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NED BRACE DISCUSSES THE POLITICAL
 CAMPAIGN AND SEVERAL OTHER THINGS

ly by river transportation The possibilities to the Birmingham district from the con- strudtfon of this canal are tremendous. Congressmen Banl0head and Underwood are strongly of the opinion that the necessary money will be appropriated by congress.
 
 The Amos Cummings boom for vice-presi- dent goes merrily on. MT. Bryan and MT Cummings are close personal friends. They served in congress together. They agree on all issues and both are strong in all sections of the country alike. Bryan and Cummings would make a strong team-a team which would carry New York as weh as all of the south and much of the west.
 It looks like the dispensary issue is to dive head foremost into the Jefferson coun- ty political contest. No heed is given by the people who are advocating the dispen- sary to the recently developed situation in South Carolina The people of that state are rapidly coming to the conclusion that the dispensary system is a failure. It is all right under certain circumstances and in certain sections, but it has not operated well in South Carolina, and it would not be advantageous in Alabama. It is said to have led to more drunkenness in South Carolina than was the case before the law went into effect. If prohibition is what is wanited, its advocates should make a straight out fight for prohibition.
 In Athens, Ga, the dispensary prevails. Anthems is 8 college town, and the system was adopted there to prevent the college boys from having access to barrooms. The system is said to have worked very well in Ahtens but recently some of the very citizens who advocated the dispensary ex- pelled from membership of the Baptist church of that city a gentleman who had been elected keeper of dispensary and had accepted the position. They gave him d1is choice of keeping his position as dis penser or being expelled from the church.
 If that plan should be adopted every where 1t might be hard to get an honest man to take charge of a dispensary, and without honest men in charge, dispensaries would not aid the state, community or citi- zens. Indeed, the dispensSry question is a serious one to consider. It is good under certain conditions and surroundings, per haps but general state law in Ala bama l fear it would be a great mistake Tt as thoroughly legalizes the liquor traffic as it is today legalized. and it does not prevent the consumption of liquor or drunkenness.
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yet we are told by the authority presiding over that trial that the presence of my wife and my daughter was matter If taste concerning which men might differ
 '"The prosecuting officer has stated in a public interview that I was conscious of the gilt of my son. The assertion is made unequivooally, and must be answered in Nike manner. It is absolutely false, and must have been known him to be false when he made 1t. I can conceive of no req son which could have actuated such false hood. except the consciousness that his own position, needed apology and defense.
 My son, Ro'and R. Molinuex. is innocent. I know it, and I ask for no sympathy for him. My only request ds that I may have the heartfelt support of all those who be- lieve in nolJie American womanhood as ex- emplifed dn those who bear the family name of
 (SHgnedD EDWARD LESLIE MOLINEUX.
The age-herald., 1900-02-18
REFLEorIONs OF A BACHELoR

Behind every womans success lies a mans heart.
 A woman is like looking glass. When you get behind her reflections there is nothing there.
 A good many mems hearts are like wasps biggest when they are born and getting smaller and meaner the older they get.
 You can always tell when a girl is in love, When you catch her smiling at neth- ing, she acts foolish as a man when you catch him scratching his wooden leg.
The age-herald., 1900-02-18
A VIOLENT RHYME

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
 "There's no use trying to do the impossi- ble," said the discouraged religious editor.
 "Oh, I don't know" replied the society reporter Tt has been done. I was at the meeting of a literary club yesterday, and one lady there who read an original poem made bon mot rhyme with have got'''
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Situation in Martinique

Fort de France, Martinique, February 17.--Via Haytien Cable-The situation is TOW calm. Several arrests have been made of strikers for interfering with the men at work.
 Commercial transaction have been sus- pended at St. Pierre and Fort de France as a result of the absence of the weekly pay. amounting to about S0O,OOO francs, due the workmen under ordinary circumstances.
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in a fair way to be hoodooed by men of European descent and for that matter, she was in that condition nearly fifty years: but she had sense and virflity enough to shake off the intruder and today she stands the sole example of state unvexed by alien blood and alien methods and alien traditions, except as she chooses to adopt and assimilate them. She takes nothing of European origin now by force. therein differing from all the rest of the world. As for this country, tt is. outside of China town, European from the bottom up.
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KETRIBUTION

From the Philadelphia North American, The Boer stood on the rocky veldt
 And calmly swept the kopje. "I never" said the Briton, "feldt
 Such firing. Hey, there! Stopje!" "Oh, mo-" the willy Boer replied,
 You have attacked my trek, And sought to steal my gold beside.
 What did you. then, expek"
The age-herald., 1900-02-18
SUMTER BOYS IN JEFFERSON

