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The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-08-10
ALGER AND RooSE HELT.

aA04SLl <1H II LlOOO1I Y GG1s
Secretary Alger shows persistent
determination to convict himself of
littleness and incapacity. His most
recent exhibition of vindictiveness
is in connection with the courageous
and manly course taken by Theodore
Roosevelt to save the army at Santi-
ago from annihilaticn by disease.
The conditions in camp at Santiago
are frightful. Our soldiers are en-
feebled and fever stricken. Official
reports show that not to exceed 10
per cent of the forces under General
Shafter are capable of active service.
The yellow fever season is approach
ing, and the surgeons on the ground
report that unless immediate relief
is afforded, our gallant troops will
perish like sheep.
These facts have been set forth
repeatedly in official reports, but the
usual course in such matters was
powerless to impress Secretary Alger.
Conditions were daily growing more
intolerable, and the secretary of war
failed grievously to meet the situa-
ton.
In this crisis, Colonel Roosevelt
displayed superb moral courage. He
had the nerve to speak out sharply,
TO take the initiative, and dare the
vindlctive nature of Secretary Alger.
"After Colonel Roosevelt had taken
the initiative" says the Associated
Press report from Santiago, ''all the
American general officers united in
an address to General Shafter, ex-
pressing the opinion that the army
should be taken at once to some
point on the northern seacoast of the
United States
The sharp, bold words of the dar-
ing Roosevelt have accomplished
their purpose. They have been heard
by dull ears at Washington, and tardy
steps are now taken to save our shat
tered army at Santiago. The soldiers
will be brought back to the revivlng
air of their beloved country.
But from this hour forward Roose-
velt is a marked man in the army.
Alger will never forgive him tor con.
victlng the war department of gross
incapacity and lack of feeling. AL
ready he has struck a blow in return
by publishing through The Associated
Press, a confidential letter he had
received from Roosevelt, asking that
his Rough Riders be given active SER
vice in Puerto Rico. 1t is true in this
letter Colonel Roosevelt made some
indlscreet statements, but the indis-
cretions were prompted by patriotic
zeal, and he would not have written
in so frank tone if he had suspected
that his confidential communication
would be published broadcast by
Secretary Alger.
Algers's course in this matter has
been contemplate. Roosevelt is
distinguished hero of the war, and
the American people will not counte-
nance Alger's petty warfare against
him. Others have been as courageous
upon the field of battle, but note has
shown such magnificent moral cour-
age.-Spokane Review.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-08-10

DINING CARS ON OGDEN ROUTE.
PULLMAN BUFFET sLEEPERs
AND sECOND-CLASS SLEEPING CARS
Attached to all Through Trains>
Direct connection at san francisco with Ocei
dental and Oriental and Pacific mail steamship
lines for JAPAN and CHINA. Sailing dates on
application.
rope. Also JAPAN, CHINA, HONOLULU and
J. b. KIRKLAND, Ticket Agent.
Through Ticket Oaicc, I31 Third street, where
through tickets to ell points in the Eastern
States, Canada and Europe can be obtained ct
]. B. kirkland, Ticket Agent.
. All above trains arrive at and depart from
YAMHIIL DIVISION.
Passenger Depot, foot of Jefferson street.
Leave for oswEGo, daily, except Sunday, at
I:2o q. M; 1880, 1855, 5:15, 6:25, "+S:05 p. m.
land II 80 p. on Saturday only, and 600 a. m
and $3.50 p. on Sundays only. Arrive at
Portland daily at ~6:40 and $3.50 a m; and L :S5,
:15, 6:20 and 1855 p. m, (and 1905 a. m rs
$40 p. IN. on Sundays only.
Leave for Sheridan, week days, at 4:S0 p. IN
Arrive at Portland, $50 a. IN.
Leave for AIRLIE on Monday, Wednesday and
Friday at 9:40 8. m. Arrive at Portland, Tues
dav, Thursday and Saturday II sos p. N.
Except Sunday. +*Except Saturday.
r. KUEELER, G, H. MARKHAM,
Manager. Asst. G. f. & Pass. Agt
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-08-10
A CHILD ENJOYS

