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Tuesday, July 10, 1907 THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH nis 10 to ilstin- Jlsaslfr to saved the the army and harried in his advance north, ntcretf Charlotte rrrnnT Tft Tlinil nnillll of ‘he bin as passed by the Senate! If State prohibition is bound to III llli I III III |v M II || Mf N temperance committee, on the part of j practicing of H«\SK*£S£ feature which prohibits the purchase, priatiors. With a loss of $250,0.00 a of alcohol for medicinal purposes ex- year from this source, and with the cept upon the certificate of a physi- ' State treasury now $250,000 behind, it clan Iri actual attendance on the case, j will be necessary to retrench to the ■ In many instances, it is claimed that j extent of half a million dollars. This There la nn Interesting bit of eossln i th,s w,!1 prove to ° severe - But the cannot all be cut off special appro- o whiM? ana _ jV prohibition element Is not worried on priations. Pensions and schools will ick of a motion which was made in K UNCLE QBE STEVENS NTERESTINB GOSSIP FROM NATION’S CAPITOL JOHN C. SPOONER By SAVOYARD. 3 (Tice , Dav,fe . supported 1>y 'the Meck- lenourgerrf who had so boldly thrown [ back Kauntlet to King George and ! ttie House of RepresentaUv roe to . j! 1 * r0 » al Cover- er day by Mr. Alexander. _ r, mriae a stand behind the same log i inokinr to immediate action vh a* ...... . . . , .... . . . , court house in which th«* npriir'itlon 1 u. *_ OMt i, Ar The prohibition element has elimi-ia million Income gone, the States ° nd w,th » tood three j provides that the comptro'ller genera* [*® te<3 a ^?? U *Lf^ich wL 22SS*!2i £35*“ mUSt ** CUt accord ‘ ‘he '“e ‘ a/L^ralor to^epresem toe Stalin j the ordinal bill. But’thl. has ft'is a question that involves many and On retired in good order. 1 the matter of tax P assessments upon now been cut out - and the father may interesting features, and the last of it It Is not within the bounds of proba- j corporation property up0n sell his grapes, but not the product of j will not by any means be heard, with biIity that John VfrKnltt AUvon^Ar I nrviii A ry A «.. »<% i a » ♦'/.« , them. WASHINGTON. July 12.—In ‘ mitted to the bar. They have an I I in Wisconsin'and the father ha* en- I When this man resigned from the j tered it to give his aid. Another son the'United States Senate he left a big; is of a poetic and artistic tempera- question for the time being has prac tically ceased to hold tt\e center ot the stage. Secretary Taft is away on his vacation. Vice-President Fair banks Is "swinging around the circle’ ■the final passage of the bill. ‘ ha ‘ J°hn McKnitt Alexander | While the House refused to let the j on 11 hav * fabricated *nd palmed off j bill be read a second time as It was ' «* $£££"*?? SJJr?SSXVS COMMERCE OF UNITED STATES cu- Declaration or Independence. 'the manure had boon referred. to make Wimill.llVi. V> W IVIIB.W h# I n X bi. IS STEADILY ON THE INCREASE the measure had been referred, to make . I an early report upon It. 1 i-erc is1 m disposition to minimize There could bo only one reason for r evade the analytical discussion as haste in the passage of a measure^ klmllartty of phrases in the this kind, and that Is a desire for its , t , i nf>ur * Declaration with some application to the tax arbitrations up- yV eraon * papPr: ‘he contention on corporation property now about to c ni c.overnor Martin's rcferencels can be held. These arbitrations are Just '■ shown to relate to the May 31st getting under way and it will not be *' j nd ,h t fact ,hat * he an 1 * 86 - ! possible to dispose of all of them per- fiuent conduct of the Mecklenburgers | haps for two or three months. • as not always consistent with the ; it Is well-known that Railroad Com- sentlments of the Declaration. missioner O. B. Stevens has already Briefly taking these up. the last been chosen- as the State's arbitrator mentioned first In order, the writer Is frank to say that the Declaration was premature and did not -receive wide acceptance. The Mecklenburgers could only speak for themselves, and When their sentiments were coldly re ceived and disparaged at Philadelphia and later disregarded In the' councils of the North Carolina colonial assem bly, it Is possible that those who had subscribed to the Declaration In the patriotic fervor of the moment did not faithfully adhere to Its terms. The abstraction bv Minister Steven son from the British rolls office of the paper enclosed by Governor Mar- t ‘Ip to Dartmouth will always leave some doubt In the mind of the student Ps to what that piper was. And whether it was the May 31st Resolves or not, it does not follow that the Mecklenburgers held only one meeting and acted on and promulgated only one paper In May, 1775. On tho con trary. the May 31st Resolves standln'g by themselves are -like the armless \ enus of Milo. They are a fragment and. like the mutilated masterpiece, unmistakably Indicate that something is missing from the plan of the de signer. As a plan of provisional Gov ernment formulated hy "the commit tee.'