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| Antonio Sanchez de Bustamante |
Cortland Evening Standard, Thursday, March 12, 1903.
CUBA RATIFIES TREATY.
Senate Approved Measure by Two-Thirds Vote.
MAJORITY VOTE ONLY REQUIRED.
Forceful Speech by Senor Bustamante Urging Ratification—Showed Advantage to Cuba of the 20 Per Cent Reduction in United States Customs. Protection For Cuban Tobacco.
Havana, March 12.—The senate by a vote of 16 to 5 has ratified the reciprocity treaty with the United States.
The treaty was thus ratified by exactly two-thirds of the vote of the senate. The ratification required only a majority vote, so that there were three votes to spare.
The vote was taken immediately on the conclusion of a forceful appeal by Senor Bustamante. He insisted that whether the trust or the producers were the chief beneficiaries of the 20 per cent reduction of customs duties on Cuban sugar shipped to the United States, it was not possible that such differential treatment favoring Cuban sugar in competition with that of Europe could result other than favorably to Cuba's trade.
Under the treaty, he said, the European producer would be unable to compete with Cuba. If the European nations were really seeking to prevent the ratification of the treaty in the United States senate it was not on account of the little they would lose in the Cuban markets, but because they would no longer be able to send sugar to the United States. The treaty would also provide the protection that Cuba needed on tobacco.
Viewed in another aspect, continued Senor Bustamante, the treaty would give Cuba national entity and allow her to enter into commercial relations with the nation which was hitherto considered only her guardian.
The custom of approving the treaty by sections was dispensed with and the recommendations of the committee were approved in their entirety.
COLOMBIAN CANAL TREATY.
Senate Will Vote Next Tuesday—Morgan Still Speaking.
Washington, March 12.—Decided progress was made toward reaching an agreement for a vote on the Colombian canal treaty, and when the senate adjourned there was a general understanding that in all probability some hour next Tuesday would be definitely agreed on as the time when a vote should be taken on the treaty and all amendments.
All statements to this effect, however, were accompanied by the announcement that there were yet some details to be arranged, leaving it impossible absolutely to conclude the agreement before this afternoon. There is, however, no doubt in the minds of leading senators that the vote will be taken Tuesday.
The arrangement was brought about largely by Senator Frye, who by virtue of long service with Senator Morgan on the committee on foreign relations had come to be on terms of great intimacy with the Alabama senator.
Senator Morgan exacted consent to the printing in the Congressional Record of the remarks he has prepared giving his best recollection of the speeches he has made in the executive sessions of the senate on the treaty. The Republican senators consented at once to save time, which they consider now more important than the conservation of senatorial etiquette.
Democratic senators have practically agreed unanimously to urge an amendment to the 23d article of the treaty relieving it of all questions as to the right of the United States to control the canal. The indications are, however, that the treaty will be ratified without modification in any particular.
The agreement made has no reference to the Cuban treaty but opens the way for its early consideration in the senate.
Senator Morgan continued his remarks in the senate in opposition to the canal treaty, but most of the time was given up to the reading of documents by the clerk at Mr. Morgan's request. The few remarks made by him related to the unsanitary conditions of the vicinity of the Panama route and to the division of the money to be paid to Columbia by the United States.
The Guatemalan and Mexican extradition treaties were ratified.
The understanding among members of the committee on foreign relations is that none of the reciprocity treaties before the committee shall be reported for consideration at this session and that the Cuban treaty will be the last to receive the attention of the committee, for the present.
WANAMAKER'S NEW STORE
To be Erected in Philadelphia at a Cost of $5,000,000.
Philadelphia, Pa., March 12.—John Wanamaker has planned replacing his store here with a new structure which will be the costliest building in town. A permit was taken out before the bureau of building inspection for the erection of a twelve story steel frame fire proof store which will cost $5,000,000. The building of the new store will present some new features. It will be built in sections on the site of the present structure at 13th and Chestnut-sts., and at no time will the building operations interfere with the store's business.