The pleasant flavor, gentle action, and
soothing effects of Syrup OF Figs, when
i'll need of laxative, and if the father
or mother be costive or bilious, the
most gratifying results follow its use; so
that it is the best family remedy known
and every family should have bottle.
Manufactured by the California Fig
Syrup Co,
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-08-10

TYGH VALLEY ROLLER MILL
At all times -four equal to the best for
sale at Tygh Valley Roller Mills, at
prices to suit the times. Also mill feed.
w. NJ. MCCoRKLE, Prop.
mch16- 6m
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-08-10

DeWitt's Little early Riss=s,
The famous ii't;e pills.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1898-08-10

Use Clarke & Falk's Rosofoam tor the
teeth.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-07
L. A. w. ANNUAL ASSEMBLY.
Issac Ii. Potter VIII, 1t Is Thought, Be
Reelected President.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 6.-Next week the an
nual assembly of the League of American
Wheelmen will begin a three days session.
There is much to be accomplished at the
convention, but the most important matter
will be the election of officers There is con-
siderable rivalry for the position of pres
idcnt between Isaac b. Potter, the present
incumbent, and George d. Gideon. the ex-
chairman OF the racing board. Ex-President
Sterling Elliott, of Massachusetts, is back
of the Gideon boom. While it is known that
Gideon would be good man for president
the chances seem against his election. 1t
is stated that the Potter ticket has allowed
Pennsylvania, the second strongest division
in the league, to name the first vice presi-
dent and the support of the Keystone State
mas been promised them. There are almost
any number of resolutions to be acted on
and they will be the subject of much de-
bate. Almost every delegate to the assem-
ply has a pet idea of his own 1t is not
expected that the fight for the granting
of local option will amount to much. Mis-
souri,, as we'll as the majority of the West
ern and Southern States, is known to be in
favor of this movement, but the Eastern
erS are opposed to it and as they PRACTICAL
ly control the league, what they say will go.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-07

fishing" in the waters of the other. As
the Marylanders are vigorously sept out of
Virginia waters under laws mace there the
point is now raised that the compact does
The question put to the biologian of
the Johns Hopkins University. He said;
Il don't know what an oyster is legally or
religiouSly. but zoologicaliy he certainly
isn't a fish. In the first place a fish is a
vertebrate animal and an oyster is a mol
lusk. This difference of backbone makes
the two widely separate in the animal king
DOM
Speaking of the same subject, Cardinal
Gibbons said: THE church has always re-
garded fish, oysters and crabs as belonging
to the same genus, and therefore permits
sible as food on fast days and in Lent They
all live in the water and are all allke--cold
blooded. Indeed the church permits the use
for food of nearly all kinds of living crea-
lures that are taken out of the water, IN
Guiding terrapin. In some sections the law
is stretched. notably in New Orleons, where
a certain kind of water fowl is permitted to
be eaten on fast days, because 1t has a
City Counselor Thomas G. Hayes dis
cussed the subject from a legal point of
view, saying oysters. l should unhesi-
the Supreme Court of the United States in
the case of Wharton, a Marylander, who
was arrested for taking oysters on the Vir-
ginia side of the Pocomoke sound. The
compact of 1855, under which Wharton was
arrested in terms only referred TO fishing
in the Potomac river and Pocomoke sound:
The Supreme Court says; 1t Is conceded
that the right of fishing. when not qualified.
extends to the taking of both floating tlsh
and shell fish and in another part of the
courts opinion, in speaking of the powers
of Virginia in Pocomoke sound, says that
the State has powers to pass all necessary
laws for the protection of fish therein,
whether floating she'll The court in this
opinion clearly puts oysters In the genus
tlsh. designating the two species as noatlng
al hal iSh -
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-07
LINCOLN AS A LAWYER.
RecoIIectiOns of His Courtroom Meth
DDS and Habits.

