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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-15
Mr.. Dockery for the Rules.

Mr.. Dockery (Mol made an argument in
favor of sustaining the rules of the House
which, he commended the proposed amend
ment violated. No one with any respect for
his reputation as parliamentarian, he de-
cIared, could hold that the amendment was
in order. 1t was already an open secret. he
said, that the House was ready to override
the decision of the chair because it was
known that the chair must rule against the
amendment.
He realized that the members were eager
to get at the pubic treasury upon this prom
osition, but he warned his colleagues on the
democratic side that if they helped to over
throw the rule they swept away for all
time the rights of the minority He had no
respect for the rules as such They de-
graded the Individual member and massed
too much power in the Speaker but the
members of the minority, especially. dare
not override this rule that had come down
from the democratic fathers. Even in the
turbulent days of the Fifty-first Congress,
said he, it never occurred to those in power
to attempt to place the force bill' upon a
supply bill as rider. 1t remained for those
behind this bill to attempt this.
But if this amendment was declared in or
Der, he gave notice that he would offer an
amendment to it 10 provide for the5issue of
enough additional legal tender notes to
meet the entire cost of the construction of
the canal.
Mr. Moody (Mass.) made a technical ar
gument in support of the point of order,
citing numerous precedents.
Mr.. Grosvenor (Ohio) vigorously contend
ed that the point of order was not well
taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-15
Grain, Provisions and Cotton Markets.

FURNISHED by W. B. Hibbs & Co., bankers
and brokers, 1419 F St, members New York
STOCK exchange, correspondents Messrs. La
oenpurg, Thaimann & Co., New York
CHICAGO. February Ii Grain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-15
SENATE.

At the opening OF today's session of the
Senate the chaplain referred in feeling
terms to the charity which had been
The age-herald., 1899-02-21
4 Faithful Official.
Editor

The paper presented in Sundays Age-Her ald concerning the railways of this state should be studied by every citizen interest," ed in the states growth and prosperity. The paper in question is from the pen of Commissioner Ross c. Smith No one has watched more closely the growth and con- dition of the railways in Alabama; and he finds at the close of his term that the rail- road situation Is in every valuable respect satisfactory and promising.
 This district Is largely. dependent upon transportation facilities, and Mir Smith has during his term of office zealousiy cared for the interests of Birmingham and the im- mediate district He has let no opportunity go unimproved that would bring to the peo- pie better facilities and better rates The entire district Is indebted to the outgoing commissioner for many facilities that are now everyday routine matters; and yet 1t was his quick intelligence and steadfast de- votion that brought about the needed changes. Alabama does not contain g. young man who is better fitted for public service. He fully proved his capacity in the office that pertains to the transportation facilities of every county In the state-even of the two that are as yet untouched by railroad lines.
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out by his stooping shoulders and narrow chest. His features were distinctly Mon golian, his eheekbones high. his eyes oD- hque, his nose short and blunt and his lips rather thick. He had no sign of beard on his face, but his hair was coarse, black and very thick. His skin. remember was badly pitted, possibly from smallpox. took particular notice Of his hands and feet, which were remarkably small, even for Filipino. He wore women's cloth gaiters. which is not unusual in Hongkong, and had large solitaire on his left hand. Aguinal- do remained only a few minutes after I arrived. but long enough for mo to note that his manners were euriously nervous. It seemed impossible for him to remain quiet for a moment The faces of a great many Fflipinos gave one the impression of distortion, as If they were slightly twisted to one side, and remarked tho pecullarity strongly In Aguinaldo After he left I tod Chargan that he reminded mo more Of a native shipping clerk in a Dutch importing house than of a revolutionist. He's the smartest Filipino in the South Seas, said Chargan, and his only weak spot Is his vanity, which is something monstrous.' That was the only time I ever saw him, so the picture remains quito vivid"
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milling corporation. The Alabama towns should wake up. and Birmingham is one of the number. A half dozen New England corporations could be induced to come here if there were half dozen of T. ". Pratts here to take the steps needed to turn them this way instead of letting them listen without competition to the stories told them by Georglans or Carolinians.
 It will not do to assume that the mills will be located in Alabama because ali mod ern mills prefer steam to water power, and Alabama is tho state of all states in which coal is abundant, excellent and low-priced. Experience shows they will go where they are sought. If expensive coal be an obsta- ele elsewhere seme compensation is made on that account. No unsought mill will be To- cated in this state. Governor Johnston has vetoed the factory exemption bill, and this fact renders active efforts on the part of Mills can be located in Talladega, Greens boro, Gadsden. Florence. Birmingham. An niston and elsewhere if the advantages of Alabama are made known, and a disposi- tion manifested to welcome the newcomers. Mir. T. ". Pratt has followed the true and effective plan. and success has crowned his efforts. The rest of the state should study his methods.
The age-herald., 1899-02-21
AIabama's Cold Monday.

