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The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
SURE BEEF WIS EMB1LMED. Colonel Pope Will Wager $f.0OO Miles
 Can Prove So. Too.

Hartford Conn.,, Jan. 30.-Colonel AL bert A. Pope arrived in Hartford from Boston this afternoon. Soon after the train left Boston the colonel read in a newspaper the statement which General Nelson A. Miles made yesterday as fol- lows:
 Tn reference to a statement in a morning paper that the packers are willing to pay $10O.000 for proof that their beef was chemically treated, l will say that if these gentlemen will put up $1, 1000 in any bank as a guarantee of good faith, I will endeavor to show that the charges that chemicals were used to embalm beef can be sustained"
 Colonel Pope left the train at the first stop and sent the following telegram to General Miles:
 Major General Nelson A. Miles, Wash
 ington, D. C.:
 "Draw on me for s1 900 to prove that chemicals were used to embalm beef furnished our soldiers.
 Signed: Albert A. Pope,
 Boston, Mass" This is the way a veteran of the civil war feels about the treatment of the soldiers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
FIGHT OYER THE .1RMY BILL.
Opponents Score Several Victories-VOte
 Will be Taken To-day.

Washington, Jan. 30.-The house put | in hard days work on the army bill to-day, and tonight when it adjourned thirteen of the twenty pages had been completed. The committee amendments giving the president discretionary pow CT to reduce the size of the infantry companies and cavalry troops to sixty men each were adopted and also a series of amendments to reduce the officers of the staff to 3S1. A substitute was adopt for the section providing for promotions
 which is designed to equalize promo
 tions. A fight was made to reduce the age limit for officers to be appointed to the various staff departments from 50 to 30, but it failed. An amendment was however, adopted to require a mental and moral as well as a physical examin- ation for such appointees. Much of the time to-day was occupied in short speeches on the general proposition to increase the army and annex the Philip pines and there were several lively per sonal controversies. The house will meet tomorrow at Il o'clock and what ever time remains before o'clock after the bill is completed under the five min- ute rule, will be devoted to general de- bate The heavy weights on both sides will close The final vote is to be taken at o'clock.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
AGONCILLO IS PERSISTENT
ADDRESSES ANOTHER PROTEST TO
 STATE DEPARTlIENT.
matum-It VIII be Automatically y IgnOred-A Long Memorial to Senate Accompanies Communications - Me- kin1ey Requested to Transmit It.

! Washington, Jan. 30-Sixto Lopez, | secretary to Agoncillo, the Philippine
 representative here, called at the state department this afternoon and left with
 the chief clerk another communication addressed to the secretary of state, pro- testing against the attitude of our gov ernment toward the Filipino republic" The terms of the protest do not go as far as an ultima tum. The same fate which befell it's predecessors-it will be Automatically ignored. Accompanying
 the communication is a long memorial to the senate containing comprehen- s1Ve argument In opposition to the rat lf1cation of the treaty and which the envoy asks the president to send to that body. The letter of transmissal con- tains more than the mere request, but Agoncillo feels that he is bound by courtesy not to make it public until an opportunity 1t had by the state depart ment officials to make a reply.
 The memorial to the senate is long document both historical and argumen- tative in character, and is a protest that this government has no jurisdc- tion, natural or acquired, through any of it's agencies, to adjudicate in any manner upon the rights of the Philip pine country and it's people. He re- fers to ''the historical fact that a large number have never been subdued by spanish power, and, as against their liberties, the oppressive arm of Spain has never been able to sustain itself; that the remainder because of their ad- hesion to the cause of liberty have been in almost constant insurrection against the government of Spain; these conflicts existing continuously with greater or less fury for the past hun dred years"
 The impression, he continues, has been created in America, that at the time of the declaration of war the Phil ippine insurgents no longer existed. The purpose of the Filipino patriots In con- ducting this revolution was, it Is as- serted, to secure the complete independ- ence of their country and in this ef- fort they received the encouragement of the United States and was never in- formed that the obtaining and preser- vation of such indeDendence would be regarded as a hostile act by America and they never believed that their struggle in such a cause would lead to enormous aggregations of American ar mics and navies at their doors.
 Agoncillo claims that "the Philippine nation had achieved it's independence free from any danger of losing it at the hands of the Spaniards prior even to the signing of the protocol"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
$S,O0O,OOO FOR CUBAN SOLDIERS. Mckinley Understood to Have Ordered
 Its Dfsbursemcuf

