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AMERICA VS.. ENGLAND.

America and England are once more
ready to meet to dispute with each other
the ascendancy in national sesmanship.
For twenty y ars or so America has beat
en- England in every trial that has taken
place between them The forthcoming
contest may prove an exception to those
which have gone before it, but the indi-
cations now are that the result will be
as it has always been. Since the days
CT the American clipper ship, when our
Yankee seamen sailed the waters Of the
world from Cape Cod to the China sea,
there never has been a time when we
were incapable of demonstrating the SUI
periority- of our ships and our seamen.
Not alone in amateur yachting, but in the
serious work of naval commerce and in
the prowess of our men-of-war' s-men we
have shown our ability to cope with Eng
land We enter upon the contest between
the Columbia and Shamrock with the
same enthusiastic certainty which always
prevailed among our people that the
cessful vessel.
1t is gratifying to all lovers of nautical
sport that the prevailing reports all indi-
cate that the struggle will be fought out
on the merits Of the two yachts. We have
a vessel which Is fitted for the work be-
fore it. The English are, too, satisfied.
Defeat when it comes will mean all that
the word implies, and will bring to the
victor the assurance that seaworthiness
and seamenship have won the day.
The test will be generally accepted as
conclusive. 1t would have been more to
the disposition of the American people if
the contests of the seventies could be re-
newed, when the wide Atlantic had to be
traversed in order to settle the question
Of supremacy. But wherever the contest
might take place or whatever the condi-
lions, the conviction prevails among our
people that we can and will win.
There has been no attempt on the part
Of those responsible for the construction
of the Columbia to withhold any knowl-
edge Of her qualities. The tests Of her
fitness have been made publicly. She has
shown her heels to the successful Defend
err. The Shamrock, on the other hand,
is being handled with secrecy; but her
performances are satisfactory to those
who are qualified to judge, and the two
vessels will meet and the result will be
decisive Americans wish their vessel to
win; but they wish, first and above all,
that the better vessel. handled in the
| most skillfuI manner, may come out
ahead, whether it be the Columbia or the
Shamrock
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DRAMATIC NOTES.


The Nein stoG1 company will begin a
return engagement at the Metropolitan
opera house Monday evening, July "a.
presenting for the first three days of the
week Belasco & De Miles three-act COM
edy, Lord Chufnley," originally produc-
ed by E. H. Sotiern. For the latter half
Of the week the Neills will present "a
Bachelors Romance" by Martha Nor
ton; this dainty romedy-drama was play
ed here with great success by Sol Smith
Russell. Mr.. Nell land his players are
now in Winnipeg, where they have re-
ceived a royal welcome.
The Boston Lyric company IS present
ing "Olivette" to good business at the
Metropolitan in Minneapolis this week.
For the coming week they will give a big
scenic production Of La Belle Helene"
in which LillianI Russell and Edna Wal
lace Hopper created a sensation during
the past season.
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CANTON Is HAPPY.
President Mckinley Negotiating for
Home in That City.

