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grounds, which DO not exist in fact. IL
violates the spirit OF our commercial
treaties with that country The presi-
dent. under the act of 1890. has authority
to meet just such discrimination as
this
Representatives, Tawney, another mem
Der OF the ways and means COMMITTEES.
endorsed Chairman Dingley's view and
said that If Germany began such a
course 1t was q game in which two
could play 1t was said also that the
result would work serious results to
German wines. German hosiery Ger
man shoddy and many other lines OF
German goods brought in great guam
titles to this country
Some of the representatives of the
Pacific coast say there might be a slight
justification for the Prussian claims.
as far as the fruits of Oregon and
Washington are concerned if it was
directed solely against apples The
Goblin moth is said to be very preva-
lent in both states.
Senator Mills of Texas expressed the
opinion that Germany's action was the
logical sequence of our high tariff sys-
TEN.
Senator Elkins said: I'VE may lust
as well have it out with Germany now
as at any other time. There is no deny
ing that We are in a commercial war.
and We should fight it out on the lines
'ANs AAhNt Adid dtNH SUOuIu 20 DdEk
at them on their own terms. | should
prohibit the importation Of their
sugar"
Senator Hawley pronounced himself
very much surprised. but he was op-
posed to harsh measures on the part Of
this country.
Senator Mcbride of Oregon says he is
conhdent that the discrimination Of
Germany is not occasioned by the con-
dltlon OF oregon fruit. for it has always
held a high place. He says that meth
obs OF retaliation can easily be found
II desired by the United States.
Representative Mcguire of California
late in the afternoon introduced i'm the
house bill calling upon the state de-
partment for all information or corre-
spondence between this government and
Prussia relative to the decree forbid
ding the Importation of American fruit.
Mr. Mcguire says: The Prussian
edict excluding American fresh fruits is
undoubtedly a measure of commercial
retaliation. There is no foundation for
u In the condition of California or other
American fruits"
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A VIOLATION OF TREATY
Germany F'orbids the Importa-
ton of American Fruits.
A SOP TO THE AGRARIANS
Sharp Retaliation May Follow on the
Part of the United States-American
Apples Have Driven the Germans
Out of Their Own Markets.

Washington, Feb. 2.-The state de-
partment has not been informed by Am
bassador White Of the decree against
the importation of American fresh fruits
into Germany, and the official state
ment of the matter is awaited with
anxiety at the department. which de-
sires to know just how far the German
government is willing to yield to the
wishes of the agrarian party. which in
sists upon the exclusion of all American
farm products which enter into compe-
tition with the German farmer. For
two years the state department has been
engaged almost fruitlessly to secure
from the German government the re-
versal of a decree like the present one,
but applied to our meat products.
The attitude of the Germans in this
matter is not encouraging and the an
rouncement of this additional decree
against another great American staple
export has tried the patience of the de-
partment sorely and there IL no telling
how far we may go toward retaliation IL
the conditions justify il. OF course, notn-
ing will be done In the absence Of full
official information from Mr.. White as
Ia the facts in the case. and il may be
that the history of the meat exclusion
negotiations Will be repeated in that
there may be n long correspondence TO
Permit the German government to DEM
oHStTdte, III IL can, the great dangers to
be looked for In American fresh fruits.
But If the facts Indicate that there Is
as little foundation for this exclusion
decree as was the case with the meat
products. IL is said at the state depart
ment that the president probably will
avail himself of his statutory power to
retaliate sharply under section five of
the act of Aug 80, 1870. To the knowl-
edge of the state department. no COM
plant has ever before been made against
American fresh fruits. There was some
complaint few years ago from Ham
burg and Cologne against certain i'm
portations of dried fruits on the ground
that they contained traces Of zinc, taken
up from the trays on which they were
dried, but there has never been an at
tack upon the fresh fruits. The reports
of the United States consuls show that
the imports of the latter have found
great favor in German cities and the
universal testimony of our eonsuls Is
that our apples are so superior in every
respect that there is hardly market
for the German apples in their vicinity.
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REGULATIONS ISSUED
Governing the Entry and Transportation
of Merchandise for the kiondike