* they show that the people in convention had taken, or were con templating taking, some radical ac tion. What the nature of that action was we must be pardoned If we In sist on accepting from the testimony of Governor Martin, n contemporary whose business it wiy, to know what the people of North Carolina and every part of it were doing in 177. r ., rather than accept It from the deduc tions of a scholar of today, no matter how learned, as made from some frag ments of printed matter and Imper fect records of a people who did not print their doings or preserve any systematic record of them. Governor Martin reported to Dartmouth in June. 1775, the "treasonable publication'' of the Mecklenburgers who he proposed to punish when he recovered the "lost authority of Government." and In Au gust. 1775, more than two months after the convention, he issued a trroc- lnmnllon denouncing them for “most traitorously declaring the entire dis solution of the laws. Government and Constitution of this country.” It Is absurd to suppose that the printed copy of the May 31st resolves as we know them, was the only information as to the conduct of the Meeklenhurg- ers Governor Martin had In all that time and the only basis for his con tinued anger and denunciations of Ihem. And finally as to the similarity of phrases. In all great epochs in his tory and In human affairs the spirit, ^the sentiments, and the opinions of the people have crystallized Into cer tain popular phrases commonly em ployed and repeated among the people. We will find It so today In the de nunciations of "predatory wealth” and kindred expressions. Tt will he found to have been the case prior to our great Civil War hy any one who will examine the flies of tho papers at that reriod, and It was doubtless so in the Revolution period. Jefferson's immor tal paper did not all originate within and of himself. He spake for all the American people: he breathed t.heir spirit and In many ir»stnnees used language that had been coined out of the conditions of the time and was current among the people. Reverting then to (he nroposltion that John McKnitt Alexander's state ment is "the kevsfone of the fabric of the May 20 Declaration.” wo find this kevsfone upheld and supported by cor- ••ohorativc evidence of the most sur prising and conclusive nature, that developed long after John McKnitt Alexander had been gathered to his fathers, ft was buttressed by Gover nor Martin In Mo denunciation of the treason committed hy the Mecklen- hurgers In May 1775: It was support ed by the testimony of a whole raft of eye-witnesses. Including Gen. Jo seph Graham, who In several of these cases, and on ac count of the fact that he Is a,new man on the commission, one who has not engaged In such arbitrations here tofore. there Is strong probability un der the present law. that he will be chosen to represent the State in all of them, unless Mr. Alexander's bill be comes a law In time to prevent it. It Is openly talked about the capitol that. the fact that Mr. Stevens was not altogether In hearty political ac cord with the administration, prior to the action of tho party in the primary election has given rise to a desire orv the part of friends of the administra tion to eliminate him as a factor in passing upon these tax assessments. If this bill "an be passed promptly the elimination process will be possi ble; otherwise he will continue to serv£ as the Iqw provides only for the ap pointment of a railroad commissioner in such cases. Nevertheless Commission Stevens in the work already done, has evinced a desire and an intention to stand squarely up to to the comptroller gen eral's assessments, unless it can be positively shown thev are based on erroneous facts. In fact he has In formed the comptroller general that this is his determination. AS SHOWN BY THE PRINCIPAL 1 coast ports. In imports the gain by PORTS AND SECTIONS, 1907. ! the southern, western and northern border ports over those on the Atlantic WASHINGTON, July 13.—Ports on I f ron t, while not so strongly marked, is the southern, western and northern j ... ,, , „ borders of the United States are stead- : d “* to ,£/o r 1J nr tfhfnh »y increasing their share In both the import and export trade, while, con TO MAKE LEGAL GRADES OF COTTON SEED MEAL ATLANTA, Ga.. July 13.—The com mittee on general agriculture in the House, of which L. H. O. Martin, of Elbert, is chairman, has amended the McMIdiael bill in regard to the grad ing of cotton-seed meal into three classes of "High.” "Standard” and "Low,” and stamping the grades plainly on the sacks or tags, and rec ommended its passage by the House. It Is on account of grading that Commissioner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson recently came down upon sev enteen cotton oil mills in the Sta'te for selling meal which he claimed was below the former standard as defined by analysis of the State chemist. It was to correct this evi! and protect both file farmer and manufacturer that the McMichael bill was framed. By its terms, instead of there being only one grade of this general fertil izer, there are to ho three under the names designated above. The first of these is to contain S per cent of am monia, which is equivalent to 6.60 per rent of nitrogen: the second or lower grade, which was formerly the high est grade, is to contain 7% per cent of ammonia, or 6.18 per cent nitro gen, while nil below this grade is to be known as low grade and sold as such. In speaking the bill Commissioner Hudson said: "X am heartily In f;v vor of the measure and think that un der'its terms all former unpleasant ness will be eliminated. With the three grades and ail properly stamped, the farmer will know exactly what he is buying when he makes his pur chases. and the manufacturer will make a pleased customer by telling him exactly what grade of goods he is selling him at tho time.” School Fund And Pensions to Be Cut versely, the percentage of the trade passing through ports on the Atlantic seaboard is decreasing. In 15s97. 