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Davieville. THE SOUTH IN CONGRESS. JHILE there L h talk of 2 movement representation in the s been m S n \ f the negroes in several States and negro vote throughout doubtiul if any such 1 be strongly supported. Washington any of the most reliable papers in he administration to be ad- kind, and now Mr. Hop- he Committee on Cen- m: correspon the Ea e reported t egislation affecting the opinion that no t such reduction. on zppears to have beensreached cal expediency and wis- e right of Congress to make not to be questioned. Moreover, ; justified by every principle of Southern States have repre- negro portion of their population, That s of po! reduction are t would be negroes are not permitted to vote gives the white voters of the South an unfair advan- tage over voters in other States, and it would be noth- | ing more than justice to deprive them of it and place evel with the rest. rguments of justice and fairness are In the first place it is doubtful f ed Southern represen- tation could be carried at this session. The Southern Senators would be sure to oppose to such a bill all the dilatory tactics known to parliamentary practice, and 2c the session terminates on March 4 their chances of hose diency ment that redu beating the bill would be good. could seriously delay all business, and their ability to that would enable them to form combinations which would help them in defeating the apportion- ment. A more important consideration is that such an act | might seriously check the development of that liberal movement now going on in the South which if en- couraged may in a short time break up Bourbon comination and bring Southern politics into harmony with that of the rest of the nation. It is well known that many of the most influential people of the South are opposed to Bryanism and are in hearty accord with the Republican policies of protection and sound money. so rapidly rising to power in many Southern locali- ties are eager for an opportunity to ally themselves with the Republican party. Should they do so, the elimination of restrictions upon the negro vote would | probably be efiected by Southern men themselves, and a much better condition of affairs would result than could be attained by any action however just in itself which would renew the hold of the Bourbons ~upon Southern prejudices. From all these considerations it seems clear that if there is to be any 1eduction of the representation of the South it will not be undertaken at this session. here are too many important issues at stake this winter to make it worth while involving Congress, and particularly the Senate, in a sectional contest, The evil will doubtiess have to be borne for a time. urless, indeed, the Supreme Court should solve the whole problem by deciding the restrictions placed upon euffrage in the Southern States to be unconsti- For the first time since the beginning of the war in the Philippines press censors have been relieved of their duties. Retributive justice suggests that they should be sent to the front at once. The Minnesota astronomer who says that he has sccured the photograph of an asteroid which is thirty- four million miles away from the earth should be in duced by his friends to smoke another brand. The French Deputy who has introduced a legisla- tive measure to tax all bachelors for the luxury of single blessedness must have an interesting family of marriageable daushte— g nery, corner of Clay, open | Representatives on account of the | At any rate they | The manufacturing and commercial interests ! OUR DECADENT SHIPPING. HE report of the Commissioner of Navigation, T{o]lowing so closely upon the call of Georgia's Governor for a convention of the maritime | States, will furnish to the people all the explanation | that call needs. The report shows that while we have a total ton- nage amounting to 5,164,840 gross tons, represented by 23,333 vessels, our maximum tonnage in 1861 was 5,530,813 tons, so that we have 374,973 less tons than | we had thirty-nine years ago! But this comparison of gross tonnage does not tell it all. Of our present total tonnage that engaged in the blue water trade, foreign commerce, is 816,705 tons! It carried in the last fiscal year only 9 per cent of our external commerce! One hundred years ago our deep water tonnage en- gaged in foreign trade was 669,021 tons, owned by the original thirteen colonies. The same States now own | only 482,007 tons! This means that New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, i North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Penn- | sylvania, the original thirteen, all maritime States, and having within their borders the great seaports, Bos- ton, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charleston. Savannah and all the secondary harbors between Sa- | vannah and Portsmouth, have to-day 187,014 less tons | of shipping than they had at the beginning of our con- J stitutional period! | Between the beginning of the century and 1861 we had so far overtaken our maritime rival, Great Brit- ain, that she had to charter American ships to trans- | port her troops to the Black