Havana, Jan. 20.-President McKin- ley is understood to have empowered
 Robert F. Porter to arrange for the disbursement of $3,OOO,O0O among tha Cuban soldiers. MT. Porter will prob- ably go with Senor Gonzales de Quesa- da to persuade the Cuban commanders in-chief to disband his forces and to lend his influence to the United States military administra ation. MT. Porter and Senor de Quesada are conferringl tonight with the governor general. pr. Castillo, who returned to-day with General Gomez, says the latter is much hurt by what he regards as American neglect of his authority and rights and is determined not to advise his soldiers to go home penniless. Gomez purposes coming into the neighborhood soon and will review the Cuban troops at Mari- ano. There is some doubt whether he l and the other military chiefs will accept the ,000 no matter what other fa- vorable conditions may be offered. MT. Porter, who it is understood will act as the personal representative of Presi- dent Mckinley in the negotiations, has been directed to learn the best terms that can be made and is empowered to propose what it is hoped will be agree- able terms Much is expected of the assistance he will receive when ap- preaching General Gomez, from Senor < Jose Miguel Gomez and Senor de Que- sada
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
CHANGES IN Y. 4. 4. LAWS.
Those to be Considered for Adoption at
 the Annual Meeting.

| New York, Jan. 30.-Gustavus T. Kirby, chairman of the advisory com
 mittee of the Intercollegiate Athletic association, to-day gave out changes in the laws of the association which will be proposed for adoption at the annual meeting of the I. A. A. in this city on February 24. Section of article II, which has to do with eligibility for com petition, has been changed to read: NO one shall represent any college or uni versity as competitor at the annual field meeting who has ever represented any other college or university in any intercollegiate field or track sports un- til he shall have resided one calendar year at the college or university he represents and has passed an annual examination On full years work"
 Section 5 of article IS is likely to cause furry among schoolboy athletes It reads: No one shall represent any college or university as a competitor at the annual field meeting who has ever won a first, second or third place in any interscholastic or open field or track sports until he shall have resided one calendar year at the college or univer- sity he represents and has passed an annual examination on a full years work.
 'The president of the association im- mediately after election shall appoint faculty committee of four, a member being designated from it's faculty by each of the four universities or colleges making the highest scores in points at the previous annual field meeting" This faculty committee is to be court of final appeal in case of a dispute, or of a student taking exception to rul- ing. It is also suggested to drop bicy- cle races from the meet and have cy- cling a separate and distinct sport, sub- stituting therefor a mile relay race. MT. Kirby said that the amendment suggested by Harvard, that a student winning a point at an intercollegiate meet should not be eligible to compete for any other college, in his opinion was too severe and that it probably would not be insisted upon by Harvard in view of the other amendments.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
fl LIFE PRISONER DEAD. John K. Davis, Who Was Concerned in Murder of Wells Shapman.

Hartford, Conn.,, Jan. 3p-John R. Davis, life prisoner, died at the state prison tonight. He was sentenced April 3, 1879, at Hartford, for complicity in the murder of Wells Shipman, a. night watchman at the prison at Weth- ersfield. Shipman was killed by shot from pistol in the hands of either Henry Hamlin or William Allen, two desperate bank robbers, under sentence, who were endeavoring to escape from the prison. Davis was a day watcnman at the prison, who was bribed by friends of the two convicts to convey to them articles to aid in their escape He took them money and the two pistols which they used in endeavorIng to escape. Hamlin was hanged and Allen was sen- fenced for life. He became insane and died in December, 1897, at the Connecti- cut hospital for the Insane at Middle town. 4
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
WARSHIPS HAD PLENTY POWDER.
Secretary Long Believes Gen. Woodford
 Was Wrongly Quoted.

