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"jssr The Commoner, VOLUME i, NUMBER 1?. 12 U M Washington News. V w Major 13. J. Rathuono has appealed to tho sonato for a roviow of his case to investigate tho circumstancos un der which ho was convicted of Cuban frauds. Brovet Major General Thomas 0. Osborne, termor United States min ister to the Argentine Republic, died of apoploxy. Mrs. Cornelia Grlnnell Willis, widow of tho author, N. P. Willis, is dead, aged 80 years. A Washington dispatch to tho New York World says: Presidont Roose volt has been requested by senators to withdraw tho nomination of Captain Albert L. Mills, superintendent of t.io military academy, to bo brigadier gen oral, but has refused. This officer was jumpod over 857 superiors. Sonu tor Proctor, acting chairman of tho military affairs committee, is among those who wiuld like to see tho nomi nation withdrawn. Mr. Roosevelt cam paigned with Captain Mills in Cuba. Tho promotion was recommended by Socrotary Root and General Chaffee. Frod C. Ainsworth will become a ma jor general and bo placed in charge of tho military records. Tho con forroos on the army appropriation bill havo reached an agreoment to this ef fect. Gonoral Ainsworth entered the army as a surgeon eight years later than Leonard Wood. He will now equal Gonoral Wood in rank. He was advanced to colonel and brigadier .gen eral by special acts of congress. There may bo some, trifling opposition to the confirmation of General Ainsworth. minority leader. Mr. Clarke quoted the statement as follows: "Tho dem ocratic party believes that when on any articles that go to Cuba or any other people on the surface of tho earth you get an agreement to reduco tho burdens to their consumers by re ducing tho duties in their markets, you have conferred a benefit upon their consumers ana also on me American producer, because you ena blo the consumer in Cuba or else where in any country entering into thoso reciprocal relations to get the product at a cheaper price. That en ables them to buy more of our prod uct, and that increases tho volume of consumption of American products and benefits the American producer by enabling him to sell more goods at tho old profit, and thus both parties to tho trade are benefited." Speaking In tho house, Representa tive Glllotto of Massachusetts replied to a speech delivered by Representative ? Sprlght of Mississippi on the race question. Mr. Gillotto defonded Mr. Roosovort for inviting Booker T. Washington to dino with him. Ho said tho president was a man of big heart as well as birth, breeding and cultivation. Mr. Reeder of Kansas spoko in dofonse. of Mr, Washington, and ho caused surprise when ho said tuero is not a person in his section who would not feol it an honor to in vito Booker T. Washington to his . table. Tho sonato discussed tho pension order making old ago an evidence of disability. Mr. Carmack introduced a resolution directing tho judiciary com mittee to inquire into tho authority of tho oxecutivo branch of the govern ment to mako such an order. Ad dressing tho sonato, Mr. Carmack con tended that no such authority exists. Ho characterized tho order as a piece of; oxecutivo legislation, and criticised it as "anothor instance of executive encroachment upon tho prerogatives of congress." Several senators argued that the order was in lino with tho regulation issued by Judge Lochron, a. commissioner of pensions under Mr. Cleveland, fixing 65 years of age as an evidence of Infirmity, On March 28 Representative Champ Clarice of Missouri delivered a speech in tho house In which ho said that tho democratic position on reciprocity had boon set forth by Mr. Williams, the Can't Sleep? Its' your nerves. Dr. Miles' Nervine will strengthen them and bring sweet sleep and health. Delay is dangerous. All druRBlata sell and guarantee. 8erui postal Cor book on nervous d&ea w. . D. Milks Mkdioai, Co., Elkhart, Ind Referring to Mr. Clarke's speech, the Washington correspondent for the Chicago Record-Herald says: He in sisted that there is no Tree trade par ty in tho United States, saying: "Whenever our standpat friends get into a hole they resurrect the bogy man of free trade and hold him in ter ror over the heads of tho American people. Nobody knows better than they do that there is no free trade mrf.v in t.hn TTnltorl Rfntna nn1 tlinw Olicrhf. in miff. naaorHncr thn f1ifa io 0 . 4v..w uuuv. WtU, uuuit WUIO IO. Wo can all be honest, even if we can't be great." He quoted at length the democratic position as outlined by Mr. vvimuma, uie positon taken being that "tariff for revenue only" was the doctrine of the party. He then drew u. nuu oe aemarKauon between the tariff ideas of the two parties, and dwelt at some length on the "stand pat" declaration of tho republicans. He called attention to tho dissenting oloment of that party, which, he said, marched under the banner of the "Iowa idea," and inferentially ho -iioOUu tuia oieuiBut as democrats, lie prodlcted tho renomlnation of Presi dent Roosevelt, and conceded that the republicans "may be able, by hook and by crook, to get together for this elec- wuu, uut, muu tnat mere would be a 'sloughing off" of the party which would amount to a split in the near future. The Teclnrnp.it.v onai.i, p r.. resentativo Dalzell, delivered in the house recently, was given considerable attention by Mr. Clark. The keynote of that speech, he declared to bo this sentence: "Republican reciprocity is reciprocity