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POSTAL
BANKS BILL.
The Chicago; Record's postal sav
ings bank bill was introduced in the
house of representatives on .the open
ing da; of the congressional session
by; Representative jliorimer, the
Chicago member'of thJ'iibuse com
mittee on postoffices' -and postroads.
The biil was referred otfee to the
postoiflce committee, according to the
usual custom. " It was' introduced in
the senate a aay 6ftwo'late'"r,by Sena
tor Mason, who is a member of the
senate:po3toffice committee. It is up
on these committees that attention
must center for thevresent.of those in
terested in the passage of a law for the
establishment) of the postal savings
bank system. - The earnest agitation
among the people has forced .upon all
members of congress consideration' of
this subject, with the result that it is
discussed in Washington to an extent
that it never has been before. The
X chairman of the house committee is an
I opponent of the postal bank idea, but
other leading members are friendly to
itkeplan. - The first,' and indeed, the
Dnnnrtt tnnf . rt ttt.i-an Oft.ri til Ofofnrp '
must come in the postoffice committee.
Tf a noatul s&vinca bank bill is reported
: favorably by that committee and
brought to a vote in the house, there
can be but little doubt of the outcome
on the floor. Fortunately, as a result
ofv popular, agitation, and because of
aggressive spirit which the friends of
the measure in congress are manifest
ing, the. subject is one that cannot be
ignored or pigeonholed. Neyer before
has the number Of members actively
interested in the success of this project
-been so great.' Sentiment in favor
"of postal savings banks seems to be
even stronger in the senate than
amoncr the members of the house. It
is expected that a bill will be reported
from the senate committee without
great difficulty, with the chances good
for its passage 'though the senate.
The more that members of congress,
i especially of the postoffice com
mittees, can.be made to feel in-
ividually the deep interest of the pub-
in thii matter, the more likely will
ey be to take early action looking to
the establishment of the postal savings
bank system.' '
ENTIRELY TOO RADICAL.
lutionary-' pensioners 'drawing the
monthly allowance, although that war
ended 115 years ago.
Wha we come down to the war of
1812, we find the widow business yery
flourishing. That war ended 82 jeers
ago. Anybody old enough to have
been a soldier then must be very close
to 100 years of age. Only 3 malo sur
vivors remain, but thcro are still 3,000
widow pensioners of that war. Ob
viously, tho crop will be as much
larger now as the civil war was larger
than that of IS 12. That of the
Mexican war will show up well, no
doubt, Now it is actually proposed by
some daring spirits in congress to cur
tail the widow business by passing a
law providing that no pensions shall
be allowed to the widows of soldiers
marrying after the passasre of the act-
'AN UNJUST MEASURE.
Representative Hepburn, 'of Iowa,
has introduced a measure providing
for a new cabinet official to bo known
as the secretary of commerce and in
dustries, to be at the head of a new de
partment of commerce and industries.
The new department under the pro
visions of .the- bill would have gen
eral jurisdiction over the foreign and
internal commerce of the United
States, the ascension of foreign mar
kets for the same and the increase of
trade and trade facilities with foreign
countries. The life-saving service, the
lighthouse board, the marine hospital
s'eryice, the bureau of steamboat -inspection,
the bureau of navigation,
United States shipping commissieners,
the bureau of immigration, the United
States coast and geodetic survey, the
bureau of statistics, the department of
labor ar.d the consular bureau are un
der the bill to be transferred to the
new. department. . Representative
Hepburn was very quiet about ibis
bill and poked it into the hopper with
out any remarks even personal ones to
friends on the floor. He is, however,
backed in the matter by a number of
the commercial organizations and
later in the session the bill will be re
ported favorably by the commitee on
Interstate and foreign commerce, to
which it was referred. The members
of that committee have had consider
able quiet work done with them, and
assurances have been given that the
bill will not be smothered. For a good
'many years the commercial organiza
tions throughout the country have
complained that other governments
pay very much more attention to the
protection of commerce and extension
of trade relations than the United
States. They have protested some
times with a great deal of vigor
against the indifference of the average
United States' consul, while the con
sular repots are filled with criticisms
of the American manufacturers' way
of doing business as compared with
the enterprise of the manufacturers in
other countries. Instead of working
together or co-operating towards build
ing up a foreign trade, the manufactur
ers and exporters and the United
States consuls have long been at war
with each other. It is this condition
of affairs that has brought about the
demand for a department that will
have this whole matter in charge, and
that will make a special study of the
the necessities of the commercial and
industrial interests. The bureaus that
-PENSIONS FOR ALL.
