THE .EVENINGA'GAZETTE a: ” HOAR 0N EXPANSION Senator Says Constitution Does A Not Allow Colonies. REGRETS LEAVING PARTY Senator I-Znar’s Intimmion that. He “'11! Oppose the Ratification of the Treaty of A Peace is Contrary to Expressed Predic- tion of His Fellow Republican Senators. ‘ Washington, Jan. 10.--Sena-tor Hoar addressed the Senate yesterday after- noon on the Vest anti-expansiomreso- lution. Great interest was manifested in the senator’s utterances, and his intima- tion of his purpose to oppose the. rati— fication of the peace treaty created a prOfound sensation. Mr. Hoar began with a discussion of the constitutional phases involved, pre- faoing his argument with a statement. of his persanal position. “I am quite sure,” said he, “that no man who will hear what I say to-day will doubt that nothing could induce me to say it but a commanding sense of public duty. I dislike to differ from the president, whose election I hailed with such personal satisfaction and such exulting an'ticipations for the re— public. I dislike to differ from so many of my party associates in this cham— ber, with whom I have for so many years trod the same path and sought the same goal. I am one of these men who believe that little [that is great or good or permanent for a free people can be accomplished without the in- strumentality of party. And I have believed religiously and from my soul, for half a century, in the great doc- trines and principles of the Republi— can party. I' stood in a humble capac- ity by its cradle. I do not mean, if I can help it. to follow its hear-Se. I am sure I rcnder it a service; I am sure I help to protect and to prolong the life of that great organization if I can say or can do anything to keep it from for~ sakiizg the great principles and doc- trines in. which alone it must live or bear no life. Mr. IIc-ar said that our fathrrs who frame-c ‘.l 1e constitution were the wis— est builcw s of states the 11 011d has yet seen. The»: had studied ancient his— tory and l1. d learned that while there is little else that a democracy cannot accomplish. it cannot rule over vatsal states or subject peoples bringing the elements of death its (mp constitution. Mr. :IC-ar believed, he said. this coun— try to be a nation——a sovereign nation. He believed Congress possessed all the powers necessary to accomplish the great objects the framers of the con- stitution intended should be accom— plished. But he denied that it pOSSes- sed the “astonishing” and “extrava- gant" powers under the constitution which the senator of Connecticut (Mr. Platt) attributed to it. _ “As to every matter the United States as a nation possesses sovereign power, except only where sovereignty has been reserved to the states and the people.” And again: “As a na— tion it possesses every sovereign power not reserved in its constitution to the states or to the people. The right to asquire territory was not reserved, and is therefore an inherent sovereign right. In the right to acquire terri- tory is found the right to govern it, and as the right to acquire is a sov- ereign. inherent right, the right to govern is a sovereign right not limited in the constitution.” These propositions of Mr. Platt, Mr. Hoar expressly denied. He affirmed that every constitutional power is lim- ited to the one supreme and controll- ing purpose declared in the constitu- tion itself: ”In order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our poster- ity.” “We into have heard,” continued .Mr. Hoar, "of limited monarchies, consti— tutional monarchies, despotisms tem- pered by assassination; but the logic of the renator from Connecticut makes a pure. unlimited, untempered despot- ism without any relief from assas- sins. “The constitutional argument for slavcr: 1 v as ten times as strong as the argument of the senator from Connect- icut. "he slave master said he owned men for their good. The senator from Connecticut proposes to own nations for their good. “The sovereignty which can be exer- cised l“: the nation as a unit is only that which is necessary for accomplish— ing the purposes of the constitution,_ and must be expreSSly granted therein, or necessary, or convenient, in the judgment of Congress to accomplish the purposes expressly declared there- in. All other sovereignty is reserved to the states or to the people. The power to conquer alien peoples and hold the-m in subjection is nowhere ex- pressly granted. The power to conquer alien peoples and hold them in subjec- tion is nowhere-implied as necessary for the. accomplishment of the purpos- es declared by the constitution. “It is clearly Shown to be one that ought not to be exercised by anybody --one that the framers of the constitu- tlon thought ought not to be exercised by any body. “1.3ecause it is immoral in itself. . “2. Because it is expressly denied in the Declaration of Independence, the great interpreter and expounder of the meaning of the constitution, which" owes its origin to the same generation and largely to the same men.” Mr. Hoar quoted the statement of Louis Napoleon, made in 1854, that “the' time of conquest is past, never to re- turn, for it is not by eXtending the »boundaries of its territory that a na- tion can henceforward be honored and powerful, but by placing. itself at the head of generous ideas and spreading everywhere the empire of right and justice ” and added: “Napoleon forgot what he had said when he g1 ew a little stronger. He saw his Opportunity in Mex-loo, as but friends think they see ours in the Phi- upplne islands. But the sure and-ter- rible feet of destiny overtook him in the midst of his pride and power.” without . l IN THE PRIZE RING. Sharky and McCoy Will 'Meet at the New York Law}: Club‘To-night. .