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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY -26, 1900. AMUSEMENTS. CALIFORNIA THEATER. THE MUSICAL EVENT OF THE SEASON. WEEKS OF MARCH 5 AND SIX GRAND OPERATIC CONCERTS ON THE WAGNER OPERAS AND MUSIC DRAMAS. MADAME GADSKI, ma Donna. MR. DAVID BISPHAM, Barytone, kets for the entire series of 5. Tickets for single $2.00, $2.50, $3.00. RROW the box office of ok SHERMAN, CLAY & C0.’S HALL. | Preliminary to the Concerts at the California Theater.) Six Explanatory Recitals at the Piano BY MR. WALTER DAMROSCH. Under the Direction of C. L. GRAFT. ON THE WAGNER OPERAS AND MUSIC DRAMAS At 11 0'Clock in the Morning. Mon. DAS RHEINGOLD" DIE WALKURE" ~*SIEX( D" “GOTTERDAMME: 2 “PARSIFAL" ISTAN AND ISOLDE" formances opens March 1, at ESSION. INSTANTANE- S NFT O tralian Actor, . RUBERTS. bt AUSTRALIAN COM- NCE OF DEAN MEITLAND." “THE SILE COLUMBIA NGAGEME DENMAN THOMPSON NOTE! 3.7 XT LIMITE KS, sitively ap- g thie engagement (for am Gillette’s "B A COMEDY BILL OF UN- USUAL MERIT. 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Don't Miss the Parade | ght. Prices—Adults, “kildren, 19c. | RACING! RACING! RACING! 1900—CALIFORNIA JOCKEY CLUB-1900 February 2 to March 10, Inclusive. | OAKLAND RAC) Racing Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- day, Friday and Satu Rain or shine. Tive or more races each day. Races start at 2:15 p. m. sharp. Ferry-boats leave Kan Francisco at 12 m. and 12:90, 1, 1.30, 2, 2:30 and 3 p. m., connecting with trains stopping at the entrance to the TRACK track. Last two cars on train reserved for la- dies and their escorts; no smoking. Buy your ferry tickets to Sheli’ Mo All trains via Oakland mole connect with San Pablo avenue electric cars at Seventh and Broadway, Oak- jand. Also all trains via Alameda mole con- nect with S8an Pablo avenue cars at Fourteenth and Broadway, Oakland. These electric cars g0 Clrect 1o the track in fifteen minutes. Returning—Trains leave the track at 4:15 and 4:45_p. m. and immediately after the last race. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS JR., President. R. B. MILROY, Secretary. ' | for since 1ss3, {lem, and it has been worked out, mainly | by Assis | an original way. | able mountain stream ‘and deserves origi- | to be a settling basin three miles lon { tually s BIG AND NOVEL PLAN TO TAME YUBA'S FLOW How Uncle Sam Will Stream Give Up Its Into the Valley and Be Clean. HE biggest new thing In the Call- fornia miniug field is the scheme of the California Debris Commission for impounding debris in the Yuba River at a cost of $500,000. It is a nével scheme, interesting in its every phase. It has been waited nd $500,000 of State and Federal money has been available for it nce 1596. mountains back in the hills where it be- longs has not been hastily jumped at. It | has been worked out of a tremendous amount of study, hole-digging and hought. It has been supposed for some years that there were to be big and high rock dams to hold in check the debris still working downward and people have been quiie sure that one would be built at either Daguerre Point or the Narrows on the Yuba above Marysville. Long inves- tigation showed these to be too costly and difficult to be practicable, and so the “project of 1599" has been conceived and worked out and been approved by Chief of Engineers Wilson. “The project as submitted is novel, since | nothing of the kind, so far as known, has ever been attempted,” say the Federal en- gineers in thelr report. And it is new. Rivers have been dammed, changed and otherwise regulat- ed in all manner of ways and the engi- neering world is rich in data and experi- ence of this order, but it has been the vater that has been considered before. he problem and method of governing t quantities of éroded detritus in tor- rential streams has no precedents. About the only former attempt in this line was on the headwaters of the Rhine, where denudation and soil cultivation made sim- ilar trouble for Swiss and Austrian peas- ants. So the Yuba presented an original prob. ant Engi r Hubert Vischer, in he Yuba is a remark- nal treatment. It is like the other tor- rential streams of the Sierra Nevadas, only more It drains a large area of steep slopes and high snow tields and it dances down an exceptionally steep grade, through deep gorges it has dug. In its flood times it is a sublime torrent. In narrow canyons it pours its waters fifty to eighty feet deep, the rushing flood pii- ing several feet higher in the center and tossing pine trees like straws. 