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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-09

According to the estimate Of State
Treasurer Burnite, the financial affairs
Of the State, while not in an alarming
condition, are such as to indicate
deficit Of something over $4,000 at the
close of the current fiscal year, under
the prevailing conditions. Treasurer
Burnite is careful and reliable official,
whose estimate can safely be accepted
as being close to actual facts as it is
possible for an estimate to be- Under
the circumstances, therefore, there is
but one o. two things for the present
Legislature to do--either increase tho
current revenues or decrease the cx-
penses, to an extent sufficient to meet
the threatened deficit There is no
other course to pursue, unless the
Legislature is content to adopt the un.
wise and unbusnesslike expedient Of
mourning floating debt, which but too
often results in adding to the States
permanent Obligations
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-09


New York, as well as Delaware, APP
pointed commissioners to investigate the
tax laws of the state and to make such
recommendation Us they should see fit,
and they have submitted their report ac
companiei by hill to carry their ideas
into effect, of which the EWhag P2s.
says:
The bill consists of small amendments
tn the existing law. No general principle
of taxation IL laid down. on the contrary,
the commissioners declare that they con.
slider ii unwisc to trust TO theory IN this
matter YET they have one theory, Or nv
pOthcsis, which they seem willing to stand
by, namely, 'tlIat either all personal prop
erty should be reached ana subject to as.
scssment or il shuuId be entirely exempt
This Is, on its face, u proposition equally
acceptable to those who favor the taxation
of personal property and to those who are
opposed to IL, yet II is by no means a self
evident proposition. some Ut the best
authorities on the subject hold that per-
sonal property, which cannot escape
which can neither hide itself nor run
away--may be and ought to he taxed
equally with real property. Those who
hold this view would draw line not be-
tween real and personal property but be
tween migratory and nOn-migratory prop
erty. In our opinion this is the true divid-
ing line. but the line itself is not always
easily discernible, We cannot make il a
matter OF complaint against the commits
siOnerS that they have refused to embOdy
q theory of taxation in their bill when we
reflect that all the tax bills which have
been reported on the basis of any theory
whatsoever in this state during the present
generation have been rejected or treated
with absolute neglect. And this is equally
true of most of the other states.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-09

Book News for February is
especially rich in portraits.
Besides the plate paper pic
ture Of J. M. Barrie, whose
stories of Scotch life have be-
come SO popular, there are
portraits Of Hubert H. Ban
croft, Constance Fenimore
Woolson, Anne Reeve AL
drich, Philip Bourke Marston,
J. Z. Garrctson and John
Wyclif. There are half a
dozen other pictures all from
current publications. In every
respect February Book NEWS
maintains the high standard
OF the magazine.
Book News is SC a copy.
SOC a year.
JOHN WANAMAxER.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-09

The citizens Of Magnolia have purchased
. fire engine and intend to be prepared for
the next conilagration. They have had
two disastrous fires in the last two years,
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-09
MEMS Djessy Smts.
Atwood Black ]

VI WVVI IIIdIN IIIdS OIIdI,
stylishly put together, at
$3.50 tie SMt--Cutaway or
Sack Coat. Well trimmed and
carefully made. The price
seems absurdly small-and the
more you see Of the Suits the
smaller the price seems. Some
Of them are in a Market street
window.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-09


Since Colonel Martins bill to "regu.
Iate" the Wilmington markets by the
virtual exclusion of Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania and Maryland produce, is doomed,
We had begun to think that there might
be some opportunity for the doughty
warrior to weld his battle-ax in the re-
pulsion of foreign invaders in another
possible quarter of Uncle SANS posses
sions-to wit, on the sea-girt coasts of
the Hawaiian Islands. But the news
comes now that nobody is going to in
wade that paradise Of the Pacific" that
the envious Britishers are not even con.
templating sending boat to Honolulu,
and that there is disposition on the
part Of the Gladstone government to
accept TRANQUILITY American protection
for English subjects and property in
Hawaii during the present crisis. Prob
ably this is as far as the American peo-
pie will wish to 60 in this quarter--the
assertion of such protectorate as shall
ensure the integrity of our treaty proyi-
,sions with Hawaii, to wit free trade
tiwith these islands, coaling station,
sand no interference by other nations in
Their domestic affairs.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-09
UNITED STATES OK SOrHIAG.
The Cry of Hawaii Il lor Annexation to
This Country.

