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Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

THERE is good reason to believe the
report of the board of inquiry as to the
destruction of the Maine is now in
Washington, and it's contents perhaps
by this time known to the president.
But there are several reasons why the
report should not be submitted at once
to congress and these may account for
its non-appearance for a day or two. In
the first place the immediate presenta.
ton of the report to congress might pre-.
cipitate q debate, which, reported in
Havana and Madrid. might so inflame
sentiment as to endanger the lives of
the United States ministers and the
Americans living in those places. And
again congress might make an immedi-
ate declaration of war, when vital con.
siderations might demand that it be
withheld for some days. These are ele-
ments that enter into this matter that
must be decided by the officials of the
government, and it is in. such crises as
these that the people must have conf
dence in the governmental powers.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

a call for militia was justified by the ex-
listing circumstances. In the case Of
Martin vs.. Mott, however, the supreme
court of the United States has silenced
such pretentions. Justice Story in de-
l~ivering the opinion Of the court says:
I'VE are all Of the opinion that auth.
GRITTY to decide whether the e~xigency
has arisen belongs exclusively to the
president, and that his opinion is con-
elusive upon all other persons. We
think that this construction necessarily
results from the nature of the power it.
self, and from the manifest object con-
templated by this act Of congress-. He
is necessarily constituted the judge of
the exigency in the first instance and
is bound to act accordingly to his belief
Of the facts. If he does SO act and de-
cides to call forth the militia bis orders
for this purpose are in strict conformity
with the provisions of the law, and
it would seem to follow, as a necessary
consequence, that every act done by a
subordinate officer, in obedience to such
orders, is equally justiiable."
It is generally held that the national
guardsmen cannot be legally called out
as such except through the governor,
who, in the case of a call, may order
them as a part of the quota Of his state.
At the same time it would appear that
the individual guardsmeE between the
ages of 10 and as years are subject to
the call of the president as a part of the
national militia over which he has con-
troll.
1t is the general belief that in the
event of a call for troops the governor of
North Dakota would order his quota
from the national guard, have the men
mustered into the United States service
and not take any other men for duty un-
til the active soldiers had ceased to be
sufficient or the ranks had been thinned
by death and sickness. AS to the gen.
eral understanding of the authority of
the state troops to serve anywhere a
section of the new militia bill pend
ing before congress provides that the
militiamen "shall serve wherever or
dored, within or without the territory
of the United States"
This is not a new law, but is a clear
statement of the existing law as defined
by the courts. AS the law is now the
militia is subject to the jurisdiction of
military law as soon as it is called into
the service of the United States. It is
not required that the militia should be
mustered in to give the military author
tiles of the United States control over
-
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

ANOTHER powerful address on the
Cuban question, that of Senator Thurs
ton, is perhaps the most pathetic of any
yet delivered. In opening his speech
the senator stated that he was speaking
by command of silent lips-a touching
allusion to the death of his wife which
took place but a few days ago-pre.
cipitated presumably by the horrors she
had seen in Cuba. The address of the
senator is powerful-its relation Of the
miseries of Cuba h~orrifying:
II I had my way,I would shield the
American public even from the photo
graphic reproductions of the awful
scenes that I viewedsin all their original
ghastliness. OF the 225,OOO soldiers
Spain had sent to Cuba, less than 10000
were now available for duty. The re-
mainder are dead, sick in hospitals, or
returned to painfincapacitated. It is
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

Two P]osToFF1cE appointments, over
which there has been a contest, have
been settled in the appointment of D.
R. Davidson as postmaster at Wahpeton
and G. X. McEwan as postmaster at
Park River. Davidson is chairman of
the republican committee of Richland
county, and an active and energetic re-
publican. He was opposed by Editor
Morrill, of the Gazette, who had the
backing of Judge Lauder, and it is un-
derstood that the recent trip of
Lauder to Washington was in the in
terest of Morrill,. Davidson had the en-
dorsement of Senator Hansbrough. In
the Park River fight, Editor j. Morley
Wyard was the opponent Of McEwan,
who is a leading business man and a
leading republican. Both appoint
ments will doubtless be satisfactory to
the republicans of the two cities, and to
the people generally.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

