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MXLELLAN AND TAM3IASV, The soul-satisfying news comes from New Tork that Mayor McClcllan and Tammany have buriedi the tomahawk and smoked the pipe of peace. The tiger and the white-robed apostle of po litical purity are to lie down together. Mr. Pecksniff and Bill Sykes have formed an offensive and defensive alli ance under a treaty whose terms are edifying in the extreme. Mr. MeClellan fairly deserves the title of "Pecksniff." A man who pools Issues with the Sullivans and Murphys of the metrop olis after preaching, as MeClellan has, the lofty principles of political honor must not be surprised! if the world dis counts his sincerity. His pompou3 statement that he looked upon politics "as a profession, not a vulgar trade," provoked smiles when he made it; now those smiles recur. It seemed incongru ous then that a man who was afraid to have the title by which he held his office tested by a fair count of the votes should talk of political honor. It seems more incongruous that he should do so now, for one of the articles of this charming agreement kills the bill for a recount of the Mayoralty votes, a bill which Mr. Hughes favors. In return for certain substantial concessions Tammany is to see to it that Mr. Me Clellan serves out the remainder of his term in peace, untroubled by the fear that the frauds which put him in power may be uncovered If they exist. A man of sensitive honor would be unable to see any moral distinction between receiving stolen goods and holding an ofllce to which he had not been elected. Mr. MeClellan may have been elected Mayor of New York, but the fact Is doubtful. Instead of help ing to clear up the doubt, he has used every device known lo tricky lawyers to smother Investigation; and now, to cap the climax, he invokes the aid of a most infamous gang of politicians to suppress legislative inquiry. It is like the case of a man detected with stolen goods in his possession who should re sist to the utmost the efforts of the rightful owner to reclaim his property. At the very least a man of high ideals In such a case would let the investiga tion of title proceed unhindered and abide by its results. This Mr. MeClel lan has not done. Hollow indeed sounds the profession of political purity from his lips. That the profession is quite as hollow as it sounds is proved by another article of the treaty which sacrifices Mr. Bing ham. Commissioner of Police. Mr. Bingham's crime is that he has success fully broken off the alliance between the New York police force and New York's criminals. After an arduous struggle. In which every element of law und order was on his side, he has finally secured from the Legislature an act which makes effective police discipline possible. Under the act he has proceed ed to punish guilty officials andi promote honest ones. The guilty inspectors and detectives are. of course, wards of Tammany. Each of them Is near and dvar to some of those potentates whose aM Mr. MeClellan desires. For his au dacity In Interfering with the profitable relations between "Tammany's proteges and the thieves, burglars and pickpock ets of the. city Mr. Bingham is to lose, his. hoad. Such is the reward of polit ical honesty as Mayor McClcllan deals it; out. Such is the encouragement which he lends to those who wish to make politics in djeed as well as word "a profession instead of a vulgar trade." It would be difficult to conceive of a trade more vulgar than that which the Mayor of the metropolis has now begun to ply. Tammany is not ln politics for its health, either bodily or moral. Whatever it gives must be paid for. By assuring the mayor of immunity for the rest of his term it has made him a debtor and the debt must be paid by turning over the offices of the city to Tammany. The Mayor is. "not to be hampered In his appointments, but henceforth, they are not to be anti-Tammany." Con cerning any appointment to office In New York there is one truth absolutely axiomatic. It cannot be an honest ap pointment unless it is anti-Tammany. Hence the meaning of this article in the treaty is that the Mayor has agreed to appoint grafters from this time to the end of the term, but among the grafters he is free to select whom he chooses. 'Doubtless there is a difference between one thief and another, and Mr. MeClellan, by a wise use of the valua ble privilege he has reserved, may miti gate the evils which must follow from his alliance with a society which exists for evil and nothing else. In the cer tainty that they are to be governed by criminals until they can elect another Mayor, it must comfort the New York ers to know that their high-minded ruler will probably not appoint the worst ones. Machtiavelli once wrote that most of the evils of the world are caused by the vacillation of men who are neither con sistently bad nor consistently good. Mr. MeClellan is one of these men. 