Loup City Northwestern.
VOLUME XX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY. NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 27. 1903. NUMBER 20.
EARLY CONGRESS
PRESIDENT DETERMINED .ON A
SPECIAL SESSION.
CUBAN TREATY LEGISLATION
President Believes the Treaty Should
Be Put into Effect Before Market
ing of .the .Sugar Crop—Session
Probably Be Called in October.
WASHINGTON—President Roose
velt la fully determined to‘call con
gress together in extra session on or
before October 1. All sorts of pres
sure has been brought to bear upon
him In the hope of inducing him to
abandon this project. But the presi
dent has decided t hat it is essential
that legislation must he enacted to
put the Cuban treaty into effect, be
fore the marketing of the sugar crop
of the island for this year. The pres
ident has told those who have called
upon him to protest ihat, in his opin
ion, the necessary work can be ac
complished within two or three weeks
amt that nothing need prevent an
adjournment, in ample time to allow
senators and members to take part in
the fall campaigns in their respective
states.
there is no doubt that it the presi
dent's plan should he carried into ef
fect with the leaders in both houses
in harmony with him the desired
joint resolution could lie disposed of
within a week. But congress is not
in the habit of acquiescing in the
wishes of the president in matters of
this kind. Within an hour after the
formal election of Mr. Cannon as
speaker the bill box will contain sev
eral hundred bills, the authors of
which will push their favorite meas
ures witli their utmost vigor. The
so-called Aldrich iinancial bill is one
which will cause prompt discussion.
It was not because they opposed the
principles laid down in the hill that
the democratic members of the house
refused to allow it to be discussed dur
ing the last few days of the last ses
sion, but they argued with a great
\ deal of force that so radical a depart
ure from existing law should not be
forced through the house under whip
and spur during the last hours of a
dying congress, especially as the hill
had not been printed more than twen
ty-four hours when the attempt was
made to pass it.
The fact that under the Panama
canal treaty something like $150,000,
000 in 2 per cent bonds will be pul
upon the market within the next few
years, may have an important hear
ing upon the fate of the Aldrich hill.
Heretofore United Stales bonds, even
when bearing the lowest rale of in
terest, have always commanded a pre
mium. This is due in part to the fact
that such bonds are the basis of na
tional bank circulation, and are also
§ required as a guaranty that United
Slates funds deposited in banks will
he repaid when needed. The Aldrich
bill, as it is well known, provides for
the substitution of state, municipal
and other bonds for such purposes,
and it is believed that should that
bill become a law and the outstanding
Jk indebtedness of tlie United States be
increased, as it must be, as soon as
active work begins on the canal, the
result will be the depreciation in val
ue of government bonds. But that
the Aldrich bill, or some similar meas
ure, will bo put through congress at
the next session is a foregone con
clusion. and that an attempt will be
made to have it enacted into law just
as soon as congress resassembles,
whether it be in August or Decem
ber, is equally certain.
MISS ROOSEVELT WELCOMED.
Daughter of the President is Given
Hearty Reception.
SAN JUAN, P R.—Miss Alice
Roosevelt landed here at 8:80 a. m.
from the steamer Coamo, from New
York. March 14. She was met by
Governor Hunt and his family and
was driven to the palace, where she
afterward held an informal reception.
Miss Rosevelt will receive the cit
izens' committee in public and will
attend the citizens’ reception at the
theater in the evening, when there
will be a display of fireworks and a
demonstration in her honor. Many
invitations have been issued by the
governor for an entertainment on Sat
J urday.
Ministerial Chisis Imminent.
MADRID—Dissensions within the
cabinet over the budget still threat
en to cause a ministerial crisis. The
war minister demands an increase of
$8,000,000 in the next budget, of
which $1,000,000 is for the army.
DETTREY SAYS IT IS GOOD.
Points to a Bright Future for the Mine
Workers.
HAZKLTON. Pa—President William
Dottrey of district No. 7. United Aline
Workers of America, made the follow
ing statement regarding the award of
the strike commission:
‘The award of the commission as
based on the demands of the United
Mine Workers is very good. The rec
ommendation for settling the troubles
will, in niy opinion, in the near future,
bring an additional increase of wages
to the class of workmen who are en
titled to better financial conditions.
Judging it as a whole 1 think the re
port of the commission points to a
bright future for the United Mine
Workers.”
AMERICAN WAY TOO RAPID.
Financiers Anticipate Panic, Due to
Absorption of Capital.
