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El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-23
ONE SWEDE
ENDURED at the FL pdSo PoStOffiCe
For Mail

A Swede lcalled at the postoffice Sat
urday afternoon and asked Colonel
Bob Campbell if he had letter for one
Swedish man.
s.What is the name?' asked the col
opel.
''Mv name is on the letter." answer
ed the Swede promptly and so sudden
ly that the postmaster's breath was
nearly taken away.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-23

The latest designs in calenders fol
1900 to be had at the HERALD Office.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-23

Get one of those bargains in poke
books at Twins.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-23

DAILY HERALD $50 per week.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07
SLAP 1T CIYJL SERJICE REFORM.
Appropriation for the Work stricken
Out In the House.

washington, Jan. 6.-The anti-civil
service reformers scored victory in
the house to-day The legislative, exec
utive and judicial appropriation bills
were taken up for consideration and
when the appropriation for civil service
was reached Mr.. Evans made motion
to strike it out. This motion has been
made annually for a dozen years or
more, but has invariably failed. But
to-day the opponents of the law laid
great stress on the fact that they could
not get a direct vote upon the PROPOSE
ton and were therefore compelled to
seek it's notification in this manner.
Even these appeals failed to bring out
the full strength of the opposition,
though the motion to strike was carried
by a narrow majorty-67-61. This was
in committee of the whole, where no
record is made of the vote. Mr.. Moody
gave notice that he would demand Il
record vote in the house, where the
friends of the civil service law expect
to reverse the decision. Those advocat-
ing the motion to strike out were:
Messrs. Evans, Grosvenor, Hepburn,
Linney, Brown and Marsh. Its oppon-
ents We're Messrs. Hopkins, Fleming
Brosus, Henderson and Dolliver Dur
ing general debate on the bill Mr..
Swanson, dem, of Georgia, delivered
q speech on anti-imperialism.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07
no PROMOTE POLICEMEN.
Commissioners Have Decided to Make
Announcements In Grades,

The police commissioners have de-
cfded to take a step within the next
two months which will be of consider
able interest to the patrolmen of the
department. 1t was less than a year
ago when the old system Of time grad
1 ing was dropped and the new system
| Of grading according to general eftl-
! cheney was adopted Under the old sys-
TEN all patrolmen were, upon entering
| the department, placed in grade e, the
| lowest grade, and then after certain
| prescribed terms of service there was
! advancement of grade until the man
reached the highest grade, which was
A, and received the salary of that grade
SO per day.
| When the new system of grading went
into effect there was much dissatisfac-
tion among the patrolmen, many think
ing that they We're not placed in the
grade to which their efficiency ana SER
vice entitled them. 1t was then charged
that the members of the police board,
although they had professed abhorrence
of the old system of being influenced in
advancement of the men and appoint
ment to the department n tie score of
political and personal favoritism, had
nevertheless been influenced by such
favoritism in the regarding. Now the
commissioners have decided to make
wholesa advancement in grades and
member of the board stated last night
that about forty patromen would
probably be promoted. The board an
nounced at the time of the regarding
that all subsequent advancements
would be for meritoriouS work alone
and those to be promoted now are those
who have been commended to the board
by the superintendent for meritorious
performance of duty, together with
some men whom the commissioners
claim to have observed as being en-
titled to promotion for faithful atten-
tion to duty.
The general dissatisfaction among the
patrolmen as to the regarding has about
subsided and now all are placed on the
qui vive again, wondering to whom ad-
Nancements Of grade will fall The
promotions will p; oDabiy not be made at
tie next meeting of the board and prob
ably not this month, but it is expected
that they will be made next month.
There are various rumors as to retire
ments and other changes in the depart
ment to be brought about before the
personnel of the present board is
changed in July next, when two of the
present commissioners retire from Of
flee. but nothing definite in regard to
these has yet been decided upon.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07
HARV4RD UNIVERSITY cA1AL0GUE
Total Enrolment of Students of 4,66O-
Radcliffe Not Included.

