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The San Francisco call., 1899-06-24

81 ISPATCHES from Washington an
II Y nouncing that the Government
4 has resolved TO enlist 10000 volun-
~ tecrs to reinforce the army on the
The San Francisco call., 1899-06-24
ailOr hats for 25C

English Milan Sailors, MontauS shapes. a.
pretty little sailor, fine for the country
vacation trip, neat wax. black, blue or
The San Francisco call., 1899-06-24
Mayor and the Board Will Keep
Their Platform Promise.
They Declare That the City Government Can Be Run
for a Year on Three Million Five Hundred
Thousand Dollars in Taxes.

81 ~ AYOR PHELAN and a ma
XN/W jority of the Board of
II " N Supervisors declare that
The San Francisco call., 1899-06-24
summer silks
reduced

Assortments on popular lots broken other
lines have Jagged; tardy shipments tumbling
in; all to go, and they must go quickly.
Silks that were $1.25 now W..................-5C
Silks that were S1.00 now .................6 60C
Silks that were 75c now zoe
(These reductions are only on the broken lots. J
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Avoid alum baking powders.
They make the food unwhole5omc.
The times., 1899-02-16

who are his dupes and who constitute but
a small part of the entire population of
the archipelago. We have no right 10
abandon the islands % his rule or to that
of the alleged government instituted by
him in his own interest. We can form no
stable government there until we shall
have restored order. and to do this We are
bound 10 bring Aguinaldo and his army
TO submission.
This, then, is the situation: If We should
comply with the demands of the critics.
We must recall our army and leave the dc
tator supreme. thus abandoning our plain
duty by imposing on the inhabitants, who
are not fitted for government the ty-
ranny of a king who once betrayed his
people for Spanish gold. This would be
followed by successive revolutions on the
part of the many tribes who have never
submitted 10 Aguinaldo. or else by the
merciful intervention of a foreign nation
to protect its own interests there. That
the American people could be guilty of
such moral Cowardice is not to be believ
ed. When. if ever, these islands pass out
of our control it will be to become the
home of a republic. That must be some
distance in the future.
The times., 1899-02-16

Mr. Mcmillan introduced bill in the senate
yesterday To change the name OF Four-lnti a-hl!
Street TO John Marshall Street.
An amendment was offered to tho river and
hlrbor bill yesterday in the Senate hy Mr.. Mar.
tin providing SIS, 100 Tor the improvement of the
Potomac River below Washington lie also of.
iered an amendment to the suudry civil bill nr,-
viding $500 flr the continuance Of the mcrp-
orial bridge project.
The Washington and University Railroad COM
pany filed its annual report with the senate ve,-
terday. More than 81, 600 worth Of the c.,p,-
pany's stock iia, been sold although the road is
not yet IN running order.
Mr.. Quay yesterday reported favorablv 10 the
Senate nom the appropriations Committee the
postoticc appropriation hill, carry ing sos So t3S
which is S;ss3,2aS the sum carried tv the bill
it passed the House.
Mr. Platt OF New York yesterday in the senate
introduced bill providing for Government nag.
ticipation in the Pan American Exposition 10 he
held at Niagara in 1904.
\ bill passed by the Senate Yesterday ex-
pressing the appreciation OF Congress to Miss
Helen Miller Gould for patriotic service during
the late war, and authorizing the President To-
present her with gold medal.
The nomination of Judge Edward Il. Meek to
be district Judge for the Northern district ot
Texas confirmed by the Senate Yesterday.
This nomination was hung up last session. but
went through yesterday by : large majority.
The times., 1899-02-16
THE M'ENERY RESOLUTION.
Its Probable Fate When IL Reaches
:he House.

