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Another Hessfun.

The representations Of Mr. Klopsch,
the Christian Herald man, to Mr.. Nc
Kinley doubtless win be accepted by
the latter as eagerly as mamma in the
wilderness by the children Of Israel.
Very likely they may be reflected in
the forthcoming Presidential message.
They remind us that it is a pity some
people cannot be men as well as Chris
tians.
Klopsch, having been on the island in
a petering. meddlesome sort Of way,
feels inspired 10 tell all about what the
people Of Cuba do and do not want.
Among other things, he says that a
majority Of the better class of Cubans
want autonomy" and look with hor-
ror upon political independence, and ne
says il as well as Ananias could him
self Klopsch also declares that war
would mean the immediate starvation
of hundred and fifty thousand recon-
centrados. Peace has not been much
kinder TO them apparently; for il has
killed of four hundred and fifty thou
sand within a year The difficulty with
things Ike Klopsch is that they jump
at such conclusions as their mental
processes are capable Of. OF course, a
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merce with foreign nations; to declare
war, grant letters of marque and reprisal
and make rules concerning captures on
land and water
Section of article says that the Pres
ident shall have power, by and with the
advice of the Senate. to make treaties,
provided two-thirds of the Senators pres
ent shall concur. and he shall nominate
and, by and with the advice of the Senate,
shall appoint ambassadors, other public
ministers and consuls.'
Now the question is, what did the franz
ers of the Constitution mean in the divi-
sion of legislative and executive Iunc-
tions? The earlier Presidents and JUS
tees the trainers. had Blackstone's
Commentaries in mind when the COnsti-
tuition of this country was fashioned
They have repeatedly accepted the use
OF the words executive and legisiat!Vs as
based upon Biackstone's definition and
upon the functions of Parliament and the
British executive. Blackstone and Mon
tesauieu were taken as guides oy the
trainers of the Constitution of the United
States.
The law advisers of the President have
compiled expressions OF Madison, Hamil-
ton and other early exDounders of the
Constitution to show that they conceded
it to be the prerogative of the President
3
the status of belligerency or indepen1-
ence. When the first Congress crea-ed
a department of state or of foreign
affairs it showed by the repeated declara-
tions of members of Congress Jhtt he
intention was to vest in The President all
the reins of diplomacy-''the means and
sources of the knowledge necessary %
conduct we'll affairs within the state.
Washington and jefferson and Madison
and Monroe and the two Adamses all
took the view that they had control of
the secret information passing between
this and other governments. and that it
rested with them to prescribe whether It
was expedient to give such information
to Congress. All the information obtain
able as to the fundamental theory of ehe
powers of the President tends to confer
upon him. apart from Congress. the tight
of recognition of independence or belIig
/ erency.
When The time comes for the act of
recognition of Cuban independence the
President will probably perform it md
notify Congress. When Intervention is
t the step Congress will be asked to au-
! thOriZe it.
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That Spaniard.

Has anybody seen that Spaniard?''
Now, how in Havana would we
know?"
Hes blown up my ship and my sailors,
And I'm going to tell him so.
With a strong-decided- policy,
I'm going to tell him So.
DO you know what he's like, that Span
iard?'
Now, why in Madrid should we care?"
Hes a horrible conspirator and ought to
be assassinated
And hunted from his lair,
With-a-fle-of -Spanish-solders,
Hunted from his lair"
And suppose you should find that Span
lard.
Now what in the White House would
you do?"
I'D investigate his villainy and treat him
with stern justice.
And make him pay a million or two,
Just-to-soothe - my-wounded-feel-
ings
I'd let him push my bond deal through" "
Look here there he comes, that Span
lard.
Now what in the nation will you say?'
ut isn't fit and proper for Il Christian to
be fighting,
So I'll pass him the time Of day,
His sense of right and justice
VIII be sure to make him pay"
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The People Believe The Times

To the Editor of The Times:
You proclaimed TO the American people
and the world on the morning of Febru-
airy is, 1898, that the gallant battleship
Maine had been blown up by Spain. Nine
tenths of the American people believed
your news. You should be gratified to
have your report confirmed by the learned
Naval Court of Inquiry. the President
and the Congress of the United States
Forty-three days passed before your re-
port was publicly confirmed by the Gov
ernment of the United States. but thank
God that truth has been made known to
the world. The Court of Inquiry did not
place the responsibility upon Spain, but
The Times, the American people and
Senator Mason Illinois brave statesman,
have placed the responsibility where it
belongs-on Spain. Thanks to The Times
and honor and praise to Senator Mason.
Spain is guilty of destroying an American
battleship and numbering 2G6 of her crew,
and wOunding many others There is no
use trying TO make patriotic Americans
believe that 266 of her citizens came to
their death in Spanish waters lat the
hands of parties unknown TO the jury
That old stereotyped verdict will not sat
isfy the American people in this case
ISAIAH +. ALDRIDGE.
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PubIic Sentiment.
Editor of The Times.

