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DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. f i '- H,l - ?Oh, U. SALEM, OK BOON THTTItSDAY FEBRUARY 11, 1897. NO, 41 Ce still have a few of those heavy in ladies and misses at .JLXJ33E !5iOS 275 Commercial street, RtVQLUTl lo Improvement in Crete. Inder the Greek Flag They Con tinue to fight as Aggressors. Athens, Feb. 11. According to re ports received from tbe Island of Jrete during the past 24 hours, the Jtuation lias not changed for the Jttcr. The revolution Is spreading find the Christians are, in most cases, fighting under the Hag of Greece. fTlie commanders of the foreign rnen- f war nowlyineoff Canea persuaded uhc commander of the Greek squadron bt salute the Turkish flag. Tiie Greek Kbommander was also given to under stand that the bombardmentof Canea sr the landing of troops would under no circumstances be permitted. King George and his ministers ate aow perfect accord on the subject of the Cretan policy and a royal decree las been published that all available reek warships shall be put into com- lission, and requiring that several of them be sent to Crete with the least possible delay. An element in the legislative cham ber is opposed to the policy of seizing the island in defiance of the powers. They argue that Greece should not I, ttempt to annex the Island until she lis assured of the support of some one of the great powers. They claim fur ther that Europe is not prepared to sanction anything that, might serve to jflmpel the Turkish problem toward a I solution at this time. It is possible. they assert, that the warships of other rations will co-operate in reestablish ing if not maintaining peace, and that King George may be served with notice that he must not override the European guarantee of Turkish re gfornis on the island of Crete. On the other hand, the radical ele- tment insists that Crete should be an- ; nexed toGreece without delay In spite lot all opposition. At any rate, they '' assert an aggressive stand may force the whole Turkish situation, under cover of which Greece can obtain pos session of Crete. During the uproarious debate yes terday the radical element urged the government to take a Arm stand on the matter of union with Crete at all costs. So warm was the discussion over this question that personal en counters between the various deputies were only prevented by the interces sion of friends. The reports to the effect that the troubles on the Island of Crete ire caused by Greek agitators, and that Christians are the aggressors, are In dlgnantly denied in government cir cles. A strange feature about the Cretan situation is that the dividing line between the combatants Is creed only and not race. Substantially the whole population is Greek by race, but while the Greeks by religion num ber270,000, they live side by side with about 70,000 Mussulmans. The latter are almost all descendants of renegade Greeks.batlng the Christians ardently and hated as cordially by the Chris tians. Conflict Certain. Athens, Greece, Feb 11. The tor pedo Flotilla, accompanied by Prince George of Greeee, has started for Crete. Great enthusiasm Is being manifested on the part of the people. Prince George admitted that his orders were to prevent, by every means possible, the landing of any Turkish troops on the Island of Crete. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? It Means That Salem Is Not Bankrupt And that There Is Money lo Buy Kimball Pianos at My Prices. Three pianos and two organs sold this morning during a downpour of rain. People couldn't wait till the rain was oyer. I haven't got time to write an advertisement but come in and see for yourselves. Don't delay. Come uow. Fbank Kimball, 310 Commercial street, Salem. Representing W. W. Kimball Co., Chicago. . m Immigration Notes, rriiA Orprrnn nnd W nsliinnfon Boards are doing good work and should bo liberally supported ana encourugeu. As a result of this work many eastern people are turning their attention to the Pacltio Northwest. If the reader has any friends in the east who are likely to come heie this year send their names and addresses to the undersigned and I will see that they geta supply of the best literature and full information as to this country. flvn M. Rattv. General Agent, Wisconsin Central Lines, .roruana, ur. We try to make Schil ling's Best tea coffee oda btklnp powder flax ormK extracts and slices just right every one. Do we always hit the mark ? You shall judge your money back (at your grocer's) if you don't like them. 27 For Mlc.ly Hrnritt &Lawree. If Is Nou) Mitchell or Btel. Everything to Be Abandoned for Spoils, BENSONITES HELD A CAUCUS. Reedi of Douglas County, Again in Line, AND N0SLER MAKES A SPEECH Attempts to Reply to Senator Carter. FEDERAL OFFICES PREFERRED To Any Organization for Remedial Legislation, Affairs in the joint convention took a speech-making turn today. Nosier attempted to reply to Carter, Chap man made a short speech and Senator Reed spoke three times, made two motions, both of which carried. He wound up with saying ''d n the man who would prevent Oregon going Republican In 1898," or words to that effect. He also hit the .lobbyists a hard rap and knocked them clear out side the bar. The rollcall disclosed 37 members present and a disposition to throw away every prospect of legislation to save Mitchell. Burlingame, the