Indianapolis Journal, Volume 50, Number 363, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1900 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1900.

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The Journal may confidently say for Mr. Kern that he I not desirous of belne Mr. liryan's residuary legatee In 1901. The residuary is worthless; besides, Mr. Kern has experienced all the defeat he cares for in Indiana. It is raid the House of Representatives cleared up more work before the holidays than it has done at any previous sessloa for years, and with the progress now In prospect will, by the middle of February, be able to pend every important bill to the Eenate. There is always more or 'less unfinished business that goes over from one session of Congress to another. It will be the same with tho century. Tho dividing line, between the nineteenth and twentieth will not Interfere with unfinished business transactions. There seems to be a general demand on the part of tho papers which supported the President in the election for a vigorous policy in the Philippines. No really vigorous policy can be begun before the passage of the bill which will give the President an army, which is the first essential. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, seems to have the courage of his convictions, but his convictions are bad. Before the gran 1 Jury he declared that no one pays attention to prohibitive measures; that antl-dram-hop laws are dead, and that "the people" want saloons open all night and on Sunday. Mr. Bryan thinks that as editor of a weekly newspaper he wilL have as much Intellectual enjoyment as he could have had In the White House. Perhaps so, but what can take the place of the pleasure he would have had in carrying out the alterations In the executive mansion which, before tho lection, he said he would make? The argument of ex-Secretary Carlislo which ia to be made in the Supreme Court on the 7th of January will doubtless be ono of the ablest that has been or will be made In favor of the doctrine that the Constitution follows the flag in our new possessions. Mr. Carlisle comes very near being the most accomplished constitutional lawyer of the day. The railroad men who, as a joke, started the report that forty-nine children had been drowned at What Cheer, Ia., should be disciplined. A hoax of that kind is not a Joke it Is a crime and Its perpetrators -hould be severely punished. What Cheer has enough to do In attempting to explain Its name without having an imaginary horror added to its burden. Following the speech of Mr. Br3an comes a report from Washington that the Democratic executive committee of the national committee will soon meet and adopt a plan to shelve both Mr. Bryan and ex-President Cleveland. Democrats In Washington arc displeased because Mr. Bryan Is to start a paper to advocate the issues which he represents, and of which most Democrats are very weary.' The Governor-elect, having visited all of the more important Institutions of the State with the legislative committee, will be In a position, at the outset, to make recommendations to the Legislature that will be worthy of attention. This visitation, puts him, at the beginning of his four years, in a Io.ltlon to know what Is needed, and, if defects exist, to apply the remedy. It id the earnest of a thoroughly business administration of the affairs of the State. The official figures of the Agricultural Department give Indiana 1.200,700 acres of wheat l ist year, which yielded only C.111.7TJ bushels; 4.0C1.0 acres of corn, with a yield af LVLDio.sOO btifhels. and 1.372. Of) acres of pat, with a yield of ll..OS bushels. Indiana ha not had o xmall a wheat crop in years and never a larger yield of corn. Only live States had larger corn crops namely. Iowa. 3uT.&).94S bushels; Illinois, 2C1.17H,22? busheI; Nebraska. mo.43t).om bushels; 5iijouri 1SG.7P.h! bushels, and Kanfa, bU7i.Q) bushel?. Kan?af led with S2.4,"5 bushl of wheat, and .Minnesota wait next with 51.!tt.2: bushel. Hailroad extern Jon in this country has passed Its "boom" da ye, but Is by no means ended. During the year 1300 no less than 4,222 miles of track were laid on 333 lines lr 41 States. Texas leads all other States with a total of 3IS miles, Pennsylvania ccmes second with 277 miles, Iowa third with 257 miles, Mlnne-ota fourth with 231 Ciles, and West Virginia fifth with 225 r.l!e. These are all the States that show

ever 200 miles. Indiana reports 77 miles as against Ohio's 20. Some of the Southern States show an extent of new mileage that indicates great railroad development in that section of the country during the next few years.