1f its vol- ume then and the average altitude of, say, 8000 feet, from which its waters fall, be taken, it will be found almost to gen- erate the power of Niagara Falls. Its ra- diating headwaters drain Nevada and Sierra counties, and there is in its water. shed an auriferous grayel which the hy draulic miners of the past sluiced away on such a stupendous scale. These tail- ings the Yuba gathered and rushed down the siope witn 1ts floods, and so 1t came that the Yuba carried to the valley more detritus than all the other tributaries of the Sacramento combined. When it gets to the thirty miles avove and ea arrows, some of Marysville, it reaches the foothill region and slows up to flow more circumspectly through 1 fruitful valley and hanking hilis. in this foothill stretc it laia down most of its burden of coarse material and sprad- dled out all over it. In burying its ow { bed it climbed up here ten and there fifty It went on to the more level valley quantities of fine sediment, or ana it gently laid it wherever Its raised bed kept working on to Marysville and the Feather. 'They built high levees for miles to keep it with- in bounds, and between these levees, which are in places three miles apart, it s constantly, changing its channel feet. with grea “slickens, wande) frequently. From the Narrows to Mar: ville is a blg waste of gravel through which the river wanders, put much of it | 1s overgrown with willows and other veg- etation which gradually making rich soil out of the slickens covered alluvium. The engineering problem and purposs is to stay forever where they are the buik of the debris through which the river flows below the Narrows, to arrest in its course all new material brought down, including the fine sediment, and to assist the Yuba to make a new and permanent channel and allow the flanking wastes to be reclaimed. The miners want dams be- hind which they may resume mining, but this is left to the future and is not con- templated in the present restraining scheme. The coarse material is to be held by |1ong and comparatively low dams at dif- ferent points and the plans for them are interesting from an engineering view. The most novel feature s that.to take the fine sediment out of the water. There is into which the river will all flow at or- dinary stages. If the water poured out in a stream at the lower end the currents would ~revent much settling. So Mr. Vischer has devised a scheme to make the water percolate through eight pyramidal structures_of logs, planks, cement and cracks. The water will flow through a reat number of half-inch or less slits rom all sides of the pyramids, which have T0-foot bases and are strung across the basin. The flow can be regulated and currents are avoided. This basin is cal- culated to hold 14,000,000 cubic yards of fine sediment. The basin can be enlarged to hold 50,000,000 cubic yards more. The Yuba will be clean when it gets to Marys- ville. Waters have been cleaned before, but it has always been on account of the water. So this torrential mountain stream, which has always had its ow rapid and yward way, will have to ac »p and leak out into the Sacra- mento Valley. The plan includes parallel leveelike structures below, which will confine the stream and help it dig a straight and reg- ular course clear to the Feather. The scheme is also a huge concentrator, which separates coarse and fine material and automatically cares for each. The report of the commission outlines the plan and is accompanied by many maps and drawings and a detailed report by Mr. Vischer containing 30,000 words. 1t will soon be published. ~After review- ing the earlier projects for masonry dams the report says: ““The latter project has for its primary object the storage of mining debris within | the bed of the Yuba River by a system of works designed to separate the coarse material from the fine; and for a second- ary object the controlling of the low water channel within narrower and well defined limits in order to preserve in place the extensive deposits In the river below, the general scheme being to erect several barriers across the bed of the river, the upper ones to be located about three miles east of the mouth of Dry Creek, known as barriers No. 1 and No. 2 re- spectively; another to be situated just be- low the mouth of Dry Creek, marked on the ‘map as a flood overflow barrier; an- other to be placed at Daguerre Point, in- dicated as the Daguerre barrier; also to form a settling basin about three miles in length and one-half mile in width on the south side of the river, this settlin; basin to consist of a levee protecteg nfalns( wash, to be built in the bed of the river, with its upper and lower ends con- necting with the existing levee and shore on the south bank, these end walls to have inlet and outlét weirs and conanits to regulate the inflow and outflow of river waters and to cause the finer material carried in suspension to be deposited and held in the settling basin. through which at all_except extreme flood stages the river will be compelled to flow, and below this basin to confine the river channel within well defined lines by necessary training works.” The two upper barriers are to be about 1000 feet long, of brush. gravel, cobbles, pliing and masonry. and may raise the de~ posits behind them forty feet, showing 36,000.000 cubic yards at a cost of seven- tenths of a cent per vard. The overflow barrier is to me 4000 feet long, and that at Daguerre Point 3000 feet by fourteen feet high. The point will be cut through to rectify the flow and share the flood overflow. The scheme has many interest- ing details. . e project as submitted is novel, since nothing of the kind, so far as known, has ever been attempted, and it is to a certain extent experimental, says the report. “The various structures are simple, and are belleved to be safe, practicablé and reasonably permanent. 