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RICHMOND DAILY PALLADIUM. TDK3DAY MARCH IS 1900.

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TUESDAY MARCH 13. 1900 Fabliahaa avary avasiag (Bosday asrsptad) by thb PAUja.rDH.oa TBRMS OP 8CBBCRIPTIOS t Om ;mt by man, posta Fi4 . at 00 Om bob . " - ,J5 Om wsak, y aarrias .... M Senator Fairbanks' joint resolution directing the secretary of the treasury to pay Indiana's claim of $714,476.62 against the general govern ment was passed by the senate yes terday. The evident purpose of the Ken tucky Democrats is to arrest all Republican state officials on one pretext or another and put them in prison By the aid of venal hirelings it is ex pected to convict some or all of these men of complicity in the assassma tion of William GoebeL Whether this villainous riot can be success fully carried out remains to be seen. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon too'c charge of the Topeka, Kansas, Capi tal today, and he proposes to conduit the paper one week in a manner that Christ would approve if He were on earth. The thing has been immense ly advertised and will prove a profit able six days' sensation. But it will establish nothing as to the possibility of successfully conducting a daily pa per on the high moral plain proposed in this case. Several religious dailies have been started in this country and, after losing considerable sums for their projectors, have been given up. All were more deserving of success than is the Sheldon enterprise, for they did not adopt any fake methods to secure notoriety. the pobto micas qumtiojt. The people are earnestly studying the Porto Rican tariff problem which has suddenly become the all-absorbin? political topic. To aid them in this study we print to day the speech delivered by Con trressman Cannon of Illinois while C7 the Porto Rican tariff bill was pend ing in the house. Mr. Cannon's speech was the ablest defense made of the bill as it passed the house, and will reriav a careful reading by all who are honestly seeking light on the subject. In a communication to the Indian apolis Journal Judge R. S. Taylor of Fort Wayne makes the following suggestions: There is eood reason to believe that the exportable property in Porto belongs now to American own . era. AnyTextnQiion of the existing lanu wiir mcrwifl meir proni wt snout benefiting the Porto Rican s. We can prevent that result by continuing to collect the present duties on Porto Rican imports and expending the money in Porto Rico in the relief of distress and in the making of improvements necessary to the beginning of independent development and prosperity in that island. On the other hand, there is no reason why congress should not at once provide for frse entry into the island of all exports from the United States for coasumption there, applying to all other imports the provisions of the Dingley tariff. That would benefit the islanders and not the speculators, and the benefits would be immediate. If it is thought best to open the door on the other side also, and admit Porto Rican products into this country free, that can be done by a law to take effect a year or two hence and with respect to things hereafter produced. The advantage of the change will then enure to the people of the island. It strikes us that Judge Taylor's plan is wise and practicable. While preventing the speculators who have bought up the stocks of tobacco and sugar in Porto Rico from reaping a harvest cut of immediate and complete free trade with Porto Rico it would open the ports of that island to American farm products free Of duty. A Great Gift and a Magnificent Farm For Sale. Some time ago Mrs. Eliza Meharry Jeffers of this city endowed a chair in PePauw University by a gift of $35,000. Among the gifts is a mag nificent farm of 320 acres, four eighties lying side by side about 4 miles northwest of Tolono, Champaign county, 111. This farm be longed t Mrs. Jeffers and her first husband. Rev. Alexander Meharry .Mr. Meharry entered this iarxn in 1854. The University offers this farm for sale. It will be sold on easy terms. There are two good houses and other improvements on the farm. All land black loam, tiled, and in the midst ol tbe best corn land in the country. The entire tract could be divided into two 160 acre farms, each. How ever, the University will sell one eighty or more. All inquiries about the property should be directed to W. H. Hick man, Chancellor of DePauw Univer sity, Greencastle, Ind. What Is Celery King? It to a scientific combination of rare roots, herbs, barks and seeds from Nature's laboratory. It cure) constipation, norwu disorders, headache. Indirection airt thrr am. kidney diseases. It is a Dost wonderful medi etas, and to recommended by physicians genu ally. Remember It rwrrt constipation. Celery Kin to sold t-i S3c aaJ Sit aiag, by drvsgtota. 1