Washington, Feb. 1.-The secretary of
the treasury to-day issued regulations
governing the entry and transportation
OF merchandise destined for the klon-
dixie region and Northwest Territory Of
British Columbia by way of Juneau
Dyea and Skaguay or other customs
ports in Alaska. 1t is provided that
imported merchandise arriving at any
or these ports en- route for the kiondike
may be forwarded without the pay-
ment of duty IN charge of a customs
officer at the expense of the importer
or upon the filing of bond for lis ex-
nortation equal to the duties and
charges, or the owners NAV make a
deposit with the collector. the same TO
be refunded upon the certificate of the
deputy collector on the frontier line
that the goods have been exported
All imported animals or merchandise
abandoned, or sold en- route will be
seized and forfeited to the government
unless the duties are paid thereon All
articles carried by passengers which
are in use and which consist of wear
ing apparel and personal effects neces-
sdry for the present comfort of such
Passengers, are exempt from duty.
The secretary also issued regulations
concerning the navigation of the Yukon
and Porcupine rivers and their tributa-
ries. They provide that the transfer Of
cargoes and passengers from a river or
United States except another port i'm
Alaska or from any foreign port to
vessel destined by way of the mouth
of the Yukon or Porcupine rivers
or their tributaries shall be per-
mitted only at the port of St
Michael under the provision of
customs officers. When deemed neces-
sary these officers are required to board
any vessel bound for the United States
within four leagues of the coast for
the purpose of demanding its manifest
and enforcing the regulations of the
United States. Vessels entitled by law
to engage in the coasting trade of the
United States may proceed from one
point in Alaska To another in the man
ner prescribed by law for the entry and
clearance Of vessels within the customs
district.
The important feature of these regu-
lations Is the requirement that any
American vessel entering ST. Michaels
with passengers or cargo for Alaskan
ports, and which does not desire TO pro-
ceed. must transfer her cargo To an
other American vessel. II destined To
a port in British Columbia. the trans-
fer may be made TO either an American
or British vessel Foreign vessels from
a foreign port entering st. Michaels
with a cargo destined for Alaskan
points on the Yukon or Porcupine riV-
ers. may either proceed or transfer
their cargo a. an American vessel only
When the cargo and passengers are
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AMERICAN FRUIT BARRED.
Decree Preventing Its Importation Into
Prussia Issued.

Berlin, Feb. 2.--The Prussian minister
of finance, DIR. Miguel. issued decree
yesterday which goes into effect imme-
diately. prohibiting the importation of
every kind of American fresh fruits.
The United States embassy was not
previously warned and United States
Ambassador White sent formal letter
to The foreign office to-day inquiring
upon what authority this inimical step
was taken.
The United States consul at Ham
burg, DR.. Hugh Pitcairn telegraphs
that $4,000 barrels of American apples
have been forbidden to be unloaded and
two trains full of American fruit have
also been forbidden 10 cross the frontier
at Emmerich. on receipt of this news
Mr.. White sent a second and stronger
remonstrance to the foreign office call
ing attention to the evident violation of
the treaty. Al the foreign office il was
learned the Prussian government pro-
hibits the entry of American fruit on
sanitary grounds. claiming that Cali
fornia and other vermin threaten Ger
man trees and fruits.
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LAWS FOR ALASKA.
senator Carter Proposes to Vest Exten :
siye Powers In the Courts.

Washington, Feb. 2.--Senator Carter,
VINO is a member of the subcommittee
on Alaska for three different commit
tees OF the senate, has prepared and in
tfoduced bill TO amend an act provid-
ing clNil government for Alaska II
leaves the duties of the governor sub
stantially as under the existing law and
lodges extensive powers i'm the courts.
The bill establishes one judicial district
for Alaska. TO consist of three divisions
over each of which Judge shall pre-
side. Zach also shall have a full COM
plement of officers and as many deputy
narshals as are necessary to the Rxecu-
tion of court orders and the maintenance
OF public order The bill provides that
one judge shall be located at Circle CITY.
one at st. Michaels and one at Sitka
The intention of the bill is to vest ex-
tensiVe powers in the court. SO as to en-
able 1t by orders issued from time To
time and by appointments To be made
to respond to the necessities of each set
tlement or mining camp for proper
and vigorous administration of the law.
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DETAILS ARRANGED.
The Brooklyn Will Touch ut the West
indies and Central America

