Indianapolis Journal, Volume 51, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1901 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1901.

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Xotlce to Tourist. ubs-Tlbers leavin? t!.e city for a period durIrsr the rummer can have the Daily and Funday Journal mailed to any address in the United State or Canada without extra chart?-. The address will be changed as often as desired. p-th telephones It would not require many millions of dollars to corner the corn crop at the present time. Mayor Tacgart is no longer the party ipopsor, and subheaders and henchmen appear to he In a state of orphnnaße. If the Tampa cure, for strikes should become general professional agitators and walking delegates would probably demand higher Falarie. Unfortunately the primary flection law floes not provide for the drafting of a man. to bo a candidate, else a Democrat might be compilled to take tho place the mayor has declined. Next to being1 the perpetual Incumbent of an important executive office is the privilege of naming one's successor. It is a privilege which, like charity, can be made to cover a multitude of sins.. The Cincinnati Enquirer says tho election "a ws of Ohio need revision. If tnose laws have rot been revised pince the tally-sheet frauds In Cincinnati, for which several of the Knquirer's party were sent to the penitentiary, revision 1?, indeed, needed. Thcw .private bank Is a pood institution when the private banker 13 honest and financially sound, but for all purposes an organized bank is safer a fact which people in A villa now realize and others in cores of towns realized before them. A shrewd rxditlcian once said that if he were permitted to make all the ballads he did not care who made the laws of a na1 tion. If a retiring mayor can, as far as Tarty methods are concerned, dictate his successor he need not worry about protecting his record. It 13 unfortunate that when there is ample employment and the best of wages with reasonable hours in a great Industry tens of thousands of men will refuse to work simply because certain plants in which they have no Interest aro not put under their union regulations. If there Is any possible way under the Constitution and laws of the United States to compel American citizens who have any knowledge bearing on the Xeely case to testify it should be vigorously enforced. The statutory law is not as clear as the moral law, but the authorities should try and make It serve the ends of justice. All that Is known regarding the late Empress dowager of Germany poes to ?how that she was a very sensible as well as a very good woman, and not at all addicted to dramatic or spectacular shows. The torchlight procession whioh Emperor "William has ordered as. a feature of her funrral Is doubtless of his own devising. It is stated that-the company that was organized to sail steamships from Chicago to European ports with cargoes will not continue its experiment because or the high rates of Insurance imposed upon such ships and their cargoes. Thus the brilliant scheme of making Chicago the rival of New York and Baltimore as a seal ort is temporarily abandoned. After all the discussion the Alabama conftltutional convention found no other way to keep" colored men from voting and at the same time not disfranchise illiterate whites than ; dopting the grandfather's clause of the l.ou!s!ana Constitution. Under this provision the sons of any man who was a voter in ISoO can vote without being able to read. A strike 0 extensive as that of the Amalgamated steel workers must necessarily be felt in many loc.ilitits and branches of business. In this State live establishments, employing about l.fto men, will be directly affected, besides otht-r Industrie whose business will be Interrupted. If the strike continue long It will be felt In almost evvry branch of business. The republicans of Iowa have maintained their iecord for making no mistakes by nominating Hon. A. I. Cummins, of Des ilolnes, for Governor. The recognized leadr of the Iowa bar and the idol of the young Republicans of the State, he possesses elements of strength v. hlch will add to the usual big majority in Iowa, In addition to other features of an all-around education Mr. Cummins lived a few years in Indiana. The selection of Rear Admiral Howlson to serve on the Schley court of inquiry eems to give general satisfaction and Is a compliment to him because there wan a large list to etlect from. The retired llt of rear admirals in the United States v it tirmmialed In number by any serv-

Ice save that of Great Britain, and includes some famous names In our naval history. There are more than forty rear admirals on the ll3t older than Admiral Schley who could be members of the board of Inquiry, and the prronnel of the list is remirkab!e for historic associations. Incidentally, Indiana shares in the selection of Hear Admiral Howlson, for, while lie i.; not a native I loonier, he got hi appointment in the navy from this State.

