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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25
CONDENSATION OF PRIZES.
Method of Procedure Being Thor
OughIy Looked Up.

WASHINGTON, April 24.-Secretary
Long has received from Admiral Samp-
son dispatches telling of the capture of
several Spanish merchantmen which
are to be held as prizes and to
be disposed of according to law, If
the protests made against such seizures
are held to be without ground. Judge
Advocate General Lemley, the law Of
ficer Of the navy department, has been
looking up the statutes on the subject
and is prepared to assist the secretary
in any way necessary.
The law provides that the condem-
nation proceedings in the matter of
prize vessels shall be conducted under
the supervision of the district courts
1t is made the duty of the command
ing officer Of the vessel making a cap
ture to secure the documents Of the
ship and cargo and send them to-
gether with certain witnesses from the
captured vessel to the district court in
which the proceedings for the distribu-
ton of the prize money are to be
had. The attorney for the United States
is to promptly file libel against the
ings necessary. The evidence is to be
taken by prize commissaries. not ex-
ceeding three in number. one of whom
is to be a retired naval officer, and at
least one Of the others a member Of
the bar Of the court, of not less than
three years standing, and acquainted
with the taking Of dispositions.
If the sale of the prize is ordered
the gross proceeds are to be deposited
with the assistant treasurer Of the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25
"Better to Open the rIiI.s."

1t is better to open the mills than
the minis" sententiously declared Mr..
Mckinley to the admiring crowd that
filled the Canton lawn one day during
the summer of go And the epigram
was taken up and became one of the
shibboleths of that campaign In the
same vein was the constant comparf-
son of the year 1892, when 1.-THE high
tide of Republican prosperity" was
reached, and just before Democratic
free trade brought on the Demo-
cratic hard times" Then everything
was prosperous; then the mills were in
full blast if the minis were silent; then
there was work for every one.
The New York Tribune discusses the
conditions of iron manufacture at
the present time and compares them
with the conditions existing in 1890.
The present conditions make grim COM
ment on that opening of the mills.
Then there were 437 furnaces in blast;
now, of the 443 in existence, 17S are in
operation and 165 are silent. That num-
Der includes only the anthracite, BIZ
luminous and coke furnaces Of the
charcoal furnaces there were then 146
in the country, of which SO were pro-
ducing; now there are but II. In eight
years 40 per cent OF the one and Is per
cent Of the other mills producing iron
have gone out of operation
AS Dingleyism has not opened these
mills, so Gormanism did not close them.
though the claim that the latter did
was a good enough Morgan" in 1896
until after election The cause is due
to that concentration that is the dis
tinguishing industrial feature of this
end of the century. The fewer mills
are making more iron than did the
greater number eight years ago. The
average weekly product of the 17S in
blast is 1928 tons, as against $50 each
for the 231 in blast in 1890. The evolu-
ton in that industry is equally marked
when we note that the average capac-
ity of the 165 now out Of blast is sol
tons, but IS tons more than was the
average product of the 231 mills at work
in 1890. These facts show that there
are forces at work that brook no tar
tiffs, and that there, as everywhere, the
fittest survive
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25

United States at the place nearest e.
lne SAFE subject to the order of the
court. The court is to make a decree
sells are to share in the nrize Ga
whether the prize was of superior.
equal or inferior force to the vessel or
Vessels making the capture. The net
prize shall, when the prize was of su9
perlor or equal force to the vessel or
vessels making the capture, be decree6
TO the captors. This provision was evil
IDENTITY put in the law with view to
encouraging vessel captains to exert
thelr greatest effort when meeting a
zoe of superior or of equal strength
as the same section of the law provides
that, when the prize vessel was of
INFERIOR force to the captors, one-half
ot the net proceeds is to be decreed to
the United States and the other hale
TO the captors. In cases where the
amount in controversy exceeds 81 OO0
appeals may be taken to the supreme
court
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25
An Auspiclous Coincidence.

