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Quays success in buying and bull
dozing the Pennsylvania Republican
convention and thus securing the nomi
nation of his candidate for Governor
may prove the defeat of his party in
the Keystone State It is alleged that
if the Democrats nominate the right
man for Governor they will be able to
elect him This condition of affairs is
not peculiar to Pennsylvania All over
the country facts are making it evident
that this year presents a great oppor
tunity for the Democratic party The
people are disgusted with the hypoc
risy and dishonesty of the Republicans
and are ready to deprive them of the
power which have abused But
as in Pennsylvania Democratic success
requires that the right kind of men be
jiuminatcd by the Democrats How--ever
Democratic success with the
-wrong kind of men for candidates
-would be worse than defeat for the
effect of electing incompetent or un
sound men this fall would be to imperil
the chances of victory in the campaign
of 1900 This has ursed caie -
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Raisins Money for the War
If ordinary common sense instead of
the desi e to favor certain contributors
to the Republican campaign fund of
ISOO were animating the majority in
Congress the war revenue bill would
have been constructed on the lines sug
gested by the Democratic minority in
stead of on those advocated by tho
agepts of confederated corporations
The Democratic plan provided ample
revenue for the expenses of the war
without unduly taxing any portion of
the community It authorized a new
issue of treasury notes greenbacks so
called to an amount that could be ab
sorbed by the business of the country
wKli benefit to all excepting perhaps
the professional money lenders It pro
vided for the coinage of a certain quan
titv of iilver now lying Idle in the
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senator unurston whose heart was
touched by the sufferings of the Cuban
reconcentrados visit Hazelton Will
not the Republican President who
wanted to send bread to the starving
people of Cuba send a few crumbs to
the victims of the coal trust Weylers of
Pennsylvania Sheriff Martin and his
men taught the Hazelton miners that to
strike meant death That the ri
fles of the sheriffs- guard would
blow the remnants of life out of the
emaciated bodies of starving strikers
Men who have faced the deadly rifles
carried by the hired assassins of the
coal lutrons and who have appealed to
the- courts of justice only to be denied
itcarp not likely to demand their
rights The danger is too great There-
fore thse ypov wretches are now beg
ging Congress for assistance Misera
ble as their lives are still they want to
pVservo theni and rather than starve
and in preference -to being murdered
they make ujeiidicants pf themselves
Truly this is a land of liberty A land
where the trusts fue protected and the
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Coining the ceigniorapre
Silver sentiment is- dead shouts a
Chicago ailijif lustration organ one day
and the net day it mourns ovcr the
fact that the House makes a conces
sion to silveivin the matter of coining
the seigniorage If silver sentiment is
dead why is the House making a con
cession to it What is the nouse
afraid of Ghosts It is evident that
the Government needs money There
is 42000000 worth of silver in the
treasury but that must not be coined
says the gold advocating press Bonds
are what we want Gold bonds arc
preferred but as we cant get them we
will take coin bonds But why bonds
instep1 ot tut t dnioney lying in the
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loyal Democrats be chosen CUid let the
crankSand the men of one idea remain
in the harmless seclusion of private
life Chicago Dispatch
AVanamaker la Rijrht
In order for us to have good times
the people must not only have money
but they must also spend it freely The
two things are reciprocal It is the
market that keeps the factories and the
stcv cs going ana pays tue wages uiiis
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Mr Wanamaker is one or tne tew
rich men in tills country with a glimmer
of economic sense The average eduo
rial idiot is advising the people to sa v
their -money They must be saving it
they certainly are not spending much
of it Nothing will so quickly breed
hard times as an epidemic of economy
There is a circulating medium of but
23 per capita and probably 15 of tins
is in the banks or otherwise Idle If
the people save the remaining S
which is not much to save what be
comes of our circulation medium And