'They can be re- paired if required, and if abandoned, not maintained or never completed cannot leave the river in worse shape than at present. If constructed, it is believed they are capable of storing the debris now in Yuba River and its tributaries, which is far in excess of that in all the other trib. utaries of the Sacramento River. The result of this storage cannot be otherwise This first solution of the big | | old problem of keeping the wash of the | caities Make the Fierce Little Dirty Piunder, Leak than beneficial to the navigation and com- mercial interests of the Sacramento and Feather rivers. A significant feature of tne report of in- to the miners is this: pecial attention is invited to the fact that the object sought to be accomplished is the storage of the detritus now in the Yuba and its tributaries with a_view to the improvement of the rivers below, and decidedly not with the view of permitting unlicensed or indiscriminate mining at lo- above the impounding works. When the works have been completed and in operation for several years, there will be time and opportunity to determine whether or not the system Is capable of sufficient expansion to warrant an_at- tempt at storing therein the tailings from the hydraulic mines without compelling each mine to impound any or all of its debris. The commission believes the pro- ject practicable and worthy of adoption, and so recommends. It is the only one thus far evolved which giv hope of succ cost for storage, Mr. Vischer has been ably serving the commission for several vears in the es- pecial fleld created by the Caminetti law, dividing his time between inspecting hy- draulic mines and working out the debris problem. In the latter effort he has made a %roat number of surveys and borings, and knows the problem as no one else does now. While his work has been un- der the constant direction of Colonel Mansfield, Major Heuer and Lieutenant Deakyn, who have had all the other Gov- ernment engineering work of the coast in their hands, he is the one who has done the hard vork, for which the report gives him credit by saying: ““Mr. Vischer’s labor, thought and skill in working up a project of such unusual character and scope merits our highest appreciation and is worthy of every com- mendation.” In his long report Mr. Vischer deals with “the forces that have run riot with- in_the boundarles named,” and_gives a full account of the conditions. He con- cludes with this summary of the new project: “1. Tt is a project of slow development; it does not expend any considerable amount of money in advance of results; it affords time to acquire experience as work progresses, and in no instance are reasonable and at a very moderate structures so located as not to make al- terations practicable. It husbands the in- terest account. "1t calls for no works of a daring or experimental type. There are few por- tions which if constructed or partially completed would not produce benefit and be separately operative, even in after- ward neglected, and it does not so store material that the conditions would be worse, should the structures be destroyed, than if they had never existed. “3. It is remedial and beneficial, creates lands and damages none. and alms to brgng bout order where there is now no order. Not much land will be required. The commission will proceed to carry out the project as soon as permission is given. and is ready to proceed with the $500,000 now available without waiting for the ad- ditional $300,000. Several technical ques- tions of legality in connection with the joint use of the State and Federal appro- priations must be settled, but no serious obstacles are anticipated. The debris problems of the Feather, Bear and other streams are thus rele- mated to the future. So is the matter of direct as tance to the hydraulic miner. Each hydraulic miner on the Yuba must still impound his tailings. But something has been decided, and the California Miners' Association, which secured the money and waited long to see it spent, may now decide on a new programme. J 0. DENNY. CANAL TREATY 15 CERTAIN 10 BE RATIFIED Its Advocates Already Have Almost a Two-Thirds Majority. Special Dispatch to The Call CALL HEADQUARTERS, WELLING- TON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.