Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 56, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1900 — Page 2

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THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1900.

McCall spoke ca lmly and showed a deposition to accept ax:y of the compromises suggested. Mr. LlttVefleld was more vehement, declaring that he had not surrendered his views against thi measure as a whole, although he felt disposed to tuin the subject over to the PreskWiit as had 1 en proposed. 3Ir. Llttlefield ah sussest-Jd that free trade he given to Porto Rico, with a distinct declaration thrit this should not operate as a precedent applicable to other Insular possessions. Thl was met with a counter proposition from Mr. Throop. of Pennsylvania, that the per cnt. rute as provided by the original till be retained, with a declaration that this should not operate as a precedent. Neither proposition was favorably entertained and they were not .pressed. Up to midnight none of the propositions had been voted on and. members began leaving the hall. The feeling prevailed, however, that the two-year limitation would be agreed on as a basis of compromise and that with thU change the bill would receive pretty general, although not unanimous, support. As the attendance was rapidly diminishing It became apparent that no final action could be reached to-night and the plan of a committee of ten, five from each side, to go over the subject and report some mlddto ground, was unanimously accepted by all present. Chairman Cannon was authorized to make public the results and, at 12:13, the conference adjourned until Monday night, when tbe report of the committee of ten will be received.

i.rnrLi:Kii:i.i: scoked. Dlnley Sticrmfior Arraigned In the House ly 31 r." Tawney. WASHINGTON', Feb. 21. Throughout the debate on the Porto Rico bill in the House of Representatives to-day there was an undercurrent of speculation on the outcome of the efforts to bring about united action on the part of the majority members of the House. Fren.uent conferences were held between representatives of the various elements. In the hope of bringing about a common ground of understanding for consideration at the formal conference, to be teld at 8 p. jn. The debate brought out a speech by Representative Tawney, of Minnesota, scoring Mr. Llttlefield, of Maine, for his speech of yesterday, and also two speeches from the Republican side, by Mr. Tompkln. of New York, and Mr. Powers, of Vermont, opposing the bill. Mr. Thayer, of Massachusetts, closed the day with a defense of the antl-lmperlallsts. The other speakers were Mr. Eddy, of Minnesota, for ,the bill, and Messrs. Clayton, of Alabama, and Broussard, of Louisiana, against it. In beginning his speech Mr. Tawney said: "I have been profoundly Impressed with the great Importance of the questions Involved In this discussion. Until yesterday these questions had been considered by gentlemen on both sides of the House with the utmost sincerity, with earnestness and with that dignity becoming a question of so great importantance. and with the dignity of the forum in which they are to be tried. I regret that it was left for the gentleman from Maine to play in this great debate the part of a buffoon for the benefit of the Democratic party and for the amusement of the galleries. The Democratic applause with which that peculiar affectation of vole was received on yesterday would not have greeted a speech made upon the pending bill by that late peerless American statesman and always loyal Republican predecessor of the gentleman from Maine. The hope of notoriety or the existence of legal technicalities would not have Induced that' gentleman (Mr. Dlngley) to have left the ranks of the Republicans and Joined the ranks of the Democrats, simply because his Judgment did not coincide with e judgment of his associates on the ways und means committee or upon the floor of this - house respecting party policy. Nor could he have been induced to have exhibited that want of decent courtesy toward the members of that committee or his colleagues upon the floor of this house which the gentleman (Llttlefield) exhibited In the course of his remarks. ,4Vhat is the excuse which the gentleman has for this unusual and, I may say, unprecedented course? What Is his Justification? He tried to make this House believe that it is because we are attempting to Impose a tax upon the people of Porto Rico and also because, according to the peculiar logic of this backwoods lawyer, as he calls himself, this bitl Is unconstitutional. In the course of his remarks he told thla House that if this bill Is enacted lnt.r law the spruce lumbermen of Maine, carrying- their lumber to Porto Rico, would be obliged to pay a duty of GO cents a thousand on all rough lumber which they take to that Island. Who is It that Is complaining of that tax of 50 cents per thousand? Not the people of Porto Rico, but the lumber barons, of the State of Maine. That Is the reason why the gentleman Is here saying that he cannot agree with his party asrcclates In Imposing a duty upon American products going into Porto Rico, when he knows that every dollar of that duty Is paid over to the people of that Island for their benefit. "And if the theory which he has always advocated and which the Republicans