'His im pulses S3em to be excellent, "but the moment his personal interest or -his timidity urges him toward the bad his better nature yields. The bargain that he has made with Tammany is solely for his personal advantage. Not a shadow of benefit to the city, can result from it. It can have no effect except to strengthen the Mayor's hold on his seat and to confirm the power of an iniqui tous organization. Tammany exists for plunder. By aiding Tammany, Mr. Me Clellan delivers the public over to a band of freebooters. By aiding Me Clellan, Tammany delivers the city over to a weakling whose - shallow conceit and unscrupulous greed of power are more dangerous than resolute deprav ity. Between such a man and Hearst what is there to choose? OCCULT POLITICS. It would be interesting to know how Mr. John'Aubrey Jones acquired his as tonishing fund of esoteric information about the President. He is informed, he says in his letter printed in today's Oregonian, that when Senator Bourne "speaks to the President about the ne cessity of his again being the candidate of his party, the President does not re buke the Senator." Marvelous, marvel ous. One would naturally expect Mr. Roosevelt to raise his club aloft and take the Senator a wert on the Jaw. But how docs Mr. Jones know what Mr. Roosevelt says to the tempter on these interesting occasions? And. to go yet a little farther back Into the dark mystery of the situation, how does he know that such occasions actually oc cur? Can he or any other person defi nitely assert that Mr. Bourne has ever said one word to the President about another term? And if he has ventured1 upon such an audacity, does Mr. Jones really pretend to know whether he was rebuked or not? But if,' after all, Mr. Roosevelt should be a candidate again, what is Mr. Jones going to do about it? That is the ques tion. If the contingency befalls, it will be because a vast majority of the peo ple of the country demand It. Having compelled Mr. Roosevelt to run, they will, of course, elect him. Think of the moral distress of such men as Mr. Jones who will have to live under the rule of a man who said he wouldn't be a can didate and then weiTt and was. Would! their lives be worth living? We fear not. TRANSPORTATION AND PROGRESS. The assertion that the way to pros perity was blazed by, transportation is in general true, though there are some exceptions to the rule. ' In many sec tions of the United States industrial de velopment awaited the establishment of transportation facilities. Transporta tion lines were pushed out into the fron tier, thereby making opportunities for industrial growth and consequent pros perity. In Oregon the people built up their industries, attained prosperous conditions, despite inadequate transpor tation facilities, and! then the railroads were built to take advantage of the traffic provided by the unaided efforts of the people. In Oregon, transporta tion has always lagged a little behind Industrial progress rather than "blazed the way." That has been true not only in the building of railroads, but in the construction of good wagon roads, which latter form as essential a part of the transportation system as the former. But the people have been taking deep interest in transportation problems for some time past, and show indications of taking more active Interest In the future. Not only In demanding exten sion of railroad lines, but in building better wagon roads and improving waterways, the producers in Oregon as well as in every other state are showing their appreciation of the importance of transportation facilities. The In land Waterways Commission, recently appointed by President Roosevelt, has at once entered upon its task of inves tigating conditions with a view to rec ommending a comprehensive plan of improvement which shall accomplish the greatest possible permanent results not only for transportation, but for ir rigation, power and flood-control as well. N undertaking in which the Government has engaged will receive as much attention, and deservedly, as this. In this subject Oregon Is partic ularly interested, for It is handicapped by adverse transportation conditions, though possessing natural advantages surpassing those of almost any other state. Starting out for its first visit of in spection, the commission will visit the Great Lakes and the Mississippi for the purpose of inquiring Into the problem of connecting the Lakes and the Missis sippi with a canal which shall permit shipping to pass from the Lakes to the Gulf as easily as from the Lakes to New York. This is a problem that can be and must be solved, for a waterway from the Lakes to the Gulf .will give the people of a vast producing and consuming region a cheap system of transportation that will compete with the rail lines and act as a natural reg ulator of rates. It is asserted upon pood authority 'that the water of the Great Lakes. formerly, found its way to the sea through the Mississippi, and this enn very readily be believed when it is known that at a distance of sev eral hundred miles the water now flows out of a channel at Buffalo only thirty feet lower than the bottom of the Chi cago drainage canal, which pours its flood Into a tributary of the Mississippi. To construct a ship canal from Chi cago to the Mississippi is a large task, but none too large for the enterprise and skill of America.