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wrote as follows to Mr.. RoBERrs, hen our
Minister in Spain:

ALTHOUGH this 10 proclamation by tho Governor
General OF Cuba threatening death 10 insurgents taken
prisoner with arms in their handsl n a measure
touching tho internal affairs of n country, which II
within the exclusive Jurisdiction Of the Government
OF that country, II seems TO DO of n character 30 inhu-
man and so much at variance with the practice OF
Christian and civilized States in modern times under
similar circumstances. that this Government regards
It as Its duty. merely AZ . friend of Spain. TO protest
and demonstrate against the Carrying It into effect"
The decision Of the Spanish Government
to treat Gen. RIVERA as q prisoner Of war is
of vital importance not only to RIVERA
himself, but also to every Cuban who has
drawn q machete in the cause Of Cuba. The
offence of the private ann be greater
than that OF his General, and II Gen. RIVERA
is entitled to be considered a prisoner Of
war, all who have followed him in the
cause of Cuba are entitled to the same
privilege.
More than this, there can be no prisoner
Of war unless there Is a war, and the Span
ish Government, in acknowledging RI
vERA's right to be tried as a prisoner Of
war, has acknowledged what they have so
long denied, that there Is a war. The ac-
acknowledgement 10 late, but better late than
never, for 1t In to the interest of all con-
cerned that this contest should be fought
out on the principles Of civilized warfare,
and not according to the code Of the bar
barian. Mr.. FISH declared IL the duty Of
this Government Al "a friend Of Spain to
protest against the execution of prisoners /;
and Mr.. SHERMAN has dono Spain an act
Of friendship in pe%rsuading her to accept
the modern law of war.
That there Is q war in Cuba all the world
knows except Spain no less a war because
q civil war. In the "Prize Cases." arising
out of our own civil war, and reported in III.
Black, p. 667, Justice GRIER, delivering the
opinion Of the Supreme Court, said this:
"A civil war is never solemnly declared; II becomes
suoh by its accidents, the number. power. and organi-
ration Of tho persons who originate and carry It on.
When tho party in rebellion occupy and hold in 4 hostile
manner q certain portion Of territory; have declared
their Independence, have cast on their allegiance,
have organized armies. have commenced hostilitics
against their former sovereign. the world scknowi-
edges them a. belliserents and tho contest az q war"
Judged by all these tests there is q war
In Cuba, and the insurgents are belliger-
ents. AS such they are entitled to all the
privileges Of belligerents. The United
States Government has been slow, very
slow, in according them these rights, much
slower than the people wished.
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oAPz. M,e11r1r WAS 4 BUDDHIST.
Diary OF the Naval Connander Who KnIo0
Himself Read ut the Inquest

Diary or the Naval Connanaer Who KILLED
Himself Read ut the Inquest
An inquest in the casefe Capt Philo Norton
McGifan. who committed suicide in the Post
Graduate Hospital on March IL. was held yes
terday by Coroner Fitzpatrick and . jury. Capt
McGifin was the commander Of the Chinese
battle ship Chen Yuen at the battle Of the Yalu.
He was badly wounded in the battle and never
recovered completely from his injuries He was
being treated at the Post-Graduate Hospital
when he committed suicide He hid Q revolver
in his room. and while the nurse was absent he
shot himself through the brain.
A diary kept by Capt. McGidin was the chief
evidence at the inquest Coroner Fitzpatrick
read extracts from this diary showing that
Capt McGifin had made up his mind to commit
suicide. He made a special request that NO
post-mortem examination be made on his body.
as he had had enough of scars through life. and
he also requested that his body be cremAtsd.
Part of the diary declared his belief in Bud.
dhism as follows:
IL wish it distinctly understood that I die BE-
lieving. as l have for years, in the principle and
scheme of Buddhism, not Of Christianity. /
cannot swallow the latter, and I have faith that
should / be wrong, God will not damn but save
me. since He made me. My environments arc
such that ! cannot consistently believe in
Christianity. Therefore i shall not say ! do:
and l do believe hat l shall either be re!ncar>
mated on my present step or . bit more This
belief ] wish to be made public"
Tn jury returned q verdict Of suicide
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WOMAN IN THE CONFERENCE
A Proposition to Admit Her Rr0vshes q
Lively Debate at Newark

