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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-30
QUAY's ACTION DEFENDED.
Senators Foraker and Clay on the
Practice of Using "Riders."

A message from the President was read
in the Senate yesterday afternoon in which
he asked for the necessary power to CO.
operate with Mexico and China regarding
the restoration of the parity Of silver and
gold. It was referred to the committee on
finance.
Mr.. Bard (Cal.) then addressed the Senate
in opposition to the omnibus statehood bill
Upon the conclusion Of Mr.. Bard's re-
marks, Mr.. Foraker, having the statehood
bill in charge in the temporary absence Of
Mr.. Quay, said that from the statements
that had reached him the action of Mr..
Quay the day before in introducing the
statehood bill as proposed amendments to
the agricultural and sundry civil bills was
regarded an unheard-of proceeding. 1t
was not unheard-of at all, he said. 1t was
simply a question of whether a majority
of the Senate could do a thing it wanted
to. He referred to previous legislation and
said that an appropriation bill had con-
tained the provision establishing a civil
government in the Philippines, and that the
army appropriation bill reported yesterday
staff. Continuing, Mr.. Foraker said the
majority in the Senate have it in their
power always to make such an amendment
to a bill which in their judgment is deemed
for the public good.
Mr.. Clay (Ga.) also took the same posi-
ton, and read from the Record showing
that the Philippine legislation known as
the Spooner amendment was voted upon
the army appropriation bill.
AT 4:45 pm. the Senate went into eXecu-
tive session, and it 1855 adjourned.
In the executive session of the Senate
yesterday the treaty for the settlement of
the dispute over the Alaskan BOUNDARY and
the protocol extending the time for the
ratification Of the Cuban reciprocity treaty
until March 81 were referred to the commit
tee on foreign relations. Senator Cullom,
the chairman, informed the Senate that
the committee would meet today, and that
he desired to have the two matters men,
toned available for consideration at that
time. The committee also would take up
the Panama canal treaty with Colombia,
and Senator Cullom expressed the opinion
that the committee would authorize a IA
Vorable report on it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-30
EVANSVILLE and Vicinity.
pecial Correspondence of The Evening Star.


EVANSVILLE, Md. January 20, 1908.
A horse driven by a colored man and be-
longing to the Merchants Parcel Delivery
Company was drowned in attempting to
cross the stream which separates this town
from Brentwood. The animal was unable
to swim. The driver and boys who ac-
cOmpanied him were rescued with ropes,
the former being exhausted and one of the
boys unconscious. All were taken to the
drug store and made comfortable
The wagon was broken, but was recovered
some distance down the stream. The cur
rent was very swift. The body Of the
horse has not been found.
Mrs. Knight, who resides on the corner
Of Franklin and Wine avenues was pain
fully burned on the left side Of her face
and left arm by an explosion of coal OIL
Her sufferings are so intense she has been
unable to tell how the accident happened
Alexander Bailey was found by Mr.. Paul
Higdon on Maryland avenue near the Bal
timore and Ohio depot. Saturday night suf-
fering and helpless. He was taken to the
and telephone message sent to the Emer-
gency Hospital for the patrol to meet the
car at 18th and G streets.
The school commissioners at their meet
ing recently ordered that H. +. Freeman be
appointed trustee of School No. 2, Hyatts-
vile district. to succeed Mr.. Israel, the
latter having removed from the county.
They also ordered that the matter of pur-
chasing maps for the use of the schools
be referred to the examiner and that the
teachers be paid for the winter term. Re
quests for assistant teachers and the es-
adjustment of an industrial school were re-
ceived. but the board decided that nothing
would be done at present.
The tax list for 1902, this county, is the
largest that has ever been published. There
are few delinquents among the residents
most Of the assessments being against those
residing outside the county.
DR.. H. w. Dorsey is quite Ill at his home
here
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-30

than could possibly be produced from gran
tie, marble or bronze. In the years to
come, whatever others may have done or
shall do along the lines that he marked
out, credit will be given to him as the one
man in public life who clearly foresaw the
greater Washington, and gave freely
OF time and energy to the accomplishment.
Of the grand purpose he had in view. And
so today, paying tribute to his memory, we
not only recognize him as associate, friend
and Christian gentleman, but proclaim him
the benefactor Of the nations capital, the
wise and loyal friend Of the nations well
fare. AS one who knew and loved him, l
today place on his grave fresh flower OF
affection, token Of tender aud loving
memories"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-30
TO AID STRANDED AMERICANS.
Assistant Secretary Peirce Proposed
an Appropriation Of 81, 900.

