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i (OLONY CASES ARE (LOSED| Ex-folicitor General Aldrich Makes L Argument for Appellanta | | CONGRESS HAS NO ARBITRARY POWER | | Counsel Declores It Unsafe to Base Judicial Opinion on Arguments of Contemporary Pole iticians. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The closing ar- gument 1o the Phillppines and Porto Rico casos was made in the United States su- | preme court today And the cases were | submitted for the fual adjudication of the oourt The which have 8lled the chumbers since the cases were taken up ware an hand in reinforced nnmbers today, entirely occupying the room reserved for the bar and the outer room for the public. Many people came early in the day to se- cure advantageous se As the govern ment's case had been closed by the attor- pey genmeral, it rewaincd only to hear the senfor counsel in the Philippine case, Charles H. Aldrich of Chicago, former soé llcitor general, who had one hour and a balf remalning of the five hours given to the plaintiffs. Mr. Aldrich had before hiim the plaintifts’ brief and a voluminous portfolio of notes, but he spoke freely, with only occasioual ce to them. At the outset he sald he would himself largely to legal argument, following attorney generals’| points and secking to meet them, although he regarded much that the attorney general had presented as irrelevant He spoke deliberately and seldom with any effort for dramatic force. He frst directed hin attention to the circumstances under which | this government came ioto existence, the crowds confine | charge the laration of In fit vituperation made the writing of the De dependence vasy and were a the | vears of struggle and self sacrifjce necessary to mafntain and estab. lish the principles of that immortal e tlon. W have since abolished s'avery and have ifved admittedly the foremost nation in all k y in all that stands for liberty Kuaranteed by lawa made by a free people, which is our boast and the object of ouf adoration. Our principles traditions, our liberty, our constitution—ail forbid that arbitrary " power shall become our char- acteristi he shaft aimed at the new nial policy is tipped with a feather from the American constitution Air. Aldrich closed with an eloguent refer- ence to the work of our forefathers, which was not for their day, but for all time As soon as he finished the court turned to other cases, after allowing counsel in the Porto Rico case ten days to filo a further briet. CHANDLER STIRS UP ROW Inferential Rebuke (o Committ Contingent Expenses r DA ness In ¥ ented SHIN 'ON, Dec. 20. A spirited de bate was precipitated in the senate today over the resolution of Mr. Chandler to dis committee on coutingent ex penses from further consideration of the resolution authorizing an fnvestigation of the Montana senatorial cases. The mattor took a political turn and resulted in some lively colloquies. No action upon the reso- lutfon was taken. Mr. Jones of Arkansas declared that it the senate should adopt the resolution dls cherging the committee of contingent ex per it would vides violate the law, as that no such the law pro expenditures shall be made without the authority of the commit- | tee on coutingent expenses. “Does the senator mean to say,” in- quired Mr. Spooner, “that the senate's hands are tied if the committee on contingent ex penses should never make a report.” “I mean to tell the senate,” replied Mr. es from consideration or the resolution | [CONGRESS FOR NEXT DECADE | Committee on Reapportionment Presents Three Reports to Houre, MAJORITY APPROVES HOPKINS MEASURE Rehalt of ent Representative Durlelgh o the Minority Suggests a Diffe Method, While Crumpneker o Indiana Hits at the Soutl berehip of the house for next deca 7. Reprecentative Burleigh of Main A talnority report, signed by six m | bers, in favor of a house to he comp | packer of Indiana, who signed the Burleigh also submitted an independent re port in favor of reducing the representation in the southern states to the extent of the abridgement of the suffrage. His independ | ent report favors a house composed of 374 | members, Mr. Horkins many s by states und AS not uncommon stance, which undoer twenty members, w | the sixth, seventh and eighth which had twents-three lu the third, had but nine under the ninth. The report says the committee followed the plan adopted under the sixth ce and followed con tnuously siuce. It has the nd upproval of sixty years of national existemcs The plan is to divide the constitutional report, in the majority report, cites that the loss of fonment bilis for