The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 29, 1901, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISUU CALL, PRESBITERNS FNSH LABORS Long Session of the Gen- eral Assembly Is Dissolved. Equanimity of the Commis- sioners Disturbed at the End. -5 RSN PHILADELPHIA, May 28.—The one hundredth and thirteenth Presbyterian General Assembly was dissolved at 6:15 o'clock to-night by Moderator Minton, af- ter having been In session nearly two weeks, during which time many matters of the utmost importance to the church were considered. Chief among these was the question regarding the revision of the confession of faith. After a discussion continuing pearly four days this mo- mentous question was referred to a spe- cial committee, which will make recom- mendations as to the manner in which the creed should be revised and present them 1o the next general assembly, which will meet in New York: To-day, for the first time since the as- sembly convened, the harmony among the commissioners was distributed by the introduction of personalities. The trouble occurred during the discussion on the chairmenship of the reyvision committee, The Rev. Dr. J. D. Moffatt suggested a change in the minutes of yesterday’'s ses- sion, so that the records would show that a new committee had been appointed to revise the creed, regardless of the old committee of which the Rev. Dr. Charles A. Dickey was chairman. His suggestion was adopted, and the Rev. James B. Mof- fatt of Cumberland, Md., moved that Moderator Minton be elected chairman of the committee This incensed the friends of Dr. Dicke; and although Dr. Moffatt's motion pr valled, the subject was revived later in the session by the Rev. 8. J. Niccolls of St. Louis. Dr. Niccolls moved to recon- sider the motion but as he had not been present during the earlier debate he was declared out of order. The motion to re- consider was then renewed by the Rev. W. D. Crockett of Canton, Pa., and many of the commissioners participated in the debate that followed. izing the delicacy of hi Moderator Minton relinguishe chair to Vice Moderator Pitcairn. The matter was finally adjusted by Dr. Dickey, who advised the assembly against recon ing the motion, saying he confid there had been no attempt to cast any re- flection upon him but that the commis- v desired to honor his su 1. Dicke: 1ds wanted the election ade by the com- s conceded Dr., of the chairman to b mitt Dickey would have motion, y still however, six members o There are vision cimmit- Th werg_devoted hours of the routine mat- to lissolving the assem Minton made an eloquent fore the final bened the comm:! oners That Binds.” SUPREME COURT RULES ON MINING OWNERSHIP Question Relating‘ to the Proprietary Rights of Lodes and Veins Is Settled. decision hanced Supreme Court Moderator dress and be fon was pronounced g “Blest Be the Tie ourt of C Calhoun rado e case of the Mining Company against ownership of within the bound two confii would take within the condlict. ocations 1 ns zpexing Madagascar Queen Is Traveling. ALGIERS. May 28—Queen Ranavanala of Madagascar ha for Parfs. This he first visit the French Government d her to make since she was giers in 1899, ettt IMP position, | Moderator Min- | that he had not yet made | RTANT YUKON VESSELS ~ AEACH DAWSON Klondike’s Water Out- | let Is Now Open { to Traffic. {Nome Advices Give Further | News of Winter Storm i Victims, —_——— Speclal Dispatch to The Call. | SEATTLE, May 28.—A special dispatch from Dawson under date of May 23 says | that the steamer Bailey arrived there | that morning. Following the arrival of | the Bailey, the steamers Clossett and EI | Dorado were dispatched up the river for La Barge, carrying mail and passengers. The steamer” Zealandian was at Selwyn | on the morning of May 23, and was ex- | pected to get through to Dawson that evening. e La Barge was breaking up and was unsafe for travel on May 23. No | accidents had taken place, although peo- ple continued to cross the rotten ice. White Horse reported the river rising slowly. 4 The Nome Gold Digger of April 3 states that the body of Henry Stewart has Lean found near the headwaters of Fish Ruver, not far from the place where the remains of his partner, Welch, were discovered. Stewart was well known here and in Ta- coma. Both men were frozen to dealh in | the blizzard that swept over the Nome country the past winter. | Dogs Freeze in Harness. L. M. Hamilton and John McClelland, who left Nome early in December on the trail of the Barreau party, arrived back on March 30 after a terrible trip of 105 d They were unable to say how se- the cold was, but it was so intense hat dogs froze to death in harness, and f a man stood for a few minutes ol the trail he had to exert himself to keep from freezing. When they reached Point Blos- som the thermometer had been frozen for | two weeks at 50 below. Mr. Hamilton discounts the stories of gold that come from the Good Hope