Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1894, Page 2

———_—_—_—_— lect, were secret, unless otherwise ordered, Speaker Blaine had held thet it required & two-thirds vote to open the doors of an investigating committee on that occasion. ‘Therefore, continued Mr. Gray, the prece- Gents were not as Mr. Hill had stated them. Instead of being unusual and extraordin- ‘Bry, Secret sessions were customary. Mr. Gray Pays Attention to Mr. Hill. Mr. Gray then, with some temper, revert- @d to the remarks made by Mr. Hill on Tuesday, criticising the course of the com- mittee. Mr. Hill, he sald, on that occasion had called on the committee to stop investi- Gating the newspaper men and go to in- Yestigating the truth. He knew that the Senator from New York was captivated by newspaper applause. But, said he, if Mr. Hill would sit down by his native fireside far from the maddening crash of newspaper Plaudit and allow his common sense full Bway, he thought he would see that this was not a fair way of stating the course of the committee. The report made by the fommittee, when the witnesses had been re- pores as contumacious, had ‘contained all e testimony taken up to that time. When the committee met they naturally had cabled first the newspaper men who were responsible for the charges the com- mittee was investigating. They had drawn @side the anonymous curtain, and, meta- p eyeern speaking, had stripped him of he feathers of his pen and placed him like 0 ordinary mortal in the witness chair. But when he refused to answer the ques- tions put to him, aithough they pointed out t in so doing he was violating the law, they had not considered that the investiga- tion was balked. They had taken only time enough to report the facts in connec- tion with this witness to the Senate, as was their duty, and on the same afternoon had proceeded with the investigation. How could it be maintained that this was not the proper course to pursue? When questioned about the charge that the Secretary of the Treasury had been | end of an act not only unworthy of a igh public official, but one that if sub- Stantiated might warrant Impeachment proceedings in the other branch of Con- ess, the witness had replied that he made ne statement upon the authority of a sin- e informant, and had added upon oath hat the informant, so far as he knew, was the only person in possession of that in. formation. When the truth concerning such a charge, E truth it were, was locked up in the heart ff one man could the committee be charged with trifling when it tried to ascertain who that man was? All public men, said Mr. Gray, Itked the Ee of the press, but there was some- ing better than its commendation, and that was the consciousness of duty done, because in the end public men must have the respect of those whose respect they would not do without—thetr own. Mr. Lodge Defends the Committee. Mr. Lodge (Mass.), a member of the com- mittee, agreed fully with what Mr. Gray Lad sald, and argued that the promotion of the ends of justice required the committee fo pursue the course it had followed in holding secret sessions. Mr. Lodge declared that the committee Proposed to probe the @arges to the bot- tom, and to call every person who could throw the slightest light upon them. They ailected the honor of the United States Senate, and, although the machinery at their command, was cumbrous and imper- fect and the instruments in their hands weak and perhaps ineffectual. they would Fut on the stand every man whom it was suggested had knowledge of them and lay the whole matter bare before the the United States. Mr. Hill Not Satisfied. Mr. Hill was not satisfied with the de- fense made of secret sessions. He had Hstened. he said, for one sound Feason why the investigation should not be | Wore Commonweatlers to Try Floating Public. Both Mr. Gray and Mr. Lodge, he faid, had begged the question by seek: to Suard their position with the old argument of courtesy to a Senate committee. He proceeded at some length to point o1 THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1894—TWENTY PAGES. LATE NEWS BY WIRE Wheeling for Prizes ecm New Jersey. FROM NEW YORK 10 PHILADELP The Contestants in the Relay Race Started This Morning. PROGRESS OF THE RIDERS NEW YORK, June 2.—The tri-state (New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) bi- cycle relay race from Printing House square, this city, to Nicetown Lane and Broad street, Philadelphia, was started with the first team of three at 8:35 this morning. Mr. C. H. Luscomb, president of the League of American Wheelmen, gave the word “go.” At that time three men started, going down Park place toward Courtlandt street ferry. There was quite @ crowd to witness the start, and their cheers made the contestants feel elated. The relays are twenty-five miles apart, and the first man over each course gets fifteen Points; second,- ten points, and third, five points. The state winning the greatest mumber of points gets the championship and her wheelmen the six prizes offered. Other contestants who win the first posi- tion in any one or more of the relays will also receive a valuable token of the share taken by them in the race. PATERSON, N. J., June 2.—There was a big crowd at the club house of the Passaic Falls Wheeimen to witness the finish of the first relay in the tri-state bike race. W. C. Roome of Jersey City came in first in 10:191-2. He was followed by F. B. Marriot, South End Wheelmen, Pennsylva- nia, who was a half minute behind Roome’s time. Marriott had a fall about % feet would have won. Frederick Nagle cf the Riverside Wheelmen, New York, finished at_ 10:21 1-2. ‘The second relay started at 10 Isaac W. England of the Passaic Falls Wheel- men made the pace to Boonton, the Boon- ton Cycle Club to Denville and Jules Grie- bel to Morristown. MORRISTOWN, N. J., June came in here first at 12:18. Penna’s | broke his wheel when six miles from Mor- ristown and had to borrow * iaaaeal one. New Jersey was a good secon: New York was far behind and said that he lost control of his wheel on accont of a punctured tire. | The third relay started from Morristown at 12:20. —_. } NAVAL CADETS DEFEATED. Eight-Oared Race Won by the Penn- syivania Crew. ANNAPOLIS, Md., June 2—The Univer- people of sity of Pennsylvania today won the three-| | mile eight-oared race with the naval ca- | dets, beating them twenty-three seconds or —— four tengths. Time, 19.33. | eS | DENVER, Col. June 2—The thousand or | more Coxeyites who have gathered in th: | city, aided by members of the Carpenters’ | Union, begin today constructing boats in from the finish and but for this mishap he. that newspaper men, in recording the cur-| Which they will float down the river. One rent history of the day, necessarily pro- hundred and ten boats will be built, ma- cured their information from hearsay