c:
'.to transport
'. without awaiting
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Muluuouuu
Tells. War Commission More~
About the ‘Beef.
RELATBS HIS EXPERIENCE
The Meat Reminded Him of a Chemical
He Had Used -to Preserve Elk While on
a Hunting Expedition—Ingredients Un-
safe to Use on Food.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 21.--Major
W. H. Daly, chief surgeon with Gen—
eral Miles, whose report Condemning
the beef furnished the expeditionary
forces created a sensation some weeks
ago. appeared before the war investi-
igating commission yesterday.
Surgeon Daly’s report was the stron:
gest in language of those submitted
by General Miles in substantiation of
his attack on the beef supplies. Dr.
Daly has been 'too ill to appear be-
fore. '
He was accompanied by_ General
Miles’s own stenographer, despite the
presence of the commission’s official
stenugrapher.
Or. oeing sworn the witness identified
the :eport as his own, changing the
data however, from September 31 to
Oct: ber 31. He was willing, he said,
An .{Ai sum. 2,]: ’llodal siq Aq 'pums 03
vountary and was not called out by
ary request or in obedience?" to any
ciicular or letter, so far as'he remem—
bered.
He had heard nothing of an official
circular calling for reports. At Ponce,
however. some time between August 1
and 12, he believed he had communi-
cated to General Miles some Observa-
tions regarding beef supplies.
At Tampa he had noticed a quarter
of beef hanging free in the sun on
shipboard and he became interested in
seeing how long fresh slaughtered beef
could stand such moist climatic condi-
tions. ,
"I observed,” he said, “that the flies,
especially the bull flies, did not affect
it; did not alight on it, or, if they did,
:‘they got away from it very‘ quickly.”
He had cut off a piece of the beef
and cooked it, but it neither smelled
nor tasted naturally. Later he helped
the men corral some horses and subse—
quently he had trouble with his stom-
ach, which he first attributed to the
activity of corralling. Then he notic-
-ed indications that reminded him of a.
chemical he had used to preserve elk
in a hunting expedition in the Rocky
mountains some years before. All that
day at Tampa and the next he had an
unpleasant taste. In the hunting ex-
perience referred to he had analyzed
the chemical preservative and found it
to contain borax and salicylic acids.
These were to be used externally on
the elk, but he had rubbed it in the
raw flesh and also injected it.
Questioned as to these ingredients,
he said borax was not safe to be used
in connection with food nor for ordi-
nary medicinal purposes, while the
salicylic acid was most nauseous,
loathsome and disgusting. almost al-
ways destructive of digestion.
To Take Up Army Bill.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 21.--In the
House yesterday Mr. Hull, chairman
of the committee on military affairs,
who has recovered from his recent ill-
ness, asked unanimous consent that
the army reorganization bill be taken
up next Tuesday, with a provision for
fifteen hours’ general debate.
He said it was exceedingly important
that the country should know what
was to be done in the matter of the
proposed increase in the army.
Mr. Bailey said he realized that this
bill was to be considered, and he was
willing to agree if some additional time
were allowed for general debate by
holding night sessions.
Mr. Hull modified his request to in-
clude provision for night sessions on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday,
and as modified it'was agreed to.
The Philippine Cables.
London, Jan. 21.--Inquiries made at
the oliice of the-Eastern Cable Com-
pany here with reference to the notice
sent out in New York by the Commer- ,_
cial Cable Company, saying they had
been advised that telegraphic commu—
nication with the,islands of Panay, Ne-
gros and Zebu, Philippine islands, was
temporarily interrupted, which aroused
some speculation as to the cause, show
that the cable stations at Panay, Ne-
gros and Zebu have been closed sisnce
December 27 for the safety of the em-
ployes, owing to the prevailing unset-
tled conditions.
The oflicials of the Eastern Cable
Company do not know at present
whether the Americans or Filipinos are
masters of the situation. They add
that the stations will remain closed un-
til the situation is more peaceful.
$33" Relief f aimed to Manila.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 21.--At the
request of Surgeon General Sternberg,
Secretary Alger ha ordered the hos-
pital ship Relief to Manila, to serve
there as hospital ship, and also as an
ambulance ship'for the conveyance of
sick and wounded soldiers frOIn'M-a-
nila. to Nagasaki, or even to San Fran-
cisco. - ' -
The Relief is now at New York and
will go by way of the Suez canal. .