coun- try. His party was not successful in fiud- ing any, and as far as he could learn the only gold discovered there has been on the Reed River. “Point Blossom is the most desolate place in the world,” said Hamilton. “The natives are in a destitute condition. At Point Hope we found sixteen white men married to native women.” W. A. Barreau, Archie Mitchell, Robert Crowdy and Al Rhodes reached ~amp the first of the week, after probably *he hard- est trip that four men have ever ~xperi- enced in Alaska. They left Nome | months ago and traveled almost centi ously, with the thermometer for d registering 60 below zero. In fact, it was s0 cold that a number of their dogs froze to death while on the trail. They reached Point Hope, expecting there to procure rovisions to replenish their supplies, but found the trading station destitute of everything but flour, so they had to turn back, and will attempt to zet inte the country again by water in the <pring. The Barreau party _nearly lost their lives near Elephant Point. They were caught in a blizzard and lay for forty- eight hours in their sleeping bags without food or fire, and if the storm had con- | tinued twelve hours longer all would cer- | tainly have perished. The party started from Nome alone, hut they were Zoliowed by stampeders who were waiting -or them all along the line to follow on thelr trail. | New Reindeer Station. | After mushing nearly 1000 miles Dr. | Francis H. Gambell, of the Eaton rein- deer station on the Yukon, arrived in Nome on March 30 on,his way from Kot- zebue Sound, where he had veen making arrangements for the establishment of a new Government reindeer station. . Robert Simm, a missionary, som, will have charge of the' new station,” said Dr. Gambell. “The na- tives will be given 1% head of -eiadeer and at the end of five years will be ex- pected to return to the Government 100, retaining the increase. According to our usual custom., we sha'l send approatices for a year to give instructions in the mos approved methods of treating the herds. Bledsoe Gets the Judgeship. LOS ANGELES, May 28.—In the election contest between B. F. Bledsoe and John L. Campbell Zor the Superior Judgeship | of €an Bernardino County Judge Shaw | to-day ruled that certain ballots for Rled- | soe which were rejected in the count must be included. The result of the returns with the votes in question out was a tle, | and counting these ballots will give the | election to Bledsoe, who was the Demo- i cratic candidate. i four | | i | * B e 5 ISLAND TARIFF 'WILL GATHER AT GARDEN CITY WEDNESDAY, MAY TO DISCUSS MONEY PROBLEMS Members of the California Bankers’ Association Will Hold Their + Eighth Annual Convention at San Jose, and After Routine Business Will Devote a Day to Sightseeing and Recreation <$ — Bank of Yolo on “The Banker and his Patron” and H. S. Fletcher of the Bank of Watsonville on ‘“Abuse of Banking Privileges as Practiced in the Matter of Commercial Collections.” The first two days will be devoted en- tirely to the-business of the convention. On Saturday the delegates will be the guests of the local bankers on an excur- .slon to points_of interest in the vicinity of San Jose. The convention will be held at the Hotel Vendome. A general invita- tion is extended ta the public to attend 3 =y % o — o l OFFICERS OF BANKERS' ASSOCI- ATION WHO WILL ATTEND CON- | VENTION AT SAN JOSE. | *: BRI E A ele e £ HE eighth annual convention of ; San Francisco Savings Union. An ad- ; the sessions of the convention. the California Bankers' Asso- ciation will be held in San Jose to-morrow, Friday and Satur- day. The address of welcome will be delivered by Hon. J. R. Lewis of the Bank of San Jose, and the response will be delivered by Lovell White of the DANGER THREATERS OUR COMMERCE L s Continued from First Page. 1 vould y injure ndustry of the United States. ading rchant holds (o it would be a disaster to cco men Treasury De; here is nothing in the to be considered conclusive in on to the Philippines. The vefundi duties collected, as will from the foregoing showing concerning lippines last year, is a comparat small matt Customs Collector Stratton said .hat he | had not been notified officially of the de- cision, and until then he should continue 1o coliect duties on goods coming “rom the Philippines. No vessels from the islands are due at present, so that the non-noti; catien will not do any damage either wa In answer to the question as to t probable action of the Collector in ~ctur: ing to the consignees duties paid herer fore on goods arriving from the Philip- pines, Chief Clerk Jerome said that no les ‘would be returned to the payors unless in cases in which a legal protest had been filed within ten days after pay- ment of the duties. Not many such uro- tests had been filed, however. A few were in the office from soldiers and officers, who had declared their in on to awalt the decision of the United States Supreme Court