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FIGHT AT PIETER’S HILL
(Continued from First Page.)
Fusiffeers and the Connaughts arriving
„ support the Enniskillen®, another de
i,mined attempt was made to take the
Peer positions. This also tailed. A heavy
. re continued throughout the might.
The Enniskillens lost fourteen out of
р, vi nteen officers, killed and wounded.
,[..1 almut 250 non-commissioned officers
e men, kdlletl and wounded,
den. Lyttleton's brigade relieved Gen.
H it's brigade in the morning and the ar.
~li,rv duel was continued to-day (Sun
jluv), though no great damage was done.
To-day an armistice was agreed ui>on to
enable both sides to collect thedr dead
and wounded.
The Boers admit having had very heavy
losses, hut they scout the idea that the
British will compel them to raise the
t iege of Ladysmith.
ATTACKED BOER THE.ACHES.
MnJ. Pellemler Wounded and Eight
lirltiftli Killed.
London, Feb. 27, 7:51 p. m.—The war
otlice has received the following dispatch
from Lord Roberts:
‘ Paardeberg, Feb. 27.—1n a very suc
с, ssful attack made by the Royal Cana
iliin contingent on one of the enemy’s
ivnches this morning Maj. Pellemler was
w funded, eight men were killed and tw--n
--tv-uine men wounded.
“Gen. MacDonald is expected to return
to duty in a few days.”
GEN. BI LI.ER’S TASK DIFFICI LT.
lias to Handle His Troops in the
Ua.uge of Invisible Riflemen.
London, Fob. 2s. —A dispatch to the Daily
Mail, from Pietermaritzburg, dated Mon
day, describes at considerable length the
"enormous difficulties of Gen. Buffer's
task,” and says:
‘The real advance began last Wednes
day. The stupendous nature of the task
was only understood when being on the
spat* one was altfle to realize what it
means to hurl infantry at position* aligned
in every direction with carefully prepared
trenches and with breastworks defended
hv practically invisible riflemen, armed
with the most deadly rapid-tiring weapons,
and aided by quick-firing guns which put
a.l but our cannon of the largest calibre
into the shade.”
A TRICK OF GEN. DULLER.
Fought at Spion Kop to Get a Trans
port to Ladysmith.
London, Feb. 27.—A letter has been re
ceived from a man in the First Dragoons,
now in South Africa, confirming the re
port that a supply transport reached La
dysmith during the engagement at Spion
kop. He says the Dragoons were the es
cort of the transport, which was seven
miles long, and adds: “That is why Buffer
engaged the enemy at Spion kop. Old
Buffer knows what he is doing, and all
are Willing to follow him in spite of his
reverses.”
PEACE TALK IN THE AIR.
Proposition <o Form a Conciliation
Committee.
London, Feb. 28 —The Cape Town corre
spondent of the Daily Telegraph, tele
graphing Monday, says:
“There is talk of peace in the air. The
English organ of the Afrikander Bund
proposes the formation of a conciliation
committee, the object being, of course, to
save Boor inde;>en(lence.
“While Lord Roberts was holding
Cronje at Paardebergr, it is understood
that Gen. French was moving toward
Bloemfontein."
HIGHEST TRIBUTE TO CRONJE.
French \ t*v* paper* l rue Great Brit
ain to Mediation.
I’aris. Feb. 27.—The newspapers of this
city nay the highest tribute to Gen.
Cronje’s valor and express the opinion
that his surrender is far from ending the
war. Thty add that it will only make the
resistance of the Boer nation all the more
desperate.
Several newspapers, however, urge that
Great Britain accept mediation now that
she has secured an important victory and
slop further bloodshed.
The Temps, in an article headed “honor
to l o-h combatants.’’ appeals to Great
Britain to end the war, saying: "If Eng
land once unfortunately engaged in this
struggle, could not emerge by accepting
the humi iation cf defeat, it app ars to us
that she will do well and Reconquer the
sympathies of all nations, if. after hav
ing given proof of her superior strength,
she knew how to stop herself and in so
and ing stop the scenes of destruction and
carnage now unfolding themselves in the
Orange Free State.”
A LONG WAY TO PRETORIA.
\niftterilnin Paper* Doe* Not Think
the War 1* nt an End.
Amsterdam. Feb. 27.—The evening pa
per- generally express the opinion that
Ben. Cronje’s capitulation docs not mean
the end of the war.
The Algemeine Handelsblad says: “It
B a long way between Lord Roberts and
Pretoria. If he is finally victorious, a
more dangerous guerilla warfare will be
pin and the Boers will smite the British
e i rywhere. The Cape Dutch will form
fi permanent danger to South Africa.”
The Teh gram says: “The Boers, embit
1' red, will continue the war with greater
fury. Will Europe any longer stitle the
'"ice of conscience?”
I OIIEIGXKRS LEAVING TRANSVAAL.
Inlted State* (onsiil Hay Proving
IliuiMelf Tactful anil Annl'Rioum.