Sea during the Crimean | war. She had begun to gain upon us after that war, | but in 1861 our tonnage still equaled hers and ex- ceeded that of France and Germany combined. | Since then our decadence in deep water tonnage has been rapid. The Commissioner reports that we are practically restricted for carrying our foreign tradz under our own flag to ninety-seven registered steam- | with a total of 260,320 tons. But Japan has eighty-three ocean stcamers with a total of 286,200 tons! And, let it be rem®mbered, Japan is in the Pa- She is competing with us on that part of the blue water where the future increase of maritime com- merce is to be. In addition to our ninety-seven steamships of over | 1000 tons we have in our foreign trade 125 | rigged sailing ships of over 1000 tons each | total deep water and coasting tonnage the | Coast, includirig the reregistered tonnage of has only 612,004 ton: An investigation will show, we believe, that our Pacific deep water tonnage is below | that of Japan! | We are sure that California will see in this expo: | tion of the condition of American shipping, and of our part of it, a pressing reason why this State should | have a strong representation at the Georgia conven- Our Senators and Representatives should be delegated to that meeting and our commercial bodies | should be represented by men wise in our ship- building and seafaring interests. By all means a rep- | resentative of every ship-building plant on the coast should go. In making this suggestion we are not unmindful of the outcry that will be made to the effect that ship- | builders are trying to get something out of the treas ury, contributed by the Government. But we are not disquieted by the prospect of such a clamor, | The Nationat Grange has just resolved against any Government encouragement to ship-building. But the influences which control the National Grange are the most importunate solicitors for Federal money to pro- tect the navigability of streams leading to the sea. These infimences were potent in the Trans-Mississippi Congress, when it secured five millions to make Gal- veston a deep water harbor, to receive the commercial drainage of the cis-Missouri country as far north as the Dakotas. These National Granges in seeking river and harbor improvements are working for their own interests, and also for those of the country. They want water transportation to the seaboard as a com- peting regulator of railway freights on their surplus cific. square- Of our Pacific Hawaii, tion. production, for which they must seek a foreign mar- | ket. When that surplus reaches the seaboard it finds a transportation system on deep water in which their | own country cannot compete for lack of ships. They find their foreign market accessible only under alien flags, which may at any moment, by the outbreak of a foreign war, become useless to protect neutral trade. Then they"would find their foreign market as effectually | closed against them as if it had never been. Then | their losses in one vear would exceed the total sum equality with that of any other power, from which | far point it would rapidly go forward of its own mo- mentum to excel that of the nations combined. | Of course the ship-builders are interested, and so | are the ship-carpenters and metal-fitters, and the ma- rine architects and draughtsmen, and the coal and iron miners, the steel-makers, the inland transportation companies, which will carry the raw material of con- struction to the shipyards, and the marine under- | writers, the sailmakers, the woodsmen who cut tim- ]b:r for spars, the paint-makers and painters, and so | on to the men who weave bunting for the flags which | will show their sheen over the world’s trade carried in 1 American ships. | Why should the grangers of the interior States ob- | ject? Why don’t they ask foreigners to come to their | bins and elevators, far inland, and carry away their ! surplus instead of asking their own Government to | give them navigable rivers and deep harbors by which to meet the foreign carrier at the seaboard? Their objection to revival of American shipping is selfish, but not wisely selfish. The new market =for American material and the new employment for tens of thousands of American laborers will be 2 direct benefit to these producers, and when they object to doing this by the same means they have so oiten so- licited for the benefit of their productions, by giving access to market, they stand in their own light as | well as in the light of American labor and American enterprise. D the patriots of Cuba and striving by every re- source of military power to overcome the de- termined resistance to his government, the rest of the | world, being at peace, took delight in condemning | his tactics and denouncing him as a butcher. | In those days none of Weyler's critics were louder f voice or severer in censure than the British. They were at peace. He was at war. They condemned, him. Now they are at war and he is enjoying peace, | and it is his turn to criticize and condemn. It is of course natural he should do so, and, besides, the cir- cumstances afford him no little justification. Roberts and