have always claimed to be correct If the theory that the man who imports pays the duty, then all of this tax upon the products going to Porto Rico from the United States Is paid by the people of the United States. It Is not, therefore, the tax upon the people of Porto Rico that constitutes" his real objection, but because the fishermen of New England and the spruce lumbermen of Maine want to get their product into the ports of Porto Rico for 23 per cent, of the existing tariff on goods when imported Into the United States from foreign countries." Mr. Thayer closed the day's speeches with an energetic protest against the attacks made on the anti-Iraperlallsts as copperheads and traitors. "We are not ashamed of the company we keep," exclaimed Mr. Thayer. "In all matters pertaining to the welfare of the country, the prosperity of our people and the perpetuation of American Institutions we prefer the counsel and advice of Boutwell, Hoar, Hale and Fuller to that of llanna, Piatt, Quay and Bevcridge." At 6 o'clock the House adjourned till Monday. NICGEItS ML ST SOT VOTE. Senator Tillman Says He I Doing Ills nest to Prevent Them. WASHINGTON. Feb. 21 -Throughout the session to-day the Senate had under consideration the Hawaiian government bill. The discussion took a wide range, but the basis of it was an amendment offered by Mr. Piatt, of Connecticut, as to the appointment and tenure of office of the Judges of the Hawaiian courts. Mr. Tillman embraced the opportunity to make a characteristic speech, in the course of which he made an attack upon Mr. Morgan, and vigorously opposed many provisions of the bill, particularly those which relate to suffrage. When the Senate convened Mr. Hale reported the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill and gave notice that - at an early day next week he would call it up for consideration. At the conclusion of routine business Mr. Penrose called attention to the proceedlgs yesterday with reference to the seating of M. 8. Quay, of Pennsylvania, and said that he did not desire to proceed with the cafe to-day. "I desire to notify tho Sonate, however," said he, "that :: Monday I will call up the resolution and if no member representing the majority report of the elections committee i. ready to speak the minority will proceed with the debate." After the passage of a number of minor bills, consideration of the Hawaiian government bill was resumed, the pending cjuestlon being on the amendment of Mr. Piatt, providing that the President should appoint the chief Justice and Justices of the Supreme Court, and Judges of the Circuit Courts, und that the Governor of the territory should appoint the other officers; the amendment limiting the tenure of office of appointees to four years. Mr. Piatt In un extended speech supported his amendment, holding that the provisions of the bill were Inconsistent with those Incorporated in previous territorial enabling acta. In a ehemcut speech. Mr. Tillman attacked the bill as reported to tho Senate and arraigned Senator Morgan for alleged

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lack of courtesy. Referring to an incident which occurred the other day In which Mr. Morgan declined to yield to Mr. Tillman to reply to n statement made by Mr. Wolcott. concerning the "suppressed vote" of South Carolina, Mr. Tillman said: "I have felt indignant at the treatment I received from the senator (Morgan. Never in my experience 1p the Senate have I been treated bo discourteously by any member of the Senate." Mr. Morgan endeavored to interrupt Mr. Tillman, but the latter waved him aside, raying: "I decline to yle.d to the senator. He has put himself outside the pale of courtesy and consideration r.o far as I am concern!. ' Mr. Tillman taen explained that under the present Constitution of South vJa-olina there wee about 111.000 registered voters, H.OOO of whom were colored. Ninety-nine per cen.. cf the white vote In the ft lute, he v. I. wau Uernoeratic. In thy summer prlrrarl i3 li'.lly W per o nt. of the re-äred votes wens cast. A; hcse primaries the contests fo: the State offices were made. "There Is no lethargy In the politics of South Carolina," said Mr. Tillman. "We have as much politics to the square mile as ar.y State in the Union. There Is no Republican party in the State. The Republican machine Is composed of federal offlceholders who control the patronage and tend delegates " to the Republican national conventions. The elections In November are simply ratifications of the primaries. Naturally the result being a forepone conclusion only four thousand or five thousand voters turn out In each district to vote." In the course of a criticism of the measure, Mr. Tillman said: "I do not object to a protection of the whites of Hawaii, but what I do object to Is the hyprocrlsy of those In this chamber who maintain that the people of Hawaii are to be treated differently from those people who reside In Ixuisiana, Mississippi. South Carolina and other Southern States. The whites of the South are patriotic Americans. I want you to protect the whites of Hawaii, but don't try to do It by hypocrisy." Mr. Tillman then read a letter from a person unnamed who declared that "a. man who dares to oppose the sugar barons in Hawaii was in jeopardy of his life." Mr. Clark, of Wyoming, asked for the name of