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The AcquittaI In the Searles Case.

In directing the acquittal of JOHN f..
SEARLEs upon the indictment for contempt
in refusing to answer certain questions pro-
pounded to him by the Senate committee
investigating the Sugar Trust scandal, the
court laid down no new rule of law, but
merely applied the legal doctrines that
necessarily flow from earlier decisions in
respect to the power of Congress to punish
witnesses for contempt.
In the Chapman case it was held by the
Court of Appeals of the District Of Columbia
and by the Supreme Court of the United
States that the questions put to the de-
PENDANT were pertinent to the subject mat
ter of inquiry before the committee. These
questions were properly framed to ascertain
whether Mr.. CHAPMAN's firm In the spring
of 1894 had bought or sold or was carrying
sugar stock for or in the interest of any
United States Senator, directly or Indirect
ly. They plainly related to the matter which
the committee had been directed to invcsti-
gate, which was whether any Senator has
been or Is specializing in what are known AS
sugar stocks during the consideration of
the tariff bill now before the Senate" and
as Chief Justice ALVEY pointed out, the
If in the affirmative, might have
subjected the Senators who were involved
to c~ensure, il not to expulsion from the
Senate, for abusing their position in order
to promote their pecuniary interests in the
stock market.
In such inquiries, therefore, there was
nothing of which the witness could Justly
complain. He was called upon TO disclose
the affairs of his private business only SO
4 4
public interest; that is to say, upon the al.
legged misconduct of Senators, which the
Senate might see fit to punish by expulsion.
The Supreme Court of the United States
in the case of HALLETT K~ILBoURN, which
was decided in 1880, held hat the question
whether Congress had proceeded within
the limits of its constitutional authority
in attempting to punish a witness for re-
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SUNBE4MS.

-watermelons were shipped from Oxford, IA.
during the last week In May.
I'm Mexico City FIRST class American butter,
made by an expert" is advertised at so and Sc
cents a pound. at wholesale and retail respectively.
A Canadian note says that 4 sailor fell nifty feet
from the rigging To the deck OF the steamship BAN
nockburn at Port Dalhousie and Jumped up unhurt.
An Immigration agent from Missouri:is travelling
around Iowa with q bunch of blue grass forty one
inches tall and a bundle of clover forty -four inches
tall, which he exhibits as he talks OF the inertia Of
the Ozark country, about West Plains. No.. from
which the grass and clover came.
AT Joplin. No.. q drunken man fell down q mine
shaft seventy feet on asaturday and lay there nearly
twenty four hours before he was discovered. Be-
yond a few slight bruises he was not hurt. On the
following Monday another miner. sober. fell sew
onty feet down a shaft At the same place and died
in half an hour.
In Jewell county. Kan. when a Judge. before
whom q father had brought his cighteen-y year old
daughter on n charge OF insanity. found shat the
fathers real object in the proceedings was to pre-
vent her from marrying the young man OF her
choice. he called the lover. who was among the
spectators. and performed the marriage forthwi,h.
An Atchisou, KAN, mother goes once a month
to court and takes out judgments for $40 each
against her two sons. the money being due
according to an agreement the consideration
named in which Is that the mother shall refrain
from annoying the son by her presence or talk.
She says that the sons have defaultsd In payments
since last fall.
That a dog may best an alligator appears by the
experience OF the Hon. n. h. Stuart OF Victoria,
Fla. His dog was swimming In a lake there, when
Mr. Stuart. seeing q gator coming. called to the dog
to come ashore. The dog started. but the alligator
was gaining. when the dog turned and seized It,
Both went down. bur the dog came up unharmeds
and tn. alligator with a lacerated lower jaw.
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Foreign Notes OF Real Interest.