Washington, Feb. "details as to the
cruise of the Brooklyn SO far arranged
at the navy department provide for yis-
its by the ship to the following ports in
the West indies and the caribbean sea
in the order named. ST. Thomas. Santa
Cruz. ST. Lucia, La Guayra, Porto cabei-
To- Curaeoa Savinalli and Colon. At this
point on the isthmus of Panama the
ship will receive orders for her further
guidance. Because of her heavy draft
or water. ii Is not probable that the
Brooklyn will be ordered up the east
coast OF the isthmus and Central Amer
lea, which have no deep water ports, but
rather that she will cruise eastward
again from Colon down as far on the
coast of South America as Rio de Janef-
ro. where she may be ultimately attached
for time TO the South Atlantic squad
ron
The gunboat Nashville arrived at Key
West to-day from Port Royal. s C.. so
that the North Atlantic squadron will
make good the time il would have sus-
tanned by the failure of the Brooklyn to
join her. originally intended The
Montgomery will sail. tomorrow from
Key West for Matanzas. as first port OF
call in Cuba.
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Big Parties for The Klondik..

St Louis. Feb. "A party of II mon.
eight from ST. Louis and three from
Massachusetts,. left here to-day bound
for the klondike. They will spend at
least three years in Alaska. having in
vested $4,000 in supplies and imple-
ments. Another party numbering 70,
mostly st. Louisans. are preparing 10
leave about March Ii for the same des-
tlnation. Messrs. Edwards and Donec-
by Of the Alaskan Mining and Trading
company will be in charge Of the party.
Among the number who will try their
luck In the gold fields are Miss Sarah
Hickman, prominent Fpwn- h
Lacquer. and Miss Virginia May. Miss
Hickman will write letters to several
religious papers of the city descriptive
of the country and her experiences
there.
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IN THE HOUSE.
The District of Columbia Bill Passed.
Fertilization Appropriation Criticised.


Fertilization Appropriation Criticised.
! Washington, Feb. 2.-The house. after
three days spent on the District of Co
lumbia appropriation bill, mostly in po-
litical discussion, passed the measure
to-day and then took up the bill to pro-
vide for Notifications and coast de-
fenses. Several democrats, notably Mr..
Mcclellan of New York, criticised the
measure because 1t cut down the ap-
preparations for these works below what
had been appropriated in recent years.
At the opening of the house to-day
Grow of Pennsylvania asked unani-
nous consent for consideration of reso- :
luton directing the secretary of war to
issue medals to $50 Pennsylvania SOL
diers who belonged to the command
which passed through the mob at Balti-
more April 13 1861, and who received
the thanks of congress July %, 1861.
Hull, chairman of the military affairs
committee, objected. Several other re-
quests for unanimous consent met a
similar fate.
The army appropriation bill was sent
to conference, Hull, rep. Iowa. Marsh.
rep, Ill, and Cox, dem, Tenn, being
appointed conferees. The house then
went into committee of the whole and
resumed consideration of the District of
Columbia appropriation bill. The bill
was completed and passed shortly after
o'clock, after which the house took up
the Notifications bill
Mr.. Hemenway, rep, Ind. IN charge
of the bill. explained its provisions. The
estimate of the department for fortifica-
tions and other works of defense, arina-
ment, etc, was $13,379,571, while the
amount carried by the bill was but
A,144,9 912. In discussing the harbor de-
fense work erected under this policy
Mr.. Hemenway stated that the defense
of New York harbor was complete. He
quoted the chief of ordnance as having
said to him that not enough vessels
could now enter the harbor in the face
of the present defense to materially
damage the city. 1t was arranged that
the general debate should close ,o-mor-
row at 3 O'Clock.
Mr.. Ferguson. delegate from New
Mexico got the floor. and under the lati-
tude allowed for debate. argued the in
justice of denying statehood to New
Mexico. He stated that if statehood was
delayed all the valuable land restored to
the public domain which could be Sc
lected by the territory. were she state,
for school purposes. would be gone He
appealed for the passage of bill al
lowing the territory to select the lands
now.
Mr.. Underwood, DEM, Ala. criticised
the Notifications bill because it did not
provide for the inaugura tion of defense
works at the harbors along the coast Of
the Gulf of Mexico Mobile harbur
would be the first harbor entered by the
Spanish fleet if we should become in
volved in war with Spain. Mr.. McClel-
Ian. dem, N. Y, also criticised the bill
At p. m. the house adjourned.
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ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED.
Officers In whose Charge the Relief
Expeditions will BE.