KX. WALLACE 0. Til 12 lHILIIIIXi2 Ql'KSTIOX. Gen. Lew "Wallace, v. ho has had experience as a soldier and a diplomat, and whose Intense Americanism no one will doubt, does hot take a ro.y view of the present situation In the Philippines. Indeed, It I not a rosy situation. "While much has been accomplished there since the formal taking over of the islands by the United States, much remains to be accomplished. "We are making progress all the time, yet the progresä 13 slow. Gen. Wallace fears "It will take a thousand years to pacify the islands fit this rate." This might do as a figure or speech, but not as an expression of deliberate Judgment. But many persons will feel inclined to concur with General Wallace that more drastic measures should be adopted in the pacification policy. He says: I believe that the easiest way to end this war would be to send every hostile Filipino captured to Guam, one of the islands that came into possession of the United States by the settlement with Spain. It Is a wild, desolate place and would be just the kind of place to keep these men prisoners. To my way of thinking every Filipino captured should be placed in a corral and kept until there is a shipload of them. Then they could be removed to Guam and kept prisoners there until the war- is ended. Of course It would take a force of soldiers to watch thetre prisoners, but I believe that as soon a3 the hostile natives found that they were to be sent off when captured it would have a salutary effect on them, and this would have a tendency to cause them to quit fighting. This has the merit of originality, and would at least do away with the "amlgo" practice under which Filipinos are 'friends and suppliants cne day and soldiers and murderers the next. England has had no trouble with the captured Boers whom she has sent to St. Helena, and they are much further advanced towards pacification and British citizenship than if they had remained in South Africa. A republic has as much right to assert its sovereignty and enforce its authority as has a monarchy. If we could send Geronlmo and his captured Apaches to the Dry Tortugas we could with equal Justice send captured Filipino insurgents to Guam and let them sweat out their hostility to the United States under a new sky. A really strong government would not hesitate to do this, and there is no reason why the United States government should not be as strong as any other. General Wallace thinks the" standing army of the United States should be increased to 123,000 men, with 75,000 stationed in the Philippines 'until the Islands are pacified. In as far as this represents the idea of a more vigorous policy in suppressing the remnants of. the Insurrection there and compelling the people to submit to the rightful authority of the United States a great many people will approve the suggestion. There is neither economy, humanity nor statesmanship in dallying with the present situation. It should bo brought to an end as soon as possible at whatever cost, and the sooner It is ended the less will be the cost. Tho question of ending it Is "up to" Congress, and that body will fail in its duty if the present session ends without some vigorous legislation In this direction. The people arc getting tired of the present phase of the Philippine question and want it ended. For that purpose the most drastic measures will be the most welcome. A QtliSTIOX OF GKAVC PÜSSIuilitii:s. ' Recent dispatches concerning war claims by European nations against Cuba disclose the possibility of grave complications. The dispatches are vague, but suggestive of trouble. They relate especially to Germany's claim for damages to German subjects in Cuba during the Insurrection and the war between the United States and Spain, but It is probable that other governments, especially the British, will make similar claims. It Is a general rule of International law that. In case of the destruction, during war, of property owned by foreigners the dominant power of the country where the loss occurs Is responsible, whether It was caused by government troops, insurgents or Invaders. Thus, as long as Cuba was owned by Spain, the latter power was responsible fur damages to the property of foreigners, whether inflicted by Spanish troops, by the Cubans or by Americans. But the surrender and evacuation of Cuba by Spain Introduced two new elements first, the question of the liability of the United States by reason of establishing a temporary military government In Cuba; and, second, the liability of Cuba iiaelf when it shall gain Independence. As far as American" citizens arc concerned all claims for damages to their property In Cuba during the war were disposed of by Article 7 of the treaty with Spain, which says: The United States and Spain mutually relinquish all claims for Indemnity, national and individual, of every kind, of either government, or of its. citizens or subjects, against the other government, which may have arisen since the beginning of the late insurrection in Cuba, and prior to the exchange of the ratification of the present treaty. The United States will adjudicate and settle the claims of its citizens against Spain relinquished in this article. By this provision the United States steps into the place of Spain and agrees to adjudicate and settle all war claims of American citizens In Cuba against Spain. This, however, docs not affect the subjects of European powers who shall have a right to look somewhere for indemnity. As Spain Is bankrupt, even If liable for losses occurring during tho war, they are likely to try to hold the United States liable, or Cuba, when the Island becomes independent. As the occupation of Cuba by the United States is only for temporary and specific purposes it would be absurd to expect us to assume liability for war loupes for which we were In no way re?!nsit.Ie. This leaves the Cuban government as the last resource, and no doubt that is where the European claim will be tiled. Then. If the Cuban government repudiates them Euroiean warships will be sent to enforce the claim and the quality of Cuban Independence will be brought to a test. The Monroe doctrine has never been construed as preventing a European power from compelling tho payment of an Indemnity or debt by an American state by a demonstration of force, and probably would not In this case, but If Cuba should appeal to the United States for protection It might become a question whether we were not in honor bound to extend it. In that way Cuban annexation may come sooner than any person now imagines. Anyhow, the war claims question Is full of grave xosslbllltles. The report of State Librarian Henry idiows that be has continued the past two

