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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
ALL KINDS OF
TREASURY FIGURES
Public Debt Receipts and Expenditures
and Circulation.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 1.-The
monthly statement of the public debt
shows that at the close of business,
Aug. 81, 1904, the total debt. less cash
IN the treasury, amounted to $923924,-
457, which is decrease for the month
of S6,O9S,951. This decrease is account
ed for principally by the corresponding
Increase in the cash on hand.
The monthly statement of the gov
eminent receipts and expenditures
show that for August, 1908, the total
receipts were $49,852,677 and the ex-
penditures ,544, leaving a sur
plus for the month of $6,82S,133
The total coinage for August was
$1,146,1S0, as follows: Gold. $3.50. 900;
silver, $452,000; minor coins, $252,81O.
At the close of business Aug 81, 1903,
the total circulation of national bank
notes was $41S,587, 07O, an increase for
the year of $5.07O,833. and an increase
for the month of $1,241, 488. The circu-
lation based on United States bonds
amounted to $3S0,076,322, an increase of
$50. 66S.735 for the year and $2,669,496
Increase for the month. The amount
of circulation secured by lawful money
was S3S,511,653, a decrease for the year
of $3,363,451 and for the month of
$1,228,OO3. The amount of United States
registered bonds on deposit to secure
circulating notes was 1881, 486. 43O. and
to secure public deposits $152,614,420.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
DELAY IN ARBITRATION.
Venezuela Claims Court Opens With
But One Arbitrator Present.

THE HAGUE, Sept. 1.-The first
session today of the court which is to
decide the Venezuelan claims was oc-
cupied by the discussion of procedure
to be followed. After Baron Van Lyn-
den, the Dutch foreign minister, had
greeted the members of the court, NJ
Mouravieff, the Russian minister of
justice. who presided, announced he
was the only arbitrator present and
that he was willing to hear any re-
marks.
Mr.. Cohen, counsel for Great Britain,
proposed the tribunal adjourn from day
to day. Wayne MacVeagh, on behalf
of Venezuela, replied that in the alb
sence of three arbitrator he could not
agree to Mr.. Cohen's proposal There
upon NJ. Mouravieff declared that the
tribunal was not yet duly constituted
and the sitting was unofficial. The ar
bitrator adjourned the sitting and
withdrew.
The Venezuelan counsel has handed
nal against the delay entailed by the
failure of Great Britain and Germany
to ask the car to appoint three arbi-
traitors in time for the opening of the
tribunal. 1t is believed the Venezuelan
counsel will insist on the nomination of
arbitrators and the organization of the
tribunal as soon as possible.
The Russian government has in
formed Italy that Portuguese will be
appointed as the third arbitrator at
The Hague court to adjudge the Vene-
Zuelan claims.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
THE GOOD CLOTHES SHOW.

