The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1898, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 189S. o AMERICA 1S WONDERFULLY PROSPERGUS New York Di ctates Money Rates to the Old World Financiers. While the United States Advances With Giant Strides to First Place Among the Powers. Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON. Dec. 14—It is no exagger- Several financiers have said that ation tc t that t yremost topic | Russia tried to raise money in Londen, | compelling attention in Europe in gen- | Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam, and that = e ems to have turned to the United eral and i in in particu- | EGrloe St S DOEIDTS iR ry broils of of reaping incid 1 political remarkable, But it is admitted that it | rity whicl manifesting. aper review or a pub- g the past month has what giant strides y & news lic speaker durin failed to notice w America is com o the first plac fn the alignment of powers. It tainly the chief subject of conversation on Lombard street and on the Conti- nental Bou: The manager of one of the greatest | London ba recently drew an Ameri- can business man into his private of- fice a said, in an awestruck tone: g b the first time in the history of nce that New York has been in ey rates to is ce; a position to dictate mon Lor Berlin and Pari; bank manager added that Lon- don’s purchases of American securities were a fea r's weight compared with the balan of trade in New York’s| favor. | James Bryce, in a speech before the | Leicester Chamber of Commerce, | sounded a warning to British manu- | tacturers. He emphasized the fact that | the exports of the United States and | v had increased £34,000,000 and 0 respectively between 1891 ! while Great Britain's de- 1 £15,000,000. He further pointed at the business of the United was d ping along many lines, which Great Britair hould have held against all tors. Mr. Bryce unhesitatingly | ed that the United States could | | e T ch ' MO poss of except in China. to have become | capture of the iron | ts by the United States. Amer- | s are uniformly successful in | g he British firms. The and the Illinois | mpany have opened extensive | es in London and are making in- | n the British reserve. Colonel , the Carnegie representative, | acted for 30,000 tons of plates olgardie road, Australia, and as unable to undertake | 0,000 tons more. | spatch from Berlin says it is a | fact that the Russian Government has ordered 80,000 tons of American rails, and the prospect of American competi- tion for the contracts in connection | wit Russia’'s extensive railroads ala nufacturers here and else w assert that all Europe | er before with the | rican manufacturers of railways, electrical appa- machinery, who is swarm agents of steel, stre g as ne s and all kinds are leading the commercial invasion. | The reports of attempts to float a | British loan in New York have been recelved skeptically here. | advantages. is a question of a short time will have to reckon with as a competitor in high fact that American ave the courage of their capitalists financia opinions if they think they know the | ean situation better the italists of the Old World.” There is much interest here regard- ing the choice of a successor of Ethan Allen Hitchcock as United States Em- bassador at St. Petersburg. It is con- sidered that the post demands the presence of the strongest diplomat, in view of the entrance of the United States into the . Russia has sent one of her ablest men to Washington, though a transfer from Washington to Constantinople or Madrid has hitherto been considered in the service as being rtion. Russia expects President y to reciprocate. hcock carries home with him the conviction that Russia is still a stanch friend of Amer: endeavored to impre upon the State Department at Washington and on all influential Americans he has met abroad. The English habit of entirely drop- ping serious affairs at the holiday sea- son has respited the squabbles about than P | the Liberal leadership, but Sir Edward Russell, who is writing his reminis- cences, furnished material for a new controversy. He writes that while Lord Rosebery was resigning the Pre- miership the Queen earnestly, almost affectionately, begged him not to turn Conservative. He explained that her Majesty dreads the alignment of all the aris- | | tocracy on the Tory slde against all the commoners on the Liberal side. Rosebery has promptly requested Lord the | newspapers to deny the statement, and | Sir Edward Russell say: “I have good reason to believe it is true, though nobody shall drag from me my authority.” The English newspapers, pursuing their traditional policy of keeping the sovereign above partisan politics, re. frain from commenting upon the inci- dent, but the people discuss the story | with the utmost interest. The Hungarian politicians of the op- position party threaten to throw Hun- gary into a state of anarchy before they consent to an extra constitutional | “‘compromise” with Austria. They have .arried out their promise to issue a manifesto to the people, urg- | ing them not to pay taxes or to allow the enrolling of recruits. are preaching resistance to the Govern- ment, which they have never forgiven for passing the law allowing civil mar- riages, the rebellion may be serious. Trouble is expected from the municipal- ities, which have the right to withhold taxes and recruits so long as parlia- ment has not legislated therefor. FATAL FIRE IN A FIVE-STORY TENEMENT | Several Occupants of the Structure Lose Their Lives in the Flames. NEW YORK, Dec. 25.