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II he State of Dade News. • VOJ..X Ufl® INffIUtIHTED —*• —.— The New Governor of San Juan Takes the Oath. THE PEOPLE WERE ENTHUSIASTIC. .. The Infantry and Naval Banda Parad ed the Streets Playing National Airs. San. Juan, by Cable.—The inaugura tion of Oh as. Herbert Allen, former as sistant secreary of he United States navy, as the first civil governor of the Island of Porto Rico took place Tuea ' day. The ceremony was most impres sive. Governor Allen made the inau gural address. There could have been no more beau tiful day to usher in Porto Rico’s new governor. The streets were thronged with people. The day’s exercises open ed sunrise with serenades by the bands of the Eleventh Infantry, the Fifth Cavalry and the Porto Rican Regiment The city bands also played the island and United Stated national airs before the executive mansion and on the prin cipal plazas as well as while marchipg through the streets. The enthusiasm of the people was greater than expect ed, in spite of the publication in The Diario, the organ of the Federal party, a letter from Julio Henna, of New York, suggesting that the people re main indoors and refrain from taking part in the auguration, “thereby si lently protesting and showing the Am erican government that Porto Rico is dissatisfied.’’ The speech of General Davis, the retiring Governor General, in part, is as follows: "The duty has been involved upon me by order of the President, to this day transfer to the Governor of Porto Rico the charge assigned to me. This charge involved the grave responsibil ity of administering the government of a million beings, which has been in my keeping for nearly a year. Without the cordial support of the inhabitants, it would have been impossible for me or others to perform this task without constituting and maintaining the rule of a despot, the very thought of which is abhorrent to every American. Mil itary control, of the civil affairs w r as began with the landing of the army in July, 1898, and which included the whole island in October, is today brought to a conclusion. The Porto Ricans have eagerly longed for this day, the dawn of anew political and industrial life, while the military gov ernor has anxiously awaited the mo ment when he could place in the hands of the duty-constituted civil authorities these responsibilities w*hicb have been devolved upon him. "The transfer of the sovereignty of Porto Rico was ratified in April 1899, and it Is proper to note as a coinci dence that a year later exactly, the final step was taken in the organiza tion of a civil government. The prin cipal executive officers will be the 47 provided by Congress. At least 40 of these will be citizens of Porto Rico. The appointment of the other seven rests with the President. The whole of the judiciary may also, in the dis cretion of the President and Governor, be Porto Ricans. The laws familiar to you will continue in force except as they may be modified by military or ders. Such modifications from my or ders will never be promulgated until they have received careful considera tion and have been endorsed by dis tinguished natives learned in the laws and institutions of the country and familiar with its social and industrial conditions. “The law's provide a basis for indus try, trade and commerce, which war rants the belief that the dark clouds of misery and want which have shad owed the past and present will soon roll away. By these laws every pound of sugar will find a purchaser at 50 per cent, greater price, tobacco will be doubled in value and coffee will be protected. You are offered absolutely free trade the moment your ability is shown to support the government. Your laws, religious and private rights are all preserved and laws can only change by the w of the local legislature. No island in any sea has a fairer future of peace, happiness and prosperity. The privations and misety of the past will soon be replaced by happiness and plenty." Then followed a prayer by the priest invoking the Almighty’s guidance and protection, and praying that the event would usher in the dawn of a brighter future. Governor Aden took the oath of of fice at 10:30 a. m.. under a flag can opy at the executive mansion. Among those present were Rear Admiral Far quhar, commander-tin-chief of the North Atlantic station: Capt. Brown. Bishop Blank Judge Chuinos. of the Supreme Court, and the members of that court. Governor General Davis, the appointees of yesterday.all the for eign consuls, the families of Governors Davis and Aden and army and navy officers and 30 prominent citizens. No soldiers were in sight. The chief jus tice administered the oath nledama the new Governor “to support and defend the constitution of the t nite-,1 States.” THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. The