anaheim-gazette 1900-04-26

This Paper not to be taken from the Library. Anaheim VOLUME XXX. HERBERT JOHNSTON, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and Residence: Corner of Broadway and Los Angeles St. Telephone 656... 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., evenings. DR. IDA MENGES BOYD. DENTIST Metz building, Anaheim. feb24 DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to 5 ANAHEIM CAL. jy1644 S. G. WILSON, M.D. Office and Residence: Over H. A. Dickel's Store. CENTER ST., Anaheim. Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. REMEMBER that quality is the standard of cheapness; that there is a broad distinction between "pianos cheap" and "cheap pianos." If you desire a reliable make at a moderate price, do not fail to look at our large and handsome stock of fine pianos. Our company is one of the few large music houses of Southern California that buy and ship their pianos in carload lots direct from the Eastern factories. Owing to our low rents we are enabled to undersell our Los Angeles competitors from $25 TO $50 ON EVERY PIANO. Sold on easy payments. Old instruments taken in exchange. Patronize a home concern that is here to make good its representations, and you take no risk. PYNE MUSIC CO., Cor. 5th and Main Sts., Santa Ana, Cal. Heart, Rheumatism, Kidney, Bladder and Diseases of a Specific Nature CURED by the use of this Balsam. Simple in its application and certain of beneficial results DOSE: One teaspoonful after each meal. This medicine is not for sale in the general ALEX DE BORRA Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. Dr. A. W. Bickford OFFICE OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. Telephone Central. Residence near Christian Church. Telephone 671. ANAHEIM, - - CAL. G. S. EDDY, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE—First door East of Boston Bakery. Residence—The Witte residence on Center St., opposite Catholic Church. CALLS ANSWERED AT ALL HOURS. ANAHEIM, - - CAL. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW And Notary Public. Special attention given to Probate Matters. —Center Street Anaheim. CHARLES BAUER Blacksmithing and Wagon-Making Hart block, Center street, Anaheim. A share of the public patronage is solicited, and all work guaranteed. HORSESHOEING a SPECIALTY L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles Sts. LITTLE GEM BARBER SHOP Frank Dyer, Prop. First-Class Tonsorial Artists. Shop 1 door east of McCollum's cyclery. We keep constantly on hand the best of hair Restorer, Dandruff Cures, and other articles found in a well-appointed barber shops. A share of the public patronage solicited GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE OR COR. 5th and Main Sts., Santa Ana, Cal. Heart, Rheumatism, Kidney, Bladder and Diseases of a Specific Nature CURED by the use of this Balsam. Simple in its application and certain of beneficial results DOSE: One teaspoonful after each meal. This medicine is not for sale in the general market, and can only be had by addressing ALEX DE BORRA, ELSINORE, CAL. CONSULTATION, by letter or in person, FREE. Anaheim Bakery, PETER SYRE, PROPRIETOR. FRESH BREAD CAKES & PIES CONFECTIONERY, ETC. Wedding Cakes a Specialty. Los Angeles and Cypress Sts ONLY FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT! - IN TOWN - In Connection with Boston Bakery. S. KISTLER, PROPRIETOR. JOSPH BACKS, Undertaker and Embalmer DEALER IN Furniture and Bedding Repairing Done. Get your Shoes repaired Rubber heels put on while you wait... 50 Men's shoes soled and heeled... 75 Men's shoes soled and heeled; hand sewed; $1.00 Ladies' shoes soled and heeled... 50 FINE CUSTOM WORK A SPECIALTY. Herman Schindler, Next to Spoerl's. Send your LACE CURTAINS to The Santa Ana Steam Laundry Every facility for doing the best work. E. W. McCollum, Agent, Anaheim The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION, - $1.50 Per Year. Six months... $1.00 Three months... 75 Payable invariably in advance. Transient advertising rates, $1 per inch per month. The GAZETTE is issued every Thursday morning. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. RAILWAY TIME TABLE. Time of Arrival and Departure of Trains. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. Trains on the Southern Pacific pass Anaheim as follows: To Los Angeles. From Los Angeles. Daily... 7:52 am Daily... 9:49 am Daily... 4:23 pm Daily... 6:03 pm Pass Loara Station: To Los Angeles. From Los Angeles. Daily... 7:56 am Daily... 9:45 am Daily... 4:27 pm Daily... 5:59 pm Los ALAMITOS TRAINS. Leave for9:49 a.m. {Sugar Factory} Arrive from6:03 p.m. {7:52 a.m.