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The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-18
ATLANTIC LINERS,

NEW YORK-Arrived: Manitoba, Lon
don. Sailed: Trinidad, Bermuda: Paw
nee, Jacksonville; Orinoco, Bermuda.
LIVERPOOL - Arrived: fauric, New
York.
AUCKLAND - Sailed: Monawa. San
Francisco.
LlZARD-Passed: Steamer Bonn, Balti-
more for Bremen.
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WANT NO ALLIANCE.

German-American Unite in Oppos-
ing Foreign EntangIements.
CHICAGO, April T7.-Chicago Is to be
the center of a great union of organiza-
tons, composed of Germans and Ameri-
cans who are antagcnistic to any plans
that would bring about an alliance be-
tween the United States and a foreign
power. This was the enthusiastic senti-
ment of the representatives of two-score
Germanic societies tonight at Schiller
hall
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s HUNDRED THOUSAND MEN.

Force Gen. Lawton Says Will BE
Needed to Pacify FiIipinos.
NEW YORK, April ia dispatch from
Manila on Sunday, says. Maj. Gen. Law
ton, at Pate today authorized this state
ment:
1.-THE present prospect. is that 0,0OO
trops will be necessary to pacify the Phil
ipine islands,
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GEN. CoRREA DEAD.

Was Chief of the Queen Regents
Military Household.
MADRID, April H.-Lieut. Gen. Correa
chief of the queen regents military
household is dead.
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FOUGHT TILL THEY FELL.

Desperate Street Duel With Pistols
In ClarksvilIe Tenn.
CLARKSVILLE, TENN, April H.-As
result of a street fight, with pistols,
Bud higgins lies mcrtally wounded, and
Gus Moody's chances to live are slim. The
fight was the outcome Of an old business
trouble. The battle-was bloody one,
both men firing after falling over each
other, exhausted from loss OF blood.
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OFFICER DIsHoNoRED.

Spanish Tribunal of Honor ExpeIs
Col. ZRmara.
MADRID, April 1.-THE tribunal of
honor has expelled from the artillery Col.
Zamara, who participated in the Cuban
campaign.
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morning by hanging. He went to- the
woods to work, and, not returning in
he was found hanging to the limb of a
Eastwood tree. No cause is given for
tho 6oad
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CAUGHT IN THE ICE.

Steam Barge and Other Vessels MAY
BE Wrecked.
STURGEON BAY, Wis, April 1.-THE
Ice In Green bay began moving this after
noon, and the steam barge Rumbell Capt
E. B. Graham, got caught in the flow,
and will likely be carried into Lake Michi-
gan. Several "hookers'' in Fish creek
were also caught and ground to pieces
The ice is likely to do great damage to
wharves and shipping, as 1t Is very thick,
and is moving rapidly.
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sisted Of offers of money, position ad-
vantage and political preferment The
an unlawful conspiracy to carry out the
scheme rooms were maintained at the
Lochiel hotel, in Harrisburg. for the pur-
pose Of having the members of the house
brought there, that they might be ap-
preached in regard to the subject mat
terS referred to.
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if there is anything to change our plans
We will let you know before that
The committee then adjourned until
Friday morning
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Suicide by Hanging.
ROYALTON, Mimi, April 17.-John
Carlson, Of Elmdale, suicided Saturday
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CHILDREN ABDUCTED.

Chicago Police Have Another Mys-
terry to FathOm.
CHICAGO, April IA supposed kid
mapping case like the Lapiner abduction
is causing the police Of this city much
concern. Ruth and Harold. Stonehouse,
aged and g. respectively, disappeared
from their home, 5916 Calumet avenue, a
week ago, and no trace of them can be
found. @-----S
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DISPOSITION OF THE HOUSE TO
BUCK THE SENATE RULED
STRONG
HOUSE WAS SCRAPPY ALL DAY
BILL PROVIDING FOR A SUGAR
BOUNTY BUNTED AROUND
FOR HOURS
1T FINALLY GETS THROUGH

Not Until jacobson and His Cote-Ia
Got just What They Wanted-A
Large Number of Bills Shot
Through During the Last Few
Hours That Were Devoted to Leg
1slative Work
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Continued on Third Page.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-13
LON is AN EXPANDER