BERLIN—Apprehensions regarding
the financial situation in Now York
are still pronounced. The American
demand for German money continues.
The impression prevails among Ber
lin financial men that speculation in
the United States lias been overdone
and that credits have been unduly ex
panded. It is pointed out, as a sign
of too rapid capital absorption, that it
is now difficult for American houses
to dispose of first class bonds bearing
interest at 4 per cent. The same diffi
culty Is experienced by German banks
in handling American bonds.
SAYS MISS ASTOR IS TO WED.
Vienna Paper Reports Engagement to
Bavarian Statesman.
VIENNA—A dispatch from Buchar
est. Roumania, to the Die Zeitung
says: Miss Astor, ‘daughter of Will
iam Waldorf Astor, is engaged to mar
ry Jonet Bratiano, the Roumanian for
eign minister.
Miss Astor is now visiting the Rou
manian crown prince's family. Bra
tiano has a fascinating personality.
He is not a wealthy man and is a son
of the late Jaan Bratiano, the dis
tinguished statesman whose monu
ment will shortly be unveiled at Buch
arest.
La Soufriere in Eruption.
K'XGSTOWN, St. Vincent.—The
eruption of l.a Soufriere. which began
Sunday, continues and increased in
activity during the night until it be
came most violent at 7 o’clock Monday
morning. At 8:3'' its violence was un
abated and the spectacle was awe
inspiring. The crater is belching forth
(Lr.se black clouds, which rise heaven
ward. accompanied by loud roaring
and flashes which rend the spreading
pall of smoke which now envelops the
entire island in darkness. Electrical
discharges occurred at intervals during
Die night, while stupendous volcanic
clouds produced exceedingly beautiful
effects.
Makes a Serious Charge.
MANILA—General Allan, chief of
the Philippine constabulary, has writ
ten to President Gomez of the na
tional party, charging that the party
is assisting the ladrones in Rizal and
Bulucan provinces aud requesting Go
mez to produce the records of the or
ganization and explain the collection
and use of the dues. Gomez report
ed that the party was not guilty. He
admitted that individual members as
sisted the ladrones, but said the party
expelled them for so doing. General
Allan placed evidence in the hands of
the prosecuting attorney and it is ex
pected that the government will pros
ecute a number of the nationalists.
Thing it is a Mere Feint.
LONDON—The morning papers
hardly discuss President Castro’s res
ignation, probably because they re
gard it as a mere feint. This is the
view expressed by one or two papers
which comment on i(. The Daily
Chronicle gives as its opinion that
the apparent unwillingness of the
powers to submit the question of pref
erential treatment to The Hague ar
bitration tribunal induced President
Castro to endeavor to show the world
trat Venezuela Is behind him.
President Rejects Escort.
CHEYENNE. Wyo.—Senator War
ren wired the committee at Laramie
that President Roosevelt desired to
make his horseback ride over Sher
man mountain practically alone.
Senator Warren, Otto Cramm of
Laramie and perhaps two others will
accompany him. but he wants no body
guard either of troops or cowboys.
The saddest expedience of life is
j the awakening to find our idols—clay.
THE CUBA TREATY
IMPERFECTIONS TEND TO MEAS
URE'S INJURY.
MAY KILL THE- ENACTMENT
Authorities Have Doubts About Ecoig
Able to Do Anything.—Senate
Amendments So Bunglingly Made
as to Invalidate the Convention.
WASHINGTON, I>. C.—Acting Sec
retary of State Loomis and Mr.
Queenan, the Cuban minister, after
discussing the prospects of the ratifi
cation of the Cuban treaty within the
time limit on Friday, decided to cable
President Palma requesting him to
call the Cuban congress into extraor
dinary session immediately for this
purpose, as that bodv otherwise would
not meet until April 7, seven days af
ter the expiration of the legal time
limit for the exchange of ratifica
tions.
r rom surn lmpericci readings oi me
treaty as can be had at this stage the
state department officials have some
doubt as to their ability to do anything
whatever with the convention. The
amendments made by the senate, par
ticularly that added to the ratifying
article, though probably not so intend
ed. may result in the complete loss of
the treaty. There are conflicting
clauses which it may not be possible
to reconcile. Article 11 provided orig
inally that "the present convention
shall he ratified by the authorities of
the respective countries and the ratifi
cations shall he exchanged at Wash
ington, I). C., as soon as may be be
before January 31, 1903, and the con
vention shall go into effect on the
tenth day after the exchange of rati
fications and shall continue in force
for the term of five years from the
date of going into effect, and from year
to year thereafter until the expiration
of one year from the day, when either
of the contracting parties shall give
notice to the other of its intention to
terminate the same.”