Americans generally, favor restric
tive measures being enforced -against
I the importation of foreign paupers or
oonti-act labor, though but few desire
jhe ports of the United States closed to
immigration. . . The spirit or America
ever has been and ever should be to
X. invite within the. nation Buch people
8 wiiTbulld up the country and assist are to be added to the department of
n developing Iti industries, hence it commerce ana industries nave always
Tthat the bill introduced in congress
vbyV Representative Barham, of Cali
fornia, will meet with very little favor,
and will probably never again be benrd
-J of outside the rooms of the committee
T to which it has been referred. That it
1 is one of the most radical measures
ever proposed to regulate immigration
jidenced by the first section which
is as follows:
v
.; "From and after the passage of this
i "'act it shall he unlawful for any skilled
or unskilled manual laborer to enter
or come into the United States, its ter
ritories or the District of Columbia;
Land no such person shall ever be per
mitted to enter, land or come into the
United . States, its territories or the
t District of Columbia. And any such
person found within the United States,
kits . territories or the District of
alutmbiamay be arrested . by the
; . United States customs official, collec-
tor of internal -revenue or his deputy,
. United States marshal or bis deputy,
. and taken before a United States judge,
. -i . i . . .i . i
V wnose auty it 60.au oo to oraer mai, as
be deported from the United States to
1 the country from whence he came at
1 the cost of the United States."
I "Were there any probability of this
measure becoming a. law it might be
well to add' a few more sections, and
make it fa penal offense for any
lothe'r person, not a skilled or unskilled
pbprer to come within the United
taes, 7 especially ", those - who come
Ever here with foreign capital to; buy
Jup our .bonds, and the class who
migrate, from across the Atlantic with
nothing .to their credit buC a lot of
f debts and An empty title and marry our
"ielresses. ' These two classes are det
rimental to the welfare of the nation
is are the men who come over here to
compete with our laborers for an op
portunity to earn a living, and if one
Sass is to be excluded, all should be.
I HOW PENSIONS MULTIPLY!
' About once in two years there is a
spasm in congress on the subject of
pension profligacy, and a cry goes up
that something must be done to reduce
jrthe awful roll of names and the ruin'
jus appropriation bills that go on in-
creasingjand multiplying the further
we recsde from the war upon which
the pension list is founded, says the
New York Evening Post. Such out
bursts of pension economy usually end
r ina new lot of private pension bills,
r in some change in. the general law
o admit a new class of applicants or
So increase the rate of pension of those
already on the list.
One of the biennial spasms is "on"
; at this moment. '" The discovery has
been made that pensions are protracted
beyond-the usual expectancy of life
by what is called the "widow busi
ness." Thus an aged pensioner mar-
V'- ries a girl young enough to be his
grandaughter in' order - to beep ' the
pension in fine drawing condition after
the has passed to a better world. This
.r peculiarity of our pension system is
not now noticed for the first time. It
was observed and commented on with
"bitterness by the generation that suc
ceeded the Revolutionary war. Human
nature was much the same then that
It is now.. The idea that a pension
should die with the death of the pen
sioner was just as abhorrent then as it
is today. The idea that a pension once
Btartsd should eyer come, toan end is
so unrAmerlcaiJj unpatrioticj and gen-
. erally loathsome that only the boldest
spirits in congress ever, dared toen-
counter UJaapjvwtllwB,-Laui!l.lus-mj
itlThis is the reason why our fore-
fathrS aUo'tfed tJr.",wldow business
to (O omrpcnecicea, so mas mere are
etill a number of Widow's of .the . Revp-
."Vi'i'V'"-"" .. 1'.' ' "' ' ' '"'
complained of lack of proper apprecia
tion and assistance upon tho part of
the government, for the reason that it
has been difficult to determine under
which of the present executive depart
ments they properly belong.
This is one of these beautiful little
schemes on the part of the protected
industries to reap where they do not
sow.' No doubt a department of com
merce and industries would be a fine
thing ' for' the manufacturers of this
country in building up a foreign trade
not now .reached, and it would be of
interest to the owners of steamship
lines plying between this country and
foreign ports, but it is safe to say that
neither of these interests will volunteer
to pay the expenses of the department,
which if established will not be less
than 2.500,000 a year. If the revenues
of the government were created front
an income or direct tax, there would be
nothjng unreasonable in the demand
of the commercial organizations for
the creation, of such a department as
that outlined in Mr. Hepburn's bill,
since the parties to be benefitted would
.bear the greater part of tho burden.
But with the government revenues
coming from indirect taxation upon
consumption tho demand is unjust.
The manufacturers who want this de
partment, and for whose' benefit it
would be established, wete the loudest
in protesting against the income tax
law. because they would, under its
workings, be compelled to pay a por
tion of the expenses of the govern
ment; in other words for the protec
tion granted them and their property
by the government. Now. they ask in
Mr. Hepburn:9 bill for additional fos
tering care thrown around their busi
ness in increased foreign, trade after
having -been given a monopoly of
home trade by tho enactment of the
new tariff law, but they will neyer con
sent to submitting to a tax for main
taining a department for this purpose,
or to any tax that will be anyway near
equal, to the protection they demand.
