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ROCKVILLE AND VICINITY.
Residents of Glen Echo Want Town
Incorporated-General Items.

AACOA OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES xCGlu6.
Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, December 49, 1903.
The residents of Glen Echo, this county,
have started a movement to have the ap-
preaching legislature incorporate the town.
A petition is being circulated asking the
county's representatives in the legislature
to have law enacted to that end, and a
mass meeting will be held next week to
further the movement. 1t is stated that
the name Of the corporation will be Glen
Echo, and will include Glen Echo Heights
and the National Chautauqua Of Glen
Echo. At this time Glen Echo has a pop
uIation Of about ESQ., has a chapel, hall and
school house, and is represented as pro-
gressive community in every way. Those
prominent In the movement for the incor-
poraticn or the town are Messrs. Joseph
X. Gaines, Williaka III. Roach, Van B. Cam
ada, Bernard A. Dixie and John Trammel
The Thursday Night Euchre Club met
Talbot. The prize-winners were Miss
Helen Talbot, Mrs. Lee Dorsey and
Messrs. Thomas M. Talbot and Hugh
Glascott Others participating were the
Ethel I.yddane, Hattie jones' Lille Ander-
son and Nellie Printup, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry A. Dawson. Messrs. Edward Ayton.
Williams. Stephen Quigley. Lee Dorsey.
and Russell Brewer and Mrs. BENJAMIN
Riggs. Refreshments were served
The young gentlemen of Glen Echo ard
vicinity gave ball at Glen Echo Park this
evening. The committee of arrangements
consisted Of Messrs. Bruce Aldrich Joseph
Fowler, Louis Harding. Charles Lynch and
Joseph Mccain. Mrs. Walter G. Carroll,
Mrs Louis Harding and Mrs. ]. Riley
Jones acted as chaperons.
Miss Carter Warren Of Harrisonburg. Va,
who has been visiting friends here, left
this morning for Alexandria to spend 9
few days.
At the regular weekly meeting Of the
orphans court for this county the follow
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Palais Royal, 1l"s q & 18th SITS.

riously. For nine months he was confined
in hospital in prison on Lake Erie.
He led the assault on Fort Steadman and
commanded the rear guard of Gen. Cor
don's brigade during its march to the APP
pomattox.
He moved to Hagerstown about thirty
he was defeated by Louis E. McComas,
now United States senator, bIt was after
ward appointed judge of the fourth judicial
circuit by the governor.
In 1892 he was appointed adjutant ,en-
erai Of Maryland, and had charge of the
troops during the coal miners strike In
western Maryland in 1894. When the war
with Spain broke out President Mckinley
appointed him assistant adjutant general
in the United States army, which he de-
clined. Gen. Douglas never married.
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those from the united kingdom were in 1909
but three times as much as those In 1893.
The total exports from the United States
to Africa have grown with great rapidly
from S. 196 48O In 1893 to $SS.438. S53 In 1903.
being more than seveM times as much In
1908 az In 1898; while to Asia and Oceanic
our exports grew from .008 In 1898
to $06 1927 .52S In 1908; to South America.
from $32.6B9.0T In 1893 to- al. 1877 .872 in
1908; to North America, other than the
United States, from $11e. 7sSj68e In 1893 to
$216, 4S2, 760 In 1908, and to Europe, from
1861 ,976, ITO In 1898 to $1.029 1884, 57 In 1908.
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DEMOCRATIC AGREEMENT.
Text Of Resolution Adopted in the
Caucus,

The agreement of the democratic caucus
Of the Senate that hereafter the demo-
cratic senators shall vote as unit on party
questions has aroused SO much interest
that 1t has been thought worth while to
give out the text Of the resolution which
lows:
That hereafter the decisions of the
caucus, when made by two-thtrds ma
tority, shall be binding on all the mem
been made by senators to their constitu-
ents, or instructions have been received
from their state legislatures. or when a
question OF constitutional construction is
involved" -
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TYPE IN THE RECORD.
Senator Hoar Desires an Improve
ment