From the Sumter Sun.
 At Bessemer Saturday night Tomlinson club with 25O members was organized, with W. T. Kennedy president and p. A. Little chairman of campaign committee-both of them Sumter boys.
 Colonel Tomlinson will sweep Jefferson like a prairie fire. --rf
The age-herald., 1900-02-18
Warden Champion of the World

St. Augustine, Fla, February 17.-Harry Vardon, golf champion of England, won for himself today the title of champion of the world by defeating William Smith, the American champion, by up and 1 to play in a 3-hole match. Vardon also broke the professional 1S-hole record in the morning,
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CORRECT DESCRIPTION

From the San Francisco Chronicle.
 There can be no impropriety now in styl- ing Brigham H. Roberts the congressman eject.
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New York is passing the hat on account of that arch, Philadelphia on account of the insatiate greed of the EIon. MT. Hanna, and St. Louis on account of what>dt is pleased to call a worlds fair.
The age-herald., 1900-02-18
FOR GOVERNOR

From the Courtland Enterprise.
 In Colonel John W. Tomlnson the people of Alabama have a candidate upon whom all democrats can center as a clean, honest man.
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Public sentiment is inclined to say that the jury in the Molineux case was alto gether too sudden in its conclusions. It should have stayed out, 1t is thought, with an eye to the proportions of the trial.
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From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 The Monroe doctrine looks almost as good as new when it's dusted off.
The age-herald., 1900-02-18
sELF-EyIuENr TRUTH

From the Chicago Record.
 Olney is bigger man than his boom. He would be small enough if he were not
The age-herald., 1900-02-18

The collection of that indemnity of S10,- Ooo000 from Cecil Rhodes on account of the Jemison raid has lbeen indefinitely postponed.
The age-herald., 1900-02-18

London, Kentucky, is no longer one ot the capitals of the world.
The age-herald., 1900-02-18

Duke Bobs Bahadurs it will be if this turning movement is kept up.
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Ex-Consul Macrum now threatens to en- ter the lecture field, thus becoming at one bound rival of Julia Morrison.
The age-herald., 1900-02-18

The trouble all along has been that the governors of Kentucky were not good mixers as the governors of the Carolinas.
The age-herald., 1900-02-18

The Hon. MT. Addicks should study the Clark case carefully. Montana methods are not wholly feasible in a little state.
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Philadelphia has been thinking of secur- Ing the services of Mrs Langtry in its ef- fort to raise that $10O000.
The age-herald., 1900-02-18
THE PEOPLE WOULD TRIUMPH

From the Opelika Post.
 The reelection of Senator Morgan will be a triumph of the people over the most com plete political machine ever organized in the state.
The age-herald., 1900-02-18

The British empire is still doing business at the old stand.
The age-herald., 1900-02-18

The comic valentine first appeared in 1873, but some of the jokes on them ap- peared at least fifty years earlier
The age-herald., 1900-02-18

The Prick crowd are aggressive at pres -ent, but the Scotchmans turn will come after a while.
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ProIBoer meetings have been postponed to a more opportune occasion.
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the phrase of the period-"the consent of the governed"
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MT. Prick is doing his best to keep Mir Carnegie from dying disgraced.
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It is settled that Molineux wdll spend the summer at Sing Sing -the-Hudson.
The age-herald., 1900-02-18

Cecil Rhodes either came down from his balloon or out of his cave to meet General French.
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there is hope that the beginning of the end is at hand.
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IT IS ALL RIGHT

Kentucy still has one governor too many
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incorporated in the pleadings of the Prick suit.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-02-08
NEW PHILIPPISES COMMISSION.
Judge Taft Thinks the Work Mapped Out
VIII Occupy About Two Years.