ASS1SIdAt 0SCIStdIy 1SlICS 3IOpOSCo
an Appropriation Of 5000.
Assistant Secretary PIERCE has taken a
deep interest in the proposition to provide
small fund from which diplomatic and
consular officers abroad could defray the
expenses Of returning to their homes desti-
tute American citizens, or burying them
when they die abroad. To that end he has
proposed to Congress an appropriation Of
5000. with the proviso that where aid Is
extended, the money Is to be refunded
wherever possible to obtain it.
Mr.. Peirce's presentation of the case is a
very strong one, based in part upon his own
experience and upon that Of most of the
American diplomatic and consular officers.
He shows that they are frequently called
upon to extend relief to American citizens.
who, through little fault Of their own, have
been stranded abroad. In many cases these
officers have advanced funds from their
own pockets and without hope for return.
Such expenditures are purely voluntary, but
at the same time no officer Of the govern
meEt feels that he can refuse to aid a
countryman in distress, when to refuse may
subject the applicant to untold hardships in
strange land, where restitution may result
in long Imprisonment. The cases cited in
support Of the application for the appro-
priation are pathetic.
In further support of some such legisla-
State Department from United States Con-
sui Bigham at Capt Town. He states that
there are number Of young Americans
there who came as muleteers, some Of
whom have served year or more in the
British army and they had refused to send
any more soldiers home. These young men
are, some Of them, absolutely destitute. I
have handed out a few shillings at time
myself, in order to give them something to
eat, but this I cannot stand. Some of them
have been able to secure employment to
earn barely enough to live on. All manual
labor here Is done by the Kaff1rs except the
skilled mechanical labor. There are so
many British subjects out of employment
since the discharge Of the army that an
American has very little show for situa-
tion."
Therefore Mr.. Brigham suggests that the
good people of the United States raise a
fund by subscription to pay low rate of
passage homeward for these men, and he
undertakes to furnish the name Of a good
reliable American to handle the money.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-30
Presidential Nominations.

The President yesterday sent the follow
ing nominations to the Senate:
Collectors Of customs-William J. Grant,
New York. for the district Of Cape Vincent,
N. Y: William H. Daniels, New York. for
the district of Oswagatchie, N. Y.
Surveyor of customs-John A. Bassarear,
port of Greenport N. Y.
George E. Roberts. Iowa, to be director
Of the mint.
Army-Colonel Charles L. Davis. 9th In
fantry, to be brigadier general: Lieutenant
Colonel Richard H. Pratt. 18th Cavalry, to
be colonel; Major Frederick K. Ward, LIST
Cavalry, to be lieutenant colonel; Captain
Ebene Swift, 9th Cavalry. to be major; First
Lieutenant Henry c. Whitehead. 10th Cav
airy. to be captain; First Lieutenant Henry
NJ. Morrow, 9th Cavalry, to be judge advo-
cate. with rank of major.
:. Albert B. Hatfield, at, large, to be first
lieutenant OF infantry.
Navy-To be assistant surgeons, Freder-
lex w. g. Dean, South Carolina: Richard L.
Sutton. Missouri
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-30
SENATOR CocKRELL's REVIEW.
Senator Mcmillan in Finance, Politics
and Craftsmanship.

Senator Cockrell reviewed the life of ac-
tivity by which Senator Mcmillan had
arisen to distinction In the world of finance,
politics and craftsmanship.
HE was,' said Senator Cockrell, IAN in
dustrious, intelligent, faithful and worthy
senator, and took an active part in shaping
the legislation and conducting the business
of the Senate, and welded a strong influ-
ence. From party standpoint his speeches
on the controverted questions of the tariff
and finance were forceful and effective. He
INDUCED in no oratorical display, but relied
upon plain statements Of facts and figures
and arguments therefrom. and was method
tcal and painstaking in his duties and his
efforts. My personal acquaintance with
him began with his entrance into the Senate,
and as the years passed by and our duties
drew us into personal and official relations
our friendship and confidence grew and
strengthened and we became warm per-
sonal friends. I respected, admired and
loved him for his many noble manly, cor
dial, genial traits and characteristics"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-30
THE INDIAN BILL PASSED.
Post Office Appropriation Bill Taker
Up in the House.

