-abiding portion of the Islands, and -a more or less swift relapse into bar barism of the entire population. The first thing to be done was to restore order by putting a stop to the insurrection. This has at last been practically accomplished in a succession of campaigns which have brought out into bold relief the daring, the skill and the indomitable resolution of our officers and men. The campaigns have been wearing and difficult beyond de scription, both because of the nature of the country and of the character of our opponents. After the first few months the insurgents ceased to oppose us In regular warfare, their methods becoming more and more such as by any stern ap plication of the laws of war would have forfeited their right to be treated other wise than as assassins. For the last 18 months our chief difficulty has been not to beat the Insurgents in the field for that was easytout to grapple with the difficulty caused by their conduct in visit ing murder and torture upon all the friendly natives who were anxious to see our rule made permanent Tet under even these circumstances the Administra tion has seen to It that the almost in tolerable provocation given by our ene mies should not result In their 111 treat ment. Our Army has been most merciful In Its dealings. With equal wisdom and clemency, we have refrained from exact ing the penalties which by every princi ple of military and international law we had a right to exact from our foes. The record of the struggle in the Philippines for the last two years and a half Is one which should make all Americans proud because of the firmness and the mercy, the justice and the fearlessness with which their representatives In the Islands have acted under as trying conditions as have ever been faced in a similar case. From Lawton to Funston, many a name has "been added to the honor roll of the Republic Moreover, as soon as we began to get the upper hand of the Insurgents, steps were Immediately taken to establish a civil government In the Islands. Here, again, as in the choice of Leonard Wood, the President showed far-sighted wisdom In selecting out of the whole country the man best qualified to perform the task, in the person of Judge Taft. whom he made the head of the commission. . It Is a great and solemn responsibility to frame a new system of government out of such a welter of confusion, and to start the Filipino people on the first "stages of a career which we earnestly hope and be lieve will in the end result in their show ing capacity to stand alone a capacity which there is no chance of their show ing save by the patient following out on our part of the policy on which' we have already embarked. The progress made by Judere Taft and his associations 'has beenjwon&erful. There Is no adequate reward-which" we can'glve to-ihen like Judge Taft and General Wood for what they have done for us; but let us at leastpay them the homage of a thorough apprecia tion of their work. After all, any re ward that we could give them would be but little compared to the priceless re ward of doing so well the work itself; for each of these two men has drawn the highest prize we have to offer ori this earth the prize of doing In the best pos sible way a service that is of vital Im portance to mankind. "In developing these islands, It is well to keep steadily In mind that business Is one of the great levers of civilization. It is immensely to the interest of the people of the islands that their resources should be developed, and, therefore, it Is to their interests even more than to ours that our citizens should develop their in dustries. The further fact that It Is our duty to see that the development takes place under conditions so carefully guard ed that no wrong may come to the isl anders, must not blind us to the first great fact, which is the need of the devel opment. "No greater strides toward securing prosperity for the island folk can be taken than to make the conditions such as to invite business enterprise. But In our own Interest and for the sake of our own honor, we must steadily Insist upon one point. Our public men, the represen tatives of our Nation, whether In civil or, In military life, whether in Congress, in the colonial service, or in the Army- or Navy, must understand that their rela tions toward the islanders are those of trustees, and that no trustee Is allowed to make any gain because of his relation with his ward. It is to the advantage both of American and of the Islands to have any merchant or business man start and develop a legitimate business enter prise of any kind in the islands; but no public man should have any share In such a business, and public opinion should not tolerate for a moment such action among our public men. As for the offenses that are at times bound to occur in connection with the public service in the islands, we should on the one hand see to it that the most prompt and severe punishment Is -visited upon the offenders; and In the next place we should remember