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| Infanta Maria Teresa, Spanish cruiser. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, November 16, 1898.
MARIA TERESA IS LOST.
Captain McCalla Says It Is Impossible to Save Her.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—The navy department has received the following dispatch from Captain McCalla, at Nassau, N. P., who was sent to Cat island to ascertain the condition of the stranded former cruiser Maria Teresa:
"Arrived here on Potomac. Vulcan at scene of wreck. On arrival took charge of Teresa, hoisted flag. After careful examination of stranded ship and situation, and careful consideration of instructions from department, appreciating great interest taken by nation and government in fate of Teresa, regret exceedingly to express the opinion that it is hopeless to expect to rescue the ship. Craven, Blow, Hobson and Crittenden confirm my opinion."
SPAIN HOLDING OUT.
She Will Not Accept the Conditions Proposed by the United States.
MADRID, Nov. 16.—According to semi-official statements here the Spanish peace commissioners will maintain their present attitude in regard to the Philippine islands and will certainly not accept the conditions of the United States. Further, if the discussion does not return to the limits of the protocol, as viewed by the Spaniards, the Spanish commissioners have decided, in spite of contrary reports, not to sign a treaty of peace.
It is also learned from the same source that complete accord prevails between the Spanish government and its peace commissioners.
EVACUATION OF CUBA.
It Must Not Be Delayed Beyond January 1.
SPAIN HAS BEEN SO INFORMED.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—The government has renewed and strengthened its determination that the Spanish evacuation of Cuba and the American occupation shall not be deferred beyond Jan. 1 next. The conclusion has been communicated to the Spanish government within the last few days in answer to an urgent request that the date of evacuation be put off because of the large number of Spanish troops remaining on the island, which it was represented could not be moved before Jan. 1.
Not being a subject which could be treated by the commission at Paris or at Havana, the request of the Spanish government was forwarded to Washington through the French embassy, which received also and forwarded by cable the refusal of this government to put off the date of assuming American control.
SICK IN A HOSPITAL.
Private Edward Butterfield of the Two Hundred Third Regiment.
Edward Butterfield of 7 Harrington-ave. has received a letter from his son in New York stating that his son Ernest is sick with typhoid fever in University hospital, Philadelphia. A letter from a hospital nurse states that the case is not at present dangerous. Private Butterfield enlisted in the Two Hundred Third regiment New York volunteers last summer, and since he enlisted has been stationed at Camps Black and Meade. His regiment is now in camp at Greenville, S. C., from which place it expects to go to Cuba soon.
One of the last days in October The STANDARD received a note from Private Butterfield dated Oct. 2d, saying that he was sick with typhoid fever and was in the hospital at Camp Meade, but it promised to be light and he expected to be around again in a few days and requested us not to mention the fact or let his parents know of it as he did not wish to alarm them. The attack seems, however, not to have been as light as anticipated.
SAW METEORS.
Report of Professor Charles A. Young of the Princeton Observatory.
PRINCETON, Nov. 16.—Professor Charles A. Young spent nearly the whole of the night in the Princeton observatory and reports as follows concerning the meteoric shower:
"He saw over 100 meteors between 3 and 5 a. m., 12 of these were as bright as stars of the first magnitude and all left trails continuing from one to ten seconds; the radiant was in the 'sickle' of Leo and farther south and west than in 1867. There were about a dozen out of the Leo system which did not properly belong to the shower. The shower was the greatest from 3:45 to 4:05 a. m., when two and three fell per minute. Though there was a distant meteoric shower it was a very faint one; and in all probability there will be a good display in 1899."
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| Sereno E. Payne. |
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
An Amendment That is Needed.
The election of the Hon. Sereno E. Payne to congress recalls the fact that it was Mr. Payne who introduced in the forty-ninth congress a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution giving the president power to veto separate items in appropriation bills, and that the resolution was never brought to a vote, owing to the hostility of the Democratic members of the judiciary committee to which it was referred.