The national administration, having
taken a hand in the saving of the
country by denouncing the tendency to
race suicide, now takes up the subject
of dress. Secretary of Commerce George
B. Corteiyou, who has been content so
far to bask in the reflected light that
shines on the august master of his po-
ht1cal fortunes, comes on the stage with
a spot light of his. own and opens the
good clothes show in Madison Square.
1t is not stated officially that Secre-
tary Cortelyou is an exhibit, hence we
are constrained to assume that his
presence at the opening of the show
was inspired by personal and official
interest in the success of the affair.
Mr.. Cortelyou has the reputation of
being very well dressed man. That
fact and his presence gives the cachet
ofhclal to the show. 1t is also fair to
assume that Mr.. Cortelyou is interest,"
ed as secretary of commerce in the
exhibition. Certainly the department
OF commerce and labor might very prop
erly take cognizance of what is doing
in matters sartorial.
In these days, when the extension
of commerce depends so much upon the
dress and address of the party who has
the scheme, it is proper that the mat
ter of eostuming should receive atten-
tiOn in tho oh
tain that nothing so CRATES on the feel
1ngs of the victim of a bunko game
as to find that he has been fleeced by
one who pays no attention to the die
tates of fashion. If men dressed better
and more consistently commerce
would have a better run.
The exact object of the Madison
Square show promoters, aside from the
garnering to themselves of gear, has not
been made clear to us. We are left to
assume that they propose to elevate
the public tone in the matter of dress,
to give us new ideals by showing what
other nations are doing in affairs sar-
torial. If this be the object il is a
worthy one. We want some sort of
aesthetic enlightenment that will point
to the young man the advantage of
getting out of the eight-dollar hand
me-down. The youth of the country
should be made to look well to his raj
ment. His success in life may depend
on it.
But it was rather superfuous to hire
Madison Square Garden to make an
exposition of clothes to the New York
er. All the advantages that accrue TO-
the well-dressed man might be gather
ed at glance If the Hon. Timothy
woodruff were but brought over the
East river and paraded on Broadway.
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which we pointed out some time ago,
and has fixed the responsibility. Har-
per's Weekly, than which there is no
publication in the country less open to
the charge of partisanship or extreme
views, says
ut is perfectly true that this ex-
traordinary shrinkage of value cannot
be imputed to an industrial crisis, and
that the scores of thousands of voters
who have suffered by the shr1nkage
must ascribe their losses to some other
cause. Rightly or wrongly, most OF
the sufferers attribute the Shrlnkage
of values on the Stock Exchange to
Mr. Roosevelt's programme of warfare
against the trusts, a programme the
concrete results Of which are visible
in the suit brought by the attorney
general of the United States against
the Northern Securities company, ana
in the coercive legislation enacted by
congress, which may be turned to ac-
count by the bureau of corporations In
the new department of commerce. There
is probably not a voter in the three
pivotal states (New York, New Jersey
and Connecticut) who, if during the
last year and a half he has lost money
on the Stock Exchange, does not hold
Mr.. Roosevelt responsible, directly or
indirectly, for his smisfortupes."
The Weekly goes on to say that
this, from one point of view, is I'M
since the president did not
foresee from the beginning the finan-
cial consequences of his aggressive
against concentrated
capital" But it is the business of
man in that high place to foresee; to
look before he leaps; to take action
that may affect the whole country
widely, permanently and to the extent
of billions of dollars not of water or
imitation, but of actual wealth, only
after he has studied most patiently and
thoroughly all the possible conse-
quences. The responsibility, as the
figures show, is a heavy one. 1t rests
fairly, we think, where those most af-
fected have placed it, upon the shoul-
ders of the president Neither finan-
cialIy, industrially, morally nor polit-
fcalIy is it a light or pleasant burden
to carry.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
AcTUARIES KEEP ON
SWAPPING WISDOM
Delegates From All Over the World
Address the Congress.

NEW YORK, Sept. AT the second
days session of the fourth International
Congress of Actuaries, David Garment,
assistant actuary of the Australian Mu-
tual Provident society, of Sydney, ad-
dressed the congress, conveying a
greeting from the Australian actuaries.
The first paper discussed was that by
George King, one of the vice presidents
of the institute of actuaries. in Brief
Notes on the British Offices Mortality
Experiences, 1S63-1S93"
Ralph P. Hardy, of London, a dele
gate. closed the discussion on Mr..
Kings paper, and then Mr.. Hardy's
technical paper on "a Comparison of
the ON Table of Mortality With the
(adjusted) American Table" was taken
up.
J. G. Van Hise said that the differ
ence in the laws OF the various states
would prevent the use of the ON table
in this country. The general discus
sion concerning the British mortality
experience was closed by James Raft
man, of Buda Pest.
Fritz Trefser, of Berne, actuary Of
the Swiss Federation Bureau of Assur-
ance, opened the discussion of Mr.. Won
G. Kihms paper on "Annuities Mortal
ity"
The afternoon session began with
general
subjects for future mortality investi-
cations Emery McClintock, of New
York, spoke of the work of the COM
mittee of the Actuarial Society Of
America having charge of the recent
Investigations into the experience Of
the thirty four life insurance cOmpa-
MES with ninety eight classes of risks.
President Pierson read the following
telegram from Cuban Minister Quesada
at Washington:
'Tn justice to my country, 1 beg you
to say to the congress that Mr. HOff-
mans statement about statistics and
mortality of Havana are not correct. L
send by mail publications of the sani-
tary departments of Cuba showing how
hasty and unfounded are his remarks.
They show the mortality to be at the
annual rate of about twenty per thou
sand. During last June it was at the
annual rate of 1876 per thousand"
On Monday Mr.. Hoffman, who is uni
versity lecturer of actuarial subjects,
said:
when we are told by a secretary Of
war that the mortality in Cuba is not
more than that in New York city IT
does not require much actual knowl-
edge to cause one to smile and to know
that 1t is nonsense
He also declared that the statement
that the death rate in the city of Ha-
vana is no greater than that of Wash
ington is untrue, and for some time to
come the death rate Of Havana would
be from so to 100 per cent greater than
any Northern city.
The first of the papers for discus
sion in the afternoon was 'The Prob
able Course of the Rate of Interest"
by J. Burn, F. 1. A. of the Prudential
Assurance company. of London. Alfred
Ames, of Berlin, was the only one who
spoke on this paper, and the discussion
was continued until tomorrow.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
Contemporary Comment
Root and the Presidency.

