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The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
CANAL COMPANY
HAS MADE NO REPLY.
Agent Says 1t Is stfn Considering
the Offer.

Washington, Feb. Civilian Mel
son Cromwell, representative of the
Panama Canal Company, stated TO-
night that no reply had been made as
yet to the Presidents acceptance of the
canal company's offer to sell its prop
erty
The Panama Canal Company" he
said, lis still considering the PROPOSE
ton made to them by the President
through the Attorney General several
days ago. but it is not true that they
have already made a definite reply
OF course, / have had numerous con-
ferences with the Attorney General re-
garding the matter, and the question is
in correspondence between the officials
here and the Panama Canal Company.
l cannot say when we shall make an
answer to the proposition"
Mr.. Cromwell said also that no
agreement had been reached between
the United States government and the
canal company extending the time lin
it of the option.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
ARE UNEASY HEADS
AMONG THE FINEST"
Fears That jerome Is About to
Prosecute officials.

New York, Feb. 21-AdditionaI
grounds for the report that sensational
charges will shortly be filed by Dis
trict Attorney Jerome against high po-
lice officials, including at least one in
spector, were given this afternoon by
secret conference at the Criminal
Courts building between ex-Sergt
James Churchill and Assistant District
Attorney Morgan, who is in charge of
the police cases.
Following closely the visit of Capt
Herlihy, yesterday. Churchill's visit
gave rise to considerable speculation
and in certain circles much uneastness.
He is known in the police depart
ment as an avowed enemy of Inspec-
tor Adam Cross.
While Churchill was acting captain
in the Fifth Street Station, Inspector
Cross made a number of raids on al
legged disorderly houses, resulting in
charges being preferred against
Churchill and his subsequent dismissal
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
OFFICERS OF GLYNN
SCORED BY JUDGE

Lowell, Mass, Feb. 21.-Police
Judge Hadley to-day scored the au-
'horities of Glynn county, Georgia, for
"hat he termed their lack of courtesy
|" the police of Lowell, in connection
Mith the case of Hobbed S. Maidig, an
aleged fugitive from justice. Maidig
s arrested here, charged with hav-
, .ss stolen $3.50 from a woman In Glynn
S2uunty, VINO followed him here. The
Ny,sosgia authorities requested that
e,aalalg be held until officers should
- Io-aay Judge Hadley learned that
~, SeorgiA authorities apparently had
eb moved IN the matter. and he dis
urged the prisoner
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
NEW OFFICES ARE
CREATED BY THE BILL
Chance to Get jobs VIII he offered
to Lawyers.


Washington, Feb. 21.-The House
Committee on Appropriations to-day
completed the general deficiency appro-
priation bill and authorized 1t favor
ably reported to the House. 1t car
ries total of 1851, 1856.
The bill authorizes the President to
appoint, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, an assistant to
the Attorney General at a salary of
$1,000 year, and an assistant attor-
ney general at a salary of $1,000 a
year, and the Attorney General is
authorized to appoint, without refer
ence to civil service rules, two addi-
tional confidential clerks, at a salary
of 81 800 a year each. The officials
and clerks to be thus appointed are to
be paid out of the appropriation of
100000 made by the Legislative, exec
utive and judicial appropriation act
for the enforcement of the antitrust
laws.
The bill appropriates s1,360,00o for
the payment of rebate on tobacco tax.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
TWO MAY GET IN
NEW STATES MAY BE OKLAHOMA
AND MONTEZUMA.
COMPROMISE is SUGGESTED.
DEMOCRATS DON'T RISE TO REPUB-
LICAN BAIT.

