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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
NO WRIT FOR M'KENZIE.
The Supreme Court Declines to In
terfere in His Case.

The Supreme Court of the United States
yesterday denied the petition of Alexander
! Mckenzie for the issuance of a writ of
/ habeas corpus for McKenzie's release
from the Oakland CCaI) Jail. where he
Is serving years sentence for contempt
of court. and for a hearing of his case
by the Supreme Court.
Mckenzie was the organizer and prin-
cipal stakeholder of the Alaska Gold Min
ing Company, and Immediately on his ar
rival in Nome last July. with Judge
Noyes, of the Alaska District Court, the
latter appointed him receiver of four of
{ the most valuable gold mines in the dis
trict the suits being brought. it is
charged, by other persons interested in
the company.
Two of the miners dispossessed. unable
to secure any redress from Judge Noyes.
carried their cases before Judge Morrow,
of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the
Ninth circuit. who granted an order SUI
perseding Mckenzie in the receivership.
Mckenzie refused to obey the order,
whereupon he was arrested for contempt
of court and sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment at Oakland, the opinion of
the court denouncing the proceedings of
Judge Noyes and Mckenzie high
handed and Illegal, and without parallel
in the Jurisprudence or the country.
Mckenzie appealed the case to the SUI
preme Court of the United States. which
refused toeinterfere. Recently he applied
for writ of habeas corpus on the ground
that he 5ould not be held in contempt of
the Circuit Court of Appeals for the rea-
son thattno' appeal had been taken to
that court from the Alaska court; that
the q rH,rr court was wis1out jurisdiction
in the Ilatter, and further, thar Judge
Morrow, acting alone. was not competent
to issue the superseding order.
In stating the opinion of the court de-
nying the application Chief Justice Full
Ter said the writ of habeas corpus could
not be made use of as a writ of error. AS
to the proceedings in the Circuit Court
of Appeals. and in the District Court of
Alaska, none of them was absolutely void.
The former court and even one justice
of that court sitting in chambers had
ample jurisdiction. The Supreme Court
could not overhaul the acts of the Cir
cult Court of Appeals on such an action
as this and the application was there
fore denied.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
STRICKEN IN A STREET CAR.
Former Newspaper Editor Suffering
From ParnIytic Stroke

William ]. Murtagh. a lawyer. for many
years editor of the old National Repub-
lican,' is seriously i'll at his room in the
National Hotel, as the result of a stroke
of paralysis. suffered while on a car OF
the Capital Traction Company last night
His right side is principally affected. Mrs.
Murtagh is with her husband.
During the evening Mr.. Murtagh left
the hotel and accompanied a friend to the
Baltimore and Ohio depot On his re-
turn, he was stricken. Several persons
in the car and the conductor assisted Mr..
Murtagh, and summoned a policeman.
who called for the ambulance. The ear
was stopped until Mr.. .Murtagh could be
removed to the street and taken to. his
hotel. Later DIR. Chamberlin rendered as
sistanCe, but the patient continued in q
critical condition.
Mr.. Murtagh has lived IN Washington
about thirty years, having come here
shortly after the civil war. He formerly
resided in New York City. During the
early seventies he was in editorial control
of the National Republican, and later
was connected with other publications.
Since leaving newspaper work, he has oc-
cupied an office in the Corcoran Building
and has been interested in the Holland
submarine boat, now owned by the Gov
eminent: in various devices for sun-car-
riages and other inventions. Mr.. Muir
tagh has no children.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
HADLEY TAKEN AT HIS WORD.
Placed at the Head of New Haven
Ward COMMITTEES.

