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4 - r Hare 5mr Print x Xban Jin? Other X . Peoples Part? J 31 Club of Tlve S J I Subscriber front J II (I W .. I20U9 Until Jan. 2 Piper In the U.S. IMtf I7VI; . . ,, ' V 4 .,-;,. 1 Z i J g .M . .,(,-.; .. f VOL. XI. LINCOLN; NEBRiS; FEBRUARY 1, 1900. NO. 38. w w 1 y u u u i.i u j u in in u- anas l-'l - 1 (I 0 1 I 1 1 II 7 v I t' i BANK CONDITIONS Offlei.1 Statement of their Resource and Inabilities In Nebraska, Dec. 2. Banks and banking Is one of the things that Is going to be of very great Interest to the people of the UnlJed States during the next few years and every, citizen should endeavor to gain some reliable knowledge upon the sub ject. Under the recent bill passed by the house, of representatives .bankers will practically take charge of this vgovernment. Dr. Hall,, the commis sioner of banking for this state made , a call for a statement of the .condition of the state and private banks on the same day that the comptroller called for a statement from the National banks. The two are presented below. The statement was" received too late In the week to allow, of a thorough analysis In this Issue. It will be seen tLt the state banks are in a much safer condition than the National banks.' The state banks are doing business on one dollar of cash to ten of-credit while the national banks have expanded . their credit to about fourteen to one. It is only the better condition of the national banks out side of Lincoln and Omaha that make3 the showing as good as it is. While the reserve of all national banks in the state Is 29.38 per cent, the reserve iu Lincoln on that date was 20.84 per cent and in Omaha 22.32 Both Omaha and Lincoln was below what the law requires. It seemsjtbat country bank ers coming as they do constantly lu .. contact with the populists, have learned something It must be remem bered however that this reserve, is not what the figures indicate by any means. There is $5,723,114.89 of it de posited in other banks where it be comes loanable funds. That much of it is no reserve at all. Another thing will. attract attention. The liabilities of these, banks is $53, 534,030.32. They have In gold, coin and treasury certificates, only $l,(i2. 034.88." ".When their notes in circula tion and deposits all become payable in gold after the passage of the gold - bill ia tli' senate, what kind of a finan cial fix will they be in then. What basis will the gold standard rest on in the state of Nebraska.. And Nebraska 4 j.s iu a .better condition than almost rany other state. Was ever such mad . ness exhibited by human beings be fore. . ... The two statements are as follows: Put some study upon them. - ' NATIONAL BANKS. Abstract of reports made to the comp troller of the currency showing the con dition of the national banks in the state of Nebraska at the close of business on Saturday, the 2nd day of December, 1899. (No. of banks, 99.) RESOURCES, lodus and discounts $32,001, 2M. 41 Overdraftg 493,473.33 U. B. bonds to secure circulation 2,928,170.( U. S. bondi to secure U. S. deposits 960.0UO.0O U. S. bonds on hand 144.118.77 Premium on U. S. bonds 113.070.00 Stocks, securities, etc 2,4; $8,873.61 Banking bouse, furniture and fix'rs 1,795,999.50 Other real estate and mortgages owned 1,397,649.46 Due from national banks (not re serve agents) 1,618,140.90 Due from state banks and bankers 982,344.35 Due from approved reserve agents. 5,725,114.J9 Checks and other cash items Exchanges for clearing house Bills of other national banks Fractional paper currency, nickels and cents LAWFUL MONET RESERVE IN BANK 1 Gold coin ..$1,396,534.85 Gold treas'y certificate. 275.500.00 Silver dollars 213,194.00 Siver treas. certificates. 238,646.00 Silver fractional coin . . . 101,353.54 442.298.12 7H5,804.7S 233,149.00 15,616.40 Total specie 2,225.228.39 -Legal tender notes 1 .105.052.00 3,350,280.39 Five per cent redemption fund with , -f treaAirer , Wlnie from U. 8. treasurer 130,970.25 16,S06.10 $55,534,036.32 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $ 9,645.000.00 Surplus fund 1.531,877,95 Undivided profits, less expenses . , and taxes paid f J National bank notes is- sued 2,635.325.00 Less amount on hand.. . 142,842.50 959,846.70 Amount outstanding.. 2,492,432.50 5,413.400.56 5,394,949.28 Due to other national banks Due to state banks and bankers. Dividends unpaid 1,227.10 Individual deposits 28,859X60.38 United States deposits 571,082.91 Deposits of U. S. disbursing officers 357,886.36 Notes and bills rediscounted 53,964.04 Bills payable 262,500.00 Liabilities other than above stated 10,158.64 $55,554,036.32 : Becerre held, 29.3S per cent. STATE BANKS. Abstract of report of the condition of state and private banks (including sav ings banks) of the state of Nebraska, at the close . of business December 2nd, 1899. Total number of banks, 405. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts.... ..$21,202,752.67 Overdrafts.. 284,590.07 Stocks. . securities. Judgments. clajQS,etc 279,479.66 Due from national, state and pri vate banks and bankers 5,211,556.60 Banking house, furniture and fix ture 1,193,877.03 Other real estate 816.971.70 Current expenses and taxes paid.. . Premiums on bonds, etc Assets not otherwise enumerated.. . Cash items - CASH ON BAND. Gold 698.238.00 Silver. 112,831.00 Currency 846.5.O.00 Fractional currency 251,847.99 4o0.875.68 2,456.46 124,185.61 56,573.00 1,909,446.99 28,700.00 U.S. bonds on band.. $31,571,465.47 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in. . t 7 18O,4S5.00 T Surplus luna..... 1 Undivided profits...... i Dividends unpaid..... 840.S3..U0 .. 1,311,815.35 10,319.69 .. 21,666,111.12 1,855.54 191.283.73 . a uenerai ueposiis.. Other liabilities... Notes and bills rediscounted. Buu payable.. 268,760.04 $31,371,468.47 Washington Rottenness Washington, D. C, Jan. 23, 1900. (Special 4 Correspondence.) The Rob erts case engaged" attention of the House today and consideration of the report of the special committee will continue until Thursday.' The notable feature of the occasion is the Immense crowds which throng the capitol build ing, a great proportion of which can not gain admittance to the over crowded galleries, and I was surprised to note that -a very large majority were women., It is predicted" by those who are on the inside, that Quay, republican, ' will not be permitted to take his seat iu the Senate, and that at the end of the hearing before the Senate committee Clark of Montana, democrat, will be turned out. ; It begins to look as though the bankers and stock brokers will not always be able to purchase a OTIS' ISLES OF PEACE The Filipinos are all Subjugated but There. Comes Constant T-ists of Killed and Wounded Every few days, once or twice a week there comes a dispatch Otis like the following: i Washington, D. C Gen. Otis has cabled the war department the follow ing list of casualties: 1 Killed in action at Vigan, Luzon, Dec. 4. 33d infantry: ARTHUR WRIGHT, company A. LAWRENCE L. SPENCER, ser geant company B. ' . : FREDERICK J.. . BELL, sergeant company B. , f ? ALENRED WACHS, corporal com pany B. : DAVID PUCKETT, company D. JAMES BENNETT, company E. WILLIAM BRANDEN, company E. NORMAN FRY, sergeant. Near Santo Nicolas. Nov. 19: . IRVING H. PALMER, company A, 3d cavalry. Near Lemerl, Luzon, Jan. 18: FRANK CAR, company F. 45th In fantry. Wounded in action: JAMES R.' MONTGOMERY, musi cian, company B, 33d infantry, Vigan, Dec. 4. FRED LOYEA, company E, 33d, in fantry, Vigan. WILLIAM ' II- EOSTWICIw.com pany K, 33d infantry,' Vigan v-' JOHN PATTERSON, company M, 33d infantry, Vigan. HURBERT MUGGY,, company D, 3d cavalry, Tangadan mountain. FRANK J j KAISER, company K, 3d cavalrv, Tangadan mountain, Jan. 4. WILLIAM C. GEIGER. first lieu tenant 14th infantry, near Binan, Jan. 7. ' ' WILLIAM BOESE, company H, 46th Infantry, near Lemerl, Jan. 18. ALBERT NELSON, company G, 4Gth infantry, near Lemerl. JOHN LENEHIN, company H, 46th Infantry, near Lemerl. CHARLES J. GRACE. 3d cavalry, near Santo Lamas. Nov. 19. Now there is one thing 'about these dispatches that no pop can find out. If the Filipinos have been subjugated and the islands conquered as Otis and the president have insisted for the last three months, who is .lt that Is killing and wounding our boys at this rate all the time. BROWN UNIVERSITY Plutocratic Sycophants Give an Exhibition of Cowardice Never Before Equalled " on American Soil Providence, R. L, Jan. 23. In the fear of offending possible donors to the endowment fund of Brown Uni versity influential advisers have pre vailed upon the Brown Debating Union to give up its plan of having William J. Bryan address the students next Monday on the occasion of his visit to "Providence. The officers of the Debating Union will not talk on the subject, but it is known that the Union learned that the Executive Committee of the cor poration would not give its permission for a Bryan meeting within the pre cincts of the university. Dean Win slow Upton would not assume the re sponsibility of giving permission for it, and he referred the matter to th3 corporation. . - . . - The Debating Union, after hearing that the Darthmouth faculty and stu dents had invited Bryan, began ar rangements for him - to visit Brown and make a speech on other than partisan topics. But leaders in the faculty and corporation did not see how Bryan and his doctrines could ne separated, and