Gilpin observer., 1899-07-13

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designed to make gold the standard Of
values. In his statement Mr.. Chandler
says: Il am against changing the mon.
ey plank in the 1896 platform. II the
single gold standard men secure a
change in that platform dangerous
mistake will be made. would never
vote to cease efforts to establish silver
as standard money 1t would be the
highest wisdom TO seize this favorable
moment for remonetizing silver, doing
1t. if France is willing, with a change
of ratio and getting this vexed ques-
tion out of politics. l do not believe it
will ever go out of politics through the
adoption of the single gold standard
and the final rejection of silver, us a
money metal. So | am against adopt
ing the money plank which the money
kings are preparing to force upon the
convention of 1900" If-rifs - .l4a3 i
The pension committee of the Grand
Army of the Republic, which at the re-
| quest of Commissioned Evans will in
vestigate the workings and. atiminis-
tration of the pension bureau. assem-
bled here Tuesday. The committee.
which is headed by Colonel X. V.
Brown of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, visited the
pension office and remained some time
in consultation with Mr. Evans and n
number of chiefs of division. Every
facility was afforded the committee.
the files being opened for their inves-
! tigation and expert employees detailed
to assist them. John A. Palmer secre-
tary of state of New York, one of the
members of the committee, discussing
the investigation, said the committee
would inquire into the whole pension
system. and report the conditions as 1t
found them. and If in its Judgment any
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mendations would be made to the e.
A. II. The committee will remain here
several days.
Surgeon General Sternberg has made
an official report to the War Depart
ment. recommending that Fort Bay
ard. New Mexico. be set aside as a san
itarium for consumptives of the army.
as the result of his recent inspection
of that post. There are now six COM
panies of infantry at Fort Bayard,
and Surgeon General Sternberg will
recommend that all but one company
be removed and that the barracks be
set aside for patients. Surgeon Cen
eral Sternberg says the post is 5000
feet above sea level, and its dry elm
ate is just the thing to benefit con-
sumptiyes. Many army men now at
soldiers homes will be sent TO Fort
Bayard. Surgeon General Sternberg
said to-day that the best Informed
members of the medical profession Be-
neved 1t dangerous to keep persons af- |
fected with tuberculosis with healthy
individuals. and better for all that they
should be isolated and undergo the
splendid climatic treatment they will
receive at Fort Bayard.
Attorney General Griggs has under
consideration a question, decision of
which will mean much to the inhabit-
ants of the islands which have come
under the sovereignty of the United
States, and which involves the dues-
ton whether the United States can
maintain colonial system without n
revision of the constitution. 1t is a
question raised by the inhabitants of
Porto Rico. who wish to import sugar
and other products of their island into
the United States free of duty. They
set up the claim that Porto Rico be-
came an integral part of the United
States upon its cession by Spain, and
that it is in violation of the constitu-
tiOn to levy duties on articles imported
from the island. In the treaty of Par
is no agreement was made as to the
status of Guam. Porto Rico or the
Philippines. So far as the treaty is
concerned, there does not seem to be
one side or the other of the cOntro-
yersy.
Greatly as the officials regret it, in
formation received by Secretary Hay
from Ambassador Choate leads to the
opinion that Mrs. Maybrlck will have
to remain in prison for the murder Of
her husband in 1880. Failing in the
present effort to secure the woman's
release. ii is authoritatively stated that
the present administration will do
nothing further to obtain her freedom.
Ambassador Choate has been doing
everything in his power to cause ia
vorable action by the British govern
ment upon the request that Mrs. May
brick be liberated. He has found the
higher officials favorable to cOmpli-
ance with the request. but the under
permanent officials seem to be of the
opinion that the ends OF British JUS
tice have not yet been served. If Mrs.
Maybrick should be compelled to serve
out her sentence she would not be set
free until 1908. She will begin the sew
enth year of her Imprisonment In n
few days, and 1t had been hoped by
the authorities here that her release
would then be granted, but they now
seem to have lost hope.
| 1t Is stated that the negotiations over
the Alaskan boundary are all off. The
propositions of Canada which have
been rejected by this government are
as follows: The cesslon of Pyramid
harbor at the head of Lynn canal; the
cession of any other port on the Lynn
canal: the cession of strip of terri
tory which would give access to tide
water: n free right of way across Alas
ka to any United States port; the varl-
alton of Hays provisional boundary line
so ms to include Kluckwan, an Indian
village ut the head of navigation lead
ing into the Lynn canal; the inclusion