Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 23, 1907, Page 4

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Washington, Jan. 22.—Senator For- aker, at the conclusion of routine morning business in the senate, intro- duced a compromise resolution in re- lation to the Brownsville matter, which reads as follows: “Resolved, That without question- ing the legality or justice of any act of the president in relation thereto the committee on military affairs is hereby authorized and directed by sub-committees or otherwise to take and have printed testimony for the purpose of ascertaining all the facts with reference to or connected with the affray at Brownsville, Tex., on the night <. Aug. 13-14, 1906. Said com- mittee is authorized to send for per- sons and papers, to administer oaths, to sit during sessions or recess of the senate and, if deemed advisable, at Brownsville or elsewhere, the ex- penses of the investigation to be paid from the contingent funds of the sen- ate.” The resolution is identical with that intreduced by Senator Foraker on Dec. 19 last except for the declaration against raising the question of legality of the president's act. The words “without questioning the legality or justice of any act of the president in relation thereto” were inserted as the result of the conferences called to harmonize the difference of Repub- lican senators after the introduction by Senator Blackburn of his amend- ment to endorse the president. TILLMAN HAS THE FLOOR. Replies to Senator Spooner’s Recent Attack on Him. ‘Washington, Jan. 22.—In anticipa- tion of a field day in the senate on the Brownsville affair the galleries were packed a half hour before the opening of the session. Senator Till- man took the floor at the conclusion of the morning business to reply to the recent criticism of himself by Sen- ator Spooner. As a prelude to this he paid his com- pliments to senators who had spoken on the Brownsville incident. He said the press had denominated him the “burnt cork artist of the senate” and, he added, it he were “entitled to this appellation or that of ‘Pitchfork Ben,’ at one end of the minstrel line, cer- tainly ‘Fire Alarm Joe' (Senator For- aker) ought not to be ignored at the other. We both do the Orlando and Furioso act admirable.” Senator Culberson was designated as performing a solo on the “bones” in praise of the president; ‘Senator Daniel was called “the brilliant and courtly senator from Virginia, whose specialty is oratory and who works his rhetoric overtime.” : “Next,” said Mr. Tillman, “we have the dying swan, Smiling Tom of Colo- rado, the state recently bought at auc- tion by one Guggenheim, and the swan song is a dirge for the dying Democ- racy of the North, stabbed in its vitals by Ben’s pitchfork. His act is very pathetic, indeed, and always brings tears into the eyes of the audience.” Turns His Attention to Spooner. After paying his respects to other members of the senate in the same vein Mr. Tillman declared that in Sen- ator Spooner's recent speech “his manner was as insulting as it is pos- sible for a senator to assume” and “that the attack upon himself was un- paralleled, intentional and in cold blood. It was acting worthy of Uriah Heap.” Explainitg the conditions in his state during.the “carpetbag” govern- ment in justifylng riot and “ballot stuffing Mr. Tillman said: “We have not shot any negroes in South Carolina on account of politics since '76—we haven’t found it neces- sary.”” He said he would not call the negro a babboon. “I believe they are men, yet they are so akin to monkeys that scientists are looking for the missing link yet.” “Have I ever advocated lynch law at any time or#t any place? I answer on my honor ‘never.’ I have justified it for one crime and one only and I have consistently and persistently maintained that attitude for the last fourteen years. “As governor of South Carolina I proclaimed thdt although I had taken the oath of office to support the law and enforce it I would lead a mob to lynch any man, black or white, who had ravished any woman, black or white. This is my attitude calmly and deliberately taken and justified by my conscience in the sight of God.” Mr. Tillman declared that though he had justified lynching for rape he had deprecated and denounced burning at ' the stake for this crime. He had no hesitation in declaring he voiced the opinion of 95 per cent of the white people of the South “and, whether I do or not, I voice my own.” Senator Spooner Replles. ‘When Mr. Tillman finished Mr: Spooner spoke forty-five minutes in reply, concluding his speech with the e A ST S e e L England's Historic. Miser. John Camden Neild, whose magnifi- cent bequest to Queen Viectoria sup- i plied the funds out of which the prince consort built the present Balmoral castle, deserves a place among the great misers and was as remarkable a