BOSH RECOMMENDATIONS.
No doubt President McKinley was
honest in the expressions of his annual
message, advising economy and cut
ting down of expenses; but he has
spoiled the force of his argument- by
announcing that he will erelong write
a special message to congress urging
the creation of a department of com
merce and industry. The creation of
such a department would entail great
expense upon the government, oeces
sitating another cabinet officer and
some two or three hundred additional
employes. Should congress beed the
president's recommendations, the bur
dens on the backs of the nation's tax
payers must be increased, and- instead
of economy being practiced more ex
travagance will result; another army
of taxeaters will be created. Instead
of advocating the creation of a new de
partment, had the president insisted
upon the abolition of a few thousand
superfluous officers, his plea for econ
omy would have been better received,
and would have shown a genuine de
sire to cut down government expenses.
The passage of theannual appropria
tion bill for pensions has not put a
stop to discussion of this great problem,
t hat is sapping the life blood out of the
national treasury. So burdensome has
the pension bureau became that con
gressmen a-o beginning to realize
that unless something is done to check
the growth of the pension list, there
will be comparatively no limit to it
within tho next fifty years, and that
another generation must die before the
debt to the old soldiers and their pro
geny will be paid.
Representative Howe, of New York
seems to be one of those wlro realizes
the enormity of the pension charges,
and has introduced a measure that will
cure many of tho existing ills. It is a
bill only ten lines long that repeals ail
present pension laws and substitutes a
provision tnatall honorably discharged
Union soldiers who are dependent up
on their owu labor for support and
who are incapacitated because of disa
bility to fully earn a support and who
shall make affidavit to that effect shall
receive a pension of $12 a month. All
other Union soldiers who hold an
-honorable discharge shall receive 38 a
month. No provision is made for
widows or children. The pension roll
under this law, although it would em
brace all of the soldiers who served in
the federal army, would only require
an expenditure of about one-balf the
present cost of pensions. This bill
will be vigorously pushed, and it will
have the support of a large number of
soldiers who are not entitled to a pen
sion under the present law. It will
not be fought by a very large num
bsr of pensions who . would receive as
much as they do now, and if those who
receive more make too prominent a
fight they will arouse very urgent op
position to themselves and active sup
port, of the bill from those soldiers who
are not injuriously affected. Ic has
long been a matter of opinion of a
great number of these men that the
government should be just as grateful
to one valient soldier as to another
and that the man who bore arms should
stand upon terms of equality, so far as
the material evidence of their cou n try's
gratitude is concerned, Taj bill also
disposes of, the business of all pension
attorneys. It likewise does away with
the necesssty fer the millions of dollars
expended yearly in making examina
tions, investigations, and passing upon
the claims, the difference between the
two rates resting entirely upon the
affidavit of the applicant. . The saving
to the government would amount to
more than the deficit has ever been in
one year and four-fifths of the present
pensioners among the old soldiers
themselves would not be injuriously
affected, while about 200,000 veterans
who do not receive a pension now
would be entitled to one under the
provisions of the bill.
Should this bill become a law it would
by no means correct all evils in the
pension department, still it would be
an improvement over the present sys
tem, since all honorably discharged
soldiers would receive the bounties of
the government, while toe widows
married years after the close of the
war, and the children yet to be born
would not become government wards.
Mr. Howe's bill granting pensions to
all is certainly an improvement over
the present acts governing the pen
sion bureau.
j ri8tatmy exists-.- and whether the
day set apart as the anniversary of the
birth of Christ is correct or not is of
little'consequenee, tho event will ever
be commemorated and will be a season
when offerings of love and friendship
will be given. Rog-ardless of the ac
curacy of dates, Christmas day has al
ways been and probably will ever b
ob.-erved as the anniversary of the day
on which the greatest gift to huinanky
was bestowed by the Supreme Ruler. It
marks a date when "Peace on Earth,
Good Will to Men" was proclaimed,
and since it marks the b'-finnini of
our present civilization, it is a d:y
which not only professed Christians
but all who enjoy the the benefits of
civilization reverence as one ou which
good cheer shall prevail, for it is a re
membrance of Hira whose life knew no
evil, and who surrendei-ed everything
for the good of humanity. The im
press of his character will ever be pre
dominant, and all who enjoy the bless
ings of the present civilization cannot
but reverence the birth of the lowly
Xazarene, and glory in the example of
self sacrifice and loye set by Him.
