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| Emilio Aguinaldo. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, April 29, 1899.
AGUINALDO'S SCHEME.
Selecting His Army as a Cloak For His Congress.
WANTS OFFICIAL RECOGNITION.
His Argument Has No Weight With General Otis—Insurgents Tired of War and Great Dissensions Among the Leaders—A Proclamation issued by the Filipinos.
MANILA, April 29.—Aguinaldo is evidently selecting the army as a cloak for his congress, hoping by subterfuge to overcome General Otis' consistent policy of ignoring the Filipino government. The Filipinos' argument is that it is impossible to arrange an armistice without the sanction of the congress. General Otis punctured this assumption by remarking that if Aguinaldo could make war without the congress, he could stop it without reference to that body. One of the conferees afterwards remarked that they are shrewder than white men in diplomacy, as the Maylays are credited with being.
While the insurgents are undoubtedly tired of the war, the leaders are torn with dissensions. There is a suspicion that it was hoped by means of a conference to ascertain what terms they could expect. If they saw that anything is to be gained by continuing the war, an armistice would afford them an opportunity for recuperating their demoralized forces.
It is an interesting commentary upon Aguinaldo's scheme that only 60 of the 300 members of the Filipino congress have taken the oath of allegiance which their constitution requires.
A Filipino proclamation replying to the proclamation of the American commissioners has appeared. It is signed by Madini for the president, and is dated at Caniasdro, April 15. It is in the usual grandiose style, and declares that President McKinley issued the proclamation in order to force the American congress to ratify the cession of the islands under the treaty of Paris. "This contract of cession was made with the Spaniards after Spanish domination had been ended by the valor of the troops," the proclamation asserts.
The proclamation complains that the Filipinos were not represented at Paris during the negotiation of the treaty, and that they are without assurances of the fulfillment of American promises. It dilates upon the alleged Anglo-Saxon hatred of blacks, and asserts a desire to enslave them. Deploring a lack of foreign aid in prosecuting the war, the proclamation concludes:
"We stand alone, but we will fight to the death. Coming generations will pray over our graves, shedding tears of gratitude for their freedom."
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| Major General Elwell S. Otis. |
EXPECTING PEACE.
End of the War In the Philippines Predicted by the Washington Officials.
WASHINGTON, April 29.—The end of the Filipino insurrection is in sight in the opinion of army and navy officials. A telegram received from General Otis announced that Aguinaldo had taken what is regarded as the first step towards surrender, namely, requesting a cessation of hostilities. Secretary Alger said that while it could not be said that peace was assured, that he regarded the prospects as of the brightest and felt confident that the end of the insurrection was near. The secretary has left Washington for a 10-days trip in the west and it gave him great satisfaction to leave affairs in such promising shape.
ROOSEVELT SATISFIED.
The Governor Well Pleased With the Work of the Legislature.
ALBANY, April 29.—Governor Roosevelt makes the following statement on the results of the legislative session of 1899:
"I feel that we have every reason to be exceedingly well satisfied with the result of the session. There has not been a single law put on the statute books which ought not to have been put on, or a single appointment made which ought not to have been made and there has been a very substantial sum of achievements to the credit of the legislature.
"The civil service law is the best statute of that character that has been enacted by any state or by the nation.
"The rapid transit and the Long Island railroad tunnel bill have both been put on the right basis and the rapid transit bill especially at the least gives us a chance to secure rapid transit for the city of New York without surrendering the city's right to a franchise which in future years may be of incalculable value.
"The franchise tax bill makes a step of the very highest importance in the policy of seeing that hereafter the corporations getting great advantages from the public shall bear their share of the public burden.
"The two Costello bills were the beginning of the first effort to exercise real and intelligent supervision over industries carried on in the tenement houses and the first serious attempt to do away with the sweat shop evil entirely.
"The passage of the bill authorizing the payment of Messrs. Fox and MacFarlane insures the proper disposition of the prosecution against any canal officials, if such there be, who have been guilty of fraud or misconduct, and the way in which Superintendent of Public Works Partridge and State Engineer Bond are conducting their offices is a guarantee that no fraud will hereafter be perpetrated with impunity.
