Pennsylvania, poll-taxes paid for dead citizens in Philadelphia, 103, Democratic platform dodges silver issue, 272, Republican platform dodges imperialism, 329, Supreme Court enforces duty of Secretary of State to advertise Constitutional amendments, 428-Panama Canal Company in- corporated in New Jersey, 1-Pingree adminis- tration and war contracts, 23-Edward J. Phelps deceased, 197-W. H. Peckham to N. Y. Legis lature on taxation, 139-Dr. Parkhurst on the Presbyterian creed and McGiffert case, 293- Bishop Potter on Filipino mechanical cleverness, 233, on American soldier sobriety in the Philip- pines, 349-Senator Platt forces Roosevelt into Lincoln, Neb., 23-Pensions, greed of 9th Mas- PORTO RICO: Municipal election at San Juan, Quay, Matthew S., adverse report of Senate Com- Roosevelt, Governor, will not accept Vice-Presi- dency, 120, 467, but forced to vise city charter, signs State appraisers bill, 330, and makes Platt's tools appraisers, 350, vetoes bill releasing school trustees from buy- ing prison-made goods, 351, sustains exclusion of inheritance appraisers from examinations, 390, duty to discharge Governorship to the end, 488-Secretary Root behind Porto Rico tariff bill, 175, assurances given in Cuba, 213, plan for Army War College, 214, on cost of Philip- pine war and of transports, 252, ready to fight for Monroe Doctrine, 329-Republican Con- vention at Philadelphia, 467, planks left out of platform, Addicks recognized, Quay strengthen- ed, 487, Quay's scheme of reformed representa- tion, 488-Religious Trust, charitable confede- St. Louis street-car strike, 429, 468-President Schurman's commercial justification of seizing Philippines, 156, moral for Philippines of vio- lating pledges to Porto Rico, on prospect of good civil service in Philippines, 213-Rev. C. M. Sheldon edits Topeka "Capital," 215-South not for free silver as a main issue, 2, thanks to rise in cotton, 197-Ship-subsidy bill finds plenty of witnesses pro, 82, masquerades as a contract, 120, and as fostering seamen, 138, 271, effect of speed bonus, 291, division Democratic opposition, 369-Supreme Court up- holds inheritance tax, 369, disclaims jurisdic- Texas, Gov. Longino's proposals to suppress lynch- Wisconsin Republican Convention on imperialism, 329-Appraiser Wakeman, efforts to remove, 1, overruled by Board of General Appraisers, 61 -Gen. Joe Wheeler's holding two offices, 2- Senator Wellington withdraws from Republican party. 310-Senator Wolcott's apology for the GREAT BRITAIN: Defect in army organization shown by war in South Africa, 3, ruling that food is not contraband of war unless meant for enemy, 43, first debate in Parliament on the war, 103, Government sustained, 121, war budget, 177, Boer sympathizers mobbed, 235, Salisbury snubs Ireland in speech to Primrose League, 371, treats Drink Commission's report with levity, 391-Debate on Indian famine, 311-Australian Federation Bill passes second reading, 429- Political problem in South Africa, 409-Cham- berlain on Boer war and Philippine, 489-Rose- bery withdraws from Scottish Liberal Associa- tion, 177-Press on Delagoa Bay award, 253, 273-Revenue from dead millionaires, 253-Re- servation of the Sacrament prohibited, 351- Succession duty on Baron Hirsch's Colonization FRANCE: End of anti-republican conspiracy trials, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY: Goluchowski on good rela- DENMARK: Georg Brandes denounces sale of St. SOUTH AFRICA: Effect of war on gold supply, 3, CHINA: Germany's troubles in colonizing Kiao- JAPAN: Restricts emigration to America, 469. Announcements, 10, 31, 52, 71, 91, 108, 127, 145, 162, 184, 203, 221, 242, 261, 281, 299, 319, 338, 358, 376, 397, 417, 436, 457, 475, 497-K. A. E. Arentzen deceased, 129-Mme. d'Aulnoy's Jour Büchner, Ludwig, deceased, 165-Vittorio Bersezio Caxton's publications listed by G. Duff, 164, 165- Clarke Papers, 320, 321-Cynewulf's Christ edit- ed by A. S. Cook, 263-Léo Claretie on French lecturers visiting Harvard, 380-Chopin, Liszt's Life of, 419-Caucus, nominating, Ostrogorski on, 130-Councils, Quentin's