man as any of them. He was educat- ed at Eton and Trinity college, Cam- bridge, and was a barrister at Lin- coln’s Inn. At the age of thirty-four 1is father's death placed him in pos- session of a fortune of £250,000, and trom that moment he became a con- firmed miser. Neild lived at 5 Cheyne walk, Chelsea. His blg house was so meanly furnished that it did not even boast of a bed. Two old women, who flid his chores, and a black cat were his sole companions. When he visited his large estates in the Midlands, which he did frequently, he generally walked unless he could get a lift for nothing, and he was not even above taking a gratuitous seat on a dung cart. Sometimes he was compelled by the weather to take a seat on the stagecoach, and there he would sit outside, shivering and dripping, for he never wore a greatcoat, an object of commiseration to' his fellow passen- gers. ! | Lincoln’s Rebulke, The saylng that there are few hon- est lawyers did not hold true in the case of Lincoln. A man once called to retain kith on a suit. “State your case,” said honest Abe. The man did, and then Lincoln said: “I cannot represent you, for you are wrong, and the other party is right.” “That is none of your business if I employ you,” said the client. “Pardon me,” said the man who aft- erward became president; “my busl- ness is never to defend wrong. I nev- er take a case that is manifestly wrong.” “Well, but you can make trouble for the other fellow.” “Yes,” sald Lincoln, “I can set a whole community at loggerheads, I can make trouble for this widow and her tatherless children and by so doing get you $600 that rightfully belongs to her, but I won’t do it.” “Not if T pay you well?” “Not for all the money you are worth,” was the reply. ® A Warrlor Too. The wooden boards that had marked the graves in a certain rural cemetery rotted off and were raked up in the spring cleaning. Consequently on Memorial day when the delegation from the G. A. R. arrived with flags and appropriate floral decorations for their departed comrades the decorat- Ing committee found Itself somewhat In doubt as to which’ grave belonged to Captain Blodgett and which to Hannah Ericson. The mistaken dele- gates heaped their offerings upon Han- nah’s last resting place and departed. That afternoon Erlcson, the widower, drifted, with the rest of his world, to the cemetery. When he saw the flag and the flowers ‘above Hannah the astonished Swede fell to chuckling Joyously. » “Vell,” he exclaimed delightedly, “dose faller bane pooty smart too! Ay tank dat vor all right and som gude yoke on Hannah—he vor pooty gude fighter herselluf.”—Youth’s Companion. Devonshire Terrace. Dickens ‘was twenty-seven years old when, in 1839, he moved from Donghty street to Devonshire terrace. George du Maurier lived for some years in 1 Devonshire terrace. In this celebrated bouse Dickens wrote no fewer than ten of his books—“The Old Curiosity Shop,” “Barnaby Rudge,” “The Christ- mas Carol,” “American Notes,” “Mar- tin Chuzzlewit,” “The Haunted Man,” “The Battle of Life,” “Dombey and Son,” “The Cricket on the Hearth” and “David Copperfield.” Devonshire ter- race was situated at the corner of the Marylebone road and used to be called the smallest terrace in London. It Varied. The late Judge Saunders of North Carolina was noted as an angler, but he had a poor memory as to the welght of the fish he had taken. On one oc- casion a friend, trying to entrap him, sald, “Say, judge, what was the weight of that big catfish you caught the other day?” The judge turned to his waiter and said, “Bob, what did I say that catfish welghed?” “What time yesterday, boss—in de mawnin’, at dinner or after suppah?” The Moon. Astronomers long since came to the conclusion that the moon’s surface Is very hot during the height of the lunar day, which, as will be remembered, lasts two weeks, and very cold during the lunar. night, which is equally long. These extremes of temperature reach thelr height at the lunar noon and midnight and’ are greater than any natural temperatures on the earth. The Golfer. Bertle (to caddie, searching for lost ball)~What are you looking there for? ‘Why, I must have driven it fifty yards farther! Diplomatic Caddie—But some times they hit a stone, sir, and bounce back a terrible distance. ‘Willing to See. . Mrs. Enpeck—The philosophers tell us that blessings often come to us in disguise. Mr. Enpeck (with a sudden show of spirit)—Marla, when are you going to unmask? The Pale. “pale of clvilization,” Tommy? Small Tommy—Oh, some new brand of face powder, I suppose. =Clarke. The root of all discontent is self love, ' French Economy. France in her system of finance and In her whole scheme of economy aids and encourages saving among the peo- ple. The government conducts a vast banking Institution whereby every postoffice has its savings bank depart- ment—its “caisse d’epargne.” Here