10 THE ffroTOAY OBEGONIAN, "PORTLAND, MARCH 2, 1902. SPOT SHIP CHARTERtD FRENCH BARK GENERAL PAID UERBE SECURES 20 SHILLINGS. Slight Advance Over LaKt Prcvioas Rate British Ship Aarncs Onivalcl Arrives With Cartre of Ceal. The French bark General Faldhcrbe, which arrived In without a charter Fri day, was not long on the disengaged list, but was chartered yeseterday by Glrvin & Eyro to load wheat for the United Kingdom. She received -6 shilling, which is an advance of 1 shilling per ton over the last previous spot charter. The advance is not due to any better demand for ships locally, or to any .shortening in the supply, but Is supposed to be on account of the stiffening In nitrate freights. Six months ago Portland was securing the greater portion of her ton nage from ports on the "West Coast of South America, rates at that time being about 10 shillings higher at Portland than at the nitrate ports. Since that time there has been a reversal of form, and wheat freights out of Portland are as low or lower than nitrate freights, with the loading port charges at nitrate ports much more reasonable than they are in the North Pacific. Among the recent .nitrate charters re ported are a number of vessels which have carried wheat cargoes out of Port land and other ports In the Northwest. Some of the vessels and the advanced rates paid them are as follows: Mael gwyn, 28s 9d, April; Conway Castle, 28s 9d, April; Kilmeny, 26s 6d, September November; Falstaff, 2Ss 9d spot; Duchal burn. 2Gs 3d, October; The Hahnnemann, 25s 9d; Firth of Stronsa, 26s, July; Cad wgan, 26s 3d, July. On Puget Sound the situation has been eased a little by the charter of the British ship Troop to load lumber for the St. Paul & Tacoma Lum ber Co., for a "West Coast port. Some of the ships in this port are dickering for lumber business to the West Coast and are willing to accept a pretty low rate in order to get down where they can secure a nitrate freight to Europe. OVER. FIFTY VESSELS. Alaska Packers' Association Has a Bis Fleet for 1002. The fleet of the Alaska Packers'" Asso ciation for the season of 1902 is the larg est ever listed by that big concern and Includes moreXmerican ships and barks than are controlled by any other corpor ation. The fleet in detail is as follows: Ships Tonnage. Schs. Tonnage. Star of Russia,.. 1981 Premier 303 Tacoma .1739 Prosper 241 Balclutha 1689 Steamers Oriental .1688Kvlchak .UG9 Slctram l56President 377 Star of France.. lGMlChllkat 172 Bohemia 1633 Island Belle 143 Star of Italy ....1614 Jennie 123 Eclipse 15S5Kayak 115 Isaac Reed 15i2jAlitak 115 Santa Clara 1535!Kadiak 114 Indiana 14S8irhistle 102 L. J. Morse l293Hattle Gage 81 Two Brothers ...1383 Gertie Storey .... 73 Centennial 12S7 Afognak 66 Barks lsie .- 66 Reaper ......146 pna .ttonms m Carondelet 1438 Pacific 63 Euterpe 1318 Fresno 1245 Himalaya 1027 Coalinga .1001 Electra 985 Royal 63 Wigwam 60 Polar Bear 58 Novelty 57 Qulnnat 55 Nicholas Thayer. 5S5jReporter 50 Will W. Case.... 583 Lillian 45 Schooners- Katahdin 44 Rvba 40 Gamble 725 Camano . Okanogan 723Aleut 88 21 XORTHERX TRADE. Steamship Companies Arrange Rates for Coming Season. At a meeting of the representatives of the various steamship companies operat ing between "Victoria, Puget Sound and Alaska, held at the W. P. & T. Railway Company's offices at Seattle last week, the matter of through rates to .Dawson and interior points was discussed, but nothing definite was done. The repre sentatives of the White Pass route In troduced copies of their freight classifi cation for the coming season, and asked that the steamship companies consider It as the basis of the establishment of a through rale. At a meeting of the com panies operating steamers on the Nome route, passenger and freight rates for the voyage to Nome from Puget Sound were fixed for the first voyage as fol lows: "Upper-deck staterooms, $125; saloon-deck staterooms, $100; second-class berths, $60; general freight, per ton, 530; 'cattle and horses, per head, $75; sheep, per head, $7; lumber, per thousand, $45; freight, cylindrical measurement, $37 50. On the first return voyage from the north it was agreed that the tariff should be the same as on the first trip to Nome, leaving the rate thereafter to the various agents representing the transportation companies at the gold camp. No opposi tion was manifested to the schedules adopted. ONE DAY TOO LATE. Asmes Oavrala Reaches Astoria, hat Misses Her Canceling: Date. The Agnes Oswald arrived at Astoria at 5:30 last evening, 24 