- New York, Jan. 10.--There seems no question but the twenty—round fight between Thomas Sharkey, the sailor . pugilist, and Kid McCoy, will come off at the Lenox Athletic Club to- night This is the same ring in which Shar- key and Corbett fought recently. '\ \\\§\\\\\ \ \ . " 1 .. -. ...‘ III/H" . /’ / «(.1111 ll 1 ‘50011n’c01; By the terms of 'the articles of agree- ment they will box with fie ounce glove es for a purse of $20, 000, of which 75 pe1 cent. will go to the winner and 25 per cent. to the loser. If the re- ceipts of the club are more than $40,000 the fighters will each receive 25 per cent. of the excess. It was agreed-that the Lenox Athletic Club shouAd post the entire purse with “Matty” Corbett, who has been named as final stake- holder this morning. Both the fighters and the managers of the Lenox Athletic Club realize that the unsatisfactoryending of the Cor— bett-Sharkey affair was almost a death blow to heavyweight fighting in‘ this city, and in order to avoid a re- petition of such a thing it was agreed that if the second or handler of either man imitated McVey’s act of jumping into the ring to save his principal the bout would not be stopped, but the of— fender removed and the bout allowed to continue. The men will fight accord— ing to the Marquis of Queensbury rules, the only stipulation being that they shall break without hitting after coming to close quarters, and there shall be no hitting in clinches allow- ed. To Prosecute Aldridge, Albany, Jan. 10.-——G0vernor Roosevelt announced that he had selected Frank- lin D. Locke of Buffalo to take ex- Judge Countryman’s place as special counsel for the executive'department in the case against Superintendent of Public Works George W. Aldridge for criminal mismanagement of the ca— nals. In politics Locke is an independent Democrat. He was a Cleveland man in the days when David B. Hill was in control in the state, and took an active part in the anti—snapper movement. He was conspicuous also in the fight against Maynard. At the last nation- al convention he voted for Palmer and Buckner- Th 11 Connecticut Seuatorship. Hartford, Conn., Jan 10. --The man— agers of Senator Hauley’s campaign for re- election deny the statement in a dispatch from Washington that they have given up expecting his re-elec- tion‘. They say they are more confident than ever. They profess 1to have no doubts whatever of Mr. Hawley’s re- nomination at the caucus Wednesday. There are three candidates, Senator Hawley, ex-Speaker Fessenden and ex-Governor Bulkley. Coaldfllners in Convention. Pi‘ttsburg, Jan. 10.—-The Coal Miners' National convention opened here yes- terday with an attendance. unusually large. Delegates were present from the bituminous coal regions of Pennsylva- nia, Illinois, Indiana. Ohio, Kentucky. Alabama. and Kansas. Interest centered in the election of a national president. John Mitchell of Illinois, acting president, is opposed by Patrick Dolan of Pittsburg. Dolan al- leges that Senator Mark Hanna is us- ing his influence «in behalf of Mitch- ell. Dinner to Peace Commission. Washington, Jan. 10.-—The presisdent and Mrs. McKinley gave a state dinner last night in honor of the Paris peace. commissioners and their wives. Besides these persons about sixty guests were invited, leading govern- ment officers, leading army and navy officers, and senators and representa- tives in Congress being among the number. The East room and other parlors of the White House were decorated with the display of growing plants and cut flowers usually provided for great state occasions at the executive mansion. Ballet Decker Executed. Sing Sing, N. Y., Jan. 10.--Bailer Decker, the colored wife murderer of Tottenv-llle, Staten Island, was execut- ed ln the electric chair at Sing Sing yesterday. There were two shocks, and in three. minutes he was pro- nounced; dead. The condemned man was cool to the end. The Rev. St. Jean, assistant pas- tor of St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic - Echurch, administered rthe last rites. 111.11 1111 1111111111 " No Treatment Given Army Meet Other Than Cooling. GEN. MILES DISCRBDITED. The General Superintendent. of~ Swift and Co. the Contractors Testifies Before the “far Investigating Committee as to the Beef Supplied to the Army. 'Washington, Jan. 10.