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| Burton L. French. |
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| Guest Editorials. |
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
From College to Congress.
The youngest member of the fifty-eighth congress will be Burton L. French, 27 years old, who is now a candidate for a masters degree at the University of Chicago. He was elected last fall in the state of Idaho. How the state changed from wild Populism under the lead of this young college student is as interesting as fiction and as instructive as history. The story is told in the New York Evening Sun as follows:
Since Mr. French came of age he has mingled politics and college studies in a fashion that illustrates the boundless opportunities of youthful ambition in the arid states. Seven years ago he was the man with a hoe, raising beets on au irrigated farm, poor as Job's turkey and yearning for an education. Earning enough money to pay his preliminary expenses, he entered the freshman class of the University of Idaho, and his voice was heard so often in the debating society advocating expansion in the Orient that the politicians heard of him.
While he was working on the farm during vacation the Republicans nominated him for the assembly. He was elected and divided his time between the state house and the university. He was re-elected in 1901, being then a junior. As a debater he made such a stir that the Republican minority nominated Burton for speaker. By this time the people had heard of him.
As a senior representative his fame grew apace. The legislative session closed for him in a blaze of glory, and he took his degree. But he wanted more education and moved to the Chicago university to win a master's degree with an attenuated purse and sublime faith. Between the hours devoted to studies and recitations he hustled for his board and tuition.
Returning to Idaho last summer, French was nominated for representative in congress by the Republicans, who had a majority of 3,000 to overcome. If all the voters in Idaho were men the outlook would have been dubious, but a good many of them were women, and Burton L. French is comely to look upon, keen of eye, ruddy of complexion, straight-lipped, strong jawed, broad-shouldered, athletic in build. He made a whirlwind canvass, from Bonner's Ferry on the Canadian border to Weston on the Nevada line, 1,200 miles as the crow flies. He was beard in all but two of the twenty-one counties, but in the two there is only sage brush and jackrabbits have no votes. He risked his neck on stages that skirted precipices on one wheel, he rode fractious cayuses, he scaled mountain peaks. He waved the flag, he twisted the lion's tail, he complimented the sex that worships heroes; and though the Democrats boasted that no boy orator could wipe out their 3,000 majority, their candidate was beaten by 8,000.
Having done a turn at politics, Mr. French repaired to the Chicago university to dig anew for his degree. As his pay as congressman began to run on March 4, he will have less difficulty in keeping the wolf from the door.
Before making the trip to Chicago, young Mr. French took the bar examination in Idaho, and is now a full-fledged lawyer. He is very modest about his success in riding the educational and political horses without coming a cropper. When he thinks of his days with the hoe he can hardly believe that he has two sheep-skins, has almost earned another, and holds a commission to represent Idaho at the capital in Washington. "I cannot say," he declares, ''that I ever had a single thought of entering politics when I first went to the university of Idaho." What university Mr. French will attend when he goes to Washington he has not yet decided. He will be too young to run for vice-president next year, otherwise be would be Idaho's candidate.
It is seldom that a youngster launches his bark with so much luck and prescience on the tide that leads to fortune. The time was ripe in Idaho for a hustling young expansionist; Mr. French hit the time for sailing off to a minute. In his starburst career the Democrats may read the answer to the question where Idaho's electoral vote will go in 1904.
NURSES ARE WANTED.
Scarcity Because of Ithaca's Draft on Cortland.
There is at present a scarcity of nurses in Cortland, which is due probably to the fact that many from here have gone to Ithaca to assist in caring for typhoid patients. At Brown's drug store, where a large number of nurses are registered to meet the call that is constantly being made at that place for such help, the number enrolled is insufficient to meet the demand. The pharmacy has calls for trained nurses to take charge of patients in Cortland and several nearby places and if there are nurses in the city who desire to secure a place they should register at once at the store.
LIQUOR TAX CERTIFICATES.