W~AsHtNGToN. Feb. Judge william n.
New Philippines Commission. went to the
White House this afternoon. accompanied by
William X Day, former Secretary of State. and
had a long conference with President Mckinley
relative 10 his coming duties. Prof. Dean G.
Worcester. who has been mentioned for an.
present during u part Of the interview.
After the conference Judge ratt SAID that the
impression that he was ultimately to become
Governor OF the Philippine Islands was incor.
rect. lie hai 10 Intention Of accepting such
an appointment. hut he should follow out 10
tons relative to the organization of a civil
government in the islands. He believes the
work marked out for him and the other MEM
berS OF the Commission to be appointed will
occupy about two years. Steps were to be
taken slowly, he said, and II was not the in
islands any more rapidly than conditions
warrant and make them possible. After COM
pleting this work Judge Taft says he Will
return to the United States and enter upon tho
practice OF law.
The President IL considering the names OF a
number OF men Tor the two vacant places on
the Philippines Commission. Prot. J. b..
accept a commi-sionership. but declined. A
tender will be made to ex-Gov. Roger Wolcott
OF Massachusetts,.
Senator sullivan Of Mississippi had a talk
with the President to-day and urgei the ap-
pointment Of a Southern man to one OF the
showed that he was fayorably disposed toward
the suggestion. and 1t Is said that Senator Sui.
Ivan presented the name Of ex-tiov. McLaurin
OF South Carolina.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-02-08
THE ANTI POLICY BILL.
Hearing Given Yesterday Before the As.
sembly Codes Committee.

nearing ssttcn nesteTuHy beIOTe TIC Az
sembly Codes Committee.
ALBANY. Feb. Judge William NJ. X. Olcott.
Gen. George Moore Smith. Judge Robert c.
Cornell. Capt. T. Norton Goddard. Theron G..
Strong and Thomas A. Fulton. Secretary Of the
Citizens Union OF New York city. and Col.
Ralph +. Pruyn OF Yonkcrs. representing a
number OF churches. appeared before the As
scmbly Codes Committee to-day TO urge fa.
vorable action on Mr.. Fallows's ANTHOLOGY
bill. Former Assemhlyman James Oliver
was the only one TO oppose the I'LL.
Arguments were advanced by the supporters
OF the measure showing that the evil OF policy
playing was found mainly among the poorer
classes. who could il-aiford to spend any
money for such purposes, and that the policy.
shops had agents out soliciting patronage. IL
was characterized asa game that was "A swlndle
Can't. Goddard related his experiences in
prosecuting proprietors OF policy shops ana
told OF the hold the game was taxing on chllu-
rem. He submitted letters from COMPTROLLER
Coler aud former Mayor Hewitt OF New York
city. expressing their approval OF the oil as
being the Only way to break up policy play
Mr. Oliver said the bill prescribed severer
penalties for this sort OF gambling than Tor any
other Kind. and he opposed II as being unjust.
H. wished u weeks lime In which to present
reasons why the bill should not be passed, but
he could get no assurances that the request
would be- granted until after the executive
session OF the m ittec.
The members Of the committee asked the
gentlemen IN favor OF the bill II they did not
consider the section making the mere uossts-
sion of a policy slip sufficient proof that the
pos>cssor Is n common gambler was too
stringent. Judge Cornell admitted that II was
somewhat severe.
The bill was considered in executive session
and an attempt was made to report II fa,ora-
bly,, but II was unsuccessful. as only six men,
bers voted TO report until the section under
L. 500 vi. lna lA.. .AAl.EAtn1 EnpnArhns hE
Oliver will therefore have a chance TO be heard
on the bill next Wednesday.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-02-08
HOUSE
Tho Diplomatic and Consular Appropria-
ton Bill Passed.

