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xr,u xopu nAuy TRIBUNE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 49, 1887

600 must be allowed for the difference between
the reported ard the actual vaiue OF eoo"S
brought into the country. But even then very
heavy balance would remain unsettled-aDout
ST., OOOOOO
While the widest statements have been maze
within the last year regarding the Indebtedness
of This country to Others and the sum required
each year TO meet interest and dividends due
abroad. il is well known to those who have gwen
the subject any careful investigation that the
balances required for such purposes are IN fact
compaiatiyely small No one can make sellsi
bic explanation of the foreign trade of the cOhll
try during the last ten years. or the last thirty,
without reducing very materially the sums sup
posed 10 be payable abroad; on bonds both pub
lie. municipal and corporate held in other coun-
tries. and actually paying interest; on stocks oil
American corporations held abroad and actually
paying dividends, and on property in TINS couh
try owned by foreigners, on which prohts are
actually RENTED. Not long ago it was inc
usually accepted estimate of experts that from
S1OO0O.OO0 to $l2OO0OO0 monthly covered all
balances due including undervaluations or I'M
ports But since that time the volume or IN
debtedness to other countries has certainly peeh
reduced quite largely. especially 10y the return
of securities TO this side since change OF Ma
tiona policy was declared by the election OF
1892 There is no diScoverable reason at TINS
time for believing that as much as S;o.VoO,Vo"
yearly is actually required for the liquidation
of all interest dividends and profits on Ameri-
can bonds and stocks held and property owned
in other countries.
Without doubt a considerable though I'M
known. part Of the great excess of merchandise
exports over imports has gone to reduce foreign
claims against this country. The return OF Sc
curities to this side during the months OF Presi-
dental excitement and grave Apprehension III
the money market was undoubtedly quite large
But after all allowance is made for such opera
tons. there still remains a heavy unsettled pat
ance for which no explanation appears except the
heavy operat ions in foreign exchange which are
in effect Il loan of money by the Ncw-York 10 the
London market The estimates of balances so
due vary widely. but the facts disclosed by the
official returns of foreign trade certainly tend
TO strengthen the opinion of those who claim
that even the highest current estimates of such
exchange balances fall short of the amount actl-
ally outstanding and yet to be lqudacd. II is
to he remembered that such advances are in
effect against future excess Of imports. II any
such excess should arise, and goes far to put oil
the date of probable demand upon this country
for gold in settlement of commercial obligations
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-18
REUNION OF CORNELLIANS.
MANY INTERESTING FEATURES PROMISED FOR
THEIR DINNER ON FEBRUARY 81.

MANY INTERESTING FEATURES PROMISED FOR
THEIR DINNER ON FEBRUARY 81.
The Cornell University Club will hold its seven
teenth annual dinner at the Hotel Waldorf on
Saturday evening Of next week. February q. The
club has had extremely prosperous year and
now numbers nearly 500 members. While at their
informal dinners, held at various times in the course
of the year only club members are usually gath
cred at the annual banquet such as the one to be
held next week all Comedians. whether alumni or
not are heartily welcomed All Of the speakers VIII
be men who either graduates Of Cornell or have
been closely identified with the interests Of the uni
versity.
The notice sent to the members yesterday stated
that the chief guests OF the club from outside New
York on that occa sion will be Professor Schurman
ex-President White and Professor Goodwin Smith,
each of whom will make addresses. THE large
place" writes the secretary of the Dinner Com
mttce that these hold in the hearts and
affections of all Comedians Will apparently be at
tested by the largest gathering ever assembled at
one of our dinners. Professor Goodwin Smith writes
that he will come from his home in Canada, with
ancipa tons of pleasure at the opportunity again
to ion his fellow Comedians. Professor Benjamin
Ide Wheeler will also bring us news OF great I'M
portance in relation to Cornell athletics In view
Of the present remarkable situation concerning flu
ture rowing contests between Cornell. Harvard ana
Yale unusual interest will attach 10 this message
of Professor Wheeler" Among the other speakers
will be Andrew Carnegie. Joseph c. Hendrix ana
Alfred C. Barnes. all of whom are trustees OF the
university: Justice Wimot NJ. Smith, Of the ST.
preme Court, and Isaac b. Potter, the president OF
the League OF American Wheelmen. Henry w.
Sackett the president of the club. Will preside
A short discussion of college athletics will take
Mace AT the close of the formal speechmaking
But one OF the entertaining parts of the even
ines pleasure will spring from the presence OF the
Cornell Glee. Banjo and Mandolin clubs. who VIII
from for
are very proud of the music OF these cubs. dele
ga ton from the Glee Club came down to the annual
dinner last wear and gave such fine exhibition
OF their work that it has been determined that
in greater numbers this year. All Comedians are
Invited promptly to send applications for dinner
Tickets the price OF which IL s., to Samuel s.
slater the secretary of the Dinner Committee No.
% WilIiam-st., avoid the overcrowdng of the
banque-room at the last moment as occurred last
veal
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PERSONAL.
with 1t.

