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VOL. 21. NO. 50,
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1901.
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FLAWS OF TBE TREATY I
Senator Bacon in Speech Proceeds to
Point Them (hit.
HE REPLIES TO SENATOR LODGE
DisapproTal of Canal Treaty not Giving
This Country Fall Control Fault of
tbe Old Treaty Still la Evidence Mis
cellaneous Matter.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 12.
Two speeches on the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty were made in the executive ses
sion, of the senate yesterday, one by
Senator Bacon in opposition to the
treaty and the other by Senator Cul
lorn, the prospective chairman of the
committee on foreign relations, in
support of it.
Mr. Bacon replied to the speech
made by Senator Lodge. He summed
up his objections in the statement that
be could not freely accept any treaty
which docs not place the isthmian
canal entirely under American aus
pices and American control. This
he said, the pending treaty does not
lo, nor does it do anything like it.
It did not by long odds accomplish
what bad been accomplished by the
senate amendments made to the Hay
Pauncefote treaty at the last session
of congress. The Davis amendment,
he said, had abrogated all the objec
tional provisions of that treaty as ne
gotiated, and it did not matter what
provisions there were in the agree
ment, for long as the United States
was authorized as it was by the prin
cipal Davis amendment to secure the
safety and maintenance of the canal
by its own force. That amendment
had given this country a free hand
to do what w-as necessary for the pro
tection and defense of the canal
whereas the present treaty carried all
the restrictions which were originally
contained in the old treaty, leaving
out the modifications of the Davis
amendment.
He also pointed out that the treaty
reproduces the restrictions of the old
Suez canal treaty which had been in
corporated in the original convention
He charged that these restrictions
had been copied almost verbatim
from the old treaty, the only material
change being in the omission of the
words, "In time of war, as in time of
peace," from the rule of the Suez
canal agreement. This omission did
not, in his opinion, change the char
acter of the agreement.
"The only reply," he said, "which
the advocates cf the treaty make to
criticism is that the canal would be
tinder the full control of the United
States in time cf war, but this is no
more true now than under the old
treaty, and it is a strange thing that
all the provisions refer to the control
of the canal in war, notwithstanding
it is contended here that in that con
tlngency the removal of this phase
places the canal under our absolute
control."
He said the war restrictions of the
. treaty were entirely inconsistent with
the claims of Senator Lodge that this
country should say who should use
the canal and who should not in case
of hostilities. He contended that the
only power given to Great Britain
wa3 found in the last sentence of reg
ulation two. providing that "the
United States shall be at liberty to
maintain such military police along
the canal r.s may be necessary to pro
tect it against lawlessness and dis
order." This, he said, was not suffi
cient to make the canal an American
Institution and if the Davis amend
meat had been necessary to render the
original treaty acceptable it was
equally necessary in this instance. He
considered the pending treaty every
whit as objectionable as the treaty of
last session.
AGREE 0 IRRIGATION BILLS
Western Members Bold Caucus and Se
lect .Mratorti for Support.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 12. At a
caucus of western members of con
gress Interested in irrigation legisla
tion it was agreed to incorporate In
heir recommendation for a bill pro
viding for Irrigation of arid lands the
following essential features:
The money derived from the sale of
all public lands shall apply to the
revenue provided for irrigation; all
irrigation projects shall be under the
direction of the interior department;
settlers upon such lands shall pay
$5 an acre in tulditfon to- the home
stead fees; each settler shall be lim
ited to the purchase of 80 acres;
charges for irrigating their lands shall
toot exceed $10 per acre.
. Will Be Geo. Koosevelt.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. The army
board which has been for several
months preparing a list of officials
which shall be recommended for
brevet rank in recognition of gal
lant services in Cuba,. Porto Rico, the
Philippines and China has completed
Its work and the report will be sub
mitted to the Fecretary of war In a
day or two. This list is to take the
place of that laid before the senate
last session and withdrawn.
NEBRASKANS SEEK IN VAIN.
Worth Platte Relatives Fear Barm Hi!
Come to Jessie Allen.
