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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02
Tbe citv council has taken a proper

The city council has taken proper
attitude toward the counties in the
matter Of repairing the big bridge
The two counties and city together
are TO advertise for bids on the work,
cost OF which IS not TO exceed s22OO,
and "the city assuming one-third II
such repairs, without prejudice TO
either OF the parties respecting tie
ownership or further liability for re-
pairs on such bridge"
This is proceeding in an orderly
manner, and against which there can
be no serious objection. This is
repudiation Of Mayor Richardson's
manifestation of one-man power as'ex-
pressed when he said to the city meet
ing, 1--WE have a man lwho will'do tie
lob for that price" Public business
must he published In public way.
Feathering the nests OF private
individuals must be stopped. The
people want to know by what author
ity public work Is ordered, and after
T. is ordered there should be a COM
plete public accounting. The work OF
the big bridge belongs to this class
The work OF repairing the court house
belongs to the same category. 1T
should have been let TO the lowest
bidder on prepared plans and speclil'
cations. The people will not blame
the contractors who are in charge of
work, who will no doubt do honest'and
faithful work, but that Is not the
point 10 controversy. The point where
danger lies is that the work was un-
dertaken by the county court just as
though it was their own private
property. 1t was undertaken
without word OF contract
going on record, without open:plans,
without bidding from a'number OF
competing contractors, and without
Limitation as to expense. There was
no petition to have the work done as
In the case of the big bridge. There
was no menace to public safety, no
urgent necessity or demand for re-
building the interior of the court
house. We merely call attention to
these matters, not to asSail the integ-
rlty of the county court, but to pro-
tect the public against repetition Of
loose methods of doing public busl-
ness. BY its present action the coun-
Gil justifes the criticism Of The
JOURNAL, which was made in good
faith, and we believe taken IN good
part by the conservative members Of
the city council
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02
Truth In a Nutshsll,

Impure blood is the natural result OF
close confinement in house, school
room or shop.
Blood is purified by Hoods Sarsap-
arilla, and all the disagreeable results
of impure blood disappear with tn
use OF this medicine.
III you wish To feel we'll, keep your
blood pure with Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Hoods Pills are the best family ca
thartic and liver medicine. Gentle,
reliable, sure.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02
SIoo Reward, 500.

The reader of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all it's stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cnre
is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires con-
stitutional treatment. Hall'sCatarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting di-
rectly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby de
stroying the foundation of the disease
and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and as
sisting nature in doing it's work. The
proprietorS have so much faith in its
curative powers, that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it
fails to cure Send for list of testi-
monial.
Address.
f. j. CHENEY & Co.,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02

In POLICE CoURT.-Ed Smith AID
Ed. Walters, two hobos, pleadIguilty to
charge of assault and battery before
Recorder Ed n. Edes, Tuesday after
nooH, aud were sentenced TO 25 days
in the county jai..
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02

PRESENT Es.-Should
always be embraced when to our own
advantage, at least. A splendid OPP
portunity 60 purchase high quality
OF groceries is furnished daily at
Brans0n & Cos.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02

DIR, Theodore Whittelsey, of Paci-
tic university, Forest Grove, has re-
signed his professorship of chemistry
90 accept an instructorship in Cornell
university.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02
f. j. CHENEY & Co.,
n@1I ~
@Sold by Druggists, 75c.

Among 1854 em1grants who left
Europe by German harbors last year,
only 25,771 were Germans. OF the to-
tai number, 105,336 went to the
United States, 1868 to Brazil, 22SO to
Canada, 2O24 to Africa, etc.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02
JOHN HUGHES.

Dealer in GROCERIES, PAINTS,
OILS, WINDOW GLASS, VARNISH,
and the most complete stock of
BRUSHES of all kinds in the state.
Artists materials, lime, hair, cement
and shingles, and finest quality of
grass seed,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02
SAVE YOUR GRAIN.

