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New-York tribune., 1901-01-26
rRIBUTE FROM CARDINAL vAUGHAN.

London. Jan. 26.-Cardinal Vaughan, in the
course of a sympathetic letter TO be read in
Catholic churches in London. pays an eloquent
tribute 10 Queen Victoria, who. he says, was
"an object of the greatest reverence on the part
OF all Catholics from the Pope downward" He
adds:
We fully and acutely share in the national
sorrow, and trust and pray that the noble ira
ditions established by the mother may be car
ride and perfected by the son. The attach
ment OF Catholics TO the throne and the dynasty
is beyond suspicion.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26

IN England At the Centre-st- court paid ar,
OF s5.
The Bunker Hill Club. Of the Borough OF Tn
Bronx, has come TO the support OF the Mayor tr
refusing 20 have the flag the City Hall places
at halfmast The club has adopted resolution
declaring approval of the Mayors action and eS
pressing everlasting gratitude for this exhibtros
or sturdy Americanism by the Mayor OF the leading
city on the American continent
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26
INSURANCE on THE QUEENS LIFE,

Local life insurance men estimated at as hlSh as
S4OOO1OO to SOO0000 the probable aggregate amount
to be paid out by English companies policy hold
ers who had taken insurance on Queen Vic
torias life but who had relation whatever 70 the
Queen Such policies would not be written by com
panies in the United States il pointed out, for
here there must be ''insurable interest shown
before an application would be granted as under
the law in this country the beneficiary must be a
parsons dependent upon pecunarily interested in
fhe life Of the insured
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26
DELAWARE DEADLOCK CONTINUES

Dover Del, Jan. 25.-To-day's ballots for two
United States Senators in the deadlocked LegsIat-
ure showed no material change from those of pre-
vious days
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26
EXECUTORS OF QUEENS Will.

London. jan 26-"The Morning Leader says
that the executors of Queen Victorias will are
Princess Beatrice the Duke of Connaught and
Lieutenant-CoIonel Sir Fleetwood Isham Ed
wards who was keeper of Her Majestys Privy
Purse from 1S95 and Extra Equerry TO the
Queen from 1883
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26
KAISER MAY BE MADE FIELD MARSHAL
REPORT THAT KING EDWARD WILL so AP
POINT HIS NEPHEW.

London, Jan. 26.-It is reported that Emperor
Nicholas and the Empress viii attend the
funeral
Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal has re-
ceived the following from the King:
I am much touched by your kind telegram Of
sympathy. and I ask you 70 convey 10 the in
habitants OF the Dominion Of Canada my warm
thanks.
The papers publish a statement that the King
will appoint Emperor William Field Marshal
of the British army in recognition Of his devo-
ton TO the Queen. and that the German ruler
viii appear at the funeral in a Field Marshal's
uniform.
The Daily Chronicle" in the course of edi-
torial on the Threatening Aspect Of Russian
Policy in China" refers 10 the report that En-
peror William win be appointed a Field Marshal
OF the British army. says
We hope the report is correct \ German al
lance is one we cannot afford to throw away.
Who can tell how may need its prestige
If not it's active cO-operatiOu'
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26
sALUTEs FIRED AT HoNG-KoNG

Hong Kong. Jan. 25.-Au the warships in
port, including the United States warships AL
bany, Bennington and Luzon, and the German
and Portuguese ships. Joined to-day in a salute
of eignty-one minute guns in honor of the late
Queen Victoria. and later they fired a royal
salute in celebration of the accession TO the
throne Of King Edward VII.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26
TO HEAD FRENCH DELEGATION.

Paris jan o5-vice-Admiral Bienaime will
head the French delegation at the funeral Of
Queen Victoria Admiral De Laiaille having de-
clined for personal reasons.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26
DWS SlA,

Few diseases in
fiCt upon their
victims greater suf-
fering than does
dyspepsia. If you
have dyspepsia or
indigestion in any
form do not ruin
your stomach with
drugs, use Duffy's
Pure Malt WhiS-
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26
STATE LOSES 4 BEET SUGAR FAcToRT.