the union .has been made to see the lndiscreetness of its ways. - 1 . . . . The oponents of Bryan's proposed visit to Brown say that it would be es pecially inopportunte now, when a special effort is being made to increase the university endowment. President Andrews, so his enemies said," alien ated money from the Institution by his pro-silver views. The alumni are now trying to raise $2,000,000 by next June. The administration of Presi dent Faunce has already gained , the confidence and support of many prom inent graduates and friends of Brown who were opposed to Dr. Andrews. The silverite students are indignant over the turn-down of Bryan. Mont crieffe Cameron, of Providence; ' a prominent member of the senior class and others denounce it as a "throttling of free dl usalon.' ALLEN HITS HARD When Attacked by Spooner He Turns Upon the Whole Gang of Senatorial Plutocrats and Makes the For Fly Senator Allen is stlring up the pluto crats In Washington with a long pole. Some of the old time scenes of '93 and '94 have been recently re-enacted ' in the United States senate. Allen is as full of fight as a wild cat and will take insults from no body. In the re cent discussion of Alldn's . resolution calling upon the state department to furnish information about, the refusal to receive an accredited representative of the Transvaal republic, there was a red hot time. Senator Spooner took the ground that the senate had no right to call for the information at all. Referring to senators Spooner's argument, Senator Allen said: Here Is a Republic almost a hundred years old, complete and perfect in it self. We have at its capical . a rep resentative from this Government, and that Government has no representa tive in Washington, as I was informed a few days ago by the State Depart ment. I had occasion to ask for the information of some constituents of mine for the name of the representa tive of the South African Republic, and I "was told there was no such rep resentative here. We know, Mr. Pres ident, as a matter of current: history, that one man, if not more, has been appointed by the Transvaal Republic to represent that country at Washing ton. If the' press is to be believed, one at least of those men has applied at the State Department for recogni tion and has not received it has not received .it, Mr, Presfdent, at-a time' when that Republic needs recognition at the hands of this great Government, at the hands of . a sister republic; and if any hidden or subtle influence nas Interposed between the State Depart ment and the recognition of the agent of tht Government, it is not only proper, that the Senate of the United States should know it, but that the people of the United States should know it as well. 1 utterly repudiate this un-American theory that Congress and the Presi dent are so much more eminent than all other citizens that secrets can be intrusted to them alone. Why, iir. President, this is not your Govern ment any more .than it is mine; it; is not mine any more than it is the Gov ernment of the ,73,000,000 people who are citizens of this nation, all of them, or most of them, eligible to the dis charge of public duties in one capacity or another. They pay the taxes; they carry our banner on land and sea; they send the distinguished Senator from Wisconsin : and other distinguished gentlemen to this Chamber and to an other branch of Congress to represent them; yet, as soon as they come here, we are told that the people do not know enough to be intrusted with this information, and that they ought not to have it; that there must be certain custodians, certain trustees of this val uable information which comes to the Government at .Washington, but that the people can .not be trusted with it. I do not want, my friend to under take to put me. In a ridiculous light, as he did a moment ago, by claiming that I want negotiations with foreign governments thrown out broadcast to the1 people before they are completed. Whenever a negotiation is pending, Mr. President, that is not complete and has not passed into history, it ought to remain a secret in the State Department until It is completed; but When it is an accomplished fact and has passed . Into the history of "the country as any other great national fact has passed into its history, there Is no reason or propriety in keeping it away from the. American people. Look, if youwill. at the studied effort to keep from the American peo ple the negotiations at Paris in connec tion with the treaty made a year ago last fall. It has been declared upon this floor that the correspondence which passed between the President and the State Department and the Paris commissioners ought never to be made