| NEW HAVEN. March 25.--Acting on the
| oft-repeated advice of President Hadley.
/ OF Yale. that every citizen should regard
| 1t as his bounden duty TO attend politi-
| cal caucuses and primaries and not leave
| this work entirely to the politicians. the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Democrats of New
Haven have placed at the very head OF
the list of the Eighth ward committee
the name OF President Hadley He is in
California at present.
1t is even proposed to run President
Hadiey for alderman OF the ward. to give
him a taste of practical politics. The adj
ministration men are supporting Mayor
Cornelius T. Driscoll for denomination.
His two years term as mayor expires In
two months. There is a bitter fight
against him.
With President Hadley on the ward
committee are Prof. William G. Sum-
her, of the political economy and social
science department OF Yale, Col. n. G..
Osborn. editor of the New Haven Reg
ister. an out-aud-out gold man. and
Alexander Troup, one of William j.
Bryan's most ardent advocates in the
New England States.
In the last Presidential campaign Presi-
dent Hadley came out fatfooted in favor
of President Mckinley and Prof Sum
ner was classed as a Mckinley man also.
II is interesting to note that both are
now put at the head of a Democratic
ward committee arrayed against Yale
man, too, for Mayor Driscoil Is grad
uate of Yale and wants the honor of hav-
ing Yale man at the head of the city
government during Yale's bi-centenniai
celebration.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
The Barbarn Frictchie Inci..n,

To THE EDlraR or The TINES: The New York
Journal of Sunday publishes what it calls a
true story OF Barbara Frietchie.i and | ask Won
to publish this letter over my signature. Every
word OF the article above referred to is an in
famous lie and Mrs. Southworth's daughter. who
gave the information to Mr.. Raines. only knew,
that her mothers part in the imposition is that
she repeated a story She got from Mrs. Doretbe,
Dix, in which there was NOT one grain Of truth
My mother, Mrs. Mary A. Quantrelle. is the
true heroine. and until the time of her death
corresponded with Whittier. the poet, in all of
his letters to her deploring the fact Of the in
justice done her, for long before his death her
identity had been fully established in his be-
lief.
will give to the press the story with all Of
its proofs, and defy contradiction OF ausht
assert. | will also give the history OF the
Fretchie family.
VIRGIE QUANrRELLE BROWN.
Washington, March %.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
The Merit Sxsfcm.

After casting about the country for a
proper man to succeed Mr.. Brewer on
the Civil Service CommssionS President
Mckinley has al last been able to secure
an appointee in the person of Mr.. w. A
Rodenberg, who as Member of Congress
from Illinois signalized his belief in and
his great regard for the merit system
by voting to deny the appropriation nee
essary to its support. This interesting
event took place on the 18th of February,
1900 and is, of course. a matter of record.
We congratulate the President on pos
sessing at least the courage of his latter
day convictions. Considering his we'll
known views as to the necessity and
efficacy of civil service reform, a Com
missioner who believes in destroying the
whole system is exactly the man to serve
N
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
MAY VISIT TOPEKA.
The President Invited to Stop ut the
Kansas Capital.

Representatives Long and Curtis OF
Kansas saw the President yesterday and
presented him with an invitation to visit
Topeka upon his return from the Pacific
Coast. II is thought that the President
will be able to accept the invitation. 1t
has been decided that he will pass through
Washington and Yellowstone Park and
then come down as far as Colorado
Springs.
1t is probable that he will then come
on east to Kansas City. Unless the
weather is very warm it is doubtful
whether the party will go to Duluth and
take a steamer for Buffalo.
The Ohio delegation has decided to go
directly across the continent and return
with the President through Washington
and Yellowstone Park. The Ohioans will
then leave the Presidential party and
come home direct.
Governor Nash will go to San Francisco
to witness the launching of the battle
ship Ohio. and two special train loads OF
Ohioans will accompany him
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
NOT RECEIVED WITH FAVOR.
United States Brewing Company Di-
rectorx UphoId the Officers.

| LONDON. March 25-The agitation
against the United States Brewing Com
pany, Limited. was not received with
favor at todays meeting of the directors.
A vote of confidence in the managers
was passed. the only dissenting voice
being that of Wilson p. Marchbank. an
American lawyer. who said he represented
American shareholders.
He said his clients were interested to
the extent of 81, $4,000 in the brewery
company. and he alleged that ezSorbitant
salaries had been paid to the American
managers, who were privately investing
in rival breweries.
The meeting was held In private. A
committee was appointed 10 investigate
the matter
NEW YORK, March 25.-Samuel Inter
meyer, of counsel for the United States
Brewing Company. said tonight that
Marchbank was the discharged employee
of the company. He mad been a stenog-
rapher and assistant secretary in the Of
fees here.
I'VE received a despatch today" said
Mr.. Untermeyer. telling us about the
meeting at which Judge Kreiger, of New
ark, one of the managers. who happened
to be In London when the meeting was
called. was present According to our de-
down and the vote of confidence passed.
Judge Kreiger asked that a committee
be appointed to investigate the charges
against himself and the other managers
here. and a committee of two was APP
pointed There is absolutely nothing in
the charges. as the directors showed when
they passed a vote Of confidence.
The managers. who, In addition to
Judge Kreiger. are Adolph Hupfel and
Peter Hauck, are getting $4,000 a year
salaries, and they say they will not work
for any less. That has never been con-
sidered exorbitant for the work they per-
formed, and this agitation has all been
caused apparently by Marchbank.''
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
NOT AFRAID OF THE TRUST.
British Steel Men See N Blessing in
the Combine.