NTITE LUSES- 4 BEET 80 GIR FICTORI.
Rome. n Y, Jan s5-The machinery Of the first
beet sugar factory in this State has been sold to
German parties. who will remove IL and establish
a dextrine factory in North Dakota, where their
product will be made from potatoes. The bond
holders retain the real estate Of the factory.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26
AFTER MORE PATRONAGE,
.p1TY ENGINEERS GRASPING AT CON
troll OF ALL PUBLIC WORKS.

BOARD WITH VAST POWERS CREATED BY
AN ALMOST UNNoTICED SECTION OF
THE RIVER AND HARBoR BILL.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26
o the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of Wednesday YOU quote The
Philadelphia Record statement that Richard
Vaux. once Mayor of the Quaker city. was the
only American who danced with Queen Vic.
tora and that he used 70 boast OF the distinction
tnouSht that every knew that John Var
B1ren won a particular celebrity from doing this
very thlnS In fact he obtained his familiar sobrt.
quer or prince John account OF his haVtla
danced with the Queen. JOEL BENTON
Poughkeepsie N Y. Jan. -. 1901
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26
WANTED TO REACH CITY HALL FLAG

man who was under the influence of strong
drink was caught trying to climb one Of the pillars
of the front portico of the City Hall early yester-
Iav morning and was arrested. He said he wanted
n 20 IN and 'halfmast the flag on the City Hall
IN memory of Queen Victoria. He said he was
Herman skinner of Newark. n. J., but was horn
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26
TO CLOSE on DAY OF QUEENS FUNERAL

The Board OF Managers Of the Cotton Exchange
has decided 70 close the Exchange on the day Of
the funeral Of Queen Victoria The Stock Exchanges
viii he closed from 10 II a. m, the same day
Cnext Saturday
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26

Among the messages which were sent by cable
Yesterday 10 the King of England was the fol-
lowing.
His Majesty the King. London:
W. The Srmeuians OF the United States of Amer
ic most sincerely share in the universal grief at
The great Queens death, and wish Your Majesty
a long and glorious reign. NJ = tIABF1EL.
chairman Armenian National Committee OF Amer
lea.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26
ANOTHER WHO DANCED WIrH THE orEEy

PRINCE JOHN VAN BUREN 50 CALLED s1
REASON OF THIS DISTINCTION
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26

Chief Engineer OF the Army. The proposed law
Is so broad in its application that the construc-
ton Of irrigation reservoirs and much Of the
present work Of the Coast and Cieodetic Survey
viii be taken from that department and given
70 the Army.
New-York tribune., 1901-01-26
Rupture

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The Washington times., 1901-11-07
Tb. Verdict of Iom,,ro.o.

Professor Lombroso has spoken. He
has declared that Car Nicholas, EN-
peror william, Edward VII, and other
rulers are lunatics He also includes in
his list Of candidates for the insane asy-
lum Felix Faure, Cecil Rhodes, Joseph
Chamberlain. and other eminent per-
sons not Of royal blood. Those who
may be pronounced degenerate or in
sane by Lombroso in the future will
have the comfort Of rejecting that at
any rate they are in good company; and
for association with eminent persons
many an ambitious tuft-hunter has
dared considerably more than the posi-
bility of lunatic asylum.
There are plenty Of people in retreats
for the insane who firmly believe them
selves to be of royal blood, or great in
some way or other; and it has long been
the opinion Of slow witted, plOdding
people that poets and novelists were at
least a tiiie insane; but Lombroso's S
verdict win be the first straightforward
statement the world has had TO the ef-
feet that famous folk OF this world are
actually of unsound mind to the extent
that he says. II is sad that the af-
fairs Of nations should be entrusted to
the hands OF crazy people.
Perhaps it would be simpler to say
that Lombroso himself is non compos
mentis; at least that is the way that il
will strike great many people. 1t Ger
tainiy seems at first blush more likely
that one Italian scientist is mad than
that half the crowned heads of Europe
and many of its leaders of thought are
in that condition. But. after all, the
opinion Of an expert is not supposed to
depend upon popular approval. Wag-
ner was great. but the average person
did not know it for a great many years
The genius of Tennyson and Keats was
At hrst unrecogniZed. The essence of
greatness is novelty; and thing which
is new is more than likely to strike the
unaccustomed mind as senseless or
wildly impossible. The fact that LON
broso's conclusions seem improbable to
the average mind is by no means a
proof that he is not right
There seems to be something odd
about his theory. however. So far as II
can be grasped by the uninitiated, IL APP
pears to be that any deviation from the
norrrsal Is sign of degeneracy. There
is a reasonable doubt of this. The nor
r.a man in any age is the average man
The Washington times., 1901-11-07
The yellow Peril.

