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THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1897-16 PAGES. i other instance Opening of the New Tan Shoes. > Tan Oxfords. CORRECT TAN Oxfords, well made, Ladies’ Tan EXTRA “STOLL” quality Tan Boots, finely made, stitched and finish- ed—fashionable Chocolate Shade and correct Coin and Opera Toes. Worth twice as much. EXTREMELY FASHIONABLE Spring Tan Boots in correct Choco- Our shoe sales are alwa Boots. plaid Ladies’ Spring Tan Shoes at Wonderful Prices. Ladies good looking and HIGH-GRADE Spring Tan Oxfords, late and Ox-bleod Shades—superbly made and ned—Coin and Pear epring Toes. Worth Worth double... Examine These Tan Shoes in the Window. imported china dinner sets will be higher —much hbigher-in price after the pro posed duty is imposed on them. Im anticipation we have laid in an enor- mous stock, which we now offer at really extraordinary pr 113-piece complete Haviland dinner sets for $2 Handsome sets at $25 and $30. s reduced. pr set, minus one dinner sauce boat. Re Sy 3 ¢ Austrian se 1 Austrian dins short. } ) 50. We have just green English dinne pattern:—115 p! WILMARTH ! sets in very sto go for $1 & EDMONSTON, 1205 Pa. Avenue. porters of China and ‘Spring Lambs ‘and Green Peas and FRESH MINT f fresh every elty over for tender ‘all th tn season. L te. Reason: ottage Market, 318 14th St) fm sauce We're ur Spring Lambs. mhz re LIOUS' Nosh linn y LUGGISH LIVE) ee Can times in 1) take all be : life. Just now, especiall : : uents prevalent. Our Bille . °. Tablet—is a a ° r le of this sort. We a * Homeopathic Pharmacy, 1331 G St. Near 1ith st. Convenient to transfers. “Phone 104. mh3t-14d eMC ek 3 aT Ta, Model Matting, ‘The beginning of the a is the best ti Matting. Prices low—they will c shortly. Eacly WAS also secure | Dy <>. b ettlest patterns Gur 25 nnd Be less Matting Is now ba ye. yd. : Co., gee Hough on Tar FSt = Z ete “Wade & Butcher Razors. Torrey Razor Strops. LOWEST Pr IN CITY. 209 w. eb ten & BL Razor a Torn rp, 3. & A ‘Genuine Fiat Strop. Cou ving Brash bas . ail sizes: Cosmetics, Shaving Soaps, Razors, Bay Rum, ete. PLAEMACY, 435 7th at. fe24-17d Whether You Own A Trunk or Want A Trunk = If you need trunk repatring the expert serv- fees of our Trunk Kepair Men are for sale at a. moderate charge. The handsomest assort- of Franks tm town at all prices. Good ones for $3. LUTZ & CO., 497 Penna. Ave. 220-24 Agents for Concord Harness. ORNS AND BUNIONS NEV HURT WHEN GEORGES SHIELDS ARE USED. ORNS REMOVED, 2c. Ingrowing nails manent! cured without palm P°" = J. GEORGES & SON, 1115 Pa. ave. PLES | PRE? Prof Foot Specialists—8 a.m. to 6 p.m, Sundays, 9 to 12, mb25 - = Slandering a From the Indianapolis Journal. “Fifteen years ago,” said the aged broth- er, addressing the congregation, “I gladly gave my heart to the Lord.” “And that’s the only cheerful gift he ever made,” whispered the deacon whose bus- iness it was to collect the annual subscrip- tions. Saint. $1.97 | plied Bicycle Leggins. s remarkable—always intensely interesting. Here is an- We have taken the entire brand-new spring such prices as will guarantee a rush indeed. Why do we do it? c rather sell thousands of shoes at a very small profit than sell mere hundreds at the ordi- nary shoe dealers’ profit. Our low prices are low for a reason—there’s method in our madness. Sale begins punctually tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. Chocolate and Tan Shades—Coin, Pear and Opera Toes. Worth double..... quality correctly shaped and very well made—the newest of footwear — Chocolate shade. ° stock and marked it at Because we would “a durable shoes— “Stoll”* A MIGHTY HOST. Wellington Having a Nice, Lively Time. B. H. Warner in Montgomery Press. Senator Wellington’s callers seeking af- ter office numbered up to Tuesday last 4,341, with many sections to hear from. He has committed the blue book to mem- ory, has been told of all the week-kneed republicans who hold office, of all who are unhealthy and who promise to drop out at any early day for purely physical reasons, of those whose terms expire and who ought not to be reappointed, of those who have had their share of government pap, of those who are entirely incompetent, and of the drunkards and dead beats who ought to be shoved out of harness on high moral Senator groun¢ He worn and weary when an in- teresting old dowager of about sixty-five summoned him into the marble room with a l-sized and rather neat-looking social pasteboard that gave no intimation of her se and mission, and said she was an old ad of his family, who had gone west aped every possible opportunity for through a self-sacrificing career half a century devoted to the training of youth, without regard to sex, and she had only recently returned to make her home in Maryland again forever. She anted him to go right in and get her a I the new Congressional Library, to which she could come every morning and from which she could go away every even- ing with a delightful sense of service ren- dered that would help to average up the balance of her career in such a robust style as to compensate her for the time lost in the placer minesL, foot hills and praries of roaring but un: factory west. My dear madam,” began the senator. if you please,” interrupted his visi- I beg your pardon, the yland