davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
THE RAILROAD TO PAY FIRST.
Not to BE Given Right of Way Over
Land Not Condemned.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 11.-Thls
morning. in the Circuit Court of Mont
gomery County, Judge West refused to
grant a temporary restraining order in
the case of the Chicago and Southeastern
Railroad Company, which was barred
from crossing the land of Wesley Gran
than, on Wednesday evening. He de-
clared that Grantham had already been
kept out of his property seven years, and
that the Constitution guaranteed him GER
propose to interfere.
The roads attorney asked that an order
be made giving the company possession
until the land could be condemned, but
the court refused, saying that the COM
pany had had seven years to do this and
had failed.
The court issued an order. however,
forbdding any further destruction Of the
roads property The mails and all other
traffic are still blocked, and no trains
pass over Grantham's land. which is
guarded by armed men. Last night two
of the roads bridges were blown UP, one
of them sixty feet long and fifteen feet
high. Many loads of rails were carted off
TO schoolhouse three miles from the
right of way. Two hackloads of men went
to Ladoga last night to the Grantham
farm to assist the farmers. The road will
be blocked now for several days at least.
and Grantham's attorney declares posi-
lively that the land will not be relin-
pushed until the road pays 50, 200.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
AN OIL STRIKE IN TEXAS.
A Wei Sunk by n Washington Cap
ita1ist Has 5000 Barrels Capacity.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 11.-Great excite
ment prevails in southeastern Texas.
near the Louisiana line, over the discov-
cry of oil. A stream Of oil six inches in
diameter shooting over 100 feet in the air
and with flow of 5000 barrels a day is
the result of sinking a well BY a Wash
ington capitalist who was convinced that
there was oil in the vicinity He has
been operating there for some months.
The well is 300 feet deep. For some
FIVE or six weeks oil in small quantities
has been obtained from wells sunk in this
portion of Texas, as well as in the neigh
boring parish of Calcasieu, La, but II was
badly mixed with other substances. The
country is the same in which mineral sui
phIr and salt have been obtained in such
quantities.
For more than a year past prospectors
who have had some experience in the oil
districts of Pennsylvania have been try
ing to locate the supposed oil districts of
Louisiana and Texas. 1t Is supposed that
a large portion of it lies below the level
of the Gulf of Mexico, the water OF which
off this portion of the Louisiana and Tex
as coasts Is frequently found to have oil
floating on it.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12

office as long as they were faithful and
efficient. The same policy will account
for the power New England sways in the
Senate today. Senator Hoar of Massa-
chusetts is Just finishing his fourth con-
secutive term, having taken his seat in
March, 1877. He is Chairman of the Ju-
dietary Committee and a statesman of pa-
tional weight. Senator Frye of Maine
has been in the Senate since 1881. He is
Chairman OF the important Committee
on Commerce and President pro tempore
of the Senate. His colleague. Senator
Hale, is in his fourth term, and has ad-
vanced to the Craftsmanship of the Com
mittee on Naval Affairs, and to second
place on the Appropriations Committee
Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island has three
fun and one fractional term to his credit.
His advent occurred in 1881, when he sue
ceeded the late Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside.
He is at the head OF the Finance Com
mittee. Senator Proctor of Vermont is
comparatively new man, he having been
elected in 1892 to succeed Senator Ed
munds, who resigned. His colleague is
quite new, having been recently elected.
But in the days of Edmurds and Morrill,
the State was true to its political in
stincts, and those gentlemen were re-
elected again and again, and would be in
the Senate today if the one were willing
and he other alive.
With these examples and the settled
policy of adjoining States, as well as the
results of that policy before them.
leaders in New Hampshire have not been
impressed with the advantages that
would accrue by following in the same
course. There can be no doubt that, after
a few terms in the Senate, with the growth
of influence that comes through experience
and seniority, a very mediocre man can be,
and will be, of vastly more service to
his Commonwealth than the ablest and
most brilliant new Senator possibly could
be-
Mr.. Chandler is by no means mediocre
person. In the full membership of the
Senate he would easily be accorded a
place among the first fifteen. selected for
- a. ii4''iiVSt anu ARMY iHeIe
are some things, present and past, con-
nected with Mr. Chandler which we are
unable to regard favorably. He was a
central figure in the successful crime
against the suffrage, when the Presidency
was stolen in 1876; but it took a shrewd
and brainy person to play the Ophidian
part he did in that dark drama. He may
be justly open to criticism and obloquy
for that and other departures from right
but no one can say that he has
not been one of the brightest and smooth
EST of contemporary American politicians.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
THE PORTRAITS TO STAY.
The Tennessee Legislators Refuse TO
Encourage scctionaIIsm.