--Fred W. Wil- der, general superintendent for Swift & Co. of Chicago, appeared before the war inquiry commission Monday. He said he had general charge of all the packing, canning and slaughtering of cattle for the Chicago plant, and gave a general account of the practical working. of the meat business. He said that all 'the cattle were bought from commission firms at the stock yards, and there given an ante- mortem inspection by a. government official, and then driven to the abat— , toir, being well cooled before killing. A gang of one hundred and fifty men, he said, would butcher about one hun- dred and twenty cattle an hour. The cattle were then subjected to a post mortem examination, also by govern— ment inspectors, who examined the lungs, liver and intestines. The com- pany had had as many as twenty cat- tle a week cor demned at this inspec- tion, being about twenty out of nine thousand. The condemnation was mostly due to tuberculosis. The con— demned animals are tagged by the government inspectors, and the carcas goes to the refuse tank, where the only use made of it is to take the grease for lubricating purposes and the re— mainder f01 fertilizers. The good meat is stamped by the government inspec- tOr and certified for the market. Part of the beef ordered by the gov-1 ernment during the war was sent from Kansas City, though most of it was from Chicago. The contract with the government called for the best fat steers, not less than six hundred lbs. per dressed carcass. These specifica- tions were complied with. Referring to the much discussed “heard” on the refrigerator meat, Mr. Wilder said the large wholesalers who supplied the best hotels in Chicago, “aged” all their beef before selling it, and got an advanced price for it after it accumulated the beard. He said the meat was better in every respect after being aged. As to com— plaints regarding the army contract beef, he said the Manitoba shipment was the only one condemned . This was shipped July 30, and was not thrown overboard till September 18. Witness had been in the export business ten years and in the Liverpool and London trade, where the beef was from ten to eighteen days in transit. He had never lost one’quarter of beef. VVi-tness denied that any chemicals were used in preserving any of the meat sold by his firm, and said that in addition to other objections, it would be useless, would be a detriment to the beef, and an extra expense. The beef for export was not the best beef, but of a fair quality. towing at Cornell. Ithaca, Jan. 10.--Only seventy—five men have reported to the coach, Court— ney, and to Captain Fisher of the ’varsity eight, in compliance with the call for candidates for the Cornell freshman eight. ' The response was disappointing, in- asmuch as last year one hundred and fifty candidates turned out at the first call. The candidates are a stocky, well built lot, however. They began pre— liminary work yesterday and for the present will be coached in squads by the members of last year’s varsity eight, who are back, under eral direction of Coach Courtney. The call for varsity candidates will not be made until the new men have been fairly started in their work, which should be in about two weeks. A Lively Day in “Vail Street. New York, Jan. 10.;-Into the five hours that comprise the regular session of the board was crowded the greatest amount of business that brokers have ever known in Wall street. 550,000 shares of stock had been bought and sold. The total day’s business ag- gregated over one million shares. his is the largest for years past. The ticker hummed without an in- stant’s rest. Nearly all of the so—called specialties were higher, but there were no sensational gains. Atchison, sugar. the 'Pacific stocks and the grangers were the strongest features. Bonds also were bought on a large scale. All Wall street is looking for the biggest boom in years. B a 11 k Safe Robbed. Ashburnham,~ Mass, Jan. 10.--The safe of the Ashburnham Bank was blown to pieces by dynamite about 2 o’clock Monday morning. . The interior of the bank was badly wrecked and all the windows were blown out. A sum of money, estimated at from $1,- 500 to $2,000, is missing. There is no clew to the robbers. ‘ It is not believed that any large quantity of notes or drafts was taken. Deputy Sheriff Richardson is of the opinion that the work was done by amateurs. The robbers, it is thought, came and left with a team as no trains were running for some time before and af- ter the explosion. Germany to Grab Again. Melbourne, Victoria, Jan. 10.——Advic- es received here from the Tonga is- lands, via Auckland, N. Z., say that the German consul has arrived there from Samoa and has given notice that Germany will seize Savao, the most fertile of the Tonga group, unless the Tongan government pays private debts which the natives owe to a German company. Gen. .Wheeler in Chicago; Chicago, .l‘an. 10.