Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1897, Page 1

c THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY SUNDAY, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS, 1101 Feonsylvania Avenus, Cor. 11th 8t., by ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company. S. H. KAUFMANN, Pres't. Rew York Offce, 49 Fetter Building. Evening Star ts served to subse fers, on thefr own or 44 cents per mre: per month. Saturday Quintaple Sheet S' foreign postage added, $3.0 (Entered at the Post’ 0: as Kecond-class ) [7-AN wail subscriptions must be paid in adva fe known on application. zt Wash'ngtoa, D. C., Rates of advertising ma STORMSIN THE WEST Village of Roselle, Kansas, Almost Wiped Out of Existence. —_——_.___. LIGHENING'S HAVOC AT IOWA CITY Library Building at State University Completely Destroyed. ——_+_ FIREMAN BURNED TO DEATH —————— LARNED, K: June 19.—A tornado swept through the northwest part of this county and Rosell Village eightee miles west of here, was struck and almost comp Y wiped out of existen two grain elevators and every hot in the place being swept : way, A mile north of Rosel of Ed Ch wn in, the farm house 1 one barns and n Was unroof miles north bh Th outhouses were demolished. At Burdette not a building in town escaped uninjured, wh any houses were completely de- molished. James Christian, a had his foot badly crushed, and Bindley was serfously injured by b a demolished house. At and near Jetmore the storm did con- siderable damage to buildings and crops. Lightning Strikes Library Building. IOWA CITY, Iowa, June 19—The I- brary building of the State University was struck by lightning at 4 a.m. today and destroyed by fire. It was a two-story brick structure, with the library on the second fleor and the physical laboratery on the first fluor. The loss is $100,000. Of this $50,000 was In books, $17,000 in apparatus belonging to the physical laboratory, and $53,000 on the building The Library) was the best In the state. Many of the books are out of print. and cannot be replaced. The Talbot collection of 0 volumes was about two-thirds destroyed. This col- lection was exceedingly valuable, many bocks dating from the beginning of the sixteenth century. The damage to the physical laboratory resulted largely from water. The firemen, With difficulty, prevented the flames from spreading to the dental buiiding close by. Fireman Burned to Death. Firemen L. M. Leck was caught in the building under a falling roof and burned te death. It is thought no others were im the building. The state carries no insur- ance on any public buildings. The univer- authorities have been for many years urging the legislature to make an appro- briation for a fireproof building. ee W. C. FOWLER STRUCK BY A TRA! ards flying from sit Rockville Expressman Run Over and Seriously Hurt This Morning. Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. ROCKVILLE, Md. June 19—At the railroad station here this morning what is likely to prove a fatal accident happened to Mr. W. C. Fowler, a well-known local expressman. While crossing the tracks in order to reach a west-pound train the un- fortunate man was struck by the Hagers- town train, which slowing up for a stop. He was knocked under the train, and both ef his legs were literally mashed up. He also received bad wounds about the head and face. He was at once removed to his home, a short distance from the sta- tion, where he received surgical aid from Drs. Stonestreet, Linthicum and Andrews. After giving the patient temporary re- lief, it was determined to send him to a Washington hospital. He was sent to that awty on the lv:4l train. Mr. Fowler is well known and popular f this community, where he has reside With @ wife and daugbters. After the uc iment his house was visited by large num- bers of the friends of the family, and the sad affair is much regretted by the entire community. Taken to Providence. Several railroad men and friends of the injured man reached here with him on the 11:30 train, and he was taken to Provi- dence Hospital in the police ambulance. Upon his arrival at the hospital the phy- sicians made the sufferer as comfortable as possible, and then he was taken to the Operating room. His condition this after- nocn was extremely critical, and the phy- siclans at the hospital could not give his friends any encouragement. FRSWELL HELD FOR MURDER. Champien _Bicyciist Charged With Killing a Soldier. CHEYEN Wyo., June 19.—Charles 8. Erswell, champion fast bicyclist of Wyom- ing, fas been arrested here charged with Murer of Private McCrimness, Eighth United States Infantry. Tuesday night while riding on his wheel Erswell ran into a crowd of nine soldiers, Knocking one down. An altercation follow- h Erswell shot Mc! ot Wyoming ed, in whi ‘rimness and then escaped to his home. Th i and battered in the ax of the house with ree engaged Erswell shot Private Thomas Mooney. It was belli @t the time that the injuries of both men were slight, and Erswell entered an ap- pearance for assault. Last t McCrim- d from his wound ar Mooney is in condition. —— JAPANESE MAN-OF-WAR COMING. m Houte t nm Francisco— 1, June 19.—A Jap- he Hiyle, fs on her way e will r © orders here from the Japanese government, and it is anticipated that she may be ordered to’Ha- walt. The visitor wiil be welcomed by the Monitors Monterey and Monzdnock, which vessels will not start for the north until after ber arrival. a TWENTY KILLED, EIGHTY Disastrous Effects of a Cyclone Which Swept Over French Villages. PARIS, June 19.—The Gaulois today says that twenty people were killed and eighty injured in the cyclone which swept over the Villages of Bezons, Colombes and Asnicres yesterday afternoon. es Will Attack Tatpah. VICTORIA, B. C., June 19.