Kitchener have not yet reduced the Boers to the WEYLER’'S TIME TO TALK. URING the time Weyler was sfruggling with | " | condition to which Weyler reduced the Cubans, but it | g | is to be remembered the South African war has been in operation only a year yet. By the time British | military power has been at work in the Transvaal as Jong as Spanish power was warring in Cuba the con- | dition of the country and the people may be almost as required to put American deep water shipping to an | ‘ bad as that which stirred every American heart to in- | dignation. | The Boers seem determined to fight as long as they fcan find fighting ground. The men are in the field "and the women are in the hands of the British, so Roberts has to feed the women while the men fight. | A short time ago he became tired of that sort of thing |and sent a large number of women into the Boer | lines. A correspondent of the London Times says | the Boer women are satisfied with their position. | They do not wish their brothers, their husbands and sons to give up, and the Boers would rather face | British guns than their womankind. | The London Chronicle in commenting on the situa- | tion says: “The British troops are loudly accused of making war on women because many women who { helped the enemy in their native places have been sent | elsewhere. We must expect this irrational charge to be repeated with even greater vigor if the fighting burghers, who have been praised for releasing prison- ers they cannot feed, are required to provide for thei~ own flesh and blood. These recriminations are in- evitable in the kind of scuffle into which the war has | now degenerated; but the practical point is that the present police work must be so carried on as to break down resistance, and not encourage it.” Roberts is of course a man of a character widely different from that of Weyler, and his troops have been guilty of none of those atrocities which in Cuba aroused the indignation of the civilized world. | Nevertheless he has now to front a situation like that of Weyler, and has found it necessary to be harsh. { It is not strange that the much condemned Spaniard should enjoy the situation and give the British critics a dose of the medicine they gave him. | THE DEFACZIMENT OF CITIES. OW that the campaign is out of the way the N progressive people of New York, Philadelphia and Chicago have renewed the campaign of education against the billposter nuisance that defaces | American cities from one side of the continent to the | other. Mayor Harrison of Chicago has taken the lead | in the matter by contributing to the Philadelphia Post ! a striking article on “The Defacement of the Modern City,” and many of the more influential papers in the | three cities named have warmly taken up the cause, San Francisco offers a good field for a campaign of this kind. The recent efforts to bring about a sup- pression of the nuisance resulted in what is virtually a surrender to the evil for the present and a post- | ponement of reform for an indefinite period. As consequence the corner of Market and Powell streets, which, next after the corner of Kearny and Market, is the most important center in the city, is now de- faced by an unsightly fence placarded with posters of all kinds of abominations. That corner where the Baldwin Hotel once stood ought to be the site of a | magnificent structure, but so long as the ownets can get enough out of the rent of a fence for advertising purposes to pay taxes they will probably hold the ground for speculative purposes and make no attempt | to build. | The New York Tribune, discussing the subject gen- erally, says the defacement may “be discouraged by | the enactment and enforcement of ordinances in the interest of health and safety requiring hoardings to bhe elevated a certain distance above the ground, not to | rise in all above a certain height, and to be of a sub- | stantial character so as not to be blown down to the | menace and injury of the public; indeed, they might also be required to be fireproof, especially where | they are of permanent construction. Best of all, how- ever, would be, in addition to these things, the impo- sition of a good, round tax. These hoardings and billboards represent a profitable business, and that | business should be taxed. Mayor Harrison mentions | the rental of $100 as paid for the hoardings on a fifty- foot lot in Chicago. It may be assumed that still higher rates are paid here. The business is one which the city would be better off without. But so long as it exists at all it should be rigorously taxed.” Whether billboa=ds are to be suppressed altogether ot taxed and strictly regulated is a matter about which it is not worth while to develop differences of opinion at this time. The main thing is to attain reform by whatever means is most likely to succeed in a par- ticular community. The campaign of education should be undertaken by the press in every part of | the Union. There is not a single valid reason to be given for longer tolerating the defacement of the principal thoroughfares of our cities, and San Fran- | cisco should vie with the great cities of the East a3 to which