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4 THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT FEBRUARY 12, 1903. WASHINGTON NOTES TticmtUn Embroglle The Bankruptcy " Law-Antl-Trnst Bill -Standard Oil Obstruction ' f . Washington, D. C., Feb. 0. 1903. '(Special . Correspondence.) After two weeks of fruitless negotiation, the (Venezuelan embroglio goes to The .Hague tribunal for settlement. The , TitTfiTKl o 1 trranA on1 c ol fic Vi n oca rtf .Jj ' - 3Jreat Britain in demanding preferen tial treatment in the settlement of 'her claims is responsible for the fail ure to agree at the conference be tween Minister Bowen and the am bassadors of the allied powers. After shaving acted the part of a buccaneer and a pirate in her treatment of the South American republic in an ef fort to collect claims the validity of which are by no means attested, she insisted on a settlement prior to those European nations, particularly ITranns -ahifh Vuwl aotnA with Bnmf-i M X, J T V 11 11U V V 1' V U regard for decency and order. Min ister Bowen, on behalf of Venezuela, rejecting this demand, the British ambassador broke off negotiations with Bowen, asked President Roose velt to act as arbitrator, and, upon hi3 refusal, the whole matter goes before the court of arbitration. It is supposed that the blockade of Vene zuelan ports win now he raised pend ing a settlement of the controversy, but the cumbersome machinery of The Hague tribunal will delay this ( settlement perhaps for months. It is ' "noticeable that while Germany pri marily assumed the aggressive in the Venezuela case, her spirit of concilia- ' tion was freer in the end than that of England. These negotiations have served to furnish the world with an- ' other instance of the inherent hatred of England for America. For five years in every sort of ne- gotiation, this nation has been out- generated by British diplomacy for the reason that we have had a secretary of state, American by birth, but roy- j alistic in sentiment and , sycophantic by environment. Notably does this appear in the Alaskan boundary ques ; tion, a treaty for which adjudication j was recently sent to the senate for i ratification and the details of which ! I gave in last week's letter. By tem ! porary protocol arranged in 1899, I Secretary Hay surrendered to the ; British government a considerable I tract of territory despite the protest I emphatically made by the public sen jtiment of the country. The facts are that there is nothing to arbitrate. The treaty of 1825 made specifically plain and clear the limita tions and boundary lines. The tem porary protocol gave over to English , authority a strip of land a hundred miles wide and some hundreds of miles in length without any just or KNOWS NO DISTINCTION Rich and Poor Alike Suffer From Ca tarrh in This Climate. All observant physicians have no ticed the enormous increase in ca tarrhal diseases in recent years, and tne most liberal and enlightened have cheerfully given their approval to the new internal remedy, Stuart's Ca tarrh Tablets, as the most successful ".and by far the safest remedy for ca- i tarrh yet produced. One well-known' catarrh specialist, . as soon as he had made a thorough test of this preparation, discarded in halers, washes and sprays and now de- ,pends entirely upon Stuart's Catarrh ( Tablets in treating catarrh, whether In the head, throat or stomach. Dr. Risdell says, "In patients who had lost the sense of smell entirely and even where the hearing has be gun to be affected from catarrh, I have had fine results after only a few weeks' use of Stuart's Catarrh Tablets. I can only explain , their action on the theory that the cleansing and antiseptic properties of the tablets destroy the catarrhal germs where ever found because I have found the tablets equally valuable in catarrh of the throat and stomach as in nasal catarrh." Dr. Estabrook says, "Stuart's Ca tarrh Tablets are especially useful in , tnasal catarrh and catarrh of the i throat, clearing the membranes of i mucus and speedily overcoming the hawking, coughing and expectorat , tag." Any sufferer from catarrh will find Stuart's Catarrh Tablets will give im mediate relief and being in tablet form and pleasant to the taste, are convenient and always ready for use as they can be carried in the pocket and used at any time as they contain no poisonous drugs, but only the cleansing, antiseptic properties of Eu calyptus bark, blood root and Hy drastis All druggists sell the tablets at 50 a r.. . 1 i x equitable reason being given there for. The action of this commission (for which the treaty provides to de cide the matter) in making this pro tocol permanent and permanently sur render sovereignty to this territory would not be accepted by' this coun try, and the refusal would be ac cepted in every quarter as a reasser tion of our ancient rights and a re juvenation of our ancient spirt, which of late years has been dwarfed by commercialism. The observation is made that Eng land's stand in the Venezuelan case is not really for the collection of debts, but either for a trade monopoly or expansion of territory. The intention of the secretary to now make this arrangement perma nent by treaty is meeting opposition from senators in the northwest and there is doubt of its ratification. The opposition to this ratification may rest assured that their course will be approved by the country at large. The people generally will not ap prove a policy which surrenders Amer ican soil on this nent without any pretext save a love for British people and royal institutions and at the same time squander millions of monev and thousands of lives to make up that loss by an ess of temtory on another continent. has been visited by many sore afnic Sons in her career, but, history will search in vain for a period to which he can point with as little pride a to the administration of John Hay as secretary of state. The report of the secretary of tne treasury indicates that o February 1 the total circulation of money in the United States was $2,355 .,738.834 Esti mating our total population at J.14. 