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M’KINLEY’S
MESSAGE
As Read Before Congress at
the Opening Session.
SUMMARY OF SALIENT POINTS
Document Deals at Great Length
With the Situation In China,
The Philippines and Cuba.
Vital Questions Fully
Considered.
The message of William McKinley,
president of the United States ot
America, delivered to the last session
of the fifty-sixth congress Monday,
contains more than 20,000 words and
deals with questions of vital impor
tance to the present administration
and to the American people. It is a
document tersely written, full of de
tail and emphatic in suggestion.
The message deals principally with
the Chinese situation, the future
policy in the Philippines, the govern
ment of Cuba, the . building of the
Nicaragua canal, a construction of a
cable to Hawaii and Manila, the basis
of a standing army, the extension of
commercial relations with foreign
countries, a suggestion to overthrow
the trusts and a positive but liberal
policy at home.
Mr. McKinley urges the construc
tion of better cable connection with
foreign countries, better postal facili
ties at home and abroad. He roasts
lynching and declares that punish
ment to the guilty must be imposed
by the courts and not by mobs. He
is opposed to the 1 quor traffic in coun
tries where the inhabitants are unciv
ilized. He asks that sufficient protec
tion be given alien citizens in the
United States and that an indemnity
be paid for the lynching of five Ital
ians in Louisiana and the lynchers be
punished, apd that federal jurisdiction
be given in such matters so as to in
sure the punishmeut of offenders
against liberty and life and for the
protection of foreigners sojourning
within our borders.
The message fully reviews the Chi
nese muddle, giving a graphic ac
count of the siege of the legation in
Pekin and their memorable defense.
He applauds the heroism of the Amer
ican relieving force aud reiterates
that the United States is uot at war
with China and nevei has been. In
dealing with thty Chinese situation he
suggests that the open door policy
should figure and that sufficient guar
antee of personal safety should be ex
tended Americans in China.
A considerable portion of the mes
sage is devoted to the Paris exposition
and the good results accruing from
the exhibits made by this country at 1
the fair.
The president is delighted that not
withstanding the intricacies of the
South African war, the friendship with
Great Britain has never become es
tranged aud the United States aud
England are still enjoying the most
cordial relations, with a future replete
with promised contiuuauce.
The inter-ocean canal project meets
with his hearty approval and he re
views the present situation in Nicara
gua with pleasure.
Our relations with Spaiu, despits
the late war, uro cordial, and the
president urges that the congress see
to it that peace aud good will betw*6p
the two countries is maiutaiued in the
future. Certain indemnities are rec
ommended to be paid Spain.
The government of the United States
is still waiting for the Sultan of Tur
key to make adequate reparation for
the Armenian outrages aud the re
building of the coNege at Harpoot.
The piosident is assured of the good
will of Turkey, notwithstanding the
present complications.
The Buffalo exposition aud the
Mexican congress are given attention,
and the general plan of displaying the
resources of the government meets
with the president's approval and en
dorsement.
Quite a portion of the message is de
voted to the expenses of the army and
navy and figures are given showing a
more economical administration of af
fairs in these departments.
The refunding act, the president de
clares, has greatly benefited the cir
culation of oar government.
The imports and exports have ex
ceeded by millions the records of the
past.
The president suggests the reduction
of the war revenue aud the upbuilding
of American shipping.
More attention is given to the Phil
ippine situation than any other subject
and the president fully outlines his
policy in the east. F.e advocates a lib
versal language—the English lan
guage. The laws are to be conserva
tive, just and equitable; taxes are not
to be excessive and no burdens are to
be inflicted upon the people which can
be avoided. The treaty of Paris as to
property rights must be upheld.
In other words, the policy as out
lined for the people of the Philippines
will secure to the nation the advant
ages of the government of the United
States, with all the rights and privi
leges of self-government, just as soon
as the natives show themselves capa
ble of governing themselves.
The president’s idea is that the
islands have been nacified. save for
the guerilla warfare, and he believes
that an army of 15,000 natives will in
a short time bring peace in all the
group, will insure safety to lives and
property and will secure a vast increase
in business. ,
Until the islands are thoroughly
pacified the military governor is the
highest authority, acting under the
orders and jurisdiction of the Taft
commission, but when peace is finally
brought about a civil government must
be administered.
