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The times., 1901-06-08
MAINE CASES MAY BE BARRED.
The Commission Likely to Cite the
Relief Act of Congress-.

The members of the Spanish Treaty
Claims Commission are in ignorance as to
the report that this Government will re-
sist the proposition that the body headed
by ex-senator Chandler take up the ques-
tion of the responsibility for the destruc-
tion Of the battleship Maine which ques-
ton is involved in a number of claims
now pending before the Commission. The
Commission has had no notice of the pro-
posed movement and the members do not
believe that there is any authority for the
story
The Commission will meet on Monday
and among the cases to be taken up then
will be several emanating from the de-
structiOn of the Maine 1t IS admitted
that it may be possible that the Commits
sion will decide against awarding any
damages in the Maine cases, but as far
as is known the body appointed by Con
gress will have full charge of these cases
and will not be hampered in any way by
action of the Government.
The reasons why the Commission will in
all probability refuse TO award any dam
ages in the Maine cases are because of
the fact that on March 30, 1895 Congress
passed an act for the relief of the suffer
ers by the destruction of the battleship
and the resolution included the officers
and crew of the vessel and their families
The resolution contains the following
clause, which shuts out the present claim
ants:
THE relief granted by the provisions of
this act shall be in full satisfaction of any
and all claims whatever against the
United States on account of losses or
deaths by the destruction of the United
States steamer Maine"
1t is held that the Commission has the
right to receive and judge all claims pre-
sented by those who have reason to be-
lieve that they come within the provisions
of the treaty. 1t remains for the Com
mission to hold sessions and take up the
claims in turn, rendering a decision in
each case as to the validity OF the claim.
II is denied that the Government has the
right to say that the Commission cannot
Judge as to whether any claim is just or
of such character as may be given con-
sideration and 1t is claimed that there is
not the least possibility that the Govern
ment will claim any such right.
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ONLY REAL ESTATE LEFT.
Mr.. Depew's Comment on John Bulls
LOSS OF Prestige.

BUFFALO, June Poor John Bull, -
said Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew tonight
1T wasn't enough that America should
shoulder him out of the markets of the
world, buy up his ships, and distance him
in the race for industrial supremacy;
Whitney had to win the Derby, which
was the only thing John Bull had left.
When ! learned that Whitney had won l
cabled him that the only thing England
now possessed was her real estate, and
we don't want that. We've got all the
land we need. The visit of the American
financiers to England is very nice thing.
Those affairs do no harm. Carnegie. l
think, however, went little too far WITH
mis- conclusions. The idea that we would
fight for England in the event of com
bined European attack upon her is alb
surd We never will do anything of the
kind. We would just keep out of the af-
fair altogether"
Although not marked in the official
programme, today was Depew Gay at the
Exposition. The Senator got in from Chi
cago this morning and became the guest
North Street home st noon the Senator
shed two-column interview on the third
term idea. American industrial ascend
ency Editor Butler for mayor and other
topics At 2 o'clock he plunged into the
Midway. from which he did not emerge
until dark. Special dances were executed
Tor him In the Orlental theatres ana
sights that were rot illusions were spread
for his private view.
Senator, what did you see?" he was
asked as he passed out the gates.
Among other things l saw in the the
CLAIMS who sing The Holy City"
Senator Thomas c. Platt will arrive
in Buffalo Monday evening. He is billed
to select a new postmaster for Buffalo,
to FIJI the term of the late Dr. Dorr.
Senator Platt Will remain several days.
Representatives of the railways and the
Exposition met In conference today on
the question OF lower rates to Buffalo.
The Exposition officials believe the roads
ought to offer an inducement to visitors
to come in June and July, so that the
whole country Will not be dropped in
here in the last three months of the
show. delegation of marines from the
BROOKLYN Navy Yard arrived today and
:eported to Commander Williamson, in
command of the naval exhibit. Captain
Leonard, who won fame and lost an arm
in China headed the fifty marines. They
will establish a model camp and give
drills. They have with them two pieces
OF artillery captured in Pekin.
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The Taria and the Trusts.