- Here In Oregon we have similar prob lems. The people of the Upper Wil lamette Valley are now figuring upon a project which contemplates construc tion of a canal from Eugene to Cor vallls, thereby removing the head of transportation from the latter town to the former. It is said that such a canal can be constructed at comparatively small cost, for the reason that its course would lie through the channel of an old river bed, where a natural grade would e already provided and 1 where excavations would be compara- . tively slight. The construction of such a canal would in the near future pro vide a means by which the lumber products of the interior could be float ed down to tidewater at lower rates than the rail lines are willing to grant, and when the Valley attains the high state of agricultural and manufactur ing development which is certain to come, the waterway would be a valu able means of transportation, even after the lumber supply has been exhausted. To many people the idea of a canal any place in the Willamette Valley may seem absurd and possibly present con ditions do not warrant the necessary expenditure; but it is altogether likely that the future will show the wisdom of the construction of such a waterway. In any event, the task of generally improving- transportation conditions Justi fies the investigation of this project as well as many others in this state. We shall eventually have free locks at Ore gon City, and an improved channel up the Willamette. The Inland Waterway Commission in cludes in its study the question of irri gation and power in connection with ship canals, and these suojects should not be overlooked by those who are in vestigating the canal project in the Willamette Valley. If the flow of water should be only sufficient to generate a little power, or to irrigate only small tracts of land, economy would require, as shown President Roosevelt some time ago. that all these uses for the water should be considered when a canal is to be built. In giving their attention to transpor tation, whether in regulation of freight rates, construction of roads, extension of trolley lines or digging canals, the people are working upon a problem scarcely secondary in Importance to that of production. TAXES AND BIG BUSINESS. Nearly every State Legislature this year has been grappling with, the tax ation problem, and in almost every in stance it has been, found' that large cor porate interests oppose the effort to en act laws designed to impose upon them a burden equal to that borne by indi vidual owners of property. Legislators stand in awe of these representatives of Big . Business. Because it is a wealthy corporation that puts up a fight the lawmakers are carried away with the idea that passage of the bill is more difficult. But there should be no differ ence. Jf a measure is right and just, the fact that an opponent of the bill represents ten millions should not give him any more influence than 1b exer cised by a friend of the bill who cannot show title to ten thousand. Facts are none the less true because they make a case against a millionaire. Arguments ,are none the less sound be cause advanced by an overburdened farmer. But there is something about the millionaire that makes the average legislator bow and scrape when the two meet In the lobby, but it is the farmer who must do the bowing when he and the legislator come together. Hence it is that much meritorious tax legislation has been defeated in a num ber of states. CACTION IN GRANTING FRANCHISES. Hot a street franchise- has been granted in Portland but has conferred too liberal privileges, which the city would curtail had it the power. When granted, the franchises were supposed to safeguard the interests of the public, but after the city has enlarged and! the earning power of the franchises has grown and the population has become dense, it is seen that the city does not possess the restrictive authority which public interest requires. An example is the Fourth-street franchise of the Southern Pacific, awarded to the Ore gon Central Railroad Company in 186S, before anybody dreamed, that some day it would be necessary for the city to banish steam locomotives and long trains from the street. This is the experience of other cities as well as of Portland. Residents of a certain street will petition for the grant of a franchise for a streetcar line, under conditions which they would not tolerate after the lapse of a few years. Their City Council will award a fran chise with their tacit consent, which several years later they wouldl resent. In Medfordi there is wrath against the vacation of streets many years ago by the City Council, for the benefit of the Oregon & California Railroad. Says the Medford Tribune: Some time in the long ago, when tha Silurian held absolute sway in this city and the blighting breath of despair had stilled the fire of ambition In the breasts of the few "live ones" remaining, the City Council, out of the abundance of Its Ignor ance and