—Northern Pacific steamer Braemer brings news that the Chinese rebels in Formosa are prepar- ing for a second attack upon Taipah, the capital of Formosa. The government au- thorities have taken vigorous measures to meet the attack and are enlisting numer- ous volunteers to aid the regular troops stationed there. ——.__ Ex-Congressmun Ford Dead. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., June 19.—Ex-Con- gressman Nicholas Ford, for twenty years a jeading merchant in this city, and once a leader cf national prominence in the greenback movement, and who also ran for governor on the greenback ticket, died last night at the home of hie daughter, Aics. E. A. McDonald, at Miltonville, Kan. ‘ JURED. 4 Che Hvening Star. 13,822. No. WASHINGTON, D. ©, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1897-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. TWO CENTS. THE STAR BY MAIL, Persons leaving the city for any period can have The Star mailed to them to any address in the United States or Canada, by ordering it at this office, in person or by letter. ‘Terms: 13 cents per week; 25 cents for two weeks, or 50 cents per month. Invariably in advance. Sub- scribers changing thelr address from one Post-office to another should give the last address as well as the new one, HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION Vigorous Comment of the San Francisco Press on the Aspects of the Question. Public Meeting to Sustain the Ad- ministration Urged—Objections Answered Seriatim, Star. pecial Dispatch to ‘The Evening SAN FRANCISCO, June Francisco newspapers made ment on various aspects of vigorous com- the Hawaiian annexation treaty question. miner (democratic) in an edito- a public meeting to sustain the administration. It says Queen Liliuokala- ni’s protest ought to have been signed by Claus Spreckeis, Havemeyer and the su- gar trust. The Bulletin whole trouble with Messr: d the Haw seems to be that these distinguished gentlemen mistake themselves for senators from Japan. it is that these Califo s are op- nterests of Cali (republican) says: White, Perkins remarkabl posing the jections Answered. The Chronicle (republican) says: The gist of the old Cleveland-Gresham argument against the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands to the United States is expressed by the opposing senators in the following series of obje “The policy of the United States has al- ways been opposed to colonization.” But this is not such an idea. It is an- nexation, and that means in the case of Hawali what it did in that of Alaska, ex- cept that Hawaif ts the richer, more ac sible and more useful of the two. “It is urdesirable to annex lands at a Breat distance from the seat of govern- ment.” That hac not proved true in the case of Alaska. The same argument resisted the annexatior of California, which locally judged by the tin: med in getting here from the east was much further from the seat of government in 1546 than Hawaii new is, tut California has proved a good investment despite the croakers. “Annexation of contiguous states is one thing; that of a distant island quite an- other.” But we must have naval stations in mid- ocean, if we are to have commerce there and a navy to protect it. It is Better to own svch stations than to hire them where lease is possible for them.. We can put‘ permanent forts on them for use in time of war, when the stations will be most needed. What sersible American does not nh that we had taken the Bermud: when we had a chance? Annex the Ber- mudas, why not Hawali? “A country tilled, as Hawaii is, with Jap- anese, Chinese, Portuguese and Kanakas would deteriorate our citizenship.” How? The Chinese and Japanese are not citizens of Hawaii, and annexation would not make then: citizens here. Most of them being contract laborers, they would soon jaces_ whence they whi flow of Chinese would stopped by ed States law, and th nese could be checked by the Unit be sent back to the pi came, be i rigines before and could do so again with- out deteriorating our citizenship. The Right to Cede the Country. “The minority party in control in Hawaii has no right to cede the country.’ Who has a better right? It owns five- eighths of the property, has established a@ government, which powers have formal- ly recognized, and which was invested by Weeping terms of Queen Liliuokalani’s ab- dication with all rights claimed by mon- arc he annexation of Hawaii will ultimate~ ly help the sugar trust.” Why, then, is the sugar trust opposing annexation tooth and nati? The trust rally knows what is good for it and w t isn't. There is no reason to think its fore- sight is at fault in this case. In point of fact all the leading argu- ments now used against the admission of Hewali were marshaled against_the an- nexation of Louisiana, Texas, Califgrnia and Alaska. The answer which time has tre now in force. The Portu- | ood citizens. As for Kanakas, aborigines, we dealt with abo- EX-QUEEN’S PROTEST It is Critically Analyzed by Commis- sioner Kinney. PLOTTING FOR A JAPAN PROTECTORATE Se Denial by.the Chancellor of the Japanese Legation. SURPRISE AT YOKOHAMA The signing of the treaty of annexation last Wednesday morning, like throwing a stone into mill pond, has started any number of concentric circles. All sorts of stories are going the rounds, some that are quite groundless, while others have a more substantial foundation. One of the most retnarkable appeared in a Philadelphia paper this morring, and Was to the effect that a special agent of the treasury had sald to an official of the State Department last evening that he had reason to believe that ex-Queen Liliuoka- lani, whiie residing in this country, is plot- ting to place her claims to