The last year of the eighteen hundreds Is an easy year to recall, and the young people of today will often have occasion to recall 1t as the year of the coidest wave known in the records of the country, or even in the reeollections of the oldest inhabitants. The mercury in the tube dropped throughout the uplands of the cotton states to ten de- srees below zero, and all previous records stood eclipsed. The storm thus became his- toric. Other cold waves may have wrought other was in the upland districts of the cotton states productive of more cold and discomforture. It has, however, killed dis ease germs. and put the soil in excellent soon passed away, and in few months men will perhaps doubt whether 1t came early or late In the winter season, so soon do we forget.
 But in the northern states the storm will not soon be forgotten. There railroads are still stalled, harbors bIoclSaded, and all busi- ness, except stock watering and trusts building, stagnated. The country has never experienced more widespread storm, and on account of the lateness of the season and the heavy fall of srew and the thick ness of tbc Ice in the streams there gre ep1rehensions of ravaging floods in all val ley places.
 The size of the storm was it's especial feature. It covered all of the country east of the Rocky Mountains. Not state es- capped, although it was less severely felt along and above the Canadian line than be- low 1t It was a widespread breath of Klondike weather, with all the aeeompanf- ments in the northern states at least of that sort of thing No one cares to see 1t repeated, and no one living will be apt to experience it's equal. The morning of Mon- day, February 13, 1899. may safely be set down as the coldest morning that Alabama has ever known. The cold days of 1S16 and of 1885 and of 1856 have been outdone, and the cold Monday of 1899 stands in the records and in memories as day without parallel
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democrats must-at least, some party must. The supreme court has declared the anti trust law constitutional, but that fact docs not trouble the trusts. which are multi plying on every hand. and which already embrace every article but eleven. it Is said. of daily necessity. MT. Grlggs says he Is not hunting trouble. No one in the pres- ent administration Is hunting the trusts The trusts understand the situation. and they are proceeding without fear and with out caution.
 Mir. Bryan has already called public att tention to the dangers of the situation, and he practically recognizes the Mckinley tariff scheme as the real source of it all. Trusts are necessarily based on prohibi- tive tariff, for trusts are formed to put up prices, and when prices pass the tariff point goods from other countries would be brought in. The present Mckinley tariff was drawn on lines that admit of almost intolerable squeezing and taxation of tho people by the trusts based upon It. It
 
 fight the trusts is to fight the prohibitive duties that McKinleyism has fastened upon the country.
 The democratic party Is by its traditions and it's closeness to the plain people com- mittted to assault all along the line against tariffsm of the Mckinley sort, with It's resultant trusts. When the Chi nese-wan is broken down, the trusts will crumble, and there should be no sighting of this great issue until victory crowns the effort. There are other issues, but no one should overshadow the one that aims to put an end to monopoly and to the rob- bery of the many for the benefit of the few.
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Huntsvjlie'S New Mill.

The erection of a great cotton mill by the Mcrrimaek corporation of Lowell. Mass, at Huntsville may become an accession of unusual value to the entire state. The new mill was secured through the individ- ual efforts of MT. T. ". Pratt, very much as the Indian Head mill was brought to the Cordova coal fields through the efforts of Colonel Long.
 This teaches lesson that all Alabama should take to heart. The cotton mill in- dustry Is coming to the cotton fields; everybody who is awake and in his senses knows that, and yet Alabama has not been getting her share of the mills that are coming southward. The Carolinas and Georgia have been alert. and have captured the larger share The great mill of the New York company that Is in process of erection near Rome, in Georgia, is a clear example of what individual effort can ac- complish. One man secured to Georgia the -aw southern mill of a rich and famous
The age-herald., 1899-02-21
Five State Elections This Year.

