Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, May 29, 1901.
VOTE WAS VERY CLOSE.
Cubans Adopt Platt Amendment, 15 to 14.
GOMEZ' SENSATIONAL SPEECH.
Said All Who Voted For Platt Amendment Were Perjurers and When Called Upon to Retract Refused to Do So-—His Speech Won Several Votes.
HAVANA. May 29. - The Platt amendment was accepted by the Cuban constitutional convention yesterday by a vote of 15 to 14.
The actual vote was on accepting the majority report of the committee on relations which embodied the amendment with explanations of certain clauses.
The radicals made a hard fight at the last moment and Senores Portuoudo, Gomez and Tamayo bitterly arraigned the conservatives. Senor Tamayo was particularly vindictive and declared that everybody who voted in favor of the Platt amendment was a traitor to his country. The convention compelled him to retract this statement. On several occasions personal encounters seemed imminent.
Senor Gomez spoke for more than an hour, and his speech undoubtedly won over Senores Castro, Robau and Manduley. He appealed to the patriotism of the delegates and rehearsed the long fight for independence, denouncing as perjurers all who favored the Platt amendment on the ground that they had sworn to draw up a constitution for an independent republic.
Several conservatives rose and asked Senor Gomez to retract, but he absolutely refused.
The following delegates voted against the majority report: Gomez, Gener, Portuondo, Lacret, Manduley, Cisneros, Ferrer, Fortun, Robau, E. Tamayo, [Silva], Castro, Zayas and Aleman. Senores Rivera and Bravo were absent.
The convention will continue its sessions which will be devoted to drawing up the election law.
La Discusion in an extra exclaims: "Now will come immediate independence."
PLATT AMENDMENT.
Synopsis of the Provisions as to Cuba's Relations.
WASHINGTON, May 29.—Following is a synopsis of the various provisions of the so-called "Platt amendment" which has been accepted by the Cuban Constitutional Convention:
One—Cuba shall not make treaties with foreign powers that would impair her independence.
Two—Cuba shall not contract debts beyond her power to liquidate.
Three—The United States may intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence.
Four—All acts of the United States during the military occupation of Cuba, are ratified.
Five—Cuba shall take proper measures for the sanitation of the island and against the spreading of infectious diseases.
Six—The disposition of the Isle of Pines shall be left to adjustment by treaty.
Seven—Cuba shall sell or lease lands to the United States for coaling or naval stations.
Eight—The foregoing shall be embodied in a permanent treaty with the United States.
The "Platt amendment" was adopted by congress last winter as a "rider" to the army appropriation bill. It was proposed by Senator Orville H. Platt of Connecticut. In the preamble it is stated that upon Cuba's acceptance of the conditions imposed the president is authorized to withdraw the land and naval forces from Cuba and to leave the government and control of the island to the people thereof.
China Objects to Four Per Cent Interest.
PEKIN, May 29.—The Chinese plenipotentiaries have informed the ministers of the powers that the court has signified to them a willingness to pay indemnity to the amount of 450,000,000 taels, but the court objects to 4 per cent interest.
Boxers Again Active.
LONDON, May 29.—"The Boxers are again active in all districts where there are no foreign troops," says a dispatch to The Standard from Tien Tsin, dated May 27. "Yesterday a missionary who was going to Tu Lu on the Grand canal was forced to return to Tien Tsin on account of a fight raging between Boxers and Catholic converts. There was heavy firing on both sides."
Murdered by Italians.
GREENWICH, Conn., May 29.—Jacob Larsen, an engineer employed as night foreman of a gang constructing a sewer a mile east of Greenwich, was murdered last night by three Italians whom he had discharged. Larsen was stabbed in the abdomen, being nearly disemboweled. A posse has been organized and is scouring the country for the Italians.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Sweeping Victory for Government.
Monday the United States supreme court at Washington handed down its decisions in several insular cases before it. The only one involving directly the question whether or not the United States may own and govern territories without bringing them into the Union as states, or are territories preparatory for statehood, was the Downes case arising under the Foraker government for Porto Rico, disputing the right of congress to provide for tariff duties between the United States and Porto Rico. The court decided that the Foraker law for the government of Porto Rico outside the [Union] was constitutional.