sovereignty in Hawaii under the protectorate of Japan. The special agent said that he believes he will soon be able to demonstrate his con- clusions. He has been studying the con- duct of Mrs. Dominis ever since she came to this country. He said that her formal protest against the ratification of the pro- posed treaty of annexation is a part of the plan in which she is playing a prominent part. Her visit to this country last winter was made because she had received infor- mation that the treaty of annexation was in contemplation, and she has resided here ever since, in order to be on the ground ready to make emphatic and formal pro- test. The agent further said that the re- cent aggressive action of Japan in Ha- watian affairs has heen stimulated because of the fact that the ex-queen is a promi- nent participant in the plot to overthrow the government. Some General Denials. To a Star reporter this morning Mr. Dur- hem White Stevens, the counselor of the Japanese legation, said that the story was an absolute falsehood from beginning to end. As for himself, he has never seen the €x-queen since she has been in Washington or for many years before, aor has he ever seen her private secretary, Mr. Julius A. Palmer, or had communication with hit. ‘he same, he said, applied to the Japanese ister, and he was confident that Liljuokalani did not even know the sent minister or his predecessor by ght. It was rot difficult, he said, to ac- count for the recent “aggressive action of Jauan in Hawaiian affairs,” all that was ary being to say that there had been sive action on the part of Japan. . Thurston, one of Hawaii's spe- commissioners, said that he did not ve there was the slightest ground for such story, though there was every rason to believe that the ex-queen had re- mained in V hington all this time with the idea that there would in time be a treaty of annexation, and she was natural- ly anxious to be on the ground when it sheuld appear. ‘The Hawaiian representatives in this city are awaiting with great expectancy the ar- rival of the next mail from the islands, be- lieving that there may have been ull sorts of interesting cccurrences in and about Honolulu since the last mail left there. rhe mext one is not due in San Franc i the instant. It fs known that » Japanese minister in Hawaii engaged 1ge on the steamer leaving for Yoko- ama on June 5, but as the last mail left Hawaii befove that date it is not known whether or not he took his final departure. That the news of the igning of the treaty was not well received in J. might almost go without saying. It be said, however, on the best of authority that the news created genuine con tion in the Japanese government. all along been the general impre Japan hoped sooner or later to get pos- given them in these ca: may be safely predicted of the annexation of Hawaii, which is a country now endowed with American institutions, and in the room it has for a million more people offers the white race an easy chance to acquire pre- ponderance of numbers to match its pres- ent monopoly of wealth, influence and po- litical and commercial power. —————— ETHOD OF SW EEPING. NEW Streets Upon Which the Double Sys- tem Will Be Employed The inauguration of a new method of sweeping the streets and avenues of Wash- ington will begin July 1, and the Com- missioners are confident under the new arrangement the system will be materially better than the one now in operation. As heretofore stated in The Star, a double system of cleaning will be used. In other words, machines will sweep the less im- portant streets, while hand labor under a patrol system will be adopted for the prin- cipal business and residence streets. It is to be borne in mind, however, that the machine work will be greatly improved. for, under a clause in the specifications for this character of work, the machines are to be followed by broom men who are to sweep out the depressions. The test interest in the new method ceniers about the schedule of streets upon which the hand system Is to be used. Fol- lowing is a list of the streets cted for the hand sweeping system. Gradually this list will be increased by the addition of new streets, reets for Hand Sweeping. ‘The list embraces 5th street west, from D to New York avenue; 6th street west, from Missouri avenue to New York avenue; 7th street, from B north to Mt. Vernon Square; Sth street, from C to D; 9th street, from B to Mt. Vernon Square; 10th street, from B to New York avenue; lth street, from Pennsylvania avenue to New York avenue; 12th street, from Pennsylvania avenue to New York avenue; 13th street, from B to New York avenue; lith street, from B to Thomas Circle; 15th street, from Pennsyl- vania avenue to K street; 15% and 16th, from Pennsylvania avenue to H_ north; i street, from 6th to 7h; E street north, from 13th street west to Pennsylvanta ave- nve; F street. from 5th to 15th; G street, from 5th to 15th; Connecticut avenue, from Hi street to Dupont Circle; Indiana avenue, from 34 street to Louisiana avenue, from 5th street to 10th; New Jersey av nue, from B street to D; New York avenue, from 13th street to 15th; Pennsylvania ave- | nue, from Ist street te 17th; Vermont ave- nue, from H street to K; intersection of ivth and C streets northwest; Thomas Cir- cle, Executive avenue; Ist street, from Garfield Circle to Peace monument. —_— To Count the Coin. Mr. B. F. Butler, of the mint bureau, Mr. W. A. Lamson of Iilinois, and Mr: Joseph Firebaugh of California, left Washington today for San Francisco to superintend the annual settlement and to weigh snd count the coin and bullion in the min: in that city, amounting to about $54,000,000. On their way west the com- reittee also will weigh and count the bul- licn and