stupidity, srav to the Southern Pacific Company Its official sanction to the closing of every street crossing, except three, within the city limits. Large, white posts flank the railway tracks where tha street crossings should be, mute monuments to the stupid short-sightedness of the men who sold the city's birthright for a mess of pottage. But further comment on this point Is useless. ' The evil has been done and the Question now is, how shall it be undone. The City Council had. no legal light to give away city streets dedicated to public use under a reversion clause, and If this has been done the present Council should take steps to annul the legal acts under which the city streets were closed. It would be well at 4ie same time to see that the exist ing crossings are kept In better condition. All this -carries a caution against too liberal franchise privileges and makes evident that, In future awards, the public shall retain a sufficient measure of authority to control the privileges under all contingencies. This caution should be borne well in mindi by per sons who use Section Line road, which is sought by an electric railroad for a right of way. The time will come, un less that railroad shall be hedged about in its use of the road; that the people will rue the day they ever admitted cars to the highway. Franchises should be granted for as short a period as possible, they should provide for some compensation to the public, preferably in the form of tax on gross earnings, and they should de clare In plain terms that the public utility shall vacate the public property at the end of the period) without delay and without cost to the public. There are many towns in the same situation as Medford, which want their streets back for the use of their people. That there should ever come such a day was undreamed of twenty and thirty years ago. A franchise gives to its possessors the exercise of certain powers belonging to the sovereignty of the people. Those powers should al ways be kept as much as possible within the reach of the people's gov ernment. In the hands of individuals they are stretched for private enrich ment and aggrandizement. And the public hardly ever realizes this until too late. A prominent Canadian newspaper has protested against the policy of the Do minion Government in appropriating public money for the purpose of bring ing .to the Canadian Northwest people from Europe for the purpose of settling the agricultural lands. Among other things, the paper complains that the newcomers, few of them English-speaking people, settle in colonies, give their towns old-country names, maintain their former customs and do not min gle with the Canadian people. America has had a similar experience and has no fault to find with it. All through the Middle States the Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Germans and Russians have formed agricultural communities and they live pretty much to them selves. The older people have little de sire to learn the English language, but they gladly send their children to the public schools. They are industrious, thrifty and law-abiding. They ' are homebuilders, not land speculators. They are more contented in colonies and we like to have them contented with the country in which they live Canada will find that their desire to settle In colonies by themselves makes them none the less desiratjle as helpers In the great task of bringing a new country into a condition of prodoictive-ness. A correspondent of the New York Times wants to know whether a Social ist is an "undesirable citizen." Cer tainly not, if he Is a Socialist in the proper meaning of the .term, but Just as certainly undesirable if he is of that type of men commonly called Socialists who advocate violence and lawlessness. Because a man differs in opinion from the majority of ' the people does not make him an undesirable citizen. In fact, a small minority deeply in earnest in promoting new ideas in government may he the most valuable citizens we have, though not fully appreciated at the time. But the exponents of new ideas must not grow too Impatient, if their views do not gain ready accept ance by others. They must not throw bombs or use language that will incite others less thoughtful to do so. Kansas City is anxious to be selected as the place for holding the Republican National Convention in 1908. Perhaps the city is tired of having its name used in connection with the Democratic platform of 1900 and would like to have something else Indicated by the ex pression "Kansas City- Platform." At any rate, Kansas City is making an effort to raise money to defray the ex penses of a convention ir, the hope that such an inducement will receive the fa vorable consideration of the Republican party managers. The Rhode Island' Legislature has ad journed without electing a' Senator to succeed George P. Wetmore. Eighty one ballots were taken and on tiie last the vote stood 41 for Goddard, Demo crat; 39 for Colt and 30 for Wetmore, "both Republicans. Aldrlch will be alone in the Senate from Rhode Island until next January at least, when