Great Collections, D'Annunzio and Signora Duse, 478-Gordon Duff on Early Printed Books, 164, 165-A. P. De Lisle's Life by Purcell, 263-Dictionary of Na- tional Biography, vols. 60, 61, 147. Eliot, President, Harvard report, 164-England Saved Europe, How, Fitchett's, 54, 263, Eng. land in 19th Century, Oman's, 74, English Oxford Dictionary, 110, 360, English imprints of Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde, 164, 165, English Unitarianism and Protestant Dissent, Lloyd's, 222, English Plays (17th century), Greg's List of, 284, English Public Schools (Rugby, Charterhouse), dally working of, 478- Egypt, Lord Cromer's financial report for 1899, 360, Egyptology, Budge's Handbooks of, 186. Fredericq. Paul, on the sale of indulgences in Ibsen's "When We Dead Awake," 94-Italy, Mod- ern, Orsi's, 419-Indian Child-Life, Deming's, 206-International Society of Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, 206-Indulgences, P. Fredericq on Japan, Transactions of Asiatic Society, 33, 166, 302, 419, Jesuit Missions press, 166, Florens on ancient rituals, 302-Jesult Relations (vols. Kempis, à, Thomas, Dutch monument to, 340. Lincoln's Life, by Miss F. M. Tarbell, 164-Alexan- der Leslie, Terry's Life of, 13-W. Lloyd's Story of Protestant Dissent, 222-Oliveira Lima's 'Nos Estados Unidos,' 54-Lucian, Hime's, 244, Martineau, James, deceased, 54-Madison's Notes Pick's, 12-Magazines for January, 32, 33, Feb- ruary, 129, 130. March, 205, 206, April, 283, Newnes South Polar expedition's success, 284- Nansen's Scientific Results of North Polar expedition, 379, Nansen on educa. tion, 400-Norway, national-tongue movement, Oxyrhyncus Papyri contents, 74. Pick's Memory Culture, 12-Thomas Paine, Life by E. Sedgwick, 185-Poole's Historical Atlas, 340-Pacific Coast Philological Association Quiller-Couch's Historical Tales from Shakspere, Reusch, Franz Heinrich, deceased, 224-Wilhelm von Riehl, H. Simonsfeld on, 13-Raphael, Strachey's, 93-Rabelais in Urquhart's transla tion, 301-J. Royce's Conception of Immortall- ty, 460-Russian medical students limited in number, 243-Royal Historical Society's Trans- actions, 73-Rubber, Ferguson's All About, 438 -Romantic Triumph, Omond's, 460. Shakspere, Historical Tales by Quiller-Couch, 340, Shakspere's Warwickshire Dialect studied by A. Morgan, 438-Henry Sweet's History of Lan- guage, 460-Signorelli, Crutwell's, 93-An- drea del Sarto, Guinness's, 93-L. de Saussure's Psychology of French Colonization, 186-Spain, Main's Cities and Sights of, 360-Scandinavians in United States, Nelson's History of, 147- Scottish Jacobites, Newbigging's, 223-Solway, Neilson's Annals of, 186-Sudan, political divi slon, status of slavery, 321-South African His- tory, Pratt's Leading Points in. 499-Solar eclipse of May 28, preparations for, 223-State scholarships desired for high schools, 243. Toyama, M. S., deceased, 321-Tower of London, Virginia, colonial slavery in, 147-"Vanity Fair," 93. Whitmore, William H., deceased, 478-Washing- Civil Service Pensions 296 .470, 492 Currency Bill Adopted.. Government Deposits 86 Hadley, President, Denver Ad- 45 257 Hole-and-Corner Imperialism 216 Progress in the Forum 277 Idol, The 430 A Parliamentary Secession... 315 Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (Liliencron's) 319 Darwinism and 414 "Ignoble Peace". 26 Greece-Discoveries in the Agora Amazones, (Néry's) Pays des. Lamarckism 464 (Hutton's) 116 Imperialism, The Issue of.. 158 at Corinth 472 Cyclopædia of Day-Dreams (Lawrence's) 265 228 Irish Party Reunited. 180 Mexico-Impressions in the Mexi- American in Holland (Griffis's). Deacon Bradbury (Dix's). 303 98 68, 124 American Irish Sentiment. 237 Iron Trade, Future of the.. 373 Africa-En Route to an Eclipse Literature, (Fisher's) Decatur, Stephen (Brady's). General Survey of 19 Jsthmian Canal The Eclipse in Tripoll 455 American Negro, (Washington's) dition (Garman's) Deep-Sea Fish of Albatross Expe- 497 Future of 104 Japan-Notes on Japan.... 98 ..395, 415 Life of De Lisle, Ambrose P., (Purcell's) 110- Anatolische Justification of Wealth. Landwirthschaft 263. 