public. Why, Mr. President, what was there, or is there in the cor respondence which passed that is so sacred that the world should never know It? If anything passed between the commissioners and another branch of the Government which was not to the credit of this country, it ought to be known by the American people; If It was to the credit of the Govern ment, they ought to know that also; for it is only by knowing the history of their country that they are able properly to criticise the action of this Government and determine what they shall do in the future. I am willing, if the Senator from Wisconsin or the Senators on the other side of the Chamber want to throttle this resolution, to have it throttled. If you want to take this resolution by the throat Jind strangle it by putting It in some of the caverns- of this Capi tol, where " it will never see daylight again until Gabriel blows his horn, then put it there. Mr. President, do not Jet us undertake to strangle it by einascuiting it and making it useless and worthless. I can not hope to convince the Sen ate of the United States that it would be possible for a Fopulist to be a good lawyer or a good statesman orto know, anything intelligently xipon any ques tion. That is illustrative even of the provincialism of the Senate of the United States itself. It is not the part of wisdom, ia my judgment,' nor is it the part of statesmanship, nor is It the part of ordinary culture and good neighborhood, to assail the intelligence or the motives of a man because you happen to disagree with him. This, of all. places, is the place where that ought not to be done. ' No man In this Chamber has a higher regard,; I 'repea; apd, a more, kindly feeling for , " my distinguished friend from WisconsbTtbap.I have, but iMo not want .to . begjefrom day to day and hour- toorwjien I see fit to give, my- bpiniohi 111 this Chamber, respecting this or"tI& ofneT measure, by; the' imputatiortld&fttit is coming from, a demagogue t(jbtsan who be longs to a .political $s3Hation which has no standing iiwie world. ' i ou will find out" whethiar4t -has a ; stand ing or not, : . -s While I am upon tfiijjt subject, Mr. President, I want., to J$y this, and 1 do not want to digress much either, that ; It is 7 studioiusly' circulated throughout the press east of the Alle gheny Mountains that the Populist party has gone to 'pieces. - It Is sedu lously published in the daily and In the weekly f press. "There .re today In the United States more (Populists' loyal to their party than there have ever been in the history of .tjhis country. The party is capable of casting distinctly two and a half mill m' votes, and they are not all the ; voi ss.of fools either. Yet it Js constantly iribbled out studi ously and ; for- a purpose that this or ganization has gonei t pieces. An or: ganization of discontented men, , it is said. Qnce in a whjleiyou hear a man say that , the; Popkdiat.' organization grew up only, beeaiise the , men in It did not receive, recognition in the oiu parties, and you "cap Mind people fool ish enough to believe that That Is true as well as others foolish enough to assert ; it, and menf in high life, too. They will smile ad smirk-, atf it as though, it is the tfiuth, to the injury of this organization J - ; , ' This great party grew: out of the fact that the Republican party is given to empire and tov the j destruction of re publican form of government. ; You on the other side of this; Chamber do not advocate a doctrine in the -interest of the people-rnot on. '-You stand or the great banking institutions and the great, corporations -that' fill your polit ical pockets and ' tier coffers of your party' as, against' t$ie ' masses: 'Look at the Hepburn letter, which came out here"; within': the hifct ten ' days." You say yon are In' favor of protecting American labor, and today you are en gaged in a scheme to Incorporate with the inhabitants of this country over 12,000,000 pauper laborers to compete with American labor.'. In. 1888 and 1892 and in 1896 you; said you were the friends of bimetallism and an enlarged volume of money, and yet you stand in this Chamber toqay without a blush' or- an excuse lwfAvoir of the single gold'Standard. sWliere-is your boasted patriotism, your i boasted Intelligence, your boasted policies for the benefit of the country ? v Yet . because I dis agree with' these oft-asseverated false hoods,'' I am to be held up by the dis tinguished Senator from Wisconsin as a poor representative of a poor people. Mr. President, my people are poor a great many ; of them. I , am poor; poor in hls world's goods and poor in intellect, I suppose; but yet I have, a right to Jive'; I have a right to my opin