—Fire broke out (n the five-story tenement at 176 Green- wich street at about 1 o’clock this morning and resulted in the loss of sev- eral lives. Owing to the fact that there was another fire down town it was ebout fifteen: minutes before the first engine reached the blazing tenement. The fire burned very fiercely and there was a panic among the tenants. About five families lived in the house and the first body found, shortly before 2 o'clock, was that of a woman sup- posed to be a Mrs. Bannon, who lived with her two sons on the fourth floor. A boy . named Richard Hickson, bably four or five years of age, who ived with his father and mother and five other children on the fifth floor, is believed to be burned to death, and one of the other children has not been accounted for, and probably was also burned to death. When the firemen reached the house the stairway and halls from street to roof were blocked with flames, and flames were pouring forth from every window in front. Dense volumes of gmoke rolled high above the building. The firemen made their wav up to the top of the building by means of fire escapes and rescued a number of Pirie fire battered down doors anu and flames. were overcome by smoke, | s were quickly taken by | Assistant Foreman of Engine 6 | rews fell from the first story > and received serious injuries heir pla T out at 240 a m. At that | he we ill searching for Bodie tef -ger sald that Frederick Hickson, 5 years old, has been burned to death that his brother, Richard, a little nger, and another child were missing. @n. Mrs. Brannon, whe the fire escape a to be dead, was unconscious only regained consclousness, but her con- y 15 serlous. Survived the Blizzard. VIENNA, Dec. 24—t is that the several hundred soldiers who were recently overtaken by & snowstorm in Lara P; nd who were thought to have been frozen to death, gucceeded in making their way through | the heavy drifts and have arrived safely at Podgoritza, a town of Montenegro, Rt now learned Montenegrin Triple Murderer Captured. TIFFIN, Ohio, Dec. 24—An unknown young man who was arrested this week while in a fit of insanity is believed to be William Collier, charged with the mur- det of three persons an entire family, at Worcester, Mass. Thr Worcester authori- ties have been notificd and will send an ‘2 officer after the prisoner, who tallies in every respect with the person wanted. - Will Fight the Combine. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 2.—A special from Akron, Ohio, says the Goodrich Rubber Company will not be in the me- chanical rubber combine, which is being engineered by Charles D. Flint. The Akron Company was approached, but re- fused to enter the combine. The plant is the largest of its kind in the country. b Towa Volunteer Killed. DUBUQUE, Iowa, Dec. 24.—A cablegram from Havana states that Henry Becker of Dubuque, a_member of Company A, Fortieth Iowa Volunteers, fell through a hatchway while disembarking and was killed. — Election Contest Filed. SANTA CRUZ, Dec. 24—J. A. Linscott (R.) to-day filed a contest of the election of Ed White (fusion for Supervisor in Pa o district, on the ground of irrezu- larities in precincts In Watsonville and Corralitos. ———— Captured Spanish Gunboats. NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 24.—The captured Spanish gunboats Alvarado and Sandoval arrived here to-day from Guantanamo, Cuba, under the command of Lieutenants Blue and Anderson. They will be repaired and refitted at the Norfolk navy-yard. ————— A Hotel of All the States. “I ran across one of the queerest hotels in the world not long ago,” sald a drum- mer just in from a trip. ‘I don’t care to advertise the establishment gratuitously, so suffice it to say it's situated in a city made by nearly all travellng men out of New Orleans, and Is run by an eccentric old chap who has named his rooms after States, rushed t the smoke instead of giving them numbers, b ed them right | The effect is somewhat startling. 