--Major General Joe Wheeler was in Chicago, a guest of the Knights Templar for their annual charity ball given at the Auditorium last night. Rear Admiral Schley telegraphed he would be unable to attend on account of the dinner given to the Cuban evac- uation commission by President Me- Klnley. the gen- . By noon , i CURRENT oouueflf. Whom the gods would dean-0y they first make mad. The Chinese got mad .at the plug hats and tracts of the American missionaries, and have been throwing stones all: them. China. is destined to partition and extinction. Bunches of bananas made of papier. mache have been introduced as signs "on the wharves of New York, where the depreclations of hoodlums are fre- quent. It is proposed to add wooden peanuts for the benefit of policemen and other friendly samplers of the stock in trade. The foundation of all lasting pro- gress in Cuba must be hygiene. To establish promptly and maintain in- telligently. in cities like Havana, a sys- tem of sanitation wholly foreign to their history and at variance with the lifelong habits of the people, is a hei- culean and costly task. If the mom- intelligent and ‘ influential of the Cubans could be persuaded to studj the work thus fill" done in Santiago by Gen. Wood—with its significance in commercial revival and there would soon be less of Cuban. dis- content at American. control in the islands. ' ' Meier Gen. Merritt will reach the retirement age on June 16, 1900, and as his immediate superior, Gen Miles, has still five years to serve before re— ti1'e111ent,~he can be advanced no fur- ther in rank without special Congres- sional action. Gen. Shaffer will be retired Oct. 16, 1899, and his wish to spend his military career in his adopted home on the Pacific slope will be re- spected. It is thought more than likely that General Shaf'ter’s services in Cuba will be recognized by advance- ment to the rank of Major General of the army before his retirement. The naval engagements last sum— mer, whilenot decisive as to the value of armor plate. at least did not prove it to be valueless, and therefore the announcement that the Bethlehem works have turned out a plate, which cannot be pierced or even seriously injured by an eight inch projectile fired at close range, is important. II has been fully demonstrated that American works can turn out the best ships and the best guns, and now it is seen that they can produce the best armor plate. “We don’t want to f1 glit. but"—— no need to finish the familiar quotation. Alfred Russell Wallace, the distin- guished English author, credits this country with thirteen inventions of the first importance. These are railways, steam navigation, electric telegraphs, the telephone, friction matches, gas lighting, phonography, the X-ray. the phonograph, spectrum analysis, anaes- thetics and the use of anaesthetics in surgery. The eighteen-:11 century yielded but one, the steam engine; the seventeenth century one, the telescope; the sixteenth none, the fifteenth one, printing; and the fourteenth one, the mlari'uer’s compass. Back of these Mr. Wallace finds but two of equal rank, the Arabic numerals and alphabetical writing. A French doctor professes to be able to preserve any dead person for statue purposes. The petriiying process con- sists inpluuging the body into pheuic acid, washing it in a solution of nitrate of silver, and then leaving it for a cer- r(Iain period in a galvano-plastic bath. The result is the deceased, exactly as he or she was in life, but transformed into hard stone, instead of yielding flesh. The hair, eyelashes and wrin- kles remain, the only trouble being the loss of brilliancy in the eyes: This defect, however, can be remedied with glass eyes. It is a little too horrible to picture the petrified bodies of emi- nent persons fastened to pedestals or placed across petrified horses, for the adornment of a national metropolis. Besides, s‘urely posterity can be con- tented with the biograph and the pho~ nograph, if they want to recall anv of us to memory as “we once was. Rank for rank, the naval ofl‘icer gets less than the army officer. A rear ad- miral gets $6,000 to a major general’s $7,500; a commodore $5,000 to a brig- adier general’s $5,500; a captaint$4,500 to a'colonel’s $4,500; a. commander $3,- 500 to a lieutenant colonel’s $4,000. Here an apparent change is to be no- ticed. A lieu-tenant commander gets from $2,800 to $3,000 to a major’s $2,500 to $3,500; a lieutenant from $2, 400 to $2, 600, compared with an unmounted captain’s $1800 to $2 .520; alleutemaut, junior grade, gets from 3:800 to $2,000, while a first lieuten- ant, unmounted, gets from $1,500 to $2,100; an ensign gets from $1,200 to $1,400, while a second lieutenant gets dram $1,400 to $1,550. The difference noticed in favor of certain naval offi- ceer is due to the fact that the lowest amount of pay of the army ranks is that of the “grandam” each army officer is entitled to an increase of pay for each five years he serves in the army. awhile a naval officer is entitled «to only one increase, which comes after serv- ing five years in one grade. 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