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| Nelson Dingley. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, January 16, 1899.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Nelson Dingley.
The United States suffers a very great loss in the death of Nelson Dingley. With the possible exception of Senator Aldrich, no man in public life understood the tariff question so well. For many years Mr. Dingley has devoted all his energies and all the strength of a brilliant mind to a study of this intricate and important subject. Early in life he became an advocate of the protection of American industries, but even the free traders in congress had the highest respect for Mr. Dingley's judgment on rates of duty, the classification of merchandise, and the probable results of raising or lowering the schedules, and consulted him freely. They differed as to theory, but they recognized him as an expert in practical affairs. He had the confidence of the president, the confidence of the Republicans of both houses, and the confidence of his political opponents.
Mr. Dingley was born at Dunham, Me., Feb. 15, 1832, and was graduated at Dartmouth in the class of 1855. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but abandoned the legal profession to become editor and proprietor of the Lewiston Journal, relations which continued from 1856 till his death. He was a member of the Maine house of representatives in 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1868, and 1873, and served twice as speaker. In 1874 and 1875 he was governor of Maine. In 1881 he was elected to the house of representatives to succeed William P. Frye who had been elected to the senate to succeed James G. Blaine.
In 1882 and in every second year since then, Mr. Dingley was re-elected. His first assignment was to the committee on banking and currency. The Democratic speakers of the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth congresses assigned him to the same committee. The house of the Fifty-first congress was Republican and Mr. Dingley was made a member of the committees on ways and means and merchant marine and fisheries. The houses of the Fifty-second and Fifty-third congresses were Democratic and Mr. Dingley's assignment was to the committee on appropriations.
When the house of the Fifty-fourth congress assembled with a Republican majority and Mr. Reed was elected speaker, the ranking Republican members of the old committee on ways and means were Sereno E. Payne of New York, and John Dalzell of Pennsylvania, and both aspired to the chairmanship of the new committee, a position which carried with it the leadership on the floor. Speaker Reed passed them both by and selected Mr. Dingley. Mr. Dingley was not an orator; he lacked the fine physical presence and the sonorous quality of voice which great parliamentary leaders usually have. In conducting the business of the house, Mr. Dingley was not likely to be remarkably successful; both Mr. Payne and Mr. Dalzell were better fitted for the leadership of such a rough and tumultuous body as the house of representatives.
But the committee on ways and means was to frame a new tariff act and prepare legislation to increase the revenues, and for work of this kind Mr. Reed decided that Mr. Dingley was better equipped than his rivals for the chairmanship. President Cleveland, in a special message soon after the meeting of congress, called attention to the desperate state of the national finances and made an urgent appeal for relief. Within a week, Mr. Dingley's committee had framed two bills, and the Republican house had passed them—one providing for additional revenue amounting to $40,060,000 a year and the other authorizing the issue of 8 per cent bonds. The senate was controlled by an alliance of Democrats and Populists, and it would not consider the first bill at all, while for the second it substituted a bill for the free and unlimited coinage of silver, which the house was prompt to reject. This ended all efforts to relieve the treasury during the first session.
In the second, an effort was made in the senate to pass the Dingley bill, but it failed. But the Fifty-fifth congress was called together in special session on March 15. Mr. Dingley introduced a tariff bill and on the 31st it was passed. In the senate nearly 1,000 amendments were made by the committee on finance and tbe bill was reported on May 4 and passed on July 7. It was owing largely to Mr. Dingley's ability and energy that the disagreements between the two houses were adjusted, the conference report being signed on July 10, adopted by the house on that day and by the senate on July 24, becoming a law that day on the approval of the president. It was the quickest tariff legislation in the history of the country. Pending the passage of this bill the importation of goods upon which an advance in the rate of duty was contemplated was enormous, and for a time the Dingley law did not produce sufficient revenue; but now that the accumulation of goods has disappeared and the importations are of normal volume, the law is working very satisfactorily.
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| John Tyler Morgan. |
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| George Frisbie Hoar. |
PROGRAM OF CONGRESS.
Forecast of the Senate and House Proceedings.
PEACE TREATY TALK DELAYED.
No Prospect of a Vote Being Taken During the Week—Appropriation Bills Will Take Precedence—Military Measure Will Occupy Considerable Time In the House.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 16.—It is the purpose of Senator Davis, in charge of the peace treaty, to again call it up as soon as it can be reached without displacing other measures which take precedence under the existing orders of the senate. These questions are the Indian appropriation bill and the Nicaragua canal bill.