wAsHINoToS, Feb. with hut little delay
In the way OF general debate the House to-day
finally disposed Of the Diplomatic and Consul
lar Appropriation bin for the year 1901. pass
Ing II In practically the shape recommended by
the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
BY unanimous consent Mr.. Shafroth OF Colo
RADIO was permitted for forty Ave minutes to
address the House In continuation OF his speech
Of last week. advocating the mediation OF the
United States In the ilgbt In South Africa. He
did not ask for arno iLtcryention. but wanted
the United States only 10 exercise tho right
given 20 IL by Article 3 Of The Hague treaty.
The third article Of that treaty made II the
duty OF nations, strangers 10 the dispute. upon
their own initiative. 20 OFFER TO mediate tho
trouble.
This speech drew out Mr.. Grosvenor Rep.
OhloD. who evoked loud aughtcr as he ridi-
culed Mr.. Shafroth's demand. 10 wanted TO
70 further than ,iat gentleman. lie said.
Congress had stood still while Finland,
Greece and Armenia had been rayished by
great nations in Europe. and yet there were
| natives OF all those countries IN his district,
hundreds OF them. lie wanted 10 know by
what right the Austrians had deprived the
Kingdom OF Hungary OF its ancient liberty.
The great German Empire had taken from
France two provinces and absorbed the people
who objected to tho transfer. Great God"
shouted Grosvenor In mock heroics. rs
this thing to be permitted to go
on. and we say nothlng?" Laughter.
He suggested that there should be appointed a
committee OF not less than twenty five mem
bers. not more than thirteen OF whom shall
BE- members Of the same political party" whose
salaries ought to be at least S2O.OOO a year
each. with a rowing commission, authorizing
them to 90 to all parts OF the world. Whenever
they found any wrong being done In any place.
they should return and report the facts. and II
natives Of the opposed nation IN his district.
then the United States should 20 to war to re-
dress the wrong. Laughter.
Mr.. .Shafroth pialntively inquired why he
should be held up TO ~ridicule. Why. II liberty
was being violated in the earth. II were a crime
When the paragraph making appropriations
for the salaries OF Consuls-General at London
and Paris was reached, Mr.. Dcllver OF Iowa.
stating that current rumor accorded to each ~
those officials an annual income largely ~ ex-
asked for the facts,
Mr.. Hit Of Illinois. in charge OF the bill, rA-
piled that the gross annual income OF these
officials was about <l2.OOO. out OF which they
were required to pay a. considerable sum Tor
however, MIR. Hit said. the Official fees. now
turned into the Treasury. won't to swell the
Consul-Generals income.
An amendment offered by Mr.. Heatwole OF
Minnesota. was agreed TO-, providing for the
appointment OF a Consul General at Christi
ania, Sweden, at a salary OF 81 900.
without further changing the. bill the COM
mittee rose, the bill was reported to the House.
the amendments agreed to and the bill passed.
The House then adjourned until tomorrow.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-02-08
Movements Of Naval Vessels.

WASHINGTON. Feb. THE training ship
Dixie arrived at ST. Thomas. the cruiser De-
troit at Colon and training ship Lancaster at
Caimanera: the cruiser Philadelphia sailed
from San Diego for San Francisco and the
collier Marcellus from Norfolk for Port Royal.
all Yesterday. The auxiliary cruiser. Prairie
the training shin MonOngahela sailed from
Berbaioes for Martinique. both to-day.
Rear Admiral hautz, commanding he Pacific
Philadelphia 10 tho battleship Iowa at San
Diego.
Rear Admiral .Farquhar telecraphed the
Navy Department TODAY from Colon that the
gunhOat Machias had gone to San Juan, Puerto
Rico. She left la Guayra on Monday for Puerto
Cnbello. where a revolutionary outbreak was
has gonn to San Juan indicates that every
thing at Puerto Cabello was. quiet. Tho Ma
mingo city. where the political conditions are
uncertain.
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THE CLARK BRIBERY INQUIRY.
Evidence offered to Show That the $50, 600
Alleged Brihe Money Was Daly,s.

WASHINGTON. Feb. THE taking OF testi-
mony In the Montana Senatorial election case
was continued this morning before the Senate
Committee on Privileges and Elections. All
the witnesses examined for the last three or
four days have been on the Clark side. and
their testimony has been directed to a de-
molishing OF all that had been sworn to by the
witnesses on the other side. According TO
those who testified on the Clark side there
were no bribes offered or accepted. as far as
they were concerned. and all Of the statements
attributed to them to that effect were denied
by them. That was about how the case stood
at the close OF yesterdays session.
The first witness this morning was George
+. McGrath OF Chicago. who had formerly
edited the Bhtte People. a paper representing
the labor interests Of Silver Bow county. and
which had supported Mr.. Daily in the Senate
contest Of 1893. He was inquired OF as TO
statements made at that time by DAILY In re-
gard to a scheme to defeat Clark. who was also
a candidate. Objection was made to the pro-
posed testimony as referring to a matter too re-
, mote; but it was contendcd on the part Of
Clark's counsel that a scheme was then con-
cocted. similar 10 that alleged. in the pres
ent case; that money would BE- used by
DAILY: that its Use wouli be charged on
Clark. and that the S3O.OOO deposited By MEM
bers OF the Legislator re as bride money In the
present instance. was furnished by DAILY in
iurtherance OF the scheme. After argument
the committee went into executive session to
consider the point. When the doors were re-
opened. the chairman said that the decision Of
the committee was to exclude the proposed
testimony for the present.
Powell Black. a mem Der OF the Legislature.
was recalled and he contradicted seriatim
every bit. OF evidence connecting him with the
! receipt OF a bride,
The next witness was Walter VI. Blckford. a
lawyer. He expla ned the circumstance Of his
having had Mr.. Stiff his former partner OK
anime the title to certain property OF one
Mclaughlin. which had been referred. to as
one Of the suspicious circum stances in the
case. He said he had employed SIN because
he was a careful man, and for no other reason.
He detailed a conversation with Stiff. which led
him to believe that stiff was friendly to Clark,
and he never had any reason to believe
him unfriendly. He had never told Stiff
that Il he would vote for Clark he would
have him placed on the list OF Clark's attor.
neys. as had been testified to by Stifr. He told
a story to show the advisabtlity OF Senator
Clark's purchase OF Mclaughlin property. az it
gave him control Of timber land, This pur-
chase had been represented in the form Of a
hribp
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-02-08
IN HONOR OF THE SUPREME Court.
The President and Mrs. Mckinley Give a
state Dinner ut the White House.

