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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
COMPLICATIONS IN HAWAII.
Legislative Business Transacted In
the Native Tongue.

HONOLULU. March 1-(Via San Fran
cisco, March 0.-Some curious complica-
tons have resulted from the early sessions
of the first Territorial Legislature Of Ha-
wall. Henry f. Cooper. Secretary of the
Territory, has been elected from the
chamber because he belongs to the execu-
tive branch of the Government.
The proceedings of both houses are car
ried on in the Hawaiian language, despite
the fact that the Territorial act says all
legislative proceedings must be in English
In the House are only six fulI-booded
white men and seven of mixed white and
native blood. In the Senate there are
about six white men and four of mixed
blood. In the House the native members
voted to have all proceedings In Hawaiian,
and this has been carried out Interpreters
giving a running English version. In the
Senate English was used at first, but now
both languages are employed.
Cooper's removal was made by formal
motion. which declared that he had no
right to a seat because he belonged to the
executive branch of the Government. To
MAKE test case he insisted on being re-
moved by the se-geant-at-ar!ns.
Governor Dole and Chief Justice Frear
declared that the intention of the Terri
torial act was to have only English Ian
guage used in the Legislature, and thus
the time of the sessions was reduced from
ninety to sixty days. because the re-
moVal OF the necessity for translating
speeches would expedite business Some
curious bills have been introduced by the
natives. One asks that the Federal quar-
antine be abolished.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
TO CONTINUE IN SESSION.
The Cuban Convention Decides Net
to Dissolve.


HAVANA, March lat a private ses-
sion of the Constitutional Convention to-
day ii was decided to continue the work
Of that body and not 10 dissolve. as was
previously suggested. II was also de-
cided that the committee which drew up
the report on the relations to exist be-
tween Cuba and the United States should
report on Governor-G General Woods letter,
which gave the text of the Platt resoIu-
ton and asked the convention to take
action thereon.
Meanwhile the delegates will have time
to think over the position 1t is consid-
cred that time is on the side of the Con-
sentative delegates. though the Radicals
claim that the convention will not accept
the Piatt resolution. Some OF the Radi-
Gals think Congress may yet change the
Platt resolution notwithstanding the clear
statement from General Wood that the
resolution is now law
A number OF the delegates have sent
word to their constituents to make dem
onstrations in their support. This is be-
ing done and It may tend to confirm tn.
delegates In their present unyieiding posi-
ton, even though they should wish to
change later. Some of the provincial
newspapers have very strong articles sup
porting the delegates and it is thought
that these articles were directly inspired
by the delegates themselves.
Eel Republicano.'' of Santa Clara, says
that the convention has acted perfectly
right and that the next thing to do is to
show the American people that Congress
made a mistake When President Nc
Kiniey finds that the only way to enforce
the desired relations is by war he will be
forced to call session of Congress. which
will then have to decide on giving way or
making war on the Cubans. Until that
time comes the Cubans will have time TO
make up their minds as to what to do.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
TAXATION IN THE DISTRICT.
MIR. GnilinGer's Resolution for En-
quiry FayOrnbIy Reported.

In the Senate yesterday the Committee
on the District of Columbia favorably re
ported the resolution offered Wednesday
by Mr.. Gallinger. 1t was referred to the
Committee on Contingent Expenses The
resolution follows:
Resolved. That the Committee on the
District of Columbia is hereby directed to
investigate and report to the Senate the
system of taxation in vogue in the Dis
trict of Columbia and whether any por-
ton of the tax laws contained in the or
ganic act for said District is imperative
by reason of defective legislation: and
also what changes, if any. should be
made in existing law in order to secure
an equitable adjustment of the burden
OF taxation. For this purpose the com
Iaittee Is authorized TO send for persons
and papers. and To sit during the recess of
Congress. The expenses of said investi-
cation shall be paid from the contingent
fund of the Senate"
The matter now goes to the Committee
on Contingent Expenses and will, it is
believed. he favorabiy reported there
The object of the resolution is to dis
cover whether the residents of the Dis
trict OF Columbia are actually paying
their share Of the taxes as they are sup
pOsed to do.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
The Psychology of Childhood.

