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THE MORNING 'OSEGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1901.
HUGE FREIGHT STEAMER
BRITISH CARGO CARRIER OCEAXO
' NOW LOADING X.OIBER. "
Will Take a Record Shipment to
Asiatic Ports Uneventful Pas
sage From ilnrornn.
The big British cargo carrier Oceano got
In from Astoria Monday night after an
uneventful passage of 15 days from Muro
ran. She came over In water ballast,
without passengers, and so had nothing to
discharge. Five gangs of stevedores are
now tucking lumber into her at the rate
of 275,000 feet per day, as she lies warped
up to the dock of the North Pacific Lum
ber Company.
The Oceano is an immense cargo-Dox,
nearly as long as two city blocks, and as
big as a church, with the bare, rusty
look of the typical freighter. A huddle
of cabins in the middle, two stumpy
clumps of derrick masts, and an Immense
yellow funnel break the long lines of her
deck. She is a new vessel, only 15 months
old, now on her sixth voyage, and Captain
Shutton 1s a modest young fellow of 2S
or 29. The .crew, ?3 of them, are all Euro
peans, mostly Englishmen, something un
usual on an Oriental steamer. The last
outward trip was from Philadelphia to
Kobe with oil, and from there to Muro
ran for bunker coal. The voyage to the
Columbia River was monotonous, the
ocean being veiled day and night with
fog. Captain Shutton compares this un
easy steaming to riding a bicycle blind
folded. On her return the Oceano will
take out the largest cargo of lumber that
ever left Portland. It will foot up to
about 3,800,000 feet, and will consist of
railroad ties, piling and miscellaneous
lumber of common dimensions, consigned
to Tsin Tau and other Chinese ports.
The striking thing about a ship of this
class Is her unrivaled economy. With
three boilers and an indicated horsepower
of only 1800, the Oceano hustles her 9000
tons of hull and cargo along at a steady
10-knot gait. Her daily consumption of
coal is but 30 tons, about one-eighteenth
of that on a big Atlantic liner.
WORLD'S MERCHANT TOXJ.AGE.
The United States Is Koxr tie Third
Marine Power.
New York Journal of Commerce.
Exclusive of vessels of less than 100 tons
net register, the world's merchant tonnage
at the beginning of the current calendar
year is computed at 50,600,510 tons, of
which Great Britain and her colonies con
trolled 14,708,205 tons, or nearly one-half.
Despite the losses from various causes,
there has been a net increase of about
4,000,000 tons in the world's merchant ton
nage In the past three years. The in
crease for 1900 was about 1,600,000 tons.
The proportions of sail and steam in the
grand total are as follows:
Vessel. Tons.
Sail 12,563 6.591,627
Steam .16.52S 24,00S,SS3
Total 29.091 30,600,510
In the past three years there has been
a net decrease of 78S sail vessels of 45S,
231 tons, and a net Increase of 1827 steam
ers of 4,497,591 tona Sail vessels will
probably never entirely disappear, but
the maximum number was reached years
ago.
The distribution of the world's merchant
tonnage among the principal countries at
the beginning of this year, as compared
-with three years before, brings out the
net increase to the credit of each during
the interval as follows:
1S9S. 1900. Increase.
"United K. 12,5S7,S04 13.G56.1G1 1.0S8.257
Germany 2.113.9S1 2,905,782 791,801
X'nited States... 2,445,677 3,077.344 628,667
Xorway 1,643,217 1,627,220 15,997
France 1,179,515 1.403.SS3 227,368
Italy 855.478 1,117,538 262,050
Russia 594.434 789,253 194,819
Spain 021,143 786,355 165,212
Sweden S52.7S5 C7C.219 123,434
Japan 472,053 644.664 172,611
'Holland 444,450 578.109 133,659
Denmark 422,856 50S.1B4 85,338
Austria-Hun. .. 349,814 456,802 136.9SS
Decrease.
Great Britain ought to be satisfied with
having scored 25 per cent of the net In
crease for the past three years, and Ger
many ought to be more than satisfied with
her marked gain. The total for the United
States, It should be explained. Includes
845,410 tons on the Lakes, after deducting
which the country Is still third in rank in
the ocean-carrying trade. The hounty
system of France, Italy and Japan have
given much stimulus to shipbuilding in
those countries in the last three years.
Little Norway reports a net loss of about
16,000 tons in the same interval.
OCEAN FREIGHTS VERY LIGHT.
Ttcw York Vessels Ask Lower Rates
and Get But Little Business.
New York Journal of Commerce.
NEW YORK, Aug. 27. Stagnation In
the shipping business at New York, and
even more so at the outports, is the
existing condition. Shipping is demor
alized, and shipowners find themselves
unable to obtain business at any rate.
The dearth of merchandise Is not confined
to any one department. It Is general, In
cluding manufactured products as well as
grain and provisions.
This condition of stagnation applies to
the shipping business of the outports even
more than to New York, as practically
all the freight business out of this port
Is carried In the regular line packets, in-
-eluding tlie -enormous freight steamers of
the "White Star, Hamburg-American,
North German Lloyd and Atlantic Trans
port steamship lines, as well as the small
er freight carried on the other lines.