Christmas day is one of festivity and
thanksgiving, when all nations and
tongues mav join in relieving-the dis
tressed, and in doing to others as they
would have others do to them. From
the frozen shores of the North to
tho sunny climes of the South,
from the Occident to the orient, from
the oppressed to the oppressor, from
the nobleman to the serf, from the
monarchist to the freeman, may the
glad tidings rise that Christ is born
and that His birth is celebrated in
this nineteenth century. No matter
how grand or how humble may the
home be, this event will he commem
orated ard hiah and low alike will vie
in oxemplifyibg the.- character of the
Creator in giving unto others a gift
thai will ever be roniembcred as a
token of their love.. Christmas is the
day of all days throughout the world;
in fact is the only recognized general
holiday, for it marks tho beginning of
a new life, of a new . world, and a new
existence in the human race.
DINGLEYS APOLOGIST.
The N6wYork Sun confesses that
the Dingley perversion was a merely
"trial and experiment," and declares
that the ."pride of authorship and the
stubbornness that adheres to predic
tion" will not influence the industri
ous and conscientious legislator who
framed it. In other words, Mr. Ding.
ley will acknowledge his fault when
confronted with figures. Six months
ago be believed himself an economio
impeccable; now he will confess ijipo
tency and cheerfully set about the
emendation of the crazy structure on
which ha expected to support a con
gre8s loresworn to liberal appropria
tions.
The assertion is no longer made that
the biennial billion' will be forthcom
ing as soon as importers have disposed
of advance shipments and banked the
bonus assured them in McKinley's
election.
The McKinley cult and its exaltation
did result in the raising of .revenue to
be sure, but that revenue now lies
snugly deposited to the credit of fore-
sighted buyers of foreign fabrics.
Meantime the man that wears tho
cheap coat is still "cheap," as in Har
rison's time, or at least he reels so
when be reflects on the use he made of
his franchise thirteen months ago.
But the Sun's comment ca-ries with
it another confession, cloaked. Every
intelligent American knows that the
issue of 1896 was one of money stand
ard's, tariff taxes not entering into
the fight at all.
- The St. Louis Globe Democrat in
October, 1896, assuming to speak ex-
cathedra, distinctively pledged its
party to a conservative and cautious
tariff policy. And yet, in the face of
all this, Congress was convened in ex
traordinary session for the purpose of
forcing on the people what tho Sun
called "a measure for trial and experi
ment," while the present vicious and
unscientific currency conditions were
left to shift for themselves.
CAN THEY GET TOGETHER
A prominent populist of the county,
who refuses to follow the lead of Young
andU'Ren writes the Times-Mountain
eer protesting against the action of
the executive committee of that party
recently in Portland, and asks
bow it will be possible for the conser
vative populists, democrats and silver
republicans to get together on com
mon lines and work . for one cause in
the next state election? This paper
see3 no possibility of such a result if
the populists of Oregon are to allow
themselves led around by Young and
U'Ren, for they are opposed to any
union of forces except on lines that
mean a complete surrender of every
thing to those two men. But if the
conservative element of the popuiist
party, which comprises a very large
majority, are willing to break away
from these self styled leaders and ex
ercise the least bit of independence
a union of the reform forces is by no
means impossible. Young and U'ren,
judging from their past acts, havo but
a single objact in politics to put Mr.
Young and Mr. U'ren to the front and
to make what there is in it. If the
populists who hold principle above
personal interest,, will assert their
rights and offer any reasonable con
cessions to the other reform forces, it
will be accepted by the democrats and
silver republicans, but they must be
allowed some say .in the compromise.
Whenever such men as Young and
U'ren are, dethroned, 'and the really
honest men in the rank and file of the
party are allowed a say, there will be
no difficulty about a union.
, THERE : ARE' ' OTHERS .
A rumor,, that appears to be well
founded, is circulated at Portland to
the effect that a new daily paper is to
be started in that city at an early date.
Rumor has it that the paper will be
under the management of Charles
Meserve, formerly editor of the Oregon
City Enterprise, and that it will be run
in the interest of Hon. John H. Mit
chell's candidacy for the United States
senate. It is said that a plant consist
ing of seven linotypes and a 810,000
press has been ordered, that the paper
will haye a fuil telegraph service, and
that it will be the equal if not the
superior of the Oregonian as a news
paper.
There is -no doubt but there is a field
in Portland for another daily paper.
but one started as the organ
of Hon. John Hipplo Mitchell, with no
object in view but the election of this
gentleman to a seat in the U. S. senate
will not meet with hearty support
from the masses. Mitchel ha-i i ictated
to Oregon politics about long enough,
and as a rule tho people are tired of
catering to his wishes. They will refuse
to sacriGee everything for his persor al
interests, and when Mr. Mitchell ex
pects the people of Oregon to come up
as a unit and support a paper that has no
other object in view than his return to
the senate he will find that there are
others, and that bis organ will fall like
a cold blanket on the people at largo '
chivalry and romance as are centered
in the great commander of Cuom'h
patriot army. He is one of the world's
Grand Old Men. : .