The first marine prize captured in
the existing Spanish-American war
goes to tine credit of the crew of the
gunboat Nashville; and her command
er. Washburn Maynard, is, it appears,
a resident of the city of Knoxville. in
the same state Of which Nashville, the
city for which the vessel was origin
ally named, is the capital. This Is a
pleasing coincidence, and no patriot
to the northward will regret it's oc-
currence.
The geographical location Of Ten
nessee, as well as it's sentimental re-
lat1on to the divided sections of the
country during the War of the Re
bellion, is we'll known and remem-
bered. This war is one of union as
against a foreign foe; and the firing
Of the first shot in the present con-
f1ict, from the deck of war vessel
bearing the name of the capital city
of central state of the Union, itself
at one time divided in it's relationship
to that Union, and commanded by a
naval officer himself a resident of that
commonwealth, ought to resound, echo
upon echo, as the assuring voice Of
peace between the Northern and South
ern sections of this country and as a
guarantee that that union Is real
The unanimity with which, in this
crisis, the representatives Of the North
and South have stood together in con-
gress, barring the introduction of some
unfortunate, but inevitable, personal
and extreme partisan incidents COM
mon to the heat of debate, for which
both sides are to blame, affords an in
teresting and gratifying spectacle.
The Stars and Stripes constitute the
banner under which leadership in the
pending contest is to be undertaken;
and it is source of joy to the Ameri-
can heart, as whole, to realize that
this standard can as safely be en-
trusted to the hands of the Southern
soldier, who, for sentimental reasons,
lovingly hugs to his bosom the ashes
of the crumbling emblem of the lost
cause of the Confederacy. as to the
sentinel in the blue uniform Of the
Northern hero who opposed him a gen.
eration age. This war with Spain
will not prove proftless as a patriotic
object lesson, at any rate.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25
The Reversal OF a Theory.

''The best laid plans O. mice and men
gang aft agley." The laws men frame
to regulate human conduct fail to reg
ulate as intended and regulate in a
manner wholly unattended. The COM
pass by which the course Of the ship
of state is to be sailed feels the divert
ing pull of occult forces and sends the
ship on a different course. The fathers
frame a constitution according to the
best light of the wisdom of their day
to meet the exigencies Of the future,
and the silent, resistless forces of So
Geological development begin to bend
the iron frame where it will yield and
break it where it is too rigid. And so
silently is the work done that neither
it's progress nor it's accomplishment is
sensed until a comparison is made with
what was designed and what is accom-
plished.
Among the reversals of theory that
the development of a century has
worked in the designs of the trainers of
the constitution, none is more marked
than is the function of the senate.
There prevailed a profound distrust of
the capacity of the people for self-con-
troll. The precedent of the growth of
government in England had made it
essential that there be one branch of
our government in which the people
should be directly represented, but in
order to put restraint upon the prone
ness of the mass to yield to passion
to prejudice; in order to guard against
the dangers of imprudent action incit-
Of ~
thought to be imperative that a coun-
terbalancing branch be formed, the Sc
lection of whose members should be
removed as far as possible from the
body of the people, thereby insuring
the presence of a conservative BODY.
uninf1uenced by popular clamor, ire
sponsible to the electorate, chosen for
their eminent wisdom. Hence the SEN
ate of the United States, designed to
act as a governor, preventing an ac-
cumulated head of steam from driving
the machinery at a rate Of speed that
would destroy it.
We are witnessing today. as we have
frequently seen in recent years. how
completely this theory has been re-
Versed in the development of the GEN.
tury Of practice. For twenty-five wears
it is the house that has been the con-
sentative body, and it is the SEN
ate that has been the seat of rad
icalism. Time and again has the house
checked the impetuosity of the senate.
as it has just now in preventing that
body from invading the presidential do
main and arrogating to congress one
OF its most important functions. the
recognition Of the establishment of for
e1gn governments. This action is all
the more creditable that it was one of
self-denial, for the house would have
shared with the senate the prerogative
OF which it had helped to rob the presi-
Dental Office.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25
Continues to Be Silly.