Surgeon Bradley will go with the
ship, and some additional medical offi-
cers v-"ri be detailed to go out to'éthe'
Philippines with her. .
l‘he Spinlsh Plisoners.
_Washington, D. C., Jan. 21.—~The war
department has issued an invitation
for bids from responsible shipping con-
cerns of all nations for transportation
of the Spanish prisoners in the Phil-
ippines from Manila to Spain.
The treaty requires the United States
these prisoners home
ratification of the
peace treaty.
Bids will be opened on February 1 in
'New York and San Francisco.
Don Juan De Austria at, Hung‘Kong.
‘ W'ashington. D. C., Jan. 21.—-The Don
Juan de Austria, one of the Spanish
vessels sunk by Admiral Dewey’s squa-
dron, and afterward raised, reached
Hong Kong yesterday from Manila.
She will be overhauled at Hong Kong
and sent to Manila for- service under
Admiral Dewey.
a a e .1. vs N I N G :G A z rm. s
.uuubuuuul
-Which the Narvyaik Reader
Senator Ma'Son Explains Our Duty
to, Filipinos.
MUST PROTECT THEISLANDS
United States Flag Floats Bightt‘ully
Over the Philippines Says Senator Nel-
son—Redstone Dill Vetoed by the Pres-
ident—Other PI-oeeedingsof the Senate.
Washington, D. 0., Jan.- 21.'--In the
Senate yesterday Mr. Caffery, Demo.-
crat of Louisiana, offered the follow-
ing resolution, which, under objection
from Mr. Allison, Republican _of Iowa,
went over until. tO-day:
lesolved, That the president he
requested, if nOt incompatible with the
public interest, to furnish the Senate"
copies of any communications received
by the state department from any rep-
resentatives Or agents of the so-called
Philippine republic, and also furnish
any information in his possession, or
any documents filed before the state
department relative" to the boundaries
of the territoriesin the Philippine is-
lands, together with the number of
inhabitants therein‘held respectively
under the control of the American
forces and the authority Of the so-cal-
led Philippine republic, showing par—
ticularly what islands or parts of is»
lands, if any, can in any event be de-
livered by Spain to the United States.
Mr. Vest’s
constitutional right of the federal gov-
ernment to acquire territory to be held
and governed permanently as colonies,
wa sthen taken up and Mr. Nelson,
Republican of Minnesota, addressed
the Senate in opposition to the resolu-
tion. '
He argued that the right Of the Uni-
ted States to acquire territory was no
longer an unsettled question. It had
been settled by the supreme court and
by practice and precedent. The gov-
ernment of the United States had in-
herent power as full and comprehen-
sive as any other organizedvgovern-
ment to acquire territory, either by
treaty, conquest, purchase Or by ex—
ploration and discovery, and there was
nowhere in any paragraph of the con-
stitution or in any judicial opinion any
intimation or suggestion that the right
was limited to such terrtory as might
ultimately become states.
"‘We hold the Philippine islands to-
day," said Mr. Nelson, “practically as
we held New Mexico and Upper Cali-
fornia, by conquest. That country is
as lawfully held by the'president as
commander-in-chief and our flagfloats
there just as lawfully as in the state
of Illinois. What right have senators
to say that we have gone among the
Filipinos as a conquering nation? They
had been sold by their leaders; They
were bound hand and foot. They were
still in the shackles of Spanish tyran-
ny when our fleet entered the bay of
Manila.
“We came there not as conquerers,
not to vanquish them. We came there
by their‘invitation, to help them, and
to relieve them from Spanish Oppres—
Bion.
“IVe are there to give the people of
these‘ islands a good and just and fair
and free system of government. -We
cannot do it in a day, but we will do
it. We are there, not only to keep
them out of the hands of Spain, but
we are there to keep them out of the
hands Of any of the great powers. It
is for our interest as a nation that the
Philippine islands shall never be the
property of any of the great powers.
If they can be independent, well and
good; and if not, we should protect
them and give them the best govern-
ment that we can possibly give them."
The earlier proceedings in the Sen-
ate were routine in nature.