With these lines, the absence of demand
for freight room Is indicated merely by
the low rates at which they offer to take
cargo. It does not, however, interfere
with their regular sailing dates, for. If
they have not sufficient cargo, they mere
ly utilize their water ballast compart
ments and sail "light." It is a fact that
large steamers with 12,000 tons' carrying
capacity and upward have left this port
carrying less than 3000 tons of cargo all
told.
IX THE MUD HARD A.XD FAST.
Big: Los Raft May Have to Be Torn
to Pices.
ASTORIA, Aug. 27. The Robertson log
raft is still stuck in the mud at the en
trance to the Westport slough, and the
real danger of its position was not real
ized until last evening. The combined
elforts of the tugs arid dredge to pull
the raft over the ridge into the river
channel have succeeded only in imbed
ding It more deeply in the mud. Last
night an attempt was made to pull It
back into the slough, so that a channel
could he dredged through the bar, but
nothing was accomplished. A diver has
been engaged to ascertain if the raft can
be moved without being torn to pieces,
as in its present position it is a serious
menace to navigation.
To Load Lumber for Snn Francisco.
The barkentine Arago, which arrived In
yesterday from Honolulu, will load lum
ber at Knappton for San Francisco.
River Trips to Xewbcrg.
The O. R. & N. steamer Elmore, be
ginning tomorrow, will make daily round
trips on the Willamette River between
Portland and Mission Landing, near New
berg. The steamer will lea-ve the Ash
street dock at 7:30 in the morning, late
enough to be reached by street-cars from
all parts of the city.
Sighted a Schooner Ashore.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug .27. The
schooner Maty and Ida arrived today
from Alaska with a cargo of 35,000 cod
fish. The captain reports that on July
12 he spoke the schooner Arago. with a
eatoh of 29,000 codfish, and on July 17
the barkentine City of Papeete, with a
catch of 75,000. On July -26 the Mary and
Ida, when 15 miles southwest of Point
Moller, sighted a topmast schooner
ashore. There was no sign of life in the
vicinity and it was too rough for the
Mary and Ida to investigate the ground
ing of the unknown schooner. At the
Merchants' Exchange the stranded vessel
is thought to have been the Arago.
Indrapura Goes Out Again.
The mammoth Asiatic liner Indrapura
sails early this morning for Hong Kong
and other Oriental ports. She takes out
an unusually huge cargo, principally con
sisting of 4500 tons of flour and some 500.
000 feet of lumber. Various quantities of
cotton and canned goods are also in the
holds, and the last crannies will be filled
with some odds and ends picked up at
Astoria. Portland's export trade to the
Orient Increases steadily as Oregon's
products become known there, and the
Knight Companion, the next and a
smaller member of this fleet, will be
given all the stuff she can take care of.
Stranding: of the James Sennett.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 27. Advices
from Dutch Harbor give particulars of
the stranding of the big schooner James
Sennett some weeks ago at a point 75
miles north of that place. The schooner
was at anchor off the Coast and one
morning the crew awoke to find the vessel
on the beach, having drifted there in the
night during a thick fog. The Sennett
was not thought to be damaged. The
gunboat Concord was dispatched from
Dutch Harbor to haul the Sennett Into
deep water.
Another "Wheat Charter.
Report was out early yesterday of an
other fixture for Portland wheat loading.
This last vessel is the Matterhorn, a Brit
ish iron bark of 1839 tons, which left
Valparaiso for Puget Sound on July 12.
The charter rate is not positively known,
but as her owners refused a reecnt offer
of 41s 3d, It Is supposed to be 42s or 42s
6d. All of which goes to show that
freight-carriers have the long end of the
rope and a moderately downhill pull these
days.
"Will Build Xexv Schooner.
E. JHeuckendorff will soon lay the keel
for a new vessel In the yard of the Pa
cific Shipbuilding Company at Marshfield.
She will be a three-masted schooner of
the following dimensions: Keel, 152 feet;
beam, 35 feet; depth of hold, 13 feet.
Marine- 3Totes.
Local steamboat travel on tho Upper
Columbia has taken a considerable boom
since the late thunder showers laid the
dust and quenched the forest fires along
the banks.
The British bark Dumbritton, an iron
four-master of 1471 tons, got in at Astoria
yesterday form Tocopllla, a nitrate port
In the northern part of Chile, whence she
sailed June 8. The Dumbritton is the
first of the nitrate fleet to get In, but the
Lonsdale and Falls of Halladab may be
expected now at any time.
The Astoria, a British bark of 1429 tons,
Thorkilsen master, which sailed from
here for Cork on April 17, is reported as
having, passed Browhead, England, 132
days out from the Columbia River. She
Is bound for Cork, and carries 50,343 cent
tals of wheat, valued at $51,000, the prop
erty of the Portland Flouring Mills.
As this Is the season of year when tho
Columbia Is at Its shallowest, it Is of some
interest to know that the Poltalloch and
Dumfriesshire were taken down recently
without the least trouble, though both
drew 21 feet or more. The especially
good time of 11 hours was made with
the first-named of these. The Oceano
will sink to about 23 feet when a full
cargo is in.
Domestic and Foreign Ports.
ASTORIA, Aug. 27. Arrived at 7 A. M.