| Washington, Jan. 30-Secretary Long
 has addressed a letter to General Stew
 art l.. Woodford, enclosing memo radum from Chief O'Neill of the bureau of ordnance in reference to the reported speech of General Woodford at the Ar my and Navy club at New York on Saturday evening last, in which he is quoted as saying: "Gn February IS, 1898, three days after the Maine was blown up in Havana harbor he received information by telegraph that this gov ernment did not possess powder enough to provide it's warships and forts with two rounds for each gun"
 Chief O'Neill states that so far as it relates to the navy this is an error, as every vessel was practically filled up with her allowance of ammunition The regulations of the department prescrib- ed that the reserve ammunition for guns of the main battery, except on monitors and coast defense vessels, shall not be allowed to fall below forty rounds per gun for six-inch calibre and above, nor below fifty rounds per gun for the rapid fire guns" and not a vessel of the navy was reduced so low this. In addition to the supply of ammunition af1oat the navy had a fair amount in reserve, especially of projectiles.
 There were less rounds of powder per gun than of shell and for this reason, by direction of the secretary, an emer- gency order was placed for powder on January 15, 1898, just one month before the destruction of the Maine, and about February 15 the navy department had about three-quarters of million pounds of powder in reserve and it was being turned out in large quantities daily DeWey's ship were never reduced below the limit prescribed by the department and they could have safely gone into action without receiving further SUD- ply The vessels engaged expended only about one-third of their allowance. Chief Merrill says that at no time can it be said that the navy was so short of ammunition that it could not at any time have carried on active operations
 In his letter to General Wood fard, Sec retary Long says that the statements attributed to General Woodford are so erroneous that he cannot believe that the general was correctly reported
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
j OFFICERS TO BE BIEVETTED.
Report of Special BOard-Shafter, Astor and Roosevelt Named.

Washington, Jan 3O.--The board con- sisting of Generals Schwan and Boyn- ton and Colonel Carter, which has been for some time past arranging the list of army officers to be recommended for
 brevet, has completed that portion of
 the work involving the Santiago cam
 paign. It was forwarded to the senate
 for confirmation of the names. The
 board was guided by the following rule
 in making up the lists: For the San- tiago campaign one brevet to be award ed to each officer recommended, giving, as far as possible, the date of July 1, 1898, when the principal action of this campaign took place. as the date to be borne on the brevet commission, Regu- lar officers serving as volunteers to be breveted as volunteers; those serving with the regulars to be breveted in the regular service. The board also decided to regard the Las Guasimas fight, June "A 1S9S as a separate and distinct bat tie from the engagement fought near Santiago. The board also decided not to recommend brevets for those officers who were promoted to be general off, cers of volunteers for services in these campaigns.
 The following are among the many of- ficers recommended by the board for brevets of next high grade. regulars re- ceiving brevets in the regular army and volunteers brevets in the volunteers Brigadier General William R. Shafter, Lieutenant Colonel J. J. Astor, inspec- tor general; Captain Stewart M. Brice, Captain William Astor Chanler, adju- tant general; Major J. M. Bell to be colonel First cavalry; Lieutenant Col onel Theodore Roosevelt, First Lieuten- ants J. R. Thomas, Captain Allan Cap ron, Captain J. R. McClintock, Rrigadier General Henry M. Duftied, Captain M. Fred Alger, assistant adiutant general; Major c. Creighton Webb. inspector general; First Lieutenant H. H. War ren, Second Massachusetts,; Major w. H. D. Birch, to be colonel; Colonel H. A. Theaker. Sixteenth infantry; Colonel l.. P. Clark, Second Massa chusetts Lieu tenant Colonel F. R. Shamky; Major R. A. Whipple, Second Massachusetts; all of the commissioned officers of the Rough Riders are advanced.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
MUST ANSWER TO TREASON
PRESIDENT OF THE BANCO ES-
 P4NOLA IN HAVANA.
of COnnivances and Corruption on Deposited in the IMstitutiOn-Prc dent Trying to Avoid Testifying.