If there should be war a Spanish
navy in American waters would be fear
fully handicapped by difficulty of Sc
curing supplies of fuel. For any SER
ious attempt on northern or central
potts of this country supplies would be
required greater than any except a few
vessels of the Spanish navy can bring
with them across the ocean. Consider
able supplies are usually purchased by
Spain from Great Britain and sent tc
Havana, but it is likely in the event of
war the harbor of Havana would be
practically closed against all Spanish
vessels within a few days. Merchant
vessels bringing supplies to a Spanish
fleet would be liable to seizure, and the
fleet itself, if attended across the At
lantic by coal-carrying vessels, would
find it vastly more difficult to defend
them than to defend itself. Under
what conditions and limitations sup.
plies can be purchased by armed YES
sells in neutral ports, such as those of
Great Britain in the West Indies, would
depend upon constructions Of interna-
tional law which the British officials
would not be likely to strain, at any
rate in favor of Spain. But in any case
supplies so obtained would be a most
inadequate reliance for a hostile fleet
operating against American ports or
navies.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

The situation throughout the country
as to a declaration of war appears to be
we'll illustrated in a special from Wash
ington which says:
"a representative from Ohio came
into the navy department this morning
and said in a loud voice: .Then are we
going to declare war;"
against whom?"
'Spain, of course"
"For what?"
81 don't care ~; on general princi-
pies, any old thing will do. We have
given you s50,OO0,0OO to buy guns and
powder and now we want to hear them
go off. I got forty.two letters in my
mail this morning. Every one of them
asked when the fighting would COM
mence and most of writer's asked me to
tender their services to the president"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

England, France and every other great
nation has done IN crises, and as all Of
them would do in the Cuban case il
they were in the United States place.
American trade with Cuba has been cut
down nearly two.thirds by the war, in
volving a loss of over $4,000, COO a year
to this country. American citizen resi-
dents in Cuba have lost ten millions of
dollars by the destruction of their prop.
erty. The United States can base in
PREVENTION IN the desire to help a PEG.
pie struggling for liberty, as France did
when she aided the United States in
1776.'8l, and as England, France and
Russia did in the Greek instance. In
terv ention can be based on the broad
grounds of humanity, as it was when
Russia stepped in and whipped the
Turks in 1877. A more barbarous ma
ii on than Turkey is perpetrating atroci-
ties on our border which made the
Bashi Bazouk outrages in Bulgaria look
hum ane, and the only way in which
they can be ended is by interference by
us. II the plea be made that, in JEFF
fereon's words in the declaration of in
dependence, ga decent regard to the
opinions Of mankind'' demands that we
should tell the world beforehand the
reasons why we intervene, the answer
is that the world knows the reasons,
and undoubtedly holds them to be ade-
Quate.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

SENATOR HANsBRoUGH says of the
Cuban situation: I hope that Spain
will see it to her advantage before
many days to relinquish her claims to
governing the Cubans. I think they
are quite as capable of self government
as Spain is capable Of governing them.
There should be no selfishness in this
proposition. We do not want Cuba as
an investment. The onlySthing we are
interested in is that responsibility Of
the destruction of the Maine shall be
placed where it belongs.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

currently reported that 31,UOO are now
sick in the hospitals on the island. The
army was in poor condition and under
lax discipline. I do not believe that the
entire Spanish army in Cuba could
stand an engagement in the open field
against 10000 we'll disciplined American
soldiers. As to the Spanish soldiers,
they of all people On earth would most
gladly welcome any result which would
enable them to return to their homes.
The pictures in the American news
papers of the starving reconcentrados
are true. They can all be duplicated by
the thousands. l never saw, and please
God I may nevrer again see, so deplor-
able a sight as the reconcentrados in the
suburbs of Mantazas. I can never forget
to my dying hour the hopeless anguish
of their despairing eyes. Huddled about
their little bark huts, they raised no
voice of appeal to us for aims as we went
among them. Men, women and children
stand silent, furnishing. Their only ap-
peal comes from their sad eyes, through
which one looks as through an open
window into their agonizing souls.
In Matanzas the people have also
done all they possibly could for the re.
concentrates, but it was too true that
many Matanzas people who resided in
fine houses scarcely knew where their
own next meal was to come from. The
governor was willing that the reconcen-
trados should pass the trocha to their
homes, but the great majority were
physically unable to do 30. Their fate
was a slow death by starvation. The
governor of Matanzas could see no end
to this condition of affairs and could
suggest no relief except through the
United States.
The government of Spain has not, and
will not appropriate one dollar to save
these people. They are now being at
tended and nursed and administered to
by the charity of the United States.
Think OF the spectacle. We are feeding
these citizens of Spain; W are nursing
their sick; we are saving such as can be
saved, and yet there are those who still
say it ie not right for US to send food,
but we must keep hands off. I say that
the time has come when muskets ought
to go with the food.
Ishall refer to these horrible things
no further. They are there. God pity
me; [ have seer them; they will remain
in my mind forever-and this is almost
the twentieth century! Christ died
1900 years ago and Spain is Christian
nation, she has set up more crosses in
more lands, beneath more skies, and
under them has butchered more people
than all the nations of the earth COM
bined.
Europe may tolerate her existence as
long as the people of the old world
wish. God grant that before another
Christmas morning the last vestige OF
Spanish tyranny and oppression5 will
have vanished from the western hemis-
phere.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