} Alamitos trains do not run on Sundays. NEWPORT BEACH RAILWAY. Daily Schedule. Leave Anaheim. Arrive Anaheim 9:49 a.m. 7:52 a.m. 6:03 p.m. All trains connect at Santa Ana with Newport trains. SANTA FE ROUTE. Local time table. In effect November 10. Trains on the Santa Fe route leave Anaheim as follows for points named: Los Angeles—7:55 am, *10:02 am, 11:19 am, 4:54 pm. Pasadena, San Bernardino and intermediate points (via Los Angeles)—7:56 am, *10:02 am, 11:19 am. San Bernardino and Riverside (via Orange)—4:41 am, *10:47 am, 6:50 pm. San Diego—9:41 am, 2:50 pm. Santa Ana—9:41 am, 2:50 pm, 5:50 pm. Redlands—9:41 am, *10:47 am. San Jacinto, Temecula and intermediate points—10:47 am. Escondido*2:50 pm. Overland to Chicago, Denver, Kansas City... Frank Dyer, Prop. First-Class Tonsorial Artists. Shop 1 door east of McCollum's cyclery. We keep constantly on hand the best of hair Restorer, Dandruff Cures, and other articles found in a well-appointed barber shops. A share of the public patronage solicited GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS WEST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS. Shanley & Nebelung REAL ESTATE For Sale and Exchange. Houses Rented, Collections Made and Taxes attended to. A. FREISE, ...KEEPS THE FINEST OF... Wines, Liquors And Cigars. LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. Koll Block, Los Angeles Street. F. BACKS, UNDERTAKER And Dealer in FURNITURE. Wall Paper, Cornices, Window Shades, Picture Frames, Upholstery Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass Sewing Machine Supplies, Etc. Cor. Los Angeles & Chartres Sts. Herman Schindler, Next to Spoer's. Send your LACE CURTAINS to The Santa Ana Steam Laundry Every facility for doing the best work. E. W. McCollum, Agent, Anaheim Roman Wisser Favorite Saloon. Finest of Wines, Liquors & Cigars Pool & Billiard Tables Schindler's Building, Center St., Anaheim LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. FRITZ RUHMANN'S Germania Halle. BACKS' NEW BUILDING LOS ANGELES STREET Keeps on hand a Large and complete stock of liquors, wines and cigars. Cold beer always on draught. NEWS AND OPINIONS OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE THE SUN ALONE CONTAINS BOTH Daily, by mail, $6 a year Daily and Sunday by mail, $8 a year THE Sunday Sun is the greatest Sunday Newspaper in the world. Price 5c a copy. By mail, $2 a year. Address THE SUN, New York. PALACE MEAT MARKET F. W. Fleischmann, PROPRIETOR. Best Meats the Market Affords Always on Hand. Also keeps on hand Sausages, Bacon, Ham, Lard, Etc. Meats delivered to all parts of the city free of charge. Shop on East Center St. N. HART'S PLACE. SCHLITZ MILWAUKEE BEER ON DRAUGHT. DEALER IN.... FINE LIQUORS! AND.... Choice Wines FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES, Fine Domestic and Imported Cigars. Headquarters for the famous Schlitz, Milwaukee, beer. GRAY BROTHERS & WARD Cement Contractors Shillinger Patent. Contracts for RESERVOIRS, IRRIGATION JITCHES, Cellar and Stable Floors, Sidewalks Etc. OFFICES—No. 125 N. Broadway, Los Angeles Cal. Telephone—236. No. 316 Montgomery ²t. San Francisco, Cal. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1900. THE PORTO RICAN TARIFF BILL. A Moderate Duty Placed on Imports From that Island as a Precedent. With Free Trade to Follow in 1902. [Special Correspondence.] WASHINGTON, D.C., April 21, 1900. The Porto Rican tariff bill is a law, despite every obstacle that the free traders could throw in its way. Could they have compelled the enactment of a measure establishing immediate and absolute free trade with Porto Rico they would have had opportunity to assert that the precedent thus established must be applied to the Philippines, to Hawaii and to any other non-contiguous territory which might subsequently come into similar relations with the United States, and that by the act of the Republican party the cheap labor of the Orient and the tropics was thus to be brought into direct competition with the workingmen and agriculturists of the United States. That was the political opportunity for which they were fighting, but they failed to accomplish it. The bill as it stands proposes to temporarily collect on goods passing from Porto Rico into the United States and from the United States into Porto Rico 15 per cent of the regular Dingley tariff and to pay into the empty treasury of the island every dollar so collected, this plan to continue only until the Legislature of Porto Rico shall have provided local taxation sufficient to meet the necessities of the island and in no event to continue beyond March 1, 1902, after which date there is to be absolute free trade between the island and the United States. One of the objects of a tariff on Porto Rico's products imported here is to establish a right to impose such a tariff in later years, should it be found necessary; that there be cheap" and "cheap late price, do not fail nos. Our company California that buy the Eastern factories. sell our Los Angeles PIANO. exchange. Patronize presentations, and you Santa Ana, Cal. Balsam A Specific This Balsam. of beneficial results meal. OF BORRA $70,000,000 during the current fiscal year, and a surplus of $82,000,000 during the year ending June 30, 1901. Secretary Carlisle used to predict deficiencies, and his predictions were always verified. Congress has passed the appropriation for the distribution