1 went Y Y dir op, and they | there first to inquire for a friend. ‘Yes, 1 making their way. They | he's in Texas,’ replied the clerk, when I :ral of the tenants al £ | mentioned the name. ‘But he isn't in 1 and brought them to the street. | Texas’ I protested, ‘for T happen to know right here in this hotel.” Then he ex- plained. While I was standing there waiting the side talk at the desk was enough to make a man think he was crazy. ‘Gent in Massachusetts is kick- ing, sir. said a bellboy. ‘Claims dat feller in Utah is all de time playin’ de 'cor- dion at nights.” ‘Put him in Montana, re- lied the clerk. ‘No towels in North Da- ota,’ said a chambermaid, ‘and that fat man’in Florida wants to be changed to vermont' My friend came down looking very rocky. He said he'd been sitting in a little poker game in Rhode Island the | night before and woke up in California. Didn't know how tbe dickens he got there. The place interested me, and I could hardly —tear myself away. My friend assured me that it was run strictly according to State traditions. He was in Maine at first, he sald, but they refused to send any beer to his room on account of the prohibition law, 80 he had them change him across the hall to Kentucky, and now he likes it so well he has con- cluded to stay indefinitely. 1 met the pro- prietor and‘found him a rabid advocate of territorial expansion. You see, he wants to build an annex.”—New Orleans Times- Democrat. Ashtabula, Ohio, has for years been treasuring as a relic a shell which was fired by a British warship in 1812, and which had failed to explode. Somehow it got into a pile of scrap iron delivered. to the Phoenix Iron Works foundry &gd T- formed its functions so well that the a:r nace doors were blown to smithereens. ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. McKinley received from the American Peace Commission late this afternoon the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain. In presenting this momentous document Judge Day, as chairman of the commission, said it represented the earnest efforts of the American representatives at Paris, and that it was submitted with the hope that it would redound - to the peace, credit and glory of the American na- tion. Accepting the treaty from the hands , which he has | As the clergy | of Judge Day, the President responded with heartfelt thanks and congratula- tions to the commission as a body and to the members individually.. He spoke of all that had been accomplished and of the happy method by which difficult questions had been adjusted. The formal ceremony of delivering the treaty to the in the blue room and lasted half an | hour. The commission arrived here | from New York on a special train at 4:20 p. m. A great crowd of holiday excursionists filled the railroad station, and in order to avert the jam the | special was run on a side track, where |the officials had an opportunity [to leave the train _ before it | reached the depot. Chief Clerk | Miles of the State Department was | on hand -as representative of Sec retary Hay, and quite a number of; of- ficials from the State, War and Navy | departments, as well as friends and rel- | atives, were there to greet them. As | they stepped from the train there was | general handshaking and congratula- tions, and then the party was escorted to carriages and driven directly to the White House. It was noticed that as | Judge Day and his associates came from the train they were unincumbered with any sort of luggage or documents. But Hon. John B. Moore, late Assist- ant Secretary of State and legal ad- viser of the commission, carried with him a huge yellow leather case. This case never left Mr. Moore's hands, for in it was the peace treaty which the com- mission was bearing to the President. | { Four of the Commissioners—Day, Reid, Davis and Frye—took the first carriage to the White House and soon theres after Senator Gray, the Tremaining member, followed with Mr. Moore and the precious leather case. The ladies of the party also pl'o(‘ee«]ed‘tu the | White House and joined the Commis- sioners as they went before the Presi- dent. [ ki Secretary Hay was with the Presi- dent when the party arrived at the White House. The first greeting was quite informal, the President coming 1o | the private vestibule which leads to the | special drawing-rooms. Judge D.ay was | the first to grasp the President’s hand and then followed the personal ex- | changes. The President remarked on the vigorous health of all the members. | In the meantime Mr. Moore and his | precious bag had arrived in the outer corrider. Before going n:sld(_’ Mr. | Moore opened the case and from it took | the treaty, in a morocco binding about | the size of a large encyclopedia. | joining Secretary Gray, they proceeded together to the private vestibule. Mr. Moore carrying the treaty under his arm. All the members of the commis- sion being now assembled the President ! led the way to the blue room. Besides the President, Secretary Hay and the | commissioners, there were present Arthur Ferguson, who, as official inter- preter, had been through the arduous labors of the commission when the American and Spanish representatives were together, also Messrs. Hay and