CHICAGO. Dec 11. Relatives of
Miss Jessie Allen, a handsome girl of
23, fear she is either being hel.l a
prisoner in this city or that she has
been murdered. A week ago she ar
rived here from Jersey City, N. J., on
her way to North Platte, Neb., where
she was to spend the holidays with
relatives. At the Northwestern sta
tion Bhe discovered the loss of all her
money, quite a large sum. She tele
graphed this fact to Eugene Paddock
of Lemly, Neb., who forwarded trans
portation and money, which is now
here, but no trace of the girl can be
had. It is feared she was lured from
the station by the hope of recovering
her money and has been foully dealt
with. She was attractive and stylish
ly dressed. The police are unable to
get a clue to her whereabouts.
DEATH OP Sf NOR MENDOSA
Said to Bave Died of Fever, bat May
Bave Been Killed.
COLON. Dec. 11. (Via Galveston.)
Senor Mendosa. a brilliant lawyer
and a prominent liberal, who drew up
the capitulation papers after the bat
tle of Panama last year, is reported
to have died of typhoid fever recently
at Chorrera. Another version of his
death is that he was shot by General
Victoriane Lorenzo, the liberal com
mander at Chorrera, as the result or
an altercation regarding the advisa
bility of the surrender of the liberal
forces at that place to the govern
ment. Previous to the arrival of General
Castro at Agua Dulce the liberals
dispatched two large boats to Tuma
col laden with salt for the liberal
army.
CHANGES IN CIVIL SERVICE
President Approves Amendments to
Rales Kight and Tea.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 11. The pres
ident yesterday approved a number of
amendments to civil service rules S
to 10, recommended by the civil ser
vice commission some weeks ago and
subsequently passed on as to their
legal aspect by the attorney general.
Probably the most important of them
provides for discontinuing the pay of
persons found to bave been irregu
larly appointed. This is provided for
in the laws for the Philippines and
in the state law of New" York, but the
federal laws are held by the civil ser
vice advocates to have been defective
in this respect.
Bronze Tablet at Buffalo.
EUFFALO. N. Y.. Dec. 11. A bronze
tablet now marks the spot where the
body of the late President McKinley
lay in sate in this city in the lower
corridor of the city hall. The inscrip
tion on it is as follows:
HERE LAY IN STATE
THE BODY OF :
WILLIAM M KINLEY, :
PRESIDENT OF :
THE UNITED STATES. :
Forty-five stars from the border of
the tablet, and the letters are cut into
the bronze to the depth of three
eighths cf an inch.
' To Secure Release of Mips Stone.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 11 Repre
sentative Ryan cf New York yester
day introduced a bill authorizing the
state department to expend such
amount as is necessary to secure the
release of Mis3 Stone, the missionary
held by Turkish brigands. About
1.500. bills and resolutions were intro
duced yesterday. Most of them are re
prints of measures proposed at for
mer sessions. Among the new bills
are those of Mr. Shattuc of Ohio for
the exclusion and deportation of
alien anarchists, and of Mr. Wilcox,
the delegata from Hawaii, for the re
tirement of th Hawaiian coinage.
Cattle Rustler Captnred.
HURON. S. D., Dec 11. Sheriff
Braden of Sanborn county has taken
Jim Sontag. arrested here for cattle
stealing, to Woonsocket, where he will
remain In jail till the sitting of the
next term of Sanborn county court.
His partner. Moody, arrested some
months since. Is now serving a four
and a half years" term for cattle rus
tling. Improvements for Mnko?ee.
WASHINGTON. Dec 11. The sec
retary of the interior has approved
bond issues by the city of Muskogee.
Creek Nation. I. T., for $150,000 for
construction of water works for $25,
000 for sewers.
Prise Comes in Bandy.
CHRISTIANIA, Dec 11. It was an
nounced in the Storthing today that
the Nobel prize for the encourage
ment of peace and arbitration for
1901, amounting to 150.000 kroner, had
been equally divided between Dr.
