Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 154, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1904 — Page 5

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOUIffAL, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1904,

To-day here's the new Imported Scotch Suiting a rich, deep tone of gray and brown, brightened by of red. with delicate overplaid markings. Of course the white vest adds a touch a strong touch to your appearance, but a light touch to your pocket. For instance Jl.M AT THE Member of Merchants' Association. Fares rebated under their plan. SURGICAL APPLIANCES Emerrncr and Medicine Case. Electric Batteries, Belts and Insoles. Hot-air and Batb CatlAsU. Thermometers and Artificial Eyet. WM. II. ARMSTRONG & CO., n and 228 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. TO OF WORTHLESS NOSTRUMS Postofftce Department Will Bar Obscene Matter from the Mails. FRAUD ORDER ISSUED WASHINGTON. June 1. Postmaster General Payne to-day gave out a statement regarding the attitude of the department toward worthless nostrums and the newsTaper publication of obscene advertisements. The statement follows: "A large number of complaints having been received by the first assistant postmaster general protesting vigorously against the United States mails being used for the purpose of circulating newspapers and other literature ' containing advertisements of alleged cures for loss of manhood, vitality, etc., the acting postmaster general transmitted a number of these advertisements to the assistant attorney general for the Postofflce Department with the request lor an opinion as to whether or not their transmittal through the mails constituted a violation of law. Mr. Robb, the then assistant attorney general for the Postofflce Department, rendered an opinion holding such advertisements a violation of what is known as "the obscene law. The only intention which has ever been entertained by the administrative officers has been to suppress the advertisements which the law officer of the department has held to be obscene. Of course, the Postoffice Department has never had any intention of starting a crusade upon patent medicines or of establishing a censorship upon advertisements printed in newspapers. There has been no change in the policy or practice of the department; the facts simply are that certain abuses having been called to its attention it has acted thereon as required by law. In the regular course of business in the office of the assistant attorney general a number of cases were presented in which io-called cures for lost manhood and lost vitality were complained of as being worthless, as well as the literature of the company selling the article being obscene. Analysis of "these so-called remedies developed the fact that in most instances the Ingredients were simply starch and sugar. In a number of instances the pills and drugs contained ingredients injurious to the system and forbidden by law to be sold. It having thus appeared that these companies are defrauding the public by means of false and fraudulent representations made through the mails, the issuance of fraud orders was recommended to the postmaster general and accordingly issued by him. No action has been contemplated by the department save in these cases of obscenity and fraud." 'ARMY OFFICERS WILL RECEIVE EXTRA PAY Court of Claims Renders Judgment foij Men Who Served t as Volunteers. WASHINGTON, June 1. The Court of Claims has rendered Judgment for extra pay In sixty-four cases of officers who served in the volunteer army during the war with Spain. The amount involved is between $13,000 and $14,000. Congress provided for this extra pay to volunteers mustered out of service without furlough, but through rulings of the Treasury Department many officers who were held to military duty dur,lng the entire period of the furlough were deprived of the benefits. Tho Court of Claims did not accept the decision of the controller of the treasury. PARTY WANTS MILES IF MILES WANTS PARTY 'CHICAGO. June 1. Oliver W. Stewart, chairman of the national Prohibition committee, said to-day: "General Miles would, without doubt, be nominated by the Prohibitionists at Indianapolis June 29, if he were known to be identified with the Prohibition parry. His record in opposition to the army canteen Is one of which Prohibitionists are proud. They confess to a great admiration for him. If he were to state publicly that In the coming campaign as a patriotic citizen he should affiliate with the Prohibition party and support its ticket, my judgment is that there would be no other name proposed in the national convention." JUDGE ELK IN MAY TRY FOR QUAY'S LATE SEAT IIARRISDL'RG. Pa., June 1-It is reportedhere to-night that John P. Elkin, Republican candidate for Suprefne Court Judge, will become a candidate for United States senator, to suceed Mr. Quay, on condition that Insurance Commissioner Durham, of Philadelphia, will support him. Mr. Durham is now on his way east from California. PITTSBURG. Pa., June 1. Henry C. Frick denied to-day that he was' a candidate for United States senator to till the vacancy caused by the death of M. S. Quay. "I am not a candidate," said he, "and I have never thought of such a thing." WYOMING DEMOCRATS FAVOR W. R. HEARST CHEYENNE. Wyo.. June I. It is considered practically certain that the Wyoming delegation to the national Democratic convention will be instructed for Hearst by the state convention, which meets to-morrow. Although all instructed delegates are for Hearst, a few counties have sent uninstructed delegations and some opposition to him ha developed among these. The only business to come before the com nation Is the selection of six delegates to the tlonal convention.