000 this gives a circulation per capita of $29 48. On the same date, tne interest-bearing public debt amounted to $914,541,330. The Thomas Jefferson Memorial as sociation, of which Admiral George Dewey is president, has issued an ad dress to the people, the purport of which is an appeal for funds to erect in Washington a suitable memorial to the author of the Declaration of In dependence. This memorial will like ly take the form of a suitable monu ment, and in this day when the teachings of this greatest of democrats and statesmen are ignored in the ad ministration of government, it is meet and proper that the people should respond liberally to the appeal and at the same time resolve to bring the government back to the moorings to. which Jefferson would have kept it. Hobson, who sunk the Merrimac in Santiago harbor to hide a navy de partment scandal and kissed the wo men who crossed his pathway over the country because his lack of judg ment could not be hidden, has re signed his commission in the con struction and repair department and will take the lecture platform. It is said he aspires to a congressional ca reer. Mr. Jenkins of Wisconsin, author of the resolution as to the advisability of government ownership of coal mines and railroads, has introduced a joint resolution proposing an amend ment against polygamy as the six teenth amendment to the constitution. Secretary Root in a recent. sp?ech declared the probability t hat "an other war is sure to come, no mat ter how much we may long for peace." The administration must be contemplating another field for "benevolent assimilation." The refusal of the senate to adopt Senator Rawlins' resolution calling for court-martial proceedings in a score of cases in the Philippines has directed public attention anew to the kinship of this refusal to an imper ialistic policy. The result has been the exposure of a number of instances in which American army officers have been guilty, of extreme cruelty and without provocation. President Roosevelt has signed the bill amending the bankruptcy law of 1S98. The bill modifies the existing law in several important particulars, the principal one of which is a provision in regard to preferred creditors. Un der the existing law those who had received payments from a person who had soon afterward been declared bankrupt could not have other claims passed upon without surrendering the amount received. This provision was modified so as to allow the creditor to retain the money received unless the previous payment was fraudulent. The change is in conformity with a de cision of the supreme court. Another amendment provides four new objections to a discharge, intend ed to prevent persons from going through bankruptcy, the most im portant of which are the giving of a false mercantile statement or the making of a fraudulent transfer of property. The bill also provides that it shall be an objection' to a discharge if a voluntary bankrupt seeks to go through bankruptcy more than once in six years. Another amendment provides that the appointment of a receiver for a corporation which is insolvent Is an act of bankruptcy, entitling the cred itors to choose their own trustee. An other important change is one which gives the federal courts concurrent jurisdiction of suits to recover prop erty which has been fraudulently transferred. Other amendments allow the wives of bankrupts to testify in the pro ceedings, provide for an increase of the fees of referees and trustees to an average of about 50 per cent over the fees allowed by the present law, and prohibit the courts from allowing greater fees than the law permits in any case, and add to the list of debts from which a bankrupt cannot be re lieved by a discharge from bank ruptcy. The new list includes debts to wife and children and alimony. The list of corporations which may go into bankruptcy is increased by add ing mining corporations. The decision of Premier Laurier of the Dominion of Canada to raise the head tax from $50 to $100, in order to bar the Chinese, has failed of its pur pose, and in deference to the wish of labor unions, an order will likely be issued to rigidly exclude them. This will be of great interest to the United States for the reason that 75 per cent of the Chinese arriving in the Domin ion are afterward smuggled across the border. Vancouver is the principal port of landing. Mr. Hale called attention in the senate to an alleged combination among attorneys to maintain exces sive fees in claims filed with the Spanish treaty claims commission. These, he said, have been placed at 33 1-3 per cent, as shown by a report of the commission. He did not sup pose that the commission would re port the full amount of the claims $61,000,000 but that, even if a rea sonable amount was reported, the at torneys would still receive in fees over $3,000,000. A pension at the rate of $30 per month has been granted to the widow of Admiral Sampson. This was done under the general law of 'congress governing the commissioner of pen sions in extraordinary cases. The medical record of the case is not without interest to all those who have followed the stirring events that be gan with the blowing up of the Maine and ended with the sea battle off Santiago. For fully five years prior to his death, so the sworn record attests, Sampson was seriously afflicted with aphasia, an affliction of the mind which partially destroys and at times wholly so the mental faculties. The claim is now made by Sampson's friends, in