TO the February issye of the North Amer
lean Review Hon. James l.. King, librarian
of the Kansas state library, has contributed
an article upon ''Lincolns Skill u Law
YER which is based on the recollectIons
of Judge Abram Bergen, q Topeka lawyer.
who had unusual opportunities while a
young lawyer of studying Lincoln's charac-
ter and observing his methods in the trial
of his cases.
niscence is thus stated by Judge Bergen:
The first time ] saw Lincoln as n lawyer
was in the old Morgan county courthouse
at Jacksonville when he was defending Col.
Dunlap a wealthy ariStocratic Democrat, in
an action for $4,000 damages brought
against him by the editor of what was then
called the Abolition paper The action grew
out Of a deliberately planned and severe
coWhiding administered by the colonel to the
editor on bright Saturday afternoon, in
the public square, in the presence OF hun
dredS of the town and country people whom
the colonel desired to witness that novel and
exciting performance. Besldes locai coun-
who was the most noted Tor eloquence of all
the Democratic lawyers in the State. Col.
Dunlap retained Lincoln as one OF his law
yers for the defense.
+" L ran of from my Rotations for the
sole purpose of hearing Lincoln. Edwards
used all the arts of the orator and advo-
cate He pictured. until it could almost be
felt the odium and disgrace to the editor,
which he declared We're worse than death.
He wept and made the jury and spectators
weep. The feelings of those in the court
house was reused to the highest pitch or
Indignation against the perpertator OF such
an outrage 1t was felt that all the colonel's
fortune could not compensate for the law
less indignity, and that the editor would
in all probability recover the full $4,000. No
possible defense or palliation existed.
>. Before all eyes were dried, IL was Lin
coins turn 70 speak. He dragged his feet
off the table on the top OF which they had
been resting set them on the floor, gradu-
| ally lifted up and Strengthened out his great
| length of legs and body. and took off his
coat. While removing his coat It Was no.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-07
ticed by all present that his eyes were in
tently liked upon something on the table

ticed by all present that his eyes were i'm
tently liked upon something on the table
before him. he picked up the object. a
paper, scrutinized ii closely, and, without
uttering a word, INDUCED in a long, loud
laugh, accompanied by his most wonder
fully grotesque facial expression There
was never anything like the laugh or the
expire SSlon. 1t was magnetic. The whole
audience grinned. Then he laid the paper
down slowly, took or his cravat, again
picked up the paper. re-examined it,, and
repeated the laugh. 1t was contagious He
then deliberately removed his vest. showing
MS one yarn SuSpender look UP the paper,
again looked at II curiously, and again in
dulged in his peculiar laugh. Its effect was
absolutely irresistible. The usually solemn
and dignlfed Judge Woodson, members OF
the jury, and the whole audience joined in
the merriment, and all this before Lincoln
had spoken single word.
When the laughter had subsidized he
apolcgized to the court for his seemingly
rude behavior and explained that the
amount OF damages claimed by the editor
was at first written 81 000 He supposed the
plaintiff atterward had taken second look
at the colonels pile and concluded that the
wounds to his honor were worth an addi-
tOnal $1,000 The result was to at once de-
stroy the effect Of Edwardss tears, pathoss
towering Indignation and hgh-wrought elo-.
quence and to render improbable verdict
Tor more than 81 ,000 Lincoln Immediately
and fully admitted that the plaintiff was en-
TITLED to a judgment for some amounts
argued in mitigation of damages, told a fun
ny story applicable to the peculiar nature or
the case, and especially urged the jury to
for a few hundred dollars and was entirely
satisfactory to I.incoln's client ,"
Speaking OF Mr.. Lincoln s methods in the
courtroom and in jury trials Mr.. King says.
"LAncoln's tact was remarkable. He care
fully studied and thought out the best way
of saying everything as well as the SUBJ
stance of what he should say. Every im-
portant thing he said or did was the result
of great delIberation, although the casual
observer might have gained the impressions
that many things were entirely impromptu-
This was especially true in jury trials, In
all of which he managed at some time to
say or do some very peculiar thing or some
common thing in a very peculiar manner
Whie the jury might have thought this to
have come to him on the spur OF the mor
ment usually it came at the critical point
of his case, directing attention to that
which he desired should be most prominent.
and impressing it on every mind Other
lawyers always expected such u feature and
were afraid of it. They felt sure it would
appear in every case. but never could tell
beforehand just where IL would strike.
Sometimes he seemed to take delight in
expressly conceding TO his opponent every
proposition and fact which his own client
or the spectators thought to be III his favor,
and then to the surprise of all, taking some
unexpected but firm and impregnabte posi-
ton which controlled and won the case.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-07
URGE CURRENCY REFORM
FINANCIAL VIEWS or EDITOR HoR-
ACE WHITE AND SETH Low.
Praise for the Monetary Commissions
Report-ProsSamme OF Congress
for Ihis Week.

