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J 1 RALEIGH, N. G WEDNESDAY; MARCH7. 1900 No. 84. Vol. V J ! 5 ., . ' jl ' , i " 1 ' '" 11 .' t ' ' - LAST WORD SPOKEN Close of Hearing in Dockery Bellamy Contest. EON NEGRO RULE OSBORN ,ck Policeman Can Laf'lllt When a III ,on a White Woman and Ar- llaui . nor II Plaice Caucasian Blood H-Eli-ciion f Bellamy -Cannot no .Ilu-ie- by Krideuce of Intimi dation iu Three Counti.s. ll JOHN BOVLE. - Mnrh t. When rue !li-.1-ry-I?l:.v roiittVtvd election n:ued this morning -Mr. . .! ,.. rh. thread or nis thread of bis ar i ha -r . ..-.. ,.111 I II 11IV V I . --- V. v ouuty 1 n irnt rtf in- made a statement mac .ii.i;. evidence to prove sup- A';! ..,.. im.lIey-JNVe can show it if M V do not tear a re- r ' . . ;i-e. Mr. I-M'-i i ,u't yon tllink" tLe case K Hu!. ' I do not so think, as not show that there sunVient people kept away, from !-..! IK :,i change the result. ;i:1'v.V :ioun the colored, suppressed ve c He could have, but dhl Ir. liven And the suppressed vote v'ouil no: !iaw changed tlie result if i.l iKi-i vott il for Dockery? " Mr. Biisbve-lt would not. ( Vrmiau Weaver 'Is not a racial ii.Mi iu North Carolina the same as a '.i::ieal one? that is, divded along lint .Mr. liubee -No. sir; it -is not the Mr. Biiiee then rook np' the case of i:':.-j:n.:ul county, and said that in :.nt eoiuiry there was some evidence ..:f intimidation in sporadic cases, hut -vtn if yon t'hrow out all this county ;: would not change the result dn the i - rict. And you cannot disfranchise sdi rbe other wunties in the district te rsr.se of se.aie trouble in one county. Tlrls rule, he ald. was laid down by a ;m!Ii -an Congress in- The case of CiVu'.au vs. Buck and -in a Democratic rr.!T in the case of" Hurd vs. K."r.e;. . - ; Mr. Rubee tlosed by saying that he f-i: tliar be had not done the case jus He had undertaken it larg-e-b as a laiMr of love, yet 3ie could not close w: .hour some reference to the con T'v. Mr. Bellamy, whom Colonel 1'u.Ik-y had characterized as a hypo :;:' and coutplrator. It was not neces iry fven here, he felt, to defend Mr. ".lamy' ehara'ter. In North Carolina : wor.ii ie a work of supererogation. An vt Iu- could not help saying that in all North Carolina, from her moun tains to tlie sea, in no man's heart was tat rhoiurht of murder, fraud, violence ttal hypocrisy further reurovetl than :nm the heart of the coutestee. ?lr. Okborne Speaks. Mr OsVmrne addressed the committee k ri t!it point of reoienlng the case, and contend,.,! til lt nutij .t ould be shown t.u; votes were suppressed in suffi- ".n r.u:nlers to change-the result th,e a-t- cDuid not le under tlie law re "'"'dhL ii cijed any number of wit-!i.-s(-s who refused to testify to any inr:m;,aTi,,n or frauj They diad all '"' ipo! tunity. but did not avail i i nisives of it. He admitted that there had been Y1!'' int'miiatiou in New Hanover, vhmuu.i an,i 'Robeson couutias, but n.ui-h t0 throw out these three 'unties. if yon throw out 11 the thrv eounties. still, he claimed. Bel-i-my j elected .by the counties in ' h nor 4-ven the contestant alleges :' -.aiiiLition. But in this district r.i.re w,:v ,;st 40,." yotes, 11.000 than in isiG. Does intimidation votes: i,e askel. Mr. ( Mi irne then spoke in most feel- ;snd eloquent terms of negro dom ir.;u..,u iu Wiluiin-toii. - ' ' h;ifl Dud ley -Hi o you mean to say only negroes -hold office? ..!.r' Uiih)iiie-I mean that when a -"-:'' ! oiiceaiau cm nut li-nrwl n wh.;t. woman's shoulder and. arrest " i' is tlltIl rll:1t tUa n-.Vtf m .in'c h. , . . -.jv i .muni j s-jcrr. u, ".mil ,!' -'ion H sa;d tliev wnnlrl Mr n V IQe txiiesor negioes, V- xv'T!0 , om,uleI,tJd that that was v-i i i'11' own "tterance, with -.'I" ;ll ilr-'Bellamy had no concern. It 11 k"wu that the two men are VmT. a(COri1, althouh ot tlie same 'Mr. Slirin.., Hu r-,rr. n noriiiern man, "was ".