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Russ Auiccrat Tosses BombL
V shelt Into Parliament.
OEPUTiES TURNED DOWN
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Refused to See Committee Appointed
to Present Address in Answer to
Throne Speech?Act Considered
an Affront.
A bomb was thrown into the parliamentary
camp at St. Petersburg
Sunday afternoon by a note received
by President Mouromtzeff of the
lower house, from Peterhoff, which
instead of making an appoiBtment
for an audience at which he and the
deputation could present the address j
in reply to the speech from the
throne, contained the information that
the czar would not receive the deputation,
and that the address must be
presented through the ministry of the
court. Disconcerted utterly at this
unexpected development, the leaders
of the majority in the house hastily
summoned a caucus of the constitutional
democratic deputies. President
Mourcmtreft instead of sending the ,
address to Baron Fredericks, minister
of the imperial house, immediately
issued a call for a meeting of
parliament at 11 o'clock Monday and
ask "for further instructions.
The first disposition of the caucus
of constitutional democrats, which
was in session all the afternoon and
evening, aed at midnight had not
i been concluded, was to regard the refusal
to receive the deputation as a
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was only answerable by a counter
declaration cf war. Tbe deputies
were received with rage, but after
the passion had ccoled the leaders
realized the danger of too precipitate
action and set for themselves the task
of bringing their enraged followers
under control.
An interesting constitutional point
is involved in the refusal of a personal
audience by the emperor. According
to the parliamentary law "the
president submits to the consideration
of the emperor tne transactions
of the lower house," but it is not
stated whether he does so personally,
and a deputation is nowhere authorized.
The Associated Press is informed
by a member of the ministry that
Emperor Nicholas was willing to Receive
President Mouromtzeff, but that
the act of the house in appointing a
delegation to accompany him was re*
garde-d as a dangerous precedent,
capable of being stretched to include
a deputation of any size?'even to the
whole of the membership of the house.
This minister intimated that if the
leaders of the house decide to avoid
a rupture tkey could do so either by
accepting the instructions to present
the address through the ministry of
the court as a proper and justifiable
matter of routine cr could, by keeping
within the limits of the constitutional
prevision, direct the president
of the house to apply at once for an
audience. It was pointed cut that no
distinction had been made between
lnwpr hmiso and the council of
the empire, arkl that the last named
body had also been instructed to present
its address through the same
channel.
PRISONERS GAIN LIBERTY.
Sawed Through the Steel Bars of Jail
at Fort Oglethorpe.
A Chattancoga dispatch says: By
sawing through the steel bars that
covered the windows eleven general
prisoners escape^. from the guard
house at Fort Oglethorpe Sunday
night. They each had prison terms
of from two to five years ahead of
them. They had been brought from
' southern pests preparatory to being
sent to Fort Leavenworth for permanent
confinement.
A sentry walked his post in front
of the guard house and ether sentries,
some of them mounted, patrolled
other adjacent parts of the army
post while the prisoners were sawj.
iug through the steel bars.
TO ASSIST THE SOUTH
In Securing Labor, Immigration Commission
Will Be Organized.
On Monday and Tuesday, June 4
and 5, a meeting will be held in NewYork
to organize and put in immediate
operation "The Southern States
Immigration Commission." the pur
^ pose of which is to serve as a distributing
bureau, or clearing house,
for immigration and labor to the
south, acting under the state authorities
?n the south.
Governors of the southern states
have been requested to send one delegate
each.
DIVISION OF GEORGIA DIOCESE
Decided Upon by Episcopalian Con.
vention at Columbus.
Division of the diocese of Georgia
will be made, and the southeastern division,
the section in which Savannah
H is located, retains the title, "the diocese
of Georgia."
The Episcopalian convention at Columbus
so decided Thursday after a
discussion lasting for many hours.
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SOLOMS FELT INSULTED.
Anti-Graft Bill Defeated in Hcuee Because
Congressmen Were Ir.eiau
cd in Its Provisions.
