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that to have refused the gift would have been dis
courteous." . ..
MAJOR "rATHBONE HAS MADE FORMAL
charges ' against General Wood which
uiuiges are as follows: "By receiving presents
from a gambling house or company known as tho
Jai Alai, or Juego de Pelota, operated in the city
o Havana by an association or corporation of in
dividuals, under a concession granted by tho
Spanish authorities before the military occupation
by the United States of the said island, who had
submitted for his approval a construction of their
concession aforesaid and their regulations there
under, prepared by their own officers or counsel
and intended to be in tho interest of tho greatest
license to the said gambling institution, said gifts
consisting of valuable jewels or personal adorn
ments for his wife, consisting of pearls of the
value of more than $3,000, and also an merican
mado silver service of tho value ot more than
$5,000, said presents having been made immediate
ly after his approval and favorable construction
of said concession and regulations, said approval
by the said Leonard Wood, of the said favorable
construction of the concession to tho said gam
bling institution having been published in tho
Official Gazette of May 9, 1902, and the said pres
ents having been given to his wife and to him
self personally a short time after such official
publication of his, approval, all of which occa
sioned great public scandal, to the detri .ent and
disgrace of the United States and their officers
charged with tho military government of the said
island, and greatly to the prejudice of military
discipline and constituting conduct grossly un
becoming an officer of the United States army and
a gentleman." The Chronicle's Washington cor
respondent adds: "That this concession was of
enormous value to the gambling concern and that
the game in that notorious resort was 'fixed' so.
that the outeider could win only when the man
agers saw-fit-to let him will be shown by other
affidavits to be presented to the senate commit
tee." ft 90
WHITWELL, A RETAIL TOBACCO DEALER
at St. Paul, was bold "enough to handle
goods not mado by the tobacco trust and as a re
sult, the trust refused to sell to Whitwell. Whit
well begari'sult in the-United States circuit court
of appeals and the Court ruled that tobacco com
panies "have th& right to refuse to sell their" com
modities' at any tfrico since they are hot "dealers
in articles of prime necessity as corn or wheat;"
and since they are not "rendering public or quasi
public service like railroad companies." Tho court
held that the act of the trust is "lawful exercise
of their unquestioned rights which aro indis
pensable to the existence of competition or the
conduct of trade.". Commenting upon this deci
sion, the Chicago Record-Heraid, a republican pa
per, says: "Independent tobacco dealers, both
wholesalers and retailers, are being almost daily
forced to the wall by the present conditions of
business. Tho trust may not be guilty of any
restraint of competition, according to the letter of
the law, but some way or other its competitors
aro being, hot merely restrained, but annihilated."
THE PARIS, CORRESPONDENT FOR THE
New orlc 'Herald says that the isthmian
situation is "beginning to look threatening." This
opinion is based. Pn the idea th:t Colombia in
tends to show .fight and ph the fact that a con
siderable portion of the French, press is organiz
ing a determined oppositoh to any transfer of the
Panama Canal company's concession. It is ex
plained that the promoters of, this agltatioD say
that Franco began tho construction of the Panama
canal and that France can and. mu3t complete it;
that millions oX working pejflle in France pur
chased and stilLhold shares In the Panama Canal
company and the adherence of this mass of the
French public has been yery ready to work for
tho movement to prevent the acquisition of the
Panama concession by the United States. The
Herald correspondent says that if this hostile
sentiment continues to spread, o ministry in
France could withstand or would sanction even
virtually, the transfer of French 'nterests in the
enterprise to the United States and that in the
face of such q, contingency, the administrators of
tho Panama Canal cQmpany could not do other
wise than break off negotiations for its sale, leav
ing tho United States on the horns of a desperate
dilemma, namely, to recede, whici means incal
culable loss of prestige with the Latin republics
of Central and South America, or -to insist upon
the carrying out'of the agreement to transfer tho
canal concession to the United' States, which
means a diplomatic conflict if nothing worse "with
Franco.-
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The Commoner.