the Legis lature will meet again. The people of Rhode Island can learn by looking over the Oregon primary law how to settle Senatorial contests. The New York Central hand.Ied more freight during the month of March than in any similar period in its history, its traffic surpassing the record for March, 1906, by 60,000 carloads. Additional lo comotives are so urgently needed that a $25,000 bonus is offered for prompt de livery of a recent order. Somehow de velopments do not support the "bank ruptcy" talk we heard' a few weeks ago. Illinois has enacted a local option law, after a hard fight in the Legislature. The law provides for township option, and under its provisions the people in a territory six miles square can vote the whole township ''dry," even though a city inside the township votes "wet." But the law does not permit "gerry mandering" by joining dry with wet townships or precincts. The Kansas City Journal says that If the state may regulate the rates to be charged by a railroad It may also regu late the prices to be charged by a gro cer. But there is a difference between a concern enjoying special privileges granted by the state and an Individual doing business entirely on his own cap ital and without a monopoly. Work is soon to begin upon the con struction of a canal connecting the Ohio River with Lake Erie. This will give Pittsburg and the entire Valley of the Ohio an easy outlet by water to the Atlantic Coast. Canal building wHl be the greatest feature of internal improvement in the next fifty years. Wisconsin Agricultural College will experiment with potatoes for the pur pose of ascertaining at what cost alco hol can be manufactured from them. Ordinary potatoes will not be used, but there has been Imported from Germany a potato unsuited for food but which yields large crops. We are told that very soon it will be possible to eat dinner in New York and breakfast the next morning in Paris. Simply take the "owl" boat. But al ready there are persons who feel next morning as if they had been on quite as long a Journey as that. Twenty tender doctors have just re ceived diplomas In Portland and are ready to go to work. In their fight with the tough world they will protiably not find the old. doctors as benevolent or as kindly as they look. . A convict w ho lives an honorable, useful life for nine years after escaping has earned a pardon, and extension of clemency in the case of John W. Janu ary, of Kansas City, will be universally approved. In England last year there were 318 persons tried for murder and in the United States 6597. Prevention of crime is one of the great problems in this country. As the contest for Mayor has come to the old-time "you're another" stage, some nominations may turn disappoint ments after the primaries. One of Thaw's signs of insanity is his expectation of being cleared in a jiffy, after having killed Stanford White. It would seem, therefore, that the Panama Canal may be completed al most as soon as the Cerilo Canal. Ice prices may soar, but Bull Run water is pretty cool, even on hot Sum mer days, thank you. Republicans seem to be making ready for the same old "scrap" In the local contest for Mayor. Has anybody been convicted of mur der recent!? HOW A LAWYER LOOKS AT IT j ITaable to See Dlffereaice Between- Pub lic Dlaenaaloa and Private Importunity I PORTLAND. Or.. April 30. (To the Editor.) In answer to my contention that a newspaper ought not to com ment upon a case pending in the courts The Oregonian has one answer upon which it seems to practically rest its entire case, namely, that in criticis ing the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Moyer Haywood kldnRplng case. I have done the same thing, and therefore it must be right. I certainly am disappointed that a great paper like The Oregonian should take so small a view of this case. Its readers expect a better an swer than this. If The Oregonian has no better defense for its position upon this and other questions than the fact that I have done the same thing, no one knows better than I that it Is lean ing upon a broken reed. But unfor tunately for this defense. It is not true. The question as to whether or not Moyer, Haywood et' al. can be legally tried In the Idaho courts after being kidnaped by the state officers of Idaho, has been litigated In the courts of Idaho, and in the Supreme Court of the United States, the court of last resort, and has been finally settled so far as this case Is concerned. It would be Just as correct for The Ore gonian to say that the case of the State vs. Frank McDaniels was still be fore the courts as to say that this Is. The only question that remains to be determined by the courts "of Idaho Is. are the defendants guilty of the murder? I made no comment upon that question. The Oregonian says that It has not advocated going pri vately to the Judge and discussing the case with him. That depends en tirely upon what you cal! privately. If I were to go to Judge Frazer's house this evening and talk to him about a case which he has under ad visement, and related to him certain facts which