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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-09
FIXING THE INDEMNITY.
Mr.. Rockhi1I Trying TO Reduce the
Demands IN China.

Advices have been received at the State
Department from Special Commissioner
RockhiH that give a discouraging view
of the prospects of harmonious agree
ment on the indemnity question. He says
that the claims of the Powers aggregate
S351, 100000, and that there is apparently
no prospect of securing reduction below
that amount. Mr.. Rockhill is making an
earnest endeavor to have the foreign rep
resentatives reduce the aggregate to $780,,
100000, but his despatch shows that he has
not much hope that he will be successful.
The figures given in his message are
Sl4,0O0,0oo bigher than the aggregate men
toned in press dispatches as having been
agreed on BY the foreign negotiators
The proposition in regard to opening
China to foreign trade, now under consid-
Grafton is understood to apply not only to
Manchuria. but to all the provinces of
the Empire. China has apparently brought
this suggestion to the attention of the
Powers in the hope that they will agree 20
reduction of athe pecuniary indemnity
in return for trade advantages. Great
Britain has announced that she will de
mand only SO. 900 indemnity If better
trade advantages are afforded.
Mr.. Rockhill has been given instruc-
at Pekin agree on the aggregate amount
of indemnity to be paid by China before
deciding what means are necessary to
raise the money to liquidate China's in
debtedness. The United States Govern
ment is opposed to an increase in the Gus
toms tariff until the amount of indemnity
has been fixed. for the reason that If any
considerable income is provided for the
more radical OF the Powers will insist on
increasing the amount of the indemnity.
1t is apparent here that a majority OF
the foreign representatives at Pekin are
determined to fix the indemnity at the
highest possible figure that China can
pay. Thus if the customs tariff were
made high enough to secure Chinas
ability to pay $500 100000 the Ministers at
Pekin would probably decide that China
should pay that amount, whereas, under
the method suggested by the United
States, fair sum would be first fixed,
and then the Ministers would determine
what steps were necessary to enable
China to pay that amount in addition
to governmental expenses. In other words.
the Government wants the amount of the
indemnity to determine the increases to
be made in China s revenues. and not
have the revenues provided for first and
the indemnity then fixed by the sum that
can be raised by the additional provis-
ions
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-09
MR.. CARNEGIE's ADVICE,
English Steel Men Told First to Con-
aucr the Home Markets.


LONDON. May Sat the annual meet
ing OF the Iron and Steel Institute
today. President Austen announced that
Andrew Carnegie. not content with his
magnificent gift to the institute of
$500, had decided to double il. The
council of the institute. he said had de-
cided to divide this years Carnegie award
into three parts. and to present the
money es11ii=sss,iiiiy 10 the distinguished Amer
lean. DIR. Mathews: the Austrian Dr. Ju-
Illus Goldberg. and DR. stansfeId
Mr.. Carnegie proposed vote of thanks
TO the president for his address, of which
he said the whole lesson was that you
must look at home and develop the ma
terial you have there. He believed thor
oughly that the English Cleveland iron
would make good steel. He felt certain
that the basic process would succeed in
England. as well as 1t had done ir the
United States. What was said In America
to the contrary did not prevent them from
buying up all the mines nobody else
wanted and they could do the same in
England. Mr.. Carnegie said the Bible
taught Seek We first the kingdom, OF
heaven and all things will be added unto
you" He, Mr.. Carnegie. would say to
them: Seek We first the United Kingdom
and the markets of the world will be
added unto you"
The way to get hold Of foreign mar
kets. he said. was to conquer the home
markets. Mr.. Carnegie told the members
Of the institute that they need not thank
him for his gift. On the contrary, he had
to thank them because he felt It was a
Held in which deal more money might
be spent protitably. Mr.. Carnegie's speech
was received with considerable sympa-
thetic amusement,
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-09