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EN ROUTE TO PALESTINE. Watching for the First Glimpss of Madeira Reflections Inspired by the Voyage Letter Xo. n. Correspondence Richmond Palladium. Ox Board New England, February 8, 11)00. A different feeling jervades the minds of people this morninj? and there is a stir of new life clearly manifest. All day yesterday the probable time of our arrival at Madeira island was discussed, and it is amazing how many claimed to know on authority of the captain or some other of the boat's crew just when it would be. For instance I talked with one who eats at table with the captain, and he assured me that the captain said we could not reach Madeira till night. I then walked into the room adjoining and was assured by another fellow on the same captain's authority that the vessel would reach Madeira at 3 o'clock. This morninjj. however all differences of bplnion were broti3ti into agreement by the following, printed at the bottom of our bi-eak-fast menu ca-ds: "Notice, arrive Funchal (the port of Madeira) 2:30 p. m. Leave at 8 p. m. First dinner 7 p. m., second sitting 8 p. m." As we sat at first table we will have to come aboard before 7 o'clock, but as it is dark at that time we would wish to do so any way. And now everybody is looking forward to discovery of land. Every ore imagires himself a veritable Christopher Columbus. It is surprising how often that great explorer's name has been mentioned. If any on board ever lacked respect for him it will never be so again. To thiuk of his plowing through the unknown waters. against the wishes of his mutinous crew, not a week, but two months, away to the far west, until he came to land unheard of and then to think of his rude ships, and the superstitions that inhabited the regions of the great deep with cruel monsters whose existence was for the very purpose of devouring human beings to think of all this and more that comes to mind on such a voyage as we are making gives one such a sense of the courage of that intrepid discoverer as to cause one to regard him as truly one of the greatest of men. Some sense of the romantic comes to us, too, when we remember that Columbus loved and won the daughter of the first governor of Madeira, the very island to which we are now approaching; that here he lived and observing the warm currents of the gulf stream reasoned correctly that away to the westward is a land from whence it comes. Speaking thus of Columbus, reminds me of otber things that have eorre to mind because of the voyage. They may seem simple but nevertheless they come. While rocked to and fro bv the billows one easily thinks of "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep," as literally true. Then irresistibly comes to mind -that one of infantile days, "Rock-a-by-Baby on the Tree Top. " Then ssrain comes to mind psalms 107, 22-30: "Thev that go down to sea in ships that do business in great waters: these see the works of the Lord, and his won ders in the deep. For hecommandeth and raiseth the stormy winds, which lifteth up the waves thereof. The3T mount up to tne heaven, taev go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit 's end. Then tbev crv unto the Lord in their trouble : nd He bringeth them out of their distresses. lie maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad beouuse they be quiet: so be bringeth them unto their desired haven. How literally true this seems to manv now on this vessel. Last nieht after dark we saw an other sail vessel not more than two miles distant, and this morning vet another. This indicates that we are near the convergence of sailing routes. And now I'll go on deck and be ready to have the first glimpse of land. It may be long before it appears, but well watch anyhow. The Richmond party have all gone but myself. When next I write it will be to tell of what we saw in the island of which so little is known. Ell wood O. Ems. "Prevention is the best bridle. " You can prevent sickness and cure that tired feeling and all blood hu mors by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla.