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IS Heads an Uninstructed Delegation That Will Vote as a Unit at St.' Louis. DEFEAT FOR HEARSTITES DETROIT, June 1. The anti-Hearst element In the Michigan Democracy, headed by Daniel J. Campau, of Detroit, national committeeman from thi3 State, triumphed over the Hearst supporters at every stage in the Democratic state convention held here to-day to t-elect delejates to the national convention, and an uninstructed delegation will be sent to the convention. While there are some Hearst men among the district delegates to St. Louis, the delegation was instructed to vote as a unit. The first test of strength was on the report from the committee on credentials. By a vote of 5J7 to 20), a minority report of the committee, seating the contesting Hearst delegation from Manistee, the only county from which there was a contesting delegation,, was tabled. Following this victory, Daniel J. Campau was re-elected national committeeman 'irom Michigan, and of the four delegates at large chosen, not one was a member of the Hearst element. The Hearst members of the committee on resolutions dissented from the platform prepared by the majority and proposed fc. minority report, but after the majority report had been rad failed to present their platform. The following were elected delegates at large to the national convention: Daniel J. Campau, .of Detroit; Thomas E. Barkworth, of Jackson; John Power, of Escanaba. and George D. Jackson, of Bay City. The convention ratltted the selection of twenty-four delegates to the national convention made at the district caucuses in the morning. The resolutions adopted by the convention were unusually brief. Opening with an expression of confidence in the national convention, they say: "The selection of candidates for President and i Vice President of the United States we intrust to that great body, confident that it will name candidates for those high offices who can and will achieve success tor the Democratic party and redeem the American Nation from the monarchical, extravagant and corrupt political organization which now controls it. "The Democratic national convention will have Its opinions on all the great questions now pressing upon the consideration of the American people. That convention can safely be depended upon to freely and fearlessly declare Xhose opinions. In its own language it will properly denounce the criminally aggressive, despotic, un-American, extravagant and dishonest Republican administration. "The declaration of the attitude of the Democratic party upon the independence of the people of the Philippines, the Just arraignment of trusts, the manifold evils of high tariff taxation, the important questions of finance and all other matters now pending before the American people, can and will be clearly elucidated in the Democratic national platform. And on that platform more than eight millions of voters will stand under circumstances that give bright promise of complete and overwhelming victory. "The Michigan delegation is hereby directed to vote as a unit on all questions arising In the national convention, as directed by a majority of the delegates." WILL SEARCH FOR LOST ISLAND OF PACIFIC Cruiser Denver Will Attempt to Find a Sea-Girt Pile of Rock. WASHINGTON, June .1. On her return trip from Honolulu the cruiser Denver will search for the "lost island of the Pacific." This island Is supposed to be somewhere between Honolulu and California bay. ' It appears on the old Spanish maps, but on American maps it is put down as doubtful. It has long been a theory that the American sloop of war Levant, which disappeared in lSTtf on its way from Honolulu to Panama, and was never heard of again, was wrecked off this island. American men-of-war have been in search of the lslajid before, but no trace of it has been found. Its supposed location is in an unfrequented part of (the Pacific, off the line of travel. REAR ADMIRAL BROWN PRESENTS MEDALS ANNAPOLIS. Md., June 1. Before a large crowd of friends and relatives here this evening those midshipmen who have won distinction In athletic and other events during the year were presented with medals won by them. The presentation was made by Admiral George Brown. U. S. N., and too place immediately after the dress parade. Fnneral of W. F. Kos. William Frederick Koss, the well-known German conractor, who died suddenly of heart failure Monday night, was burled at Crown HUI Cemetery yesterday afternoon The service was In charge of the Scottish Rite Masons. The deceased was a member of many different orders and societies, the members of which turned out