A Proposition to Admit Her Provshes o
Lively Debate at Newark.
Tho eligibility Of women to seats In the Gen
eral Conference was debated in the hveliess
manner at the third days session OF the New
ark NJ. E. Conference in Centenary Church,
Newark, yesterday. The Rev. DR.. S. l. Bald
win of this city. Recording Secretary OF the
Missionary Society, began the debate He IA
vored TIE admission of women.
1T is tho old ground" said the Rev. S. d.
Jones of Hackensack in reply. 1T has been
hoed before and the gentleman preceding me
has failed to clear up the question from . his
torical standpoint. Historically. IL 10 very
much tangled. Woman Is. indeed, the strong
arm OF the church. and while We cannot carry
on tho work without women. j believe that
when it comes to a isTislatTe o0a' OF tins
at is better TO leave TO the men. TO the hus
bands and the fathers. the making OF the Laws:
1t Is contrary TO the very laws OF nature ana
10 the laws OF God to do otherwise: The Bie!e
amounted to anything has permitted women Q
voice In their legislatlon."
HOY about tho female Pope and Queen VIC,
toriA at the head OF he Churc. Of England
wh!sr-Tsd " deIeTsas 70 81, n. heiS HaS n,.,,ou.,y
been opposed to women's. eligibility: male q
spirited plea for their ad Paul had
changed his mind when he received . Iev"la-
tion, and he was like Panl In that he had re-
cate" said MIR. Boswell. ''is opposed to women's
admission. But this same paper opposed ms
admis ion of lay DELEGATES. yet they were 40.
mittsd. II opposed the Church's. anti-slavet5
movement. but without avail, and It's attituass
The debate went over. II may DO resun'oa
this morning.
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Our Citizens in Spanish Jails.

The debate between Mr.. MORGAN and Mr..
HALE in the Senate has had the result of
putting before the country some of the vio-
lations Of treaty and Of international law,
as we'll as some of the outrages on human
ity, which we lay to the charge of Spain.
The question as to how many Americans
still remain in Spanish dungeons does not
affect the number or character of these past
wrongs. Mr.. HALE finds that only q dozen
are left in Spanish clutches, but it is not dis.
puted that there have been scores, and the
very fact that judicial examination. shame
fully tardy In many cases, has so very gen.
orally resulted in the release of the victims,
suggests that their real misfortune was in
being Americans. This has subjected some
of them to suspicious which proved to be
~groundless, but yet shut them up days,
weeks or months In prison.
In some cases these citizens of ours nave
been kept incomunicado beyond the pre-
soribed seventy-two hours of Spanish law.
the excuse apparently being tho reign of
martial authority, although our treaty with
Spain expressly provides for the civil trial
Of Americans not taken with arms In their
banda 1t may further be said that only
the most persistent demands of our Govern
ment have brought out of their dungeons
some of those who have been released.
Senator MORGAN has done we'll to bring
such facts as these before the country.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
Money. Money. M~onsy-Better bicycle Streets
Wanted.

To THE EDITOR OF THE srS-Sir: I think It ia no
more than an outrage that while they arc night
ing about RiverHide Drive for bicycle riders We
should be overlooked and our rights ignored on the
east side and above the Harlem. They have all tho
roads they want on the west side and should not be too
hoggtsh. Now, take our case. for instance. The only
decent piece Of road for bicycle riding Is Willis avenue
from lstth street to 14sth street. and that has .
trolley line on II, and such avenues as Brook and ST.
AIMS and our mud hole, tho beautiful Southern
Boulevard. arc going to waste a. far a. being used IL
concerned.
Now. why can't they DO asphaited 80 they can be
used by the army OF bicycle riders that reside on the
east side? The Southern Boulevard and even West
chester road could he made q hne drive and bicycle
road. the same as Riverside Drive. We have nothing
like that over here; why not give us a show? We pay
as much taxes as they do on the west side and should
DO given the same treatment as the west siders receive
from the city. The condition OF the roads after a
storm is simply rotten. and II takes a week of good
weather TO put them In half way decent shape
again 40 they can be used for bicycle riding, ! don't
know where the fault lies or who is TO blame for this
state OF Affairs, but II IL an outrage on us taxpayers,
Il You would be so kind as TO publish this letter in
THE Sun. no doubt then somebody will take a hold OF
the matter and see that this evil Is remedied and that
we receive fair treatment. G.. LEONARD.
NEW YoRK. April T..
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and, secretly gave help to the insurgents,
Consul BoTAssI declares that nothing Is
further from the truth. Had the Athens
Government then encouraged the Cretan rev.
olutionists, things would not have come to
the dangerous point they have now reached.
As a matter OF fact, Greece, through her
Consuls at Canca and Heraklion, urged the
insurgents to stop the aggressive war, prom.
Using to use her influence with the great
powers to obtain from the Sultan the re.
forms desired. 1t was the butchery Of the
Christians at Canea which rendered the
position Of King GEORGE and his Cabinet
well.nigh untenable. The whole Greek
nation had risen like one man, clamoring
for armed Intervention in Crete; no human
power could stem the current of opinion.
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case by pluralities vastly exceeding tn
total of the Palmer vote:

