Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 7 Pennsylvania Avenue, Cor. 11th St, by e Evening Star Ne Com; 8. H. KAUFFM. prea New York Ofice, 49 Potter Building. ‘The Evening Star ts served to subscribers in the city by carriers, on their own account, at 10 cents er week, or 44 cents per month. jes at the ¢eunter 2 cents each. By mail—anywhere im the United States cr Canada—postage prepaid—50 cents Der month. Saturday Quintuple Sheet Star, $1 per year, with foreign postage a $3.00. (Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter.) 7 All mali bscriptions must be paid in advance. of advertising made known on application. Pathe. Che ay ening Siar. See WASHINGTON, D. C. , THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1896—FOURTEEN PAGES ——) Qrinfers’ Ink (the fitfle scBo0” master of advertising), saps: Jt is cfa:med for fe Wasbhing‘on Star, and probabfp truf$‘uffe cfaim:d, :Bat no offer newspaper in f6e counfrp goes info so farge a rercenfagz aff tbe Souses twifBin a radius of fwenfp mifes from t§e office of pufificafion. BOPP OOSOSG9000999000000008 3Thursday your sday for buying :Books—we'll gmake remarkable 3Prices that day. Every Book, no matter what, shall be included in the sweep- ing discount sale. 30 per cent, at least, is taken off regular prices on whatever book you may select. Grand opportunity —take advantage of it. 3DECKER, ™ F St. @ deo-w0a Ta SFSETORSASSOSOSTSESOODEAES DADA SO444064F 000400558409 Thinness Is 3 Disease. Thin people don't get the good they should from ordinary food. It's be- PHPDOOD HSE DOD ODO cause their physical condition is so in paired—the result of disease or in- heritance. COD LIVER OIL 1s itself & splerdid food for thin people. It ches the blood—stimulates diges- teo—ard changes unbealthy action into _hea?th, C7 We on! ave the pure Norwegian Clear and limpid. 25 and 50c. 3 a bottle. 3 W-Thom pson, 703 $5. pHarMAcist, 15th-3 PPPS OV OEE OSS eH ede Tee Name on Leather Goods gratis. (Give one of these: A Traveling Bag for a man or lady—of alligator, 5 Club, i or Gladstone—from 65e. to gh, Dress Suit ‘Case—anywhere from $1 to , A Collar and Cuff Box, 25c. up to $6. A Shipping Bag, 2c. to $5. ‘A Chatelaine Bag, 50c. to $4 A Writing Tat to %. Finest Pocket Books for the least money in this city and largest assortment. AAA OA (‘Kneessi, 425 3th Street. de9-28d ¥ Our Women's | 50 and $5 Shoes | | are unequaled tor | their extreme | | stylishness, ‘ad- mirable workman- ship and perfect fit. In all this season's prettiest styles — trim- looking and com- fortable, $5 pr. E-'Shees made especially to your measure. ( “Meal” footwear, the best money ean secure. ‘WILSON ; 929 F Street N.W. * aea-40d AX “Fine Footwear.”* EO mao Great Reduction In Hair. Switenes, $3.50, formerly $7.00. Swi 2.50, formerly 5.00. 6.00, formerly 10.50. Switches, 3.00, formerly 5. Switches, 4.50, formerly 6.50. attendants in Hairdressing, Shampoo 1,000 Gray Gray First-class ing, ete. ‘Try our “Curlette’ for retaining curl S. HELLER’S, 720 7th Street N. W. A Absolute Painlessness Is a feature of our Tooth Extracting. It ts an instance of the progress made in the dental art. We apply a simple Preparation to the gums, which tem- Ne ve porarily deadens to all pain. No gas; we don't need it Extracting. .... Bie. Artificial Teeth, Per set.. -#8.00 ‘Evans’ Dental Parlors, 1308 F ST. N.W. de5-244 Plants, Cut Flowers or Designs, Etc., Go to J.R. Freeman, 612 13th St. N.W. Getween F and G sts.) no6-3m,28 PRESCRIPTION 4387, Rheumatism. ‘The prescription of one of Washington's oldest and mot eminent physicians. Ii instautly relieves’ permauently cures RHEUMATISM, FoR Proves the health and gives tone and vigor to the re system. Price, $1 per bottle; triat size, Sc. KOLK PHARMACY, 438 7th st. u.w., cor. i POBd-17 We have Dr. Ruddock’s Homeopathic remedies. Geaeh and Crosp Gatarrh Powders, Syrup. Malarial An- sting Powd: ite, Puison Oak SOC Sa'atontne for Quilasa Pills Worms, — Podophyl- ‘Acute Cold in eium Tincture for bend. the Diphtheria and Sore Throat Tablets and Gargle, bilfous attacks. Price, $1.00 a Box. Homeopathic Pharmacy, 1331 G st. oc28-2m.14 J.Jay Gould TREE ORNAMENTS, TOYS, FAVORS, 421 9TH st, me0-1m* Mezzo Tint Photos make dainty Xmas presents—$3 dosen; Glace-fintsh Cabinets, $2 dozen. Sit now and avoid the rush. My life portraits in sepia, yon and water «olor are artistic and ‘skill: OTS ART STUDIO, SS Pa. fully finisted. “Stop in to soe thet, de7-6t Gerome Desio Selling Out Prior to Returning To Europe! I have just received advices which make it imperative for me to return to Europe, and previous to my leaving am de- termined to clase out every ar- ticle in stock. ‘There is but one way to accom plish this end—by cutting prices un- merctiully low. ‘This 4 propose to do! Every article has been marked from 20 to 50 per cent under reg- uler price. Everything we handle is of the highest quality, and this sale offers a splendid opportunity to Christmas shoppers to secure the Dest goods under cost! establishment! Store for rent. Fixtures for sale. Visit our Gerome Desio 1107 F St., North Side. Ripans Tabules. William Johnston is a printer, foreman of the Printers’ Ink Press in New York city. He has often done work for the Ripans Chemical Company and in that way learned what qualities were claimed for the Ripans Tabules. Mr. Jobnston, like some other business men, 1s frequently hurried about his meals and as a consequence has twinges of dyspepsia. “Sometimes,"’ he says, “there is a rising up of a sour, watery substance in the throat that fs not pleasant. I keep a supply of those Tabules now, and whenever there is any trouble I take one. Guess I had better not tell how I take it when Iam at home!” To the inquiry how he did take it, the answer was: “In a glass of beer.” “Your wife don’t take them that way, does she?" “No, but she swears by them, though. She nsed to have dyspepsia and they cured her."