of free seeds, and has increased the appropriation for farmers' bulletins from $85,000 to $106,000. The House Committee on Pensions has been revising the general pension laws. The most important of the proposed changes is to increase the age limit on which pensions are to be allowed, fixing a sliding scale between the ages of 62 and 70, viz: Six dollars at 62, $8 at 65, $10 at 68 and $12 at 70. Another important amendment increases from $96 to $250 the amount of annual income which a widow may have without forfeiting the right to a pension. The Republicans hope to pass a bill to this effect. A growth in our foreign commerce from $1,000,000,000 in 1872 to $2,000,000,000 in 1900 is remarkable, and an increase of our exports from $444,000,000 in 1872 to $1,227,000,000 in 1899 is even more striking, but this growth is insignificant when compared with the growth of commerce on the great lakes. The foreign commerce of the United States has doubled since 1872, and the exports have trebled during that period. During the same time the tonnage of vessels engaged in commerce passing through the St. Mary's Falls canal increased from 914,735 registered tons in 1872 to 21,958,347 tons in 1899, the increase having been over 2000 per cent, as against an increase of 100 per cent in total foreign commerce and 200 per cent in exports. The percentage of freight carried by Canadian vessels, which in 1887 was 7 per cent of the total, was in 1898 only 2.2 per cent. The value of Canadian craft passing this point was in 1887 $2,089,400, and in 1898 $2,491,900; while that of American craft, which in 1887 was $17,684,550, was in 1898 $45,199,800; the value of Canadian craft having increased less than 25 per cent, while that of American Merchant Marine. A Bill Reported Favorably to Increase Our Ocean Commerce, and to Secure Larger Markets for Our Surplus Products. The report of the House Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, to which was referred the bill (House resolution 64) to promote the commerce and increase the foreign trade of the United States, and to provide auxiliary cruisers, transports and seamen for government use when necessary, contains a volume of interesting information: In view of the situation in which the United States has stood for many years past in respect of its foreign commerce, and particularly its export trade under its own flag, and in view of the great and most important changes that have recently taken place concerning our relations and duties in other parts of the globe, there was apparently no difference of opinion among the persons who were heard before the committee, and there is none among the members of the committee, in regard to the high desirability of some effective legislative action for the promotion of the great national objects referred to in the preamble of the bill. The various differences of opinion have related entirely to the best methods to be employed in attaining the important ends referred to. That it is of very great value to a country of abundant natural resources, with an industrious and increasing population, to increase the means of profitably disposing of its surplus productions of every kind, is a self-evident proposition. It is also self-evident that by just so much as export trade is increased, home employment and home consumption are increased also. Other nations which are the principal manufacturing and exporting com- from the United States into Porto Rico 15 per cent of the regular Dingley tariff and to pay into the empty treasury of the island every dollar so collected, this plan to continue only until the Legislature of Porto Rico shall have provided local taxation sufficient to meet the necessities of the island and in no event to continue beyond March 1, 1902, after which date there is to be absolute free trade between the island and the United States. One of the objects of a tariff on Porto Rico's products imported here is to establish a right to impose such a tariff in later years, should it be found necessary. This will be a precedent in our legislation for our new possessions, the Philippines. The proposed import duty—15 per cent of the Dingley rates—is merely nominal, within six per cent of free trade. Back of it is an established power and recognized authority to deal with these questions as shall seem wisest and best when we know more about the whole matter and shall better understand the true situation with which we have to deal. What Porto Rico is today we know—what it may become ten or twenty years from now, under the influence of American capital and enterprise, we can only conjecture. Cotton may be grown there, and cotton manufacturing might become a large industry. With cheap island labor, the product of our Northern and Southern mills could thus be undersold. Would it be right to expose the agricultural and industrial interests of the United States to such competition? If the principle of a tariff be not now maintained, it might be difficult, if not impossible, to impose