Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 16, 1895, Page 4

THE OMAHA DALY BEE B. ROSEWATER, Editor. — — | PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. | TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. | Daily Bea (Without Sunday), One Year......$ 8 00 Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year 10 Bix Montl 50 Toree 3 134 funday | . Enturiny 1580 Weekly Ttec, Year ... One Year.. One Year OFFICE! Omata, The Bies Building. Bouth Omaha, Singer Dik., Cor. N and 2th Sts Councll Diufts, 13 Tearl Sireet [ Chicago Office, 317 Chamber of Commerce, New York, Rooma 13, 14 and 1, Tribune Bldg. | Washington, 1407 I CORRE AN eommunications relating (o torial matter #hould be addressed 88 LETTERS. 1 remittances should be | Publishing company, Omaa, "Drats. checks and posioiiice ord 1| made_pagnl {he order of the company. NT OF CIRCULATION. | ¢ of The fice Pube | iys that mplote coples unday e \er, 1594, was | 11 \. W wa and_edl- > the EdItor, All business letters addressed to The BTATEMF George schuck, pecre Bshing company, being dui the wetual number of full and of the Laily Morning, Evening printed during the month of Nov as follows: 20,500 il 16 1., 18 10 2., 21 2 2 2 T T P— Total ....... ws dedictions coples for Total Daily ave Bworn to before me and subscril this 30 day of Decembor, 150 The train robber seems to stand with | the few successful business men of the day. Neb is not at all anxious to rob Louisiana of her laurels as the lottery state. A little cabinet pudding is relished once in a while as a contribution to Ne- braska's buck number history. 1t is just Thurston’s luck that there is not a political bone at his dispo not even a place for a superintendent of cuspide Prej for inual controversy between the Board of Bducation and the city council as to the size of the tax levy for school pur Senator Hill's new partnership with President Cleveland has Teft his rela- tions with his former associate, Senator Gorman, in a rather straimed condition. The democrats in congre be united on the currency soon as they shall have been relieved of the responsibility for solving the problem. s will soon question John M. Thurston now reads his title clear to o seat in the United States se ate. The public declaration of that fact in joint convention at high noon will be a mere matter of form. President Casimir-Perier of France is having his first experience with a ministerial crisis. But it won't be his last if he is permitted to serve out the full presidential term for which he has been elected. Bryan received 80,472 votes for United States senator through the ballot box, but only seventeen of these were cast for him in the legislature. Moral: Public debates do not always material- ize into legislative votes. If J. Sterling Morton’s visit to Omaha does not settle the little matter of the Omaha postoffice it is feared there may De a small sized insurrection among the long lines of the faithful who have been 80 patiently walting for the plum to come their way. True, Omaha must have house and auditorium, mercial club takes up tnis enterprise, however, it must expect opposition at the hands of dealers In vegetables and provisions who have long stood in their own light on this important proposition. o market ‘When the Com- A delegation of prominent Chicagoans has gone to Washington fo get a new postoffice building from congress. They have taken two moving vans along and expect to bring the new building with them on their return in order to make certain that it does not get lost on the way. Bill Cook says he’is captured. Bill ought to know. But then we cannot help having a lurking suspicion 'that Bill may turn up in some distant part of the country pretty soon and assert that he is still free and untamed and ready to go through a few more hair- breath es Weller who a few years ago led the fight for the abolition of the 5-cent Dbridge differentiar on freight shipments as between this city and Council Bluffs, As president of the Commereial elub Mr. Weller is well squipped to push the contest for equal- lzation of rates, Major ( son is again on his high horse marshaling a political procession. The question 15 will Le rauk the ninety- seven members of the legislature who wear those Thurston badges, or does be come in"just after the last one of the ninety-seven for his share of the sub- stantial recognition? Every department of eity government with one or two exceptions has sent in estimates for next year's expenses that are at least as large as they were last year. This means that e tax rate for the coming year can bardly be any smaller than at present unless waterial economies are forced upon the munici- pal administration. The spirits out in Valley, Neb., ap- pear to have given up the finding of Barrett Scott as a bad job or at any rate they have failed to make good their promise of last Saturday to explain his disappearance within forty-eight hours, It looks as if it will take the best efforts of the most ingenious men to unravel {tong a lanl re [ 3. Dey | the fact the mystery and that they will have to depend upon their own resources