* Ripans Tabules are sold by druggists, or by mail if the price (50 cents a box) is sent to The Ripans Chemical Company, No. 10 Spruce st., New York. Sample vial, 10 cents. QVVOAESOPEDNVAT OS EAS SPOT OG FOG DELANY, IMPORTER AND LADIES’ TAILOR, 1719 De Sales St. N. W. Special Offer to Ladies. For one week—previous to moving down town—I will make to order choice of any material in stock for $50. Made in my matchless style—silk lined—and fault- less fit guaranteed. de5-s.t,th,28, GREP EPPS HELE FOE POHEG IO" LAPPEBEOORDODO DOE POMOOSE Consumption IS CURABLE. ©. H. ENGLISH, M. D., 1107 G st. nw. I have positively demonstrated that consumption is due to a form of neurasthenia, or otherwise nervous prortration, a depression of the vital por ers. This theory hos beer tried and verified correct by years of experiment, with successful results. The bacillus of Koch discovered in 1884 is the result und not the cause of the disease. I am prepared to fully prove the truth of my theory by curing any and every case in the earlier stages. I will positively guarantee to cure every case of cousutuption in the primary stages. “Letters from the following named persons are on file at my of- fice: _J. E. BARNES, 1310 N. Cap. st.; G. SCOTT, 433: 7th st. nw.: TJ. PICKELLS, ‘with EB. Mertz, lth and F n.w.; J. WHEATE, $10 12th pw: A. L. CARSON, "1226 6th st." n.w.: H. STYLES, guest at Hotel Buckingham; G. MERT 906 F st. n.w.; Rev. J. H. HILL, 1322 4th st. n. deS-3in, nesses eres ecreccscoccccccce ¢ — ccunts Just now when you have so many * things to buy. You can save a part of * your fuel money if you burn Coke-the $ cheapest—most economical—and clean- S est fuel known! We would like you to * try it, and be convinced of its merits, . + 40 bu. Uncrushed Coke. .$2.90 + 40 bu. Crushed Coke. ... .$3.70 ‘Washington Gaslight Co., 413 loth St. N. W., WM. J. ZEH, 920 20th st. "Phome 476. 5-28 Cece ee crescccccsscccccooce Trimmed Hats — For Xmas Gifts! What more sppropriate or sub- stantial gift than a New Trimmed Hat. Thi reduction sale of ours Tow in progress offers a splendid chance to secure a stylish Hat fur below real value. Splendid variety of Trimmed Hats for $5. Fur Collarettes and Capes at cost. Mrs.C. Stiebel, 3 G St. Mourniog Goods a specialty. deS-s,t,th-20 ES AREY Free Exhibit! of Feather Flowers £ _ All vartettes of Flowers—all colors shades that are characteriatle Of natuont Sowers made of Feathers. ara e shall pleased ve @rop tn, and inspect’ this novel display Arlington Drug Store, Cor. Vt, Ave. & H St. tex. 8. Dageett. “ded-204 J.T. WALKER SONS, 204 10TH ST. NW, CAR- ply Roofing Material.” ~ sel eoeee Recor reecccsecceeccooes 2e8ccece eo8cccce CUBA MUST BE FREE Senator Cullom Speaks for the Pa- triots’ Cause. INTERFERENCE, HE SAYS, MOST COME If Necessary, the Island Must Be Purchased. WAR TO BE STOPPED Senator Cullom of Illinois addressed the Senate today on the Cuban question, and his speech being the first extended discus- sion of the question since Congress recon- vened, it was listened to with marked in- terest and attention. After a brief refer- ence to the President's message concerning Cuba, Mr. Cullom said: “While I am not disposed to criticise President Cleveland, I may properly say that I had hoped he would find occasion to give more positive or emphatic expression of the true American continental policy, which ought to be invoked in all cases where the liberty and independence of any of the peoples of the American continent are involved. And, further, I think we ought never to hesitate or delay when the lines of this policy run parallel and coinci- dent with those of common humanity. “If this position shall strike the mind as being too much in advance of the conserva- tism which has heretofore obtained in ali the schools of diplomacy, I may say that = advance is what the world is waiting or.” Spanish Cruelty. Mr. Cullom referred to certain phases of Spanish history, showing the record of cruelty and oppression. Continuing, he sai “This agency of murder and administre- tor of torture in the name of Christianity continued in vigorous existence in Spain from the reign of Ferdinand and Tsabella, about 1482, until even after the veginning of the present century. During the exist- encc of the holy office, or inquisition, 1,012 persons were condemned and per:shed in the flames, 1 were burned in etliz: and nearly 300,000 were condemned to s vere ana terrible penances. The last vi: tim burned alive perished about 1760. “The above is the mildest and imple. statement of a history of Spanish cruelt to Spaniards from the day of the dis: of America to the independence of United States.” After further historical reference to — eruelty in America, Mr. Cullom said: 5 “While 6!1 the provinces which have re- belled and separated from Spain have, as I have shown, become prosperous and fairly well conditioned, independent countries, the feeble old mother country has gradualiy fallen into a lower and lower state, depend- ing and almost relying for existence upon ihe stolen gold levied upon Cuba, Pueri Rico and the Philippine Islands. Spain con. tinues to be what she always has been—a robber nation. I speak now of the nation, and not of her people. £ Diplomatic Precedents. f we wait for precedent we shall wait fcrever. If a precedent is needed we shall make one. We violated every precedent by the declaration of our own independence on July 4, 1776. We had no precedent, nor did we even ask for advice as to the change in 178) from a confederation to a union of states. When we announced the Monroe doctrine in 1825, it was in defiance of pre- eedent, and was the determination of a rule which has become a law and will never be gainsaid. When we announced not many months ago that we should inter- vene