The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-01


TO his retention as a senator in this or
any other congress. 1t is, perhaps, true
mat all the charges made against Mr.
Clark have not been proved The result
OF all this, however, will have little TO
do with the final action of the Uni ed
states senate in his case. So many scan
dals have grown out of the wealth of
United States senators In the past that
the charges of wholesale purchase of
members of the last Montana legis!a IRE
by Mr.. Clark, whether or not proven
definitely, will result, it is said, in vote
on the part of the senators practically
unanimous against his remaining as a
senator from Montana in the United
States senate.
PEOPLE MAY TAKE HAND.
The trouble over the Clark, Quay and
other cases is going to work to the adj
vantage of the pending measures provld-
ing for the election of United States sem
| ators by direct vote of the people. To
have law of this kind enacted will give
| the voters the same right to select sena-
| tors as they now have in selecting rep
| resentatives. There are several bills pend-
| ing in both houses of congress which deal
with these matters, and while they may
| not be passed at this session Of congress,
| will certainly be given some consideration
at the next session of congress.
COAL IN QUEBEC.
The Commercial agent of the Uni ed
States located at Stanbridge sent the
state department the following rer ort
on the discovery of coal in Quebec:
mineral discovery, which may lead
to important results, as been M de in
the Laurentian mountains. This is the
unearthing of a seam of coal on the land
of the Shawinigan Water and rover
company.
Quite by accident md wife worRin, .
upon excavations on the st. Mau lie
river the find was made The cut ing
necessary to form the hea6race are ex-
tersive, and in sections a d pth of 12j
feet has been reached, measured from
the top of the cliffs above. 1t was while
upon this work that traces If cal we
found. The SAID was discovered to be
thickly impregnated wi coal ust
which in some untold Sge had m nagel
to break away from the present DO y AMI
drift down. Later, in the work of X
cavating for the headrace. scam
coal was stumbled upon. This was tried
in the furnaces and found to burn Well.
The strata bearing the coal is some
forty or fifty feet below the surface, and
it's extent remains to be seen. 1t is
thought, however, that the main coal
body is located perhaps a mile up the
river from the place where the present
discoveries have been made.
In appearance the coal has all the
properties of the anthracite, and is not
unlike the Pennsylvania article, the diff
ference being that it has more polish
and is far more brittle. Experts who
have seen the specimens pronounce it
not unlike some of the Nova Scotia prod
uce.
The surrounding formation is, OF
course, entirely different from that in
the anthracite regions of. Pennsylvania.
The shale and slate which surround the
coal measures of the keystone state are
entirely lacking. Biologists have al
ways maintained that no minerals exist
in the Laurentian mountains, and that
those granite hills contained nothing
more than the iron-like stone of which
they were formed.
The secretary of the Shawinigan Water
and Power company has in his office a
specimen Of the coal taken from the
edge of the seam. In this piece the coal
is found clinging to the granite rock,
much as a bit Of moss does to the or
binary boulder.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
Our consul at Reichenburg, furnishes
the state department with the following
in regard to the English language in
Europe:
An American publication received at
this consulate claims in one of its re-
cent numbers to have been advised that
in some countries where it expected
other languages must of necessity be
used in introducing American goods,
English is altogether sufficient.
| The phrase "some countries" means, OF
course, several countries at least, and
so the average reader will understand
that In any port of several foreign coun>
| tries English is altogether sufficient. =,
This is true only of one European coun-
| try-Great Britain and Ireland. 1t Is not
| true of Germany, France, Austria or any
! other continental nation. English is SUI
| ficient In only small parts of any OF
! them-for instance, Dresden, Germany.
/ That city contains many Americans and
/ English residents and visitors, and near
! ly every shopkeeper and professional
! person speaks the English language.
t There, probably, American goods could
| be successfully introduced with the use
! of English alone, but Dresden Is excep-
! tional. In nine-tenths OF Germany,
! measuring by either population or area,
poor success would reward attempts TO
! do business with the English language
alone. In Austria Hungary practically
no business could be done with the use
of nothing but English. The same ap-
plies generally to the other continental
! countries.
| Every American consul on the continent
! is struggling to convince his countrymen
! who wish to build up an export trade that
! thew cannot do 1t with circulars printed
! in English, which almost invariably go
| to fill waste baskets. The consul argues
| that circulars must be in the language
of the country to which they are sent,
and that If personal solicitation is used,
the agent must fiuently speak the
language of the country In which he
| labors.
II is true that knowledge of the English
language is spreading, and it is possible
that in a generation or so it can sue
cessfully be used in doing business with
any part of Europe. 1t is also true that
some people in every town of consider
! able size have smattering of English
but few Of these people will take the
trouble to read circulars printed in Eng
| lish 1t takes too much effort. They talk
a little, but will not bother to puzzle out
the technical words in printed business
matter, and the waste basket is made
use Of by them as well as by people who
do not know word of English.
While several tongues are spoken IL
| Austria-H Hungary, Germany is sufficien
for business purposes and should be USED
by Americans seeking to build up trade
with this nation. They can accomplish
nothing by adopting the theory tina
English is altogether sufficient"
| il S Van Antwerp