Notwithstanding the numerous forms
which the study of child psychology has
taken in the last ten or fifteen years. 1t is
possible that one phase Of the subject has
passed unnoticed. We are accustomed to
think of the child and the adult rs vastly
different persons in all cases, unless we
are dealing with adults So simple in their
nature and impulses as to be what we call
childlike But has it ever been considered
that the child of the civilized race is some
times hardly child at all? That the diff
| ference between immaturity and maturity
may vary greatly with the parentage. con-
ditions. and time in the history of the
world in which the individual chances to
live?
Many adults of today have noted, with
some uneasiness 1t may be. the uncanny.
unchildlise knowingness of some modern
children. One may see almost any day lit
tie girls and boys whose faces are almost
as mature in expression and contour as
those of their parents, who easily compre-
bend literature intended for adults. who in
their studies. their play. their converse
ton. are occupied with the same subjects
as their parents.
Even when the maturity Of the child is
not so apparent, there is often cOnsid-
cradle amount of grown-up feeling in
what is supposed to be a childish, care
free heart. Many children are never con-
scious of being young; 1t does not impress
them pleasantly when they are addressed
in carefully selected phrases, talked down
to, patronized. and kept In the dark. They
feel as much surprised and hurt at such
treatment as they might when older, and
to some of them the consciousness Of ma
turity is simply the feeling Of having got
ten, at last, into the right place and be-
ing treated as is suitable.
The truth probably is that in an age of
the world when the experiences of man
hood and womanhood are different in
every way from those OF childhood, when
the human being between the ages Of nf-
teen and fifty Is continually growing, de-
veloping being taught by experience. the
child is necessarily shut out and kept in
golden age of its own. while its elders are
occupied with grave matters' but when
the centre of experience shifts from the
emotions to the intellect, when people are
content to know. instead of to do and 10
feel, and when the child is from its
earliest years surrounded with influences
tending to stimulate its mind, the mind
responds to these in such a way that at
ten or twelve its thoughts ideas. and
judgments may not be very different from
those of the adult of thirty. In matters Of
feeling, the child cannot possibly share
the life OF the adult; in matters of
thought it can, and often does; and thus,
when people tell child to stop asking
questions about what sou cannot under
stand" they are sometimes themselves
talking of what they do not comprehend.
II is usually a mistake to talk down to a
child, or presume upon its childhood TO
treat IT rudely. The logical faculty is apt
to be particularly keen in early years, ana
causes more trouble than almost any other
faculty. 1t is just well to realize its ex-
istence, and not to set an example which
one does not wish followed
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
The Last Appeal to Patriotism.

After at least twenty years of earnest
consistent effort to induce successive Con-
crosses. each dominated by the influence
and money of the trans-continental ran
ways the British Government and the
Panama Canal interest, to pass Dill ior
the construction of the proposed MICA
ragtla Canal under exclusively American
auspices, in the Sepate yesterday the
Hon. John T. Morgan. Senator from Ala
hama. announced that he was about reafy
to give up the fight in despair; and would
do so if he could not secure vote on
his resolution declaring that. in the
opinion of the Senate, the Clayton-Bui-
wcr Treaty is abrogated.
We deeply sympathize with the disap-
pointment of General Morgan over the
impossibility of obtaining respectful con-
sheraton in Congress for a measure
which has nothing to recommend it but
public utility and national necessity es-
pecially when there is arrayed against II
the political influence and lobby corrup-
ton of a combination of antagonists to
whom the expenditure of a million dol
lars or So for the purpose of obtaining
even temporary delay, is mere question
of bookkeeping. He has been as san
grIine as he has been patriotic in MS am
bition to make the boon TO the people
of an iuter-oceanic waterway, owned and
controlled by the United States, the
crowning achievement of his long and
distinguished career in the service of the
country Although frequently warned
that, as the country and Congress are
dominated by the trusts, it would be hope
less to expect success. General Morgan
has as often declared his confidence that
there was still enough honest and unpur-
chasabIe Americanism in the Senate and
House to give effect to the undoubted
wish of the whole nation, which is to
have the Government undertake the
Nicaragua Canal. We are sincerely sorry
that events have resulted in his disillu-
sion. 1t must be a bitter reflection to
him that there is no longer an American
sentiment in Congress, to which an ap-
peal successfully can be made against
the devious, corrupt, and even criminal
operations and devices of the lobby.
whether he shall give up the fight or not,
he will carry into his declining years the
consciousness of having performed his
duty industriously, fearIessly. and ably.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08