one hereafter, if it should thus become necessary. Then the Republican party would be blamed, and justly so, for its neglect to protect the interests of American citizens on the mainland and for its lack of forethought. It may be that the sugar yield there may grow to such an extent as to curtail the available market area for our growing beet industry. The same may be true of tobacco, of vegetables, of oranges, of rice, of hides, of hemp and other products. It is not claimed that there is danger today. But that there is strong probability of danger to American industries through the establishment of free-trade relations with Porto Rico, as a precedent for our policy in dealing with all our outlying possessions, no one can deny, after having given the subject careful investigation. What applies to Porto Rico might be held to apply equally to other possessions. Who can say what develop in that much larger and equally fertile area in the Orient, with its abundance of cheap labor? This is what we must guard against. Without a precedent, and the established right to impose a tariff upon any of the products of our island possessions, the United States may in years come feel the effect of such lack of legislation to a very serious degree. By the adoption of this legislation future protection will be possible to American interests in case it be needed against that source, or against the Philippines, or against the Danish West Indies, should we acquire them, or any outlying possessions. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and it is best not to fix a precedent that will abolish a right which maintains our national policy. During the same time the tonnage of vessels engaged in commerce passing through the St. Mary's Falls canal increased from 914,735 registered tons in 1872 to 21,958,347 tons in 1899, the increase having been over 2000 per cent, as against an increase of 100 per cent in total foreign commerce and 200 per cent in exports. The percentage of freight carried by Canadian vessels, which in 1887 was 7 per cent of the total, was in 1898 only 2.2 per cent. The value of Canadian craft passing this point was in 1887 $2,089,400, and in 1898 $2,491,900; while that of American craft, which in 1887 was $17,684,550, was in 1898 $45,199,800; the value of Canadian craft having increased less than 25 per cent, while that of American craft had nearly trebled. With this increase in tonnage and business comes an equally striking decrease in freight rates, the cost of transportation per ton per mile having fallen from 2.3 mills in 1887 to .79 of one mill in 1898. RESERVOIR CONSTRUCTION. How Money Could Be Raised For One, and the Irrigable Area Greatly Enlarged. EDITOR GAZETTE:—Does the selling of all the water stock that was authorized to be sold mean that we have arrived at the limit of our development? Does it mean that no more land can be irrigated except what now has water rights? If so, we are going to have innumerable desert-like tracts among the fruitful fields and orchards. I doubt, with present development and an occasional dry season, if the irrigable area can be safely extended. But with a good reservoir that would hold enough water to irrigate the whole district twice, 2000 acres more could be taken in—or rather, it is in—and could be irrigated. Two thousand shares of stock, at $28.50 per share, with assessments added, would build a first-class reservoir which could easily be filled in the fall and winter months from the ditch and winter rains. Two thousand acres doubled in value; continuous property enhanced by the reclamation of the 2000 acres; 2000 shares more of stock to assess. I know of several families who would like to purchase land and make homes within the district of the Anaheim Union Water company; but on account of not being able to obtain water stock, in reason decline to invest here. One hundred families more would take up about all the vacant land in the district, assist in paying taxes and in developing the country. Let us have 2000 shares more of stock put on the market for sale; change the bylaws so that no one could locate more than one share on an acre, or not to exceed one and one-half shares; set by the proceeds of the sale of water stock for a reservoir and build it. Then we will be safe from drought and be sure of a harvest. Yours truly, W. M. McFADDEN. The Excitement Not Over. The rush at the drug store still continues, and daily scores of people call for a bottle of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs for the cure of coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis and consumption. Kemp's Balsam, the standard family remedy, is sold on a guarantee and never fails to give entire satisfaction. Price 25c and 35c. The conference is irresistible that the United States ought, in the quickest and most effective way, to take measures for securing our share in the development of that country, whose population is so immense and whose desire for advancement in all that is included in