in- census, had fnstan es 1o * real Massach the third 8 reduced { swetts, ten under and Virginia anction OMATIA DAILY WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Representative | Hopkins, chairman of the committee on | | censis, today in the house filed the ma- | jority report on the reapportionment bill | reported by his committee, fizing the mem DEE DE( which was tendered to the postmaster gen eral sevoral days ago, will be accepted so soon as the sureties of the postoffice pre sent a man who Is acceptable to the de | partment to take temporary charge of the |office. It fs presumed that this action will | | be taken tomorrow TREATY IS RATIFIED 'EMBER 21¢ 1000 while “recognizing in the full that Persident McKinley has labored ear |nestly to combine Amerlcan aspirations with delicate regard for international ob. lgations, It says “Time I8 on the side t a friendly settlement. No harm wil) be done it the whole transaction is left as it is until March, when we may hope that the new senate will meet the question in a fresh spirit The Dally Telegraph manner which thinks it is |a matter for compromise, says: ‘‘Our ex- (Continued from First Page.) |isting treaty rights cannot be superseded i v ~|in the summary manner some senators bt o R "’" '.""h"“" Vf"'.“"k““”ocm to imagine, but nobody in England L MG S b b Lt Aty [dosires to thwart the legitimate wishes of | Aldrich Hansbrough, Perkins, | Allison, Harris Pettus, Hawley, Platt (N, Y.), Hoar Pritchard, Jones (Nev.), Proctor Kean, rles, Kenney t, 8 Lindsay Shoup, Lodg Spooner, IN McHride Stewart, Dillingham, McComas, Sulliva Elkins McCumber, Talliaferro, Fairbanks, MeEnery Thurston, Foraker, McLaurin, Tur ‘oster McMillan, Warren, Mallory Wetmore ricin Wolcott—5, 1801, o erson, Pettigrow, Daniel, ller Heitfeld, ‘Tillman, Martin, Turley, 3 Mason Vest, Cockrell Money, Wellington—18 | The pairs on the treaty voted as follows, | two senators for the treaty being paired | with one agafnst it, In accordance with | | custom: Depew and Sewell for, with Raw- | | lins against; Clark and Simon for, with Chilton against; Dolliver and Baker for, with Towne against; Caffery and Platt of Connecticut fo with Jones of Arkansas against; Kyle, absent and unpaired He | for the treaty, but no pair could be | secured for him, | The pairs on votes on the amendments were as follows: Chilton for, with Simon Jones, “just what the law s population by 357, the proposed member- | against; Rawlins for, with Depew against; struggle for liberty and the American pro- | "'y jones of Arkunsas declared that the [ship. The quotient, 208,868, is the ratio | Kenney for, with Sewell against: Allen :.».-z agalnst l-.nu!nn’rlx \““*“I'””" 'X" I‘f‘:‘ resolution offered by Mr. Chandler was in | of representatives to population. This ratio | foF, With Dolliver againet; Jones of Arkan- axing power Over Ah A Ea oy 't | the nature of a rebuke to the committee on applied to the population of each state |5as for, with Platt of Connecticut against With this history before us, ho sald, It ] .5, ngent oxpenses that the committee | will yield in the ngeregute number somo- | Heltfeld for, vith Kyle ngainst; Harris was & remarkable fact that tho attorney |, g reigh, A meeting of the commit- | what less than 367, the number determined | foF, With Clark against; Caffery and Baker gerieral ""_ p B i ]"I""‘h""':m had been held today, but had post- [upon as the membership of the house. The | @bsent and unpaired ey S "h: “""'” r}k""“‘l‘n"‘nr et ahould | Poned action until tomorrow. He was of | difference is made up by assigning to the Text of renty. come Into this court and assert 4 taxing | (B0 opinion that no tangible result could | states having the largest majority fractions | The text of the treaty as amended Is as power more extreme than had been as- | D¢ ccomplished by authoriziug now an [additional reprosentatives until a suficiont | follows serted by the most ardent defenders of Eng- 1and’s taxing power over the colonies inions by Chief J Mr. Aldrich spoke of the opinion of Jus- tice Marshall in Loughborough against Blake as of decisive Importance and he summed up that deciston as bearing upon he present condition as follow That the power to tax, levy duties, ete., extends to the entire United States That the term “United States embraces “our great republic, which is composed of states and territorios.”” | That “it Is not less necessary, on the | rinciplos of our constitution, that uniform ty in the imposition of im duties and exclses should be observed in the one than | the other.” | It follows from the foregoing that the rights and obligations