"I am well pleased with what has been done in legislation and I feel that we have reason to be amply satisfied with the work of the various administrative departments.
"Steps have been taken moreover to render crime against the ballot in New York city more difficult to perpetrate and more easy to punish.
"Finally, I feel that the legislature deserves great credit for the way it has succeeded in keeping down the tax rate, in spite of the way it had to make good various deficiencies which it had inherited and had not created.
"The salaries of the school teachers of New York city have at last been made what they should be, so that we no longer endure the scandal of inflicting grinding penury on the people who are more than any other responsible for the up-bringing of the citizens of the next generation.
"The National Guard is steadily being raised to the highest point of proficiency.
"The primary law has been put on the statute books in excellent shape.
"There is now a real measure of primary reform.
"In the Amsterdam avenue law we acted with substantial equity in righting a very grave wrong."
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
The Legislature of 1899.
"He serves his party best who serves the country best." President Hayes' wise words are true of legislatures as of individuals.
The legislature that adjourned at Albany yesterday won in its closing hours its highest title to commendation. It served the people to the best of its opportunity in passing the Ford franchise tax bill. The success of that measure was Governor Roosevelt's most signal triumph of the session, as strong influences had massed against it. The "organization" of both parties had opposed it, and with them were corporate interests of far-reaching influence. The bill will do much to equalize tax burdens.
Besides passing the Ford bill the legislature did a number of good things. It refrained from doing some things it should have done. Its particularly commendable general measures are these: 1—Forbidding the expenditure of moneys by any state department in excess of appropriations. 2—The re-enactment of a real civil service law. 3—The [bicycle] sidepath law. 4—Closing of sweat shops. Several good bills relating to New York City were passed: 1—The Amsterdam-ave. bill. 2—The bill taking elections from control of the police. 3—The bill giving the governor power to order a special court to try political offenses. 4—The rapid transit bill.
While the legislature is credited with these good measures, it is due to the executive to say that every one of them had in advance his earnest advocacy, and but for his insistence it can not be said with certainty what their fate would have been. Certainly but for his watchfulness and masterful influence a "joker" would be found in the amended primary elections bill. The governor found when this bill reached him that the clause providing for publishing the names of persons enrolled in New York City had been dropped, and in another place had been inserted a provision requiring the printing of all ballots in Albany! The bill was sent back with the demand that the dropped clause be reinserted, and the inserted clause dropped. It was Governor Roosevelt's firm stand for real civil service, and for the people against corporations in the Amsterdam-ave. matter, that carried these bills through in a form that the people approved.
The Republican party has triumphed always in taking advance grounds in holding public interests superior to private, in lightening government burdens, in keeping faith with the people. Wherein the legislature of 1899 has best maintained the party standard it has followed the leadership of Governor Roosevelt. In his guidance the people have increased confidence. The legislative and executive record of the past four months broadens their view of his political skill and patience and wisdom.
FRANKLIN M. BUELL.
Aged Resident of Truxton Passes Away at Peruville.
Like a child in the arms of its mother, Franklin M. Buell dropped quietly into eternal rest at 5:10 o'clock P. M. yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ida Tarbell, at Peruville, Tompkins Co. Those of the immediate family present were Mr. and Mrs. Tarbell and Clayton H. Buell of Cortland, the second son of the deceased. Howard F. Buell of Truxton, the oldest son, was notified of the precarious condition of his father in the forenoon, but his aged parent had passed away before he could reach his bedside. The deceased was 87 years and 8 months old. The remains will arrive in Truxton this evening on the Lehigh Valley railroad. The funeral will be held at the church in Truxton Sunday at 2 o'clock P. M. The burial will be made in the family lot in the Truxton cemetery.
Franklin M. Buell was the son of Thomas Buell and was born in Truxton Aug. 24, 1811, being the oldest of ten children—five sons and five daughters—all of whom are dead except two half-brothers. Mr. Buell was the last of some fourteen prominent citizens of Truxton born in 1811. He received his education in the common schools of the town. He also studied music in his youth and at the age of 21 years began teaching music, holding musical conventions and festivals during the thirties in Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, and Ohio. He first taught singing-school in Groton Hollow, McLean, Cortland, Homer, Orleans and Niagara counties in New York state, and in the villages of McGrawville and East Homer. He held music conventions in Springfield, Columbus and Chillicothe and Circleville in the state of Ohio, Branteborrow, Putney, Saxton River in Vermont, and at Rockingham, Cavendish and Walpole, N. H.