i:.pi:.nsi: or mi nicipal campaigns. The report that Mayor Taggart said that his last campaign for the ollice of mayor cost him $12.y may or may not be true, but it Is well known that his campaigns and those of other" candidates have cost them much more than they should. There are necessary expenses which candidates must meet. These are the expenses for making the ward canvasses, the keeping up of headquarters, for meetings and for printing, and for rallying men to the p lls. These, within limits, are legitimate expensts. liut, as 's well known, th?re Is an Increasing number of men who derive or seek to derive a revenue from their work for candidates. They must be paid for their services. If one party does not pay them they go to the other. Not unfrequently they are retained by both sides and work for neither. As often as otherwise they cannot influence any votes but their own. This growing evil in municipal elections is as much the fault of those who are known as good citizens as of candidates who simply are forced to follow a vicious precedent. If the men who pay taxes and have an Interest in efficient city government will take an active Interest In municipal elections there will bo Icfs cause to call upon the professionals. In the taxpayers came to the conclusion that the time had come for a change, and they took an active personal Interest in the election and carried it. They ran do so any year. , This year it does not appear that any man will be a candidate for inayir v. ho c:n get as much money to exp?nd as Mayor Taggart is reported and Is believtd to have expended. Such being the case, why is; it not possible for the respective ccmjaiitees to get together and make an agreement as to the nature of their expenditures? Ore year committees agreed not to pay rents -4or those who found that they must move Just before election. It is not known how well the agreement was kept, but the fort that it was regarded as feasible is worth remembering. There has been much talk the past half doz n years about the trafiio in votes in the Council for franchises. Doubtless most cf this talk is baseless, but if any considerable part of it is based on fact it is cau.se for alarm. One of the causes which Lad councilmen to sell their votes is that they must have money with which to pay election expenses. Indeed, it is fair to as?ume that when a candidate expends three or four times as much for an office as it is worth his expenses are paid by corporations and others-who are seeking franchises and privileges of some sort. Tili: 3IIj A V It I X-T ILLMA X FICHT. Following is an extract from Senator McLaurin's caustic reply to the Democratic state executive committee of South Carolina, in which he. declares his intention of appealing to the people to decide between him and Senator Tillman: I shall ask the people to decide between the man who has trld to heip cotton factories, open highways of commercf and command for tho Democratic party the confidence ami respect of the business and laboring elements North and South, and that of the man whose conduct and record lias been to sink the party to disrepute and Impotence. I shall ;;?k them to say whether they prefer tho senator who has tried to retain for South Carolina the honor and dignity won by a long line of illustrious sons and gloiious deeds, or the senator who has postured as buffoon and bully and who proclaimed on the lloor of the Senate that he represented a constituency of ballet-box stutters and murderers who wanted their share of the stealage. ' This is a fair statement of the respective attitudes of the two senators. So far as the real interests of the people of South Carolina are concerned there can be no doubt that Senator McLaurin truly represents them. He is as much in favor of white men's government, to use a Southern phrase, as Tillman is, and to that extent is as good a Democrat. His Democracy is questioned on only one point, namely, on the question of territorial and commercial expansion, and on this question he stands for what he believes to be the best interests of his State. There are many other Democrats in the South of his way of thinking. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is o:;e of these, and the Democratic platform adopted in that State last year advocated commercial expansion. South Carolina has a very direct and very large interest in the opening of new markets for cotton and cotton fabrics. Cotton is the principal product, and the growth of her cottori manufacturing Industry during the last few years has been remarkable. The continued growth of the Industry depends on the expansion of our commerce in tho East, In which the permanent retention of tho Philippines n111 prove an important factor. In this, as in other respects. Senator McLaurin has been independent enough to think for himself and to favor a policy which, as he says, will "open highways of commerce" in which South Carolina has a great and growing interest. When the people are asked to decide between a man who is thus favoring the best interests of the State and one who spends his time defending negro lynchings and yawping for white men's government there ought not to be any doubt as to their verdict. AX t)M Til It EAT. A French economist is talking of a Euroepan trade war against the United States. Like the others it Is prophetic, and probably, like most prophecy, it will not come true. The United States is in the markets of the world, and to the general surprle is found to be a fairly sharp competitor, with the advantages which will make it even a more successful rival. The progress made thus far is in Europe, and from Europe comes the report that feeling against the United States is very bitter on the part of those who are competitors, but evidently there is a willingness to buy American goods when offered on better terms. Tho only nation in Europe that has a right to find fault with the United States because of tariffs and protection is Great Britain. Impoalnr no duties on most good imported into th kingdom. Great Britain hat cause to complain because we do not reciprocate and give free trade for free trade. For years tho Cobden Club labored to convince the American people that it would be better for us to raise food and raw materials and exchange them for Hritish cloth. Iron and general manufactures. We thought differently, and also thought wisely. fc?ome of us think It would

be better now If Great Britain, by a small

