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New-York tribune., 1900-12-10
rGR4W GETS HIS FRANCHISE
sIeNs TEN YEAR CONTRACT WITH THE A,tpe-
EcAH BASEBALL LEAGUE.

EcAN BASEBALL LEAGUE.
Baltimore, Dec. (speeiaD-John McGraw has
hnaliy severed his connection with the Na+io,.l
Baseball League by signing a ten wear co-,ra.
With Ban johnson. which gives him control ~ ,t
baltimore franchise in the new American Fs..h.I
league Tor that length OF time McGraw declares
1iat under the contract he made last season with
hooson, of ST. Louis. ne was entirely free AZ the
.Onesi1slon OF the season and that Robson had M
players. O'ie l's reserved
~ ms action tonight McCsraW throU-s dom, -.
gauntlet 20 the National league naVnafes -
S SsSs = y can examine his contract as well as he
Tesu ue Jaws. and he denes them 10 fnd anV regt,la
@ Loa Nnieh can hold him or place any club working
~uuoer ~ the National agreement under any oblieatio1
- ltsIeet fsonlson's reservations. McCiraW furtbeT
sek7 llat ne IA not looking for trouble or a hase.
neu Naf. II the National League insists on TT5ie
1Ehs e"e u ready 10
New-York tribune., 1900-12-10

Congressman John ]. Gardner has had one po-
litical honor which Atlantic County has possessed
but i'm the history of New-Jersey. and that Is
the office of president OF the State Senate. Those
who knew him then. will remember that he was
as unique a personality in that place the late
William A Stiles was as the only Secretary OF the
Senate that chosen from Sussex County
New-York tribune., 1900-12-10

Edward w woolley, Assistant Postmaster Of Jer-
sey City and for several years the chairman Of
the Hudson County Republican Committee, prob
ably will be his own successor. majority OF the
recently chosen members OF the committee have
expressed themselves being I'm favor of Mr.
WOOley's reelection.
New-York tribune., 1900-12-10
E Nam~k &hu

Holiday repeated holly and bells and
chimes church and organn will be ready for this Mo
all and branch Candy
sT--t-wll be opened this morning
added Gallery Fifth
Holiday goods will be found the F no
great opened in the Carpet Store
The age-herald., 1900-01-17
PHILIPPINE COMMISSION
Has Completed Its Report ard it is in
 Printers Hands

Washington, January 16.-The Philippine commission today completed it's report and distributed 1t to the public printer Proofs of the first section are expected tomorrow and there is reason to believe that the first volume of the book can be laid before con- gress within a week.
 The report is divided into several vol umes. One interesting feature will be a splendid atlas of the Philippine archipelago, specially prepared for the commission by the Jesuits.
 The first volume is devoted to the politi- cal issues involved in the acquisition of the Philippines. It describes the government under three heads: First, that existing in Spanish times; second, the reforms desired by competent Filipinos under that system; third. the plan of government suggested by the commission on the basis of their experience, in setting out the aspirations Of the Filipinos Themselves.
 The second volume will be devoted to the resources of the island, and these are suf- an entire volume in their descriptions Other volumes will follow containing the great mass of testimony taen by the com mission. Altogether, the commission feels that it has covered the ground with great tboroughness, and It's information has come from all sources the facts set out fa hle report it believes cannot be con tloverted.
The age-herald., 1900-01-17
Coy. Iohrston's Memorandum.