At the beginning of yesterdays session of
the Senate Mr.. Hoar offered resolution in
structing the committee on printing to as
certain whether 1t is not possible to have
the Congressional Record printed in better
type than at present. and briefly addressed
the Senate on the subject, saying that 1t
was very difficult to read 1t as now printed.
The reading of the resolution brought out
the fact that other senators find it difficult
to read the Record.
MT. Gallinger thought that to increase the
size OF the type would be to increase the
number OF volumes, which would, he said,
be an objection.
Mr.. Bacon was of opinion that the price
OF the publication to the public should be
reduced
Mr.. Newlands suggested that there should
be improvement in the printing of most gov
eminent publications.
The resolution was agreed to-
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and delegation of 100 prominent citizens
Of Philadelphia.
The projects also were advocated by Rep
resentatives Bingham. McCreary, Moon.
Adams. Butler, Dresser, Cassel and Kline
OF Pennsylvania, and Loudenslager of New
Jersey and Senator Ball and Representa-
tive Houston of Delaware. Other speakers
maritime exchange, President Joel Cook OF
the Philadelphia board Of trade, Alfred A.
Crozier Of Washington and Major Sanford
of the United States Engineer Corps.
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WAS STONEWALL JACKsoN's AID.
Death Of Distinguished Maryland Sol
der and Jurist at Hagerstowu.

Gen. Henry Kyd Douglas. distinguished
officer In the confederate army. died last
night at his home in Hagerstown, aged
sixty-three years. He was born at Shep-
herdstown. w. Va, and was the son OF
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wall" Jaeksons brigade. AS chief of
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every battle until that famous general fell
at Chancellorsvilie. He was wounded seven
times during the war. ct Gettysburg -
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MEETING OF LAND COMMISSION
Daily Sessions Will Be Held Beginning
Next Tuesday.

The commission on the public lands re-
Gently appointed by President Roosevelt to
report on the condition, operation and eff
feet of the present land laws and on the
use. condition, disposal and settlement of
the public lands held its first meeting
Thursday. This body is composed Of Com
missioner w. A. Richards of the general
land Office, Clifford Pinchet. chief of the bu-
reau of forestry of the Department of Agri-
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rapher Of the geological survey. Arrange
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ly and effectively the work for which the
commission was appointed, and with this
end in view. beginning next Tuesday, meet
ings will be held daily except Saturday at
the general land Office for the purpose of
considering the various matters which will
come before the commissioners.
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FOR DEEPER DELAWARE.
Philadelphia Delegation Sees Rivers
and Harbors Committee.

The House committee on rivers and har-
bors yesterday was asked to recommend an
appropriation of s.. $4,000 for completing
the thirty-foot channel in the Delaware
river and to make a survey for a thirty
f1ve-foot channel in that river from Phila-
delphia to the sea. This request was made
before the committee by Mayor Weaver
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HOME FROM MANILA.
Collector Shuster on . Three Months
Leave Of Absence.

w. Morgan Shuster. y coliector of GUS
toms for the Philippine Islands. has ar
rived in Washington. formerly his home. on
three months leave OF absence. While
here Mr.. Shuster will ba prepared to fur
ton 1t may desire in connection with the
proposition to further lower the Philippine
tariff. There is no man In the archipelago
better posted on that subject and 1t Is the
intention OF the War Department to avail
itself of Mr.. Shuster's services.
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DIR. I. B. Washburn of Rensselaer,. Ind.
IS dead at a private hospital at Valparaiso,
Ind, as the result of curious bIunder
made during an operation performed two
years ago. DR.. Washburn had complained
ond operation revealed in the patients side,
near the liver, a steel forcep. about I'VE
and three-Quarter inches In length. The
forceps had become rusty. DR.. Washburn
died few hours after the operation.
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OF the employees Of the Crucible Steel
Company of America VIII be reduced, be-
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ported that number Of employees are
slated for dismissal on January /
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Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-30

the accumulated fund is exhausted there
will have accumulated millions more
for the same purpose from the sales Of
public lands which are 10y law TO be
applicable 10 works of irrigation. This
gives opportunity for building up a
strong bureau, to which shall he COM
mitted every feature of the general sub
ject Of irrigation.
The house committee doubtless took
the proper view of the matter. The APP
preparation allowed will enable the de
partment to still make irrigation inves-
legations, though on a much restricted
scale, but ultimately this work will be
done by the reclamation bureau with
funds already available, so that prob
ably after the present year the Depart
ment Of Agriculture will not have any
thing to do with Investigations. The
action of the house was not from n
disposition to obstruct irrigation, but
simply to make the prosecution Of the
work in all its features dependent upon
the money now on hand for this pur-
pose and which is ample in amount for
all present requirements.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-30
NEGRO VOTE IN 1904.
Balance of Power Held by CoIored
voters I'm Pivotal states.