had not been brought out from the trial, or gave to him certain reasons why he should decide the case In a certain way. The Oregonian would call that talking to him privately, and would deem that it was reprehensible, but If The Oregonian makes the same statements .or the same arguments upon the law in Its columns, and sends to the Judge and he reads It in the privacy of his home, that The Ore gonian thinks is not going to him pri vately. It seems to me that this Is a distinction without a difference. If The Oregonian may print its argu ment or its facts and send them to the Judge, why may I not write them and send them to him? Is there any dif ference? If I were to attempt to do this. Judge Frazer would very prompt ly and properly send me to jail for contempt of court, and The Oregonian would applaud his action, but it claims the right for one of its editors to do the same thing in a different way. There Is no difference in the two cases supposed. We are stating our facts, or making our arguments in the absence of the other party. He has no opportunity to contro vert or explain our alleged facts or to show the fallacy of our argument. Neither of us are under oath or in any danger of the punishment for perjury. Neither of us Is subject to cross exam ination. Our statements are ex parte and probably biased. If the Oregonian may send a printed article concerning a case and I am guilty of contempt for sending a written one. where does the distinction arise? Would I escape the penalty if my argument was printed, or does the difference arise out of the "di vinity that doth hedge about an editor. S. B. HUSTON. The man who can see no difference be tween candid discussion of a question in the columns of a newspaper and a se cret discussion or presentation of facts by one who goes privately to the home of a Judge is unable to see the difference between an effort to promote justice and an effort to pervert It. What a news paper has to say It places before the whole people and forces it upon the at tention of none. It cannot- deceive with out being found out. The man who. goes secretly to the home of a Judge does so because he has something to say which he would be afraid or ashamed to pro claim publicly. There is a distinction and a difference which Mr. Huston should observe. When Mr. Huston assumes that The Oregonlan's position upon the right of discussion of pending cases has no bet ter defense than the assertion that he discussed such a case, he Is greatly in error. The Oregonlan's position is based upon the fundamental right of free speech and a free press. In which posi tion it is supported by the opinions of two members of the United States Su preme Court. That Is an immeasurably better and an all-eutnclent defense. This paper has-never asserted the right of a newspaper to Intimidate a court, or to use any improper Influences to Interfere with Its procedure. The United States Supreme Court in its majority opinion said that "premature statement or ar gument" by a newspaper Is contempt. The Oregonian says it is not, and that both persons and newspapers have at all times a right to discuss candidly all questions, subject to responsibility for the truth of what they say. This is a right that Is very seldom exercised either by the people or the press, because it is seldom that occasion arises. Still less seldom is the right abused. But the framers of the Constitution reserved to the people the right of free speech and the courts have, or ought to have, no power to take it away. Congressmen Off to Honolulu. SAJ FRANCISCO, April 30. Among the passengers on the transport Buford sailing at noon today, were 25 Congress men, who are going to Honolulu at the invitation of Delegate Kalaninaolo for the purpose of acquainting themselves with the resources of Hawaii. Thirteen Representatives are accompanied by their wives, the entire party, which Is being conducted by George B. MeClellan, con sisting of 39 persons. Those In the dele gation, together with the 19 states they represent are: E. A. Acheson and wife, of Pennsyl vania; D. S. Alexander and wife, of New York; Arthur L. Bates, of Pennsylvania; A. L. Brick and wife, of Indiana; A. B. Capron and wife, of Rhode Island; R. D. Cole, of Ohio; P. P. Campbell, of Kansas; James N. Davidson, of Wiscon sin; B. C. Ellis and wife, of Missouri; J. V. Graff and wife of Illinois; Ben jamin F. Howell and wife, of New Jer sey; E. L. Hamilton and wife, of Michi gan; W. P. Hepburn and wife, of Iowa; Wesley L. Jones and wife, of Washing ton; George L. Lllley and wife, of Con necticut; Charles E. Llttlefieid and wife, of Maine; J. W. Keifer. of Ohio; Charles McGavin, of Illinois; James McLachlan, of California; James S. Need ham, of California; George W. Norris, of Ne braska; Senator Samuel H. Piles, of Washington: Fred O. Stewells and wife, of Minnesota; Edwin Y. Webb, of North Carolina, and W. W. Wilson, of Illinois. Burrage Had to Pay $840,000. BOSTON, Mass.. April 30. That a payment, of $840,003 was the basis on which the J3.003.000 suit of the Copper Range Mining Company against Albert C. Burrage