ONtHN, NEE, Feb. Mir. Logan A
ThurStnn, chairman of the Hawaiian
Commissioners. who arrived here last
night, on his way to Washington, gave
some additional particulars in regard to
the revolution before leaving this morning.
when asked" lie said IF wc wuuli
support the cabinet against the queen, wc
got together names OF all willing to do SO
and who had rifles. We did not know
who possessed weapons. The response was
unanimous. The feeling was general that
ii there was to be Il change of government
it must be the United states or nothing,
and not Il man would have answered the
appeal to arms if he had thought that it
was not be the United States. The idea
that the cry of annexation is in the interest
of sugar men is wrong. The great fault of
the queen was that She did not wish to
reign as a constitutional monarch. She
was interested in the cry 'Iiawaii for the
lIawaiians The Europeans and the
Americans pay nearly all the taxes and do
not propose that the natives shall have the
spending Of the money!
ION what terms do you wish to be an
nexed to the United States?i
THAT has not been definitely settled
We would not expect to come in rs ii state.
and it is probatle we should ask to come
III ms territory
would you wish resident OF Honolulu
to be appointed governor"
That is the general wish There arc
about 1900 inhabitants Of the island aud
of these $4,000 are natives, about 1000
Europeans aud Americans, 1900 Chinese
10000 Japanese and the rest Polynesilns
While we do not wish to deprive the
natives Of the right to vote, there is no
doubt that a large number of them are in
capable Of using the franchise. The Chi
nese and Japanese are not citizens and
| could not vote"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-09

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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-09


Our morning contemporary, in dis
cussing the probability of an attempt on
the part of the Legislature TO revoke
the charter Of the Wilmington City
Railway Company, quotes legal opinion
to the effect that the Legislature pos
scsses the power of revocation in this
case, and assumes that IF majority Of
the members think proper to revoke the
charter it can be done and no law can
hold them TO account for thinking or
acting as they think" With equal pro-
pricty our ncighbor might 60 further
and declare that the Legislature can
enact law recalling Minister Sperry
from Persia and making him President
of the United States; or that it can pass
a law making the Fourth of July occur
ON some date between Christmas and
New Years. 1t might pass such
measures, but what effect would they
they have?
No legal proposition is more clearly
defined, or sustained so universally by
the courts, as the one that charter is a
contract between the state and the
parties with whom it covenants, which
cannot be set aside at pleasure unless
the power of revocation is especially re-
served by the Legislature in granting
the charter. The State deliberately
entered into this contract with the Will.
mington City Railway Company, and
under this contract the company built
up and operates the splendid system
that it to-day controls. Any attempt
by the State to annul this contract now
would be set aside by the Supreme
Court OF the United States, if, indeed, it
were not estopped by the State courts
without recourse to the highest tribunal.
The State can make laws for the regua-
ton OF the company's concerns, pro.
vided such laws do not conflict with its
chartered rights. but it cannot now take
away any Of the privileges that were
deliberately conferred at the time the
charter was granted. Upon this point
there is absolutely no room for dispute
"There will be no overt action agains
the admission OF Arizona to statehood
with the other territories, so far as thu
Senate is concerned" says Bradstrcct's
That much has been settled by the &C
ton Of the caucus Of the majority ii
the Senate this week, which reversed it
recent action in this particular. Til
feeling appears to have grown amon4
the Senators that an injustice would DC
done Arizona if it We're not given al
equal chance with the other territorie
mentioned. Some members from tn
northwest have been energetically pre-
; senting this view, and they have pre-
.. vailed, at least so far as preventing opet
, antagouism to the admission Of tina
territory is concerned. There is som
. | doubt, however, as to whether this az
! ton Of the caucus will be enthusiast
; Gully supported in the Senate, it beln
,, thought tina. some members will thro,
! obstacles in the way Of considering til
matter when it comes up, while other
who are opposed to it are satisfied tn,
/, the session ia SO far advanced TINT
! cannot be reached.
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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-09
WILMINGTON. THURSDAY. FEn. ..


