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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-04-08
sHERMAN,s MEMOIRS.

This weeks installment of Sherman's
Memoirs is taken up with the details Of
the occupation of the captured city, the
decision for its destruction, and the
lively correspondence with the rebels
in regard to it. Next week there will
be more of this, and about the forma-
ton of plans for the future. Two object
ives presented themselves to Sherman at
that time for the immediate employment
of his army. One was to advance on
Mobile, and cut the Confederacy in two
again, as at Vicksburg, and the other to
move to Savannah. The move to Mobile
was much shorter and more favorable
that to Savannah more deadly to the
Confederacy. Hood tried to lure him
away from these by counter-move te
the North. All this makes wildly in
teresting reading. The younger genera
ton are even more interested in it thar
the veterans, for it is a revelation t.
them.
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THE TARIFF BILL.

There is much exaggeration of the
attitude of the Senators toward the
Tariff Bill. The plain facts are. that not
only the Republican Senators were taken
into consultation in the preparation OF
the bill, but representative men OF every
industry, interest, and branch of bust
ness in the country, and the bill repre-
sents the nearest possible approach to
consensus Of all their views. The
method of procedure was diametricaliy
opposite to that employed in getting up
the Wilson Iniquity, when combina-
ton of Southern cotton growers and New
York importers raided every other IN
terest in the United States. The Wilson
Bill was fagrantly sectional piece OF
legislation, while the Dingley Bill is COM
prehensively National. 1t will receive
the support of men of all politics to an
extent unprecedented in Tariff legisla-
ton. To greater degree than any OF
its predecessors it is non-partisan bill.
The stories of the wholesale revision it
is undergoing in the rooms OF the Senate
Committee on Finance, and the fierce an
tagonisms developed over it are pure tic
ton. So far no important changes have
been made. and while there have been diff
ferences of opinion on some points these
have been carfully weighed, and adjust
ments arrived at. The Senate Com
mittee is going over the bill very care
fully. but with the sole idea of improv-
ing it. When it is presented to the
Senate it will be as nearly perfect as
bill of such general and comprehensive
nature can ever be made, and the House
will readily accept all its improvements.
Every effort is being made to have it
ready for reporting back to the Senate
by April 10, but it is hardly hoped that
this can be accomplished SO early.
In the meanwhile the House is carry
ing out the program Of doing as nearly
nothing as possible until the Senate
passes the bill Scarcely quorum of
the members are in the city, and the
proceedings are of the most formal
nature.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-04-08
THE PRESIDENT ALL RIGHT.

President Mckinley is bravely meet
ing every reasonable expectation enter
tanned in regard to him. AT a Cabinet
meeting week before last he directed the
Secretaries to restore to their places, as
rapidly as possible, the veterans who had
been unjustly dismissed or reduced by
the preceding Administration in order to
make places for its political heelers.
Since then the work has been going on
with commendable speed. Cleveland's
Administration injured the public serv-
ice exceedingly, as well as did an i'm
mense amount of personal cruelty and
injustice, by discharging or reducing in
pay and position many hundred of the
most valuable clerks and other en-
ployes. These had been given their
positions in recognition of their faithful
gallant services in the field, and by
Jealous. intelligent service in the Depart
ments had worked themselves up into
| positions where their salaries excited the
cupidity of the political henchmen.
After clearing them out and filling their
places with his followers, Cleveland tried
to give the latter life-tenure of their
jobs by putting them under the Civil
Service. So far those who have been
filling the places wrongfully taken away
from those who had earned them have
been tenderly dealt with by being re-
duced to lower positions. Whether this
policy will continue remains to be seen
Congress, representing the active dis
pleasure of the country at this perversior
of the spirit of Civil Service, threatens
more heroic measures, which will at one
stroke undo the wrongs done in the name
of Civil Service. In the meanwhile
President Mckinley is doing his share
and should receive the applause of thu
country for it.
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he bought 100000 in its bonds. For
tunatcly, he did not have as much to say
about the English policy then as he has had
since Disraeli was not Premier at that
time, but Earl Russell.
A. We think not. We have never forgiven
him for buying those Confederate bonds.
s. Inasnuch rs our Secretary Of State has
nothing like the pre-emincnceino our Cabinet
that the English Premier has in his, we think
it very erroneous to call our Secretary Pre-
mier." In England the Secretary OF State
is not necessarily the Premier. The Premier,
that is to say, the man who makes up the
Cabinet, takes whatever portfolio he pleases,
very frequently that of the Treasury
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
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CUBA IN THE SENATE.

