Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-01-13
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- The free mail delivery system is
meeting with considerable opposition
up in Maryland. Within the past few
weeks, newly erected letter boxes have
been destroyed by unknown parties,
and the government is hunting for
proof to convict.
- The official returns up to last Wed.
nesday show British losses in South
Africa as follows; Killed, 1927; g.
CTS wounded and 2,511 missing
These figures do not include such
fighting as may have occurred at Lady
smith since last Saturday.
A dispatch from Estcourt says that
General Joubert will not take any fur
ther part in the war. 1t is claimed
that the generals horse was shot from
under him recently, and that in falling
he severely injured his spine. There
have been many stories disposing OF
General Joubert in various ways, which
have afterward turned out to be untrue.
In an interview at Minneapolis,
Minn., last Wednesday, Hon. w. j..
Bryan is reported to have said: II
am a firm believer in the enlargement
and extension of the limits of the re-
public. I don't mean by that the
extension by the addition of contigu-
Gus territory, nor to limit myself to
that. Wherever there is people in
telligent enough to form part of this
republic, it is my belief that they
should be taken in. Wherever there
is a people who are capable Of having
voice and a representation in this
government, there the limits of the
republic may be extended. The Fill
pinos are not such people. The Dem
ocratic party has ever favored the ex-
tension of the limits of this republic i;
but it has never advocated the acqui-
sition Of subject territory, to be held
under colonial government"
- Secretary Gage has submitted a
very full answer to the Sulzer resolu-
ton charging the treasury with espe-
cial favors to the National City bank
of New York, and asking for the bus
mess correspondence between the bank
and the treasury. The secretary ex-
plains that as a matter of convenience,
internal revenue receipts are first de-
posted in single bank, which sends
them out to other banks. The Ma
tional City bank of New York was
selected because it offered three times
as much security as did any competi-
tor. He goes on to explain that the
New York Custom House property
was recently sold to the National
City bank for $685. 900, which was
the highest bid made, and as this bank
paid all but $4,000 in cash, the gov
ernment, not needing the money, nat
urally favored this bank as the depos-
itory. To have given the money to
another bank, under the circumstances,
Mr.. Gage explains, would have been
unjust.
Among all the records of the year
1899, says a Chicago correspondent,
not one stands out so conspicuously as
that of the donations and bequests
made for religion, educational insti.
tutious, charity libraries, museums and
galleries and to cities for popular bene-
fit and entertainment. No year in the
history of this country has ever equalled
it. The aggregate thus bestowed is
$79,749,956, as compared with $685.
964 300 m 1898, and 33,512,S14 in
1897. In the preparation of the statis-
tics no records have been kept of do
nations or bequests of less than 81 900.
OF the total amount stated above there
has been given to educational institu-
tions, $55, ,S51,Sl7; to charities, S13,-
2O6, 1916; to churches, $2,992, ,593; to
museums and art galleries, S2, CSC, 500; ;
and to libraries, S5,0l2,40 The re-
cord of embezziug, forgery, default
ing and bank wreckipg was the small
est in the last tweuly.one years. The
total is S3,2lS,373, compared with So
1903 in 1898 and S11, ,24S,0S4 in
1897.
- The expansion debate was opened
in the senate last Tuesday with a re-
markably eloquent speech from Sena-
tor Beveridge, Republican, of Indiana.
The senator is new member and is
only 81 years of age. 1t is rather
unusual for new members of the SEN
ale to attempt great speeches during
the first few weeks of their first ses-
sion; but Beveridge has ignored pre-
cedent in this matter. He maintained
that it was not only to the interest Of
the United States 10 bold the Philip
pines; but it was their duty. He
claimed that Washington and Jetter-
son would never have shirked such a
duty, and he did not believe that the
statesmen of today would do so either.
As an oratorical effort, the speech has
made a sensation in Washington and
throughout the country. The facts
presented and the arguments by which
they are backed, are also considered
quite strong. Senator Hoar, of Mas
sachusetts, replied to the speech in
part, and said that he would answer it
more fully at another time.
up to yesterday morning there
had been no more news of wholesale
fighting since the reports already pub
lished. Generals Roberts and Kichtner
have arrived at Cape Town, and it is
understood that q new nlan of cam :