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THE DAISES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10. 1896.
NUMBER 25.
WANTS INFORMATION
Morgan bpeaks Concerning
the Competitor Case.
CONDENNS CLEVELAND'S APATHY
President Should Bestir ninself to Sara
the FiUonen Justice Was Not
Given Them.
Washington, Jane 5. Amendments
to the joint resolution for reorganization
of the Northern Pacific were offered by
Mitchell and Nelson, providing that the
new company shall be liable on the land
treaties of the old company. and also for
injuries to persons and property.
Morgan asked for action on his resolu
tion requesting the president for infor
mation as to the capture of the Com
petitor by the Spanish warship and the
condemnation to death of United States
citizens, whether anv demand has been
made for the release of the citizens.
The senator said, that while the case
was one of great gravity, involving the
unwarranted condemnation to death of
American citizen", yet no information
except through the press reports and
rumors had been received.
The executive branch had not given
th'e elightest information on the sulj-cr.
Morgan read the statutes requirim: the
. president to make a demand for the re:
' lease of American citizens. He argued
that it was the duty of th president
under the constitution to keep 'congress
advised on the state of the Union and in
particular on foreign affairs. Of Lite a
courteous custom had arisen to adopt
resolutions making the requests on the
president for information, hut this did
not relieve the president from the duty
of giving full information, and it was
only of late that this failure of the ex
' ecutive to give information to congress
bad grown.
Some question was rajsed by Sherman
as to the propriety of Morgan making
public use of the testimony of Lawrence
before the committee on foreign lela
tions. The Alabama senator sharply
rejoiced that there should be no such
concealment of facts irom the conntry.
Morgan said the testimony of Law-
rence, who was . present at the Com
petitor's trial at Havana, showed the
grossly irregular character of the pro
ceedings.
"And yet," declared the senator, "the
president has paid no more attent.on to
the subject than if it bad been the
slaughter of some poor negro or mulatto
in the Cuban army.".
Morgan said he did not want commit
ted to the president the sole authority
to demand or withhold the demand for
the release of American citizens, and to
recognize or withhold recognition of bel
ligerency. Mills reminded Morgan that
the testimony had shown that th-Amer
icans on trial at Havana had not under
stood any proceedings, which were o
ducted in Spanish.
"Yes," Morgan continued, that testi
mony of Mr. Lawrence shows the entire
. trial was in the Spanish language,
When the American prisoner was told
to stand up be said : 'I do not under
stand what you have been saying. How
am I to answer you?' A brief explana
tion was made, lhen sentence was
pronounced on that American citizen
The senator said that occasional groan b
and shrieks were heard from the strick
en country, telling of the terrible, butch
ery going on there.
He had received letters from Cuba,
' some with the seal broken, detailing the
conditions prevalent there. Before the
senate adjourned it Bhonld know from
the president what the situation there Is,
and whether American citizens are to
meet death withont a demand'.
Morgan said he had great respect for
the omce of president. It was an Ameri
can characteristic to be proud of the gov
ernment. Jttut this was a government
of law, not of provisional will. The pre
sident is enjoinea to execute tbe law.
The senate had requested information of
tbe president and be replied, that it' was
incompatible with public interest 'al
though section 200" of the statutes pro
vided than when a, demand 'was' made
for the release of Americans, "Alt facts
relative thereto'as soon" as practicable
must be communicated by the president
to congress." ' - -
-The senator declared that every day
- of the confinement of tbe American
prisoners at Havana was a day of dis
honor. ' He did hot. know what would
come of the delay and inaction. Possi-'
bly in the end the Americans would be
so hnmbled as to sue to Spain for par
don. ; Bat congress, which was the sole
war power, ihould'not leave without
authorizing that that power be used
necessary. .
."In the event theee American prison
ers are not released and delivered to the
presidont," concluded Morgan, we
should authorize bim to send ships of
war to Cuba and make war sufficient to
secure their release."
As Morgan closed, Sherman stated tbe
proceedings were of such a character as
to be within senate rule S3, requiring
secrecy. 'I hereupon the presiding
officer", Piatt, directed the t-alleries to bo
cleared and the doorsclosed.
. KNGMSB COMMENT.
America Will Mot Change to tbe Silver
Standard.
London,. June 5. Discussing Ameri
can prices the Times says:
Whatever may be said at the conven
tion?, it 'will probably be fonnd that
solid material interests will suffice to
prevent a sweeping change. Under
silver regime American securities wonld
be worth just about half their face value,
The Kentucky' and Kansas silverites,
demanding a ratio of 16 to 1, should
really be thanked for coming into the
onen with proposals about which there
is none of the fascinating ambiguity of a
straddle.