The message reviews at considera
ble length the progresss that has been
made in Cuba towards bringing about
a self-government for the people.
The president cites many instances
to show that we are at peace with all
the world and that annually our com
mer a 1 and our social relations are
increasing in cordiality.
Gradually the commerce of the
Uuited States with our South Ameri
can neighbors is improving and the
future is replete with promise.
An army of GO,OOO men is recom
mended,the president to be empowered
to increase to 100,000 if emergency
should demand.
Within the last four years, $60,000,-
000 have been paid for improved coast
defenses, requiring an army of 26,000
men for garrison duty. The message
reviews the improving along this line
and gives many interesting details of
what has been accomplished.
The progress made in the extension
of the rural mail system and the bet
tering of the postal system meets with
the appYoval of the president and he
urges the congress not to neglect this
importaut branch of the government.
A civil service is promised the Fili
pinos, under the Taft commission.
A recommendation is made that all
the heroic acts in both army and navy
should be regarded aud that the ap
preciation of the government should
be shown individual members of the
army and navy who have done valiant
service; especially to the volunteers
who remained in the Philippine ser
vice after their term of enlistment had
expired.
Pensions, too, are talked about, aud
the president expresses the desire that
aged, maimed and infirm soldiers and
seamen shall be supported liberally.
Reference is made to the great
strides Hawaii has recently made and
the president declares that peace and
prosperity reigns on the island. He
recommends the building of a cable to
Hawaii, which, in time, is to be ex
tended to Manila aud to be owned and
controlled exclusively by the United
Stales.
Attention is paid the compilation of
the United States census and libernl
applause is given the census bureau
for its faithful work.
The agricultural statistics show' a
ra g\or imnt or the F.hpinos, de
luiing the nation is susceptible to
higher education. The uncivilized in
habitants of the island be would treat
as we did the American Indians. The
government of the Philippines is to bo
free, but under the direction aud en
forcement of the United States. The
Fildpinos are to select their municipal
and executive officers, but they must
be loyal to the wishes and laws of this
country. He suggests an extension of
the school facilities, with free primary
institutes and the adoption of a uni
remarkable progress throughout the
entire country.
Ih closing the message, the presi
dent urges that in this era of pros
perity, we should not become ex
travagant, but should administer the
affairs of the country economically
and conservatively, cutting expendi
tures wherover possible, but not to the
detriment of the public good.
GERMANS AGAINST BOXERS.
Kaiser Lose* Twenty Men In Fight Near
Pao Tina In- .
It is reported in Tien Tain that the
Germans lost twenty killed and mauy
wounded west of Pao Ting Fu, where
they were attackediby 2,500 boxers.
A quantity of loose powder exploded
in the last arsenal occupied by the
Russians. It is supposed the explo
sion w’as caused by two Chiuese smok
ing. Both Chinamen were killed.
The shock was felt at Tien Tsin
HOBSON GOES TO HOSPITAL.
✓
Naval Hem Is Thr*at-n-d With Serious
Attack of Typhoid Keve..
At New York, Saturday, Lieutenant
Hobson, United States navy, was taken
from the Army and Navy Club to the
Presbyterian hospital. He is threatened
with typhoid fever. Lieutenant Hobson
was taken ill iu Washington some days
ago. He immediately went to New Y'ork
and put up at the Army and Navy Club.
It was decided to take him to the hos
pital.
HAY-PAUNCEFOTE TREATY.
Matter Comes Up In Senate and
Lodge Explains Administra
tion Program.
A Washington special says: In ex
ecutive session of the senate Wednes
day Senator Lodge made plain the ad
ministration program with regard to
the ratification of the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty.
At a meeting of the committee on
foreign relations before the senate’s
sesaiou it was found that a number of
the Republican senators have changed
front toward the lAuvis proposition to
amend the treaty. Whereas there was
but two votes of the eleven against
ratification without amendment at the
last session, it developed that the ten
members of the committee are now
evenly divided.
