Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1900, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, SUNDAY. ae Business: liee semi Avente be Hea Sey eran, Gomer Few York Office: 126 Tribune Building, Office, Boyce Building, Terex Offce: Trafalgar Buildings, ‘Tra: gar Equare. Der month, cents Sai Star, = with ‘an itunday Quintuple rest oer ‘$1 per year; (Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., vt tal abe Hotiass rast be 4d in ad ‘ma! mi paid in advance. Rates of advertising made known on application. TELEPHONE SERVICE At Rates Within the Reach of All. THE Chesapeake nd Potomac Telephone Company Is now fu-nishing telephone service from $3 a month up. It fs no longer necessary for The Smal! User and the Man of Moderate Means to pay the max mum rate. Service can now be ob- tained at rates varying with the amount and class of service rendered. Mileage Charges Dispensed With Excepting in a few remote sections of the city. Schedule of Reduced Message Rates. For measured service, with metallic cireult and long-distance equipment: Extra No. calls. 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HELLER’s, SEVENTH ST. N.W. TURKISH BATH, 1329 G Street N. W. SEPARATE BATHS FOR LADIES. mn ef the damaged product fs the es ng. und this can be done best of all by locked-up pores of the skin. Fer this is equal, In our opinion, to the Turkish hs. It is the safest, most effi and perfect means of clearing out the mil £ tubes that plerce the skin—tbes whose ction is bearing off these waste products; and it you, to p.m.; Fridays till 8 p.m. ull 12 at night. mbI0-20d NEAR DUPONT CIRCLE—CARPENTER SHOP— by experienced and reliable men. JOHN P Widen Builder, 1a Noe Se othce. 1000 Cron. ave. fen-18t°-4 “Mexican Hot,” A delicious DIGESTIVE RELISH, Made from Mexican Mild Sweet Peppers. N. W. BURCHELL, 1325 F St. THE NATIONAL GUARD Capt. Chisholm of Company B, Second Battalion, Resigns, THE REASONS ASSIGNED THEREFOR Staff Officers Considering Site for Next Encampment. CAPT. GRANT’S RESIGNATION ee Capt. Daniel V. Chisholm, Company B, 2d Battalion, District of Columbia National Guard, has tendered his resignation. The paper has not yet reached militia head- quarters, but is traversing the usual route through military channels. It {s understood that Major Anderson, who commands the 2d Battalion, has in an indorsement officially announced his disapproval of Capt. Chis- holm severing his connection with the guard. In the opinion of Major Anderson, it is learned, Company B, 2d Battalion, Is not now in a condition to stand, without injury, the loss of its commanding officer. There exists absolutely no doubt that after it reaches headquarters the paper, without unnecessary delay, will be forward- ed approved by the commanding general to the adjutant general, United States army, and that the tender of resignation will be probably accepted. Therefore within a very short time Captain Chisholm, of his own volition, will cease to be an officer of the District of Columbia National Guard. In conversation with a Star reporter Cap- tain Chisholm made the announcement that in view of the disapproval of the reviewing authority of the findings of the military court which recently tried and acquitted him on charges alleging conduct unbecom- ing an officer and a gentleman, he could see no other way open to him than to ten- der his resignation. In view of the existing circumstances Captain Chisholm believes it would be apt to be unpleasant to him to remain longer in the service. When his resignation shall have been accepted Cap- tain Chisholm says he wil make public what he considers the real reasons that Prompted the preferring of charges against m. Meeting of Staff Officers. At a meeting of the general staff, District of Columbia militia last week a discussion was had fn relation to the detatls of the encampment next July of the troops of the District National Guard. Maj. Neu- meyer, commissary general, was delegated to forthwith examine several sites which have heen suggested as proper places for holding the encampment and to submit a@ full report thereon. As soon as Maj. Neu- meyer has completed the duty assigned to him the commanding general and the heads of the several staff departments will pass upon the question. A stretch of ground fronting on Chesapeake bay and two others along the upper Potomac are being looked upon with favor. The idea is to find a camp ground sufficiently distant from the city to make {t undesirable for the guar men to go to and fro unless absolute eseary, and at the samne time within easy hauling distance of a railroad station. The camp next summer will be held in conjunction with the outing of the troops of the regular establishment stationed in this vicinity. This fact, and the probability that an appropriation