Col E. L. Russell, an university trustee who. offered and voted for a resolution re- questing the trustees to investigate the land deal. attempts to correct the Mobile Regis ter, and in doing so he falls into an error fimself-an error on which his entire letter is predicated. MT. Russell says:
 'Now, no one will dispute the following facts: At the last meeting of the trustees it was disclosed that Governor Johnston wrote note to the Hon. w. c. Fits, and sent it to him by Dr. Powers, president of the university; gave him the sections of the land that were afterwards sold, and asked him to investigate and post himself as to the character and value of these lands, so as to be able, when the trustees met five days afterward, to furnish to the trustees all necessary information concern dng the location and value of the lands"
 Mir. Russell has permitted his zeal in the land deal controversy to carry him from what was to what should have been and MT. Fitts and Dr. Powers, who alone were direct participants, should correct him. The Reg1Ster, Tn its frfendlineSS for Mir. Russell, which is shared by the entire state, falls into the error by accepting at once MT Russell's statement, thus turing a se- cret matter into an open one by showing that there was a letter from Governor Johnston, before the sale, which explained the proposed deal, and negatived its secrecy
 on Land Commissioner Fits, he will tell them, as he did the trustees, that he had no note or letter from Governor Johnston he will at the same time, no doubt, show them, as he did the trustees on December 20, a slip of paper without head or tai date or explanation containing some town ship and range, but no section numbers. Dr. Powers told Land Commissioner Fitts that this bare memorandum came from Governor Johnston, with a message to ''post" himself about the university lands included therein.
 There is a wide difference between an off, ficaI letter and a naked slip of paper; but the latter is in entire conformity with the air of secrecy and hush-like stiffness that pervaded this matter until those two great politicians. Dr. Eugene A. Smith and James 1T Fitts. exposed t to the people, plain and otherwise, of the state.
The age-herald., 1900-01-17
ABOUT THE WILEY BoEn

George Lacy, in North American Review.
 I spent quite two years going about from farm to farm with wagon loads of miscel- laneous goods, bartering them for ostrich feathers, ivory, hides, wool, live stock or whatever I could get. I have elsewhere re- lated my experiences on one of these ex- petitions, and must here confine myself to saying that I scarcely ever exposed sam pies of my goods at any farm without at- tempts being made to purloin articles that could be readily concealed. All took part in this. old and young, male and female; and constant watch had to be kept. I once detected a young girl, the daughter of a Boer who was then and long afterward a prominent member of the Free State voks- rad, trying to secrete case of watches under her apron. No shame is evinced on detection; the matter is treated az a good subject for laughter. In purchasing horses and cattle the greatest care had to be ex- ercised No London horse-coper could com pete with the average Boer in the art of passing off broken winded horses or sand cracked trek oxen as sound animalsl Dis honesty extends further still than to mat ters of this kind. A Boer, whisa name is well known to the world, many years ago, when acting president of land com mission for apportioning out farms in the Leydenberg district did my partner out of 36,000 acres of land by as barefaced a piece of knavery as could be conceived. t
The age-herald., 1900-01-17
ENGLISH IN THE HUB

From the Boston Herald.
 Bostonians with the hall mark are pro- verbally queer" therefore when lady told me recently that she never saw the little green horse car" that she didn't get into 1t, whether she wanted to ride or mo- l was not surprised, for such is our local loyalty to Boston institutions. It so hap pened Thursday that another Bostonian. with numerous packages in Her arms boarded the little green car at the Dart mouth street terminus while the horses were nosed toward Bolyston street. The day was bitterly chilly, and standing on that windy corner was worse than sitting in the cold car, but the conductor didn't appreciate the situation. He stuck hs head in the door and volunteered the in- formation: This is as far as we go, lady" Really" rejoined the passenger. Do you never mean to go back?" Then the door was closed, ten minutes passed in freez- ing solitude. and then the horses were turned the other way, and the little green car jlngled norUhward once more.
The age-herald., 1900-01-17
HEARINGS BEFORE THE
 COMMERCE COMMITTEES