of the territory thus | ! the inh test hi 1 by a part of the United tants thareof are m the constitution AS to the contention that the Philippines were not a part of the United States, Mr. Aldrich said Were the islands ceded by Spain still for- eign territory, then our country would have as its commerclal representatives thercin | consuls, who would perform the requisite | officlal acts prescribed by our customs laws | ecovering the shipments of merchandise from these islands to any part of the (ni tes. The court takes judiclal notice of fact (hat our government has no consuls the Philippines when Spanish Roverelgnty - ceascd islands, the Btates were with= drawn, and that eign powers thenceforth we weerediied cwentatives of the respective forelgn governments to the United States and governmont sig he_exequatur of consuls. What an anomaly it is to have to have Bpan send it » the Philip- pines If, rposes of revenu ritory. 1f they wre not / they must still be Spanish ot pretended that any other nat the United States has acquired any soverelgnty over them, nor fs It pr d that the Philip- pine istands in the eye of international law cupy the status of an independent nation Inims Arbitrary Power for wress Tuking up the attorney general's conten- tlon concerning the constitution, that the rellance of the president was in part placed upon the sense of justice of congress, whose action 18 open to review at frequent elec- tions, Mr. Aldrich said that if this meant anything it meant an assertion of power by congress more extreme and arbitrary than was ever exercised by the British Parliament. The attorney general's inter- protation of the word “sovereignty,” Mr. Aldrich said, was that this government had a right to do what any other nation does. This word had become most popular since we entered upon a colonial policy. But, Mr. Aldrich declared, the sovereignty of the United States was one exerclsed under the constitutfon and if we are In the Philippines or Porto Rico it is because of the power given by the constitution. Justice White Interposed a question when Mr. Aldrich referred to the American pro- test agninst “Rritish taxation without rep. resentation.” Would this mean, the justice asked, that congress could not tax the new possessions until they were represented .n tates sured congress? Mr. Aldrich sald that it aid not go that far, and was sufficlently answered in the case of Loughborough against Blake. Mr. Aldrich sald he entered a protest against the use of Jefferson's name in sup- port of the proposition that the United States can acquire and hold territory in- definitely. Tt was setiled beyond question that Jefferson himself had not regarded the Loulwana purchase as constitutional and belleved that a constitutional amendment was necessary. Justice Gray asked his first question at this point, inquiring it counsel held that the Louisiana acquisition was ux conatitutional. Mr. Aldrich answered that he did not so hold, but Mr. Jefferson did and the arguments of that day showed how political influences affected final re sults. Not a Safe Bax Justice Brown asked if it were safe to baso judicial action on the arguments of contemporury politicians. “I think not,” answered Mr. Aldrich, “and 1 refer to them only because they occupy throe-fourths of the brief of (he attorney general.” In speaking of exccutive action, Mr. Al rich referred to President McKinley's first measage stating that it was “our plain duty to abolish all customs tariffs between the United States and Porto Rico." Justice Shiras asked if the president was then apeaking of the duty of congress, Mr. Aldrich said he supposcd the presi- dent meant the duty of the nation. Justice Harlan also asked if the treaty power could go beyond the fourtecnth amendment to the constitution, to which Mr. Aldrich answered that treaties could mot override the constitution After citing Lord Mansfleld's opinion on the limitation of the power of the king and Parliament, Mr. Aldrich sald It Is a startling proposition that a powes dented to Parliamont as {nconsistent with Hberty and consonant only with tyran ny Belongs to the congress of the United S in one case und (o the president thereof i another; that a power, the dssertion which Justified rebellion and & prolons and bitter war to resist, was carefu'ly pr erved In the very Kovernment estullish a8 the result of such resistance: that our torefuthers denfed an omnipotent pariia ment to decroe an omnipotent cor Igress that what was tyranny as to them in TT 7 18 less than tyranny now. Time must capable of changing principles if this prop- osition