ions, and those I propose to maintain. No, Mr President, this country can not run along in this way. j You can not take the 49 per cent of the, people of this country who live on the farms and in the little villages and choke them to? death?1 without a protest on their part, ' Thank God, the center of population is moving West; it is oh the Mississippi River today; and be fore fifteen' years roll around the po litical power of this nation will be in the West. I call the attention of the distinguished chairman of the Finance Committee to the fact that , the ume will come when you : will wake the sleeping lion of this nation. , v , : THEY DON'T WANT TO TELL Much of "the Information : Asked ,. for by Allen's Resolutions Has Not Been Furnished Trouble Ahead Washington, D. C, January 26, 1899. (Special ' correspandence.) In . the earlier days of the republic-there was a custom, made necessary by the com paratively meager mail facilities, and the total absence of, telegraph service, In obedience, to .which the prominent members of the government and; all members of both branches, Of congress, in their annual visits; to their home states- went on . the platforms at the principal towns, in the state or district and gave a review of what had been done during the past session. This was called -"giving an account of their stewardship' It was a good old fashioned plan and the best of It was that back of it, and as, a reason for the existence of ;this custom was an acknowledgment on? te part of the public ofllcer of his responsibility to "the people," for. his acts in connec tion with the government of the, peo ple. The old fashioned ideas that de manded this, do not seem to be new enough to suit the "refined" taste of those who are now charged with the administration of.? affairs.. This has been illustrated s by the regular tooth-pulling-operation which has been go ing on for vthe past three weeks . In efforts-to r get. "full and complete" In formation put of i the members of the McKinley administration regarding a dozen important things which have been done during the past two years. In the one case where there was an answer prepared i with much toil and after many conferences between mem bers of the cabinet and party leaders, the secretary of the treasury laid be fore the Senate and House a mass of letters and telegrams in the New Yortc bank - case that has brought him Into the bad graces i of some hitherto stauhQh- supporters: Even with this the answer showed on ; its face that it was not a full and complete account ing for the maimer in which his "stew ardship had been discharged" and Senator Allen during the last week directed to him a new resolution call ing for specific Information on the points not covered by the former an swer. The resolution is put in direct language and so as to call for; direct answers. These answers have not yet come and will probably make What Horace Greeley used to call "mighty interesting reading" when they do come. -. : - This session thus far has been dis tinguished for the number of knotty questions that have been put to the administration by the opposition. And old timers here say that it is no less remarkable for the unconcealed ; de sire Of the administration and its sup porters to get out of answering. Some of these resolutions asking for infor mation that is not only proper to Ibe laid before the legislative branch of the government for its guidance, .but entirely proper to be laid before" the people for their Information, may be called to mind here. ' The first was the Allen resolution calling for Information' from each of the heads of departments as to how. much of the special war appropria tion amounting to fifty millions of dol lars voted in . the spring of 1898, had come to the hands of each, and what had ' been done with it. .This resolu tion was , passed the first week in Jan uary and up to this week only two an swers had been .received.. ; These came from the Attorney General "and the Secretary of Agriculture. Each of these said he had received none-of the money and had none to account for. Those who did receive parts of It have for three weeks failed to get up tneir statements of where it went. - These reports will it is presumed come wuen the necessary work, of ( preparing them can be done. But a voluntary state ment of. this . whole matter would have been entirely, proper and in keep-1 Ing 'With: the theory that the public ofllcer is the trustee of the people when public money, is given into his hands to' expend for public purposes." This money was spent over a year and a half ago and such an accounting would not have been out of place long ago. v Another inquiry that ! is of interest to the