the writer of the letter, saylns such a charge ought not to bo made lightly in. the Senate. Mr. Tillman declined to give the writer's nefme. After expressing- some sympathy with the argument of Mr. Tillman. Mr. Clark said: "When the senator from South Carolina charges senatofc-s on the Republican side of the chamber with hypocrisy !t comes in very poor grace from him to declare by Almighty God that the negroes of the South should nJt wte." Mr. Tillman -Suoh a construction cannot in fairness be put upon my remarks. Mr. Clark Will you say to this Senate that you are not trying In the South to suppress the netsro vote? Mr. Tillman (with great vehemence) No. I will say that in South Carolina we have done our level best to keep the "nigger" from voting. Mr. Tillman gave notice of an amendment substituting the suffrage provisions of the South Cardfrta Constitution for the suffrage provisions of the pending bill. At 4:40 p. m. the Senate went Into executive session and 4:45 p. m. aujourned. Bills were passed, as follows: To aid certain States to support schools of mfnes; for tne appointment of an additional United States commissioner in the Northern judicial district of the Indian Territory; to authorize, the Union Rallroaa to construct a bridge across the Monongahela river; granting to the State of North Dakota 30.000 acres of land to aid in the maintenance of a school of forestry. ASHORE NEAR PORTLAND

STEAMER BELIEVED TO DE THE ALLAN LINER CALIFORNIA. Army Transport McPherson Toured Into Port vrlth Her Main. Shaft Broken Drltlsh Ship Lost. PORTLAND, Me.. Feb. 23. A steamer, believed to be the Callfornian, of the Allan line, is ashore off Fort Williams, Portland harbor. A telephone message from Fort Williams says the steamer Is a large one, and is about 2,500 yards from shore, with all her lights out. The sea is very rough. The Callfornian was heavily laden with grain and was bound for Liverpool. The life saving crew at the Cape Elizabeth lights, about three miles from the scene of the wreck, were notified by telephone of the steamer's condition some time after midnight and at ,2:30 a. m. left with their boat. The wind at that time was constantly Increasing from the southeast, the worst quarter, for the steamer Is exposed to the full force of the sea. Transport Disabled nt Sea. NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 24. The United States army transport McPherson now lies off Old Point helpless as the result of a broken shaft, sustained four days out of San Juan, Porto Rico. When several days out of San Juan the McPherson encountered very heavy weather, and on the 21st her mainshaft broke and left her helpless. Distress signals were flown each day, and at night her searchlight was elevated to the top to get the largest possible range, and distress signals were constantly made. After four days the fruit steamer Admiral Sampson, bound from Jamaica, saw the McPherson, steamed up and took her in tow and dropped her off Old Point Comfort this morning about 8 o'clock. Major Hutchins, who was in command of the McPherson. was severely injured during the storm by being thrown against a deckhouse. During the storm, after great difficulty, four of the sailors succeeded in lashing tfce propeller so It would not turn and beat the rudder post. While the disabled transport was drifting along, those on board, numbering In all ICS persons, were put on half rations. British Ship Sunk nt Lundy. LONDON, Feb. 24. The British steamship Bath City, Captain Jones, from New York.. Feb. 9, for Bristol, rtruck the north end of Lundy isle. In the British channel to-day. She backed off and immediately sank In deep water. The master, three officers and ten of the crew rfached Lundy roads in a lifeboat. The other lifeboat, with the remainder of the crew Is also believed to be safe. Movements of Stenmen. NEW YORK, Feb. 2I.-Salled: Mesaba. for London: Spaarndam, for Rotterdam; CampanI, for Liverpool; Phcnecia, for Hamburg; Michigan, for London, YOKOHAMA, Feb. 23. Arrived: Goodwin, from Tacoma; Doric, from Sar. Francisco, for Hong-Kong. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 24. Arrived: Etruria, from New York for Liverpool, and proceeded. HONG-KONG. Feb. 21.-Arrlved: China, from San Francisco, via Honolulu and Yokohama. CHERBOURG. Feb. 24.-Salled: New York, from Southampton for New York. LIVERPOOL. Feb. 2C.-Salled: Georglc and Lucania, for New York. PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 21. Sailed: Bclgenland, for Liverpool. ANTWERP. Feb. 21. Sailed: Westernland, for New York. HAVRE. Feb. 2 L Sailed: La Champagne, for New York. LONDON. Feb. 21. Sailed: Menominee, for New York. N NAPLES, Feb. 22. Sailed: Werra, for New York. Columbus Mnn Sued for Divorce. COLUMBUS. O.. Feb. 21.-A petition for divorce was filed this evening by Mrs. Henry Treat Chittenden, the charge being cross neglect of duty. Mr. Chittenden U one of the best-known citizens of Columbus and his wealth a few years ago was rated at over a million dollars. He built the Chittenden Hotel, but recently disposed of that property. Mrs. Chittenden Is the daughter of Mr. J. Y. Bassell. secretary of the Columbus Board of Trade, and Is many years the Junior of Mr. Chittenden. 7 .e couple have been separated for a short time, but this fact was not mado known until after the filing of the- petition.