A T 2 REGULAR SESSION OF CONGRESS
IvTw ? onirmoyB PProprlatlon in behalf of tho
ntvy is to bo asked for. Tho Washinrton corre
spondent for the Chicago Record-Sd say ttat
tho S? n ?102,86G.4d9.34 will bo approprTated for
' lav in tb, ,na,vy If myc' ofllc,al have their
tMa tl PIntcd out by this correspondent that
this is an ncreaso of moro than $23,000,000 over
S1I)FroprlatIon for th0 Prc8ent year, and con
templates an expenditure of $23,820'860 for tho
construction of now war ships and $12,000,000 for
armor and armament for now ships. The estimates
also include an item of $250,000 for a naval train
ing station on the great lakes. Tho earnest dcslro
of the secretary of tho navy and others who havo
conferred with him upon tho upbuilding or tho
navy for a generous allowance for new vessels is
demonstrated in the request upon congress to al
low over $23,000,000 next yea.- for additions to tho
navy, whereas tho appropriation for new ships
during tho present year was only $8,000,000. In
other words, Secretary Moody will urge congress
to grant nearly three times as much money for
new war ships next year as was allowed this
year."
THE INTERESTING ROMANCE OF ANTHRA
cito is told by a writer in tho Kansas City
Journal. This writer says that "tho anthraclto
trade began with an output of 1,965 tons in twelve
months. It has grown to 70,000,000 tons annual
ly. In 1803 tho city of Philadelphia bought 100
tons of anthracite for use in tho pumping works,
but tho, engineers, not knowing how to burn it,
broko it up to gravel tho walks in tho yards.
In 1814 two arkloads wero sold at tho falls of
tho Schuylkill, for $21 a ton. A morning was
wasted in futile attempts to burn this coal, and
at noon the employer and his workmen, discour
aged at their ill luck, shut up the furnace and
went to dinner. On their return they wero aston
ished to find a roaring fire, tho furnace doors red
hot and the furnace itself in danger of melting.
From that day dates the successful use of anthra
cite in America."
tC 9?
PARDON ATTORNEY J. EASn SMITH OF
Washington has just submitted his annual
report, and in this report it is made, knowp that
President Roosevelt has extended executive clem
ency in fewer cases than any president in many
years. According to the Washington correspon
dent for the St. Louis , Post-Dispatch, this roport
shows there were filed with the department and
..reopened during the year a total of C50 applica
tions for executive clemency. Of this number,
district, judges and attorneys reported adversely
on 136 and those were not considered by tho
president at aliu Two hundred and sixty-five cases
were acted upon by the president and there wero
left on hand at the close of the year a total of 69.
Of tho cases acted upon the president denied 131
and , exercised clemency in some form in 134, of
which 35 were for the purpose of restoring citi
zenship, most of the applicants having served
their full terms and been released from prison.
There were thhty-three outright pardons, two
conditional pardons and 57 commutations of .sen
tence. LARGE DISTRICTS IN RUSSIA ARE. AGAIN
, threatened with a famine and epidemics of
typhus and scarlet fever, according to tho "St.
Petersburg correspondent for the Chicago Chron
icle. , This correspondent say that the provisional
governors of Nljni Novgorod, Gorbatoff, Arya
mas and Riazan aro beginning to send ominous
reports which means a winter of awful suffering
for millions of helpless peasants, men, women
and children. Tho harvest was a complete fail-
ure in large areas of the central and eastern pro
vinces. Cases of typhus and scarlet fever among
the ' adults, hunger, typhus and skin diseases
among the children begin to show with alarming
frequency. In numerous districts tho peasants
have dispdsed of all their cattle, so tho children
will be deprived of milk. Count Steholikoff of
the Red Cross society fears that if tho govern
ment fails to take immediate steps to help tho
.peasantry there may be a repetition of , the terri
ble year of 1891 in a region inhabited 'by 16,000,
000 of people. In forty-one districts the summer
wheat was destroyed. In 105 others the rye, the
chief breadstuff of the people, has been a total
failure. In twenty-eight there was no harvest at
all. From numerous districts in Siberia comes
'similar tales of distress owing to the grain bav
T !ing been harvested before it was ripe, causing
it to develop poison and rendering it unfit for
food.
IT IS ANNOUNCED THAT THE CHICAGO
university will establish "A School of Pub
lic Life." Tho Chicago correspondent for the St.
f0
Louis Post-Dispatch eayo: Tour years fa to bt
tho course and when -tho student receives hij
sheepskin it ia promised that ,ho will bo pro
pared to servo as a missionary In tho FIjls or to
mako a name for hlmsolf in tho halls of congress.