that It is sim ply silly to treat such an offense as In any way a condemnation of our policy. It is exactly as in private life. It is highly necessary to punish with" severity any de faulting bank cashier, but to treat such a defalcation as a reason for abandoning our banking system would be preposter ous. In organizing the new governments it is Impossible to prevent an occasional unworthy man from being put in some position of trust which he may abuse. Probably the best way to prevent it is to clve as much power as possible to men like General Wood and Judge Taft men whose appointment by the President has put all Americans who are zealous of their country's reputation deeply In his debt. All that can be done In- addition Is both by law and by the force of public opin ion to visit with crushing severity any such offense when it occurs. It Is an in famous thing for a man to be guilty of dishonesty here in our own country; but It is doubly and trebly infamous when he is guilty of dishonesty in connection with the public service in Cuba or the Philip pines or Porto Rico. In the first case, he sins against Individuals; in the next case, he not only sins against individuals, but he blackens the good name of the entire Nation. In every man who serves our Government, from the top to the bottom. In military or in civil lifet in these distant islands, we have a right to demand the highest standards, the most unblemished record of public conduct, and woe to us if we lower this standard, if we relax our just and Jealous severity. "Now, In conclusion, let me ask you to judge the future by the past. Look back over the last three years and see what we have done. Think how infinitely better off Cuba and the Philippines are because of the policy upon -which this republic has acted. Mankind Is our debtor for what we have done, and the doing- of it has raised our national character to a higher standard than ever before. We have made mistakes, or course; let us" profit by them, an avoid them -hereafter; but at home, and abroad let usftjontinue on the course we have marked out We talk-jnucb, and on the whole we talk. truly, of the future greatness of our peo ple. Let us see to it that our deeds make good our words, that we take advantage of our manifold opportunities and do with out flinching our manifold duties. We are not to be excused if we fall to do all that is required of a great nation, stand ing as, one of the great powers of the earth, and least of all are we to be ex cused If we fall tokeep In mind the prin ciples that underlie all real greatness the principles of justice and of mercy of courage and of honesty, that go to make up a national record of clean living and true manliness." At the conclusion of Mr. Roosevelt's address he was given three more cheers. The next speaker was Senator Hoar, who- eulogized President McKlnley and defended the proposed conferring of the ' THE BRITISH AREALARMED LEYLAND LUTE DEAL AROUSES their Apprehension. f Possibility ef the United States Dominating the Atlantic Carrying; Trade Details of "the Sale, LONDON, May l.--The Leyland line deal provokes unusual discussion in the morn ing papers, -which recalls the existence of not a little apprehension as to the pos. sibllity of- the 'United States-dominating the Atlantic carrying trade. The general Impression, however, 13 that the transfer Is connected with the'prObahle'paseage by mHMMMtMtMHtMiMtMM - APPOINTED SECOND LIEUTENANT IN REGULAR ARMY mMJHBMBBMBBKxmm mBKKBmsBBB W nPBBBttBBBBBn$&& fEBBBBBBBBSMiiWM 'iBBBBBBSm wMBmf0m BBBBBBBBBM0$i 'mBBBBBBBBBiWfSBM 'iiHBHHHIHSHMt HMHMBmHHp imMKSSKmBSmnm cw vvtsraaHHaoM-.v?.:., . t s no definite Information is yet obtainable, ittls understood that, the American line has also been In conference with Messrs. Morgan and Baker, with the idea either of joining or making e. -working arrange ment. Liverpool shipping circles, seem ingly In Ignorance of this "phase of the affair, predict sharp competition between the Morgan people and the American line. .Aside from the new combination, there Is general activity among' the At lantic steamship lines. Two conferences win be held- in the .near "future. The first will be held with the view to bringing the White Star and Cunard lines into the Continental pool. The second will be a conference for the purely Continental lines to fix a uniform steerage rate. It will be- held in Paris this week. It is said that overtures have been made to certain, Manchester engineering firms for the purchase of their concerns by an American syndicate. THE SCHEME MAY FAIL PROPOSED CONSOLIDATION OF RIO GRANDE ROADS ENJOINED. 