— The Hay-Pauncefote treaty will be rati- fied. There's no doubt about that. A can- v of the Senate shows that the advo- cates of the treaty fall only three or four votes short of the required two thirds, and President McKinley may be trusted | to win over as many as are needed to give effect to the treaty. If the treaty, providing as it does for an unfortified neutral canal, can be rati- fied, it follows that the Senate will modify the canal bill now before it so as to con- form in this respect. But advocates of an “exclusively American canal” in the Sen- ate will cause delay. Meanwhile the House will assuredly pass the bill as it stands, providing for fortifications. and therefore an appointment of conferees will be necessary, and the present temer of the House indicates that it will cling very tenaciously to the idea of erecting fortifications on the waterway. Before the bill can come up for cons eration at all, however, there will be vre- liminary delay. It has ben reported by committees of both houses, and Repre- sentative Hepburn, who has charge of it in the lower house, has asked the Com- mittee on Rules to fix a date. This com- mittee is favorable to the bill, but will not take any action until the Porto Rican measure is disposed of, which experienced observers think will be in about two weeks. The House, it is conceded, will pass the bill as it stands, regardless of the treaty. Meanwhile the Senate is oe- cupled with the Hawaiian discussion. This should terminate to-morrow, but Senator Morgan will not attempt to force the canal matter to the front until after the bill for the government of Porto Rieo, reported by Senator Foraker's committee, shall be disposed of. The intensity of feeling on this question and tne traditions of Senatorial debate make it certain that this will be a protracted discussion. A New Deal. The well-known Westerfeld's bakery and restaurant, 1035 Market st., Is now under en- tirely new management:everything up-to-date.s —_——— TROPHY BRONZE CANNONS FOR GOLDEN GATE PARK Ordnance Departmént Authorized to Loan to This City Two Big Guns Captured at Manila. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The Secretary of the Navy to-day notified Representa- tive Kahn that he had authorized the Ordnance Department to loan two trophy bronze cannons, captured at Manila and now at the Mare Island navy yard, to the city of San Francisco to be placed in Golden Gate Park. Park Commissioner Lloyd will be allowed to select them. —— Boys' school Shoes, worth $2, for only 90c a pair at the sale of shoes, 717 Mar Sticet near Third. crad i LR L “Work of Canal Commission. SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua, Feb. 25.—The United States Canal Commission, after having conferred for several d: with President Zelaya, left to-day %5 Panama, via Corinto. All the members are well. P KRS Silver Forces Units: BLACKFOOT, Idaho, Feb. 25.—The Democratic, Silver-Republican and Popu- list_committees met at Idaho Falls yes. terday and declared for a union of all sil- ver forces in the State. { besides 121 men of the crew. BHTTLESHIP OWA PUT THE TERESH OUT OF ACTIN Spanish Cruiser's Captain _Reviews the Battle of Santiago. Declares Admiral Sampson Might Have Prevented the Sinking of the Cristobal Colon After the Fight. A g WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The Bureau of Naval Intelligence has issued a fresh volume of its war notes serles, and prob- ably the last of them, which will bear on the battle of Santiago harbor. The pres- ent publication is a translation from the Spanish by Captain Victor M. Concas y Palu, former commander of the cruiser Infanta Maria Teresa and chief of staff to Admiral Cervera In the battle of July 3. < The narrative begins with the exodus of the devoted squadron from Santiago har- bor. Captain Concas says, in accordance with previous instructions, the Teresa headed toward the Brooklyn, hoping to ram her. This was frustrated by the Brooklyn’s frequently discussed “loop™ to starboard, which Concas says “brought the Iowa and the Texas between her and the Teresa.”” Captain Concas, in_telling of the suc- cessful sinking of the Teresa and the other vessels of the squadron, dwells strongly on a point which he declares all other critics have overlooked—namely, that of owing to the narrow and tor- tuous channel past the Morro the Span- ish vessels had to come out so far apart that they were each attacked by the com- bined force of the American squadron and destroyed in detail, making it practically a series of combats, each time a ship against a squadron. He calls attention also to the probability that the American estimate of 3 per cent of hits out of shots | almed at Cervera's fleet is too low. He says the most horrible mortality in every case was in the upper works, where the shots left no marks except those wiped out by the fire. He says 6 per cent of