any one may make a deposit as low as ' 1 franc (20 cents), which deposit Is re- | corded in one’s “livret de la caisse d’epargne” (savings bank book). A eonvenient feature of this system tend- . Ing to make saving easy is that one may make his deposits in any post- office anywhere in France and may withdraw any part or all his savings at any postoffice, without regard to | where the deposits have been made. I have never had a servant in France who had not her “livret de la caisse d’epargne,” and yet the girl or woman, if she had no family of her own to support, almost invariably' contributed to the support of her father’s family. I have had one middle aged “femme de chambre” on whose face each day I eould read pretty well how the bourse was going.—Flora McDonald Thomp- | son in Harper's Bazar. Shopping. Shopping is a form of cruelty in- fAulged by married ladies toward their busbands. It is incipient in young girls, reaches an actlve condition In brides and arrives at its most virulent stage between the tenth and the twen- ty-fifth year of married life. A small, dellcate, slight, nervous, sensitive wo- man who would. faint away at an empty mouse trap will go through the shopping district in from two to'seven | hours and come out refreshed and sus- tained by an unfaltering trust if her husband’s credit is good, while that gentleman at the end of forty-five min- utes has to be carried home on a stretcher. Some women are born shop- pers, others achieve it, but not one of them has it thrust upon her. Shopping Is extensively practiced on week days, | beginning on Monday with a rush and ending on Saturday in time for the opera. It promotes industry. Without It married mes would have time to rest.—Delineator. Shooting a Rabbit. In Sullivan county there is a man who spent a whole day hunting, and at nightfall he was returning homeward empty handed when he found a rab- bit In a snare and still kicking. He released it and was about to dispatch it with the back of his:hand when it occurred to him that gé could not say he shot it, as no shot marks would be found to’corroborate his story. So he tled a string to one of the hind legs of the rabbit, tied the other ead to the fence, backed away twenty yards and fired.. The shot cufcthe string and bunny ran away. Such a good joke on himself was too good to keep, and he told It at the village grocery, little | thinking that it would be handed about, until now if you want to anger him the mere mention of the yarn opens the old sore.—Forest and Stream. Practicing by Ear. When Grover Cleveland was practic- Ing law at Buffalo among his associ- ates was a young lawyer who, though a bright fellow, was rather inclined to laziness. He was ‘forever bothering Cleveland about points of law rather than look them up. himself. At last Cleveland became tired of it, and the next time the young man sauntered in Cleveland knew what he wanted and, getting up, pointed to his bookcase and said: “There are my books. You are welcome to: them. You can read up your own case.” The fellow was caught, but he rose to the occasion. “See here, Grover Cleveland,” he said, “I want you to understand I don’t read law. I practice entirely by ear, and you and your books can go to thunder!” ‘Women Rule as Babies Do. The ordinary man wotld still much rather glorify women and set them on a mock throne, whence he can depose them at will, than have to acknowl- edge in them a real title to regard. It i1s difficult for a man to overcome his essential self importance. Most of us perhaps prefer to have inferiors round us—an abject trait of character, but natural. And only very slowly have we men been getting to prefer our womankind as friends and equals rather than as queens and pets, ruling us as a baby or a’spolled dog does.— London Saturday Review. 5 A Clever Hint. “You are so popular,” sighs the swain, ““You have so many suitors!” “The idea!” smiles the fair young thing. “Why, I can count them all on the fingers of my left hand. See.. The index finger i3 Mr. Smugforth, the sec- ond finger is Mr. Balder, and the third finger—the third finger of my left hand ~—the third finger is you.” | Next day he got the ring for It— Chicago Post. News to Him. “The beauty of this great and glori- ous republic,” saild ‘the American proudly, “is that any boy born here may become president.” “Fawncy!” excalmed the British tourist. “I was under the impression that the president had to bé at least forty years of age.”—Catholic Stand- urd and Times. A Philosopher. A philosopher is a man who when he has hard. luck, due tq his own care- “|lessness and idiocy and other short- comings, can blame it all on fate.— Little Margle (reading)—What 18 the Somerville Journal. Nobody Eilse to Look Like. She—Mr. Dudleigh Is looking more like himself, don’t you think? Chapple ;:n—ns. His twin brother is dead.