tes- terial having been donated by the citizens. timony—from widely different and cften con-, Brigadier General Higginson will be in com- fidential sources. He resented as unjust the imputation con- tained In Mr. Blackburn's remark that in de- fending newspaper men he was seeking the Bpplause of the press gallery. He need not Bppeal to Senators, he thought, to remind them that he. during his career, had re- ceived at the hands of the press as scant courtesy as any other public man. He cared nothing for the applause, nor the condem- Pation, of the press, but when newspaper men were In the right, he intended to stand up for them. The Right of the Committee. At this point Mr. Hill became involved with Mr. Allen (Neb.) as to the right of / the committee to force an answer to the question concerning the Secretary of the freasury and its relevancy. Mr. Hill, amid & scattering of applause from the galleries that was quickly stified by the Vice Presi- Sent, denied absolutely the power of the tommittee to investigate the action of the Secretary of the Treasury. He denied the Jurtstiction of the committee, and while admitting that the committee as the tri- bunal making the investigation could deter- Mine the relevancy of questions, its juris- diction must be established before it could compel answers. He pointed out the Hmited powers of a congressional committee in this regard and eited the decision of the Supreme Court in the Hallet Kilbourne case, when a House committee was investigating an alleged Feal estate pool. After some further controversy with Mr. Gray, Mr. Dolph and Mr. Alien on this int Mr. Hill concluded with the asser- | lon that all the facts fully warranted the Introduction of his resolution directing the committee to throw open {ts doors. Mr. Doiph (Ore.) followed Mr. Hill. At the conclusion of his speech Mr. Gor- don (Ga.) asked unanimous consent to have ® vote on Mr. Hill's resolution. Mr. Wash- burn (Minn.) asked if the resolution was before the Senate and being informed that it was not objected to a vote. More Sugar. The consideration of the tariff bill was then resumed. There was some discussion as to what had been agreed to In the way of amendments, and Mr. Jones offered the amendment changing the dates when the sugar schedule should go into effect. He sald he presumed there would be no ob- ction to adopting these amendments, but ir. Aldrich said these amendments were an important feature of the bill, and took the floor to make a speech on the bill. He said it was known from the first that the pending schedule was the most im- portant in the bili; that upon it depended the fate of the bill. It did not need the speech of the Senator from Maryland (Mr. Gorman) to show the people that the adop- tion of this sugar schedule was necessary to secure democratic votes for the bill. He then claimed that the schedule had been revised five times that the public knew of, and that the changes in the sugar schedule were foretold by the rise and fall of prices. On the New York stock exchange it was now weil known, he said, that the sugar schedule was put in simply and solely to Secure votes for the bill. It was an open secret that if this schedule had not been it in the votes of the Senators from uisiana and the democratic Senator from California (Mr. White) would have been lost to the bill It was necessary to get the democratic votes by taxing an article of Prime necessity. It was not a question of Fevenue. He then reviewed the action of the two parties on the subject of sugar and @efended the bounty system. He declared that the bounty provision which had been #0 benefictal to Louisiana could not be re- moved except by the votes of the Senators from Louisiana. He again reverted to the changes in the sugar schedules and laid especial stress pon the last change from specific to ad valorem rates, which were made after the president of the sugar refining trust had issued his ultimatum. He saw by the tes- timony taken before the investigating com- mittee that the senior Senator from Louts- jana had protested strongly against ad rem rates. He was right, and what surprised him (Mr. Aldrich) was that either of the Louisiana Senators would accept it. Mr. Caffery (La.) followed Mr. Aldrich, in which he defended the protective duty as against the bounty system. He drew a run- ning fire from Messrs. Aldrich and Allt- gon. Mr. Caffery. said public opinion was mand of the float Utah second officer. —_- Lynching in Colorado. GOLDEN, Col., June 2.—Alexander Mc- | Curdy, who horribly mutilated his step- brother, Chas. Berry, whom he suspected of intimacy with his wife, last winter, was taken from jail this morning and lynched, after being subjected to the same treatment and General Carter of he gave Berry. 4 —— es ‘Western Floods and Storms. VANCOUVER, B. C., June 2.—The Fraser | Tiver is still rising. The work of rescue still continues, though nearly all of the tm- beriled settlers and as many of their cattle and horses as remain alive have now been | carried to places of safety. Funds are be- | ing raised and provisions collected for the homeless settlers. Indications are that the river will rise much higher. There ts little prospect of the railroads resuming traffic for several days. | The storm which ended last night was |the heaviest ever recorded by the signal service on the summit of Pike's Peak. | There are seven feet of snow on top of the mountain. A dispatch from-Denver states the moun- tain railroads have resumed sending out | their trains regularly, but some of the | branch lines are still impassible. A cloud burst has occurred in the Sierra Madre mountains, about seventy miles south ot Durango, Mexico. Ten charcoal burners in camp were drowned. —— THE PYTHIAN CAMP. The Plan Decided Upon at the Meet- ing Last Evening. The plan for the great camp grounds on which will be pitched the tents for the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, at the encampment here in August was considered at a meeting here last evening of the com- | mittee on camp and camp grounds. The | plan was approved, and Mr. Richard Good- | heart was asked to address a letter to Col. | Wilson, the commissioner of public build- \ings and grounds, submitting the details | to that official. It is proposed to occupy the thirty acres of the mall directly about the monument. It fs estimated that this camp, if the plan 1s carried out, will ac- commodate 18,000 soldiers. | The committee has already made a con- | tract with a firm in Columbus, Ohio, for | tents with the privilege of ordering a thous- and more, if needed. The dress parade of the Uniform Rank will be held in the white | lot. The competitive drilsl at the base ball park in northeast Washington. A communication wil Ibe sent to Col. Wil- son in regard to the use of a flag pole, | which, {t is stated, the government