Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-05-10
Scraps aud faets.

tions issued by the treasury depart
ment, August 16, 1898, and which tax
is imposed at all ports of entry upon
immigrants coming to the United
States, equally applies to all immi-
grants applying for entry at the ports
of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philip
pines. Circular No. Is, issued by the
secretary, April IA, last, reads as fol-
lows: "The laws and regulations gov
erning immigrants to the United States
are hereby declared to be in effect in
the territory under government by
the military forces of the United States
and collectors of customs are directed
to enforce said laws and regulations
until the establishment of immigrant
stations in said territory. All money
collected under this order must be de-
posted and accounted for as pre-
scribed for customs collections"
The state department has received
a dispatch from President Schurman,
of the Philippine commission, giving
the substance of the conference with
the representatives of Aguinaldo, and
asking for further instructions. While
the text of the dispatch is not to be
made public, Secretary Hay stated
that it showed very satisfactory
condition of affairs in the Philip
pines, and pointed to settlement OF
the difficulties there. The reply of the
president to Prof Schurman's cable
gram, it is understood, stated that he
was very anxious to have the peace
negotiations concluded at the earliest
possible moment, and to this end he
desires that no unnecessary or humil-
iating conditions should be imposed
upon the insurgents. 1t is believed
in administration circles that as soon
as Aguinaldo is convinced of the sim
cerity of the American government he
will agree to surrender. He will be
required, however, to lay down his
arms. This will be the principal con.
dition, and until an agreement on this
point is reached the negotiations will
not make any progress toward con-
clusion.
A banquet given in Havana last
Friday night by members of the re-
Gently dissolved military assembly, in
honor of the aged Salvador Cisneros,
Marquis de Santa Lucia, the first pres
ident of the second republic of Cuba,
and of General Mayia Rodriguez, was
the occasion for an anti-American and
anti.Gomez demonstration. General
Manuel Sanguily, Colonel Juan Glal-
berto Gomez, member of the assem-
bly's executive committee, and otner
speakers denounced Gomez as a traitor
to Cuba in having given aid to the in
tervening power-'los Yankees" who
were referred to in terms of dislike
and suspicion. The only voice raised
in protest against such assertions
among the hundred well-known Gu
bans who were present, including the
editors of most of the local papers
printed in Spanish, was that Of Senior
Fidel Piena, editor of Ell independents,
who said that the Clbans would mosi
speedily gain their independence by
cooperating with the Americans, add
ing that "the purpose of the United
States military authorities is to aid
Cuba to prepare for self-government
and to leave as soon after as possible" "
Governor Thomas, of Colorado,
has announced that within few days,
if President Mckinley and the secre-
tary of war continue to ignore his
communications on the subject of the
Colorado regiment from the Philip
pines, he will take steps with view
to securing the immediate recall OF the
troops. I cannot, as yet, say just
what course 1 shall follow" he said ;
"but will exhaust every resource at
my command to bring these boys
home. I have tried quiet, peaceable
means and have failed. Now I will
be obliged to resort to something more
forcible, and it will be made public.
Of course do not desire to take any
action that will unjustly hamper the
administration, for I am an American
but do not propose to sit idly by and
see the volunteers from Colorado fight
ing and dying in the Philippines in
defense of the policy which is actuat-
ing those in charge of the movements
of our armies abroad. Under the con-
stitution the Colorado volunteers will
be perfectly justified in laying down
their arms where they are and return
ing to the United States. If they
should do anything like that, probably
they could be courtmartialed and pun
ished under the strict letter of military
rule; but in that event the same mill
tary rule would be placed above the
constitution of our republic"
Judge Robert Powell made speech
in Vicksburg last week, in the course
of which he discussed "the poverty of
the SOUTH" and explained it in way
which, though not altogether original,
is both true and effective. He said
"The reason of our poverty is not hard
to find. Take our average citizen.
He gets up in the morning and pulls
on a pair of socks from Lynn, Mass. !;
puts on pair of shoes from Boston; /;
q suit of clothes from Philadelphia !;
goes into his breakfast, draws up a
chair made in Chicago, and eats from
q table which came from Cincinnati !;
sweetens his coffee from Rio with
sugar from Louisiana takes slice
of ham cured in St. Louis, Missouri, and
buffers a biscuit of Minnesota flour
with oleomargerine which came from
the Lord knows where; he eats South