4N3&$a h&Mm&MW m&&$M 3SrgM8&S mmm SP JOHN P. HASSON, OF VANCOUVER, WASH, f VANCOUVER, -Wash., April 30. Lieutenant John P. Hasaon, who has been appointed to a Second Lieutenancy In the regular Army, Is a son of Captain Patrick Hasson, retired, of Clark County. Though but 23 years of age, Lieutenant Hasson .has seen more active service in the Army than many officers twice his age. He- was born In Fort Douglas, .Utah, April 10, 1878. He received his education chiefly in the schools of this city. He would have graduated from the Vancouver High School In 1508, but for the breaking' out of the Spanish-American War. Enlisting at the first call for volunteers in the JUrst Washington Volunteers, he accompanied the regi- ' ment to San Franqlsco,., where, "before It was ordered -to sall,1je was trfcns- .f erred to thle. Fourteenth Infaiitry as a CortToraU' With the Fourteenth-he saw several months' had service In the first part of the Philippine war. He took part in all the principal battles In which the regiment was en gaged, and was one of the five men who volunteererd to go with Lieu tenant Perry L. Miles in the, perilous undertaking at Block House No. 14. In the early Spring of 1890, he was sent to the United States in charge of insane soldiers, and during his leave of absence received his appointment as First Lieutenant of the Thirty-fifth Volunteer Infantry, theh being re cruited at Vancouver 3arracks, In April, 1000, he was wounded in the hip while commanding a detachment of itacabebe scouts, and spent three months sick leave at his home here. Instead of being sent home with his regiment. Lieutenant Hasson. was given command of a detachment to guard prisoners, and Is still In the Philippines. ocoo degree of LL.D. upon him by Harvard. Senator Lodge and General Guild also spoke. LAW STOOD IN THE WAY. Why Two Chicago Aliens Did Not Fight a Duel. CHICAGO, April 30. A local paper says: "A duel was to have been fought next Saturday, the place to be decided upon by the seconds and remain unknown to even the principals until the nour or combat. The principals were Maurico Heilmann, French Vice-Consul of this city,and Dr. Hal Schwegel, Austrian Con sular attache and an ex-Lieutenant in the Austrian Hussars. "The trouble grew out of an early morning1 canter in Lincoln Park. Herr Heilmann's horse, did. not act properly and he resented Dr. Schwegel's Interference. When Schwegel returned to his quarters he decided to challenge Heilmann to fight, and requested Architect Hertz and Lieutenant Faulblnger, of the Austrian ( Army, to act as his seconds. The chal lenge was written and dispatched by the Lieutenant. Heilmann accepted and chose as his seconds .Professor Ange, of the "University of Chicago, French depart ment, and Harry J. Furber, Jr., a law yer. "All the details had been arranged when the matter came to the ears of Baron Deflelsh, the Austrian Consul. He decided to try to bring the affair to a termination. He acquainted Henri Merou, the French Consul, with the preparations being made for a combat by his attache, and the two cast about for a reasonable way out of the trouble. They decided finally to call on Heilmann's second, Furber, and he In turn called a meeting of principals and the seconds. This meet ing took jjlace. Hardly had the men seat ed themselves when JFurber announced that duelling In Illinois was a crime "and if the affair. proceeded any further, he would notify the proper authorities. Tho principals were dumfounded at the un expected turn of affairs, "and protested vehemently and Indignantly. Mr. Furber. however, was firm. He cited to them the law of the state, and finally peace was agreed upon." " Too Much Killing: In Africa. A St. Hill Gibbons In Geographical Journal. I have one thing more to say, and I say it in proof of my' opinion that there has been a great deal too much killing in Africa. During -the last 10 years my routes, added to those ot my colleagues, exceed 20,000 miles beyond the reach of railroads, and mainly in the most remote parts of Africa of today, yet no one of us has found it necessary to take a single human life, and for my own part I would have no compunction In traveling again unarmed over any part of those 20,000 miles. A new process, known as Lawton's, has been invented for the preservation of fresh fruit in a sterilized atmosphere, by which, at or before maturity, It can be stored without suffering deterioration. By means of a fan -air Is forced through a stove containing red-hot coke, -whereby, the oxygen Is consumed and th'e germs or anlmalculae are destroyed. The gases are then filtered and cooled. the United. States Senate of a subsidy bill. It is considered that the terms of the transfer are so profitable to the Ley land people that there is believed to be no question of their acceptance, and the other shipping companies would gladly sell on the same terms. The effects of the transfer are discussed In all their bearings. Sir Christopher Fur ness, who contributes to the Daily Mail a long article dealing with .the steel and other trusts in-the United States, insists upon the necessity of the country wak ing up to meet the new competition. The Dally Telegraph asks editorially whether the whole British Empire to be bought up or bought out by American millionaires. It calls J. Plerpont Morgan 'the Bona parte of trade," end thinks the British public "will be very foolish if ifc is lulled by statements