will be first ‘o0 completely abate the nuisance | BATTLESHIP CR CRUISER. | ROM the nature of the reports that come from Washington it appears likely the formation of " a programme of naval increase this winter will | lead to a renewal of the old controversy over the com- | parative mierits of the battleship and the cruiser. | There are some who hold we have not battleships | enough and should construct more of them, while | others argue we have.as many vessels of that class as | the navy requires, and should omit them from the | programme of new work. | The question would appear to be one for experts | to decide, but it happens the experts do not agree. It i is reported that the board of construction of the Navy | Department, with the possible exception of Admiral | Hichborn, favors the conétruction of three additional | battleships, while others in authority recommend that | the entire appropriation for new warships this year be devoted to the construction of comparatively smail vessels that could be used in the waters of the East | and the West Indies. | Many arguments are urged in favor of the smaller | vessels. It is said there are now authorized more first class battleships and cruisers than can be constructed | in our shipyards in five years, that the smaller ves- sels could be built in the fesser shipyards of the coun- | try, that two or three such vessels could be built for | the cost of one battleship, and, finally, that it would be easier to furnish them with officers and men. The controversy will of course be decided by naval | men and those members in Congress who are recog- nized by their colleagues as authorities on naval sub- | jects. The prospect that there may be ordered one or | more new battleships is of interest to us, because we are entitled to have @uch a ship constructed in Cali- | fornia shipyards and named California. The plan for | giving that name to a cruiser is one against which our delegates in Congress should protest, in the name of | the State. & i —— Wise critics seem to think that the decision of Judge Hebbard, affectirg local civil service, is a re- flection upon our laws. It would be more just to place the blame where it belongs—upon law-tinkers | who attempted to violute our laws, as all poor me- chanics insist upon doing in any trade. e o The aged millionaire who is attempting to use local courts as a vindication of his efforts to make his young wife's affections a matter of commercial value and trade may find that our tribunals deal with some- thing more tangible | that there might be in him enoug | itary feeling against the British Army Officer, Once When the line at 49 degrees was settled upon as the boundary the question of the ownership of the islands between Wash- ington Territory and Vancouver was still unsettled, relates a writer in the Chicago Times-Herald. While this matter was in abeyance Admonished (he (wo governments felt it necessary in order not to Be to lose prestige to main- Cordial. tain marrisons on the dis- puted gronnd. The United one company of the old Ninth infantry while there were two companies of Brit ish regulars and several officers repre- senting the rival power. In command of the little American centingent was Sec- ond Lieutenant Michael J. Fitzgerald. who had been through the Civil War as a nron-commissioned officer and who had heen given his ep in the regular service for gallantry. When the young officer was about fo leave San Francisco Gen- eral McDowell, then in command of the Division of the Pacific, sent for him and fmpressed upon him the delicate nature of his mission. As a matter of fact, Me- Dowell was afraid from Fitzgerald's name hered- soldiers to make it very easy for him to find an excuse to precipitate trouble. bove all things, Lieutenant ald.” said the general, “observe the rulc# of international courtesy." “I'll do that same, general,” answered Fitzgerald promptly.” “There'll be no war growing out of my treatment of the red- coats.” The next day he set sail for his north- ern post with his little band of followers. The American and British gari were only an hour's trip apart. Lieutenant Fitzgerald was installed final- 1y in his quarters and was feeling the full weight of heing not only company comunander but commanding officer of a British Did United States garrison, he First was called upon in_turn Honors. by each of the half dozen of ors stationed a few miles beyond the hill. Fitzgerald returned the calls promptly, and shortly thereafter was invited to dine with six Englishmen as hosts. At that dinner the American lleutenant was en- tertained royally. There was nothing in the British garrison that was too good for him. As he put it afterward to his ¢omrades in the States, "It was a wet night.” ‘When Fitzgerald had returned to his quarters and three weeks had passed away he thought it was about time to prepare to return in some way the hos- pitality of the Englishmen. The supplies at his disposal were a jug of whisky and the ordinary afmy ratlons. There was nothing good, barring that which was in the British possession, nearer than San Francisco. Fitzgerald was a man of expedients. The next boat carried some