Gray, sons of the Secretary and Sena- tor and several ladies of the party re- spectively. I)'j‘he Secretary stood at the further end of the room while the party ranged around him. Taking the treaty Judge Day addressed the President in the manner already alluded to. His re- marks were quite informal and im- promptu, brief, dignified and to the point, in assuring the President of the satisfaction the commission felt that its labors were ended in such a way as to give promise of the welfare of the | country. After the President’s response some time was spent in informal dis- cussion of the trip and then all of the commissioners, except Judge Day, de- parted. The latter remained with the President for dinner, intending to leave with Mrs. Day at 7:20 o'clock for Can- ton, where they are anxious to see their | family after the long absence. Mr. Reid returned to New York to- night; Senator Gray went to his home in Delaware and Senators Davis and Frye remain at their homes in Wash- ington. It was stated that the treaty would not be made public at present, the usual courtesy to the Senate requiring that it should be submitted to that body be- fore being made public. In the mean- time it will remain in the custody of the State Department for safe keeping, although copies of it will be in the hands of the President for such con- sideration as may be needed. It is the impression that with the submission of the treaty to the Presi- dent the official existence of the Peace Commission terminated. Should there be occasion, which is scarcely conceiv- able, for further negotiations on any of the subjects touched by the treaty it is said this will either be done by di- rect negotiation with the Madrid Gov- ernment or through an entirely new commission. It is a rather remarkable fact that the commissioners were en- abled to complete their work In Paris in almost exactly the time predicted by Judge Day before he left the United States. It is expected that the treaty will be submitted to the Senate almost fm- | mediately after the reassembling of | Congress. Sabiit FILIPINO ENVOYS FOLLOW PEACE COMMISSIONERS Agoncillo Continues to Protest Against the Annexation of the Philippines. NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—The Filipino envoys, Agoncillo and Lopez, following close on the heels of the Peace Com- missioners, returned to this city to-day on the Etruria. They will remain here over Christmas and at the close of the holidays go to Washington, where they will await the arrival of Juan Luna, General Reigo de Bros and Dr. Tejo- sada, special commissioners sent out by Aguinaldo to the American Govern- ment. The new contingent of Filipinos are expected to reach Washington by way of San Francisco by January 2 next. Agoncillo, when he arrived at quar- antine, made inquiries about Judge Day President occurred | Then, | TREATY OF PEACE PLACED IN HANDS OF THE PRESIDENT ‘Taken to the White House by Commissioners Who Arranged the Terms at Paris. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. 1 | | | | | 24.—President |and the other members of the American commission. He was told that they had rrived safely on the St. Louis and that the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain was doubtless in the hands of President McKinley. “I have seen a Spanish copy of it,” said Agoncillo, “and know all that con- cerns my country. The Spaniards gave away or sold what they did not pos- sess. The agreement, as far as it con- cerns the archipelago, is practically void.” “Are you still opposed to the annexa- tion of the Philippines to the United | States?” he was asked. “Certainly I am, and why should I not be? Has not Admiral Dewey in his of- ficial communication to the Unjted States Government said the people of the Philippines are more fitted for self- government than those vf Cuba, and that he knew both races well? Dewey’s word ought to have some weight, and is it right to keep my countrymen back while you promise freedom to the peo- ple of Cuba?” “‘Was your mission to PaMs as fruit- ful as you expected?” “I believe that it was fairly so. I think that the American people under- stand the situation now and that they will see that justice is done the Fili- pinos when the expansion bubble has burst. I am now waiting further in- structions as to how to proceed and they will arrive with the special com- missioners I have mentioned.” GRAY REFUSES TO DISCUSS THE TREATY| But He Believes the Convention Will Be Ratified Without Amend- ment. WILMINGTON, Del.,, Dec. 24.