Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1902 — Page 2

WEEKLY REPUBLICAN. GEO. E. MARSHALL, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA.

BOATS TO CARRY OIL.

WHALEBACK FLEET FOR GULF AND MISSISSIPPI RIVER. Product of Texas Fields to Be Transported to St. Louis by Water—Gust of Wind Causes Double Tragedy Opposite Chester, Pa. Whaleback steamers, the invention of Captain Alexander McDougall of Duluth, will be used for carrying Texas oil up the Mississippi river. The St. Louis Steel Barge Company, in which Captain McDougall is interested, is the firm that pill take up the oil-carrying trade. The company now has three steamers, two of the largest whalebacks, engaged in cartrying grain, but these will be converted into oil carriers. One of the boats will be used in the gulf trade from Port Arthur to New Orleans and the others used in river traffic. In addition the new company, which will be known as the Sharp Oil Transportation Company, will have twelve more whaleback boats built. Arrangements have been made with Beaumont oil companies whereby a pipe line trill carry the oil from the gushers to Port Arthur. At the beginning it is the purpose to carry oil only 150 miles up the river from New Orleans, but later it will be transported as far as St. Louis. Each of the whalebacks will have a capacity of 15,000 barrels of oil.

BLOW TO RANCHMEN IN TEXAB. Decision of Supreme Court Robs Them of Grazing Lands. The recent decision of the State Supreme Court invalidating consolidated leaves and placing on the market more ,than 2,500,000 acres of grazing lands, has struck a death blow to the cattle raisers of Texas. Hundreds of sections of these lands are being filed upon each day by actual settlers. The ranchmen own the alternate patented sections of land and had under lease the intervening school sections. It is impossible to fence each section separately or graze satisfactorily cattle jointly with a number of small holders. h SLOOP UPBKTBI TWO DROWN. Sudden Gust Causes River Tragedy Opposite Cheater, Pa. ' Captain Hannett Bobbins of Port Morris, N. J., and Mrs. Pluma Haines of Camden, N. J„ were drowned opposite Cheater, Pa., by the capsizing of the sloop Henry S. Robbins. The sloop was caught in a sudden gust of wind and in s moment all the occupants were struggling in the water. The United States launch Cadet, with a surveying party on board, hurried to the rescue, but Captain Robbins and Mrs. Haines already had disappeared. The others were taken from the water. League Base-Ball Race. Following is the standing of the clubs of the National Baseball League: W. L. W. L. Pittsburg ...34 10Philadelphia. 21 20 Chicago ....23 21 New York... 10 25 Brooklyn ...24 23 Cincinnati ...19 27 Boston 20 22 St. Louis.... 19 27

Hie clubs of the American League ktand as follows: W. L. , W. L. Chicago ....26 16 St. Louis. 111 22 Philadelphia 24 I'd Baltimore —22 24 Boston 25 21 Washington. 21 23 | Detroit .....21 22Cleveland ...IS 29 Ships' Crew Murdered. - According to advices received by the ateamer Aorangi, a Malayan sailor recently arrived at Port Darwin and reported that he was the only survivor of a Crew of ten men of a Malay trading schooner which had been wrecked off Cape Wilberforce. North Australia. The crew was attacked by blacks and all but the one man were murdered. Hurt in a Factory Fire. Fire destroyed the Novelty leather factory of H. M. Rosenblatt & Co., a four-story brick structure, in Philadelphia, and resulted in severe injuries to a dozen persons. There were many sensational and narrow escapes, most of the #OO men and women employed in the sac- - fory saving their lives by leaping from the windows into nets held by firemen. Conviction la Confirmed. Walter Bourne, formerly deputy auditor at St Paul, who is serving fifteen years at Stillwater prison, was denied a hew trial by the Supreme Court Bourne (was convicted on two indictments, one I charging the illegal use of county warrants and the other fraud in the use of his official signature. The Supreme Court confirms the conviction in both cases.