The understanding is that Hon.
Elihu Root. has resigned, the position
of secretary of war, the resignation to
take effect some months hence96 Anent
that event some pretty little stories
are told about him. Among them is
one that he refused the Republican
nomination for vice president in 1900,
President MCKINLEY having extended
an invitation to him to take the
second place. fiTt HJnst see" say his
admirers, what acgreat Opportunity he
lost by his self sacrifice. He might
have been president instead of ME-.
Roosevelt"
1t is not a manifest conclusion that
Mr.. Root could have been more harm
full to the country as president than he
has been as secretary of war. He has
been active in carrying out a Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt policy which
neither Mr. Mckinley nor Mr. Roose-
welt would have been able to carry
out himself. He was put in the cabi-
net, and kept there. to organize the war
department on the new "'standing
army plan, and to adopt new and in
congruous conditions to the simplicity
of the republic. His business is that
of an attorney who always works for
his client, right or wrong. In the
present instance the Administered ton is
his client.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
FIVE ARRESTS ARE
MADE AT BEIRUT
The Turks Make a Show of
Satisfying the United
States.

CONSTANTINOPLE,- Sept. 1.-The
Porte has notified Minister Leishman
that five arrests have been made at
Beirut in connection with the shoot
ing which led to the report that Will
liam &C. Magelssen, the United States
vice and deputy. consul there, had been
assasslnated, The Turkish officials
continue to insist that no attempt was
made on the vice consul's life and they
reassert that the whole story originat-
ed in feu de joie fired on the occa-
sion of native marriage and in ac-
cordance with custom. Mr.. Leish-
man, however, refuses to accept such
an explanation without conclusive
proof that the judicial investigation
continues.
The attempt to burn the American
college at Harpoot occurred five weeks
ago and, apparently, was the work of
an individual who considered he had
a grievance against the college author
tiles. When Mr.. Leishman was in
formed of the attempt he demanded
that the Porte protect the American in
stitution and in consequence of his
representations instructions were sent
to the authorities at Kharput to try
in the regular courts the charges
against fifty Armenians accused of
trafficking in arms and engaging in
OlAlCI oCOlliOOS dCIS. Among the dC-
cused is Prof Tenekedian, of the
American college, whose treatment in
prison pending his trial was also or
dered to be improved
Mr.. Leishman is pressing for a def
mite settlement of a number of matters
on which agreements We're reached
with the Turkish authorities last year,
but which in spite of frequent prom
fses on the part of the Porte have new
tod
naturalized American is still in prison
at Tripoli, Syria, although the Porte
frequently informed Minister Leishman
that the authorities at Beirut, who
have jurisdiction over Tripoli, had been
ordered to liberate him.
The American officials here attribute
the dispatch of the warships to Turk
ish waters not solely to the Magelssen
affair, but to the general dissatisfac-
ton of the authorities at Washing
ton to the non-fulfilIment of the
Porte's promises in regard to pending
questions and to the determination of
President Roosevelt to show Turkey
that she cannot trifie with American
representatives.
Chekib Bey, the Turkish minister, has
received from the minister of foreign
affairs at ConstantinopIe a dispatch
giving the Turkish version of the at
tempt on the life of Vice consul Ma
gelssen at Beirut. 1t was dated Aug.
30. After declaring that the report Of
the assassination o. Mr.. Magelssen was
absolutely false, the dispatch gives a
version of the affair practically the
same as has been told before in the
dispatches from Turkey. 1t says that
the pistol was fired by man returning
from marriage fete, the shot was
fired in the air and that it happened
just as Mr.. Magelssen was passing in
his carriage. This, the dispatch says,
led the vice consul to believe that an
attempt had been made upon his life.
The man who did the shooting already
has been delivered to the judicial au-
thorities. Chekib Beys dispatch also
asserts that order and tranquility pre-
vail at Beirut.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
HITS CHAMBERLAIN HARD.
Golden Club Impusns Colonial secre-
tary's Veracity.

