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VOL. IX
THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1899.
NO. 18
(
THE AUTHORITY
IS LACKING
Sj H:lis Speaker Carter in tie Miller
tf tie Reawrlueit Bill.
THE HOUSE
SUSTAINS HIM
Intimation that Friends of the Bill in
Its Presnt Form Inspired the Op
position to the Reconsideration
of the Measure.
Sai.pm, Jan. SI. Tbe effort to obtain
reconsideration of the reapportionment
bill in the house, which gave promise of
a bitter fight at tbe clcee of the session
yejterday, has failed. After a debate of
over and hoar this morning tbe decision
of the speaker in holding that tbe bill
had passed beyond the jurisdiction oi
the house, was sustained by a vote of
32 to 20; absent 7.
Upon the question being put whether
the decision of the chair should stand
as the judgment of the bouse, Moody
took the floor in defense of the position
held by the speaker. He said the ques
tion was not whether the reapportion
ment bill was just, but whether the
the speaker was right in bis ruling, and
appealed to the members not to let their
feelings upon tbe reapportionment bill
influence their votes. Jefferson's man
uel was cited to sustain the speaker from
legal standpoint.
Reeder was the first to take the floor
in opposition to tbe ruling of the speak
er, and contended that tbe house was
the judge of its own rules, and could
give them any construction it saw fit.
He alto intimated that there must be
some motive in the attempt to defeat
reconsideration.
Roberts cited Robert's rules of order
in defense of the decibion of the speaker,
and also the congressional records in the
Missouri compromise case.
Forduey facetiously referred to Mult
nomah's down-hill pnlloo all measures
and asked for a postponinent of the re-
appoitionment nntil the next annual
census was taken.
Miil spoke of the logical sequence if
the action contemplated by the oppoei
tion to the bill was carried out, claiming
it was just a easy to go a step further
and reca'.l a bill when the governor had
I r. r . . .
K"euii. ne sau it was no time nor
place for sharp practices and trifling, as
the etes of the state were opon them,
and for himself would vote to sustain
the speaker.
Reeder replied to Hill.and then Whal
ley took Reeder to task. Whalley read
from tbe constitution in support of his
position that the bill bat reached the
point where it was mandatory for the
pea Iter to sign It. He held that as far
as the action of ttie house waa concerned
the bill was already practically a lav,
nd closed with a warning that it was a
dangerous precedent to strike down safe
guards of legislation even in the interest
of the right.
Flagg raised the point that if recon
sideration is desired the house would be
'en entirely at tbe mercy of the senate
the latter body could advance the bill
on the calendar and past it under sus
pension of the rules, so the house would
have no opportunity to reconsider Its
jte.
Whitney said the question at issue
was not one of courtesy to the speaker,
'"it whether sixty members bad the
''ght to say whether the speaker's rul
ing is wrong.
Ktillnien'i aim n Iments to the limine
rules providing f..r reference of Mils l -fore
beinit read an. I ordered printed in
the Interests i,f economy of time ami
expense was adopted, mid tin senate
concurrent resolution adapting the Ore
B'n grape as the state flower was on
curred in. Upon motion of Young,
each member was voted 100 more 2 cent
tumps and 100 more 1-cent stamps.
A bill was Introduced by Speaker
Carter to appropriate $1000 to relm
lurso school district No. 7.1, In Jackeon
county, for proceeds of the sale of the
bonds of the district negotiated and em
bezzled by George Bloomer, late treas
orer of the county.
In the Senate.
la toe senate this morning Selling
inoveu to reconsider the vote by. which
a resolution was passed yesterday an
moriziug tne secretary of state to make
certified transcripts of all laws for tbe
ose of the state printed "at the usual
rate compensation," saying he intended
to introduce a bill to reduce the fee al-
towed for such traneciipts. Fulton ob
jecteu to reducing the fees before the
explratbnot the present term of office,
and Smith came forward with the argu
ment that all such fees were uneon
stitutional, The motion to reconsider
was carried and the resolution tabled.
M'ulkey introduced a resolution for
constitutional amendment abrogating
the article providing for the ofiioe of
state printer, which was referred.
Bills were introduced as follows: By
Reed, to reduce the appropriation for
the Soldiers' Home from $12,000 to
$10,000, and authorize the governor in
stead of a board of trustees to appoint
ajl officers of thai institution ; by
Kuykendall, to authorize an additional
judge for the second judicial district;
by Molkey, to create the office of re
corder for Polk county at a salary of
$ 1000, and reducing the county clerk's
salary from $1000 to $1200; making taxes
a first lien on real estate; Joseph!, to
reduce the salaries of tbe Multnomah
county clerk, clerk of the circuit court
and recorder after the expiration of the
present term, from $3500 to $2500; by
Fulton, to abolish the office of recorder
of Clatsop C'junty ; to protect fish against
destrnction by expjoslves ;to prohibit the
laying out of county roads of greater
grades titan 7 per cent; by Looney, for
the better enforcement of judgments and
decrees.
WASHINGTON SEN
ATOR CHOSEN
Foster Elected With One Vote to Spare,
Which Terminates the long and
Hard-Fought Contest.
Gi.ympia, Feb. 1. On the twenty-
fourth joint ballot today, Addison G.
Foster was elected United States senator
to succeed John L. Wilson. Eighty-one
votes were cast for Foster, although only
67 were necessary to elect.
Only one member, Representative
Somerindyke, of Seattle, failed to vote
for tbe caucus nominee on the first
ballot today. Somerindyke voted for
Mayor Thomas J. Humes, of Seattle.
Stockwell, a Wilson man, is in the
hospital, but bis proxy said he would, if
present, support the caucus nominee.
The election of Addison G. Foster to
day had been settled in caucus last night
when rather a stormey time was ex
perienced, 25 of Ankeny'i supporters
walked out before tbe ballot conld be
taken, as they were Inlorroed Foster had
signatures from sufficient republican
members to secure his election. Sen
ator Wilson had requested his supporters
to cast their strength to Foster 'and thus
bring tbe fight to a finish.
When these 25 men walked out it left
iust58. or only one majority. When the
4 - -
roll was called 50 republicans voted for
Foster, and the remaining eight abided
by the caucus majority. After this the
Foster vote was made unanimous, and
today Ankeny's disappointed followers
submitted eracefnlly to the inevitable
and voted with their p-rty.
It has been a clean fight, and Mr.
Foster is a popular man, with but few
enemies. Alter trie caucus mere was
much rejoicing about Foster's head
quarters, and John L. Wilson addressed
his friends in his rooms, ecr.gratnlating
the renublican party on having elected
as able a man as Addison G. Foster,
in Lir nit Tii.
Mr. J. E. Lilly, a prominent citizen
of Hannibal, Mo., lately had a wonder
ful deliverance from a frlghtlul death.
In telling of it he says: "I was taken
with typhoid fever, that ran Into pneu
monia. My lungs became hardened. I
waa so weak I couldn't even sit up in
bed. Nothing holped me. I expected
to soon din f consumption, when I
ilmird f Dr. King's New Discovery,
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TMt I vvMat It was mritc t'ir.
GOMEZ WANTS
SIXTY MILLIONS
He Mates Insolent Demands Hp lie
United States.
GARCIA'S PLAN
- REPUDIATED
The Commander-in-Chief Declares He
Will Not Accept the Paltry Three
Millions Proffered.
New Yobk, Jan. 31. A special to the
Tribune from Washington says: Max
imo Gomez, the Cuban general, has de.
nianded nearly $60,000,000 from the
United States and refuses to disband his
army" nntil the money is paid. He
has repudiated the arrangement made
by Calixto Garcia, who came to Wash
ington with authority from Gomez to
provide for the return of the Cubans to
their peaceful pursuits, and whose work
was barely accomplished before his eud
den death of December 11.
It was then agreed that the United
States in order to secure the prompt re
sumption of labor on tbe plantations of
the island with a view of promoting the
speed revival of prosperity and settled
conditions, should distribute ' about
$3,000,000 among the 30,000 men said to
be still under arms in the ratio of $100 a
man, the officers in proportion to their
rank to receive a greater amount, the
ordinary enlisted men to be discharged
with sums less than $100, depending
upon the length of service and other
considerations. For over a month the
pay corps of the army has been making
ready to carry out this arrangement, the
national defense fund being available for
tbe purpose. Accurate lists of the
soldiers entitled to compensation bad to
be prepared and other formalities gone
through. It was intended that the
Cubans at the proper time should apply
at established American garrisons in the
various provinces, where on throwing
down their arras and presenting the
proper credentials they were to receive
their quota of the allotment from the
pay officers at the stations. In the
meantime General Brooke and his chief
subordinate have been endeavoring to
give employment, mostly of a perma
nent character, to large numbers of
Cubans, in order to restore the number
requiring a bounty, and at the same
time give the inhabitants opportunity to
begin governing themselves.
Gomez has come ont against this
ichemo, which was operating satisfac
torily to most Cubans, and has struck
for greater stakes. It is officially known
that he is endeavoring to dissuade
Cubans from accepting office under the
American occupation, and is urging all
the natives of every grade to stay with
him in the field until the United States
is compelled to accede to his "terms of
disbandment." Gomez alleges that his
army consists of 40,000 men, and be In
sists that most of them shall be paid for
three year' service at the rates that pre.
vailed in the United States army. He
fixes the date of the Cuban declaration
of independence February 24, 1U, as
tbe beginning of tbe period for which
himself and his forces are to I remuner
ated, and for himself, with ;the rank of
lieutenant-general, he will be satisfied
with $11,000 annually, the American
late for that grade.
Gomez has also about twenty major-
generals, for each of whom he wants
$7500 annually, and his "army" is
equipped with nearly 200 brigadier
generals, each rated, accordingly to the
United States army pay table, at $5500
annually. This aggregates the nice
little sum of $3,783,000 for generals
alone; then there are colonels, lieutenant-colonels
and majors whose numbers
run into the thousands. The privates
do not amount to much, for they are
comparatively few, but each of them
will require $048, and the army pay
masters who figured out the total have
reported that over $57,000,000 will be re
quired to gratify all the demands Gomez
has made, which is an avernge of $1455
a man.
It is to n.ect their demands anil show
(ionics their absurdity that ootiZ'iies
Ijnesada, who for the lftft three years
has been the representative of the
Cubans in Washington, started tor Cuba
last week, after reaching a thorough un
derstanding with the war department;
authorities. Robert P. Porter went
along with Mr. Qneeadt as tbe official
representative of the United States in
the matter.
A P0ST0FFICE
ROBBER CAUGHT
Hilton, Convict Wilson's Confederate,
Arrested at Boise City.
Union, Or., Feb. 1. Word has jnst
been received of the capture of Jack Hil
ton, who, with Albert Wilson, robbed
the postoffice at Lakevlew, Or., about
two years ago. Wilson was shot at the
time of the robbery, and was captured
shortly afterwacd and is now serving
time in the Oregon penitentiary.
The circumstances leading to the cap
ture of Hilton are as follows :
Some time ago a warrant for his arrest
was placed In - the hands of D. Y. K.
Deering, sheriff of Union county, who
had been tracing him from place to
place from that time nntil bis arrest.
He first located him in Montana, and
from there traced him to Idaho, and
fioally located blm at Boise City, and
mmediately took steps for his capture
by telephoning to Chief of Police Francis
of that place. Francis arrested him and
turned him over to United States Mar
shal Ramsey, who is now holding him
awaiting the arrival of Marshal Honser,
of Oregon.