years the Intelligent and useful work which was begun and industriously pushed during his first two years in the office. The work which has been done has tended to mako the library more useful to the public than before. During the past two years the large number of United States public documents contained In the state library has been made available to those who use the library by a systematic cataloguing by topics. This classification and cataloguing of this vast number of documents and reports ha3 Involved much intelligent labor, but It has made a hitherto useless mass of material a library in Itself of great value to those pecking information regarding hundreds of topics of political and industrial interest. Mr. Henry Is making a library that will be invaluable to the State, and he should be seconded In his work by the Legislature making the modest appropriations which he recommends. Where's Pat CroreT Years ago It was "Who struck Billy Patterson?" Later, "Have you seen Tom Collins?" might be heard on the "levee" and other like resorts. Now It promises to be "Where's Pat Crowe?" And where is Pat Crowe, anyhow? Is he a myth or a reality? Did he kidnap Millionaire Cudahy's son and receive $2:5,000 In gold as ransom? Is he on the ocean, speeding towards Europe, as Bostonlans assert, or is he in Chicago, masquerading In female attire, as Windy City po.ople fear? Again, can it be possible he is lurking somewhere in Indiana at Democratic-ribbed Fort Wayne, where he was supposed to be a few days ago, or at Muncie, trying to steal the "Gem" from that prosperous gas belt city with the Intention oi holding it for a fabulous ransom? And still again, is he in Laramie prison, chuckling over the search that Is being made for him, or is. he hiding in Des Moines, St. Joseph, Denver, Kansas City, Catlettsburg, Springfield, O., What Cheer and other cities where news "fakers" reside? Or is he quietly "lying low" in Podunk or Tallholt, safe from the inquisitive reporter, waiting until the excitement blows over and legislatures begin enacting laws making death the penalty for kidnaping? Perhaps, after all, he is like Eugene Sue's "Wandering Jew," doomed to wander over the earth and appear at unexpected places at unseasonable times. If Pat Crowe is as ubiquitous as the press dispatches indicate, what protection has the public against him? May not his ways be as devious and divers as his ublquitarlness? Who knows when or how he will swocp down on some Indianapolis multi-millionaire's home, rob it of its heir, hie himself and prize to a lonely place on White river. Fall creek or Pleasant run, and then send a letter back to the city demanding ?100,000? Who knows In what guise he will appear? Smooth-ehaven and husky-looking, as he did at Omaha? Wearing a heavy black mustache, as some of his friends say he does? Dressed In the garb of a widow, as Detective Gothim saw him in Chicago, or, perhaps, as a buxom girl wearing a nurse's cap and seeking employment at the home selected to be despoiled? Verily, Pat Crowe, mythical or real, is a menace to the community. If he be merely a bugaboo, created to terrorize fond parents, who will atone for the nerves he has shattered? If he be flesh and blood, cunning and heartless, and escapes the sleuths who are trying to earn Mr. Cudahy's $23,000 reward, what possibilities in the field of crime are open to him! And if he be innocent, how the country will be tortured when he stars in the thrilling drama that is sure to have him as villain, or when the museums begin advertising him as the only real, living Pat .Crowe! Taking all things Into consideration It Is well to ask "Where's Tat Crowe?" And if he be found there should be no hesitancy as to the course to be pursued. As Governor DIx once said, "Shoot him on the spot!" It is gravely announced that Professor Flammarion, the French scientist, does not believe the luminous spots on the planet Mars are signals to the earth. One does not have to be a scientist to be Incredulous on that point. FROM HITHER AND YON.

Drastic Measures. Judge. Voice (from stair) Has that young man gone home yet? Edith N-no, para. Voice Sing ecmethlng for him at once. If that doenn't start him I'll shoot him! Too Revengeful. Ufe. Guther My wife has promised to wait for me at the cates heaen. if she I the first to go. Flasher Tut. tut. You houldn't be so revengeful ust to make her wait through eternity, niinply LecaiiFe &he made you wait while fhe fixed up sometimes. Dtfteonranjeiiicnt at the Start. Philadelphia Kecrrd. Mr. SophtU Well, Willie, your elster has given herself to me for n Christmas present." What do your think r.f that? Willie Kh! That's what she done for Mr. Krown last jear, an he giv her back before Kaster. I bet you'll do the same. Guided. I ?o to prove my soul! I see my way as birds their trackless way. 1 shall arrive: what time, what circuit flrft I nk not; In some tlme-rllis good time I shall arrive; lie guides ms and the bird a. I!o . rir.ff. The Ileal Thine Detroit Journal. Ftill the best society held her at arm's hngth. "How do you know,"; aked society, with a cold fneer, "that your husband has genuine gout, rather than mere rheumatism?" "Kocnu-r-." the woman replied, d.gni.'iediy, "he has carried a raw potato in his puck t l for two months, nwv. without getting well!" At this they were obashed, and many, thenceforth, invited her to their Z o'clock. Patience. I lus not where 1 wl.di to kill; ' feijm n.t love wher; mopt I hate; I break no sleep to winne my will: I wayte not at the nlxhtie gate; I sporne no poor, I feare no rich; I feel r.o want, nor have too much. Edward Dyer. WMmmmmmmmmWmm DUEL IN A HARLEM CAFE. One Principal Shut In Lea, One Bytunder Killed, Two Wounded. NEW YORK. Dec. 2S. In a duel between Myles McDonald and Thomas Kennedy, In a Harlem cafe to-day. Kennt dy was hit In the leg by a bullet and two bystanders, Edward Courtcney and George Price, were probably fatally wounded. The trouble between McDonald and Kennedy grew out of the former winning $1,0 In Kennedy's poolroom on a, 10 to 1 shot some time ago. Price died this afternoon. lie refused to make any ante-mortem statement other than that it was McDonald that shot him. It was reported to-night that a, fourth man was ?hot in the fight. He is said to be Charles McMullen. sometimes going under the name of William aietltnnis. McMullen was a witness to the shooting and is said to have received a bullet through the right arm and a. flesh wound from another bullet in the right side. lie is said to bo In hidlne. I