to pay their respects to the dead, it was one of the largest funerals ever held in the city, more than eighty carriages being in the cortege i The Rev. J. C. Peters, of the German Evengelical Zion's Church, conducted the service. Buttleships at Ldnbon. LISBON. June 1. The United States battleship Kearsarge, tljing the Hag of Rear Admiral Barker, commander of the North Atlantic fleet, and the battleships Alabama T SAILS ILL ABOVE OR BELOW Successful Test of the Fulton in Heavy Sea Makes Ten Dives. NEWPORT, R. I.. June 1. The submarine torpedo boat Fulton , was given a trial today In the presence of a naval board, which observed her movements from the United States steamer Hist. Capt. G. J. Train, chairman of the trial board, said to-night that the maneuver was entirely satisfactory. The programme kept the submarine boat busy from 10 o'clock In the morning until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The weather conditions were unsatisfactory, a choppy sea and heavy rain continuing throughout the trial. The Fulton went over the Narragansett bay course twice at cruising speed and three times at full speed, the boat being on the surface during these runs. While submerged she was sent over th course three times and covered the same distance awash and ready to dive. She was also tested on quick turns and made ten dives. An observer stated that one of these dives carried the boat to a depth of twenty feet In twehe seconds. The tests to-day were the first under the appropriation of JvVi.') made for tests of this class of boats by Congress at its, last session. Trnimport ?nll for .llnniln. SAN FRANCISCO. June 1. The United Ftats army transport Sheridan. Captain Pea body, sailed to-day tor Manila, via Honolulu and Guam, with one hundred cabin paisengers and luD unarsigned reerults for the Infantry, cavalry and artillery branches of the service. She carried 3,0 tons of freight. 400 of hich consisted of hay,

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INSTRÜCTEDRJR PARKER Will Vote as a Unit at St. Louis for the Nomination of the New Yorker. REPUBLICANS ARRAIGNED ATLANTA, Ga., June 1. After a red-hot fight over the question as to whether the word "request" or "instruct" should be used In resolutions favoring the nomination for President of Judge Alton B. Parker, of New York, those favoring instructions won, and the state Democratic convention at a late hour this afternoon adopted the following resolutions by a vote of 1jV4 to 157;, which was then made unanimous by the convention: "Whereas, we believe that Judge Alton B. Parker, of New York, is the choice of an overwhelming majority of the Democracy of this State as the Democratic nominee for President, and "Whereas, it is the duty of this convention to give force and expression to its wishes, "Resolved, that the delegates from Georgia to the national convention to be held In St. Louis be and they are hereby instructed to cast the vote of this State for Judge Alton B. Parker as the nominee of the Democratic party for President, so long as, in the opinion of a majority of the delepates, there is a reasonable probability of his nomination, and that said delegates shall vote as a unit on all questions as a majority may determine." The resolutions, as reported to the con vention by the platform and resolutions committee, were identical with those adopted, with the exception that the word "request" was used in place of "instruct." It was on a motion to strike out "request" and substitute "instruct" that the only bitter fight of the convention was witnessed. Georgia's "Big Four" is composed of one congressman, one farmer and two newspaper men, as follows: Congressman John D. Maddox. Hon. James M. Smith, James R. Gray, editor of the Atlanta Journal, and Charles R. Pendleton, editor of the Macon Telegraph. The right for definite instructions in Georgia has been led by Editor Gray of the Atlanta Journal, and Editor Pendleton of the Macon Telegraph, both of whom were honored with places on the "Big 4." That part of the platform relating to national affairs is a severe arraignment of the Republicau party as adopted by the convention. Among other things it says: "We charge the Republicans with establishing and maintaining an unnecessary, unjust and oppressive system of federal taxation and we demand relief for the people from these burdens. "We charge them with great and reckless extravagance in the expenditures of the large sums needlessly collected from the people by their excessive protection of the favored branches of industry beyond all precedent or reason, and incapable of justification or excuse. "We charge them