was settled after It had come to trial last week became known today in connection with the publica tion of the report of William A. Payne of the Copper Range Company. NICHOLAS HEAD IS EXPANDED Montenegro Revolts Against Aping Ways f Great Monarch. VIENNA. April 30 The revolutionary movement In Montenegro, which is a mili tary government has been proclaimed. and armed bands are reported marching on the capital, assuming a serious charac ter, according to dispatches received here by way of Ragusa. Disorder is said to be rapidly spreading through the coun try. The center of the discontent is at Andrievica, the headquarters of the Vas sojevies. numerically the strongest clan In the principality of Montenegro. The rising Is attributed largely to the attempts of Prince Nicholas to override the constitution, which he bestowed upon the country In 1905, and also his incessant drain on the public purse. The Prince Is accused of utilizing the taxes of the other state funds to swell his private bank account. Even sums received from Emperor Nicholas and Emperor Francis Joseph from time to time for specific purposes of Montenegro are said to have been diverted to the enlargement of the Prince's income, or spent in his attempts to ape the customs of the courts of more Important coun tries. The marriage of his daughter Helena to King Victor Emmanuel of Italy increased Prince Nicholas' ideas of his own impor tance, with a consequent widening of the estrangement between the ruler and the people of Montenegro. The granting of a constitution to Montenegro turned out to be-a barren gift, and as soon as this was realized dissatisfaction became pro nounced and emigration increased so rap idly that 25,000 Montenegrins left the coun try during the first three months of this year. The Cabinets appointed by Prince Nicholas have been turned out by the Parliament as rapidly as they were ap pointed. The attempt to suppress the radical in dependent newspapers (the government being accused of instigating the destruc tion of offices of two papers at Nik shitzch and Podgorttza) fanned the revo lutionary flames. Delegates of the prin cipal clans; all heavily armed, after a stormy conference decided to send rep reprosentatives to Cettinje and demand that Prince Nicholas dismiss the Tomano vlc Cabinet. The Prince replied by de claring martial law, and calling out the militia to prevent the mountaineers from entering the capital. In the meantime the Tomanovis Ministry tendered its res ignation and it is thought probable that Prince Nicholas will reappoint the Cabi net, over which M. Radulovic presided, as the latter has many representatives throughout the country. The movement in Montenegro Is being closely watched by the Austrian govern ment, which fears it may spread to the Province of Novl Bazar, between Mon tenegro and Servia, where Austria is re sponsible for the preservation of order under the treaty of Berlin, but the people of Montenegro believe that Prince Nicho las will succeed in suppressing the out break. LEOPOLD'S CONGO SCHEME Conference With French Arouses Guessers in Two Capitals. BRUSSELS, April SO. King Leopolds visit to Paris In the midst of a cabinet crisis Is creating much speculation here. Many persons believe that the King's purpose Is to make arrangements for the conversion of the Congo bonds. PARIS, April 30. The Government's ab solute refusal to give any intimation of the subject of King Leopold's conferences with President Fallieres, Premier Cle menceau and Foreign Minister Pichon strengthened the opinion that they will have an important bearing upon the fate of the Congo Indepedent State. The general impression is that King Leopold believes he can effect a comprom ise with the Belgian Parliament through Interior Minister de Troos, and that he desires to secure France's influence in or der to prevent Great Britain from object ing and calling a conference of the pow ers. WILL VOTE OX EXDIXG STRIKE Fernie Operators and Vnion Hefer , Question to Miners. OTTAWA, Ont., April 30. M. Lemeieux, the Minister of Labor, has received the following telegram from his deputy, now at Fernie, B. C. endeavoring to settle the miners' trocbles: "As the result of negotiations, the outstanding points of an agreement have been so adjusted through conciliations as to make it ap plicable to the operators of the seven companies comprising the chief Western Coal Operators Association and to the district executive board of the United. Mlneworkers' Association. A referendum vote will be taken on . Thursday.',1 V Stromboli Vomlls Hot Hocks. MESSINA." April 30. Some of the inhab itants of the island of Stromboli who have fled from- there and reached the city de scribe the eruption of the Stromboli vol cano as terrific. The detonations were deafening. Red burning stones, ashes and cinders were thrown up about a thousand feet over the top of the volcano. Stork Keeps Spain Waiting. MADRID. April 30 Queen Victoria con tinues remarkably well and cheerful. Tho physicians now think it may be two or three days before the expected heir is born. ANOTHER BALLOON