The National tribune., 1899-07-20

Hampshire. The specific charge was that
Senator Gallinger, as Chairman of the Re-
publican State Committee, distribu cir
cuiars appealing to Republican office
holders for contributions to the funds.
Senator Chandler was present. Senator
Gallinger inquired whether he was to under
stand that Busiel or Chandler was the real
complainant and was told he might draw
his own conclusions.
The investigation was for the purpose
of allowing the Commissioners to examine
the evidence and decide if it warranted fur
ther prosecution. If they report so. the
Department of Justice authorities will be
called in. Very few witnesses answered
to the invitation to be present, and the
affair was something in the nature of
fizzle. Two Postmasters testified to re-
ceiving such a circular as was alleged to
have been sent ont.
On one of the days of the investigation
Senator Chandler remarked that the Com
mission had seemed to find out everything
except who wrote the assessment penned to
the office holders, who fixed the sums to be
assessed, who directed the envelopes, and
who sent them out A dispute followed
between Commissioner Brewers objection,
and on Senator Chandler charging that
Senator Gallinger had kept away the most
important witness, the lie was passed, and
| the two men would probably have come to
blows but for the bystanders. Senator
| Chandler declares that Mr.. Brewer con-
Quoted the investigation in a partial man
ner and made it impossible for the case to
| be fairly presented, and that he will ask for
| Brewers removal by President Mckinley.
| AMERICAN RULE IN CUBA.
| Brig Rosser, who called on Presi-
| dent Mckinley last week declared that
every man on tIe Island of Cuba (Whence
| he has just Gomez with dollars worth of
property never wants to see the American
| flag hauled down. They know it means
anarchy, chaos, and oppression. The
Cubans did not fight with thesword, but the
| torch. Dcsoation is seen everywhere now,
and the conservative people do not like to
think what would happen if the American
| forces were withdrawn
| Gen. Wood, in command of the Depart
| ment of Santiago, has issued general
| order establishing absolute quarantine.
| Officers have all been detailed for the pres
ent to look after the treatment of the fever,
and all officers of the Government except
those belonging to the department have
| been forbidden TO enter the city. No travel
ers are allowed TO leave without having
first undergone five days detention in
camp. No ships are permitted to touch the
wharves, and the railroads are forbidden To
bring passengers into the city.
| NOTES.
Latest advces from the Upper Yukon
| River indicate that several vessels now due
|
| bring large amount Of dust, the total being
| estimated from 81, 100000 TO 81, ,OOO, 900,
| A recent letter from Dawson to San Fran
cisco says that the conditions there are
quite satisfactory, and that the output will
be larger than at first predicted, though il
will be impossible to obtain a correct esti-
| mate because of the number who leave the
place, packing dust in grips. sacks, boxes
and tin cans, and no one knows what be-
comes of them. A great many disap-
pointed and ill prospectors come back in the
steamers, more than those prospectors who
have become enriched by their labors.
The State Department soon expects to
receive by mail full reports of all that was
done at The Hague Conference. 1t will in
clude the formal draft of the treaties and
protocols which the United States is ex-
pected TO accept. These will be signed and
returned to the American delegation at The
Hague. They must Of course be sub
mitted to the Senate at the next session.
Herr Rose, the German ex-Consul,
stopped in Washington on his way to Ger
many, last week, and was presented to the
President. 1t was his action in supporting
Mataafa for King which brought about the
fighting with the natives in which several
British and American sailors lost their
| lives. Herr Rose claims that the friction
between natives of the two countries, Ger
many and America, was much exaggerated
in the reports.