—Unit- ed States Senator Gray, one of the Peace Commissioners, arrived home to- night. He said that while he did not know the sentiment of the people on this side of the Atlantic with refersnce to the treaty, and had not consultad his colleagues in the Senate, it was his opinion that the treaty would be rati- fied without amendment. When asked if he was favorable to the conditions of the treaty he evaded a direct reply by saying: “Well, I signed { Mr. Gray declined to discuss the treaty, saying that it would not be diplomatic at this time. STONEWALL JACKSON'S SCOUT. | He was Wcuné;d Sixty-Seven Times and Decorated by the Czar. Major Lamar Fontaine, who arrived in the city yesterday morning, is prob- ably one of the most interesting vet- erans of the Confederacy. He is the only representative of Camp:Sam Cam- mack of Coahoma County, Miss., and during his stay in the cityy will be the guest of Captain John Milledge on Trinity avenue. Major Fontaine has been a soldier nearly all his life, and the story of his adventures in all parts’of tune world sounds like fiction. He served in the Russian army dur- ing the for daring bravery during the battle. At the time of the memorable charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklav: he could hear the guns and see smoke of that famous battle. After leaving the Russian army he traveled about the world in company with an uncle, but was living in the South at the opening of the civil War, and enlisted as a private on the Tenth Mississippi Rifles, but later was trans- ferred to Company K, Eighteenth Mis- sissippi Regiment. While a member of this regiment, in August, 1861, he wrote the well-known poem, “All Quiet Along the Potomac,” which has since been widely copled all over the world. He began his war work with the Confederate army as scout and courier for General Stonewall Jackson. He served in the ime capacity with Gen- erals Stuart and Johnson, and briefly With General Lee. He took part in twenty-seven pitched battles, fifty- f&;;ar}dskllrmlihes and over a hundred ndividual skirmishe: V! e o hes in which blood Although he was but a privat. ranks, he was at one tlgle I::n!as'lgs With a carte blanche order on the treas- ury of the Confederate States. He was known in all branches of the Confed- erate service as the best marksman with. rifle or revolver in either army. He was wounded sixty-seven times, and thirteen times his lungs were pierced. Five times in the course of the war he was reported dead, On two occasions he was able, with the aid qf rll‘:;l:ws'dm ltm;;k lilnto apertures in his and watch t! v fetha e beating of his own Major Fontaine has kept a c diary for nearly forty yenlt?a, nn:rtr;flée:: itself is an unusually interesting work, comprising a number of volumes, and containing much valuable information, He also has many documents signed by g:?nmh;emiomciemlot the Confederate ¥ bearing testimon:; - able marksmanship, eyt “Yes,” sald Major night, “it would ses the F&:nalne last em as though I spent the most of my life on lhgehbattzlfig fleld. My life has been rather eventful In a way, and I think that I have had a'!ew interesting experiences. ‘These documents I have saved all through the war, and while they may be interesting and valuable I care for them only for the sake of my children. It will be something to leave them When I am gone, and I have managed to preserve them in good condition for the last thirty years.” Major Fontaine is a man of distin- 8uished appearance and wears a com- plete uniform which was made espe- cially for him to be worn at the re- union of veterans. He is a ctvi en- gineer by profession and is engaged in business with his two sons at Lyon, Miss.—New Haven Register. i ———— Wales as a Horse Trader, The Prince of Wales is’in t] trade, and he is in it to mnkehe}ngzgre. It 1s doubtful whether there is a more successful horse dealer in England than His Royal Highness. The other day the Prince had a sale of fifty-four Shire horses at Sandringham, his country place in Norfolk. These are an Eng- lish breed of horses fitted for the heavi. est kind of work. They may be fine animals, but they do not as a rule bring fancy prices. The Prince got $60.000 for his fifty-four draught horses. One of them, a filly, brought $6000 from Sir Blimdell Maple, a furniture maker. who is bravely fighting his way into society. Mr. Hadley, another strug- ling millionaire, naid $2000 for a dray orse. Lord Rothschil for $3000, PROTEST movement of his head, shoulders, hand and even eyes harmonizing. “ ‘Harmiony {s the great thing,’ sald the signor.” Under the guidance of this reviver of the graces of the last century the cadets ought to become perfectly irre- l I {O M | | I E | sistible.—New York Evening Sun. i ——————— FILIPINOS Do Not Recognize the Paris Treaty of Peace as Binding Upon Them. Representative Agoncillo Calls Upon President| McKinley to Fulfill Promises Made Before the War. Correspondence of the Associated Press. PARIS, Dec. 24.—The text of the pro- | tion' of force, which lasted almost a cen- test lodged with the American and | Spanish Peace Commissions by Agon- cillo, agent of Aguinaldo, the insurgent | leader in the Philippines, an outline of | which was cabled to the Associated Press under this date, is as follows: PARIS, Dec. 12.