The House yesterday afternoon passed
the Indian appropriation bill and began
consideration Of the post office appropria-
ton bill. Mr.. Burton (Ohio) continued
his criticism of the extravaganza of the
items in the Indian bill to the end, but
his three days attack on the bill was
not productive Of many reductions. Mr..
Patterson (Tenn.) took advantage of the
latitude allowed in general debate on the
post Office bill to make a set speech of an
hour and q half on the trust question. Mr.
Reid (Ark.) spoke on good roads The con-
ferees on the department Of commerce bill
We're named just as the House adjourned.
The conferees named were Messrs. Hepburn
Qowa), Mann Gil and Richardson (Ala).
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-30
Abram S. Hewitt,s win.

The will of Abram S. Hewitt filed yester-
day at Paterson, N. J., makes no public
requests and the value Of the estate Is not
given. To the widow, Mrs. Sarah Hewitt,
the testator left all his household furniture,
all his estate known as Ringwood, In Pas
sale county, N. j.. and all his real prop
erty in Rockland and Orange counties, N.
Y. A trust fund of 500. 600 is created, the
income to be paid to various relatives. The
residue OF the estate goes to the testator's
children.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-30
NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED.
Favorable Action by the Senate Yes
terday Afternoon.

The Senate yesterday afternoon. confirmed
the following nominations:
George R. Carter Of Hawaii to be secre-
tary of the territory Of Hawaii
Second Lieut.. Lee B. Purcell, United
States Marine Corps. to be first lieutenant
of the Marine Corps from the 23d day of
July. 1901.
Ernest H. Brownell. a citizen Of Rhode
Island. to be civil engineer in the navy
from the oath day Of October. 1902.
Ernest r. Gayler. a citizen of Missouri,
to be q civil engineer In the navy from the
oath day Of October 1902.
Paul L. Reed. to be a civil engineer in the
navy from the 2Sth day Of October 1902
Lieut.. Joseph H. Rohrbacher, to be a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-30
TOOK IT WITH HIM.
Willis Moore Presents Pittsburg With
Thunder Storm.

A dispatch from Pittsburg to the Phila-
delphia Press says that Willis L. Moore
chief Of the United States weather bureau,
came to that city yesterday to lecture, and
as his train was pulling into the station
Pittsburg was treated to a midwinter thun-
derstorm. Lightning filled the skies and
split trees. Following the storm came a
warm, spring-like day. With the tempera-
ture climbing toward 20 and great humidi-
ty, electric fans were buzzing in office
buildings all day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-30

lieutenant commander in the navy, from the
7th day Of November. 1902.
George L. Smith of New Jersey, to be
collector Of customs for the district Of New
ark, in the state of New Jersey, and q num-
Der of postmasters, including the following.
in Maryland: George E. Baughman, at
Westminster, and Sewell NJ. Moore, at
Cambridge, and Charles Bugg, Farmville,
Va
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-30
Senator McMillan's Monument.

MI. President, when the magnificent
union railroad station has been construct
ed, when broad vista has been opened
from the Capitol to the monument when
the mall Is rescued from It's unsightiy con-
dition and the south side of Pennsylvania
avenue is redeemed from it's present en-
vironments and occupied by costly public
buildings-when these things shall come tc
pass, as they are sure to do, then will be
erected In the nations capital a more en-
during monument to Senator Mcmillan
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-09-30
Nicknames Gone Mad.

Much has been said of the habit
most families have OF abbreviating
the names of the children. But what
should be done with mother who took
weeks to decide what to call her baby,
finally settling upon Antoinette, and
who then called the child Tony for
short? In the same family is a fem
inine Billy (Wilhelmina). an unfor.
tunate who is known as 'Fet (chris-
tened Featherstone Herbert Frederick)
and girl who was baptized Hope for
two reasons, first because 1t was a
name that seemed impossible to alb
breviate and secondly because her sis.
ter's name was Charity. AS Hope
grew out OF babyhood the incorrigibly
ingenious family set it's wits to work
and evolved the euphonious name of
Hoppy Tor her. (They at least didn't
abbreviate it, Charity has been
known as Cherry all her life.--Boston
Transcript.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-09-30
Two MOSQUITO Yarns.

