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The times., 1899-05-11
DEwEy's RETURN FASTENED.
He May Leave Manila before Admiral
Watson Has Arrived.

opportunities to have Admiral Dewey
attend celebrations in his honor are pour
ing in on the Navy Department Secre-
tary Long is very much gratihed over
these expressions OF the high esteem in
which the Admiral is held. and he has so
expressed himself In responding TO the
invitations. The Navy Department, how
ever, viii not undertake to make any ar
ransements in advance of the arrival o;
Admiral Dewey in the United States, and
Whatever is done will be with his sane
ton. 1t Is believed at the department
that the Admiral will return by the Eu-
ropean route, despite the great desire OF
Western cities to have him land at San
Francisco and proceed to Washington
across the continent II the Admiral de-
sires TO return in the Olympia the depart
ment viii consent.
There IS n feeling among the naval Of
ficials, based probably on some informa-
tion received directly ar indirectly from
Admiral Dewey. that he will leave Manila
before his successor. Rear Admiral Wat
son, reaches there. Capt a 5. Barker. OF
the Oregon, who ranks next to Admiral
Dewey among the efiicers now on the
Asiatic station. was to return TO the Unit
ed States at once. but il was said yester-
day by high naval authority that Cap
tain Barker would not return with Ad-
mirai Dewey, but was expected to re-
main longer. Enquiry OF this official as
TO whether Admiral Dewey was expected
to leave Manila before the arrival OF Nd
miral Watson elected non-eommittal
answer.
Captain Barker is well known to the
Navy Department as an officer of high
professional ability and discretion. and II
was the understanding before the selec-
tion of Admiral Watson that he would be
retained temporarily in the Philippines as
the commander OF the United States naval
forces there II Admiral Dewey started for
home before a flag officer had been ordered
to relieve him. 1t is probable. therefore.
that Dewey will start for home Just as
soon as peace IS declared, without waiting
for Watson's arrival
Admiral Watson will sail from San Fran
cisco on May 16. and Is expected to reach
Manila month later. Ii was said ysster-
day by an official who is familiar with the
desires of the Navy Department that Ad-
miral Dewey might be home about July l.
Therefore. it may be expected that he will
leave Manila for the United States within
the next fortnight or by the hrst of June.
1t is not unlikely that the Government has
received private Information from Manila
to that effect.
The times., 1899-05-11

gubernatorial patronage they may compel
the adjournment of a Legislature with its
duty unfulflled and then reward friend,
or, as in the Quay case, an owner, by an
appointment to the Senate, is to create
a danger but little understood. The peo-
pie have the same right to elect their Sem
ators as they have their Governors and
Congressional Representatives, and the
Constitution should not prevent their ex-
ercise Of it. The present system of cleo
tion does not work. With popular election
of Senators the day of the Quays, the
Platts. the Murphys. the Hales, and the
Hannas would be over and done with.
The Virginia Democrats are on the right
track whether anything comes of their
present conference or not.
The times., 1899-05-11

Seth Low has arrived in London on his
way to the Peace Conference at The
Hague. He is most estimable gentle
man, but as his recent work in life has
been to teach the young idea how to shoot,
it may properly be suspected that the
Car will not regard him as altogether a
man of peace. Mr.. Mckinley may have
made the mistake his German namesake
did in selecting grim warriors to preach
arbitration and disarmament. If he had
risen to the real Quaker idea embodied in
the design of his brother Nicholas, he would
have delegated nom belligerents of un-
doubted character to represent him. AL
ger. Shafter. and Sampson would have
been ideal commissioners
The times., 1899-05-11
HOW THE SULTAN WAS coERcEp
Further News of the Cruiser Chi
Cages Work mt Tuurier