TO POLICE PHILIPPINES

THE LATE GEN. HENRY W. LAW TON'S PLAN. MAY BE ADOPTED. It Provides for Native Guards Officered by Americans No Islands to Be Surrendered to Spain. WASHINGTON. Feb. 24.-Eefore his death, and after giving much thought to the subject. General Lawton had worked out a plan for the maintenance of order in the Philippines, after the 'close of actual war, which had been submitted to General Otis, and is, presumably, the plan which will commend itself to tha War Department when the time comes to replace the regular troops by other forces competent to preserve order. General Lawton's idea was to create a force A nativa police whose officers at first in all grades and finally, as conditions Improve, in the vpper grades alone, shall be Americans. Some such force as this 1 now successfully applied In Cuba by General Wood under the cognomen of Rural police Owing to the racial difference amomj the Inhabitants of the Philippines, it was Gen. eral Lawton's idea that there would be no difficulty In securing police who should be proof against disloyalty in the districts, apart from those of their nativity, to which they might be assigned. That this theory was well founded is indicated by the successful use of the Macabebe tribe by Gen. Lawton himself and by General Young later on In his chase after Aguinaldo in the north of Luzon. The natives by their acquaintance with the country and the Inhabitants would be of great assistance In running down lawbreakers. Because of the similarity of feature and figure of the Tagals, the American troops have had great difficulty in distinguishing one individual from another; In telling friend from foe. Indeed, there is a story In circulation among some of the army officers who have Just returned to Washington from Manila, that the army actually captured Aguinaldo In Cavlte province, put him In Jail for fifteen days as a suspicious amigo, and then released him only to hear of his Identity after he had got away. The ability of the Philippine leader to make up as a Chinaman or "Chino," as they are called in the Philippines, is said to be remarkable, and only a fellow-native is able to penetrate such a disguise. NOT SPANISH ISLANDS. The American Fine to Float Over Sibit u nnd Ca gray on. CHICAGO, Feb. 24. A special to the Record from Washington says: "The American flag will not come down on Sibitu Island or on Cagayan island. Spain has been demanding that these islands be returned to It. The War Department was ready to make that return and so was the State Department up to to-day. The Navy Department was, however, unwilling to surrender anything it had taken, and has made its title good to the islands The State Department will Inform Spain that the islands are the property of the United States and will hold them. Sib!tu 1 east of Borneo and Cagayan Is west of Mindoro, about 200 miles. Slbltu was saved to tne United States by the discovery to day of an old treaty between Spain, Great Britain and Germany, which specifically says that Borneo's holding shall not extend further than three miles from the coast cf Borneo. Sibitu Is on the opposite side of the channel separating Borneo from the Sulu archipelago. As to Cagayan island the records show that it was at one time used as a penal colony by Spain, and the latter Is therefore stopped from denying that It was used as a part of the Philippine group." Lieut. C. II. Munton Dead. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. The War Department has been informed of the death of First Lieutenant C. H. Munton, Twelfth Infantry, on Feb. 11, of acute mania. Late Lieutenant Munton was one of the passengers on board the Hancock, which arrived at San Francisco yesterday. He was born in Michigan, was graduated at the United States Military Academy June 15. 1S94, and assigned to duty with the Twenty-third Infantry, then stationed in California. Heraccompanied a portion of his regiment to Honolulu in tne summer of 1S98, and almost immediately thereafter proceeded to the Philippine islands, where he remained In active duty up to the time he became mentally deranged and was sent home. BOER REPORTS. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) tion." It is almost with cheerfulness that the people of Great Britain are taking their punishment, for there is something to show for it. In pleasing contrast to the weeks of waiting and suspense that scarcely ever passed over without largely adding to the death roll and never seemed to bring Great Britain's forces nearer to the goal. Hand in hand with the relief of Kimberley and the dally expected relief of Ladysmith has come the relief of London. With the fate of those beleaguered places off their minds, with the national honor free once more to take its chances on a fair fighting field, London has evolved itself from the depressing gloom that for months overhung it. There is now talk of balls, dinners and