I>T a vote of HI to 00, tile house
Saturday refused to pass the uuugralt
bill, so-called, dealing with cotton
loads and ether matters cf a confidential
character which, shouid >.iey
became publicly known, might have a
tendency to affect max decs because
the conferees hud recommended that
iiieiube- s oi congxess be iiieluded within
the scope oi the bill.
The opposition v. as led by Mr. McCali
oi .Massachusetts, assisted by
sir. Ci umpac.ver of Indiana, 1mr. Grosvenor
oi Ohio and Mr. Gardner of
.Massachusetts, while the friends oi
the measure were represented by dir.
JSuriescn end dir. Jenkins.
dir. dicCJaii of iViassachusetts, leading
the opposition against making
members of congress amenable to the
penalties of the measure, said the
clause of the bill sought to be incorporated
was an adveitisement to the
world that the members were crooked.
Ho said members of congress
were neither collectors nor the guardians
of secret governmental statistics.
They are representatives and
can have no secrets from their con- j
stituenis.
"If you are to enter upon this
field," dir. McCall said, "why not
make a complete code. Why not provide
that members shall be taken
into the police court and fined when
they fail to vote, imprisoned when
they do not attend the sessions of the
house, and that the speaker, when he
plays the czar, shall be flogged at
the cart's tail in the public square.
"If you want to encourage filling
the chamber of two houses with patriots
of the 'gumshoe' breed, whose
footfalls you never hear, men who
want always to stand behind somebody,
somebody who perhaps at the
moment is playing all the rcles of
An f tVi^n nc or? onr?V* o "Kill !
vv;i uiiitutj tiivii puuo u wiu
as this. Laws like these will make
congress still less attractive to honest
men."
FAIRBANKS ON CHURCH UNION.
Vice President Gives Views of SubN
ject Before Methodist Conference.
In his address before the Methodist
general conference at Birmingham,
Vice President Fairbanks, in referring
to the prospective union of the
two churches, said:
"I do not know how long the followers
of John Wesley will dwell
apart in the United 'States. I have
faith to believe that the barriers which
still divide us are growing less formidable
with the lapse of time, and
that they will ultimately yield, and
union will be established between the
Methodist Episcopal church and the
Methodist Episcopal church, south,
thereby creating one of the greatest
instruments for good in the entire
Christian world.
"We each and all desire to see the
symmetrical development of our ccm|
inon country. W;e wish to see an intellectual,
industrious, patriotic and
religious people, firmly welded together.
We desire particularly to see the
lines of division between sections
completely obliterated and forgotten.
"I trust that Methodism may not
long be divided upon lines of former
sectional differences ? differences
which, thank God, are past and gone
forever and forever.
"May we not hope to see the great
bishops whom you honor and whom
we honor in the north presiding over
conferences in every portion of the
republic. Mtay we not hope to see a
united church, freely transferring its
ministers between the north and the
south, as well as between the west
and the east?
' Such interchange between the various
portions of our country will
serve mightily to advance a whole- !
some national purpose. We all earn- j
estly hope to see the myriad influences
making for good among us,
threading from north to south and
from cast to west, weaving the peopie
of all sections into a homogeneous
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"Consolidated Methodism would
tend in a considerable degree to promote
the intellectual and moral interests
of the entire country. National
solidarity will be advanced in
some measure, in fact, as well as in
name, when Methodism comes into
complete organic fellowship."
The vice president spent a day in
Birmingham and delivered .five speeches.
The first was a short talk to the
general conference m the morning.
At the Country Club he spoke, to representatives
of the commercial bodies
of the city.
At 4 o'clock he made a public
speech at Capitol Park. At 8 o'clock
he gave the formal address to the
conference, and following this there
was a banquet by the Scottish Rite
Masons at the temple, where the vice j
president -spOKe oneriy.
CRUISER GOES TO SAN DOMINGO.
Columbia at League Island Navy Yard
Gets h+urry Orders.
The cruiser Columbia, which arrived
at the League Island navy yard,
at Philadelphia several days ago to
undergo repairs, is being hastily prepared
for sea and will leave for Santo
Domingo immediately with SD9 marines.
Under hurry orders frcm the
navy department detachments of marines
from Boston, Brooklyn, Washington
and Norfolk arrived Sunday.
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RATE BILL PASSED
Measure Adopted in Senate
by Whooping Majority.
ONLY THREE NAY VOTES
More Power Given Interstate Commerce
Commission and People's
Rights Are Safeguarded?Bad
Feeling Dissipated.
After seventy days of almost continuous
deliberation, by a vote of 71
to 3 the senate late Friday afternoon }
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passed the railway rate regulation
bill, thus placing upon the statute
books the law strengthening the hands
of the interstate commerce commission.
While this- new law is the embodiment
of democratic principles, its
passage i3 in large measure due to
the activities and energies of President
Roosevelt. With but seven
votes against it in the house and but
three in the senate, this new law cannot
be construed as partisan legisiution
in any sense. It reflects the popular
desire.
'.Supplementing, as this does, the
original interstate commerce law, under
which many abuses have been regulated,
and the anti-rebate law, under
which so many successful prosecutions
against rebating have?especially
within the past two years?been
conducted, this new law places in.
the hands of the federal authorities
full power for the regulation of all
abuses in interstate commerce that
has been complained of, including
now the power to fix and establish
just and reasonable rates, and this
new law represents an important advance
In legislation.
Under it, the interstate commerce
commission is given full power to
regulate such discriminations in in
terstate commerce as the shippers
of the country, have long been complaining,
and justly, for without the
power to fix a just and reasonable
rate?the railroad's rate having, upon
investigation, been found unjust and
unreasonable ? the c( amission has
been helpless.
As it passes the senate the bill
in so far as it relates to the ratemaking
power of the commission, is
practically unchanged. The senate
has, however, added some important
features. By amendments it has removed
doubts where they occurred,
it has safeguarded the constitutionality
of the measure in several important
particulars; it has added provisions
aimed at the evil of railroads
owning and dealing in coal and other
products; it has put pipe lines, express
companies, and sleeping car
companies within the purview of the
act. it has restored the imprisonment
penalties, which had been stricken
out by the Elkins law; it has provided
additional and severe penalties
upon consigners and consignees,which
force or take rebates from the railroads,
this provision being aimed particularly
at the great trusts such as
Standard Oil; it has given the com
mission the power to compel railroads
to put in switches to connect with
the private tracks of shippers; it has
provided that the courts shall not
hold up the commission's rates on exparte
hearings, but no temporary injunction
or interlocutory decree shall
be granted until after five days' notice
to the commission and after a
hearing before three judges, this being
the Bacon amendment.
It is expected that the house will
accept these senate amendments
without change, as they all tend to
strengthen the bill as it came from
the house.
With the final passage of the bill
by the senate, peace and happiness
has been restored in that body.
All the factional differences and
bitterness developed in the heat of negotiation
and debate have been forgotten.
The three negative votes were cast
by Senator Foraker, republican, of
Ohio, and Senators Morgan and Pettus,
democrats, of Alabama.
ADDRESS BY FAIRBANKS.
Made to Methodists In Conference at
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Birmingham.
The feature of Thursday's session
of the general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south,
was the address by Vice President C.
W. Fairbanks, fraternal delegate from
'the northern Methodist Episcopal
church. The immense auditorium was
packed and hundreds were turned
away. Rev. Dr. W. iS. Matthew of
Berkeley, Cal., clerical delegate from
the northern church, also spoke.
MRS. DAVIS SUFFERS RELAPSE.
Use cf Oxygen Necessary to Prolong
Her Life.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, wife of the
president of the Southern Confederacy,
who i3 ill at the Hotel Glrard,
in New York, suffered a relapse early
Thursday and her condition for several
hours was serious. During the
morning hours resort was had to the
use of oxygen. About noon Mrs. Davis
rallied to seme extent
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OLD TIME LIMIT STANDS.1
Methodist Conference Decides Four
Years Are Enough for Ministers
to Remain at One Station.
