HONOR IN POLITICS, Shrewd Observers Say Such a Vir tue Has No Existence. ate SeltWliiiens n I'rerequlaltc to SucceNS In Political Life— Honesty 11* DniiKeroiiN o» Una uartlcd Speech. [Special Washington better.] PROPERLY defined, politics is the science of selfishness. Men who engage in politics, young men who have political hopes and aspira tions, may as well understand that only those who are seltish and self-seek ing can achieve success. There are exceptions to all rules, but men who have had long experience in dealing with politicians will tell you, if they tell the truth, that there is no notable exception to this rule, but that absolute selfishness is a prerequisite io success in the political world. All living political leaders have their followers who believe in them implicit ly, and who would not for the world suspect their idols of selfishness. They pose as the friends of the dear people and assure their hearers that they are laboring by day and by night to pro mote the welfare of the poor and op pressed. It may be easy for the pr pie of the present day to believe that Buchanan, l'ierce, Van Buren, Jackson and other long dead presidents were politicians; but the people would not like to have mention made of their liv ing leaders in that manner. These reflections and the following statements are timely because the peo ple of this republic are soon to be stirred to fever heat by political lead ers in a great struggle for the control of the government. When the candi dates for congress, for the legislature and for state offices are shouting and ranting before the people it may be just as well for the calm and consider ate citizens to realize all the while that the candidates are not working them selves into frenzy without hoping for their own preferment, primarily. It has been truly said that "the world is self, and self alone, from surface to foundation stone." But selfishness in business and in all other walks of life appears but slightly in comparison to its exhibition in the field of politics. Men rend and tear each other's reputa tions, as wild beasts rend and tear their prey. Every man endeavors to build himself up, and in so doing often deems it necessary to pull down those about him who aspire. For this reason young men of real ability, worth and forcefulness of character find it diffi cult to receive recognition. The older men who manage political affairs in ■their districts and states will not per mit those young men to rise who mani fest superior ability. Only those who •dissemble or sincerely truckle to the leaders are permitted to come to the front. No class of men exercises greater •care and precaution in political cam-« paigns than the candidates for the im portant offices. They not only prepare their speeches carefully, but they scan and criticise the speeches of those who are. permitted to address their con stituents. The utterance of a single sentence has often marred the fortunes •of ambitious men, even when spoken .sincerely in the interest of the candi- A TALK WITH LINCOLN. <late. The most noted instance of in judicious utterance was that of Kev. Br. Burchard in October, l;s->4. when lie referred to the democratic party as the party of "rum, Romanism and rebel lion." That remark caused Mr. Blaine to lose many thousands of votes, there by defeating the ambition of his life. During the campaign of 1890 Maj. McKinley not only carefully prepared every speech which he delivered at his home in Canton, but he carefully read every speech which was to be made to him before it was delivered; and many of those speeches were revised by the major before he permitted his visit ing admirers to be heard. Very few •speeches were made to Mr. Bryan in that campaign, as he preferred to do most of the talking himself. The first notable political mis take in the history of our repub lic was made by Henry Clay, in 1544, when he wrote a letter con taining a 1 .iiise of less than a doz en words that sealed his defeat. There was probably never a more popular politician than Henry Clay, and his •election seemed a foregone conclusion. He had been nominated with enthusi asm and with unanimity. His party was splendidly disciplined, and abso lutely sure of success. But, unfor tunately, Mr. Clay wrote a letter t*> a friend in Alabama, in which he made some ill-considered allusion to the ad mission of Texas; and that single sen tence caused him to lose the elec toral vote of New York state, and tlif/s to fail of election to the presidency. It was called the "Alabama letter," and was used upon the hustings everywhere with great effect to the detriment of Mr. Clay. Politicians of that day all declared that nothing else could have Compassed Mr. Clay's defeat. Another notable mistake on the part of a candidate was made by Gen. Han cock in September, 1884, when he wrote a letter saying: "The tariff is a local, not a national, issue." Although it has since been demonstrated and ad mitted by politicians of both parties that (ien. Hancock was technically cor rect in his statement, it was taken up at the time by the opposition and turned into ridicule with such effect that it insured Hancock's defeat. For a long time