statesman. “I 2 “You are much mistaken, if you say that,” re- the caller. “I have just come from Mr. Spofford and he © that he has made ho promises, that my chance is as good as that of any other applicant.” “But, Miss J.." interposed the senator, “I have often seen him.” “Never about me, though. Now, for the sake of your father and moth- er and ef mine, of the days when they were much together,” she replied. “Of c "said Mr. Wellington, “I will do anything I can." “Well then, just put on your hat and come on,” demanded Miss J. i v,"" said the senator, look- ing asi people have come in sircé you commenced talking,” and he pointed to half a hundred anxious retainers, each trying to catch his eye. “They will Walt; you will soon be back. Come, get your hat, I won't keep you five minutes,” she insisted. “Sit down, then, and wait un- til I get through,” said the wearied and much-perplexed statesman, as he grasped the first applicant for deputy auditor of the treasury by the hand and walked past the long line who sought to enlist the fighting strength of the new political leader in their The waiting spinster took out her knitting and quietly but firmly held down a marble- room chair until the senator finally came with his hat and escorted her to Librarian Spofford, who told her in the blandest style that only fitness and not official indorse- ments would be consulted in making ap- pointments, and that none would be made until July. “All right, senator,” said the applicant, “if you can’t get me a place in here you can tind me a place somewhere. Think it over, and I will come in the morning. No trouble, I'll wait for you. You certainly are kind. I'll tell all the people up at Cum berland, when I go there, you don’t forget your old friends.” And before the senator could discourage her reappearance she had £0 Well, if I had a swearing vocabulary teaching from here to the Rockies,’ said the senator to a passing colleague, “it wouldn't do justice to my frame of mind. Is a senator to be considered only as a bublic jackass to draw people into offic And Allegany’s son made for his comm room to lie down and wonder if he could ever get time to think of the tariff or the currency question, s aes Twain Not a Great Humorist. Charles Mier Thompson in the April Adantic, Neither 1s Mark Twain—bold as the as- sertion may seem—a great humorist or a great wit. The soul of a jest is immortal. If it defies definition and analysis, experi- ence seems to show that when it leaves its envelope of words standing cold and in- significant, dead upon the page, it usually does s9 only for the brief space which must elapse before its next incarnation. If the soul of one’s grandam may haply inhabit a bird, the soul of the dear lady’s favorite Jest may more than hapily inhabit a sen- tence—none too sprightly, one may fear —in the corner of the latest comic paper. Rarely, indeed, is that perfectly crystullized phrase created which can withstand, like a diamond, the wear and tear of time, and eternally imprison the bright sparkle of wit that # contains. In other words, the spe- cial Incongruities of circumstance change, and the jests change with them; only that humor lives which is expressed ‘in perfect, limpid phrases that take no color from tem- porary things. Wit lives on from age to age whea given form by such a masterly cutter of sentences as La Rochefoucauld humor survives when embodied in some un- changing type of character such as that to which Cervantes gave the finest time-resist- ing form. La Rochefoucauld may be con- sidered the type of the great wit, Cervantes the type of the great humorist. Mark Twain has shaken the sides of the round world with laughter, but after all has he, in the mass of his writings, uttered any wit- ticism which touches intimately, much less pnts expresses, some eternal truth of fe? —~coo—_. If you want anything, try an ad. in The Star. If anybody has what you wish, you will get an answer. List of Tournaments Scheduled for the Coming Season. The schedule of the United States Na- tlonal Lawn Tennis Association has been made up. A very important change 13 the altera- tion of the rules for handicapping, so that the 1-6 of 15 system will be used. This is the system approved by the English play- ers. The schedule follows: May 1—Harvard Interscholastic pionship, at Cambridge. May i—Yale interscholastic champton- ship, at New Haven. May 1—Princeton interscholastic cham- pionship, at Princeton. May 1—Columbia interscholastic cham- plonship, at Columbia. May 1—University of Chicago interschol- astic champlonship, at Chicago. May terscholastic championship, phia. May 13, 14 and 15—Old Dorchester Club, Boston (open). = May 15—Southern L. T. A., Baltimore, Md., southern championship. May 25—New Haven L. T. C., New Ha- cham- 1—University of Pennsylvania in- at Philadel- vo ven, Conn., New England championship. May 28 and 2—Maine Interscholastic tournament, at Bowdoin College, Bruns- wick, Me. May 29 and 31—California L. T. C., San Francisco, Cal. (open). June 1—Kings County L. T. C., Brooklyn, N.Y. (open). June 2—Hohokus Valley L. T. C., Ridge- odd N. J., New Jersey state champion- ship. June 15—Philadelphia C. C., Wissahickon Heights, Philadelphia, ladies’ single cham- pionship ladies’ double championship, mixed double championship. 