I-*>ndon, Feb. 28.—The Lorenzo Marquez
* . respondent of the Times, telegraphing
Tuesday, says:
Many foreigners tore leaving the
Transvaal, and numerous government of
:1* ials have started for Holland. Adelbert
Hay, United States consul in Pretoria, is
"•filing the respect of both Boers and
1 Blunders and proving himself tactful
und assiduous."
Boor* Retired Northward,
Arundel, Feb. 2Q.—The Boers under Brit
ish pressure, have evacuated their posi
uons in this neighborhood, retiring north
' u ‘d. In tiie fighting he rx-u touts ihcir
* is thought to have been considerable,
113 twenty-live graves were found.
Urlkandrr Bund Po*rtponed.
Cai>e Town, Monday, .Jtyjb. 26.—The Afri
kai.der Bund Congress has bc*n postponed.
The explanation given is that, owing to
l ie enforcement of martial law in several
districts, the members might possibly be
unn eje to attend.
Cerium, Newnpn p*r* Disappointed.
( e*q n> pvf> The German newspapers
are disappointed at the surrender of Gen.
Cronje. They admit that Lord Roberts
has shown real military ability and dash
and that the Boers have lost in Cronje
their most skillful leader.
List of the Wounded.
London, Feb. 27, 6:35 p. m.—The war of
fice has issued a list of 721 non-commis
sioned officers and men wounded in the
fighting at 1 aardeberg Sunday, Feb. 18.
including 63 Canadians and 273 Highland
ers.
Severe Flighting: Continue*.
London, Feb. 28.—-A special dispatch
from Colenso, dated Tuesday, Feb. 27,
says:
“The Boers are endeavoring to outflank
us, and severe fighting continues.”
Hriti.Mli Have Occupied Janientown.
Sterkspruit, Monday, Feb. 26.—80er re
ports say that the British under Gen.
Biabant, have occupied Jamestown, Cape
Colony.
May Have Buried the Guiim.
London, Feb. 28.—The military critic of
the Times .suggests that Gen. Cronje prob
ably buried some of his big guns.
W Itliin 300 Yards of Boers’ Position.
Paardeberg, Feb. 26.—The British suc
' cessfuify sapped within 300 yards of the
Boer position yesterday.
HESt LTS OF HI \ \l\(i l< ICES.
Favorite* Won Four of the **i\
Events at Neu Orleans.
New Orleans, Feb. 27.—Favorites were
in much better form to-day and landed
the money in four of the six races on the
card. The feature of the day was Mitch
ell’S riding. He piloted four winners and
one second. The track w is fast.
First Race —Selling, seven furlongs. Tobe
Paine, 13 to 5 and even, won, with Berthu
•Noll, 12 to 1 and 5 to 1. second, end Ty
ran. 15 to 1, third. Time 1:28.
Second Race —Selling, one mile. Grace?
Philips. 10 to 1 and 4 to 1, won. with Ai
iie Hale, 6 to 1 and 2 to 1, second, nnd
Matt Simpson, Bto 1, third. Time 1:43%.
Third Race—Selling, one and seven
eighths miles. Julius Caesar, 13 to 5 and
even, won. with Banquo 11, 15 to 1 and 5
to 1. second, and Pat Garrett, 4 to 1,
third. Time 3:19.
Fourth Race—Handicap, six furlongs.
Gold Or. 11 to 5 and 4 to 5, won, with An
des. 9 to 2 and 8 to 5, second, and Mag
gie Davis, 4 to 1. third. Time 1:13%.
Fifth Race—Selling, one mile and a six
teenth. Etsmore, 5 to 2 and even. won.
with Northumberland, 7 to 2 and 2 to 1,
second, and Jennie F., 5 to 1, third. Timis
1.49%.
Sixth Race—Selling, six and a half fur
longs. Troubaline, 13 to 5 and 4 to 5, won,
with Lovable. 7 to 2 nnd 6 to 5, second,
and Fleuron, 5 to 2, third. Time 1:21%.
SITUATION FOR GEN. SHAFTER.
II on so Committee on Military Affair*
to Act Favorably on Hill.
Washington, Feb. 27.—The House Com
mittee on Military Affairs decided to act
favorably on the bill giving one chaplain
for each regiment, and giving the adjutant
general of the army the rank of major
general.
The bill authorizes the President to se
lect a major general from among the brig
adier generals on the retired list as a re
ward for distinguished- services in the
Spanish war. This is intended to apply to
Gen. Shafter.
Secretary of War Root appeared before
the committee to-day’ and urged his army
reorganization bill.
CLOSING OF THE CARNIVAL.
Two Brilliant Itnlls Follow tlie
Event at New OrlennH.
New Orleans, Feb. 27.—Comer closed the
carnival to-night with a magnificent pa
rade representing the Golden Age, draw
ing upon mythology for twenty-five pic
tures. A brilliant ball at the French
Opera House followed. The carnival ball
took place at the Washington Artillery
Hall. The throne room was a gorgeous
white utid pink octagon. Capt. Thomas
J. Woodward was King and Miss Rosalie
Fcbiger was the Queen. The weather re
mained lovely until the end, and the
crowd was the largest ever in attendance.