yet the people are urged to save their J
money You might as well ask a man
to save his breath or dam up the cir
culation of his blood Under our laugh
able0 system of society- the spendthrift
is a benefactor and the prudent is an
enemy to the public welfare
A New Definition
The word plutocrat does not neces
sarily mean a rich man It is a strange
fact that a vast majority of plutocrats
are poor men financially as n well as
morally poor while many wealthy peo
ple are the most genuine of Democrats
A plutocrat is one who looks upon
wealth as a warrant of respectability
and with theright of Industrial and po
litical authority and of government ot
by and for the rich The toadies to
wealth the caterers to monopoly gov
ernment and the blind Unthinking
partisan who votes and works for the
party with a record adverse to the
popular interest is the meanest most
contemptible and most dangerous plu
tocrat though not worth a dollar
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the selection of Democraticicaadatr bear interest TBonds make bankerc
for Congress boeausow
insure future victories Let wiseujti
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tribute to the plutocrat and coining
thbulllon into money does not put any
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handSj of bondholders Nevertheless
the seigniorage is to be coined and all
because the members of the House of
Representatives are afraid of ghosts
Chicago Dispatch
Keijjn of Trusts
With absolute unanimity the Republi
can Senators have voted to tax the peo
ple and not to tax the trusts Solid as
a Roman phalanx the Republicans pre
sented an unbroken front to the Demo
cratic attempt at reaching the hoarded
millions of the plutocrats Taxes on
tho necessities of life were favored by
the Republicans The poor mans lux
uries were gladly placed on the tax list
by these patriotic and noble minded
gentlemen when atax on corporations
was suggested a howl of indignant pro
test was raised and the proposition vas
promptly voted down When the Re
publicans could not argue they descend
ed to ridicule and pretended to see
something extremely funny in the Idea
of taxing trusts That is just the way
the aristocrats treated the demands of
the people before the French revolu
tion inaugurated a reign of terror
There will be no reign of terror in the
United States but thanksto the intel
ligence of the common people there
will cease to exist the reign of trust
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To Anthorizc Income Tax
Rcpresefrfaf ive Barlow of California
has introduced a joint resolution to
amend the Constitution by adding as
the close of the first clause of section
S article 1 after tlf words of United
States thefollowihgj i4Biit nothing
in this clause or in this constitution
shall boso construed or interpreted as
to destroy or abridge in any way the
right of Congress whenever in its dis
cretion it may le deemed necessary for
the public good to levy a tax oh in-
coms in excess of 2000 per annum
aijd Congress is expressly empowered
to levy sueh a tax fixing either a com
mon rate for all or a graded scale ac
cording to the amount of income as in
its discretion1 may seem best for the
welfare of the nation
The One Exception
President of the Orange Free
State is probably the only living ruler
of a country avIio has publicly denounc
ed the capitalist -class He warned his
hearers JSgaihstfcaiHtalists who were
sucking tbe lifeblood from the veins of
the working men Capitalists in the
sister republic tfhe Transvaal when
they could not get their way shut down
the mines This was simply taking the
bread out of the mouths of the work
ing men Looking north there was a
great Imperialist no doubt meaning
Cecil Rhodes under the guise of phi
lanthropy calling the working men in
to the country to slave for him for he
had a monopoly in the country
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Some of the silver Senators are easily
satisfied as they showed when they
voted at the last moment for the war
revenue bill as it came from the con
ference committee with the proviso for
the coinage of the seigniorage stricken
out and an authorization for the coin
ing of a million and a half of silver dob
lars a month put in place thereof This
concession to the silver men amounts
to very little indeed for the mints have
been turning out a million of dollars
of the white metal every month under
existing law and the addition of a halt
million lore
of thorn i
starving and have petitioned Congress
i montli or six millions
vote moy for their aid Will not
n the course of a year is so
