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THE BROOKLYN DAHL EAG1 I iJEW YORK, WEDNESDAY: APRIL 1902. 5 MISCELLANEOUS. SECRETARY ROOT HOLDS UP LEGISLATIVE DIGEST WILL BE FOUND TO DAY ON PAGE 7. beloved husband of the late Susan Cahill. aged 3 Funeral from hin late residence.

79 Congress st. on Friday. April 4. at P. M.

CARMODY On Tuesday, April 1, 1302, Mrs. BniDGET CARMODY. In the 92d year of her ikc native of Killrush, County of Clare. DEFENDS THE PAPER TRUST, Belief That He Has Adopted a Boycott Against Board of Which Miles Is Chairman. MORE TROOPS FOR PHILIPPINES.

Buffalo to Sail Soon Battleship Maine Sufferers Apply for Relief. Eagle Bureau, 60S Fourteenth Street. Washington, April 2 Secretary Root has held up the entire proceeding of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification for the past ten months, pigeon holing all of its recommendations. This action, taken with the fact that the board is sometimes referred to as General Miles' board, has furnished ground for the belief that Secretary Root has adopted a boycott against this important board. Considerable embarrassment has resulted from the failure of Secretary Root to dispose of the various recommendations of the Board of Ordnance and Fortification, and from being one of the most active branches of the military establishment it has come to a dead stop.

For the past few months only perfunctory meetings have been held, the i members realizing that it was useless to dis cuss important matters as long as the Secretary maintained his attitude of ignoring recommendations and suggest ions. Tucked away In various parts of Secretary Root's desk are recommendations of the board relating to questions of vital interest to the Army, such, for instance, as the wisdom or continuing building guns of certain types, of doing away with a distinct pattern of gun carriage, the investigation of explosives and other war material. It is the duty of this board to pass upon questions of this kind and refer its report and recommendations to the Secretary. Heretofore it. has been the custom of the Secretary of War to accept the opinion of the board on all matters of this sort, as its membership embraces the high est officers' of the Army and the best techni cal experts of the service.

The law requires that before a. new gun. rifle, powder or other war device shall be adopted, it must be passed upon by this board. Replies to Criticisms of the International Company and of Its Methods. FAVORS THE WOOD PULP DUTY.

Denies That the Paper Industry Is Ee sponsible for Deforesting and for Re 1 duction of Water Supply. Hugh Chisholm. president of the International Paper Company, comes to lie defense of his company against those who are urging the removal by Congress of duty on wood pulp. Chisholm is naturally opposed to Ihe removal of this protective duty, and Rives reasons from his point of view why ihis should not he done. Incidentally, ho exjlains 111 some length Ihe paper making business in this country, and defends his company against the charge that it has doubled its prices 10 American consumers and is denuding (i, forests 0 it3 raw material.

Mr. Chisholm first look up the question of the tariff on wood pulp and paper. He said: "The question is asked: 'Why should paper not he admitted free of duty." "This question is best answered the uiiestion 'Why should the paper mdust'rv Im out for atta. and have n.e i'iirht which now protects li reiimv. There is only 1, 1 per rem.

duly on pulp and IT per i i'1'til. duty oil newspaper, and nu duty on wood. Do Republican newspapers believe I trade for commodities which th. I and protection for all others? What ground ine newspapers lor complaining v. h.

ho pi ice 01 newspaper in this country is loan in any other country in ihe um as is the fact to day? The only country thai lis fitted to compete with the United States I for the United States market Is Canada a ml the price of newspaper is higher in Montreal than it is in New York." "What have you to say to the statement that, the so called paper trust has not pursued a broad policy?" was asked. "I would say that Ihis statement is made by some on who does not know anything at all about the company. Our policy has been 10 strengthen our position for the future by purchasing spruce woodlands in this country 111 order that they may not fall under ihe ax of lumhering interests, and thai, by safeguarding them, we might, secure a perpetual supply. Wo have been importing a very considerable portion of our wood from Canada, thus to that extent saving our own holdings. So much for one of our raw materials.

"We have put a great deal of money back into our plants in the way of improvements, and ihey arc better to day lian when Ihe com pany look them over. We have niade tbe product of the various mills much more uni In order to permit the full exploitation of struction of these batteries. The first reinventions and new discoveries, a fund has norts from Fort Treble were rather en been provided from which the board pavs the Zlf'J PrJinR mortars could be dropped on to a target witb eNpenses of experiments. Belore allotments surprising regularity. Suddenly news from can be made, however, the Secretary must.

the scene of the test was cut off. The depart form and have improved the quality of the oi cnarcoai nave i paper. AVe have been upon the alert to "1 want to say right here (hat the great i adopt every improvement that would enable destroyers of forests, as can be shown hy I us. first, to produce better paper: second, government and state Toports. are these fac I to produce cheaper paper, and third, to pro i tors thai I have named: the huntsman who (luce more paper, believing that the great goes into the woods and goes away leaving I demand of the daily papers, to meet the camp lire burning, which is the begin the requirements of modern illustrat ning of a great, conflagration.

