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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-11
WILL ENFORCE BYLAWS.
Insurance Agents Notified Again.
New ''Fire Report"

President Eaton, on being elected to
the head office of the board Of under
writer's Of St Paul, gave notice at the
annual meeting that the bylaws of the
beard would be enforced. For the ben
eft Of the members who were not pres
ent at the time, Secretary Hart has is
sued q notice officially calling attention
to the presidents declaration.
The st. Paul Fire Insurance patrol
has begun the issuance Of a daily fire re-
port of the fires areof sufficient frequen-
cy to necessitate their being issued
daily. The instructions are:
The aim of the fire report" will be to
give to the insurance agents Of this city a
concise statement of all fires occurring in the
twenty-four hours preceding it's Issue. The
terms used in explaining the estimated loss
follows:
Total indicates loss between 10 and 100
per cent.
Heavy" indicates loss between so and 10
per cent
considerable" indicates loss between %
and 80 per cent
Loss small indicates loss between 10 and
25 per cent.
These estimates are made without regard to
amount of insurance involved.
An interrogation mark ~ after the sup
posed cause of a fire will indicate that the
Superintendent may be able to give informa-
ton that would be of interest to the agent
placing the insurance.
AS It is OF vital importance that the FIRE
report be issued at as early hour as possible
agents having information in regard TO fires
will find 1t to their interest to call this Office
by telephone.
Following is sample Of the reports made;
1888 a. m, Monday.-Fire in one-story
brick, 1874 and 1876 East Fourth street, owned
by C. z. Dickerman. Insurance
North British and Mercantile 49,. $500 90
London Assurance .......-...-......1.e 900 90
Loss trihing. Occupied by Reber & Meyers
as a saloon and restaurant No loss. Cause
detective cooking range foundation. Patrol
on duty twenty minutes.
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LET THEM GROW AWHILE.

N. o. Murphy, now delegate from Ar
iona. and its secretary Of state and
acting governor, when Mr.. Prince held
the commission as governor, says that
there is neither sense nor fairness"
IN excluding his territory and that Of
New Mexico from statehood, That is
merely matter of opinion and loca-
ton. Probably "Oakes," as Is the name
ne was known by in his boyhood, and
other ambitious Arizonians, really think
So But aside from these, and espe-
cfally In the older states, there is an
opinion that there Is neither sense nor
fairness IN admitting them; and that,
In fact, there has been quite too much
free coinage Of states In the last eight
years. We are inclined to think that
Republicans now doubt their sagacity
In rushing the later new states into the
Union, and that, as political trick,
1T did not pay.
The senate Of the United States Is not
now SO generally esteemed as wise
and conservative body, nor Is there
SUCH complete confidence in 1t that its
enlargement by the kind Of timber
these two territories would send to 1t
would be thought desirable. Arizona
and New Mexico might do better than
the states recently admitted, but the
presumptions are all against them.
Then the feeling is growing that there
is something absurd in giving to Ne
vada equal power with New York in
the government; that $4,000 people of
one state in a republic should not have
the same weight as million others in
another state, and that the theory on
which the senate was based has not
worked out so satisfactorily in prac-
tice that its incapacity should be in
creased. Mr.. Murphy may as well save
his energies for some other effort. Ar
iona and New Mexico are safer as ter
ritories than they would be as states.
Perhaps the best thing that could be
done would be to cut them up and
annex the pieces to Colorado, Utah and
Nevada,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-11
SOMEBODY'S MISTAKE.
Methodist Ministers Placed in an
Embarrassing Position,