The credentials of Mr. Lodge, Repub-
lican of Massachusetts, as senator
from March 4 next, were presented and
placed on file. .
A message was. received from the
president vetoing a bill for the relief
of Albert E. Redstone, a pre—emption
claimant on land covered by the Sierra
Forest Reservation, one of the reasons
given by the president for 'his veto
bein gthat the claim had expired long
before the establishment of the reser-
vation.
Senator Nelson on Expansion.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 21.--In the
Senate yesterday Mr. Nelson, Repub—
lican of Minnesota, made a speech up-
on the Vest anti~expansion resolution.
His address was a. constitutional argu-
ment in support of the right of, the
United States governmenbto acquire
and govern foreign territory.
He maintainedi'that' the arguments
that taxation Without' representation
was tyranny and" that~‘govern‘ments
derive their just pOwersfrOm the con-
sent of the governed, were true‘ only in
a limited extent.
were without "direct representation.
Women, minors and imbeciles were
without representation in our govern-
ment and had to bear their share of
taxation. They had, in other words,
to undergo the burdens Of our govern-
ment without any voice in its con-
trol.
Post-office Bill Passed.
. \Vashington, D. C.', Jan. 21.--When
the House of Representatives met yes-
terday the pending question was on the
motion'of Mr. Swanson, Democrat of
Virginia, to recommitthe'postoffice ap-
propriation bill with instructions to
strike'from the paragraph appropriat-
ing three hundred thousand dollars for
mail facilities in Cuba, Porto Rico and
the Philippine islands,'the words “new—
ly acquired territory."
| To avoid a roll call, which had been
brdered, Mr. Loud, Republican of Call-
Afornia, in charge of 'the bill, asked
{unanimous consent that the words be
stricken out, as they -were unneces-
ary: ‘
There was no objection. The order
Ifor a roll call was vacated and the bill
was passed.
Morocco Rebels Beaten.
0 ,
l Tangier. Morocco, Jan. 21.-—The.gov-
.ernment troops, commanded by Prince
lMarani, have defeated the. Tafllet reb-
els in a. battle;
.and nineteen toth’ rs were decapitated
lend their heads were exposed at Ra-
Ibat. This is expected to and, the. Ta-
lfllet rebellion.
'fall of 1895.
resolution denying the’
A majority of our people, he said,‘
. e chief 'rebel's son_
‘scut Putin tiers.
Will do Well to Long
and Carefully
Consmler.
Mauls issued into this WOI-ld with a
’ big can go of passions, and a. full bead
'Ot sail.
it often happens that before.
he gets the rudder adjusted that ~the
huh is rotten or the soils are in Letters.
As he liustles or. names through this
planet tic-is subjected to innumerable
diflicumies, morally, physically and
financially, to bring his crazy craft into'
pOl'L alter weathering a gale, to cast
anchor in a pleas-(mt- harbor, after rid-
ing out. a $110111], 01- LO tie up after a
long Voyage is always a pleasure. To
dry dock his ship 15 force work. Just.
as long as the Old hulk will slip through
the water it’s all right with the pilot,
but one day regarded by accumulations
of barnacles, the pitchy scams Opening,
and the bottom broken from constant.
aounding, he is compelled to call at
the ship yard for repairs.
Mr. Thomas Cooney, residing at No.
73 Harbor Ava, dockmuster for ten
years, and for thirty years a sailor, is
an example of this. He was forced to
run in for shelter or for repairs in the
This is how he tells it:—
"Wheu a boy I fell from a. tree. Strik-
ing a. fence. This accident left. me
with back trouble, and the life on the
water-I with its hardships added their
share until I found backache was more
or less a Steady thing, comiugon from
time IO time. I did not. understand
that it came from the kidneys, but
reading that Doau’s Kidney Pills cured
backache, I got. a box at Hale’s now
Gieudcniug a Co’s) drug store and
was surprised to find how quickly they
acted. They simply cured me. and that.
is all there Is to it. You may be sure I
have agood word for Doan’s Kidney
Pills; they did such good work for me.
I shall be glad to tell any one about it.
who wishes to know.”
Doan’s Pills for sale by all deal--
ers. Price 50 cents. Mailed by Foster-
Milbur-n Col, Buffalo, N. Y.,sole agents
for the U- 8. Remember the name
Doan’s and take no substitute.