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PORTO RICAN BILL

HON. RICHARD CANNON'S NOTABLE DELIVER T UPON THIS MEASURE. LrfHTlo! a.rt'1 Clear Exposition of tbe Constitutional Phae of tbe Question Wbtcb Has Recently Proven So A hnnrhlni; at Subject of Interest to tbe American People. The debate In tlie honse of representatives rtira riling the bill for the Immediate relief of the Island of Torto Iiico, whose people were ref ntly afflicted with a tornado which destroyed three-quarter of their wealth, and who have leen suffering from the effects of war, was marked with a notable sjieech by Hon. Kiehard Cannon of Illinois, who has for a quarter of a century been a forceful, patriotic and sincere leader on the Republican side, 'le bill passed tbe house with a united party, the exceptions being few, and with the support of four members on the Iemooratic side. It provided, as amended, for a duty of 15 per cent on the imports from that island into the United States and exports from the United States into that island, the money thus raised to be set apart, appropriated and expended entirely for the benefit and relief of the Porto Ricans. The Democrats attacked the bill because it differed from the president's recommendation set forth in his message of Dec. 5, 1S99, proposing as the "plain duty of congress," a free trade policy between Porto Rico and the United States. They charged that some Influence had induced the ways and meaus committee in the bouse of representatives to report a bill levying a tariff duty for the benefit of certain interests meaning the trusts. The Republican position was that while the bill did not literally conform to the president's recommendation In December, the circumstances were such, as to create an immediate and pressing emergency, forcing congress to provide means for the alleviation of the distressing conditions of the island. The bill was limited to two years In operation and it was expressly understood that it was to provide revenue for the Porto Ricans and not to create a precedent for the future government of the island. It was in no sense a protective tariff measure. It was shown In the argument on the subject that the sugar and tobacco, which are the chief exports from this island to the United States, except coffee, yjk'.ch is free, had, since the president's mes sage, accumulated in the hands of the great tobacco and sugar trusts of America, which had bought up all the visible supply at their own prices. Irrespective of the interests of the Porto Ricans. and that therefore the 15 per cent duty would have to be paid, not by the impoverished people who have already parted with all their products, but by two great American combinations of capital. With this explanation the following extract from the remarks of Mr. Cannon will be read with clearer insight Into the conditions and with absorbed interest, by every lover of his country: Mr. Chairman: I do not desire to consume unnec-jps-wtrMy the tune "r ''r'""1 ., A La"

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over I tried to make an honest living on a country circuit practicing law. and while there was much ' main strength and awkwardness in what I accomplished, I did occasionally win a verdict. (Applause and laughter.) Nor does any man within tne sound of my voice have a greater respect for the principles enunciated In the con stltution of the United States than I have. Mr. Chairman, the constitution of the United States, I think, was made for the country, for the people of the country; and the people of the country were not made for the constitution. (Applause on the Republican side.) There never has been a day or an hour, thank God, but what those who were charged with the jmwer legisla tive. executive, and judical of the United States whether it le under the administration of Jefferson in makin; th Louisiana purchase, or unde; Jackson, or under Monroe, or undet Polk, or under Lincoln, or under th present president of the United States Mr. McKinley, bu what with fidelity to our civilization, which has beei evoluted for two thousand years, witl rapidly increasing population withh the protection of the constitution, an In the presence of a great necessity fo the promotion of the common good who did not go ahead and accomplisl what was necessary, sometimes th men who were accomplishing it sayim. It was unconstitutional, as Mr. Jeffer son did, bnt said he would throw him self back on the great common sense of the American people and trust to them to justify and to sustain himand, thank God. they did. (Applause.: And you, gentlemen, who have ad dressed the house on the other sid and who have contended against th constitutional powers of the govern ment under certain conditions, I wonl' be glad to know If there is any on of you who will undertake to asser that Thomas Jefferson had no constitn tional power to make the Loulsiani purchase? Any of you gentlemei. may answer that question on the othe: side who desires to place himself 01 record on that question. Now, we did have that war with Spain. At the end of that war we acquired territory on the rayment of f '20, P"1' 000 Jr opf-tTorpfrjrtphn A FREE PATTERN Omit iwi arlwOantto cvtr? abento. Bauttfnl eat. orad UUioirrmnlMd ptata ud Ulustrmtion. (vwiiui LiS CALL'S no MAGAZINE PrMRmakin Ttwomtw. fancr work, feooaehoki Hint DOT HUTK ClUTVnt lOfWCS, W. BUDBTIOt to-day. . ctrfa and little efefldram. TVt tain mty two "cote" fftect aot attained by tfe a of anv MS CALL, Patterns 4ak (or them. Afaaohnaiy nry la THI XrCALL COX FA XT. Wm 14a in 1 il - - - Umm Yk C FOK SUE II IT531CI k USS!