A. P. A. manager, was In close conference with Brownell up to the moment the gavel fell when he slid back among the members. BENSONITES DIVIDED. Last night it was decided in a con ference of Bensonites that they stand by the Mitchell organization to tne ena or tne session. This was car ried by a two-thirds vote of the 35 present. One-third voted to take up a new man after today if no gains were made. It is thought the recov ery of Reed,who had withdrawn once, will satisfy them today. The situation hr this: The pledges extracted from members to support Mitchell in the spring campaign to secure the election are offset by prom ises of federal patronage to these members. The promises of federal office for four years to come, to men who are hard up and in debt, are the power that holds them. Relieved of the pledges extracted under compulsion and fear of defeat last spring, and cemented by hope of federal pap, Mitchell would not now have a corporal's guard supporting him on his record as a senator, on his character as a man, or on his reputa tion for statesmanship. These pledges of support and promises of reward, backed by the plea of party caucus, and party claim of regularity are so strong, that seme of Mitchell's fol lowers say they will go home without electing a senator or enacting a law rather than imperil their chance of four years at the public crib under McKinley. By doings so they would keep their party standing and keeD alive their claim on party patronage. It is as sumed that the rest of the Oregon delegation will redeem Mitchell's pledges to these men who are his sup porters In this battle. Will they do It? Can they pin their future politi cal careers upon the shattered hopes of Mitchell's success? It would bo interesting to know to what extent Senator McBrlde, Congressman Ful ton and Ellis are willing to be grub staked by this great Oregon prospec. tor, John H, Mitchell. THE ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS. Nosier, the Popullut, turned 'Mitch ite, opened tho ball with a statement that he was tlrcdW this child's play and entered his 'protest against its continuance. Ho had given four of tho best years of his life to serving his country on the field of battle and amid the carnage of war and he would not shrink his duty now. He scored Senator Carter for coming In to make the 40tb man. Why did he not come In and make the first man? (Applause by tho Mltchellltes ) What magnetic or hypnotic influence emanated from the Bourne headquarters that held this body paralyzed? The minority of Republicans who were guilty would be held responsible by the Republican party. (Applause.) I am here. I have not misled a rollcall. I expect to remain here. (Great applause by Mltchellltes.) reed's speech. After carefully worded letters to Prcridcnt Brownell were read from Hudson df Wash! ngtod and Vaughn of Lane county, asking to be excused for illness. Brownell: "If there is no objection Hudson and Vaugh will be recorded as present and voting." Johnson of Linn arose and protested against counting men as present and voting who were not present. So they were not counted. After this Reed arose and said he was here to till Hud son's seat today, or for forty or sixty days. He was not a Mitchell man. but was prepared to vote for Mitchell, "I am a Republican and I do not propose to be downed by a combina tion of 25 or 26 Populists and Demo crats, and we are going to win now and two years from now." And. then he shook his hand in the air and turned on the crowd that solidly blocked the aisles and lobbies and uttered a denunciation that sounded like d n on the man who would stand in the way. Reed moved -in conclusion to ex clude from the bar of the house during joint assemblies all but members and reporters. Dufur moved to add stenographers brought in to take down speeches of members Carried as amended. On motion of Reed, Messrs. Reed, Patterson and Chapman were ap pointed a committee to wait upon the sick members. Chapman made a speech, saying in substance he was sent here by the people of Marlon county pledged to secure certain reform legislative and he was doing his duty by attending. He had drawn up and Introduced some of the reform measures promised and would Introduce all the relief measures as he had pledged. Ko would not go to the Eldrledgo block to enact legislation. Ills constituents had not sent him there. He would as soon expect to be sent to Australia as to expect to be returned to this legis lature if he did not attend here. The joint convention then adjourned till noon Friday. BENSON HOUSE THURSDAY. Speaker Benson called to order at 11:30 a. m. Roll call showed 27 present. Rep. Somers called to chair. Reps. "Vaughn and Hudson were ex cused on account of sickness. Reading of the Journal was dis pensed with. Benson asked leave to withdraw IT. B. No. 09, to amend charter of Grants Pass. Brown moved to adjourn to 2:30 p. ra. Carried. SENATE BILL. 229. Hobson, by request, to provldo for forest supervision and prevent forest fires. 230. King, providing for location and relocation of quartz mining claims. 231. Reed, by rcauest, for tho pro tection of sturgcou In the Columbia river. SECOND HEADINO. 222. Dufur, to amend code relating to exemption ot debtor Tocommlttce on judiciary 223. Mlchell, to provide for dissolu tion of municipal corporations. To committee municipal corporations. 