Few realize that epch squirrel de
roys $16O worth of grain annually.
Wakelee's Squirrel and Gopher EXter-
minator is the most effective and
economical poison known. Price re-
duced to 30 cents For sale by G. w.
Putnam, Steiner Drug Co., Lunn &
Brooks, G. l.. L. Baskett and A. l..
Stone. d y w-3 loan
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02

G. A. McDouald, printer Of North
Albina, heard some chicken thieYes in
his coop. He cmptied the contents Of
a double barrled gun into the thief,
who was traced 300 yards distant, but
there all traces were lost.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02
STENOGRAPHING AND TYPEWRITNG

Legal ard commercial work specially
Telephone one-four. Office with Sherman
Condit x Park, Gray block. DictatiOn take
at your Office and work returned on sha
notice.
4 got STELLA SHERMAN,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02

IRADE.-Farm to trade for town property.
One Of the best stock and grain farms in The
valley, IS miles southeast Of Oregon Civ on
Molalla river, 100 acres, 100 under fence, az
in crop, in fine PASTURE. Good running
water on each 50 acres Of farm. Good frame
house OF rooms, good barns, splendid
granary etc, crop, wagon, team, plows,
mower, ETC., goes with farm. A rare cash
bargain at s2,2oo. Will fade for suburban
property IN Salem or in an good town in 20
miles OF salem. Write at once for full par
Hculars 10 L. A. Wright, Meadowbrook,
Claekamas county, Oregon.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

AGENTS WANTED.-To engage in a
desirable and profitable business. For full
particulars and outfit write with full address
to M. E. Walker, Salem Postofics, when you
will receive call. 6-I Att
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02

SEE d, 5, BENTLEY

If you want to move or want a load olIanI
kind hauled or want load Of manure, df'
sand or gravel, or cement, lime, hair PlaSlsi
brick or sewer pipe, see D, S. Bentley @
ner of Front and Chemeketa streets or Ig
up telephone 80. Also wood and coal =
hands at all times. Orders promptly atlsna''
to.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02
DEPOT EXPRESS,

Meets all masl and passenger trains. Big
gage and express to all parts OF the city
Prompt service. Telephone No. 70.
JAMES RAIDER &
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-06-02

GIRL WANTED.-For general house work
in small family. Call at I95 High street.
The times., 1897-12-09
one Good Thing ut Least.

There is little in tie Mckinley message
which the country VIII approve. The signal
exception is contained in his recommend
alton to Congress to ratify the Hawaiian
annexation treaty. why Mr.. Mckinley
should have anchored himself TO this one
bit Of patriotic AmeTicanism, while cut
tingIoosefrom ever ytlii-ig. Else demanded by
the vast ma jorIry of his fellow country
men, is Ole Of those mysteries which per
haps must remain such untiI history
shall register the j wing confessions Of Ger
tain great financial lights who now ap-
pear 70 have power and domina tior over
the affairs Of grand nation, suffering
under the rule or an obnoxious oligarchy
Composed Of bond aud gold syndicates
trusts, raonopoiies ana pluto-polHical in
nuencas. whose home is in the bourses
Of Europe.
Never JheIess. let us give Mr.. Mckinley
such credit As Is involved in the fact that,
in one respect, he has shown solitary
sciutination OF good .sllcricanisni. As far
az We can Judge from his words. he really
is anxious for Hawaiian annexation, and
for reasons which, whether personally
ingenuous or not, are good national reasons
Nothing could be more evident than that,
ffnvewere not to annex Hawaii ;hs, Anglo
Japauese alliance woald before we kne W
wsat had TIT US TnuinsicaHy, the Ha-
yvaiian Islands, now under our old pro-
tectorate are Lcnessarr IL aar Commercial
and naval postum in the Pacific ocean.
By All recognized authorities. it is ad
nlitted ti.at the control Of Hawaii is the
control Of the trade OF that great expanse
OF waters, and that it includes the para
mount position in the future trade OF the
world. If the nation holding the gzoup also
Gantrols the latune major avenue Of the
The times., 1897-12-09
Some Anxinns Inquiries

To the Editor of The Times:
First As business proposition, viewed
in the light OF 4 Joint stock company when
a favored minority attempts 70 dictate 20
a ina jortty, what becomes OF the constitu-
tionaI guarantee OF equal rights?
Second-When applied 70 civil govern
ment, Gen. h. F. Butler said It tended
to The breaAing up OF party lines and the
formation of but one party, when the father
of our country said that two parties
Wee necessary for the peTpetuity of our
republic.
Third-yiewed along military lines. II
a commander OF an army should surround
himself with a staff of military experts
without considering their patriotic 10y
atty - the cause for which he is con
tending, how many battles would he win?
Fourth W hen a President can extenl
civil service protection to thousands 6r
Government employees, by promulgating
an arbitrary uItinat,m or decree, with
out Il certified examination, how is the
system just?
Firth Where does our civil service syS-
TEN apply TO any but mona rchiaf form
OF gov ernment, where it can be con-
sistently applied 10 ali from the crown
down to the smallest official?
IF. HARTGRogE.
Harfer's Ferry. December s.
The times., 1897-12-09