be trie American Struggle for Liberty. Speaking of America’s early struggle for liberty Mr. Aldrich sald: The virile remonstrance colonles compare favorabl of the several with any public an investigation of a case that would be settled by the Montana legislature on Janu- ary 2, when it met to elect a senator. plit Not Matter of ¥ cn, Snys Chandler, Senator Chandler declured that no poli- tics had entered into the consideration of the Montana senatorial contest by the com- mittee on privileges and elections. Both of the appointees to the senate from Mon- tana, Mr. Clark and Mr. Maginnls, were democrats and the question Involved the seating of one democrat or another, Adverting to the question of law involy- ing the right of the senate to discharge the committee on contingent expenscs from the further consideration of the reso- lution, Mr. Chandler maintained that such a law could not bind the senate, the com- mittee being a creature of the senate, In response to a statement from Mr. Chandler that the committee on contingent expenses was dilatory in acting on the resolution, Mr. Gallinger, a member of the committee, said that at the meeting tod: a “conclusion” for the “present” had been reached. He said that the committee would have another meeting tomorrow and de- sired to have some members of the com- mittee on privileges and elections before it to explain “the necessity for the proposed investigation.” “I don't think,” retorted Mr. Chandler, “that the extraordinary spectacle has ever been witnessed In this senate before where the committee on contingent expenses has summoned members of another committee to appear before it (o glve reasons why an order of the senate should be executed.” Investigation Has Cost 830,000, Further along in his argument Mr. dler, in response to an inquiry by Mr, Tillman, said that the Montana senatorial investigation conducted during the last session of congress had cost between $30,- 000 and_ $40,000. Mr. Scott of West Virginia, a member of the committee on contingent expenses, sald that as a matter of business he had a right to know whether the money to bo expended for a further investigation of the Montana case ought to be spent. Pendicg a motion by Mr. Lodge that the senate proceed to the consideration of executive business Mr. Gallinger, also n member of the contingent expenses com- mittee, made a statement of the case from its inception and contended that the com- mittee's action was justified by the facts. An effort was made to continue the de- bate, but on Mr. Lodge's insistence the senate went into executive session and at 4:25 adjourned. WARDS OFjTION CARED FOR House Passes Appropriation Billa fo Indians and Cadets at West Point Academy, WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The house to- day passed the Indian and the military academy appropriations bills. The former carried $,036,526 and the latter $700,151. Neither provoked much discussion. A few minor amendments were placed on the former. The amendment of Mr. Little of Arkan- sas, striking out the appropriation for tho Hampton (Va.) Indian school, was disagreed to, 14 to 33. A vigorous discussion of the sectarian question developed In connection with the amendment. Mr. Cannon callad attention to the growing cost of educating the Indians. In 1887 it was about $1,000,000 and now about $3,000,000. Last year it cost $1,381,000 to educate the 45,000 chil dren of the District of Columbia, and over 3,000,000 to educate 21,600 Indian children, Mr. Curtis of Kansas explained that the Indlan children were not only educated, but boarded aud clothed. An amendment was agreed to relative to the fees of clerks in courts in the In- dian territory, requiring fees to be ac- counted for and allowing $500 & year i addition to salory for certain extra work The bill was then passed The military academy appropriation bill was then taken up. It carried $700,151, $25,845 more than the current la Mr. Hull of lowa, chairraan of the military committee, explained that the items of increase was $10,000 f tennial celebration to be academy on July 4, 1901 Mr. Bailey of Texas asked tico of hazing at the broken. “The academy management,” replied Mr. Hull, “is doing all it can to break it up Cadets have been expelled during the last year for indulging in the practice.” “I notice from the testimony now be- ing taken at West Polnt,” said Mr. Balley, “that the cadets admit that hazing contipues. I do not belleve it Is necessary to make a brute of a man in order to make @ soldlers of him. I believe the practice should cease. It it cannot be stopped the academy should be