in the matter cf the Venezuela bound- ary and see for ourselves if our rights were to be concluded by foreign dictation, we followed no precedent but that of good American common sense. And common sense has won. “These instances only show that up to tnis time no assumption of authority in re- xard to American affairs which this gov ernment has made has ever been success- fully contested. We now have reached the time to take another step in advance. We have already proclaimed that the United States will have something to say regard- ing matters affecting the American con- tinent, and should now announce that the speedy termination of Spanish control of the islands at the gateway of the Mexican gult is necessary alike to the welfare of those Islands and to the people of the United States. Cuba Must Be Independent. “The present situation cannot continue. A population of 950,000 white Cubans and 500,000 colored Cubans, aggregating 1,450, 000 persons, will never yield and ought never to submit to the bloody military rule of 160,000 Spaniards. The Spanish element, which has always controlled and dominated Cuba since its discovery, numbers only about one-tenth its population. Columbus declared ‘this is the most beautiful land ever beheld by human eyes,’ in October, 1492. Now, in 1896, it is given over to de- vastation and destruction. “Within its borders rages a war which on both sides is declared to be a war either of extermination on the one hand, or liberty and Spanish exclusion on the other. This condition must cease. The Spanish, after two years’ war, have failed to establish peace, and the insurgents have failed to reach their hoped-for independence. “This war of extermination must stop. This Congress of the United States has al- ready recognized by solemn resolution the belligerent rights of Cuba, but so long as it has not received the executive approval it has no force. And if it had it is con- ceded that some other course must be taken. The questicn to be determined is not fully clear, except that the war must cease.” Mr. Cullom then spoke of the progress of Spanish American republics of South Amer- ica. Then returning to Cuba he said: “The government of Cuba by Spain is merely a tyranny, the governmental power being but a machine by which the profits of the resident sugar grower go to fill the pockets of the Spaniard 2,000 miles away. A government whieh years ago suffered dismemberment by the complete severance of its South American territories, which has been humiliated by their success as independent countries, finds its last claim to a profitable dependency now threatened. War to the Last. “The people of Cuba, who have borne op- pressions and misgovernment for many generations, have invited their oppressors toa final determination, and have bidden them welcome to a feast of war and a carnival of desolution. Right or wrong, the struggle-continues, and if we can judge by the history of the men of both armies, it will continue until the last dollar is spent, the last plantation ruined, and the last machette has fallen from the hands of the last man. The fighters there on either side neither give nor ask for quarter. “Cuba today is lost to Spain. The public proclamation of Spanish defeat may rot have been seeny and definitely an- nounced, but in truth and fact the submis- sion of Cuba will never again he yielding as of old. The tribute of twenty-five to forty million dollars annually, so long ex- acted, will never again replenish the treas- ury of Spain. The struggle of 1895 und 1896 may sadly cripple Cuba, but they will ruin Spain. Cuba, with its wonderful goll und climate, and its unparelleled capabilities, will regain in mineral wealth and growth under benign influences far more than she has lost. The blood of her people spilicd upon her soll will yield a growth of inde- pendent citizenship consecrated to liberty. This age is not an age of retrogression. The world of today is not wedded to bai barism in order to perpetuate tyranny or relieve tottering dynasties. Cuba Lost to Spat: “The logic of the insurrection means lib- erty for Cuba, that 4 natfon where the inquisition found a cy nial home, and where the so-called Holy Brotherliood was established for the crushing out of'life and liberty, and where manhood and =woman- hood were made the playthings of brutal might—shall it be that the Inconiing cen- tury will chronicle a longer continbance of such power almost within sight:of the un- furled stars and stripes? An Almighty God reigns still in the universe. All the petty subterfuges of princes and nobles, f kings and tyrants, will fail them in the day of their adversity. i “I repeat that Cuba is already” lost to Spain. Were the struggle to ‘stop now, the incom to Spain from the ehormous exactions she has always levied upon Cuba would be lost for some years. Many thou- sands of young men of the flower of Spin- ish manhood have been sacrificed to main- tain the power of a dynasty.» Many thov- sands of honest, sincere and loyal boys have left their homes in Spain, never to return. Many a mother weeps unavailing tears for the lad who left her side a year ago and who now sleeps in the fever swamps of Cuba. “As a recent writer says: ‘The story of Cuba is a tragedy.’ Yes; that is true, and a history of wrong, of deceit, of murder, of every sort of crime and outrage known to man, unequaled on the earth. Whsn the great discoverer proclaimed Christianity upon that peaceful and beautiful shore, could he have foreseen that for four cen- turies a constant and never-ceasing wail of despair and suffering and death were to follow—bad Columbus known then what we know now, that every foothold of the new world obtained by Spain would be the scene of the most fearful villainies, the most awful and most unheard of outrages— he would have foresworn his religion and expatriated himself. The history of ish colonial domination has everywhere and always been the same. A Political Question, “The American people are coming to the consideration of the Cuban situation, as they have already in certain other cases, as a great political question, a continental question, if you please. And being a politi- cal continental question, it will be decided ultimately by the continent whose inter- ests are most clearly involved. Geographi- cally considered, Cuba cannot belong to Spain. A line drawn from the south Flor. ida headlands to the mouth of the Orinoco places Cuba on the American side. The great Antillean sea, which surrounds Cuba and other islands is but an extension of the Mexican gulf, and geographieally © belongs, as politically it ought to belong, to the American ccntinent of republics, and not to Spain or Europe. Geographi cally Cuba is in American waters and po- litically it is entitled to statehood in the continent of American republics. “This great continental question, there- fore, when stripped of ail its complication becomes, in plain and simple language, Shall Cuba be free? This country will nev: consent to the transformation of Cuba into a slave pen for the holding in servitude ot the captured patriots and insurgenis who are fighting for the dearest rights of men We will not permit that island, a land which has the brightest possibilities for @ people of inte Iigence and enterprise, to be made the abiding place of death and ¢e- struction. She lies too near our land oi freedom to remain the military prison ot the most cruel and unrelenting pol earth. This war now being waged is avow- edly a war of extermination, or utter crushing out of liberty on Cuba’s 50,000 square miles of territory Annihilation of Commerce. “Think of it! An island which in ordi- nary years exports more than a million tons of sugar and many millions of dollars in value of other products. Has the United States no interest in our pwn trade and commerce with an island from which we receive fully 9) per cent of the vast sugar product, and much the larger part of ali her other productions? The inter- ests of the United States, counting all things passing between the two countries, reach perhaps $100,000,000 annually, and already this trade has been practically wiped out. The Cuban exports of sug alone have fallen during the current year- 1896—from above a million tons to less than a hundred thousand. The tobacco trade is dead. Neither will revive until the war stops and the Spaniards get out of Cuba. ‘That is the only solution of the trade prob- tere is about time that this free country ceased to be a police establishment for ene aiding of the most outrageous warfar eine a struggling people. The Spanish government three weeks ago bought and shipped for Gen. Weyler numbers of mules and horses raised in this country and pur- chased in Missourl and other western states. Under present stringent rules as applied by our government, every federal official is a spy to inform against ary at- tempt to convey arms or clothing or sup- plies to Gen. Gomez or Gen. Maceo, or the Cuban army. Men are now under arrest in the United States for attempting to succor their friends and relatives in Cuba. ‘Treatment of Americans. “Has Spain any sympathy for, our friend- ship with this country? Americans have been imprisoned and punisned in Cuba for even expressing sorrow for th? poor young medical students who were cruelly shot and murdered in Havana a few years ago. There is not a family of any standing in Cuba which has not lost one or more of its members by arbitrary arrest aud sui rise murder by armed troops, who marched their victims to the place of blood and shot them in the back. It ts staced by the Cu- bans that during the revolution of 1868, in the five years between 1868 and 1873, there were 2,927 prisoners executed, and from March, 1869, to November, 1873, more than 4,670 persons were reporizd captured and never heard of again. “In the present war, which has lasted about twenty-one months, Spain has wast- ea over a hundred millions, and has put into the field possibly 20,000 men and boys. Spain is beggared today, and vnless she can continue her grasp upon Cuba, she will show to the world the end of the worst- governed country known in two thousand years. As 1 have before intimated, I be- lieve it to be the duty of the United States to use the great power attaching to the nation to declare and to maintain, as a prerogative of right, belonging generally to republicanism, and speeifically to. this repub- Mc, that no charnal house of ruin shall be continued in the West Indian waters, whose waves break at our very front gate, any longer than the time it shall-require to break it up. And if the duty of) suppress- ing this damning blot and erasing it tor- ever from sight shall fall alone upon the. United States, so be ‘t. The effort canno fail. 4 Not for Acquisition’ “We shall not wage any warfare for the acquisition of teritory for ourselves. We shall not claim Cuba as a reward for sav- ing her from the slaughter, put we will not see that fair island iurned again to the mercies of wild beasts and vultures cf war, whose only stimulus is gain. Cuba libre—free Cuba—is the rewatd, and what @ glorious reward will that be. Eyery citi- zen of the United States will ‘eet that his birthright as an American free; will mean something. A settlement be made. The account has been run- ning long enough. To its settle re in- vite the co-operation of all the republics of the American continent, But | the deva®ation must be determin United States must furaish the Y gas a a ar we may sider e propriety of a fair purchase of Cuta. That method has had iss i te ation under previous admt It is not that we want the tel it we mean that the trouble shalt it _set- tlement