hours too late to save & good charter. The French bark Vendee also showed tip off the mouth of the river, and was reported as cross ing In early In the afternoon. In the evening, the lookout at the mouth of the river reported the Frenchman as put ting back to sea again after getting well inside the heads. This Is about the fifth time the Vendee has been spoken since she came up off the California Coast about a month ago, and as she has been out nearly 200 days, her crew may be in a similar predicament to the men on the French bark Les Adelphee. Tho Vendee comes from Newcastle, England, and has aboard a cargo of salt, pig iron, firebrick and fireclay. The Agnes Oswald comes from Newcastle, N. S. W., with a cargo of coal for Kerr, GIftord & Co. XARCOXI'S LATEST. ReeHlar Messages Received "While aouu juies at sea. r NEW YORK, March 1. Signor Marconi, who arrived today on the Philadelphia fr"m Southampton, reported a new wireless-telegraph record. "This time," said Mr. Marconi, "there can be no error. Captain Mills and Chief Officer Marsdon signed each message re ceived as witnesses. Fifteen hundred miles at sea regular messages were re ceived from the Cornwall station, and ticks were recorded at a distance of 2000 miles. It has been said that my New foundland messages were due to my im agination and to atmospheric currents, so I requested the captain's signature to bear me out. "I am not going to establish any wire less service between Cuba and the United States, as has been reported, nor have 1 any intention of establishing a line across the English Channel." COPPER QUEEX NEARLY LOST. Gasoline Schooner Caught In Storni Has to Pass Her Port. ASTORIA, March 1. 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In. returning to Rogue River she will tow the hull of the small steamer Rogue River, which was built In Portland last Summer, and which the steamer schooner Alliance .tried, to tow there, but was not successful. It has been tied up here since that time. THREE STEAMERS ASHORE. Atlantic Coast Claims Tvro Victims and Africa a Tnird. .NEW YORK, March 1. Oak Island life saving station reports the British steam er Acra, from China ports for New York, ashore at Johns Inlet. The ccew have landed at Jones Beach. The captain, en gineer, and flrst mate are still on the vessel. The .sea Is breaking over the steamer, but she does not appear to be in any immediate danger. ROCKFORD, Maes., March 1. The steamship Wllster Flume, for Boston, is hard and fast on a ledge off Thatch ers' Island. Her crew of 23 men have been rescued. The Wllster Is in grave danger, as tho sea is breaking over her. She has a cargo of sugar consigned to Boston merchants. BATHUR9T, Gambia, British West Af rica, March L The British steamer Ca bana, from Liverpool, February 6, for the west coist of Africa, went ashore at the mouth of the Gambia, February 25. Her position is critical. The surf prevents the landing of the passengers and mails. DAMAGE TO TATOOSH. Bar Tag "Will Have to Go Ont of Service for Thirty Days.' ASTORIA, March L The injuries to the bar tug Tatoosh prove to be equally ob bad as at first feared. It is evident, though, that the damage was the result of a cross-sea. Tho rudder post, which is a part of the steel forged stern frame, was broken off near the shoe. It is not yet definitely settled what will be done, but it is probablo that the Tatoosh will go to Puget Sound for repairs under her own steam; but convoyed by another tug to render assistance if necessary Tho repairs to the Tatoosh will taken at least SO days, and in the meantime another tug will be sent around from Puget Sound to take her place. Raisinf? the Henriettc. ASTORIA, March 1. The effort to raise the sunken French bark Henriette at low tide this afiernoon was partially success ful. All the pumps were used and the vessel was lifted so that the tug was able to turn her about and head her toward shore. The decks, however, could not -be cleared and superficial bul warks were erected. All the work thus far has been experimental, and it is now believed that at the next attempt the bark can be shifted to a place where her cargo of redwood can be removed. Opposition TlllamooU Steamer. TILLAMOOK Or., March L-rAfter mo nopolizing the freight and passenger bis' nes3 between Astoria and Tillamook for a number of years, the Pacific Navigation Company will have a competitor in tho Nehalcni Transportation Companyr for the latter company has picked up the tug George R. Vosburg and put her on tho run. between this