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BARRED our OF NEW JERSEY.
One Corporation which Fails to Sc
cure a Charter There.

TRENTON N J.. June 2S-Attorney
General Gray this morning fled an opinion
with the secretary OF state. advising the
refusal OF the articles of Incorporation OF
pany. The articles provided for an au-
thorixed capital OF <n.aoo.0n, with the
provision that the company stock Nigh:
be Increased to $50. eoa.ooo by vote OF the
holders OF not less than three-fousths OF
the capital stock.
This proyiso is In conflict with the Ne-2
Jersey statutes. which gives TO the holS-
power TO Increase the authorized capital.
The secretary OF state viii later In the
day return the papers to the company. The
company was Intended TO be incorporated
here to build a ship canal across the 18TH
mus of Panama. Those named az incor-
porators were Henry Leeds. W. C. Mar
Ram ant Juan s. Smith. OF Jersey City.
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GOV. JONES PROcLAMA1IoN.
Forbids the BRinging Of Miners Ftou
the Outside IntO Arkansas.

the Outside lntO Arkansas.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, June &.-Gov.
Jones this afternoon issued proclamation
In which he says:
From statements It seems that certain
coal mipas operators have been bringing
from other states into Sebastian county a
class OF miners who menace the health and
peace Of the community. and In violation
advised that the bringing OF more OF such
Objectionable persons into Sebastian coun-
ty will surely result In b.oodshed. For
the purpose OF preserving the peace anc
preventing bloodshed In said county.
hereby order and direct that the further
importation OF such Objectionable men
cease. and that former proclamations by
me in this matter be strictly enforced by
the sheriff OF said county"
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DISCUSS ECONOMIC REFORMS.


BUFFALO. n. r.. June n---The Ma
tsonal Social and Political conference Was
called 10 order this morning by Edwin d.
Mead q Boston. ~. O. Nelson. of st.
Louis. presided. Al q meeting Of the bus
ness COMMITTEES last night IL was decided 10
change the rules Of the executive sessions
and open the conference to representatives
OF the press. The conference. az explained
In the ofyictal programme. ia q meeting OF
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Freight Handlers strike Ended

BUFFALO. ~ Y. Jane s>-~~Affer an mn-
successful STRIKE Of seven fsys' aaFzitoss.
the freight handlers returned 10 work to-
das. The 2Haa men Involved returned 81
the ola SSale. IS cents PER hour, except the
Erie men. wAo were receiving IL cents.
Tney will row receive Is cents.
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FIRED rNro THE CROWD.
4 Won't aian Conductor Creates =
Panic In CieNrlnnh.

a non-Ausaa conductor on The Central ave-
nuo line fred four shots into crowd
that held up his car AT the Cleveland x
p,Etssstlrg railroad tracks TODAY. TAs but
lsss wsns Wild ard there was a panic
afseng the passengers. The windows az ihe
car were smashed. hus no one Was Ia
surSxs
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 2s-The United
States transport steamer Valencia sailed
tonight for Manila, bearing the headQuar-
ters band and troops b and Nj of the
Fourth cavalry and Companies III and e,
Of the Twenty-fifth infantry.
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PHILADELPHIA June N-~ThE direct
erS ef tse PAslsstesehfs 4 raatssnare tsegs-
sfsl rsistsAa sI~Stss 81 r keansy preSa-
asat IN sucsessl Frank Tsscznsers John &
Green sss chosen we president - SAG
ese5 AR. keaasy.
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WASHINGTON june ~s~The Dewey
hnure fund contributors today we're tSa1
Most 81 this amount came from the kyack-
lyn Eagle The total sum - date y
Hl&A
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Atnpis EsTssS. Gem. June y Tho Dr.
gree of LID was conferred GA p-.st
dent Arthur 7. Had!sy. % Yale. BY Mes.
ieyaa university toaa.s.
Washington sentinel., 1899-08-19
Benevolent Assimilation.