entertaining; there are brighter looks In the faces of the crowds that throng the streets, and even the women seem to have brought out gayer gowns. There is to be something of a season after all. "Little Bobs" Is the hero of the hour. even at this stage of the war, which can scarcely be considered much more than initial from the British point of view. He wo lid be granted every honor In the people's power to give, if only public opinion and gratitude became operative. Above every other man and every other circumstance he stands out from those grim happenings in South Africa clothed in the halo of victory. Loudly he is hailed as giving the living He to those who said that the pluck and brains that made Great Britain victorious in the Crimea, in India and in Afghanistan had passed away from her. The circumstances of his hurried departure, when he subordinated the greatest personal sorrow to the needs of the country, his feats oa the battlefields of old, his tremendous personal magnetism and his surpassing kindliness and simplicity are all brought into rapid review by means of conversation or the newspapers before the average Englishman, until It is small wonder that the hero of Kandahar has reached that pinnacle where his country would deny him nothing. General Kitchener's automatic way of doing things and his hardness of heart have been so much paraded before the public since he first achieved greatness that he has lost much of his popularity, and while he possesses the national confidence to an almost unequaled extent, it is patent that the nation as a whole would rather that tho opportunities fell to "Bobs" than to his Iron-willed chief of staff. A curious Instance of the utter lack of system that prevails In the British War Office occurred this week. Immediately after the Queen's proclamation appealing to the patriotism of her old soldiers, and asking them to re-enllst under the government's new plan to strengthen the army, was published, there flocked to headquarters large numbers of men anxious to answer the Queen's request. They were ull turned away because the War Office has not yet issued any detailed instructions regarding the acceptance of such offers nor formulated any specific plan for putting in action the general proposals adopted by Parliament. The criticism current Is that either the Queen's letter was premature or the War Office was dilatory. The latter Is generally accepted as correct, and not without bitter comment. A FREE STATER'S VIEWS. nioemfonteln Merchant Thinks Cronje Will Never He Subdued. NEW YORK. Feb. 21. Philip L. Wessels, a prominent merchant of Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, has arrived in this city. He Is a brother of C. H. "Wessels, chairman cf the war council of the Orange Free State. Two of his brothers are members of the Volksraad. In an Interview last-night Mr. Wessels explained the objec

tive point In Cronje'a retreat, and why ho avoided fighting as he fell back. Cronje was in camp near Magers fontein," said Mr. Wessels, yesterday. "When General French started to relieve Kimberley I believe the Boers fell back because they feared they would bo surrounded. They were menaced by an army of 53.000 men and sixty pieces of the finest modern artillery. At no time did Cronje have more than 10,000 men. With this number he checked the British at Belmont, Gras Pan and beat 25,000 of them at Modder river and Magersfonteln. The English had forty pieces of artillery. Cronje had ten guns, and of these only seven were modern. Cronje'a supplies were running low. He knew that reinforcements could not reach him where he was, and he- n:ust effect a Junction with other Boer forces. So he did not oppose French, but started to retreat. I think he wished to Join forces with Commandant Grobler, who is at Fauresmith. As nearly as I can determine, he was cut off by the British force which Lord Roberts rushed down from Jacobsdal to Paardeberg. In this retreat Cronje was compelled to march across a country comparatively open. There are a few kopjes, but the topographical conditions are not favorable to Boer warfare. When Cronje was cut off by the British he started eastward along the Modder river. I think that then Koodoosrand was his objective point. As nearly as I can determine from the dispatches Cronje Is now a few miles west of the Koodoosrand. His position Is not a very good one. It Is possible he has reached the Koodoosrand. and If this is true he is in no danger from the British army. It may be that Cronje is surrounded and may be forced to surrender; but It will be a fight to the death. We do not fight hand-to-hand battles. We only shoot, shoot, shoot. But so long as Cronje can fight he will. If he should be forced to surrender it will be a calamity, but it will not end the war. We will never stop fighting until Pretoria is taken, and then we will never be subdued, although we may bo subjugated."