with the existence of fraud and corruption in the administration of many of their public trusts and with sheltering guilty Incumbents from merited exposure and punishment. "We charge that within the last few years under the Republican tariff, illegal combinations of trusts and combines have been eucouraged and fostered until so multiplied In number and power as to excite the gravest alarm that honest competition is to be stifled and finally crushed. We demand that the Republican party shall be stripped of the power It has so mercilessly abused. "We believe that the times and conditions require a change of administration and we know the Democratic party may be relied upon to undertake the task of purifying the administration." FUNERAL OF THE LATE MAYOR ROBERT M'LANE BALTIMORE, June 1. The funeral of the late Mayor Robert McLane, who shot and killed himself last Monday, took place to-day. Thousands of friends and admirers of e lamented chief magistrate of the city filled the sidewalks with bared heads as the funeral cortege passed en route to the cemetery. Hundreds of others surrounded the grave, when, after a brief service, conducted by Dr. Hodges, the body of the popular young mayor was lowered Into its last resting place. The grave of the former mayor is located within a few feet of that of his uncle, former Governor of Maryland and United States minister to France under President Cleveland's administration, the late Robert McLane, after whom the dead mayor was named. Dentlm of iv Day. FAIRPORT. O., June 1. Francis Sima, a former member of the Hungarian Parliment, and formerly prominent in public life In Hungary, died here to-dny. He left his native land because of political opposition, and has been in the United States since lyoo, the last two years of his life having been spent at Cleveland and Fairport. Up to a few months ago he was assistant editor of the Magyar Hlrmondo, a Hungarian newspaper published in Cleveland. NEW YORK, June 1. Gabriel Case, one of the best known roadhouse keepers and horsemen In the country, died here to-day. For fifteen years he had been the proprietor of McGowan's Pass Tavern, in Central Park, where his death occurred. LEAD VI LLE. Col.. June 1. Jacob O. Heimburger, editor and proprietor of the Herald-Democrat, died at his home in this city to-day, after an Illness of ten days, aged thltry-seven years. DES MOINES. Ia.. June l.-Former Lieut. Gov. Benjamin F. Gue died suddenly this afternoon of heart failure. He was seventy-aix years old. General Rice Is 111. ST. LOUIS. Mo.. June 1. Brig. Gen. Edmund Rice, U. S. A., grand marshal at the world's fair, is ill of typhoid fever. While his condition is not thought to be serious, it is probable that he will be confined to hi3 room for several weeks. During his enforced absence Maj. A. G. llammon, assistant commandant of the Jefferson Guards, is performing the duties of General Rice. FIVE HUNDRED T RAILROAD PR0PERT1 President Roosevelt's Family Interested in Suit Filed Against Pennsylvania Company. CHICAGO, June 1. In a suit begun in the United States Circuit Court to-day five hundred claimants demand eviction of the Pennsylvania Railway Company from property here valued at fc.5oit,O0. The chief property at stake is all Stewart avenue between Twelfth and Sixty-first streets. In the bill, tiled by James Hamilton LewU as chief counsel, an injunction Is asked against further use by the railway companv of tracks In the disputed district. The Stat of Illinois is represented among the claimants by canal trustees, who assert an interest in the matur in dispute. Among other claimants are said to be members of the family of President Roosevelt. The heirs of Mrs. Sanger, mother of Mrs. George M. Pullman, are also declared to have an Interest in the property. In event the court finds it impossible to dispossess the railway company, it i asked that thev be directed to pay th claimants $C,U1. declared to be the market value of the land. The city of Chicago is made defendant to the suit with the railway companies, because of alleged wrongful acts in permitting the companies to monopolize Stewart avenue to the exclusion of public traiiic. On account of such action, it is claimed, title to the land reverted to the heirs of the original owners of abutting property. Judge Prltcliard Taken OHlce. WASHINGTON. June l.-Judge J. C. Pritchard took the oath of ofilce here today as United States circuit judge in succession to Jude Slmonton, deceased. Judge Pritchard was formerly United States senator from North Carolina, and as an associate Justice of the District of Columbia Supreme Court presided over the postal trliU. .