In the British Medical Journal APP
pears an article on the dietetic value of
sugar. in wkich it is stated that the
worlds consumption of sugar during
the last fifteen years has doubled, while
! that of Great Britain has trebled per
head in the last forty years. England
and America head the list as sugar-eat-
ing countries. The author of the ar
ticle, DR.. Willoughby Gardner, believes
sugar to be potent creator OF energy
and maintainer of stamina.
There was time when sugar was re-
garded as a luxury not to be attained
by any except the well-to-do and when
the purchase of a loaf of the precious
commodity was serious business even
to them. But with the improved meth
| DDS of sugar-naking which have been
evolved. white sugar is attainable by
everybody in this country and by most
people in Europe, though the brown ar
ticle still continues to be used by some
of the poorer classes on the Continent.
IT has even come TO the point where
some farmers of this country who make
maple sugar for sale, and who derive
from that source large part of their
scanty income. eat white sugar because
they cannot afford to keep much of
their own product for themselves. Fifty
years ago the white sugar was the lux
ury and the maple sugar the despised
commodity
The fact that this article was for so
long a thing not to be had by the poor
l. at.
popular notion of its being injurious to
health. but it is undeniable that DR..
Gardeners article will be something of a
surprise to many readers. There has
been inveighing against candies, cakes
and jams in this country which almost
equals the anti-alcohol crusades. 1t has
been claimed the teeth and health of
children and grown people were sure to
be ruined by over-indulgence in these
articles; but, all the same, they con-
tinue to be sold, which is a pretty sure
sign that there is a place for them or
something like them in the domestic
economy of the country.
The fact is that sweets. in some form
or other. are just as necessary to the
normal human being as salt or fresh
vegetables. and as, in Arctic regions,
sailors often contract scurvy through
being confined too long to diet without
variety. 50 other diseases may be devel-
oped through a lack of some essential
food element in the daily living. Sugar
is essential in some form The form in
which II is furnished may be good or
bad for the health. but not so bad. in
the long run, as the lack of ii. one rea-
son for the increased consumption of |
white sugar may be found in the fact |
that the average mars diet today con |
tains less saccharine matter than his |
grandfather's did, exclusive of the |
white sugar. The old-fashioned corn |
bread and brown bread contained a |
sweet element which was in Tire -four of |
which they were made; the white bread |
which comes from the baker is not |
sweet; IL has practically no taste. Mo |
lasses Is not So much used as formerly; !
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-09

Although American Catholics are ex-
cusable in feeling disappointed in that the
honor of the cardinalate has not fallen
upon some or all of the popular American
prelates who had been thought likely to
receive the honor, that fact does not de-
tract from the pleasure they feel In wit
Messing the splendid enforcement of
Archbishop Martihelli as prince of the
Church in Baltimore yesterday. Their
loyalty to the Papal See and the cheerful
ness with which they have bowed to the
Pope's decision not to recognize the Unit
ed States at this time IN the bestowal of
hats are calculated, we should think. to
pleasantly impress the Vatican. Perhaps,
after all. it may not be long before Mon
signors Corrigan, Ireland and Chapelle
shall receive the reward for their distin-
guished services to the cause of the
Church in America.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-05-09
NEGROES REFUSE TO WORK.
The Colored Element n New Peril In
Jacksonville.

JACKSONVILLE. May -S-A careful
survey Of the situation In this city today
reveals one startling fact Trouble with
the negro element is imminent. There
are about 150o colored people in Jack
sonville. OF these. about 1850 have been
burned out and yet from $500 to 4.o0o are
drawing rations from the relief associa-
ton.
In other words, repeating" is being
practiced by the negroes and a rapidly
spreading notion is obtaining among them
that there Is no need of working so long
as free food is being distributed. Conse-
qucntiy. it is becoming difficult to obtain
negro labor and refusais to work have
been in some instances accompanied by
covert threats against the whites.
An official of the Western Union Teic-
graph Company said today that an en-
deavor to obtain negroes to assist in line
work had proved almost futile Out Of 800
men to whom employment was offered
only twenty-five accepted. This morning
two ladies were insolentiy accosted by a
negro woman who was carrying loaf OF
bread in one hand and a fish in the other,
both obtained at a neighboring relief sta
ton. This negress said;
The day Of the white cracker has
passed and the negroes are on top to
stay"
y gentleman wished to employ a hun
bred negroes to clear hts ground of wreck
age. He could not obtain a single laborer
All of those approached said there was no
need to work any longer. as friends in the
North were taking care of them
Police officers report that hundreds of
negroes within their personal knowledge
efr-a
ing been burned out when the fire did net
come within half a mile of their cabins
Under these circumstances it is becoming
the general opinion that contributions of
money will help the situation here better
than any amount of supplies.
With sufficient money in hand the ne
groes can be placed at work clearing up
the ruins. and no relief will be necessary
for their families. for with wages they can
buy all the provisions ueedful Those who
refuse to work will be made to leave town
by the military.
The money paid out in wages would go
to the retail merchants, who in turn
would purchase of the wholesale houses
here, none Of which was injured by the
fire, and in their turn the wholesale
houses would buy fresh stocks in the
North, thus eventually returning the
money to the people who had furnished it.
To sum the situation UP in word.
unless free food distribution is withheld
from the able bodied negro population
serious trouble will follow. leading to dis
astrous results.
The body of Mrs. May ]. Robinson.
widow of Zolan Robinson. was recovered
from the ruins of her house today An
other company of State troops arrived
this morning making in all twelve COM
panies encamped in the city.