82 Vi per cent of the ipiports into the United States entered through Atlantic ports, while in 1907 the share entering through those ports will be about 80 per cent. In 1897 about 69 per cent of tho exports passed but of the country Atlantic ports, while the figures of 190" will show but about 57 per cent of the exports of the country through those ports. These figures are bdsed upon the records of the imports and exports by ports for the eleven months ending with May, as shown by the official re port of the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Comparing the figure* of 1907 with those of 1906 (the figures for the clos ing month of the present year being an estimate based upon the known record for the month of May), Atlantic ports show an increase of but 17 per cent in imports, as compared with the im mediately preceding year; Gulf ports show an Increase of 18 per cent, Mexi can border ports an Increase of 6 per cent. Pacific ports an increase of 40 per .cent, the northern border ports an increase of 12 per cent, and in the in terior ports an increase of 20 per cent. In exports Atlantic ports show an in crease of but 1 per cent. Gulf ports an increase of 30 per cent. Mexican 'border ports an Increase of 17 per cent, north ern border and lake ports an increase of 12 per cent, and interior ports an increase of 24 per cent, this reduction in exports through Pacific coast ports being chiefly in exports to Asia, which fell in 1907 about 14 million dollars below those of 1906. A more accurate view of the trend of the import and export trade is ob tained by extending the comparisons over a longer period of time. Com paring conditions in 1907 with those of 1897, the gain in imports is apportioned about as follows: Atlantic ports, 79 per cent: Gulf ports, 220 per cent; Pa cific ports. 111 per cent; Mexican bor der ports. 337 per cent; northern bor der and lake ports, 118 per cent; inte rior ports, 180 per cent: and for the country as a whole. 90 per cent. In exports the relative increases are as follows: Atlantic ports, 46 per cent; Gulf ports. 163 per cent: Pacific ports, 56 per cent: Mexican border ports, 19.3 per cent: northern border and lake ports. 211 per cent; and for the United States as a whole, about 80 per cent. Taking up the principal ports and comparing conditions in , 1907 with those of 1897. imports through Boston through the Pacific ports, and the in crease in movements from Mexico and Central America at the south and Can ada at the north of material for use in the manufacturing establishments of the United States. 1 ' A summarization of the year’s busi ness shows that less than a dozen cus toms districts are credited with five- sixths of the entire foreign commerce of the United States. Stated in the order of magnitude they are approxi mately as follows: New York, 1.4S0 millian dollars; Galveston, 251 mil lions: Boston* 230 millions; New Or leans. 217 millions; Philadelphia. 174 millions; Baltimore, 145 millions: San Francisco, 90 millions: Puget Sound, 68 millions; Savannah, 66 millions Mobile. 28 millions, and Chicago, ,25 million's. Considering imports and ex ports separately, the leading ports are in imports: New York, Boston, Phila delphia, San Francisco, New Orleans and Baltimore; and in exports, New York, Galveston. New Orleans, Balti more Boston. Philadelphia. 'Savannah, Puget Sound, Detroit, San Francisco and Buffalo. Detailed information as to the trade of the various ports by principal arti cles during the tf-ear just ended is not yet available, but the character of that business may be ascertained, approxi mately, by reference to figures for the year 1906. For that year New York was credited with about one-third of the total exports of the country, iron and steel (8 million dollars), meats (70 millions), copper ingots and bars (45 millions), mineral oils (45 millions), cotton (30 millions), being the leading items in a list of articles including practically every branch of our export trade. At Boston the principal exports are meats (27 million dollars), cattle (10 millions), and lard (6 millions). At Baltimore, cattle (5 million dollars), corn (13 millions), wheat and flour (8 millions), cotton (9 millions), copper ingots and bars (27 millions), manu factures of iron and steel (7% mil lions), lard (7 millions), and leaf to bacco (8 millions) are the leading ar ticles of exportation. The chief com modities exported at the Port 'of Phil adelphia are mineral oils (20 millions), breadstuffs (17 millions), and meats (6 millions). At Savannah cotton con stitutes the most important item of ex portation. At Galveston; the principal cotton port of the country, while cotton (137 million dollars) is the leading ar ticle exported, breadstuffs (12 millions) and cotton-seed oil cake (5 millions) are items of increasing importance. New Orleans is second to Galveston as hour” without Spooner will appear I that Spooner is now a corporatioh law- strange, and work on the “calendar" i yer. If by that they mean a man without Spooner will cost the Treasury , learned in the profession and a help to a pretty penny. In my time at this j the court in tho administration of jus- CapitaU now approaching thirty years, itice. they are exactly right. But that • _ .c. rvr Ae * . j r>i,Vf5«fr j- Vile now Bpproacning imr*. sr>are momen4‘ 1 <f a %dn P t waitresses : John C ' s P°° ner was the best “watch is not what they rtlean T^,'>r'o S ^ S i d °S” of the whole lot, and made the insinuate that Spooner will lend him- ".J ?n nna 1 least noise of any of them. He was self to corporations to oppress the “L.L gnnr "fn L AInl 'f! Indispensable when big bills were be-j people. Why did he leave the Senate? fore the Senate; he was ever present! If that is his game, he could have Senator Knox also is absent from the Capital. It may have _been the fact an< j €ver vigilant when little bills were learned millions in that body. Many sntniinna considered. Charles Sumner had su- was the day that his absence from the S t m v n t P erIat, V‘ contempt for little things. It sitting would have been worth largo Leslie M. Shaw, former Secretary of took what he conceived to be "a great ... moral idea” to i^ut him in action. The "morning hour" filled him with ennui; the "calendar” was his special aver sion. Andy Johnson classed him the Treasury, to make a mysterious visit to Washington this week. Mr. Shaw, who has Presidential aspira tions of his own, is now president of lief that Mr. Shaw was not neglecting his fences even if 'business duties did press. the Carnegie Trust Company of New am the / reat men " who a ' ln . t flt for York, although he declares he still ; not hin" ” claims his legal residence in Iowa. He j s ' poo s nel ; did not want to leave the is in splendid health, and denied