South. Charlotte, N. C., 'has invited the President to attend the celebration of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Inde pendence on May 20. Railroad ttaffic in the Brazos Val ley, Texas, Is again being delayed by floods. The Woodside Cotton Mills, to work 10,000 spindles and 250 operatives, will be located at Gainesville, Ga. The Charlotte Supply Cos., which does the largest textile business of any house in the South, has passed into the hands of Northern capitalists, R. M. Eddy, S. C. Clark, J. Goff and R. B. Goff, of Warren, R. 1., and C. H. Child, of Providence, a Rhode Island company organized twelve years ago, handling all kinds of supplies for fac tory. mills, etc., the largest business in its line in the country. It iis sta ted the business is worth considera bly over SIOO,OOO. In an address on Stonewall Jackson before the Baltimore Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, last Friday, Gen. H. Kyd Douglass referr ed to the alleged Barbara Frietchie in cident as related by Whittier as fol lows: “,Sucrh an incident never oc curred. I was with Gen. Jackson du ring the march through Fredericks burg, Md. He rode in an ambulance on account of a fall from, his horse some time previous. An old 1 woman named Barbara Frietchie did livethere about 1862. She died three months af ter we passed through Frederickburg, at the age of 96 years. Gen. Jackson never passed her house, for I wad with him the whole time. Moreover' Barbara Frietchie could not have seen! him if she had tried, for he was in anj ambulance. The whole story is a piece of fiction.” The North. Fifty Catholic priests sailed on the Trave from New York Saturday td make a pilgrimage to Rome. Edward Blair, former County Treas urer’s clerk, has been arrested at Chi cago, 111., charged with falsifying tax records. The charges against Publishing Agent Dr. Jennings, of the Methodist Book Concern, at Chicago, 111., have been dismissed. “Miss Murphy,” the hippopotamus at Central Park, New York, has be come the mother of the fourth “hippo” born in tihe park. Burglars cracked the Bank of Coul terville, 111., owned by J. S. A. Nis bett, and stole $50,000. The steamer City of Rio de Janeiro, from Oriental ports, has arrived at San Francisco, Cal. The Sixth Massachusetts District Republican Convention indorsed John D. Dong for Vice President. The Ecumenical Conference on For eign Missions continued its sessions in New York city. Manifold blessings came to Farmer Milton Mellott, of Pennsylvania, a couple of nights ago. His wife pre sented him with lusty twins. In the morning when he went to the barn he found that one of his best cows, du ring the night, had given birth to twin calves, and in the sheep peif he dis covered that a ewe had twin lambs. A peculiarity of the occurrence is that one of each sex made up the three pairs. Farmer E* R. Rolfe, of Pine Hill, N. Y., was killed by a vicious stallion, which bit him and stamped on him with his forefeet. Mildred Preston, an astrologist, has been arrested on a charge of fraudu lently securing SBOO from Miss Ethel Quimby, a young society woman of Grand Rapids, Mich. Foreign. The Marquis of Dome, the new Duke of Argyll, will benefit but little he acquiring the late Duke-s incum bered estates. Mrs. Jno. Jacob Astor has arrived at the Dangham hoted, Paris, taking the suite formerly occupied by ex- President Harrison. Germany has found last year the most prosperous in her history, and her surplus over the -estimates will be about $15,000,000. The Prince of Wales admits that he is one of Dondon’s “slum landlords,” but says he can’t break his long-term leases of tenements. Emperor William of Germany, Kins Humbert of Italy and the Shah of Per sia will witness a great naval parade in the Solent in July. An American debutante who will be presented at court at Queen Victoria’s May drawing room is Miss Winans, the only daughter of millionaire Wal ter Winans. Cardinal Richard, of Paris, will ap peal to the Pope against the edict cf the exposition management forbid ding the Cardinal to enter the grounds to bless the Catholic mission pavil lions. The Queen intimatedl her intention to present a piece of plate to the Cor poration of Dublin as a memento of her visit. Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, wishes an article by Dr. Kinjpur on the South African crisis to be distrib uted in America. TRENTON, GA., MAY 3, U)00. WILL CONSOLIDATE Plans for (he Combining of All the Seaboard’s Lines. STORMS AND FLOODS IN TEXAS. "he City of Waco Swept by a Furious Tornado, Leaving Death and De struction in Its Wake. Betersburg. Va., Special.