ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1896.
NO. 12.
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day la a Con
denied Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL HEADERS
Itetns of Importane From Domeetl
ad r.nla limi-OnM
f th Dl.peteh.
Chalet Carleton Coffin, Jamout
newspaper correspondent in the war of
seoesslon, died in Boston.
The rates of exchange in Brasil have
fallen lower than wu ever kuown m
fore. Grave fear are entertained that
a commercial orlsia will result
The Fronoh chamber of deputies baa
adopted tha project for a new tab
marine telegraph line between France,
the United States and the Antilles.
The masaaore of thirteen Armenian
families is reported from the distriot
of Mooah. Five Armenians are said to
bare been killed at Klrobehlr, in the
Angora dlatrlot.
Superior Judge Murphy, of Ban Fran-
olaoo, has granted another stay of exe
cution in the Durrant oase, until March
18. The bill of exceptions 1 not ready
for settlement
Three hunrded tons of side armor for
the battleship Sebastapool were shipped
by the Bethlehem, Fa., Iron works to
Russia. This is part of the first order
for armor the company has reoelved
from Russia.
A great ice gorge has been formed on
the New York Central ft Hudson River
tracks between Hudson and Albany.
The road is covered with ioe, in some
places ton feet high, and the tracks and
telegraph poles for a distance of 700
feet are washed ont
The steamer Clyde was burned to
the water's edge at Point Grey, Just
outside the harbor of Vancouver, B. C.
Captalu Wood worth and the-ore w
had a narrow escape. The steamer
was valued st 13,000, and lusured for
$1,900 in the Western Isuranoe Com
pany. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says:
The Novosti, In an editorial, says that
Russia will maintain the Independence
of Cores and that if Japan continues
intriguing Russia may be forced to oo
oupy the peninsula. Jspsn must con
sider that if she wishes to aoqulre
Cores this mesns war with Russia.
Secretary Lamont has issued an or
der locating the military post at Mag
nolia Bluff, near Soattle. While this
settles the location, roach remains to
be done before the site oan be eatab
liahed. Seattle mast give a perfect
title to the site, and then an appropria
tion from oongroas must be obtained, j
Andrew F. Burleigh, the well-known
attorney of Seattle, will oontinue to re
main receiver of the Northern Paoiflo!
Railroad Company in Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho and Montana. Circuit
Judge Gilbert, of Portland, and Die-
triot Judge C. H. Hanford so deoided In
a dooision handed down In the federal
oourtroom at Seattle.
With the subsidence of tha waters
which overwhelmed a great part of
New England, figures of losses sus
tained in the section will be consider
ably more than 3,000,000. This does
not include the wsges of laboring men
and women through suspension of
manufacturing and other industries.
Six lives have been lost.
Although the officials at Cramps'
shipyards, Philadelphia, say they have
rooeivd no special orders to ruab the
three warships, the Massachusetts, the
Brooklyn and the Iowa, to completion,
because of the pending trouble with
Spain, there is, nevertheless, an air of
aotivity about the yard whioh contrasts
strongly with the recent dullness there.
A dispatch from Kobe says the king
of Corea is still at the Russia legation
in Seoul. Internal uprisings con-1
tiuue. It is rumored that Japan la
making advances to Russia with a view
of arranging dual oontrol In Corea. It
is believed the Marquis Yamagata, t
while in attendance upon the osar'a
coronation, will negotiate a treaty of
alliance. j
Miss Edith M. Day,1 the young
woman who, in the spring of 1894, i
made a trip by railroad around the ;
United States and through Mexico
without tonohing her foot to the
ground, died in San Franoisoo. The
scheme for her trip was devised by rail
road men of Portland to offset the at
tention given to Miss Nellie Bly'a trip
around the world. I
One hundred and fifty flve-tael cans
of opuiin were washed ashore at the
logging camp of Edward La tour, near
Utaalady, Wash. The opinm is valued I
at $5,000, and is supposed to have been
part of the cargo of a small smuggling
sloop whioh left Victoria last week.
The sloop, it is supposed, was wrecked
dnring the severe gale of last week and
the men drowned.