WASHINGTON. Feb. THE President and
Mrs. Mckinley gave a State dinner tonight in
honor OF the Justices OF the supreme Court,
Tho table was laid in the main corridor adj.
lacent to the red, blue and green parlors. and
the usual p~rofuse floral decorations were pro-
vided from the White House conservatory and
the Botanical Gardens. The guests were:
The Chief Justice and Mrs, Fuller. Mr.. Jus.
tice Harlan and Miss Harlan. Mr.. Justice Gray
and Mrs. Gray. Mr.. Justice Brewer and Miss
Brewer. Mr.. Justice Brown and Mrs. Brown.
Mr.. Justice Shiras and Mrs. Shiras. MIR, Justice
White and Mrs. White. Mr.. Justice McKenna
and Mrs. Mckenna. the Attorney. General. Sen.
ator and Mrs. hoar. Senator and Mrs. Clark OF
Wyoming. Senator and Mrs. Spooner. senator
and Mrs. Lindsay. senator and Mrs, Pettus,
senator Allison. Senator and Mrs. Hanna,
Senator and Mrs. Elkins. Senator Mcbride,
Senator and Mrs. Gallineer. senator and
Mrs. Wetmore. Senator and Miss Cockrell,
senator aud Miss Perkins. Senator and
Mrs, Shoup, Senator and Mrs. Scott. senator
and Mrs. Warren, the Solicitor-General and
Mrs Richards. Secretary and Mrs. Porter. Col.
ana Mrs. Bingham, MIR. and Mrs. Charles. g..
Dawes. Assistant ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and Mrs.
Hovt. Representative Ray. Representatives and
Mrs. jenkins. Representative Parker, Repre-
sentative and Mrs. Overstreet. Representative
ami Mrs. Kerr. Representative and Mrs, De
Almond. representative and Mrs. Lanham.
Representative and Miss DolliNer. Mr.. and Mrs.
j. living Brooks Of Pittsburg, Mrs, Pope, Mrs.
Spencer Borden and Mss Mary Barber.
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TWO MORE ISLANDS.
The Mona and Monito Islands in the Mona
Passage Belong to the United states.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-Two new islands are
TO be added to the possessions OF the L nited
States in tho West Indies. They are the Mona
Island and Monito Island in the Mona Passage.
between San Domingo and Puerto Rico. The
former is an island OF some size but Monito Is
only a coral reef. II was not definitely known
until to-day that the islands belonged to the
United States and then not unit after consider
able research. The Post Office Depart
ment has been having a map made
Of the American possessions In tho
West Indies and was in doubt whether
or not TO include these islands on the map.
An Official communication was sent TO the State
Department inquiring u the treaty between
United States and Spain provided for their
acquisition bv the United States. The treaty
was examined and showed that Spain ceded to
tho United States. Puerto Rico and all other
Spanish islands in the West Indies except
Cuba. No special mention was made OF Mona
Island. and there was no information regard
is nearly six miles long and three and half
miles wide. 1t rises about one hundred and
seventy-nve feet high and is. situated lust
thirty miles west OF Mayaguez in Puerto Rico.
Domingo and lies almost midway of the Mona
passage between the two islands, The
State Department had no Information showing
whether or not Mona belonged to Spain,
was made Of several charts In the Navy De-
partmpnt. One chart was found indicating in
cOlors the different colonial possessions OF the
world, and this showed that Mona was re-
garded as n Spanish possession and accord
lngly becomes American. property under the
Paris treaty. 1t IL thought probable by naval
officials that the island may prove Of service to
the United States at some time in the future,
and il is not unlikely that orders viii be issued
10 have IL surveyed and charted as an Ameri-
can possession. IL IL not Inhabited.