66 (Herrmann's) Des Indes à la Planète Mars 498 Letter Writing, Survival of. Anatomical Diagrams for Art Stu- (Flournoy's) Literature and Diplomacy. 394 ence. dents (Dunlop's) 261 Deutsche Litteratur des 19. Jahr- 463 Lodge, Senator, Speech.. 198 Long Battle Ended... 200 Long, Secretary, Boston Speech.. 236 Abbott Gospels. A Harmony of.. 108 Ancient Philosophy, (Windelband's) hunderts (Meyer's) 384 Andes, Highest (Fitzgerald's). schauungen des Deutsches Altertum in den An- 438 148 145 American School in Palestine. 4 Anglo-Saxon Wars 457 Angell, Col. Israel, Diary (Field's) 146 284 McKinley's Renomination 430 Animal Folk-Lore, Range of. 220 "Another" Animal and Plant Lore (Bergen's) 190 109 220 McKinley's Speech at Ohio Asso- Anthropological Evidence Apistophilon (Bullard's) 264 91 ciation Banquet 178 "Any" Apocalypse, (Benson's) Study of 357 the Military Lessons of Boer War... 354 Arbiter of Opinion 282 Dog, (Hill's) Management and 398 347 457 Art Students' League. 318 Apostle of the Ardennes (Lind- Mills of God... 46 Athenian Things say's) 361 51 Mivart, Prof., and the Church... 142 Auditing of McKinley 49 Arctic, (Jackson's) Thousand Days Donne, John, (Gosse's) Life of, Domestic Blunders of Women... 270 377 in Baboo Latin 168 Money and Senatorships.. 295 183 Berlin, Students and Libraries in. 203 Arden Massiter (Barry's) 402 Monopolies, War on.... 410 Bettering the Instruction 126 Asia, Heart of (Skrine's). 167 Municipality and Slums.. 333 Beveridge's Father-in-law. 89 Asie, (Leroy-Beaulieu's) Rénova- tion de l'. Bible Dictionaries National Archives 51 Dover, (Statham's) History of... 111, 138 72 151 393 Boer Preparations for War. 31 Naval Student on our War with Boers Fighting For? What Are Spain 256 the 337 New Bank Currency. Boers, Looting the 376 218 Book-Plate Thievery 260 At the Wind's Will (Moulton's).. 265 153 (Fiske's) 113 170 Quaker Colonies (Ho- (Temple's) New Men in Public Life......... 216 Bride's Mirror garth's) 321 279 New York Legislature's Session, Bryan, Throw Over... Babar (Lane-Poole's) 49 165 Morals of ........ "Bundesrath," Seizure of the. 30 Babylonian Religion and Mytholo- 275 Century Once More. gy (King's) 71 186 Echoes of Greek Idylls (Miffin's) 265 New York's Plundering 141 New York State Taxes, Equalizing 160 tion Porto Rican Question, Morals of 140 Charleston and Port Royal. 496 Bacon-Shakespeare's Conven- Adonis (Bormann's) 31 Chaworth, 456 Ballads of a Bookworm (Browne's) 265 Filles (Dugard's) Education, (Seeley's) History of. 210 80- Jeunes Education of Children (Mon- taigne's) 210 282 University Bamberger, Ludwig, Erinnerungen 12 221 Correction, A.. Cotton Prospect 220 Beatrice d'Este (Cartwright's)... 226 188 158 Decision without Reasons. .143, 162 52 Benson, Edward White (Benson's) 460 Decorative Work in Pennsylvania bell's) Education of the Young (Bosan- 497 of Future 186 186 Academy 357 Bible Dictionary (Davis's). Degrees, Irregular 10 Bird Homes (Dugmore's). 45 Despotism in College Administra- 410 Republican If, The Great... tion 317 Bird Notes Afield (Keeler's). (Wilmowski's) Meine 352 Republican Imbroglio Dewey's Preparation 89 Erinnerungen an 198 Republican Nominations 491 "Doubt" (To Fear, etc.)... 90 Boccacio, (Zenatti's) Dal Commen- Republican Platform and Gloss... Dutch Professors' Manifesto.. 416 490 Roosevelt on Taxation Eclipse Observation 376 24 Root, Secretary, Army Bill.. 217 Elective System at Harvard. 396 Ruskin, John Epicene Pronoun 66 .299, 338 to sopra la Commedia di Dante 498 11 284 Shipping Subsidies Erring with Plato.. 31, 52 64 Slavery to the Machine 236 Fellowships for Women......203, 260 South African Difficulties 237 Filipino Capacity 279 South, Political Chaos in 313 Ger-Falcon Government 435 Spain, Naval Student on our War German Use of Neuter Pronoun.. 261 with ... 256 Hand is on Us 240 "Spiritual Power" and Honesty.. 257 Harper and Appleton.. 240 Steel and Wire Episode. 313 Harvard Elective System. 396 Stevenson's Letters Heart of Asia. 5 280 Strike Epidemic 353 He Knows 89 British Breeding Birds, (Kear- Subsidies of Various Kinds.. 