small a matter as to scarcely be worth
mentioning in connection with so im
portant a measure as this bill which
provides for the collection of additional
taxes to the amount of probably 150
000000 a year and for the Increase of
the interest bearing public debt by the
issuance of 1 00000000 more of bonds
Had the silver Senators stood by each
other earnestly they could have un
doubtedly secured better terms from
the gold majority in the House It was
probably their desire not to delay ac
tion on the bill but to put the Govern
ment in command at once of all the
money it needs for the prosecution of
the war that prompted them to vote as
thej did New York News
taxes impartially on those best able to
pay them The Republican plan on the
other hand is to increase the bonded
debt of the nation enormously and to
save all the big corporations and trusts
that canie up with lfberal contributions
two years ago to encompass the defeat
of William J Bryaii for the presidency
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Coal Miners Starving
There are reconcentradps in the Unl
ted States There are Weylers and
Blancos exercising their despotic pow
er in the land of the free and the home
of the brave Hazelton miners are
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CAVE DWELLERS OF ALASKA
Queer People Who Inhuit Kings
Island in the Bering e
A race of cave dwellers live On a
small island off the Alaskan coast It
is Kings Island in Bering Sea due
south of Cape Prince of Wales There
is only one village there and this has a
population of 200 Dr Sheldon Jack
son the United States agent of educa
tion in Alaska says that it is one of
the most remarkable settlements in
America yet few people know of its
existence
Kings Island Is about a mile in
length and is a mass of basalt rock
which rises perpendicularly out of the
sea to a heightof from 700 tq jLOOO feet
At the south side this is cleft in two
by a deep ravine which is filled by a
huge permanent snow bank High up
on the west side of the ravine Is the vil
lage of Ouk ivak which consists of
about forty dwelllngspartly hollowed
out of the cliff and built up outside
with stone walls Across the top of
these walls are laid large drift wood
poles over these are placed hides and
over the hides grass and dirt The
houses are entered by a tunnel which
runs along underneath sometimes for
a distance or fifteen feet and ends un
der a hole eighteen Inches in diameter
in the floor of the room above -This
is the front door of the establishment
The tunnel is so low that it is neces
sary to stoop and often to crawl the
entire leiigtli of it -
In summer these houses generally be
come too damp to live in The people
then erect another dwelling on top this
is a tent of walrus hide which is
stretched over a wooden frame and
guyed to the rocks by ropes to prevent
its being blown off- fnto the sea These
tents allow of a room about ten or fif
teen feet square and entered by means
of an oval hole in the hide about two
feet above the floor A narrow plat
form two feetAvide runs along outside
of the door and leads back to the hill
These platforms are often fifteen or
twenty feet above the winter dwelling
below
Xt the other side of the deep ravine
at the base of the cliff is a huge cavern
into which the sea dashes At the back
of this is a large bank of perpetual
snow- The cave dwellers use this as a
storehouse They dig rooms in the
snow and store their provisions which
freeze solid and keep the year round
for the temperature in the snow never
rises above 82 degrees Pittsburg
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The Proline Liife of Alaska
John Muir who has summered and
wintered in the Alaskan lands says in
the Atlantic Nowhere on my travels
so far have I seen so much warm
blooded rejoicing life as in this grand
Arctic reservation by so many regarded
as desolate Not alone are there wholes
in abundance along the shores and in
numerable seals walruses and white
bears but great herds of fat reindeer
Uii ihe tundras andiviidieepxej
hares lemmings whistling marmots
and birds Perhaps more birds are born
here than in any other region of equal
extent on the continent Not only do
strong winged hawks eagles and water
fowl to whom the length of the conti
nent is only a pleasant excursion come
up here every summer in great num
bers but also many short winged war
blers thrushes and finches to rear
their young in safety re enforce the
plant bloom with their plumage and
sweeten the wilderness with song fly
ing all the way some of them from
Florida Mexico and Central America