MAYOR JOHNSON seeks reelection as
an independent candidate for mayor Of
Fargo on the strength of his tax record
he claiming that the passage of the
retroactive tax law was due to his ef-
forts. But as the records also show
that johnson was paid something over
$500 in railroad fare, expenses, services,
etc.. for the work done in connection
Herewith, is the city further bound to
feel under obligations? Having settled
for the services Of johnson, ought the
incident not to be consided closed?
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

will not endeavor to elect any for other
cities. Bismarck has been the target Of
a number of would be reformers and
hypocrites for the past year and if it
should now turn down the men who
have been the especial targets of these
'retormers, it would merely build the
latter up, to destroy the city's opportuni-
ties at the first chance offered them. The
TRIBUNE believes that the voters of the
city will endorse tho present admins.
tration in convention and that the
voters will support it when the election
is at hand.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01
WHAT IS OUR DuTY7

The report of the court of inquiry on
the Maine disaster has been submitted
to congress. The people have waited
patiently until the official finding of the
court is announced, as they were i'm
plored to. do. Now as it is officially es-
tablished that the Maine was destroyed
by a floating mine or torpedo, the ques-
ton will he forced upon congress by the
people. What does the nation intend to
do about it?
Perhaps any other nation in the world
than the United States would already
have declared war against Spain. But
the United States is not given to hasty
actions. But too much delay is as bad
as too great haste. Every delay gained
by Spain is a diplomatic and military
advantage to Spain. That she expects
war is proven by the dispatch Of her
torpedo feet to Cuba. The vessels can
not certainly be intended for the hurl-
ing of torpedoes against the insurgents,
who are in the mountains many miles
inland. The only construction of
SPANS action is that she intends to
use these vessels against the ships of
the United States, and is masking her
purpose with the same treachery that
has characterized her previous actions,
until she shall make it known by blow
ing another war vessel out of the water.
The Cuban question from present ap-
pearances, will never be peaceably set
tied. Cuba demands independence or
death. She refuses to treat for any of
the proposed autonomy measures put
forth by the Spanish government for
the sole purpose of gaining time. There
is at present talk of an armistice, but
this would permit Spain to recoup her
shattered during the rainy
season in Cuba, and return to the con
test afterward with renewed vigor. In
the meantime the Cubans are starving
by the thousands. There is no need to
take the authority of sensational papers
for this. Persons no less distinguished
than Senators Proctor and Thurston
testify to the horrible conditions pre-
vailing on the island.
The foul treachery of Spanish sub
jects in blowing up the Maine may not
be considered by some members of con-
gress as a sufficient cause for interven-
ton and war. Span insists that
the destruction of the battleship was
due to internal causes, and will refuse
any demand for reparation and indem-
nifty. She is in the position of the
braggart whom nothing but a sound
thrashing will satisfy. She is talking
peace and preparing for war. There is
nothing to be gained by Disgusting the
facts. What then is the duty of the
American people?
II we are not to interfere because of the
destruction of the Maine, if we are not
to ask for satisfaction for the murder of
$50 American sailors, are we not war
ranted in Intervention to prevent the
starving Of the whole helpless popula-
tion of Cuba? Are we so sensitive to
the opinion of the world that we hesi-
tate to declare war, and yet hardened
enough to allow hundreds of thousands
to meet the slow death of starvation
when we might prevent it?
The United States can base interven-
ton on the ground Of self-interest, as
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