WASHINGTON, Feb. G.--Air. Horace
White, editor of the New York Evening
Post, in a letter to the secretary of the
monetary commission has this to say of the
commissions report recommending plan
for revision of the currency laws: Il
heartily approve the report of the monetary
commission. While / might prefer slight
changes here and there. the general prin-
ciples advanced by the report are, in my
Judgment correct and their enactment
necessary to the prosperity o. all classes. l
consider the report most timely in 20
1itical sense also, because the country can
not stand still Either the right thing or
the wrong thing will be done. Stagnation
would be suicide for the party in power,
even if stagnation were possible, but it is
impossible. From the close of the war until
the present time the currency question has
been the uppermost one in politics. We have
been moving one way or the other all the
time-never standing STILL TO stop now
would be to rest in a fools paradise. The
enemy will not allow it. / consider the
commissions plan for bank reform exceed
ingly hopeful
Mr.. Seth Low, of Brooklyn, also expresses
himself as in hearty sympathy with the
commissions purposes. Speaking Of the re-
tions seem to me to be well calculated to ac-
complish the desired result. AS long as it
is possible for any one to ask with any rea-
sona5le doubt as to the answer, What is a
dollar?' the business of the country will be
carried ON under more or less disAdvan-
tages in proportion to the gravity of this
doubt 1t seems TO me that the battle as
10 the standard of value must be fought to
a finish, so that the standard shall be UNI
questionably gold or unQuestionably silver,
precisely as Lincoln said the country must
be either wholly free or wholly slave. In
favor of the gold standard are these facts:
First of all. that we are already upon it,
and that any attempt to change it to the
silver standard would involve an industrial
and mercantile CONFUSION, the effects of
which no man can measure, and, second,
that the gold standard is the standard of
value in all the countries enjoying the high
est civilization. Under these circumstances
] sympathiZe with the frank utterance of
the monetary commission and of the secre-
tary of the treasury in urging their meas
ureS explicitly for the purpose OF establish
ing gold unequivocaliy as the standard of
value in this country. The measures di-
rected to this emu and the notifications OF
the banking law proposed by the lndianap-
oils commission in the main commend them
selves to my Judgment. | have no doubt
that experts may differ on some details and
that the propositions can be amended in de-
tail without serious disadvantage. On the
other hand, the whole trend of the report
like and l hope it will result in securing
a common alignment of all the friends of
sound banking and of sound money behind
the same measure s,--,-t.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-07

cIusiveIy- this session to the consideration
Of appropriation bills will be varied this
week with the consideration of a contested
election case. 1t is the purpose of the House
readers TO keep the appropriation bills 10
the front in order to obtain an early final
adjournment or as the alternative throw
the responsibility for delay on the Senate
But after the fortifications bill is disposed
OF only one other appropriation bill is on the
calendar for the preSent--the military acad-
emy-and it should not consume more than
Il few hours. 1t is the intention of the
leaders, therefore, TO fill the hiatus this
week with consideration of the Aldrich-
PlOWman contested case from the Fourth
Alabama district The elections committee
has divided on t1ls case on party lines and
the indications are, therefore, that the
House will do the same thing and Mr..
Plowman will be unseated The members
on both sides of the House have been us
ing the latitude allowed in debate on APP
preparation bills to make campaign
speeches to be used more or less extensive
~ in the impending &C 'greSSional campaign
this fall and these arc likely to continue
indefinitely. All the m. nlbers are keenly
alive to opportunities to y Ike political cap
ital for themselves or til pai'ty and this
fact may at any time y r-earranged
programmes by plunging House into
rdncor0us and Acrimonious Official discus
sion. The Democrats ara P0puliSts seem
to be directing ttc!r iults principally
against the REPUBLICAN CT I'M that prosper
ity has returned to the country so that all
evidence on this point pro or con is likely
to find it's way sooner or later into the
Congressional Record for distribution this
faI
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-07
LABOR REFORMERS.
Object of "a Convention That viii Meet
i'm st. Louis This Spring.