The Methodist Ministers Association
Of st. Paul, met yesterday afternoon,
and entertained as its guests, the
Methodist ministers of Minneapolis,
but an incident occurred In connection
with the meeting which, aside from dis
concerning the guests Of the occasion
placed their hosts, the st. Paul min
listers, in a most embarrassing position
and caused them to feel uncomfortable
throughout the afternoon.
According to the understanding of
committee of the st. Paul ministers
the Commercial club rooms had been
rendered the association for the re-
ception and entertainment of their
guests Of yesterday, but when the en-
tire company had assembled at the
Commercial club shortly after o'clock
yesterday, the reception rooms were
found occupied by members of the
club who were gathered about the
parlors in groups, smoking and con-
versing, with no intimatiOn that a
company of divines was expecting the
exclusive use of the rooms.
Secretary McGinnis, by whose invi-
tation the ministers supposed they
were present, is out of the city, and
so after informally discussing the sit
uation several of the reverend gentle
men are said to have gone to the as
sistant secretary, who was in charge,
the impression that the rooms were to
be at their disposal. The assistant
secretary, however. didn't care to in
terfere so the reverend gentlemen ad-
journed in a body to the Y NJ. @. A.
rooms in the New York Life Insurance
building, where business of the meet
ing was transacted in the most pleas
ant manner, though a feeling of dis
pleasure regarding the Commercial
club episode was not altogether absent.
Dr. Chaffee presiding elder of the
Minneapolis district, read an interest
ing paper upon The Needs to Be
Presented at the Next General Con-
ference" following which, was a gen.
eral discussion upon the recommended
lions of the paper. The only other
matter of business to come before the
meeting was the mass meeting to be
held at the First Baptist church,
Thursday, to discuss gambling in st.
Paul Every Methodist minister was
urged to attend the proposed meeting
and lend his energies to the suppress
sion of the gambling evil in the city.
After the business session, the com
pany repaired to the Temperance
Coffee house, on Fourth street, near
Jackson, where dinner was served, dur
ing the course of which sociability and
good cheer reached it's height.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-11

narrowing the outlet of Lake Huron or
in throwing a dam across it, than to
continue the effort to keep, by dredg-
ing, the depth of water in the harbors
proportional to the shrinkage in the
level of the lakes. That this might
inure to the benefit of Chicago and fur
nish ample water for flushing her sewer
is, While an unavoidable incident, a
matter Of secondary Importance, and
should not be permitted to influence
either opinion or action. For general
discussion it is merely matter Of
dollars, and the relative cheapness of
the two methods OF preserving and i'm
proving our great lake commerce. If
Chicago papers choose to connect their
drainage canal with the projects, it
cannot be avoided; but it would seem
as If ordinary sagacity of the average
Chicago quality, would suggest the dis
connection Of "a discussion of deeper
waterways from the main sewer Of
that city
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-11

VINO had charges to lodge against the
Judge OF probate ascertained that Mr..
west had no authority to subpoena wit
nesses or to administer oaths they pro-
ncunced the alleged investigation a
Mnltewash and refused to have any
LING 70 90 with it. While Mr.. West
was IN Crookston he and Judge Benson
were together frequently. and apparent
~ on very social and friendly terms
complaint was made that no sooner
mao change been proposed tn the ex-
dIliner tfan 1t came 10 the knowledge
oI the PROBATE judge, and that official
forthwith set about settling thai mar
ticular grievance.
The aggrieved parties are said IN have
been making preparations for the nos
sihle withdrawing, and to that end
have been accommodating evidence to be
used in subStantiation Of a new set of
charges against Judge Benson still
more serious than those already adj
vanced.
Another peculiar transaction which
IS charged UP against Judge Benson
IS in connection with ;ha collection Of
note Of $3.50, which it is said that he
failed to collect, although he surrender
ed the securities in return for decd
to an individual interest in a certain
tract of land. It appears that Mrs.
Schraeder was appointed guardian for
her husband, Edward D. Schra e1cr,
under the 'Spendrhift' statute. At the
time she was appointed guardian there
came into her possession note for $3.50
signed by Henry Castle and secured
by chattel mortgage on q quantity
of grain and some horses. The note
was due on Nov. !, LBS, and was left
with Judge Benson 70" cole ten at his
request Subsequently the grain was
sold through one Silver, who claimed
that he had not received the money
from the commission house to which
the grain was consigned. Castle, the
mortgagor,. claimed the money for the
grain for the purpose of satisfying the
note and mortgage held by Mrs.
Schraeder. No money was paid TO
Mrs. Schroeder, but Judge Benson ten
dered her an unrecorded deed for an
individual Interest in a part of the
toWnsite of Bernidji, in Beltrami coun-
ty. 1t appears that Benson had taken
this deed as security when he delivered
UP the mortgage and notes. Mrs.
Schraeder claims that she did not au-
thoriZe the delivery of the note and
mortgage except upon payment of cash,
and refused to ratify and has not rati-
fed the transaction. When Mrs.
Schaeder was rendered the deed she
demanded the payment of the cash or
the return of the note and mortgage,
and it was then that she discovered
that her security was gone. The rec
ords of City Clerk Lanctol, of Crooks
ton, show that the mortgage has been
satisfied, so Mrs. Schaeder may have
to choose between accepting the deed
or nothing at all.
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SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED.