-"j, max .ur. tv aaueus .not well received 0y the l"z 'tur theelec ----- ' " UVl, tHCU er-v - r;' hury for Mr. Dock- j an nour's talk. i.4i!."t" V!111'' of the Proceedings Mr. 1 'iiness.. f iinii.u wrotn r i;,.v. i . . . lieln vawsi Tor a letter thlt I" ,"t; 5,11(1 afterwards told ut lus ilXisj'i letter jsaxed him; , J'av,!..iormerlv of Wiimtn as L hLVVLthat fowling in 1897 .... , j.iii in aiw (tit? uiuuavit ui lue cupiaiu ui police of Wilmington, .stating that Dowling was now under bond of $200 to appear at the' Criminal Court of Wilmington for burglary, robbery, etc. Mike iDowliug. in '-an affidavit, stated that the White Union of Wil mington had recommended the murder of negroes, and this affidavit of Davis' was simply to show to what low cattle the contestant "had to resort. Washington Notes. George II. Sinathers did not appear today .before the wub-cominittee of the Senate Judiciary, Committee, but it is here awaking his pleasure. The contract for carrying the mails from Cox to Jackson's Creek has been awarded to P. E. Link. Drs. Dnyard and 'Duffy-have been ap pointed pension examining surgeons at .New Bern. Pensions have been granted to resi dents of North Carolina as follows: IVnnis Perkins, Wilmington, $0; Starkey Smallwood, Windsor, $6: Dolphine -Gurley, Windsor, David Bass, -Wilmington, $8; Hessie Marshall, New :Bern, $S. Fourth class postmasters have been appointed in "North Carolina as fol lows: Wiley S. LMeKee, at McAdens villc, Gaston county, vice J. ,M. 'Skid more, removed; William M. Brafford, at Providence, Chatham county, vice J. G. Phillips, resigned; William B. Money, at Republic, Yadkin county, vice Benjamin .C. Money, resigned; Hannah A. Warren, at Balsam, Jack son county, vice 'Ida M. Bryson, se sigued; Hugh Taylor, at Joy, Burke county, vice John Deal, resigned; Fannie Loftin, at Bernhardt. Lincoln county, -vice Mrs. P. L. Relnhardt, re signed: John B. Moxley, at 'Whitehead. Allegheny county, vice Mrs. V. E. Joines. resigned. Congressman Kitehin was today noti fied by Secretary Boot, that he would have an appointment to West 'Point Military lAeadeniy July 14. He will dis pose of the place by competitive ex amination. 9TOR71 IN SEVEN STATES Ballroads and Telegraph System Damated br Snow.and Wind. Chicago, March C For the last thlrty-jdx hours the States of Minne sota, Iowa. Nebraska, Missouri, Illi- nois, .Micnigan ami u iswusm perienced a series of storms remark able for their severity. The ceter, however, appears to have been through Wisconsin and 'Illinois and along 'Lake Michigan, where heavy snow, chang ing to hail, then to rain, and accom- nanied lv a wind that at times amount . i ed to a gale; :nas resurteti in a-paruai demoraliza tion ' of ' the telegraph sys tems -and ihas badly crippled railway service. MORE THAN FIFTY KILLED Seventy Men Imprisoned in a Coal Mine. ' Few Escape Alive From Consequences of an Explosion of Was Forty Bodies Taken Ont and Res cuers Still at Work. Montgomery, W. Va., March 6. By an explosion of gas in the Bed Ash mines this morning seventy men were imprisoned. Twelve men have been removed, tire of whom are dead and the others in a critical condition. The remainder are in the mine with no hope of relief. A't 1 o'clock forty dead had Ibeen taken out and the rescuing party was still hard at work. Long Acre, W. Va., March 0. l!ore than fifty men 'were killed by an ex plosion 5n the Bed Ash coal mine on the New river today. The explosion occured this morning soon after the mvn went into j the mines. From eighty 'to one hundred went in Thus far only about thirty have been a ccoun ted for. Fi fjty coffins have been ordered from Charleston. No further particulars can be obtained. The Bed Ash mines are situated in ;payette county, West Virginia, and are in the heart, of the Fire Creek coal region, (through which the Chesapeake & Ohio road runs. The mine consists altogether of drifts instead of shafts. Drifts are the simplest form of mines, as the 'tunnel runs like a railroad tun nel into