The remaining States which went for
MCKINLEY arc Oregon, California, and
Kentucky. These were the closest States
In the list. McKINLET's plurality in Ore
gon was 2,04O, and Gen. PALMER's vote
OFT. II every indianapolis Democrat in
Oregon had voted for BRYAN, MCKINLEY
would nevertheless have gained the four
electoral votes Of that State by q plurality
exceeding 1000. In California the varying
votes given TO the respective electors on the
Republican ticket resulted in the choice Of
one Bryan man and eight Mckinley men.
The total Palmer vote was 1,730; the plu-
rality for the highest Mckinley elector
was 1897. We have not at hand the fig
ures for the other Mckinley electors in Cal
~ifornia, but let US assume that the trans
fer to the Bryan column Of the 1850
Palmer votes would have reversed the
result and given to BRYAN eight Of the
nine votes, instead Of one. In Ken
lucky the Palmer vote Of 6,114 exceeded
the Mckinley plurality Of 2S1. Here,
likewise, let us assume that the absence Of
an Indianapolis ticket would have given to
BRYAN for that State thirteen electoral
votes instead Of the single ono which he
got. Transferring, on the strength of this
extreme superstition, seven electoral votes
Of California from MCKINLEY to BRYAN,
and twelve electoral votes Of Kentucky, the
general result Of tho election would not
have been affected. The only change would
have been in the size Of Mr.. MCKINLEY's
electoral majority. Instead of an electoral
majority of 95, he would have had one of 81,
sufficiently conclusive and impressive for
all practical purposes.
How, then, does the Ne,o Fork Etening
Post justify it's positive statement that in
quitting up two excellent candidates for
President and Vice President," they, the
gold Democrats" meaning the indianapolis
contingent only, "by this means elected
MCKINLEY"9
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lRT NOTES.
a Portrait ~ CIR Soshun Rey.oids ana Other
Epgifsh works.

Epgifsh works.
= A collection Of pictures of the early English
school exhibited by J. ID. Ichenhauser Of London
may be seon during the present month ut tho
gallcry of Fishel, Adler g. Schwartz. corner n,
Fifth avenue and Thirty.ffth street. They ara
thirty-four in number, and though the catalogue
contains some welI.known names there ia not
much in the collection, apart from the "por.
trait of Earl Temple by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Of more than very ordinary interest. The nor.
trait Of Earl Temple is q largo canvas showing
the subject in full length. dressed in his peer,
robe of crimson and crmino. holding hi,
coronet In his hand and wearing hi,
collar and garter of the Order OF tho
Garter. st is in an excellent state Of pres.
o~rvation and is competently painted through.
out. A large landscape by William Col.
Inns, showing passing showers falling from a
very black cloud, Is not uninterestinR. and thero
are some features Of interest in the portraits Of
Mrs. Beauchamp Bush, by Sir Thomas Lawrence.
and Lady Catherine wyndham by Sir Godfrey
Kneller. Modcrn.looking and good In character
is a portrait by J. Knight, a former President OF
the Royal Academy which is a likeness OF Ed ward
Knight, the actor, who was the artists father.
There Is q fair example Of the landscape work OF
Richard Wilson, and among the canvases by
George Moreland and three In which the same
artist elaborated in painting with Rathbone
and James Ward. there In nothing that require,
Q second glance.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
The Mayor and One Of His Commits
%eiOners.