Mr.. Tayler. OF Ohio, appeared before
the Industrial Commission on Thurs
day and was examined with refer
ence 10 the tariff and its relation to
the trusts. This gentleman is a Rep
resentative in Congress. and 1t would
seem from the position he occupies that
he would speak for the best interests
Of the country generally and his own
immediate constituency especially But
it is stated that he appeared before the
Commission p the representative Of
the American Protective Tariff League.
However It makes very little differ
ence in what particular capacity Mr..
Tayler appeared, for he seems 10 have
thrown no new light Oh the subject.
He was firm in expressing the belief
that the DingIey law was the cause of
our very great prosperity, and that II
ought not to be disturbed. Beyond this
his opinions respecting the measures
necessary 10 give relief from the exac-
tions of the trusts were all, or nearly
all, accompanied by the conditional If
that rendered them OF no practical
value. He was opposed TO tTusts-so he
said-and thought that some way ought
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to be found to regulate and control
them, but he suggested none. He fear
ed the proposition of removing the du-
ties from trust-controlled products, be-
cause. in his opinion. it would result in
reduction of the wages of labor.
Standing there as the representative of
the employer class, his special solicit
tude was, as he claimed, for the wage
worker
So it has ever been. a personal rep
resentative Of the trusts themselves
man protesting TO believe that the
trusts are a good thing for the coun-
try, would doubtless make the same
plea. The proposition amounts to just
this: The trusts are formed for the eX-
press purpose Of controlling prices and
forcing the consumer to pay more for
what he buys than he would have to
under free competition. Clearly, the
primary and only object in view is to
enrich those who form the trusts. But
the moment a remedy is proposed it is
met with the answer that it viii never
do. because il would result in reducing
the earnings of the workingman. In
other words. it means that if any at
tempt is made to cut down the outra-
geous profits of the trusts they will at
once recoup their loss of profits at the
expense OF the wageworkers. This is
the proposition in nutshell
Mr.. Tayler talked vaguely about the
Government ownership of railroads and
the like, but he suggested no tangible
remedy of any kind, while he attempted
10 throw serious obstacle in the way
by opposing any modification of the
Dingley law. He was opposed TO the
trusts. but most heartily favored the
system of special privileges and advan-
tages under which they have reached
their present overgrown proportions,
and which is their main support
There is one thing, however, that Mr..
Tayler failed to explain. If the Dingley
perity during recent years, 20 what
cause is to be ascribed the prosperity
of England, Germany, and various 9TH
er countries which during the same
years has been relatively as great as
our own? Those countries have had no
Dingley law, OF anything like it, and
yet that they have had a wonderful run
of prosperity, only lately checked, is de-
MED by no one. But, then, there are so
many other things which Mr.. Tayler
did not explain that this particular
omission may as well go with the rest
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lie GaIIienne in America.

Mr.. Richard lie Gallienne is said to
be thinking Of taking up his permanent
residence in this country. which he con=
siders to be full of literary material. To
those who are more or less acquainted
with Mr. lie Gallienne's productions,
this announcement causes mingled fear
and g1ee.
1t is quite true that there is plenty of
literary material in America. Seventy
six millions Of people of all nationali-
ties, who have swept the land clear of
its aboriginal inhabitants and set UP a
Government on principles unknown in
the Old World, cannot fail to afford
subjects for the imaginative writer. To
the true romance-writer crudity and IL
literacy are not devoid of interest. He
does not seek his heroes and heroines
solely in what is called society" He
is interested in all varieties of human
nature.
There is no question that there is ma
teriaI here for a novelist. The question
is whether Mr.. lie Gallienne ought to be
let loose on It or not. We have had
whirIing words, and Mr.. Howells with
his multiplied descriptions Of nothing in
particular, and romanticists who kill a
person to a page, on an average, and
realists who take half chapter 10 de-
scribe the purchase of a bar Of soap,
and decadent people to whom all Amer
lea is as one refuse heap. We have
l.. 4 I Ca1lfanna and IL { nnt
quite certain that we need one.
The apostle of modern esthetic ro
nance may be intending a new Quest
of the Golden Girl" somewhere in Cali
fornia; but If he is, 1t may be well to
inform him that even in the West girls
do not wear their gold garments in pub
lie. He may be meditating the descrlp-
ton of American life after the manner
in which he describes English life. in
which case a protest will be in order.
The American people are not suited to
the fiorid and ornamental style of his
romances. It would be as absurd for
him to decorate American heroes and
heroines with the complicated emotions
and peculiar physical attributes of his
characters as LOT a railway tHBlHcci W
put on fancy dress costume for wear
on the road. The people of this coun-
try are not fond of nonsense of that
kind Oscar Wilde tried his fashions on
them, and was a nine days laughing
stock. The more modern decorative
rubbish of Mr. lie Gallienne viii fare no
better If he has any idea of writing an
American novel in the style OF his Eng
lish ones, he will find the job more diff
fcult than the Clipping and training Of
a bison of the plains into the trim and
gait OF a Hyde Park cob. He will break
his vocabulary trying to make it fit. AS
for any chance of his writing an Amer
lean novel as 1t should be written, in
simple, straightforward and accurate
style-there Is no chance at all. He
could not simplify himself and be Mr.
lie Gallienne There would be nothing
of him. He takes three pages to de-
scribe a wallpaper. The advertisement
writer would take three lines, and the
reader would know what the wallpaper
was like The people of this country,
il should be known to Mr.. lie Gallienne
are brought UP on newspapers pad ad-
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Circulation Statement.
senator rlatt ON Ht. Terms.