will be secured to provide for paying the guardsmen for the time spent under canvas, le: to the b lief that the earp will be the most su ful in the h of the brigade. Th to be established not only a rifle range small arms firing. but a t t for artillery practice. The taking of the light nto camp with the re Inder of the A goodly representa- High School Ca- i erest in the add tot ampment Periodien! Inxpections. Advant is to be taken in a way of what ha n gleaned from expe: the method of conducting » far Mspections are concerned. In- permitting the staff depart- to inspect the troops on dates that decided on ach, the program is stematized. The adjutant general d with the preparation of a to the use of the drill hall. be arranged so that the regula battalion drills of all the ba will oceur during one week. It is ed to Interfere with ritle pract: y drills. When the dates are ar sever: may k to be will me ion: not int or comp aly ranged it will be an easy matter to com- plete t pections in one week, and with- out necessitating extra attendance of the a maite> of Inform . So much of the report of the ins at is of general information will be pubiished in the form of a circu ion and instrue- lar. ‘The repo the reeent quar terly inspections show a marked improve- ment over the conditions that were found to exist last January. Funds Running Low. The appropriation from which the Na- tional Guard Brigade Band and the corps of field music are compensated {s now y low, and therefore it will be neces- y to do away with music in connection h the ceremonies for the muster in of re- cruits until the appropriation for the next fiscal year becomes available. It has been ided to conduct a series of regimental des and drills during the noons, preparatory to the encampment. T! funds remaining as part of the appropria- ton referred to will be devoted to provid- ing music for these outdoor assemblies. The drill will include elementary work along the lines of that to be foilowed while in camp. Among Comminsioned Officers. The commanding general, in a communi- cation to the Secretary of War, has re- quested that the commission of First Lieut, Orton W. Hyde, Company B, 4th Battalion, be vacated. It is explained that Lieut. Hyde left the city about the 19th of No- without any notification to or proper authority, and is still it is added, never com- ‘whereabouts. Commissi ave been received at head- “ommissary S Smith. general non-comm: first Neutenant Company Sergi. James Leeman Company D, 4th F Lieut. A. L. Evans y D, 4th Batt detailed for s auarters fo . Pickney W. joned staff, as D, 2d Battalion: Ss second lieutenant ‘on, and Second # first Houtenant Com- ion. Lieut. Smith has ecial duty in the com- missary department, and also as a member of the board of managers of the National Guard gymnasium. Capt. Jesse F. Grant, Company B, 1st Battalion, has tendered his resignation after service in the local brigade since its or- ganization, and in the Washington Light Infantry Corps for many years prior to the formation of the guard. First Lieut. F. Carrell Mattingly, Com- pany D, Sth Battalion. who has been tem- porarily in command of the signal for a Year past, has been elected to the permanent command of the latter organiza. tion with the rank of first Heutenant. Mr. Horace M. Bell, son of James: FE. Bell, inspector general of rifle practice. has been elected second Meutenant of Com- pany C, 5th Battalion. Mr. Bell has been a guardsman for a number of years; was a member of the brigade rifle team at Sea Girt last year, and was an officer of the 1st District Regiment*during the war with Spain. Guardsmen in the Philippines. It was recently ordered that those mem- bers of the District of Columbia National Guard now in the United States service in the Philippines be honorably discharged from the guard. In directing this action the headquarters officials called attention to the fact that it is manifestly impossible for such men to serve in two active organiza- tions at the same time, and for this reason only it is deemed best that they be dis- charged. Referring to several members ,of his company now in the United States service in the Philippines, the commanding officer of Company B, 2d Battalion, communicated to headquarters as follows: “These men are all old and valued mem- bers of the company, and for this reason I earnestly request that they be given the same privilege that was accorded those members of the District of Columbia Na- tional Guard who served in the Ist District of Columbia Volunteer Regiment during the Spanish-American war, and who were retained on the company rolls in the Na- tional Guard during that time.” Adjutant General Love has replied to the foregoing as follows “In view of the fact that the National Guard is on an active