Alabama Town la Scorched. The business portion of Alexander City, Ala-, a place of 1,500 inhabitants, was wiped away by fire, the loss reaching at least $750,000, which the insurance will not begin to cover. The flames began in Ithe foundry and machine works, and apread from to building until the entire business portion of the town •was a mass of flames. 1 Trick Bicyclist Badly Hart. Clarence Hamilton, a trick bicyclist grom New York, known as Moncrief, fell from the giant wheel at the Elks’ fair In Minneapolis and had several ribs broken, besides suffering Internal injuries Which make his condition serious. “Preserved** Meat Not Illegal. i The Minnesota Supreme Court decides •ale of meat containing preservatives Dcannot be interfered with in that State. For Violating “Jim Crow” Law. i ! Mias Mary Cnstis Lee, second daughter of Gen. Robert K. Lee, was arrested Bat Alexandria, Va., charged with violat•fng the separate ear bill passed by the So far as known, she in Virginia to the “Jim tiling Destroyed, imes Applegate at Habadly shattered by an unite which had been ide of the building by | The family escaped

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HELD FOR CUSTOMS FRAUDS. Two New York Merchants Put Under $60,000 Bail In Silk Case. Two merchants were held in New York in $60,000 bail on charges of defrauding the government In the biggest customs swindle in recent years. They are Martin L. Cohen and Abraham S. Rosenthal, members of the firm of A. S. Rosenthal & Co, The frauds, which were carried on by false declarations of silk importations, will, it is said, amount to millions. There were three counts against each prisoner and Commissioner Shields fixed the bail at $10,000 on each count. The amounts involved in the charges on which the men were arrested is about $6,000. but the United States District Attorney declared there were more than 100 charges to be made against them. The criminal action bears out the charges made by former Appraiser Wilbur F. Wakeman, charges that were apparently ignored and that led to his losing his office when he protested. The arrests were made on the report made by Attorney W. Wickham Smith, whom the President appointed a special assistant Attorney General to investigate the case.

BIG FIRE AT WHEELING, W. VA. Three Large Plants Destroyed and Damage Will Reach $150,000. One of the largess fires in Wheeling's history burned the plant of the Kxley Watkins Catsup and Preserve Company, the Wheeling Mattress Company, aDd the Acme Box Company at Wheeling, Va. The loss will reach $150,000, partly covered by insurance. Three buildings were burned along with 500,000 feet of lumber, two box cars, and several stables and buildings. The fire was discovered by a policeman at 4 o’clcok Thursday morning, and the preserve plant was then burning fiercely. The entire fire department responded and the walls soon fell with a crash, but luckily no one was hurt. The fire was stubborn and could not be checked. The loss Is among the following firms: Exley Watkins & Co., $75,000; Acme Box Company, $50,000. and the mattress plant, $15,000. About 500 persons have been thrown out of employment. No cause for the fire has been ascertained. BOOTBLACK LOSES $24,000. Saves Nickels and Wins Big Sam on Races, Then Sees It All Vanish. “Herman, the Mayor’s bootblack”— nobody knows his last name —having lost $24,000 since the racing season opened, is back in the city hall park in New York polishing shoes at 5 cents a shine. He started betting on the races July 5 last and for a long time he won. On July 4 he had won S2OO in a crap game. He had entered this game with SSO, saved from shines. “I’m about 30 years old,” said Herman: “just how old I don’t know, and, to tell the truth, I could not swear to my last name, but I don’t want my last name to be published, for the old woman don’t know that 1 had all that money. She thought I was a stable boy at the track. That’s what I was. 1 lived in the stables and when this season opened I was worth $24,000 in cash. I wanted to run it up to $50,000 before I took any to the bank.”