— ' [ ed by mail. HAS A BRILLIANT RECORD. Admiral Davis Is the Diplomat of the American Navy. New York, Jan. 22.—Rear Admiral Chrarles H. Davis, whose offer of as- sistance for the earthquake sufferers was refused by Governor James Alex- ander Swettenham of Kingston, is the man .who received the surrender of the port of Ponce when he was in command of the Dixie. His record in the American navy is a continuous succession of diplomatic triumphs. He is second in command of the North Atlantic squadron. His title as “grand commander of the Order of Isabella” was conferred by Spain in recognition of his services BEAR ADMIRAL C. H. DAVIS, as personal conductor, as a represen- tative of this government, of the In- fanta Eulalia when she visited this country in 1893 as Spain’s representa- tive to the Columbian exposition. Rear Admiral Davis was selected as the American member of the interna- tional commission which met in Paris two years ago to inquire into the fir- ing by Russia’s Baltic fleet on the British fishing trawlers. Davis sarved as superintendent of the naval ob- servatory at Washington for five years and has been on many ships of the navy through his various grades. FOR ASSISTANGE RENDERED :GOVERNOR SWETTENHAM ASKS GREAT BRITAIN TO THANK " ADMIRAL DAVIS. London, Jan. 22.—Shortly after 6 p. m. the colonial ofiice received a dis- patch from Governor Swettenham ask- ing the British government to convey lo the government of the United States the thanks of Jamaica for the American assistance rendered by Ad- miral Davis. The telegram contained no mention of the incident involving the departure of the American warships, regarding _which the British government is still awaiting direct information. The dispatch of Governor Swetten- ham, asking the British government to convey to the government of the United States the thanks of Jamaica for the assistance rendered by Ad- miral Davis, has been forwarded to the state department at Washington with the additicnal thanks of the gov- ernment of Great Brtain for the aid ' rendered by the American admiral. DIFFICULT TO JUSTIFY. London Press Condemns Language of Govyernor Swettenham. London, Jan. 22—Referring to the withdrawal of the American warships from Kingsten the Pall Mall Gazette says that the “language employed by Governor Swettenham would be diffi- cult to justify in almost any circum- stances.”” ‘At the same time the paper says it thifiks “it is possible-that a prnlsewortgy desire to do his utmost m the cause of humanity pushed Ad- miral Davis beyond the necessities of the case and led him to encroach too far on the sphere of British author- ity.” E The Pall Mall Gazette assumes that both the governor and the admiral were animated by the best of motives, expresses the opinion that “the abnor- mal conditions preclude their ‘conduct being judged by ordinary standards” and -adds: “Englishmen certainly do not wish the misunderstanding to be magnified in any sense of pique and the Amer- ican public ought to be broad minded enough to regard it with the same charitable disposition.” The Westminster Gazette says there can be nothing but regret at the fact that any difficulty has arisen between Admiral Davis and Governor Swetten- ham and, while awaiting a fuller ex- planation, adds: “In the meantime the United States can be assured that we in this country deeply appreciate the generous, sym- pathetic way in which its citizens vol- unteered assistance. to the British colony.” “ ADMIRAL DAVIS AT GUANTANAMO Loses No ‘fime in Getting Away From Kingston. A Washington, Jan. 22 —Rear Admiral Evans has notified the navy depart- ment of the arrival at Guantanamo of Rear Adiniral Davis and the battle- ships Missouri and Indlana and the cruiser Yankton from Kingston. In his cablegram Admiral Evans:in- fcrmed the navy department that Ad- miral Davis’ report would be forward- o e ————". ———————————————————— assertion that the race question could only be settled upon the basis of the enforcement of the black man’s right according to the Constitution. ‘When the Wisconsin senator yield: ed the floor he was followed by Sen ator Carmack of Tennesse?, who took exception to Senator Tillman’s remark about himself. He said that in all of his experience in the senate he had never heard a speech so studiously offensive as that of Mr. Tillman. He referred to the fact that he had been included in the South Carolina sen- ator’s eriticism, saying that Mr. Till- man’s strictures on him had been without provocation. At 4:15 the debate had become so personal that on motion of Senator Telier the doors of the chamber were closed and the vast throng congre- gated in the galleries and on the fioor was excluded. The Wrong Feathers. There is little except the method of inflation that distinguishes the balloon of the twentleth century from the ma- chine used by M. Pilatre de Rozier, the first man to trust himself