sugar being eliminated from this rart of
the consderation-the position of Mr.
Gage is that failure on the part of the
Russian Government to impose the in
ternal revenue tax on native sugar en-
tered for export, which it exacts from
sugar destined for domestic consumption.
amounts to a bounty paid to the producer
Of export sugar. As matter of truth, of
course it does not. The consumer pays
the internal revenue tax. which is merely
added to the selling price by the refiner
Mr.. Gage is as well aware of this as any
body can be, and his contention to the
contrary must strike every man in Amer
lea with business sense and experience in
any large way as a plain subterfuge
Nevertheless. and under the influence of
representations made by Mr. Oxnard and
other Sugar Trust magnates. as it IS al
legged. he deliberately placed countervail-
ing duties on Russian sugar. the total i'm
poriation of which in 1890 amounted only
to 81. s93, thereby challenging Russia TO
impose retaliatory duties on imports from
the United States which. I'm the same
year. aggregated s10O29.793. 1t SHOULD b.
noted in this connection that the Cars
Government had been particularly Gener-
GUS to our commercial interests. Ameri-
can goods We're admitted free of duty at
Siberian ports, and were accorded liberal
concessions at the ports of Russia. Now
all that is changed. To accentuate the
principle that the international as well as
the domestic policy of the Administration
must always be subservient to the inter
ests of the Sugar Trust, pains ana penal
ties upon all the non-saccharine trade of
this country with the Musccvite Empire
have been cordially invited, and the in
vitation has been accepted in the spirit in
which 1t was rendered.
Mr.. Gage attempts to hide himself be-
hind the assertion that the fact of bounty
paying by Russia is res adjudicata, and
that, hence, he had no choice but to apply
the law. This excuse, presented rather
vehemently, we are told, to a visiting
committee of Illinois manufacturers day
before yesterday. does not, as charged,
entirely consist with things antecedent.
Mr.. w. L. Saunders, of the National
Manufacturers Association of the United
States, in an open letter. has accused Mr.
Gage of bad faith in taking precipitate
action against Russia when he had, but
A few days previously, assured represent
atives of non-sugar interests that the
question of Russian bounty was as yet
and that ample warning
would be given before anything decisive
was done in the premises. The axe fell.
however. without notice. after Mr.. oxnsrd
had been twenty-four hours in the Capt.
tai. Mr. Saunders says:
1.-The control of all national legislation by tie
will
useless for anyone to go to Washington until
he has called upon the off i1ls of the Sugar
Trust and ascertaned whet ser his wants arc
approved by them not
That appears to be a much more con-
yincing explanation of the tariff war sit
lation than anything Mr.. Gage has told
1r probably will tell us.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
LOST $1,000 BY AN ERROR.
An Enrolling Clerk Works n Hard
chip on the GeOIoEicnI Surxex

Because of faulty enrolling. due to the
haste attendant on the closing hours of
Congress, the Geological Survey lost
5000 of the sum intended to be appro-
priated to 1t in the Sundry Civil bill for
engraving and printing geological maps
The House fixed the amount at $4,000
and the Senate increased it to $4,000. The
conferees. at the urgent solicitation OF
Director Walcott, agreed to let $4,000
stand, but the enrolling clerk stood by the
House and the law provides only $4,000
for that purpose.
Director Walcott says the survey has
been prevented from accomplishing the
best and most satisfactory results of it's
1abors by the continued reluctance of
Congress to supply money for bringing
these results to the attention of the pub
lie. Large amounts are provided for max
ing the surveys, but so restricted have
been the appropriations for printing and
publishing the maps showing the results
of the surveys that several years elapse
between the dates of survey and publica-
ton This error is therefore particularly
regretted by the officials.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
In the Line of the Caesars.

