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The age-herald., 1898-01-04
The Indianapolis Report.

The executive committee of the In- dlalrapofls convention presents a plan for taking the government out of the banking business that does nothing of the kind. There are, however.
 some good features in the plan.
 It proposes in the long run to re- lease the banks from the non-elastic bond-deposdt plan. It aims to tie the banks together. and to make each re- spousib1e for the shortcomings of the others. so far as the mates they may
The age-herald., 1898-01-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News.
 Poets are born, but widows are made
 The chorus girl is never as red as she is painted.
 A good forgetory is sometimes better than good memory.
 Railways employ ticket scalpers when they get to cutting rates.
 The man who is subject to hay fever should try to avoid grass widows.
 It is long head that knows no turning when a pretty girl passes
 The man in the treadmil doesn't believe that turn about is fair play.
 The printing press is responsible for many of the revolutions of this world.
 A stupid man compliments a woman's s pretty teeth, but clever man makes her laugh.
 Life seems but dreary ex-pants to the boy who has to wear his dads made-over trousers.
 fitness of the proverb, Troubles never come single"
 
 The belle in the choir often brings more young men to church than the bell in the steeple.
 The man with plenty of push is usually successful, but he isn't in it with the man who has plenty of pull.
 A certain scientist thinks the earth wab- bles. Some men who are not scientists have similar thoughts about a. m. 
 Adam had his little troubles, but he never had any dressmaking and millinery bills to worry about. -.fsa~
 Mo woman is ever really angry if man tries to kiss her, but some of them make a pretty big bluff at times.
 To make friends of men put money in their purse. To make friends of women show them how to become more beautiful.
 A man always tries to follow the straight and narrow path when 1t comes to shovel ing snow.
The age-herald., 1898-01-04

There is no doubt but what Governor Bushnell will be inaugurated for the sec ond time for Ohio's chief executive today, notwithstanding Mark Hanna is protesting against many of the clubs participating. Hanna seems to believe that unless he can fled in preventing the inauguration of the governor. though the latter was elected to his office last November.
The age-herald., 1898-01-04

The situation in the mills of New Eng land is not calculated to create the belief that neither MT. McKinley's administra- ton nor MT. Dingley's tariff law has bene- fited in any respect the condition of those who labor. In truth the opposite is shown in the most emphatic manner.
The age-herald., 1898-01-04

The dog fight pulled off at the Washing ton residence of Senator Culom, of Illinois, is fast becoming a burning political issue in his state. If the dog fight should be the means of defeating Cullom for reelection to the senate it will have been a dog fight which filled a long felt want.
The age-herald., 1898-01-04
One ThOreY.

From the Chicago News
 "what reason do you suppose that Eng fish critic had for saying that there was no morality left upon the stage?"
 'I guess somebody must have made him pay his way in to see the show"
The age-herald., 1898-01-04

Among the first places for laborers to strike against the reduction of wages dur ing the new year is at Lewiston, Maine, the home of Mir. Dingley, the father of the infamous tariff law As regards the labor ing people Mr. Dingley appears to be their worst enemy.
The age-herald., 1898-01-04

The country will not have lost anything which it can not do without should Mark Hanna be defeated.
The age-herald., 1898-01-04

Mark Hanna is now forced to take 2 good-sized quantity of his own medicine.
The age-herald., 1898-01-04

| The defeat of Mark Hanna will add much | is disgrace to that or any other state.
The age-herald., 1898-01-04

It would appear that Mark Hanna is experiencing no little trouble in delivering the goods.
The age-herald., 1898-01-04

Charles l.. Kurtz is giving Mark Hanna a splendid run for his money.
The age-herald., 1898-01-04

Those exclusive" Charleston danes who have for years imagined themselves better than other people have descended to a low level in the scale of public opinion.
The age-herald., 1898-01-04

MT. Hanna may find it necessary to open his barrel at both ends.
The age-herald., 1898-01-04

To make friends of men put money in their purse. To make friends of women show them how to become more beautiful.
The age-herald., 1898-01-04

Mo woman is ever really angry if man tries to kiss her, but some of them make a pretty big bluff at times.
The age-herald., 1898-01-04

A man always tries to follow the straight and narrow path when 1t comes to shovel ing snow.
The times., 1898-05-05
DULL IN The HOUSE.
Few Members Remain After RoI
Call.