hits probably would not be too high. He credits the lowa with landing the two 12 or 13 inch shells which burst the Teresa's main steam of the action when her commander had a fair chance to escape. The shots, says, have been claimed both by the Ore- gon and the Indiana, but he adduces con- siderable evidence that they came from the lowa. Another peculiar incident brought out in the narrative and a strik- ing example of Yankee luck was that the Oregon, in pursuit of the Colon, remained unconsciously in the ‘*‘dead angle” b tween the only guns on the Colon power- ful enough to reach her. The Colon, it will be remembered, did not have her big thirty-ton guns, and in the long, stern chase the Oregon happened always to keep just on the spot where the upper- decfi guns could not be trained on her, and the Colon could not fire without heav- ing to and losing valuable time. The au- thor indignantly denies that the Colon was wrecked by her crew after she had surrendered. He says she was run ashore and her sea valves opened before her flag was hauled down. egarding this inci- dent the writer say The Cristobal Colon was less fortunate than any of the others, for although going at a speed of thirteen knots she ran ashore on sand and if Admiral Sampson, with a more seama like spirit, had ordered the divers to close the valves Le could most certainly have saved the cruiser, but with feverish impatience he towed her off with his own flagship. the New York. Hardly had the ship been floated when she began to list, at which moment, with great dexterity, he pushed the Colon back again with tha ram’ of his own ship toward the sandy shoal, but it was too late, and, turning over, that noble and ili-fated cruiser went to the bottom of the sea forever. The few Americans and Spantards who were still on board hastily saved themselves. Speaking of the nature of the wounds inflicted by modern naval shell fire, Cap- tain Concas declares them more horrible than can be described. the Teresa had four wounds. men injured at all escaped with less than two. Many, he says, were blown into unrecognizable fragments. Captain Lar- zaza of the Oquendo was killed, his exe- cutive officer, Lola, cut in two by a shell; ‘the third officer, Matos, and the three lieutenants next in rank all killed, The total mortality in the fleet reached the awful figure of 22 per cent of the men engaged. In closing (?le account of the battle the author says: We could never complete this chapter If we were to relate the innumerable acts of courage, but T cannot do less than to mention one which T saw with my own eves. The Maria Teresa had already been abandoned, the flames mount- ing up to the helght of the funnels and pro- jectiles exploding on all sides, and when everybody thought that no living soul was left on the ship suddenly a man appeared there calling for help. Instantly Jose Sasado cried, T will nat let that man die”” and threw him- self into the water. He climbed up the blood t'ained sides of the ship, seized the man, car- Tied him down on his shoulders, and swim- ming with him to the share, lald his burden on thy, beach. It was hardly possible to belleve that thet shapeless form was a man with four- teen wounds, who must have been left on board as dead. Never Mind the Distance. It's only a block from Market, and many a dollar saved by buying carpets of the best quality and medium grades at little prices that will surprise you. Indi- anapolis Furniture Co.. 750 Mission st. * —_———————— § WATER SUPPLY FOR SOUTHERN ORCHARDISTS E. 8. Babcock Offers the Water Stored in the Lower Otay Reservoir. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN DIEGO, Feb. 25.—E. S. Babcock, the president of the Southern California Mountain Water Company, has made a most liberal offer to the people of Chula Vista and National City, who fear that if more rafn does not come to fill the Sweet- water reservoir their orange orchards will be in danger. The Mountain Water Company has in the Lower Otay reservoir about 590,000,000 gallons of water, almost three-quarters of all the water that the orchards will Reed this year. The water company has o use for the water in the reservoir, as its system ig not completed, and Mr. Bab- cock has offered the orchardists the en- tire supply. It will cost only $15,000 to build a flume from the reservoir to a flume whence the water can be used, and if the supply will save the orchards the Water will be worth a miliion dollars to the orange-growers. e “Just fine!"” says every lady who uses Anyvo Theatrical Cold Cream. Druggists. ARKANSAS PRIMARIES. Anti-Expansionist Berry Carries Two Counties. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. Feb. 25.