' Expert Cation, who was appointed to
examine the oity officials' books of
Walla Walla, has submitted his report
to the oity council of that city. The
report is from' June 1, 1880, and shows
a total defioitot $8,471, divided be
tween the oity treasurer and two ex
marshal. The shortages, so the report
states, occurred through negligenoe on
the part of the oity olerk, whooolleoted
the delinquent taxes for the marshal.
A Johannesburg dispatch says when
President Kruger visits England it is
stated be will stipulate as conditions of
granting to Uitlanders the franohise,
the abrogation of the convention of
1R84, and the substitution of a treaty of
commerce and amity, recognising
Great Britain as paramount power in
South Afrioa, and the inoluslon of
Swasiland in the Transvaal; the guar
antee of the independence of the Trans
vaal: that a pre-emptive right to Kosl
bay and Delagoa bay be aooorded the
Transvaal. .
The United States supreme court hat
deoided the Stanford oase in favor of
Mrs. Stanford. The title of the oase is
the United States vs. Jane L. Stanford,
executrix of Leland Stanford, de
ceased. It Involves the Individual liiv
btlltvof stockholders in the Central Pa
olflo Railroad Company for the debt
due the United States on bonds issned
in aid of the Central Paoiflo under the
California constitution.
Shipping otroles of the world are
greatly interested in the voysge of the
British ship Auspices, bound from
Santa Rosalie, Mexloo, to England with
a valuable cargo of oo pper ore. More
than eight months have elapsed slnoe
she left port, and slnoe tben nothing
hat been beard of the snip. Tne un
derwriters are considering the advis
ability of paying the insurance on the
oargo and vessel, amounting to $460,-
000.
Matt MoGuIre and Jacob Henke,
miners, were Instantly killed by an ex
plosion of powder in their cabin near
Sheridan, Mont
A terrible conflagration raged for
twenty-four hours at Asperen, South
Holland. Several ohurobes, the post-
offloe and fifty buildings were de
stroyed. -
The bioyole squad bss proved satis
factory beyond anlolpation, and when
spring oomes all New York's asphalt
streets will be patrolled by polios inen
on wheels.
President Cleveland has approved the
bill granting the right of way to the
Columbia & Red Mountain Railroad
Company through the Colville reserva
tion, Washington.
In London the young radicals have
broken out In revolt against the policy
of the leaden of their party. The dual
leadership between Lord Hoseberry and
Sir William Haroourt Is the source of
dispute.
The French historical society bss
plaoed a tablet on the house whioh
Benjamin Franklin occupied in 1770,
at Paasy, Franoe. Two members of the
sootety eulogaied Franklin, referring
to his career at a scientist
Minister Taylor has refused the
resignations of Spaniard! aoting as
United Statee consult when they were
written In Spanish, on the ground that
that language la not the official lan
guage of the United States. J
Letters written by Mayor Butro, of j
San Franoisoo, to congressmen anent
the funding bill, have been seised by
the postoffloe authorities. Their objec
tion it that the envelopes bear the in
scription, "Huntington would not steal
a redhot stove." '
Undergraduates of Princeton college
burned in effigy the king of Spain in a
demonstration in which several hun
dred took part The flag of Spain wat
dragged through the main street, and
later was torn to pleoes in the center
of the eampus.
The oharge d'affaires of the United
States embassy in Berlin, J. B. Jack
son, has had several meetings recently
with the authorities in regard to the
insurance matter, and they have prom
ised to expedite a re-examination in
the oase of the American companies.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon has been
consulting with the war department
concerning an emergency appropriation
for the cascade looks, to make the looks
secure so they oan be early opened for
navigation. He will introdooe a joint
resolution for such amount as the war
department recommends, so that it may
be immediately adopted.
Actors Will Long and John West
fought a duel after the dose of a per
formance at Marion, Ind. Long was
fatally wounded. The men are mem
bers of the "O'Houligan't Masquerade"
company, and after a rough-and-tumble
fight in West's dressing room, se
cured pistols and met on the stage.
In the volley whioh followed Long re
oelved two bullets. West was nnhurt
Admiral Richard W. Meade, in a
lecture on "The Caribbean Sea," laid
that In case of trouble between the
United States and Great Britain over
Venexuela, the first shot fired in anger
will sound the death knell of the
British empire. Disousstng the Cuban
question, he laid that Cuba should
bear the same relation to Spain that
Canada bears to the British empire.