The Secretary Of War and Mrs. Lamont will give
n dinner on February q in honor of General and
Mrs. Alger.
Miss Susan Il. Anthony was seventy-eight years
Old on Monday and among those who sent her let
ters of congrat ulation were Mrs Elizabeth Cady
Stanton Rachael Foster Avery, Professor Young.
William Lloyd Garrison, jr., and Ellen Wright Gar
rison
THE Chicago Times Herald says: Mrs Ham
nah c. Solomon. the first woman ir the history OF
Judaism to act as rabbi. filed the pulpit OF Sinai
Temple yesterday morning. 1t could have hap
pened I'm no Jewish temple but DIR. Hirschs. and
the congregation predicts that the incident will put
II further from orthodoxy than any other innova-
ton which II has been its pride TO make. II makes
Sinai and It's leader the talk OF the Hebrew world.
Mrs Solomon TO the pulpit. unrolled her
manuscript. proceeded much as DIR. Hrsch might
have done save that she read. and was thus unable
10 walk about the platform and talk while leaning
aver the tops OF the big chairs. She made the work
OF the Council OF Jewish Women her theme She
cpigrammatic and logical
Archduke Francis Ferdinand dEste. the heir pre-
sumptive to the Austrian throne. who has just left
Aiacclo for visit to Agiers Is said TO he steadily
improving from the tendency TO consumption which
10 result in hls death before thar OF hl
uncle the present Emperor. In Ataccio he has been
undergoing a strict course OF trea ment.
The Philadelphia Press thus refers to the lecture
course In Philadelphia OF Graham Wallas. OF oxford
University lust ended: His lectures have presented
the English phase of city government and public ed
uoaton at some points more and al other points less
successful thar that OF this country. and the COM
paratlve view which he has been able present has
been OF great value to American students Each
country has much to learn from the other. and much
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-18
FOREIGN TRADE AND SAFETY.