224. Daly, to provldo for acceptance and reclamation of certain lands. Publlo Lands. 225. Hazeltine, to create offlco of stato biologist. Education. The special committee composed of Senators Johnson and Dawson re ported favorably upon 8. B. 101. Tho commlttco on penal Institu tions reported favorably upon S. B. 221. Adjournsd. 220. Dawson, to provide for the ap pointment of a commissioner of com merce and kindred matters. Read second time under suspension, and re fcrrcd to committee on railroads. 227. Carter, to amend code as to In corporation of city of Corvallls. Read second time by title and referred to committee on municipal corporations. 228. Wade, to Incorpoiate the town of Wallowa. Price, chairman of commltte on ir rigation, reported: 172. King, to provide for Irrigation districts and kindred matters. To third reading. Patterson, of Washington, chair man of committee on revision of lavs reported the following measures: 74. McClung, providing for health officers at various points in the state. Engrossed. To third reading. 112. McClung, to amend 3471-3475 of code providing for publication of ac counts paid by county icourts. En grossed, To third reading. 115. Gowan, to require county clerks to administer all oaths In pension matters without fee for service. En gossed. To third reading. 125. Mulkoy, by request to preserve from removal or Injury buildlnlgs, landmarks, and the records deposited therein, on public lands of the state. Engrossed. To third reading. 142. Patterson of Washington, to amend code, section 2330 as to circuit court terms in Tillamook. Engrossed. To third reading, 140. Reed, to protect hotel and boarding house keepers. Engrossed. To third reading. Haseltine, chairman of committee on municipal corporations, reported in order and terms, the following bills: 12, King, to incorporate tho town of Falls City Engrossed. To third reading. 22. Taylor, to incorporate the city Pendleton. Engrossed. To third read ing. Hobson, chairman of committee on public buildings, reported: 129, Driver, to provldo for inspec tion of private hospitals, asylums, seminaries, etc., in the stato and kindred matters. Engrossed. To third reading. 231. Reed, to protect sturgeon in Columbia river or tributaries and kin dred matters. 221. Driver, substitute for S. B. 80, providing for employment of county prisoners on highways. Same ordered engrossed. To third reading. Johnson, chairman of special com mittee of senators from Llnn,reportcd back favorably. SENATE TAURSDAY MORNING. Opened with prayer by Rev. Bower Rox, Minutes not read. SECOND READING. 228. Wado, to Incorporate town of Wallowa. To committee on municl pal corporations. 229. Hobson, to provldo for a super visor of forestry. Horticulture. 230. King, providing for locatioo and re-location of quartz mining, Mlnnlng. 231. Reed, for protection ofstug gcon In Columbia river. Fisheries. Adjourned. JOURNAL "X" RAYS. Directed Upon the Oregon Legislature and Lobby. Why don't tho Statesman keep on printing Lark Bllycu's speech ? Last week it was made plain who la the fool, and now It follows who tho liars are. That wasn't exactly poetry that Senator Carter recited to the Mltch ellltes. Wanted liar who don't get trapped. Price no object. Call at Mitchell headquarters. Senator Mitchell has discovered that Populists don't wear their whiskers as long as they used to. That was a good act of Reed's, fir ing the Mitchell push outside the bar of tho joint convention, Tho Albany paper that Jumps onto Lee and Bllyeu is guilty of misin formed mlddleoMhe-roadiitn. If Al Reed Is a convert at tho ond of thirty-two days, his enthusiasm is as excusable as that of any new convert. , The Populists in tho Oregon legisla ture eay: "If Mayor Pennoyer will at tend to his business we will attend to ours. It would bo Interesting to know how many so-called legislators would be willing to resign and submit their case as it stands to their constituents. All who aro willing hold up your hands I If tho dear brethren of thoBensonlto persuasion would oxtend their vision they would drop their shibboleth: "Mitchell, federal pap or nothing." They'd find the pap had been at tenuated to the consistency of Ore gon mist. That hiss and groan at ScnatorCar tcr Wednesday camo from one of tho hired Mitchell push an ex-leech on tho public who wants to fasten his fangs on tho body politic once more. Carter broke tho reptile's hold and It squealed. The senate can't get along and do business without Its 67 committee clerks. To be sure the committees have nothing to do, but some of the clerks have. They aro needed to herd a few senators Into the rump joint convention every day. Their services arc indlspenslble. Senator Carter said he was there to make the forty-sixth man. but as h Is presence would not mako a quorum, ho was not recorded as present. Sa lem Statesman. That Is tho extent of its report of a most noted event of this session. Who says tho Statesman Is hired by Ml tchell to suppress the news? The Senate should discharge all its committee clerks until It has work for thorn. Tho joint investigations should all bo dispensed with. The 81,000 to 11,000 spent to Investigate tho trcasurylls useless, Tktf treasurer makes a semi-annual report to tho state officials and that reveals its con dition. Besides under these gold standard times no bank can afford to pay anything for tho use of public money If there was any to loan. Tho Statesman will not do ox-U. S. Senator Corbett nor State Senator Hazcltinothe simple justice to correct its statement that Corbet had coerced Senator Hazeltine by threat to fore close a mortgage. Messrs. Corbett and Hazeltine cannot expect allttlo mat ter of common fairness from a paper that sells its support to any political hobo who comes along. Tho idea of such a paper susplcionlng a man like Corbett 1 But that Is all one could ex pect of it. Tho gold standard man who Is sin cere In his convictions should stand on tho McKinley platform and vota for the best, the ablest, tho cleanest and the most consistent Republican in Oregon who stands on that plat form. A bfmetnlllst should vote for a man who represent his principles. Two men clearly representing these opposing theories are H. W. Corbett and Harrison R. Kincald. Both aro honest In their views. Nosier, tho man without a party, without an established claim to a scat in the Oregon legislature, was a proper man to put forwurd to attack an lncoruptlblo pioneer liko Col. Carter JIo was not a citizen of tho stato when elected. Ho had voted in California less than a year before and had lost his residence, He refused to appear before the committee on credentials and answer a simple question. The committee reported that he was not entitled to a seat. J. B. Wrlslcy, of Central Point, who was recently quoted by the Salem Statesman as saying that Mitchell had dono more for Oregon than any other one man, and at the. samo time advising brother Populists to "not stand in Mr, Mitchell's way, writes on February Otb, to Hon. G. F, Schmldtleln: "I never once thought a Populist could vote ;or Mitchell or any other gold-bug, Sipce his flop to the gold-bugs no Populist could con scientiously voto for hlra." Any M I tchell I to wish! ng to sco the original or this letter can call upon Mr. Schmldtleln and bo satisfied. And still there aro stories and well authenticated ones, too of big offers of coin for any man who will refuse to go Into the joint convention. At 3 o'clock yesterday morning one mem ber of the Benson house who has beea In tbe joist convention every day will continue to bo found tticro dally was offered 810,000 Iricoorcash if ho would walk out of luo Joint conven tion yesterday and refuso to enter It again. Mitchell's Paid Salem Organ Market quotations for votes on sen atorshlp aro as fallows: Single votors to go Into joint convention, from. 81500 to 12000. In blocks of four of morc,avcrage from 81000 to 81500. Qp" tlon aro offering at 8500 for the next few days with privilege of buying at 82000 for Populists or blmetalllsts or silver Republicans. None selling at" those figures or offered at nny price. CONGRESSIONAL, Washington, Feb. 11. Sctiatof Morgan, champion of tlld Nicaragua canal bill, announced in theeaatehla abandonment of that meaeureKorlthe present session of congress andlhere upon It was displaced by tho bank" ruptcy bill. Tho senator made this move after a protracted contest, cover ing several weeks which had disclosed the fact that the obstructive opposi tion could not bo overcome. He gave notice that ho wouid renew his advo cacy of the bill at an early date at tho coming extra session. Morgan bitterly criticised the British opposition to the canal and, addressing himself di rectly to Sherman, declared that If tho noxt secretary of stutc permitted him self to bo fed on the anodlnes of flat tery of Great Britain, the people would not support him. Morgan as serted also that Sherman would not succeed In negotiating a treaty relat ing to the canal, as tho genius of a Talleyrand or a Mattcrnlch could not Btand against tho "thimblerigging" these republics. MORTON SCORED. The agricultural appropriation bill, passed by the senate, carries about 83,250,000. Cullom, in chargo of tho bill, urged that peculiarities of tho present secretary of agriculture' would not be visited upon tho next secretary. If tho next secretary pursued tho policy of the present secretary, Cul lom said, ho would not favor any ap propriation, but the ono, understood to be tho choice of McKinley for tlio agricultural office, was an actual farm er who would not lndulgo in agricult ural bulletins on finance. TARrFjB TINKERS. 0 The Republican tariff makers spent another day considering the schcdulo of manufactures of Iron and steel. The commlttco decided tentatively to put tho rate on nails at about one fourth tho McKinley rates, and to mako It specific Even tho Wilson rates on nails were, in the minds of the committee, practlcclly prohldltlvo and a majority of tho Republicans ex pressed tho opinion that nails can bo made so cheaply in tho Eastern states that a duty is unnecessary. Guaranteed. Lately1 some dealer in same lino of goodsfPlanos) as myself tries to Im press phe publicthat a guarantee from a factory to a private buyers Is better than that of a local dealer. My claims aro the local dealer's guarantee is tho best. But these aro altfays accom panied by tho factory guarantee, I liavobeen In business nowoyer 15 years and no ono can prove that I charged any one anything for repairs und have attended to all brought to my notice. 1 ask you how many factory guaran tees have been reminded to yourknow lcdgc unless recomended by your local dealer. When you think of guaran tees. 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