DEADLOCK IN COMMONS, SUCCESS OF SOCIALISTS, FIRE PROTECTION, FOURTH OF JULY, SCIENCE CLUB, AND THE RECEIVER IS DOWN

 

John Redmond.

Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, June 17, 1903.

AMENDMENT BEATEN.

Deadlock In Commons Over Irish Land Bill.

MINIMUM PRICE NOT ABOLISHED.

Wyndham Refused to Strike It Out and the Nationalists Voted Against the Government, Reducing Their Majority to 41—Peril of Land Bill and Unionist Party.

   London, June 17.—The deadlock which has arisen between Chief Irish Secretary Wyndham and the Irish leader John Redmond, as a result of debate in the house of commons, in which John Redmond's amendment to the land bill abolishing the minimum price at which the landlord may sell was opposed by Mr. Wyndham and rejected by the house, threatens to imperil not only the Irish land bill but the existence of the government.

   During the present session the ministry has more than once escaped defeat because of support of the Nationalists, and while Mr. Chamberlain's fiscal policy renders the government's position precarious, the support of the Irish members is more than ever necessary to the ministers.

   Several Unionists supported John Redmond in the division lobby, after having in the course of the debate vainly advised Mr. Wyndham to agree to a compromise.

   As a matter of fact, had the Irish leader challenged a division earlier in the evening, the government would then have been defeated, and Mr. Redmond's omission to thus snatch an advantage from the absence of many Unionist members seems to indicate his desire to do everything possible to ensure the passage of the bill and endeavor to induce the government to reconsider its position.

   The whole body of Nationalists voted in support of John Redmond's amendment with the result that the government's majority was reduced to 41 votes.

   The Liberal leaders at a meeting resolved not to challenge Mr. Chamberlain's zollverein proposals by a formal resolution in the house of commons, but to confine themselves to attacking his policy whenever an opportunity offers.

 

SUCCESS OF SOCIALISTS.

Gain 15 Seats in Reichstag and Poll 400,000 More Votes Than in 1898.

   Berlin, June 17.—The leading feature in the reichstag elections which were held Tuesday was the success of the Social Democrats, who have probably increased their representation by 15 seats and their total vote to upwards of 2,500,000, or 400,000 more than in 1898. All the parties concede the success of the Socialists, which has been at the expense of them all.

   The Socialists gained one seat in Berlin and 63,000 votes, besides seats in 13 other cities, and lost seats in two cities.

   The Socialist gains in Saxony caused Herr Bebel to call Saxony "the red kingdom."

   The most pronounced Socialist success was in Essen, Krupp's town, where the Socialists increased their vote from 4,400 to 22,705. The Centrist party also increased its vote there from 20,103 to 35,864. The returns as yet are far from complete, but the general results will not be changed.

   The Richter wing of the Radicals seems to have suffered most, having lost eight members or nearly a third of its whole representation. The Barth wing of the Radicals lost three members and the Nationalists and Conservatives have lost Saxony.

   Herr Richter, sometimes called "the Mirabeau of the house," will probably have to submit to a second contest, as he only has a plurality and not a majority as the law requires. Herr Barth, Professor Mommsen and Herr Bassermann must also try a second time. Bremen is lost to the Liberals, Herr Frese being defeated by a saloonkeeper.

   An extraordinary feature of the polling in Berlin was the part taken by Socialist women. Hundreds went from house to house bringing out laggard voters, waiting at the exits of factories and mills and accompanying the indifferent electors to the polls. While the other parties had paid workers, the Socialists employed 7,000 canvassers who were unpaid, and alone of all the parties they voted their full strength.

 

Dr. Adolf Lorenz.

Dr. Lorenz in Rochester.

   Rochester, N.Y., June 17.—Dr. Adolf Lorenz is in the city, the guest of Dr. Louis Weigel. This morning he visited the little daughter of E. A. Zeitler, upon whom he operated in New York last April for congenital disease of the spine, and removed the plaster cast. This afternoon, at the request of prominent physicians of this city, Buffalo and surrounding towns, he will hold a clinic at the City hospital. Thursday morning he will hold a clinic at St. Mary's hospital, and Thursday afternoon he will leave for Montreal.

 

Minister Liang Cheng.

Liang Cheng Guest of Honor.

   Andover, Mass., June 17.—The 125th anniversary of the founding of Phillips' Andover academy was observed yesterday. Sir Chentun Liang Cheng, the new Chinese minister, who was graduated from the academy in 1882, was the guest of honor and made the principal speech at the post-prandial exercises.

 

Alton B. Parker.

BATE FOR ALTON B. PARKER.

Tennessee Senator Says the Judge Could be Nominated Now.