viGcourt Royston. who has become Earl of Hard.
wicke by the death of his father. is a broker on the
London Stock Exchange.
Correctness as TO the sex OF the child in a sworn
was held to be immaterisi by a Justice of
the Queens Bench recently on a motion TO quash
an aniliatlon order.
NJ. Chauvln, a doctor OF laws and lecturer in the
law faculty OF the University OF Paris. has been for
hidden 10 give his law lectures on account OF his
expressing publicly socialist opinions In politics.
Paris and Marseilies are now connected by tels-
graph lines entirely under ground. They are placed
In iron pipes. and buried four feet beneath the sur
face with manholes 1000 feet apart. II cost 81 .0o0.-
900 to bury the wireA.
Slams army ia TO be rcorganized by Russian army
officers. over n hundred ofircrs having volunteered
War Department. The King Of Siam will selsos
nifty from among them.
An avalanche In Kashmlr, Involving the loss OF
life OF several English Officers. which has ocen
paining many people in England, turns cut to no
the invention OF a native servant who had run
away from one OF the Officers.
Bavarla's representative at Queen victoria's cello.
bratlou will DO Prince Ruprecht. eldest son and
heir o: Archduohcss Maria Tn, reAa OF Modena Este.
who, according to the LegltlmisT Kalendar, should
by rights be In Victoria's place.
Shenneld'G MAYOR is the Duke OF Norfolk. on tho
occasion OF queen victoria's visit, he gave a feast TO
90, 900 school children and their 800 teachers nc
his country house near 10y. where he subsequently
gave a tea TO 5000 persons over so years OF age.
Bishop Talbot of Rochester has startled the bor.
ough of Southwark by walking through It's strOots
early one week day morning Iu rull vcstmenti.
with mitre ana cope. He had TO open n church, ana
preferred to Walk TO It from the house where -
! had dressed rather than take = cab.
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The Courier-Journal, never more gallant
than now in its uncompromising hostility TO the
fraud and revolution Of Organism. discusses tho
restoration of tho Democratic party on u platform
Of public credit and order, Just taxation, and a
circulating medium expressed in gold and silver
and paper convertible into coin on demand"
1t seems to us, however, that this docs not in.
clude oil that the Democracy has lost. To be.
como once moro the party of JEFFERSON and Of
Its history down to the year 1896, 1t must
reafhrm the greatdoctrine of equal rights, which
1t rcpudiatcd in favor OF tho wild prejudiccs OF
populism; and 1t must condemn tho theories OF
class legislation which 1t made its own ut Chi.
cago. FREQ silver is far from being the only
pcrnicious idea of tho revolutionizcd Democ.
racy, or the only ono which needs TO be rejected
In order TO bring the ancient spirit back again.
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roR noYs.
A millionaire Of FALL River IL Building One
That Has No Counterpart.
from the Boston Transcript.