123 Heroic Peace 337 ton's) Our Rarer. Taxation of College Property. 334 Tax on Banks and Trust Com- He, She, It...241, 261, 280, 299, 338 Briton and Boer. 435 Brook Farm (Swift's).. 304 English Novel, (Stoddard's) Evo- 440 English Plays 1643-1700 (Greg's). 284 Law, (Mackay's) panies 84 Teaching, Decline of Trusts and Interstate Trade. 431 Imperialism, Unselfishness of.. How the Money Goes........396, 435 10 202 Browning, Poet and Man (Cary's) 191 History of English Radicals (Kent's) 211 92 Englishwoman's Year book Trusts, Proposed Constitutional Indian Famine 240 Byzantine Constantinople (Van (Janes's) 72 Amendment Against 392 "Indian Harvest" 183 Millingen's) 225 Van Wyck's Position 451 Inquiry, An Vice-Presidency, The 332 Jefferson's? Is It. 298 War and English Politics.. 453 Kentucky and the Boss. 107 War Taxes, Reduction of........ 275 Kentucky, Only One Issue in.. 496 Cambridge Compositions (Archer- Enoch Willoughby (Wickersham's) 303 117 toire (Fredericq's) "Enterprise,' Lucky Little 359 (Hill's) 377 Year One of the Empire... 105 Law Degrees at Oxford... 396 Literature and Fleas.. 221 Special Correspondence. McKinley, Auditing of.. 49 Cape of Good Hope, (Trotter's) 229 Epileptics, (Letchworth's) Care of 339 172 McKinley Beer in Manila. Carroll, Lewis, 90 (Collingwood's) Domestic-American Historical "On the Hip". 397 Life of Association Archæological New Haven Modern Language Association in New York On to or Onto. 280 Carroll, Lewis, (Bowman's) Story Institute at Our New Diplomacy. 49 of .. 210 27 Oxford Law Degrees. 396 Cathedral Builders (Scott's). 16 Etchingham Letters (Pollock and Maitland's) Palestine, American School in. 457 Ce-Kiang (Carli's) 386 tory of 28 Parcels Post Stamp.. 279 Central-Station Electricity Sup- Evangelienfragment, (Jacoby's) Economic Association at Ithaca 29 Perplexed Republican 71 American Oriental Society.... 314 Phantomnation 127 Librarians at Montreal.. 492 Philippines, Our Title to... 50 Some Hindu Proverbs........ 88 Porto Rico or Puerto Rico?. 337 ply (Gay and Yeaman's)..... Ein Neues 128 Exhibition (1900), Paris.. 424 478 Eye, (Davis's) Refraction of the. 339 Day The Famine in India.. 335 Postal Card, A Better..260, 299, 318 Chase, Salmon P. (Hart's).. 207 (Strang's) 72 Goethe's "Iphigenie" at Har- Protestant Principle 182 239 Roman Law 90 Chateaubriand en Amérique (Bé- Farmstead (Roberts's) 242 Federal 398 Clearing-houses (GI- Great Britain-London Winter Exhibitions 46 Opening Season in London.. 355 South Africa, The Struggle in.. Rose and the Ring Mangled..145, 183 Chaucer Canon (Skeat's) 443 man's) 484 126 Chile, Temperate (Smith's). 227 8 Chile, (Echeverria's) Voces Usa- Royal Academy Exhibition. 413 Politics and Plays in Ireland.. 201 Ireland and the Royal Visit... 276 Stillman, W. J.. on the Boer War 144 das en 172 China, (Smith's) Village Life in. 344 Femmes d'Amérique (Blanc's). Finland and the Tsars (Fisher's). 135 223 and Stone's) 117 383 71 Chopin, (Liszt's) Life of. 419 Folk-Songs from the Spanish Vanishing London 336 "Sun" Graduate Study at Oxford. 432 "Sure" France The Suez Canal.......... 7 Suum Culque 241, 261 Christ (Cook's Cynewulf's). 263 (Huntington's) 265 Marshal de Luxembourg....... 375 Teaching, Decline in.. Cicero's Letters (Shuckburgh's).. 109. Forms of Prose Literature (Gar- diner's) 819 (Schouler's) .219, 241, 280 History of Rebelliau's Bossuet 48 Tell it not to the Tagals. 31 The Educational Thalia 108 France 69 Tommy and Grizel. 497 Serrao's 'Conquest of Rome'.. 87 Transvaal Issue 396 Count de la Ferronays. 474 Two Lapses 261 A Feminist of the French Vice-Presidency 71 Revolution 434 Walton's Angler 497 Masson's Napoleon 297 Napoleon's Eaglet Washingtons, The Seat of the. 9 356 Eliza Bonaparte Wieland, English Translator of.. Common Sense in Education and 210 From Cape Town to Ladysmith 284 241 259 Wilkes's Land Confident To-morrow (Matthews's) 16 Frontinus and the Water Supply 357 Moreau 107 The Mother of the Duc d'En- Williams, Roger, and Sir Thomas Contemporarles (Higginson's) 135 of Rome (Herschel's) 441 Correggio (Brinton's) 261 Galileo, Opere 437 435 ghien 142, 181 Cotswold Village (Gibbs's) 109 Chuquet's Alsace in 1814. Barante's Memoirs Titles of Books Reviewed Crashaw's Poems (Tutin's). Garden-Book, (Hunn's) Amateur's 261 Practical 359 362 Garland of Sonnets (Betts's). 