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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-14

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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-14


tbe time between submitting the aOpica"
tion and the approved Of the same ~ the
rveertive council They have iahcred I'M
dor the ip,nression that their SIMPLE state
ment OF their complaint should be SUI
fioient GEi have, therns6re, been NhpH-
tiert with what they regardei as uni'c's .
cory DELAY. They fail TO realize that we
nus. moi only possess the might. but tnat
we. ,,,,,st also be IN the rlg1t. Then, again
n Is pleasing. aud especially worthy or
yorr attention, that Of the apphcat'DhS
suhr-ittod fully one-thtrd were adJNs'cu
through the intervention of the American
Moderation OF Labor office without inc ne
oessity of placing the concerns upon o"'
unfeir list. am o.ro
- m Ths delegates VIII be entertained "hiie
b,re Thev will I've given bsrheale TO-
rcorrr,r night and an opossum suprer
Tb,,sd.v evening. on Wednesday II sh' a
p,see meeting in the interest o. Organizing
the clty Is TO be held and Friday evening
there will he music1l entertainment
Vice Presid- mt Mcclure preshtea 4, Wy
afternoon session. which was wei at.shu.u'
secreterv Morrison pres nted his leport,
.bcr'ire an increase In reeep.s OF '2lf9
nver tho previous year An extra amoahI
had been expended In organization ana
"a 9sn new members were enrolled pe
greatest item Of expense vas - - ''
organization and Of this $1,000 Aad been
used in sending organizers amope the ~
nars during the great strik' tXnsassf loT
wear we're sl9.113. The report staisi tlAs
The Federationist, the organ OF me Feae L
tiun. Ind been increased IN SIZE ~ an W. "a
ares.es sxnense. hut -a,eipts hed eYote.ed
ernrn6iturrs. During the year s16 strikes
Rad besn officially noticed. involving loo,,
4O7 workers Of these $50 we're won. ~
compromised and u lost.
Dnr'ng the yfsr I'll charters .sre lssnea
To National. State, local and ieeeisteo
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-09
Bryan's Mistaken Policy,

Aren't Bryan and his friends making
great mistake by continuing dis
cussion Of the silver question at this
time? 1t is nearly four years until the
next presidential election, and the peo-
pie can learn whole lot about silver
and the effect of cheap money upon
wages and savings in four years. They
learned much that Bryan didn't want
them to know during the four short
months Of the last campaign. 1t is no.
ticeable that in the states where the ques.
ton was most discussed tho majoEi.
ties against Bryan were heavy Or his
maiorities were unexpectedly small.
If the silverites will think Of the great
amount of work done in the states west
of Pennsylvania, east Of Colorado and
north of Tennessee and reflect upon tho
result of the election, they will, if they
are wise and want to win in 1900, con-
clude to drop educational work and to
proceed on some less dangerous line. If
Bryan and his friends would stop talk
ing about silver for three years, it would
be difficult for the "goldbugs" to get
people to listen to their convincing argu-
ments. If our hard times should unfor-
tunately continue, Bryan might step out
few days before the 1900 election and
say, II told you So" and majority Of
the voters, without having given the
matter much thought, might conclude
that perhaps the "crime of 1878" was
responsible for the lack Of prosperity.
But if they study the question for four
whole years they will be certain that
neither silver nor any kind of cheap
money ever brought prosperity to any
country, though they have often brought
hard times. The wage earners will un-
derstand that 16 to is an underhanded
scheme to lower wages and the farmers
that they cannot, by juggling with cheap
money, get any advantage Of the rest Of
the world in the matter of prices of farm
products. This educational work must
be stopped short, or the cause of free
silver is lost.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-09
The Question of Branch Banks.