Usually it is provided that a treaty
shall go into effect as soon as the rat
ifleations are exchanged, and with the
slight change in this respect the orig
inal ratifying clause of the Cuban trea
ty was in the usual form and would
not have led to eompiications. The
date of January 31 was changed by
both governments before the United
States senate acted to March 31, and
that is how the article stood when the
senate added this sentence:
"This treaty shall not take effect un
til the same shall have been approved
by the congress.”
This led to complications which are
now vexing the departments here,
where two different dates are fixed in
the same article for the taking effect
of the treaty. The weight of opinion
inclines to the belief that following
the common law principle the last stip
ulation should govern, which would de
fer the operation of the treaty until
after the congress acted. But a more
serious difficulty s pointed out, as fol
lows:
It is hardly regarded as feasible, and
is certainly in violation of precedent,
to exchange ratifications of a docu
ment which is not a treaty, as this
Cuban convention will not be, in the
opinion of some of the state depart
ment people, until "the congress” has
set its approval upon it. If this view
is correct, then the exchange of rat
ifications will have to be deferred un
til next winter at the earliest, and this
delay, it is thought, would cause the
failure of the treaty in its present
form, because of the Inability of the
negotiators to meet the requirement
of article 11, which demands that the
exchange take place before March 31.
AVAILABLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN.
Decrease in Wheat and Corn Since
Last Report.
NEW YORK—Special cablegrams
and telegraphic communication receiv
ed by Eradstreet'a show the following
changes in available supplies since
the last report:
Wheat—United States and Canada,
east of the Rockies, decreased 2,222,
000 bushels; afloat for and in Europe,
decreased 000.000 bushels; world's
available, decreased 2,282,000 bushels.
Corn—United States and Canada,
east of the Rockies, increased 408,000
bushels.
Among the most important de
creases this week were those of 800,
000 bushels at Manitoba elevators
300,000 bushels at northwestern inte
rior elevators, 111,000 bushels at St
Joseph, 81,000 bushels at Omaha, 80,
000 bushels at Portland, Me., 35,000
bushels at Nashville and 68,000 bush
els at Chicago private elevators.
ARBOR DAY IN NEBRASKA.
The Govenor of the State Issues a
Proclamation.
Governor .Mickey has issued the
following Arbor day proclamation:
The recurring apriug season is again
at iiand, bringing with it that holiday
I which ' is distinctively of Nebraska j
■•rigin and which lias here received i
!-s most complete recognition.
The observance of nearly all public !
festivals is actuated by motives of
sentiment, but Arbor day is commem
orated because of the practical value j
and utility of the acts which emanate
from it. Through Be beneficent influ
ence Nebraska’s treeless plains have
been dotted over with beautiful
groves, affording grateful shade dur
ing the heat of summer, protection
from the blasts of winter, fuel for
home consumption ami which have
also had a marked effect in making
the climatic conditions more favora
ble for agricultural pursuits. The
denuding of the natural forests for
lumbering purposes has occasioned
physical disturbances, a study of the
effects of whirl) are more or less ag
itating the scientific world, but it is
certain that any resultant injury can
be neutralized by the systematic con
servation of remaining forests and
the planting of trees in harmony with
that progressive spirit of the times
which takes into consideration the
needs of the future as well as of the
present.
By virtue of the authority vested in
me by law, I do hereby proclaim and
designate Wednesday, April 22, 1903,
as Arbor day. and I earnestly urge
every citizen of the state,, and espe
cially the pupils of public and private
schools, to observe the day by the
general planting of trees and the beau
tifying of lawns and premises. The
occasion, to obserce the day by the
because of the death since last Arbor
day of Hon. J. Sterling Morton, the
originator of the day and one of Ne
braska’s most, honored citizens. I
suggest that an extra tree be planted
in memory of him who did so much
for the slate and whoso practical
ideas concerning forestry are proving
of especial value.
BLIZZARD KILLS LIVE STOCK.
Wyoming Temperature Drop*, and
Live Stock Suffers.