A Compromise Proposed.
Washington, June 5. A proposed
compromise has been offered in the con
ference on the sectarian school amend
inent of the Indian appropriation bill
It provides that the appropriation for
such schools shall extend to the next
fiscal year, instead of tbe next two
fincal years. It is thought tbe senate
will accept the ' compromise. In tbe
house the question is doubtful. Repre
sentatives Linton and Hainer, who led
the fight against the appropriation for
sectarian purposes, both declare such a
compromise cannot be accepted.
The Second District.
Baker City, June 5. Fourteen pre
cincts out of 23 'n Grant county give:
For congress Ellis, 450; Qninu, 258;
Bennett, 231 ; Northup, 116, McKercher,
11. The precincts yet to come in do not
usually poll a large vote, and the result
cannot bo meterially changed.
Roadbed Endangered.
Four , more feet of water will wash
away the track at Umatilla and in vari
ous places along the O. E. & N., unless
something can be done to prevent it.
To this end two work trains were put on
Saturday, the steam shovel was brought
into use, and the work commenced of
loading cars with rock for use at the en
dangered roadbed at Umatilla. A train
consisting of thirtv-two cars pulled out
for that point this morning, loaded with
rock which was procured at the new cut
near the former tig trestle west of the
city. The shovel broke when seventeen
cars of the second train were loaded and
these are in the yard awaiting more load'
ed cars to make up the full train. The
shovel was sent to Portland for repairs,
The river has lallen . slightly since
morning, and hopes are entertained that
tbe extreme higbt has been reached.
Electric Bitters.
Electric Bitters is a medicine suited
tor any season, but perhaps more gen
erally needed, when ' the languid ex
hausted feeling prevails, when the -liver
is torpid and sluggish and the need of a
tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt
use of this medicine has often averted
long and. perhaps fatal biliouB fevers.
No medicine will act more surely in
counteracting and freeing the system
from the malarial poison. Headache,
Indigestion, Constipation, Dizziness
yield to Electric Bitters. 50c and $1 per
bottle at the Snipes-Kinersly 'drug
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Klickitat Populists.
The Ki ck tat Po ulists 1 e'd a con
vention Saturday at Young's hall to dis
cuss tbe feasibility of getting a ticket in
the field at an early day. Further ac
tion was postponed until attee the meet
ing of the St. Louis convention. An
drew Jackson Long, an' old soldier and
pensioner, made" a telling speech for
Populism. The success of Populism in
Oregon's recent election was referred to
by different speakers. One speaker pre
dicted there would be a greater land
slide for Populism, in Washington this
fall than there was at Oregon's recent
election. . , '..'''.
Two lire! Sired.
Mrs. Phoebe-Thomas, of Junction City
111. was told' bv her .doctora she bad
Consumption 'and! that there was no hope
for her,' but.' two' poVfles 'of Dr. King's
New". Discovery completely cured her
ana sue says it saved her lire. Air. inos.
Eggers, 139 Florida St- San Francisco,
suffered from a dreadful cold, approach
ing Consumption, tried without result
everything else then bought one bottle
of Dr. King's New Discovery and in two
weeks was cured. He is naturally thank
ful. It ia such results, of which these
are samples, that prove tbe wonderful
efficacy of t his medicine in Coughs and
colds. . Free trial bottles at Blakeley &
Houghton's Drug Store. Regular size
50 cents and $1 00.
DRAWING TO AN END
Congress Clearing Away the
Decks for Adjournment,
THE DEFICIENCY BILL VETOED
llomt Sustains tbe Veto and Passes a
Substitute Measure Rushing
Tbliies in tbe Senate.
Washington, June 6. The senate
made some progress today toward clear
ing away the large appropriation bills
which stand ahead of adjournment.
The Indian bill was finally disposed of,
the contract school item teing modified
so Catholic schools wonia oe aoonsnea
July 1, 1897.
After " discussing the items of battle
ships and armor-plate most of the day,
the senate declined, by a vote of 24 to 22,
to accept the conference report recom
mending three battle-ships and armor-
plate at the maximum cost ot $425 per
ton.
The sundry civil conferees were in
structed by unanimous vote to insist
upon the appropriations for new public
buildings at tbe capitals of Utah, Idaho,
Wyoming and Montana, and additional
snms for buildings at other points.