Call.
The House had practically a day off
yesterday. The proceedings were of so
little Interest that not more than forty
or hfty' members were in attendance af-
ter the journal was read.
A joint resolution to repeal an existing
statute relating to the transportation of
goods in bond to the Free Zone" of
Mexico was taken up on motion of Gen.
Grosvenor. 1t had been unanimously re-
ported from the Ways and Means Com
mittee. The only opposition came from
Messrs. Stephens and Lanham of Texas.
After about two hours debate the reso-
luton was adopted.
The conference report on the fortiiica-
tions bill was then called up and agreed
to. Mr. Hemenway explained that the
bill as il came from the conference car
ried about Sl1, 500 000; that the sum of
sl5, 900. 600 had been allotted TO the work
of fortifcations out of the fifty million
dollar appropriation, thus making S26- =
50900) applied To that work during the
current fiscal year. He said the House
| conferees had insisted upon striking out
a Senate amendment providing that Off
| GERS of the Army and Navy might appeal
| TO the Court of Claims in support of
| claims for royalty on inventions of their
used by the government. They had also
| eliminated another Senate amendment
! providing that the funds for fortifications
| and works of defense should be disbursed
| by direction of the Board of Ordnance.
! The House confefees had insisted that
| this discretion Should remain with the
| Chief of Ordnance, Chief of Engineers
and the Secretary of War.
| Mr.. Dingley interposed to call attention
to the enormous increase" in the appro-
| priations for Notifications and coast de-
! fenses during the last few years. He said
that from 1885 TO 1899 the average yearly
expenditures for such purpose was not
over $500, 600, while from 1890 to 1896 il
averaged s.. 900 009. in 1897 it reached S. 900
| 900 and for this year it would amount tc
! $26, 500 600. He put in the Record a sta
| tistical statement showing the annual
| expenditure for all sorts of public i'm
| provements.
Mr. Lacey of Iowa called up the confer,
ence report on the bill TO extend the
homestead laws and grant right of way
70 certain railroads in Alaska and the
| House spent the remainder of the day il
a desultory discussion of it.
Mr. Loud objected to the adoption o
the report saying the Senate and the
| conferees had engrafted a whole code ol
| land laws on a homestead bill After con
siderable squabbling between Messrs
! Lacey and Loud the attendance of mem
| bers dwindled down to about dozen; tn,
| point of no quorum was made and The
| House adjourned until Y o'clock today.
The times., 1898-05-05
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
The Senate PASSES II Joint ResoIu
tion.


Immediately after the opening of the
Senate yesterday Mr.. Stewart offered an
amendment to the war revenue bill pro-
vidng for the issuance of S50ooW.GO0 OF
United States Treasury notes. This
amendment was offered as a substitute
for the loan and bond feature of the bill.
1t was referred to the Committee on
Finance
Mr. Perkins presented the conference
report on the Notifications bill. This bill,
which carries over $9.00O.O0O has been
the past six weeks.
After some discussion by Senator's Cor
man and Chandler. who both had secured
amendments to the bill which the confer
ence committee had agreed to drop out.
the report was adopted.
conference was ordered on the DH'
extending the homestead laws TO Alaska.
Mr. Gear. chairman of the Committee
on Pacific Railroads. called UP bill au-
thorizing a commission to be appointed
consisting of the Secretaries of the Treas
ury and the Interior and the Attorney
General to effect an adjustment between
the Sioux City and Union Pacihc Raii-
road Company in relation to certain
bonds issued by the United States In AID
of the construction of the road.
An amendment was offered to the bill
by Mr.. Harris providing that the Gov
ernment should not accept less in the
settlement of its claim than the princl-
pal of the bonds so issued. The measure
was debated at some length by Senators
Morgan, Pettigrew and Harris. 1t was
under discussion when the hour of
o'clock was reached and went over to
give place to a special order.
A joint resolution amending the consti-
tuition of the United States in regard to
the election of President and Vice PreSt-
dent was then taken up and passed.
The bill setting aside certain sections
of the law relating to the purchase of ar
my supplies which passed the Senate a
| few days ago and which has been
| in conference met with some opposi-
| ton when the conference report was pre-
| sented for adoption Mr.. German de-
| clared that the bill threw the doors wide
| open for all sorts of fraud, it author
| lied the purchase of supplies without adj
| vertising for bids, and in any quantities.
| Mr.. Chandler read the section OF
| the Revised Statutes under which sup
| plies We're furnished for the last war
and he also was of the opinion that there
was no necessity for the bill. The meas
| ure was laid over for further considera-
! tion.
The times., 1898-05-05
cAHNoN SCORES BoUTELLE.
One Republican Expresses His Opin-
ion of Another.