Henri Dumant, the Swiss physician,
who was recommended by the Swedish
Rigsdag to the committee entrusted
with the bestowing of the prize, and
Frederick Passy, the former member
of tht French. Chamber of Deputies.
THE NICARAGUA CANAL
Senator Morgan is the Author of the Con
struction Measure.
AMOUNT NEEDED TO CONSTRICT
Tbe Bay-rauneefote Treaty Under Con
sideration Mr. Lodg; Speaks on tbe
Measure BUI to Protect the Presi
dent and Vice President.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. Senator
Morgan today intr; "diced a bill pro
viding for the construction of the Nic
araguan canal. The bill provides for
an aggregate of $190,000,000, of which
$5,000,000 is made Immediately avail
able and of which aggregate sum
such amounts as are necessary to be
appropriated by congress from time to
time.
The control of the canal and of the
canal belt Is vested in a board of
eight citizens of the United States, in
addition to the secretary of war, who
is to be president. These members
cf the board are to be paid a salary
a year each and they are to be chosen
regardless of political affiliation.
There is a provision authorizing the
establishment of a regiment from the
regular army on the canal belt to
guard it properly and courts also are
arranged, compliant with the laws of
grants of Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
There is also a provision making the
divisions of the canal during the con
struction and there is to be a chief
engineer and two assistants on each
division, the chief to receive a salary
of $6,000 and tbe assistants $3,000.
The senate today after routine busi
ness, upon motion of Mr. Lodge, at
12:45 p. m. went into executive sea
sion. After a number of nominations had
been confirmed Senator Lodge called
up the Hay-Pauncefote treaty and
made a brief statement regarding the
convention. The senate then ad
journed in order to give the demo
cratic caucus committee an opportu
nity to hold a meeting.
Mr. Lodge contended that the new
treaty does away with all the objec
tionable features of the treaty of the
last congress and enumerated the par
ticulars in which the revised agree
ment conforms to the action of the
senate In the last congress, when the
old treaty was before It. He analyz
ed the new treaty from beginning to
end, showing that in specific terms
it abrogates the Clayton-Bulwer trea
ty of 1850, which, he said, had stood
constantly in the way of the construc
tion of an isthmian canal. The abro
gation of this treaty, he contended,
was a most important achievement,
and he did not believe that the United
States should or would lose an op
portunity to make secure that conces
sion. Senator Lodge also called attention
to the omission of paragraph one of
article three of the words, "In time
of war as in time of peace." He said
that in the old treaty the paragraph
read: "That canal shall be free and
open, in time of war as in time of
peace, to the vessels of commerce
and of war of all nations on terms of
entire equality," etc.
He urged that the omission of this
phrase had the effect practically of
leaving the United States to do with
the canal in time of war according to
Its own good pleasure.
He also referred to the fact that
rule seven in the treaty of the pow
ers regulating the control of the
Suez canal, which had been embodied
in the original Hay-Pauncefote treaty,
had been omitted in the revised draft.
He quoted this rule which provided
that "no fortification shall be erected
commanding the canal or the wafers
adjacent," etc.
Senator Gallinger introduced in the
senate today a bill to protect the
president, vice president, persons in
the line of succession to the presi
dency and ambabssadors and foreign
ministers.
fampaon Asks IHsivissal.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 11. Counsel
for Admiral Sampson and his men in
the Santiago prize money case yes
terday filed in the district court of ap
peals a motion for dismissaal of the
government's appeal from the decision
of the district supreme court in tbe
case. The motion alleges lack of jur
isdiction. Decision was reserved.
Bomb In a School Itoild'Q-.
CORDER, Mo., Dec 11. A. bomb
was thrown by an unknown person
Into the hallway of the public school
building while the pupils were prac
ticing for their Christmas exercises
In the second story.
Deficiency Appropriations.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. The sec
retary of the treasury yesterday sent
to the house a list of deficiency appro
priations of several branches of the
government service, aggregating $4,
334,006. ContrauloD Recess.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 11. The
house yesterday passed a resolution
providing for a holiday adjournment
from December 19 to January 6.
MILLIONS FOR EDUCATION
Andrew Carnegie to Make Donation f ot
University Extension.