—Three counties held Democratic primary elec- tlons yesterday on the United States Sen- atorship. Senator Berry, who Is an ar- dent anti-expansionist, and Gavernor Dan W. Jones, an avowed expansionist, are the opposing candidates Reports ‘from Crawford and Johnson countles indicate that both were carried by Berry. In Pope County the vote appears to be close. Jones' friends claim he has carried it. YO e Prominent Physician Dead. CHICAGO, Feb. 25.—Dr. A. W. Wright, aged 74 years, of Buffalo, N. Y., is dead at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chicago. He ar- rived here Thursday to consult ahout his illness. Dr. Wright was one of the fore- most_homeopathic Khyslcluns of America. In 1898 he was chosen president of the American Institute of Homeopaths. it Sl Rev. Edward Lorenz Passes Away. DAYTON, Ohio, Feb. 2%.—Rev. Edward Lorenz, editor of the Qeérman periodicals of the United Brethren Church and for- merly a prominént minister in that de- nomination. is dead. He had charge of the missionary work in Germany for a number of years pipe and put her out | he | A boatswain of | None of the | | | | Minister, ““Citizen Genet, | ernment in France, MERICAN POLITICS: Copyright, 1800, by Seymour Eaton. FEDERALIST PARTY. AMERICAN POL ITICAL PARTIES. IL—THE FEDERALIST PARTY. (Continued.) International Relations. Forelgn affairs were prominent in party controversy from the first year of Wash- ington's first term of office, which was also the first year of the French revolu- tion. In the course of a few vears nearly all Europe had been drawn into the con- flict. England and France were at war. The revolutionists, influenced as they had been by the successful example of the United States in resistance to tyranny, looked to us for sympathy and support in thelr own struggle. Jefferson and many of the Republicans were inclined to con- cede the rightfulness of the claim, in spite of the horrible excesses which marked the progress of the revolution. The federal- ists, as the party of law and order, and the representatives of established govern- ment, gave their 'mpathies to England, and deprecated the lawlessness and vio- s lence perpetrated in France in the name | of lfberty. Washington and his Cabinet, which included Jefferson, agreed in the | expediency of the nedtrality proclamation issued in 1793. There was still a strong feeling throughout the country in favor of France. Party spirit ran high, and much bitter feeling was generated. The party in power seemed on the point of B R e S a + > : : ® L 4 . + ES © + + i . 4 L 4 ® + - & & . . @ L3 g * 3 ) : b¢ + + > k3 * . ;’ AARON BURR. ‘: Qe soisieioeibedeie® precipitating war with France, while the Republicans advocated measures which would have been certain to embroil us with England. Secret organizations called Democratic socleties, modeled after the Jacobin clubs of Pa were formed by members of the Republican party, coincident with their rise a new French arrived in the United States. Instead of proceeding to Philadelphia to presen: his credentials, Genet landed in Charleston, 8. C., and, not doubting that the American people were in full sympathy with the new Gov- t once busied himself with enlisting men and commissioning privateers. Ships were captured in American waters and brought into American ports for con- demnation. The young French Minister carried himself as If America were only outlying French territory, and his Amer- ican sympathizers responded with aston- ishing enthusfasm. The Democratic clubs multiplied rapidiy, and Genet advanced toward the capital attended by the lauda- tions of admiring multitudes.” Arrived at Philadelphia, he encountered a different spirit. The moderation and firmness of Washington and his Cabinet, the recent proclamation of neutrality and the whole temper of the Federal party proved insur- mountable obstacles to the continuance of the career upon which he had entered in so unseemly and undiplomatic a manner. Unable to influence the administration, he persisted, in spite of the remonstrances of our Government, in fitting out and send- ing to sea still another privateer, and he determined to make a public appeal to the citizens of the United States to disown and override the acts of their President. Our Government could not but ask for hi recall, and happily it was granted. Gene brief term of service worked, disaster to his cause. s after all, A reaction set in; the excitement having cooled. the people resented the insult to their national Gov- ernment, and the leaders of opinion showed that they were deeply offended. A marked change in the drift of sentiment appeared, away from France and toward ngland.” The Democratic soci ually lost both popularity and influence, and the fall of Robesplerre in Paris in 1794 accelerated thelr decline. The Whisky Rebellion. The societies had in the meantime lent their aid in_support of the rebellious re- sistance in Southwestern Pennsylvania to the excise act of 1T This is known in | history as the “Whisky Rebellion,” and was a vlolent oppesition to the enforce- ment of the revenue laws. It was forci- bly suppressed by the militia