Thus is the administration of President McKinley upheld by the court of last resort in the United States! And until congress acts in the matter the president must act as President McKinley has been doing. Bryan and the anti-imperialist howlers were wrong and the president was right. The Democratic party was wrong and the Republican party was right. The president was not an imperialist, but a patriotic executive. This is the brief opinion reached after the most labored and able arguments.
We are of opinion that the island of Porto Rico is a territory appurtenant and belonging to the United States, but not a part of the United States within the revenue clause of the constitution; that the Foraker act is constitutional, so far as it imposes duties upon imports from such island, and that the plaintiff cannot recover back the duties exacted in this case.
As to the acquisition of territory, and the formation of territories the justice laid down the following general conclusion:
Eliminating then from the opinions of this court all expressions unnecessary to the disposition of the particular case, and gleaning therefrom the exact point decided in each, the following propositions may be considered as established:
First—That the District of Columbia and the territories are not states, within the judicial clause of the constitution giving jurisdiction in cases between citizens of different states.
Second—That territories are not states within the meaning of Revised Statutes, section 709, permitting writs of error from this court in cases where the validity of a state statute is drawn in question.
Third—That the District of Columbia and the territories are states, as that word is used in treaties with foreign powers, with respect to the ownership, disposition and inheritance of property.
Fourth—That the territories are not within the clause of the constitution providing for the creation of a supreme court and such inferior courts as congress may see fit to establish.
Fifth—That the constitution does not apply to foreign countries or trials therein conducted, and that congress may lawfully provide for such trials before consular tribunals, without the intervention of a grand or petit jury.
Sixth—That where the constitution has been once formally extended by congress to territories, neither congress nor territorial legislature can enact laws inconsistent therewith.
◘ Poor Spain. She has trouble enough. The Madrid papers have now begun a campaign against the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo. They say that the exposition is designed to undermine Spanish institutions in South America and prepare the way for Yankeeizing the entire continent. They urge the South American republics to boycott the exposition instead of supporting it. But the exposition is continuing just the same.
THE LOAN EXHIBITION.
INTERESTING COLLECTION OF COLONIAL RELICS.
Now Being Shown by Daughters of American Revolution at the New Store in the Cobb Building—Exhibition to be Continued Through Memorial Day.
The loan exhibition of colonial and revolutionary relics which is now in progress in the new store of the Cobb building on Railroad-st. reflects credit on Cortland county, as well as on the Daughters of the American Revolution who have brought so many valuable articles before the public. No such gathering together of antiques has been attempted in Cortland in recent years, and it is certainly surprising that so many were to be found in the limited circuit of Homer, McGraw, Solon and Cortland. Most certainly our people are not lacking in a reverence for those things which pertained to their forefathers, and the forefathers and mothers were not lacking in choice and beautiful possessions to hand down to succeeding generations. The historic names of our county are well represented in the collection.
Miss Randall has loaned a number of pieces of old china, and a silver pitcher which for beauty of design could not be excelled. There are some choice articles from the Stephens and Ballard families. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Jewett have contributed household conveniences of one hundred years ago—spinning wheels, perforated lantern's, etc., and a cradle which rocked the diminutive forms of Dr. H. O. Jewett and his son, Mr. A. M. Jewett. Dr. Dana has a curious old candelabrum exhibited which is said to be 200 years old. There are a number of beautiful hand embroideries, noticeably, a collection on the wall just inside the door which came from Mrs. W. Lord of McGraw and one from Mrs. James Jenman of 13 River-st. which shows the latter's exquisite handiwork at the age of 12 years.
In a case, there are three pieces of white Wedgewood ware, very valuable, the property of Mrs. Starr of McGraw, "a real daughter." They are over 100 years old and have been in constant use for eighty years, but there is not a nick to be seen on them. Miss Corey has also furnished a number of other valuable articles from this family.