IMPRISON
MENT FOR LIFE
C. Cunningham, Murderer of Oliver
. C. Young, Sentenced at Pendleton.
Pkndlrton, Feb. 1. C. C. Cunning
nam, murderer of Oliver V. Young, was
sentenced yesterday by Judge Lowell, in
tbe state circuit conrt. Having been
convicted of murder In the second degree
he received nnder the statute a sentence
of imprisonment for life at hard labor.
Cunningham's defense was insanity,
that plea and the testimony adduced by
the witnesses subpoenaed in bis bebalf
being effective in reducing the severity
of the verdict from the first to the second
degree. Strange to say, Cunningham
was tbe only person who expressed him
self as dissatisfied with the verdict, and
he said aloud in court that he wished it
bad been a verdict of guilty as charged
n tbe indictment. He would then be
hanged, be remarked, and would be out
of all bis troubles. Under the sentence
Cunningham will be taken at once to
the penitentiary at Salem.
Mrs. Juilus J. Worcester; the woman
whom Cunningham shot the same lime
he killed Young, ties a helpless cripple,
and will In all probability never again
be able to leave her bed. Tho bullet re
mains lodged near the spine, and site is
afficted with paralysis.
SAWMILL WAS
BURNED DOWN
Fire at Acme Entails a Loss of Two
Hundred Thousand Dollars.
Eugene, Jan. 31. Particulars have
just been received here of the burning of
Cuihman'e sawmill at Acme, on the
Sinslaw river. The mill, together with
about 200,000 feet of dressed lumber,
was destroyed by fire last Thursday
night. A chnte was used to carry the
sawdust and scraps to a pit some dist
ance from the mill, where a fire was
kept to continue the waste. Thursday
night the wind carried i.the fire to the
mill, and the entire plant was soon a
mass of ruins. A large part of the mill
was built on piles over tbe river, and
the machinery fell into the water as the
floor burned away.
The loss is estimated al 12JO.0OO. The
mill was the largest on ti e river, and
bad a rapacity of about 50,03) feet of
lumber per day.
There will be a cattle nun's meeting
held at the court house in this city on
Saturday, February 4th at 1 p. in. The
object is in regard to protecting their
tighten the forest reserve. All interested
In the matter are earncitly requested to
be present.
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Wl BAKTMO POWTW
SOLONS BURN
MIDNIGHT OIL
Or at Least tbe Laraaters Ml a
KM Session.
SOME WORK
WAS DONE
Four Bills and tbe Senate Woman's
Suffrage Resolution Passed The
Sugar Beet Bounty Bill Goes
Through Josephi's Medical
is Doomed.
Bill
Salem, Feb. 1. In view of the fact
that this day has been set aside as a
sort of a holiday.-nearly all the mem
bers of the legislature having gone to
Corvallis to accept tho hospitality of the
citizens of that place, both branches
of the legislature held night sessions last
night. In the house four bills were
passed, besides the seuate resolution
paving the way to a vote by the people
upon tho proposed woinans suffrage
amendment. '
The most important bill passed in tbe
house yesterday was the Sherwin bill,
providing for an annual bounty of $50,
000 for four years for the encouragement
of the sugar beet industry. The bill had
a close call,' passing by thirty-one votes,
just enough to carry it through, bnt the
friends of the bill can thank McCourt
of Marion county that it passed at all
Had not McCourt changed from no to
aye before the reeult was announced the
bill would have been defeated for want
of a single vote. His change of heart at
the eleventh hour carried the day for
the bill.
What fate is in store for the bill in
the senate remains to be seen, but its
friends claim they are assured of seven
teen vote, and if this be true tbe bill
will only require the signature of the
governor to become a law.
The Joseph! medical bill is conceded
to be dead as a msckarel. There have
been a number of physicians here lob
bying in the interest of the bill, bnt
their words have fallen upon deaf ears.
Tlie'meuibers of tlie house want just
one crack at the bill, They guarantee
to effectually put it to sleep.
The bill to create a state board of I ar-
hers' examiners nn 1 providing for the
registration of all barbers in the state,
did not have the cloee shave in the
house that a-ime predicted for it. Al
though Roberts declared that it was a
to uewhat "barberous" thing to heap on
the legislature, the bill passed by a vote
of 33 to 23. If it becomes a law all resi
dent barbers will have to regist er at $1
per register, and nenconieis will have
to undergo an examination to determine
their qualification. 1 he LIU tlso pro
vides for an ap rentlceship of three
years for beginners.
B; the provisions of the Curtis bill
pasted in the house yesterday, the graft
of attorneys in connection with state
legal work has been (hut off. Un ler the
old system, while the attorney-general
was drawing a salary for attending to
the legal business of the state, more has
been paid private attorneys wiiobave
been unemployed. The Curtis bi!l pro
vides that all the legal work of the state
shall be done by the attorney-general, j
who is paid for such service, and the
practice of employing private attorneys
for the state be abolished.
The bill to regulate sleepingcar rates
was made a special order for Tnur.-day
at 10:12 a. in.
Hill made an eloquent appeal '.n be
half of his bill to prohibit the niainte-
nance of armed bodies of men, nl te-
cured its passage by an almost unani- J
O., N?W VOW.
mous vote. The. bill provides that only
the state shall maintain armed bodies of
men. Similar laws have been enacted
in other states.
REPARATION WILL
BE MADE SOON
Officials to Be Recalled If Found Guilty
of Treaty Violation Administra
tion at Washington Much Gratified
at This Concession Which Ha
Scarcely Beeo Hoped For.
New Vokk, Feb. 1. A special' from
Washington says: In reply to the rep
resentations of Ambassador White, Ger
many bas assured the United States that
she will investigate the conduct of, her
agents in Samoa, and should it be shown
that they have acted in violation of the
treaty of Berlin, she will recall them.
By this assurance Germany has re
moved the Samoun qneetion from the
dangerous position it occupied. The
authorities here anticipated that Ger
many would decline to accept responsi
bility, from lepreeentations recently
made by Ambassador v n Holleben tbe
Gsrman representative here, wl.o in
formed Secretary Hay that he felt sat
isfied that the German coneul and 11 err
Rafael had acted without authority from
Berlin.
Secretary Hay is quite willing to give
Germany all tho necessary time to in
vestigate, and it is expected that by this
time she bas taken action. That there
may be no doubt of the facts and to pro
tect the American representatives, Rear
Admiral Kaulz, who left San Diego oa
board the Philadelphia, will make a
thorough investigation, and report the
tacts without delay..
The state department bas received
from Apia by mail copies of proclama
tions issued by the American and British
consuls for the protection of Chief
Justice Chambers and his family. A
proclamation by tbe German consul is
conspicuously absent, and the reason it
was not issued is explained by dispatches
sent by Mr. Chambers.
The German consul, it was reported,
promised to hoist his flag oyer bis resi
dence simultaneously w ith the American
and British representative, and issued
proclamation declaring that an attack on
the chief justice wculd be an attack on
the German flag, but sent to the chief
justice a tattered emblem which he re
quested him to boist. He failed to issue
the proclamation and did not come to
the chief justice's residence for tbe pur
pose of witnessing the hoisting of the
flag. In view of these facts, the flag was
returned to him.
The reports of tho chief justice also
contain a statement of the trial of Ma
in a fa vertus Malietoa, the former being;
represented by a German naval officer
named Van Buelow, who is said to be in
Samoa on leave. Unlortunately tbe
steamer which carried the mail to Aus
tralia left before December 31, and con
sequently the departments has not re
ceived the chief justice's dtcUion, which)
by cable, bas been announced to be in
favor of Malietoa Tanns.
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