7 June 17—Longwood Cricket Club, Massa- chusetts state championship. June 17—Elmwood L. T. C., Providence, Rhode Island state championship. June Brooklawn Country Club,Bridge- port, Conn., Connecticut state champion- ship. June 17—Staten Island C. and B. B. C., New York state championship. June x Seattle, Wash., Washington state champlonship. June 21—Neighborhood Club, West New- ton, Mas: vitation). June 22—West Side L. T. C., New York (open). June Philadelphia, Pennsylv: state championship. hicago L. T. C., Chicago, Il. S—Tuxedo L. T. C., Tuxedo Park, . (invitation). July 2, 3 and 5—Pacific States L. T. A, San Rafael, Cal., Pacitic coast champion- ship; singles, tenth annual. July 5—Orange L. T. C., Orange, N. J Middle State championship (open). July 6-Elmira L. T. C., Elmira, N. Y. (cpen). July 12—Fesex county, Mass. (invitation). July 13—Niagara L. T.'C., Niagara-on-the- Lake, Canada (open). July 19—Longwood C. C., Boston, Mass., open singles, cup. July 19—Longwood C. C., Boston, Mass., eestern championship doubles. July 10—West Superior L. T. C., West Superior, Wis. (invitation). July 26—U. 8. N.L. T. A., Chicago, west- ern championship doubles. July 26—Minneapolis L. T. C., Lake Min- netonka, Mirn., championship of the north- west. July 27—Newcastle, N. H., Outing and Tennis Club, Wentworth courts (open). August 2—St. George's C. and T. C., Ho- boken, N. J. (invitation). August 3—Sorrento L. T. C., Sorrento, Me. (open). 5s August 10—Mt. Anthony T. and G. ©. Bennington Center, Vt. Vermont state championship. August 1i—Tacoma L. T. C., Tacoma, Wash., championship Pacific horthwest, seventh annual. 8. N. L. T. A., Newport, August 17—U. championship singles, interscholastic cham- pionship, east vs. west d = cay con: loubles, champion. August 17—Omaha L. interstate tcurnament, Kansas and Missouri. August 25—Niagara L. T. C., Niagara-on- ine ake Canada, international champion- August 30—Western ladies’ i lope eptember 2—South Orange Fi. South Orange, N. J. (open). 1d Club, September 7—Western Pennsylvania 1. T. A., Pittsburg, Pa., single chi I western Pennsylvania. Se ew o8 September 8 and Pacific States L. T. Del Monte, Cal., doubles championship’ eighteenth annual ladies’ championship sin. Hudson River L. T. A. (tim be announced later) pe ie ctober 5—Intercoll New Haven, Conn.” ='*'® championship, ——<—-e-__ Monkeys Made Mad by Hunger. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Letters from Japan say that bands of monkeys, driven down by unusually cold weather, are ravaging homesteads around Tukubabasan, in Ibaraki Ken province, Jopan, and several southern provinces of China. Several woodcutters were attacked and Killed when the hunger-maddened creatures first issued from the Since then many more fatalities have ce: curred, while farmers have been endeavor- ing to save their property. Trouble of this kind has been unknown for generations, though Japanese legends tell of similar oc. currences centuries ago. When the news ee Tokohama, | villagers in districts ected were organizin; x terminate the monkeys. es —_-+e-____ “Who ever brought you up, Walter?” manded his aunt, after some small bit‘ ot ruderess on his part. “Never was brought up,” said Walter. “T've been being taken down all my life.” —Harper’s Round Table, T. C., Omaha, Neb., Iowa, Nebraska, championship, HONOR FOR BABCOCK = Dinner to the (hairman of the Con- gressional. Committee. SPEECHES BY” PUBLIC MEN The City of Washington Comes in for Much Praise. ach) WORK IN THE CAMPAIGN The banquet hall at the Arlington was never more beautifully decorated than last night, the occasion being the dinner given in honor of Representative J. W. Babcock of Wisconsin, chairman of the republican congressional committee, by citizens of Washington. The’ predominant features running through the decorations consisted of delicate shades of yellow, the floral fea- tures being especially .attractive, consist- ing of large masses of jonquils, beautiful heaps of bride's ‘roses and elaborate ef- fects in date palms and other foliage. Electric effects were made to do their full duty, and especially the elaborate design consisting of a large representation of a gold dollar surrounded by electric lights. The tables were beautifully arranged and decorated and the guests and participants represented about everything in this coun- try. Distinguished gentlemen were pres- ent from New York, from Baltimore and other cities; members of the cabinet were there, a considerable sprinkling of sena- tors, almost a quoftim of the House and a large number of the bést representatives of Washington’s business affairs. Some- Mr. Babcock. thing like 200 persons sat down to the elaborate menu prepared and then remain- ed until a considerable time after midnight to listen to the speeches. The affair was under the general direction of a commit- tee of citizens, of which Mr. B. H. Warner was the master spirit, the other members being Gardiner G. Hubbard, J. Franklin Fort, John G. Longs Myron M. Parker and J. Frank Supplee. Mr. J. Franklin Fort of Newark, N. J., who gained a national reputation by hiej brilliant speech placing in nomination Mr «Garret A. Hobart at the. St. Louis e@énvetdion, presided over the ainner in an admirable manner. The guest of the eveaing, .Mr. Babcock, was esccrted to his seat by Mr. B. H. War- ner and Mr. C, S#Noyes, and was received with loud and enthusiastic applause. The long table at the head of the hall was cccupied by a jdistinguished array of prominent peopld.