Spain's offpr of autonomy to Cuba
r- c:ills Dean Richmond's famous ri-s-pnsc
when askt) if the New York
Central freiLt cfrs could be painted
some other eo!o- than- toe one tun- in
vofiue. "You can p-iiiit them c;irs any
d d color you like." said he, "to loan
as you paint 'em red." Spain ys
that Cutu can have as much self eov
ernrnent as she likes, providi d thi-t
she U governed in accordance with
Spain's wishes. J -
Havti fills onty'a small space on thf
map, bui. she has had a cabinet ci-i.-is
nevertheless. In this particular she
g"is her name coupld with thoe ol
Spain, Austria and Italy, iu which
countries ministries' have recently
been overthrown. - Self-government
brings problems and perplexities to
little nations as well as great. Russia
has no cabinet crisis, xmr has CMna
Absolutisms have no cabinets.
Another pa-jo- Las' ben written in
the history of William Henry Theo
dore Durrant, and it is to be hoped it
will ba the next to the 'last. Judtro
Bahrs has sentenced the murderer to
bo banned on January Ttb. Barring
the ability of Durrant's attorneys to
get another stay of proceedings .on
some technicality, he will fend his life
on that date. - Tbey will make a last
i ff or t to get the case brought up in the
U. S. supieme court, and one of them
has gone to Washington for that pur
pose, but it is not likely he will suc
ceed. Already politicians and office seek
ers are layiny their plans for the elec
tion to be held Pex year, but the peo
ple are as yet taking but little interest
in the matter. This is wrong. The
people should take these matters in
band, and inform such men as Starr,
Mitchell. Simon, Bourne and Young,
that their services are not necessary
in mapping out the slate for officials to
Sii-ve the people as state officers the
next four years. Oregon has been
run by professional politicians long
enough, and it is tinie the people who
pay the taxes have some voice in nam
ing their official servants.
That unnecessary and more than use
less and powerless body, known as the
state board of equalization, is still in
session at .-iuiem and costing the tax
payers of the state $100 a day. And
the alleged board of railroad commis
sianers continues in office, sapping up
the hard earned dollars of the taxpay
ers without giving one thing of bene
fit in return. When will tho people
wake up to the fact that they are being
taxed to keeD an army of useless offic
ers, and elect a legislature that will
decapitate these commissions? We
trust it will be on the first Monday in
June, 1898.
BY OKDKtt OF BARRIOS.
Several Political Prisoner Executed in
Guatemala.
San Francisco, Dec. 22. News has
reached this city of the shooting in
Guatemala of a number of political
prisoners, including two men who are
known over the Central American re
public. The execution occurred last
month, at Huehuetlango.
The principal victim was Captain
Herculauo Ruiz, brother-in-law of
Geneaal Fuentes, now in this city.
Another victim was. the Honduran
colonel, Francisco ZeUpa. He was ac
cused of aiding the revolutionary party,
and was executed by order of Barrios,
the command - being carried out by
General Luis Molina. Three other
prominent Guatemalans suffered death
in the same manner, including Licen
ciado Marcello de .Leon, a lawyer, and
Elizando Baal.
It is understood that there are in
Guatemalan prisons no less than 228
prisoners of the late revolutionary war.
OUTBIvLaK IMMINENT P"mm"w
Territory Braves Ready to go
on the Warpath.
) I'jnrm s.icde
Ex-3ecretary Herberts Eldest Dnugh.
ter Threw Herself From A
Window.
Prompt Reparation fnr an ftidult to
A mfrunn H'lirship St unnlttuxhter
tlie C'hKrg I 'pon Which .3r.
Kuck Will bo ,ii'raig:itl.
OBJECTION TO WKENNA.
There is talk of forming a perma
nent tariff commission. The national
board of trade is pressing the matter.
If such a commission is created the
tariff question would be largely re
moved from politics. ' Undoubtedly
the tariff question would receive more
intelligent - consideration from the
commission than frcm congress. Prob
ably, top, the success of the commis
sion wou'd lead to the abolishment of
congress and the carrying on of gov.
ernment by commissions. East Ore
gonian.
Tho objection to Judge McKenna
does not rest upon his religion or his
character or his relations to corpora
tions or anything to his moral dis
credit or social disadvantage, says the
New York Times. He is a very worthy
person but a very ordinary lawyer, and
the supreme bench is the place for
great lawyers.
This is well understood on the
Pacific coast, and the bar of the whole
country understands it better since
March 4, Californians are clannish
and sense of local loyalty keeps them
silent. The bench and bar of Oregon,
which are -of sound quality, more in
toub with the rest of tho country and
less hampered by provincial senti
ment, have spoken ont under strong
sense of duty and responsibility.