Republican Leaders Held n Caucus
and Decided on Compromise.
When the Democrats Were In
formed of 1t They Were NOn-Com-
mittal-It Is Now Said the Threat
of an Extra Session Does Not
Alarm the Democrats in the
SIiGhtest-WOuId Rather Like 1t.
Washington, Feb. 21.-The statehood
compromise, which is expected to I'M
lock the present tangle in the Senate
and remove the blockade, proposes to
admit two states, one to be Oklahoma,
according to it's present boundaries,
with a proviso that Indian Territory
shall be added to Oklahoma in 1906,
when the treaty obligations with the
Indians will not be in the way.
The other state is to be composed of
New Mexico and Arizona under the
name of Montezuma, with a proviso
that when the present territory of Ari-
7ona has a population of 300, 900 people,
it shall become a separate state, pro-
viding that the people of the territory
affected vote in favor of being divided
from Mortezuma, or New Mexico.
Had "A Long Pow-Wow.
The Republican leaders conferred all
day upon the subject of the statehood
compromise, and most of the Demo-
Gratis were informed of the general
terms of the proposition. To all ques-
lions as to whether they would accept
such compromise, they said that they
wanted to see a definite proposition
and to know from whom it came, then
they would be in a position to confer
and decide.
On the Republican side it is found
that two Republican senator's. Bever-
idge and Nelson, both members of the
Committee on Territories, are very
loath to accept any compromise, save
that which the majority originally pre-
scented. Their position is that the ON
nibus bill is defeated, and that Sena-
tor Quay, who has been so persist
emily pressing it, has lost strength by
his course in supporting Senator Nor
gan during the latter's fight against
the canal treaty.
Anxious About Democrats.
The Democratic position on the pro-
posed compromise is an interesting
feature of the situation, for it is gen.
orally understood that unless there is
practically unanimous agreement it
could not pass.
Another feature of the Democratic
position developed to-day was that
many Democrats are Indifferent as to
an extra Legislative session of Con-
gress while some think it would not
be bad party politics to have such a
session and have the subject of trust
legislation and revision of the tariff
discussed.
This idea was communicated to some
of the Republican leaders to-day and
caused considerable uneasiness. 1t
is realized that with the business now
pending in the Senate, a very few
men could force enough appropria-
ton bills over to cause an extra ses-
sion of the Fifty-eighth Congress. At
the same time, the most experienced
senators claim that before the coming
week has passed the blockade will be
raised in some manner, and all nee
essary legislation disposed of by
March 4.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
ANTI-PIL0T BILL
COMES UP TOMORROW

Washington. Feb. 21.-The Littleheld
anti-piIot bill. which exempts Ameri-
can coastwise sailing vessels from COM
pulsory pilotage, will be voted on Mon
day by the House Committee on Mer-
chant Marine and Fisheries. J. Ed
ward O'Brien. president OF the Nation
al Pilots Association. is here opposing
the bill, and he is confident an adverse
report will be made by the committee.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
TOOTH CARPENTERING
OR WHEELING
Dentist Said II Was All One with
Him and the Princess.

Dresden, Feb. 21.-The report pub
lished in the United States by a news
agency yesterday that the wife of an
American dentist is seeking a divorce
on account of the relations of her hus-
band with the former Crown Princess
Louise of Saxony appears to be a re-
vivification of the gossip at the time
of the Princess elopement, and so far
as the divorce is concerned, seems
wholly unbiased on fact.
dentist here did teach the Prin-
cess to ride a bicycle and charged
time for so doing, at the same rate as
he charged for his professional serv-
ices. The dentist once made the re-
mark that he would just as soon
wheel with the Crown Princess as work
on her teeth"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
WORKED A FAKE
LOTTERY SCHEME.
Thousands of People Said to Have
Been SvindIed.

Mex York, Feb. 21.--Several detec-
tives and a postoffice Inspector arrested
seven men to-day on the charge of run
ming fake lottery"
The police say that thousands OF per-
sons have been victimized by the
scheme. Tickets, IT is alleged, were
sold by agents throughout the country
at from 25 cents to 50 EACH and the al
legged prizes ranged from 81 to $50, 900.
1t is charged that while great repre-
sensations were made by the promoters
and agents of the affair, no drawings
were ever held.
The drawing place was supposed to
be at Pueblo. Mex. Representatives
of the company were active in S~ak-
ing patrons, and many persons who
had previously invested their money in
policy had been secured as clients. Ac-
cording to the police, the scheme has
been in operation for at least two
years.
Postoffice Inspector Boyle said that
the government would prosecute the
officers on charge Of misusing the
mails.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
TYPHOID GETS TENTH
VICTIM AT CORNELL

ithaca, N. Y. Feb. 21.-WilIiam Eli
OFT Maher, freshman in the engineer
ing department of Cornell University
died late last night, the tenth student
to fall a victim to typhoid fever.
The exodus of students is not abat-
ing, and to-day the president of the
senior class declared that SO many
members of the class had left town that
he was unable to make up the Student
Committee. provided for by yesterdays
mass meeting. Because of the condi-
lions here the Cornell-Harvard fencing
meet was cancelled.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
HUDSON, THOUGH SHOT,
KILLED THE MARSHAL.