—Their Excellencies, the President and Delegates of the Spanish- American Peace Commission, Paris: Your Excellencies: The very noble and gallant General Aguinaldo, president | of the Phlligpine republic, and his Government ave honored me with the post of official representative to - the very honhorable President and Government of the United States of | America, devolving upon me at the same | time the duty of protesting sga.{ns( any resolution contrary to the independence of that count%’ which might be passed by the Peace Commission in Paris. This has a.lrtldf' terminated its sessions, and the resolutions passed cannot be uceyted as obligato: by my Government, since the commission has neither heard nor in anywise admitted to its deliberations the Phili; xlnlne nation, who held an unques- tionable right to intervene in them in relation to what might affect their fu- ture. I fulflll, therefore, my duty when I pro- test, as I do in the most solemn manner, in the name of the President and the Na- tlonal Government of the Philippines, against any resolution agreed upon at the peace conference in Paris as long as the Judicial and political independence and personality of the Philippine people are | entirely unrecognized and attempts are | made in any form to impose on these in- | habitants resolutions which have not been sanctioned by their public powers, the | only ones who can legally decide ds to | their future in history. Spain is absolutely devoid of a status | and power to declde in any shape or form the aforementioned matter. The union of Spain and the Phillppines was founded golely on two historical facts, in which | the exclusive right of the Filipinos to decide their own destiny was implicitly recognized: First, the “blood treaty” (pacto de sangre) of the 12th of March, 1565, entered into between General Don Miguel Lopez de Le Gazpi and the Filipino sovereign, Sikatuma, a compact which was confirmed on the one side by the King of Spain,Philip 11, and on the other side by the monarchs of Mindanao, Visayas and Luzon and by the supreme chief of that confederation, the Sultan La Candola, prociaiming as a consequence, the autonomous nationality of the kindom of “New Castille,” formed by the Philippine Islands under the scep- ter of the King of Spain. Second, the so-called constitution of Cadiz, In the discussion, vote, promulga- tion and legislation of which the deputies | ; which the peninsular public powers at. U rimean war, and at the siege | eignty on the islands the Filipinos pro- of Sebastopol was decorated by Czar | tested energetically by force of arms, and Nicholas with the Iron Cross of Honor | {rom the first attempt in 1814 the stru 1 , a Major | rights was consummated, Fontaine was sixteen miles away, but | again protested, Spain sustaining against d secured a horse | vent the killing of so and Filipinos people. took no actlve part, and by which constitution the national- ity of “‘the Spains” was made effective. But from the very first moment | tempted to impose their absolute sove: glo 1 defense of their political personal- ity was implanted. When, in 1897, the deprivation of their the Filipinos them a fratricidal and inhuman struggle which has lasted from that time onward up to the present day. Falsehood, which | always characterized the actions of the eninsular authorities, constantly hid rom the world the fact of the real situa- At length, at the end of the present | century, the Spanish forces have completely routed by those of the natives, | been and Spain cannot now even allege the possession by her of ‘fiv islands becausc | the permanency of a handful of penin- sular soldiers (approximately 600) who are | existing, besieged, in one or two fortresses in the south of the archipelago, cannot constitute such a right. The Spanish Government has ceased to hold any dominion by deed and by right, and the only authority which exists there | and preserves order is that constituted by the Filipinos with the solemn sanction of their votes, the only legal font of posi- | tlve modern power. Under such condlitions the Spanish com- missfoners in Paris have not been able, within the principles of the law of na- tions, to give up or to transfer what, if they ever had, they have totally lost be- fore the signing of the protocol of Wash- ington, an arranging of the terms of the peace treaty of Paris. Agoncillo then goes on to argue that in accepting the aid of the Filipinos in the war with Spain the United States | acknowledged them as an independent nation. He says that without that aid the speedy subjugation of the islands would be impossible. In closing his letter he says: Now, if the Spaniards have been able to transfer to t which they did have not mili e Americans the rights | l ll'llot xmssess.d!he torn}xer] arily conquer i of the Phllipplne!y; Ihe. Intornntional if the international officials and representatives of the re- public of the United States of America offered to recognize the independence and sovereignty o the Philippines, solicited and accepted their alliance, ho he. W can they now constitute themselves the sole dis- osers of the control, administration and uture government of the Philippine Is- lands? 