If small national banks are to be en-
couraged in the more sparsely settled
portions Of the country, the question
arises whether they should be purely
local organizations Or branches Of the
great metropolitan banks. The old Unit
ed States bank had branches which, by
virtue Of their connection with large
central institution, had some advan-
tages over the local banks with which
they competed, but were in more than
one instance the objects Of adverse state
legislation. This spirit of local hostility
to bank located in another city, and
perhaps another state, left memories
which still survive and which account
In part for the opposition to branch
banks.
But the experience of England and
Scotland, Canada and Australia, is
strongly and uniformly in favor of large
central banks with many branches. The
banks of Canada are able to maintain
singular uniformity in the rates Of in
terest in tho great commercial centers
and in the remote agricultural regions
because the banks of Montreal and To-
ronto have their branches in Manitoba
and the Pacific region and can transfer
the surplus capital of ono locality to
meet the deficiency in another as it can
not be done by wholly independent
banks The conditions in Canada are
very much like those of the United
States, and the success Of the Canadian
banks in doing what we recognize the
Importance of having done is entitled to
great weight in our considerations. In
Scotland it is well known that the
branch system has greatly favored those
agricultural interests which in our own
country are SO much in need Of financial
accommodation.
The preponderance Of financial testi-
mony is decidedly in favor Of the branch
system, most Of the opposition to which
comes, or would come, from local finan-
cial interests, jealous of strong outside
competition. There is feeling of dis
trust Of all banks which is born of ig-
norance. It increases rapidly with the
increase Of banks capital and the ex-
tension Of its operations. which are sup
posed to prove the bank to bo a monop-
oly.-Iron Age.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-09
The Sound Money Propaganda.

The decision of the silver men to con.
tinuo their fight for the 80 cent dollar,
despite tho emphatic verdict Of the peo.
pie in November, is appropriately fol
lowed by the organization in New York
Of sound money league, which is to be
national in its character and in the
scope of its work. From this time on
till the next presidential election the
dissemination Of money facts and cor
rect views as to money is to be contin-
ued.
The most efficient agency Of the last
campaign was the sound currency com
mittee of the New York Reform club,
and its publications, each given to
some one phase of the currency ques-
ton, were invaluable to speakers and
writers. A sound basis for currency re-
form was thus laid in the minds of thou
sands who were cropping after the truth.
These publications, it is stated, are to
continue. An effort Is to be made to
widen the field of operations by class
of writings of more popular character.
In the south and west particularly hon-
est thinkers are to be supplied with ma
terial for progressive thought toward
sound conclusions on the money ques.
tion.
Much was done in six months Of
1895 to uproot the erroneous ideas
planted in five years of populist agita-
ton. Errors had fourished simply be-
cause they had not been confronted with
fact. Now monetary truth is to be as
systematically inculcated as fallacy was,
and the result cannot but be most
wholesome. Baltimore Sun.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-09
CAPTAIN HART SENTENCED.
Two Years imprisonment, $500 Fine and
Costs Of Prosecution.


Philadelphia, March 9.-Judge But
Ter, in the United States district court,
overruled the motion for a new trial
In the case Of John d. Hart, who was
convicted Of aiding in the sending of a
military expedition on the steamship
Laurada, to carry men and arms to
Cuba to help the insurgents to fight
the Spaniards, and sentenced Hart to
pay a fine of $500 ard costs and to two
years imprisonment in the Eastern
penitentiary. The costs of the prosecu-
tlon will amount to nearly $4,000. Cap
tain Hart was taken to prison immedi-
ately after the sentence was pro-
nounced
In sentencing the prisoner Judge
Butler said: II believe you have been
justly convicted after a most fair and
impartial trial The offense is a very
grave one. 1t involves national honor
and the national peace. You entered
upon it with your eyes wide open, with
full knowledge Of its gravity. You did
1t for the unworthy purpose of pecuni-
ary gain. You took the risk for the
price, and you must now bear the con-
sequences. l do not believe you belong
to the criminal classes, and I am sorry
I have to punish you"
Captain Hart is about 40 years of age
and has been in the fruit business for
nearly 20 years. Soon after the Cuban
Spanish war broke out he leased two
Of his steamers, the Laurada and Ber-
muda, to the Cubans for the Transport
tation of arms, ammunition and men to
Cuba. Some of the largest expeditions
that touched the shores of Cuba were
shipped OIL these vessels, and their de-
parture was due in a great measure
to the skillful manipulation of the
steamers by Captain Hart.
An appeal will probably be taken to
the United States court of appeals.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-09
SENATE COMMITTEES.
A Possible Combination Against
the Administration Party.
SOME OPPOSITION TO THE PLAN.
While Democrats, Silver Republicans and
Populists Could Work Harmoniousiy on
Silver, They Would Probably Split on
the Tarif.-The Appointed Senators.