There is no Dr. Lyon's PERFECT Tooth Powder AM 'ELEGANT TOILET LUXURY. Used by people of refinement for over a quarter of a century. the consumer. like dealers in any other line.

"Whin in the. effect of the tariff on was asked. "The effect is to guarantee to capital in this country that it can cnunt upon tbe great market of the United States in its entirety, and the result has been that great amount of capital has gone into paper making. Ihe census showinir that it per cent, in the last len years anil thus I lahor as well as every allied trade has been i benefited by the hujlding up of the paper in i us try. We have 10 day the finest.

largest I most intelligently run paper mills in Ihe world and as i hae stated, have brought the price of newspaper below where it is I elm, ..,.1.. Am. ble. Is there any publisher who does nor. recognize the fact that cheap paper has played a very important part in enabling the press, of this country to forge ahead of press of any other country in the world? We have so quickened the consumption of paper that the United States have within a comparatively short time become a country where more paper Is used, bol in the aggregate and per capita lhati anywhere else in the world, and we are making not less than one quarter of all the paper that is made on the globe.

"As to the statement that 'the worst, feature is lhat the paper industry is ruining ihe American forests." I would say that this is. if ifossible. more incorrect than any other narge that has been made. In the first i'lac. tie you know how far we are from nig a deforested country? Thirty seven 1" i thi' whole area of the United ite bid tig the Western arid lands, is ii lay r.t.iiiatiil:;.

covered with, not brush h'tr forests. For my nu Ihuniy cent PUMii' i' al Sui v. Which We' eonl'ipol i State. thi I would refer you to a re 'h ihe United Slates Ocolog As you know. Ihe mills In' are pari inilarly interested are N' v.

Knglaicl and New York tbi nninion Mr. Pinchot, who "ad the United States Depart i.s at the le ment ot i V.i of wood lands if not great cr. ago. ihe true then having I recover with w. ttiai probamy the area thi srctieii is as groat a3 hati wa twemy ftvc years tha were lumbered over a ctven tit nature to tmlter The danger to day of denudation was twenty live years is mc less than it tgn.

because the lum hering interests are not nearly as great and more care is being taken to prevent Hie fires which in many cases resultr.i from carelessness of hunters and charcoal burners, because also th 1 use of wood for fire wood has been superseded by coal In a great extent. nP industries which called tor lie malt class mat we, as owners ot woodlands, aro more afraid of than the huntsman. The charcoal burners use everything within reach, and It is he who absolutely "clears" the land of wood growth. The man who cuts great wood for fuel 'is equally as destructive in his methods, whereas, the paper niamifa'c tnrer. confining himself to spruce and similar wootls which grow sparsely, cuts the trees here' and there, leaving ten trees of othc crowths where he cuts out one.

The casual observer, taking a binlseve view of a tract, of land which has been lumbered for pulp wood would nol know that there had been an ax on ii. Where one spruce is cut down, a. number of small spruces which have been nursed by its shade at once begin to develop and take its place. Thore is absolutely no fenr of denunciation at the hands of the paper manufacturer. The only places that he 'clears' are such as arc necessary for manufacturing sites or habitations.

'Tho Forester in an article on 'The Paper indus rv nm) sfnlPS the amount of i woct cm in i lt.f! in ihe limed Slates for paper making ompared with the quantity used for other purposes, is almost insignificant. Mr. Henry Gannon, geographer of the United Slates Geological Survey, in his nineteenth annual report, pari a. estimates Ihe amount of lumber sawed in this country annually at 000.000 feet board measure. In comparison with this the amount cut for pulp making is but 3.6 per but a great deal of wooil is cut for other manufacturing purposes, so that the total Is estimated at 4e .000.000.000 feel, which would 'bring the percentage for pulp wood down to 1.9 ner cent.

If the 00" ,000 feet used for fuel is added to ihis, we have a total consumption of board feet, ot which the amount used for pulp wood is four tenths of 1 per cent." "This shows how small a factor the paper maker is in the destruction of forests. On the olher hand I want to call attention to the fact that with his millions of capital in vetted in substantial mill properties, he can be sfoly trusted to do everything in his power to prevent, such a calamity befalling him as being without a source for his raw material. The scientific forester has no warmer ally than the paper maker and Mr. Pinchet. the forester, will tell you lhat tho leading paper manufacturers of this country are practicing the most essential rules ot forestry.

We have ourselves placed a minimum limit upon the size of the trees which we allow to be cut, which insures a perpetual supply. "Another matter has been t. inched on on which there is a great deal of ignorance, and lhai is the relations of not only paper making, but lumbering, to the supply of water. in the streams. In the first place, even if 'he case were proved, you can see from comparatively small pan that we play in th total lumhering operations of the country li iw little are to blame for the drving up of the streams.

Dm. notwithstanding tbe statement of the 'oldest inhabitant' ot the oods and i he sportsman who occasionally visits them, that the rivers are drving up because the wood is being eut off. Thave it on the authority of Professor Gannett that ihe United States government has as yet been unable to verify these statements in a single case. This is a very complicated question, ami one which is in dispute as to whether there has been any diminution in the flow of ihe different rivers or any change in the annua! fluctuations. You must remember that the watershed of a river of anv proportion is a very large tract of land, "and If you get into a wooded country you will see how very small the cleared spaces are in proportion to the vast stretches of wood liaiis which meet ihe eye in every You will sec how far it is from a fact that ihe country is in any sense denuded of its forests.