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tpplne and the complete cession of Porto .tico and the various other Islands. Did we ratify the treaty! Yes., Did we appropriate the money T Yes. When I heard the gentleman from Miwwonri a few minutes ago announce as his policy, and that of his party, theaoctrtne that the United States were to forsake the Philippine Islands, to release them and move out and let somebody else take them or let them govern themselves. In their helpless condition so far as government is concerned. I said to myself: Why did not that gentleman of great ability rise in bife place and vote against the $20,OoOjxto appropriated to pay Spain for the Philippines? Why was not that sarcastic voice of his and his sarcastic presence, that always commands attention from loth sides of this bouse and a respectful hearing why was not that lifted up in denunciation of that appropriation, and why was not his vote recorded against it? Now, the treaty ratified, the territory becomes ours; and the question Is what to do with it. You gentlemen say that you can not deal with it as property of the United States. Well, we lelieve we can, because we have because we are, because we always have with all territories. Oh, when Thomas Jefferson signed the act touching Louisiana territory, of which the Spooner bill is an exact copy, that when the Insurrection was put down and there was complete possession, it vested him with judicial, legislative, and executive power complete, until congress should otherwise provide, and he exercised that power. Then we dealt with the Louisiana territory. Mr. Norton of Ohio Well, what is the policy of the president or dominant party as to the Philippines? I want to know what you are going to do with them. v I will give you the policy touching Porto Rico and touching the Philippines as this discussion progresses. The policy with reference to Porto Rico is to do that which will give Immediate relief at the least cost to JHotto Rico and at the least cost to the furl to - the best interest bilL The prNrTsition as to the Phil ippines Is to do as we are doing. To put down the insurrection, keep the army and navy there, as they are now there, as long as necessary, and as you voted to keep them there, by your votes, and preserve law and order, recognizing that it belongs - to the United States and that we are responsible to our people and to the world for law and order there, and to hold the Philippines for pacification and peace, and promote proficiency as rapidly as possible In that people to care for themselves and civilize them and care for themselves and clothe them with that power and duty. That is my policy. Gentlemen, this is a very different country from what it was a hundred years ago less than 5.(100.000 people then. 8O.0O0.tioO now; no manufactories then. the greatest manufacturing population on earth now; no wealth then, the most wealthy of anj' nation on earth now. The population now equal to that of Great Britain proper and Germany, almost. Eighty millions in our present territory, the result of that which has made people of our blood through the centuries move on and on and on for weal or for woe. and generally for weal, takimr with it its laws and Its language, its civilization. We are of that people. And in the coming century a we Increase In population from 80,000.000 to 200.0O0,OOO or 250.000.000. in our existing territory, we and our children will be competent to move on and on to their benefit and to the hene3t of all the country to which they g. The con stitution of the United States, which Is a symptom of the civilization that has evoluted for two thousand years not that it created the civilization, the civ ilization m'C-.l it, oiid It dwells in the hearts of the people is elastic enough to meet any and all conditions, as it has heretofore, and as it will in the coming century, and will enable, not hinder our people to work out justice ar.d right and material prosperity wherever they go. (Applar - on the Republican side.) The strange doctrine Is announced that because, as they say, the constitution jumps over land and sea for 12.000 miles and by Its own vigor spread over every inch of the Philippine Islands and gave citizenship In its broadest sense to every one of those seventy-nine or eighty tribes, some of them Malays, some of them Filipinos, some Negritos, of every stage of civi!izatiu. none equal to our civilization, they say because the constitution Jnusped over there and