Representative Cannon Of the Appro-
priations Committee took a flying shot AT
his old antagonist, Chairman Bou-elle.
of the Naval Committee yesterday
The feud between these rival Republl-
can leaders is of long standing and it has
grown in bitterness with the lapse of
time.
Some days ago when the House agreed
TO the conference report on the naval ap
preparation bill. Mr.. Boutelle made that
measure the occasion of great self
laudation He ascribed to himself prac-
tically all he glory and renown as the
architect and builder of the present
Navy In the same connection he scored
Mr. Cannon as a persistent enemy to
naval appropriations Yesterday Mr.
Caunan began by landing Mr.. Bou.elc
But a few words showed hat he was
dealing in scathinS sarcasm. He called
attention to Boutelle's recent self-gloTiti-
cation and in conclusion Mr.. Cannon said
that he had been governed in opposing
certain naval appropria tions by his best
Judgment He had the approval of his
own conscience. He said he kept his own
head and did not pose as Napoleon of
war or Solomon of wisdom.
Mr. Boutele was absent at the time.
The times., 1898-05-05

Spaniards of good family. The natives
are taxed for everything they have or
can make. and the revenue accruing
to the Spanish treasury from this
source is some eight millions per year.
The poll tax. paid by both men and
women. amounts to twenty-five dollars
a year in some cases. A man
must pay tax for the privi-
lege of killing his own buffalo or
pig, or owning a horse. The tax col
lector iSfinformld of the amount of
money hiss aistfict is expected to pay,
and is made responsible for that
amount. If the people cannot pay he
seizes and sells their property. and
men have been imprisoned or deported
for deficits ranging from two to forty
dcllars. The Chinese have to pay
special tax, and the Chinese merchants
expect, as a matter of course, to bribe
the governors fer consideration.
The course of Spain throughout her
colonial history seems TO have been
dictated by a sort of bargain-counter
principle - quick sales and small
profits Her adventurous sons have
pCUnced upon tribe after tribe of un-
offending sayages, and employed the
quickest methods they could devise for
getting all the valuables those savages
happened to have. Sometimes the vic
tins had quantities of gold which they
! could be persuaded, by tortures, to de-
liver up to their conquerors: sometimes
they had rich lands which could be
made into plantations yielding much
money; but there seems to have been
no thought for the improvement of the
condition of the natives themselves, or
for any Iong-continued improvems mt of
the land Anyone Of ordinary sense
can see that a people burdened with
huge taxes. devoid of spirit, hope or
ambition. win not get as much out of
plantation as Independent and intel
ligent farmers, in the long run, but a
plantation can be made to yield large
profits for a short time, in this way,
and that is what the Spanish owner
always wanted. His motto was, After
me, the deIuge," and il looks very
much as if the deluge had come.
The times., 1898-05-05
DISTRICT LEGISLATION.
Mr.. BhbcCc. Reports Bill to Re.
peal the Highway Act.

peal the Highway Act.
The House District Committee yester-
day favorably reported a bill author
izing the Metropolitan Railroad Com
pany TO lay double track underground
lines from it's present terminus at the
intersection OF Eighteenth Street and Co.
lumbia Road east of Erie Street thence
along Erie Street 10 Seventeenth Street
northwest thence along Seventeenth to
Park Street.
The committee also directed a favorable
report on the bill to repeal the highway
act which Chairman Babcock says is tho
most important legislation of the session.
The bill provides:
BE it enacted &c. That the act of
Congress approved March 2 1898 entitled
An act to provide a permanent system
of highways in that part of the District
of Columbia lying outside of cities be
and the same is hereby, repealed. and all
proceedings hereunder are hereby de-
clared null and void. and the owners of
land affected by such proceedings, wheth-
er by the laying out or the extension OF
streets or by the proposed abandonment:
of old streets shah have hereafter the
same free use ana enjoyment or then
land as though such proceedings had
never been instituted: Provided. how
ever. That no subdivision in said outside
or unsubdivded part of the District oil
Columbia shall hereafter be permitted
of public record unless approved by the
commissioners of said District as being
in substantial conformity to the genera
plan of the city of Washington, and nC
street or highway in the aforesaid out
side part of said District shall hereafter
be extended or improved in any respec
whatsoever at the public expense by
grading. paving, lighting, sewering, oil
| otherwise where such street or high
way does not substantially conform tC
/ said plan of the city of Washington"
The times., 1898-05-05
CASE OF CAPT. HART.
attorney General GriGss Opposed to
Ills Pardon.