Eureka Springs, Ark, Feb. 21.-In a
pistol duel on the streets of Jasper,
States Marshal j. D. Keys was killed
and w. A. S. Hudson was dangerous
ly wounded.
Hudson. who is a resident of Jasper,
was discharging a pistol on the streets,
when Keys and City Marshal William
Allen attempted to arrest him. He
opened firm on Allen, who returned the
fire, shooting Hudson through the
body. Allen, though uninjured, as a
ruse, dropped to the ground. Hudson
then fired at Keys, shooting him
through the body. Keys walked sew
eral blocks to his home and died a few
hours later.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
MILES DINED HIS
ANCIENT INDIAN FOE

Washington, Feb. 21.-Lieut. Gen.
Miles gave a luncheon at his residence
this afternoon in honor of his active
foe of the last '7O's, Chief Joseph. the
noted Nez Perces warrior. Mrs. Miles
and several other ladies were present.
Chief Joseph was accompanied by two
of his tribesmen.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
WILL STRIKE BEFORE
LAW STRIKES THEM.

Amsterdam, Feb. 21.-rhe railroad
employees OF Holland have decided to
cease work. with the object of pre-
venting the adoption OF the proposed
law prohibiting railroad strikes.
A meeting of the leaders OF the
workmen's unions. having. a member
ship OF 10000, has resolved to support
the railroad men. the date OF whose
strike has not yet been announced
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
FAMILY ARRESTED
CHARGED WITH ARSON.

Richmond, Va, Feb. 21.-As the result
of two recent mysterious fires, man.
his wife and two unmarried daughters
and four other men were arrested at
Middletown, near Winchester, late last
night, charged with arson, and were
Jailed at Winchester to-day, after hav-
ing been given a hearing before mag
istrate. The persons in custody have
all hitherto been respectable people.
The married woman of the party is a
sister of the sheriff who made the ar
rests.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22

and O'NenI Result in Memorial.
1t Is Presented by Clayton of Ala
bama-Chnrges That Are Made
Against the Judge-O'NeaI Appends
a Resolution of the Legislature.
By R. NJ. Larner.
washington, Feb. 21.-A memorial,
asking the impeachment Of Charles
swayne. United States judge for the
Northern District of Florida, was pre-
scented to the House Of Representatives
to-day by Representative Clayton of
Alabama.
The memorial asking the impeach-
ment of Judge Swayne is signed by w.
c. O'NeaI, president Of the First Ma
tional Bank of Florida. O'Neal charges
that Judge Swayne is resident of Del
aware. and not of Florida, as the law
provides; also that Judge Swayne is in
competent, and that by reason of his
lack of legal learning and by his i'm
proper administration of the business of
his office, he has brought himself into
disrepute and has caused his court to
be discredited.
Evidence of the Legislature.
A copy of a. resolution adopted by
the General Assembly of Florida is in
corporated in the memorial. The res
olution states that Judge Swayne has
so conducted himself as to cause the
people to doubt his integrity, and to
believe that his official actions as judge
are susceptible to corrupt influences.
The memorialist again charges that
Judge Swayne has appointed as United
States Commissioner for his court, B.
c. Turnfson of Pensacola, a man of al
legged notorious character, and repute, it
is further charged that Judge Swayne
asked Turnison to appear as counsel
for a prisoner tried in his court, the
prisoner having previously been held for
the court by Tunison in his capacity
as United States Commissioner.
Judge Swayne is again censured for
appointing as referee in bankruptcy at
Pensacola, D. X. Nichols. who
is alleged to be grossly in
competent to administer the af-
fairs of the office The memorialist
asks congressional investigation. The
memorials have been referred to the
Committee on Judiciary, of which Mr.
Clayton is a member, for action.
Judge Swayne was appointed to the
bench by Mr.. Cleveland at the close of
his last administration. At that time
the Democratic leaders in Florida were
urging the appointment of John E.
Hartridge. Mr.. Cleveland felt that Re-
publcans South would not confirm a
Democratic judge at that time, hence
he appointed Judge Swayne.
1t is said by Judge Swayne's friends
here that O'Neal was recently sem
fenced for contempt by Judge Swayne
and that there is a. bitter personal
feeling between the two men. Friends
of O'Neal are seeking a hearing be-
fore the Judiciary Committee in sup
mort of the memorial
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
BeIonns 40 RnIIiff.