Next year the Carnival extension idea will
be adhered to.
walker-hhea contest.
War Heard by House Election Com
mittee V esterda y.
Washington, Feb. 27.—The contested
election case of James A. Walker vs.
William F. Rhea, from the Ninth Con
gressional district of Virginia, was heard
by House Election Committee No. 1 to
day. The case attracts unusual attention
because of the exciting events connected
with it, including a shooting affray, while
evidence was being prepared at Bristol,
and Itecause of the further fact that Gen.
Walker was chairman of the House Elec
tion Committee in (t former case. Testi
mony is voluminous.
A WHITE MAN ACCUSED.
■•Doe” Curd Held for Assnnlt nt
Niebolnsvllle, Ey.
Lexington, Ky., Feb. 27.—A telephone
message from Nicholasville late to-night
stated that “Doc” Curd, a white man. had
been arrested on telegraphic Information
from Valley View that he had assaulted
Mrs. Hainan Milton to-day. A crowd is
gathering at Valley View, and the Nichol
asville authorities are apprehensive of a
mob. They contemplated moving Curd to
Lexington. Curd confessed he was the
man wanted when attested, but denied the
assault. _
BAY STEAMERS ICE BOUND.
It the Cold Coutiuc* Baltimore Will
Have nn Oyster Famine.
Baltimore, Feb. 27.—Chesapeake bay
steamers are tied up by the Ice, suspend
ing traffic. If cold weather continues much
longer an oyster famine is feared. High
winds have banked the ice up in the
mouths o' the rivers, stopping all vessels.
This is the case on the Rapiethannock,
Potomac Susquehanna and other rivers.
All of tile hay steamers were late in
reaching their berths to-night.
Hon. S. G. McLendon Appointed.
Atlanta, Feb. 27.—Gov. Candler this af
ternoon appointed Hon. S. G. McLendon
of Thomasville to represent Georgia on
the Memorial Commune from the state
of Alabama. Georgia, South Carolina and
Florida to ere.t a monument to the mom
orv of the late H. H. Riant. The Me
morial Committee is the suggestion of
Gov Johnston of Alabama, who has al
ready made his u|>polniment. The Flor
ida appointment was also made to-day.
(miiig South to Itc*t.
Washington. Feb. 27.—10hn Addison
Porter secretary to the President, accom
panied by his wife and children, will leave
Washington to-morrow for Camden, S. C.,
for a two weeks' rest. Hefore returning,
~ may go to Asheville, N. C., for a brie!
stay.
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BATTLING THE TARIFF BILL
(Continued from First Page.)
nothing as to the future policy toward
the Philippines. They voted the money
to discharge an obligation of the govern
ment. incurred without their consent.
Turning to the bill. Mr. Hailey declared
that there was involved in it a question
if f law and a question of morals.
Taking up the legal question involved.
Mr. Hailey made an exhaustive aigument
against the constitutionality of the bill.
He was listened to attentively and fr -
quently elicited applause. As he proceed
ed, he aroused the lawyers on the other
side, and was for a time almost contin
uously engaged in crossing words with
one or'the other of his adversaries.
During the excitement of the Spanish
war Mr. Bailey said he stood unmoved.
He warned his countrymen then as he
warned them to-day that the constitution
could not be applied to the government
of the colonies. "When emotional states
men.” said he in conclusion, “were ask
ing who would haul down tlie flag, I dar
ed to say that I would Take it down from
any place where the constitution could
not follow it. (Democratic applause.) Do
you desire to present the anomaly of a
government restrained by the constitution
in one quarter of the globe and possessed
of despotic rower in the rest of the world?
How long is the constitution to shield us
and our children if its protection is with
held from the humblest inhabitant. Let
me borrow the words of Lincoln. ‘This
republic cannot endure one half free and
one-half slave.' We must be all citizens
or in time we will al} be subjects. I did
not want to assimilate these alien and
inferior races, and I pray God to deliver
us from the task. But if you will take
them they must share our destiny with
us.”
The Democrats greeted Mr. Bailey’s con
clusion with upronrous applause and half
a hundred of them crowded up the aisle
to congratulate him.
Mr. Dolliver of lowa closed the debate
for the majority. Long and loud was the
demonstration which greeted him.
"This biff,” he said, “is merely a tem
porary measure to provide revenue for
Porto Rico. Yet it has been magnified in
this debate until it has been made to in
clude the whole problem of the govern
ment of ail territory acquired by us by
the treaty of Paris. The President recom
mended that Congress should abolish all
duties on Porto Rican goods that the in
habitan’s of the stricken island might re
build their fallen fortunes and regenerate
their shattered industries. Despite the
abuse heap and by the press upon this biff.
I am prepared to show that it will do ex
actly what the President recommended
should be done.” (Applause.)
Mr. Dolliver stroke derisively of the anx
iety and zeal of the Democracy to uphold
the President. Coming after two years
of calumny directed against the Presi
dent, it was but cheap party ingenuity.