All other things being equal, ho will haVo just
four years of careful training as an advantage
over others who begin thoir public careors In a
haphazard cort of way. Tho school will havo a
dean and faculty. Prof. Charles R. Hondorson,
who spoaks for President Harper, says: 'It is
tho intention to covor ovory lino of philanthropic
and stato service, so that young people may adapt
themselves for institutional clerkships, Y. M. C.
A. secretaryships, settlement work, or any other
lino of public work which appeals to them. The
curriculum must cover training as woll as in
structions and in tho plan which I havo sub
mitted provision is mado that, in tho four years'
course, at least 180 days must be spent outside
of college in actual work among tho condltlonM
which the graduato expects to enter. !
1? IT
TN THESE DAYS OF MECHANICAL WONDERS
A and tho various types of automobiles oh the
market, it may bo interesting to many people to
know that tho largest automobile over built Is a
harvester and "auto" combined and Is being used
in Southern California, according to a writer in
tho Washington Star. This writer adds: "It ia
equal to sixty horses, and goes at tho ratq of
threo and a half miles an hour, mowing a swath
thirty-six feet wide, putting up the grain in fin
ished shape, threshing, etc. Tho machine is sixty
feet long and thirty feet wide. Tho motive power
is furnished by oil. It is such an expensive 'har
vest hand' that ono farmer cannot, of course, own
it alono, but it Is tho property of a company, and
goes from ono farm to another. Eight men are
required to run it. As the machine starts off the
grain begins falling In sacks on tho oppoelto aide
from where it is cut, and the straw drops into a
cart behind, 'ihreo machines sent to Russia for
work on tho steppes wero delayed In China and
captured by tho Boxers. There they remained for
a couple of years, but they aro now In Russia, and
considered an American wonder."
MUCH INTEREST THROUGHOUT ENGLAND
has been aroused by tho public announce
ment tccently mado that tho historic colors ot the
First Shropshire Light Infantry, which colore
wero borno with Burgoyno's invading army 125
years' ago down through northern Now York, are
to be sold at public auction. A dispatch to the
Chicago Record-Herald under dato of London,
October 31, says: "Tho city of Edinburgh pre
sented these colors in 1774 to the regiment, which
was then the Fifty-third, and after tho outbreak
of hostilities they crossed the Atlantic, where the
regiment took part in tho relief of Quebec. At
the battle of Ticonderoga threo of the companies
were captured on Lako George, where Burgoyno
surrendered. It is related of one of the ofllcerg of
the Fifty-third that, in order to prevent tho col
ors from falling into the hands of tho Americans,
ho cut them from the polo and wrapped them
around his person. On being replaced by new
colors, on tho regiment's return to England in
1790 tho old banner, following tho custom, be
' came tho property of the regiment's colonel, and
it has since remained at Logle Elphinstono in
Aberdeenshire, indigation is expressed that the
regimental colors should be put under tho ham
mer." -- a jc
NNEWSPAPERS'IN MANILA CHARGE THAT
school teachers in the 'Philippines, a rium
)er of whom havo given fin their position, havo
been blacklisted by the Philippine commission and
are unable to get any kind of work. The Wash
ington correspondent for tho Philadelphia North
American says: "Tho department will institute
an investigation to ascertain if actual hardship is
forced upon the teachers by tho Philippine gov
ernment It is asserted in bohalf of the gov6rn
ment that all teachers sent to tho islands agreed
to' remain ifTthe service for two years. Many of
them havo become discontented with their -work
and have resigned. They are seeking other em
ployment, and tho government, it is said, is Clos
ing all avenues open to them. According to the
teachers, they -were promised payment for their
services in American currency. Instead of -- "
thoy havo received Mexican silver, the value- of
which fluctuates with each day. They also ex
pected to purchase supplies fron the commissary
department, a privilege, they now declare, that
has been denied them. It is said that much fric
tion between the teachers anl the insular govern
ment exists, and that the cause of education,, ex
pected to transform Filipinos into good, peaceable
American citizens, is languishing in consequsaoe."
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