Ss~NhAL
The proposal of the Spanish Govern
ment to try by drum-head court-martial
and summarily execute Maj.-Gen. Ruiz
Rivera, who was captured, it is alleged,
by treachery, has brought the Cuban
question up in the Senate in very ex-
citing form. Senator Aliens resolution,
which was finally passed after a warm
debate, reads:
Whereas information hes come to the
Senate that Gen. Ruiz Rivera, a leader of
the Cuban army Of independence, recently
captured by the Spanish forces, is TO be tried
by drum-head court-maTtiai and shot there
fore,
Eesofoed, That in the judgmen. of the
Senate it is the duty of the President of the
United States, il such information is found
10 be true, 10 protest to the Spanish Govern
ment against such violation Of the rules ol
civilized warfare.
This was adopted without dissenting
vote, though Senators Hoar and Hale
who had opposed it, RETAINED from
voting.
This is in the nature Of direct advic'
to the President, and is much farthe
than the Senate has yet gone in Cubai
matters, and cannot be without decided
results in favor of the long-sufferin,
Cubans.
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TRIBUNETS.
Dublin World: She Coming up suddenly
Where did that wave get to?
He coughing and strangling)-1 swallowed

Dublin World: She Coming up suddenly
Where did that wave get to?
He coughing and strangling)-I swallowed
it.
Detroit Free Press: How long have you
been OH this road? 2" asked drummer Of the
conductor of primitive Southern railroad.
''Ten yeahs. subj"
Indeed. Then you must have got on sew
eral miles south of whore did,"
~
Boston, Transcript: Mrs. Kuddler-Do you
know. George, that every body says that the
baby is just like me?
Mr.. Kuddler-Nonsense, Annie; the baby
is more than six months old and has never
spoken word.
1t will be a very appropriate thing to have
the remains of the last Administration perma-
nently deposited at Buzzard's Bay.
=sw
ChoIIy-Would you like me to present you
to Mrs. Richmond?
Tommy-Well, you have given me dead
away SO often that suppose still another time
won't matter much.
We have got great many new Congressman,
but they have the same old speeches.
x*#
Since Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales
have decreed that no more of the royal horses
tails shall be locked. we can hope fol relief
from this ugly barbarism.
The latest scare is that tho bicycle produces
appendicitis. People should be careful to re-
move the skins and seeds from bicycles before
eating thcm.
MALE AND FEMALE INTELLIGENCE.
l pain to record it, but it has been judicially
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-04-08

WHAT lesson Greece is to certain
rabbit-hearted people, claiming to be
Americans, who are in perpetual
tremor about what England may do TO
us. Greece has only the population and
resources Of one Of cur smaller States,
and yet see the stiff upper lip she pre-
sents not only to England, but to all
the Great Powers acting together. Six
weeks ago they presented her with a
most decisive ultimatum. Unless she
did so-and-so by the following Monday
they would blockade her ports ON We'd
nesday, and the direst consequences
would ensue. She did not do as
ordered, and her ports have not yet
been blockaded, nor are they likely to
be.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-04-08

SECRETARY SHERMAN has made an
interesting notification to the Great
Powers that the blockade of Crete can
not affect us, since we were not sigma
tories to the Treaty of Berlin. There
fore, we stand ready to sell the Cretans
all the food and other supplies that they
may desire and can pay for, and shall
be glad to have their trade. 1t is be-
coming more evident every day that
there is a new hand at the helm OF
State.
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IouI years ao'o"
With this table to assist him, any
comrade can readily figure out whether
it is more TO his personal advantage to
have the Per Diem or the straight Ser
vice Pension Bill of So month pass.
The next thing for him to settle in his
mind is as to which has the best chance
for prompt passage, and as to which Is
the better policy: to have the straight
Service Pension Bill passed first, and
the Per Diem feature added afterward,
or to have the Per Diem Bill passed
first and then to get the minimum raised
from s3 to IS.
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ARTICLES Forthcoming.
THE BATTLE OF HONEY SPRINGS.
Ry IIiileu B,ifton Kansas City, kdn.