Cambridge, Mass, Jan. 6.-The Har-
ward university catalogue, which Will
appear tomorrow, shows total en-
rollment Of 4,660 students, increasing
the enrolment of the summer school
by 81 The number Of teachers is At
or seven more than last year. The
registration in the college alone is 1851
or 80 more than in 1S97-9S. The large
professional department of medicine
and law have about held their own In
spite of raised requirements for enlist
ment. Radcliffe college, which is not
included in the total enrolment, has ALL
students against 413 last year. As
Radcliffe students are taught entirely
by Harvard instructors, the total num-
Der of pupils obtaining Harvard in
struction may be said to be 5,O71. This
is the first time that this figure has
passed the 5000 mark. The number Of
money scholarships available this year
in the college, scientific and graduate
departments is 206, with total income
OF $44201.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07
A REG4TTf 1T H.4T.lN.A,
Held by American Tars-Mnny Guests
on the Texas,

Havana, Jan. 6.-There was a man-of-
war regatta here this afternoon. Can
tain Sigsbee had thousand guests on
board the United States battleship Tex
as to witness the regatta. Punch was
served and there was dancing. The
race for ten-oared cutters, marines, in
competition for the purse offered by the
owners of the yacht Coronet, was won
by the Brooklyn. The race for -oared
gigs, for the American club cup was
won by the Arethusia. The race for
ten-oared cutters, firemen, for a purse
offered by the Coronet was won by the
Texas. The race for four-oared dinges
for a Coronet prize was won by the
Brooklyn. The race for ten cared cut
ters for the cup offered by C. w. Law
ton Childs and other local bankers, was
won by the Texas.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07
MR.. DTNGLEY rs WORSE.
Marked Change Last Nfght-Little Hope
of ReCOYerY.

Washington, Jan. 6.-The condition of
Representative Dingley, who has bsen
Ill with pneumonia for almost week,
hos undergone & marked change for the
worse, and tonight physicians held out
little, if any hope for recovery. AL
though the cough has lessened the ef-
feet of the pneumonia has so weakened
the system as to decrease the vitality
to an alarming extent. The poison
from the disease has permeated the
whole system, which renders It less po-
tent to stand the terrible strain. Much
Of the day the patient was deirious
and appeared to be uttering extracts
from speeches he has made on the tariff
question in the house of representa-
tives. He was conscious only when
aroused. The physicians say there
must be a radical change one way or
another very soon.
At a. m. there had been no ma
terial change in Mr.. Dingley's condi-
ton. ;,
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07
Death of Mrs. Martha G, Read.

Mrs. Martha C. Read, widow of the
late Ezra C. Read, died yesterday af-
ternoon at her residence, It's Whitney
avenue, the home of her daughter Mrs
Francis Wayland. Her husband, Ezra
c, Read, was for many years member
of one of the leading jewelry firms in
New York city. Later in life he re-
moved to New Haven and built here the
beautiful residence on Whitney avenue
where Mrs. Read died. During the lat
ter part of his life Mr.. Read was presi-
dent of the City bank of New Haven.
Mrs. Read was tenderly cared for in
her declining years by her daughter,
Mrs. Wayland. She was woman who
was held in high esteem by all who
knew her, and was wonderfully vigor-
Gus for one of her age-Ilinety -four
years. The funeral services will be
held at her late residence, No. 175 Whit
ney avenue next Monday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07
BELL TELEPHONE INTER ESTS.
Belief That Eventually All Companies
In Country VIII Combine,

Cleveland, Jan. 6--James X. McKins-
ley general manager Of the Cleveland
Telephone company, which has lust alb
sorbed all of the Bell Telephone com
panies in Michigan, stated to-day that
eventually he believed all of the Bell
Telephone companies throughout the
country would be consolidated into one
great organization The Cleveland Tel
ephone company now controls all the
Bell interests in Minnesota Arkansas,
North Dakota, South Dakota Michigan
and the city of Cleveland. "As a mat
ter of economy, If for no other reason"
said he, Il think sooner or later all the
companies working under Bell licenses
will be combined into one great corpor-
alton, just as all of the several tele-
graph companies of this country were
merged into the Western Union COM
pany a quarter of century or more
ago. l have no official knowledge that
this is at present being considered but
there Is natural tendency toward such
a movement, and 1t is, in my opinion,
bound to come
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07
CIBINET MEETING.