that there is no Intention to withdraw the vessels of the Leyland line from the Union Jack. "Thie is a serious situation," says' the Dally Telograph, "which calls for concerted action on this side, and especially looking to the enor mous growth of the American export trade and the increase of the American and German shipping tonnage." A circular was issued today by Chairman Ellerman, of the Ley land line, In which he says that he has contracted with J. PlerpOnt Morgan ror tne sale of nls entire "holdings of or dinary shares in the steamship line, name-, ly, 71,000 shares, at 14 10s per share for each 10 share, and that Mr. Morgan agrees to purchase on similar terms all ordinary shares offered before May 26. Holders of a great majority of the or dinary shares have, according to the cir cular, Intimated to Mr. Ellerman that they will avail themselves of the offer of Mr. Morgan, and the effect -will be that the purchasers will become owners of practically all the ordinary shares of the corporation at a cost of upward of L750, 000. Mr. Ellerman binds himself not to engage either directly or Indirectly in the North Atlantic trade either with the United Kingdom or the Continent, except between Antwerp and Montreal, for a term of 14 years, on condition that the purchasers sell him the Mediterranean, Portugal and Montreal fleets and the business connected therewith at an agreed price. Mr. Ellerman adds that he proposes to retain his entire holdings In preferred shares, amounting to over 180,000 and his codlrectors will retain all their' pre ferred holdings, amounting to 120,000, Mr. Ellerman also offers to buy any pre ferred shares at par and their accrued interest. A circular Issued by the secretary of the Leyland line accompanies Mr. Ellerman's circular. It explains that the directors, including Mr. Ellerman, 'hold SS6,6S0 out1 of 1,200,000 ordinary shares capital, and 314,900 out of 1,415,000 preferred In cap!- tal. Several of the directors also control a large amount of other shares, and all the directors intend to vote In support of Mr. Ellerman's arrangement at all the meetings called In connection therewith. The secretary adds: "It Is anticipated that practically all the ordinary shareholders will accept the offer and the effect will" be that the Mor gans will hold 1,200,000 ordinaries at a cost of over 1,750,000." A meeting of the shareholders has been called for May 7. The shipping combine absorbs the In- terest of the commercial world. Though Moving Steel Trust Offices. ' NEW YORK, April 30. It Is learned that the National Steel Comnany will soon remove Its office In this city to Youngstown, O.. where its most important plant Is situated. It has been here for two years. Jt Is reported that the ajlled companies, the American Steel Hoop Com pany, the American Sheet Steel Company and the American TInplate Company would remove their main offices from this city by order of the parent company, the United States Steel Corporation. The last named wishes the main offices of the sub sidiary companies to be near Its princi pal mills. F. S. Wheeler, who is the treasurer of all the subsidiary companies, would not talk last night about their re moval. FREE SEED DISTRIBUTION. Recent Experience Emphasizes Fact That It Is a Bis Farce. WASHINGTON, April 29. There is a forcible argument connected with the Congressional seed distribution as con ducted this year, which should appeal to Congress when It comes to authorize the next appropriation for the purchase of free seeds. There has been general dis satisfaction expressed with the manner in which the recent distribution has been conducted. Members of Congress filing tneir orders were obliged to wait per haps a month, and sometimes more, be fore the seeds were even placed In the mails. As a consequence, thousands of farmers have received seeds weeks after their planting was done. The good will of the Congressman was there just the same, but as far as practical results are concerned, such distributions amount to absolutely nothing. The Department of Agriculture has not been to blame for this delay, for these annual seed distributions are carried on by private contractors. This year it was the Market Gardener's Association of Philadelphia which secured the contract for garden seed, and It Is responsible for the delay. The trouble lies in the fact that the contract was taken at such a low figure that the work could not be car ried out expeditiously. But the delay In time Is not the cause for general complaint. Other seed firms of the East have filed charges with the Secretary of Agriculture and with the Treasury Department, setting forth that the contractors have furnished inferior grades of seed and short weights in the respective "packages. The specifications call for the best quality of seed and a certain weight to the package. In an swer to this -charge the contractors are reported to have stated that at the con tract price they are practically obliged to supply an Inferior grade of seed and re duce the