Home in That City.
CANTON O.. LILLY Alt was reported
here this afternoon that Attorney Aus
tin Lynch, the law partner of Judge
Day, acting for President Mckinley, is
negotiating with Mrs. Elizabeth A Har-
ter for the purchase of the famous Nc
Ktnley cottage. Mrs. Harter the owner,
declined to talk for publication. Mr.
Lynch said:
No deal has been closed, but negotia-
tons are pending. There are some legal
points that 1 hope can be arranged"
Canton is rejoicing over this good news.
The railroad records show that nearly
$1.000,000 political pilgrims visited the
house to hear the Mckinley front door
speeches in 1885, The house is a commo-
dious two-story building, with large
Verandas. and stands on a lot about 100
feet front and about twice that depth.
Friends here do not think that the presi-
dent will make very extensive changes
in the home If the deal is closed. 1t Is
thought to be his desire to again possess
the home where he began married life
thirty years ago, which is sacred in mem
cries Of children lost there, and which
was disposed Of after tn death of Mrs
McKinley's mother, when they removed
to the old Saxton homestead now owned
by Mrs. Barber, a sister of Mrs McKin-
ley. Many people feared that since the
death of his mother Mrs. Nancy Allison
Mckinley, in December, 1897, and the sew
ering Of other home ties, the president
might be persuaded to locate elsewhere
Canton is jubilant tonight in the hope
that the negotiations now pending may
soon be successfully concluded.
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feels encouraged by their sympathy to
continue in rebellion. If an opportunity
should be offered he would doubtless be
glad to reciprocate their good will.
This direct statement from the rebel
leader will also be Of advantage to true
Americans, in showing them, beyond the
shadow OF a doubt, that the reasonable
utterances of certain Democratic leaders
nave not been in vain, but have borne re-
suits in the killing of Americans around
Manila.
In other words the Dispatch seems to
take the ground that American citizens
have no right to believe that President
Mckinley is In the wrong, and seems to
hold that they are bound to support him
in anything he may please to do; and
that they who think and do otherwise
are traitors, copperheads and what not
In the second editorial referred to, IN
the very next column, we find the prin-
c1ple, which was upheld in the first. mer-
cllessly condemned and ridiculed when
the emperor of Germany is in question.
The editor remarks:
The German emperor announced the
other day that he had had infieXible WILL
and, In spite of opposition, would pursue.
without deviation, a course of recognized
right: This Indignation is quite relief
to all who may Nbe concerned, for It does
not allow any room for doubt. We all
know now that the emperor Is always
right, and that he will do exactly as he
pleases. 1t might have been more modest
In him to allow some one else to pass
such compliments upon himself, but 1t Is
most probable that he can fiatter him
self much better than his courtiers are
able to do.
IF an American or Englishman should
praise himself in any such extravaganza
terms, he would provoke such mirth as
would make the laughter of the gods
seem like the cackling at a 5-oclock tea.
In comparison.
But the situation is different in Ger
many. Nobody there dare dispute those
imperial statements. much less ridicule
them, on pain of languishing in prison
for lese majestic
The best thing that William could do
would be to repeal the lese majestic laws
The wholesome criticism of himself and
his acts that would follow would make
man of him AS. however it is a dan.
gerous thing to tell the emperor that he
may be wrong on any subject. nobody
dares correct his hallucinatton that he Is
a wonder and a werld-beater.
It is safe to say. however. that II he
were president Of the United States, In
stead of emperor of Germany, the car
toonists would not allow him to make the
mistake of saying that he Is always right.
Now, Mr.. Editor of the Dispatch. please
straighten this thing out for us and let
your anxious readers know whose OK is
gored w. NJ.
st. Paul, July IA
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UPPER MISSISSIPPI WORK.
Report for the Year Submitted by
the Government Engineers.