people, is concerning the , pur chase of transports and auxilliary ves sels during the war with " Spain from private ' persons and corporations for the use of the government. Senator Allen nearly three weeks ago intro duced a resolution askingythat the sec retary of war inform the Senate In detail of this, giving the name of the vessel, from wh f. purchased and-, to whom sold 'with the price the govern ment paid for it and the amount for which it was sold. This inquiry has not . up to this time been answered, though it would seem that a proper consideration for the right of the peo ple , to know how the - duties of the "steward" have been discharged. There have been some rumors about this matter that were not to the credit of the administration. Like the school boy who knows that he can't "say his lesson" the present administration officials hang back from 'the school house door as long : as possible,, and then when the Inevitable recitation comes, they take as long a time as they can before making the answer that they know is not going to satisfy .-the teacher. ; ,-: i;"-:r During the past week the Boer war has . occupied the attention of all classes in the Capitol and there -has been one meeting to express the sym pathy of the people with the -men of South Africa who are battling for liberty, that was a revelation n Its enthusiasm and in : the immense at tendance. Nearly three thousand peo ple were admitted to the theatre, anu hundreds more were turned away, after all standing room was taken up. At this meeting Senator Allen and Sena tor ;Mason spoke as well ; as half a dozen members of .the lower house of Congress. There was no concealing the impression of the speakers, that the attitude of the McKlnley adminis tration was -not In accord with the sentiment of sympathy with the Boers that all there expressed..; Some of the expressions of the speakers have been criticised by administration sup porters as being too strong in the way of declaration that the administration was in sympathy with England. Sen ator Mason, Cochran of Missouri, jLe Armond, Champ Clark, and Senator Allen all voiced this idea and the au dience - which was one which knew enough, from the thousand little things of daily occurrence, to know that they were correct, gave' Its approval .to every one of them. One expression of Senator Allen's is a sample. He said: "There is no doubt that the shadow of England's hand falls across this administration. When I go up to the Capitol, and also when I go to the Treasury department I actually - feet that I am trespassing on John Bull's territory." Those Who have kept track of the game of the Hay-McKinley man agement of affairs do not believe that this expresses too strongly the situa tion, as it exists. It is not always in the public utterances of diplomats, or of responsible members x)f the admin istration that the real policies of the manipulators of the " government . is shown. There are those things which are not made a part of the publics records which show the ?real feeling policies of the members ofi the admin istration. "This was -illustrated, the other day when the news came that the Boers had driven the army of Warren from Spion Kop.-and one who occupies a high position in the pres ent administration and is supposed to talk for the administration and to be in full accord with it, or hecould not be in the place he occupies declared that this was "bad - news, very ,. bad news ; for us." That would sound strangely in the ears of the hardy citi zens of Nebraska who believe that the declaration 'of the right'of a people -to govern themselves is the formal ex pression of a living truth, and one of the foundation stones of this goern- ment. That a member of the admin istration circle should hold the opinidn that the success of ' the ' Boers in de fense of that truth "is bad news lor us" the the republican rep- sentatives of this government, sounds a little r out of i place. But several things are out of place just now, and the peole of the country are awaking to; the realization hat some of tnem are the men who misrepresent the prin ciples of the government of this coun try. I I.-;:.