CHICAGO, Dec. 10. A dispatch to
the Record-Herald from Washington
says: Andrew Carnegie is to give
$10,000,000 to the cause of university
extension in the United States. An
nouncement of this great gift to edu
cation will be made at the white house
on Tuesday. Mr. Carnegie was here a
few days ago and took luncheon with
President Roosevelt, when details of
the plan were fully discussed.
Mr. Carnegie has thought best to
create a national board to handle this
munificent benefaction. President
Roosevelt will probrbly name such a
board for Mr. Carnegie, or at least set
in motion the machinery which shall
lead to a national organization.
Mr. Carnegie is expected here Mon
day or Tuesday, when fuller details of
this gigantic enterprise will soon be
come public
Nicholas Murray Butler, who has
succeeded Seth Low at the head of
Columbia college, has been here for
two days, a guest of President Roose
velt, at the white house, and he has
aided in perfecting the plans. Mr.
Butler left for New York, and before
going refused to give any particulars
beyond the Information that an an
nouncement would be made on Tues
day at the white house. Mr. Butler has
long been one of the foremost cham
pions of university extension, and It
is understood Mr. Carnegie has had
frequent consultations with him con
cerning the enterprise.
According to the plans prepared by
Mr. Carnegie and his advisers, the
national organization is to have Its
headquarters in Washington, but its
operations are to extend throughout
the United States, the work to be car
ried on in co-operation with univer
sities everywhere.
DIRECT APPEAL TO CONGRESS
McKinley Memorial Arcb Association
Alters Plan of Operation-
WASHINGTON, Dec 10. The Wil
liam McKinley National Memorial
Arch association has determined to
change its plan of operation so as to
appeal to congress instead of the pub
lic for the erection of the proposed
McKinley memorial at Washington.
Secretary Gage offered the following
resolutions-, 1 whirl. rre seconded by
Mr. Thomas F. Walsh, and adopted.
"Whereas, Through a resolution
presented to this committee by the trus
tees of the McKinley Memorial Arch
association it is reported that a can
vass of the country for subscriptions
to the proposed memorial arch in
Washington will be prejudicial if not
destructive to the erection of a proper
monument or memorial over the re
mains of the late president at Can
ton; therefore.
"Resolved, That this committee give
up Its appeal to the country for pop
ular contributions for the memorial
arch in Washington and turn its ef
forts to secure from congress an ap
propriation from the public treasury
sufficient in amount to erect in Wash
ington a memorial which in a fitting
manner shall represent the nation's
appreciation of the noble character
and distinguished public services of
William McKinley.
"Resolved, That this committee ac
cept the tender of earnest co-operation
from the trustees of the McKinley
National Memorial Arch association
to erect by the means of congressional
appropriation the proposed memorial
arch in Washington.
LOCATE THE HIDING PLACE
Macedonian Brings News of Capture,
American Missionaries.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 10. Accord
ing to information received from Sa
lonica, Miss Ellen M. Stone and
Madame Tsilka, her companion, are
concealed in the vicinity of Rilo, about
five miles south of Dubnitza, in Bul
garian territory. The news was
brought by a Macedonian, who left
there December 1 and who furnished
precise information regarding the hid
ing places and the names of the agents
supplying food for the brigands and
their captives. The information is
considered reliable enough to justify
the American officials in Turkey dis
patching emissaries to treat with the
bandits, and arrangements have been
made with the Turkish government
for free passage across the Turkish
frontier, which is vigilantly guarded
by troops stationed at every 100 yards.
The Twenty-ninth battery field ar
tillery has been transferred from the
department of Cuba to the depart
ment of the Missouri and will take
station at Fort Sill, O. T. .
Kearsare Going to Bavana-
NEW YORK. Dec 10. The United
States first class battleship Kear
sarge left rort today to join the North
Atlantic squadron. She was fully bun
kered and it is thought that she will
proceed direct to Havana, where the
other vessles of the squadron are due
to arrive on the 17th, to remain un
til the 26th, the program of the an
nual winter cruise having been chang
ed that the squadron be allowed to
remain In Havana for Christmas.