and conclusion. Let come, and come quickly. Let the and let freedom and humanti THE BOARD OF TRADE| By-Laws Amended at an Interesting and Animated Meeting, MEMBERS’ ANNUAL DUES DOUBLED Manual Training in the Public Schools Warmly Approved. OTHER SUBJECTS DISCUSSED The proceedings of the first regular meet- ing of the Washington board of trade for the season of 1896-07 held last night at Builders’ Exchange were interesting and lively and at times surprising in the char- ccter of the subjects interjected for discus- sion on seemingly unimportant motions. The recommendations of the bsard of di- rectors regarding Article XI of the by-laws of the body designating the standing com- mittees end enumerating their duties, were adopted, save that the suggestion to abolish the insurance committee was not approved. A resolution was adopted pledging board’s hearty support of the measure now before Congress providing for the appropri- ation of $250,000 for the establishment of manual training schools in the District. In connection with this action, Superinten- dent Wm. B. Poweli of the public schools made a very instructive address, and Schou! Trustee Harries briefly described the neces- sities in the case. During the meeting there wer? animated discussions over ihe rela- live merits of home and foreign insurance companies doing business in Washington; the cendition of alley dwellings, and the influence of organized labor. President Woodward called the board to- gether at 7:30 o'clock, and after Secretary Wight had read the minutes of the recent annual meeting, laid before the meeting, without recommendation, a letter from the Trades League of Philadelphia suggesting the present as an opportune time to make an attempt to secure an amendment to the Constitution making the term of the Pres- ident of the United States six years and making an incumbent eligible to but one term. The letter asked the opinion of the board on tke subject. It was referred to the executive committee without discuSsion. A resolution of the East Washington Citi- zens’ Association commending the board for its action in recommending vigorous agitation in behalf of the improvement of the Anacostia flats was read; and the ques- ‘ion of adopting the amendment defininy the duties of standing committees recently Proposed to Article XI of the by-laws, and recently recommended for adoption by the board of directors, was taken up. Duties of Standing Committees. The amendment was as follows: Executive—Shall during the intervals be- tween the meetings of the board of direct- ors possess and exercise all of its func- uions, except as to such matter, consider- ation of which may be prohibited by said board, provided, that full reports of all such proceedings shall pe made to the next succeeding regular meeting of said board; and shall also supervise all financial mat- ters of the board of trade, and submit full written Teports when called for by the president. Bridges—Shall have charge of all matters relating to bridges in and connecting with the District of Columbia. It shall give special attention to the pro- motion of the proposed memorial bridge and a new railroad bridge across the Poto- mac river. Charities and corrections—Shall have charge of ali matters pertaining to the charities of the District, and shall make recommendations to the board of directors concerning the same. Commerce and manufacture—Shall have charge of all matters relating to the com- mercial interests of the District and the foreign and coastwise trade; also of the ubject_ of the further establishment and extensi6n of manufacturing plants and the encouragement of manufactures in the D: trict of Columbia and the sections of Mary- land and Virginia adjacent thereto. It shall be its duty also to obtain useful informa- tion relating to railroads and steamboats, and cause to be kept a chart of all tariffs or charges of interest or value to the mem- bers of this association: to keep itself ad- vised in relation to transportation interests, and to take such action to secure relief for complaints as the board of directors or the executive committee may from time to time authorize. No officer or agent of any pub- lic carrier shall be eligible to membership on this committee. It shall also be the duty of this committee to secure co-oper- ation of the various trade organizations or unions of the District, and to submit for the action of the board of directors such matter of general interest affecting the citi- zens of the District as may from time to time be submitted by or through sald trade organizations or unions. Membership—It shall be the duty of the committee on membership to inquire as to the eligibility of all applicants for mem- bership whose names may be referred to it, and 10 report thereon to the board of directors for final action, as provided in article 2, section 2, of these by-laws. It shall be charged with the duty of ad- vising with and aiding the secretary in securing a proper attendance of the mem- bers and in increasing the membership of the board of trade. Parks and reservations—Shall have juris- diction in all matters relating to the parks and reservations in the District, whether rexisting or to be hereafter created, and shall make recommendations concerning them to the board of directors. Public buildings—This committee shall have charge of matters relating to the pur- chase of a site and the erection of a build- ing for the use of the board of trade, and shall also be charged with its custody and cere when erected. The committee shall also have power to select, subject to the approval of the beard of directors, tempo- rary quarters for the use of the board of trade and of its several committees. It shall also’ have charge of all matters relating to the erection of a new city post office, District