place and Astoria, and a reduction of the freight and passenger rates is looked for. The Vosburg left this city this afternoon. To Blovr Up Derelicts. NEW YORK. March 1. Steps have been taken by the Government to rid the sea of derelicts, those dangerous menaces to navigations' which are now so thickly strewn alonp the Atlantic seaboard. The Cincinnati, one of the squadron which was ordered here to welcome Prince Henry, has been directed to proceed to Newport, R. L. t)iere totakc on a supply of mines and then to cruise along the coast and blow up every -derelict that can be found. N'evf For; Signals. NEW TTORK.. March L-Some most in teresting experiments with a new fog ?Ignalling apparatus were made in mid Channel .Friday between the mail packet Calais and the French steamer Nord, says a London dispatch to the Herald. Signals were exchanged between the Nord and the Calais jhen six miles iparL If Buccespful, the Invention will be a boon to Channol navigation, owing ao M UNITED STATES INTERIOR OP PALACE CAR, OLTMPIA, to the great danger of collisions in the crowded waterway. Canard Stays Ont. LIVERPOOL, March L Tho Cunard Steamship Company has refused to .sign the passenger rate agreement, because the .iorgan syndicate insists on a clause permitting two now steamers to engage In the Liverpool-Boston service, which, tho Cunard people assert, would be a formidable opposition to them. A war of rates Is expected. Domestic and Foreign Ports. ASTORIA, March 1. Arrived at 10 A. M. and left up at 11:40 P. M. Steamer Geo. W. Elder, from San Franc-'sco. Arrived at 5:80 P. M. British ohlp Agne3 Oswald, from Newcas tle N. S. TV. ArrUed down at 0:20 P. M. Norwegian steamer Thyra. Reported outside at C P. M. French bark Vendee, Ironj New castle. England. Condition of the bar at Q P. K., moderate; wind southeast; weather cloudy. Seattle, March 1. Steamer Isis, from Ta coma; ship America, from San Francisco. Sailed City of Seattle, for Skagway; schooner William Nottingham, for San Pedro; chooner Kellogg, for HHo; steamer Jennie, for Hunt er's Bay; steamer City of Pueblo, for Tacoma; steamer Edith, for San Francisco; U. S. 3. Grant, for Tacoma. Tacoma, March 1. Arrived Steamer Cottage City, from Seattle. Feb. 2S British ship Troop, from Corea; steamer City of Puebla, from San Francisco. Bailed American schooner, Erlo, for San Francisco; American bark Levi G. Burgess, for San Francisco; German steamship Isto, for Seattle; steamer Aztec, for San Fran cisco. Feb. 2S Austrian steamship Java, for St. Vincent. New Yorkj March 1. Sailed Lahn, for Genoa and Naples; Campania, for Liverpool; Palatla, for Hamburg: Rotterdam, for Rotterdam, via Boulogne: Astoria, for Glasgow; Mesama, for London. San Francisco, March 1. Arrived Steamer Washtenaw, from Tacoma; ship St. Nicholas, from Puret Sound. Glasgow, March 1. Sailed Sarmatlan, for Boston. Antwerp, March 1. Sailed Kensington, for New Tork. Havre, March 1. Sailed L'Aqultalne, for New York. Liverpool, March 1. Sailed. Lucania. for New York. ,New York, March 1. Arrived Carthagenlan, from Glasgpvr; Philadelphia, from Southamp ton and Cherbourg; American, from Seattle, San Francisco, etc. Hoqulam. Wash., Feb. 28. Arrived Steamer Santa Barbara, from San Franclaeo for Aber deen; steamer Coronado. from San Franclaco for Aberdeen. March 1 Steamer Saa Pedro, from San Francisco for Aberdeen. Seattle. March 1. Sailed Steamer Edith, for San Francisco; steamer Cottage City, for Sitka; German steamer Isis. for Port Blake ley. Arrived March 1 Steamer Al-Kl, from Skaguay. Feb. 28 German steamer Isis, from Tacoma. Didn't Throw the Boy Ont. . Washington Post. The baby member of the House is Rep resentative Lever, of South Carolina. He is only 27 years old, and looks 20. He was private secretary of the late Representa tive Stokes, and when the latter died was voted by a grateful constituency into the vacant seat. Every day at 11:43 o'clock Bert Kennedy, assistant doorkeeper, warns all persons not entitled to the floor to vacate, "the rules of the House requiring the same." For three days Kennedy saw a small boy clttlng at a deBk and coolly disregarding tho official summons to retire. He threw his piping, penetrating voice In the direc tion of the lad, but without effect. On the third day Kennedy told his troubles to Amos Cummlngs. "If that boy don't get out of here be fore 12 o'clock Til throw him out," said Kennedy. "What bpy?" asked Cummlngs. "Sitting over there," replied Kennedy, pointing In Lever's direction. "I wouldn't throw him