The troubles OF the sundry civil bill in
| Committee OF the Whole House are not yet
over. Today. when the paragraph appro-
priating $50. 100000 TO Spain is reached. Mr.
McRae of Arkansas will offer the follow
ing amendment:
Provided. That in making this appropriation
| for the extinction OF Spanish sovereignty over
the Philippine Islands the United States hereby
disclaim any disposition intention to perlna-
| nently annex said islands to the United States
but, on the contrary, assert their determination,
when independent government by the inhah-
itants Of said islands shall have been established
therein. 10 transfer to said government all rights
secured under the cessiOn by Spain, and there
upon 10 leave the government and control OF said
| islands to the people thereof.
No doubt a point Of order will be made
against this amendment, but il will proba
bly, stay in, as far as the point of order
goes, and this for two reasons. One is
that any reasoning that would exclude il
would also exclude the $4,000, 900 appro-
priation. and the other is that Speaker
Reed is understood TO favor it,
Behind all this lies story. The Mem
cry resolution, passed on Tuesday by the
Senate, will, on coming to the House be
referred in the natural course of events to
the Committee on Foreign Affairs. There
it will probably slumber peacefully to a
painless extinction on March 1, for Mr.
Hit. chairman of that committee acting
on the well-known desires of the Presi-
dent will take no steps to report ii to the
House. Thus President Mckinley will be
saved from making the disclosure of his
plans for the Philippines that would be
made il he should either sign or veto the
resolution.
The McRae amendment differs from the
McEnery resolution, passed by the Senate.
in some important respects. The latter
does not provide for independence for the
Philippines ut ALL but merely denies Amer
lean citizenship TO the Filipinos. leaving
the United States free to refuse the free
importation Of goods from those islands
The former. on the contrary does declare
for independence of the islands at some
time in the future, and is therefore nearer
to the ideas of the Speaker
Those who profess to be informed on the
subject assume that the amendment will
not be ruled out II may be voted down,
of course, but, the Speaker approving il
is unlikely that even this will be done.
though there may be much discussion on
the subject.
Thus the chances are that it will go to
the President as a part of one of the great
supply bills which he must sign or. in de
fault thereof must call an extra session.
One alternative remains. If the Presi-
dent choose rather TO pass on the Nc
Emery resolution. Mr.. Hit may report it
and the House may adopt it instead OF the
McRae amendment.
The times., 1899-02-16
THE LYNN CANAL QUESTION
However Decided. II Will Not Break
Treaty Negotiations.

The members OF the Joint High Commits
sion were late in assembling yesterday
morning at the Arlington, and when they
did meet, at IL o'clock, the Canadian mem
bers remained only about five minutes The
American Commissioners then went into
conference and remained until a little af-
ter u O'Clock, when an adjournment was
taken until > o'clock in the afternoon. Fol
lowing their usual custom, the respective
chairmen Lord Herschell and Senator
Fairbanks, would make no statement re-
garding the question under discussion at
the morning conference.
The information published yesterday that
the supreme question now is that of grant
ing 10 Canada a port on the Lynn Canal,
Alaska, was not denied, however. and there
is additional evidence that the report is
correct. The impression still prevails that
although the British and Canadian mem
bers have delivered something like an ul-
timatum in the matter of the Lynn Canal,
the question, If decided adversely by the
American Commissioners, will not be al
lowed TO disrupt the negotiations for a
treaty between the two countries. Sena-
tor Fairbanks, president of the American
Commission, said after the meeting yester-
day morning:
II do not anticipate a breaking off of
negotiations, and failure OF the results
which We are striving for Is not to be
mentioned now. We continue our meetings
tomorrow. More than this | cannot say"
Representatives of the lumber trade are
here again from all points IN the United
States, and will make a determined at
tempt to have the question OF the lumber
tariff definitely settled before the final ad-
journment OF the Commission. II any re
suit of a conclusive nature were reached at
the late afternoon session of the Ameri-
can Commissioners none OF the members
would make the fact known. The meet
ing lasted for about an hour and AT ths
close Chairman Fairbanks said there was
nothing to announce except that the full
Commission would reassemble at 10 O'Clock
today for a joint discussion OF the ques-
tion involved
The times., 1899-02-16
When this reached the Major General
Commanding he again endorsed it. stating:
AGoNCILLo IS HOPEFUL.
FiIipinos VIII Do Better Fighting
in the Interior.

Montreal, Feb. 15.-The departure for
Liverpool of Senior Luna, one of the Fhil-
ippine delegation. was thought to have
some significance, but AgoncilIo said to-
day that it was simply a private matter,
Senior Luna not having any mission to
the delegation at London. He also MED
that he had any intention at the present,
at least, of appealing to the European
powers on behalf of the independence of
the Philippines. That is newspaper ru-
NOR. you know" he said, induigently.
There is nothing new in the situation for
the present, so far as l know
With regard to the capture of IIoilo,
Agoncillo said that was an easy matter.
so far as the guns of the American men,
of-war can carry they certainly win their
way. The case is different when it comes
to taking possession of and retaining in
land points which the Filipinos are Defend
ing. OF course We can offer no opposition
along the coast, the towns of which are
practically at the mercy OF the american
men-of-war, but the case will be different
in the interior"
Asked as to the equipment which the
Filipinos possessed, Agoncillo said that
when they first undertook to start a reyo-
luton against Spain they did not take the
field without due preparation. They had
field guns and Remington and Mauser
rifles. and during the course of the re-
bellion they had captured great quantity
of material from the Spaniards which they
were now putting to good use. According
ly, when 1t came to stand-up fighting rath-
er than the bombardment OF defenceIess
towns. the Filipinos would be able to rem
der good account of themselves. The
fact that the Filipinos knew they were
virtually defenceless along the coast towns
was another reason why the latter would
not precipitate hostiIitiss
The times., 1899-02-16
Returning to R0ost.

