Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 October 1898 — Page 3

NAVAL PRIZE MONEY

IT WILL PROBABLY BE DISTRIBUTED ABOUT CHRISTMAS,

Ethic* of the Sj*Mtem Sftw In Force. DI.«eriminntlon In Favor of the Wavy Will Probably Cea»e Before Lonff,

Fortune* Made by Privateer*. [Special Correspondence.] WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Subordinate

officials about the navy department state that they bave good reason for believing that the prize money will be ieady for distribution to the officers and men of the fleet about Christmas. It will not do, however, for the prospective recipients to be too sanguine as to this. Prize courts are notoriously slow in their operations and it is highly probable that a much longer time will elapse before the money is distributed. The prize money for Admiral Farragut's work at New Orleans was not paid until after 22 years. Many of those entitled to receive

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money were by that time dearl, and much of it was nover claimed at all. There was at ono timo over $800,000 unclaimed prize money in tho treasury at Washington, and possibly there is still, unless it has boon confiscated by tho government owing to the passing of the time limit.

Rear Admiral Sampson, commanding tho llectt in Cubau waters, wiJl of course receivo the lion's sbaro of the prize money and bounty. Ho will net about $100,000, Rear Admiral Dewey $9,000 and Rear Admiral Schley about $5,000. Notwithstanding tho latter's important service in destroying Cervera's fleet his sharo will be less than that'of sotno of tho captains in tho navy who were capturing prizes while Schley was confined to Hampton Roads at tho beginning of tho war.

While the law remains as it is, it is idle to argue about the justice or injustice of tho distribution of prizo money and bounty to tho navy. Though that, and even tho principle of the thing, could bo criticised, a more obvious objection to tho wholo system is that it discriminates against tho army in favor of the navy. There is no good reason why the officers and men of tho United States navy, who have been under pay for years in time of peace, should receive prizo money in time of war for capturing or sinking tho warships of other countries. It was obviously their duty to do so just as much as it was tho duty of tho army to face the dangers of tho Cuban olimato and Mauser bullets at Santiago. No one supposes for a moment that tho navy would havo been a defaulter to duty, even without the additional spur to action of anticipated piize money. It seems too much like placing a premium upon loyalty and introducing mercenary motives where nobler and disinterested ones should prevail.

But, leaving this and other ethical aspects of the subject out of the question, it is manifestly unjust to tho army, which, whether it rendered equally great or less valuable service iu the war, ran equal risks and suffered immeasurably more. The loss of life in tho navy, either from the casualties of wnf or from disease, was comparatively slight, while that of the army from those causes was very large for the number of men engaged. The value of tho property takeu possession of by the army was enormously greater than that captured or destroyed by the navy, but tho soldiers and officers get nothing but honor and their pay, whereas the naval officers and men get all this and large sums of price and bounty money as well.

Numbers of men prominent in official life hero are opposed to the prise money system, and even some naval officers of high rank, among whom may be included Admiral Erben, woald favor its be* ing abolished. Among army officers it may taken for granted that but few would favor anything which so unfairly places their branch of the service at a disadvantage. Already the handwriting may be seen upon the wall presaging the end of this discriminating favoritism in behalf of the navy. It is not unlikely that congress may shortly legislate the priiso money and bounty section out of the revised statutes, and that long before onr country engages in another war both army and navy will be placed upon an equality, so far as this is concerned.

In other years matters were more equalized, and officers and men of the ariuy were permitted to divide what they captured on land from the enemy. When nearly all of tho*civiU»ed nations concluded to do away with the custom of confiscating the property of noncomhUnnt# found on land, there was nothing to be divided among the Land forces,

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and the booty to soldiers was abolished. This was undoubtedly a step in the right direction, but while the privileges of the army in this respect were rescinded those of the navy were left intact. So far as the morality of it is concerned, there is no difference between taking possession of the property of noncombatants on sea or on land. It resolves itself merely into a question of expediency rather than one of ethics. The exigencies of war are supposed to still demand that a state shall capture not only all the warships of an enemy, but also all the merchant ships which could relieve the blockaded ports with supplies they might require.

This custom of awarding prize money in the navy no doubt arose from the practice of privateering. Until the treaty of Paris in 1856 nearly all the civilized nations commissioned privateers. Rather strangely, neither the United States nor Spain agreed to this oonvention, but neither attempted to employ such an auxiliary to its navy in the war so recently closed.

During the last century, though the navies of that time were much less effective than ours, prize money was plentiful. Numbers of the higher offi cers in the British navy earned fortunes by the captures made on a single expedition. Commodore Anson's Centurion, for example, in June, 1743, took the Spanish galleon Nostra Signora de Cabadungo, which had out board a cargo and bullion valued at $2,000,000. Before iie returned to England his squadron had captured other vessels worth an aggregate of $3,000,000, and the commodore's own share amounted to $350,000 for this one cruise. A few years later Captain James Talbot in the Prince Frederick captured vessels which with their cargoes were worth $5,000,000, and the captain's own share of the booty was $600,000,, Another British vessel made a prize of a Spanish ship with $2,000,000 on board. Other captures during the same season were four French ships with cash and cargoes valued at $5,700,000. In 1762 the British ship Favorite, commanded by Captain Pownal, captured the Spanish treasure ship Hermione, which was so enormously rich that the captain's share alone amounted to $225,000. His three lieutenants got $65,000 apiece, and a lump sum of $320,000 went to tho flag officers of the Mediterranean station, including the admiral, who was many miles away from the scene of action, bnt was regarded as being constructively iu charge of the affair.