in non-competing articles, and in nothing else." This doctrine McKinlqy reciprocity, the foundation principle of which was expressed b? President McKinley at Buffalo in these words: "We must nm. rnne t-i. cled security that we can forever sell tE3?1'!BJA buy llta 3n Clark assert by BenTlgj sen! ate an extension of time for -the Gratifi cation of tho reciprocity treat? SSS ated with Franco under the a$ w f Pfre,3ident McKinley Tnis treaty contained scores and scored of articles produced in Franco S f goria and also in the UnSS States which a reduction of tho tariff l! ruarv 2D ln? ff0 on Feb ruary 29, 1904, the day on which th gentleman from Pennsylvania made tobSTS; WaS W.hat 8 dareT it arato bills at the present session of conpress. Referring io lueao u said: "They are all sleeping the sleep of death in that great mausoleum of tariff reform hopes, the room of the committee on ways and means. The recent efforts of the American Pub lishers' association to entorce the anti trust law against the paper trust and its declaration in favor of removing tariff duties on pulp and white paper was discussed. Concerning his own efforts in this direction Mr. Clark said: "The other day, in the committee on ways and means, of which I am a member, I called up my bill to place wood pulp, white paper and the m crroriiontcj thorpnr nn the free list. Lo and behold, every democrat in the committee vote 1 for the bill and every republican voted against it. They be ing in the majority, it was defeated. All the republican members of the American Publishers' association are hereby most cordially and urgently in vited to train their guns on Sereno E. Payne, chairman of the ways and means committee, and his ten repub lican brethren on that committee, and if they do not do so, they should for ever hold -their peace. The recent dec laration of tho Minnesota republicans on the tariff question was declared by Mr. Clark to be an endeavor to ride two horses going in opposite directions. The investigation of the protests against Senator Reed Smoot will be resumed April 12 by the senate com mittee on privileges and elections. The witnesses will include a number of of ficials of the Mormon church. General William H. Payne, counsel for the Southern railway, a distin guished confederate officer, and com mander of the famous Black Horse cavalry at the first battle of Bull Run, died aged 73 years. The sonate committee on finance in dorsed an amendment to the sundry civil bill, providing for the removal of the limitations as to the coinage of subsidiary silver. The amendment provides "that all limitations as to the amount of subsidiary silver coin age that may be outstanding are here by removed." The bill authorizing the erection of an additional executive department building was the subject of spirited de bate in the senate and after several houis' debate it remains unacted up on. Senators divided largely on the question of location, but there was al so talk as to the necessity of better ofhee accommodations for the senate and the supreme court. Hoa.st Duck, by Thunder! An extraordinary effect of lightning is reported from Lake Grandlieu, in the Nantes region. A violent tempest burst over the lake, with vivid light ning and thunder. A number of boats were on the lake, and while they were hurrying to bank there was a tre mendous peal of thunder. Almost Im mediately there fell among the boate the dead bodies of a large flock of wild ducks, some of them roasted to a nke- ttnJSVT6 charred to a cinder Roast duoir oniri u.. ,, . . luuei. Why War W8 Declared. Professor McGhee declare ihnf ft, Japaneso brain is laS L afc the "on to tho body tE thnf PrPr" other race. "His hoS i ? any alio for the mos part w LTT1 looks more like an explosion o the Alphabet than that, we want to know it. Washington Post. Further Investigation Needed. The conditions so far disclosed in the departments warrant the suspicion that a thorough Investigation of the other bureaus of the postofflce depart ment would disclose other irregulari ties. Tho republicans excuse tho sup pression of such an investigation on the ground that It would afford an opportunity for sensational reports and prove susceptible of great parti san bias. Not unless irregularities were discovered. Does anybody im agine that such strenuous efforts would have been made to prevent the investigation by its own congressional committee if the party leaders and administration bad not been fearful of damaging disclosures? Buffalo Times. Not a Winning Speculation. It is hinted that the census will show that thus far it is practically im possible to induce American capital to invest in Philippine agricultural enterprises, and -as the natives havo neither capital nor industry progress must be slow, Tvith the prospect of the cost to us in maintaining our holO on the islands annually outrunning the amount we make out of them as u market. So as a money-making pro position if we should stop "putting up" for the Philippines and buy an nually all that 'we shall sell there and make a gift of the goods to tho islanders we should be the gainer. Indianapolis News. Subscribers' Advertising Department A little thought will convince that this department of The Commoner of fers superior advantages to those who desire to secure publicity. .Only .Com moner subscribers are allowed to use it, and only responsible articles are allowed to be advertised. 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