has, in its possession. It is probable that the privi- leges of a barber shop and photograph gal- lery, &c., will be advertised. ——— ANOTHER RAILROAD. Bill Introduced Today for the Capital Company. Mr. Catchings of Mississippi has intro- duced a bill in the House to incorporate the Capital Railway Company. The incorpo- | rators are John B. Stetson, Augustus Burg- dort, Clarence F. Norment, A. E. Randl H. U. Sims, H. C. Longnecker, W. F. Sny- | der, J. B. Lewis and W. H. Randle. The bill authorizes the company to run and truck along the following route: Beginning at a point on the District line near the Potomac river, southeast of Shep- herd’s Ferry, thence north by such route as shail be approved by the District Com- missioners to the south side of the Eastern | branch, near the south end of the proposed bridge at the foot of ist street or South Capitol street; thence across the bridge and north on Ist street or South Capitol street, | a8 may be approved by District Commis- | sloners, to M street; thence over the tracks | of the Anacostia railroad and the Metropol- | {tan railroad to 9th street, returning over the same route. —— ae cars for carrying passengers, parcels, milk | MR. BIRNEY APPEALS. A Novel Move by the Government in the Ainsworth Case. The action of District Attorney Birney yesterday, in filing an appeal from the de- cision of Judge McComas in sustaining the demurrer to the indictment recently return- ed against Col. Fred C. Ainsworth, was un- expected and practically unheard of. It has often been contended, however, that the prosecution should have the right of appeal in criminal cases, at least from rulings upon interlocutory orders, and Mr. Birney being one who holds such an opinion, hopes by noting an appeal in the Ainsworth case to obtain a ruling in the matter from the Court of Appeals. The decision of Judge McComas 1s said to have been a matter of considerable sur- prise to the District attorne: less disappoiatment, for it is understood that it was believed in his office that the recently returned indictment would surely be sustained. The district attorney holds, it is said, that the opinion of the Court of Appeals in quashing the first indictment did not au- thorize Judge McComas in going as far as he did in sustaining the demurrer of Col. Ainsworth to the second one. Mr. Birney is urderstood to hold that the decision of Judge McComas imposes upon the pleader duties never really intended by the Court of Appeals, and duties not authorized by usage or by the authorities upon pleading. The question understood to be at issue in the whole matter is that of responsibility for the alleged criminal negligence, which resulted in death. That this line of respon- sibility may be definitely fixed is said to be one of the reasons for Mr. Birney's desire to get the case before the apfellate court again. Clerk John R. Young of the District Su- preme Court stated to a Star reporter today eat he had never known of an appeal by government being allowed in a criminal case. ——~—__. The Trousers Must Be Turned Down. From the Clothier and Furnisber. The chappies In the State Department are in despair. They cannot turn up their trousers any more; that is, they cannot wear them turned up and continue to work in the department. Secretary Gresham hap- pened to see one of the chappies strolling leisurely through the corridor one day last week with his trousers turned up in true London style. The next day this particular young man found a note on his desk direct- ing him to devote himself to an especially uncongenial task and one at which he would hardly care to have his society familiars see him engaged. At the same time a horrid rumor was spread abroad with truly femi- nine emphasis and embellishments to the effect that Kenesaw Landis, the private secretary of Mr. Gresham, and a man who never takes any note of climatic conditions in London, had given the Secretary his word that every chappie found with his trousers turned up should forthwith be treated to a week in Coventry. ———__+e+____. He Knew. From the Detrott Free Press. The teacher in geography was putting the class through a few simple tests, “On which side of the earth is the north pole?” she inquired. “On the north side,” came the unanimous answer. which side is the south pole?” “On the south side.” | “Now, on which side are the most peo- ple?" This was a poser and nobody answered. Finally a very young scholar held up his hand. “I know,” he sald, hesitatingly, as if the | excess of his knowledge was too much for hh m. “Good for you,” said the teacher, ,en> couragingly, “tell the class on which side the most people are. “On the outsid piped the youngster, and whatever answer the teacher had in ther mind was lost in the shuffle. ——+02+—___ Bounty. From the Detrolt Tribune. He had come from afar to woo the native princess. But he had got left at that. | His tawny locks and pink and white com- plexion contrasted strangely with her ebon hue as he stocd and hoped against hope af- | ter she had told him it was impossible. “But,” he protested, “I cannot live with- out you. A sad, sweet smile curved her lips, and a softer light shone from her lustrous orbs. “You are mistaken, sir,” she sald. He started and his face flushed. “Doubtest my word?" he demanded. She shook her head. “No, mon cher''— She had picked up a few words of French from a couple of bunco steerers who had visited her father, the king. “It is because you do not understand. You can live without me. Bread grows wiid here.” She clapped her hands and slaves came and carried him out. ———— From Texas Siftings. “Got any cow bedi asked a Texas farmer, stepping in a hardware store in Dallas. “Yes; step this way.” ‘Those are too small; haven't you any larger?” asked the farmer, after he had | Inspected some small cow bells. “No, sir; all the largest ones are sold. Rusticus started off and got as far as the door, when the clerk called after him. “Look here, stranger, take one of these belis for your cow and you won't have half the trouble in finding her, for when you hear her beil you will always know she can't be far off. If you were to buy a big bell that can be heard a long distance, you would have to walk yourself to death finding the cow.”* The farmer bought the bell. eee And There Was Light. From the Utica Observer. “I was sexton of Grace Church when the Rev. Mr. —— was rector there. It was a summer night and rather warm, so when the rector commenced his sermon I turned make It a little cooler. “The text that night was, if I remember it, ‘Let there be ght.’ I was sitting in the rear part of the church, not paying particularly close attention to the sermon, nor, in fact, to anything else. Suddenly the rector exclaimed loudly: ‘More light! More light!” | “I Jumped for the stop-cock in the gas- | supply pipe and turned on the gas full head all over the church. Well, sir, you ought to have seen those people! Some of them laughed right out, and those that didn't had hard work not to. I found out afterward that when the rector said ‘More light!" he was not giving directions to me, but quoting the dying words of Goethe.” —s0- A Monkey's Strategy. From the St. Loult Globe-Democrat. “While traveling through Europe several years ago,” said Benjamin F. Sutton of | Troy, was exhibiting a performing monkey. The beast was as dextrous a thief as could be imagined, every day he stole enough food for his sub- | sistence. He told me to watch him for a few minutes. I did so, and presently his date seiler was sitting on the ground, with his basket beside him. Here his master put him through a number of tricks, and elthough I could see the monkey was eyeing the fruit, he did not make any demonstra- ton toward taking it. In the midst of one of his feats he suddenly started up from the ground, and, uttering a cry of pain or rage, fixed his eyes full on the face of the | date seller. Then, without moving the rest could hold in one of his ‘hind hands.’ The | date seller, being thus stared out of coun- tenance, and having his attention diverted by this extraordinary movement, nothing of the theft until told of it by a bystander,” eee] | down the gas in the body of the church to |p 3 of his body, he stole as many dates as he | knew | Y¥., “I came across a man who! and his master told me that! keeper Jed him to a spot close to where aj A KNOWN QUANTITY. It is the practice of The Star to print on Saturday a sworn statement of its circulation day by day for the Preceding week. It would seem self- evident that the advertiser is entitled to this protection, but The Star is alone in this custom as far as Wash- ington is concerned. Below will be found the statement for the week just past. The average circulation exhibited is believed to be much more than the combined circulation of the other Washington dailies, and fully five times that of its afternoon contem- porary. Cireniation of The “Evening §: SATURDAY, May 96, 1896. nese hl 446 MONDAY, May 98, 1894 85,577 TUESDAY, May 99, 1804. - 35,850 WEDNESDAY, May 80, 1894. +33,161 THURSDAY, May 31, 1894. FRIDAY, June 1, 199 85,591 ‘Total... Datly average... F. 1 solemnly swear that the above statement rep- Tesents only the number of copies of THE EVEN- NG Stan circulated during the six secular days end- ing Friday, June 1, 19%4—that is, the num- berof copies actually sold, delivered, farnisied ormailed, for valuable consideration, to bona fide purchasers or subscribers, and that» none of the coples so counted were returned to or remain in She office unsold. J. WHIT. HERRON, Cashier Evening Star Newspaper Co. Subscribed and sworn to before me this @econd day of June, A. D. i894. W. P. VAN WICELE, ROYALISTS’ CLAIMS The Proposed Limitations of the Right of Exercising Suffrage. THE CONVENTION'S PROBABLE ACTION The Political Status of the Natives Past and Present. THEY ARE LIKE CHILDREN Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, May 14, 1894. A leading problem before the coming con- stitutional convention relates to the share to be assigned to the native population of these islands tn legislative power. The gov- | ernment is being clam orously denounced In the royalist papers as intending great in- justice to them in the distribution of suf- frage. Excluding Astatics and illiterate Portuguese, the large majority of those who have hitherto voted have been native Hawalians. It is claimed with energy by the royalist press that this majority should rule the country. Incapacity must not be considered. Monarchical preposessions are not to stand in the way. The fact that to give the natives a contrdiling vote would surrender all the results of the revolution must not stand in the way. The revolution was made for the purpose of union with America. Therefore American principles must govern—that is, every citizen must have a full vote—else America cannet ap- prove and annexation will be impossible. So the royalists scornfully denounce the government as intending to organize a republic on anti-republican principles and taunt them with being unable to make a republic resting on popular suffrage, and s0 | having any fitness to enter the federation of the United States. ‘The government and their supporters be- Neve on their part that it ts entirely prac- Ucable to construct a truly republican gov- ernment which does not confer equal pow- ers upon every voter or every citizen. Cer- tain limitations of suffrage are undoubtedly contemplated in the new constitution now to be made, which will secure the chief pow- er in the government of the country to those classes who have sufficient character and capacity to exercise it beneficially, and which will materially limit the influence of the ignorant, shiftiess and incapable classes, to which a majority of the native Hawalians belong. Where such an undesirable and un- safe majority exists, the democratic ideal of universal and unlimited suffrage can- not be attained. Provisions for safe and capable government must be secured, even at the sacriice of democratic ideals. The case of the southern states in dealing with | their negro vote hardly needs to be ad- | verted to. It is claimed, however, and with great in- sistence, that thest islands belong to the natives, and theypmust noi be dispossessed of the right to govern their own country. awali for the Hawailans” was the cry raised by the renegade Mormon, Gibson, by which he worked himself into power. The | demagogues all preach to the poor Kanak: that Hawaii is their country, and that they have the exclusive right to rule it. The for- eigners are interlopers, and have no right to a voice in the government of the coun- like that of 1887, is a ece of foreigners’ usurpation. It is an un- ust and wicked grasping at the power which rightfully belongs to the aboriginal people of the land, Hawaii the Exception. It is particularly worthy of note, right here, that the Hawaiian monarchy has pre- sented the one solitary instance in history where, in the presence of a strong white colony, the sovereignty continued to be ex- ercised by an aboriginal race. This case of the Hawailans has been wholly exceptional. Everywhefe else on the globe, and alway wherever the stronger race have begun to encamp on new territory,, their earliest step has been to subdue the weak dark race and take away their power. Long since every group of islands In the Pacific ocean that was worth occupying, except the Ha- wallan, has been taken without scruple and ruled by some European power. This course was natural and Inevitable. It has been usually much for the advantage of the weak and !ll-managing natives. The recent case of the Gilbert Island: of Honolulu, ts in point. Those tribes have for thirty years