It is possible that the sugar bounty
bill will not pass the German reioh
stag, for even the agrarians are not
unanimously in favor of it The fea
ture of the bill to whioh objection is
made Is a proposed increase in the con
sumption tax of from 18 to 94 marks.
It has been stated in the relohstag that
sugar bounties would amply oheapen
German sugar In America and England
at tha expense of Germany.
The dead body of an American,
found six miles below El Paso, Tex.,
has been identified as that of Mr. Doyle,
of Cripple Creek, Cola He bad a bul
let hole through hit head, and his neck
wat broken, His murderers had evi
dently first lassoed him and dragged
him around till bis neck was broken,
and then shot him through -the head.
Doyle was said to be Interested in rloh
mining property at Cripple Creek.
, J. R. Baitlett, president of the Nica
ragua Canal Construction Company,
confirms the report that negotiations
are in progress for a fusion of the
Panama and Nicaragua companies.
The scheme, however, hat not yet sc
oured the consideration of their respec
tive boards. ' The consolidation of in
terest is regarded with great favor in
banking circles in Europe, and, it is
understood in America as tending to
remove the rivalry between interests,
and the governments are also believed
to be friendly to the proposed combina
tion. It is believed that an Anglo-Frenob-Amerioan
syndicate for canal
building is being formed, bnt the de
tails are withheld.
NORTHWEST BR EVITIES
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GElfEBAL INTEREST
Ksws From Our Slater State. Kpltom.
Led-Tha L.adinf Topic 1)1-eiiiwd-
Waahlngtoa,
Waitsburg's oity election will be the
first Monday In April.
Joseph Wiley, who settled in the
Ahtanum valley in 1868, is dead.
The baseball ' fever has already
reached Waitaburg, and preparations
are being made for the sport this sum
mer. , .
The name of the Sprague National
bank, which is soon to be moved to
Spokane, will be changed to the Fidel
ity National.
It is supposed that Fisherman Lar
sen drowned at Kamiloble last week.
His bat was found on the wharf where
his boat was tied.
The reoeiver of the Citiaens' Nation
al bank, of Spokane, bat annonnoed
that depositors will soon be paid a 10
per oent dividend.
The fishermen of Paoiflo oounty are
making preparations for the coming
fishing season. The scent of the boil
ing tar is in the air, and freshly tarred
webs are on the raoks drying.
The New Whatcom grocers who
were recently arrested for violating the
revenue law in selling leaf tobaooo
grown in the neighborhood, have effect
ed a settlement of their oases with the
federal authorities.
The Washington Immigrant, a ohild
of the state immigration convention,
has appeared. , Its avowed purpose is
to help tne state carry out the plans
of the immigration movement, and
otherwise work for the interests of the
people. .
C. H. Ross, horticultural commis
sioner for the second distriot, Is arrang
ing for the appointment of spraying
committees in various counties, to act
in conjunction with local societies.
The duties of the committees are to
notify persons to sprsy their trees when
necessary, and to report negligenoe in
the matter.
The Seattle Times is authority for
the statement that one-halt of the bop
acreage of Yakima will be plowed up
this spring. A Puyallup paper con
tains a list of several yards, amounting
to fifty or sixty acres, near that place
that will also be plowed up. Many
Boiafort farmers have had enough and
are going to quit.
Spokane's offered bounty tor squirrel
tails is not exaotly munificent Dur-1
ing the month of March, a bounty of 1
oent will be given, and in April and '
May, oent This bounty is for tails !
only, the former system of paying upon
the presentation of scalps having proven '
an inoentive to fraud rather than en-1
oouragement to exterminate the destruc
tive varmints. '
A son of the late General J. M.
Buokley, once manager on theooaat for
the Northern Paoiflo road, la on his
way to Chile, to assume his duties as
auditor of the Chilean railways. He
is from Spokane. The salary attached ,
to the offloe it said to be $86,000 a
year, Chilean silver money. The road
is about 8,000 miles long, and extends
from Iquique to Valparaiso, and the !
larger coast towns.
Some" lawyers of Spokane have de
vised a scheme by whioh they say that
land in the Colville reservation oan be
settled without waiting for its purchase
from the Indiana. Here is the plan:
Under the law, any oitisen oan locate
as many plaoes or lode claims of not to
exoeed twenty aores as be may choose.