NASHVILLE, Jan. 11.-At today's ses-
sion Of the House OF Representatives. Mr..
Gordon of Dyer introduced a resolution
the preamble of which stated that the
large and costly portraits of W G. Brown
low and Gen. George II. Thomas have &C.
cupied the most prominent place in the
State Library since the dark days of re-
construction, while by their sides hang
MINIATURES OF Lee and Jackson and that
TINS arrangement does not correctly indi-
cate either the sentiment of the people of
tennessee or do Justice to the COMPARE
tive merit of those historic characters"
The preamble says further: THE people
OF tennessee, while loving the Union and
accepting in loyalty and good faith the
issue OF the civil war revere the memory
of the Southern heroes and hold them in
first place in affection"
Therefore" says the resolution. ''be it
resolved, that these portraits of General
Thomas and W. G. Brownlow be removed
from the State Library and donated to
the pension office at Knoxville to the end
that the space occupied by them may be
secured for similar portraits of Robert f.
Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and Bedford For
rest"
Representative Murphy, after remark
ing that Governor Brownlow in many ways
was better man than some down here"
said he had served him as an Office boy
and knew him we'll. He moved to table
the resolution. The notion carried and
the resolution was tabled.
Brownlow was Governor and United
States Senator from Tennessee imme
diately after the war
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
BRADSTREETS ON THE WEEK.
AN Enlargement of Wholesale Dis
| tribution Trade for Spring.

NEW YORK. Jan. 11.-Bradstreet's to-
morrow will say:
Business is still of a between-seasons
character in most lines. but a livening up
of interest in several trades has been
noted this week Relatively best reports
come from the iron and steel, lumber.
leather. and drug trades, but there has
been some enlargement of wholesale dis
tributive trade on spring account in the
South and Central West. Spring trade in
dry goods is Just opening up. and il is
noted that heavy shipping movement on
orders is now proceeding at the West.
Some gain in wool sales is noted at
Eastern markets, but weather conditions
have not been favorable at the East to
business as a whole. except as stimulating
the retail trade in shoes and rubber goods.
a special feature is the generally good
tenor of reports as to collections from
all Western and Southern points. from
which it is inferred that the trade returns
to retailers must have been quite good.
Bank clearings, swelled partly by con-
tinued heavy stock speculation at New
York, but also by the passage of large
sums OF money through the banks of the
rest Of the country, have been Of enor-
nous volume, far exceeding all previous
weeks
Easy money has been a feature noted
not only at the large Eastern centres, but
also at smaller interior markets. pointing
TO very large annual settlements on mer-
chandise account. Railroad earnings also
continue very encouraging, and the reports
as to earnings in the last month of 1860
indicate that the railroads of the country
have recovered some of the percentages
of gain shown earlier in the year.
Summed up briefly the situation is
one of widespread confidence in the gem
eral business outlook. Cotton has weak
ened on discouraged bull liquidation, due
TO large receipts, while cotton goods have
been quiet on the advices of q backward
spring trade at the East, Wool has been
in rather better demand, due to better
buying by manufacturers.
Business failures for the week were
800, against PCS last week. 295 in 1900, 30l
in 1883 800 in 1898 and AIS in 1897"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
ALBANY WANTS A RECOUNT.
Dissatisfied With the Census Returns
the Population.