abolished.” (Applause.) “And the naval academy as well,” cried Mr. Hill of Connecticut, amid applause. “I agree with all the gentleman has said | regarding the brutality of hazing,” oh- served Mr. Hull, “and I think the offcers of the academy will soon stamp out the practic The bill was then passed. Mr. Hopkins of lllinols, chairman of the cowmittee on census, gave notice that he would call up the reapportionment bill {m- principat the cen- held at the if the academy had prac- been document ever produced. These discussions medlately after the hollday recess, number have been assigned to bring the total up to 357. A membership of more than 357, the report says, would make the house unwield Burlelgh M Ity Report, The Burleigh minority report is as fol- lows The anomalous ch wcter of this proposed | apportionment, as well as fts obvious in- justice, Is clearly demonstrated by the fact that it I8 necessarily ed, in part, upon majority fractions, and “olorado, with a majority fraction of 1 Florida, with a majority fraction of 110,86, do not re- cefve a representative based upon such majority fraction, while rvery with a‘majority fraction recefves o repre- sentative for such majority fraction house consisting of 3% members In reaching this number we have followed the precedent established by the house in | 1822, ‘when the house added to the whole number of representatives a representativ ench for the states of New Hampshire and Florlda by reason of the fact that they each representative and get no for the majority fraction in are the only states ha ons that fall to get a r for. This seems: to us Thercfore, tollowing the | representative {ther case nE ma jor presentative ninjustl cedent "{n th thus udding two to the whole numbe: ing in all under the prope sentatives, Under this the gain is as follows: Ar- kansas, California, Colorade, Connecticit Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missis: sippl. Migsouri rth Carolina, ~North Dakotu, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin gain one ' representative ench; Minnesota, New Jersey and Pennsylvanii galn twoi Tllinofs w York and Texas Eain three. . We submit that this appc volving an increase in the membe the house of twenty-nine, is in lin the uniform practice of the house creasing 118 size o as (o keep pac as may be, with the Increase of the country. No inconvenience seating capacity of the house o from this increase. A plan propose architect of the capitol shows that u sllght lengthening of the outer row of seats in the corners on each €lde af the chamber ani a rearrangement of elght seats in the body of the hall will accommodate the addi tonal representatives. Abridged Sufirage in the South. independent report of Mr. Crum- packer is a lengthy document which goes ex haustively into the abridgement of the right of suffrage In the southern states. In the beginning he quotes the fourteenth amend- ment to show that when the right to vote 18 abridged, except for participation in bellion or other crime, the representation shall be reduced in such states in propor- tion to such abridgement. “Congress, in this matter,” Mr, Crum- packer says, “‘must take cognizance of cur- rent history and of facts disclosed by off clal records. There is not a member of either house or congress who does not kuow to a moral certainty that by direct op tion of law the states of Loulsiana, Miss/s sippl, North Carolina and South Carolina have disfranchised a suflicient citizens to deprive each of them of several representatives, to which they would other- wise be entitled, to say nothing of the largely Increased sunpression of votes caused by unfair partisan administration of the laws. The question 15, will cong make an apportionment of representatives according to the plain requircments of the constitution, or will it avoid these ments and act accordin mak: 1 bill 336 repre- ship of With as near as to the result by th require- to arbitrary will?" Situnt Mr. Crumpacker n in 1 then takes nintnnn. up the con to show that in of the citizens are resentation should that state 43.74 per distranchised. The therefore cent rep- he argues, be reduced from scven to feur. In North Carolina, for the same reasons, he figures that ihe representation should be reduced from nine to six; in Mississippl, from en to four, and in South Carolina, from six to four. The subterfuge resorted to in the south evade the law, he says, marks the beginning of political demoralization and senile decay. He then proceeds to a severo arralgnment of the south, in many localities of which, “the trampling under foot of laws calculated