When it comes to amending the constitution of the United States, The Post-Express takes a very conservative position. The constitution is the best ever framed; under it the people of the United States have advanced faster and made better and happier progress than those of any other nation on the face of the earth. While the constitution is not sacred, it certainly should not be changed without the weightiest reasons.
We believe, however, that of the scores of amendments proposed in congress during recent years one of the very best is the one which Mr. Payne brought forward in the forty-ninth congress. If it were adopted and an executive took advantage of it conscientiously, the saving to the people of this county might be millions of dollars annually.
In the first place, the appropriation bills are passed amid the hurry and confusion of the closing days of a session when critical examination is almost impossible; in the second place, the president of the United States has no power to sign bills after the adjournment of congress—a power which the governors of this and some other states have after the adjournment of their legislatures—and accordingly must act speedily, signing many bills in ignorance of the details; in the third place, the general principle is that the larger the bill is the worse it is—a principle laid down by President Arthur, and applying particularly to river and harbor bills; and in the fourth place it is inevitable that bills taking $775,000,000, from the national treasury—as did those passed by the last congress at its recent session—or $400,000,000, as did those passed at the first regular session of the fifty-ninth congress, should be in all respects unobjectionable. On the contrary, it is well known—a fact admitted by everybody familiar with the work of congress—that millions of dollars are appropriated unwisely every year.
The constitution of this state provides: "No bill shall become a law after the final adjournment of the legislature unless approved by the governor within thirty days after such adjournment." Why should not the constitution of the United States be amended so as to give the president sixty days within which he may act after the adjournment of congress? The constitution of this State also provides that:
If any bill presented to the governor contains several items of appropriation of money, he may object to one or more of such items while approving of the other portion of the bill. In such case he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the items to which he objects; and the appropriation so objected to shall not take effect. If the legislature is session, he shall transfer to the house in which the bill originated a copy of such statement and the item objected to shall be separately considered. If on consideration one or more of such items be approved by two-thirds of the members elected to each house, the same shall be part of the law, notwithstanding the objections of the governor.
This provision of the constitution has worked well in this state. Separate items in appropriation bills have been vetoed repeatedly and in the aggregate large amounts of money hare been saved to the people. If the president had the power the saving would be far greater.
We hope that at the next opportunity Mr. Payne will introduce his resolution again, and urge it with all his eloquence and power. It ought to become a part of the constitution.—Rochester Post-Express.
To Make Washing Machines.
ALBANY, Nov. 16.—The following company has filed a certificate of incorporation with the secretary of state: Barnard, Geer & Co. of Owego, to manufacture washing machines; capital stock $3,000; directors: E. D. Geer, A. H. Geer, A. D. Middaugh and Walter L. Emerson of Owego.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
Second Day, Wednesday, Nov. 16.
The board of supervisors convened at 9 o'clock pursuant to adjournment and was called to order by Chairman Hammond. A quorum was present.
The chairman announced the appointment of the following standing committees:
On footing assessment rolls—Messrs. Bingham, Wallace, Tuttle, Kinyon, Chaplin, Bennett, O'Donnell.
On courthouse and jail—Messrs. Patrick, Coe, DeLong.
On erroneous assessments —Messrs. Brown, Kinyon, Chaplin.
On settling with county treasurer—Messrs. Hunt, Crosley, Bingham.
On settling with county clerk and sheriff—Messrs. Bennett, Tuttle, Robinson.
On settling with school and loan commissioners—Messrs. Coe, Patrick, Crosley.
On settling with county judge and justices—Messrs. Chaplin, O'Donnell, Brown.
Constables' bills—Messrs. DeLong, Robinson, Coe.
On miscellaneous bills—Messrs. Wallace, Hunt, Tuttle.
On printing—Messrs. Bingham, Crosley, O'Donnell.
On settling with superintendent of the poor—Messrs. Robinson, DeLong, Brown.
On coroners' bills—Messrs. Hunt, Tuttle, Wallace.