after Henry Clay's defeat the political managers would not permit their presidential candi dates to make any speeches nor to write any letters. Zachary Taylor was required to be as solitary as an oyster and as silent as a elam. Only one let ter was promulgated over his signa ture, and that was prepared for him by Thurlow Weed, Millard Fillmore and William H. Seward. Franklin l'ierce was kept in retirement, although he had long been known as an orator of magnetic presence. llis campaign managers feared that he might commit some fatal error in public utterance. When Abraham Lincoln was nom inated in IStiO the republican managers were perturbed lest he might commit THE SILENT MAN. some error. Thurlow Weed went to Springfield to see Lincoln and caution him, to tell him to remain absolutely quiet and say nothing about politics even to his neighbors. After half an hour's conversation with Mr. Lincoln the great New York politician told him the object of his visit, but stated that he had no advice to offer. He returned to New York and told the politicians that Lincoln possessed the keenest and most subtle intellect he had ever encountered. He said that during his half hour conversation Mr. Lincoln cleverly entertained him, drew from him all manner of information, but never made any suggestions himself. He said to Mr. Seward: "This m9n Lincoln may be only a country lawyer, and may have had no great political training, but he is wiser than all of us, and we need give ourselves no coneern about him during the canvass. If he says anything he will say what should be said, and he will say nothing else." In 1808 the politicians had an easy time of it with Gen. Grant, because he was not a speech maker; knew it, and did not want to talk. lie kept quiet and allowed his military fame to speak for him, and it spoke most eloquently and successfully. In 1872 Gen. Grant was again "the silent man" during the campaign, while Mr. Greeley made a > famous tour of the country, making speeches. In 1576 Hayes and Tilden were con spicuously silent. In 1880 Garfield and Hancock left the speech-making to others, and the country was deluged with political talk. In 1884 Mr. Cleve land made no pretense as an orator, while Mr. Blaine talked incessantly without avail. In 1888 Benjamin Har rison made speeches daily, and all of them marvelously discreet, many of them eloquent. Harrison was, in fact, the only presidential candidate since the days of Lincoln in whose discre tion the political managers had abso lute confidence. In IS'JG both Bryan and McKinley appeared daily before the people, and neither one of them was guilty of an indiscretion, although Mr. Bryan disappointed public expecta tion in his first speech in New York city, because he read a long statement instead of giving the vast audience an exhibition of the eloquence for which he had become famous in the nominat ing convention. But, presidential candidates aside, and without criticism or commenda tion of any of them, we may return to the original proposition that all political leaders are supremely selfish, very few of them having at heart the welfare of the people so much as their own advancement and preferment in public place. One of the older senators this evening, after giving hints from which the above facts were deduced, said: "There are three candidates for an office in my state, and all of them have supported me in my campaigns. '1 his morning 1 spent an hour thinking them over, and selfishly studying which of tliem could do me the most good in the future. I finally settled the matter, decided which one 1 would prefer, and concluded to drop the oilier two, as gently as possible, as suring them of my distinguished con sideration. 'lliat is the way we have to do in politics." That is the gist of it. They are all after the offices, because the salaries are large, and usually larger than they ought to be in a government econom ically administered. Covetousness is the incentive to selfishness. In the mad struggle for place the strong men, not always the good men, achieve suc cess. In no other vocation in life is there a better exemplification of th« theory of the survival of the fittest, be cause those who are most selfish and self-seeking, wholly disregarding the feelings and sufferings of all others, are they who obtain precedence. SMITH D. FRY. Flatterers are the cats that lick be fore and scratch beh'nd. —GerniaD Proverb. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1900 CURRENT TOPICS. There are 90,000 trees in the city of Paris. In the rock of Gibraltar there are seventy milec of tunnels. The hair grows considerably faster in winter than in ummer. In ten years the descendants of two rabbits will numbe. 