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The herald., 1898-10-26
Maria pc Licenses

Willard J. Doran. %. native of Mime
sofa, and Dora X. lnnes, 26, native of II
linois. both residents of Los Angeles.
Charles II. Mevers, 2l, native of Kansas
and a resident of Los Angeles, and Cora '.
REYNOLDS, 90. native of Iowa and resi-
de- of u Iona
The herald., 1898-10-26
Peter Galeig, n, a native of Mass,

setl.. ANA a : ciit ol santa Monica. and
Dollie NJ. McNutt. 90, native Of Illinois
and a resident of Los Angeles.
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
PRESIDENT AND CIVIL SERVICE.
Members of the House Delivering Speeches
for Home Consumption-A Short Social
Season.

Chicago, Jan. ia special from
Washington to the Record says:
The Presidents disposition toward
the civil service commission is indica-
ted by the fact That lie proposes to re-
lieve Colonel William G. Rice of New
York, the conservative Democratic
member, by the appointment of ex-
Representative Mark Brewer of Michi-
gan, but will retain John Il. Proctor
of Kentucky, the president of the
board, who is the most aggres-
sive and radical civil service re-
former ever known in Washington,
and is quite as advanced in his views
on this subject as Carl SchurZ or any
man in the country. During the attacks
in the Senate committee and in the
House of Representatives upon the
civil service law, Professor Proctor has
always been on hand with ammunition
for its defenders and has furnished
the material for most of the speeches
that have been delivered on his side OF
the controversy. During the Cleveland
administration Professor Proctor was
equally energetic and was always alert
to haul up the heads of departments
who endeavored to violate or evade the
law or the rules of the commission. 1t
was he who persuaded President Cleve-
land to make the order that swept un.
der the protection of the commission
the 40 900 employees of the government
about whom there is now so much
complaint.
The thirty days of mourning that
have interrupted the social gayety of
Washington will compel the admins
tration to hustle in order to fulfill all
of the formal engagements that have
been made before the beginning Of
Lent. The mourning period was over on
the 18th. The next day the vice presi-
dent gave a dinner TO the Presi-
dent. at which the members of the
speaker of the House were guests.
On January 10Th occurs the Presidents
reception to the diplomatic corps; on
the Goth Cabinet dinner, and follow
ing that will come n continuous series
of social functions.
The debate on the civil service in the
House of Representatives is becoming
tedious. 1t has lost its interest. The
men who make entertaining speeches
have finished and now the Congress
sional Record is being loaded up with
buncombc for the benefit of home read
ers. The House has talked of nothing
else since the session began, but every
suggestion that looks toward limiting
debate is stubbornly resisted by those
who have not been able to get in
speeches.
The Japanese minister has invited
Miss Long, daughter of the secretary
of the navy. to chrstcn the new battle
ship which is being built at the Cramp
ship yard for his government and will
be launched on the Goth instant. The
occasion is one of unusual Importance.
because this is the first time n naval
vessel of any Importance has ever been
built for n foreign government in the
United States. The Japanese minister
has kindly invited Il number of his
friends to accompany him to the
launching.
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
Situation In Havana.

Madrid, Jan. 1S.-The Impartial Her
aldo and Liberal publish long dis
patches from Havana, All the corre-
spondcnis agree that the storm which
has broken out there had long been
brewing. The troubles We're due to the
fact that Captain General Blanco
failed in his attempts to induce the Gu
ban Cabinet to take adequate steps to
check the violent press attacks on eN-
Captain General Wcyler and his as
sistants.
The dispatches ascribe Il similar lack
of energy TO the civil authorities In re-
pressing the outbreak. Order. the dis
patches say, was restored by the sheer
pluck of Generals Arolas, Gonzales,
Parade and Solano. who dashed among
the rioters. upbraidng them for their
want of PATRIOTISM and compelling the
officers and volunteers to withdraw.
The Madrid newspapers. with few
exceptions. condemn the lawlessneSs.
Weylers organ. the Nacional. advises
the Havana volunteers to rebel, even II
the leaders of the demonstrations
should be shot.
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
Cut of a MillInn Dnllara