THE BATTLE OF HONEY SPRINGS.
By Wig B,itton, Kansas City, haa.
TIE MASSACRE AT FORT PHIL
KEARNY. A Thrilling Chapter an the
History of Our Indian Vars By Frank :.
Farquhar, Unioato,rn, Pa.
THE BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS, OR
.sETEN PINES. By Maj.-Gea II. 81
Plaisted. formerly aforementioned OF me
l1fh Me-. and aJtes1oaad Mgor-Gcaefat OF
Toiunteers.
FIPEEG on Fort SUMTER. n thrilling
story of young Ohio mechanic arho 'caS
sp Charleston at the fime, and scos compelled
ia ;oin the rebels. but srho afterwards ESCAPED
and scyred three gears IN a Union regiment.
IN AND OUT OF CHARLESTON By
n. o. b.. young Connecticut mon, 'rho
sras caught in Charleston at The opening OF
losfilitios
"REMINISCENCES OF GETTYSBURG.
Bg Jas Fulton. ~ d., New London, Pa.
SzBEPS AGAIN TO THE FRONT An
,4roogat of he CdUalry Raids around Cor
iafk. By Birney Mclean, I'd Io'ud Car
CHATTANOOGA. LOOKOUT MOUNT
AN. AND MISSION RIDGE. By Col.
Lgman Bridges, Chief Of Arttuay, fonrih
Corps, Sda Leaadro. Cal.
THE PENNSYLFANIA VETERAN Re
SERIES. an Account If Their Services
from Cold HarJor 10 Appomoftor By X. e.
Mcbride, Co. C, 1901 Pa, Manhattan. Kan
ACROSS THE PLAINS IN 1858. Big
3amardc.n Red,cood Falls, MINI.
THE SHELBY RAID IN MISSOURI, IN
OCTOBER, 1868. By Wiley Britto'a, autao,
of The Girl War on the Border etc.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-04-08

The Postofiice Department has
arrived at a decision which will be the
rule in regard to appointments as Post
master. 1t is that where the predecessor
of the incumbent was allowed to serve
out his four years, and the incumbent
is good officer, be will be allowed to
serve out his four years. But change
will be made where the incumbent Is
unsatisfactory, or his predecessor was re-
moved before the end of his term by
President Cleveland.
There is another class Of cases which
has come up in that of Miss McMichael,
who. toward the close of the last Ad-
ministration, was appointed Postmaster
at jackson, Ga. Miss McMichael's
father was the Postmaster at jackson,
but resigned in December last in order
to get his daughter appointed in hi;
place and keep the postoffice in the
family for another four years. Mis-:
McMichael has been removed and g
Republican appointed. There are {
large number of similar cases-amount
ing to about one-third of the Presi
Dental Offices and nearly half Of thu
fourth-ciass offices-each of which evil
| be considered on its merits"
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BASIL KANARIS.
A Cretan Story of Devoted Love
and Romantic Daring.
BY RAB HAIGH.
To Appear in Issue of April is.

We have secured an excellent story
of absorbing interest for our issue of
April ID. 1t is romance Of love and
heroism, founded on incidents in the
struggle of Crete for freedom. 1t is full
Of stirring incidents and fine description
of the Cretan people and country and
their inhuman oppressors.
1t will appear in no other paper than
The NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-04-08

The Arbitration Treaty has been so
carefully amended that all that it now
means is that the United States and
Great Britain will hereafter submit to
arbitration any differences that they may
agree can be settled by that method. As
they have done this in the past, the
treaty, if ratified, will not make any
new departure.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-04-08
HON. GALUsHA A. GROW.