Any company of eight oitiaena may
make as many locations of 160 aores
eaoh aa it may see fit to take. The
land will oost $37.60 per acre, how
ever. Plowing and seeding are now under
full headway in many plaoes through
Lincoln oounty, and have been for
nearly a week. It is believed that a
great deal larger acreage will be sown
to crop this year throughout the Big
Bend than wai sown last The im
provement in wheat prioea hat given
the farmers fresh courage, and the
fields of summer-fallowed lands that
last year lay idle will be turned to ao-
oount this season.
The assessors of Eastern Washington,
who were in session in Walla Walla
last week, have adjourned. , The
question of estimating the value of
merchandise in stores was considered.
It was deoided that the mere statement
of the proprietor should not be taken
as the basis for the assessment, but
that the invoice should be used, quali
fied by the careful judgment df the as
sessor. As to bank stock, it was
thought best to follow striotly the law
of the state, whioh requires Its assess
ment at full value, lest oertifled in
debtedness against the tame. ,
Oregon. '
Malheur hat a school distriot named
"Fighting Seven." .",...-,
Sheepmen of Grant oounty are tak
ing their sheep to the hills.
Douglas oounty taxes for 1886 for all
purposes amount to $96,886.40.
The late rains have brought another
batch of salmon in the Calapooia. and
local fishermen are happy.
Fishermen prediot there will be no
high water in the Columbia this year,
and anticipate a pjor Ashing season In
oonnsequenoe.
Owing to the low water, miners are
again working the bed of Reuben oreek.
Much ooarse gold and tome pretty big
nnggeta are found in the oreek.
Crook county will probably have
about 40,000 mutton sheep to turn off
this spring. Sheep are in good oonrti
tion and there is a general inquiry for
stock sheep.
The Sherman oounty oourt held a
tpeoial session and provided for a
bounty of $1 per scalp on all ooyotes
killed In the oounty , from and after
February 14, until further notice.
The money has been raised for erect'
tog a skimming station at Bbedd and
work on the tame will begin at an
early date. An effort is also being
made to establish one at Halsey, in
Linn oonnty. :
The fire which recently destroyed the
Hoxie sawmill, on Williama oreek, in
Josephine oounty, recalls the fact that
this wat the fourth time this sawmill
has been destroyed by Are within the
last sixteen years.
The Dalles Cbroniole is informed
that the Day Bros, claim they have fin
isbed the oon tract work at the looks,
and are now waiting to learn what ao
tion will be taken by congress as re
gards the new appropriation. ,
Captain W. A. Cox will move hit
house from West Florence to Acme,
three miles, by water. The house is
300 feet from the river and it is pro
posed to place it on a scow, after it is
moved to the river, and tow it to its
destination.
Railroad men say that the reoent
sand storm along the Columbia east of
the mountains was the worst that bat
been experienced tinoe 1883. Hand
power ia the only method of removing
the sand, and this requires a great deal
of time, at shoveling sand is slow work.
A oougsr and two cubs were killed
within seven miles of The Dslles last
week by M. Doyle and son, living on
Chenoweth oreek. The animals bad
killed several oalvea and sheep, and
were getting very obnoxious. The old
one measured over sis feet in length.
The Jewett mine, within three miles
of Grant's Pass, under the manage
ment of W. P. Belding, is again show
ing up well. . Mr. Belding has ex
posed some large lodes of ore; to large
in fact that the walls bsve not been
discovered. It is reported that within
few months a twenty-stamp mill
will be plaoed on the property, and in)
proved concentrators.
Not a day passes bnt what some resi
dent of Grant o"unty oomplains of the
oonditlon of the mountain range,
caused by being overrun by outside
sheep dnring the summer season, rays
the Blue Mountain Eagle. Residents
are all of the same opinion, that if the
outside sheep are not kept out, it will
not be many yean before most of the
stockmen will be oompelled to dispose
of their bands and retire from the bus
iness. ,
Idaho,
A restoration and inorease in pension
hss been granted George F. Lyons, of
Lewiston.
The woolen mills of Desert, Utah,
are soon to be moved to Orchard, about
thirty miles from Boise.
The postoffloe at Leyburn, Shoshone
oounty, has been discontinued, and its
mall hereafter must be tent to Fraser.