Collision Causes a Panic. While running up the Detroit river the passenger steamer Frank E. Kirby was run into by the steamer Egan. A panic ensued among the Kirby’s passengers. The accident ended in the passenger steamer first running to shore to ascertain damages and then proceeding to her dock and discharging her passengers. No oue was injured. Neeley Released from prison. C. F. Neely, who on March 24 was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment and to pay a tine of $50,701, for complicity in the Cuban postal frauds, has been released under the bill granting amnesty to all Americans convicted of crimes in Cuba during the term of the American occupation. Sensation in Evanston. Evanston, 111., society is astonished by the unexpected postponement of the wedding of Ralph McKinnie and Miss Edna Louise Eversz, the groom announcing that he intends to take a “trip for his health” on the eve of his marriage, which had been set for the very near future. Great Production of Gold. United States Treasurer Roberts calls attention to the fact that now for the first time the outstanding gold certificates exceed in volume the United States notes, which remain fixed at $246,861,010. The gross gold in the treasury also has reached a record-breaking point, standing at $554,000,000.

Wealthy Girl Kills Herself. By means of a noose, improvised with a bathrobe and towels, Miss Alice Levis, 23 years old, the daughter of a wealthy merchant of St. Louis, ended her life at a hotel in New York City. She is supposed to have killed herself in a fit of melancholy superinduced by ill health. Confessed Murderer Sentenced. William Strother, the negro bath attendant who was arrested last January for the murder of A. Deane Cooper, the millionaire proprietor, in St. Louis, pleaded guilty and will serve fifteen yearn in the Missouri State penitentiary. Circus Tent Blown Down. The main tent of the Harris Nickel Plate circus was blown down by a tornado at Sigourney, lowa. Twenty-five people were injured, two fatally. Third Morrison Trial Begins. The third trial of Jessie Morrison, who killed Mrs. Olin Castle, has began at Eldorado, Kan. An application for a change of venue has been refused. La Guayra Under Fire. The German cruisers Gasele and Falke have been sent to La Guayra, Venezuela, at the special request of the German

charge d’affaires at Caracas, Herr von Pilgrim-Baltazzi, in consequence of a revolution having broken out in the suburbs of La Guayra, leading to the bombardment of the town by the forts and Venezuelan warships. MOTHER-IN-LAW SAME AS PET. So Rules Judge Holdom in Giese Divorce Proceedings. Judge Holdom of Chicago said a word for the mother-in-law the other day. He declared from the bench that a man has as much right to keep a mother-in-law in the house, even though his wife objects, as he has to keep a canary bird, a cat or a dog. His fiat went forth in deciding the suit for separate maintenance brought by Mrs. Ernestine Giese against her husband, Wilhelm Giese, who had living with him the mother of a former wife. “If a dog does not bite,” said Judge Holdom, “or the cat scratch, the husband may keep both, and his wife cannot object. The same holds true of a mother-in-law if she does not harm anybody. This is right, even though the mother-in-law be the mother of a man’s wife by a former marriage. Mrs. Giese's suit is dismissed.’' Mrs. Giese is the fourth wife of the defendant in the suit. She left because Mrs. Heiden, the moth-er-in-law in the case, “wanted to run things in the Giese household.” FINDS LONG-LOST DAUGHTER.

Father Discovers Kidnaped Child Is Now Mrs. N. Bloom. Kidnaped twelve years ago, when she was 4 years old, Mrs. Nathaniel Bloom, 714 West Sixty-third street, Chicago, was found the other day by her father. When father and daughter met it was discovered that she is married to her second cousin. Mrs. Bloom was Mary Nathan of Hoboken, N. J., and her kidnaping in 1890 was a famous mystery. Her father was wealthy, but the child was never offered for ransom and finally hope of ever finding her was abandoned. Nathaniel Bloom, her husband, met her in Mrs. Greene’s boarding house in Aurora, 111. Mrs. Greene, who is thought to have been the kidnaper, is dead, but detectives have been detailed on the case. FINDS ELOPING DAUGHTER. Missourian Captures Girl Who Ran Away with Farmhand. - Miss Wren of Lexington, Mo., who eloped from Kansas City with George Henderson of Denver, a farmer who was formerly employed on her father’s ranch near Lexington, was discovered by her father at the Deltone Hotel in Omaha, Neb. He confronted the couple as they left the dining room. A fight ensued between the old man and Henderson. Johnson, the hotel clerk, interfered at the solicitation of the girl. The couple were to have been married in Omaha that day. Wren left for Kansas City with his daughter. Bank of France Is Robbed. An employe of the Bank of France who was intrusted with the care of collateral securities abstracted a number of these documents and, through the help of a friend, borrowed money on them from the Bank of France itself. The Paris papers say that the sum lost by the bank amouuts to 450,000 francs.