conferred American citizenship upon all hose, which gives every man. woman and child the right to come to the United States or send their products o the Unitd States by the vigor of "he constitution, therefore, they say. ve are aeainst keeping the Philip-ines-Well. now. I am for keeping he Philippines, because I say that ;hey are srbject, nnder the treaty, unler the constitution, onder our civilitntion. to the legislation of that country that owns that territory, and tbererre I am for keeping them and lirough the coniins decades to work -.at good results for , them and good --sults for us. (Applause.) And I v:ll rik the verdict of the American eople in t!ip northland and in the rnt bland if yon will fairly discuss hat question and take the other side f It. Now, 1 want to talk abont Porto tieo. WLat Is the condition of Por10 Rico? Twelve uer cent of the oeo-

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coat runs no minerals In acy the one sure crre for pal a la tne back, scald: eg and frequent tiriae, dizziness, dropsy. nd all diseases springing from weak kidneys. 50c. at the drngyfists'. Enough for about a week's treatment. Dainty yellow tablets, the most scientific form of. compounding' medicine. Slorraw'a 1 1 vertex Cares Goatlvcacas. bitioaMcss. Headache mad Constipation. iic TRY THIS. rtjlmrwi taCU p!e" only that can road or v.-nte not read and write, but read or write.. Por three hundred years nnder Spanish; domination they have been under conditions of ignorance. Hut, as one of the men who Is seeking to oppose this legislation tha Is pending, calling himself a delegate from Porto Rico, in the committee on insular affairs, in answer to the question. "Are they competent to vote down there if you give them local government V said, "No; they tiid not read or write, but the intelligent people tell them what to do." He said, "You can depend on us to tell them right aud on their following." That is the kind of local government that you want in a holy minute. I want it as rapidly as possible; It may come next year, possibly a partial civil government this year, but Just as soon as we can. What is there at present? A military government under the president, and until congress changes it it will there remain. A leople whose markets are destroyed by their divorce from Spain; a people whose crops have been destroyed by the most destructive hurricane of many, many years a well-conditioned people who want to do the best they can, but who have not much to do with, being the victims of misfortune. Now, what is the best thing to do? You and I have to determine that. Do you want to appropriate money from the I'nited States treasury $2,000,000 for the coming year to support those people? "Oh, It is splendid," you gentlemen on the other side seem to say, "to tear down a structure." You are good at that. Thank God, you never succeeded at any great rate, but you have always ln-en trying ever since I was born to tear down some thing, but 1 never saw you success fully build up anything, not even f pigpen. nor even a henroost. (Laughter.) Rut you say, "Oh. no; do not enact this bill." What then? Two million dollars from the treasury of the United States to l appropriated for these Porto Ricans. You are seeking to be the majority tomorrow. You say that you are going to stand together and vote against this bill. You say that yon are going to have enough re'infowenoenta from this id . of iie house to give you a majority. I do not Itelieve it; but you say so. What are you going to do? If you spread free trade over those people and make no provision for Immediate money, are you goinsr to vote It out of the troas nry? We on this side have to cor struct; we have got to look out; v have got to do somefh'ng. , TMs '" must pass or we muvit vote $2.uoo,,: out of the treasury f the o:ir year to care for Pv-rto RiH. We not like to do that. But there Is another alternative, or which has leen proposed aud vgreatly urged by the delegates, snli styled In the main, from Porto Rico, with their American assistants a course suggested by some very good men for our consideration and greatly urged by some of these people namely, that we enact a law of congress bonding the island for $10,000,000. with or without the United States guaranty, and pass the money thus raised over to these Porto Rican dele gates, to le loaned out to the people. But that Is as wild a project as the government warehousing scheme was down in the southern states when tho Populist party