THE SAMOAN TROUBLE.
Efforts to Seattle the Kingship Dispute—-
Powers lo Hold Conference.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 21.--The
state department is directing all- its
efforts in the Samoan matter to the
use of lawful and regular means to
settle the kingship dispute. In fact,
it was its insistence upon the.compli-
ance of all of the parties to the tri-
partite treaty with the terms of that
document so long as it stood unde-
nounced and unamended that has
made its position so strong legally at
this juncture.
There is still a lack of Official report-
upon the details of the events at Apia.
A brief statementrof these events has
reached the department through the
United States agent at San Francisco,
but so far as can be gathered it is not
yet known just why Chief Justice
Chambers decided that Mataafa, the
German candidate for the succession
to the throne of Samoa, was ineligible.
It is suspected here that the decision
was based on the use of improper in-
fluences by outside but interested par-
ties in the election of the king.
That, if established, would be suffi-
cient to disqualify Mataafu. under the
strict terms of. the treaty, which ex-
pressly provides for an untrammeled
choice by the natives accordng to their
own established customs.
The navy department’s orders to the
Philadelphia did not go out to Admiral
Kautz until yesterday. They were in
the shape of instructions to take on a
full supply of coal and make ready for
a cruise to Samoa.
There was not an explicit order to
start, but simply to make ready for
the voyage. _
If the admiral, as reported in the
press dispatches," finds :that his ship’s
bottom is so foul through her cruise
in southern waters as ’to be unfit for
the voyage to Samoa, he probably will
be authorized to use divers to clean
the hull, for the department has de-
cided that the ship should not ~be sent
to the Mare Island navy yard to be
fitted out.
It is stated here that it must be pre-
sumed that whatever overt action was
taken by the German consul in Apia
was not with the knowledge or consent
of his sovereign, but rather was taken
on his own account, and that such ac-
tion, should it be found to amount to
an unjust usurpation of authority un-
der the treaty, will be promptly disa—
vowed by the German government. It
is believed that the conference of the
three powers, will be held at Berlin and
at an early date.
DIDN’T LIKE IT.
on the fat Of the land. ,
Little May (disdainfully)—-Huh! we
always throw away the fat up to our
house—Truth.
IT’S. ~EASY A“-
to break down the health by hard
work and neglect, but it’s just about
as. easy to get strong and well again.
Take Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, and
th 1'. ti. k ,, .
of dysape Sega, H‘-‘STETTER,S
indigestion, b i l i ous- STOMACH
ness. constipation, nerv- BITTERS
‘ . I . .
.ousness ormalaria Will be gone almost
before. you know it. '
- O
ailment forl-
“UTliAL'Lli‘B INSURANEE
»:
QF NEW' YORK.
RICHARD A. MCGURDY, President.
elear'fldingDec. 31,9 .
According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York.
Received for rcmlums . .
h'om all other SOurces .
* nr®unsnmunma
IN @QMEQ
$42,693,201 99
W
$549I62,608 23
To .Oli cy-holders for Claims by Death . . . $13,279 630'
To alloys-holders for Endowments, Dividends, etc. . 12,712,424 76
For all, otherAccounts , . . . . . . 10,1322'005 57
$3 69 I 249060 99
assume.
United States Bonds and other Securities . . $132,017 341 45
First Lien Loans on Bond and Mortgage . . '. 69,423,937 31
Loans on Stocks and Bonds . . . . . 12,880:308 on
Real Estate . . . . ‘. . 21,618,454 88
Cash in Banks and Trust Companies . . . 11,705,195 82
,Accrued Interest, Net Deferred Premiums, etc. . , 6,141,200 20
Reserve for Policies and other Liabilities . ' ,- giggggzgi; f:
Surplus, . . . . . , mfg” 5'9
Insurance and Annuities in Force ., . . 5W
lrhave carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct.
liabilities calculated by the Insurance Department. ' CHARLES A. PRELLER Auditor-
’ 9
From the Surplus a. dividend will be apportioned. as usua '
. Ate port of, the Exaininil‘ig Couirnittcc.