In dispatch to the Navy Department
concerning the collection OF American
claims against Morocco. Rear Admiral
Howison, who went to Tangie- in the Chi
easo to back up the renewal OF the repre-
sentations OF the United States Consul
General, says:
Our demands reluctantly complied with
after twenty-four hours. Paid $3.50
cash"
The admiral announces also in the dis
patch the departure of the Chicago from
Tangier for Port Said.
1t was learned yesterday that the action
OF the United States Government in send
irg the Chicago TO Tangier was the result
OF information received here that Great
Britain, Germany, and Italy had sent war
ships TO Tangier to make the Sultan under
stand that no further delay in the pas msnt
or indemnity demanded in behalf OF sub
1eets of those countries would be tolerat-
ed When this information came to the
Government in Washington the Chicago
was on her way from the Azores to Glib
raltar. A telegram was sent to Admiral
Howison at the latter port to proseed in
the Chicago to Tangier. for the purpose OF
consulting with the United States Consul
General. Samuel X. Gunnere. In regard to
Mr. Gunnere's failure to make the Su- tan
of Morocco pay the sS,s which this Gov
eminent claimed in behalf of American
firms and their Morocco agents, whose bus
iness had been interfered with and in some
cases ruined by the Sultan's officers.
There was nothing in the instructions
to Admiral Howison to justify ahy threat
on his part that Tangier would be bonn
barded il the indemnity were not paid.
Furthermore, he was directed to spend only
forty-eight hours at Tangier. as the Chi
cago is making a six-months' voyage
which will not admit of any delay at the
ports on her itinerary. The Government
was very careful to guard the fact that
such instructions as to the length of the
Chicago'5 stay had been sent to Admiral
Howison, as knowledge of them would
unquestionably have caused the Sultan to
temporize in the belief that the Chicago
would leave soon. The Chicago reached
Tangier on Sunday. 1t is supposed here.
from the statement made in Admiral
Howison's telegram about twenty -four
hours, that that the Consul General made
his demand on Monday morning The
forty-eight hours of the Chicagos stay
were up yesterday. The naval authorities
are very much pleased over the success
of the Chicago's visit. II the claims had
not been paid on time the United States
might have been placed in the ridiculous
attitude OF not enforcing its demand
as there was no intention of having the
Chicago remain more than two days. or
OF having her lombard the town
The times., 1899-05-11
NEWS FROM BLUEF1ELDs.
The Outrage ON American Merchants
Under Investigation.

Secretary Hay received a dispatch from
United States Minister Merry last evening
in which he was informed that the Mica
raguan Government claims that the Amer
lean merchants in Bluefields, from whom
two separate tariff duties were collected
on goods imported from the United States
to Nicaragua, were actively engaged in as
sisting and abetting the insurgents during
the recent revolution in that country. The
Nicaraguan Government claims that under
these circumstances il was entirely justi-
fled in collecting a duty on the imported
goods after the insurgent authorities had
levied tax and that the American mer-
chants, therefore, have no ground upon
which to complain of unfair treatment at
the hands of the Central American Gov
eminent. The State Department. through
Minister Merry. will at once institute an
investigation, and if the contention of the
Nicaraguan authorities is found to be well
grounded it is probable that the United
States Government, on behalf Of the mer
chants, will be unable TO recover tie
money collected. The funds are now in
the hands OF the British Consul General
at Bluefelds pending diplomatic negotia-
tions for its proper disposition.
The times., 1899-05-11

In order to avoid ignorance of what is
going on in his department. the Secretary
of War now requires the heads of the
Adjutant Generals, Inspector Generals,
and Commissary Generals offices to meet
him for the discussion of business every
Wednesday morning. This may be re-
garded as a great reform During the
Spanish war the Commissary General was
the only department official who had much
occasion to consult with his chief. AS for
the Inspector General. he was conveniently
abolished, as it would have been opposed
20 the good of the service to have him or
his officers around while patriotism was
engaged in supplying the Army with re
frigerated" and ''tinned" beef
The times., 1899-05-11
Two West Point Classmates.

itfom The Chicago Tribune.)
Carter's classma;e who shall here be nameless
because for years he has led an upright life. saw
the hardest kind of field work and Indian fight
ing during the years Immediately following his
graduation His recoSd for bravery and general
discharge of his duty was of the best, but he
fell victim to the temptation of frontier town
and gambled and drank. Once to pay gambling
debt, and while under the influence of liquor,
he duplicated his pay account, securing about
Sis, which he was unable to pay in time to con-
ceal the duplication. This classmate of Carter
was arrested. tried by court martial and within
month began term of three years imprisonment
at Saltwater, Minn.
The difference in the cases of these Two class.
mates and officers seems to be that one by con.
spiraey robbed his Government OF many thousands
of dollars; the other. while unnamed by drink,
secured months pay Illegally.
Is 1t not time that something was done in the
case of oberlin NJ. Carter2
The times., 1899-05-11
MIR. ALGER HAS a NEW IDEA.
He Orders bureau Chiefs to Confer
With Him Weekly.