Under the agreement made last week the canal bill will be taken up at 3 o'clock Tuesday for discussion in speeches not to exceed 15 minutes in duration. There is no agreement for a vote on the bill, but the belief is general that the understanding already reached will lead to an early vote. The senators opposed to the pending bill express no intention of trying to prevent a vote and the friends of the bill are very confident that this culmination will not be postponed beyond Wednesday.
Senator Morgan who has led the contest for the measure has expressed the opinion that the final vote would be reached before adjournment Tuesday. He does not expect a great many 15 minute speeches and he predicts that the bill will go through without being amended in any essential particular. The acceptance by the committee of the Berry amendment has had the effect of removing much of the opposition to the bill and there is believed to be little doubt of its passage when the vote is taken.
The senate will resume consideration of the Indian bill. This bill may continue to hold attention until Tuesday and if such prove to be the case the further consideration of the treaty would be postponed until after action upon the Nicaragua bill.
In the meantime the pension and diplomatic appropriation bills will have been reported from the committee on appropriations, but it is not the purpose at present to give them precedence over the treaty. Senator Davis, chairman of the foreign relations committee, and Senator Allison, chairman of the appropriations committee, are working in perfect harmony, so that no clash between the treaty and the supply bills is probable.
Senator Bacon has given notice of a speech on the general question of extension of territory on Wednesday. His address will be based upon the resolutions regarding the status of the Filipinos introduced by himself sometime since, and its delivery may lead to considerable debate, practically on the treaty in open session. It is also probable that there will be more or less discussion of the resolution of Senator Hoar for the recognition of the independence of the Filipinos introduced on Saturday last.
It is also understood that Mr. Allen will, at the first opportunity, continue the talk upon his resolution for an investigation of the conduct of the war. Altogether, the outlook is against any serious consideration of the treaty before Thursday.
The opponents of the treaty profess great confidence in being able to defeat it, upon a vote, and to believe that the friends of the agreement will seek to postpone a vote until next session. The Democratic opponents of the agreement have held several meetings during the past week and those who have attended profess to be very hopeful concerning the outlook. They claim 34 votes in opposition, or three more than necessary to defeat. They say they will be satisfied to have the treaty ratified providing an amendment is engrafted upon it, declaring against the maintenance of sovereignty in the Philippines, but supporters of the treaty decline so far to grant any such proviso. Some of them indicate a willingness to adopt a separate resolution to this end and it is not impossible that this course may be pursued.
The supporters of the treaty do not claim to be in the least disturbed over the outlook. They count upon considerable delay in securing action but still hold to their contention that the treaty will be ratified just as it came to the senate.
FILIPINOS ARE DEFIANT.
They Still Oppose the Landing of Americans at Iloilo.
HAVE MADE SOME CONCESSION.
American Officers Can Go Ashore on Guimaras Island to Obtain Supplies Under an Escort During Day Time.
MANILA, Jan. 16.—Official dispatches just received here from Iloilo, island of Panay, indicate that the natives are disposed to be friendly, although absolutely opposed to the landing of the United States forces without orders from Molosos, the seat of the so-called Filipino national government. Some of the officials at Iloilo are not in accord with the revolutionary government, but are willing to accept an American protectorate.
The United States transports Newport, Arizona and Pennsylvania, with the Eighteenth infantry, the Iowa battalion, the Sixth artillery and a detachment of the signal corps, constituting General Miller's expedition, are anchored close to Guimaras island, between Panay and Negros, where an excellent water supply is obtainable. The natives, though indisposed primarily to furnish the Americans with fresh supplies, now permit the American officers to go ashore and furnish them with an escort during day time.
FREE SONS OF ISRAEL.
The Golden Jubilee Held by the Order In New York City.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—The independent order of the Free Sons of Israel held a golden jubilee on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its organization.
Grand Master Julius Harburger delivered the annual address. Referring to the work accomplished by the order during the past 50 years he said that up to the present time the amount paid to the widows, orphans and beneficiaries of the members has reached in the aggregate the sum of $3,500,000, while an equal amount has been expended in alleviating the suffering and distress within and without the pale of the brotherhood. The amount in the reserve fund is nearly $1,000,000.
Relative to the developments in the Dreyfus case, M. Harburger said: "The spirit of anti-Semitism which in its harshness and vindictiveness would have gone so far as to almost destroy the republic of France, bids fair to be crushed by the people of France, who though slowly are none the less surely beginning to recognize the character of the crime which I believe I am now permitted to say has been committed in her name against an innocent man."