of several neighboring States called out by the Pres- ident. The outcome made it apparent to all that the new National Government had both the determination and the mili- tary power to put down any Insurrection likely to arise, while Washington's eriti- sm in his message upon the e certain “‘self-created” societies as “disseminated suspicions, -jealousies an accusations of the whole Government, still further discredited the Democratic clubs, already losing their hold upon the people. They steadily continued to de- cline and soon died out. . Administration of John Adams. At this juncture the firm hand and wise head of Washington were withdrawn from the conduct of our national uffairs. He declined absolutely to be for a third time a candidate for the Presidency, and In 179 a_hotly contested election resulted in the choice of John Adams. Federalist, over Thomas Jefferson, Republican. Ac- cording to a constitutional provision then in force but since altered, Jefferson, hav- ing, after Adams, recelved the largest number of electoral votes, became Vice President. The new President, having been etected by a small majority, came into power un- der unfavorable conditions. His first act was to call a special session of Congress to consider our relations with France. The country was in an excited state. Great Britain had pursued a course mos: exasperating to the Americans. She had falled to fulfill the provisions of the treaty of 1783; she was beliéved to have sccretly alded hostile Indlans; she had seized American ships and impressed American seamen into the British service. It would have been easy to plunge the two na tions into renewed conflict. The Feder: ists had been prevented by the opposi- tion from equipping a navy adequate to the protection of our commerce, and a 1liative policy seemed the only possi- fil one in view of the weakness of the infant natio ‘Washington's special en- voy, John Jay, had succeeded in 17% in arranging a treaty not, indeed. entirely satisfactory to his own people, but which under the influence of the President's calm, convincing persuasion was accepted in place of the only other- alternative— war. But it had made the Federal party unpopular. Hamilton was stoned upon the street and Washington himself was treated with shameful abuse. During the whole of the administration of President Adams the question of our relations with France actively engaged the attention of the country. As a re- sult of French resentment of the Jay treaty diplomatic Intercourse with the United States was suspended and various unfriendly acts perpetrated. American envoys sent to Paris for conference wit] the French Government were even aj g'mached by secret emissaries of Prince ‘alleyrand, who offered to put an end to out upon American ships and to set- tle all matters in dispute on the payment of a large sum of money to certain mem- bers of the French Government. Reply- and | fes grad- | 1ing to this proposition, Mr. Pinckney, one of the Commissioners, exclaimed indig- nantly, “Millions for defense; not one cent for tribute.”” The X. Y. Z. d called because those létters were substi- tuted for the names of the unworthy French agents) relating the insulting inci- dent having been laid before Congress, | were published, and the nation went wild with indignation. Washington was com- | mander in chief of the army, and prepara tions for war with France were eagerly | set on foot. The widespread approval _of the attitude of the administration carried ‘rhe Federal party to its highest pitch of | popularity. "The fortunes of the Republi- can party bade falr to be utterly over- whelmed. All classes clamored for wip- ing out fn blood the indignity which had been put upon the nation. “Millions for | defense; not one cent for tribute!” rung | through the length and breadth of the land. " For nearly a year war upon the seas actually existed, but no formal dec- laration of war was made by either party | to the quarrel. There can be little doubt | that but for the coolness and good judg- ment of the President the twe peoples would have speedily become involvec serious and bloody strife. But Mr. A met with ready cordiality the first sign of the rise of 4 conclliatory temper on the art of the offending power. A new Min- mmissioners were sent over to adjust matters. They found Napoleon as First Consul at the head of the Govern- ment, the Directory superseded and those in power ready for an amicable settle- ment. President Adams assumed the re- sponsibility of concluding a treaty of peace. But to the excited, warlike tem- per of his countrymen this wisdom and | moderation seemed weakness and pusil- | lanimity and were made the ground of renewed oppositicn to the Federal party The Federalists who favored the war were also offended. The President stead- fly lost popularity and his re-election be- came impossible Causes of the Decline of the Federal- in ams