out," said Cum mlngs. " "Why not?" inquired Kennedy. "Because," remarked Cummlngs, "you might lose your job. He is a member of the House." Kennedy didn't say a word, and Repre sentative Lever remained undisturbed. BraKnclx, Banlc Fallnre. BRUSSELS. March L The Bank of Blgwood & Morgan has suspended 'pay ment here. It was an unimportant bank ing house, and its liabilities amount to 30.000. It did business with the British colony in this city. Preferred Stock Beets. Baby crimson, nicer than fresh. WILL FIX UP PILOT- BOAT OREGON BOARD ORDERS SAX JOSE PDT IX CONDITION. License Granted to Captain R. E. Howes Pilots Mast Hereafter Give Bonds. ASTORIA, March L The Oregon Board of Pilot Commissioners held a regular monthly meeting' this afternoon. Those present were: Chairman Martin Foard, Commissioners E. W. Tallant and Syl vester Farrell and "Secretary W. T. Chut ter. The board directed Mr. Tallant to take charge of the state pilot-boat San Joee and place hor in condition for serv lco as soon- as practicable. It was decided that In the future nil tho pilots should furnish bonds from korio recognized se curity company, as required by law. The secretary was directed to Inform the pilots that in the futuro they must report in detail any and nfl accidents which might happen to vesMelH while In their charge. Applications for bar pilot licenses were received from Ed Nolan, Otto Johnson, J. W. Darragh, Ludwlg Larson, Charles Seders, and. all were placed on Ale. The application for a bar license made some months ago by Captain R, E. Howes was reconsidered and was granted by a unan imous vote. Captain Howes has had "WHICH IS BEING USED BY PRINCE many years experience at the mouth of the river as master in the bar tug serv ice, and is qualified in every way for the position. TO HONOR THE DEAD. -(Continued from Ninth PageO Jacob C. Mavln, D ... Peter L. Spencer, H :.... Alex B. Gallaway, L Alfred Pi Watson, H Joseph C Prentiss, A Edw. D. Barrett, H James O. Watson, H Harry J. Hayes, E Sanford Whiting, staff Charles B. Hill, G John C. Coates, B Robert F. Crawford. H Henry Hockcnyos, N. C. S George W. Martin, I Joseph W. Hoeye. G C. S. Ruhl (father). H Herbert W. Kerrigan, H Charles W. Bennett. M Charles P. Mercer, E Charles E. McDonell. H 150 135 1S5 lb5 135 1 G5 1 Co 60 6 11 163 45 1 65 105 2 40 165 les 1 i 2 10 1 oO 650 1S5 ltw 160 5&J 165 1 65 240 1 65 ISO 150 150 5 SO 150 150 , 2 '10 165 , 1 65 2 40 1 65 2 40 2 40 165 15 1 65 135 7 00 135 1 50 15 1 50 5 41 1 65 , 135 1 50 2 10 135 150 4 S6 , 1 50 165 . 165 SO 1 SO . ISO , 1 65 . 165 ICO . 5S. , 1 65 , 165 60 . 180 . 165 225 . 2 40 45 . 1 50 . 150 , 2 40 eo 60 . , 135 , 1 50 . 195 . 225 . 165 15 2 40 . 210 CO . 165 5 30 30 . 1 'J5 . i no . 1 50 . 150 . " 150 60 . 1 to . 1 95 . 2 2 . 505 'George B. Smith, L iranK . ireeman, a. Zeno Lucas, E Richard H. Barber. G Claudu M. Nash, F Thomas D. Barclay, A Frank C. Stellmacner, I Frank H. Thompson, A Clyde Boynton, E Alonzo J. Countryman, E James Mead. E Charles R, Platte. M Edw. A. Robinson, E William Wann, B Howard H. Holland. M Charles A. Craft, F Lawrence C. Patton, G Frank M. Glrard, I Harold L. Stanton, G Isaac Purslful, I George L. Harding, I Rufus S. Melsenhlmer, G Charles L. Case, F Ernest Stanaberry, H Roy O. Latham, H William Gadsby. G Arthur P. Harris, A Frederick B. Stoddard. E Cal C. Simmons, F Samuel W. Stormer. B William A. Huntley. I George Schlneman. F Arthur C. Thurber, A George E. Dyer, E- William 1. Batchelor, K George C. L. Synder. A Alfred O. Carden. D Philip G. Eastwlck. Jr.. field William A. Getschell, D Guy D. Simmons. A Robert J. O'Nell, H Albert Av Pike. A Herbert Newell. A Claude A. Whitney, A Benjamin F. Smith. A , William W. Harder. H Charles Proebstcl, Merrill D. Philips, I Edw. Gantcnbcln, H J. Hampton (father), H William Knight, E Richard Deich, A John J. Lurz. G ,. William S. Nanman. L William O. Tycer. I Fred Wlthrow. B Harvey C. Slocum B James O. Singleton, B ,... Samuel Worrell, I f.. Leonard Gross. C Elmer L. Doollttle. C David H. Mitchell. A John H. Jones, C Sloan Hackney, L Chris S. Lowe, L Claude Dever. F Joseph P. Sullivan. D Erastus A Smith. I i Cyrus W. Thornton, K Lewis W. Scott, H Lewis F. Smith. G Thomas Murray, B Charlc H. Rich, A fcederlah M. -Redman. A Charles W. Smith. L Benjamin F. Wade, E Alfred L. Bradley. E Hugh Fenton (father), B Eric Anderson (father), E George Williams, C George J. Lautenschlager. G Jessie Hlslop (mother), L' Fred M. camacK. .m. James A. McKlnnon, H Total $531 70 Under the Ice to the Pole. Baltimore