worlds commerce between the Atlantic
and Pacific. That avenue il is our ambi
tipn and oar business to build, owE and
hold against ali creation.
1t II very simple proposition, from any
point considered. The rapid growth Of
our population, the still more rapid trans
lation of our resources into surplus products,
and the struggle for life which such socio-
with, render It vital and necessary that we
should seize every advantage Of position
or Influence which nature and God have
placed within our reach. Unless We can
secure To ourselves the benefits OF our
situation and possess ourselves of The terri
torial ahG ether facilities requisite to its
future maintenance ana expansion, we
shall be surrounded and sterilized by the
policies and power of rival nations, and
indeed becouc the producer only OF raw
materials the "hcwer OF wood and the
drawer of water" for more astute, enter
prising and rigorous rivals.
AS the first grand step ia the march of
American progress ward the goal of
conmerei9I supremacyin the twentieth cen
tury the acquisition OF Hawaii is an abso-
lutte condition precedent. The Senate VIII
he false To duty and 10 country if it does
not take the earliest action possible to
make it ''un TAFT accoapli"
The times., 1897-12-09
Wnys and Means

Perhaps It was not Inherent greeflness
that put il into the head of Mr.. Dingiey to
insist thst al the financial features Of the
Presidents message should be referred to
the Committee of Ways and Means. Prob
ably it was something else but whatever
il may have been, it failed 10 work, be
cause Mr. walker, of Massac husetts,
chairman Of the Committee on Ranking
and Currency, insisted that most OF such
matters belonged TO his tea party and
not To that OF Mr.. Dingley. Being sue
cessful III thus contention, ii only remains
to wonder what the reason was that the
illustrious author OF the trust and deficiU
tariff was 50 anxious to deprive the ap
propriate committee of its right to eX-
cogitate ana to digest the financial rec
concentrations OF the Executive.
We do Bot feel much hesitation in con
clutling that it was because Mr.. DiugIey
feared the Banking ana Currency Com
mittee would try TO do something; whereas
there appears to be Il common understand
ing that nothing whatever is 10 be done.
A cold chill indeed appears TO have af-
fecteG tlie A ADMINISTRATION iii connection
witt currency reform since the autumn
elections. Many campaign debts 9f . $50
ara still outstanding, and they are almost
entirely due to Wall street influences. But
the present chance for paying them
through ne retirement OF ofnationalcurrency,
ana the substitution for il of national bank
notes. based ou a billion dollars of new
bonds, as undoubtedly was agreed apon
before the sixteen million dollar Hanna
funG was contributed d is seen TO be- hope
less anCi. OF course, the next best thing 10
d, is 10 saw wood and say nothing nntil
after the Congressional elections OF next
year.
Scme Of the strongest of Mr.. McKinIeys
supporters in Congress are frank enough
to confess ti.at the probable result of a
present agitation of tie Gage scheme
would be a free silver BILL and. most
likely. its passage. A political buzz-saw
OF that Kind is TO be avoided lfpossib!e.
and there is not a doubt that orders have
been issued 10 and accepted by Speaker
Reed providing for prompt suppression OF
any desire TO precipitate a general cur
rency discussion. 1t may be difficult to
| prevent il, siEce. already the leading gold
organs are slowing their teeth and growl-
ing. but If Mr. Reed has made up his mind
the question Is settled.
The times., 1897-12-09
n:neIet,s Annlnpist

The New York sun COnfesses that Inc
Dingley perversion was merely a trial
and experiment and declares that the
pride @ authorship and the stubborqn-ss
that adh,.res TO prediction VIII not n
flurnce tie Industries and conscientious
Legislator no framed u In other words
Mr. Dineley VIII acknowledge lis sault
when confronted with figures. six months
ago he believed himself an economic inl-
peccabIe, NOW lie VIII gBnfess impotenry
ana eheerfully set about the enenda ION
OF the crazy structure on which ne ex-
pecteH t. support q Congress foresworn to
liberal appropriations
Tn. assertion is no longer made that the
biennial billion VIII be forthcoming as
soon as importers have disposed of al
vance shipments and lanked the bonus
assured them in Mckinley's election.
The Mckinley cult ana fts exaltati1n
did result in the raising OF revenue TO 5e
sure, Aut that revenue now lies snugly
deposited Ia the credit of forasighted
buyers OF foreign fabrics.
Meantime the man who wears the casJp
coat Is stII cheap as in Harrison's rina,
OF a. least he feels 50 when he reflects on
the use ie made Of his franchise thirteen
months ago.
But the sui.'s COMMENT carries with it
another confession, cloaked. Every in
teIligent American knows that the iss IL Of
1896 was one OF money standards, tariff
taxes not entering into tile fight at all.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat in oc-
tober, 1896, assuming to speak eA-
cathedra, distinctly pledged its party to a
conservative and cautious tariff policy.
And yet, in the face Of all this, Congress
was convened in extraordinary sc 5sinn
fer the purpose Of forcing on the people
what the Sun called measure for trial
and experiment, while the present vicious
and un@cientfic currency conditions we're
lelt to shift for themselves.
The times., 1897-12-09
CURRENCY LEGISLATION.
Initial Steps Taken at Committte
Meeting