LONDON, Sept. IA recent letter
of Colonial Secretary Chamberlain,
saying it was not necessary to answer
the criticism of the Golden club, which
appears mainly to be supported by for
eigners whose interest it is that we
should maintain our present system of
free imports" has called out a sharp
reply from the club in an open letter
to Mr.. Chamberlain, characterizing his
statement as grossly inaccurate"
The letter reminds the colonial sec
rotary that he was for many years a
member of the Glib and that he is
therefore perfectly well aware that the
foreign members thereof were elected
only with the object of encouraging
the free-trade movement in other coun-
tries and that they have no voice in
controlling the policy of the club. The
letter says, now that Mr.. Chamberlain
has been reminded of these facts, I'M
less he Immediately and publicly with
draws his statement, 1t ''can only be
concluded that it is part of your plan
of campaign to try to create prejudice
against your opponents by means Of
statements you know to be untrue"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
NEEDS A SPANKING.

According to all reports from Ven
ezuela, that incorrigible little state
needs spanking from somebody If
there were a reform school for the re-
publics of South America, and there
seems to be need of one, Venezuela
would be the first. to be committed.
There is apparently little Boxer bust
ness going on down there. The cry
down with the foreigners is popular
and is being used to stimulate all sorts
of petty indignities and annoyances.
And the first thing that Venezuela
knows there will be some warships off
the coast and a few more indemnitfes
to pay.
The foreigner is at once the scourge
and the hope of that and other coun-
tries of South America. Without for
eign enterprise and capital their re-
sources could never be developed. They
have not the money, the enterprise. the
knowledge or command of markets to
do business for themselves. Left alone
revolutionary sort, and the country re-
main as savage as it was a thousand
years ago. 1t is the foreigner who is
opening mines, building roads, enlarg-
ing the cities and developing trade.
And whatever We may think of COM
merce as a factor of a nations later
life, all history proves that in the ear
Hest period it is the great civilizer.
That the foreigner has also made
himself a nuisance in some respects in
South America can be understood. Cap
ital is seldom too nice about taking all
the advantages coming to it. Capital in
country like Venezuela can have
anything it wants. because the author
tiles are venal, and because it finds that
the most convenient basis of action.
Hence people find themselves overrun
by arbitrary outsiders. who have OBJ
tanned concessions and exercise the
rights they have acquired for their own
benefit and without regard to anything
else.
is that she has acquired the habit of
getting into row with the first conner.
She had her boundary dispute, out of
which she was snatched only by the
prompt intervention of this country.
She has had her ports bombarded and
her revenues sequestered Just as the
Spanish American loves to strut forth
in new uniform, the Spanish Ameri-
can government plumes itself upon be-
coming the center of an international
complication. 1t is like the small boy
who shouts opprobrious things after you
on the street, loving the disturbance
and knowing that he is too small to be
thrashed If caught. And Venezuela, in
particular, seems to have supreme
reliance upon the willingness of this
country to save her national dignity no
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
An Iron Ore Monopoly.

The steel trustnis fortifying itself
against future disaster by following in
the line of operation pursued so sue
cessfully by the oil trust. 1t is reach
ing forth for monopoly of the raw
material at the basis of the iron indus
try. 1t is >authoritafively reported that
the last large single tract of iron ore
on the Mesaba range in Minnesota has
been bought by the trust. The esti-
mated quantity of ore in the tract is
100000 tons. i
The unfair advantage which the
steel trust has, by reason of the tariff
on imports which enables it to put a
merciless tax upon the home consumer,
1t may lose at any time should the
voters of the United States make up
their minds that they no longer desire
to be unjustly plundered But the
practical monopoly of the raw mate
rial entering into the production of pig
iron could not be SO readily disturbed.
The long headed managers of the
great steel combination are evidently
preparing against future contingencies.
Philadelphia Record.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
TODAY'S WEATHER.