cash on hard at the Carson, Nev., mint, amounting approximately to §6,- session of the islands in some way or other, and the rews that a treaty of annexation had been signed by representatives cf the United States and Hawaii was a thorough surprise in Japan, where {it would scem that nothing of the sort had heen antici- pated. The Japanese legation has received advices from the home government that © news was received with anything but a good grace in Japan. Mr. Kinrey on the Ex-Queen’s Protest. A Star reporter had an Interesting int view this morning with Mr. Wm. A. Kin- ney, ene of the special commissioners from Hawail, with reference to the gen- eral situation, und especially with refer- erce to the argumenis raised by the ex- queen against the ratification of the treaty. In the course of the conversation Mr. Kin- ney said: “It 1s charged in the queen's protest that the dnnexution treaty is ‘an act of wrong toward the native and part native people of Hawali.’ Without attempting to now y to her statement as a whole, if there is anything that the annexatic: treaiy is not, it is just this that is charged against it; for annexatioa {s the sole hope cf the native Hawalicra. I speak of the common people. Their future 12 one of two things, to pass under Asiatic or Anglo-Saxon con- trol. The hope of these people as a nation was dead twenty years before this queen ever ascended the throne. If Asiatics dom- inate, the native must become a coolie, for certainly he cannot cxpect to be better off than the rank aad file of the dominant race. If America takes Hawail, the native becomes an American citizen, and the American scale of wages, and the nonor- able position occupied by labor in America will prevail in Hawall, and every native will have the benefit of it. It is a choice be- tween the status of a whiteAmerican laborer and that of an Asiatic coolie laborer. The white race, if Asiatics absorb Hawall, can get_out to their own country. The common native has no such choice. He must. stay and meet his fate. Notwithstanding the in- disputable blessing annexation will be to the eommon native, the queen, playing upon the inbred devotion of tae natives to their chiefs, has, tégether with the official class among the Hawaiians, insisted upon the natives holding out against their own good, and following with her the will-o'- the-wisp_of a restoration of the monarchy, which will not cure or touch the Asiatic question, but will on the other hand irrev- ceably commit Hawaii to Asia rather than to America. The Asiatic Tide. “There is no power within Hawaii to withstand the Asiatic tide, native or Ha- walian, or both combined. It needs the strong arm of the United States. The pa- triotic thing for the queen to do is to secure to her people the high and coveted status of the average American citizen. Instead of entertaining any such ideas, however, she is evidently bidding for the support of Japan to scramble back to her throne at @ fearful cost to the native people. The fealty of the native Hawaiian to their chiefs knows no limit, and often is exer- cised.in a way beyond the pale of reason or argumert, and they will probably follow her lead if they have their own way to the undoing of themselves and everybody else in Hawail, but it becomes a perfect cari- ature of the truth for her to protest against annexation in the name of the na- tive people and as a wrong to them. It fs bad enough for her to make them a choppirg block for her own selfishness She certairly should stop there and not attempt to make a virtue of it. I see she closes her protest by committing her caus¢ ‘to the Almighty Ruler of the Universe, to Him who judges righteously,” and she might well have added, right there, and I also commit my people at the same time te the hopeless misery and degradation of a coolie’s fate, after having tasted of the personal freedom of the Anglo-Saxon. The Ex-Queen’s Claim. “Another point in her protest calls for special comment, namely, her claim to the crown lands, so called. The crown lands were appurtenant to the throne, precisely as the White House is appurtenant to the office of President. This status of these lands was determined by legislation and the judicial interpretation of the court of last resort in Hawaii long before the queen ever saw the throne. They are simply that por- tion of the government lands whose reve- nues were set apart to the monarch for the time being. The original dynasty is ex- tinct, and all their lands have been made over by the last of the race for educational purposes among the Hawaiians. If there were any possible claim against these lands outside of the government It would not be in the queen, anyhow, for she is not one of the original dynasty nor one of their blood. These crown lands have been under the control of the government and its legisla- ture for a generation past, and the present claim of the queen to these lands is prac- tically on the same legal. footing as a claim on the part of President Cleveland would be to the ownership of the White House. “While no provision has been made for the queen or her niece under this annexa- tion treaty, there is no doubt whatever, if annexation is accomplished, the local gov- ernment in Hawaii will make suitable pro- vision for them if they care to take it, as they are now doing for Kaiulani and’ did for the queen until she began to scheme for its overthrow. This would be .prompted not by any consciousness of injustice to the dethroned monareh, but out of respect to the office that she once filled. “There is no doubt that if the queen and those who held office under her were to leave the native people free to acquiesce in the new order of things they would have corae into line long ago. A goodly