past been gaining in order and civilization under missionary teaching, but were much in a state of anarchy, fight- ing causelessly among themselvesy They Were also subject to impositions from un- principled traders, and to decimation from “blackbirding’ vessels recruiting laborers for plantations. Two years ago England took possession of that group, and now gives them good and firm government, with peace and security. The Hawaitens were in superior to the Pactfie groups by Cook, time, consolidated under one king, Kame- hameha, who owed his success partly own remarkable character, and largely also to his possession of ‘the guns and powder and ships of the white man. He established peace and a rude but substan- tial justice, and made the country safe for the residence of white men, with whom many respects other savage tribes of the Soon after their discovery managed by foreigners, who had earned the confidence of the king and chiefs. The competency of the Hawailan government became generally recognized, and its inde- pendence guaranteed, with a native sov- ereignty managing its affairs under the guidance of white men. It was, as noted above, the solitary instance in history of such conditions. And the essential element of the situation was that competent and trustworthy white men always held the reins of power and directed affairs. Had the natives at any time in the past fifty years undertaken to run the government themselves it would have gone to pieces. Commop People Never Ruled. During ull this time, up to the recent abrogation of the monarchy, what share did the common people have in the govern- ment? This !s a very important point, as indicating what share they now should enjoy, according to the precedents of their past. That share was always very small, and their influence very limited. The simple fact is that there is no precedent in the past of the native Hawaiians for giving a popular majority the controlling power in the government. The majority of the common people have never ruled in Hawaii, either nominally of in fact. All this clamor that the destiny of the govern- ment of Hawali should be left to the de- cision of the majority of the natives has no foundation in precedent, any more than it has in reason. The White Man’s Control. This constitution of 1887 did not in any way diminish the power of the common people. Indeed, it gave many of them a new power, that of participating in the choice of nobles. They retained all of the powerof choosing representatives which they ever had, and the voice of those representa- tives could no longer be perverted by the king's control of them as officeholders. It was only the king’s power that suffered. That was largely taken from him, and as- sumed by the income-holding electorate, the majority of whoin were whites. Under this constitution of 1887, the white man held substantial control in the _ apa De body also had power to expel & cabinet by a vote of want of contidence, and so still far- ther controlled the government. It is thus shown, which is the point now in question, that the common people of Ha- Wail have never at any time possessed or exercised control of the legislature. That Was always lodged elsewhere, first in the king, and afterward in a special electorate, composed mainly of whites. There is thus no precedent for bestowing upon a popular majority of Hawaiian voters sucn control of public affairs. If the new constitution keeps that control from them, as it un- doudtedly will, it will deprive them of noth- ing in which they have ever possessed. It will simply continue, as far as as the native people are concerned, the distribution of power which has always been made. The large white colony which has been growing up in Hawaii for seventy years does not accept the position of a merely tolerated ; guest. We belong here, fully as much as do the aboriginal population. A large propor- tion of us were born here. The parents of large numbers were also born here. Min- ister L. A, Thurston's father and mother both ef them were born in Hawaii and spent their lives here. We fail to under- stand why the aborigine! population have | any superior right to ourselves in the coun: | try. Their ancestors came here from the Friendly Islands, in the neighborhood of Samoa, about twelve hundred years ago. They were of the “savage” races of man- kind, of a much higher and more kindly type than the ordinary savage, yet below | the average in the scale of humanity. They never rose or advanced in that scale, until Americans brought to them Christianity and civilization. Our white people have set- | tled here. We have made Hawaii our home, | With these aboriginal Polynesians. We have not crowded or oppres: them. They have diminished to one-fifth of their number eighty years ago, but entirely through their own frailties, and not through any unkind- ness of ours. We have cherished and sup- ported the authority of their chiefs, until Ss LS Ee ale FINANCE AND TRADE A Rise in Sugar of Over Three Points. LEAD AND GAS TRUST ALSO ADVANCE Interesting Points in the Bank Statement. GENERAL MARKET REPORTS Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. NEW YORK, June 2.—After two hours of listless and spasmodic trading, during which the speculative inertia of the past week was emphasized almost to the point of complete immobility, stocks in the regu- lar list were left, in many instances, with- out the alteration of a single fraction. Where changes did occur they raised from 1-8 to 3-8 per cent only. Atehison was sold by Boston houses in the belief that short sales even at the present level will | insure a 3 per cent profit. A half-hearted attempt to increase the short interest in the Grangers, especially St. Paul, made no impression on the price of any member of that group. The premium list contains the names of nearly every stock that has re- efforts to force out long holdings. The recent selling of Jersey Central has has necessitated no erasures on the stock | books of that company. Earnings during the week have been uniformly discourag- ing, but officials are hopeful of making a | st better showing in the near future, and are inclined to take a more cheerful view of the situation. The passage of the tariff bill is relied upon to inaugurate the im- provement. industrials were unusually active and strong, and this of course heightened the effect of the dullness in the balance of the list. Sugar was advanced without in- terruption to 1043-4, a gain of 31-4 per cent from the opening price. The situation in Washington is unchanged, and there was no substantial reason for today’s ad- vance beyond the fact that the confidence in the success of the schedule ts practically universal. The rough places are not yet passed, however, and today’s prices are likely to be replaced by others nearer par before the final