The aged Ii Hung Chang, according
10 our advices, lies at deaths door. 1t
is possible that by the hour this edition
goes to press, we may have heard of
his death With him passes the last of
generation Of prominent Chinese
statesmen who were powerful forty
years ago in China. but have grad
ualIy died of, leaving Earl Ii as the
last survivor. Away back in 1868, when
Gordon was fighting the Tai Ping re-
bellion, Ii was a general, and was hunt
ed by Gordon with homicidal intent for
his treachery in numbering the rebel
Wangs. who had been turned over TO
him on condition that their lives should
be spared and themselves well treated
That was fair Illustration Of his char
acter. Since that time, as statesman
and diplomat, he has been noted for
ability. but even more for duplicity
sometimes impenetrable For fifteen
years he has been playing the part OF
TOOL for the Empress Dowager. and at
The same time for the Russian Govern
ment. Probably be has in reality been
more the latter, as 1t was u line Of busi-
ness always susceptible of prosecution
on a cash basis without the necessity of
division Of profits with anybody. LIS
various negotiations with Russia un-
doubtedly have promoted the move
ment which has eliminated in The Rus
sian occupation Of Manchurla, Mon
golia. and Eastern Turkestan, and it is
more than possible that the Empress
Dowager's tardy realization of the fact
is partly responsible for the old gentle
mans failure in health.
Whether dead or alive he IS negligible
as far as future events may be con-
cerned. His place is likely to be filed,
il filled at all, with somebody even more
obnoxious to Western ideas and inter
ests than he At least it may be said
of him that he WAS not a reactionary in
the sense that the Boxer leaders,
Prince Tuan and General Yang Lu, are.
1T is also noticeable that with his elimi-
nation from the scene they and their
kind are rapidly coming to the front.
and herein lies the Yellow Peril L.
civilization.
Nothing could be more notorious than
the fact that the Empress DoWager was
the real instigator of the Boxer move
ment, of the murder of the japanese
Chancellor OF Legation, Akira, of the
murder of Baron Won Ketteler. and OF
the attempt to massacre the foreign
Ministers and legation people in Peking.
Tsi Hsi needed stern lesson: indeed,
needed to be taken and hanged as an
example TO her people. Instead she has
been treated with ca-sile-st!or etu
honor BY the Power a-3 t4c cay -.
surely come when '-eg ~. W.' hs zf.
I fer the blvndsr SAe Ks - 'e r"-
ss ever 10 drive 81, in,-.r i.i
The Washington times., 1901-11-07
PLANS FOR REORGANIZATION.
Seventh National Bank to Resume
Within N Few Days.

Edwin Gould. the new President of the
Seventh National Bank, of New York.
and William n. Cromwell. counsel for the
company had conference with the
Comptroller of the Currency by appoint
meut yesterday morning. They submitted
the final papers for the resumption of the
business of the bank.
Under Mr.. CromweI's plan. the bank
charges of about 81, ,2OO,O00 of losses. This
will wipe out the surplus. and absorb the
100 per cent assessment on the capital
stock, reducing the original capital stock
of 5000 to 100000. After this has been
done. the capital stock will be increased
SI,500 000, making it In all S1.70O.O00. The
additional stock has been sold at 115 per
share. Comptroller Ridgiey says:
There viii be cash enough on hand
when the bank opens to pay all the de-
positors and amounts due TO other banks
in full. This will be very strong condi-
tion, and makes 1t a very thorough re-
organization
The Comptroller has approved this plan.
by which the dep)SitOrs, numbering over
2.OGJ, are paid in full. with allowance of
interest The bank will resume business
under the old name and in the new bank
ing house within the next few DAYS.
Mr.. Cromwell states that the bank will
allow interest upon deposits. during the
period of suspension, at the rate of per
cent per annum. to be credited to the
account of each deDositor. He also says
that the New York Clearing House As
SociatiOn has, after examination OF the
plan, readmitted the Seventh National
Bank to full membership in that body.
The Washington times., 1901-11-07
Circulation Statement.
4 Contrast.