* * On Mr. Fort’s right ®at Mr. Babcock; on his left, Senator. Mank Hanna; further along were Secretaries;Gary and Alger; on the other side, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson; sitting side“ by side, Senators Spooner, Thurston andt ex-Senator Sawyer and Gen. Henderson, Representative Gros- venor and Minisigr.tg jgexico Clayton made up one group glose fo the presiding officer. With the coffee thd cigars commenced the long series of speechds,-broken hére! and there by many amusing hits and-constantly interrupted by applause of the most enthu- slastic character. Mr. Babcock and Sena- tor Hanna were especially well received. The underlying tone thfoughout the dinner, as voiced. by. the spowkers, “consisted of pra: for these:two gentlemen, an earnest desire for-thespassage by the Senate of the tariff bill and a strong admiration for the beautiful city of Washington. Judge Fort in opening the affair said that the victory of 1896 was a-triumph of great principles under wise leadership. ‘The plat- form was no mistake, the candidates were no mistake, the leadership was no mistake, and the people, he said, would soon learn that the return of the republican party to Sound principles d power was no mistake. come only through strong leadership, so long as Lincoln, Harrison and McKinle stand for republicanism, republicanism, insisted, would live. The republican part had never been false to a single promis In all the years it had been an affirmative party. He spoke of the “vista of good” which opened up before the triumphal party. They were going to adjust the tar- iff, the currency, the immigration and nat- uralization laws, and establish a firmer, stronger, foreign policy. The passport of the United States, he said, must be a guar- antee of absolute protection. “I am an American” must stay the hands of the ex- ecutives as did the inquiry of Paul “Is it lawful to scourge a Roman uncondemned?’” All these questions, sald Judge Fort, need mighty leaders, and the republican party has them. It is not always the talkative man, he said, who is the greatest leader. It is the methodical, thoughtful, politi: firm man who moves multitudes. It is no small matter to head a great department in a political campaign, to direct its details, to select literature, to pick out the weak places and return a triumphant result in 202 congressional districts. “A man who does all this,” concluded the speaker, “does us a service deserving of recognition beyond the ordinary. In the full measure of our ability we tender that recognition with our unfeigned thanks to the guest of the evening tonight. I give you the toast—long life, health and_con- tinued prosperity to Representative J. W. Babcock of Wisconsin.” Mr. Babcock’s Speech. Mr. Babcock, on arising, was greeted with loud and continuous bursts of applause. in replying to the enthusiastic demonstration and the pleasant words said of him he spoke as follows: “Mr. President and Gentlemen: I am deeply sensible of the honor you have con- ferred upon me this evening, and I desire to express to you one and all my sincere thanks. I do not regard it so much as a personal compliment as I-do a recognition of the services of the congressional com- mittee during the late campaign. “My connection ; with the congressional committee dat fro) the organization made by the Fi, -tiird Congress, when we had an opposftioft ‘majority of about ninety in the Hoyse.oThe history of the tariff legislation ;gf.that Congress, of its financial blunder; oh its populistic ten- dencies and thé’ ‘Yefd&al to support the President or hid adfffinistration, is far miliar to you alli/Th@iresult of that leg-. islation was widespread business disaster and loss of confidence) in our institutions, not only by tha,people of this country, but of the whole wesld. We were con- fronted by a threat.that if kept in power they would further enact such legislation \d ch a free trade of the campaign, by your committee utlook, to’ say the ; But few would le to overcome an opposition majority inety in the House of Representativey, and it appeared to your committee like a stupendous undertaking. But a campaign of education was at once commenced and vigorously prosecuted for more than a year, resulting, as you all know, in reversing the democratic majority of ninety to.a republican majority of over one hundred and forty, This was an ef- fectual bar to any further free trade legis- latiop, and, while the Fifty-fourth Con- gress was not able to pass @ single finan- cial or tariff act, it stood as,a solid wall between popocratic ideas and American institutions and American credit. “I had the honor to be re-elected chair- man of the congressional committee of the Fifty-fourth Congress, and the committee commenced an early educational cam; ¥ such as had never before been equaled In the history of thd republican party. We were confronted by all the dangerous ideas and isms which were known to politics; a combination of free trade, free silver and least, was disco} admit that it w: fiat money, backed up and indorsed by the entire socialistic and dissatisfied elements of the whole country. Early in the cam- paign, before the committee had time to distribute its literature and put squarely before the people the facts at issue, it seemed as if we had reached the danger point of republican institutions, for the triumph of this combination meant chaos and financial anarchy. These were dark days, but the printing presses were put to work night and day, and ere the first day of September had been reached, the cam- paign was won in what was termed the ‘doubtful states.’ Under the magnificent leadership of President McKinley, the re- publicans rallied with the cry of ‘Protec- tion and Honest Money,’ aided to a very great extent by the independent, patriotic American citizen, known as the ‘sound money democrat.’ The reliance of the re- publican party for the success of the presi- dential campaign was based upon the seven great northwestern states, together with the New England and middle states, which cast a total of 231 electoral votes. These states, seventeen in number, represent more than 62 per cent of the wealth and 54 per cent of the entire population, and at no time after September 1 was there any reasonable doubt as to the result in any one of these states. The national committee was charged with the duty of electing the President, and your committee with the duty of electing a republican ma- jority in the Fifty-fifth Congress. The verdict of the American people was ren- dered in favor of protection, honest money and American institutions. “The present administration, under the leadership of President McKinley, who, I believe, is nearer to the American people than any one who has occupied the White House since Abraham Lincoln, is charged with great responsibilities. The action of the President in calling an early session of Congress to pass much-needed legisla- tion has met with the approval of all, and showed to each and every one his purpose to do his duty fearlessly and promptly. Ere another sun sets a tariff bill will have passed the House of Representatives which will commend itself to a large majority of the American people, and, if enacted into a law, will remedy the evils from which we are now suffering, “The history of the republican party has been one of courage and conviction. It has never hesitated to ratify the verdict of the people. It has stuod for American institu- uons, and insisted that the dollar of the plowholder should be as good as the dollar of the bondholder. I believe, Mr. Presi- dent, that each and every one of us gath- ered at this board tonight will, as the months and years roll by, be proud of the part which we took in the last campaign, and point with pride to the day when Wil- liam McKinley was elected President of the United States, “It has been my pleasure, Mr. President, during the time I have served in Congress to be closely idéntified with the people in the District of Columbia, and it is to me a source of great pleasure that I have been able to co-operate with the friends and those having the best interests of the Dis- trict at heart in enacting into laws such legislation as, I believe, will be for the interests and welfare of the capital of the greatest nation on earth. Washington is now a city of three hundred thousand peo- ple, but I can see in the distance a mag- nificent capital of more than a million peo- ple, and I believe that Congress should constantly keep in view this fact, that Washington is destined to be one of the great cities of America. Legislation which is enacted should have in view the fact that the United States will soon pass the hundred miliion mark, and we should legis- late not for the Washington of today, but for the Washington of the future. I have yet to see an American citizen who has vis- ited the capital who has not gone home with a feeling of pride in his heart for the great capital, and ever ready to approve of everything that Congress has done in the way of improvements or the judicious ex- penditure of money. Washington I be- lieve to be the best-governed city on earth. Its beautiful streets, Its elegant system of street railways, its admirably handled po- lice department, all tend to make it the desirable residence city of the United States, and I believe liberal policy on the part of Congress will not only meet with the approval, but with the hearty indorse- ment of the whole people. “Again permit me to thank you, one and all, for this token of good will and your distinguished presence here tonight.” Senator Mark Hanna, In introducing the next speaker Judge Fort referred to the big majority which New Jersey had rolled up for the republi- can ticket, He said that the promises made by him at St. Louis had been fulfilled in every particular. New Jersey had come into the republican column to stay- Leader- ship, he said, was a tremendous thing in the hands of the right men, and he inten- ded to call up one of the right men, a gen- tleman always a true friend, always affable, a man of the people, the greatest capt, of the campaign. “Need we name him?” said Judge Fort; and there were loud cries of “No, n and shouts for Mark Hanna. Senator Hanna, on getting to his feet, re- marked pathetically that he was almost worn out with the grip and the effort 10 spread the scepe of the civil service. He paid a splendid tribute to the political geni- us of Mr. Babcock, saying that after the nomination he