quantity per package. And yet,In the light of past experience, this year's distribution Is but a repetition of the old, old story. Low bids naturally result in slow distribution and a poor quality of seed. The Congressional seed distribution has been held up to general ridicule year after year, and the "seeds 'that will' not grow" have been the sub ject of many and many a jest. As a mat ter, of fact, the Congressional seeds are practically always poor in quality and slow of distribution. The whole matter of a free seed dis tribution as carried out is a farce from start to finish. Members of Congress ad mit this, and If the facts were known, 90 per cent of the men in both House and Senate would so confess their belief. They look upon the seed distribution as a necessary evil, however, and as the proposition for seed distribution comes up each year, they fall In line and vote the necessary money, because "they want the rural votes." And what Is more, they are steadily increasing the amount of the seed. Last year members had 5000 odd packages of garden seed. This year they had SOOO or more packages, and it is es timated that next year each member will have from 10,000 to 12,000 packages of this almost worthless seed to ship to his con stituents, in the hopes of strengthening his vote. When Congressmen are willing to go before their own constituents on their own merits and do not depend upon pat ronage and generally distributed favors, such as this ridiculous seed distribution, the senseless practice and yearly outlay may be dispensed with, but that day will not come before the long-looked-for mil lennium. Instead of curtailing the seed distribution, Congress will yearly Increase Its volume, and In consequence Increase the amount of good public money that Is wasted In this matter. Restraining Order Issued Asalnst Spencer, Traalc & Co. The Burlington Deal. ' NEW YORK, April 30. Judge Brown, In the United States Circuit Court, signed an order today restraining Spencer, Trask &. Co. from carrying out the proposed consolidation of the Rio Grande Western Railway, of Utah, and the Denver &Rlo Grande Railroad, of Colorado, and en joining the firm from selling any of the stock of the proposed consolidated con cern. . THE BURLINGTON DEAL. An. Directors Official Circular nonnces Details. BOSTON, April 30. The official circular Issued by the directors of the Chicago, Burlington & Qulncy making announce ment of details of the offer of the North ern Pacific and Great Northern compan ies to purchase the capital stock of the Burlington Railroad, was mailed to stock holders today. The circular Is an amplifi cation of facts previously made known concerning the deal. Besides the offer to purchase the Burlington stock on the basis of $200 in bonds for $100 in stock, the circular says that the bonds are to be the joint obligation of the Northern Pacific and of the Great Northern companies. Such stockholders as desire a part pay ment of cash will receive $160 In bonds and $40 In cash. As previously stated, the bonds are to bear Interest at the rate of 4 per cent Per annum from July 1, 1S91, and are to mature July, 1921, but are to be redeemable at the option of the two Northern companies at 105 per cent and accrued interest on July 1, 1901, or on any coupon day thereafter. The pur chasing companies reserve the right to pay off part without paying the whole of the bonds; the number of bonds to be paid will be designated by lot. tiOW TO FIND OUT, Fill a bottle or common glass with, your water and let it stand 24 hours; a sedi ment or settling indicates an unhealthy condition of. the kidneys; If it stains the linen It Is evJdencs ,of , kidney trouble; too frequent desire to pass it. or pain in ,the back is also convincing proof that the kidneys and bladder are out of order. ,lJ ' "WHAT TO DO. 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WILL SETTLE TAXES. Northern Pacific Accepts Proposition of Clark: County. VANCOUVER, Wash., April 30. The Northern Pacific Railroad Company has agreed to settle Its delinquent tax account with Clark County. The County Com missioners today accepted the offer of the company to square the account by paying 70 per cent of the delinquent taxes, less "the penalty and Interest due from de linquency. The total ammount standing on the rolls is about $34,000. Of this, about $11,000 represents penalty and Inter est, leaving about $23,000 of which the company will pay 70 per cent. The set tlement was made upon the basis of the proposition made by the Commissioners to ine company two weeks ago. COAST-KOOTENAY ROAD. Company Offers to Proceed, Exclus ive of Dominion Subsidy. - VICTORIA, B. C, April 30.