Providence. II. L.. Jan. 1S.-The cut
down in The cotton mills throughout
the state will go into effect tomorrow
the only exceptions being one or two
small factories whose owners, for rea-
sons of their own have not decided to
cut wages and few in which owing to
their paying monthly or for similar rea-
sons, it is not convenient to make the
reduction until later.
The reduction will affect TO a greater
or lesser degree the earnings of nearly
10000 operatives in this state and those
of Knight X Goddard. in Massachu-
sets. Between 10000 and $1,000 en-
ployed in Connecticut mills controlled
by Providence agents will be affected
also AS the aggregate earnings of the
operatives will approximate $9,0O0,O0O
annually the loss in wages and pur-
chasing power in consequence of the
reduction to operators and business
men in the communities in which they
spend their money will be nearly II
round million. If the cut averages, as
expected, about twenty per cent
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
NEW MOVE AGAINST BRYAN.
Indications That Tammany Hall VIII Seek
"A New Leader.

New York, Jan. 16.-The New York
Journal, hitherto William ]. Bryan's
warmest partisan, to-day contains Il
signed editorial by its chief writer
Arthur McEwen. in which an attack is
made on the great silver leader.
The Journal was the only New York
City paper of Importance to support
Bryan during his late campaign, and
this indication that it is to abandon him
as candidate for the presidency III
1900 Is a matter of no small interest.
Richard Croker and the influence of
Greater New York is apparent.
The Journal, it is thought, will be-
come the advocate of n new Democ-
racy, whose nucleus is Tammnny
There may be contest between east
ern and western leaders, the eastern
leaders aiming to unhorse Bryan and
reorganize the Democratic party un-
der the leadership of Il new man and
on platform calculated TO win back
the members who We're alienated by
some portions of the Chicago platform
The Journals political editorial
opens with this paragraph: "As
Bryan Democrat, | have to confess
that | grow weary of Mr.. Bryan, and
this is important, because l find myself
in Il constantly increasing company
With those other eastern Democrats,
am coming TO believe that he not large
enough to be the leader of the cause
which is known by his name. OF his en-
ergy and brilliancy rs n political speak
er as high an opinion must be held
ns when he made that marvellous tour
of the Union, arousing the people ev-
erywhere with his earnest and dashing
eloquence. But he no longer impresscs
81 n
highest sincerity"
Then il continues: HE is showing
narrowness. or irrational obstinacy,
either of which should be detrimental
to his ambition, and must be hurtful 10
the immediate prospects of the move
ment he represents. The persistence
with which he clings to 16 to |, as If
that We're not only the salutary tenet in
the Democratic creed, the axis of the
revolving cosmos, betrays either Mr..
Bryan's incapacity to comprehend
Bryanism or dogged disposition that
refuses to acknowledge what is pre-
sented to his eyes and those of every
other intelligent man in the country,
whether for or against the Chicago
platform of the new Democracy.
"Bimeiallism. by all means. 1t is the
money of the constitution, and there
fore Democratic. But why ratio OF
16 10 ] or death? What decree Of heav-
en- has given that ratio sacredness
beyond all other possible ratiosT
The closing paragraph says: "Mr.
Bryan may. if he chooses, stick like an
oyster to the rock of 16 to l, but the
stream of the new Democracy will NOT
be stationary for his sake. not for any
mans. Organism is a bigger thing than
Bryan. Organism will continue to
grow, whatever Mr.. Bryan continues to
do"
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
ITALIAN REPUBLIC SUGGESTED
Startling Statement Said to BE Inspired by
the Vactican and Pope.

London. ian. 1.-THE Rome cores
pondent of the Daily Chronicle, in
startling statement this morning,
quotes largely from an article in Civil
ta Catholica. which he declares is d.
rectly inspired by the Vatican and the
Pope advocating. as the solution OF
the eternal question between the Vati-
can and the Quirinal the establishment
of an Italian republic.
The article. which is baSed on the
Pope's Christmas allocution, declares
that the thing which stands opposed
to papal Independence is not Italian
unity. but ''the special and concrete
form in which that unity is maintain
ed, with results much more disastrous
to the state than to the Holy See"
1t proceeds to assert that the cock
istencc of the Vatican and the Italian
monarchy is impossible. and that one
or the other must 20. II then suggests
the constitution of Switzerland and
America as an example of admirable
and glorious constitutions; true union
of nation and state. though differing
from that of Italy. which has produced
nothing but weakness. misery and star
vation."
The article concludes:
"Without the aid of foreign bayonets
the true Italy will find for itself its
own way and will rise again, let us
hope, from the ignominy in which it
now lies PROSTATE to true greatness"
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21