LIKE THE PILGRIMS AMEIUCWS OF TO-DAY Til 12 SAME AS TlIEIIt FOItCFATHCKS. Latter Were Expansionists, Reaching Oat Deyonil Their Own Borders, Like Their Descendants. : SPEECH BY SECRETARY LONG OX TlIK GROWTH OF TUG C031MCRCB OF TIIU I'MTUl) STATES. Tribute to Secretary of State Hay, and Commendation for the Men and Officers of the Xttvy. - BOSTON", Dec. 23. Surrounded by some of the most prominent men in the financial, business and social life of Boston, Secretary of the Navy John D. Long was the central figure at a banquet at the Algonquin Club to-night, when Ms achievements in public life were the theme of .many speakers. The banquet was a complimentary one, if that terra expresses the object of the occasion, and tho givers of It wore the members or the Commercial Club, a body of merchants devoted to the welfare of Boston's traoo with the outside world. Secretary Long was the last speaker. He said: "This Is the season of the year when we celebrate tho landing of the Pilgrims, whom we always associate with the idea of a religious exodus, whereas, in fact, their venture was largely a commercial one, with a view to developing the resources of the new world and of profiting by an exchange of its products with those of the old. That the Pilgrims were good business men is shown by the fact that In a few years they bought out their promoters and carried the enterprise to success on their own footing. They were expansionists, reaching well out from their own borders, and for a century or two later no man crossed the ocean oftener than Winalow, their minister plenipotentiary, who looked after their interests abroad. "It is an interesting: fact that, nearly S00 years later, we, their descendants, not in the little Mayflower, but in the great ocean steamers of to-day, are returning: across the sea to plant on the shores of Oriental isles the Institutions which they planted here. The recent unhappy tumult In China is only the effervescent accompaniment of the bursting of the seclusion of that uncounted people; and its commercial relation with the world at large, so recently enlarged to us by the admirable administration of Secretary Hay, will In the coming century bear fruit in an interchange of agricultural and manufactured products uch as even the imagination cannot how picture. "It is Interesting in this closing hour of the century to compare the commerce of the world in 1S00, which was something like fifteen hundred million dollars, with its commerco In 1900, which is something like twenty thousand millions. In 1SC0 the commerce of the United States was one hundred and sixty-two millions; during the last year twenty-two hundred millions tho commerce of Boston alone Is far more tooay than the whole commerco of the United States in 1MJ0. Great Britain alone exceeds the United States in the extent of its commerce, and we are rapidly overhauling her. During tho period in which the export trade of Great Britain in manufactured articles has doubled, that of the United States has grown eleven-fold. PRAISE FOR COLONEL HAY. "It is not for me to speak for other departments than my own, but I cannot forbear suggesting at this time how much we are. indebted to the work of our State Department, the present head of which, Mr. Hay, has, I believe, earned for himself a place in the-gratltude, as-he has-already a place In the honor, of the American people. Usually the individual leads and the government follows. In this case, however, while our manufactories have been absorbed in production, the consular officers of the State Department stationed abroad have, by their activity In reporting trade conditions, aided largely in turning our surplus products into foreign channels. In this connection it is fair to say a good word for our consular service. -It has its defects and it is the fashion, not unwarranted, to urge their reform. And yet its officials, without special previous training or experience and chosen from the general body of the public, have been marvelously quick and efficient In pointing out not only the opportunities, but the hindrances to an increased commerce and exceeding In the establishment of trade. At the very outset of the present administration the Importance of this service was recognized and steps taken to still further facilitate the commercial" publications of the Department of State and to print. and distribute them more promptly for the benefit of the business community. "And may I. with all modesty, say that the navy is not without its title to credit. It has made the flag respected. It is rapidly developing into proportions which will. enable it to bo the safeguard and help ofih mighty International commerce that is coming. As our products go abroad all over the globe, as our ships carrying them Fall every water, as we are gradually drawn Into closer commercial activity with the world thoro will be Increased necessity for the resources of diplomacy, and with these the backing and moral prestige of a corresponding naval strength. I trust it Is not to he anticipated that In the better conditions of the future a great foreign trade oimc built up will be at the risk of any power inclined to obstruct or Impair it, but if so there will be no danger po long as the American navy Is animated by the spirit of the American sailor and backed by tho heart of the American people. "I cannot take my seat without expressing the pleasure it is to sit-again at this table, and to be In company with you. the commercial men, the merchants and thn iranufacturers. the enterprising leaders of this dear old town. The true Ideal of the Chamber of Commerce is not .a den of thieves from which tho 'Master shall cast out all of them that sell and buy, but a temple of God and a house of prayer." AT HIS OWN REQUEST.

Ilev. Jnmn Le Ilnron .Johnson Deposed from the Ministry. NEW YORK, Dor. 2S. The Tribune prints the following: "The fact that the Rev. James L"Raron Johnson, the former assistant rector of Grace Church, was formally deposed from the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church about a week ago has become known . to his friends in this city. It has been ascertained that he was deposed from the ministry at his own request, and tho announcement of his deposition states that there is no reflection on his moral character in the proceedings. Mr. Johnson disappeared about two weeks ago, and his friends have not had any word from" him. About the time of his disappearance he wrote to Bishop Potter expressing a determintalon to give up the ministry and requesting that an announcement of deposition be made. Bishop Potter caused the announcement to be made at the Church of the Ascension, although Mr. Johnson had not been associated with the work of that church. Mr. Johnson had resigned his place as assistant rector of Grace Church and his resigntalon had been accepted.' lie had resigned the place of chaplain in the fire department and Fire Commissioner Scanneil had placed the letter of resigntaion on file. Mr. Johnson left the sanitarium at Watklns. N. Y., about two weeks ago. He had been suffering with nervous trouble since last spring. He went to Europe for a suiy of two months at that time, but he-was not benefited much by the trip. Friend? of Mr. Johnson In this city fcay his health was shattered by overwork. "At the time of the great fire which destroyed the steamship piers and some of the shipping or the North German Lloyd line In Hoboken Mr. Johnson was on a fireboat In the North river. He saw some of the sailors who were Imprisoned on the Saale thrusting their heads antr hands out out of the port holes of the doomed steam

ship and appealing for aid. His excitement at the time was so great that he became ill. It Is believed by many of his friends that he is In the West and that he will return as soon as his health has been restored. His father. Archdeacon Johnson, of New Brighton. Staten island, has said that he does not know where his son Is."