Drowned in the Mississippi. The rafter Itavenua, bound for Stillwater with the towboat Gypsy towed ahead, turned turtle at the narrow entrance to Maquoketa slough, six miles above Dubuque, lowa, during a severe storm, and while Captain Hoy was trying to reach the lowa shore, only fifty feet distant, four men were lost. To Settle Exposition Finances. The Charleston Exposition Company has been placed in the hands of receivers, 'the board of directors being so appointed by an order of the court. They will take an inventory of all property, reporting the same to the court with a schedule pf the claims against the company. ~\ Burglars' Fence Is Sentenced. In the United States Court at Columbus, Ohio, Julius Bernstein, a pawnbroker indicted on twenty-three counts for selling stolen postage stamps, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. He had operated as a fence for' “Burglar Jim” Andersoft and Everett Robey, sentenced the day before. lowa Picnic Party Is Injured. Four wagon loads of pupils enjoying n picnic at Coppoc, lowa, were caught by the recent storm on their return Journey. Nine members of the high school class which had jnst graduated sought shelter in a school house, which was blown to pieces, burying all in the debris.

Landslide Destroys Village. The village of Cambulata, in a mountain pass of the Uruch range, Russia, has been destroyed by a landslide. A large rent suddenly appeared in the mountain, which shortly afterward toppled over on the village and the neighboring farms. The inhabitants escaped. Most Close Fair Sundays. President Francis has been authorised by the St. Louis exposition directors to sign a contract with Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of the Treasury, in which the world's fair management pledges itself not to open the fair Sunday at any time. Murder Women and Children. Col. William Christy, president of the Valley Bank, Phoenix, Ariz., arrived from Prietas, Sonora, with details of a massacre of Yaqui Indians—men, women and children—by a detachment of Gen. Torres’ troops. End of Allis-Chalmers Strike. The Allis-Chalmers Company of Chicago and employes have come to an amicable settlement, and the strike which has been on for over a year is at an end. The aettlement is a victory for the workmen.

FOIL KIDNAPERS IN BUTTE. Gang’s Prospective Victims Include Son of Senator Clark. The Butte, Mont., police unearthed a conspiracy to do a wholesale kidnaping business among the wealthy families of Butte. The alleged leader of the band, “Sam” Consentino, is under arrest. An attempt was made several days ago to kidnap Hazel Gindrup, the 12-year-old niece of Harry Symons, one of the big merchants of Butte. A day later an attempt was made to steal the infant of William Symons. The description of the men the nurses gave to the police led to the arrest of Consentino and the police are searching for three others. Consentino is an Italian. It is alleged he tried to induce Harry Keller, his employer, to join the gang. Keller is said to have pretended to fall in with the scheme and thus learned all of the plans, which were perfectly mapped out. Among those whom it was proposed to kidnap and hold for ransom were the youngest son of Senator W. A. Clark, Mrs. Lulu F. Largey, a wealthy woman who makes her home in Butte and New York, and a number of leading merchants, bankers and mining men. FIRE LOSS LOWER TO DATE. Five Months of 1902 Show Decrease Compared with Last Year. The New York Journal of Commerce and Commercial bulletin says: The fire loss of the United States and Canada for the mouth of May, as compiled from our daily records, shows a total of $14,860,000. Below will be found a comparative table, showing the losses by months: 1900. 1901. 1902. Jan. .A. 511,755,300 $16,574,950 $15,032,800 Feb 15,427,000 13,992,000 21,010,500 March .. 13,349,200 15,036,250 12,056,600 April ... 25,727,000 11.352.500 13,894,600 May .... 15,759,400 22,380,150 14,866,000 Total .$52,017,900 $79,336,150 $76,860,500 The great decrease in comparison with May, 1901, is due to the fact that the Jacksonville conflagration occurred in that month. The total for the first five months of 1902 is about $2,500,000 less than the sum chargeable against the same period of 1901.