Washington. January 16.-Hearings were commission and the house committee on merchant marine on the proposed shipping or subsidiary bill.
 J. c. Hanley. national organizers of the Farmers Alliance and Industrial union, spoke against the bill before the house com mittee. He said the organizations he rep- resented would favor bounties of s12,0 GOO annually on freight outward carried. The plan of subsidies based on speed and ca pacity were ordered. he said, because it would go largely to passenger vessels and large ships, whereas the producers were ln- terested only in having their products go abroad.
 Senator Frye submitted a letter from ex- Senator Edmunds. which follows in part:
 Agreeable to your request have exam ined all the treaties between the United States and other countries on thes ubjeet of ships of other countries being entitled to bounties on expectations if the Unated States should grant bounties to its own ships, etc. The list herewith contains the names of countries where by expansion of our treaties would be entitled to have their
  portation of goods from the United States that the United States may grant ito its own ships Argentine Republic. Australia, Belgium. Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rico, Denmark, Great Britain, Greece, Hayti, Honduras, Italy, Japan, Mercklenberg- Schwerin, Mexico, Netherlands. Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Prussia, Servia, Sweden and Norway
 Mir Edmunds says that under these treaties 'it is impossible for tae United States ito grant export bounties to their own ships without bringing into the bene- fits of the bounty the ships of nearly all the commercial and maritime competitors of the United States, else by the abro- gation of nearly all the treaties above re- ferred to-
 Mir Edmunds further says that eff bounty on exports is to be granted, it must apply to all exports; it must be impartial and universal.
 Mr. Clement A. Griscom, president of the International Navigation company, which owns the American Line steamers, told the senate committee that the New York, St. Paul, St. Louis and Paris never made the company a dollar. He figured the net loss to the company at ,$416,O00 annually. The eleven ships under foreign flags supported the other ships. The fast ships, like the fast trains, did not pay.
 Mir. Griscom continued by saying that the tramp ships and siower freighters would be benefited under this bill, and would maintain the faster ships. He said his company did not propose to go out of fast navigation. They were in, and in- tended to stay.
 In the course of his remarks he said: "I don't wish to make any statement that may appear like a threat but this service of fast ships cannot be continued under the American flag after the experience of our present mail coItract upon the terms under which it is now running, and all hope of continuing the construction of such ships, which proved so useful to the government in the Spanish war, will inevitably cease"
The age-herald., 1900-01-17
OLD CLOTHES FOR ACTORS

From the Ladies' Home Journal.
 It is not alone the fnery of dress that calls for care. Old clothes are harder to get. "Tattered gowns can hardly be made to order To merely tear brand new once will not do. They must be made to look as though worn out. Rubbing and staining usually produce the right effect. The men get over this difficulty in a way that the women will not usually resort to. The ac- tor assigned to the roll of a tramp does not hesitate to buy real tramps suit Wash ing and Immigration will make it safe to wear. If then it looks too clean, he stains and smudges it. But the actress. with the sensitiveness of her sex, will not often put on rags like that She is prone to be fas- tidious, too, in using costumes that have been worn by other actresses.
The age-herald., 1900-01-17
SEIZURE QUESTION
 BEFORE REICHSTAC

Berlin. January a6.-In the reichstag an interpolation by Herr Moeller, national Ilb- eral and all the members of the reichstag except the social democrats and independ- ents was introduced.
 It was as follows:
 What steps have the federal government taken in regard to the seizure of German ships by agents of the English govern ment?"
 In view of the excited state of public opinion concerning the seizures, the inter- pellation will probably be speedily an- swered.
 The Vossische Zeitung, which endorses the views of the Kolniche zeltung, already cabled, respecting the course England should take if she desires to preserve Ger many's friendship, adds
 "The longer England delays the more she loses in German public opinion"
 Several reports are in circulation that Emperor William has been asked by Rus sia, Holland and Belgium to join in an in- tervention movement. While these runners are not entirely without foundation, the emperor remains convinced that Great Britain would net accept mediation at this stage, and on political grounds he holds aloof from any such plan.
 It was asserted today, however, by a high authority that if England much longer de- lays the satisfaction which Germany de- mands, the emperor will join in a coalition to compel her to recognize the commercial rights of the sea- The naval bill reached the bundesrath today. Its contents are substantially as sent recently to double the strength of the navy of Germany.
 The agrarian members of the reichstag have resolved to press the meat inspection bill to a second reading, notwithstanding the urgent expressed wish of Count Won Buelow that the measure should be defer red.
 The king of Saxony the king of Wur- temberg and the grand duke of Baden have conferred the same rights of promotion up- on their technical schools in Dresden, Stuttgart and Carlsrhue, which Prussia has conferred upon her high schools.
The age-herald., 1900-01-17
Hanna's Shipplnu Subsidy Bill.