to secure the ex ercise of political privileges to the has continued for 5o long that it is showing its vicious fronts In the prevalence of mob law." He denounces the frequent resort negro, to lynch law and its unspeakable cons quences. o atrocities,” he says, “be speak & deplorable condition of politicat morals. Their frequent occurrence {8 the legitimate result of a gencration of disre gard of election laws.” The solution of the | problem this condition presents, Mr. Crum- packer says, is one of the burning questions of the hour It is above partisanship, it involves the very life of the government He says, in conclusion “The measure 1 propose no re- sentment toward any sta north or south. It is not designed for punishment, but it simply aims to place representation in the house upon Its constitutional basis and no state can justly complain it it be ac corded its full rights. No compromise can be made with wrong." carries ed. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The resignation of J. R. Pitkin, postmaster at New Orleans, other state | We belleve that every state should be treated alike with reference to its majority fraction, as no valld reason has or can by assigned for the discrimination between | them. We also belleve that in the new apportionment no state should lose a repre sentative. We, therefore, recommend a had almost majority fraction after the whole number of r esentatives heon appd od. We take the computation based upon 384 tative upon i 0 of one rep for every 194,152 | of population. braska, with a majority fraction of 97,6 and Virginla with a majority fraction of 1 each lose a cate of Hampshire and Florida . | 1872, we ¢n to each of these states one representative for each majority fraction, in in- | in_population | numbe uf‘ stitution of Louisiana and adduces figures | The United States of majesty the que i n of the United Kingdom of Greit Britain and Treland and em, of India, being desfrous to facllitats (he construction of a ship canal to connect th Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and to that end to remove .any objection which mey arlse out of the convention of April 19 common’y called the Clayion-HBulwer t to construction of such canal under the auspices of the government ie United States without weneral prin- | of neutrali ablished in | vill of tha have for that € appo nted as their plenipot. nt aries | president of the United States, John | secretary of state for the United v and her majesty, the {ain and Trelani and cm- e Right Hon. Lord C. M. G., her maj i and plent- d States, who, hav- Ing communicated to each other their Tul | powers, which were found to be in due form have agreed upon the following | articles Article 11t fx agreed that the canal be constructed under the auspices of the gove- ernment_of the United = States, — cither | directly at fts own cost or by gitt or loan of money iduals or corporations, through” subscription to or purchise of stock or shares. and that, subject to the | provisions of the present 'convention, the | satd government shall have and enjoy all | the rghts incldent to sueh construction, as well as the exclusive right of providing for the | reulation and management ot the Art. 11—The high contracting parties, de siring to preserve and maintafn the “ger ral principle of neutralization” established | i article vii [ ver of the Clayton-Bulwer con- tion, which convention I8 hereby super- 1, adopt s the basis of such neutrali- the following rules, substantially as d I the convention betweey Great | and certain other powers, signed at nople Octok tion of the Su ISSS, for the free marine canal, that is | il shall be free and open | in time of war as in time of peace to the | vessels of commerce and of war of all nu- | tions on terms of entire equality, so that | there ‘shall be ‘no’ discrimination against any nation or its citizens or subjects in re- | spect of the conditions or charges of traific | or otherwise An (0 Blockude cond. The canul shall never be block- aded, nor shall any right of war be exer- cisod, nor any act of hostility be committed within it Third. Vessels war of a helligerent power shall not revictual nor take any | Stores in the canal except 8o far as may be | strictly necessary, and the transit of such | vessels through the canal shall be effected | with the least possible deliy, in accord- ance with the regulations in force, and with only such Intermission as may result from | the necossities of the service. Prizes shail | bu in all respects subject to the same rules | as ve of war of the bel'lgerents Fou No belligerent shall