This ought to be heeded. A cabinet
appointment .is for four years only; a
supreme court appointment is for life.
The president chose Judge McKenna
for one place and now chooses him for
the other beeause he likes the man.
Doubtless the man is likeable, but the
lawyer is not admirable. Men respon
sible for filling high public place
should not indulge their personal lik
ings to excess.
CHRISTMAS.
Again another yefr is about to closo,
and the anniversary of the birth of
Christ is at hand. This marks an era
in the history of the human family
that will be celebrated so lone as
Both houses of congress adjourned
Saturday to January 5th. Eut lefore
adjourn meut the resolution appropria
ting $200,000 for the relief of Klondike
sufferers was passei and signei by the
president.
The wheat crop of 1897 in the United
States is footed up at 530,000,000
bushets. It is a solid item of wealth
and stands on its own merits, regard
les3 of currency cranks.
It was commendable in congrefs to
make an appropriation for the relief of
the Klondike miners, and now if the
money is spent furnishing relief and
not in some jobbery to make thoso
handling it rich, nobody will complain
at the expenditure. -
Senator Turner of the state of Wash
ington, upon the eve of bis departure
from Englrnd,positive!y declares that
there can be no legislation in congress
which discriminates against silver,
says the Mail and Express. Yet it is
not impossible that different arrange
ments have been made during Mr.
Turner's absence.
Piatt is entirely willing to have a re
united party in New York. All he
asks is that the republicans that do
not approve of bis leadership, that are
opposed to his methods, that want the
party rid of bossism, shall simply drop
their foolish opposition and come to
his support. Now, could anything be
more reasonable?
Gomez, at the age of 70, actively
leading a vigorous and irresistable
revolution for Cuban independence,
presents one of the picturesque and
heroic figures of the age. One may
survey the whole field of human en
deavor without finding another man
who in his antecedents, personality
and chosen avocation combines as
many of the dramatic qualities of I
Russia Her Frleod.
Peking, Dec. 22. The Chinese gov
ernment has granted Russia permis
sion to winter a squadron at Port Ar
thur. Great Britain demands a quid
pro que if concessions have been made
to other powers. It has been suggested
that the Japanese and British occupy
Wei-Hai-Wei jointly. .
The situation at Kalo Chou bay re
mains unchanged. The Germans re
main unyielding and the Chinese
councils are divided as to whether it
should be peace or war with Germany
China regards Russia - as her only
friend, and asks her advice alone. I
spite of official denials it is regarded
as approved that Port Arthur and
Kioa Chou bay wero promised Russia
by secret treaty, British influence i
nil, having suffered greatly throug
the iailure ol the loan negotiations.
(juioa is now negotiating a loan wilt
Russia. The latter demands the dis
missal of the British railroad engineer
in North China, and it is pi-oba'ol
tnatitwilli.be granted. The Genua
drill instructors will be dismissed. A
the expiration of their contracts th
will be replaced by Russians. Russia
officers have already been appointed to
drill the armies of Worth ttnua.
A number of White and other stand
ard sewing machines fur sale at rea
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Chicago, Dec. 21. A special to the
Times Herald fr;.m Washington says:
Trouble in the Indian tf-rritory is
esp.'ctdd by the commi.-sioner of
Indian affairs and bv others who are
familiar with the condition of n flairs
ther?. Oa J-ititM-y 1 tho tribunal
court will be abolishel by an act
passed at the lat session of congress,
and the Uuited States courtsgiven full
jurisdiction over the territory: Iu
many quarters the officers of the
Indian courts have d eel i red that they
will forcibly resist all efforts to pre
vent them from doing business. The
United States marshals havo given
notice that any tribunal courts at
tempting to sit. and those assuming to
conduct them will be arrested.
A delegation of eight Cberokees.
seven of them full-bloods, is now in
the city. A few days ago they pre
sented a memorial to congress asking
that the law bo rescinded, but con
gress has now adjourned without
action, and when it again convenes
the Indian courts will be out of ex
istence. Meanwhile the subcommittee of the
senate committee on Indian affairs,
appointed to consider the problem
presented in the territory, practically
decided to recommend an amendment
to the la v applying to the apportion
ment of all lands held by the five civil
ized tribes among the members of
tiese tribes, and also an amendment
providing that all valid leases shall be
recognized hy the government of the
United States and the money paid on
account cf them covered into the
treasury of tho United States for the
benefit of the various tribes.
Tbe Dawes eomh.:ssion has reported
its failure to come to any conclusion
with the IoJiar.s. Snob agreements
as have been concluded vary so in
their provisions, that, in view of tie
fact that eventually a uniform system
of government must be provided for
Indian territory, it Is questionable
whether any of the agreements should
be definitely ratified by congress until
the desired and necessary uniformity
can be reached. .