A REVISED STATEMENT.
Sent to the War Investigating Committee by Gen. Eagan.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Gen. Eagan has sent to the war investigation committee a revised statement in place of that originally made in response to General Miles' charges. The revised statement is about 35 per cent shorter than that which was ordered withdrawn because of its violent and abusive character. Accompanying the statement was a letter in which Gen. Eagan makes explanations in extenuation of his use of objectionable language in the original statement. He says, however, that he entirely agrees with the commission as to the irrelevancy of the objectionable statements. The commission, after a brief executive session, decided for the present to make public only General Eagan's letter and not his accompanying statements.
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| Jacob Gould Schurman. |
PRESIDENT SCHURMAN.
Appointed One of the Committee of Five on the Philippines.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—President Schurman of Cornell university was at the White House to-day. On leaving he said he had accepted a position on the commission of five which is to be appointed to study the commercial and social problems of the Philippines. It is now understood that the other members of the commission will be Admiral Dewey, General Otis, Colonel Charles Denby and Prof. Dean C. Worcester of Ann Arbor university. The work of the commission is understood to be purely economic and not of a political nature.
The Cable Censored.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—The Commercial Cable company to-day issued the following notice: The Eastern Telegraph company advises us as follows: We beg to inform you that we have this morning received advices from Manila stating that the American government now notify us that censorship is applicable to all outward and homeward telegrams containing political news.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
MR. THOMAS P. BRISTOL was in Binghamton to-day on business.
ATTORNEY JOHN H. MURRAY of Cincinnatus has been in town to-day.
ASSEMBLYMAN GEORGE S. SANDS returned to Albany this morning.
MR. HOWARD TICE of German is visiting at Mr. Garrett Smith's for a few days.
MR. THEODORE STEVENSON, who has been suffering from a very severe attack of the grip, is some better to-day.
MR. FRANK E. PRICE left this morning for Albany to take up his duties as an assistant librarian in the state senate.
MR. AND MRS. E. W. SUMMERS and daughter Grace have returned from an extended visit with relatives in Cleveland, O.
MISS JESSIE M. HILL, who has been home on account of ill health, returned to Gloversville this morning to resume her teaching.
MISS ANNA B. CHAPLIN and Messrs. J. C. Seager and H. W. Chaplin went to Messengerville this morning to attend the funeral of Miss Ella Shevalier.
MESSRS. WILLIAM WILSON of Fairmount, Minn., and Jerry Wilson of Louisville, St. Lawrence county, spent Sunday in Cortland, guests of Street Commissioner and Mrs. S. S. Stearns.
MISS KATHERINE RAY COLVIN left for New York City this morning to resume her vocal studies from which she was called home some six weeks ago by the severe illness of her mother, Mrs. A. E. Brainard.
MRS. E. D. BARKER, Mrs. F. H. Maricle, Mrs. Lottie M. Peet and Miss Ida L. Peck spent the day Saturday in Solon as the guests of Mrs. W. J. Corcoran. A part of the afternoon was most enjoyably spent in viewing the art collection of Miss Hathaway.
DR. H. G. HUGHES, formerly of Cortland, and for several years physician and surgeon of the Columbia line steamer Finance between New York and Colon, has resigned his position and has taken the position as surgeon for a railroad company that is going to Ecuador, South America, to build a new road from Guayaquil to Quito. The new position is in every respect more desirable than the former one. Dr. Hughes was on Sunday, Jan. 8, married in New York to Miss Ercilia L. Guzman of that city, who will be remembered by a number of Cortland friends of the family as having spent some weeks in Cortland in the fall as a guest of the doctor's mother, Mrs. J. W. Hughes.
May Weather in Alabama.
Mrs. J. W. Hughes of Cortland, who is spending the winter in Fulton, Ala., with her daughters, Mrs. James S. Burr and Miss Mary E. Hughes, says in the course of a personal letter to a friend in Cortland that "except for a few days it has been as mild as May since I came. The children stroll with me in the woods and we come home loaded with holly and green things. It has been rainy for some time, but I do not complain when I read in the northern papers of snow and blizzards and grip."
Mr. Burr, Mrs. Hughes' son-in-law, a few years ago purchased an immense tract of pine timber in the vicinity of Fulton, and he has moved his family down there while he is clearing up the lumber. He is on the direct line of railroad from Birmingham to Mobile, about seventy-five miles north of the latter place. He has built and equipped a private railroad on his own account about five miles long that runs back from the main line into the timber tract upon which the logs are transported to the big steam sawmill that Mr. Burr has built.