The statement OF foreign commerce for the
month Of January Is chiefly important on ac-
count of its direct bearing upon the condition
and probable future of the money market. 1t
was scarcely anticipated that the excess Of mer-
chandse exports over imports would prove as
great as it appears. A considerable decrease
from the almost unparalleled excess during the
last quarter Of the year 1896 was expected, be-
cause the value of exports was known to be
considerably less than in either month Of that
quarter. while there was some increase i'm the
volume of imports, during the latter part of the
month Of January, Judged by the returns for
this port only. But it appears that the excess
Of exports was. nevertheless. 1866 9SG and
this following an excess Of over 500 1000 600 in
the previous four months makes record quite
beyond all precedent. For the seven months
ending with January the excess Of merchandise
imports S2I2 064.23 and the net imports
Of gold during the same period were SG391 $50.
whereas in the corresponding months Of the
previous year the net exports We're almost the
same in amount. SG30lS3Sl.
This great change in the state OF foreign trade
is one of the chief causes Of that complete revO-
luton in feeling which has taken place in the
body Is any longer nervous about possible ex-
ports Of gold. nor is anybody lying awake nights
in the fear that rapid depletion of the Treasury
reserve may again bring upon us a monetary
panic. 1t Is well understood that the enormous
trade balances which have been created by the
excess Of exports over imports during the last
half year have not been wholly settled. On the
face Of things. the net imports OF gold would
reduce the balance due on merchandise account
to a little less than 3OO0O,OO0, which is. never
theless. very large balance for only seven
months. But there Is also TO be taken into ac-
count an excess of exports over imports Of sill.
yer and ore, amounting to about S2O.OOO.OOO. so
that the country appears to have sent abroad
not far from S2J0,OOO.OOO worth Of products and
precious metals in excess of the values received
1t is evident that this account must he modified
by n considerable allowance for differentiation
of imports AS the dutable imports during the
seven months amounted In value to S1S3943,-
1872 1t Is quite possible that as much as S37 600.
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from the correspondent Of the younger yeliow'
addressed to the editor of the elder yeiow' 'n"'
he has since learned that the woman VINO WAS
searched underwent that ordeal only twice. IN
stead Of three times; that he did not say 1t was
IN the presence of men, and that the picture ac-
campaigning his stirring account OF the same
was the work Of an OverZealOus artist III the
employ Of the younger yellow. who drew H. out
of his own head. with n pardonable desire 10
heghten the effect and justify the headlines
Moreover the woman herself has said that, not
withstanding the two examinations, she ala
manage to conceal important documents III the
interest of the insurgents and bring them away
IN safety from the island. In these circum-
stances abundant precedents for the search
might be found in our own treatment Oh sus-
pected persons during the War Of the Rebellion.
So we repeat that the omission to clothe news
papers or newspaper correspondents win the
warmaking power was wise. MOI that we
would bv any means undertake to set bounds
70 the enterprise Of our yellow contemporaries
Perish the thought Nor would we have any
check put upon the imagination of the word
parters or the fancy Of the artists who con-
tribute TO and embesh them. They seem 10
fill long-felt want, and to fill it to safety But
we do draw the line on their being clothed or
clothing themselves with the warmaklng power
We 90 further even than that, and say dellD-
erately that in our judgment Congress would
not he justified in declaring war upon the
strenc,h of their statements without first verify
ing thpm
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ons that men of that quality are, on the "hole'
best qualified to carry out its policy OF Jam all"
hustle.
We make this charge on information and pe-
lief supported by testimony Of which this once
Is full. In the nature Of things, 1t Is ihcapao'e
of direct proof, but the circumstantai evidence
il overwhelming And this is the cohpah!
which. while In addition TO all Its other SINS IL
deaantly continues to terrfy. endanger' MAIN
and slaughter people at Union Square, Is asking
for ,be nossession of half dozen additional
streets and expecting to rip up three or four
great avenues from end to end.
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Amusfmeu6.

ACADEMY OF DESIGE-Day and EVenihs
OF American Water Color Society. 49,, ,Y.,r,
ACADENY OF MCSIC--S1S-Straleht from '"e Aie"A"
HfIoI- TIiEATRIs-S:i5--Courted Into Court
PRO ANYWAY Observation-Disclosures " brieh'
i itpIsS III EaTREsiS-The Great Train Robbery
nxT.Y'S NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Geisha
Et,SspipI. TIiEATRF>-S: 2o-Under the Red Rooe'
EDEN NJ'SEE--Day and evening
GARDEN -S:20--Heartsease.
GARRICK THEATRE-S:15-Sec Secret serIIce,; pack
Sp svn OPERA HOI'SE-S-The Woman IN p'aSM
usn III r,N OPERA HOUSE-SI5-ln Cav New iCrA ,,,
HERALD SQUARE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. "'i' -'
Paris - ....,.. xvoman
1pvrNG PLACE THEATRE-S-Tata-Toto. -. cn.,
fSIcK rR B0CIiER THEATRE-S:I3-A Pair OF spec
tacles. ,.,,,
ko SrH t1E ATfF@2-S:Io-The First Gentleman OF
u1-PPAY HILL. THEATRE-s-A Boy Wan'eo'
OLYMPIA MUSIC HALI@-S15-N audeviIie'
PASTOR'S-i2:3O to IL =. m.--NaudeNiie c,,o.rv
ST NICHOLAS RINK-Day and evening-s,sSs''
" AIJ.AcK S-Sl5--For Bonnie Prince Cnarne
,xrH STREET Observation-Disclosures lnnlsearIa.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-18

service IL done by an interchange OF views and I'm.
presslons Mr. Wallas has been heard with great
profit his audiences have reached In the aggregate
1850 persons. and he has shown by his interest IN an
reform movements in progress IN this country tnat
the problem presented Is essentially the same on boh
sides OF the ocean,
The Roman Catholics OF Oregon will mark the APP
preaching silver jubilee Of Archbishop Gross by CIV
ing him handsome house in the city OF Portland.
lie was born in Baltimore sixty years ago; entered
the Redemptorst Order I'm 1857. became a priest In
1863. and after serving chaplain In the war was
this city He was consecrated Bishop of Savannah
IN 1873 and was appointed Archbishop OF Oregon In
1854
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-18
A,esu:alprk Dailp Gribn,re
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY IS. 1897.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