before taki the Custom-house. HOME MERCHANTS E)EPRESS VIEWS Tobaceo Trade Is Largely Concerned in Keeping Out Product of the Factories of Manila. H. D. Loveland, manager of Tillmann & Bendel, said that removing the duty from Prilippine tobacco would seriously affect the tobacco Industry of the United States. There are great cigar factories at Ma- nilla, operated by very cheap labor and capable of turning out’a vast quantity of cigars for the American market, if there was no duty to bar their entry to this country. However, he believed fhat if the Treasury Department officials should adhere to the idea of coliecting-duties un- il some decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, relating to the Philip- pine Islands could be had, it being im- possible to get a case before the court in some months, Congress would take some action in the interim, following out the teaching of the decisions just handed down by the Supreme Court. Henry Payot, of Payot & Upham, who has recently returned from a visit to the Philippines, also said that there was dan- ger to the tobacco industry of the United tates if the duty should not be collected n Philippine _tobacco as _heretofore. roughout the Orient there was nothing but Manila tobacco mentioned by smok- ers. The name is as well known in_the Orient as is Havana tobacco in the Unit- ed States. “I have smoked as fine Ma- u be inferred | amount of dutiable exports from the | g their goods out of | | | | | e nila cigars,’ said Mr. Payot, ‘“‘as can be found, and the best are equal to the best Hayanas.” representative of the American Tobacco | Company, said that Menila cigars would not go in the United States. The flavor was not liked by Americans. The only cigars. He did not think they could win, because in early days, cheap Manila cigars could not hold their own on the Pacific Coast against cheap and inferior German cigars. President A. A. Watkins, of the San |"Francisco Board of Trade, sald he was not yrepared to express an opinion con- | cerning the effect the decision might | have on the Pacific Coast. He was think- ing it over. Andrea Sharbaro, president of the Man- | ufacturers’ and Producers’ Association, said: “The decision is so complicated that it | takes a lawyer to make it out. To my mind one paragraph contradicts another, | and I would rather not express an opinion | until T have read a complete copy of the | decision.” L i o i e e e e ol 'SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE POINT Continued from First Page. | that disheartening product of our times— the militarism of a democracy. We ven- ture to think that the framers of the United States constitution would have laughed at the possibility of such a de- velopment as incredible. “The decisions have extricated President McKinley from an uncommeonly awkward position, but it is a lamentable, headlong fall in the moral scale and a turning of a back on that which has been the special! glory and distinction of the United States in order to join in the barbaric scramble for the waste places‘of the earth.” WAR DEPARTMENT AT WORK. Will Soon Promulgate a Tariff for Philippines. WASHINGTON, May 23.—Interest In the Supreme Court decisions centered at the War Department to-day and efforts were made to ascertain the intention of the department regarding the Philippines, as they are under the department’s con- trol. Secretary Root would express no opinion, saying that he had not yet the Herman Heyneman, the Pacific (‘,oautl competition would be in the very cheap | o5 COMMERCIAL BODIES TAY ACT. | AT S R e HILE the presidents of the several commerclal organizations of the city who have been interviewed have not come to any definito conclusion concerning the local effect of the decisions of the Su- | preme Court of the United States referring to the insular tariff, President George A. Newhall of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce undoubtedly reflects the views of the membership of these bodies when he says that if it shall be found that the Pacific Coast is likely to be geriously damaged by the withdrawal of the duties upon importations from | the Philippine Islands it is probable the trade organizations of the coast will | | meet to take some action looking toward legislation by Congress. | :‘ & | full text of the dec!sion before him and tkat it would require careful considera- tion before the entire import of the opin- ions could be ascertained with a view of geverning future executive action. Several Senators and Representatives called on the Secretary to-day and dis-| cussed the situation with him, giving their views and interpretations of the opinions rendered yesterday and the bear- ing they would have in the future gov- ernment of the Phiilppines. Among these was Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, chairman of the Philippine Committee of the Senate. He expressed the opinion that the decisions of the court