extenuation of his seeming ly erratic conduct, that he was not responsible for many acts thr-ii earned for him the opprobium of the Ameri can people. It is now claimed he nev er wrote the dispatch claiming the Santiago victory and ignoring Schley, but that his flag lieutenant was the author.. The authorship by him is also denied of the famous "Gunner Morgan" letter, and his censorship of the Maclay history. Whatever may be the facts in these instances, it is now known that the navy department was aware of his incapacity, and yet at the same time placed him in command of the United States naval forces. What must be said of the- criminal stupidity of the "board of strategy," headed by Crowninshield of the bureau of navi gation, in placing the issues of a war with a foreign power in the hands of a man known to be mentally weak? In justice to Sampson's memory, we may well believe his mental insuf ficiency. But that does not excuse the stupidity of the navy department in placing him in command, nor its in justice in the persistent persecution of Schley. Crowninshield proved hb calibre by running the battleship Il linois upon a sand-bar within ten days after taking command and yet he was the director of naval engage ments in the war with Spain! There are a number of incidents connected with this war of which the less said the better, it seems. The naval appropriation bill was reported to the house Friday, carry ing $79,048,420.15. The chief recom mendation of the committee is that more officers be provided, and that members of congress shall be allowed LIKE HER OLD SELF THE STORY OF A GIRL ON THE PACIFIC COAST HEADACHE At all drug stores. 25 Dows 25c Both She and Her Mother are Enthusiast! Orer a Wonderful Event in Their Lives Miss Maud E. Cable, of Chico, Butte Co., Calif., is a bright, vivacious gJl of fifteen, with the glow of health in her cheeks. A few months ago, how ever, she was sick and weakly. How this wonderful change came about is best told in the words of her mother, Mrs. Rose Cable, who says: "My daughter was in a miserable state of health and I feared she could not live. It began with irregularity, in the natural functions of her sex, accompanied by severe headaches, heart and stomach trouble, and finally she broke down entirely. The doctor said she had anaemia, which, he said, meant that her blood had turned to water. "The pain in her head was so se vere that she was hardly able to bear it; her stomach so wreak that she could eat nothing but soup. Her liv er was congested and torpid, her nerves all unstrung and her complex ion just like a dead person's. She grew worse in spite of the doctor's care and finally her hands and feet began to swell. "An advertisement in the papers led me to have her try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People and she began to feel better almost immediately upon taking them. She grew better every day. When she had taken them two weeks she had gained eight pounds, and fourteen by the time she had taken live boxes. Her color has come back and she looks like her old self. She has gone to work again. "I feel very grateful for what Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have done for her, for I am sure they saved her life." Anaemia is not the only disease which succumbs to the potent influ ence of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases , as loco motor ataxia, partial paralysis, St, Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheu matism, nervous headache, the after effects of the grip, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions and all forms of weakness either in male or female. They are sold by all druggists, or direct from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. Price, 50 cents per box; six boxes $2.50. to name additional cadets to Annap olis. It is claimed that there will be insufficient officers to man all the new ships when ready to go into commis sion. The committee declares this deficiency will amount to about 500 men, and that Nebraska's share of this number will be 15. The senate passed two bills during the last week, the claim for each be ing made that it is a step toward trust legislation. The first was by Senator Elkins to prevent rebates and com missions by railroads in interstate and foreign commerce. The fact that Elk ins has large railroad interests which profit by these discriminations is suf ficient to raise a doubt as to the sin cerity of the bill. The second is by Senator Fairbanks to expedite the hearing and dptfrmina tion of suits of equity pending or hereafter begun under the Sherman law. The Littlefield anti-trust publicity bill was brought up for discussion in the house Friday and thirteen hours' debate was allowed, the bill bein passed Saturday by a vote of 245 to 0. Six republicans refrained from voting. An attempt was made by the demo crats to amend the bill so as to make it more effective in its provisions, but the amendments were in every case voted down. Congressman Shallenberger offered one of these amendments, which is the same as embodied in one section of his own anti-trust bill, and is as follows : 4 That if any corporation engaged in foreign or interstate commerce at the passage ol this act shall thereafter is sue any stocks, bonds or cert.-icates of capitalization in excess of the actual cash alio of the money or property or propei ty rights owned by the said corporation, the above facts to.be de termined by the interstate cpmmerce commission, all such stocks, bonds or evidences of capitalization issued in excess of actual values in possession of the aforesaid corporation shall be subject to an annual tax of ten per centum of their face value, to be paid into the treasury of the United States on the thirtieth day of June of each, year, so long as. the same shall re-
