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VOL. 9.
SENATOR JOHN T. MORGAN READS A
warning to great Britain.
Talks b( Passible War, and Paints a Picture ai
a Broken British Empire—England, tie
Thinks, Will Prevent the Construction ol
The Canal as Long as Possible.
ALBANY, <3A„ SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1901.
NO 3
DOES NOT YET SEEM TO BE AN ACCOM
PLISHED FACT,]
Though London Has Rumors That Negotiations
are Still In Progress—Botha May Not Be
Able to Carry Other Boer Commanders
With Him.
Wa&Mngfall, L>. 0 , March 7.—Iu thd
Senate yesttirday Senator Morgan, of
Alabama, addressed that body on his
resolntiorfito abrogate the Olayton-Bnl-
wer treaty.
“Thero cannot be anythin# i&6f<S ptQ*
■clous today to Great Britain," Mfid-Mr.
Morgan, “than to prevent the oons'ftMte*
, tiou of the Nicaragua canal. If Great
Britain by her ‘golden* silence can pre
vent that, her profits will continue and
the longer she can do that, the greater
will bo her profits on the Suez oanal.
She has remained as silent ns tho
9phlnx which looks out upon tho Nile
and upon the desert, and she seems to
be looking ont upon a desert of wasted
American opportunities and, sad to Bay,
American honor. Great. Britain is still
silent.
He challenged any Senator to point to
a single proposition whiot Great Britain
had made foi suoli a modification of tho
Olaytou-Bulwer treaty as would admit
of tho construction of tho Nicaragua
canal. No such action, he said, ever
had been taken by Great Britain. Dur
ing all the timb when Americans were
“hogging to thoir bosoms’* the delusions
that Great Britain eventually would
enter npon a friendly arrangement for
' the construction of tho canal Great Brit
ain had preserved a profound and golden
Bilenoe.
He called her Bilenoe “golden* ’ be
cause,he assorted, Great Britain through
Liverpool, which was the commercial
center of the world, was being eurialied
because of the lack of the Nicaragua
canal.
With some feeling, in refoning to fclio
Olay ton-Bui wer treaty, the senator said:
“We make no compromise with Groat
Britain on that subject. We will make
86 concession to Great Britain iu rela
tion td the treaty. Wliat we shall do
with it (drift some of onr people are op*
posed 6ven to' that) is that we shall de*
clare it abrogated.
*‘If the vote on my resolution could
be taken today it would inform tho Pres
ident of the United States that ho has
no two-thirds majority in the Senate to
•'yadppfc any compromise he may make
with Great Britain. If it is tho purpose
of Great Britain to still look for delay
she will not get it. If it be her determi
nation to pick a quarrel with us about
it, she will find the JJnited States can
master at least half tho number of men
who voted for the President in the last
election—fighting men.
“And she will find, when that war
terminates, that the steel band whioh
binds the tlirono in London with Aus
tralia and India and passes through
Canada will have been rent in twain,
and with its severance down will go the
empire. She will find that her posses
sions in the Caribbean sea have lapsed.
She will find that she has overtaxed our
patience. She has started with a new
king and npon a new career that will
break up the empire and reduce the
king to the sovereignty of his own
island.
“Does not Great Britain suppose she
can escape from the terrors of the ex
istence of the situation and the prospect
ive situation everywhere and that she
can find a favorable opportunity to flis
play her military powers against the
United States?”
Mr. Morgan said he did not boast of
the power of the United States in
money, men or valor, but he was thor
oughly cohscions of them and gloried
in that consciousness, because he knew
when the supreme moments should
- come and any power in the world shonld
^undertake to bridle the United States
by‘placing such restraints upon her sov-
erignty as were contained in the Olay-
ton-Bulwer treaty, the American people
would resist to the bitter end.
'•And that resistanoe,” he exclaimed^
vehemently, “will mean the wiping ont
of any power on earth that undertakes
London, March 7.—Private iriforllifi-
tiou received in London this mormri#
confirms the rumors of negotiations bo-
tween Lord Kitchener, Sir Alfred Mil
ner and Commandant General Louis
Botha. Nothing is known as to tho no-
tnal presouoo of the Boer commander-
in-qhief at Pretoria, and no London pa
per publishes a statement that he is
there, but it is reasonably certain that
General 1 Botha is in either porsonal or
very close touch with Lord Kitchener.