No system of national quarantine, no
matter how thorough, can prove effec-
tive so long as the yellow plague Is al
lowed to breed at our very doors. Ey-
en- national quarantine cannot keep
away from our southern coasts the
contagion that flies in the air or creeps
in on the sluggish West Indian fogs
blown inland. Quarantine does not
prevent the spread of yellow fever in
a climate where the conditions are ripe
for it, and we cannot keep the germs
away from our coasts so long as the
fever is allowed to breed and grow in
Cuba, where it exists from years end
to years end. We must be able to root
1t out and destroy it in its breeding
grounds. 1t must be stamped out of
Havana and other Cuban ports before
a quarantine can prove effective.
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
IRRIGATION DECISION.
Judge Rincr Says Farmers Using Water
Have Rights Superior to the Riparl-
an prpDrtetOra

an fropr.etOrs
Denver. Jan. 15.-ln the United States
Circuit Court yesterday Judge John A
Riner sustained the demurrer of the de.
fendnnts in the case of the United
States Freehold Land and Emigration
Company VS.. Diego Gallcgos. and dis
missed the bill of the plaintiff by which
it was sought to enjoin the defendants
from using for irrigation and other
purposes the waters of the Culebra riv-
er. stream which flows through n por-
ton of the famous Maxwell land grant
in southern Colorado.
The decision is of great importance,
as the same order was made in ten
other cases-the defendants in the elev-
en- cases, aggregating several hundred
ranchmen, who have for many years
used the water of the Culebra river for
irrigating purposes.
The decision also establishes the prin-
ciple that priority of appropriation is
of greater effect in determining owner
ship of wafer than claims by virtue of
riparian rights. the statutes of the
state. rather than the common law,
governing the question.
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
THE RELIEF EXPEDITION.
Its Departure Has Been Postponed for
Time.

Portland, Ore. Jan. 16.-Genernl Mer-
riam, commanding the Department of
the Columbia this morning received a
telegram from the War department in
Structing him to postpone the depart
ure of the relief expedition to Alaska.
Accordingly, the contract to ship the
expedition from this port on the steam
ship Oregon January 23rd has been
withdrawn. The pack train is still held
at Fort Vancouver. and the drilling of
the guard for it will go on. The orders
effect temporary abandonment of the
expedition, and it is understood they
We're based on the recent reports that
there is no starvation or suffering in
the Yukon country that the government
the Yukon country that the government
relief expedition could relieve. Agent
Poston of the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company stated that his company is
glad to be relieved of the contract to
transport the government pack train to
Alaska, as it has already more bust
ness offered than it can handle.
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21

The New York state forest preserve
board has practically completed Its
purchases under the $1,000000 ap-
preparation made by the last legisla-
ture. The board has expended $780,
600, with which it purchased 100000
acres of land within the boundaries
of the Adirondack state park. The ex-
pense attached to such purchases was
$4,000. The average price paid was
$3.50 per acre. The lands acquired in
clude many of the choicest primeval
tracts in the north woods. The $4,000
remaining of the appropriation Will be
used to clear up outstanding adverse
tax titles.
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
SILVER CONFERENCE.
Result of the Meeting at wn-hinrt'


Washington. d. c., Jan. 15.-As the
result of conferences held within The
last few dayS between the several lead
ers of various parties. 1t is said tina,
Chairman Jones of the Democratic Ma
tional committee Chairman Butler of
the Populist National committee and
Chairman Townc of the Silver RepuD-
licnn National committee will issue Il
Joint manifesto the early part OF next
week with Il view TO securing common
action by the three organizations in the
present contest of 1888. The draft OF
the document is now in the course OF
preparation. 1t will appeal to all those
interested in the cause of silver to
work in union and to avoid rival organ
iZations, by which their common
strength will be diSsipated.
The talks among the silver men con
tinued to-day, but they did not take the
shape of formal conference. Chair
man Towne had returned from the con
test at Columbus, where he assisted in
the opposition to Mr.. Hanna. He was
about the House of Representatives
talking with Representative Bland and
other silver eXponenis. The feeling de-
veloped was general in favor OF com
mon action among all silver elements.
Messrs. Jones. Butler and Towne VIII
confer further during the next rev
days, and the addresses will then be
made public.
On the 18th instant the American Bi-
metallic Union, of which General war.
ner of Ohio is president, holds Its meet
ings here. and this is expected to give
further cohesion to the joint silver
movement.
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
Band OF rramps Raid "A Mining Camp.