n thus going so far north they are only
going home for they were born here
and only go South to spend the winter
months as New Englanders go to Florida-
Sweet voiced troubadours they
sing in orange groves and vine clad
tnagnolia woods in winter in thickets
of dwarf birch and alder in summer
and sing and chattel5 more or less all
the way back and forth keeping the
whole country glad Oftentimes in
New England just as the last snow
patches are melting and the sap in the
maples begins to flow the blessed
wanderers may be heard about or
chards and the edges of fields where
they have stopped to glean a scanty
meal not tarrying 1ongV knowing they
have far to go Tacifrg the -footsteps
ui spring muy arrive in men luuuru
homes in JnneprJidyiyand set out on
their return journeys in September or
as soon as their families are able to fly
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As quaint amixurepjf words ahcTin
terjectional cries as J have met with is
in an 6d French cyclopedia of 1763
which giyesa minute description of the
hunters craft and prescribes exactly
what is to be cried to the hounds in all
possible contingencies of the chase If
the creatures understand grammar and
syntax the language could not be more
accurately arranged for their ears
Sometimes we have what seem pure in
teitjeetional cries Thus to encour
age the hounds to work the huntsman
is to call to them Ha halle halle
halle while to bring them up before
they are uncoupled it is prescribed
that he shall call Hau hau or Han
tahaut and when tiiey are uncoupled
he is to change his cry to Haul la y
la la y la tayau a coll which suggests
the Norman origin of the English tally-ho
Primitive Culture
Commercial Travelers in Germany
Germany has about 00000 commer
cial travelers on the road 300 days a
year Their expenditure in hotels is es
timated at 150000 a day or 45000
000 a year
In time people become so accustom
ed to outrages that they pay no atten
tion to them
When looking for lodgings a man
must either inquire within go with-
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When Tom Sheridan was reading
Euclid with his tutor he found it very
tedious and after a time he asked
Was Euclid a good man The tutor
did not know Was he an honorable
truthful man We know nothing to
the contrary Then dont you think
we might take his word for all this
When the Athenaeum Club was first
founded Croker one of its founders
was urgent that no man should be ad
mitted who had not in some way dis
tinguished himself in literature Soon
after heproppsed the Duke of Welling
ton when- some one said The duke
has1 rietffer written a book True re
plied Croker but he is a capital hand
at reviews
A clever remark made at a London
dinner not long ago is reported by the
Bazars correspondent They were
talking of George Alexander the En
glish actor and some one remarked
that his real name was Samson What
a pity said a lady that he doesnt
keep it Its such a good name for a
player Samson was the first actor
who brought down the house 1
A Scotchman living in London recent
ly ran across two of his countrymen
and took them with him to a big public
dinner In his hospitality lie sent to
their table champagne and yet more
champagne and after a time went to
see personally how they were faring
He found them depressed How are
you getting on he asked The reply
came Oh were gettin on fine but
were verra fateeggit with thae mineral
waters
A judge of the Bombay high court
who is pompous In manner and never
forgets that ho is a judge was walking
up and down the platform of a small
railway station up country just before
taking his seat in the train At that
moment a hot and perspiring English
man rushed on to the platform and said
to the judger Is this the Bombay
train The judge coldly remarked
I am not the station master The
other man at once retorted Then
confound you sir why do you swagger
about as If you were
The celebrated Massimo family in
Roifiewho claim descent from Quintus
Fablus Maximus the dictator have
just celebrated as they do annually
the anniversary of the restoration to
life of Taolo Massimo who died in 1583
and was miraculously revived by St
Philip Neri It was to the grandfather
of the present Prince Massimo that Na
poleon put the question And are jou
so sure you really are descended from
Quintus Fabius Maximus Well
answered the prince calmly 41they have
been saying so here in Rome for the
lujt two tiiodSa nd years
A certain novelist who recently re
ceived from a lady an unstamped letter
askiugthe loan of his book on the plea
that she could not obtain it at the book
sellers 4n her own town sent her a re
ply worded as follows Dear Madam
In the town where you reside there ap
peals to be a lack of all sorts of things
which are easily procurable -elsewhere
not only my recent work but also of
postage stamps for letters I have in
my possession it Is true the book you
desire to obtain and also the stamps to
pay its carriage but to my regret I
am without the necessary string to
make it into a parcel If you can sup
ply me with a piece I am at your serv
ice
A temperance lecturer once addressed
an unconvinced audience in Kentucky
and when he made the announcement
that the effect of alcohol is to shorten
life he was astonished to see an old
man rise at the back of the hall and
shout Youre a liar Why in
quired the advocate of Adams ale
Because sir Ive been drinking for
seventy five years and Im ninety and
am likely to live to be 100 I am strong
enough to lick you If joull step out
side Oh no doubt sir Youre an
exception sir If you keep on drink
ingjie lecturer paused What
asked ihe impatient old toper If you
keep on drinking youll have to be shot
on judgment day
When the Methodist conference at
Lawrence Kan was almost ready to
close some of the ministers were dis
cussing the appointments and agreed
among themselves that everything was
coming out satisfactorily the appoint
ments having been all fixed up Then
another preacher bade his brethren not
to be too sure For said he I was
in conference with Bishop Fowler once
and we fixed everything up and then
the bishop asked to be allowed to com
mune with God awhile The rest of us
retired and from the condition in
which we found the appointments
when we came back I should say that
if the bishop talks with God again to
day he is likely to break that slate of
ours into pieces so small that we cant
write our names on em
Sir William Rowan Hamilton pro
fessor of astronomy in the Dublin Uni
versity used to recall with a humor
ouinelancholy his first meeting with
his predecessor Bishop Brinkley when
said he I am afraid I offended him
Hamilton was a youth of eighteen and
sat next him at some public luncheon
They did not speak and the younger
man felt that good manners required
him to break the silence His eye hap
pened to rest on a large map of Van
Diemens Land hanging on the wall
My lord said he turning to the bish
op were you ever in Botany Bay
The bishop turned to him with a look
of severe displeasure Eat your soup
sir thundered the old gentleman eat
your soup And then it occurred to
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was asking -whether head ever been
transported for at that time Botany
Bay was where desperate criminals
were sent
MISTAKES OF INSECTS
Present Day Naturalists Deny That
They Reason
Few scientific prejudices have been
more difficult to overcome than that
which removes from animals tlijreii
soning faculty and probably ninny
years will yet elapse before it will be
recognized that all animals which Iconic
under ordinary observation
ed with the same kind of faculty a
though developed in various degrees ot
a descending scale which distinguishes
man and the so called higher organ
isms The bee and ant have been fre
quently held up as the best exponents
of the instinct class and more receutly
of the exceptional animals which de
veloped reasoning powers and it was
a rude shock not only to the layman
but as well to the scientist when Sir
John Lubbock as the result of an al
most endless series of experiments an
nounced a few years ago that these ani
mals were sadly wanting both in
their instinctiye and intellectual traits
In other words there were many times
when both instinct and intelligence
erred for thc m
vSome most remarkable instances of
the erring of instinct among insects
have frequently been noted by natural-
ists and they add an interesting chap
ter to the physiology of sense One of
these was the case of a butterfly which
persisted in visiting the artificial flow
ers on a ladys bonnet mistaking tliem
for the natural product Another and
perhaps more striking instance of fault
is noted by the distinguished French
entomologist M R BlanchariL mid
concerns a species of sphinx moth
which entered a hotel room in the
half obscurity of early morning and
was found to flit with direct intent to
definite parts of walls and ceilings
These were decorated with paintings
of leaves and flowers and to tjie lat
ter the insect approached in repeated
attacks thrusting forward its
as though intent upon intruding
it into the opened cups of the beguil
ing flowers After repeated failures
and the resulting discouragement the
effort was given up and the sphinx