Schooner Anita. Arrived at 1:20 P. M.
British bark Dunbrltton, from Tocopllla,
Condition of the bar at 4 P. M., smooth;
wind, northwest; weather, cloudy.
Browhead, Aug. 27. Passed British
bark Astoria, 132 days from Columbia
River, for Queenstown.
Tjrnpqua. Arrived -A.UET. 23 Schooner Sa
die, from San Pedro.
Seattle Sailed Aug. 25 Brig Courtney,
for San Francisco.
Whatcom Sailed Aug. 26 Bark Vidette,
for San Pedro.
Honolulu Sailed Aug. 15 Schooner W.
J. Patterson, for Puget Sound.
Hllo Arrived Aug. 11 Schooner Mil
dred, from Seattle.
Honolulu Arrived Aug. 18 Ship William
H. Smith, from Tacoma. Sailed Aug. 14
Schooner Expansion, for Puget Sound.
Sailed Aug. 16 Schooner O. M. Kellogg,
for Puget Sound.
Mahukona Sailed Aug. 16 Schooner Ida
Schnauer, for Port Townsend.
Eureka Arrived Aug. 26 Steamer Alli
ance, from Astoria.
Lahaina Arrived Aug. 12 Schooner
William Olsen, from Port Ludlow.
Hong Kong Arrived Aug. 23 British
steamer Athenian, from Vancouver.
Nome In port Aug. 16 Steamer Sena
tor, steamer Elmore, steamer Arctic
Seattle Arrived Aug. 26 Steamer Dirl
go, from Skagway.
Muroran Sailed Aug. 26 British steam
er Glamorganshire, for Portland.
Melbourne Arrived Aug. 26 Barkentine
Encore, from Gray's Harbor.
Port Townsend, Aug. 27. Sailed
Schooner William Bowden, for Shanghai;
schooner Eric, for Mollendo.
Seattle, Aug. 27. Sailed Steamer Dol
phin, for Skagway.
Eleele Sailed Aug. 8 Schooner A. B.
Johnson, for Puget Sound.
New York. Aug. 27. Sailed Kaiser
Wilhelm der Grosse, for Bremen; Cymric,
for Liverpool.
Liverpool, Aug. 27. Arrived Buenos
Ayrean, from Montreal.
Boulogne, Aug. 27. Arrived Potsdam,
from New York for Rotterdam.
Plymouth, Aug. 27. Arrived Pretoria,
from New York for Cherbourg and Ham
burg. Shanghai Sailed Aug. 24 Yangtse,
from Liverpool, etc., for Seattle.
Coronel Arrived Aug. 24 Klntuck, from
Tacoma for Manila.
San Francisco, Aug. 27 Arrived
Schooner Mary and Ida, from Behrlng
Sea.
Unalaska In port Aug. 19 H. B. M.
steamer Condor, U. S. S. Concord, U. S. S.
Pathfinder.
Port Townsend Arrived Aug. 26 Ship
Norman, from Antwerp. Arrived Aug. 27
Ship Servla, from Honolulu.
Port Gamble, Aug. 27. Sailed Barken
tine Klickitat, for Honolulu.
Honolulu Sailed Aug. 14 Bark St
James, ship Hecla, for Puget Sound. To
sail Aug. 22 U. S. S. Solace, for San
Francisco
Hllo Sailed Aug. 17 Bark Carrollton
for Tacoma. '
Seattle Sailed Aug. 26 Steamer Excel
sior, for -Valdes. Arrived Tug Defiance.
Port PirieM Aug. 27. Arrived Ship
Prince Arthur; for Port Gamble.
Beachyhead Passed Aug. 25 British
steamer Ping Suey, from Seattle for Lon
don. New York, Aug. 27. Arrived Scillla,
from Naples.
Glasgow, Aug. 27. Arrived Laurentian,
from New York.
Movllle, Aug. 27. Arrived Anchorla,
from New York for Glasgow.
ASTORIA REGATTA.
The Royal Route to Astoria Is via
the O. R. & X.
Her Gracious Majesty, the Carnival
Queen, accompanied by her Royal Ad
miral In Charge of H. M. Navy, will be
carried to her dominions on an O. R. & N.
steamer. It Is deemed by Her Majesty
that itf would be a most fitting acknowl
edgment of the beauties of the river trip
and the comfort of the O. R. & N. Co.
steamer if all her subjects and allies
would also use the royal route. To the
end tnat our gracious queen's wishes may
be observed, the O. R. & N. Co. will' sell
excursion tickets from Portland ro As
toria and return at 12. These will be
good on steamer Hassalo August 2S, 29,
30, and 31st. and on steamer Potter Au
gust 29, 20 and 31; good to return up to
and including Sunday, September 1, 1901.
On August 29 the Potter will leave Astoria
for Portland at 11 P. M.. and on August
30 at 11:30 P. M., thus giving Astoria vis
itors the entire evening.
ACTIVITY OF GERMANS
EXPORTS ARE IXCREASIXG AS FAST,
AS THE IMPORTS.