was the first to grasp the needs of the campaign. The country had been flooded with documents long before the national committee had mapped out any plan. Mr. Hanna spoke of ihe nec sary change of front on the eve of the litical battle and said that the prompt ad- vantage which had been taken of the changed situation was due to the congri sional committee and to Mr. Babcock. Men, he said, were always found to meet great emergencies, and in the past year and in the great emergency which came with it Bab- cock had been found. It had been a great campaign, said Senator Hanna. Tons of documents had been sent out; nét a square foot of ground had been left untilled. Speakers had found their audiences in the fence corners and in the barnyards. Thir- teen rounds had been sparred on silver and the fourteenth on the tariff and the knock- cut blow had come in that fourteenth round and now the party was going ahead and gather the frufts of that blow. Mr. Hanna was enthusiastically cheered during his re- marks and sat down amid a perfect pande- monium. Senator Spooner. Senator Spooner of Wisconsin was the next speaker, and he referred, amid cries of “Amen,” to the fact that he was a member of the most deliberative body in the world. He said that the House of Representatives did business on schedule time, and that its members did not have much time to talk. He intended to give them that opportunity tonight. He said that it was a great gratification to the people of Wisconsin to find that Mr. Bab- cock was appreciated as much away from home as he was at home. The best part of it, he sald, was that the gentleman de- served it all. He referred to the great honor which had come to Mr. Babcock and Mr. Hanna for the great fight which they had waged. The people, he said, would have to fight the silver fight again, but never again, he thought, would a na- tional party go into battle with anarchy inscribed on its banners. Never again would a party defy the laws of the United States, never call on the people to pack the Supreme Court, never again ask them to adopt a shifting, dishonest standard of money. He asked why the city of Washington should not be the best gov- erned city in the world, when it possessed a board of aldermen one member of which was Senator McMillan and the other Mr. Babcock. . Formerly, he said, he had sym- pathized with the citizens of Washington, but he did not do so any more. The citi- zens here, he said, might not have a great deal to say about the running of the city, but they had a tremendous lot to say about the running of the nation. If he ever wanted anything from the govern- ment, said Senator Spooner, he would pre- fer to live in Washington, if he did not live in Ohio. Secretary Alger. Secretary Alger followed with an elo- quent tribute to the services of Mr. Bab- cock. He remarked, incidentally, that those people who said that Washington was the best governed city in the world had evidently never been to Detroit. Everywhere he had gone during the cam- paign, he said, he had run across traces of Mr. Babcock’s work. He said that the present administration had entered upon their duties with an earnest determination to give the American people diligent, hard work, to build asa tate te, Places and to carry this coun’ e =aone the family of nations w! ae. servi Ex-Senator Sawyer begged to be excused from making a spesch and of Agriculture Wilson spoke Pye 3 importance of the congressional commit- tee in the national campaign. Mr. Bab- cock, he said, had been making it lively for-the-enemy while Hanna was getting his heavy artillery ready. The House of Representatives, he said, was a great acad- emy for statesmen. If Grover Cleveland had served ten years in the House, said Tact and Taste ‘ouch =) Our Tact Our Taste is display hands at our New “Era” Tailoring Emporium—at least our business bows to their influence. secures all that’s best and newest in stuffs. ved in the selections we make -- acknowledged by the dressy men of Washington to be equal to the large es- tablishments of New York, London and Paris. Don't overlook our special Coat and Vest offering— blue or black diagonal or thibet—price— *Q, And a pair of Trousers made of striped worsteds, al Suit, $12.45. Mertz & Mertz, New “Era” Tailors, sone tostedtetedtodted petentestestes OD DO® So tetosetetrtetey 906 F Street. Mr. Wilson, he doubted whether Harri- son would have defeated him, and if Har- rison had served ten years in the House he felt sure that Cleveland would never nave won his victory over him. He spoke of his admiration for the city of Wash ington, which was rapidly becoming th great social city of the world. It was al- ready the handsomest in this country and would soon be the most beautiful in the world. Senator Thurston. Mr. Fort in introducing Senator Thurs- ton, told of his work in presiding over the great convention at St. Louis. Sena- tor Thurston referred to the pride which the sons of Wisconsin felt in the fact that their state was represented in the Senate by Spooner ind in the Ho by the guest of the evening. He had gone into the recent campaign, he said, with entire confidence. in the earnestness, honor, statesmanship and horse-sense of the 1 publican party, He spoke of the contr between the notification of Mr. Bryan that place in New York given up to ci cuses, hippodromes, dog shows and chry authemum shows, where the candidate was welcomed by music and the sound of de- parting hosts, and the notification of Mr. McKinley at his home in Canton, wher« he waited on the porch, with his wife by his side, for the American people to come to him.’ He said that it w: between the American home and the Amer- ican hoodlum. He had been asked, he said, during the campaign what he thought of the prospect and he had said that no man who had grown up in that magnificent, en- terprising, hustling city of Cleveland, Ohio, could be beaten by a man who lived in Little Rock, Ark. He said that one of the beauties of the campaign had been the fact that American people had gotten ac- quainted with Mark Hanna. In the early days there had been a di- versit man. Some people had thought he was a coy maiden, others held that he was an old woman. Since the victory every one was convinced that Mark Hanna was a grass widow, with all the wiles and fascinations belonging to that peculiar creature. Sena- tor Thurston went on to say, amid shouts of “Be careful,” “Don’t commit yourself,” that Mr. Babcock had promised the pas- se of a tariff bill by the House, hat he could promise, because he knew whereof he spoke, that the Senate before the third decade of the twentieth century would surely make that bill a law. Representative Grosvenor. Judge Fort introduced Representative Grosvenor as the champion mathematician of the century. Mr. Grosvenor remarked that he was delighted to do honor to some- body who had done something in politics. He was fond of politics himself, he said, especially of politics that culminated in civil service reform. He said that only the Almighty could judge of the future that lay before Senator Hanna. One of his greatest moves during the campaign, he said, had been to place more power in the hands of the congressional committee. There had never been a better managed congressional campaign. He remarked that if the Senate postponed the passage of the tariff bill to the period Senator Thurston suggested, he hoped that the | Divine Providence would find some way to do away with that body. He thought that Washington today was the most beautiful city in the world, and suggested city in Congress, that man ought to be relegated to his home. People should cease to figure on the cost of Washington and think of its grandeur. Mr. Fort introduced Mr. James T. Du- Bois as the great story teller of the cam- paign, and Mr. DuBois proved his ttle by telling a few anecdotes, and closed his remarks with a few eloquent sentences in tribute to Mr. Babcock and the republican party. Ge Judge Fort read a letter from Speaker Reed regretting his inability to be pres- ent, and then called on Gen. Henderson of Jowa. Gen, Henderson paid tribute to the citizens of Washington who had arranged this banquet. Mr. Babcock had elected more republican members of Congress than had any other man since the nation be- gan. He passed more measures of good to the city of Washington since he had been chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia than any other chairman. This was a non-partisan meeting, said Gen. Henderson, amid laughter and’ applause, and he would die before he would say any- thing of a partisan nature. He then pro- ceeded to tell of Mr. Babcock’s boyhood in the city of Dubuque. Mr. Babcock, he said, had been offered a lumber deal; he had’ closed with the overtures of provi- dence and become a millionaire. Gen. Henderson remarked that he had been a campaign chief himself. He had run the campajgn of 1882 and had got licked like . Henderson. Representative Cannon. Representative Cannon confined his re- marks to a discussion of what the republi- can party would do with their victory. The House, he said, would pass the tariff bill immediately, and the people demanded that the Senate should also take action. Every day of delay cost the people of this nation $1,000,000. He believed that the Senate should make prompt response to the de- mands of the American people. If they did not, leaders might die, but the Ameri- can people would keep on demanding action until they got it. * And Others. Mr. J. Frank Supplee of Baltimore spoke of his city as an outlying province of Washington, and offered to have it annexed to Washington along with Bladensburg. He spoke >f the great fight in Maryland during the past few years, and of the ad- vantages this state would gain by allying itself with the party of progress. He suid that they were looking to the future in Maryland, and were preparing themselves for the fight of their lives with Senator Gorman next year. The border states, he said, had saved the Union in all of the patos with which it had been con- fron! Judge Jere M. Wilson paid a tribute to the great army to whose intelligence, he said, we owe the presence of McKinley in the White House. The leaders only had to appeal to the American people. He told of the magnificent work performed by the democrats in the t to Chicago to riot and in the formulation of the Venezuelan mes- nage. He told of faithful care with s the conirast | of opinion regarding that gentle- | that | when anybody spoke of the cost of this | Sele lettre totes himself had watched over the interests of people of the Distri ‘olumbia. ntative Huil sk in eloquent stirring