Expeditions will BE.
Washington, Feb. General Mer-
ram, commanding the department of
the Columbia, has notified the acting
secretary of war that he mas completed
details of the relief expeditions to be
sent out by the government to the gold
region In Alaska and 10 the klondike.
These are as follows: Major ID. H.
Rucker, Fourth cavalry. is assigned to
command and to take temporary sta
ton at Dyea, where he is To establish
camp and supply department.
Captain George Suhlen, assistant
quartermaster. is designated as quar-
termaster and commissary of the ex-
pedition, and is To report to Major
Rucker at Dyea. Captain NJ. l.. Brain
ara, commisSary of subsistence, has
also been assigned TO duty at Dyea as
purchasing and disbursing officer of the
expedition.
Captain Bogardus Eldridge. with a
detachment consisting of Lieutenant E.
w. Clark and 90 men of the Fourteenth h
infantry, together with First Lieuten-
ant #. Nj. kcmper, assistant. and two
men of the hospital corps, fully armed
for escort duty in tho interior of Alas
ka. with 100 rounds of rifle ball ammu-
milton per man, are ordered to proceed
from Vancouver Barracks to Dyea and
report to Major Rucker
First Lieutenant G.. II. Preston.
Ninth cavalry, in charge, with Lieuten-
ant Ryan. Ninth cavalry, and the pack
trains from the department of the
Platte, also at Dyea
Orders have been given to the chief
commissary of the department of the
Columbia to ship by steamer from
Portland and Seattle about Feb 3, f2.-
600 complete rations with proper pro-
portion of subsistence stores and
property and also tandem and single
sleds to Major Rucker at Dyea.
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ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT.
1t VIII Probably is- Held st Fort Harri
son Five Days In July.

Special Dispatch TO the Standard.
Helena. Feb. Major General Drcn-
nan. adjutant of the National Guards:
Colonel kessler. Col. John r. Miller.
Lieutenant Bruce Wallace and Governor
Smith met here to-day for the purpose
OF considering the matter of holding the
annual encampment. An agreement was
reached which viii probably result i'm the
annual encampment being held here next
summer at Fort Harrison. There is an
appropriation of <5ooo for the purpose
and about S.ooo additional is needed.
Nearly all of this amount has been
raised. Ii the encampment is held here
the National Guard will receive the ben
eiit of drilling with the troops from Fort
Harrison Ii the eucampment Is held
here II viii commence July and con-
tinue i've days.
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RAYS REPORT.
lie Recommends Provisional Military
Government for This Year


Government FOR This Year.
Washington. Feb. General MerrI-
am, commanding the department of the
Columbia, to-day wired the acting
secretary of war the following points
from the reports of Captain Ray.
Strongly recommends restriction of
emigration to that country this year:
says no man should be allowed to enter
without two years supply of food Rec
ommends military posts at the mouth
OF the Tanana with light draft high
power steam cutter to patrol the Yu-
kon with troops: also overland route
from Cook or Naldes inlet to the mouth
Of Tanana. He seized all supplies at
Fort Yukon oct. 30 to prevent capture
by mob of about so men: says the
mob was Influenced by motives of rob-
berry and not by hunger. Nothing but
provisional military government will
meet the necessities this year. Full re-
ports by express to-day"
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a Snbterf,,gr.

