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THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
FEBRUARY 12, 1903.
WASHINGTON NOTES
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" Law-Antl-Trnst Bill -Standard
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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
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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
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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-