70,000,000. Wheat costs $4 a bushel in Cape Town. Livery teams hire for $-5 a day. In small hotels in Russia each guest is expected to find his own bed cloth ing. Massachusetts has 116 street rail way companies, controlling 1,402 miles. The Christian Endeavor society is represented in every country in the world. The world annually produces some thing like 3,000,000 tons of butter and cheese. Artificial flowers, mixed with the real ones, are used for table decora tions. The Stonewall Jackson Memorial association has been incorporated in Virginia. Twenty thousand people have been vaccinated in Savannah during the past two months. The will of Thomas X. Dovvd, of Malvern, Kail., bequeaths $10,500 to that town for a free library. Philadelphia litis forty-one wards and two branches of the city council. Chicago has thirty-five wards. The military rule is that five times the number of an entrenched enemy are required to dislodge the latter. The Transvaal was an unknown land, so far as European knowledge or influences were, prior to the year 1830. To mobilize the entire force of the Boer army when war was declared took but 17 telegrams from Gen. .lou bert. London is 12 miles broad one way and 17 the other, and every year sees about 20 miles of new streets added to it. India rubber heels on shoes, de creasing the fatigue of marching, will be adopted, it is said, by the French army. A movement is on foot in Hamburg to unite the various scientific insti tutes in the city into a sort of uni versity. Cavalry cover four miles an hour when walking, nine miles an hour when trotting, fifteen miles an hour galloping. An automobile omnibus service has been established on the Isle of Man, between the various towns and sum mer resorts. Barring the Egyptians, the ancient Mayas of Yucatan seem to have been the greatest pyramid builders the world ever saw. Horses in their wild state live to the age of thirty-six normally, being still fairly fresh and hearty at that age in the desert. The ancient plow of India, costing perhaps 75 cents, pulled by oxen, is used in tlm4,jfounl ry still. Few im plements are employed. A Chicago company proposes to fur nish electric light and trolley power for San Juan, Porto Rico, and till the country for miles around. Increased attention is being paid to tobacco culture in Georgia, and the article is being profitably' grown in many counties of the state. Miss Mona Clarke, one of the few women engravers in this country, oc cupies a lucrative position with a wholesale house in Chicago. The number of timber rafts on all the rivers of European Russia is said to be more than SO.OOO yearly, with a total of about 25,000,000 logs. Prof. Ira Remsen, of Johns Hopkins university, has been elected an hon orary member of the Swedish acad emy of sciences of Stockholm. Mr. Rhodes fits out the tattered prisoners of Kimberley with new suits and transforms them into clean and respectable members of society. There are over 100 gold mines in the immediate ' vicinity of .lohannesberg, stretching out on till sides of the city. Tlic monthly output of the mines was fifteen tons of gold. The multiplication of new com pounds in organic chemistry is some thing appalling. In 1383 the total number of carbon compounds record ed was 10,000, but a newly revised list by Dr. M. M. Rlchter enumerates not less than 07,000. And the end seems yet far oil'. The deepest ocean temperatures ever recorded were taken aboard the Pacific submarine telegraph survey sh ip Nero recently. At a depth of 5,070 fathoms a temperature of 35.9 degrees was recorded, and at 5,101 fathoms 30 degree. The deepest pre vious easts were made by the British survey ship Penguin. It is said that there are over 12.000,- 000 golf balls used each year in the United States. American players be ing particularly prodigal in their use. The majority of the golf balls come from ICngland. They are difficult to manufacture, slight differences in the composition interfering with their usefulness. The eighty-third annual report of the American I'.ible society makes the statement that 05.002.505 copies of the Bible have been issued since its es tablishment. The German war authorities have duplicates of till bridges in France If, in case of war, any of these bridges were destroyed, they could be replaced in six hours. Jtpney is not plentiful among many British aristocrats. The late duke of Teek was frequently at Ins wits' end to make ends meet. Willi the death of his wife her state allowance of $15,000 a year ceased. WAK WILL GO ON. England Refuses to Listen to Peace Proposals. Lord llolirrt* ami IIIm Army i: liter Hloeiiilonlelii, the « a|>llol of the Orange Free Mutc- I'rcKlclcnt Kruger Sa>« tlic Uoer» Mill Not Surrender Pretoria. Driefontein, Orange Free Staite, March I:.'. Broad wood's cavalry brig ade, advancing on Bloemfontein, un expectedly found the Boers in a strong position in the Driefontein kopjes on Saturday. Gen. Kelly-Kenny's divi sion arriving, severe fighting ensued. The Boers resisted stubbornly, but were driven from their center position, leaving a number of dead and 40 pris oners. *. London, March 12.—A dispatch to the war office from Lord Roberts, dated Driefontein, .March 11, says:"l cannot get the precise number of cas ualties before I march, but will com municate it as soon as possible. The Boers suffered heavily, 102 of their dead being left on the ground." London, March 14.