It had been declared that thL bill was in
behalf of the sugar trust, when the fact
is, declared Mr. Dolliver, that
the sugar trust want free trade. The
some was the case of the tobacco trust.
"So far as I am concerned,” he said. "I
am not frightened by all these tales of
woe. by these predictions of disaster, one
following the other, coming up straighta
way out of the Caribbean sea or the Pa
cific ocean. For I can see that after re
cent national experience it is possible for
a man to underrate the effect of an ap
peal to the popular fear of free trade on
a scale, however small, even when pre
sented by the managers of Democratic
politics irs the. United States. (Laughter
on the Republican side.) But if that were
the only issue at stake, it is not settled
in my mind that anybody ought to bo
frightened, certainly n.ot out of his wits,
even by a proposal so vast tropical areas
nnd territories the United S'otes were
found helpless to deal with them, except
on terms of such political intimacy and
commercial equality as the constitution
prescribes for the people of the Untied
States. And so, gentlemen, we present
here a revenue measure containing with
It political possibilities that the Demo
cratic party has hod Its eye on for a year,
and which some of our boys on this side
hove got wild about, because they got
thetr eye on them only ten days ago.
(Laughter on the Republican side.)
Taking tip the constitutionality Issue,
Mr. Dolliver said:
"If the constitution of the United States
establishes free trade between Manila and
San Francisco, as it undoubtedly does be
tween Maryland and Virginia, then the
fact that we have got into anew comtie
tltion is only the least trouble that Is be
fore us. We are lit that case disarmed
at once In the momentus demand which
this ration has made for equal rlgh's In
the commerce cf Asia. I violate no se
cret of this government when I say to
day (here is pending lrt the state .1 part
meat the most elaborate commercial ne
gotiation ever attempted in the history if
our diplomacy, has, and upon a pledge mile
bv our commissioners at Paris that what
, ver we did in the Pacific e pan we would
maintain an open door for the commerce
of the world. And 1 want to ask Repub
licans, and I want to ask those Demo
. rats from Georgia, from South Caro
lina. from the gr.at cotton belt of the
South, who are looking forward lo the
extreme as the threat of the admission
into liw markets of the tint ted States f
all the products of our possessions either
now or in time to come. At any rate It
fc* not contended that any American in.
due t v is liKely to suffer on account of
the free admission Into this country of
tite surplus productions of the people of
Forto Rieo. And so n horizontal reduc
tion of nearly 90 per cent, in nil the sche
dules of the tariff law of ISO? has intro
duced no element of alarm whatever into
the American market place. So that has
done no harm. Not only has it dona no
harm, but it has already done the Repub
lican party, ot least, a great service, for
it has put a stop to the unscrupulous agi
tation that was tiffing the United States
with the fear that lit taking possession of
opportunities that are wrapped up in our
commerce In the Pacific ocean in time to
come. 1 want to ask them with what
countenance we can stand before the cab- !
inets of Europe, protesting against the oc- i
cupation of the ports of China to the
prejudice of American trade, when we
ourselves from our headquarters on the
border, being carried away by our own
constitution, have deliberately drawn a
commercial dead line about the Philip
pine Islands for the permanent exclusion
of everybody el-se.”
Concluding, Mr. Dolliver pleaded for
fuith in tho American republic and its
future mission and delivered a wann
euloglum on President McKinley.
At r> o'clock the House recessed until 8
o'clock.
At the night session Messrs. Talbert,
Demo-Vat, of Sou'll Carolina; Bellamy,
Democrat, of N th Carolina: Denrfy,
Democrat, of Me >I . .and; Btuk. Democrat,
of Texas; Quarles, Dem-wr. '. of Virginia;
Dougherty, Democrat, of Missouri; Rlxey,
Democrat, of Virginia: Slokes. Democrat,
of South Carolina, and Stevens, Democrat,
of Texas, spoke against h. bill.
At 9 o’clock the House adjourned.
FK.VTI HE THE PRESIDENT I,IKES.
One Stipulating; That Porto lticnn
Revenues He Spent There.
Washington, Feb. 27.—1 t was stated by
a member'of the cabinet to-day that the
provision in the Porto Rican compromise
tariff bill which stipulated that all the
revenues eollected on Porto Rican goods
and goods imported from the United
States and elsewhere shall be expended
in the island for (he benefit of Its people,
is the prominent feature which reconciles
the President to its passage.
With this provision in the bill, he said,
the net results would be, in a measure, the
same as free trade, which the President
recommended to Congress in his last mes
sage. it was said that in making that
recommendation the President had taken
into account all of the factors that en
tered into tt. its great need of schools,
the provisions which must lie mode for
the suppression of epidemic diseases, the
nee< ssity for the construction of roads and
bridges, and the other necessary
public improvements which the situation
in the island imperatively demands. He
also took into account, it is said, the fact
that business on the island is in a deplor
able situation, and that the people are
well-nigh helpless to meet the ordinary
demands of government. In this situation
it was the President's view that the Unit
ed States from its abundance should ex
tend a helping hand, and he had In prepa
ration at one time a message to Congress
asking for an appropriation of $3,000,000 to
be expended on the public schools of the
island.