A patent haseen granted to James
B. Perkins, assignor of one-half to P.
Flannery, of Lewiston, on an animal
trap.
In Fremont and Bingham counties
recently a rabbit drive was had and
nearly 9,100 rabbi ta were killed in one
day. ;
In the. Star mall servioe operating
from Blaokfoot to Challis, Bryan poet
offloe bat been ordered to be tupplied
without any change in the distanoe of
the route Bryan Is between the Blaok
foot and Aroo. The order became
operative March 9.
Harry B. Hall, ex-treasurer of Sho
shone oonnty, has been sentenoed to
one year in the penitentiary for em
bezzling oounty funds. Hall was treas
urer of the oounty and cashier of a bank
whioh failed, and in which Van B. De
Laahmntt, of Portland, was one of the
prinoipal owners. County funds were
in the bank. All exoept $1,600 was
recovered by the oounty. Hall was
tried for embeaslement for falling to
produce that turn. : , .
Montana.
The smelting ooncerns of Colorado
find it neoessary to draw on the lead
mines from Montana and British Co
lumbia for the majority of this class of
ore and there a number of shipments
reported eaoh week.
The hills around the Rabbit distriot
are full of prospeotors and a number of
very good discoveries have already
been made. ' The snow is fast dlsap
pear ing. Sevearl new copper discov
eries have been made during the past
few weeks in the Nei Peroe canyon.
A syndicate from Butte has taken up
900,000 minera' inches of water from
the Madison rriver three miles east
of Red Bluff whioh they propose to
utilise in generating eleotrio power for
various uses in the different oitiea of
Montana, and especially Butte. The
papers have all been filed with the
proper authority and it ia said that
fully $36,000 will be expended this
summer in bnilding dams and other
neoessary improvements.
A number of Eastern gentlemen have
been in Butte recently looking over
different mining propositions. With
a good lively chamber of commerce
working for the good of the com
munity, this number oould be largely
increased, says the Butte Mining
World. All that Montana needs is to
have her great mineral resources prop
erly presented to the invetaing public.
No boom business it wanted, but a fair
representation of facta. Nothing else
ia necessary.
If it pays the farmer to'get the best
hog to improve his stock, or the dairy
man the best oow to inorease the milk
and batter supply, why will it not pay
him to get the best thoroughbred poul
try to increase the receipt! in that line?
THE CUBA RESOLUTION
Another Chapter Added to
the Controversy.
FINAL ACTION WA8 NOT TAKEN
Tha Speech of tha Da Waa Mada by
Hal at Maine, ta Vigorous Oppo
Itloa to tha Kaaolntlon.
Washington. March 11. Another
stirring chapter in the Spanish-Cuban
controversy wss added by the senate
today. Many senators indicated a de
sire to be beard on the subject, and the
oonferenoe report accepting the houre
Cuban resolution went over until to
morrow. In anticipation that a oritioal stage
of the question would be reached today
the galleries were beseiged by the
greatest crowd seen since the session
opened. All of the publio and private
galleries were filled to overflowing,
with long lines of anxious people stand
ing in the outer corridors, eager to
gain admission. The diplomatic gal
lery waa occupied by Ambassador Pa
tenotre of Franoe, Ministers Mendonoa
of Brazil, Hatch of Hawaii, Baron von
Kettler of Germany, Messrs. Ho and
Chung of the Chinese legation, and
many secretaries, attaches and mem
bers of the legation households.
The bright oostumes of the ladies of
the diplomatic circle, and the rich
robes of the Chinese diplomats gave a
tinge of oolor to the animated scene.
The speech of the day was made by
Hale, in vigorous opposition to the res
olution, and to the offensive interfer
ence of the United States in foreign
questions. He declared the spirit of
militarism was abroad in the land;
that our oourse involved the possibili
ties of war, with all ita dreadful oon-
sequences. He brought ont the kindly
aotion of Spain at the time of the civil
war, when the British-built privateers
were prevented from remaining for
any length of time in Spanish porta,
and when American prisoners were
abroad they were released by Spanish
orders.
A dramatic incident occurred when
Hale offered to read the statement of
Minister De Lome, of Spain, calling in
question the aocuraoy of some of the
statements made by Sherman, Morgan
and Lodge oonoerning Spanish a Wo
ol tie.