As I have, stated, we only cut, a tree here and there, nnd do not materially affect or impair tho cloak of vegetation covering the hillsides and valleys. Finally, let me ask who is more interested in preserving the volume and flow in the rivers than Ihe paper manufacturers, whose mills are upon every river of any importance and whose dependence for power is almost entirely upon water It is these water pow Urs that give hi counlry its supremacy over ther countries in the manufacture of paper 'and we think we value them to their full extent. We have at all times lent our support to every measure which has been brought forward to regulate the flow of tho rivers or to conserve their waters. We have 'Jccii aiiive uuin as a class ui nia.n lliaci rers and as a company in the building of reser voirs to store the head waters of the vari oils rivers. The American Paner and Pulr.

Association, the national organization of th paper uiauuiiiciurors, mis puonsneu a Dro enure, consisting or a series ot articles, upou the conservation of water powers by tho most prominent hydraulic engineers in this country and England. We arc accused of destroying two things that we are most vitally interested in preserving the for ests and the water powers. It is not true that we are pursuing a policy of letting posterity lake care of itself. Our aim is to give permanent value to our properties and maintain the supremacy which the paper in ALDERMEN IN A TANGLE OVER 3 PLATOON SYSTEM Majority Report. Requesting Its Restoration Defeated and Laid Over for a Week.

PARTRIDGE'S WORK INDORSED. Tomes for the Administration Bridges Declares Himself Again McCall Will Take No Dictation. The Aldermen yesterday got into one of their weekly tangles over the police force and Commissioner Partridge's abolition of the three platoon system. The police committee of the board, of which Alderman Haller is chairman, was instructed a week ago to report at yesterday's meeting on a resolution requesting the restoration of the three platoon system. No report being handed in, Alderman Bridges asked for the committee to explain.

Mr. Haller declared the committee had been unable to reach any conclusion, being equally divided. Alderman Keeley jumped up and said he was ready to lgn the report favoring the abandoned system, and on his motion the board took a recess of five minutes and the committee went out, and returned with two reports. Both were read, and also the names of the signers. The minority Messrs.

Haller and Dickinson presented a lengthy report in opposition. Alderman Culkin at once demanded to know whether its signers had Kohe up to Commissioner Partridge's office for it or whether it was sent down to them. yice Chairman Mclnnes, who was presiding, declined to put what he termed an impertinent question. Alderman Bridges insisted that the minority report had come from Mulberry street; and challenged the minority committeemen to deny it. The report itself read, In part, as follows: To the Honorable Board of Aldermen: The undersigned, a minority of the Committee on Police, respectfully dissent from the conclusions of the majority of said committee, for the following reasons: First: The preamble to the resolution before us implies very strongly that the Hon.

John M. Partridge, Commissioner et Police, has willfully deprived the police force of the city of the humane rlgnts to wmcn tuey aie entitled, and that he" has disregarded all the elements. of humanity without giving a just cause for his action. Second: The resolution further implies that he is willing to sacrifice a rigid enforcement of police laws and the protection of life for the successful carrying out of the two platoon system. Third; In the resolution itself the said commissioner is impliedly charged with a disregard of the fact that patrolmen are "the equal of other men." We further dissent because we believe that the.magnitude of the question deserves time, thought and the most careful investigation and that it' should not be considered impulsively" nor be Judged by any feeling of prejudice or passion.

We are in. full sympathy with those who are clamoring tor some relief that will afford tbe force more time at home in the bosom of their families; but we advocate and urge a recognition of justice first and generosity afterward justice to the entire population of the city before generos lty.to.any particular class, no matter In what esteem we may hold them. We must also take the taxpayer into consideration, and In 4ioing so we cannot overlook the fact that the present expenditure would be increased by the additional number or men required to protect the city by properly patroling the city at night, in order that Cflme and outlawry should not be rampant at tbe very time when the citizen, being asleep is unable to guard his property and protect his family and himself." The following resolution was then offered: "Now, therefore, be it resolved, That the Committee on Police indorse tbe declared intention of John N. Partridge to calmly, deliberately and dispassionately enter into an examination of the distinctive features of the two systems with, a view to eliminating from the one the harsh and rigorous elements thereof and embodying those elements of the other which will afford to the force the realization of the comforts and advantages of home life so much desired, and to which no one can or ought to object." Aid. Walkley expressed the opinion that the Board of Aldermen had nothing to do with the police question.

His views were reinforced by President Fornes, who said he regretted that the board wasted so much time vaporing on matters with which they had nothing to do. Aid. Mclnnes was still In the 'chair, and Mr. Fornes appeared on the floor. He was interrupted by Aid.

Bridges, who rose to a point of order and said the president was not in his. seat. Aid. Mclnnes rebuked Mr. Bridges for his behavior.

