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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-25
TREPHINING tAS CURE
FOR SPOTTED FEVER
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service
New York, March 25.-To save the
life Of a. 9-year-old boy who was taken
to Flower hospital a week ago in the
last stages of cerebo-spinal meningitis,
DR.. William Tod Helmuth trephined the
skull of the lad and he is now appar-
emily almost we'll. -.
When DR.. Helnluth performed the
his recovery has been rapid. When
the boy was taken to the hospital DR..
Helmuth decided to try trephining, until
then an untried procedure, the case be-
ing so extreme. His experiment is be,
ing watched with absorbing interest by
his colleagues.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-25
LOAN POINTS TO PEACE
Resumption Of Franco Russian Negotia-
tions STRENGTHENS Peace Rumors.

Paris, March 25.-The prospects Of
peace between Russia and Japan as
tangible aspect yesterday as the result
of the announcement Of the resumption
Of negotiations for Russian loan.
The postponement Of the loan oc-
CURED thru the stand taken by the
financial element against proceeding
while the uncertainties of war contin-
ued, whilst a willingness to resume ne
gotiations. is construed as meaning that
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-25
ITALIAN MINISTRY
DECIDES TO RETIRE

Rome, March 25.-Signor Tiltoni, act
ing premier and minister Of foreign af-.
fairs, today announced to parliament
that the whole cabinet had resigned,
leaving the king free to form new:
ministry and that his majesty had re-
Signor Tittoni and his colleagues will
remain in office. Parliament has ad-
journed until the formation Of q new
cabinet.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-25
RUSSIANS STILL RETIRING
Linevitch Continues Retreat oyama
Not Expected to Attack.

St. Petersburg, March 25.-General
Linevitch continues the retirement Of
the bulk of his army northward.
The general staff now declares it is
certain that Field Marshal Oyama has
been compelled to relinquish the idea Of
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-25
RUSSIA TO BORROW MORE
Imperial Decree Directs Internal Loan
Of $1OO,OOO,OOO

st. Petersburg, March 25.--An i'm
perial decree directs the minister of
finance to issue a per cent internal
war loan Of $100,000,000. Of this $780,
100000 will be offered for public sub
scription.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-25

PEn1rC1.10M I'M nrr HR1CTs

REUUCTIUN IN OIL FKICES.
Pittsburg, March 25.-The Standard Oil COM
pany today made a reduction Of 3 cents in the
higher grades of crude oil and 2 cents in the
lower grades. The price Of North Lima oil was
advanced 1 cent and the Somerset oil was I'M
changed.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-10
RUSSIA,S WAR RLLL

An OPTIMISTIC view Of Russia's financial con-
dition in respect to the war was recently taken
by a writer in the Echo de Paris" who seems
10 have secured his information from high
sources at St Petersburg. He reckoned the
total cost of the war 10 Russia down to Novem-
Der % 10 have been $23S, 100000 In addition
there were made war grants Of S12G 600 900
more 10 carry the war on until February IA
next The total cost of the first year of the war
would therefore be 1864, 600 00O or about 81 OOO-
oUO a day. AS for the second year should the
war be thus prolonged, this writer reports that
there will be left from this years account q
balance of S23,000000, and he estimates that the
second years cost viii be $1,000 OOO All this
he thinks, can be provided without touching the
bullion reserve in the Imperial Treasury and
Bank and without issuing more notes-tbat ia
TO say it can be secured by another loan.
That may be. There would he Httla or M
DOUBT OF 1t II Russia were winning instead of
losing battles. 1t is scarcely conceivable that
the fail Of Port Arthur Will have no effect upon
the money markets Of Europe, even Of Paris it,
SELF 1t was one thing to make n loan when
Stoessei was promising to hold Port Arthur for
years when the bulk of the Russian fleet was
sum III DeihS ana when huropatkin bade fair to
march IN triumph down the Regents Sword +
would be another and very different thing n
make one now, with Port Arthur fallen. with
the heet annihilated and with Kuropatxin nrac.
ucally Desleged AT Moukden. Financiers ara nor
eager to lend money TO a losing cause. or to apv
one who shows no good results from the snend
ing Of ii. Nor is there any promise that the seq
ond years war will be more profitable 10 Rms.
STA than the 1rst kuropat1in is said to believe
ana 10 have convinced the Gar that tba 81
berlan railroad must be double tracked tbrougb
out before there can be any prospect of victor,,
for his army. Yet next years Russian bndge+
contains the item Of only S5.OOOOOO for Siberian
railroad extension and improvements
We have no doubt that RUSSIA Is finopoto,,,,
able IN one way or another, to 20 ON snendino
SlOoOOO day on this war for a long time 70
come. But II is question whether She can
morally ana politically justify herself in 60 do.
Ing unless she soon begins to show better re-
turns for her expenditure than she has tbus far
shown. Moreover those figuses do not ranroson+
the whole cost of the war In this last year che
has lost more than $50OOOOOO worth of war.
ships and many millions more in fortresses and
their equipments. Port Arthur, Dalnv. New.
Chwang and Liao-Yang mean an appaIIjne no.
gregate Of cost-or OF loss. Again If the war a.
10 be prosecuted, new navy must be buiIt and
ii would cost $1,0O0000 a day for the Dext two
years 10 build a navy capable Of wrestling the
New-York tribune., 1905-01-10