vo- ( Senate. He loved the work, and he ciferousiy that he was here for polit- knew he u - as m for the work. Never ical purposes declaring his visit was an OI tfcat Iabored harder thnn he . purely one of business However. never a blic man more faithfu i to there were a number of mysterious his trUBt H e gave his best years to country in the field and in the council, and when three-score years and four had passed over his head he left the Senate a poorer man than when he entered It, either in 1S85 or 1S97, and set about to make an estate to keep his children In comfort after he shall be gathered to his fathers. He had gained the applause of many good men. He had-commanded the applause even of churls, who would sooner have condemned him, and did backbite him. But when history with Rhadamanthian pen shall make the roll of great Sen ators. high on the list will be the name of John C. Spooner. Thirty-eight candidates for consular positions took oral examinations this week in the rooms of the Third As sistant Secretary of State in the State Department. These oral examinations lasted one day, and written tests were made on two succeeding days. The determination of the department to have none but competeent men repre' sent the United States abroad has led to the fixing of the percentage re quired to pass at 80, ten points higher than that usually exacted in competi tive examinations for positions under the Government. It is likely that the Navy Depart ment' wili have a war vessel present at Put-In-Bay on August 5, when the Victory monument, commemorative of the battle of Lake Erie, is to be un veiled. Congressman Burton, of Ohio, consulted this week with Acting Sec retary Newberry, and white no decis ion was arrived at, It is said that in all probability the gunboat Wolverine, now on special recruiting service on the Great Lakes, will be sent there on the date named. There will be an other attraction in the person of Vice- President Fairbanks, who has ac cepted an invitation to deliver the principal address. lion,; wMl, S IhSSh toot pSn SSL'??.? t! 0 ' 1 ’: .«!«««•«« 011 «**?• show little if any gain in the decade, ATLANTA, July 13.—There Is use hoping against hope—that Is If you are on the lo#il option side of the fence—for prohibition In Georgia is practically an assured fact. There is no stopping It; its ardent advocates won’t even hear to delay. When Joe Hall, of Bibb, a well- a boy had lis- [ known local optionist. admitted the tetied to the arguments of the speak- I S‘»‘ e prohibition bill had 125 votes in ers nnd as a man. five wars later, led - ‘ be House, and possibly 150, there was the Mecklenburg contingent, when. | no uaft ‘ n carrying hope any further, with Gen. Davie, they held the British ] The Iocn I optlonlsts may as well settle army at bay, a skirmish in which the | down upon the conclusion that they former vonrg officer was severely have got to take their medicine and wounded ar.d nojfrlv lost his life: It make the best of It. was signally substantiated In the" tes- i Georgians from other parts of the tlmonv of riant. Jack, who made theiS‘"‘ e who had not been In Atlanta :rin to Philadelphia and stopped »t until the last few days, would not be- Ralisbury. In Rowan County where jllcve the reports sent out. Indicating the court which was in session IU(- j that State prohibition was practically pended proceedings in order to hear an assured fact But when they came the d'.'Uinenf r ad: ar I. finally, i: here, many of them to go before the was borne iut in the nmin point hy I Senate temperance committee and the Vav 31st Resolves !■> which t : present their protest, amounting to no ‘■J-, pudlntor* of the Declaration shifted ! more than a mere formality, they gave r’leir ground and pinned their faith ! I‘ «P and went back home satisfied after the historical records and other ‘hat the "goose was cooked.” developments so signally stampeded i Never has such eagerness been dis- them from their first ground. played to get a piece of legislation E— - . ■ j through as in this instance. Every- Sleeping Cars and a Cent a Mile. thing else must give way to It. and it New Jersey Is now ready to adopt j is tha ‘ little elsC wlll be done ««»•-.» -«»».. err T,. bii ur.. is rrs t buffet, and even freight cars on Governor. her trolley system, which means that ! The House !s not waiting on the New York City Is to have an entirely ! Senate. The House temperance com- j*»w service—one that will’ bring more . mittoe has already gone to work on than hnlf of New Jersey within ^ Covington bill, which will be made •h” reach of hundreds of thousands to I ? ad exac ‘Iy like the Hardman bill i i. v,. never !"fore dared hope for 1 in the Senate, and favorable report country homes near the great metrop- U P°" “ r® no doubt be made before o \l From Now York to Philadelphia ; tllp Senate bill Is sent over. This will I return bv trollev occupies ten I save at least two or three days in the eosti *wo dollars or a passage of the measure, and that Is fraction ovor a cent a mile. This rato U u9t what th * Prohibition element is . ivibly b.- lowered when the | ‘ryln* to do. The quicker the better. ...c', cars are In operation from ;,s their motto, and It may as well be n street and Herald square to theEdone for little other business will be • ),„ii in Philadelphia. At present transacted until this question has been the figures for 1907 'being about the same as those for 1S97. when the total was 101 millions. Imports through the port of New York increased from 481 million dollars in 1897 to 858 millions in 1907, a gain of 377 millions, while exports through that port increased from 392 millions to 616 millions, a gain of 224 .millions, Philadelphia shows an increase from 48 millions to 80 millions, or a gain of 94 millions in the year just ended. At -Baltimore im ports increased from a little over 11 millions in 1897 to approximately 39 millions in 1907, and exports grew from 86 millions to something over 100 mil lions in 1907. At Newport News im ports Increased from a little over 1 million dollars in 1897 to about 3 mil lions in 1907. while exports decreased from 22 millions in 1897 to about 14>4 millions in 1907. Savannah shows aii increase of about 2 millions In imports and 40 millions in exports, imports President Said to Favor Governor of having been less than' a half million i N ew York For Vice-President, dollars in 1S97 and considerably over ! Washington Dispatch in N. Y. Times. 