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JUDGE W. L. PEXFIELD. Who Addressed the Lake Mohonk Conference on Arbitration. YEAR'S RURAL DELIVER! EF Indiana Will Fare Well Under the Extension Planned by Fourth Assistant Bristow. OTHER POSTAL AFFAIRS Special to the Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, June 1. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow, who has just returned from a tour of the West, which embraced Indiana, will at once take up several questions relating to the rural free delivery service. A table is being prepared, and will soon be given publicity, showing the number of rural routes wnicn will be established in the coming fiscal year. Inuiana is assured of a generous apportionment, including additional county systems. Another important question to be considered relates to the salaries of carriers. Congress has fixed the maximum at 7l'ü a year. This necessitates a readjustment of the salary scale. Mr. Bristow has practically completed the re-districting of the country as provided for in the. last postal appropriation bill. There are now eight rural free deliveiy divisions. Congress reduced the number to six. This will result in a rearrangement and the abolishment of two division headquarters. What conclusion has been reached in this connection cannot be learned. Indiana is now in the Cincinnati division, where it probably will be retained. Indiana friends are strongly interested in the retention of S. E. Rathbone, formerly located at Indianapolis, who is now stationed at Omaha. Rathbone Is one of the most efficient inspectors in the service and no doubt will be continued at his present rank. William J. Speare, of Toledo, O., has been awarded the contract for the construction of the Richmond (Ind.) public building. The consideration involved is ?535o. The contract provides that the building shall be completed March 15. 1905. Bids will be opened on July 1, at the office of the supervising architect for the work of constructing the Elkhart public building. William Barker has been appointed regular carrier and Norman Barker substitute in the rural free delivery service at Atlanta; also, John E. Gibson and Hecury Cox. at Muncie. The National City Bank of New York has been approved as reserve agent for the Howard National Bank of Kokomo. Earl P. Rush. Charles M. Carmod. Alonzo B. St. Clair and Austin O. Sims have been appointed substitute carriers in the Indianapolis Postofiice. RICHARDS TO OPEN THE Commissioner of Land Office . Chosen to Superintend Work in the West. WASHINGTON, June 1. Commissioner Richards, of the General Land Office, has been designated by the secretary of the interior to superintend the opening of the various Indian reservations provided Xor by the last session of Congress by beginning with the Chippewa opening in Minnesota June 15, and including the Red Lake, Roseoud and Devil's Lake reservations. He will leave Washington to-morrow on this mission and expects the work to continue until September. A force of clerks from the Land Olfice here will assist him. FINE FOR WOMAN MATRIMONIAL AGENT Mrs. Emma Wühlte, the woman from Hedrick, Warren county, who- ran a matrimonial agency on a small scale, pleaded guilty in the United States District Court yesterday mdVning and was fined $10 and costs and given six months In which to pay it. Mrs. Wühlte was arraigned last week, but pleaded not guilty. She changed her mind yesterday. It was her scheme' to advertise for a husband through different papers, giving the alluring proposition that she was very attractive and a good cook. To those who answered her advertisements she sent for $10 to cover the railroad expenses of the trip to meet the prospective husband. She usually received the $10, but failed to go to meet the victim. SCHOOLHOUSE NO. 44 DAMAGED BY FIRE Fire was discovered on the roof of schoolhouse No. il, at Nineteenth street and Sherman avenue, at 10 o'clock last night, and before it could be extinguished had caused a loss of $lft. It is thought that the fire was of incendiary origin,. The building was locked in the usual manner last niRht and marks at a window Indicate that some one entered the building and set fire to the roof. Nothing which could have been ignited was stored in the attic. APPORTIONMENT ACT GIVEN ANOTHER BLOW The apportionment act of Vn was given another blow yesterday by the Supreme Court, when the cases from Boone and Dearborn counties were decided and the judgment of the lower ourt in each case was affirmed. The only difference fli these caes and the one from Ripley county decided three weeks ayo was In the nature of the complaints. The Boone county case was to enjoin the county from holding- an election next fall under the apportionment act, lis was also the Dearborn county case. BENEDICT AGAIN CHIEF DEPUTY PROSECUTOR After vacating his office long enough to conduct a successful campalu for the Republican nomination for prosecuting attorney, Charles P. Benedict resumed ' his duties as chief deputy prosecutor yesterday. Howard Young, who has been substituting for Mr. Benedict, will continue as uu assistant la the prosecutor's .office.