Morgan and Frye favored the_treaty
as origiually drawn,and have now been
joined by Cullom, Foraker and Wol
cott. While .Senators Ledge and Clark
of Wyoming still count themselves in
favor of the amendment, their talk in
dicates that they are not very strongly
that way. Later, during the executive
session, Senator Lodgo declared the
republican purpose to press the treo y
to the earlies" possible ratification,
holding daily executive sessions if ne
cessary. He talked in a half-hearted
way about amendment, and made it
clear that the administration plan is to
shape things toward the ratification of
the original treaty.
No vote was reached nor will there
be a vote for some days; but nobody
would be surprised if the final round
up showed the necessary thirds
for the original treaty.
Senator Lodge was subjected to
many questions during the presenta
tion of his explanation of the treaty.
Senator Beveridge asked whether it
was not true that the abrogation of the
Clayton-Buiwer treaty, as provided
for in the pending treaty, would have
the effect of permitting Great Britain
to acquire property in the area affect
ed.
Senator Lodge replied in the nega
tive, saying that it was well known to
all that the Hay-Pauncefote treaty,
while abrogating the Ciayton-Bulwer
treaty so fav as it applies to the United
States and binds this country, still
leaves England bound by its terms.
DEPOT BILL RECONSIDERED.
Georgia Solon* Will Have Another Show
to l’as* the Measure.
The Atlanta depot bill was reconsid
ered by the Georgia house of repre
sentatives Wednesday and again placed
on the calendar. The reconsideration
of the measure was accomplished by a
vote of ninety-two to forty-three, or a
majority for the motion of over two to
one.
The friends of the depot of ter
minal improvement rallied around the
bill in a manner that forecasts its final
passage. They manifested an enthu
siasm that refused to accept defeat,
while their ranks were considerably
augmented from the ranks of those
who voted to defeat the measure. In
all, no less than twenty-two members
who on Tuesday either voted against
the depot or failed to vote at all, show
ed up in favor of reconsideration.
KRUGER SHED TEARS.
Emperor William’* Seeming Ingratitude
Was Hard Blow to tlie Old Man.
A special dispatch from Cologne
says Mr. Kruger, after he had received
Emperor William’s telegram, spoke as
follows to a deputation styled “Friends
of the Boers:”
“I hope with all my heart the cir
cumstances which prevents his majesty
from receiving me today will become
more favorable later. I shall never
cease to have confidence in the spirit
of justice of the emperor, who, know
ing me, sent me four years ago signifi
cant encouragement. I shall stay some
time at The Hague and will then re
new my request, aud this time the em
peror will not refuse.”
Mr. Kruger was very sad and after
wards retired to his apartment in tears.
Two Aged Veterans Dying.
Two of the surviving generals of
the civil war are dangerously ill at
their homes in Louisville and Bowling
Green, Ky. The men are General
Thomas H. Taylor, whose death is
momentarily expected at his home in
Louisville, aud General Wiufield F.*
Perry, of Bowling Green.
TENNESSEE’S VOTE.
Official Figure* Show That Bryan’* Ma
jority Kxoeeded That of 1806.
The official vote of Tennessee in the
recent election, as completed Wednes
day by the receipt of returns from
Moore county, gives:
, For president, Bryan 145,250, Mc-
Kinley 123,008, .prohibition 3,914,
people’s party 1,300, social democrats
415; a total of 273,947.
For governor, McMillin, Democrat,
145,708; McCall, Republican, 119,831;
R. 8. Cheves, Prohibitionist, 3,378;
H. J. Mullins, Populist, 1,269; C. H.
Stockel, Social Democrat, 257.
Brvau’s majority over MoKinley was
23,242.
The Difference.
“Yes,” said his wife, “I gave the
poor fellow that old black coat of
yours. You have had it five or six
years, and it’s all out of style now.
You never would have worn it t gxin.
What differei ce will it make to you
fitly years from now?”
Mr. Tight-Phist took a sheet of pa
per and figured rapidly upon it for
the next fifteen or twenty minutes.