Washington. March 9.-All parties in
the senate devoted considerable of their
time yesterday to the solution of the
problem involved in the filling of the
senate committees. The Republican
committee on the situation, appointed
as the result of Saturdays caucus, and
the Democratic steering committee,
both held meetings during the day The
Democrats decided upon nothing ex-
cept to call caucus for this afternoon.
The silver Republicans and Populists
also were In conference more or less
No definite conclusion was reached by
either organization, and none is prob
able on the part of the other parties
until after the Democrats decide upon
q line of action.
1t still looks as If the Democrats
would have no difficulty in making
coalition with the silver Republicans
and the Populists for the control of
the committees, but they are in doubt
whether such a combination would be
wise. They have been thinking over
the proposition, and many Of them
feel that while the combination could
be brought to work harmoniously on
silver, it is doubtful whether they
could agree upon a tariff policy There
are several intricate points which can-
not be satisfactorily adjusted quickly.
There is disposition manifested on
the part Of the more conservative
members of both the Republican and
Democratic ranks to allow the present
organization to stand. giving the
Democrats a slight increase over the
Republicans in the new committee ap-
pontments.
There has been more or less discus
sion also as to the admission of men
appointed by the governors in Ken
lucky, Florida and Oregon. Four
years ago Senator Pasco was admitted
on the appointment Of the governor of
Florida in an exactly similar case, and
1t is believed Mr.. Henderson will be
admitted without opposition on the
same precedent.
In the case of the other states II
will be claimed that they are in all re-
spects similar to the case of the Mon
tana, Washington and Wyoming cases,
three years ago. when the senators
were refused admission on the ap-
pointment of the governors. 1t is said,
however, that in the case Of Oregon
the failure Of the house to perfect its
organization may present a different
proposition. 1t is also claimed that
while the vote of three years ago was
a precedent, 1t did not settle the ques-
tion for all time, and that each senate
Is judge of the qualifications of the
members who seek admission
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-09

For the past few days there has been a
great deal of activity shown at the works
of the Maryland Steel Company at Spar
rows Point, and it 10 stated that the
works will start mp In full in all its de-.
partnents in u few months.
Furnace B. which has Just been fitted
up, will bel put into operation next Friday.
1t has not been in use since October 27,
1893. Furnace A OF the works has bUen
in operation since December last, and
work has already commenced on Furnace
c, which will be ready to start up in sixty
days. This furnace has not been in opera
ton since December 81; 1893, when 1t was
blown out. Furnace ID was banked Janu-
ary 16, 1894.
The closing of these furnaces threw
nearly four hundred men out of employ
ment, many Of whom left the town 1t
requires from eighty to one hundred men
to operate one Of the furnaces. and when
they are all in operation the company has
capacity OF producing l,2OO tons OF iron
daily.
The steel rail mill of the company Is also
being fitted up and will be ready for oper-
alton by May. 1t closed down January |,
ls9f 1t has capacity for making 1900
rails per day.
The starting up of the works will give
employment to over two thousand men.
These will mainly include former enl-
ployes. and very few, if any, now hands
will be employed.
A dispatch from New York paper
states that the Pennsylvania Steel Com
phny, which Is allied with the Maryland
Company, has booked u number of orders
for steel rails during the past week and all
departments Of the company are working
full time, with orders ahead for several
months. The ten per cent. reduction in
wages recently put into effect has been ac-
cepted gracefully by the men. who are
enabled, through the increased work, to
earn as much and in many cases moro
since the reduction than before.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-09

Mr.. William Jennings Bryan is going
about the country preaching the same
doctrine that he preached during the
campaign in which he figured as a NOM
inee for the presidency of the United
States. The activity of the free silver
forces is not to be winked at. They are
good and persistent fighters. They re-
alize the fact that new men are entering
into citizenship every year and that
some of them may be won over to their
side of the currency question. They pro-
pose to hold the ground they have and
to secure more If they can. The free sill
yer advocates should be met more than
half way in this fight that did not end
with the victory won by the sound
money forces last November. Trenton
Gazette
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-09