2 millions in 1907. and exports 23 mil- H bas become known within tue last lions in 1897 and over 63 millions In j da >* or f ' v0 to f ome close friends of the fiscal year just ended. the administration that Mr. Roosevelt On the Gulf the principal ports are. | would be pleased to see Governor stated in the order of their import and ! Hughes nominated for the Vice-Presi- cotton-seed oil, and leaf tobacco supply the bulk of remaining exports from New Orleans, their values ranging downward in the order named from 10 millions to 3 millions. At San Fran cisco cotton cloth (8 million dollars), iron and steel (4 millions), fruits (2% m'lllons): and wheat and'flour, canned salmon, fruits and cotton (each about 2 millions) constitute the principal ex ports. At Puget Sound the leading ex ports are cotton cloths (10 millions), wheat (6 millions), flour (7 millions), and cotton, iron and steel manufac tures. and copper, each about 4 mil lions. If figures gathered by the Depart ment af Agriculture are dependable, there will be smaller loaves this year. According to reports. England, France and Germany are facing short crops, and the world’s wheat yied will be about 300.000,000 bushels undir nor mal. This condition is serious when the famines scourging Russia and China are considered. In strange coh- trast looms up the crop prosperity of Canada, particularly the new. western part. All reports received dwell upon the great acreage under cultivation and the excellent condition of the wheat. In a statement just received here, which was issued by Frank O. Fowler, of Winnipeg, secretary of the Northwest Grain Dealers’ Association, it is shown that between five and six million acres are producing wheat in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, and that barley and flax show an in crease in acreage under cultivation of 10 and 12 per cent, respectively. Hughes for the Second Place Iowa livestock shippers have filed charges that certain Western roads are exacting excessive and discrimi natory rates from breeders of eastern Iowa. The charges were laid before the Interstate Commerce Commission by the Grain Belt Meat Producers* Association of that State. It is alleged that shippers of Iowa are compelled to pay $17.80 per car more than other shippers. The complaint is leveled against the Burlington, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, and other Western and Northwestern lines. A hearing has not been had upon the matter. sums to special interests: but it is doubtful if there ever was a Senato; more regularly in attendance, and It is certain that, for his length of ser vice, no other Senator ever knocked Ki the head so many jobs on the private calendar. There were' other Senators as honest as he—plenty of them—but love of detail Is a gift that few men have to the degree that Spooner has it. There was no real duty of a Sen ator that he did not love, that he was not master *>f, and that he did not constantly discharge. The town of Lawrenceburg, in the State of Indiana, is within a stone’s toss of Kentucky, and Kentucky was a slave State. Spooner was born at Lawrenceburg in 1843, and his father, of Puritan stock, concluded that Law renceburg was too close to barbarim for him to bring a family tip in that community; so he moved to Wisconsin in 1859. a State then in judicial re bellion against the United States on ac count of the fugitive slave law and the Dred Scott decision, both of which Wisconsin nullified on the advice of Carl Sctuirz. Like everything else in this country, nullification was a local question—treason at the South and pa triotism at the North. Spooner went to the big war as private and returned a captain. He saw arduous service and he saw dan gerous service. He was brevetted ma jor for gallant conduct. When peace came he was made private secretary to Governor Fairchild, and in 1867 he was called to the bar. He had a supe rior legal mind, and he was industrious and loved the profession. In a little while his practice was ample, and he was a rising lawyer. He was a mem ber of the Legislature in 1872, and held other positions of trust by appoint ment export trade in 1907, Galveston, New Orleans. Mobile and Pensacola. At Galveston imports increased from less than 1 million dollars in 1897 to 7 mil lions in 1907. while exports increased from 5S millions to 244 millions. At New Orleans imports increased from 16 2-3 millions in 1897 to about 46 millions in 1907. while exports in creased from 101 millions to 171 mil lions. At Mobile the principal business is In exports, which have grown from 10 millions in 1897 to about 24 millions in 1907. On the Pacific coast. San Francisco shows an increase of 22 millions in Im ports and a decrease of 6 millions in exports, imports having advanced from dency next year, with Secretary Taft, of course at the head of the ticket. The Pres'dent’s preference for Mr. Taft for the higher office is well known, but hitherto he has not definitely expressed his opinion about the tail of the ticket. The President, it is understood, con siders Mr. Taft’s nomination pretty well assured now. and while he has given no indication of any intention to enforce his views about the Vice-Pres idential nomination, he has his prefer ences and has not kept them to 'him self. Mr. Taft's nomination will naturally call for an Eastern man on the ticket, as he comes from Ohio, and it is .cus tomary to-let New York represent the I millions in 1S97 to 56 millions in | Fast in