SCENE IN THE SENATE
An Exciting Episode Between Southera
Statesmen.
MR. TILLMAN PRESENTS A DEfY
Challenges Bis Colleague to Resign that
Both May " Wash Ihelr Dirty IJoen at
Borne" Mr, HcLanrin 8coruf ally Ig
nores the Gentleman's Banter.
WASHINGTON, Dec 10. The sen
ate chamber was the scene of a highly
dramatic episode yesterday, when
Senator Tillman of South Carolina
challenged his colleague. Senator Mc
Laurin, to resign with him on the
spot, In order, to use his own lan
guage, that they might be able "to
wash their dirty linen at home."
Mr. McLaurin did not take up the
challenge. The incident yesterday
was the direct sequel of the very bit
ter controversy which arose between
the senators in South Carolina last
spring.
Mr. McLaurin arose to a question
of personal privilege yesterday and
proceeded to explain that the charge
was a conspiracy to discredit him in
his own state for acts and views
which did not meet the approval of
certain democratic leaders. He de
clared that he was being humiliated,
and, according to public prints, was
to be excluded from tbe democratic
caucus because he had acted upon cer
tain public issues in a way which
he considered was for the best Inter
ests of the country and the people of
his state.
He announced himself a believer in
the old democracy and after denounc
ing new democracy leaders, who, he
said, had brought destruction upon tbe
party, declared he could not be driven
from his old allegiance into a party
with which he did not care to affili
ate. Senator Jones, chairman of tbe dem
ocratic national committee, denied
that he had any "ulterior motives"
In not Inviting Mr. McLaurin to en
ter the caucus.
Mr. Tillman reviewed the whole
controversy.
Mr. Hoar took occasion to express
the opinion that it was very doubt
ful whether both the South Carolina
seats in the senate were not in reality
vacant. He contended that when the
resignations were offered last spring
to the governor they could not be
withdrawn thereafter, having become
Immediately operative.
The climax came when Senator Till
man challenged Mr. McLaurin to join
with him in preparing their joint res
ignations and handing them to the
presiding officer of the senate. This
challenge Mr. McLaurin did not accept
and the episode was brought to an
abrupt close by Senator Lodge moving
an executive session.
DEPOSITORS TO GET DIVIDEND
Another Twenty Five Per Cent Orderod
Paid Monday.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Dec 10. Be
ginning yesterday, creditors of the
defunct banking firm of Officer &
Pusey commenced receiving a divi
dend of 25 per cent on their claims.
The last report filed shows that the
receivers have on hand $119,206.65 and
that the liabilities of Officer & Pusey
after deducting preferred claims, set
offs and sums ordered by the court to
be paid and without deducting the
first dividend amounting to $577,500.70.
A dividend of 20 per cent on this
amount would be $115,500.14, leaving
a balance in the hands of the re
ceivers of $3,706.51.
The first dividend of 25 per cent
amounted to $147,563.54 and the pay
ment of it reduced the liabilities of
the firm to $429,938.16. The payment
of the 20 per cent dividend .will fur
ther decrease the liabilities to $314,
438.02. The preferred claims which have
been paid amounted to $28,966.27. The
setoffs, as allowed by the court, were
$7,435.63. The cash balance In the
hands of the receivers, as shown by
their first report, was $179,041.28, and
the receipts from all sources since
then have been $125,538.84, making a
total of $304,581.13.
Corn Barvest About Over.
WEEPING WATER, Dec 10. Corn
Is about all harvested. A great many
farmers cut and bound their corn, and
that shortened the husking season,
and a good many are now shredding
their corn,-and it brings .the same
price as' old. This does not show. that
the crop was seriously damaged,
though it was cut short at least one
half. .
Philippine Tariff Measures.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 10. Chairman
Payne of the way3 and means commit
tee yesterday presented to his repub
lican colleagues of the committee' a
revenue tariff bill for the Philippines,
which he had drawn to meet the con
dition of the recent supreme court de
cision. The republican members of
the committee met at 10:30 o'clock to
continue the discussion of the general
subject. The meeting was eexcutive
and was preliminary to a full meeting.