The universal comment in Washington upor
the character and style Of the Presidential in,
auguration the lavshness Of the display am
the preponder1nce Of the military over the civil
IN the grand parade n we are to have an I'M.
perialistie Republic II is fitting that the trap
pings Of war and the agents Of force shall predomi-
male IN any demonstration symbolic of the Fed
eral authority. In the old days when the Dec
laratiOn Of Independence and the Constitution o.
the United States were esteemed the corner
stone of our edihce and the charter Of our lib
critics economy and simplicity marked the in
duction into office Of the Executive and the dove
Of peace spread its wings over the proceedings.
Now that opportunism and manifold destiny hay,
taken the place of the sacred instruments Of the
past. ii is in order to accompany the inaugural
event with ostentation and ceremony, while the
imperial eagle srieks its invitation to combat
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
Ponulnr Histories.

The action Of he School Board in strik-
ing f-om the list of text books used in
the washington schools certain histories
which have been found to contain errors,
suggests the question whether the his
tories generally used in American schools
are what they should be in every way.
This matter has been more or less dis
cussed. especially in the South. where 1t
is asserted that most school histories give
an erroneous idea of the causes and con-
duct of the war between the States, and
undue prominence TO the North as against
the South
Leaving this question of the partisan
ship of the average school historian aside
since nothing would seem more easy
than for some Southern historian to write
a schooi history which should remedy the
trouble-it is a matter of doubt whether
the histories used in our schools are cal
culated to be of as much benefit to the
children as they properly should be. There
is one rather curious fact which must be
noted by every observer Of school af-
fairs, and that is that, whereas history
should be favorite subject with almost
any child, since all children love stories,
and this is simply the story of the world.
very few. and cordially detested by many
Moreover the children who entertain the
most pronounced dislike for the subject
are frequently those with the most vivid
imagination and strongest logical faculty,
while those who profess to like the study
are apt 10 be the pupils with parrot-like
memories, who rattle of names and dates.
and learn pages of text verbatim, without
a-FE.
wrong here. If the study of history is to
be of any benefit at all, it must not be
pursued parrot-fashion. The people and
events Of the past must be wildly pres
ent to the mind of the student, and the
causes and course Of the great world
movements of bygone centuries must be
clearly understood
Instead of this. the usual method of
teaching history is TO require the pupil
10 learn by rote various names, dates.
ard lists of events and connect them in
the proper order. or course, 1t is fairly
good training for the memory. but as for
any broadening or refining effect which
ii has on the mind, the student might as
well commit a list of stock quotations TO
memory as a list Of dates The only way
in which this study can be OF any pos
sible use to anybody is in leading 20 the
better understanding Of human nature.
and in the average school history all the
human nature is carefully crushed out.
The imaginative pupil. eager to know
what manner Of men and women they
were who lived in the past, is told their
names the dates OF birth and death. and
the principal events of their lives. A
vague idea Of character may be given.
but it is rare for a high school pupil to
have much more definite notion of Eng
fish Kings and Queens than to know that
one was generally good and anothas bad
OF the complex. mysterious, fascinating
nature of Mary Stuart. the fierce ami
mostly between the JacObite and the Ger
man Court, the contradictions in Glad
stones character. the relation between
great public movements and the men
who were identified with them, he has
no idea And all this is radically wrong
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
We Must Have the wealth.

(From the Louisville Courier JOurnall
II Senator Hoar's ancestors had treated the In
dams with the tender regard he would have
Americans nav show the Filipinos we should
have never had New England. The Leg. Of the
survival OF the ittest is a cruel one but il works
steadily to the upbuiding of the race In time
it is inevitable that American will have all that
is best in the Philippines. hut i1t IL be done
decently and in order. The weaker race will go
to the wall there as well as elsewhere ultimately
that is. 50 far as property is concerned. The
climate will save the brown race to tn. islands,
but in the race Tor wealth it will never be
match for the all-conquering Anglo-Saxon.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
An Appalling shadow.