would make Philippine legislation absolutely nec- essary in the coming session of Congress. | He_ also was clearly of the opinion that under the Spooner law the President had absolute power to provide for a revenue, both customs and internal, for the Philip- pine Islands in the general scheme for the Philippine government, Another sugges- tion made by Senators, previous to the time when it was supposed that a de- cision in the Philippine case would be rendered by the court similar to the De Lima case in Porto Rico, was an export duty on goods coming from the Philip- pines to the United States could be levied in order to prevent free trade from the islands to the United States. Any such necessity will be obviated, however, by the determination of the Treasury De- partment to continue to collect Dingley rates on Philippine products and goods coming from the Islands. Figures were furnished at the War De- partment showing the collections from the Philippines. From April 11, 1899, to Feb- ruary 28, 1901, there were collected on goods imported from the Unitéd States into the Philippines $1,012,925. During the same period there were collected on ex- orts from the Philippines to the United tates $196,149. Frem April 11, 189, until April 12, 1900, the date of the passage of the Foraker law, the collections on imports frdm the United States to Porto Rico were $435.237. It is belleved that the War Department will promulgate a_tariff for the Philip- pines soon. The Philippine Commission, together with officers in charge of the customs of the Islands, Drepared. a prowi. sioral draft for a new Philippine tariff, which was published in Marc! That draft has been undergoing a number of modifications at the War Department, and is still receiving consideration. Sec- retary Root has been holding back this tariff, awaiting the decision of the Su- preme Court in the Insular cases, and it is now probable that it will not be pro- mulgated until he has had time to exam- ine the opinions of the court with care. The following statement is made con- cerning the proposed tariff and what is Dbeing done at the War Department: The tariff, as prepared at Manlla, was based | i dress by the president of the association, | C. Altschul, and the reading of the re- ports of the Executive Council, the treasurer and secretary will follow. enry Brunner of the Germania Trust Company of San Francisco will contrib- ute a paper on “Some Essentials of the The officers of the assoclation are: President, C, Aitschul; vice president, J. | M. Elliot; treasurer, G. W. Kline; secre- tary, R. M. Welch; executive council— Frank Miller, chairman; J. S. Hawkins, I. Steinhart. W. A. Hale, W. Bush, A. H. R. Schmidt, J. R. Ryland | Modern Corporation,” C. W. Bush of the 'and E. P. Foster. DEMANDS 5TOCK - WORTH MILLIONS Blackburn of the Car- negie Company Be- gins Suit. Andrew Morélland Refuses to Deliver Until Paid for Services. el PITTSBURG, May 28.—Attorneys to-day filed a bill in equity for William W. Black- burn, secretary of the Carnegie Company. in his capacity of trustee for the Carnegie Company against Andrew M. Moreland, president of the Moreland Trust Company and former secretary and trustee of the Carnegie Company, in which Blackburn names the Carnegie Company as code- fendant, and seeks to secure the transfer and controF of Carnegie Company stock of the value of $2,376,000, acquired by Moreland when he held the Carnegie Com- pany trusteeship, and which stock he now holds and has refused to transfer unless he is paid a half million dollars claimed as compensation for services as trustee. The stock which Blackburn alleges is | unlawfully held by Moreland is part of the $3,200,000 of the capital stock of the Carnegie Company at the time of its in- corporation for the benefit of deserving employes and_officials of the company. The bill of Blackburn shows that the stockholders of the Carnegie Company en- tered into an agreement to Set aside 2 per cent of each individual's holdings to en- able the employes and officers who were not stockholders to acquire an interest in the comnany, following out- the plan of stock distribution which Andrew Carnegie had made a feature of the business In past years, in which manner many of the incorporators of the. Carnegie Company secured their interests. Moreland’s right to commission for his services as trustee is denled because he was an officer of the company and when the stock was placed- in his custody be was simply acting in the line of his duty | as secretary, as his predecessor in_the Carnegie Steel Company had done. It is averred_that since his retirement as sec- retary his principal work in connection with the stock has been in preventing its transfer to his successor and in obtain- ing for himself and others the shares of reserved stock. Blackburn asks for an injunction restraining Moreland from transferring the stock of the company to any other persons than the plaintiff. — CONSIDERED BYTHE PRESIDENT Discusses Insular Decisions With Members of the Cabinet. CEDAR RAPIDS, Towa, May 28.