Washington, Jan. 6.-The cabinet to-
day gave special consdera ton to the
administration of affairs in Cuba. There
seems to be misunderstanding be-
tween some of the people of Santiago
as to the policy of the government with
respect to the expenditure of money
collected from internal revenue and
customs sources 1t is not believed that
General Wood misunderstands the pur
poses of the government. but in any
event nothing will be done in the mat
ter until General Wood arrives here.
Then an effort will be made to arrive
at some general plan. 1t seems certain
that all moneys disbursed must come
through a central head and that under
no circumstances can any particular
city or section be allowed to expend all
of its collections to the neglect of
other sections General Wood, however,
will receive a proper and probably suf-
ficient allowance for Santiago provi-
dence. Nothing of special interest has
been received by the government from
Iloilo.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07
CROKER FAVoRs EXPANSION.
A Patriotic Policy and Only Safe One to
Pursued


New York, Jan. 6.-Richard Croke
| has given out the following statement
II believe in expansion; l believe II
! holding whatever possessions we have
gained by annexation, purchase or war
This policy is not only patriotic, bu
| it is the only safe one to pursue. JEFF
ferson was an expansionst otherwise
he would not have favored the acquisi'
tion of Louisiana, with its foreign
population, which in Jefferson's time
was quite as remote as the Philippines
In this age of steam and electricity
distance is no argument against ex-
pansion. We spend millions annually
for missionary work in foreign coun-
tries, now we have a chance to spend
this money in our own possessions and
make the people of our new lands, good
law-abiding citizens, who in time will
be loyal to our constitution and our
flag. Take England, for example. The
people of this little isle come pretty
near owning the Universe. Are not our
people as intelligent, as powerful and
as patriotic as the English people? The
earth superior to the English. Why
not illustrate. to the world that we are
fully able to cope with greater problems
than we have had occasion to in the
past and in the future dominate any
emergency!
I'VE have a population of eighty mil
lions of people; the country teens with
young men full of life, hope and ambi-
ton. Why not give these young men a
chance to develop our newly acquired
possessions, and build up a country RI
valling in grandeur and patriotism our
own United States 1t is an insult to
the American people and to our flag
even to suggest that we abandon the
peoples we have released from bondage
or what would be more disgraceful,
that we should offer to sell them to the
highest bidder. Such proposition
places the American people in the same
category with the Chinese, who have
neither patriotism nor a foreign policy
and are in consequence utilized as
door mat by the powers of the world.
This is too great question to be con-
sidered as mere matter of dollars and
cents. Our people want their rights
protected, they will not figure on the
cost. Bring it down to local govern
ment in the case Of street cleaning. The
cry Is I'VE want clean streets regard
less Of cost" Just so with our possess
sions, the people want the properties
acquired by war protected They will
pay for a standing army, a powerful
navy and the protection of our flag the
world over regardless of any monetary
consideration. They have proved their
willingness sto sacrifice their blood for
the honor of their country and their
flag. And when the question is brought
to an issue they will arise as one man
and demand expansion as citizens
sacred right.
II think the 16 to ! question as out
lined in the Chicago platform. de-
cidedly dead issue. This was fully dem
onstrated in the last election We did
not embody the 16 to 1 question in our
platform, and the result is that we
elected every one of our congressman"
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07
4 R4MTE DEFIBR4TOR.


Cleveland, Jan. o.-W. II. Packer of
this city has invented ramie defbrator
which is said to be a success and will,
it is believed, revolutionize the manu-
facture of fabrics. Other inventors
have been at work on a machine of the
same kind for thirty years, but al
though large amounts of money have
been expended and premiums have been
offered by governments, they have not
been successful. The Packer machine
can be operated by boy and has ca
pacity of four hundred pounds a day.
The capacity of the machine can be in
creased according to requirements. Ra-
mie, which has grown very largely in
South America and the southern states,
is a possible substitute for cotton, fax
and silk. The fabric produced from it
is the strongest in the world.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07
THE 1ABOR TRoUBLE At PANA.
Eighteen Italians from Chicago to he
Returned by Miners.