This circumstance will be recognized as somewhat analogous to Rear Admiral Sampsoii's predicament at the time of the destruction of Admiral Cervera's fleet. Though not present at the fight, he was chief in command, constructively took part in the action and will reoeive enormously more in the ay of bounty than Rear Admiral Schley, ^ho really commanded at the brilliant running fight off Santiago.

During the war of the Revolution, and to a much greater extent in that of 1812, hundreds of privateers were fitted out in this country to prey upon British commerce. Enormous suras of money were made by the men engaged in this legalized system of plundering, and tho evils of it were brought homo to the minds of the British public by a per sonal experience much more convincing than whon the looting was done by themselves upon the ships of Spain and France.

I fully expect that in tho near future not only will our own nation set itself on record as opposed to privateering, but that all civilized nations will respect tho rights of private property afloat iu time of war. An exception, of course, should bo made when the vessels carry contraband of war to an enemy or attempt to run a blockado, whioh practically places the owners of such ships outside the ranks of noncombatants and makes them participants in the war.

One result of the prize court trials will be a formal investigation of the naval battles. The court, in order to arrive at a decision, must find out what share was taken by the different ships. While much light may be thrown on the debatable subjects consequent upon the battle off Santiago, whatever the ruling as to the Sampson-Schley controversy Sampson will still get his one-twentieth of the bounty money.

The prize court has nothing to do with the distribution of the prizo money. It meroly determines to whom it properly belongs, with the amounts. After these courts get through with tho business the treasurer of the United

PKDRO AND MIGUEl. JOVRR TWO VALUABLE PRIZES. States forwards a check to each officer and member of the crew for his share of the plunder as apportioned by the revised statutes of the United States.

The statutes make no provision for the payment of salvage on war vessels. The bounty on the number of men aboard ship at the time of its destruction is regarded as being sufficient, compensation. Neither do the officers or mm

receive any additional smn for ships sunk and afterward raiswt may be the case with the Maria T&esa and

CONTRABAND CHINESE. Ixtfirenlotts Scheme* to Smnitgle Orientals Into the United State#. [Special Correspondence.]

MONTREAL, Sept. 26.—It is not generally known that each time one of the Canadian Pacific railway steamers cornea into port at Victoria she brings several hundred pigtailed passengers from the orient. The ordinary Celestial is not easy to identify and what becomes of each consignment it ia difficult to trace.

Most of these itinerant orientals, however, make their way eastward across Canada, and one week after the arrival of a Canadian Pacific steamer at the coast two or three carloads of Chinamen alwayB alight ait the Montreal station.

The big Canadian railway has special agents whose function it iB to operate boarding houses wherein these newly

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arrived Chinamen are housed until they secure employment in Canada or accomplish the secret object of every Celestial in the Dominion, which consists in making his way into Uncle Sam's territory. His almond eyed brother perhaps has written to him from New York or Boston and told wonderful tales of the almighty dollars that come rolling in at his little' washee-waehee shop and of the shekels that accumulate in a night at a properly conducted opium joint.

All this tends to cause the Chinaman in Canada, where there is no prohibitive legislation against his importation, to attempt to break across tho border by hook or by crook and join his kindred of the flatiron and the opium pill in some one of the great American cities. The consequence is that Montreal is the base of operations fo* a great deal of Chinamen smuggling, and, despite all that Mr. Patrick Egan and the United States officials along the international liiie can do, each year hundreds of the undesirable orientals must manage to make their unauthorized way into the United States. It has even been hinted that the Canadian Pacifio railway itself cooperates with these Chinamen and is not averse to assisting them into the Eden .of the laundry shop.

But there is noevidenoe to prove that, the C. P. R. follows such an obviously shortsighted policy. In fact, the railway authorities, as soon as an oriental reaches their teri^ory, secure a photograph and a concise description of him, for the railway itself has to put up a bond of $50 for each new Chinaman brought into the Dominion. They maintain that most of these travelers from the east are Chinamen who have been in America before and are simply returning to that country after a home visit in tho Land of tho Chrysanthemum.

But the persons who are genuinely engaged in Chinese smuggling are several gaugs of unscrupulous characters who find their vocation an extremely profitable one. The regulation fee for each Chinaman secretly transported into the United States is $20. For work of this character they are in no wise amenable to the Canadian authorities and carry on their business right under the impotent nose, so to speak, of the police of Montreal. But their day of judgment comes, of course, when they are once caught in American territory.