On settling with district attorney—Messrs. Kinyon, Patrick, Bennett.
On equalization—Messrs. Tuttle, DeLong, Wallace, Bennett, Hunt.
On jurisprudence— Messrs. O'Donnell, Wallace, Patrick.
On appropriations—Messrs. Chaplin, Kinyon, Bingham.
On settling with supervisors and clerk—Messrs. Crosley, Robinson, Brown.
The oath of office was duly administered to the chairman and clerk by Mr. Bennett.
The journal of the previous day was read and approved.
Five communications regarding erroneous assessments was read by the clerk and were at once referred to the committee on erroneous assessments.
The clerk presented the annual statement and bill of the superintendent of the Onondaga county penitentiary for the board of convicts from Nov. 1, 1897, to Nov. 1, 1898. Said statement contained an itemized account of sixteen prisoners sentenced for various terms and amounted to $422.04, being at the rate of $2.10 per week. The communication was referred to the committee on appropriations.
The clerk presented a bill for $284.46 for the care of two inmates of the Matteawan state hospital, which was referred to the committee on appropriations.
The clerk presented a bill of $40 for clothing for two inmates of the Syracuse State Institution for Feeble Minded Children, which was referred to the committee on appropriations.
The clerk presented the report of Hon. J. E. Eggleston, county judge and surrogate, and the same was referred first to the committee on settling with county judge and surrogate and then to the committee on appropriations. The report showed that the surrogate had received $48.35 in fees during the year and had paid this to the surrogate's clerk, pursuant to statute, and that there remained unpaid of the surrogate's clerk's salary the sum of $451.65.
A communication was received and read from a special committee of the board of supervisors of Madison county. On motion of Mr. O'Donnell, the substance of the communication was referred to the clerk with instructions to look up the matter and reply to the Madison county board.
The special committee appointed by the last board to settle with the outgoing superintendent of the poor, Oscar P. Miner, submitted its report saying that all bills and accounts agreed perfectly with the vouchers therefor, and the report was referred to the committee on settling with the superintendent of the poor.
On motion of Mr. DeLong:
Resolved, That the chairmen of the committees having accounts against the county for audit in favor of parties from the several towns shall confer with the supervisors from said towns before their accounts are audited at a less amount than claimed, and when the parties are now residents of the county they shall be notified before their accounts are audited at a less amount than claimed in their bills.
On motion of Mr. Tuttle:
Resolved, That the supervisors of the several towns each be empowered and directed to levy upon the taxable property of the road districts of his town such amounts as may be due on road scrapers which have been purchased by said road districts.
Deputy County Clerk S. K. Jones came before the board and presented the matter of a bill for supplies amounting to $6.05 which had been before former boards.
On motion of Mr. O'Donnell, the bill was ordered paid. The board then engaged in committee work.
A TWO WEEKS' HUNT.
Cortland County Sportsmen Meet with Success In the North Woods.
A party of successful hunters composed of Charles Burr of Preble, T. D. Bowdish and Loran Isabell of Little York, Stratton Foster of Cincinnatus and Fred Eaton of Freetown returned on Monday from a two weeks' hunt in the North Woods, each bringing as a trophy of his skill a nice large fat deer. The party had killed six and had feasted upon one there, as the law allows each hunter to bring only one out of the woods and restricts them to the killing of two.
CINCINNATUS, N. Y.
CINCINNATUS, Nov. 16.—Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Livingston have gone to Tyner, where they will reside for some time at least.
N.J. Baldwin of Ann Arbor, Mich., was in town over Sunday.
Miss Hattie Brown of German was a guest at P. C. Wheeler's a part of the past week.
Miss Pearl Fish was home from the Cortland Normal [School] over Sunday.
The Crescent quartet are to give a concert in German, N. Y., for the benefit of the church in that place, Nov. 24.
Mrs. H. B. Boyd, together with Miss Saran Phelps who is visiting here, spent Tuesday at Miss Elizabeth Hathaway's in Solon.