from the Boston Transcript.
In the manufacturing city OF Fall River. near
the centre OF tho business portion. there is APP
preaching completion a structure which will
have. when finished, no countorpartin America.
1t is u clubhouse for boys, and while there are
other cities with boys clubhouscs, working boys
homes, ncwsboys' homes. and philanthropic in.
situations innumorable, there is none in which a
clubhouse hns been built expressly for this pur.
pose. as we'll finished as though for the weaithicst
club in the city. In its completeness and marnI.
nccncc, this clubhouse is TO be surpassed by
none of its kind anywhere. And this clubhouso
Is the gift of one man to tho boys of Fall River.
not the bcduest Of one WHO, has left behind his
money to enrich charitable institutions or to
start new philanthrophics, but the work of a
business man who takes AN active interest in all
OF tho worlds affairs and who hopes to live TO
see the ~fruition of his labors In behalf of boys.
Mr.. NJ. G. ID. Borden. whose extensive opera
tions in wool recently Interested the business
world, some time ago decided TO establish
an institution which IL is believed will be az
street is the natural home of 30 many boys. To
this end he had an examination made OF similar
institutions In all parts of the country, and, when
this was completed. the. projcct. took practical
form, first in the office of an architect. and later
In the erection OF the building which is to be the
Boys Club Of Fall River. The building is now
nearing completion, and is receiving its inside
finish. When 1t is opened the event. will 10
made n notable ono for Fall River. and may DO
of far-rcaching significance. There Is already q
boys club in Fall River, started a few years ago,
and now occupying a temporary homo near the
site OF the new clubhouse. II has not been do
cided yet what will be the administration OF tho
new clubhouse, but as. Mr.. Borden is deeply In
terested in 1t, it Is likely to be maintained under
his control or that of the city, if he sees III to en-.
dow 1t. II is to be n helpful club home, and the
aim is to provide instruction rs well as amuso-
for manual training, as we'll as bowling alleys,
play rooms, and a gymnasium.
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fusing to answer particular questions, put
by one of It's committees, was a judicial
question, to be determined not by Congress
itself but by the courts. Following the
principle of this decision, Judge BRADLEY,
presiding at the trial of Mr.. SEARLEs
in the Supreme Court Of the District
of Columbia, held in substance that before
the defendant could DO rendered liabl for
declining to answer the Undergraduates adj
dressed to him by the Senate committee
1t must be made to appear that those inter-
rogatorles were pertinent to the matter
which the committee had been directed to
investigate. Deeming them to have no
legitimate relation to that matter, the
Judge advised the jury that it was their
duty to acquit.
The questions put to Mr.. SEARLEs were
designed to obtain information as to the
contributions made by the Sugar Trust to
State and local campaign funds In New
York. In the view of the Court, the num-
Der or amount of such contributions had no
bearing upon the investigation which the
Senate had authorized the committee to
make. 1t was different in respect to
campaign contributions for the pur.
pose of influencing the election OF United
States Senators, but Mr.. SEARLEs expressly
testified before the committee that no
money had been contributed for that pur.
pose. The suggestion that local campaign
contributions might have promoted the
election of State Legislatures which would
subsequently choose Senators Of the United
States was met by the proposition that the
Senate possessed no power to go behind the
election of members of n Legislature under
such circumstances; and the further init.
nation on the part of the District Attorney
that IL the questions had been answered the
local contributions of the Sugar Trust for
campaign purposes might have been traced
into the pockets Of United States Senators
was characterized by Judge BRADLEY as
remotely speculative
While there will doubtless be consider.
able difference Of opinion among lawyers
as to the correctness of Judge BRADLEY's
ruling in respect to the pertinency of the
unanswered questions in the Searles case,
1t seems in harmony with the tendency of
the Supreme Court of the United States
against permitting inquisitorial examina,
| lions into personal affairs through the in.
strumentality of Congressional committees,
under the pretence that some matter of
| public concern is involved, when the sub.
ject of inquiry really has no relation what.
ever to the conduct or interests Of the Fed.
eral Cove rnmcnt.
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what Pat Thought He Heard.


From the chicago Daily Inter. Ocean.
Policeman Pat Geeting of Brighton Park sayg
he will never again try TO cut down the body OF
u suicide who has hanged himself.
The circumstances which caused the officer to
make this resolution happened Monday, when
he was sent to investigate. a suicide In the
Brighton Park district. The man was still
at the scene, and 1t became his duty to cut him
down, Gecting's, knife was sharper. than he
body fell. Geeting caught it and en-
braced it. At the same time the arms
OF the corpse fell about his neck, and it seemed
Pat got such a fright as he had never before
had, and when he appeared in the presence
had happened.
Sure and OF tell We it was something horri-
hle." explained Pat yesterday morning. "YeB
wouldn't believe 1t, but as sure as Dim a police
man OF this great city the dead man Rugged mo,
and. throwing his arms about me neck, whis-
pered in me ear that l must go wild him"
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VINE At THE WHITE HOUSE.
The President HAS Served 1t and Will Continue
to Serve II Whenever He Thinks Proper.
From the Baltimore Sun.