In the course of the personal letter of Mrs. Hughes above referred to she says: "I am spending the winter pleasantly here. We are not so much in the woods as you might suppose. There is a new church building here, a Sunday-school, a Thursday evening prayer-meeting, a public school, and last Monday the colored people started a school. They (the colored people) have a church and the distinction of a bell. We have a cabinet organ in our church which Margaret plays. Our children have lessons at home and go to Thomasville, a town on the railroad about eight miles distant for music and drawing."
THE REPUBLICAN LEAGUE.
A Communication from President Hout Concerning Meeting Called for This Evening.
To the Editor of the STANDARD:
SIR—I noticed in your issue the 14th, a call for a meeting of the Republican league at the office of T. Harry Dowd this evening. When the league adjourned sine die, subject to the call of the president two years ago, we gave up the rooms and stored the furniture. I have not authorized or directed any one to call a meeting of the league, nor have I been consulted as to the call of the meeting for this evening. The call has been made by persons unauthorized to do so, and to me it seems that it is done to involve the league as an organization in the coming town-meeting and village election in the aid of a certain faction of the Republican party in this town and village.
I, for one, am opposed to calling a meeting of the league at this time, but if it is desired by a majority of the gentlemen who were members of the league in good standing when we adjourned about two years ago, subject to the call of the president, I will gladly call a meeting at any time after the charter election. I am
Very truly yours,
W. W. HOUT, President of the Republican league of the village of Cortland, N. Y. Dated Jan. 16, 1899.
Death of Mrs. Corcoran.
Mrs. Mary E. Corcoran, wife of Policeman John H. Corcoran, died at 10:15 o'clock Saturday evening from the effects of the grip and the development of a serious stomach difficulty. She was 36 years of age. Besides a husband, she leaves a daughter, Anna May, aged 10 years. The funeral will be held from St. Mary's Catholic church to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock, and interment will take place in St. Mary's cemetery.
A Sudden Fainting Spell.
While L. N. Hopkins, the florist, was in C. F. Brown's drug store this morning, he was suddenly seized with a fainting spell and fell headlong across the store with considerable force, striking his head against the base of a display showcase. One tooth was loosened and his face was cut. He was stunned for the time being, but soon recovered and was removed to his home at 146 Groton-ave. in a cab.
Died at Cincinnatus.
Mrs. Mary Holmes died Saturday night at her home in Cincinnatus from neuralgia of the heart. She was about 80 years of age and is survived by one daughter, Mrs. H. G. Barnes of Binghamton, and three sons, George H., Frank, and former Assemblyman Wilber Holmes, all of Cincinnatus. The funeral is to be held Wednesday at 1 o'clock P. M.
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| Main Street, Cortland, N. Y., 1899. |
Last Hearing To-night.
The [Cortland] board of village trustees will hold a regular meeting to-night in the office of Village Clerk William C. Crombie, at which it is expected the local assessment roll for the Main-st. pavement will be finally closed, this being the last hearing permitted owners of property abutting on the street who feel themselves aggrieved in any way over the assessment.
BREVITIES.
—The Republican caucus of the town of Solon is called for Tuesday, Jan. 24, at 1 o'clock P. M., at Corcoran's hall.
—The regular meeting of Grover Relief corps will occur to-morrow, Jan. 17 at 2:30 P. M. It is hoped there will be a large attendance.
—The L. C. B. A. is requested to meet to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock sharp, at their rooms to attend the funeral of Mrs. Mary Corcoran.
—A regular meeting of Grover post, No. 98, G. A. R., will be held to-night at 7:30. This is the first business meeting of the year, and all comrades are requested to be present.
—Rev. O. D. Moore gave a first-class talk yesterday afternoon at the Y. M. C. A. rooms to upwards of fifty young men. Next Sunday Prof. D. L. Bardwell is to speak and Miss Alger and the chorus choir of the Normal will furnish music.
—Wickwire Brothers are now running their wire mills twelve hours per day and it is possible that before the winter is through it will be an all night service. The company is crowded with orders and is seeking to increase its output in various lines. The new netting plant which was built last year is now completed and in full operation. Three acres of land south of their plant have been leased from Mr. Randall for piling lumber upon it and for yard room in general, as the land owned by the company is now pretty generally built over.
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