Aid. Marks asked Mr. Fornes then if it was his contention that the Board of Aldermen had no right to make a request of a head of department. The latter replied that undoubtedly the board had, but he did not believe this was a bona fide request but only an attempt to censure the present administration. He stood, he said, for tbe administration and had seen tbe board act in other matters without other motive than to arraign the present authorities.

Aid. McCall, the Tammany leader, declared the board had power to compel Police Commissioner Partridge to fix the. hours of police duty as it saw fit. Aid. Sullivan took much the same view.

He believed the aldermen had plenty of power and right to pass the resolution under discussion. A' motion for the immediate consideration of the majority report was defeated, less than two thirds of the members present assenting, and went over under the rules for a week. The aldermen became a little excited over the Mayor's recent veto of the general ordinance relating to licenses of stands under elevated stations. Aid. McCall heatedly asseverated that he did not propose to let Mayor Low or any one else come into his district and dictate to him.

Mayor Low had been bold enough to say that he did not believe an applicant for a stand privilege should be compelled to submit to the whim of the alderman of the district. The aldermen say every man desiring such a privilege shall secure their consent first. CASTORIA Bears tbe signature of Chab. H. Fi.ttTcaz:t.

In use for more tban thirty years, and 7'he Kind you Have Alwtfut Sought. Pawnbrokers T. Newman Son 1,076 Fulton st, bet. Classon and Franklin avs. Liberal Loans on Diamonds, Watchcs.Jewelry.

Wearing Apparel and Personal property of every description. Ridgewood Water is Unfit to Drink. Order Carl H. Schultz's Pure Carbonated Waters from factory. 4:0 414 1st N.

Y. Tel. 142 Madison or from any reliable druggist or grocer. DIED. BATES On Wednesday morning, April 2.

1902, EDWARD A. BATES, at his residence, President st. Notice of funeral hereafter. (Springfield, and Wilmington, N. papers please copy.) BAR WICK This (Wednesday) morning.

April 2. 1902, at Seney Hospital. WILLIAM' BARWICK of 1,052 Dean st. Notice of funeral hereafter. BYRNE On Tuesday morning, April 1, MARY CECILIA, wife of Daniel Byrne and eldest daughter of John and Ann Clarke.

Funeral from her late residence, 3SD Classon av, on Thursday morning, April 3. at 10 o'clock: thence to the Church of the Nativity, corner Madison st and Classon av, where a solemn mass of requiem will be offered for the repose of her soul. Relatives and friends spcctfully invited to attend. Interment in Holy Cross Cemetery. 1 2 1 CAHJLLr MDn Wednesday, April 2, JOHN CAHILL; Funeral from her late residence, 123 Congress st.

rriaay, April vat 9:30: thence to St. Fcter Church, Hleks st. where a maps of requetm will he offered for the repose, of her goul. Burial Holy Cross. CLAESSE.V Paesed away at his residence.

LESTER P. CLAESSEIC, adopted son of E. W. Claessen. at 4S6 Third av.

Brooklyn. Funeral services Wednesday. r. M. Funeral Thursday at 2 P.

M. (St. Louis papers please copy.) CLEARY At the residence of her son in law. John Kenna, 161 Hopklnson av, MARY CLEARY. aged S2 years, wife of the late James Cleary.

Funeral at 2 P. M. 'Friday, April 4. 1302. Interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.

2 2 CONNELL On March 31. CHARLES F. COX NELL. Funeral from his late residence. F.

Havemeyer st. on Thursday. April P. M. Relatives and CrlenOs invited to attend.

DIXOX At midnight. Monday, March 31. DANIEL MACDOUGALD DIXON, son of the late Robert E. and Mary MacDougald Dixon, in the 45th year of his age. Funeral services will be held at his late residence.

1.320 Dean on Wednesday. April 2, at 8 P. M. Interment at convenience of the family. (Georgia papers please copy.) 1 2 FLA ACKE On Wednesday.

April HELEN wife, of .1. F. Flascke. Funeral services at her late residence. 44 Macon st.

on Friday evening. April 4. o'clock. Friends and relatives are Invited to attend. 2 2 GORDON At 7:10 P.

Tuesday. April 1. at his residence, JJS Kosciusko st. THOMAS GORDON, beloved husband of Sarah Gordon, in the ISth year of his age. Funeral will be held on Friday afternoon, April A.

at 2 o'clock, from the Franklin Av Presbyterian Church. Interment in the family plot In Evergreens. Kindly omit flowers. (Belfast, Ireland, News Letter please copy.) GRAFING On Tuesday. April 1, 102.

MARY A GRAFING. wife of George Graflng, in SOth year. Funeral services at her late residence. 3.10 Clifton place, on Thursday. April 3.

at P. it. Interment at convenience of family. 1 3 JOHNSON On Tuesday. April 1, Ism'.

beloved husband of Mary Johnson, father of Mary C. Sweeney. Relatives and friends respectfully invited to attend funeral from his late residence, si; President st. Brooklyn. Thursday.