Viewed from the standpoint OF
democracy, the movement for re-
tanning the Philippine Islands
imperialism" "iorcible annexa-
tion," benevolent assimilation"
or by whatever name it may be
called-is one oi the most delusive
propositions that ever perplexed
the American people. To cite but
one Of the many phases OF the
folly: Think oil talking Of oppor-
tunities for our laborng people in
tropical Oriental lands-some
1900 islands, comprising, all told,
about Ioo, 900 square miles OF
terra which lie Oar the sea
level in the torrid zone between
sixth and seventeenth degrees OF
north latitude, and have a native
population ofIo, ,ooo, 900 people, or
one hundred to the square mile.
Per contra, let as consider the
vast territory embraced IN the
Louisiana purchase, the cession OF
the Floridas, the Texas annexation,
the Mexican and Gadsden pur-
chases, Alaska, ETC., in round
figures some 2,soo.oo square
miles, in which the census of 1890
showed only six people to the
square mile. II we assume that
our population has increased
fifteen per cent. since the last
Federal census, the present pop
ulation OF this immense territory
would not be seven people to the
square mile.
This alone should deter US from
further pursuing the course marked
out by the present Administration,
to say nothing OF the self evident
iallacV Of thinking that people OF
the temperate zones could long
thrive in the deadly tropics OF an
oriental sea level country. These
reasons are overwhelmingly con-
elusive arguments against the WIS
dom Of the present policy of ex
pansion, unless, indeed, it is the
Deliberate purpose Of our Admin
istration. to exploit Asiatic labor
by compulsioD.
Washington sentinel., 1899-08-19
Uncle SAM Drop Him, Good Bird, Drop Him.

universities of the West and North
west, but in these places tits chiefly
the professor who speaks, the
masses being bellicose, or willingly
led by jingo politicians who have
axes to grind. Only in Massachu-
setts and the South does conser-
vatism seem to control the major
itY OF the people. In these regions
the Constitution and the American
traditions are taken seriously.
The fathers and their policy are
studied and honored. Elsewhere
the old ideas are deemed obsolete
and "providential." Mr.. McKin-
lev and Mark Hanna teach a new
gospel OF policy, before which the
older doctrine must give waY--a
money getting policv, which
is summed up in that homely old
Anglo Saxon word, grab. The
ultra protective tariff, the formation
of protective trusts, the war of
humanity" on Spain, the "benev-
olent assimilation" Of the Philip
pines and the degradation Of the
civil service, all have this one idea
and object in common-gra6,
Washington sentinel., 1899-08-19
EngIand's south African Scandal.

EDgIanO's SouLh African Scandal.
Her Majesty's Ministers have
made her say many strange things
in her speechea from the throne.
This sentence from last weeks
speech proroguing Parliament
ranks high among them:
The position of my subjects in the
South African Republic is inconsistent
with the Promise of equal treatment
whereon my grant of internal indepen-
dence 10 that republic was founded.
The English and the Boer Re-
public got along very well in
South Africa until 1871, with a
desert waste between them, put
there by the Beers when the Eng
lish drove them out Of Cape Col
onY. In 1871 diamonds were dis
covered on the edge OF the Boer
territories, and England deliber-
ately and without excuse broke its
treaty with the Boer Republic,
known as the Sand River conVen-
ton, and gradually encroached
upon the Beers until 1877, when it
annexed the Boer Republic on the
pretext that the republic was in a
state of anarchy.
So infamous vas this act that
Mr.. Gladstone in a few years
stopped the war which England
was making upon the "insurgent"
Beers and concluded treaty guar
anteeing the absolute internal in
dependence oi the Boer Republic
what Mr.. Chamberlain makes
the Queen call "mY grant ol inter-
nal independence" 1t was not a
"grant" any more than a pardon
to an innocent man who has been
oppressed and imprisoned is a
grant" 1t was an apology and
an attempt at reparation.
English relations with the Beers
have been one long sordid fight for
the possession Of rich diamond
and gold fields. And the instiga-
tors OF that fight have been several
small groups Of British capitalists
and imperialist buccaneers. The
iact that the Hon. Joseph Cham
berlain was, as he was forced 10
admit upon the floor of the House
Of Commons, until recently a
stoekholder in one of the COM
panies that have been grabbing
and stealing in south Africa makes
the scandal OF this threatened war
the more shocking.
Washington sentinel., 1899-08-19
Administration Economy,