DEATH FOLLOWED QUICKLY. Angry Imprecation Sncceeded by the Paralysla of the Speaker. ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 2S. A special to the Constitution from Willacoochee says: William West, an Irishman, about sixty-five years of age, who lived with his wife about one mile east of thi3 pace, died yesterday morning under peculiar and sensational circumstances. His wife, who is very old, had occasion to go out of the house about? 4 o'clock yesterday morning. She being nearly blind, could not find the door, and asked Mr. West to get up and open the door for her. This appeared to make the old man very angry, and Le told her he wished God would paralyze her, and he fell to the floor instantly with a stroke of paralysis, from the effects of which he died in about two hours, never having spoken again. The death of Mr. West removes one of the most unique characters In Coffee county. If not perhaps in the whole State. In the war between the States Mr. West was In the Federal army, and was made a prisoner at tjie battle of Cold Harbor, and confined in Andersonville prison until the close of the war. when he returned to his home in Penn-. sylvanla and there remained until the summer of 1S73, when he joined Captain Frye's filibustering expeditions to Cuba, on board the famous Vlrginius, which was captured1 by the Spanish gunboat Tornado Oct. 31, 1'SiZ. and taken to Santiago, where all on board . were condemned to death and fiftythreo of whom were executed and the remaining eighteen would have been had it not been for the prompt action of Sir Lambton Lorraine, commander of the British man-of-war Niobe, which was In port at Santiago at the time, and put a stop to the massacre by threatening to destroy the city of Santiago. Mr. West claimed that he was one of the lucky eighteen. At any rate he could give a very accurate and thrilling description of the affair. After his escape from this trouble he came to South Georgia, married and settled down to farming, remaining here until the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, when he again went to Cuba, and claimed after his return home that he was with the Rough Riders in the fights around Santiago. He has been drawing a pension from the federal -government for several years for injuries received in the federal army. PRANCE WANTS COAL. Affent of the Government Xovr In America to Secure 200,000 Tons. PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 2S. F. K. McIlwayne, a member of the American Chamber of Commerce, in Paris, is now in the city closing negotiations for the sale of coal to the French government. The order, he says, may reach 200,000 tons. The immediate necessities, covering principally railways, he adds, requires 70,000 tons. Mr. McIIwayne says he believes a substantial coal trade between this country and France will soon be established. He asserts that the coal supply of France is 10,000,000 ton3 short of the demand. Formerly this deficiency was made up almost entirely by England. The great Industrial establishments are becoming alarmed, Mr. McIIwayne said, of the possibility of this supply being cut off owing to the scarcity of coal In England. "The government," he continued, "is dependent on English coal, and it will readily be seen that the French navy would be at a serious disadvantage in time of war. The attitude of the French government toward" American coal is distinctly favorable. I am here for the purpose of seeing whether American companies could, within the next six months, deliver, on the order of the French government, at a satisfactory price, at least 200,000 tons. These arrangements have been completed and It only remains for the quality of the .coal to be satisfactory to inaugurate the business." Mr. McIIwayne said he would secure a portion of the coal in this State and a part in Virginia, to be delivered f. o. b. at Baltimore. BLUNDER IN STATE LAW. Validity of Iovrn Biennial Conntitatlonal Amendment to lie Tested. DES MOINES. Ia.. Dec. 28. Through the consent of Attorney General Remley, of this State, action was begun in the District Court of Washington county, to-day, to determine the validity of the biennial constitutional amendment adopted at the election in November. The amendment provides that all slate, county and township officers holding terms which expire in 1901, shall be extended for one year, it should have read in 11)02, and wan so Intended oy the authois ot the measure, they going on the basis that all terms expire on the 31st of each December, while, as a matter ot fact, they expire on the first Monday in January. Many local suits have been brought by officials who desire to hold their otfices, basing their claims upon the wording of the amendment. The attorney general maintains that the intent of the Legislature should hold good and for that reason prepared the complaint in the suit brought today. An immediate hearing will be asked for as soon as the court opens in Washington county, and arrangements are now In progress for a special session of the Supreme Court to settle the mooted question. NURSES IN TR0UELE. (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) autopsy said the man had a dilated heart." City Magistrate Hogan testified to the appearance of Minnock, former patient, before him on Dec. 15, and his discharge at the request of Dr. Fitch. "I asked him if he had not become frightened by the doctors," said Magistrate llogan. "and he said he had. Asked him if he had seen anything wrong in the pavilion, and he said he had not. He whs not under oath." A Iispute arose before the coroner as to the time when a sheet was twisted about Hillyard's throat, the detense holding that it was on Tuesday. Minnock was recalled and testified that tho sheet was twisted around HIMyard's throat on Wednesday by Davis. He whs questioned as to tho details of his story, and repeated the twisting of tho sheet about Hlllj'ard's neck by Davis after the fashion known among sailors as the Spanish windlass. "If this witness's testimony Is true, this takes the eate out of the category of manslaughter and makes it one of murder." said Assistant District Attorney Mclntyre. "It establishes premeditation. To take a sheet and twist it about a man's neck until he Is suffocated is murder." William 15. O'Rourke, superintendent of the Bellevue Hospital, said he knew nothing of the death of Hillyard except from hearsay. He did not recollect whether or rot he had seen Hillyard as Mlnnock had testified. Annie McDermott, cook In the kltchf n of the pavilion for the Insane, said Hillyanl was violent when he came in on Tuesday; that he kicked and fought, and when th nurses sat him down at the table ho threw the bread and butter in the nurses' faces and attacked them. He was quieter un Wednesday and came to the table for supper and sat down, but would not eat and began to carry on. Davis came out and told him to eat. "Did he use any violence to him?" "No." After a pause the witness said "After supper he got up from tho table and fell." She said Davis gave Hillyard a slight slap "that would not hurt a baby." Sho rdmltted that she had said she heard men tako Hillyard into the bathroom and turn on the shower bath, and that she recognized th; voices of Dean and Davis and the Frenchman. The attorneys on both sides summed up and the case was turned over to the Jury. Bail forthe nurses was fixed at $3.000 in each case," and the bonds were immediately tinned by Ogden Mills, of tho training schools, and the nurses were released. Not Kidnaped, but Hiding. FORT DODGE. Ia., Dec. CS.-Johnnl Tonhose. the nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lew Tonhose. of Judd. Ia., who wa supposed to have been kidnaped ten days ago, was found to-day hiding Ir a hayloft. The boy had lived on vegetables which he had taken irom the cellar. Ills feet and legs wtre-frost bitten.