building, public hall for na- tional and international conventions, and ather public buildings which may be need- ed. Public health—Shall have charge of all n.atters pertaining to the sanitary condi- ticn of the District, and shall make reports upon the same to the board of directors. Public Mbrary—Shall have charge of the establishment and development of free pub- Mc Hbraries in the District of Columbia, and of all matters relating thereto. Public order—Shall have charge of all matters pertaining to the organization, cperation and support of the police depart- ment and its auxiliaries, including the District National Guard. Railroade—Shall have jurisdiction over all matter relating to the construction and lo- cation of all railroads within the city limits, whether street or steam, including their depots, modes of entering or passing through the city, and terminal facilities, and shall report from time to time. River and harbor improvement—Shall Lave charge of all’ matter relating to the improvement and deepening of the harbor, to the reclamation of the Potomac flats, to the ee Ge ete., ae mel matters relating to the improvement and deepening of the channel of the river. Schools—Shall have charge of all matters rtaining to the able schools within the istrict of Columbia—their promotion and extension. Sewerage—Shall have jurisdiction over the general subject of sewerage sys- tem of the and ‘all matters per- taining to its condition, improvement and Seen pls es streets avenues—Shall have jurisdic- ton in all matters relating to the. high- ways in the’ coun- the District. whether ty or the city mits, and to make recom- mendations concerning the same to the board of directors. Taxation and assessment—This commit- tee shall be authorized to collect all data bearing upon the questions of taxation or assessment of property of any kind in the District of Columbia, and to report the same with their recommendations to the board of directors. Universities—Shall have charge of all matters pertaining to the existing universi- Ues of ihe District, their promction and extension, and also of the establishment and development of additional institutions for higher education at the national cap- ital, especially a national university. Water supply—Shall have charge of all matters relating to the water supply of the District and shall give special attention to the enlargement of the supply. ‘Warm Debate on Insurance. Mr. W. A. Meloy addressed himself to the amendment and asked many questions re- garding cnanges that had been made in the duties of the various committees and criti- cised many of the paragraphs. He was par- ticularly displeased because the insurance committee had been dispensed with. It was shown by Secretary Wight that there had never been a meeting of the committee in three years because there was nothing for it to consider. Mr. Newton said an insurance commitiee was necessary, and expressed his astonish- ment that such a committee had not fyuund anything to do in the past when Washing ton was virtually overrun by bogus insur- ance concerns that should be looked into and their methods investigated. Mr. R. Ross Perry agreed with the prop- osition that illegal insurance schemes should be exposed and their promoters punisked the same as any other law- breaking or law-breakers; but such offenses, he declared, were properly in the province of the district attorney, and not in that of a board of trade committee. He defended the course of the directors in dispensing with the insurance committee. Mr. Meloy took strong issue with Mr. Perry and recited instances of fraudulent insurance being practiced in this city by companies organized elsewhere, and de- clared a committee on insurance was an absolute necessity to the board of trade. Mr. Newton thereupon moved that the insurance committee be retained on the list. There was further discussion on the subject, Mr. Perry reiterating his claim that the matters of crime alluded to were outside of the board of trade. Insurance Taxes Compared. Mr. George E. Emmons said that a home insurance company was compelled to pay a tax of 1 per cent on its capital stock be- fore it could do business here, while a for- eign insurance com was allowed to do business here for $25 or $30 a year. The home companies’ taxes were from $1,000 to $1,500 a year. Was that right? The stock of the home companies was owned here: the foreign companies’ stock was owned elsewhere. The beard of underwriters here, he said, made the rates for the home com- panies and the latter were compelled to keep to the schedule. The outside com- panies, he declared, cut rates as they pleased. The insurance committee should be continued if only for the purpose of remedying the evils described. Secretary John B. Wight said Mr. Em- mons was mistaken in his statement about taxes paid by outside companies. In ad- dition to the yearly tax the companies paid 1 per cent on their gross receipts, said Mr. Wight. Mr. Emmors retorted that “an insurance committee could find out if it took the trouble that the 1 per cent alluded to would amount to but little or nothing in com- parison to the $1,000 or $1,500 paid annually by home companies. Mr. Emmons was proceeding on the sub- ject, when Mr. Perry called attention to the absence of Mr. Isadore Saks, the chair- man of the insurance committee, and suid he believed that the tone the discussion was taking was unfair when the chairman was not present. Before the question was put on the amendment as a whole Mr. Perry asked to have an- amendment to the amendment pending adopted. It provided that the standing committees shail consist of such numbers of members as the board of directors shall designate, and one-third should make a quortm. Mr. Meloy made a point of order against the motion, but President Woodward over- ruled him. After