Members of Congress are taking a live
" interest in the movement now being
made TO secure the pardon of Capt Hart.
of the Laurada. who was few weeks
ago sentenced to eighteen months in the
penitentiary- Capt. Hart was sentenced
for conducting expeditions 10 Cuba. he
was engaged in the business of providing
the insurgents with arms and ammuni-
ton. the very thing this Government is
now doing Capt Hart is said 10 be in
bad health. suffering from Bright's dis
ease. The petition for his pardon has
been signed by a large number OF prom
inent men, but the application for the
pardon has been held up in the Depart
ment of Justice
a delegation waited on the President
yesterday to urge him 10 release this pFis-
oner. Attorney General Griggs is Op-
posed TO his release on diplomatic
grounds. He holds that II Capt Hart Is
pardoned Spain will have good grounds.
in the final settlement OF the war. 10 put
in 81 counter claim for damages growing
out of the filibuStering acts of Capt Hart
which acts would be. by virtue of his
/ pardon. indorsed and approved by the
/ United States.
The times., 1898-05-05

From Brussels, where Don Carlos is
the report comes that the Spanish pre-
tender was excited by the news from
Manila and also by some private tele-
grams which his highness received from
Madrid. Why Carlos should be excited is
not reported. Can it be that the prospect
of ascending a demolished throne and
reigning over bankrupt nation is exhil-
arating? 1t must be the phantom of roy
atty that the old boy exotes himself
about. Then why not go over to Liberia,
or somewhere where the title OF king can
be dad by anybody for keg of New Eng
.aRd rum and a couple of elephant 5
tusks? BY the time the present trouble
is over there will not be enough left of
Spain for Don Carlos to concern himself
with.
The times., 1898-05-05
THE REVENUE BILL.
1t VIII Not be Reported Soon as
Its MunRRers Hoped.

The Finance Committee of the Senate
spent yesterday morning considering the
war measure without reaching conclu-
sion on any Of the items over which there
is a disagreement 1t has become appar-
ent that the bill cannot be reported as
speedily as the managers hoped. 1t Is
said that the amount of revenue to be
derived from direct taxation Is not as
large as the Senate committee thinks ii
should be and several additional items
are about TO be added.
The advisability of taxing tea and cof-
fee Is again being suggested, but the
proposition is merely tentative.
The bond feature is being bitterly an
tagonized as a ruse to strengthen the
Treasury without regard to the needs Of
the war
The times., 1898-05-05

We are glad to see it announced, ap-
parently on good authority, that the Ad-
ministration has shut its door upon the
foreign iuterventonists. and that it is
determined to hold the Philippine Islands
as well as to take and keep Porto Rico
As The Times has always held, this is
the brave and only course under the
circumstances. If, as reported. President
Mckinley has said that he will not toll
crate foreign interference in any way, he
will find that the whole American people
are with him. They will make any needed
sacrifices Of treasure or blood to expel
Spain from the hemisphere, and to make
Cuba free! 1t is because they remember
the Maine!
The times., 1898-05-05
The Cape Verde Mystery.

Yesterday there was a report that
the squadron which sailed from Cape
Verde under Admiral VmamiI had
made a circuit and put back TO Cadiz.
There were clements Of possibility in
this which could not be lost upon peo-
pie who have watched the European
dispatches for the past few days. Il
has been teIegraphed from Madrid re-
peatedly that the Spanish government
would soon concentrate its remaining
naval power and make one grand
strike for revenge and restoration Of
honor" by delivering a crushing blow
al the American feet now in Cuban
waters.
1t is quite true that all this talk
may be only a manifestation Of custc-
mary Spanish tactics; that il may be
designed to cover an actual attempt to
infiict damage upon some American
seaport. CT to attempt the destruction
Of the Oregon, the Marietta and the
Nictheroy Although the case Of those
vessels would appear To be doubtful in
case the Cape Verde armada were near
ing them, the chance of such a thing
has been carefully canvassed by our
naval strateeists and We may b. reas-
onably assured that every possible pro-
vision has been made against IL.
Indeed. il is more than h.nted that ar
rangements are. in progress by which
the risk Of losing cur little squadron
now in Brazilian waters has been re-
duced To the minimum. What those
arrangements may b.. it would be
manifestly improper 20 publish. but it
may be said with considerable conf
dence that our naval authorities are
net nearly as much concerned about
the safety Of the Oregon. Marietta and
Nictheroy as the public is. Why this
should be 50 need not bother Us at this
present moment There may be reas-
ons for il quite properly withheld
from publicity for the time being. We
have only 70 hope that they are well
grounded.
Il would be a most excellent bit Of
news if the report Of ViIlamirs return
10 Cadiz were corrobOrated. Before he
could strike our coast in that case the
attack upon and capture Of Havana
and san Juan could be made accom-
plished facts. and then our whole feel
would be al leisure TO attend To his
grand combination armada. which
would be about certain 10 meet as ugly
fate as its celebrated antelope.
In the meantime, Uncle Sam wait:
with his finger on the trigger. Hi:
star-spaneled gunnery has been dem
onstrated mcst gloriously. Those whC
get within range Will not get out agar
without serious damage.
The times., 1898-05-05