escaped by the window This cose oi
self deception is interesting in anothei
way inasmuch as it proves that it is
not always the sense of smell but ai
times that of sight which directs in
sects to their flowers Washingtor
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Mysterious Defects in Engines
Defects often develop in steam en
gines and other machines that are very
mysterious in their origin and call foi
great ingenuity in detecting the cause
Unless a man in charge of an engine
develops habits of close observation he
is likely to be easily bcaieiiwhen any
thing unusual takes place
We read lately of a tendency to run
away of a Corliss engine which was a
great mystery for a time The engine
would speed up J for a few moments
without any apparent cause and drop
back to its normal speed without any
thing being done The engine was
taken apart and examined carefully
and particular attentioriwas devoted
to the governor but nothing wrong
could be found One day while the
engineer was looking at the engine
it suddenly speeded up about fifty rev-
olutions above the normal and5 before
the steam could be shut off it dropped
back to the regular speed The engine
was stopped the governor again faken
apart the valve mechanism examined
and a minute inspection made ovetdthe
whole machine and nothing couid be
found the matter
Some of the people about were begin
ning to think that this erratic engine
was acting outside of natural laws and
that a real mystery surrounded the
tendency to ran away By accident
the engineer grasped the governor belt
and was surprised to find that the pul
ley turned on the shaft The pulley
was of the common kind made in two
pieces and bolted together being held
to the shaft by the friction of the parts
The bolts had worked loose and permit
ted the pulley to turn on the shaft at
short intervals
When hearing about this mystery the
surprise we experienced was that the
engineer did not thoroughly examine
that pulley after he had looked at the
governor
Tabby Takes tho Elevator
The Philadelphia bourse is the home
of a very intelligent cat This
which is coal black without a single
white spot npon her has a fondness for
traveling in the elevator She js per
fectly at home there and navels up
and down many times daily She goes
to the door of the elevator shaft and
mews until tlie car comes along and
takes her on The various elevator men
are verv careful of herT for she is a
great mouser and in the bourse as in
other big buildings mice are troubled
some These little pests frequently de
stroy valuable documents supposedly
safely stowed away in desks and draw
ers Tabby notifies the elevator men
what floor she desires to get off upon
by mewing loudly as the car comes to
the particular story In this way she
makes a tour of inspection of the entire
building Philadelphia Record
Weeds Killed by Electricity
Electricity is used to destroy weeds
in a new device which can be usel on
an ordinary mowing machine one wire
of the dynamo being attached to the
cutting bar and the other grounded
through one of the wheels so that if
the weeds are cut when damp a current
of electricity enters each root and
burns it as the top is cut
The confidence man is an adept at
making farming profitable
You can never tell what a womanor
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TBe session of the House on Saturday
was devoted to debate upon the Hawaiian
resolutions The Senate amendments to
thebillbrgantzing the naval ibospital corps
was
In theHousc on Monday the annexation
of Hawaii to the United States was under
discussion Mr Newlands silverite Nev
introduced the debate with a speech in
support of his resolution for annexation
For nearly two hours the Senate hud un
der discussion the resolution of Mr Lodge
Mass directing the Claims Committee
to make an inquiry as to the disposition
of the money appropriated by Congress to
pay the claim o the book concern of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South A
heated colloquy between Mr Chandler
N H and Mr Pasco was the feature of
the discussion A hill granting to the
Cripple Creek Railroad Company of Col
orado a right of way through the Pikes
Teak timber land reserve was passed An
act authorizing the appointment of a non
partisan commission to collate informa
tion and to consider and recommend leg
isnation to meet the problems presented
by labor agriculture and capital was
passed
The Hawaiian debate proceeded in the
House on Tuesday Mr Grosvenor Rep
O made tlie principal speech of the day
At the session of the Senate the resolution
of Mr Lodge Mass directing that an