In the spring of 1838 Mr. Buell entered the law office of Judge Kellogg at Saxatus village, Vt., who had formerly been U. S. district attorney during the administration of President Van Buren, where he remained some two years when failing health obliged him to abandon the pursuit of the law.
On June 9, 1841, Mr. Buell married Miss Emily Frances Howard, the daughter of Moses Childs Howard, at Coleraine, Mass., when he returned to Truxton, and followed farming until the spring of 1865, when he retired. Mr. Buell was an ardent Whig and later a Republican, being one of the original organizers of that party in Cortland county. In 1870 or during the administration of General Grant Mr. Buell was appointed in charge of United States bonded warehouses in Brooklyn which position he ably filled for eight years.
Mr. Buell was a thorough believer in the policy for a protective tariff and stumped the state against Judge Dana during the forties before outdoor audiences, his speeches upon that question having been reported by Horace Greeley in the New York Tribune.
Mr. Buell was a thorough Bible student and was familiar with the contemporaneous history of the Bible and ancient history in general. He was also well versed in agricultural chemistry and astronomical subjects and delivered many interesting and instructive lectures upon that question before grange organizations during the years preceding extreme old age. He possessed a high moral character and was a believer in the Christian religion according to the Baptist faith, although not a member of any church. He was ever ready to extend a helping hand to the worthy poor and unfortunate. Mrs. Buell, who was also scholarly and of the intellectual order of women, died Jan. 19, 1893, at the family home in Truxton. They had four children: Howard F. Buell of Truxton, Clayton H. Buell of Cortland, the local correspondent for the Elmira Telegram, Henry Clay Buell, a musical prodigy, who died in infancy and one daughter, Mrs. Ida Tarbell, with whom Mr. Buell has resided for the past year and a half.
LOCAL PERSONAL.
MARION C. HOLCOMB, formerly of Cortland, more recently of Binghamton, has just returned home from Honolulu where he went as a member of Company H, of the First regiment, N. Y. Vols. He was the last man of his company to get home.
A. O. PALMER, the Cortland optician, who has been visiting this place once a month for the past year or two, was down yesterday. He has sold his real estate at Cortland, and expects next week to move on his farm at Montour Falls, formerly Havana, where he will make a specialty of poultry raising, though he designs to visit this and other places professionally once in a while.—Whitney Point Reporter.
TOMPKINS-ST. PAVING.
Cemetery Trustees Authorize the Signing of the Petition.
The paving of Tompkins-st. as far as the west line of the property of the Cortland Rural Cemetery association on the street seems now to be an assured fact. A special meeting of the trustees of the Cemetery association was held at the parlors of the Savings bank at 2 o'clock this afternoon at which time a resolution was adopted authorizing the president and secretary of the trustees to sign the petition for the association. The signature of Adolph Frost, the florist, was conditioned upon the affirmative action of the cemetery trustees, so that with these signatures obtained, a majority of the frontage of the street is secured, and a petition for paving will now unquestionably go before the board of village trustees at their meeting on Monday night.
A COLONIAL FEAST.
Leisure Hour Club of Homer Gives a Novel Entertainment.
As the ancestral carriage drawn by a dashing pair of black horses drew up to the curb the liveried footman with dignified mien descended from the elevated step in the rear. His powdered wig and dainty hose vied in immaculateness with his sombre surcoat and knickerbockers as he held the opened door of the conveyance awaiting the coming of his mistress. He was a fit compliment to the driver on the box who with imperturbable authority controlled the movements of the establishment. After a short pause the door of the mansion opened and from the ancestral hall issued a stately dame enveloped in rustling silks, filmy lace and multitudinous feminine et cetera. With gentle grace she stepped into the waiting equipage and was whirled away to mingle in the society of her peers.