WASHINGTON, July 14.-Government
engineers in charge of the work on the
upper Mississippi, Minneapolis to St.
Louis, filed their annual report today.
The tonnage of the upper river for 1898
was 2,S00,O0O tons, including logs and
lumber. st. Louis received from upper
river points in 1898, 176, $50 tons Of mer-
chandise. including lumber. Five hundred
and twelve boats left st. Louis for the
upper river and 52S arrived at st. Louis
from the upper river Since 1873, when
the appropriations were begun, the gov
eminent has expended $S,075, 629 on this
work and the head of navigation has
been changed from Winona and La
Crosse to st. Paul. and there is now a
stage of water at all times of the sea-
son sufficient to carry the largest boats.
Engineers think the results accomplished
in widening and deepening the channel
more than pay for the cost of the work
Between st. Paul and Lake Pepin, in
the vicinity of Sturgeon slough, nine
wing dams were built, shore protection
below TrimbiH river was extended 1870
feet and the left bank above Island %
was protected for a length of 3,275 feet;
opposite Diamond Bluff three wing dams
were built. completing the project of
1894. Above Diamond Bluff $50 feet OF
shore protection was built and several
short wings; at Morgan's bar three dams
were built and 800 feet of shore protec-
ton. The channel has been deepened in
many places by dredging.
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The treatment which Secretary Alger
Is receiving at the hands Of his party
friends is positively shameful. 1t is tire
some and cowardly, as that good man oc-
casionally intimates. 1t is cowardly be-
cause it seeks to make a scapegoat of
him. 1t is tiresome and dishonest because
those that are most offensive in their
treatment Of the secretary are equally
loud in their denials that there is any rea-
son under heaven why he should retire.
According to them the embalmed beef
scandals were nothing more than another
exhibition Of the reasonable tendencies
Of the opposition. They were hurtful only
because they gave an excuse for foreign
peoples to look with suspicion on our
meat products. There has been nothing,
according to them, in the entire admins
tration of the war worthy of serious crit
icism. The administration has done glo-
rious work, we are told, and has demon
strated the high rank to which we are
entitled among military nations.
What wonder is it that Secretary AL
ger should be disguised? Why should he
not entertain profound sense of wrong?
If there is nothing to condemn in the war
administration, why abuse him? If the
embalmed beef was a mere necessary in
cident to hurried preparations for war,
why ask for his resignation?
Gen. Eagan has been retired on full pay
The great investigating commission of the
administration simply found regarding
him that he had ordered more of a given
ration than he should have ordered, and
that he used unbecoming language toward
his superior officer. Yet another of the
administration investigating bodies after
q most exhaustive examination, also de-
cided that that superior officer deserved
to have unkind things said about him.
Then why all this badgering of Secretary
Alger? 1t cannot be that it is based on
moral grounds. If so, what are we to say
of Hanna, the strong right arm of the
administration, the president de facto Of
these United States? What about Gen.
Foraker and Tom PIatt and the other
great bulwarks of that administration?
Surely we can't hope to get rid of the
stencil which attaches to things by MAX
ing political burnt offering of poor AL
ger No; the whole business simply il
illustrates the shifting tendency of the ad-
ministration henchmen.
II Gen. Alger We're true to himself, he
would demand that these mean and un-
principled attacks should cease, or he
would enter the ranks Of the open enc
mics of the administration within the
party. They would then stop. Gen. AL
ger has not been presidential candidate
for twelve years past without knowing a
thing or two as to the machinery with
which an administration encompasses it
self for its own protection. He is sim
ply the victim of the administration smut
machine. Let him but once raise his
voice in serious protest and 1t will soon
be plain that the attacks he has to en-
dure will be confined exclusively to the
enemies Of the administration which is
treating him so stability
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construct a loop line on street that
is to be asphalted. The council, os-
tensibly to provide for g. competitive
line that never will and never can come,
required the railway company in the
grant made to lay it's line five feet from
proceeded to lay its line where it wanted
1t, in the center of the street. Every
one knew this was being done; there was
no attempt at early Sunday morning
notwithstanding by the company. For
days its men laid ties, spiked down rails
put in the grouting. The mayor sat
in dignified silence in his palace; the chief
of police busted himself catching lamp
less bicyclers; the fire department were
awaiting the next alarm; the grave and
potent councillors were bordering over
ponderous problems Of forcing recall
citrant dairymen to pay 80 cents per
cow for tuberculin tests.
Then, when the track was securely laid,
the mayor discharged into the councils
the right to lay a track five feet from
the center Of the street, because the
company had laid its track in the exact
center, and put it up to the council to do
something. 1t did it. 1t passed an
ordinance granting the railway company
permission to lay it's track where it
1aSCnn Ia
for the benefit of the council only. Don't
make asses of yourselves in the outset,
and you will not have to enact ordinances
that admit your asininity.
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MAY CAUSE TROUBLE.
German Flag Torn Down by an
American in Honolulu.

HONOLULU. July Cvia Victoria. B.
c., July 14-Thare was a flag incid mt
here on the Fourth of July which prom
ises to be made an international episode.
Carl Klemme, the proprietor of the Or
pheum hotel, gayly decorated mis- build
ing in American iolors, hOisted the
American nag over it and under the
American flag the German flag. Later
a friend of his wanted to use an Ameri-
can flag and Klemme goOd-naturedly
loaned him his, leaving the German
flag floating alone from the uIGstaf. ].
H. West saw it and ordered Klemme to
haul it down. There hal been ILL
will between the two men before and
I<lemme refused TO take orders from
his enemy. West thereupon g altered a
lot of soldiers from the trauspeIt Sheri-
dan and showed them tile German flag
floating on the !0arth OF July in A)neri-
can territory. The soldiers at once pro,
ceeded to the roof, tore down the German
flag and destroyed it and put into its
pace some ed white nj blua bunting
torn from the other decorations of the
building. D..
West was today fined 500 In the police
court for malicious mischief and the
German consul general will make a re-
port of the matter to his government.
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WEATHER FOR TODAY.