   Chattanooga, Tenn., June 17.— United States Senator W. B. Bate in an interview, after announcing his candidacy for re-election, said yesterday:

   "I think the national Democratic outlook is very bright, but I disagree with some of the leaders who are hunting for candidates for the presidency this early. I am in favor of letting the question of choosing a candidate rest until we see what the situation and the issues are to be. As the situation now stands, I have no doubt that Judge Alton B. Parker would be nominated if a vote were taken today. He is conducting himself very modestly and with propriety, I think, and the course for him is to avoid public attention as much as possible until the campaign."

 

PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.

Fire Prevention as a Science.

   It is announced by the Armour Institute of Technology of Chicago that a course of fire protection engineering will be instituted at the opening of the collegiate year next September, the requirements for admission being identical with those for the electrical, mechanical, civil and chemical engineering courses. A special feature of the course is to be a series of lectures by prominent architects, contractors and insurance officials upon the practical features of their work. The underlying idea is to have a scientific basis prepared for holding in check as far as possible the tremendous volume of fire losses to which this country is each year subjected.

   As a result of fires we have in the United States a destruction of property amounting to approximately $150,000,000 a year. To this large outgo must be added the cost of maintaining fire departments and enlarged water supplies to meet the emergency of great conflagrations. Altogether these taxes, together with an elaborate and expensive system of fire insurance, must lead to an aggregate outgo of little under $300,000,000 a year—that is to say, fire losses, with the means of preventing them and the method of distributing throughout the community the losses caused by them, involve in the United States an expenditure of approximately a million dollars for each working day, an expense which could be entirely saved if fire losses did not occur.

   While losses by fire cannot be entirely prevented, experience has shown that they can be materially reduced by proper methods of construction, supplemented by intelligent supervision. If a penny saved is a penny earned, then any method of instruction which tends to lop off millions or tens of millions of dollars from what may now be an unnecessary annual fire waste and the wastes incidental to fires is certainly one which the community can well afford to view with satisfaction, as it is quite as important that there should be scientific intelligence directed to the work of preventing loss of property as to the work of creating property. The Armour Institute is to be congratulated upon having made a beginning in this class of work which, it is hoped, will ultimately result in greatly lessening the enormous loss the country annually suffers from uncontrolled fires.

 

Also called Fireman's Hall.

FOURTH OF JULY.

Common Council Calls a Public Meeting for Friday Night.

   The regular semi-monthly meeting of the common council of the city of Cortland was held in the office of the city clerk last evening. Those present were Aldermen E. M. Yager, C. E. Ingalls, Vern W. Skeełe, and R. S. Pettigrew. In the absence of Mayor Brown the council was called to order by Acting Mayor E. M. Yager.

   Mr. Yager said that there had been some talk of a Fourth of July celebration and asked the council what they wish to do about it. On motion of Alderman Skeele, seconded by Alderman Ingalls, a meeting of the business men of the city was called, to be held in Fireman's hall, Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock.

   City Chamberlain George J. Maycumber was present and stated that the principal and interest of part of the Groton-ave. paving bonds would be due July 1 and that Mrs. Lydia A. Strowbridge and Joseph T. Bates had not paid their assessment for the same. He asked for instructions as to what to do. The matter was referred to the city attorney and will be taken up at the next meeting. On motion, the council adjourned.

 

Andrew D. White.

Ordeal Makes Cornell Stronger.

   Ithaca, N. Y., June 17.—At the class day exercises at Cornell yesterday ex-President Andrew D. White, referring to the typhoid epidemic, said he believed that Cornell would be better and stronger in the end.

 

The Cortland Science Club.

   So many of the members of the Cortland Science club are so busy in these days and are not willing to give up a whole day to an outing that it has been decided to abandon for the present the trip to Ithaca which was planned for next Saturday, and instead to go to Little York at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon and take supper at 6 o'clock at the Raymond House. Many more will undoubtedly be able to spend a few hours upon this trip than could go to Ithaca. Members will go by private conveyance or otherwise as they may elect. All active and honorary members will please notify N. H. Gillette or G. J. Mager at once of their intention of attending so that Mr. Raymond may be informed of the number of plates to be laid.

 

THE RECEIVER IS DOWN.

An Invention of the Bell Telephone Company.

   The Bell telephone company has installed a novel device for the purpose of informing subscribers when a telephone receiver has been left off the hook. The instrument is called a howler and makes a loud buzzing sound which can be heard through the telephone for considerable distance from the receiver. The sound continues till the receiver has been put in its proper place.—Ithaca News.

   It would be a great boon if the Home Telephone company could make or secure an adaptation of this device for use upon its instruments.

 

BREVITIES.

   —The new display advertisements today are—G. H. Wiltsie, Special for Thursday and Friday, page 6; Perkins & Quick, Paints, page 6.

   —There will be a meeting of Pecos tribe, No. 357, I. O. R. M. tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, at which time the nomination of officers will occur.

   —"The man who whispers down a well about the goods he has to sell, won't reap as many golden dollars as he who climbs a tree and hollers."