The Minneapolis Tribune attributes
the absence this year of Pingree DO
tato patches in it's city to what it Is
pleased to call the Mckinley pros
perity" that sets the mills to running
ed the patches while out of employ
ment to gain sustenance for THAR
families. What the Tribune means by
Mckinley prosperity is the displace-
ment Of the German tariff with the
Dingley act, the former, according to
this veracious organ, having been the
cause of the panic Of 1893 and the en-
suing depression, and the latter hav-
ing restored prosperity"
If this reasoning is sound, it is be-
cause like causes always produce like
effects, that prosperity depends upon
the degree of taxation, and that a
lowering of the rates brings disaster
while their increase brings prosperity.
If this is true at all, it is true every
where. 1t is as true across the mag
mary line that divides the Dominion
from the United States as it is within
the borders Of either. Economic law
recognizes none of the artificial
boundary lines established by COM
mun1tles. The same motives move men
there as here; the same conditions af-
feet them alike whichever side of the
border they are.
And yet fiscal policies in the two
countries have been moving on direct
ly opposite lines. For over twenty
years Canada trailed after the United
States in the policy of protection. Two
years ago, at the moment when pro-
lection was being restored in this
country in all it's virility, Canada took
the opposite direction. Laurier. with
a policy whose avowed end is free
trade, came into power. Parliament
began the Introduction Of the free trade
policy there by large reductions of
taxation. 1t made preferential re-
duction to countries admitting Cam
adam products Of one-eighth. to he
increased in July Of this year to one
fourth. Surely, if the contention of
our protectionists is sound, if their
charges of the financial distress upon
the reductions apprehended after 1892
and made in 1894 were true, there
should have fallen upon the Dominion
dire industrial distress. Instead. we
hear of an increase of prosperity.
development of industries, a growth of
trade beside which, proportionally.
ours is insignificant.
Conditions have been mending with
us ever since the first shock Of the
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25

The statement of receipts and ex-
pendltures for March brings no encour-
agement to those who have been fond
~ contemplating Mr.. Dingley's meas
ure as producer of revenue. The lit
tie spasm Of exultation over the di-
minutive surplus of February ends in
a sroan as the familiar face Of The
old deficit reappears in the summary
foi' March. 1t was the So, 651, 500 paid in
on account of the sale of the Kansas
Pacific road that prevented the deficit
from being plainly seen. The receipts
from customs, internal revenue and
miscellaneous sources, other than the
Pacific road sale, were $29, 1907, $50 and
the expenditures were s31, 1882, 444, leav-
ing a deficiency Of over 81, 500, 600. The
D1ngley act made no changes in the
internal revenue taxes, and they show,
for the nine months of the fiscal wear.
a gain of over 12,5OO,0OO as compared
with the same period of the prior wear.
While the duties, that were changed TO
insure prompt increase of revenue
and obliterate that abhorred deficiency.
show decrease Of nearly $500. 900
when compared with receipts from the
same source for the same time under
the former law. The increase in ex
penditure is almost wholly in the de-
partments Of war and navy, those for
the former for the nine months almost
exactly equaling those for the Antire
fiscal year 1867, and those for the
navy about equaling those for the
fiscal year 1856. The announced de-
termination Of the ways and means
committee to impose additional taxes
to meet war expenses gets confirma-
ton from this view of the productive
ness of the present revenue law.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25
TODAY'S EVENTS.

METROPOLITAN - Roland Reed in "The
Wrong Mr.. Wright" S:15 PM.
GRAND-Marie Wainwright in "Shall We
Forgive Herr" Sis PM
Chamber of Commerce st. Paul Fire and
Marine building, 8 AM.
Sons of Veterans rally, Central hall, Sixth
and Seventh streets. PM.
State Historical Society. capitol. s PM.
Crusaders T. A. society anniversary. Gre in
hall, 8 PM.
AN. ~
Democrat-Citizens mass meeting, Francis
and Forest streets, 3 PM
Easteride meeting, Church cub, Ryan hotel.
7:30 PM.
Annual ball Liberty Council ]. o. U. A. NJ.
Greenwood and State, s PM
Democrat-Cftizens' meeting, Jarosz's hill
Eighth ward, PM.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25
BEAT CREW TO QUARTERS
EXCITING INCIDENT ON THE
NEW YORK
Chase OF a War Vessel Which 1t Was
Believed Was the Vizcaya, but
Proved to Be the Italian Giovanni
Bausan-Rear Admiral SamD.
son Gets His First Salute From
a Foreigner.