1f, simpl, in the treaty of Paris, there had been declared the withdrawal and abandonment by the Spanlards of their dominion—if they ever Filipino territory; if America, ing peace, ad one—over the on accept- had signed the treaty without prejudice to the rights of the Filipinos an with the view of coming to a subse- quent settlement with the existing Fili- pino government thus recognizing the sovereignty of the latter, their alliance and the carr{.lnx out of their promises of honor to tl e sald Filipinos, it is very evident that no protest aj st their ac- tion would have been made; but in view of the terms of the third article of the protocol, the roceedin, can Commissioners and the necessity of safeguarding the national | rights of my country, I make this pro- | of the Ameri- imperative test, which 1 have made an extensive one corres] the | for the beforesaid reasons, and with the ponding legal restrictions against | actions taken and passed by the Peace Commissioners at | the aris and in the treaty signed by them. And on making this protest I claim in the name of the Filipino natlon, in that of their President and Government, the fulfillment of ley, Presldent of United States of America, that on going |’ to war he was not gulded by any inten- | tion of aggrandizement and extension of | national territory, the principles of the solemn made by the fllustrious William McKin- | declaration the Republic of the but only in respect to humanity, the duty of | liberating tyrannized peopies and the de- ! | sire to proclaim the unalienable rights | with their sovereignty of the countries | released from the yoke of Sp: ain. God keep your Excellencies many years. FELIPE AGONCILLO. PROTECT THE ELEPHANT. cultural Interests of Central Africa. A learned Frenchman, M. Bourdarie, has made the discovery that if matters keep on in Central Africa as they have been going of late, there will soon be no more elephants left for circuses or anything else. This gentleman has been appealing to the French Govern- ment and the King of the Belgians for assistance. Every year, he says, 40,000 elephants are killed in Africa for the sake of their ivory, and he fears that, like the buffalo in' America, these ani- mals will become exterminated if something is not done to limit the number killed. He considers that the elephant, instead of being destroyed, should be protected to serve the future agriculturists of the newly developing Centrad Africa, as the elephant is the | only animal that can work in these re- gions. In the meantime ivory is still an im- portant article of commerce in Central Africa, and the problem of how to get the ivory without killing the elephant continues to be unsolved. The quan- tity of ivory used in a year for com- mercial. purposes is about 100,000 pounds, of which three-quarters is used in Europe and less than 10 per cent in the United States. The largest con- suming market for ivory Is the city of Sheffield, in England, and the ivory used there is part of the enormous ma- terial needed in the manufacture of cutlery. It is needed for the handles of knives and forks, and some ivory is worked into decorative ornaments, too, though the quantity in Sheffield is not very large. The problem of how to keep up the supply of ivory without exterminating the 'elephants whose tusks supply it has been under consid- eration for'a number of years. The ele- phant is a long-lived animal, one of the longest lived of animals, in fact, and a baby elephant remains a baby ele- phant until the age of thirty. The av- erage age attalned by an elephant is 150 years, and an elephant 200 years old, dating back to the seventeenth cen- tury, perhaps, is not unusual. As a consequence of these conditions the killing of an elephant to secure ivory— the ivory found on an ordinary ele- phant weighs about 100 pounds and is worth $300—is a much more serious matter than would be the killing of any other beast of burden, an ox, horse or camel, for instance, the respective ave- rage ages of which are 25:30 and 40 ears. , 3 As the central part of Africa is being opened to material development, as a railroad, even, is serfously proposed to connect Egypt with the Cape of Good Hope, and European armies are over- running and establishing permanent settlements in regions which a few ears ago were called the unknown ter- ritory of Africa, the loss of the ele- phants is a serfous one, and, as much of the Congo territory is under the pro- tection of the King of the Belgians, an appeal has naturally been made to the Brussels Government for action to pre- many elephants {for their ivory- A DEGENERATE WALTON. 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