Most Noticeable in Pig Iron Coming
In and Iron and Steel Manufac
tures Going Out.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. The activity
of German manufacturers and exporters
is illustrated by some figures regarding
the imports of pig Iron into Germany
and the exports of iron and steel man
ufactures, which have Just reached the
Treasury Bureau of Statistics. They
show that the importations of pig iron
Increased from 462,000 tons In 1897 to
930,000 In 1900, and those of rough iron
ware from 43,000 tons in 1897 to 73,000 tons
in 1900; while the exports of iron and
ironware Increased during the same
period from $82,000,000 value to $118,000,000;
machines, from $30,000,000 to $45,000,000:
rolling stock and ships (not wood), from
$3,000,000 to $9,000,000, making the total in
crease in these three items of Iron and
ironware, machines and rolling stock and
ships, from $114,000,000 to $172,000,000 in a
period of three years. Exportatlons of
machines, chiefly cast iron, increased
from 118,100 tons in 1897 to 167,000 tons in
1900; those of wrought Iron,, from 22.000
to 38,500 tons; 'boiler, from 4400 to 5400
tons; carding machines and their cloth
ing, from 270 to 500 tons; while locomo
tives and locomobiles fell from 13,200 to
12,300 tons. On the other hand, Imports
have also grown; those of Iron and iron
ware Increased from $17,000,000 In 1897 to
$30,0000,000 In 1900; machines, from $10,
000,000 to $19,000,000; machines, chiefly of
cast Iron, increased from 51,500 tons to
69,400 tons; those of wrought iron, from
6000 tons to 15,300 tons, and those of wood,
from 3900 to 4500 tons, while locomotives
and locomobiles Increased from 3040 to
4300 tons, and sewing machines from 3030
to 4200 tons.
The importation of pig Iron was chiefly
from the United Kingdom, being In 1899
670,000 tons from the United Kingdom
'and 30,900 from the United States. The
growth from 1897 to 1899 was chiefly in
that imported from the United King
dom, the increase from that country be
ing 140,000 tons, while that from the
United States was only a little more
than 1000 tons.
The great increase of importations of
tin-plates In 1899 has receded, and tho
exportation is much larger than In for
mer years. The imports amounted to
11,600 tons In 1897, to 10,900 tons in 1898, to
23,800 tons in 1899 and to ,18,3)0 tons in
1900. The imports of malleable iron (Iron
or steel) rolled or cast) In bars, tyres,
plowshares, etc., increased from 29,500
tons in 1897 to 37,800 tons in 1900. Tho
exports of these articles have decreased
from 247,000 tons in 1897 to 173,000 tons in
1900. In tho years 1897 and 1900 rough
iron figured for imports at 4800 and 7400
tons, and for exports at 107,000 and 94,000
tons, respectively. In the very rough
ironware the imports have dropped, rough
cast-iron goods from 25,600 tons In 1899
to 21,600 tons in 1900, and tubes and pipes
(rolled and forged), from 22,300 to 20,300
tons. Exports, however, increased;
bridges and parts thereof, from 6300 to
9000 tons; rough wrought-lron parts of
machines, from 1900 to 2970 tons; railway
wagon axles and wheels, etc., from 41,000
to 47,000 tons, and tubes and pipes (rolled
and forged), from 32,000 to 40,000 tons. In
fine cast-iron and wrought-iron goods
the exportation rose from 23,600 to 30,300
tons, especially In sewing machines with
out stands and in needles and in parte
of clocks and watches. The exportatlons
of machines have steadily risen, in spite
of increased competition in the world's
markets, namely, from 167,000 tons in
1897 to 235.000 tons in 1900. The importa
tion in the latter year was nearly 100,000
tons, valued at about $19,000,000; It was
$17,000,000 for 70,000 tpns four years ago,
SUGAR-CARRYING TRADE.
Sailing: Vessels Cheaper and Nearly
as Fast as Steam.
Honolulu Bulletin.
The sugar factories of Honolulu are
at present discussing the renewal of
their contracts for the transportation
of sugar around the Horn by the steam
ers of tho American-Hawaiian line. Con
tracts are about expired for the present
season and from what can be gathered it
looks as If there would be a little com
petition in the around-the-Horn carrying
trade next season.
A gentleman thoroughly in touch with
all the sugar interests of the Islands
said In a talk with a Bulletin reporter
this morning that as far as he was con
cerned he did not see the advantage of
tying up to Cape Horn for a period of
five years, as the steamer people wanted
the sugar people here to do. Under pres
ent arrangements there are 50,000 tona
of sugar to be shipped around the Horn
each season for some time yet, and this
season the steamers did the bulk of the
carrying.
While the service has given general
satisfaction, there are one or two firms
who, being Interested In shipping, can
do their own carrying and will probably
do it. As a matter of a saving, sugar
can be carried around the Horn in sailing
vessels at $2 per ton less than the steam
ers can do it. Then, too, the saving in
tima by Bteamer going to New York has
not been, so srrea.t as was anticipated.
it was expected that the trip to New
York from Hllo would be made in at
least 65 days. Two vessels have made
the run, and the first one, the Callfor
nlan, took 77 days, and the American,
102 days. The latter vessel was unfortu
nate, however, and had to put into port
two times for coal. From this port to
New York sailing vessels usually make
fast trips and the saving in carrying is
considerable.