with- 2ut help from the spivit world. TOWA RAILROADS DISAPPOINTED. The Town railrond managers, and more particutarly thelr representatives who appeared in their behalf at the hearing on their petition for an in « e of the maximum rate schedule in force in that state, profess to be very much disappointed over the adverse de- cision just rendered by the Towa rail- ad commissioners, The not entirely disappointed in their ex- pectations, the decigion instead of being unanimous as it should have been was reached only by a majority of the three commissioners, while the commissioner, Mr. Dey, filed a minority rt, arguing that although the rail- d failed to prove alleged in their original petition the rates had nevertheless been too h from the beginning and should be in- creased to some extent, if not the ronds had asked. Of course if Mr., Dey believed this, he should hav moved to reduce the schedule of 1887 He did not, but he has prob all times been dy to co- ope to that end and would have done so had the state of public opinion or the position of his associations given sonable hope for sucee I'he railronds seem to have counted on 11 along. m to have counted also upon Mr. Perking to make the second commissioner on their side and their disappointment avises from that he failed to do so. He is a to have always been regarded as triendly to the railroads and had they not relied upon his assistance they would have filed a petition inviting cer- tain defeat. It may have been that it was their over-confidence in their ability to control two of the commissioners that made them careless in bandling their case, for the presentation of the railroad side of the argument must have been poor indecd when Mr. Dey is compelled to go outside of the evidence in order to find a basis for his recommendation of increased rat But if the railroads are disappointed in the Towa commission, the people are not. A commission that completely satisfied the railroads could never satisfy any one else. The railroads will doubtless make this decision the ground for combined effort to gain absolute control of the commission as its personnel is gradually ehanged, but the people of Towa are alive to the impor- tance of sonable railroad rates and will see the necessity of electing only hone and fearl men as commis- sioners and men free from*the corporate domination 2o, at hiey s t THE GRE Senator Allison voiced the nearly uni- versal sentiment of the country when he declared in the senate on Monday that revenue to meet the obligation government, and not currency reform, is the really great emergency to which congress should now give attention. The lowa senator was amazed, as-every man must be who is familiar with the situation, that the president and secre tary of the treasury have no suggestion to make for providing the treasury with sufficient revenue to sustain the credit of the government and stop the monthly deficits which may have to be provided for hereafter by Increasing the public debt. To increase the revenue is the present pressing duty, said Mr. Allison, instead of vain conferences over a cur- rency bill or the many financial plans under discussion. Every hour given to the considera- tion of plans of so-called currency re- form in the present congress is mani- festly a waste of time. There can be no reconciliation of the wide diversity of views on this subject and consequently nothing can be done. In the house two measures, both having the support of the administration, have failed. One of these, framed by the secretary of the treasury, was withdrawn before it had passed through the committee stage, and the substitute for it, also largely the work of Secretary Carlisle, whom Senator Gorman described as “the fore- most man of finance in the.demderatic party,” was rejected before a vote on it was reached, the defeat of an order limiting debate showing that the bill could not pass. Then the work of cur- rency tinkering was transferred to the senate and a measure emanated from Senator Vest, the priveipal purpose of which was to bring about the free coin- age of silver. There is no possibility of passing o bill of this kind, and the latest information is that Jones of Arkansas is engaged in the preparation of another bill, while Secretary Carlisle is engaged in an effort to get the fac- tions of the house together on some sort of a compromise, The folly of all this Is most apparent, and it is unpardonable in the presence of the exigency which confronts the treasury, and is becoming more serious every day. In the course of Monday's debate Senator Gorman made the state- ment, on the authority of the treasury, that up to January 12 the excess of expenditures over recelpts for the cur- rent fincal year, which begun July 1, was $34,000,000, and the Maryland sena- tor expressed the opinion that the revenues for the present year will not meet the expenditures, Undoubtedly they will impreve, but it Is very ques- tionable whether the Increase will be sufficiknt to balance the expenditures and to proceed on the assumption that it will might prove to be a very grave mis- take. The appeal to the