—A meeting ■>f the stockholders of the Seaboard Air Line railroad was held here Saturday for the purpose of electing the officers *nd directors for the ensuing year. The Seaboard Air line Railway repre sents the sonsolidation of about twen ty railroad companies, some 2,500 miles af track from Washington to the gulf, and is now an accomplished fact. Tiie officers elected were: Mr. John Sherwood Secretary, and John H. Siharp Treasurer, with the fol lowing board of directors: Messrs. 3. Davies Warfield (President of the Con tinental Trust Company, Baltimore,) Robert C. Davidson (President of Bal timore Trust and Guarantee Company), John Skelton Williams, Jas. H. Dooley, Richmond, Va.; Wm. A. Marburg, Bal timore, Wm. F. Oochran New York, J. William Middledorf Baltimore, and C. Sidney Shepherd, New Haven, N. Y. These gentlemen also compose the managing committee of the Greater Seaboard Air Line organization nuder the agreement of January sth, 1900, and worked out the details of the con solidation, they are also the voting trustees of the stock for a period of ten years. There will be a meeting of the new board during the coming week at which other officers of the company will be elected. Judge E. J. D. Cross, of the firm of .Ikrwan, Cross & Bond, Baltimore, the attorneys for the man aging committee and of counsel for the new road, was present at the meet ing of the stockholders. The mort gage to secure the issue of the $62,500,- 000 bonds of the road was filed April 17, the Coaitinent Trust Company, Bal timore, being trustee under tihe some. The bonds are now being engraved as are also the certificates for the $25,- 000,000 preferred and the $27,500,000 common stock of the new corporation represented by voting trust certificates Su the Flood’s (iiasp. Galveston, Tex., Special. Many streets here are flooded from curb to curb owing to the tremendous rains Friday night. A hail storm later shat tered many windows and wreewed greenhouses. The whole State is wa ter-soaked. Three boys were caught in Thursday night’s storm, while row ing in Galveston bay and are believed to have been drowned. Another storm to last two days is at noon predicted by the government weather bureau. The water at Sealey is now up to the highest point reported in the great flood of last July. Dallas. Tex., Special.—The floods show no signs of receding. On the contrary, most of the Texas rivers are rising. At Fort Worth telegram at 10 a. m. said the Trinity river had over flowed. ding much damage. The peo ple are alarmed for the safety of the water works, which are seriously threatened. 'A nine-foot rise is sweep ing down from the head waters of the Trinit}'. This will cause a big overflow in the vicinity of Dallas and Fort Worth. A bulletin from Waco at 10:30 o’clock said the list of dead there would reach ten to fifteen persons. The property damage in Waco will ex ceed $150,000. The telegraph lines of both companies are gone south of Wa co, isolating more,than one-half of the State. Railroad movements are sus pended sotith of Dallas on almost every line in the State. The loss by flood and hurricane since Friday morning is estimated to reach three to five mil lion dollars, including damage to rail roads In immense in Hill, McDennan, Williamson, Bell, Colorado, Bastrop and adjoining counties. Tihe telegraph companies have large forces of linemen out trying to ma“ke repairs. The few reports received for the southern and central Texas state that great destruc. tion has occurred. i Prisoners Dying Rapidly. Dondo®, By Cable.—-A dispatch to the Daily News from Pretoria dated Monday, says that forty-seven British prisoner have died in six weeks. Two hundred of them are sick with fever and dysentery at Waterval. The dis patches add tha-t Erasmus De Kierk has been sentenced to two years’ im prisonment at hard labor for guiding the British at Petrusburg and Bloem fontein. Naval Orders. Wash:m@oon, D. C., Special.—Orders were sent Saturday by ca;pi e to the Mrchias at San Juan, Porto Rico, Lo proceed to Chiriqui Bay and Port Di raon. She is to take the place in car ing for American interest in that sec tion of the cruiser Detroit, which sail ed Thursday for Key West. The Phil adelphia on the west coast of Central America, has dropped down to Punta Arenas, Costa Rica, close to the Co lumbian boundary so that on the whole there is now ample maval protection for the American intese.ste in Colum bia, so far as concerned the revolu tionary movement la the north of that country Z'EMOCRATIC. A GAME LAW. Passed by the House—The Boer War In the Senate, SENATE. One Hundred and Fifth Day.—Al most the entire day was devoted to the consideration of the right of Na than B. Soott, of West Virginia, to re tain his seat in the Senate. Mr. Pet tus. Alabama, who alone of the mem bers of the committee on privileges and elections is opposed to the claim of Mr. Scott to a seat, made an elabor ate argument to sustain his views. Mr. Morgan, Alabama, spoke in favor of his colleague’s contention. Mr. McCo mas, Maryland, Mr. Turley, Tennessee, Mr. Chandler, New Hampshire, Mr, Teller, Colorado, and Mr. Allen, Ne braska, addressed the Senate in sup port of the resolution declaring Mr. Scott entitled to ‘his seat. The case went over without action. One Hundred and Sixth Day.