the side or A mountain lin stead of being sunk from the top as shafts. The drifts are the more dangerous of the two classes, however, as they are more liable to cave dn than are shafts. The Bed-Ash has only drift mines, the reins of coal being so abundant in that region as to render unnecessary the sinking of shafts. Delegates to Republican Convention New Orleans, March 0 The Wim berley Bepublicans have elected as delegates at large from Louisiana to the National Bepublican Convention A. T. Wim'berley -and ex-CJovernor W p Tvellogg (whites) and Addison Vance and Richard Sims " (colm-ed). I Ilitt Renominated for Congress Freeport, 111., Mrch ' 6. Robert R. Hitt was renominated for Congress by acclamation at the" Reiubliciin ,con gressiojial coaYention hero . Jodayj, mm GOLD STANDARD BILL Party Lines Closely Drawn on Its Passage. SENATOR ALLEN'S VIEWS He Tells What Will Be the Effect of the BUI and Aldrlch. Denies Every material Proposition Chandler Votes Against the Bill , and There Were Three Democrats Recorded as Not Voting;. Washington, March 6. In the Sen- ate Mr. Simons of Oregon (Hepubli - can) addressed the Senate against seat- ing Mr. Quay from Pennsylvania. Mr. Hoar followed Mr. Siinons with a brief reply to the latter's statement thait he expected to yote against the seating of Mr. Quay. His argument was one relating to the interpretation of the constitution. Mr. 'Scott of West Virginia intro duced a resolution authorizing . the iPresident to govern the Philippine Islands until Congress shall otherwise provide. He gave notice that he would speak on the resolution next Friday. A bill was passed appropriating f " I - road between New Bern, N. C, and! 1 th np'fPrv that citv. A bill was also passed pmviding for'P,-1 strong. Aawnug the erection of a public building ta''rr1 "rc "7' ti A'r. o AV .ber.4 alone enabled them, to ceed $400,000. - . - Air lleii of Nebraska then address - i.Mr Alien or Aeoiaska tnen aauresb ed the Senate on the inanci He did not suppose it would be denied that the adoption of the gold-standard was "a gross violation of the Jl - lu-an policy as enunciated the die- nublic-an olatform of 18i)o. aot would it be denied, he thought, that iiepuuiuuii Aitu. uiu7 "" emaciated and exhausted, and say the honest effort to bring about bimeltal-lvad to olenso presents scenes that lism. r ' . exceed 4n horror those depicted in Mr. AWrich. chairnvan of the Fi-'.ranta's (Inferno. Dead men and ani na nee Committee, said: .- 1111019 are lying, "mutilated and putrrfied, "I will interject into the senator's i.n the trenches formerly occupied by remarks, with his permission, a deiiinl the lioers; and fill the air with a sick of every statement he has muide; ahd"ienin,g'(jor. in cases where Ibunial had the probability is that a't ithe,conelu- een attempted the rains have washed sion of his speech I can enter. -;the-,the earth ,jiwa-y,.and out of the earth same denial." . , 'protrnde ghdstly'legs and arms of dead In discussion of the bill, Mr. Allen wtgli&&. ' ' " ' -- " declared that .the mea sure required the A dispatch from Osfontein says that pavinent of all debts, public and pri-'accordhig to 'Boer prisoners another rate, in gold xin. "I'd like to know,"'(.iuiix)rtant British success will cause said "he, "whether the senator from iPresident -Steyii to flee Co Pretoria, Khoxle Island denies IthatT , leaving a provisional government -at "I do," replied Mr. Aldrich. ' jlBioemfontein, which is likely to make "I suppose next we shall hear a de peace overtures, those Free .Staters not nial that the sun is shining When -wishing for peace trekking into the r very bod v is looking at it," retorted Mr. Allen, stirc-astically. - jstana wnicn most oa "I would like the senator to"pcnt irary critics now pmntoui will consti t th int of .the bill." retorted MrJtnte,ythe most .difficult and decidmg Aldrich, "-hlch provides, that all debts, public and private, ehlll be paid ... . , in "Old . "7t is there," replied Mr. Allen. "Every contract ds reduced to the gold standard." Mr. Allen averted that the bill was in the interest of the national banks not in the interest of the people. "It ds simply a stupendous scheme for - . -a .i..i , - , q loaim.tw. s r l-jviiia "Now, I suppose," sadd he, senator (Aldrich) will deny "Vrt fi'ianA 'frliia Kill " wtVHwTN"M Aldrich, "would ever make such a statement, because it us nolt true. Mr. Allen especially attacked the measure because of the favors which, he said, it extended to the national banks. . After Mr. Allen concluded the. vote on the bill was taken, resulting ayes 44, nays S3, on s-trict party .lines, cept that Senator Chandler voted with the 'Democrats, and Senators Clark. Montana, Caffrey of Louisiana," and AJinusay ol 'iveAifcueiKjr, ivuiiri-ais, ;ncic not recorded as voting. At '3:15 the 'Senate adjourned. Debate on Aldrlch-Robblns Contest .xtoji, ti,a TTnnc today. wHliout plitointtry business,- resumed nSlderaHon of the Aldric- in defence of ms ngn . . " A -A. !L. Z rm j-wA the Foiirth jgitrlf 5TmogS Avas taken up 3as.t Friday. Mr. kod-i. . ih Pr,PP oa-mw A. bins, the ,,t tta, .IdS Democrat, took the floor iror an nour. . . n..iif is j'iii- He Tra ioMowuy;-..; -package of cigarettes brought Nebraska, who f lPPffC: "ks Shillings; fifty cigars brought 10, tions of the majority in faor or e a qttarter of a pound of plug to contestant, Mr. , Aldrich. bacco brought -45 shillings. Mr Glvnn, or uevv j-w-, " - r"c next speaker, opposing the report of the committee. He said that ithe true ,o.dn,n wTiv certain precinors were ser lected by the committee to be.thrown . 4 tliani T?n1iVvn yi. out was DecautK? j , 0 more vt3 than Anncu TxiiA Mr. De 'Armond, of MisourU was speaking in. favor of Robbins re-ug mountain on the north side of the ita'ning his seat, the secretary of the Vrver, was shelled by General French Wnate announced Ithe adoption of the 3 morning. conference report on the Finaueialt "Apparently the space between the ii'll At the conclusion of Mr. De Ar-Jm0uutain and the river has been ln n'ond's speech, the House, at 1:55, ad- J,trenched. -South cf the river the Boer Vmirned until today. '- : llnes c6ver more ground. A few days J . ago their left rested on the high kopjes .amlral Walker Arrives at Colon , ASon Colombia, March 6.--Admiral iw'and the other members of the -VvuiKet - eommission have ar - cd iere from Panama,, - TO COLENS! Dante's Inferno Outdone by Actual Scenes BOERS IN FULL RETREAT Northern Cape Colony Clear of the Btirshers liadysnilth Garrison Ar riving at Mooi River Emaciated and Exhausted ITIilitary Critics Expect Bo ers to Make a Most Determined Stand in the Transvaal. London, March C 2:03 p. m. The Boars in northern Cape Colony are in fullJ retreat to the Orange Free State. jTh possession . of -'Stormberg puts iGeneral Oatacre in railroad commuui- caition with General Clements at Coles- jbeirg, for though 'the Boers partially wrecked the railroad, it as understood jha it can ibe -quickly repaired and thu4 the entrance of 'additional Brit ish droops into the Free State will be greatly f acilitated. ,,!From Osfontein, where Field Mar shal Lord dtoberts is opposed by a goods'ized body of Boers, there is still no news except reports of minor skir mishes. . , - I . 1- n 1 T3.. Ahe lstuon gamea uy uraa xia- fl - 2. - T " T 1 X J --kv ,'oani ax ioraiecui as re-pu riw -iu w to the s num- them. to retreat T Y"1"1 :uy e IIe !aso a violation of the , Boers, and that they eliberateiy fired t close range on a strelclier arty . 0ftteraIs garrison has begun tto leave Ladysmith and is arriving at Mo). mrer where the troops - ..m ,i ,i.... nnn ui, j-y .wlu. further south. They are .Transvaal,, mere 'iinpmg lo.t-- a feature of the war. The recent r ad ns have afforded j 0 , d TJ.Wln ,n-yvrw1 C C OiTirl VfU (1 IS Slin- iwunw 'fefwi " pUe. hay e reached him. ews of his advance is eagerly awaited, -According to a report from Cape Town, an .expedition for the relief ot ,;Maf eking is apparently well . on its way. A strong force, .including the 'Klmiberley "Llgto-t Horse, 'is moving I . ! 