duty, would protect its own markets, which are open to all and which she does not hold. But with t.he other nations It is different. Germany's tariff is designed to protect German products. The same is true of France, and even of Austria. Recently Germany revised lt3 tariff in the interest of its farmers. An outcry has coma from Austria, and Russia Is not pleased to pay a higher duty on the breadstuffs she sella to Germany. Protecting our own Industries, the United States has no right to complain of Germany, even if Germany's tariff Is hostile to our interests. The Harrison administration, it may be added, made a reciprocal arrangement with Germany covering some of our. food products, but the makers of the Gorman-Wilson law abrogated it without giving notice of their action. The reciprocal agreement with France was thrown over at the same time. With France the President has had a new reciprocal treaty negotiated, but the Senate has not ratified it. Nations having protective tariffs are in no position to find fault As for a combination of European governments to exclude American products, it will do to talk about, but it cannot be accomplished, since, whenever they get together for such a purpose, they will fall to quarreling among themselves. In a tariff war each nation must first take care of Itself. "Coin" Harvey, who is now living a quiet and harmless life in an obscure village of Arkansas, has been visiting St. Louis, where he submitted to an interview. He thinks the Democratic party will lose If it drops free silver, because "it cannot alternately follow true and false gods without loss of strength." From an argumentative point of view this is not very powerful. The retired agitator says further: I see little or no prospect for silver regaining its old position. Whn the government is restored to the hands of statesmen domestic money will be understood as distinguished from international money, and it rray all be made of paper. International money must of necessity be something of intrinsic value. This shows a gleam of sense in the admission that "international money must be something of intrinsic value." Upon the affidavits of physicians and the statement of a minister and other excellent people that a former bank cashier in the penitentiary for stealing was slowly dying, the President pardoned the culprit, whereupon he went to the Adirondack 5n a hunting trip. Now the President is crlticised for this exercise of executive clemency because he relied upon the statements of men of social and professional standing. Unfortunately, this is not the only instance, since such affidavits and , stateme nts frequently make their appearance at the Statehousc for the same purpose. The Maryland Republican convention probably .struck a good keynote in characterizing ex-Senator Gorman'K "negro domination" issue as puerile and ridiculous. The people of Maryland are historically noted for their liberality and are not easily scareel by bogies. A prominent citizen of the State, referring to Mr. Gormlfti, says: "Wait until you hoar from Maryland next November, and I think you will lind that the State of Christian charity and toleration which has twice branded this adventurer will burn the mark in a little deeper than ever." The losses by fire during July in the United State? and Canada aggregated $1.".740.0ön; last year the loss was $13.009,100. Two fires, one in Davenport, la., and the other in Versailles, O., contributed $1, 5.000 of the loss. A lire-proofing works in New Jersey worth $200.000 was burnecr, showing that it did not do for itself what it did for others. In many vays railroad accidents, lire losses and the Intense heat and drought the first July of the new century was a perilous season. The late crop report, made from data furnished by experts, is not very definite regarding the prospects of corn. All agree that the crop is damaged, but the general tenor of the reports is not so gloomy as those made by special agents. In Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas the rains have im proved the condition. Such might be the case if rains came this way, but hope de clines with the continuous reading of the weather report, "Generally fatr weatner to morrow." The Baltimore Sun says the fiction that General Ix-o offered his sword to General Grant at Appomattox, and the latter refused to take it, is still repeated and widely believed. That paper publishes a letter to show that the story is a lietion. Inasmuch as General Grant, in Ids memoirs, pronounced the story false, there docs not seem to be any. occasion for letters from witnesses to prove the story to be false. A loquacious old tramp, formerly of Kansas, has turned up at Jeflersonville. who claims to have ben a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, and says the latter "never came to Kansas but what he made Leavenworth a visit and my house was his stopping place." Is there any record of Mr. Lincoln's ever having visited Kansas? PROM HITHER AND YON. Explained. Philadelphia Press. Mrs. Goodsale To what do you attribute your appetite for strong drink? Is it hereditary? Wragson Tatters No, lady; it's thirst. On III Guard. Judpe. Mrs. Handout If you would wash your face, comb your hair, trim your bread and mend your clothes you would readily secure employment. . StaKcrln: Hlnw Y-yes, lady. I've bten aware uv dat fact fer Jest twenty-seven years! But I'm Jest es much obliged fer de warning. Sure Itenieely. Life. Citizen I'd give a clean thousand to find some way to exterminate thwe sparrows. Sporting Frlend-I'm your man. I've got Just the thing. "Out with, it." "Get the Legislature to ras a game law protecting them." Pn Id for Itself. Washington Ptar. "Well," said the man who counts every penny, "there's one comfort about the hot weather we have been getting." "You find comfort in It?" "Yes. The thermometer we bought the other day has been kept busy. It's a satisfaction to find that we didn't pay out our money for something that didn't work after we got it." In Retaliation. Chicago Tribune. "Child." said the businesdlke matron aetir.g an leader of the vialtlng committee, turning to the dlny-faced little girl chewing gum in one corner of the room In the tenement house, wouldn't you like to live In a better part of town than this?" ma'am." said the dirty-faced little airL

"but when I get bigger I'm go'n slummln throujh your part o town feme day." A Recommendation. Puck. The Seasick Victim I wish I knew what to flo for it. The Helmsman Try Christian Science, old man. It'll do you .Just as much good as anything; L.