“The difference,” he said at last,
“reckoned at compound interest for
fifty years on what I_. could have got
for that coat at a second-hand cloth
ing store, is 8194.24 plus! Womau, I
believe you want to bankrupt me!”
•
A Bolden Hand.
Teas—l hear you are faking an irtor
est in church work. You have a Baud
of Hope, haven’t you?
Jess—Not yet, but I’m to get it to
day, and it’s to have two diamonds in
it. Charlie proposed last night.—
Philadelphia Itecoid.
The Chinese Almanac.
There is no work In the world of which
so many copies are printed annually as of
the Chinese almanac. It predicts the'weath
er, and notes the days which are considered
lu< ky or otherwise for commencing any un
dertaking, for marrying, burying, or for
applying roir.edlos to dheases. A lucky day
is not necessary w-hen Hostetter’s Stomach
Bitters is taken for constipation, Indiges
tion. dyspepsia, biliousness, liver or kidney
troubles. It will cure all of these disorders.
Glorious J xlt.
“Tubbs Is somewhat of a snob, isn’t he?’’
“Snob? Kay. he’d die happy if he coi id get
run over by a millionaire's automobile.”
The ordinary every-day life of most of our women i3 a
ceaseless treadmill of work.
How much harder the daily tasks become when some
derangement of the female organs makea every movement
painful and keeps the nervous system all unstrung 1
One day she is wretched and utterly miserable ; in a day
or two she is better and laughs at her fears, thinking there
is nothing much the matter after all; but before night the
deadly backache reappears, the limbs tremble, the lips twitch
—it seems as though all the imps of Satan were clutching
her vitals ; she goes to pieces ana is flat on her back.
No woman ought to arrive at this terrible state of
misery, because these symptoms are A sure forerunner of
womb troubles. She must remember that Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound is almost an infallible cure
for all female ills, such as irregularity of periods, which cause
weak stomach, sick headache, etc., displacements and in
flammation of the womb, or any of the multitudes of ill
nesses which beset the female organism.
Mrs. Gooden wrote to Mrs. PSnkhatn when she
was in groat trouble. Her tetter tells the result.
•• Dear Mbs. Pinxjiaxi:—l am -very grateful to yon for your kindness
and the interest you have taken in me, ana truly believe that your medicines
Eand advice are worth more to a woman than all the
doctors in the world. My troubles began with inflam
mation and hemorrhages from the kidneys, then
inflammation, congestion and falling of the womb,
and inflammation of the ovaries. I underwent local
treatment every day for some time; then. after nearly
two months, the aoctor gave mo permission to go
back to work. I went back, but in less than a week
waa compelled to give up end go to bed. On break
ing down the second time, I decided to let doctors
ana medicines alone and try jour remedies. Before
the first bottle was gone I felt the effects of it.
Three bottles of Lydia E. Pinkliam’s Vegetable
Compound and a paokage of Sanative Wash did
me more good than all the doctors’ treatments and
medicine. I have gained twelve pounds during tho
last two months and am better in every way. Thanldpg you for your
kind ndrio. nnd WWniion, I Ifonry lowm ..
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Too Much.
Gusher My wife has promised to
wait for me at the gate of heaven if
she is the first to go.
Flasher—Tut, tut. You shouldn’t
be so revengeful as to make her wait
through eternity simply because she
made you wait while she fixed up
sometimes. —Life.
“vVhy is it,” asked the girl who
tr es to be funny, “why is it that they
always say that a young man pines for
a woman? Why couldn’t they say he
oaks for her, for instance?”
“Because,” growled the old bache
lor, “because pine is about the softest
wood there is.”—New York World.
The Place For Them.
McJigger—Of course, Noah must
have taken bees with him.
Thingumbob—Oh, certainly.
McJ igger—Just think how they must
have stung the animals while they flew
about.
Thingumbob—Oh, I guess Noah
kept them shut up in the archives.
Chicago Record.
No Athlete.
“How is Ponsonby’s boy making
out at college?”
“O! he doesn’t cut much of a figure
there.” *
“Why, I understand he was making
wonderful progress Vith his studies.”
“That’s just it. He spends all his
time trying to acquire an education.”
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