commissions to the California metropolis. Three weeks afterward six British officers and the handful of civillan officials, both Ameri- can and English, that were on the island received each a communication. TLieuten- ant Fitzgerald was to return hospitalities. week afterward a round hundred large packages arrived from San Fran- cisco. Fitzgerald told about twenty of his soldiers that it would not do for an American Lieutenant omcer to be outdone in Not hospitality. He forthwith proceeded to instruct the Outclassed. twenty in duties as wait- He picked out of the command four or five mu- siclans and had them provided with in- struments. When the British officers and the civillan contingent arrived and pre- ers. States was represented by | Fitzger- | AMERICAN LIEUTENANT OBSERVED THE RULES Stationed Here, Who Knew International Courtesy. |-K' o | | { s * LIEUTENANT (NOW CAPTAIN) M. J. FITZGERALD, U. S. A, | RETIRED. | | oo g ! liminary courtesies were exchanged they were shown into a banquer hall with a tahle glittering with cut glass and silver. They ate of delica and substantials that none of them ht could be found nearer than New York. and they drank of wines that none other than the cellar | of a connoisseur could have contained. There was a walter for every guest, and | the music lagged not until the speaking | began. It was all over. however, about three hours after the host had excused | himself temporarily to attend reveille roll | call. | “Lieutenant Michael J. Fitzgerald looked | at the pile of bills rendered. In amount | they were $1400. The banquet had cost $75 | a ma;)e. ! | monthly pay account. n | Uncle Sam {hree weeks mhe would | ave cash in hand to the ! Pald mount of $116 65, Lieu- | 2 Allthe Bills. the night in thought. the morning there wa look of rellef upon his face. In an hou | time there was ready for transmission to | headquarters in San Francisco some offi- cial envelopes marked in red ink an letters, “International Courteste: | closed were bills for pate de fole gras, enant Fitzgerald passed In | rare old Burgundy and other things. | With the inclosure went th “Excerpt from Major @eneral McDowell's instruc- tions: ‘Above all things, Lieutenant Fitz- gerald, observe the rules of internatlonal | courtesy.’ " | McDowell fumed, and tradition hath it that he swore; but he ordered the bills | paid out of the contingent fund, and the | memory of that banquet in the wilds of | one of ‘the islands which now forms part | of San Juan County of the State of Wash- ington lives to this day in the minds of several of her Majesty’s soldiers. Lieutenant Fitzgerald subsequently was | ordered to ‘the Presidio as post adjutant, | attained the rank of captain, was wound- ed at Red Cloud Indian Agency in 1576 and commanded a company at Chicago dur- ing the riots of 1577. He was retired in 1879 and now resides at Lebanon, Pa. PERSONAL MENTION. T. L. Reed of Reedly is at the Grand. General J, W. B. Montgomery of Chico is at the Grand. A. B. Hammond of Portland is regis- tered at the Palace. R. A. Clark, the Alameda capitalist, is at the California with his wife. Dr. and Mrs. Burton J. Powell of Stock- ton are late arrivals at the Palace. Frank H. Short, Yosemite Commissioner and Fresno attorney, s at the Palace. A. L. Kellogg and wife of Santa Clara have taken apartments at the California. Lee L. Gray and wife of Fresno have taken apartments at the Occidental for a few days. Charles Main, a prominent New York business man, is among the late arrivals at the Occidental. Dr. A. M. Gardner, who 1s to make Bel- mont Hall Into a private asylum, is stopping at the California. Mayor C. A. Stork of Santa Barbara is spending a fow days in the city, making his headquarters at the Grand. Clarence Smith, general passenger agent of the Burlington in this city, goes East this week on a business and pleasure trip. Captain George F. Allen of New Bed- ford is at the Russ. He leaves to-day on the whaler Alice Knowles for the Japan seas. H. E. Huntington and William H..Hood of the Southern Pacific were accompanied on their trip over the new coast division vesterday by General Manager Jullus Kruttschnitt and Division Superintendent James L. Frazler. Dr. Edwin C. Van Dyke, until quite re- cently resident physician of St. Luke's Hospital, is at the present time a patient in one of the wards over which he so long had supervision. Dr. Van Dyke has had two operations performed for appendicitis. He is now out of danger. —_— e ——— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Nov. 2L.