republicans for help is ridicnlous in view of the attitude of the democrats and the division that exists among them. When the party in control of congress shall have agreed upon something, either with regard to an increase of the revenue or a reform of the currency, it will be time to ask republican help, and if a wise and sound poliey, just and fair to all interests, is proposed, it Is safe to say that the re- publicans will not withhold their as- sistance. If the administration and con- gress, as Senator Allison sald, will meet the emergency here and now, by propos- ing such legislation as 1s plainly neces- sary to provide the required revenue, there can be no doubt about its receiy- lug the support of the republicans There is hardly a possibility, however, that this will be doue. The division among the democrats will continue, de- spito all efforts to arrange the differ- ences, and the present coungress, with roads were | third | to what | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WED but little more than six weeks of life, will come to an end without anything having been done elther for increasing the revenue or changing the currency system. As to the latter no serious harm will come from such a result Currency reform can walt. But a fail- ure to provide adequate revenue to en- able the government to meet its penditures might have very serious con- sequences, oX- EXONERATION WITH A VENGEANCE, As foreshadowed in The Bee the al- leged investigation into the charges of collusion between certain city officials and the gamblers of South Omaha has as It was in its boginning. After listen- ing to the denials of everybody said to Iy concerned in the question- ansactions, including themselves, the South Omaha city council has unani- 3 “that this council ate the above named pe the charges not sustained.” enger are the members to make their |finding a blanket whitewash that they include in their “exoneration™ the re- porters who had been accused of ac- cepting gamblers’ money to suppres obnoxions news, as if the reporte holding public office and were responsi- | ble to them for the performance of their duties, Nothing short of this was to be ex- pected. The situation to a large ex- tent presents a ¢ of all hang to- gether or all hang separately. Sitting on their own case with themselve defendants, witnesses, prosecutors and Judges the South Omaha councilmen have gone through the forms of an | vestigation, but have convinced no one, not even themselye They snap beautiful explanation of the hoss gam- bler that he had let the cat out of the bag about official protection to his skin game merely to beguile a prospective purchaser and they pretend to swallow it in the hope that they may thereby in- duce other people to do the same. It is at this point that they fail miserably. If the officials who profess to affect an air of injured innocence are satisfied with this “exoneration” they are wel- come to the vindication. ox- S WA S0 POLITICAL CRISIS IN FRANCE. The French political ¢ has as- sumed a most serious and alarming as- peet. The resignation of the ministry on Monday, while regarded as threaten- ing difficulties that might not be easily overcome, was not felt to involve any danger to the political security of the republic. It is true that the e which forced the cabinet to resign was of a constitutional character. The council of state, which as to certain matte is made by the constitution the final court of appeal, having rendered a de- cision regarding a contract between the government and certan railways, the Chamber of Deputies assumed the authority to reverse the decision. Tt s a8 if congress should undertake to overthrow a decision of the supreme court of the United States rendered in conformity with the constitutional authority of that tribunal. This action of the chamber left the cabinet no al- ternative but to resign, which it did at once. The first dispatches indicated the probability that another cabinet would soon be formed and thus the is brought to an end without any very grave political disturbance, as in the case of many other such crises under the republic. The resignation of Presldent Casimir- Perier, however, very greatly intensifies the gravity of the situation and gives good reason for a feeling of alarm. The obvious meaning of this action of the French president is that he is in sym- pathy with the position of the cabinet and believes that the action of the Chamber of Deputies contravened the constitution. Such an issue raised be- tween the executive and the legislative branches of the government is mani- ‘festly pregnant with danger to the political institutions of the country. It was by a considerable majority that the Chamber of Deputies refused priority to a motion, which was practic- ally to reject it, declaring adherence to the doctrine of the separation of powers and the noninterference of the chamber with the judicial functions of the coun- cil of state and persistence in this posl- tion may easily lead to a most serious conflict between the partisans of the antagonistic views that would give the republic the severest strain it