such cases. Mr. Hughes is the 1907. and exports having receded from on b' available public man iji New York nearly 40 millions in 1S97 to about 33 "' bo would not be regarded as a “reac- miHlons in 1967. At Puget Sound im- tionary." The Administration does not nort- increased from 7 million dollars | want to have the ticket made up of in 1S97 to a'bout 25 millions in 1907. n ' reactionary and reformer in^ equal gain of IS millions, while exports ad- parts. Governor Hughes’ forcing of the vanced meantime from less than 12 ' public service bill and of other reform millions to approximately 43 millions, a 1 measures have placed him, in the Ad- galn of about 30 million dollars. It is ! ministration view, in alignment with proper to add that the figures for these ! ‘he tendency of the preseent day, and Pacific coast ports do not indicate all t he is the only New York Republican of the actual commerce at those points, because of the fact that the trade with Hawaii, which was included in the foreign trade figures of 1897. t« not in cluded in these of 1907. that Territory having become in 1990 a customs dis trict of the United States. A large S’bare of our trade with Hawaii (ag gregating in shiDmcnts therefrom about 2S4= million dollars and in ship ments thereto about 14 millions) enters or leaves the country- through Pacific coast norts. and of whom this can be "aid who would be considered .for a Vice-Presidential nomination. Aside from this. Mr. Hughes’ qualities as a vote-getter have been shown, and it is gravelv doubted w'-ether any- other New York Repub lican can get very many in the nresent condition of public sentiment in that State. P. disposed of. It Is possible that the bill will be held up in the House longer than in the Senate, because there are more op portunities In the lower House for fili bustering. a method of procedure to yvhich President Akin of the Senate is not partial, as he has already shown in dealing with Senator T. S. Felder, whom he twice ordered to vacate the 11 -enn Grove and beyond.’ .floor when the Senator from the twen- •i - will also be e'xcndcd to jt'y-serond was indulging in evident :ird Cape May. In .fact, dilatory tactics. Over in the House it is becoming grldlroned VltJ» fcld*somewhat-different.-.the rules are j'i. - and with the pro: ’ is 1 , pleasant trip is by trolley to n, fnre SO cents, and down the ire river by steamer to the City jthhrly Love. From Philadel- r> Atlantic City the through di- no of railway hns been oleetri- i that New York to Atlantic v trolley- Is already a possibility lll.adelnhin. From Jersey City I S , direct trolley line to As- Ob'ested to China. Late one afternoon I heard a scratch his fart should be I ,n " at the door, and on opening it taken into; copsi<temtion In determin- j found myself looking into the friendly ing general conditions in that section j brown eves of c. half grown Irish ter- of the country. San Francisco has. in I r ' e ~ which, without waiting for an fact, increased .her receipts of mer- J invitation, trotted in. says a corres- chandlse from Hawaii from 19 million : nordeot '-he Chicago Tribune. ' TVe dollars In U97 to about 16 millions in ! decided it was too late to find his own- 1907. and her shipments thereto from; er ‘ ba ‘ night, and gave him some sup- 4 millions to 11 million', while Pueet I supper on a china plate. He looked Sound, whose receipts of merchandise j Pleased but puzzled, and did not touch from Hawaii are inconsiderable, shows ! It. Thinking our observation perhaps a marked growth in shipments to that ; embarrassed him we withdrew, but territory, the gain having been from a ; nresent'v he followed us. carrying in quarter million dollars in 1S97 to lk ibis mouth the tin cover of a can. which millions in 1997. ' 'he laid in my Ian Then he pulled at This drift of the foreign trade away j my dress so persistently that I at last from the Atlantic ports and toward the :r °sp and Jot him lead me back to the port« on the southern, western and kitchen. I was still holding the tin northern borders occurs more large.lv cover. He lumped up. knocked it out th< but thar 3 by the T before ant .Terse • Phil-"' t and there are more members | in exports than in imports, and is due j of my hand and placed it beside the Western system, who" who may want to speak. Hence the in part to the fact that a much larger china nlate. As I made no further >,\ next summer the- prospect i* the passage of the bill may share of the grain and cotton exported move he took a piece of meat from the roll into th ir be delayed, but only with vain hope, now find' its way <o Europe via the china plate and put it in the tin cover. S i" re. to be aw k- The prohibition element Is determined Gulf. Pacific and northern border ports then looked at me, saying nlainly with ; r:er few hour? :o get the bill through, and it is going than formerly, and to the further fact his eyes "That’s the kind of a plate . >":v ' . some to push it righ: along ahead of every- that the exports to the Orient, which I want." and when his supper was >w or even in staid, thing else. have increased rapidly during tbe de- . placed in it he ate all there was wiyi 1 There has been considerable critcism | cade, pass chiefly out of the Pacific great satisfaction. It is likely that the question of la bor will be prominently to the fore at the coming session of Congress. The National Association of Manu facturers. it is probable, will seek to bring about a more even distribution of labor throughout the country and will endeavor to solve the problem in another way through the promotion of industrial education and the estab lishment of reliable employment bu reaus. Another phase of the work will be the support of such men as Congressmen Littlefield and McCall, who incurred the displeasure and ac tive opposition of labor unions through their treatment of certain legislation believed essential by the unions. The manufacturers’ organiza tion by no means