To the Editor of The Times:
You do not realize at present perhaps,
'how mary people of the reading pupu-
Iation of Washington appreciate and prize
the efforts of The Times in hol,iing to
strict accountability those who are in
authority and by the rules Of diplomacy
and state etiquette are handling the
Spanish-Cuban question. and dealing our
information when "the truth. the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth" is in
demand. The Times in it's good work
has won hosts of friends who now look
TO it as the paper of the National Capt.
tai which represents without fear the
patriotic sentiment OF the country. and
regard with suspicion the changed tone
of such as have reluctantly accepted the
inevitable as TO Spain's guilt and the
rights of Cuba
one word more. 1t is not TO be Won
dered that the people of this country
now shrink from the contemplation OF
another war, since the years that have
followed past experiences have scarcely
been sufficient to aIlay the sorrows in
homes made desolate in the sacrihciaI
test. Neither is il surprising that u
people who have suffered so much for the
cause of humanity should be stirred by
the recital of sufferingS which comes up
from the patriots of perishing. plague
stricken Cuba where the barbarities of
the mother country have been met by the
grandest exhibition of self-sacrifce and
heroism in libertys name known i'm the
annals of time. There comes time when
the language of diplomacy loses its
| charm. The smoke of powder is the
best and only way of clearing the atmos-
| phere of the miasma and foul 0dOr which
| would displace the better conditions
| wherever error contends for mastery. and
4 where liberty unwiliingIy bends the knee
J to wrong and oppression w.
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The suspense is almost over. We
say SO because We believe that Mr.. Nc
y .ntey. in securing delay until Wednes-
day. has exhausted the last resource in
that Inc.
There are all sorts Of rumors and
eonjectures as to what the President
w:il say in his coming message. 1t is
more than probable that he will seize
the occasion to make one more plea
for peace, express his utter adherence
Of war, and beg Congress not TO force
it, 1t viii do no good. Congress ana
the country are fighting mad, and not a
all pleased with some Of the Admins
traticn antics Of the past days. For
instance. Private Secretary PorteI's dis
patch TO the Hartford Courant, in
which he urged business men 10 exert
pressure upon members Of Congress
and prevent them from taking the
Spanish problem out Of the President $
hands. has created a very resentful
feeling. The thousands Of telegrams,
also, which We're sent out Saturday,
begging bankers TO organize a squeeze
against their members, did not strike
Representatives in either House with
much favor. In spite Of everything Mr..
Mckinley can urge, as reason for more
and still more delay, even he must see
by this time that he is not trusted TO
the extent he once was, and that there
is an ugly suspicion that he uses the
time given him solely in frantic efforts
to serve the interests of the Spanish
Cuban bond conspiracy.
Everybody's patience is exhausted.
But the end is in sight.
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THE SPANISH NAVY.
American Officers Do Not Regard It
Highly.