A big lobby is on hand in Washington pushing before the commerce committees of the two houses the Hanna-Payne bill. This organized loEooy has a score of high priced lawyers at work, headed by Ex-Sen- ator Edmunds, and they are presenting a choice lot of evidence to order. Money in abundance is behind the bill, and money dn this case presents itself in the form of a powerful loi5by.
 This lobby first attempted to capture and work the Federation of Labor and other labor organizations of the country. But the Federation declined their overtures; the confidence game did not work, and reso- luttons were passed condemning the scheme .7n the strongest terms. The National Grange did likewise, and altogether the
The age-herald., 1900-01-17
QUESTION OF POLYGAMY
Senator Rawlins Presents Memoria
 from Lorenzo Snow

Washington, January 16.-Senator Raw 1ins presented to the senate brief memor- ial from President Lorenzo Snow of the Mormon church, on the question of polyg- amy. Mr.-Snow says he is persuaded that there is much misunderstanding upon this question.
 He says that in accordance with the man. ifesto of President Woodruff, of 1S90 the "church has positively abandoned the prac- tice of polygamy or the solemnizing of plural marriages in this state Utah) and every other state, and that no member or officer thereof has any authority whatever to perform a plural marriage or enter such a relation.
 "Nor," he continues, 'does the church ad- wise or encourage unlawful cohabitation on the part of any of it's members. If, there- fore, any member disobeys the law either as to polygamy or unlawful cohabitation he must bear his own burden; or in other words be answerable to the tribunals of the land for his action pertaining thereto
The age-herald., 1900-01-17
THE oRtY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Montana Is But a Type.

If the senate does not wash its hands of line entire Montana business it will stand hopelessly repudiated by the people. Its reputation prior to the opening of the Mon- tana case was none too good. Seats in 1t were known to have been purchased, but there had been in connection with them no open display of $1, 900 bills until the Mon tana case came up.
 The seat should be declared vacant, for Clarks opponent, Marcus Daily, was as openly and brazenly corrupt and demoral- szing as Clark himself was. The people are not interested between them. It was a contest between two copper millionalres, each trying to outbuy and out trick the other. The senate should condemn both in lnmeasured terms. Unless it does so, it will simply put all on notice that sena- torial seats are on sale, and that the title of purchaser will be confirmed. The sem ate itself is much more on trial than Clark himself is.
 The Clark case will work for good in one respect. It will re-condemn legislative selection, and reinforce direct selections by the people. The experience of this coun- try runs towards popular selections in the aggregate of all public servants, even judges. The people would never have put Shiras on the supreme bench, and in every case where popular selections have been tried there has been no retrogrssion.
 It indeed takes no small amount of gall in any small body of to say to the people, You shall not be permitted to se- feet your own representatives. We will select the men, and they will represent you. You are unfit for direct action. You should act through us, your superiors." This is the sum and substance of the policy of legislative selection, and it has put in the senate w. A. Clark, and if that selec- tion is permitted to stand it will fill that hody with bood.ers of one sort or another.
The age-herald., 1900-01-17
American Control of Canal.

The Hepburn bill would, if enacted into law, make the Nicaragua canal rovern- ment enterprise, under the exclusive control or this country. The London papers do not like this feature of the situation. The Morning Post recently said:
 We should deal in a friendly way with the ministers at Washington with a view to securing equality of access and use for tht ships of all powers. We should ask for such form of control as may be found nec- essary in order to secure that equality against all chance of infringement The priciple of freedom of access was fully laid down in the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and-the American government and constructors no doubt set their own interest in agreeing to general equality among all traders using the canal"
 Thies view of the case was supported by the Chronicle, and is fairly representative of public sentiment in and out of office in England. In this country opposition to joint control is unmispeakable. This coun- try will not shoulder the immense cost of an dnteroceanic canal unless it can wholly con- trol it. England would not do SO, TOT would any other country, and this country as- suredly will not
 The Clayton-Bulwer treaty should be ab- rogated, or declared imperative. England has ignored its provisions in at least one in- stance, and this country could perhaps do likewise in relation to a canal But the better way consists in its abrogat.on by mutual agreement. No one in this country desires to discriminate against the vessels of Great Britain or of any other nation; but the control, especially in times of war; must be lodged somewhere and the country that puts money into a canal is the power that should control it. so far as neutrality and all that Is concerned The country that built it would also under all rules of equity and international law be the country that should have full benefit of it as a means of war. Two adversaries would be a poor sort of control Join control is, in other words, impossible; and President Mckinley should obey the senate where it directed him by vote of AS to 6 to procure by ne- gotiatlon an abrogation of the Clayton Bull wer treaty.
The age-herald., 1900-01-17