DIE fER ON INSL'LAR TARIFF
Expect Bease to Pass a Measare to Meet
tbe Situation.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. The hous
this week will probably pass a mea?
ure to meet the situation created bj
the Philippine decision of the supremt
court last Monday. Up to the present
time, however, the republican mem
bers of the ways and means commit
teee have not decided upon the char
acter of the measure which will be
reported.
A difference of opinion exists as tft
whether there should be a temporary
enactment of the Dingley rates on
goods entering the United States from
the Philippines, or whether a perma
nent possession of the island should
be prepared. It is said Chairman
Payne favors the latter course.
The republican committees will
meet again tomorrow. If it is de
cided to enact a temporary measure
the procedure will be exceedingly sim
ple and it probably can be passed in a
day. If, on the other hand, an entire
scheme of tariff legislation is to be
consummated more time willl be tak
en up in the preparation and passage.
KILL AMERICAN DESERTER
David Fagin, Negro, Who Fled to Fill
pines. Is Decapitated.
MANILA. Dec. 9. The scouts from
Bengabon province of Nueva Ecija
bave killed the American negro. David
Fagin, a deserter from the Twenty
fourth (colored) infantry, who for
more than two years has been lead
ing Filipinos against the American
troops. The native scouts decapitated
their prisoner. The man's head,
however," was recognized as that of
Fagin. They also secured his commis
sion In the insurgent army. Fagin
had on one of his fingers the class
ring of Lieutenant Frederick W.
Altstaetter of the engineers, who was
captured by Filipinos, supposedly un
der the command of Fagin himself,
October 28, 1900.
Fagin is the deserter who has been
reported killed on several occasions.
The authorities are satisfied that for
mer statements of his death were er
roneous and that he has now been
killed.
HEPBURN'S CANU BILL
Iowa Senator Iutroduces Proposition for
Waterway.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Represent
ative Hepburn of Iowa introduced his
isthmian canal bill, which by reason
of his being the author of the bill
passed last year and his probable con
tinuance at the head of the house
commerce committee, is regarded as
the measure which will serve as a
basis for action by the house. It differs
from the Hepburn bill passed last
year, in making the total appropria
tion $180,000,000, instead of $140,000.
000. Of the total amount, $10,000,000
is made immediately available to be
gin work. In other respects the LiU
follows that of last year, authorizing
the president to acquire a right of wny
from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and
then to direct the secretary of war to
begin the construction, from Greytown
on the Carribean sea, to Brito on the
Pacific ocean, with suitable defenses,
etc
CIVIL SERVICE IN V0GIE
Weather Bureau Now Operating on strict
Merit System Basis.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 9. Tbe an
nual report of Prof. Willis L. Moore,
chief of the United States weather
bureau, says that substantial improve
ments have been made during the
last year in the weather bureau sys
tem of wireless telegraphy. Such
progress has been made by the gov
ernment experimenters that, with no
interference by private systems, sta
tions can be successfully operated over
atle ast 150 miles of coast line and arc
now in operation along the Virginia
and North Carolina coasts and soon
will be instituted between the Farral
lone islands and the mainland, and
Tatoosh Island and tbe mainland on
the Pacific coast.
The system of selective telegraphy
he regards as well demonstrated theo
retically, but has not been fully test
ed in practice.
Read r to Build a Turkish Ship.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 5. The
Cramp Ship Building company has no
tified the porte that it is ready to
commence building a cruiser for the
Turkish government and has asked
the government to send officers to su
pervise the vessel's construction.
d'Annunzio is coming
Cattlemen Are Ejected.
ARDMORE, OkL, Dec 9. Promi
nent cattlemen of Choctaw Nation will
be soon ejected form the reservation.
They are regarded as intruders by
the tribal government and the Indians
have backing of the Interior depart
ment. Many cattlemen who own thou
sands of head of cattle have been
served with ejectment notices. This
order has produced consterantion
among cattlemen. The step is taken
forjiurpose of allotting grazing land.