—Dur- ing their journey across Iowa President McKinley and the members of his Cab- inet spent much of their time reading and discussing the published reports of the opinions of the Supreme Court in the In- sular cases. They were much interested in the way the court divided in the two cases. The decision in the De Lima case, if followed in the Philippines, as it is as- sumed it will be, might result in the call- ing of an extra session of Congress. In the De Lima case the court decided that the duties collected on Porto Rican goods | before Congress enacted the Foraker law were illegal and must be refunded. It is presumed that the court, following the same lines of reasoning, will decide that the dutles collected on goods from the Philip- pines were also illegal and that goods from the Philippines are subject to free entry into the United S$tates until Con- gress acts, as it has already done in the Sase of Porto Rico. Such a decision would mean not only the refundlnf of dutles heretofore collected, but would open the ports of the United States to merchandise and goods of every description from the Philippines_until Congress meets In De- cember. It is_palpable that importers might take advantage of this to ship goods into the United States through the Philippines and thus defraud the Gov- ernment of its revenues. Whether the danger from this source is great emough to warrant the calling of Congress in ex- tra session is one which will be decided only after full deliberation. It is possi- Dble, however, that this danger may have been already obviated in the enactment of the Spooner resolution delegating tem- porarily to_the President the power to govern the Philippines. This may be con- Sidered an_act of Congress within the meaning of the Downes case, affirming the ccnstitutionality of the Foraker law. But it is a delicate question and one which the President and his advisers will E. Baker, T.| consider in all its bearings before coming C. ! to a conclusion. The members of the Cabinet decline to discuss the subject for publication. PROBLEMWNMS o BE SOLVED entirely upon the specific system of duties, | o x> which levies customs charges aceording (o welght or number of the imported articles | man, et Wi et | DUTIES ARE TO BE COLLECTED. ciple has the approval of Secretary Root, but | it 1s thought desirable to apply an ad valorem limit to certain cases where there iz n wido e L h Th (epectat USTOMS COLLECTOR STRATTON says that while he has not been B e e P iohy ot these cases. notified officially of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United but it will be provided that the articles shall States In the Porto Rico case, he will continue to collect on dutiable TR Pt S I LM e articles from the Philippine Islands under the existing tarifl. No ves- | | and articles essential to the development of the cels are due at this time from the Philippines, so in the absence of | | islands will not run higher than 15 per cent, official notification no complications can result. The repayment of duties Bt Tapon articles less neceasary It will rise o heretofore received will only be made where logal protest has been filed | | p"rr?;rfncfi;::Bndlx:"fi:c’;]cuci;er: '(‘?,’é“'.fiirtfic 5u(§ within ten days after the original payment of such duties. There are x:o( will first be assessed, the value of the article many. cases that fall within this decision. Soldiers and officers are principally will then be estimated and it will be deter- concerned in such instances. mined whether the amount of the specific duty is as much as the ad valorem limit. 1If the + e S amount of the specific duty falls below the ad valorem limit a suffictent amount will be added to bring the net dutfes up to the limit. 1f ths specific duty is higher than the ad valorem Iimit it will be collected in full without refer- ence to such a limit. It is belleved that this method of assessing the dutles will obviate the objections made by the Philippine Commission to any ad valorem dutles, upon the ground that they would afford temptation to undervaluation and be aifficult to fix in the absence of com- petent experts in the Custom-house at Manila. The effect of any practicable degree of un- dervaluation under the system proposed would be trifling upon the net duties paid and not worth the risk or seeking to defraud the rev- enue. Absolute accuracy in valuation will be less important moreover than under the American tariff, and the proposed system in tha nature of the case will tend to equalize dif- ferences arising under the system of purely specific duties, even if the equalization is not perfect. The limit of 15 per cent will apply to a great variety of articles under the metal schedule, which it was found impossible to distribute under specific dutles. Tools and