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DISCUSS WHlLETWOJjATlONS WAR (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) science of the country and will more and more have applied to it the test of morality, as well as of self-interest. What we would highly, that would we holily, and in the words of an American President, 'I mistake the American people If they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing. as International morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one. and that even by indirection a strong power may. with impunity, despoil a weak one of its territory. There is growing to be a chivalry among nations, as there has been a chivalry among men. and. under the protection of that sentiment, the weak nations of the world are measurably secure from aggression or spoliation. No present advantage will justify national disregard of this high behest or heal the wound inflicted upon the honor of a nation by the abuse of its power." The review of the history of arbitration was made by Dr. Benjamin Trueblood. secretary, of .the American Peace Society. Other addresses were delivered at the opening session by Dr. Hale, Thomas Nelson Page; James Grant Wilson, Prof. Henry M. Leipseiger and Prof. John H. Gray. JUDGE PENFIELD'S ADDRESS. The evening session of the conference was opened with an address by William L. Penfield on "The Venezuelan Case at The Hague Court." In this case Mr. Penfield appeared as counsel for the United States. He said in part: "The decisive facts of the case were short and uncontroverted. There were two orders of creditor states one of them had used only pacific methods, whilst the other had used forte to obtain the settlement of their respective claims. The latter had procured an agreement from Venezuela to assign certain revenues for the . payment of their claims, and Venezuela had made the assignment expressly to secure the payment of all claims of all the creditor states. The allies had already obtained valuable preferential treatment by the payments to Great Britain and Italy each in the sum of $25,000 and to Germany in the sum of $400,000. "The case was one of first impression, and its decision rested largely In the discretion of the tribunal. It was a case to call forth the powers of a constructive lawgiver. There was the inspiring occasion; there was the rare opportunity to announce principles and to establish a precedent of incalculable influence on the cause of international peace and Justice. "Before the declaration of war by the allies against Venezuela, Germany had proposed arbitration to Venezuela, which the latter had refused. . Great Britain had done likewise in her ultimatum to Venezuela, which the latter had not accepted. The blockade was ordered on Dec. 11, but two days afterward Venezuela offered to submit the controversy to arbitration. This offer was ignored and seven days afterward the blockade was declared. "When a recalcitrant state offers to submit its controversies to arbitration, are its adversaries jutifled in the prosecution of the warlike measures which have been clearly foreshadowed11 but not put Into execution? That was a question for the consideration of the tribunal. Fair-minded men may differ in opinion on that question, but the sincere friends of international arbitration will deplore either the institution or prosecution of a war which at any of its stages may be averted or ended, and the controversy composed by its reference to arbitration. "The award was rendered on- Feb. 22, 1904. The express grounds on which it was predicated were, In brief, that the tribunal was not called dn to decide whether the blockading powers had exhausted all pacific means in order to prevent the use of force; that the protocols had submitted to arbitration the question of the distribution of the customs revenues of the ports of Laguayra and Porto Cabello; that the warlike operations of the blockading powers had ceased before they had received satisfaction of all their claims, and that by submitting to arbitration they had not intended to renounce their acquired rights or their privileged position; that the Justice of the claims of the peace powers had not been recognized in principle and they had not protested against the pretension of the blockading powers for preferential treatment who had insisted on guarantees from Venezuela for a sufficient and punctual discharge of their obligations. The award gave to the blockading "powers preferential treatment, the payment of their claims out of the SO per cent, which Venezuela had set aside from the revenues of the two ports of Laguayra and Porto Cabello. "Was the award just as between the parties? Was it Just not merely in the narrow, rigid sense of that term, but as tested by the high and comprehensive principles that should govern the decision of international controversies? What will be its force and value as a precedent to Instruct creditor state's in their conduct toward a common debtor? Will it make for the principle of equality or inequality among the creditor states, will it make for peace or war for the settlement of controversies by force rather than by resort to the arbitral process? "The time has not yet come when these questions can be safely and surely answered. If the principle of equality among creditor states, which waa urged by the United States to The Hague tribunal, is to prevail, no international differences can arise between creditor states in the adjustment of claims against a common debtor. But if a declaration of war is to give priority, the question deeply concerns the United States by reason of the rapid extension of its foreign commerce and investments. Would the government of the United States willingly acquiesce in the application of the precedent to future cases? Would it agree that a successful war waged by a European state against an American State should, postpone Just claims and pretensions of the United States