Bridgeport. Ohio, Jan. 1S.-Word has
just reached here of the looting of the
mining towns of Dilionvale and Long
Run by desperate gang of tramps.
The gang numbered score or more
and plundered right and left without
fear.
one general store and at least TWEEN
ty-live houses We're robbed. the thieves
securing in the aggregate about $1,000
The foreigners are terribly excited over
their loss and have armed themselves
with revolvers to hunt the thieves.
\ delegation of miners came here to-
day and purchased all the revolvers in
stock In some cases the entire furni-
tlIre of the houses We're carried away.
Part of the same gang robbed the big
general store at Adena.
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
WANT A CHANGE IN THE LAWS,
Canvass of the Republican Congressmen
on tho Subject of Civil Service.

Washington. Jan. 19.-The canvass
OF the Republican members of the
House on the question of changing the
civil service laws which has been CON
Quoted by the Republican steering com
mttee is about completed. OF the 2O2
Republican members of the House the
canvass is said to show that a ma
jority varying from eighteen TO forty
is favorable to Il change in the law.
according 10 the degree of change pro-
posed. This last factor leads to some
difference of opinion as TO the result of
the canvass. Representative Pearson
of North Carolina. n member of the
committee, places the number of Re
publicans who can be depended on at
112. Mr.. Evans of Kentucky another
member of the committee, places the
number at 13J. Those who have made
the canvass says that in number of
cases entire state delegations are
shown by the canvass to favor a
change in the law. notably. North Caro-
lima, Tennessee, Kentucky. West Nir-
ginia and New Hampshire. The Min
nesota count shows all but one for n
change, Michigan all but two, and in
Pennsylvania twenty-five out of TWEEN
ty-seven Republican members are
counted in the canvass for change in
the law.
Beyond completing The canvass the
opposition to the civil service law is
taking no active steps for the present.
the purpose being to wait until the
regular civil service committee of the
House takes action ON the bill before il
proposes modification of the law.
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
AGAINST M'kENNA.
Action on His Confirmation Postponed One
Week.

Week.
Washington. Jan. 15.-Almost the en-
tire four hours of the executive session
of the Senate to-day We're devoted to
the indirect consideration of the nomi.
nation of Hon. Joseph Mckenna, now
attorney general. to be associate jus.
tice of the Supreme Court. The dis.
cussion was the result of an effort on
the part of Senator Allen Populist,
Nebraskm to secure n pOStponement
for two weeks. In the end a compro-
mise Wy reached. on the condition that
the Nebraska senator should agree to
allow vote to he taken on that date.
The Hawaiian treaty was not touched
upon during the session.
The dcbtc upon Mr. McKcnna's NOM
nation was precipitnted by Senator
Hoar. chairman of the committee on
judiciary, who called up the nomina-
ton in accordance with his notice of
yesterday, and asked for immediate
action. In doing this. Mr.. Hoar spoke
briefly of the opposition to Mr.. Nc
Kenna, saying that the judiciary com
mittee had Investigated most of the
charges made and had reached the con-
clusion that they We're without founda-
ton.
He said that the greater number of
charges had been made by the mem
bers of the American Protective Asso-
citation, and as they had been founded
solely upon the fact that Mr.. McKenna
was n Catholic in religion. they had not
been deemed worthy of serious con-
Sideration. Mr.. Hoar dwelt nt some
length upon this point, excorating any
man who would attempt to inject a
question of religion into n controversy
over mans fitness for office. He said
that such an effort was entirely I'm
American and unpatriotic. and should
not for moment receive the consid-
eration of fair-mindcd men.
Senator Allen wanted the extension
of time to investigate charges of Nc
kenna's untitncss and his connection
with corporations.
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21

The so-called bye elections in Eng
land, by which are meant the scatter
ing elections to fill vacant seats in the
House of Commons. which occur from
time to time between the general cleo
tions. are always watched with inter-
est as indications of public sentiment;
There have been twenty-five such cleo
tions since the general parliamentary
election of 1896 in which the Conserva-
tives won their great victory. AS a
result fourteen Conservatives and
eight Liberals have been replaced by
thirteen Liberals and nine Conserva-
tives. A Conservative majority of 6,025
In these twenty-five constituencies has
been changed into Liberal majority
of $3.50.
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
ENoLAND's OFFER TO CHINA.
VIII Loan s6O.oOO.OOO for Fifty Years at
Per Cent. for Concessions.