inquiry be made into the disposition made
of the Methodist Book Concern claim
which was paid recently by Congress was
adopted without division In the course
of the debate upon it Mr Morgan Ala
charged that the resolution was insincere
and had been drawn for political effect
This statement Mr Lodge denied vigor
ously saying his only purpose in offering
the resolution was that all the facts con
cprningthe matter should be laid before
the people -The measure- to incorporate
the International American Bank was un
der discussion for three hours the debate
eliciting some interesting facts concern
ing the foreign trade of this country
Final action was not taken on the bill A
bill to authorize a retired list for enlisted
men and appointed petty officers of the
United States was passed
By a vote of 200 to 01 the nouse of
Representatives Wednesday afternoon
adopted the Newlands resolutions pro
viding for the annexation of Hawaii The
debate which had continued without iu
terrrintion since Saturday had been one
of the most notable of this Congress tlie
proposed annexation being considered p
great commercial and strategic import
ance by its advocates audtbeing looked
upon by its opponents as involving a i adical
departure from the long established policy
of the country and likely to bo followed
by the inauguration of a pronounced pol
icy of colonization the abandonment of
the Monroe doctrine and participation in
international wrangles More than half a
hundred members participated in the de
bate The Senate resumed consideration
of the International American bank biii
An amendment was accepted by the com
mittee and adopted extending the priv
ileges of the measure to all citizens of the
United States instead of restricting them
to those mentioned in the bill When the
Senate adjourned consideration of- the bill
had not been cdncludtfd tt
In jheJHpuse on Thursday Mr Dingley
Rep Mej called up the bill supplemental
to the7 war revenue measure designed to
supply some omissiens and to strengthen
tlie mermaoeirryiugiOitfthe rcvenue jict
ItexcinntSfroin taxation mutual casual
ty -fidelity -and guaranty companies con
ducted not fbrprofit After explanation
by Mr Dingley the billwas passed The
House passed a bill authorizing the con
struction of a bridge across Niagara river
at Grand Island and then went into com
mittee of the whole to consider the gen
eral deficiency bill In the general debate
upoa the bill Mr Wilson Dem S G de
livered a speech in support of the Lodge
immigration bill and Mrl Carmack Dem
Tcnn spoke upon the probability of the
war ending m the inauguration of a policy
Of territorial aggression The bill was not
disposed of when the House adjourned
Alter devoting an hour to the discussion
of the bill restoring the annuities to the
Sisseton and Wahpetn bands of Sioux
Indians the Senate resumed the consid
eration of the bill to incorporate the Inter
national American Bank A test on an
amendment clearly indicated that a ma
jority of the Senate favored the measure
The message clerk of the House of Rep
resentatives delivered to the Senate the
Hawaiian annexation resolution presented
by the House the evening before
The Foreign Relations Committee
through Mr Davis the chairman on Fri
day reported favorably to the Senate the
Newlands resolutions for the annexation
of the Hawaiian Islands The bill to in
conjorate the International American
Bank in accordance with the recommend
ation of the Pan American congress
which has occupied a greater part of the
Senates time during the week was pass
ed by u vote of 2G to 23 The conference
report on the bankruptcy bill was present
ed and read but no action was taken The
general deficiency bill occupied the atten
tion of the House
l Ant Knowledge
The president of the Agassiz Associa
tion Hn Ballard recently caught ah
ant near its hill shut it up in a bos
carried it 150 feet away and set it free
in the middle of a sandy road What
followed be thus describes It -seemed
at fiist bewildered Then it climbed to
the top of a ridge of sand erected its
body as high as possible waved its
antennae for several seconds and then
started in a straight line for home
Too Much for Him
Sad about Joe Smiths insanity poor
fellow
What ailed him
Well be was janitor in a banki and
4roke down liis constitution trying o
keep it -warm enough for thin clerks
and cool -enough for the tat ones
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Clpvesfor the World -
The -two littlejslands of ZanziJrnnd
Peiba f in rai four fifths of tlicovea
consumed by the vioiiu i
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