Washington. Feb. 2.-The officials of
thes agricultural department have as
yet received no information on the sub
Ject. They are disposed to believe the
explanation that importations of fresh
fruit VIII be prohibited because of dam
ger from vermin is not a sincere one.
but that Germany. having in mind the
recent legislation of the American gov
ernment imposing duty on bounty
paid sugar has taken this action as a
sort of retaliation.
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favor of open sessions on the Pettigrew
resolution. He gave as his reason the
fact that the speeches for and against
the treaty were liable to be unevenly
reported with the press excluded from
the session.
Senator White did not conclude, and
he Will conclude tomorrow.
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frnzen 10 Drnfh-

Reno, Nev,. Feb. &C. s. Kellogg. an
old resident of Churchill county Is years
Of age was found frozen to death YES
terday a short distance from his cann
m the Silver Hin range of mountains.
Kellogg built the first quartz mill ever
put up in Gold canyon. where silver city
now stands
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sIiii blown TO Pieces.

Menominee. Mich. Feb. e-The big
three story sulphlte mill of the Menom-
inee and Aarinette Paper company wss
blown to pieces last night by an expIa-
sion Of one of the dlgesters Peter Borst
engineer WAS killed and sam Stefferin
and Louis Lefre assistants. badly in
iured. Loss SIO.nn0
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Alieuateoi Affections

Special Dispatch TO the STANDARD
Helena. Feb. 2-The case OF Alice SIM
con ". f, q. Simeon. a $4,000 suit for
the alienation OF the affections OF her
husband. began here in the district court
to-day. The plaintiff is the wife Of a
hotel clerk while tho defendant II "A well
known citizen Of livingston. brother of
her former husband.
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For the Gold EieIds.

Seattle, Feb. The steamer Queen
arrived from San Francisco to-day
with about 10 passengers on their way
to Alaska
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Nothing Better
FOR THE
PRICE
The "just as good" kind of goods are
kind
The Best

That is the cheapest kind when it
comes to Watches and Jewelry.
Our Four Packing Watches are the
very best that can be bought for the
price.
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The two last are fitted in absolutely
dust-proof cases, and all are warranted
good time keepers.
Our stock of Solid Gold and Gold
Filled Watches. both ladies' and gents,
is the largest in the city, and our prices,
quality considered, the lowest.
In ladies' sizes .... $40 upward
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-16
o, DRAFT THE EXPENSE.

The volumes Of the census of 1896
ration for another one in 1900 is tread
ing on the dilatory heels of it's prede-
cessor. A bill is in the senate provid-
ing for this. The question Is. whether
fair or a Job" whether it shall be done
as business men conduct their affairs
or as the politician conducts public af-
fairs when he has full swing? Eight
years ago President Harrison had an
inclination to adopt the former method
but the politicians interviewed and the
job was given to one Porter ostensibly
of taking the census" really of COM
missioning the ways" to whom the pol
iticians wanted to dole out a little re-
others taken under the same method, is
absolute unreliability. No one, unless
1t be some unsophisticated foreigner
like Mulhall, who knows nothing of our
way of doing these things, puts any
dependence on it for any purpose what
ever, even for it's count of noses
But the senators, to whom appoint
ments are dear, and representatives, to
whom the economy Of having the pub
lie pay for work for themselves and
party, appeals, are against the business
way of doing this enormous piece of
work. 1t is asked that the enumera-
tors shall be chosen after some inquiry
as to their qualifications The bill omits
any provision for that. 1t is urged that
there would be great saving in cost.
Carol D. Wright, who was called in to
complete, as well as he could, the
work" done by Porter and the Boys,
says that, aside from the printing, the
last census, conducted on business
principles, would have cost So, 595, 432
instead of theN s1O,O16,677 which it did
cost, or nearly two-thirt1s less. The
extra $6,421, 2452 represents the spoils,
the pay to the Boys,for party work. 1t
would seem as if such an argument
would appeal strongly to congress
that faces deficit so far of some
$40, 900 900 and with pension commits
sioner warning it Of another on in his
bureau Of seven Or eight millions by
next July But it does not matter. 80,
drat the expense" is all the reply
vouchsafed.
The work is purely statistical. The