basis, it is deemed best to discharge all men who cannot as- sist in maintaining the high standard of efficiency desirable in the guard. At the breaking out of the Spanish-American war urgent necessity required the absence of the National Guard, and as an organized body it practically ceased to exist. This emer- gency having passed, the guard is again an organized and active body, which demands the active assistance of all {ts members. A discharge from the National Guard for the same period as that covered by a discharge from the regular or volunteer army under existing conditions would amount to a mere farce, and could be of no possible benefit to the man holding it. For these reasons alone it is deemed best to discharge the men in question.” National Guard Notes. The monthly muster-in of recrults for the Ist Separate Battalion occurred in the presence of a large assemblage of specta- tors last Thursday evening at the O street armory. Music was furnished by the corps of field music. Adjutant General Love will go on leave of absence about the 7th instant for one week for a much-needed rest. Upon his return he will begin to frame the orders for camp and dispose of other matters of special moment. Leave of absence for twenty days, to take effect today, with permission to leave the city, has been granted Major H. H. Par- menter, quartermaster general. So much of paragraph 2, special orders No. 111, serfes 1800, as relates to Captain John B. Moore, Battery A, Light Artillery, dropped as a deserter from the Naval Bat- talion, is revoked and Captain Moore is re- Meved from any disgrace attached thereto. On his own application Musician Charles S. Shreve, jr., Brigade Band, has been hon- orably discharged, because of removal from the Distrie Sergeant W. W. St!lwell and Privates a. G. Hammerly and Percy T. Harrison, ali of Company C, Ist Battalion, have been honor- ably discharged. On account of physical disability Private Zebulon M. P. King, Company D. 4th Bat- alion, and Thomas M. Goss, 2d’ Division, Naval Battalion, have been honorably d charged. Work With Revolver. Lieut. Frank Holt won the silver trophy by a score of 22 points at a recent meet- ing of the Revolver Club. Each marks- man was 2llowed only two trials shots in twenty seconds’ time, the tz pearing in sight for that time following were the best sco of six in the » score deliberate 2 mil ‘alver were ‘arrow, 44; Maj. Frank Holt, 41; Be contest Lieut. W. Bell, 43 et. Carl The condit = on paper target, Creedmoor count yards distance, one hand and extc An exam mander Cox, ning board, composed of Com- ns, Lieut. Power and Su mvened t Thursday Fern, to nd appointment. amined for com- wang lieutenant, isk for prom ment as ensign. repor made in ach ¢ The 'n, one of the shipke been changed to oile Bat been discharged because of ymaster Sid: recent trip north. Harry A. Shepley, Neutenant junior grade, has tendered his résignation. Confirmed The Senate, Satur lowing nominations W. H. Chamberlin of Chic: sistant commi Clearn, to be col district of Marblehead, Mass.; Capt. C. 8. Cotton, to be a rear admiral in the navy Postmasters—Massachusetts: F. H. John- son, Vineyard Haven: W. H. Pierce, Wine! endon; E. W. Nutter, East Bridgewater; O. P. Kendric, Westbrookfield, Pennsylvania—Wm. D. Williams, jr., Me- Donald; H. D. Ruth, Lansdale: H. F. Her- shey, Steelton; D. G. Engle, Marietta. Maine—F. H. Atwood, Rumford Falls; M. Hosmer, Potsdam. Wisconsin — H. J. Goddard, Chippewa Falls. Illinois—A. W. Fletcher, Highland Park. Ohio—C. A. Hartley, Pomeroy. Tennessee—J. K. P. Marshall, Clevelan¢ H. Lloyd, Chapel Hill. California—J. W. Harvey, Monrovia; E. Hapgood, Marysville, Colorado—J. ‘L. Moorhead, Boulder. Nebraska—B. Monnich, Hooper; G. W. Randall, Newman Grove; W. Royer, Sew- ard. Texas—J. I. Carter, Arlington; C. P. Zieg- enhals, Bastrop. Michigan — W. W. Harrington, Branch; E. O. Dewey, Owosso. Permanent Machinery Exhibition. Consul Bordewich, at Christiania, has transmitted to the State Department the program of the permanent machinery ex- hibition which has been opened in that clty. Manufacturers, agents and other in- terested narties are invited to exhibit their wares. Centrally located rooms in the ex- hibit can be had at a low rent, and appli- ances can be shown in full operation with- out extra expense for the driving power. Por further Information on the subject manufacturers are invited to address the Alfheim Company, St. Olafsgade, 22, Chris- tlania. Bieber has returned the Senate. » confirmed the fol- to be as- S. F. Me- North o-—_____ Army Orders. Captain John Baxter, jr., assistant quar- termaster, stationed at Baltimore, has heen ordered to additional duty in the office of the quartermaster general in thts city. Captain Jacques de L. Lafitte, assistant quartermaster, United