Several naval officers were yesterday
discussing the subject of war with Spain
and We're comparing notes as to the con-
dition of the Spanish navy and its fight
ing qualities.
They all agreed that in actual conflict
Uncle Sans crews wiz demonstrate their
superiority to those OF Spain
One officer who has been on sea duty for
some years and within that time has sail
ed all the seas and come in social contact
with navies of nearly all civilized nations,
said that the discipline of Spanish war
vessels has been but little improved by
modern reforms; that it retains many
features of the harshness and cruelty that
tended to brutalize seamen a generation
or more ago.
This officer remarked that the officers
of the Spanish navy are sprigs of nobili
ty, aristocrats who are favored with Off
cial commissions because of their blue
blood They look upon common sailors
as something nearer the brute creation
than men. They are pIebeians who are
entitled to nothing but kicks and cuffs
from the born gentlemen" of the land.
The old-time methods of punishment
that an advanced spirit of enlightenment
and progress has abolished in most of
the navies, are still in vogue in the ships
of Spain.
In the navy of the United States every
thing is done to appeal TO the pride and
manhood of the crews. Degrading pun
ishments are not inflicted. There is an
esprit d'corps, a pride OF country. a pa
appealed 10 by the officers in the event of
battle.
The officer who was talking predicted
that this superiority of the American
sailor would tell with great effect in
conflicts between the ships of the two na-
tions. 1t would offset a big difference in
the size of vessels engaged and the cali
Der of their respective armament
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A disgusted New Orleans paper wishes
10 know what is the use of an Army,
IL the situation in Cuba creates no use
for it, or what is the use of Navy
IL il is not to be used now It observes
sarcastically that there seems to be moth
ing to prevent Kaiser Wilhelm from com
ing over to annex New Orleans if he
wants TO, for the President will not fight.
1t is safe to say that whatever he Presi-
dent might do, New Orleans would do
something, and that the kaiser would
find that city a very hot potato. They
believe in home rule down there. They
also believe in national honor. and they
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MONEY AND PATRIOTISM.
A Most Instructive Comparison.
(From the Chicago Journal.)

A Most Instructive comparison.
(From the Chicago Journal)
Have you noticed how one word ap-
pears and reappears in the discussion of
the situation by friends of the Admins
tration? 1t is the word BUY. We must
BUY independence for Cuba. We must
BUY the Cuban bonds. We must BUY
Spains withdrawal from the island.
Spain must BUY exemption from the
consequences of her crime.
Listen TO the sordid, cramped- souls Not
a thought or a word above the greasy
dollar. Not sentiment that is detached
from the lust for gold Not an aspiration
that cannot be measured in dollars and
cents. Not an injury that cannot be
bribed into silence. The Money Plank is
the only plank in their platform.
BUY, did you say? Then BUY some
thing worth BUYING.
BUY BACK OUR DEAD. BUY back
the men whom you, Mr.. Mckinley, sent
to Havana to be murdered in their sleep.
BUY them out of the mud of the harbor
where their bodies lie rotting. BUY
them out of the trenches OF a foreign
graveyard. BUY life for them. BUY
the boys who will never return. BUY
BACK OUR DEAD.
BUY back your courage and your pa
triotism, Mr.. Mckinley. BUY back the
power to defend the right. BUY back The
! Christian sentiments you learned at your
mothers knee.
BUY back honor for the flag.
BUY back the national freedom thai
has been pawned to a tribe of leeches ant
usurers.
BUY back the confidence of the people
in their President. BUY the things thai
are worth buying.
Can you do it? In your mind money
is omnipotent. Can it, then, arouse the
dead from their sleep? Can it make the
murdered stand again under the flag? Car
| it do anything more than elect coward:
to office and heal the wounds of money
changers?
| No, unfortunately. You may still stand
on the money plank of your platform, Mr.
Mckinley. But the people of the Unite,
States will be neither bought nor sold
Their dead cry for vengeance. They heet
| no other call
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The powers of Europe have about all
expressed their determination to keep
out Of any complication in the trouble
between America and Spain. They will
probably stick to it unless the Admins
tration should urge them to interfere for
the salvation of the McCook bond deal.
Wednesday is q good way off yet, and
all the resources of American diplomacy
are at work. The unexpected may hap
pen this time in the form of a humilat-
ing and disgraceful peace with foreign
intervention.
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EuIIOr OF IIt
1t is hoped that the Senate Committee
on Foreign Relations will not report a
Cuban relief bill embracing that pOr
ton of the resolution of Senator Frye.
which leaves the means of ending the Gu
ban war to the President. That is Just
what the people do not want. They want
Congress to settle it, since the President
is in the hands of the money changers
who elected him. and obligated to do
their will and bidding. even at the sac
rifice of the honor of America
If this power is placed in the hands
of the President by act of Congress, it
leaves us ten times worse OFF than we
now are. and offers but little hope to
downtrodden Cuba
A REPUBLICAN.
The times., 1898-04-04