was on the rampage, a party which stole your machinery, by the way. my Oemociatic friends. Those are two of the alternatives. What Is the third? This bill. What will this bill do? If enacted, it raises $2,200,000 the first year. It begins to raise this money the very day it is enacted, and will raise more money the first month than it will the last of the 12 months that it is in operation. Twentytive iwr cent of the Dingley rates upon what. Practically upon tobacco and sugar. Coffee already comes in free. But the coffee plantations were destroyed. The old crop in the hands of the raisers was practically destroyed. There is not much coffee to come in. It could come row as well a hereafter, but it is not there. There are 3.O0O.0i0 pounds of tobacco there in the bands of whom? If that tobacco should come to the United States, paying 35 cents t pound, that would be $1,050,000 upoi tobacco in the hands of the Americai tobacco trust waiting over there It Porto Rico for free trade with Porti Iiico to come in. Who gets that $1. 000,000? Will it decrease the price. No; there is so little of it In com parison with the tobacco used In thUnited States that Its competitioi would not lower the price of tobaco to any appreciable extent. Will tb sum of $1,050,000 go into the pockeu of tne poor Porto Ricans that you ar agonizing about, my Missouri friend: No; they have parted with that to baeco; but It Is now In the hands o; the merchants, and that $1,050,001 will go Into tbe pockets of the Aineri can tobacco trust, all in the name ol God and humanity and the poor Porte Ricans. blessed by the crocodile tear of the gentleman from Missouri. Is thi? a fable? No; It Is an open secret In New York. In Washington, In various parts of the United States, In Porto Rico everywhere. Now, let us take the next itemsugar. What is tbe tax upon sugar? We use In the United States 2.O0O,000 tons f sugar every year. Now, keep that in mind. 2.0UO.OOO tons. -ere does It come from? Fourteen hundred thousand tons come from foreign countries and pay on the aver age a duty of $l.Go per hundred. 30O.00O t'BJ come from Hawaii TIow much from Porto Rico? At the highest efima?e oo.oa tons ont fifth of the amount that comes fron Hawaii. Have yoa any su-ar ovei

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II. Kuehenbuch, 1G9 Ft. Wayne ave., Kichmoud, Inu, says: " have had tbe backache in l tie region of my kidneys lor a Dumber tl years It has continued to grow worse.- Then I grew weak ud emaciated t that 1 could scarcely stand. Some time a&o 1. got a package ol Morrow's ivid-ue-oids wbivu did uie a world of good." For sale at all dritf stores. mNtp mr JOHN MORROW4CO.,etwm. SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

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there m forto ttico now- awaiting to be exported to the United States? Yes. Who owns It? Does the poor Porto Rican who cannot read and can not write, own it? No. It is an open secret that what ever sugar is there today Is held by the great American sugar trust; and when It comes Into the United States, If It comes before legislation 1 enacted. It pays $1.00 a hundred. iij friends on the other side of the house say we ought to have tree trade and open porta, and at once. The sugar then coming in and tbe tobacco coming in will bring down the price of sugar in the United States. Is that a fact? No. Why Mr. Chairman, for 30 years, under reciprocity, we have had free trade with the Hawaiian Islands, as far as sugar is concerned, and although 300,000 tons come in from those islands, it is so little, in comparison to the consumption of this country, that It does not bring down the price of the otber 1.4O0.0O0 tons that we Import in the United States. That brings up the price, and the $1.60 a hundred is rdded to the price of all jc sugar coming Into our borders free, tecausf SW-the sugar on hand In Porto Rico, if adititted In that manner under tbe operation of the pending bill, would nor affect prices materially. Why. Mr. Chairman, these two treat trusts have control now of both of these products in the island, and the moment they land here the price jumps up by the amount of the Dingley tariff bill, and they put the money In their pockets. Who can dispute that proposition? Is this a feeble thing? Is It worthy or unworthy of consideration? I repeat again that in the opinion of all men of ordinary Intelligence who have examined the matter is that no better proposition could be suggested than that now