As the country knows and appreciates
today. the national metropolis Of Great
er New York was redeemed from the
disgrace of Tammany rule on Tuesday
by the. devotion to principle and de-
cency of Democratic voters of the city.
Normally. New York is Democratic by
seventy-five thousand votes, and one
would have thought that IN enlisting the
Democratic element, so largely in the
majority on a square ISSUE the organ
izers of the fusion movement against a
corrupt organization always posing as
Democratic would have nominated a
reform Democrat to head the ticket
But Republicanisrn, even in its best and
most moral expression, is porcine, and
a Republican was selected. Personally,
better choice could not have been
made. Mr. Low is an able. distin-
guished, and experienced citizen, who
has twice been Mayor of Brooklyn, and
has the credit Of having been one of the
best of all the men who have held that
position before or after him. That is
not the point 1t would have been rea-
sonable and natural to have accorded
the mayoralty TO the element without
whose support the victory for good gov
ernment could not have been won. No
matter The Democrats of Gotham ac-
cepted the situation, and worked as
earnestly for the election of Seth Low
as if, like himself. they had been dyed
in-the-wool Republicans. They sue
ceeded in changing a usual Democratic
majority of seventy-five thousand to a
non-partisan reform majority of ap-
proXimately thirty thousand.
Contrast this successful political
effort in New York with the results of
the election in Pennsylvania! There
also the Democratic organization in the
metropolis of the State, and in the State
itself. subordinated and in fact brushed
aside all political considerations to pro-
mote salvation from the corrupt tyran-
ny of the Quay machine rule. 1t sup
ported a Republican for State Treasur-
er. and reformers for offices in the
Quaker City. But all this self abnega-
ton was wasted. Republicans are not
capable of reform, when reform in
wolves the destruction of any machine
which bears their union label They
We're useful and loyal in New York. be-
cause they all assumed that in fighting
Tammany they were fighting a Demo
cratic power. If the same startling
abuses and corruptions had been of Re
publican genesis, as identically they are
in Philadelphia, they would have been
continued and supported. It is a pc
culiarity Of Republicans to howl at their
dishonest bosses between elections, and
then to vote the boss ticket on cleo
ton day.
So it happened on Tuesday in Phila-
delphia. and in Pennsylvania generally.
u the self-sacrifce of the Democratic
element in the keystone State had been
supported by the decent Republicans.
Quayism would have been as efectually
showed under as Crokerism and Dew
eryisIu was in Greater New York The
country has the two pictures before it.
Democrats viii forget party in any con-
test for decency; Republicans will not
The Washington times., 1901-11-07
POLITICS TO END IN aeCRT.
W. o. CardweH Sues the Karsus Sec
retary of State for Damages.

KANSAS CITY, No, Nov 6.-W. O..
Cardwell. formerly a member of the Legis-
lature. has brought suit for 5000 dam
ages on account of the publication of a re-
cent letter by Sam B. Cook, Secretary Of
State. Mr.. Cook was Chairman of the
Democratic State Central Committee
when Mr. Cardwell was in the Legislature.
At political banquet in this city recent
Iy Cardwell said that bills against corpo-
rations were stopped in the Legislature by
the State Committee when the corpora
tions contributed to the State campaign
fund.
Mr. Cook answered by saying that
Cardwelrs statements were absolutely
and unqualifiedly false. He also said that
CardwelI was the willing tool OF the chief
lobbyist of the State and the most cor
rupt one. These two things Cardwel1 re-
lies on Chiefly to make his case. He al
leges that Mr.. Cook told him the State
Committee got part of its campaign funds
by suppressing legislation hostile to cor
porations, and he will, he declares. try to
find out in court whether that is true.
and If not. where campaign funds do
come from. The question Of who is the
biggest lobbyist in Missouri will also be
an issue in the case.
Mr.. Cook when asked what he had to
say about Cardwelrs suit, replied that
Cardwelrs reputation had not been in
iured
The Washington times., 1901-11-07