ALBANY, n. Y, Jan. u.-Prominent
local citizens have been endeavoring to
get the authority at Washington to order
recount of the inhabitants Of Albany,
alleging mistakes in the work of the cen
sus enumerators. because the recent cen
sus showed that the population Of the city
was several hundred less than N 1880
1t was expected the city would show a
population of 100000 under the new CEN
sus, but the returns showed It to be
little less than $4,000.
Mayor Blessing may have found one of
the reasons for the lack of increase
among Albany's Inhabitants. An investi
cation by him of the statistics Of eleven
cities the size of Albany shows that this
city is the only one whose annual death
rate is larger than its birth rate. Mayor
Blessings statistics show that Albany has
a death rate Of 20.90 per thousand, while
its birth rate is but 1881.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
DUN'S REVIEW OF TRADE.
staple Products Firm With the Ex-
ception of Textiles.


NEW YORK, Jan 11-Dun's review to-
morrow will say:
only in the textiles is special hesita-
ton shown. Staple products are firm.
iron and steel prices are held without
trouble, boots and shoes and wool are
steady, and all with fair demand, so that
manufacturers are busy. In textiles,
however, the improvement, which seemed
to be promised with the New Year, is still
delayed, and in cotton goods stocks are
growing in some quarters. though still not
oppressively heavy anywhere. Through
out the country distribution of merchan-
disc continues on a good scale, and coIlec-
lions are unusually prompt. Bank clear
ings for the week at New York increased
56.7 per cent over 1900. January opened
with an increase over 1912 per cent over
last year in railroad earnings.
Construction OF bridges and bu ld.ngs,
together with contemplated track eleva-
ton, crowds the capacity of all concerns
making structural shapes of iron and
steel. Orders for locomotives. cars, rails.
and all forms of railway equipment are
also abundant, and there is no sign of re-
action in the industry. Plate and sheet
mills have large business.
rumored as supporting cotton and wheat,
but the effect was not permanent. Cotton
advanced temporarily, only to react when
Liverpool cables failed TO respond.
Traders express widely divergent opinions
as to the size of the current crop and its
suffciency. Meanwhile port receipts con-
tinue to largely exceed last years at
prices 90 per cent higher. Wheat was ag-
itated by reports CT a corner in the May
option, and for time exhibited strength.
sharp reaction followed, holders part
ing readily with their contracts.
wool has ceased to decline, and sales
at the three chief Eastern markets in
creased slightly to 1905 700 pounds,
against 3121, GOO in the week preceding
Return of money from annual settle
ments to regular banking channels has
emphasized the ease of the financial sit
uation, and over per cent has seldom
been quoted for call funds. Foreign trade
at this port for the first week of January
was much lighter than last year. Exports
decreased 5000, 474, while imports were
only S326519 smaller. For the first time
in recent weeks the balance of trade was
against this country and to the extent of
about 10000
Speculation in stocks continued on
very large scale. with a new record es-
tablshed for heavy transactions, but the
market was unable to withstand the reali-
cations ON long holdings and broke sharp
ly several times. London helped the de-
cline, selling fully 1000 shares more
here in the week than II bought, but on
each drive to depress quotations banking
interests and investors were found ready
to absorb large quantities of securities.
Failures for the week were 1924 in the
United States, against 274 last year, and
a in Canada against 80 last wear"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
The Elimination of Mr.. Chandler.

The defeat OF the Hon. William E.
Chandler in his effort TO secure re-elec-
ton to the Senate, very likely may have
been due in part to railway and other an
tagonisms which he has excited in the
State OF New Hampshire; but it was also
quite in accordance with the custom OF
that Commonwealth to consider that two
full terms in the Senate is all that any
citizen should ask or be allowed to enjoy.
Mr.. Chandler has exceeded the recognized
limit by nearly two years. as he was
elected IN June, 1857. to fill the unexpired
term of Senator Pike, which ended March
8, 1883, after which he was twice re-
elected.
Il is one OF the oddities of American
politics that New Hampshire alone, of the
six New England States holds to the poll
cy of keeping her United States Senators
in Office for short periods only. This may
appear desirable from the viewpoint of
rival politicians who hope to succeed to
the toga. but It is manifestly TO the detri-
ment of the State in respect Of its infiu-
ence in national legislation. Everybody
hIOfs Nudl n new secures only
places on unimportant committees at the
tail end Of which he waits for years, until
deaths and defeats promote him gradually
to better ones, and. finally, after three or
more terms he lands as chairman of some
great committee.
Considering the length of his service
fourteen years-Mr. Chandler has done
remarkably well 10 win so respectable an
Assignment as the Craftsmanship Of the
Committee on Privileges and Elections.
His successor will probably start in busI-
ness as the junior member of the Comlit-
tees on Revolutionary Claims and Woman
Suffrage In the course of the next twelve
years, should he last that long, he may
possibly aspire TO seat on the Commit
tee TO Establish the University OF the
Upited States.
One of the chhf reasons why the
Southern States held commanding infiu-
ence In Congress before the civil war was
because Of the practice of Keeping the
same Senators and Representatives in
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
A NEW ECLIPSE THEORY.
The "FInsh Spectrum" Caused by
Refraction of Solar Rays.