April A. M. thence to St. Francis Xavier's Church. Sixth av and President st.

whore a solemn requiem mass will be offered for the repose cf his soul. Interment Calvary. LEEMING On Monday, March 31. at Lalcehurst. after a short illness.

THOMAS LONSDALE LEEMING of Brooklyn. X. in the 66th year of his age. Funeral services will be held at his late residence, 400 Fourth st. Brooklyn, N.

on Thursday. April C. at 10 A. M. MCCAFFREY Suddenly, on Sunday.

March 30. 1302. JAMES McCAFFREY. beloved son of the late James and Ellen McCaffrey. Relatives and friends and members of St.

Pat rick's Young Men's Literary Society are re Bpectfuily invited to attend his funeral from his late residence. 1S2 Skillman st, on Thurs day, April 3, at 0 A. M. sharp: thence to St. Patrick's Church.

Kent and Willoughby avs. Interment in Calvary. 1 2 McGEE On April 1, at his residence, 5S2 Washington av, HORACE N. McGEE. Funeral services Thursday i afternoon at 2:30.

Kindly omit flowers. McLEAN On Monday, March 31, at his residence. 197 Fulton St. JOHN J. McLEAN.

Funeral Thursday, 2 P. M. Interment In Greenwood. i. MOTT Kntered Into life eternal, on April 2.

1502. MARGARET wife of the late Wm. G. Mott. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend, the' funeral services at the residence of her son in law.

Nelson Stafford. 435 Qulncy st, Brooklyn, on Friday, at 8 P. M. 2 3 MULLIGAN On Sunday. March 30, 1902.

BESSIE, daughter of Edward J. and Elizabeth M. Mulligan. Interred, Tuesday, April 1, 1902. NORDGREN On March 31.

1S02, A. J. NORD GREN, passed away at his residence. 395 six. teenth st.

Friends are Invited to attend the funeral, on' 1S02. 2 P. M. Thursday, April 3 PADDOCK On Tuesday, April 1, OTELIA. wife pf J.

Harold, Paddock. Services at her late residence. 495 Van Buren st, Brooklyn, Thursday evening, at o'clock. Relatives and friends respectfully invited. Interment, Friday, at convenience of family.

1 3 POWELL After a long illness, on April 1, 1902, MARY POWELL, widow of the late Steven Powell, aged 70 years. Funeral services from her late residence. Elm st and Forest av, Ridgewood. L. Thursday.

April 3, 1902. at P. M. Interment at Beth page, April 4. RYAN On March 31, 1902, MARY ALICE RYAN, beloved wife of Ralph M.

Ryan and daughter of Margaret and the late Timothy Connors. Relatives and friends are Invited to attend the funeral from her late residence, ,33 Vanderbilt av, thence to the Church of the Sacred Heart on Thursday, April 3, at 9 A. M. Interment In Holy Cross Cemetery. 1 2 SLATER Requiem mass (month's mind) for our beloved mother, Mrs.

ELLEN SLATER, at St. Stanislaus R. C. Church, Fourteenth st, near Sixth av, Thursday, April 3, at o'clock A. M.

Requiescat ln pace. STOOTHOFF On April 1, 1902. GERTRUDE V. p. STOOTHOFF, ln the 74th year of her age.

Funeral services from her late residence, corner Eldert lane and Glenmore av, Friday, April 4. 1902. at 2 P. I. Relatives and friends Invited.

2 2 STUDLEY Suddenly, on Monday morning. March 31. ANNIE, beloved wife of John Studley. Funeral services at her late residence, S12 Lexington, av, Wednesday evening, ''April 2. at 8 0' clock.

mmml 1 2 AN ENJOYABLE EUCHRE. A euchre was given last evening by Mrs. Joseph W. Clarke at her apartments in the Montrose. 64 Hoyt street, in honor of Miss Frances G.

R. Marserum of Trenton, Miss McCabe of Asbury Park and Miss Donegan of Philadelphia. There in the neighborhood of forty guests and a most enjoyable time was bad by all. PARIS FASHIONS TJP to DATE. Prom the Eagle Paris Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon, through the courtesy ot Abraham Straus.

White broadcloth gown; waist, tucks and Irish lace insertions in length. Double skirt, consisting of pointed oversklrt and ruffle, both tucked and Irish lace in length. Sllrer Vanlt Storage for Valuable Packages, etc. The Easrle Warehouse Storage SS Fulton Bur. of Brooklyn.

Adv. he'r I at ot of in As Ul at THUMBS years no appropriation was made in the last fortitication bill for rnrrvim .111 the enn ment refused to give out further details and the result of the firing was shrouded In a deep veil of mystery. It is now learned that a report of the experiments has been prepared, and that it is to be printed and distributed to any officers as a confidential doc 1 .1 I nays oi we Fort Preble test, but a report is about the War Department thai the outcome was a great surprise. It is said that a re ludiname uogree oi accuracy was atiamcj and that the shells from ihe mortars created great havoc. However, one thing is certain, those who formerly declared the mortar battery to he obsolete now will say nothing at all about.it, so the presumption is that, the Fort Preble incident changed their views.