EOREIGN-The commander OF the Iorelsn
naval forces at Crete warned Prince George, III
command of the Greek Meet, that an au. $3.50.
on Cretan towns meant an attack on the o"e i
the Greek commander in Crete has peeh III
strrcted TO abstain from a conflict WIN the
fo,ces of the PowersI - Sharp hgnting WIN
severe losses to both Spaniards and rebels Is re-
norted from Cuba - 1t was rumored III
Madrid that a Ministerial crisis is Impending
and that Sagaua will succeed Prime Minister
Canovas - Senator Wolcott left Berlin 1or
London - The German steamer bai'iiioie 10
believed to have foundered at sea-
CONGRESS- branches in session -3 =;
Senate: The final conference report on ,ne on ~
to restrict Immigration was adopted by a vote OF
81 TO 81 and the bill now goes TO the Fresioen.,
- House: A stand in favor OF economy III
nenson legislation was taken: the conference
report on the Legislative Appropriation Diil
was adopted: the election contest from the Ath
Kentucky District was discussed.
DOMESTIC-The Senate at Albany passed
the bill providing for a new Hall of Records in
this city General Alfred Pleasanton.
distinguished Union cavalry leader in the civil
War; died at his home in Washington -
Lyman j. Gage arrived at Hot Springs. Va. 10
remain until he goes to Washington on March
- A war in prices is raging between the
New-York and the American Biscuit companies
- The National Congress of Mothers began
its sessions in Washington. - AT sale OF
trotters in Chicago. Direction (2:OS1Q, PAGER
brought $500.
CITY.-The investigation Of the Rubber Trust
continued by the legislative committee
and that of the soda Trust was begun. -
steps were taken by the Executive Committee
of the Manhattan Elevated Railway Company
looking toward the Introduction or electrlclt!
as q motive power. - The Greater New \ ORR
Commission began the consideration of the re-
port which it Will submit 10 the Legislature
along with The charter. =- Stocks We're dul
and irregular.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day
Fair and cooler. Temperate yesterday: High
os, II degrees; lowest. "a: average 1854.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-18

The House Appropriations Committee has done
we'll in granting all the funds the public service
will need. and thus obviating the necessity for
a deficiency bill 1t has been favorite trick Of
Democratic economists to cut down apprOprla-
tons below actual needs. and thus gain UNI
deserved credit for economy. and then have the
lack made up afterward by deficiency bill. That
was a vicious system, and it Is we'll to have done
with IL.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-18

The new Fourth-aye. viaduct and Harlem
River bridge have made travel into and out Of
New-York 30 per cent pleasanter. If only the
improvement could be carried all the way down
to Forty-second-st. and the tunnel abolished
another 80 per cent of pleasure would be added.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-18
Jnacr to ADVERTISEMENTS.
Business Notirrs.

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Roll Top Desks and Office FURNITURE
Great Variety Of Style and Price
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No Ill Fulton-st
SUBSCRIPTION RATES or THE TRlBI Ne
Many $40 a year; 81 a month. Without SUNDAY;
wear; 90 cents a month. sunday tribune: e.;
81 Semj-Weekiy with Twinkles. " IwlnNes, "a &,
POSTAGE-Extra postage 10 foreign Coul,,I.e' ""N ."
NeN-York City must be paid by suoscrloer'
MAIN OFFICE, 1874 Nassau-st. BRANCH OEFlCE "
Town 24o Broadway LONDON OFFICE. 20 f.ee'
81 E.. c.
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Bismarck declares that he hates war. and
would always rather arbitrate if he was sure
that it's results would give him what he wants
without fighting for It,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-18