CHEYENNE. Wyo—The blizzard
has passed, but the temperature has
dropped below zero, and as a result
j live stock will suffer severely. Ralph
Friend, a prominent Uinta stock man,
who arrived in Cheyenne Thursday,
says that the winter has been the
severest since 1890. He estimated
that throughout Southern and Cen
| trai Wyoming stockmen who fed lost
from 4 to 0 per cent and those who
j did not feed lost from 15 to 30 per
I cent of their herds.
Stale Veterinarian Seabury returned
last night from Pine Bluffs and con
firms reports of heavy loss to live
stock in that section. Cattle and
sheep were terribly weakened by pre
ceding storms and perished in largo
numbers.
Colored Man Commissioned.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Lieutenant
David G. Gilmer, a colored soldier of
this city, has been commissioned by
the president as second lieutenant in
the Philippine scouts. The president
recently promised Senator Pritchard of
North Carolina that Lieutenant Gilmer
should have the first vacancy in the
Philippine scouts.
HIGH OFFICIAL IS INVOLVED.
Assistant Postmaster General Goes
to Investigate.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.—Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Bristow is ex
pected to reach St. Louis shortly to
inspect a certain $5,000 receipt now
said to he in the possession of an at
torney and which dit is said involves
a high official at Washington in com
plicity with a “get-rich-quick” scheme.
When the safe of E. J. Arnold &
Co. was opened recently it is said
this receipt was discovered. It is al
leged it was signed by a former at
tache of the attorney general’s office.
It is said the other receipts, similar
in character, are in existence.
Award of $70,000 for a Life.
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y—A verdict
for $70,000 damages against tne New
York Central railway was awarded by
a jury in the supreme court Tuesday
for the death of Ernest F. Walton of
New Rochelle, who was a victim of
the Park avenue tunnel accident. Mr.
Walton was a member of the New
York stock exchange.
TREATY RATIFIED
SENATE GRANTS RECIPROCITY
AND THE SESSION ENDS.
ONLY SIXTEEN VOTES AGAINST
Committee Amendments Are All
Adopted. Though Others Fail to Ob- ;
tain Sufficient Support to Proposed
Changes in the Treaty.
WASHINGTON — Aft 'r ratifying '
tho Cuban reciprocity treaty the sen
ate adjourned sine die at 5:15 on
Thursday.
Practically the entire day was spent
behind closed doors in executive ses
sion. Most of the time was devoted
to consideration of the Cuban treaty.
Several speeches were made in oppo
sition and one in favor, and then,
promptly at the agreed hour, 3 o'clock,
voting began.
Roll calls were taken on a number
of amendments and the treaty itself
was made the subject of a vote, the
motion to ratify being adopted by 50
to 16 somewhat more than a three
fourths vote.
Immediately after the doors were
closed, at a few minutes past 11, Sen
ator foster (La.) took the floor in op
position to the treaty. In the main
his speech was an appeal for the pro
tection of American sugar. He spoke
especially for the can sugar inter
ests of Louisiana, but said tho beet
sugar interests had grown to such
proportions that many other slates
were coming to have a pronounced in
terest in the making of sugar.
He drew a graphic picture of pres
ent conditions in Louisiana and said
the ratification of the treaty would be
liable to be disastrous to many of his
constituents. He appealed to sena
tois from nortli and south alike to re
frain from inflicting this hardship on
his people.
He raised the point that there was
nothing to prevent the introduction
of Chinese labor into Cuba, with which
American labor could not compete.
Senator Berry based his opposition
on the amendment providing against
any further reduction by treaty of
the duty on sugar while the treaty re
mains in force.
Senator Carmack opposed on gener
al principles, declaring it was con
trary to the American theory of gov
ernment.
Senator Simmons was the only dem
ocrat who advocated ratification. He
said he spoke for the United States
and not for Cuba, refusing to accept
the theory that the United States was
under any obligations to Cuba. But
he believed the treaty would add to
Cuba's prosperity and American ex-'
ports to the island, which now amount
to about $28,000,000 annually would
soon be doubled. He refused to ac
cept the theory that American sugar
would be injured and contended that
the only advantage Cuba would have
over the United States would be in
its soil.
Even after rhe reduction proposed
the duty on Cuban sugar would
amount to 64 per cent ad valorem,
which would he quite sufficient to
maintain the industry in the United
States.
wnon air, oudiuuuh iuuuuucu »ut
ing began.
The committee on foreign relations
announced through Senator Cullom
(he acceptance of two amendments al
ready recommended by the commit
tee. The first was the amendment In
creasing the rate of reduction on flour,
corn meal and corn imported into
Cuba. It provides for a reduction of
40 per cent, but the committee modi
fied the amendment so as to provide
for a reduction of 30 per cent.