It will be interesting to see whether Congress 1.. for more of these battened In view of the apparent indifference shown by Congress Just now in regard to isthmian canal legislation, some Panama; Offer Expires With This Congress. speculation is being indulged in as to the I prospects or a canal bill getting through before the Fifty sev The offer of the Pan enth Cougress expires ama Canal Company to sell its property and concessions to the United Slates for $10,0011. 00O holds good only until March 5. 1003 ex piring the.

day after the present Congress comes to an end. At the time the offer was put into writing it 'was supposed lhat it would be acted on during the present ses I sion, but the unlocked for complications that have since come up make this very doubt nil If the matter is permitted to go over until the next session, the prospect will be even i more discouraging. With any opposition at all next winter it would be almost impossible to get the bill through, for the session will expire by law on March i. The three months of the session will oe i pretty well filled up with the various appro priation bills, so that there will be no time for extended debate on a canal measure. The hews of the untimely death of Pay Director Henry T.

Wright of the Navy was received wun mucn sorrow by the officials of the Navy Department and by many other prominent peo Good Officer Passes Away. ple at the capital, as the deceased was widely known and universally popular. For several years he was stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and expressions of regret at his sudden taking off are many and sincere. About a year ago he was ordered to Hongkong as the purchasing paymaster, but later his office was trans ferred to Manila and it is helievod that the I she hits made each journey in record breaking time. She was formerly a freight steamer of the Morgan Line, built principally to carry cotton rrom New Orleans and Galveston.

Originally she was called the KI Cid. but was sold in 1S04 to the Brazilian government and christened the Xicthcroy. Secretary Uong bought, her from the ilrazilians al tile outbreak of Ihe war with Spain, and she seems to have been a gooil bargain. Others of the Morgan liners now in the service are the Dixie. Prairie and Yankee, hut the Buffalo, although the oldest ship, tops them all for service record.

I Slal" Department has received from riencii CIIIUUSSV French Embassy at Washington a notice of a proposed confess for th international nnrii i. Congress for Protection of Women. white slave trade, to be held at Paris in June of this year. An invitation is extended to the government of Ihe United States to be represented. The uujecis oi tne congress arc to inflict, as far possible, the same degree of lor the enticing away or kidnapping of women and girls by violence, fraud or nbuse of authority and their admission and retention in houses of ill repute; to make simultaneous inquiries regarding the crime when the circumstances which characterize it.

occur' in different countries, and to permit the extradition of the guilty parties. A bill has been presented in Ihe House of Kept eseutat ives to provide relief for the suf ferers hy i he cxplo Maine Sufferers Apply for Relief. sion of the battleship Maine. It provides that the Spanish Treaty Claims Com mission shall examim and ascertain the extent of the injuries suffered and the amount that in equity and justice would compensate for the injury or loss sustained, for the benefit of tbe sufferer, or in cases of death for the next of kin of those who were killed. It is accompanied by a petition, signed by Mrs.

Mary C. Blandin, widow of Lieutenant Blandin: by Harry S. McCann and Charles Adams, for themselves and others, and sets forth extracts from the opinion of the majority or the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission sustaining tho demurrers. One of the extracts quoted from the opinion of the majority of the commission, after saying that the injury to the sailors Is merged in the wrong done to his government and explaining the view of the commission, is: "He (the sailor) lias yielded the privilege of making any personal demand upon a foreign government, for money indemnity for an injury to him for which the government is liable. He has acquired the privilege of having his personal injuries made an incident of his nation's claim against Ihe government responsible for the wrong done him.

aittl he rests secure in the and he rests secure in tne cd'lainty thai bis government will rccognr.e his in juries and recompense tne wrong in icii una liberal measure anm0 0'ic hundred and more Instances." A AN ENTERPRISING NEWSPAPER. The Daily Mail and Umpire of Toronto, i ies celebrated the thirtieth anni arv" of Us founding hy issuing, on March a forty page newspaper, or which sixteen pages comprise a special supplement giving a short history of the progress of the publication, as well us completely Illustrated descriptions of the organization and processes entering into the production of a modern newspaper. The first page is handsomely illuminated in blue nnd gold and in the ccn is a picture of the office building. It Is c. idence of the enterprise and pros the Daily Mall and Empire.

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give his approval to the scheme. All the recommendations of this sort for the past teu months remain unacted upon. Secretary Root having ignored them. The result is that a great many inventors with schemes which the board is willing to try, are aii ing for the Secretary to authorize work to begin, and others are waiting for Mr. Root to approve or disapprove reports of trials that have already been made.

Among the more important of the other papers that are held up are those relating to the disappearing gun carriage. The board submitted its report on matter in the fall of l'JOO and for over a year Secretary Root has permitted it to remain unapproved or approved. General Miles figured prominently in this investigation. He made up his some af that the disappearing gun carriage as usei ln the American Army, was imprac ticaDie. Ihe type employed was that known as the Bufflngton Crozier carriage, bninc from the designs of the present chief of the I uureau ot ordnance and the present incumbent's predecessor in that office.