intends to antago nize labor in any sense, for its sup porters are of the opinion that such an open and above-board program will eventually result in drawing employer and • employe closer together. It is well known that organized labor has a powerful lobby before Congress, and when certain measures advocated by this lobby, and deemed unwise by the National Association oil Manufac turers, are introduced, thd association hopes by a direct appeal to the people of the United States to bring the' question up fairly for popular -ap proval or disapproval. Secretary of the Treasury Cortelvou has been seized with the house-clean ing mania. He has just appointed a committee of treasury officials to draw- up a plan looking to the adoption of easier business methods and the elim ination of red tape in the handling of Uncle Sam’' funds. The committee consists of James B. Reynolds, J. H. Edwards and Beekman NVinthrop. the three secretaries of the Treasury: Robert J. Tracewell. Comptroller of the Currency, and Robert S. Person, auditor for the Interior Department. Secretary Cortelyou’s Idea is to facili tate the business of the various di visions and bureaus and draws into closer relationship the head ot the treasury and his various assistants. He is of the opinion that the elimina tion of many of the formalities now- in vogue would expedite the work of the department and at the same time in no wise lessen the vigilance or efficiency of the agency that has the nation's strong box i n its keeping. Reposing in a case in the Smithso nian Institution is the famous old flag which inspired Francis Scott Key to compose wiat is now the American national hymn, the Star Snangled Banner. It is to remain there for at least two years. The historic banner is owned by Eben ApDieton. of New York, nnd is about 20 by 30 feet in size. The flag w-a? loaned by Mr. Ap pleton to the Government through the personal solicitation of Dr. Charles T>. Spooner was elected Senator in Con gress to succeed Angus Cameron in 1885. Cameron's chief title to fame is that he defeated Matt Carpenter for United States . Senator in 1872. Car penter was then the best lawyer in America: as Senator he had shed more lustre on Wisconsin than all the men who had preceded him in that office. He was the first orator in the Senate and the most brilliant man. I do not believe that our political literature contains a finer passage than the open ing paragraph of Carpenter’s plea for Tilden before the electoral commission. It is eloquence and logic, couched in exquisite English, and the utterance of a voice simply matchelss for beauty, clearness and sweetness. In debate he overcome Blaine and Sumner and Ed munds, and held his town against Ben Hill. As a master of choice, elegant, rhythmical English. E. W. Carmack comes nearest to Carpenter of any man in either house of Congress in my day. But Wisconsin took Carpenter out of the Senate and put Cameron in his place. However, the first opportunity that offered she returned Carpenter to the Senate and he remained there until his death, in 1881. Spo'ojier succeeded Cameron, and within two years was the most prom ising Senator of all the newer set. He had the ability, he had the industry, and he loved the job. Before his term expired there rose up a set in the Lake States known as the A. P. A.’s. Their avowed mission was to show the Cath olics and the Lutherans how- to get to heaven. Incidentally they sought to make our German fellow-citizens, get along with less beer. The A. P.'a.’s were Republicans to a man. And is in 1890 the Democrats swept the State, carrying every congressional district, electing the Governor and the Legisla ture. The result was that Mr. Spooner had to surrender his toga to William F. Vilas, a man plenty big enough to wear it. Unfortunately, about that time there rose up in the West an agrarian party, and in 1893 the Democratic party joined it. ‘But for that the country would have continued Democratic to this day. Wisconsin, along with Illi nois and Indiana, refused to be bound by the merger of the Democratic with the Populist party, and that gave the Republicans their opportunity, which they seized, and built up a solid North. Thus; in 1897 Mr. Spooner came in again, and succeeded Mr. Vilas as a Senator in Congress from Wisconsin. The Republicans, flushed with victory, had jabsolute power. They made the Dingley tariff, and established what they are pleased to call the gold stand ard. though it has a half billion of 50 cent fiat silver in it. Just as the Ar- kansaw cabin does not need a roof in fair weather, this fiat does not hurt in prosperity. Its opportunity will come with the next panic. The Republicans also fought the needless and inglorious war with Spain, annexed new territory, and bought 10.- 000,000 Asiatics at $2 a head. Of course, great questions grew out of these projects and Spooneer was the We have fallen on 'times when men— who think they are full and overflowing with political virtue that came down to them from Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, two lawyers—are actually persuaded that no first-class lawyer can bo an honest man. The fact is that free Government In Eng land and in America is the\invention of lawyers. If there had never been a lawyer in the world every country to this day would be ruled by despots, or by anarchists. Government itself is nothing but law. and that is the best Government whose laws are best ob served. Life, liberty and property have their security in the law. There are rights inherent and inalienable; but to' preserve them they must they must be intrenched in the law. There never was a great lawyer who was not a conservative man. John C. Spooner is a great lawyer and he is a a conservative. His very greatness drew the shafts of little men, as did Tilden's. They said that Tilden was a corporation lawyer. So he was, per haps, the greatest. They said he was railroad wrecker. So he was not. He took in hand railroads