number of them have done so already, and have braved the ill-will and persecution that has heen set on foot against them by the agents of the queen, who realize that she must keep the natives in apparently solid oppo- sition to the republic and annexation at any cost whatever, even to the native Ha- wailans and their posterity.” JAPAN AND “OUR TARIFF Formal Protest Made Against the Pending Bill. Minister Toru Hoshi Expresses the Be- lief That the Interests of Both Countries Are Threatened. The protest made by the Japanese govern- ment against the pending tariff bill is formally embodied in a note from Minister Toru Hoshi of date as late as the 3d of the present month. The note is couched in the most courteous language, but there is a firmness of tone observable that indicates the remonstrance may be followed by acts of retaliation if disregarded. The note begins with an apology for ex- pressing an opinion that umder oréinary conditions might be regarded as trenching upon domestic affairs, but cites as a justi- fication of the fact that important Japanese interests are involved and that, in the opin- ion of the minister, the proposed inerease of duties will injure the United States no jess than Japan by retarding the growth of promising commercial relations. The ar- ticles of Japanese production that will be most seriously affected, says the protest, are light-weight silks, silk handkerchiefs, matting, hemp and jute rugs and carpets and tea. In the case of silks the n:inister says the proposed duty will amount to an ad va- jo:em rate of betweer 95 and 100 per cent, and upcn handkerchiefs the duty wil] be 10 per cent more. These rates, it is stated, are practically pronihitory and bear upon cheap silks peculiar to Japan. An extensive and prosperous trade has Leen buiit up in Japanese mattings, now mitted free, ard in general use among the poorer classes. The proposed duty, ys the minister, will be so heavy that the rade cannot survive in thig article, not ncw menvfactured in the United Siates. The duty upon hemp, jute rugs and car- pets will amcunt to nearly 80 per cent, and be another severe blow to Japanese com- nierce. As to tea, the minister says the sudden change of the policy of the United States from free importation to-a duty of from 5” te 100 per cent has awakened in the Japanese mind the gravest fear for the Stability of the tea industry, for years in a depressed condition, although furnishing two-thirds of the tea imported into the United States. ‘Phe minister says that, while the imperial government does not share the general be- lief that this legislation was itended to discriminate against Japanese commerce, it ix an unfortunate coincidence that the im- ports from Japan most injuriously affected are specialties of Japanese production. In conclusion, tae minister says: ‘As I have had the honor to state, the imperial government are far from shering in a belief for whicn they And no warrant in the cordial attitude always maintained by the United States toward Japan, but. nevertheless, they do not think it elther wise or prudent to Ignore a sentiment which, under certain circumstances, might have @ most unforcunaie effect upon the relations of the two countries. They hope, moreover, that It will not ie forgetten that this feeling may be attributed in some degree to the fact chat no artiste of Ameri- can importation to Japad pays at present anything more thaa a nominal duty; and te the further circumstanve that the legis- lature of Japan bas already signified its intention of hereafter levying only the most moderate imposts vpon American com- merce.” : —— ©. Army &nd Navy Personals. Pay Inspector A. Burtis has beem detach- ed from duty on the board of imspection and survey, Navy Departmeat, and ordered to the flagship New York as fleet, paymas- ter, relleving Pay Inspector @. A. Lyon, who Is ordered to settle accounts and await orders. . Col. John C. Bates, 2d Infantry, has been detailed to attend the encagzpmemt of the National Guard of New York, at Peekskill, frcm June 19 to July 31. Lieut. Robert L. Howze, 6th Cavalry, has been detailed tc attend the’ éncampments of the Pennsylvania Nation ‘d, in- stead of Capt, T. H. Bliss, commissary of subsistence, Whose orders tg that duty are revoked. { First Lieut, Joseph 8. Oyster, ist Artil- lery, having been found by an ary retir- ing board incapacitated for active service, on account of disability; incident to the service, has been retired by direction of the President, and ordered to proceed to his home. Lieut. Oyster is a native of this city, and has a large circle of friends. The Reception of Col. Stump of the u fon returned to” the city téday | New York, where he went _to 4 temporary quarters for the 6 b& the Ellis Is- land immigrant statios. recently destroyed by fire. The barge ce will’ be utilized wising architect's office is ni making estimates of the , new stone and brick bu: land and when a age ‘i reached Congress will to make en ‘ 2 the “emount. Mati SS jtion spreads supplies grow dearer, CUBAN PAPER MONEY Disastrous Attempt to Circulate “Weyler’s Scrip.” STATE DISCREDINS ITS OWN -ISSUE Refuses to Receive It in Payment for Duties and Taxes. TRADE IS DEMORALIZED ———— While he was in Cuba Mr. Calhoun gave much attention to the financial and eco- nomic aspect of the war. That is the rot- ten core of Spanish control. Gomez and the insurgents hope to depopulate the fair provinces of Spain of their young man- hood by disease and death due to the fever- laden air of the Cuban swamps. Then they trust to see Spain bankrupt and the whole colonial edifice come crashing down. Weyler’s hope is to depopulate Cuba and make it a desert before the Spanish gov- ernment crumbles inward. Then he trusts