the term "modern civilization" may be assumed to be so earnest, if once the barriers, which have hitherto almost entirely excluded foreign intercourse, are removed. The committee think it will be interesting and useful to the House if attention is called to the special monographs of the bureau of statistics, 1899, which supply facts showing the great advantages to be attained for American interests on the African continent and in Japan and China by early measures. The same considerations adverted to above apply with equal force and in varying degree to all other parts of the world where our export trade and other commerce holds so small a place. This is what we must guard against. Without a precedent, and the established right to impose a tariff upon any of the products of our island possessions, the United States may in years to come feel the effect of such lack of legislation to a very serious degree. By the adoption of this legislation future protection will be possible to American interests in case it be needed against that source, or against the Philippines, or against the Danish West Indies, should we acquire them, or any outlying possessions. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and it is best not to fix a precedent that will abolish a right which maintains our national policy. Moreover, the Republican party will not be committed to the policy of free trade as is so earnestly desired by the Democrats. It is stated at the Treasury Department that the general effect of the new financial bill will be to greatly increase the banking facilities of the smaller communities. Comptroller Dawes has received a large number of applications for charters of banks which will be organized under the national system with a capital of $25,000 in villages of less than 3000 inhabitants. The extent to which this provision of law is being availed of shows that the banking privileges which have been extended by it to the smaller communities, thereby placing them on an equality in these matters with the larger communities, has long been needed. One of the natural effects of this law should be a reduction in the rate of interest on loans. Macrum's charge, that the official mail of his consulate had been tampered with, has been disproved upon investigation by the State Department. Nor has there been any subsequent interference with the American consulate's mail. Secretary Gage predicts a surplus of drying preparations simply develop dry catarrh; they dry up the secretions, which adhere to the membrane and decompose, causing a far more serious trouble than the ordinary form of catarrh. Avoid all drying inhalants, fumes, smokes and snuffs and use that which cleanses, soothes and heals. Ely's Cream Balm is such a remedy and will cure catarrh or cold in the head easily and pleasantly. A trial size will be mailed for 10 cents. All druggists sell the 50c. size. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren St., N.Y. The Balm cures without pain, does not irritate or cause sneezing. It spreads itself over an irritated and angry surface, relieving immediately the painful inflammation. With Ely's Cream Balm you are armed against Nasal Catarrh and Hay Fever. The proceeds of the sale of water stock for a reservoir and build it. Then we will be safe from drouth and be sure of a harvest. Yours truly, W. M. McFADDEN. The Excitement Not Over. The rush at the drug store still continues, and daily scores of people call for a bottle of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs for the cure of coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis and consumption. Kemp's Balsam, the standard family remedy, is sold on a guarantee and never fails to give entire satisfaction. Price 25c and 35c. Two Funeral Orations by Senator Blackburn. By the irony of fate and the exigencies of personal ambition, it became the duty of Hon. Joseph C. S. Blackburn of Kentucky to pronounce the funeral oration at the coffin of William Goebel. Of Goebel, Senator Blackburn said: "Build here over his grave a mighty, towering shaft that shall defy the corriding touch of time. Inscribe upon it an epitaph that shall be worthy of the man. He earned this at our hands. In life and death he was consecrated to the people's cause. He lived an honest life, and gave his life for our deliverance. Of him no eulogy but truth may say: 'Earth never pillowed upon her bosom a truer son, nor heaven opened wide her portals to receive a manier spirit.'" At Covington, Ky., on Sunday, April 14, 1895, the eulogy of Goebel pronounced the funeral oration at the coffin of Col. John L. Sanford, who, like Goebel, had been shot on the highway. Of Sanford, Senator Blackburn said: "John Sanford was to me like a brother. I loved him. I hope God may spare me, and I shall make it my life's mission to avenge him by burying his slayer in the depths of public execution." The slayer of John Sanford was William Goebel.—New York Sun. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures painful, smartous feet and ingrowing nails, and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot tired, aching feet. Try it today. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25c. in stamps. Trial package free Address. Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y., mar l-ip Oil Stock for Sale. Dividend paying oil stock. Apply to the agent, E. T. EAST, Anaheim. Gazette. NUMBER 27 MERCHANT MARINE. And Favorably to Increase Our Commerce, and to Secure Larger For Our Surplus Products. of the House Committee which was referred the bill (Section 64) to promote the land increase the foreign United States, and to pro- cruisers, transports and government use when necessa a volume of interest: the situation in which the has stood for many years effect of its foreign commerce, early its export trade under, and in view of the great important changes that have been place concerning our re- ties in other parts of the was apparently no differ- enon among the persons who before the committee, and among the members of the, in regard to the high of some effective legisla- for the promotion of the real objects referred to in the bill. The various dif- opion have related en- best methods to be em-aining the important ends of very great value to a abundant natural resources, industrious and increasing to increase the means of exposing of its surplus pro- every kind, is a self-evident It is also self-evident that such as export trade is in- ne employment and home are increased also. tions which are the princ- ituring and exporting com- facilities and power for carrying on foreign commerce and for having at hand all the means necessary for the advancement, as well as the defense, of their commercial interests and for the maintenance of their honor. The sail tonnage of all countries has, during the last 25 years, decreased 40 per cent, and the decrease in the United States tonnage has been the same. The only country whose sail tonnage has increased is Norway. The causes for this great decrease in sail tonnage are well stated on the same page of the text of the report. The seagoing steam tonnage of all nations has increased 336 per cent, or nearly 14 per cent per annum, during the last quarter of a century. In the year 1873 the steam tonnage of Great Britain was 2,624,473 tons and that of the United States was 483,040 tons, while in the year 1899 the steam tonnage of Great Britain had increased to 10,993,111 tons, and the steam tonnage of the United States had increased only to 810,800 tons, the British tonnage being in that year 58.5 per cent of the whole, and our tonnage in that year being only 4.2 per cent; and for the whole period of the last quarter of a century the British increase has been 311 per cent, while the American increase has only been 68 per cent. During the same time the French increase has been 200 per cent; the German, 603 per cent; the Spanish, 275 per cent; the Italian, 395 per cent; the Netherlands, 399 per cent; the Russian, 430 per cent; and the Norwegian, 1410 per cent. Thus the total average increase was 336 per cent, of which our increase was only 68 per cent. It appears, then, that with our great population, industry, resources and enterprise we stand at the very foot of the column. In the same connection it will be seen in the table in the report of the SOCIAL WASHINGTON. Mooted Points of Precedence at the American Court—Social Blunders at the National Capital—A Baron's Brilliant Ball. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.] Tangled questions of precedence have marked the present social season of Washington to an almost amusing degree. The death of Vice-President Hobart left the question of supremacy between the vice-president pro tem. of the Senate, Senator Frey, and Speaker Henderson, of the House of Representatives, a debatable one. Members of Congress insist that at all social functions the dignity of that body must be recognized in the person of the Speaker. Again, the Secretary of State is designated to succeed to the Presidency in case of the death of both the President and Vice-President, and it seems to be a mooted question whether or not the Senator who assumes the duties of the deceased Vice-President in the Senate ranks higher than the Secretary. Besides these questions of "where is my place in Washington society," the seating of Senor Aspiroz, the Mexican minister, by the side of the wife of the Austrian minister, and the issuing of invitations to the entire diplomatic corps to meet persons other than sovereigns, have caused the administration no end of annoyance. The unfortunate incident of seating the Mexican minister by the side of the Austrian minister's wife happened at the memorable state dinner given to the diplomatic corps. The present Mexican minister was the prosecuting advocate before the court martial which pronounced the death sentence upon the unfortunate Maximilian. Such a blunder probably never before happened in high society. The blunder of inviting the ambas- It is also self-evident