263 Paris Exposition: Its Architec- ture 493 Emile Faguet, Academician.. Adams, Charles Francis (Adams's) 224 Crevelll, Carlo (Rushforth's). 242 Garthowen (Raine's) 402 11 284 Austria-Hungary - Austrian-Anti- Semitism 160 Italy-Charles Albert's Legend and Agricola (Gudeman's Tacitus's).. 243 Cuba and International Relations Geber (Benton's) 303 German Sectarians of Pennsyl- 325 vania (Sachse's) 38 Cuba. (Musgrave's) Under Three Germantown (Pennypacker's) 59 Settlement of 438 Dante (Gardner's) 377 Gesammelte Aufsätze (Schön- Lincoln, A., (Tarbell's) Life of... 164 11 Pédant Joué (Cyrano de Berge- 222 72 Essays zur 13 Penn, William, (Jenkins's) Fami- Philippines, (Millet's) Expedition Seward, William H., (Bancroft's) 340 93 16 362 .... Logic, (Lafleur's) Illustrations of. 502 Philobiblon (Bury's) 14 221 Lungs, (Fowler and Goodloe's) moirs of 244 Playfair, Lyon, (Reid's) Me- Physics, (Watson's) Text-book of 163 Sill, Edward R., Prose Writings. 300 417 Socialism, (Le Bon's) Psychology 192 of 385 211 Solway, (Neilson's) Annals of the 186 362 163 Point and Pillow Lace... 114 Lyra Frivola (Godley's). 362 Lyrics of Brotherhood (Burton's). 264 of ... 405 Political History of Europe Soul and the Hammer (Ditson's) 402 37 58 South African History, (Pratt's) 499 840 Makers of Literature (Wood- berry's) 281 Poor People (Friedman's).. 303 South Africa, (Hobson's) War in. 284 85 Books of the Week. 20, 39, 60, 79, 99, 118, 136, 154, 173. ERRATA. Page 52, col. 1., line 36 from bottom, Page 77, col. 1., line 18 from_bottom. Page 127, col. ii., line 3 from bottom. Page 152, col. 1., line 27 from bot- Page 162, col. 111., line 32. For "Mac- Page 343, col. ill., line 30. For "a NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1900. The Week. The reported success of Secretary Hay's efforts to obtain a joint international guarantee of the "open door" in China will constitute, if real, a great diplomatic achievement. That the Government has been working for this end has been no secret. The President alluded to the matter in his message, when he said that no infringement of our treaty rights in China had yet occurred, and that the purpose of the Administration was to see that none should occur. That expression suggests the rationale of the affair-to maintain unimpaired our commercial rights in China enjoyed under existing treaties. The danger was, of course, that the successive annexations, or "leases" for ninety-nine years as the wise it call, might have the effect of snuffing out our treaties. China would be disposed still to observe them, but would the European Powers who had taken over Chinese territory? The example of English experience in Madagascar is instructive. When France, not without some diplomatic trickery, suddenly declared Madagascar French territory, instead of merely a French protectorate, British treaty rights of trade in that island were at once extinguished. Lord Salisbury complained, but M. Hanotaux was firm, and the English were left without redress. Mr. Hay foresaw a similar peril to our interests in China, and took steps to forestall it diplomatically. the Argentine treaty, is that free-trade Ludlow, who, it says, "has governed by means of ukases signed with the point of his sword." These are but indications of the swarming difficulties which will try the patience and tact of Gen. Wood in his new and arduous position, but which we think he will surmount. We suppose that the incorporation of the Panama Canal Campany in New Jersey on Wednesday of last week is intended partly to remove the deadly re This was used as a fatal taunt in the last Congress. It will be no longer available, however, now that the incorpora Appraiser Wakeman continues to be a thorn in the side of New York importers.proach that it was a "foreign" enterprise. It has seemed to be his view all along that importing is an immoral act, which has somehow been recognized and tolerated by the United States Government, but which good men should discountenance and prevent as much as possible. So he takes all possible means to check this kind of misdemeanor. The result is that foreign trade really belonging to tors are able to announce "the Americanization of the Panama Canal." This makes the Panama route at least as patriotic as the Nicaragua plan, and thus the eminent engineers who are investigating the comparative technical merits of the two are at liberty to dismiss all invidious questions about the flag, and look only for the better place to dig a canal. Their report cannot, in all probability, be laid before Congress in its present session. The President evidently does not expect that it will be, as he said in his message that "a comprehensive and complete investigation is called for, which will require much labor and considerable time for its accomplishment." Yet this, of course, has not prevented the impetuous Hepburn and the fiery warned to mend his ways. Such leniency Morgan from announcing that they pro re will be a mistake on the part of the keep his hands off an image in a Catholic of the very League of which Wakeman Mr. Kasson has taken a hand in explaining the French reciprocity treaty. He is naturally displeased at the assertion of the French Government that they got quite the better of him in the bargain. As a matter of fact, he is certain that he worsted them. They were sim-tective tariff man himself and a member ply in despair at his superior craft and cunning in the negotiation, and at one time ruefully thought of abandoning the whole treaty, which was such a monument of their diplomatic defeat; but finally they concluded to put a bold face on it and tell the Chamber that they had got the better of the wily Americans. Mr. Kasson, however, is not putting a bold face on it when he affirms that he completely outmanoeuvred the Frenchmen; he is telling the simple historic truth, and has no thought of influencing the action of the Senate. Truthful James could not be more solemn than he in assuring the troubled California fruit-growers that their interests are dear to his heart, and have not been neglected in the least. But the amusing thing about all this, as about The native Cuban press treated Gen. Brooke's farewell proclamation with grave humor. "We look around us," said the Diario de la Marina, "as Gen. Brooke urges us to do, but we do not see the things he says we shall." One of them was judicial and prison reform, upon which Gen. Wood seems now to be entering with vigor. Towards the new Military Governor all factions are very respectful. This, however, may be only provisional, until Wood chooses his Cabinet; then he will be apt to hear things said in fluent Castilian. The Cubano already demands the dismissal of Gen. pose to push bills for the construction of a Nicaragua Canal, without waiting for any little thing like a Government report. They will be more than ever inclined to make haste when they learn that the Americanized Panama Company proposes to raise American capital and complete its canal without asking money from Congress. President McKinley must see the absurdity of forbidding Federal office-holders to attend the Republican national convention for two or three days next June, and at the same time allowing one of the chief among such office-holders to act for nearly a year as chairman of an important partisan committee. It would be logical to let First Assistant Postmaster-General Heath be head of the "committee on organization and literature" just established by the Republican national committee, and to let as many postmasters throughout the country go to the convention at Philadelphia as could secure election as delegates. It would be logical also to prohibit such partisan activity by both superior and subordinates. But to say that Mr. Heath of Indiana may turn himself into a partisan worker for the next ten months, as First