Davis quickly objected to the recep
tion of a document from a foreign
minister not formally transmitted.
Mitchell of Oregon, Morgan and Teller
added their protest in the same direo
tion. For a time there was some oon.
fusion and a prospect of a serious con'
flict, but the serenity of the debate was
restored by Davis withdrawing hit ob
jection.
THE DURRANT CASE.
Final Action Ha Mot Boon Taken
" Agntnat Ml Lamont' Murderer.
- San Franoisoo, March 1 1. On April
6 next a year will have passed since
the murder of Blanche Lamont, and
yet Theodore Durrant, who was con
vioted of her murder last November, ia
still in the oounty jail waiting the
final aotion of the state supreme oourt
In the oase. ; Immediately after Dur
rani's oonviotion an appeal was taken,
but the oase has not been presented to
the supreme oourt, owing to requests
for additional time made by both sides
The last postponement took plaoe a
week ago when the pro&oution was
granted ; twenty- days in whioh to
file a bill of exceptions. At the end
of this time it is believed the oase will
be presented to the supreme court, but
a decision is not expected for several
months. Durrant waa sentenoed to be
hanged February 31, but the slow man
ner in whioh justioe is meted ont to
murderers in this state make it proba
ble that he will not meet hit death
muoh before the oloee of this year.
Meanwhile the prisoner spends his
time st the oounty jail muoh the same
at the other inmates. He has few vis
itors and devotes most of his time to
reading and writing. He has written
a history of his life and lately he is
said to have begun the study of law.
TENEMENT-HOUSE TOILERS.
Strong Protest Mada Against tha Sweat
(hop and Its Syatam.
Chicago, March 11. The sweatshop,
and the system that supports it, were
under consideration in the Central
Msuio hall last evening. Nine speak
ers, representing the pulpit, the bar,
the state government and the trade
that is most closely identified with the
sweatshop, explained its history, its
operation, the evils of its existence and
ita tenaoity of life, and . suggested
methods of reform. A large audience
was present A glanoe showed that it
was composed of people in all stations
of life, from men and wemen with toil
hardened hands to praotioal working
philanthropists, professional men and
women, thinkers, and lastly, men and
women from whose hearts all sym
pathy is not shut out by garments of
silk and sealskin. In the speeohes
made were oritloisms, both Implied and
expressed, for the - manufacturing
wholesaler and the middleman or con
tracting "sweater." and unmeasured
pity for the toiling viotlm, wearing
away body and soul for a pittanoe, and
appeal waa made to the heart and brain
of the whole people for a publio senti
ment powerful enough to lead from
bondage the white slaves of the sweat
shops as it shattered the fetters of the
black slave in the Southern -cotton
fields.
Finally a resolution wat adopted
endorsing a bill intended to give the
national government power to wipe out
an evil in the preeenoe of whioh state
governments have been Impotent.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Coadeneed Beeoril at tha Doing, mt tha
Nation' Lawmaker-Senate.
Washington, March 6. In the sen
ate today Cannon introduced a resolu
tion, whioh was agreed to, asking the
secretary of the interior for informa
tion as to why the Unoompaghre In
dian reservation had not been opened
to settlement, and when it would be
done. Allen called np his resolution
declaring that United States bonds and
legal-tender notes are redeemable in
either gold or silver coin. Teller had
expressed a desire to speak upon the
subject As be waa absent, the resolu
tion wat pasted over. The house bill
regulating proof in pension oases was
passed. Mitchell of Oregon then pre
sented a resolution reciting that Henry
Dupont had been lawfully elected sen
ator from Delaware, and made t speech
in advocacy of Dupont being entitled
to the seat
Washington, Maroh 7. For a long
time today it looked as if the Cuban
question would be finally disposed of
in the senate by agreeing to the confer'
enoe report aooepting the house reeolu
tlona. At the conclusion of Mitchell's
elaborate argument of the Dupont oase,
Shermsn presented the report of the
conferees and asked for immediate ac
tion. Chandler, who had not been be
fore beard on Cuba, declared himself
in favor of not only recognising but
maintaining the independence of
Cuba, even if it resulted in wsr with
Spain. On account of the late hour
no aotion was taken.