LONDON. March 25.-In an interview
Andrew Law, NJ p Leading steel mer-
chant OF Glasgow, said he believed the
American Steel Trust would not injure
British trade to the extent some persons
imagined.
The head of another leading Scotch firm
who has just returned from Pittsburg.
while admitting that the trust Is I'M
doubtedly a menace, is inclined to think
1t will prove blessing in disguise by
stimulating the British. Moreover. he Is
convinced that the trust will not export
on a large scale until it has a surplus.
which is now nonresident.
Sir William Doxford, NJ. P. addressing
the shareholders of his firm, Doxford &
Sons. Limited. of Sunderland. declared
that so long as the United States MAIN
tanned their present heavy import duties
the trust would benefit British shipbuiid-
erS.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
THE REPORTS EXAGGERATED.
No Unusual Suffering Along AInskaI
Telegraph Lines.

In connection with the statements re-
Gently published of great suffering in the
construction of military telegraph lines
in Alaska, General Greedy says:
"Oficial advices show them to be I'M
founded. Major Frank Greene, about the
middle of December, telegraphed via
Fort Egbert from Unalaklik. where tele-
graph work was progressing. that state
ments of this character had been sent
out of the Territory by mail. but that
they were unfounded, and that no cred
ence should be given them.
There has been no suffering beyond
that entailed by ordinary winter travel
in the Valley of the Yukon along the
regularly travelled mail routes.
Major Greene returned to st. Michael,
from which a telegram dated January
q. 1901. was received at Washington. via
Fort Egbert on March II, 1901. Line
troops we're then comfortable in quar-
tiers, while Lieutenant Grimm and the
Signal Corps party were comfortably stu
ated at Unalaklik. The telegram reported
that all were we'll"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
PLACED ON WAITING ORDERS.
Prof. stimson j. Brown Detached
From the Naval Observatory.

The Secretary of the Navy has decided
not to order the trial by court martial of
Prof. Stimson ]. Brown. U. s. N, Direct
or of the Nautical Almanac against
whom charges were filed by Capt. Charles
III. Davis. U. S. N, Superintendent of the
Naval Observatory but has detached
Prof Brown from duty at the observa-
tory and placed him on waiting orders.
Prof. Brown will be detailed for duty
elsewhere here as soon as an assignment
can be found.
Captain Davis charged Prof Brown
with neglect of duty and made other ac-
cusations growing out of the effort of
scientific men in the navy and out of it
to prevent the retention of line officer
as superintendent of the observatory
Captain Davis recommended that Prof
Brown be tried by court-martial. Con-
gress at its last session enacted a pro-
vision restricting the selection of super
intcndent of the observatory to the line.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
CITY WATER CONTRACTS.
An Illinois Decision Upheld. by the
Supreme Court.