Pana, ILL.,, Jan. 6.-Eighteen Italians
have arrived here from Chicago. 1t is
said that ten of the leading coal opera
tors have procured the services of labor
agencies to hire Italians to work in the
Pana mines. The operators are appar-
emily becoming dissatisfied with the ne
groes brought here from Alabama, so
many of the negroes proving shiftless
and turbulent The Italians on arrival
We're met by a committee of union min
ers and escorted to the union headquar-
ters. The Italians seemed to be greatly
surprised on learning of the strike and
refused to work with the negroes. The
Miners union and citizens are making
up a purse and will return the Italians
to Chicago.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07
THE SITUATION IN HAVANA
GEN. BROOKE INTESIIG4TINGT THE
EDUCATIONAL QUESTION.
Diplomas Ofthe University of Havana
Graduates Taxed $3.50 Each for Them
Orders That the Tax be Abolished


| Havana Jan. 6.-General Brooke is
| penetrating the fringe of the education
al question To-day he learned that di-
| plomas to graduates of the University
| OF Havana were signed under the late
regime by the captain general and sub
jected to a tax of $3.50 each. He has
caused instructions to the rector of the
university and the directors to grant
diplomas hereafter without a diploma
tax Three hundred young men are
now in attendance at the university. At
the request of General Brooke the Bank
of Spain has reported as to the amount
of the primary school funds it holds on
deposit The bank has $35, 200 in paper
currency, worth about six cents on the
dollar, $101 in silver and $77 in bronze.
The teachers have been unpaid for a
long time, the arrears varying in indi-
vidual cases according to political in
1luence.
Nothing can be done at present for
education, sanitation or road building.
Everything must wait until Generals
bIUOhe anu luulON anu lIelI Sldll GeiIl
get definite grasp of perplexing stua-
tions. There is an innumerable COM
pany Of volunteer advisers always
available, always suggesting tearing up
everything and substituting something
new. The courts are an intricate sub
ject. Probably one or two Cuban law
yers will be retained to aid Judge Ad-
vocate Dudley in preparing plant for
a supreme court to act as tribunal of
last resort.
Colonel Manuel Gisauta, secretary of
the Spanish evacuation commission,
called with General Clous upon Cover
nor General Brooke to-day. He remains
here to settled some trifling points in
connection with the evacuation. Gener-
al Maxine Gomez has arrived at Rene
dlos. General Jose MIGUEL Gomez SAIL
ed for New York to-day. The I'd Hi
nois battalion under Major w. P. Du-
zenbery now at Cienfuegos, where
Major Duzenbery raised the United
States flag on Tuesday, will soon re-
turn to Havana province, for service
under Major General Lee. Colonel
Mabry's body has been placed tempo
rarily in a vault at Colon cemetery.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07
SALISBURY TO THE CzAR
BRITISH PREMIER'S REPLY TO THE
DIS4ElTAMENT PROPOSAL.
Emperor Assured of Great Britain's $
Cordial sympathy and Support-Per-
fectiOn of War Instruments De-
terrent of War but Burdens Imposed
on People Must Soon Cause Unrest.