— r l ne Senate voted upon the resolution de claring Nathan B. Scott to be entitled to his seat in the Senate from West Virginia. The number of votes in the negative was only 3. Mr. Chandler gave notice that he would call up the case of Senator Clark, of Montana, on Wednesday of next week, but inti mated that he would not press con sideration until the Senators could have time to reau the testimony in the ease. Mr. Money, of Mississippi, by unanimous consent, railed up a bill to amend an act to provide for the col lection of abandoned property and the prevention of frauds in insurrection ary districts wiithin the United States. One hundredth and seventh day.— The following bills were passed: For the establishment, control, operation and maintenance of the northern branch of the National Home for Dis abled Volunteer Soldiers at Hot Springs in South Dakota, and appro priating $150,000 for the purpose. Requiring that the dam across Rainy Lake river, Minnesota, be com menced within three years and com pleted within five years from May, 4, 189S. Appropriating $2,400 to be paid cer tain persons for improvements relin quished to the United States for the use of Nez Perce Indians. To authorize Commander J. M. Mil ler, United State Navy; Surgeon 0. D. Norton, United States Navy; and Ed win V. Morgan, formerly secretary of the Savoan commission and now sec retary of the legation of the United States at. Seoul, Corea, to accept pres ents tendered them by the Emperor of Germany. ** One hundred and Eighth Day.— Again the question of expressing sym pathy for the Boers was thrust upon Senate. This time it came up in a mo tion to proceed to the consideration of the resolution iatroducedjby Mr. Petti grew, of South Dakota, which was be fore the Senate last Saturday. The motion was defeated, 2% to 30. Late in the session the Senate, after a brief discussion, agreed to the conference re port on the joint resolution relating to the administration of civil affairs in Porto Rico and providing for the ap pointment of temporary officers for the island .. No progress was made with the Alaskan civil code bill. One Hundred and Nineth Day.—After more than two months the Alaskan civ il code bill was passed by the Senate. The amendment relating to the alien location of mining claims has delayed the passage of the measure for several weeks, and at times has engendered a deal of feeling in debate. Mr. Carter, therefore, today withdrew the amend ment and all other points in dispute and a few minutes later the bill was passed. It provides a full civil code of procedure for the district of Alaska. HOUSE. One Hundred and Fifth Day.—After four days of discussion the House com pleted the consideration of the Postof fice appropriation bill and passed it. The attempt to strike out the $196,000 for special mail facilities from New York to New Orleans and from Kan sas City to Newton. Kansas, met the fate it has ever since the appropria tion was placed in the bill in 1893. No one demanded a separate vote upon the amendment striking out the pneumat ic tube provision, and the House by a large majority, stood by the amend ment to give extra compensation to letter carriers for work in excess ol forty-eight hours a week, although tha carriers were said by Mr. Cummings? New York, to be opposed to it. The bill to increase the salary of the Direc tor of the Census to $7,500 and the saD aries of supervisors of census by two per cent, of the amount received by their enumerators was passed. The final conference report on the Hawa iian government bill was presented, but not acted upon, owing to the ab sence of a quorum. One Hundred and Sixth Day.—The House broke all records by passing si private pension bills. Among them was one granting S4O a month tc the widow of the late Col. Jhon M. Stot zenoei-g, on rue r irst weDraska, who was killed in the Philippines. The con ference report on the Hawaiian gov ernment bill was adopted, 118 to 114, and the bill now goes to the Presi dent. Saturday, May 19. was set aside for receiving the statute of U. S. Grant, nreseuted to the government. One Hundred and Nineth Day.