Washington, Maroh 0 The senate
oommittee on publio lands practically
decided today to report back the Art
sons school land bill, recently vetoed
by the president, with the recommend.
a tion that it be pasted over the veto
Delegate Murphy of Arisona, ade
dressed the oommittee in favor of th'
bill. The report would have been or
dered today but tor the fact that the
oommittee desired to secure oertain in
formation from the interior department
before finally passing upon the MIL
Washington, Maroh 1 1. When the
Cuban question was laid aside in the
senate today, Tnrpie waa recognised
for an argument against the claim of
Dupont to a seat in the senate from
Delaware. The senator had not con
e'.uded when, at 4:86, the senate held a
brief executive session, and soon there
after adjourned. Frye introduced a
bill for the establishment of a depart
ment of the government to be known as
the department of commerce and man'
ufaoturea, the head of which is to be
a member of the president's cabinet
The senate committee on publio lands
deoided not to recommend the passage
of the Arisona land bill over the veto
of the president, but to recommend a
new bill. -
. ' Room.
Washington, Maroh 6. In the house
today a bill paased to authorise the
oounty of Navajo, Arisona, to issue
bonds for the construction of oonnty
buildings. The oonferenoe report of
the army appropriation bill was adopt
ed. The house then returned consider
ation of the legislative appropriation
bill, the amendment to abolish mar
shals' and distriot attorneys' feet again
ooming up. The request of the senate
for a oonferenoe on the Cuban resolu
tion wat received, but not aoted upon
today.
Washington, Maroh 7. After Hart
man had made a very bitter attack
upon the president In the house today,
a bill waa pasted, on the motion of
Grosvenor, to make the national-military
parks national fields for the ma
neuvers of the regular army and mili
tia of the states, under the regulations
prescribed by the secretary of war.
The house then resumed the considera
tion of the amendment to the legisla
tive appropriation bill to abolish the
fee system in the oase of United States
attorneys and marshals. After the
oommittee rote, without completing
the consideration of the bill, a bill
was passed appropriating $96,000 for
the reconstruction of the Rook Island,
I1L, bridge, and then, at 6:09 P. M.,
the house adjourned.
' Washington, March 0. The house
today passed the legislative appropria
tion bill, which has been under con
sideration for a week. Moat of the
time, however, waa consumed In the
consideration of an amendment to
abolish the fee system in the cases of
United States attorneys and marshals.
This amendment waa perfected anp
adopted. The house then entered udon
the consideration of the postoffloe ap
propriation bill, the largest of the reg
ular supply bills, whioh carries $91,
948,767. A bill was passed to abolish
the cash payment of pensions, the pur
pose of whioh was to protect old vet
erans who squandered or were twin
died out of pensions on quarterly pay
day . ; j
Washington, March 11. Distriot of
Columbia business oonsnmed the major
portion of the day in the house. Among
the bills paased waa one to decrease the
oost of gas from $1.60 to $1 a thou
sand. This was the outoome of a long
fight against the gat oompany. The
consideration of the postoffloe appro
priation bill waa continued, but no im
portant amendment! were adopted.
The speaker annonnoed : the appoint
ment of Hendrioks to the banking and
currency oommittee A bill was passed
to authorise the secretary of the treas
ury to pay S W. Peele, of Arkansas,
$50,00 for service to the old settlers
against Cherokee Indiana. A bill was
also passed to change the times for
holding court in the northern district
of California.
Maw Wanhlp for Germany,
Berlin, Maroh 9. The reiohstag to
day adopted credits to the amount of
6,978,000 marks for four cruisers and
torpedo division boat and for several
torpedo boats, after the minister of for
eign affairs, Baron von Biebersteln,
disclaimed that the government pro
posed a big navy programme.
THE POLICY OF SPAIN
Authentic Statement From
Prime Minister Canovas.
NO OFFICIAL ACTION YET TAKEN
Kor Will Any Ma Until th Gerei-ament
I. Officially Informed of tha In
tention of Thl Cduntrv.
New York, Maroh 9. The World to
day printt tn authentio statement of
the policy of Bpain as to Cuba and oon
gross, from Prime Minister Canovas.
It is aocompanied by a personal mes
sage to Joseph Pali tier from the presi
dent of the oounoil of state at Madrid.