has yet experienced. It Is one of those oppor- tunities which the reactionary and revolutionary elements are likely to take the greatest possible advantage of, and while these have recently not seemed to be very active in France they exist there and only need the chance to make themselves felt. It is said that the or- gans of the radicals and the soclalists were jubilant at the fall of the cabinet and their joy will doubtless be en- hanced by the resignation of the presi- dent, for whom these classes have not cherished a very great liking. The mon- archist element may also be expected to make itself heard, though its voice has little influence, That republican institutions in France are to be subjected to a severer test than at any other time since the present republic was established, seems very probable, The republican sentiment of the country, however, has grown so strong and become so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people that there is reason to believe the crisis will be passed without impairing the republic- an system and that those who are standing for the security of constitu- tional principles will be sustained by the people. In the interest of dupes who have in- vested o tickets sold by the Lincoln Traveling Men's Business Block pany it is suggested that they call on its promoters to make a pub- lished statement of the number of tickets sold and amount of money recelved therefor. Otherwise it is possible that fully $100,000 might be gathered in before the property, worth possibly $25,000 with a mortgage for $36,000, shall be turned over to the win- ner. The Bee's expose of this business block lottery scheme would operate to brealk it up w it not for the fact that the Lancaster ceunty authorities dare not proceed against the swindlers and com- proved as grand a farce in its ending | prosecute them under the law. Tt Is natural to pgesupe that fmmunity has | been :unmnrml them In advance. Still anothag South Dakota state of- ficial finds Mnself In a position that indicates a guilty complicity in the con- spiracy to loot the treasury of that state. This thma it is the public ex- aminer who i§ #8id to have had knowl edge of the defaleations in their be- ginning, but who neglected, evidently 1 purpose,. 1o take the precantions to protect the state from its wrecker Had the public eyaminer done his duty, the loss which the sts Just suf- fered could have been but comy tively Insignificant. The only explans tion is th | was in underst league or at least had a tacit nding with the land commis sioner and the treasurer. The people have now gotten to the point where they will not be surprised to hear t other state officers, not yet under sut picion, were likewise part and parcel 1..1‘ this gigantic plot. President Weller in his inaugural ad- dress before the Commercial club hit the nail on the head when he said t the of every undertaking the advancement of Omaha and Om interests depends upon the united sup- port of all of our business men. The business men of Omaha have by pre- enting o solid front already accom- plished a_great deal, but there is much yet to be done. There is just as much danger from internal apathy as from outside opposition. By working for one definite object after another as each is secured the value of the Commercial club as an nization will be kept constantly before its members and they will not have time to let their interest flag. President Weller has the right idea. Ile will need the co-operation of every member of the elub to carry it out. success for o A 2 per cent relief bond cannot pos- sibly be sold at par or anywhere near par in the bond market. It does not stand to reason that investors in bonds would buy a low rate jinterest bond is- sued by a county for the relief of suth sufferers. If no purchasers offer to buy at par or near par the county authori- ties will besiege the state treasurer and the Board of Edueational funds to buy them in as an investment for the per- manent school fund and when the bonds become due the state will go whistling for its school money. Unless - the Dbrakes are put on by the legislature Ne- braska will find nothing but I. O. U.s “from the same ito the ne” in the school fund within the next two years and in due time the legislature will have to levy a direct tax to make good the deficit. Should the ‘state fair ground be loca- ted on the west side Leavenworth street will forthwith be transformed into one of the popular thoroughfares of the cit, It will require some cutting and filling, perbaps, to provide a level roadway direct to the grounds and to enable the street railway to extend its system to the, gates of the exposition. This means through trains to 4he limits of the city, and"a consequent enhance- ment of property values in that portion of the city. The Bee as a detective agency has another piece of careful work to its credit in the disclosure of the Lincoln lottery scheme in all its details. The Bee recognizes it as its duty to warn the public against all such barefaced swindles. A great many of the people of this and other states have already been taken in by this