implements, cutlery, - needles, pens. miscellaneous manu- facturers of iron and steel and of zinc. copper and nickel will be required to vay duties of not less than 15 per cent. In all these cases the specific duty will be collected, whether it amounts to 15 per cent or more, but where it falls below 15 per cent ad valorem, an es- timate of the value of the articles will bo made and the amount of duty raised to 15 per cent ad ‘valorem. Plate glass and mirrors will be required to pay not less than 20 per cent, while the limit in the case of cut glass, watch glass and similar fine products will be fixed at not less than 30 per cent. It I8 prob- able that the rate on precious stones will be fixed at 15 per cent, in order to obviate the temptation to smuggling. The rate on nickel will probably be higher than in the provisional tariff prepared at Manla. PORTO RICANS DOUBTFUL. SAN JUAN, Porto Rlco, May 28.—The first report of the Supreme Court’s deci- sion in the De Lima case reached here last night and was interpreted as declar- ing the taxation of imports from Porto Rico to the United States, 15 per cent of ‘the Dingley duty, as being unconstitu- tlonal, and was received here with great satisfaction. To-day, when the full report of the De Lima case was published, there was evinced a general feeling of disap- pointment among the Porto Rican mer- chants, who had hoped that the court's decision. would give them a year’s free trade, Porto Ricans are reluctant to be- lieve that to-day’s full report is true. The consensus of opinion of the matter seems to be that the Porto Rican Legis- lature should be convened in extra session to declare Porto Rico self-supporting without the collection of customs on ex- ports between Porto Rico and the United States. A general spirit of complaint that all the Supreme Court’s decisions were against Porto Rico is noticeable. When San Juan merchants were questioned on at_the outcome, as they had hoped to have refunded all the moneys paid under the 15 per cent application of the Dingley du- ties. It was generally expected that the court’s decisions would grant Porto Rico free trade and her citizehs full citizenship and constitutional privileges. When told that if the latter privilege had been grant- ed the internal revenue laws of the United States would be applied to the islands and that all funds and customs thereunder collected -would be deposited in the Fed- eral treasury, all Porto Ricans questioned in the matter acknowledged that this would be bad, and that their present status was preferable, as they did not be- lieve that the island would stand the col- lection of the United States internal rev- enue, and that such collections, if at- terrpted, would necessitate an even heav- ier property tax for the maintenance of Porto Rico. Only a few Porto Rican business men understand the importance of the Supreme Court’s decisions. Those who are bank- ers predict an immediate revival of busi- ness now that the status of the country has been decided. The manager of anAm- portant bank, who requests that his name not be used, savs that he is in favor of the tariff unless it absolutely proved that Porto Rico internal revenues are sufficient for the island’s needs. The J. T, Silva Banking Company said: The whole thing is a flasco. We like to be citizens of the United States, but without the application of United States internal revenue collections. The latter would kill our indus- tries. The Fritze-Lundt Company, which is the largest shipper of sugar in Porto Rico, said: ¥ 5 The constitution of the United States applies when agalnst us, but not when in our favor. This has always been so since the beginning. If the tariff had been removed at first Porto Rico would now have double crops. The Amer- iean system of taxation cannot be applied here: there should be some sensible tax on flour and rice, but sugar should be free. This legisla- tion appears to be for Americans and against Porto Ricans. Mullenhoff & Korber, a large banking house, said: This is a big step forward. Spaln_would not have returned anything, It would *be a hard blow if the internal revenues of the United States were applied here. By agreement with New York houses many Porto Rican shippers will receive half of the amounts refunded under the new decision. The people generally are as much disappointed at not being grant- ed American citizenship as they are in re- rd to the court’s decision on the tariff. he members of the Cabinet seem to fa- vor free trade. The island's yearly budget is $2,000,000. rough semi-officlal esti- the subject they manifested much regret from the property tax, §750,000 from excise .;;)_H(-cllons under the Hollander bill and 50,000 from customs collections. The property tax will be in force July 1, and assessments will be made on an estimated valuation of $100,000,000. Excise duties are now being collected. generally of the opinion that their Legis- Jature should now