neither very brilliant nor very stupid.
very good nor very bad. If there IS TO
be no deviation from this type. how can
there lie any progress? The Chlnese
have rested for centuries in the CAIN
! conviction that theirs is the very best
country in the very best of all possible
worlds; and whether we are degener-
ates or not we do not care to follow in
the footsteps of the Chinese. 1t may be
a good way to effect the conservation
of energy, but after all, of what use is
the energy which is merely conserved? ?
1t is like the story of the sailor who was
asked what he would do if he mad limit
less wealth. He said that he would buy
all the rum and tobacco in the world.
Asked what he would do then he re-
piled, after a moments reflection, that
he would buy more rum and more to-
bacco. His Imagination could go no
further. SO the Chinese are content to
use the limitless power of the human
mind in keeping things just as they are,
and they can conceive of no higher
pleasure than keeping things as they
are forevermore.
The Anglo-Saxon, therefore, argues
that the degenerate is a man who does
not progress. or progresses in the wrong
direction-who, having the opportunity
to be man, elects to be beast with
the remnants of a soul and intellect su-
perimposed. The man who leaves the
normal line of action because he is too
great and too active to walk in rut
must not be confounded with the weak
ling who falls out of line because he has
not the strength and patience to follow
the nath of others.
The Washington times., 1901-11-07
Van Wyck's Defeat.
prom The New York Times.)

Q'rom the New York Times)
The vote against Van Wyck is the true
test of public sentiment toward Tam
many. There was a rdmmany head that
people could hit. and they have hit it
hard. Running some 1000 votes behind
his Tammany associates on the judiciary
ticket in this udicial district, and falling
some 5000 votes short of the Low bal
lot cast in the san" district. II is plainly
evident that if ,s name, instead Of Mr..
Shepards had headed the Tammany
ticket, he would have gone down under
an adverse majority approaching or per
haps exceeding 100000. That shows what
would have happened had Mr.. Croker
yentured to nominate a thorough going
Tammany man for mayor. il shows into
what deep detestatiou Tammauy has
brought itself
The Washington times., 1901-11-07
THE NAVY PERSONNEL ACT.
A Ruling ns to Pay by the Treasury
Department.

L. P. Mitchell, Assistant Comptroller
Of the Treasury yesterday rendered a
decision regarding the pay OF off,
GERS of the navy commissioned after
the Navy Personnel Act took effect. Al
Ian Stuart. assistant surgeon. United
States Navy. appealed from the action
of the Auditor for the Navy Department
in having charged him with s24fsi as an
overpayment OF compensation. Stuart
served as an apothecary from September
.. 1876 to April 2S. 1898. On April %. 1Sas
he accepted an appointment as assistant
surgeon for temporary service in the
navy and served in that capacity until
July >, 1850. on which day he accepted
an appointment as assistant surgeon in
the regular navy. He was paid fcs- Au-
gust and 2. 1900, twice. and, 1t is said,
was net at sea from September % to Oc-
-ober l. 1890. and. therefore. entitled to
shere duty pay only for that time He
contended that he was entitled under the
provisions Of the Navy Personnel Act to
receive pay at the old navy rate.
After discussing the law bearing upon
the matter. the Comptroller says:
1T is not to be supposed that Congress,
having passed an important measure
after due deliberation. intended to effect
certain well known purpose, should, by
chance words in the way Of. an amend
ment to a temporary provision In that
act, reverse the policy of the original act.
and instead of sssimilating the pay Of
the two branches of the service, make
permanent provision for two pay tables
fer the naval service. each officer TO have
the benefit of the one giving him the most
pay.
In my opinion. the claimant is not en-
titled to the old navy rates of pay after
July 5. 1900. the date when he entered the
regular navy. and the action of the Au-
6itor is affirmed