before the house, although gentlemen on the v other side agonize about the question of trusts, and tell us about their constitutional scruples, or. In other words, manage to get Into their hearts one principle while in their voices and votes they enunciate another. They have the voice of Jacob, but the band of Ksau. Laughter and applause on the Republican side.J Now, the Republican party In a majority In ttrtshouae, with -a majority in the senate, and with the president of the United States, chargeable with all that Is done, responsible before the people, having the power to come and give their best thought and judgment to this legislation, must meet the responsibilities that are thrust upon them. Applause. Now, I want to be fair. In my Judgment, my Democratic friends are not really at heart opposed to this bill, I tell you what they are hoodooing about. Laugiter. They see that if this humane anu proper measure Is passed and goes Into effect. It will tell all the country anu all the world that the American congress, with Its American civilization, with Its laws and constitution, has the power to be practical, and they say, "We will take nothing, when, we go out with the bogie man and with Bryan and Sulzer or Bryan and somebody else; we will take nothing when we go out and undertake to scare the people, when we talk of the 80 tribes of barbarians, of the Sulu sultan with. bis wives, of the Negritos and the Malay races, and that they will never In 6O0 years come up to be competent for the same kind of government that we have, and that It will cost money, and that It is wicked, and from the standpoint of policy we can not keep them, and therefore we are going to throw them away, although we pledged to keep tbem. although we paid $20,000,000 in the bargain, let us throw them away because it Is not safe; the constitution Jumps over there on 1.000 legs, and you can not deal with tbem." Prolonged laughter and applause.) The cry has gone forth. "For God's sake let us defeat the bilL" because .ts enactment would show that we ueaj wun an questions under our form of civilization, our laws and constitution, all that humanity and civilization demand. Applause on the Republican side There is the conflict, there is the light yon are trying to pnt up. There is the foundation you are trying to lay. And while Individually I do not believe you would do It, at tbe expense of the starvation of tbe Porto Ricans, collectively I believe you would sacrifice a great many things and a great many people to your theories, and for any faint prophecy of success that might come to you on tbe evening winds from the Tolce of your gmt somersault leader. Laughter. In conclusion, Mr. Speaker and gentlemen. I believe in our civilization. In our blood, and in what comes to us by heredity; In our literature. In our language. In our science. In our progress, in our capacity to govern ourselves and help better the condition of those that are necessarily brought in contact with os. I believe In the progress of tbe Anglo-American-German-French -1 rish - Scotch combination. Laughter and applause, I believe now, as we have one common purpose, that we are competent to take care of our constitution and of the civilisation of which it Is the product. It is not the constitution which preserves our civilization, but It Is onr civilization which preserves the constitution. To illustrate, in Mexico they have a constitution, an exact copy of ours. I spent some months there a few years ago, studying Mexico and the grand man who is president, and the man who gives the only possible government to Mexico; yet, while It Is a republic In form, with state governments In form and state constitutions like unto oars, there is no where on earth. Rnssia not excepted, that "t mm autocratic, so despotic jtoTWBOMBt M

It IS that of Mexico unlay; yet they have the same constitution that we have, oh. hut " savs somelody, if your constitution do not restrain a wicked congress, it will oppress these poor people." Oh, no; the hearthstone, the fireside, the achoolhouse. the love of Justice and the love of liberty, demonstrated by the wisdom of 80,000.000 of people, does restrain and will worm out their salvation and our salvation. the hairsplitting constitution doctors to the contrary notwithstanding. Loud and long continued applause on the Republican side. FKAHFUti TKAOKDT An Arkansas Farmer Murders III Family, Bums House and Suieklcs. Little Rock. March 13. Zeb Leonaru, a farmer of St-ott county, took ius wire and 4 yea Id son to a secluded spot and shot aud killed them. He buried the bodies and, returning to bis home, burued the house. Leonard then went Into the woods and shot himself. Leonard was years old and his wife 27. Jealousy was tha cause of the crime. Bank Looted and Burned. Huron, S. 1.. March 13. The safe of the Bank of Hitchcock, which was destroyed by Are Friday night, was opened yesterday and but little money was fouud. Cashier Wilson says that about $11,000 In cash was In the safe when the tank closed business Friday evening and it is now believed the safe was rifled and the building flrvd by the tuieves. SPARKS FROM THK WIKK