HILL TO EXPLORE LABRADOR. Railway Magnate and Friends Sail Away for Scientific Inquiry. James J. Hill, the railroad magnate; Charles Davis, a millionaire oyster packer of Baltimore; C. C. Clark, a wealthy thrdad manufacturer, and Judge Caesar Bund of Oshkosh, Wis.; have sailed for Labrador on a yacht. Mr. Hill said the purpose of the expedition was “a summer vacation and scientific investigation.” “Are you sure you will not turn around and sail for England to see the coronation?” he was asked. “Coronation! Coronation! I wouldn’t go across the street to see the coronution!” was the magnate’s response. MICHEL, B. C., DESTROYED. Fire Makes Fifty Families Homeless and People Are Out in RaiiuTelegrams received at St. Paul say the town of Michel, B. C., was destroyed by fire Monday. Flames started in the residence section shortly after 1 o’clock. The wind blew a hurricane, and in less than four hours twenty-four houses were in ashes. About fifty families are homeless. The Crow’s Pass Coal Company’s loss is $50,000. Canadian Pacific cars were burned at a loss to the company of about SIO,OOO, and traffic delayed six to ten hours. Five Hundred Persons Slain. Dispatches from Constautinople describe the massacre of a caravan by independent Arab warriors belonging to desert tribes in the interior. The whole escort of troops and all the wealthy merchants ami their suites composing the caravan, a total of 500 men, were slaughtered with the exception of twenty, who managed to escape. West Point Exercises End. The centennial celebratiou of the military aoademy closed at West Point, N. Y., with the presentation of diplomas to the one hundredth graduating class. The piogram included the presentation of diplomas by President Roosevelt, an address by Gen. Dick of the visiting board, and repiarks by Gen. Miles. Tornadoes Work Havoc. Tornadoes in Illinois killed a total of ten persons, suburbs of Peoria and Bloomington suffering the hardest attacks. Property loss will exceed $1,000,000. Danvers. Hi., is supposed to have been destroyed. The known dead in Minnesota are five.

Board of Review Found Illegal. Judge Babcock of the common plcaa court in Cleveland decided that the board of tax review as provided in the Longworth “ripper” bill passed by the late Legislature is unconstitutional. The decision is a victory for Mayor Johnson, who attacked (he validity of the law. Ambassador Choate Honored. King Edward, Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria broke precedents and dined with United States Ambassador Choate at Carlcton House, London. Male guests, including Americans, wore knee breeches. Mail Train Jumps Track. The fast mail on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad jumped the track at Fulton, Ill. The engine and two mail coaches rolled over a 15-foot embankment. The engineer was injured. Found Guilty of Donble Murder. Andrew Peterson, on trial for the killing last January at Greenleaf, Kan., of Carl Molt and his niece, Hilda Peterson, waa found guilty of murder in the first degree. Special Message from Roosevelt. President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress urging 20 per cent tariff concession to Cuba, declaring it will not hurt American industries.

MAKES PLEA FOR CUBA

PRESIDENT SENDS A MESSAGE TO CONGRESS. Roosevelt Urges Passage of the Reciprocity Bill—Points to Pledges Fulfilled and Says Good Work Begun Should Be Completed. President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress Friday afternoon reiterating his former recommendations for the passage of a law creating reciprocity with Cuba apd presenting additional arguments thereon. The message is as follows: “To the Senate and House of Representatives: I deem it important before the adjournment of the present session of Congress to call attention to the following expressions in the message which in the discharge of the duty imposed upon me by the Constitution I sent to Congress on the first Tuesday of December last: (Here follow extracts from that document.) “Yesterday I received by cable from the American minister in Cuba a most earnest appeal from President Palma for ‘legislative relief before it is too late and (his) country financially ruined.’ “The granting of reciprocity with Cuba is a proposition which stands entirely alone. The reasons for it far outweigh those for granting reciprocity with any other nation, and are entirely consistent with preserving intact the protective system under which this country has thriven so marvelously. The present tariff law was designed to promote the adoption of such a reciprocity treaty, and expressly provided for a reduction not to exceed 20 per cent upon goods coming from a particular country, leaving the tariff rates on the same articles unchanged as regards all other countries. “Objection has been made to the granting of the reduction on the ground that the substantial benefit would not go to the agricultural producer of sugar, but would inure to the American sugar refiners. In my judgment provision can and should be made which will guarantee us against this possibility; without having recourse to a measure of doubtful policy, such as a bounty in the form of a rebate.