States volunteers, has been ordered from New York to this city for structions. Major F. L. Payson, paymaster. stationed at Washington, and Major J. 8. Wilkins, additional paymaster, United States volun- teers, stationed at New York, have been ao to San Francisco for assignment to luty. WASHINGTON, D. 0. MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1900—TWENTY-TWO PAGES. POWERSOF CONGRESS Can Do Nothing Not Granted by the Constitution. MR, BATE ON TERRITORIAL EXPANSION Speaks Against the Porto Rican Tariff. THE POPULAR INDIGNATION Mr. Bate of Tennessee addressed the Sen- ate on the Porto Rican bill today. He di- rected his argument particularly against the pending bill, but his speech embraced the whole question of expansion and the treat- ment by the government and by Congress of our insular possessions. He took strong ground against the acquisition of Spanish territory, under the treaty of Paris—against which he voted—and inquired: “Can the American people acquire from another nation by purchase the moral right to govern ten millions of people against their consent, when attested by forcible re- sistance—that rightful rebellion which our revolution consecrated for all people? There is not a page, not a paragraph in our his- tory, which sustains the rightfulness of purchasing peoples—ten millions in one batch, like cattle in box cars, Powers of Congress. “It is true that the language of the treaty of Paris provides that the political and civil rights of the people in the ceded ands shall be determined by Congress; but by Congress, as Congress is controlled by the Constitution, and not by Congress acting with the absolutism of an English parliament. The Constitution created Con- gress, gave it Its Ife and pewer and action, ntrols its authority and dircets its ener- gies. Congress can do nothing not author- ized by the Constitution, fn no. scction, either by grant or implication, is there any y for two classes of people—citi- f the stat s and subjects of the Con- The experience of the republican party in the art of reconstruction between 1865 and 1870—between the acquisition of Alaska and thi not Philippines, tanght lessons which forgotten when the treaty of ured the islands from Spain. The ition of the southern states by car- petbag governments was an ¢xperience for vhich the acquis Porto Rico and Philippines offered oppostunities srovided for in the y itself. A Porto Rico, th Dijcee of Con- h_ protects interests States and denigs to all ¢ which tes the ben@fit cf c creates a virtual (rust of cigar: ettes and tobacco, and helps the actual trust in sugar, for the benefit of manuf: cost of consumers in the s lucers in Porto Rico. While r in Hawaik the prope: in the United State: tons of trus enter » of all duty, the 60,00) tons of sugar oduced by the impoverished ners of to Rico are taxed under the power ty of Paris was manipu! to Congress the power which bused. . of Gongress over the | rights and political status of nm mi Hons of peoples Is grafted on a treaty, which the so as to give been thus the treaty is now alleged-to supere the Constitution, and to have supreme law of the land. Against a ¢ so monstrous and King to every s of constituti law the people of the in Union will enter their solem eflicient prot They will nev the new republi tive, through his gotlate a tred to the Cons tment, mount te De- of the nd by mean: s of diplomacy, ean convert this S into an impertatism an the absolutism of par- more des liament. Cpposed to Holding the Islands. “I was opposed to acquiring the islands of Spain, and for that reason voted against the ratification of the treaty of Paris, I 2m opposed to the retention of those islands a moment longer than is necessary to re- establish order and security. Bul so long the Islands are under our control, and so lcng as our flag floats there, the representa- tive of our authority, I shall, as far as may be within my power, advocate and support the extension to those beople of every priv- ilege, right and immunity which the people of the states enjoy. “It may be a debatable question with some persons whether the ‘Constitution fol- lows the flag,’ but there ought not to be any doubt that the Constitution dominates the Congress and imposes upon its legis tion each and every restriction, whether the laws be enacted for the states, terri- tories. provinces or colonies. The flag may outsall the Constitution, but Congress can- not get away from the fstrument, nor from under any of its restraints. Its rev- enue laws must be uniform throughtout all territory over which the Congress assumes to legislate; there are. in the instrument neither exceptions nor provisos—nor any place for ‘expediency.’ In the course of an extended discussion of expansion, in which he maintained that the democratic party wasuthe eriginal party of “expansion along lines which added strength to national resaurces,” Mr. Bate said: = “The acquisition of territory-with the pur- pose and qualification of admission, in the future, into the Union of-states, is no pre- cedent for the acquisition of territory whose people are disqualified by every circun- stance and fact in their eharacter and na- ture from ever becoming citizens of a state in this Union.” The Proposed Tariff. Adverting to the proposed tariff on Porto Rican products, Mr. Bate declared that the original bill provided for free trade, but the “trusts took alarm and the long and slimy tentacles of the Uctopus soon reached into the committee room and all was lost. “The demand of ‘the octopus—the sugar interest—was complied with, and the Presi- dent's recommendation was side-tracked— free trade in 60,000 tone of Porto Rico sugar, the property of planters without ‘in- fluence’ with the committee was subjected to the tax, while 300,000; tons of Hawaiian Sugar, the property of a‘spgar king, is ad- mitted free of all duty. © \ “The sugar trust takes a*reciprocity view of politics, and contributes money where it will “do most good,’ but sh its purse with @ snap when the party wowfld obey the’Con- stitution or allow constitutional privileges to bar the way to corporate gain. The House committee e hint from Mr. Oxnard, turned the cold sheulder to the President. discarded, as: he expressed it In his message, the.‘plain duty;’ _ overthrew Wour tire satisfaction? Fail not to SPRING OPENING Wonder what Mertz will say today? [preparations Jor Easter Should have timely thought. Pay a visit to our MODERN TAILOR- ING EMPORIUM—we want you to note our beautiful and large display, of spring woolens. Such a wealth of exquisite fabrics, the world’s bright- est ideas—all that’s new and beautiful— AND Our new method of cutting insures : PRECISE FITTING, garments far excelling all previous efforts. come, 4 Do you know we are wonderfully well equipped to serve you to your en- (Derts ANS MSerts, Washington’s Leading Tailors, - 906 and 908 F St. Baltimore Store, 6 East Baltimore St. SPRING OPENING ALL THIS WEEK. SPRING OPENING ALL THIS WEEK. ALL THIS WEEK. the Constitution and fell back on the abso- lutism of Congress to do as it pleases with the millions of people acquired under the treaty of Paris. Popular Indignation. “The indignation with which the people met this Porto Rico tariff bill as it came to the Senate has been voiced in the pro- test of a former republican President, in the marked emphasis with which it has been condemned by a very large section of the republican press and by the outspoken disapproval one hears in all places where And yet the senator the people congregat e from Ohio (Mr.. Foraker) s ‘It is the most liberal and generous bill in its pro- visions that has ever been proposed in Con- gress for any territory of the United States since the beginning of our government. But the liberality and generosity of the bill carries 15 per cent duties between the Is! and the states, never before imposed upon the people of any territory. It is against that price set upon the ty and lib- erality of the United States that the peo- ple protest. Itis against that affection timated in dollars and s, levied on people who have been made a part and y cel of our people, that the country resent A Dilemma. “The debate cn this bill hi fact that the treaty of Paris has given Spain the same trade privileges that the United States may use—tree trade if there is free trade between the island and the the ‘favored nation clause’ in s with many nations, nds ready to open wide the Philippine door into the United States. In that alle ma this bungling treaty (I mean no disre- spect to its frame has placed the re- publican party. It was that di ened the sugar and tobacco interests vanced couriers to the commiiice room with the ultimatum of no more money for political campaign unless a barbed wire fence of duties was placed around the in- dustries which heretofore have put so much money where it would do the most good.” in a discw Mr. Bate unveiled the ion of “imperialism” “I rejoice in the conviction that neither in England nor in the United States are the sentiments, opinions and convictions of the people represented by the administra- tion. That treaty has proved itself to be the Pandora box out of which has flown all the evils which are now embarrassing thi: government; dividing its people along line: of policy which threaten the very existen of the Constitution; and opening the way of imperialism in policy, to unnatural ex- pansion of territory, to’ the overthrow of the Monroe dcctrine, to the incorporation with our people of millions of savages, to- tally unfit for self-government and unable to comprehend