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Show ailASSOCUIED PRESS VOL. I. llah Vinner Tuesfr NO. 82. IM OGDEN CITY. UTAH. TUESDAY .MORNING. STORIES 18 OF THE forecast McaLher SESV1CL TELtCBAPKie Of IRE MARCH 22. PRICE FIVE CENTS, 1904 HORRORS NEUTRALITY 18 ARCHITECT ONLY NOMINAL PORT ARTHUR'S FIRST ASSAULT 4 Conservative Japanese Did Fifty Buildings Wrecked. 2,000 Windows Broken. Not Desire to Fight. Chauvenict Spirit Waa Stlrrad Up by Minlatera of War and Younger Elements Japanese Land Victory Would Senators Say Beauty of the Wh.te House is Destroyed. Mean Chinese Alliance. J Russian, American and British Officers Pen Independent Accounts of Scenes of Carnage and Work Man la Injured Fatally, Horaea War Killad, and MO, 000 Represents Damage Dene. Celestials Hate Foreigners and In claring Neutrality Think Only ef Own Safety De- Architects Are Alleged to Have Been Impudent and to Have Over charged Enormously of Crashing Cannonades. Tarla. March 22. Baron Dr Rosen, who firnwr Russian minister to Japan, to arrived today at Maraeillea, refused of he interviewed by a correspondent the Journal, who traveled with him from Iort Said, telegraphs a summary of numerous conversations he had with the baron aboard the vessel. According to this correspondent, Baron Do Rosen said that since October last that talk of war had been universal in Japan, the Chauvenlst parpublic opinion by stating ly heading would beat Rusaia as she that Japan had beaten China, and would be aura of the support of Ureal Britain aud the I'nlted States. The Mikado and most of the elder statesmen were opposed to the war, the baron stated, and Count Inouye said the country would be ruined whether victor or vanished. Baron Komura, the Japanese foreign minister, advised the continuance of friendly negotiations, but the ministers of war and marine were absolutely determined to fight. if the matter rested solely with the cabinet and the elder statesmen, said the baron, to the correspondent, I he conflict would have been avoided, but the cabinet with the object of embarrassing parliament, which had refused to vote supplies, allowed the preaa tp stir up the Chauvenlst spirit until it got beyond control. Then the ministry, finding tbst they had to choose between satisfying the Chauvenlsts and resigning, chose the former course, and war became inevitable, the Mikado and his counsellors being dragged Into the popular movement. The naval and military authorities, the baron aaid, were fully prepared, and the censorship began to work a fortnight before the rupture of relations, the censors interpreting all telegrams between the Russian government and its representatives in Japan, finally, on February 6ih, stopping the Russian note transmitted by Viceroy Alexieff to Baron De Rosen. The same day the cabinet held a secret sitting, and a few minutes after the sitting broke up the Japanese squadrons put to sea. The baron does not believe defeat will cause a revolution in Japan, but he saya It will result in endless ctiiEeB in the cabinet. A spe- Kansas City, Mo., March cial to the Times from Hlgglnsvllle, Mo., says: Fifty buildings are partly wrecked, one man Is mortally wounded and several others hurt, the town Is In darkness and the streets strewn with debris as the result of a tornado and hail storm which struck this place late this afternoon. The hail on the streets waa a foot deep within five minutes after the storm came, and some of the hailstorms were phenomenally large. Dozens of trees in the town were blown down and several horses were killed in the street. The storm came without warning. The wind and hail came first and were followed by a terrific downpour of rain which flooded nearly every cellar in the town. The storm came from the west, traveling eastward. It kept within a narrow path, at least the tornado portion, only about two blocks of the business portion of the town being damaged. Two other towns in this section were in the path of the storm and both having populations of 500 or 600. According to meager reports that are received here, tonight, several houses in both places have been wrecked, but the exact extent of the damage la not known. Tho grocery store of J. W. Enzely, In the business part of the place, was wrecked by the storm. John Dolphin, a clerk, was mortally injured and probably will not live through the night. One leg ia broken In two places and he Is Internally injured. It ia estimated that 2.000 windows were broken by the storm.. More than fifty houses have been unroofed. The most careful estimates of tho financial loss to (40,000. 21. tigation began I became very clearly convinced that he waa dishonest. After some further questioning, Mr. McDermott commented as follows My Judgment ia that your whole postal system Is rotten and I think there are Instances in your depart- ment" 8t Petersburg, March 21. A Russian officer, commanding s battery on Electric Hill during a bombardment of Port Arthur, has written the following vivid account: "It was a clear, sunlit day, and there waa a gentle swell on Uie water. A Utile spot appeared through the haze on the far horizon, and then another and another until these siiots were increased to fifteen. Nearer and nearer they came, and larger and larger they appeared, unitl. when six miles off, there waa a liny puff of smoke and all in the battery wondered where the projectile waa going to fall. Forty fathoms below the cliff where we were lay the battleship Pereaviel. Bang, a shell burst under her bows, splashing the decks with Kpray. Another puff followed, aud a projectile whistled overhead, crashing on the rock behind us. Then a third. It was a moment of terrible suspense. There was a terrific exploufono overhead. They had got our range exactly It was the signal for us to open lire, and ten shore batteries and twelve warships Joined in the reply. What followed is almost indescribable. The water under where we stood fairly boiled with the swish and plunge of projectiles, and words of command were inaudible to the gunners. I tried in vain to shout my orders while 150 guns belched In a prolonged roar and sheila were bursting overhead with a hellish crash. The smoke and dust blinded us. 1 did not experien-- excitement, and only that my tooth began to ache there was a Birange sensation of contentment amid the scenes oLdealh which had no terrors after the first shell had exploded. gunner Suddenly a white-face- d pointed to a battery of quick firing guns half way down the hill, which had been placed there to prevent a J Siamese landing. I ran down and found the scene one of the wildest. There was a battle orgy of bursting shells and whistling fragments, the smoke stench reeking the earth. One shell hid burst among the gunners. A soldier was lying disemboweled and another had bis skull crushed. A third soldier was delirious and there were splinters in hia head. One gun had been broken like a reed. It waa a dreadful sight, with blood everywhere." In concluding, the officer says: waa over LieutenAfter ant General Btoeaael, commander at e He Never Suspected Perry Heaths Integrity. Port Arthur, plnr..M the cross of St. steamship Pieides, of Tscoma, which Hut what doe hud arrived at Port Anhnr with a cariL matter "I ant u. the hospital." go of flour a few days liefom the attacks was made. He sajrM: Ban Francisco, March 21. C. II. Wo arrived at Port Arthur Febru7. The Russian fleet consisting of ary Bririsli officer who a army Browning, was In Port Arthur during the first at- fourteen battleships and cruisers waa lying outside the mouth of the harbor. tack and bonibanlxi'iit by the Japanese We got a berth Inside the low on the Coptic, spit which forms just. fleet, was a pasM'iigi-one side of the enwhich arrived from ihe Orient today. trance. In an Interview in. hi id: Mnndsy night about 11 o'clock we I arrived at I'urt Arthur on the beard heavy firing, which continued morning of the hrsi attack. 1 went until alMiut 12:30 a. m. Everyone out to the Wenchow, a British ship thought the forts were engaged in some the night, which kind of night target practice, but in the the harbor, also happened to he (he night chosen morning when we saw two of the largby the Japanese for ihr torpedo attack. est aud best of the Russian warships The torpedoes were tired about a hun- aground on the low aplt we knew that dred yards from where the Wenchovf something more than practice bad was moored, hut ihe firing could not been going on. have been long combined, for I waa It developed that a fleet of Japanese nut even awakened. The following torpedo boats bail come along quite close Inshore, flying the Russian flag morning 1 saw the two battleships, and Czareviirh aground. Other and giving Ihe Russian signal. They battleships were badly damaged, and bad passed right under the forts, along there were holes tlimugf! some of them. the spit side of the harbor and had That morning, Tuesday, I went on passed by the patrol boat at the enshore front the Wenchow, and about trance, giving the countersign. 11:30 oclock the forts niiened fire, folThey passed through the entrance lowed by a bombardment from the to the harbor proiier, turned around fleet, which lasted for half an hour. and passed out, going up the other The shells flew over my head, but did coast until directly behind the largest not light near me. The iionibardment and best of the warshli lying outside, seemed U do little damage, though when they turned and fired their torthe Chinese packed up ihcir belongings pedoes into three of them. The remarkable part of It was the and ran at the first shot. Afterward I returned to tho Wen- dash of the torpedo boats through the wide nioul h of the harbor and chow. Tho Kusslsn fleet was outside the heritor, hut ihe Japanese fleet waa their turning around Inside. The Russians fired upon the tornever In sight. The Russian fleet went out again and then returned on Wed- pedo boats, but apparently did no They then attempted to get The story- 1s harm. nesday and true that half the Russian officers were their warships into the harbor, but In town at the time of the torpedo at- two of the worst disabled ran aground tack. There waa some sort of enter- on the spit and were In a sinking condition. tainment in town that night. The next morning at 11 o'clock the There are great stacks of flour, coal and hay stored in the city and many Japanese fleet moved to within firing forty-fiv- e soldiers were constantly parading the distance and fired sheila for was behind Pleiades The minutes. streets. There was no way of telling the how large a force the Russiana have Ihe spit, but in direct line and Our deck fell all around us. at Port Arthur. No one is allowed to hellscovered with pieces. was approach ,the forts. I left Port Arthur "Later the Russians got their on the German cruiser Hanna on Febgrounded warships off the spit and inruary 12th." side the harbor where they now lie on submerged. By t Tacoma, Wash., March 21. A vivid the bottom practically they succeeded In bringAll in foreign reports description of the first attack on the working hard appearing cruiser, which Russian fleet at Port Arthur and the ing in a five funneled newspapers of the landing of Japanese next day. the harbor remarkable daxh made into the inner sank in the points on the coast in getting troops at different We had great dlflb-uHare Inventions.' " harbor by the Japanese torpedo boats 300 to We were obliged Jake is given in a let ter' to the Tacoma News away. with us. from Allen Fairweather, purser of the 'hlneee women away George on my r Rus-alan- fr deep-seate- Ket-vixa- n 100-ya- rd - Mr. McDermott then said: "If yon were suspicious, why did you not Investigate Beavers?" Because I would have been promptly told that I had no business to Investigate into another mans department I could do that only if instructed to do so. I had no authority to investigate Mr. Beavers." Mr. McDermott asked Mr. Bristow about clerk hire allowances In his home office In Kansas, to which reference is made In the report Mr. Bristow had no knowledge on the subject The committee then went TAFT AND THE PHILIPPINES. into executive session. SWAVSE ISJXPEffiD Chairman McCall stated that there 21. Secretary was nothing brought out in executive Washington, March session that will not be made public Taft has acted in a number of Import- Florida Federal Judge Accueed of d tomorrow. Proceeding. ant questions in regard to the governMarch 21. The House Washington, ment of the Philippines, regarding committee on Judiciary today voted to correspond elng re- Impeach Charles 8wayne, federal Judge MUCH which he has been Governor Wright. In for the District of Florida. The comwith with cently response to an Inquiry made by ihe mittee readied this conclusion at a Saya Exiled Miners Must Not Go latter aa to the disposition 'of claims session lasting from 2 o'clock until 6. fiir renl, and for damage on account of The vote and Ihe details of the charges Armed, to Tdlluride. the occupation of churches and con- which will form the ground of im- -; y 2L Governor Denver, Man-htroops. Governor peachment ill" committee agreed to has declared that be would take vents byhasAmerican been Inst meted that in ac- withhold until the report on the case Wright Bleiw to prevent the marching of armcordance with an agreement made at has been completed for presentation ed bodies of men into Telluride. delegate should lu the House. This report is to be "The constitution and the laws do Rome, the apostolic the commission drawn to claims these present by Representative Palmer or not permit the mobilising or marchin Mexico. Pennsylvania, chairman of the sub-- : ing of armed bodies of men, without General Wade, commanding the Phil- committee which took the testimony the sanction of the governor and I prodivision, will investigate and re- In the case. Of this pose to see that it to not done in this ippineon them, and the secretary of war Messrs. a port Fainter and Clayton of said. "The he of these case," remedy will then make suitable recommendato the full committee reported men to the injunction." for the settlement of in favor of Impeachment, while RepreAll the trails over (he mountains tions to Congress claims. the approved sentative Glllct of California reorted around Telluride have been blockaded Secretary Taft has cabled Governor against iL Mr. Palmer's report will consesnow fail and a today heavy by m week. If the House Wright that he has decided lo allow be prepared quently it may be impossible for the the cable ship Burnside to remain in votes to Imp' ach Judge Swayne two exiled miners to return to Telluride the PhilippThes until April 10th, in ormembers will be appointed forfor several weeks unless they can enter der to have the ship repair the three of its to no'ify the 8cnat", Wore mally over the railroad. military cables. After completing this which body, s.tting In a Judicial capaTha work, the Burnside will return to Seat- city .the care must be tried. OFF TO THE FRONT. tle for the purpose of laying 800 miles rase against. Judge Swayne would b of rshie between Seattle and towns in conducted by six managers who would Vancouver, B. C., March 21. The Alaska. he members of the House elected by sailed this steamer Empress of Japan that body by ballot for the work. evening for Yokohama, having on CAMPAIGN MEMBERS CHOSEN. Judge 8wynn. after the rase has hoard twenty-fou- r military and naval lieen present d to the Sinnte by these home for officers returning 21. Thirty-fou- r Japanese Washington. March managers, w'l be tfven an opporthe war, including Prince Nashimoto, of the forty-eigmembers of the Re- tunity lo prevent, his side of the case. as been who has traveling Incognito Congressional campaign While the inmmlttee has voted to publican He Is a member of one of which elect Republican members for M. Kagl. out no Walls at present, it ia give the nine branches of the royal family the Fifty-nint- h congress were chosen known that Ihe charges on which tesof Japan and is a cousin of the Miksdo. at a conference held tonight in the bail timony wag t uken Include those of beAnother passenger Is Colonel Absley of the House. They Include Represen- ing absent fn-his circuit, imprisonSmith, who goes to the campaign in the tatives Metralf. Brooks, French, ing a lawyer in contempt proceedings, as British government interest of the Senators Mitchell. Imprisoning the son of a litigant, also Dixon: an expert on explosives. Howell. for contempt c f court and refusing to Representatives Oregon: Mundell. Delegates Kalani-anaol- e, hear a certain witness In a esse before Humphrey, March 22. Firing was Yinkow, Hawaii; Rodey and McGuire, him. alleging that, he would not believe hesrd off the coast apparently about and Resident Commissioner De Gaeau, Ihe witness nnuw oath. six miles to the southward, fourteen Porto Kloo. Tlio last impeachments proceellngs About 75 members of the Senate and were the cave of Andrew Johnson. shots having been heard between 7: (hi The morning House attended the raurus. which was Only three fL'eral Judges have been and 7:30 this morning. was hazy and It was impossible to dis- presided over by Representative Heir-bur- impeached. of Iowa. The selection of mem- ; The aeainst Judge proceedings tinguish objects at sea. A creditable report has reached here tbst two cruis- bers took less than an hour. Fwsrne. if crrJed to the Senate, uners and five gunboats were off doubtedly wi delay for several weeks ADDRESS TO PRESIDENT ELIOT. yesterday. the adjournment of the prevent res- -i Cambridge, Mass.. March 21. Grad-nate- s Finn of tv..gres. If the Senate do- CHANGE OF DETAIL. and undergraduates of Harvard cldcs areln" Judge Swayne the pef University united today in observing nalty 8t;arh'-- l to the decision is toss Washington, March 21. Rear Ad- the seventieth anniversary of Presi- of liis ju Veship. miral Jewell, who has been stationed dent Charles V. Eliot's birth, which Jude" Swayne was appointed from in this city as the member of the naval also marked his completion of 35 years I Via ware by President Harrison in 1830. His poiillcs are Republican. exhibition and retiring boards today at the head of the university. At a mass meeting of students this was ordered to command of the Caribwas preWashington. March 21. Postmaster bean squadron of the North Atlantic afternoon President Eliot fleet, to relieve Rear Admiral Coghlan, sented with an engrossed address General Payne has been very comfortwho is to he assigned to an imjiortant signed by nearly ten thousand Har- able today, though he to still very vard men. weak. command the-battl- High-Hande- Washington, March 21. In the course of his testimony befc-- a the McCall committee on the posto to report, inrlay Mr. Bristow was asked by Mr. Burton if he knew of any cases in this report of Improper conduct with reference to the making of leases on the part of congressmen?" I dont konw of any, but I am not familiar with that report, so I do not see that 1 can satisfactorily express myself with reference to it." "Then you make the same answer with regard to clerk hire as to leases?" . Mr. McCalL "Yes. sir. Mr. Bartlett called Mr. Bristow's tention to this language in his own atre- port: "Congressmen frequently ask to do things which they themselves would r- fuse to do if the responsibility of the decision were upon them. The traditions of American politics afford many Instances of this kind. "I take it that was merely a rhetorical flourish, commented Mr. Bartlett. "I think that means congressmen things or ask things which if i he responsibility wag on them to they would refuse what they have " "mmended. 1 think I have declined things members of congress have and that, if they had been in my position and had taken It up from the s:nnilviint of the executive they would have made the same decision that I "'I. I have found them fair men to do t'liflness with. McDi'Anilt concluded the examination of Mr. Bristow by asking a num-- t 'T of questions regarding tile official ''nil's of the fourth assistant. He first brought out that there are inspcc-,nr- j liinler the fourth assistant for wl' rii fSQn.OAO jg appropriated. These ; lector are under general and not f fecial directions. "When did you firfu suspect Mr. Beavers of maladmin-I'-'raMnndemanded Mr. McDermott." ""11. a number of years ago I !;;r","l:t Mr. Heaves was not Just the ""I of an officer I would want for a . but I had no specific In-- 1 T.,.r'i1,"n twavding his conduct. 'i ynu have any susnicion about ' I'ce'.V'" asked Mr. McDermott. I don't d think I could say that I Mr. Heaths d integrity, - If-'-- ?' "'r,l-inate- aus-rti-- ' Mr. Brlulow. 'I'd suspect Air. Beavers? I do not know that I his integrity. After the inves- sns-ev.- my VIUJMT Pew-bod- Ala-itam- 1 ht Bow-crsoc- k, n Kin-cho- w SL Petersburg. Marrh 21. In government circles there exists a stroug belief that the question as to whether China will observe her neutrality will deieud largely uism the result of the first heavy land fighting. A big victory by the Russian army, it la believed, will insure the acquiescence of the lYleslial empire, but there are grave fcara as to what might happen in Hie event of a signal Japanese success in the early stages of the land operation. For the time being the sit nation appears to lie satisfactory, and it ia certainly much liettcr han It was three wieks ago. The natives manifest a friendlier disposition than they did at a the beginning of ihe war, Imt the know the Oriental character as no other Eumiiean do. They know d how la the hatred for in China, and that the only prest Ige of the Russiana la their strong arm. The recent naval success of the Japanese has not greatly Impressed the Chinese, but if the Kiisslaua should sustain a really disastrous defeat on laud the Chinese might suddenly he aroused, with the connivance or even with tho consent of Japan HRsInst. Russia and portraits against all foreigners. Russia's present plans are based on the approclst ion of the supreme of the lirw land battle and no fighting on a large scale will take place, if it possibly ran lie avoided, until the Russian feel morally certain that they can deal the enemy a crushing defeat. 8L Petersburg, March 21. Tho following official dispatch dated Mukden, March 2th, was received Imlay: ''General Zellnskl reports as follows: The troops are in good spirits and there Is no sickness. According to reports received from the frontier guards on the eastern Chinese railway, everything la la order there. 'The occupation of Ihe towns of Anju and Ping Yang by tho enemy's infantry and artillery Is confirmed. An increased movement of troops aud transports on the rosd between ring Yang and Anju is noticeable. 'Thirteen of the enemy'n transports recently unloaded at Chlnampo. "'According to reports, there have been no preparations for launching on the coast of Caoljao or opposite Kin-cho- CUNARO COMPANY HAS PULL. Are Immigrants from New Hungary Lino. Travel to by English Forced VOTE 18 LOST Vienna, March 22. The new Hunhas for garian emigration law, whichtravel to its purpose Ihe diverekm of to the United Slates from Germany disMajority of 290 to 242 Refuse Flume, Hungary, Is causing great satisfaction throughout the country. Vote. The act becomes formally effective April 1st next, but for some time past It has been provisionally enforced, the officials obliging emigrants to go via Flume, although they bad already purchased their tickets via Bremen and In House of Lords, a Similar Motion Is Hamburg, and in many instances bad Rejected by 97 to 25. forwarded their baggage in advance. It is complained that the new route is eight days longer than from German ports, and that the act benefits neither London, March 21. In the course of tho state nor any Hungarian navigas tion company, hut only benefits the the debate of Sir Henry Cunartl line, which has been given a of ccnsuro at tho motion concession to operate between Flume night session. Major Seeley, who hail and New York. hitherto been a rnnsixiciil supporter of the government, said ho brlir-vcthe MONGOLIANS MAKE MISCHIEF. Importation of Chinese leisir would Marrh 22. Official render the Transvaal Impossible as a 8L Petersburg. advices report the concentration of white man's country. He announced armed Mongolians disguised as pil- that therefore he had today tendered grims at Yankuren, south of Lake Bai- his resignation to hta constituents bekal and a few miles from the Russian cause he did not think It fair he should vote aginst the government without frontier. giving his constituents opportunity of turning him out if they did not approve OBSERVER GOES TO FRONT. of his action. The conclusion of Major Rt. Petersburg, Manh 21. Captain Seeley's speech was lost amid a treWilliam V. Judson, United States mili- mendous outburst of disapproval from tary attache to the embassy here, has the ministerial side. Premier Balfour, who followed Major arrived and will proceed to the front as soon as possible to observe the Seeley, was unable to secure a hearing, military operations for bis government. the Irish members protesting against the treatment of the. major. William Redmond said that Mr. Hal-foNO DAMAGES FOR PASS USERS. should have Insisted on a respectWashington. March 21. The United ful hearing for Major Seeley and when Slates supreme court today decided the premier aaid be had appealed for that persons traveling on railroads may auch a bearing. Mr. Redmond withdrew not secure damages in case of accident his opposition and the bouse again when they ride on passes, and the de- quieted down to listen to Mr. Balfour, cision went to the extent of applying who In opposing the resolution said it to euch passengers as were not famil- waa a question whether the Transvaal iar with tha contract usually printed should be allowed to go through a on the back of passe. The case de- grave commercial crisis rather than cided was that of John D. Boering admit Chinese labor. Libera governand bis wife. Merlin Boering vs. the ments, he said, bad in the past legalChesaw-akBeach Railroad company. ized the Importation of such labor for Mrs. Boering was injured In an acci- British colonies, and the opposition dent- on the road while traveling on a was now reaping the beneflt of ihe pass issued to herself and her husband, evils which their party hail produced. s Sir Henry containing the usual stipulation of exemption from damage. It waa urged motion, by a vote of 299 to 242, waa rethat she had not been made aware of jected. the atipulatlon, end that even If not Urgent whips of all parties had seliable on general principles the com- cured a big attendance and many of pany must he so, on account of her Ig- the Irish members had hurried from norance. The court did not accept Dublin, where they voted In the bye election for SL Steplieira Green, la or- (his view Campbell-Bannerman'- e Campbell-Bannerman- Washington, Marrh 21. Conelderae tinn In the Bmiaio of the bill providing for the piinhuiM! of a bile aud ike ereillon of a building fur the dq.nrl-- m rut of stair. Juki no and roniweriO and labor was made the oomUiU.d for adverse i rith'ituu uf tho architect who planned lint White House offices Senators Teller and Halo led the charge un the ami Mr. Newlanda defended him. During i ho morning a number o! bills were pawed. Washington, March 21. After passing a number of bills tha Senate took up thn bill lu pruviii" a building for the department of stale. Justice end rniiiinercc and labor. The Senate pawed the following measures: To promote the efficiency of the revenue cutter service. For the delivery on the Pacific const of two light vessels now being built la New York and New Jersey. The bill to provide for the purchatM of a site end the erection of a building for the department of state, Justine end commerce and labor waa laid he hire the Senate aa the unfinished busl- -' ness. Mr. Newtonds took rxcepllmiu to rrlticisms that have been made against Inn architect of the White House addirii i tions. He Mid that tha not know the oflii-- building waa to be ronstnicled when he first took hold of the matter. Mr. Newlanda aaid that the arcades on each aide at the White Honae were in accordance with tha original design. He also asserted that the cost bail been reasonable Instead of extravagant. Mr. Newlands, discussing the White House office, sail that, there had been no material change in tha general ap jiearanca of the exterior, whereupon Mr. Teller said. They have added to it what f think Is a moil struct ty and destroy ad the beauty of the building. I have yet to see anyone who has not agreed with an-hite- e me. Mr. Halo declared that the Intention of Congress had not been carried ouL y Thera should have been a building so the I resident would hava had hi office upstairs and we, who go there, would not have to be put Into hole end corners. Mr. Hale said that the members of the appropriation committee went to the President and urged him not to hava the original plana of the White House changed. The President assured them that If he had to ait up nights he would see that the original plana were not disturbed by any architect. Mr. Hal spoke of what he termed the Impudence" of the architect in waa declaring that the executive office a temporary affair. The Idea of the committee, he said, waa that R waa to be a permanent affair and the apcritic propriation bill so provided. He deed the payment of enormous feea to the architects employed In connection with the White House improve-menand said they had received Then he said (9.000 for the plans. on tha they charged a percentage whole contract, as well as a percentcontract age on every pnyment of tho and drew out of it (17.0UU. IflHciiHslon of the hill had not am eluded when the Senate adJoiinieiL two-stor- u dider to vote for tho motion. In the vision 13 Unionists, including Winston Churchill, abstained from voting; voted Sixty five Nationalist member the majority the government, against s rather larger than any for which-wain the several recent critical division. Ijondon, Marrh 21. Chinese laltor in tlin Transvaal waa also debated durof ing the entire session of tho house lord Ciis evening on a motion of Bird Coleridge (Liberal) that Thl hour disapproves the impoiiation of Chinese laborer Into Ihe Transvaal under the recent ordinance until that country ha been granted a full representative government." John Pnrelval. D. D.. (Liberal), bishirli-eop of Hereford, severely erli High Commissioner Milner, who. It said, was utterly disqualified to hold a high office on account of hi temper, which obscured hi judgment, and till fiery language which he scattered throughout hi dispatches. The min owner, the bishop added, wanted tlM ordinance, luit the owner did not represent the people, who were opposed to it. (Liberal-UnionisLord Gosr.hen H warmly defended Lord Milner. said that the charge (hat he waf actin under the influence of the mine owner waa unworthy of the bouse of lords. The bishop of Hereford. Interjxis lng. objected to the imputation on th motive of hi speech, but Lord Go chen declined, amid ministerial cheery to. acquit the prelate. Lord Goschen cor.rhided with in eulogy of Lord Milner, personally, as a Faithful servant, of the crown." Lord Coleridge's motion was rejected by a vote of 97 to 25. d t) FREEDOM CONFERRED CHOATE. ON Edinburgh. March 21. The freedom of the city of Edinburgh was conferred by Lord Provost Cranston on United States Ambassador Cboa'.e nd-- in tha council chamber, which waa filled by a representative satbertod 9 |