FER Cent. for Concessions.
London, Jan. 1S.-Thc Pellin CORE
spondent of the Times says:
Yesterday Sir Claude Macdonald,
British ambassador TO China. in the
course of an interview with the Tsung-
Li-iamen (Board of Foreign Control
stated that England WAS willing to as
sist China TO liquidatc the Japanese in
demnity and would provide n loan of
t12.OOO.OO0 at par. to run fifty years,
the service TO he four per cent, net, in
Guiding sinking fund, conditions as fol-
lows:
''First-The opening of three treaty
ports. the ialien-Wan. Siang-ln and
Manning. thereby increasing the GUS
toms revenues: second, n declaration
that no part of the Ynnk-Tse-Kiang
valley shall be alienated to any other
power: third. the right to extend the
Burmah railway through Human prov
ince (the most southwestern in China.)
"In the event of her default, China Is
to place certain revenues under the
control of the imperial customs. On this
basis the negotiations will proceed.
China regards them as advantageous,
but fears the threatened opposition of
France and Russia, especially to the
opening of Talien-Wan and Manning"
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
Press Censorship In Havana.

Havana, Jan. ia decree has been
published prohibiting the publication
in daily newspapers of cable dispatches
without previous censorship and with
out twelve hours notice of their re-
ceipt. In addition, in the future the
postoffice here will detain national and
foreign newspapers not having been
previously censored
Violators of the law are warned they
are under military jurisdiction.
Another edict will be published short
ly forbidding the gathering in groups
OF more than four persons either In the
streets or in the stores.
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
Standard OIL Company Pay. Big Fees.

Boston. Mass, Jan. 1S.-A fee of
S2O0,0OO. the largest fee ever paid n
lawyer in This city. has been received
by Albert C. Burrage from William
Rockefeller in behalf of the Standard
Oil Company. The fee was received
for services in the sale. of the Brooklyn
Gas Company and other local proper
ties TO IL. NJ. Whitney and his asso-
ciates. 1t is announced that Mr.. Bur-
rage has received SI5O.OOO more for
services other than legal. The state
ment is also made that S1.SOO.0OO in all
has been paid to various people in
counsel fees.
MI Burrnge is Il member of the 'S3
class of Harvard. He is thirty-eight
years old, was born mt Ahburnham,
Massachusetts. and has been corpor-
alton lawyer since 1854.
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
Ben Buttcrworth Dead.

Thomasvile. Ga. Jan. 16.-Hon. Ben
iamin Buttcrworth. United States COM
missioner of patents. who has been ill
at Piney Woods hotel here several
weeks, died at 3:1J this afternoon. The
end was peaceful, and when it came
his wife and children We're mt his bed
side. He came here to recuperate
from an attack of pneumonia, and re
covered rapidly until two weeks ago,
when he suffered from uremic convul-
sions. From that relapse he never re-
covered. His body will be sent to
Washington tomorrow.
The Springfield herald., 1898-01-21
THE EDISON WAVE MACHINE.
Invention to Utilize the Waves of the
Sea,

Sea.
New York, Jan. 16.-Thomas A. Edi-
son, Jr, has invented machine for
utilizing the wave power of the sea,
When in place the machine will be
twenty miles out at sea, and will con
sist of Il series of gigantic air pumps.
The air compressed by these will be
used to run dynamos. For S2J,000,OOO
he can construct n plant, he says, that
will furnish 1,0OO,OOO-horse power.
enough to supply the entire state of
New York. He says that powerful
syndicate has the matter of immediate
construction of the plant under consid-
Grafton. His plans are said to be prac-
tically complete. The Edison wave ma
chine is. in effect, n series of gigantic
air pumps. The piston of the machine
stands upright upon platform, which
is pierced by the long piston rod. Upon
the lower end of the piston rod is big
fiat float, which rests upon the water
and is movable by the rise and fall of
the sea. A wave passing under the
float would elevate the piston, power
fully cOmprcssing the air already con-
tained in the cylinder. This pressure
would be transmitted directly to the
storage tank for compression air. BY
an arrangement of oscllators, suffi-
cient air would be admitted behind the
piston to return quickly to its position
upon the water, where it would be
ready to receive the force of the next
wnvp