It is not creditable to our government
that this country should be one OF only
four that did not participate in tba
celebration Of the establishment Of the
present Hawaiian government, on the
ground that it was not formally recoc-
nized by the powers. The response Of
Mr. Willis to the invitation ef the Ha-
Faiian authorities was simply that he
would lay the matter before Mr. OIney.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-11
Free silver Democrat Talks.

To the Editor Of the Globe.
l notice in the G o of the 9Th inst
q communication from J. L. Macdonald
I suppose this Is Hon. j. L. Macdonald,
formerly Of Shakopee. He has many
friends throughout the state among
Democrats and has always been con-
sidered honest and Of some intelligence.
Your arraignment Of him in your edi-
tCrial will cost the Democratic party
of. Minnesota many votes. Since my
boyhood have been a Democrat, and
am one today. To see the party going
to the dogs, as 1t appears to be doing,
is displeasing. A free trader, to see my
party indorse high protective tariff, was
bad enough. Again, l see them conniv-
Ing with the money changers Of the
world to fasten upon our people per-
nicious system Of money. 1 do not ad-
vCcate free coinage; do not think it ex-
pedient, neither do 1 think the present
course expedient.
AS between the two interests, gold or
evil and productive Of less calamity.
The Democratic party, it seems to me,
is like the boy who yoked himself with
steer. If we could only manage to tie
the Republican party to the animals
tail and send him galloping to hades,
there would be reason for great rejoic-
ing. You say that the amount Of cur
rency provided 1t be OF lace Value) has
no influence upon the prices. 1t Is one
thing to say a thing, and another to
prove it. I shall be very much interest
ed in the argument. My teaching has
always been that when money was
scarce things were offered cheap, when
money was plenty every one held for
a better price.
Perhaps I am misinformed I believe
there could be too much currency, but
fQo 1af will 70
pass. also believe there can be too
little currency, and am very much
afraid that is the case at present and
will become worse.
George H. C1aggett
Montevideo, Mimi, Feb. T. 1896.
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out the Intervention of any money at

out the Intervention Of any money at
all. The aggregate is something like
eight times the total amount of gold
and silver estimated to exist today in
the known world. Now, is it not absurd
to talk Of money volume regulating
prices, when this country, with an
entire circulation Of say $4,000. 100000,
carries on business passing through the
banks alone, to say nothing of all the
cash transactions, of from $50,000,-
100000 to $4,000, 100000 a year? Is it not
useless to worry SO much about national
currency contraction and expansion
when the volume Of the circulating
medium consisting of checks and drafts
varies by as much as $500 100000 from
one year to another?
We think it probable that the world
has suffered by the exclusion of silver
from free use as a money metal on
terms of equality with gold. We be-
lieve that that was a bad policy; and,
since there Is a relation between prices
in the whole world and money volume
in the whole world, although not nearly
as intimate or controlling as our CORE
spondent supposes, that this action
Of the different governments has had
an unfavorable effect upon prices. 1t
does not lie, however, within the power
Of any one nation to correct the mis-
take. It is our part and our duty to
labor increasingly for such action by
the different countries as will consti-
tute a remedy. 1t is as impossible for
us, unaided, to force a different stand
ard or basis Of values upon the rest of
the world, or to make 1t actually oper-
alive here, as it would be for us to
compel them all to adopt the Repub-
ican system Of government. While
we could enact free coinage Of silver
for ourselves. all prices expressed in
silver would be reduced instantly to
the gold standard, because that is the
one that the world has agreed to use.
The principal effect, that we can see,
would be to double the value
Of all the gold held by bankers and
capitalists. and to cut IN TWO the saw
ings of depositors and the wages Of
labor; because 1t would be lawful to
offer to these people coin which now
passes for a dollar because it can be
exchanged for any other dollar, but OF
which, under these circumstances, 1t
would require two to purchase a gold
dollar
These points that we have dealt with
briefly are not theories, but matters Of
fact, about which there should be no
question or difference of opinion. There
can be too much circulating medium
and there can be too little. But metallic
money Is numerically small part Of
it. Each condition will continue to pre-
vail ait times, to the detriment Of our
people, until the volume Of currency Is
made responsive to the demands Of
trade, by taking away from the govern
ment the power to issue or retire it at
pleasure and making 1t, like other
commodities. the creature Of CONNER
cial demand and supply.
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WITH INTENT TO AMUSE.