Mosquitoes stopped a 7O0.horse.
power engine in the plant of the Pitts.
burg Reduction company at Alta Sita,
a suburb Of East st. Louis. For sew
eral days the engine had not run
smoothly, but Engineer Robinson
could not locate the trouble. Raising
steam to an unusual pressure had no
apparent effect, and finally the big
drive wheel stopped dead. Renewed
examination showed that mosquitoes,
attracted possibly by the oil on the en-.
gine, had been mashed to death on the
crossheads and along the piston runs
until they formed a gummy mass that
even steam pressure could not over
come. The factory now has screens.
One Of the worst plaques of mosqui.
toes ever suffered by ranches in the
Fraser River valley now infests that
district. This summer the river flood.
ed the lowlands, leaving pools from
which were bred millions of big, fierce
mosquitoes that have attacked and
killed hens. At Mount Lehman, a
large district protected by dixie, the
plague Of mosquitoes is so bad that
life is burden to those compelled to
labor in the open air-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-09-30

brides hair. Whom seod 10 not Do
sired tho flowers are pluckod from the
tree and thrown away.
Since the tea industry has been ar
sumed by Europeans during the last 30
years In India and Ceylon, inventors
have been at work. and various ma
chimes have been constructed for every
process except that OF plucking the
leaves. 1t would be as difficult to
pick tea leaves us it would be to gath
er rasDberries with q machine.
This is cleanly done. Each picker
has a little basket and plucks each
leaf with thumb and forefinger. The
different machines are for withering,
rolling, drying, sitting and packing.
With them there Is scarcely any hand
work on the leaves. The European
tea houses are models of cleanliness.
Bread in the best furnished bakeries
could not be more cleanly than the tea
produced on these plantations.
The tea industry in India and Cey-
Ion is almost entirely In the hands Of
Europeans most OF them we'll educat-
ed and all experienced in their busi-
ness. They have made as much or
more advancement In the making Of
tea as there has been improvement In
the dairy industry In the United
States.
In mentioning green tea I used the
adjective pure, for there can be pure
green tea. though as unfit for drink
ing as bitter green fruit when dried
would be for eating. There is scarce.
ly any pure green tea in the market.
One reason for this is that among the
Chinese each family has its own tea
plat and makes up the product which
Is sold to dealers. who find 1t neces-
sary to use colcring matter to give the
various patches a uniform color, and
make 1t fit for a foreign market.
Another reason is that the Chinese
being frugal people, wasting nothing
after sleeping leaves for their own use
dry and color the grounds for the
American market, for no colcred green
teas are admitted in the European
market, and but little pure green tea
is used there. The Chinese them
selves never use colored teas. and it
Is stated by the best authority that
seven-eighths of all the tea exported
from China is coiored and made in
Japan, for il there is no colored Japan
tea, why the frequent use of the word
uncolored by dealers and users when
speaking Of Japan tea? No one ever
heard of uncolored Indian or Ceylon
tea--Chicago Tribune.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-09-30
NEWSY CLEANlNCS.

The new crater of vesuvius Is 425
feet across.
Hazing has been renewed M the
Naval Academy in Annapolis. Md.
Labor men in England already have
thirteen representatives in Parliament.
Columbus. Ohio, will soon be the cen.
tre of the glass industry of the United
States.
France has requistioned n number
OF steamers for the dispatch Of large
force to China.
The University of Kansas. at Law
renee, Kan. will have chair of Jour-
nalism this fall.
Foreign agents of the Steel Trust
have been instructed to seek foreign
business as soon as possible.
Continued strikes at Barcelona,
Spain, have led numerous employers to
suspend all work for the present.
A plan is contemplated for the fed.
GRAFTON of all the commercial travellers
associations of the British Empire.
Experiments of telephoning along the
railway metals i'm place of wires have
proved successful near New York City,
The 265-foot chimney at the Armour
packing plant in Kansas City, Mo-, has
been split by lightning for 100 feet
down.
A new labor socialist party will be
formed in Porto Rico to act independ,
emily Of the American Federation Of
Labor.
Oklahoma cotton growers will try
Mexican labor in the fields, as the
prejudice against negro laborers is
very great.
There are 27,153 negro voters in
Greater New York, MS follows: New
York County, 1885; Kings, 4S99;
Queens, 63S, and Richmond, 2S1.
German army officials are taking
steps to stop the brutality Of subal,
terms, of whose torture Of privates
many reports continue to be printed in
the German press.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-09-30
SIR WALTER ON GHOSTS.
." Do Not Believe My Own Experience
Would Convert Me-"