--It Is under stood that the government today received an offer from the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway which, If accepted, will involve the immediate construction of a portion, at least, of the Coast-Koofenay road. It Is said that the company men tioned agrees to proceed at once, exclus ive of any Dominion subsidy, provided the local government gives It the subsidy provided In the railway act. The offer provides that 30 miles of railroad should be constructed at each end during the present Summer. The question of terms, of course, would have to be arranged between the contracting parties. passed the county government act. and the law tp provide for an income tax. The latter assesses 2 per cent on all over $1000 on the income of every person or corpora tion. The two bills have now gone to the Senate, where It Is stated there are many amendments in prospect, and the passage of the county government act Is doubtful. The Senate has again- postponed consid eration" of the Governor's appointments. The home-rulers are holding many cau cuses to consider various lists of officials as they would have them, but they have not been able to agree upon a slate. They will carry a refusal to confirm several of the Governor's nominees, but the matter has now been postponed until the 53th day of the session. The Joint session, held on the 23d. for the purpose of selecting Senators who are to hold over for four years, resulted in a defeat for the home-rule party, except as it Is affiliated with the Republicans. The Republicans and home-rulers who voted with them carried a motion to ad journ the session until the 58th day ot the legislative session, by a vote of 31 to 13, against a hard fight at the pure home, rulers, whose party seems to have been disintegrated. The Lower House has adopted a mem orial to Congress asking that a commis sion be sent here to investigate the pub lic lands question, and protesting against repeal of the clause in the organic act which prohibits any cqrporatlon from holding or acquiring more than 1000 acres of land. Change in Union, Pacific Control. NEW YORK. April 30. The Evening- Post today says: "Evidence that the control of the Union Pacific Railway has undoubtedly passed is seen in the recently extraordinarily active market for the shares. Even Union Pacific interests today admitted that the buying could be explained on no other theory than that an effort had been made to get control of the property. It was declared that cqntrol had not yet actually passed, but it was admitted that in the next few days It might be develop ed that new Interests had secured enough of the shares to place them In control of the property." In addition the Evening Post says that Wall street has held very generally to the theory that the Union Pacific has been acquired by W. K. Vanderbllt." FINE PLACES FOR A PARK. Seme ef the Advantages Possessed by Mount Tabor. SOUTH MOUNT TABOR, April 29. (To the Editor.) A few days ago there ap peared an article in your daily regarding a park at Mount Tabor. I believe this idea meets with hearty approval of all Taborltes. The crest and slopes of Mount, Tabor are not suitable for building pur poses, but would be an Ideal park If suf ficient land could be acquired 100 acres or more. The "park 'Is easy of access to all classes of people. The City & Suburban line runs well up on the north side; a good wagon road of easy grade winds to the summit, and the East Side Railway Com pany talks of extending its line along the south side. In the Springtime Mount Tabor is a beautiful spot. We Taborltes are never weary ot it. -From the summit the view Is magnificent. Looking to the north we see Vancouver, Mount St. Hel ens, and fellow the Columbia to Jts gorge through the Cascade Mountains. Stretch ing away to the east as far as the Sandy we see a level, productive, farming sec tion, then the blue foothills of the Cas cades standing guard for old Mount Hood. Grand Trunk Meeting:. NEW YORK, April 30. The Herald says: The new interests in control of the Mexican Central will elect directors at the annual meeting In Boston Wednesday." It was reported again that St. Louis & San Francisco owners would be found to have acquired the property. W. L. Stow, who represents the new Interests, said: "It is true that the St. Louis & San Francisco and associates of Mr. Gould are in the Mexican Central. I do not think, however, that you will find that they have a majority of the stock." There Is a widely prevalent belief In Wall street that the purchase of the Mex ican Central is one step to the develop ments of a greater Missouri Pacific. Sues Canal Traffic. New York Journal of Commerce. We print below the comparative state ment of the traffic through the Suez Canal for the years 1SS9 and 1S00. forwarded by James Burness & Sons, London. While the totals show no appreciable changes. If we examine the table In detail, a consid erable shrinkage will be noticed in Brit ish tonnage, with a corresponding Increase in German tonnage. France and Russia also show rotable gains. As all of these nations wer. active participants in the Chinese troubles, some of the fluctuations may be attributed to transport service and supplies. How the curtailment of trade may have affected the decrease is proble matical, but it is a more than reasonable assumption to credit Great Britain's- losses to this account: 1S99. Gross Net. Flag Tonnage. Tonnage. American lOl.lMa Argentine Austrian 571,384 Belgian 16.753 British 9,046.031 unmese ... Danish " 76.105 5S.061 Dutch x. 5S3.010 41S.S67 Egyptian 2.891 1.920 French 940.124 598,313 German l,492,657r 2,070,767 Greek , ,. 