traveling men's business block imposture, but the posures made by The Bee will doubtless save a great many more from being similarly mule| Now that Congressman Black of Ill- inois has been consoled for the fact that his constituents do not want to have him represent them in the Fifty- fourth congress by the gift of an ap- pointment United States district at- torney, there can be no excuse for the president longer withholding the reward for fidelity which he must feel com- pelled to make to that other eminent democratic statesman from Illinois, Hon, William M. Springer. Let the dead wires and useless poles come down. The only reason they are net removed immediately is that there is no penalty for their maintenanc One or two American cities levy an oc- cupation tax of on every pole erected Dby private corporations in their streets and in these cities every pole that is not in use is promptly taken away by the owner to save the payment of the tax. As time speeds on the fact is becom- fng more and more patent that N braska is able and willing to care for the destitute within her borders. -The Bee has all along held this to be tr Itinerant solicitors should be compelled to show credentials signed by Governor Holeomb, in defgult of which they should be showa the door. [ S A Wall from the ¢ one Holt Loulsvifle Courier-Journal. With what beaming smiles many a man would now welcomé the individual whom he kicked dowr’ sthirs a few long, long months ago for asking “Is it hot enough for you?" H —————— Demoeratio Precedents Numerous. Chleago Tribune. There seems to be 1o way of disprovin the statement \IYMI W. W. Taylor, t’hc d(‘!: faulting treasurer ‘bf ‘South Dakota, Is & republican. But ‘he ‘followed a long fine of illustrious democratic precedents, oS0k » Passing of Liorace, Dubiugue T aph. TIn his Omaha Epeech Governor Boles un- dertook to explain how bimetallism might be restored, but he only succeeded in ex- rlnlnhm how under the pretense of restoring t gold monometallism might be maintained, - ey i Doomed, Atlanta Constitution. We presume It is hardly necessary to in- form any sane man that if the democratic congress goes no farther than it has gone in the direction of giving the people finan- clal relief the party will not recover from the disgrace during the present gens tion, It might go nto the campalgn of 1886 with a platform embodying every reasonable de- mand that has suggested itself (o the minds of the people, but they would turn away from it in disgust. They would say to the democratic lea : ou lled to us in 1% how _do we know you are not lying to us now? We gave you the power o redeem your solemn pledges in , and you dellbs ately repudiated them. The very first op. portunity you had you showed that you were not worthy to be trusted. Why should We trust you now? . the public examiner, too, | JANUARY 16, 1895 PEOPLE AND THINGS. Legislative economy has reached the hire altitudes, The staked plain of Texas is believed to be the original tenderloin district Congressman Sibley, the vociferous repre- sentative from Erle, Pa., is remarkable for two things—his millions and his vocabulary. Brooklyn, the bed chamber of New York, toyed with' the deadly folding bed last year, and run up a larger number of deaths than births, 1t is sald the investigators are nearing the bottom of the South Dakota scandal, notwith standing the general belief that the bottom dropped out. The passage at arms between Hill and Gor- man fllustrates the amended saying, “When political rogues fall out the people are treated to_instructive revelations.” The latest iInformation from her garden patch is to the effect that Mrs. Lease is drifting from populism to democracy. Mis- fortunes never come singly. Colonel A. K. McClure of the Philadelphia Times will be invited by the Pennsylvania legislature to deliver an address in the hall of the house of representatives on the life and services of the late Governor Curtin. Bonn university has assigned $7,600 for a gift to Prince Bismarck on his birthday. It has also been decided that the students’ pil- grimage should proceed to Friedrichsruhe, and that a grand festival should be held in Ham- burg to celebrate the event, Senator Quay insists, as the price of his support of the income tax appropriation, that corporations be compelled to divu the names of all employes and the salaries re- ceived Some corporations stepped on the s corns the other day, itself promptly. A Buftalo plumber, who has retired from the business, dropped a ret” pro bono publico. e declares that a newspaper wrapped around a water pipe will keep it from freezing in the coldest weather. True, but not new. During legislative days new papers are particularly hot stuff for pipe I'n Judge Hoar of Concord, Mass., who is dy- ing, maintains wonderfully good spirits, It was ouly the other day that he was able to write to one of his sons something like this: “I am engaged at the present time In the pleasurable occupation of dying. Whatever clse may be said, there is one matter of satis- faction in the work, and that is, that 1 have ample time for it."” . The late Senator Fair was generous