Secretary Alger initiated yesterday a
new system of conducting the business Of
the War Department. designed to- keep
the several military bureaus in touch with
the Secretary's office and with each other.
The amount of business transacted by the
War Department since before the war
with Spain began has been so great that 1t
has been impossible for the Secretary to
know everything that has been done and
practically nothing has been known to the
read of one bureau of what the others have
been doing To remedy this condition
Secretary Alger has issued an order re-
quiring the Adjutant General. Inspector
General, Surgeon General, Chief OF En-
gineers. and other military chiefs of the
War Department TO meet him every We'd
nesday afternoon to explain important
matters relating to their Offices and TO
discuss subjects concerning the depart
ment at large. The first of these confer
ences was held yesterday afternoon. The
bureau chiefs called the assemblage THE
Secretary'S Cabinet"
The times., 1899-05-11
A Snob.
CFrom the New York Sun. )

NTIUlI INT 4NtW lVrN SUIl.J
In the course Of a call at a very jolly place
the other afternoon a girl inspired to relate
good story. 1t met with such success that she
inspired TO tell another, and yet another, all
the other callers keeping up their appreciation
all the other callers but one, that is to say.
though she hoped her rigidity would be mistak
en- for hauteur, and who was evidently of very
conservative notions. With visage grim. and
never smile, did she listen to the e9oung won
ans anecdotes. till it flashed through the latter
mind that she had somewhere heard that among
the antediluyiaB it wasn't considered good
form for a woman 10 tell good stories At last
this TO 20. To everybody but the
girl she bowed and said: very glad to have met
YOU" To the girl she observed. and in precisely
the tone she would have complimented a poodle
for its parlor tricks: I've enjoyed your stories
much"
The times., 1899-05-11
FOR THE PHILIPPINE SERVICE.
New Duty for the Transports Logan,
Meade, and Thomas.

Orders have been issued by the Quar-
termaster General for the transports
Logan. Meade. and Thomas. now in ser
vice between the United States. Cuba. and
Porto Rico to proceed to New York as
soon as possible and be fitted up for the
Philippine service. The Thomas is now
at New York and contracts will soon be
let for the necessary work to put her in
shape to transport troops to Manila The
Logan and Meade are expected to arrive
in New York within the next ten days
with the Nineteenth Infantry and the Sec
ond Immunes. and IL Is thought this will
complete their service in the West indies.
1t has not yet been determined what
troops these transports will take to Ma
Mia According to the estimate prepared
in the office OF the Quartermaster General.
nearly three months will be needed to put
them in suitable condition. but as each
of them has large carrying capacity. they
will prove valuable additions to the Pa
cific Coast transport fleet. The Logan can
carry 1.700 troops. the Meade 1.300. and the
Thomas about 1000. When these vessels
go to the Pacific station they will relieve
the chartered vessels now in that service
and this is believed TO be one Of the rea-
sons for the change, as the chartered ves-
sells cost the Government considerable
money!
The times., 1899-05-11
POLICE CHIEFS IN MEETING.
The National Association Elects Of
icers for n Year.

Chattanooga, Tenn, May 10.-Electio1
of officers OF the National Association of
Police Chiefs OF the United States and
Canada this morning resulted as follows:
President. A. II. Leslie, Chief of Police of
Pittsburg; Vice President, Ferd w Hill,
Chief of Police of Chattanooga; Secretary
and Treasurer Harvey o. Carr, Chief of
Police of Grand Rapids. Mich. Chief
Campbell, OF St. Louis. was nominated for
president but was defeated by Chief Leslie.
Chief Kinley, of Chicago nominated Chief
Hill, for vice president, in a neat speech.
1t was voted to hold the convention next
year at Cincinnati. A resolution was
adopted that the association should lend its
moral support to the city OF Washington,
in it's efforts to secure the convention of
Charities and Corrections for 1900.
The times., 1899-05-11
THE MoNTHLY CROP REPORT.
Wheat's Condition Below the Nor
NAL, But Acreage Large.