11.223 S.433 Italian :.."..... 2C0.624 132.765 Japanese : 321,127 224,366 Norwegian :. 165,738 123,756 Portuguese 2.2S0 13? Russian 266.444 171.5S0 Siamese - 775. - 533 Spanish 164,202 , 114,149 Swedish 1,020 591 Turkish ."..' 52,384 36.669 67.6S9 2G6 359 r-',41t 6.5S6.310 Total ,'.... ..13,815.991 9,835.630 Flag 1900.. Gross Net- Tonnage. Tonnage. Mexicnn Centralj,ArairJi.w LONDON, April 30. The semi-annual meeting of the shareholders of the Grand Trunk here today was largely attended. The directors' report showing decreases In the receipts and an Increase In the ex penses were accepted without criticism. The retiring directors were re-elected. Heavy Colonist Travel. CHICAGO, April CO. Between 30.000 and 40,000 departed from Chicago today for points on the "Pacific Coast. It was the last day of the sale of the $30 tickets. On nearly every road special trains were required to handle the business. AFRAID OF. SMALLPOX. Hn-rrnllan Authorities Fumigate Mails From America. HONOLULU, April 24, via San Fran cisco, April 30. Owing to the danger of Importing smallpox from the mainland, the Honolulu Board of Health has decided to fumigate all malls cominsr here by stpamcr from Snn Tirnri.la TTntU ha caaes suinuing guoru iur oiu Mount ilOOd. V , --... w... .... Looking south the view near at hand is health, reports from Washington show a equally rood. Turning to the west we behold from the base of Mount Tabor to the Heights, the metropolis of the Pacific Northwest. We .see schools, churches, substantial business blocks, hospital, foundries, all nestled together In peace and quietness, as If to belie the mad ru3h of business and activity unseen from the summit. What a gleam of sliver catches our eye? It Is our own Willamette carry ing upon Its bosom the trade of the world. We may never have a park at Mount Tabor; but I believe the. City of Portland would never regret having purchasedland at this place for a public breathing spot for Its citizens. It will cost money, per haps" considerable, but It ought to be worth all the time and money necessary to acquire It. MARTIN L. DEAN. Chinese TVIt. &. History ot Chinese Literature." Herbert A. Giles. A doctor who had mismanaged a case was seized by the family and tied up. In the night he managed to free himself and escaped by swimming across- a river. When he got home he found his. son, whe had just begun to study medicine, and said to him: "Don't be in a hurry with your books; the first and most Important thing Is to learn to swim." different state of affairs in many states as regards the disease, it Is the intention of the Board to have all malls fumigated for at least four hours. The rule resulted today in a strange contradiction of quar antine rules. When the transport Logan arrived from San Francisco she had a clean bill of health, and was therefore passed by the Federal authorities. Hun dreds of her soldiers came ashore and strolled about Honolulu, while the mall was being fumigated- The steamship Zealandla arrived here April 21 with. S50 Porto Rlcan immigrants on board. During the trip six infants died and were burled at sea. The Porto Rlcans were placed on island steamers and sent to various 'plantations. ' The transport Kilpatrlck, which came here from San xranclaco with smallpox on board, sailed for the Philippines April 22. She left behind 33 soldiers suffering with measles, and two who were afflicted with smallpox, all of them being now on Quarantine Island here. It was charged that while here a number of officers of the Kilpatrlck violated the quarantine rules by coming ashore at night in a launch, said to have taken them to Wal klkl beach. The vessel left" before Investi gation of the charge was made. The House of Representatives has American 73,314 54.499 Argentine 1,777 1,147 Austrian 467,605 341,326 Belgian. .' 16,895- 12,375 British 7,771,346 5,605,421 Danish i. ..:.... 97,239" 72671 Dutch 704,458 503.976 Egyptian ' ....-. French 1.167.9S6 751,759 German 2.047,229 V.66,391 Greek 214 96 Italian 247466 158,564 Japanese 351,854 245,679 Norwegian 90,205 68,186 Portuguese .-.:.... 6.424 i'2 Russian 451451 307.172 Siamese Spanish 153,247 109,984 Swedish 2,996 2458 Turkish 43,131 29.490 Total .13.699;238 9.738,152 For the corresponding years the number of ships passing through the canal, the dues and total receipts are as follows: 1899. 1900. Number of ships 3.7 3.tt Canal dues, francs 88,712,100 . 87,243.ots Total receipts. francs....92,515,232 "91,819,25a Democrats Charsed Jthiyraud. ST. LOUIS, April 30C Thet Globe-Democrat today says: " " "I "The April grand jury, whichVhas been in session since the first of the month, made a partial' report yesterday, return ing. 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