to his poor relations, particularly to his brothers and sisters, who lived in lowa. 1In his will he left them legacies ranging from $5 §10,000, and during his lifetime he made them large gifts. They are nearly all farmers, their land lying near Ida Grove, Ia., and their farms were stocked by the senator sey- cral years ago. About a year ago he paid his Towa relatives a long visit. Mr. Gladstone's untiring industry and lively old age are highly praised by the London pa- pers, even those antagonistic to him. They marvel at the enthusiasm which leads him to read twelve hours a day. In regard to his trenslation of the Odes of Horace one journal : “This version of a supreme lyric poet by a veteran statesman immersed in affairs is ten times as good as Conington’s and five times as good as Sir Theodore Martin's.” An important point in political etiquette has been settled by the senate of Kansas. After grave deliberation that body holds that a man who played “‘pussy wants a corner” with the girls of the reform school and kissed the cherry mouth of one who pinned a rose on his coat does not constitute a fracture of law in such case made and provided. It is pre- sumed that such innocent games are needed to lend gayety to life in the bleeding common- wealth, Mrs. Burton Harrison have made her famous, and whose social position is an enviable one’to ambitious aspirants, was a high-spirited young girl named Constance Carey when the war was raging. She was a little_confederate, and to send a flag to Gen- eral Lee cut up her best pink sdk gown and her light blue silk jacket and embroidered and sewed a confederate flag, which today i cherished as a very precious Souvenir of femi- nine devotion by Colonel Robert Alexander Chisholm. Lee Mantle, one of the nominees for the United States senate in Montana, was born in England. He struck the states and the west twenty years ago, worked on a farm near Salt Lake City, drove team on the construction of a railroad, and blew into Idaho as a tele- graph operator. He landed in Butte in the early 80s, opened an insurance office and later drifted into the newspaper business, founding the Inter-Mountain, of which he is still proprietor. Marcus Daily boosted him into the mayor's office two years ago, and when the legislature, a few months later, failed to elect senators, the governor ap- pointed Mantle to one of the vacancies. His hopes were balked temporarily by the senate refusing to sanction appointments where leg- islatures failed to do their duty. CLEVERLY PUT. whose books Philadelphia Tnquirer: Miss Pert—Is Mi: Stralt Lace circumspect? 2i Mo Miss Caustic—Circumspect! Why, she won't accompany a young man on the plano without a chaperon. Detroit Free Press: Wife (severely)—I'd have you know, sir, that I always keep my temper. Husband (soothingly)—Of course you do, my dear. Of course you do, and I wish to goodness you'd get rid of it. Brooklyn Life: “I see that they are again altating the adoption of new rules for foot hal “Yes, T hear that one proposed is that no accident is to be allowed to stop the game more than five minutes unless it be fatal icago Tribune: “What is the matter, Adam?" anxiously inquired Eve. “'You seem troubled."” “Little Cain has just said a bright thing,” replied Adam, moodily, and there is nobody I can go and tell it to, Harper's Bazar: column of perso; ber of “By Jove, Wilkes, your gossip In’ the last’ num- ur paper was the raciest thing I Where did you get all the Informa- ife had the Sewing Circle at our house last Saturday 1 concealed a phonograph in the room. 8 Jewel” it must be an opa tough luck it usually bring: consistency considel is a Atlanta Constitution: On a rock in a h Georgia county some plous person in large letters this scriptural ques- n: “Whut shall 1 do to be saved?' A candidate for coroner came along and in- d beneath It: *“Vote for Jenkins, the poor man's friend! Chicago Record: e Spe Colorado legislature)—The vote counted legislato The 1 piously. The Speaker (blanched With the unanimous con I will declare the motion A SEASONABLE GIRL. Washington Star. An angel of light in the playhouse that night + Bhe seemed unto all near the Apot. Ter neat litte hat Was excoedingly flat— Her soclety, surely, wis not. ker (in+ the having been I declare the motion of the lady to be lost, dy Legislator—0-o-oh! and in haste)— ent of the house (Weeps co- ST, J. DAy, New York Sun. There were lots of selebrations In the west and in the Bt There were viands and libations For the largest and the least; There were speeches, speeches, speeches; The torrent would' not dam, When it turned upon the hero Who punched old Pakenham, They gloried In the glory of a . and tola, In_hy Of ‘the ds of old; They point: ture, And saw on Viet'ry's brow Allimb of lustrous laurel, Which they cannot see there now. At the time of all this blowing, ‘Way down In Tennessee A _grim, gray ghost was showing Some signs of energy; He sighed deep in his bosom, And now and then 1d clss, The meanwhile tu; In his sarcophag He sat up, and intently, With hand up to his e He nodded, not quite gently, At most that he could hear. He listened to