ist Party. The fall of the Federal party from power now became inevitable. Various causes contributed, along with the di- verse views as to foreign affairs, tc celerate its downfall. There were dissen- sions and jealousies ~within the part and Cabinet counsels were divided. Son of the President's personal qualities fended and repelled those who might have been his friends. His temper was cold and somewhat suspicious, and he was thought to have an overweening sense of his_own officlal dignity and im- portance. - Especially were the principal acts of the administration calculated to discredit the party. A stamp act impos- ing a duty upon Stamped paper and vel- lum; a naturalizatioa bill requiring four- teen’ years' residence instead of five: an ac- act Increasing army and navy; certain direct iaxes and public loans—all these were odious to the people. But above all did the alien and sedition acts of 1793 arouse an indignant and powerful popu- lar_opposition The alien act authorized the President to remove from the country “such aliens born, not entitled by the constitution and laws to the rights of citizenship, as may be dangerous to its peace and safety.” In spite of the resistance of _influential statesmen, headed by Albert Gallatin, to this drastic and uncalled-for measure, tha | bill was passed, limited in its operation to two years. Though It was never en- forced, it still: worked its disintegrating effects upon the party originating it. The sedition act was even more obnox- fous. It made it a crime punishable with fine and Imprisonment for persons to com- bine to oppose measures of the Govern- ® + *® + L] : $ ! 3 i B S R e e S S S R SR S S eyl AN EARLY REVENUB STAMP. oo e esisiededese® ment, to intimidate any officeholder, to ublish lbels upon the Government or the resident or the houses of Congress, or | to excite against them any unlawful op- 0'0'0*0-00000‘000000"000 position, ete. The main object of this act was understood to be to suppress the Re- publican journals and silence their lead- ing writers. By It the Federal Govern- ment instead of the individual States— each within its own boundaries—was made the regulator of the press. The bill was carried against the opposition of the ablest of the Federal leaders of the day, Alexander Hamilton and John Marshall. The force of the sedition act was to ex- pire in 1301, and it was at once put into operation. That it should actually be en- forced, that the press should be muzzled | and free speech denied, aroused such bit- | ter animeosity toward the party promul- sating such tyrannical, such iniquitous measures as aione insured its speedy re- moval from pow en more serious results seemed to threaten. Many of the Republicans believed the Federalists to be using the power of the National Gov- ernment to destroy the sacred rights of the people, and the question of the with- drawal of certain States from the Union was actually discussed. Jefferson, how- ever, believed that a remedy lay rather in an appeal to the people through the State Legislatures. Two such assemblles —the Legislatures of Kentucky and Vir- ginia—introduced resolutions setting forth the view that the constitution was a com- pact to which the States were parties, and that “each party has an equal right to judge for itseif as well of infractions as of the mode and measures of redress.” | et S ol ot ol et ot g ] - R d > * ® - s . * 3 L 4 * " L 4 1uE FRANKLIN PENNT. i (First United States Coin.) : [ 2 mat st de ol oot ot e ol o g ] The dangero statutes passed by the Federalists were declared by the Ken- tucky resolutions—which were drawn by Jefferson himself—“void and of no effect,”™ while the other States were urged io unite in presenting a protest to Congress. A second series of resolutiops passed by the Kentucky Legislature in 1799 went further and declared “nullification ® * the rightful remedy.” An important constitutional doctrine was set forth in these Virginia and Ken- tucky resolutions, but they were particu- larly designed to direct attention to the alarming mature of Federalist legislation and to influence the approaching Presi- dential election. That election now drew on. The coolness between Adams and Hamilton had become hatred. and, in- volving their supporters, led to an open breach which divided the Federal party into two irreconcilable factions. The Re- publicans were united in their hostility to the home policy of the party in power and they possessed in Aaron Burr one o the most astute as well as the most un- serupulous of political schemers. Burr had made himself in New York (already a “pivotal” State) the leader of the popu- lar forces as against the aristocratic and family interests which had hitherto domi- nated the State. His skiliful manipula- tion of the spring elections resuited in the choice of a Republican majority for m‘#e lI;elgiilatt\ln. l:hhi“h would ¢ ntial electors in the autumn. JESSE