No doubt it was a breach Of faith on
the part Of Senor Capote to publish the
letter Of Senator Platt TO Secretary
Root. explaining the views of the for
mer IS 10 the meaning of the terms Of
fered 70 cuba which are associated With
his name. II appears that copy of the
letter was given 10 Senior CapoJe for the
edihcaJion Of the visiting committee Of
the Cuban Constitutional Convention,
on the distinct agreement ttat il was
TO be treated as private &nd ccnhdep-
tial. and was not 70 be made public IN
any circumstances.
The appearance Of the document in a
Havana newspaper has occasioned
great deal of indignation in the Admin
istration circle. To outsiders the fact
of publication will not appear as sur
prising as the letter itself. In il Sen
ator Platt declares that the amend
ment was carefully prepared with the
object of avoiding any possible idea
that by the acceptance thereof the Con-
stitutional Convention would thereby
establish a protectorate or suzerainty,
or in any manner whatsoever compro-
mise the independence or sovereignty Of
Cuba
We are unable TO even guess by what
process of reasoning the author of the
terms could have reached such a posi-
tion. On their face, and in the plainest
language, they do establish a su-
zerainty. The United States is to have
practical supervision of Cuban foreign
relations The like restriction alone
made Great Britain the suzerain of the
South African Republic, and she was
always so recognized by the text writers
on international law. The Platt terms
go further, and assert the right of in
tervention-again a qualification of Gu
ban sovereignty. No country is re-
garded as fully sovereign when an
other has the right of veto over and to
interfere in its actions in the smallest
degree. The Platt explanation is COM
pletely unsatisfactory. If the terms are
assumed by the Administration to mean
what he says they do, then they are
also unsatisfactory, and need to be
changed.
A broad American suZerainty over
Cuba is necessary for the safety Of the
United States, and for the peace and
prosperity Of the island. There should
be no mincing Of words about the mat
ter.
The times., 1901-06-08
THE ILLINOIS sENAToRsHIP.
Dawes Likely to Give Mason n Hard
Fight for the Office.

The Illinois Senatorial fight is now on
in earnest. The principal candidate
against Senator Mason is Charles G..
Dawes, Comptroller of the Currency, and
in a day or two Martin B. Madden, of
Cook County, will announce his candi-
dacy, thus adding interest to the contest.
Senator Mason, it is said, is stronger with
the Republicans in the interior of the
State than he was a year ago. when he
was severely criticised because of his op-
position to the Administrations Porto
Rican and Philippine policy, but now it
Is asserted the tide has changed, and most
of the country leaders favor his re-elec-
tion. The Legislature to be elected this
fall will select Senator Masons success
sor next January, and it is this fact that
lends interest and excitement to the State
election.
MIR. Dawes, it is understood, has the
quasi endorsement of the Administration.
The scheme 10 beat Mason, it was said
yesterday afternoon, is to bring out two
or three candidates from Cook County,
and thus produce a deadlock, but it is
pointed out that this same scheme was
tried before and failed, for Mason was
elected in face of the fact that Cook
County was against him.
Friends OF Mr.. Dawes claim that this
time the young element will control. and
that as he is the representative Of the
young Republicans he will win. There Is
much force in this statement, it is said,
and the lines will be sharply drawn be-
tween the two Republican factions.
Senator Mason, who is by long odds
one of the best stumpers in Illinois, will
make a complete canvass of the State 1t
is not improbable that he Will challenge
Dawes to a joint debate. The officials of
the Administration are deeply interested
in the Senatorial fight, and 1t viii be but
a little while when the voters will know
exactly where the Administration stands
The times., 1901-06-08
Unsatisfactory Conditions in China