REMEDY FOR MOSQUITOES. Castor Denn Planta Xot I.ILed by the Pestiferous Insects. CHICAGO, Aug. 8. Mosquitoes, according to the Chronicle, are to be banished from tho Chicago parks if a recommedation recently made to the commissioners by Prof. Frederick Starr, of the University of Chicago, Is carried out. All that is necessary to drive the pests away, says the professor, is castor bean plants. This discovery was made by Prof. Starr while ha was traveling in tropical countries. He was supposed to be studying anthropology during these travels, but the exigencies of the situation forced him for a time to study the best method of driving off the clouds of mosquitoes which made life a burden. "One night," said the professor, "I was annoyed more than usual. Thousands of tho little insects hummed nr.d buzzed about me. Finally, in desperation, I tore soma tranches from a plant with which to brush thorn away. I soon found that I did not have to brush. The mosquitoes had disappeared and did not come back that night. The plant from which I had torn the branches was that of the castor bean. The next evening 1 again tried it with the same success." Prof. C. M. Childs, of the department of entomology of the University of Chicago, conlirms the statements of Prof. Starr, lie says there is some-thing in the castor bean plant which is antipathetic to the mosquito, but that he does not know what it is. WOODS WAS TOO GREEDY ms right to the claim chosen AT LAAVTOX TO UE CONTESTED. Grabbed AH the Lit ml on the Sonth Side of the Town View of Ho. race Speed Law Violated. FORT SILL, O. T., Aug. 8.-John I. Calvert, of Guthrie, one of the oldest established attorneys in the Territory, to-day filed contest papers at the land ofiice against the entry made by James R. Woods, winner of the first prize at the Lawton land lottery. According to the government plan two claims were made to join the southern part of the Lawton town site. This was considered the most valuable land in the whole country thrown open to settlement, and in filing Woods claimed 100 acres running the entire length of the town ; ite. This shut out Miss Mattio Beals, the Wichita. Kan., telephone girl, who won No. 2 in the lottery and wno was thus compelled to file on a claim of much less value. Five hundred Lawton business men have signed the contest papers, which reclt.-? that Woods violated both tho spirit and letter of the Homestead act. Horace Speed, United States district attorney for Oklahoma, when he heard of the Woods selection, was quoted as saying: "Any good lawyer can defeat Woods if a content is insiituttd. The law contemplates no such perversion of the homestead rights. If a contest is instituted there, can be only one result." Buildings have already been begun on the Woods homestead. Persons who have established them have been in business along the south part of the town called McCoy avenue, and have received the tip not to move and to pay no attention to Woods. He will, it is said, have to institute legal proceedings to eject themW'ord has also been received from Washington that Emmctt Cx. son-in-law of tuanah Parker, has institute I a contest before the Interior Department for one of the quarter-sections adjoining the town site, the north ha if of which is in the Woods cb.im ami the south half in Miss Beals's. The contest of Cox is not regarded seriously, but will make trouble. The sale of town lots is proceeding so slowly that McCoy avenue will be an established business street before the lots In the main district are reached by the auctioneer. YVAXT TO II IV LAND. Homes eck era "Who Failed to Draw CluiitiM ot Anxious to l'urchnse. LAWTCN. O. T., Aug. 8. A movement has been started here among the hometeekers who lost to have the government open up the three reserves in the land lottery which it pet aside in the Lawton disstrlct before tho opening. At a meeting of one hundred or more of them it was decided to petition the Interior Department at once to take tuch action. The reserves embrace CiCi.j'X acres, or about 2.330 quarter sections. The land was held in reserve, it Is believed, bucar.se' the government anticipated that th cattlemen who had all of llie Kiowa-Cowiar.che country leaped for pastuie would not be able to tind pastures in Texas or oilier cattle grazing sections lvadiiy. If the cattlemen can round up their cattle and gci them to the government reservations, this fall, the homeseekers argue, they can have- pastures sumewhere else before next spring. The homeseekers are willing to buy the land outright from the gcernment. SHAFFER'S ORDER. It Opens tho AVny to Xuinberleaa Economic Dangers. I Hartford Courant. It was hoped that Shaffer would not net precipitately. Monday's reports were that he would not. The sense of his responsibility to the present and the future seemed to be sobering him. The talk was that the declaration of industrial war would be held back until the end of the week. The chance cf peace however faint be might think it was to have the benelit of that brief delay. Either Monday's reports were erroneous or Shaffer changed his mood, or he was overruled by his hot-headed associates. He has summoned up his blood, shut his eyes and taken the leap. The steel workers still at work are ordered out. Unless the employers surrender, the last wheel, he says, is to stop before Sunday. We shall not comment at this time on the terms of Shaffer's order. The gravity of the situaMon created by it does not neeel comment. Public opinion ha not succeeded In preventing these sinister hostilities. Public opinion may not be able to terminate them quickly. But public opinion should exert at once every atom of power and authority it has to keep them bloodless. All good citizens employers, workmen am. that great majority of the American people who neither make steel nor sell stee'. should be of one mind. lHrt, will and voice as to tint. No more Homestead, or Pittsburg, or Chicago riots in the United States of America! And all should remember the responsible civil authorities especially that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. The journals that, while hypocritically advising calmness, do all they cm from day to day by edit-rlil and cartoon to inrlame passion and Incite to violence are enemies of society. Stole for Her Sweetheart. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Aug. 8. Daisy Wheeler, sixteen years old, to-day in Police Court confesied to stealing Jl.üoO from her mother. Mrs. Mary Wheeler, and giving it to her sweetheart. Walter Cavanaugh. with whom she eloped to Chicago. The couple were arrested in that cltv and brought back for trial. The girl to-day took the stand against Cavanaugh. declaring that he had compelled her to steal the money and run away with htm, threctenlns; her with death if she refused. Both were held to the grand Jury. Roys Drovrneel While Hunting: Turtles. DETROIT, Mich.. Aug. 8. -While hunting turtles In a canal nt the foot or St. Claire avenue to-dav, Godfrey Fourtler, aged eighteen, and William Ileineicke, aged fourteen, were drowntU.