further discussion, the amendment was adopted. Then Mr. Newton moved that the com- mittee on insurance be continued, and this was carried by a vote of 26 ayes and 24 nees. ‘The effect of the adoption of Mr. Perry's amendment was to authorize the directors to enlarge the membership of the standing committees whenever deemed advisable. It was not the intention of the amend- ment abolishing certain committees and consolidating others to reduce the number of members of the board actively engaged in committee work, and by the enlarge- ment authorized by Mr. Perry’s amend- ment committee provision may be made for the members of the abolished commit- tees, and certain committees strengthened which have felt the need of a larger num- ber of members than are now permitted by the by-laws. Alley Dwellings. Mr. Newton paved the way for animated talk by offering a resolution providing for the creation of a special committee consis:- ing of the chairmen of the executive, charity, public health, sewerage, streets and avenues, taxation and assessment, public crder and water supply committees, together with such other members of the board of trade as they may select to the number of three for each election precinct, or such other subdivision of the city as they may make, not less than ten in all, to make a preliminary investigation as to the fitness of alleys in the city of Washington, D. C., and the dwellings therein for human habitation, and to obiain, as far as poss_ble, statistics as to the number of houses unfit for human habitation in such alleys, the number of persons living in such houses, and the number and relationsh'ps and sexes occupying single rooms, the number of chil- dren attending the public schools there- from, the general character of the occu- pants, their methods or means of obtaining a living, names of the owners and agents of such houses, and such other information and statistics as may tend to show the necessity of a general co-operation of the citizens in causing the said dwellings to be condemned by proper authority and fe- moved; the committee to also inquire as to the best means of building, or causing to be built, apartment or other buildings which can be rented cheaply to accommodate the people now living in such alley houses. ‘The reading of the resolution was closely listened to, and there was evident interest particularly evinced in the ownership and agent clause. Mr. Newton eliminated this portion, and in supporting his proposition said that the disgrace of Washington city was its alley dwellings, which were abso- lutely unfit for habitation, and still were occupied by thousands of people. There was not a man present who would risk himself in any one of many he could enumerate after dark, or in daylight, for that matter. There was no ci ittee 30 necessary as the one he wanted established. Mr. Emmons said he could at that mo- ment go and point out four or five hundred houses, with four or five persons living in each, which were absolutely without water or sewer connections or sanitation of any sort, and which were constantly threat- ening to breed disease. r. Fardon pleaded for a movement to ecmpel the execution of the laws Congress has already passed to meet the cases of in- sanitary houses. He had been compelled to improve houses of this character under his ecntrel, and Mr, Emmons had been made to do the game thing. He wanted to know why others had not been made to do the same. What was needed was a committee to see that the laws governing sanitation of dwellings be carried out. discussion, that statistics showed that diph- thera soariet fever. pene A ae re than in "ane town.” There was a rising vote on Dr. motion, and the yeas were in a rs _ Annual Dues ‘The iast amendment adopted an im- nt one to the life of: the béurd of trade itself, and provided for an increase of the annual dues of members the organization from $ to $10. In putting the question President Woodward said that it was highly important that this proposition should be favorably considered because {t was vitally necessary to the future of the board. The vote was put and only two cr three nays were heard. Manual Training in the Schools. Gen. Ellis Spear, chairman of the com- mittee on public rchools, was then recog- nized in the regular order of busincss and arnounced that the board would be enter- tained with talks by Superintendent Pow- ell and School Trustee George H. Harries on the subject of manual training. The gentlemen named were invited to take the platform. Superintendent Powell was lis- tened to with close interest as he described the admirable system of manual training in force in the public schools of the na- tional capital. The mind did not exist in the brain alone, he said, but in the finger tips and the muscles as well. The course of instruc- tion of the city schools was to train the eye and the hand as well as the brain. As reading, writing, history and arithmetic were carried on through various grades from the beginning on through to the High School, which was the threshold to pro- fessional or business life, so the tra were carried on by similar degrees to the highest grade. He explained the character of marval training for boys and girls in the various grades, and then proceeded to give a striking illustration of existing necessities, “Our system fs all right,” he s a “put there are two sides lacking—one in front and one behind. We must adopt the kin- cergarten system at the beginning, an¢ take the children two years sooner than we do now. The sooner we do this the sooner we will reduce the number of policemen by the number of kindergarten trainers you sive us. We want the children at four years old. That is the age when, as some one says, they begin to climb over the fence to find what's on the other side. We want to help them to climb