Copyright, 1898, by the Associated Press.
ON BOARD THE FLAGSHIP NEW
YORK, OFF HAVANA, April %, 2 D.
m. drilled Key West, midnight, April
23)-The Puritan, Nashville, Marble
head and Ericsson arrived from Key
West this morning. The Ericsson al
most Immediately returned to Key
West with dispatches At 10 o'clock
this morning the monitor Puritan, the
cruiser Cincinnati, the gunboats Ma
chias. Nashville, Castine and Newport
and the torpedo boats Foote and Win
slow left the squadron to blockade Ma
tanZas, Mariel and Cardenas They
formed separate divisions, and after
they had passed out Of sight the re-
madnder of the fleet took up g. regular
formation, having drifted some fifteen
miles from MORO Castle. The general
advance was made at half speed. Capt.
Evans, not quite certain Of the position
he was entitled to take with the Iowa,
caught up abreast Of the, flagship, and
shouted through the megaphone: How
near may I go?" Rear Admiral Samp
son, who was standing on the after
bridge, replied: "As near as you can
without drawing the fire Of the bat
terieS.'
"An right" Capt Evans shouted
back in tones that expressed the keen
est disappointment. The Iowa then
went ahead.
About half an hour after the squad
ron was well under way, the cruiser
Cincinnati was seen on the Eastern
horizon, the smoke pouring from her
tunnels. She had been headed for Ma
tanzas and evidently had turned back
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25

collapse was felt and the process of
recuperation set in. 1t was accelerat-
ed by the reductions made by the act
OF 1894. Under 1t our exports of manu-
features leaped upwards. Improve
ment has gone on In spite of the hand
leap Of the Dingley act. The energies
and industry Of our people cannot be
suppressed by any burden. But what
utter childishness it is to insist,
in the face Of the Canadian REPUTATION
Of the doctrine, that prosperity de-
ponds upon increase Of taxation,
and that what measure Of pros
perity we enjoy is due to the increase
made in 1897. The contention that the
moon is but great, green cheese is
quite as sensible.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25
NEW YORK AND ST. LOUIS I'M
Present Crews Signed for War Dutv
Neither Of the Boats TO BE Ar
mOred.

Present crews Signed for War nutx
Neither OF the boats TO BE Ar.
mOred.
NEW YORK, April 24.-The Amari-
can line steamship New York arrived
today but she brought neither nas-
sengers, mail nor cargo. The New York
experienced heavy weather throueb-
out, out otherwIse had an uneventful
voyage. Her officers and crew at NO
time feared being intercepted by anv
spanish war vessels. She carries a
crew of about AGO. all told. includin@
capt. Passow and Chief Officer Rrad9
shaw. AS soon as the ocean liner was
moored alongside her pier, all hands
were pald on. Capt. Passow, his Of
ncers and such of the other members
of the crew as desired to serve ON the
snip under the new conditions were
signed Immediately by Deputy United
States Shipping Commissioner Baer
Each OF the men signed articles with
the American line company, and NOT
with Uncle SAM" These articles were
twelve months term, to go anywhere
or everywhere. The wages agreed upon
were the current merchant marine
rate paid by the International Navi-
cation company, but the latter orally
agree to pay each officer, engineer. fire.
man, seaman, etc., a bonus of so per
cent Tor good conduct at the terni-
nation of the period signed for
All but ten members of the crew
signed, and these ten wanted higher
wages.
The crew will wear the American
line uniform" said Manager Griscom.
and neither the New York nor st.
Louis is to be altered, so far as 1
know
Il believe that neither the New
York. ST. Louis nor Paris is to be ar
mored for protection, nor, so far as I
can learn, are they to be heavily armed
but this is mere conjecture on my
part"
Out of the APO officers and men COM
prising the crew of the American liner
st. Louis, which arrived here last
night, only seven refused to sign arti-
eles when requested to do so when
they We're paid off. Deputy United
States Shipping Commissioner Raer
said today that Alb men have signed
articles for twelve months with the
American line to sail anywhere and
everywhere and no place in particu-
lar" as the commissioner expressed it.
The company agrees to pay bonus of
90 per cent for good conduct, in addi-
ton to the regular wages, at the expi-
ration of the contracts.
Not All the French with Spain.
PARIS, April 24.-At the instance of Michael
Davitt member of the British parliament for
South Mayo, Henri Rochefort has cabled to
John T. Morgan. United States senator from
Alabama, declaring that the assertion that
all Frenchmen and the entire French press
are on the side Of Spain is erroneous.
On the contrary, the editor of LIntransi-
sympathize with the Cubans and their liber.
ators
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25
Leaves n Danger in the Rear.
Lee at Grants Funeral.
From the New York Times