in a balloon, in October, 1783.. One of his great tri- umphs was to hover over Paris at the height of 300 feet for a space of nime minutes. M. Pilatre achieved all his efforts by means of hot air produced by a fire which be carried In the bal- loon itself and was almost as daring as an Italian philosopher who took flight on a pair of wings of his own con- struction from the summit of the castle of Stirling in presence of King James IV. of Bcotland. That courageous ex- perimenter when picked up from the ground with a broken leg accounted for the collapse of his wings by ex- claiming to the sympathetic courtiers that he had made a mistake in taking some of his feathers from the creatures of the barnyard whose inclination was toward the earth. Had he selected them from creatures with a heaven- ward tendency, like the eagle, the ex- periment would have been successful. He was believed and suitably reward- ed. A Street Sweeper’s Gratuitles. A city merchant used to give an old crossing sweeper sixpence every Sat- urday. One day he discovered he had glven half a soverelgn by a mistake. 8o he hurried back to the crossing. The sweeper said In reply to a question, “Will you come, sir, after 4 o’clock to this address, and I will see If you are right about the coin?’ The merchant did so and found a small office and two clerks busy at work. Presently the 8weeper appeared, but, oh, so altered! He was dressed neatly and looked like 2 business. man. _“Oh, yes,” he sald to the astonished merchant, “you were correct. Our recelpts today were about °| 10 shillings more than usual, so here is your half sovereign.” As the merchant lett the “office;” vowing he would nev- er give to the rogue agiin, the sweeper called after him, “You’ve forgotten your usual sixpence, sir!”—Dundee Ad- wvertiser. Storm Words. “Typhoon” is by no means the only word for a storm that has come to the English language through Portuguese and Spanish. Others are “tornado” and ‘hurricane,” which Shakespeare could still write “hurricano,” OIld time Englishmen, at any rate, spelled the last word in at least as many ways as Shakespeare and other people spelled his name, and some of the spellings Indicate frantic attempts to make the ‘word suggest a derivation intelligible to the English mind. Of such are “furi- cane,” ‘“hurlecan,” “Herocane” and “Harry-Cain.” Even “hurricane” was finally adopted no doubt as suggesting “hurry.” The original was the Carib “huracan,” or “furacan,” the navigators of Portugal and Spain having been in- strumental only in bringing it to Eng- land from the west, as they brought “typhoon” from the east. The Hippopotamus, ‘At times the hippopotamus eéxudes what has been described as a “bloody sweat.” Microscopically examined, the exudation is found to consist of a great number of minute colorless bodies, re- sembling the colorless corpuscles of the blood, and a smaller number of pink colored bodies, made up of some crys- talline substance forming clusters of rodlike and triradiate form. These, be- coming dissolved, give the surrounding fiuld medium a deeper pink color than that observable beforedissolution took place. - Both the colored ‘and colorless ! matter -appear to be.exuded by special pores in the skin which display activi- ty only {mmediately after the creature has left the water. _Auts as Germ Carriers. A’ German bacteriologist was con- ducting an'experiment in the course of ‘which he made use of typhoid infected mice. In another cage he had some .mice which were In good health. Short-. Iy after the uninfected mice also devel- oped - typhold. Investigation showed that ants were passing from one cage | {to the other. Some of these ants were examined, and their bodies were found - to be covered with the typhold ‘germs, . 'Which they were carrying from the sick to the well mice. 3 * & 'Blow of u Swordfish.” - A remarkable {llustration of the fores with which a swordfish strikes a blow has recently been. reported. While re- pairing a ship recently which had com- pleted a long voyage In Pacific waters a sword was found which had success- fully plerced a sheathing one Inch « thick, a.three Inch plank and beyond that four and a_haif Inches of firm timber. It has bien estimated that it would require diue strokes of a ham. “mer welghing twenty-five pounds to 1 drive an Iron bolt of similar shape the same distance.