American. A Vienna man comes forward with a proposition to reach the North Pole in an entirely now manner that 1p. under the Ice. It is said that he got his idea from a novel by Frank Stockton. He has ex perimented with a boat In a basin, and is eure he will succeed. The Holland and the Fulton have been proven to be the best under-water boatsln existence, but their inventors and designers have had no thought of trying to find the pole In their ships. Up to this point thoy havo been content to show bow ships of war may be destroyed by these little crafts, and incidentally to demonstrate that men can stay blow the surface of the water for several hours and enjoy a dinner In comfort. The Vienna man will have to build a large ship to hold enough air for breathing purposes, and big lockers for storing canned food sufllclcnt for a jour ney, perhaps, of several mbnths. He does not know yet where the pole Is, and hence will have to go it blind in the matter of direction; nor does he know whether there Is an "open sea" under the Ice. as some hold there Is above the ice around the pole. He Is also In the dark how far be low the surface of water the Ice extends in the frozen regions, and there- may be other difficulties in the way. In fact, so many obstacles may present themselves to the under-thc-Ice navigator that he may reach an insane asylum before he ar rives at the pole. WHERE ARE THE PHILIPPINES Are They In or Ont of the United States. WALLA WALLA. Feb. 27. (To the Ed itor.) Can you help me out of a tangled situation? While I was going to school the "United States extended Its western f boundary to the coast of California, and San Francisco became the front door of the Nation for all who came from the Orient. Less than five years ago the western boundary of tho United States rwas extended to Hawaii and Honolulu became Us front door. Shortly after that was done our western boundary was ex tended by Dewey's guns and the treaty HENRY IN HIS TRAVELS. of Paris to tho Philippines, and Ma nila became the western front door of the United States. What I wish to know is, by what chain of reasoning the United States House of Representatives reached the conclusion, aa it did by the passage of the Philip pine bill that Manila is a foreign port; by what chain of reasoning the Senate reached the conclusion, as It did in pass ing the same Philippine bill, that Manila Is one-fourth of the way in the United States. It seems to me that Manila is all in or all out of the United States. The laws of war said it was all In after Dewey and Anderson took possession. The Com missioners who negotiated the treaty of Paris declared Manila all In the United States. The Senate, when It ratified the treaty of Paris, declared Manila all in the United States. The House, when It passed the bill appropriating $20,000,000 to pay Spain for releasing her hold on the rest of the Philippines, declared Manila all in the United States. The Supreme Court, when It decided It was lawful for a returning soldier to bring 14 diamonds Into San Francisco from tho Philippines without paying duty on them, decided that Manila and all the Philippines are in the United States. And yet. In face of all these declarations and decisions, the House declares that In. the operation of the tariff laws Manila Is not part of the United States, and the Senate declares that It Is one-fourth of the way In the United States. Andy Johnson used to go around the country extending to the people "the Con stitution and the flag," and we, who did not like his style, thought it very funny. Now we have Congress, tho treaty-making power, the courts and International law agreeing that the Philippines are part of the United States, and yet one branch of Congress declares that the Constitu tion and laws did not follow the flag, and another branch of It declares that one-quarter of the Constitution and laws did follow the flag to the Philippines. Tho treaty-making power and tho courts decided that Porto Rico Is part of the United States. But Congress decid ed that in the matter of tariff duties, Porto Rico was only 83 per cent in the United States. Thanks to tho action of the Porto RIcans the Island Is now all In tho United States. It Is difficult to understand why Senator Forakcr found It possible to take Porto Rico fc per cent of the way In the United States, while he Insists that the Philip pines are 75 per cent out of the United States. Possibly he considered that be cause San Juan Is about three days' journey from