From the present indications it is very
probable that this coming season will
see the ships George Curtis, Arthur Se
wall, Foohlng Suey, Helen Brewer, Ha
waiian Isles, Tlllle Starbuck, Nuuanu and
other vessels of the San Francisco-New
York fleet In the sugar carrying business
around the Horn.
Oregon Notes.
Richard Downey has been appointed
Marshal of Vale, vice Robert Draper, re
signed. Construction of the Lakeview-Sllver
Lake telephone line will be begun about
September 1.
An anti-saloon league with 37 members
has been organized at Klamath Falls by
Rev. J. F. Tout.
A branch of the Sons of St. George has
been organized by the British-American
citizens of Marshfield.
W. S. Walker's threshing crew run five
days on Spring grain and averaged 2500
bushels, says the Albany Democrat. The
largest run in one day was 3100 bushels.
That is something big, and Mr. Walker
would like to hear of the thresher that
equals It.
"Verne Hopkins attempted to break jail
at Lakevlew last week. He removed
three slats from the jail floor with an
iron bar, making an aperture through
which he could pass to the ground be
neath the building. Once underneath he
proceeded to dig a trench to the south
end of the building, and when the hour
came for his escape he would have noth
ing to do but remove "a board from be
neath the sills. The aperture in the floor
was covered by a blanket from the bed,
and the officer, noticing this, thought It
strange. Lifting the blanket from the
floor, the means of the prisoner's escape
was discovered, and a jailbreak averted.
"Washington Notes.
The Labor day celebration at Everett
will be one of the greatest n the history
of that city.
Everett may send a man to the Pan-
American Exposition to advertise the re
sources of that section.
October 14 will be the date of the official
dedication of the new city park set aside
for the use of Walla Walla citizens.
The Everett Longshoremen's Union still
refuses to unload vessels from i3an Fran
cisco which employ nonunion crews to
putf on their cargoes.
All present indications point to the
month of August being the greatest in
the history of the Seattle free employment
office, says the Times.
The molders who have been on a strike
at the Everett Iron Works returned to
work Monday morning. The men walked
out several weeks ago because their employers-were
using patterns made by non
union men at the Sumner Iron Works.
The State Board of Equalization has
agreed that it will adopt the following cal
endar at? its first meeting on September 3:
September 6, Chehalls, Pacific, Lewis,
Cowlitz, Clark and Wahkiakum; Septem
ber 7, Pierce, Thurston and .Mason; Sep
tember 9, the railroads; September 10,
King. Kitsap, Jefferson and Clallam; Sep
tember 11, Snohomish, Skagit, Whatcom
and San Juan; September 12, Franklin,
Adams, Asotin, Garfield, Kittitas, Walla
Walla, Klickitat, Skamania and Colum
bia; September 3, Spokane and Stevens;
September 14, Douglas, Ferry, Chelan,
Okanogan, Lincoln, Whitman and Yakima.
COMPLAINT IS UNJUST.
Clothing: Allowance of Soldiers Is
Sufficient.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23-Anonymous
communications have recently been re
ceived at the War Department complain,
ing that the clothing allowances of the
enlisted men of the Army Is Insufficient,
and that the different climates in which
the Army Is serving make a heavy draft
on the clothing equipment furnished sol
diers. It Is stated by department officials
that such a complaint is wholly unjust.
It is shown that there is an extra cloth
ing allowance for Boldlera serving In
Alaska, while troops In the Philippines
save the cost of an overcoat and other
apparel which are too heavy for that
climate. The extra allowance for troops
in Alaska has been $29 31. On this ac
count it is contended,, that there Is no
occasion for the soldiers to complain In
regard to the clothing allowance which
is ample for all needs, and which takes
into consideration the climatic conditions
that the soldier may be subjected to,
even In the rare event of a soldier serv
ing in the tropics and in Alaska during
the same year. A new; general order for
clothing. Issued by the War Department,
provides for a slightly Increased amount.
This is rendered necessary by an increase
in the cost of materials entering Into
the composition of the soldiers' uniforms.
AT THE HOTELS.
THE PORTLAND.
W S Coleman, Berke- J M Stanley, Chicago
ley, jaj n t jtjurKe. t
T J Paisley & fain,
Dubuque
JILP Greenbaum, wf,
md &u 2 chn, Boise
A P Goal, Sumpter
Syd "Welnshenk, S P
Mrs E P Ferry, do
A C Levy, do
R Knighton, do
F W Pottygrove, do
Miss Olita Pottygrove,
S F
G F "Wentworth, Taco
E XV Blair. N Y
Mra V Peyton, Los Ang
Mary Peyton, do
S A Moore. St Louis
N H "Wither. Mich
MIbs "Wither, do
C P Starr, N Y
N Skinner, do
Mr & Mrs J G Wood
worth, Seattle
V Peyton & 2 chn, do
Nat Rosenstrauss, Chgo
W H Loa Boyteaun, SF
Mrs Loa Boyteaun, do
Cdw Goodall & wf. S F
Frank B Hurd, Dubuq
E M O'Brien, Chicago
S H Bowns, N Y
J H M Parka, Chgo
Lewis Hall. Welser
Mrs Chas Kohn, city
G P Mulchay, Spokane
IP N Culbertson, do
JC F McCollum & wf,
I Empire Clty
miss i-i Kohn. do
Mrs "W E Borah, Boise
C H Callendar, Knapp-W W Brooks, Rome, Ga
ton j ,
THE PERKINS.