Havana, Jan. 30.-Senor Galbis, presi-
 dent of the Banco Espanola, was notified to-day by the special commission now
 Investigating the affairs of the munici-
 pality that he must appear before the
 commission tomorrow morning to ar-s
 swer treason charges Major General
 Ludlow, governor of the department of
 Havana, has invested the commission
 with the powers of a court and will sus-
 tain it's action in punishing a refusal to testify. The Banco Espanola is so in-
 timately connected with the affairs of
 Havana that the commission deems it
 necessary to get a complete accounting and statement of what it is doing now with the city's market dues.
 The commission ordered Senor Galbis to present himself last Friday and again on Saturday for examination; but he sent word that he was indisposed. He was then asked to come before the con1- mission at 9 o'clock this morning, but to-day he sent a message that he was physically unable to comply in conse- quence of the exhaustion due to his bank labors. This reply was regarded as unsatisfactory and the peremptory notice for tomorrow was served on him. If he now refuses the only thing that can prevent an arrest-so a member of the commission says-will be a medical certificate. Should this be produced, the physicians who act for the commission will be sent to make physical examin- ation of Senor Galbis.
 The commission expects to have easy work so far as the other officials, direc- tors and employees are concerned. All will be called upon to make full ex- plantations. c. w. Haskins, the expert accountant, and his assistants will ex- plore all the books of the bank accessi- ble. Information has reached the com mission that some of the banks books have strangely disappeared. This in- quiry will either establish or negative the various statements of conniyances and corruption on the part of the Span- ish government, which deposited with the Banco Espanola. The Banco Bs- panola is capitalized at $S,000, 900. Tho amount of deposits is not known to the commission, but it is supposed to be at least $1O,000.00O. The directors are very wealthy. A good block of Havana bonds is held in New York First mort gages were quoted on the local bourse to-day at 102
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
-4FF4IRS IN CHINA.
Empress Said to Have Selected Successor
 to Present Emperor.

Pekin, Jan. 30-The Chinese here say the dowager empress has decided upon policy regarding the successor to the throne It is added that at a meeting of her relatives, recently held she selected the successor of the present emperor. But his identity is not divulged. All reports, however, agree that a change at the palace is impending. The em- peror is still strictly guarded and in the southwest corner of the island palace. The drawbridge connecting the island with the shore is drawn up at night and every morning the ice around the island is broken in order to prevent un- authorized persons from approaching it. Finally, it is asserted that the dowager empress now practically Ignores the grand council of state and foreign off, flee.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
SHARKEY WHIPS 4 "DUNfNIY.o
Takes Two Rounds to Finish Soft Thing
 in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, Jan. 30.-Tom Sharkey put out Jack Mccormick, of this city, in the second round in what was to have been a six-round go at the Arena tonight. The bout lasted as long as it did probably because the sailor wanted to give the great crowd present some thing for their money. In the second round, after a few exchanges had talk en place, Sharkey put in a left upper cut, sent his left in turn to the jaw and brought the right up again to the same spot Mccormick went down and stayed the limit. When he got to his feet again Tom banged a right on the stomach and left on the jaw and the local man went out of business. The round lasted two minutes and fifteen seconds. After the bout Sharkey an- nounced that O'Rourke would on his behalf cover the money deposited in New York by Fitzsimmons.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
Whent PrOdUctIOn, Etc.

Washington, Jan. 3o,-The final esti- mates of acreage production and value of the following crops in the United States for 1899 made by the statistcian of the department, is as follows: Wheat, A 055,273 acres; 675,14S,705 bushels; value, $392, 770,9 ,92O; corn, 77,721,7S1 acres; 1 924 1S4, 660 bushels S552, ,023, 7S1; oats, 25, TIT, 110; 770 955, ,643 bushels; value, $1S6,- 405 ,364; rye, 1,643, 207 acres; 25657, ,522 bushels; value, $11 ,S75,350; barley g. 5S3, ,125 acres; 55, 5,792,257 bushels; value, 1928, ,O64,S ,S59; buckwheat, 67S, ,332 acres; it, 721, ,927 bushels; value, S5,271 462; pota- toes, 2,557,729 acres; 192, ,3O6,3 ,33S bushels; value, $79,574, ,772; hay, 42,7S0.S27 acres: 66, 6,376,92O tons; value, $396, O60, 647 The acreage of winter wheat for the present season is estimated at 69,953, ,639 which is 12911, ,96S acres greater than that of 1897.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
WITH MERCURY o6 BELOW ZERO. Third Regiment, U. s. A., Leaves St.
 Paul for Heat of Philippines.