From the Philadelphia Ledger
The National PT0ysiannr,' which appears to be
a spokesman for the beef packers, has gone to
rhuch trouble 10 prove, 10 its own satisfaction,
that the beef served TO the army was all right
when it left Chicago and that no dceterious sub.
stances were used TO preserve it. Granting all
this. it IS still fact that much OF the beef served
TO the army was totally unfit for food. There is
cloud Of witnesses who testify that il had 10 be
buried in the ground thrown overheard at sea,
and their testimony cannot he eainsaid. II the
becf was good when packed it bad when dis
tributed and II is the business Of the Commissary
Department TO explain why this was the case, and
why it did not give the men proper food. The
real enquiry thus comes back to Secretary Algcr
and his immediate sllbordinatcs
The times., 1899-02-16
THE sHER1DAN's MANILA TRIP.
She VIII Get Away Today II Troops
Arri:c.

New York, Feb. 15.-The transport sher-
idan will sail tomorrow afternoon for Ma
Mia, provided the troops now en- route
shall Rave arrived by tomorrow morning.
The battalion of the Seventeenth Infantry
assigned to the Sheridan left Columbus.
Ohio. at p. m. Tuesday. With this bat
talon are the headquarters non-commis-
stoned staff and the band. II was said ar
the Army Building this afternoon that
when last heard from the eight companies
Of the Twelfth, en- route from Jackson Bar
racks, Mo, were delayed at Cumberland.
Md. Besides the troops regularly assigned
the Sheridan will carry twenty seven pri-
Yates distributed among the Twentieth,
Fourth. and Third Infantry. who were left
behind from former expeditions
The times., 1899-02-16
EXTENSION OF LINES.
The Capital Traction Not to Acquire
IntersectinE ROnhs.

trict Committee held yesterday afternoon
a favorable report was authorized on House
bill 5000. authorizing and requiring certain
extensions to be made to the lines of
the Capital Traction Company.
This bill was hung up in the Senate
last session by an amendment offered by
Mr.. Pettigrew which provided for the ac-
quirement of the property by the District
or Government after a period of years. The
bill was ordered reported yesterday with
but one amendment previously offered in
the Senate by Mr.. Pettigrew as a separate
bill which takes from the company the
right to acquire intersecting lines. Speedy
action will be secured for the bill if pos
sible.
The times., 1899-02-16
GEN. MILLER PROMOTED.
The Presidents Recognition of His
Conduct at IIOiIo.

Gen. Marcus P. Miller commander of the
expedition against Iloilo, was yesterday
nominated by President Mckinley 10 be
brigadier general in the regular army in
recognition of his conspicuous services in
the Philippine campaign. General Miller,
while in command of brigade in the vol
unteer army, was only a colonel OF artil
lery in the regular army. He takes the
place made vacant by the retirement of
Brigadier General Sinclair.
General Miller will retire as brigadier
general from the regular army by reason
of the age limit on March q of this year.
This will not affect his status in the vol
unteer army, however, and the President
may retain his services as long as he may
deem it necessary. 1t is probable in view
of General Miller's distinguished service
and the capability he has shown. that he
will be retained in the Philippines until
affairs there have assumed a more peace
full aspect.
The times., 1899-02-16
THE LAWS OF ALASKA.
Mr. Carter Fails In an Attempt to
Call Up the COdtGcution Bill.

An effort was made by Mr.. Carter at 5
o'clock in the Senate yesterday to obtain
unanimous consent TO have the bill con-
tanning the codification of the laws OF
Alaska taken up and read the first time.
The bill contains nearly 700 pages ayd OBJ
lection was made.
Mr.. Hoar created some surprise and no
little debate by suggesting that the bill be
passed without being read except by its
title. In making this suggestion he called
attention to the passage of the Revised
Statutes, which he said passed both houses
without Il formal reading. After the
question had been debated for an hour Mr..
Carter moved for an adjournment.
The times., 1899-02-16

The promotion of Col. Marcus p Mil
Ter to be brigadier general of the reg
ulsr army is fully warranted, not only by
his former honorable record, but especially
by his latest achievements. He was sent
to Iloilo, where he arrived after the per-
idous surrender of the town to the insur-
gents. To hold his command in self-re-
straint in the presence of an insolent and
eXasperating enemy; to keep his men in
perfect control while crowded on uncom-
Portable transports for weeks, and to cap
ture the stronghold without a serious cas-
ualty, called for military qualities of the
highest order. There is not an officer in
the army but Will applaud the Presidents
action.
The times., 1899-02-16