Hanna schemes are compelled to go before congress with Q subsidy scheme of the oaldest robber-tariff sort.
 Mir. Hanna is of course using official ma chinery to the fullest possible extent Not content with an endorsement of the scheme in the presidents annual message. he is compelling the consular service to send in reports favorable to it through ostens.be countries.
 One of the worst features of the pending Hanna-Payne bill is found in the provision relating to twenty-year contracts, thus binding the government to the payment of subsidies. for a term of twenty years. A fast steamer would in that time receive from the government more than her origi- nal cost. MT. Hanna proposes to prevent the people from taking subsequent repeal action through twenty-year contracts. A more trazen scheme for robbing the many Tor the benefit of few has not been de- vised-not even in the present Mckinley tariff bill.
 Like the recent bank developments in New York, the H2nna-Payne shipping bill ds but an outgrowth of the Hanna slush fund. It is an effort ito pay campaign debts, present and prospective. It and the rotber tariff are companion pieces from the political rogues gallery.
The age-herald., 1900-01-17
LIVE STOCK ASSOCIATION
Five Hundred Delegates Present at the
 Opening

Fort Worth. Tex. January 16.-More than 5,000 delegates faced President John w. Springer, of the National Live Stock asso- citation, when he called that body together in dts second annual conference today. The largest and most representative body of men in the history of the cattle industry are in attendance. Thirty-four states and tenritorfes are represented.
 The delegates were welcomed to Texas by Governor Savers and Mayor Paddock of Fort Worth, bid the visitors welcome in the name of the city.
 President Springer, of the association, then delivered his annual address.
 Secretary Martin followed with the an- nual report of the executive committee.
 A lekter received from Susan B. Anthony with regard to woman suffrage was laid on the table, and will be acted upon later
 In the afternoon there was a discussion as to the condition of the live stock fn- dustry in ple United States, delegates be- ing limited to five minutes each.
The age-herald., 1900-01-17
LONGING NOMINATED
In His Address He Severely Condemn
 ed Mob Violence

Jackson, Miss. January 16.-Five thous- and visitors assembled in Jackson today to witness the inauguration of Governor Iongino and the new state officers.
 Owing to his continued illness, Senator elect McLaurin, the retiring governor, was not able to be present.
 In his inaugural, Governor Longino de- nounced mob violence as a detrinnent to prosperity and statehood and said that tg1e only remedy lay~in stringent legal methods of prevention.
 Governor Longlno advised the legislature to pass a law giving to the family of any person who may be iynehed the right to recover heavy fixed sum of damages against the county wherein the lynching occurs.
 lie further suggests law providing that the offices of sheriff or constabies who al- lows prisoners to be taken from his hands snail at once become vacant.
The age-herald., 1900-01-17
DETERMINATIONS REMOVED
Bill Removing Disability from Depen- dent Parents of the South

Washington, January 16.-(Special)- passing today Senator Gallingiher's bal, amending statutes so as to remove dis ability from dependent parents who had aided the confederacy and whose sons served in the Spanish war so as to per- init them to be pensioned one of the few remaining post-bellum discriminations has been removed.
 The house will undoubtedly pass the measure as it is only just and fair, and the pension office can no longer disallow ish war.
The age-herald., 1900-01-17
Little to say Ab,ut wbee,er

Washington, January 16.-The officials at the war department had very little to say of the return to the United States of Gen. eral Wheeler
 The correctness of the report was admit ted, and it was said orders had been given sometime ago. but whether or not it was the result of an application by General Wheeler himself could not be recalled It was gathered from preceding statements that General Otis had not been able to find a place in the field satisfactory to General Wheeler and the latter had no mind for service in Manila, was willing to return to the states.