The decisiveness of the vote by which
the United States Senate, Monday, re-
fused to consider tho bill to repeal the
Sherman Silver Purchase act Of 1890, is
proof positive that nothing will be done
at the present session of Congress to re-
lieve the business interests of the coun-
try of the evils daily threatening them
by this mischievous measure. 1t has
also resulted in plainly showing the
hand of the Republican Senators, who,
after passing Free Silver bill which
was defeated by a Democratic House of
Representatives, are now determined
that the entire question of silver legisla-
ton shall go over to be settled by the
Democratic Congress and Democratic
administration that will come into
power after March 4th.
One thing demonstrated by ycster-
days vote on Senator Hills motion to
consider the repeating measure is the
wretched insipcerity OF the Republican
Senators and the falsity Of Senator Sher-
mans declaration that if ten Democratic
Senators could be found to vote for the
repeal of his Silver Purchase bill, the
Republicans would furnish votes enough
so secure the passage OF the measure.
Monday, twelve Democrats voted to
take up the repeating bill, and several
others Qncluding Senator Gray of this
State) were paired, but would have
in uflt va aI Nln, zf7.i
at all. Only eleven Republican Scna-
tors voted in the affirmative. The mega
tive vote was made up of twenty Demo-
Gratis and twenty-five Republicans.
The vote in its entirety is an amazing
instance of how Senator'S Of both parties
can tritle with the business interests Of
the whole country from considerations
of mere party expediency, The demand
for the repeal of the Sherman act is
emphatic and unmistalSable,a and the enor
nous shipments Of gold from this coun
try are daily evidences Of the mischief
it is working. Yet Senators vote agains
their real convictions for the mere petit,
purposes of counting favor with the sill
yer interests on the one side, and o
making little political capital at tn,
expense of the Democratic party on tn
other. Mondays vote is hardly rea
test of the sentiment Of the Senate upoi
the question of putting stop to tn
ruinous purchases Of silver under tn
Sherman bill, but it is evidence of tn
fact that Senators of the United State
cannot rise above petty partisan consid
erations, even when public interests G
the gravest import are at stake.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-09

WAsmNGToN, Feb. 4.-The first in.
teryiew between Secretary of State John
W. Foster and the Hawaiian commits
sionerG was held in the diplomatic par
lors of the state department this morn
ing, between 10 and II o'clock, and
lasted half III hour. There were pre-.
sent Secretary Foster and Solicitor
Partridge,represcnting the United States,
and Mcssrs. Thurston, Wilder, Castle,
Marsden and Garter, the Hawaiian com
missioners; Mr., Kinney of salt Lake
City, who is with them a. adviser, and
DR. Mpttsmith, the Hawaiian minister,
the latter of whom made the introduce.
ton.
Mr.. Thurston presented their creden.
tials from President Dole Of the proyi-
sional government, and supplemented
them with u buef statement of the
events on the island which were the
cause of their visit
Secretary Foster responded in few
words Of welcome, stating that the rca-
son for the occasion was well known TO
the people Of the United States.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-09

Wilmington NJ. Z. Conference will be in.
Vited TO meet at Smyrna next year.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-09

CHICAGO, ILL, Feb. 4 colonel Volney
C.Ashford, eX-commanier of the Hawaiian
forces, is in this city. He is of the opinion
the United States must either annex the
Sandwich Islands or let them alone. A
protectOrate, lie declares, will he so dis
tasteful to the Hawaiians that they would,
in all probability, prefer an independent
republic. or oven u return to the govern
ment Of the deposed queen
ut is either annexation or nothing" he
declared. ut almost sets me Wild" he said
last night, ITO see the United States take
this thing so calmly. If She does not annex
the Sandwich Islands nOw--and she must
annex them or let them alone-shG will
never get them until they come to her as
the result of war with the power which
may secure them. | have seen il strongly
questioned whether the gentlemen who
are representing the provisional govern
menJ at Washington represent the people
that is a majority of the people-and can
most cmphatically say that they do
ut has been reported that the British
inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands arc
more anxious that the Americans, and
that therefore British influence is above
par there. That is very great mistake.
The Americans are the most numerous
and the desire of liritisherS for aunexa.
ton to the British empire amounts COM
paratiyely to nothing. Even the British
residents realize that the commercial pros
perity of the islands lies in annexation to
the United States.
MIR. Marsden, one Of the agents repre-
senting the provisional government at
Washington, is British subject. He and
| have often argued the question of an
nexation, lie against, and ! for il. He
realizes now that unless the islands are
annexed to this country their prosperity is
gone, and he has gone 10 do what he can
To save them from the utter ruin which
stares them in the face That does not
look AS if British rule was desired there.
| cannot believe that Great Britain will file
any protest against the annexation Of the
islands by the United states. She does
not care enough about them at the present
time to make any trouble. II the United
states does not accept the Sandwich
Islands She will make the greatest mistake
Of her history. They are hers by every
right, and she should take thcm.n
The story that Claus Sprerkes was be-
hind the movement was ridiculel by
lalpupl A sh ford
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-02-09
Women'S Wraps and Goats.