Wheat's Condition Below the Nor
NAL, But Acreage Large.
The May returns to the Statlstician of
the Department of Agriculture show the
acreage in winter wheat in cultivation on
May l to have been about q, ,90o.O eco acres.
This is about four million acres less than
the area estimated to have been sown last
fall. but it still slightly exceeds the area
of winter wheat harvested last year. Tha
reduction in acreage in the principal
States, as compared with the area seeded
last fall. is as follows: Kansas, S6S. 900:
Illinois, 7O1 600; Indiana, $4,000; Missouri.
3i5 900; Texas. 227.000; Ohio. 149,0e0s Ne
braska, 144.060; Michigan. lbs. .0ts: Wis
consin. 10000; Tennessee. los. 900. For
the area remaining under cultivation the
average condition is I6-2. as compared with
$50 on May l. 1888. and $50. the mean Of
the averages of the last ten years. The
condition in the principal States, after
reducing the acreage Gs indicated. is as
follows: Pennsylvania, Sc; Maryland SO;
Virginia. as; Texas, 6T; Tennessee. IS:
Kentucky. 76: Ohio. 50; Michigan. 60; In
diana, 6S; Illinois. 81; Missouri %: Kan
sas. 81; California. sc; Oklahoma, Sc.
The average condition OF winter rye is
S6.6, as compared with 94.5 on May /, 1888.
and sos. the mean of the May averages
for the last ten years. About one-half OF
the entire winter rye crop is grown in
New York and Pennsylvania. where the
conditions are SO and 81 respectively.
Spring plcwing is unusually late in al
most every part of the country. The work
already done is estimated at 57.2 per cent
of the total contemplated. The proportion
usually done by May is about 10 per
cent of the whole.
The average condition of meadows is
$40. against 92.9 on May l OF last year
and 934 on the corresponding date in 1897.
The average condition of spring pas
lures is sS5, against 91.2 on May /. 1898.
and 1874 on the corresponding date in 1897.
The times., 1899-05-11
SUMMER CRUISE FOR CADETS.
Admiral McNnir Notified to Get Two
Vessels Ready.

Admiral McNair. Superintendent of the
Naval Academy, has been notified TO get
the two ships assigned to the cadets for
the summer ready for departure early in
June for an extended cruise The vessels
to be employed are the sailing ship Mo-
nongahela and the little gunboat Annapo-
lis. The Monongahela will be commanded
by Capt. C. T. Hutchins, Commandant of
Cadets, and the Annapolis will be in
charge of lieutenant commander. 1t has
not been decided whether the cruise shall
extend across the ocean or only along the
Atlantic coast between the Virginia Capes
and Gardeners Island. The probabilities
are that a cruise to the other side will
be determined upon. as it is thought that
frequent stops in port tend to demoraIize
the cadets and interfere with the routine
of life on shipboard. This cruise will be
the first in two years. that of last summer
having been abandoned on account of the
necessity of sending nearly all the upper
classmen TO ships operating in Cuban pa
troll work.
The times., 1899-05-11
The Report of Ayers Court.

From the Philadelphia Times)
The reflections upon General Miles are obviously
dragged in under official pressure and are not
really germane to the report; and yet they serve
not only to divert attention from the actual sub
stance of the report, but by their evident special
pleading to dscredit it entirely. and the officers
who sign it, Thus the report has been received
with practically unanimous disgust. OF the prom
inent newspapers that spoke OF it yesterday. we
have seen but two, the official organ Of the War
and Navy Departments in New York, and the
Philadelphia paper whose editor is member of
the Cabinet, that have anything but outspoken
condemnation for this latest manifestation of Al
serism The lesson is one that the President needs
TO take earnestly to heart
The times., 1899-05-11
HON. GEORGE EARLE DEAD.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Under President Grant.

First Assistaut fOstmestcr Gcneril
Under President Grant.
Hon. George Earle died of heart fail
ure at 10:30 last night in his residence,
2lO9 Street northwest, after an ILL
ness of one weeks duration. a wife and
six children survive him. The funeral ar
rangements have not yet been made.
Mr. Earle. whose family were among
the earliest settlers of Maryland, has
spent most of his life in this city. He
was First Assistant Postmaster General
under Grant in 1859. Previous to that he
was for five years clerk OF the Court OF
Appeals of Maryland. and a member of
the Constitutional Convention of that State
in 1864.
He was borne in Queen Anne's county.
Nd. in 1921. He attended Newark Col
lege, Del, and graduated in 1870 from JEFF
ferson College. now Washington Jeffer
son College. He studied law under his
father ard practiced his profession in this
city for twenty years. Since he retired
from active life he has devoted himself to
literary work.
The Earle family have been prominent
ly identified with the history of Maryland
since 1860. Mr.. Earle's father. Judge
James Earle. was for twenty-five years on
the bench of the Supreme Court OF Mary
land.
The times., 1899-05-11

The diplomatic contention with Nicara-
qua is interesting if not amusing. de
facto Government, able to enforce its de-
mands, collected duties from American
merchants in Bluetields. Then it was over
set by another de fscto Government, which
undertook to collect them over again. Our
State Department is investigating. On the
face of the returns We are inclined to re-
mark that an ounce of cruiser, including
Maxims. bluejackets, and marines, is
worth many pounds of Investigation.
The times., 1899-05-11