REPLY TO HARRISON SEXATOIt FOHAKEIl TAKES 1SSIE WITH Tili: FOKMKIl I'll 12 SI OH.NT.

II Defends the Action of Consreus in Providing a Separate Tariff Law for Porto lltco. SAYS IT WAS A WISE MOVE AND HAS GIVi: MICH SATISFACTION' TO THE NATIVES, Who Und No Other Menus of liaising aioney Not n Departure from 'Correct Principles," He Aaserts. CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 2S. Senator J. B. Foraker has made a reply to the recent speech, at Ann Arbor, Mich., of ex-President Benjamin Harrison, in which Mr. Harrison criticised the Porto Rican policy of the government, characterizing it as a departure from correct principles. In a speech before the Manufacturers' Club of this city, last night. Senator Foraker said, on this point: "All the questions arising on the Porto Rican legislation are soon to be passed on by the Supreme Court. For that reason I do not care to discuss them at this time, but it Is In order to say that the view taken by Congress, as reflected by that legislation, was creditable to the generosity, the patriotism and the industrial spirit of the American people. We found Porto Rico as poor as poverty could make her. She had no money, no credit, no system of taxation of any kind. She wanted a civil government and a revenue to support it. We gave her a far more liberal government than was ever given to any Territory prior to the civil war, so far as participation In it by her people' is concerned, and we dealt by her more generously in providing support for that government than we have ever yet dealt with any Territory. "In requiring her to pay tariff duties on imports from foreign countries, we did only what we did with Louisiana, Florida. California and all our other Territories; but in allowing her to put those duties, when collected, into her own treasury for the support of her local government we did what was never done before for anybody else; for, in all other cases, we have not only required the payment of these same duties, but we have also required them, when they were collected, to be paid into the national treasury at Washington for the common benefit of the whole country; and, as to duties on commerce between Porto Rico and the United States, we did not levy 15 per cent., but we remitted 85 per cent, of the existing rates on a number of articles, and the whole duty on all the rest, and provided that the 15 per cent, should be remitted on and after the 1st of March, 1002, or sooner, if the Legislature of Porto Rico shall so provide, and that, in the meanWhile, all collections of this 13 per cent., both there and in the United States, shall be paid over to Porto Rico for her own support. We made this provision because it was the easiest and least burdensome way possible to raise indispensable revenue for their government, and not because it was in any sense of any benefit to either our government or our people. "The Porto Rican Legislature is now In session, but neither that body, nor any member of It, nor anybody else, has taken any step to repeal or alter the tax system so Imposed by Congress. On the contrary, all concerned, alike testify to the highest satisfaction with what Congress has done, and the request will be almost unanimously made that the provisions enacted may be continued, if not indefinitely, at least until some satisfactory system of proper taxation may be substituted. In addition, It should be stated that Congress, in the same generous spirit, exempted Porto Rico from all Internal revenue taxation, another favor never before extended to any part of our , people, anywhere. "Yes, it is true that the legislation for Porto Rico was a 'departure but it is not true that It was a 'departure' from 'correct principles.' " ALGER WRITES. (CONCLUDED FROM Fl RSTPAGE.) to preserve It and that the refrigerated beef would not be 'good in any country in the stomach of any man. He also said, generally, that bacon was not cons!dered a suitable ration for the tropics, and that the beef furnished the army was the cause of much sickness an distress; that it was largely responsible for the sickness in the army and that he had medical authority for this statement. "General Miles should have known thit neither the secretary of war nor the commissary general could legally alter or add to the ration of the army. The ration is fixed by law, and Its components can be changed only by the President of the United States. If General Miles did not know that canned fresh beef was a part of the army ration, then he displayed an ignorance In an Important matter of hi3 profession that Is, to say the least, most remarkable; If he did know that canned fresh beef was a recognized part of the ration, then his allegation to the contrary is so much more reprehensible. "On the 1st of August. 1878. canned fresh beef first became a part of the travel ration of tho United States army, then under thcommand of General Sherman, and whito the Hon. George McCrary was secretary of war. Canned fresh beef was again specifically referred to in general orders under dates of November, 179. of September 2S, 181. Jan. 1!. IMtS, and February S. lsSs. The last mentioned order changed the army, regulations and included in those regulations a reference to canned fresh beef. "The allegations of General Miles that canned fresh beef was not a part of the ermy ration and that it was Issued as the pretense of an experiment' were not only contrary to fact, but were made absolutely without a particle of evidence of excuse. If General Miles really believed his serious charges hit conduct Is all the more blameworthy in that he apparently made no effort to assure himself of their truthfulness, nor to report them to the secretary of war before publicly uttering them. MILES NOT HONEST. "If wc are to