IS DELEAGl'EKED K1J1DERLEV. Extracts from a Diary Kept by the Renter Correspondent. CAPE TOWN. Feb. 23. Extracts from the diary of the Reuter correspondent at Kimberley give an insight Into the trials of the garrison. They are in brief as follows: Jan. 11 Scurvy attacks natives alarmingly. They are dying fast. The antiscorbutics are exhausted. Vine cuttings arc being tried in lieu of green food. Jan. 12 Typhoid Is prevalent. Failure to boil the water, the probable cause. Jan. 13 Fifty typhoids in the hospitals. Jan. IS The military authorities have commandeered all the foodstuffs and other stores. Leave has been granted to the inhabitants to shoot small birds for food. Jan. 17 The mules slaughtered are pronounced superior to horseflesh. Jan. 24 Five hundred shells poured into the town at haphazard, the hospital, scurvy compound and residences receiving the attention properly due to tho earth works. Jan. 25 A small family shell-proof shelter has been dug In nearly every garden. Feb. 11 Twenty-five women and children were lowered Into the mines throughout the night. The men are also selecting places of safety. Feb. 15 All the morning there was a heavy cross-flre of the British occupying Alexandersfonteln. The hundred-pounder and shrapnel are bursting over Kimberley. Every one Is lying low. The shops and banks were closed at 2 o'clock this afternoon, there was a kaleldescoplc change. Clouds of dust from the rapid advance of the cavalry were then seen and almost simultaneously the enemy was observed limbering up and fleeing eastward. The glad tidings spread with marvelous rapidity. From all directions mounted and unmounted men hastened to welcome the relief column. Those remaining hoisted flags and there was a universal feeling of joy and thankfulness. RECRUITS FOR THE BOERS. Mountaineer from Montenegro and Soldiers from Germany. LOURENZO MARQUES. Friday, Feb. 23. The French steamer Glronde has arrived here, bringing the American and French military attaches bound for the Boer camp. She also had on board'1 150 heterogenous passengers, including eighteen Montenegrins In their national costume, all bound for the Transvaal. The German ' steamer Admiral, from Hamburg, Jan. 20, has also arrived here with lio passengers on board. They are mostly German subjects, and are anxious to join the Boer forces, i Surgical Supplies Needed. NEW YORK,. Feb. 24. John V. L. Pruyn, chairman of the American committee to aid the wounded of both belligerents, within the Boer lines, has received the following cablegram, dated Durban, Feb. 17, from Howard C. Hillegras, a member of the committee, now at Durban, South Africa: "Medicines and instruments, procurable at Durban, urgently needed. Suggest cabling me money immediately. Will deliver personally." HIGH PRICES AT NOME. Living: Expensive nt the Cape Wood and Coal Famine Prevails. SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 2i.-The first news of the winter from Cape Nome reached here to-day in Dawson papers, which report the arrival there of Carl Von Knobelsdorff and Charles D. Campbell, who left Nome Dec. 10 and reached the Klondike early this month. Von Knobelsdorff and Campbell report that there is plenty of food at Nome to last through the winter and until the first steamers arrive there next summer. The only scarce article is wood, which was selling at $G3 a cord when they left. The supply of wood along the beach was consumed for a distance of ten miles up and down f?.m Nome City, and the prospects iere for a practical famine in this fuel before spring. -The coal for sale was 7 cents a pound, though there was little of it on hand and It was being refused to buyers. The large transportation companies, however, had enough coal on hand to last them. There was not considered much likelihood of suffering from the cold. Flour was selling at $6 a sack; bacon, 30 to 40 cents a pound; ham, 45 cents; sugar, 25 cents; dried fruit, 25 cents; rice, 15 cents; oatmeal, 20 cents; beans, 15 cents; canned meats, $1 a can; canned fruit, 75 cents a can; fresh meats, $1 to $1.25 a pound; baking powder, 11; meals, $1 to $1.50. and lodging, Jl to $4 a night. Eggs, fresh potatoes and onions were out of the market by Dec. 1, when eggs sold for $3 a dozen and potatoes and onions $15 for a hundredpound crate. Cape Nome Camp had a shooting tragedy Dec. 15, in which John F. Mallon, a cook employed in the Delmonlco restaurant, was killed by OSicer Edwards while resisting arrest. WILL NOT ARBITRATE. Chicago Bulldlnic Contractors Ultimatum to 3Iayor Harrison. CHICAGO, Feb. 24. Mayor Hairlson, who yesterday offered to secure arbitration of the existing troubles between the building contractors and the striking workmen who belong to the Building Trades Council, received a setback this afternoon when the Contractors Council informed him that it proposed to force the Building Trades Council to dissolve. Proposals to arbitrate, the contractors said, had been offered the Building Trades Council before and it had declined to avail itself of them. The contractors declared they would arbitrate nothing with "a body possessing such a record as the Building Trades Council." Huge Labor Organization. - PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2L An organization that Is numerically probably the most gigantic alliance of labor in any city la the Union has been formed in this city. The new association is known as the Allied Council of the Building Trades of Philadelphia and Vicinity, and includes twenty-three labor unions. The United German Trades Association was represented at the meeting at which the organization was formed in order that the English and German unions may work together. The new association comprises all the workers on buildings, with exception of bricklayers and alateroofers.