The decisions of the Supreme Court OF
| Illinois in three cases involving the power
of municipalities to fix water rates were
affirmed by the Supreme Court of the
United States yesterday. The cities of
Freeport. Danville. and Rogers Park, ILL.,.
under acts of the Legislature. made con-
tracts with water companies 20 supply
water at a specified rate. Subsequently
the councils of these cities passed ordi-
nances reducing these rates some 50 per
cent and the water companies brought
suit to compel the carrying out of the
original contracts on the ground that the
impairment was in violation of their
rights under the Constitution.
The act of the Illinois Legislature au-
thoroizing the making of the contracts
specified that the cities might make con-
tracts for period not exceeding thirty
years, but the Supreme Court of the State
held that the power TO fix rates for public
water supply was a governmental func-
ton and the power of the municipal as
sembly to bind the city did not extend
beyond the life of the body itself.
Justice McKenna, announcing the opin-
ion of the court, said the question pre-
scented was as to the power of the NUM-
cipaHties TO make contracts. whether it
could fix rates by ordinance which should
be binding for given period or whether
it could. by subsequent ordinance from
time to time. as circumstances changed.
regulate those rates accordingly. The Iii
nois Supreme Court had held to the latter
view. and this court. as was usual in
cases which might involve any unseemiy
jurisdiction over State courts, leaned to
the Supreme Court of the State, the decis-
ion of that court being also most favor
able to the public. Justices White.
Brewer Brown, and Peckham, dissented.
holding the terms of the contract were
and explicit. and that under
the creative acts the power to contract
included also the power TO contract at a
tiNad rate
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
A UTICA RAILWAY SOLD.
Property Valued Mt 100000 Ac-
uuired by n Syndicate

UTICA, n. Y, March 25.-A half million
dollar deal was consummated in this city
today when the Utica Belt Line Street
Railroad Company was sold to a Cleve-
land, Ohio. syndicate represented by
Horace +. Andrews and Paul T. Brady.
The syndicate is the same that has re-
Gently been acquiring street railroad prop
erty in various sections of the country
The Standard oil Company and Senator
Hanna are among those behind the deal
The new owners of the local property
will parallel the New York Central tracks
from Little Falls, twenty-five miles east
of Utica. to Sylvan Beach, thirty miles
west. Nearly 100000 will be expended in
improvements
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
Mr. CleNelnnd.

To TIE EDrTOR OF THE TINES: As subscriber to
THE Commoner' the writer had already seen
the dissection OF the late Grover Cleveland by
Mr. Bryan. quoted in The Times this morning.
but it will bear a reperusIl, and The Times has
in a few feicitous lines skillfuly completed the
good work.
The thanks of all good Democrats are due to
Mr.. Bryan and to The Times for telling the
,leiunct Just what the party he betrayed, and
good citizens generally. think of him.
1t is to be hoped. though scarcely to be ex-
pected. that he will now subsde into his normal
condition OF innocuous pinguitude.
The character Ia the drama next to Falstatf,
which he most resembles is Joseph Surface, who
after his treachery and visiny had been made
clear to everybody, continued 10 roll of high
sounding platitudes about the moral virtues and
was, YOU will remember. finally sienced by an
honest and impatient listener with so. damn
Your sentinentsin E. N. s.
Washington, March %.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
TO THE LONDON EMBASSY.
william COrcOrnn Eustis Made Third
Assistant Secretary

William Corcoran Eustis has been ap-
pointed Third Assistant Secretary to the
United States Embassy in London to sue
coed Joseph II. Choate, jr, whose voluu-
tary resignation has been accented bv the
President Mr.. Choate retlres from the
office to complete his studies at Harvard
Mr. Eustis is a son-in-law of ex-Vice
President Morton. nephew of the late
Ambassador Eustis who represented the
United States at Paris during the last
Cleveland Administration, and grand
son of the late William W. Corcoran.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26

AS the probable effects of the new
Maryland election law become more ap-
parent to practical politicians. it is not
strange that there should be almost a
panic in the Republican camp Maryland
may find imitators even among the North
ern and Western States, and the prospects
of the trust and monopoly organization
would be dark indeed were illiteracy to
be generally DISTINGUISHED. AS a rule it
is only the ignorant who can be regularly
bought or used as colonists and repeat
ers To cut off such a supply of votes
would be to dam the river of Republican
success at its fountain head. So the par
ty leaders are alarmed, and are thinking
up devices to coerce or scare disfranchis-
ing States into further tolerance of an
illiterate electorate. The movement how
ever, is SO well under way that we do not
believe it can be checked. Our trust
friends would much better furnish their
adherents with schoolmasters and prim-
ers than to try to make trouble over the
enactment of laws which are merely of
self-preservation to the communities
adopting them.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
RAN OFF WITH A TUG.
A Small Norfolk, Va. Boy Has n
PirnticaI Adventure