AS republican supremacy in the canvass
of 1904 may depend on the retention Of
the black vote by that party, we realize the
interest which attaches in both parties to
the anti-negro crusade among the southern
lilly white" republicans, and to President
Roosevelt's opposition to any discrimina-
ton on account OF color. Politicians also
should realize the significance OF the move
ment organized among the leaders Of the
colored race in the south to demand enact
ment of a law to pension former slaves.
under penalty, in case of refusal, of an
appeal to the colored voters in the north to
bolt the republican ticket in 1904. On the
basis of the vote of 1902 for congress or
state officers, the transfer OF the negro
vote, or any large section OF it, from the
republican to the democratic side would
mean a victory for the democrats in the
next presidential compaign.
Assuming that the republicans large ma
~jorities OF 1896 and 1900 will vanish in 1904
with the disappearance of the silver issue,
It is reasonably certain that the swing OF
any large section OF New York's 81, 900
negro voters to the democrats, and the
change in the same direction of New Jer-
sey's 81, 900, Rhode Islands 5000, Della
wares 5000, Maryland's sc, 900, West Vir-
ginia's 5000, Indiana's is, 900 and Kansas
1900 would give the democracy the presi-
dent in that year. The transfer Of these
close states from the republican to the
democratic column in 1904 would add 9S
electoral votes to the 154 which they will
get in any event. This would mean a total
of 252, or 10 more votes than the 289 which
viii be a majority Of the electoral college.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-30
PRESIDENT ROOsEvELr's TRIBUTE.
DispassiOnate Estimate of McKinIey's
OmciaI Career.
Kansas City Star.

President RooseveIt's address on the per-
sonal character and official career OF Presi-
dent Mckinley, delivered on the occasion
OF the celebration at Canton Of the anniver-
sary of McKinley's birth. was only Incl
dentally a eulogy in the accepted under
standing OF that term. Mr.. Roosevelt is
not given to the use OF extravagant terms,
He is not an emotional word painter in
any sense. His public speeches and state
papers are instinct with fact, with reason
and with sense. What he had TO say of
Mckinley was more in the nature of a dis
passionate estimate than OF an obvious
eulogy, and yet II was both sincere and
sympathetic.
Probably no one who has not been called
upon to discharge the duties and meet the
issues of the presidential ONCE can do alb
solute justice to another who has filled the
same position. President Roosevelt's esti-
mate OF Mckinley is doubtless higher and
more positive than it would have been II he
had not viewed the late presidents career
from the standpoint Of personal experience
as we'll as that Of long observation.
Summed up, the tribute Of the present
chief magistrate to his immediate predeces-
sor is that McKinley's career was in no
wise due to political accident or extraordi-
nary opportunity; that It was Of continual
growth, ending logically with the bestowal
of the highest honor Of the country; that
in its last stages # had TO do with great
and menacing events, and that In these
stages II was marked by the singular sue
cess that had attended the less eyentful
| steps; that q record made in such historic
times and marked by results such as have
followed the Mckinley policies, is i'm
perishable, inasmueh as It overcomes the
animosities Of partisan politics; and finally
that the proof of this conclusion may be
found in the sincere grief Of the whole ma
tion when President Mckinley was struck
down.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-30
alaska.
Measures AnectinE tho Territory Re
ceivs scant Attention Tn Congress.
Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune.
The house Of representatives has passed
a bill providing for the representation OF
the territory OF Alaska by a delegate. This
will not be much Of a gift. A delegate has
little influence. Congress has so much to
do that It is reluctant to give time to ter
~ritorial legislation. even where a delegate
has eloquently set forth the pressing ne
cessity for Il.
There are many things which will be
more useful to Alaska than a delegate.
There is need OF a land law with proper
provisions for securing homesteads. Laws
should be enacted for the preservation OF
the forests and the salmon. These are i'm
portant, practical questions which congress
is slow to take hold Of. The old belief
that all Alaska except a narrow strip along
the coast is a bleak polar desert, where
none but a fur trapper can earn a living,
is dying away. The discovery has been
made that the Canadian northwest, once
said to be untillable, is a fine farming
region. The same discovery is being made
as regards extensive Alaskan districts. 1t
is too soon to say that all the cultivable
land belonging to the government has been
taken up and there can be no homesteaders
Unfortunately, owing to a lack OF law,
the American who goes to Alaska and at
tempts 20 cultivate the SOIL ls q mere
squatter. He can get no title.
The extent Of the mineral wealth Of
Alaska is gradually being learned. The ter
ritory is rich in copper and in gold, and
doubtless other minerals will be found
there. Mining camps will grow up into
large and permanent towns. Railroads will
penetrate the territory and open it up to the
miner, the farmer and the cattle raiser.
There is q great future in store for Alaska,
but that future will be slow in coming II
congress will do nothing to hasten the de-
velopment Of the territory. The last con-
gress was with difficulty induced to make
some provision for civil government in
Alaska. The thrush of miners made II
necessary to do something. There will
have to be much more legislation before
Alaska will have a fair chance. The terri
tory has been underestimate and neglected
from the beginning.