signal for the upward move- ment is given. The buying comes from strong interests who are not likely to be forced out easily. even should a break come, and are fully prepared to increase their holdings at lower ices. Chicago Gas gained 11-8 per cent to 75 1-2, eclipsing all previous records on the recent advance. The continued buying by Mr. Keene, the recognized manager of the bull pool, is satisfactory evidence that the pending quo warranto proceedings are not likely to interfere with the payment of dividends or the future welfare of this property. It is stated on good authority that the price will be marked up well into the eighties before the month is out. Aside frem the operations of the pool, the stock on merit is selling too low, and will be helped up by friends in its own territory. National Lead advanced 13-4 per cent In sympathy with the improvement elsewhere, and closed strong on small dealings. The bank statement reports a loss of only $150,000 in lawful money, but a decrease of over $1,750,000 in loans, which, with the loss in cash holdings, makes the deposits $2.000,- | 000 smaller than last week. The only im- nearly all those chiefs have disappeared, and their people form only two-fifths of the whole population. Our position is that the claim of the Lipeoim, $ bid, 8% asked. Commercial, 5 “ttle Insurance Stocks.—Real Estate Title, 112 bid, 120 asked. Columbia Title, 7 bid, 8 asked. Washington Title, 5 bid, 8 asked. District Title, 10 bid, 15 asked. Telephone Stocks.—Pennsyivania, 35 bid, asked. Chesapeake and Potomac, bid, 544 asked. American Graphophone, 4 Carriage, bid, 5 asked. Pneumatic Gun bid, 30 asked. Miscellaneous Stocks.—Washi ce Mar- ket, 15 bid, 20 asked. Great Falis Tee, 187 bid, 150 asked. Bull Run Panorama, 15 bid, 19 asked. Norfolk and Washington Steamboat, 90 bid. Lincoin Hall, 80 bid, 9 asked. Inter-Ocean Bullding, 85 asked. ———— High. Low. Close, Et A ot at fae pd vt BH a1 ais By i. shad 8 11.77 11,70 11.70 Mas IL ILS? 6S 69 465 670 687 670 677 #672 617 T 66 6 612 6. 612 e12 Gloee. t. T20 Ta ee | timorb; | Rever be known, for the origin is lost in the | ist of ages, the record extending back be- | yend’even the mythical period of man's ex- |fetence. In the book of Maccabees it.is re- corded that at the termination of one of the battles of which that bloody history is so (full the viciprious soldiers tore the skin |from the heads of the vanquished foes. | This would be evidence that the custom of | Scalp-taking was one of the ind even of those people of whom we have | Tecord in the Bible. Be that as it may, it ts an established fact | that the custom is a universal one so far as Savage man is concerned. Whether ethnolo- gists can build a theory of a common origin of man from this or not, or whether this can be taken as an evidence that the in- dians are descendants of the lost Israelite tribes, because of their habits of securing mementos of hair from their fallen ene- mies is something time alone can deveicp. Be that as it may, it is a fact that all Ic- Ain ther » certein extent, scalp their (ae subject of Indian habits and customs deny this, but I believe that no tribe is absolutely free from the taint of | having taken the scalp. ——__— +e +____ Repaired the Spantel’s Spine. | From the Hartford Times. A unique operation has been successfully performed by Dr. James Haley, a veterin- » these islands became, for the first | 0 his | Polynesian native to a share in the govern- ment of the country is to be measured solely by his capacity to participate use- fully in that government. Represented, he has a claim to be, and fully represented, so that his rights and needs, as original occu- Pant, shall not be neglected. But the mental and moral condition of the mass of the natives is not sucn that they can be per- mitted, through a majority of numbers, to exercise a controlling voice in the conduct of public affairs. This white colony of over 20,000 people owns or controls over twen- | ty-five millions of dollars’ worth,of property in plantations, mills, shipping, mercantile es- tablishments, &c. This is a great organized system of affairs to be conducted and con- | served. It demands brains and character of |no mean order to handle it. To suppose that ail this system of affairs is to be yield- ed into the governmental control of an Ig- norant and incapable mass of Polynesian natives is an absurdity. Perhaps, ultra- democratic theories call for it; but our prac- tical, sensible Anglo-Saxons are not gov- erend by mere theories. We see what will | Work, and follow that. As to republican in- stitutions, we know of no mule that requires the vote of every man in a republic to be of | equal value. Whatever custom may prevail in the United States, there is no stipu' tion to that effect in your Constitution. In guaranteeing republican government to each state, there Is no such definition of republican government. A Test of Intelligence. It 1s not proposed in Hawaii to make any | distinction of voting pri@lege as to race, | unless, pechaps, Asiatics should be excluded | from citizenship. Polynesians will stand on | equal terms with Europeans, by right as | first occupants of the country. One rule as | to suffrage will be made to apply to men of all races. There will be some educational standard adopted. Perhaps, for voters for the upper house, a higher eduoational test | Will be adopted. There ts no doubt that the |income or property qualification for this | | higher class of voters will be kept at least | as high as under the constitution of 18S7. Such income or property test will secure in- telligence and responsible character in a majority of such voters, while the lack of such qualification is presumptive of inferior- ity in capacity and character. Not a very small number of the natives will be able to pass this test, and most of those persons | will vote judiciously. The great majority of the natives will thereby be, excluded | from electing senators, while a mbjority of whites, except Portuguese, will participate in such election. As the natives improve in elvilization and in earning power, as it is to be expected they continue to do, larger numbers of them wi!l be represented In the upper house. At the present time the ereat mass of the native Hawaiians are still in the inferior | and undeveloped mental plane which they (have always occupled, as compared to the | European or to the ‘Chinaman. The Ha- | Wallan is markedly childish in his mental | development. Here and there are indi- viduals who exhib{t mental activity. The majority even of the prominent peo} among them show very imperfect mental ‘action. If one listens to the speeches which | are copiously poured forth by the average | Hawailan member of the legislature in his | own tongue they are a mass of repetitious | | verbiage, with an extremely smal! amount of