Alabama Is not the only state In this ''off'' state elects delegates only to a constitution al convention, but Iowa, Ohio, Kentucky and Maryland elect governors and many other state officials. These four elections occur in November, and with the exception of the one in Iowa, they will be of very deep political significance, and will be so regarded throughout the country.
 It is said that Congressman Grosvenor is to be the Hanna Mckinley candidate for governor in Ohio, and if he Is there will be fire and fun in the campaign and election that will follow. Senator Foraker and MT. John Sherman and Mayor McKisson are still in the flesh, and there will be a cam paign up there that will wake the political dead. What the democrats will do is not known. The expansion policy will come up for treatment, as we'll as the older issues of the Chicago platform. No campaign will be more significant than that of Ohio.
 In Kentucky Messrs. Hardin, Stone and Goebel are eontending for the democratic nomination, and no one seems to be anxious to encounter defeat as the republican candi- date for governor. The state will undoubt- edly return to the democratic line by a heavy majority, but still there Is room for Q sharp contest and the administration will stubbornly contest the ground.
 Maryland has of late become a contested and doubtful state It must still be so con- sidered. MT. German has many enemies and many warm friends. What his position and activities may be in the approaching campaign is not known When the demo- crats are united, Maryland is democratic state Whether they can be brought to- gether this year Is problematical, but neither side will feel confident in Novem- Der, and both will endeavor to bring their last man to the polls.
 The three states will afford very good basis for representations of the greater political event the following year. The loss of Ohio would create a panic In the repub- lican ranks, and the loss of Maryland and Kentucky, both probable. would admonish them. They already know that they win not enjoy a walk-over next year. And tlzr. Mckinley knows that if Ohio goes demo- cratic he must make way next year for q naval or military nominee.
The age-herald., 1899-02-21
AGUINALDO

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.
 T saw Aguinaldo in Hongkong in the early part of 1s9z." said MT E. B. Cunning ham. of Liverpool. who, Is one of this years carnival visitors. T was representing an English firm at the time and was arranging q deal for some Manila hemp with Mir. Emile Chargan, resident factor. One day called at Chargan's office and found him in conversation with swarthy young Fill pino, who was introduced to me as Agui- naldo. had heard a good deal of the Ffii- pino chief. so looked at him with decided curiosity. What impressed me most srong- Iy about him was his extremely youtnfui appearance He did not look over 2 at. the outside. and his air of iuvenility was borne
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Local Taxation for School Purposes

The Montgomery Advertiser is a cau- tious friend of public education-of the plain oid-field schools, of the bright-faced, but bare-footed boys. and girls too, of the splendid old state; but It is opposed to un- limited local taxation for school purposes. The Advertiser is honestly mistaken, if experience counts for anything.
 No locality, be it large or small, packed with people or scant in that respect. was ever hurt by unlimited taxation for school purposes; and The Age-Herald challenges the Advertiser to mention single instance of that nature in the entire sweep of forty five states and three territories.
 When the people of Louisiana held con- stitutional convention last February about the first thing they did was to take off all local limitations upon school taxation for school purposes. This action was taken al- most unanimously. And The Age-Herid will soon be able to supply official information as to the action of nearly every other state on tho same line. The right to have as good schools in a locality as the people of that locality are willing to pay for as they go-not to bond themselves for-but to pay for, is almost as broad and general in this country as sunlight, and only less bene- ficiaI.
 It is homo rule applied to a subject of deep importance and the general good of the state and nation. The locality is uplifted in that way, and through the locality which may possibly be political unit. the state and nation and mankind are benefited.
 Until the Advertiser can point to one in- stance in which given locality has hurt itself by paying as they go for the educa- tion of their children, The Age-Herald will continue to insist that Alabama shall not longer be exceptional in this respect. We have great respect for the Advertisers fairness in dealing with the subject of pop ular education. and its conservatism, but it is mistaken when it says men will in a given locality become over extravagant and reckless in the matter of popular education when they must go down into their own pockets for the money needed in the eff fort. The state will soon be in the hands of the whites, and the dangers apprehended will then simply disappear. as the Adver- tiser will probably be willing to admit. It Is not great enough now to be taken into serious consideration.
The age-herald., 1899-02-21
nEsLEUrIoNs OF A BAcHELoR
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Tbe average woman robs her husband Of lot Of attention which she gives to a cat that hates him
 A luan judges q man by the kind of cigar he smokes. a woman judges cigaf by the kind of man that smokes it.
 There Is generally only one worse fool than the woman who refuses a man twice, and that Is the man who asks her twice.
 The womea always let on that they have to refuse lot of men. but the ones tiiat really let any get away are as scarce as hens teeth
The age-herald., 1899-02-21

The United States transport ship Sher- man which recently sailed from New York to Manila carries remarkable 'son' cargo A son of Secetary of State Hay; of Congressman WadSworth, of Senator Hale, and of Congressman Dalzell are In the lot In what capacity they go, or what fare they pay, Is not stated. The -son'' Is with us always.
The age-herald., 1899-02-21

From the Huntsville Mercury.
 The bill abelishing the commissioners court of Jefferson county passed the senate after the hardest fought contest of the session, It probably sealed the strained relations between Governor Johnston and President Cunningham. and may shape the result of political fights yet to occur.
The age-herald., 1899-02-21
From the Bcssemer Weekly.