embark or | disembark troops, munitions of war or w I terlals in' th like anal except in case | of accidental hind + in_ transit, and in | | Buch case the transit shall be resumed with | all possible dispit 1 lith. The provisions of this article shall apply to waters adjacent to the canal, within three marine mi'es of either “end. Vessels of war of a beiligerent shall not remain ich waters longer than twenty- at any one time except in case ( in such case shall depart Qs Hoon as pomsible; but a vessel of war ¢ belligerent shall no€ depart within | snty-four hours from the departure of a el of war of the other helligerent 18 agreed, howoever, that none of the immediately f0 ng conditions and stip- | | ulations in sections numbered first, second, third, fourth und fifth of this article sha'i apply to measures which the United States muy find 1L necessary to take for securing vt wn porcen the dofense of the United States and the maintenance of publie order. four hours £ distress, PAUNCEFOTE, Sixth. The plant, establishments, build for the purposes of this convention, il in | by belligerents and from acts caleulated to 'lln;ul‘\ [} Hness as part of the canal '4.v lberty to maintain such military police | canal 08 My be NECEeSSary 1o pro- | agninut lnwlessness and disorder. | 1 by the i of he United | i ind w i and consent | | majesty, and ratifications hall ¢ | day Februar th r of O i (Slgned) MIN HAY, LONDON COMMENT ON TREATY ra time f Leading Papers i That Great Britain Cn t Accept Pact ax Amended. LONDON, Dee, 20.--Nearly all the morn {ng papers have cditorials on the action | of the United tes senate in connection | with the Hay-Puuncefote treaty. They ex press regret rather than surprise at the ession of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty sup |and upanimously declare that it will he impcssible for Great Britain to accept the ed treaty The senate has tsruck a serlous blow |says the Daily News, “at the fundamental | prirciples of good faith among nations, at the very constitu | am its own reputation au tion of the great republic ‘We are thankful,” says the Daily Chron- l1cle, “that the senate stopped short o | amendments obviously designed to wreck the whole proceedings. We belleve that a compromise 1s still possible, as the re | haus There is a strongly evident desire fn all | the comments to do everything reasonable Dally Chronlcle suggests, to meet of the Americars. Several pa- constder 1t out of the ques Britieh goverpment should |as the | the views however, "pon that the tion treaty, The Standard argues on this basls, | W. E. Templeton for a moment accept or dlscuss the amended | | the American people by a too rigorous in sistence on our claims and privileges. The mere fact that a ratification of the amended treaty is keenly desired in America would naturally lead us to review our own po- sition and to attempt to find some middle way of amicable arrangement.” The Times makes no comment MANY CONFIRMED BY SENATE List of Presidential Ranging from Minister to ¥ muster Approved. ON, Dec. 20—The senate to- confirmed the following nominations Francis of New York, to be minister to Greece Arthur §. Hardy ot New Hampshire, to be minister to Switzerland J. C. A. Leishmaun of Pennsylvania, to be minister to Turkey. €. L. Thurston of Nebraska, to be secre- tary of the legation at Buenos Ayres J. K. Baker of New York, to be se of the Chilean Claims commission J. M. Fergueon of Pennsylvania, to be secretary of the legation to Japan. Postmasters Oregon—H. C. Atwell, Fo Waggencer, Hillsboro; D. J. Wilcox, Lake- view; A. W. Severance, Tillamook; . Reed, Astoria; F. G. Jewett, Sumpter; E. Sume mers, Pineville; J. C. Manning, Alexander City; H. B. Lawler, Ensley: D. Crock, Jack- sonville. Montana—G.*W. Crane, Indian Territory—H. T. £t Grove: R. Fort Renton Estes, Muskoge D. Redfield, Ardmore; J. B. Jones Lehigh; S. W. Maytubby, Caddo Colorado—S. Rogers, Independence; A, W. Durkee, Greeley Arkansas—M. E. Hughey, Warren; T. B. Murphy, Osceola; O. M. Lehman, Black Rock South Dakota—E. Young, Faulkton Washington—G. B. Hartson, Mount Ver- non: V.J Knapp, Anacortes North Dakota—M. A. Milligan, Hop H. Smith, Mandan Missouri—J R. D Ash Grove; M. W Castor, € n; B. W. Prentiss, Bethany; Excelsior; E. D. W Arnold, Lamar; E. R. Willlams, Richmond; J. H. Bryant, Burlington Junction. Oklahoma—J. A. Randolph, Waukomis. Arizona—E. M. Willilams, Clifton. Wyoming—H. 8. Bateman, Douglas; J. M, Righter, Cambria; G. Jensen, Saratog R. Kansas—Maude McGill, Oswego. Towa—R. A. Nicholson, New Sharon; J A. 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