London, Jan. 6.-The reply of Lore
Salisbury to the proposal of Emperor
Nicholas for a disarmament conference
of the powers has just been published
In the course of the reply, which was
| transmitted through the Rt. Hon. Sil
Charles Stewart Scott, British ambas'
sador at ST. Petersburg, Lord Salisbury
assures the czar of the government
cordial sympathy. He goes on to say
This sympathy is not confined to the
government but is equally shared by
popular opinion, which has been strik-
( ingly manifested by the numerous res
olutions adopted by public meetings
and societies. There are indeed few
actions, if any, which, both on grounds
of feeling and interest, are more con-
cerned in the maintenance of general
peace than Great Britain. The state
ments which constitute the grounds of
the emperors proposal are but too well
justified. 1t is unfortunately true that
peace is generally professed, and while
in fact serious and successful efforts
on more than one recent occasion have
been made with that object by the great
powers, there has been constant ten
dency on the part of almost every ma
ton to increase its armed force and add
to the already vast expenditure on the
appliances of war.
THE perfection of the instruments
thus brought into use, their extreme
costliness and the horrible carnage and
destruction which would ensue from
their employment on a large scale have
acted, no doubt, as a serious deterrent
from war, but the burdens imposed by
this process on the populations affected
must, if prolonged, produce feeling of
unrest and discomfort, menacing to both
internal and external tranquility. Her
majesty's government will gladly CO.
operate with the proposed effort to pro
vide a remedy for the evil and, if in
any degree it succeeds, they feel that
the sovereign to whose suggestion 1t Is
due will have richly earned the graft
tude of the world at large" Lord Sal
isbury then proposes that a delegation
and representative will take in the
proposed conference whenever the invl-
tation is received and expressed the
hope that the invitation may b. accom-
panied by some indication Of the special
points to which the attention of the
Is to be directed as guide
in the selection of British represen-
tative.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07

Washington, Jan. 6-The investiga-
ton Instituted by General Miles through
the inspector generals office as to the
quality of beef furnished the troops in
the field is progressing. Letters have
been addressed to all inspectors in the
field, but the replies so far received
have contained chiefly negative inform
alton. The investigation will be thor
ough, however, and from it's nature and
method of procedure it is expected to
produce a large amount Of informa-
ton.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07

Speech of Senator Caffery- Bounds of
Abode Set by God.

Washington, Jan. Elm the senate to-
day Mr.. Caffery, in speaking against
the policy of expansion, entered upon
an elaborate argument to show that
heretofore it had been the unwavering
policy of this government to obtain
from the governed their consent before
the reins of government We're drawn
over them. Mr.. Caffery said that even
if we had the right to incorporate dis
tant islands, inha abited by strange
people, into this country, freedom could
not exist in the sub-tropics. The his
tory of the world shows that God has
set the bounds where the different peo-
pies of the earth shall abide When
looking at the conditions of the world
he was unalterably convinced that no
permanent sway can be held by the
white man over the black man in the
sub-tropics, except by a strong military
and cruel despotism. Mr.. Caffery said
that we were sometimes told from the
pulpit that we had a mission to per-
form, that mission being to spread
among all peoples the doctrines of hu-
man rights. He doubted whether this
could be done by placing upon the peo-
pie a yoke and whether the principles
of Christianity could be advanced by
force
In the early part of the session the
resolution offered by Mr.. Hoar, calling
on the president for information as to
the instructions to the commissioners
who negotiated the treaty at Paris, to-
gether with all correspondence and re-
ports relating to their work, was laid
before the senate. Chairman Davis,
one of the commissioners, desired that
it be referred to the foreign relations
committee, but Mr.. Hoar insisted that
the senate had as much right to the re-
port as the foreign relations committee.
At the close of Mr.. Caffery's argument
Mr.. Morgan announced on behalf of the
canal commissioners the ac-
ceptance, in a modified FORM of the
offered by Mr.. Berry. The
We're not passed upon.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07
CHARGES OF CORRUPTION.


Jefferson City, Mo-, jan 6.-In the
senate to-day Senator Pike introduced
resolution which was adopted by ac-
clamation providing for the appoint
ment of committee to investigate
every department of the municipal and
state government officers in ST. Louis.
The resolution recites that numerous
reports have been in circulation charg-
ing corruption and dishonesty in the
administration of these officers.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-07
Death ofan Aged Lady,

The mother of A. B. Hendryx, the
well known Audubon street nlanufact-
in the ninety year of her age.
She was a most estimable old woman
and was held in the highest esteem by
a large circle of friends. She had up to
very recently been very active for one
of her years, but had lately declined
and died of a general breaking up of
the vital powers due to her advanced
age. She leaves two sons, Andrew B.
HendryX and Harry e. HendryX