KACARTIilfS REPORT

1112 VICW OF 31 1 LIT A II V OPERATIONS IX THE PHILIPPINES. Large Portion of the Archipelago Paclfled When He Gave Way to General Chaffee. AGUTNALDO'S CAPTURE A BLOW THAT DID MICH TO WEAKEN THE CAl'SE OF THE It Ell ELS. Recommendation as to Mouey Slavery in the Stilus A Meawujie from Lopez to 3Iuhiua. WASHINGTON, Aug. S. The annual report of Major General MacArthur, dated July 4, 1D01, the day that he relinquished command of the division of the Philippines, has been received at the War Department. The period covered by the report is from Oct. 1, 13u0, when the last report from General MacArthur was dated. He reviews the policy of the Filipinos, who were hostile to the Americans, saying that their action Eince the practical collapse of the insurrection has been a perplexing problem. With the disbandment of the insurgent field armies the Filipinos organized desperate resistance by banding the people together in support of the guerrillas. This was carried out by means of secret committees, who collected contributions, Inflicted punishments and carried on a considerable opposition to tha Americans. General MacArthur reviews the manner In which operations were carried on against these guerrillas, and says he hopes this policy will, in time, concililate the natives ana maue them friendly to the United States. The education of the people in times past made them suspicious of any governmental beneficence, and they evidently looked upon the lenient attitude of the United States as indicating weakness. General MacArthur says the proclamation Issued on Dec. 20. firmly declaring the intention of the United States to hold the islands and to have the laws obeyed, had a good effect, and the secret resistance was much abated. A considerable portion of the report is devoted to the field operations of the army, showing that cn Oct. 1. 1300. it occupied 413 stations, which was of necessity increased to 5u2 stations, every command being in contact with some hostile force. lie speaks of the good service of the army, ana suyn as a result of tho co-operation or tne army and the people "who have accepted the invitation to combine for mutual protection the armed insurrection is almost sup pressed. General MacArthur gives the following statistics from May 5. liKX), to June 30, 1001 (during which time there were l.'Ui contacts between American troops and insurgents), which show the casualties on both sides: Americans Killed, 245; wounded. i'M; captured, 118; missing. 20. Insurgents Killed, 2.S54; wounded, 1,193; captured. G.5T2; surrendered. 23.093. During the same period the following material was captured or surrendered from the insurgents: RIMes. 15,6fi3: rifle ammunition. 2:M',3Ü rounels; revolvers. bolos, "J.SIS; cannon, 122; cannon ammunition, 10,20 rounds. NO EMBODIED REBEL FORCES. At the date of the present report there was no embodied rebel force in Luzon above the Pasig river. In the Department of Visayas all was pacified, excepting the Island of Samar, and in the Department of Mindanao and Jolo all the rebels had submitted and been disarmed. In southern Luzon disorders still continued in several provinces but were diminishing in force. Serious questions will arise from time to time, General MacArthur says, in Mindanao and Jolo, the adjustment of which will depend largely upon facts and knowledge of Moro character. In this connection General MacArthur saj-s: "It is respectfully submitted that the conditions herein briefly recapitulated have not been brought about entirely by the hand of Providence. Neither must the attitude of the paop'.e who have declared for peace, or even that of the leaders of the Federal party, be attributed entirely to unreserved pro-Americanism. It would, therefore, be unsafe to assume these conservative forces as constant factors, the friendly operation of which can be relied upon, Irrespective of external influences. In due time, and beyond any question, if beneficent republican institutions are permitted to operate with full force, the Filipino people will become warmly attached to the United States by a sense of self-interest and gratitude. In the meantime the molding force in the islands must be organized army and navy. Anything in the immediate future calculated to impede the activity or reduce the efficiency of these Instruments will not'only be a menace to the present, but put In jeopardy the entire future of American possibilities in the archipelago." General MacArthur says the capture of Aguinaldo may be regarded as the most momentous single event of the year. Speaking particularly of Aguinaldo. he says that the important lmmeeliate results and the remote consequences make it the important event which he characterizes it. He calls it a unique, isolated military transaction. The capture dispelled the growing tendency to idealize Aguinaldo"s personality and to surround him with mythical legends of invincibility, which millions of natives believed to be true, and which ultimately would Insure success for the rebellion. Aguinaldo was the incarnation of the insurrection. His death would have magnified the legend which surrounded him, while his capture has dispelled a great deal of the fictitious value he had. THE MONEY QUESTION. General MacArthur reviews the various supply departments of the army and speaks of them in the highest terms. Of the navy he says: "The co-operation of (he navy has been cordial, constant and effective. Many important transactions have been almost entirely dependent on naval support and assistance1." General MacArthur speaks of the great confusion regarding a money medium in the Philippines, which is characteristic cf the Eastern world, and favors the recommendations of Col. E. H. Crowder, military