We do not wonder that there is hap
piness on the Pacific Coast over the de-
cision to send an army of occupation to
the Philippines. On that side of the
continent our commerce and communica-
tions point TO the remote Orient, and
California, Oregon and Washington are
delighted to see movement which will
not only give the patriotic youth of the
section chance to serve thsir country
but which is likely to result in import
ant trade developments at the end of
Che war.
The times., 1898-05-05
The spnniards in the Philippine,

The Spaniards fn the Philippines.
Sayagery is not a good thing, but
there are things worse than savagery.
This truth Spain seems bound To illus
trate in her intercourse with other ma
tions and tribes Of the earth. Her his
tory in connection with the Philippines
seens 10 De- simply repetition Of her
history in Cuba. There are nearly two
thousand Of these islands. large and
small the largest, LuzOn, being larger
than cuba by fourteen thousand square
miles, and containing more than twice
the population Of Cuba. The original
inhabitants of these islands were Ma
LAYS. and unlike some other tribes Of
that race they were extremely kind,
gentle and peaceable folk. TIE rule of
Spain. however, seems 10 have brought
out all the supple fierceness and craft Of
the Malay at his worst, and for many
years they have been in a condition Of
either suppression or open revolt. They
have been used by their Spanish rulers
simply and solely as a source Of reve-
nue.. The islands are rich in products
Of al kinds, for every kind Of tropic
fruit is 10 be found in them, as well as
many valuable woods-ebony, logwood
ironwood and cedar; and it is perfectly
easy 10 cultivate sugar cane, tobacco,
rice. hemp. coffee, cotton, baUanas.
pineapples, and half dozen kinds OF
spices, besides wheat, corn, and vege-
tables. Gold and mercury, with other
less valuable metals, are TO be found in
the mines. and the seas are rich in tor
tolse shell. mother Of pearl. amber and
coral. The foreign trade OF Manila
amounts TO some thirty-five millions
per year. and It affords good place
not for colonization exactly, but for the
making Of sudden fortunes by young
The times., 1898-05-05
4 Word In Good Season

ITIVIII TI'TI'''IV ITIIIl IIvVBtI.J
The intimation that Spdnish spies have been
detected prowling around many places of i'm
portanoe in this country should put every com
munity on its guard against suspicious characters
II there is good ground for suspicion against
them, they should be arrested and searched Ii
not. but suspicion is still attached to them they
should be sent away from the place without a
warning. No chances should he taken with this
class OF cllaracteIs.
The times., 1898-05-05
FriendIy England.

(From the London Saturday Reviewl
American action unfortunately suggests the at
titude Of huge and boastful bully attacking an
cffetc but gehtlcmanIy old roue. with whom one
cannot help sympathizing. especially when the
bully not content with thraShjug his feeble old
opponent and stripping him OF his yaluables. bel
lows out with tears and proteStatiOns that he
docs it uuwillingly and with the highest moral
The times., 1898-05-05
The COIOnels.
(From the Chicago Posr

E2III EIO NIFI'fIs7 "70'I
''Why do you call him 'colonelY didn't know
he commanded any troops"
''He doesn't You see the fact of the matter
is IT is only courtesy title with him. lie
would be a colonel if he only had commits
sion"
OF course the moral of this is plain. Let us
he careful how manufacture titles here at
home, lest when the troops come back with those
earned in the field, there may be an overproduc-
ton as it were.