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When Board of Directors adopt sinful courses, whether with or against the adrico counsel, they often find themselves in the witness chair facing a particularly Inquisitive, and bothersome lawyer. Books, too, are occasionally produced in court under the compulsion of "the subpoena, duces, tecum. If the principles of law laid down at St, Louis in the Northern Securities case are affirmed by the Supreme Court, the Attorney General, by touching that little bell wlU be able to stretch probably three-quarters of the corporations doing interstate business, upon the operating table for dissection and vivisection. Still, the President end Secretary Corteltou regard the Bureau of Corporations In the new department as a useful and needed piece of machinery. As a promoter and compeller of publicity the new bureau promises to be highly effective.

The Department of Commerce was organized in March, but by July 1. according to the report of Secretary Cortklyoc, It had 1,289 em ployes in Washington and 8,838 in the Country at large total of 10,125. By appropriation Congress put at its dis posal $0,790,847. How large a part of this staff and how much of this money are available for the uses of the Bureau Corporations Mr. Conrsxrou does not Bay.

In an emergency we presume the department would drop labor and com merca and put Its whole heft on the pub licity lever. The report of Secretary Cortelyou reada very much like an argument In justification of his official existence. The public is only moderately enthusiastic about the new department and its celebrated bureau. From the first annual report we learn only that so far nothing bas been done. The note of preparation.

however, resounds loudly through all the chambers and corridors of the department. It Is getting ready for business. The second annual report may convince the people that the department Is doing work which could not be so well done elsewhere. If it fails to make such showing, it will be open to anybody to move that there be served upon the De partment of Commerce an order to show cause why it should not be abolished. COJfGRESS IS GOOD TO ITSELF.

The Fifty-eighth Congress is undoubtedly in a holiday humor. About the first thing it did when it met in November was to take $100,000 out of the Treasury to make whole its members who had traveled, it is officially presumed, at an expense of JO cents a mile, to get to Washington, and to provide them with a like amount to enable them to return to their homes after adjournment. The end came, but the constructive recess between the extraordinary and the regular sessions was not long enough to enable even a Maryland jr a Virginia member to go home for his luncheon. Promptly upon the convening of the regular ses sion arrangements were made for taking. another sum of $190,000 out of the Treas ury to pay again the cost of transporting the members to Washington and back to their homes.

Making the very best possible out of this situation for the defense of Congress against the accusation that the body has been guilty of something very like obtaining money by false pretenses, the conclusion is unavoidable that at least $190,000 that cannot be used as the law contemplated will have been taken out of the pockets of the taxpayers and put in the pockets of sundry Senators and Representatives in addition to the compensation allowed by law. It is a scandalous and revolting raid upon the Treasury, none the less odious because protected by appropriate legislation. Public opinion has wrought some re forms In this matter. For many rears the members of Congress were allowed $8 a day for traveling expenses In getting to Congress and returning to their homes. once for each session.

That was in the days of stagecoaches and when the av erage day's travel by the ordinary routes was twenty miles. Later on the allowance became 40 cents a mile, and the mileage allowed to the members from California brought their compensation up to something like $33,000 a year, the trip around Cape Horn figuring as a colossal Item in the mileage account. The cutting short of the trip by the construction of the Panama Railroad did not lessen the mileage charge, and It was not until ScHVTLKR Coltax. as the presiding offi cer ef the Senate, refused to approve the vouchers for 12.000 miles offered by members who had only traveled 3.500 miles that this tort of robbery was prohibited by law. The theory that the Government should pay the way of the member to Washing ton and back to his home, once in the session, at something like what it would cost him to pay his way, including hotel expenses, may be assumed to be correct enough.

But as a matter of fact the mem ber seldom does pay his way. and when he des he cannot legally incur expenses equaling the mileage rate. It would probably be a small body of members of either house who would rise In the Senate or House In response to a demand for a showing of heads or hands of those unprovided with complimentary transportation. Even the member who pays his way from Washington to his home in New York City will pot pretend that he needs $48 to pay his way, or the California member that $700 Is necessary to provide him with transportation, meals. and a stateroom to San Francisco.

The army and navy officer, who ia often a gentleman accustomed to travel and live well by the way, is able to travel de cently upon a mileage allowance of 8 cents, with a few tlpi permitted to ser vants as a modern necessity of traveL The abuse is one that needs an early remedy. The Congress, with $190,000 of unearned money in its pockets, may not be in the humor. Just now, to enter upon the needed reformation of Its own bad practices. But a law that would confine the mileage allowance to expenses actually incurred would be a step in the right and honest direction. aid its purposes, be bestjerved located and a much more problems citiiens can pot The publlo Interest will by an east side subway platined by Mr.