Supervisor Benjamin Kinyon went to Cortland Monday to meet with the board of supervisors, now holding their annual session. He was accompanied by his wife who will spend several days with her daughter, Mrs. J. G. [Osgood].
Stratton Foster returned Monday evening from the North Woods, bringing home a fine deer—one of the two shot by him during his hunt there.
Robert E. Hayes and family were in Cortland Saturday.
J. H. Murray was in Albany on legal business the past week.
Frank Wood has gone to Sidney to work on the electric road being constructed between that place and Franklin.
John Fralic of Cortland was in town Tuesday.
By the new timetable which went into effect on the E. & C. N. Y. R. R. Monday train No. 7 arrives at 12:22 P. M., ten minutes later than formerly. It, however, departs as before at 1:15 P. M. Train No. 5 arrives now at 7:05 P. M. and departs at 7:13 P. M. arriving in Cortland in time to make connections with the 8:02 P. M. train going west on the Lehigh Valley.
"Oll" C. Gee of New Orleans, Ga., was in town Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. Gee, several years ago, was a resident of this village.
J. C. Weaver of McDonough was in town Tuesday.
Mrs. J. Q. Perry was in Cortland Tuesday. The switch of the turntable for the E. & C. N. Y. railroad, at the station here, has been laid this week.
Frank Garner went to Cortland to-day to work for two weeks in the milk station there, during the absence of his brother who is employed there.
The Oregon Medicine Co.'s Comedy company begin a week's engagement at Halbert's hall Thursday evening. Their entertainment is a variety one and they have with them several people who are well known on the stage. The remedies of the company are advertised in this manner and they also have with them a gentleman who extracts teeth without pain.
A series of social dances are to be held this winter at Perry's hall. The dates that have been announced are Nov. 23, Dec. 7 and 21. Richard & Barry's orchestra will furnish music.
Arrangements are in progress for a school entertainment to be held about a week before Christmas.
Mrs. Burdick of Earlville is a guest of her sister. Mrs. James Harvey.
Miss Anna Wheeler returned Monday to the Cortland Normal [School] after a week's stay at her home in this village.
The annual meeting of the lot owners in Cincinnatus cemetery was held Tuesday evening at the store of Corning & Haskins. B. R. Corning, Dyeo Perkins and C. R. Dickinson were re-elected trustees for three years. A meeting of the trustees will be held Dec. 5.
Union Thanksgiving services are to be held at the M. E. church this year.
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| Cortland Normal School. |
Normal Notes.
Dr. Cheney is absent to-day at Syracuse,
The majority of the students have been vaccinated [smallpox vaccine] and are wishing they hadn't.
The first half of the term closes one week from to-day.
The Thanksgiving recess begins Wednesday, Nov. 23, at 12 A. M. and ends Monday, Nov. 28, at 1:30 P. M.
The Normal football team is arranging a game for this Saturday with the Oswego Normal team. The game will be played at the fair grounds.
A good picture of the Boston Ladies' Military band, which is to play here Nov. 30 in the Normal course of entertainments, will be found in the Puritan Magazine for November.
BREVITIES.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Burgess, Men's suits and overcoats, page 7; Opera House, "What Happened to Jones," page 5.
—Beware of tightly closing the drafts of the stove upon a new coal fire and then going to bed. For the awful example see our McGrawville letter to-day.
—Before Justice of the Peace E. C. Parker this morning, judgment by default was rendered for the plaintiff in the case of Philip Sugerman against A. H. Milk. The amount was $40.06.
—The new table of connections with New York, Philadelphia, Rochester and Buffalo over the Lehigh Valley R. R. appears in another column and should be looked over by all who are interested.
—The New York papers began coming to-day by way of the freight and accommodation train from Syracuse arriving at 2:43 P. M. This is a half hour earlier than when they came over the Lehigh Valley from Canastota. They will continue to come now by way of Syracuse.
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