that others had wrecked, reorganized * them, set them on their feet, and made them paying properties. The Republican party had wrecked our great political corporation by 1876. Had they not stolen his job Tilden would have re stored ‘that, too, and we would have escaped all the agrarian vagaries of the next preceding double decade. I apprehend Wisconsin will have trouble, in finding Somebody - to Ifill Spooner’s shoes. Vilas is the only man she has whose feet are big enough, and Vilas’ party Is out of fashion in Wisconsin at this time. Mr. Spooner, like Mr. Carlisle, will get more satis-: faction out of the private station. It is as easy to hem a sparrow in the corner of a worm rail fence as It is to retain the confidence of a constituency of the average American common wealth. Cato was beaten for "Praetor. The name of the successful candidate at that election has escaped my memory. COMPETITION DEAD: RATES PROHIB TOPEKA, Kans., July 14.-I tion suits were filed in the! district court here by General Jackson against sixty- insurance companies, charging with violation of the State anti laws. The suits are based on info< tion furnished by Cbas. H. BaJ superintendent of insurance, and to prevent the companies from usl the EJdridge rating sheet in writ* Kansas insurance. The suits invol^ every fire Insurance company doing business in the State. In *his charges in an affidavit filed by the Attorney General, Mr. Barnes says: •There is in existence in the State of Kansas an unlawful arrangement, trust and combination In restraint of the business of fire insurance within the State of Kansas. Te defendants are members of, and participants in such unlawful agreement, trust and combination. By means of such un lawful arrangement, trust and combi nation, the cost and rate of insurance the citizens of Kansas is arbitrarily fixed at high and extortionate figures by one, Chas. F. Eldridge, of Sliawj County, Kansas, who is a. general of other general functionary character, who by common con the defendants and by certain ful arrangements, combir. itio: agreement between them, is or and permitted by the defend fix the cost and rate of fire inrf Mr. Barnes alleges that coijj is almost totally abolished, rates and cost of insurance high as to be prohibitive. This is the same bureau which We McNall put out og b* ^iness when was superintendent ot insurance. It was then known as tho Ciarkston bu reau. Eldridge was a clerk in the Ciarkston bureau at the time. J Judge A. W. Dana who heard the Attorney General's application later granted the temporary injunction. The Attorney General announced that he would seek to have the injunction made permanent. , LINKED ROOSEVELT AND BRYAN’S NAMES SEATTLE, Wash., July 14.—Before a large gathering of Christian En- _ deavorers in Tent WHliston Rev. Republican leader of the Senate in the| Ira Landrith. of Nashville, Tenn., in an debates. 'Platt, of Connecticut, helped address on “Graft and Grafters,” Iink- him to cut out the legislation; but! cd the names of the flag by inheritance. Its first owner, after it had -waved in triumph over Fort McHenry during the bore,- bardment of the fortifications by the British on the night of September 13. 1814, was Col. Armsted. who took the flag down and carried it to his quar ters after the British fleet, baffled, had withdrawn. Later he gave it to his mother, who in ture Spooner was the man who convinced the Senate of its wisdom. George F. Hoar delivered a speech- in opposition that ranks with Webster’s best efforts; but it fell on deaf ears. The Republican party was in the saddle and rode down all recalcitrant'. Thus the Philippines are become as much a part of the public domain as New England or Texas. About this time John T. Morgan had put Congress in the notion to construct the Isthmian canal that the country had been talking about for twenty years. Mark Hanna marshaled -his co'- horts and voted the Nicaraguan route out Then the United Statees fo- Roosevelt and Bryan as the greatest fighters the country has ever known against graft and corruption. Rev. Edwin Heyl Delk, pastor of St. Matthews Lutheran Church, Philadel phia, spoke on “Training and Civic Conscience,” in which he denounced the action of the Government of Idaho In the alleged kidnaping of Moyer and Haywood and asserted that tho judi ciary of Idaho was corrupt. A considerable flutter was caused among the women in the big tent by an address by General Secretary Wn. Shaw-, who denounced bridge whist and declared that a beneficial social revolution would take place if women of the United States would devote the mented a rebellion in a sister republic and the canal was located in Panama.! same energy to promoting the patriots Walcott, secretary of the institution. France was bought out. and the bigItaMPie as they devoted to whist. Mrs. Appleton came into possession of ditch ordered. Spooner supported the j Discussion of "The Lo boring Man administration, and but for him Mor- and ‘ be Church; How to Bring Them gan might have prevailed. i Together," was held at the Walsh Presbyterian Church. The discussion In the entire history of the Republi- } vas l e <3 hi’ Charles Stelzl, super- can party there can be named no other j intendent of the department of church man who has fought so many battles ! an d labor of the Presbyterian Home on the floor of the Senate for Repub- Board of Missions. Rev. Stelzle as- lican administration? as John C. serted that the church was not suf- Spooner. and he never got half thanked . ficiently democratic and was too nar- passed it | for a single one. Last March Mr. r0 ' v > n It* views to procure the best along to her granddaughter. Through Spooner resigned his seat and returned ! membership of the laboring men and marriage, the flag passed into the pos- to the practice of his profession. He , he advocated a heartier effort to get ession of the Appleton family. J has two sons, young lawyer?, just ad- ‘he world’s workers into th* church.