An interesting plate of Staffordshire ware, the rose and shell pattern, is loaned by Mrs. W. J. Mantanye who relates that it came from England with Mr. Mantanye's family a century ago. Mrs. C. W. Collins has contributed many choice articles in china, embroideries, real old lace and a set of jewelry which is the admiration of all who see it. Dr. H. C. Hendrick of McGraw has furnished three revolutionary guns which are stacked in a conspicuous place, and many articles relative to the civil war which have special significance at this time of the year.
Mrs. J. L. Watrous and Mrs. J. G. Jarvis who have made a study of china collecting have loaned some attractive pieces. Mrs. James E. Tanner owns two of the most curious articles of the exhibition, a "turnkey" of most crude and cruel aspect which served to extract many a tooth from the mouths of revolutionary soldiers, and a sundial which once graced the top of a post in Cincinnatus, N. Y., and was the timekeeper of the population for miles around.
Rev. U. S. Milburn and Dr. George H. Smith both exhibit very interesting Indian collections together with many other curiosities. A fine lace veil and some other rare pieces are contributed by the Misses Chittenden of Homer. Mrs. F. E. Whitmore owns the oldest New England Primer of the collection, which unfortunately has lost its date, detracting somewhat from the great value which modern collectors place upon these little books.
The oldest book is a Bible bearing the date 1623 and is the property of Mr. Wilfred Kelly. Mr. Eugene Davis has a dictionary that dates back to the time of Queen Elizabeth. There is a baby cap of tiny dimensions which once enveloped the head of Mr. H. F. Benton. His little armchair would offer some difficulties should he wish to sit in it now-a-days. Conspicuous on the wall is a white linen valance with a painted flower border. A card attached bears the following description: "Linen painted by the wife of a man imprisoned for debt in Cortland jail, 1838. This lady not wishing to be separated from her husband painted a full set for a bedroom to pay her board at the court house.''
Old chairs are not wanting in the collection. A genuine "Mayflower chair" which belonged in the Brewster family is vouched for by Mrs. Anna C. Shumway. A chair of George Washington's is in the collection of Miss Hatheway of Solon. Mrs. A. M. Jewett owns an especially antiquated chair 200 years old and Mrs. H. L. Peckham, one which is 100 years old. Antique silver bears the cards of Mrs. F. Daehler, Miss Frances Gould and Mrs. Jennie Hatch, the last lady having a hand-made teaspoon 150 years old.
Mrs. C. P. Walrad exhibits the manuscript arithmetic of her grandfather Rufus Boles, entirely prepared with pen and ink. Miss Mary Hubbard has a brick from the house of William Penn, and the brick bears the date sunk into it 1687. A decanter over 100 years old belonging to Gilbert Honeywell is exhibited by his granddaughter, Miss' Frances Gould. A beautiful tea set of blue china is exhibited by Mrs. S. W. Sherwood. It belonged to her great grandmother Loomis. Mr. C. E. Cornell has a hammer 162 years old.
It is impossible to mention all the exhibitions or the interesting articles exhibited but special mention must be made of the contributions of Miss Hatheway of Solon and Mr. Louis Samson of Homer.
Among Miss Hatheway's articles is a ring belonging to the Indian Chief Osceola, who gave it just before he died to Major (then Lieutenant) John S. Hatheway. Major Hatheway tells of his death and of receiving the ring in a letter dated March 4, 1838, at Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S. C. There is also a badge of the Aztec society of Mexico, picked up by Major J. S. Hatheway in the city of Mexico in 1847, when the United States troops were three. A breastpin containing a lock of the hair of Andrew Jackson is also among Miss Hatheway's exhibits. The hair was given to G. G. Hatheway right after the death of the, former president by his private secretary. There is also a shoebuckle worn by William Ellery at the time of the signing of the declaration of independence.
One of the highly prized possessions in the Samson exhibit is a chair captured in 1776 from the British vessel Roebuck by Captain Simeon Samson who was in command of an American vessel. Mr. Samson's collection of old china is quite extensive and very valuable. Among the choicest specimens is a plate of the states which bears the date of 1790, and a plate containing a picture of the landing of Lafayette at New York in 1824.