HOW FINDS ARE EM PLOYEB Appropriations or Last Congress Show Greater Needs. WASHINGTON, April 3.1. According to the volume of appropriations made, new offices created, etc..' during the. last session of Congress, ju.st completed the total appropriations for the session were $920,798,143. In addition to the specific appropria tions contracts were authorized fr public works requiring future appro priations aggregating $67,937,349, of which over $19,000,001) Is for river and harbor improvements and almost $1, 00O.QOO for battleships, torpcili bouts, etc. The largest appropriation carried by any one measure was S212.ii!l,l!3 for the postotficc bill. The naval bill carried $'JS,!i:.8.R.I7. the' iirmy bill $7S. 634.582 and the pension bill SI 4..143,oft . The new offices authorized arc 1S.!'!3 in number, ut an annual compensation of $12. 716.184. Of these 477 were for the postal service Including 33K5 clerks in postof flees, and 1239 railway postal clerks. The net number of salaries increased is 16.434 at an annual cost of $2,949,353. This number includes Increases In tho saJarics of the vine-president. Speaker of the House, nine Cabinet officers. 9- Senators, and 396 Representatives and 14,722 employes of the railway service. The aniimtl compensation of 19,900 clerks in pnstofficcs is increased in tho aggregate $2. 1.11,000; the annual sala ries of 24.227 city lettercarrlers are In creased about $2,03.1,000 and 36,900 ru ral lettercarrlers are increased from $720 to $900 each, at an annual cost of $6,617,000. A comparlsion of the total appropria tions made for 1908 at the second ses sion of the Fifty-ninth Congress, $92.), 798.144, with those of the first session of the Oialf of 1907, $879,589,185, shows an Increase of $41,209,959: TARIFF CONCESSION TO FRANCE Government Ready to Give Same Ad vantages as Germany Gets. WASHINGTON. A prr! 30. While the recommendation from Ambassadn white at Paris to the effect that a tariff com mission be appointed by the United States to endeavor to effect an arrangement with the French government such as was made in the case of Germany, has" not yet formally come before the State Depart ment, it can be announced authoritative ly that, if the French government desires such a commission, there will be no oppo sition in Washington. Moreover, as the agitation In France seemed to be based in part on a fear that Germany will have certain, advantages over France in the matter of trade through the arrangements which today were acted upon favorably by the upper house In Berlin, it may also be announced that the State Department Is preparing to grant to France any concessions made to Germany, providing the concession are even on both sides. Thus, a 20 per cent reduction of duties on German cham pagne Is provided for In the pending German-American arrangement and the same privilege can be enjoyed by French champagne if the French government Is willing to make concessions to America In return similar to those adopted by Ger many. Rids on Submarine Boats. WASHINGTON, April 30. Three compa nies bid today at the Navy Department for tho contracts for 'supplying as many submarine torpedo boats as could be built for the $3,000,000 appropriated. The lalto Torpedo Boat Company, of Bridgeport, Conn., offers to build any number of 235 ton boats above five at $198,000 each. Tho Sub-surface Boat Company, of New York, offers to build a boat of 250 tons for $250. 000. The Electric Boat Company, of New York, offers to build boats patterned after the Octopus, of 274 tons, for $312,000. or of S40 tons -and of greater speed than tho Octopus, ranging from 8 to 13- knots, in lots of five or more, $379,000 each. Built on the Pacific Coast the same type of boats would cost respectively $417,000 and $340,000 each. I'nclc Sam Loses Rest Men. WASHINGTON, April 30. The constant draft on the "economic force" of the Geological Survey made by the large mining organizations, which offer the Government experts much larger salaries than they get from the Government, is' seriously impairing the efficiency of that branch of the service, says a report on the investigation of metalliferous ores in, 1906. The report adds: "It is only by years of practical ex perience In the field that the geologist,' however excellent his preliminary train ing, becomes competent to carry on inde pendent work in investigating a mining district, and the loss of trained men lit this work Is Irreparable." Influence of Missions in Cliinu. SHANGHAI. April 30. At today's ses sion of the China Centenary Missionary Conference here, the new educational movements in China, the value of Chris tian education In providing capable and trustworthy leaders In state and church, the scope of limitations of Christian col leges and kindred subjects were dls cuFsed. A remarkable spirit of harmony was manifested by the representatives of the 0 'denominations present. This eve ning the subjects were the Influence of the missions in China, their aid in In troducing commerce. Western learning, etc., and China's becoming the modern Japan. BLOWN OUT TO SEA From the New Tork World.