Items of Interest April 19, 1900 Issue

Items of Interest

The following message of sympathy, signed by twenty-two thousand pupils of the Philadelphia public schools, was sent to President Kruger by a special messenger, who started April 9:—

"We, the undersigned students of the public schools of Philadelphia, the city where our own forefathers enlisted in their splendid and successful struggle against English oppression, desire to express to you and to the fighting men of the South African Republic their great admiration for their genius and courage that have checked English invasion of the Transvaal, and the undersigned extend their most earnest wishes that in the end the South African Republic will triumph over England in a war in which the Boer cause is noble, the English cause unjust."

By a vote of 161 against 153, the Senate Porto Rican bill was passed by the House on April 11, and was singed by the President April 12. The bill provides for collecting a duty on goods coming from Porto Rico into the United States of fifteen per cent of the Dingley tariff, and a similar duty at Porto Rican ports on goods from the United States, dutiable goods being the same as in the Dingley tariff, with some exceptions. The bill also carries with it a plan of civil government somewhat like that of the territories. Charles H. Allen of Massachusetts, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, has been tendered the office of governor of Porto Rico, and has virtually accepted.

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