Sir Alfred Milner has gone to Pretoria
with the object df assisting Lord Kitoh-
enor in these negotiations, tho length of
whioh appears to be due to General
Botha’s desire to consult with Aoting
President Schalk Burger at Pietcfsbnrg,
and to make terms npplylug to tho
whole Boer forces; but militating agaiust
this is Lord Kitchener's doubt of Gen.
Botha’s ability to control Dewet and
other leaders, as well as the internal op
position Botha is encountering.
One of the best informed South Afri
can authorities is quotfed ns fellows:
“Wo have littlo doubt that Gen.
Botha will surrender. Tho quostion is
now as to whnfc forces ho can bring with
him. Wo liavo private information
tending to show that Lord Kitchener-
and Sir Alfred Milner havo decided to
accept Ins surrender on the ‘ basis that
he is merely an individual commander
rather than commauder-in-chief of the
enemy *8 forces.
AFFAIRS MUNICIPAL
CLAIMED CONSIDERATION AT THE HANDS
OP CITY FATHERS LAST NIGHT.
ANNOUNCED THAT THE EMPEROR HAS
BEEN WOUNDED BY A LAO.
The Customary Appropriation for Chautauqua
Made—Ad Valorem Tax on Cotton Stored
In Locnl Warehouses’ Will Not Be Col*
lected—Railroads Must Come te Time,
The Woun(l Is Inconslderatle, But the Reiser
Must Keep His Bed For Several Days.
Injury la a Long, Deep Flesh Wound on
the Cheek,
THE HAY-PAUNCEFOTE TREATY
Has Lapsed, and New Negotiations-Must be
Began. ;
A Washington dispatch says: “Tho
Hay-Pannoefote treaty intonded to re
place the Clayton-Buiwor treaty, rela
tive to tho construction of istWian
waterway, died at noon Monday. Tho
dea’th was caused technically by the fact
that tho last clauso of tho treaty allowed
only tho period of time up to March 4th
for its ratification. Neither tho govern
ment of the United States nor of Great
Britain appears to have made any for
mal effort to extend that period.
“Though the treaty is dead from the
point of international law, it may still
serve a purpose. It is understood here
that the British government either has
or is preparing a communication to the
United Btatos government based on tho
Senate amendments analyzing them
carefully, pointing out their probable
effect on international propositions as
seen from tho outside and perhaps sug
gesting some modifications.
“While it is impossible to predict in
advance of the receipt of this commu
nication jast what attitude the state de
partment will assume toward it there is
reason to believe that it will be taken in
good part und that negotiations will be
resumed for the construction of a new
treaty with a view to meeting, if possi
ble, the objections raised by the Senate
to the original treaty.
IVoui Tuesday's Daily Hcrad.
Tho City Fathers hold au important
mooting last night at tlfe council cham
ber. in tito absence of Mayor Brown,
Mayor Pro Tom. Whitolieod- presided,
and A Mormon Jones, TaYVer, Rawlins
and Lippitt were in thoir' places when
tho meeting was called to order.
A good deal of important- hnslness
Was transnetod, though the Cession was
not a long one. The customary routine
business, accumulated during several
weeks past, was Gist disposed of. It
included the approval of a number of
dray bonds and the monthly reports - of
city ofllcors.
Cupt. R. Hobbs and Mr. J. S. Davis,
representing tho Georgia Chautauqua
Association, wsre present and potitloned
Gonucil'to make tho customary annual
appropriation of $300 lor Chautauqua,
that amount to includa taxes due the
municipality by the association for the
yearlDOO. Tho appropriation was unan
imously voted.
A petition signed by a largo number
of citizens was road by tho clerk. It
urged that Council remit the amount of
ad valorem tax imposed by the ( city for
the year 1900 on cotton stored in the
warehouses of the city for a period of
three months prior to the first of April
last, that being,- tho date on whiohi
under provision of the city charter, al
property held in the city was returnabl,,
for taxation. !
By permission of Council, both Oa - - a
tain Hobbs and Mr. Davis spo'-s,.a !
voeaoy of-the petitioners' cause'. They p
stated that tho cotton held in the ware'
Berlin, Mnroh 'f.—At tho Oponiug of
the Bundesrath.tho president annonnood
that ho had rooelvod a message that the
hthporor had been wounded by a lad.