DOVER, March S.-Sitting rs commit
tee of the whole, the Constitutional Con-
yention to-day adopted three sections of
the report Of the Committee on Taxation
and Revenue. The sections provide that
all taxes shall be uniform upon the same
class of subjects within tho territorial
limits of the authority lovying the tax,
and shall bo levied and collected under
general laws, but the General Assembly
may, by general laws exempt from taxa
tiOn such property as, IN the opinion of
tho General Assembly, will best promote
the public interests.
All bills for raising revenue shall origi-
nate in the House of Representatives, but
tho Senate may propose alterations, and
no bill from which revenue is incidentally
raised shall be accounted u bill for raising
revenue Provision is made against the
Insertion Of ''riderS" to revenue bills.
Another section adopted provides that
no appropriation Of the public money
shall be made nor the bonds of he state
be issued or loaned nor shall the credit of
the state, by the guarantee or the indorsc-
ment of the bonds or other undertakings
OF any county, municipality or corpora.
Ion, be pledged otherwise than by enact
ment of the Legislature, receiving the
affirmative vote Of threefourtbs of all the
members elected 10 each branch thereof.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-09

Senator R. r. Kenney has appointed
Adjutant General Garrett j. Hart, his pri-
vato secretary which duties he will assume
at once. Mr.. Hart Is n member of the
firm Of Lichenstein and Hart which Is 60
ing out of business.
Arley Magcc, who has boon acting as the
Senator's secretary, will take charge CT
Mr. kenncy's law offices at Dover
Tho new secretary was born at Chester.
town, Md, in 1853 and camc to Whining.
ton when IS years of age and took POSI-
tiOn in n carpet store. He remained there
until 1859, when with Max Lichtcnstcin
they organized the present firm. General
Hart was charter member of Co c. n
&, D., and was later appointed adjutant
of the First Regiment. Ho resigned and
accepted the second l!outOnancy of his
company, which position he filled until
he resigned from the service, In 1887 he
was appointed inspector Of riff, practice
and In 1901 Governor Reynolds appointed
him adjutnnt- general AMI he rc.ip.
pointed by Governor WusoH IA
nell
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-09

wesley NJ. 4. Church held its fourth
quarterly conference last evening and
Samuel Coylc, james f, Adams, ], T..
Gross John E. Reed, Samuel Murphy, r.
c. Jones, James T. Crozcr, Miss Fannie
Coyle, Miss Mary Lamplugh and Mrs
Rebeccn McClain wero elected trustees.
The following committees were appointed:
Missions, ElwOod Fryer, Mrs. Belle
Murphy, Miss Louise Druessidore; church
extension. Samuel Coyie Y. 4. Gross, h.
9. Jones; Sunday school, u Il. Gross,
Elwood Fryer, Mrs. Belle Murphy; tracts,
the Hclping Hand Circle,
Temperance, U. l. Letherbury. Charles
Esley, Lewis Price; education, Samuel
Murphy, Roy Fryer; Freedman's aid, c.
Esloy, Clement Jones' James Adams;
chnrch records, T. r. Gross; parsonage
and furniture, Ladies' Aid Society; church
music, Roy Fryer, Miss Salle Coyle, Miss
Salie Manuel; estimating committee of
salary, the board of stewards.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-09

Chicago, March 9-An hour before
time for beginning work yesterday
there had been serious break in the
ranks of the employing plasterers' as
sociation, and two hours later the dis
affection had become so pronounced
that the men who were supposed to be
locked out were not only certain that
their troubles would soon be over but
the officers of their organizations were
confidently predicting the disruption of
the bosses organization. The cause Of
the break was the fact that several
contractors had signed the agreement
presented by the striking plasterers and
hod carriers. There are not more than
600 men altogether who are now af-
fected by the order of the employers
association which reduced wages.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-09
NEW CASTLE NEWS
Correspondence Of the REPUBLICAN,.
NEW CASTLE, March 0, 1897.