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erru at i The Archibald Importer of Gloves, Underwear, Hosiery, Shirtings, German Collars, etc. The Archibald DerbV . ' J 4 styles to select EXPANSION IN COMMERCE IT GOES IIAXD IN HAND WITH THE GUOWTII IS TERRITORY Lieut. Gov. "Woodruff's Speech, to the Slarquette Club at Chicago Bryan Speaks at Nashville. CHICAGO, Feb. 21. At the Marquette Club this evening a dinner was given to the Republican candidates for the Illinois gubernatorial nomination and to Lieutenant Governor Woodruff, of New York. Only two of the gubernatorial candidates, Judge Orrin Carter and Judge Elbrldge Hanecy, were present, and they, with Lieutenant Governor Woodruff, comprised the list of speakers. President Noyes, of the club, made a short address in introducing each of the speakers. The speeches of Judges Carter and Hanecy related mostly to political matters In Illinois. Lieutenant Governor Woodruff spoke on "Commercial Expansion." After referring to the Democratic opposition to expansion he said: "American commercial and territorial expansion have advanced together hand in hand. As our pioneers have opened up new territory and established a stable form of government, our merchants have secured enormous profit derived from its development. Territorial expansion has been absolutely necessary to the full fruition of our advanced industrial condition, a condition largely due to the American system of protection. This system has placed our normally agricultural country ahead of all other nations in inventive and mechanical genius, and thus we have been able to compete successfully with our manufactured products in all the markets of the world. If the present rate of profit is to be maintained It must come from the development of more new territory and the opening up of new lines of trade. "To obtain our share of the commercial benefits to be derived from the rapid development of the nations of the Orient, containing as they d one-third of the population of the globe, we as a nation must take an active part In the affairs of nations, and cheerfully assume whatever burdens or responsibilities are Inseparable from the effort to secure that trade. We will not only be the recipients of great benefits ourselves, but the people with whom we deal will also be beneficiaries. There are immense aggregations of population that contribute little or nothing to the satisfaction of human wants, and the man or nation that renders these uncultivated portions of the earth productive, and brings to bear upon their Inhabitants the civilizing influences of the nineteenth century, contributes to the uplifting of the whole human race. "If you want instead of commercial expansion, commercial contraction, just let the door of China be slammed In your faces. Have you ever seen the shoe of a Chinese lady? It is the final mode into which after a diabolic process of contraction is thrust a member of the body that God meant should develop into symmetrical proportions with the rest of the human form divine. Contrast that foot with the expansive foot of the Yankee pioneer that carries him with swinging stride across his country's new domains. Washington wore a number thirteen boot! Washington was an "expansionist." The Chinese shoe is a symbol of commercial contraction. It shrivels the "understandings." Our anti-expansionists would have to expand their "understandings" to use even Chinese shoes. If you prefer commercial contraction let England, France Germany and Russia partition the Celestial empire among themselves, thus effectually preventing you from securing your share of the immense commerce that is there to be developed In the next few years; leave the trans-isthmian canal for France or England or Germany to build and control; permit Japan to lay and operate the Pacific cables; turn over the Philippines, Hawaii and Samoa to Germany or England; give back Porto Rico to Spain; beg some nation or other to relieve us from our responsibilities In Cuba; retreat completely from our new position as the paramount power of the Pacific; abdicate as the arbiter and guardian of the destinies of the western hemisphere; and snail-like, crawl back into our shell, content to leave to less timid hands the sturdy hewing cf the world's destiny in the twentieth century. Dryan Speaks at Nashville. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 24. Hon. William J. Bryan reached here to-night at 7 o'clock from Chattanooga. He was met seme distance out of town by a committee of citizens and at the railway station a vast crowd gathered to greet him. Shortly after 8 o'clock Mr. Bryan addressed an audience of 7,000 people at the Tabernacle. His remarks were along the same lines followed in recent utterances during his Southern trip, trusts and imperialism being dlcussed in the order named. To-morrow Mr. Bryan will visit the historic "Hermitage," the old home of ex-President Andrew Jackson. The Hermitage is thirteen miles from the city and the day will be consumed in the trip. Mr. Bryan's plan Is tc leave to-morrow night for Mempbl3. Crowley Defeat llanter. MARSHALL, 111., Feb. 21-The Democratic primaries to-day resulted in a victory for Congressman Joseph B. Crowley, who was opposed by ex-Congressman J. Hunter. Mr. Crowley's renomlnatlon seems assured. He needs only two votes in the convention. Japer. 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Tho controlling works at Lockport had to to shut down last evening, and traffic on two railroads the Pennsylvania and the Chicago & Alton was temporarily blocked. The delayed passenger and freight trains finally were released by being switched over the Chicago & Western Indiana and the St. Charles alr-Une tracks. The accident to the Amazonas, which happened at noon yesterday, was similar to that which befell the Jesse Spalding ten days ago. and it revived the apprehension of the drainage trustees as to the menaco to navigation caused by the Increased current of the river. They declare that If a flow of 000,000 cubic feet a minute Is to be maintained the current cannot b knt f down to one and one-fouth miles an hour unless the center-pier bridges are removed, the tunnels lowered and the river widened at several points. If this worl$ Is not done, two of the trustees declare, navigation will be impaired seriously, if not destroyed. Several attempts by powerful tugs to remove the Amazonas proved futile. It Is estimated that it will take at least twelva hours to stop the current In the river, and tug men declare no further attempt will b made to release the steamer until the flow has subsided. Car Ferry Steamer Almost Wrecked RACINE, Wis.. Feb. 24.-The steam car ferry Muskegon, after battling eighteen hours with a terrific northwest gale on Lake Michigan, the thermometer being 10 below zero, arrived here late to-day, her hull coated with ice, steering gear disabled, one smoke stack Jammed up, two carloads of threshing machinery and engines In a heap and many of tho crew frostbitten and exhausted. It was the roughest trip the boat ever experienced. The Muskegon was bound for Milwaukee, but with her steering gear damage it was Impossible to make that port and the best that could be done was to make Itacine. The waves were very high, and while the vessel was tlng tossed about one line of cars got loose and began tearing around. After this was remedied the two oars loaded with threshing machinery and engines were wrecked and a smokestack dropped down and all but went overboard. Dljr Steel Steamer Launched. LORAIN, O.. Feb. 24.-The five-hundred-foot steel steamer J. J. Hill, being buUt here for the American Steamship Company, was successfully launched at the 3ards of the American Ship Building Company this afternoon. In the absence of Mrs. J. J. Hill, who was unable to be present, owing to illness, the new vessel was christened by Mrs. A. T. Deforest, wife of the Cleveland district manager of the American Steel and Wire Company. Tn J. J. Hill Is a duplicate of the Gates, launched a few weeks ago. K0TE PAID IN ADVANCE. About Three Million Dollars Turned Into the Treasury. N.EW YORK, Feb. 2!.-Nearly .(0.000 was paid into the subtreasury here to-day by the Southern Pacific Company, for tho Central Pacific Railroad, in liquidation of a note of the latter company that does not fall due until August IDOL The actual payment was J2.916.194.T5. Checks for this amount were turned into the subtreasury and their receipt gave that Institution a credit balance of $2,316.770 at the clearing house. The note which was taken up Is the fifth of a series of twenty, bearing interest of 3 per cent., given to the government when the Central Pacific settlement was effected. It was secured by $3,OiO.OOO Central Pacific 4 per cent, bonds, which were to-day hurried over to the Southern Pacific Company. In Wall street it was said that the reason for the anticipation of th payment 1 that the Central Pacific bonds securing the note can ba handled with more profit to the Southern Pacific than would be gained by allowing the obligations' to rim along until dua Funeral of n Soldier. The funeral of George Watts, who body arrived here yesterday from the Philippines, will be held this afternoon from .the home of his mother. The Light Artillery will act as escort, but the burial service may be lacking in full military honors in that Superintendent Chlslet. of Crown Hill, has forbidden the firing of the regulation salute In cu.e there ara many hordes on the grounds which miht be frightened.