UNCLE SAM should settle the problem
0 fCuban starvation by sending down sew
eral cargoes of bred and butter and bull.
let's. Bread for the Cubans, bullets for
the Spaniards and butter-well, we
might get along without sending the
butter.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

Norm DAKorANs appear to take
naturally to politics as is evidenced in
the case Of johnson Nickeus, formerly
OF jamestown, who now comes to the
front as the republican candidate for
mayor of Tacoma.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

PERR1NE's comet is approaching the
eatrh at the rate Of a million miles q day,
and we are inclined to believe the Span
ish are postponing hortilities in the
hope that it will wipe out the United
States.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

The return movement from the Klon-
dixie has set in and every train east
bound carries some unfortunate pilgrim
who has either failed to make as take, or
been unable to reach Alaska at all. The
majority of the pilgrims coming home
are broke, and the Klondike is being
literally cursed in American and several
foreign languages.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

CONGRESSMAN JoHNsoN's ghost story
machine at Washington is in running
order again, and the latest report from
there is that johnson will have the
undying opposition of Jim Hill for the
senate, because the latter knows that
johnson would do nothing. for him.
This will no doubt edify the people and
amuse Hill.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

IF the government adheres to it's reso-
luton to call for none but unmarried
men as volunteers, the justices Of the
peace and the preachers will have to
work overtime for the next few weeks.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

The battleship Kentucky is not the
only thing that has been christened
with water in the past few days. The
states OF Ohio and Indiana have also
been in line for a liberal baptism.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

the amount collected for taxes from
year to year in the past, owing to de-
fault in the. payment OF taxes, has been
less than the expenses of running the
city and each year found the debt
larger than the year previous. Since
the present administration took charge
of the city finances and for the last two
years the debt has been materially
lowered. Owing to the energy Of the
county commissioners Of this county a
large amount of the back taxes has
been collected, and through the system
adopted by Mayor Patterson and the
board Of aldermen every cent of that tax
collected has been taken to pay the old
outstanding debt, and while the old
warrants and certificates have been
called in, lew warrants and certificates
have not been issued to pay the salaries
and running expenses of the city but
everything has been paid from the
license fund. During the present adj
ministration there has been collected
from back taxes the sum 1880. There
has not been a scratch of a pen made
that accumulated a cent of indebted
ness against the city, consequently the
city debt has been reduced $3.50. The
city has expended for the last two years
(not including the contract price paid
for water which is paid from a special
fund and raised by a special tax levy
and must be the same in every admins
t%ration) al lof which has been col
lected from license, S8,137.65. Had GER
tiicates been issued at 20 cents on the
dollar this would have made an add.
tional debt now outstanding against the
city of five times actual amount we
have %expended) s40,6s5.25. Deducting
the taxes collected, s9,33O, would leave
the city in debt more than when the
present officials took charge, s31 1855. %.
Consequently the city is better off
owing to the financial management of
the city under the present license sys-
TEN than if same had not been the
adopted, s31,355.25. 1t will hardly be
claimed that any citizens or taxpayers
would take charge of the financial
affairs of the city and attempt to pay
the running expenses out of the taxes
on real and personal property. Nor is
it probable that any political party,
faction or set of men could take charge
of the finances of the city and change
the policy now established without at
the end Of the first year showing a con-
siderable deficit. The operation of the
city finances at this time is vitality inn
portant and those who have the taxes
to pay know whom they want for their
officials, those who will give an econom-
ical administration of city affairs. The
present mayor and board of aldermen
have done that and the TRIBUNE be-
lieves the voters of Bismarck will see it.
to their advantage to r~e.elect the mayor
and board of aldermen that have thus
conducted the city finances for the last
year.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

We note a lamentable tendency on
the part Of the state press to make too
much OF this Spanish disturbance and
too little Of the receptive candidacy Of
Editor Winship for governor.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

ADv1cEs from Marshall county, Iowa,
state that $50 families have left there
for North Dakota and more are to come.
This {rush of immigration may crowd
the accommodations of the state, but
we will struggle to provide comfortable
homes for all who may decide to come.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-04-01

In connection 9Th the approaching
city election it may be stated that Bis
marck, like other cities, will content
itself with electing it's own officials, and
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