—The United States government, at Mie request of President Kruger and President Steyn, has offered to the British government its services as mediator, with the view of bringing about peace In South Af rica. The United States charge d'af faires, Henry White, saw Lord Salis burg at the foreign office last evening and received a reply from the British government, declining the good offices of the United Suites in regard to peace. The interview between Mr. White and Lord Salisbury was very brief, In the house of lords Lord Salisbury read the British government's reply to Presidents Kruger and Steyn. The ?oncluding sentence is as follows: "Her majesty's government can only insvver your honors' telegram by say ing it is not prepared to assent to the independence of either the South Afri can republic or the Orange Free State." The government will not allow the Krnger-Steyn appeal to influence in any way their determination not to spare any effort to prosecute the war. There will be no diminution of the measures calculated to maintain the full efficiency of the field force. Winston Churchill wires to the Morning Post from Durban, protesting igaitisf the ceremonious treatment of Sen. Cronje. He adds: "The stern decision not to exchange prisoners will undoubtedly accelerate the end of the war, but it will prove 'cry hard, and perhaps even danger >us. for the British prisoners in Pre via. "There is abundant evidence that 'Jie Boers are becoming more cruel »nd that the war will enter a darker jbase." London, March 15. —It is officially uiiiounced that Geu. Kaberts has occu pied Bloemfontein and that the Bnit ,sh flag is flying from the top of the Japitoi. The following is the text of Gen. Roberta' dispatch to the war office an nouncing his occupation of Bloemfon tein: "Bloemfowteiin, March 13. —By the ielp of God and by the bravery of her majesty's soldiers, the troops under aiy command have taken possession of Bloemfontein. The British flag now fliies over the presidency, evacuated last evening by Mr. Steyn, late presi dent of the Orange Free State. Mr. Krazer, member of the late executive govern in emit; the mayor, the secretary to the late government, the landro.-vt and other officials met me two miles from the town and presented me with the keys of the public offices. The en iMiiy has withdrawn from the neigh borhood and all seems quiet. The in habitant.s of Bloemfontein gave the troops a cordial welcome." A dispatch to the Daily Chronicle from Bloemfontein, dated March 13, lavs: "Bloemfontein surrendered at 10 to lay. It was occupied at noon. Presi dent Steyn, with a maiority of the ighting burghers, lias fled northward. "Gen. French was within live miles >f the place Monday afternoon. He sent a summons into the town, threat ening to bombard unless it surrender ed by 4 a. in. Tuesday. A white flag was hoisted Tuesday morning and a deputation of the town council, with the mayor, came out to meet Lord Roberts at Spitz Kop, five miles south ,*>f the town, making a formal surren der of the place. "Lord Roberts made a state entry at noon, lie received a tremendous ova tion. After visifing the public build ings, he went to the official residence af the president, followed by a cheer ing crowd, who waved tin- British flag i and sang the British national anthem. They were in a condition of frenzied excitement." Pretoria, March 15.—Lord Salis bury's reply to Preside:'ts Krnger and Steyn causes bitter disappointment. State Secretary Reitz says it means that the war will have to lie fought to the end. New York, March 15.—A dispatch from President Kruger to the Kvenling | Journal, dated Pretoria. March 13, via j Berlin, says:"The burghers will only j cease fighting with death. Our forces | are returning in good order to our j line of defense on our own soil. The i Natal campaign was longer in our favor than vvc expected. The Ih'itish will never reach Pretoria. The bur ghers, Steyn, .loubert and myself, as well as all the others, are united. There are no differences. God help us." They Auk Salisbury to Firm. London, March 13. The Daily News, in an editorial dealing with the Ilay- Panncefote convention, says: "Th>? Monroe doctrine has been made re spousibe for some s.rainge pretentions, but. for none stranger than the claim to a military control of the .Nicaragua canal. Even if President McKinley yields to the senate, it does not follow that Lord Salisbury will yield to Mc- Kinley." The Daily Chronicle says: ! "We hope Loid Salisbury will not: yi ill. We are all f-r a g'jod under st'inding for America, but we <io not believe it will be attained by conced ing important interests." NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. Admiral lllehborn Toll* of I'rusri'M Made 111 Kiilldlii({ U ur«lil|i». Washington., March 15.