The question of the advisability of continuing the construction of these carriages was referred to the board, and it promptly reported against the further building of them. In order to back up this action General Miles called on the artillery officers for statements ot tnetr opinion on the disappearing gun carriage, and it is said that SO per cent, of the officers of this corps reported adversely. Secretary Root has failed to act one way or the other on the recommendations of the board, and the Army has gone ahead building more disappearing carriages ever since. A more recent case of suspended action by Secretary Boot is in regard to the tests of field guns. These trials were held at Sandy Hook, where the various types tried out as thoroughly as the conditions there would permit.

A request was made for authority to continue the experiments at Fort Riley, and it is said that this recommendation is in Mr. Root's pigeon hole. At any rate, the tests which were begun in October last are not yet concluded, the explanation for the halt being' that the Army officers are waiting to get permission to transfer the guns to Fort Riley. In addition to the suspension of experiment work at Sandy Hook, and doubt as to the policy to be pursued in future construction work lor the Army, the entire Board of Ordnance and Fortification has been made almost defunct by the inattention paid to its recommendations. Formerly the board met frequently, its sessions being held upon the call of the chairman.

General Miles, but of late it has had little occasion to get together. General Miles has called a meeting for to morrow, when it is hoped to hear something from the Secretary's office. At the last full session of the board the membership was as follows: Lieutenant Gen eral Nelson A. Miles, chairman; Brigadier General William Cro i.ier. chief of ordnance; Brigadier General Important Vacancy in the Board.

George L. Gillespie, chief of engineers: Colonel John I. Rodgers, artillery corps: Colonel Wallace F. Randolph, chief of artillery, and Thomas J. Henderson, civilian member.

Colonel J. P. Story of the artillery corps, was formerly a member, but he was recently removed, at the same time being detached from Governors Island and sent to the artillery school at Fort Monroe. The explanation for his removal from the board of ordnance and fortification was that his new position would not permit him to devote any time to the work he was formerly engaged In. Colonel Story's successor on the board has not yet been named.

The fact that Colonel Story was known as the aggressive member of the board, and that he did not hestitate to attack tbe schemes of the ordnance department, is taken by some as the reason for his being relieved. It Is pointed out that when Colonel Royal T. Frank was In command at Fort Monroe, the place that Is now occupied by Colonel Story, the lormer continued as a member of the board, finding no difficulty In keeping up his duties Fort Monroe and attending the sessions the board in Washington at the same time. The department apparently now believes that Colonel Story is not capable of performing the same double duty. About six or eight months ago it was announced with considerable of a flourish that mortar batteries were obsolete, and that the hundreds of thousands dollars which this government had in Secrecy About a Test of "Mortars.

vested in this type of defense was practically wasted. It was de ciarpo mat tne mortar uat iery was lacaing accuracy of fire, and that this LwKh tho nnfnvnra nositions that thpv I the unfavorable positions that they were required to occupy, made them highly undesirable. It was pointed out that the mortar battery was a distinctively American type of defense and that none of the Euro pean nations had adopted it to any extent. a preliminary to the final abandonment tlltS 1UU1 IU1 MUU1U WUS ilpjJUIll Lyil null orders to make a thorough test of Its capabilities. The board met at Fort Preble, near Portland, and for a couple of weeks lircd targets placed at varying distances, for the purpose of determining the accuracy of fire and the destructive qualities of shells from the batteries.

It was confidently predicted that the trial would furnish all the condemnation that was wanted, and so sure were the Army men that the mortar battery was no cood that for the first time in many 1 1 ing and improved typographical ap pcarancc. is for high grade paper. This has not been a time when absolute cheap ening oi the cosl ot manutacture ran he accomplished. As every one knows, it is a period of higher prices. While our orgnn izalion lias been effective in getting materials much cheaper than individual mills could have done, on account of purchasing 0,1 a larger scale, we have found if impos slble to resist the tide of increasing prices.

the law of supply and. demand being responsible. Take it in our own case: The demand for paper lias been very great throughout the. world, and at limes it has been very difficult for us to meet this demand, our capacity being taxed to its utmost. demand for supplies of all sorts has been quickened and this increased demand has led to Increased cost of materials, and so the influence of greater consumption goes along down the line or, rather, in a circle.

"We have compared the methods and costs al our diltero.n plants uowti io uie sinaiiesi. detail and Have applied tne orsi intiigs uis overee at eacn plant io an ine otners. we have foiled to run our company on ornnu lines I would be very glad to have any one call our attention io any particular case. In our treatment of customers we believe we have been very liberal. This tact has been brought out by comparison with the other or outside mills, which, for instance, during the great drought of 1000 raised their pvi'es much more than did we.

Our prices have only a gradual increase, extend ing from 18fiC to Ihe present, time, in common I with almost ever." other commodity, as is by Dim's Index figures. The increase in the price of our produe! in all this period, measured from the lowest point which paper ever reached when bankruptcy stared most paper mills in the face, has not been over 15 per cent, which has been offset by the improvement in the quality of the paper. "As to our relation to labor. I will say that, we are paying much more for the labor employed in our wool operations, getting out our limber, and at many of our mills, having raised ihe wages of groups or as a whole. It.

should be understood that the development of the paper industry in recent years lias called into demand a higher class of labor than formerly and the men have received correspondingly higher wages. There has been very little dissatisfaction in paper mills as regards wages. The present agitation that some labor organizations are making is for shortening of hours, as well as for increased wages. "Statements in regard to my salary are absolutely untrue. I am not receiving the salary indicated nor as much as I received beTore the International Paper Company was formed, and I doubt if the salaries of any of our officers are such as to be in iiseir compensation for what they received from their individual interests in the constituent companies as managers before they came together, and independently of the return upon their capital.

"It is absolutely false that we have asked any protection from Congress. N'u change I has been asked or made In the tariff since'1 the International Paper Company came into existence, and the duties are the same practically as they have been for many years, and as I have already staled, we are aiming the very lowest of protected interests. Therefore, the assertion that we have sc cured from Congress projection and thou misused it is in both respects false. "Since comparison has been made between tbe interests of paper manufacturers and of ue.vspa pcrs. I will be pardoned for asking one or two questions myself.

Is it a fair staiemenl to say that the newspaper has to bear liie whole brum of any Increase there is in the price of its Is it. not a fact thai the returns from circulation are a very small proportion of the total revenue and lhat the chief source is from advertisements and lhat the rates on these can be and are adjusted at will by the I both individually and in con Are newspapers not charging more tor ihe same advertising space than vou did live years ago? Is it not a fact that the price of ink and type and almost nverv other element in the cost of making up newspapers has ln saying that newspapers cannot increase their prices to shift the burden, is it not admitting that the papers would do, if they had the power. just what, they find fault, with us for i think I irive shown both that the tnini I irive snuwn notn that the papers hum: iiic iwei a ini mm He are not UOlUg I what it is said we arc. "How ridiculous it Is to snv lhat we are 000 000 a vetir in of interest on our investment' when our total net. earnings for lust vcar, which was the i largesl In our history, were only and we only paid in dividends which is per cent, upon the $22, 100, 000 of outstanding preferred stock.

Our plants and properties eotild not begin tc be reproduced) for the aggregate market value of all of our securities to dai. li is said that it is ihe country publisher who is suffering. If this is so. it cannot, be laid at our door. Most of the small country papers, dully or weekly, 1 i i i i Philippine climate was the cause of his death.

Again the petition quoted from the opinion: His death promotes Pay Inspector William i "N'or does the commission undertake to J. Thompson. Paymaster C. W. Littlefield.

s. iv that the United States has fully dis Passed Assistant Paymaster John Irwin and charged its obligations to the survivors of Assistant Paymaster Hugh R. Insley. leay i th; Maine catastrophe and to the families ot ing a vacancy in the latter grade to be filled the lamented dead." by the President. The petiiiou goes on to say: The United States has.

by act of Con As Representative Moody will go into I he gress. frequently compensated persons not Navy Department shortly, after Rear Ad of contributory negligence for injuries mival Taylor succeeds received bv them while in its employ, ft A New Set of Captain Crowninshield did this in "the case of the Ford Theater dis Officers for as 'bief of the bureau aster where compensation was made In Navv Department nav'isation. there i some'twenty elght Instances for loss of life. JMavy uepartmenr. SQOn not.

resulting In death, in most entire new outfit i ou the second floor of this department miral Taylor was born in Washington and uiiiuiai me at tne capital win be no new experience with him. His advent in the department will be gladly welcomed, as hit seems to be a very popular officer. His icrm "L.U'i"l..'h.e. Pres the active list. luijKt i iri scre The plans of certain officers of the Xavv Department to spend 530,000,000 in building a naval at.OIongapo, in the Opposition to Philippines, seems destined to fail at this ojongapo session.

Several na Naval Station, val officers appeared before the House and strenuously advocated this vast expenditure, bin it is believed that the unfavorable opinions of Rear Admiral Endicott and Chief Constructor Bowles against spending so much monev have had their weight and that tho present naval station ar Cavite will be improved temporarily Instead. Just.at present the policy of going slow in appropriating huge "sums of money for the Philippines seems to find favor' with Congress, although a couple of million dollars. It is estimated, will be necessary for Cavite. as a and workshops will have to be provided for. The English ami, in.

no in nuugKong. have reaped a asome lO Keep this money among our owm ceonlo it it i sible. Englishmen have fared well since our advent in the Philippines, for between costlv repairs to ships and vast mnnii visions and general stores from Australia for our orces afloat and ashore a goodly sum js sperJt the year, round. sooaij sum The Navy Department has decided to order the training ship Buffalo to Manila with a "KP'y of men and More Men for the Philippine Fleet. stores for the Asiatic fleet.

The at present at Tampa. OUt iS OFdernrl h. at the Norfolk Vaw Yard on April 15, and, after being docked prepare for her voyage. This wH make the fourth trip Ihe Buffalo has niadf to Philippines within the past three years, aSa aie supplied jueueis aim coalers, )llls won ovrr mllor ries and not over wnom we have no control, and It is auow it to be transferred ty Canada or any facl that no matter now cheap the price is where else, as some people would to them, Ihey get as much as they cau from like to see done.".