that such as export trade is immense employment and home are increased also. Actions which are the principating and exporting country have been alive long time, and have steadily themselves to the increase import trade and to getting fast and as far as possible markets and regions promo-great results in that direc-tion-called "spheres of influ-ence" mean the partition of our commercial purposes, and much dominion as may be convenient to commercial now almost entirely em- African continent. Asia has recently been the object of such ambitions, and partly due only to irreconcil- ities of interest that China has been partitioned among our European powers, mainly the purposes. As the situation there is probably good believe that China may be so the fair and equal compet- espect of trade with the states. The committee think readily true that China will be a long time to come, if foreign trade and enterprise, largest, if not the largest, the trade and commerce of nations who may possess the facilities, the enterprise persistence necessary to the of their commercial inter- ties also indisputably true that buying and manufacturing nation can be earliest in the field productions and with its means transportation, supported by the and the reputation of its flag, give the largest success. Inclusion is irresistible that the states ought, in the quickest effective way, to take measuring our share in the de- finition of that country, whose popul- imense and whose desire cement in all that is included in "modern civilization" may need to be so earnest, if once the which have hitherto almost included foreign intercourse, used. Committee think it will be inter- useful to the House if attenuated to the special monographs展 of statistics, 1899, which is showing the great advance attained for American inthe African continent and in China by early measures. The considerations advertised to only with equal force and in degree to all other parts of the mere our export trade and commerce holds so small a place. During the same time the French increase has been 200 per cent; the German, 603 per cent; the Spanish, 275 per cent; the Italian, 395 per cent; the Netherlands, 399 per cent; the Russian, 430 per cent; and the Norwegian, 1410 per cent. Thus the total average increase was 336 per cent, of which our increase was only 68 per cent. It appears, then, that with our great population, industry, resources and enterprise we stand at the very foot of the column. In the same connection it will be seen in the table in the report of the Commissioner of Navigation for 1899, on pages 313, 314 and 315, that during the last quarter of a century the total carrying trade of the United States has diminished from 26.1 per cent in 1875 to 8.9 per cent in 1899, and it appears from a table found on page 316 of the same report that for the same period of time the tonnage of our vessels engaged in the foreign trade has decreased from 30 per cent of the total of our foreign trade to 20 per cent, and that the foreign tonnage engaged in bringing merchandise to and taking it from our ports has increased from 70 per cent to 80 per cent. On pages 265 and 266 of the commissioner's report are tables of practically all the steamships under foreign flags owned by American citizens. These tables include practically all the foreign vessels which can be admitted to American registry under the terms of the bill—namely, first-class ships. On pages 186 and 187 of the same report is the list of foreign merchant steamships bought by the United States before the commencement of the Spanish war, none of which, of course, could have been lawfully purchased and taken into use after the war began, except possibly, under certain special circumstances not necessary to be stated here. The total number of these vessels was 40, and the total tonnage was 126.818 tons. Had the war continued for another year, or had it occurred with any stronger power, the condition of the United States in respect of the supply of auxiliary aids to our military operations would have been of the most serious character. The total number of American vessels permanently registered for foreign trade was on June 30, 1899, 954, with a total tonnage of 569.364 tons. Of the vessels registered, both temporarily and permanently, there were only 367 steam vessels, which includes vessels temporarily registered for really coast-wise voyages beyond the limits of the United States. We have not the tables to show precisely what would be the number of permanently registered steam vessels for the foreign trade. The number probably will not exceed 150—see the tables on page 277 of the report, which show the great number of vessels temporarily registered for extending their voyages beyond our domestic ports to adjacent countries on the coast. And of these vessels there were only 135 (Report, p. 339), built of iron or steel of the total tonnage of only 288.813 tons. It appears from the same report (p. 349) that the total registered tonnage increases