—Shanghal Times. % The Stale Bread of Hungary. In Hungary they do not eat fresk bread. Whether it is because the Hun- garians believe in hygiene more than and sisters or not has never been told, but the Magyar is partial to. stale bread, and the staler the better. His “rozskenyer,” or ordinary black bread, as it is eaten by the very large ma- jority of the Magyar population, is carefully laid away on a shelf and dug out for . consumption months and months after it has come out of the great ovens. If the huge loaf, weigh- ing something like five pounds and for which the Hungarian pays 6 or 7 kreutzer, equivalent to about 3 or 4 cents in American money, has careful- ly been hidden away for two years, it is considered all the better. The Hun- garian - never thinks of where the bread is to come from tomorrow. He thinks of where it is to come from next year, for he has at least a year's supply on the shelves. The Hunga- rlan bakes her-bread 365 days ahead of time. Her Wednesday baking is for the Wednesday of a year to come; her Thursday baking for the Thursday of a year to come. To Cut the Night In Two. Professor Victor Hallopeau, member of the Paris Academy of Medicine, says: The true secret of long continued, valuable brain work is to cut the night in two. The scholar, the inventor, the financier, the literary creator, should be. asleep every night by 10 o'clock, to wake again at, say, 2 in the morning. Three hours’ work, from 2 to 5, in the absolute tranquillity of the silent hours should mean the revealing of new pow- ers, new possibilities, a wealth of ideas undreamed of under the prevailing sys- tem. From 5 to 8 or 8:30 sleep again. Tak- ing up then the day’s work, the brain will be still saturated with the mental fruits of the midnight vigil; there will be no effort in putting into practice or carrying further what was planned or begun those few hours before. The habit may be hard to acquire, but mechanicdl means of waking at first will induce the predisposition.— New York World. The Military Death Sentence. “You know how a soldier traitor is put to death,” said the colonel. “The traitor stands blindfolded, and half a dozen privates shoot at him simul- taneously. But perhaps you don’t know that each of those privates, though he take the most careful aim, may afterward say without fear of contradiction ‘that the traitor’s blood does not stain his hands. This is:the reason: Two of the rifles for this ghast- ly shooting are always loaded with blank cartridges. - Then they are shuf- fled, and no one knows which the harmless ones are. The executioners draw, and each is as like as not to draw a harmless gun. So when they shoot they can solace themselves with the thought that maybe they are only shooting a blank cartridge at the poor blindfolded wretch before them.” Hans Breitmann’s Philosophy. I have found that if we resolve to be vigorous of body and mind, calm, col- lected, cheerful, etc., we can effect marvels, for it is certainly true that after awhile the spirit or will does haunt us unconsciously -and marvel- ously. I have, I believe, half changed my nature under this discipline. I will continually to be free from folly, envy, irritability and vanity, to forgive and forget, and I have found, by willing and often recurring to it, that, while far from being exempt from fault, T have eliminated a vast mass of it from my mind. Itis certainly true, as Kant ‘wrote to Hufeland, many diseases can be cured by resolving them away. He'| thought the gout could be.—Letters of Oharles Godfrey Leland. Time to Change. It was at a table d’hote dinner at a hill station in India that a very young | officer just up from the ‘plains found himself seated next to a lady whom he took for one of the grass widows common In those parts. He made him- self agreeable, but his neighbor seem- ed a good deal out of spirits, so he said sympathetically: “I suppose you can’t help thinking of your poor husband grilling down be- low?” But the lady was a real widow, and when he learned that he changed his seat.—London Answers. Sparing. the Smasher, “I told you,” said the merchant, “to mark this box ‘Handle With Care.* here?”. F “That,” said the college graduate, the Latin for ‘Handle With Care.’” ““How do you expect a baggageman to understand that?” v “He won't and therefore he won’t get mad and smash the box.”—Philadel- phia Press. “Is. For Feminine Jurors. In breach of promise cases.the pres- ence of female jurors among the male Jurors would certainly benefit the men, as they would at once see through the | wiles of their own sex, disconnect the -plcture hat_and the pretty gown and disclose the hussy at heart in the plead- ing, innocent betrsyed one—Lady Vio- let Greville in London Opinion. Superimposed. 1In the hall of a philharmonie soclety the following notice was posted:. “The seats in this hall are for the use of the ladies. Gentlemen are re- quested to make use of them only aft- er the former are seated.”—Il Riso. ' We love to expect, ‘and when expec- tation is either disappointed or grati-' fled we want to be again expecting.