to build up again, with Spanish coloniza- tion, on an empty and a bankrupt treas- ury as the foundation. The cost of the war to Spain is not less than eight million dollars a month in gold. Usually it is figured at ten million dollars a month. This expense cannot les- sen while the erormous army of occupancy is kept in Cuba in order to give an ap- pearance of pacification. As the devasta- and the cost of maintaining the army increases. The corruption, too, seems to grow bolder and more grasping. It was a stinging comment that a Cuban made to me one day in Havana, in discussing the reports of pacification and comparing them with the increased cost to Spain of keeping up the war. He quoted the Spanish proverb: “Papa, manda me dinero porque estoy ganando.”” It_was the message which the spend- thrift gambler sent to his parent: “Father, send me more morey, for I am winning. This is a very apt illustration of the finan- cial and economic side cf the war. Spain is “‘pacifying” Cuba and calling for more money to keep up the war. If the revolution succeeds through the bankruptcy of Spain this will be due to the seeds which“have been sown in an issue of billites for paper currency. The Cuban currency proper before the war was made up of gold and silver. The coius were equivaient to our di quarter fifty-cent pieces and dollars, though the did not hold the same relative value. The silver peseta is twenty cents. The gold coin is known popularly as a “‘centen,” or five-dollar piece. It is designated as twen- ty-five pesetas. In Cuba it is given a value equal to $5.30, this premium serving to keep the gold on the island. The Spanish gold ounce passes as seventeen dollars. ‘The silver coinage is at a discount of eigh- teen to eighteen and one-half per cent from gold, and therefore is circulated at consider@bly more than its bullion vatue. Gold and Silver Currency. This gold and silver currency answered the needs of Cuban commerce quite ef- fectually. It was when the war necessi ties came on that a resort was had to a paper issue. This paper was put out by the Spanish Bank of Havana, which is practically a state bank. The currency was issued under the authority and direc- tion of the government. It came to be known as ‘“‘Weyler’s scrip.” The denomi- nations are five centavos, fifty centavo: one hundred centaves, five hundred centa- vos, and so on. These correspond to the old shinplasters of the United States,which were common during the civil war and for some years afterward. A centavo is the equivalent of a cent. The fifty-cent shin- plaster is about the size of the old fifty- cent scrip in the United States. The one hundred centavos is practically the same size, the only difference being in the desig- vation of the denomination. This currency reads: &l Banco Espanol de la Isle de Cuba a la presentacion re este billate pa- gara al Portador un poso en metalico”— “The Spanish Bank of Cuba on the presen- taticn of this billet will pay to the bearer one dollar in coin.” In the minor denomina- ulons the amount is specified as five cen- tavos and fifty centavos. No 10 nor 25-cent pieces were put in circulation. Redemption a Farce. The first issue of Weyler’s scrip was said to have been $3,000,000. It was to be redeemed from $2,000,000 in gold and $1,000,- 000 held in silver in the vaults of the Span- ish Bank. The Havana financial public was skeptical, however, especially after further issues of the scrip kept coming out. The total amount in circulation now is said to be $20,000,000. Against this, it is claimed, there is $6,000,000 in silver in the bank vaults, no one credits even this meager redemption fund. A pretense of redeeming the paper in small amounts was made until recently. But even here the usual corruption was manifest. The time was limited for pre- senting the notes and favored brokers by connivance of the police were the only ones who could get to the bank's counter. Ultimately all pretense of redemption was stopped. Moreover, while the issue is said to be’ $20,000,000, no one knows the exact amount. There is a suspicion that the gov- ernment has forced the bank to put out more. It is stated that notes for.10 cents and 25 cents were printed, and are now in Havana, but the government dares not put them out, although the alleged purpose is | to take up notes of larger denominatéon. While Mr. Calhoun was in Havana, the Intendente de Hacienda, or local secretary of the treasury, resigned rather than be responsible for a further issue. This fact was kept from the general public, but it was known within an hour to the brokers and speculators. Discredited by the Government. The government does not entirely dis- credit its own currency. A small propor- tion of the customs dues can be pald in paper, while it is also receivable for taxes atadiscount. The authorities are now pay- ing the troops partially in billetes, though they do not dare press it on the soldiers in large quantities. The troops are supposed to be pail in silver. A Spanish captain complained to me very bitterly one day that he had got half his month's pay in billetes. He thought the army was entitled to exemption from the shinplasters, which should be used solely by civilians. The demoralization caused by injecting this unknown amount of paper currency into circulation has been fearful. Weyler has issued various “bandos” or orders threatening to visit the heaviest penalties on those who refused to take the at the government valuation. It is prohibited to quote billetes. All the resources of arbitrary power, however, have not enabled him to vanquish the While they take the values and demoralized business. ~ Naturally the brokers and make money out of this shifting currency. “casas de cambk change