Secretary Bliss thinks no govern
ment will be satisfactory until con
gress shall provide for a single uni
form system of laws for tho Indian
territory that shall place all its inhab
itants in possession of the rights of
American citizenship.
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JUMPED FROM A WINDOW.
Ex-Secretary Herbert's Daughter Commits
Suicide.
Washington, Dee. 21. Miss Leila
Herbert, daughter of the ex secretary
of the navy, died at her home in this
city this morning,, as the result of a
fall from tho third story of her home
on New Hampshire avenue, in tbe
most fashionable part of the city.
The sudden death and the tragic
features surrounding, it were a great
shock to the large circle of friends she
had made in Washington. .-, .-,v '
Her death was traceable indirectly
to an accident while horseback riding
in her native state, Alabama, about
two months ago. This morning she
was unusually bright and cheerful.
Shortly before 10 o'clock she dressed
to go down stairs, but instead of de
scending went to a rear room of the
third 6tory, from which sho fell, sus
taining injuries which caused her
death.
The death was reported to police
headquarters as a case of suicide, due
to melancholia and temporary aberra
tion of mind as a result of a long ill
ness.
Miss Herbert, was the eldest of ex-
Secretary Herbert's three children,
and was a charming figure in Wash
ington society, bocially she was ex
ceedingly pooular, and her presence
was sought at all gatherings. Her
social triumphs here were repeated in
Europe, where she went to attend the
srreat naval demonstration at Kiel.
Within the past year she has not en
joyed robus", health, but this only in
duced her to redouble her devotion to
out-of-door sports and exercises, and
it was while regaining her health by
rirK door riding that she met with the
c cident that indirectly resulted in
her d-ath. The coroner returned a
verd ct ol suicide through temporary
insanity. An the facts were clear, te
deci led that an inquest was unneces
sary.
GREAT BRITAIN IS OVERMATCHED.
Therefore the Peace of Europe Will Prob
ably Hemain Intact.
Sr. Petersburg, Dec. 22. In a
strongly anti-British article today the
Novosto says:
. "In consequence of the pretention
of England to compensate herself for
the Russian occupation of Port Arthur
by.ucquisition of Port Hamilton or
Lazareff, and in view of the possibility
of disturbing action by Japan, Europe
stands on tbe brink of grave diplomatic
complications. It is therefore well to
recall that reinforcement of the Ger
man squadron in the Pacific permits
Russia, France and Germany to effect
ively prevent a disturbance of the bal
ance of power between tbe three
powers on one hand and Great Britain
and Japan on tbe other, such- as
might be produced by violent seizures
of territory."
The Novosto expresses hope that
isolation of Great Britain in regard to
the other European powers will par
alyze her action sufficiently to permit
the preservation of peace, for dangers
are threatening, it at tbe present
moment.
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In addition two Turkish officers
were dismissed and sertenccd to
week's imprisonment.
THREATENED TUB CONSUL-GENERAL
Charles Hembold A High Roller Jailed In
X.ond.tu.
London. Dec. 22 Charles Hembold,
son of the well known patent medicine
proprietor of New York, has been
locked up, and is awaiting- trial at Bow
street station on a charge of threaten
ing to kill United States Consul Gen
eral Osborne. During: tbe last three
weeks he has been demanding money.
He told a story of the seizure of bis
clothes and effects by the Berlin con
sul, and declared Mr. Osborne was re-
sconsible for their surrender. Uem-
bold became so importunate that last
Wednesday Mr. Osborne ordered him
to leave the premises, whereupon he
became violently enraged, and shouted:
-"Damn'you, I'll come back and shoot
you."
Hembold returned yesterday, and
repeated his threat. Mr. Osborne, re.
THE BLAME ON BLANCO
The Residents Say Ruiz Was
Driven to His Doom.
New York. Dec. 23. Indignation
over tho killing of Co'onel Ruiz is in
tense in Havana, says the Herald cor
respondent. Many blame General
Blanco, alleging that he forced Gen
eral Ruiz to go, in spite of the latter'a
protestations that it meant certain
death. All accounts agree that Col
onel Arantruen was p rsonally op
posed to tbe infliction of the extreme
penalty, and would have saved Ruiz,
but his own life would have been saur;
ficed had he done so, in opposition to
the orders of his superiors.
A cablegram has been received stat
lne that General Lee has been in
structed Ijo Secretary Sherman to no
tify General Gomez and other rebel
leaders that they need expect no Amer-
continued to
Gen
no in-
membered the Terriss case, summoned i ican sympathy if tbey
a police officer, and bad him arrested, permit firing on flags of truce
The phvsicians think him insane. ' He . eral Leo says he has received
has t-pent much time in London in re- structions, adding that he knew of no
cent years, living high when bis instance oi ine uispiny uy mo au
family sent him money, and in tbe lards of a flag of truce during this war.
deepest poverty between remittances. It has never been claimed by the
It is supposed the Berlin adventures Spanish authorities that Colonel Ruiz
he described are Imaginary. It is said ; was under a Ha of truce, that lnstitu-
btcame insane before his
TB3 TUBK APOLOGIZED. .