The Sun learned the day before yester.
day that his Honor Mayor STRONG had been
induced to tolerate the act of President
MCMILLAN in turning the Riverside foot
path into a bicycle track, on the representa-
tion that the change was merely an expert.
ment. As the head of the municipal govern
ment, and IL not responsible for the orderly
administration of all its departments, at
least concerned Herewith, the plea of
experiment" affords no ground m which
Col. STRONG can now refrain from express
ing himself to Mr.. MCMILLAN with all
possible emphasis.
Tho path In question 10 . footpath by
virtue Of q resolution of the Board of Park
Commissioners, and, therefore, It cannot
legally be devoted to other purposes while
that resolution remains unrescinded.
Under that resolution everybody or any
body Is entitled to protection In using the
path as a pedestrian, and to freedom from the
intrusion Of bicyclists. The law governing
the Park Commission. which Is as definite
and simple as that governing any commits
sion in which the Mayor sits in person, does
not permit Of many men or of one man being
deprived over night, at the within Of an
AohNhohs VI hANoSS ~
mally secured to the whole public.
AS Mayor of the city for moro than two
years, Col. STRONG must have learned to
understand and to respect the Importance
of faithfully observing an ordinance Of this
character, even IL the President Of the Park
Board has learned nothing Of the sort. The
sign admitting bicyclists to the path on
the Riverside Drive is q direct violation of
administrative order. The Mayor should
insist that 1t be taken down before night,
and that tho proper directions should be
given at once multiplying tho unwarranted
act Of Mr.. MCMILLAN.
Plans such as the latter desires can be
submitted to the consideration Of the Park
Board. They cannot be enforced by him
alone legally, or without bringing discredit
on the city's administration, and giving an
affront to the public.
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ooMsTooK sEIgBs MORE Boora
me FubishtpE Heuse OF G.. ". Dminrhan
Company Visited en- Saturday.

w AaS13o - - w. bIIuhHHAm
Company Visited en- Saturday.
While the decision in the case of Gabriel
D'Annunzio's book. Tho Triumph of Death"
was in allegiance, Anthony Comstock decided
that another firm Of publishers in this city was
guilty Of printing an immoral book. Last Sat
urday he walked into the Office Of the g.. W. Dill.
bingham Company, at IS West Twenty third
street, and asked for a copy of Mime. Telliers
Girls, translated from tho French Of Guy Do
Maupassant by Edwin Ellis. Comstock got .
copy of the book. and after paying for It he do.
manded to see the representative Of the com.
pany. John H. Cook, the President, was aston.
ished when he learned that the object of Com.
stocks visit was to seize all tho plates and cop.
les Of the book in the company 8 possession.
Comstock produced no warrant, nor legal papeS
authority which he assumes on these OCCASION"
Mr.. Cook protested that the book was not i'm
law in any manner. yet he decided to deliver u
the plates and books as demanded.
Comstock and ono Of his men carried OF 400
copies of the book with the plates. What Com
stock has done with them or whether he intends
TO take action against the company nobody bus
a at@seu the sn matter y Hs eefs.p0q ME- 70 COOK So{ reeintSsllaaitaesS
his statement. that the publication or sale Of the
II think Comstock's action was entirely I'm.
warranted in law or fac" said Mr.. Cool His
past actions show. I think. that he Is inoom-
pany has been established forty years, and We
have legal advice to the effect that there is moth.
ing in the book that can be construed as q viola
ton of the law.
There are three stories in the seized book.
Mime. Telliers Girls" from which 1t takes its
title, q TRANSLATION of e Ihdison Teller, is .
o otoTy S Of : M hoe'i fslIisr Of f fSgns s. ES%e ssse r eonsti
nation of a peasant girl who is related to one Of
them and are 30 impressed By tho ceremony
that they become penitent and resolve to aban-
don their mode Of life. They return to the city
with Nine. Teller, however. and soon relapse
into the old ways. The Inheritance" a trans
lation of L'Heritage. Is @ story of an unhappy
marriage and q will which left q large estate 10
riage. There was no heir until the husband
introduced q friend into his household Tho
false friend and the wife elope, taking all tho
lation of Boule de SuU, or the Butter Ball"
which deals with . fallen woman who 10 forced
to accept the advances Of q hated Prussian
onlcer IN order that her tTends may escape from
q besieged city. Tho friends are ungrateful
nfterward.
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A Chicago View OF an nu-E.pec.ora,,on Rule.