When the Maine was blown up,
most of the surviving officers were
ordered to remain in Havana or
Key West as witnesses before the
Naval Court OF Inquiry, created to
investigate the Spanish crime. AS
they had no other places to shelter
in they went to hotels and, in the
natural course OF events, incurred
bills which they expected, and had
a right to expect, the Government
would pay.
In a certain sort of way the Gov
ernment did settle them. The fleet
paymaster, under instructions from
the president OF the court, handed
over the money, and now these un-
fortunate officers find that, year
and a half after the event, the
amounts are being deducted from
their pay accounts.
An Administrator which was
always strictly economical in all
things, might perchance find son'e
justification for such penurious
ness: but it need not be forgotten
that the present one is note'l rather
tor excessive liberality-in some
directions.
1t allowed the late Grover Cleve
land the free use OF two lighthouse
tenders for two weeks after he be-
came a private citizen, and never
sent him any bill for the ten thou
sand dollars of public money ex-
pended in refitting them for the
purposes of his short but gaudy
shooting and fishing excursion.
1t allowed Mr.. Alger to take
palatial converted yacht, equip and
and refurnish and provision it. and
use it on a purely personal pleas
ure cruise around the West Indies,
at a Government expense of some
thing like two hundred thousand
dollars, and did not offer COM
plant.
Now, these naval witnesses who
were entitled to quarters; who
were held uncomiortably, and, if
the!' dared speak, unwillingly, as
witnesses before court created to
prove that "the responsibility OF
Spain for the loss OF the Maine had
been entirely eliminated" are COM
PEELED to pay the cost of their en-
forced attendance. 1t is small,
contemplate, and wholly unneces-
cary outrage.
What are they being punished
for9 Did they give evidence OF a
character calculated to cause i'll
feeling between the United States
and the Kingdom with which the
Administration was then in unholy
alliance against the reconcentrados
of Cuba1 Was that evidence of
such importance that. if it had
leaked out, the navy ring would
not be conniving and conspIring
to reward Sampson by giving him
the glory and prize money of the
battle of July 3, from which he was
absent behind the eastern horizon1
Washington sentinel., 1899-08-19
HosstSche Zsiknng.

If the intention OF the British Govern.
ment to propose to President Kruger
disappointment of Committee, con-
sisting OF an equal number OF English
men and Beers, 10 investigate how far
Sir A. Miners demands will be fulfilled
by President Kruger's reform plans,
meets with the approval Of the TTansvsal
Government, and is then carried out.
the work OF this Committee will last for
weeks, and its results will lead to re-
newed negotiations. The fact that at
least the preliminary decision is to be
placed in the hands of a Committee Of
Investigation leafs one to conclude that
the Peace Party has the upper hand in
the English Cabinet
Washington sentinel., 1899-08-19
CUR FoRE EIGN EWs
Translated and Selected TvOn leading
EssT0psGHb ba6sYsT0v t5s SENTINEL.
ENGLAND.
FOREIGN COMMENTS ON ENGLANp's At
TITUDE TO THE BOER GOVERNMENT.
ENGLAND.

FOREIGN COMMENTS ON ENGLAND's AT
TITuDE TO THE BoRR GOVERNMENT.
7eInfehe Zeizzng-Berlin.
The debates on the Transvaal affair
in both houses OF Parliament are re-
markable in more respects than one
The parties have been agreed for several
days that the Ultlanders' case must be
carried to a decision, Hence II is not
necessary 20 pay any special attention
to the hourishes with which the Liberal
leader, Sir II. Campbell Bannerman,
adorned his speech. The position ofthe
Colonial Minister. Mr. Chamberlain, in
the House of Commons, and of Lord
Salisbury in the House OF Lords is very
interesting and perfectly correct. When,
in the beginning of the eighties, we
recognized the independence of the
South African Republic, it was under
stood that the whites, without distinction
as to descent. should enjoy equal rights
in the State. The I ransvaal Government
has not kept this point of the Treaty
This is no false Interpretation, like the
one placed upon Clause ". Of the
London Treaty OF 1884, by the present
Imperial Cabinet, in order to derive the
suzeralnty OF England from the obliga-
tion of the Transvaal to submit all its
Treaties with foreign States to the
Queen AS we recently stated, the
right Of suffrage was formerly granted
to all whites without exception,
and we can assert, without violating the
spirit of the Treaties, that il was the
intention of the parties to maintain the
former state ofthings. But
it is not probable that things will come
to the worst, To be sure, light threat
was heard in the Parliam entary speeches.
but the intention is to employ peaceful
means; to first test the Franchise Law,
theoretically and practically; and if it
should not prove satisfactory, to nego.
tiate once more. For this reason the
speakers only repeated what Mr.. Balfour
said in his speech,
Washington sentinel., 1899-08-19
WASHINGTON CITY, D. G., SATURDAY AUGUST 10. 1899

instructor in the school OF self
government. When in the worlds
history has it ever been necessary
to thrust the right to liberty and
self rule upon a people with force
and armsP Where do we find a
commission Tor shooting our civil
ization into 10, 900 900 alien people
10, 600 miles away1
Is it strange that the American
people are asking themselves, with
increasing earnestness. "What are
we fighting ior9"
Washington sentinel., 1899-08-19