Florida It Is much nearer In the United States than Is Manila, which Is about 30 days Journey from San Fran cisco, t , Then what did Senator Joe Simon mean by voting that Manila Is only 25 per cent In the United States? He ought to know better. If the writer Is not badly Informed the people of Oregon believe that Manila Is" part of the United States, and they will see to It that a man Is sent to the Sen ate in place of Joe Simon who believes as they do, and who will vote as they believe. The sentiment of the people of 'the United States was pretty well expressed by the Montana man who told mo: "I am a Democrat, but I believe we should hold the Philippines, .should hold Porto Rico, should hold Cuba. I tell you, I have played poker in my day. and I never give a man back tho money I won of him." Another thing, tell me why the United States in return for her assisting In keep ing "open dcor" in China should let the world Into her port at Manila any mora freely than Into her ports at Honolulu or San Francisco. P. B. JOHNSON. Cecil Rhode Not Dead. LONDON, March 1. The officials of the Rrltlci rhfiftfo1 Rnlith A f rlro r"nmnnnv of which Cecil Rhodes Is managing direct or, deny the report circulated In the United States by a news agency of the death of Mr. Rhodes. 1 Hovy to Prevent Pncnmnnia. You have good reason to fear an attack of pneumonia when you have a severe cold, accnpan!ed by pains in the chest or in the back between the shoulders. Get a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy and use It as directed, and. It Wi.i prevent the threatened attack. Among the ten3 of thousands who have used this remedy for colds and la grippe, we 4iave jet to lenrn of a single case that has re sulted In pneumonia, which shows that this remedy Is a certain preventive of tnat dangerous disease. For sale by all druggists. AN ILL-ASSORTED PAIR ADMIRABLE REBUKE OF HOAR AND TILLMAN IN DEMOCRATIC PAPER. In Time Their Utterances Will Be Regretted Like Corivln'a and VallandiKham's. The restlveness of the antis in Con gress under newspaper disapproval is not strange, when it Is remembered that tho Democratic Journals of real vigor and power, like the New York Times, Boston Herald, Brooklyn Eagle, Louisville Courier-Journal and Chicago Chronicle are op posed to the policy of scuttle and Im patient with its advocate. The subjoined admirable article is the leading editorial in the Chicago Chronicle of Sunday, Feb ruary 16: At no time In the history of the United States has there been a more striking ex emplification of the adage that politics make strange bedfellows than Is to be seen in the present agreement as to the Philip pine question between Senators Hoar ot Massachusetts and Tillman of South Carolina. The cleverest Judge of human nature would find It difficult to suggest anything else upon which these gentlemen could agree, but as to the scuttle policy in the Orient they are In harmony. Arm in arm these representatives of New England Puritanism and Southern chivalry would walk out of the Philippines and glory in the performance as an act promoting lib erty, the rights of men and the dignity of the Republic Both of these irreconcllables have un dertaken to Justify their attitude relative to the Philippines by references to- past episodes in American history. Mr. Till man can find nothing with which to com pare the tyranny and scoundrellsm of the Philippines except the comparatively recent Invasion and subjugation of the slave states by the North. Mr. Hoar finds his terrible example In the war against Mexico by the United States. Whllo Messrs Hoar and Tillman could not possibly reach an agreement on either of these propositions, they are in more perfect accord on the subject of the Philippines than is the case with any other members of the Senate who are opposing the policy of the administration. Tho others are divided by every descrip tion of sentiment and opinion, but these two would haul down the American flag and sound the retreat at Manila exactly as Mr. Hoar would have "done at Monterey or Chepultepec and as Mr. Tillman would havo done at Gettysburg or Appomatox. Mr. Hoar has quoted approvingly the celebrated remark of Tom Corwln to the effect that he hoped the Mexicans would welcome the American army of Invasion with bloody hands to hospitable graves. There were all too many such graves for the heroic soldiers of the North, but the. sentiment of the American people toward them was not voiced by the treasonable Corwln. It has found lasting and beau tiful