The Spaniards could not have done bet
ter yesterday than to remember the Maine.
1t should sink deep in their minds that
such an act of treachery has its prompt
and terrible penalty.
The times., 1899-02-16
Presidential Appointments

The following nominations were sent TO
the Senate by the President yesterday:
STATE
SAMUEL J. BARRQWs. OF Massachusetts,, to be
Librarian of Congress.
TREASURY.
GEORGE ". WILSON, oi Ohio now Dcrutv Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, to be Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue
WESTON +. MIILlkEN, of Maine to bc collector
Of customs for the district Of Portland and
Falmouth, Me.
WAR
col. MARCUS P. MILLER, Third ARTILLERY, to be
hrigadcr general.
WILLIAM Is. PARKER, private. Company H. First
Infantry, 20 he second lieutenant.
fOSTMASrERs
GEORGE sPALDfNG. Monroe. Mich
=. i. MARCH, lEilsdile, Mich.
INTERIOR.
DAVID l.. GEYER ri New Mexico. To be- receiver
ut public moneys at Roswell, n N.
Postmaster spniding.
General Spalding, who was named us
postmaster at Monroe, Mich. yesterday. is
at present Representative in Congress
from the Second District OF that State and
is serving his second term. lie was de-
feated for denomination last year, aud viii,
on The ith OF March next retire from Con-
gress There were "a great many appli-
cants for the position, and II is said that
one of those who desired the Office has the
endorsement OF General Spalding for the
60, but this was given before he was
defeated for denomination Since that
time he has been AN applicant The OF
ilce pays s., 600 per year.
The times., 1899-02-16

The situation caused by the hanging up
Of the army bill is serious, but it should
be worth a good deal for the Administra-
tion to learn that it does not pay to force
Mr.. Ayers ideas on a Congress that is
ready and willing to sustain it in all fair
Ways
The times., 1899-02-16

tFrom the Cleveland Plain Dealrrl
CITY Editor Mother page to file, and absolute
ly nothing worth printing to hl it,
Managing Editor-Wel, tell Tmmins and Me
Cracken and Reepsnider and Fogarty to go 10
their desks and grind out another full-paee in
terSiew with Chaunce Depew
The times., 1899-02-16
Worse Than sheoI.

From the Manchester uniOn)
War even in modern times is even worse than
General sherman expressed If. The Alger Relief
Commission has deiiberated and said that all the
sickness and deaths OF the mobilizing camps were
absolutely necessary.
The times., 1899-02-16
s Spoiled Isnpressinn.

bINhl 'lit 'hithto Nt"NJ
'Whlt your first impression OF chicaR1P'
~ don't know chunk oi mud spla-hed iHtp
my best eye Just my first impression and
about TO meet"
The times., 1899-02-16
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-01
BY SURGICAL SKILL.
Successful Case of Trephining on a
Paralytic.

Geneva, N. Y, July 1-Surgeons IN
this vicinity are watching with great
interest the case of Eugene Brace of
Oaks Corners. who, through an opera
ton on the brain in the city hospital
here last Friday, has regained the pow
er of speech. recovered his memory and
has been relieved of paralysis of the
right side.
While repairing a barn on April 49,
Brace was struck on the left side of
the head by a falling timber He was
slightly stunned. but rallied in a few
minutes and resumed his work. The
skull was not fractured and except for
a large bump where the timber struck,
there were no immediate iIl-effects from
the injury
Physicians decided, however, that he
had received injuries that would ulti-
mately prove fatal if they did not re-
ceive proper attention. About three
weeks ago Brace found that he was
losing his memory and could not re-
member words, and one day he forgot
his name. Soon afterward he lost the
power of speech and gradually his
whole right side became completely
paralyZed.
DR.. Church of Oaks Corners, Braces
physician, called Dr. Covert and DR..
Skinner of this city, in consultation.
The seat of the trouble was located in
the motor tract of the left side of the
brain. An operation was deemed neceS-
sary and last Friday Brace was placed
on the operating table of the Geneva
city hospital.
As there was no fracture, it was nee
essary for DR.. Skinner, who performed
the operation. to cut through the skull,
and as soon as this was done the dag
nOsiS made at the consultation was
proved to be correct.
A blood vessel in the brain had been
ruptured by the falling timber. A little
more than a half pint of blood clots and
other matter was removed from the left
side of the brain cavity.
The effect OF the operation was ap-
parent almost as soon as Mr.. Brace
was restored from the influence of anes-
theties. He has already regained his
memory and power of speech and the
free use of the entire right side, and is
making rapid progress toward recov-
cry.