act. It is understood that Governor Allen is giving his earnest consideration to the practicability of se- curing at an early date free trade rela- tions betweem Porto Rico and Germany. As a result of the consultations in | Washington between Governor Allen and President McKinley, Mr. Hollander will in a few days submit a report to Gover- nor Allen showing the operations of the former’s new revenue act, from which it will appear that expectations are enter- tained as to the adequacy of the measure. It has been fully realized that the insular treasury is rapidly approaching a condi- tion where it can dispense with the cus- toms receipts’ acerting from trade with ; the United States without in any wise en- dangering the present secure financial po- sition of ‘the island. By the provision of gection 3 of the Foraker bill free trade becomes operative whenever the Forto Rican Legislature passes a resolution that an adequate system of insular taxa- tion has been put into operation, and President McKinley, upon notification of this resolution, is to proclaim free trade for Pcrto Rico. If the plan now in con. teraplation is carried out Governor Allem will convene the Legislature in extra ses- sion solely for the purpose of passing this resolution. This action will probably be taken July 25. at which time the Hol- lander bill will have been in force for nearly one month, and it is probable that free trade will be declared in October, Porto Ricans are | “RIPPER” AGAIN ALARMS LONDON Sensational Murder Is Committed in White- chapel. ‘Woman Found Dying From a Number of Terrible ‘Wounds. s LONDON, May 28.—A sensational mur- der and case of mutilation has occurred in a low lodging house in Dorsel street, ‘Whitechapel, close to the scene of the “Jack the Ripper” murders of 1888. The victim, & woman named Annie Austin, 23 years of age, was found dying In a bed- rcom on Sunday morning and was re- moved to a hospital, where she died. The murderer escaped and the police were not notified of the crime until early yesterday. The murderer's long start and the total lack of a description of him ren- ders his apprehension unlikely. The wounds on the lower part of the vietim's body are too revoiting for de- scription. The woman was conscious when found, but died without making a statement. The police are .apprehensive of further outrages and a panic has been created in the neighborhood. FEDERAL JUDGES CONGRATULATED United States Circuit Judges Gilbert, Morrow and Ross were congratulated by their friends yesterday upon the decisfon of the United States Supreme Court in the Porto Rico and Philippine cases, be- cause that decision indorsed a decision handed down by the United States Cir- cuit Court of Appeals for this circuit on February 20, 1898. The decision was writ- ter by Judge Morrow and was in the case of the United States against Endleman, who was charged with selling liquor to Indians. Endleman set up the issue that the constitution was conflned to the United States proper and that the criminal laws did not extend into the Territories. Judge Morrow in his opinion held that Congress had full legislative power over the Territories unrestricted by the limita- tions of the constitution. ‘The opinion goes on to say: In support of the first ground of demurrer it is contended that the law upon which the prosecution is based is unconstitutional be- cause among other things the Government of the United States can exercise only those specific powers conferred upon it by the consti- tution. * * ¢ The answer to this and other like objections urged in the brief of counsel for defendant is found in the now well established doctrine that the Territorles of the United States are entirely subject to the legislative anthority of Congress. They are not organized under the constitution, nor subject to its complex distribution of the powers of govern-’ ment as the organic, but are the creation ex- clusively of the legisiative department and sub- ject to its supervision and control. The United States, having rightfully acquired the Terri- tories and being the only Government which can impose laws upon them, has the entire dominance of sovereignty, national, municipal, Federal and State. * * ¢ Congress may legis- late in accordance with the special needs of each locality and vary its regulations to meet the conditions and circumstances of the peo- ple. * * ¢ In a Territory all the functions of government are within the legislative juris- diction of Congress and may be exercised through the local government or directly by such legislation as we have now under com- sideration. GRIGGS IS CONGRATULATED. BOONE, Towa, May 23.—The members of the Cabinet abandoned e Presidential train and united in a telegram to former Attorney General Grigss, congratulating him upon the action of the Supreme Court in sustaining the able argument he made before the court. 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