Another phase of the subject which has
occupied the attention of the administra
tion is that involving the open door policy.
This government having secured from the
European Powers a pledge that the United
States shall have equal trade rights with
them in the East could not, it was said,
with any degree of constMency, shut the
doors to their trade with Tfie’Philippines.
Although It is admitted that a declara
tion in (favor of free trade with Porto
Rico might establish a precedent which
would be difficult to overcome in dealing
with the Philippines, yet it was state!
that a declaration in the biff itself with
right of Congress to deal with these two
questions separately as in its judgment
it might deem best, would simplify the
problem and leave this government free
to treat the Philippines as an entirely in
dependent (proposition.
The one point in the determination of
the Porto Rican problem which the Presi
dent, it is believed, will steadfastly in
sist upon, is that the nominal duties col
lected by the Porto Ricans and those col
lected in the ports of the United Stales
on Porto Rican goods, shall be expended
for the sole benefit of the Islanders them
selves.
HARR A SSI NG THE RAILROAD.
Suit Brought Against tlie Southern
nt Ilutesherg, S. C.
Columbia, S; C., Feb. 27.—1n 1897 the
Legislature passed an act providing a pen
alty of SIOO per day on railroads buying
up and operating competing roads—half
the amount to go to the dotnplainants and
the balance to the state. Under this act
two citizens of Batesberg have brought
suit in Lexington against the Southern
Road for buying and operating that por
tion of the Carolina Midland between
Batesberg and Perry's, which is alleged
to come within the scope of the act.
The Southern is sued for operating a
road that the Legislature just refused to
let it tear up. It wished to give the rails
and ties to the people of Saluda, who wish
to connect themselves with the rest of the
world.
MURDERER DECLARED INSANE.
Inuhinet of St. George* Sent to the
Asylum tn Columbia.
Columbia, S. C., Feb. 27 D. W. Ina
binet, who several months ago brutally
murdered his father, and has since been
confined In jail at St. Georges, has been
declared insane and removed to the asy
lum here. oon after being imprisoned
the man showed signs of having lost his
reason and has caused many inhabitants
of the little town to pass sleepless nights.
The jail is in the center of the residence
section and the man has made the nights
truly terrifying by cbntinuous and un
earthly screams.
INJI ACTION STOPS ELEtMTON.
Macon'* Mayor nnd Council Said to
Be Without \utliority of the Law.
Macon, Ga., Feb. 27.- An Injunction to
day temporarily stopped the election to
Incorporate Macon’s suburbs. It is alleg
ed that the Mayor and Council have no
authority in law to call such an election.
The question is to be heard March 9. An
effort is being made to incorporate sepa
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a xlot of eighteen acres, consisting of the
employes of the cotton factory. It is in
the midst of Vlnevlße.
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ON THE I*llll,ll*l*l \lO QUESTION*
Senator l)e|pw Del I Venn llrllllnnt
\<lilre** in tlie Semite.
Washington. Feb. 27.—Before- a large at
tendance of senators nnd a notable as*
sentblage of gallery si>ectators, 'Mr. De*
pew of New#York delivered u brilliant
s-peech in (ho Senate to-day on the Philip
pine question. His picture of commerce
an<Lcivilization proceeding hand in hand
bu";hi out an applause that swept over
(he chamber and through the galleries
nnd called forth a protest from Mr. Bacon
of Georgia against such itemorust rat ions.
Mr. Deicw said, in part:
“We are In the Philippines; we are there
lo stay by conquest and by treaty rights.
All which precedes the raliflc-atton of the
treaty by the Senate of the United Slates
is an academic question. St:!H the pre
sentation of this ancient history, for tlie
rapid progress of events -m'akes history
speedily ancient, has occupied so much of
the time of the Senate that it is well
briefly to review the situation.
“I have heard no one dispute the right
eousness of our war with (Spain. The con
tention is that, it having been undertaken
with the avowed purpose, and that only,
of freeing Cuba from intolerable oppres
sion, the forces erf the United States
should have been, concentrated in and
about the island and when the Spaniards
were expelled our country should have
confined its efforts to the establishment of
Cuban independence. The most merciful
way to prosecute war, the surest method
of speedily enforcing peace, is to strike
the enemy wherever he may be weak nnd
vulnerable, To have permitted Spain
ports for her fleet and freedom of the seas
and the ability to concentrate all her ef
forts in Cuba would hove been the mad
ness of sentiment and criininaf folly. By
capturing Porto Rico we closed the har
bors where fieets of Spain could go out
side of Cuba and cut off her sources of
supply. By threatening with a flying
squadron the coasts of S-pain we kept
troops within her home fortifications and
shi-ps within her own harl>ors. The wis
est of the many wise orders issued dur
ing the -war was that to Admiral Dewey
when at Hong Kong: ‘Find the Spanish
fleet and destroy it.” The destruction of
that fleet ended the power of Spain in the
Pacific ocean. By the destruction of that
fleet and the landing of our troops and
the surrender of Manila the United States
stood as a conqueror upon the enemy’s
soil. When the Spanish flag went down
from the citadel and the American flag
flew from its flagstaff, the 300 years of
Spahish dominion ended and the American
occupation began. At this point we hear
of the alleged Filipino republic and the
alleged assault upon it by the United
States. That Dewey, that Merritt, that
AndeTson used the natives for the pur
pose o*f fighting Spain no one denies. It
w-as within the discretion of the com
manding generals to utilize the enemies
of Spain in such manner as in their
judgment would best cripple the enemy.