Assistant also Postmaster-General at Washington, while he could not even be a delegate to the national convention if he were a postmaster at home, seems too ridiculous for the President to permit-to say nothing of the scandal involved in the license to neglect his public duties thus given the official who stands next to the head in a great department. The news which Elliot Danforth, formerly our leading silver and Bryan Democrat in this State, has brought from the South confirms similar information from Washington. He says that the Southern Democratic leaders are not insisting upon making free silver the main issue in next year's campaign, that they acknowledge that the situation has changed since 1896, and that they now think Trusts and imperialism will be the dominant issues in 1900. As for candidates, they mention only Bryan for first place, with some Eastern man for second. Why not throw over Bryan with the free-silver issue? He never had any other excuse for being a candidate, and, without that issue, he will have no claim to a renomination. If he consents to be separated from his issue, he will be repudiated by the free'silverites and other Populistic elements, which were attracted to him by that alone, and he will have great difficulty in gaining the confidence of other elements, both in and out of the Democratic party. Distrust of the man is as strong as distrust in his issue, and if the party has the sagacity to see its opportunity, it will make thorough work of its unloading, and throw both overboard together. The reaction of sentiment in the House of Representatives regarding the treatment of the Roberts case from Utah at the opening of the session encourages the hope that the Constitution may receive more attention when another claim to a seat comes before that body. Most Representatives now concede that the Mormon claimant ought to have been admitted upon his regular credentials, and then expelled with all the impres siveness which such deliberate action would have commanded. These Congressmen will be disposed to pay more heed to the fundamental law when the case of Gen. Wheeler of Alabama comes before the present House than was paid in the last. The Federal Constitution says that "no person holding any office under the United States shall be a member of either house during his continuance in office." Gen. Wheeler held the office of general in the United States volunteers during the last Congress, but still claimed the right to a seat in the House when he chose to appear there, and the claim was allowed. It is safe to say that he will not be permitted to do the same thing again in this Congress. It turns out that the Seventy-first New York Regiment does not deserve the bad preeminence recently given it of putting in the largest number of claims for pensions yet received from any regiment which took part in the war with Spain. Its applications at last accounts numbered only 311, while 650 have come in from the Ninth Massachusetts. This latter regiment never had a strength exceeding 1,200 men. It was not mustered into the service until May, 1898, and was mustered out six months later. The remarkable and discreditable contrast between the rush for pensions by soldiers in the brief Spanish war and the spirit manifested by the men who served in the Union army during the four years' struggle against the Southern Confede racy, is best shown by comparing these figures for the Seventy-first New York and the Ninth Massachusetts with the figures for the Pennsylvania regiment which was commanded during the civil war by Col. Beaver, afterward Governor of the State. This regiment had 2,094. enlistments from the beginning to the ending of the war. Up to the close of 1882, seventeen years after the end of the war, only 475 applications for pensions had been filed, of which 90 came from widows, 23 from minors, and 53 from dependent relatives. Most of the soldiers of Col. Beaver's regiment on whose account pensions were granted, were actually killed in battle or died of their wounds. less than in