Showers Saturday; probably
fair Sunday; variable winds
The Enthusiastically fair Saturday
and Sunday, preceded by showers in east
ern portions; variable winds
probably fair Sunday; variable winds.
Montana-Generally fair Saturday and
Sunday; variable winds.
Wisconsin-Showers Saturday and PROB
ably Sunday; variable winds.
ST. PAUL.
Yesterdays observations, taken by the
United States weather bureau, st. Paul,
P. F. Lyons observer, for the twenty
four hours ended at o'clock last night.
Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation.
Highest temperature ..................s ~
Lowest temperature ..,..... ............ 65
Average temperature ......... .........' ~
daily range .......''.s'ss' ~
barometer '''''.'s'''''''''.' ''''''''''' 40
humidity ............ ........s..s..'.'''.' OF
Z D. m. temperature Observation-Disclosures. 70
Z p. m, wind, southeast; weather, partly
cloudy,
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-15
HE DEFENDS Mr.. GAGE
COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY
TAKES UP CIVIL SERVICE
COMPLAINT CASES
SAYS HE IS SURPRISED

Is the Point at Issue-Mr. Trace
well VIII Not Recede From the
Position Originally Assumed-He
So Announces.
WASHINGTON, July 14-Mr. Trace
we'll, the comptroller of the treasury.
has returned to this city after three
weeks In the West He said today that
he had not read the letter of the civil
service commission to the secretary of
the treasury asking that he request the
comptroller to review his decision OF
April 1 last, upon the subject of the ap-
pointment and pay of deputy United
States marshals. Although he had seen
numerous extracts from the commissions
letters. as printed in the newspapers, and
the comments thereon, he was not pre-
pared to make any statement as to his
probable action. except that he undoubted-
ly would make a reply thereto. He was
somewhat surprised. he said although he
made the statement in no spirit of criti-
ctsm, that the committee did not select
live issue. The president had settled the
matter completely by taking out of the
classified service deputy field marshals,
and there the controversy might proper
ly end. He was frank to say, however,
that so far he had seen nothing to change
the views expressed in the decision of
April 1. He had no doubts of the correct
ness OF the views therein expressed. and.
he even might have gone much further
than he did He said 1t had been settled
by the courts in repeated instances and
in the United States supreme court that
the deputy United States marshals were
mot federal officers" within the mean
ing Of the law, and consequently the act
of one OF the former presidents in plac-
ing them within the classified service was
clearly Illegal. He had no doubt what
ever on this point, and in all proba-
bility in his answer to the commissions
recent letter he would treat the subject
from that point Of view
The comptroller said that he had heard
that some member Of the civil service re-
form league at New York had criticised
Secretary Gage, in connection with the
presidents recent order eXempting dep
uty marshals and certain other positions
from the classified service
These gentlemen" he said, "appar-
emily do not recognize their best friends,
for Secretary Gage is and always has
been stanch friend and supporter of the
civil service reform principle. I have
watched his course carefully during the
last two years and more, and I have
never known of a single instance where
he has made the least exception on &C
count Of the politics Of a man he wanted
for the service, and I venture the asser-
ton that he has never made an appoint
ment or approved Of a promotion that
was not, in his judgment, for the good of
the service. Republicans and Democrats
have been treated, to my certain knowl-
edge. with exact impartialtty, and 1t Is
a mistake for any one to attack his
course in the name of civil service re-
form"
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NOTHING TO DISTURB
BRADSTREET'S REVIEW Of
TRADE OUTLOOK IS OF FA-
VORABLE TENOR
DISTURBING FACTORS ABSENT