Philadelphia, Feb. Ala portion Of
the silverware recovered by the New
York police from two negro burglars
under arrest there is the property OF
William G. Built OF the firm OF Cast
ner, Curran & Bullitt. coal operators In
West Virginia. The Bullitt residence
was robbed some time after midnight
last Monday Of silver plate valued at
SIS 0gO,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
ENGLAND Is SLOW
In Returning Her Prizes to tn,
VenezueIans.

VenezueIans.
Washington. Feb. 21.-Minister Bow
en- tonight received a cablegram sign
ed by the prize sufferers, Trinidad"
requesting his good offices with Great
Britain in securing the return of the
prizes taken by that country before
the raising of the blockade by the al
lied Powers. The cablegram is as fol-
lows
Port of Spain, Feb. 81 Minister
Bowen, Washington. All prizes return
ed by Germany and Italy. Use kind
influence with England. Nearly all
prizes belong to poor fishermen who
have lost all and are penniless here.
(Signed) Prize Sufferers, Trinidad"
Minister Bowen sent a copy of the
cablegram to Sir Michael Herbert, the
British ambassador, requesting him to
transmit it to his government at his
earliest convenience.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
ONE DEATH FROM PLAGUE.
New Case Is Reported From n Ma
zatInn Ranch.

Mazatlan. Mex. Feb. A.-There was
but one death to-day from the plague,
and that at the observation station. No
deaths occurred at the lazaretto.
Physicians will inspect the. city
blocks south Of the Maehado plaza,
CURED.
A case of the plague r. reported from
ri Corron ranch, In the district Of Ma
zaflan. Investigation into the cause will
be Immediately made.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22

Paris, Feb. 2i.-Maj. Mcbride. who
was a member Of the Irish brigade in
me TransvaaI service during the South
African War, and Maude Come, known
as the Irish Joan Of Are" were quiet
ly married here to-day
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-22
is NO UPRIGHT JUDGE
~. d. o'NBAL WANTS swAYNE M
PEACHED.
He NOW CALLS ON CONGRESS
TO INVESTIGATE OFFICIAL CON-
DUCT of THE JUDGE.

sfratned Relations Between the
Judge of the United States Court
of the Northern District of Florida
and O'NeaI Result i'm Memorial.
1t Is Presented by Clayton of Ala
bama-Chnrges That Are Made
Against the Judxe-O'NeaIA ppends
a Resolution of the Legislature.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-27
MESSAGE MONEY.

No European ruler uses the telegraph
so much as the Emperor of Russia he
uses a secret code both for his private
and his Official messages. and he spends
$4,000 a year in this kind OF correspond
encs- Emperor William spends $4,000 a
year in the same way. and he uses a code
which be has invented himself and which
he finds very useful whenever he disires
TO communicate with the cabinet minis
tiers and other prominent officials
The telegraph is not used TO any exten:
either by the King OF Italy. the Emperor
OF Austria or the King of Greece. but, on
the other hand. King Edward and Queen
Alexandra Of England use IT constantly
King Edward signs his private dispatches
Albert Edward" or BERTHE" and the
Queen. who always signs her "Alexan-
dra,' writes quite as many in German as
in English. During 1902 the amount ex-
pended by the royal couple In this man
ner was between 81. 900 and $1,000
II is proposed to use currents OF cleo
tricity in place of anesthetics for opera
tons on the teeth. One pole Is connected
to an electrode nodded TO fit the tooth
and lined with wet asbestos 10 counteract
any healing effect on the tooth itself. Five
minutes suffices to render insensible
tooth with a single fang
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-27