The general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south, Wednesday
afternoon adopted, by an overwhelming
majority, the minority report
of the committee o nitinerancy
opposing any extension of the time
limit of pastors. The majority of
the committee had reported in favor
of extending the limit from four to
six years. The report ? -ecipitated a j
ions debate, which was quiTe acrimonious
at times.
In connection with the recent action
of the conference creating a com- I
mission to meet similar reports from j
other branches of Methodism looking !
to a revision was a re-statement of
the church's creed, Dinsdale T. Young,
the fraternal delegate from Great Britain,
attending the conference, is inclined
to believe that a special act of
parliament will be necessary if such
a step is taken by the Wesley an
church in England. Mt. Young said:
"My impression is that we cannot
have a genuine re-statement of revision
of the creed without the consent
of parliament, owing to John Wesley^
poll deed, the legal foundation of j
Methodism. This certainly applies to
any alteration of the three-year ministerial
limit without an act of parliament,
and I think the same rule apto
any alteration or revision of the
doctrine as well as the constitution
of the church."
IRREGULARITIES CHARGED
To Grand Master of Exchequer of the
Georgia Knights of Pythias.
The election of officers and the drill
of the uniformed rank of the Knights
of Pythias grand lodge at Augusta,
Ga., was dwarfed in public interest
Wednesday by rumors that were later
confirmed of irregularities in the
books and accounts of Grand Master
of the Exchequer W. A. McArthur
of Augusta, who was superseded
in office.
The officers and Knights are reticent
in talking, but IT is acknowledged
that a statement was made to the
grand lodge at Wednesday's session
to the effect that irregularities were
found that ? unt to a shortage of
more than $3,000. Friends of Mr.
McArthur deny that there was any intentional
wrongdoing on his part and
that the matter will be found to come
out all right. A close friend of Mr. ,
JlcArthur says that McArthur acknowledged
that he had endorsed
notes for friends who had gone back
on him and that was the cause of his I
trouble.
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CHANDLER IS FACETIOUS.
White House "Messenger Boy" Glad
Irr^rialist Days Are Over.
A Washington dispatch says: The
most interesting feature of Mr. Chandler's
letter to Mr. Tillman is contained
in the closing paragraph, in
which he says;
"On the whole, perhaps I ought to
consider myself fortunate. If the old
imperialist days had been revived at
the white house, one whom I considered
the best of friends, Senator
Ledge, upon demand would have cut
off my head and taken it to President
Rocsevelt on a charger, and I should
have spoken no more. Now, at least,
I have left me the power of speech.
Eut I shall never use it again as a
mission from President Roosevelt to
the democratic party."
WANT MONSTER BATTLESHIP.
House Has Important Question Up for
Settlement.
Shall the United States have a battleship,
the peer, if not the superior
of any battleship, in the world, carrying
as heavy armor and ai- ? verful
armament as any known vessel
of its class? was the question which
presented itself to the house Wednesday
during the consideration of the
naval appropriations bill.
DYNAMITE WRECKS TOWN.
Report Says Much Damage Was Done,
But No Lives Were Lost.
A report was sent out from North
Bay, Ont, Friday, that Cabalt, one
of the mining centers in New Ontario,
was completely destroyed by fire.
It is also reported that several persons
were killed by an explosion.
A later dispatch says a large quantity
of dynamite in the northeastern
section of the town ignited by a bush
fire, exploded, wrecking twenty-five
houses. Several persons were Injured,
du,c so iar as can De learned no one
was killed.
CZAR NICHOLAS IS BLUFFED.
Russian Autocrat Anxious Not to
Break With Parliament.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says: In
r-?'te of the fear that the addresses
in reply to the speech from the throne
!n <he lower house of parliament
would precipitate an immediate conflict
between the crown and parliament,
Emperor Nicholas is determined
to avoid a breach if possible.
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| Elected by Methodist Conference
in Birmingham.
| TIGERT, WARD, ATKINS
Twelve Da!lots Were Taken and Great
Enthusiasm Was Manifested.
L Money is Awarded for the
Extension cf Schools.
After a day cf exciting balloting at
the ^Methodist Episcopal general conference,
at Blrruingxiani, Thursday,
which continued up to 10:30 o'clock
p. m., the following three new bisii
[ ops were elected: Dr. Seth Ward, assistant
missionary secretary of the
church; Dr. John J. Tigert, book editor;
Dr. James Atkins, Sunday school
editor. Tigert was elected on the
first ballot, Ward on the third and
Atkins on the twelfth.
J. J. Tigert was born in Louisville
November 25, 1S56. He was graduated
from Vanderbilt University and
from the Southern Br., ist Theological
Seminary at Louisville. He was
licensed to preach in 1S75. He received
his degree of LL. D. from the University
of Missouri.
James Atkins was born in Knoxville,
Tenn., April 18, 1850. He received
his education in Tennesee
schools and was licensed to preach
in 1870. He has been president of
two Methodist schools, is the originar
tor of the Bible Teachers' Study Circle,
and is author of several books.
Dr. Seth Ward was born in Leon
county, Texas, November 1, 1858. His
boyhood days were spent on a Texas
farm. He received the degree of D.
D. from Southwestern University.
Three sessions of the conference
were held during the day. The principal
business transacted besides the
election of the bishops was the adoption
of that part of the report of the
committee on eaucauon providing ior
an assessment of $50,000 for school1 '
extension.
The committee on episcopacy reported
memorials on the death of
Eishops J. C. Keener and R. K. Hargrove.
THE RATE BILL ROW.
Summary of Charges and Counter.
Charges in Controversy.
A Washington special says: The
Tillman charge that President Roosevelt
betrayed the democrats in the
rate bill matter is the talk of Washington.
The president appears to lack ?lb11c
approval. iNot since he has been
in the white house has he been so
bitterly attacked with so few defenders.
To the impartial observer there
is some right and some wrong on
both sides. Here are the issues concisely:
Tillman and Bailey, corroborated by
Chandler, charge:
First ? That President Roosevelt
surrendered to the railway senators
in accepting the Hepburn bill with
the "Allison amendment" as to court
review.
second?That the surrender was
unnecessary and was made at the
moment when victory was assured.
Third?That President Roosevelt
went over to the enemy without notice
to his democratic allies who had
made victory possible.
Fourth?That the treachery was
less excusable since he had himselr
sought the alliance. *
To theso charges, the president has
replied:
First?That he has net surrendered
in acc.* ing the Allison amendment,
but has, in fact, gained a great and
substantial victory.
Second?That he did not break off
negotiations with the democratic allies
until it had been "demonstrated
that victory was not possible on the
basis of their proposals.
Third?No reply.
Fourth ? That the alliance was
sought by the democrats and that
the Tillman-Bailey-Chandler-ilcody
conferences were no more sismifioirit
and no mere binding than numerous
other conferences which were continuously
being held.
To which the following rejoinder is
made by the president's critics:
If, as claimed, the Hepburn bil!
was always satisfactory why did the
president raise the issue of a restricted
court review? Why did he call
the conference at the white house, '<
at which the "Long amendment" was i
drafted? Why did he for no less than
ten days tell all callers that the
"thing to do now was to kill the
broad court review amendment?"
Why did he net discover sooner
that the naked Hepburn bill with the !
Allison amendment gives a broad re- ^
view, and practically all the anti-law- 1
yers for once agree with them?
pen for mother and son.
Convicted at New Haven for Murder
Of HUSOana arta oicpidmci.
At New Haven. Conn.. Wednesday,
Mrs. Ida J. Jennings and her son, :
Herbert W. Taylor, were convicted of 1
murder i nthe second degree for kill- <
ing Joseph E. Jennings, the husband 1
of Mrs. Jennings, on the night of <
April 1. Both were sentenced to life j
imprisonment
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VAST TRACTS LAI D WASTE
Forest Fires Sweep Michigan Counties?Large
Area Containing Sav*
eral Towns, Desolated.
A dispatch from Escanaba, Mich.,
says: Driven by a heavy gale,, one
cf the most destructive forest fires
in the history of the district Friday
afternoon laid waste a. tract of land
fifty miles square and at. a late hour
Friday night was spreading. It' is
definitely known that the following
cities and villages have been completely
wiped out:
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Quinnesec, population 2,000; Schae*
?er, 600; Ralphs, 400; Saivoie, 200;
Cornell, 500; V?roodland, 200;. Talbot, -
400.
At North and several other points
cn the line of the Escanaba and Lake
Superior road at six-, o'clock, Friday
night, when all. communication was
cut off. the fire had reached the outskirts
of the villages and no hope;
o! saving any of the property was offered.
Hundreds of people are. homeless
and are being brought into Escanaba
as fast, as trains, can be sent
to the burned district. In addition to
the loss of several saw mills and
other buildings, millions of feet of
cut timber have been burned and
great tracts of standing timber havebeen
badly damaged.
As far as can be learned, no lives
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have been lost, although families of
several homesteaders are missing.
The safety of a large lumber crew
at work in the heart of the heavily
a-nr>HpH rnnntrv and xtnth no railroad
facilities is feared for.
PHYSICIANS FULLY EXONERATED
County Grand Jury Knocked Out by
County Commissioners.
At Atlanta, Friday, tlie county physicians,
Dr. E. D. Richardson and Dr.
J. W. Hurt against v/hose professional
workx among the inhabitants of the
Fulton county Jail and the Fulton
county convict camps the Fulton coun- /
ty grand jury recently made complaint,
were fully exonerated by the
Fulton county commissioners alter a
most searching investigation.
A few weeks ago the grand jury
in returning its general presentments
for the term declared that Drs. Hurt
and Richardson had been neglectful
of the prisoners within the custody of |
the county.
Both physicians quickly sought the
board of county commissioners to
which they are employed and demanded
an investigation of the charges
made. The board heard the request
and passed a resolution providing for
the investigation the physicians ask
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county attorney to conduct the prosecution.
The evidence-produced during the
trial indicated that the 'physicians
might have been somewhat tardy at
times when calls were made upon ^
them. Yet it was shown conclusively
that both Doctors Hurt and Richardson
had worked most industrious- |
ly in behalf of tne prisoners, the tables
of mortality indicating a very
small per cent
After giving the day to the hearing
of the evidence the board declared |
that the charges were without founds- j
tion, the views of the board being expressed
in the following resolution:
"Whereas, tbe grand jury of Fulton
county fo*r the March term, 19C6,
in its presentments reported that the
county physicians, Dr. John W. Hurt
and Dr. E. D. Richardson, had been
guilty of gross neglect in their treatment
of the convicts and recommend- '
ed that the board of, commissioners
of roads and revenues discharge them
from their positions;
"And whereas an exhaustive inves1
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taken in support cf said charges and ' -U
in refutation thereof has been heard . j|
by said board of commissioners;
"Resolved, by the board of commissioners
of reads and revenues of
said county, that Doctors John W.
Hurt and E. D. Richardson be and
they are fully exonerated from said
charges and the same are dismissed.'
MEETING IS POSTPONED
Populist Committee of Georgia Will
Hold Conference Later.
J. J. Holloway, chairman of tbe
populist state committee, has issued
a statement to the press, announcing
the posti.-mement of the meeting of
the committee, which was called to
meet in Atlanta, May 21. He states
that it will probably be held about
cne miatne 01 juiy. ine present unsettled
.condition of affairs politically
Is given as one of the re/jons for
the postponement of the committee's
session.
PREACHERS PALL IN HEAP.
Lined Up for Group Photograph When
Platform Collapsed.
At DesMoines, Iowa, Friday afternoon,
five commissioners to the Presbyterian
general assembly were bruised
and injured by the collapse of a
temporary stand, which had been
erected for the purpose of getting a
croup photographs. Only one was seriously
Injured.
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