Such a scene was repeatedly enacted in the village of Homer late yesterday afternoon while the Leisure Hour club was assembling at the residence of Mrs. F. E. Williams on South Main-st. The occasion was the annual banquet which this year took the form of a colonial feast, the members attending in costume. Covers were laid for more than thirty persons and the brilliancy of many candle lights illumined the beautiful costumes and handsomely arranged table in the service of which numerous specimens of rare old china and silver were displayed. Dainty menus and toast lists and hand-painted dinner cards, the latter being the work of Miss Royce, were found at each plate and were retained by the guests as valued souvenirs of the occasion.
The feast of reason and flow of soul which followed was distinguished by piquancy and wit.
At the conclusion of the feast the ladies adjourned to parlors where they received a limited number of their friends who were invited for the occasion. Here the fortunate guest had the honor of paying his respects to one of the most beloved American women of the latter part of the eighteenth century, Martha Washington, and of congratulating Mrs. William Penn upon the favor which her husband had won at the court of King James. One was sure of a cordial reception from Mrs. Richard Caton, who invariably presented you to her blushing daughter, the young Duchess of Leeds between whom and Miss Margaret Winthrop were divided the honors for the younger ladies present. Of the dowagers Lady Catherine Duer in an elegant costume of black velvet garnished profusely with point lace and jewels was the most striking figure in the assemblage, though she had a formidable rival in the redoubtable Madam Rush arrayed in a Paris robe of olive green velvet and embroidered chiffon ornamented with diamonds and coral. Many other dames there were whose attractions were superlative, making the scene one long to be remembered by those who witnessed it.
Late in the evening Mrs. Bingham seated herself at the harpsichord and rendered music suitable to accompany about twenty of the ladies who went through the steps of the Virginia Reel with charming grace.
The following is the menu and a list of the guests and the impersonators:
MORGAN HAS CONTROL.
The Lehigh Valley System Absolutely Controlled by J. P. Morgan.
J. Pierpont Morgan now has absolute control of the Lehigh Valley Railroad company, since March, 1897, he has held an option on a block of 150,000 shares of the Lehigh Valley stock belonging to the Packer estate. The right to purchase this stock was exercised to-day, and $3,000,000, the cash covering the entire transaction, will be presented to the trustees of the estate in Philadelphia by Drexel & Co.
This operation by Mr. Morgan tends to still further simplify the work of the various financial interests owning the coal producing and carrying roads in preventing competition and curtailing production. Mr. Morgan now has in his control the Lehigh Valley, the Reading company and the Erie railway. The Vanderbilts control the Lackawanna and the Delaware & Hudson, and have large holdings in the Ontario & Western.—Binghamton Herald, April 28.
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| Richard Mansfield as Cyrano de Bergerac. |
BREVITIES.
—Services will be held at St. Patrick's church at Truxton to-morrow at the usual hour.
—Rev. J. Barton French, pastor of the Memorial Baptist church, will deliver the Memorial day address in Cortland on May 30.
—Mr. Samuel E. Welch has been appointed inspector of sidewalks in the village and to superintend repairs made at public expense.
—New display advertisements to-day are—W. W. Bennett, Bicycles, page 7; L. N. Hopkins, Flower seeds, page 8; Stowell, Refrigerators, page 7; A. O. Tennant, Bath cabinets, page 6.
—A Saratoga water trust is the latest. It is proposed, it is said, to combine the mineral spring properties at Saratoga under a single management, and herald Saratoga as the Carlsbad of America.
—The new Lehigh Valley freight station in Auburn is being rapidly pushed to completion. The building will be ready for occupancy in a couple of weeks. The Lehigh's new passenger station which is near the other, will be opened for business on May 15.
—The receipts of the Richard Mansfield performance of "Cyrano de Bergerac" Thursday night were $2,000, the largest for any single entertainment in the history of the Lyceum. The seating capacity of the Lyceum (exclusive of the gallery, which seats 400) is 787, Thursday night's audience numbered 1,208.—Ithaca Journal.
—A preliminary meeting looking toward the organization of a chapter of the Brotherhood of St. Paul was held at the Homer-ave. M. E. church last night, and action favoring such an organization was taken. A committee was appointed to make a canvass of the male members of the church and invite them to attend a meeting to be held May 8 for the purpose of organization.
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