believe written evidence to the contrary. It does not appear that General Milts was even honest In making his dilatory charges that the canned beef Was issued as the pretense of an experiment, and that it was not a part of the ration. On the 17th of June, 1KS. his most confidential staff officer signed a letter by 'direction of the major general commanding the army.' instructing the depot commissary at Tampa-to furnish to General Nunez 1U.6-14 pounds of canned roast leef, to be Issued from the 'subsistence stores of the. army.' If we are to accept tho reading of this letter as correst, it proves that General Miles knew that canned fresh beef was a part of the ration; that he knew there was a large quantity of it ... Tampa for Issue to the troops, and that he so far approved of its use as to direct that the ration le furnished In large quantities to our allies. "It was never Intended by the commissary department that canned tvecf should be used other than as an emergency or travel ration. General Egan's predecessor in office had, twenty years before the Spanish-American war, highly recommended Its use and it had been officially included In the regular ration. Canned fresh beef has, ever since the civil war, b en a part of the regular navy ration five hundred thousand pounds of this food having been used annually In our navy before the war with Spain. For years larg quantities of canned fif;h brcf have been shipped to the European armies. With a legal wairunt for its use, the approval of at least two previous commissary generals, its general use abroad, and Its large consumption in our own navy. General Hagau was ecrtalnly fcrtifted in his belief that It could be efficaciously used by our troops. Moreover, the present commissary general, then Col. J. F. Weston, in a Utter to General Eagan under date of March 24, favored Its use. Freshed canned beef was preferred over corned canned beef, because of the fact that the salt In the latter produced thirst a decided objection In a tropical country, but the tinned beef should have been used only whn cooked with vegetables and properly seasoned. In this statement lies the secret of the source of complaint against tanned fresh beef. The only fault found with the ration was that it was

unpalatable when served without additional cooking and without vegetables and condiments. The ration was not used to any gre2t extent In tho camps In the United States, tut only on the transports to Cub and Porto Rico, and for a thort time in Cuba by part of Shafter's army in the trenches, where objection to it use could also be raised on account of th Inability to cook and serve it suitably. A few J?urS Were also mode In Porto Rico. And yet. despite the improper preparation of the food, owing to untvoidable circumstances resulting from military necessity, no complaint or Its unpaUtabillty reached the War Department. EXPLODED UY EXPERTS. "After the charges made by General Miles the most expert and scientific men in the country were therefore employed , by th5 government to further the investigation soch physiological chemists as Prof. IL iL Chittenden of Yale, and Prof. W. O. Atwater of Wesleyan University, as well as Dr. W. D. DIgelow, a chemist in the Durcau of Animal Industry In the Department of Agriculture. The court of inquiry vlsitc I several of the large packing houses, accompanied by Dr. Ligelow. The results of personal examinations and of investigation! o: the experts employed conclusively rhowed that there was not one Jot or tittle of evidence or excuse for the statement that canned fresh beef was the pulp after the beef extract had been removed. "The imputations with respect to canned fresh beef were most carefully and thoroughly examined and repoted upon by two Impartial tribunals, one being composed of eminent citizeis. ex-soldiers and a distinguished general officer of the regular army (I refer to tie War Investigation Commission); the ther, the court of inquiry, consisting whoJy of officers of the regular array of high rank and unimpeachable integrity, especially assembled to investigate this question. There was no subject to which the Iodg2 commission devoted nor time or more thoroughly investigated than the assertions o'. the senior major general of the army. "What did th?se tribunals find? That there was no foutdatlon for the charge that canned fresh bef was not a part of the ration, or that It had been furnished aa the pretense of experiment, or that it was the pulp from be?f. The court of Inquiry properly found thit canned fresh beef was an unpalatable ration, without condiments, when not cooked and when not served with vegetables. In the haste under which the Santiago cxpedltlor left Tampa proper provision for cooking he food for the men on the transports seens to have been either neglected or impossible on account of tin lack of time. Gereral Miles arrived at Tampa on June 1 fr the purpose of rendering such assistance to the commanding peneral of the Santktgo expedition as hi military experience aid his rank could give. He was the special representative of the War Department, delegated to overlook that expedition and issitt in its preparation and embarkation If General Miles did not look into the question of food for the Santiago expedltJor he was as culpable a though he had failed to inspect all other important matters. Thq-e was no shortage In vegetables. The unexpected delay of eight days on the tratvports off Tampa, resulting from the fright of the ghost fleet, prolonged the use of tip canned beef on the transports and Inteisified the dislike for it, which was crcaed by improper cooking facilities and lace of accessibility to the vegetables. NOT A "COLOSSAL ERROR." "Besides Fnding that earned beef was Ubsuitable when not cook?d with vegetables, the court of inquiry also expressed tho opinion that the purcbisc of seven million rations by the commissary' general during tha first two nonths of the war with Spain was a 'colosal error, for which there is no palliation This, of ccurse, s a question for judgncnt as between the court of inquiry aid General Eagan. The ration was not a perishable article, and I do not think thtt the expression 'colossal error, a.i applrd to this purchase, was warranted. Moreover, the Navy Department purchased annially 001 pounus, or fCT.Ouu rations, of tils same canned beef. Again, the War Department i.