1 fl-vxr railway engineers. It ,s known that THE ROAD i the bridge across the aal Kiver at "ir-hif Hip'-Foiirteen Streams has been wrecked, J iVt 'and it is expected that the passage of SIr" river lWiU lbe struly l)losed i t he bridge- across the aal Kier at i laic V1 lvr- " . ,t"ere' AUCTION IN CAMP Fancy Prices Paid for Luxuries Taken from the Boers. Ladvsmith. 'Saturday, March 3. rpi,- -pediments of cavalry reconnoit- ex-Jerjng (northward today sa w a body of Boers behind Pepworth Hill. Two long -'.train's, which were ready to leave, promptly moved before the troops leached ifhem and 'Uie Aoers mew up -il a ,i Al. ,,..- no li,air . lvonf a ouiverx. 'ociiuiu mciu uil, i.w. The Britis'h passed a large body of Boers in the vicinity of Pepworth r i rl . The Boers opened a neavy nie, we British field guns replying. The Brit- d not press the attack aud the oer fire osed on .renr- a dozen matches brought 13 shil- Boer Position Located. oafATtean." Saturdav. Matrti S.-4The jtBoer position has now .been fairly lo cated as about four miles from '"the British froot and extending about Lht miles. The Boer rierht. on a hich. Istanaing in t'ne muwie or the plann .They haye now been extended two miles further south, while six small kopjes stand in the plain 'between the apd the left and. gtFeea the reenter and the river and form a ridge behind, which the Boers move unseen; The weakness of the whole position, however, is that at can easily be turn ed in eitherdirection. The country is flat and . water abounds, the recent rains having nearly filled all the dams. Brabant Engages Boers. Dordrecht, Monday,. March 5. Fol lowing yesterdays success, General Brabant again engaged the Boers today with advantage, .'holding the position captured yesterday. There was some smart lighting this morning, the Brit ish losing five or six men, capturing the (Boer fort and thus vastly improv ingjtheir position. The Boers fought tenaciously, con testing every inch of the ground but 'Ultimately-' they retreated suddenly, carrying off their guns and -wounded. A mounted force pursued them, .'but the result is not yet known. The British casualties during the two days wre twelve or thirteen killed and thirty wounded. The Boer losses are unknown. Throughout the arduous fighting and severe fatigue the colonials have behaved splendidly.. Gatacre Occupies Stormbers. London, March ti. The War Office has received the following dispatch from Lord Roberts: "Osfontein, March C JGeneral Gat acre occupied iStormberg yesterday. The lines of railway north and west will now be repaired. General Clem ents is at Joubert's Siding Station,, 'be yond Colenso. The.- Duke of Marl borough, with the Oxford company of the Imperial Yeomanry, has left Cape Town for Naaupoort. "iGeneral iBuller reports Natal as practically clear of the enemy, and that he cannot hear of any formed body of them anywhere. The iBoers lert some amouiances iiui jx huix- sicix and wounded from which the mules lhad been taken for transport service. . . . .. Strekstroom, (Monday, March 5. F veni nir.-Gen era 1 G a ta ere entered iStoi-niberg unopposed today. The Boers 'destroyed the railway approach, but the station is intact. Stormberg is the important railroad junction which Gatacre tried to cap ture December 10 with such disastrous results. - - - . - - . . REPUBLICANS IN A HOLE Porto Rlcan Tarlft Bill Maklnc No End of Trouble. Washington, March C The Republi cans are simply in a' great big hole over the Porto Itlca'n bill. - - "The introduction '-.of . a- free - trade amendment to the Porto 'Rican bill in tfie Senate by Mr. Davis of Minne.ota (Republican) ..yesterday has ; caused a cotnmotlori in 'Congress. No one is able now to judge what will come of it, but Mr. Davis is an able man and strong in the Senate.'