expression in the words of the poet O'Hara: On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread. And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead. If Mr. Tillman had a sense of humor he would supplement Mr. Hoar's appeal to the treason of Corwln by citing some of the utterances of that other distinguished Ohio recalcitrant, Clement L. Vallan- digham, who, during the Civil War, held the same attitude" toward the Federal Gov ernment that Corwin maintained towara It at the time of the war with Mexico. Mr. Hoar cannot possibly Indorse the disloyal ty of Corbin more enthusiastically than Mr. Tillman can subscribe to the disloy alty of Vallandigham. All this can be said without denying tho courage and the patriotism in a gen eral sense, of Corwln and Vallandigham and of Hoar and Tillman. The mistake which all ot-these men have made lies in the fact that they have carried their op position to a policy to a point where it has amounted to hostility to the Gov ernment. They have set their Judgment against that of the great mass of their fellow citizens and they have permitted their opposition to politicians to place them In a position of hostility to the army and the flag. It requires no prophet to foresee that in the time that Is to come the utterances of Messrs. Hoar and Tillman will be looked upon with as much regret and chagrin by right-minded Americans as the similar utterances of Corwln and Vallandigham now are. Probably no government or people, no matter how nobly Inspired, ever entered upon" tho enforcement of any policy which could not be assailed by tho hypercritical and the overrlght eous. Force Is force, and when the strong arm Is appealed to somo minor considerations or. right and justice arc certain to be lost sight of. Practical and patriotic statesmanship should concern Itself not so much with de tails as with purposes. What is the pur pose of the war In the Philippines? If it Is to establish a despotism there the appeal should be to the American people and not to the enemy, no matter how well Inspired. The Army represents the whole people. It Is their agent. So long a the Army is resisted there can be no action by the people. No one In the United States Senate or elsewhere has a right to sup pose that the American people intend to Inflict injustice upon another nation until as a people they move In that direction. One trouble with such opposition as that of Hoar and Vallandigham and" Tillman and Corwin Is that it is misunderstood abroad and is particularly liable to mis conception on the part of the enemy. However high-minded Its authors may be, it represents a species of anarchy which if projected, as It might easily be. into every phaso of human government, would quickly lead to the destruction of all au thority. Even in its civil capacity no gov ernment ever acts -without inflicting hard ships upon somebody, and in ethics and morals it is always possible to inveigh against the Injustice of majorities. The remedy for wrong Is not always rebellion nor a Are In the rear. In government as in many other things we hold our treasures In this world in earthen vessels. It is permissible to shat ter the vessels, but we should be careful not to destroy the treasures at the same time. THE HOUSE IS RIGHT. Senate's Encroachments Should by It Be Held in Check. San Francisco Bulletin. The Senate subcommittee on foreign re lations has decided to report to the full committee that In Its opinion the Presi dent and the Senate have power to ne gotiate treaties changing tariff laws with out the co-operation of the House. The Senate. In the opinion of this Senate sub committee, 13 under no obligation to con sult the House on tariff questions when they are contained In treaties. If the Senate committee on foreign relations ac cepts the conclusions of its subcommit tee. It will create an issue with the House which would justify that body in a re sort to an exercise of Its power over the appropriation of money to stay the en forcement of a treaty which it consider." detrimental to public Interests. Up to the present time the House has voted money to set treaties In operation on the ground that the action of the President and Sen ate in respect to measures within the scope of the treaty making power could not be overruled without Injury to the prestige of the executive department of the Government. This action was courte ous to the Senate and only Involved a Justifiable surrender of power, so long as It was applied only to questions which