MADISON. Wis, Jan. 11.-Prof R. W.
Wood has made another discovery in sci
ence which promises to spread his fame
in scientific circles. The experiment,
which has turned out successfully, per
tains to what is known as the flash spec
trum," occurring ut the moment Of a to-
tai eclipse. Prof. Wood claims that this
is caused by a refraction of the suns
rays and not by a vapor in the atmosphere
surrounding the sun, which latter theory
is the one generally accepted.
The feature of this discovery is that the
fact of the short duration of the flash
could never be satisfactorily accounted
for The suggestion was made by Julius,
a Holland physicist, and it was left to the
Wisconsin professor to turn the sugges-
ton to account.
In his work of experiment he succeeded
in getting several very clear photographs
illustrating his theory. These, together
with the details of the discovery, Will be
sent to the Royal Society at London, be-
fore which Prof. Wood delivered an ad-
dress last spring.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
TOO MUCH WATER IN THE STOCK
Opposition to j. p. Morgan Absorb
ing Boston's Lighting Companies.

BOSTON, Jan. 11.-Governor Crane sent
to the Legislature today communication
received by him from the gas and cleo
trio light commissioners asking for extra
legislation to prevent the j. p. Morgan
interests, of New York, acquiring the Bos-
ton and Edison Electric Light Companies.
The commissioners say that the ar
rangement by which the new organization
is to guarantee annual dividends of 10
per cent upon the stock of the Boston
and IL 1-2 per cent upon the Edison, and
to issue at par new capital stock TO the
amount of not less than $3600.000 is in
violation of the policy of the State. They
style it a stock watering proposition. AS
the board has no power to prevent this
combination. additional legislation is ask
ed for
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
THE HAVANA CONTRACTS.
Adjutant General Scott Sustains Col
oneI Blacks Statement

HAVANA, Jan. 11.-Colonel Black has
written to Adjutant General Scott, deny
ing the statements made in the press to
the effect that he wanted the work of
sewering and paving Havana done by the
administration. which is understood to
mean by days work. He asked General
Scott If any proposition other than that
the work should be done under contract
IN such way that the city would derive
the most benefit from it had ever come
from the engineers department. General
Scott endorsed the letter to the effect
that no proposition had ever been re-
ceived other than described in Colonel
Blacks letter namely, recommending
that the work be done by the lowest re-
sponsihle bidder
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
"A MORMON CONFERENCE.
Missionaries From Narious States
Gather at New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 1.-THE Mormon
Mission Conference of the Southern States
is being held in New Orleans, with large
number OF missionaries in attendance.
The missionary representatives are from
Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, North and
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The
missionaries reported that good work has
been done during the past year especially
in Mississippi, and over 1000 conversions
to the Norman Church have been made.
They said that they were still subjected
20 insult In the smaller towns and refused
any buildings in which to preach, end it
was because of this ill-treatment that
they held their conference in New Orleans
The missionaries always travel in pairs.
finding this safer, as a single missionary
is liable TO assault from mobs In the back
woods districts.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12