St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 3O.-With the mercury twenty-six below zero the Third regiment infantry to-day com menced it's long journey to the tropical heat of the Philippines Colonel Page had requested that there be no formal farewell, but large crowd cheered the parting soldiers. This regiment has been located at Fort Smelling fourteen years, except for the four months of hard Cuban service. It is the oldest American regiment, with gallant rec ord extending back to the revolutionary war. The regiment expects to reach Jersey City on February 19.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
BOXING BOUTS IN NEW YORK.
Twenty-five Distinct Encounters Re
 tween Amateur PugiIists.

Twenty-Five Distinct Encounters Re-
 tween Amateur PugiIists.
 New York, Jan 30.-Twenty- dis tinct encounters among amateur pugil- ists of various degrees of ability and thirteen separate wrestling bouts at tracted several thousand devotees of the ring to the finish of the amateur athletic union championships at the Lenox Athletic club tonight The first boxing bout was between J. c. Conlon. St. Bartholomew's A. C., and John Schwartz, New West Side A. C., at 14 pounds. In the third round Schwartz was floored. Conlon received the decIs- ion.
 George Cans of the Pastimes and John Mulford met at 130 pounds. Cans won.
 Dave Watson of Paterson and Charles Pricer of St. Bartholomew A. c. were the principals in the first encounter be- tween bantams. Watson got the de- cision.
 F. J. Terry of New York, and H. F. Kenney of Roosevelt A. C., 1O5 pounds, met, Terry getting the decision at the end of the third round.
 J. J. Dukelow of Rochester met Will liam Paynter of the Pastime A. c. at 145 pounds. The referee stopped the bout in the third round and gave the decision to Dukelow.
 In the welterweights A. Comisky, N. w. A. S. C., met A. c. Grundy of Pastime Athletic club. Comisky's fight ing was foul, and Grundy received the decision.
 The first fight among the 15S pound men resulted in Joseph Walker, Xavier A. C., a negro, being knocked out in the third round by A. Mcintosh, N. s. w. A. $.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
Brakemnn,s skull FracturCd.

Philip Carey, a brakeman for the hospital at o'clock this morning suf- fering from a fractured skull. The manner in which he met his serious in- jury is not known He left New Haven on the freight train to which he is as- signed early in the evening, but at a station above North Haven it was dis covered that he was missing. It was then surmised that he had been knock ed from the train and a searching par ty was sent out. After hunting several hours they found him lying unconscious near the tracks above the Cedar Hill station.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
Dinner to Miss VViIlard's Successor.

Portland, Me, Jan. 90.-Mrs. M. l.. Stevens, president of the National W. c. T. U., successor of the late Frances B. Willard, was given a complimentary dinner by the ladies of Portland this afternoon. More than hundred ladies were seated at the gaily decorated tables. Mrs. Philip R. Brown was the chairman and at her right was seated Mrs. Stevens. The place at Mrs. Browns left was occupied by Miss Cor don, National vice president of the w. C. T. U,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
NTyTMPERI4IIST LEAGUE. ConyrptuIattons to Senators for Their
 Firm stand Against Treaty.

Boston, Jan 3O.-At a meeting of the executive committee of the anti-Impe- rialist league to-day it was voted to congratulate the senators who are op- posed to imperialism upon the firm stand they are taking in challenging a vote upon the treaty February 6, rely ing upon their ability and intention to reject it in it's present shape unless and until joint resolution shall be adopted by both houses and signed by the presi- dent placing the Philippines upon the same basis as Cuba.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-31
15O CASES OF SMILLPOX.
The Disease Increasing at POnce-T
 Compel Vaccination.

The Disease Increasing at POnce-To
 Compel Vaccination.
 San Juan de Porto Rico, Jan. So.- Smallpox is increasing at Ponce, where 15O cases are under treatment. The military government will immediately inaugurate compulsory vaccination. Chief Surgeon Huff says that there is no occasion for special alarm, as the conditions are not unusual. Reports from other points in the island tell of only scattered cases. A. number of native prisoners in the San Juan peni- tentiary attacked an American soldier who was doing sentry duty to-day. The sentry was compelled to bayonet one of his assailants. Captain A. s. Snow who has been commandant of the San Juan naval station, has been appointed by General Henry to take charge of the port of San Juan.