hi EE REST BOE SS NII CSE ESOC MIRAGE CE AA STR ENE Sere Sn HL EN ERO At ESS AION aN DC ela SC Se JUSTICE COX COMPLIES Order Signed in Obedience to Mandate in Highway Act Case. The Awards Heretofore Made to Prop- erty Are Confirmed — Attorney Worthington No Longer Counsel. In conformity to the decision of the United States Supreme Court and in obedience to the mandate of the Court of Appeais, Judge Cox today signed the re- quisite order in case 419, Dennison and Leighten’s subdivision of Mt. Pleasant and Pleasant Plains, the first of the street ex- tension cases tried in the District court vnder the provisions of the highway order vacates the judgment District court of June 1, 1896, in which he held the act to be unconstitu- tional and sets it aside. Then the orde ratifies and confirms the verdict in the case as to all of the following lots and parts of lots: Nos. and Columbia road; 113 and 60; and 12: 33. The order further reads: “And a perms nent right of way for the public over said lots and parts of lots taken for a street, as indicated on the plat filed with the peti- tion in this case, is hereby adjudged to be condemned in accordance with the prayers of said petition.” 121 Kenesaw avenue, and 102, 65 and Amounts in Compensation, To the respective owners of the parcels of ground and buildings thereon, condemned as aforesaid, the following sums are allowed as compensation therefor: Lot 122, $6,872. Y, $4,425. . 121 and 122, Kenesaw avenue, $1 S14G48.88 respectively; 102, $20, $13,693.60, and 58, $5,074.62, So far as the verdict of the appraisers de- termined the damages to the various par- cels of land, by reason of the abandonment of a previously existing highway, it is rati- fied and confirmed, and it is decreed that there are now due and payable to the re- spective owners of the parcels of land so damaged, as compensation therefor, ac cording to the verdict, the following sum: Lot 50, 33,20 south part of Jot 53, $608.85; west part of lot 47 and north 19 feet of lots 148 to 152, inclusive, $5,144.69, and lou 2, $600. New Trials Granted. In respect to all other parcels of land mentioned in the verdict of the jury of ap praisers, the verdict is set aside and va- cated, and a new trial granted in respect thereto. Further, the judge sets aside and vacates that part of the verdict which as- sessed against the several parcels of land pursuant to section 13 of the highway act, their proportional parts of the sum of $126,736.27, designated as schedule 3. A similar order fs expected to be soon signed im case 453, Ingleside subdivision, the second case tried, and in which the Verdict of the jury of appraisers was also rerdered, both cases going to the United States Supreme Court, where the act was held last month to be constitutional and valid in every respect. Mr. Worthington Retires. Mr. A. S. Worthington, who was specially engaged by the District to represent it in the cases, and to whose efforts more than to any other the judgment of the Supreme Court was obtained, stated to a Star re- porter today that as a result of a failure to provide for his compensation he has withdrawn from any and all further con- nection with the cases as counsel for the District, and will so notify the Commis: sioners today. Mr. Worthington said he has received virtually nothing for his serv- ices, and remarked that no provision has been made for his compensation in the He explained that he has been in ondence with the District Commis- 's in reference to the matter, and said that he has no objection whatever to the correspondence being made public by them. NEW CONSULS CHOSEN. future. A Number of Nominations Sent to the Senate. The President today sent the following nominations to the Senate: State—Charles L. Cole of Pennsylvania to be consul general of the United States at Dresden, Saxony; Geo. F. Lincoln of Con- necticut to be consul of the United States at Antwerp, Belgium; Waiter Schumana of New York to be consw of the United States at Mayence, Germany; Charles E. Tvrner of Connecticut to be consul general of the United States at Ottawa, Canada; Heetor De Castro of New York to be con- sul general of the United States at Rome, Italy; Hilary S. Brunot of Pennsylvania, consul of the United States at St. Etienne, France. Justice—Addison” Davis James of Ken- tucky to be marshal of the United States, district of Kentucky. Interior—Thomas A. Roseberry of Cali- fornia, register of the land office, Susan- ville, Cal.; Alfred H. Taylor of California, receiver of public moneys, Susanville, Cal.; Philip Gallinger of Washington to be a commissioner in and for the district of | Alaska. Treasury—Albert B. White of West Vir- ginia to be collector of internal revenue for the district of West Virginia. Navy—Ensign Edward Moale, jr., to be lieutenant, junior grade. —-e-______ WILL CUT DOWN THE FORCE. Necessary Changes the Supervising Architect's Office. Acting Supervising Architect Kemper had a conference with Secretary Gage to- day in reference to a reduction in the force of his office necessitated by the re- duced appropriations for the next fiscal year. He explainei that the appropria- tion for the year beginning July 1 next is about $10,000 less than for the current fis- cal year, and that it will be necessary to reduce expenses accordingly. The differ- ence can be met by the removal of about ten employes of the office or by a general reduction of salaries. The former method will prevail. The result will be known in @ few days. It is expected that the civil service com- mission will shortly announce its plan for the examination of candidates for ap Ppointment to the vacant office of super- vising architect. Mr. Kemper is engaged in the preparation of a scheme for the practical enforcement