Illinois, will rejoice at the news that Gov. Tanner of that State has reached the end of his career. He has earnestly sought to secure another nomination from the Republicans next year, but the opposition within his own party proved so strong that on Friday he made formal announcement of his withdrawal from the field. Tanner is the worst specimen of the boss building up a State machine after the manner of Platt in New York and Quay in Pennsylvania, that has been seen beyond the Alleghanies. Without a single qualification for high office himself, he managed to se cure the Republican nomination for the governorship in a year when he could run nearly 20,000 votes behind his party's candidate for President and still get a plurality of much over 100,000. In stalled in the chief office, he used all his influence to lower the standard in other positions, and to organize a machine which should permanently control the politics of the State. He had as little respect for law as for public sentiment, and shocked the nation a year ago by usurping the power to forbid the entrance into Illinois of men from other States seeking work in her mines, and threatening to "blow to pieces with Gatling guns" any body of such offenders. In short, he has been a disgrace not only to his State, but to the whole country, and his final downfall is cause for universal satisfaction. of Chicago to the outfall of the Des Plaines River, we have suddenly awakened to the fact that this ditch is intended to carry the city's sewage down to the Illinois River and thence to the Missis The plan to increase the number of It is characteristic of a happy-gochaplains in the army, which is now be- lucky nation that, after looking with ing urged by the War Department, pleased curiosity for fifteen years at the should meet with little public encourage-digging of a drainage canal from the city ment. For years past the clergymen appointed to the army have largely been men who failed to do well in civil life, and who got their positions only by using political pulls. Once in the service they have been of little value, except as teach-sippi and the Gulf of Mexico. This fact ers in far-away posts, and have been retired within comparatively few years after their appointment, the average period of service of those now on the retired list being little more than twelve years, was proclaimed in many ways by the Chicago authorities, newspapers, and financiers. Loans were negotiated to the amount of $30,000,000 or more, for that express purpose. Meetings of engineers and men of science were held to discuss plans for carrying out this design, and considerable éclat was earned by the while scandals have by no means been infrequent in the corps. For many years thoughtfui army officers have favored the total abolition of the office, and fore-energetic contractors. Pictorial illustramost among these was Gen. Sherman, who, loyal churchman as he was, never failed to denounce the clerical scrambling for office which these places caused. In view of the fact that the War now Department is trying Chaplain Shields for intoxication, that charges are pending against another, and that, when ordered to Manila recently, several chaplains resorted to all sorts of curious desire of the War Department to increase vices to escape duty in the field, the dethis class of non-combatant officers has much need of justification. Good citizens all over the country, no tions of their machinery were published from time to time and widely circulated. And yet, on the very eve of opening the drainage canal (on January 2), there arose a sudden demand from downstream that the opening of the canal be deferred until Congress, or the courts, or somebody should have time to stop it altogether. What effect the drainage scheme may have on the health and beauty of the communities downstream we do not attempt to divine, but we submit that that question ought to have been put beyond the bounds of controversy before the first dollar was expended on the present scheme, and that it is unreasonable to expect that |