secretary, for a coinage system to meet the conditions existing in the Islands, which is summed up thus: "1. The American gold standard to be established by authorizing the coinage of a peso containing twelve and nine-tenths grains, nine-tenths tine, to be represented in the circulation by coins containing a multiple of the standard peso as may be regarded as most convenient of mintage. "2. A table of equivalents, to be declared by law, between Philippine gold money and United States money, in all its various forms, including national bank notes, cn the basis of two to one that Is to say, one J'nited States dollar equivalent to two Philippine gold pesos, as herein prescribed. "J. A subsidiary Philippine coinage embracing such subdivisions of th peso as nro most convenient, conforming as much as possible to the subsidiary coin of the United States, and with an established rate of equivalents as in the case of gold that is to say, one United States coin equivalent to two Philippine coins of the same denomination. "Fourth Th establishment of Filipino national bank, precisely the same in all respects as now authorized In the Unite-d States, including United States bond as a basis of circulation. "Fifth All currency Issued under the foregoing system to have full legal tender functions In the Philippine islands for all public dues and private debts; and the equivalent United States currency and subsidiary coinage, as authorized In the foregoing; Sections 2 and 3. to have legal tender qualities In the Philippines to the same extent and precisely the same as In the United States." After discussing the various contentions regarding the friars General MacArthur ssyi: "Properly speaking and In broad I scop.- there Is no church question In the Fnulppiius. i;naer conservative procedure, and if no extraconstitutional methods are invoked there is nothing presented of serious import or calculated to cause any considerable public concern." General MacArthur says the Filipino will work. Wihen properly paid and the Chinese

are not necessary aa laborers, as has been claimed. He recommends th gradual decreass of the Chinese now In the Island. Under normal conditions, he says, American trade will Increase with the growth of American Ideas and intelligence throughout the archipelago. Speaking of tho conditions In the Orient. General MacArthur says: "The power that holds thse Institutions must cf necessity exert an active and potential influence upon the affairs of Asia." He closes his re

port by faying: "The presence of America 1 in th-po islands is elmpiy one cf the results J In logical sequence, of great material prosperity, and In remote consequences Is likely 10 transcend In Importance anything, recorded in the history of the world since the discovery of America. To doubt the wisdom of the United States remaining In the Island Is to doubt th- stability of republican institutions, and amounts to a declaration that a nation thus governed is Incapable of successfully resisting strains that arle necessarily from Its own freedom and from its own productive energy." Accompanying the report of General MacArthur are reports of the staff otficers. the officers commanding the various departments in the archipelago, together with the reports of the military and civil officers in the Islands. Col. S. W. Groesbeek. Judge advocate of the division of the PhiMppir.ee. says that since Sept. 1. lJO. seventy-nine natives have paid with the death penalty the debt of murder, arson, assassination and treachery, while eighty-nine others sentenced for similar offenses are now serving terms of life Imprisonment. Col. C. A. Woodruff, chief commissary, reports that his department has supplied nearly lOo.OOO persons with food, which includes besides the army at one time of 71.)0 the retainers, pri.-soners snd others r.e-c'fssarv to the conditions existing in the Philippines. Cel. Charles R. Greenleaf, chief surgeon, says the health of the troops continues to be good and the ratio of noneffectives has decreased. Service in the Philippines shows on a grand scale the operation of the law of the survival of the fittest. The mot serious feature, according b Colontl Greenleaf, is the steady Increase in venereal eliseases among the troops, showing from t l)7 per cent, in September, hoo. an Increase to 20.42 per cent, in April this year. He recommends that a portion of the city of Manila under medical supervision and inspection be set apart in order that vice productive of this condition may be controlled by the officials. He says that there is not much disability among the soldiers from alcoholism. Prig. Gen. W. A. Kcbbe, commanding the Department of Mindanao and Jolo, regarding slavery says: "Slavery as the term Is usually understood does not exist among the Moros, and radical and conservative measures to abolish It would at this time be premature and Ineffective. The slaves and masters belong to the same race and live on equal pocial terms. It has been impossible to obtain any information regarding the number of slaves he'd anywhere." Major C. J. Sweet, Twenty-third Infantry, reporting from the third district of General Kobbe's department, sr.ys that slavery, although not recognized by the United States, is still a fact and a constant source of trouble. He adds that thousands of Moros are held as slaves who are by right free neople. A special report Is made by Major II. B. Orwig. Thirty-seventh Volunteers, who commanded the expedition which carried deported Filipinos to Guam. In the course of his repent he published the following, which he obtained while at Guam: "Boston. Mass., March 21). 