S B Leighton, Mpls
Mrs S B Leighton, do
H M Leighton, do
Mrs C B Richardson,
"Walla "Walla
W R Cartwrlght, Idaho
Mrs Cartwrlght, do
W G Master, Idpls
R W Markham, Mark
ham D N Warsham, do
T H O'Neill, do
Wm R O'Neill, Boise
Helen Lloyd, "Waltsbg
Airs jb Wilson, V W
Miss Eva Wilson, do
F F Jeffere, 111 -Alex
G Shaw. S F
Mrs M Bentley, Vlcto
rla, B C
Ben J Bentley, do
J B Eddy. For Grove
Mrs J B Eddy, do
John W O'Neill, do
F Eaterbrook. Nampa
Mra F Esterbrook, do
W G Whitney, do
J Lakeman, Idaho
Mrs E O'Neill. Albany
Miss May O'Neill, do
J E Orr. Idaho
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Morton Jensen, Idaho
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G A Vierge. Tacoma
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G Baker. Nanaimo
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Master Johnnie Otten
Earl Wilson, Vancouv
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Percy P Kelley, Albany
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Mrs Stanley Collin and
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Miss Young, Oakland
Miss Stearns, do
Miss Altha Leach,
A P Fletcher, Lafayet
Mrs A P Fletcher, do
J S McLane, Tacoma
Mrs J S McLane, do
Miss Kathrlne Akin,
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M J Ready, Spokane
H S Lyttle, Heppner
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Mlsa Wordsen, do
G A Williams, do
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L M Fowler, Cal
Ben Harris, Mtn Home
Geo O Sampson, Idaho
Mrs Geo W Irving, do
Mrs H Hlnkey, Nampa
Sidney Scott, do
F B Chase, do
Mrs Lettle Ruffner,
McMlnnvllle
Mrs Davis, Astoria.
Thos H Brents, W W
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WHAT LITTLEFIELD SAID
MAINE CONGRESSMAN'S RECENT
SPEECH AT DENVER.
Discontent With the United States
Supreme Court Decision in the
Celebrated Insular Cases.
Representative Llttlefleld's recent speech
to the American Bar Association at Den
ver was as follows:
This year of our Lord has been one of
unusual significance to the legal profes
sion. It has been universal and spon
taneous homage paid by bench, and bar,
and country to "the great Chief Justice, '
"the greatest Judge In the language." He
la conceded to" be the greatest authority
upon the construction of the Constitu
tion that ever adorned the most august
tribunal known to our Institutions. AH
agree that, more than any other man
realizing that our "Constitution is formed
for ages to come, and is designed to ap
proach immortality as nearly as human
institutions can approach," he expounded
and developed it, with scientific accuracy
upon enduring lines, buttressed by accu
rate reasoning, "establishing those sure
and solid principles of government on
which our 'Constitutional system rests.
The Supreme Court of the United States
suspended its sittings in order that
through Its distinguished chief it might
witness "to the Immortality of the fame
of this sweet and virtuous soul, whose
powers were so admirable and the results
of their exercise of such transcendant Im
portance." It Is certainly an interesting
and significant fact, that at the same term
during which these ever-memorable exer
cises occurred, that court rendered a
judgment by a disagreeing majority of
one, overruling a case which had with
stood unimpaired the assaults of time for
SO years; a case decided by the same trib
unal by a unanimous court, whose rea
sons therefore were luminously stated
with his usual accuracy and ability by the
incomparable Marshall; a judgment
clearly inconsistent with other judgments
rendered on the same day, without any
opinion of the court upon which to rest,
endeavored to be sustained by the opinions
of different Justices," in Irreconcilable con
flict with each other; a judgment involv
ing fundamental Constitutional questions
of more vital and transcendant import
ance than any hitherto determined.
The Insular cases, in the manner in
which the results were reached, the In
congruity of the results, and the variety
of Inconsistent views expressed by the
different members of the court are, I be
lieve, without parallel In our judicial his
tory. It is unfortunate that the cases
could not have been determined with
such a nrenonderance of consistent opin
ion as to have satisfied the profession
and the co'untry that the conclusions were
likely to.be adhered to by the court. Until
some reasonable consistency and unan
imity of opinion Is reached by the court
upon these questions, we can hardly ex
pect their conclusions to be final and be
yond revision. A statement of the cases
Is essential to show what was actually
decided. The cases were: DeLlma lm.
Bid well; Downes vs. BIdwell; Huus vs.
New York & Porto Rico Steamship Com
pany; Goetze vs. United States; Crossman
vs. same, and Armstrong vs. same.
In DeLlma vs. BIdwell the question was
whether after the cession of Porto Rico
to the United States, by the treaty of
Paris, il remained a foreign country with
in the meaning of the tariff law, the action
being brought to recover duties collected
prior to the passage of the Foraker act.
under the Dlngley act, which provided
that "there shall be levied and collected
and paid upon all articles Imported from
foreign countries," etc., certain duties
therein specified. The court held "that at
the time these duties were levied Porto
Rico was not a foreign country within
the meaning of the tariff laws, but a ter
ritory or the United States; that the duties
were illegally exacted and that the plain
tiffs are entitled to recover them back."