-;He is one of the ablest men the Republicans have in that body, - and was an expansionist when the men who were responsible for the Porto Rican tariff bill did not know what expansion meant. ' The serious difference over the Porto Rican- bill is not between expansion ists and anti-expansionists. It is be .fTOiepn two-sorts of expansionists those who'kno w and those who do not know what expansion means. The anti-expansionists are liable to Kp. l-hp he nefir-i aries "of 'the ignorance and blunders of those who see in the policy of expansion nothing more than a campaign proposition liaoie to oe popular with the people. Not under standing the proposition or disregard ing it, 'they go blundering along trying to accommodate the policy ro. every conceivable interest, which they feel convnelled to represent, regardless of inconsistencies and injustices. If they hn,v th.eir wav they will succeed in aiMking expansion unpopular, and if thev cannot have their own way iney do not Avant expansion at all. There was nothing partisan in the expansion policy as first conceived and passea almost forced upon the administra- tion. The partisans'iiip ana couauswu have arisen -froan .the lack of under standing on - the part those who adopted it beeaiise it sounded well and might serve in a campaign. CIROVER GOES HUNTING . . 4 The Ex-President Able to Take Ples v lire Trip to Florida. Princeton; N. X, March 6. Former , JTICSlUllL v J , , Pivnecton for New York at ocuo!3f the courits and Cosigress hold that th i s morning, where he expected to I (. egs 'alone tue right to de- imwf f 'rtarVv of friends an join them on a pJleastire eicnrsion to the South. It was learned at theex-Tresident's hou&e? in Bay'atd' avenue, tonight, that the 'panty will be - composed of E. C. TeSHt't Perrv Belmont, Dr. -Bryant and former: Secretary of War Daniel k Secretary of War Daniel , and that they were Jto leave S. Lamont ftv in a isnecial car over the IVnnsylvaniaMlroad for Florida or thereabouts tonight, where they will spend' ten .days at least hunting and fishing. It was also said that 3Ir. Cleveland, expected to meet Joseph Jefferson " in the South. TLons Tirapce Ends In Death. Afai-V, firieta Edna. r x-uuijsv - rtaken it is aserteu wai tvji-i.w Wilbur, , who has lain unconscious for ;j.s-ttll4ady satisfied, and that every day, over -two years, died today. Her case jnjmen(,,try letters re coming from , 1 fixln &,ht 'has' . - - " nas -f utreii- . ----- - , shown signs :of -Consciousness, though her speech and actions were eiw tarsal Her trouble began in February, 1898, jvnen sue when she'"as..founa one morning in Her room witn xne gus, uraunii an operi burherr " It w-as not an at- tempt at suicide, as tb window was ooeni The cas seemed !to paralyze lL r brain, but ihe V 1 A I V- Ait-. - jl. lltrt uiauif vui, iiic girl's, body soon regained its normal eftadition. - WILL NOT TURN BACK McKinley Stands by , Porto Rico Tariff Bill WHAT FREE TRADE MEANS It the Courts let Down the Bars as tm One of Our Insular Pessesslons . All Will Come iu on the Same Footing and Our Protective System Will Fall to the Ground The Cabinet vl dently Worried. Washington, March G. At the cabi net session today bhe Presidemt aad his advisers discussed lonff n4 ax nestly 'the strenuous opposition whioJa." the Porto Rica a tariff bill a aoo'jn tered throuhotst the country. Thci disenssioa, It mzJ he stated f rom an .tihoritati ve .sources, 4id not in th least change the ylewa of the admin istration. The President and his parity are. committed to a tariff on Porto Bican goods, and will not turn back. now, it is said. Th e President and his ad visers believe that the country will endorse their policy before the Novem ber elections. .' It is stated in official circles 'today thait. trhei'e is no; ill-feeling against Porto Rico, but the government mxtsto have a test ease as to .wdiether 'the i . , , , , . possess . bear the same rela Tt tii I'nnipii jnth r o yna. Tiros t ions' to the United Staltes as Ithew pres ent states ami 'lTerritones or the Union. It is a n't ici pa ted that so isoow as Con9rress oasses th Mil nrovidint? for a faiiff of 15 per cenft, a test case win 'ie orougnt oy some or fhe rsew York importers. The case will be speedily hastened through the courts and will finally be determined by' the United States Supreme Court. That court will say whether ' Porto Rico is so closely a part of the United States as to be' subject to the cus toms and -. other laws of this counjry without special enactment by Con gress. If the court- determines thait Porto Rico became a -part and parcel of .this country, to be on exactly 'tih'ft same .foptlng;;;as ; tihe.:vlwbince: of . the U ni ted iStatei?, "thait means free; trado with thez-VPhiiippines, free trade with, 'Kawailawitifc;.th,e;: islands' '-wlci;-haTo been: acquired in the S'amorangrbu.: with Gita.m,,;,wil group,, an! with every' new possession whicTi : comes under the flag of the 'Unite tl . -Slta tes in, the . future. This, is at leas! . what the cabin e't decided today. '.,'.. And here it may be emphatically stated ithat before President McKinley and his administration will submit to absoMte free trade with .Ithe Philip pine) they may consider an important revolution , in 'their , .plans V as to the-s Islands' remaining under American 'aui thority. This, however is too remote and" too speculative for. immediate 'thought. . -" .' . ; A cabinet officer said today it hat free 'trade with the Philippines meant the . breaking down of the protective -tariff system: it, meant com petition by infe rior labor with American labor; the manufacture. of goods In the Philip pines with cheap labor and their ship ment to this country yw, compewtioai with goods manufactured here; kba dirtjptioin of the open-door . powcy with" European nations in China. Free trade with the Philippines,.- It , ivs poi n ted out by thesame official, men At tlmt every port of the Phiuppine became tt he same, under the law, as oorts of this country, and goods go ing into ithem from the outside world would pay the Dlngley tariff rates or whatever iates were in existence At the same time the United States and the islands would exchange.; goods with each other free of dirty. s Spain would for ten years have the sanie privileges as this country, but all the rest of the world would' meet the tra ri ff wall. The consequence would be the protests of the remainder or th world against maintaining an open door in China for :tlie benefit ot this country, and possible complications. , s 4iw o,t-hr hjiTxl it rvas nointed . i Vli - -' - - . -OUt at TUe UIlUCi xii"--VJi infe i.uuaj,ibui. termine the pojiwon or -xne new tws sessions toward .thte . country, 1orto Rico will even tually have, free rtradft and free relations, but the Philippines will have law enacted for them which will look to their protection a well tQe pmtectiooi of the United States. it Js declared, will proftect American labor. Ameffdcan Industries, and make of the Philippines a , great warehouse for the American trujsin)es man who wants to trade in the East. They will likewise permit of Eiirop according ns the open door in China. The administration confidently be lieves .that when, the people of; fthls country tfuily appreciate the situation they will accord with the poei tion now taken. It is asserted cuat rora"Avic t there i Descendant of Was'hlnston's Drother TWrtfcimrW !"rnrr3i 6.- Maj. Jamesi ,11 f Washington, an ex-Con fed- M iUlJVw0f j.-nt rt ,ri. rateldr.fntt ons J. yf&S Ohio Railroad, died here toaaj, agea ! sixty-one. His great-grandfather was -- . 3-vj v - w . .x - ... - . 1 i TIT.- .w ri vtMt " nwnirhiMf John Augusxme;
The Morning Post (Raleigh, N.C.)
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March 7, 1900, edition 1
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