1t was in 1897 when the ilustrious pro-
bate judge ard county coroner from Can
ton, MIR. Day, was at the head of our State
Department, that Washington was advised
of British negotiations in Nicaragua which,
if not blocked at once, would stop up the
San Juan River for thirty years. At that
time this journal begged the Administra-
ton to take some effective steps in the
direction of safeguarding American inter-
ests in the premises. The only satisfac-
tior We or any remonstrait secured was
in The form of sidewalk assurances from
the Secretary of State that the conces-
siors to the Maritime Canal Company
would make the San Juan River all right,
and that nobody was trying to monopolize
it, anyway. Then the concession of ex-
elusive negotiation rights on the stream
and bay Of the same name, to the Atlas
Steamship Company was announced. We
are mistaken If the least protest against
this wiping out of American rights, then
still in being, ever was made by this Gov
ernment. 1t might be well for the Senate
to ask a few questions on this subject,
now that the British Government calmly
informs us that We must not touch the
San Juan-therefore must not build the
Nicaragua Canal-until 1927.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
NOT GIVING VOCAL LESSONS.
Madame Emma Eames-storey Denies
n Paris Report.

ing stated that Emma Games Storey had
been giving vocal lessons to a certain
George Dunlop Odell, the opera singer,
has written letter to the press indig
nantly denying the story. She says Mr.
Odell, through a friend, solicited an audi
ence with her and his request was
granted. Nine. Eames-Storey continues:
Il found that he was most defective in
vocal emission, that he phrased badly
that the quality of his voice was nasal
and that he was not a musician. l told
him so. II this can be construed into
teaching him, he has strange notions"
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
Desks and Legislators.

(From the Philadelphia Record)
More than half the space in the hall of the
House Of Representatives at Washington is occu-
pied by the desks behind which the members sit.
The desks a personal convenience, but they
are in nowise necessary TO the proper despatch OF
legislative business. Perhaps Twenty-Five new desks
can be jammed into the space required for the
new meiIbers, but the limit will then have been
reached, and when another apportionment shall
be made in 1911 either the desks will have 10 go
the ratio in Congressional districts must be
50 increased as to prevent further enlargement
of membership. 1t would. no doubt. improve
the deliberstive quality OF the representative body
al once
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
The Hanna Subsidy.

lFFom the Indianapolis Moved
The champions OF the Ship Subsidy bill now
pending in the Senate have opened bureau"
from which IL is proposed to issue literature in
the interest Of the cause" We are to have an
educational campaign. and orr would-be educa-
tors are going to tell us what a fine thing II
will be for all to tax ourselves in order that
men like Ariscom and Rockefeller may make
more money. II seems to that this is one OF
those cases in which publicity Is the least to be
desired, from the point of view OF those who
are interested In the proposed grab. The trouble
which now coDironts them is that the peo-
pie already know too much about the bill, its
purpose. and certain consequences.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12

The Venezuelan war cloud again shows
signs of breaking violently The State
Department hears that the Caracas Gov
eminent has decided to ignore the belli
cose attitude of Washington and will send
troops to expel the Asphalt Trust from the
position it has taken on Lake Felicidad.
AS the trust has an armed force on the
ground to make good its seizure of the de-
posits there ought TO be a very pretty
fight. 1t is perhaps now doubtful if the
Administration would risk invading Vene-
zuela with a military force in support of
the trust while Congress is in session,
and the Government of the South Ameri-
can State is probably counting on that in
the measures it is taking to assert Vene-
zuelan sovereignty.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
In the Slough of Desmond.

Grom the philadelphia Lcdger)
It is safe to say that never has the political
situation in Philadelphia been more deplorable
Audacity was never more brazen, nor extrava
gance more shameless. Ample evidence of this is
perceptibe on every side The ballot alone
can work a change. The task of reform is for.
midahle, but ii is not impossible of accomplish.
ment Its success depends upon each respectable
citizen cooperating with his neighbor to bring
II ak.,tf
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-12
Delaware in the Senate.


IFIOW INC THIIlutlpHII LtustI.J
II would be better for the dignity Of the State
Of Delaware that it should be unrepresented in
the United States Senate than that it should be
misrepresented. The State, although small geo
graphically has been represented in Congress by
men so great that they among the most
forcefu and distinguished of their day. Thomas
f. Bayard John NJ. Clayton, Willard Salisbury.
and George Gray may be cited as shining ex
smples OF Delaware craftsmanship. This was be-
fore the era of vulgar commercalism when State
craft summoned the publcist and excluded the
merely INSCRIPTIONS and sordid politician.