' Office of the Mutual Life Insuranceciompany of New York. I
To THE HONORABLE, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES or
'THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURAHcE GOMPANY OF NEW YORK.
The undersigned, a Committee appointed by your honorable body, on the twenty-
second day of December. I897,to examine the Annual Statement of the company and
to verify the same. respectfully-—--r ,
REPORT
That, pursuant to the power and authority thereby conferred, the Committee have, at various dates between the
date Of the said reference and the date of this Report, attended at the Ofiice of the Company, and have been waited on
by the Treasurer,_the Comptroller,the Auditor, and. the Cashier, together with the respective assistants of such officers
and have carefully gone over all the items contained in the said Statement, and have found the same to be corre "I; They
have examined and counted every certificate of stock, bond and other obligation held by the Company, and compared
the prices at. which the same are carried in said Statement with the market quotations, and find the“ same not exceeding
such quotations—in fact, in many cases below them. . They have examined and Counted the bonds and mortgages on real
property held by
pan'y’s holdings
the Company, and find the same to be as stated.
have counted the cash on hand held by the Cashier.
And the Committee certify that a.
11 the books, papers, documents, and evidence of title of every descriptionneces-
sary in such examination have been freely submitted to the Committee by the said officers and their assistants and thin.
’
the same are accurate, in good order, and well kept.
And the Committee further certify that the investments of the Company are of a. high order, and-that, the system
and methods adopted by the Company in recording its transact-ions and caring for the assets are entitled to commendation
All of which is respectfully submitted.
NEW YORK. January 21. 1898.
SAMUEL D. BABOOOA
RICHARD A. MOCURDY'
JAMES C. HOLDEN
HEBMANN C. VON Pos'I-
WILLIAM ,J. SEWELL
OLIVER HARRIMAIJ
ROBERT ULYPH'ANT
GEORGE F. BAKER
DUDLEY OLGO’I‘T
\
CHAS. R. HENDERSON
S. V. R. CRUGER
ELBRIDGE T. GERRY
J. HOBART HERRIOK JAMES C. HOLDEN
Board. of. Trustees,
FREDERIO CROMWELL
J ULIEN T. DAVIES
A. N. W ATERHOUSE
S. V. H. Caucus
CHARLES R. HENDERSOS.
RUFUS W. PEOKHAM
J. HOBART HEBRICK .
; Wu. P. DIXON
l ROBERT A. GRANNIBS .
GEORGE G. HAVEN
ADRIAN IBELIN J 1i.
GEORGE S. BOWDOIN
WILLIAM 0. Warrant
WILLIAM ROCKEFELLEB
J AMES N. J ABVIE
CHAS D. Dchnr J R
ELBRIDGE T. Gamer '
JAMES Sum;
HENRY H. ROGERS
J so. W AUCEINCLOSB
THEODORE Monroe»
WILLIAM BABCOOK
STUYVESANT FISH
AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIABD
CHARLES E. MILLER
WALTER R. Gmm
H. WALTER WEBB
n
ROBERT A. GRANISS,:Vice-President,
. _ WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager.
[SAME I". LLOYD, 2d Vice-President.
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary.
DUE ti du—P. BRECK, Corresponding Secretary
ALBERT KLAMROTH, Assistant Secretary,
FREDERIC CROMW ELL, Treasurer.
JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier.
JAMES TIMPSON. 2d Assistant Treasurer.
EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier” ,;
EMORY MoCLlNTOCK, Actuary.
JOHN TATLOCK, 33., Assistant Actuary. ~
CHARLES A, PRELLER, Auditor.
‘ c. CLIFFORD GRETSIN GER, Aegistant Auditbr.
- WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
HENRY 8. BROWN, Assistant Comptrollel j '
JOHN C. ELLIOT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies.
E') WARD LYMAN SHORT. General Solicitor.
ELIAS J. MARSH, M. I)-
MEDIOAL DIRECTORS: ,.
GRANVILLE 31. WHITE, M D
G. S. WINSTON M. D. Consulting.
croutons a consular, Sensual Agents,
.~ 3 A... I... cane, LocalAgent ~
. ‘ They have also verified the valuation Of the Com-
of real estate and have verified the deposits of money in the various banks and trust companies and
A. N. WATERHOUSE
Norwalk Chronicler