definite meaning, which the skilled in- terpreter renders into English in a dozen words for several minutes’ talk, often say- ing, when the speaker says, “now in- terpret.” “he only repeated the same he said before.” At the sessions of the legis- lature the native members bring in piles | of petitions from their constituents, com- | monly for objects which have been mooted | among the candidates for election. Most of such petitions are for objects obviously and ridiculously objectionable. Among the most common have been petitions that foreign- ers should be excluded from holding office that the laws should he made solely in the Hawatlan tongue, or more commonly. that the Hawallan version of the laws should be the authoritative one in legal construction, jinstead of the English version. Very |numerous are the petitions for repeal of | | the dog tax, intended to keep down the | jnumber of ‘Kanekas’ worthless mongrels. A leading class of pe- | titions have been for the repeal of the law for the segregation of lepers. The ordinary Hawaiian desires nothing more than to turn all the lepera loose to eat and sleep | /and mingle freely with their kindred, In all | the functions of life. Sanitary restriction | is an idea remote from the childish mind of the Kanaka. multitudinous and | portant feature of the stetement is found | ary surgeon of New London. A handsome | Richmond Terminal. | Masonic Hall Association Ss, in the fact that the recent-drain on the banks caused by the gold exports is prac- tically offset by the receipts of currency | from the interior. The statement in de-| tail reports: Reserve 400; 4 Increased, 9654,200: deposits decreased, $2.060,400, and circulation de- creased, $57,400. ee FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The following are the opening, the ess and the lowest and the closieg prices of the New York stock market today, as rey ea oy Corson & Macartney, members New York stock exchange Cor dents Messrs. Moore & Schley, No. 5? Open. High. Low. Close 2 nS Sug a % Chesapeake and Oulo. Cc. C. C. and St. L.. ‘Chicago. B. and @ Denver and Rio Grande. Dis. and Cattle Feeding General Electric ashi Long Istana Traction... Metropolitan Traction. Mauuattan Elevated... Micngan Central. Missour! ew Jersey Cen! New York Central, "> Y.and New England. C. and St. Louis. Northern Pacine.. Nortuern Pacific, pfd_ North American... Pacific Mau....... Phila. and Reading Puliman P. Car Co.. Texas Pacite. 8% Sy Sy Se Tenn. Coa! and Iron. 8 (BOS Union Pacttie . “ew w Wavasn .. tee ‘ Wabash. pt Wheeling & Wheeling & LE pfd. Westeru Union Tel. Wisconsin Central. Buver. . Washington Stock Exchange. Government Bonds.—United States 4s, Tegistered, 1007, 112% bid, 113 asked. Ustit- ed States 4s, coupon, LWT, 113% bid, Lid asked. United States 5s, 117% bid. District of Columbia Bonds.—20-year Funding 5s, 10 bid. 30-year Funding 6s, gold, 114 bid. Water stock currency 1901, 115 bid. Water stock currency 7s, | 1908, 120 bid. 3.658, Funding currency, 112 bid, 115 asked. Sigs, reg. 2-10s, 100 bid. Miscellaneous Bonds.—Washington and Georgetown Railroad conv. 6s, Ist, 133 bid. Washington and Georgetown Rallroad cony. Gs, 2d, 133 bid. Metropolitan Railroad conv. 6s, 103 bid, 107 asked. Belt Railroad 5s, #0 bid, 100 asked. Eckington Railroad 6s, bid, 100 asked. Washington Gas Com- pany 6s, series A, 116 bid. Washington Gas Company 6s, series B, 118 bid. Wash- ington Gas Company conv. 6s, 132 bid. United States Electric Light conv. 5s, 122 bid. Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone 5s, 98 bid, 103 asked. American Security and Trust 5s, 195, F. & A. 100 bid. American Security and Trust 5s, 1905, A. & O., 100 bid. Washington Market Com- pany Ist 6s, 105 bid. Washington Market Company imp. 6s, 105 bid. Washington Market Company ext. 6s, 108 bid, 107 103. bi asked. Washington Light Infantry Ist 6s, 100 bid. Washington Light Infantry 2d 7s, 100 bid. National Bank Stocks.—Bank of Wash- ington, 315 bid, 380 asked. Bank of Re- public, 225 bid, 265 asked. Metropolitan, | 280 bid, 300 asked. Central, 28) bid, 300 asked. Farmers’ and Mechanics’, 190 bid. | Second, 138 bid, 150 asked. Citizens’, 125 | § | the dog ‘| HM: 1 understand. You want an av- Gesign | tittle cocker spaniel was brought to him a short time ago suffering with curvature of tered by some brute. | The little fellow’s back was twisted out j shape and he was practically His back legs were helpless and he Dr. ot move. He was always a kept moaning and whining. thought when he first saw humane thing to do was to was such a handsome little tor thought he would try to After administering an spine was straightened and the cased in a plaster of paris jacket, 8 and given proper raedicine Finally, this week the plaster was | and the dog stood on his feet for a | in a surprised sort of way, then he his tall, gave a spring into the air a loud bark started off on a dead circie, barking lke mad. He kept about ten minutes and seemed an: show every one he was all right. He is just es good a dog now as was, climbs stairs without trouble about with just as much ease as an: | playfellows. The doctor is quite proud | his job and age owner of the dog ts, course, greatly pleased, to say nothi: himseif. ee! tf g 8g Pri i ii lt #38 ss § ef i bg ay @ 4 ane or ————+e-_______ The Tale of the Polite Merchant. | From Truth. The hardware merchant (to customer just entering): Good morning, sir. Customer: I want one of those things that you fasten on a door so as to make it | shut itself. | H. M.: Oh, yes; an automatic door closer. C.: That's it; and it must not be high priced. Hi. M.: Yes, sir; a cheap automatic door | closer. C.: And not too complicated, either. | tomatic door closer of simple and small cost. C.: Exactly. But not one of those infer- | pal things that slam the door to with a bang. |_H. M.: That would be a nusiance, of an automatic course. What you want door closer of simple design, small cost and with an easy spring. C.: That's right. But I don't want it to | Close the door too slowly, either. | HL M.: In other words, you require some- | thing faster than cold molasses. . | what you are looking for is an automatic door closer of simple design and small cost, that is neither too slow nor too fast. | C.: That's all right. And, besides, it mustn't be like some I have seen, where a man needs the strength of an ox to open the door. Now, let's understand H. M.: Very well. each other. You want to buy an automatic door closer, simple, cheap, neither too slow nor tco fast and easily operated. C.: Correct. Show me one. H. M.: I'm very sorry, sir, but I do mot deal In automatic door closers. Hl —_——_—_+e.