When Dew-ey, before sailing from Hong
Kong, sent the commander of the Petrel
to Aguinaldo to secure his services. Agui
naldo refused, saying that he had sold
out. had taken Spain’s money and was
under obligation not to fight her any
more; and il fas not until after the bat
tle of Manila that he concluded to go
back on hrs bargain.
'The markets for the products of our
farms and factories accessible by the At
lantic ocean will soon be filled. But across
the Pacific are limitless opportunities.
Within a distance from Manila not much
greater than Havana from New York live
0>x,. 000,000 of people, purchasing now an
nually from all nations, of the things
which we produce, to the sum of a thou
sand millions of dollars, of which we fur
nish five per cent. And yet with our Pa
cific coast and its enterprising people tho
opening of the canal across the isthmus
and an American merchant marine that
five per cent, should be fifty With rail
roads opening up these countries and civ
ilization stimulating their people, the pas
sible increase in their trade dazzles the
imagination. To relieve home congestion,
starvation and revolution, England, Ger
many and Franco are Increasing their
armies, enlarging their fleets and either
waging war or on the eve of great con
flicts while partitioning Africa, thn aton
ing China, seizing Asiatic principalities
and madly building railroads across the
continents of Asia and Africa. By victo
rious war and triumphant diplomacy we
are In our own territory within easy reach
at Manila, of China. Siam. Korea, Annam
the Fast Indies and Japan. Without war
rr entangling alliances we will have equal
rights with other nations to the parts of
the Orient, with all that tt means for the
demonstrated superiority of our manufac
tures and the surplus harvests of our
farms.
This Is not a sordid view, nor can any
right apprehension of our Philippine pol
icy or our relations to our Island colonies
be sordid or purely commercial. In spite
of ourselves we have colonial possessions.
We have no policy to declare, no glitter
ing resolutions or proclamations to make
and In the future to embarrass us. We
will stamp out th" Insurrect'on and estab
lish a stable government. Wp will organ
ize local government. We will constitute
courts. We will Insure with the whole
power of the United States security for
life and property, freedom of religion and
the equal and Just administration of the
law.
Mr. Turley resumed his speech on the
Quay case and Mr. Penrose interrupted
to Inquire If It were not the Intention ot
the framers of the constitution that the
Senate at all times should be fuff, so that
in view of such important matters ns the
force bill, an Impeachment trial or some
similar case coming before the Senate,
any of which might hinge upon one vote,
the states might have equal representa.
tlon.
Mr Turley replied that It was. hut 11
would not necessarily 'fol.ow that tho
: at all times could be kept full.
ft: : urley discussed precedents, and
saki these for seventy-five years were un
brokenly against the authority the govern
ment of Pennsylvania vested in the pend
ing case.
Mr. Penrose announced he would call I
up ihe case on every legislative day here- I
aftc r.
Consideration of the Hawaiian govern- |
meat bill was then resumed, Mr. Butler of i
North Carolina offering a substitute for
his postal savings bank bill amendment !
offered yesterday. Later he withdrew' it
on an appeal to bring in a well-matured
bill, establishing a poetal savings bunk
throughout the United States.
Mr. Morgan offered an amendment pro
viding for the payment by the United
States of all sums now on deposit in the?
Hawaiian Postal Savings Bank. It was
adopted. ’
The contract labor quest lon was precipi
tated again by Mr. Pettigrew who offered
an amendment providing that all contract
for labor entered into since Aug. 12, 18D8,
should be declared null and void.
He asserted that since the* annexation
of Hawaii 30,000 contract laborers had been
imported into Hawaii, their contracts ex
tending over periods from three to ten
year.
The tbffeo lands practically had been
changed to sugar plantations, controlled
by vast sugar interests, who, during the
past year, had been paid by this govern
ment In remitted duties $12,000,000* These
great interests would control the legisla
tion of Hawaii and consequently he want
ed such an amendment to th© bill as would
meet every contingency.
The amendment was adopted without di
vision. Il was agreed that a final vote
on the- bill and amendments would bo
taken liefore adjournment to-morrow.
At 5:25 p. m. the Senate adjourned.
KIII C ATOMS IN SESSION.
\nniinl Conference off the National
\NMoelntion nt < lilcMgo.
Chicago, Feb. 27.—The annual confer
ence of the department of superintendence
of the National Educational Association
opened in University HaU of the Fine Arts
building to-day. The department num
bers among Its members more than forty
college presidents and many professors
and superintendeds of schools. Those
present included President Charles \V.