Miss Annie Kendrick Walker adds very much to the excellence of The Age-Hera by the social department she conducts and which appears in every issue of the paper except on Saturday. No one who has not had experience in gathering social items realizes how much patience. amiability and everlasting vigilance is represented fin the work done by Miss Walker, She has so much space to fill and she must fill it with news-wliat newspaper people acaIl 'good stuf." She k possessed of graceful and fluent pen and does her work admirably
The age-herald., 1899-02-21

The Alger- Mckinley organs have been driven to the necessity of defending bora- cic and salicylic acids as articles of food. They say such acids do not impair diges- ton, and they should at once be requested to accept an exclusive acid diet.
The age-herald., 1899-02-21

Never in the history of the world were so many or so powerful warships in course of construction as now, and this is the czars s disarming year.
The age-herald., 1899-02-21
Trusts and the Tariff.

The democratic party may as we'll get ready to fight the whole system of trusts created by and based on a Chinese-wall tarin. The republicans will not. and the
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ONLY FIX
From the St. Louis Republic.

From the St. Louis Republic
 There are only six states that now adhere to annual sessh'ns of the legislature. These are South Carolina. Georgia, Rhode Island, Massachusetts. New York and New Jersey. Pending in New York is a constitutional amendment providing for biennial sessions.
The age-herald., 1899-02-21

The Paris mob carefully kept within bounds in its demonstrations against Pres ident Loubet That mob has read a few things in French history.
The age-herald., 1899-02-21

Eagan works daily in the war depart ment aiding the only Alger in getting up islanders and language against General Miles.
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THE SOCIETY PAGE
Ie Hanceville Hustler.

From the f1auceVflle Hustler.
 The Age-Herald of last Sunday con- tafned charming sketch of leading spirits in the Alabama Woman's Press Association by Annie Kendriek Walker, graceful, forceful and ever entertaining contributor to IFS columns.
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The Hon. John Sherman is becoming more and more a thorn in the administra- ttion flesh as the Ohio gubernatorial cam paign approaches.
The age-herald., 1899-02-21

The February thaw in the snow belt is attracting more attention than the dispen- sary issue did in this state.
The age-herald., 1899-02-21

Lord Charles Beresford's proposed world-beating combine is wholly beneh- cent, because all it asks is an open door to and for all.
The age-herald., 1899-02-21

Congress has only eleven more working this.
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An interview with pr. Conner of the whitewash board makes it uncertain whether 1t was inspired the more with love for Alger, or with hatred for General. Miles. The country has never known an aggregation quite like 1t.
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The war department Is giving its atten- ton to the crushing of General Miles, and in that way General Otis is permitted to go unhampered. ..
The age-herald., 1899-02-21

The American army is enduring blizzards at one end of the line and sunstrokes in far Luzon at the other end.
The age-herald., 1899-02-21

The McEnery resolution does not seem to have any effect on the firing line.
The age-herald., 1899-02-21

There is but little real estate trading north of the Potomoc. because 1t is diffi- cult to find 1t without sinking a shaft.
The age-herald., 1899-02-21

The real burden of the white reader now consists In rhymed editorials on MT. Kip ling's subject.
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Four legislatures are still engaged in uot electing United States senator's.
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The horse sense of the men who declined to serve on the whitewash board has been vindicated.
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General Alger reads those papers only that praise him. He is not keeping up with current events.
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The army canteen refuses to be abolished as readily as the navy canteen was.f
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It is now conceded in New York that the groundhog did really see his shadow.
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Unacclimated persons should not go to Cuba after next month. H
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NOT FINISHED

Samoa is suffering from too much gov ernment.
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ernnent.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-12-23
MRS. TAYLOR WANTS HER BOY
Father Has Also Put in a Claim for
the Youngster.

The case of Herbert Taylor, the 12-
year-old boy who was sent to the
county Jail in default of bail imposed
for larceny from Edyard Weiss, of ia
River street has proved an interesting
one. Thursday night Chief Robling re-
ceived a telephone message from the
boys mother, who lives in a town in
New Jersey, saying that she wanted
the boy sent to her.
Prior to this the police authorities
of New Haven, Conn, from which city
the boy said he came, had been noti-
fed of the case and had refused to
have anything to do with it., as the
boys father did not want him.
Later Chief Robling received a tele-
phone message from friends of the
mother who told him that four years
ago Taylor and his wife had become
divorced, but their boy had been
awarded to the mother. The father,
however, gained possession of him, and
took him to New Haven where they
lived together.
Recently the boy ran away and came
to Scranton where, last week he COM
mtted the theft already referred to.
and was taken to police headquarters.
Yesterday afternoon Chief Robling
had another message by phone, this
time from the father, who asked that
the boy be sent to New York in charge
of patrolman, and there he would
meet him and take him to New Haven.
The boy, however will be kept here
until either his mother or one of her
friends comes for him, when he will
be given into her custody.