ENTHUSIASTICALLY cloudy Wednes
day; showers; cooler near Lake
Superior; Thursday fair; light to fresh
north to northeast wind.
Upper Michigan-Partly cloudy Wednes-
day; cooler in west portion: Thurs
day fair, light to fresh winds, mostly
west
Montana-Fair Wednesday. except
showers in northwest portion; Thursday
fair.
Iowa-Fair Wednesday; warmer in east
portion; Thursday fair.
North Dakota and South Dakota-Fair
Wednesday and Thursday.
Wisconsin-Probably cloudy Wednes-
day. showers in north. and west
st. Paul-Yesterdays temperatures,
taken by the. United States weather bu-
reau, st. Paul, w. E. Oliver, observer, for
the twenty -four hours ended at o'clock
last night-Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation. Highest tempera-
ture, "a; lowest temperature, So; average
temperature, rs; daily range, %; barome-
ter, 20 80; humidity. 35; precipitation, trace:
p. m. temperature. rs; p. M wind,
northwest; weather, partly cloudy.
Uactardoy's Tauonora rlIraS-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
What the Editors Say

North Dakota has a very fair crop
again this year. taken as a whole, and
the Minnesota terminal elevators will
continue to line the pockets of the
owners with the profits derived from
mixing real No. l hard with inferior
wheat No man should be elected to
the next North Dakota legislature who
is not pledged to support a grain grad
ing bill that will prevent the wholesale
robbery of our farmers by the Mime
apol1S and Duluth elevator sharks
Hankinson News.
Some philosopher said that a man
must tell dozen truths to get credit
for one lie. Some of our Republican
editors do not mix in that proportion,
and not a few seem to have gotten the
proportions reversed. But the man who
tells a lie only once in thirteen times.
or even once in hundred times. will
soon become so discredited that his
ninety-nine truths will not float his one
He-that is. in everything but politics.
MOBILES County Democrat.
Emphasize your opportunities in
stead of your grievances" is Booker
Washington's advice to the negroes.
Epigrammatic, wise and potent with
opportunities. OF course this has no
reference to the chicken question
Sank Rapids Free Press.
The preacher who refused to play
ball for $4,000 season, to preach for
$500 a year, will never be tempted
with an offer like that again. They
don't come more than once in a life
Observation-Disclosures Herald.
A little too much tariff is what ails
us up this way. The foreigner hasn't
paid the tax lately, if he ever did
Dawson Sentinel
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
Edward AMONG the ronhs-

VIENNA. Sept. liking Edward to-
Gay visited the Capuchin church and
It's vaults in which are sarcophagi in
closins the remains Of members of the
Austrian royal family. He then left
cards on the archduke's and arch
duchess tombs and was afterwards en-
tertained at a luncheon at the British
embassy, at which Emperor Francis
Joseph and number of notable per
Sonages were present. COMPLIMENTARY
speeches were exchanged. The func-
tlon was followed by a reception. A
t La dinner was given this evening
by the Archduchess Maria Josenb the
emperor and king being present
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
FEW WORDS ON STEEL.
Mr.. Carnegie Says America Will In
crease Output Tremendously.

BARROW IN FURNESS, Eng, Sept
1.-The autumn conference of the iron
and steel institute opened here today
under the presidency of Andrew Car
negie, who said in an address:
1T seems almost miraculous that
such an article as steel could be pro-
duced and sold without loss at three
pounds for a penny. 1 am convinced
that this is a thing of the past. 1t will
be question of increased cost and
therefore of increased price, so that
neither Britain nor America need fear
that steel manufacture will be wholly
lost; the world will gladly pay the in
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
Beers Were Around.

your fault" shouts Butler to Rob-
Boer war your fault" vociferates
Roberts to Wolseiey. your fault"
cries Wo1seley to Lansdowne. and
Your fault" shrieks Lansdowne to
the nation in general. Nobody seems
to attribute the British lickings to the
Beers, yet those Agricultural warriors
certainly were in the vicinity while the
licking was going Chicago Chron-
icle. yTss
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-02
Assertion Was Too strono.

Judge Lore, of Delaware, may have
made an overstatement when he said
before a Chautauqua assembly that
free governments are more subject to
violence than despotisms or monarch
les: But there is a larger measure of
truth in that view than 1t is pleasing
to recognize: Certainly not a few
facts could be cited from recent his
tory which go to prove that the peo-
pie under free governments are not so
well protected from violence as the
older advocates of that method of
rule have usually. maintained they
would be.-Providence Journal.