of the Tarsney law providing for competitive plans and speci- fications for public buildings. —_———_—_e—______ PHOTOGRAPHED TREATY SIGNERS. NO DEFINITE PLAN The Case of the United States Ree garding Cuba Not Yet Made Up. NO INSTRUCTIONS 10 WOODFORD Will Confer With Special Commis- sioner Calhoun. ——— TO REMAIN HERE SOMETIME It can be stated on the best authority that all publications purporting to outline the Cuban policy of President McKinley that have been made up to the present time have been in disrezard of the fact that up | to this moment the case of the United States government has not yet been made up, and that even in the discussions of the subject of our relations to Cuba that have taken place in the cabinet circle the point has not yet been reached where it could be said that the executive had finally deter- mined upon any certain plan of action, At the State Department an authorita- tive denial is given of the statement cabled to London, to the effect that General Wood- ford, the newly appointed United States minister to Spain, has been instructed to intimate to the Spanish authorities that 1f Spain refuses to grant freedom to Cuba she must be prepared to yield to force. In fact, the case of the United States has not yet been made up, as already stated. Mr. Calhoun, who was the President's spe- cial commissioner to visit Cuba and learn the plain truth as to the situation there, is still here in daily conference wiih Assist- ant Secretary Day upon the subject of our general relations to the Cuban question, as well as upon the Ruiz case in particular, and it is desired that General Woodford slso be given an opportunity to confer with Mr. Caihoun. Therefore, in the course cf the next three days the minjster will come again to Wash- ington from New York and begin a serious study of the history cf the present in- serrection from its very beginning. Of this Gen, Woodford at present knows lit- tle more than the average close reader of the newspapers, and it is, of course, highly important that he should have ir his pos- sessicn all of the ‘nformation that is in the State Departm ides that whica Mr. Calhoun may be able to add verbally, befores he go#s to Spain. It is the inten- tion of our governmen: that the new min- ister shell carry with him when he goes the complete case cf the United States. This will necessarily consume some time, and it can be stated positively that there is no expectation that General Woodford wiil start for Madrid until the expiration of the thirty-day period allowed by the State Department to all United States min- isters upon their appointment in which to study their instructions before going to their pests. General Woodford's instru>- tions will, of course, from the peculiarities of the situation, be much more complex than are usually given to an American minister. Not only will he be charged with all of the details of the Ruiz case, which presents -most formidable legal problems, but he will also take with him all the evidence neces- ary to present the I suffered by United States citizens in Cuba from th continuance in of the war with much other data in support of the suggestion of our goverrment that it can scarcely continue to countenance a prolongation of present conditions. Upon the answer returned by the Spanish government to these representations by Mr. Woodford will depend the course to be fol- lowed by the United States. While perfectly willing to gather all in- formation pertinent to this issue and listen to all proper representations, the adminis- tration is firmly determined not to be un- duly hurried in its treatment of the case, realizing that if it should permit itself to be carried away by temporary excitement, mistakes of the gravest character might re- sult, that would in the end weaken our po- sition. ————— CITY POST OFFICE BUILDING. Coming Conference Regarding Ar- rangements of the Interior. An arrangement has been made by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Post- master General for 3 conference between representatives of the Treasury and Post Office deparimauits in regard to the prep- aration of the Washington city post office building for the use of the general Post Office Department ia accordance with the action of Congress. A few days ago Secre- tary Gage informed Postmaster General Gary of the action of Congress providing for the transfer, and asked if he had any suggestion to meke regarding the arrange- ment of the interior of the building. A reply was received from the Postmas- ter General today saying briefly that he had referred the matter to the committee on post office plans and buildings, of which Mr. M. D. Wheeler is chairman, and that that committee would be pleased to con- sult with a representative of the Treasury Department on the subject. Mr. Otto G. Simonson, chief draughtsman of the supervising architect's office, who is thorovghly familiar with the general plans and coastruction of the city post office building, has been designated to rep- resent the Treasury Department in this matter. He will meet the committee at the Post Office Department Monday and ascertain what changes, if any, are desired in the interior arrangement of the build- ing to meet the purposes ef the general post office. Meanwhile the plumbing work and the installation of the heating and ventilating apparatus is susperded. It is not believed that any extensive changes in the building will be required and possibly nothing more than a rearrangement of doors and parti- tiors. —__o-—___—_ JAPAN AND HAWAIL, Formal Statement of the Minister Filed With the Secretary of State. The Japanese minister has filed with the Secretary of State a formal statement of the position of his government with re-