has only been 68 per cent. During the same time the French increase has been 200 per cent; the German, 603 per cent; the Spanish, 275 per cent; the Italian, 395 per cent; the Russian, 430 per cent; and the Norwegian, 1410 per cent. Thus the total average increase was 336 per cent, of which our increase was only 68 per cent. It appears, then, that with our great population, industry, resources and enterprise we stand at the very foot of the column. In the same connection it will be seen in the table in the report of the Commissioner of Navigation for 1899, on pages 313, 314 and 315, that during the last quarter of a century the total carrying trade of the United States has diminished from 26.1 per cent in 1875 to 8.9 per cent in 1899, and it appears from a table found on page 316 of the same report that for the same period of time the tonnage of our vessels engaged in the foreign trade has decreased from 30 per cent of the total of our foreign trade to 20 per cent, and that the foreign tonnage engaged in bringing merchandise to and taking it from our ports has increased from 70 per cent to 80 per cent. On pages 265 and 266 of the commissioner's report are tables of practically all the steamships under foreign flags owned by American citizens. These tables include practically all the foreign vessels which can be admitted to American registry under the terms of the bill—namely, first-class ships. On pages 186 and 187 of the same report is the list of foreign merchant steamships bought by the United States before the commencement of the Spanish war, none of which, of course, could have been lawfully purchased and taken into use after the war began, except possibly, under certain special circumstances not necessary to be stated here. The total number of these vessels was 40, and the total tonnage was 126.818 tons. Had the war continued for another year, or had it occurred with any stronger power, the condition of the United States in respect of the supply of auxiliary aids to our military operations would have been of the most serious character. The total number of American vessels permanently registered for foreign trade was on June 30, 1899, 954, with a total tonnage of 569.364 tons. Of these vessels registered, both temporarily and permanently, there were only 367 steam vessels, which includes vessels temporarily registered for really coast-wise voyages beyond the limits of the United States. We have not the tables to show precisely what would be the number of permanently registered steam vessels for the foreign trade. The number probably will not exceed 150—see the tables on page 277 of the report, which show the great number of vessels temporarily registered for extending their voyages beyond our domestic ports to adjacent countries on the coast. And of these vessels there were only 135 (Report, p. 339), built of iron or steel of the total tonnage of only 288.813 tons. It appears from the same report (p. Committee think it will be interested useful to the House if attented to the special monographs on statistics, 1899, which showing the great advance attained for American interest in the African continent and in China by early measures. The considerations adverted to only with equal force and in degree to all other parts of the here our export trade and merce holds so small a place. We general and almost self-eviposition should be stated in action; that is, the indispensness that our government have from this time forth abunlishments for ship building for repairing, ample dockyards and, in addition to an addetion, a great fleet of merchant many of which should be at all able for and capable of employing the exigencies, always so occur, of strained relations or countries or war, either beselves and other nations or other nations, must produce a things highly injurious to the cost so supplied with resources and diate use. If there is any the evidence of national expense considerations may be as self-evident. Upon considerations such as stated, other principal nations using themselves to increase power in all the ways we have so, with the double object, as stated, of strengthening their It appears from the same report (p. 344) that the total registered tonnage built in the United States in the year ending June 30, 1899, was 79 vessels, with a total tonnage of 36,107 tons. This includes both sail and steam vessels and vessels partly employed in domestic and partly in foreign trade along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. It appears from the same report (p. 392) that during the year ending June 30, 1899, there were built of ocean-going steam vessels in the United States 19, with a total tonnage of 43,871 tons. This ship building in the United States is largely made up in the construction of steamers for trade between our own various ports. It also appears from the table on page 40 of the same report that in the year 1898 there were built of ocean-going steam vessels: Tons. 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