Owing to the alertness of the United States officials along the line these smugglers find it necessary to resort to all manner of unique artifices in order to get their lemon complexioned proteges into Uncla Sam's country. Last winter one smuggler was arrested in Vermont with a Chinaman in a sleeping car. The Chinaman was disguised as a woman and had entered the sleeper at Moutreal, heavily veiled, without exciting the suspicion of any of the railway officials. A few weeks before this a member of the same gang of smugglers bad jeen caught with an oriental disguised as a bride and attempting to use the telltale veil. Sometimes a batch of half a dozen of these undesirable immigrants are ferried over the St. Lawrence where that river constitutes the international boundary and are then driven to one of the northern Vermont towns, where they take train for their actual destination.

Previous to his clandestine migration into the United States the Chinaman does not live as a homeless outcast in Montreal. That city is swarming with his pigtailed brethren, and they seem to have appropriated Lagauchetiere street as their own individual property. Along this narrow little thoroughfare one can see dozens of their homes, teahouses, laundry shops and joints where one can find a diminutive "Gate of a Hundred Sorrows'* inside each doorway. Here one can see frequenters enjoying the acrid white liquor and the little opium pellets that stand for dissipation in the oriental mind. As a rule, he is troubled very little by the Montreal civic authorities. In fact, it is not

other Spanish war vessels which Naval Constructor Hobson is now attempting every one in Montreal who realises the to raise. Warships captured cannot be vast number of Chinamen hidden away •old, as merchant ships can be. Conse- (ha the darker and less frequented streets qnently the men receive only bounty or of that strange old Canadian city. liead money.

NEIL MACDOXAUX.

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Tfc'e Gamt»ter*' Capper.

"Many of the phases of life in the Tenderloin are kaleidoscopic in their changes," said a hotel detective, "but there is one little group of men in this precinct that is much the same now that it was a dozen years ago. I mean the outside men of the gambling houses. They are well known to all sporting men, and I could name four or five who have done little else all their lives. It is their business to know the regular patrons of faro banks, and if the man who employs them has been forced to olo8e up his old place and open anew one it is their duty to circulate the tip. "A good outside man spends his time around hotels and in all night restaurants and picks up acquaintances wherever he can. After working up to the subject of gambling he invites his new friend to go around to a little place that is run honestly and safely. One of the best dressed loungers on Broadway, whose face has long been familiar to paraders on that street, is a puller in for a gambling house. He was a barkeeper a few years ago and there made a lot of acquaintances who are his stock in trade. He spends money as freely as a wine agent, and I have no doubt that he brings many thousands of dollars to the man who runs the gambling house." —New York Sun.

Saved Life and Name,

The French author Marfcainville, who began bis career toward the close of the last century, is said to have owed the preservation of his life to a witty piece of audacity. He was a royalist aad did not hesitate to atfcac^ the French revolution and its authorities. Presently, of course, he was summoned to appear before the revolutionary tribunal. The revolutionary tribunals at that time did not hesitate to send everybody to the guillotine who had ventured to attack them.

Martainville expected to go with the rest of the victims. "What is your name?" asked the judge. "Martainville," said the young author. "Martainville!" exclaimed the judge. "You are deceiving us and trying to hide your rank. You are an aristocrat, and your name is De Martainville." "Citizen president," exclaimed the young man, "I am here to be shortened, not to be lengthened! Leave me my name!" A true Frenchman loves a witticism above all things, and the tribunal was so pleased by Martainville's grim response that it spared his life.

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The peasant pharmacopoeia of France is wonderful—most wonderful. Wine is an ingredient of every prescription. In fever cases it is always the predominant one. The French peasant's faith in fermented grape juice is truly beautiful. If his children are stricken with the measles, he gives them beakers of wine, well sweetened with honey and highly spiced with pepper. For a severe cold he administers a quart of red wine and a melted tallow candle mixed. For scarlet or brain fever he gives eggs, white wine and soot well beaten together. Not all their superstitions are curious. Some are pathetic. A mother, for instance, often buries her dead child with its favorite toy or her own beautiful hair in the coffin, "that it may not feel quite alone."—Paris Correspondence.

Corrupting: an Gcho.

At Killarney every visitor hears tfome laughable stories. Here is one—new and fresh, I think—which I picked up during my last visit to the glorious lakes: A number of boatmen who were quarreling about the division of "tips" indulged at the top of their voioes in a good deal of profane language, which the marvelous echo repeated verbatim. "Arrah, lewk at that, now, for a soandal," said one of the party who was of a pious turn. "T'achin the poor harmless echo to curse and sware."—Spectator.

Biff Similarity.

""The minister and the policeman," said the young and cynical boarder, "are inseparable adjuncts of civilization." "They are very much alike," said the cheerful idiot. "One is a pairer, and the other is a peeler."—Indianapolis Journal.

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These spells would come on me at home, in the street, or anywhere I might be. "I could not sleep at night. I ate very little.

Different doctors were called in. They said I had neuralgia of the heart, resulting from nervous prostration.

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