The House Committee on Banking and
Currency held a meeting yesterday morn
ing, and appointed sahcommittees. The
committee decided 10 meet each Wsdn s.
day morning IN the future.
The nIembers OF the c0uun.ttee were
unanimous in the expression Of belief
that lill ought to be prepared as soon IS
possible ana presented to che House or
action. II was said after the ueetin-
that in al probability Two bills viii be
ready for tie House by the middle Of Fe3-
ruar =.
Chairman Walker said in resari 20
this that one of these bills woald doubtie7s
einbody the recommendation OF Secretrry
Gage and the other would he in the nature
Of a minority report and would reconltu- ut
a general bill Of different character.
Before ad jOGrning the cona4ittee adopted
n resolution as follows;
Resolved. That che committee take up
II. r. 513 amend the title 81 a. To reld
a bill to increase the circulation
OF national hanks and consider the
first tetee sections and amend them in ac-
cordance with the recQfnIpene:a tious OF ths
President OF the respective subjects r.
ferred te therein, and report the same in
form "a separate measure"
TGring the meeting the debate became
pretty waTIn ana was prseipitated by
the presentation Of the resolution quoted
b., MI. Hill OF Connecticut The three
sectinns covered by it provide haak circu-
latlor up To the par value II aonds lie
posted, reduction of the tax CA Circulation
to one-foartb Of per cent, aad the estab-
lishB.ent or small banks in rural comma
mites
The times., 1897-12-09

Tie HoE. Hannis Taylor, lately minister
at Madrid, las published statement en-
bodying his views Of the portion of Mr..
MeKinley's message relating to Cuba 1t is
masterfui arfaigument of the cold-booded
and 'srrenely cynical attitude adopted
by the Administration. Afr. Taylor points
out the utter hypocrisy of the assumption
that the publication of a royal decree by
the Queen Regent is anything better than
so mneh waste paper, as far as legally
even if the Cubans were willing TO accept
and act under it. Mr.. Taylor states that
this action on the part of the Sa gasta gov
ernmentin Spain has been widely denounced
as without warrant in law and revolution
ary which undoubtedly 1t is. The Iecrse
of autonomy assumes to abroeate whole
books Of existing national Ia ws, and to
erect in thei. place an entirely new and
totally anita gonistic code. Under the con
stirutior Of the kingdom that alone can be
done by an act or acts OF the Cortes, ap
proved by the sovereign. Until that ha
been dol TIC decree is worthless hunhug-
an executive promise made for foreign
effect; lying and treacherous. The Cortes,
which vin pass upon the matter If
it chooses To, viii not even be elected until
March Of neyt year. We Join with Mr.
Taylor in his surprise that the President
should have ventured To treat of this
autonomy delrsion at considera ble length,
and refer to it as an accomplished fact
It was hardly complimentary to the as
sumed intelligence. even sanity, OF Senators
and Memters
The times., 1897-12-09

IN, but the Chinese government has con
sented to pay him a million taels to
cover the expense OF the capture, and some
other little things Incidental or precedent
thereto. His eight-hol!r ultimatum to Haiti
seems TO have worked equally as we'll
But above and beyond these victories,
the Emperor has succeeded at home in
firing the Teutonic heart with visions II
vast coIouiaI extension in Asia, and new
and great trade outlet for German surplus
ploductions. Having done this with much
neatness and giittering eye to dramatic
effect, Wilhelm now comes back at his
ReiGhstag with his naval program, and
once More asks for 40, 900, 900 ma. ks
year fer seven years to build boats and
buy armor and guns. Heretofore IKE
Reichstag has been adamantine in its
opposition to ahv such scheme, but 4 )tc
the change. The canny Kaiser has but
to sneeZe ''Kiao- Chou and antagonisrn
vanishes. 1t Is reported from Berlin IN 1t
now he VIII be able to get his naval bill
through. without much difficulty. vii
nelm may have his faults, but his faculty
for getting there is worthy OF all praise.
The times., 1897-12-09
The Presidents Mother