The wound is. inoousidorable but tho
kaiser will be obliged to keep his bed
for several days. The wound has boon
sowod up.
Cheers were given by the momhors
for thoomporor, and the session was pro
longed because of the exoitomeut.
It is officially stated that the wound Is
fonroontimotros long and that tho flesh
was out through to tho ohoek bone nnd
that tho akin is muoh torq. Daring tile
examination tho assailant, whoso name
is Well, hid several optleptio fit's.
WERE MARRIED LAST NIGHT.
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
MV»L BAKIHO POWP1U CO.. B1W YO»«.
TO SURRENDER OFFERED THE INSUR
GENTS BY GEN. MACARTHUR.
For Every Gtin Surrendered General MacAr-
thur Will Release One Prisoner, the Pris
oner to Be Named by the Insurgent Who
'Surrenders His Qua.
KINO EDWARD BELIBVED TO BB FAVO
ABLE TO PEACE WITH BOBRS.
NEW SPANISH CABINET.
Qeneral Weyler, the Butcher, Is Minister tof
War.
Madrid, March C.—The new Spanish
cabinet has been formed, and is consti
tuted as follows: Premier, Sagasta
minister of foreign affairs, Senor Al
modocar; minister or war, General
Weyler; minister of the interior, Moret;
marine, Veragne; public works, Villa-
meya; public instruction, Romanonca,
The minister of justice has not yet been
selected. Weyler says he will decide
whether it is advisable to raise the siege.
Sagasta will dissolve the cortes and
order a new eleotion in May.
RED STAR LINER AGROUND
OH Siady Hook-Likely to Be Pulled OH It
High Tide.
New York, March 7.—The Red Star
Liner, "Souther,” isagroundoff Sandy
Hook. Twenty-seven passengers are
aboard. It fat likely she will be polled
Nuptials ot Mr. Waller P. Hill and Mies Kali:
Prank.
Prom Tuesday's Dolly Ilorald.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Ohas. A.
Prank, on Residence street, was tho
sceuo of a quiet wedding at 9 o’oleok
last evening. At that hour, Rev. Ohns.
T. Wright, reotor of St. Paul's ohuroh,
officiating, Miss Katie Prank and Mr.
Walter P. Hill were united in, the bonds
of wodlook. ,n
Tho wedding was a qniot affair of the
home oirole. No cards hud boon issued;
and the only persons present were the
Immediate relatives of the contracting
parties and soveral intimate frlendB,
There were no attendants, the oeremony
being simple, but beautiful and impres-
j ire.- At its oonolnslon the newly
- [ Wedded oouple reoetved tho oongratulo-
liouses of the city was largely tho prop
erty of farmers, who brought it to this
markot with the expectation that they
would bo permitted to bold it as'long as
they pleased, in anticipation of increased
prices, without haviug.it assessed for
taxation. Cottou hold in tho ware
houses had not boou taxed in years past,
aud the farmers had not been notified
that a new order of thiugs •would bo
established in 1900.
Both Aldermen Lippitt and Tarver
opposed granting the petition. They
contended that the city had no power to
remit tho tax; tout all manner of prop
erty of individuals, firms or corporations
held in the city on the first of April was
liable for taxation, and that no distinc
tions could be made. Tho city attorney
hud advised Couneil, they stated, that
the’tax was just and could not be legally
remitted.
Oapt. Hobbs and Mr. Davis, iu urging
that the petition be granted, plaoed
stress on the lact that Albany must look
more to her importance as a ootton
market than to auy other ono factor iu
her future growth and development.
If we turn tho farmer away from us,
whether we give him a real or au imag
inary griovanoe, what will become of
us?” they urged.
Finally Alderman Jones moved that
the tax he remittod, Alderman Raw
lins seconded the motion. Alderman
Tarver, after stating that he would
yield his own conviction to tho apparent
will of tho taxpayers of tho city, offered
a substitute that “the taxes com
plained of bo paid by a warrant drawn
on the city treasury.” By this means
tho tax digest would be cleared of the
items, whioh would otherwise appear as
unpaid. Tho amendment was accepted,
and the motion was carried. Alderman
Lippitt remained unalterably opposed
to tho proposition to remit the tax. Ho
voted "no,” and asked that bis vote bo
placed on record.