Statistics of Trade Movements All
of an Encouraging Kind-ExceD-
tiOnalIy Good Railroad Earnings
Give Confidence and Indicate
General Prosperity - Favorable
Government Crop Report Helps,
NEW YORK, July 14-Bradstreets to-
morrow will say: New features in the
general trade situation this week ara
OF an almost uniformly favorable char
acter' 80 rare, indeed, are the disturb
ing features as to necessitate considera-
Die searching to locate them. Additional
statistics of past trade movements re-
ce1ved are certainly Of an encouraeino
nature, foremost among these being a,-
ceptfonally good railroad earnings re-
turns for June and the first half of the
year, and ascertained totals of an enor-
nous export trade, practically equal to
the phenomenal business of the preceding
hscaI year. The record of railroad receiy-
erships for the first half of the year
bears striking resemblance to the list
or business mortalities inasmuch as
they are the smallest in number re-
ported since receiverships first became
prominent
Among industrial lines the outlook IS
promising one. The settlement of the
coal miners strike in Pennsylvania and
of the tin plate workers dispute bid fair
to result in nearly 10000 men resuming
work after the summer shutdown.
From several centers of Industrial &C.
tiYity come reports of scarcity of labor.
initiating against even more pronounced
activity.
The price situation is naturally a
strong one, wheat and coffee alone. of
all the prominent staples, being lower
on the week and the former only frao-
tionally SO, owing to large receipts at
the West and the check to export demand
caused by reaction from the price reach
ed some time ago.
Wheat, including flour shipments for
the week, aggregate 3263,815 bushels.
against 3,75S972 bushels last week 291O,-
SIT bushels in the corresponding week of
1898, 1,522,O92 bushels in 1897, 1858, 949 bush
els in 1886 and 1852, 1872 bushels in 1895.
Since July l this season the exports of
wheat aggregate 7,019,78 bushels against
5639,469 bushels last year and 4,O24, 6ss
bushels in 1S97-9S. Corn exports for the
week aggregate 4,553,739 bushels, against
4Og,1A bushels last week, 2,822,S4S bush
els in this week a year ago, 2.723,51O
bushels in 1897, 1,110,3n bushels in 1895,
and S85,5l2 bushels in 1895. Since July l,
this season, corn exports aggregate
8,65O,SS3 bushels, against 5,236,52O bushel4
during the same period a year ago ana
5,456,2N bushels in 1S97-9S
Business failures number ia, against
1876 last week, 23S in this week a year
ago, 247 in 1897, 255 in 1896 and 214 in
1895. Business failures in the Dominion
of Canada number q, as compared with
% last week. Is in this week a year ago.
80 in 1897 80 in 1886, and % in 1895.
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NOTHING TO COMPLAIN OF.
II. G. Dun 81 Co.'s Review of the
COuntry's Business Outlook.

COuntry's business Outlook.
NEW YORK, July AR. q. Dun's
weekly review Of trade will say tomor-
row: Because every prospect pleases it
is the right time to watch more closely
for signs Of trouble, but 1t is not easy to
find them when the volume Of business
is 63.7 per cent larger than last year, and
75.5 larger than in 1892, the best of all
years except the last, or when failures
continue the smallest ever known, or
when the exports of staples begin to i'm
prove materially, or when railroad bust
ness is by far the best ever known, Oh
when New York bankers appear in inter-
national operations listening to Russian
inquiry and undertaking a Mexican loan.
Even the industrial disputes incident to
the season cause less trouble than usual,
the last of them having been settled
Thursday by the Tin Plate company.
The Bank of England finds it difficult
to borrow more from this side, and frank
ly raises it's rate, while this country be-
gins to ship fresh crops, for which Eu-
rope will run into debt.
Iron production in the first week of
July was 1868 tons: for the past two
weeks less because a strike July 1 closed
seven Shenango furnaces, producing 1,20O
tons daily, though 1t is expected to to-
day and several furnaces have begun pro-
duCing this month. Prices are climbing,
but only for the tri1ing surplus not COW
cred by contracts, so that quotations rep
resent but an insignificant part of the
actual business. 1t is of more impor-
lance that new orders, though very
many, seem no longer equal to the week.
Iy output, except in a few branches,
while furnaces and other works practi-
cally abandoned for many years are be-
ing started again.
The largest shipments of boots and
shoes in any year for the season, 1873, $50
cases in two weeks, greater by ia per
cent than last year, 8.6 per cent than in
1897, and 29.4 per cent than in 1892, result
from very extensive pressure to antici-
pate orders for August or September, dis
tribution far exceeding expectations, but
there are reported with such appeals not
nearly as large though numerous dupli-
cate orders
Cotton is steady in spite of Texas
floods. The general demand for cotton
goods is full and sustains prices, but
reduction of half a cent in some fancy
prints is reported. In wool g great spec
ulation is in progress, sales in two weeks
reaching 22,261 100 pounds, against 24,572,-
500 in 1897, when the buying was to an
ticipate new duties.
Failures for the week have been 169 In
the United States, against 215 last year,
and "a in Canada, against % last year.