Eliot of Harvard, President Benjamin Ido
Wheeler of the University of California,
Dr. Nicholas M. Buffer of Columbia Uni
versity, President David Starr Jordan of
Leland SHand'ford University, Supt. K.
Benjamin Andrews of Chicago, Miss Es
telle Recti, superintendent of Indian
schools; Bishop Samuel Fellows, Prof. Ira
Remsen, Johns Hopkins University; Dr.
William T. Harris, United States commis
sioner of education; President Andrew* 8.
Draper of the University of Illinois, Presi
dent W. R. Harper of the University of
Chicago, President Efdwin A. Alderman
of the University of North Carolina.
Dr. N. M. Butler of Columbia Unl
venflty, who spoke on- “The Status of Ed
ucation at the Close of the Century,” was
the speaker of the day. lie said in part:
“Developments so rapid, changes so si art
ling, inventions so undreamed of crowd
each other in a whirl of confusing im
ages when we try to picture this eenture
and to note Its salient facts. More lead
ers of enterprise and more captains of in
dustry Have appeared during this 100 years
than in all previous recorded history. The
average of human Intelligence and of hu
man efficiency has been raised to a point,
in the United Slate*, certainly which a
few hundred years ago would have en
tailed notoriety and perhaps distinction,
prosperity and qiK‘ruloqsness. desire and
happiness, have all multiplied together,
liow can all this be Interpreted?
“The wisest answer seems to me to be
this: The nineteenth century is pre-em
inently the period of Individual liberty <
lolitical, religious, intellectual. Industrial
and Us manifold triumphs and achieve
ments are due to the large opportunity,
whloh have been grantc-d to Individual ini
tlatlve and to Individual expression. Th*
greatness, the short-comings and the con
tradictions of the nineteenth century ar<
alike due to this.
“Education, as a matter of course, ha>
always borne the impress of the civiliza
tion. whose product It was. From the
fourteenth century to the nineteenth the
demand for individualism for representa
tion in the. schools has been heard, now
earnest and reasonable, now posslonate
and incoherent. Politics and religion so
far overshadowed education In Important
that it was a long time before there was
any widespread recognition of the closer
relation In which education stood to them.
On this matter the seventeenth and the
eighteenth centuries brought great light,
and there was new hope for the schools.
False and partial a we must hold much
of the French and English philosophy of
the eighteenth century to be, it Is never
theless to be credited with having convinc
ed the? world that a fundamental principle
bound together rational progress in poli
tics, In religion and in education. To this
conviction the nineteenth century has
clung most tenaciously. The result has
been an unexampled and dazzling expan
sion of educational endeavor and accom
plishment.
WILL ASK %N APPROPRIATION.
UongresMiunn Llvlngnton to See That
President Tyler** Grave I* Marked.
Atlanta, Feb. 27.—Mary Virginia Parks,
daughter of Councilman Parks, recently
addressed a letter to Congressman Liv
ingston of Georgia requesting that he ask
Congress for an appropriation to erect a
monument over President Tyler’s grave.
Miss Parks said she understood the grave
of John Tyler was the only one of the
Presidents that was unmarked. To this
Col. Llvingst n replied “I will investigate
and see if the grave of John Tyler Is
marked and if not. I will introduce a
bill to that effect. Thanking you for call
ing my attention to the fact.”
A SI)\S AWFUL CRIME.
K i I led His Mother Urea line 51...
Mon rill'll for lli*r II nahft ml.
Pleasant Hill. Ga., Feb. 27.—George Wil
liams. a young negro, killed his mother
while they were following the corpse of
the husband and father to the grave near
here yesterday. The hoy ordered his
mother (o stop her manifestations of grief.
She paid no hei and to him, and then he
shot and killed her.
FRENCH CLARET WINES, and
GERMAN RHINE and MOSELLE WINES
and FRENCH COGNAC BRANDIES.
Alt these fine Wines and Liquors are imported by us in glass direct from
the growers in Europe.
Our St. Julien Claret Wins from Everest, Dupont & Cos of Bordeaux,
France, is one of their specialties, a, and one at extremely low price.
The Chateaux Leoviile, one of their superior Claret Wines, well known all
over the United Slates.
We also carry In bond Claret Wines from this celebrated firm in casks.
Our Rhine and Moselle Wines are importt-l from Martin Deuta, Frank
fort, Germany, are the best that , om* to the United Slates.
BODENHEIM Is very fine and ch ip.
NIERSTEIN also very good.
RUDEBHEIM very choice.
RAUBNTHAL. selected grapes, very elegant.
LIEBFRANMIIA’H, quite celebrated.
MARCOimUNNKR CABINET elegant and rare.
YOHANNISBUROER is perfection.
SPARKLING HOCK. SPARKLING MOSELLE. SPANICLING MUSCA
TELI.E, and FINE FRENCH COGNAC BRANDIES.
Special Brandies are imported dlrrot from France by us. in cases and casks.
, LIPF/V\ AIN BROTHERS.