its forms and purposes.” ——_——_ +0 +____ Marine Orders. Second Lieutenant Jay M. Salladay, who has been stationed in Washington since his appointment, has been ordered to take charge of a detachment of marines to Mare Island, Cal., and on arrival at that place to report to commandant of the navy yard for instructions. Captain T. P. Kane has been anpointed judge advocate of the general court-mar- tial now in session on the United States steamer Kearsarge. Second Lieutenants Sidney W. Brewster and P. M. Rixey, jr., have been ordered to the marine barracks, Washington, D. C., for instruction. First Lieutenant D. P. Hall has been de- tached from the marine barracks, Mare Is- land navy yard, Cal., and ordered to duty with the marine guard on the Iowa. First Lieutenant B. F. Rittenhouse, from the Towa to the Mare Island navy yard, to command the marine guard of the United States steamer Solace. Second Lieutenant C. T. Westcott, from the marine barracks, Washington, to the marine barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., for instruction. 6 ere Indians Want to Move. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces Indians, located on the Colville reservation, Wash- ington, has filed with the commissioner of Indian affairs a petition to remove his band to Oregon. Chief Joseph says that he de- sires to be located in the Wallowa valley at the confluence of the Grand Ronde and Snake rivers, near Seven Devils mountains. He says that he has talked with the people of that region, who think it might be pos- sible to have his tribe settle there. The commissioner of Indian affairs said that if the Wallowa district was not too thickly settled it might be practicable to grant Chief Joseph’s request, but he feared that conditions would not permit this action. —_—__o+_____ Hotel Reopened. F The Wellington Hotel Saturday was re- opened for business, under the direction of Mr. E. C. Benson. TWO FILIPINOS. NEW MILITARY POLICY HAS BEEN INAUGURATED, Gen. Otis’ Action Intended to Sup- press Brigandage and Oatlawry in the Islands, The execution of Morales and Gonzales, the Philippine leaders, marks the inaugura- tion of a new military policy in the Philip- pines—that i the execution of the death sentence by order of the military officer in command in the cases of person or others, convicted and sentenced by mili- tary commissions organized under the rules of war. Morales and Gonzales were con- victed by a military commission of the mur- der of Filipinos and were sentenced to be hanged near Bayanbang March 30, and the press dispatches from Manila show that the sentence was carried into effect. No official report ef these cases has been received at the War Department, and {t is stated that Gener: as acted entir on his own ibility in the matte) under the y conferred by the arti- cles of war. Since the Spanish war there have been several other cases wh the ; death penalty was-imposed by a military tribunal, but up to the present instance no case where the death sentence was car- Tied into effect. All the previous cases were nitted to the President for final action and in every instance the sentence w commuted to imprisonment for ‘ife. Accordingto the legal officers of the War Department the insurrection in the Philip- pines amounts to a ate of and in at view of the case, it is decla i, Gen- eral Otis acted entirely within his author- ity in- ordering the execution of the two Filipinos without special authority from the President. It is stated at the War De- partment that General Otis’ action is un- doubtedly intended to suppress brigandage and outlawry in the Phill; ppines, but some of the more conservative officers fear that his summary action may jeopardize the afety of American prisoners now in the hands of the insurgent ——+ + _____ FORTIFICATIONS BILL PASSED. Price of Sheep and Wool Incidentally Discussed. In the House Saturday afternoon. reply- ing to Mr. Richardson's assertion that ihe interests of the wool-growers had been dis- astrously affected by the Dingley law, Mr. Hemenway said no one ever had to explain why anything went up under the Wilson jaw. Mr. Wm. Alden Smith (Mich.) pro- duced figures to show that the price of sheep had doubled under the Dingley law. Mr. Bell (Col.) declared that the extrav- agance of the present administration was without parallel in the history of the coun- try. Mr. Fitzgerald (Mass.) denounced the re- publican party for not being able to repress trusts, which, he said, were enjoying the principal prosperity existing in the coun- try today and declaring great dividends on the capital invested. No party which ud- mitted its helplessness to deal with this problem could receive the approval of the people. Mr. Lovering (Mass.), reverting to Mr. Richardson's statement concerning the pr? of