“The question as to which, if any, of the different schedules of the tariff ought most properly to be revised does not enter into this matter in any way or shape. We are concerned with getting a friendly reciprocal arrangement with Cuba. This arrangement applies to all the articles that Cuba grows or produces. It is not in our power to determine what these articles shall be; and any discussion of the tariff as it affects special schedules, or countries other than Cuba, is wholly aside from the subject matter to which I call your- attention. “Some of our leading citizens oppose the lowering of the tariff on Cuban products, just as three years ago they opposed the admission of the Hawaiian Islands, lest free trade with them might ruin certain of our interests here. In the actual event their fears proved baseless as regards Hawaii, and their apprehensions as to the damage to any industry of our pwn because of the proposed measure of reciprocity with Cuba seem to me equally baseless. In my judgment no American industry will be hurt, and many American industries will be benefited by the proposed notion. It Is to our advantage as a nation that the growing Cuban market should be controlled by American producers.

Close Friendship Urged. “The events following the war with Spain, and the prospective building of the isthmian canal, render it certain that we must take in the future a far greater interest than hitherto in what happens throughout the West Indies, Central America, and the adjacent coasts and waters. We expect Cuba, to treat us on an exceptional footing politically, and we should put her in the same exceptional position economically. “The proposbd action is in line with the course we have pursued as regards all the islands with which we have been brought into relations of varying intimacy by the Spanish war. Porto llico and Hawaii have been included within our tariff lines, to their great benefit as well as ours, and without any of the feared detriment to our own industries.

“Cuba is an independent republic, but a republic which has assumed certain special obligations as regards her international position in compliance with our request. I ask for her certain special economic concessions in return; these economic concessions to benefit us as well as her. There are few brighter pages in American history than the which tells of our dealings with Cuba during the past four years. On her behalf we waged a war of which the mainspring was generous indignation against oppression, and wc have kept faith absolutely. “It is earnestly to be hoped that we will complete in the same spirit the record so well begun, and show in our dealings with Cuba that steady continuity of policy which it is essential for our nation to establish in foreign affairs if we desire to play well our part as a world power. ' “We are a wealthy and powerful nation; Cuba is a young republic, still weak, who owes to us her birth, whose whole future, whose very life, must depend on our attitude toward her. 1 auk that we help her aa she struggles upward along the painful and difficult road of self-governing Independence. I ask this aid for her, because she is weak, because she needs it, because we have already aided her. “I ask that open-handed help, of a kind which a self-respecting people can /accept, be given to Cubs, for the very reason that we have given her such help In the past. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT.**

From Far and Near.

The strike of bakers in Denver, Colo., has been settled by the bosses granting the demands of the men. About 300 men, women and children wrecked three meat shops in Boston on account of the high price of meat. Five thousand union men employed in the building trades of Denver, Colo., went on strike, causing practically a total stoppage of building operations in that city. It is a sympathy strike to aid the woodworkers to win their battle against their employers.

CONGRESS.