with intensive methods It can be made to COM
pete with wasteful Western grazing, the reply
is made that the Beef Trust controls the avenues
of SALE and that it is impossible to break into
the trade on any satisfactory scale.
This may or may not be true but with all the
undoubted local feeling on the subject, II never
has occurred to anybody that the packers could
be made amenable to State control and forced
10y our local law TO loosen the grip which they
have upon our local markets. saying from Chi
cago what we may eat and what we must pay
for II and of whom we must buy. AS Mr. Moody
points out the packers have claimed success
fully the protection of national law in these
operations. Other great corporations have done
the same The Fourteenth Amendment has been
the refuge of corporations desiring to escape
from the rule of the States to which they owed
their being. For them now to fill the land with
wailing about the horrors of national jurisdiction
over them is ridiculous 1t suggests that their
real object is to find between the spheres Of
State and national law a space given over TO
anarchy, in which. with vast financial resources.
they take refuge and do as they please,
reaching out from their fastness to levy tribute
the people in the States as suits their con-
venience. Something like a century ago Judge
James Wilson gave us the phrase federal lib
erty." That federal liberty has been favorite
weapon OF corporations and ii is fitting for them
10 remember that those who invoke federal lib
erty are correspondingly amenable to federal
New-York tribune., 1905-01-10
AT HE WHITE HOUSE.

IFRoa THE TRIBUNE BUREAU.l
Washington. Jan. s-President Rooseveit als,
cussed interstate commerce problems Win S0'0f"'
members of Congress to-day.
1--WE ought to pass legislation 20 cure eNiStihs
evils at this session. said Representative Esch' oi
Wisconsin. after talk with the President We
know the situation and there is no reason why We
should wait until next year some other time 10
correct the abuses The measure Congress passes
viii have to possess some real vitaiity. OF ~ WIN
never receive the sanction of the President ne %
in earnest this matter. and will not DC soIo-
bricked into accepting anything that VIII not Pi'
tect the small shipper"
After talking with the President to-day aoou'
the ntagonism to naval appropriations which
has suddenly developed in certain quarters rep
resentative Dayton. OF West Virginia the rahAhs
Republican member Of the Naval Committee salu'
The amounts in the bill already down 10
bedrock. ard it will be impossible to cut them down
one cent without doing the greatest injury TO the
navy. In all. s1l40OO0O0 is asked. which Is very
little when one considers the tremendous in'por-
of the work that it pays for. In addition to
the battleshiDs under construction there are a
large number of buildings half completed that must
be finished next year We cannot afford TO go
back policy of increasing the navy. and
do not believe that Congress Will permit such
step in the wrong direction"
Whitelaw Reid. who is spending few days In
Washington, saw the President by appointment at
O'Clock this afternoon.
Among the other callers at the White House were
]. Soat Fassett Representative-elect from the FL
mira district: Elmer Dover. secretary Of the Re
publican National Committee; Senator Beverldge.
Representative Townsend of Michigan; Representa-
tive Moon. Of Tennessee. and Secretaries Taft and
Hitchcock. who came to confer about department
affairs
Mrs. Roosevelt will be at home TO number OF
invited guests Friday afternoon January 4S
from TO 6 o'clock. This will be the first OF
series Of teas to be given at the White House this
season
New-York tribune., 1905-01-10
MARKETS FOR FILIPINOS.