Just how goods "coming into Porto Rico
from the United States" can be other than
exports from some state we cannot well
see, but with these opinions before us it
will not do to say that it will not be so
held, and some Inconsistent reasoning
given therefor.
It is difficult to see how refusing to call
a duty an export duty, when It Is in fact
such, can change its character.
The Downes case is the only one that
passes upon questions that apply to per
manent conditions, or that attempts to
furnish a foundation for a permanent
Government policy. All that Is decided by
that case Is that as to "merchandise com
ing into the United States from Porto
Rico" Congress Is not restrained by the
Constitution in Imposing a discriminating
tariff against Porto Rico. In other words,
as to Imports from Porto Rico Congress
can constitutionally discriminate. It may
be said that the case Involves other ab
solute powers, but that Is as far as the
case Itself goes.
The Canter case, which turned upon the
power of the Territorial Legislature to
create a court exercising admiralty juris
diction, Is erroneously supposed to estab
lish the fact that the territories are not
a part of the United States. The case Is
misquoted and misconceived. Mr. Justice
Brown states that Mr. Chief Justice Mar
shall held "that territory ceded by treaty
becomes a part of the nation to which It
is annexed, either on the terms stipulated
In the treaty of cession, or upon such as
its new master shall impose." The con
text shows that this Is a misapprehension,
as Mr. Chief Justice Marshall was simply
stating a general rule of International
law as to which there is no question, and
not the law of that case. He said:
The usage of the world is, if a nation be
not entirely subdued, to consider the holding
of conquered territory as a mere military
occupation, until Its fate shall be determined
at the treaty of peace. If It be ceded by the
treaty, the acquisition Is confirmed, and tho
ceded territory become a part of the nation
to which It is annexed; either on the terms
stipulated In the treaty of cession, or on
such as its new master shall Impose.
It Is submitted that Cross vs. Harrison
Is Inconsistent with and Is virtually over
ruled by the judgment In the Downes
case. It Is the only "case from the foun
dation of the Government" where "the rev
enue laws of the United States have been
enforced In acquired territory without the
action of the President; or the consent of
Congress, express or Implied." After the
ratification of the treaty ceding the Terri
tory of California, and before any act of
Congress, the duties prescribed by the
general tariff law were collected In Cali
fornia, and the principal question was
whether the proceeding was legal. The
court sustained It, saying on the precise
point In question:
But after the ratification of the treaty, Cali
fornia became a part of the United States,
or a ceded, conquered territory.
As to the precise time they are more spe
cific: By the ratification of the treaty, Califor
nia became a part of the United States. And
as there is nothing differently stipulated In
the treaty with respect to commerce. It be
came Instantly bound and privileged by the
laws which Congress had passed to raise a
revenue from duties on Imports and tonnage.
A fortiori, then It was "bound and privi
leged" by the Constitution, the supreme
law.
It was not oniy contended that Califor
nia was not "a part of the United States,"
but that as no collection district had been
established the duties were Illegally Im
posed. The court answered these sug
gestions construing the provision of the
Constitution now under consideration, say
ing: The right claimed to land foreign goods
within the United States at any place out of
a collection district, if allowed, would be a
violation of that provision of the Constitution
which enjoins that , all duties, imposts
and excises shall be uniform throughout the
United States.'
The case turned on . this point, and the J
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court felt that it had been demonstrated,
as they said:
It having been shown that the ratification
of the treaty made California a port of the
United States, and that as soon as it bo
came so the territory became subject to the
acts which were in force to regulate foreign
commerce with the United States.
The most glaring case of misconception,
not to say misrepresentation, is in con
nection with the Dred Scott case. As to
this case, Mr. Justice Brown says:
It must be admitted that this case Is a
strong authority In favor of the plaintiff,
and If the opinion of the Chief Justice be
taken at Its full value It is decisive In his
favor.
The counsel for Dred Scott made this
admission In his argument: "I admit that
whether the power of Congress to legislate
be given expressly or by Implication, it is
given with the limitation that It shalt
be exercised In subordination to the Con
stitution, and that if It be exercised in
violation of any provisions of the Consti
tution the act would be void." No matter
what has happened since the Dred Scott
case, a proposition as to which both sides
agreed cannot be said to have been Im
paired. Abraham Lincoln In his great debate
with Douglas, bitterly, savagely and ven
omously attacked the Supreme Court for
Its decision In the Dred Scott case. He
went so far as to persistently charge the
minority with having entered Into a con
spiracy against liberty. He never criti
cised the proposition that the Constitution
controlled Congress in legislating for the
territories.
Politically, Constitutional control, was
first announced by the Liberty Abolition
ist party in 1844, In their platform, in
theae -words:
Resolved. That the general Government has,
under the Constitution, no power to estab
lish or continue slavery anywhere, and there
fore that all treaties and acts of Congress es
tablishing, continuing, or favoring slavery In
tho District of Columbia. In tho Territory of
Florida, or on the high seas, are- unconsti
tutional, and all attempts to hold men as
property within the limits of exclusive Na
tional Jurisdiction ought to be prohibited by
law.