Motto for Republican America: "Mon Roe
est Mon Roi. Punch.
Doctor-Didn't 1 tell you not to tax your
brain? Literary Patient-I'm not I'm only
writing for one of the high-class magazines
Philadelphia Record
Hotel Proprietor-Why did you let that coun-
tryman climb the stairs instead of taking the
elevator? Clerk-He'n be SO out of breath
that he can't blow out the gas.-Harper's
Bazaar.
For the life of me-" said the young man,
81 don't why a woman not born with
the same capacity for swallowing excuses that
she has for ice creami''-Indianapolis Journal
Crimsonbeak-What's the matter with young
Higgins? Yeast-I understand he has lost
his heart. "It that all? He makes as much
fuss If it were his collar buttonr"-Yonhers
Statesman
What do you object to in the case of the
baroness?" 'To be frank her past" "But 7
assure you her reputation is unspotted.'' 81
know that; only object to her past because
there is too much Of it."-Fliegende Batter
When friend once met Sydney Smith at
Brighton, where he had gone to reduce him
self by the use Of certain baths. he was struck
with the decrease Of Smiths size, and said
You are certainly thinner than when saw
YOU last" Yes replied the witty divine
Il have been here only ten days. but they
have scraped enough OF me already to make
curate. ''-Argonaut.
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It Is not necessary to tllresh over any
more old straw on the Hawaiian ques-
ton. We have to deal now only with
accomplished facts, and situation
that is established beyond likelihood Of
change. Whatever we may think Of the
methods by which the revolution in
Hawaii was promoted and brought to
a successful conclusion, and however
much we may be inclined to reprobate
the part played in that drama by
the United States under the admins
tration Of Mr.. Harrison, the fact is
maintained itself in power for the space
Of three years. If that does not con-
stitute a de facto government, and If
1t does not, in addition to that, make a
every other friendly power, we do not
know what would.
The existing government of Hawaii
Is just as much entitled to the cour-
tesy and complete acknowledgment Of
its validity by us as that of Brazil. It
looks like an obstinate adherence to
opinions which, although they may
once have been reasonable, are badly
out Of date, for us to cast any refec-
lions upon the government in Hawaii,
or to refuse to 1t as full and honorable
a recognition as we would grant to ex-
listing authorities in any other settled
state. 1t is time that this discriminae
ton were done away with; and the adj
ministration should see to it that there
are no more snubs given, on our part,
TO a government which, notwithstand-
ing its origin, Is certainly today COM
pletely established as the only one ex-
listing. or likely to exist in the imme-
date future, in the Sandwich islands.
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SALTWATER NEWS.
Funeral of Rev. HOfR-ResuIts i'm
Billiard Tourney.

In the Saltwater club billiard tournament
Laurence Hewitt defeated Albert Lehmicke
L. B. Castle and H. T. King defeated C. W.
Hitchcock, and w. E. Cowles defeated C. H.
Dawson.
from the Swedish Lutheran church yesterday
afternoon, the ediice being crowded with
friends Of the deceased, among them large
number Of clergymen from all parts Of the
state. The remains were shipped to Rock
ford, Ill, last evening in charge of sister
of the deceased.
Judge Williston arrived from Red Wing
yesterday, and will hold a special term Of
the district court here today.
Mark Dustin, a former well-known resident
Of Saltwater, now an inmate of the soldiers
home at Minnehaha, is very low with a can
Ger of the mouth and throat. and can live
but short time. being wholly unable to
take nourishment.
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THE LAKE LEVELS.