—. For the first time during the 50 years ol agitation of the project for the con struction of an inter-oceanic canal, the House of Representatives entered upon the consideration of a measure to ac tually authorize the building of a ca nal. Many times propositions bearing upon the subject have been before the House, but this was the first time pos itive action can be predicted. IN COEUR D’ALENE. A BLOODY PICTURE OF REPUB LICAN MILITARISM. Over Eleven Hundred Persons Held Without Process of Law and at the Points oi* liayonets Compelled to Sub mit to Vile Abase of Soldlsrs. Since February 19 of this year the committee on military affairs of the lower house of congress has conducted an investigation of the troubles in the Coeur d’Alene mining district of northern Idaho, which began May 3, 1899, and 'continue to the present time. From the testimony brought out in this investigation and from the statements of reliable eye witnesses who have not yet testified, the fol lowing information has been obtained: The Coeur d’Alene mining district of Idaho is one of the greatest lead and silver producing districts in the world. It employs upwards of 3,000 miners. All the great mining industries of the district have paid a uniform rate of wages to their employes except the Bunker Hill & Sullivan Company, em ploying about 400 miners at Wardner. Long before the beginning of the troubles this company paid from 50 cents to one dollar per day less than was paid in any other part of the dis trict. It persistently maintained a non-union force, refused to recognize organized labor, and in this particular openly violated the statutes of Idaho, which make it a penal offense for em ployers to discriminate against organ ized labor in the employment or dis charge of employes. Early* in April, 1899, the great in crease in the price of lead and silver induced the employes of this company to demand an increase of wages equiv alent to the current rate paid in the district. Other mine operators, as well as miners, joined in the plea to unify the conditions, realizing that such uni fication would have a good effect upon the industries and would insure the entire district against turbulent condi tions characteristic of labor troubles; but the Bunker Hill Company stub bornly refused to grant the requested increase or even confer with the com mittee’s representatives. Simultane ously with the demand for an increase of wages in the Bunker Hill mine, or very soon thereafter, a large number of the employes of t!ie mine joined the miners’ union, and when the company flatly refused to grant any concession its employes struck. The company for years prior to this time had made it a practice to discharge any person in its employ as soon as it discovered that he belonged to a union or other labor organizations, and on or about April 26 the company was required by the exigencies of conditions to grant an increase in wages nearly equal to the union rates; but much to the sur prise of every one it refused to ’ re employ any of its ‘old faithful em ployes who had joined the miners’ union. This action on the part of the company exasperated the working peo ple in the entire district, and matters from that time grew from bad to worse, the company flatly refusing to arbitrate the differences. On April 29 an armed mob was formed at the adjacent mines at Mul len, Gem and Burke, which, accom panied by a large number of curiosity seekers, took possession of a train of cars, procured a large quantity of dynamite and made an attack on the Bunker Hill concentrator. The mill was blown to atoms, and in the riot two men were killed. How or by whom this riot was organized has re mained a matter of speculation. It has been charged to the miners' union, but no evidence has ever been offered to sustain this accusation. The min ers themselves were (indignant over this outrage, and citizens generally of fered their services to aid in appre hending and punishing the rioters. Frank Stcunenberg, governor of Idaho, daclared the entire county (Shoshone) to be in a state of insur rection and rebellion, declared the dis trict under martial law, suspended the habeas corpus act, called on the presi dent for United States troops, and pro ceeded to redress the grievances of the mine operators. A drag net Ms thrown over the •county and tj/ people were arrested by communities, and to the present time nearly 1,100 persons have suf fered imprisonment, ranging in time from ten daj's to ten months. All were arrested without warrant, criminal charge, indictment or examination. The people arrested were imprisoned first in a large barn with a mud floor, and the stories told of their sufferings are almost beyond belief. Miners com ing from the mines, their clothing urated with water, were not allowed to dry themselves, but were crowded into the barn, or bull pen, compelled to sleep on the dirt floor without bed ding and with Insufficient food. Dater a regular prison was built, which be came the historical bull pen. It w*a a large building built around an, open court, constructed roughly of green lumber flnd*pithout windows The roof leaked-and the’ cold winds of night blew through the cracks between the boards The soldiers furnished by the presi dent were negroes, and, if the sworn evidence of good citizens can be be { lit ed, their conduct was not only of- fensive but