Recent figures show that the cultivation OF
corn and literature the main agricultural
occupations Of the State of Indiana. Large guam
titles OF both these staples reach Eastern mar
kets and waste baskets. Hitherto the State has
not interfered i'm the free culture of literature
with legislation. either for its encouragement or
for it's intelligent direction Such questions, for
instance. as the proper irrigation to produce the
best crop of hexameters have been left to individ-
uaI taste and judgment. The General Assembly
Of the Commonwealth however. has just turned
its attention TO the improvement of diction and
similar matters. The Hon. Belamy Silo sutton
has introduced a bill protecting restaurant
menus and such pieces of literary art from the
corruptions Of the French language. Il object"
said this defender of English undefled Ito hav-
ing the only name upon the bill Of fare for goose
livers to be patty day for grassay.' Such dain-
ties, he says. must be named in English In future
menus. The Hon. Benjamin Silo Sutton. while
evidently believer in high living and thinking
has clearly not a good linguistic digestion.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-18

whether the new Tombs shall have costly
and ornate or a plain and inexpensive front
Is a present question of argument among the
architects. incidentally one of its features
ought to be that the prisoners cannot break
through it. even if in the whrligiS Of politics they
sometimes get an unobservant North German
metaphysican for jailer. like the current GUS
todian Of the jug in Ludlowst. The matter
Of ornament is of secondary importance, but
all the same justfes careful consideration, a
little cost, more or less not counting in a
facade built to last probably for several CEN
turtles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-18

AS between Cecil Rhodes and "Labby' the
betting is on the South African Colossus every
time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-18

Weyler's march bids fair TO become historic
for its wanton cruelty and destructiveness He
has
Amazement I'm his van. with Flight combined.
And Sorrows faded FORM AMI Solitude behind
But the worst of il all u.s. he is accC mpllshing
nothing. He may make solitude and call it
peace" but there will be no peace until Cuba
is free
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-02-18
IMAGINING A VAIN THING.


Mr. Bayard doubtless imagines that he has
received unique personal compliments from
Windsor and Marlborough House That is not
his only illusion. He has also affected TO be-
lieve that the relations of the United States
and Great Britain were strained and almost
hostile, and that ii has been his mission 20
bring the nations closer together in the bonds
OF amty and goodwill by expressing In season
and out of season his adherence OF Natrlcidal
war. He has been more excited over the mat
ter than ANYBODY else either side OF the
Atlantic. on the very night when the Presi-
dents Venezuela Message was the one topic
of conversation in London, since il had come
like thunderbolt out NJ the blue sky, MI.
Bayard was cheered repeatedly by a representa-
tive English audience. The American Ambas-
sador was well received even Oh the day when
the President had threatened England with
war: and that is perhaps adequate proof that
the situation has never been so critical as ne
has imagined So. too. he has received large
measure of English hospitality, and has con-
vinced himself thai II is something UNIQUE
which has come To him as a reward FOR his ser
vices as the CHIEF Pacihcator OF the Anglo
Saxon family OF nations, but other representa-
tives Of the United states have been accepted
as welcome guests in all the great houses ana
palaces OF England. and will re again when
he has presented his letters OF recall
Indeed. II Is not improbable that Mr. Bayaros
nervous excitability on the subject OF war De-
tween England and America has aroused more
ridcule than respect. II has been sign that ne
was out Of touch with the resouie nrinness ana
invincible courage of American character Whe'
Englishmen really like in Americans is 'so,.
Gus self-reliant patriotism that inspires tne'
respect because II is one Of their own charse,v
istic traits. AS a dpomatist. Mr.. bayaru has
lacked strength and reserve; he seems 10 nav.
forgotten the glorious traditions OF Natonai IN
danendence: ne has constantly taken eounse,,
OF his fears and he has found sehtln,em,
recreation i'm rhapsodics on the finer hartho"'''
OF Anglo-Saxon fraternity
NOT so USEFUL AS HE THINKS
:, America he 1.-The spoiled child OF Eng'is"
a,r,omacv" as one Of the European Ampass"
doris has declared with grim pleasantly M
Rayard has been, perhaps. an ideal Amoassa'"'
! for he has taken every social attention as -
sonal distinction, and has kept his pockets "" 70
with sugar plums for general distrou''0"'