A Statesman Who Has Come Down to Us
From the stormy Days of the Anti-Slavery
Agitation.
There was a long time in the history Of this
country when no name was more frequently on
mems lips than that of Hon. Galusha A. Grow,
of Pennsylvania. He was one of the Pennsyl-
vania Democrats who followed David Wiimot
in their resistance to the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the
Slave Power, aud finally entered the Repub.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-04-08

II each subscriber TO THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE wiU charge himself Nth getting
one mer subscriber the circulation of the paper
GiT be doubled at once, and With lille trosbls.
Let each subscriber ky Il
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-04-08

SPEAKER REEDS dissemination to
make any distinction between a Populist
and Democrat is calculated to harrow
UP the Middle-ofthe- Road soul.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1897-04-08

decided by no less sapient tribunal than
Circuit Conrt of the United States that a woman
is not naturally IS smart rs a man. and less
should be expected OF her in the way OF intel
ligsncc. For my own personal safety IN at
tending the next Convention OF the Womans
Relief Corps. at Buffalo, l want 1T distinctly
understood that am not indoIsing this decis-
ion. bnt merely reporting it. The case came
about in this wise: Mrs. Lorentzen sued Inc
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad for damages In
Cured in being struck by train at a crossing.
Tho road set up the defense Of "contributory
negligence" because if she had used ordinary
care and intelligence sine would have escaped
Tho case came before the Eighth Circuit Court,
aud in the District Of Colorado. and the judges
decided that il the complainant had been man
the roads defense would have been good but
it was not reasonable to expect the same degree
of knowledge and ability in woman, so the
road would have to pay damages. There may
be dolefnl consequences to this, which dare
not anticipate.
We should change the name to the Germany
potato. since Germany grows and consumes
more than any other two countries in the world.
Her crop last year amounted to nearly 3,OOo-
O0O. coo bushels. or more than the entire wheat
crop of the world and about seven times as
many bushels as we raised Of wheat IN this
country.
President McKinley's first month as Presi-
dent ends with decrease of IS. 635, 2o4 in the
public debt. This is q cheering commencement
and the harbnger of still better things to come.
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OFFICE
Repor March 81 1897
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earzeze A. WASHINGTON eos1ofEoE AS ssooNOolssn WAITE
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-04-07
THE SOUTHERN FLOODS.

Mississippi's Governor Asks of Con-
gress n 500, 900 Appropriation.
Memphis April THE feature Of the
flood situation in the Mississippi delta
is the gradual spread of water over
an area that hitherto was never over
flowed. The upper crevasse in Tunica
county is 1000 feet wide, and so great
is the outpoar that water from below
the break is being drawn up to and
hurled out over the valley through the
crevasse. All of the country east of
the main line of the Yazoo and NIissis-
sippi Valley road is flooded, and in
many places the water has gone over
the tracks, filling the Yazoo river. The
fall in the main channel at Helena,
Greenville, Vicksburg and Arkansas
City is due to the filing up of the delta
and the Lower White river country.
If the lower levees along Louisiana
and southeastern Arkansas should
hold the emptying Of the delta and St.
Francis basin win be slow. If they
break and the river continues to fall
at Cairo, the upper ST. Francis basin
and the delta will be clear Of water by
May 5. If this should prove true there
win be no difficulty In growing cotton.
But breaks in Louisiana and south
eastern Arkansas will hold water in
that locality until the middle of May,
after the usual time for planting cotton
in that territory,
The governor last night telegraphed
Secretary Alger asking for an appro-
priatiOn of 100000 from congress, which
he says will close the crevasses in this
state, give employment to all the needy,
and enable people to work the land in
30 days.
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-04-07
A PECULIAR PACT
thousands Of People Have Dyspepsia in
It's Worst Form and Do Not Know It.