On the occurrence of hostilities, it is
stated that our Asiatic squadron will at
once attack the Philippine Islands and
capture the City of Manila. 1t might not
be bad idea to take these islands as
well as the Canaries and hold them pend
ing collection of war indemnity from
Spain. 1t is probable that we could sell
the Canaries to England or Germany at
handsome figure.
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Again the story is sent out from
Madrid that the pope is about to mediate
between this country and Spain. 1t is
made out of whole cloth. The pope
knows that neither his interference nor
that of any other European potentate
would be tolerated in America for a
single moment. Queen Regent Chris
tina is begging him to try it. but he is
far too able statesman to let himself
be caught.
The times., 1898-04-04

On Saturday afternoon the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations decided
to favorably report the Foraker resolu-
ton, recognizing the independence Of the
Cuban Republic and providing for armed
Intervention. A clause was added TO the
original text, holding Spain responsible
for the Maine massacre. The same reso-
luton will be reported in the House OF
Representatives. AS things now look Gu
ba viii be a member of the family of ma
tions before Easter.
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cannot see what particular use a Pres
ident is if he does not protect that honor.
But there will be no need for any worry
on that score. Before very long the
Army and Navy will both be in use, and
the national honor will be in-t the hands
of people who intend to fight for it.
The times., 1898-04-04

Gen. Ricciotti Garabaldi expects to sail
for New York this week in order to or
ganize a corps of Italian volunteers for
service against Spain in Cuba He does
not forget the country that shell
tered his distinguished father during
some years of that hero's stormy career
The times., 1898-04-04

There are unmistakable hints in the
press that foreign media
ton or an attempt at it may be looked
for before Wednesday. Hence this latest
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April Magazines.

The most prominent feature of the April Cen
tury is a symposium Pennsylvania coal mines.
IL consists of four articles-''A Polygiot Com
munity," by Henry Edward Rood; IAN Artists
Impression OF the ColIery Region" by Jay
Hambridge; 1.-The Advantage of England and the
United States in the Worlds Commerce" by
Edward Atkinson. and THE Supply OF Anthra-
cite Coal in Pennsylvania by Edward W.
Parker The articles are profIsey illustrated, and
of considerable interest There is an attempt to
justify the action of the deputies in firing on
strikers in the Lattimer affair, and to show
that the destitution and ignorance in the min
ing region is due to hordes of foreign immi-
grants who desire merely to make money enough
to take them back to their native land and pro-
vide for them in old age. In the fiction. the
most notable feature is "A Good Fellows Wife,
by Hamln Garland, 4 story written with Mr..
Garland's usual direetness OF style and eompre-
henson of his subject. Other articles are a
Challenge Richard Malcolm Johnston; over
the Alps on a Bicycle, Elizabeth Robins Pen
nell: ..The Fall of Macmillan: \ Woman's REM
iniscences Of Mexico During the French lnterven-
ton by sara Y, Stevenson; AN Artist Among
Kelly; 'Timrod, the Poet, by L. Frank iOOker,
and a number of Others. The department cG.
titled ''In Tighter Vein is particularly COOL
The current number OF MeClure's Magazine is
unusually good The leading article is Stories
of the Gordon HghlanderS,' by Charles Lowe,
and II followed DN poem, Inc tsaS OfOfuOTls,
| by Henry Newbolt. which celebrates the famous
! charge at Dargai in more stirring and tuneful
verse than anything else that has appeared on
| that subject. Ii has the Tilt and the swing of
/ genuine war music ''The Day of the Dog is a
/ sea tale by Morgan Robertson, new writer, who
is a distinct acquisition 10 literature The Row
/ of Dominoes," by Frank Crane, Is of the
most unique conceits that has been seen in a
magazine for some time. 1t is purely original
7 and Gemurely funny. Other stories are ''Cupid's
Messenger" by Gertrude Adams. and ''King for
! Il Day by W A. Fraser The Dana reminis-
/ ccnces are continued, IS the story by Anthony
| Hope. and there is article The Ad-
versities of Passenger Engineer" by Herbert
f. Hamben.
/ The American Monthly Review of Reviews for
| April gives Il great deal of space To the dis
cussion OF the Spanish crisis and the destruction
of the Maine, in an article entitled The Issue
With Spain by the editor, Albert Shaw
| ''Political Germany is discussed by Theodore
Barth. ''Does Cosmopolitan Life Lead TO In
ternational Friendliness?" is the title of an ar
tclc by Baron Pierre de CoUbertn. Other ar
tcles The Golden Heart of the Sierra
Madre, by II. ID. Slater; The Government Pur-
chase OF the Swiss Railroads. by J. Il. Mac
donald. The periodicals are reviewed and the
new books noted. There are a number of illiistra-
tons. the frontispiece being a likeness Of As
| sistant Secretary OF State Day.
The times., 1898-04-04

(From the New York Mail and Express
1t is announced in Philadelphia that the Keely
motor vii presently begin to make things hum.
as when it was first made, twenty years or more
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Indifference.