past year and prophesied a great future for the ad- ministration, Mr. Boyle, who has acted as private sec- retary to Mr. McKinley for many years, told Some intere jes connected with his service and sald that a very large pro- portion of his me was taken up at pres- ent in explaining the civil service law to ts, many of whom of Pennsylvania told how proud his state was of Mr cock and of how much service he h in cz gy the congressional Mr. in closing the dinner said a few pleasant words of | de paid a compliment to Willis | Moor the fine weather he had pre | vided on inauguration day, and thanked the | committee in charge for their arduous and iring labors. The affair thereupon | with the singing of “Auld Lang | Those present were: | Park Agrew, Col. T. Anderson, Wm. | C. Arnold, F. 8. : | Captain W. M. | Brown, Dr. J. W , Brumm, M. W. Beveridge. Samuel Barne: Du Bois, Conra Gene Boyle. c. Chan Genera Powell © ge M. Curtis, C. 2. Church, Wi - Cumming: Albert Care John ¢ 1. Colton, Cochran, H. Davidson, ft. KE. Doan, A. J George M. Davidson, Lorenzo Ts | Jules A. Demonct, Harrison Dingmar | Conrad Dodge, P. V. De Stephen 1 Ir “ 1. Fler be A. Gary, \< Gurley, R. B. General Georg Hazelton, lH. zh, Mark A. Hanna, James - David Henderson, John vT.H Heatwe Hur- ley, orge F. Huff G. H. Harries, D. S. Hendrick, Rey. T. 8. Ham- lin, Prof. B. T. Jar J. Jenkin: Martin N. johnson, E. §. Johnson, W. § Kirkpatrick, S. H. Kauffmann, John ¥ H. C. Louden: Archibald Ly- A. M. Lothrop, nKlin Fort, udermiik, J. G. Long, William G. i , O. Messenger, Prof. Willis L. Mocre, John Mact J. J. Mitchell, J. - Mag 4 Moore, William A Stone A. North- wi Ww. edham, Cro: Noyes, FL B. N tenj. J. Odell, jr., Gen. N. G. Ordway, Col. M. M. Parker, Samuel J. Pugh, Richmond Pearson, Rob- ert Portner, John W. Pilling, Capt. R. H. Pratt, U. 8S. A.; A. K.” Phillip A, Perkins, W. HH. Rapley, ¢ > W. Ray, | Dr. w Richardson, | Clarence B. Rheem, Pr. Z. T. Sowers, War- Wyer, Oliver John c. omas Somervil | Spalding, Wir | Thurston, | Truell, Fa, V. |B. H. Warner, | Wellington, Mor. A unders, B on, John Matthew B. on, H. K. Willard, S. W. mon Wolf, Col Wils | Youngs, Jeremiah M. Wilson, 1 | Charles F. Schne W. B. Cornwell, Frede: Woodbridge. ick F. Schrader and H. D. a HABITUAL CRIMINALS, Laws That Go to Extablish This Class of E Doers. From “Case and Comment.” The necessity of di criminating between those who commit crime habitually or re- peatedly and those who may have com- mitted but one offense began to be recog- nized in the English statutes at least one hundred and fifty years ago. In the coun- terfeiting act of 15 Geo. II, if not before, a provision was made for imposing a severer penalty upon a convict if he had been pre viously convicted or if he had commit the offense twice within a specified time. Massachusetts law also began early in this century to make similar discriminations with enhanced penalties for second or third offenses, The sentence of a person as a common and notorious thief on conviction of three simple larcenies was not only au- thorized, but required, by a Massachusetts statute in 1804. A life sentence for one convicted of a felony for the third time was also provided by an early statute in that state. Statutes similar to these have been adopted in a large number of stat The constitutionality of such statutes has been fully established against attacks on various grounds. The fact that the prior offense committed before the passage of the statute which requires It to be con- sidered for the purpose of enhancing the penalty of a second or subsequent offense does not make the statute ex post facto. The good policy of such laws cannot be too strongly emphasized. It is true that all possible means should be taken to save and rebuild the character of any who may be “overtaken in a fault,” whatever its enor- mity may be. It should never be forgotten that the purpose of punishment is remo- dial. But when an offender takes penal discipline without improvement until he has learned to look upon it as part of the hazard of his trade, and has manifes:ly chosen crime as a career, all true philan- thropy, social economy and good sense re- quire that he be not left at large to work his criminal trade, but that he be kept where the state surveillance, which he has made necessary, can be given him at the least expense and risk. The advantages to be gained by the life imprisonment of hab- itual criminals are various and great. The pecuniary saving in the mere matter of police surveillance would be considerable. The protection of property, person and life by preventing the additional crimes which such men would commit if at large is be- yond calculation. Their permanent incar- ceration would also prevent them from leading others into crime and from raising families of criminals. Merely putting an offender into prison for a definite time and then turning him loose worse than before still constitute the chief mode of punishing criminals. These statutes point to a bet- ter system in which there shall be a con- sistent, persistent and effective attempt to reform the criminal, or, failing in that, to take away his opportunity for crime. + 0+ ‘Tt matters little what it Is that you want whether a situation or a servant—a “want” ad. in The Star will reach the person who can fill your need.