over and find the Kindergarten. As sure as the sun shines the community would be the saver by it in its morals, and substantially in saving the salaries of policemen and applying them to employment of more teachers. Chiliren should be taken and trained before they have a chance to develop dangerous ten- dencies.”” This suggestion, he knew, contemplated an experiment, but it would prove to be of more value than any other, and would she # enormously beneficial results. he greatest manual training school on earth,” he exclaimed, “is the kindergar- ten.” This was needed at the beginning—one of the ends; the manual’ training school, sido by side with the High School, was needed at the other end. The Secret of Civilization. you contemplate the surpassing clviliza- tion of New England and the midile states,” he said, “and the wave of it that extends across the northwest and envelops the Pacific slope. Do you know the cause of that surpassing civilization? It was be- cause men who thought did the work, and men who worked thought. The reason slavery existed so long at the south was that the men who thought did no work nd the men who worked did no thinking. The two—work and thought—must go together and be correlative to advance the progress of the world.” There was general applause when intendent Powell conciuded, ries followed him. He said the school trustees had asked for an appropriation of 21,00) for the establishment of two manual training high schools. The money was to Duy sites and erect buildings, one for white pupils and one for the colored. The Business High School had been successful, and it was desired to go a step further in the sane direction. He pleaded for the hearty support of the board of trade in behalf of securi ~~ 0 essary legislation, because he was saiis- fied that every man was interested in the matter. The public schools were turning out month after month and year after year boys and girls who had been primarily Super- and Mr. Har- fitted to confront the problem of life, but who had not been able to receive the mest important finishing touches because of ihe lack of the additional facilities which would be provided for in the measure un- der consideration. He sincere hoped that the board would do all it could to have this important matter properly settled. Mr. Harries was applauded, and when he took his seat General Speare introduced a resolution indorsing the estimates and recommendations of the &chool board d pledging the efforts of the board of trade in the interests of the necessary legi-la- tion. The thanks of the board ‘ tendered to Superintendent Powell and Harries, and when the question on P the age of the resolution was about to be put Mr. Emmons offered as an amendment that the committee be directed to invite three representatives of organized labor to a conference to consider the question of manual traiaing in the public schools. He declared that without the assistance of organized labor the efforts to adopt the em desired would be _ useless. If it was assured that the facility for learniag a trade would be increased he was sure that organized labor would be ready to assist. The proposition of Mr. Emmons cuss-d with mucb animation. Mr. wanted to know if by organized labor 4 Emmons meant the three different org: zations in Washington which were now en- gaged in an endeavor to choke each other. Organized labor had always been in favor of manuzl training in the public schools Referring to Mr. Emmons’ assertion tha he had visited the manual training school and found the boys playing at the work, Mr. Harries said that it was not propoved to make the desired manual training high school a playground, but simply a piace where a trade would be taught, and wi.ere upon ccncluding the course a certificate would be issued declaring that the person named in it was qualified to pursue the callirg indicated. He wanted to see the legislation for the manual training school passed, but by Mr. Emmons’ propored method this result would never be re He could assure Mr. Emmons that if one organized labor body should favor the measure all the others would oppose it. Gen. Speare stated that the adoption of Mr. Emmons’ resolution would seriousiy embarass the school board, and a vote be- ing taken the- proposition was defeaied heavily. The meeting then adjourned. ‘Among the members present were Messrs. John R. Carmody, Chapin Brown, W. 8. Thompson, E. F Droop, Dr. CP.’ Purvis John H. Magruder, George F. Emmons, B. T. Janney, Gus. Lansburgh, George H. Harries, John Joy Edson, Ellis Spear, Dr. A. P. Fardon, R. Ross Perry, Oscar nb od Bua W. C. Dodge, Joseph Parker, W. W. dette, Loring Chappel, Josiah Mii Frank Hanvey, Owen Owen, Henry Looker, W. H. Saunders, W. A. Meloy. Frank Hunn, J. Ashiy Cooper, Weston Flint, Daniel Murr: Wm. A. Hungerford, Wm. J. Frizzell, W. S. Roose, L. M. Saun- ders and C. C. Lancaster. sitet Mr. Kachling’s Illness. Mr. J. H. Kuehling is confined to his led at the residence of his brother-in-law, Pro- fessor Harry King, 1335 Q street north- west. His physician hopes to have nim out again in a few days. The cause of his ill- ness is heart trouble and gastric fever. —_——_ Sale of the Toledo Commercial. The Toledo Commercial has changed own- ership, Messrs. H. C. Vortriede, 8. M. Hel- ier, J. H. Tyler, W. V. McMaken and R. A. Brinkerhoff selling their holdings of $100,000 stock in the company to Mr. Levi A. Cass, late publisher of the Bloomington Leader, and associates. ——__+0+_____ South American Notes. President Cieveland’s message to Con- gress is highly praised at Lima, Peru. Advices from Chile announce the death of Vincente David Lorrain, a noted poli- tician and former minister. The of Bolivia is said to be in lamentable state, and the Bolivian con- gress has authorized the government te raisc the import duties 24 cent.