brutal towards their pris oners. The language they used In ad dressing them was too profane and filthy to be repeated* and their.threats to shoot and stab were constant and emphatically uttered. An order was issued forbidding men from working in the district without procuring a permit from the gcvernor. Men were arrested for working® on their own claims, and even profession al men were forbidden to practice their grofessinns without tu s governor's Tno sheriff of the county and a majority of%ie members of the county board were imprisoned, and many of the best citizens of the coun ty, in no way associated with the out rages, were arrested by the negro soldiers without excuse or warrant and driven at the point of the bayonet into the bull pen, there to remain un til the military officers saw fit to re lease them. One of the prisoners attempted to escape by making a tunnel, and, being discovered, he and all the other pris oners In the pen were kept on bread and water, for nine , days; he for at tempting to escape, and the others for not notifying the guards that such an attempt would be made, Even per sons arrested after* the was discovered received the same punish ment. No one was tried, but when the bull pen was full those whom the military thought had been sufficiently punished were released in order to make room for new prisoners, and sometimes a man was arreited a sicond time, his first Imprisonment not being sufficient to satisfy the wishes of those in au thority. Gradually the number of prisoners decreased until all were re leased, yet no man can today tell on what charge he was arrested or for what he was punished except to grati fy a whim of the, governor, the tjf venge of the Bunker Hill Company Or the malice of the negro soldiers. Gov. Steupenberg has never bffn able to explain satisfactorily why he called for Untied States tToops or why he ordered' these wholesale arrests or why he forbade men from working without a permit. The civil power was at all. tfmfts able to control the situation; the courts were competent to punish all v'ib'latioiis “of And competent to enforce theft decree#. The ease is one of the most remark able in the history of the country, and the report of the committee investi gating it will tell a story that people will find difficult to believe. >■ $ V A SOUPHOUSE. Compared with thef present-condition of ihe Puerto Ricans, their future fate <3ausefe a shudder to come over every American citizen, and that shudder bodes ill to MdKinleyism and its at tendant benevolent assimilation! Thl addition of a colonial territory to our home*pauper is something unpleasant to contemplate except to an utter imperialist. Thirty thousand women and children, says the last**report, are fn such a condition of nakedness usually attributed to the uewl| born. So naked, indeed, %re the children ¥ starving for -stood and education that,, the modest, pedagogue through shamb. Can not permit them to attend their schoolhouses. Mr. Charles M. Pepper, correspond ent of the New York Herald, furnishe* that journal with the most moarnf# statistics of the miserable condition of that once happy island. Their pitiful, poverty-stricken misery would bt&g sadnessto the heart of everything Jut an Oxnard sugar beet. “Trade stagfla tion. is widespread. TherWis IlttieHe*. gitimate trading and few goods an being brought into the island exc4 V such as are sent to relieve the starj ing. “This condition has been existing tor months,’’ says Mr, pepper, ar.H the poor and the laboring classes a mk in a state of destitution.' The KansusCity Times summarifl® the situation as “idleness and lization for the unemployed poor anH bankruptcy for the mercantile and injf dustrialclasses. Had the president had any backbone and followed olain, duty Puerto Rico today would have been a beehive of industry and j the abode of prosperous activities in- I stead of a souphouse and the Breeding I place of disaffection and hop-Jesansse that the Republican party’s obedience to trust magnates has made it," : 0 ' ’ W 8..... The Contttntlon Never Yield*. Judge Cooley, a life long Republican, in his work on Constitutional Lnw- a recogf. 1 authority in every .court,cf the United States, says;. “The Constitution never yields to treaty or enactment. Tt ' neither changes with time, nor does iL in theory,’ bend to the force of fire uoh .stances. It ma&be amended to its own peffeisslofi; but while it stands it is a law for rulafe and peo ple, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the'shield of its protection all classes of men. at all times and under all circumstances*" IW JEBMn} pies cannot therefore be set asfowTh order to meet the supposed necessi ties of great crises. “No doctrine in volving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the, wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.” NO. 7.