The other fixed a uniform reduction
of 30 per cent on American cotton
goods.
The only aye and nay vote taken on
the committee amendments was on
that inserted at the instance of the
beet sugar republican senators pro
viding against further reduction of the
duty on sugar for five years, or while
the treaty remains in force. The vote
to ratify the treaty was 50 to 16.
Named by the President.
WASHINGTON. D. C.—The presi
dent on Thursday sent to the senate
the following nominations:
Consuls—Albert W. Swalm, now
consul at Montevideo, at Southhamp
ton, England; John E. Hopley, now
consul at Southampton, at Monte
video; Clarence Rice Slocum of New
York, at Warsaw, Russia.
Postmasters: Nebraska—Edward G.
Hall, David City.
Captains to be rear admirals in the
navy—Francis A. Cook. Purnell F.
Darrington,
WORK OF SENATE.
The Race Question Under Discus
sion.
WASHINGTON—The race question
was discussed in the senate Wed
nesday, Mr. Money bringing the mat
ter up in speaking on the president's
action in dosing the Indianola post
office. In the course of his remarks
lie declared that Mr. Roseveit wan
not the president of the United
States, but the president of the
"black belt.”
"The department has made the peo
ple of the south hate the administra
tion." he said. "The people cf the
south hoped Mr. Roosevelt would he
an American president, but instead
he is president of the black belt.
"His appointments had caused gen
eral disgust. He had raised the ques
tion of social equality of the negro."
Mr. Money said recent apimint
ments have revived the race question.
The south has tolerated negro offi
cials. but does not want any more
of them. "This Is a white man’s coun
try and government." There was a
feeling in the south, he said, that no
colored man should hold office.
It was the Inherent and constitu
tional right of a great community, he
declared, to have its mail handled
regularly. Letters which were ad
dressed to Important county officer!
residing at. Indianola had been sent
to Greenville, and thus an unwarrant
able interference with the liberty and
rights of the people had been perpe
trated.
If It was intended to punish the peo
pin of Indianola the punishment had
gone far enough. The department
had shown to the world its authority
and nobody had disputed it. Now it
was time for the postmaster general
to do all he could to heal the breach.
He declared that of all the appoint
ments made in Mississippi none had
given such general dissatisfaction ga
those made by tho present admidfo
tration, which had raised tho question
of social equality of the negro, but
there could never be any social equal
ity between the two races.
"There is a race prejudice in tho
south,” he said, “and I thank God
that, there Is.”
The prejudice against the negro, ha
asserted, was not local, but prompt
ed by a universal, world-wide senti
ment.
Answering Mr. Foraker, he said
that these recent apitolntraents had re
vived the race question, and that the
people of the south had heretofore
tolerated negro office holders. “This
white man's country," said he, “has
been carved out of the wilderness and
conquered from the Indian, not for the
African, but for the white man.’
Mr. Foraker asked if his objection
to colored people holding office ex
tended to all offices, and whether it
would include the enlistment of col
ored men in the army. In reply Sen
ator Money disclaimed any virulent
objection to black soldiers, but de
clared it would be better if no col
ored man held any official position
whatever.
“Would you disfranchise the negro?”
asked Mr. Foraker, “and if so, shoved
that he taken into account in fixing
the representation in congress?"
“That is another question,” said Mr.
Money, "but the participation of the
negro in ihe affairs of government is
dangerous.”
“Is the demand of the south," in
quired Mr. Spooner, “that the presi
dent shall in no case appoint a col
ored man in federal offices In the
south?”
Mr. Money replied that there had
been no demand, but it was the feel
ing In the south that no colored man,
no matter what his quality, should
hold a federal office.
“The whole trend of history,” ha
said, “shows the titter incompetency
of the colored race for self-govern
ment.”
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Warned to Keep Sober.
MILWAUKEE. Wis —Members of
the Federated Trades unfc'n have been
warned to stay sober.
Frank J. Weber, business agent of
that organization, at its meeting Wed
nesday night, served notice on all
its members that hereafter he would
refuse to consider grievances present
ed by men who are under the influence
of liquor.
Mr. Mercer Not Appointed.
WASHINGTON—The president ha3
tendered the position of director of
the census to S. N. D. North, formerly
chief statistician of manufactures of
the census bureau, to succeed Director
Merriam, resigned. Mr. North has ac
cepted and will enter upon his duties
I some time in May.