1001. "Mabina, care Military Governor. Guam: "Aguinaldo captured. I telegraphed to him in order that he may solicit from American authorities that he. together with you, be brought to America. I desire that you recur to the American authority there. "S1XTO LOPEZ." CAUSE OF THE DELAY AUTHORITATIVE STATES! EXT OF THE SITUATION AT PEKING. Arrival of Count Von Waldersee. at Hamburg: The Field Marshal Welcomed In the Kaiser's Name. WASHINGTON. Aug. S. The following exact statement of certain phases of the Chinese negotiation is given from authoritative sources in order to correct some misapprehension which has aiisen from published reports as to the possible causes of delay in signing the protocol at Peking. "All the negotiators are agreed on the tariff matter. The present ad valorem tariff Is to be converted into a specific tariff at the average rates of the present treaty tariff, 5 per centum effective, and articles now on the free list are to be included in the new specific schedule. The details of this arrangement arc to be left to a special commission to sit hereafter, probably at Shanghai. The details of the arrangement for the prohibition of the importation of firearms, munitions and materials for their manufacture were settled some months ago. They provided for the seizure, by the foreign warships, of any Chinese or foreign ships entering Chinese waters with the prohibited articles on board, and also for such steps as each of the several foreign governments may deem it proper or be in a position to take in order to prohibit the exportation of arms and supplies from their respective countries to China. The State Department is not officially advised of the provisions of an amendment to this article of the protocol, which is reported to have been recently introduced, but its object would seem to be to require the Chinese authorities to actively co-operate in engineering the prohibition, which the Chinese negotiators have already done in principle." WALDERSEE AT IIA3IDLRG. The German Field 3Iarshal Welcomed in Ilchnlf of the Emperor. HAMBURG. Aug. 8. The steamer Guera. with Count Von Waldersee on board, arrived here to-day. The field marshal landed immediately, amid ringing cheers from the crowds assembled. General Von Wlttich, representing Emperor William, welcomed Von Waldersee. After an Inspection of the guard of honor, the field marshal, accompanied by General Von Wittlck, and escorted by a squadron of the King's Uhlans, proceeded to the town hall. lie was warmly applauded as he passed through the thronged and decorated streets. At the town hall the field marshal was received by the Senate, which body subsequently gave a luncheon in his honor. Keplying to an aeldress of the burgomaster. Von Waldersee gave credit for the German success in China to the officers and men of the expeditionary force. He said he hoped for the speeniy advent of peace in order that German trade und enterprise might profit by the result of the year's operations, which had greatly increased German prestige in the far East. General Von Wittich read to General Von Waldersee a Cabinet order, in which the Emperor thanked him for his Chinese services and bestowed upon him the order for merit with oak leave s, and directed that the Ninth Regiment of Field Artillery hereafter bear the name of Von Waldersee. Generals Leaving China. TIEN-TSIN, Aus. S.-GeneraJ Vyron. commander of the French forces, left here to-day. A detachment of British troop was sent as a c'.iard of honor to the station, (general Von Lesrel. the German commander, leaves Tlcn-Tsln to-morrow. RATES ON PETSOLEUM. Texas .Railway Cnnimlanlon Uns De elded In Shippers Favor. DALLAS, Tex., Aug. S. The state railroad commission to-day handed in a. decision on rates on crude and fuel petroleum, making a big reduction from the present tariff. The decision Is a sweeping victory for the oil men and the consumers of oil. The maximum rate on crude petroleum 1 reduced from 13 to 12 centa per one hundred pounds In common point territory. The material point In the decision i the reduction of the Joint maximum rates. The present rate on a carload of crude petroleum from Beaumont to Dallas is JW, which Is reduced to Hi. The reduction from licaumont to Austin Is ?11 per car, which means that all state institutions will be able to use oil Instead of coal at a large raving to the Stat.;. The reductions in rates are graduate! and grow lower with the distance. NoYeduction in coal or lignite raters is maiii

fn rn nisi hi BATTLESHIP WISCONSIN ORDERED TO PROCEED TO SAN FRANCISCO. War Vessel Needed on Reith Sides of the latlimu tn Protect the Railway and American Interests. APPREHENSION OF TROUBLE LED 3IR. SIMMONS TO APPEAL TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT. Xone of the Railway's Property Vet Destroyed, but tiuerrlllas Are Operating Near the Bond. WASHINGTON. Aug. S. Just before the Navy Department dosed to-day an order was sent to Captain George C. Belter, of the battleship Wlcor.in. now at Anacortes, near the I'uget Sound Naval Station, to proceed to San Francisco, from which point the battleship will be dispatched to Panama in ca? the State Department requests the presence of a warship on the Pacific t-'do of the Isthmus. This action was taken after Secretary Hackett received from ihe State Department a communication from Mr. J. Edward Simmons, of New York, president of tha Panama Railway Company, petting forth the seriousness of tiie situation on the Isthmus and suggesting that the warship be sent both to the Atlantic and Pacific sides. Mr. Adee. acting secretary of state, replied to Mr. Simmons that the gunboat Machlas had been ordered to Co'on on thi Atlantic side, but it was the view of the officials during the early part of the day, both at the State and Navy Depart n.ents, that there was 110 prest r.t necessity for sending a ship to