The house cleared its decks for ad
journment today by disposing of all the
essential business before it. The presi
dent's veto of the general deficiency bill
proved effectual, as tbe house, by a vote
of 140 to 14, refused to pass the bill over
the veto, and sent to the senate a substi
tute omitting the French spoliation and
other claims which had incurred the
president's opposition. " "
Although there was little debate on
the Indian bill before report, which in
volved a compromise extending govern
ment aid to church schools for another
year, when it came to a vote, the com
promise was rejected by a narrow vote
of 58 to 65. - ;
An act authorizing the state to make
liens on arid lands to cover expenses of
reclamation was ! adopted and another
bill was passed limiting mail which can
be franked to written and printed
matter.
DEMOCRATS OF TJXAO.
ate Convention Adopts tbe Usual
Silver l'lanfc.
Salt Lake, June 6. Judge Powers,
of tbe state committee, called the Demo
cratic convention to order today at 11:15
in. and named for temporary officers
of the convention, Colonel A. C. Ellis,
of Salt Lake, chairman, and M. F. Mur
ray, of San Pete, secretary. Colonel
Ellis, in bis speech, said the party plat
form should be written in the briefest
and simplest sentences. It should de
clare that there must be no union of
church and state; that the people, of
Utah were in favor of sound money of
silver and gold at tbe ratio . of 16 to 1
and that no uncertain or double mean
ing , language should be used. .. Once
more the Democrats were going back to
tbe nestors of the party; the sentiments
and efforts of the Morgans of Alabama,
tbe Blands and Vests of Miesouri, the
Blackburn s of . Kentucky, the Boies of
Iowa and the Stevensons. of Illinois
would yet be its salvation.
lbe speaker . said tbe - people . were
aroused and be believed they would yet
declare for freedom and prosperity and
8 weep the country, tbe statements of
Chauncey Depew, the greatest American
humorist, and tbe . yellow chrysanthe
mum statesman . from Nebraska, who
presides over tbe agricultural interests
of tbe United States, to the contrary
notwithstanding.
TONGCK IS TBI LEAD.
Brought to the Front . by the Tote In
Curry County.
Curry county has been beard from and
Thomas . H. . Tongue, Bepublican candi
date' for congress in the First Oregon
district, now leads W. 8. Vanderburg,
the Populist, by 44 votes. The vote in
Curry was : ' Tongue, 283 ; Vanderburg,
133. Besides 'this plurality 'of 150 for
Tongue, the official' count in. Douglas
county has resulted in 32 being added to
Tongue's total and a loss of 5 by Vander
burg, or a change of 37 votes in Tongue's
favor. The returns are in from all pre
cincts in all counties in this district, ex
cept two in Coos county, and the vote
returned is: Tongue, 19,328; Vander
burg, : 19,284. It is easy to see how
much depends upon the official counts.'
To Continue Work on Cascade Canal.
Washington j June 6. The conferees
on the sundry civil appropriation bill
agreed today on a partial report. Tbe
item appropriating $179,189 for the open
ing of the canal at the cascades of the
Columbia river will be compromised so
as to provide that the work authorized
shall be continued as proposed by the
senate and not completed as was con
templated by the house bill.
The provision for the survey of the
public lands was also compromised, the
figure being fixed at $325,000.
HOW KANSAS WILL VOTE.
Seventeen of tbe Twenty Republican
Delegates Opposed to Free Silver.
Topeka, June 6. The fact that the
Kansas Republican convention to elect
delegates to St. Louis, held the same day
as the Ohio convention, adopted no reso
lutions on the money question, has cre
ated much interest. Kansas has not
been included in any of the. published
estimates of the votes at St! Louis.
To show how the KanBas delegation
stands on the silver question, the To
peka Capitol will publish tomorrow let
ters from 19 of the 20 delegates. Seven
teen of the delegates declare themselves
emphatically against tbe free coinage of
silver, and in favor of the preservation
of the present monetary standard, while
one is in favor of a bimetallic standard
aud one is in favor of the greatest pos
sible use of silver, but "with every
dollar as good as any otTier dollar."
The delegates were instructed for Mc
Kinlev bv unanimous vote in the state
and district conventions.
Married.
At St. Paul's church, The Dalles, Or.,
by the Rev. J. N. Goss, rector, on Mon
day, June 8, 1896, Samuel M. Irvine and
Margaret Douglas.