One Of the letters written by Sir
Walter Scott to his valued friend, Mrs.
Hughes, published in the Century,
says, among some personal chat:
Dear Mrs. Hughes Your rec
objection is very vivid, & I doubt not
sufficiently correct; still It falls short
Of legal testimony; the recollection of
our childhood on such a topic as that
of ghosts & COLLINS Is apt to be
strangely mixed with exaggerations, a
sort Of embroidery which your fancy
is 80 apt to lend such strong coloring
as misleads even its owners. Our law
has wisely I think introduced a pre-.
scription of crimes, from the idea that
human testimony becomes unsettled
by the lapse of time G. would be di.
rected. more by the imagination than
the absolute recollection. therefore,
my dearest lady, paying the utmest
credit to your testimony, yet the oc.
currence of so old a date must not
alter my doubts; 1t Wilma believe for
me. 1t would be very properly certi.
fed, but on my word cannot believe
it ever to have had an existence; the
story is never told the same way,
though there is kind of general re-
semblance. do not believe my
own experience would convert me;
though | might tremble I would re-
verse the part played by the devils
and certainly not believe. / wish you
would write down Mrs. Ricketts, story
as well as you remember it. Every
such story on respectable foundation
is a chapter in the history of the hu.
man mind. Still think the balance
OF evidence preponderates SO heavily
upon the side of imputing all such ap-
pearances to natural causes that the
mysterious stories "winna believe for
me-" ! am sorry for 1t; / liked the
thrill that attended the influence of
these tales, & wish wereable to wan.
der back through the mazes of Mrs.
Radcliff's romances. But alas! have
been SO long both a reader and a
writer of such goodly matters that
"Dourness familiar to my slaughterous
thoughts
Cannot cen startle me-"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-09-30
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Former Senator Jones. Of Nevada.
has made his home in New York.
The Crown Prince of Germany IL a
Fancy skater" Of the first order.
M. Rostand, the author, figures
among the numerous Humbert victims.
Ian Maclaren, the author has come
out against what he calls "over- -cduca.
tion."
Jay Cooke, the venerable financiers
always wears felt hat of a pale fawn
color.
The eminent German playwright,
Gerhardt Hauptmann, is only forty one
years old.
Lord Miner, the Governor G General of
South Africa. has an almost infinite
capacity for WORK.
Ambassador Porter has been elected
an honorary member of the Society Of
the Cincinnati at Paris.
The wife OF President Loubet Of
France Is leading the fight against
tuberculosis in her country.
Alfred Russell Wallace, who shares
with Darwin the honor of establishing
the theory Of evolution, is over eighty
years old.
Emperor William is ambitious TO Gre
ate monumental structure in his cap
ltal city which shall match West
minister Abbey in London.
Sir Frederick Treves King Edwards
physician, says he was always lazy in
bis student days, and never even took
the trouble to try for n prize.
1t is said that n memorial hospital to
honor the memory of the late Rev.
Richard s. Storrs. the eminent Brook
lyn preacher, and to bear bis name,
will be erected in Foochow. China.
As a result of the first years opera
tion of the Carnegie Relief Fund es-
tablished at the Carnegie Works, near
Pittsburg, by Andrew Carnegie, $4S,-
900 in benefits and pensions for en-
ployes were distributed from the fund
Of $4,000,O00 set aside by Mr.. Carnegie
for the purpose.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1903-09-30
Toy Pistols Work.

The mortality from the toy pistol is
appalling and the death from 1t, which
is by lock-jaw, is horrible. In Chica
go in one July those dying from this
cause numbered 60 and In another "a
In New York City three consecutive
Fourths OF July yielded 9S such
deaths. That the tetanus bacillus
which causes 1ock-jaw is not present
In the powder or wad OF the toy piS
tol cartridge has been shown by Wells
OF Chicago, who examined 200 OF
them; the Boston health officers who
examined $50. and army officers, who
tested 675. Therefore the microbes
of the disease are on the skin, and are
driven into the wound made by the
pistol. That they are on the hands OF
the jolhfying boy is not surprising,
for their spores abound in many soils,
and especially about stables. This
germ is harmless while exposed to the
air, but multiphes and rapidly produc
es its virulent poison when given
warmth and moisture where air is ex,
cluded. On this account all accidents
from exploding powder should be dis
infected by a doctor and should not be
wrapped up.