The Elk Mountain pilot., 1900-02-20

of the association and all the pioneers
in the equal rights movement who are
alive to-day. The stage decorations
consisted of the four starred Has Of
the suffragists, palms and cut flowers.
There was a long program replete
throughout with stirring tributes to
Miss Anthony's great career, while
tears and applause mingled as the
voices of the speakers rang through
the theater, recounting the hardsbips
and struggles, and mt last the crown
ing achievements of the veteran work
er. Eighty children, boys and girls,
passed in single file across the stage,
each depositing n rose in Miss An
thongs lap as they passed her, one for
each year. of her life.
Highly sensational testimony was
developed Thursday in the investiga-
ton by the Senate committee on priv
ileges and elections of the election of
w. A Clark to the Senate from Mon
iana. Justice Hunt, n Republican mem
ber of the Montana Supreme Court, tes-
titled that his family physician, DR..
Tracey, had made what he (the JUS
tice) regarded as attempts to have him
consider a 100000 bribe to favor
LAWYER Welcome. one of Clark's at
torneys, in the disbarment proceedings
against Welcome. The witness did
not, directly at least, connect Clark
with this bribery proposition, so the
latter's counsel. ex-senator Faulkner,
moved to strike out the whole testi-
mony from the record, but did not sue
ceed. The witness testified that the
same day one of the attempts to bribe
him had been made similar efforts had
been put forth to reach Justice Piggott,
another of the justices of the Supreme
Court of Montana. Counsel for Mr..
Clark cross-questioncd Justice Hunt
quite sharply rs to why he had not
prosecuted the doctor or made state
ment at the time concerning the matter
the reply in substance being that the
witness felt too much humiliated over
the proposition, and also believed that
DIR. Tracey did not realize the enormity
of his offense.
The Senate committee on woman
suffrage gave hearing Tuesday to
delegations form the woman suffrage
convention and the anti-suffragists.
The suffragists Were introduced by
Miss Susan Il. Anthony. Mrs. Rachael
Foster \. Avery read II paper prepared
by woman who had twice been elect
ed mayor of Il Kansas town. This de-
scribed in detail what had been accom-
plished in the way of municipal re
there had been n publication of munic-
ipal affairs since suffrage to women
had been granted. Mrs. Mary C. Brad
ford of Denver read n paper upon the
effects of popular suffrage in Colorado
She noted the Improvement of condi-
tions at the polls. There had been a
higher standard of candidates for pub
lie Office. The women voters had inn
proved themselves. There We're 10000
more women voters in Colorado than
men. Among those who spoke against
women suffrage was Miss Emily T..
Bissell of Wilmington. Delaware. who
read n letter from Ralph Talbot of
Denver. asserting that women suffrage
in Colorado had been n failure and n
detrimcnt 10 women. Miss Bissell said
that in Colorado women stuff ballot
boxes as readily as men, and that the
purity of the ballot claimed by the ad-
vocates of women suffragists had not
been realized. In Colorado. where there
is woman suffrage, the millennium was
no nearer at hand than elsewhere.
1t is proposed to appropriate $4,000
for topographic and geological sur
vey of the island of Puerto Rico. S22,-
900 for the Hawaiian islands. $4,000
for Cuba and $4,000 for the Philip
pines, the expenditure for Cuba to be
made from the revenue of that coun-
try. The maps of all these islands are
incomplete and inaccurate. They indi-
cate roads and streams that do not eX-
list. and omit some that are of import
ancc. 1t will be of great value TO fu-
ture immigrants to have maps show
ing the geological formation of the
country, the location of the different
soils and rocks, the size of the different
streams, TIE height of the hills and
mountains and other information of
This character. Although the Spanish
have occupied Cuba and Puerto Rico
for 400 years, portions of these islands
have never yet been explored, and their
mineral resources have not been meas
ured. There is no accurate informa-
tion concerning their water supply,
their building material, their timber re-
sources, and their tables of distance ap-
pear to have been compiled by guess
work. The knowledge of the Philip
pines is even more meager and inaccur-
ate. There is not even good topo-
graphical map of Luzon, the most
thickly settled island in the archipela-
go. and its resources are practically
unknown. 1t is proposed to have the
typographical and geological surveys
made under the direction of expert
enced men who have conducted the
SeoloSlcal surveys OF our own country.
To those who have been urging the
ratification of the treaty of The Hague.
which commits the United States and
other nations to arbitration as n meth
cd of settling disputes, in order that our
government may properly intervene in
South Africa. will now learn to their
surprise that it contains n clause under
which the United States pledges itself
70, into in, ni.k.
outside of the American continent. In
fact, President McKinley is prohibited
from rendering his good offices either
to the Beers or to Great Britain by the
terms of The Hague treaty, now that
it is ratified by the Senate. The stipu-