-, now tending to the Philippine 160.() rations of canned beef a month fora force less than 70.000. This is at the tte of approximately 2,0n).0O0 rations a yea for a force about one-fourth the size of the army lor which General Eagan provided 7tmo.0"0 rations during the war with Spain, when he expected to feed, and did feed, ou Cuban allies, besides many starving tjban t tconcentrados. "General MIlcs's charges with respe.t to refrigerated beef were much more serous than his Imputations regarding canned lef. His alterations, in .substance, were tiat the beef furnished the army had been atlflcially preserved by injecting Into it clwmicals which were Injurious to health: hat h'i had overwhelming proof thai this 'embalmed beef had been treated with clrmicais. It is significant to observe whatth War Investigation Commission says: Of the witnesses examined by this commlslon General Miles and Dr. Daly arc the aily ones who make this charge, of ehcmleilJy Heated beef. "AEtoundlng as this statement may sem. General Miles did not base his allegation upon personal experience or submit aiy proof in support of them. His starting and scandalous accusations appear to hna been based entirely on the verbal staernents of Dr. A. H. Daly, a volunteer mao, and surgeonupon his staff during the wr with Spain, and upon a single letter sb-. sequently sent him by this volunteer. "The processed beef at Tampa exhibited by a Mr. Powell, referred to In I)r. Pavt's letter, was brought to Tampa by the nventor of the method by which it wi treated on his own responsibility and at Is cwn expense. Neither the process nor ue meat he furnished, nor the inventor, JW Powell himself, bore any relation to le contractors who supplied the army win beef, then or since. The Inventor rcquestd permission to exhibit his artificially prserved beef and was allowed to do so in In private capacity. He requested and received permission to put two quarters ( his own beef on one of the transports, t spoiled when at sea a few days later ail was thrown overboard. None of it "w ever issued to the troops. Mr. Powell neve again approached the government In lb mutter, and he has 3tated under oath tha his teeret process was neither tucd thct nor since by the contractors who furnishet refrigerated beef to the army. ON A SINGLE EXHIBIT. "Upon this single exhibit, his individual experience in eating some of this meat at Tampa and some refrigerated Iwcf In Pcuto Rico, and upon the alleged chemical trvts made by himself of meat claimed to bo refrigerated beef, this volunteer doctor baM-d his opinions and his evidence. As a matter of fact, the Inventor of the Powell process of treating meat swore the bcf exhibited by him at Tampa and eaten by lr. Ualy was treated by fumigation, and that neither boric nor salicylic acid was uvd at all In the operation. Dr. Daly made hitnt;elf further ridiculous. In his letltr to G nera! Miles, by referring to the Late and smell of decomposed boiie acid In I lie meat conderoned by the board on the Panama. Scientific evidence was submitted to the effect that txjric acid docs not decompov when used as a meat preservative, ai;U that it has neither taste nor odor. "At tho time, then, that the Panama incident occurred- Ir. j'aly himself :d; utJi that his observations had bcn In prcgresa for three months. He did not communicate his tusplcions to the board v. hl'h con-demnc-d and threw overboard the spoiled meat, which he claims to hive suspected of being treated with cin-rnicals. although the opportunity was an cxeelW nt one to have conclusively proven cither the truth or error cf his opinion. I.i-ither did he submit bis nllged .mples if that meat to the government experts and fli"rnl"ls for examination and test, but scetly toolc them to his home and made jiu urn lysis himsilf. to whleh he d'd rot ovet: refer In his official report on this rn.vter to General Miles. He did brinic t. Washington a residue claimed to have leen taken from the Panama, but r.ot proven to be refrigerated beef, which contained traces of boric ar.d salicylic adds. The clreumstanro is suspicious and does not to fleet credit ujon General Miles' only witness. "The jIlegat:'on that h.food furt.lhd th army was the rause of in::rli sl.-knen seem? to have been as iittb nvi-s.!g.ited or to have h.d as Tittle warrant fr lis utterance as the other disproved charges." In conclusion ex-Secretary AU'cr ays: The army had won ts titt'ev "n Oibl and the Philippines, iv.rto VAco had peacefully come Into our In mis uftcr a few skirmishes, tho protocol had be.n ;n operation for over four mouths, and even the treaty of .ponce hnd been signed ;it Paris. Then comes the nvijor general commanding the army of h United Stat a wit It his charges. While the allegations of General Miles were not based upon fact, and were conclusively disproved by two separate tribunals, unimpeachable in their composition and methods of Investigation, the irreparable damage had been done. A brave, honest and talthful officer, surfetIng tnder the lish of such cruel, unwarrrnted and unjustified Imputations, whu exonerated from the heavy odium of tho. charges, was. as a result of them, sacilficed on the altar of his oa passion.