Washington Correspondent of the Louisville
Courier Journal. -
The Hon. Augustus o. Bacon is a candi-
date for reelection. He is a fair lawyer,
an average debater and one of the success
sors of Robert Toombs in that body that
future generations will not readily recall
to mind, because of incendiary operations
of his, such as setting the Potomac afro.
He is above the average of the present
senate, however, and for that reason there
are observant folk who hope Lon Liv-
ingston will not secure his job; but Lon is
after it, and Lon rarely goes after a thing
that he does not land. If Lon had the
genius of Mlrabeau-and he hasn't got it
he would be a political Cromwell and spread
his protectorate all over America, the isles
of the sea and the Philippines. He is an
expansionist, and they say he is after the
senatorship hotfoot
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the armies shall be reduced. Questions
concerning international arbitration will be
decided by the second, while all germane
questions will be dealt with by the third.
The palace itself is artistieally interest,"
ing. It was built in 1917 by the Princess
Amelie de Solmi widow of Prince Henri
Frederic of Orange. Paintings IN the
Orange room are by such great artists as
Levens, Jordaens and Van Thulden.
There is an allegorical picture representing
his victory over wicked temptations. There
is a Chinese and japanese room, with
rarest works of art in them. The walls
of the dining room are decorated by De
Wit with scenes from mythology.
Among the people who will be present at
the conference. though not as a delegate.
is the Baroness Won Suttner. She IS the
author of a novel with the title Lay Down
Your Arms" This book is said to have
had great influence with the car in issuing
his peace rescript. 1t is said. moreover,
to have been the greatest single force with
him to that end 1t ran through a dozen
editions on the continent, and the men of
the military countries were thoroughly IA
miliar with it, strangely, before it could
find English translator a publisher
in England.
Her majesty. Queen Wilhelmina, and the
queen dowager will go to Amsterdam on
April II, and then, instead of making their
usual sojourn at Soetsdyk, they will leave
for a continental tour. They will return
to The Hague to receive the peace confer
enee on May 49, ultimately leaving for Loo,
where they will entertain the conference
twice, at a dinner and a garden party.
The Rotterdam peace committee has OBJ
tanned in a fortnight 5000 signatures to a
peace petition.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-13
PRIVATE JOHN ALIENS FIGHT

From the Washington Times.
The friends of Representative John Allen,
of Mississippi, watching his canvass
for the senatorship in his state with the
greatest interest. According to all ac-
counts, Mr.. Allen stands a very good show
to win. The contest, however, promises to
be exceedingly lively, as Aliens principal
opponent, Governor McLaurin, is making a
vigorous fight for the place, and he has the
advantage of the patronage of the state
administration on his side Patronage,
however, it is pointed out, is not always a
benefit to the man dispensing it. 1t is I'M
derstood that Allen is having the indirect
support of Senator Hernado DeSoto
Money.
Il hope that Mr.. Allen will win the sena-
torial toga,' said resident of Mississippi
yesterday. "He would shake up the dry
bones in the senate and instill little life
into that body-something that it is very
much in need of. Aliens election will be
victory for the younger element in Mis-
sissppi politics. The old fellows have had
control of the party there ever since the
civil war and it is about time that they
gave way to the younger generation. The
impression obtains in Mississippi, too that
the McLaurin family has had about all
that it is entitled to- at the public crib
There are some seven or eight male men,
bers of the family and for a good many
years every one of them has held a public
position with a very comfortable salary.
They should have saved up enough to re-
tire on by this time"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-13
A NEW PLACE FOR ALGER

Correspondence of the Chicago Record
Some of, the friends of Secretary Alger
have become convinced that he is a burden
upon the administration, and that the
longer he remains in the cabinet the more
difficult it will be with him to retire with
credit 1t has occurred to them that the
president might be willing to have him
change places with General Horace Por-
ter, ambassador to France, and that the Of
fetal termination of the war, which will
be celebrated tomorrow by the exchange of
Publications of the peace treaty with Spain,
is the appropriate time for him to lay down
his official cares and assume the honors of
a diplomatist.
General Porter is known to be tired of his
post. He was anxious to enter the cabinet
at the beginning of the administration, and,
while he has not been consulted, the people
who are engineering the deal are quite con-
fident that he will agree to it. 1t is also
believed that the president would propose
it. He has heard a great deal of complaint
about his secretary of war and under
stands public sentiment on the subject. In
fluential leaders of the republican party
have gone to him again and again to per-
suade him to relieve Ager, but the presi-
dent is famous for sticking by his friends
and cannot be persuaded to ask for his
resignation. Nevertheless if Mr.. Alger
should intimate q desire to exchange places
with General Porter there is little doubt
that the president would promptly give his
consent.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-13
THE LESSONS
OF BIRMINGHAM