The Board of Education held meeting
last evening for the purpose of organiza
tion. On motion Of Mr.. Munlove, s. At
wood Stewart was chosen temporary
chairman. After the credentials of Thorn
as Frazer, Jr., Orion CarriCk and William
Deakyne, the three new members elected
on Saturday, they were sworn in by Mr.,
Stewart The Board then went into the
election of Psesident with the following
result: Mr.. Stewart 8, Mr.. Frazer /.
Mr.. Ecklos was reelected clerk.
The standing committees will be named
in few days.
Word was received nero last evening
that Max Gene was arrested In Balti-
more and that tho gold watch and some
money taken from Clarence Walkers
house was found in his possession.
Some members of the City Council have
been urged by New Castle people to have
the electric light pole at tho corner of
Third and Delaware avenue removed from
its present location. 1t is in dangerous
position and an accident is likely to hap
pen and then tho city will have to pay the
damages.
Announcement has been made of the
coming wedding of John Horner and Miss
May Philips daughter of conductor j. d.
Philips.
The 1rst car of the Wilmington and
New Castle Electric Railway went to
Wilmington yesterday. Later in the day
car took the school teachers OH o trip
over tho new bridge. When the bridge
was reached tho car came to stand still
and the pretty occupants alighted and
were photographed by Miss kast assist
ant principal
H. Colby, who had been here from Cro-
ton, N. Y, erecting the bridge kindly u.s.
sisted Miss Kast in photographng the
bridge, car and its beautiful occupants.
Albert Wiswcll has removed to the
house on Harmony street recently vacated
by James Turner.
George Rossell has taken possession Of
the house on Cherry street, recently pur.
chased by him.
Bishop Coleman will administer con.
firmation in Emmanuel Church on March
21.
The Willing Hand Helpers of the
Presbyterian Church on Saturday oven-
ing will give an ice cream social on Sat.
urday evening in Herman Hall.
$ Rev. J. d. G. Hanna last evening in the
NJ Il. Church, gave a phon0graph and
stereopticOn entertainments.
Jacob Frost, colorod, was released from
Jail this morning. He completed a SEN
tence of one month for committing an as
sault on the mate of the schooner Island
City while bound to Wilmington.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-09
PennsyIvania University's Needs.

Harrisburg, March 9.--Accompany-
ing the bill introduced in the legisla-
ture last night to appropriate $1,000, 900
to the University of Pennsylvania was
financial statement submitted by the
trustees of the university. The state
ment recltes that owing to the great
increase in the number of students,
those from Pennsylvania alone num-
bering more than 1000, the university
needs the help Of the legislature. Dur
ing the last fiscal year the total Of
tuition fees received from students
ives $2Ss,76l.94, whereas the total pay
ments in the same period in return for
these fees were nearly 100000. This
difference represents entirly private
contributions towards the higher edu-
cation of the state.
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-03-09
ADOPTS THE GOLD STAND
ARD.
After Four Years of Investigation Japan
Decides to Discard Silver.

DcChucS " DlSCuTu
On March 1 twas cabled from Yoke.
hama that Japan had decided to adopt
the gold standard at ratio of 82L tC
/, the new standard to go into operation
In October.
This act, on top Of many previous
ones, moves Japan completely out of the
ranks of the semi-civilized and into those
Of civilized and progressive nations. II
was not taken hastily, but after two
years. consideration Of an exhaustive re-
port made by the Japanese currency
commission, appointed in 1898.
This commission found that while
certain capitalists, especially those en-
ploying many laborers, were benefited
by the falling silver standard, the
wage oarners were injured from the
fact that their wages did not rise as
fast as did tho prices Of what they
had to buy. The report pointed out
what every rational trader ought to
know--that a silver standard country
can trade and compete with gold stand
ard countries only after paying the loss
on exchange in foreign trade. However,
as the greater part of Japans trade was
with China and India, the two countries
Of Asia still using the silver standard,
the disadvantage Oh this account was
not considered great
The silverites have lost with Japan
some Of their best capital. Of course
they will tell us how British gold"
was used to bribe the government into
betraying its people into the hands Of
the money power. They cannot, how
ever, much longer tell us that we are
unable to compete with Japan because
she uses the silver standard.
The truth is that Japan got tired Of
being second rate nation and of work.
ing with second rate tools, and, after
careful investigation, concluded to,get
rid of free coinage at ordinary ratios,
which drives gold out of the country as
fast as it can be coined and which re-
suits in the single silver standard, and
to adopt the gold standard at ratio
with silver which will permit the use of
both metals in her trade. 1t is wise
step. Japan is only one of four Or five
nations which have adopted the gold
standard during the last l8 months.