the Pacific hide. For this reason Mr. Adee made no request for another ship, but as a matter cf information, ha transmitted the letter of Mr. Simmons to the acting head of the Navy Department. In view of Mr. Sinr.nons's letter, which was construed to be a request for the protection of American interests, it was deemed Ik st to have thebattleship Wisconsin at San Francisco, where she can proceed without delay to the isthmus in case she is needed. The Wisconsin Is one of the finest fhlpe of the new navy, and if s:ie should be sent, this will be practically her hist actlv duty, as she has be n in commission only a short time. She has a displacement of ll.DoO tons, is steel armored, and has a main battery of four hMmh breech-loading rislcs and fourteen ei-inch rapid-fire guns, which, with h er beeond battery, makes her ono of the moft fonnldabio ships afloat. Her complement Is alnjut .-0 otricvrs and men, including about i marines. Railway Oulclals L'nensy. NEW YORK. Aug. 8.-E. A. Drake, secretary of the Panama Railroad Company, said to-day that the communication which J. Edward Simmons, pre-sident of the company, sent to the State Department expressing apprehension of trouble along tlr Isthmus of Panama, and Miggcsting that an American warship go to the Pacific side at Panama as1 well as to the Atlantic side at Colon, was sent largely as the result of the pressure which residents em the isthmus of various nationalities have brought to bear on the company. Since Wednesday night olttcrrs of the company in New York have received mail advices from the isthmus showing Increa.-ed activity on the part of the Insurgents hi the shape of depredations by bands of froa forty to fifty guerrillas. As yet the.e guerrillas have no organization. Tho firmest body of them is near Chor: era. an I the government force there is said to hi not strong enough to leave the town. Tao company's superintendent lias not reported the destruction of any of its proprr as yet. and the uneasiness felt in this city is due rather to the statement of the United States consul general and to private advices. CASE WITH NOVEL FEATURES. An Italian Petition 3Iny Raise a State's Rights Question. WASHINGTON. Aug. 8. The case repotted from Denver, in which the Italian authorities complained that the local courts have refused to consider the case of an, Italian on the ground of being a nonresident alien presents some new and rather novel features, although the State De1 partment has not had occasion to consider the matter, as the papers have not been received. Article 23 of the treaty between the United States and Italy recites that the citizens of either party shall have free access to tho covrts of Justice in ord t to maintain and defend their own rights, without any other condition, restriction or taxes other than such aa arc Impose d upon the natives. As a general principle the provisions oi a treaty are binding upon States as well as upon the federal government. Whether, however, this treaty guarantee of "lre access to the courts of justice" Is sufficient to overcome any specific local laws h.tf never before been bi ought in issue ami It may require mature consideration of the various interests involved to determine Jus! how far the local statutes or the treaty provisions are paramount. May Aid Fruit Growers. WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.-Mr. TracewelV the controller of the treasury. In a lettei to the secretary of agriculture has heU that the Agricultural Department may, as suggested, enter Into co-operative arrangements with eilers and exporters ol fruit whereby the department r-ha!l guar ar.tee to them a definite mlnlr.v.im net re. turn per package on frilt picked, packed, shipped sind .'oh! under the direction n the pomologlst of the department through the ordinary channels ot trnde. The pur pose of the department "is to Investigate. the foreign market condition: wl:h a view to Increasing the sale of Amern l?i frui;t in the markets f Europe. Under the arrangement the exporter would r cv've the net proceeds of sales, that is. all prot e di after deductii.g freight and other ehare.es. If. however, the net return thouid be lt-i than the guar-inP-ej amount the difleronce between the net preens actui!y tr. allied and tlr gujrant-od return wo :ld paid th- exporter out of tlr- apt 1 upriatios for "poniolopical investigation.' Too Active Acuimt Female Smugglers WASHINGTON, Aug. .".-The Treasury Department has so far h'aid no'hir.r oj the reported action of th Windsor, Ont., authorities in ordering Dr. Gregory, a special apent of the department, to leave town because of hi? a."tivlty in pr.-vrnt.Pi women from mucgllng koöJs acrosa the river to Detroit. It has long been known at the oV-urtm A that large quantities of f.oods are an. nilly fin'.';!ed ..io the borei r at tins point by wotr-eu who rr.te the gjo !- under tlnir garments ai.i reasonable pre : utScr. have N r n taken to prevent if. but only with partial u.--cfj, a? to stoy it entirely would involve searching eve person cro.-n g the river. It is doubted, however. whetlfVr lr. Gregory's case will ever reach th- depart me rtns Dr. Gregory was presumably outsi'e ol his Jurisdiction in carrying his Investigations into the Dominion. Not Wholly Foreign. WASHINGTON. Aus. S.In the case ol the application of the California and Hawaiian Sugar Penning Company for tha liquidation of certain drawback entries covering shipments of sugar to Guam the. Treasury Denirtrr e nt has held that while Guam and Tatulla remain foreign countries, jo far as custom dutle are concerned, they are to, foreign countries within th meaning of the drawback laws, ae I'ibortktluti lor thi mirto& must be ma

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