From the New York Journal
New Workers who wish to see what a mu-
nicipal government can accomplish may
find instruction in Birmingham. The gov
eminent of that city was not created a cor
poration until 1851. A recent English writer
has expressed common opinion in England
in remarking that municipal reformers
look to Birmingham as the eyes of the
faithful look to Mecca" That is not be-
cause that city has yet accomplished so
very much more than Others but because
of the energy shown in recent years.
The movement began when Mr.. Chamber
lain was elected mayor, in 1873. He deter
mine~ to bring the gas works under the
direct control and management of the mu-
nicipal council. Two competing companies
were supplying the city with gas. He Sc
cured a council resolution, by fifty-four
votes to one to muncipalize the gas works.
A large price was paid-SlO 600, 0O0-but the
bargain has proved profitable. The first
years net return was $17O,0OO and the
profits have steadily increased till now they
are twice that amount; yet since 1875 the
price to consumers of gas has been reduced
from seyenty-five cents to fifty cents per
1000 feet, by which reduction the use of gas
among the poorer classes has been greatly
promoted. In 1889 an eight-hour day was
conceded to its 1900 employees by the mu-
nicipaity.
But Mr. Chamberlaln's crowning achieve
ment was the solution of the housing prob
lem. He accomplished results next to those
attained by Napoleon, who found Paris
of brick and left it one of marble. He GER
tainly revolutionized the topography of Biz
mingham. His chief monument is Corpora
ton street Birmingham's finest thorough
fare and business avenue, on what was for
merly nothing but slums, splendidly built
up with new, solid structures that will be-
come the property of the municipality when
the seventy-one year ground leases ex-
pire.
The area included in the improvement
scheme was ninety acres in extent, was
covered with about 1900 houses, in which
10000 people were living, and the condemna-
ton of this district was very high. In
fifty years from the time OF Investment
Birmingham will become the richest NUM-
| cipal corporation in the kingdom, and it
| will be indebted for it to the council of
| 1875, that had the foresight to make such
| plans. Further, the municipality has built
and rented a considerable number of model
| five-room cottages.
The improvement scheme OF 1875 has al
| ready more than repaid all it has cost, while
| as a project for the modernization and
| adornment of commercial city it has fur
nished the citizens due measure of To-
| cal pride-and is further demonstration of
the tax-saving power of improvements .
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-13
WOULDN'T BE CALLED "TATHER,s

From the New York Sun.
One of the ritualistic churches in New
York has recently met with a difficulty
which it never expected to encounter. The
parish has now rector, who is in most
respects SO much like his predecessor that
: the easy progress of affairs in the church
did not seem likely to be disturbed. The
new incumbent, however, soon came into
collision with one habit o fhis parishioners.
He firmly refused to be addressed as
Father, which was throughout the pre-
vious history of the parish the recognized
title of the rector. The newcomer was
firm. AS he is not a doctor of divinity,
there is nothing but Mr." which the par
ishoners can use as a handle to his name.
They are doing that unwillingly enough,
and 1t Is still an undecided question iwheth-
er the rector or his parIshoners Will come
out ahead. The struggle is rather an I'M
equal one for him, as he has to contend
against several hundred persons who, are
united by inclinat ton and habit in their
present purpose. Very few of the clergy
men who have been addressed by this title
have ever sought it from their parishion-
ers or signed themselves officially with. the
prefix. But the appellation is so deeply
rooted in custom that the parish in which
the now sule has been made finds it hard
to become accustomed to it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-13
The War With Spain is Ended.