From the Chicago Daily Tribune.
Justice Kehoe yesterday refused 20 nne John Kas.
mack for eSpectorating on the floor in a Madison
street cable train on Sunday. Conductor Joseph
simons caused Kasnack's arrest and appeared to
prosecute him yesterday.
~ do not think l have a right to impose a nno on
this man. said Justice Kehoe. MY belief Il the law
10 unconstitutional. and that Commissioner Kerr had
no right to make . law which is punishable by 4 nne.
Commissioner Kerr was appointed to tho position OF
Commissioner OF Health. Even II the city Council
gave him tho privilege 10 make laws pertaining to tho
Health Department, the laws rs made by Mr., Kerr
would not be valid.
"EIpectorating upon the noors OF street cars and
other public places may or may not be deemed .
nuisance. It all depends upon circumstances. II this
man had been booked on u charge OF disorderly con
duct / certainly would have imposed a nne, but that
section Is to my mind invalid"
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The following significant letter belongs appro-
priately among the many signs Of general
disgust at tho indecent and rascally in jour
nalism. of which tho World 10 the shameless ox-
ponent in chief:
To THE EDIroR OF THE suN-Str: Some time last
fall there was published in THn suN an article on the
new journalism that, for viriiity and precise charac.
Irritation Of the conditions, exceiled anything I had
before or have since read on this subject. N was .
letter to tho editor. and Was signed H"
I wish-and 90 do hundreds Of othsrs-that you
would reprint that article. There IL much being said
at this time on this subject. but nothing. I believe.
that 90 completely meets the subject. Kindly repro.
duco Il. A. q. D.
NEW YoRx. April 2.
Tho letter referred to was printed In TIVE sur
Of Oct. 25. 1895. Since then the stream Of fresh
denunciations which has poured and IA still
pouring upon the disreputable newspaper
therein dealt with, Is too voluminous TO admit of
space for repeitions from the past 1t would
not be uninteresting. however, for the many
thousands who are now studying the phenome.
non of the rapidly developing Indignation and
hostility to this journalistic pest II NO repro
duce ono short passage:
This new journalism. which has developed In New
York TO the utter disgust Of every decent citizen. IL
only the natural outSrowth. or natural putrescence.
more properly. OF the methods the st. Louis Ishmael.
lite projected into newspaper circles when he took pos.
session Of the then moribund sheet that has in \ dozen
year, destroyed all Journalistic unitics. pandered to
the vicious of this community, outraged all sense OF
decency. and served as the educator for evil in it's
utter lack OF appreciation Of the morals OF tho public"
The letter from which this is taken, which fol-
lowed an original article OF THE Sun printed q
few days before, was one Of the first guns In the
crusade which promises to rid the metropolis Of
New York OF Fagin's organ. Tho World, in its
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-10
Political History-A Necessary Cor
reCtiOn.

SSNhoh
In an editorial article discussing the re-
lations of the Palmer and Buckner Dem
ocrats to the Mckinley Administration
and the future of American politics, the
Netu York Evening Post makes this un-
qualified assertion:
"The gold Democrats became, under these circum.
etances Hast summerl. little moro than an influence.
They did all that they could do. they organized what
was left Of their following. reasserted their principles.
put up two excellent candidateS for President and
Vice President. and bv this means elected MCKINLEY"
Ever since the defeat of BRYAN in No
vember last, the small but %loquacious fac
tion of sound-money Democrats who pre-
ferred their personal comfort to a direct
vote for MCKINLEY and HOBART, ave been
pretending that in some manne not def
nitely stated their votes helped to save the
election and the country. The p%retensions
of the indianapolis party are growing some
what holder as the event becomes more re-
mote. We do not remember, however, that
ANY one of their rgans has before now ven
tured to assert distinctly and squarely that
the election of MCKINLEY and the defeat
Of BRYAN were due to the nomination of
Gen. PALMER and Gen. BUoKNER, and to
lu0 1OZ,of1 NOUco CdoD III lu0 "nOlC COuu-
try for the indianapolis ticket.
The proposition of the Evening Post is
contrary to the truth. There are conceiv-
able circumstances under which the result
of the election might have been determined
by these 133,O0O votes of the Cleveland
Democrats and Mugwumps for PALMER and
BUCKNER, but those are not the circum-
stances which actually existed last Novem-
Der. The Palmer and Buckner vote did
not elect MCKINLEY. 1t did not defeat
BRYAN. 1t did not affect tho result of the
election at all.
The proof of this is In the election figures.
They demonstrate beyond the possibility of
question that II every sound-money Demo-
crat or Mugwump who voted for PALMER
and BUCKNEn had voted for BRYAN and
SEwALL, Mr.. MCKINLEY would neverthe-
less be President to-day all the same.
1t seems almost cruel to exhibit in detail
the numerical poverty Of this indianapolis
movement, for 1t Is in g~rotesque contrast
with the vocal pr~etensions of the historians
and prophets of that movement. Yet 1t Ia
high time to state the facts.
In every one Of the New England States
the vote for PALMER and BUoKNER was
very much smaller han the plurality of
MCKINLEY over BRYAN. That Is to say, 1t
made no difference whatever as to the re-
suit in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, and Connecti-
cut, whether the supporters of the Indian
Apolis movement voted for their own ticket
or for tho Popocratio ticket: