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The Nation

A WEEKLY JOURNAL

DEVOTED TO

POLITICS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE & ART

VOLUME LXX

FROM JANUARY 1, 1900, TO JUNE 30, 1900

NEW YORK

NEW YORK EVENING POST COMPANY

1900

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INDEX TO VOLUME LXX.,

The Week.

AT HOME.

JANUARY TO JUNE, 1900.

Alabama, Montgomery conference over race problem, 871-Army brigadier appointments of Gens. Young, MacArthur, and Ludlow, 22Armor-plate controversy in Congress, 369. Boston's failures in municipal ownership, 176, 469Buffalo strike of New York Central employees, 831-William J. Bryan sees gold standard at work in Wall Street flurry, 23, listened to in New England on anti-imperialism, 102, more silverite than his party, 850-George S. Boutwell on Filipino cheap labor and immigration, 233-Theodore Bacon, deceased, 63-John Barrett draws circles round Manila, 81-E. G. Bourne on taxing State exports to Porto Rico, 155-Boers, sympathizers with them opposed to Philippine war, 63, Boer envoys arrive, 371, rebuffed by the Administration, 391-Barnard College merged in Columbia, 63-Beef investigating committee's outlay, 330. Colorado Republicans unite on gold standard, 870China, open door in, secured by Secretary Hay, 1, 156, Chinese Minister on the corollary-welcome of Chinese here, 81, on the golden rule, 119, on extending Monroe Doctrine to China, 156 -Chicago, drainage canal opened, 2, laborunions making concessions, 42, boycotting in building trades, 176, machinists' strike unchecked, 215, Mayor Harrison's connivance, 252, 253, 429, building contractors' statement, 292, talk of abolishing sympathetic strike, 468Bourke Cockran ready to support Bryan, 83Charles H. Cramp's conflicting statements about American shipbuilding, 214-Senator Clark 390-Jorge resignation trick, of Montana's Cruz's case, 272-Grover Cleveland's Princeton lectures on the Executive, 292-Cotton yield and price and Southern indifference to silver, 197Currency Bill in conference committee, 156, defect pointed out by I. Seligman, 176, practical effect of refunding, 271, circulation per capita, 351-Chaplains, army, proposal to increase, 2-Census, must be printed in Government Office, 62 Consular reform bill burked by House Foreign Affairs Committee, 138. Congress, LVIth, first session: Pettigrew's call for

Philippine information, Beveridge's defence of
Administration policy, Foraker's plan of gov-
ernment for Porto Rico (Senate), 21-Aldrich's
speech in reporting House Currency Bill, Cul-
lom's bill to amend Interstate Commerce Law
(Senate), 22-Hoar's comment on Beveridge, and
Wolcott's; Beveridge on our noble party work-
ers and on holding Manila for the China trade
(Senate), 41-Vote on Currency Bill fixed, Sa-
moan treaty ratified and recalled, Morgan for
Canal
immediate
of Nicaragua
construction
(Senate); McCall's bill regarding personal bag-
gage (House), 61-Debate on Pension Bill, on
supplementary Census Bill, reports on seating
Roberts of Utah (House), 62-Hoar on pro-Boer
resolutions (Senate); Roberts of Utah thrust
out (House), 82-Pettigrew denounced for trea-
son in offering to print Aguinaldo's statement
(Senate), 101-Caffery's speech against retention
of the Philippines (Senate), 102-The Hague
Treaty ratified (Senate), 119-Aldrich's amend-
ment to Currency Bill (Senate), 120-Cullom's
Hawaiian free-trade bill (Senate); Dalzell's
speech on Porto Rico tariff (House). 137, 155,
McCall and Littlefield's, Payne's, 155-Hep-
burn's Nicaragua Canal report (House), 137-
Quay case taken up (Senate), 157-Porto Rico
tariff bill debate and passage, vote of $2,000,000
to President for the island (House); Davis's
plan to extend constitutional taxation to Porto
Rico (Senate), 175-Porto Rico relief bill passed
(Senate), 213-McClellan's bill to reorganize
army (House), 214-Pettus's chastisement of
Beveridge, Davis against the Porto Rico tariff
(Senate), 251-Army bill debate, cost of Philip-
pine war (House), 252-Morgan for the neutrali-
ty of the Nicaragua Canal, Foraker's Porto
Rican bill passed (Senate), amendments to Ha-
walian bill (House), 271-Bill for Hawaiian
cable passed (Sen e); vote for constitutional

(Nos. 1801-1826.)

amendment to elect Senators by people (House), 291-Debate on extra compensation to army officers in Cuba and Philippines, 309-Adverse report on Senator Clark of Montana (Senate); to amendments Hepburn Canal Nicaragua (House), 310-Porto Rico bill passed (both houses); Industrial Oriental Commission opposed (House), 329-Quay unseated (Senate), 330Nicaragua Canal Bill passed (House), 849Lodge makes war on Germany to insure high prices for armor plate (Senate), 369-Oleomargarine debate (House), Grand Army Pension Bill passed (both houses), 370-Clark of Montana resigns and is trickily reappointed (Senate), 390-Spooner defends Philippine policy (Senate); Army Reorganization Bill defeated, Payne's statement of war taxes and revenue (House), 407-Spooner's Philippine resolutions withdrawn,

427.

CUBA: Gen. Brooke's farewell proclamation discredited, 1-Effort to repeal Foraker amendment, 21-Senate Colonial Committee for annexation, 42-Post-office employees mostly Cubans, 349, frauds of American employees, 369, 389, 427-Havana railroad fraud, 389-Administration withholds from Congress expenditures in Cuba, 389-Allowances to army officers, 408-No check on Bureau of Finance, 427. Danish West India Islands, angling for, 176, 350Gov.-Gen. Davis revokes his free-trade sentiments for Porto Rico, 251-Admiral Dewey's Presidential candidacy a criticism on McKinley's Philippine policy, 291, withdrawal, 467Destiny and Duty dissolve partnership, 101. Everett, William, neither for McKinley nor for Bryan, 390-Dorman B. Eaton's bequests to Harvard and Columbia, 43-Express companies' receipt stamp, Supreme Court decision on, 293, French reciprocity treaty's ratification limit extended, 233.

Griggs, Attorney-General, on our share in administering the Orient, 119-Secretary Gage's revenue estimate, 271-Rev. P. S. Grant on the Philippine question, 252-Gold "famine" caused by war in South Africa, 8, gold-bar charges of Assay Office reduced, 43, gold-standard settlement a loss to Republican capital, 156, 157. gold exported, 330.

GUAM: Gov. Leary abolishes slavery, 21, and opposes drunkenness and class distinctions, returns to U. S., 252.

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Hague Treaty ratified by U. S. Senate, 119-Secretary John Hay and the, open door in China, 1Mark A. Hanna votes against seating Quay, 330, presides at Republican Convention Philadelphia, 467-Perry S. Heath and the P. O. deposits in the Seventh National Bank (N. Y.), 41-Speaker Henderson's letter for Porto Rican tariff, 251-John B. Henderson on power of Congress to lay special taxes on Porto Rico. 155-Ex-President Harrison against Porto Rico tariff, 195, speech at Oecumenical Missionary Conference, 311-John R. Hazel sells yacht to U. S., 427, nomination for U. S. Judge, 407, opposed by N. Y. Bar Association, 427-House of Representatives may be made anti-Imperial, 488, 489.

HAWAII: Cable project in Congress, 291, bill for government as regards high officeholders, 309, Sanford B. Dole appointed President by McKinley, 350, American voters warn Portuguese to maintain the republic, 370. Illinois anti-monopoly aot unconstitutional, 82Iowa House against Porto Rico tariff, 233on imperial Indiana Republican Convention

policy, 329, Gov. Mount denies extradition to Kentucky, 408, 469, Indianapolis Gold Democrat movement, 214-Inheritance tax sustained by Supreme Court, 369-Industrial Commission reports on labor legislation, 408. Japanese rush of immigration to Pacific Coast, 292. Kentucky, Senator Goebel assassinated, anarchic condition, 102, resort to courts, 138, 139, 157, Gov. Taylor denounces courts, 196, Court of Appeals decision, 272, Supreme Court of U. S. disclaims jurisdiction, 389, Governor of Indiana will not extradite Finley or Taylor, 408, 469

Kansas Court of R. R. Visitation pronounced unconstitutional, 370-Kansas City street-railway injunction, 390-John A. Kasson on French reciprocity treaty, 1, 42. Louisiana, Coalition of regular Democrats

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Sugar Republicans, 43-Lowell weavers' strike recalled, 331-Secretary Long, order creating navy general staff, 214, candidate for President, 407-Gen. William Ludlow's service in Cuba ended, 235-Charles Littlefield unanimously renominated, 292. Michigan, Pingree administration and war tracts, 23-Montana Senatorships sold for cash, 42, 103, 138, reported maltreatment of Japan489 Massachusetts Republican tion on the Philippines, 329, Governor Crane vetoes attack on civil-service law, 350-Mississippi lynching of innocent and guilty, 468, 469 -Montgomery, Ala., conference on race problem, 371-President McKinley allows Assistant Postmaster-General Heath to work for his reelection, 1, appoints a new Philippine Commission, 119, knuckles to the protected interests in the case of Porto Rico, 137, seesaw with Congress over responsibility, 195, surprise at pressure for offices in Porto Rico, message to repair Porto Rican law's defects, 309, appoints Dole Governor of Hawaii, 350, vetoes Navajo Indian Reservation bill with job in it, 350, nominates J. R. Hazel U. S. District Judge, 390, 407, attacked in Methodist General Conference and Presbyterian Assembly, 408, will not convene Congress for China crisis, 489-Prof. J. B. Moore on Isthmian canal and Hay-Pauncefote treaty, 176 -A. C. McGiffert withdraws from Presbyterian Church, 273-Ex-Gov. MacCorkle at Montgomery conference, 371-Machinists' unions, N. Y. and N. J., protests against, 234-Methodist General Conference on decline of religious journalism, 391, on McKinley's attitude towards liquorselling, abolishes time limit in pastorates, admits women to future conferences, 409. New York State: Mazet committee report, State Trust Co.'s loan to Lou Payn, 43, 62, 63, Roosevelt's breakfast with Platt over Payn's successor, 62, Francis Hendricks succeeds, 83, Free Employment Bureau's report, 120, Letter from W. H. Peckham to Legislature on taxation, 139, Stewart bill on publication of suicide's papers, 157, Difficult application of tax on corporation franchises, 196, Bill to regulate New York's confession of judgments, 196, Bill to enforce a written contract of marriage, 215, Tax rate reduced by successive taxes, 273, Croton dam strike, 811, D. B. Hill on centralization of power at Albany, 311, Commission to revise N. Y. city charter appointed, 330, Appointment of State appraisers for inheritance tax a job, 330, 350, cost of collection, 429, Bill to release school trustees from buying prisonmade goods, 351, Counsel fees in transfer-tax proceedings, 408; City: Trades unions dictating employees on tunnel, 83, attempt to force receiver on Wharf and Warehouse Co., 121, Bar Association action thwarted, 157, Molineux trial and conviction, 121, Third Ave. Railroad wrecked by Tammany, 177, Tammany Ice Trust, 428, 469, Reception to Comptroller Coler, 196, Board of Trade and Chamber of Commerce against tariff for Porto Rico, 233, Grand jury's presentment of District Attorney Gardiner, 253, AntiImperial Conference postpones action, 488, N. Y. ""Tribune" on Central and South American trade, 234, on certain Cuban and probable Philippine maladministration, 389-New Jersey franchise-tax bill, 235-Nebraska Democratic State convention platform, 214, Republican makes Senator Thurston delegate to national convention, 350, Supreme Court punishes Omaha canal, "Bee" for contempt, 468-Nicaragua Hepburn's report, 137, bill to be postponed, 271, estimates in passed by House, 349-Naval House, 196.

Ohio Republican convention on imperialism, 329Oregon goes Republican, 428-Gen. Otis says everything is for the best in the Philippines, 349.

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