the buncombe. And thought of recent facts, Whereby his party'd got it ‘Where the chickens get the axe. He knew the wretched story, Which had disturbed him there; A_trlumph, transitory, Disaster and despair Then hearing still the speaking, He shook his bony head, And groaned: “By the Eternal, T'm glad that I am dead! HELD UNDER MARTIAL LAW Volaminons Japaneso Students Sent to the Senate, MR. DENBY COULD NOT SAVE THE SPIES | Everything Possiblo Was Dons to Insure | Them a Falr Trial and the Evidence Now tiat They Were Not Tortured. is WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—~The president today sent to the senate the correspondence in tho case of the two Japanese sples, together | with a letter from the secreta which it is stated that the Amer had no authority to protect Japanese in China except &0 far as using their good offices wh occasion demanded. ter first questing quotes the senate the president, it not With the public interest, to transmit to the senate all correspondence or other papers re- lating to tho delivery by the United States consul at Shanghal of two Japanese citizens to the Chinese authorities and their quent death by torture, etc. He then says “‘On the 18th of August the Chinese min- ister at this capital complained to the under- signed that the United States consul Shanghal was protecting two who had been arrested in that city and whose surrender was demanded by the authorities In order that they might be dealt with in due course. into the circumstances of the mand was recognized as lawful were ordered to be given up. done, however, without proper me being taken to prevent precipitate or s mary action by the Chinese authorit The undersigned at the same time requested (there was no authority to demand it) that the accused men might not be tried until the return of Minister I by to Peking, it being supposed that this would afford op- portunity for investigation and delibera- tion. The Chinese minister at once prom- ised compliance and subsequently informed the undersigned that his government had ac- ceded to the request. Without questioning the lawful ness of the sentence under the resolution nd the men ures laws of war the undersigned regrets to say | that they were exccuted about six after their surrender, but before the of Colonel Denby to China. PRISONERS WERE NOT BOYS. “Special attention is invited to the corre- spondence on this subject. That the pris oners were not boys, but men and spies in the service of Japan, there is small If any room for doubt. Mr. Jornigan, our consul eral at Shanghal, says that wi were arrested ‘plans were found on and ‘that the executing papers are s “In a later report Mr. Jorni ‘Some papers found in their possession would naturally in a state of war create a sus- picion tending to support the charges.’ “The Chinese minister claims that besides the evidence of guilt found in their po sion they admitted when arrested without torture that they had been employed by their government to obtain and forward by tele- graph and otherwise information useful in conducting military operations against China, and that they had been engaged in that busi: ness. It will mot be said by any one, after reading the accompanying correspondence, that Mr. Jornigan is biased in the slightest degree in favor of the Chinese authoritie: and in a report dated November 2 he say: “The two alleged spies were not executed a soon as handed over, but their cases were under investigation for nearly six weeks and I am now assured that there was no unfair- ness practiced against them during the In- vestigation, and in a still later report he states that ‘a letter from an intelligent foreign resident at Nanking, where the two Japanese were executed, discredits the re- ports of torture. Other reports from the same gentleman have proved so accurate that I am disposed to accept the reported torture as without substantial proof.” “The Chinese goyernment denies that the men ‘were put to death after being tortured,” and the department is not advised that they were tortured. Of the decision that the prisoners were not subject to the jurisdiction of the consul general of the United States at Shanghal and that he could not give them asylum, the Japanese government made no complaint. PURELY A MILITARY OFFENSE. “Spying in time of war is a purely military offense, not coznizable by civil tribunaks, and to have held the accused against the demand of the Chinese government, either for trial by our consul general or by a mixed tribunal of Chinese and forelgn ofiicials, would have been inconsistent with our assumed attitude of impartial neutrality. Our agents in China were not substituted for the with- drawn agents of Japan, and this government could not invest Japanese in China with an extra territoriality which they did not pos- sess as subjects of their own sovereignty. “From a letter addressed to Mr. Denby, jr., August 2 by Mr. Fowler, our consul at Ningpo, it appears that a Japanese was ar- rested in the dress of a Chinese priest at Chin Hal, twenty miles from the Ningpo for- eign settlement. In his report to Mr. Denby Mr. Fowler says: ‘Wrote for the facts. Taotai reported, giving circumstances of trial. tvidence weak and ex parte. Requested delay of punishment for a few days. Just received reply, none of my business; will not answer further dispatches on subject. Shall demand delay.’ ‘Mr. Fowler scems not to have understood weeks return Correspondence Concerning | lensth y of state in | n consuls | The secretary in his let- | re- | incompatible | ibse- | at | panese spies | Chinese | After proper inquiry | tho de- | This was not | m- | the nature of the protection he was author- | 1zed to afford Japanese within reach of his consulate.” | The correspondence is quite voluminous, covering fifty documents of greater or less 1t 0 contains full transcripts of | the instructions. Thesa seem to have been | misunderstood and on August 29, Mr. Gresham wired Mr. Denby: “The consul general should not have recsived the Japanese and Is not authorized to hold them.” And he adds: “Your suggestion that our consuls act as | arbitrators is not entertained On August 81, Mr. Denby, charg | asked whether he can be authorized to make | the request on behalf of Japan that the | students be held until Minister Denby shall | arrive, to which Mr. Gresham replied on i‘m same date: My Instructions of the 20th A'affaires, are clear. In a letter to Mr. Denby, dated September 1, Mr. Jernigan says: “The barbarous pro- clamation of the governor of Formosa shocks civilization throughout the world and yet it ns for China to disayow the prize money Ipt for heads s fssued by a subordinate off ot her nal. When the barbarities and cruelties of the dark nges are sought to be utilized in modern warfare, it becomes the humane and patriotic duty of all climes and races effectually to | rotest.” and Ma WASHIN eloguent son Institates fnguitiea, 'ON, Jan 5.~Touchiy and reference was made in Chaplain Milburn’s opening prayer in the senate today to the bereavement of Senator Hansborough of North Dakota in the loss of his wife. Mr. Voorhees, from the finance committee, favor- ably reported the bill for colnage at the branch mint at Denver. Mr. Manderson secured the passage of two Imiportant resolutions, calling on the secre- ta of thet reasury for information on the [ tariff. One resolution asks for the quantities of spirits and high wines taken out of bond during the sixty days prior to August 29 last, when the new tariff law took effect, the names of the parties or concerns who took the goods from bond and all other detailed information concerning the same. The other resolution calls on the secretary for full in- formation as to the of sugar im- ported during the or to August 28, the names of amounts of imports, thee ountry whence it came, ote. MOTHERS OF GIRLS. Too Rapid Grow or Too Ab sorbing Study. Causes That Waxy, Bloodless Look of Failing Health, Celery Compound for a Few Weeks. The Daughter's Health Will Soon Return. y Painc Languor Will Disappear Nervousness Go. and Mothers and daughters that are yet young often ask themselves: “How can my girls be saved from nervous- | ness and lifelong weakness?" It falls to the mother with her clear, thoughtful eyes, to see that the health and future happiness of her daughters is not sacrificed to excessive study, or to any un- reasonable excitement. The signs of failing health and weakness; pale cheeks. languid behavior, colorless lips, growing thinness, ir- ritability—all these ring alarm in her mind, for they point, with its separate finger, to but one cause: thin, watery blood, and an already impaired nervous system. Parents should begin at the first symptom of such tendency to change this unfortunate habit of the body. The rcal real nerve food, Paine’s celery compound, if used with the attention to regularity that any able physi- cian's prescription requires—(this remarkably eftective blood maker and nerve food is the formula of no less eminent a_sclentist_than Porf. Edward E. Phelps, M. D., LL. D., of the Dartmouth Medical School), if taken as Prof. Phelps urgently advises, is sure to cause forthwith a clearly observed change in the tired, badly nourished body. A single week will show that the “run- down” system is appropriating moro of the food that s taken Into the body, and rapidly bullding up the weakened parts. Languor will disappear; the spirits will be ralsed; the nerv- ous affections, dyspepsia, neuralgia, and de- pression that went with the former exhausted condition, will no longer affiict the neryes. For overwrought, worried parents, for thin, pale children, for the aged, who are most apt to be afflicted with rheumatism and sleepless- ness, and for any who lack strength there is nothing that progressive physicians rely on so Invariably as Paine's celery compound. It makes new blood. It stores the nervous tis- sues all over the body with fresh material. It builds up the brain. It cleanses every bit of harmful humor from the blood and sends it briskly through the arteries laden with food for the decpest, most vital tissues. There's returning health and an active, full- fed state of the body in Palne's celery coms pound. 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