If the views expressed by General
Chafee since his return from China are
correct, the current conditions in that
Empire are worse than the American
public has had reason to suspect. Ac-
cording to the general, the indemnity
which the Powers demand of the Chi
nese Government is impossible for ii to
raise That is one cause of added ma
tive irritation against foreigners. An
other, he says, is the conduct of the al
lied troops, excepting those Of two or
three nations, which has been of ma
ture TO infiame the Chinese against all
Western peoples and ideas.
What, then, may we expect 10 happen
when the soldiers leave? II General
to doubt his judgment in the matter,
the chances are that the Celestials are
only waiting 10 get rid Of European
bayonets to turn upon whatever for
eigners may be left in the country and
massacre them. 1t is reported from Pc
kin that some irritation exists in the
Council of Ministers over the sudden
movement Of Germany in ordering the
withdrawal Of a large portion of her
military contingent. 1t is said to be
feared that the result viii be u tavor-
able to a prompt settlement wich the
Court, and may encourage the Chinese
TO believe that the Concert is broken up,
and its members glad to get away and
leave them alone on any terms.
II would not be strange if such an
idea were TO be found widely prevalent
among the native population. and even
among the mandarin class. A second
fight between French and British sol
diers in Tientsin is reported. In it two
Of the combatants were killed and FIVE
wounded. Such affairs must have the
effect Of convincing Cinnamon that the
allies are falling out among themselves,
and unitediy need not be feared in the
future.
From first 10 last the Chinese bust
ness has been badly managed. Per
haps, to an extent, this was unavoida-
bic, owing to international jealousies
and suspicious; but tie fact remains,
and the natural train of consequences
VIII follow. The yellow Peril has not
been averted or its menace diminished
by the developments Of the past year
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A Curious Court Incident.

a rather rerllarkab BILE incident occurred
in the courtroom the other day at New
York during the trial of DR.. Kennedy
for murder The doctors little four
year old son was present in charge Of a
lady friend of Mrs. Kennedy. The As
sistant District Attorney, who is tax
ing part in the prosecution, ordered one
of the court officers to keep the child
out OF the jurors sight, and it was done.
The purpose of the order was perfect
ly apparent. 1t was to prevent sight
of the little one from playing upon the
sympathies of the jurors, and thus, pos
sibly, influencing their verdict. When
men are on trial for capital and other
grave offences, ii is a common practice
of the defence to surround them with
grief-stricken relatives - particularly
with sorrowing wives and helpless,
prattling children, if there happen TO
be any such relatives available for the
purpose. 1t has frequently proved
very effectual aid to the defence, for
few jurors are entirely without syn1pa-
thetic feelings, and with many sucn
feelings predominant over all others in
such cases.
The authority of the Assistant Dis
triCt Attorney to make such an order
may well be doubted; but it was not
matter of which the defence could take
any advantage. a protest would at
once have made it clear that the child's
presence was desired for its effect upon
the jury, and the effort probably would
have reacted to the injury of the de
fendant.
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BRAZILIAN OFFICERS HERE.
Four of Them Make Official Calls
With Their Minister.

Four of the officers of the Brazilian
schoolship Benjamin Constant, now lying
at the New York Navy Yard. came over
to Washington yesterday and made
round of official calls. accompanied by the
Brazilian Minister. Mr.. Assis- Brasil. The
party consisted of Captain Toledo and
Lieutenants Frontin, Rebirro, Guimarais.
and Dodsworth The first call was made
paid also TO the Secretary of the Navy
and the Secretary of State. Later In the
day the officers went TO Mount Vernon.
where they placed a wreath on the tomb
of Washington. A score OF cadets from
the Benjamin Constant were at Annapolis
yesterday, attending the graduation eXer-
cises of the Naval Academy.
The times., 1901-06-08
A NAVAL STATION IN HAWAII.
Action Taken to FOrestaII the
Schemes of Land Spectators.