The bordereaL was a list OF doc
uments delivered by Esterhazy to
Schwarzkoppen. These documents
are nov in the possession OF the
German War Office. Il happened
that the bordereau was stoleh by a
French spy from the German En-
bassY, and so the traitors in the
General staff had TO find a scape-
goat to prevent the exposure OF
their own treason. They picked
out DreYius, becaue he was a Jew
and it would be easy to excite pref.
udice against him. Having de.
nounced him as guilty of their own
crimes" says the National RE1sPaV,
"the gang commenced to forge and
lie in order to procure his convic-
ton, and, having secured II, il was
equally necessary to maintain it
by similar methods. The leak
ages from the War Office were
greater after DreYfus was in the
DEVILS Island than they had been
before"
The crime against Dreyius, be-
gun in vulgar, sordid treason for
hire, and continued in race hatred
aud military esprit de corps,is now
absorbed in the plots ol the enemies
OF the Republic. The shooting
OF Labori is an incident OF the war
declared by the reactionaIy revo-
lutionists against the existing in.
stitutions OF Frame. Fortu nately
there is at last a government in
power that knows how to strike
back.
Washington sentinel., 1899-08-19
spain's Good and Bad Bargain.

The demand OF the Filipino
rebels tor $1,000. 900 from Spain
Tor the ransom Of a few score
Spanish prisoners looks like
marking up the price on the Span
iards, especially when we remem-
Der that, according to Speaker
Reed, Spain sold us "ten millions
of yellow bellies at Sa apiece"
But it must be borne in mind that
the Filipinos are able to deliver
over their prisoners if the ransom
is paid, whereas Spain does not
seem to have been able TO deliver
over the "yellow-bellies," and
there is no telling how much it is
going to cost US before we catch
them.
Washington sentinel., 1899-08-19
The New Meat Tax.

II the Government oi the United
States should propose to levy a tax
OF two cents on every pound of
meat eaten by the people it would
create something very much like
a revolution. The people would
not stand 1t.
But when the same tax is LEVIED
by an impudent, greedy and law
breaking quartet Of Chicago meat
spectators the people submit
without resistance or even protest,
Those who have the extra two
cents pay the price; those who
have not 90 without tine meat.
One reason why a conspiracy OF
spectators can accomplish easily
that which the Government Of the
United States could not accom-
plish at all is that while the people
depend upon the State and Federal
governments, through the Presi-
dent and the Governors and the
Attorneys General, to enforce the
laws against these illegal and per-
nicious monoplies. the Attorney
General of the United States says
that the remedy lies wholly with
the State governments, while the
State officials insist that it lies
wholly with the Federal Govern
ment.
In the meantime the tax Of two
cents a pound has been laid on the
meat, and it will be collected.
Washington sentinel., 1899-08-19
The Policy of Grab.

One ofthe most striking features
oi the present expansionist move
ment is its sectional Character
sectional in the sense that its ad-
vocates are for the most part North
ern and Western men. Southern
men, no doubt, contributed to the
movement favoring war with Spain
for the release OF Cuba, and volun
teers were forthcoming IN great
numbers for that war from the
South. But they were not given
opportunity to distinguish them
selves and were soon mustered out.
The important Offices, m lItary and
civil, were filled almost exclusively
with political faVorites from the
North. Gen. Wheeler, it IS true,
was at Santiago, but he is the ex-
cept on hat proves the rule. Gen
eral Lee was kept from the scene
OF action till the war was over and
was then given lower position in
Cuba. Southern officers and sol
diers have not throughout been
given an opportunity to acquire
military experience, or to show
that they possess the martial quail
tiles they exhibited i'll I86I-6s. In
the navy they had, as officers, a
better chance and improved it.
Schley and Hobson won the chief
honors of the naval operations in
the Atlantic. There has not been
wanting, however, disposition at
Washington and elsewhere to de-
prive these men oil their we'll earned
distinction by perverslon OF Indis-
putable facts or envious ridicule,
There has been no complaint on
account of this unequal treatment,
though it is but fair that the distri-
button OF the benefits of the Gov.
ernment should be coextensiVe
with the imposition OF taxes. En-
ployment and salaries might well
have been given to Southern men
in larger way, in order that
wealth and culture-so far az these
result from Government employ
ments-may bless every section OF
the land alike. Inview Of the mon
opolY Of commissions commission
erships and Offices OF all sorts held
by Northern and Western men
under the present Administration,
it is no wonder that the affairs they
have in charge tend to become to
the Southern people far of matters
in which they take no interest. 1t
NAV be that a Republican Admin
istration considers the Democratic
South rightly excluded from par
ticipation in Federal enterprises.
No doubt clamorous officeseekers
from Ohio hold this opinion. But
it is a narrow view, unbecoming in
the occupant of the White House,
who should try to be President OF
the whole Union. IL has been sug-
gested in some quarters that the
imperial policy begins at Mason
and Dlxon's line, and that the
South is to be considered the first
oi the lingo acquisitions. But this
can hardly be true, in view of the
unwavering loyalty OF rhe South
ern States since 1865 and she un-
feigned eagerness Of Southern poll
iticians to enter the Federal SER
vice.
IL is a curious circumstance that
it is in Massachusetts, and the
South that the apathy IN regard to
expansion is most marked. Con-
servatism manifests itself sporadi-
cally elsewhere also, but it has its
stronghold, it appears, in these
widely separated areas. Opposition
to expansion appears in various
Washington sentinel., 1899-08-19
Zs TsHbs-Paris