CONGRESSES WEEK
Expect the Final Caral Legislation
fore tbe Holidays.
PROSPECT IS FOR RATIFICATION
Southern Senators Are Particularly Aas
Ions for tbe Construction of tbe Water
way at Earliest Possible Date Miscel
laneous Washington Matters,
WASHINGTON. Dee. . The onlv
measure of Importance which the sen
ate has on Its calendar for tbe pres
ent week Is the new Hay-Pauncefote
treaty, making provision for tbe ab
rogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty
and opening the way for the unob
structed construction of an Isthmian
canal by tbe United States. Acting
for the committee on foreign relations
Senator Lodge will ask the senate to
go into executive session today for
the consideration of tbe treaty and
each day hereafter until the treaty is
disposed of. It can be said that at
this time the prospect is very strong
that the treaty will be ratified and
it now looks as if this result would
be secured after comparative little
delay.
There will be some debate and some
features of the document will be
criticised as undesirable, but there Lb
no probability of captious opposition.
The criticism, will be along the e
indicated by Senators Money and
Bacon in the committee on foreign re
lations at its meeting on last Friday.
No senator has thus far shown a
disposition to carry his discussion to
a point of ultimate effort to defeat
ratification. The principal authors of
the criticism of the treaty are south
ern senators, who are generally very
anxious for the construction of the
canal. They find that all canal legis
lation will be tied up until action can
be secured on the treaty and they
are on this account less liable than
they otherwise would be to do any
thing to delay action upon the treaty
itself. The most active friends of the
treaty now claim that ratification will
be obtained before the Christmas holi
days. Beyond the consideration of tbe
treaty very little business will be un
dertaken before the holidays. It la
now generally agreed that the ques
tion of reciprocity will go over until
January, probably without so much a
being mentioned, and it may be added
that from being for a time the sub
ject most likely to attract early at
tention, it has taken a position among;
the matters which will not be vigor
ously urged. When the reciprocity'
treaties do come up for consideration
there will be persistent opposition to
the agreement with France and to
that with Great Britain covering the
West Indies.
There is not so much feeling over
the conventions with the South Amer
ican republics. The present outlook
Is also against the immwiiate action In
the senate looking to tariff legiKlatioti
for the Philippines, and there ar
now some indications that the senate
will wait upon the house cf representa
tives in. this matter. Probab'y the
Chinese exclusion act will 1 reported
from committee during the week. The
nomination of Attorney General Knox
will be reported at the first executive
6ei.sion, but JmniMl!ate confirmation
will probably be antagonized by ".-me
senators.
GOOD OMEN FOR THE TREATY
Eocliih Press V. attires that It Will ar-
LONDON, Dee. 9. The Times, in an
editorial on the Hay-Pauncefote cana!
treaty, says it Is hard to see how
Great Britain could concede more
without pretending to Rive what rbe
did not popsehs, namely, tbe rights of
territorial sovereignty.
"That act." says the Times, "would
not weaken the objections of those
senators to anything making for good
relations with Great Britain. As
President RooBevelt and public opin
ion seem to favor this treaty, we ven
ture to say it will surmount the
threatened obstruc tion."
May Also Be a Kldnapwr.
VIENNA. Dec. 9. It is said here
that the man named Halju, who wa
arrested at Sofia December 7, and al
leged to be the assassin of ex-Premier
Starabuloff, had a hand in the kid
napping of Miss Ellen M. Stone the
American missionary.
A portion of the Illinois penitentiury
was destroyed by fire.
D'Annuniio Is Cnmlnr.
ROME, Dec. 9. After a tour of Italy,
Gabrielle d'Annunzio, the dramatist,
will take "Francesca da Rimini" to
the United States with Tomiao Sal
vini, the tragedian, and Eleanor Duse.
thrilling In Aostrla Doomed.
LONDON. Dec 9.--A iispatch to the
I Times from Vier.ru ut-clares that as
a result of the recent appeal to the
public to take the matter in band,
duelling In Austro-Hungary Is denied.
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