Unless the sugar and tobacco interests which
oppose any reduction of the duties on imports
from the Philippines show readiness within
reasonable time to come to some fair basis or
agreement for the opening up of a market for
Philippine produce. 1t might perhaps be well
for Secretary Taft TO recede from his plan to
give special consideration to the sugar and to-
bacco industries by maintaining 25 per cent.
or even 80 per cent, Of the Dingey duties
sugar and tobacco, while establishing free trade
in everything else Development Of Philippine
commerce is SO important. trade concession to
equalize the burden placed on the Philippines
by cOnfining their transpacihc commerce to
American vessels is so manfestly demanded by
every consideration Of justice that, If they can
not be had on q basis of conciliation to the
tobacco and sugar people, they should be had
without 1t.
We have already given our nearer colony of
Porto Rico free trade In bringing the Fill
pinOs within our navigation system and con-
filming their trade with to American bottoms
we are logically bound to give them the bene-
fits of the system as well as to make them
bear its burdens. II they are to be without
the wall then they should have the shipping
privileges Of those without the wall. To make
them pay high prices for carriage as if engaged
in the coastwise trade, and then deny them the
market privileges of the coastwise trader is
oppressive. No man in Congress can success
fully defend the law as 1t now stands. In it's
incOmpleteness as measure for extending the
American system TO the islands it is worse
than if nothing at all had been done.
The Republican party has been kind to the to-
bacco and sugar interests, and wishes to be
kind to them still 1t is proposed on these
particular products to continue the imposition
Of duties which, while encouraging Filipino in
dustry, will prevent the flooding Of our markets.
There is every disposition TO safeguard do
mestic producers and grant no more than Is
necessary for the reasonable advancement OF
the FilipinOs, as much for our own welfare as
for theirs. If however, the sugar and tobacco
people will make no accommodation perhaps
the only thing TO do is to seek free trade In
the sugar and tobacco, well as in the other
products. of the Philippines. AS the Democrats
and anti-imperialists have uniformly demanded
absolute free trade, not merely a fiscal pol
ICY but as u constitutional necessity, they
would of course, feel bound to support such a
proposition If the Republicans are driven by
attempts to flibuster against Philippine free
trade with exceptions in favor of domestic
sugar and tobacco TO put aside the exceptions.
they can certainly carry through the relief
measure The solution Of our Philippine prob
lem should not be a party matter. The whole
nation is interested to put the EilpinoS on their
feet to make them contented and to reduce our
expenditures for keeping order. All students
of the problem agree that tariff reduction is
necessary TO this end, and patriots in Congress,
regardless Of party might well join hands to
secure it.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-10

usually more progressive and enterprising thah
the men and women who remain behind. froni
the descendants of the former it would be eNcus-
able to expect bolder achievements and larger
capacity for usefulness than from the children Oh
the latter; and developments of that character
should be accompanied by effects upon cereDrai
organization and proportions
To another society which has just convened III
Philadelphia one composed of anatomlsts' Df.
Spitzka expressed an opinion that is OF technlcai
rather than popular interest. 1t has been Gus
tomary of late to locate the higher mental acuVl-
ties in the gray matter, outer coating OF the
brain. The metropolitan neurOlogist thinks tha1
the Importance of the white matter has Deeh
underrated He is inclined TO make efficiency
depend largely, if not mainly. on the health or
the corpus callOsum, a bunch of hbres Whlch
connects the two hemispheres of the brain. 1t Is
for his professional brethren to pass Judgment
this doctrine but 1t Is possible for other peo-
ple-if they are so dspOsed-tO assist in deter
mining its correctness Much is yet to be learned
through post mortem scrutiny. In the United
States and in Europe a number Of experts have
asked that the brains of persons whose history
is known may be put at their disposal for that
purpose. Sentimental obstacles are interpOsed
to compliance with the request. just as they are
to propositions for cremation, but the appeal is
a rational one. Gifts such as DR.. Spitzka seeks
would be distinct aid to science.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-10
FEDERAL LIBERTY AND FEDERAL LAW.