-:-':- - ' - :,-;'V;-; The : republican caucus-National-bankers convention - financial - bill is down for passage-on February 15. The republican majority of the Senate will "vote it straight" for it has been so ordered ; by' the managers. . The mi nority i have .been putting themselves on record as protesting against It and pointing Out the results but the out come is apparent to all. -' " Nebraska is distinctly on the map and any , politician, or half -grown school boy can put his finger on the place without looking.. An illustration of the difference that has come about during the past "few years was given the other day ; when , General Dan Sickles and Commander-in-Chief Shaw of the Grand , Army of the Republic called upon Senator Allen to personally and as representatives of , the G. A. R. thank him for his championship of of the old soldier in the Senate. - It is not long since there were those who would have had us believe that there were no, true friends of the. vet erans outside ofthe republican party. It is very different now. The bill in troduced by. Senator Alien for, the pen sion to Mrs. Stotsenburg was reported by him to the committee this week and by the latterto the senate favoring the granting of the pension asked for. ' . D. H. BRADLEY. SbAGE HAS PLENTY OF CHEEK He Now Asks Congress to Give to thdKtock- . efeller Band Another Hundred ' ; Thousand Dollars V :. c Washington, D. C-, Jan. 26. (Special correspondence.) To an ordinary mor tal It would appear that Secretary Gage had stirred up enough scandal by his deal with I ue Standard Oil Bank to rst awhile, but it would seem from late developments that he is not con tent with ieven his record , breaking achievements of the past , few weeKS. His latest and most flagrant violation, of all propriety is- his request that con gress pay the, said Standard Oil Bank nearly, one; hundred and tefa- thousand dollars rent ; for ;the j-old New; York Custom House, for three hundred and seven days . every minute . of , which time ftie title to the property was in thel United'; States. . Mr. Gage' is not content with giving this bank the free use of nearly three and a auarter millions of dollars with only a deposit Of an equal amount 'of Donds on which they 'draw interest, but to these two items amounting to an equivalent of a cash gift of nearly a quarter of a mil lion is , to be added tne further sum first' above; stated. This is a cold blooded proposition for the government to pay. nearly one hundred and ten thousand dollars ($109,847.12) rental on its own. property, on which not a cent of money proposed as a price for it had been actually received and covered into the U. S. Treasury according to the law. Those members of congress Who laughed at the prospect . of any scandal in ; relation fo the actions ot the Secretary of the Treasury, will need to read again the letter of Mr. Hepburn, the vice president of the bank referred to wherein he rivets the attention of Mr. Gage to his demand for assistance in ,a financial way by saying rrOf course the bank is very strong,- and if you will take the pains to look . at our list of directors you will see that We also have very great political claims in view of what was done, during the canvass of last year (1896)." - ' " -. Chairman Mahon ! of the committee on claims brought up in the House to day a-bill appropriating something like four thousand four hundred dollars to the English owners of the Manila cable, for damages caused by Admiral Dewey cutting said cable on that fa mous May morning, 1898. The bill aroused so much opposition even among republicans, that it went over as unfinished business and will prob ably never be heard of again, j A Boer Parodist' . p. W. Reitz, Transvaal secretary, has written . a -parody on Mr. Kip ling's "Recessional." It is entitled "Progressional," and Is dedicated to "Mudyard PIpling.", The first stanza follows: . - ; , Gods of, the jingo, brass and gold, Lords of the world, by right divine, Under whose baneful sway they hold Dominion over mine and thine Such, lords as these have made them .- rotten!.:.:' ; .. They have forgotten, they have for-,'-.' gotten.-' . ' -;'- '' '" - ;- Members of-congress this week have been greatly interested in a report from the committee on four colonies: McKinley recommended that Porto Rico be put upon the same basis as one of our territories, and the committee' Is going to report against the' recom mendation of the president. So there $s a row. in the republican , camp. . The protectionlstsr are dead against letting the products "of Porto Rico come Into this country free of tariff. On the other hand, if , Porto . Rico is . part of the United States the constitution express ly declares t that duties shall be uni form. There Is noplace in the . con stitution where a "colony" can be pro vided for." This difficulty has beCn pointed out .to the mullet heads for months.- but they, could not see it un- j) til they ran up smack against it ' HOW MANY BOERS The Puzzle Concernlngr the Numerous Bodies of Boers Seems at Last to be , Solved. 1 ' ' ' " How the little republics could put so many men in the field, meet the Brit ish every where and whip them every time has been a puzzle. A letter from an American serving In the Boer army has sent a letter home to his friends att Lowell, Massachusetts, which ex plains the matter. 