Added to this is the large fleet of transports chartered and purchased, the management of the same in conveying troops, supplies, and ammunition.

The paymaster promptly paid the Army, and is deserving of very great credit for his work.

The Signal Corps provided most efficient service, furnishing cable, telegraph, telephone, and signal services to the different commands in the field.

WHAT WE HAVE GAINED BY THE WAR.

In answer to a query from a Chicago newspaper Senator C. K. Davis, of Minnesota, thus briefly summarizes what the United States has gained by the war with Spain:

"The war with Spain has taught the American people their own strength; has raised them to a higher plane of patriotism; has appeased their discontent at and distrust of their own Government; has consolidated the North and South; has settled and made obsolete many financial heresies; has made the United States an actual naval and military power; has demonstrated the necessity of securing our share of the enormous markets of the Orient, and has enforced from foreign nations a respect for this Government not heretofore shown by them."

DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION TO WAR MEASURES. [Editorial in the Washington Times, organ of the Bryan Democracy, June 22, 1898.] Since the outbreak of the Spanish war they have committed (that is, the Democrats in the House), about every error possible. Giving a grudging support to the various imperative measures which followed the original appropriation of $50,000,000 for the national defense, they lined themselves up almost solidly against the war-revenue bill, and capped the climax last Wednesday by casting the bulk of their vote in opposition to the annexation of Hawaii, a consummation devoutly desired by a two-thirds majority in both Houses of Congress and four-fifths of the American people without regard to party.

The result is plain. What was intended to be, and what was originally a purely American war has degenerated in the eyes of the country into a Republican war with all that that implies.

The Republican President stands before the world to-day as one pursuing a patriotic policy in the teeth of unreasoning Democratic opposition. When victory comes to him, and Spain is humbled in the dust; when America's possessions are enriched by the addition of Hawaii, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and perhaps the Canaries, Mr. McKinley can rise and truthfully say:

"This is my work-mine and the Republican party's. As we saved the Union in 1861, so now do we glorify it with victory. Ours the triumph, ours the spoils, including a majority of the new House of Representatives.

"And the people on the 8th of November will cry ‘Amen.'' A VIRGINIA DEMOCRAT ON DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION TO THE WAR.

[From the remarks of Representative Hay, Democrat, of Virginia, in the House of Representatives, May 18, 1898.]

"It does seem to me to be a curious fact that no bill can be reported here which looks to the real defense of the country and to the real purpose of defeating the foe with whom we are contending, without adverse criticisms being made, and in my humble judgment, that sort of criticism which ought to have no weight with the members of the House."-Congressional Record, p. 5611, May 18, 1898.

MR. BAILEY SAYS DEMOCRATS WERE "COMPELLED" TO VOTE MONEY.

Mr. Bailey, Democrat, of Texas.-"I simply desire to call the attention of the House to the fact that on several occasions within the last thirty days this House has been called upon to vote appropriations and permission to meet extraordinary cases, and yet this House is not in the possession of any fact which warrants it in supposing the Executive Department believes that any extraordinary emergency is upon the country.

"ONLY A SHORT TIME AGO WE WERE COMPELLED TO VOTE TO PLACE $50,000,000 UNDER THE ABSOLUTE DIRECTION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.Congressional Record, p. 3897, April 4, 1898.

THE MASK FALLS OFF.

The mask behind which some of the Democratic leaders in Congress posed for a short time in order to give themselves the appearance of being heartily animated by a desire to support the Administration in its anti-Spanish policy during the Cuban crisis, completely dropped from their faces when it came to supplementing the appropriation of $50,000,000 for an immediate war fund with other equally important acts of legislation.

Mr. Cannon, chairman of the Committee on Appropriations in the House, on April 4, reported the Senate joint resolution relative to the suspension of part of section 355 of the Revised Statutes, authorizing the President, in case of emergency, to have temporary forts or fortifications constructed upon private lands upon the written consent of the owner of such lands, instead of waiting

from six months to five years to obtain title through State legislation and other formal provisions. After reporting the same Mr. Cannon asked that it be adopted by unanimous consent of the House, but Mr. Bailey, of Texas, the Democratic leader in the House, immediately objected. Under the force of this objection the resolution would have gone on the Calendar to take its chance with hundreds of other measures enjoying precedence of this important emergency war measure. Mr. Cannon, however, asked for the suspension of the rules, and the resolution was adopted after an unusually heated debate. Messrs. Bailey, McMillin, Maguire, and other leading Democrats harping on the objection that the resolution granted too much discretionary power to the President.

Stating his objection in detail, Mr. Bailey made a speech, in which he commented on the support given the $50,000,000 appropriation by the Democrats. He declared that if his party had been in power in the House this appropriation would not have been passed until Congress had seen the President's estimates and that body could have taken a careful inventory of those estimates.

"I do not hesitate to declare," Mr. Bailey exclaimed, as reported in the Congressional Record, No. 84, vol. 31, p. 3897, "that if a Democratic President had asked a Democratic House for the absolute control of $50,000,000 I would have denied it. I would have said to him, 'send in your estimates, and let Congress judge whether that money of the people ought to be expended or not.'" Mr. Maguire, of California, demanded that the powers given the President under the resolution should be limited so as to apply only in times of actual war. This was two days before the President sent his message to Congress, when hostilities seemed inevitable. To the question of Mr. Hopkins, of Illinois, whether it were seemly for the President, as commander in chief of the Army and Navy, to point out in advance what he is going to do before any hostilities occur, or whether it was not better to make preparations for these fortifications, without doing it with brass bands, the reply made by the California member was that "in times of peace and we are assured by our Chief Executive that these are times of peace-he should not be made a dictator and should not be given power independently of Congress, to do that which the Constitution expressly commits to Congress.”

Mr. Lentz, a Democratic member from Ohio, endeavored to hamper the passage of the measure by handicapping it with an amendment recognizing the independence of Cuba, without waiting for the President's message, announced for the following day.

Mr. Cannon and others explained the urgency of the resolution by pointing out that the War Department is prevented by law from erecting fortifications on any land without a previous grant of jurisdiction to the General Government by the legislature of the State in which the site is located and until the title has been approved by the Department of Justice. It was shown that this consumed too much time to be available in such an emergency as presented by the Cuban situation at that date. Notwithstanding these arguments Messrs. Bailey, McMillin, Maguire, Lentz, and other Democrats to the last objected to the measure, which, however, was adopted by a two-thirds majority, made up of Republicans and a scattering of patriotic Democrats.

WHEAT.-1897.

Acreage, yield per acre, total production, value per bushel, and total value of the wheat crop of 1897, by States and Territories.

RUSSIAN WHEAT.

A statement of the movements of wheat from Russia during the two years 1889 and 1890, with the ports and countries of destination, the total quantity received by those countries from all sources, and the percentage from Russia, will give a correct idea of the position which Russian wheat occupies in the economy of the world, and enable us to estimate the probable effect of opening up a new market for this product.

Importation of wheat by the continental countries and the percentage from Russia

Twenty years ago the figures stood about as follows:

Loss under that Measure more than $16 per Family.

The placing of wool on the free list by the Wilson bill cost the woolgrowers of the United States $84,000,000 in revenue and $120,000,000 in reduction of the price of wool in the four years of its operations. This loss of $124,000,000 equals a loss of $8 to each and every family, without a single benefit. If we add to the foregoing the whole deficiency, or increase of the public debt during this same period, the amount apportioned to each family will be more than doubled, amounting to $16 per family. To this must be added the loss to the American farmer of a market for 80,000,000 pounds of wool in a single year, which the foreign woolgrowers have secured in our country, without contributing in any way, by taxes or otherwise.