Some Statistics as to Effect of the Proposed Law.
If the proposed bill becomes a law increasing the cost of liquor tax certificates as a means of resource the city of Cortland will be affected along with the other cities of the state. According to statistics furnished by the excise department at Albany there are now twenty-three tax certificates issued in Cortland at the present rate of $300 each. These create a revenue of $6,900. Under the proposed law the license fee will be $450 which will produce a revenue of $10,350, a gain of $3,450 over the present sum.
Of the present receipts two-thirds go to localities and one-third to the state, Under the proposed law the state and localities share alike.
The estimated receipts for the entire state under the new law are $18,600,000, of which state and localities will each secure $9,300,000.
Under the present law the receipts for the state amount to $12,400,000, of which the localities get $8,266,686, and the state $4,133,333.
Under the proposed law there would be a gain to the state of $5,166,686 annually, and a gain to the localities of $1,033,334. The city of Cortland now receives $4,600 of the tax and under the proposed law would receive $5,175, which would be a gain of $575.
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| Andrew Carnegie. |
An Invitation to Carnegie.
The trustees of the new Carnegie library at Syracuse have invited Andrew Carnegie to visit that city at the time of the State fair in September, at which time it is also planned to dedicate the new library.
FISHERMEN ARRESTED.
Six Charged with Using a Seine in Cayuga Lake.
Six men were arrested near Ithaca Monday and were Tuesday arraigned in court charged with violating the game laws in using a seine in Cayuga lake. They were caught in the act by the State Game Protector Hawes. They had taken eight barrels of fish in their morning haul and about 700 pounds in the afternoon before being apprehended. They pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial.
There was another phase of the fish question that interests the public aside from the mere violation of state law. The health authorities of Ithaca have been warning people against catching and eating fish caught in Cayuga lake near the city of Ithaca where they might have eaten some of the fever impregnated sewage of the city. The authorities are afraid the infection may be conveyed by use of lake fish.
The Typhoid at Ithaca.
The total number of cases of typhoid fever at Ithaca since Jan. 10 and up to the close of last week is stated by the health authorities to be 755. It is said that not one of the 500 colored people of Ithaca has had typhoid, and not one of the poor of the city who are assisted through the commissioner of charities.
It was thought on Tuesday that the situation was materially improving as only two new cases had been reported in twenty-four hours, but yesterday there were five new cases with four more suspected cases.
About 200 of the more than 1,000 students who had left Cornell university and gone home have returned.
BREVITIES.
—The women of Ithaca are taking steps toward the organization of a woman's sanitary protection association.
—The maple sugar season promises to be unusually short this year. It is reported that the sap is already beginning to lessen in its flow.
—The Woman's Home Missionary society of the First M. E. church will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock with Mrs. E. F. Jennings, 9 Church-st.
—The Standard is indebted to Mr. Jesse Jennison for copies of the papers of Charlotte, N. C. Mr. Jennison is on a trip for the Cortland Carriage Goods Co.
—The next entertainment in the Normal [School] course will be a concert at Normal hall on Friday evening, March 20, by the Von Moltke string quartet.
—The funeral of the late Mrs. Mary Goddard of Truxton will be held at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the house and at 2 o'clock at the Baptist church in Truxton.
—New display advertisements today are—Warren, Tanner & Co., Carpets, rugs mattings, page 6; Forrest Seed Co., Seeds, page 4; W. T. Crane, Piano sale, page 8; Bingham & Miller, Rain coats and top coats, page 8.
—A resident of Ithaca through the chance re-reading of an old letter written to her in 1863 while she was visiting away from home is able to recall the fact that in that year Ithaca had a scourge of typhoid fever not different from that of the present year.
—Roger Gale Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Smith of Waterloo, died yesterday aged nearly six months. The funeral will be held in Groton Friday. Mrs. Smith was formerly Miss Amy Gale of Cortland, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Scott Gale.
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