Winter weights-Summer
prices. If you have use for
such a garment these are
worth looking after-even for
next year. Some are of the
creamiest of this seasons out
put.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-02
Your Money or Your Life i'

Such demand, at the month of ssix-shoot.
er, sets a man thinking pretty lively With a
little III re thinking, there would be less suffer.
ing.
Think OF the terrible re,u'ts Of neglected con-
sumption! which might easily be averted by the
timely use of Natures Great Spec c, DR.. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery.
Consumption, which is Lung scrofula, is a con-
sttntional disease, and requires just such a thor
ough and eff ctual constitutional remedy! Taken
in time, before the lung tissues are wasted. 1t is
guaranteed radical cure! Equally certain in
all scrofulous affections and blood disorders.
Large bottles, one dollar, of any druggist.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-02
Stating the Cause.

The Chicago Tribune. at once the
leading and ablest republican paper
in the country, still refuses to charge
the democratic party with bringing
on the panic. I'VE have had saws
the Tribune, in reply to Senator
White Of California, lin the last few
months semi-panic in business. with
a terrible financial stringencv. which
was clearly and manifestly due to
fear growing out of continued pur-
chases of silver under the Sherman
law without any buying of gold with
which to sustain the parity of the
two metals. We see general agree
ment among the business men of the
tnitCc States that the purchasing
clause of the Sherman law is charge
able with causing the panic. and
therefore ought to he repealed. And
this majOrity includes about all the
intelligent people to the country eN-
cept few silver mine owners who
are deluded with the idea that free
coinage would raise the price of sill
yer and thereby increase the mining
profits
The Tribune might have gone fur
Their and instanced the financial and
industrial revival that at once fol-
lowed the action of the lower branch
OF congress in stopping free coinage.
business men at once took confidence,
and had the senate done likewise the
revival would have been general.
This indicates conclusivelv enough
that business men attribute the
stringency, simply and solely, to the
Sherman bill.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-02
Literary.

The October number of Mcclure
magazine opens with paper by Rob
ert p. Porter, on that incompatible
wit, orator and United Statesman.
Thomas Il. Reed, of Maine. and the
country at large. The ohakespear-
can face and head of Mr.. Reed con-
front you rs frontispiece. You see
him here, in 1860, at graduation
time; in 1864, on entering the navy;
on the 18th of July, 1898; and AT a
Window i'll Portland" day fore yes
terday. After YOU look at that last.
even j. NJ. Barrie and his Window
ir Thrums" will dropto second place
in your affections. Mr.. Porter has
written of Mr.. Reed in a straight.
English sort of way, that goes right
to the spot He tells us many hith-
ertO unknown interesting things of
Mr.. Reed. among them that "The
Fear of Death" was the subject of Mr.
Reeds first Grafton. 80 years ago.
Mr.. Reed is a great novel reader. Mr..
Porter tells us, and while Thomas
Reed loves Thackery he thinks
Charles Reade 1.-the best story-teller
that ever wrote English" Mr..
Reed has earned the right to indulge
in the luxury of such an opinion as
that. But Balzac he places above all
the writers of fiction. Balzac is the
Maine catapult's intellectual brother.
And, strange to say, Balzac and Reed
look wonderfully alike-and they are
both master men. The pictures
which accompany it show Reeds
House" the ''Pentagon Club, -
"'Reed's Birthplace" Library"
"Favorite Room" and a Portland
View" from the roof of Mr.. Reeds
house. This article is followed by
the immensely popular Human Doc
uments," in which we have, besides
MIR. Reed, four photos of Frances f.
Willard, from back of 1859 down to
1898; Edgar Wilson Nye ("Bill0,
from 1870 to 1898, which are bound
TO astonish you, for it is hardly pos
sible to believe the Bill Nye of 1870
and 1873 is the same whom we know.
Think of Nye with full beard!
Then come seven photos of that true
prose poet, George w. Cable, from
the age of 9. 1858, down to 1892.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-10-02
YOUR HEARING.
Is it Gradually Growing Duller9-
Catarrh Causes it-Stop
it Now.

Mr.. Peterson's case illustrates the
danger of allowing these troubles to
run on, and should be carefully read
by everyone.
A very large per cent of these eases
of deafness and roaring noises is due
to the extension of catarrh to the
eustachian tubes and inner ears.
Many of the most remarkable cures
that have been accomplished by the
physicians of the Scott Medical In
stitute have been in the restoration
of hearing lost or dulled from ca
tarrhal extension. 1t is folly to wait
for trouble like this to get well it.
self. 1t don't get well, but always
gets worse, until frequently the hear
ing is entirely destroyed. A thor
ough course of treatment with ca
pable specialist, who goes right at
the cause of the trouble and removes
it, is the only hope.
DR.. Wilson and his medical assoc
ciates cure all cases of deafness
caused by catarrh.
Deafness and Ringing Noises