From the baltimore Sun.
WASHINGTON. May 3O.-On the authority of
that limited but very active class of persons who
are perpctually occupied in undertaking to regu-
late the manners and morals of the remainder OF
the world, it was stated some time since that no
liquor of any kind would be served at the
ton. Mr.. Mckinley himself never authorized
any such assertion. Through the same sources
II WAS announced just prior to the inauguration
ball that no liquors would be served upon that
occasion.
1t is. perhaps. the fact that no liquors were
openly sold at the inauguration ball. but there
was a very considerable amount dispensed in q
complimentary way. In the private rooms set
apart for the President and his immediate fol-
lowing, ana afterward for hundreds OF especial
President Mckinley, while altogether mod
crate in his use of stimulants. is not and never
has been n tcctotaler. Notwithstanding the au-
thoriZed statements - above alluded to, liquors
ments whenever, in his Judgment. common
sense, etiquette. and propriety required it.
Such an occasion was the reception given n
week or ten days since to the delegates to the
postal congress. Probably in the whole mem
bcrship of that body there was not one man in
eating. No one present observed any i'll effects
nccruing from this adherence to social usage and
etiquette the world over. Yet in the quarters
not difficult to conjecture criticism has been di-
cused of violating a rule which he pever laid
down.
Notwithstanding these criticisms, it is under
stood the present occupant of the White House
will follow the example OF his predecessors and
determine for himself as to the propriety OF his
Hayes took one line OF action; all Ielectedl Presi-
dents took the other.
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ROBERT DOUGLAS of Waukegan, we'll
known as an authority in forestry and arborl-
culture, died suddenly on the 1st inst, at
his home, at tho age Of 81. He was a
descendant of the Black Douglas clan OF
Northumberland. was born in Newcastle-upOn-
Tyne, and came to this country at tho
age of 20. He went to California among the
pioneers OF 40. and up to his death retained
considerable property interests on the Pacific
coast. He was a member OF the Forestry Com
mission for the Preservation of the Adiron-
dacks, and. along with Prof, C.. 8. SARGENT,
investigated the forest preserves of the far West.
He was associated with FREDERICK LAW OLM.
sTED in laying out the grounds OF the Leland
Stanford University in California. and also in
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Our Ocean-Borne Shipping.

TIL announcement that an American
merchant ship, the steamer Everett of
1900 o burden, has at last been found
to take the cargo of grain contributed for
starving India, has been received with
much satisfaction. But the long search
needed, and the expectation at one time
that resort would rave to be had to a
foreign.built ship to carry this American
charity, are suggestive.
Mr.. ELKINs stated recently in the Senate
that "out of sixty ocean passenger and
freight lines from New York, only seven
are American" The ffty-three foreign
lines AVE nearly a thousand vessels carry
ing the goods hat Americans buy and sell.
A few years ago our Consul at Hamburg,
replying to a question of the State Depart
ment, said that no American steamer of
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LEO XIII AND Observation-Disclosures


ochao sFFuE VI NhF. nhbcCAt Ihthe
To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Permit me
to enter a respectful protest against the travesty
Of the doctrines OF st. Thomas as outlined by
your reviewer last Sunday in his remarks on
Mr.. J. Bleeckcr Miller's Leo XIII. and Modern
Civilization"
Neither st. Thomas nor Leo. XIII. entertains
a single one of the fallacies which Mr.. Miller OBJ
jects to in the Aristotelian philosophy.
Both your reviewer and Mr.. Miller labor under
the serious disadvantage of installing COM
pletely the nature of er-cathcdrd pronounce
ments. The Vatican Council took especial pains
to state that the Pope speaks er-cuthcdra only
when he i~nstructs the universal Church on mat
tiers Of faith or morals; yet Mr.. Miller ludi-
lows suit, that n simple letter to six Bishops
in Belgium. containing no definition at all, is an
eT-cdfhsdra announcement! More than this,
the widest ultramontane never dreamed that
btiity; yet, The suns, theologians make these
episcopal appointecs" also infallible.
Mr.; Miller, unfortunately. does not under
stand ecclesiastical or scholastic Latin, as his
still, as he has quoted several works In which
the translation of the Vatican decree is given.
his ignorance is objectionable when he gravely
asserts W. 13l, that according 10 Roman Cath
Ole theory, the Pope is not only the source Of
all law, and has power to dispense with any law,
but can direct every human intentional or ra-
tional act. including, of course. the casting of a
ballot"
The villifer Of Aristotle certainly does not
take reason for his guide. Does "con-
science v govern hint Conscience, as every tyro
knows. is " a practical dictate OF reason" Mr..
Miller finds fault with Aristotle for teaching
men" CATHoLlCCS.
New YORK. June l, 1897.
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The Cheyenne Troubles.