—'Admiral Iliebborn's hi test report of the pro gress of the work of building' up the navy shows that of the battleships un der coiist.riiot.ion, Ihe Kearsarge and the Kentucky at Newport. News are advanced toward completion 99 per ceret. and 98 percent, respectively. The Illinois, at the same place, stands at 75 per eeirut. and the Missouri lias just been started. The Alabama at Cramp's yard is set down at 93 per cent.; the Maine, at the same place, at per cent, and the Wisconsin and the Ohio at. the I'nion liron works at 8S per cent, and 15 per cent, respectively. The Albany is the om.ly sheathed pro tected cruiser upon which any work has been done. She is practically fin ished. Work has not yet begun on the Denver, l)es Moines, Chattanooga, Cial veston, Taeoina and Cleveland. Of the four monitors the Kansas is 19 per cent, completed; the Connecti cut 41 per cent.; the Florida 25 ]>er cent, and the Wyoming 43 per cent. All of the 16 torpedo boat destroyers are under construction, the work ac complished ranging from 85 j>er cent, upon the Lawrence down to 9 per cent. f>n the three boats in the yards of the Maryland Steel Co. The 15 torpedo boats nre also now on the stocks or afloat, the state of the work ranging from 98 per cent, in the case of the (iold-sborough to 5 pel rent.. on the Middle. The .submarine boat Plunger .stands at 85 ner cent. IN A STRAIGHT LINE. York <a|>ltall«t» I'ropoae to Ifiiild a llallroad faom Gotham to Chicago. New York, March 15.—The Commer cial Advertiser says: A group of east ern and New York financiers are dis posed to revive the scheme to con struct an air line railroad between New York and Chicago. Men who command large capital have been suf ficiently' interested in this project to have surveys made and maps prepared, showing approximately the course of the proposed new road. This proposed railroad is to extend between New York and Chicago in al most a straight line. It will cut across the northern part of New Jersey anil will pass through tiie Mauen Chunk coal fields in Pennsylvania. According to the route now marked out the new line will skip most of the large cities in Pennsylvania, taking in only Oil City. Passing through Ohio, the road will touch at. Cleveland and Toledo and will pursue nearly a straight course to Chicago via South Bend. This ''air line," its projectors de clare, will be more than 300 miles shorter than air.y other route between the Atlantic seaboard and Chicago and trains are to be run from New York to Chicago in lfi hours—perhaps a lit tle less. One feature of the proposed road would be t.he running of speedy freight trains. A POLITICAL SURPRISE. Humored Hint Senator Fryo lias One In Store lor tlic Public. Indianapolis, March 15.—The Senti nel says: One of the most prominent republicans in Indiana, who has just returned from Washington and who is known to be very close to the Mc-Kin ley administration, is authority for the statement that a defense for the Porto Kican tariff bill is being prepar ed that will show the politicians that the enactment of the bill, instead of being a blunder, was the shrewdest campaign move of the age. He says this defense is in the hands of Senator Frye, who will spring it in the senate indue season. It will be shown, he says, that the sugar and tobacco trusts were oppos ing the bill with might and main and that their demand was for free trade with all the colonies. It will further be shown, he says, that it wfis the in tention of the trusts to "squat" in the colonies and flood America with their cheap products, which would drive countless thousands of laboring men out of house and home. Even the ap proximate reduction in wages of American laboring men is being fig ured for campaign purposes. Set Aside the Will. New York. March 15.—A jury in the supreme court yesterday rendered a verdict setting aside the will of the ate Mi's. Mary Johnson and returned a verdict- in favor of the contestants. Mrs. Johnson died in March, 1897. leav ing an estate estimated at $900,000. Mrs. Johnson bequeathed almost her entire fortune to the Roman Catholic church and charitable institutions in the church. The jury found that Mrs. Johnson was not of sound mind when executed the will and also found M,«it the will was procured by undue •rifhien-ee and fraud on the part of l!i v. .lames W. Power, pastor of All Souls' church. Lawyer Condon and Mary Kelly, a se.'-vanit. I'rc •liiu.'.ii 12a Ikx. New You]f, March 15.—'"lluck" Kw ing, who will manage the New York baseball 'cam this season, said last liieht tlit Andrew Freedman would not sign the eight-club agreement drawn no at the recent meeting of Na tional league magnates in this city. Keying said both he and Freedman were aroused over the actions of the other clubs in the league in securing control of the players of the four clubs that dropped out, when it was under stood that the New York club was to have the preference of thy players, l-'wiag spoke particularly of the action of the Philadelphia chub, which has se cured the services of Slagle, who was a member of one of the western clubs. Steele* Sentence Cum united. Washington. March 15.