Attorney General Moody yesterday i'm his argu-
ment I'm the Beef Trust case before the Supreme
Court took up and in a few brief sentences de-
nolished contention frequently made in behalf
Of lawbreaking corporations After describing
The methods by which the packers having fixed
the price OF animals by a combination, distrib-
uted and sold their finished product in all parts
of the country under conditions and agreements
tending 10 monopoly, he said:
II is not the less interstate commerce because
fn one State the manufacturer instead Of TAX
jug his product into another State for purposes
OF sale and there selling st. sees fit to transport
IL 10 q resident agent for the same purpose and
with the same result. But these defend
ants have not always contended that transac-
tions Of this class were intrastate and not inter
state commerce. When they wished the protec-
1ion OF the national law they claimed that such
sales as these were interstate. and therefore
under the protection Of the nation; and their
claim has been twice sustained by this court.
We have no intention Of arguing about this
case. which is now before the highest court Of
the land for adjudication. The alleged offences
OF the Beef Trust may at this time best be left
10 other than newspaper judgment But Mr..
MoOdys remark has such an important bearing
on the general question at issue concerning the
control OF corporations that il should be brought
10 public attention. We hear a great deal In
these days about the States and their sacred
right 10 create and manage corporations. We
don't hear so much ABOUT IDelr right 10 project
corporations into other States and virtually ex-
ercise sovereign authority beyond the limits OF
their own territory, because that is something
the present day State rights people do not like
10 dwell upon. II detracts somewhat from the
force Of their plea for local self-government and
against outside interference with State affairs.
To hear many of the corporation lawyers talk
one might think that their one object in life was
10 obey in spirit as wei as letter State laws
and conform their clients 10 the wishes Of the
local communities in which they operate. 1t
would never be suspected that one of their ia
vOrite devices was the game Of battIedore and
shuttlecOck.
They play State against national authority
and national against State authority. Which
ever law gets after them, they discover that they
are amenable 10 the other. Their firm and pa
friOtic belief in the exclusive jurisdiction over
them Of whichever government is at the moment
not attempting 10 interfere with their plans is
striking and pathetic. In its relation 10 the
packers the State OF New-Y0rk is practically
helpless. Ii is commonly said that markets
which need the Western meat are prevented
from handling any other. To economists and
scientific agriculturists. who urge a revival OF
cattle raising in the East and who argue that
New-York tribune., 1905-01-10
STLDYING BRATNS.

His moral perceptions and impulses excepted,
nothing so emphatically distinguishes man from
the lower animals as his mental faculties II fol-
lows that the organ which is the seat of voition
and intellectual processes is thing of excep-
tional Importance Hence, when such a thorough
student of the human brain as DR.. L. A Spltzka
of this city. talks about il, he is sure to COM
mand attention
In paper read before the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science In PhiladeI-
phia recently Or. Spitzka took hopeful view
of the future OF his fellow countrymen As a
more intimate comminglng OF the Teutonic
Latin and Slavic stocks occurs in the United
States than anywhere else in the world he pre-
diets that In time Americans will possess bigger
and better brains than can be found In other
lands. The forecast is not unreasonable. The
speaker doubtless had In mind a fact to which
he apparently did not make explicit refer
ence. Those representatives OF any race or ma
ton who seek homes in new country are
New-York tribune., 1905-01-10
rE1r-YnRKS WATER SUPPLY.

This session of the legislature will be unwiSe
if it fails to take initial action toward proYld-
ing NewYork with a water supply which VIII
be sufficient for long period. The people OF
Western Pennsylvania and of other parts of the
Republic have been suffering serious incon-
venience for many months on account OF the tall-
ing off in the supply of the fluid in the Upper
Ohio and in the rivers which fill that stream in
its opening stages; and vast stores of coal which
have been heaped on various vessels have been
idle at or near Pittsburg for a sadly long inter
val, until the melting of immense quantities OF
snow has filled the channels of the great river
in its uppor portion. The almost unprecedented
delay in sending down the fuel has caused seri-
Gus trouble and grieyous losses to manufacturers
of all kinds in the Southern States. and Dixie
has been waiting mOurnfully for month after
month TO get the fuel for her large furnaces.
But, while the South has been the chief suf-
ferer because of the inability to dispatch coal
down the Ohio and the Mississippi, there has
been reason for anxiety in the water supply
OF extensive regions of the biggest and most
active of the communities. The work on the
enormous new dam in the Croton Valley does
not appear to have been pushed with sufficient
energy, or it would have been finished long
ago There was prOmptness on the underground
labors on the subway. Perhaps that was due to
the fact that the sooner that mighty undertak-
handsome receipts from passengers, while the
warrants drawn on the city treasury met all the
outlay that necessary until the cars began
running. No one doubts that it has been fine
enterprise for those who have it in charge espe-
ciay while cold weather and fierce snOwstOrms
have made travel on the surface of New-YOrk
difficult and uncomfortable 1t is unfortunate
for the unhappy people who live in such parts of
the city and in the suburbs that ample facilities
for travelling to and from the places of their
employment have not been so convenient on
many a morning and afternoon this winter as
If the plans for future traffic were now in use.
Now, however, the certainty of extensive i'm
provementS in the transportation Of people to
and from the most important parts of Manhat-
tan Island captures the public mind, and the
ambitious designs of future railroad lines CON
meeting with the most crowded parts of this
important island form an engrOssing subject of
discussion. 1t is evident that the need Of pro-
viding water enough for all the people is be-
coming more and more an imperative necessity
The contractors on the Croton DAM one of the
most important in the world need to be driven
TO the utmost Of their energy. Even when the
vastly enlarged CrOton Reservoir above the dam
and the Jerome Park works are completed they
will not meet the necessities of BROOKLYN
which at times in the past has had abundant
reason for taultfinding because her REQUIRE
ments were not sufficiently regarded New
York must have plentiful water supply, and
her needs great that the necessary OPEN
ing steps ought speedily to be taken.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-10
4nuSements.