1t is a long time since families of settlers
at the West have fled from their homes
through fear of the red men, for these are
days when Indian hostilities are the rare
exception to the general rule of peace and
confidence. And in the present Cheyenne
disturbances in Montana there are good
chances of an amicable settlement. Per.
haps the chief ground of apprehension has
hitherto been the conduct of the settlers,
for some of these, armed with rifles, have
joined Sheriff GIBBS, and are believed to be
eager for a fight.
The origin of the trouble was the killing
of a sheep herder named HOOVER, who seems
to have been shot from ambush. The
Sheriff of the county Immediately took
steps to ferret out The murderer on the In
dian reservation, and IL crowd of armed men
aided him as deputies. Capt. SToUCH of
the Third Infantry is agent at the Tongue
River reservation, and promptly guarded
against the dangers of II raid of the in
furiated settlers among the Cheyennes. He
called for troops, and these were quickly
sent to him from Fort Custer, which is near
at hand.
Meanwhile the affair had become greatly
simpliiied by the confession of STANLEY,
one of the Cheyenncs, that he had shot the
herder, and by his promptly yielding to the
party sent by the agent to arrest him.. But
! the Indians still showed resentment at the
Sherif's party, and refused to give any in
formation as to whether STANLEY had &C
completes. Capt. STouoH therefore asked
the Sheriff to withdraw, and sent to Wash,
ington for instructions. When these came,
they directed cooperation with the civil
authorities, and the prospect is that the
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trouble will be ended without hostilities Of
any kind, although tho question as to the
relative rights of the State and Federal au-
thoritlcs may be discussed Mt length.
1t was natural that, while rumors were
rife that the Indians were on the war
path, some of the families on the Upper
Tongue River should have taken ref
ugc at Miles and other places. But the
stories of Indian outrages were exag.
gerated. The crime Of STANLEY was Of a
sort familiar in other regions besides those
Of Indian reservations, and did not arise
apparently out of any grievance against the
Government. 1t can be atoned for under
the ordinary forms Of law, and there Is no
reason to look for an Indian outbreak.
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Assistant Secretary Roosevelt on the
Navy.

We publish In full elsewhere the very elo-
qifent address which was delivered yester-
day before the Naval War College at Now
port by the Hon. THEODORE ROOSEVELT,
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy. The large
space 1t occupies will be found to be well
fllcd, for 1t is a manly, patriotic, intelli-
gent, and convincing appeal to American
sentiment In behalf Of the national honor,
and for the preservation Of the national
strength by means requisite for self-defence
and vigorous aggressive resistance to efforts
TO interfere with our progress and natural
dominion.
As Mr.. ROOSEVELT points out, our navy
h the chief engine upon which we must
depend In the event of possible war. We
are in no danger of foreign aggression by
land. With Mexico the chance of Il con-
6ict Is too slight and remote to deserve
consideration If we were at war with
England, the only armed invasion by land
which could occur would be from Canada,
but attack from that source would be
speedily prevented. In n few weeks
We should gain possession of Cana
do and render harmless the feeble
military preparations of which alone it is
capable. No force Of troops sufficient to
cause serious disturbance could be landed
on our coast by a foreign enemy, and If any
effected a landing, 1t would soon he driven
back into the sea. This country has in its
seyenty.fve millions of people material for
an army to draw upon in case of an emer-
gency which is the best in the world, and
which would be absolutely irresistible to
any foreign invader.
A navy, however, as Mr.. ROOSEVELT
shows, needs to be made ready by long and
slow preparation, the existing types Of war
vessels and their armament requiring years
of labor to supply them. \ battle ship can-
not be built in less than two years, and
many months must be spent in making
the modern guns suitable for it. The
building Of a powerful navy must there
fore be the unintermitted business OF
n time of peace; and such II navy
is the best safeguard of peace. Weak.
ness, of course, invites attack, but demon
strated strength prevents it. Accordingly,
the money expended in naval construction
Is an investment in the interest of peace. To
that end it serves far better than any treaty
of arbitration, for such a treaty may even
be an Indictment to war by creating a feel
ing of false security, which tempts hostile
attack by preventing sufficient preparations
to resist it.
Moreover, as Mr.. ROOSEVELT well argues
1t Is not enough for us 10 have a navy for
defensive purposes alone. 10 be sufficient
for defence it must also be strong enough tc
attack. II we had a war with a European
power, for instance, we should need to BIZ
able to fight aggrcssively as well as de
fensively. With an adequate navy tn,
fight might not all be in our own waters.
1t is not necessary to touch further OF
the points made by AIr. ROOSEVELT. Hi
address as a whole win keep the attention
OF every reader who enters upon its pc
rusal. We are glad to add that in spirit
tone. and suggestion it represents thu
views and purposes of the present admin
istration of the Navy Department.