The war that was actually inauguratcd
February Is, 1898, by the blowing up Of the
Maine, and on April 81 following by the
action OF congress and the president, was
ended on Tuesday afternoon by the quiet
swapping of a black morocco portfolio for
a maroon colored morocco box. There We're
no flowers or ribbons-just box in ex-
change for a portfolio. whatever tho latter
may be. Webster says a portfolio is "a
portable case for keeping loose papers in"
There was nothing loose about the treaty
from IN American point of view; and there
was therefore no necessity CT using an
An1eI lean portfolio instead of an American
box. But let that pass. The boz was OK
changed for the portfolio, and Secretary
Hay lugged OF the one, and Ambassador
Cambon the other; and the president
ktraightway gave notice Of the exchange In
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what he is pleased to call proclamation,
and white-winged peace again hovers over
the land-over two lands. for that matter
The coming of peace releases all volun-
teers, and this becomes matter of eonsid-
cradle Importance in the Philippines, where
their services are needed until the coming
of the rainy season in June at any rate.
The regular arm yhas been recruited to
nearly 65.o99 men. but many of these would
be maeelimated soldiers If sent to either
Cuba or the Philippines. and the mortality
list of the army might be very high. But
be this as it may, the volunteers are en-
titled to discharge, and no doubt they Will
probably demand it, especially the volun-
tears in the hot unwholesome air Of the is
lands in General Otis charge.
Beyond this, the proclamation of peace
restores diplomatic and consular and COM
mercial relations with Spain, and in ae-
.cordance with republican practice mil
lionalre has been selected to represent the
people al Madrid. His name is Bellamy
Storer, although it is not recorded that nc
is looking backwards. He is evidently
looking forward TO the bull fights and 9TH
.er scrifnma ges of Madrid. He is Million
;aire of the Cincinnati variety. 1t had to be
an Ohio man or a New York man, and this
time Ohio won out. Mr.. Storer will set
nothing on fire in Madrid. He will be apt
to perform his duties satisfactorily, work.
ing in the meanwhile the social racket for
all it is worth, and he will come home to be
lionlzed by people who do not want social
lions, and would not know one IL they met
one in the middle of the road. The diplo-
matte service is now practically confined
to New York and Ohio-to millionaires at
any rate -millionaires, like DR.. Nose
ley, secure consular places only.
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Funeral of Col. w. NJ. Smith

San Francisco, April 12.-The funeral SER
vices over the remains of Colonel w. NJ.
Smith, commander of the First Tennessee
regiment who died al Manila while in ac-
tion, of apoplexy, was held here today UNI
der the auspices of the Grand Commandery
Knights Templars, of this state. Colonel
Smith was grand commander of the order
in Tennessee. The services were very i'm
pressive, many military and civic dgnitar-
les attending. A full regiment escorted the
body to the railroad depot. The body will
so forward on tonight's train accompan-
led by members of the deceased command
er'S family and. several friends.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-13
snRscR1PrInN RATES.
Cotton and Corn.

The cotton markets of the country are
dull beyond description. The price in the
interior markets has fallen to about 5
cents, and there it stays in lifcless con-
dition, no one seeming to care which way
the market may go. Allaare hesitating not
because receipts are liberal, but because no
one knows what the acreage of the new
crop is to be.
The season is confessedly backward, and
the purchase of fertilizers is also back
ward, but no one feels that these facts
point with certainty to decreased
acreage. month of dry weather might
upset all such estimates. 1t is still early
in the season, and much cotton may yet
be planted-very much, for that matter
too much, in all human probability. Too
much is what is generally planted. No one
can remember when too little was
planted.
The feature of the cotton market just at
present is the lack of speculative activity.
While there is bearish feeling, there are
no rampant bears-no bear leaders at any
rate. The market is in a waiting mood,
waiting to see what the new acreage is
to be.
The south is much more deeply inter-
ested in the corn acreage, and hog crop
than it is in the cotton acreage. In the
rush of a backward season there is danger
than the corn acreage will be decreased;
and If it be, the hog outturn will also be
hurt. Alabama very nearly produces corn
and hogs enough te satisfy home consump-
ton. lG1vtila, April of the state will meet
consumption in these two respects, no one
viii object to their cotton acreage, no mat
ter how large it may be- A state that is
full of corn side meat, eggs, cows and
green's is a state that can afford to ignore
the current talk as to great cotton acre
age. But the trouble is, Alabama is not
full OF these needful articles. We need
more acres in corn-more hogs, more cattle
and particularly more hens. In some states
the little brown hen is the most important
and lucrative creature contained therein.
1t has been the salvation, it is claimed, of
kansas, as the COW has been of Iowa.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-13
Gov. Iohnston,s Distrust of the People.