During the early part of the Senate session on Monday the naval appropriation bill was considered. All of the committee amendments were agreed to except that relating to the construction of two additional battleships, two cruisers and two gnnboats, action on which was delayed. After a speech by Mr. Simmons in support of the bill for the establishment of a national forest reserve in thet southern Appalachian mountains discussion of the canal bill was resumed. In the House the anti-anarchy bill was passed. The remainder of the day was devoted to the bill to transfer certain forest reserves from the Interior Department to the Agricultural Department, and to authorise the creation in Buch reserves of game and fish preserves. The Senate on Tuesday passed the naval appropriation bill and resumed consideration of the isthmian canal question. Mr. Turner delivered an extended argument in support of the Nicaraguan route. A bill was passed appropriating $15,845 for the relief of the persons who sustained damages by the explosion of an ammunition chest of Battery F, Second United States artillery, in Chicago, July 16, 1894. The House bill providing for the protection of the President was referred to the judiciary committee. The House defeated the bill to transfer certain forest reserves to the Agricultural Department. The special order for the consideration of the Corliss Pacific cable bill was then adopted by a vote of 108 to 73, and for the remainder of the afternoon the author of the measure argued in favor of its passage. Mr. Dalzell (Pa.), who presented the rule, announced he was opposed to the government building a cable to the Philippines. He said he favored the construction of an American cable by American capital.

The House bill amending the present law providing for the issuance of passports to persons who owe allegiance to the United States, whether they be citizens of the United States or not, was passed by the Senate on Wednesday. It was explained by Mr. Foraker that the bill simply was to provide for the issuance of passports to citizens of Porto Rico and the Philippines. The rest of the day was devoted to consideration of the canal bill and the subject of election of United States Senators by popular vote. The House killed the Corliss Pacific bill by striking out the enacting clause. A Senate bill was passed to authorize the town of Lawton, Okla., to use $150,000 from the sale of town lots for municipal improvements; Anadarko, Okla., $60,000, and Hobart, Okla., $50,000. Another Senate bill was passed to retire four survivors of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition as sergeants in the signal service. The Senate devoted the day Thursday to debate on the London dock charges bill and the canal measure. The House adopted a special rule for the consideration of the irrigation-hill, which passed the Senate some time ago, and demoted the day to general debate of the measure. Messrs. Mondell (Wyo.), Tongue (Ore.), Tirrell (Mass.) and Shallenberger (Neb.) spoke in favor of the bill. Mr. Ray, chairman of the judiciary committee, made a long'Tbgal argument against it \

The Senate on Friday received special message from the President on reciprocity with Cuba. A resolution was offered by Mr. Mitchell directing the committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico to inquire into the general condition of Hawaii, the administration of affairs there; the quality, condition axd value of the public lands in Hawaii; the crown lands and the ttile of the former queen therein; with power to sit during the recess and a subcommittee to visit the islands if necessary and report at the beginning of the next session. Mr. Hoar proposed an amendment providing that the committee should inquire whether the former queen has any claim against the United States, legal or equitable, by reason of having parted hitherto with her title. Mr. Mitchell accepted the amendment and the resolution was referred to the committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico. The House received the President’s special message on Cuba and passed the irrigation bill. Consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill was begun by the Senate on Saturday and the measure, carrying $9,848,673, passed. The irrigation bill, which passed the House Friday, was then taken.’ up. the House amendments agreed to, and the bill passed. A House bill, paying certain claims heretofore reported by the Secretary of War, growing out of the war with Spain, was pnssed. Private pension bills were then taken up and a number passed. The House passed 199 pension bills, and at 3:45 p. m. adjourned until Monday.

Washington Notes.

Rag time Is barred from the popular concerts of the Marine Baud at Washington. Senator Harris declares engineering difficulties presented by the I’anama route to be insuperaMeT~~——— Tourists may now pay customs duties through oxpreqf companies and avoid delay at piers in getting chocks cashed. Ambassador von Hollcbcn of Germany becomes dean of the diplomatic corps at Washington, succeeding Lord Pauncefqte. Philippine insurrection is ended except In Mindanao. Acting Gov. Wright cabled civil rule can be established in every island now. Senor Baencsmino in testimony before House committee said Filipino agents In Europe who are at odds make independence impossible. Amnesty bill, which will free Estes G. Rathbone sad 0. F. Neely, convicted of Caban postal frauds, baa been signed by President Palms; it win free other Americans also. President Roosevelt opened national convention of American military surgeons. Over 20,000,000 quinine pills and 200,000 “first aid" packets used during Spanish war. Twenty million dollars is to be distributed among the architects and builders of the country under the provisions of the omnibus public building bill just signed hj the President