wool, admitted that wool had been hig! er abroad since the passage of the Dingiey act. But, he said, the reason was mani- fest to those who understood condition Between the election in ’96 and the passage of the law enormous quantities of wool had been imported in anticipation of a higher tariff. That stock was now exhausted und the wool-growers from now on would re- ceive the benefits of the tariff which the heavy anticipatory importations prevented. The fortifications appropriation bill was then passed without amendment. A resolution was adopted re-electing the Present board of managers of the National Soldiers’ Homes. The minority of the committee on mer- chant marine and fisheries were given until April 20 to file their view on the ship sub- sidy bill. At 3:05 p.m. the House adjourned. Z Coming Examinations. ‘The civil service commission announces that it will hold examinations April 17 and 18 to fill two postions in the hydregraphic office, Navy Derartment, at a salary of $1,000 each per annum. Cartographic draftsmen are the official designations of the positions, and the ex- amination will = Ss in letter writings, penmanship topographic drawing and lettering. HANGED|THE NAVAL POLICY S, natives ! <= BOARD | WILL PROBABLY MEET WEEKLY AFTER APRIL 15. i fon Respecting Military Reg sources of Other Nations to Be Inform: Gathered and Considered. The first meeting of the naval board been thereafter the board once a week until it h to routine form. Th include in its composition officers in the United Sta problems with which to deal their best « The work precedent. are known as policy called for April 15, and will ably meet i its work is believed to and the d upon to demand without retefore w bureaus of intel De e: nd have in of hostilities infor specting the resi . in a warlike way of other nations. But this wor to the routine duties of officers, and owing t in- intelli- of sy the Ine direction has never of more ral value Plans of Campaizns. The policy board is to undertake this work on larger lines and will probably be guided by European methods. It will be its business to provide in mpletely worked out plans of na aligns, of- fensive and defensive, applicable to any maritime power with which the United States may y a iliiy come into hostile conflict he prepara- tion of thes olves an enormous amount of w The military and na ign countries must b nicety, and this information newed from the latest s time. Accur def as aS poss! slons made by the British authorities in the case of the geography of the Transvaal. Work of the War Coileze. The war college will probably be called upon to assist in the work by continuing on an enlarged scale the planning of the utilization of the United States naval forces mpaigns. Then another branch of the work will be the preparation of plans for naval operations when the navy is called upon to act in conjunction with the army, both offensively and defen- sively, and this incidentally involves ques- tions of harbor defense and the protection of the naval stations. The Pearl Harbor board is now engaged in a scheme for the establishment and fortification of a naval station in that harbor, and it is probable that this report will be submitted to the policy board before any attempt is made to carry into @ffect its recommendations. It is possible that when Pearl Harbor has been disposed of the same cr « similar board may be called upon to consider the establishment of a naval station on the Island of Guam, but it is said at the Navy Department that up to the present mo- ment no consideration has been given to this subject, and there is no data yet avail- able for the guidance of the board in fram- ing a plan of defense. . theoretic ascertained musi be re- s from time to SS No Demand for Military Advisors. Consul Genera! Horace N. Allen at Seoul, writes to the State Department, relative to the numerous requests of young men in this country, who have recently left the service of the United States, asking for po- sitions as military advivors or instructors in the Corean army, that there is no de- mand for their services in that capacity, Corea having announced her intention and ability to disvense with forelzn assistance of this kind. The mines ard the railroads, also according to Consul Allen, offer no op- portunities to other than native Coreans. —<—<$<$__»—_—______ Lieut. Bromwell Ordered Here. By direction of the Secretary of War, First Lieutenant Charies S. Bromweil, corps of engineers, United States army, is relieved from duty under the immediate orders of Colonel Charles R. Suter, corps of engineers, United States army, at Bos- ton, Mass., and will proceed to and take station at Washington, D. C., and report in person to the chief of engineers, United States army, for temporary duty in his of-