to those of the victor? "The force and value of the award as a precedent cannot yet be justly estimated. If It appears to offer a premium on war by upholding all the pretensions of the victorious state which resorts to arms, its injurious effects will be 15mited by other and later decisions of the tribunal and by the action of public opinion. But war is 'a fact, and as such it had to be reckoned with by the tribunal in reaching Its determination. They undoubtedly sought to re-nder, and perhaps did render, a wise and just Judgment. But whether they erred or not, nothing occurred during the course of the trial to weaken our faith in the cause.. "We may justly take pride in the attitude of the United States government toward The Hague tribunal. The President and secretary of state first called it into action. Through their influence and counsels the Venezuelan controversy there found a final solution. This was a triumph for the diplomacy of the American democracy. And glad are we of the opportunity of being able to set the example of a complete, a respectful submission to an adverse decision. This was the one thing lacking to the full proof of our unshakable faith in The Hague tribunal. "In the argument of the Venezuelan case the counsel for the United States expressed regret that of the American States only the United States and Mexico had been invited to attend The Hague conference. At the present moment, with the sanction of tho Russian government and the approval of the United States, negotiations are going forward looking to the adhesion to The Hague convention of all the other states of the new world. We shall then have an arbitration tribunal of all nations. "We are reminded by the calamitous events occurring In the Orient that war is a bad habit, not easily broken, and is in some cases perhaps inevitable, yet, in the light of the progress made during the past year. The Hague tribunal stands stronger to-day than yesterday, higher in the estimation of the world and greater In its promised usefulness. It Is destined to attract all the civilized nations as suitors to its bar to assert more and more its character of pacificator and to advance the cause it represents through the influence of its opinions and the power of its judgments." PAN-AMERICAN RAILWAY CO. Charles M. Pepper, United States PanAmericr.n Railroad commissioner, spoke on the Influence of that project in the course of arbitration. "Every dollar expended for railway construction In Latin-American countries makes for peace and arbitration. The European capital in the Argentine Republic and Chile has kept those republics from going to war and secured the final arbitration of their disputed limits. This arbitration has given a distinct impulse to railway enterprises in both countries. The influence of capital, either invested or promising investment, is 'urther shown in the recent agreement between Brazil and Bolivia, under which th" Acre dispute was settled on a basis of Indemnity and a policy of railway construction In the Amazon region by both nations, while It was provided that in future questions growing out of this treaty were to be settled by arbl1 tratloa. Still another Illustration is the

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agreement between Ecuador and Teru to submit their boundary dispute to arbitration. Prospective railway building in the disputed region was one of the arguments in securing that agreement. The enterprise now under way and the projects of the various governments are not only furnishing precedents for arbitration agreements, but they are convincing both the governing powers and the people that the material, interests involved are too great to Justify arbitrating their disputes by the sword, when the more peaceful methods are open and practicable." Being asked what section of 500 miles In the Intercontinental route was most feasible and likely to best advance International arbitration, Mr. Pepper replied: "That question would better be divided. In South America the link which would close the gap in Southern Peru and Join it to Bolivia, probably would have the greatest value. On this side of the isthmus the 500 miles in Central America would be of very great advantage to those republics both in developing the sentiment of unity and insuring the development of their material resources. I think such a railway connection would absolutely assure that any controversies which might arise among them in1 future would be settled peacefully." After alluding to the gratifying support the Pan-American railway project was receiving in this country, Mr. Pepper closed by saying: "The friendly attitude of President Roosevelt's administration and the efforts of Secretary Hay have already shown results in the conviction which now obtains throughout the Spanish-American countries that the United States, while refraining from any interference in their affairs, desires to promote their peaceful relations and to afford the world evidence of their stability." BRYAN TELLS DEMOCRATS WHAT THEY SHOULD SAY AT (CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGE.) by the government without the intervention of national banks. It would resist the attempt to establish an asset currency and branch banks and it would oppose the loaning of government money to favored banks, a scheme by which the people's money is employed to lay a foundation for a campaign fund, and to brib.the financial interests to oppose any reduction of taxation. The present administration of the Treasury Department is progressively beneficial to the capitalistic class and progressively harmful to the producers of wealth. "Democracy would make taxation more equitable by collecting a part of the revenues from an income tax, secured by a constitutional amendment, and would bring the government near to the people by the popular election of United States Senators and direct legislation. "Democracy would strictly regulate the