Long before Mr. McKinley's successor shall have
been inauguratcd may reasonably look to see
an army of a quarter of million and n navy
considerably stronger than that Of Germany.
These things do not necessarily constitute the
shadow of imperiaism-if by imperialism be
meant suppression Of the popular will. They are
simply the necessary concomitants of a policy
developed a consequence OF the war with
Spain and endorsed at the polls last November.
1t is idle to talk of ayerting militarism and
colonial adventure. They are here.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
SAID TEEY WERE BRIBED.
Two Scranton Common Councilmen
Confessed at a Hearing.

SCRANTON. Pa, March AT a hear
ing of bribery charges against several
Scranton councilmen this morning, VIII
liam V. Grihiths, eXPresdent of the
common council. who resigned with
others under an agreement with the MI
nicipal League, testified that he had re-
ceived money on several occasions for
his vote.
Asked to specify, he said he received in
all $3.50. divided among the franchises to
the Barber ASH: alt Company for ten
year paving repair contract, the Scranton
Electric Light Company for teu-year
lighting contract. and the Lackawanna
T-iep phone Company ordinance.
Simon Thomas, another depcsed coun-
Gilman. also gave similar testimony
Other startling admissions are expected
at the different hearings fixed for this
week
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
TO RETAIN LORD PAUNCEFOTE.
The British Ambassador Not to he
Retired mt Present.

The British Government has decided to
Ambassador In washington for an in
definite period. Lord Pauncefote reached
the retiring age of the British diplomatic
service nearly two years ago. but he is
tant matters of diplomacy on hand that
he will be continued on the active list. 1t
was believed that he would be relieved
this spring, but information has reached
here from London that his term of service
will be extended.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
THE BRUSSELS AGREEMENT.
Assent Given by the Senate Yester.
dnY to an Amer ment.

The Senate. in executive session. yes
terday gave its assent to an amendment
TO the agreement signed by the nations
who participated In the Brussels confer
ence of two years ago. Tor the protection
of industrial property.
These nominations We're confirmed.
Robert 5. Mccormick. of Illinois, to be
Minister to Austria: Frank W jackson.
of Pennsylvania. Consul at Prtras
Greece: Capt. A. s. Crowninshield to be
Chief of the Naval Bureau of Navigation
Also various promotions in the army and
navy.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
A Boast From the Prniries.


The West was in the saddle-not igtIratiye!y
but litcrally-at The Inauguration ceremonies at
Washington. The installation Of a Western
President very appropriately accompanied by
a demonstration of Western preponderance in ma
tional affairs The East had its representative in
the rugged and strenuous leader of the Rough
Riders picturesque figure in the fetes Of in
auguration day-but Roosevelt is so thoroughly
Western in his tastes. IDEAS habits, aud expert
ence that it is difficult for the East to establish
a bona iide claim TO his interesting personality
In sympathy and temperamental tendencies the
Vice President is an ideal. typical Wcsterner
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
NO LooTING BY MR.. seUIERs.
His Bric-a-Brac Collection Not
WrOngfuIiy Secured.

Minister Conger telegraphed the State
Department yesterday from Pekin that
there was no foundation for publlshe /
story that Mr.. Squiers. Secretary of the
American Legation, had participated in
,ne looting of Pekin. Mr.. Conger said
that Mr.. SQuiers had 4 large collection OF
Chinese bric-a-brac. but had been collect
ing it for years, and had not secured it
wrongfully.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-08
THE DIXIE STILL AGROUND.
The ships Officers waiting for the
Wind to Shift

The latest reports to the Navy Depart
ment frcm the United States training
ship Dixie show that her position on a
sandbank sixty miles down the river,
where She has been for several days. is
unchanged. Her officers hope to get her
off the bank when the wind shifts. The
strong wirds that have prevailed Since
she went aground have kept the water
low. A court of enquiry to ascertain the
cause of the grounding viii be appointed
when the Dixie gets to Norfolk for dock
ing Confidt nee is expressed by the Navy
Department that she will be pulled into
deep water In a few days.