The groom is anephew of John Camp
bell Martin, E q., of Dayville, in Grant
county, and has lived in that county,
where he has considerable stock inter
ests, for the past eight years. He came
here a few dayssince to meet his intend
ed bride, who came out from Great
Britain, accompanied by the mother and
sister of the groom.
Tnere were present as witnesses Capt.
Lewis twho gave the bride away ), Mrs.
Lewis, Mrs. Goss, Dr. and Mrs. Camp
bell, Mrs. J. A. Cro8sen,Mias Irvine and
Miss Florence Lewis. The bride and
groom left the parsonage amid a shower
of rice and good wishes. 7
It may be mentioned that tbe bride is
descended . from the Douglass whose
countess, after whom she is named, kept
snch grim ward over the unfortunate
Mary Queen of Scots.
Real Estate Transfers.
Vincent P. Steers and Ella Steers to
Ferd.nand We8ternan,s hf sw qr, sec 15,
tp4s, r 13 e; $250.
Joseph Purser and wife to Ida Clinton
Nealigb, 2 acres in ne cor of sec 3, tp
2n, rlOe; $125.
Donald .McRae and wife to Duncan
McRae, undivided half interest in n hf
p qr, s hf ne qr, sec -34, tp 7 n, r 18 e;
$900.
John E. Burnett and wife to A. L.
Reece, lot 1, block 23, Bigelow Bluff add
to Dalles City J $150.
A. L. Reece and wife to J. H. Blake
ney, lot 1, block 27, Bigelow Bluff add to
Dallss City ; $150.
TJ. 8. A. to Josepht Purser, homestead
e hf ne qr, sec 3, tp 2 n, r 10 e. '
B. H. Thnrston to Lavina Lemerson,
lot H, block 14, Fort Dalles Military
Reserve add to Dalles City ; $75..
B, H. Thurston to David Lemerson
and wife, lot G, block 14, Ft. Dalles
Military Reserve add ; $75.
Children's Day at the Christian Church.
Sunday, June 7th, at 8 p. m., Chil
dren's Day exercises for. foreign mis
sions, will.be observed at the Christian
church. ' This has come to be a great
day in the Sunday "echools of this re
ligious body. The observance of tbe day
began .in 1881y when the schools gave
only $754. . Last year they gave about
$27,C00. Since . 1881 ' they ' have given
about $200,000. Tbe Sunday schools are
planning to raise $50,000 Sunday, June
7th.' Tho Christian church has $8,500
Sunday schools in -this country, and an
effort is being made to enliet every one
in the observance of Children's Day, the
first Sunday in June: ' We have assur
ance that the audience will be large in
this place and that the exercises will be
of unusual interest, and an enthusiastic
time is expected.
Martin, Qulnn's Good Sense;
It ia still -undecidedjwhether cr not
Martin Quiun has- been elected to con
gress from the Second congressional dis
trict. Mr. Quinn is . less excited about
the matter than some of his friends and
admirers, and ' has" Very wisely decided
to resume bis position with' tbe Ameri
can laundry, corner of Twelfth and
Flanders streets. If elected be does not
take his seat until March 4, 1897. Ore-
gonian.
Dr. .T. F. Campbell (M.- D., M. C.)
physician, . surgeon, . etc., late of Los
Angeles, office at Umatilla house. All
calls attended. ' Telephone 37. '
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DRAWING TO A CLOSE
Business Is Being Rnslied
to a Finish.
CONGRESS MAY ADJOURN TOMORROW
General Deficiency Bill Was Passed
by the Senate Pnblio Building
for Oakland.
Washington, June 8. The new de
ficiency bill, framed to meet tbe objec
tions of the president's recent veto, was
taken up as soon as the senate met to
day. Before proceeding with it, further
conferences were ordered on the Indian
and District of . Co'umbia appropria
tion bills.
Activity and confusion on the floor
while the minor measures were hurried
through their final stages indicated the
near approach of an mtj urni-ient.
A large attendance overcame the fears
entertained that the senate was to be
left without a quorum.
Wolcott asked i'mmed'ate ccnsidera
tion for a resolution directing, the com
mittee on library to investigate the cir
cumstances of the'award of the statue if
General William Tecnmseh Sherman,
Rohlsmith's design having been se
lected, and requesting the secretary of
war to snspend execution of the contract
until the report made at the next ses
sion. Alliron wanted the resolution to
go over, nnder the rules, until tomorrow.
Wolcott suggested that there miuht not
be a session tomorrow. Allison re
marked that he thought there would be
a session tomorrow. ' .
Hawley suggested that there were two
sides to this Btatue question. The reso
lution went over.'
When the deficiency hill had been
read Harris offered an amendment
covering tbe claims under the Bowman
act, which had been omitted in the
house bill, although there was no spe
cific objection to them in the veto mes
sage. Harris said in the former bill the
Bowman claims were coupled with the
spoliation claims, and he felt i'0 interest
in them, but these Bowmau act claims,
amounting to about $500,000, had been
subjected to judicial ecru tiny, and should
be paid as much as any obligation in
curred by the government. The amend
ment was voted out of order.
' The deficiency bill was then passed as
it came from the house.
A letter from the president wns read
consenting to the withdrawal by the
Chickasaw Indians of $100,000 of their
trust fund now in the treasury.
A resolution was passed assenting to
the withdrawal.
The bill was passed appropriating
$350,000 fori public building at Oak
land, Cal. .
A TERRIBLE 1 RUMINATION.
Murder and Suicide the Outcome of a
Ltalson.
San Fbancisco, June 8. John W.
Hay, aged 26, assistant editor of the
Journal of Commerce) was shot through
the left breast by Mrs. Mina Mac Doug
all, said to be the wife of a drummer for
a Chicago barbed wire company, at the
boarding-bouse of Mrs. Quinn, on Mc
Allister street, at 11 :10 -o'clock last
night. . The woman then shot herself
through the heart, dying instantly.
Hay was removed to the receiving hos
pital. The doctor says he cannot live.
The ehooting occurred in a small back.
room on tbe. first floor'of the house.
Hay and Mrs. MacDougall engaged the
room Thursday last. They told Mrs.
Quinn they were man and wife, and, as
be paid cash for a week's rent, she asked
no questions and did not even trv to
learn their names. .
. Hay, according to the story which be
told while writhing in pain on the oper
ating table of' the hospital, first -met
Mrs. MacDougall three weeks ago.' Ha
flirted with her, and a friendship sprung
up between them. , They were constant
ly together. Several times the woman
told Hay she loved him, and that if be
ever-tried to leave her it would 'be his
death. Hay paid no at ter tion to her
threats. Hay bad been with her three
days in the room, neglecting his. work
that he might remain with her, and last
night he came to tbe conclusion that be
would return to his home, where he I
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lived with h's father and mother. He
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' TBE STOHM K I! CORD.
Trers Were Uprooted and Buildings'
Overturned In Michigan.
Laksino, Mich., June 8. A tornado
strucK this t i y from the' west yesterday
evening mid a terrible wind storm and
heavy rain followed. It was the worst
experienced here in years. Trees were
uprooted and scorns of them, some of
wh en were a foot in diameter, were
broken off. Several barns and buildings
were overturned, and over 400 feet of
sheds at the plant of the Michigan Stave
Company were leveled. The rain fell
in torrents.
The Storm at Springfield.
Springfield, III, June 8: for three
hours last night this city- was swept by
one of the most violent- electrical and
thunder Btorms that ever occurred in
this section of Illinois.
Many thousands of dollars' damage re
sulted. The first floors of many resi
dences were flooded. - The city, was in
darkness moBt of tbe night. Several
alarms of fire added terror, to the situa
tion. " Thousands of sparrows covered
the ground, having been drowned by the
deluge. She Sangamon' river has risen
five feet and still is advancing. There
has been great damage.in- the lowlands.
' Four Were Drowned In aUnoeseta.
St. Paul, June 8. Later reports from
points in southwestern Minnesota, which -were
swept by tbe great storm Saturday .
night, show that four persons lost their
lives, and property was damaged to the
extent of over f300,000. ''
Those drowned are: George Andrews ;
Sabula j. H. T. Bulod, Murray county ;
J. W. Catterson, Ash creek; E. V,
Hunter, Adrian.
A Tornado la Missouri.
Mexico, Mo., June 8. A tornado
struck here yesterday evening, causing
destruction to houses, barns, trees and
crops. As far as known, no one was in
jured. The rain fell in torrents, fully
six inches covering tbe ground. Many
residences were undermined. The creeka
are higher by several inches than during
last fall's flood, and communication
with other parts of the country is
shut off. '
Otto Birgfeld is now ready to supply
amilies with the celebrated Gambrinus
keg or bottle beer, delivered free of
charge to any pr.rtof tbe city. Tele
phone 34.
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