—Edmund Burke of Los Angeles, E. Hueter and wife of San Francisco, Mrs. H. C. Kirk of Sacramento, Miss Agnes Kirk and L. McMullen of S8an Francisco are at the Ra- leigh; D. K. Edwards and wife of Los An- geles are at the Ebbitt; @. G. Lyman of San Francisco, J. E. Beale and the Misses ‘Beale of Santa Barbara are at the Shore- ham. e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—Harrison Gray Otis of the Los Angeles Times !s here. at- tending A meeting of .the Associated Press. Other Californfan arrivals ar2 cs follows: San Francisco—Mrs. Bemisse Is at the Rossmore; H. C. Fowler is at the (irand Union: V. Grothwell is at the Criterion; C. D. Heyes is at the St. George; V, G. Hush is at the Murray Hill; F. Kjelsberg, B. Lindbloom, C. Lindbloom, E. C. Lind- bloom, Mrs. Lindbloom and C. S. Long are at the Astor; E. Pomeroy is at the Grand Union; T. C. Grant iz ct the Gil- sey: J. D. Hammond is at the St. Denis; L. Loewenberg is at the Union Square: Mrs. T. Mayer Jr., Is at the Murray Hill: J. M. Wilson is at the Holland; W. Baam- 1 is at the Murray Hill; D. Robertson is at the St. Cloud. From Los Angeles—L. Christopher s at the Murray Hill; J. W. Phelps is at the Grand Union. From Meeker—A. C. Ellison and B. M. Vaughan are at the Savoy. From San Jose—W. Regnart is at the Grand Union. e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. LARGEST STEAMER—T. G., City. The largest steamer afloat is the Oceanic. COIN IN BRITISH COLUMBIA-J. H. B.. City. In British Columbia an Ameri- YORK. can dollar is received at the value of shilling one and one-quarter penee,o Sous VOTING IN THE SOUTH—D. M., Lom- poe, Cal., and J. H. B., City. No State of the Union has passed any law to disen- francnise the negro alone. Missouri North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and Louisiana have amended the qualifi- cation for voters by introductng an edu- cational feature which applies to all. PENCIL SKETCHES—B. P., California. ‘Whether pencil sketches are of any value to newspapers depends on the character of the sketches. One having such should submit them for inspection. GRANT-X. X. Y., East Oakland, Cal General Grant left Philadelphia May 17, 1877, on his tour around the world. On that tour, which was the occasion of his last visit to San Francisco, he arrived here September 20, 1879. THE CITY HALL—S., Los Angeles, Cal. The act authorizing the buflding of a City Hall for San Francisco was approved April 4, 1870. The site on which it has been erected was turned over to the City Hall Commissioners by Mavor Sefby, May 11, 1870. On the 28th of March, 1871, the work of excavating and grading was com- menced. The work of laying the concrete foundation was commenced September 13. and shortly thereafter the work on the foundation wall started. The cost of the building is in tound numbers $5,000,000. COUNT IN CASINO—W. I B, City. In the game of casino, If the players do not agree that on the last deal points shall be counted as soon as made then the count is made in the following order: Cards, spades, big casino. little casino and aces. It on the last deal in a game of 0 points A had four to go_and B had three to go, should A get cards, little casino and one ace he would have the right to count first and would go out, as he would have more than enough. having made five points. notwithstanding that B; who had but three to go, made the other six points. He looked at his | EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY CHICAGO JOURNAL-—Divorce is fha saddest word in the language. It 1s the synonym for misery. It means the de- struction of happiness, the annihflation of the home. In some cases it may be a In all, it is deplorable. CLEVELAND LEADER — Whatever may be the political conditions of tha near or remote future in South Africa, no r exists for the slightest doubt con- « ftern f miserv and pr v must be endured by the people two republic } are already experiencing extres tution, and not a few have pe exposure and want BOSTON HER Look ahead at 1 nations ra ¢ are k that jus~ with which wa 1 and treated if nmand an ir- | resistible m! v CHICAGO CHRON T+ § appears as if the voting mac coata - | problem of 3 | coun pertme large citles the regula v of a fair plomacy in the 1 | tuous as that which | and it is safe to s: : | of no previous treaty w good faith in any arr | ever been made with | While the treaty now preserve for an Inde omy of China, it is ew of what Is itable fate in a ; CHICAGO INTER OCEAN 1 | timated during the cam;g 1 Congre tory 1t would be the ¢ e _difficulties moved by the State Department introdyced in the Senate by S t gan cdntemplated such a diplomat and, if this has been taken, the N | canal b#ll should receive the cor tion of Congress at once after the settle i ment of the army question. CINCINNATI COMMERCTAT, | UNE—Congress will .o doubt give | and satisfactory attention to A Crowninshield’s valudd report. Th dent may also be expected to emrp » in his annual message the telllng points | made by the admiral. The country has | ing unequivocally declared for expansion on sound and certain lines, will strengthen the President’s hands in every step he | may take to promote American commer- clal development and American commer- cial supremacy, as well as. of course, our national security on sea and land. PHILADELPHIA TIMES—The people should vote directly for President and Vice President of the United States, and they should in like manner vote for United States Senators. The Electoral College has on several occastons defeated the will of the people; has on several oc- casions very seriously disturbed the har- mony of the nation; and in the Jefferson- Burr struggle and the Hayes-Tilden con- test the republic was brought to the very verge of revolution. 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