railroads, thus protecting farmers and merchants from excessive rates and discriminations. "Democracy would safeguard the interests of the wage earner and the artisan by providing for an eight-hour day, by substituting arbitration for strikes and lockouts and by restoring the right of trial by jury, now suspended through government by injunction. "Democracy would secure to the surviving soldiers and sailors and their dependents generous pensions, not by an arbitrary executive order, but by legislation which a grateful people stand ready to enact. "Democratcy would construct an isthmian canal without a violation of treaty obligations and without exciting suspicion among our sister republics of Central and South America. "Democracy would regard public office as a public trust, provide for an honest and economical administration of the government and punish with severity any betrayal of official duty. "Democracy has nothing to gain from ambiguity and nothing to fear from the light. Democratic platforms should, therefore, set forth Democratic principles, policies and purposes with frankness, clearness and definiteness. Those who champion the principles embodied In a truly Democratic creed can appeal to the rneral sense of the country and trust for vindication to the avakened conscience of an intelligent and patriotic citizenship. "The delegates chosen by this convention to the Democratic national convention are hereby Instructed to vote as a unit on all questions provided that the unit rule may be suspended by a majority vote of the delegation." Edgar Howard, a member of the resolutions committee, later introduced the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted: ''The Democracy of Nebraska heralds to the Democracy of the Nation Its steadfast respect for, confidence in, and loyalty to Nebraska's great champion of pure Democratic principles, and bids him godspeed in his splendid efforts to prevent the national organization from falling under the baneful control of the enemies of the real Democracy." Delegate John Murty, from Clay county, arose and read a resolution pledging the Nebraska Democracy to the national ticket selected at St. Ixuis, regardless of whom they might be, and moved its adoption. It was seconded, but th chairman refused to put the motion, declaring it to be out of order. The following delegates at large were chosen by acclamation: W. J. Bryan. Lancaster; C. J. Smyth, Omaha, former necretary of state; W. H. Thompson. Grand Island, candidate for Governor in 1J, and Walter Phillips, of Columbus. James C. Dahlman, of Omaha, was unanimously elected national committeeman from Nebraska. OVER 500,000 COOLIES FOR SOUTH AFRICA VICTORIA, B. C, June l.-Colonel Hamilton, British government special commissioner to the imperial Chinese government, has arrived on the steamship Empress of Japan, after successfully negotiating with the Chinese government for the sending of upward or half a million coolies to work in the South African diamond and gold mines. Some days before the Empress of Japan left Hong-Kong a mutiny broke out among dissatisfied coejlles in their big pen on the Kow-Iwn side. A number were injured in the melee. Slenmbont ! launched. WILMINGTON. Del.. June l.-The steamboat General Thomas S. Jessup. which the Pusey & Jones Co. Is building for the quartermaster's department. U. S. A., was launched to-day in the presence of a number of government officials and other prominent persons. Mrs. August Nicholson, of New York, chrUtened the boat. Ilnitkriipt Committed tu Jnll. PHILADELPHIA. June 1. David W. Henderson, a bankrupt, was to-day committed to Jail by Judge Holland In the United Stats District Court for contempt in falling to comply with an order to pay $5.0uo Into court before 10 o'clock this morn-Ins

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Delegates Are Instructed to Act in Conjunction with the Xcbraskan's Faction. ANADARKO. O. T.. June 1. The Bryan wing of the Oklahoma Democracy dominated the convention held to-day to elect delegates to the St. Louts convention, and the delegates were instructed "to act In conjunction with those who supported Whe party in the last two presidential elections," the vote on these Instructions being, almost unanimous. The Hearst men early, in the convention gave up the hope of obtaining instructions for their canflidate. and the Parker men, who opposed all lnstructions were overwhelmingly defeated. Delegates to the national convention were. chosen as follows: Roy Stafford. W. EWorden. M. C. Runyan, G. W. Bellamy G. E. Blak. William Tilghman. W. D Eagleton. William Bucholz. W. J. CaudllV Frank Stevens, F. J. Gentry, D. B. Welt ; The. platform favors admission of Okla homa and Indian Territory as one State on absolute equality and upon the same plane as the most favored States in the Union. The Democratic platforms of 1?05 andr lwo are reaffirmed. R. A. Billups was elected national committeeman. BREAD RIOTS ARE FEARED AT MONTREAL!. MONTREAL, June 1. Bread riots are, Imminent here unless the thousands of ItaW ians who have flocked In from Europe, Ner York, Boston and other large cities of the United States, can be fed at once. Then are at least fix hundred without money food or shelter. Others have shelter but no food. The Italian Charitable Immigration Society has made its last distribution of bread and there are no funds available for further relief. The police are preparing for trouble. Pies A! In Warm Baths with And gentle anointings ; with CUTICURA Ointment, the great Skin Cure, and purest and sweetest of emollients. It means instant relief and S refreshing sleep for -tor tured, disfigured, itchingj and burning babies, zxi? rest for tired, fretted 3 mothers, whm all els fails fioU ihmuhaiit h :r!il Cutlrura Mad. J.V.. Olo mmt,Mcn Kritr. - ' '' " "' ' I oi.j 11.:, iS. rr U'0?,i"- l'T'"i- loii4o. T Chrti A.ue sq. ; I'm Ku 1 i I'1''. W l oituhtt;

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