ST. LOUIS, Feb. "a call for the first
regular annual united labor and labor re-
form convention" to be held in st. Louis
on Monday, May 2, 1885, has been issued
by the following committee by virtue of
authority conferred on it by the united
labor convention held in Chicago last Sep
TENDER: NJ. p Garrick United Labor League
of western Pennsylvania; Sheridan Web
ster, Social Democracy of st. Louis; Will
liam Brandt, E.. NJ. Bannizer, Trades and
Labor Union of st. Louis and vicinity; Mrs
Mary Jones, knights of Labor; John f.
Waters Single Tax Club, Chicago; William
Mailly, secretary Central Labor Federation,
Nashville, Tenn; G. f. Stephens, Single
Tax Society, Philadelphia, Pa Dan Nc
Donald, Trades and Labor Assembly
Butte Mont The convention was called for
the following purposes:
First-To consider and adopt measures to
secure closer union between all advocates
Second-To adopt an efficient system of
resisting the encroachment of the judiciary
upon the liberties of our people and to
abolish government by injunction.
Thrd-To unite all our efforts in support
of every movement for the betterment of
industrial conditions not inconsistent with
each other
Fourth--To consider the political situation
in relation to the interests of the producers
anu TO take any necessary action thereon
Fifth-To establish closer and more SYM
pathetic relations between the supporters
Of isolated attempts at self-help by co-op-
erative colonies and industries.
SiXth-To impress upon the American peo-
Lle the pre-eminent Importance of the sys-
tenn of direct legislation Including the in
itiative, referendum, imperative mandate
and proportional representation the only
means of restoring the liberties of the peo-
pie and as the only issue whereby all re-
form elements can be cemented into hearty
political union without compromise of prin-
ciples.
Seventh-The basis of representation shall
be one delegate from each bona fide local
organization in actual existence, which has
for one of its fundamental objects the pro-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-07
ANCIENT CITY'S RUINS.
Discovers Near Durango, Mexico, by
American ArcbaeOIogist.

DURANGO Mex Feb. 6. - Thomas ID.
Ewing, an Archaeological, of Philadelphia,
passed through here about a year ago on
his way to remote region of the Sierra
Madres, west of Durango, on an exploring
expedition. He has just arrived here on his
way home and reports that he discovered
the ruins of ancient city situated about
two hundred miles west of Durango in an
almost impenetrable valley. between high
ranges of mountains. He has with him
collection of curious relics. lie states that
the region is inhabited by cliff jewellers,
and that ne spent several months with that
tribe of mountain people. He will soon re-
turn and make fur her explorat tons.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-07
is AN OYSTER A FISH?
Question That Is Agitating the People
of Virginia and Maryland.

BALTIMORE, Feb. els an oyster
fish? The people of two States are now
discussing the question and hunting up au-
thorties. A committee of the Maryland
Legislature has now gone lown to Rich
rnond to meet similar committee from the
Virginian Legislature to bring about, if pos
sible an adjustment of the boundary line
dispute. This has been an invariable bien-
NAL proceeding from time immemorial, and
the adjustment seems to be as far off as
ever.
The disputed boundary includes valuable
oyster lands in the Pocomoke sound and the
controversy is kept alive by the conflicts be-
tween the Maryland oystermen and the Vir-
ginia oyster police. which occur regularly
every season, frequently with sanguinary
results. The old compact between the
States made in 1855. gives the people of
each one of the two States equal rights for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-07

Election Cases May he Considered in
HotI, SENATE and House.

WASHINGTON, Feb 6.-The attention of
the Senate this week will in all probable
ity be divided between the Hawaiian. an
nexation treaty. appropriation bills and the
right OF Hon. II. w. Corbett to seat in
the Senate from Oregon. The treaty will
probably occupy the greater snare of at
tention Monday, but after that time the
committee on appropriations will claim the
time Of the Senate for the Indian appro-
priation bin. which. il is expected. will be
reported early in the week. This bill will
provoke considerable debate, and by the
time il is disposed of the committee on APP
Bropriations hope 60 have The fertilization
bin before enc Senate. Senator Hoar will
at the same time press the Corbett mat
ter upon the attention OF the Senate as a
matter OF the highest privilege and several
speeches VIII be made upon H. II docs not
appear probable, however. taat vote win
be reached during the week on the Corbett
resolution
4 Is probable that the programme Of the
House whi-h has been confined almost ex-