—__-__ | Tracing Rack a Common Saying. | From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. | It ts curious bit of literary exercise to | take a common saying and trace it back to its origin. Take the common saying, for Instance, “All that glitters is not gold.” It is found in current literature everywhere, and in a dozen different forms. Dryden ren- ders it, “All, as they say, that glitters ts not gold.” Spenser says, “Gold all is not | that doth golden seam.” Lydgate has the same idea in the words, “All is not gold that outward sheweth bright.” Chaucer ex- presses it in somewhat different phraseol- ogy. Midtieton has It, “All is not gold that giisteneth,” and Shakespeare says. “All that giistens is not gold.” Go a little further back, however, and the same expression is found tn the monkish collection of proverbs, and there is no doubt {f a classical scholar were to set to work with the determination to hunt the proverb down, no matter how long it took, he would find it in Latin, | Greek and most other ancient and dead | languages. It ts a natural outgrowth of sarcasm as applied to fictitious show, and ts no doubt as old as the sclence of metal working. rch of the Place. Up to the present time the Hmit of the | bid, 180 asked. Columbi against bounties. ‘The centenary, or one hundredth regular meeting of the Naticnal Geographic So-| ciety, was held last evening at 8 o'clock in| the lecture hall of the Columbian Univer- sity. Upward of 300 pecple were present, and the event proved to be a most enjoy- able one. One of the subjects for discus- sion was “The Past and Future of Our So- elety.” —_—_— The Warrant Returned. ‘The warrant sworn out against James D. Donnelly, the léth street grocer, charging a violation of the liquor law, as heretofore published in The Star, was returned to the Police Court today and defendant demanded @ jury trial. The case went over until next week. e eee Ons m ee eet ja, 135 bid. Capital, | From the Detroit Free Press, aon z ie was at much pains to be on good terms. | vailans’ business attainthent has 17 bid. West End. 112 bid, 114 asked. | The two drummers were sitting She Gets Damaxes. Changing His Mind, He strongly impr his policy on bial the “sctoralscte Donte te can tee” | aeadere Go MUA Sod nee Lincoln, 94 Nee of a Chicago hotel, descanting pon tr = the subo ee po: industry, + 94% | office Ds in the case of Sarah Williams and her | From the Chicago Tribune. ene eons, who very gladly entertained |There are many very good mechanics | bid, 90K asked. husband, Wm. H., against the Anacostia} While rounding the post at the head of| the Christian missionaries, and pursued a | Y and Potomac River Railroad, the jury yes- terday returned a verdict for the plaintiffs in the sum of $1,000. The suit arose out of Injuries received by Mrs. Williams in being thrown from one of the company’s cars on the 24th of May, 1801. While Mrs. Williams was alighting from the car it was suddenly started, and the old lady was thrown violently back- ward. Her dress caught tn a cogwheel and she was dragged some distance. The dam- ages claimed were $15,000. Mr. Clarence A. Brandenberg appeared for the plaintiffs and Messrs. and Barnard represented the raulroad. ——~—____ The last day of the southern interstate immigration and industrial congress at | Avsusta was largely social in its features. the stairs on his way to bed the sleepy old father of the family knocked his ten- derest corn agains: something hard. In the recoil he upset a broom, a dust pan and a coal bucket that somebody had left standing near the top step, and they went banging down the stairway. In the parlor sat young Spoonamore. As he listened to the horrible the floor above that accompanied turned pale. “Is your father taking that method of showing his displeasure at my coming here, Pinkle?” he whispered, anxiously. ou needn't be afraid of papa, Mr.Spoon- ."* she answered. “He has changed his mind about you.” “Is—is that the way hé changes his mind?” he inquired, nervously fingering his hat. it he racket and the energetic local outburst from | course of friendly concession toward En- glish and American foreigners, as well as the subjects of other powers. The native government was often in critical conditions, and repeatedly had narrow escapes from being seized by England and France. Fifty years ago the immense spiritual ascend- ency acquired by the American mission- aries over the chiefs and the whole people made it possible to organize constitutional and, to some extent, representative govern- ment. The common people, who had all been abject serfs, became emancipated, and endowed with homestead lands. Excellent judges presided in courts of justice. A sound fiscal system was established. The country became one where business enter- prises could prosper. All important de- partments were conducted by foreigners, although a native chief sometimes nomin- ally resided. The government was really among them, but no master mechanics. There is hardly an exception to the rule that no pure Hawalian occupies a position | of im portant trust or responsibility. There seems to be in them ail a hereditary lack of both moral strength and brain force. They are like children. No one who knows these good-natured people would dare to entrust them with votes which would en- able them to control the government and destinies of a country like Hawall, which is growing into such commercial magnitude and central importance at the crossing highways of commerce in this hemisphere. MEHAMEHA. eet Range of the Thermometer, The following were the readings of the thermometer at the weather bureau today: 8 a.m., 63; 2 p.m. 73; maximum, 75; mini- mum, 54. Safe Deposit and Trust Compantes.—Na- tional Safe Deposit and Trust, 120 bid, 135 asked. Washington Loan and Trust, 123 bid, asked. American Segurity’ and Trust, 130 bid, 131 asked. Railroad Stocks.—Waghington and George- town, AW bid, 310 asked. Metropolitan, 93 bid. Columbia, 65 bid, 68 asked. Beit, 30 id. Eckington, 30 Georgetown and repays 10 bid. and Electric Light Stocks.—Washing- ton Gas, 47% bid, er Gas, 80 bid. Uni . 50 asked. Georgetown ted States Electric Light, asked. Franklin, 43 bid. Metropolitan, 70 bid. Corcoran, 60 bid. Potomac, 78 ‘bid. Arlington, 157 bid. American, 160 bid. National Uni “B 16 L. lumbia, 13% bid, crytetigg degey oa, T% asked. People’s, 5% bid, 5% asked. the manners of the clerk, who did not alto- gether please them, when a man came in and the erstwhile haughty clerk became all | obeisance. | “Look at him now, will you?” said one; | “he’s polite enough to that party; I guess it must be the head clerk.” | “Not much,” dissented his companion; “tt | must be the landlord.” “Or the owner of the house. Suppose we ask him,” and they approached the cierk, in suppliant attitude. “Was that the head clerk?” asked the older drummer. Naw,” replied the clerk, scornfully. it the landlord?” ‘Naw. “Was it the owner of the house?” Course not; what you take me for? That's the man that holds the mortgage on the whole shebang.”