The statement ia as follows: ,
"We have as yet no official notifica
tion of the intentions of the American
government, and oannot therefore take
cognizance of or protest by note sgainst
any of the proceedings of the senate
and house of representatives of the
United State. We have taken no
offloial notice whatever of the proceed
ings and speeches in Washington dur
ing the past week. Nor have we
sounded the European powers or courts
regarding their support in any form.
All we have done is to show the Ameri
can government that we have endeav
ored to enforce respect for the American
legation and consulates, repressing so
sternly the disturbances that we have
ordered the Madrid, Granada, Barce
lona and Valencia universities closed,
and we will close all universities,
schools and establishments while those
student! dare to make demonstration!
hostile to the United States. We will
send to prison and prompt trial all
authors and promoters of such disturb
ances. We believe they are prompted
by the advanoed republicans.
"Nothing will be omitted on our side
to show our desire to preserve oordial
relations with America. The govern
ment of Bpain regrets, and has made
all the amends possible, for the mani-
testations already made for the indig
nation with whioh the speeches at
Washington naturally excited among
the ever-loyal people of Spain.
"The situation now ia one of extreme
delicacy. I cannot define how far it ia
possible for the government of Spain to
permit amicable and careful mediation
of a foreign power, however honorable
and disinterested it may be, without
incurring the grave risk of being ao
onsed of submitting to outside interfer
ence, pressure and dictation in the
midst of a civil war. The United States
ia a great power, and, until it recog
nises the object and enoouraget the
aimt of the insurrectionists in Cuba, it
ia friendly to Spain. After the recog
nition of the belligerent! in Cuba by
tne United States, it would be impos
sible for the government of Spain to
accept the good offloea of President
Cleveland, or to permit any interfer
ence whatever.
"The only new and seemingly war
like preparations yet made by Spain
are made simply with a view to equip
ping a fleet of warships and trans-At-
lantio steamers to chase filibusters and
to guard the ooasta of Cuba. That ia
the sole object in view."
TO ABANDON ABYSSINIA.
Saeh I Said to Ba tha Intention of th
" Italian, Government.
London, Maroh 9. A 'special dis
patch from Rome says: Humbert has
ordered Signor Fransoi to undertake a
special mission to the Abyssinan,
Negua Menelek. Signor Frahaoi be
lieves it ia best to conclude an honor
able peace with the Abyssinisns and
abandon the oonntry.
Rome, Maroh 9. Popolo Romano
this morning refers to the fact that
considerable anxiety is felt for the
safety of the Italian garrison at Adi
grat The troops there have only three
days'supply of provisions and are tur- .
rounded by the Shoan army. Unless
promptly relieved Adigrat must fall,
and a further massacre of the Italians
follow. '' .
Dispatches from Massowah to Italian
papers show that the Italians fought
bravely at Adowa and obeyed orders
wherever they were led. But they
were badly organised and there was
no direct oontrol over the distribution
of the forces.
General Arimondi and Colonel Gali-
ano, with 800 white solldera, are now
reported to be prisoners in the ban da of
the Shoana. It ia reported that Cassala
ia now surrounded by the Dervishes.
According to the Italia Militaire the
Italian losses were 4,600, of which
8,000 belonged to General Albertone's
oolumn. It ia positively ascertained
that General Dabormida it dead. The
only thing known of Albertone is that
he fell wounded in the attaok,'. .,
Given Up Their Cause.
Managua,' Nioaragua, Maroh 9.
Tha latest report are to the effect that
the Leon rebels have given up their
cause. Rafael A. Guiterrea, president
of the republio of Salvador, has tele
graphed to President Zelaya, of Nioar
agua, informing him the Leon rebels
want to make terms of peaoe. Presi
dent Zelaya is determined that the only
terms of peaoe be will give are that
the Leonists shall pay all the expenres
of the war, preparations ' for , which
have been necessitated by their revolt;
shall give up all their arms, and that
their leaders shall be tried.
On Would Thinh Hint a Spaniard.
Kansas City, March 9.J. B. Ar
cher, a well-to-do business man, show.'
ed his sympathy for Cuba by publicly
burning the 8panlsh flag in front of a
Spanish theater. ' The act was loudly
oheered. Archer has a stock of Span
ish flags, and aayt he will burn one
eaoh night until it It txhausted.