Goes Farthest in the Kitchen
COMPANY’S EXTRACT
• OP BEEP
add* nourishment and flavor
to kou >*, K*4Vien and Ueli
c-'o entn'im and provides
a il.aintjr dinner out, of ma
terial* which would other
vrih* l*o limpid and ure.wm.
NEWARK'S GREATEST FIRE.
Continued from First Page.
when caught by the fire. He is at St.
Michael’s Hospital, and Is badly burned.
Watson Snyder, cashier of the firm, eap
caped from the building. He had jimt
closed the safe after putting the money
turned in by the department cashiers Into
it. He si.jrted back to investigate the
fire, but ii advanced so rapidly he had to
lice. He thinks tho fire started from an
electric wire.
Four firemen were buried under a wall
at the rear of iSnydor's that fell I with a
terrific crash. Ca.pt. Walter Harrison and
Fireman Thomas Brown were taken out
unconscious, and may be fatally injured.
The other two firemen were severely in
jured.
Although a number of people were be
lieved to be in the Snyder store when the
fire broke out. no bodies have been found.
There are several person’s unaccounted
for, and it Is not known whether they es
eaped or were burned to death. Total
loss fools up over $1,000,000.
CASES FOR \ IbOOSTA COURT*
Over Forty Tlioiiahihl In Onmnige
Suit* Vuuinsl one Hnilroml.
Valdosta, Gn., Feb. 27.—Forty-two thou
sand dollars is the amount of suits that
have been entered here against the Sa
vannah. Florida and Wes crn Railroad
Company, as the result of the wreck of a
IKissenger train in the yards here last Oc
tober. Twenty-five thousand dollars dam
ages is asked by Baggage master C. R.
Jordon, who alleges in ids declaration th it
lie was permanently disabled in the wreck,
being In khe discharge of ills duties at the
time It discurred.
Mail Agent E. H. Bowen, who was In
the mall car when it was dashed to pieces
against two loaded freight cal’s, alleges
that he was permanently disabled, and
asks for $16,000. The plaintiffs in both of
these cases are represented by Too me r &
Reynolds, of Waycross.
Rosina Lomax, wife of a colored preach
er here, was a passenger In the second
class coach and alleges that she was
thrown over several seats and was se
riously Injured. She asks for $2,0J0 dam
age. It is said that the woman is still in
a precarious condition, being under the
constant care of a physician here. These
cases promise to excite considerable in
terest and will be fought to a finish on
both sides.
Mr. J. B. Jones, through his attorneys,
S. T. Kingsberry A Son, has filed a suit
for 9800 against the Georgia Southern and
Florida Road for sto< > killed by trains on
that road during the months of Novem
ber nnd Dec* mbc r An itemized state
ment in the declaration shows that prob
ably sixty head of stock were killed dur
ing these two months, there being thirty
two accidents of the kind during that
.time. The road runs through Mr. Jones’
field, h© being a largo cattle and stock
raiser.
Besides these cases which will come up
in the City Court next week, there are a
large number of criminal cases, and the
session promises to be the most interest
ing that has been held since the City
Court was established.
A NEGRO GIRL WHIPPED.
She llnd Brutally I**nulted nn taeil
Lady.
Charleston. S. C., Feb. 27.—Yesterday Id
Greenville county a negro girl of 16 years
was publicly whipped by her father with
a stout hickory switch, rather than have
her prosecuted for a brutal assault on an
aged lady, who had scolded her for ffot
doing the family washing in a proper
manner. No crowd was permitted to be
present, only one neighbor as a specta
tor, a magistrate and his constable, nnd a
representative of the injured party, to see
that the punishment was properly in
flicted.
WILL IMPROVE ITS PROPERTY.
Lakrnlde llonl Club to Increase Fii
ellltlex timl Extend Membership.
Augusta, Feb. 27.—The Lakeside Boat
Club announces to-day that it will spend
*2,500 In improving its boat house, pavil
ion and club at Lake Olmsteud during the
next two months In time for tlie spring
and summer season and the mem be Ah Ip
limit will he extended from 100 to 1.0. This
Is one of the most popular athletic and
social organizations In the community.
liegitrded a* n Mini* Victory.
Atlanta, Feb. 27.—The City Executive
Committee to-night named Oct. 5 as the
date of the primary. This is regarded as a
Mims victory, as the other candidate*
were reported as favoring an i .tily pri
mary in April, while Mims wanted an
early fall primary. Chairman McCullough
resigned to-night and Col. W. T. Meyer*
was elected to the vacancy.
Drnnk a Bottle of Laudanum.
Augusta. Feb. 27.—A little daughter of
Mr. Joe Oetjen drank the contents of a
bottle of laudanum to-day and has been
In a critical condition ever since. Doctor*
have been working with her for hours,
and It is believed her life will bo saved.
Blk Cotton MIR at Anniston.
Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 27.— William No
ble, John Noble and James Keith are now
ananglng for machinery for *IOO,OOO oot
ton mill at Anniston, Ala., whlcli will be
built at once. This Is the fifth mill for
Anniston.
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