To the Editor Of The Times:
Allow me to appeal to you for soma
explanation OF the outrage committed by
nearly all OF our newspa pers in their per-
sistent ailusion to the Presidents dying
mother as Mother Mckinley" 1t seems
to me this flippant familiarity is both
i'll timed and vulgar. During Mrs. Nc
Kinley's visit to the White House, at the
time OF her sons ina uguration, no one
would have dared to ddress her as
Mother Mckinley" therefore, why should
the newspapers do so now? b. b.
I'VE quite agree with our correspondent
as to the lack of delicacy in referring to
this venerable lady except as Mrs. Me-
Kinley. 1t is an error which the young
men who write headlines for the Ameri-
can press explain by a weH-authen-
ticated remark of the President himself.
During the week following his Inaugural
tion he was asked by a reporter at the
White House just how he thought his
mother should be addressed, to distinguish
her from Ills wife, and his reply was: "Oh,
call her Mother Mckinley; that is what
She Will like best This conversation
was naturally printed far and wiiie.I
The times., 1897-12-09
ouaer for nm cid soldier

When Major Mckinley delivered his In
augural address he remarked upon the pub
lie necessity for legislation which would
fill the Treasury of the country. lie said:
a npIc revenues must be supplied. not only
for the ordinary expenses OF the Govern
ment hut for the prompt payment of
liberal pensions" In view of this strong
utteramce at the outset Of his 4 Administra
ton, Ii is regarded as extremely peculiar
that the resident did not write word on
the subject of pensions frpm the beginning
to the end of his message.
just now this is unusually strange since
for weeks the press Of the country has beea
calling governmental attention to the
strange picture presented in pension list
annually growing longer, a whole genera
tion after the end of the war. This fact
and the fGrtieI one that the cost to the
people has risen until practically 1T now
equals the receipts from internal revenue
taxation, have led to a widespread and
urgent demand for light on the subject
One would suppose that Mr.. Mckinley
woulG have at least word or two to say
to Congress upon matter Of such ma
uional il terest and concern; but on the Ib
jeet of pensions his message is as dumb as
a drum with hole IN it.
The times., 1897-12-09

If our excellent young friend the German
Kaiser can manage to keen up his present
pace for while, his grandmother willneed
TO lock Up anything She may happen 10
ing scientific sense as wei! as high in
teihgence iii acquiring the fine old Eng
lish art Of holding up AMI going through
weaker nations, and, so Ear, his SUCCESS
IN this lfae, and as to some other matters
is everything that his Most ardent ad
mireIs ooUld ask. Not oaiy has he kiao
Chou and as much of the province OF Shan
TBHg as lila forces have had time 10 lake
The times., 1897-12-09

1t occurs to us to suggest to the dis
tineuisbed and punetilious minister of the
Queen Of Spain near this Government shat
he is not getting the worth of his money.
His Washington organ prints the last let
ter from its special commissioner ut Havana
side by side with the blistering statement
exhibits the Sagasta Mckinley deal 'or
what 1t is. senor Dupuy de Lone should
consult al advertising agent. Amy one
Of the guild would advise him to refuse
payment for his last advertisement Until
top of a column, next to pure rea1ing
matter, and v idely separated from any
announcement of Il rival.
The times., 1897-12-09
MAY BE CLOSE.
Opposition to the Hawaiian Annexa-
ton Treaty Somewhat Stronger.

Opposition to the Hawaiian Annexa-
ton Treaty Somewhat Stronger.
The Hawaiian annexation treaty did not
ccnt up yesterday. Tie Committee On
Furcil. Relations discussed the matter at
its session Yesterday informally, in an IF
fort to reach a program. h'It no conclus ION
was reached, Tile trea ty was reported tothe
Senate at the close OF the last session and Is
now on the calendar. None of the anti
Hawaiian annexationistS appeared before
thecomnittae, and, 50 far As can be learned,
they have not laid their side Of the case be-
fore the individual members.
The Committee has ascertained that the
present standing of Senators is such as to
warrant the belief that the vote on rati
fication will ne dangerously close. Should
ratification prove to be impossible the
joint resolution win be taken up, but that
has not been discussed.
The committee ordered a favorable report
on bill to prohibit pelaEic sealing.