The chronic attitude Of Chicago to-
wards any public enterprise Of a ma
tional character is it's relation to and
effect upon the interests Of the city
Of Lake Michigan. In the opinion Of
the average Chicagoan, the universe
itself exists and was created primarily
as a scheme which should lead up in
its development to its grand culmina
ton in Chicago. Whether it be ma
tional convention, presidency, a
worlds exposition, railway construe-
ton, or restoration of lake levels, 1t is
all the same; and they are adjudged
to be good or bad, to be helped or
fought, as they bear on Chicago. At
the present time the waters Of Lakes
Michigan, Huron and Erie are lower
than ever before, and the i'm
mense commerce of these wat
ers Is seriously impeded For
some years the tendency has been to-
wards the construction of larger and
deeper draft vessels, with increased
carrying capacity, demanding deeper
waterways and harbors. Simultaneous
ly with this movement there comes a
Swallowing Of the waters Of the lakes
and their harbors and connecting
straits. At the same time Chicago
is endeavoring to rid herself Of the
general nastineSs Of her main sewer.
which she calls a river, by means Of
a drainage canal, which will flush the
sewer with the pure waters Of the lake
and carry the sewage into the Missis-
sippi river
All discussion of the various schemes
for raising and maintaining the level
Of the lake waters or OF providing
deeper waterways, by the Chicago
press, hinges on its drainage canal. If
it occurs to the denizens of the Windy
City that there are other interests to
be served by the raising of the water
level Of the lakes they discuss them in
a manner that shows that they regard
them as only ancillary to the drainage
canal. The arrogance of Chicago in
this and other matters has contributed
largely to the opposition to the drain
age canal, and detracted from the mer-
its Of the lake level and deep water
ways plans.
But there are interests at stake in
finitely larger and wider in their reach
than the local affairs of the city in the
mud. Lining the shores of Lakes Mich
igan and Huron are large number Of
enterprising cities and towns whose
present and future prosperity depends
on their lake commerce. In the years
past large sums have been spent by
the general government in the open
ing of their rivers to commerce by the
Millions Of dollars have gone into the
construction Of the piers of the harbers
and in dredging the entrances It is
estimated that for each foot of depth
thus obtained the government has spent
$1,500.000. This represents but a part,
the smaller one, that has been thus
spent; for the government limits the
use Of its money to the entrance; the
cost of deepening the interior harbor
having been borne by the municipal
tiles. Added to this must be the money
spent by private persons in docking
their harbor lots and in constructing
slips, together with the elevators and
other buildings constructed to facili-
tate the handling Of produce
The practical question, then, is wheth-
er it would not be more economical to
spend q few million dollars In either
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Sexton Positively Declines.

LONDON. Feb. 10.-Thomas Sexton has de-
clined the craftsmanship of the Irish National
Federation which rendered to him by
the council Of the federation at their quar-
terly meeting in Dublin on Sunday. Mr.. Sex
ton has written to Sir Thomas Esmonde chief
whip of the anti-Parnellte party, conveying
his deep regret that he Is unable to accept
the proffered honor, and expressing the con-
viction that no public advantage could be
gained by his acceptance, which, under the
present circumstances, would subject him to
a strain entirely beyond his strength.
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President StickneN Of the Great
Western, may not be a Democrat or
suspect himself of holding Democratic
ideas Of government, but when he
said to the business men Of Kansas
City recently, 81 say, let the govern
ment keep its hands off Of trade" he
gave expression to fundamental DEM
ocratic doctrine. Nor was he off DEM
ocratic ground when he further urged
that the government compel its Ii
censees, the railway companies, to
withdraw their paternal guardianship
and make fair, open and equal rates, so
that there can be fair competition be-
tween merchants The number Of I'M
conscious Democrats in this country is
very large.
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Baptist Ministers, Meeting.

The St. Paul Baptist ministers conference
met today IN the pastors study at the First
church. Rev. G. H. Gamble Of the Hebron
church. gave short discussion OF the How
ard charter indorsing it. believing its adop-
ton to be to the best interests Of the city.
Rev. c. e. Barker. of Hastings, followed with
a paper on "'The Principles OF the Baptist
Church" which was followed by discussion
by all present.