Parsons with Mtlmata knowledge of the involfed than committees I lbly have. precedents. elicited yesterday for KUSSIA Hf KOREAIf WATERS. The world has become altogether too well, used to Russian diplomacy to disbe lieve a credible story simple because it is officially denied from St. Petersburg.

The story of the assemblage of a formi dable Russian squadron in Korean wa ters came from several sources at once, or rather through several channels at once. And it is not even denied plumply from St. Petersburg. It is only, set forth that the officials at St. Petersburg find it incredible.

They had better. For' the announcement of the presence of these Russian warships in a Korean port comes precisely at the same time with the an nouncement that the Czar has approved in outline of the general conditions of an agreement reached by the Russian and Japanese negotiators in the East. It is. however, perfectly well understood that the Russian "Jingoes' disapprove any terms of peace which do not Involve Russia's paramountcy in Korea as wen as her special position in Manchuria, that they believe she could make good her claim to both by arms, and that they would be glad to have the issue forced. Nothing, evidently, could be better adapted for forcing it than the presence of.

Russian men-of-war in Korean waters, backing up a Russian demand upon the Emperor of Korea to retract his consent to the opening of a Korean port to foreign trade. Assuredly Japan would not stand that. In case that has been done, the Russian war party will very probably have got what it wanted. In resisting such a Russian demand, Japan will have the sympathy of all the trad ing Powers, particularly Including ourselves, since our only actual or possible Interest in the Far East is commercial. TO IMPEACH Happily, the Judges have been as to have furr.

ply of was mainly House whether a basis Impeachment District Court of Florida, and lng fact. The debate upon a subject much material The House, in official should has been polntid Grand sideratlon any question here is enough to put It is hard to be answered firmative. A lslature of the Judge has functions seems the consideration it has been exclusively lng against the removal from Florida charge! nonfeasance office, with and pernicious feasance in fidal conduct. the Legislature weight than on the respons of the House right to bring! not have dona finally did. in of the charges Judiciary.

JUDGE WAYNE. impeachments of Federal so rare in our history shed a very scanty sup- That fact was what by the debate in, the upon the question had been laid for the Judge Swaynb of. the the Northern District it ought to be a gratify- se Joint was exclusively which does not provide for technical discussion. considering whether an fee impeached, has, as it out. the function of a jilch may take into con- relevant evidence.

The whether there is evidence the House upon inquiry. how that question can herwise than in the af- re solution by the Leg- State within which exercising his Judicial to be clearly entitled to of the body. to which and to which is confided the task of proceed- Judge, with a view to his office. The Legislature of Judge 8WAYNS both with with misfeasance in nonfeasance in continued absenteeism," with mis- and incompetent of Charges thus backed by of a State have greater wduld have charges brought bility of a single member ther to exact that its members shall have resided in this country for six months and shall have declared their in tentions to become citizens of the United States. It Is even conceivable that there might be cases in which the union would be justified in enforcing these demands.

But there must be. and in fact there Is, some power of dispensation lodged in the management of the union, whereby it may connive at irregularities that do no harm. And the case' presented by these two. harpers seems to be eminently a case for taking no further notice, now that they are out and the union is In the essential $200. Of the two dozen harpers, more or less.

whom the roster of the M. M. P. U. bears.

there is only one who is reported to be so touched and grieved by the employment of these ladles as to instigate proceed ings. A general knowledge of human na ture would make it fairly certain to him that even if he succeeded in getting them out he would not succeed in getting himself In, whereas he Is understood hold that a permanent injunction to Mr. CON-wed against employing them would be who unquestionably has the I equivalent to a peremptory mandamus addressed. ahd corirupt them. The House could anything; less than it brderlng the investigation by its Committee on the etc Boulevard tile each i sustenance interested LOCAL TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS On Tuesday of this week the elevated railroads carried what a year ago would have been the impossible multitude of 973,000 passengers.

This broke all pre vious records. The largest passenger movement in one day by the Manhattan system last year was 035,000. The mem orable congestion of Dewey Day was the result of the movement of 830,000 pas sengers. The great business of Tuesday last was handled with very much less inconvenience than attended the normal average tavel before the application of electricity was accomplished. Indeed, few of those who traveled by the elevated lines on Tuesdsy realized that the move ment of that day was in any way exceptional.