'It seems that the lovers of liberty frorn every nation aro flocking to the Boer standard to take a " hand In the fight against the doc trine of conquest of the smaller na tions by the larger ones. - The name of this writer is James F. Dunn, and he says: "When, the war broke out most of the mine owners, speculators, manag ers, and even paid officials of the Rhodes clique ran off to the Cape just as quickly as trains could carry tnenv The foreigners' 'German, French, Irish, Scotch, and even English, who are called outlanders, have joined the Boer army. You must remember that these are the men that the British pre tended they wish to help, to rescue from . tyranny and all that, and yet they are in arms against their so-called liberators. - The fact is that all the nonsense about the wrongs of the out landers was cooked up by the Rhodes gang for the English papers. I have lived here for two years and have yet to learn that we have any wrongs political, religious, commercial or any other. The men who wronged and threatened and bulldozed the miners-r-I mean the wbrking miners were the Rhodes, crowd, fellows of the Ham mond stamp, who were getting fat sal aries for working the mines and the papers for the English bosses. It was' a great pity so far as humanity and liberty were concerned that Jameson, Hammond and . the rest of them were not strung up after the raid. When the war broke out brigades of for eigners were organized at once. The German have a brigade of 2,000 men or more, nearly all have been trained in the army in Germany and they are commanded by men of their own coun try trained officers. There is a mixed brigade of French Scotch and English who have their own officers and are d' , fl ing good; We have s.iJrish bsfgade oi " 1 1 oyer. 2,500. the majorityof whom are-- moil from ' Calif ornia and the west, vtlth quite a sprinkling from the old country and the Cape. We are getting new,; men ; every day. They come .in from Lorenzo, Marquez and are mostly husky young fellows from the middlei west, who have served in the Spanish war and in the regular army, and we have, quite a few from around Boston, P New York, and ' Philadelphia. All of these fellow Irish, German and Yanks get into our brigade, for they feel ? more at home with us with offiers and men who have followed the old flag, and they are giving the 'rednecks' aa the Boers call them plenty of fun." In speaking of a skirmish around Ladysmith, In which the brigade of mixed Americans, Irish and Germans, under Colonel Blake, of the United States army, repelled an attack of the Gloucestershire regiment, he says: "We went at them in good Irish fash Ion, and some of the Yanks and Ohio chaps were wilder than the Turks. The redcoats wouldn't stand for it, but went down the hill on a break and out into the open, - sprinting like grey hounds. We marched back about one sixth of them, and there was a badly mauled lot lying around that we sent into the English ' lines that night, as we preferred to let them have the bother of doctering them. If they don't get any better material than that to fight with, the English are more likely to march into the Indian ocean than into the Transvaal." ; No news of any Importance has come from the Philippines during the week. The usual lists of killed ari$. wounded in these conquered IslandsK - continue to be published however. InSj f? congress there is a demand appearing, v even among republicans, that congress shall make some announcement con cerning what ' kind of government Is , to be established in the Philippines. And there is where the republicans are going to have more trouble. Some of them still talk about "colonies" and putting a tariff there to keep their goods out of this country, notwith standing the plain declaration oftha constitution that duties shall be uni- form throughout . the United States. These astute senators and representa tives are finding that imperialism. Is a hard road to travel. They will hava to either overthrow the constitution and trample "it under their feetyr amend it before they can have "these colonies, and they are beginning to find out that to do either .Vs a pretty big job. - Bryan is in : the eastern states this week and immense crtowds throng to hear him. All the accriunts that coma to us, and very littU comes through the Associated pres, is to the effect that his speeches are making 'a great T disturbance in ttoe republican enrzr - -People" down east are hearing that they have 'not heard beiS the Voice of Wendell Phi Jr? ' - lenced In dealh. . . , ' If you like s . ftort.stci 2 and 6. r 1 O ' - f!