a vote is not a protest against such
control-it is not mere opinion that it
ought not to be allowed. II is a decree.
The voter says We will not suffer this
monopoly TO continue.
His vote means. in the one case, If you
do not dissolve this capitalistic combina-
ton, in the other case. II you do not
cease this interference with the freedom
of non-union labor, we viii compel you
to do so.
If the vote does not mean this. it is
nothing more than a resolution passed in
a parlor meeting. The great elections
are called, and not improperly called.
campaigns. For they are more than a
great debate.
\ debate is clash of opinions
But an election is clash of wills
One party says. We viii have Mr..
Blaine president; the other says. We
will have MI. Cleveland president
VIII sets itself against will in what is
essentially a masculine encounter.
And if the defeated viii refuses to ac-
cept the decision. as id did when Mr.. Lin
coin was elected president, war is the
necessary result.
From such an encounter of wills wom-
an instinctively shrinks. She shrinks
from it exactly as she shrnks from the
encounter of opposing wills on battle
field, and for the same reason.
She is glad TO counsel; she is loath TO
command.
She does not wish that he should act
as police or soldier, enforce her will on
the community.
Nor does she wish TO register her viii.
and leave her son, her brother, or her
husband TO enforce it.
II she can persuade them by womanly
influence she will; but just in the meas
ure in which she is womanly. she is I'M
willing 70 say 10 her son, to her brother
or TO her husband, Il have decreed this;
you must see that my decree is enforced
on the reluctant or the resisting"
She does ont wish that he should act
on her judgment against his own in ODE
dience to her will: still less that he shall
in obedience 20 her will, compel others to
act in violation both of their judgment
and of his
And yet this is just what suffrage al
ways may and sometimes must involve.
Shall woman decide what are the rights
of the citizen to be protected and what
are the duties Of the citizen TO be en-
forced, and then are her son and her
brother and her husband to so forth,
armed. If need be, 10 enforce her decisionZ
Is this where the functional line be-
tween the sexes is to be drawn! Are
women to make the laws, and men TO en-
force them? Are women TO decree, and
men to execute?
Is woman never TO act as private. but
only as a commander in-chief- Is this
right? Is it right that one sex alone
shall enforce authority. but the other sex
determine when and how it shall be ex-
ercised?
Is this expedfentg VIII it promote peace.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-27

The object of government is the protec-
ton of person, property and reputation
from the foes which assaiI them. Gov
eminent may do other things; it may
carry the mails. run the express, own
and operate the railroads; but its funda-
mental function is 10 furnish protection
from open violence or secret fraud.
If il adequately protects person, prop
erty and reputation, it is a just govern
ment, thous 1t do nothing else; If IL
fails TO protect these primary rights. II
the person is left to defend himself. his
property his reputation by his own
strong arm there is no government
The question, Shall women vote?" is
really, in the last analysis, the question
Ought women to assume the response
bility for protecting person and property
which has in the past been assumed by
man as his duty alone?
II is because women see, what some
so-called reformers have not seen, that
the first and fundamental function of
government is the protection Of person
and property, and because women do not
think that they ought TO assume this duty
any more than they ought to assume that
police and militia service which is in
volved in every act Of legislature. that
they do not wish to have the ballot thrust
upon them.
Let US not here make any mistake.
Nothing is law which has no authority
behind It; and there is no real authority
where there is not power TO compel ODE
dience.
1t is this power to compel which distin-
cuisines law from advice. Behind every
law stands the sheriff, and behind the
sheriff the militia, and behind the militia
the whole military power of the federal
government.
No legislature ever ought to enact a
statute unless it is ressy to pledge all the
power of government-IocaL state and
federal-to its enforcement, if the statute
is disregarded
A ballot is not a mere expression of
opinion; it is an act of the will; and be-
hind tbs act of the will must be power
to compel obedience.
Women do not wish authority TO COM
pei the obedience of their husbands, sons
and brothers to their will.
This fact that the ballot is explicitly
an act of the will, and implicitly an ex-
preston of power or force, is indicated
not only by the general function of gov
eminent, but also by special illustrations.
Politics is pacific war
A corrupt ring gets the control of New
York city, or Minneapolis, or st. Louis,
or Philadelphia, or perhaps of a state,
as Delaware, Rhode Island, or Montana.
The first duty of the citizens is to make
war on this corrupt ring. The ballot is
not merely an expression of opinion that
this ring ought not to control; it is the
resolve that it shall not control.
A capitalist trust gets, or tries to get
a monopoly which is perilous to CONNER
cial freedom; or a labor trust gets, or
tries to get, a monopoly which is peril
Gus to industrial freedom.