Ex-ConKreHiuan Johu Davla of the Fifth Kaunas d.strx-t baa from- totally ItlinO. I'reKidmt Jniu J. 11.11 of the Great Northern l!a Iwi. ciimny U em hUNiastic over the Im-intm- if our Aaiatic trade. Yesterday Kliueuieul 'f tu condition tit , the treasury stw: Av.Ut(le eunti tul- t nf. ft3,tJ.,u'io: B.ilil i--se--f, 9-4:1, IK 1, 04i. Three FreBTfciiirii hnve arrived at New York who iu tiny n.ti-uil tj iu tbe utempt to so to lUi- Kl.uiUike by autoti:.- -bUe. Oliver I'aiuio Hillnnl. 1. 1.. I)., late p fcMor of t-heuilxtry mid Ki'oiojty at I'u.tmouth co.lt e, In deud al hot bouie In Nw York. A bacteriological exaiulnatloo ol, rats 4Ciaht at I'orv alelnoiuu wharf bka fatal-tt , Uahed tbe fact that the verui.n are In HK1 rm , J ' ltl plague. v Tbe Spaulab steamer Minerva, which ass keen on Uie miasm Hat for many weeks I and was si ven up as lost, baa been towt-4 Into Heruiuiln. The United States armored crnlaer New York, nagvhip of Hear Admiral Karqnhar, commander-in-chief of the North Atlaui'c quad rou ; the itunlMint Macbias, the haitieabip Texas and the crulaer Detroit ace at Havana. Jule Weiss of Pennsylvan'n baa handed lows as opinion restraining tne state aud national councils of tbe Juu or Order -f Ln'ted American Mecbiinic from c. Hefting the per capita of 15 cents levied liy the national council at Its annual at-aslos St Minneapolis. Henry I'arker, who la wanted at Boston by the I'ulted Htatea authorities on a charge of using the malls in a svheme IS defraud In selling myntertotts boxes, sa'd to have wonderful good tuck qualities, has Sot bfen found.

A IIOIXJCAl'jiT Fourteen Persons Perish Miaerabi) at Newark. N. J. Newark, March 13.-Fourteen persons lost their lives, two persons were seriously injured and many others slightly burned in a fire In this city yesterday. The firemen, after the flames bad been sulidiied. took 13 bodies from the ruins and while thty were thus engaged another victim of the flre died in the city hospital. The building in which the Are broke out was a veritable fire trap. It was old, of frame construction and extended two stories above the ground floor, Until three or four years ago the structure had been used as a church, but It was converted .nto aenemert ItrruMed to Kfjrn Contract. Columbr.s. O.. March 13.The sriklug machinists, after conceding the right of the employers to employ non- , union men on eoual terms with onion men. Insisted uion the employers signing a contract with the union. At a meeting last night tbe Columbns Metal Manufacturers' association conceded all tbe demands of tbe machinists. In 0 far as wages and hours of labor arc concerned, but refused to sign a contract with tbe union, and as an ultimatum declared that they would deal with tbe machinists only as individuals. Schoolboys' Black FIa. South Beud, Ind.. March 13. Yesterday morning the flag pole of the city high school flaunted a black flag. Some of the high school boys were required to report on Saturday to make up time for a special vacs 'ion recently granted, and they vented their feat, ings by unfurling the Mack flag. Horseshoer' Strike Ended. Indianapolis, March 13. The journey men borsesboers. who hare been on strike for a week, returned to work yesterday. After a series of conferences with the operators, an agreement on a scale of prices was reached at a meeting of the employers "d employes. Desuls From Lockjaw. Xew Albany. Ind.. March 13. Marvin II. Cook, in charge of tbe linemea of tbe Cumberland Valley Telephone company, is dead of lockjaw, induce by an injury inflicted upon bis thumb a few days ago. His sufferings before death were frightful, Ke-Elected For Fowtat Franktoa, Ind, March IS. Prof. J. B. Fagan, superintendent of the public schools, for the fourth time, has been re-elected to the present pewitJoa, tne last time bringing with it a taatlai Increase la salary.