Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1901 — A RECALLED CONSUL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A RECALLED CONSUL.

Americans used nearly 17,000,000 pounds of smilT last, year. Evidently they are up lo it.

The doctors assert that King Edward is not sick at all, although his condition is somewhat precarious!

Spain hah adopted a law stopping the free coinage of silver. Can this be another case of the “crime of ‘73”?

If Mr. Bryan doesn’t soon go over Niagara in a barrel, or have his diamonds stolen, the ohances are that he will be forgotten altogether. We sups ose it won’t take M r. Croker long to wind up his investment mat ters over here and get ready to return across the water to his home. After all, perhaps the Iloers do not really object to the Itritish getting horses over here. They have just captured or killed some (i 000 of them.

Mr. Cleveland has voted the Democratic ticket for the first time in six years. However, he cannot be said to have rejoined the Democratic party because there is really no such tiling.

For years there lias not been so little apprehension in regard to th'e assembling of Congress. The Republican party lias proved that it can l govern without endangering the prosperity of the country.

After all; what difference does it make what Schley did before July 3. On that date, his ship and one other, acting under a plan of his own, destroyed the Spanish licet. Nothing caA alter that fact, aqd it is a fact that coulUs.

Governor Durbin of Indiana renered a real service to Kentucky in showing it how the rest ofthe country looks upon such travesties on jpstice as the Cantrill trials of Powers. Nothing more hideously unjust lias been perpetrated since Jeffries was on the bench.

The great west seems pretty well satisfied with the way in which the country is run at present. No partic ular discontent—in regard to the failure of the Senate to adopt reciprocity, for instance -manifested itself anywhere. Let Congress go slow in alt ring our revenue laws.

The thing is really getting serious; it seems impossible for the United States to get rid of the money that is piling up in its Treasury. The reduction of duties merely leads to lager imports of manufactures which increase the receipts until they are large as ever. Further reduction is likely to remove necessary protection to ouronanufacturers. What is to be done ? We are too rich ?

Dr. n<-<ll»e mill lIIm Previous, Credit* nhie Career In the Service. Dr. Edward Bedloe, who has been recalled from the United States eonsulute at Canton on charges whose nature lias not as yet been explained l>.v the state department, is a Philadelphia physician who lias had quite an extensive experience in the consular service. It is alleged by some that his recall was dor to some Irregularities connected with the granting of an American register to tlie steamer Abbey, which was used Jo carry arms to lusurgeitt Filipinos. Dr. Bedloe s friends deny tins, however, and assert that hs

is the victim of a conspiracy and that the investigation of Ids case will bring out some, unpleasant truths concerning other American cousuls at Chinese ports. At any rate, the affair Is causing lots of talk in official circles. I>r. Bedloe has always been regarded as an able and honest official and one of the best equipped men in the consular service. Never before has any charge against his honor been even liluted at. President Hayes made him consul general at Cairo, and he was so successful there that _when Benjamin Harrison was elected he scut Dr. Bedloe to Amoy as consul. Then President McKinley gave him the important consulate at Canton. Dr. Bedloe has a great reputation as a raconteur and after dinner speaker and is well known in many parts of the country. He was one of the organizers and a prominent member of the Clover club of Philadelphia. When Jokiah Quincy removed him from his post at Amoy, tie was inclined to treat it ns one of the highest honors he had ever received in his official life, so jocular was Ids mood, and he camo hack to this country as China’s commissioner to the World’s fair. As a traveler he lias been in most of the out of the way regions of the world.

DR. EDWARD BEDLOE.