— ' Johnson. - s st their American or European brothers | )y Books, Paper Clips and Fasteners, Rubber Bands, Letter FIIIs,‘ Invoices, Typewriter Supplies, Postal Scales, Type-Outfits, Staplers, Paper Knives, & WILL IGNORE MATTER WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT NQT INCLINED TO NOTICE SWET- TENHAM’S ACTION. BRITONS REGRET THE OCCURRENCE ‘tANNOT UNDERSTAND MOTIVE FOR ORDERING AMERICANS FROM KINGSTON. Washington, Jan. 22—From official sources it is learned that no attention will be paid by this government to the action of Governor Swettenham of Jamaica in asking Admiral Davis to withdraw his forces from Kingston. It 18 held here that the act of the gov- ernor is that of a single individual for which the British government is in no manner to be held responsible. : Neither the state nor the navy de- partments have any official advices as to the reason for the abrupt departure from Kingston of Admiral Davis and his rellef squadron, which has returned % Guantanamo. In official circles the episode forms the main topic of con- versation. Acting Secretary of State Bacon, who denied that any unpleas- autness had occurred between Ad- miral Davis and Governor Swetten- ham, is inclined to believe that there was some foundation for the stories published. He thought, however, that ‘when both sides are heard the case will present a different aspect. He was at the White House early and had a conference with the president and while no statement was made re- garding his~call it is believed that it had nothing to do-with the interna- tional phase of the case. Secretary of War Taft, who had just arrived from South Carolina, went immediately to the White House and also saw the president. BRITISH OFFICIALS SURPRISED. Unable to Understand -Action -of yGov- ernor. Swettenham. _ London, Jan. 22.—After conferepces between officials of the foreign office and of the colonial office -the:latter cabled to Governor Swettenham of Jamaica asking hini- for- his Version of the-situation whichiled to thel with- drawal of Rear:Admiral, Davis’ war- ships from Kingston on Saturday. Nothing had been received from the governor concerning any phase of the incident up to noon and his reply to the specific request of the colonial office is now anxiously awaited. No persons: were more surprised at the action of Governor Swettenham than the officials of the foreign office, who learned the first particulars through the press. In the absence of Foreign Secretary Grey the senior sec- retary of the foreign office imme- diately went to the colonial office and suggested the -propriety - of seqyring the governor’s statement without de- lay, as it was felt that the inc{dent might cause irreparable injury to the ‘friendly relations between the two governments if not promptly ex- plained. It was as a result of this suggestion from the foreign office that the colonial office sent a cablegram asking Governor Swettenham to re- port his version of the affair. “It is unexplainable,” said an official of the foreign office to the Associated Press. “If it were not for Governor Swettenham’s letter, which is' so full of inconsistencies, it would be impos- sible to believe that he has taken such action. I am sure no one can re- gret it more than we do and in this T am sure I can speak for Sir Edward Grey as well as for the other officials. of the foreign office, Swettenham hag always been considered to be an % . cellent governor, but it is hard td see how he can justify his letter to Ad- miral Davis. 5 : Charitable View of Case. “The most charitable view to take 15 that he is overwrought by the great neryous strain resulting from-the dis- aster and it is a great relief to hear . that there has not been aiy real trou- ble or foundation. for: any. ‘But this does not explain the governor’s letter, '~ which in one line seems to be chaff - ‘while the next refers to the Amer- fcan efforts to assist in the relief What's this nonsense you've painted | woue 1+ jo gifficult to find Justifica- tlon for the governor’s letter. It is a great surprise to us, as when the news came that 'Admiral" Evans had dis- - patched ships to Kingston and; later, - that men had been landed to help in | maintaining order and in caring for ‘the ‘wounded, the greatest appreciation was expressed on every hand. 8ir | Edward Grey. was particularly appre- . ciative of the kindly consideration 6f the American navy and so expressed . Officials of the colonial office ex- pressed themselves to the Associated Press on substantially:the same lines as those of the foreign office. The secretary - of ' state for the colonies, Lord Elgin, had not had -any word from Governor Swettenham and there- fore did;not desiré to maké any offi- clal statement, but one of the highest officials of the colonial office said: - “*Thus far we are only able to judge from the press reports, but these-ap- pear to show that Governor Swetten- ham indulged in unaccountable sar- casm. Possibly the terrible experi- | ences connedted with the earthquake may have caused him to lose his he and it is hoped that the frightful co: ditions at Kingston will be taken into ‘consideration.” - [ e 8 _himself.” % A s