NORFOLK, Va, March 25.-Johnnie
Bondureane. eleven years old, the son Of
reputable parents, yesterday ran away
with the small steaA tug Fannie.
The Fannie came up from Lambert s
Point coal pier. She was mOored to the
Merchants and Miners pier by the crew
and all hands except the engineer went
ashore.
Johnnie came along, Ne-. aboard, cast
Off the lines took the wheel, turned the
tugs nose down the harbor. and was al
most out of sight when the crew re-
turned.
The big tug f. V. McCauley put out,
headed Johnnie off, and captured him.
Johnnie deeply penitent and badly
scared. begged hard and so the captain
preferred no charges against him
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26

If Mr.. Andrew Carnegies library dona-
tons should all be accepted there will
be an unmistakable boom in the book
trade, and, no doubt, enhanced prices
People who cannot resort to the Carne-
gle library and have to buy their own
books will have to pay more for them or
go without. But it would be useless and
indicate to complain. The same thing
would happen in the leather and shoe in
dustries if some Millionaire were to order
a new pair Of shoes for every man, wo-
man, and child in the country, on condi-
ton that each beneficiary furnished
strings, button hook, a brush. and a
box of backing
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
UNABLE TO RESUME BUSINESS.
Niles Bank Stockholders to BE As
sessed 100 Per Cent

The Comptroller of the Currency has
decided to assess the stockholders of the
insolvent First National Bank of Niles,
Mich, 100 per cent on their holdings.
The preliminary statement of the tenn
porary receiver was received few days
ago and estimated the cashiers defalca-
ton at approximately $4,000. The full
report of the receiver was received yes
terday, but will not be made public at
present
Any idea that the bank would be able
to resume business was abandoned sew
eral days ago.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26

Press opponents of economic and indus
trial and commercial interests through
out Europe are simply crying out with
alarm against what they begin to view
as hopeless competition in their own
markets with the invading products of
the American trusts. In Austria the
agitation is so strong that the Govern
ment is being pressed to organize a tariff
bund against the United States and
check its extension Of trade into the Old
World by prohibitory duties. The fear Of
us is steadily spreading, and we shall
begin to realize its consequences when
we are next Obliged to renew our com
mercial treaties with the leading States
Of Europe.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
Ith becoming the style.


No Federal official, high or low. travels in
greater state than does Governor Allen of Porte
Rico, who is coming soon TO discuss insular al
fairs with the authorities at Washington. He la,
and fittings and ixings 20 match. 1t impresses
the natives. makes life in the Tropics worth liy-
ing, and is altogether a handy thing to have. in
the gubernatorial equipment. The future Governor
w. but only at the risk 81 turning mere extraya-
gance into srrarant sandsostentatious display.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
CAPTAINS CHANGE PLACES.
Thomas to Bring the Oregon Back
to This Country

Capt f. w. Dickins has been detached
from the battleship Oregon and directed
to assume command OF the armored
cruiser Brooklyn, Rear Admiral Remey's
flagship.
The Oregon will he brought back to the
United States under command of Capt
G. NJ. Thomas. who has been detached
from command of the Brooklyn.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26
The Presidents Junket.
(From the Kansas City starr

Presidential tours have been so infrequent that
they still mean a great deal to the people The
course outlined for MIR. Mckinley will take him
into territory never before honorcd by such a
visit The support given him by the South in
the crisis of the Spanish-Am war makes it
particularly appropriate that he should include
the Southern States in his travels. The distant
Pacific Coast will also experience much salts
faction in entertaining the President. Made at
time when it will not be regarded as having
any special political significance, Mr. McKinley's
trip across the continent should be an event Tor
patriotic demonstration.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-26

Human liberty and free institutions
grew and fiourished in the nineteenth
century from the sturdy seed planted in
the latter part of the eighteenth. Are
these same plants of the higher ciyiliza-
ton in state of decadence at the opening
of the twentieth century? That is a fair
question when We are compelled to OBJ
serve the democratic United States con-
sciously leaving its old constitutional
landmarks and embarking on the dan
gerous sea of imperialism; and when
constitutional Germany, by large ma
jority in its Reichstag. refuses to make
free the offspring of slaves in German
colonies, thereby declaring to the world
that it considers colonial slavery an
economic necessity. Perhaps this coun-
try may come to take the same view.
Who knows? Already we have slavery
In our Sulu Islands Perhaps the system
might be thought advantageous as well
for Haiti and Porto Rico. Temporal
tantur,