This enumeration of the articles shown is far from being exhaustive. It would be impossible to speak of all, for the store is full of curious old articles. Many people have been in today and have expressed their surprise that such a collection could be brought together. It is well worth the while to pay a visit to this exhibit.
During the afternoon and evening yesterday Mrs. A. P. McGraw, Mrs. G. H. Smith, Mrs. A. M. Jewett, Miss Lena R. Conable and Miss Corey appeared completely attired in ancient costumes, while other ladies of the chapter who were present wore some articles suggestive of the olden days.
It has been decided to keep the exhibition open through tomorrow as many people will have time on a holiday to examine there who would not be able to do so on another day.
REGATTA AT ITHACA, N. Y..
Tickets for Observation Train Now on Sale.
All the preparations are complete for the boat races tomorrow afternoon at Ithaca between the crews of Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania. The one thing needful for the satisfaction of all will be fine weather. If the rain will only stop there will be a crowd. Tickets for the observation train which is to follow the race are still on sale at the Lehigh Valley station, but are likely to be called in at any time, as Ithaca has sold out completely. Persons wishing to secure them had better do so at the earliest possible moment. They cost $1.50 each, but the holders of such tickets will be right beside the race from start to finish. Round trip tickets from Cortland to Ithaca cost 60 cents. The tickets will be good on the regular train going over at 8:35 A. M. or on the special train which leaves at 1:15 P. M. The race will occur at about 5 o'clock and the special train will return immediately after its finish.
A yacht race for steam launches has also been arranged to occur just before the college race. About a dozen launches are expected to compete.
HEATH-STEVENSON.
Cortland Young Lady Married Last Week at Sayre, Pa.
Mr. Alfred J. Heath and Miss Grace R. Stevenson, both of Cortland, were married at high noon on Tuesday, May 21, at the parsonage of the First Presbyterian church of Sayre, Pa., which place was formerly the home of the groom. The ceremony was performed by the pastor, Rev. Kenneth M. Craig, in the presence of a few immediate relatives. The interior of the parsonage was prettily decorated with a profusion of cut flowers. The bride wore a neat traveling suit of fawn colored Oxford cloth and carried a shower bouquet of bride roses. The bride and groom are both well known in Cortland and both have many friends who will wish them a prosperous and happy life. The groom is engaged in the produce business here.
After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Heath left on an early train for a week's trip for parts unknown. They will be at home to their friends at 35 Homer-ave., in Cortland after June 20.
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| Rev. Dr. Maltbie Babcock. |
A. P. MCGRAW RETURNS.
Tells of His Trip and of Parting With Dr. Babcock.
Mr. Albert P. McGraw arrived in Cortland this morning and went at once to his home in McGraw, having reached New York yesterday on the North German Lloyd Steamer Aller on his return from his trip to Europe, Egypt and Palestine. He reports a most delightful trip in which all the party kept their health in a remarkable degree. He was one of the party conducted by Rev. Dr. Riggs of Auburn. Dr. Wilton Merle Smith of New York was ill for a week at Jerusalem and could not take any of the trips around that city, and Mrs. Seymour of Auburn was ill for a week with Mediterranean fever and had to go to a hospital in Naples, but she recovered quickly and will soon be able to come home. This was all the sickness there was in the party except for that which led to the untimely death of Rev. Dr. Babcock at the same hospital in Naples where Mrs. Seymour was cared for.
Mr. McGraw says he left Dr. Babcock on Thursday, May 10, when he started for home. Dr. Babcock had then been ill for nearly a week, but his physician thought that he had then passed the worst of his trouble and that at no time was he ill enough to have died from the effects of the fever. At Gibraltar they received a cable telling of his death, but they did not know the cause of it and that he died by his own hand till they reached quarantine in New York [sic].