thousands OF feOplt nave bgnNtphla III
It's Worst Form and Do Not Know It.
A weak stomach is the cause of about
nine-tenths Of all disease, yet in most cases
the wrong thing is treated and the true
cause overlooked.
This is because weak digestion produces
symptoms resembling nearly every disease
because il weakeus and disturbs the action
of every nerve and organ in the body poor
digestion causes heart trouble, kidney
troubles, lung weakness and especially ner-
vous break down or nervous prostmtion, the
nerves cannot stand the wear aud tear unless
generously fed by we'll digcsted, whole
some food.
Keep the digestion good aud no one need
fear the approach of disease
Mrs. H. NJ Lee of Rochester ~ V.
writes: For the sake of suffering humanity
want to say that from child had very
weak stomach, threw mp my food very often
after eating and artera few years nervous
dyspepsia resulted aud for more than twenty
years have suffered incxpressibly.
/ tried many physicians and advertised
remedies with only temporary relief for ner-
vous dyspepsia aud not until | commenced
taking Suart's Dyspepsia Tablets last Sep
tcmbcr, six months ago have 1 heeu free
from suffering caused by the condition Of my
nerves and stomach in short, chronic ner-
vous Dyspepsia
have recommended Stuort's Dyspepsia
Tablets to many of my friends and now l
want in public way to say they are the
safest, pleasantest and believe surcst cure
for stomach and nerve troubles. 1 write my
honest opinion and l will gladly answer any
letter Of inquiry at any time and feel that l
am, in my small may, helping on good
cause.
stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets is not a patent
medicine, but they contain only the fruit
salts, digestive acids and pcptones necessary
to help the weak stomach to promptly and
thoroughly digest food
All druggists sell Stuart's Dyspepsia Tab
lets at 30 cents for full sized package and
anyone suffering from nervous dyspepsia,
sour stomach, headaches, ucidity, gases,
belching etc, will find them not only a
quick relief but a radical cure
Send to stuart Co.. Marshall, Mich, for
little book describing cause aud cure OF
stomach troubles giving symptoms and treat
ment Of the various forms of Indigestion
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THE FLOOD VICTIMS.
Rising Waters in the Northwest and
South Increasing the Distress,
SITUATION AT FARGO APPALLING

Hundreds ofPeoplc Driven From Their
Homes IN the Lively North Dakota
city - Mississippi's Governor Asks
Congress for 500, 900 Appropriation
Fargo. N. D., April THE situation
IS appalling. While the Red river rose
only three inches Monday night the
big Coulee, west Of the city. took Sec
ond squirt and went up IL inches, flood
ing the entire west side Of town and
driving hundreds Of people from their
homes The water reaches down to
Eighth street from Sixteenth street.
and as far south of the Northen Pa
cihc tracks as the eye can reach. 1t is
q populous resident district, and the eff
feet of the flood is most forcibly felt.
All that part of the city south of
Front street is inundated. Six blocks
of Eighth street have gone out and the
flood from the west side of town is so
high that paving on West Front street
is going out rapidly. Sidewalks are all
anoat and are being used as RATS upon
which families are moving to dry land.
All along Front street the water is
within a few inches of the floors Of
principal business houses, and a rise
of another foot would practically put
the entire city anoat.
The Northern Pacific people were
afraid to use the bridge yesterday and
passenger trains were brought across
from Moorehead over the Great North
ern bridge. Passengers We're trans
ferred and a special went yesterday
afternoon. All bridges are condemned
except the Great Northern, which Is a
steel bridge put in last spring The
water works at reserve station were
compelled to shut down, and pumps
were started up and are doing all in
their power to supply the city.
There is much suffering among poor
families, who have been practically des-
titute all winter. and this last blow is
most serious. A RELIEF committee op-
Grated Jointly by the city council and
county commissioners established head
quarters yesterday and viii take care
of the poor. 1t showed yesterday for
two hours.
Sections Of the city that no one ever
dreamed could be reached by flood are
now under water, and Broadway, with
a short distance on either side, is the
only dry spot in town. Old timers
have stopped talking about foods and
gone to praying for a cessation of hos
tilities.
Henry Struive and two sons were
drowned yesterday near Frankfort. S
d. This makes six deaths from drown
ing during the present overflow. The
water is eight feet higher than the
highest water mark heretofore. There
has been great loss of grain and stock
At Lacrosse Wis, the condition ol
the river is very threatening. Base.
ments of the wholesale houses along
Front street are flooded, and the water
is still rising rapidly The tracks of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail
way are under water.