From the Philadelphia North American.l
Mrs. Rousem (early in the mornius)-Joh
John. Don't YOU smell escaping gas?
John (sleepilyl-I don't care if do It's the
hotels gas. This is one time that don't have
to pay for it.
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Grain in Prospect.
lrrom the Atchison Clohe-

(Fr0m the AtchisOn GIobe.)
A wet Marchi always means good crops in Kan
sas. and the month which closed Thursday night
will have been the wettcst March in thirty years
The times., 1898-04-04

Jones VS.. the United States and Kennel
VS.. Chambers furnished further prece-
dents that the Supreme Court at different
times considered that recognition of indie
pendence must be the act of the Presi-
dent. In the latter case suit had been
brought to compel the performance of a
contract made in this country in Septem-
Der, 1896. general in the Texan army
had agreed to give land in Texas for
money paid to him to raise and equip
troops against Mexico. The case was dis
missed because the independence of Tex
as. though previously declared by that
country, had not been acknowledged by
the United States" The court supported
the decision by quotations from messages
from the President to the Senate. by let
ter from the President to the governor of
Tennessee and by a note from the Secre-
tary of State to the Mexican minister.
In his work on the Constitution Justice
Story declares the function of recogni-
ton to be distinctly an executive one
In the Constitution of the United States
the law advisers of the President find
ground for their opinions that recognition
of belligerency or of independence be-
longs TO the Executive. Section of ar
ticle l says that Congress shall have
| power TO provide for the general welfare
| of the United States, to regulate COM
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CIRCULATION STATEMENT.

Readers Of The Times who may at any time
be unable 20 procure copies of it at any news
stand railroad station railroad trains, viii
confer a favor upon the management by sending
TO this Office information Of the fact.
Communications intended for publication in
The Times should be tersely ard plainly written,
and must in all cases be accompanied b. tEe
name and address of the writer. Rejected COM
muBications viii not be preserved, and only man
uscripts OF obvious importance Will be returned
&C their authors.
MONDAY, APRIL T. 1885
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And the court ordered its decision to be
certified back to the circuit court, that
inasmuch as the American Government
has insisted and does still insist through
it's regular executive authority, that the
Falkland Islands do not constitute any
part of the domnions within. the SOW
ereignty of the government of Buenos
Ayres, the action of the American Gov
ernment on this subject is conclusive on
the said circuit court
The times., 1898-04-04

The Russian plans for trade develop
ment in the far East appear to be of the
most comprehensive character. Accord
ing to a correspondent of the London
Standard, it is proposed to establish no
fewer than eight Independent steamship
services at VIadivostok. "a weekly SER
vice Of steamers to Hong Kong, via
Nagasaki, Shanghai and Canton; (2)
service to the Korean ports, NeWchwang,
Cheefoo, Tientsin and Shanghai, these
steamers to connect with the Russo-Chi-
nese Railway and the regular boats on
the Sungari River; (O a line on the
YangtZe between Shanghai and Hunkow
Ca Japanese company started service
between these two ports few months
ago and the enterprise seems to be re-
warded with SucceSs); (D a service to
Shimonosek. Kobe, and Yokohama, on
which route a Japanese company (the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha) has at present no
competitors except latterly an occasion
al German steamer; (5) a service starting
from Vladivostok and going north to
Hakodate and on to Yokohama, the OBJ
iect of this line being to form a connec-
ton by the shortest possible route be-
tween the terminus of the Siberian Rail
way and the steamers coming across the
Pacific from America 90 a line between
NikolaeVsk at the mouth of the Amur
River, and Hakodate, calling at ports in
the Gulf of Tartary. and also at Otaru lin
the summer months a considerable
amount of trade is already done between
NikoIaeysk and Fiakodate, chiefly in fish ;
60 line between Vladivostok and Niko-
laevsk, and 90 line from Vladiyostok to
Petropavloski, in Kamschatka The last
two lines have already been opened with
steamers of what is known as the Vol
unteer Fleet
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