Prompt Reparation for id IdsqU to n
American Warship.
Constantinople," Dec. 21 It ap
pears that when me uniteu states
steamer Bancroft arrived at Smyrna
on the night of December 2, she was
greeted with a blank cannon shot and
rifled bullets from the fort of Venikle.
A boat sent from the warship to atk
for an explanation was fired upoa and
forced to return. Thereupon the
American admiral lodged a protest
with the United States minister here.
Dr. Angell, who demanded the punish
ment of the guilty parties and the
pology from the Turkish government,
his father
death. .
A Missouri Town Burned.
DEIPAN, Mo., Dec. 22. Fire has de
stroyed the business portion of this
town. Twenty-six business houses
were burned, and the total loss is es
timated at at. $100,000. with about
$33,000 insurance. The fire stated in
the warehouse of a drug store, but its
origin is unknown.
Earthquake la Mexico
City op Mexico, Dae. 2J. I he
national meteorological observaiorj
reports much seismic activity on ihe
western coast, where there were earth
quakes this mt ruing at Salina Cruz,
the Pacific terminus of the Tehuan-
tepec railway, at Tehudnteiec, Jilt
epec, Juchitlan and the city of Oiixaca.
where there was a prolonged subter
ranean roaring causing consternation.
The movement was both borlzonta
and vertical.
To Car Constipation Forever
Pnfcd rhisearcta Canilv Cathartic. lOo orSSa
UC.OU fail to core. -Irugtfutts refund money. '
tion being unknown to tbe Spanish
army in Cuba, its use being interdicted
as involving a recognition of tho in
surgents as belligerents.
Much excitement was caused on
Sunday morning when a small wbi e
warship, bearing a strong resemblance
to tbe U iited States trim boat Annap
olis, was seen approaching tbe harbor.
A rumor bpread that an American
warship was coming in, and the people
became frenzied when the stranger's
that Letter and Armour will pool
their interests to corner May wheat is
stirring traders on 'change. Tbe Post
says:
"Armour e radl -a! change of front
in bulling -May wheat is common
knowledge. As If to emnhasiza the
bull talk, both Armour and Letter's
moo bought wheat today. 'May wheat
U long spot' is the answer riven by
commission men when approached by
customers. The winter wheat crop in
this country is not harvested until
July, and, according to tbe forecasters
on 'change the situation has never
been so favorable for a corner to May
wheat as it will be this season."
FORTS WILL UE REBUILT.
Port
and
Arthur to Be RefortlBed
Strengthened.
London, Dec. 23 The Times cor
respondent at Peking says:
The Chinese are provisioning Port
Arthur and will reconstruct the forts
there, Russia furnishes the money. In
tbe face of this indication of permanent
occupation, the necessity of safe guard
ing our position in tho far East is In
creasing. Tbe Kusso-Chlnese bank,
which is the aeent for the Russian
government, has offered to China 10,-
000 rifles ith payment five years hence.
Chiua has accepted the proposition.
The Times, in an editor! 1 on the
situation, sarcastically aoks whether
the German press, in claiming a Rus
so-German entente in China, and Em
peror William in his rperch atGrandez
a"ti'ipited Russia's demand for tho
removal of the German drill sergeants
from the Chinese army.
It adds with reference to the demand
for the d IstnUi-Al of the English engin
eers: 'Our Peking correspondent ssys
China is hesitnting, and possibly we
m iy bo Hhle to appeal to motives at
1 T . . t . - I
guns openea in h -aiuio to inu iu, p,.Ung whlch will 8trer.gthen China'.
many believing toe city was Deing
boabarded. It was soon apparent that
ihe vessel was tho German schooishtp
Stein, but several hours elapsed before
quiet was restored in the city.
All laBt night raging fires have been
visible southwest cf Havana, only ten
miles away. Standing cane on tho
Toledo and Potugalete stations, which
was set on fire by the rebels and com
pletely destroyed. The fire caused
great consternation in Havana.
Will Whe.t Be Cornered T
Chicago, Dec, 23. The possibility
disinclination t j comply with tbe Rus
sian request f,r the oitmit-eal of tbe
English engtnecM."
Iluntrrs Krusen to Drath.
Littlf. Rock. Dec. 23. From pas
sengers reaching here it Is learned
that a rarty of four hunters were,
found frozen to death by the roadside,
near Dawes creek, Newton county,
Monday morning. I' is believed that
they wera VV. - Hughes, H Dolphin,
John Kreit and Samuel Severe, of
Chicago.