Among the paralyzing things contained in
Governor Johnston's legislative proposal,
one is self-evident--his dstrust of the plain
people, of the great mass of the people
He is not willing to let them say whether
or no they will have a constitutional con-
vention. True, he did say by his own sig
nature that they should have that plain
undoubted and wholly proper privilege; but
since he wrote his name under that demo-
cratic measure of a democratic legislature
he has seen a light-several lights, for that
matter-and now he says they should not
have the boon that he at first granted them
He is conspiring by the underground route
to defeat his own signature
In the name of common sense and COM
mon justice and common American meth
DDS, why should not the people be permit
ted to say whether or no they desire con-
stitutional convention? The old consttu-
ton was made back in the seventies, at the
heel of a great internal disturbance, and it
seems probable that it should be supplant-
ed by one more in accordance with the
spirit of the times and the progress of the
state. Scarcely one of the constitutions
that followed reconstruction are in ex-
istence today-perhaps not one. We cannot
now recall one If Alabama desires a new
constitution, her people should be permitted
to vote upon the proposition, and under
ground political methods should not be
brought in for the purpose of preventing
an expression by the people.
If the people want a constitutional con-
vention, they should be permitted to have
one, no matter how many mistakes the
convention may make no matter how much
a convention might interfere with the per-
sonal plans of the executive or anybody
else. The attempt on the part of Governor
Johnston to come between the people and
their notwithstanding powers is a polit-
ical device of the most audacious character.
1t is an insult to the people of Alabama.
1t distinctly says to Them. You are not to
be trusted with your own affairs. You will
do this, that or the other, and you must be
headed off, and 1 am the wise man who
knows how to head you off, and 1 will dc
it. especially if I can command sixty-eight
votes in the Legislature" Audacious and
unprecedented as the proposition is, it be-
comes still more so in the face of the facts
that the convention proposition was passed
by a democratic legislature after years of
discussion; approved by q democratic gov
ernor; sanctioned by a democratic state
convention and sixty-six democratic county
conventions or primaries and is today a
democratic party measure with the solid
strength of the democracy of Alabama be-
hind it.
Governor Johnston proposes to turn down
the democratic party of the state, and he
also proposes to deny the people of Ala
| bama an opportunity to say whether or nj
| they desire a constitutional convention. He
| proposes to abolish a general referendum
and substitute for it referendum made III
| of himself and about one hundred Other
people like unto himself. A referendum o.
| heelers and ringsters is not what the peo
pie desire. And it is just what the people
will not quietly stand.
1
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-13
WOULDN'T A HOWL GO UP

To the Editor of The Herald
The following quotation form the extra.
ordinary circular letter of his excellency
Jos. f. Johnston strikes me as rather sim
gular:
II desire to know whether you think at
would be to the best interest of our party
to assemble the general assembly for tho
purpose stated, and 1 request you to give
me your views fully as to what action IL
any, should be taken by me, and what ac-
ton the general assembly should or would
take. Yours truly.
Jos. F. JOHNSTON,
Governor"
] have been laboring under the impress
sion that JOS f. Johnston was governor of
the state of Alabama and not governor of
the democratic party. Suppose his exceIien-
cy VIM. Mckinley should call an extra ses-
sion of congress and state in the call that
1t was for the "best interest" of the rcpub-
liean party that the call was made, would
not a howl go up that would be echoed
from Maine to California?
The careful reading of ex-senator Car.
fees views on the pending question is rath-
er amusing in the light OF proceeding fears
in Lowndes county. Senator Caffee, IL there
are any "unwdse and INSCRIPTIONS politi-
clans, whose statecraft radiates from the
magic center Of Birmingham, they are
only here occasionally. 1t is neither just
nor fair to charge the personal ambition OF
one man up to Birmingham, simply be-
cause he lives here
AN OLD SCHOOL DEMOCRAT.