ACADEMY OF MUsIC-2-s:l s:l5-Siberda-
SAERICAN-2-S :l5-At the Old Cross Roads
BlIOU-S.15-rhe Music Master
BROADNA G-S .20-Fatinitza.
CARNEGIE HALL-Si5-Vecsey, the Marvellous Youn
Nioinist
CASINOS .I5-I.ady TeaEle.
CIRCLE
CElTERlON-S :s0-COusin Billy
DALY'S-Closed this week
EDEN MUSEE-World in Wax.
Empires: :2A-The Little Minister.
GARDEN :2o-rhe College Widow
GARRzCk-S.l6-B Jacques
AAAMERSTEIN'E NtCrORiA-2-S-lo--Nau auoeNille.
HARLEN-s .Ib-The Fortunes % the King.
HERALD SQUARES: :I5-Noodiand-
EDDSON-S .15-Sunday.
IRVING PLACES :20-Die Goldne Eva
kNICkERBOCNER-S. .l5-The Winters Tale.
LEW FIELDs-S-It Happened in Nordiene.
LIBERTY S.15-In Newport.
LYCh5I1Af-S .s0-The Case of Rebell0us Susan
MAJESTIC .l5-BRbes i1 Toyland.
MANHATTAN Leah kieschna.
hTENDELSSOIIN HALI<-2:l5-Acele Aus Der one
SEw-AAIsTERDAAi Ai-2-S l5--Humpty DumPty.
NEW -NORK-S 10 Home Folks
PRINCESS Lavender.
NAl.LACK'S- :2O-The Sho-sun-
WEBER Music HALL-2-S-NRuceville
WEST END-S-COhens S Luck.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-10

control of the sea from Japan. As for the great
est item of cost of all, the human lives, we can
not venture TO take that into account, save to
say that. according to Russias own estimate, the
war has been costing nearly, if not quite, a
thousand men a day. A thousand men and
million dollars expended every day, and at the
end of more than ten months of that awful cost
Port Arthur That is the balance sheet of
Russia's war
New-York tribune., 1905-01-10

General Stewart L. Woodford, at the Japan
ese celebration at Carnegie Hall Of the capture
of Port Arthur made this remarkable state
ment: Nowhere where civilization exists IS
there so much personal freedom as under the
flag Of the Rising Sun" Japan, like Eng
land. and perhaps to a greater extent
seems to have discovered how to reconcile per-
sonal liberty and imperial rule.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-10

Parks are devoted to beauty. quiet and re-
pose. and no one has as yet ascribed any Of
these qualities TO elevated railway. The
latter, in fact, is only tolerated means of tran
sit in a great city. The day is coming. perhaps,
when New-York will insist upon subway and
surface transit as the only means that can be
tolerated in a metropolis.
New-York tribune., 1905-01-10

Senator John Nipple Mitchell. of Oregon. de-
clares himself absolutely innocent of any
wrongdoing," and his colleagues in the Senate.
as we'll as his many personal friends here and
elsewhere, believe in his innocence, which they
hope may soon be legally established
New-York tribune., 1905-01-10

The process of inaugurating new Governors
and making new Senators goes brisltly at the
various State capitals; and it is gratifying 10
notice that only here and there in isolated spots
is the process marred by factional passions or
faCtional disorder
New-York tribune., 1905-01-10

General StoesseI says he thought General
KuroDatkins army wasn't more than twenty
miles north of Port Arthur. Possibly he also
thought that Rojestvensky's feet was anchored
somewhere off Che-Foo.