It represents pretty nearly the capacity of the elevated lines, The opening of the subway will give a relief which at best will be extremely temporary. A city which is growing at the rate of a million in population every ten years quickly utilizes ever means of conveyance which can be provided, and within three months the subway will be congested. This fact is perfectly under stood by the technical officers of the Rapid Transit Commission, and plans for the extension of the system, and especially for the duplication of north and south lines of underground rapid transit. have claimed a large share of their attention. The residents, business men, and property owners of the east are showing commendable enterprise in mov lng for the immediate recognition ef their needs and excellent Judgment in their method of The Improve ment In the elevated has been much more conspicuous on the west than on the east side.

Within the past year the train mileage en the Sixth Avenue line, has been Increased 40 per cent. On the east side lines, on Third and Second Avenues, such Increase has not been possible. The Rapid Transit Association of Manhattan and the Bronx Is the out growth of the existing and prospective east side conditions. The plan of mon ster petitions to the Legislature and the Rapid Transit Commission may -be abandoned without disadvantage to the Interests involved. It is unnecessary to establish the fact that relief is needed.

and nothing could Impress the Rapid Transit Commission more forcibly than the recommendations of its Chief Engi neer. As to the Legislature, it will act when the representatives of the City Government want actios taken, and the newly formed association can accomplish the work; it has undertaken without any the claptrap of monster petitions to FOLIAGE The members elation still con) fying Interest along the A meeting of west side will to arrange a the small par Ma lished between lng shafts of It is to bo tions are not anything more and shrubs backfill over Even for thesfe provide soil bs able to the Fall the small sodded, and the sod should west side ments something will repay efr sion to cross short cut and newly laid sodJ much of it is roots have to be expected grass In the the line. To they must be enough to walk around exclude the win give the such lnclosuran hardy flowering tered as to tractive, and Impossible tr bushes, nor thoughtless make spots. The sequence as tary Etrlr combel convenience FATAL 14 riot seek a Thi tt THE The Robertson, cago Eclectic when people of bathing for the and we are It was startlkig. prising as the any audience To bathe is make a sewer by the skin.

be left to the skin. the pores would All pbyslologl sertlon are dryf baths The full awaited with turieS there personal fined taste. nounced than could afford bathing the but It is stil There is a Jeet were wel who objected ter en the warm and dlrky if their prefe in pbyslologl brtsow disco and cannot ting up the The follow scarcely to be pect of them. Like certain company for son will find himself a social outcast unless from the company of thow who think as 'he does, and how long they could tolerate one another is a question we prefer not to discuss. TEE IL M.

P. U. AND. THE OPERA. It must be said that the Musical Mu tual Protective Union is not cutting an impressive figure -in its continued at tempt to prevent the manager of the Opera House from employing the harp players whom he desires to employ.

It would naturally be supposed thef when; eases, deformities, and injuries, ought to have known better, that medical practice la the administration Of drugs. The definition formulated by the committee was tht medical practice treating dls-eaaea, deformltlaa, and injuries. That is beautifully simple, and It certainly is broad enough to cover sli the many methoqs used by doctors, a well as to put an instant end to the activities of quacks. "Nothing," says American Medicine, could be more concise and" indisputable. Establish this simpla acd incontrovertible position and there can be no quibble or doubt.

A legal practltlcner of medicine, therefore, is any one licensed to assume directly or indirectly the responsibilities, by offering or granting services, for the treatment of dla- That is SHARP REICHSTAG DEBATE Tilt Between Chancellor Buelow and 'Bsbeli the Socialist. the listening delegate of the organization detected non-union strains emanating from the orchestra. of the opera, and had forced the Irregular players to conform and pay their Initiation fees, that would be an end of the matter. It is all very well, and we are far from denying the accuracy of the definition, but whoever tries to get a law declaring that everybody within the limits of its scope must be graduated from a medical college and se cure a State license will bare, his work cut out x'ir mm. or nis success wouia Instantly make lawbreakers out of most true that the union is empowered fur- parents and ail grandmothers, since it would be the easiest thing in the world to con vlct them of attempting to cure, and even of curing, no end of minor diseases and injuries.

The efficacy of prayer as a thera- peut'o agent would also remain for consideration. As a matter of fact the defi nition begs the whole question by its in clusion of the vague word treating." The osteopathia and the Eddylte would instantly say that the use of drugs was meant and the controversy would begin all over again, for no doctor would dare te say that absolutely all treating ot diseases, deformities, and injuries was medical practice the sense of requiring a special license. THE BOULEVARD. of the West Side Asso- tinue to manifest a gratl- In the replanting of trees over the subway. women residents of the be held on Friday evening plan fpr tree planting in which have been estab- and around the ventilat- tunnel.

tegretted that the condi- as to give promise that impressive than bushes buld grow In the shallow the subway excavation. it will be necessary to king some elements favor- of plant Ufa. Last parks referred to were hat has since happened to give the people of the in local improve- to think about which brt. People having occa- the Boulevard took the paid no attention to the The result has been that destroyed, and even the i so injured that the most is a mangy growth of ng here and there along reserve these small parks Inclosed with fences strong the casual wayfarer to hem, and high enough to intrusive small boy. This grass a chance to grow.

In very pretty shrubs and bushes may be so scat- the avenue very at- 4ven beautiful, without the es. But neither grass, trees can be preserved if the multitude-is permitted to of these garden pabllo Interest is of no eon- compared with the momen- of the average citizen. to Mr. Conried to employ him. That is a kind of operation which, it would seem.

the Musical Union cannot abet without sinking itself to the level of the house- smiths under the administration of the unlamented Sam Parks. TOPICS OP THE TIMES. rsake While' considering solutions of the ex cise problem, it would be worth while to give st least a little consideration to the re port from the Schuylkill coal region that. as a result of the temperance campaign recently conducted by the Miners' Union, one-third of the saloon keepers la Schuyl kill County have found business unprofit able and will abandon it at the end of the year. Of course.

It takes a lot of work to close saloons by convincing their cus tomers that drinking habits are inexpedient, and there is vastly more glory in bustling about to procure the passage of prohibition or high license laws for appli cation to folks who do not believe In them, but the more laborious method does have Its advantages. It, for instance, all the anthracite miners should decide te let herd stuff alone, how quickly would all discussion of saloons, and the hours and days for the closing of the same, and their influence on morals and politics come ther to an end that ended! Already the Schuyl kill folk, without any help from tne Legis- lature; and apparently without any from the temperance organisations of which the first thought is always of legislative com pulsion, have cut down the liquor traffic In their neighborhood by thirty-three and third per cent. And nobody ia objecting I Nobody is crying tyranny! Nobody is mourning Use demise of Personal liberty Nobody la calling alarmed attention to the awful spectacle which would 'be presented by a street with saloons on one side of It and nothing but homes 'and churches on the other! And. closely related with this movement of the anthracite miners, as concerns the solving of the liquor ques tion, is the opening at Syracuse by the New York Central Railway of a hotel especially designed to serve the convenience of its employes a hotel where, undoubtedly with the approbation of its destined patrons, no intoxicants of any kind are to sold. That, too, will make for sobriety without the exercise of any pressure except such as Is derived from arguments addressed to an enlightened self-interest Never has any antagonism been excited by the assertion of a corporation fiat, its employes must be temperate on of instant dismissal.

Our comments- on the desire, ascribed to Mr. Darwin r. James, to prevent. In dians from living in ease and luxury on the rent of their lands, are criticised by a kindly reader as showing failure on our part to recognise that consistency in racial matters is no longer regarded as a virtue by the highest authorities." What is true," he continues, of white men, ac cording to the aforesaid authorities, may not be true of brown, yellow, or black men; or. to put this general statement in a more concrete form, while it may be eminently proper for white men to live In ease and luxury on the Incomes derived from the leasing of their land, which Is a euphemistic way of saying on the prod ucts of the labor of other white, black, brown, or yellow men, the transposition of this condition is Intolerable, if not in conceivable." Recalling what we had in mind when the comments in question were written, we get a vague memory of at tempting by indirection to poke fun at exactly the lntolerablllty or inconceiva bility to which our correspondent refers.

but we are willing enough to put the case in plain words his plain words if he thinks that method worth while. We are also glad to present for him the suggestion as the probable meaning of Mr. James's statement, that the evil to which he re ferred arises from the fact that, when Indians are able to live without work, life for them becomes one grand, sweet gorge and boose, because their limited education doee sot make possible the devotion of their leisure time to the higher, pursuits to which it leads among men of higher civilisation. This does not explain the use of the word education In connection with the development of That, probably, will have to be elucidated by Mr. James himself.

SPENCER'S THEORY OF LIFE. thoroughfares BATHING HABIT. announcement of Prof. John Dill his paper before the Chi- and Surgical Society, that abandon the pernicious habit tb4re will be little or nothing doctors to do, was unexpected. surprised to learn that For example, such sur- addltlons to human knowledge following might Very well astonish naa cleanliness to be dirty, for you thereby tr the skin.

Blood, attracted up products that should natural outlet, and soil theory that the closing of result In death Is false, which make such an as- tong. The habit of taking Is also bad. of this lecture may be Impatience. For many cen- been a predilection for among people of re- Perhaps it Is less pro-it was when those who (he time and expense made principal business of ,11 re. strong in polite society.

whose views on this sub- expressed by the little girl to a morning bath in Win- that she had rather be than clean and cold; but ence had as good warrant reasons as Prof. Rob. era they did not know it any reputation by set- of prior discovery. rrs 01 mis new cult are clafes ground cliim this congratulated en the pros- longevity which it holds out to the young woman who in wam't no good po one," the unwashed per- circumstances In denying New York's request for the privilege of extending some of its piers to a distance of 1,000 feet from the present bulkhead line. Secretary Root followed the advice of experts whose general com peteney Is as far beyond question as is his own desire to guard the great commercial Interests of his own city, but they wore experts of a class trained to an almost re ligious respect for the established rights of navigation, and certain in every case to demand a vast amount of proof before they will consent to any diminution or restriction of navigable areas, Surely the merchants of New York are quite as much interested asjs the War Department in keeping open snd easy the water roads to this port, and though they may be a little more apt than the department engineers to want present advantages at the possible expense of tar distant embarrassments.

yet even in that respect they are not likely to act with any desperate rashness, and it does seem somewhat hard that, after their own prolonged investigation of the whole matter, not only Is what they want refused, but they are told by Implication that the granting of their request would be very Injurious to them In the end. WelL it will have to be endured, with whatever of. composure and resignation can be obtained from the knowledge that the refusal Is made from the best of motives. The truth is, however, that shipping, important as It still remains, is not of such supreme importance as It was In other days, and the scrupulous defense of Its ancient rights as against every other form of transportation now can be and often is carried to an in' convenient and expensive extreme. Many little river and several big ones might better be closed to navigation entirely than to keep tbcm open at enormous cost to rail.

ways and their patrons in order that a few vessels may follow their accustomed ways at any hour that suits the convenience of their skippers. With what seems to us somewhat rash haste, American Medicine of Philadelphia accepts cm the solution of a very difficult problem the definition of "medical prac tice upon which, after long and careful consideration, a committee sppointed for the purpose by the National Confederation of State Medical Examiners has settled. The need for such a definition, at ence leral and reasonable, has been recognised for years br all who have engaged in the warfare against quackery, and the lack, of it has been a bulwark for numberless cranks an5 swindlers, who have, in conse quence, beeu able to assert for themselves. and for aa amazing number of Judges that To tU Editor of TM ye York Timet: In your editorial on Herbert 8pencer in to-day's Issue of your paper you quote the following sentences from the "Principles of Psychology ss presenting his views on the' qsestlon of possibility of. science bridging the gap between the inorganic and the organic in nature: 'The chasm between the Inorganic and the) organic is being filled up; the micro scope has traced down organisms to simpler and simpler forms, until, in the protogenes of Prof.

Haecket, there has been reached a type distinguishable from, a fragment of albumen only by its finely granulated char acter. I beg to call attention to the fact that this passage does not represent the later views held by Mr. Spencer; on the contrary, In his revised edition of the Principles of Elology he takes quite the opposite ground on the same' question. The following is an extract from a letter by Herbert Spencer published in Nature," Oct, 20, lbS8: A recentlr Issued revised and enlarged edition of. the first volume of Principles of Biology contains a chapter on The Dynamical Element in laie, in wnicn have contended that the theory ef a vital nrtnoinie fails ana tnat ine onysico-cnem- leal theory lot life also falls; the corollary be ine tnat in lis uiumate nauirw uie ia incomprehensible." J.

It STOLLER. Union College, Schenectady, N. Dec. 9, 1UU3. NUGGETS.

The Boston Girl. VHtv believe you tMnk Just as much Minnie tliwst im on ei ma- riMtrn nv. i aciuaus twnuntw mr. Boston Transcript. The Limit.

think the- contrariest man I said Uncle Jerry Peebles, la my brother Bill. He's a populist, and that's beln" contrary enough, but he keeps his face shaved rKlr Tribune. Resemblances. "ttvervbodv savs the baby looks like you. rwan't that nlease voul" "I don't know." replied Popley, "but I tell you what: I'm glad nobody thinks ot Philadelphia eaytng I look like the baby, ruDUO imager.

On the Jury. Mr. Btonefront What! Ask me to serve on a lurvT Me 7 un a Caller But this is for a Jury at the nnmtla show. another mattert I'll serve with Chicago mews. THE OTHER CHAP.

Grit Alexander la Pittsburg Dispatch, I've, never made a squeal at Fate without a later testing That I have played the baby whan should have clayed the man. Some other fellow's tougher luck, my little ness revealing. Has shown me that a fellow should 1olca whene'er he can. A fellow plays In hardest luck when he Is spent ana nrosen. The fellow who has breath to spare wastes breath In dismal sigh.

And so when trouble bumps me I am braced up or in ib lonen: Borne other chap has had, mayhap, tougher time thaa I. Of course your woes are big to you com. pared to woes or otners. They're near to you. That's how It is.

Ttaev touch you. where you live. But if you'd share the Joys and woes Of sinters ana ot eroiners, Yeu'd get principal and Interest on com-; fort that vou aive. An Upper Hp thafa aet and Stiff oft scares on iimo They're all afraid of steadfast heart and flv to somethins? new. Bo when your cup of woe is full Just blow it off In bubbles.

Borne otner cnap nas naa, mayhap, a i tougner time tnan yeu. know that trifling circumstance oft woi I jvxiio, iM. Fate serves us two parts bitter woes to every part of Joys. But maybe she is meaning well while earnestly she thumos us. There's physio In the candy served to little girls and boys.

-But ail but one of us can eay some fates are worse than ours are. That one is dead, the chances are. Ills like you'll never sea. And so we'd best remember till we reach in (ravt ncri uoveri ui, BOme fmerrnap nas naa, mayhap a loviucr ume uuu we. Latter Denounces 'Russia and Sharply Critlclsea the Reception of Ccr -nellus Vandjrblit at Danzig.

BERLIN, Dec. JO. Two of the most Interesting personalities in German politics. Chancellor von Bulow and Herr Bebel, the Socialist leader, engaged In the Belchstag this afternoon In a lively debate. The Chancellor was amusing and cheerful, disposing of difficulties with airy word and gesture.

The Republican, with a qual. ity of voice strangely stirring the emotions, excited his believers to enthusiasm and bis opponents to anger, one passionate sentence following another to the climax. It was the self-educated wheelwright against the aristocrat Von Billow bantered Bebel for an hour. Your ideals could "only be realised in Plato's -'Republic. where every one wss an angel." he said, and, turning to Bebel.

the Chancellor added, What a lovely angel you would make! I fear we shall not realize such a paradise." You would not be in it, anyhow," retorted Bebel audibly. Herr Bebel in his speech declared that Russia could easily seize Klao-Chow when ever it suited her fancy, and, therefore. Germany should exercise her moral Influence to prevent difficulties in Jast-Asia. The speaker predicted that there would be a large increase in the military estimates. 'Herr Bebel attacked the imperial finan cial system on the ground that it imposed undue burdens on ths poor; saying that a larger income should be derived from the inheritanoe which could easily be made to yield r7S.000.00O additional; but.

he added, the classes owning property, who mainly benefited by the expansion policy, preferred an Increase In indirect taxation. Continuing. Herr Bebel charged the Gov ernment with co-operating with Russia In suppressing political discontent. The Rus sian police, he asserted, acted In Prussia as though at home. They received every sort of service from the Prussian authorities, and dozens of Russian secret police agents were busy In Berlin and other centres, spying on the doings ot Russian students and Russian residents.

This. Herr Bebel asserted, was one ex hibition of Caesarism, as practiced in Ger many. Others were the reception of Cor nelius vanderbilt unnecessary gifts to foreign nations, and spectacular para dings of army corps. AH the fuss and glory ot military life in time of peace was time wasted on frivolities, which could far better be spent in actual drill and study. Alluding again to -the reception of Mr.

Yanderbilt at Dantzlc, Herr Bebel said: What has he done to deserve an this applause These things give the impression of weakness, not of strength." In the course of a ferocious attack on Russia, which caused the supporters of the Ministry to shake their heads in dismay, because such language about a neighbor ing power naa rareiy been heard in the German Parliament. Herr Bebel said: Russia Is essentially a barbarous State. against whose bestialities all the European Governments have made no protest" The speaker then alluded to Klshlneff. where, he said, the authorities stood by and watched murders." He asserted that a Russian General bad driven thousands of Chinese In the Amur River, and aaid th i nnsuui spy at Bona had resulted in finding among his papers documentary proofs that Russia was privy to tne pian to assassinate King Alexander months before the event occurred." Replying to Herr Bebel. Chancellor von Bulow declared the Government was firmly determined to continue the development of social legislation in favor of the masses.

iaim mailer tne Government required the co-ODeration of the mnntrv ti add that nothing hindered progress In this direction more than the habit of tha Democrats connecting social questions tmcai lenaencies. -Hitory ii viu insi raonarcmes made ujutv uiwren socially tnan remitn-a h. cause a monarch occupied a position jn. uiprnoCTw, aoove classes and parties. In no republic had so much been done for the workingmen as in imperial Germany.

NOBEL PRIZES AWARDED. Peace Prize for VV. R. Cremer M. and Mme.

Curio Get Part of the Prize for Physics. CHRISTIAN! A. Dee. isr, i Parliament has awarded the annual Nobel Peace Prise of to William R. Cremer, M.

publisher of The Arbitrator, of London, for his work on behalf of international arbitration. Tho prize for physics is divide Henri Becquerel ot Norway and M. and Mme. Curie of Paris. The chemical prize goes to the fimi.K Professor Arrhenlus, the medical prise to Dr.

Flnsen of Denmark, and the prize for literature to BJornstJerne BJBrnson, the Norwegian poet and dramatist. These prises amount to about S40.ono each. The formal distribution of the prizes took place this evening in the presence of the King and several members of the roysl larouy. xii Majesty presented the crises. each of which was aceompaaied by a diplo ma ana a gold medal, to Henri Becquerel.

Prof. Arrhenlus, and M. BJOrnson. Dr. Flnsca and M.

and Mme. Curie were absent, but were represented by the Danish and French Ministers. William Randal Cremer. M. Is the founder of the inter-Parliamentary conferences, which have met since 1SSS at Paris.

JUondon, Kome, Berne, The Hague, Budapest. Brussels, snd He took an active part in agitating for a treaty ef arbitration between Great Britain and the United States, visiting this country three times and presenting memorials to the President and Congress from members of the House ot Commons in favor of such a treaty. For twenty-eight years Mr. Cremer has been Secretary of the International Arbi tration League, and ia editor and publisher ot Ths Arbitrator. In order to advocate in ternational arbitration he haa visited every country of Europe.

In 1832 he was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Of the other recipients of this year's No bel prizes M. and Mme. Curie are now per haps the best known. The discoverers of radium have, it Is understood, not profited financially from the work as greatly as might have been expected, and their ad mirers throughout the world will be de lighted to hear of this windfall for them.

Dr. Flnsen is the Inventor Of the Flnsen ray system for the cure of lupus, and Prof. Becquerel is the discoverer of the Bec querel rays. KING ALFONSO AT LISBON. Spanish Monarch Cordially Welcomed by Bis Crowds.

LISBON, Dec. Alfonso of Spain arrived here to-day and was welcomed at the railroad station by King Carlos and a striking gathering of Princes, Ministers, peers, UepuUes, and naval and military erncera, Tne monarens cordially embraced, ana tne ornciai introductions followed. The procession to the Belem Palace was most picturesque. It consisted of eight ears, emblematic of the history ef Por tugal, Their Majesties and the Crown Prince ef Portugal followed ia a carriage escorted by troops. Bands of music sta tioned at intervals along the route played the Bpanlsh national anthem.

King Al- fenso wn cordially welcomed by tit great crowds the fftreets. A state banquet was given in the Aiudai Palace to-nlht, which was attended hundred guests. King Alfonso, Kln Carlos, Queen Amelia, and all the mi of the I'ortugucee royal family, with thir The city is brilliantly illuminated to-' night." MOST RUSSIAN GOVERNORS WANT ANTI-JEWISH LAWS, Reply to a Governmental Circular Akr' lng Their Opinions Minority Ds-sir 8peclal Lsws Abrogated. 1 Losmox Tms Nxw York Trans v-V Special Cablegram. i LONDON.

Dec. 11. The TfaneaV Rus sian correspondents say the St. burg Government sent a circular to the'. Governors of provinces asking for their opinions on the laws relating to the Jews and as to what alterations should be made.

i. The greater number of the replies are unfavorable to the Jews, some Governors even asking that the Jews be expelled from their provinces. A minority of the Governors would abrogate all special laws aimed at the Jews. This is the opinion of. Prince-rjrusofx.

now Governor of Bessarabia, in which province Klshlneff is situated. The Prince insists that there is no real antar onism in his province between the Jews and the Christians. He attributes rauchi of the prevailing prosperity in industry; to the Only, he says, because op-' pressive laws weigh on them too harshly do some Jews dabble in politics, jj A commission haa been appointed to deal with the replies and codify the laws. relating to the Jews. HISPANO-AMERICAN MOVEMENT- Tfce Ibcro-Americart Union Recclvlnt Favorable Reports from South America.

I London Times Nrw Tons: Tuns Special Cablegram. ii LONDON. Dec 1LTfae Madrid corre spondent of The Times says the move-, ment in favor of Hlflpano-American uni ty la acquiring an importance which mer its attention. )i -j The Ibero-American Union is working hard to interest' the JSouth America States, and reports from those States are said to show easrernesa for union! i Spain is receiving a lot of excellent ad-f vice with reference to the reform of her tariff and shipping laws and business method. 1 Many of the South American repubHcs'' are sending letters expressing interest any enterprise tending to develop the n- lationa between those republic and THE SAILING SKIP CRISIS.

I Conference to Discuss Measure to Save the Industry from Begun wj.f;-. Paris. PARIS. Dec. 10.

In order to save the tn dustry from rain, a conference or owners of vessels propelled by sails began ithe Cla-' sifitti -fee hta rnmlns r9 mss a wrv-Mt if ms smw saiswayfcas Ter remedy the present situation. Participating are representatives of the United Great Britain. France. Germany, and ntheri nations. l.

i Two Important proposals were tinder as-; cuoBioa, van ocing uumuluto ui tuo number of sailing ships, and the other uii- form rates, based eantke Liverpool; confer, ence of Nov. 4. The Brttiah represent-; tlvea anpeated the antvtintment tut era by each country to look after Ifrelgh'd for the ships. of their respective countries. The conference is a result of the general decline In freights, especially between rope and the Pacific Coast of the Unite C3.tt.AM MrlllAk Vavm t1 nit AflA.Kfllf.

is hoped that the result of the conference will be to abolish competition. it COLUMBUS, OHIO, BISHOPRIC Congregation of tho Propaganda to Reoy ommend the Appointment of tho -A Rev. J. J. F.OME.

Dec. of ths. Congregation of tho Propaganda, which was postponed from Monday to enable the Cardinals to be present at the Advent sef mon, took place to-day. After considerable discussion la regstd to the candidates for the Bishopric of Ce-i lumbus, Ohio, the Congregation decided -submit to the Pope for the appointment (to cently appointed Coadjutor Archbishop ef Cincinnati) tho name of the Rev. James 4j Hartley of Steubenvllle.

Qhlo. fiTTTTTiOrVTmn. Ohio. Dec Th Ttev Jamea J. Hartley has been in charse of Holy Name Church in this city for moe than twenty years.

He Is about firty-flw years of age. and a native of tie cas oeeu a prominent csnuuiu. the vacant Bishopric and bis appointmeit J- I'. To Succeed M. da Margerj.

PARIS. Dec 10. M. Des Portes de la Foese has been chosen to sueceea tTerre a gerie as First Secretary and Counselor et the French Embassy at Washington. He is now Secretary of the French Legation at Belgrade, has bM a number of important posts, is a linguist, is regarded an oi compllshed diplomat.

Is married, and wQI take his family to M. Margerie was recently transferred Madrid. Divorce for Mabel, Countess Russell. LONDON. Dec an houfa hear-' Ine In the Divorce Court to-day to secure for Mabel, Countess Russell, who sued her husband.

William former- rv a coachman, for divorce, a decree nisi. The Countess testified to the. cruelty and! misconduct own who married her December. 3002. under the name ef Prince Athrobaid Stuart de Modena, alleging that ho was a Bavarian -f.

Spencer's Body to bo Cremated. LONDON. Dec 10. The body of Herberij Spencer, who died on Tuesday, will ce ctw ah Mnndav next. Macedonian Leader Msy Comt Here.

VIENNA. Dec 10. Gen. Zonteheff, thai Macedonian leader, left here tc-eJgnt for, Paris. He will later go.

to London, and it la possible that be will visit the United States. Hospital Saturday and Sundiji Fund. The Auxiliary of the Hospital Saturday, and Sunday Association for the Clothta and Kindred Trades, composed ef Marcus, M. Marks, President; J. a Van WareBen, Treasurer; WllUana Goldman, and Messrs.

F. Norton Qoddard Maurice Rothschild, Matthew Rock, Alfred S. Gutman, snd George J. Ferry, has issued an appeal for contributions to man-, tain the sick poor In the forty CJ hospitals ot the city. Last year this w'.

mi ties raised tiStil. It la desirous of lng it 13.000 this year. vj New Catholl Church at Deal, N. JkmJ it TU A'ns Ytrh Timi LONO BRANCH, J- Deo. 14-Tfce contract for the building of a new Catholio Church at Deal has been a-warded; bv tfce Rav.

W. Norris, Cha-j cellar of the Diocese ef New Jersey Whlte ft Coyne of Long Branch. Th new edifice will cost S23.000. Df. Norris, hopes te have the church open fey Cummer.

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