The Republican party upon a similar
platform entered and fought and won its
great battle for human liberty.
A question of supposed Constitutional
construction requires attention. The 3th
amendment to the Constitution reads:
Section 1. Neither slavery nor Involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment for crime,
whereof the party shall have been duly con
victed, shall exist within tho United States,
or any place subject to their Jurisdiction.
"With the greatest respect for the court
and without Intimating, either directly or
Indirectly that a Justice was actuated
by any censurable motive, I feel bound
to say It seems to me that they were too
profoundly Impressed with the supposed
consequences of an adverse decision.
In Mr. Justice McKenna's view It took
"this great country out of the world
and shuts It up within itself." Mr. Jus
tice Brown thought: "If such be their
status (citizens) the consequences would
be extremely serious. Indeed, It Is doubt
ful If Congress would ever assent to the
annexation of territory upon the condi
tion that Its Inhabitants, however for
eign they may be to our habits, tradi
tions and modes of life, shall become at
once citizens of the United States. . . .
Such requirements would bring them at
once within our Internal revenue system
. . . and applying It to territories which
have no experience of this kind, and
where It would prove an Intolerable bur
den. . . . Our Internal laws, If applied
to that Island, would prove oppressive
and ruinous to many people and Interests.
. . . A false step at this time might be
fatal to the development of what Chief
Justice Marshall called the American Em
pire," and "the question at once arises
whether large concessions ought not to be
made." And Mr. Justice White thought
that If Incorporated, "It resulted that the
millions of people to whom that treaty
related were without the consent of the
American people, as expressed by Con
gress, and without any hope of relief,
undlssolubly made a part of our common
country."
"What are the direful consequences that
Inhere In the application of all of the pro
visions of the Constitution to the terri
tories? I cannot understand how sugar
and tobacco-planters, and raisers of trop
ical fruits, can see "serious" consequences
In conditions that rplght compel them by
competltlon to reduce the price of their
goods to the consumer, and hence the Im
portance of being able to discriminate
against such competitors. Such conse
quences, however, would not necessarily
be very "serious" to the great mass of
our people.
Inasmuch as voting and representation
are not elements, what other consequences
are there that should be guarded against
with such zeal? Is It the competition of
cheap labor? We have emancipated mil
lions In our own land without disturb
ing labor conditions. There were those
who thought that upon emancipation "a
torrent of black emigration would set
forth from the South to the North"; "one
of the first results of Its emigration would
be a depreciation In the price of labor.
The added number of laborers would, of
itself, occasion this fall of prices, but the
limited wants of the negro, which en
able him to underwork the white laborer,
would tend still further to produce this
result. The honest white poor of the
North would, therefore, be either thrown
out of employment entirely by the black,
or forced to descend to an equality with
the negro and work at his reduced prices."
None of these woes have vexed us. The
negro cannot be driven out of the South.
He has as yet made no Injurious competi
tive industrial development here, sur
rounded by vast natural resources, and
the FIllDlno Is 10.000 miles away. He Is
vastly the superior of the Filipino pbysi-
in Irish point lace,
embroidered muslin,
water. The vegetable
Soap is made fit it for
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a Fred Douglass or a Booker T. Washing
ton he has nothing to fear In an intel
lectual comparison. The temporary Incon
venience of Internal revenue laws seems to
me vastly overestimated. Mere Inconve
nience can hardly determine a Constitu
tional question.
Where Is the bugbear? Is citizenship
really "extremely serious"? If so. In
what particular, and how? The Foraker
bill, when first reported from the com
mittee, contained a provision making the
Inhabitants of Porto Rico "citizens of the
United States." The committee did not
seem to be impressed with the "serious"
character of that act. They said In their
report:
The committee have seen fit, by the pro
visions of this till, to make them'cltizens oC
the United States, not because of any sup
posed constitutional compulsion, but solely be
cause. In tho opinion of the committee, having
due regard to the best Interests of all con
cerned. It Is deemed wise and safe to make
such a provision.
Again:
It was necessary to give these people soma
definite status. They must be either oltlzens.
aliens or subjects. We have no subjects, and
should not make aliens of our own. It fal
lows that they should be made citizens, as tha
bill provides.
If, for any reason, the committee had
thought It unwise or unsafe, they might
have withheld that quality. Apparently
we now have "subjects." As to dangers,
the court seems to have become possessed
of light which was denied-to the commit
tee. The committee studied the practi
cal conditions, and It seems to them.
"wise and safe." What has happened to
make It so "serious?" Should we not have
a. specification of tha dangers that inhere
In giving to "our own" the same civil
rights under the Constitution that we pos
sess? Such are a few of the considerations
tending to show that the profession and
the country may not feel like unreservedly
acqulesclng In this decision. The founda
tion upon which It rests Is too Insecure to
Insure permanence. As the needle always
turns to the pole, may we not hope that
the greatest court In Christendom will
In the end determine the law of the land
In accordance with correct principles?
With such an unerring guide the Republic
will achieve Its splendid destiny, "conquer
ing and to conquer," enlarging Its borders,
disseminating the blessing of Its civiliza
tion, and fulfilling the mission of him
who "hath made of one blood all nations
of men, for to dwell on the face of the
earth."
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