come stricty within the treaty-making power of the Government. But when the treaty-making power is so stretched as to Include ordinary legislation affecting home industries, the House may consider that its responsibility as a branch of the lawmaking power requires an assertion of Its constitutional rights. The Constitution (Article 1, section vn, clause 1) provides that "all bills for rais ing revenue shall originate In the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments, as In other bills." Under this provision of the Constitution the House must originate tariff bills. A bill passed by the House goes to the Senate, where amendments may be proposed for consideration of the House. The Senate may refuse to pass a bill which the House does not amend to Its liking, but unless one house concedes to the other, there can be no tariff legis lation. If the Senate's subcommittee's opinion Is accepted by the full committee, the Senate may make the desired conces sions, and under the treaty-making power proceed to form treaties with the princi pal commercial nations In more or less direct conflict with tho tariff bill as passed by the House. Most, if not all, the treaties of reciprocity recently before the Senate were of this character. They re duced duties on imports that came In direct competition with home Industries. No one of these treaties could have been enacted by Congress after such discus sion as tariff bills are subjected to, but, if the position of the Senate subcommit tee is correct, they may become the law of the land through the action of the treaty making power. It is not probable that the House will quietly submit to this curtailment of its constitutional rights. Its means of re dress lie In the provision of the Constitu tion which declares that "no money shall be drawn from, the treasury but In conse quence of appropriations made by law. As no law appropriating money can be enacted without the consent of the House, the Senate may easily be heid In check. t The Growth of Bnenos Ayres. . Nineteenth Century. During the last 12 years the popula tion of the great province of Buenos Ayres and of its capital has nearly doubled, and vast extensions and im provements have been made In the city, which now contains a population of over 800,000. Accounts published of It 12 years ago state that its houses, with few ex ceptions, were then single storied, that its streets were Ill-paved and very rough to travel on. Ir the short Interval a great proportion of the houses have been raised to four or five stories. The streets have everywhere in the more central parts been paved with asphalt or wood. Tramways have been laid down every street, with one single exception, the Bond street of Bueros Ayres, too narrow for the pur pose. A splendid new avenue of 120 feet In width has been driven at great cost through the center of the city for a dis tance of one mile, and Is already lined by palatial hotels and commercial buildings. Several other avenues have been laid out in new quarters. Quite a number of open spaces have been provided and have been laid out In beautiful gardens. The har bor works designed by Sir John Hawk flhaw, and carried out by the late Mr. Walker, have been completed and are a splendid achievement by British capital, of which any port might be proud. Noth ing surprised me more than the number of large houses, evidently the residences of persons with great incomes, on a scale which very few capitals can compete with. It Is said, indeed, that there are many hundreds of millionaires living in Buenos Ayres (reckoned in. dollars, I pre sume), and there is every appearance to justify this. The city is up to the latest date In every respect, in trams, mostly electric, in electric lighting. In tele phones, in clubs, churches and theaters. There are 160 miles of tramways under charge of 10 different companies, mainly provided by British capital. AT THE HOTELS. THE PORTLAND. Tred G Green. Clncln S J Epstein. Clncinn R B Braden, Spokane F S Forest, Spokane Harry E Lewis. S F W A Dexter. San F Whig Southard. St L A R Lewis, New Brunsw lck. JT J J H Casanave, Phlla T Hanak. San Fran F S Mackintosh, Mpls 1" C Davidson W P Richardson. Vane C V rioyd. Kan City 11V A Bethel. USA F M Edmlnston. SeattlJS M Cooper. San Fran G F "Wentworth, Ta- IA C Newburne. N Y coma S E Pellbury. Chicago A D Rickey iSIdney AVelnshenk. SF L. H Fhatr. Maine I R G Merrill. St Louis Herman Jonas. Phlla IMrs E H Gow. 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