"At no time,'' said Mr. McGraw, "did Dr. Babcock evince any mental depression or melancholy from which he had in time gone by been a sufferer. On the contrary he was always cheery and apparently in the best of spirits. He was the very life of the party. No one was more careful of his health than he. He exercised considerably every day; would play baseball and would do everything to keep his splendid constitution in shape. He was in for anything and everything that best pleased the fancy of the others in the party. Little did he care for the discomforts attendant upon travel. I remember that he had a very poor horse and the horse on the trip through Syria [and] Palestine kept stumbling. Several times Dr. Babcock was badly shaken up while riding this horse. He would laugh and joke about the matter, and whenever asked if he was hurt would say that of course he was not.
Then in the evening, in camp and wherever we stopped at night, we had evening service. Dr. Babcock generally led the singing at the services. He was the leader in everything. Everyone loved him and he was always the central figure in the group ever ready to listen to his stories, some of a humorous vein and others of a more serious nature. When he became ill, we never had any idea but that he would battle the disease successfully.
The party left New York for the tour of the Holy Land on Feb. 24, and arrived in Cairo, Egypt, on March 14. They spent a month in Palestine and Syria. Leaving Syria on April 28 they arrived in Constantinople on May 1.
In Mr. McGraw's party coming home were Dr. Wilton Merle Smith of New York, Dr. Henry T. Miller of Detroit and Mr. John P. Ammidon a member of the session of the Brown Memorial church of Baltimore. The others all follow later by different steamers at pleasure.
Too Wet for a Game Today.
Count Campau and his Binghamton baseball team arrived in Cortland this morning and everything is ready, the weather permitting, for the game tomorrow forenoon. The game this afternoon had to be postponed on account of rain. Bliss has returned to Cortland and is ready to pitch his share of the games. It is rumored that a shortstop from the Buffalo Eastern league team will be given a try here, but no such player has yet arrived. Without doubt, by the time the weather clears so that the team can again play, Pete O'Brien will be through his recent practice of booting the ball about the diamond. If he does get into the game again and play as he did for the two weeks preceding last Saturday, there will be no change in the position. There were no games played in the State league yesterday.
BREVITIES.
—C. F. Wade, veterinary surgeon, is removing his office and residence from 26 Church-st. to 16 Orchard-st.
—The rector of Grace church and family will be at home to the congregation and friends Thursday evening from 8 to 11 o'clock.
—Tomorrow is Memorial Day and a legal holiday and no paper will be issued from this office. Full news of the two days on Friday.
—New display advertisements today are—Baker & Angell, Shoes, page 8; A. S. Burgess, Clothing, page 8; C. F. Thompson, Picture free, page 5.
—Rt. Rev. Frederic Dan Huntington, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Central New York, was 83 years old yesterday. During the past year he has kept over 170 appointments for services in his diocese. No clergyman in the state is more beloved and honored than he.
—There will be a "get acquainted" sociable at the Y. M. C. A. parlors this evening from 8 to 10 o'clock, to which all the young people's societies of the different churches in the city are cordially invited. Both ladies and gentlemen are invited. There will be a musical program.
—Invitations are out for the wedding of Prof. Archibald Lewis Bouton of New York university, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bouton of Cortland, and Miss Caroline Jessup MacNair, which will occur at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. David D. MacNair, 88 East Walnut-st., in Oneida, N. Y., on Wednesday evening, June 12, at 8 o'clock.
FORGOT HIS BICYCLE.
Left It, Lost It, Wanted It, Searched for It, Found It Through Standard.
Mr. Clayton E. Mudge, bookkeeper at the National bank, is considered one of the most thoughtful of the young men of Cortland, but a lapse of memory is sometimes apt to come to any one. Such an experience befell him one day last week with the result that he left his bicycle all night in the rack in front of the bank, where it stood that night and the next day till a rain storm came on and Thomas P. Button, the barber, placed the wheel in the hallway. When night came and no one had called for the wheel, the barber took it to his shop and placed an advertisement in The STANDARD for the purpose of locating the owner. Yesterday Mr. Mudge wanted the wheel to trade in for a new one, and he could not find it. This was the first time he had missed his wheel, and the bank accountant began to rack his brain in an effort to recall when he had last used the machine and where he had left it. Without coming to any definite conclusion in these matters, he consulted the want column of The STANDARD, and there he found his wheel looking for him.
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