Mr.. Chamberlain demands of President
Kruger to abdicate the sovereignty OF
the South African Republic; not TO
content himself with discussing with a
foreign power measures concerning
home policy, but TO consent to constitute
3 sort Of supreme tribunal, composed of
socalled English experts, TO pronounce
on the electoral law OF the Transvaal-
Thus Il is not enough to have rejected
arbitration at the very moment when
The Hague Conference renders a
platonic homage to that principle, as
Mr.. Chamberlain intends to make him
self judge at the same time as he is an
interested party IN that great question,
and to impose on the Transvaal accept.
ance Of the decision, without the right OF
appeal, Of a foreign jurisdiction on a
a point which involves the very
Washington sentinel., 1899-08-19

CAN IT be possible, after all the
assurances we have had OF a peace
full settlement OF the Transvaal
difficulty, that Great Britain has
hertransports ready to send troops
to crush the Boerss And before
the ink is dry on The Hague con-
ventions will the British War De-
partment order a supply oi dunn
dunn bullets for use against the
burghers Of Dom Paulp
Washington sentinel., 1899-08-19
Berlin.

It would be strange il, after previous
conciliatory declarations, the responsible
statesmen had spoken in a manner so
decided and threatening hat the out
break OF war seemed imminent, we're it
not known that British diplomatists are
wont TO make the most noise when the
enemy is ready to retreat.
Washington sentinel., 1899-08-19
NO 8

essence ofthe sovereignty and autonomy
of that little State. Let us still
hope against hope that, even in the
absence Of return Of England to Justice
and magnanmity, the wisdom and
prudence Of the Transvaal, and the
courageous spirit OF solidarity inspiring
the AirikandeTs OF the Cape, will presere
the world from that scandal, and the
British Empire from one Of the greatest
dangers it can run.
The semi-official Correspondent of
the FolzHscAe CoTreSbOzdenz (Vienna)
writes:-'It cannot but excite astonish-
ment and distrust in ST. Petersburg
when a section of the French, however
small, can so easily rush from one ex-
treme to the other, and coquet first with
St. Petersburg and then with Berlin.
When the heraldsof the Franco German
entente assert that the Alliance with
Russia will no more furnish a guarantee
against a future Fashoda than it did
against the past, they overlook the fact
that the alliance was concluded exclu-
siveiy for the purpose Of protecting
either country IN case of need, but not
TOR the purpose OF securing the success
OF an adventurous and inopportune en-
terprise unde. ken by either Ally"
The writer declares that at the time of
the FashOda affair the ST. Petersburg
Cabinet took certain steps and military
measures which produced aConciliatory
mood In London, and that this enabled
M. Delcasse to settle the affair peace
ably. Heproceeds: "This incident was
result ofthe foolish policy ofpinpricks
pursued by NJ. Delcasse's predecessor
towards England, a policy in direct
opposition to the tendencies of the
Franco Russian Alliance, which makes
for peace. In Russian official
circles the idea Of a Franco German
entente does not assume a more pleasant
form from the proposal TO graft it on to
the Franco Russian Alliance; while if
Russia proposed to draft a Russo.Ger.
man entente on TO the Franco Russian
Alliance,all France would resound with
the cry of Perfdy and treason"