In view of efforts of land spectators
TO buy up land on Pearl Harbor Hawaii,
where the United States Government is
to establish a naval station, Secretary
Long Yesterday sent instructions to the
commandant of the naval station at Hon
oluIu TO consult with the United States
district attorney there In regard to pro-
securing a site at Pearl Harbor. He also
asked the Attorney General to direct the
district attorney at Honolulu to take
measures before July to condemn the
land needed for the station. The annual
appraisement of land takes place in Ha-
W all on Jufy l.
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TWO DECISIONS AFFIRMED.
The Court of Appeals UphoIds the
Commissioner of Patents

In the case of Charles w. StapIeton,
appellant, against Frank w. Kinney, in
volving the patent right to a certain kind
of rubber tire toC vehicles. the Court of
Appeals yesterday affirmed the decision
of the Commissioner of Patents
In the case of John Emerson Scott, ap-
pellant. against John Emmerson Scott.
also involving the ownership of 4 patent
right the decision of the Commissioner
of Patents was affirmed. The litigation
involved the ownership of a patent TO a
thimble, or lining, for the spindle socket
of a shoe last.
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vertisements9! ana they expect their
novels to beras 5succinct and crammed
with thought as the headlines. If The
Quest of the Golden Girl were made as
simple as that it would not be a book;
it would be a paragraph. Mr.. lie Cal
lienne must not try to fit himself to
America. 1t cannot be done.
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A Startling Prospect.
OFrcm The Chicago Chronicle. J

(Frcm the Chicago Chronicle.)
The various religious bodies which are viewing
with alarm some OF the customs prevailing in the
new tropical possessions of the United States
should understand that colonialiSn is likely TO
result in some curious performances under the
aeqis Of the American flag. With his territory
extending more than hat way around the globe
Uncle sam will have TO get used to some things
in a social way which would be likely 10 shock
q Ncw ENGLAND nraver meeting.
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Dispatches from General Macarthur an
nounce that all Of the volunteers re-
Gently on duty in the Philippines, are now
on their way home. The insurrection is
all but crushed, and should Cailles, the
rebel leader, surrender within the next
few days, as he is expected to, it may
reasonably De considered at an end. Some
sorry work was done in the islands un-
der Otis, but when all is said on that
score that can be, it still remains that
we have come out of the conflict better
than England has in South Africa-which
is some comfort.
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1t would be too tad to have the riotous
Albany street car strike of q few weeks
ago repeated; but there seems to be a
prospect of 1t. The traction company has
discharged several former strike leaders
within a day or so and the conductors
and motormen say that unless these men
are reinstated there will be another and
fercer tie-up. The weather is getting
too warm for turbulence and civic out
breaks to be comfortable, even to read
ahOut
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The President has been obliged to can
Gel the last one of his out of town en-
gagements, on account Of Mrs. McKin
ley's state Of health. He had hoped to
run up to Buffalo for single day, on
June 1S, but, day before yesterday, de-
cided that the idea must be abandoned.
Mr., Mckinley is having long and anx-
ious vigil. in which the sympathy of the
country is earnestly with him.
The times., 1901-06-08
False Prophets.
oFrom the Chicago journal.

(FTOm the IhlCagO JouFnaI.J
When one Of these frauds or maniacs appears
in a community the first effect Of his preaching
is 10 excite ridicue. II he persists with apparent
earnestness and suffers abuse and general perse-
cution some of the more impressonable OF his
hearers viii begin TO waver, and il the prophet
keeps at work he will land a number Of converts
presently.
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The safe Conrse.

From the Boston Transcrpt)
Should the anti-canteen law be repealed il
will be a great stroke in the interest of true
temperance II cannot be TOO often repeated
that temperance is not necessarily total abstin-
aure
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a contract between a corporation and
stockholder by which the latter is to
receive the par value of any part of his
stocks before all the corporate debts are
paid is contrary to public policy and
void holds the United States Circuit
Court of Appeals in the case of Guaranty
Trust Company VS.. Galveston City Rail-
way Company (lG7 Fed Rep, 5I).
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on an indictment for manslaughter
which charged only that the defendant
did "feloniously kin and slay" the de-
ceased. a conviction for assault and bat
tery cannot be supported. holds the Court
of Errors aud Appeals of New Jersey in
the case of State VS. Thomas as AtI
Rep. 100O.