Alderman Lippitt called attention to
the faot that the railway companies
owning terminals in the oity were only
paying ad valorem taxes to the amount
of $462.19 per annum. He presented
for the consideration of Ooonoil a table
of figures showing that during the past
three years the property of the railroads
has been returned for a continually de
creasing amount. In one instance, a
certain line had reduced its returns to
tlons of the assembled company.
The brideis a olinrmingyouug woman,
tlio seoond daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. O.
A. Frank. She Is highly accomplished,
and lias many friends and admirers hero
and In othor cities where she is kuown.
The groom is in the employ of the oity,
aud us au ataohe of the fire department
is popular with a large oirole of friendB
and acquaintances. Mr. and Mrs. Hill
are at home, for the present, at the res-
denoe of Mr. and Mrs. Riobard Fatti-
son, on Residence street, whore thoir
friends -will find them. The Herald
joins with hundreds of others in wish
ing them a long and happy wedded life.
Rifle Range Association Formed.
From Tuesday's Bally Herald.
A meeting of the members of the two
locnl military companies who are inter
ested in rifle praotloe was hold at the
Guards’ armory last night for tho pur
pose of forming a rifle association. The
mooting was well attended and a great
deal of interest in rifle praotloe was
manifested.
The organization of the "Albany Rifle
Range Association" was perfected.
Captain A. J, Soott, Oapt. L. K. Welob,
Jr.,and Lieutenant-eleot S. M. Brooks
were elected an exeontivo committee to
hark entire oharge of the range. Oapt.
Weloh wap elected rango olllocr and Mr.
A. P. Coles was named for secretary and
treasurer. As soon as the county con.
victs finish their part of tho work ou the
new range, the association will spend
about $300 in improvements, making
tho range ono of tho very best in the
state or the South.
Manila, March 7.—Additional Induce
ments have been made the insurgents to
surrender their guns. , Gen. MaoArthur
has directed all commanders to release
ouo prisoner for every rifle .sur
rendered. Tho. insurgent who surren
ders his gun will he permitted to name
prisoner to be released, provided no ex
ceptional circumstances require this
man's detention, in which ease another
seloetion will bo allowed.
it is rumored in the local press that
tho Carman ease will ho reforred to
Washington and that a statement on
certain matters concerning the cose will
bo obtained frojn GenoraljOtis.
Tho federalists report that as a result
of negotiations with the insurgent Gen.
oral Trias, whole In Southern Luzon,
Trias will probably soon surrender, ’
al—
NOMINATIONS TODAY.
'• ■ ft,,.y• ,1,7
President McKinley Renominates All Membara
ot His Present Cabinet.
Washington, Maroh 6.—The President
has prepared the nominations ot the
members of the present oablnet to he
sent to the [senate today.. The nomina
tion of Attorney General Griggs Is
among thorn. He will retain hts ofllae
until the President has seleated his sao-
cessor. It Is also expeeted that the Pres
ident will send In the nomination ot
Robert McOormiok, of Illinois, now of
the District of Colombia, to he minister
to Austria In place of.Mluister Morris,
resignod.
NOT A CANDIDATE.
Mr. S. Menard Brooks Out of the Race For
First Llentanant, Company B.
Editor Herald :
I notice in yonr issne of yesterday that
I would be a candidate for first lieuten
ant of company E, Fourth regiment, G.
S. T. I had expected to be a candidate
for the position, bnt after mature delib
eration have decided that oompany E
needs active privates as well as commis
sioned offioers. For the benefit of the
members of oompany E I will state that
I shall not accept, nor Btand examination
for second lieutenant, the plape to whioh
my friends eleoted me. Kindly give
this a plaoe in yonr valuable oolumns.
Respeotfully,
S. Menard Brooks.
Albany, Ga., Maroh 5, 1003.
An Interview Which Was Had With Him Two
Months Ago, When He Was the Prlne* '
ol Wsiee, Just Now Published—Thod*
Favoring Settlement Peel Eoconreged. ,.