I
Without doubt Fitzhugh Lee is a very typi-
cal Virginian, and even more clearly he is
the popular idol of the hour. He was a gall
liant soldier, and it would be hard to say
that Virginia has had better governor since
the war. But his national popularity dates
from his appearance In New York at the
funeral of Gen. Grant fifteen years ago. AS
the only member Of Gen. Hancocks staff in
civilians dress he was necessarily a conspic-
uous figure in that memorable procession,
and he was conspicuous also by his impress
sive presence and his mastery horsemanship.
It was the chivalrous impulse that had led
person to pay the last honors to the vic
torious commander of the Union army that
touched the popular imagination and made
his election the same year to the governor
ship of Virginia a matter of national con-
graduation.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25
MONDAYS WEATHER.
Fair: Variable Winds.

By the United States Weather Bureau.
AIINNESOTA-Fairn ortAerly winds, becom-
ing variable.
WISCONSIN-Fair weather; light MOI therly
winds, becoming variable.
1OWA-Fair weather; northerly winds be-
coming variable
NORTH DAKOTA-Fair; warmer in western
portions; variable winds, becoming soutl-
erly.
SOUTH DAKOTA-Fair and warmer.
MONTANA-Fair: warmer in eastern por-
tons; southerly winds.
YESTERDAYS TEMPERATURES.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25
This Yarn Has Scales on 1t.

From the Mobiles County Democrat.
AS an illustration Of one of the peculiari-
ties Of the civil service laws 1t is stated that
a man who had successful y managed large
mercantile business and acquired therein a
fortune was turned down in the examination
because he wrote ''sox'' for socks, and when
his attention was called to the error changed
it by writing "soxes."
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25

glasses, from the flagship while the
capture Of the schooner and the prepa-
rations for fight were In progress.
The monitor Terror arrived from Key
West this afternoon
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25

Dear Blanco. you may as we'll I'M
derstand first as last that the North
Atlantic squadron cannot be scared by
plain blufing. You'll have to burn
lot Of gunpowder behind well directed
bullets TO make Uncle sam's soldier
boys respect You.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25
Spanish IroncIad Sails.

TOULON, France. April 24.-The old Span
ism ironclad NumancIa. which has been I'M
shipyards, started yesterday for Barcelona
under sealed orders Her repairs not being
completed, she was lowed by the Spanish
steamer Cabonao from Marseilles, starting In
the darkness in order to escape observation.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25
He's ga Injia Rubber Ijiot.,

He's ga Injfa Rubber Ijiot."
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
The friends of Cuban independence are now
singing:
Rubens Rubens we've been thinking,
What a fina world this would be,
II the fools were al transported
Far beyond the Northern sea
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25

The Pioneer Press yesterday print
ed on it's first page very good repro
duction Of the New York Press allie.
gorical picture, WAR" but it would
have been journalistic courtesy, to saw
the least, to have given the Press
credit for it.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25

The red man now arises to prove
that the only good Indian is the dead
Indian. The troops no sooner move
from Western forts than the savage
begins to get ready to massacre de-
fenseless settlers
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25

Senator Allen, of Nebraska. will
have something to regret the remain
der of his days. He only talked fif-
teen minutes and ten seconds on the
Spanish war resolution.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25

An Indianapolis man Of III wants
to join the volunteers to fight Spain.
He has wheels enough to start a BIZ
cycle store without buying a cog.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25

AS Sousa is the acknowledged
march king, why not place him at the
head of the soldier boys now marching
through Dixie?
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-25

The hotel beat is cunning fellow.
He now registers from Dawson City,
n. w. f." stays two weeks, has every
thlng from hot birds to cold bottles,
and disappears in the night.