—The presi dent has commuted the sentence of William Steele, la.te cashier of the Chestnut Street, national bank, of Phil adelphia, from six years and six months to IS nioia'ths' imprisonment. Steele was convicted in IS9S of aiding a,n officer of the bank in appropriating the. funds of the institution for his personal use. The sentence was com muted upon the reconiimendatiioin of the district attorney and the 'trial judge. It appears from the testimony that Steele was a tool of the officer 1c question SLOW PROGRESS. The Kentucky Political Caseg Drag Alon<r in Court AN AMENDED ANSWER. Republicans File One in Judge Field's Court at Louisville. IX THE GOVERNORSHIP CASH .Tien t'hargrd will. Connplrlng (» \u— MUNNIIIHI<. »rc Ifciiiotcd I ro lll Luiiittviilc to l<*ranklort and One I« Keleused on SIU,OOU Hail. Louisville, Kv., .March 17. —The a mended answer of the republicans in the Deekha.tn-Taylor consolidated suit involving the governorship was filed with .1 udge Field in the circuit court Friday. I.t has been in preparation by ex-Gov. Bradley, Judge Yost and other attorneys since Judge Field's recent decision declaring his court had 110 jurisdiction in the case and his court could review no action of the legisla ture seating Beckham. The amended answer is made principally to affect the record before the ease is taken to the court of appeals a.nd, if possible, to the United .States .supreme court. This purpose is shown by an elabora tion of the constitutional noiinits which were raised in the recent case before .Judge Taft at Cincinnati. An important eonteimtion relates to the conditions in Frankfort ait the time Gov. Taylor issued his proclama tion adjourning the legislature to Lon don, Ky„ the purpose being to attack the validity of anything done by the legislature while that, proclamation* was in force. It is declared that intense excite ment existed following ithe shooting of William Goebel, threats of blowing 1 up public buildings and taking human life were freely made, the public peace was threatened and there was a gen era 1 state of confusion, insurrection and danger to life and property. The remainder of the answer relates to al leged irregularities in the proceedings of the contest boards. As a result of meetings held by u number of prominent citizens of Lou isville, it is announced that ex-Gov. Ilrown haft •accepted employment as chief counsel of the men arrested for the murder of the late William Goebel. With hiim will be associated George Denny, \V. I'. Ilreckenridgc and several others. Resolutions were adopted denounc ing the assassination and urging earn est efforts to detect and convict the murderer. The fear is expressed that the SIOO,OOO appropriated by the legis lature may result in the prosecution, and conviction of innocent persons for political ends. The resolution con clude: "The money that may be subscribed is not to be used for the purpose of shielding any guilty nuan. It is not to be. used for obstructing' justice, nor for promoting political ends. It is to be used for the purpose of aiding the ac cused in the employment of intelligent and fearless counsel, in procuring the attendance of witnesses and to secure a fair and impartial trial." Following the adoption of the reso lutions a subscription was started. There was one subscription for SI,OOO, several for SSOO and others for smaller sums. The names of the subscribers are not made miblic. Frankfort, Ivy., March 17.—Oalel» Powers, John Davis, 10. Ila/.lip, W. 11. Culton and Harland Whittaker were brought here from Louisville yester day in charge of Sheriff Suter anil deputies. A special detail of police met them at the train and they were marched to the jail through the streets, which were lined with people. The prisoners were arraigned before Judge Moore and after some argument between the attorneys, Hazlip was re leased on SIO,OOO bond. Judge Moore set. the examining trials for Monday. Gov. Tavlor speint Friday at the ex ecutive mansion in conference with republican leaders. It is understood that a memorial to President McKin ley asking him to intervene and take a hand in the political contests was the subject of this conference, but as several of those called to the confer ence did not arrive, a decision was not •cached as to the exact terms of the message that will be sent to the presi dent. Lexi nigton, Kv., March 17.—The cases of Secretary of State Powers and Oapt. Davis were again called yester day before Police Judge Uiley. Judge Denny for the defense asked for a rule against Chief of Police Ross to show cause why the prisoners were not in court to answer. Judge Uilev held that as he issued neither warrants or mittimus in the case and, as the pris oners had been iin charge of the sher iff and not of the police, neither was the chief responsible nor did his court have jurisdiction. He therefore or dered all records before him taken be fore the grand jury for investigation. The grand jury determined to investi gate and may issue summons for the prisoners. A Steering Committee Named. Washington, March 17.—Senator Al lison. chairman of the republican cau cus committee of the senate, has an nounced the steering committee on Porto Uican legislation. It is compos ed of Senators ForaLer. Hale, Davis, McMillan. Spooner, Warren and Kran. lEllllllll'H < llHllellge. New York, March 17.—Gils Kuhlin lias issued a challenge to all the crack big fellows, including Champion James Jeffries, a,ml posting $2,500 is evidence of good faith. lie lvalues Sharkey first a.nd then extends the offer to McCoy, Fitzsimmons and Jef fries in the order named. Will Send a Vk'ar*lil|> to <blna. Washington, March 17. -Secretary Long has instructed Admiral Watson, at Cavite, to send a warship to Taku, China, at the mouth of the Ticho riv er, to look after American missionary interests that are threatened. 3
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