" * '
London, Maroh 5.—Those who favor t
settlement of the South African war on
liberal terms, have their spirits rai
by an interview jast now pqbUshsd, |
bat whioh took place two months ago,
between King Edward, then Prince. of
Walos, aud Adrian Hafmoyer’ot Cape
Town, a prominent Datoh South
oan. The King is reported os sayirg
“Tell,your people' that though we
oouquerers, wo will bo generous.” It 1
believed that the Prinoe, now King
still holdB the same sentiments; t!
he is desirous of giving former Date
republics liberal form of self govt:
mont aud that Sir Alfred Milner wtl
oarry out his wishes in this respoot.
SMALL BLAZE THIS MORNING. 1
TRINITY HALL BURNED.
Another lino made a similar reduction
of $5,000, and othor roads had done
hardly better. The $402.10 mentioned
included tho tnxes paid on the street:
railway line. It was the sense of Coun
cil, after Alderman Lippitt’s table was
thoroughly understood, that the rail
way lines were returning their property
at about 25 per oent. of its aotual value.
A committee was finally appointed to
take up the matter with the railroads,
and as a result the assessment of the
railway property in the oity will proba
bly be materially increased this year.
The salary of the superintendent of
waterworks and the eleotrio lights was
fixed at $1,500 per annum. This matter
had been - left opon since the manage-
Pine Old Harvard Domltory Completely De
stroyed by Fire Last Night.
Cambridge, Mass , Maroh 7.—Trfility
Hall, the fine old Harvard dormitory,
bnmed almost to tho ground last night.
The students were exoited and hnrled
everything to the ground. There was a
groat amount of wreckage. It is esti
mated the loss will be $15,000.
THE IHAUGURATIOH.
Receipts From
Ibe Ball Will Pay All Ex
penses.
Washington, March 0.—It is an
nounced today that the expenses of the
inauguration was seventy-five thousand
dollars. This tho committee oan meet
easily, as the inaugural ball netted forty
thousand. ,
BOER LEADERS WILL SURRENDER,
It They Are Asenred ot Pree Pardons and As*
alliance In Starting Lite Afresh.
Pretoria, Maroh 7.—It Is said here in
Boer oirolea that the leaders will surren
der with majority followers ifthey are
asanred of amnesty and
House on Commerce Street Occnpled hy Y
W. C. Harris snd Family Damaged.
-From Thnrday’e Doily Herald. .
The department -responded to,
alarm of fire sent In from the
Mr. W. O. Harris, on Oommeroe
aboa 10 e’olook this morning.1
The fire had gained ooq
way when it was dlsoov
wind was high a bad fire \
rowly averted.
The fire started in the roof no
ohlmney and Ib supposed to have
caused by a defective flue. When t
firemen arrived on the soene the
side of the root was in a blaze. Th
went promptly to work and soon t
headway ot the flames were
and the trailding was saved.
The furnltnreof Mr.'Harris was i
aged some by water and by mo
portion of ,lt ont Into the street, t
none of it was destroyed by fire,
root of the boose was considerably c
aged but the entire loss by the fire -
nob large.
The house belongs to Oapt. John i
Davis. -
A CARD FROM MR. MILLER.
- .
The Statue (or Confederate Monument V
Be Purnlibed According to Contract.
To tho Editor of tho Hxrald. ’
Please permit me to say through •
oolumns to the Committee and 1
The Memorial Association that it Is a
necessary to take any notion based .01
the statement that The Leland &
Oompany are unwilling to duplicate the
soldier statue. Negotiations with then
are pending for a duplioate ‘Of the orig
nal and will be brought to a suooeasfu
conclusion, and it will bo delivered safe
auuoounti'and eiuinoatiy-srtiefoch
The original was probably broken by i
accident in handling, and time and j
tienoe is all that is neoded to hove it
produced. Respeotfully,
W. H. Miller. |
Planting Time.
Planting tjino is now at hand on the
farm in this roglon. The provide
farmer has been busy preparing
lands for it for several weeks, and v
the next fortnight corn planting v
well under way throughout all E
Georgia. Many have already
their sugar cane, and a few have
menoed to plant corn. Daring t
ent month the melon growers
in their seed,, and before the end i
month ootton planting will be 'well t
der way. As a general
mere In this part.of the
menoed work early ’
lands have never
fo&seedlug time.