The Hon. Harry Bingham follows the
Hon. John Dalzell into the Speakership
arena, leaving the Hon. 'Bertie" Adams
still absent and unaccounted for, but pre-
sumably willing to serve. We trust the
Democratic minority will sufficiently ap-
preciate the humor of the situation and
keep an eye single to their Champ.
Clarks, Suffers. and Levys. There is
such thing as awful mirth even with
Reed in Europe.
The times., 1899-05-11

to make their guests welcome. There were
dinners and steamboat rides, and all that
sort of thing, which is particularly the
sort of thing that occasionally turns the
heads OF even the most conservative of
men. Everybody was charmed" we are
told, with the entertainment that was
provided" There is less charm about the
affair now, SO far as the New York dele
gates are concerned. and there will be still
less when they find themselves called to
account for their tacit agreement with the
eulogiums OF the politician at the head
of the War Department.
The times., 1899-05-11
HEREsY IN IOWA.
Drake University Stirred by Prof.
MOrgan's Sinful Notions.

Des Moines, Ia. May 10.-Drake Uni
versity of this city. the Iowa college of
the Christian Church. endowed by former
Governor Drake has a heresy scandal.
Prof Oscar w. Morgan, who has occupied
the chair of Biblical languages and his
tory, does not believe in the inspiration
of the scriptures, and has said as much
to the one hundred and twenty-five theol-
ogy students who attend his classes. He
also indicates to them that he doubts Sc
riously whether the scriptures are divine
writings. and considers the Jewish people
race in whose affairs the hand of God
has been ever present and manifest A
majority of the students have sided with
his views. About thirty members of his
class have insisted that he is a hereto
and have repeatedly demanded that the
institution drop him from its faculty.
The times., 1899-05-11
Impertinence Rehuked.
CFrom the Youtb,, ComD,nior !

\ popular drummer OF the West attended
large party one evening and after supper wa,
over promtnading with one of the guests
Young lady from the East, to whom he Ind
just been introduced
In the course OF the conversation the subject
Of bnsincss callinss came up. and she said:
by the way, Mr. -. may / ask what your
occupation iS:"
traveller"
How very interesting! Do you know. Mr.
-. that in the part of the country where 7
reside commercial travellers are not received in
good socety3"
Quick fash he reioined:
They are not here. either. madam
The times., 1899-05-11
The Worlds Census.
CFrom the baltimore Sim \

WIVTH INC bdIlIWOfe hun.)
The British Empire, since its recent additions
in Africa, has population of some $4,000, 900
and stands first in numbers. as well as area and
wealth. China comes next as regards numbers
with Russia in third place. Taking the worlds
population TO be nearly billion and a half
Meyer reckons the Christians at is,OOO,OOO and
the non-Christians at 1,O0i.0OO,OOO. The Pro-
testant Christians he puts at 1G7. 900, 900; the
Roman Catholics at 2lG,OOO,OOO; the Greek
Armenian and Abyssinian Churches at 95, 900, ,oOo
OF the non-Christians G72,OOO 900 are Buddhists
and Brahmins, 2OO.OOoOOo are Mohammedans L.
100000 Jews, and l25,OOO,OoO are of other
creeds
The times., 1899-05-11
The Language of Davis.
(From the Boston Herald)

Richard Harding Davis who returned from
London on the St. Louis last week, was suffer
ing from scatica and the curiosity OF several
passengers whom he did not know. One lady on
board said she wished she could meet him. and
asked another il she had heard him talk. WELL
no; not exactly" was the reply, "but Just now
when came out of my room, the boat gave
fearful iurch and threw Mr.. Davis. who was
Walking in the opposite direction. bang against
the corner, and he just said: oh, h-ll!"
The times., 1899-05-11
A Blow at Popular Government.
(FrOm the Chicago Times-ITcrald.)

IFrom the Chicago Times lIcrald)
The drift of intelligent public sentiment on the
Senatorial question at this time is unmistakably
in the direction of the election of Senators by
popular vote. To establish the precedent of rati
flying the appointment of Senators by Governors
when the Legislatures have had ample oppor
tunity to elect is therefore blow to popular
government, and is practically usurpatiOn of
the peoples rights
The times., 1899-05-11
A Maine Congrcssmnn,s notion.
Grom the Boston Herald.l

Mr.. Boutelle isn't taking anything for granted
nowadays. His remark that il might be well TO
await some definite information as to Mr. Reeds
purposes before discussing the merits Of other cam
ddates for the Speakership denotes a marked in
disposition on his part to take time by the fore
lock. And yet, the average down East Yankee can
generally be depended upon to kinder reckon
weathercock.